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@edwin7126

4 жыл бұрын

So who actually invented cutlery ?

@stalinsmum6475

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that Louis XIV of France bathed regularly, and that story about him not bathing is false, perhaps propaganda. His grandson made a huge bath in Versilles but before that water woukd be heated and brought in.

Those shirt buttons are stronger than my relationships

@Ronsonpeters

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas W except it does fit, like it's not hugging his sides? These buttons are confusing me, but I do have some shirts that do that no matter what. Maybe it's just his chest. Which I don't mind lol

@Tom-ef1mz

7 жыл бұрын

and your relationships are stronger than mine... :((

@keriezy

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas W I think they're trying for the first real reason to have 3-D KZread. *points screen away from face

@davidfrancis6727

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas W it's a sweater

@thomasjw5

7 жыл бұрын

David Francis Oh shit I just got fucking roasted!

You guys are constantly answering questions I had no idea I wanted answered. This is awesome!

6:52 "However, knives weren't domesticated or fashioned exclusively for table use until the Bourbon dynasty in France." ...For some reason when he said "domesticated" I instinctually started imagining some dudes running around in an open field trying to tame wild running knives.

@zollen123

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 They were attracted by the smells of cooked meat.

Everyone: Does Simon whistle? Simon: ummm....eating utensils!

Who ever invented the 'spork' deserves a reach-around.

@lindah6954

2 жыл бұрын

KFC still holds the rights to the spork. lol

Can we get a history of multiple shirt sizes

@keriezy

7 жыл бұрын

Brian Fitzpatrick haha

@_Super_Hans_

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think Simon has any expertise on this subject

@aaronsmith5864

7 жыл бұрын

Brian Fitzpatrick maybe he's just super buff under that shirt and he wants people to know

During the US Civil War forks were still considered too dainty for most of the soldiers to use for eating and usually only officers carried mess kits that included forks. The rank and file used extra wide knives that were rounded at the tip to scoop their food like a spoon. You can still commonly find such cutlery today in old silver sets.

I love how Theodora from the Byzantine Empire brought forks, but the usage of forks in the Byzantine empire and to Greece before the Byzantine Empire isn't even mentioned.

Simon man! Watching this video and compared to your more recent ones I can see how you have matured. Like a good wine, you’ve gotten better with time

I want to know who created the layout for keyboards we use today

@knower1514

7 жыл бұрын

Jailan Simon go Simon

@lukasschmidt2478

7 жыл бұрын

Jailan Simon Just search for "qwerty" on google.

@revmpandora

7 жыл бұрын

Lukas Schmidt then search 'dvorak' for an alternate keyboard layout.

@TodayIFoundOut

7 жыл бұрын

There you go :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/gX1lqMGcaLC2hsY.html

@lukasschmidt2478

7 жыл бұрын

Then search for the alphabet

I've always wondered who invented toothpaste? and what promted them to figure it out? Also what people used before toothpaste, like what did the Egyptions/Romans/Greeks and people before them do about their teeth?

@lewisarcher5117

7 жыл бұрын

just found out that the Egyptians are believed to be the first people to use a paste to clean their teeth!! the more you know..

@DodiTov

7 жыл бұрын

One thing I can tell you is that in the US, there were tooth powders. One was made by Colgate and it was spearmint flavored and very popular. It was a regular thing throughout the 1950's and early 60's. There were even commercials for it. You tipped a bit out of the can into your palm and dipped a damp toothbrush into the powder. It foamed a bit and that's how you brushed with it. The ease of a paste was that you didn't get your hands involved in the brushing process. Google up Ipana, Pepsodent, and Colgate histories and you might find your answer.

@aturchomicz821

7 жыл бұрын

they used Taback

@Arcsinner

7 жыл бұрын

People in the past had less problems with their teeth as we would imagine. They consumed virtually no sugar (coca cola, ice cream, sugared tea, ...) and therefore caries and so on was not really an issue. If we go even further back in history (hunters and gatherers), people back then had even less dental problems. They did not eat bread, which contains starch and other things that stick to your teeth and has a lot of energy (that feeds bacteria in your mouth). So bad teeth are only really a problem due to modern diet

@chat427

7 жыл бұрын

charcoal and salt

I randomly wondered this and it comforts me that ppl have already thought and figured this out

Excellent, fast paced, informative presentation. Thank you!

An intelligent channel for intelligent people. The amount of research you guys do is what makes the difference. Bravo.

@TodayIFoundOut

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks :-)

And I'm over here eating a sandwich and chips with my hands like some sort of savage.

Why do we eat 3 main meals a day? Where did it come from and when?

@JonathanSmyth5

5 жыл бұрын

metabolism

@jimmym3352

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanSmyth5 I eat 2 meals a day

@JonathanSmyth5

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimmym3352 no way!

@stalinsmum6475

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmym3352 I don’t eat. Starving is way more fun.

@osamabindiesel3389

3 жыл бұрын

It was just one of those weird things that came from upper class people in medieval europe. They thought having seperate meals at certain times of day makes them more sophisticated and now it’s a thing adopted all over the world. Not exactly a bad thing, just unnecessary for the most part

brilliant, informative, articulate. congratulations on the excellence of presentation.

0:40 wrong text?

@Ronsonpeters

7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Wienhöft saw that glad someone saw it

@ColinKeenan

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's at both 0:37 and 4:37. It only belongs at 4:37. Maybe it'll be fixed?

@Knight_Astolfo

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had to pause and read it. Then I was just like, "ok, maybe he's getting around to that point."

I just heard the word "spoons" so many times that it lost meaning and now I'm questioning my sanity

I can't help but think about the part in Mel Brooks "History of the World Part 1". When the cavemen are holding meat over a fire with there bare hands , in obvious agony. And then when one of the caveman skewers the meat with a stick. And the rest of the cavemen gasp in amazement!

@ 1:48 fun fact: the Jannissary cap's brass front was supposed to be a nod to the first Janissaries and their habit of tying spoons to the front of their headgear (this symbolized comradeship: you ate with your comrades in arms, and died with them).

wow.... That is A LOT of cutlery knowledge!! great video!

Loved the bonus facts on this one.

Ok, here are some questions for you: When we say that people of a certain era "rarely bathed", what does that really mean? Did they never wash themselves at all? Did they only wash particularly visible parts more regularly? Or maybe particularly stinky parts? Or something else? I know it's because I'm just used to being clean, but I feel absolutely miserable (sticky, stinky, itchy, etc) when I'm dirty. Were people in those times miserable all the time or were they used to it? I guess they also had to deal with things like fleas and lice more than we do, so maybe they took itching in stride. In any case, I'm really interested in the details of this subject.

@keziahschuler2617

4 жыл бұрын

In Europe, baths had always been associated with the Roman baths, which after a while came to be places of ill-repute, and given that Europe was mostly Christain, they thought it was a sin to take baths. Usually, people only had one bath in their lifetime, when they were baptized as babies. Many people, often rich women would carry around strong perfumes and fragrant bunches of flowers to mask the stink. Poorer people just ignored the stink and the bugs, they were usually too drunk to notice anyway.

Finally! I've been wondering this for quite a while, but I'm too lazy to do the research. Thanks for the video and research!

Chinese invent the fork, an now they use chopsticks

@user-rh2pv2kc5g

5 жыл бұрын

@Randi M Roble in the past ,using chopsticks means you are noble or high class while using folks and knife is too low....

@willcomedevil3916

5 жыл бұрын

chopsticks can do manything fork can not do. its the most useful tool to use!

@red-nb3lj

5 жыл бұрын

@@nigelmarvin1387 after two years, i give you WHY the Chinese move on from fork to chopsticks. Simple answer is because chopsticks is easy to get and useful. Because at that time there are no such metal or plastic fork. And they are more hard to make than chopsticks, so if someone need to eat at any place but didn't bring the chopsticks with them, so they just need to find small tree branches to made it. So they left behind fork.

@pigeon2503

4 жыл бұрын

@MrBigEnchilada but with a fork you can cut meat (even without a knife section to the fork, depending on the meat) while chopsticks ... can't really? I also can't see what chopsticks can achieve that forks can't, for noodles you poke the fork in and twist, and that works just as well, for anything that requires picking up, you poke with the fork and that works better and more accurately than having to learn the delicate balance of the chopsticks What am I missing with the functionality of the chopsticks?

@torinjones3221

4 жыл бұрын

Alternatively we could all accept that knives are superior to both forks and chop sticks as you can cut and stab with a knife.

Loved the bonus facts.

Cool! Thanks for answering the question I posed in the comments on your chopsticks video!

How about an episode about the Turkish - Cypriot conflict and the Turkish invasion of 1974? Few people outside Cyprus, Greece and Turkey know about this and each side has its own version. I would love an independent and impartial view of historical facts. Love your videos Simon, they are part of my daily routine! Cheers!

How have I not thought of this ?

@CaptTerrific

7 жыл бұрын

Kabir Pankaj i know, right!?

@_Super_Hans_

7 жыл бұрын

because you're a forking idiot

Now I know why people gave us spoons when I had a baby. It also explains some odd decor choices I've seen... tiny spoon collections seemed super weird.

Who invented buttons should be his personal favorite. His nickname must be "Too Tight Timmy"

Nice video. Thank you. I'm curious about Eastern eating utensils. Chopsticks, of course, but also spoons for soup, and the shallow, saucer-like cups used for drinking. Why the differences, and who uses what eating implements on a global basis? Cheers.

Do a video about Chop sticks please! Always been curious why they chose 2 sticks over anything else lol.

"Forks were an insult to God. You have perfectly good natural forks: your fingers. Why not use those?" Oh my fork, really?!

@6:45 love how much of a knife guy you are!

I love this channel

Bonus Fact: Aluminium cutlery was more expensive than gold cutlery when Napoleon was knocking about.

Just when the sweaters starting fitting right, now it's the button-downs!

No mention of the great Aussie invention the Splayd, not to be confused with the spork, it has a dull blade on one side

The use of cutlery doesn't tell us who actually invented cutlery .

Why do worms crawl to the sidewalks after it rains?

@marfisilva

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Beer I've seen that too but only with heavy rain. I think they'll suffocate since all the little spaces between soil particles would be filled with water, but... why do they go to side walk and not only to the surface of the soil they are in??? 🤔🤔

@ryanbeer8949

7 жыл бұрын

Thats what i was thinking. I find them on the sidewalk or out in the middle of a parking lot. Why not borrow father underground or just to the surface and not on to cement. That's what i am hoping Simon can find out :-D

@thunderball11111

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Beer QQ

@jerotoro2021

7 жыл бұрын

I think all worms surface, crawl for a bit on the surface, and then dig down again. The ones that found their way on to a hard surface cannot dig back down... and those are the ones you see dying on side walks. All the rest of them managed to dig back down and live (if a bird didn't find them, anyway).

@JeffKing310

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Beer because they cannot breath underground when the ground is wet

I sit here while being freshly bathed and eating my breakfast with a fork. lol.

I liked this one a lot. I'm not sure why; the content was no more spectacular than other episodes. Oh the thing about the fork having a negative stigma shows up out of sequence at 0:39

"You call that a knife? This 🥄 is a knife!"

De Medici is pronounced "De Medichi" since it is an Italian name

@meatystew5088

7 жыл бұрын

Assassins Creed 2 was fucking sweet

I can imagine how pissed off people would be trying to eat spaghetti with a spoon. lol

the ale also helped you to "accidentally" stab the annoying baron who keeps making comments on your wig

Could you do another video on Medieval hygiene and hygiene throughout history and different places on earth in general? Like where do these ideas come from and how they developed.

Additional bonus fact the spork is the result of a drunken one night stand between a spoon and a fork.

I literally had this thought earlier this day! What a coincidence!! 😂😂

I went from studying to looking to background music to eventually this. And I wonder why my homework takes hours.

Should we start calling Simon 'The Beard of Knowledge'?

@What-ef8wj

6 жыл бұрын

Something about this reminded me of the bald eagle...

1:48 that spoon looks like a coffee bean on a stick

What I want to know is, what is that plate and cutlery set that keeps being shown, like at 7:39? It looks super cool!

I've never found a naturally spoon-like rock. Handle or no.

@jjc5475

7 жыл бұрын

did you ever look for one?

@davidbuschhorn6539

7 жыл бұрын

I. Never. Stop. :-)

Thank you.

I was just thinking about this while eating and then this video!

Hi. I love the spork. I ordered a stainless steel one with a kind of cartoon character stamped in and it's been months of waiting, for it to arrive.

Love the videos watch everyday now. My question is why do people say drink a hot drink on a hot day to cool you down

Simon, stop being comfortable, stop eating crap, you look like the Incredible Hulk. Great video, loved the bonus facts.

Spoons. Oh yes, I'll trough a golden spoon at you and you'll be a king.

Who invented the very tight buttoned shirt?

@kevin7rxxx346

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Those bathing habits are even worse than mine XD

Queen Elisabeth 1 popularized bathing when she had her bathtub taken with her on "progress". Her servants had to heat water for her daily baths which were thought to be insane. She also forbid her court to see her at any time unless they bathed first. She had a sensitive nose and could not tolerate body odor.The rest of Europe was stinky at the time. In fact infectious diseases were terrible because of unsanitary conditions. Peasants may have bathed more frequently than the upper classes. Queen Elisabeth 1 also popularized forks during her time, much to the disgust of many of her courtiers who couldn't understand what was wrong with knives and spoons. She lived to be 70 years old, a veritable ancient person in her time.

Some of the overlay text in this video shows at the wrong time or just cuts off weirdly. Unusually sloppy for TIFO =P I'm just messing, keep up the awesome work guys

Does anyone else think that in 30 years Simon will look just like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons? If they ever do a live action version of the Simpsons, he'll be a lock for the part... :) (Just kidding, in case he actually reads this comment. HAhahahahaha...)

Everything has changed. And yet, nothing has changed.

Everyone in here picking at Simon, but he's a well handsome chap.

Well that was nice of Queen Isabel to bathe that one time for her husband Ferdinand. Lucky guy.

YES! He mentions sporks!

The "Barack" period lol. I love British accents!

The phrase "born with a silver spoon in their mouth"

Fun fact cannibals of Papua New Guinea, used wooden forks for eating.

My whole set is made of convenient stones.

I get the sense that Simon wanted to wash his hands of the content in the video once it was done (especially the part about Louie the 14th not bathing).

Never bathing..... Once you pull down your pants, the whole kingdom becomes aware of it.

Never have I been so happy to be alive in this time period. How humans managed to get through such a poor hygiene area is impressive, but ugh I've been around people who don't bath, and I can't get away fast enough. I'm polite if I have to hold conversation, but the bath, and soap are the greatest inventions ever created.

Haha everyone knows that spoons were invented by Spoony Spoonicus.

Do the history of the U-boat, Please!!

didn't talk about the king of the dining table, the noble Spork!

Who invented the hard hat?

@MrHypnofan

7 жыл бұрын

The story I was taught was that they were invented by the workers who were building the Hoover Dam. To prevent injury by falling rocks in the narrow canyon, they dipped their standard workers caps in tar and let it harden.

@sintanan469

7 жыл бұрын

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Is that a hammered pewter plate and fork? I want those!

Tri means 3 so 3 pronger is called a trident. Four pronger of course is fork. Bi means 2 so is 2 pronger a bident or a bik?

I personally love the titanium spork

It is noted that the Americans are still using their fingers to eat their hamburgers and fries along with fried chicken and any sort of fruits. Anyone using forks and spoons would be quickly ridiculed.

this Guy always asks the right answers

Louis also suffered from a ruptured anal fistula that reeked of pus and faeces. The royal barber miraculously performed a successful operation to treat the fistula, which later led to the operation becoming fashionable regardless of whether one was a sufferer or not.

@rabidfurify

7 жыл бұрын

The more I learn about French court culture during this period the more I am amazed that anyone actually lived through it

@generalpopcorn6427

5 жыл бұрын

IKR. They also sprayed themselves with a lead-based powder. Come to think of it, doesn't lead cause insanity?

Also not long ago I came across a lately made TV show (of supposed educational character) that suggested we go back to the twice a lifetime bathing / washing habit ... also because of health reasons. They said on the skin are living bacteria that normally would prevent any kind skin condition and (strong) body odor, but only growing slowly (takes 6 weeks to fully cover the body, even with help of daily use of starter kits) but washed away by first contact of water. After 5 weeks he (was also staying at a guest family) was only allowed in the gazebo (a few dozen feet away from the house), because the stench was so unbearable. (he was not allowed to go in in any enclosed space, not even the garden shack) Which (according to the show) then dropped off after week 6, so that in week 7 (last week of experiment) was allowed back in. Or that is at least what they said (and I don't believe a single word from).

The guy who spoke about God abhorring forks sounds like Jonathan Swift or some other British parodist.

Can you do an episode on the orgin of bows or guns? Who and where were they made first?

Peter Damian describes Maria Agrya - the inventor of fork and knife eating “Such was the luxury of her habits that she scorned even to wash herself in the common water, obliging her servants instead to collect the dew that fell from the heavens for her to bathe in. Nor did she deign to touch her food with her fingers, but would command her eunuchs to cut it up into small pieces, which she would impale on a certain golden instrument with two prongs and thus carry to her mouth. . . . this woman’s vanity was hateful to Almighty God; and so, unmistakably, did He take his revenge. For He raised over her the sword of His divine justice, so that her whole body did putrefy and all her limbs began to wither.”

i want to be anointed by a ceremonial spoon

Remember kids: sleep is important.

I still want to learn more about sporks and spives!

It's not a fork if it has 3 tines, it's a mini trident.

The thought of _born with a silver-spoon in the mouth_ comes to mind...

There’s an old joke in France that the average French person bathes only 3 times in their lifetime: Once when they are baptised; once when they are about to get married; and once for their funeral. In other words, they bathe *voluntarily* only once!

Yet ppl say I'm disgusting for not always bathing on my weekend...