Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "The Great Wheat Shortage of 1797 - Bread for the Commoners" video.

  1. Speaking of which, a stand-up comedian claims nutmeg in larger quantities is a mild drug, so he tried it while young and poor (his whole budged was like an equvalent of 1,5-2 bucks for this experiment, thus cocaine or anything else was out of the question), almost nothing special happend, except one half an hour, which he doesn't remember, so he says: "that's how I found out sometimes nutmeg is like a time machine". So... after that story I'm wondering, if people of XVIII used it a lot, because they got slightly addicted to it? XD
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  2. Oat, barley, corn, even peas - sure, but potatoes were quite unexpected. Maybe that's because due to nature of our local cousine to my the "real bread" is a rye one or "black bread" not "white bread" made of wheat.
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  3. Fun fact, in my native Latvian "maize" means bread, but it has nothing to do with corn ("kukurūza" in Latvian) and has been in use long before discovery of Americas by Europeans. Insead this noun has originated from "mieži" - wheat. Besides only the spelling of "maize"is weirdly common with corn, pronounciation is completely different, sort of like like "my the"
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