Historian Tastes Food From Every Historical Era | Full History Hit Series
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- Historian Dan Snow samples historical food and drink from across the world.
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00:00:00 Roman Food
00:09:51 Medieval Meal
00:16:59 Aztec Banquet
00:28:16 Tudor Feast
00:37:08 Georgian Dinner Party
00:48:51 Victorian Grub
00:57:03 World War One Rations
01:06:30 World War Two Rations
Why isn't this titled "History Hits Tortures Dan Snow for Likes"?
A thumbnail paints a thousands words...
i don't get it??
Dan has refined tastes. These dishes make him gag.
@@HistoryHit A roman soldier would not lie down and eat, like a roman senator... Get your history straight...!
@@dbfi01 Relax ffs
If anyone else on here watches Tasting History, as soon as he said hardtack, did you envision the video clip of Max going *clack, clack*? Lol!
*clack* *clack* XDD
🤣🤣
Max is Waaay better, and his manners are much better. I cringed every time he slapped his chops.. I feel like they have tried to rip him off with this, they even used the same quotes, but they failed miserably.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I hadn’t been paying that much attention, but you’re right!
For all the stuff Mr Snow is subjecting himself to, he didn't eat leather on camera (and if you are reading this Dan, DON'T), Max did =x
...although tbh, if I had a choice between jellied eel, and a leather bootstraps.... I fold, I'll have a grilled cheese haha
Love both channels, not taking sides lol I like food and I like history 🤓
I remember an old song I learned in school:
"The biscuits in the army
They say are mighty fine.
One fell off the table
And killed a pal of mine."
Rip my boy Dickus Maximus, he didn't deserve to go out like that man 😢
"I don't want no more of army life, gee ma, I wanna go home."
I heard him say ‘hardtack’ and had a Pavlovian response of hearing *clack clack* straight after.
You watch Tasting History too? :D
Max Miller the legend! Who would have ever thought such a simple bit would grow to this level, lol!
@@Janelane529 one of my favourite channels. Max is the best!
Max!
Me too 😆
I read that hard tack or biscuits weren't meant to be eaten without soaking them first. My hats off to you for surviving all of these meals.
Agreed.
There's a dish in Newfoundland (pronounced as Neu - FAEN - land, the 1st "d" is silent whereas the 2nd "d" is pronounced) that uses hard tack called Fish & Brewis (pronounced as Bruse), it's either soaked or boiled with potatoes & veggies or boiled then fried. Each Newfie family has their own recipe for using hard tack.
Yup. You break em up like crackers and pour soup over them. Or stew. When they sodften they're fine. I used to love them as a kid. My mom made them for when I went out riding my horse.
In Germany during WW II cigarettes again became the main currency on the black market. Almost everybody started smoking, sometimes even children. Because nicotin would calm your shattered nerves after an air raid and even dull the feeling of constant hunger. That was certainly unhealthy, but at a time when you felt you could die any minute, a longterm healthy lifestyle seemed less urgent.
Spam is not meant to be eaten cold. Some people actually like it , but only when fried to render some of the fat.
Dip it in batter and you can have a “Spam fritter”.
I was born end of the 60s. Our parents were WW2 kids (1 early teen, 1 small child). Products of the "Protestant work ethic", they ate what they were given and expected us to do the same. We had bread and dripping often (the Monday remnant of the small Sunday roast)... it was delicious! The way it is "served" with no effort in this programme is ridiculous drama. In reality: Toasted chunky brown bread, re-melted beef dripping, white pepper, salt.... and in the summer a tomato (home grown and ripened in the airing cupboard) and small chunk of cheese on the side. Simple and lovely!
You have brought back happy memories to me. I used to love bread and dripping and my favourite was pork dripping. Also bread fried in dripping, that was delicious. A favourite supper was a thick slice of fried drippjng bread, with fried tomatoes on it and an egg on the top. My mother always roasted a couple of onions with the pork, so the gravy and dripping had an onion taste too. I know a lot of people will cry that it was unhealthy, but I'm 72 and still here! My parents and grandparents lived into their 80s.
Damn so different to Native Americans, real Americans grow up eating tacos, tostadas, chili and tomato salsas, potatoes, and tons of slow cooked meats.
I lived in England as a child and still have happy memories of eating white bread smeared in beef dripping with a shake of salt and white pepper - delicious!! I actually preferred it to the roast that we would have had for our Sunday dinner.
Finally a full complete series of Dan eating all of the foods cold
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You have dripping completely wrong! It is the fat that is in the baking tin after a large piece of meat is roasted so it contains the flavor of the meat plus any spices or herbs rubbed into meat before cooking. Yes there was a layer of fat on top but I grew up in postwar Britain and we loved dripping spread on bread. Your father was right!
I grew up with what my mum called yorkshire pudding- pour flour/eggs/ milk mixture into the fat drippings in the tin from roasting the meat and bake- the best stuff ever! Still my favorite today. I've delighted many an American pallet with it. I grew up in America and have never understood why no Americans ever heard of this dish. I always assumed my mother brought it over from Britain. It was considered a delicacy served on holidays in our house when we would eat roast beef. The rest of the time we ate fish and spam. Though I do still love spam salads.
@ogg5949 Yorkshire pudding it's my favourite part of a Sunday roast, simple but delicious..
He only had the white fat and not the tasty brown jelly that normally goes with it.
@@Iaintwoke I also suspect that was not proper dripping but lard, not the same thing at all.
Moreover, you can use it to make the most delicious pastry.
Pig trotters are actually a part of traditional dish among Eastern Europeans. It is cooked for long hours, better overnight, then cleaned from skin and bones, and the broth was divided on small portions and cooled in wells or basements where the T was never higher than 6-8C. The broth which is the collagen extract turns into jello, and was eaten with garlic or horseradish. People who had meat, added meat on the bottom on the jello form, also pepper or other spices, so they could get much more delicious jello, and it looked nice too. From biochemical point of view this dish is very fulfilling and healthy, because it’s a pure collagen, very well extracted from joints. Humans digest it easily, and it goes directly to build our skin and joints. BTW biochemically pigs are very close to humans, we even can use pigs’ organs as transplants. My friend who was a vegetarian for over 2 decades suffered from terrible joints pain, had to use a cane to walk. I recommended her to stop idiotic diet and eat collagen foods at least for 2 weeks… she refused, but after the pain became severe so she barely was able to walk, she did similar dish as I described earlier but used chicken feet, not pig’s. How long it took her to be able to walk as normal human, what do you think? 3 weeks. After that she decided to eat chicken ones a week.
Bulgarian here, I totally get the picture and it's delicious! Crushed garlic with wine vinegar for maximum enjoyment.
My mother was from Germany, born in 1931. She used to make the best pigs feet. She made it flavored with a bit of bay leaf, caraway and a splash of vinegar. Delicious with spicy mustard and some rye bread. Also used to scrape the fat off and spread it on bread with a shake of salt.
Maize alkalized in lime is called hominy. It's hominy.
Hominy grits. Yummy 😋🤤
This was a great documentary. I love that he is actually tasting the food vs just talking about it
And sweetbreads is not ovaries in testicles, it is the thymus gland of the throat, and the pancreas.
I laid on that bed and walked that exact room a few months ago! I travelled from Texas to Butser Farm and got there on a day they closed for staff training! The group were SO NICE! All the staff invited us in to have the whole place to ourselves while they freshened up their knowledge. Regularly checked in on us to make sure our questions were answered and we had a good time! I will never forget that place. Recognized your set immediately
A lot of these dishes look as if they would have tasted much better when prepared well
I kept thinking the same thing. I don't know why the upper class food was so poorly prepared. I get that if you're juggling all the work of running a household and possibly having some craft to bring in income that cooking would be just a get it done thing, but if cooking is your whole job . . .
I think there's one aspect missing here. Dan Snow is not starving. He does not exert himself from sun up to sun down with hard manual labour. He does not walk miles back and forth every day. For those soldiers in the trenches, for the poor in Victorian UK , the food they ate everyday that tastes terrible to us today would be normal and heartening to them. They would be grateful and thankful that they had those to eat when faced with starvation.
Yup, it's not a reality show. It's a historian tasting food from history. The context is implied.
Spam is so much more edible when sliced and cooked and served hot.
Chocolate with chili is brilliant, and yes it does cure everything, as far as I’m concerned😂
It's incredibly high in antioxidants! Maybe not a cure for everything, but certainly very good for you...as long as you go easy on the sugar.
You know, I have never ever once considered WHY there's pineapples everywhere on old timey stuff. Now I know. Also, I LOVE Spam but the thought of eating it cold from the can makes me feel ill haha
Sweet potatoes are from a different plant family from potatoes.
I believe, technically, the Victorian period began in 1837 when Victoria became queen and ended when she died in 1901. Then don't forget Edward VII from 1901-1910. Best do a fact check on that. A bit disappointed that a history show would get that so wrong. Makes me mistrust the accuracy of the other information presented.
You should link up Tasting History by Max Miller. There could be awesome collaboration videos!
That would be Max Slumming it. Plus doesn´t make have a thing about bad eaters?
Yeah, but Max Miller does actual research, prepares the meals correctly and tries them fresh, and with an open mind,
It would be interesting to see if Dan's opinions would change if he revisted these foods with some "historical hunger" such as after fasting for a few days.
I mean.. anything is good if you're starving. Not much of an evaluation in that case.
It appears you've never experienced true hunger if you describe fasting for a few days as "starving"
In Ireland pottage was called stirabout because you put things in the pot and stirred it about
Pickled pig's feet! I was raised on those. My Nannie was raised in the South and used to make this. It really was delicious.
They make sweet breads in Argentina and it’s delicious. They make him in the grill until crispy and put lime on it. I have gotten a lot of American friends into it. It’s pretty good.
I bet the tribes were laughing: "this Emperor wants *parsnips* instead of gold, we're rich!!"
My grandmother would fry Spam, and we would make sandwiches. They were delicious! I’m sure you know how much Spam is loved in Hawaii! Great video! I’m sending it to my sister the chef! 😊
I lived in Hawaii for several years and used to go to Zippy's to eat noodles with eggs and spam in it! I also had breakfast there too and it had Spam with scrambled eggs too. Awesome!
Spam fried rice was one of the first dish I learned to cook at age 11.
My mom made fried spam, I always liked it.
01:08:40 Ohhh the disrespect shown to SPAM😆You never eat it cold Dan, thats disgusting🤣You fry it up in thin slices and eat it with eggs or as a sandwich. Scramble some eggs, dice some SPAM up, add rice and seasoning, fry it all up together...delish!
I once tried cajun-blackened spam. I spent half the night afraid I'd die and the other half afraid I wouldn't.
😂
My dad used to love his bread and dripping, though my mum couldn't stand it. It brought her too many bad memories of childhood, incorporating aircraft falling out of the skies and respectful funerals for foreign and/or enemy pilots whose families would likely never get to visit the graves.
Three decades after the war we used to eat spam sandwiches, with the block of spam cut into thin slices like luncheon meat and covered with pickles. I've never eaten it like that since I left home, but I do love spam grilled or fried and eaten as part of a full English or in a bap with a shit-ton (technical term) of brown sauce.
Why would respectful funerals for foreign enemy pilots cause your mum to not want to eat dripping? That is most bizarre comment I’ve ever read 🙈😂
As a nipper in the 1960s my mum would take me to visit the grandparents at the weekend. My nan would give me dripping on toast. A big fat 'doorstop' piece of toast, proper butter and dripping. Along with some tea from the teapot, loose tea stewed to the max. I loved it. Dan here is having dripping on bread cold which I imagine wouldn't taste as good as it is warm/hot.
@@Devils-advocate78 Enjoying or disliking the taste of certain foods is highly influenced by the mental state you were in when eating them before. Similar to enjoying the smells of something like a freshly mown meadow because it unconsciously reminds you of that great vacation you had in your childhood. Taste and smell can bring you back to good times and bad times, causing you to dislike or like them. For instance, i only need to put a King mint in my mouth for relaxation as it brings me back to my childhood days going on walks or bike rides with my grandfather (he always had a roll of those mints in his pockets). On the other hand, I hate the taste of McDonald’s as that was I was eating when my first long time girlfriend dumped me (and probably because it’s crap anyway).
Spam is nasty. But if that's all you had be surprised what you would eat.
Aztec menu looks good and healthy.
What will future generations say about the poison we consume nowadays.
@@wowplayer160 that its poison
@@ralph0149 😮 yuk
@@ralph0149 lol 🤣😆😆
Parts of it do.
Believe or not, spam is extremely popular in Hawaii due to their experience with it in WW2. You can still get spam, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast there.
We still like Spam in the UK too
Musubis are one of the best foods, period.
Pottage looks nice. Basically just a vegetable stew. I make a similar type of soup all of the time. Needs salt and herbs to make it tasty though.
20:20 the way he is holding that tortilla is almost infuriating
I bought hard biscuits from an Italian shop 50 years ago while travelling around Europe by train , they were wrapped in a paper bag and did not go soft for the next ten days. I do not think they tasted of much. We dipped the in red wine!
You dont sip them. Just break them up and pour soup or s tew over t hem and wait till they softed. Usually a few minutes.
I am very sorry to hear that the editor responsible for cutting out smacking, spitting and slurping was unwell and unable to work. Get better soon, buddy!
Revolting isn´t it. I have always had a thing about eating and I would have to leave if I was at table with him!
i love to hear dan slurping 😈
Why would anyone edit out the etiquette? Noisy eating is good manners in a number of cultures.
@@christopherjahn2044 You have the same humour as me, love it ;-)
Dan wasn't listening when his mom said "Never talk with your mouth full Danny!"
His eating was heard to watch. She clearly never told him not to `slap his gills either
😂
Not to mention, “Use your napkins, darling…”
This was very good. I thank you for your personal tortures
But Mum, I'm doing a documentary on food! 😂
I wish we had more documentaries with Dan Snow. He's super nice!
Dan Snow is such a Legend. Great work, Sir!
I absolutely adore food history. Annie Gray is always one of my favorite guests on all history podcasts! Anything social history from shampooing your hair and keeping clean to what people eat is just right up my alley. Thank you so much for this video! It was also pretty hilarious 😅
Maize gruel=grits
I even like hominy
The word "potage" means soup in French, to this day. It's not made from any specific ingredients but it's usually vegetable based and might contain meat, but not necessarily. Always eaten piping hot and with loads of delicious buttered bread!
Maybe at the front you might eat Spam straight out of the can, otherwise you'd fry it up like ham or bacon.
With no Max Miller?
Sacrilege! Sacrilege I say! 🫵🏽
Exactly! At least the food would taste better!
@AStullken I sent it to Max and he laughed 😅 so I feel even more justified now.
At minimum, he'd know how to handle the hard tacks. * clack clack *
Yesss!!! A true Tastorian! ❤ *CLACK CLACK* @@pantitapalittapongarnpim1581
@@pantitapalittapongarnpim1581 This was more ´slap slap as he smacked his gums all the time.
One of my ancestors served in the Roman army, his name was Biggus Dickus and according to my grandfather he never complained about food.
Oooooh, shades of Monty Python!😊🎉
I live in the Southern US, and pickled pig’s feet (trotters) are a thing here. I have never eaten one, never will, but you will see them in big jars all over the South.
Thanks for this video!
Gerard was his last name. John was his first. He was John Gerard, and he wrote a herbal, a book of herbs called "Gerarde's Herball".
It blows my mind that people today still eat Spam outta the can instead of frying it.
Pickled herring is wonderful. I would eat it daily if I could.
Rollmops...yummy. Funny thing is, a lot of herring is fished up here in Britain, but we aren't that keen on it here (more into cod). Most herring is exported to Denmark and Germany.
Zure haring op een wit bolletje en wat uitjes 😋
@@jamesg9468 I’m living in the US, but originally from Sweden. I cannot get good and affordable pickled herring here.
@@sweinnc Maybe a business idea. Drive throw herring fast food shop.
have you gone mad
Fantastic show!
Did the person cooking the sheep and pig feet do it without any herbs or spices in the broth? And perhaps didn't cook long enough? These items should fall apart readily after cooking and having a strong flavor from the cooking liquid helps make the texture more palatable.
That was great!
Did they shop at Tesco for their Georgian food ?
Pottage sounds just like Chicken Carcass Glop (tm) that kept us going through Thatcher's Britain in a pokey bedsit in Devon.
My mum would save her Sunday chicken carcass & freeze it. We'd take it home & boil the pygostyle off of it in a pressure cooker with an onion and salt & pepper.
Strain that stock, add a dash of light soy sauce, sliced button mushrooms, sweetcorn & spring onion & you've got the nicest Chinese chicken soup you've ever tasted. Just right for those willow pattern bowls with china spoons!
Anyway, that would've wasted a week's food so that was a special treat.
Normally we'd add leeks, onions, root veg ect. to the stock and add all the meat we could find still adhering to the bones.
Throw in some barley, lentils ect. Often called "Soup Mix" nowadays, and that makes a great chicken stew. Especially with dumplings if we could afford the suet.
Each day we'd add an onion, more pulses, veg... Day two was nearly as good as day one.
By day 5 finding a bit of chicken was cause for celebration. It started to become greyer then too. And because of the starch in the pulses & gluten in the dumplings it would set to a firm, grey gel. Seasoning became more and more important especially by Saturday. It was like salty, peppery wallpaper paste by the end of the week.
But Sunday arrived and we'd walk the hour's walk to me mum's. Sometimes we'd get to partake of the roast chicken... But mostly not.
So we'd reinvented Pottage had we? It definitely keeps you going through a cold winter.
This is so awesome!!!
I absolutely loved this, thank you.
Enjoyed this
I 100% doubt a high-ranked Roman officer would've eaten in such an awkward position.
I used to think that, but they did l eat lying down. There are friezes on walls in Pompeii showing posh banquets where they are all lying around on couches and eating with their fingers.
My family is of southern Italian descent and we sometimes eat laying down.
I really enjoyed this ! Found if fascinating and enjoyed the light humour , really good ! Thanks Dan for your sacrifice!
The drum tattoo under the pigs’ trotters is hilarious!
Why wasn't the pottage hot?
Watching your videos is so much fun! I LOVE SPAM!
My late great Aunt cooked a fabulous pigs trotter. It was cooked in a stew with onions and vegetables. I swriously doubt that the trotters would have been served cold, but hot with a slab of bread to mop up the juices.
Yes, maybe if they were cooked in a cuisine where they are traditionally well-liked such as African American, or Chinese, or as another commenter said Eastern European.
Maybe he would like them better then
I used to like rollmops (pickled herring) as a kid. I liked the sour taste and squeaky rubbery texture, but when I tried them again as an adult I found them disgusting. Maybe it was the brand...? (It wasn't squeaky)
Thanks.
My mom used to make hard tack for me to go on a long full days horse ride. You take it,break it up and just drop it into broth or stew,or soup and wait for it to soften. It isnt bad really.
Or you put it under the saddle and let the horse's sweat soften it.
@@RichWoods23 Umm,..I think I'll pass on that one. LOL Didnt the Indians do that and the Mongols?
Mongols used to do it to cook their meat on long journeys, though as far as I'm aware it was wrapped and wasn't directly touching the horse's skin
As A GenX, I can definetly place you as a millennial,by your queasiness about things as delicious as eel. Also,for most of the foods shown (hard tack and of fall excepted), I'd be quite happy to have them if I were in difficult or dire situations!
My college was next to the Huntley and Palmer's building in Reading, I walked past it every day until I was 19
Came for the cheese, stayed for the history.....
Not gonna lie, Henry sending her the buck killed by his own hand is kinda romantic and sexy haha
May I suggest frying Spam. It's way better than just canned
My mum swore by powdered egg and wished it was still available.
Dripping, as I remember it and still eat, is cooked dripping fat, e.g. from mince, bacon, sausages, onions and roast potatoes etc. It was kept in a cup and used for cooking and a quick "piece". I have personally never heard of anyone eating straight lard from the packet!
I love experiencing history. Where can I get this Forced March?
All that Dan lacked with that pickled herring, aka lutefisk, was a large fire with a group singing Icelandic folk songs. 😊
Lutfisk (Swedish version of the word) is NOT pickled herring! Lutfisk/ludefisk is dried rehydrated "stockfisk". The sort of fish is similar to cods. Pickled herring is fatty fish marinated raw in a mixture of spices, sugar and a sort of vinegar called ättika often with onion and raw carrot slices. .
@@slottsdraken thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that it was herring.
I'm Swedish living in Sweden, and really interested in traditional food. The lutfisk is getting more and more rare. People don't like it anymore but I love it! It is bought rehydrated, cooked in the oven and served with boiled potatoes, sort of bechamel sauce and allspice where my family is from. Some eat it with peas and stuff but that is HERACY! :-)
Does HH publish most of their show's episodes on YT or is it worth to become a subscriber? Do you need a VPN to watch it outside of Britain? I love this channel.
"No European, African or Asian had ever tasted a tomato before Christopher Columbus..." So, apparently, Australians have been enjoying tomatoes and chocolate for as long as the Americans!
I would like to like that vid 5x over, just for his bravery.
I love how they included the stuff miserable soldiers and intentionally abstaining monks would eat and it was still better than the diet of the average person in victorian England. I swear, the more I learn about the period, the more it seems like the single worst time to be alive as a normal person.
When I was in the military, I often ate my MREs cold as I didn’t have the patience to deal with the little heater lol. Would’ve taken just 5 minutes or so but I’m still that way with canned soups 😂. It doesn’t have to be warm to keep me alive.
LOVED Dan Snow before this video and I love him even more now that he’s put himself through all of this for our knowledge and entertainment! 😂
Cool episode! I always wondered what people ate before the Colombian exchange. I just can't imagine a world without tomato's...
Trotters were pickled or smoked; today I have smoked ham hock, without the cloven hoof party. Good with sauerkraut and boild potatoes.
There are Many ways of doing totters. Not only smoked. They are still a common dish in Spain. I make them myself to a Spanish recipe.
Poscum sounds like another recipe for a similar drink that provides electrolytes. It's Roman Gatorade!
These are great.
Hope you find the time to do some more of these
I deliberately ordered sweetbreads at a French restaurant, and they were delicious. They were the pancreas and thymus...I don't think they are still just any offal.
I hope you guys credited artist Giuseppe Vasapolli for using some of his music from the Hollywood Graveyard series.
Pickled herring in bread - Matjesbrötchen. Still a staple in Northern Germany
I love good quality British food, it is wonderfully hearty and satisfying and delicious, but goddamn did our poor grandpas and grandmas have to eat some utter filth back in the day. I see why foreigners think our food sucks, but in reality, our food during WW1, WW2, and the rationing years was utterly disgusting.
I love this channel! I watched these as they released, but its fun watching it as a compilation (even if the poor bloke is eating eel as I type this, that is bravery on a whole new level)
I admit though, I wouldn't know about History Hit if it weren't for the Timeline and War Stories channels (loyal viewer of both)... but Mr. Snow, Mr. Holland, Ms. Janega, those two boys that do the "could you survive _____" series (forgive me, their names escape me atm but it was watching them fire guns with Jonathan Ferguson that got me into the Royal Armories channel), etc - this channel rules!!!!!
He was eating eel as I was reading this 😂
Fry your spam in a skillet--it has its own fat so no margaine or butter needed.
College dripiing has been sold by the pound in the Covered market in Oxford--dripping of fat from any meat; beef only is tallow.
If you don't like frogs legs then they weren't prepared properly. They have a light delicate chicken taste. They must be skinned and soaked in lightly salted milk overnight. Then wet and dry battered in a light tempura and fried. They should be light and crispy. Very delicious 🎉
Sprouts and Brussel sprouts weren't introduced until 18th century.
I paid a lot of money today to buy a ham hock for pea and ham soup
If otter taste like muskrat I’d say they taste incredibly greasy, gamey, but still somehow pleasant the same way the extremely burnt end of a roast or chicken can have its own charm for people (me)
I get the impression that DS is a fussy eater or at least has a seriously challenged palette.
Spam is still popular and widely available to this day and as it wasn't rationed (unlike things like sugar, butter, eggs etc), people could buy as much as they could afford. I myself eat it although in extreme moderation given the salt content. In fact, in Hawaii its available at most sushi restaurants.
Pigs trotters are still consumed today and couldn't be any worse than eating eels. Also considering the English delicacies of Stargazer Pie or Lamprey Pie, I think Pigs Trotters would fit right in.
Biscuit, Ships biscuit, ANZAC Wafers etc all refer to thrice baked bread. It was extensively used during the American Civil War so reenactors still consume it. Supposedly in the days of sail, it was common for the sailors to drop it into their coffee, wait for it to soften & all the weevils to float to the surface, discard the bugs then eat the biscuit & drink the coffee.
he is not a very polite eater. I turned the picture off. partly to avoid watching and too look at comments and all I could hear was him chobbling!
A brave man!