+90 lore is one of the most endgame stats ive seen. “I dont know why i would need +90 lore but whatever” end up getting another 40 hours out of the game.
@@blackguythompson Because knowing the deepest lore is the equivalent of mastering an entire school of arcane knowledge. Archwizards can only dream of such deep lore.
@nathen pyle depends on the meat she'd use because sometimes shed make it with deer meat or moose meat or beef or else buffalo but it's usually sweet and savory
So neat to see this. When I was a much younger man I went on winter survival excursions near the boundary waters of Minnesota and Canada in the 60s. Me and my mates survived on this and other things, as well, but Pemmican was the principle source of nourishment for over three weeks. With subzero temps, blizzards and no sun to speak of, you needed your wits, several good compasses (for backup) and clearly laid out maps to survive, and Pemmican! I hadn't thought of that food for decades. Now, here you here! Cheers, mate!
When I was a kid my school somehow got a piece of pemmican dug out of the ruins of a very old trading fort. Believed to be about a century old the chunk looked a lot like a piece of granite and was almost as hard. Probably still ok.
Pemican is still bought and sold in Canada. Especially around Winnipeg. We made it in survival education in grade 7. It's pretty good actually, we used local berries so Saskatoon's, blueberries, and strawberries. We used bison from the farm just south of PG. Metis is properly pronounced may-tee.
@@Liusila yes starting in grade 6, 11 years old, we did things like learn how to fish, how to make a snare trap, make a lean to, make pemmican and bannock, fires etc etc… once you got to high school the course was elective and if you took it you would also get your hunting license, and then they also would take us to the gun range at the triathlon centre to learn how to properly shoot.
May God Bless you, thank you for this. I am a Cree person, trying to reclaim and maintain his culture and identity, kind of tough to do in this modern age, but thank you for preserving this invaluable information.
Keep going! Irrespective of how the USA is now with its merits and demerits, too many people forget that it is a country built on genocide. Your culture deserves to return.
@@EternalShadow1667 built on genocide.... good story bro! Could use more dragons. Always leave it for a young person to put history into the most uncharitable context imaginable. But, I can't say I'm surprised.
@@EternalShadow1667 what country isn't? People love to vilify the US. Taking land by force is pretty much the standard throughout history and the entire world.
On another channel, I watched a man eat pemmican survival rations from the boer war. The longevity of this dish is not to be understated. Thank you for making this video
When he said that the pemmican can last 10, 20, even at 30... I thought he was about to say days and I was already thinking, “wow that’s impressive”. but then my eyes bulged when he said years.
i never make pemmican in rimworld, but basically ever tribal that attacks drops a nice lil stack of it when they stroll into my killbox marsh land. That marsh will be an archaeologists dream in a few thousand years.
No matter how hard you struggle, please feel good in knowing that the videos you create make us happy. I can always be encouraged by watching your videos. Thank your for what you do for the world and history!
So glad you posted this. I am cringing every time he says meatis. It's too bad he didn't do a little more research before making the video. You can tell that all his knowledge, while still valid, obviously comes directly from a book.
I was very confused when you kept talking about the Meetus, then I realized you were talking about the Métis. In Canada we typically pronounce Métis as you would in French (mei 'ti) and the term Métis is still commonly used in Canada today. Also, the Métis in Canada are recognized as a distinct, aboriginal people, though what rights come with that designation is still a topic of debate.
Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Any mispronunciation certainly doesn't limit my enjoyment of your videos. I am always happy when you pop up in my subscriptions.
French aboriginals? Raises more questions than answers lol Last of the Mohicans... last of the witnesses!;-) I'm beginning to think the planet was one big penal colony 😃
@@lorrainecouch348There are some French-aboriginals left lol, just not related to this video ;) Inhabitants of Martinique, say. A mix of enslaved people, natives and French. The world is a wonderfully strange mix of people ❤
@@mspaint93 Les Miserables makes sense if you think the French were prisoners... like Australia. The truth may lie around Joan of Arc... she was from Lorraine... the cross of Lorraine... the symbol of resistance. I don't believe the French Resistance ticked that box... but that's just me... RIDDLED WITH SELF-IMPORTANCE LOL...LOTS
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just finished making my first batch.Taste nothing like beef jerky.This isn't usually eaten like this.Watch his other videos that shoe you home to make this into hash and soup.The stuff I just made you don't taste the berries much
What lost soul downvotes such insightful videos. This is the best place to come and learn without being pelted with partisian nonsense. Keep up the excellent work! You are inspiring and refreshing!
I grew up and have lived all my life in northern Alberta. My father's homestead was a few miles from a metis colony. Everyone, including the Metis themselves, pronounced it the way he does. It wasn't until I met a Swampy Cree fellow I met in my fifties that someone said they used the French pronunciation. The Metis I grew up around weren't of French extraction, in fact the best way to describe them might be my cousins.I love your videos Mr. Townsend, learn something every time. Have a great day and keep up the good work.
Dear sir, you are amazing! My Dad has been going on about this thing, wanting to try it but not finding a recipe he could actually read. Now I can just simply take this and translate into German. THANK YOU SO MUCH
At first I was like "oh i've never heard of the meatist people!" then I looked it up and was like "oh he's saying Metis" it's pronounced "May-tee", still love the video though! Keep it up!
Haha I heard "meatist" too, then realized he meant Metis and was just pronouncing it either wrong, or in a way different than any Metis people ever say it lol
Plains pemmican,( the kind that my Hidatsa adopted family makes) was made with the leaf fat, and marrow and dried and pounded into powder cattail roots, buffalo berries, june berries and usually bison in this area,or elk and deer, but sometimes when times were lean , old horses and dog meat were used as well,basically nothing was wasted. Some alkali salty soil was also added to increase the salt and mineral content as well,it adds an awesome flavor. Also some of the bones would be fire charred and pounded down it added flavor and calcium to the pemmican. These days cattails are harder to safely use as most water areas are contaminated so if you want to use this you should have the water tested. The reason the plains tribes added them is that cattail (From what the elders tell me) kept the marrow and fats from becomming rancid if too much was put in and it also helped slow down the bowels so digestion took longer. Not sure if this is valid, but just passing it along as it was told to me. It is still commonly made, but mostly used for food in hunting camps during deer season or for winter survival kits in vehicles. Not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but just is interesting how different areas of the nation made theirs with different ingredients.
zhinka Thank you for this information! Fascinating! There is so much information and history surrounding pemmican. It was a challenge for us to reduce it down to four episodes. We chose to focus on the Metis (pronounced CORRECTLY as "May-TEE", by the way, as many of our viewers have rightfully corrected us). It was primarily through this people group from the Red River region that pemmican was first commercialized starting in the late 18th century for distribution to the North American fur trade industry. The pemmican we're presenting reproduces that variety. We were simply unable to cover the older historical contexts and the countless regional varieties. It's almost as if we started in the middle of the story and skipped every other page. Thanks again, zhinka!
Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Pemmican has always seemed to bring out the descriptive hyperbole in explorers. From Sherard Osborne, a veteran of the search for John Franklin's lost expedition--Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal: "...In troth, appetite need wait on one, for the greasy compound would pall on moderate taste or hunger. Tradition said that it was composed of the best rump-steaks and suet, an cost 1s. 6d. per pound; but we generally voted it composed of broken-down horses and Russian tallow. If not sweet in savour, it was strong in nourishment, and after six tablespoonfuls, the most ravenous feeder might have cried, hold! enough!"
You may be interested to know that the word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, which comes from the word pimî, or, in English, fat, grease. Pemmican itself was indeed invented by the native peoples of North America, not by the white invaders/intruders. As well, you mention in the next episode that BUFFALO would be used. Sorry, that is not true but the BISON, as you state in this episode, was used.
Meegwetch! Do you sell any? I would love to purchase about 20 pounds of it for My own use. I'm a trucker who needs to eat better, and pemmican is ideal
I read as a kid that polar explorers would sometimes make their sleds partly out of pemmican. Blocks of it could be bolted between supports, for example. So as they moved along and used up their supplies, so that the sled got lighter, they could eat part of the sled too! This worked great where the temperature was always below freezing.
The comment section has two types of comments: those praising the good content of the video, and those who didn’t bother to see that 500 others already pointed out the single mispronounced word. Good job, guys.
I wish I could like this comment a million times, everybody is truly aggravating because I'm sure he's realized the mispronunciation by now and will not do it again but everybody has to show their cultural diversity, but are shoving it so far down this guys throat they're actually backfiring and making themselves look like assholes.
The guy's so ignorant. He should know better. It's an insult to the Métis and so unacceptable to anyone who knows anything. Every single comment should be about this!
Drying meat seems to have been an age old technique for preserving food. We on the other side of the Bering Strait still dry meat to preserve it for long periods of time. This technique is very advanced. We usually dry the meat by cutting them in thin strips and hang them until they're brittle and easy to break. We don't cut the fat off, though. When it's time to use it, we grind them into tiny bits just like on this video, or mince it and use it as if regular meat (boil, fry, steam, and etc). Historians in Mongolia, also point out that it gave the Mongol Empire great advantage when it came to supplying the armies and subsequently conquest.
I mean, I do keep a freezer full of dead raiders in my colonies for my pet doggies. The doggies have no issues with eating dead people, and the raiders resupply the puppy chow pretty often!
While dry stores are important for an army, the major factor of the Mongols eating success was they broke into small hunting parties while on the move and caught//killed most of their rations themselves.
I make this for work. It's actually really delicious if you add some spices to it. I add dehydrated onion flakes and granulated garlic. I have some in a ziplock bag for 9 months now unrefrigerated that is still good to eat and tastes delicious.
Never run a Tribal playthrough without it: it's our good friend pemmican! Lasts 1.1 years, somewhat delicious, somewhat nutritious, perfect for the time before refrigerators! A tribal treat even outlanders love! Pemmican! The survival food of the pre-industrial Rimworlds.
I haven't a clue how this video showed up in my suggested videos but I'm glad it did because I enjoyed watching it. As soon as I saw the title I smiled because years ago I read a historical novel about Sacagawea and during the time that I read the book I had never thought about or even mentioned the word 'pemmican' as much as I did while reading the book. 😊 Thank you for sharing this video.
Pemmican, some portable soup base, locally sourced veggies (wild or from someones garden), and a little pinch from the spice mix should be a nice combination.
Here in Canada we pronounce Metis "may-tee", since they are descended from French colonists It's probably just a preference thing but thought it'd be worth sharing.
I made a bucket full of pemmican once (except it had cornmeal in it) and it tasted awful at first, but after it sat for awhile, it improved a lot in flavor. The dried fruit got a lot sweeter and the texture changed. In the end, it tasted like raw cookie dough.
Metis is French for "mixed". It is used to describe people of European & African or Native American descent. "Metisse" is the feminized form, referring to a woman of mixed descent. Canada recognizes Metis, descendants of Native American and French fur traders, as an indigenous nation. Townsend is wearing a typical early 19th century Voyageur (fur trader) clothing. And, yes, it is pronounced MAY-tee.
Fun fact: the pemmican is used as a military ration of the British Army during the Second Boer War of South Africa. It was produced by Bovril (the same company that produces the well-known British beef paste) and comes in a small tin can package alongside dried cocoa powder.
I truly adore this channel, I can tune into any video and learn something truly interesting about history, any time. And it's so very well articulated, the environment is perfect, just, true history fun. I love it, and I hope you never stop!
The British Army issued Emergency Rations which was a small piece of pemmican in one tin and cocoa powder in the other tin. It was to only be opened under the orders of an officer and it was able to keep a soldier moving for up to 36 hours.
@@Kankudai I think it's a middle America thing. We have lots of French people in the South (Delta/Gulf area), we would have caught on to the accent mark.
When you said "Over hte next few episodes" my heart sank til I saw you had 3:30 minute episodes - kudos, this is the content I really am here for and a great to-the-point episode, thanks!
Hi Mr. Townsend. The term Métis is properly pronounced May-Tee. The S is silent . My female companion here in Alberta Canada is Métis with a very proud heritage. Thankyou for the informative video. I look forward to finding out more about pemmican and how it was made and used.
Lol Okay I totally laughed at that because I get it. I was like the Meatis people? Never heard of them ... They were French Voyageurs and Native American Wives... OOOOOOOH you mean Métis... got ya!
I assume Pemmican was eaten during hunting trips or when the tribe travelled to winter or summer sites. Pemmican lasts a long time & was food on the go pretty much packed with energy. My Inuit ancestors packed ready made food that would last a decent amount of time, light weight & compact during hunting or travels too summer or winter campgrounds
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Wow, Pemmican truly does seem like the ultimate survival food. It just dawned on me that those EPIC bars are essentially a modern form of Pemmican. Very interesting! Will definitely be making some Pemmican if food shortages do come in the next few years....
It took me a while to realize he was talking about Metis, not 'meatists' I honestly thought he was talking about some kind of meatist people. Great video still
Remember, it is mandatory to where a toque(Tuque.)whilst making pemmican;the bauble of the cap captures buffalo souls, which it beams into the pemmican, giving it twice the flavour.
@Crazeepaint Airbrushing I'm an Anglophone Canadian and it makes me cringe every time he says it, can't even imagine what you must be going through lol
Hey there Jon! Half Canadian and half metis indigenous *'n' a wee bit scottish lassie here, it's awesome to see you go back to the most basic of even Canadian culture like the native tribes :) binging your guys' videos right now, keep up the great work
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He wasn’t much help
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+90 lore is one of the most endgame stats ive seen. “I dont know why i would need +90 lore but whatever” end up getting another 40 hours out of the game.
+40 survival tactics
@@blackguythompson Because knowing the deepest lore is the equivalent of mastering an entire school of arcane knowledge. Archwizards can only dream of such deep lore.
I came here to find out what I'v been subjecting my rimworld colonists too!
I was looking for that comment just because I thought I can't be the only one :D
i partly came for that reason, the other was pure curiosity. but they do not really like eating it, now i know why XD fat with meat and berries
@@gubbikiller At least now we know why :D
Same
yep
As a kid living on the reservation my grandma would make this as a snack when we'd play outside all day and give us sandwich bags of it
Don’t care stfu
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What does it taste like?
@nathen pyle depends on the meat she'd use because sometimes shed make it with deer meat or moose meat or beef or else buffalo but it's usually sweet and savory
So neat to see this. When I was a much younger man I went on winter survival excursions near the boundary waters of Minnesota and Canada in the 60s. Me and my mates survived on this and other things, as well, but Pemmican was the principle source of nourishment for over three weeks. With subzero temps, blizzards and no sun to speak of, you needed your wits, several good compasses (for backup) and clearly laid out maps to survive, and Pemmican! I hadn't thought of that food for decades. Now, here you here! Cheers, mate!
You sound like someone who has lots of great stories to tell
Minnesota/Manitoba is not the Arctic. There are many hours of sunlight during the day. Even on the solstice
Good time
That sounds so incredibly cool!
Chris B you must be a pocket protecting dip sh$# ! All he is saying is it's overcast for days or weeks on end. NO CLEAR SKY. What a tool!
“Ultimate survival food” = when we’re all dead that pemmican will still be there, surviving
With modern MRE packaging, you can make Pemmican today that will last past 100 years.
When I was a kid my school somehow got a piece of pemmican dug out of the ruins of a very old trading fort. Believed to be about a century old the chunk looked a lot like a piece of granite and was almost as hard. Probably still ok.
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Yea, he seems like a pleasant guy. No clickbait, educational content... He's probably an elementary school teacher or something.
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You can make 18 pemmican with just 5 muffalo meat and 5 corn
yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cant tell if this is a dont starve refrence or not
Cool Sauce there are no muffalos on dont starve its beefalo there
@@coolsauce7771 It is from a game called Rimworld
rofl
Immediately clicked to know how bad my colonists were suffering in my Rimworld colony.
Same.
Still better than kibble made with imature rice and any poor living being that comes contact with the colony
Can confirm, I can see why they prefer simple meals lol
@@MatiasMaldona3 Not they dont, the actually prefer pemmican
Pemican is still bought and sold in Canada. Especially around Winnipeg. We made it in survival education in grade 7. It's pretty good actually, we used local berries so Saskatoon's, blueberries, and strawberries. We used bison from the farm just south of PG. Metis is properly pronounced may-tee.
You had survival education?
@@Liusila yes starting in grade 6, 11 years old, we did things like learn how to fish, how to make a snare trap, make a lean to, make pemmican and bannock, fires etc etc… once you got to high school the course was elective and if you took it you would also get your hunting license, and then they also would take us to the gun range at the triathlon centre to learn how to properly shoot.
@@CamAteUrKFC it's good to know that in some places we're still teaching kids how to live in the real world
@@CamAteUrKFC that sounds like a lot of fun
At first I was like, “Who are the Meatists?” Then I realized it was the Métis lol. Great video!
Hahaha the name threw me off hard too
Likewise
Sworn enemies of the vegans
his pronounciation made me laugh.
(For the Americans / non-french speakers: it's pronounced MAY-tee.)
Rimworld intensifies
Is rimworld like Dawrf Fortress? I love DF and know a lot of people who play DF also like Rimworld.
@@Xvladin its inspired by dwarf fortress, and its really really good
@@Xvladin Pretty much DF cousin. If you like DF - trying RimWorld is safe bet.
Rimworld is also "fun" like DF
@@Xvladin Rimworld is like DF but with less depth and more difficulty.
May God Bless you, thank you for this. I am a Cree person, trying to reclaim and maintain his culture and identity, kind of tough to do in this modern age, but thank you for preserving this invaluable information.
Keep going! Irrespective of how the USA is now with its merits and demerits, too many people forget that it is a country built on genocide. Your culture deserves to return.
Im Chippewa Cree
@@EternalShadow1667 built on genocide.... good story bro! Could use more dragons.
Always leave it for a young person to put history into the most uncharitable context imaginable. But, I can't say I'm surprised.
@UC5LUj2UnvdFUH4lZLrObG2g the US is built on genocide, dipshit
@@EternalShadow1667 what country isn't? People love to vilify the US. Taking land by force is pretty much the standard throughout history and the entire world.
90% sure this was suggested because of those Rimworld episodes I've been watching...
Never even heard of Pemmican before Rimworld! Was wondering what it was. Here we are.
same here
same
+Caleb Sålstrom me too
same
3 minutes ago me: "Why did i click this video?"
now me: "Ok... digging fire pit, extracting tallow... got it."
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Same 100% same
Hahaha so true, I click on it just expecting to watch a few secs, few minutes later and Im taking notes lol
On another channel, I watched a man eat pemmican survival rations from the boer war. The longevity of this dish is not to be understated. Thank you for making this video
I think once you go over 5 yrs it's pretty much eternal.
When he said that the pemmican can last 10, 20, even at 30... I thought he was about to say days and I was already thinking, “wow that’s impressive”. but then my eyes bulged when he said years.
Steve1989 ate pemmican that was rationed to American soldiers in WW1
Wasn't particularly good, but still edible after over 100 years in a sealed can
It said ultimate survival food, so that food is probably good at survival.
Something else bulged when I saw your pfp
@@ezequieloliveira6826 bruh
There are rumors that there are pemmican stashes from colonial days still.
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Bro that adds to your social talent wtf
Which instance boss drops it?
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio you're clearly already at 0 so a -4 wont hurt anything
Rimworld Alpha 14 includes Pemmican as a staple diet of Tribal colonies. This pops up in recommended. I can dig it. Also kinda wanna try it.
I cant wait for alpha 14! also, it tastes pretty bad
Well this explains why I got this video in my suggestions. Can't wait to try Rimworld! Really don't want to try Pemmican o.o;
+ModSquadable try replacing the fat with peanut butter
i never make pemmican in rimworld, but basically ever tribal that attacks drops a nice lil stack of it when they stroll into my killbox marsh land. That marsh will be an archaeologists dream in a few thousand years.
Same Ben, same
Rimworld.
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It's the reason I clicked on the video
I'm addicted to your videos and the historical lessons
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This is stuff I wish school's would teach.
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Does townsend mean Full send or is it just a name
Atleast he doesn't speak like a frog...
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The ridiculous hat and redundant background music convinced me to subscribe.
20alphabet French hat, the tassel would be tucked into the rolled brim...
Just your normal knit tophue, comfortable and warm in the winter.
@@victorvonmagnum6270 You're hardly considered Canadian unless you have a minimum of 3 tuques :)
How is background music redundant?
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"May-tee"
Keep up the good work!
I had no idea what he was talking about saying meatis hahaha
Meatis lol
Was hoping somebody else caught that. Métis is not pronounced how it looks and my phone added a lil accent onto it even.
So glad you posted this. I am cringing every time he says meatis. It's too bad he didn't do a little more research before making the video. You can tell that all his knowledge, while still valid, obviously comes directly from a book.
Meatis sounded so cool and then it clicked.
I was very confused when you kept talking about the Meetus, then I realized you were talking about the Métis. In Canada we typically pronounce Métis as you would in French (mei 'ti) and the term Métis is still commonly used in Canada today. Also, the Métis in Canada are recognized as a distinct, aboriginal people, though what rights come with that designation is still a topic of debate.
Mispronouncing names is pretty much a given with me. Thanks for the info!
Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Any mispronunciation certainly doesn't limit my enjoyment of your videos. I am always happy when you pop up in my subscriptions.
French aboriginals?
Raises more questions than answers lol
Last of the Mohicans... last of the witnesses!;-)
I'm beginning to think the planet was one big penal colony 😃
@@lorrainecouch348There are some French-aboriginals left lol, just not related to this video ;) Inhabitants of Martinique, say. A mix of enslaved people, natives and French. The world is a wonderfully strange mix of people ❤
@@mspaint93
Les Miserables makes sense if you think the French were prisoners... like Australia.
The truth may lie around Joan of Arc... she was from Lorraine... the cross of Lorraine... the symbol of resistance.
I don't believe the French Resistance ticked that box... but that's just me... RIDDLED WITH SELF-IMPORTANCE LOL...LOTS
Lembas bread is better but you'd have to torture an elf to get the recipe.
Don't pick the wrong elf tribe. The Keeblers just told me how to make pecan sandies...
if anyone could get hands on that recipe, its this guy with his hat.
Another good reason to use Lembas bread. Food AND fun making it
You'd get a recipe and an orc, soubds good
Ya better be careful - It's bad luck to even talk about torturing elves...just sayin'...
TH-cam: I heard you're hiding out from the coronavirus
Algorithm: Here's a random obscure survival food from hundreds of years ago and made out of near-exctinct animals I think you'll find useful
Ngl TH-cam is definitely throwing hints that we better learn how to fend for ourselves.
I actually just read about this thing in Edgar Allan Poe's "Adventure of Hans Pfaall" and felt really proud of myself for knowing what it was #facts
You can use beef or venison for pemmican
Same.
Lol
As a history enthusiast, I really appreciate what you do. It's clear that you enjoy and have a passion for your work. Thank you.
This is such a unique and positive TH-cam channel
I love this so much.
Yeah very positive very unique very warming atmosphere and it's information we really need to know
So it's fruit flavored beef jerky glued together with melted animal fat?
If you are hungry enough anything is a tasty morsel.
just finished making my first batch.Taste nothing like beef jerky.This isn't usually eaten like this.Watch his other videos that shoe you home to make this into hash and soup.The stuff I just made you don't taste the berries much
Soooo...not vegan
George, it's survival food not a lifestyle choice.
Max Renauldo no it's pemmican
What lost soul downvotes such insightful videos. This is the best place to come and learn without being pelted with partisian nonsense. Keep up the excellent work! You are inspiring and refreshing!
I would imagine metis people who are a pretty large population at being called "meetus"...:P
People who ate Pemmican without a table, obviously
Six years later this mans videos are still EXACTLY the same. That’s amazing. Thanks for staying true to your content!
wow, I've finally found the Mr. Rogers of Survival videos..
Disappointed that this wasn't made out of pelicans.
Lmao!!!
😂😂😂
You made a comment in 2020 which is not made of quotes. I am proud to see that.
@@Garother "you made a comment in 2020 which is not made of quotes. I am proud to see that"
you could try swapping the meat with pelican meat
I grew up and have lived all my life in northern Alberta. My father's homestead was a few miles from a metis colony. Everyone, including the Metis themselves, pronounced it the way he does. It wasn't until I met a Swampy Cree fellow I met in my fifties that someone said they used the French pronunciation. The Metis I grew up around weren't of French extraction, in fact the best way to describe them might be my cousins.I love your videos Mr. Townsend, learn something every time. Have a great day and keep up the good work.
Some folks here don't realize there is so much to history and they really believe they know it all. No grace or humility.
Essentially, gormet suet cakes for humans instead of birds.
Man, you are really awesome. Thank you for doing what you do!
Thank you for the kind comment!
Would you like to start a cooking channel or a history channel?
Townsends: Yes.
both arn't incompatible
Dear sir, you are amazing! My Dad has been going on about this thing, wanting to try it but not finding a recipe he could actually read. Now I can just simply take this and translate into German. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Just remember, all survival food needs plenty of water or you will starve trying to get it down. Viel Spaß!
Townsends: "Pemican could last up to 20, 30...."
me: "hours, days..."
Townsends: "years."
me: "GTFO!!"
“Hi I’m Wilfred Brimley, I’d like to talk to you about The Meetus people and their superfood.”
😂😂😂
AND maybe DIABETES...
I laughed way to hard at this
At first I was like "oh i've never heard of the meatist people!"
then I looked it up and was like "oh he's saying Metis"
it's pronounced "May-tee", still love the video though! Keep it up!
@Fritzi Lang ancient vegans..
Fritzi Lang my assumption was actually the other way around. They’re people who only eat meat.
Haha I heard "meatist" too, then realized he meant Metis and was just pronouncing it either wrong, or in a way different than any Metis people ever say it lol
@@missmanatee as a Canadian i was thoroughly confused.
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“It’s pronounced ‘May-tee.’” So, they were pirates is what you’re telling us?
It’s pronounced Métis “May tee”
Every time he said meatis it got to me lol
My God, one episode, and I'm already blown away by your knowledge and presentation.
Plains pemmican,( the kind that my Hidatsa adopted family makes) was made with the leaf fat, and marrow and dried and pounded into powder cattail roots, buffalo berries, june berries and usually bison in this area,or elk and deer, but sometimes when times were lean , old horses and dog meat were used as well,basically nothing was wasted.
Some alkali salty soil was also added to increase the salt and mineral content as well,it adds an awesome flavor. Also some of the bones would be fire charred and pounded down it added flavor and calcium to the pemmican.
These days cattails are harder to safely use as most water areas are contaminated so if you want to use this you should have the water tested. The reason the plains tribes added them is that cattail (From what the elders tell me) kept the marrow and fats from becomming rancid if too much was put in and it also helped slow down the bowels so digestion took longer. Not sure if this is valid, but just passing it along as it was told to me.
It is still commonly made, but mostly used for food in hunting camps during deer season or for winter survival kits in vehicles.
Not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but just is interesting how different areas of the nation made theirs with different ingredients.
zhinka Thank you for this information! Fascinating! There is so much information and history surrounding pemmican. It was a challenge for us to reduce it down to four episodes. We chose to focus on the Metis (pronounced CORRECTLY as "May-TEE", by the way, as many of our viewers have rightfully corrected us). It was primarily through this people group from the Red River region that pemmican was first commercialized starting in the late 18th century for distribution to the North American fur trade industry. The pemmican we're presenting reproduces that variety. We were simply unable to cover the older historical contexts and the countless regional varieties. It's almost as if we started in the middle of the story and skipped every other page. Thanks again, zhinka!
Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Pemmican has always seemed to bring out the descriptive hyperbole in explorers. From Sherard Osborne, a veteran of the search for John Franklin's lost expedition--Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal:
"...In troth, appetite need wait on one, for the greasy compound would pall on moderate taste or hunger. Tradition said that it was composed of the best rump-steaks and suet, an cost 1s. 6d. per pound; but we generally voted it composed of broken-down horses and Russian tallow. If not sweet in savour, it was strong in nourishment, and after six tablespoonfuls, the most ravenous feeder might have cried, hold! enough!"
You may be interested to know that the word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, which comes from the word pimî, or, in English, fat, grease. Pemmican itself was indeed invented by the native peoples of North America, not by the white invaders/intruders. As well, you mention in the next episode that BUFFALO would be used. Sorry, that is not true but the BISON, as you state in this episode, was used.
Meegwetch! Do you sell any? I would love to purchase about 20 pounds of it for My own use. I'm a trucker who needs to eat better, and pemmican is ideal
I read as a kid that polar explorers would sometimes make their sleds partly out of pemmican. Blocks of it could be bolted between supports, for example. So as they moved along and used up their supplies, so that the sled got lighter, they could eat part of the sled too! This worked great where the temperature was always below freezing.
This would apply greatly when I'm running late 4 work..yu.m
*me stuck in a desert
Oh let me just grab my survival pemmican.
Me: "This reminds me of Scrapple"
Also me: "I'd eat it"
The comment section has two types of comments: those praising the good content of the video, and those who didn’t bother to see that 500 others already pointed out the single mispronounced word. Good job, guys.
I wish I could like this comment a million times, everybody is truly aggravating because I'm sure he's realized the mispronunciation by now and will not do it again but everybody has to show their cultural diversity, but are shoving it so far down this guys throat they're actually backfiring and making themselves look like assholes.
HIS HAT IS FUNNY...
The guy's so ignorant. He should know better. It's an insult to the Métis and so unacceptable to anyone who knows anything. Every single comment should be about this!
Welcome to the internet Jason
Actually there is a third type of comment, because Rimworld
Drying meat seems to have been an age old technique for preserving food. We on the other side of the Bering Strait still dry meat to preserve it for long periods of time. This technique is very advanced. We usually dry the meat by cutting them in thin strips and hang them until they're brittle and easy to break. We don't cut the fat off, though. When it's time to use it, we grind them into tiny bits just like on this video, or mince it and use it as if regular meat (boil, fry, steam, and etc). Historians in Mongolia, also point out that it gave the Mongol Empire great advantage when it came to supplying the armies and subsequently conquest.
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+1 And they think ancient people were primitive. Yet we are the ones who wouldn't know how to survive like that.
Exactly, Good Doggo
I mean, I do keep a freezer full of dead raiders in my colonies for my pet doggies. The doggies have no issues with eating dead people, and the raiders resupply the puppy chow pretty often!
While dry stores are important for an army, the major factor of the Mongols eating success was they broke into small hunting parties while on the move and caught//killed most of their rations themselves.
I make this for work. It's actually really delicious if you add some spices to it. I add dehydrated onion flakes and granulated garlic. I have some in a ziplock bag for 9 months now unrefrigerated that is still good to eat and tastes delicious.
I want some
Never run a Tribal playthrough without it: it's our good friend pemmican! Lasts 1.1 years, somewhat delicious, somewhat nutritious, perfect for the time before refrigerators! A tribal treat even outlanders love! Pemmican! The survival food of the pre-industrial Rimworlds.
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1.1 years!?? But according to many ppl last 10-20-30 years
_"Oh, the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles! And it's in great shape."_
*- SpongeBob SquarePants.*
ITS A ROCK!
He just came out... As A Sexual ..
Because he’s a sponge. Get it! Ahahahha
TH-cam:
Randy Random: Recommends this video.
Rimworld, nice.
Im glad George Bush found something he could do well
He ran a whole country well, guess you meant another thing he can do well.
@@DanaOrtiz well yeah, and don't forget his great bushisms. So three things well
Nah that former actor Fred Willard
He's actually a very good painter and rich!
Now i can't stop seeing Bush!
I haven't a clue how this video showed up in my suggested videos but I'm glad it did because I enjoyed watching it. As soon as I saw the title I smiled because years ago I read a historical novel about Sacagawea and during the time that I read the book I had never thought about or even mentioned the word 'pemmican' as much as I did while reading the book. 😊
Thank you for sharing this video.
I thought he was saying Meatist. 1 woman butchering 10 bisons a day.. it makes a lot of sense lol
Haha.... farts...
I thought everyone knew how metis was pronounced now I feel like the ignorant one
This puts a smile on my face. Such a positive video with great historical information. Subscribed!
Do you have to wear that hat to make pemmican?
yes you do,of coarse
no but for the sake of comdey yess
LOL
course
well no, but why wouldn't you wear that hat? It's very cunning
This is the one TH-camr that isn’t drugged up in humor I will always love
He's isn't trying to cater to the spoiled Gen Z or Female demos, just everyone in general.
This looks remarkably like what collects in the bottom of my grill.
How has this man not been hired by the history channel yet?! All of his videos are ridiculously well done. Very professional!
Pemmican, some portable soup base, locally sourced veggies (wild or from someones garden), and a little pinch from the spice mix should be a nice combination.
Here in Canada we pronounce Metis "may-tee", since they are descended from French colonists
It's probably just a preference thing but thought it'd be worth sharing.
In french we pronounce the s... Maytiss
@@olt007 Kyle is right its pronounced "may-tee" I've never heard it pronounced "may-tiss" and I am metis
@@akudoodle4669 are you french speaking?
Everyone does lol
Honestly when it comes to pronunciations it doesnt matter all that much.. tomato, potato etc.
I made a bucket full of pemmican once (except it had cornmeal in it) and it tasted awful at first, but after it sat for awhile, it improved a lot in flavor. The dried fruit got a lot sweeter and the texture changed. In the end, it tasted like raw cookie dough.
looks like he raided a 18th century clothing drawer and then escaped the shire.
Easy to be negative about a nicely prepared utube video exploring a cross cultural food source.
i think that was meant as a joke
@@djedUVprojector ...
Hahahaha!!! 😂
@@djedUVprojector idiot lol
Man this is a fantastic channel. Extremely interesting. Well produced. Informative. But more importantly, very, very useful. Thank you.
Metis is pronounced May-tees. But great video otherwise
it does when its an informational video, and its an entire race of people, so stop being ignorant
Ahoy there, arr, May-Tee be the proper pronunciation ye be lookin fer!
As someone who is Métis, this kind of griped on me. Also the great use of the past-tense. Still an awesome video, so I guess I can forgive a little.
Arrgh Metis
@@sofaking1611 Mon si, petit malin. Pleure un coup, tu pisseras moins.
Metis pronounced like may- tee. Not meatis .How do I know this? Huge Metis community where I live in Canada
Yeah that was really bugging me too
actually you are wrong.
Actually he's not. The word is may-TEE, and they are in fact a major force in Canadian history and politics. Doubly so in the West.
@@askquestionsplz nope your wrong
@@tonymoretti2347 well it depends, the word come from the french métis and the "s" at the end is pronounced
Metisse is French for mixed race.
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Métis
@@DashThewolfOmegaofthepack seriously. and it's pronounced MAY-tee.
Metis is French for "mixed". It is used to describe people of European & African or Native American descent. "Metisse" is the feminized form, referring to a woman of mixed descent.
Canada recognizes Metis, descendants of Native American and French fur traders, as an indigenous nation.
Townsend is wearing a typical early 19th century Voyageur (fur trader) clothing.
And, yes, it is pronounced MAY-tee.
@@Herschel1738 actually you also pronounce the s so "may-tee-ss"
Fun fact: the pemmican is used as a military ration of the British Army during the Second Boer War of South Africa. It was produced by Bovril (the same company that produces the well-known British beef paste) and comes in a small tin can package alongside dried cocoa powder.
It looks like an offspring of Spam and Granola bar that copulated🤔
and called it 'allegedly funny' Rosanne Barr !
Lol
So this is what George Bush is up to nowadays.
...hory shet,
drue32capp u gotta squint
Ha!
tsun 😄😄
lmao I just died 9times laughing so hard.
I’ve read books wherein people eat pemmican, and i got the impression it was like loose shreds of beef jerky-the Big League Chew of the frontier
>the Big League Chew of the frontier
This perfectly explains how I thought pemmican looked
The best show there is. I want to start a similar thing here like a community that teaches the way Townsend's show life was and is. Thanks
That one cake looks like the suet we feed birds. I would imagine it is close with seeds instead of meat. Really looking forward to this series.
I found this extremely interesting. Thank you for posting.
A modern version of this is being made by a Sioux tribe and it is marketed under the name Tonka Bars. It is buffalo, fat and cranberries. YUM
I truly adore this channel, I can tune into any video and learn something truly interesting about history, any time. And it's so very well articulated, the environment is perfect, just, true history fun. I love it, and I hope you never stop!
The British Army issued Emergency Rations which was a small piece of pemmican in one tin and cocoa powder in the other tin. It was to only be opened under the orders of an officer and it was able to keep a soldier moving for up to 36 hours.
as a french person i was not ready for the american way of pronouncing Metis
French Canadian?
Idk why but in non French Canada we said it too instead of saying natives or smth
It’s not the American way... at least not the way where I’m from.
Its not the Americsn way, it's just wrong.
@@Kankudai I think it's a middle America thing. We have lots of French people in the South (Delta/Gulf area), we would have caught on to the accent mark.
I HAVE GOT TO STOP WATCHING THESE EPISODES ON AN EMPTY STOMACH! Always a great vid btw!
When you said "Over hte next few episodes" my heart sank til I saw you had 3:30 minute episodes - kudos, this is the content I really am here for and a great to-the-point episode, thanks!
Hi Mr. Townsend. The term Métis is properly pronounced May-Tee. The S is silent . My female companion here in Alberta Canada is Métis with a very proud heritage. Thankyou for the informative video. I look forward to finding out more about pemmican and how it was made and used.
The S isn't silent.
The word is French and, surprisingly, pronounced exactly as written.
you are wrong
Louis Riel must be rolling in his grave over this.
Lol Okay I totally laughed at that because I get it. I was like the Meatis people? Never heard of them ... They were French Voyageurs and Native American Wives... OOOOOOOH you mean Métis... got ya!
I assume Pemmican was eaten during hunting trips or when the tribe travelled to winter or summer sites. Pemmican lasts a long time & was food on the go pretty much packed with energy. My Inuit ancestors packed ready made food that would last a decent amount of time, light weight & compact during hunting or travels too summer or winter campgrounds
Ive been planning for 20 years to live off the land... survivalist kinda life, my friend just told me about this channel...exactly what I need....I never knew this channel existed....so now, I can use my inheritance money for ALL my survival needs..I'm so grateful to have found this channel..I'm 100% dedicated.. nd 100 % serious about doing this.....I know bad things will happen, like the blackouts, the starvation, the solar mass ejections from the sun, the Meteores hitting earth...earthquakes, all kinds of natural disasters will happen, oh, and we can't forget Nuclear war & bombs...even if one of these things happen, we will need to be prepared...I will be building myself a shelter in the wilderness, I have lived for 20 years already at 4,500 feet, lots of snow, and I had NOt much money...sometimes NO money, but I learned how to survive under THE MOST dangerous and the harshness of conditions...so..I'm prepared for all the hard things you better know how to do if you want to survive the future...I've even lived with bears in my yard ALOT...I'm no stranger to what's out there......and what can happen..ill buy a woodstove, chainsaws.. and everything needed....I made a LONG survival list...I'm a girl..but I can do this, I already have, but things will really get worse in time, so I'm prepared....I learned.....all this by myself too....
Wow, Pemmican truly does seem like the ultimate survival food. It just dawned on me that those EPIC bars are essentially a modern form of Pemmican. Very interesting! Will definitely be making some Pemmican if food shortages do come in the next few years....
Doesn't make sense to wait until there's food shortages to make something that can last for decades when stored correctly now does it?
When the food runs out, we still have each other.
Lol
I don’t even understand why I find this so much intriguing
I could watch this channel all day I love this,, thank you for your dedication
It took me a while to realize he was talking about Metis, not 'meatists' I honestly thought he was talking about some kind of meatist people. Great video still
Mee-tus people lol for a split second I was thinking :"how the hell haven't I heard of these people before now?" Thanks for the video.
Remember, it is mandatory to where a toque(Tuque.)whilst making pemmican;the bauble of the cap captures buffalo souls, which it beams into the pemmican, giving it twice the flavour.
I am super uncomfortably high right now and you are my guiding light. Bless you.
Anyone else got this recommended during Covid-19?
i love guys like this..nothing sensational just a man telling some food history
The Wuhan Flu
You mean the china virus
I thought this was cause I watched rimworld
I've watched Townsend before so it's not unusual that this was recommended to me.
Imma goin’ pemmican huntin’.
Pemmican is a cousin of the Haggis.
That would be a really distant cousin. Haggis is more what I would serve at an important family dinner. Maybe bring to a potluck :)
You are right. Another relative: Italian dry salami.
1,100 dislikes?, jesus that's a bit intense. Of all the things going on in the world, people just can't stand pemmican.
Rover O'Ryan. Must be the Vegans
They're probably all Quebecois who can't stand the way he keeps pronouncing "Métis".
@Crazeepaint Airbrushing
I'm an Anglophone Canadian and it makes me cringe every time he says it, can't even imagine what you must be going through lol
@@josh420masterB Pssh, yeah people are strange.
Definitely vegans lol
Hey there Jon! Half Canadian and half metis indigenous *'n' a wee bit scottish lassie here, it's awesome to see you go back to the most basic of even Canadian culture like the native tribes :)
binging your guys' videos right now, keep up the great work