It's really amazing how the human body can metabolize huge amounts of alcohol if it gets used to it. I saw a medical case of a guy who would get up every morning and drink a full 700ml bottle of whiskey before noon and he did this for years. He was a massive alcoholic with a hardly functional liver and he couldnt survive at that point without alcohol But also, I think a lot of people are high on something throughout the day, we just dont really think about the subtle drugs we use regularly as the same thing as the hard drugs that we dont. Caffeine, nicotine, ethanol, cannabanoids. Not to mention that we have an enless supply of virtual drugs these days, television has a very drug-like effect on the mind, and you can stop it whenever you want with no come down period at all, its very convenient way to take your mind off things
They all, even the children, drank "small beer" which from memory was about 2٪ alcohol. Just enough alcohol to make it safe to drink. The water was not safe and could literally be deadly. It carried typhoid fever, cholera and Hepatitis A or E and all sorts of other lovely things.
@@FigaroHey Speak for yourself Figaro. Perhaps it depends on which country you live in. Apart from the fact l was making a joke, I've never heard anyone use "raises the question" and, it's also incredibly rude to imply someone is ignorant.
@nikiTricoteuse They are right though. ‘Begging the question’ refers to rhetoric - specifically it means a circular argument. I think you meant “It poses the question.”
@@Knappa22 Perhaps that depends on where you're from. I stand by my original usage as being correct. As do several dictionaries. Definitions from Oxford Languages; Beg the question 1. (of a fact or action) raise a point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question. "some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour" 2. assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it. Merriam-Webster; Begging the question means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response," and can often be replaced with "a question that begs to be answered." However, a lesser used and more formal definition is "to ignore a question under the assumption it has already been answered."
The secret to a delicious pudding is the love with which it is made. But not in Victoria's day, because the secret ingredient was not love but liquor. Liquor is the secret!
Sometimes when I see people speak so enthusiastically while they're hanging right over the food they're preparing, I think 'I'd pass on that dish if I were there' 😅
Love this series! Thank You. Think the clock in the butler's pantry needs a new battery. But kind of looks out of place in that type of historian house.
On our honeymoon in the seventies I discovered a dessert in the restaurant menu witch was called Victoria Pudding. I liked it so much I ate it every evening. But I never ever found a recipe for it. I wonder if it was something like this pudding….
@@MuscarV2 that would be lovely but its almost 50 years ago now…. This pudding reminded me a lot of it in the sense that it was a fairly sturdy pudding wit dried fruits in it. It did not have the sauce of this pudding as far as I can recall. We honymoned in the Las Palmas hotel in Majorca in 1973.
proud of the flag that massacred, murdered, and raped their way around the world, caused mass genocide, and desecrated and destroyed many cultures, while spreading their diseases?
Can y'all PLEASE turn the volume up when editing these videos? My computer and video is at full volume and I can barely hear what's going on some of the times.
Lol. I was quite taken aback when he said..... because they started a farm, (or something like that) as that was not what l was expecting. Especially given the number of children they went on to have.
The moderators are so hyper 😆 Did they eat the pudding beforehand or am I too German to find this so much over the top? It's funny but really... wow. 😄
Why can't tv in the USA be this entertaining?... Also, that guy hosting this show is the most British thing I've ever seen or heard in my 36 years of life on this planet lol
Would you please TURN UP THE VOLUME! Getting tired of feeling I've gone deaf with these two. Don't tell me to wear headsets. 😖😖😖 Loved the video anyway ...
It would have been nice to know more about that special door, how did it work? It is only shown in the condition where the bumps are raised, what did it look like when they were not raised? How was the device activated, for example was it based on a manual switch that the *special occupant* had to activate, or more of a pressure plate or something similar that activated automatically? It's easy to imagine some toff forgetting to manually activate a switch and being walked in on by a servant, but the servant that is blamed, that would be unfortunate.
I don't think there would have been any mechanism that raised and retraced the bumps, It could have been something they hung on the door or it may have been a permanent structure.
Totally agree. That said, I don't think the bumps did change but acted as a sort of braille to show that behind that door was one of the rooms occupied by a member of the household. Possibly the number and placement of the bumps indicated which room it was.
@@nikiTricoteuse Oh, they way they say "there IS someone on the other side.." makes it sound like it was an active device, when there is someone: the bumps are raised, when there isn't someone: the bumps aren't raised. I suppose it should be "COULD BE someone on the other side..."? Pity, with as many unique gadgets as the Victorians came up with, a device that actively warned of a room being occupied could have been interesting. Although having a Braille-like door bump code does also sound interesting, with Braille having only recently being invented.
@@theeutecticpoint Totally agree that it sounded as though there was some way of controlling the bumps and would love to have had a better look at it and a proper explanation. Sadly, I suspect not everyone is as interested in the actual workings of things as we are. Wasn't meaning that it WAS actual braille just that perhaps the placement and number of the bumps varied according to which door it was. I imagine that most of the servants would not have been able to actually read braille even if it had already existed when the door was fashioned. 🙂
12:08 for those of you who want the pudding and not the rest of the stuff about the hereditary parasites. Then the sauce at 23:00 Fyi, John Townsend has a rather more human one using bread, among others, so recommend that.
21:53 she calls the tabletop the 'floor.' There are English people who call the floor the 'ground' and the ground the 'floor. The woman presenter also says 'sickth' instead on 'sixth.'' Why can't the English learn to speak?
@@MuscarV2 That was out of order., so rude. Not everyone's first language is English. If typing errors make you so pissed off, then you need to grow up. A lot more important things in life to worry about than a few typing errors.
Ugh this video gave me cavities and high blood pressure just by watching! The amount of fats and sugar in that pudding is crazy, I'd have made it with modern healthy alternatives, terrible
After seeing a lot Victorian recipes, I’m convinced these people were tipsy for a majority of the day. 😳
If you had to live during that time you'd want to be drinking all day.
It's really amazing how the human body can metabolize huge amounts of alcohol if it gets used to it. I saw a medical case of a guy who would get up every morning and drink a full 700ml bottle of whiskey before noon and he did this for years. He was a massive alcoholic with a hardly functional liver and he couldnt survive at that point without alcohol
But also, I think a lot of people are high on something throughout the day, we just dont really think about the subtle drugs we use regularly as the same thing as the hard drugs that we dont. Caffeine, nicotine, ethanol, cannabanoids. Not to mention that we have an enless supply of virtual drugs these days, television has a very drug-like effect on the mind, and you can stop it whenever you want with no come down period at all, its very convenient way to take your mind off things
They all drank beer or "ale" with alcohol . The water supply was the Thames and it was a sewer.
They all, even the children, drank "small beer" which from memory was about 2٪ alcohol. Just enough alcohol to make it safe to drink. The water was not safe and could literally be deadly. It carried typhoid fever, cholera and Hepatitis A or E and all sorts of other lovely things.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Begs the question if that's where the expression "they've been on the sauce", referring to someone who's been drinking, came from. 😁
Raises the question. Using 'begs the question' here is ignorant
@@FigaroHey Speak for yourself Figaro. Perhaps it depends on which country you live in. Apart from the fact l was making a joke, I've never heard anyone use "raises the question" and, it's also incredibly rude to imply someone is ignorant.
@nikiTricoteuse
They are right though. ‘Begging the question’ refers to rhetoric - specifically it means a circular argument.
I think you meant “It poses the question.”
@@Knappa22 Perhaps that depends on where you're from. I stand by my original usage as being correct. As do several dictionaries.
Definitions from Oxford Languages; Beg the question
1. (of a fact or action) raise a point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question. "some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour"
2. assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it.
Merriam-Webster; Begging the question means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response," and can often be replaced with "a question that begs to be answered." However, a lesser used and more formal definition is "to ignore a question under the assumption it has already been answered."
That bread pudding looks amazing..
Love the contents of the pudding. Sponge cake oranges lemons and liquor!!! Sound delicious.
OMG I know! Rich cream and cake add in that fabulous citrus cream sauce. Heaven
The secret to a delicious pudding is the love with which it is made. But not in Victoria's day, because the secret ingredient was not love but liquor. Liquor is the secret!
Sometimes when I see people speak so enthusiastically while they're hanging right over the food they're preparing, I think 'I'd pass on that dish if I were there' 😅
I love these videos so much 😊 can you please post them with louder audio?
Love this series! Thank You. Think the clock in the butler's pantry needs a new battery. But kind of looks out of place in that type of historian house.
This is the fastest ive ever been on a video. Love this content!
On our honeymoon in the seventies I discovered a dessert in the restaurant menu witch was called Victoria Pudding. I liked it so much I ate it every evening. But I never ever found a recipe for it. I wonder if it was something like this pudding….
Can you describe it? Any and all details you can remember helps, I'll see if I can dig it up for you!
@@MuscarV2 that would be lovely but its almost 50 years ago now…. This pudding reminded me a lot of it in the sense that it was a fairly sturdy pudding wit dried fruits in it. It did not have the sauce of this pudding as far as I can recall. We honymoned in the Las Palmas hotel in Majorca in 1973.
@@nicolethijs5428 Which hotel? Looking now, it looks like Palma is right next to Mallorca so hard to distinguish... 😥
@@nicolethijs5428 sounds like a steamed pudding they're a few different kinds in Britain i hope you find it. I love desserts too ^^
I love anything from my culture. I’m so proud to wave this flag
proud of the flag that massacred, murdered, and raped their way around the world, caused mass genocide, and desecrated and destroyed many cultures, while spreading their diseases?
@@shadowflower22 Jesus calm the hell down
3:42 That's quite the front yard.
I kinda wanna try to make something like that.
I was thinking that exact thing
Can y'all PLEASE turn the volume up when editing these videos? My computer and video is at full volume and I can barely hear what's going on some of the times.
Good lord. That's not what I thought he was going to say after "perhaps Victoria and Albert took inspiration from what they saw"...
_Explains that Queen Victoria observed a cow and bull mating_
"Perhaps they took some inspiration from their visit."
Erm...
They did have quite a few children together
I must confess that I thought that too.
Lol. I was quite taken aback when he said..... because they started a farm, (or something like that) as that was not what l was expecting. Especially given the number of children they went on to have.
😅😬😳 that got me, too.
The moderators are so hyper 😆
Did they eat the pudding beforehand or am I too German to find this so much over the top? It's funny but really... wow. 😄
I discovered that the hand gel we are all using cleans silver.
lovely video.
I love this channel!!!
The title made me click faster than ever!
Lol
😆
Why can't tv in the USA be this entertaining?... Also, that guy hosting this show is the most British thing I've ever seen or heard in my 36 years of life on this planet lol
Ericha, I've gotten to a point where I don't even watch TV anymore. TH-cam or Spotify is all I ever watch or listen to
@@Wayne_155 I watch 2 channels. But not very often. I use Amazon prime and TH-cam to watch stuff.
Would you please TURN UP THE VOLUME! Getting tired of feeling I've gone deaf with these two. Don't tell me to wear headsets. 😖😖😖
Loved the video anyway ...
That looked decadent and absolutely delicious! Wow betcha it's fabulous
Just the commercials. I can't stand it. So many
Agreed 💯 but I'm not about to pay for TH-cam to be commercial free. So, for now I'll deal with the commercials, sadly
Fast forward to nearly the end, then hit the replay link. Voila! No ads.
@@peggywoods4327 Really?!? Thanx Peggy 👍🏼
@@peggywoods4327 gonna try that. Thanks love
@@peggywoods4327 where is the replay link?
*sees title*
This'll be a ride
It would have been nice to know more about that special door, how did it work? It is only shown in the condition where the bumps are raised, what did it look like when they were not raised? How was the device activated, for example was it based on a manual switch that the *special occupant* had to activate, or more of a pressure plate or something similar that activated automatically? It's easy to imagine some toff forgetting to manually activate a switch and being walked in on by a servant, but the servant that is blamed, that would be unfortunate.
It was a studded door.
I don't think there would have been any mechanism that raised and retraced the bumps, It could have been something they hung on the door or it may have been a permanent structure.
Totally agree. That said, I don't think the bumps did change but acted as a sort of braille to show that behind that door was one of the rooms occupied by a member of the household. Possibly the number and placement of the bumps indicated which room it was.
@@nikiTricoteuse Oh, they way they say "there IS someone on the other side.." makes it sound like it was an active device, when there is someone: the bumps are raised, when there isn't someone: the bumps aren't raised. I suppose it should be "COULD BE someone on the other side..."? Pity, with as many unique gadgets as the Victorians came up with, a device that actively warned of a room being occupied could have been interesting.
Although having a Braille-like door bump code does also sound interesting, with Braille having only recently being invented.
@@theeutecticpoint Totally agree that it sounded as though there was some way of controlling the bumps and would love to have had a better look at it and a proper explanation. Sadly, I suspect not everyone is as interested in the actual workings of things as we are. Wasn't meaning that it WAS actual braille just that perhaps the placement and number of the bumps varied according to which door it was. I imagine that most of the servants would not have been able to actually read braille even if it had already existed when the door was fashioned. 🙂
12:08 for those of you who want the pudding and not the rest of the stuff about the hereditary parasites. Then the sauce at 23:00
Fyi, John Townsend has a rather more human one using bread, among others, so recommend that.
Thanks! I really did just come for the pudding...
After seeing a lot of these episodes I'm starting to think queen Victoria was quite the brat
They are so cute I wish they were my grandparents!
That gap in his front teeth put Madonna's tooth gap to shame.
Love these two lol
I want pudding
Me, too!! I saw this pop across my feed at 9:51, and raced to place to go order by 10pm, lol. I made it!!! Had my order back in my car by 10:01, lol.
Could not live without pudding, lol
21:53 she calls the tabletop the 'floor.' There are English people who call the floor the 'ground' and the ground the 'floor. The woman presenter also says 'sickth' instead on 'sixth.'' Why can't the English learn to speak?
*clicks fast and licks lips* boozy pudding you say! I just got to know!
Victorian ladies couldn't drink alcohol but they could still get sauced!
I I try to make this with modern stuff I woul definitely fail.🤣👩🍳
Yeah, you failed badly at simply writing basic words so you failing any kind of cooking/baking is a given...
@@MuscarV2 No need for that
@@MuscarV2 That was out of order., so rude. Not everyone's first language is English. If typing errors make you so pissed off, then you need to grow up. A lot more important things in life to worry about than a few typing errors.
@@gollywog6695 thank you 😊
@@patwarymdabadullah93 anytime my friend, you are very welcome! *HUGS*
So Victoria is not any old quen, so that means Elizabeth I and II are any old queens.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
This isn't new.
Obviously, its history
Ugh this video gave me cavities and high blood pressure just by watching! The amount of fats and sugar in that pudding is crazy, I'd have made it with modern healthy alternatives, terrible
Yes modern healthy alternatives are terrible
No vanilla in the custard??