Trying THE WORST Food From History
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I am NEVER going to get the smell of salty boiled fish out of my kitchen! So come join me as I try - and fail - to make some of the weirdest and worst food from history.
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My favourite part was your confession about your bread concoction. 🤣🤣🤣 I love when people keep it real 🤩❤️
It's been argued that some of these dishes were invented by an irate housewife to correct her husband's errant behavior. I can't argue with that idea.
I appreciate you crediting Max Miller at Tasting History. It reassures me that there are still channels who don't take credit for others' ideas. Good work on the video!
bump. Thanks for crediting Max Miller!
Tasting History was the first thing I thought of when I saw what it was about lol
Yes, I agree. Because they really looked nasty and I would have worried about you Jay. Let Max do that and you keep up the great work on Be Amazed!
He should have hit up Max to ask to send some garum. Max must have some bottles ageing somewhere, didn't he make a 2nd batch which was suppose to be traditionally made?
Max Miller was the rediscoverer of Garum.
I felt bad for your tummy! Great job for showing us old recipes from the past.
Here is a great treat - 'Banana Surprise' - pre-heat oven 250 - 300 - Slice banana long ways 2 to 4 slices per banana, sprinkle brown sugar & cinnamon on them - put on baking sheet and cook just until their nice & warm, about 10 to 15 mins depending on your oven -KEEP AN EYE ON THEM - place slices in dishes top with French Vanilla Ice Cream and Enjoy
Some of these recipes I must say no thank you.
I'm going to try this!
Your going to love it@@krystlem8920
Now THAT sounds delicious!
It's so good, a favorite of the kids@WeepingWillow555
1) When I was in grad school in Toronto, I did a course on book history. Our main assignment was to examine an aspect of books from the past. One of my classmates chose to look at old British cookbooks. He found a recipe for stuffed door mice. 2) Looking at these recipes I think the raccoons in my neighbourhood would be like 'screw that.'
They would have been considered food at one time .
@@davidarundel6187Most things were considered food back then. When you eat to stay alive, and you are very poor, you cannot afford to be choosy. Of course, this video was done tongue in cheek.
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I laughed so hard at this that my husband actually took off his headphones and I had to read this to him. He's dying to know what they're stuffed with. LOL
If you ever need to pull the egg yolk out again.. Use a soda bottle. Just squeeze the air out lightly, and dip it on the top of the yolk. It’ll suck it up into the bottle. Then do whatever you will with them. 🙌🏼
Or... Just use your hand....
@@rounakgupta1907I just use my mouth
@@TwoMenInACloset ok... And why are you telling me this cuz nobody asked
@@rounakgupta1907 I’m detecting daddy issues
Yes, I've seen that trick. While it does take a little practice to separate egg whites/yolks, it's not that hard. I managed it when I was 14 and made my first angel food cake. The real trick is to crack the egg just enough to pull open the shell but not puncture the yolk inside.
24:26 😂☠️ “weird wet bread thing” ❤
I thought he was gonna drizzle some of the chocolate over the popcorn. Might have been better lol
I would love to see this become a series you do
That banana meat recipe is an abomination.
Aspic is not bad, but I wouldn't do that recepie, try to search "kocsonya", it's a Hungarian dish still popular in north east Hungary , especially in Miskolc
I loved kocsonya when I was a kid. Every winter my mom would buy pigs feet and make kocsonya. She'd put it in soup plates and leave them on the back porch to cool. She always made one extra plate because the guy next door would sneak over and steal one. The next day a freshly washed soup plate would mysteriously appear on the porch. I tried explaining it to my school friends but the best description I could come up with was "jellied pigs feet" which garnered some strange looks.
Look, there's a lot of really yummy food coming from Hungary but that stuff ain't 🫣
We call meat in aspic an Hungarian boll in the Netherlands. It’s delicious. It’s a bit sour and spicy and you eat it on a piece of bread.
It is probably popular in the whole country... There are even sales for pig feet and skin, many supermarkets do it. A relative of mine lives in West Hungary and she always makes aspic. It's a great food but I prefer the meaty versions, not when it's mostly skin, she make both kinds. Vegetables are never a part of it. One can buy tongue in aspic too... (Still, I wouldn't want to eat aspic every day. But it's very, very good.)
One of my friends has a recipe for his version of Aspic, and it's honestly pretty good. Instead of jello, he uses stock boiled alongside bones. Basically, he's using the bones to extract collagen to create the gelatin effect. He then uses soup ingredients; carrots, peas, some meat. Whatever he has on hand; he said it's very forgiving with what ingredients you use so long as it makes sense and that you cook them right. Best way I can describe it is a cold soup in solid form. You're literally eating your soup; and I'm honestly constantly surprised whenever he makes it for parties and I eat it. And yeah, some can't get over the fact they're eating what is essentially soup; but I love it.
The Renaissance "pizza" looks more like a weird pecan pie. 13:00 YOU HAVE A LOCH NESS LADDLE! :D
This video feels a lot more honest and less detached than your others. Really digging how much more personality is in this one!
next video: Gordon ramssay and jamie oliver test the worst foods from this video 🤣
Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Olive Oil* (haiyaa)
your content is great bro! love the riddle vid you made!
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@@OrdinarySonicfanMmKaySteven he ?
@@DerCrazyMonkey thanks, will make an other one tomorrow 😆
Was Scappi using a Baghdad battery for his food processor? Garuda - The Romans used salt like money - “A man isn’t worth his salt” is a major insult. What happened to haggis?
The food processor makes things faster and less tiring. Of course, they would have used a pestle and mortar to grind things up back then, and Be Amazed does suggest you could use a pestle and mortar for everything if you're a stickler for authenticity, but the food processor is just so much more convenient.
@@amandado6519 but crushing/grinding is very different from blending and often tastes differently, in my experience. e.g. blended banana taste **much** worse then banana mushed into a pulp with a fork. Wouldn't a grinding machine be the more "appropriate" modern replacement for pestle and mortar?
Hollandaise is just lemon, butter, and eggs. Very good with ham, and potentially a nice savory compliment to an un-lemoned banana. Ham and bananas is apparently a classic combo on it's own, again because of the salty/sweet mix, so I guess a homemade hollandaise is a good choice for a sauce to dress it up. The powdered sauce mix is defiitely authentic to the era, but a homemade hollandaise and un-lemoned bananas could possibly help. I don't know if the dish could be saved, but these changes could at least make it more tolerable.
People seem to be obsessed with old fish; in Sweden there's a tradition to eat "surströmming", which is whole fish, also fermented if I remember correctly. And it's said that it stinks awfully but tastes beautiful. I've never tried it and when I saw a KZhead video of someone trying it I lost the last bit of appetite for that stuff XD
I can relate. I once tried the Icelandic national dish "Hákarl" which is fermented Greenland Shark. I guess the only way to eat a shark that can live upwards of 500 years is to ferment it (ya, I know it's poisonous if you don't) I am glad I tried it, but definitely not for me
Is it made like Lutefisk? I grew up in Northern MN. A lot of Scandinavian people up there. Tried lutefisk several times. Worst tasting food I have ever tried. Makes Limburger Cheese seem delicious (it most certainly is not)
@@leadboots72 No, it is a lot worse. In fact, if you ever find a can, don't do like Brett and Link did and remember to open it under water or it will explode and your house (or Good Mythical studio) will smell for months. No, Surströmming is worse then lutfisk. It taste better then it smells but since it competes with that South Asian fruit about the worst smelling food in the world, that isn't saying much. It is bad but you are supposed to drink a lot of brännvin (which isn't vodka but more like really cheap moonshine made of potatoes) with it to hide the taste. It is what people call "local delicatessen" which basically means a few weirdos eat it but it is something very fun to trick tourists to try. Kinda like that Weird Norwegian burnt sheep head or the Håkarl Robert talks about above. And yeah, I'm Swedish but it is mainly eaten by people far up north, I think cabin fever got to them (where I live we have about the same climate as UK but with less rain). Just don't.
@@leadboots72 I don't know. But "lutefisk" sounds more like an actual dish than an ingredient to one.
@@leadboots72it's way worse. I haven't tried it, but i know it smells worse than a rotting carcass. It literally smells worse than anything dead. One of my sisters tried it, and it apparently tastes good, but smells like a rotting cadaver mixed with the smell of sewer and pig poop, if not worse
10:10 Prawns, eggs, peas and corn in aspic (definitely without tomato juice) with remoulade or sour cream has always been one of my favourites.
That Pizza Pie look like Pecan PIE! XD
Or Suebian christmas pie my grandmother used to make (I bet you can eat from that pie for weeks or months (If you like that, that is 😂) Back in the day it was all about food preservation, because people HAD NO FRIDGE, isn't that crazy if you think of it
@@SaraMKay dont get me wrong! I LOVE PEACON PIE!. But the stuff he made i dont know 😝
Part two, please!
I just found this video funnier and funnier the longer I watched I grew up with Sunday suppers being fresh buns, sliced meat, sliced cheese, sliced tomatoes, pickled beets, carrot sticks etc. and OF COURSE, jello was part of the meal. I grew up Mennonite and jello was always part of turkey dinners etc., often with grated carrots, or perhaps canned pineapple and/or mandarin oranges. No fish though hahaha
Most of the Be Amazed KZhead channel viewers want to see a series of this please.
The reason that salty fermented fish sause was so loved is because it is rich in umami aka the fifth flavour which makes everything taste stronger and just overall better
Isn't it similar to the "nowadays" oyster sauce?
@@SaraMKay yeah exactly! So is soy sauce which is made of fermented beans and stuff
@@Polina_Laptevaand NOT fermetting the soy is what cuases the "soy boy" effect.
I feel like I've seen it on tv relatively recently... in a reality show shot in Philippines... I think; to them it's a delicacy, but to the contestants from my country, it was an opportunity to gain points and then puke A LOT.
Just so everyone knows the Umami flavor is naturally occurring MSG in the cause!
Hi! I'm from Poland and in my country aspic is a traditional dish (in polish it's called "galareta") and many eldery people and adults love it and it is a tasteless gelatine with meat, vegetables ect. but not many young people will eat it. They will more likely say that is it gross. I personally don't like it but my mum and grandma do it on special occasions like Christmas, because it's a part of polish culture. Have a nice day!
I have something i throw together when i can't find something to eat...cottage cheese, shredded cheese, and green olives😋
That's a really nice video. In Germany you still can buy vegetables or ham and egg in aspic at butcher stores or in south Germany we eat "Sülze" in summer which are thin sliced roasted pork, eggs and pickled cucumber in aspic - nearly every family is eating this in summer in berrgardens
the aspic reminds me of head cheese and I mean the dish made from pork. I love that stuff.
My ancestors (up to my grandparents) used to aspic meat at slaughter time to preserve - 'cause people HAD NO FRIDGE - every time I think of that I wonder how they did it 🤷🏻♀️ back then
3:38 YOLKER BAHAHAHA BE AMAZED HAS ALL THE YOLKS!! THANKS FOR THE CONTENT
I want more of these- they’re funny and also unique!
The medieval pâté is quite good though. Basically the same ingredients as demi-glace sauce. Chunks of meat in reduced bone broth soup (flavored with onion, carrot, and celery. Maybe wine).
Shout out to BeAmazed taste buds for their sacrifice, we truly commemorate their bravery 🫡
I like Pinapel on Pizza I think it belongs there. If you judge me "Go no, I like eating Pickels out of a Pickel Jar?"
Maria, if they like pickles at all, who doesn't? I knew a kid from New Zealand in high school, who hated dill pickles. I tried to tell him about sweet pickles too, but I don't think he believed me.
Not me watching this video in my kitchen until I find a recipe to spend 5 hours on so I have something to do today lol
In Europe we still make a lot of dishes with fish/meat/veggies and jello. Polish "ryba w galarecie" - fish in jello or Russian 'cholodets'. It's not sweet as some may think and tastes great with boiled potatoes :)
Finally, some real life footage
So glad you included aspic. Tomato aspic was all the rage decades ago. 🤢
I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I thank God my Mother and female relatives never made any of these icky recipes.
The garum segment got me hollered in the middle of the night. 😂😂😂😂😂 Can't imagine how salty that was!
When my kids were little, we homeschooled for a few years, and one semester, we did a unit on Ancient Rome. For a final project my kids had to each do a report on something about Ancient Rome. One daughter picked food, and had to cook dinner for us. Fortunately, she picked spaghetti. LOL We just had to sit on pillows on the floor and eat with our hands at the low coffee table like proper Romans instead of sitting at the table like 20th century Americans. Such fun memories. I'm glad she didn't find the bread recipe!
That doesn't sound like a pizza sounds more similar to a cross between a baklava and a Tiramisu.. today's pizza is more based on focaccia bread and a pizza made for Queen Margerita of Italy..and if you add some pure Mexican vanilla like 4 tbsp to your hot chocolate it'll tame it 😅 for good Mexican hot chocolate follow your recipe but try adding the Mexican vanilla and your cain sugar but a little cinnamon would cut it down a bit too..😊 also even if you thinned it a bit with water its acceptable..thats a popular drink here in texas just a bit thinner 😅
hi he is the best narrator
He's my fave too!
When you were mashing the fish, it reminded me of the Bass-o-matic skit on Saturday Night Live from years ago. It was disgusting- and hilarious! (They have the video here on YT.)
Laughed my ass off when I got to the Roman fish accoutrement. The ham banana hollandaise was funny too 😂 Thanks for this one!
So it's actually not _that_ "un-pizza-y" when I order a nutella-banana pizza in the pizzeria close-by XD
Or the Wiener-French-Fries-Pizza they serve in Sicily
Nope, no thanks. I will NOT be trying these cursed foods. All of them, except the popcorn, would give me nightmares, heartburn and other stuff. Thanks for trying it for me though!
Renaissance Pizza recipe got me curious, interested in fact; must give this a TRY also adjust the ratio of ingredients...
Major props to you for savings us from such torture!
I honestly hope your stomach is ok😂😂great video though, love it😀
Love your voice!!! As mexican myself I learned the aztecs put honey to the chocolat drink to add sweetnes, since sugar cane wasnt know to them back then 😊
Honey, nectar from flowers and sugary extracts they got from some plant roots were available, but sugar cane - no
He does have a nice voice and a way with words.
They have a kind of Aspik in Germany called Sülze, usually with meat, vegetables and egg, but the gelatin is flavourless. It's still fairly popular, mostly with the older generations and sold at butcher's and shopping centres. My father loves it, but I can't deal with the jelly texture.
Americans, probably 85%, use a version of Garum a lot. Worstershire Sauce is made with anchovies, Asian cooking has fish sauce from various countries. Garam factories were along the Mediterranean coast & had to be quite a way from living areas per Max Miller of Tasting History, who made some, taking 3 months... Thanks for mentioning him.
Gordon Ramsay : WHAT THE BEEP IS THIS ?!?!
The renaissance pizza looks like a pecan pie
For more fun in this vein, I'd like to recommend checking out "Recreating the internet's worst recipes" on the "Jolly" channel, run by two young lads names Josh and Ollie (hence "Jolly). They're really funny and wholesome. I watch their videos all the time. They also run The Korean Englishman channel.
My mother, aunt, and sisters all like tomato aspic. We make it with just the gelatin, tomato juice and spices and, possibly, some chopped veggies. This doesn't require all the layering. We haven't been able to convince the younger generations to like it, though.
Max made Garum and it was one of his best episodes. I remember learning about it at school in Latin class ( yes, I’m THAT old) and have found it fascinating ever since. Asian Fish Sauce is a mild cousin. Great episode! 😊😊😊
BeAmazed you are the best youtuber and I love all of these random stuff that you are teaching me keep up the hard work
Thank you for sacrificing your crew for our entertainment *BE AMAZED*
Well this was incredibly different, you're really going out of your way to create astoundingly different videos ❤ I remember seeing pictures of aspic in my mum's magazines and cook books but never trying it, it was for the posher housewives of the time, which from the sounds of it, was extremely lucky for me 😂 The pizza recipe sounded quite tasty, I'd love to try that although when you said Max Miller I thought of the music hall comedian from the 1930s 🤦🏻♀️🤣 The fish sauce you tried sounded as disgusting as it obviously tasted 😮😂😂 And I love that you admitted to getting the last one wrong, given how easily people make mistakes in recipes using their own language, you did pretty damn well 😊 I congratulate you on making these and then trying them when you definitely knew some would be very very bad 😮😮 Cheers Be Amazed for your insane devotion in making cracking videos ❤❤❤
love the shoutout to Max/Tasting History. Just like Be Amazed it is one of the chanel I highly recommend (both for different reasons of course). If you ever make a recipe episode again, maybe some sort of colab? 15L52 Not a bad pronunciation for an American. The title is old Dutch and translates more or less to "about sweet cooking", the other text on the cover is modern Dutch and translates to "recipes from ancient times and Middle Ages/Midieval times"
I wonder why ancient peoples were so fond of thick, rich stuff. I can't even stand a chocolate cake for very long.
Probably because sweet things were rare and expensive. Honey and fruit were often the only sweetener and don’t forget survivor-bias, the recipes that were written down from that far back usually were rich people’s food and that’s why they were written down.
@@fimbulsummer Yeah, but what's the point of something that has five different rare ingredients in it if it's inedible?
@@darkwarrior03352I imagine they had very different taste buds as well. Ours adapt to what we eat regularly, I've heard if you cut sugar out of your diet for just a month, food you used to happily indulge in that was sweet will be overwhelmingly sweet because you have new taste buds by then and they've not been as exposed to the sweetness. And a lot of meals were either bland or extremely hearty in flavor, so I imagine if you were used to a diet that regularly switched between bland and hearty - a rich treat would probably just be par for the course. Or it could be like how people mock Americans for all our food being so sugary and sweet, but a LOT of sweets from other countries are so overpoweringly sugary and sweet that the average American dislikes them. I like a good sweet but I find real tres leche to be sickeningly sweet. And quatro leche that switched out whipped cream for basically mashmallow fluff? Gag. [Basically a sweet cake, dulce de leche, sweeten condensed milk and marshmallow fluff]. And I'm someone who eats Marshmallows straight up. I also dislike most flan because it's too sweet, but rice pudding is right in my threshold. [I'm using these because they're more accessible where I am and I cannot for the life of me remember the French dessert someone told me about that made the average american's "Decadent" cake look like box cake lol]
I think because so much food was simply treated as bland subsentence.
@@Crow_Smith This makes a lot of sense, I never thought about that!
Homemade and original food recipes are the best straight from the source of the perfect mastering and guidelines for cooking them
This is the best, most interesting, unique, & creative video you have done in quite a while. I loved it!
In the UK we have Gala Pie, it has aspic, it's delicious
i think the fish stuff is the only thing that can make my stomach turn
I have to say this must be one of the most funniest videos of yours 🤣🤣🤣
The Aztecs also used chocolate as money since it was so valuable to them.
Petition to bring back (real) chocolate money
@@The_Blazementi would be rich if i knew how to make chocolate with cacao beans,since the amazon rainforest is near my country (brazil)
Chocolate molé is made today and used as a sauce.
We were poor, so when my ma made pizza, the base was very thick and it was brushed with tomato and onion mix from a can. For the toppings, it was green pepper, ham and banana. It was great. And we sell canned beef in aspik. Also very tasty.
I really love these videos where he does his experiments at home. Another good one that was super entertaining 😊
My Italian family makes a cheese pie for Easter that we call Pizza Gain. We use ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, garlic, eggs, Italian sausage, garlic, oregano, salt & pepper, and, did I mention, garlic! It’s all mixed together, and poured into a pie crust and baked. It’s delicious! 😋
Love your video. Be Amazed and keep up the great work you are awesome
garrum looks like resident evil 7 food
Wouldn't it be funny if other professional voice actors made cameos on this channel? If that happened, who would you bring in?
YES!
😂😂😂 thank you for sharing. The Roman fish sauce 👎 The aztec chocolate is probably the precursor to "mole" and this looks very close to it. It is eaten with chicken as a sauce and it is delicious. The spiciness can be reduced to mild so it is enjoyably edible. The pizza looked delicious and reminded me of pecan pie 😋 The gelatine stuff, well, I have tried it with small cubes of beets, pineapple and its juice, and it's truly a delight!
Surprised if Roman bread salad worked -people say that American bread is really sweet!
My wife makes bread and there is a surprising amount of sugar involved.
Maybe like the soft sliced bread. The only sugar used when making traditional ol' bread is only like a teaspoon to feed the yeast.
White and soft breads are, but we have a lot of savory/traditional bread as well.
The pizza really looked like a pie
Jello salads have been living rent-free in my head for far too long, they keep me up at night, they are an affront to God
Shout out to Tasting History! Love it. I love his and your channel both
So this dude just reveled his kitchen next will be his face
Nobody is gonna talk about his hands or am I the only one obsessed with his veiny hands.?😔
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I reckon you should try the 2-min noodle aspic!!! The flavour sachet with noodles suspended in salty jell-o!!! Then to top it off, chuck some delicious cheese in a can to decorate! MmmMmmm. Can't say I've tried, but i think the noodle sachet flavour jelly would taste nice regardless. Jokes about the cheese-whip, yuck!
I had to close my eyes when you were trying to separate those eggs -just use the shell. Interesting content!
You deserve 50mil subs for sure
And here i thought i was watching a video about British cuisine when i saw the title
Lol
Your aspic recipe is very much like the smooth tomato aspic my Mum considered a traditional beginning to any holiday dinner. Everyone loved the creamy shrimp salad mounded in the centre of the aspic ring, but nobody ate the aspic!
He should have hit up Max to ask to send some garum. Max must have some bottles ageing somewhere, didn't he make a 2nd batch which was suppose to be traditionally made? I'd like to try and make a proper batch one day, they should do a study on it as it's probably really good for you, no virus would want to stick around that stuff.
Please do more of these ❤
"If I Dont Give Myself Food Poisoning. It Will Be A Miracle." With That Sentence I Already Know He Has No Hope 😭💀
That had me in stitches! Great video although I don’t think I’ll be trying any of those. 👍
This has got to be one of my favorite videos from you... 100% Please keep making thesw kinds of vids.. "hands on videos"
Keep up this entertainment I love it 😁
yes
best and fastest cooking show ever 10/10
while the title is clickbaity the video itself was really good! thoroughly enjoyed that.
This is a really good vid pls make more of these
Thanks to all people who found this. Commet ❤
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I can’t believe no-one is saying how we got a sneak peak at his kitchen and (drum roll please) his HANDS "edit" thanks this is the most like i have ever got
He rented them 😆
@dannyboyd6747 Whoever's hands they were, they looked very pretty, I was impressed. Not feminine pretty, just pretty, like a piano player's hands.
You are a lot more adventurous than I am. As soon as I saw garum, I was like nope. This was definitely not one to watch while eating 😂😂😂
You didn't have to make Garum... but you did. Mad respect my dude.