What Was the Diet of a Medieval Peasant?

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  • Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
  • In today's episode, we take a look at the various food groups and their position within the diet of an average medieval peasant!
    0:00 Introduction
    04:08 Meat
    07:07 Nobility
    7:56 Fish
    09:14 Christianity
    11:19 Bread
    13:17 Ale
    15:14 Fruits & Vegetables
    17:45 Pottage
    18:40 Dairy
    🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
    Narrated & Edited by: James Wade
    Thank you for watching.
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  • @elchris8788
    @elchris8788 2 роки тому +2739

    I like this guy's humor. This is not sponsored by Hello Fresh

    • @sasharae99
      @sasharae99 2 роки тому +46

      Right?! For a second my mind was like- huh?!

    • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
      @sirandrelefaedelinoge 2 роки тому +27

      We all heard the same thing

    • @noahcarver6072
      @noahcarver6072 2 роки тому +61

      "Pigs could be found just about everywhere in medieval Europe."
      Cuts to tapestry of to pigs rutting 🤣

    • @VeganV5912
      @VeganV5912 2 роки тому +1

      @@noahcarver6072 👈😂🤣 Behavioural ‘omnivores’, is a heart attack and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog the arteries everywhere, Limp👇🧟‍♂️🦠🍖🔴Diiick eating Cooorpses 🛏💔🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ .. ua-cam.com/video/KK7vFRcB8lk/v-deo.html .. ua-cam.com/video/XmXynDLkbXY/v-deo.html 😂🤣😂😂. Over a frigging 5 minute burger or chicken etc. CuItfoIIowing !!!! MeatfIake !! Caveman !!! 🙄
      Time-Iapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach puuutrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟‍♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟‍♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries.. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html ..
      Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentiIs beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. ToiIet ✅❤️💩🚽😉neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. .. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc.

    • @ginnamin
      @ginnamin 2 роки тому +2

      😂

  • @psychedelictacos9118
    @psychedelictacos9118 2 роки тому +2233

    Can you imagine historians 1000 years from now! "The average American diet mainly consisted of McDonalds, Easy Mac and grape soda. Vegetables were rarely consumed only by what was known as vegans! It is also a misconception that Westerners of the 21st century did not drink water, they in fact did on occasion, however water consumed was usually diluted with cordial to mask the bland neutral taste!"

    • @Sercer25
      @Sercer25 2 роки тому

      And don't forget, ALL of our food is laced with poisonous substances to make them last longer on the shelf and to make it cheaper than actually adding real ingredients!
      Oh and, our water is laced with harmful substances because they want us dumb and docile! Thanks government regulations and corporations!

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 2 роки тому +32

      Cordial?

    • @dimerdim8403
      @dimerdim8403 2 роки тому +72

      What is water Mr. Teacher?

    • @burgertime4994
      @burgertime4994 2 роки тому +73

      The hell is easy mac?

    • @donmiller2908
      @donmiller2908 2 роки тому +87

      @@burgertime4994 Kraft macaroni & cheese in a pouch. It's already cooked, just open the pouch and microwave. It's for people too lazy to cook.

  • @cizia69
    @cizia69 Рік тому +641

    Medieval peasants had places to dispose of their waste on the village's outskirts. They were also very cautious about soiling the water they were using. Some places were very affluent and the food was plentiful, some others were wretchedly poor. Life was very hard compared to today's Western standards, but there were a lot of solidarities, i.e. strong communities and tight-knit families.

    • @peterjackson4763
      @peterjackson4763 Рік тому +44

      Many villages still have streams called some variety of Shit Brook.

    • @gavhenrad
      @gavhenrad Рік тому +6

      @@peterjackson4763 jobby burn

    • @lindamerchant4431
      @lindamerchant4431 Рік тому +5

      Sound familiar homeless then as now

    • @imlaughinq7445
      @imlaughinq7445 Рік тому +28

      yeah it all depends on your lord, if he’s kind and doesn’t tax heavily then you’ll live decently but if you have a greedy or cruel lord then he could enforce anything

    • @peterjackson4763
      @peterjackson4763 Рік тому +19

      @@imlaughinq7445 Not in England, at least in the later middle ages. Serfs could and did take their lords to court.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 2 роки тому +795

    There were also different 'food fashions' or how do you call it.
    In England, salmon was seen as ordinary food.
    There were even rules that stipulated that a landlord could not feed his tenants salmon every day of the week.
    Lobster, at least in the USA, was seen as ghastly food only fit for paupers (of course not MiddleAges but it does show how nowadays 'luxury food' was once regarded as paupers' food.

    • @bosewicht2389
      @bosewicht2389 2 роки тому +27

      Are you fond of me lobster?

    • @ahnatanha
      @ahnatanha 2 роки тому +102

      Almost all food nowadays is turning into luxury. 😢

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 2 роки тому

      @@ahnatanha No joke there's videos now of "toasted flour soup", AKA gruel.
      Here's an example:
      ua-cam.com/video/o699dS2us1w/v-deo.html

    • @jeffsmith2022
      @jeffsmith2022 2 роки тому +13

      Perhaps they would have gone for 'Rocky Mountain oysters'...

    • @meelodeshmeeelo2034
      @meelodeshmeeelo2034 2 роки тому +44

      My parents grew up fishing salmon from the Scottish rivers so they never saw it as a luxury food and would not pay the price it became

  • @thesisypheanjournal1271
    @thesisypheanjournal1271 2 роки тому +702

    Among the scariest words in the English language are “it’s considered a delicacy.”

    • @deer563
      @deer563 Рік тому +28

      For some people im considered a "delicacy"

    • @LunarisRuin
      @LunarisRuin Рік тому +14

      Truly horrifying.

    • @annalisamandell3581
      @annalisamandell3581 Рік тому +5

      You got that right!!!

    • @Wifgargfhaurh
      @Wifgargfhaurh Рік тому +6

      Some people are just flat out delusional when it comes to 'delicacies'

    • @Guy-Usf4
      @Guy-Usf4 Рік тому +5

      I laughed hard by this. Thank you.

  • @aidanokeeffe7928
    @aidanokeeffe7928 Рік тому +443

    It's so important to remember how hard and terrible life used to be. It makes modern life much more tolerable

    • @scottym3233
      @scottym3233 Рік тому +34

      depends on who you are and where u live.

    • @aidanokeeffe7928
      @aidanokeeffe7928 Рік тому +30

      @@scottym3233 True, I guess I was talking to Westerners working class and up

    • @ziwi402
      @ziwi402 Рік тому +20

      We should enjoy it while it can still be enjoyed, the WEF will take it all away from the working people.

    • @SaltySteff
      @SaltySteff Рік тому +37

      Also important to remember that those people who lived back the didn't k own any better. In their minds, they had it far better than the ancient peoples who came even before them. It's all about perspective. In the far future people may look at our time and say the exact same thing about us.

    • @LetStartWithThis
      @LetStartWithThis Рік тому +16

      these people worked hard only during the summer, then they chilled hard af during the winter and work days ended when the sun was nearing the end of the day... this was more chill than some jobs now

  • @PongoXBongo
    @PongoXBongo Рік тому +48

    Sitting here eating a fresh salad...what have I done?! My humors!

    • @jimx45
      @jimx45 3 місяці тому

      Whatever they put on salads was whatever they can get from the crops and it didn't always taste the same

  • @noneofyourbizness
    @noneofyourbizness 2 роки тому +73

    2:32
    1 chicken = 1 family meal OR somewhere around 500 eggs (over 2 years)...easy decision.

    • @epoh3334
      @epoh3334 Рік тому +2

      You have to provide it with food to get the eggs though. Although chickens can eat all the leftovers and non human edible bits.

    • @lazysunside
      @lazysunside Рік тому +8

      @@epoh3334 chicken back then were allowed to go outside the yard at day to feed themselves. As long as it’s under 5 chicken, a small yard works. But then there are hawks.

    • @GeckoHiker
      @GeckoHiker Рік тому +8

      @@epoh3334 Chickens are good foragers and will thrive on weeds and bugs outdoor, with supplemental food scraps. I don't feed my chickens anything extra beyond that nine months of the year. Though grit and calcium is always provided. In winter we bring them inside and give them scraps, dried weeds saved at the end of autumn, insect larvae and worms we grow indoors, and some sprouted seeds and grains. Now the indoors is not our living room like it was for European peasants. The winter henhouse is a shed built onto the house that is warmed with a small tent sized woodstove and lit with solar powered LED lights. We don't eat our chickens. We have coffee with them in the morning and a hot toddy or some ale at night.

    • @epoh3334
      @epoh3334 Рік тому +2

      @@GeckoHiker That sounds lovely

    • @davepx1
      @davepx1 6 місяців тому +1

      Not in those days: you'd be lucky to get 150 with pre-modern yields. But I'd still opt for the eggs. :)

  • @pattskatoey3139
    @pattskatoey3139 Рік тому +103

    Imagine if they could see the variety of food available to us nowadays. People get stressed when a ready meal isn’t ready quick enough but those medieval folk had to put in a graft to get those meals prepared.

    • @terminator572
      @terminator572 Рік тому +7

      I think it's unjust to compare our lives to theirs. Usually in most Spanish houses at the time, only the men were out in the fields while the women were inside the house cooking or performing other chores, so the this division of labor meant that once the men finished their tasks for the day and returned home, food would already be served. This division of labor just doesn't exist anymore in a lot of places, so we have a less efficient usage of time. Not to mention a lot of people simply live alone or with vastly different schedules, so the age old tradition of eating a large meal with the household is not feasible anymore.

    • @bestopinion9257
      @bestopinion9257 Рік тому

      Not sure about that. I can make a porridge in 10 minutes. Just a little more if I have to use wood for fire.

    • @coreygossman6243
      @coreygossman6243 Рік тому

      "Variety of food" by that do you mean different Asian cultures take on sweetened chicken?

    • @bucknut6631
      @bucknut6631 Рік тому +1

      What's a graft? Hard work? I'm American. Is that British slang?

    • @lordvoldemort1985
      @lordvoldemort1985 Рік тому

      @@terminator572 trash take my guy

  • @nonyabeeznuss304
    @nonyabeeznuss304 Рік тому +228

    There is a family story from my father's side that our ancestor who came to the US from europe was a peasant. He would often remark that in the old country "there was hardly a mouthful of meat per person per year, and it could only be swallowed with the baron's permission." This was passed down, as was a story about the German and irish immigrants greeting him in the US by throwing bricks. He was a slavic serf, so the other immigrants hated him.

    • @fredflintstone6315
      @fredflintstone6315 Рік тому

      Welcome to the new West...seems they're after the peasants' meat again...

    • @xotleti
      @xotleti Рік тому +8

      I was thinking about something similar while watching the video. This is the history of my dad's side of the family too - also Slavic. They were peasants from Ruthenia. Turns out most of the world dislike slavs 😅

    • @sebastianvanhoffen1404
      @sebastianvanhoffen1404 Рік тому

      Just checking in, cause im so sleepy. You're doing great things

    • @bermudav3348
      @bermudav3348 Рік тому

      @@xotleti I fuck wit y'all slav niggas

    • @Multiroester
      @Multiroester Рік тому +1

      just like today

  • @janinenavin2867
    @janinenavin2867 Рік тому +56

    I found this extremely interesting, as it dispelled many myths regarding food from the middle ages and also provided factual Information giving a glimpse into medieval life, especially where it was related to food.

  • @stacyg585
    @stacyg585 Рік тому +39

    what I really want to know is what they talked about these large dinners. like, what kinds of conversations were these people having? what did they sound like?

    • @jimx45
      @jimx45 3 місяці тому +5

      Probably about work, harvest, locations to find berries stuff like that

    • @sarahmeadows8131
      @sarahmeadows8131 Місяць тому +4

      Same things they talk about now? People they know, gossip -what else?

  • @eh1702
    @eh1702 Рік тому +115

    Looking at town records of late Medieval Aberdeen and Inverness, it’s quite clear that people did not routinely dump their slop buckets in the same pool they took water from. There are numerous references to “the foul pool”, which was also the receptacle for industrial waste like dyer’s byproducts.

    • @kuroshthegreat8073
      @kuroshthegreat8073 Рік тому +17

      yeah I thought this guy was pretty uncharitable in general when it came to discussing peasants living conditions. I dont think it was as rough as he describes.

    • @eh1702
      @eh1702 Рік тому +21

      @@kuroshthegreat8073 Medieval people took great pride in keeping their “linen” (big linen shirts) clean and white. (Linen whitens in the sun. And the UV helps sterilise it further.) The shift ir sark that was their underwear was a full-body barrier between them and the (usually woollen, in the UK) outer clothes. They also often unstitched their clothes before laundering (much of it was only sewed with a running stitch) to make sure the nooks and crannies were washed free of any skin parasites.

    • @berilsevvalbekret772
      @berilsevvalbekret772 Рік тому +7

      @@kuroshthegreat8073 It's less bias more acknowledging the hardship these peasant class had. Depending on the time and country the cities could be much cleaner or absolutely filfhy.

    • @ShadowNinetales
      @ShadowNinetales Рік тому +9

      That makes sense, I was a little sceptical at the idea of people thriving on such a horrendously polluted water source, even if they mostly drank it as alcohol

    • @LynxSouth
      @LynxSouth Рік тому +6

      By the 1200s for sure in England, towns had ordinances requiring tanneries to be located at the furthest downstream edge of town. Dyers were usually one step nearer.

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 2 роки тому +238

    Medieval food wasn't that bad. Just alot of porridge. Sometimes fresh salmon, mushy peas and sorrel sauce on a whole grain bread. Also alot of spices that we've forgotten about nowadays. And sweet and sour sauces.

    • @rosequartz4102
      @rosequartz4102 Рік тому +7

      What exactly is porridge? I've always thought of it as a style of oatmeal? (I hate oatmeal.)

    • @adrianaslund8605
      @adrianaslund8605 Рік тому +55

      @@rosequartz4102 Its just that but with random edible grains like barley and rye instead of oatmeal. Like oatmeal but not necessarily with oats. Oatmeal is a type of porridge. Porridge is not a type of oatmeal.

    • @marelicainavokado
      @marelicainavokado Рік тому +24

      It was healthy, but probably barely enough calorie content to provide energy needed for hard work.

    • @rosequartz4102
      @rosequartz4102 Рік тому +3

      @@adrianaslund8605 Eeek. I don't think I could handle that.

    • @tiahnarodriguez3809
      @tiahnarodriguez3809 Рік тому +27

      @@marelicainavokado Tbf, it wasn’t meant to give you energy, but to fill you up, so that you weren’t hungry and could make it to lunch or supper.

  • @lk4543
    @lk4543 7 місяців тому +14

    This is brilliant, the detailed pictures, so many of them and never repeated, the dramatic and atmospheric music. I feel like I'm in a time machine looking through the window at my past life.

    • @TucsonDude
      @TucsonDude 2 місяці тому

      Do you think they were real pictures from way back when or just fabrications?

    • @user-ev4ie2wx7k
      @user-ev4ie2wx7k 2 місяці тому

      So naïf.

    • @user-ev4ie2wx7k
      @user-ev4ie2wx7k 2 місяці тому

      @@TucsonDudegenuine.

  • @daintybeigli
    @daintybeigli Рік тому +26

    My mom saw traditional pig butchery and nose to tail use when she was a kid in rural Hungary in the 1960s. She also used to go foraging for mushrooms and berries with her grandmother. Makes me wonder how else the people then could relate to the medieval life.

    • @loganstroganoff1284
      @loganstroganoff1284 Рік тому +4

      Probably very much so. Look up footage of remote villages in places like the caucusus mountains and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Even today these ppl aren't much more advanced than ppl from the middle ages. They might have a radio and lantern and maybe can barter for cigarettes and second hand modern clothing but precious few modern luxuries like these they're pretty much still in the 1100s.

    • @oliveoil7642
      @oliveoil7642 25 днів тому

      @@loganstroganoff1284They are self sufficient however!

  • @LadyCoyKoi
    @LadyCoyKoi 2 роки тому +238

    You forgot to mention that what the Medieval people thought were consider fish we would categorize as birds and mammals. For example, they thought geese were fish due to scaly feet and being born in the water and beavers because of their scaly tails and webbed feet. 🤔

    • @jctoad
      @jctoad 2 роки тому +39

      I don't think it was until much later that beaver was considered fish. When the Europeans came to North America to trap, the Pope decreed that beavers were fish so that the trappers could eat them during lent.

    • @Tribecasoothsayer
      @Tribecasoothsayer 2 роки тому +15

      Same with the large and gentle rodents capybara in Latin America. Because they spend much of their life in and around water.

    • @jctoad
      @jctoad 2 роки тому +6

      Alligator is also on the Lenten menu

    • @justtime6736
      @justtime6736 Рік тому +6

      And not a citation was shared by OP but by god idiots took it hook & line.

    • @jctoad
      @jctoad Рік тому +11

      @@justtime6736 If a hook and line was used, then idiots must be fish. However, there's no such thing as a 🐟

  • @jaaps772
    @jaaps772 Рік тому +198

    It is hard to imagine how horrible living conditions were back then. Life really was miserable back then.
    We truly live in paradise now.

    • @carpediem6431
      @carpediem6431 Рік тому +14

      The sad reality is that is the history of humanity. Doesn’t matter that this is medieval England, the same would be true for peasants/surfs in India, China, Russia etc.

    • @MrRdt1970
      @MrRdt1970 Рік тому +33

      A paradise of taxes, cold homes, food banks, etc etc paradise yeh right

    • @islandpersuasion4690
      @islandpersuasion4690 Рік тому +16

      It's going back to how it was then

    • @NirtieDigger
      @NirtieDigger Рік тому +30

      Funny I was thinking the opposite! Life today is so fake and plastic

    • @rejectionistmanifesto8836
      @rejectionistmanifesto8836 Рік тому +1

      The Gre,at,Re,SET being pushed now is to go back and is called Neo-Feudalism

  • @GeraldM_inNC
    @GeraldM_inNC 2 роки тому +260

    Scholars consider the pandemic a great blessing, considering its longterm impact on society. It put an end to the most abusive aspects of feudalism, and the lot of the lower classes improved immensely. They enjoyed far more legal rights, and were started being able to save enough money to ascend into yeomanry.

    • @stefangeschke7604
      @stefangeschke7604 2 роки тому +28

      @@lunaxquinn Well, this needs to be seen. I would assume that the lower classes suffered most from the black death, simply because they were malnourished. Only after there were simply less of them, there lives improved slowly.

    • @user-md3wm7vu1f
      @user-md3wm7vu1f 2 роки тому +32

      @@stefangeschke7604 probably improved rather quickly as soon as there were less of them because they finally had more leverage over the feudal lords who now desperately needed the work to get done

    • @user-md3wm7vu1f
      @user-md3wm7vu1f 2 роки тому +3

      @@lunaxquinn it had some similarities and positive effects though (at least in the short term, probably not so much long term)

    • @bristoled93
      @bristoled93 Рік тому +35

      @@lunaxquinn Hardy anyone died in this covid pandemic in comparison to the black death.

    • @NathanTowles
      @NathanTowles Рік тому +3

      @@bristoled93 as bad as COVID’s been, true

  • @realitywins6457
    @realitywins6457 2 роки тому +26

    Learned on a tour of a castle in England that when the potato was first introduced to the English nobles the cooks didn’t know to remove the roots. When cooked with the root it made everyone sick and vomit. The queen banned potatoes and it took a couple decades for them to be accepted.

    • @mikethebike2456
      @mikethebike2456 Рік тому

      🏍️ There were no 🍯 potatoes until Columbus. No coffee, no cocoa, and no horses in all the Americas, until Columbus.

    • @smrtnz5995
      @smrtnz5995 Рік тому +2

      @@mikethebike2456 Columbus brought 3 things, Diseases that the Indigenous peoples had no immunity from, yes Horses and control in the form of christianity to break down cultural, familial and political ties.
      Potatoes, tomatoes, chiles, beans, corn, chocolate were all New World gifts from the Americas to Europe. Coffee was from Africa particularly Ethiopia.

    • @MrThedonhead
      @MrThedonhead 11 місяців тому

      ​@@smrtnz5995potatoes came from Ireland and they invented them along with shoes!

    • @deborahgale
      @deborahgale Місяць тому

      not quite the right story but almost there.

  • @themasqueradefiles
    @themasqueradefiles 2 роки тому +35

    I loved your humor coming through in this video Jam!!! I’m super happy that you decided to do the narration for this channel!!! I’m really loving the channel!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

  • @swedneck
    @swedneck 2 роки тому +113

    i'm surprised that lent didn't turn into a rich man's thing, it seems kind of insane that workers had to participate in fasting when you kinda need them to work for society to function..
    It would make more sense for lent fasting to be like lawns, something you do as much as you can to show how rich you are that you don't need to work.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent 2 роки тому

      rich people have, historically speaking, prefered being fat and pale skinned as evidence of not needing to work, as well as wearing clothing unsuitable for such dirty activity, and being surrounded by servants and/or slaves. these people ain't gonna engage in an anorexia contest. that is for nuns and monks who hate their corporeal forms.

    • @legocontrollerjr
      @legocontrollerjr 2 роки тому +10

      Mostly because Lent fasting was moved to Fridays only, seeing as how such a drop in nutrition would be harmful to the body.

    • @voyaristika5673
      @voyaristika5673 Рік тому +5

      That's an interesting thought, Lent being show of wealth. I guess religion dictated, and it applied to all who wanted to see Heaven. Teachers like students like you.

    • @baboon_92
      @baboon_92 Рік тому

      Where there's a will, there's a way.

    • @wufongtanwufong5579
      @wufongtanwufong5579 Рік тому +9

      The rules of lent is such. Children and the elderly are "allowed" to eat red meat during lent. If you was sick or weak from recent illness. You were "allowed" to eat red meat. If you had nothing to eat at all then eating meat was also allowed. Lent is an obligation. If you fail at lent it was not and still is not considered a sin. Neither was fasting. The reason you're not allowed to eat red meat during lent, Because meat was a very rare treat. So a peasant would not go under go any extra stress.

  • @salkoharper2908
    @salkoharper2908 Рік тому +34

    The feudal system to a large extent existed right up until the late 1700's, even into the 1800s. France 1789, Scotland 1799, Prussia (German state)1807, Russia 1886. My mother who was born in Yugoslavia, had a great grandmother who was an aristocrat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She owned land in what is modern day Bosnia and Serbia. She still owned serfs who worked the silver mines and cloth mills up until 1848.

    • @sailorv8067
      @sailorv8067 Рік тому

      And what happened in Russia in 1886? 🤔

    • @loganstroganoff1284
      @loganstroganoff1284 Рік тому

      Looks like you owe some reparations sir

    • @sailorv8067
      @sailorv8067 Рік тому

      @@teutonicterror0365 you mean 1861 then?

    • @teutonicterror0365
      @teutonicterror0365 Рік тому

      @@sailorv8067 Bruh. My bad, of course you´re right

    • @salkoharper2908
      @salkoharper2908 Рік тому

      @@loganstroganoff1284 Lol, this was over 270 years ago. I never knew any of these people. I don't even live in the same country they did. The country they lived in does not even exist any more. Not sure you have much understanding of history. Stupid modern Americans with your insane political nonsense. Go burn down a shop in Portland or something.

  • @KingFluffs
    @KingFluffs 2 роки тому +77

    5:59 Which is where we get the term "Go whole hog!". If you were caught poaching, you'd likely be killed. So why kill some hare or pheasant and die for it, when you can kill a big, fat, juicy scrumptious boar and feed them a whole lot longer.

    • @kathrynkildow3743
      @kathrynkildow3743 Рік тому +5

      Oh my. That’s a sad origin of going whole hog but it sounds reasonable.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 Рік тому +2

      The fatal consequences of theft also gave rise to the aphorism, "May as well hang for a sheep as a lamb".

    • @jimx45
      @jimx45 3 місяці тому +1

      Life of a poacher bandit.

  • @deannaweir1906
    @deannaweir1906 2 роки тому +14

    Loving your channel, glad I stumbled across it . Really refreshing to come across something different on the tube , love you’re voice too, 👍🏻👍🏻up.

  • @eliwahuhu
    @eliwahuhu 2 роки тому +30

    Irish Hazelnut Mead sounds amazing.

  • @noneofyourbizness
    @noneofyourbizness 2 роки тому +11

    4:40
    pigs* are to this day the HIGHEST form of currency in Highland region of Papua New Guinea. Garoka, in the east, is where i saw them most often. Walked proudly around on leads made of repurposed, plastic shopping bags by those seeking to 'flex' their wealth/status.
    *a far smaller breed than we see in 'the west'.

  • @cheshirecat3978
    @cheshirecat3978 2 роки тому +109

    Brethren, I love LOVE the content! Please continue and I will continue to like every time!

    • @cheshirecat3978
      @cheshirecat3978 2 роки тому

      I legit get excited when I see new vids . Not an easy feat my friend , damnit !

    • @staceyroberts9561
      @staceyroberts9561 2 роки тому

      Kkk,kj,,.?L.?
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    • @deloreswilson1798
      @deloreswilson1798 2 роки тому

      Things have improved...food wise that is.🤔

    • @olgagaming5544
      @olgagaming5544 2 роки тому +1

      His voice is a bit history-channel like and the video has sometimes the vibe of these sensational videos.. he doesnt share anything about himself, where he was reading such things etc. just an anonymous person telling things? it leaves a pretty weird vibe

    • @olgagaming5544
      @olgagaming5544 2 роки тому

      Copyright © 2021 Top5s All rights reserved. - its propably just another channel in these sensational style of TOP 5 THINGS, you dont even know who is saying this and owning this channel etc.

  • @sk.n.9302
    @sk.n.9302 Рік тому +2

    This was really informative! Answered many questions I had wondered for a long time.

  • @sigrunjosepsdottir6894
    @sigrunjosepsdottir6894 Рік тому +80

    I almost spit out my tea when you said "this video is not sponsored by Hello Fresh". I love your channel, thank you and please keep doing this.

  • @reformedstoic1581
    @reformedstoic1581 7 місяців тому +9

    Cozy and informative, great channel! God bless.

  • @sebastianventer2420
    @sebastianventer2420 2 роки тому +19

    This channel is excellent, keep at it guys!

  • @vincentpeer5188
    @vincentpeer5188 2 роки тому +3

    My new favorite channel. Thanx for the entertaining education.

  • @alexandersupertramp151
    @alexandersupertramp151 Рік тому +1

    Love this channel, great commentary and very thorough! Thanks! =)

  • @cellinimedusa4679
    @cellinimedusa4679 Рік тому +7

    Superb presentation, nice narration voice, lots of interesting content and really well illustrated. Subscribed, thank you!

  • @vintage1950
    @vintage1950 2 роки тому +28

    Who would of thought fruit, veg and salad would be almost as expensive as meat these days.

  • @angel8fingers
    @angel8fingers Рік тому +4

    Great content man! I dig y’all’s work!

  • @Snipehunter08
    @Snipehunter08 Рік тому +1

    I would love to have more of a conclusion 🤗 makes it easier to understand ! Thanks for the nice vids man !

  • @angeloiodice9304
    @angeloiodice9304 Рік тому +3

    Thanks. It was a great informative video with marvelous art images.

  • @hellekimery9537
    @hellekimery9537 2 роки тому +145

    Amazing anyone actually survived the brutal conditions people lived in back then ! Makes me grateful I var born in a time, of great hygiene,plenty of food, and not having to work 24/7 just to live on scraps.

    • @coh2conscript851
      @coh2conscript851 2 роки тому

      It wasn't as dirty or awful as people make it out to be. Yeah you wanna be born now but most of the awful stuff is made up by Victorians to make Medieval people seem barbaric and dirty.

    • @hellekimery9537
      @hellekimery9537 2 роки тому +17

      Well, it certainly was pretty rough. Today we have pain meds if we are in pain, infections can get under control, you don’t get ripped apart on a wheel, or put in stocks. Allthough that might still be a worthwhile punishment for certain criminals :) I’ve always had a facination for that time period, but always marvelled at how much people could survive! Like going to the dentist.lol

    • @kevinsysyn4487
      @kevinsysyn4487 Рік тому +11

      Life expectancy was 29 years.

    • @coh2conscript851
      @coh2conscript851 Рік тому +47

      @@kevinsysyn4487 Only due to babies dying at childbirth.

    • @coh2conscript851
      @coh2conscript851 Рік тому +5

      @@hellekimery9537 Aw yeah of course, anything before our current time is always tough.
      Punishments like those are rare though, unless you just go around committing crimes. You had to be your own dentist though yeah, not pleasant brushing your teeth with sticks but its better than nothing, though the stones from bread will hurt, a lot.

  • @mikaila6187
    @mikaila6187 Рік тому +4

    Love the art work content in this video! Really shows more about the history

  • @Truckngirl
    @Truckngirl 2 роки тому +4

    Your narration is delightful, and I love learning new shit. So I subbed. The algorithm brought me.

  • @wozja
    @wozja 2 роки тому +5

    This was very interesting and well presented video. Much enjoyed and subscribed

  • @babyshambler
    @babyshambler Рік тому +4

    I found your channel yesterday. I'm already addicted and have recommended it to two others already =D

  • @zodiaccgh741b
    @zodiaccgh741b Рік тому +4

    Our family bucket was in use until 1957. The contents were thrown onto the midden heap. In a year or two the heap was spread on the veg garden. Recycling before it became fashionable.

    • @howardsimpson489
      @howardsimpson489 День тому

      I still use the family compost bucket from about 1957, my professionally employed parents had a wonderful compost fertilised vege garden.

  • @ModernPlumbingFan
    @ModernPlumbingFan Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing your craft through these stories! Found this channel via Weird History ❤

  • @nymerianan4short314
    @nymerianan4short314 Рік тому +1

    I just found your channel and ❤ING it ! I'm binge watching all your videos so much I might need a fast myself 😂

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Рік тому +10

    I would’ve made a good medieval peasant. I love pickled herring and jellied eel! Salted cod isn’t too bad if some moisture can be reintroduced. I guess I would have needed to live near the sea or an estuary...

  • @elizabethhayward570
    @elizabethhayward570 2 роки тому +12

    This is so interesting I often wondered what life was like in medieval times. Looking forward to watching more vids.

  • @annhitchcock3093
    @annhitchcock3093 Рік тому

    Wow. This makes Vienna Sausages sound good. Thanks for the post. It’s really good. I can’t stop watching.

  • @STR82DVD
    @STR82DVD Рік тому +2

    Brilliant content. In my capacity as a teacher,, I may use this in my Grade 7 History class. Thanks for sharing!

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому +4

    You’re videos are always historically accurate, and often funny, I just subscribed. Keep up the great work.

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 9 місяців тому

      He indulges in quite a bit of pop history. It's... not spectacularly accurate.

  • @thomp5347
    @thomp5347 2 роки тому +10

    Small correction: bears were extinct in Britain by no later than the 6th century CE.

  • @fishpoem1433
    @fishpoem1433 4 місяці тому

    One of the most carefully researched, and certainly one of the most thought-provoking, series on youtube. Fascinating and cleverly illustrated throughout.🦉

  • @claredyj2015
    @claredyj2015 2 роки тому +2

    Just found your channel and subscribed, medieval times were fascinating!

  • @mxp5525
    @mxp5525 Рік тому

    Very interesting and enjoyable.
    Thank you so much!

  • @purpurina5663
    @purpurina5663 Рік тому +34

    Great video! The channel ModernHistoryTV has some excellent videos about medieval food for different orders of society (and they cook a couple of dishes). The peasants ate much healthier food than the nobles!

  • @Voirreydirector
    @Voirreydirector Рік тому +6

    Amusing and well done. There are many specific books and programs on the topic, but this provides a fairly balanced over-view.

  • @bobling98
    @bobling98 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome video, super informative!

  • @colinmainwaring9471
    @colinmainwaring9471 Рік тому

    really good advice when facing what we face. thank you.

  • @pinwheel8723
    @pinwheel8723 Рік тому +17

    The intro had me dying. How have i only just found this channel?? Decent history without the annoying narratives most channels do

  • @howardsmith9342
    @howardsmith9342 Рік тому +11

    Notice how, no matter how poor they might be, the serfs did not (intentionally) eat insects. Thanks, Klaus, for wanting us to be worse off than medieval peasants.

    • @jimx45
      @jimx45 3 місяці тому

      Humans are still Great Apes. Other Great Apes eat insects

  • @JR-_-2010
    @JR-_-2010 Рік тому

    Great video. Thanks for posting.

  • @motorbreathblake
    @motorbreathblake Рік тому

    Great channel, keep up the good work!

  • @michaelmccarthy8749
    @michaelmccarthy8749 Рік тому +4

    I love the video! I feel like your videos about daily life could have some more upbeat medieval music though. It’s always nice to be reminded that the people of medieval times had fun and felt the same joy and love that we do today.

  • @dogeymon83
    @dogeymon83 2 роки тому +6

    The ancient writings of squire Baldrick suggest dung was often consumed with a small turnip for dessert.

  • @juliamarple3785
    @juliamarple3785 Рік тому +1

    There is so much info here, I might watch it twice.

  • @kellyharrison5184
    @kellyharrison5184 Рік тому

    Fascinating, and very informative!

  • @nonameneededd
    @nonameneededd 2 роки тому +31

    I love your sense of humour “this video is not sponsored by hello fresh” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah a far cry of vast diets on opposite scales!!
    Also 7:53 I know you didn’t just kiss your thumb, then index and middle finger 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @LindaMerchant-pm8vn
    @LindaMerchant-pm8vn Рік тому +3

    I love medieval times in history such beautiful images murals

  • @bellsandspices
    @bellsandspices Рік тому +1

    Lol, "this is not sponsored by Hello Fresh"!! This is my new binging channel! Love your content!

  • @fortheearth
    @fortheearth Рік тому +1

    Thanks for creating this informative video.

  • @funnyyylock
    @funnyyylock 2 роки тому +3

    Super underrated channel.

  • @apogeus2
    @apogeus2 2 роки тому +23

    do more! i like your videos a lot. something to compare our current lifestyle to.
    very sobering and refreshing info

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 2 роки тому +1

      A lot of it is incorrect - for example, they did NOT throw their shit into the water they drank from. They would be severely punished for this. Sadly this mostly trots out the stereotypes of the terribly harsh "short and brutal" life of peasants.

  • @petemullen842
    @petemullen842 2 роки тому

    Love all your videos so informative.👍🇬🇧👍

  • @jayleigh4642
    @jayleigh4642 Рік тому +1

    Now subscriber, absolutely loving this channel

  • @stephenmartinez1
    @stephenmartinez1 Рік тому +8

    Fun fact, people ate pigeons instead of chicken. Pigeons were in fact domesticated for meat, and city pigeons in the US are actually these same domesticated meat birds that used to be eaten instead of chickens.

    • @RichWoods23
      @RichWoods23 Рік тому

      This is also why dovecotes were commonplace in farms and manor houses across Europe. The birds were a source of eggs as well as meat, and their manure was useful as a fertiliser.

    • @ems901
      @ems901 Рік тому +1

      Wow didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.

    • @dianawatton7570
      @dianawatton7570 Рік тому

      Pigeons are still eaten but referred to as roast SQUAB!

  • @franny5295
    @franny5295 Рік тому +4

    It is nothing short of miraculous that mankind has survived its nastiness...

  • @susanw9475
    @susanw9475 Рік тому

    Very good. Complete, enjoyable.

  • @sheebathefunnyrescuedog692
    @sheebathefunnyrescuedog692 Рік тому +2

    Just found your channel, really enjoying it 😀

  • @jimmylight4866
    @jimmylight4866 2 роки тому +17

    Never thought about the dark cloud of the Plaugue having a silver lining.
    The Church only took 10%? Wish my taxes were only 10%!
    These Peasants could have had it worse, they could be eating McDonalds.
    Great video.

    • @Knuckles2868
      @Knuckles2868 Рік тому

      My aunt is VERY religious and still abides by the rule of tithing and gives 10% of her income to her church.

    • @Knuckles2868
      @Knuckles2868 Рік тому +3

      That is on top of taxes not the only thing they paid

    • @softlystolen1208
      @softlystolen1208 Рік тому +1

      They also died of a lot of fecal/oral diseases…

    • @jimmylight4866
      @jimmylight4866 Рік тому +1

      @@softlystolen1208 eeeekkkkk yuk

    • @softlystolen1208
      @softlystolen1208 Рік тому +1

      @@jimmylight4866 cholera ain’t a pretty way to go 😅

  • @vintage1950
    @vintage1950 2 роки тому +6

    Salted cod fish, also known as salt fish in Jamaica.

  • @necosupr
    @necosupr 2 роки тому +2

    These are so well made

  • @brandonbutler8808
    @brandonbutler8808 Рік тому

    Damn! So much I didn’t know! At least I have an introduction now! Very important and interesting!

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 роки тому +9

    Bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale;
    For our Blessed Lady's sake, bring us in good ale.
    1. Bring us in no brown bread, for that is made of bran,
    Nor bring us in no white bread, there therein is no game;
    But bring us in good ale.
    2. Bring us in no beef, for there is many bones,
    But bring us in good ale, for that goes down at once;
    And bring us in good ale.
    3. Bring us in no bacon, for that is passing fat,
    But bring us in good ale, and give us enough of that;
    And bring us in good ale.
    4. Bring us in no mutton, for that is often lean,
    Nor bring us in no tripes, for they be seldom clean;
    And bring us in good ale.
    5. Bring us in no eggs, for there are many shells,
    But bring us in good ale, and give us nothing else;
    And bring us in good ale.
    6. Bring us in no butter, for therein are many hairs;
    Nor bring us in no pig's flesh, for that will make us boars;
    And bring us in good ale.
    7. Bring us in no puddings, for therein is all God's good;
    Nor bring us in no venison, for that is not for our blood;
    And bring us in good ale.
    8. Bring us in no capon's flesh, for that is often dear;
    Nor bring us in no duck's flesh, for they slobber in the mere;
    And bring us in good ale.
    Traditional

    • @GeraldM_inNC
      @GeraldM_inNC 2 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/S4Z48CAkK4I/v-deo.html

  • @cw4608
    @cw4608 2 роки тому +7

    Great images to accompany an excellently narrated and well done content

    • @GeraldM_inNC
      @GeraldM_inNC 2 роки тому +1

      I've given three medieval lectures to the genealogical society, and I've used many of those same pictures!

    • @cw4608
      @cw4608 2 роки тому +1

      @@GeraldM_inNC great job pairing visuals with content. I am certain your audience appreciated them. Good to know you cared enough about your audience to take the time selecting and editing your presentation. Hope you have many more good experiences with your presentations. Have an excellent day sir.

  • @annie124
    @annie124 Рік тому

    Great video! Thank you

  • @malevich92
    @malevich92 Рік тому

    This is my new favourite channel

  • @directorphase
    @directorphase 2 роки тому +20

    Makes me thankful for our modern advances in food

    • @peterm1826
      @peterm1826 2 роки тому +3

      Where I live the food is still. Like this.

    • @KarlMarxFanClub
      @KarlMarxFanClub Рік тому

      GMOs have definitely been a blessing. Even then, American corporations destroy 30% of its food. Corporations get billions of subsidizes if they destroy there groceries at the day of expiration. Instead, it should go to the poor, but that’s capitalism! 🤡

    • @ClickClack_Bam
      @ClickClack_Bam Рік тому

      @@KarlMarxFanClub Why should it go to the poor?
      Your small-mindedness & blessing heart liberal ideology is fatally flawed & you haven't even thought about your positions in life for even 30 seconds or the side to be on would've come to you! Typical liberal though...
      When they've tested your theory they found that eventually when people realized they could get food for doing NOTHING, too many people resulted to doing NOTHING to be fed.
      The idea being "Why work when they're feeding you to do nothing whatsoever?". Sound familiar?
      Remind you of the welfare state in America?
      Many poc's won't even marry because they take into account both incomes then! So don't tell me "it's only a theory" when it's been in direct testing for decades now in America.
      So NO they shouldn't just give away food without ANY sacrifice. The people do NOT attach any value to the food just like they don't attach any value to selling their food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar.
      Hopefully one day you've not rotted away your brain & you too can think on the side of truth.

  • @beatlesrgear
    @beatlesrgear 2 роки тому +35

    When I lived in Iceland, I regularly ate the Hardfiskur, which is a type of fish jerky preserved by salt and dried.
    I love it a lot and really miss having it. I wish it was available in the UK, Canada, and US.

    • @kjetilhansen5363
      @kjetilhansen5363 2 роки тому +8

      We have that over here in Norway as well, but we call it 'tørrfisk' (dry fish.) It's actually a genuine type of Viking food, and can be dated to as early as the 9th century.

    • @VeganV5912
      @VeganV5912 2 роки тому +1

      @@kjetilhansen5363 👈🤣 Behavioural ‘omnivores’, is a heart attack and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog the arteries everywhere, Limp👇🧟‍♂️🦠🍖🔴Diiick eating Cooorpses 🛏💔🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ .. ua-cam.com/video/KK7vFRcB8lk/v-deo.html .. ua-cam.com/video/XmXynDLkbXY/v-deo.html 😂🤣😂😂. Over a frigging 5 minute burger or chicken etc. CuItfoIIowing !!!! MeatfIake !! Caveman !!! 🙄
      Time-Iapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach puuutrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟‍♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟‍♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries.. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html ..
      Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentiIs beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. ToiIet ✅❤️💩🚽😉neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc.....

    • @sarahfearon1675
      @sarahfearon1675 2 роки тому +10

      Don't know where you live now, but there's a small shop in Portland Maine called "Simply Scandinavian " and they sell it! They have so many different foods from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden. It's my go to when I'm missing my home

    • @SuperMcbonez
      @SuperMcbonez 2 роки тому +6

      We had similar when I lived in Portugal they called it baccalau and it was not bad tbh

    • @ajboyd9389
      @ajboyd9389 2 роки тому +2

      They sell it in the uk

  • @MauricioJaguan
    @MauricioJaguan 2 роки тому +1

    I love this channel!

  • @kiwik5452
    @kiwik5452 Рік тому +2

    I’m a minute and a half in and all my brain can conjure up is the clip of David Mitchell’s vicar character berating Olivia Coleman with the phrase “my kind have harvested the souls of a thousand peasants”

  • @rfvtgbzhn
    @rfvtgbzhn Рік тому +14

    16:47 eating fruit and vegetables raw actually causes diseases if general hygiene is bad, which was the case in the middle ages.

  • @jujumulligan43
    @jujumulligan43 11 місяців тому +3

    Very interesting. Intriguing to me how diets and food fads change so much over time. It does make you wonder, in the span of a life time, that we should simply eat foods that we really enjoy and NOT worry so much about long term nutrition. I do think strongly however, that generally the meat processing system is very cruel and perhaps not sanitary. But that is my choice. Thank you for a very knowledgeable video! I hope to see More!!!😊😊😊

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 9 місяців тому

      Sounds like an excellent way to die of diabetes at thirty.

  • @bushebajiti7641
    @bushebajiti7641 10 місяців тому

    I am a new fan. The UA-cam algorithm hooked me up on this one. 👍

  • @daniels.9446
    @daniels.9446 Рік тому +1

    Somehow made my day, fine documentary

  • @mastrxl
    @mastrxl 2 роки тому +6

    Fun fact, the people were highly afraid of a "rabbit uprising" as a result of the way they were hunted and kept

    • @Voirreydirector
      @Voirreydirector Рік тому +2

      Yup, hare seemed quite violent and rapacious, some weird folk tales about them were around. Male hare especially can fight a trapper in the last moments, and their mating seemed nonconcentual.

  • @Nyctophora
    @Nyctophora 2 роки тому +43

    Considering that fields were fertlised by all kinds of manure (and that's just the start), eating raw vegetables would indeed make you sick. And possibly give you worms if you didn't already have them. As for raw fruit. all it takes is one fly to go from the dungheap to your nice shiny apple. Washing your food? In the same water people drank ale and small beer to avoid drinking? Not much help there! Even today there are pretty frequent recalls of lettuce, for example, due to bacterial or even faecal contamination.
    Salads. Not even once. Also please wash your hands and your veggies!

    • @noneofyourbizness
      @noneofyourbizness 2 роки тому +1

      natural springs are common in england (at least). i imagine/guess they would have been highly valued/prized, albeit likely sited far too low in the land for any defendable castle to be built around.

    • @zharziss
      @zharziss 2 роки тому +1

      @to be deleted Exactly, they had plenty of fresh water. Just for brewing the beer alone it was needed.

    • @jaws8090
      @jaws8090 2 роки тому +5

      @to be deleted They're probably mistaking it for another period like in London, they did drink alcohol because it was safer than the water.

    • @GeraldM_inNC
      @GeraldM_inNC 2 роки тому

      Thank you, that was very helpful

    • @annabelgrace1267
      @annabelgrace1267 2 роки тому

      And cook them.

  • @markmacey6527
    @markmacey6527 2 роки тому

    Fascinating look at history that still reverberates today.

  • @robertap.5993
    @robertap.5993 2 роки тому

    Love the paintings!