Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etc

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[@hjewkes]

Easy. Gluten was the tenth glue they tried, glutamate was the glue used for his buddy, gelatin was the tenth gel, and gelato was the gel used for potato.

[@aperture147]

Bro smarter than all havard researchers

[@WhoWatchesVideos]

I thought gelatin was a misnomer for gel made out of aluminum.

[@CHoustonify]

Well, "Adam boiling rawhide treats" wasn't on my bingo card.

[@henryelicker2403]

Free space

[@scvnthorpe__]

Why I boil my dog treats, not my steak

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@BlaBla-pf8mfhe’s done that a bunch already tbh

[@sir_fapalot]

Love how the dog is scared of the word "glue factory"

[@schwarzermoritz]

The magic of editing 🤫

[@spacepunk5799]

​@@schwarzermoritz tbh poptart always looks sad

[@krankarvolund7771]

Is he scared of the glue factory, or disappointed that all his treats were dissolving in the pot? XD

[@davidonfim2381]

"glue factory" isn't a word. It's two words. That makes it a phrase.

[@ThePilgrums]

@@davidonfim2381 speaking of pedantry...

[@Booksarefun-lb1ij]

The line "I am the pedant who corrects other pedants" is hilarious. Also, very informative video Adam!

[@kaitlyn__L]

I can relate to him. My favourite thing is getting the other pedants to go “but that’s not what it means NOW” or “but that’s not what I’m talking about”; ie ways of expressing the fundamental thought of “you’re being too pedantic”. Especially because it reveals a core subjective element, which is delicious because many pedants claim to be acting in the interests of objective truth (I don’t, though). If stopping the “truth” window a couple centuries back, instead of going back to when corn meant all grain and gluten meant all sticky stuff, is valid… what makes the current-day “misunderstanding” any less valid? It’s also just an eye-opening window into psychology, both of how languages evolved in the first place but also how concepts like “what something MEANS” develop in the first place. An idea which people often treat as set in stone in the short term, but which is clearly very malleable over even recent history.

[@XanderL]

I don't think pedants discriminate. They'll correct whoever they want to, fellow pedant or not. Imagine if pedants didn't correct each other. Like a secret society of dirty pedant conspiracy.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@XanderL the difference as I see it is swapping corrections back and forth is usually like pedant small-talk. But actually feeling bristly and pedanted is certainly rare to induce in someone who engages in recreational (or professional) pedantry. And I feel like that’s what Adam is talking about lmao

[@alejandroalessandro7820]

Not how I pronounce pedant: it that a common pronunciation in the US?

[@felixfourcolor]

and badass too

[@Zelmel]

Big props for conveying the Proto-Indoeuropean stuff as "might have been the origin" instead of saying "this is how they said it way back when" which is totally inaccurate. Looking at historical/prehistorical linguistics is super complicated, but as you're doing here it can be valuable at showing how modern words are related.

[@aragusea]

Thanks though in retrospect I do think I still over-reduced that particular sauce a bit.

[@chezmoi42]

@@aragusea At 1:55, I wondered if the earliest reaction to the 'finger on the soup skin' experience might have been something like "Glaaahh!" and evolved from there. In any case, your exploration of the physical and linguistic aspects of the phenomenon filled me with -glue- glee. Glad to see you having fun. Never stop being a pilkunnusija.

[@OEpistimon]

"Flour glue" is a mixture of just flour and water, and it was actually a common makeshift solution for small tasks until recently in many parts of the world. I distinctly remember the Greek comedian and actor Thanassis Veggos talking about how he once ate flour glue while doing crew work on the set of a movie, because the crew got nothing else to eat.

[@AlRoderick]

Wheatpaste is the classic adhesive for sticking up posters outdoors, it's biodegradable and cheap.

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

That reminds me of an old craft project as a little kid we would have strips of newspaper and we would dip them in a flower water mix

[@colinstu]

​@@AlRoderick is this where the trope of kids eating glue came from? I could never understand why someone would eat glue... it's not good tasting, so I'd expect something wrong with them. But if old glues actually tasted... ok/good then... huh then it's more reasonable?

[@DRainbowNeos]

Corn starch+hot water works well for paper.

[@davidgoeller5843]

In WWII it was common practice in really desperate parts of the world to strip wallpaper and boil it so you could eat the glue. A lot of children only survived thanks to that (and a lot more tragically didn't.)

[@iroironanihongo]

Huh, only now has it occurued to me that Polish 'klej' and English 'Glue' are related. Oh, and yeah, 'klej' is pronounced exactly like 'clay', if you were wondering

[@kahorere]

It's funny how it's almost inverse in Polish vs English: glue is 'klej' but clay is 'glina'

[@k.constantine]

​@@kahorereglina, glei, very similar

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@kahorereI love it when shared etymologies create reversed patterns like that between languages. Aka anti-cognates, since they don’t actually mean what they sound the closest too. Glace in French and glass in English for example - both related to gel as discussed in the video, but through different avenues.

[@aimeelinekar3902]

@@k.constantineexactly the same in Russian!

[@thereisnospace]

@@kahorere german glue = kleber , clay = lehm , there is also a gluetype called leim which has the consistency of the hide glue. there is also kleister a glue type used afaik mostly for wallpapers.

[@christophera2534]

As someone who has Celiac Disease, thanks for explaining why Glutinous Rice is called what it is

[@Lizard-813]

This video perfectly combined three of my biggest interests in life, incredible! Linguistics, biochemistry, and cooking. Excellently done, even if simplified.

[@micahrobbins8353]

My dude, same

[@sameoldsteph]

Same!

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

this is how i feel when he does the linguistics/anthropology/food videos, im excited for u

[@SeaWasp]

and sometimes fish

[@KerWallis]

It's like 'But-' (eg Butane) being the prefix for a four carbon chain because a compound with it was found to be prevalent in butter.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Butane (and butanol, and butanoic acid, via butyls I guess) being named after butter might have just replaced vaccines being named after cows as my favourite unexpectedly-cattle-related etymology

[@rfmerrill]

Also formic acid (and thus formate, formaldehyde, chloroform etc) was named after the latin word for "ant" because some ants produce it as a venom and/or pheromone.

[@chezmoi42]

And in mycology, the Rhodocollybia butyracea is known as the 'butter cap' because of the greasy feel of its surface.

[@bordershader]

I love you all. Can we get married? I can't bring much to the table though. But I do know that if you trace 'wheel' and 'circle' back far enough you get to the same word. And 'bagel' is related to an Old English word for 'ring'...

[@chezmoi42]

@@bordershader A word for ring in French is 'bague'. Add a baguette, give them a twist, and voila - a bagel.

[@liquirius]

This video made me realize that the Polish word for glue is "klej", which is pronounced exactly the same as English "clay".

[@chrisdeville5495]

Thank you for the Spaceballs reference.

[@johnlwagner1]

Highlight of this video

[@kaptainKrill]

It’s such a “blink and you’ll miss it” one, too. I had to skip back and make sure I heard it right.

[@gatodebrotas]

came to the comments just for that

[@vahidmortezaei9391]

In the Persian language, which is an Indo-European language, the mud is called "gel".

[@DjDolHaus86]

I like to think that there is a band of human history known as "the soup age" where clay pots had been invented and everyone was just really into soup. I imagine it's identified by a clear strata of fossilised spoons and conspicuous stains on cave floors

[@FutureCommentary1]

This is the Ragusea that I know and love. Thanks Adam.

[@nick_tally]

Thanks RaGLUsea for the knowledge

[@joshuabrigden4820]

Thank you Adam, its 5am and im doomscrolling, you saved me! 🤣

[@6kang971]

3 AM for me here

[@zebgordon354]

Go to bed bro

[@IamJustaSimpleMan]

half past eight 😁 greetings from Europe!

[@Rahat2056]

Go to sleep man

[@WindowsNT_]

2:09pm cst for me

[@user-vq6hl5li5m]

This is funny how it works in other languages. In Polish: Klej (sounds like clay) is glue, and clai is "glina" - so still in the same big pot with prefixes just mixed differently.

[@AdvancePlays]

Love a bit of linguistics with my cooking content! Something to think about is that the PIE roots for these words don't even necessarily have to "come from" each other, you could make the case that they share the same sound symbolism where /g/ and /l/ together invoked this idea of sticking, freezing, coming together, becoming still, etc on some fundamental level. It's cool stuff!

[@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8]

Makes you wonder why so many of our words come from such a small pool of common roots, I wonder what happened to so drastically lessen the amount of fundamental roots so recently that we can almost see it in reconstruction. Maybe that has something to do with how fusional PIE was? If only we had time machines lmao

[@Anon-956]

I've missed these food science of videos. Hands down the best type of videos you make.

[@claudyla]

Yes! Mine too!

[@bzymek7054]

'I am the pedant that corrects other pedants' i aspire to this level of pettiness

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Surely not pettiness but precision?

[@bzymek7054]

@@janetmackinnon3411 goes both ways i suppose, i think at the core of correcting someone there's always a small side of pettiness, even if unconscious

[@jake-fo6yy]

Thank-you for making these types of videos. As an autistic person they are detailed, accurate, easy to understand and fascinating to learn about.

[@Khannesjo]

I'm so glad to see you are back with the food science content.

[@Baubette]

In French, gel also refers to the freezing of something, « La période de gel ». The verb to freeze is geler and une gelée refers to something that has been gelatinised, une gelée de fruit.

[@kaitlyn__L]

And of course gelée and jelly are related! Fruit that’s been tuned into a sticky mass lol

[@DoylePTB]

It's so great to have regular content again, but I hope you're doing well Adam! Keep taking care of yourself.

[@MonteiroLucas]

I think it's absurd how this is not the most famous channel on the internet. It delivers food, science, jokes, knowledge. Congratulations Adam! Keep it up the good workd

[@edwardolson8996]

The comment about flour and wheat reminded me of corn and grain. In Britain one reads about " corn laws ", and references to corn before the " discovery " of the Americas, where corn originated. But they aren't discussing what we, Americans, call corn. They are discussing the more collective, grain.

[@drunkleted1823]

Man Adam I truly love your longer form videos like this. Just love hanging out with you and learning some weird stuff. Hope you’re well.

[@PRODBYSMH]

These are my favorite videos you make!

[@ajuicejemas]

I *really* missed these science videos, happy to have them back!

[@paul_grimsley]

I appreciate your contra-pedantry Adam. I’ve got that! Thank you for your brilliant and knowledgable videos.

[@vicar86]

I felt empty inside and sick for quite a while. Now I know what it was, missing these science videos. Thanks Adam for doing them!

[@szemala]

I love that in Polish word for "glue" is "klej" pronuced just like "clay" in English, but word for "clay" is "glina", where you can clearly see similarity to Proto-Indo-European "glei". Slavic language compared to Germanic, but the same patter still exists.

[@charliesteele673]

Adam, love your content. My cooking has always been enjoyably haphazard and with your help has become more so, but with a better culinary understanding of why sometimes it works! Long-term podcast listener too! And funny to hear you in Tom Scott's 'Lateral' a while back, too. Keep it up when you can 💪

[@kated442]

Great timing- I just wondered yesterday whether there was a connection between gluten and glutamate! I love language history like this.

[@firstnamelastname-or4sn]

loved that video! Had all the reasons I subscribe; food, food science, etymology, thinking of how techniques evolved and it was well structured. I love you videos Adam

[@languagechefcorey]

As an amateur linguist and amateur cook, I can't tell you how much I love this video!!!

[@Wintercat1]

I hope you do more videos like this! Be it linguistics, science, history, etc. I enjoy it immensely and I think you do a great job conveying the information!

[@dead7584]

"But I am the petant who corrects other petants" lmaoo

[@eXJonSnow]

It’s “pedant,” to continue the theme of being pedantic.

[@munjee2]

I want to correct your spellings but I feel like this is a trap

[@FutureCommentary1]

​@@eXJonSnowLol. I was hoping that a pedant had corrected OP. It was too good to miss.

[@FutureCommentary1]

OP... Pétant is french for farting. Your sentence could be understood as "a farter who corrects other farters." Hilarious in its own right.

[@SMG2fanatic]

Hmmm. I find this comment thread shallow and pedantic.

[@petrosthegoober]

I too am a pedant of pedants, and so I appreciate you Adam.

[@KorraTransPhoenix]

I just love etymology! 😊 This is so great! Thank you, Adam! 🧡

[@yrcanlitprof1144]

happy to see my favourite pedant correcting other pendants. Go Adam!

[@davidgoeller5843]

I've been loving the aquarium arc, but imma just throw out that if this became a loosely food-adjacent etymology channel I'd definitely stick around (pun intended)

[@NotMac]

I love my Adam Ragusea linguistic lessons

[@jonathanzimm5511]

This is exactly the content I love! Can you do these more regularly again?

[@xXJAng3lXxx]

Bread flour glue is my favourite! Its so cheap/easy to make, I like using it for book binding

[@mason2me]

Haven't quite warmed up yet to the Ragusea fish tank videos yet. But I am ALWAYS here for a Ragusea etymology lesson!

[@dinoswereneveraliens1933]

This etymological content is what I live for. Thank you!

[@shwarma]

you are amazing, I love this type of content! I can't get enough of any of it.

[@yvesquadros]

Year after year you remain one of my favorite people online. Amazing content as always

[@fernstewart6946]

I love how you down a rabbit hole with these things 😂. This video is what my brain's like at times when one question pops into my head. Love your content, Adam!

[@harryli5979]

I love this style of video keep making more !

[@tissuepaper9962]

I respect the fakeout on the "suave sponsor transition" that you're so well-known for. I could feel the ad read coming but it didn't come at the moment I expected.

[@michaelnelson2976]

Absolutely adored watching this etymology lesson, wow I adored it.

[@jonahgadoury6421]

I genuinely appreciate you. You may be crazy, and or an extremely intelligent and learned person, but thank you.

[@monkeygraborange]

Drat! I was sooo looking forward to watching Adam wash glue off of the pots and pans!

[@PGproductionsHD]

Good subject, good energy, good layout! Great video that reminds me of the good old Adam

[@moosifer3458]

I hope you feel up to doing the podcast again soon. I really like hearing you explain stuff like this and the long format of the podcast is best so Adam can get nice and rambly.

[@alb91878]

Congratulations!!! You deserve it! So happy to have you!!! Finding authentic news on social media has done so much to keep me informed, but to have faith that way least someone cares about the truth!

[@chadeller5588]

Words are hard. Thanks for sticking with this topic.

[@agbook2007]

Sticking. 🤣

[@ieshi23]

I am not pedanted, Skyler. I am the pedant. A guy opens his feed and gets his opinion rectified and you think that of me? No, I am the one who corrects

[@lanceperfect]

You're such a gem, Adam. So glad you got famous enough for me to find you, thank you for sharing your slice with the world.

[@OscarMSmithMusic]

This is vintage Ragusea content! I don't mind the infrequent posting, cause this is the content I love; I will wait for it.

[@amicaniiya1576]

I've recently taken to making seitan with the washed flour method and while it is some work, watching and more importantly _feeling_ the gluten coming together into one rubbery mass as you wash it is fascinating (also, I experienced its sticky nature first hand when it accidentally touched a bit of paper towel once - that stuff just fused into it)

[@denehoffman]

Fantastic video, it combined my love of cooking with my love of etymology!

[@veronikav4856]

Amazing video Adam. Definitely up there with one of my favorites :)

[@haadiusman3524]

Havent had one of these videos in a while im excited

[@aoidev3809]

Glad to watch your new video. You have a fresh look.

[@argetlamzn]

More etymology videos please!!! This was super interesting!!!

[@madselena3111]

As a person who always had an interest in the origin of words, thank you for putting out this information. For example, the Romanian word for frost is "ger" (pronounced /dʒer/ or as the beginning sound in gelatto)(source: I speak Romanian). Also the French "geler", pronounced /ʒə.le/, comes to mind (meaning to freeze). Antigel seems to be derived from all the words you mentioned too, which makes sense (antifrost).

[@annabeckman4386]

I love your food videos but i love these educational videos!

[@pineconehatfaludi6890]

looking healthy and good Ragusea. Keep up the gains. Would love more fitness content

[@rjsalameh]

You are simply a master at this!!!!

[@Demivrge]

Great video, makes me see how much of linguistics is like the study of ancient vibes!!

[@Philboh8]

Great vid as always! Love the mixture of food science and history. Also, any pods coming soon? (You might have already addressed this somewhere but i have missed it if so)

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

This reminds me of that one scene in the 2013 movie "This Is the End" where Seth Rogan was talking about his new "gluten-free" diet where he started listing things saying, "That's a gluten", indicating that he obviously had no clue what gluten even was at all, lol. Also, I love how this video shows how interconnected various disciplines are, such as cooking, chemistry, linguistics, and biology.

[@kimdecker8901]

Brilliant. And effective as a teaching tool. Adam, did you come up with that Rolo model of protein denaturation yourself? Ingenious!

[@Exiled_Rouge]

Another great episode. I miss the podcast a fair bit. This seemed like a topic Adam would deep dive into on the podcast.

[@ryanpatterson8509]

Great episode!

[@aimeelinekar3902]

Fascinating, thank you! I was thinking about this while working on my bagels, which my kid thought were the last frozen ones we smuggled back to Austria from New York (your old malted bagel video worked a charm! But how will I make rye or pumpernickel bagels next time, should I smuggle in seitan flour? I don’t suppose you fancy making a video on this?). I know you’ve been having a hard time lately but this is fabulous, enriching content, and your outfit looks great. All the best.

[@HarvestStore]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

This video perfectly coincided with one of my classes; African History Before 1800. We were learning about the Bantu Migration, and how many common words indicate the lifestyle of Bantu speaking peoples, and thus their lifestyle and how and why they settled in the areas they did. Common words such as pottery, fire, wood, fishing, fruit, egg, and nut explain why Bantu speakers are common along large water sources and in areas suitable to the mass cultivation of bananas. They avoided areas like the Kalahari desert because it didn't suit their lifestyle, which is why the Khoisan language family is common there, which is extremely different and relies almost entirely on 'click' phonemes that use all parts of the tongue to create a huge variety of distinct sounds.

[@MrDaraghkinch]

Top drawer pedantry, welcome fodder for my trivia sack, great job.

[@pmheart6]

So refreshing to have a 10 minute video instead of an hour long ramble

[@MlLFS4L]

I love these types of historical gastronomy videos from Adam

[@realbland]

as a linguist who loves this channel this video is fantastic

[@TheBookDoctor]

I love these etymological deep-dives! 👍

[@ismetyalimalatli7581]

Nice. I really, although unknowingly, needed to know this.

[@BalmBeach]

I love this video! You get to a level of deep history and detail that I find very satisfying. Your wife must be sick of the smell of boiling hide. Beautiful dog!

[@Buddy26420]

Dog is like "Why did you boil my rawhides, Adam?"

[@Moardred]

"I am the pedant who corrects other pedants" There is power in those words

[@chezmoi42]

I saw lightning flash from his fingertips as he spoke.

[@Chris-ut6eq]

This reminds me a bit of James Burke "Connections" segment. Burke glued together seemly unrelated events and made a narrative about their connections.

[@yo388]

This is the type of unexpected deep dive I appreciate Adam for!

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Love this

[@adamfabing8250]

i love this kind of content!!

[@BWGPT]

Wow I haven't really followed this channel since the very early days, but I really like the way you've changed or rather grown. I think the air of confidence is much better than the academic humility. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@wakingmycadaverful]

Hey Adam are you going to do any more of your hour long videos? I really enjoy those ones. Especially the food science and history videos. Thanks for everything you do though. My favorite channel.

[@michelhv]

French: to freeze is « geler » and clay is « glaise ». And we are gluttons for gluten.

[@booon-booon]

gelée is also the word for a gel dessert, correct?

[@michelhv]

@@booon-booon Yep, "une gelée aux framboises" is a raspberry Jell-O.

[@PerturbedGoose]

I like the ultra educational videos, thanks!

[@tonys2287]

Nice scientific video again. Very interesting. Thx