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Why isn't this titled "History Hits Tortures Dan Snow for Likes"?

If anyone else on here watches Tasting History, as soon as he said hardtack, did you envision the video clip of Max going *clack, clack*? Lol!

I remember an old song I learned in school: "The biscuits in the army They say are mighty fine. One fell off the table And killed a pal of mine."

I heard him say ‘hardtack’ and had a Pavlovian response of hearing clack clack straight after.

I read that hard tack or biscuits weren't meant to be eaten without soaking them first. My hats off to you for surviving all of these meals.

In Germany during WW II cigarettes again became the main currency on the black market. Almost everybody started smoking, sometimes even children. Because nicotin would calm your shattered nerves after an air raid and even dull the feeling of constant hunger. That was certainly unhealthy, but at a time when you felt you could die any minute, a longterm healthy lifestyle seemed less urgent.

Spam is not meant to be eaten cold. Some people actually like it , but only when fried to render some of the fat.

I was born end of the 60s. Our parents were WW2 kids (1 early teen, 1 small child). Products of the "Protestant work ethic", they ate what they were given and expected us to do the same. We had bread and dripping often (the Monday remnant of the small Sunday roast)... it was delicious! The way it is "served" with no effort in this programme is ridiculous drama. In reality: Toasted chunky brown bread, re-melted beef dripping, white pepper, salt.... and in the summer a tomato (home grown and ripened in the airing cupboard) and small chunk of cheese on the side. Simple and lovely!

Finally a full complete series of Dan eating all of the foods cold

You have dripping completely wrong! It is the fat that is in the baking tin after a large piece of meat is roasted so it contains the flavor of the meat plus any spices or herbs rubbed into meat before cooking. Yes there was a layer of fat on top but I grew up in postwar Britain and we loved dripping spread on bread. Your father was right!

Pig trotters are actually a part of traditional dish among Eastern Europeans. It is cooked for long hours, better overnight, then cleaned from skin and bones, and the broth was divided on small portions and cooled in wells or basements where the T was never higher than 6-8C. The broth which is the collagen extract turns into jello, and was eaten with garlic or horseradish. People who had meat, added meat on the bottom on the jello form, also pepper or other spices, so they could get much more delicious jello, and it looked nice too. From biochemical point of view this dish is very fulfilling and healthy, because it’s a pure collagen, very well extracted from joints. Humans digest it easily, and it goes directly to build our skin and joints. BTW biochemically pigs are very close to humans, we even can use pigs’ organs as transplants. My friend who was a vegetarian for over 2 decades suffered from terrible joints pain, had to use a cane to walk. I recommended her to stop idiotic diet and eat collagen foods at least for 2 weeks… she refused, but after the pain became severe so she barely was able to walk, she did similar dish as I described earlier but used chicken feet, not pig’s. How long it took her to be able to walk as normal human, what do you think? 3 weeks. After that she decided to eat chicken ones a week.

Maize alkalized in lime is called hominy. It's hominy.

This was a great documentary. I love that he is actually tasting the food vs just talking about it

And sweetbreads is not ovaries in testicles, it is the thymus gland of the throat, and the pancreas.

I laid on that bed and walked that exact room a few months ago! I travelled from Texas to Butser Farm and got there on a day they closed for staff training! The group were SO NICE! All the staff invited us in to have the whole place to ourselves while they freshened up their knowledge. Regularly checked in on us to make sure our questions were answered and we had a good time! I will never forget that place. Recognized your set immediately

A lot of these dishes look as if they would have tasted much better when prepared well

I think there's one aspect missing here. Dan Snow is not starving. He does not exert himself from sun up to sun down with hard manual labour. He does not walk miles back and forth every day. For those soldiers in the trenches, for the poor in Victorian UK , the food they ate everyday that tastes terrible to us today would be normal and heartening to them. They would be grateful and thankful that they had those to eat when faced with starvation.

Spam is so much more edible when sliced and cooked and served hot.

Chocolate with chili is brilliant, and yes it does cure everything, as far as I’m concerned😂

You should link up Tasting History by Max Miller. There could be awesome collaboration videos!