That green slime was "rediscovered" as spirulina, which turns out is an extreme superfood with most if not all the minerals and vitamins you need to survive as a human adult
This comment section is funny. Hey, you know what they didn’t have? Diabeetus and heart disease. You know why? No bullshit wheat, sugar cane, and industrial seed oils. Also, if you’ve ever eaten a whole 75% or higher cacao chocolate bar, it does make your head spin a little, it’s about the same amount of caffeine as decent cup of coffee but it’s a little different high.
AMazing the Aztecs accomplished this massive urban society with no wheels, no screws, no metal working, and no large animals like horses or oxen. All of that was built with physical human labor.
I love how they still used engineering for things like agriculture, and instead of using steel for weapons and tools, they used obsidian, as the shattered edges could be sharper than scalpels
@@PapiGi0 I believe we are both partially correct about this issue. I looked it up and it appears that while the aztecs where aware of the wheel, the most famous evidence being children's toys with wheels, there is no evidence it was used for other purposes, likely because of the lack of draft animals, like I mentioned earlier.
I imagined Bubba from Forrest Gump in the Tortilla list part. “Tortillas go wit everythang, you can boil em, baste em, sauté em. There’s corn tortillas, flour tortillas, cactus tuna tortillas, fat tortillas, old tortillas, cube tortillas, lemon pepper tortillas...”
@@rafangille Nothing we eat now is the same as what people ate hundreds of years ago and health stats prove that. The top 5 causes of death in the US and Mexico are results from the food we eat today.
I don't think it was "tuna cactus" tortilla but rather prickly pear tortilla. In Spanish "tuna" is the name for the fruit of the cactus while the tuna fish is "atún"
@@uvasz It must also depend on the region. Por ejemplo, yo visite la isla de Puerto Rico hace como seis años. Al pasar el tiempo, los nativos de la isla, llamaban a el pescado “Tuna” y no “Atún”. En otro ejemplo, voy a citar a mi madre, que nació y se crió en Colombia. Ella a mi me mandaba a salir a hacer unos cuantos mandados, y al pedir el pescado, me mandaba a llamarlo “Tuna” y no “Atún. She did teach me that both words were correct for the most part. Considering many things perhaps that’s just the influence English has had on other countries in the Caribbean. Which, in turn. has added more words to those in Spanish that still mean the same thing. I can’t really say. Seeing as how I was never born in Colombia. But for the most part I’ve gone with what my parents have taught me, and not once have the other Latinos in the area corrected me for calling the fish “Tuna” and calling the fruit a “nopal”. But I digress. After all, Spanish is just my second language.
@@fabianheilbron9988 Oh yeah, it may depend on the region, same happens in Argentina and Chile if I remember correctly, they don't call the fruit "tuna", they use "cactus" (referring to the whole nopal) instead. Also in the RAE I didn't find "tuna" as fish or the fruit it has another meaning.
The spirit of the Mexican cuisine is alive in each one of the traditional Mexican cooks. I live in California USA and the number of authentic restaurants of Mexican food are growing like wildfire 😁
I still eat tamales, tortillas, nopales, avocado and chili peppers, grew up on this wonderful food and chocolate, I am so happy to watch this video. Thanks so much!
There’s a really neat restaurant near the Teotihuacán pyramids called La Gruta, that serves very traditional Aztec dishes, including ones with caterpillars and ant larvae. Definitely check it out if you’re near the ancient city, it’s just a short walk away and absolutely worth the visit.
It's great that unlike the Victorian era the Aztecs knew how to keep clean, not afraid of water in any sort of way, everything having it's proper place with waste disposal.
@@ShubhamMishrabro I think he's more speaking about how peoples who had no idea how selective breeding or evolution work creating new species of animals that are more docile and useful than their wild counterparts. Pretty weird
It’s noteworthy to know that the ‘Aztecs’ and Nahuas also had these few foods to their diets: *Salsa:* “Chilmolli,” literally meaning “Chile sauce.” This was used just as much as a condiment as people do today. It is also thought the word “salsa” was coined by the Franciscan ethnographer and friar, Alfonso de Molina. *Popcorn:* Known as “izquitl” (eez-kee-k). Spanish people described it as “a kind of corn which bursts when parched and discloses its contents and makes itself look like a very white flower." This word turned into the modern Mexican corn dish, esquite. *Pozole:* This was a stew often called “pozolli” and was made from a hominy corn known as cacahuazintle, and back then as “cacahuacintli” meaning “cacao bean-like corn,” being a vegetarian dish. Many people get confused with another very similar soup that is infamous for its ingredients. Though, I’ll leave those details for those who are interested. *Chilaquiles:* Being wrapped in tortillas and is derived from “chilaquilli” meaning “something stuffed with chile and plants.” These plants are known as “quelite” in Mexico and are identified as edible parts of plants. *Fruits:* Along with the famous avocado being consumed, many other tropical fruits were as well. Pineapples (matzatli), dragonfruit/pitaya (tzaponochtli), sapote (tzapotl), cactus pear (nochtli), papaya (ochonetli), and guava (xalxacotl).
@@Agapy8888 yep! We would eat a lot when they r in season whenever me and my family go visit our families in Mexico, I prefer the red ones while my parents enjoy the yellow ones. Absolutely delicious n sweet 😋😋
the x is actually pronounced "sh" and it ticks me whenever he pronounces it as ch, but well, at least I can overlook it when someone's not an expert in Nahuatl and still manage to make such an informative video.
I’m going to ignore the fact that the narrator butchered almost every single Nahuatl word because at least he tried. To be fair, it’s not easy to pronounce them if you’re not familiar with the language, but damn, he sounded pretty funny. 😁
Actually pinoli are pine cone nuts! Amazing that the “poor” ate them😮 today they are very pricey and used sparingly in various recipes like pesto and desserts 😋
No the rich powerful people would also eat the same kinds of plant foods like tortillas and pinoli but would be able to more meats then the poor who would mainly only eat a plant diet
When I lived in Washington State,I used to go pine cone hunting for the seeds. I would shuck them and put them away in bags. It was a hobby of mine. During the winter when it was cold,I'd shuck and roast some of them for dinner. Have a cup of them with rice,veggies and some type of meat. Yummm!
Thank you! Think he would have noticed the pine nuts depicted in the video... also, pine nuts were consumed throughout north america, and have a protein content higher than that of red meat.
Spaniards: what's this delicious green fruit? Aztecs: *laughs* it's called ahuacatl 🤣 🥑 Spaniards: Yummm... I love aguacate 🥑💕 Aztecs: *laughs harder* They have no idea we called it testicles 🤣😂
I mean is the same with the word pendejo that a lot of people use without know it was used to describe male or female that still didn’t have pubic hair
@Galleta de Soda im not lying because ive done my DNA and im related to the NAHUA tribe and if u didnt know the last Aztec emperor cuauhtemocs mother was from a town called ixcateopan in Guerrero state and guess what? Im from another near town in Guerrero where to this exact day the people still speak Nahuatl!
Not even 15 secs. into the video and you already showed the teotihuacan pyramid calling it "aztec". They were not the same! Teotihuacans and their civilization had already vanished from the territory when aztecs came down from the north (Aztlan). So, yeah, foreign people, the pyramids you want to come and climb are not aztecs. *sigh*
@@Thisismyhandle329 I don’t think it’s colonizing and idk how that word would get used on a video trying to show history of food in one beautiful and rich culture It just seems more of lack of studying in regards to the many different types of civilizations in Mexico. I’m just glad to see people on these comments at least say something for the other
I've read articles on this topic, and the Aztecs enjoyed dishes that were as complex and multidimensional as French cuisine. They used more vegetation than meat, and layered many flavors into carefully crafted, hand-pounded sauces. They thought western cooking was too oily and lacked flavor, apparently. This is so fascinating, and although this video is quite simplistic, it does give a little window into the unique and well-developed aspect of Aztec life that has been much forgotten.
There’s nothing complex about French cuisine. Europeans have forced us to believe everything they did was better while always diminishing the great discoveries and advancements of indigenous people. Also when it comes to world rankings Mexican cuisine is above French and many other Europeans countries. Also forgotten to who? Aztec culture is definitely alive and well preserved in Mexico.
Also, for those interested, this is how you pronounce Nahuatl words ending in -TL like Quetzalcoatl and Xocolatl : The L is silent, but you still position your mouth as if you were going to pronounce it, but only let the air out, no sound.
Yes and not with a “tul” sound like even many Mexicans incorrectly say it. It’s more like you push a little pocket of air behind your L positioned tongue. It annoys me so much when I hear such mispronunciations as popocatepeTUL. Lol
I’m Mexican descent and I didn’t know Aztecs had all these varieties of tortillas. When I was a kid I visited Mexico, and one of my favorite moments was when my aunt Paz sent me to the tortilla joint and I bought a kilo of freshly made, warm tortillas. I would grab one or two tortillas before going home. It was a cool experience and I would recommend anyone go get fresh tortillas 🤤
Some very rural indigenous villages in Southern Mexico make tortillas using grounded amaranth seeds. Amaranth seeds also pop like miniature popcorn and we Mexicans make skulls using popped amaranth during Day of the Dead.
You forgot two very important ingredient for the Mexican cuisine then and now; Tomato (tomatl) and chili Pepper (chili). There are plenty varieties of peppers in around Mexico.
@@FarelLaban could be, mil in nahuatl a farming reference of corn, beans and pumpkin together, I believe miltomatl is not a specific for the green tomato, could be the redones on a milpa planting...
This is so cool! Would love to watch one about what ancient Filipinos were eating before the Spaniards and Chinese came. Since most of our food is either Chinese, Spanish, or US-influenced.
@@brucehur2051 ....we don't really eat kimchi here in the Philippines. I think it only got popular when the Hallyu (Korean) wave started. But yeah we eat a lot of rice :)
More Mexican than Spanish, since it was New Spain (Mexico) was placed in charge to take care of the Filipines, nahuatl for mom is Nonantli and dad was Notantli and in the Philippines Nana and Tata are borrowed from Nahuatl.
Uh, false. Filipinos back then ate tinola, nilaga, sinigang, kinilaw, kilawin, adobong puti, litson, grilled fish, ginataan, etc. Saying that Filipino cuisine is merely Spanish, Chinese or American is extremely ignorant.
This is why Mexican Food is considered top gastronomy in the world! Thank you MesoAmerica! 👏👏👏 because of you I consume Tortillas, amaranto, chocolate, Pulque, pinole, pozole, Mole and atole everyday! But the Aztecs came much later than the great MesoAmerican civilizations! Like the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs , Teotichucans and Zapotecs
Correction: Maiz is not "now known as corn." Corn is what you call it in English, but Maiz lives on as the Spanish word for corn. And same thing with avocado. This video is informative but it needs to be a better job with explaining the history of words. If you go by this video, you dont learn that corn and avocado are the English for these words and that maiz and aguacate are modern spanish words.
Wish America adopted more of these foods cause they look amazing :( instead we get the Americanized version which kinda sucks. Not too mention flour tortillas 🤮
@@Abalone.Baloney flour tortillas made at home are so good. Northern Mexicans eat more flour tortillas than the south and obviously there’s different types, explore bc tortillas fit with everything lol
@@Abalone.Baloney one thing I cannot get used to eating here in the USA is the tortillas from the store, they're just so stale and have no flavor. Out there in Mexico we get to go to a tortilla store and buy them barely made. I miss the warmth and flavor of them 😔
I love those little Aztec-themed joints that serve human flesh wrapped in a crunchy tortilla shell. Reasonably priced, but I cant afford their specialty menu: Breakfast Baby Burritos are too rich for my blood! And Im not a huge fan of eating infants when I first wake up, anyways.
He sits there watching video after video, the procrastination gnawing at the back of his isolation-addled mind, only to be soothed by an endless stream of pointless but deeply fascinating information. He wants to stay here in the cozy warmth, but alas, snacks are calling again...
Nowadays, we eat a variation of the tamale here in Brazil. It's called "pamonha" and it is made out of corn, sugar, milk and cheese cubes. We grate the corn to extract the "juice" from it, then mix with the other ingredients, and pour it into a little sachet made with the leaves that involve the corn cob. We cook it in boiling water and then eat it when it's warm. It's delicious!
@animationeer not as a staple. Sometimes we’ll have sweet milk bread for dessert or side or when some of my American friends would visit we’d buy French bread and make sandwiches. But 90% of the time it’s bean and rice with chicken, eggs or stroganoff or lasagna. All of which are different from the Italian-American versions. Oh, I guess we do enjoy pizza which has bread, but only like once a week cause eating out is expensive (Edit: I should add that I’m from São Paulo, and that’s what I know as well as my friends from Minas and the northeast. Maybe in other parts of Brazil that I’m less familiar with might have bread like Porto Alegre or central to the north)
No such thing as a “tamale”, a singular tamal is “tamal”, several is “tamales”, i dont know where people got the “tamale” thing from but its not used neither in Mexico nor in central america.
@@ericktellez7632 I think people got the tamale word from the fact that in English words plural carries an "s" and singular doesn't.. at least that's what I think lol
Other Mesoamerican topics I'd like to hear about. How the Mesoamericans developed corn/maize from a wild plant to a cultivated crop and how far it spread in the Americas.
Everyone will tell you their own opinions (or research) but they did spread corn trough New York and Argentina or Chile (the southern parts of south america) 👍
It’s nice to see that my family still eat a lot of these dishes in some sort of way ☺️ I don’t know much about my ancestors, but knowing this makes me feel wholesome.
It’s not just them In the US native quinine is still considered to be regional specialties of where those tribes lived, particularly the Cherokee A lot of southern food originated with the natives
My favorites? Chocolate and guacamole! And, turkey! Suggestions: The mesoamerican class system. What was mesoamerican family life like? Mesoamerican dating, courtship and marriage. Was marriage between different social classes restricted or out right illegal?
Pretty much illegal. If a higher class man wanted a pretty peasant he could have her for sex, ruining her life, but marriage was not a possibility. Lots of religious rules. Lots of superstition. People like to imagine they were more civilized than Europeans if the era, but except for standards of cleanliness they were about the same. It's easier to stay clean in a warm climate.
@@bcaye they were a lot cleaner. They would shower 2-3 times a day. They also used herbs for oral hygen. Since they dint have sugar they had really nice teeth. The emperor moctezuma would never wear the same clothes twice. Just curious why do you say they had the same cleanliness? Where did you read that?
You know mexico is the size of all Europe, and Canada, Brazil and eeuu are bigger than Europe and Africa together right. Mesoamérica didn’t exist, there were many civilizations and all of them were different
How about a video about the Purepecha tribe? They lived on the west coast of Mexico at the same time as the Aztecs. They developed some metallurgy and used to pwn the Aztecs. They traded together sometimes, but although they warred often, the Aztecs never beat them. Their main god was a hummingbird and their capital was Tzintzuntzan.
@@tlaloc27 Tribe- A social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religion or blood ties with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. So yeah actually they would fall into the tribe category.
Great video. I love how well you pronounce the Spanish and even Aztec words. It's odd, but even today people in Mexico pronounce aguacate the way the Aztecs pronounced it, despite the Spanish spelling. It's how we pronounced it as kids. In fact it wasn't till I was 9-10 years old that I realized it was called an avocado. Also, I believe one of the foods you mention at the end, atole, was in fact a quick meal. But instead of a TV dinner, I would compare it to a protein shake similar to what people drink on the go when they want a quick "meal". My great aunt made awesome atoles. My favorite was the chocolate flavored one known as champurrado. She would make a huge pot of it. And when she and her husband were the first on the block to get a color TV (I know I'm dating myself here), we would all gather around the television with a warm mug of homemade champurrado and watch "The FBI, in color" (a TV show that was on in the 1970s). There are so so many great tasting Mexican foods/dishes you just don't see or hear about anymore. Thanks for the memories.
So basically still many of the same foods we eat today!!! I love my Mexican culture and love how our foods are so delicious! Although will say I would never eat an axelotel nowadays 🥲
To be clear, an axolotl is a neotenic salamander, in this case meaning they retain juvenile features into adulthood, and for the rest of their life. It’s not just a young salamander, it’s a species that takes Peter Pan quite seriously.
@@asm2614 It's likely to go the way of the Ginko tree and other functionally extinct species; alive in captivity or domestication, but no longer seen in it's natural habitat.
Pepían is registered as a Mexican 🇲🇽 🙏🙏🌮🌯 indigenous traditional dish by UNESCO and it's origin is from Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla. It's a non spicy chilli type seed/sauce used as s mole variation. The Olmecs from Mexico were the people's that invented before the Maya's of Guatemala.
And this is why Mexican food is so incredibly delicious. It's basically a combination of European and Indigenous cuisine. If someone ever tells you that all Mexican eat is Tortillas and Beans, they don't know that even those two foods can be prepared in so many different ways, can be incredibly delicious and nutritious!
I disagree with the combination of Spanish and Native! I've been to Spain, we still eat exactly like our ancestors! Tortilla, beans, fresh veggies and in México, there are fresh fruit and veggies on every corner!! Different meats, we know how to prepare and eat all cactus prickly pear, garden flowers for neutrition. It's nothing like food in Europe. The few Mexican restaurants in Spain, r always crowded with lines. So proud of my roots!
@@alejandra_ma one of my best friends is Peruvian, I'm Mexican , she took me to a Peruvian restaurant. Had fish and potatoes! It was delicious! The sauce on fish and potatoes were amazing!! Took mom and sisters to enjoy the food!!
So true, just at the top of my mind, with corn and beans you can make tacos, gorditas, tlacoyos, tamales, enfrijioladas, huaraches, sopes, fried beans with totopos, or just a regular bowl of hot beans with cheese and aguacate, with a rolled tortilla in your hand, damn, I think i gotta go the kitchen now.
With all of the sweet things that can be found from farming and being a decent gatherer, it's amazing that without a single reference shown, that you determined their chocolate not to be sweet. So for anyone interested, the Aztecs did have sweet chocolate, and it was done through honey, papaya, other fruits they infused in the chocolate, they put peppers in chocolate, they put psychedelics in chocolate. This is all really easy to find, simply locate ANY University with a Latin American Studies department, and I am sure with the right credentials and communication, any of the experts in these fields can discuss real Meso American history, instead of the nonsense you spin into history as "Your fact."
@@ashenone3050 that LOOK predominantly those ethnicities but also have a little bit of everything but a predominantly higher percentage of one then the other dumb ass
@@pinchespanochas277 dumb ass? not every country in latam is exactly the same , u cant compare mexico with argentina or chile , still u were talking about my brown peoples , and i corrected u saying we are not just one race
Yeah, lots of these foods are still traditional, pulque, pinole, huitlacoche, chocolate, dulce de amaranto, pretty much everything in the vid. Your last name is Nahuatl btw.
Man, that's something. Montezuma was said to have drink chocolate to keep himself up. Their cuisine was different and complex from the Egyptians, Romans, and Ottomans. They were the ones that domesticated turkeys before anyone. We owe Thanksgiving to them. Even though the Pilgrims started the tradition of giving thanks. Boy, this was something.
@@jameswright6886 sad but true... Aztecs as such pre-dated the Conquista only 300 years, while they took and adapted the traditions of the small villages they pillaged in the process of becoming an empire.
@@BlueTearDconnor bruh that's just part of any civilization the U.S. has done the same in the process of it becoming an Empire the trail of tears? The killing of the Indians? The killing of the Spanish Mexicans at the border? Invading New Spain? The middle East?
I think a whole video about the nixtamalization process for corn would be really interesting. I've heard about how the discovery of this process was the reason for the rise in corn as a commodity in the new world.
Ive had an Mexican girlfriend for 3 years and im so happy that i met her i learned a lot about mayans and aztecs and modern mexico its roots and foods history and more she was from a big city Puebla i visited Puebla as well as Veracruz it will forever be in my heart mexico mexican people and culture despite we separated what can i say...viva mexico cabrones ! xD
Avocado is absolutely delicious blended with sugar and milk! Actually corn too, but I don't know the recipe for "corn juice", the avocado one is easy: just blend it with sugar and milk until it tastes good to you and looks like a smooth cream, then eat it with a spoon! :) It's a fantastic dessert!
As far as I know the modern version of “pipián” is a variation of a dish called “mole” which is a sauce made with various ingredients including pumpkin seeds, peanuts, bread, spices, etc.
No pipian is different than mole. Mexicans still make pipian like they’re ancestors. Mole is made different and it started in Oaxaca and to be honest it’s the most amazing dish it has to be Oaxacan mole though 😩😍
They didn’t... they mixed it with water and spices such as chili powder. We didn’t have cows (therefore, no milk in large supply) until the arrival of the Spaniards in 1512 🍫
Sorry, the drink was first made in Ecuador SA 1,500 years at least before the Cacao was introduced to what is now Mexico. Cacao is indigenous to the Amazon Basin.
Lets not forget the tomatoe, pumpkings, beans, maize, chili, sunflower seeds, vanilla, hundreds of diferent fruits like dragonfruit or passionfruit etc, several cactus species and their fruits, ducks and fish from the lake. They had a very complete diet, and the land was very rich. Legend says that the emperor had a feast of 300 diferent dishes everyday.
Bonus fact: pozole used to be made of human meat after a sacrificial victory they’d use some of the bodies of those sacrificed, but the Europeans came and said no... Loved the video spreading Mexican culture only part is that they put Mayan art when speaking of the Aztecs 🤧
I’m 2/3 Aztec 1/3 Spanish, it’s nice to learn more about my ancestors since my family doesint know anything about it, bc of how covered up the what the Spanish did to the Aztecs were to my parents growing up.
I know right? It’s sad that almost everything I know is based on research foreign people did rather than hearing from our own government’s educational programs ☹️
I think the same way too but about the Spanish I'm 3/4 Spanish and I think it's unfair how their portrayed in Mexico and the Americas they were good people who made things better also the Spanish empire was cool
Ever since I was a little kid I have always loved Pinole in atole or just the dust. It is the most delicious thing ever and to be honest nothing has ever compared to the the tast. I recomend getting it in mexico and not so much in stores in other countries. Love the content by the way!
I think your pronunciation of intricate antique languages is quite impressive; my bet is that you’re a highly educated, accomplished iconoclast with a sardonic sense of humor and you could make the back of a shampoo bottle interesting! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible talents with us all. Happy New Year! 🎆
Cool vid. However a few things: Pipián Is still very much used in Mexico. Many other cultures and peoples lives in Mexico (and still do) besides the Aztecs, but the Aztecs were the dominant culture (extended as an empire). What made people intoxicated was fermentation (most widely accepted theory). Saludos!
Most Honored and revered Ancestors, thank you for showing us your ways, and may you rest in peace. Amen. Loving the soundtrack in the background, my dude! It's so soothing.
The aztecs were known for foraging magic mushrooms which they called "genius shrooms", if they added chili and other spices, its likely this might be added as well
Lol what a mad man. The Aztec saw the fungus on his corn and was like “fuck it, I’m eating it anyway”.
Yo should try them, they are good..."quesadillas de huitlacoche" , tastes just like mushroom...
Then again, the Aztecs ate just about anything as the video implied. But hey, food is important.
and the Aztecs had soup, perfume AND toothpaste waaay before Europeans
@@nanncyponce960 they forgot. Flores de calabaza 😍😍
Toothpaste 🤣 like Colgate with extra bicarb , they also invented the first PlayStation
That green slime was "rediscovered" as spirulina, which turns out is an extreme superfood with most if not all the minerals and vitamins you need to survive as a human adult
great insight
If you tried to live on spirulina alone you would die. The ultimate actual superfood with every vitamin and mineral in bio-available form is liver.
@@userillusion86 Liver can only sustain you if you follow it up with fava beans and a nice chianti, otherwise it's nothing.
@@HughGort 😂😂
This comment section is funny.
Hey, you know what they didn’t have? Diabeetus and heart disease. You know why? No bullshit wheat, sugar cane, and industrial seed oils.
Also, if you’ve ever eaten a whole 75% or higher cacao chocolate bar, it does make your head spin a little, it’s about the same amount of caffeine as decent cup of coffee but it’s a little different high.
I love how, throughout all of time, and throughout all cultures, everyone had found fun in getting super drunk.
Well in Europe water was usually polluted and nasty
Spicy water make feel good
We are a simple species it seems lol
Not in Islamic cultures
@@extraextraxtraterrestialah8794 you wouldn't know someone is getting drunk unless they told you.
Mexican cuisine still one of the best in the world, thank you ancesters
Wrong. Is 1#
It's pretty good I prefer Italian tho
Mexican culture is not just mayan or aztec, It's mostly hispanic
Most mexicans are not native american
@@_freedomordeath_ wrong lol
@@sussy_bedstain9770 nah problem Is 90% if is fake unless you're in Mexico or Los Angeles
AMazing the Aztecs accomplished this massive urban society with no wheels, no screws, no metal working, and no large animals like horses or oxen. All of that was built with physical human labor.
I love how they still used engineering for things like agriculture, and instead of using steel for weapons and tools, they used obsidian, as the shattered edges could be sharper than scalpels
They had the wheel they just didn’t wanna use it cause of the ecosystem they lived around
Their children's toys used wheels.
@@PapiGi0 I believe we are both partially correct about this issue. I looked it up and it appears that while the aztecs where aware of the wheel, the most famous evidence being children's toys with wheels, there is no evidence it was used for other purposes, likely because of the lack of draft animals, like I mentioned earlier.
‘Well, how did they build those pyramids?’ ‘Well, they just threw human death and suffering at them till they were finished.’” ~ Louis C.K.
Fungus: *kills the Aztecs’ corn
Aztecs: “Joke’s on you, we’re into that shit”
@Marlon Salgado same bit we often make them into empanadas
I was gonna say, huitlacoche is the shit. Makes dynamite quesadillas.
Nice, it’s good
Yeah its really good stuff!!! Huitlacoche
cheers brother
I imagined Bubba from Forrest Gump in the Tortilla list part. “Tortillas go wit everythang, you can boil em, baste em, sauté em. There’s corn tortillas, flour tortillas, cactus tuna tortillas, fat tortillas, old tortillas, cube tortillas, lemon pepper tortillas...”
Hahaha, you killed me with that, thanks 😂😂😂
I was looking for this comment!
Hahahahahha
Love the everythang bit....RIP Bubba
This is why I love tortillas so much, I can cook a lot of things with them from breakfast to dinner and even to snack on.
I am proud to say I am Mexicano and hundreds of years later We still enjoy all these delicious meals and drinks!!
the food is pretty unrecognizable though, like it’s pretty much not the same dishes anymore
He’s not, we still eat Pinole and it’s really good. Dry but good
@@rafangille Nothing we eat now is the same as what people ate hundreds of years ago and health stats prove that. The top 5 causes of death in the US and Mexico are results from the food we eat today.
As a mexican myself, I can totally agree with you
Love our culture so much ! Proud to be Mexican 🇲🇽 🦅 ❤
In terms of food, seems we have the Aztecs to thank for a lot of what we consume today
"we" ? never encountered those before.
@@sheepboy2560 I feel bad for you
@@sheepboy2560 you've never had chocolate, avocado/guacamole or tortillas? damn
@@SUP-BITCHES chocolate is universal obviously. the rest are weird.
@@cassandra- how does axolotl taste like?
I don't think it was "tuna cactus" tortilla but rather prickly pear tortilla. In Spanish "tuna" is the name for the fruit of the cactus while the tuna fish is "atún"
I suppose is nopal tortilla (cactus as well) which we eat until now
Can the fish not be called both correctly? I’m pretty sure “Atún” and “Tuna” are interchangeable words for the fish in Spanish.
@@fabianheilbron9988 No they're not, it's like that comment above.
Atún means tuna, and tuna is the fruit.
Saludos desde Tacolandia.
@@uvasz It must also depend on the region. Por ejemplo, yo visite la isla de Puerto Rico hace como seis años. Al pasar el tiempo, los nativos de la isla, llamaban a el pescado “Tuna” y no “Atún”. En otro ejemplo, voy a citar a mi madre, que nació y se crió en Colombia. Ella a mi me mandaba a salir a hacer unos cuantos mandados, y al pedir el pescado, me mandaba a llamarlo “Tuna” y no “Atún. She did teach me that both words were correct for the most part. Considering many things perhaps that’s just the influence English has had on other countries in the Caribbean. Which, in turn. has added more words to those in Spanish that still mean the same thing. I can’t really say. Seeing as how I was never born in Colombia. But for the most part I’ve gone with what my parents have taught me, and not once have the other Latinos in the area corrected me for calling the fish “Tuna” and calling the fruit a “nopal”. But I digress. After all, Spanish is just my second language.
@@fabianheilbron9988 Oh yeah, it may depend on the region, same happens in Argentina and Chile if I remember correctly, they don't call the fruit "tuna", they use "cactus" (referring to the whole nopal) instead. Also in the RAE I didn't find "tuna" as fish or the fruit it has another meaning.
Imagine what the night sky would of looked like without light pollution.
Go to the most remoted small village in your country.
Ah. And the village also not yet have the electricity access
o aaaawesome. some low fire lumens humming and great food great people
And Mexico City without air pollution in the day
Specially in Mexico City.
lol you're acting like that's a thing of the past when you can just go out into the countryside and see that whenever you want
The spirit of the Mexican cuisine is alive in each one of the traditional Mexican cooks. I live in California USA and the number of authentic restaurants of Mexican food are growing like wildfire 😁
Indigenous🪶🤍please. Traditional "Mexican" is really indigenous. We would rather not be homogenized 👍
@@MZ95 yes Baja California and Baja California Sur dummy
If the restaurants were authentic there wouldn't be so many Mexicans dropping like wildfire with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
well california is still part of mexico so no surprise haha
@German Sherman no it's not
Little known fact: While feasting on chocolate, the Aztecs would often sit and ponder when the 90's Timeline Series would start.
Haha
lol
Best comment ever, and I concur!
Lmao
I’ve been asking this since timeline 2020
I still eat tamales, tortillas, nopales, avocado and chili peppers, grew up on this wonderful food and chocolate, I am so happy to watch this video. Thanks so much!
There’s a really neat restaurant near the Teotihuacán pyramids called La Gruta, that serves very traditional Aztec dishes, including ones with caterpillars and ant larvae. Definitely check it out if you’re near the ancient city, it’s just a short walk away and absolutely worth the visit.
The only thing i love about old foods is chapulinea and wormwood ngl its tasty
The ant larvae are called escamoles they so good. My family most of time have to dig them up themselves
No thanks
That place is oooooooverpriced.
Gross
It's great that unlike the Victorian era the Aztecs knew how to keep clean, not afraid of water in any sort of way, everything having it's proper place with waste disposal.
Can you do a weird history on the domestication of animals?? I find it so fascinating!
How is it werid man. They were great factor in development of civilization
@@ShubhamMishrabro I think he's more speaking about how peoples who had no idea how selective breeding or evolution work creating new species of animals that are more docile and useful than their wild counterparts. Pretty weird
@@toastedt140 ohh😂
I know that farms keep certain cows with calf to keep there milk flowing even if they ate the calf.
@@Catti003 are you talking about machinery cattle farm of current world. I think he is referring to past
It’s noteworthy to know that the ‘Aztecs’ and Nahuas also had these few foods to their diets:
*Salsa:* “Chilmolli,” literally meaning “Chile sauce.” This was used just as much as a condiment as people do today. It is also thought the word “salsa” was coined by the Franciscan ethnographer and friar, Alfonso de Molina.
*Popcorn:* Known as “izquitl” (eez-kee-k). Spanish people described it as “a kind of corn which bursts when parched and discloses its contents and makes itself look like a very white flower." This word turned into the modern Mexican corn dish, esquite.
*Pozole:* This was a stew often called “pozolli” and was made from a hominy corn known as cacahuazintle, and back then as “cacahuacintli” meaning “cacao bean-like corn,” being a vegetarian dish. Many people get confused with another very similar soup that is infamous for its ingredients. Though, I’ll leave those details for those who are interested.
*Chilaquiles:* Being wrapped in tortillas and is derived from “chilaquilli” meaning “something stuffed with chile and plants.” These plants are known as “quelite” in Mexico and are identified as edible parts of plants.
*Fruits:* Along with the famous avocado being consumed, many other tropical fruits were as well. Pineapples (matzatli), dragonfruit/pitaya (tzaponochtli), sapote (tzapotl), cactus pear (nochtli), papaya (ochonetli), and guava (xalxacotl).
My favourite is cactus pears. I can eat 3 a day. So delicious and anti diabetic. They come from Mexico in the late summer and fall.
@@Agapy8888 yep! We would eat a lot when they r in season whenever me and my family go visit our families in Mexico, I prefer the red ones while my parents enjoy the yellow ones. Absolutely delicious n sweet 😋😋
@@STEPH-kk8gi also you feel better eating in season. Have fun in Mexico.
and sushi and kimchi
This dishes still being super common nowdays in mexico, they r delicious u should try them
Chocolatl is a badass and original way to say chocolate.
Yeah! Now substitute “ch” with an x and it sounds the same but looks cooler 😎 xocolatl 🍫
the x is actually pronounced "sh" and it ticks me whenever he pronounces it as ch, but well, at least I can overlook it when someone's not an expert in Nahuatl and still manage to make such an informative video.
I’m going to ignore the fact that the narrator butchered almost every single Nahuatl word because at least he tried. To be fair, it’s not easy to pronounce them if you’re not familiar with the language, but damn, he sounded pretty funny. 😁
Not an expert but probably you should pronunciate it something like "Shokolatl"
@@sergeyrafirudov some dialects of Nahuatl actually say chikolotl instead of xocolotl
Actually pinoli are pine cone nuts! Amazing that the “poor” ate them😮 today they are very pricey and used sparingly in various recipes like pesto and desserts 😋
No the rich powerful people would also eat the same kinds of plant foods like tortillas and pinoli but would be able to more meats then the poor who would mainly only eat a plant diet
When I lived in Washington State,I used to go pine cone hunting for the seeds. I would shuck them and put them away in bags. It was a hobby of mine. During the winter when it was cold,I'd shuck and roast some of them for dinner. Have a cup of them with rice,veggies and some type of meat.
Yummm!
That's what I thought but he made it sound like it was corn. I think he got that one wrong.
Thank you! Think he would have noticed the pine nuts depicted in the video... also, pine nuts were consumed throughout north america, and have a protein content higher than that of red meat.
@@getin3949 he said corn but he showed pictures of pine nuts
Spaniards: what's this delicious green fruit?
Aztecs: *laughs* it's called ahuacatl 🤣 🥑
Spaniards: Yummm... I love aguacate 🥑💕
Aztecs: *laughs harder* They have no idea we called it testicles 🤣😂
Come its ahuacatl..
Gross
I mean is the same with the word pendejo that a lot of people use without know it was used to describe male or female that still didn’t have pubic hair
Certainly shaped like them.
So eat an avo a day keeps your heart and family jewels healthy into a ripe old age.
The guacamole is the cum from the inside of the Avocado
Fun fact. They called themselves "mexicas" not "aztecs". And their language was called "Náhuatl".
Pronounced .... (meshika)
Thank you
Yep im descendant of them. My grandma would say a lot of words in Nahuatl.
@Galleta de Soda youre wrong -_- a vast majority of the mexicas left to rural areas in the mountains pinche galleta mamona
@Galleta de Soda im not lying because ive done my DNA and im related to the NAHUA tribe and if u didnt know the last Aztec emperor cuauhtemocs mother was from a town called ixcateopan in Guerrero state and guess what? Im from another near town in Guerrero where to this exact day the people still speak Nahuatl!
Not even 15 secs. into the video and you already showed the teotihuacan pyramid calling it "aztec". They were not the same! Teotihuacans and their civilization had already vanished from the territory when aztecs came down from the north (Aztlan).
So, yeah, foreign people, the pyramids you want to come and climb are not aztecs.
*sigh*
yt people literally colonize everything they see 😞 and then spread this misinformation. im purepecha and this whole video was hard to watch
@@Thisismyhandle329 really? Is the biggest part wrong?
Seems this video has tons of errors and omissions. Thanks
@@Thisismyhandle329 I don’t think it’s colonizing and idk how that word would get used on a video trying to show history of food in one beautiful and rich culture
It just seems more of lack of studying in regards to the many different types of civilizations in Mexico. I’m just glad to see people on these comments at least say something for the other
I swear, it's like 'they all look alike'! Latin cultures are diverse.
It shows the importance of their culture that literally all these preparations are popular to this day. 🤗💚
As a Mexican, this all sounds delicious.
Axotyl thooo idk man
Thats cuz Mexican food came from them
si, suena delicioso
@@Bryan-bd5kc well Mexicans ares Aztec lol
@@marymendoza3592 yeah i know we are the native descents of Mexico since colonization fucked up our dna
If you're ever in Mexico you have to try the quesadillas de huitlacoche, they are delicious!
Yes they are, pinole, dulce de amaranto and pulque are pretty dope too.
What is huitlacoche Ivan? I was in beloved Mexico several years ago and tried as many new dishes as possible but never heard of these quesadillas...
@@carolinaerickson4903 Huitlacoche is a fungus that grows on corn and is considered a delicacy
@@organicmagic8822 oooh...gracias Ivan next trip then!
@@carolinaerickson4903 yes they are very good especially with the blue corn tortillas
Maaan you forgot to mention POZOLE! That is of the most popular Mexican dishes that we continue to eat today! 😂
@alex' so whats the issue?? Would u rather it still be the original recipe? Gtfo
And there’s a very interesting story about how they started making people pozole. Pozole de gente ewww
@alex' start with yourself as an example
Just had menudo yesterday.. 🤤
Literally every known civilization has at least these two recipes: soup, and cooked meat on a stick. 😂😂😂
I've read articles on this topic, and the Aztecs enjoyed dishes that were as complex and multidimensional as French cuisine. They used more vegetation than meat, and layered many flavors into carefully crafted, hand-pounded sauces. They thought western cooking was too oily and lacked flavor, apparently. This is so fascinating, and although this video is quite simplistic, it does give a little window into the unique and well-developed aspect of Aztec life that has been much forgotten.
There’s nothing complex about French cuisine. Europeans have forced us to believe everything they did was better while always diminishing the great discoveries and advancements of indigenous people. Also when it comes to world rankings Mexican cuisine is above French and many other Europeans countries. Also forgotten to who? Aztec culture is definitely alive and well preserved in Mexico.
These are way more interesting then the 20 classes I’ve had on the Revolutionary War.
I know what you mean
Perhaps you should change your major.
I mean its really how good the teacher taught the class that determined how good the class was
👍💯
mfw in Britbongland we just learn about the Tudors a bunch of fucking times.
As a Mexican growing up my mom would beat my ass if I didn’t eat tortillas
The deadly chanclá!
And rightly so!
My brother used to hide the food he didn't want to eat under a tortilla.
My mama beat the shit out of me when I came home one night high af off weed
My pops would whoop me for not eatin my frijoles
Also, for those interested, this is how you pronounce Nahuatl words ending in -TL like Quetzalcoatl and Xocolatl : The L is silent, but you still position your mouth as if you were going to pronounce it, but only let the air out, no sound.
Nice factoid, thanks for posting 👍
Like an S.B.D?
I do it with the T nearly being silent and the L only being briefly pronounced just because I find it amusing.
Yes and not with a “tul” sound like even many Mexicans incorrectly say it. It’s more like you push a little pocket of air behind your L positioned tongue. It annoys me so much when I hear such mispronunciations as popocatepeTUL. Lol
Xitomal =tomato
Best fun Fact about the Aztec language is that the word origin for "Avocado" referred to "Testicals".
Because they looked like them.
Original avocados were 90% seed. Almost no edible flesh.
@@cornstar1253 all you people in comments love to bitch and moan any every single thing that revolves around Aztecs
I’m Mexican descent and I didn’t know Aztecs had all these varieties of tortillas. When I was a kid I visited Mexico, and one of my favorite moments was when my aunt Paz sent me to the tortilla joint and I bought a kilo of freshly made, warm tortillas. I would grab one or two tortillas before going home. It was a cool experience and I would recommend anyone go get fresh tortillas 🤤
Fresh corn tortillas are so delicious
Some very rural indigenous villages in Southern Mexico make tortillas using grounded amaranth seeds. Amaranth seeds also pop like miniature popcorn and we Mexicans make skulls using popped amaranth during Day of the Dead.
Para que comprar si se hace en casa
You forgot two very important ingredient for the Mexican cuisine then and now; Tomato (tomatl) and chili Pepper (chili). There are plenty varieties of peppers in around Mexico.
Tomato???(tomatl)!!! Are you sure you are writing that word correctly?
@@benjaminrodriguez7356 red tomatoes are xitomatl, green tomatillos are tomatl..... ther are some xaltomatl...
@@jibaritomx Thanks!
@@jibaritomx I believe the green ones are miltomatl.
@@FarelLaban could be, mil in nahuatl a farming reference of corn, beans and pumpkin together, I believe miltomatl is not a specific for the green tomato, could be the redones on a milpa planting...
This is so cool! Would love to watch one about what ancient Filipinos were eating before the Spaniards and Chinese came. Since most of our food is either Chinese, Spanish, or US-influenced.
Filipinos only ate kimchi and rice
@@brucehur2051 ....we don't really eat kimchi here in the Philippines. I think it only got popular when the Hallyu (Korean) wave started. But yeah we eat a lot of rice :)
More Mexican than Spanish, since it was New Spain (Mexico) was placed in charge to take care of the Filipines, nahuatl for mom is Nonantli and dad was Notantli and in the Philippines Nana and Tata are borrowed from Nahuatl.
they don’t have as much information about the philippines before colonization as the central and southern americans have :,)
Uh, false. Filipinos back then ate tinola, nilaga, sinigang, kinilaw, kilawin, adobong puti, litson, grilled fish, ginataan, etc.
Saying that Filipino cuisine is merely Spanish, Chinese or American is extremely ignorant.
This is why Mexican Food is considered top gastronomy in the world! Thank you MesoAmerica! 👏👏👏 because of you I consume Tortillas, amaranto, chocolate, Pulque, pinole, pozole,
Mole and atole everyday! But the Aztecs came much later than the great MesoAmerican civilizations! Like the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs , Teotichucans and Zapotecs
But remembered Pozole was made out of human meat👌😁!
No it wasn't ○ they pulled out human living hearts for GOD-sakes. That is Why came to Conquered them & Christianized them Cannibals😏😉!
@@colinchampollion4420así es ...así de chingones eran nuestros ancentros
The video is about aztecs from Mexico. Not all those other things you named trying to be inclusive of central Americans only aztecs from Mexico
@@CarlosLopez-qn6itno todos somos de la misma tribu. El video es sobre aztecas de Mexico.
Correction: Maiz is not "now known as corn." Corn is what you call it in English, but Maiz lives on as the Spanish word for corn.
And same thing with avocado. This video is informative but it needs to be a better job with explaining the history of words. If you go by this video, you dont learn that corn and avocado are the English for these words and that maiz and aguacate are modern spanish words.
I thought the exact same thing
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking this
i think that in english, maiz is the older version of what we now know as corn.
It's pronounced as Mah iz
We use it in Swedish and Finnish too: majs and maissi
It was believed that the chocolate was a gift from the god Quetzalcóatl.
Btw, chocolate and chili powder combination is actually pretty good.
Mole?
If you like that, you must certainly like mole. If you haven’t tried it yet, I strongly recommend you do.
so mole basically?
I like to make hot chocolate with a few dashes of hot sauce in it. I tell people they should try it, but they look at me like I’m insane.
True to that!
They had more types of tortillas than royal names.
Edit: 333 likes.... What kind of demon are ya trying to summon? Tortillasor?
i-😂😂
Tortilla for life
Wish America adopted more of these foods cause they look amazing :( instead we get the Americanized version which kinda sucks. Not too mention flour tortillas 🤮
@@Abalone.Baloney flour tortillas made at home are so good. Northern Mexicans eat more flour tortillas than the south and obviously there’s different types, explore bc tortillas fit with everything lol
@@Abalone.Baloney one thing I cannot get used to eating here in the USA is the tortillas from the store, they're just so stale and have no flavor. Out there in Mexico we get to go to a tortilla store and buy them barely made. I miss the warmth and flavor of them 😔
Idk why as a Hispanic this makes me proud how these foods are so widely eaten around the world now.
It wasnt good tell after the Spaniards made it better
@@steverinehart4637 oh yeah until they made them 3rd class citizens in there own country lol my bad
@@jonathanprime1507 it’s quite amazing really I’m Italian and Maltese and other family heritage it’s very cool
I think it's funny how people are still eating those foods today and in fancy restaurants too.
I love those little Aztec-themed joints that serve human flesh wrapped in a crunchy tortilla shell. Reasonably priced, but I cant afford their specialty menu: Breakfast Baby Burritos are too rich for my blood! And Im not a huge fan of eating infants when I first wake up, anyways.
I wish this narrator, narrated my life as it plays.
Hahahahaha for real. He’s awesome
Great idea!
He sits there watching video after video, the procrastination gnawing at the back of his isolation-addled mind, only to be soothed by an endless stream of pointless but deeply fascinating information. He wants to stay here in the cozy warmth, but alas, snacks are calling again...
@@jthompson2379 to accurate dude, it hurts to read🤣
@@jthompson2379 I feel exposed😭😭😭
Nowadays, we eat a variation of the tamale here in Brazil. It's called "pamonha" and it is made out of corn, sugar, milk and cheese cubes. We grate the corn to extract the "juice" from it, then mix with the other ingredients, and pour it into a little sachet made with the leaves that involve the corn cob. We cook it in boiling water and then eat it when it's warm. It's delicious!
@animationeer nope! You can sometimes find tortillas in the supermarket but it’s rare. Beans and rice are our food staples- every single day!
@animationeer not as a staple. Sometimes we’ll have sweet milk bread for dessert or side or when some of my American friends would visit we’d buy French bread and make sandwiches. But 90% of the time it’s bean and rice with chicken, eggs or stroganoff or lasagna. All of which are different from the Italian-American versions. Oh, I guess we do enjoy pizza which has bread, but only like once a week cause eating out is expensive
(Edit: I should add that I’m from São Paulo, and that’s what I know as well as my friends from Minas and the northeast. Maybe in other parts of Brazil that I’m less familiar with might have bread like Porto Alegre or central to the north)
No such thing as a “tamale”, a singular tamal is “tamal”, several is “tamales”, i dont know where people got the “tamale” thing from but its not used neither in Mexico nor in central america.
@@ericktellez7632 I think people got the tamale word from the fact that in English words plural carries an "s" and singular doesn't.. at least that's what I think lol
Other Mesoamerican topics I'd like to hear about. How the Mesoamericans developed corn/maize from a wild plant to a cultivated crop and how far it spread in the Americas.
Everyone will tell you their own opinions (or research) but they did spread corn trough New York and Argentina or Chile (the southern parts of south america) 👍
It’s nice to see that my family still eat a lot of these dishes in some sort of way ☺️
I don’t know much about my ancestors, but knowing this makes me feel wholesome.
"So what do you think?" I always love when he says that at the end.
The Aztecs were overthrown by the Spanish, but their cultural legacy lives on especially in their cuisine.
Twas actually disease that killed them off, the entire population fell by 80% because they'd never been exposed to what Europeans carried
Not really in the north
But yes, it's cool to think that the food that is served nowadays is still similar to what they ate back then
@@jessegonzalez5150 and most of the Spanish army was natives that figured that anybody was better than the Aztecs
It’s not just them
In the US native quinine is still considered to be regional specialties of where those tribes lived, particularly the Cherokee
A lot of southern food originated with the natives
My favorites? Chocolate and guacamole! And, turkey!
Suggestions: The mesoamerican class system.
What was mesoamerican family life like?
Mesoamerican dating, courtship and marriage. Was marriage between different social classes restricted or out right illegal?
Yep.
Pretty much illegal. If a higher class man wanted a pretty peasant he could have her for sex, ruining her life, but marriage was not a possibility. Lots of religious rules. Lots of superstition. People like to imagine they were more civilized than Europeans if the era, but except for standards of cleanliness they were about the same. It's easier to stay clean in a warm climate.
@@bcaye they were a lot cleaner. They would shower 2-3 times a day. They also used herbs for oral hygen. Since they dint have sugar they had really nice teeth. The emperor moctezuma would never wear the same clothes twice. Just curious why do you say they had the same cleanliness? Where did you read that?
That would be a great episode.
You know mexico is the size of all Europe, and Canada, Brazil and eeuu are bigger than Europe and Africa together right. Mesoamérica didn’t exist, there were many civilizations and all of them were different
How about a video about the Purepecha tribe? They lived on the west coast of Mexico at the same time as the Aztecs. They developed some metallurgy and used to pwn the Aztecs. They traded together sometimes, but although they warred often, the Aztecs never beat them. Their main god was a hummingbird and their capital was Tzintzuntzan.
They weren't a tribe they where a kingdom
@L H tribes dont control other kingdoms and people groups that's call a Empire in fact. they also had cities and a government
@@tlaloc27 Tribe- A social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religion or blood ties with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. So yeah actually they would fall into the tribe category.
That was a very interesting civilization,never defeated by the Aztecs they were mostly warriors,with its own gastronomy and culture.
So? They were probably closely related by DNA.
I can still hear “ por eso no te llenas por que no comes tortillas 🤬” lol 😂
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
What's the translation mi amigo?
@@tasosdiaforetico7377 “that’s why you don’t get full because you don’t eat your tortillas “ screaming at you out the top of her lungs lol
my nana !!!!
That’s what my mom would kinda say to me 😂
love the content mate, recon you could do more about eating episodes !
pizza
Damn u from Australia or texas?? 🤔 lol
@@panchowallace6401 LMFAOOO I WAS HOPING THIS REPLY WAS HERE
After eating episodes do asmr
Food is life
The "Aztec" actually referred to themselves as Mexica (meh-SHEE-cah).
Seems as though anyone reporting history would avoid such colonial disrespect
Ooh, thanks for the pronunciation. Yeah, no reason to say it like disease bringer colonialists said it.
This narrator makes learning history fun
True but the Mayans and Olmec did most of these foods or traditions first
I wish s/he were Hispanic
I feel like this could’ve been like three times as long. Very much enjoyed ✌🏾
I have an online Aztecs test tomorrow so this video is perfect timing thank you
@@craigcurtis9781 good luck
There you are Lenny!
@@Manupaya24 Lenny my boah
Hopefully the test will heavy in the origins of guacamole and corn tortillas.
I love learning about ancient cuisine, and it seems like a lot of Aztec food and its flavors have stood the test of time!
Mexican here, the word “ahuacate” didn’t evolve to avocado, that’s just the way it was translated, ahuacate is still ahuacate or aguacate.
In portuguese is abacate 🥑
I said that out loud when he said that. 😂🙄
The word "ahuacate" evolved to "aguacate" (in Spanish), avocado (English) and abacate (in Portuguese).
He knows a lot to be white ,he made some mistakes but it’s ok,not offense saying because he’s white.
@@drapala97
Como se dice
tomate
Chocolate
Maiz
Guajolote 🦃
Pápalo quelite
en portugués?
Great video. I love how well you pronounce the Spanish and even Aztec words. It's odd, but even today people in Mexico pronounce aguacate the way the Aztecs pronounced it, despite the Spanish spelling. It's how we pronounced it as kids. In fact it wasn't till I was 9-10 years old that I realized it was called an avocado. Also, I believe one of the foods you mention at the end, atole, was in fact a quick meal. But instead of a TV dinner, I would compare it to a protein shake similar to what people drink on the go when they want a quick "meal". My great aunt made awesome atoles. My favorite was the chocolate flavored one known as champurrado. She would make a huge pot of it. And when she and her husband were the first on the block to get a color TV (I know I'm dating myself here), we would all gather around the television with a warm mug of homemade champurrado and watch "The FBI, in color" (a TV show that was on in the 1970s). There are so so many great tasting Mexican foods/dishes you just don't see or hear about anymore. Thanks for the memories.
Videos like this make me want to cook, and then indulge myself.
So basically still many of the same foods we eat today!!! I love my Mexican culture and love how our foods are so delicious!
Although will say I would never eat an axelotel nowadays 🥲
To be clear, an axolotl is a neotenic salamander, in this case meaning they retain juvenile features into adulthood, and for the rest of their life. It’s not just a young salamander, it’s a species that takes Peter Pan quite seriously.
And they regenerate parts of their bodies ,very beautiful animals,they look like Pokémons,it’s a shame they’re almost extinct.
@Neny Yes, axolotls are more than likely already extinct or very close to it. They do exist in labs and the pet trade. We have a pet axolotl.
@@asm2614 It's likely to go the way of the Ginko tree and other functionally extinct species; alive in captivity or domestication, but no longer seen in it's natural habitat.
@jonnda True. It makes me sad, but I’m glad our little guy is with us. It makes me feel as if we’re back in ancient times.
@@asm2614 Pues al tener un ajolote de mascota, probablemente aportaste a su desaparición, no presumas eso...
Pepían is registered as a Mexican 🇲🇽 🙏🙏🌮🌯 indigenous traditional dish by UNESCO and it's origin is from Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla. It's a non spicy chilli type seed/sauce used as s mole variation. The Olmecs from Mexico were the people's that invented before the Maya's of Guatemala.
People from northern Mexico prepared it as well
Nah Guatemala did it first cope Mexican.
@@MZ95 bro you negatively replied to like 10 comments on this video. How miserable is your life?
Thank México for your favorite foods 👌🏼🙌🏼
I love learning about Aztecs!😁
Don't learn it here. This guy is inaccurate
@@grilledcheeseorpbandj they did a pretty good job imo, it's up to the individual to learn more on their own.
@@grilledcheeseorpbandj
I'm mexican, pretty much correct too
@Johnnie Boi
That’d be a problem, supposing you’d be incapable of straightening the truth out; assuming, of course, there is any bent truth, at all.
@@NelsonPerez-yo6lm I can learn more on my own but whoever im getting it from has to be accurate 100%
And this is why Mexican food is so incredibly delicious. It's basically a combination of European and Indigenous cuisine. If someone ever tells you that all Mexican eat is Tortillas and Beans, they don't know that even those two foods can be prepared in so many different ways, can be incredibly delicious and nutritious!
@L H You’d be surprise. Just go and ask a Peruvian 🤷🏻♀️
yeah our cuisine is so rich. i’m from the north so learning about other regions dishes is fun
I disagree with the combination of Spanish and Native! I've been to Spain, we still eat exactly like our ancestors! Tortilla, beans, fresh veggies and in México, there are fresh fruit and veggies on every corner!! Different meats, we know how to prepare and eat all cactus prickly pear, garden flowers for neutrition. It's nothing like food in Europe. The few Mexican restaurants in Spain, r always crowded with lines. So proud of my roots!
@@alejandra_ma one of my best friends is Peruvian, I'm Mexican , she took me to a Peruvian restaurant. Had fish and potatoes! It was delicious! The sauce on fish and potatoes were amazing!! Took mom and sisters to enjoy the food!!
So true, just at the top of my mind, with corn and beans you can make tacos, gorditas, tlacoyos, tamales, enfrijioladas, huaraches, sopes, fried beans with totopos, or just a regular bowl of hot beans with cheese and aguacate, with a rolled tortilla in your hand, damn, I think i gotta go the kitchen now.
If Weird History wants to further explore pre-Contact Americas and Indigenous life before the Europeans came, you have all of me at attention.
With all of the sweet things that can be found from farming and being a decent gatherer, it's amazing that without a single reference shown, that you determined their chocolate not to be sweet. So for anyone interested, the Aztecs did have sweet chocolate, and it was done through honey, papaya, other fruits they infused in the chocolate, they put peppers in chocolate, they put psychedelics in chocolate. This is all really easy to find, simply locate ANY University with a Latin American Studies department, and I am sure with the right credentials and communication, any of the experts in these fields can discuss real Meso American history, instead of the nonsense you spin into history as "Your fact."
You right but harsh. Hahaha
Idea!! Naked your own video. Post it. See if you are factual. OR NOT
Very well said & true
And to this day we still eat many of these foods 😋
*Yes We Do, N We Have A Very Simular History Regarding Our Oppressors N Civil Activist Team Ups, My Brown Peoples N Your Black Peoples*
@@pinchespanochas277 when u don’t know what are u talking about , there are Latinos that are brown black native and white
@@ashenone3050 that LOOK predominantly those ethnicities but also have a little bit of everything but a predominantly higher percentage of one then the other dumb ass
@@pinchespanochas277 dumb ass? not every country in latam is exactly the same , u cant compare mexico with argentina or chile , still u were talking about my brown peoples , and i corrected u saying we are not just one race
Alguien aqui es Mexicano/a.. Any other Mexicans here? Thanks for the video!
Yeah, lots of these foods are still traditional, pulque, pinole, huitlacoche, chocolate, dulce de amaranto, pretty much everything in the vid. Your last name is Nahuatl btw.
*"Person comes into bar to get drunk"*
The person: Could I get a cup of cacao please?
¿Que que?"
@@JM-fo1te jaja ;-;
You need to try a hot chocolate with tequila, you’ll know what he meant. Delicious
But it was fermented.
The stinking tortillas are actually a name for yucca/cassava/Manioc Tortillas
And the "tuna cactus tortillas" should have been translated as prickly pear/cactus fruit tortillas
Take a shot every time “tortillas” is said.
*kidney failure*
@animationeer that's too much tortilla
Oh you want us dead dead
we still eat a bunch of these things in Mexico and south Texas
Ever tasted the slime, corn fungus, or roasted water bugs?
@@flowertrue The corn fungus is actually delicious
Not just South Texas, Southern California as well.
Was anyone else too mesmerized by those transitions to pay attention to this video?
The reason the drink made them drunk or sick was due to the high amounts of caffeine. Like super high amounts!
Had no idea cocao had such high caffeine content
Man, that's something. Montezuma was said to have drink chocolate to keep himself up. Their cuisine was different and complex from the Egyptians, Romans, and Ottomans. They were the ones that domesticated turkeys before anyone. We owe Thanksgiving to them. Even though the Pilgrims started the tradition of giving thanks. Boy, this was something.
I doubt very much that the aztecs domesticated turkey,those were probably domesticated by the civilization they conquered and destroyed.
@@jameswright6886 i know right, they domesticated other tribes instead... lol
@@jameswright6886 sad but true... Aztecs as such pre-dated the Conquista only 300 years, while they took and adapted the traditions of the small villages they pillaged in the process of becoming an empire.
@@BlueTearDconnor bruh that's just part of any civilization the U.S. has done the same in the process of it becoming an Empire the trail of tears? The killing of the Indians? The killing of the Spanish Mexicans at the border? Invading New Spain? The middle East?
@@specter1549 nobody is arguing otherwise bro. Literally, nobody...
Eveybody should try a huitlacoche quesadilla at least once in life. A taste of heaven.
also a squash blossom quesadilla
aztecs only ate kimchi and rice !
@Michelle no its true i was there
I think a whole video about the nixtamalization process for corn would be really interesting. I've heard about how the discovery of this process was the reason for the rise in corn as a commodity in the new world.
Ive had an Mexican girlfriend for 3 years and im so happy that i met her i learned a lot about mayans and aztecs and modern mexico its roots and foods history and more she was from a big city Puebla i visited Puebla as well as Veracruz it will forever be in my heart mexico mexican people and culture despite we separated what can i say...viva mexico cabrones ! xD
Avocado is absolutely delicious blended with sugar and milk!
Actually corn too, but I don't know the recipe for "corn juice", the avocado one is easy: just blend it with sugar and milk until it tastes good to you and looks like a smooth cream, then eat it with a spoon! :) It's a fantastic dessert!
Mix it with mayonnaise
I'm so trying this out thanks 😋
Look up “Atole”
ya sold me.
Yes I’ve had it as a boba drink
Some of the images used in this film were Mayan, which are quite different in style to Aztec iconography.
aztecs only ate kimchi and rice !
As far as I know the modern version of “pipián” is a variation of a dish called “mole” which is a sauce made with various ingredients including pumpkin seeds, peanuts, bread, spices, etc.
In Guatemala we have a dish that is called that which is made very similarly. We dont call it mole though we still call it pipian
No pipian is different than mole. Mexicans still make pipian like they’re ancestors. Mole is made different and it started in Oaxaca and to be honest it’s the most amazing dish it has to be Oaxacan mole though 😩😍
@@marymendoza3592 Where I’m from it is a variation of mole. I was speaking from experience.
Nope !!.. they're different in so many ways
Mole is molli. And pipian is pepian
I find amazing that a lot of those food from centuries ago are still ate today! That's badass!
아즈텍인의 음식에 대한 역사 재밌습니다.
감사합니다.
The Aztec food history is interesting.
Thank you.
this narrator makes everything sound interesting!
he sounds like an american though
Dan Ackroyd like voice
The pyramid shown at 0:09 was not Aztec. It was Teotihuacán, who lived there 2 thousand years prior to the Aztecs arriving to what is now Mexico City.
I grew up eating many of these
Foods. Fascinating!
YES, i love videos about cultural diet
Me too!!!
Mexicans aztecs give so much TO THE WORLD.... we are amazing. 💋💥
Yessss, we are!!! ❤❤
I'm from Asia, even most of our food is come from the new world
The aztecs invented choccy milk let that sink in
They didn’t... they mixed it with water and spices such as chili powder. We didn’t have cows (therefore, no milk in large supply) until the arrival of the Spaniards in 1512 🍫
@@denniserandolph6244 We do have choccy water tho
Let these nuts sink in
No milk, no sugar, so no
Sorry, the drink was first made in Ecuador SA 1,500 years at least before the Cacao was introduced to what is now Mexico. Cacao is indigenous to the Amazon Basin.
Lets not forget the tomatoe, pumpkings, beans, maize, chili, sunflower seeds, vanilla, hundreds of diferent fruits like dragonfruit or passionfruit etc, several cactus species and their fruits, ducks and fish from the lake. They had a very complete diet, and the land was very rich. Legend says that the emperor had a feast of 300 diferent dishes everyday.
Bonus fact: pozole used to be made of human meat after a sacrificial victory they’d use some of the bodies of those sacrificed, but the Europeans came and said no...
Loved the video spreading Mexican culture only part is that they put Mayan art when speaking of the Aztecs 🤧
You took the words out of my mouth
Tambien tamales
Not everything the Spanish recorded was true. Civilizations can't exist without laws.
I’m 2/3 Aztec 1/3 Spanish, it’s nice to learn more about my ancestors since my family doesint know anything about it, bc of how covered up the what the Spanish did to the Aztecs were to my parents growing up.
I know right? It’s sad that almost everything I know is based on research foreign people did rather than hearing from our own government’s educational programs ☹️
I think the same way too but about the Spanish I'm 3/4 Spanish and I think it's unfair how their portrayed in Mexico and the Americas they were good people who made things better also the Spanish empire was cool
You're none of those just mexican. Get it right
@@perfectogaming5240 I’m just stating that I have indigenous roots I wish I knew more about. A lot of mexicans don’t know about ancestors.
@@Ytpooplol you are more than likely from one of the many tribes that helped the spanish against the aztecs.
Ever since I was a little kid I have always loved Pinole in atole or just the dust. It is the most delicious thing ever and to be honest nothing has ever compared to the the tast. I recomend getting it in mexico and not so much in stores in other countries. Love the content by the way!
I think your pronunciation of intricate antique languages is quite impressive; my bet is that you’re a highly educated, accomplished iconoclast with a sardonic sense of humor and you could make the back of a shampoo bottle interesting! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible talents with us all. Happy New Year! 🎆
He's actually putting the accent on the wrong part of the word.
This one for me was really cool. Thanks for posting.
Cool vid. However a few things: Pipián Is still very much used in Mexico.
Many other cultures and peoples lives in Mexico (and still do) besides the Aztecs, but the Aztecs were the dominant culture (extended as an empire).
What made people intoxicated was fermentation (most widely accepted theory). Saludos!
Most Honored and revered Ancestors, thank you for showing us your ways, and may you rest in peace. Amen.
Loving the soundtrack in the background, my dude! It's so soothing.
The aztecs were known for foraging magic mushrooms which they called "genius shrooms", if they added chili and other spices, its likely this might be added as well
Not only Chocolate but Vanilla also originated from ancient Mexico
I just recently tried the corn mushroom, and it was really good.