What the Average Medieval Diet Was Like
Vložit
- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- If you've ever been to the restaurant Medieval Times or eaten at a Renaissance Faire, then you've been horribly misled about medieval diets. The real story of medieval foods and cooking is actually simultaneously a lot more disgusting and a lot more boring, depending on who was doing the eating.
#MedievalDiet #EuropeanHistory #WeirdHistory - Zábava
What would be your go-to Medieval food of choice?
🍺
Who is narrating this it's killing me is it Stephen Colbert?
Meat, meat and more meat, fish and eggs. Everyhting is organic, grass fed, wild caught and pastured.
Legion has it that they found a medieval McDonald's french fry buried in the dirt and it still looks like a medieval McDonald's french fry
@@RandomGuy33369 Plenty of perservatives and trans fats to keep it shelf, or should I say, soil stable 😆.
“There was fast food in medieval times”
I knew Shrek 2 was a documentary!
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of Shrek.
Was there ever any doubt??
burger prince
Black Knight?
He's my ex🤣
Must be hard work having to wake up in the early morning to milk the almonds
Crom Pazuzu it is
Lol
T OB oh I assumed they had utters.
I enjoy my milked almonds lol
@T OB You're joking, right?
Imagine having a party people still talking about hundreds of years later
😂🤣😂
That's how you know a party was good
That’s how you know it was legendary
Them boys was getting faded 😆
Twas illuminated
back then they used to do things like get live birds into pie so that they would scare the person trying to cut into it as a prank.
they had crazy parties.
I work 8 hrs a day and just ate a giant loaf of rye bread. I am the medieval diet man.
Not really because they worked 12 you only worked 8
@@Wogsmawp Does it count if I add a 3hr workout?
Since you worked only 8 hours, I hope you kept it to 1 1/2-2 lbs of bread.
12 hr shift only 2 baby herrings for this guy.
@@mikefence847 Ask the lord in charge for more bread rations.
Still better than your average college student diet.
I am currently eating grape jam with a spoon
@@lutherholayeahme7449 what.... D:
Im eating garlic bread with GUACAMOLE
@@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897 whoa slow down there you very decadent rich man you.
@@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897 that..... actually might not be that bad...
Cracking open a few cold ones with the squires
Lol
Bruh lmao
Squires?
😂😅😂😭🤙🤣
pedos!
Almost every night during cold weather, I eat a 'pottage' made of wheat, barley, oats, beans, and peas, usually with a thick slice of homemade whole wheat or rye bread.
Gosh that sounds delicious
Apparently, if you have meat in medieval time, they seasoned the crap out of it with herb and spices you can think of. Might be a bit too much for folks nowaday. Whether as the peasant food back in the days is probably more palatable to modern eaters.
Wise man
I must try
Sounds awesome
Why hasn’t Netflix done a series on these baking mobs!?! I’d definitely watch that!
why it has to be a netflix thou? it can be HBO series or Cinemax
If I had netflix, I'd definitely watch that
"Ummm... I'll have the.... oh, let's see... The unspecific bird, I suppose."
"Hey, do you remember how many birds we killed and cooked?"
"I can only remember that we have a goose."
"Right, Right... Well several thousand unspecific birds it is then!"
Be careful not to choke on the pigeon pie.
In Australia , I used to buy sausages made from unspecified meat .
It's funny how in the Middle Ages salmon was considered peasant food, while chicken was more fit for a wealthy man's table
Jacopo Abbruscato and the fact almond milk was cheaper than cow milk
Because any poor dude can just go to a river a catch a fish but only those with grain and land to spare would be raising chickens to be eaten and not just for eggs.
Strange, isn't it?
Perception my dear friend. Today Lobster and T-bone steak is whatever you want to call it. But at the end of the day 100 years ago people that probably look down on that. It all comes down to perception and culture. And plus rich people nowadays love the garbage parts of animals. Even if they don't have a case. Which is why they smother it in the seasoning and sauce. Enjoy what you eat and let what you eat enjoy you on the way down
@@TubboDaKittyCat almost every vegetable food is less resource intensive, and therefore would be cheaper than animal products in years past. Only modern animal agriculture has reversed this trend.
Cooking fruits and veg actually makes them easier to digest. Most raw can even give some people (like me) a sick stomach. There's also oral allergies to worry about where people allergic to a pollen might ALSO react to raw fruit/veg because of the shape of its protein. It can cause anything from tingling in the mouth to actual life threatening swelling and (unlike most allergies) gets more common as we age. Cooking them fully changes the protein, resulting in a greatly reduced risk of reactions (for example, my dad can eat apple pie but apples are unsafe). Also? Milk allergies are a thing (I am allergic to whey) and lactose intolerance is fairly common, so almond milk being popular makes sense.
The most important meal of the day... serving it up Gary's way!!!
Yes! I thought of this right after he said that! Lol
"The Black Death thing wasn't great."
That should be in text books.
How did you felt when the beans were named in this video?
Raw vegetables? Absolutely not.
Rotten rabbit meat? Sure what the hell.
People weren't OK with it, the vendors used it to save money.
And since all kinds of things were used as fertilizer, I bet raw foods frequently *were* contaminated.
Use plenty of mustard to mask the taste of the dank meat.🤣
@@kaistzar2831 They probably would have tasted and smelled it still. And its kinda a fraud. But since they already bought it its probably too late. I actually read in a school book that people didnt get a refund if the food was spoiled back in the medieval. And since most people were poor then they would probably have to eat it as they cant just buy another meal
(lol) " YEAH BABY, YEAH!.... Southern Fried Roadkill. "
The problem is 'organic' fertilizer. Organic matter from human and domesticated animals contains infectious parasites or bacteria. Even one British Georgian king died from the runs caused by eating fruits. They don't have disinfectant, chlorinated water, soap or medicines like we do today so raw vegetables and fruits are potentially deadly.
I enjoy y’all’s videos so much! Truly helps destress and learn more about history. Thanks for the videos!
"Just like Greg in the office, medieval peasants love bread."
Greg: "Wait. What did you just say?"
"Peasants love bread"...nah, thats the only thing they could afford
Was it?
Pottage, porridges, herbs, cheese, fish, rarely ever red meat, plants and veggies, ale, ect.
@@somedesertdude1308 Nah, just a bad joke. The peasants could afford more than a loaf of bread like beans or fish but they mostly make their own food.
Pretty much a vegan based diet.
@@jonajo9757 as it happens, they were also the healthiest people, where as kings and queens were commonly ill with all their animal foods. Perhaps that's a lesson modern people could learn.
“Their diets consisted of eating 2-3lbs of bread and grain every day” same
I'd work 12 hours for that
And now our diets consist or eating 8 pounds of garlic bread and spaghetti everyday
It was unrefined flour, and probably didn't have that much sugar and fat. Very different from bread you found. Probably give you digestive a good cleanse while you eat it.
The bread was so hard it was broken up and dropped into soup or hot water to make it edible.
Me: eats breakfast
Thomas Aquinas: *you are now sin*
Aquinas was a OMAD hipster because it was cool
I just discovered your chancel today and I’ve binge watched all day 🥰 I’m hooked! So crazy how backwards some of their thinking was.. 🧐
00:12 "No peacock for me. I'm stuffed."
XD
So was it 😂
I love how this guy tells jokes at a very consistent level where you just smile and he keeps going like it never happened
I love his sense of humor!
It doesn’t take you out of the video and is funny enough to not roll your eyes
Nice! Definitely the most accurate medieval diet information I’ve seen on CZcams. Bravo!
It’s almost like humans have been doing this crazy intermittent fasting craze forever
In Medieval times, you fasted because there was a famine.
I imagine most peasant meals were pretty... grueling.
New Message I would say it's gruelsome.
I'm surprised we've survived this long.
I'm not it's not hard to see how we survived this long
It was only eourpeans in their dark ages for almost 800 years
Same
@Bok Choy I'm not here to deal with conspiracist
Humans breed like cockroaches. Some were bound to survive and thrive.
Peanut butter sandwich with ice cold milk. Eating like royalty here.
Just realized I eat the same as a medieval peasant but without the gallon of ale. I would like the gallon of ale but I am an alcoholic. The interesting thing is this diet I have been forced to eat to normalize my out of control blood pressure that no pill would tame after a stroke. So a vegan peasant but fish 2 times a week with generous amounts of tree nuts. So far so good.
Interesting how little some things change. I live in Central Europe in a small town/village, and a wierd amount of the things mentioned here are still part of the traditional life. People eat a lot of lentils, slices of bread are served with sausages, people generally eat little salad or garden greens, if anything mostly washed salad with oil, pepper and slices of cucumber. For celebrations, young pigs are cooked over open fires and during Christmas times you can expect to get invitations to several traditional goose dinners. There are many bakeries, held in much regard by the community, baking big lofes of heavy bread from traditional recipes. Damm, I might just ask my friends if they want to roast a Spanferkel when all this virus stuff is over.
I live in Eastern Europe and the traditions are pretty much the same, except that people can vegetables and eat a lot of salads, and there are a lot of vegetable dishes. I mean people in the city don't really eat like that anymore but it depends.
I love that; how traditions will survive through the centuries 😎
Bread and sausage sounds great ngl
Gesundheit
Mmmmmm Spanferkel
Just passed the first part about Almond milk, it's amazing how we think it's a new invention. Silly humans haha.
Bet it was the wealthy that had it
Almond milk tastes gross
@@Dowssy 🖕🏻people don’t drink it just cause it’s good some people can’t tolerate real milk🖕🏻
愚かな雌犬 You can drink soy or you know JUST NO MILK
Oat milk is better 👀
your narration makes my mood better👍😎
I'm eating chicken vegetables and bread along with some beer to wash it down
>Archeologists won't find a decrepit pair of golden arches
Nah, in medieval times all they had was White Castle.
😄😄😄
hear HEAR good syr
A decent number of castles were actually painted white
Noice!
Bah dum dum tissssss.
Medieval rich people: eww bring that piece of celery out of here
Peasants: *NOM NOM*
Just like 21 century postsoviet country
A+ video!
Fascinating history on the diet!
Thank you for sharing, very informative!!
"re-re-supper"
I'm trying my hardest to maintain composure
No, let it out
"o-oh ok"
*lets loose my chimera*
First thing that came to mind for me was "second breakfast" or "Elevenses"
I would imagine you are afraid considering you are a bagel.
"Beans beans the magical fruit. The more that you eat, the more that you'll want to make babies."
Beans beans fill your heart.
Beans beans make you fart.
There. I fixed it for you.
A salad with a Turkey, Cheese, Mayonnaise sandwich on rye bread
So interesting and well spoken Thx for this
"Are you currently eating bread? We see you" *guiltily swallows bits of bagel*
I actually got a hankering for a piece of bread while watching this video. Chose a bagel as well. Then came that ending. XD
@@Maphisto86 perfect timing right? 😆
@@bd3966 I was eating left-over lentils, stir fried veggies, with bread and butter. Then the end of the video came.... I needed more bread.
No bread, but am eating an ice cream cone, yummmy.
Uh oh
*bites on my piece of raisin bread*
Funny how the peasants ate healthier than the rich.
And the rich ate so poorly gout was considered the disease of kings! It's insane.
Now it's usually the other way around!
They didn't eat healthy for quite a while if just adding beans into their diet doubled their population... That means they clearly didnt get enough of something, which may even be less healthy than eating unhealthy foods in itself. Then again it probably varied and some of them ate genuinely healthy. The rich mainly ate unhealthy, considering gout being common for instance. But Im not so sure if poor people ate universally more healthy
Gotta live long to serve the rich lol
@@zakosist well the rich bois of that time had the same diet as the kings had red wine with meat both got gout
I was eating a baked potato while I watched the video, with butter, sour cream and cheese!
I've listened to this video several times now, and every time "Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat the more you wanna.... make babies" cracks me up!
"Gentlemen. We do not stop until dinner."
"What about breakfast?"
"We don't serve it."
"Fine what about SECOND BREAKFAST?"
"How is there a second breakfast if there isn't a FIRST??"
Lotr forever
Pippin 😌
I see you are a man of culture as well XD
A whole pig meal is still a status symbol in the Philippines.
Lechon!
Hell yeah
Fuck yeah!!
eating lechon rn lmao
Haha yes
A similar dessert would be a kind of sculpted dessert in medieval times called an entremet.
Thomas: "Eating breakfast is committing a sins"
Some little Hobbit: "What about the second breakfast?"
You should do one on the history of the toothbrush. That’d be really interesting!!
it had to be invented in England. Anywhere else it would have been a teeth brush.
I'd love to see that
Better yet, the history of dental hygiene.
I thought they did already
EmperorFaiz you could even say, acci-dental hygiene
What a coincidence. I was reading a book on sauces and there were a few recipes on medieval sauces. They also used bread as plates.
mi-devil 👿/👼 50/50 x)
What is the name of this book? Would love to check it out
@•Artsie LT• Thanks.
@@ichimarutetsu Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making. I got the 4th edition.
Porridge in a bread bowl sounds really good. With some chicken or chopped sausage.
Weird History thank you for making this video im a writer myself planning to become an author and my book i wanted to make historically accurate but not too historically accurate i just couldn't figure out what they ate back then.
Whole wheat bread( brown bread ) in those times I found out from another historical video on CZcams that it was more considered for the middle or poor class and white bread was for the rich and royals .
Would love a history of chocolate video 🍫
Me too
I don't know if I could eat a chocolate video.
Same here, please! 🍫😀
My cock
Aight the chocolate lovers, where you at? Take this to the top.
Please do a video on life during the dark ages!
Nice one ;)
YESSSS
There were no such thing as dark ages. And which place or century ? 9th century France was a different planet compared to 7th century Italy, England was barely the same place compared to beggining and ending of 9th century.
They call it the Dark Ages because it's Dark to us historians; we don't know too much about because there wasn't much written down.
@@herodotus945 If, in your opinion, there was no such thing as the dark ages then why did you ask her to clarify what century and country she was referring to? Why would that matter?
If someone told you they caught a glimpse of a unicorn would you ask them where they saw it and on which day of the week?
The carbs didn't affect them because people physically move around and work long hours so they burn a lot of calories/energy..Now in this days,we need less carbs as we don't do much physical work and people are becoming obese led with Diabetes.
So basically, keto was impossible.
wat da hell is "keto"???🤔🤔🤔
@@zimvgiguolivich1937 A ketogenic diet.
Impossible? Just replace bread with veggies/eggs (cheap as dirt back then, they literally cultivate them for a living) and remove the alcohol, everything else they eat is keto friendly, hell they even had IF as a life style
Asians:
I'm not eating bread, i'm eating *R I C E*
17WARD I’m in Asia. They’re eating looads of bread too 😝
@@Bonnie-sd7et Lol yea
That's sound like far east asia where everyone still seeing bread as more europe stuff, I'm South Eastern Asian
@@justnoob8141 In Indonesia, people still didn't consider eating bread as a main course, so to fill up those tummy, you gotta eat rice or you're not really "eating" lol
In the Middle East, rice is only eaten for lunch. Bread is a must for breakfast and dinner.
The fast-food segment of this video reminds me of a scene in Shrek 2 where the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming order their meals at the drive-thru and Prince Charming gets an axe as part of his Medieval Happy Meal!
I love that scene. A diet is ruined! I hope you’re happy.
Welcome to Friar's Fat Boy, what can I get you today.
@@iamgoat5863 rights, two salsa wraps, one Medieval meal... here you are, dear (hands over toy sword.)
im ordering the same food the last guy that ordered
I want a Daedric artifact with my Happy Meal. 😎
These videos are seriously engaging
“Don’t forget to tell the people it’s the medieval diet and laugh as you love forever .“😂😂😂 your puns crack me up . Love this channel ❤️
When peas entered the scene. Plebs used to eat Peas porridge, paired with Fish, sometimes a Salmon.
Sounds good meal to me.
Would have been pretty bland by our standards. Ever wonder why the Brits love their mushy peas? In those days most things were cooked by boiling in a pot until soft, only castles had ovens. And their main seasoning would have been salt, maybe some herbs, only the rich could afford spices.
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
@@Sorcerers_Apprentice thankfully mushy peas are dying out and are just a boomer and old people food now 😷
Peas pottage with smoked salmon on bread honestly looks amazing, there was a video made on it before
Peasants.... Eating pea protein be for it was cool
I was never taught about the medieval use of almond milk. That's amazing
It is also not as this channel claims, repeatedly. Almond was only available iiin Spain, Italy, southern France. Everywhere else it was almost impossible to buy even a handful of almonds. And only a couple of places produced almond by produce. A lot of content on this channel over the last 4 years has been exaggerated or made up. Apparently QE1 occasionally enjoyed almond milk and almond butter which he failed to discover, but it was not fast food and was extremely expensive. I’m pretty sure this is a comedy channel , hardly anything in the content about Europe, Australia, Russia, China and Asia is actual fact. I think we are supposed to laugh. If not the channel is ran by some Americans who find the rest of the world primitive even though Americans are a mixed race descended from Dutch English and Spanish then every one else. He probably wishes he had a homeland with more than 400 years of history.
@@ahippy8972 AA lot of his facts are plain wrong. Next the Italians inventing Pasta and Pizza, or the Pie being European and not middle Eastern
Questionable. Where would they grow commercially available almonds?
I had suckling pig at El Meson de Cándido in Segovia, Spain. Waiter brought it over to our table and cut it with a spoon to show us how tender it was. Delicious.
"the more you want to make babies" oh god im Australian and died at the fact he didnt say ROOT, what a missed opportunity. Im deeply saddened and leaving.
"He had the nutritional value of a middle aged housewife in ketosis" 😂
"Breakfast was for the fatties!" Lol! My boys had me replay that part about 15x's! 🤣
Ok calm down it wasn't that funny 😂
@@donovanfox7752 Booze makes it funny.
Haha! 😘
A couple of those sound like they might be worth repeating
Now every time I'll go to Wawa I'll imagine myself in medieval ages. Going inside asking for premade food or ppl making food in less than 10min.
8:31
Mess with the bread, you lose your head.
*Like Anne Boleyn-*
:O
@@chillyonyotitties *Like Marie An-*
King Richard the third be looking like Lord Farquad
lol
Eggs my backyard chicken laid today😊
Love your channel!
Da best channel..very educative..
During feasts where nobles were involved, they would use bread as plates. When the feast is over, they would then give the bread-plate to the poor.
The crust of pies were also not meant to be eaten. It only served as a container. You can eat it, sure, but for the most part, people would just eat the inside and then probably use the crust as animal feed or something.
Tommy knockers, tommy knockers knocking on your door!🤣💙
The crust is the best part...
@@kl2894 peasant!!...
@@jonajo9757 😎
Oh, also it was seen as rude to eat the trencher..
I’m not eating, I’m smoking some hippy hemp while watching this. Thanks weird history. And I love this guys voice. So corse and soothing at the same time. Totally a historian voice right there
NitroGummyBear I am as well, and yes he has a awesome voice
I've been trying to quit hippy grass craving a nice joint
Smoking hippy hemp huh.... classy.
It’s Steven Colbert
Stoners
This was surprisingly useful
Goose for Christmas is still popular in parts of Europe.
In Germany it is definitely more traditional than ham.
I can't imagine a heart healthy diet mattered that much when most people died before the age of 40.
Good point
On healthy conditions they lived up to 60 to 70 years old, the problem was that the hygine was so poor that desease was every-fking-where
bjs301 lol
This is a misconception. 40 is an AVERAGE age of death, made up of ALL recorded deaths, including infants who died at childbirth or were still born and young children. To get an average age of 40, you have to have roughly the same amount of people who lived 75-80 years to balance out all those 0-5 year olds who died. The truth is, IF you survived childhood, you had a very good chance of living 70 years.
@@Josee7991 yeah unlike native americans they stayed in one place filling the area with trash and shit in the streets and rivers where native americans would move place to place when the time came.
Eating an orange with tajin while watching this
That’s awesome
What kind of doopity boopity sorcery was that? I am referring to the last 10 seconds. I was literally having bloody garlic bread, while the guy was saying "HA! ARE YOU EATING BREAD RN? WE SEEE YOUUU". Bloody hell.
0:38 the dude sniffing the soup is my computer background lmao
snorting
@@camelopardalis84 drugs in medieval times lol
I’m eating a glass of whiskey
Forget the glass I’ll just have the whisky
Crunchy
Mediterranean medieval diets contained no tomatoes, new world food
Eating German lentil soup while watching this. Lentils, bacon and Dutch fried carrots celery onion in bacon grease, shredded potatoes, bay leaf boil with the same bone and lentils, ass the Dutch fried carrots, onions and celery and bay leaf for seasoning. Love it.💕😋
Who else thought weird history was one person. I didnt expect yall to have office 😂
Drinking almond milk while watching this
Same 😋
I had some vegan non dairy foods while watching. Pizza and a brownie.
Calm down Vegan
It’s not good it’s for you it has slot of estrogen
Went to get some after they showed it...then I mixed it with some sugar free maple syrup
What's the medieval music you used in the background of this video? :3.
How about a video on Tudor-era food?
I would say about 30 to 40% of my diet consists of bread. Much like other people in my country. We eat it for breakfast and lunch! It has been the staple good for my country for hundreds of years.
As a Canadian, I was eating pancakes with real Maple syrup watching this! Haha!
Yummy
As an American, I was reading a comment from a Canadian, who was eating pancakes with real maple syrup.
As a Russian, reading this made me make potato soup with a nice steak
@@christopherj8089 Dont you guys eat pancakes with ketchup?
Yummy 😋
This make me think of the fary godmother on Shrek when she’s in the drive thru.. “and one midevil meal please”
I’m eating a tri-tip from a cow I raised myself, along with some homegrown sweet corn and string beans, seasoned with home grown garlic and peppers and onions and herbs… tomoro I’ll switch the protein to home raised free range chicken and the corn to home grown potatos, and the string beans to squash… oh, and I’ll make some bread(from wheat I grew here on the homestead as cattle feed)…
Luca Armillei: "Romans eat everything!"
Medieval Europeans:
everyone wait until they see a _real_ Paleolithic diet
Us Germans have a 1000 year old bread history we eat bread everyday
In almost all western European countries people eat bread everyday
Bread making in what is now Germany is older than 1000 years. Germany is not 1000 years old however and is quite a modern country, like the USA.
@@Surv1ve_Thrive germans exists since the Roman empire. He is not talking about the country
@@davidmartineztorres8731 They were more commonly known as 'Teutons'..The term Germania and it's inhabitants thusly known as 'Germans' was a Roman Empire invention.
Love me some sourdough! My grandma uses a pretty old starter
I’m eating Cornish game hen . I am a history nut I do try to cook from old recipes at home. Some of that stuff is really good. I got some passages from the book of carving lol. I am a hunter and fisherman. I just love channels like this.
Many whole foods that we have today are actually much more calorie dense than their ancient and Middle Age predecessors. Farmers selectively breeding the most nutritious stock of crops played a huge role in the shift from subsistence agriculture to finer crafts. So people hundreds/thousands of years ago probably required more food to get the same amount of energy.
This is really interesting and well presented thank you. I imagine some public houses (pubs, inns etc ) were pretty crazy places, in busier areas or certain dwellings in an area. Much like today. Many being shambolic, violent and alot of fun at times. Others were most likely more dignified. Especially in smarter dwellings and close to churches, monasteries etc. Although dont forget many monks made the beer for sale, only to believers possibly. (Monks made some really awesome beers and wines.) Although am sure cheaper ale was made and with no restrictions on sale to non believers etc. One would possibly define oneself by the company one kept and the drinking house one visited. Maybe some went incognito at times to the more bawdy inns, or under the guise of 'trying to help those less fortunate.'
Times have not changed all that much basically, especially here in England. Quite happy with much of it on the whole. It works. :)
I didn't know monks did that. Interesting! And yes, you can bet there were many incognito visits that had to do with more than sneaking alcohol lol
@@monicapyle :) heh 'research at the inn'
I enjoy your style of delivery. Witty and humorous, yet informative.
Rye bread is my favorite with butter and onion or radishes ...mmm
i zoned out listening to this while looking at my other screen and i had to double take when i heard "master bakers"