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We all love food, and food is something we need as much as the air that we breathe! Sometimes food came easy, sometimes not so much…. Today we we are looking at the consumption of food in various times in history – from the French Aristocrats dining on the finest foods, to whatever people could scrape together in times of the Great Depression, while mining on the frontier, or during a ciivil war. No matter the situation, people always had favorites! What’s yours?

Chapters:
00:00:00 – 15 Weird Vintage Foods You’d Love To Have At Your Holiday Party
00:10:42 – Weird Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression
00:24:07 – Frivolous Foods The French Upper-class Ate While The Peasants Starved
00:34:41 -Food Prospectors Ate to Survive the Gold Rush
00:48:40 – How Rich Italians Used to Watch the Poor Fight for Food
00:58:51 – Unconventional Foods People Ate In Soviet Russia
01:11:05 – Weirdest Foods From Ancient Roman Cuisine
01:22:55 – What Medieval Junk Food Was Like
01:32:39 – Unconventional Foods People Ate During the Civil War

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41 Comments

  1. Most of these recipes are so nasty, but thank you for actually calling yams YAMS and not sweet potatoes.

  2. May every meal feel more special after watching this journey of food through history 🥗⏳. Many thanks to Weird History for their wonderful effort!

  3. During a particularly lean time in my childhood, my dad did the best he could to keep our tummies full: powdered milk was a staple and rice pudding for every meal for a week stand out in my memory.

  4. The thumbnail is confusing.
    I don’t think humans typically ate shoes like Mr. Chaplin.

  5. For about the second half of your video, there was no sound. Add scheme on But when the programming came on, it was silent

  6. I have a complaint. You were reaming King Charles III of Spain a new one. The Bourbon King.

    The Monarch of Spain is still the Bourbon King, currently His Catholic Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain. King Felipe of Spain is arguably one of the most popular monarchs in the world. The current Bourbon King. He holds the NATO rank of a 5 star general. He is damn handsome too. He is awesome for a King and I'm an American. Spain is in NATO and a key ally of the US. You want to start an international incident? You should apologize.
    As for the Spanish King Charles III, he was the King of Spain during the American Revolutionary War and frankly without his help and war declaration against England in 1779 in support of the Colonist, maybe the USA never happens. Bernardo de Galvez turned the tide of the war and became George Washington's war time BFF. You want history that's not that well known but should be. There you go. For his efforts in helping the US win the American Revolutionary War, Bernardo de Galvez was made the 8th Honorary US Citizen. You should do a podcast on that.

  7. For everyone complaining, it’s a compilation video, so you can search for all the last parts (titles are in the description).

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