"Recipe" comes from the Latin word for "Take". In medieval recipes, the instructions would often start with "Take three eggs" or something similar, and writing it as Recipe was a good way of showing that you were starting what we now call a Recipe. The abbreviation (they loved abbreviations, to save space) was Rx, which is why that's used for prescription these days. "Take once per day".

@markabrice

2 жыл бұрын

Nice--thanks for that!

@catalinamarquez6937

3 ай бұрын

One more have to learn know mi amor is no Latin people😅😅😅

@ronswanson4422

3 күн бұрын

​@@catalinamarquez6937what?

I fuckin love pickles

@outtatouch6592

Жыл бұрын

same

@Colodrake13

11 ай бұрын

🥒🥒💚💚

@Mario.H.G

4 ай бұрын

Mmm 🤤

There's always those few times when you aren't paying attention at the store and when you get home realize you bought bread and butter pickles instead of dill. I'll eat them, but I don't really care for them. I love these food episodes.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And sorry about your bread & butter misfortune, happens to the best of us...

@GweenPenguin

3 жыл бұрын

Like getting a can of creamed corn when you were 100% SURE you grabbed whole kernel.

@nastybedazzler

3 жыл бұрын

@@GweenPenguin LOL that's happened to me too haha. Corn is basically my favorite vegetable, every time I go shopping I buy tons of cans of it so this obviously happens too. Creamed corn actually totally sucks, whereas Bread and Butter pickles I can at least eat.

@TiagoSeiler

3 жыл бұрын

Weirdo

I’ve been salivating this entire video 😩 I want an entire jar of pickles now.

Making refrigerator pickles is so easy everyone should do it.

I was curious to hear about the Indian pickles (lemon, lime, mango, etc.). Maybe next time.

@poetics231

3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for that too!

@rustomkanishka

2 жыл бұрын

Pickles are really necessary for survival in certain places here. Nothing grows in the hot Indian summer, and you can get spices really easily so pickles are easy to make. Also, you get many meat and fish based pickles in traditional food too, but unfortunately they're not well known across the world.

@KA-vs7nl

Жыл бұрын

@@rustomkanishka go back

"Vinegar, at its most basic" nice

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647

3 жыл бұрын

They say I'm full of it when I try to be nice, :D

Yay! Thank you for including info about kimchi. Love how you talked about the kimchi fridge as well b/c so many Korean families own one

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Nice! Korean food is SO GOOD. Come to think of it, we probably should do an episode on....I don't even know where to begin? BBQ? Bibimbap? Galbi-jjim?

I remember from my childhood - a pickle shop. Just a little place, under an elevated section of the subway. Barrels and barrels of pickles. Very sour dill pickles made from cucumbers, pickled veggies of all kinds. My favorite among the non-cukes was pickled green tomatoes. Delicious, but not good for a walking around snack.

@moniboo523

3 жыл бұрын

Just curious are you from New York? I'm from the south remember barrels of pickles in the mom/pop shops.

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@bonarsophie3966

3 жыл бұрын

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@randolph4097

3 жыл бұрын

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@ursala9121

3 жыл бұрын

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@petermichael4743

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Stocks are good but they are a lot of businesses more convenient than stocks

@lambflynn8704

3 жыл бұрын

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8:13 Yes! Anything other than a sour pickle is nasty and against all decency. A few years back, while grocery shopping with my neighbor, I held up a small cucumber, "Look a baby pickle." My neighbor deadpans "Haha, pickles grow on trees." I laugh thinking he is kidding to quickly realize this 40 year old man really thinks there are pickle trees. I had to stop my own incredulity and grant the man a bit of pickling knowledge.

“Some people, who are weirdos, prefer bread and butter pickles.” (Or, the loathsome anti-pickle, as I tend to call them.) Thank you, Justin, you get a thumbs-up just for that!

@heliveruscalion9124

2 жыл бұрын

i've never had a bread and butter pickle, so i've always assumed they were pickles designed to taste like bread and butter

@SenoraCardgage

2 жыл бұрын

@@heliveruscalion9124 LOL, that would be less disgusting!

In the UK they call pickles "gherkins" and they make an amazing chutney called "piccalilli" which is pickled vegetables in mustard and it is the best thing to eat with cheddar cheese on top of buttered toast

@MrChidorinagashi10

Жыл бұрын

Gerkin is a type of pickle

While we're talking about cabbage, could you consider an episode on brassicas?

@8:14 FACTS!!!!

Cooking/eating jargon: Ñoqui (gnocchi). Eating this pasta on the 29th of each month is an Argentine tradition. Place a dollar under your plate for good luck. Also, the word Ñoqui in lunfardo is used to describe somebody who just shows up to collect a check without actually working.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Haha wait, why is someone who shows up to collect a check without working a ñoqui? Just a coincidence, or is there an explanation involving the person being a lazy piece of pasta?

@charleschaplin8624

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss We traditionaly only eat ñoquis once a month on the 29 and those employes come only once a month on pay day.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

@@charleschaplin8624 Ha! Love it! Thanks for the info.

@borismaiorov3358

2 жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss other Argentinian food-related curiosity is the Milanesa Napolitana (it's a pizza schnitzel e.g. breaded piece of beef (or chiquen) with tomato sauce (ham) and cheese. Many people believe is Neapolitan style Milanesa, but apparently there was a way named Napoli

The side story of this starts in the hood: And they’re called Kool Aid pickles

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

I did not know about Kool Aid pickles and I think I need to try one?

@claysoggyfries

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss Sounds nasty and intriguing at the same time. I’d try one just to try it. Look them up on Google

@louiswilkins9624

2 жыл бұрын

They are not bad at all

Kosher salt is called that because it is the type of salt used to make meat kosher by helping remove blood from it.

Great information. Thank you.

How did I miss this for almost a week? Bad KZread!

Side note to the Vlasic stork: his voice was a Groucho Marx sound a like. Also the pickles were in the fridge section instead of the pickle aisle; that preserved the snappy crunch.

The quote from James Lind at the 5:10 mark can be found in "Linds Treatise Of Scurvy" reprinted edition 1953 by the Edinburgh University Press. On page 160, in the footnotes (spanning to the next page). It is available on Archive.org (as page 174 due to the different numbering scheme)

I have always maintained that there is a sweet pickle snobbery out there. Pickles on your burger? No sweat, have all the dills you want. Sweet pickles on your burger? Fuggidaboutit. Outside of sweet relish dill reigns supreme. Those of us who love sweet pickles need to rise up and join together for pickle parity.

@waynemarvin5661

3 жыл бұрын

Why is this an either/or situation? Can't one enjoy both?

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah even if our tastes diverge, I can get behind anyone willing to rise up for pickle parity.

Thanks sir!

I'm dying on top of the hill that is "bread and butter pickles"

That Cronenberg bit got me, he was a regular at a deli I worked at, he did indeed enjoy pickles.

@MentalFloss

Жыл бұрын

Hahahha I could not love this comment any more, even it were [insert Cronenberg reference that I don't feel comfortable making on a professional account].

The green hoodie. Perfect! 😅🥒

I just got a big jar of Russian pickles... you know I had to run in the kitchen to get a couple in the middle of the video

this is random but I've been watching the food that built America and modern marvels on history channel Canada so I started looking up the history of other foods, great video

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We've got about a dozen episodes out there so far, if you care to see more: kzread.info/head/PLYT7t0pcxEINn7R0XjGy3aj4cuLj8bn9U

Pickled carrots are one of my favourites. With onion and peppercorn, they make a great addition to burritos, and my local taco bar has them. Also, good in sushi just like pickled ginger. I love pickles in sushi, but I'm not sure what yellow pickles are that some places offer.

Thank you for not dissing the 1970s! I pickled veggies a few times. Much easier than I thought

My grandmother grew up during The Depression, she pickled everything from fish, to fruits, basically anything she could. She used to give us Shaved ice with fruit juice as a summertime treat.

My mom used to make pickled dill carrots when I was a kid, they were delicious. Also my mom craved sweet pickles and peanut butter when she was pregnant with my brother.

@TheOfficialTarynTots

3 жыл бұрын

Pickled dill carrots? That sounds interesting. I've never heard of them before. If I saw them by the pickles at the store I would try them.

Very well done video.

I love Bread & Butter pickles as well as sweet gherkins.

Chase a shot of whiskey or tequila with a shot of pickle juice.... Amazing.

💚*LOVE ALL PICKLES* sweet, crunchy gherkins, sour-garlicky dill, spicy 'sweet-hots' There's something for everyone. [I do take exception to the goopy/sweet mushy relish. That's a NO.]

@MonkeyBizness420

Жыл бұрын

Relish only with hot dogs

I am one of those weirdos. Sweet and Tangy pickles (Bread and Butter) are wonderful. I still need my dills, though.

@TheOfficialTarynTots

3 жыл бұрын

My Daddy is one of the weirdos too.

@DFaustJr

3 жыл бұрын

No offense, but you're a bad person. 🍞+🧈 (🥒) = 🗑

I've started quick-pickling onions and they're amazing with pretty much everything!! they also turn a really cool pink color, which is fun!

@MentalFloss

Жыл бұрын

Yes! So good in a taco/sandwich/whatever.

Very informative 🥰

“Pickle dealer”

You should make a video about different types of fermentation for all those foods.... if any different, tho.

Compliments to the chef

Mmm ogóreczki takie pyszne omnomnom

Ohh, is that why Justin was wearing a green hoodie the entire video! He's a pickle~!

This is what I need

I love pickles. Even bread and butter. Gimme the mustard seeds too.

So you're saying John Harvey Kellogg didn't want us to tickle the pickle?

@Atzy

2 жыл бұрын

Oh he definitely didn't! Complicated and troubled man, Kellogg

I actually was lucky enough to try pickled herring. I am a pretty curious guy so I got some to try and truth be told it has to be one of my favorite oddity type foods to get when I travel north (in the US) to the folks that make it at their restaurants.

Justin, you've become one of my favourite KZread presenters. Your matter-of-fact delivery, coupled with your subtle humour, is a comfortable mixture that makes a refreshing change to the in-your-face style of too many others

Pickles and kimchi are the greatest

Bread and butter pickles are delicious, and you cannot change my mind.

Do an episode on the history of sweet potatoes and yams please!!

Love the sweatshirt color....matches the title of the video!

@starmc26

3 жыл бұрын

Not even close.

I am from Ukraine: we always pickle cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrot, other vegetables using salt, onions, garlic and some leaves like blackcurrant leaves or vine. We preserve it in cold places until spring.

Is there a video on freeze-dried products / and what is the difference between freeze-dried and dehydrated? And how to make your own items. I was taught in the 70s and in the south and I was labeled "special ed"

Oh man the other day I accidentally bought bread and butter pickles; I'd never had them before but wow they are absolutely disgusting haha. Sugar and pickles for me just don't combine.

I've been able to get Kosher pickles that are made in saltwater brine. The company that makes them is Strubs. They also make pickled eggs. I don't know if their pickles are truly Kosher, but they are labelled as Full Sour Kosher Dill Pickles.

I once had a Heinz pickle pin as a child growing up in Western PA. Picklefest is held in Pittsburgh yearly because of the Heinz legacy. I like Heinz ketchup better than the pickles. why are all the new crispy chicken fast food sandwiches full of pickles? Is that a regional thing?

włoszczyzna means Italian stuff in polish. It’s their equivalent to the French Mire Poix.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, that's a great one!

Maybe the term “salad”. It is from the word “salt”, and has its origins in “salted greens”...so how did mid-20th century America justify calling fruit in whipped cream and jello molds “salads”???? 😆 I’m from the Midwest, so this might be a regional thing too.

A history of hot sauce/peppers would be fun.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely! Adding that to the list ASAP, thanks for the suggestion!

@UstashaMe84

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea dude!

Food lore: 'Shit on a Shingle' my grandma used to make it, its really old. Apparently from the first world war. Could be some very interesting history in this one, and a silly name to boot.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah I'm not sure if that's a perfect fit for the way we're approaching this particular vid (focusing more on cooking terms than dishes), but that's a great one! Makes me think there could be a whole video about the history of food in the military...

Love me some pickles..

💚💚💚

I learned how to pickle figs last summer. It’s a family tradition that goes back to my great grandmother. Try them with pot roast!

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Whoa! Do you know what culture that tradition comes out of? I love figs, but have never seen them pickled, or used with a roast.

@jillchristensen5093

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss She was a Danish immigrant who settled in California at the turn of the century. My best guess is she learned to make them here in CA, because I can't picture her getting figs in Denmark. They're pickled in a sugar and water solution.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

@@jillchristensen5093 Ha interesting, although I guess it makes sense: You get a lot of figs all at once and you can't eat them before they go bad? Pickle 'em!

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

@@jillchristensen5093 Sugar and water? I don't think pickle is the right word then, maybe you're thinking of jam.

I love dill pickles. Especially if they e the big deli garlicky kind. I don't like sweet pickles. The little ones dill of course are great too. I also like sauerkraut, Kimchi, red cabbage called rot kohl.

My FIL, who was born in Poland, loved picked herring in sour cream 🤢 I say if you're eating pickled herring on New Year's day, your year can't go anywhere BUT up

@6:33: In the 19th century, the French introduced dill to Vietnam as part of French Indochina, telling them that it was a condiment for seafood; and to this day, the locals still think dill only goes with seafood.

Veggies in bacteria pee are actually delicious

me, a Dane at 7:53 "THAT LOOKS LIKE Rugbrød!"

I ate an entire 16 ounce jar of pickles before this video was even over.

See also tsukemono

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Would've been great to touch on those!

Well done young Jedi

Honey its time for your 4 o'clock pickle 😆

Always found it strange how americans have named a Pickled Cucumber a "Pickle" as the word Pickle is a process such as "To pickle an onion", that too would technically be a pickle the dutch made their own word which evolved into the english gherkin, which is a standalone word which means small pickled cucumber

Never heard of this tradition of eating pickled herring on new year's in Poland (I'm Polish btw), any idea where that came from? I'd love to learn more about that

@GregKrynen

3 жыл бұрын

Pickled herring wrapped around a dill pickle (roll mop herring) is a nice treat.

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

Probably referring to herring under a fur coat, very popular dish in the former Soviet countries and I assume this extended to Poland

"Snake melons" Makes sense why cats are afraid of cucumbers.....

I make a pineapple and onion relish. Odd combo, but delicious.

As soon as I saw this video on my notifications I thought of the Seth Rogan movie An American Pickle. Also, I'm a dill person. I liked the sweet ones as a kid but my tastes have changed over the years. I also keep a jar in the fridge for when I look in the fridge and cant decide what I want to eat. Btw, when I was pregnant I never once craved pickles.

@Obiwancolenobi

3 жыл бұрын

That movie was pretty terrible, lol. It's based off of a New York Time article/story, iirc.

@TheOfficialTarynTots

3 жыл бұрын

@@Obiwancolenobi I never heard about that story. I will have to look it up.

@Obiwancolenobi

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOfficialTarynTots Yeah, it's a different kind of humor? Little bit of New York pretentiousness to it but still amusing!

Was waiting for the inclusion of pickled pigs feet.

How about pickled green bananas and chicken gizzards (guineítos en escabeche con mollejas) or pickled cassava root (yuca en escabeche)?🇵🇷

Tsuekemono!

Love all types of cucumber pickles, and other pickled veggies. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to enjoy hot spiced ones. ☹ Oh, and I used to drink the liquid in the jars once the pickles were gone. My mother objected as the sodium was much too high. I'd still do it today, but she had a point. 🤔

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

We could've done a whole section on pickle juice drinkers! I've heard it as a hangover cure, a weight-loss strategy, and as just a tasty (?) snack.

@DJK3115

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss I'd agree with tasty. 😋

@Laurpud

3 жыл бұрын

I don't drink the juice (anymore) but I will occasionally drop a hard boiled egg in for a day or two, for cheater pickled eggs

You forgot The most important thing after pickles that we eat in America is the "Jalapeños" which are pickles too and used for garnish is alot of our food when spicy sauce is not available.

“Bread and butter pickles. The pickle for the wanton sociopath!”

Weeell, in my 60 years of enjoying Bread and Butter Pickles I'd always assumed, and others of my acquaintance have agreed, that the pickles are so called because a good Bread and Butter Pickle has a taste reminiscent to a Bread and Butter Sandwich. Call me crazy but don't call my mind changed.

Interesting to learn some new things about the American history of pickles. I'd still chose the original stuff from the Balkan and Middle East region of that joke every day though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torshi Plenty of great pickles throughout Asia too. I had a good chuckle when I heard "and took the world by storm". Maybe, if the world consisted of only America. Definitely liked the video though.

@UstashaMe84

2 жыл бұрын

He literally mentioned places outside of America. The Middle East being one of them.

I don't care what people think of my pickle cravings I eat pickles all the time at least a couple jars a week any flavor is good with me gherkin bread and butter hot sweet and yes I drink the juice too

im like 8 weeks pregant and im on my second jar of dill pickles 🤣🤣

I used to go to a now-defunct salad bar and I'd always have a combination of dill chips and bread-and-butter chips in my salad. Can't beat that combination, far as I'm concerned.

Thank you for pointing out how bad/weird Bread and Butter pickles are, because they’re an absolute crime against flavor. Blech.

I like pickles, hey hey hey hey.

While I've never tried pickles and butter, I do know I like cheese and pickles, and considering the similarity between cheese and butter, pickles and butter may not actually be that bad...

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it makes sense. Salt, fat, acid...just one away from Samin Nosrat's holy quartet!

@elmo2you

3 жыл бұрын

I can't say I've seen pickles and (typical US/EU) butter together myself .. But around here it's very common to mix pickled cucumbers with either mayonnaise and dill, as so called Tartar sauce, with thick yogurt or mileram (pasteurized sour cream, fermented by classic butter culture) as Tzatziki sauce, or indeed even with kaymak. The latter is practically butter. So I guess the combo might not be that unusual, just maybe not with what most people in the West associate with butter. #jm2c

I'd much rather have a stork being me pickles instead of a baby.

Bread and butter pickles are awesome, you’re just wrong.

@Zerkbern

3 жыл бұрын

They are horrid and an abomination.

Ke bolo

1:30 Cucumbers aren't vegetables, they are fruit.

@MentalFloss

3 жыл бұрын

Bah quite right, our bad. I think some argue that there is a distinction between "botanical" definitions and "culinary" definitions for fruits/vegetables, but if we wanted to make use of that distinction we should have explained as much. We'll be more aware for future vids!

If your a special kinda lowlife like myself, you still go to bars with eggs in a jar right next to the swine hoofs in a jar....yum yum..

Are “bread and butter pickles” the same as sweet pickles? Because if so, I agree; they’re the worst. Especially when you accidentally bite into a sweet pickle that you thought was a dill. :(

@UstashaMe84

2 жыл бұрын

There’s literally nothing worse than thinking you grabbed a Dill only to have that sweet flavour hit your tongue!