Food Theory: You Would HATE this 700 Year Old Meal! (Medieval Times)
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Has't thee ever been to Medieval Times? It’s a dinner experience hath built for a king! Enter the castle, gaze upon the jousting tournament, and enjoyeth a dinner with a giant turkey leggeth, mead, and all! But is any of this actually authentic? Let’s findeth out…
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To be fair… I don’t think many people would enjoy eating a 700-year old meal, it would probably be a little bit stale at that point.
Haha! Good one!
Yeah, just a tiny banana little bit stale. Just banana a pinch.
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Yeah it probably would
@Ben the bots are evolving to make fun of themselves
As a German I actually wasn’t surprised by your potato fact. As a member of a culture that loves potatoes, I have been taught the origins of it. Down to how it was made forbidden to appear as desirable to the commoners, so they would start eating it.
Exactly same! I'm Czech and we eat potatoes all the time, so we were taught this history too
I was really shocked when Matt said that he was suprised about that fact. Im german too but such a knowledge should not be new to people of an modern society, but i guess its america sooo
Fun fact before the French revolution certain French intellectuals and nobles liked to slander potatoes to prevent them from becoming popular. Incidentally the guy that popularized potatoes in France started liking potatoes after being a prisoner in Germany. After he went back to France he got the king to give him land to privately study potatoes. Unfortunately the revolution started shortly before his potato field can bear results. The biggest cause of French revolution was the famine, prussia avoided that famine because they already popularized potatoes by that point. I France had managed to popularize potato a year earlier the revolution could have been avoided.
The story of potatoes is quite impressive, as to how drastically it affected history in some places.
Genau
As a German, how tired are you of the "why no ham in hamburguer" joke? I mean, being closer to Hamburg
I work at medieval times. You'd be surprised how many people bring their own cutlery to the show. I also thought that weird but turns out they're just being historically accurate lol. Also at the Texas castle we offer tomato bisque, garlic bread, corn, potato, and half a chicken. For vegetarians we offer a the veggie platter with celery and carrot sticks with Peta bread and hummus, along with three bean soup. Not historically accurate whatsoever 😅 oh and then the dessert. A literal donut.
Is A doughnut that inauthentic tho? Just fried soft bread
@tyme5175 yeah you would think people would probably have had something similar although not exactly deep fried like a donut is
you have pepsi at medieval times, but not cutlery?
my guy had no defending for medieval times
I went there three weeks ago and I was very confused with donut as desert
20 year employee of Medieval Times here... When a guest comes through our doors they are transported back in time and the 'disco' or dance floor opening after the show is to bring the guests back to the 21st century. I also dont think we have ever had salad on our menu. At least not at my castle. We change our show every 4 years. The story line you showed in this video is from 15 years ago so we've been through a few more since then. New show coming spring 2024! 😊
Keep it up!
Loved medieval times !!!
Ah has it come yet?
I can already see MatPat dragging Stephanie along into the kitchen to find the ultimate Viking breakfast for the next theory
They *must* make that some day
Wolfgang? Aren't you supposed to be dead?
Hi, I love your songs and would like to ask you when are you planning your next live concert. Maybe you could even do a colaboration with Beethoven (i know that he's a bit too old school for you but you would be a great duo)
PS: do not accept any Requiem request from anybody
I want to see that. Make it happen, MatPat.
da frick
Kinda sad he didn't make a historically accurate medieval feast menu. Perhaps for another video. I would love to see them make and try medieval foods.
There's a channel that does that, and also foods even older, and more recent in history. It's called Tasting History.
@@LangThoughts Oh no I know there are better channels out there for that kinda thing. Heck, I DO this sort of thing as a hobby and own a couple historic recipe books with the way recipes were originally written in them. This would just be a good litmus test for how good their research is.
@@LangThoughts ... true, plus also other channels (such as Shadiversity) have done an episode or more on historical diets & typical meals during the European medieval times.
Go to Tasting History with Max Miller! You'll find tons of that, there. 😊
@@LangThoughts I would love to seeax do a crossover with food theory!
Matpat "its as historicly accurate as giving a knight a musket"
The matchlock musket "am i a joke too you?"
Yes. Yes you are.
@@cdcdrr right back at ya pal
They were used in the very end of the Middle Ages the last half a century from a millennia.
@@danieswas yes but hand cannons which were the first guns had been used since the 1300s
And the arquebus since 1411 by the ottomans
Fun fact! The whole “vegan a few times a week for religious reasons” is still a v common practice nowadays, most notably in Orthodox Christianity and related cultures! Not eating meat on Wednesdays and Fridays is something I’ve been raised with since I was small, and a lot of friends and family and people in the Greek community still follow it to this day :)
Same here in Serbia, it was a tradition not to eat animal products on Wednesdays and Fridays for religious reasons, like "cleansing of the body" and I was raised on that ideology, some say it was to "balance" our food intake, anyway people still do it to this day.
Lol but you’re Greek and can eat fish. My family where not that lucky
I,m Catholic.I still eat fish on Fridays . Remember when they had in the paper the pope said we could eat meat on Friday Told my dad about the article, and he remarked I don't care what the pope says, we still eat fish on Fridays.
@@hildahilpert5018 It's Lent again. Fish and veggies are on the menu most of the time.
Would fish be considered an animal? because "vegan" yet people eating fish instead of meat kinda go against each other
As a Spanish native speaker, I LOVE how Matpat pronounces spanish words. Is too much fun.
What
Wow, you got hit by bots bad. Don't click those links.
Y'all, please report the bots. And do NOT click the links, seriously.
@@sagewarren8431 And if you do click the links, know that they lead to the bots' owners, so report them too.
@@h0m3st4r Facts
Fun fact: The "ye" in ye olde times is actually pronounced as "the" because the "th" sound had its own letter in "ye olde" english. The letter looked very similar to "y" so in many old writings the "th" and "y" were pretty much indistinguishable.
You can even find the original letters on some keyboards; "þ" being one! (Im unsure how to find the other😅) love finding fun facts like this!!
Edit:
Þ: thorn was the letter replaced by "y" hence the letter from ye olde that op was refering to.
đ: eth/that was also used interchangably with þ but was also used to mean "the" or "that".
Ultimately they were both phased out of old english in favour of the latin "th" spelling of the sound. Largely due to the invention of the printing press.
Can you tell i fell down a rabbit hole of research yet...😂
Thankyou op for sparking my interest, had a lot of fun looking into this one!
Thanks for sharing!
It was a rune that symbolized the thorn on a branch or stem... and had the Th sound from thorn.
Repeat thorn and the and you will hear a slight difference...but, yeah, it was always The and never Ye
@@toot4you19 You're welcome. :)
8:08 that is not inaccurate, knights had guns all the time. Maybe not in the 10th century, but a little later and it would be a perfectly normal weapon for a knight to have and use. Us associating guns with more modern times is a complete misconception. The first guns were being used by the 15th century. Granted, these were hand cannons, but it still counts.
You can still find wild forms of Strawberries all over rural Europe. The big varieties that are commercially sold are not the only species of strawberry in existance.
So if you were to put in the effort you may be able to still recreate that taste. Besides, engineering an ingredient for higher yield and larger size usually has a negative impact on taste compared to their wild counterparts.
Tasting History has a bunch of recipe videos from this time period! It would be so cool if you guys did a collab on historical cooking!
Yeah and he actually had a recipe for Egyptian hummus some thousand years ago..
Thanks, I was about to comment this.
Tasting History is great.
@@ajrobbins368 same
missed opportunities to do this with @TastingHistory. could have been a great experience for matt
I agree
I would love to see Mat and Steph do a colab with Max Miller from Tasting History and try out some of his medieval recipes
Hahaha you beat me to commenting this!
Tasting History is great.
Yes! I was thinking the same thing!
his research methods are much better than the ones being used on any Theory channel from Mat tbh it would be a great one cause the quality of the text would improve tons.
@@senhorokami I mean, I think the For Honor video showed us all that MatPat isn't the best source when it comes to history.
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
In medieval time most of the work was in the spring for food preservation for winter. I found that canning, boiling, and pickling were very common.
Everything was canned and labeled, so you had plenty of bread, water and ale was boiled (to get of bacteria), and jam jars and cambut'as was a regular staple in every household.
Before being vegan my go to meal was bread, hard boiled eggs, which from my understanding, chickens were domesticated because of their high yield of eggs. I ended up learning medieval food preparation to save on food prices, which now with food prices inflation is immensely handy.
Not only that but the most common meal you find in every time period are stews : Goulash, and lentils stews for example. And there's a good reason, you take a souring wine and you add it and it works like lemon or vinegar, you take any vegetable being softened and it's nutrition gets cleaned and processed to the liquid stock when you get rid of the solids. The stock ends up being the master ingredient in everything.
Today the bigger issue is that the world temperature is rising, so the heat makes the food spoil much faster nowadays without refrigerating than back 300+ years ago. What happens is that in medieval times they had incredible ways to make food that for us would be incomprehensible like for a medieval person to imagine a world where a citizen knows not only what his political leader looks like, but what other nations political leaders look like beyond stories from the local paper, or gossip. (Painters were expensive).
It's only been 6 days since this video has been posted, and the channel shadiverity has already done a nearly 3 HOUR REPLY VIDEO to this one 15-minute video. If we get a part two to this video, will it have to go on gtlive and end up being 3-6 parts long? If so, I'm all here for it.
Have you watched the response?
Also the channel Metatron made a response.
What I would be interested to see is what a GENUINE Medieval meal would look like.
Look up the channel Tasting History
Probably bread, oats, and small meat for a peasant.
There is a really good channel here on YT where they cook historically accurate recipies. It's called "Tasting History" :)
Usually, the recipes that survive are designed for the wealthy so they end up tasting quite good if you make them. For the average peasant, there were plenty of wild herbs and spices that could be foraged to create a good meal.
Usually a whole lot of herbs and plants as well as small game, farmers used to have spaces in walls for pigeons to nest so it was easier to catch. Cows weren't on the table as much since they were used to plow fields etc, horses started as a food source.
Fun fact: Tomatoes, and some other acidic foods, were often considered toxic. The main reason being that nobles were getting sick after eating them, but it was because they were eating the tomatoes off of Pewter plates which gave them metal poisoning.
More specifically, they were getting sick from lead poisoning. The high acidity was leeching lead out of the lead-based pewters they were using at the time. Don't let anyone learning this be put off from keeping any pewterware they currently have, though, modern commercial pewter is typically made without lead and you can eat and drink with it safely.
You mean the Pewter Gym in Pokémon is toxic?!
@Debz Baumaus I love this comment
I've cooked many medieval meals from historical recipes which even by today's standards are really nice. I've also made medieval beer and it was malty and refreshing.
Me give you 5 star mat pat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You know, when my family went to a Medieval Times, we brought plastic utensils to avoid using our hands. So I guess we got that part right. Even then, I ended up using my hands to eat a lot of the meal because it was just easier than using the utensils.
EDIT: 1K likes in less than 24 hours!? OMG! Thank you!
Plastic utensils really are like that.
Thou shouldn't use a fork if Thou want the full experience.
@@gamerguy9170 use a pricker instead
@@gamerguy9170 Thou shall not* - 🤓
@@somedudenameddes0121 *shalt
I recommend watching Tasting History. He proves that old dishes can be delicious (though not all of his experiments are to his satisfaction). I only recently made myself pork marinated in honey among other ingredients and a BBQ sauce made of defrutum, garum, asafaetoida, coriander... Some of the ingredients are hard to come by today and the taste is nothing you're familiar with today.
He should really do a Collab with Max Miller here on food theory
Max Miller also does a lot of research in it (or has people helping him out) and I like watching the videos, he usually is okay with the foods he make. It is clearly on taste and getting it just right, as recipies can be very obscure the earlier you are.
One issue is that our palette is used to different tastes. This doesn't make the historical food bad, just different. And some people can't do different.
@@dougmartin2007if MatPat drinks even half as much cola as his online persona, then I wouldn't be surprised if all his palette is wayyy to washed out for indigenous/traditional cuisine. When you make food from... food, instead of just ODing salt & sugar, it's definitely a more subtle taste.
Particularly if Medieval Times is meant to mimic the nobility, imagine how much better their sources of food were compared to most of us! No factory farms, no hormone injections, no freezing, no GMOs, no pesticides; just millenia of knowledge cultivating the land.
Modern History TV
I'm pretty sure salted cod with cabbage is something attainable within that time period. Maybe even some pork with roasted chestnuts on the side. Delicious!
9:50 fun fact: kiełbasa in polish means sausage in general, not only one kind
In particular, Medieval Times SHOULD be serving "Perpetual Stew" (Alternatively referred to as "Forever Soup, Hunter's Stew, or Hunter's Pot.) - basically the idea was that it was a stew or soup that was never taken off of its heat source and, as long as it was kept between 180-200 degrees Fahrenheit (82-93 degrees Celsius) the stew would never go bad, and as long as carrots, meat, celery, onions, broth, etc. were consistently added to the pot after having been subtracted for the sake of a serving, the stew would basically last forever (hence the term "perpetual stew") without ever having to clean the pot, with exceptions. Day by day, the stew would taste different, depending on the ingredients added. It was very popular throughout Medieval European pubs, as well as the American Frontier during pioneer times.
I'm going to need this right away.
I'd heard of a restaurant in Thailand doing this; I didn't realize it was a tradition going back to medieval times.
@@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744 Asian cuisine has something similar. turns out people are quite good at creating new ways not to die of diseases related to drinking water. so if you go to the right place its not that hard to find one.
that sounds like it would taste good
This is pretty much what Zachary Fowler did to survive the longest on his season of alone. A fish head and fish soup that was constantly added to as he caught more and more, never taken off the fire.
Fun fact about old forks. If commoners were to use a fork, it’d probably just have two tynes, because it was easier for the blacksmith to make that way. So number of tynes could be a status symbol
Fun fact: the comb was actually invented when a rich noble commissioned a fork with 60 tynes to flex his wealth. His wife immediately used it to comb his hair and beard, and the rest is history.
Spelling the word as "tines" instead of "tynes" is a status symbol
@@Purriah sorry that's actually not true...the first combs were made around 10,000 years ago in 8000BC
You don't need to make utensils out of metal people just used wooden ones
“About the same as giving a knight a musket”
Matpat what are you on? In the late medieval ages knights HAD MUSKETS
Ah, but that's not within the 950-1250 timeframe!
@@cdcdrr fair
Plus really muskets really made the armor clad knights we think of all but a relic of the past within 100 years of their introduction in the late Middle Ages ^
@@grayson1126 true. However a hundred years is still a pretty lengthy time
@@cdcdrr your point? the knights go from earlier than that and later than that. As for muskets they had them at the tail end of medieval ages, and before that a few earlier versions of guns like the handcannon. Knights lasted till about 1450-1600, as muskets/firearms became more common though they were scaled back more and more. If you want to count just mounted heavy cav as knights than technically we could say they lasted much longer till the 1800s but those are like cuirassiers and the sort, who while armored typically only had a helmet and a cuirass, as armoring their entire body was both expensive and impractical with improvements in weapons.
Knights having muskets would be accurate for the later half of the Reconquista
I work at Medieval Times! Our menu is a little different than mentioned in this video. (At least at my location). It's:
Tomato Bisque and Garlic Bread
Roasted Chicken (no other meat options)
Corn and Potato
Eclair for Dessert
And for vegetarians:
Everything above except a 3 bean and rice stew in place of chicken (spoon provided for this one), and an additional appetizer of hummus, pita bread, and celery/carrots.
We also serve Pepsi products and have air conditioning and electricity, sooo realistically we're about as medieval as a McDonald's. Fun theory video! Cool to learn a bit about the accuracy of my work place 😂
I also work at medieval Times and we don't have ribs at my castle
I rember going to medieval times in south carilona it was so much fun! I was a picky child though so a ate garlic bread and soda I got a rose from the green knight though
i heard something about medieval times worker unionizing from poor working conditions did that happen to you?
I just went to medieval times! It was so fun and a great experience! Truly is super entertaining. It was fun since the color I was assigned to won the battles
@@professionalprocrastinator Most excellent, Good Noble! Glad you enjoyed it :)
My fellow Chileans, it finally happened: we made it onto a Food Theory video😄 I had no idea that strawberries were indigenous to my home country, the more you know...😊
the wild strawberries in europe taste different than the commercial big kind. the big strawberries are native to south america but there were forest strawberries in europe. same with blueberries. the european ones are very small bushes, barely higher than a hand high with small dark blue berries that are dark blue inside and stain everything purple with their juice. the bigger blueberries which are colourless inside are also from over the sea.
We also have wild strawberries here in the mountains of Washington state on the west coast of the USA. They're pretty small though. Strawberries are everywhere
@Gabriel Bernard we have a lot of wild blue huckleberry here. Apparently they're related to blueberries and they taste pretty similar too.
@@gabrielbernard5440 which is kinda expected to the lay person cuz europe isnt exactly known for its fertile land, except for like greece, italy, france
Finally some food that Chile doesnt steal!
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11:30 That is a surprisingly dark joke lol
Absolutely love the medieval time dinner and show. It’s so awesome and watching people fight in medieval armor is just so freaking cool.
Regarding the silverware, in German there is even a saying from the medieval age that is still used today "Den Löffel abgeben" English for "handing over the spoon" which means to die (German Version of kicking the bucket). The origin of this is that after your death you would hand your handcrafted silverware (that was made out of wood for most people) over to your children.
Ironic to call it "silverware" when its made out of wood
Another name for silverware is cutlery.
Would that mean in germany they call it a spoon list instead of a bucket list?
@eyesistorm No, I don't think there is a german version of that phrase. People normally just use the English term.
Woodware
Food theory idea: which brand of whipped cream has the most cream?
It's mostly air I would assume, but it would be pretty fun to empty an entire can.
fr
Also what happens if you just cut one of them open
The can tells you how much is in it…
Not air, nitrous oxide ☺️🤤
@@AbranAvenue it's more fun this way
Would love to see you team up with Tasting History with Max Miller to make and taste a more accurate-to-time meal. It would be so fun!!!
8:09 knights had muskets but to be fair it was around the age of discovery
they had hand cannons before that though, but still technically firearms. Also harquebus and the like, so primitive firearms would entirely be fine, and late 1400s and 1500s where knights where just about being removed but still existing would have muskets. If we count just any heavy cavalry and not exclusively full plate knights than we can push it up to the 1800s where people still used heavy cav with an armored chest and a helmet.
@@damackabet.4611 I know but those hand cannons didn’t really look likes guns like muskets and arquebuses which wouldn’t really develop after those for another 50 year in Western Europe
Hey MatPat. I was sick a little while ago and my mom made me some chicken soup. It was great, but had me thinking. Does Chicken Soup actually help you get better? Or is it just an old wives tale?
I honestly dont know, But it might be something that you could research.
It probably helps. Helps replenish fluids and electrolytes and it fills you up. Wouldn't make much of a difference if you substituted it for pedialyte and a good nutritious meal.
Never thought about that. Maybe it helps soothe the throat?
I sware he talked about that in an video, did I imagine it 😳
Actually, yes.
Well, not the chicken soup itself, but the seasonings that go in it. Gatlic being a bit one.
But chicken soup does a variety of things when you're ill.
1) the steam/heat/spices helps congestion
2) chicken is a less heavy meat, so you can eat a food that takes longer to break down without feeling nauseous from having eaten heavy foods, so you feel full longer
3) some ingredients, i think garlic being one, have anti inflamitory abilities. But garlic also helps clear your throat and nose (like horseradish or anything hot)
I think it was the university of nebraska that did a study on it. Homemade is better. Seasoned well is better. But it does help even just a little bit.
MatPat is likely the only person who’d take time out of his day to expose a random restaurant for not using recipes from the early 1200’s, it’s inspirational in a way
@@urtis629 but I’m not a bot?
And then misrepresenting historical facts haahhahahah, wine and beer was absolutely crafted with great knowledge and craftsmanship, way to oversimplify it for entertainment while telling others that they don't do their homework 🙃
@@joshuas3247 seriously, hit the point you're talking about 6 minutes in and I ended the video. MatPat MatFailed his alcohol research.
@@joshuas3247 We DEFINITELY knew a ton about alcohol by the 1200’s and even knew a lot by the year ZERO but did we really “master” it by then?
It’s hard to say without actually trying the alcohol from back then which is obviously impossible
@@gabrielsalahi3656 we have Japanese traditional ways of making alcohol that go back over 1000 years that are still used today because it was perfected. I'm just saying he is very presumptuous, and he is stating that they don't care about historical accuracy. Just don't like hypocrisy, and this one is lazy on top
8:04 "That makes the bowl of tomato bisque that starts your medieval times meal as historically accurate as giving a knight a musket"
Allow me Lord MatPat to introduce you to 16-18. century Eastern European warfare, especially the late winged hussars, who wielded flintlock pistols and sometimes larger rifles
I think I’ve watched this video like 12 times now and I’m still not tired of it, same goes for most of the videos on food theory, just a great channel and great addition to the theory brand
Well, you told us a lot about what they didn't eat--tomatoes, potatoes and corn being unknown until much later. But what would have been a typical medieval meal? That ought to be good for a decent length video, especially if you cover different classes and the changes that occurred over the medieval period.
Whatever you could hunt, fish, grow, or bake (bread)
I dont know if this is all Typical
But there is a German Blog ,BLOG VON GUTER SPEISE
They have original medieval recepies !
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric Uhm you forgot gathering which would be a huge part of the diet. Mushrooms, Nuts and Herbs gathered from the woods.
Bread a lot of bread. Plus gruel usually what makes a gruel is what wheat or grain you were growing at the time of the season you’re in. Eggs was also a common food yet no one wanted to eat cows for that was for the rich or you’re going through war or poverty and had to eat the family cow. Sadly a medieval age dish would probably be pig sausage, gruel, some fruit like apples, some bread that might have some plaster in it, and a pitcher of water down beer (bud light) for a standard beer wasn’t a thing till the beer act of 1516 in Bavaria you don’t get like good beer.
Or if you’re lucky you sold milk to the church and got a cheese wheel or wine the monks made and didn’t have gold or silver to give you for giving more then your average taxes. (Yes you paid the nobles and monks separate taxes unless you lived under a bishopric lands then it’s all the church’s and you give a lot to the church)
I’ve been to medieval times multiple times in my area and it is a thrill and the food is actually really good. I’m happy you made an episode of this.
This is so amazing. Thank you for this
As a side-note, since you're talking about all these old meals, it would be fun to go into the word "ye" as well, since it's always pronounced incorrectly it seems. This is a very old word that's still used in the language to this day, it's just written differently. "Ye" is just "The". It stems from a time when the letter Þ was used (a letter that is still well and alive within my language), and bears the same pronounciation as "th". Back when printing was kicking off, the letter y was often used in place of the þ because of how similar they looked back then, (they don't look that similar now, but letterhand has changed quite a bit in those years). So simply, "ye olde bookshop" for example should be pronounced "the old bookshop". Although "ye" also has a different meaning depending on the context, "Come all ye faithful" for example, where ye is a plural form of you, in the context I'm referring to it's a "the".
"From Middle English þe. Early press typographies lacked the letter þ (“thorn”), for which the letter y was substituted due to their resemblance in blackletter hand (etymological y was for a while distinguished by a dot, ẏ). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere. Traditionally pronounced the same as the, but now often pronounced with the ordinary sound of ⟨y⟩: IPA(key): /jiː/"
OMG I WAS GONNA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS I LEARNED ABOUT THIS A WHILE AGO AND NOW IM FINALLY SMARTER THAN MAT PAT ABOUT SOMETHING
@@krazyykal wait you needed know something to be smarter than mat pat? i thought his insanity was a handicap.
@@speedodragon 😂
I went to this place for a school trip once when I was young! Those were the good old times! I never would’ve thought you’d do a theory on it! You’re the best, Mat Pat!❤️😂
went there for either my dads or my brothers birthday, i got used to it after a while and it was an experience I would pay any amount of money to go again
I'm sure someone will correct me, if I'm wrong, but didn't Romans have a primitive fork made of lead with only two tines? A smaller version of the barbecue fork. They used lead everywhere. Even as a spice. Which is believed to be one of the, if not main, reason for the fall of the empire. Lead poisoning.
That would suggest that, during Medieval times, a fork existed in some form.
Anywho, great video. Enjoyed in tandem with chilies video. Good work!
Due to early christian officials, fighting of the greek/roman ancient religion, the fork was - though practical - labeled the devil´s tool, as the imagery was made include aspects of greek/roman deities (Poseidon/Neptun -> trident; Dyonysos/Bacchus -> hooves horns...) In consequence, forks became quasi forbidden over the larger parts of the medieval period until they became fashionable after the renaissance (?) again in nobility.
Been there, it's a good family outing. The fighting is actually pretty good with metal sparks when weapons cross. Worth going there at least once.
You should totally make a cooperation with Max Miller from Tasting History one day :D PS I'm a great fan of the way you in US pronounce "kielbasa" also adding "sausage" to it. In Poland we normally call all sausages - kiełbasa.
Yeah, couldve just said sausage, instead of "sausage sausage". That was really weird
@@ElyahuDupik in America our sausage is much different then what we sell as kielbasas, hint why he said it twice.
@@simplesimply3753 i would agree if the word was reffering to a single tyoe of sausage but it doesnt, it just means sausage (at least in russuian, im not totally sure about the other slavic languages).
@@ElyahuDupikn North America it refers to a specific type of sausage despite the origin of the word. Much like how Chai in North America refers to a specific type of tea despite the word just meaning ‘tea’
YES
I LOVE Medieval Times! There are so many wonderful memories about this place! I can’t believe there was a Food Theory about this, and I forgot how much I wished of it to exist!!
Same! Been to the one in georgia its very interesting
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"Been asking for awhile, but PLEASE do an episode on Aspartame, the artificial sweetener in all diet sodas, including your favorite. So much shadiness involved in its approval by the FDA"
Here in Johannesburg, South Africa, we have a place called Greensleeves Medieval Kingdon where the medieval dining and storytelling thing has been offered for the last 49 years. It makes for an awesome night out.
As an American, I have been to medieval times many times and LOVE the experience! I would definitely suggest it to people who have never been or people visiting America
There is one in canada toronto
@@shanebardoel1958 oh cool!!
I’ve never heard of this restaurant. Where are they?
@@eseschannel12 there are 10 locations spread out across North America (mainly US), if you wanna know specifics I would just look up “medieval times” on Google maps
They have changed the menu apparently since I've been there. We had vegetable soup, cheese bread, and half a chicken with carrots. One of the people with me had the vegetarian plate which was an entire roasted head of cauliflower, and everyone had their choice of Pepsi. Just Pepsi, LOL
Hmmmmm tasty
Well that sounds more accurate, I wonder if they changed it because it seemed too weird for the American taste
That is a nice, simple menu.
Your Air Up code still worked April 5th, 2023. Thank you! Love the channel!
In the middle ages they had a lod of different dishes. They used a lot of different veggies cause meat was expensive (especially if you weren't a noble or rich), hunting and fishing also provided a lot of variety to food and there were spices coming in through the Mediterranean from the near east, and asia.
Matt was really enjoying doing medieval voices in this video
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@@salamander16100 Nah but fr tho 😭😭😭
Another thing they forget, some meals didn't use plates, but rather thick slabs of bread called "trenchers" which you put soup or other food on before you picked it up and ate it
That sound delicious. Bread bowl got nothin on this.
Don't they generally threw these to beggars when they're done?
@@iamhungey12345often yes, and it wasn’t for soup.
You didn't pick up and eat a trencher. That would be like eating a baguette that had been sitting out stale for a couple of days. It's also why they were given to the poor afterward; they were nearly inedible.
@@CrizzyEyes "A trencher is a type of tableware, commonly used in medieval cuisine. A trencher was originally a flat round of bread used as a plate, upon which the food could be placed to eat. At the end of the meal, the trencher could be eaten with sauce, but could also be given as alms to the poor." Wikipedia
Maybe make sure you're correct before you speak, people did eat it and giving trenchers to the poor was rarer than eating it yourself
Sudenly 13th century is not medival enough when it gets to beer.
There is a series, unfortunately only in czech, that specialises on the historical foods. It is called Zmlsané dějiny (Sweet tooth history) and they are reconstructing some usual and even bizzare foods. Beer was one of them, I recomend.
These videos are so much palatable on 1.5 speed.
It becomes an unhinged ceaseless tirade
I'd love to see what happens when you feed someone an authentic medieval "BBQ sauce" of Asefetida, Long pepper, Garum, Apple, and Defrutum on their chicken, lol. Actually, that sounds low-key kinda lit, never mind.
Defrutum is delicious. You can get boiled down grape juice/sirup in some stores and heck, I guess I am gonna make some of that BBQ because I got a jar of it in the fridge
Here in Stockholm we do have two small non franchise restaurants in the old Town that specialize in medieval food. They do their best to only use ingredients available in Europe at the time. But as you said ingredients have changed over the years and you need to offer a variety of drinks for different customers even if those weren't invented at the time. Good video.
I would say that if you want to eat historically accurate food, you would have to take an ship over the lake to Tallinn to the Olde Hansa in the old town.
I have worked in Aifur in the Old Town of Stockholm, and the food there (what’s supposed to be viking food) does taste great, but isn’t historically accurate.
I love the subtle studio C reference with tomato bisque
"as giving a knight a musket" 😂 oh he dosen't know
I remember going to Medieval Times when I was a kid. I haven't heard anything about it in years, and honestly I thought they went out of business. So it's really good to see that their still open and popular.
We went to Medieval Times when I was seven. At the beginning if the show, the knights had red carnations that they would kiss, then toss into their section of the crowd. I was lucky enough to catch one. Red carnations are my favorite flower to this day.
Man I caught one of the pink ones but someone tried to snatch it out of my hand from behind me while I was catching it and it broke I also won the sash and got a nice cup
@@ShelbyFinley Nice! Yea my friend tried to grab it out if my hand too, but my grandpa told him to give it to me
were carnations grown in the medieval times....?...hmmm...
nothing beats the Medieval Times experience
How about vr
My wife took me to medieval times for my birthday once, it was honestly awesome. And where I learned that I actually love tomato bisque.
I LOVE THE LORD OF THE RINGS REFERENCE AT THE BEGINNING!! Po-ta-toes, boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!!
As a Polish person, seeing Poland in this video it activates my one braincell and makes me happy.
hi naigbor we slovaks werent in video but glad you were
@@matejmatuska6700 thank you brother
as a- 😴😴😴
MatPat has polish roots, so another point for us!
Nie wiem czemu każdy polak tak ma. Jakaś część w nas się zawsze aktywuje gdy słyszymy "Polska" od osoby z zagranicy. Miło widzieć że nie jestem w tym sam xD.
In eng:
I don't know why all polish people are like this. Some part in us always activates when we hear "Poland" from a person from another country. It's nice to know I'am not alone with this feeling lmao.
Yes I a translated xD to lmao. Yes I know it's not the same but I don't care.
Fun fact: in medieval times, aluminium used to be rarer and more expensive than gold. The richest people would use aluminium cuttlery instead of gold or silver.
Here's a theory I would like to see: How did medieval kegs and beer mugs even hold liquid? Just looking at them makes me think they should be leaking out the areas between the visible planks.
They're actually shaped to make a tight fit together in a barel shape that is slightly larger than the bands put on them. That way the metal bands are compressing them tightly together and forming a watertight seal. It looks like there's gaps but that's just the outer edges of the planks (or staves) being worn down, they're still pressed against each other on the inside. Plus if there ever was a leak one could patch it up with some resin or tar still.
There are things called Wax , Coating , Varnish and Polish which creates a fine barrier between the liquid and wood. Add that to really thightly banded planks and you have a perfectly water proof wine barrels which keeps water out and wine or other alcoholic beverages in.
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Knights almost certanly had muskets.
I adore the intro to this. 🤣 Not too many things on CZcams make me audibly laugh, but MatPat’s channels are always a win
A fun little fact about the intro, it’s portrayed as a joke but burgers are as old as Rome.
It wasn’t exactly the same but the basics were there.
@@chilledclarity2302 Thy correct, trust me, i was Thither.
Historian here! Yes, I indeed had an anyeurism learning of such a restaurant, yet not surprising in America. What would an actual medieval meal look like? That depends largely on your social class and where you live. But generally, root vegetables, porrige and bread was the way to go. Plus local ingredients: Nobles of course had much more access to meat and only they were allowed to hunt animals like deer. However, catching a rabbit, some fish or a few birds wasn't out of the question even for lower classes.
This video titles we would hate medieval food, but that would be more true of the more noble stuff. They would season everything with expensive spices like Cinnamon. Not bad, but unusual. Having some oates with self-made jam and a stew with bread wasn't bad. And peasants certainly ate a lot - they would toil for hours and needed sustainance, not one slice of bread and half a bowl of soup.
Was playing battale front at the same time that poped up and i was suprised
10:55 man, I really hope that someday, people realize that vodka was originally made out of wheat, and potato vodka is an oddity rather than the tradition...
What about all the dragons, elves, fairies, monsters, orcs, etc?
...Magic Mushrooms were quite plentiful, and no laws existed against them.
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric Wtf?
Potato vodka is more common in Scandinavia. Its called brännvin.
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric I think you replied to the wrong comment.
Absolute favourite video considering matpat's background in theatre acting it was really nice to see that side of him I would love to see more content like this in the future if possible❤❤❤
11:14 Although technically a new stereotype, the same stereotype existed before potatoes were brought to Europe, only they were beets instead of potatoes.
(12:00) Matpat, I'm going to say that they probably removed utensils entirely, so the audience doesn't have anything to throw at the performers on stage. LOL
I actually really liked the medieval feel of the start to the episode. I feel like themes like that make the opening experience more fun.
Apart from the drinks, this was pretty accurate. Wine and ale were a bit more complex than that..Wine was often not consumed as is, instead it was an ingredient that you add to water to create your drink. It's a lot like how we use syrup for our sodas today. Additionally, you left out some more common drinks such as water. Water was incredibly popular on account of the fact that it's y'know, water. As for the methods used to make them, you aren't giving them enough credit. The processes used to prepare these drinks were incredibly complex and thought out. Sure they may not have known the exact science but they knew what they were doing.
Don't forget the grapes themselves would have been of better quality before centuries of mass commercialization... In fact there is an ongoing joint venture with Ariel University and Psagot Winery to recreate the ancient grapes of Judea and the results so far have won many awards around the world
Yep, just because they didn't have binomial nomenclature for every organism involved in the brewing process doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing. Brewing was often done by monks as well, and they were obsessive about perfecting their craft, owing to their pursuit of understanding concepts like creation and purity, and the fact that they had no other distractions. They're actually pretty much the same now; a monastery in Germany just invented a powdered form of beer that's 1/10th the weight and hence much less expensive to ship.
Not to mention they didn't only have ale, but they also hade mead which was often made with honey.
Also the concept of short beers and short wines Wich will be essentially non alcoholic and really sweet
For much of history, it was hard to get freshwater safe to drink, especially if you lived in a swampy area and hadn't discovered germ theory, so many cultures drank wine more than water.
*me watches this two weeks late*
I realized I know a lot more about food origins than I originally thought.
But Matt Patt, there is an early medieval Scottish church depicting corn in one of the stained glass windows. It was made during times of Viking occupation iirc, as the Vikings travelled to Vinland way before Columbus...
6:35 OK, this is one of those tiny things I have to call out. You gave them the rough time period of 950-1250, which means that hops, that as you said "became popular in 12th century", fit within the time period perfectly well.
Also, while outside of the period you chose, knights did in fact carry firearms starting in the 15th century, at the very tail end of the Medieval period.
Also fun fact, potatoes for a while also were not trusted as a safe food and there is even mentions that it was grown as a decorative plant.
Mat convinced me to finally buy an air up a few weeks ago. And as somebody who is not sponsored, let me just say...
It's actually not bad. It's not QUITE as strong as I expected but it does definitely work. And I've found myself drinking WAY more water than I was doing.
I don't usually believe sponsors. But so far, mat hasn't steered me wrong once so when he recommends it, I find it's worth a look.
I wrote it under the first sponsor but I'll also write it here:
My mom bought it like 1,5 years ago
And well you have water with the consistency of water tastings like Ransome stuff
So she stopped using these taste thingies but absolutely loves the bottle
Like the way that straw works and how it kinda fakes CO2 she uses the bottle almost everyday but never bought a 2nd set of these taste thingies
Where is the advantage to tea? It's cheaper and i don't have to manipulate my bloody brain to enjoy it.
@Dr. Frittus Urzok Trazyn -Da Heiza von Solemnum yeah but tea gets pretty repetitive after a few glasses, unless your a heavy tea drinker, which literally my entire family is
@@KomboAndy Tea has caffeine in it. There are some herbal teas that technically aren't tea, but those are an acquired taste.
@@KomboAndy no caffeine, no colored teeth
Medieval times in toronto is amazing, me and my wife went there, and it was by far the coolest vacation every
3:49 ok who in Iceland is colonizing the Americas?
Matt there are written records of knights using muskets and pistols in battle, gunpowder weapons made heavy armour useless but they needed the weapons first before the armour became obsolete so there was a crossover period where BOTH were on the battlefields of Europe together.
You read my mind! That line at about 8:09 is just a common misconception.
while the musket was a spanish invention, it wasn't until the 16th century (the 1500s) that it was made. though it was an advancement of the harquebus, a sort of small cannon. The medieval period itself ended roughly between 1400 and 1450. almost 100 years before the musket was even invented. So yes, a medieval knight with a musket would be technically impossible. But as you said, knights using guns was absolutely true. It's just not Medieval knights. Even the harquebus itself wasn't invented until the mid 15th century. basically at the end of the medieval period.
The Hospitalers at The Siege of Malta used muskets.
@Steve Leavell which happened in 1565. Over 100 years after the medieval period ended.
End of the middle ages is up for debate. Some say it ended at the fall of Constantinople, others last until early 1600s.
I love history of food stuff. Especially something like this, what Medieval Times would serve if it was accurate.
You should do a Style Theory episode about whether or not the clothing at Medieval Times is historically accurate.
Thank you for this!
I actually wemt to Medieval Times this past summer, it's an awesome storyline with an awesome show and the food is awesome! The soup bowl had a little handle on the side for u to hold since they didn't give spoons, so u just drank the soup, and they also gave everyone a little crown, I think I've still got mine
8:40 MatPat: "It's the only point they're getting this episode"
*ONE MINUTE LATER*
Pork: "What am I, chopped liver?"
Chicken: "I apparently am chopped liver because I didn't even get to be put on the list"
Goose: "Yeah, but only as a cheap alternative to me"
My surname is of Nobility, and I can assure you this is the most accurate I have ever seen anything representing something from the 11th century (my family dates back to the 9th century); You are absolutely spot on with literally *everything.*
1:41 the flickering of the “ight” makes for the most vague joke I’ve ever seen
The effort, Matt pat puts scouring through the Internet just for us is crazy let’s just give this man some respect
he has researchers working for him
@borger he researches too bruh
His crew*
I love Medieval Times! It’s always so fun to cheer for your Knight & how they do the story. Of course, it’s more fun when done as a treat that you go to maybe once a year- but every time I’ve gone (like twice , it’s been gr8!)
11:30 ok why did you put battlefront 2😭 everything in battlefront 2 became free
When Matt mentioned the five-star rating system that CZcams used to have i was like "makes sense since CZcams was originally a dating app"
When the video first started I thought he was referring to the Excalibur in Las Vegas where they have the Royal Lipizzaner Stallions. I didn't know about Medieval Times. I never heard of them before.
as a mariner, seeing one of the sailing ships sailing in reverse during the intro hurt way more than it should have 😂
edit: it got worse... at 4:00 both the ships are sailing in reverse across the screen 😭
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