It's easily looked up, no secrets here. Potatoes. They were lucky if there was a single piece of bacon for the father of the household - who likely worked down the mine - once a week!
Make no mistake even in our day and age fruits are still a status symbol. My friend who worked in Japan told me that giving people a basket of fruits, especially imported fruits, is considered a very high praise. Because off season and imported fruits in Japan can fetch up to hundreds of USD.
In HKG & China also bought from Japanese suppliers. These are specially selected & packaged fruits; absolutely perfect. A single peach might cost GBP100 or more
Some of this has to do with Japanese fruit growing practices with the prestige fruits. The one fruit one tree method. And also the historic culture of Japanese class systems and gift giving
It's more than that In Japan only fruits of the most uniform beauty and highest sugar content will make it to market. They are designer fruits. Not meant to be snacked on lightly. Luckily in most other countries we have boring fruit available
Also because fresh fruit goes bad so quickly for a fair few people it’s just not something worth spending the money on as you either need to absolutely demolish a whole carton/box of fruit in one sitting or if you even look at the wrong way it’ll start going bad. Like berries only really last a couple days, and this is in the us where stuff isn’t like so warm that the life cycles are being shortened by climate.
The pineapple information was so entertainingly interesting! Especially thanks to the pictures that showed great examples! I've seen those shapes here and there and now I know what they represent and from what century they come or are inspired from. Thanks for that!
I have an idea why offal was a thing: when an animal is butchered, meat could be preserved somewhat, by salting, brining or smoking, offal on the other hand had to be eaten pretty much immediately. So i imagine good quality offal was a bit harder to come by (and pricier) especialy in cities or towns, therefore a suitable flex to your diner guests.
Claret should be served from a claret jug,not a flat bottomed ship’s decanter.Additionally ice cream was even more a symbol of status at this time.In an era before electricity it provedyou had access to an ice house as well as servants who could sit & churn cream in a pot of ice to produce ice cream.It would then be served in elaborate dishes of ice with an inner to contain the ice cream,or moulded into fancy shapes.
Yes, they can be great. I have never had a bad one. I don't know why Dan thinks that sweetbreads included testicles, the stomach, etc. Those are offal. I have never heard sweetbreads referred to as offal, although I suppose technically they are such. They are just too good to be included in that category, in my opinion.
Guests in the Antebellum South were welcomed by being presented with a pineapple. One who overstayed his welcome would wake up one morning to find a pineapple at the foot of his bed. That meant it was time to go.
@@edennis8578 Where do you get you facts from? A pop-up book in David Duke’s basement? The proportion of Southern white families that owned slaves in 1860 was 25-30 percent. According to the Census of 1860 30.8 percent of the free families in the contederacy owned slaves. That means that every third white person in those states had a direct commitment to slavery. Facts are facts.
@@jityavallabhaneni5774Bridgerton is fantasyland for black American and appropriated the regency timeline with real life Georgian King. anyhow all those Georgian people grow up and live into the regency, Daphne was born during late Georgian period
Sweetbreads are the THYMUS glands which are situated in the neck of spring lambs....Absolutely delicious fried in olive oil and with a squirt of lemon juice
If I am not mistaken, Georgian wine glasses were rather small compared to what we use today. My guess is they could not have been too concerned about the bouquet.
I would have been a little more impressed with this video if they hadn't resorted to using processed items for the cild meats. Both the ham and especially the 'other one' - I think that is pressed turkey breast - look to be straighnt from Asda. And the pork pies also look like shop-bought.
I don’t know how your sweetbreads where prepared but you are wrong. Veal Sweetbreads are very nice to eat. Cleaned, salt and pepper, flour and then fried in butter, very tender in structure and mild in taste. I would eat them a lot more but they are quite expensive here (Germany, Netherlands)
Pineapple was so exspensive roughly about £500 of todays money. They often bought them or rented them but they often didn't eat them as they were to exspensive they were just to show off.
I really wish this foody section of the channel would have been hosted by someone who has an adventurous palate and isn’t just constantly saying everything is terrible then leaving it at that. He was the same in the one about the monks who abstained from meat and considered pickled herring (actually a nice food, as well as almost everything else they ate to be hideous.) It would be nice to have good descriptions so even if something isn’t to his taste, we still get some interesting information that compares to things we all know and do understand. That would give a real bit of history 😅lesson substance.
Sweet breads... just pulled from the grill... after they reduced itself to a half of its original size, sprinkled with a little salt and some fresh lemon juice... 🤤🤤🤤
no idea what he was eating as 'sweetbreads' - they were NOT sweetbreads in their correct form they are defined as "Sweetbreads are an organ meat from the thymus gland and pancreas"...they do NOT include testicles as he said
He didn't say there were. He said these sweetbreads were glands from the stomach (like the pancreas). He just said it was funny that in Jane Austen's books the characters were having nice, polite conversations while munching on testicles or ovaries.
@@maryjackson1194Dan Snow didn’t say they were from the stomach, but drawn from it. Imagine a stomach as a tree trunk and drawn as the branches. That’s what he’s trying to say.
I know that there was a real crossover when it came to Pineapples during this time period, between 🇬🇧 and "The Colonies". If you look at the "Christmas" decorations in 'Colonial Williamsburg' Pens. the Pineapple together with Pomegranates seem to be everywhere - when people were really affluent, ofcourse✌🏻😊.
In the American State of South Carolina the image of the pineapple persists, carried over from the Georgians. But it has been ever so genteelly rebranded as a "symbol of hospitality" rather than one of wealth or status.
Still a cute video, even if it's a "re-upload". BUT at 08:25 you show a famous painting that is thought to have been painted around 1675. So still quite some time away from the 'Georgian' (1714-1830) or let alone 'Regency' (1811-1820) Period!! The painting shows your 'Restoration' King Charles II. Who is presented with a Pineapple. And where to the left of the King, a man, possibly John Rose, the Royal gardener, kneels before the King, and presents him with what is said to have been the first pineapple grown in England. (Although it is thought that at this date it is more likely that the pineapple had been imported). ✌🏻
I've known people to put images of pineapples on their homes in America as a symbol of others being welcome to their homes... It was not used as a symbol of financial status...
Sweetbreads became more of status as we now know it as during late Victorian ,early Edwardian . And most known recent years Marco Pierre White and others took them forward again into the levels.
Sweetbreads are the pancreas of the beast. Gamey , soft and tender . Even the French and Chinese dont eat testicles and they rule nothing out ( almost ).... The pineapple was first grown in the 17th C for Charles 2nd .
Well this diet is such that it seems entirely appropriate that the video is a repeat 🤣OOPS! Forgive me. Plink plink fizz, Alka Seltzer anyone? White soup always seems delicious but dodgy to me, I think I'd want to be able to trust the chef. In the other edit I seem to remember a Gilray cartoon with "cholera soup" mentioned.. Bon appetite! 🌟👍
I refuse to watch anything this man presents. His attitude toward what people historically ate, especially the lower classes is generally offensive, judgmental and arrogant. Hardly characteristics conducive to good historical study.
this is a bit inaccurate as far as presentation. This is tesco breaded sliced ham, cheap pork pies, a cold pukka pie, sweetbreads just boiled and chucked in a bowl. I can't say for the white soup but the rest is a bit misleading.
I'd be very interested to see another version of this describing what the lower classes were eating
(this was a really interesting video though 😅)
It's easily looked up, no secrets here. Potatoes. They were lucky if there was a single piece of bacon for the father of the household - who likely worked down the mine - once a week!
I'd be interested in a version with someone who isn't so squeamish about food.
Make no mistake even in our day and age fruits are still a status symbol. My friend who worked in Japan told me that giving people a basket of fruits, especially imported fruits, is considered a very high praise. Because off season and imported fruits in Japan can fetch up to hundreds of USD.
An example? Red sweet Watermellons of Cherson, just received back by Brothers & Sisters of Ukraine!
In HKG & China also bought from Japanese suppliers. These are specially selected & packaged fruits; absolutely perfect. A single peach might cost GBP100 or more
Some of this has to do with Japanese fruit growing practices with the prestige fruits. The one fruit one tree method. And also the historic culture of Japanese class systems and gift giving
It's more than that
In Japan only fruits of the most uniform beauty and highest sugar content will make it to market. They are designer fruits. Not meant to be snacked on lightly. Luckily in most other countries we have boring fruit available
Also because fresh fruit goes bad so quickly for a fair few people it’s just not something worth spending the money on as you either need to absolutely demolish a whole carton/box of fruit in one sitting or if you even look at the wrong way it’ll start going bad. Like berries only really last a couple days, and this is in the us where stuff isn’t like so warm that the life cycles are being shortened by climate.
I do enjoy watching Dan’s face as he tries all this food
He’s adorable.
@@margo3367 he is hot
I always get a kick out of Dan taking one for the team. Thanks for the laugh HH. 😊
I got a kick out of it too and the bonus was reading excerpts from Pride & Prejudice. ❤
The pineapple information was so entertainingly interesting! Especially thanks to the pictures that showed great examples! I've seen those shapes here and there and now I know what they represent and from what century they come or are inspired from. Thanks for that!
Just remembering Sue Perkins and Coren eating a Georgian dinner party meal.and getting absolutely peed out of their heads!
I must do some research!
I have an idea why offal was a thing: when an animal is butchered, meat could be preserved somewhat, by salting, brining or smoking, offal on the other hand had to be eaten pretty much immediately. So i imagine good quality offal was a bit harder to come by (and pricier) especialy in cities or towns, therefore a suitable flex to your diner guests.
I thought offal was the basis of most sausages eaten today.
Cheers Dan, one of those things I find strangely entertaining. Please keep eating for me.
This is such a delightful series! More, please!
Claret should be served from a claret jug,not a flat bottomed ship’s decanter.Additionally ice cream was even more a symbol of status at this time.In an era before electricity it provedyou had access to an ice house as well as servants who could sit & churn cream in a pot of ice to produce ice cream.It would then be served in elaborate dishes of ice with an inner to contain the ice cream,or moulded into fancy shapes.
Bridgerton is a fantasy drama. I'm not sure we learned much about history from it...
Compared with Jane Austen who lived at the time.
it's just a reference for those people who never opened a history book, and they are the majority sadly
sweet breads are thymus glands and can be fantastic if prepared correctly.
Yes, they can be great. I have never had a bad one. I don't know why Dan thinks that sweetbreads included testicles, the stomach, etc. Those are offal. I have never heard sweetbreads referred to as offal, although I suppose technically they are such. They are just too good to be included in that category, in my opinion.
Guests in the Antebellum South were welcomed by being presented with a pineapple. One who overstayed his welcome would wake up one morning to find a pineapple at the foot of his bed. That meant it was time to go.
Man southerners sure do now how to tell people to go away
They had a slave labor surplus for pineapple presents? Or was this something the children of slaves were forced to do?
@@DJL78In the Confederacy, fewer than 6% of the free population owned slaves. Do you force your slave children to give pineapples to your guests?
@@edennis8578 Where do you get you facts from? A pop-up book in David Duke’s basement? The proportion of Southern white families that owned slaves in 1860 was 25-30 percent. According to the Census of 1860 30.8 percent of the free families in the contederacy owned slaves. That means that every third white person in those states had a direct commitment to slavery. Facts are facts.
@@edennis8578My my so defensive of slave holders, dennis
Bridgerton is not a Georgian period drama, it's an alternate universe one if anything. Hence the astonishing historical inaccuracy.
Wokedom.
It's annoying that people are referencing it like this. You might as well say Hogwarts is a true representation of English schools and magic is real.
But George was King during this era, yes technically it was Regency period as well but surely that would also cause this era to be a Georgian era
@@jityavallabhaneni5774Bridgerton is fantasyland for black American and appropriated the regency timeline with real life Georgian King.
anyhow all those Georgian people grow up and live into the regency, Daphne was born during late Georgian period
Wow you can't even tolerate black people when the talk is about food!
Dan is wonderful!
Another great one H H . How much will Dan need to be paid to eat peasant foods. 🙂 . Thank you for posting.
"A drink with you sir."
Indubitably.
The sweetbread is the thymus gland of a lamb usually. 6:00
Sweetbreads are the THYMUS glands which are situated in the neck of spring lambs....Absolutely delicious fried in olive oil and with
a squirt of lemon juice
I loved watching such shows as Bridgeton and Pride and the Prejudiced.
If I am not mistaken, Georgian wine glasses were rather small compared to what we use today. My guess is they could not have been too concerned about the bouquet.
Where’s max miller and tasting history. White soup episode please! 3:12
That was a great catch. Impressive.
Thank you! Great video!
The ending: how ungainly King George the fourth's corpse was 🤣
I would have been a little more impressed with this video if they hadn't resorted to using processed items for the cild meats. Both the ham and especially the 'other one' - I think that is pressed turkey breast - look to be straighnt from Asda. And the pork pies also look like shop-bought.
I don’t know how your sweetbreads where prepared but you are wrong. Veal Sweetbreads are very nice to eat. Cleaned, salt and pepper, flour and then fried in butter, very tender in structure and mild in taste. I would eat them a lot more but they are quite expensive here (Germany, Netherlands)
where prepared? 😂
How can he be wrong? It's a matter of taste.
@@darthos6257
He is Talking about a strong gamey taste, sweetbreads taste rather mild.
Tremendous 🧐🧡🌸
Recipe: 1 food Historian, 1 Cook, + quality ingredients, care and attention.
This video is lacking in all accounts.
Agreed, the only possible way for white soup to taste gamey would be to start from a gamey meat stock.
Did you notice that the cold meats and pork pies were just ripped from a packet? It looks like something from a kids birthday party.
@@PS-vy6ln Yes. And that was soooooo disappointing.
As Jane Austen said, Georgians only moved their bowels once a season.
I was mesmerised by him catching the pineapple 07:56
I wonder if the Pineapple on top of the Wimbledon Men's singles trophy is due to the fruit being a status symbol of the past.
Isn't Bridgerton infamously innacurate?
Pineapple was so exspensive roughly about £500 of todays money. They often bought them or rented them but they often didn't eat them as they were to exspensive they were just to show off.
I really wish this foody section of the channel would have been hosted by someone who has an adventurous palate and isn’t just constantly saying everything is terrible then leaving it at that. He was the same in the one about the monks who abstained from meat and considered pickled herring (actually a nice food, as well as almost everything else they ate to be hideous.) It would be nice to have good descriptions so even if something isn’t to his taste, we still get some interesting information that compares to things we all know and do understand. That would give a real bit of history 😅lesson substance.
Bridgerton isn’t a period drama though? It’s a bit of enjoyable fluff.
Exactly what a load of bollocks
You're a bit of enjoyable fluff.
What a dish!
Food looks good, too.
Nice catch
Enjoyed this
Sweet breads... just pulled from the grill... after they reduced itself to a half of its original size, sprinkled with a little salt and some fresh lemon juice... 🤤🤤🤤
Years ago, I saw an episode of "The Galloping Gourmet", featuring sweetbreads. Nasty delicacy.
A quick google search tells me a pineapple during the time was 60£, which translates to somewhere around 5000£ in today's money.
every struggling "aAaUgh" 😩 felt in my bones
also why did that pie sounded so crunchy af
no idea what he was eating as 'sweetbreads' - they were NOT sweetbreads in their correct form they are defined as "Sweetbreads are an organ meat from the thymus gland and pancreas"...they do NOT include testicles as he said
He didn't say there were. He said these sweetbreads were glands from the stomach (like the pancreas).
He just said it was funny that in Jane Austen's books the characters were having nice, polite conversations while munching on testicles or ovaries.
@@andrasszabo1570 The pancreas is not in the stomach, nor is the thymus. And, properly prepared, sweetbreads are delicious.
@@maryjackson1194Dan Snow didn’t say they were from the stomach, but drawn from it. Imagine a stomach as a tree trunk and drawn as the branches. That’s what he’s trying to say.
Hey it came back!
Why the ship's decanter?
Why are we pretending Sub-saharan Africans were a part of the british upper class in the 1700's?
Chicken slices from Tesco
Pork pies Tesco
That ham. Tesco.
Props department phoning it in a bit here
that Ham looks tasty. thought they invented the Sandwich
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Georgians didn't eat Pukka Pies
@@TheWitchfinderGenralThat wasn't a pukka pie it was far too big.
That white soup, the way he practically choked it down, it did not look appetizing.
So I’m curious how this diet translated to colonial America during this period - perhaps you could cover that as well? Loved this episode!
I know that there was a real crossover when it came to Pineapples during this time period, between 🇬🇧 and "The Colonies". If you look at the "Christmas" decorations in 'Colonial Williamsburg' Pens. the Pineapple together with Pomegranates seem to be everywhere - when people were really affluent, ofcourse✌🏻😊.
The Townsends channel has many videos of the food of the georgian era both in Britain and in North America.
Meanwhile French high society fops urinated in Versailles Palace stairways.
That looked great. Well other than the sweet bread. Cheers
Is this a re upload? Why do I remember watching this before
Same, i thought i was going mad
Most of these pictures are historically in accurate
I see Dan eating with his fingers occasionally. Is that period authentic?
Yes,there were finger bowls down the table to rinse your fingers in.
In the American State of South Carolina the image of the pineapple persists, carried over from the Georgians. But it has been ever so genteelly rebranded as a "symbol of hospitality" rather than one of wealth or status.
In England it was also considered a symbol of hospitality as well
Same in Virginia. Same in New England in the seafaring towns like Salem, MA.
love these because I despise Dan Snow's advertisements at the beginning of videos. Suffer Dan as you have made us suffer!
Dude really just caught that spiky pineapple 😂
I thought they already posted this video???
What form of drink is Buçellus?
Oddly, the Wimbledon trophy has a pineapple on its top
Sweetbreads are still eaten today, Anthony Bourdain loved them.
How do you get a slice of pineapple?
next episode should be "Fitness throughout history of civilisation"...Dan Snow needs to talk about the first bench press and the first protein powder
My impression of this food is that you’d feel like you’d swallowed an anvil after eating.
What happened to William IV?
22k to build a greenhouse and facilities to grow pineapples and selling for £150/unit. Sheesh 😅
Should be fascinating
Ah how I miss those parties
If only he had Georgian table manners.
Eats like a pig
I would have been jailed back then. I just today discovered that I accidentally let a pineapple go overripe in the back of my fridge.
Hey Dan. Love your work 👍
He's table manners 😮
Time Bandits dropped in on a Georgian pineapple party this week.
Still a cute video, even if it's a "re-upload".
BUT at 08:25 you show a famous painting that is thought to have been painted around 1675.
So still quite some time away from the 'Georgian'
(1714-1830) or let alone 'Regency' (1811-1820) Period!!
The painting shows your 'Restoration' King Charles II. Who is presented with a Pineapple. And where to the left of the King, a man, possibly John Rose, the Royal gardener, kneels before the King, and presents him with what is said to have been the first pineapple grown in England. (Although it is thought that at this date it is more likely that the pineapple had been imported). ✌🏻
Why is he eating out of serving pieces?
Most of the Georgians (Atlanta) I know like barbecue....
Chicken and Waffles!
Peach Pie!
Biscuits & Gravy, Fried Okra, Grits, Pecan Pie, Cornbread, Fried Green Tomatoes, Peach Cobbler.
😂
6:15 Jane awesome
I've known people to put images of pineapples on their homes in America as a symbol of others being welcome to their homes... It was not used as a symbol of financial status...
Sweetbreads = sheeps balls 😂😂😂
Sweetbreads are delicious when cooked properly.
This guy has to STAR himself in every episode.
Too bad because his ego gets in the way of the history.
Why were they called sweetbreads when they were neither sweet nor bread?
Did not like the finger clicking for a spoon.
Sweetbreads became more of status as we now know it as during late Victorian ,early Edwardian . And most known recent years Marco Pierre White and others took them forward again into the levels.
A little cultural and historical appreciation..... typical of the BBC as Ministry of Truth
Sweetbreads are calf brains not testicles and ovaries.
George IV weighed nearly half again what I do- and I'm nearly 6'6.
Georgian Era included William IV 1830-1837.
Guess you needed to be romantic to get someone in an age before mints
What a ridiculous fuss about eating sweetbreads. They're still eaten today and are delicious.
A history channel should not be using stills from incredibly historically inacccurate media.
Cry about it until you can't whine some more.
Wait... let me fill my pinotage! 😀
all that food looks cold - which I suppose is authentic
The relatives are getting pineapples for Christmas now
👌🏻😂
Sweetbreads are the pancreas of the beast. Gamey , soft and tender . Even the French and Chinese dont eat testicles and they rule nothing out ( almost ).... The pineapple was first grown in the 17th C for Charles 2nd .
2:13 is that a human heaf
Well this diet is such that it seems entirely appropriate that the video is a repeat 🤣OOPS! Forgive me. Plink plink fizz, Alka Seltzer anyone? White soup always seems delicious but dodgy to me, I think I'd want to be able to trust the chef. In the other edit I seem to remember a Gilray cartoon with "cholera soup" mentioned.. Bon appetite! 🌟👍
I refuse to watch anything this man presents. His attitude toward what people historically ate, especially the lower classes is generally offensive, judgmental and arrogant. Hardly characteristics conducive to good historical study.
Black people in dresses during during the Gregorian era? keep debasing yourself "History Hit" .......... ridiculous
Kangz
this is a bit inaccurate as far as presentation. This is tesco breaded sliced ham, cheap pork pies, a cold pukka pie, sweetbreads just boiled and chucked in a bowl. I can't say for the white soup but the rest is a bit misleading.