The Crazy History of Lemons
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- In this video, we take a look at the history of lemons and lemonade, stretching across history to its mysterious origins in the ancient world.
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“The ‘ade’ in ‘Gatorade’ indicates it is not pure gator juice”
Ha ha! Great and ingenious line!
Does it contain parts of an alligator? Inquiring minds want to know.
@@roberttelarket4934 lol unfortunately, no 🤣🤣🤣
I not undestanded this line😢
Definitely cut with croc
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I had a relative who lived in California during the middle part of the last century. He owned an orchard where among his crops were lemons. Near to 1970 he and his family made a holiday visit to our much more northern home and when he came he brought along a 50-pound burlap bag full of lemons from his trees. They were not like lemons from the store--they were almost as sweet as oranges and that whole bag disappeared in fairly short order.
They may have been Meyer lemons. That's what I have.
@@mariateresamondragon5850 yes, I agree if they were sweet and deeper hue they were likely Meyer lemons. I live in California and I travel the neighborhood looking for meyer lemon trees and I am usually able to get them for free from whoever owns them. They are so expensive in the store!
I have a lemon tree in my backyard that gives small round lemons that are orange inside and taste sweet. Here are commonly known as Paraguayan lemons
No they are Persian Sweet Lemons they are native to the southern parts of my home country of Iran. We call them "Limo Shirin" in Farsi, which means "Sweet Lemon". They are just that, sweet lemons, deep lemon flavor, a lot less acidic than lemons. You have to eat them quickly after you slice them open as they turn bitter in about 1 minute when it reacts to air. If you are in Los Angeles you can find them at any Persian (Iranian) Grocery store.
@@aidenw207there are many different varieties of sweet lemons, all are thought to be hybrids of lemons and mandarin oranges.
"When life gives you lemons."
"When lemons give you life."
When life gives you lemons ?!?!
No.
GOD GIVES LIFE..
@@alatziassylvia8709 I'm an athiest
When life give you lemons
Take them,it will give you life
@@alatziassylvia8709 No. The Lemon is the One True God.
@@biggnesss7192 Awesome atheist.
“Roses and violets from summer gardens, sun-drenched Sicilian lemons
squeezed of their juice and mingled with juniper from the frozen north.
Saffron threads and gold leaf from the Indies waited to be turned into
something magical. And contained deep within all of this was a smile
that flooded him with warmth, a pair of blue eyes, and the scent of
chocolate...”
―Laura Madeleine
Rosehips supplied England with vitamin C during World War Two. Citrus was not available during that conflict.
Had to pause video to read, lovely 😍 Just popped over to Audible to hear a sample of Laura Madeline and added her to my wish list for later perusing, thank you @PakBall &Sam
Pak&Sam is everywhere
The blue eyes ruined it for me.
I actually have a ponderosa dwarf lemon tree. She sits in a large pot on my porch until the weather gets too cold. She has a designated spot in my living room. Her name is Doris.
I name my plants too! I am currently growing 3 lemon trees from seed. I have not named them yet but once they are repotted, and bigger, I will. Long live Doris
@@LumiSisuSusi that's dope!! Her older brother is a benjemina ficus. Ficus started at 4 inches and half-dead. Fredrick is now almost 6'4". 3" taller than me.
@@LumiSisuSusi i am also growing 3 lemon trees :)
@@richardmyhan3369 long live Doris and Frederick! I too have a ficus, but I keep changing here name, I think I last settled on Gwenllian (the last legitimate princess of Wales 🏴). Gwenllian needs to be reported, she's currently about 5ft5, she was quite small when we got her but not at tiny as Frederick.
@@cheekychap8998 love long and prosper little lemon trees
I used to visit my friend who lived in Northern California, and in that city there were lemon trees in everyone's yard and sometimes the people would let me picked some lemons 🫐🍋 to take home 🏡. I like visiting my friend 😅.
I like these words of wisdom from an old cookbook I have:
"When you go out to buy fish, also buy lemons"
For long term seafaring explorers they were vital against not known to them scurvy!
Finally the English discovered that lemons and limes prevented this and so they stored it on their ships.
That’s where their sailors got the name limeys!
more specifically the term limeys originated during the war of 1812, when britain got largely cut of from their supplies of lemons used to make grog and thus were forced to switch to the use of limes, which they stuck with even after the war.
No, the word lemon comes from the arabic word laymoun ليمون
It Egyptians that first brought it to the mediteranean basin
@@malikaabizar8318, no one argued about that. OP said the fact that English sailors carried lemons and limes on voyages gave them the nickname "Limeys."
The Dunmore House in Scotland is famous, as the central section of the walled garden wall is shaped like a pineapple. It contained a hothouse, and was used to grow pineapples, which were also seen as a bit of a badge of honour for having travelled to exotic locations...
It’s hard to imagine Greek food without these two imports: lemons and tomatoes.
Same in algeria too we have lemon 🍋 ليمون and 🍅 tomatoes طماطم 😅 we are a bit similar
Greetings to greece from algeria 🇩🇿
And known of them originated in Greece. How sad.
On the Texas gulf coast lemons grow everywhere. We grow a number of varieties in our yard (2 varieties of Meyer Lemons and Ujukitsu that are so sweet, you don’t have to add water and sugar to make lemonade), as well as Golden Grapefruits that look like sour yellow grapefruit but tastes like an orange, and Satsumas (a kind of tangerine). We have a fig tree, grapes and blackberries. Hilariously, because everyone thinks Texas is hot, it’s too cold to grow limes. They are grown further south in the Rio Grande Valley.
I lived in the Rio Grande Valley a few years ago and tried to get a Mexican Lime tree and a Valencia Orange tree to grow. The orange grew tall and well and bore fruit. The lime on the other hand refused to take hold and withered.
I am so happy I found this channel! I love history, and find this food history series very interesting! The videos are well done and articulate, and your voice is engaging, great work! I can't wait to see what else you make! Personally, I'd love to see a video on the history of cheese as it is my favorite food, as well as perhaps the history of the coconut!
I feel the same! What an amazing channel!🍋🍋🍋
Take a look at the community posts brother, they are pore gold in every way possible.
Friend: what colour is an orange
Me: lol it the same colour as it name just like a lemon
Lemon is a color though. Just like with orange, it's named after lemons. Kinda more whitish than yellow
@@markchinguz4401 i mean like it was a joke taken form a viral clip on youtube
@@PakBallandSami i kno
Crazy people: GMO bad.
Meanwhile, virtually any food we cultivate:
When life gives you lemons
You squeeze it on yourself
Yo, how do you choose the topics for this series? Do you have a set list or do you just cover whatever Peanut manages to smuggle out from the store?
Blindfold + Dartboard
Joking. I have a list of ideas and I just go through it and do whichever one I think people will find the most interesting.
Well keep up the good work, dude! You've hit the nail on the head every time so far.
@@Fireoflearning can you do skanderbeg rebellion or Greek war of independence
This may have cured my insomnia. Thank you for that.
12:53 Yikes... that's a killer's row of faces right there! XD
Thank you for another interesting food history video!
13:03 I never thought to have kids sell homegrown garden veggies. That actually seems like a really good idea.
I've no interest in lemonade stands usually, but if I saw a kid selling home grown summer squash and carrots, I'd buy some.
Some navies attempted to also introduce sauerkraut which was cheaper and preserved easily but the sailors REFUSED to eat it. In fact, most changes to naval/military rations were generally disliked such as later desiccated vegetable or dehydrated soup (also known as portable soup)
I believe Captain Cook insisted that sauerkraut be served to sailors on his ships as an antiscorbutic. I hadn’t read anything about wether the sailors actually ate it or not!
"When life gives you lemons."
You make a fire of learning video about it
Damn I was just about to say that
Thank you for this upload. Have a lovely weekend.
Would love to hear about the history of the peach
Also, thankyou. Your strawberry episode was amazing
Another captivating and informative video, thank you mr. learning
Great video. Thanks for the content
“like most people today they probably weren’t eating them on their own” me sitting here eating a lemon like an orange
I’ve gotta watch more of your videos, they’re well done. Cheers
I moved to Brazil from Uruguay and i found curious that in Rio de Janeiro the real lemon (Yellow like the video) it's scarce and expensive. People here are much more used to what we call lime ( tahiti lime) is what Brazilian uses on the popular alcoholic drink Caipirinha. Regular yellow lemons are considered fancier here. In my country of origin you can find yellow lemons planted in almost every yard. Its inmensely popular.
I do love these food history episodes
love the food history series keep it up!
'when life gives you lemons...'
well live didn't give us lemons, we invited them all by our selves
That was awesome. Thank you!
I had no choice but to subscribe, I love the food origin series of videos you're making, It's very fascinating how we domesticated most of the fruits/vegetables we know and love today.
Ditto!
I have a five foot tree of the improved Meyer variety. The sweetest fruit I've ever had, felt like I could eat the rind. The flowers come just when Winter gets the worst here, but they are pretty darn hardy and do fine in my greenhouse.
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
grow up!
@@kamalmanzukie Never. 🍋🍊
@@RealBradMiller please grow up!
@@kamalmanzukie I'm afraid I've passed the age of growing. I'll be the same height for a few decades and then start the inevitable shrink! I will commit to wearing shoe lifts if that will ease the situation.
I really enjoyed this.
My Man I have a Playlist specifically for food facts, and you sir have just made my list.
I used to eat lemons as a kid but stopped when I learned it could take the enamel off your teeth. I still love them and use in salads, soups and drinks. My favorite fruit.
No no,you don’t make lemonade. You get mad,you don’t want those damn lemons.
thank you for this lesson on the history of my favorite fruit :)
"Oh f*ck yeah, lemons!" - me salivating at a new FOL video
Speaking of vitamin C, we have a moringa tree growing here in our yard in the Coachella Valley. It has the most nutrients of any terrestrial plant, supposedly, and is rich in vitamin C, protein and magnesium. We were given a four-inch branch of it, planted it, and now we have a huge tree! It's amazing how fast and large it grows!
U can sell the leaf they will come pick it up an pay u
@@raheem8086 Good to know, thank you!
@@CreativeWarrior- yea I forgot the company name but folks make a lot off of them I was going to be one until I moved
Hey, you're from the Coachella Valley too? Small world.
Wonderful and exhaustive video of citrus and lemonade.! Thanks.
It's worth mentioning that one of the reasons the citron fruit still survives because it is important to Jews as one of the four species used in feasting for the holiday of Sukkot. The specific cultivar used is known by the Hebrew name etrog.
@@cerveza2297 I think you are talking about lemons not citrons, most cocktails would just use the commonly available citrus fruit not some estoteric historical artefact.
Jewish ritual however demands one specific type of citrus fruit.
Well done. True facts too..
That was insightful! For example, I never knew to what extent lemons prevented scurvy. Thank you!
Lime were used by the Brit sailors to combat scurvy. That’s why Brits are sometimes called lymys.
god, i love lemons!
Hi from Australia
Love this site. It gives a unique perspective on history.
The History of Yuzu limes would be an interesting to know
i really enjoy this series..
more please ;-)
great stuff
Food has a very interesting history.
Right after we were done watching this video my husband made me a glass of lemonade. It was delicious! Also, the sound in your videos has really improved!
If you see one of those green and yellow striped lemons that's pink inside shown at the end you should buy it and plant the seeds. I saw those and bought some to try them and I was so surprised they were pink inside. Impress your house guests by garnishing something with a slice of those. Explorers knew about plants with vitamin c for a long time and they collected a bunch of plants besides citrus for the same reason.
seeds do not carry DNA of fruit
Cool video,
I feel refreshed now🍋🍋🍋
Very interesting! My grandmother (from the American south) made pink lemonade with small amounts of black tea.
Your telling me sailors licked lemons out of necessity and NOT out of fun? Pffft yeah alright buddy keep making me laugh
Great video
You forgot to mention my Ford. It's a lemon too.
Love em.
Can you do a video on african blackwood trees and there fruits.
When Life gives you lemons use em to save the lives of others.
Thank you for doing a video on one of my favorite fruits! 🥰🍋
I have stolen once an orange from the orangerie in Versailles, France, and the king did have an old, wild vartiety, with nearly an inch thick skin and barely any fruit inside.
Pure lemon juice dabbed on blemishes makes them fade. Apply at night as sunlight on the lemon can make them go darker. Works for my freckles anyway 🙂
Listen to the beautiful song Lemon Tree by Peter Paul and Mary and not as good by the The Kingston Trio, both groups folk singers from the early 1960's.
I graft and propagate citrus and have read that the origin or human use of citron was area around Nepal. Cocktail grapefruit was a California bred variety but abandoned due to seeds. It is the 6 million dollar man of citrus to grow and is the most vigorous imo. Lemons also used for secret notes in invisible lemon juice.
Great video! I love lemons!!!
When life gives you lemons. Plant it
Interesting that the Spanish and Portuguese had interacted with lemons, because of this were their levels of Scurvy among sailors lower?
The audio sounds great btw
Really aww some I like this series
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When life gives ya lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons BACK!
I hope you put these lesson and adventure stories with Peanut into a book. That would be the bomb.☺
"Unnnnnaaaacceeeptabblee!" Lemongrab, Adventure Time.
But really, very acceptable.
Don't make lemonade! make life take the lemons back! make life RUE THE DAY it thought it could give CAVE JOHNSON lemons!
And that’s why British sailors are called “lemoneys”….er…wait a minute
so enjoyable this video was.Almost like a nice lemon
Thanks!
Thank you!
Every time I see that temperance movement picture all I can think is, Pass the whisky... quickly!
"Oh you lemon flower, the leaf is sweet and the fruit is sour, oh you lemon flower.
I gave a girl a lemon flower, she slapped my face it hurt for an hour, oh you lemon flower."
-- Ivor Cutler
Scurvy was a killer in maritime ship voyages. The British Royal Navy recommended lemons to be consumed by its sailors due to a lack of lemons limes became the source of vitamin C, which is why the British are called limeys
When life gives you lemons you make a video extensively going into the history and biology of lemons.
I thought this was gonna be a history of the modern motorcar... But this is interesting too.
Ah the perfect video. Just in time for me to eat a fresh pile of lemon rinds.
I do declare my good sir this online motion picture is quite remarkable and fascinating. I would have never prophesied many of the key historical points that you presented in the video to be of truthful nature. Jolly good show chap. 🧐🧐
Very interesting,Sir. I asked in one of your earlier videos on history of foods, about Navel Oranges.
Can you please tell me, if it’s fact or fiction, that all Navels in existence today, came from a ‘freak’ tree in South America and were first propagated in California by missionaries who grafted cuttings onto Valencia rootstock?
Also, do all citrus have the wonderful aroma of oranges? Though it’s a brief period, that smell lingers in my mind, even in my old age. 😊✌️👍👍👍
I love lemonade and I love lemon cough drops or at least lemon-flavoured hard candy.
I have a buddy that eats lemons whole. Rind, seeds, everything. It's kinda fun to watch.
Sounds like my kind of person! 👌🍋Some lemons can be eaten that way, they are quite small. They are SO delicious. I eat normal lemons too, but not the rind since I don't like the taste.
When life gives you lemons, you avoid scurvy.
on the prevention of scurvy, an alternative would be sauerkraut. though i'd definitely would prefer lemons, as i can't stand sauerkraut.
Bird video on Lucinox, Lemon video on main channel 🤔
is Peanut drugging you somehow? You doing cool my dude? 😆
Jokes aside, amazing research and presentation Justin. Best wishes, keep it up 💙
a video on the history of rice would be interesting.
Maybe do an episode on the Minion’s favourite fruit: Bananas!
Nice.
Do you think that lemons and oranges could had helped the Roman army in their military campaigns and prevent dissentery when camped in areas where fresh water was scarse?
I’m lucky that I pick my lemons from a tree in my garden. I’m Spanish and live in Northern Spain.
I was searching for the history of Lemmings and this popped up 😂. Only joking. Another greayt video keep up the good work
whenever i get run down, and crave sugar i go get lemonade. idk if it’s somatic or if it helps ease my low-mild vitamin deficiencies but it always tastes the best then. i almost never drink it outside of that