The Gross History of White Bread 🤢 - Extra History

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[@extrahistory]

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You guys are the Best 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@OceanVr56]

extra history you are the reason i am good at school,thank you for that

[@YourMothersFavouriteTerminal]

Not the two spaces in between "yeast" and "check"💀

[@Bell-et1lg]

Have y’all done a bit on lobster being prison food?

[@Furyhound]

I mean arguably, if cleaned and prepared properly, the bones would have improved the nutrition value

[@GavinG_]

The opposite change as lobster; That started off as a commoner food, but eventually became a luxury item

[@matthewsteele2070]

caviar is the same

[@tripolarmdisorder7696]

Lobster, Salmon, Whole meal bread. Roasting auger (fire pit) The list of things that we call luxury items were all considered "of the peasents" in the medieval period is so vast.

[@CarbonatedCondensation]

You’ve got a point

[@potentialsideeffects1085]

"Fish eggs? Goose liver?! Where's the fish?! Where's the goose?!"

[@LeeCaithness]

Same with oysters

[@ooccttoo]

Kind of reminds of how vanilla used to be a highly prized, exotic spice to being literally a synonym for "boring".

[@ArtjomKoslow]

Real Vanilla is still expensive, more so than Silver even. What you mean is Vanillin which is artificial Vanilla made from Wood.

[@arthand7672]

Same thing with chocolate. Used to be a luxury, now you walk into a gas station and there's 200 different kinds of chocolate candy, chocolate ice cream, chocolate covered pastries or chocolate flavored drinks.

[@a3810]

@@ArtjomKoslow well, looks like I learned something new today :))

[@acdc_warrior2903]

The revers happens sometimes too caviar is a good example

[@darklex5150]

​@@ArtjomKoslowis there a difference in flavor or smell? (Sorry if the question is dumb)

[@dustinjohnson6278]

Now I understand the “your mill grinds bones and mice“ poem

[@IVeryMuchHateYouTubeHandles]

Forgive me

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

@@IVeryMuchHateKZbinHandles I wish I could

[@thestudentofficial5483]

The industrial diss track

[@porcupinepunch6893]

I believe it was rats and mice

[@eat00002]

Oh,

[@MMMeteor192]

In Finland during the 16th and 17th centuries, when there wasn’t enough grain people would add wood bark to dough. At these times in Finland, bread was pretty much the only food that was eaten. This situation changed when Finland saw heavy starvation due to a harsh winter, and as a result people started to eat more diversly.

[@mlovecraftr]

Hey, I just read about this in a History of Finland book!

[@wikiuser92]

Suomi mainittu! Finland mentioned!

[@mahrcheen]

Was it much of that bark in bread? Because it's just fiber or celulose. We don't digest it but it can be helpful for guts. I hop it was not half of the volume

[@draconian_dragons6588]

@@mahrcheenyou can actually eat the vascular tissue of a trees bark and gain nutrition from it, called tree bacon very weird lol

[@MMMeteor192]

@@mahrcheen My schools history book where I learned this didn't mention how much of it was bark, but my guess would be maybe 10-35%.

[@deimos144]

It’s like expiration dates on milk, Al Capone’s mother drank bad milk and got sick and it pissed of Al, so he started a movement basically to put expiration dates on things

[@useraccount333]

Capone was a criminal, but he was a SMART criminal. He knew if he got the general public on his side, the police couldn't touch him.

[@qfcbv]

I have a friend whose last name is Capone.... lmfao

[@Envy_the_Darksider]

​@@useraccount333Only for the IRS to get him for tax evasion XD

[@useraccount333]

@@Envy_the_Darksider Because it was the only thing the government could definitively prove! It was the only charge that stuck!

[@Envy_the_Darksider]

@@useraccount333 Yeah. He was good at evading prison time but not invincible.

[@northernshield5414]

I love how the animation quality improves with every short. I know it be more effort, but I'd love to see the same kind of animation on the regular vids

[@extrahistory]

Thank you!

[@nalinsaini1983]

@@extrahistoryat the same time, we also love David’s drawing style. Pls have him animate videos for eternity 😊

[@WaterKnight2.2]

​@@extrahistory hey this is the first video of your channel that i found, and i can already tell its a great channel. just subbed. :)

[@TacitMarmot27121yt]

@@extrahistory me and my siblings love youre channel

[@thomasthemenace]

In Germany they apparently didn't care or rather regulated the stuff more efficiently, since there are quite a lot dark variations from rather fluffy to basically just a slab of dark slow cooked rye.

[@TheAriusDural]

We have 3200 types of bread, toast excluded since toast is not bread, there should be one for everyone.

[@mystuff9999]

One of the reasons living in Germany is the bread (besides the beer obviously); fukk me but I will never be able to eat that stuff marketed as „bread“ in the States again 🙈

[@saldol9862]

@@mystuff9999I despise American bread. I’ve always been a rye bread lover and I miss polish bread. American bread tends to have too much corn syrup added that gives it a sickeningly sweet taste, and some groceries don’t stock bread without the added sugar. Also keto “””bread”””” is disgusting

[@jankoblidtke2175]

Is a Cannoly a Sandwich? LISTEN TO DISTRACTIBLE L̸̪̝̫̗̘̟͕̪̲̭̯̔̃̽̿̆̈́̌͆̈́̅̾͘͝Į̵̡̧͎̮͈̻̜̺̼͉̙͓̰̟̎̇̏S̸̨̻͙̮̥̺͎̰̫͈̞̲̄͗̑Ţ̴̛̜̉͛̀̈͗̂̀̍́̀̈́̕͝É̵̛̺̀̈́͌̔̃͘̚͠N̷̨͇̠̣͐̀̋̈͌̿̈́͒ ̷̨̧̡̡̧̺̪̯̖͍͖̟̘̿̋̂͗T̸̡̧̛̺͚̺͔̬̜̻͛̔̂̿̀̊͠O̵̧̨̧͙̫͙̟͖̪̻̼̜͒͊̀ ̷̛͙̩̰̟̖̩̎̃̅̓̑̈́̀̅D̸̡̛͇̘̦̄͜ͅǏ̸̡͙͚̣͈́S̴̩̼̟̜͆̑̍̑͘T̷͚̲̊̎̑̽͑͗̎̂R̶̠͖̟̯̬̥̭̕̕A̶̫͕͓̭͔͙̣̹̠̍̒̎͋̿̈́̏̒̊́̅̆͠͝C̷̨̛͕̰̬͍̦͓̰̦͓͉͙̭̄̋͗̆͂͝T̷̛͍̪̘̼͕̜̼͔̬͇̏́̈́͒̊ͅÌ̴̢̛̖̠̻̯̇͝B̴̛͍͗̈́̊͗́̆͋̌̇͆̏̚Ļ̸̨̛̟̟̱̻͔̠̤̼̞̳̫̀̋̀̾͂͐̈̋̈̆̇́̕͜E̶̜̩̯̭̍͋̋̑̀̄̀̂̒͌̀̂

[@mystuff9999]

@@saldol9862 I refuse to call that stuff „bread“.

[@lionrampant31]

Bland? Bland?! *pulls baugette from sheath

[@bobowon5450]

french food is very bland.

[@moonshonemeadow]

​@bobowon5450 Bruh.

[@ut2819]

​@@bobowon5450you mistaking french with the UK

[@bobowon5450]

@@ut2819 I never said UK food was good. French food just isn't good either

[@Ligma76714]

​@@ut2819UK is the worse than French.

[@typemasters2871]

As a qualified bread enjoyer, I approve of this video, now to have myself a toast sandwich

[@extrahistory]

😋

[@Dawgdog-kq3yp]

Damn which one?

[@f4l8o81]

Bread enjoyer? And toast??

[@typemasters2871]

@@Dawgdog-kq3yp all?

[@typemasters2871]

@@f4l8o81 yes

[@Flonky909]

I will never look at bread the same again

[@extrahistory]

Same... 🤢

[@Flonky909]

Damn the creator himself

[@H.G.Halberd]

me neither (I am a millers apprentice and helped clean a Silo filled with rye flour today, SO. MANY. MOTH. EGGS. AND. MEALWORMS, which is normal and expected, all of it gets filtered so no worries)

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

0.0​@@H.G.Halberd

[@cleodello]

Yeah, sawdust in bread made a big comeback in WWII.

[@FlyingSpaghettoMonster]

Which is super weird, there's so many actually tasty and nutritious additives for bread that were tried and tested during historical hard times in the past. Potato flour, tons of grains other than wheat, nut flours/meal, ect. All the sawdust does is add weight for appearance sake.

[@user-uj4ux9rn3r]

@@FlyingSpaghettoMonster unfortunatelly, those also require infrastructure, and if you can barely run the wheole infrastructure (let alone the agricultural), you add whatever you have the most of

[@Sovreign071]

I recently learned that in Tudor times, floors not insulated with expensive carpet were instead covered by a very fine straw, called "thresh." Because it was so fine, it had a habit of migrating from one room to another. So doorways were built about an inch above the floor, with a wooden seam keeping the thresh from passing. This seam was called a "threshold." So, juat remember that whenever a big scary magic door or portal is called that.

[@scottydu81]

The thresh was from wheat threshing

[@HungerGamesFan88]

:portal to hell: :demon pops its head out: "KEEP THE DUST OUT WILL YA"

[@mintymilka9400]

stuff like this makes me imagine my ancestors watching me with pride and unbridled joy as they realize all their sacrifices allowed their future generations to have such luxuries so easily

[@keenari0470]

And yet people say that we’re worse off than we’ve ever been, it’s all about perspective.

[@Rikken552]

It's a cycle we're repeating

[@LotusMouse]

“It’s bland as hell.” Sounds like something my friend would say 😂

[@janekaallen7473]

I don’t think I ever heard him swear 😭 it took me by surprise

[@user-xq5og9lt8p]

I mean bone powder doesnt seem too bad of an additive... Calcium, amirite?

[@salj.5459]

Much more than just that. Probably a superfood actually

[@mellowxkrabb9084]

I wouldn't mind bone and bone marrow being in my bread

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Yhea, if they where cleaned properly

[@TheGameMage_]

Personally Im a fan of potato bread.

[@4evachasinpaper]

I like Pan Dulce (pahn- dool~seh) candy bread in English it's a Mexican pastry

[@mrpickles-hb6zx]

U mean sweet bread?

[@4evachasinpaper]

@@mrpickles-hb6zx no I meant what I said , you probably Google translate it and it said sweet but google translate candy and it is also dulce. You wanna be right so bad lol

[@katanimefan966]

@@mrpickles-hb6zxUhh, they probably meant potato bread, seeing as they called it _potato bread._

[@zhiracs]

​@@mrpickles-hb6zx sweetbread is brains, bro. Lamb's brains.

[@SeptimusMagistos]

Bread additives were mostly rumors. The sale of bread was surprisingly tightly regulated and most of the rumored additives would either make the bread impossible to bake, be immediately obvious, or be much more expensive than flour.

[@Rynewulf]

You think it was a common way to shoot at competition? Or boost your own reputation? "Unlike Bramwell Baker's across the road, our bread has 0 brick dust!"

[@andrewklang809]

@@Rynewulf"And only HALF the rat feces!"

[@user-xq5og9lt8p]

"Now without asbestos! "

[@thesatelliteslickers907]

the sale of bread became tightly regulated as a direct response to that sort of tomfoolery

[@ccggenius]

@@user-xq5og9lt8p During the time this would've been relevant, containing asbestos would've been a selling point.

[@pumpkingamebox]

Pretty much the same reason “vanilla” is used to describe plain despite vanilla being very hard to grow and harvest. Vanilla is the most abundant ice cream flavor in history and at every shop.

[@subpar_username4756]

I mean, most vanilla we have today is synthetic, if I’m not mistaken. It’s still vanilla (chemically identical), just made of different stuff. Made it a lot cheaper.

[@Pablodelic]

Breaking a tooth from bread sounds like a nightmare

[@playernotfound7860]

It's supposed to be nearly flavorless. that way you can add whatever flavors you want to it like paint on an empty canvas. I thought that was pretty easy to figure out.

[@hobomike6935]

It reminds me of your personality: flavorless and predictable.

[@playernotfound7860]

@hobomike6935 Oh, well, if it isn't mr/mrs whole wheat! granular, sketchy, and unappealing!

[@hobomike6935]

@@playernotfound7860 I am whole 😊

[@playernotfound7860]

@@hobomike6935 your lack of consistency tells me elsewise. You reak of "left on the shelf" energy to me. And the only kind of "whole" or rather "hole" i could associate with your opening hostility is the one that doesn't talk.

[@thomasvincent9220]

Yeah that's why they add so much sugar to it

[@singingcrow439]

Trust me, homemade bread is far from bland, at least the way my nan bakes it anyway. So much fluffier and smells incredible.

[@jmurray1110]

It’s also a lot less bitter and it’s genericism makes it more applicable across many different dishes

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

LOVE your content guys 😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@extrahistory]

We Love You!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

@@extrahistory same! You guys are the Best

[@KilianSagot-Dutertre]

"that bread is rock" "yeah ik" "no literally there's rock in them"

[@Freedom_Aviators]

Don't forget rye bread if gone bad can give you a helluva high like in the Sam O'nella video

[@nordicnostalgia8106]

Weird. Don’t remember that one

[@Freedom_Aviators]

@@nordicnostalgia8106 i think it was Rye I don't remember it fully

[@BillSmith372]

imagine making a drug empire off of expired bread

[@sd-ch2cq]

It was the rye growing in soggy fields (ergot fungus), not the bread by itself. Some historical episodes of mass-hysteria are blamed on it.

[@Freedom_Aviators]

@@sd-ch2cq ah okay

[@tiffanitoenail840]

Ryebread rains supreme in Scandinavia

[@etuanno]

Probably because it's too cold for wheat?

[@tiffanitoenail840]

@@etuanno Nah we just like rye better. its also just better in every way in our day

[@charlesc.9012]

Is it because rye bread has an actual taste, unlike the tissue paper that they label as "bread"?

[@stepanokhrimenko9189]

Eastern Europe too! Very popular extra to soups and since it's usually made without milk or eggs, an important food item for Great Lent.

[@subpar_username4756]

@@charlesc.9012To be fair, there’s other kinds of bread with actual flavor too. Like sourdough. I love sourdough. American “bread”, though, is an abomination.

[@StupidityAvenue]

“The whiter the bread, the sooner you’re dead.”

[@RedNoobyHat]

Its good to know the history of food u eat everyday 👍

[@aquitaineq]

each bread has it's own best use lol.

[@WhiteBread69420]

I always get that I'm "bland" or "boring" but, I don't take it as an insult. I actually understand that.

[@darkadmiral106]

Fun Fact: There are more than 3000 different types of Bread that are recognised as cultural heritage in Germany, with many many more that are regional varieties of certain bread types.

[@thedistinctiveman]

"the Whiter the bread the sooner you're dead"

[@tommyfrerking]

Plus sourdough is delicious!

[@extrahistory]

10/10 would eat again. 🥖

[@BillSmith372]

sourdough starter is a thing of nightmares

[@ultimatewafflegaming1018]

idk why people care why bread is bland.. its all bland it takes in the flavor of what u put on it thats what its meant to be people dont just eat bread alone that would be weird

[@nathanhale7444]

That's funny about the bread being so hard it'll break teeth. In high-school their dinner rolls were that way. I used to wonder why they even bothered making them since 100% of them ended up in the trash. I once threw on down on the table where we were eating and it actually chipped the surface of the table. Actually took out a small chunk.

[@owtkast023]

Food adulteration was no joke. We almost wiped ourselves off the map with bovine encephalitis thanks to the bright idea of adding Borax to spoiling milk to "make it last longer."

[@NJFireDepartment]

To quote theoddonesout "the whiter the bread, the sooner your dead"

[@TheWolvesCurse]

only in the states it's the standard. in most euro countries, especially france and germany, but also scandinavia, darker breads are more common, they're more healthiert too for having more fibre and protein, and less sugar.

[@houston4647]

I love this animation ngl

[@Fireluigi1225]

The complete character drop of "because i do, it's bland as hell" got me for some reason

[@JKnight]

dont think people have forgotten your "You didnt choose this, you didnt want this" bs about having bad guys in video games be a playable team, like in CS:GO or CoD

[@Quackslaot]

Good to 🍞🍞🥖🥐🍞🥐🥯🍞🍞🍞

[@xXLavender_crowXx]

Hearing you say "hell" made me gasp..

[@rhinefilms]

That Extra Bread package at the end really wants me to say "If Extra Bread was a thing i would empty the whole stock"

[@garfieldeslazzannya6364]

Bread

[@MouseyTheGiantMouse-pj5kv]

“Yo can I have some bread” “Hold on lemme pick out the rocks and chunks of meat on it”

[@Twistedpastell]

One of the best things is when you’re really hungry and find some bread, at that moment it tastes so good

[@GGS_Geo]

I didn't know this was a loop I think I watch 100 times💀

[@2.5productions]

B L A N D

[@Xivix427]

Um, no. Whole wheat and gluten free bread is bland as hell.

[@ErrorDoesStupidStuff]

the snes hat goes hard

[@kidomniman8635]

I always think about how a full pepper shaker would be an absurd luxury throughout most of history in most places and yet it is completely taken for granted today

[@BrianBurkeProd]

Now I get the whole “your mill grinds rats and mice” thing.

[@GTisJAVO1996]

i didn't ask or choose for this short to get recommended to me... yet here it is.

[@michellemeinhold8515]

I wanna know the REAL food/drink item's history!! (I want tea history)

[@Heiguiking1777]

if it ain't wonder bread Texas slice I ain't eating it lmao

[@ndld4955]

Not me thinking we were just bread racists 😢 😂

[@ExplodingSteve]

“My oh my, this bread is a bit crunchy innit?” - the man who lost his teeth

[@Mustakrakish1123]

I like it being boring it's a delivery mechanism for other yummy things, being boring means you can have lot's of variety in the toppings with out conflicts.

[@zerokiryuu3387]

There's a great video on this where folks from the UK take jobs in a historical immersion site. They split into groups and became Victorian Era bakers. One group saw all the "additives" that were used for manual production and how horrible the work conditions were for bakers.

[@lovepeople777]

You did not just call it bland you WHOLE WEAT MUNCHERS-

[@GoBoryaschya_moBa_ye_cBoboda]

I like that way of describing big amount of historical events as there . Like you , subscribed on you ❤

[@prestokrevlar]

So the short answer is "at least it doesn't have rocks in it."

[@leo86channel]

“It’s bland as hell” surely you’ve never had good bread before

[@civilwildman]

Thank goodness for improvements in the harvesting and processing of grains. Some technological advances are actually good.

[@Agent_0123]

This is basically history:

[@redude08]

Dude... I'm eating a sandwich right now. Don't fucking do that to me!

[@user-xh8tu1so5r]

I Love these character designs and animation! Keep up with the quality👍

[@americankid7782]

“It’s bland as hell” YOU SHALL CHOKE ON YOUR WORDS!!!

[@Battery-eater73]

Channels like these are and always will be the only reason I ever raise my hand in class

[@justyoureverydaycasualship146]

Well now I get where “I’ll bring your bones to make my bread” came from

[@TheHedgehogsYTPOffical]

I remember watching you in my social studies class

[@slyllamademon2652]

Find you some tomato oil and some French or Italian bread. Good stuff. Put it out during a party and watch it disappear.

[@maxtahj98]

Don't they still do this with products today tho like for tea they just scoop what ever after making tea and putting in the bag like wood or little rocks

[@sd-ch2cq]

Definitely. Companies will use whatever cheap filler they can get away with.

[@maxtahj98]

@sd-ch2cq yeah I think that's so crazy

[@ieditformyfun]

I just like how smooth and cool it looks

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Do more Food History!

[@vendelorsos743]

bro is built like a rec room avatar🗣️🗣️💯🔥

[@mowgli2071]

"Bland" says someone who likes their bread to taste like sawdust and sadness.

[@mauirandall8176]

Prospectors used to be able to tell the purity of the bread by biting it

[@IixiXOuOXixiI]

Don't forget about the maddening of ergot that lead to mass hysteria.

[@tonymetalfan]

Just like how canned food and condiments in squeeze packets used to be luxurious

[@nothanks9503]

Ohhh maybe that’s how I broke my tooth on a muffin

[@jayjaygolden5123]

i prefer it cause its flavor doesnt overwhelm any and all toppings

[@JustyCaseProbably]

I feel like everything in the Extra History universe is pretty Extra with their brand conquering. Anyways love the content man!

[@TD-ug4mg]

Good on you for acknowledging that things were done for very good reasons. Same with arsenic. Now we know it's bad, but at the time it was a miracle substance that saved an enormous amount of lives.

[@jaykay8426]

And that’s just the YEAST of our concerns!

[@LeeDassin]

Then we began to alter it with chalk and alum to save on flour costs… yay Industrial Revolution 😂

[@Morhgoz]

When you live in country were dark rye bread is still more common. We never had reason issue with bread going stale in past as it was made mostly once a year, well at least west and south parts, with hole in middle and dried. And then softened up by soaking in it in soup or porridge... Or by your spit in your mouth.

[@Jeffrey_LOL-vi9wy]

Some kid did an experiment on how different amounts of sawdust would effect bread (or rice krispies Idk). Bro was recreating history

[@timdoesvr]

How many times have you watched this? Me: Y E S

[@Hossyjar-ms5ho]

I need this man as my as teacher

[@kokococoxdmakesdecentconte8750]

I like this Chanel (I’m half asleep)

[@eili11]

i’m new here, but is it just me or do these people look like the characters in Papas pizzeria games?

[@mask938]

It’s for reasons like this that I believe our ancestors would be envious of us if they could see us now.

[@esraavc1591]

Nobody is talking about how fire his super Nintendo entertainment system branded hats

[@iDk-dp1bi]

In England I’d say it’s like a 50-50 split on what colour bread your family would buy

[@nikolas-1145]

It’s also better for your teeth. Historically, hard grains put a lot of extra mileage on your teeth if not ground to a powder before consumption, due to them essentially being small rocks.

[@partycat10]

We're makin PB & J's with this one 🔥🔥🔥

[@justinteer9210]

Love the Famicom hat

[@horothewisewolf5436]

Fun fact, when we went for high level purity for flower and got rid of bone it actually caused a health issue due to minirals and vitamins bones have in then