The Most Popular Foods Eaten In The 13 Original Colonies
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The surprising bird that used to be consumed. The pricey delicacy that was more common. The most popular place in town to get the best food. Keep watching to find the most popular foods eaten in the 13 original colonies!
#Food #History #America
Corn | 0:00
Potted meat | 1:16
Pickled everything | 2:19
Jumble Cookies | 3:02
Alcohol | 3:38
Codfish | 4:28
Pepper cake | 5:46
Wild game | 6:34
Lobster | 7:26
Tavern food | 8:32
Syllabub | 9:47
Herbs | 10:40
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Are there any foods on this list you would like to try?
@bridgetanne8242
Жыл бұрын
Jumble cookies. Maybe potted meat
Potted meat and crackers helped keep me alive when I was young and unemployed. Forty years later, I still eat it. Lol
@michelerosequreshey8345
Жыл бұрын
Yes. We do what we gotta do! I love potted meat!
@edp3202
Жыл бұрын
Apparently Billy Graham's favorite meal was unheated Vienna sausages with crackers.
@labaccident2010
Жыл бұрын
My extreme budget food is sardines and crackers. It was something my late grandpa ate when he was younger, coming from a poor family. He taught it to my mom, my mom taught it to me.
@anderander5662
Жыл бұрын
@@edp3202 and he only lived to be around 100
@tinklvsme
Жыл бұрын
Devils meat I to still love it. Did u know that it was a staple during the Civil War It was put in jars big or small jars that made it easy to carry.
Thanks so much. Enjoyed this bit of history. I was born and brought up in Boston, and was raised on Codfish. Loved it. Nowadays it's expensive and a bit of a delicacy.
@cisium1184
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I grew up in seacoast New Hampshire eating cod, clams, lobster, and butter-and-sugar corn. Even chicken lobster prices were reasonable where I grew up. Went back home in June and was shocked at prices at my hometown fish market.
@BobSacamano666
Жыл бұрын
Best seafood hands down in from new England
It is funny that Lobsters are so sought after today but people complained about having to eat too many of them. It reminds me of how Chicken Wings have become these days. It used to be a pack of wings were dirt cheap but now with the massive popularity of buffalo wings and with so many chicken wing restaurants opening all over the place, they are more expensive than boneless skinless chick breasts. Bizarre.
@nozrep
Жыл бұрын
indeed!
@guidedmeditation2396
Жыл бұрын
@@nozrep Whats next? Those little Chicken Dookies on their butt will be $10 per lb. and they have to sell the chicken breasts as scrap to be used in pet foods.
@talisikid1618
Жыл бұрын
That’s because there much more rare these days.
@artguti1551
Жыл бұрын
Same with Beef Flank Steak...(Mexican's call it Asada), it used to be one of the cheapest meats at the market. Now it's expensive!!!
@lorihoop3831
Жыл бұрын
It's crazy. If I'm paying more than the boneless/skinless breaststroke there better be meat on them too. Total rip off
Townsends’ living history channel does a lot of these recipes and colonial era cooking, and uses only the tools that they had back then. A very cool colonial history/U.S. history channel!
@jameswells554
Жыл бұрын
They also sell cookbooks of recipes from that era, and the utensils.
@deegee2920
Жыл бұрын
Great KZread channel indeed!
George Washington Carver & skippy helped me survive my teen years 😂🤣😂
I was Lutheran growing up. I've had your pepper cakes. The people in my congregation (German congregation) called it pfeffernusse.
@adriennefloreen
Жыл бұрын
A church in our town in California has it's own food bank and free clothing store for poor and homeless people and they give everyone pepper cakes. I will write down that German word in my notebook where I write down new words I haven't heard, and ask them if they have heard it, the next time we get a food box or new clothes. This is why KZread is awesome.
@deedoyle4069
Жыл бұрын
YUMMY !!!
@persistentpedestrianalien8641
Жыл бұрын
Pfeffermusse. Penis
@Cat-ik1wo
Жыл бұрын
I have had it. Its good. I like it. During the Christmas holidays you can get a bag at ALDIS. I can eat the whole bag. So good!
@burrocakes8048
Жыл бұрын
Yep grew up in a German-American family in Cincinnati and we also called them pfeffernusse. A delicious holiday season cookie for my family 😊
My 90 year old mother remembers eating a lot of lobster when times were tough.
@Herowebcomics
Жыл бұрын
That is so different from today!
@cocoaorange1
4 ай бұрын
I recall being surprised v to learn how cheap crab and lobsters were back in the day.
Haha, gingerbread hardtack 😂
My grandchildren love it when I make bubble and squeak. They like watching, and hearing it cook. But mostly, they LOVE saying, " bubble and squeak "....
Back then, corn wasn't what it is now. Corn was around an inch long, but corn plant breeding throughout the centuries gave us the present corn.
@robinlillian9471
Жыл бұрын
Corn was an inch long thousands of years ago before it was domesticated by the Native Americans. All sorts of corn varieties existed during colonial times, including popcorn and large ears of field corn in many different colors.
@1ACL
Жыл бұрын
Corn has been cultivated in the Americas for 10,000 years.
@edmundooliver7584
Жыл бұрын
@@1ACL so, was tomatoes, chocolate, vanilla, pumpkins,beans and turkeys in mexico.
@1ACL
Жыл бұрын
@@edmundooliver7584 yes.
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Settlers: what's that yellow lump with knobs you guys are eating? Natives: it's CORN, it has the juice! When you try it with butter everything changes!
This was an interesting video and I got some good info from it🤔
I had squab, aka pidgin at a high end restaurant in Manhattan years ago and it was quite tasty
@valfletcher9285
Жыл бұрын
pigeon. Pidgin is a blend of languages
@clubmogambo3214
Жыл бұрын
Fun little factoid: Squab is actually a baby pigeon, never more than 4 weeks old before being processed. All squabs are farm raised, never taken from the wild, which in this case are the nasty city streets. And for those who have never had it, medium rare or even rare is the only way to go when eating one.
Was the land of plenty . Game birds and deer everywhere.
I love pickles. Cookie 😃 thankyou
I used to read a magazine called the new england, or maybe Yankee that mentioned Indian Pudding, eaten with milk and syrup. Or scoop ice cream?
@carleenturner1348
Жыл бұрын
I loved Yankee Magazine, read it as a kid...My great aunt lived in Cannan CT. We visited her every summer house on Twin Lakes.
Very interesting, I'd try a lot of the foods mentioned! Especially the 'pepper cakes"!!!
Okay I'm hardcore impressed. My 9th great-grandfather (following the male line on my father's side) was a founder of Norwich Connecticut. He fought in the battle at Mystic Fort. I'm also 9th great granddaughter of William Bradford. I'm extremely impressed that you mentioned salt smoke and snow. Salt was one of the most vital necessities to the Mayflower pilgrims. Because, they were sent from England, an alleged salt minor who turned out to be absolutely useless.
@feywerfolevado6286
Жыл бұрын
Another relative of Bradford here :^)
@kitkatpitterpat4498
Жыл бұрын
Another one here! I imagine there’s alot of us lol.
@msn1590
Жыл бұрын
God bless down to many generations 🙏
@lindakay9552
Жыл бұрын
I think it's fascinating to meet other people who have common ancestors!
Those huge full ears of corn are not exactly indicative of corn of that time.
@robinlillian9471
Жыл бұрын
Oh, yes they are. You and your friends are confusing thousands of years ago with hundreds of years ago. It's amazing how many ignorant people are willing to correct others with wrong information.
@persistentpedestrianalien8641
Жыл бұрын
Yeah people back then were so ignorant and mental midgets. If George Washington was alive today, you would find him in a trashcan in Baltimore
damn good job
Lobsters 🦞, food for the poor. Can you imagine?
@edp3202
Жыл бұрын
The poor ate salmon, greens.......
@saundrajohnson1571
Жыл бұрын
@@edp3202 But lobster? Hard to believe these days.
@edp3202
Жыл бұрын
@@saundrajohnson1571 I guess. If they had a lobster net and lived on the coast, sure. Why not.
@saundrajohnson1571
Жыл бұрын
@@edp3202 Okay, maybe. But I can't see the poor buying lobster at the grocery store.
@edp3202
Жыл бұрын
@@saundrajohnson1571 no. But back in the day there were no grocery stores. People hunted, fished, trapped, etc...for food. The original thirteen colonies was four hundred years ago. If you could grow it, catch it, kill it, you could eat it.
..there used to be seals in Lake Ontario..but they all got ate.
Corn, however, was not the corn we know today. It wasn't sweet corn.
@adriennefloreen
Жыл бұрын
True, but they had so many good varieties of corn almost nobody grows these days, including one with a hard shell that had to be removed from every kernel
@robinlillian9471
Жыл бұрын
Sweet corn existed. It just wasn't quite as super sweet as today. Any corn variety can be picked young, boiled, and eaten with butter.
@sorrowsharvest7891
Жыл бұрын
Was mainly used for ground cornmeal
@suegeorge998
Жыл бұрын
@@sorrowsharvest7891 exactly!
@suegeorge998
Жыл бұрын
@@adriennefloreen was it dent corn?
Ned Beatty played the hardest part.
You left out Indian Pudding. This yummy dessert contained corn meal, molasses, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and other exotic herbs if possible to import. This was topped by whipped cream, sometimes flavored, in colonial times. Later on in the 19th century, whipped cream was replaced with ice cream in rich households.
Strange to hear that something was "According to the History Channel" and not have it followed up with Ancient Aliens being involved somehow. This sounds like some historic, History channel stuff from the early 2000s.
Grew up (60/70's) eating home made Johnny bread.
Potted meat : early day Spam
@patriciat1514
Жыл бұрын
Linda that's what I was thinking.
If that V neck dips any further, I may have to call you Simon. I'm playin😂
I need syllabub
This is a great video🎉. I really enjoy the work you put into these. Keep it up! By the way, I was reading recently about the passenger pigeon. In the 18 th century they were so numerous they used to darken the sky as they flocked in the billions. They were extinct though by the end of that century, not by over hunting, but by the rapid deforestation that took place during the westward expansion. Makes you wonder how many other species of plants and animals went extinct during that time that we don’t even know about. Shame on us. 😢
🌽It’s Corn 🌽! A big lump with knobs 🧃It has the juice🧃 (it has the juice) 🧃 I can't imagine a more beautiful thing 🥹🥹 🌽It's corn🌽 I can tell you all about it 👂🏽 I mean, look at this thing 🌽👀
Really enjoyed the info and presentation - except for that music. 🤨
Go to the Townsends channel to see these techniques in use!
First thought: WOW their bowel movements must've been terrible eating all that corn and meat. 2nd Thought: Thank goodness they ate up all the pigeons and replaced them with chicken!!! I'm from NY. A pigeon will always be a flying rat to me🤢
@zakattack7799
Жыл бұрын
squab is an excellent meat
@valfletcher9285
Жыл бұрын
That was a different breed of bird than the pigeons on the city sidewalks today.
@anderander5662
Жыл бұрын
Why would their bowel movements be bad for eating corn and meat?
@kathrynpupos9103
Жыл бұрын
So I guess you've never eaten squirrel. A family meal of 2 squirrel and 2-3 rabbits in an oven bag with onions, celery, carrots and potatoes, baked at 325 for a couple hours. Mmmmm mmm. One of the things I learned from my ex. Grew up a town girl never eating anything that didn't come from the grocery store. Nature's food store has a lot going for it.
The weather at Valley Forge, while Washington’s troops were camped there, was greatly exaggerated. Evidence found temperatures were close to the 40’s. The worst weather occurred, when Washington was camped in Morristown, NJ, where temperatures were well below freezing with deep snow.
@persistentpedestrianalien8641
Жыл бұрын
They said it was cold? They can s my d
@patc1309
Жыл бұрын
Didn't it supposedly snow in June?
A whole chicken in a Ball canning jar along with spices and salt, in a canning bath is soooo good! Same with lean cuts of beef. Potted pork belly chunks work well too.
Funny how the hungry people are to blame for the p. Pigeon excited and not the blithe from Chinese chestnut killing all the food for the pigeon and the American chestnut.
@bobanderson6656
Жыл бұрын
Habitat destruction......
@talisikid1618
Жыл бұрын
And market hunting. Hungry people? No. Greedy people. Too numerous people. Those are the ingredients for disaster every time. Stop trying to shirk your duties & obligations.
@edmundooliver7584
Жыл бұрын
@@talisikid1618 yes, the English kill many birds just for beautiful feathers for the rich women in Europe for hats along with the beaver in the fur trade.
Tree bark, grass, leaves and dirt. Mix them together and have a different dish every day of the week.
@persistentpedestrianalien8641
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and if you vomit. It's leftovers ☺
in the late 1940's my grandfather Saul took me on a Brooklyn tenement roof to eat raw pigeon eggs out of the shell, and get pigeons for dinner. We dug up clams, ate eels and crabs. Restaurants served pidgeon blood as a flavor enhancer, and rabbit or cat stew as i heard. A copper pot hung for weeks with porrage . Pea porrage hot, Pea porrage cold ,Pea porrage in the pot 9 days old. You guess were the saying kicking the bucket came from.
What???? No pre colonial Urber Eats so they could at least eat cake????
@freesk8
Жыл бұрын
"Let them eat cake" was a French revolution thing... :)
@ifor20got
Жыл бұрын
@@freesk8 Truth... However I figgured early Uber eats may have been via ship... lol At least we had Rum.... Life was not all that bad....
Squab or now commonly known as pigeon is very tasty also definitely get your self some frog legs and yes on my grave taste like chicken
@kathrynpupos9103
Жыл бұрын
They need to be cooked correctly. I've had them so dry they were inedible. Luckily , I tried them again and LOVED them.
Just think back then nobody worried about being thin
Too bad we nearly ate the cod into extinction, too.
Potted meat is common place in England
They saved them and oh how they repaid them 😢
Very Good!... #64 ✝ {9-20-2022}
Potted meat is NOT a delicacy.
America's Puritanical roots? How do you figure that one?
When did Colonial Sanders come into place with his KFC
@debbylou5729
Жыл бұрын
After the civil war, duh
syllabub is still eaten in UK and normal to have. it is not some "mysterious" dessert that americans seem to think it is.
Pigeon meat is called squab.
Did somebody say Menulog?
Puritan roots is a lie (established Massachusetts Bat Colony, 1630)....Plymouth (1620)--10 years before the Puritans...; Jamestown was founded in 1607...but the 1st Colony of present day USA was by the Spanish in St Augustine, FL in 1565.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
With the puritans, the clarification being the first colony of a people that actually did something in a larger sense here that continues today.
@patriciat1514
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 the people on the Mayflower were pilgrims and others they called "strangers". Puritans came later.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
@@patriciat1514 That I am aware of, however it has nothing to do directly with my statement. The Puritans establishing themselves in a longer lasting way on account of both Jamestown and Plymouth being virtual ghost towns within 100 years of their settlement.
@patriciat1514
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 two of the people on the Mayflower were my grandparents, × ? generations. They were strangers as the pilgrims called them. He was the father of the baby born on the way over who was called Oceanus, I believe.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
@@patriciat1514 Well good. My paternal side is related to Miles Standish.
That background music is annoying, distracting, and serves no purpose. Why is it playing?
The information is fascinating but that 80s infomercial rock in the background is annoying.
Turn off the music please
Squanto was an exaggerated version of an historical figure, like Pocahontas. Another common myth is Thanksgiving, and also how Natives welcomed Columbus and the first Mayflower residents. LIES/BS. As natives, we still deal with people who say they are descended of a Cherokee princess to claim Native heritage. Tribes do not have princesses. Natives are not exotic, primitive or uneducated, we thrive and are awesome. We are human and are here.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
When not involved with addiction and poverty, you thrive because of those who settled and civilized this land.
@edmundooliver7584
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 no, settler drought alcohol, disease and polluted this land killing is not civilizing. maybe drought christianity
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
@@edmundooliver7584 What percentage of them are addicts, and what percentage of us.
@edmundooliver7584
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 your talking about today I'am talking about settler's, but they's a fentanyl epidemic, drugs and alcohol problem in America along with murder and poverty that civilization creative.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
@@edmundooliver7584 So in either case, don't blame the supplier, blame the damand.
I bet he wont pin this comment hi cat
It wasn't solely hunting that doomed the passenger pigeon. Deforestation, chestnut blight and despite huge numbers a shockingly shallow gene pool. Any given one would have spelled doom and I sincerely doubt they would still be around even if Europeans never hunted a single bird. Not saying it helped but it wasn't the sole cause.
@talisikid1618
Жыл бұрын
It was the main cause along with habitat destruction. European caused. Just the facts.
It's not a realistic thumb name. It's a artist drawing. The women would have not look hygienically clean because it took a lot of effort to take a bath. You had to carry water in a bucket one at a time then heat several pots on the stove to warm the water. In real life people probably walked around looking filthy.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
That's an extremely ignorant comment. No one enjoys living in filth. They scrubbed down every day with a wash basin and rag, bathing every now and then.
@tommy5367
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 like you were there.
@michaelcoder9119
Жыл бұрын
@@tommy5367 Well no. You have me on that, but I have you on something called an education. By your statements you haven't much of one.
@tommy5367
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelcoder9119 people like you belittle others to feel better about their on pathetic lives. My British friends and I only have one thing to say to you. GET BENT.
Now are corn is trashed… all altered GMO
@edmundooliver7584
Жыл бұрын
our
@ez2u1
Жыл бұрын
@@edmundooliver7584 thank you
I am a Zookeeper in Atlanta and I regularly feed the Hippos day old Sausages so they have a taste of their home. I put strings on the sausages and swing them around the Hippos they get so Mad at me and Scream but it's an obsession sometimes the hippos try and Break out of their Cages but I keep swinging those hotdogs in Wide Circles over their heads. Luckily my Boss doesn't know I do this or my Coworke
@valfletcher9285
Жыл бұрын
sounds insane.
@CaponeCabin
Жыл бұрын
You said your a beekeeper in Minnesota and a chef at cracker barrel
What’s up with your hair, bro? You hungover?
The word is 'colonist" and NOT 'colonialist'. Do some more research before making these videos. You have several errors.
@JJUnohu
Жыл бұрын
Thanks professor robin