The glass was a lot smaller/shallower than that and was known as a 'Penny Lick', they still come up for auction now and again. Eventually banned in 1898 due to health concerns.
There's a great video of an early kraftwerk show in Germany where everyone is just confused and standing weirdly since they have no idea how to dance to it
@@lukijez There's video footage of Led Zeppelin playing on a Danish TV show in 1968, and the studio audience are these adolescents politely sitting on the floor as one of history's greatest rock bands bangs out their earliest hits. Then you contrast that with them playing Wembley Stadium a decade later and the crowd is fully a modern rock show audience.
This happened to my mother who came here as an immigrant from a mudbrick house with no electricity or running water. Brainfreeze, followed by slow dawning joy.
Aaaahhh yes !!! That first Ice cone at the local Carnival or street Fair as a child afraid of getting in trouble if melted all over you so you try to gobble it down fast only to get Brain Freeze followed by the joy of a sugar rush . 😱😨😃
I love this kind of history, everyone knows about the big stuff done by famous and ‘important’ people, but we don’t hear enough about working class people and their lives!
1960s Manchester, pre- home deep freeze era, we used to take our own bowl out to the ice cream man and he'd put the relevant number of scoops in it. It would sit in the tiny, useless freezer compartment of the fridge until tea time, when it would be eaten with tinned peaches. Not so far removed from the penny lick really
I had the same story from my father who, as the 12/13 year old son of the local banker and Ford dealer, was tasked with teaching prosperous (lead mines in SW Wisconsin just after "The Great War") farmers how to drive their brand new automobiles. Cresting a hill and heading down was often the crux of the lesson.😆 He only told the story about one only instance. I suspect, by 1918 the proportion of farms that still used literal horse power was pretty small.
@@blindleader42 in case you’re interested, machine horsepower did not overshadow literal horsepower in farming until WWII in the US, later in some other areas. Americans have no idea how much of their world from mores to economies are post-1945. I wonder how other western countries relate. Cars in 1918 were for only the crazy wealthy.
People used to share dishes a lot. IIRC, for communion the entire congregation used to drink out of the same cup of blessed wine. In general people only scrubbed dishes to remove visible residue, and they didn't use soap. So things like mugs and flatware wouldn't be washed by our standards either. That included public eating places like inns and taverns as well as wealthy houses that had guests, like royal palaces.
That's where our great immunsystem comes from, I quess 😂 Jenny, I love your videos. They are always informative and make me smile😊. I can highly recommend all people who only even so much as pass through London to use their time wisely and spend some of that time with Jenny. Had a great afternoon in the National Gallery with her and learned a lot. Health and happiness for you!!!
In more traditional churches, there's still a communal cup of wine. The pastor or priest will wipe the rim after each sip. And if there's any wine left after the congregation is done, he'll drink the rest! (They're not allowed to waste holy wine.)
@@Lhene9 Because of the Pandemic of 1918 , Some Churches here in America now use the small disposable cups for Sacrament . But The one I grew up in did the wipe after each sip . Some Priest's waited until after mass to drink the left over wine , so as to not offend the church members who thought they were making themselves more holy . I was an alter boy for a few years .
Most Catholic churches I've gone to (I'm an atheist, but somehow have visited a lot of them) still use the communal cup. I find it odd. Not sure post-COVID if that's still a thing. It shouldn't have been a thing anyway. 😂
@@EricaGamet I thought that the Catholic custom was that only the priest drank the wine and the congregation just got the wafers? But maybe that's just a historical thing. Outside the Mediterranean region there wasn't enough wine to go around for everyone and it was really expensive, so much of the history the priest drank on behalf of the whole congregation.
BRILLIANT and lots of fun. I actually laughed out loud at the end. Thank you so much for this bit of truthful fun history knowledge. Love you for these! xxx
London had a huge demand for ice so it was imported from Norway and other places, even the United States. It was stored in huge underground ice-wells and sold in blocks to anyone who need refrigeration.
For some reason I have always thought of London as being the testing ground for everything. "Give it to a Londoner, they'll do _anything,"_ Hmmm, this just reinforces my view. 😂
I remember when I gave someone ice cream for the very first time. It was in Agadir in Morocco. We were at a restaurant, and were having ice cream for dessert. And there was a small kitten there who was meowing to get some food. So I scooped out a little bit of ice cream and dropped on the floor for him to eat. He first stuck his nose into it, to try to find out what it was. But because of the cold, he probably thought he had been bitten or something. So he jumped back, and then tried to hit the ice cream with his paw, probably in an attempt to kill it or something. It was quite cute to watch. And yes, he did eat it at the end.
@@Tjalve70 no, they can't. That's the problem. Most cats are lactose intolerant. There's a very good chance you gave that cat diarrhoea and vomiting. It's a common misconception that you can feed cats milk. You shouldn't. Unless you want to make them sick.
I remember as a child being told the possibly apocryphal story about how hot dogs (frankfurters or wieners) were introduced to America without buns. At some big fair or exhibition (it varies) the sausage vendor the loaned customers white gloves to protect their fingers from the hot sausages. Problem is they wanted to keep the gloves and so wandered off with them. The story says vendor then strikes upon the happy solution of serving them in a bun and thus the hot dog is born. This raises so many questions about the gloves (or sometimes mittens). White cotton? Were they ever washed? How many pairs would they start the day with? Would customers get a pair or just one? Were they really big so they fit all customers? If the day’s supply of gloves were all stolen, would they shut down for the day? Wouldn’t a piece of thick paper have worked as well?
Henry Mayhew and Charles Dickens both get more than honourable mentions in Terry Pratchett's book Dodger. I'd never heard about Mayhew till I read it. Mayhew is an interesting bloke, worth knowing about.
I heard a similar sort of history for the shot glass. In the early days when glassware was rare even for the rich you'd drink your shot turn the little glass over and slap it down on the table. The sturdy little glass would make a BANG sound and a servant would come get it take it to a side board. (presumably wipe it out with a cloth) and it would sit there till the next lord called for a shot. This was in rich households.
This is the feeling I got watching Timothée Chalamey eat a bunch of South African snacks for the for first time on Wonka promo - like snacks are weirdly case by case on how you eat them, there’s definitely a learning curve, and you don’t realise this until you see somehow bite into something definitely not the way they should or want to if they want to keep their teeth, like a visitor from Mars.
One of the fun stores in my family lore is when my great grandma had ice cream for the first time as a little girl. She and a friend were at a church event and snuck away some of the ice cream before they were supposed to and hid under a table to eat it. Of course because they had never had it before, and were trying to eat it quickly, they got terrible brain freeze which they interpreted as God punishing them for stealing from the church 😂
In Sicily, they solved the problem right away by scooping ice cream in a delicious brioche, which soaks the melted ice cream, and then you just eat the brioche itself.
They had wafer cones in England,with banquets and wafer cones holding fruit and iced puddings being mentioned in ‘The professed cook’ book in 1769 and they had a wafer cone holding a round of ice cream recipe in ‘The modern cook’ in 1846.
At the excellent London Canal Museum, which is very near St. Pancras International Railway Station, there is an interesting exhibition all about the history of ice-cream making and selling in London. At one time over 40,000 people lived and worked on the London canals. Ice was an important import 🏴🌊🍦🦆
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. [It is not a great translation]
You would think companies like the East India company would have figured out how to ship ice from Norway and ship it in metal lined cargo hulls and pack the ice with sawdust as an insulator. Then when the ship arrives in London, transport the ice to subterranean ice houses for distribution within the city. Not to sound like a “smarty pants”, but that idea seems pretty easy to figure out. Didn’t anyone watch the beginning of the “Frozen”? Now you have me curious about the history of refrigeration.
That's how they did it. There are still a couple extant "ice wells" in London. But the EIC didn't run the trade because the Americans had already built a monopoly selling lake ice from Massachusetts (and Himalayan ice tended to melt before it reached Calcutta). Large-scale ice importation from Norway began in the 1850s, around the same time as the source in this video. It coincided with a wave of immigrants fleeing the first Italian war of independence who expanded the popularity of ice cream beyond the upper class.
😂 I've heard about the introduction of the waffle cone, or at least the "as the story goes" version. And I did wonder how they had ice cream before that but I didn't remember to go look it up.
Street vendors not washing the cup is insane! I grew up in rural India where street vendors didn't have running water. And they still washed the plates with water and soap. It just isn't running water but water in a bucket.
I thought ice cream was first made popular by Carlo Gatti who sold penny scoops in shells not glass bowls. Or did I get the date wrong? Or did Henry Mayhew interview his ice cream seller on 1/04/1851?
That is the time Mayhew was interviewing people and ice cream was a new thing. One observer couldn't believe they were selling ice cream in the street "they'll be having penny glasses of champagne next I shouldn't wonder".
My question wasn’t “do they wash the glass”- it was “how many glasses did the average vendor have?”! When it eventually got popular, I’m just picturing a line of people holding their glass and licking their ice creams, and each with a line behind them waiting for their turn to buy and eat! 😂
I hope this is not an annoyance to anyone. Apologies for my apologies beforehand, but I cannot help but imagine Simon Roper and Jenny Draper meeting for a beer in a pub. How long would it take them for their more recessed characteristics to emerge? Simon, apologizing for his sudden bursts of gregarious mirth, or Jenny, become laconic,apologizing, and then apologizing for apologizing, for leaving out author credits for her Wikipedia sources?
TBH the fact that they could make ice cream cheap enough to sell at a street vendor in 1840 is *really* impressive; were they storing ice all summer or did they actually have ice-making machines? That said if I'm ever sent back in time I'll wait to buy any until cones are invented, thanks for the warning.
What other types of street food did they have back then? I just imagined street food in general being quite a modern thing. And they would have only ate indoors or at most a picnic outside!
There were many vendors of street food in London. The pie man selling meat pies. The hot potato man with hot baked potatoes. The original ham sandwich man who sold ham sandwiches outside the theaters. Sellers of fried fish. The seller of ginger nuts, like a donut hole made of ginger bread, his cry was "If ONE will warm you what will a pound do?" No doubt there were other foods and drinks sold in the street. Poor people whose work took them away from home would look for a street vendor for a cheap lunch.
The glass was a lot smaller/shallower than that and was known as a 'Penny Lick', they still come up for auction now and again. Eventually banned in 1898 due to health concerns.
'Penny Lick' is one of the worst phrases I've heard in my life
@@alexharrison2743 one for @LostinthePond I think.
For anyone who doesn't want to Google it but is curious, it just looks like a tall shot glass with feet
@@420vapemaster69 there's a few different designs but most were shallow at the top to give the illusion of more ice cream than you actually paid for.
@@2Wheels4Wheels. Oh thanks for the correction! :D that's really cool
I love this so much! It's actually so humanising to see how people in the past were still trying to figure random little things like this out
There's a great video of an early kraftwerk show in Germany where everyone is just confused and standing weirdly since they have no idea how to dance to it
That's quite the outside the box tangent. I love it!
This is what the glasses actually look like by the way en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_lick#/media/File%3APenny_Lick_Glasses_009.jpg
@@lukijez There's video footage of Led Zeppelin playing on a Danish TV show in 1968, and the studio audience are these adolescents politely sitting on the floor as one of history's greatest rock bands bangs out their earliest hits. Then you contrast that with them playing Wembley Stadium a decade later and the crowd is fully a modern rock show audience.
Kraftwerk... 😶 I must say, @@lukijez, that I did not anticipate this, umm, interpretation, reflection...
This happened to my mother who came here as an immigrant from a mudbrick house with no electricity or running water. Brainfreeze, followed by slow dawning joy.
Aaaahhh yes !!! That first Ice cone at the local Carnival or street Fair as a child afraid of getting in trouble if melted all over you so you try to gobble it down fast only to get Brain Freeze followed by the joy of a sugar rush . 😱😨😃
I love this kind of history, everyone knows about the big stuff done by famous and ‘important’ people, but we don’t hear enough about working class people and their lives!
London Labor and the London Poor is a treasure trove of the lives of the working class in 1850.
1960s Manchester, pre- home deep freeze era, we used to take our own bowl out to the ice cream man and he'd put the relevant number of scoops in it. It would sit in the tiny, useless freezer compartment of the fridge until tea time, when it would be eaten with tinned peaches. Not so far removed from the penny lick really
I can remember doing that well into the 70s in Sheffield - 50p would get you a decent sized bowl full
This is your funniest long short yet.
I cannot look at ice cream the same way but it does remind me of first time drivers yelling 'woah!' at new vehicles 😅
I had the same story from my father who, as the 12/13 year old son of the local banker and Ford dealer, was tasked with teaching prosperous (lead mines in SW Wisconsin just after "The Great War") farmers how to drive their brand new automobiles. Cresting a hill and heading down was often the crux of the lesson.😆
He only told the story about one only instance. I suspect, by 1918 the proportion of farms that still used literal horse power was pretty small.
@@blindleader42 in case you’re interested, machine horsepower did not overshadow literal horsepower in farming until WWII in the US, later in some other areas.
Americans have no idea how much of their world from mores to economies are post-1945. I wonder how other western countries relate.
Cars in 1918 were for only the crazy wealthy.
People used to share dishes a lot. IIRC, for communion the entire congregation used to drink out of the same cup of blessed wine. In general people only scrubbed dishes to remove visible residue, and they didn't use soap. So things like mugs and flatware wouldn't be washed by our standards either. That included public eating places like inns and taverns as well as wealthy houses that had guests, like royal palaces.
That's where our great immunsystem comes from, I quess 😂
Jenny, I love your videos. They are always informative and make me smile😊. I can highly recommend all people who only even so much as pass through London to use their time wisely and spend some of that time with Jenny. Had a great afternoon in the National Gallery with her and learned a lot. Health and happiness for you!!!
In more traditional churches, there's still a communal cup of wine. The pastor or priest will wipe the rim after each sip. And if there's any wine left after the congregation is done, he'll drink the rest! (They're not allowed to waste holy wine.)
@@Lhene9 Because of the Pandemic of 1918 , Some Churches here in America now use the small disposable cups for Sacrament . But The one I grew up in did the wipe after each sip . Some Priest's waited until after mass to drink the left over wine , so as to not offend the church members who thought they were making themselves more holy . I was an alter boy for a few years .
Most Catholic churches I've gone to (I'm an atheist, but somehow have visited a lot of them) still use the communal cup. I find it odd. Not sure post-COVID if that's still a thing. It shouldn't have been a thing anyway. 😂
@@EricaGamet I thought that the Catholic custom was that only the priest drank the wine and the congregation just got the wafers? But maybe that's just a historical thing. Outside the Mediterranean region there wasn't enough wine to go around for everyone and it was really expensive, so much of the history the priest drank on behalf of the whole congregation.
You always find these tidbits of fun information nobody else thinks about! Brilliant!
BRILLIANT and lots of fun. I actually laughed out loud at the end. Thank you so much for this bit of truthful fun history knowledge. Love you for these! xxx
London had a huge demand for ice so it was imported from Norway and other places, even the United States. It was stored in huge underground ice-wells and sold in blocks to anyone who need refrigeration.
For some reason I have always thought of London as being the testing ground for everything. "Give it to a Londoner, they'll do _anything,"_
Hmmm, this just reinforces my view. 😂
I remember when I gave someone ice cream for the very first time.
It was in Agadir in Morocco. We were at a restaurant, and were having ice cream for dessert. And there was a small kitten there who was meowing to get some food. So I scooped out a little bit of ice cream and dropped on the floor for him to eat.
He first stuck his nose into it, to try to find out what it was. But because of the cold, he probably thought he had been bitten or something. So he jumped back, and then tried to hit the ice cream with his paw, probably in an attempt to kill it or something.
It was quite cute to watch. And yes, he did eat it at the end.
I hope it wasn't a milk based ice cream. Although I'm not sure water based ice cream is much better.
@@ArminGrewe It was milk based. Cats can eat/drink milk, so that shouldn't be a problem.
@@Tjalve70 no, they can't. That's the problem. Most cats are lactose intolerant. There's a very good chance you gave that cat diarrhoea and vomiting. It's a common misconception that you can feed cats milk. You shouldn't. Unless you want to make them sick.
@@ArminGreweLike many things probably depends on the amount.
@@ariaflame-au and that makes it OK then? Because it MIGHT not be enough to make them ill?
Thank you for the demonstration at the end in case i wasn't sure how much I hated this😂
She's using it for her dating profile too.
love how much you reveled the yukiñess of the practice.
The knowledge wasn't a surprise to me, though. Thanks for making me smile.
You are absolutely hilarious and so informative! Thank you loveliness 😂
I remember as a child being told the possibly apocryphal story about how hot dogs (frankfurters or wieners) were introduced to America without buns. At some big fair or exhibition (it varies) the sausage vendor the loaned customers white gloves to protect their fingers from the hot sausages. Problem is they wanted to keep the gloves and so wandered off with them. The story says vendor then strikes upon the happy solution of serving them in a bun and thus the hot dog is born.
This raises so many questions about the gloves (or sometimes mittens). White cotton? Were they ever washed? How many pairs would they start the day with? Would customers get a pair or just one? Were they really big so they fit all customers? If the day’s supply of gloves were all stolen, would they shut down for the day? Wouldn’t a piece of thick paper have worked as well?
Omigosh, how did ice cream ever beat those odds? 🤣 But I am glad it did. Brilliant piece by the way.
Henry Mayhew and Charles Dickens both get more than honourable mentions in Terry Pratchett's book Dodger. I'd never heard about Mayhew till I read it. Mayhew is an interesting bloke, worth knowing about.
Ooh wow I didn't know that! I love his books!
The penny lick was a lot smaller than your cup, of course, more like a shot glass with a single pingpong-ball size scoop inside
One of the best by far. More about food please.
Hilarious! You sure were in a silly mood!! 😂
Jane Austen wrote in her letters about finally getting to taste ice cream for the very first time -- she loved it.
I heard a similar sort of history for the shot glass. In the early days when glassware was rare even for the rich you'd drink your shot turn the little glass over and slap it down on the table. The sturdy little glass would make a BANG sound and a servant would come get it take it to a side board. (presumably wipe it out with a cloth) and it would sit there till the next lord called for a shot. This was in rich households.
That last lick and laugh!
This is a perfect example of why it seems like Jenny Draper would be a fun friend!
thank you for that final scene. It's a prime advertisement for food prep sanitation.....
This is the feeling I got watching Timothée Chalamey eat a bunch of South African snacks for the for first time on Wonka promo - like snacks are weirdly case by case on how you eat them, there’s definitely a learning curve, and you don’t realise this until you see somehow bite into something definitely not the way they should or want to if they want to keep their teeth, like a visitor from Mars.
Hilarious episode, thank you for sharing this with me today !
Cheers From California 😎
California still has this problem. Watch how low-end bars wash their glasses...
Hilarious! What an amazingly talented presenter! 😂❤
We should all be so lucky to have *this* much fun at work!!😁
This reminds me of people in 17th century London not knowing what tea was and spreading it on toast (forgive me if I’m remembering this wrong).
And CACO before someone thought to add sugar to it . Still make me shiver thinking about my first time .
This is why you're awesome.
I will now have a smile on my face because of this thought
Well this lives in my head rent-free now 🙃
Thank you for sharing something that's going to stay in my mind for a long, long time.
Reminds me of River trying to eat the icecream on a string in Firefly
I can't remember the scene exactly, but didn't she call it "confusing food" or something?
Which episode was that in? Do you remember?
@@Tjalve70 My food is problematic...
@@Tjalve70 its the one where they get a dead guy in the post.
I think she called it problematic
@@katelights Thanks. Found it. 4 minutes into the episode called The Message.
Gotta give you credit for memeing the heck out of the last scene
The 1800s equivalent of getting boba tea for the first time and instantly choking on a tapioca ball speeding up your gullet
One of the fun stores in my family lore is when my great grandma had ice cream for the first time as a little girl. She and a friend were at a church event and snuck away some of the ice cream before they were supposed to and hid under a table to eat it. Of course because they had never had it before, and were trying to eat it quickly, they got terrible brain freeze which they interpreted as God punishing them for stealing from the church 😂
Jenny and her magnified tongue will haunt my thoughts for the weeks holiday I'm about to start 😜
In Sicily, they solved the problem right away by scooping ice cream in a delicious brioche, which soaks the melted ice cream, and then you just eat the brioche itself.
Same solution as the hot dog and hamburger! Before then, Britons were just licking meat out of a glass.
They had wafer cones in England,with banquets and wafer cones holding fruit and iced puddings being mentioned in ‘The professed cook’ book in 1769 and they had a wafer cone holding a round of ice cream recipe in ‘The modern cook’ in 1846.
At the excellent London Canal Museum, which is very near St. Pancras International Railway Station, there is an interesting exhibition all about the history of ice-cream making and selling in London.
At one time over 40,000 people lived and worked on the London canals. Ice was an important import 🏴🌊🍦🦆
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. [It is not a great translation]
From the earliest beginnings, starts a tale of history. ‘Let me put a scoop in the palm of your hand. Two cents more, you can have a glass’
As we say here in the US south, "bless your heart, you ain't right".
Lady...Your a trip!!
A good one to be sure..lol...
You would think companies like the East India company would have figured out how to ship ice from Norway and ship it in metal lined cargo hulls and pack the ice with sawdust as an insulator. Then when the ship arrives in London, transport the ice to subterranean ice houses for distribution within the city. Not to sound like a “smarty pants”, but that idea seems pretty easy to figure out. Didn’t anyone watch the beginning of the “Frozen”? Now you have me curious about the history of refrigeration.
That's how they did it. There are still a couple extant "ice wells" in London. But the EIC didn't run the trade because the Americans had already built a monopoly selling lake ice from Massachusetts (and Himalayan ice tended to melt before it reached Calcutta). Large-scale ice importation from Norway began in the 1850s, around the same time as the source in this video. It coincided with a wave of immigrants fleeing the first Italian war of independence who expanded the popularity of ice cream beyond the upper class.
😂 I've heard about the introduction of the waffle cone, or at least the "as the story goes" version. And I did wonder how they had ice cream before that but I didn't remember to go look it up.
Charming AND horrifying!
Hey there!
Its really funny :)
Thanks a bunch!
hahaha. you are the best. your videos make me so happy
Street vendors not washing the cup is insane! I grew up in rural India where street vendors didn't have running water. And they still washed the plates with water and soap. It just isn't running water but water in a bucket.
Which, after the first person, isn't clean.
@@jdb101585 you don't put the dirty cup in the bucket. You pour water from the bucket into the cup you're washing.
I read they did wash the glasses but it was hard to keep up with the demand.
No, licking was perfectly healthy in the 1840’s. Germs didn’t exist until Pasteur invented them in the 1860’s. 😉
Have a nice day if you see this
Thanks, you too!
@@clara_corvus thank you
🍦🍦🍦 Ice Cream
My mum says in the 60s she had ice cream given out on paper! Like greaseproof baking paper. Can't imagine getting to eat any before it melted 😂
the fact your first thought for an appropriate piece of cutlery to eat ice cream with was "fork!"...
The human race survives despite itself.
The idea no one knew how to eat ice cream is hilarious to me!! 😂😂
This reminds me of the Roman communal sponges in public toilets.
Lol This was hilarious
I really like icecream... I'd have to decide in the moment about the glass.
The Soviets use the same technology 100 years later in for their soda vending machines.
Funny. Thank you for your scholarship.
I thought ice cream was first made popular by Carlo Gatti who sold penny scoops in shells not glass bowls. Or did I get the date wrong? Or did Henry Mayhew interview his ice cream seller on 1/04/1851?
That is the time Mayhew was interviewing people and ice cream was a new thing. One observer couldn't believe they were selling ice cream in the street "they'll be having penny glasses of champagne next I shouldn't wonder".
What about gelato in Rome I bet they had spoons day one. Also very fashionable scarfs I'd imagine.
Note to self: When time-travelling to 1840s London, do not eat, drink, or breathe ANYTHING.
ur so silly :-) luvit
A more accurate demonstration would be to turn that glass upside down and lick the imaginary ice cream off the bottom.
Agreed. The glasses were much smaller
My question wasn’t “do they wash the glass”- it was “how many glasses did the average vendor have?”! When it eventually got popular, I’m just picturing a line of people holding their glass and licking their ice creams, and each with a line behind them waiting for their turn to buy and eat! 😂
Apparently they did wash the glasses,but you’re exactly right,it was so popular,it was hard to keep up with the in between washing😅
This is the perfect Segway into a video about the great tuberculosis outbreak.
Biting ice cream unprepared must seem like an assignation attempt
IDK who you are having assignations with, but it is generally agreed that icy is not a good quality in a partner.
I hope this is not an annoyance to anyone. Apologies for my apologies beforehand, but I cannot help but imagine Simon Roper and Jenny Draper meeting for a beer in a pub. How long would it take them for their more recessed characteristics to emerge? Simon, apologizing for his sudden bursts of gregarious mirth, or Jenny, become laconic,apologizing, and then apologizing for apologizing, for leaving out author credits for her Wikipedia sources?
I laughed so hard!
Cured my urge for ice cream today.
i wasn't eating solids yet when i had my first ice cream. it was homemade. apparently my eyes bugged out of my head and i violently grabbed the spoon.
I'm clicking Like, but there's things here I don't like... Excellent job as always!
I'm a big fan of Mayhew.
OMG that ending! 💀
The waffle cone was first introduced at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.
They had waffle cones in the 1700’s in England holding puddings,fruit or ice cream!
Surely this won’t spread any diseases
At least they got ice cream.
1904 or so for the Wafer cone and the hotdog bun. St. Louis Worlds Fair.
Or the ice scream vendor should have a dog with him. 😋🐶
🤣🤣🤣 geeeze now I am all sticky .......come here boy .
I'm m ok sharing a glass with *some* people; just not everyone 😅
Icecream "penny licks" and tuberculosis: a match made in Hell.
Am I the only one who likes to bite ice cream?
You make me laugh
I love J. Draper, but seeing their giant refracted tongue in that glass kinda skeeved me out.
Safe to say it gave a lot of us interesting feelings
TBH the fact that they could make ice cream cheap enough to sell at a street vendor in 1840 is *really* impressive; were they storing ice all summer or did they actually have ice-making machines?
That said if I'm ever sent back in time I'll wait to buy any until cones are invented, thanks for the warning.
My parents tell me this is exactly how i tried to eat ice cream when I was introduced to it as a baby.
Just got to hope they looked at really clean ahead of time so it's ready to be used and no dirty ice cream left in it!😅
Do... People not bite their ice cream normally?
Ah, so kinda like drinks vending machines in the former soviet union.
Also, as shown on Horrible Histories, they had some the grimmest flavours available. "Earwax" is one I think I remember
I think this is so funny 😂 But I’m not sure if today’s date is involved?
unlikely - these videos are posted to tiktok first (this particular one from all the way back in january)
Germ theory? Never heard of her (for another 10+ years or so) lol
I'm sure most people probably didn't die from this, but I wonder if there were mini clusters of people getting colds from this.
Never thought there would be a point in history where you had artificially made ice, yet no fresh running water...
What other types of street food did they have back then?
I just imagined street food in general being quite a modern thing. And they would have only ate indoors or at most a picnic outside!
There were many vendors of street food in London. The pie man selling meat pies. The hot potato man with hot baked potatoes. The original ham sandwich man who sold ham sandwiches outside the theaters. Sellers of fried fish. The seller of ginger nuts, like a donut hole made of ginger bread, his cry was "If ONE will warm you what will a pound do?" No doubt there were other foods and drinks sold in the street.
Poor people whose work took them away from home would look for a street vendor for a cheap lunch.
Sometimes street vendors were accompanied by a fiddle player or a drum singing out what they were selling.