Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Did people eat spoiled meat in the Middle Ages?" video.

  1. The myth that the middle ages were horrible stems from the "enlightened" period when newly built universities spread lies about the era before universities. It's like how the myth that Victorian era women were abused comes from the Sufferagette Movement. People don't distinguish between historic eras, they see it all as "the past" and almost all they know (and lie about) tends to be the immediate past.
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  2. It's partially true. The alcohol was actively diluted because they didn't know any other way to sanitize water. Usually people only trusted straight water they knew for a fact was clean, which meant they were acutely immune to local germs. Whole armies have been halted by diarhea when men were forced to drink local water, though.
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  3. Shut up
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  4. The reason salt is a seasoning now is because it was used as a preservative for so long that it tastes good to us (super salty water kills germs)
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  5. Speaking of dried meat, jerky was so common on the American frontier that it was a currency. Extremely nutrient dense, everyone eats it, and last forever
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  6. Or in Iceland the shark jerky is just cheap protein.
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