Check out the PBS Origins episode on Pirate Food kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJ6XvK-jqpXfqdo.html

@drthehunterman

Жыл бұрын

Saw you forgot the link in the description, thank you for posting

@zimattack9994

Жыл бұрын

Keep up the great work here to a hover stew someday

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@drthehunterman yeah and I can’t change the description from my phone. I’ll update as soon as I get in front of my computer.

@popeyethepirate5473

Жыл бұрын

That hard tack gimmick man lol

@michaeldiogenesbest6127

Жыл бұрын

Re: Eating Rawhide~ After boiling and pounding, roast the strips until crispy. MUCH more platable(and, some flavor)........

This man's mental gymnastics to not describe the texture as leathery is truly an inspiration "spongy but firm" he said, respect 07

@thomasmills3934

Жыл бұрын

Respect 61

@shepherddog1199

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasmills3934 you mean 62?

@griffinmckenzie7203

Жыл бұрын

@@shepherddog1199 No, he clearly means "respect 42"

@ConsistentlyInconsistent_J

Жыл бұрын

@@griffinmckenzie7203 no he clearly "respect 57"

@tanyah.9131

Жыл бұрын

Haha, what are the numbers about?

I think the problem w/ the flavor is your forgot to salt your water, it really helps bring out that leather flavor we all know and love.

@doggolovescheese1310

Жыл бұрын

I just laughed so hard, thank you 😆

@REDKNOTDREAD

Жыл бұрын

This made me 😂 too!

@laurean5998

11 ай бұрын

I think this is a joke, but you may not be far of. I had a sheeps fur tanned with salt as a child and that was delicious...

@alperry02

9 ай бұрын

😂

@benoitbvg2888

7 ай бұрын

If you really want the "original taste", just use sweat. Those survivors didn't have salt at their disposal.

“Can’t we just eat jim over there in the corner? We all know we don’t like him anyway” can picture this line of sentence on the ship hahaha

@andrewbrown6522

5 ай бұрын

You know the one thing all peoples exterminated by the euros had in common? Eating people. We dont like it.

@cartoonistanonymous

4 ай бұрын

Very likely it was probably just a definitely coincidence that the one guy not on the crew drew the short straw

@applemauzel

3 ай бұрын

And they did, only on the hms erebus and hms terror ;)

@user-nb3tz4pn5d

3 ай бұрын

@applemauzel they was picking Jim out of their teeth for weeks!

I've read that the leather fringes on the clothing of frontiersmen in the old days were actually emergency rations. When someone came back without his fringes you knew he'd seen hard times.

@CarrotConsumer

5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure it was just Native American fashion they adopted.

@andrewbrown6522

5 ай бұрын

Ive always wondered about those.

@MyBinaryLife

Ай бұрын

it was a native born fashion made to accentuate the movements of their clothes during dances, which were a large part of their culture.

@ScVmDoZeR8015

29 күн бұрын

Pretty sure fringes and tassles are for better water runoff

@dudeinadoughboy4327

27 күн бұрын

Also something about an old form of camouflage by breaking up the human silhouette. Kind of like a gihlle suit

The shoe Chaplin ate was actually made out of licorice. Being the perfectionist that he was, Chaplin filmed the scene 63 times and was subsequently hospitalized due to an insulin shock. Saying goes that Chaplin liked licorice before but hated the sweet afterwards.

@CineMiamParis

Жыл бұрын

Another bit of this story is that the confectioner who made the liquorice shoes got rich in the process and went on to create his own liquorice factory. It was called American Licorice, and was still in business when I researched it 10yrs ago.

@AzureToroto

Жыл бұрын

@@CineMiamParis The American Licorice company is known for owning product names like Red Vines and Sour Punch, which are still popular nowadays. Shame that neither brands have candied shoes, purely for the novelty.

@phunkracy

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather eat leather than licorice tbh

@bigred9428

Жыл бұрын

I never heard that he was hospitalized, just that he was sick as a dog for about three days, and production had to be shut down.

@lenabreijer1311

Жыл бұрын

Liquorice has a component which affects your blood pressure and heart. Someone recently died from overeating it. He was lucky.

When my grandmother was a child, she lived through the siege of St. Petersburg, Russia during World War II, and told me stories about her life. People were starving to death on the streets, and her family was so, so hungry. One time her father brought home glue to eat, and another time, an old leather belt he found somewhere. They boiled it, then passed it around, each of them having some. I always wondered how they did that and what it must’ve tasted like. Unfortunately, my grandmother was the only survivor of her family with 6 children :( But her strength and determination to survive has always inspired me to keep going even when things are hard.

@gadgetgirl02

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for mentioning leather eating happened at least as recently as WWII. I expect it's still happening around the world today, unfortunately.

@lars_of_the_north

Жыл бұрын

Your grandma was a legit badass

@deborahdanhauer8525

Жыл бұрын

Wow, what a story, and what a person she must have been!🤗❤️🐝

@Ana-tj5fm

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahdanhauer8525 she’s still with us thankfully!!! but she’s incredible :) she went to university later in life to learn english and became an english professor, and now she’s in her 90s so she spends her days at home with her cats haha

@Ana-tj5fm

Жыл бұрын

@@lars_of_the_north she absolutely is :)

Loving the continuing call back to the hardtack episode where he smacks them together. Makes me laugh every time. Haha

@swankygibbons1186

Жыл бұрын

Same; it will never not crack me up lol

My Papou had to resort to eating leather while he fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Thanks for making this video, very interesting synopsis of how harrowing hunger can be.

@Jjwalt1923

13 күн бұрын

My papou ate rice once

@aethelred9781

11 күн бұрын

Your what?

@skotinoulis4745

9 күн бұрын

​@@aethelred9781grandpa in greek

As a leatherworker I totally second the "do not try at home" disclaimer. A lot of the day-to-day leather we come across is what is known as chrome-tanned leather -- it's a rapid tanning process using chromium salts and other chemicals that can take as little as 3 days to tan the hide. The vegetable-tanned leather that you mentioned is a much slower process of typically 1-3 months and is generally harder wearing material that you'd find in applications like saddle making. I love to work with veg-tanned leathers as it actually ages and patinas over time and handling -- soaking in the sunlight and oils from use to darken and burnish making each bag/wallet/belt/etc unique to the owner. Thank you for another educating and entertaining episode, my wife and I are always excited to tune in and see what you're doing next

@theguywhosnothere

Жыл бұрын

ive actually always been interested in trying leather for some reason, i know a leathery near me that does the entire process themselves, they have a field of cows and they have plenty of tanning racks outside thst you can see, is there any particular part of the process of leather makijg where it would be most safe? ive always been curious as to what it would be like, and if i could make it more flavorsome for my long trips i take through bush, i feel like small strips of leather boiled in a vegetable broth as opposed to water then salted wouldn't be too bad, would that be safe to consume? i imagine it'd be quite light and small so i feel it'd make a good snack while walking, sort of like a nutritious gummy worm

@FudgedDiceRoll

Жыл бұрын

@@theguywhosnothere Well, I'm not a doctor or a nutritionist but from a leatherworker standpoint I'd say that you'd likely would want to go the same route as Max if you're dead-set on eating leather. Prior to tanning the hide of the animal is relatively "safe" for consumption once it has been dehaired and before it is properly tanned as it's essentially skin and composed of mostly water and proteins. To that end I still wouldn't condone eating it when there's a number of other alteritives out there. If weight of food is a concern there's long-keeping and nutrient-dense food like Pemican that you could easily snack on or hard tack (Max has videos on both I believe) which both can be cooked in a broth as mentioned in your post.

@theguywhosnothere

Жыл бұрын

@@FudgedDiceRoll thank you! ive been wanting to try pemican as well! i would try hard tack but ive injured the right side of my jaw so i cant handle overly hard foods without my jaw popping out, but soft or chewy foods seem to work well :) plus i just feel it'd be interesting, i feel like it'd hold alot of flavour consisering it looses all of its natural flavors but by being pounded it seems to be quite spongey and might soak in the flavours from the broth :)

@74KU

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has eaten rawhide.. all good.

@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa69

Жыл бұрын

tell your wife to shut up

For all the recipes Max has tried and did not enjoy, I believe this is his first "absolutely do not try this!" disclaimer. Thank you for putting your stomach and teeth on the line for us. 👏

@natviolen4021

Жыл бұрын

And he definitely will not have to tell me twice 😆

@ceu160193

Жыл бұрын

You can't really try it anyway, as now most gear isn't made from natural leather, so it's inedible.

@ragnkja

Жыл бұрын

@@ceu160193 It’s hard enough to find leather that isn’t chrome-tanned these days, never mind leather where _every_ ingredient of the tanning agent and dyes is definitely safe to consume.

@anymoose6685

Жыл бұрын

Yeh, chromium is pretty bad.

@hoonterofhoonters6588

Жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja The tanning agents and dyes are what would scare me. I've sniped a lot of good deals on leather stuff at yard sales and second hand stores, but I prefer to wear it.

I can only imagine Max’s husband walking into the kitchen going “ WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU COOKING?!” 😂

@sandwich2473

5 ай бұрын

I didn't know he was married :O

@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_

3 ай бұрын

Husband?

@sandwich2473

3 ай бұрын

@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ I think it was on twitter I saw them together, they seem a pretty cute couple

@Kriss_L

2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he's used to finding Max cooking "weird" stuff.

@flexgggjl1309

21 күн бұрын

Ew

Morgan sounds like he was an extremely charismatic person to talk himself out of any charges

I never thought I would watch a leather cooking show, but here we go.

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

Full of surprises 😂

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory This has to be the grossest meal that you have ever made - & that includes the haggis! 🥾🍽🤢🤮

@nanb4146

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine something quite different when reading 'leather cooking show'

@greggi47

Жыл бұрын

Like something from a (nonexistent) Tom of Finland Cookbook.

@marsy6359

Жыл бұрын

@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 dont talk smack about haggis like that

Gotta love Max pointing out an ingredient is "non-toxic and urine free". Breaking new grounds in exploring ingredients on the channel.

@sabatino1977

Жыл бұрын

I can see the ads now: Try BELT! Now with 50% less urine!!

@mmmhorsesteaks

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think a lot of leather is/was tanned with heavy metals like chromium so might well be pretty unhealthy.

@kellysouter4381

Жыл бұрын

I never heard Nigella make those claims about her food.🤔

@DaniMartVTen

Жыл бұрын

Well, considering the group sipping of urine was once a staple of (Roman or Greek?) elite gentlemen at social events, such isn't even a joke to me.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

It's like the old joke about asbestos-free cereal.

Hi Max we had high hopes for you making leather, in Mexico we eat hide "cueritos" as we call them, it is pork hide prepared in vinegar and spices, this is a snack so we eat it over tostadas, with nopales and aguacate. Other ways we eat pork skin is in the form of "Chicharrón". The skin of the pork is fried in pork lard and we eat it with tortillas, nopales, aguacate, red tomato, soft cheese, cilantro, etc. Pherhaps in the future you can make an episode of "cueritos and Chicharón" it will be great.

@andrewbrown6522

5 ай бұрын

We have that. For dogs.

@thespankmyfrank

5 ай бұрын

Isn't that just pork rinds? That's pretty popular in a lot of countries worldwide. I've seen it in Europe, Asia, the US, etc.

@golddragonette7795

4 ай бұрын

Chicharron sounds like pork scratchings, not something I've ever eaten but it's fairly popular in pubs

@ebbindodds3826

4 ай бұрын

Yes​@@thespankmyfrank

@NobleCelery

3 ай бұрын

Pork rinds are not good for dogs, but go off. ​@@andrewbrown6522

Came for a delicious leather recipe, stayed for the history lesson.

Fun video! As an FYI for everyone, Chaplin's shoes in The Gold Rush was made of black licorice. The scene took 3 days and 63 takes to film, leaving both actors suffering from issues caused by licorice's well-know laxative effects.

@fourleafclover2064

Жыл бұрын

Licorice is a laxative???

@ragnkja

Жыл бұрын

@@fourleafclover2064 In large quantities, yes.

@CRneu

Жыл бұрын

@@ragnkja to be fair, a lot of things are.

@angrydragonslayer

Жыл бұрын

@@fourleafclover2064 a shoe of it is probably as laxative as a handful of sugar-free haribo bears

@WilliamWilson_org

Жыл бұрын

@@angrydragonslayer NOTHING.. I repeat NOTHING, is as laxative as a bag of sugar free Haribo gummies. lol (I love this thread. Angry Dragon Slayer is talking to Four Leaf Clover. How awesome is that?)

The guy they ate was the only non-crewmember. I'm thinking they didn't really cast lots, they just kept their stories straight!

@rafael_lana

Жыл бұрын

For sure, that was my first impression too.

@alisaurus4224

Жыл бұрын

“Aw shucks, what rotten luck!”

@ProjectThunderclaw

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, whenever you hear these stories, for some ~mysterious reason~ the short straw always seems to be drawn by whomever the rest of the crew is least attached to. Iirc it used to be that killing and eating someone under these circumstances was actually legal as a method of last resort, but the law was changed specifically because people mostly seem to have made mob rule decisions and used the "we drew lots" thing as an excuse after the fact.

@carlosandleon

6 ай бұрын

@@ProjectThunderclawcannibalism under dire circumstances is always “legal” It’s a hominin survival mechanism.

@ProjectThunderclaw

6 ай бұрын

​@@carlosandleon being a survival mechanism has absolutely no bearing on whether it's legal or not. I'm talking about actual literal legislation, not whatever in-quotations sense of "legal" you're getting at and in any case it's not the eating that's the sticking point, it's the killing

“Watch as I prepare and try human even though I’m not starving today on tasting history”😂

Ahh this episode brings backs memories of times past and my late husband. We were both chefs and camping and experimenting with cooking with lichen. We boiled it and poured the water off nine times to get rid of the bitterness and tannins as we had read you should. We proceeded to make a sort of gruel with it added. I laugh to this day when I think of that meal and my husband’s first words about it. “I don’t liken the lichen”. Bahahahaha. Hot dogs it was.

Thank god you brought back the hard tack scene for another go round. I will never get tired of that clip.

@jennypaxton8159

Жыл бұрын

*clack clack*

@sarahnunez318

Жыл бұрын

best clip, it always makes me cackle

@alisaurus4224

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahnunez318 clack-clackle

That hard tack clip (1:27) gets me every time.

@Ephesians5-14

Жыл бұрын

I know a girl named Brian.. she's a terrible person lol

@jamiedildine1785

Жыл бұрын

I AlWAYS laugh EVERY time that clip pops up. 🤣 It involuntary, I just can’t NOT laugh.

@komiks42

Жыл бұрын

@@Ephesians5-14 I think i know her to bro

@Earthy-Artist

Жыл бұрын

😁hard tack tap-tap

@jennypaxton8159

Жыл бұрын

*clack clack*

this has slowly become my favorite cooking/history show ever please never stop doing these so entertaining

OMG...Max's facial expressions while chewing that leather...funniest thing ever! 🤣

@teosandev6116

10 ай бұрын

Yeah...Panama had it coming. Just imagine those fat greasy priests having lunch when your sorry pirate self sees them for the first time after eating your mate's ripe leather trousers...or worse what they used to contain. Hard not to use Genghis' handbook when it comes to them.

As Max is chewing, his eyes are telling a story that no words could ever adequately tell. 😆 Great episode!!!!

@Sarah-og3mp

Жыл бұрын

The pure suffering reflected in those eyes. I hope he treats himself to a nice dessert after this horror of an episode

@DaimoHope

Жыл бұрын

"This was a big mistake"

Thanks for delving into the food of the high seas with us Max!

@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache

Жыл бұрын

PBS! Thank you for inspiring Max for this episode! Your documentary about pirates were really interesting as well

@pbsorigins

Жыл бұрын

@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache We're glad you're enjoying it!

What I find interesting, is that if you fried that in oil you’d end up with something similar to pork rhind or cracklings and it would definitely be easier to eat but also harder

@The_Bird_Bird_Harder

3 ай бұрын

Well, this is tanned leather, pork rinds are just fresh skin.

@zyanidwarfare5634

3 ай бұрын

@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder true, I kinda forgot about that

Potassium Dichromate is known to have been used in Tanning leather as well. Some Chinese imports of Gelatin Capsules were recently found to contain it , since they had used old discarded Leather as a feedstock to make the capsules.

the most hilarious thing is that morgan's crew were probably feasting on leather while sitting right next to edible plants.

@op-us2xz

Жыл бұрын

Not worth the risk

@sekaihunter9378

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, as a a pirate I can imagine getting poisoned from an unknown plant is probably not worth it...

@tissuepaper9962

Жыл бұрын

If they had been dumb enough to try strange plants they wouldn't have survived long enough to get into this predicament in the first place.

@thescruug2222

Жыл бұрын

They could also eat tree bark, wich has 400-800 calories every 2lbs

@Nerobyrne

Жыл бұрын

@@thescruug2222 but are they digestible by humans? AFAIK, we actually cannot process fibre, yet they do still have calories.

Makes me think of The Elder Scrolls 3 : Morrowind, where you can find a skeleton of a sailor in a dungeon, and next to it, his journal, where he details how he got there and how he's trapped. One of the entries has him mention how hungry he is, and that he decided to try to boil his leather shoes because he had heard this would work. It didn't, and now he had no shoes.

You frighten me, Max. You frighten me.

One of my favorite little bits you've had in your show is you trying to work in hardtack if you can just so you can throw in that clip 😂😂😂 I love it!

Oh my god, I asked this question several times to the Mythbusters, after I read about artic expeditioners chewing on their belts to stave off hunger, but it was never selected for an episode! Thank you so much Max! A big hug from Argentina!

@aceundead4750

Жыл бұрын

Myth plausible, but unappetizing lol

@DuncanL7979

2 күн бұрын

It doesn't involve enough physics or kinetic, flashy experimentation for that show.

I just want to take a moment to thank you for putting in the effort of correctly timed and punctuated closed captioning. It's one of the many things that has always put this channel head and shoulders above the rest for me, and I really appreciate it. Even though Max has truly excellent diction, people like me who struggle with audio processing can still have trouble understanding speech, which is really frustrating when so many things are video-based on the contemporary internet. Thank you so much for making your content accessible.

@MegaKat

Жыл бұрын

I also appreciate him, but as a blind person, for his diction! I'm so glad you mentioned that; I absolutely understand Max everytime, every post!

@seisage

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I also have audio processing issues and while Max is one of the few people I can listen to and NOT have trouble understanding (the majority of the time, anyway), I still keep the captions on because they're just so phenomenal. I have to appreciate them! Especially since there are so many massive creators who have the budget to commission captioning, but never bother :(

@jabble__

6 ай бұрын

Captioning is so important and I’m very frustrated when there are none. Max never fails to deliver!

Nobody, not one single tasting history fan: Max: I'm gonna eat belt leather

“Please do not make this recipe. Let only me make this recipe,” you can’t hide the forbidden fruit from us.

What I assume went down in their house Max: I'm gonna eat leather! Jose: Why are you like this

@KetchupwithMaxandJose

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much! 🥴

@jwilliams3269

Жыл бұрын

😂

When my times are turbulent and not in fair weather, or my stomach quivers from sustenance nether, I’ll shun your advice and dine on fine cooked leather!

@jendubay3782

Жыл бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@user-bo3mp8un6c

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

Жыл бұрын

"This needs sauce" *dumps boiling water on the leather and calls it good*

@nextcaesargaming5469

Жыл бұрын

If you do, take my advice since I actually had to do this years ago: Make sure the leather was made with animal fat. Obviously you want to avoid chromium and formaldehyde, and Tannins can actually be toxic in certain volumes. With animal fat, at least you know the leather is "probably" safe and might have some extra nutritional value. Also, for the love of god, actually check to make sure you have absolutely no other options. I did do this, but I was an idiot and still had regular food. Not much food (times were lean, hence my situation), but still.

My grandfather was in the horse cavalry serving under General “Black Jack” Pershing in the Mexican Punitive Expedition (immediately before WW I). He told of the time the U.S. Army had some of Pancho Villla’s troops under siege. After the Mexican troops had been forced to eat their horses, they then turned to eating their saddles.

4:08 "Actua-wee," lmao. Love the content, keep up the good work.

One of my most favourite emergency food story is the story of Sengoku Daimyos who would eat ropes during a long siege. These rope are made out of Taro Stalks hence edible after a considerable chew.

@Rose-jz6sx

Жыл бұрын

Good roughage! Hahaha very little but roughage though I imagine.

@nylondaimon

Жыл бұрын

i imagine taro stalks wouldnt be much different from bamboo albeit considerably softer

@BrahmaDBA

Жыл бұрын

@@nylondaimon I mean, young bamboo shoots are actually tasty and a staple food items for Asian cuisines lol.

@Paelorian

Жыл бұрын

I have a fact you'd appreciate. After surviving the Siege of Ulsan in Korea during the Imjin War, where the besieged Japanese defenders were starving and vastly outnumbered, when daimyo Kato Kiyomasa returned home to Kyushu he built Kumamoto Castle, perhaps the most defensive castle in Japan. It was more function over form than many other large castles. After a lifetime of battle, sieges, and castle warfare, Kiyomasa tried to improve on many traditional shortcomings in castle design. My favorite feature I've read about is that he had the castle's tatami mats woven with dried edible vegetables, so that in a siege or other emergency the flooring could be torn up, boiled, and eaten. So that he would never again see his men fighting off an army while starving to death. They'd be eating the castle itself before it came to that.

@BrahmaDBA

Жыл бұрын

@@Paelorian Just as I expected from the Tiger Kato Kiyomasa. The Imjin war was insane, made more insane by the feats of Admiral Yi Sun-sin.

Max just proved this is a history channel and not a cooking channel. He teaches history through the culinary of the times, even if it's not food at all 😁

@komiks42

Жыл бұрын

What we consider food really depends of how hungry you are.

@yesfinallygot1

Жыл бұрын

@@komiks42 exactly. almost anything is food if youre hungry enough

@JohnClark-tt2bl

Жыл бұрын

@@yesfinallygot1 Donner, party of five!😱

@colinburke8389

Жыл бұрын

@@yesfinallygot1 "Hunger is the best sauce in the world." ~ Miguel de Cervantes

@sophiophile

Жыл бұрын

As someone who has (compared to almost every other common field of academic study possible) ignored the details of history, I've definitely learned so much on this channel. I wonder if growing up with a History Channel that ran 'Ancient Aliens' 24/7 subconsciously turned me off the subject... Almost like they had _alien technology_ to control my subconscious, hahah.

you know, i've been watching this channel for years and i've never left a comment, but as a former cook i adore the work you do on all of these.

Cow skin is still eaten in parts of the world such as Southern China, Taiwan, Northern India, Myanmar, Ghana, Nigeria, and Jamaica. Not as a sustenance food either, but as a delicacy. I'm sure there are other places, but they're the only ones I have found actual recipes from.

I really love the videos you do about the more gross stuff. Not because I like to see you suffer, but because I find it super interesting what people can actually survive on. I still hope you treat yourself to something extra nice and tasty next time!

@terminator3000

Жыл бұрын

Be honest, you wanted to write: "Not ONLY because I like to see you suffer".

The brave things you'll do for the channel Max

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

Brave. Dumb. Same thing 😂

@Firegen1

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory Same Max, Same! I'll pop a poem on Insta as internet is bad but already choked up giggling.

@IanRubin2

Жыл бұрын

Remember: If you write it down (or in this case film it), it’s SCIENCE.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory The only difference is an audience.

It still gets me when you mention hardtack you put in a short clip or you hitting hardtack together !

Your face while chewing it is just priceless!!🤣😂Thanks for enduring this for our enlightment and enjoyment!😉

Hats off to you max! You go above and beyond everytime for our sakes! You're the best!

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

Anything for my audience 😆

@1815matt

Жыл бұрын

Don't let him near your hat, he may now have a taste for clothing

@arifhossain9751

Жыл бұрын

Hats off... shoes off... jackets off... im makin leather stew.

@greggi47

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory Jose must be extraordinarily patient and prepared to deal with some very odd sights and smells.

@jamiedildine1785

Жыл бұрын

Keep him away from your leather trousers! He just might chew your pants right off you. 🤣

Pig skin (not tanned, so more like rawhide) is a pretty common ingredient in a lot of dishes where pork is popular. One of my favorites is larb moo made by a local Lao restaurant, which includes diced pig organs with short strips of skin.

@snazzypazzy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think the tannins would make the experience quite different. I use tannins for dying fabric sometimes and they are very bitter. And while a little is fine (it's in tea and wine and all sorts of food), a lot of the would not be good for the body. But dried hide is just one step away from skin, and skins are pretty commonly eaten. It looks like the texture was the main issue for him, and I'm not going to try it myself. But fried pig skin is pretty tasty!

@TheMKBOxide

Жыл бұрын

Mexican have chips made from pig skin, but skin is not leather.

@francescov.3610

Жыл бұрын

Also don't forget Chicharrones

@ragnkja

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMKBOxide Scandinavians too. Both the real thing (called “fleskesvor” in Norwegian and “fleskesvær” in Danish) and starchy imitation snacks.

@ericwilliams1659

Жыл бұрын

Pork rinds is fried pig skin

Thank you for showing some of the history of my family on this channel!

I will never not love the hard tack flashbacks. I appreciate you and your channel so much Max! Today was a day of hanging out with my sick kids and cleaning out barf buckets, so thank you for doing what you do. This gives me a little time to myself to pretend I’m not surrounded by upchuck.

@Bigmike24743

Жыл бұрын

😮

@mono9578

Жыл бұрын

Dang. Sick kids, that's tuff. Hope they get better

@thatwelshman2713

Жыл бұрын

Clack clack

@hithere911

Жыл бұрын

I hope they get better soon. That sucks, for them and you.

@victoriahoward8244

Жыл бұрын

Feed them hard tack! ( not leather!)

Max, if you ever need simply tanned leather contact Peter Kelly at The Woodland Escape… he does reenactment of the 1700’s and makes his own. His channel is a worthy look for all. Also, Charlie Chaplin’s shoe was made out of licorice… he ate so much of it, he had a heart attack and they had to suspend production for a while.

@Pygar2

Жыл бұрын

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Full Metal Alchemist scene where Ed eats a leather boot has lived in my head rent free for years

I remember making leather chews, basically a piece of tanned sheep cow or snake leather that you boil then dip in jerky spices or molasses and nibble on without swallowing taking it camping it gives a placebo of eating without a meal you feel refreshed for longer between meals

As someone whos into working with leather and did a fair bit of research into the history of leather here in Sweden and Scandinavia I would have been a bit nervous if I had seen this title on pretty much any other channel. I knew I didn't have to be scared that I'd witness an unintentional self-poisoning so thanks for that. This was really interesting, as always.

@hic_tus

Жыл бұрын

same, i don't work with leather but i know that tannins are actually toxic. that's why we don't eat acorns nowadays. in this case veggies are not good for you, let alone modern dyed leather

@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken

Жыл бұрын

@@hic_tus Just to let you know, acorns (traditionally processed into jelly) are a popular food still in asia, particularly Korea

@hic_tus

Жыл бұрын

@@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken oh yeah i heard of that! the processing is the key! we used to make flour and other things in italy too back in the day. but in our particular climate now it's no longer profitable. so we feed acorns to the pigs and they frikkin love them :D btw we used to have huuuuuge trees in sardinia, my homeland. some of them are the oldest in the world. but uhm, some arsholes like to set the land on fire, because reasons. if they destroy my old lady, a 4000ys old wild olive tree imma cry myself to sleep. haha anyway, fun fact a guy lived in its trunk for a while, before that was unesco, you gotta love that shite :D google sardinia oldest tree you get it. we grow a lot of cork oak for, you know, wine. they evolved to withstand fire... for a reason. so yeah, we get a lot of acorns, goats and pigs are super happy

@hic_tus

Жыл бұрын

@@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken i mean, even chestnuts are no longer profitable, nowadays. my last buisness talk with my older uncle was like... "as boys we used to go helping the farmers, that was an easy buck. hard work but we didn't mind too much. that was the good season in the mountains. either that or the factory." that was.. nearly 70 years ago. :) my uncle, i love him to pieces:D

@SirNinja425

3 ай бұрын

@@hic_tus you tell a story that I wish to see more of

When I was little, I read about the soldiers at Trenton eating leather shoes when they were starving. It’s stuck in my mind ever since. Thanks for helping me see how miserable this would have been

I can't believe i sat through this whole thing. I was 100% invested 😂

my dad was in WWII, and I remember him telling me that they mostly lived on sardines and spam. when their 'C' rations ran out, they had to scrounge for what ever they could find. and he told me when you haven't eaten for several days to a week, you'll eat what ever you can lay your hands on. so I can understand this...

You know it's bad when what you are eating makes hardtack ( will love that clip forever ❤️) look like a delicacy. Thanks Max for all you do to entertain and educate us 💕💕💕

@NeonNecropolis92

Жыл бұрын

*clack clack*

@lyndelgado6138

Жыл бұрын

OMG! I am so glad Max did not choke on that damned leather! And I agree with those who said, "Max, it will not bother me if you have to spit this crap out for any reason!" Be safe!

@panjimartiandaru3081

Жыл бұрын

@@NeonNecropolis92 thank you for the laugh XD I, too, loves that little clip (*clack clack*)

Chilean here. Pig's skin is eaten here as part of some traditional recipes. Checking in Spanish, there are plenty of Latin American recipes to cook "cuero de chancho" (cuero de cerdo, pellejo/cueritos de chancho/cerdo). They start with the fresh stuff. It takes some time to get cooked, but it's not only edible, but delicious. Yep. These recipes are highly recommendable to make at home.

@Scum42

Жыл бұрын

Well... not THIS recipe, with the leather he used. But with actual food-grade pig skin, yeah.

@santisis

Жыл бұрын

And even when you cook the whole pig the skin is edible, without any special treatment at all. Here in Argentina there are even the "fiesta del chancho con pelo" and the "fiesta del asado con cuero", the last one from cows.

@ragnkja

Жыл бұрын

If you’ve had the rind on a pork roast, you’ve eaten pig skin. Or in some countries (definitely Norway and Denmark) you can buy a bag of crispy pork rind as a snack food. There are even starch-based imitation snacks, which are significantly cheaper but just as delicious.

@WinstonSmithGPT

Жыл бұрын

Leather is TANNED. It’s not comparable to fresh pork rind.

@MariaMartinez-researcher

Жыл бұрын

@@WinstonSmithGPT Of course not. But, I think, many people doesn't know that animal skin can be edible at all. And tasty 😋

The subtitles had me CRYING 😂😂😂

For a moment there, i thought you were going to exclaim, “I love it!!”

Morgan wasn't the only one who was a "legal" pirate. William Dampier is an example. He was the person who introduced the words "barbecue", "avocado", "chopsticks", and many more into the English language as well as the first recipes in English for guacamole and mango chutney.

@dirpyturtle69

Жыл бұрын

He’s actually talked about him before irc

@Your.Uncle.AngMoh

Жыл бұрын

@@dirpyturtle69 Because pirates!

@seronymus

Жыл бұрын

Where would we be now without William Dampier?

@zaxmaxlax

Жыл бұрын

Just imagine starting of as a pirate, getting knighted, later a governor and even a judge.

@thesaurus9226

Жыл бұрын

@@zaxmaxlax That's basically the plot of Sid Meier's Pirates!

I always questioned how realistic that scene in Fullmetal Alchemist of Edward eating his leather shoe was, today I realized it was very much in fact based in truth 😂 great video as always Max!!

@afluffylittlefriend4597

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that episode was all I could think about.

@lGipsyDanger

Жыл бұрын

@@afluffylittlefriend4597 same

Your editing is so good! Love the video.

That hard tack smack had me dying 😂

The chewing face looks like a nice addition to the hard tack classic. Much love Max, much love, You are a brave man.

@dannysierra8740

Жыл бұрын

polish girl hahaha

This is in the vein of dwarf bread from Discworld. When all you have is dwarf bread, you will eat anything else, including cooked leather.

@LunarisArts

Жыл бұрын

I know Terry Patcett used hard tack as inspiration for dwarf bread, but I still think og it as old fashioned Finnish rye bread, which was made into rounds with a hole and stored on a pole in the ceiling, is a more acurate description. That type can become hard and unchewable, and a last resort in modern cooking 😅

lmao just the way he sighs "And here we are!.... some leather....." before he eats it is the best

This is commitment to your craft.

The look on your face when trying the leather was priceless. It was prob the exact face that every single person who has tried too eat leather has made and it was most likely followed by I need water as well.

Oh gosh, Max, your facial expressions when you ate the leather!!!! Thank you for 'taking one for the [history] team'!!! I hope you had a wonderful dinner afterwards!

Bro looked like Justin Timberlakes Mug shot while chewing it 😂

In Sweden, during the great starvation, people would cook leather straps and grass. They also put bark in the bread to fill it out.

Funnily enough, after you finished boiling it, it actually reminded me of a dish called Balbacua (and the name actually comes from Barbacoa). It's also actually made with.... beef and/or buffalo skin

@michelestellar7725

Жыл бұрын

Try the word amusingly, that's what it was coined for. As in amusingly enough people think funnily is a replacement for amusingly because funnily enough they have removed the subject VOCABULARY FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION. As you may have guessed I was taught by real teachers and went on to become one myself. Not the fault of young folks they have been denied facility with their own language.

@s1lh0u3x

Жыл бұрын

@@michelestellar7725 you must be fun at parties

@michelestellar7725

Жыл бұрын

@@s1lh0u3x sarcasm when someone tries a bit of educating...how very typical of the younger generation. Look around at the world the brainwashed generations have created. It is a dystopian mess where they blame OTHERS for their lacking skills and talent. Try actually being open to LEARNING. Nah, just use sarcasm to attack those who are more learned and intelligent. Tha will help to assure all become even more ignorant.

@michelestellar7725

Жыл бұрын

@@s1lh0u3x and I do not attend parties where people do not have a problem with their own native tongue. There ARE educated people still, they just don't associate with the uneducated.

@dasja9966

Жыл бұрын

@@michelestellar7725 Your reply to Aristocrat is very amusing and funny to me. You pretend to have great language skills, yet you made a huge mistake with that double negative. Based on context you tried to say you only go to parties with educated/grammarpolicing people. Yet you said the complete opposite. Lol. Disclaimer: English is not my native language. Feel free to correct my comment though, if that makes you feel good about yourself.

I have loved this channel ever since the hard-tack video. This was once again informative and entertaining, especially seeing Max go trough the five stages of food grief while he chewed the boiled hide.

@nilcarborundum7001

Жыл бұрын

@Klingonberry Thank you so much for the term "food grief". It is a timely & necessary antidote to the more common youtube terms of "food coma" and "this insane food will kill you"- the latter of which is meant as praise… The uncomfortable truth is that HOW many millions of people in the world right now experience "food grief" out of necessity ever day??

@micheleparker3780

Жыл бұрын

@@nilcarborundum7001 😔

@H0mework

Жыл бұрын

For another type of tasting history check out steve1989 eating a worm castle from the US civil war.

You can see Max's sanity decreasing as he chews the leather

the raw leather laces look like the same kind of hide some dog chews are made from

The journey Max's face made as he was eating the leather was oscar-worthy 😂

@fionaclaphamhoward5876

Жыл бұрын

The captions are worth turning on for sections like that - a veritable story in themselves!

@biggusdickus1689

Жыл бұрын

Oscar's are for acting, that was real as could be 🤣

@poopsiedoodlesp8506

Жыл бұрын

really screams "im literally eating leather for a career"😂

I am marking this on the calendar as the first day I ever felt truly sorry for Max. Someone get this man some kind of trophy or money or something for this bravery!

It's still more appetizing than the cauliflower Chick-Fil-A that keeps showing up in ads.

The scene with drawing lots to decide who to eat reminds me of the French children's song Il était un petit navire, in which a cabin's boy named Mathelot is almost eaten by his crewmates, but saved when God sends suicidal fish jumping onto their boat.

Big thanks. You need an award for this one. I bet a whole bunch of us have wondered about this. Many accounts only say it's gaggy, nauseating--but most times it came straight from their very last animal.

I look forward to every new Tasting History episode with as much zeal as my favorite anime. This show really is something special. Thank you Max

@AngelavengerL

Жыл бұрын

totally same!

It's not so amazing that they ate leather -- it's amazing that someone actually wrote a recipe for eating leather.

Great video as always! While you talk about the siege of Jerusalem it make me remember the siege of Paris during the “Commune of Paris “ after the Franco-Prussian war. The citizen ate the animals of the zoo and anything that was edible in the city . There are photographs of the menus of the caffés . Can you make one of those ?

The clack clack hardtack and Max chewing for minutes... what more can I ask for 😂

That good 20 second just silently staring into the camera chewing, for whatever reason i found hilarious

@jonesnori

Жыл бұрын

José's captions make that scene even funnier.

I am so impressed that you tried this

The look on your face as you desperately try to keep an open mind is epic. CHEERS!

There are a lot of comments about eating skin. Lots of cultures eat skin (I'm a Southerner, and in the Southeastern US, pork rinds are a somewhat popular snack food - deep-fried porkskin). There's a difference between *leather,* which is thick animal skin that's treated and prepared into clothing, and thin animal skin that's prepared as food!

I’ve always been curious about the consumption of leather. I feel like you hear about it all the time but who wants to actually try it… thank god we have Max at tasting history. Seriously though, love it! Keep it up. One of my favorite videos here

The hardtack gets me everytime lol

Finally a word you can't say I was convinced you can pronounce every thing. I love watching personally because of all the different language you can speak. I have faith in you sound it out😅 oh I love food and learning history as well. Thanks for the content ❤

I have actually done this years ago. No, I don't wanna talk about wtf happened to bring me to that point. So, the line about "hunger as the buccaneers knew it" struck a *very* different cord for me.

@jonesnori

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you are still here.

@nextcaesargaming5469

Жыл бұрын

@@jonesnori Thank you

I always thought, when they would show people eating shoes or hats, that the chemicals they treat it with would make you seriously ill! I mean... Pure collectors would tell you that things would not taste great... 🤢🤮 Edit: a word

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

Today, you would not want to eat modern leather. That’s how you poison yourself.

@ragnkja

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory Yeah, chrome generally isn’t considered very good for you.

@thecreweofthefancy

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory retail leather, even when "organic," especially if only partially tanned or raw is often treated with formaldehyde. I work a lot replicating buccaneer items and cooking, the goal is by 2024 to do a full immersion to include hunting and tanning from scratch.

@TastingHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@thecreweofthefancy probably why it still smelled ghastly and why I decided not to eat it 😂

@thecreweofthefancy

Жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory the hair on tells me that it was likely bags or belts which were only partially tanned. The shoes too were sometimes made from raw, untreated hog's legs. (I'm working with a few folks on figuring out how to tan them enough my wife won't leave me. Haha)

The concern on his face when he began chewing Oh my 😂

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