Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Tasting History with Max Miller" channel.

  1. Reading accounts like your granddad's made me not eat anything before we flew into Baghdad in '05. They do a "combat landing" where they spiral down from altitude within the perimeter of the airfield to avoid anti-aircraft fire, which at this point would have just been angry Iraqis with AKs, but still. Some guys didn't, and they left a mess in the C-130 for the crew to clean up.
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  2. I really did expect him to pop in or a insert @ 20:32. lol
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  3. Not really. Anyone who could put together an army that could challenge the ruling families, would not be impeded by a fancy dinner show. It was just another feudal "cost of doing business", and pales in comparison to the direct taxes and tribute paid. And remember that the gifting was reciprocal. The "means of control" was in the ceremony itself. It established who was dominant without the need for bloodshed. Its why it became so elaborate as everyone tried to one-up each other.
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  4. Yep. Its a very old practice.
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  5. Partially it was a naivety to that, but really, pre mechanized war's battles were generally slow, localized affairs. Most armies traveled with large contingents of civilians, the "camp followers", who would all be at the encampment just behind the battle lines, watching the fighting. So its not inexplicable that people thought they could spectate.
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  6. The Titanic was a singular event. The Lusitanian was one tragedy amid the sea of tragedy that was WWI. What is remarkable is that it is remembered at all because there were many passenger ships sunk during the war. Its mainly because the US "Yellow" media latched onto it and publicized it as a "casus belli" for US involvement in the European war.
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  7. He considered then an insurgent group so was against anything they did no matter if it was helpful or not.
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  8. "Pliny the Elder was just punking us" I suspect THIS was a prank recipe because I can't imagine wanting/being able to eat this with a hangover. "3 lbs of lamb..." Quantities for when you get your entire court smashed I guess.
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  9. If we were playing the drinking game, this episode would have put everyone under the table!
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  10. Often times the soup would be sitting in the heated cauldron for hours and hours so it reduces to mush anyway.
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  11.  @oshwaflz  The saddest thing about the Lusitania is that the lessons from the Titanic were not heeded. The same failures that caused the needless loss of life were repeated.
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  12. @2:45 At this time period, and to be authentic, they would definitely have peeled the potatoes.
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  13. Until recently US MREs used to have little bottles of Tabasco sauce in them. I personally kept a bottle of A-1 sauce in my bag.
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  14. At this time the skins would have been thrown away because that is where they touched the dirt and they didn't know that is where the nutrients were. And the chefs wouldn't have been whittling potatoes, it would have been done by the most junior cooks or even porters.
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  15. School lunches didn't start with the Panthers. The Panthers stared a social breakfast program for school age kids. It was not connected with any school system. Lunches were often served by larger school systems going back to the turn of the century with a federal program started in 1946. That a federal school lunch program was expanded as part of "Great Society" programs that occurred at the same time.
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  16.  @jordanhamann9123  Go make some?
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  17.  @mykolatkachuk7770  That is completely untrue. Germans reacted much the same way as Brits. But German cities were bombed an order of magnitude more, to the point where many cities centers were uninhabitable, so the populations had to disperse to surrounding small towns.
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  18. Blind squirrels, stopped clocks...
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  19.  @thatboybear  lol. Jez. Did they also invent Santa Claus?
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  20.  @krankarvolund7771  Not if you are doing "smashed potatoes" which wasn't considered "high class" back then.
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  21. If he'd made the meal out of only 10 year old (minimum) canned and dried ingredients.
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  22. ​ @kieracameron2077  Really. They didn't eat the peel back then. Partially because culturally it was the part that touched dirt and thus "unclean" and because toxins build up in the peel of potatoes that are allowed to go green. Which happened alot before mechanized and refrigerated shipping.
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  23. If he was born at Tule Lake camp, he wouldn't have remembered that period. So he was recounting the opinions and experiances of their family. Which of course would not be positive.
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  24.  @lauriepenner350  The Titanic was famous long before the movie. At this time, ships were the only way to travel across the Atlantic. Submarines were novel, as was "unrestricted warfare" against passenger ships.
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  25. But this is not that. The context of the internment was the knowledge of Japanese imperial extremism and the fear/hate from other Americans who might do violence against Asians (and did not just to Japanese). So the Internment was to protect both, and it was done as humanely as... well, ok it was done at the competence of the government, but it wasn't evil.
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  26.  @WobblesandBean  Eat nothing but them for a month or two and you'll probably get over it. lol.
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  27.  @speltcaster3186  Unless you are from a country that had no involvement in WWI,... public education fail.
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  28. Worthy of its own "Drinking History" episode.
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  29. @0:50 Did anyone else picture the guy is a suit of full plate whipping his crea... wait. Not gonna go there.
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  30. Not after your hundredth plate.
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  31. Kudos for staying apolitical. I'm sure it was hard to resist.
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  32.  @codename495  Do they have a lake or pond?
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  33. @6:30 Max's neighbors go, "Great...."
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  34. Well handled.
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  35. "The birds and the plane was so loud" Luckily you aren't in the South, the cicadas would have run you off.
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  36. Don't leave after the Nord VPN spot! There is a spoiler!!!! Yes! The follow on is brilliant!
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  37.  @boop3260  compelling argument.
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  38.  @RHCole  You've obviously never had bad either.
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  39.  @ragnkja  You must not have any little boys...
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  40. TLDR: The Vikings convert to Christianity so fast because they got tired of barbequing their daughters. :face-orange-raised-eyebrow:
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  41.  @jeffslote9671  The Slavs are what emerged between the merger of Nordic/Germanic groups and the peoples of the Steppes. They are the Vikings who went South down the rivers instead of West across the sea.
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  42. Only if some seddonistic bastard reports it.
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  43. Morbid... doesn't really fit his upbeat style.
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  44. My middleschooler son complains about the little cartons of milk and juice. I vaguely recall the "bladders of milk" I think it was a commercial product to create less packaging waste, and obviously it failed in the retail market and only landed a few government contracts.
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  45. @14:00 Totally missed the chance to cue the "Lets get it on..." music clip. ;)
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  46. I love that you covered this. This party is one of the things I remember first when of learning about the history of paleontology as a kid. Great to get more detail about it.
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  47. The name always makes me think its supposed to have lobster in it, or otherwise be like a fish chowd'ah.
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  48. A Tasting History and Drinking History two-fer!
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  49.  @benberlin57  And guess who operated the peeler? It wasn't the chef.
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  50.  @lenabreijer1311  You have to eat a lot of potato skin that is very green to receive enough solanine for it to be poisonous.
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