World War II Propaganda

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you all for the birthday love 💕 For the HISTORY of Birthday cakes, check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-tk4mdn6uqfJI Now tell me what is your go-to Birthday cake? 🎂

[@cawl8122]

Black forest cake is just to die for 🎂

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

Carrot or Pineapple upside down are mine.

[@regeoberon3676]

Happy birthday! My favorite birthday cake are actually cupcakes. The perfect bite for sharing with the guests.

[@pdwnpwn]

Happy birthday!

[@sportybaker4273]

I don't have one but my hubby always wants a baked cheesecake for his birthday 😋

[@Pet_Petrarca]

You're 40?! You aged better than most people I've seen your age! Happy birthday!

[@davidmathieson8661]

People his age? I'm 34 and he's aged far better than I have lol

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you ☺️ I never see the sun 😂

[@highlander723]

Oh my God congratulations Max.... You know life starts at 40 right.

[@LuisAldamiz]

He's the Blue Prince of Disneyland, what do you expect?!

[@sapientisessevolo4364]

Further evidence he's secretly immortal

[@Cara-39]

My grandfather claimed to hate carrot cake but loved my grandmother's "spice cake". She got him to eat many things he said he didn't like just by changing the name 😂 Happy Birthday Max!

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

😂

[@ragnkja]

Maybe he _did_ hate carrot cakes where carrot was a more of a dominant flavour?

[@mapatterson173]

Yup, when my son was little, he had a wonderful cookbook, Kids Cooking: A Very Slightly Messy Manual, and in it was a recipe for Bunny Salad. He helped make it and then scarfed that stuff down. It’s my mom’s fault. She used to get me to eat baby trees (broccoli) and baby cabbages (Brussels sprout) and green mashed potatoes (my Lima beans were just smooshed and mixed in.) The cooking family members had t learn to me craftsy)

[@garywait3231]

My mother achieved exactly the same thing with her brother in law, who loudly complained that he would never eat oat meal cookies; so my mother renamed them -- I forget what -- and Uncle wolfed them down and asked for more! (My mother was a phenomenal baker, and nobody ever refused her pastries. )

[@RLKmedic0315]

My Dad would only eat peanut butter if it was "Peter Pan". My Mom always bought what was on sale and then put it into the Peter Pan container. She did this for at least 16 years. My Dad never knew, lol.

[@LileCremeans]

My wife and I both went "NO WAY! We thought you were only 30." 😂 Happy birthday Max! Time has been kind to you; and may it continue to be so. And my go to birthday cake is chocolate cake with chocolate icing and black raspberry chocolate chunk ice cream.

[@dualDisc]

I thought the same!! When he said the sentence I fully expected 30 but got 40 instead

[@LostinMayberry]

My grandma got a job on the sugar rationing board so she’d never lack it for her coffee and baking. She said the US ran on black market trades and sugar was King. She was such a proper demure lady, to this day it tickles me to think of her bootlegging sugar.

[@braveshieldmaiden]

Happy Birthday! My dad bought so much into the "carrots help your eyesight" hype that when I needed to get my first pair of Eyeglasses at the ripe old age of six, he made me drink an insane amount of carrot juice everyday. Mom made him stop once my skin began to take on an orange hue...

[@LycanFerret]

That's that good ole' beta-carotene. Only 8% or less of it is actually metabolized as vitamin A(which builds and protects the cells in the skin, brain, and eyes), and the rest makes you orange. Instead of beta-carotene which is a weak near useless form of vitamin A, you could eat retinol rich foods for your vitamin A needs. Which get metabolized at almost 100% efficacy. Eggs, grassfed butter, milk, meat, roe, and liver.

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

Isn't that a Magic School Bus episode?

[@Feytouched.Locket]

@@Nikki-tx6kh I remember that episode, it's a real thing! Carrots have a lot of pigment, and it survives the digestion system, so it can dye your skin temporarily

[@satagaming9144]

@@Feytouched.Locket People should just slam 10 carrots a day instead of spray-tanning

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

Back in the day (early 1980s), I needed to have my optic nerve photographed. They used a carotene dye, and I was bright orange for long enough that I had to call in sick to my customer facing job.

[@MicroSeraphim]

Happy 40th Birthday! Also, it's hilarious they would say carrots improve eyesight but then create a mascot like Dr. Carrot who needs to wear corrective lenses in order to see.

[@cloudkitt]

Well it'd be cannibalism for *him* to eat carrots :P

[@ixchelkali]

Hilarious yes, but accurate: vitamin A is good to prevent night blindness, but it does nothing to prevent myopia.

[@melissalambert7615]

Brilliant! I didn't even notice. Well, you know smart people wear glasses. Teehee.

[@brendahansen9358]

Happy Birthday Max!

[@SomePotato]

I can confirm that the "carrots are good for your eyes" story did make it to Germany. It's a popular myth here as well. Happy belated birthday!

[@heyiamgiu_]

It also is in Brazil!

[@baconghoti]

Radar? Nope, never heard of it? Are we sure about that? Of course it's just the carrots, definitively the carrots. The special English carrots that definitively have nothing to do with the Radar thingy.

[@jljljl1820]

@@baconghoti British scientist carrots invented radar confirmed

[@leeharveyoslik]

It's not myth. The deficit of vitamin A (which can happen during rationing time) may cause nictalopia (or simply put - night-blindness). Carrot is reach in carotenoids which is a precursor to vitamin A. So there is no myths just logic.

[@aiko9393]

The myth even got in elementary school science books in Indonesia! They even write that vitamin A makes the rod cells work better.

[@annemariec7659]

My whole family exclaimed "he's not 40!"... We want your skincare routine. 😂. Happy Birthday!!!

[@abigailpena5950]

Yeah he looks like he's a fresh 30yr old man, he's not balding, no wrinkles or anything, I'm super impressed

[@TheParadiseParadox]

Eat carrot cakes every day, they keep you youthful

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

@@TheParadiseParadox 😂😂😂😂😂 Well, jokes aside, I do want to know his skincare routine 😊

[@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci]

I think just staying out of the sun or at least avoiding getting suntanned or sunburned on your face every summer is the best way to keep looking young, as nothing causes premature aging of the skin like too much sun. It's why British people usually look way younger than Australian people the same age; it's not even something they have to do consciously.

[@liamroberts2576]

His skin care routine is to just eat carrots 😂

[@stevehawley5618]

I had a great uncle who was in the RAF during WWII. I asked him if was true that the "carrots improve your eyesight" message in WWII was used to cover up the usage of radar which allowed better night missions. He said that maybe, but they didn't actual feed the RAF more carrots. He claimed that they got more parsnips than carrots. Happy birthday, Max!

[@charliem989]

The Germans knew what radar was, even had their own variation that wasn't as good and the British knew this. The Cavity Magnetron was one of those many inventions from the wartime era that had a massive effect on the tech available to it's developers side. This specific advancement allowed for smaller wavelength and is what went on to be used in microwaves after the war.

[@BDylanHollis]

Happiest of birthdays to you Max!!! My go-to birthday cake is a southern coconut cake. Or, cocoanut cake, as our old cookbooks would call it.

[@TastingHistory]

Thank you! I do love coconut cake, especially when spelled cocoanut. We’ll make one next time you’re in LA.

[@KetchupwithMaxandJose]

It’s HIM! 🤩

[@baronfriday989]

Crossover event when?

[@noranizaazmi6523]

THE MAN HIMSELF!

[@ImusNoxa]

@@baronfriday989 No but seriously, WHEN?!

[@DrygdorDradgvork]

Happy Birthday, Max!! Never would've guessed you're 40! You could easily be in your mid-late 20's. Possibly due to all the healthy, historical cooking! Haha

[@saaddagoat]

Yeah absolutely believed he was in his early 30s at best. This whole time I assumed he was around my age (mid 20s). He's aging wonderfully

[@francisdec1615]

I thought he was younger too, but people think that about me as well. I'm 52, but people often think I'm 30-35. It's more genetics than anything.

[@saaddagoat]

@@francisdec1615 hope I look that young at your age

[@Subderhenge]

I seriously thought this guy was 30.

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Yeah same!

[@cloudninetherapeutics7787]

40?! NO WAY! To my eyes, you don't look a day passed 27! You're doing all the right things, keep it up! Happy Birthday Max! By the by----Recently, I was quite pleasantly surprised by how delicious the carrot cakes from Costco are. Yep. Costco.

[@garywait3231]

Happy Birthday. Don't worry about 40. My 82nd is coming up soon, and your suggestion about carrot cake has inspired me to make one too -- my Nana's relatively "modern" recipe which includes, as you suggest, more grated carrots, and an abundance of spices. As a child (born 1941) we lived out in the country, raised chickens, so had the luxury of fresh eggs, and raising a "victory garden" had plenty of carrots and other vegetables. My father also sometimes had pigs, so there was sometimes lard, but my Mother used Crisco, tho Nana, being a generation older, still preferred to use lard. Tho very young, I still have some vivid memories of life during the latter WWII times. Where we lived, neighbors helped each other, exchanging what we had for what we needed. Anyway, as a historian who still loves to cook, I was delighted, as always, with your presentation; but, for my own birthday I think I will stick with my Nana"s recipe this time 😉 Many happy returns!!!😉😊🥰

[@florindalucero3236]

Tell us more, Gary! Are there any recipes from rations you remember, which were surprising successes, or disastrously awful?

[@garywait3231]

@@florindalucero3236: Sorry to say, that is the one recipe of my own recollection that I remember clearly, as it was so delicious. Luckily we were periodically able, from the local grocery, to get the spices which made all the difference in the flavor. My Nana (grandmother) also made donuts, which were a simple treat, especially on cold mornings. I remember them in later years with coffee, when I became old enough to drink it. Oh, speaking of coffee, my birth in 1941, entitled my parents to additional ration stamps for sugar. The old farmer next door still kept a cow; so Dad had adequate sugar and cream for his coffee.

[@arokh72]

Happy birthday Max. Can't believe you're 40, I always thought you were late 20s at most. Thank you for taking the time to share some of your birthday with us.

[@friedasorber1653]

Carrot cake was a saga in my Belgian family. My mother raved about the carrot cake she made during the war, but had no recipe anymore. My first carrot cake came from a recipe from an American friend in 1980: very good my mother and I commented, but way too rich to have been made during the war. As a grown up I started collecting cookery pamphlets from the war time. Belgian, Dutch, German ones. No carrot cake. And now it pops up on your channel. Thank you for this wonderful present on your birthday. And congratulations for your birthday and your channel. And yes like you I always strongly believed in carrots being good for the eyesight. And now you rob me of the idea that my love for carrots helped me maintain perfect eyesight in my late 60's.

[@01jiratjiampoonsap80]

wait what? I thought you were in your 20s

[@animula6908]

They probably do, but science won’t discover it until tomorrow. Theyre always the last to know.

[@MRx36000]

Well, they may not be THAT milagrouss for a healthy eyesight, but they sure are a very healthy food, and no doubt helped in your health at your age. Thanks for sharing the story with us. :D

[@emdashing5311]

Canned sweetened condensed milk was used in America during the war to replace rationed sugar and dairy in baked goods. Maybe that's what your relatives used if that was the alternative in Europe?

[@violetskies14]

They do contain beta carotene that your body converts to vitamin A, a component needed for night vision and seeing the colour purple, however not to the degree propaganda stated and there are better sources of vitamin A, especially since some people don't convert the beta carotene as well as others.

[@crowfaerymori]

Happy belated birthday! Did anyone notice how horrifying it is that the anthropomorphic carrots are eating carrots? 😂

[@Grunnyinvasion]

You are what you eat 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ

[@Mordecrox]

Sorry I'm on the run from Potato Pete parachuting with a Sten

[@jamesboyle6134]

At least its not cartoon animals eating their fellows...

[@ScarySadFlan]

Happy birthday Max! I think my dad bought into the carrots helping eyesight propaganda because he always told me to eat my carrots. “After all,” he continued, “You’ve never seen a rabbit with glasses, have you?” #dadjokes

[@onemercilessming1342]

That joke must have been handed to fathers upon the birth of their first child. I first heard it at home and, a few year's later, in the David C. Cook's Sunday School pamphlet joke section.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Ironically rabbits don't actually have very good vision (they're farsighted)... XD They do have better night vision than us though, at least

[@onemercilessming1342]

@Amy On our way home from my high school activities, my mother's car was literally charged by a rabbit. She managed to swerve to avoid killing it, but the bunny was stunned by a tire. We stopped and my mother handed the me to keep warm and still until we could get home to tend it properly. At the time, the closest vet was about 50 miles away, maybe more, and it was after 9 P.M. That bunny 's heart raced. It died in my arms. My mother abd I both cried. My father called it, "Kamikaze Rabbit". We buried the poor thing on the farm, with my father constructing a small cross with "Kamikaze Rabbit" and the date on it. That was 1966.

[@n.a.7040]

I'm German and my Grandma also always told me the eyesight thing. Honestly at some point as a teen I figured it might be a myth but it was actually your video that told me the full story for the first time. So yes, it got back to the Germans. Also: Happy Birthday Max!! Congrats on entering a new decade, may the next years be filled with lots of happiness and historical recipes!

[@natviolen4021]

It definitely was/is a thing in Germany, too. I'm quite surprised to learn that the story should originate in the UK. My grandmother was born in 1900, i.e. before WWI, and she was a convinced advocate of it.

[@seronymus]

Consequences of American occupation?

[@jonathanbair523]

It was a thing in Minnesota too in my family. We came to the states near the end of the civil war, so I was thinking it came from Sweden/Norway or Germany... Interesting to know it was British propaganda LOL.

[@natviolen4021]

@@seronymus There was no American occupation before 1945. And the theory/myth existed before that.

[@jonathanbair523]

@@seronymus If Nat is saying it was a thing in 1900's.. WWI was 1914 and WWII was 1940. The US did not have much of a role as the Brits did not want us in the war and only 1 unit was allowed to fight under the French in WWI so there wasn't really "American occupation" as America wouldn't have troops over there in mass till WWII and his grandma would be 40.. So no odds are it has nothing to do with America...

[@philtheairplanemechanic]

Jeez max. I'm 26 and you're reminding me how hard night shift is on a feller. Coulda sworn I was your senior. Happy birthday and thanks for all the food videos! I still watch every video but they really helped when I had to commute about four hours a day. I'd put on your uploaded playlist and just listen through while suffering my way through interstate 95.

[@joannaromero2214]

I don't think of him as many replies as you deserve, those are some pretty nice comments 🙂

[@Jungles_of_Lustria]

Happy 40th belated birthday to The fresh Prince of historical cooking! May you continue to age like a fine wine and get better with every passing year! Cheers and thank you for bringing such wonderful content to all of us!

[@mandalorfortytwo4557]

Thanks for sharing some of your Birthday with us! Many happy returns on the day! 🎂 🎆 🧨 🕯️

[@baumgrt]

Happy birthday, Max! My grandma used to bake great carrot cakes. In Switzerland, the most common carrot cake is the Argovian one. It’s a bit more plain and contains a substantial amount of ground nuts, usually almonds or hazelnuts at about the same weight as the carrots. While some recipes call for small amounts of cinnamon and cloves for a rather subtle spice flavour, a lot of them only use lemon zests and a healthy glug of cherry brandy for additional flavour. The cakes are either glazed with a simple sugar icing or just dusted with powdered sugar, then decorated with little marzipan carrots.

[@gd__vk6991]

Mm, this sounds delicious!

[@bdavis7801]

🤔 Interesting!

[@Bloodletter8]

The marzipan carrots put it over the top. That sounds cute.

[@danacarpender2287]

Vitamin A is a component of visual purple, aka rhodopsin, essential to night vision, so there's *some* connection. But A) carrots (and other plants) contain beta carotene, not pre-formed vitamin A; the body has to convert it, and some bodies do this more readily than others, and B) a quarter cup of carrots in a cake for... what, 8? would not contribute sufficient beta carotene to bump up anyone's vitamin A levels, much less their visual purple. They'd do better to eat liver once a week.

[@TakenTook]

Just came to the comment section to essentially say the same thing. Eating extra carrots (or other foods rich in beta-carotene) won't turn **normal** vision into something better in a person who already has sufficient dietary intake of preformed vitamin A and/or the beta-carotene precursor. But for someone with deficient dietary sources of these, especially if they were unable to access sufficient preformed vitamin A in foods like eggs or liver -- or just didn't like to eat those types of foods because of personal preferences -- they could have night blindness due to insufficient rhodopsin production, and encouraging them to get more beta carotene from vegetable sources would at least help bring them closer to normal.

[@MsGenetist]

A very Happy Birthday to you, Max! The 10th century Iraqi carrot pudding- a version of it is still enjoyed in India today; the Gajar ka Halwa! Which incidentally was brought here by the Mughals in the 14th century (‘cause the humble carrots have always been indigenous to the regions of modern Afghanistan! Awesome things I learnt today! Thank you!)

[@ParliamentOfOwls309]

My mom makes that sometimes! It tastes kind of like an indian style rice pudding, but with carrots

[@doricetimko5403]

Wow, sounds delish! I hope he does it here🤞🏼

[@morganb8250]

40? Wow, I thought you were, like, 32 at most! As a big history buff, this channel is one of my favorites on KZbin, I always look forward to what you will make next! Happy Birthday!

[@mariushertel7567]

Happy Birthday Max! I'm turning 24 tomorrow and the fact that I feel like 100 while you look still that great with 40 makes me think that you may have found accidently the Holy Grail while doing research for your show. I just published a book on aviation history and stumbled across some pretty interesting stories about airline food and I would love to see an episode on that in the future. PS: I love your channel and I was planning on making carrot cake tomorrow anyways since its one of my favourites, so I think I will just make this one instead

[@TuckerSP2011]

Happy Birthday tomorrow Darius! 🎂

[@jolarocknrolla6015]

There is an amazing series on youtube from BBC called "wartime kitchen and garden" and i absolutely devoured it during the COVID year, it's just such a a fascinating time to me and i feel like i learned so much from it. This video was so much up my alley, would love to see more! And also Happy Birthday :)

[@Lionstar16]

You're 40 today, Max?! No way - I thought you were about 36. Happy birthday 🎉And thank you for posting this video as I've had a rather shitty day at work today and it's helping to cheer me up.

[@triskelion2056]

Happy birthday Mr. Miller! This reminded me of a story my grandmother from England, who grew up during the war, would tell about how her mother and father would save up all their sugar rations and only use them a few times a year for the children's birthdays plus holidays, as there were 6 children in that household and giving up sweetened tea was a fair trade for letting the children have cake that didn't cut back on sugar and was iced like a French cake was 6 or 7 times a year. It's also worth noting that in England, wartime rationing was very much structured to give children good nutrition, and kids were granted more eggs, milk, and fresh fruit. And that while sugar and sweets were rationed, honey was *not*, which is why my grandmother learned to keep bees.

[@adrino777]

Happy birthday Max!!! Thank you for the videos and best of luck for the coming years!! PS: I'm turning 40 too in a couple of months, now I know which cake I'll ask for

[@TastingHistory]

Let’s hope our 40s are awesome!

[@ashe1317]

i expect your next birthday video to be on the Soda Fountain of Youth, because you've clearly found it and are hogging it all for yourself! happy birthday, Max, and thank you for this delightful little present on what is also my favorite cake 🥰

[@mikerichards6065]

Possibly one for Max to try out in a future episode. When he wasn't boosting carrot sales, Lord Woolton gave his name to a pie created by the Chef of the Savoy Hotel that was popularised by his Ministry of Food. Its filling was potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, spring onions, swede, oatmeal and vegetable extract (think Marmite). It sounds - ummmm substantial. And a happy birthday to our own Chef de Cuisine.

[@C.L.Hinton]

I'll have to look that one up, thanks!

[@turquoisetranquility]

That’s so sweet of you to post on your birthday, so we all could celebrate together and have a piece of luxurious carrot cake!Happy birthday 🎂 🥕🥕🥕😁

[@krystalcluck4282]

I hope you have a very happy birthday Max, and may you continue to age like a fine wine! I would not have guessed 40. Though to be fair, compared to the baby faced first episodes, when I thought you were maybe 20, the handsome scruffy look does lend you a solid late 20s, early 30s, easily able to get into the club without needing to be carded anymore look, lol. I hope Jose pampers you on your special day, since you pampered us with a very special video, and snuggle the cats for all us adoring fans. Oh, and chocolate cake with a light whipped topping is my fave cake.

[@krystalcluck4282]

@R. P. Rules are rules, and you can't risk your job. But you have to admit, you'd look at his ID, look at him, double check the ID, and be like, nah...ain't no why you're 40 my man! Lol

[@danaellis816]

I'm 65 and my mama told me the same thing. I ate lots of carrots, but still had to start wearing glasses at age 7. Debunked that theory LOL. D from Arkansas. Happy Birthday Max, I watch all your vlogs. BTW your Catherine the Great solved a family mystery of how our very German great grandparents lived in Russia and boarded a steamship at Vladivostok.

[@IneffableParadox]

Happy Birthday, Max! May this year be one of milestones, records broken, dreams achieved, and all the success you deserve and strive for. Finding your channel has reignited a passion for Culinary History I'd long suppressed. For that, I wholeheartedly thank you. Now, tell me: How did you get to 40 looking like you're 31?! You look younger than me!

[@leeneufeld4140]

He was a Disney Prince. I think that has some kind of magical effect ;)

[@alexh4935]

Not Max, but …. Sunscreen daily, retinol nightly, and not smoking. Those are the things that consistently give people nice skin. He may also just have good genetics.

[@AngelavengerL]

@R. P. Hell yeah!

[@1Thunderfire]

Happy 40th birthday! Carrot cake is incidentally one of my favourite cakes. Also, it's amazing how many veg cake recipes are out there now. I don't know how to bake myself and don't have the equipment but they do sound surprisingly delicious!

[@ultraspinacle]

Happy B’day. This is an absolutely fascinating story about carrots, as I too was told by my grandma and grandpa (who was a WWII POW) that carrots were very good for you and “improve your eyesight”. Thanks so much for this, and it’s the kind of story I really enjoy.

[@anitalisberg9393]

Omg! Is your birthday really March 30?! That's my birthday! I'm 52, not 40 though. I watch you every week and my daughter even made your pecan pie for my birthday dinner! We love you you! Happy birthday, Max! ❤🎉❤

[@threepoint14159265]

Happy Birthday! Can you do a video about how you plate and present your dishes? It goes unacknowledged but they're always so aesthetically perfect and make the food look even better than it already does! Also, normal episode suggestion: meal served on the Hindenburg?

[@troychristman5662]

Happy Birthday, Max! It's hard to believe this channel has only been around since 2020. It's one of my absolute favorites. Keep up the good work!

[@CarolynParsons-mv1ji]

Happy 40th to my favorite KZbinr!! I turned 40 back in December and I have always thought you look much younger than me! I baked my own birthday cake this year too. Mine was orange cranberry and not at all historic, but everyone loved it. I even got orders from my 11-year-old daughter that I HAVE to make it again! Lol! Anyway, hope you’ve had a fantastic day!🎉🎉🎉

[@jvstcu76]

Happy Birthday, Max 🎂. Wishing you a wonderful birthday. You are a favorite of mine as you combine history and food, a satisfying combination for the mind and body. 😊

[@robertschalk9178]

I just finished watching chef johns carrot cake ice cream video and now max uploads this 10/10

[@TastingHistory]

I need to watch that

[@NotContinuum]

​@@TastingHistory It's a no-churn ice cream recipe.

[@katietoole8345]

It looks AMAZING. Can't wait to try it.

[@kimberamweg1917]

Happy birthday Max! Definitely thought you were going to say 30 not 40 haha! Absolutely love your channel, especially the really old recipes!!

[@geekogen]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX!!! I turned 40 late last year, so I can officially welcome you to the Club. I've enjoyed your videos almost since the very beginning. They have helped me during grief caused depression, hospitalizations, and just plain old boredom, as well as through glad times. So, thank you. I hope your birthday was fantastic (as I am late to the party so to speak lol. It's 11:43 pm now). My fave cake is vegan strawberry. If there is frosting, vanilla is delicious with the strawberry.

[@monika_kit109]

I feel like you deserve a position on history channel or food network for your birthday. You're amazing!!! Literally the only person on KZbin I seek out and look forward to uploads!!!!!! You are absolutely amazing 😍

[@gecko31313]

Happy Birthday Max!!🎉 And thanks for giving us a present on your birthday! Was very excited to get to watch tasting history twice this week 😃. PS- My go to birthday cake is chocolate with peanut butter frosting 😊

[@erikgowdy1784]

Yay! Happy birthday! My mom always made carrot cake for our birthdays growing up. She would have been a child during the war, you've inspired me to ask her about her first carrot cake. Thank you so much for creating such wonderful content. I hope you have a fantastic day!

[@franlove3490]

Max! I was beginning to feel really sad for you that WWII carrot cake was your birthday cake especially, when I saw you adding the flavorful water to that thick batter! Oh my. I was so relieved when you said you were going to have a modern carrot cake for your birthday. Phew! My dad was in the Navy in WWII and he told my sister, who hated eating carrots, that it would give her good eyesight. Somehow she didn’t really believe him. Thanks for sharing your birthday with your adoring fans!

[@joshuapatrick682]

I knew we were the same age man! It’s like we’re long lost twins, what with our love of history, Tolkien and stylish aprons! I go Red Velvet for birthday cakes though, Carrot is a close second lol. Happy Birthday Max!

[@evilbrewer]

Happy birthday! Personally I really like the 40s - for me its 44 this year - a little bit of grey in the hair so the people take you serious but still enough spring in the step to enjoy it. And You are up for a terrific start into the new decade with this absolutely awesome channel!

[@Shria9]

Happy birthday, Max! You are a precious gift to us all!

[@leehawn9166]

Having laid out the progression of all the versions of "carrot cake" from the mists of time, you've laid out a great series for your videos. I'd love to see you making all those recipes you mentioned here. Happy birthday too, sir!

[@donaldjohnson1148]

Happy Birthday Max. Thank you for the time and care you take in making your videos and keeping us connected to all our history. I know all of us here really appreciate it. Soo many thanks. You're awesome Sir! 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉👍👍

[@lyspeth]

Happy birthday Max! We're closer in age than I realized - my Life the Universe and Everything birthday is this year. You've brought a lot of joy to a lot of folks with your channel, and I wish you many more years and many more Tastings of History.

[@nancytoothaker3224]

Happiest of birthdays Max! We're so spoiled, we're the ones that get the present of a new episode. Thanks for keeping the history bit, I'm not much of a cook so I don't make the recipes but I dig the research you do. I'm not picky about a bday cake, I'd really rather have a deep dish southern peach pie. And oh, never would have guessed you're turning 40. Looking good.

[@TocsTheWanderer]

Happy Birthday! Also, your mention of the "carrot cakes" being more like carrot pies reminds me of the fact that New York style cheesecakes are actually pies.

[@animeboy2007]

Belated Happy Birthday Max from Melbourne, Australia. Hope your 40th was epic and you have an amazing year mate. Love your content keep up the awesome.🎉

[@Oddball_E8]

The History part of the video might be the most difficult part to make, but honestly... it's the part that I'm here for! Love your channel! Happy Birthday Max!

[@XhumpersX]

Same lol. The current ratio is perfect imo though.

[@DrPluton]

A few years back, people looked at me like I had two heads when I asked for carrot cake for my birthday. My dad baked it, and it was delicious as always.

[@clariceshelley10]

I am 30 and I thought you were only a few years older than me. Happy birthday Max. Love your videos hope you have many more years of greatness to come.

[@lucasaccioli4467]

U should try the carrot cake brazillian style with chocolate mousse(cream or something like it) on top and some chocolate on the inside i think ull love it. Also happy bday

[@Skelly57]

I knew about the radar fact, but the pushing of carrots during a food shortage to (apparently) solve blackout blindness is new! Thanks for doing the research, and happy birthday :D

[@srice6231]

Happy birthday! You gave us a gift on your birthday by making a new episode and doing the history research! Wow! That was nice.

[@rosswebster7877]

Happy Birthday Max! I had no idea carrot cake had such a distinguished history! Enjoy and many congrats on all the great videos!!

[@ericanicksin6568]

I have been so busy moving that i had to wait till now to watch your birthday video! It was wonderful as always. As a student of both history and optometry, i really enjoyed hearing you teach everyone about the carrot/eyesight thing. There are so many weird little stories out there like that, and those are my favorites. Thank you a million times for your absolutely wonderful videos.

[@redtankgirl5]

The best wishes on your 40th Max. May you have as much joy as you spread to others in abundance.

[@ChioGaru]

Happy Birthday, Max and thank you so much for posting a video for us on your special day! My brother usually asks me to bake him a carrot cake for his birthday, I use a recipe out of a German recipe book (the recipe itself is Swiss though), barely any flour, mostly carrots and nuts and a bunch of egg whites. I make a cream cheese frosting in place of the sugar glaze the recipe book suggests though.

[@justlisa1599]

fascinating! we have two family favorite "eggless" cake recipes (one for chocolate mayonaise and one for chocolate applesauce) from those war years and my mother could never tell me why this was even a thing! "rationing" is such a foreign concept now, but "one egg per person per week" and suddenly it all makes sense! thank you. : ) happy birthday!

[@akashrao1991]

i love this.... the guy's celebrating his 40th birthday and almost every episode still has a pokemon in the background!!!! belated happy birthday!!! to me u still look like u r in ur 20s.

[@daveandgena3166]

Happy Birthday, Max! I really enjoyed this history segment! The international timeline format was quite cool. It's a little known fact that Potato Pete single-handedly captured a German tank and liberated a French village.

[@shaventalz3092]

At great risk to himself, no doubt, given how many potato mashers the Germans were carrying.

[@daveandgena3166]

@@shaventalz3092 YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

[@MiguelDunham]

Feliz Cumpleaños Max! I hope your birthday is great and of course, I hope to be seeing more Tasting History! I love the regularity of your postings and work. I can always count on you to brighten my day!

[@dennigrey3667]

Happy birthday my fellow Year of the Pig friend! 1983 was a special year - I have to wait til August though. Love watching Tasting History - have been re-binging episodes while recovering from a knee op this last few weeks! Also, Sebastian the cat (in Australia) says meow to Cersei and Jaime - he sits in front of the tv while we watch Ketchup because he knows he’ll see them!!!

[@Mark723]

Max is such a sweetheart, I'm sure the painting of him in his attic looks just as scrumptiously delicious as he does now.

[@ninofalca1]

I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE THE CARROT. You never let me down

[@AJScraps]

Same lol. Potatoes wouldn’t be advertised for nutritional purpose

[@Naomi-pq6tv]

I chose carrots as well, he has done many videos with potatoes but not enough about carrots

[@joyful_tanya]

​@@harbl99 exactly. That's why I picked potato Pete but if I would have known it was his birthday, I would have chosen differently!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@davidfountain6607]

Happy birthday young man! It's interesting that you made this topic today, being last night I watched Supersizers do world war 2, filled with lots of references to Doctor Carrot and Potato Pete. My birthday was last week, and my daughter-in-law made me a carrot cheesecake. (It was delicious!)

[@chelseaopoku4203]

Happy Birthday Max! I can’t believe you’re actually 40. I swear I honestly thought you were in your early to mid 30’s. You’ve aged beautifully! Lol 😂 Once again Happy Birthday 🎉🎈🎂

[@yvonnewachowicz2931]

happy birthday, max!! and I had 'sticky toffee pudding' for my birthday this year. i offered to bring it to the gathering, as I was dying to try it and it was unheard of in my family, but my sister found a recipe and we made it and my, it deserves all the praise in all the books I've read that have mentioned it. if you could do an episode featuring it, and the cool chemical reaction that makes the chopped dates/baking soda/boiling water mixture go all bubbly before it goes in the oven, you and your readers/viewers would benefit. it's delicious and it converted my family. And the toffee sauce could be used on ice cream and so many other things. great episode, as always. your loyal fan

[@fugithegreat]

I am enjoying this episode while eating some leftover carrot cake I made yesterday for my mom's birthday. It's quite possibly my favorite kind of cake! Happy birthday, Max!

[@rogerwitte]

Many happy returns! You say the history is the most difficult part of your videos to make but it's the part I mostly watch them for, so thanks for your efforts ... much appreciated here

[@stanbrown32]

Happy, happy birthday, Max! Incidentally, my mother was 4 years old in 1945 (in the US), and a neighbor gave my grandmother some of her ration coupons so she could buy enough sugar to make my mother's birthday cake (not a carrot cake, as far as I know). My mother told this story--and I had to tell her that the neighbor and my grandmother were guilty of a crime, because those ration coupons were not supposed to be transferrable. Enjoy your ration-free birthday!

[@Erhannis]

Why not - oh. Probably to avoid the rich ending up with all the sugar etc. maybe?

[@catzkeet4860]

People did it all the time tho. For important moments like weddings, birthdays because without help there was no way to even have a cake

[@trixie042168]

Happy Birthday, Max! Can't believe you only started this channel in 2020. It seems like I've been watching you forever! Great channel!

[@lindsaythegreat]

Happy birthday, my good man! Here's to many more years of old recipes, weird history, and Pokémon plushies. Hope Jose hooks you up with a modern carrot cake!

[@mildlycornfield]

Happy birthday!! I like my carrot cake with walnuts and sultanas 😋 The decadent Victorian era recipes sound like they'd be interesting to try out! I almost think the low amount of carrot in this recipe might be a result of the oversaturation of carrots and potatoes at the time - I'm sure it would be quite a treat to be eating as little carrot as possible 😂

[@peabody1976]

Happy Birthday, Mark! Matt? Max! I hope you and Jose will do up the town specially for your big 40! Thank you for all the wonderful videos over the past three years! ¡Felicidades! 🎊🍰🤗

[@sdsith]

Since I am late watching this, I was so sad to hear I missed Max's birthday, then I heard him blatantly lie to us on a channel meant for education. I can no longer believe anything the man I once trusted for such a creative take on food and history says, and it makes me sad. There is no way he is 40, likely really in his 20s, even more likely that he doesn't age. Sad that he would lie about such a thing. Seriously, a huge happy birthday, and thank you for all the entertainment, recipes and knowledge this channel has given us! Carrot cake is my second favorite dessert after brownies so I'll be begging my wife for this the second she wakes up, ingredients on hand be damned!

[@LegacyUser]

Happy Birthday Max. Great video as always. Red Velvet with butter cream frosting has been my go to birthday cake for years.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'm now realizing that it has been too long since I've had a carrot cake. Such a good cake.

[@ladonnaadam5014]

Happy Birthday Max!!! 40 is when life starts to really get good! Congratulations!

[@Bloodletter8]

Happy belated birthday, Max. Eating all these ancient foods must have balanced your humors quite well. I never would have guessed that we're the same age.

[@djkittycat]

Happy Birthday!!! Another possible carrot history topic if you make another carrot recipe would be the history of why carrots are mostly orange (at least in the West; in India the default was red when I was there).

[@JonahIronstone]

Happy Birthday, Max! May this year bring you a million tiny joys.

[@lewiswelter2414]

Holy cow I thought you were going to say 30th birthday! Lookin good Max!

[@black_rabbit_0f_inle805]

I would have thought 25

[@TastingHistory]

Love you for that!

[@tangerinealarm]

Can't believe you're 40! You're looking amazing for it. Happy birthday!

[@brittanyagm]

How did you know I was actually craving carrot cake? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you look easily 10 years younger!

[@medenadrakorus9542]

Happy birthday! Super happy to have 2 episodes in one week, just please dont overwork yourself! That being said, now i want cake lol.

[@Life_Hays]

Happy Birthday, Max! I hope you have a great day and know how awesome and appreciated you are! 4 whole decades on this Earth wow!🧡🧡

[@lol1lol2lol3omg]

Just discovered your channel today, as I am eating a carrot cake! Great video 😊 and happy belated birthday!