I did, the frescoes are vividly stunning! As for food, there's some graffitis that mention it briefly, for example: «Casium et tres sc[- - -]rios habes» (“You have cheese and three (...)”) «Vinum acceptum ab domino VII Idus Apriles» (“Wine was received by the master on the 7th day before the Ides of April”). «Alica» (i.e. A form of wheat [either spelt or emmer]) Etc.
@@alexbertil2756 It was the equivalent of a fast food restaurant. They've found many, but this one was in particularly pristine condition... considering it had been covered in ash for 2000 years
Ancient mesopotamian archeologists have found letters between rulers where they complain about the leaders being, as we would put it: "broke ass bitch".
@@TastingHistory Thanks :) I'm really glad I found this channel during quarantine because it's something I introduced my mom to as something to watch during dinner, and she's hooked (to the point where I have to remind her it's a new episode weekly, not daily). My siblings have all moved back out after winter break, so its comforting to have something I can enjoy with family still. Hope that wasn't too sappy.
LMBO!! That is such a good point!! I doubt he could have even conceive of the year of 2021, let alone could have imagined that that carving would basically make him imortal!! Its just so insane to think about everything that had to happen for us to be able to read those words today!! Absolutely mind boggling!!!
If this guy wrote that 1000 years later he would be famous for discovering a lost city. But he would be probably even more famous for being a necrophile
Makes sense why he'd recommend against it since alot of actresses back then were hookers or strippers in much the same way people today calling strippers "dancers" and hookers "escorts" to the point where if someone said "I'm marrying a professional dancer" or "I'm marrying an escort" everyone would assume they were marrying a professional naked lady.
Yes my grandparents in the Netherlands in the 50s had a 3 room flat with the toilet in a closet on the landing and the kitchen was a closet with a sink and 2 burner gas hot plate. Oma raised and fed 5 kids there.
@@TastingHistory Now my mind is filled with this movie scene, but I'm substituting cochleas for breakfast and sorry looking burgers. th-cam.com/video/zJs9p-VNORw/w-d-xo.html
I once knew someone who was emphatically grossed out when I suggested trying escargot... but later I heard them say they loved conch fritters. Like I have some news for you about what a conch is...
But clams and oysters are also just slime and rubber... same goes for squid. I just wonder who was so desperate way back when that they decided to eat a SNAIL. And then they liked it? Was there nothing else? I'd eat leather before snails.
I once saw an old man collecting snails on a local walking trail, they were the type of garden snails with the yellow swirl, anyway I asked him why he was collecting them and he said he was collecting them to eat. He explained how he would keep them in a box and feed them only bread or carrots for a few days to help purge their systems before he would boil them to eat.
Feel you on the Andes. When I was a kid, and we ate at a non-fast food restaurant, I judged how fancy they were based on whether or not they gave you Andes mints. They were just the fanciest, most delicate candies my little brain could imagine. Flash forward to my thirties, buying Andes to fill a candy jar....they're like a buck a box, retail.
This checks out. The Olive Garden always had Andes mints and they were the fanciest restaurant my family ever ate at. I was so surprised when I found out you can just buy those things by the box
It's kind of weirdly comforting to know that the "[name] wuz here!" graffiti is a time-honored tradition going back since ancient Rome xD. Also I agree with the website, the graffiti complaining about all the graffiti is my favorite one too: _"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin."_
Boiled snails are pretty popular in Morocco as street food. Various spices are added to the broth. Probably not far from the way it could have been cooked in ancient Rome. I remember a conference in France, where we were served delicious snail pies as first course. My American neighbor really enjoyed them and asked me what kind of mushrooms were used for the filling. I told her they were snails. She immediately turned pale and ran to the restroom...
"Salute, this is Burger Augustus, may I take your order?" "Yeah, can I get Parthian Chicken Burger, with Cocleas BBQ and Extra Large Pepsi-crates, please."
This is one of those episodes that makes you realise how close we are to our ancestors, really - The seedy reputation of fast food continues through the centuries! Utterly wild, thank you for this Max
In Portugal the "Taberna" is the local traditional small cooffee place, where you can eat traditional fast food, like snails, pigs feet, pigs ear, liver, roasted chourizo, drink local red, white or green wine, have a cold beer and an expresso in the end. Somethings never change...
Not really. The senate in Ancient Rome was one big hodgepodge of Game Of Thrones-like political intriges. Politics never change, man. To be honest, the guy was part of the senate himself. Hardly a trustworthy source to rely on to find out how honorable the senate was. He was mainly boasting about his own ego.
@@SavageGreywolf Same game, newer technologies, with little to no emphasis on virtue or "merit". Power attracts wicked people. It's just how we are. Next to nothing has changed between the humans that existed two thousands years ago and those of us here today. The Stoics had the right idea, Aurelius especially (considering his popularity, there's no surprise there)
"Salve, coclea?" "Coclea servus autem fugit." "Comprehensibilis. Ave Caesar."
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In case someone is wondering about how snails taste like, I would say they taste like forest's soil. Have you ever smelled the fresh dirt in a wooded place, the dirt made from leaves you add to fertilize your garden, topsoil? As sea molluscs taste to sea, land molluscs taste to dirt. It isn't disagreeable, but I would say an acquired taste.
Oh my Lord I never ever ever thought I would be interested in tasting a snail.....but now I kind of am because I love the taste of earthy things. Very confused right now LOL
Sorely disappointed that your samples of roman grafitti didn't include that one about the guy in a gladiator's barracks who simply wrote "on this day, I baked bread"
This reminded me too much of The Producers: "You can't do that, actors are people. " "Really? Have you ever eaten with one?!" Perhaps the writer was Roman at heart!
Hey Max just wanted to share that here in Portugal snails are a very usual savory snack to go alongside beer in cafés, just as lupin beans and spicy gizzards. We just eat them boiled, the smaller ones, and some people although not as usual, eat the bigger ones roasted over a fire. There's even a restaurant in my home town called "Casa dos Caracóis" (House of the Snails) and they do everything snails, omelettes, pasta, etc. But all and all maybe pretty safe to say that the roman tradition of eating pretty "undressed" snails stayed alive here on the westernmost tip of Europe. Loved to see some attention being given to this tasty treat!
I Had snails once. And i didn't think they taste of much themselves. You Taste the garlic, the spices, etc. But the snail itself is much lighter. And also they are chewy. Like a gum.
I can’t get over the quality of these videos. The amount of research that must go into all of these episodes to bring so much relevant and interesting information that is all the while walking you through a part of the story you’re being told, a start of the story we’ve always wondered… what did those people eat? I am so happy I found this channel. LATINA EST VIVA! ET SEMPER ERIT!
@@TastingHistory really the thanks is all to you for putting in time and effort to produce high quality content to fulfill some deep need we all have to know what old people ate and how it tastes 😂😂😂 Seriously though I am in no need of thanks that is entirely to you
In Portugal, snails ("caracóis") are still a popular fast food in many taverns ("tabernas") and restaurants. The ones used are much smaller than the ones in the video (or only about half as small if you ask for "caracoletas"). Despite my parents best efforts, I never did find the courage to eat them myself, but after your video I am a little curious. :)
i also saw "fresh" snails in the town markets on my holiday in Portugal. i did try a snail on a cruise ship once, i didn't really have a flavor of its own (it tasted like what you cooked them in) it was more of a texture.
I've only had escargot once, and I was quite happy with the butter and garlic flavor. I never even thought about the fact I was missing out on actual snail taste. And, after hearing your description, I'm even happier to say I don't really know what a snail tastes like.
If I needed another reason to love this channel, your opinion on the pseudo Mexican food made my day. Caballero lo felicito por su buen gusto y por la joya de canal. I’m binge watching your videos and love everything about them.
Ancient Roman bawdy talk in a Joe Pesci voice is the most delightful thing I've heard since Covid started! It's no wonder Max got half a million subscribers in such a short time.
I remember reading a long time ago about ancient Roman traditions, eating snails was rather common but as i recall there was more to it. Snails kept with a bowl of raw milk would gorge themselves and swell to several times their size, then they would be cooked.
Max, if you were a Professor of the Classics I would go back to college; especially if you sipped wine while you lecture! Seriously, I learn more about Roman life from you than any PhD!
Dude , you sound like Billy Crystal and Owen Wilson when you’re reading that graffiti between rivals, lmao. Hilarious voices in this section of the video: chef’s kiss. On another note, last year I saw a Pompeii Exhibit here in Houston, and they had artifacts from the city including a set up of one of these markets that sold the food. The last part of the exhibit was very upsetting. They had plaster casts of people who had been caught in the pyroclastiques flow. They even had a poor dog caught on its back as it died. Brought that event to life very vividly. Great video as usual. I’d try this if someone else made it, but never pay to make it myself. I’m always down for trying something.
Taverne in French too but outdated now it’s bar and taverne was a place where mostly women’s are ban been in one in the 90s and they actually had porn on tv
we don't tend to use word Tavern in English a lot really, some places call themselves Tavern, or Inn (for a Tavern with accommodation) Many of our establishments more called themselves Pub for Public House, or Hotel.
"If you're a plebian, or just don't own a 'villa', then you probably live in something called an insula, or an apartment building for lack of a better term." I've never heard Southern California be described so perfectly yet indiscriminately at the same time
and unlike modern apartments with elevators and fire safety, the wealthiest apartments were near the bottom of the building where it is safer and less stairs to climb, the poor people lived at the top where in a fire they die.
Where I live there are Escargot EVERYWHERE! French Settlers brought them here, and now when it rains you have to be careful not to step on them. Of course, you would need to breed them for a few generations before consuming them. You can't just eat them off of the sidewalk. Still, no one sells lives snails.
@American Nyan The snails here are not "wild" they are "urban wild" and full of heavy metals from the heavy concentration of pollution. We have one of the largest highways (in the world?), and manage to gridlock it for 7 hours a day, even on Sundays, now that everyone is getting vaccinated and going back to normal. The snails here area not safe to eat without farming.
After seeing the news about this discovery in Pompeii, I was hoping you were planning an episode around it. 🙂 Thanks, Max! Love the channel and keep up the good work!
My son came home from kindergarten with a joke. "Why did the snail paint the letter 'S' on the side of his car? So people would say 'look at that S-car go!""
Snails are collected due to a light autumn or spring rainfall, on greengrass, really from a clean and without pesticides field. Even after the rain stops, you can see them crawling . Mainly you collect the big ones, a practice for the whole family to collect snails with their reed baskets, put leaves over to cover them from escaping. I believe escargots from the tin are not so tasty as the fresh ones, following the preparation to clean them with flour food or pasta, so they could have a better taste and size! I think the cook of the Thermopolium had his or her own recipes and good preparation of ingredients to attract customers😊
Oh my, I went ahead and read the graffiti! Mine eyes! That said, I was a soldier the Middle East and can say that the graffiti that Militus (Soldiers) leave in Latrina (bathrooms) hath not changed in Millenia! :)
I cracked up when you showed the picture of the Taco Bell restaurant and said something like, “tries to pass itself off as Mexican.” My boyfriend in high school was Mexican. His mother made some of the best Mexican food I have ever eaten (even as compared to the Oaxacan food that is stellar). He liked eating at Taco Bell and I couldn’t understand at all, though I also liked Taco Bell myself. I asked him once how he could like Taco Bell when it wasn’t anywhere as good as his mom’s Mexican food. His reply was something like, “but it’s not Mexican food. It’s fast food.” That’s stuck with me ever since. I don’t even think of Taco Bell as Mexican food. I just think of it as fast food. And now I’m oddly nostalgic for his mom’s amazing tamales.
For anyone curious about killing and cooking live snails the way most people do it is this: First wash them and then put them in the fridge in a sealed container for a day so they go into hibernation and then the next day you boil them. If you use pesticide and stuff like that in your garden the process is bit more laborious and includes putting them in a container with carrots for few days to basically detox them before then washing and fridging them.
I remember having a similar dish growing up in Lebanon and it was yummy! We scooped them up with warm Pita bread and, if my Grandmother was in a good mood, she'd also have sea urchins as well for their sweet roe which made for a delightful afternoon of food and listening to my relatives argue about some interfamily slight that happened in the 13th century....really
11:45 Therapist: Roman squidward isn’t real, he can’t hurt you. Roman Squidward: (Edit: I changed the timestamp so that it will be easier to see the image.)
The Legion of Honor museum in SF is currently exhibiting “Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave” until late August, made me think of this video!!
simple math has the nuts costing 13 coins. I had an interesting recipe for snails in Charleston, SC where the chef used shalots, white wine, butter, olive oil and snails wrapped in spinach leaves. Delish!
Fried fish is a tapa from the Spanish boats that docked into Liverpool harbour in the UK. Now it's one of the national dishes. Kare is an Anglicized version of an Indian curry that England brought to Japan and now it's even part of the military rations.
I love how Severus, Successus, and Iris are kind of Edward, Jacob and Bella from Twilight. “Bella doesn’t love you, Jacob!” “I’m hotter than you, Edward!”
"Nero, originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, belonged to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and was adopted as heir by the emperor Claudius, his great-uncle and stepfather." -Wikipedia. Nero WAS related to Claudius.
I tried to resist for months at a time, but the TH-cam algorithm kept whispering in my ear, ‘hey, you’ll like this guy’ and kept trying to lure me in with Garum and bread from Pompeii... but I could resist no more when there was Tuh’u on the table. While I can’t humble brag about discovering this channel early, I did benefit waiting so long by getting to binge all the videos up until this week. Which was awesome! But also sad, because now I have to wait week to week. But... also good, because now it gives me something to look forward to on Tuesdays. Thank you so much for creating this channel. I’ve learned so much and had so much fun along the way! I swear I thought this was a PBS show airing clips on TH-cam. Fantastic writing, outstanding presentation and professional quality of content. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it with us. We are all greater and better for it! 😊
I live in Tuscany, in here snails are extremely common especially after raining, although we tend not to eat them a lot(apart from the old gents that is). My grandmother used to go out after raining and she caught them in a bucket with a wooden top to trap them in. She used to simply call them "le Ciocciole" (the snails literally, you can see the see the latin influence) and apparently, she was really good at cooking them! I've never really tried them myself (not that i really want to lol) but it's interesting how old the recipe is. From what i remember: Snails have a very slow cleaning up process for modern standards, so it kind of defeats the purpose of the idea of "fast food", still an interesting bit of history trivia! Very nice video as always! Keep up the good work ^^
A comment on Graffiti on ancient rome: Actually the use of Graffiti in ancient rome indicates that even the most common of the people were able to write and read. This is the main indication of the decline that the dark ages brought, were the only people who could right and read were only scholars and monks.
If you look into it, most people in the middle ages could read and write. Its just that the elite of the day did not count you as literate unless you could read and write in Latin XD
When I visited Sanlucar da Barrameda in Spain with a friend who came from there it was the snail season. Everywhere we went there were signs outside restaurants and street stalls advertising 'Hay caracoles!' ('We have snails!') I'm sure that that tradition goes back long before the Romans conquered Spain.
Imagine your entire city getting destroyed, and the most intact buildings future archeologists find are a bunch of McDonald's, with fridges and freezers full of nuggets, burgers, and fries, and they read the graffiti in the old bathroom stalls. That's what I imagine what this situation would be like in our future.
I'm curious who read about the amazing find from Pompeii last month. It's definitely worth checking out if you didn't.
When I read the article I _knew_ you were gonna pounce on it! 🤣
@@TheVeryAngryShrimp Can't believe it took me so long : )
I did, the frescoes are vividly stunning!
As for food, there's some graffitis that mention it briefly, for example: «Casium et
tres sc[- - -]rios habes» (“You have cheese and three (...)”)
«Vinum acceptum
ab domino VII Idus Apriles» (“Wine was received by the master on the 7th day before the Ides of April”).
«Alica» (i.e. A form of wheat [either spelt or emmer])
Etc.
@@alexbertil2756 It was the equivalent of a fast food restaurant. They've found many, but this one was in particularly pristine condition... considering it had been covered in ash for 2000 years
@@TastingHistory You can't rush perfection!
Honestly that back and forth graffiti between those two guys really drives the point home that social media smack talk isn't all that new.
Ancient mesopotamian archeologists have found letters between rulers where they complain about the leaders being, as we would put it: "broke ass bitch".
Its the same concept as people having arguments on the walls of bathroom stalls with sharpies
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The mechanisms remain the same, it's the volumes that damages humanity.
There is also the famous Babylonian complaint tablet.
"Snail Hut: Fast Food, Slow Animal"
I like that! Trademark
@@TastingHistory Thanks :)
I'm really glad I found this channel during quarantine because it's something I introduced my mom to as something to watch during dinner, and she's hooked (to the point where I have to remind her it's a new episode weekly, not daily). My siblings have all moved back out after winter break, so its comforting to have something I can enjoy with family still. Hope that wasn't too sappy.
😆
Funny.
Snail Hut, you can't out-snails the hut
11:12 "Ate here most agreeably, and had a screw at the same time." Now that's a 5-star Yelp review if I ever saw one.
A Roman walks into a Tibern and holds up two fingers: "Five wines, please, barman."
Classic 🤣
"bring me a martinus"
Do you mean Martini?
"If I want two, I'll ask for them."
@@mrdanforth3744 love it!
Excellent!
Oh my god dad?? I didn’t know you had a TH-cam account!!
"I screwed the barmaid"
Imagine finding out that even 1000 years later, people will know that you screwed the barmaid. What a legend.
Quite literally a legend!
Imagine if he was lying, just to boast. Lol
LMBO!! That is such a good point!! I doubt he could have even conceive of the year of 2021, let alone could have imagined that that carving would basically make him imortal!! Its just so insane to think about everything that had to happen for us to be able to read those words today!! Absolutely mind boggling!!!
@FlyingMonkies325 Don't worry, syphilis is mostly a new-world disease in those days. I'm sure he got some other infection instead.
If this guy wrote that 1000 years later he would be famous for discovering a lost city. But he would be probably even more famous for being a necrophile
justinian: no marrying actresses
also justinian: *marries an actress*
every old man: do as i say, don't do as i do
Makes sense why he'd recommend against it since alot of actresses back then were hookers or strippers in much the same way people today calling strippers "dancers" and hookers "escorts" to the point where if someone said "I'm marrying a professional dancer" or "I'm marrying an escort" everyone would assume they were marrying a professional naked lady.
I was looking for this comment lol
Yep, that’s the first thing that popped out at me too.
Totally worth it tho.
"If you're a plebian, or don't own a villa, you probably live in something called an insula"
*Housing, housing* never changes.
Didn’t think of that but... yeah.
Except they did not have homeless shelters back then they just rounded up the homeless and introduced them to the honest life of slave hood
Yes my grandparents in the Netherlands in the 50s had a 3 room flat with the toilet in a closet on the landing and the kitchen was a closet with a sink and 2 burner gas hot plate. Oma raised and fed 5 kids there.
@@GrandDungeonDad slavery and shelter, food and water or freedom and nothing else?
@@plt927 or the other option being crucified along the road to Rome for their rebellion.
-Uuuhhh can I get a uuuhhh...Cocleas?
-Sir, this is a Burger King
🤣 did I stutter?
lol
@@TastingHistory Now my mind is filled with this movie scene, but I'm substituting cochleas for breakfast and sorry looking burgers.
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Today's restaurants are so unrefined.
Lemme get uhhhhhhhhhh.................. MUSSELS......and uhhhhhh..... OYSTERS......and uhhhhhh some BONELESS chicken.
Ancient Rome sounded lit tbh
For anyone who is super grossed out by snails, think of them this way. You're basically cooking clams or oysters, but with a funny shaped shell.
I once knew someone who was emphatically grossed out when I suggested trying escargot... but later I heard them say they loved conch fritters. Like I have some news for you about what a conch is...
As if clams or oysters are more appetizing
But clams are also gross
But clams and oysters are also just slime and rubber... same goes for squid. I just wonder who was so desperate way back when that they decided to eat a SNAIL. And then they liked it? Was there nothing else? I'd eat leather before snails.
What if you're super grossed out by oysters?
"Now, pray, who can live without a snack"
I felt that
Even the ancients couldn’t resist a good snack... I’ve never felt so close to my ancestors
my favorite of the graffiti is this: " If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend"
That's lovely
@@cablecar10 : Maybe yes, maybe no, how similar was Venus considered to be to Aphrodite?
@@absalomdraconis Literally Roman Aphrodite
@@absalomdraconis ctrl-c, ctrl-v, change name → done =)
And if you still don't believe, what's up, I'm right here.
“The elite shall not marry actresses” huh? Hey, Justinian, I think your wife Theodora has something to say to you...
Yeah but Justinian was a rockstar.
Kind of a free spirit.
@@adrianaslund8605 And that's why he's FUCKIN AWESOME.
@@KC622V2 Sad that he has a plague named after him though. Not to mention falling ill himself, but he recovered so that's a plus.
Not to mention Evita
Do as I say, not as I do.
"Hey this guy love Iris, and she dont like him cus he's so ugly lol"
"Im actually very handsome, you're just jealous"
Iris: 🙄
Fr I’m on Team Severus
the walls of Pompei were the twitter of Ancient Rome XD
@@Ysckemia :O. Thats uncanny
@@fangirl365 Always
roman to iris: holy mother of god woman, you could read
"now pray, who can live without a snack" true words of wisdom
I absolutely love the old graffiti.
The Gaius and Aulus one is oddly heartwarming.
I once saw an old man collecting snails on a local walking trail, they were the type of garden snails with the yellow swirl, anyway I asked him why he was collecting them and he said he was collecting them to eat. He explained how he would keep them in a box and feed them only bread or carrots for a few days to help purge their systems before he would boil them to eat.
My favorite graffiti: "On April 19th, I made bread."
Literally all of instagram last year.
We're a bit predictable, aren't we? Food, sex, food, sex.
they posted it on their wall
@@ChristmasCrustacean1 *holy shit*
@@manictiger and shitting, can’t forget the shit
Feel you on the Andes. When I was a kid, and we ate at a non-fast food restaurant, I judged how fancy they were based on whether or not they gave you Andes mints. They were just the fanciest, most delicate candies my little brain could imagine. Flash forward to my thirties, buying Andes to fill a candy jar....they're like a buck a box, retail.
Yet here we are. Andes Mints are the purest form of mint and chocolate.
@@scottcates I once ate at a restaurant that served what tasted like an Andes but looked like a matchstick. Now THAT was fancy to my 6th grade brain!
This checks out. The Olive Garden always had Andes mints and they were the fanciest restaurant my family ever ate at. I was so surprised when I found out you can just buy those things by the box
It's kind of weirdly comforting to know that the "[name] wuz here!" graffiti is a time-honored tradition going back since ancient Rome xD. Also I agree with the website, the graffiti complaining about all the graffiti is my favorite one too:
_"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed you have not already collapsed in ruin."_
It was just Kilroy’s ancient cousin
Boiled snails are pretty popular in Morocco as street food. Various spices are added to the broth. Probably not far from the way it could have been cooked in ancient Rome.
I remember a conference in France, where we were served delicious snail pies as first course. My American neighbor really enjoyed them and asked me what kind of mushrooms were used for the filling. I told her they were snails. She immediately turned pale and ran to the restroom...
I had babbouche in Tangier
How rude ! She ate it . Now let it leave her the natural way .
Unless maybe she was vegetarian ?
"Salute, this is Burger Augustus, may I take your order?"
"Yeah, can I get Parthian Chicken Burger, with Cocleas BBQ and Extra Large Pepsi-crates, please."
I'll have two number IX, a number IX magnum, a number VI with extra liquamen, a number VII, two number XXXXVs, one with caseus, and a conditum magnum.
@@abelbabel8484 magnum fumum
@@John-hs4in Est
Sir, this is a Vendus.
Would you like a Caesar salad with that?
Max: "With remains still in some of the containers"
Fast Food Manager: "It's still good, sell it to the customer."
This is one of those episodes that makes you realise how close we are to our ancestors, really - The seedy reputation of fast food continues through the centuries! Utterly wild, thank you for this Max
Only difference is now a days you can't get a hand job upstairs at the McDonald's.
@@FritzMonorail You just need to know the password man, yesterday they allow me to bust on the ice cream machine.
And they had Twitter beef, just with a different medium. I’m not sure if that’s reassuring or depressing.
You clearly haven’t been to a macdonalds in England on a Saturday night
@@alexanderpasha1826 You tellin me that a maccies at 3am is the peak of gentrification and culture lad?
In Portugal the "Taberna" is the local traditional small cooffee place, where you can eat traditional fast food, like snails, pigs feet, pigs ear, liver, roasted chourizo, drink local red, white or green wine, have a cold beer and an expresso in the end. Somethings never change...
Portugal, Portus Cale!
"you will find virtue in the temple, the marketplace, the senate house"
Boy would he be pissed were he alive today.
Not really. The senate in Ancient Rome was one big hodgepodge of Game Of Thrones-like political intriges. Politics never change, man.
To be honest, the guy was part of the senate himself. Hardly a trustworthy source to rely on to find out how honorable the senate was. He was mainly boasting about his own ego.
@@Zievereir44 exactly this
if anything we're still a bit more civilized than Roman government was. A bit.
No shit. lol Politicians today might as well let their whores and mistresses live with them. Some probably do.
@@SavageGreywolf Same game, newer technologies, with little to no emphasis on virtue or "merit". Power attracts wicked people. It's just how we are. Next to nothing has changed between the humans that existed two thousands years ago and those of us here today. The Stoics had the right idea, Aurelius especially (considering his popularity, there's no surprise there)
@@Zievereir44 Nothing really change, politicians are more dirty than Prostitutes
"Hail, coclea?"
"Coclea slave runneth away."
"Understandable. Hail to Caesar."
"Salve, coclea?"
"Coclea servus autem fugit."
"Comprehensibilis. Ave Caesar."
In case someone is wondering about how snails taste like, I would say they taste like forest's soil. Have you ever smelled the fresh dirt in a wooded place, the dirt made from leaves you add to fertilize your garden, topsoil? As sea molluscs taste to sea, land molluscs taste to dirt. It isn't disagreeable, but I would say an acquired taste.
Thank you!
Like mushroom..?
Oh my Lord I never ever ever thought I would be interested in tasting a snail.....but now I kind of am because I love the taste of earthy things. Very confused right now LOL
Kinda like truffles then. Not unpleasant.
Ah, so like beets?? Oh no... 🤢
That tiny spoon is meant for caviar. Metal spoons can create off-flavors in caviar, so bone or shell spoons are often used.
Yeah I'm gonna need a full feature film about ancient Rome cast solely with grumpy Italian American new yorkers, accents and all
Seriously. Why do they always sound like upper class Brits?
@@catrinlewis939 Here, the exact opposite to that shit, Monty Python dubbed in Latin;
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Probably because the best actors usually are.
@@SeymoreSparda the monty python guys could probably have done it in latin themselves.
Try this one while you are waiting th-cam.com/video/rR_5h8CzRcI/w-d-xo.html
Sorely disappointed that your samples of roman grafitti didn't include that one about the guy in a gladiator's barracks who simply wrote "on this day, I baked bread"
I feel like I just got all the gossip from down at my local Roman market.
Ave sidizen.
I love snails with garlic and parsley butter. Honestly my old man used to make it like a snack for me all the time.
This reminded me too much of The Producers: "You can't do that, actors are people. " "Really? Have you ever eaten with one?!" Perhaps the writer was Roman at heart!
Or from Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead: "We [actors] are not people, we are the opposite of people."
Amazing movie
Well, Mel Brooks did work for Sid Caesar, and he directed ''History of the World, Part I.'' Which has a hilarious Roman scene.
Hey Max just wanted to share that here in Portugal snails are a very usual savory snack to go alongside beer in cafés, just as lupin beans and spicy gizzards. We just eat them boiled, the smaller ones, and some people although not as usual, eat the bigger ones roasted over a fire. There's even a restaurant in my home town called "Casa dos Caracóis" (House of the Snails) and they do everything snails, omelettes, pasta, etc. But all and all maybe pretty safe to say that the roman tradition of eating pretty "undressed" snails stayed alive here on the westernmost tip of Europe. Loved to see some attention being given to this tasty treat!
I Had snails once. And i didn't think they taste of much themselves.
You Taste the garlic, the spices, etc. But the snail itself is much lighter. And also they are chewy. Like a gum.
In northern Spain too!
Very nice!
I can’t get over the quality of these videos. The amount of research that must go into all of these episodes to bring so much relevant and interesting information that is all the while walking you through a part of the story you’re being told, a start of the story we’ve always wondered… what did those people eat?
I am so happy I found this channel.
LATINA EST VIVA!
ET SEMPER ERIT!
Thank you!
@@TastingHistory really the thanks is all to you for putting in time and effort to produce high quality content to fulfill some deep need we all have to know what old people ate and how it tastes 😂😂😂
Seriously though I am in no need of thanks that is entirely to you
@@TastingHistory wow and I realized I hadn’t even subscribed yet lol
I'll have II number IXs, a number IX large, a number VI with extra dip, a number VII, II number XLVs, I with cheese, and a large posca.
Me to
@@therugburnz "Me two" fixed it for you
"Now, pray, who can live without a snack." Bruh I feel this so much
In Portugal, snails ("caracóis") are still a popular fast food in many taverns ("tabernas") and restaurants. The ones used are much smaller than the ones in the video (or only about half as small if you ask for "caracoletas").
Despite my parents best efforts, I never did find the courage to eat them myself, but after your video I am a little curious. :)
i also saw "fresh" snails in the town markets on my holiday in Portugal. i did try a snail on a cruise ship once, i didn't really have a flavor of its own (it tasted like what you cooked them in) it was more of a texture.
Growing up in the Midwest of the US, we still had escargot at certain upscale bars and wine bars
Funny timing- I recently told my friends about how the Romans had fast food and they thought I was joking until they looked it up!
🤣 proof!
I'd imagine you would have to go VERY far back in time to find a city without any "grab and go" street food.
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I imagine that if it could be called a city, it had vendors that sold food to go.
I've only had escargot once, and I was quite happy with the butter and garlic flavor. I never even thought about the fact I was missing out on actual snail taste. And, after hearing your description, I'm even happier to say I don't really know what a snail tastes like.
If I needed another reason to love this channel, your opinion on the pseudo Mexican food made my day. Caballero lo felicito por su buen gusto y por la joya de canal. I’m binge watching your videos and love everything about them.
Ancient Roman bawdy talk in a Joe Pesci voice is the most delightful thing I've heard since Covid started! It's no wonder Max got half a million subscribers in such a short time.
I mean, it works, right!
@@TastingHistory
Home Run!
I guess they were all Italian in a way
I’d kill for a Roman restaurant. Hades, I’d invade Gaul for such a place!
You may want to call upon Pluto for that, just saying :-)
How about you turn around and invade the right side of the Alps?
Would you risk venturing into Teutoberg for one? The one in Carthage was destroyed.
@@brandonveltri2825 i smell a trap!
@@brandonveltri2825 GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS
I love reading ancient Roman grafitti. It's nice to know that humans have just always been like that. 😂
"You love Iris, but she does not love you."
Oof, that's rough buddy XD
by the guy's replies I can't blame Iris. Dude is in love with himself more than her by the sounds of it.
I remember reading a long time ago about ancient Roman traditions, eating snails was rather common but as i recall there was more to it. Snails kept with a bowl of raw milk would gorge themselves and swell to several times their size, then they would be cooked.
Sh*tposting of the Ancients - they didn't teach that one in school:)
Max, if you were a Professor of the Classics I would go back to college; especially if you sipped wine while you lecture! Seriously, I learn more about Roman life from you than any PhD!
Mixing egg whites into wine doesn't really remove the red shade, but it will help to clarify it/remove the leese. I wonder what Fava beans would do!
Dude , you sound like Billy Crystal and Owen Wilson when you’re reading that graffiti between rivals, lmao. Hilarious voices in this section of the video: chef’s kiss. On another note, last year I saw a Pompeii Exhibit here in Houston, and they had artifacts from the city including a set up of one of these markets that sold the food. The last part of the exhibit was very upsetting. They had plaster casts of people who had been caught in the pyroclastiques flow. They even had a poor dog caught on its back as it died. Brought that event to life very vividly. Great video as usual. I’d try this if someone else made it, but never pay to make it myself. I’m always down for trying something.
Some nights ya feel like having smoked salmon potato cakes with herbed crème fraîche and some nights ya feel like having Taco Bell.
Or if you speak Spanish... The term "Taberna" is where we get the term "Taberna"
You didn't ask and might as your name suggests don't care but, you know, ... anyways. In portuguese it's called "taverna'.
Taverne in French too but outdated now it’s bar and taverne was a place where mostly women’s are ban been in one in the 90s and they actually had porn on tv
we don't tend to use word Tavern in English a lot really, some places call themselves Tavern, or Inn (for a Tavern with accommodation) Many of our establishments more called themselves Pub for Public House, or Hotel.
so a Hotel in smaller towns especially is/was a Pub with Accommodation
0:01 Love the Magcargo pun/reference at the back.
"Who puts fava beans in their wine?" I hear fava beans are great with a nice Chianti and some liver...
underrated :)
@@yeldosmamesh883 you're right there
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😅 LOL.
First thing that came to mind when he said that.
As are the brains of a federal agent...and the lungs of a purgent lowlife
"If you're a plebian, or just don't own a 'villa', then you probably live in something called an insula, or an apartment building for lack of a better term."
I've never heard Southern California be described so perfectly yet indiscriminately at the same time
Not insulating at all.
Nah, back then the divide between slave and patrician was closer then our wage slaves and land owners in places like LA or San Fransisco.
and unlike modern apartments with elevators and fire safety, the wealthiest apartments were near the bottom of the building where it is safer and less stairs to climb, the poor people lived at the top where in a fire they die.
@@arthas640 you also had the ridiculously wealthy too.
Best graffiti: "On April 19th, I made bread." (I don't care if it has some other meaning, it's bread day now.)
Yeah I'm gonna roll with that
Where I live there are Escargot EVERYWHERE! French Settlers brought them here, and now when it rains you have to be careful not to step on them.
Of course, you would need to breed them for a few generations before consuming them. You can't just eat them off of the sidewalk.
Still, no one sells lives snails.
@American Nyan The snails here are not "wild" they are "urban wild" and full of heavy metals from the heavy concentration of pollution. We have one of the largest highways (in the world?), and manage to gridlock it for 7 hours a day, even on Sundays, now that everyone is getting vaccinated and going back to normal. The snails here area not safe to eat without farming.
Thermopolium snails. The slow fast food
This is one of the funniest episodes of Tasting History I've seen.
After seeing the news about this discovery in Pompeii, I was hoping you were planning an episode around it. 🙂 Thanks, Max! Love the channel and keep up the good work!
Thank you!
"I wonder, O wall, that you have not yet collapsed, so many writer's cliches' do you bear."
Yo, these are some big words considering who Justinian married
Typical of Politicians throughout the ages, "Do as I say, Not as I do."
Ok procopius
that part of the law was being imposed by his family, he revoked it as soon as he could and married theodora
My son came home from kindergarten with a joke. "Why did the snail paint the letter 'S' on the side of his car? So people would say 'look at that S-car go!""
Yeah a five year old didn't say that.
PAPUA New Guinean Escargot Cult?
I first heard that joke in Trading Places
If you're Canadian, he may of got that from a kids cartoon called Jacob Two-Two.
@@cameronmckillop6448 i know that one.
We Had that on German TV. And it was fun.
Snails are collected due to a light autumn or spring rainfall, on greengrass, really from a clean and without pesticides field. Even after the rain stops, you can see them crawling . Mainly you collect the big ones, a practice for the whole family to collect snails with their reed baskets, put leaves over to cover them from escaping. I believe escargots from the tin are not so tasty as the fresh ones, following the preparation to clean them with flour food or pasta, so they could have a better taste and size! I think the cook of the Thermopolium had his or her own recipes and good preparation of ingredients to attract customers😊
How anyone ever looked at a snail and thought "That looks tasty" is utterly beyond me.
It was probably some of my ancestors that hated to run and thought…
*”Hey! A snack I can catch!”*
@@glorygloryholeallelujah so you're an athlete? :D
@@Martial-Mat only if competitive eating counts….
Bahaha
@@glorygloryholeallelujah :D
If you're starving, then yeah, anything starts looking tasty after awhile.
Oh my, I went ahead and read the graffiti! Mine eyes! That said, I was a soldier the Middle East and can say that the graffiti that Militus (Soldiers) leave in Latrina (bathrooms) hath not changed in Millenia! :)
Seriously 🤣
I cracked up when you showed the picture of the Taco Bell restaurant and said something like, “tries to pass itself off as Mexican.” My boyfriend in high school was Mexican. His mother made some of the best Mexican food I have ever eaten (even as compared to the Oaxacan food that is stellar). He liked eating at Taco Bell and I couldn’t understand at all, though I also liked Taco Bell myself. I asked him once how he could like Taco Bell when it wasn’t anywhere as good as his mom’s Mexican food. His reply was something like, “but it’s not Mexican food. It’s fast food.” That’s stuck with me ever since. I don’t even think of Taco Bell as Mexican food. I just think of it as fast food. And now I’m oddly nostalgic for his mom’s amazing tamales.
For anyone curious about killing and cooking live snails the way most people do it is this: First wash them and then put them in the fridge in a sealed container for a day so they go into hibernation and then the next day you boil them.
If you use pesticide and stuff like that in your garden the process is bit more laborious and includes putting them in a container with carrots for few days to basically detox them before then washing and fridging them.
The effort you put into research alone is enough for me to subscribe. Great work! Cheers from Switzerland
I really adore when the background plushies are pokemon, and they match the episode theme. An excellent touch, heh
I remember having a similar dish growing up in Lebanon and it was yummy! We scooped them up with warm Pita bread and, if my Grandmother was in a good mood, she'd also have sea urchins as well for their sweet roe which made for a delightful afternoon of food and listening to my relatives argue about some interfamily slight that happened in the 13th century....really
11:45
Therapist: Roman squidward isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.
Roman Squidward:
(Edit: I changed the timestamp so that it will be easier to see the image.)
Omg noooo!
Ancient Squidward is consuming my spirit 😢
he screwed the barmaid
@@comradewindowsill4253 And he even bragged about it!
The Legion of Honor museum in SF is currently exhibiting “Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave” until late August, made me think of this video!!
This is such an entertaining cook show. Pairs two of my fav passions: cooking and history
Someone's Ancestors: oh gods i hope I can feed my family today
My Ancestors: I'll have two number 9s, the number 9 extra large, side of snails
Poor Magcargo in the background must be horrified.
He was. He was.
We still eat snails in Spain, mostly in the south of the country, in Andalusia, as a good companion to cold beer or wine
Lol, the first “___ and_____ we’re here” love that one, you can tell they were homies
simple math has the nuts costing 13 coins. I had an interesting recipe for snails in Charleston, SC where the chef used shalots, white wine, butter, olive oil and snails wrapped in spinach leaves. Delish!
Justinian's stance on the subject is especially amusing when you remember that his wife Theodora made her body an "article of merchandise", as well
I would LOVE to see your take on what a Knight might eat (I may be using your videos as D&D inspiration :)
Thank you for the name dropping Anthony Bourdain I think more people need to do that
My favourite ancient graffiti is definitely "today I made bread", but I love how similar the graffiti is to that of people today
Fried fish is a tapa from the Spanish boats that docked into Liverpool harbour in the UK. Now it's one of the national dishes. Kare is an Anglicized version of an Indian curry that England brought to Japan and now it's even part of the military rations.
Gaius & Aulus Best Bros Forever
I love how Severus, Successus, and Iris are kind of Edward, Jacob and Bella from Twilight.
“Bella doesn’t love you, Jacob!”
“I’m hotter than you, Edward!”
Hey Max have you considered doing Ottoman recipes at all? Would love to see that 😍
I’m fascinated with ancient fast food! Plz do more of these!! 🏺🍔🏛
"Nero, originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, belonged to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and was adopted as heir by the emperor Claudius, his great-uncle and stepfather." -Wikipedia. Nero WAS related to Claudius.
I tried to resist for months at a time, but the TH-cam algorithm kept whispering in my ear, ‘hey, you’ll like this guy’ and kept trying to lure me in with Garum and bread from Pompeii... but I could resist no more when there was Tuh’u on the table. While I can’t humble brag about discovering this channel early, I did benefit waiting so long by getting to binge all the videos up until this week. Which was awesome! But also sad, because now I have to wait week to week. But... also good, because now it gives me something to look forward to on Tuesdays. Thank you so much for creating this channel. I’ve learned so much and had so much fun along the way! I swear I thought this was a PBS show airing clips on TH-cam. Fantastic writing, outstanding presentation and professional quality of content. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing it with us. We are all greater and better for it! 😊
You have made my night. Thank you.
First time I had snails was in Grenoble, France. I fell in love with the butter and garlic and slightly chewy snails.
I live in Tuscany, in here snails are extremely common especially after raining, although we tend not to eat them a lot(apart from the old gents that is).
My grandmother used to go out after raining and she caught them in a bucket with a wooden top to trap them in.
She used to simply call them "le Ciocciole" (the snails literally, you can see the see the latin influence) and apparently, she was really good at cooking them!
I've never really tried them myself (not that i really want to lol) but it's interesting how old the recipe is.
From what i remember: Snails have a very slow cleaning up process for modern standards, so it kind of defeats the purpose of the idea of "fast food", still an interesting bit of history trivia!
Very nice video as always! Keep up the good work ^^
Ancient saying: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
A comment on Graffiti on ancient rome: Actually the use of Graffiti in ancient rome indicates that even the most common of the people were able to write and read. This is the main indication of the decline that the dark ages brought, were the only people who could right and read were only scholars and monks.
*write and read
Or maybe the few people that could read and write were just massive trolls
If you look into it, most people in the middle ages could read and write. Its just that the elite of the day did not count you as literate unless you could read and write in Latin XD
When I visited Sanlucar da Barrameda in Spain with a friend who came from there it was the snail season. Everywhere we went there were signs outside restaurants and street stalls advertising 'Hay caracoles!' ('We have snails!') I'm sure that that tradition goes back long before the Romans conquered Spain.
So underrated, dis guy needs dem subs. Loved every episode, and it technically counts as learning something.
"Who will watch the watchers themselves?" is perhaps the most famous of ancient Roman graffiti.
Imagine your entire city getting destroyed, and the most intact buildings future archeologists find are a bunch of McDonald's, with fridges and freezers full of nuggets, burgers, and fries, and they read the graffiti in the old bathroom stalls. That's what I imagine what this situation would be like in our future.
😃😃😃 I loved this episode! An ancient fast food series would be so cool!!!