The Potato Revolution
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
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We all love potatoes: French fries, potato soup, baked potatoes... I couldn't live without them. But did you know the people of Europe resisted the potato for centuries at first? Once they came around, it would change the world in ways no other food has done before.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:38 Chapter 1: Back to The Roots
02:51 Chapter 2: The Devil's Apple
05:32 Chapter 3: Right Place, Right Time
07:41 Chapter 4: The Potato Revolution
12:06 Bokksu Sponsor
13:34 Chapter 5: The Potato Paradox
17:01 Chapter 6: The Potato Legacy - Jak na to + styl
I came for the potato, but stayed for the history lesson.
Let's be honest you came for the fries
@@mynameisandong lol
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@@rohanabc2361 aiwa habibi
He knows
As a Peruvian… potatoes are a lifestyle. We eat EVERYTHING with potatoes
is there any dessert made with potatoes?
@@Mateuszyk there’s a few
Amo las variedades de papa que hay en Peru, durante todo el año! Lamentablemente en argentina solo hay 2 o 3 variedades y son estacionales :(
@@Mateuszyk my mom uses potatoes in my grandmother's chocolate and icing Easter egg recipe.
@@naamadossantossilva4736 no we don’t. We are one of the countries with most diversity of dishes. We just add potatoes to most food.
Great video just a note, a common misconception with the Irish potato famine is that the Irish over reliance on the potato was the cause of so much death, however it was actually the ruling British lords that caused mass hunger. When the blight reached Ireland these lords continued to export other crops to mainland Britain leaving no food for the poor Irish that were farming it for the lords.
Some even call it a genocid. The consequences of what the british were doing were definetly the same as a genocide, but I think for the official definition there needs to be intent, and as far as I know the british were more like "I don't really care that the irish are dying, didn't like them anyways" rather than "Let's try to kill all the irish". Still not any better, the harm was the same, millions died
Idk if “misconception” is the right word cause it’s still true that the potato failure is the root cause of the famine. It’s just a simplification without including the fact that Ireland produced enough to feed itself just the lords weren’t willing to give up a few profits to help. More accurate to say the blight wasn’t the whole story
You mean that they had to continue paying taxes. Yes of course?
@@notuxnobux Tax is the wrong word. The farmer didnt own the potatoes. '
You would make a really good slave...
@@notuxnobux taxes? Bro they where a fucking colony. First people come to your land and rape, murder, pillage and enslave you and after that you have to pay taxes for existing on their stolen land? After they let you die from a famine while exporting overabundant crops and cattle to their mainland. Wtf?
7:26 "Cool plant - now that this problem is solved lets have some war."
Why are we like this? 😄
Some things will never change 🥲
Fun fact: the British lords were exporting food from Ireland during the famine, leading some people to not even consider it a famine at all and more of a ruling class choosing to starve the common people
You mean a genocide
The British did holodomor before it was in vogue.
It gets worse. The British made a bunch of laws that gave lands to Anglo-Irish landlords, and the Irish peasants were forced to live on smaller and smaller sub-divided patches of land. With such a small amount of land per family, potatoes was the only thing that would provide enough food for the family. It wasnt that Irish loved potatoes ... it was the only thing they could grow to feed themselves on a tiny amount of land.
Most famines have a political element
@@carlosdumbratzen6332 not mean - is.
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew...
ANDONG!! I clicked 'like' at 0:15 seconds because of your *'we take it for granted'* comment!! My family has a VERY deep connection with potatoes as they are still a main crop for my cousin in Slovenia who is also well renown for his sauerkraut, and is still farming on land that has been in the family for generations. And I swear this is 100% true, as I watch this, I have a pot on the stove with potato chunks, covered with a layer of sauerkraut (yes, made from fresh cabbage by me on the other side of the world in Australia) to be served with a topping of what you would call 'confit' pork. It was a treat when my late Dad (born '27) was a kid, and is still a real treat for us today, just because it's SO incredibly delicious, with the added bonus of the heritage! Cooking the potatoes covered with a blanket of sauerkraut (and a splash of white wine or a spoonful of vinegar) makes the potatoes develop a firm skin, while the inside is lovely and soft. ANDONG - please try this with some good German sausage and a spoonful of fat (or olive oil) on the sauerkraut/potato combo - it's SO easy and SO delicious you'll be surprised! Cheers from soggy Sydney, Oz!!
Sounds tasty!
What you are describing is similar to one of the most well known dishes in many regions of Germany (and maybe my favourite dish), so the chance that Andong already tasted it is pretty high :D. Here it is often served with a cured/smoked meat called Kasseler.
Yes its tasty as hell! All the potato pots are super tasty. No matter if its fresh cabbage or suaerkraut, sausage or becon. Salt and Pepper and you are welocome
@@Steffschenko I'd really appreciate more details please as this dish is very regional to Dad's area and my Mum, born near the Italian border had never heard of it and had no idea how to make it! Traditionally it was made when a pig was slaughtered and the fat was rendered (kept as oil for cooking in those pre-WW2 days). The left-over fatty bits and a spoonful of oil dressed the potatoes and sauerkraut - and that was a treat! The meat part has evolved so now there is far more actual meat. As I said, peeled potatoes are cut into chunks, not too small, a glug of white wine or just a spoonful of vinegar added, water to JUST the top of the potatoes, a 3-6 cm blanket of sauerkraut on top, and that's it! Is this the same as what you're familiar with, and is there a specific name for it? There is in Slovenian, but Google translate didn't help! Cheers!
Thank you for the recipe! Danke!
While it's certainly true that potatoes play a massive role in Europe population and potentially industrialisation, I think the Asian side of the story could also be pretty interesting. Potato and other new world crops like tomatoes, for example, are the reason China was able to colonise and maintain their population in part of the country formerly all but impossible to settle due to the lack of food and poor fertility
Future video idea maybe? I think as a peson who grew up in Germany and understand Chinese language and society deeply, you are uniquely suite to this kind of content
I think potato never really replace grains here in east/ south east asia. Even in hunger times, cassava, taro and sweet potato seem to be more popular.
Potato and Tomato never took much root in China until the 20th century. Yeah its eaten here and there but the sweet potato on the other hand is super popular.
And rice is also able to maintain their population because it does yield more calories. But its quite sensitive to weather and changes.
@@TTminh-wh8me Cassava is from South America too
@@TTminh-wh8me sweet potato is from South America
@@TTminh-wh8me Not in Southeast Asia and Southern China for sure but it's very important supplements in the dry Northern and Western China that greatly contributed to the modern day population growth of that region (as much as I understood anyway)
The great potato famine in Ireland was in huge part caused by British policy and subsequent inaction, though
Yeah, they basically let them die on their own and even hindered the Irish in helping themselves
Grain was still being exported out of Ireland during the famine. Letting people starve just to keep profits up - sounds familiar these days, doesn't it?
@@turtlewhohatescabbage1157 exactly. Pretty sure he was just trying to keep the video from ""getting too political"", but I think this was important to point out
Yup. The anti-Irish sentiment among the English upper classes wasn’t exactly helping, either. There were people who publicly stated that they thought it was a _good_ thing that the Irish were dying of famine!
It was because of beef.
Fun Fact: in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (c. 1597), horny Falstaff proclaims "Let the sky rain potatoes", because in England back then spuds were still rare and considered an aphrodisiac.
I love story time with Andong. Its always so entertaining and well researched. And those little tidbits of extra information, like the one about the irish population growth gap, make these just so special and awesome.
I always love your story telling! Keep it going, Andong!
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For the german viewers here, Arte has a terrific documentation about the Great famine on their CZcams channel. It's so sad to see, even after all those years
I have a pot of potatoes on the stove that I cooked last night because I'm having potato pancakes for breakfast.
As a kid with English parents I grew up eating potatoes almost every day. In the Canadian army, where we were very well fed, potatoes were an option on the menu at every single meal.
Now, I eat a lot more rice and pasta, and potatoes are only eaten a couple times a week.
Self-love means that I (as a german guy) stopped at 9:15. I grew up with this version and for me it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
i am joking. Great video and great stories about the potatoe. Thank you for your work. You are my favourite food channel on CZcams
Out of all your video styles, this is my favorite! The history lesson videos like this one and the Fanta one are why I'm subscribed :)
I'm Ashkenazi Jewish and it absolutely blew my mind when I realized that potatoes were a relatively recent addition to our culinary repertoire! They're so important now that there's at least eight different words for potato in Yiddish (I'll put them below). It's hard to imagine what Eastern European Jews ate before the potato came around, but I think there was a lot more buckwheat and barley. Hail the potato!
Yiddish words for potato:
Barabolye
Bulbe
Erd-epl
Kartofl
Mandiburke
Skoropeyke
Yabke
Zhemik
There's also batate and yam (pronounced yahm), for sweet potato.
Fascinating to see some terms of both Slavic and Germanic origin on that list. Erdapfel (earth apple) and Kartoffel are common German words for potato, ziemniak is the Polish word for it, jabłko means apple in Polish. There are probably some Hebrew-, Russian- or Ukrainian-derived terms there which I don't recognize.
@@h.szymanski Yeah, Yiddish takes the bulk of its grammar and vocabulary from Middle High German, but because Jews were progressively pushed east due to expulsion, mob violence, and economic pressures, Yiddish has absorbed a lot of Slavic loanwords to the point that Eastern Yiddish became a significantly different dialect relative to Western Yiddish. Western Yiddish, btw, is mostly extinct now because German Jews assimilated more to non-Jewish society from the 18th century on, whereas Eastern European Jews retained much more of their culture and language for longer.
But yeah, anyway, because I know some Yiddish I'm also able to understand a fair bit of German. Not so with Slavic languages; the grammar and vocabulary are too different. It's always exciting to see a word in Russian, Ukrainian, or Polish and recognize its Yiddish cognate! This happens most often with food-related words, tbh.
Andong's video food essays got me like ✍✍✍ Great job
"Do they get you excited?"
Yes.
And now I need to go make potato salad.
Andong, you will always be the french fries prince in our hearts. ❤
🤴
French Fry Prince Andong, I LOVED your history lesson! Potatoes are one of my favorite foods and I have many potato-centric recipes. When we were in college, my husband worked in the Botany Dept. greenhouses. One professor was studying South American potato varieties and my husband brought home samples once. These tiny little multicolored potatoes had the most amazing flavors! They were so good... I've been thinking about them ever since!
Andong I love your research about food history, appreciate it as a cook :) Keep going, you are now in my top favourite channels
I love these videos. So much information presented with so much enthausiasm.
You really are good at what you do!
I agree! Great energy . Authentic.
I could listen to you all day! love hearing about the history of food, great research ,well done!
I literally just cooked myself a pot of potatoes and the algorithm took me here!
We all stay here for the story!
Such great food history, I love this video!
As a self proclaimed potato enthusiast. I've learned a lot from this video.Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the most interesting potato history lesson🥔🥔I remember my first time in a Peruvian(lived in Lima for a few months) and seeing all the diffrent potatoes (and peppers)
Great video, I love your history lessons on food!
Your videos are always a treat !
Love your videos of this style! Very fun. Thanks!
This makes me a proud Idahoan!!!
I hear your potatoes are 💯
@@mynameisandong They are pretty Spudtastic.
This is top quality content. Never cared for history lesson in school but this I dig. Keep it up 👍
Andong your content never disappoints 🙌🏽
I love the videos where you dive into the history.
It's nice to see potatoes finally get the recognition they deserve
Amazing Video as always! Keep it on!
I love your food history videos, and this one was excellent! I liked the part about geeky gardeners growing them, too. As a geeky gardener myself, I know the allure of a new plant.
The guarded potato fields is my favourite story. I’m not going to let Andong spoil it for me.
This, like all of your videos, is just superb. So interesting and well presented. Thank you!
Mind blowing stuff Andong!
You hit the right notes on this topic, Andong,
I would be interested in an episode on th sweet potato, which enabled a similar population explosion in China and Japan at the same time.
Humans do take a lot for granted... food in general is among those things. Thank you for this humbling lesson that I hope reaches many people's hearts! We have acquired a level of wealth and prosperity that most of our ancestors couldnt have ever imagined.
I do wish you had cooked at least a simple dish, tho! :D
Love this kind of documentary format! I also want to make something with potatoes now...
I love this little historical videos
As someone who developed a digestive intolerance to potatoes in my mid-40s I'm so (SO) jealous and frustrated now. Harrumph and gosh darn it. 😠
harrumph
Lol I can't eat bread and potatoes as my main carbohydrates for some reason
else I'm going to get gastritis so I can relate a little.
Fav food finally getting some love, respect andong!
Thanks for a very good video on the potato and it's history!
I just finished “The Botany of Desire” by Pollan, and he has a full quarter dedicated to the potato. Highly recommend it and thanks for the cool video :)
Your videos are fantastic! I found you because I was researching Doctor’s Sausage but now you in a few days have become one of my favorite channels! Awesome awesome stuff man!!!
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*Fredrick* : "Here's a little lesson in trickery, This is going down in history"
Potato Number one
Excellent video!! Love this kind of content
Well done! Interesting, entertaining, and informative. Thank you
Dude since i learned the story of the potato from a Löwenzahn game i am hyped for this vegetable! And i learn more every time. Its my favorite. :-)
i came here looking for a comment like this, seconded!
You are the best youtube channel about food and history etc :)
Hearing about the Potato panic of the 1500s is both fascinating, and hilarious.
Greatly prepared history lesson as always!
There are several of these crops who one could call blockbusters, think about the VERY MIXED history of cotton, the introduction of tomatoes, coffee, tobacco and indigo. A lot of those fueled major change in the world and changed history (not always for the better). Truly fascinating subject and lovely video!
Andong, if you can't be the Potato King, you can still be the Potato Daddy! ;-)
I'll take it
@@mynameisandong With all the research you've put in for this video, I think you deserve the title of "The Potato Professor"!
Very well done, Andong! Greets from Kreuzberg!
Hey Andong,
ich liebe deine Videos. Seit ich sie mir angucke habe ich wieder viel mehr Spaß am kochen. Ich finde es total faszinierend was du tust und wie viel Leidenschaft und Liebe du in deine Arbeit steckst. Vielen Dank dass es dich gibt, mach weiter so Pommes-Prinz.
Hey Andong,
I love your videos. Since I watch them I have much more fun cooking again. I find it totally fascinating what you do and how much passion and love you put into your work. Thank you so much that you exist, keep it up French fries prince.
Hey Andong,
I'd like to see you tackle this subject: Reducing trash in home cooking. With the environmental situation being as it is, I've been trying to avoid single-use throwaway tools when cooking at home but found it difficult and frustrating. Especially watching Binging with Babish it is very noticeable how many times he wraps something in cling-wrap or does some aluminium foil MecGyvering. You can buy products marketed as multi-use replacements for common kitchen consumables but I found that you can't really just use those instead of the single-use article and expect the same result.
So my question to you: How do you best avoid using cling-wrap, aluminium foil, paper towels, and parchment paper in the kitchen? What even is the environmental impact of those products, how good is the recycling potential, and how environmentally friendly are the multi-use alternatives?
This is something I'd really like to know but just don't have the time and connections to do an adequate research myself.
Cheers,
Robert
Wow. That was brilliant. Thanks.
Very interesting video indeed! It's amazing how many New World crops are used routinely in every culture around the world (imagine Italian food without tomatoes, or Thai food without the chili!).
Idea for a new video, consider the history of the humble pea. It's an old world crop, but has a fascinating history, from it's origins in the Mediterranean at the cradle of society, to fueling the Romans, staving off famines in the Middle Ages, and finally solving genetic inheritance by Mendel.
Snert is really a taste of history!
Wow this video has some impressive information! Well done.
Jared Diamond: guns, germs, and steel
Andong: potatoes
What's your favorite way to eat potato? Asking for a friend 👀 Thanks again to Bokksu for sponsoring today's video. Use my code ANDONG15 at partner.bokksu.com/mynameisandong to get $15 off your first Bokksu order!
My favourite way is to dry it and snort it
Edit: I snort potato starch
My favourite way to eat a potato is chips.
My favorite way is hash browns McDonald's style
I eat it with my mouth
mashed potatoes or in a potatoes in a soup
Just found you and your wonderful videos. Thanks for the history lesson!
Loved the video, really impressive!
this video can be summed up by the escalating domino meme, where the first tiny domino is a yummy potato and the last huge domino is post-colonial trauma
Omg the story about guarding potatoes is truly international folklore. I have heard the exact same story as a kid about Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, who introduced potatoes in the early 1700s.
I think there has been a misunderstanding here, incas are a civilization which lived in peru from ~1430 to ~1530. While people may have lived in modern day Peru around 10.000 years ago they were certainly not incas
One point on the history of the Potato blight in Ireland. A big part of the problem was that the Potato was the only plant they were allowed to grow for personal food by their colonists. Any other vegetables were shipped out to England or other parts of the empire. A fact that gets conveniently glossed over.
Potatoes are amazing, even without any historical context
Such a phenomenal video! Soo intresting! Dear Potato Master, we would really appriciate a second chapter about potato blight :))
this and soup series are my favorite vids
so good ! more video like this pleaaaaasssseee🥺🥺🥺
Amazing video!!
The history of the potato sounds like it could solve world hunger lol
I LOVE POTATOES !!!!! they are so versatile i literally eat everything but potatoes are still my favorite
Deine Begeisterungsfähigkeit für so etwas mondänes wie Kartoffeln ist absolut mitreißend!
Interesting video, reminds me a bit of the old "Connections" docu series from the 70s
So good man!
Speak about conicidence - I was making what you Germans call Schupfnudel just now, and while I waited for potatoes to cool down, I decided to watch something on CZcams and the top video was this one. Love it :) Great work, Andong
I have traveled to the Kartoffeldenkmal in Braunlage (which is the site of the first experimental fields in Germany) and got the photos to prove it 🙃🥔
Whaaaat I missed this on my research!! 👀
@@mynameisandong How should I sent you the photo, if you're interested? Can't add it here, alas!
@@mynameisandong I posted it on Patreon. Just for your research archive 🙂
And as a kind of reward for their influence to promote the potato in their country, both king Frederik and Mr. Parmentier "got" a dish called after them. Hachée Parmentier (a meat ragout topped with mashed potatoes, like shepherds pie) is a staple classic recipe in France... and of course the name of Frederik remains infinitely in the infamous "pommes fritz" 😂😂😂 (stolen and adapted from german legendary comedian Heinz Erhardt).
Maybe only germans get the pun. 😉
Damn, I never knew about this. Always wondered where "Pommes Fritz" actually comes from, hah. Thx.
hachis* parmentier lol but true
"back to the roots" had me laughing like an idiot lol
This is the content I like! :D History lesson about food!
Great one 🔥
Thanks for the history lesson
Nice video, I like potatoes! Watching this eating potato pie and there are crisps in the kitchen for later. Also growing six different cultivars of potato on my allotment this season.
We take it for granted? The humble potato? Surely you jest, sire!
I'd like to know how the potato compares to the lovely and tasty swede/rutabaga/kålrot (It was known in the south of Sweden as "Rotabagge", they went to America and thus "rutabaga"). You can (and should) make "rotmos" with it. And, as we all know: "All love without rotmos is artificial love".
Come to our house and I'll show you!
What about Turnip 😄
@@larrywave Absolutely! The more the merrier!
Good stuff. Thanks
when u watch the video in the depths of the night and the constant door sounds on the bass line of the audio make you think there is someone in your house and you develop slight paranoia
I was expecting a German Warm Potato Salad recipe with this great history lesson
Hail potatoes 🙏🥔
Incredible video with drama, action and intrigues
We homestead and grow all our own food. The Potato (and its completely unrelated namesake The Sweet Potato) - the two alone make up about 25% of our total calories (for two) in a given year/growing-season ... aiming for about 1,000 pounds. 400 pounds Sweet Potato and 600 pounds (300 Spring-planted, Summer harvest, 300 Summer planted/Fall harvest) Irish Potato. There is a grand total of 4 days work, spreadvthroughout the season, to produce a quarter of the calories consumed for 2 for a year. That's 2 days a person. Total cost is about half a 40 pound sack of fertilizer that sells for $20 bucks US... so $10. Until just recently with COVID supply issues and war in Ukraine (embargoes, shipping problems) ... the cost was half that.
In my opinion, there is no better return on time/effort in exchange for food/calories/nutrition if you grow your own.
I TOTALLY get why poor folk of the world adopted this miracle plant as a main crop diet staple. Of the two, though, if things got tough, famine wise, we'd migrate to The Sweet Potato. Less fertilizer needed. No disease in our area. Higher heat tolerance, less water needed. Almost no pest. They store 3 times as long. More yield weight per square foot ... AND ... the vines are edible. Not so much with the Irish Potato. Tons of disease. Devastating pest. Poisonous vines. We grow an additional Sweet Potato Patch specifically to feed our Rabbits and in the late Summer/early Fall the vines make up about 1/3 of the Meat Growout's diet. Free feed for the 200 pounds of Rabbit Meat we put in the freezer every year.
The only reason we grow more Irish Potato than Sweet Potato is we like the taste better.
I'm about to watch this after eating a baked potato.
I'm going to watch this eating my second.