What Did Roman Soldiers Eat?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Throughout both its Republican and Imperial periods, Rome was one of the most dominant cultures in the history of the world. That dominance was mainly based on the military strength of Roman Legions -- but if the Legionnaires powered Rome, what powered the Legionnaires?
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Years ago when I was a kid there was a brand of bread called Roman Meal Bread. The TV commercial for this bread showed a group of soldiers marching along. The voice over talked about how bread provided much needed energy to Roman soldiers. Roman Meal Bread was supposedly made with the same grains used in ancient Roman bread baking.
This was marketing kid !
Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸
I have doubts that was the same grain, it would have gone bad by then.
I grew up on that stuff!! PB&J on Roman Meal was my after school go-to!!
@@adamcavanaugh4940 Their preservation methods were very advanced! ; )
Minus the genetically altered wheat... and yet folks can't figure out their health problems....pathetic!
I always found it weird, how during the crucifixion of Jesus it is described, that he was given vinegar to drink. It wasn't until I found out about Posca, that it was most likely just a roman legionnaire sharing his own beverage with a condemned man.
“A man not worth his salt.” - derives from the salt that a Roman soldier was paid in.
Through most of world history salt was more valuable than gold. For the simple reason that salt could be used to preserve food before the invention of mechanical refrigeration.
In italian the world "Salario" with the same root, means Wage. I'm not sure if you Anglos have the same Word "Salary". Grets from Rome.
@@lawrencemarocco8197 false! its just a common wrong information,gold is ofcourse more valuable and has always been plz look it up in depth.
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Athens greece
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Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
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Or is that what your boss tells you everyday 😅😅😅😅😅
I don't know specifically what Roman soldiers ate, but as a soldier myself I feel confident that it was some form of the traditional "see-food diet". When a soldier sees food, they eat it. ; )
I would be curious to hear what Legionaries considered to be their 4 Fingers of Death ration
At some point food becomes food and everything is good. I do not miss those days.
Not a soldier but that's my diet too!
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The same cookbook Max loves on Tasting History. I love it when channels unintentionally crossover.
love Max too
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Athens greece
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Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
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"A pound of bacon, the exact amount Vanilla Ice would later cook alongside sucka MC's" 😂😂😂
Roman soldiers: We wanted some of your crops. And by that, we mean all of them.
Roman farmers: Grow your own crops, pals.
Roman soldiers: It's treason then.
Crucified along the appian way
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Athens greece
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Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
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And the lightsabers ignites
i was surprised when I heard Loukanika cause that's what we use in greek to refer to all sausages
in many Italian dialects Luganinga means Sausage
as a persian, i think bc all three countries are some of the oldest in history and somewhat close in distance, they are going to share a couple of the same words and translations:)
OBVIOUSLY when there's hundreds or thousands of soldiers on duty and not a female to be seen, *there will be some sausage swallowing.*
@@gavinvalentino6002 I mean back then it wasn't that much of a taboo thing anyway so to each their own
The core languages of Latin, Greek, would influence the language everywhere as the Legions traveled and as Greek ships traveled the Mediterranean. Trade routes brought people in contact as well. Eventually aiding in spreading diseases.
You left out garlic , garlic was a Roman solder staple !
Hugh Jackman doesn't swear off meat when he is preparing for a Wolverine role.
It's well known he eats several whole chickens a day while preparing for the roles.
The narrator really does have a great voice. Sounds very smooth and professional, like you'd expect out of a documentary with a budget.
This is a channel with 4 mil subs. This is the modern day documentaries with large budgets. Traditional TV is a quite a thing of the past now.
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Spirit of Darius III: "Not only did that effeminate Greek humiliate me in battle, but, on top of that, they cover me with an apron like a filthy slave... What a miserable existence
For the most part, it sounds like they ate a similar diet to the soldiers in the US Civil War.
I wonder if the Roman "posca" was the origin for the Romanian word "posirca" that refers to a bad, cheap, watered-down drink (mostly wine). The word "salariu" is also used in Romania to refer to the monthly wage.
Interesting! I looked it up and the etymology of _posirca_ is unknown, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was true!
it probably is because romanian is a romance language which is essentially a direct descendant of the latin language
They also say that the word "Thief" is derived from Romanian as well.
Since there are a lot of them in Romania
(Just a joke)
When I was a child we were very poor .I lived on bread ,oats,beans and potatoes It gave me energy.I became very athletic and I developed muscles .I think it was what I ate .
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Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🇬🇷19;37
Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
being paid in salt led to the phrase "being worth their salt"
I think this originally came from the British empire in India. First reference to the phrase is 1830. Indian soldiers took a salt ration as part of the recruitment having passed selection, British soldiers took a “shilling” coin from the recruiter as part of the same ceremony.
You joke but when I was a Army Ranger we were given "Iron Kids" brand bread.
You should explore "Spices" from the world and their use in all cultures: prices, properties, trade, etc...
I second that.
I would love to see this channel do a video on food in the 18th century. Really anywhere in the world during that time
The say an army marches on its stomach... imagine how much more effective these guys would have been if they stood up!
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Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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When I worked in heat treating back in the 70's we took salt pills like eating M&Ms to stay hydrated. Now I have arthritis throughout my body. I'm like the Tinman now 🤦♂️
a word "VEGANS" even sounds like an ancient roman legion
Please do a video on The Royal Navy rations during Nelson's time. The agricultural revolution had a huge part to play in feeding our Matelots thus making us a superpower and giving the Yanks their nickname for us. Maybe how Britian fell in love with Indian food? We'll try and add spcey food to everything including fish and chips and develop a beer especially for export to the Raj. Is chicken tikka really Indo-scottish?
🇬🇷19;37
Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The entire world had always been in love with Indian food. South east Asian spice pretty much shape the entire world.
@@EvilSapphireR literally since antiquity. The ancient somalis (punt) would buy from the indians and trade it to the egyptians who would trade the spices elsewhere.
The somali trade with india since antiquity explains why the food is near the same but with less vegetables and more meat (somalia is largely desert so that makes sense). Angelo - Dosa, Sambusa - Samosa, the list goes on.
im here for the lame jokes!
Love all the dry humor, great vid !
Thanks for the video and information, WEIRD HISTORY
The best condiment isn’t salt , it’s hunger . 🎉
I'd love living on a MODERN Roman's diet.
Anything to get away from this cornsyrup infested, obesity-is-the-only-thing-affordable food economy that will be the subject of Weird History episodes of the future.
hard tack *clink clink* Thank you Tasting History!!!
There is also, what I could only assume, the Bulgarian interpretation of the Lucanica, which is slightly different, but also quite tasty when homemade - Lukanka.
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Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The same amount Vanilla Ice would grill against sucka MC's! 😂
Fascinating and thank you 👍🏾 🖤
Very informative and love the commentary
Invicta has a good video on Roman fast food and their version of Fish sauce "Garum" would be nice to see a collab
Invicta is a wonderful channel
Interesting video! Btw, the average height of a Roman soldier was 5’4
Just saying!
Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸
I used to live in Mission Valley!
And the Germanic tribesmen of the time averaged around 5'10. Absolute giants by comparison! ; )
5'4" and able to draw a bow with 250lbs draw and swing a sword around that you could hardly pickup no less swing with precision ! They were mean MFs
short ppl
@@taylorlibby7642 Are you sure?
"Cooking emcees like a pound of bacon, burning 'em, if they ain't quick and nimble. I go crazy when I hear a cymbal, and a hi-hat with a souped-up tempo. I'm on a roll... it's time to go solo!!!"
-Weird History, your references are so beautifully, obscurely weird!!!
i live in manchester england we have a roman ruin which was an auditorium they dug up medals pottery and some other stuff our city was called mancunia back then it's really worth a visit be i think we will always be known for being cottonopalis and of course our contribution to music🇬🇧
Well, If you asked me to live like a Legionary in ancient times with all that disease and hardship... I'd chug that Posca
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
If you found this video interesting watch Tasting History with Max Miller he has made some of these.
I was looking for other Max fans! Now… who else had the hard tack clip play in their heads when it was mentioned here? *clack clack*
Amazing video
What did the people on the Nina, Pinta and santa Maria…like all the crossings at that time? Thanks!
Great history! Love the commentary!! Lol.
Love your channel!!! ❤
I just about died when he said "sucka mc's"
Roadkill stew sounds mighty good to weird history and I.
Great stuff!! Please give us more about what the “strong, war-faring,cultures are in ancient, times!!
Fascinating since the military today eats nothing but “crap”!!!
Chuck McGill in the thumbnail looking fresh.
The "Masada" mini-series did an amazing job depicting the horrific nutrition system of the Roman soldiers during the siege of the Jewish Fortress, as they could only drink water 3 times a day in the middle of the desert.
Where can I find the Masada mini series to watch? It sounds very interesting!
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Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
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Imagine being paid in salt nowadays... "Great work, Jim! Here's a box of Morton's salt!"
Love the little jabs you work in.
So basically what every soldier eats, whatever they can.
sunday is better with wierd history, waaaay better
A big and nice hug from Brazil, Anapolis, in the middle of nowhere
hey guys, let us know the narrator!!
xD tHXfor being the best
Would I eat their food? Yep. No doubt. It seems nutritious enough, and back in their day they wouldn’t have known any different. Probably after marching miles each day with all their clobber on, they’d eat anything at night. I’d love to taste authentic wine from that period. I wonder how different a ‘red’ in those days would compare to a ‘red’ today.
Roman wine was completely different and would be pretty gross to a modern palate.
For years we made Wine every autumn it didn’t taste anything like store bought ,it was heavy and dark,and didn’t last long before turning to vinegar , the wine from the Roman times more than likely was the same.
A great concern back then was finding clean water to drink.
Is the Narrator the great Todd Habercorn? Anyway, I love this channel as it gives me facts of history that my Masters in History did not tell me.
I’m telling u this as a Marine Iraq veteran that I guarantee u that people would trade their guard duty in exchange for someone else to mill the grain. Lol, we used to trade for skittles.
I basically do live on a legionary diet. Puls, made of peas, barley, oats, beans, and wheat, is a regular staple and bread is omnipresent.
the voice is what I'm watching
Vanilla Ice used in reference to Ancient Rome? Instant thumbs up. Seriously though, great video.
I know the Roman Legions introduced a whole pantry full of fruits and vegetables to Britain.
sorry, I can't hear "hard tac" without picturing Max Miller knocking two hard tac biscuits together anymore.
So I wonder if "posca" was what was offered to Christ on the cross?
really nice video
Can you please do one for Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) and 3 Kingdoms era about what they ate?
Very interesting
Hell Bacchus!
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
I thought Pantheon is a spartan. Turns out he's a Roman legionnaire.
It's very interesting that lucanica contained rue. It tastes awful but is a known insect repellent. Maybe they used it to keep maggots away? Or its flavour changed during marinating?
Thanks, you just spoiled me from eating for the day if not the entire year!
During all your videos, there's an "interim background" that comes when you are showing some text on the screen.. On that picture there is a lady with a snake around her neck.. Where have I seen that picture before?
It sound like some of the common beverages might have been a type of fermented slightly fizzy drink which is full of probiotics. With such large salt rations, I'm betting they would have eaten pickled vegetables too.
Take a shot every time he says salt.
The weird history of “Crazy Eddie”!
Good information, bad jokes.
Sounds better than MRE’s. All except for beef stew, chicken noodles, and of course Chilli Mac
Salt is so important that even now people in India use the sentence " I can't betray the land from where I consumed by salt"
one correction: legionaries didn't grind their own grain every day.
it was generally the task of one soldier per contubernium to grind the flour.
there is also evidence that the legionaries would sometimes grind flour to last multiple days.
also roman legions didn't usually steal food, more often they bought it from willing suppliers close to market value. although they did have authority to seize food from those unwilling to sell to them, when necessary.
when in enemy territory however plundering was commonplace.
"A, pound is bacon. Time to go solo"you... To funny, good times!
Don't forget stuffed dormouse. But maybe that was more of a rich people thing.
What? No kosher deli? No gefilte fish?
Weird history, the only place you can learn about Roman's while simultaneously learning about what Ice T does to "Suckkas"
Now that the party is jumping with the bass kicked in, and the Vegas are pumping. Quick to the point, to the point, no faking...
Feel like this belong in Weird History Food. Still good nonetheless.
I never pictured or imagined them not eating meat .
Lucanica is like Gabagool
This is why I love the history of the Roman Empire
BIG FAN ! Would LOVE a weird history video on the history of PRANK CALLS !
I am more interested on how the roman soldiers relieve their bowels while en route to a battle
What did the ancient Egyptians eat? Honestly yall could do a whole series on the cuisine of ancient civilizations.... your welcome honestly that's prolly like 100 mil views
Please go back to school and learn to spell
Thanks for this! 🏛 #WeirdHistory #RomanSoldiers #FoodHistory
the bacon part is cool
That diet sounds rather austere. I think a person would have to be the emperor or close to in order to achieve a level of food luxury that the common person in a developed nation has today.
The dominance of the Roman’s was due to cheese
Love your channel, I would love to know how women dealt with things like Period's and childbirth, going through the decades and I also think that your video's should be used in school's because they don't tell you the important stuff as I found out recently, Speaking to a Twenty year old Female, I was trying to explain to her about how scary it was when the "Trouble's" in Ireland was at its height, I was telling her were I was when the "Warrington" Bomb went off and she replied with "What's the I.R.A, is it on the news now because isn't that near were you come from"????? So i don't know what they are teaching in school's today but whatever it is appears to be nothing useful or actually about History, please for our kid's sake get onto the schools because I know my kid's loved the "horrible Histories" and It made them sit and watch and after they had actually learned something about History
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Athens greece
🇪🇺🇬🇷🇬🇷
Roman's paid and ate well
Unlike russians today
Romans could defeat russians today
Even with shields and spears
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"What Did Roman Soldiers Eat?"
Uhh, food?
Romans carried slaw in wood containers, fermented; it was good for their stomach.
Serve more grool!!
Please sir can I have some more?
is that why most of Europe love cheese and wine?
Yes, very interesting. I like to hear about very day Roman life