Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Tasting History with Max Miller" channel.

  1. ​ @emilyrandall9776  how to choose? Sample one each of the small triangular packets usually on the same or nearby shelves.
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  2.  @scaper8  there's an annual event during the Medieval week festival in the city of Visby (week32) called "Monk ball" it's a clerical football tournament, using more 14th century than 20th century rules...
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  3. At my first grade school in 1990, the school lunches was cooked by the kitchen staff of the local Costal artillery base and delivered to the school kitchen 3miles across town from the military base, it was more than decent quality and quantity fir everyone, though, of course, not all dishes were equally liked... At my equivalent of highschool, the students of the hotel/restaurant programme cooked the daily three course and salad buffet for the small school as part of their training to a quality that no student or faculty member had any reason to eat their lunch anywhere else even though the faculty had to pay at cost for their lunch, including the principal and owners of the school. Regardless of school in my country, lunches for non-college/university level is always free by law.😊
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  4. ​ @TastingHistory  regarding the essentiality of coffee and other stimulants in armed forces, there is a story from the Swedish KFOR contingent where they alledgedly had been without snus for a whole week. Swedish snus is fermented and flavoured ground up and moisturised tobacco, used by stuffing a pre-made bag or self-packed pillow of it under the upper lip and much preferred among conscripts and officers as it, unlike smoked tobacco, does not reveal your position with a suicidally glowing ember. Either way, the comissary of the base ran out of it, and a week later, the base got notified that the next shipment was on a UN marked truck currently illegally blocked by a Serbian border checkpoint, the checkpoint commander demanding a bribe to let it pass. As the news got around, it reached the captain of the Swedish contingent stationed there, a mechanised company, over 80% of them heavy users... As such, to prevent a direct mutiny, the Captain formulated a mission and asked for volounteers to escort the supply truck back to base. There were too many volounteers, so he took one platoon, loaded them up in four Pbv302 (APCs) and set off. As they arrived, he informed the checkpoint commander of his desire to have the truck let through immediately. As the checkpoint commander insisted on his bribe first, the Captain proceeded to let the four APCs, line up their 20mm autocannons on the checkpoint and instead explain to the Serbian commander that he and his soldiers had been without nicotine for over a week, the next delivery was on that truck, and the instruction to let it pass was not a request, there wouldn't be any bribes, and that the checkpoint commander better think over his next decision veeery carefully... Turned out, discretion was the better part of valour, "diplomacy" won and only egos were bruised that day😁
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  5. And I likewise would not be found in the melee, nay, not even at the publicans to wait for pastries. I, would be touring the townes, and villages in the absence of knights, secretly leaving treatises on the evils of servitude and the potential of united workers and virtues of self governance by means of law, voting and councils of equals... ;)
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  6. Boiling it in beer or fruit (apple/pear/cherry/elder blossom) cider or mead, then roasting it slowly on a rotating spit over a drip pan that drains into a bowl for collecting a basting mix of drippings, butter, honey, garlic, parsly and rosemary...🤤
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  7. I think I shouldn't use the dark brown, acorn sized chilli a friend grew and gave me last month... (It's a cocholate hint variety of the Carolina Reaper...)
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  8. To be fair, Boar, in large parts of Europe has become an absolute pest, and as long as those homeless has enough knowledge and patience to cook that meat well enough to kill all the parasites and microbes infesting those boars, they are doing the rest of European society a favour and, imo. shouldn't be prosecuted for poaching. Hell, I'd even support legislation to make it legal for homeless to hunt boar without firearms on a pit/net trapper licence (trapping is currently illegal across the board in my country) and make it free for them to get the boars checked and processed by licenced butcheries to prevent salmonella outbreaks and muscle/intestine parasite infections.
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  9. Sounds like garum and the brine of surströmming would have similiar taste and smell...
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