As a Frenchman, I am legally and morally compelled to watch this.

@thomas_dries

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@drfye

4 ай бұрын

🤔 thought that was the Germans?

@TheMasonK

4 ай бұрын

As an American I am morally compelled to say to you a Frenchman “thank you” and “your welcome”.

@tiberiusbrain

4 ай бұрын

Honhonhon, i shall use pictures of baguettes on every video thumbnail i might create then! If i ever produce any videos.

@HistoryNerd808

4 ай бұрын

​@@drfye Nope, it's the French we tease for their love of baguettes.

MatPat on here? That's crazy. He's retiring soon sadly but all his channels will carry on with new hosts.

@mastershooter64

4 ай бұрын

yea I spent my teen years watching him, basically one of the youtuber's I grew up watching, it's crazy how a lot of them are moving on

As the great Scottish comedian Billy Connolly said “who discovered that we could get milk from cows and what did he think he was doing at the time?” 😂😂😂

@Alliebutt

4 ай бұрын

Feel like that one is fairly easy. They could see the calfs getting the milk, and figured if it was good enough for them, it was probably good enough for us too. The joke is funny, I'll give him that, but the answer is truly fairly simple.

@hannibalburgers477

4 ай бұрын

Babies need milk "Milk is food" "I need food but i dont want to kll this poor cow" "I drink milk"

@hannibalburgers477

4 ай бұрын

The real question is which one happened first, the mass domestication of livestock for aiming only for consumption Capturing wild animals and harvesting the milk before consumption

@BohemianRaichu

4 ай бұрын

honey is the one I'm puzzled by.

@LeSethX

4 ай бұрын

or how Rome was famous for their logistics, and a niche area in particular, able to get wheels of cheese to the soldiers

It was kinda cute to see VTH react to food theorists without knowing the origins of the channel from the goat Matpat

@kfiraltberger552

4 ай бұрын

@@mihaimercenarul7467 Didn't ask

@lecharlie4847

4 ай бұрын

@@mihaimercenarul7467 Why are you unnecessarily hostile?

@Micharz138

4 ай бұрын

​@@mihaimercenarul7467 cringe 🤓

Never thought I would see VTH reacting to MatPat 😭

@dgriffinctc3834

3 ай бұрын

I never thought someone could make matpat bearable.

@youraverageportuguese588

2 ай бұрын

Next one chris about to react to the whole lore of fnaf lmao

The narrator is called Matpat. He runs many channels and is considered one of the classic youtubers. He has decided to retire March 1st after over a decade of making videos. You mightve heard of his main channel Game Theory. He was my childhood, he was one of the first analysts/intellectual youtubers on the platform- prior to his arrival most youtube content was pretty bare bones education wise- and his started that way too. However Matpat grew significantly in a short period of time and became one of the most popular youtubers in America. Thanks for reacting to this. He will be missed.

@mayalackman7581

4 ай бұрын

March 9th, not March 1st

@josh6706

3 ай бұрын

Weird. I've been on KZread a long time and I think maybe I've seen only one or two of his videos before

Fun fact, the Roman goddess Ceres is where we get the term “cereal” from

chris is making puns without even trying "truly inGRAINED"

They have one video on Style Theory called “The Great Pocket Conspiracy.” It traces the history of fashion back in time to discover why women don’t have pockets. Oddly enough, it’s why I started researching the French Revolution.

Matpat actually has quite a few videos relating to history, mostly on Food Theory, but he has other channels like Game Theory, Film Theory, and Style Theory, and they are really entertaining videos too. Even of you dont react to them due to not following the theme of the channel, I still heavily recommended him for casual viewing. For specific recommendations, he has a video about the history of Coffee, and an interesting video about carrots and the food pyramid that has a lot to do with history.

Watched this one when Mr. Terry covered it and so glad you guys tackled this one. This is a topic near and dear to my heart because as a history grad student the role of food scarcity in history is my personal area of focus. Currently working on my final thesis on the 1601-1603 famine in Russia and its role in the evolution of serfdom and the Time of Troubles. Matpat may go a little overboard at times with his praise of bread, but he’s not wrong about just how important it (and other staples) have been significant driving factors in history.

Potatoes are probably the most historically important food after bread. They would need a long series to explain their interesting and complex history

@killgoretrout9000

4 ай бұрын

The potato essentially shifted the power in Europe from the Mediterranean towards the north as it allowed places like England, Germany and Russia to increase their populations so that they matched those of Italy and Spain. There is also how the introduction of tea and coffee lead to the Age of Enlightenment because people in cities could get their safe drinking water from them rather than beer or wine which meant city folk were no longer slightly drunk all day.

@tolkiyay3085

4 ай бұрын

Somebody forgetting about rice

@killgoretrout9000

4 ай бұрын

@@tolkiyay3085 Not really, rice farming was developed in China about 10,000 years ago then spread throughout Asia. The potato was an entirely new crop to the Eurasian land mass.

@jasp3rjeep13

4 ай бұрын

Corn and rice after that

As a German, i can say, Bread is life, Bread is love. Cant imagine germany without bread.

18:00 When most Latin American countries started to become independent, Spain started the three B's policy (Baile, Botella y Baraja) on the remaining colonies, which we can translate to the 3 D's (Dancing, Drinking, and a Deck of Cards), if you keep the population drunk and entertained, they won't think of revolting against you.

Tasting History is another channel that deals with how food in general has put it's mark in history.

@MarthaDwyer

4 ай бұрын

Love Max Miller. He really thoroughly researches the history of the recipes he makes. He even made garum. . A sauce made of rotted fish in his garden.

@coxmosia1

4 ай бұрын

​@@MarthaDwyer Yeah, I agree. I watched that episode. Interesting.

On the topic of your fudge: Have you seen the steps it takes to make chocolate? You gotta grow the fruit, you gotta harvest the beans, then you gotta let the beans ferment, then you have to roast the beans, and then you gotta deshell them, and then you have to grind them up and add them to some water or some milk and add sugar (though the earliest forms of chocolate didn't use milk or sugar). But it's a heck of a lotta steps that someone had to have figured out to produce edible chocolate. Crazy stuff.

the absolute best course (surprisingly) i took for my bachelor's in history was American economic history. it was an entirely new perspective to me and the approach clarifies our history better than traditional approaches i.e. military and political

The Incas actually *did* go to the effort of freeze drying potatoes to make long-lasting food preserves. Their storehouses were so long lasting they'd actually be used as emergency food by the conquistadors after some initial bad harvests.

Matpat is a KZread gem. Game Theory, Food Theory, Film Theory...oh man, there's so much out there for you to react to!

@mayalackman7581

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget style theory!

Love your videos, gives me an excuse to rewatch some of the good vids here on KZread, and your commentary is always insightful and adding more to the videos you "react" to, more like elaborate 😂 Thank you from Denmark!

Yep, I’m with ya Chris. Novel approach in this video to a fundamental pillar of civilization. He did a brilliant job and made it whimsical and thoughtful.

MatPat is one of the pioneers of the platform. While only a small percentage of his videos are related to history, those that are tend to be just fantastic. I recommend the one about how coffee fuelled the Enlightenment. And while we're on the subject of grain, if you get back into our friends at EH, some of their stuff that's my absolute favourite are the history of beer and the story of the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Thanks for all you do and your killer insight Chris! Another awesome video and I'm stoked to check out the new channel and binge all those videos with my day off work!

loved hearing your take on this. It’s so interesting to look at history we’re already familiar with through such a different lens.

You are the one who inspired me to look at what leads to Important events, and when I first watched Mat go nuts on bread history, everything clicked for me to more modern events. Rome crafting Europe, Napoleon visiting Egypt, and everything that happens due to that. So I want to thank you and everyone else in the historic community for helping me see history from a more wider lens, and not binoculars. :)

if you didn't know this is the theorist channel he also has style theory, film theory, and most popular Game Theory! Chris, you'd probably enjoy some game theories as well!

Matpat's food theory on "coffee, science's most important discovery" is right up your historical alley.

Never in my life would I have thought that VTH would react to a MatPat theory, but this is incredible

"Europe loves bread a lot more than North America does" - that's because bread in the USA is absolutely terrible!! 🤣

There is a very well supported belief that beer was created before bread. Evidence for one predating the other has leapfrogged several times, but right now the earliest evidence supports beer came first.

Glad you reacted to a MatPat video before he retires

love you channel its great you reached 400k subs now it felt like yesterday you had 20k your growing very very fast

As a german i have to say it is true that you cant life without bread why else would we have over 3000 variantes of bread.

@kaziu312

4 ай бұрын

Three thousand variants! OMG!!! 🤤

Chris, this was by far, the most entertaining video I have seen in a long time. They just added a sub!

VTH and MatPat collab was the content I needed but didn’t deserve. Loved this.

French here I agree with the video, Bread is the most important and powerfull thing of the world

@AstroLonghorn

4 ай бұрын

It’s because of this mentality, you gave the world the croissant and we are forever in your debt for that

Matpat is the best! He doesn’t do much that would be react-worthy to you but his channels have been favorites of mine and millions of others for years! Your kids probably watch him lol

Two of my favorite KZreadrs in one go. Good video!

this was really good! thoroughly enjoyed it!

Regarding origins of foodstuffs, potatoes were originally poisonous, and apparently it is unknown how they were bred to not be so. Have to wonder how many people died before they got the right variety.

U mentioning that history of the entire world I guess is one of ur older vid’s makes me feel old cuz I still remember watching it when it first came out

@kfiraltberger552

4 ай бұрын

Same

I only skimmed the comments - but I was surprised that no one mentioned Mark Kurlansky's Cod - the first book I read about the impact on a food source for economic and country building. Kurlanksy also wrote Salt (the word salary stems from salt - as a method of payment to the Roman soldiers) and he also wrote a book about Oysters. All talking about how food, and it's necessity and availability has impacted the course of human history.

A interesting Theory that starts to get more and more representation among archeologist is the "beer before bread" theory which says that there is evidence that humans started making beer before they started bread so it's pretty likely that the reason humans started farming instead of hunting and gathering was to have always access to beer and bread was a later byproduct of that as every brewed will tell you. The bread you can make from the leftover beer mash after you drained it is delicious.

There are a couple of books called "Drink", one for the US and the other for the UK, where they explore history through the lens of alcohol. Another caled "Salt", which is obviously history through the lens of salt. Terrific stuff.

At 5:30, it reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin thinks about how wierd it is that someone looked at a cows udders and said "I think I will drink whatever comes out of there when I squeeze it." Hobbes wasn't amused.

Oh i remember when i used to watch MatPat's videos. For those who don't know, MatPat's main channel is game theory, and then he also added film theory. I didn't even know about his third channel on food. And apparently he has a fourth channel too

amazing seeing Matpat on this channel- not what I'd expect. would recommend his video Game Theory: What President Would Be The Best Gamer? it's a lot of fun and a historical look at all the presidents intelligence and how well they would do playing modern video games. great video and reaction as always, VTH :)

Watching this while the aroma of a sourdough loaf is baking in my oven. Bread is amazing. I love it all.

My two favorite KZreadrs in one video. VTH and MatPat. This video is so interesting!

I would also have to recommend ‘Food Theory: Science’s MOST IMPORTANT Discovery’ as a large portion of that video is focused on the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. Great work as usual, Chris!

I recommend watching the game theorists video on which US president would be the best gamer, really cool watch

@ethanshaffer7829

4 ай бұрын

Which the channel also is ran (at least until March😭) by matpat who hosted food theorists

The Salem Witch trials weren't actually in Salem, but in a different nearby town called Salem Village. Salem Village now goes by a different name.

Never expected VTH to react to a MatPat video 🤣Either way, both are great content creators!

A reaction to a matpat video? Now this is a pleasant surprise!

It's important to remember, lenses are great tools. But just like any tool, you need to know how to use them. I think historians have been really killing it with those tools recently. Misquito Empire did something similar.

Glad to know I share my love of The OG with the legend himself! Thanks for making history interesting 😊

Great video but I would add one thing - having a large supply of grain also meant you could make another of history's most importat resources - beer

I love seeing two of my favorite channels come together, even if they might not know much about each other. Lol

I kind of want your family's fudge recipe now. :) A cooking with VTH episode would be cool.

Glad to see you watching matpat. I’d be curious to see your reaction to his “for honor” video. Which is about who would win in a fight, a knight, a Viking or a samurai. It’s kinda silly but still a fun watch

I wonder if the pejorative term "on the dole" (referring to being on welfare in the US) actually has roots in the "grain dole" of Rome.

@musical_lolu4811

Ай бұрын

What do you think?😂

One of my professors was a Food Historian. Wrote a book on White Castle and was on the Food That Built America

35:38 Rice isn't made into buns or noodles (unless you're in the South Eastern Asia or Southern China). Flours were still mostly used for the buns, noodles, and wraps for dumpling. China still had the ability to grow wheat and had access to the wheats because of the silk road. That's why you see so many flour-based Chinese foods even to this day.

I would recommend Fire of learnings videos on the history of foods if these videos interest you. He details all sorts of fruits vegetables and others

I think the highest amount of history related videos are on his Game and Film Theorists channels. But Style Theorists also has one like 100 years of Halloween costumes

This is absolutely NOT the channel I expected to see featured here- but I am all here for it!

watching the end and how it asks if bread would still be relevant once we are far more advanced, I was watching Ready Player One last night and at the end, it makes sure to emphasize the fact people still exit the Oasis to eat and the creator at the end even makes a statement about how important reality is and how good food is which again helps proves no matter how advanced we get we have to eat! I love this theory!

Over in his other channel film theory his video about the movie titanic takes a turn towards alternate WW1 history but it takes awhile to get there.

Matpat and Chris, the crossover I never thought would happen

He made a video a few years ago about how coffee was a fundament for the inlightment and an escape from the dark ages. I'm sure you will enjoy it!

Food is so important. We obviously need food to live. This is why having the means to growing wheat was often seen as payment, an example being able to settle down after war, like with Roman veterans. Owning land and the means to continue your lineage. So much of history is a result of food shortages and such after all.

All together now: "Bringing in the sheaves, Bringing in the sheaves, We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves"

In the wilderness wondering no one knows what mana was but it make sense why many think it was a bread like substance.

Love your content

I wonder if those in the US, who really love bread, are more into making homemade bread. Store bought bread is okay, but nothing beats fresh, hot, homemade bread.

He did a video on a sister channel called the game theorists a while back about which president would be the best at playing video games, you might enjoy that one!

Woo! Three Kingdoms China mentioned! That and the Roman Republic are my wheelhouse.

Good video, thanks for the pb fudge recipe. I'll try it, so I hope the recipe was complete. The video point made about European appreciation for bread is a spiritual one. This is totally absent from USA culture. Hmmm

@VloggingThroughHistory

4 ай бұрын

Boil the milk/sugar for 2 minutes, then stir in 3/4 cup of peanut butter. That's the only part I didnt say

Can't also forget, "You cannot live on bread alone."

Thank you for the family fudge recipe!

18:34 you are being so polite I love it 😂

In Germany, it is taught at school that this "natural irrigation system" was THE factor for advanced civilisations. The examples are Egypt and Mesopotamia. Something like that it made it possible to reach a critical population density and that it provided the impetus for an efficient system of government because the land had to be "redistributed" after each flood.

19:00 It was also against the law to be unemployed in these countries. And that was another effective way they kept people in line: if you had a cushy job, you didn't want to lose it because you'd get reassigned to a terrible job you'd never be allowed to quit. Any system can be abused by the powerful.

In Biblical and Modern Hebrew as well as Yiddish, the word for war derives from the Biblical word for bread, which is telling of the typical reason for war, arable land.

‘Salt’ by Mark Kurlansky is a great history book.

The crossover we all needed

Food Theory has another video about coffee being a cause of The Enlightenment which would be history adjacent. Definitely check that one out!

Just as I was about to go looking what the heck was south america's equivalent to wheat before meeting with the Europeans he got there. Great video.

Imagine all the people who died cause they thought "hmm maybe I'll try this thing"

There’s a book very similar called, “History of the World Through 6 Glasses.” Fox also turned it into a miniseries.

Hi Chris, its an interesting video, however i just take it to task in one set of facts. The Egyptian annual flood does not irrigate the land, but what it is doing is bringing silt and nutrients down the river from the rich "volcanic" soils of Ethiopia and depositing that accross the Egyptian fields. It is this which alows the Egyptian farmers to create "2-3 harvests of grain per Year" because they dont have to fertilise the fields. The irrigation of the land is a different discussion, which the ancient Egyptian were also skilled at , digging channels and raising water from the river using a device called the Shadouf (think of it as a bucket on rope attached to an arm with a counterweight at the other end with a pivot in the middle of the arm attached to an another pole driven in the ground) raising water from the river, into higher storage cisterns and then via distribution channels to the fields.

Thats really interesting. I was just reading about all the drama of Ukrainian wheat flooding the European market. I've heard Ukraine called the bread basket of Europe because it has so much of arguably the best soil in the world so it's not surprising seeing how important it has been throughout history.

I remember MatPat on his Game Theorists channel had a pretty interesting video covering the US presidents and which one would hypothetically be the best gamer.

"Hugely 'ingrained' in the culture". Nicely done.

This video is awesome! But could you please elaborate further on the peanut butter fudge recipe?

Even is the US heavily subsidizes agriculture they still hypocritically try to stop other countries like Canada from doing it during free trade negotiations. Also the big Canadian supermarket chains were found guilty of price fixing on bread they must not have seen this video.

Surprisingly the first thing to happen to bread as soon as it got in Greece was NOT get fried 😂🤣

Cool video 👍

All I'm saying is that Germany has a lot of bread and it took the whole world to take them down TWICE

One of the most important jewish blessing occurs every week on the entrance of Shabbat. It is "(Blessed be You O Lord) who has brought forth bread out of the earth", followed by everyone eating some challah. Even most secular jews say these words