Would recommend to everyone, whether they are buff or not, to watch Tasting History if you like this topic.

@backwoodsbrooksknives4625

3 күн бұрын

Clack clack.

@DiamondBones007

3 күн бұрын

Omg, yes lol let's ask him to make blood soup lol

@BoxStudioExecutive

2 күн бұрын

@@DiamondBones007 He already did.

@memememe843

2 күн бұрын

Great channel

@chopperdeath

2 күн бұрын

Yep, that guy is good.

Blood has protein, and salts, minerals and vitamins, amino acids...If you don't have the time or resources to mine salt, need a quick shot of some essential nutrients, blood letting an animal is very effective. According to fit bit, 100 grams of pigs blood has 18.4 grams of protein. So a 3 ounce shot of pigs blood is basically a full spectrum multi-vitamin with added protein.

@viatorius

2 күн бұрын

Just don't forget to add it, if you drink too much, you can get iron poisoning.

@LucasSouza

2 күн бұрын

🫠🫠🫠

@buffdudes

Күн бұрын

So basically the original protein shake, multivitamin and electrolyte all in one! 💪

@charleshill1906

Күн бұрын

@@buffdudes Mongolians would blood-let their horses on long rides and that was their only food for days to weeks on end. I read a book a while back and Native American's would eat curdled milk mixed with bison/buffalo blood directly from the udder after they ran them off the cliffs for their yearly hunts. I believe a lot of tribal populations that had any access to milk bearing mammals would mix blood in with milk. Dr. Bill Schindler has covered this in some podcasts he's been on. Very informative and interesting to listen to.

@Legacyofmine

23 сағат бұрын

Blood is a disease. just be silent.

0:59 Normally, hard tack was rehydrated in some way. Max Miller did a couple videos on it.

@BoxStudioExecutive

2 күн бұрын

Yea, typically it was smashed with a hammer (lol) into little pieces and cooked in a stew. It would have been eaten as is only in emergency situations, like right before a battle.

Hey guys! I'm a very long time subscriber to your channel (maybe since day 1 lol). Its so awesome to see you guys trying out Mongolian aaruul! My partner is from Mongolia, so we have it every so often at home. Sometimes, aaruul can get too dried out and hard to eat by itself, so usually people will soften it in some tea or hot water. It's actually pretty often sold in the US as a dog chew toy lol, but those ones are always super dried and completely hardened. One last thing: Mongolians pronounce Genghis Khan as "Chinggis Haan" haha I seriously hope you guys never stop making videos. You're one of my favorite channels.

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

That's amazing! Thank you and tell your partner hi for us as well! We appreciate the proper pronunciation lesson. We'll try our best to keep creating content. 💪

In Ireland we eat black and white pudding for breakfast and it's made from a mix of pigs blood and oats thats then fried in a pan. Its actually delicious would highly recommend 🔥

@Avoidnow

3 күн бұрын

Clonakilty White pudding is damn good

@AndrewDembouski

3 күн бұрын

Sounds like high protein!

@rundown132

2 күн бұрын

What is it called

@ryanomalley3705

Күн бұрын

Black pudding or white pudding. The Black pudding contains the blood.​@@rundown132

@hokutoshinken-chrisarmstro131

18 сағат бұрын

​@@rundown132black or white pudding.

Hard Tack was also used during the Civil War and the soldiers disliked it so much that they changed the lyrics of Stephen Fosters "Hard Times come again no more" to "Hard Tack Come again no more" to sound their displeasure for this food. Did my senior Capstone in College on Music of the Civil War and music about food was a very big thing for them.

We need Sumo diet next.

@SomeKidFromBritain

3 күн бұрын

1) Chanko nabe 2) Rice 3) Rice 4) Rice 5) Rice 6) Rice

@TheBcoolGuy

3 күн бұрын

@@SomeKidFromBritain Don't forget the rice!

@SomeKidFromBritain

3 күн бұрын

@@TheBcoolGuy Ah yeah, and potentially some miso broth.

@KurtAngle89

2 күн бұрын

Unless Sensei Seth does it first, since he now practices it❤

you need to soak it in the rum like cereal!

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

A true pirate breakfast

A collab with Tasting History or How to cook That for the science of old recipes would be great

The blood was meant to be turned into a soup with pork in in 😂

Stock fish are still a thing here in scandinavia but you do need to boil it in water to make it enjoyable.

It's funny cause I always say that. "It don't have to taste good, just keep me alive. If it taste good that's a bonus."

In the UK we have black pudding which is made from pigs blood. It's generally eaten as part of a fried breakfast etc. absolutely delicious!

I would recommend visiting the disgusting food museum in Sweden where you can try all sorts of interesting food...

the taste of fresh blood is the strangest taste I've ever tried. Dakota/lakota tradition is to take a bite of warm raw liver, fresh from your first hunt kill.

@user-ri5fe7ti6i

Күн бұрын

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I've had hard tack once in my life, school field trip in like 4th grade. It actually tasted quite nice, and didn't almost break my teeth. From my understanding, it was very popular during the Civil War for obvious reasons, which you guys listed.

@TastingHistory with Max Miller would be a great collaboration for you, Buff Dudes! He knows the history and food and you guys know the physicality of fitness and exercise. Could be some great content!

Love the Buff Dudes!

@hudsonpro

3 күн бұрын

Thanks Tony! 💪😎🔥

@tonydeluna8095

3 күн бұрын

@@hudsonpro yessir!

The Mongolians would also drink horse blood, I'm not sure if it's that cheese I always imagined it more like cottage cheese but they would make a curd cheese by putting horse milk in leather sacks under their saddlebags, then the heat and motion would churn it up and then they would mix it with horse blood. So they wouldn't need to stop for fires or anything, just a quick stop to bleed the horse and get some of the curd.

Viking actually did eat blood they would mix the blood into a bread dough the bake it this was primarily used for long voyages as a type of ration

As a norwegian, I would recommend you to come to Norway and try norwegian stock fish! Its really tasty and it comes in lots of varieties! You get it in sort of a chips consitency aswell!

I read some accounts of some old-time trappers from the colonial era. A lot of the time they would use the pemmican as part of a dish. They would eat it plain, as you did, if they were on the go and couldn't take time to make camp or a fire but if they could then it would just be an ingredient in the meal. For example they would crumble the pemmican into a pot of beans or soup as it was cooking for added flavor. It was pretty much the early version of a bouillon cube. They would also make a kind of porridge by boiling some water, crumbling the pemmican into it and then adding crumbled hard tack to soften and soak up the broth. Or, if they had enough supplies, combine it all. Beans, water, pemmican and hardtack. Pretty much anything they could do to make if taste better and be more filling. There were more than a few versions of hard tack all with different names (like ships biscuits) thru the ages. Max Miller from the Tasting History channel has done several episodes each on hard tack and pemmican and even the Spartan blood soup. I'm not sure how much of the pure rum they would have given the sailors on board the ship. I think it probably would have been more likely to be grog which is just watered down rum (from what I read in a ratio of 4 parts water to 1 part rum).

you guys are awesome! STAY BUFF!

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

Thanks Tonzay, you too

14:05 Actually, for a lot of seafaring peoples, a survival technique was unaliving a lowly crewmate and drinking their blood.... This was worst case when stranded at sea, though.

Long time greek fan here! You guys are awesome and I am so happy you guys tried Melana Zomò, disgusting as it may have been! Keep in mind they wouldn't just drink it as is. After adding vinegar to the blood, they would fry pork meat and vegetables and then they added water to the fry mixture/juices. When the water boiled they would add barley flour and then the blood/vinegar mixture. And they ate it usually with barley bread!

I think you missed the *soaking* part with that rum🤣

It hurt just watching you guys bite into hard tack. So for future reference, you would want to crush hard tack and then soak it in soup or whatever for a couple hours. Not just a dip. That crap needs to be soaked.

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

It hurt us too. Thanks for the tip!

@backwoodsbrooksknives4625

3 күн бұрын

I'll reply to this comment since I cant seem to comment on the main video. Hardtack was rarely eaten plain because it was meant as a way to easily transport flour. Instead of using a cup of flour for making biscuits you would pull out a block of hardtack, soak it, add a leavener and make biscuits. You could use it to thicken stews and soups and you cout use it with that fresh blood to make a super hearty supper. Also, when it comes to blood think mor on the micros side rather than macros. Because while fresh blood has glucose and amino acids in it the real benefit is the iron, sodium, potassium, and other micronutrients and electrolytes.

@Vikingjew

2 күн бұрын

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@buffdudes

Күн бұрын

@@backwoodsbrooksknives4625 I appreciate the reply and the education! That's good to know regarding Hardtack. That makes total sense. Guys like us back in the day would've probably been toothless without guys like you, because we'd just continue to chomp into it not knowing any better. 😄

Should try Spartan black stew.

Love you guys, so fun to watch you, I would suggest you to bring more foods to try because it is so fun!

about the blood, i just think they tended to use every single edible/drinkable part of the animal. They didnt have unlimited food back then

@jakehanson216

2 күн бұрын

I heard before protein shakes were around some bodybuilders would get blood from the butcher shop to drink

In the north of Portugal there is a typical dish that is chicken cooked with rice and chicken blood, called "Cabidela"

You should check out Bill Schindler. He's an anthropologist specializing in how prehistoric people obtained and prepared their food. He's also a chef who owns a restaurant called Stone Age Kitchen. He has a book out called Eat Like a Human, which is all about how we can duplicate ancient food prep methods in the modern day.

One of my favorite video of the channel. Awesome work

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

the hard tack should have been cooked in water, add salt, pepper und some lard/bacon and an onion and you have brilliant soup. hard tack was the storage and transport form for carbs - not the supposed form for consumation. 🤷‍♂

I can recomend the swedish ”black soup”, made with goose blood

I haven't seen your videos in a while, this is a nice laid back one. I like it.

Another awesome episode from you guys! Would love to see more history episodes from you guys. You make it fun!

General Tso of Ming Dynasty fav meal was some kind of fried battered chicken pieces with a sweet and sour sauce.

Melas zomos or Melanas zomos, was not just blood with vinegar. To make it, you must fry pieces of the meat in its fat and then add some water in it. Then you add a little barley flour to start making it a bit thick, but not too thick, you want it to be watery like soup. Then you start adding the blood, which you have mixed beforehand with vinegar to prevent coagulation. Add salt to taste and some water if it has become too thick. Then it is ready to serve it.

During 18th century there was explorers and people that traded with the native americans. Those guys needed food like pemmican since they easily burnt 5000 calories a day rowing a boat on a river.

Shout out to the polish "blood sausage" known as Kaszanka or Krupniok!

This was such a cool topic!

Should've tried dipping the hardtack into a bowl of rum. Also break it into smaller pieces with your hands before eating.

Where did you guys GET all this stuff! Love the topic. This video needs more views

The more common use for hard tack is to grind it up and put it in stew as a thickener. Making hard tack lets it stay preserved for a long time. And when soaking it in coffee or rum, you actually have to let it soak for long enough to make it soft which is more than a few seconds haha.

Thank you for inspiring me to better my life physically and mentally.

I always thought that ancient people re-hydrated those kind of foods before they ate it. Be it with rum or boiled milk or whatever they had within reach.

Spartans did not drink blood. They *boiled* blood, and made black blood pudding, called Mélas zōmós, or "black soup". Pemmican is sooo addicting. They're expensive, but I recommend The Carnivore Bar, so good.

This is interesting, I didn´t know that in the US it´s not common to eat blood. In many parts of Europe, including the Balkans where I´m from, food with blood is very common. Blood sausage, baked blood... all great stuff. If I remember correctly, the Spartan blood broth was famous because it tasted bad and yet they ate it all the time.

Y'all were enjoying the pemmican! I am looking more into this. Beef fat with dried beef pieces in bar form? Yes please!

@BoxStudioExecutive

2 күн бұрын

The channel Townsend did a video where he makes pemmican and cooks with it

Great episode! Here in sweden you can buy blood in the supermarket. Atleast here on the countryside. I use to buy that when I make blood sausage/blood pudding/blood bread. Delicious!

Not going to lie (being a huge Halo fan) When I heard Spartan food my mind immediately went to Master Chief eating a sandwich or something. Also Love your guys channel, have been watching for years. You bring Great Content and I am so happy I found this gem in the rubbish bin of KZread Fitness.

I'm surprised there wasn't the gladiator bean and veggie soup!

blood is good food. bloodsausages and bloodpancakes are one of my favourite foods. you might have better luck to find blood at supermarket, at frozen foods section. :)

Pig's Blood are still consumes to this day, from different countries, with different cuisines.

You guys should taste test different kinds of insects. I’ve heard they are high in protein.

in scotland we eat blackpudding, basically on a daily basis for some people, it's made if dried pigs blood, granted its not liquid blood! however it's probably the whole eating nose to tail. they don't waste food as they probably did not know when they're next meal was going to be! so you would eat to survive.

In Canada we fought a 9 year war known as the Pemmican war over pemmican that's how important it was to the fur trade and the conquest of the north.

hardtack+pemmican, crushed together, in a bowl, just add hot liquid (wine, beer) and let soften. nom nom away.

Spartans, and other warrios in ancient armies too, are most likely to be more "athletic" than "muscular". ofc they had a lot of muscles, let alone because testosterone was way higher in ancient times, but because they had mostly not enough food for making so much gains, they also had to be quick, agile and need a lot of stamina. so most likely, they were no massive beasts as depicted in the 300 movie.

@the1611sword

2 күн бұрын

Sacred Band of Thebes, a unit said to have been formed of same-sex couples, the Spartan tradition of military heroism has also been explained in light of strong emotional bonds resulting from homosexual relationships.

I’m sure after victory in battle warriors have banquets and sure they had roast meats yummy.

I heard that Mongolians did put a piece of meat between their horse and saddle and the heat from a horse and repeated pressing did a meat soft to eat. The thing about pig blood is probably a culture difference because east europeans are doing all sorts of products with it. Soup, sausages etc.

I don't see any swedish surströmming there, used by nordic sailors from around the 16th century. Hopefully you can enjoy it in a future episode, but I'd research it and eat it according to modern traditions and not the 'wrong' way most videos depict it. It needs to be served with the proper side dishes as well as opened up in the right way.

@sarahinsf

2 күн бұрын

@turbomanmechachrist -- I'm reading about Surströmming on Wikipedia: "During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even stronger than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean hongeohoe, the Japanese kusaya or the Icelandic hákarl." ...I bet that's a smell that would curl your nose hairs, haha! Thanks for the education!

Pig blood. Go anywhere outside USA and it’s easily available

@STEVEIAM1

2 күн бұрын

Yeah I was surprised do they just throw it away?

@chrism45

2 күн бұрын

​@@STEVEIAM1no part of an animal is wasted in modern slaughterhouses. Everything is useful somehow

@michaelkrull3331

Күн бұрын

Yeah, I find it interesting how we have all these food restrictions yet we're the sickest people in the world.

Should work with Tasting History or Townsend on this.

You should try English black pudding, its boiled pigs blood and lard it looks like a thick sausage you can eat it raw or cook it usually with breakfast.

Very entertaining episode, good job Dudes! 👏 I was hoping to see a can of fermented baltic herring 🇸🇪 Its from the 15-16th century, so I dont know if it qualifies? 😅

Here in Norway people eat blood poudding blood pancakes. Blood sausage and so on. Comes from the natives and the viking age.

Soak hard tack in melas zomos, top with aaruul and pemmican. It would be one of the flavors of all time

very interesting video! Good!

You forgot one crucial warrior food staple: the entrails of your enemies. But you can always make a Part 2.

My family is from Durango Mexico and they cook pigs blood to this day. I’ve never tried it myself but apparently it tastes good. I could never

Blood is also seen as a sign of lifeforce. It is life giving. And in most cultures it is seen as exactly that taking the lifeforce of an animal and building yourself in that way.

Hard tack and Pemican goes together.. That and dried beans won west..

that hard tack can also be used to fix a hole on the wall ..

Pemmican looks like bird suet and even with Delta Dental I would leave the Hard Tack alone, the rest of that shit is just a hell no for me 😆 Thanks for taking another one for the team fellas lol!

@hudsonpro

3 күн бұрын

Haha no problem 💪😄

You missed the pickled, smoked, and dried foods.

Try making bloodpancakes with lingonberry and rye hardtack. It's very good. We had it at least once every two months in school.

Stock fish is considered a delicious but expensive treat in iceland to this day

most cities didnt have constant clean water supply back then. it made sense to drink blood.

Excellent video, lads. Buff Dad gnawing on a dragon bone?

In Finland, we have blood sausage, blood pancakes, and blood dumplings (for lack of a better name). Usually, we eat these blood dishes with lingonberry (a very tarty Nordic berry) jam to balance the blood flavor. I would love to try all of these, except the Viking dry ass fish, hate that sht :D

Pemican really is amazing stuff.

As a swede I can confirm that we use stock fish as our pre-workout

Great ep guys. Would love if you went deeper into the different cultures, What else did Vikings eat? I know that Mongolians drank their own horses blood

Also bacalao is very old. Been eating for millennia or more.

Where did you guys go to buy all this stuff? Pigs blood is actually pretty common in a lot of European and Latin cuisine, blood sausage is very popular.

As a Swedish guy who genuinely cannot stand fish whatsoever, I can confirm; feeding me that dried stock fish (before or after midnight) would for sure set me into Viking berserker mode 😂

Cool idea for the video

Here in Hungary we cook the blood with onion, that's a common meal during cutting up a pig at a house. Not so common in the recent decades though. People ate every bit of the animal during hard times. Pork became important in the centuries of ottoman invasion, cause muslims don't eat pork, so they didn't steal it from the hungarians.

I’m pretty sure salami, prosciutto eaten by warriors. They last long time so good for siege defense.

Just biting off a piece of hard tack and mentioning how hard it, is like dryscooping protein powder and commenting on how dry it is.

That was genius! Next you could try eating like gladiators, the world first professional bodybuilders! As an Historian I'm sure it could be fun...for us. ;)

0:40 Lembas! 🫶

lol and people on a carnivore diet think they are eating what their ¨ancestors¨ ate. Even this here is still a long shot from what they actually ate. The food 3,000 years ago is long gone. Land, climate and everything has changed. This is still a good video.

Blood pudding is still a thing

A lot of these foods you're showcasing are re-hydrated and not eaten just plain.

Just wrapped up my first BuffDudes workout plan. Stay Buff!

@buffdudes

3 күн бұрын

Hell yeah Eric congrats!

@AndrewDembouski

2 күн бұрын

Which one?

You guys should have made the gladiator grain bowl

The Spartans had a notorious fear factor. They lived in a society where the helots/slaves did all the drudge work. Many of these scary practices were to scare them into not having uprisings.