Weird History Food is uncovering the unlikely origin of some of your favorite meals. Food is an essential part of culture. As communities, states, and nations form their identities, food becomes part of how they see themselves and shapes the perceptions of others. Dining at an Italian restaurant, for example, means pasta, pizza, and the like, while the names of some foods even attest to national origins.
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How about the characters on breakfast cereals?
Crabapples are tasty, especially in deserts. Fuck you.
Greeks didn't have sauerkraut as they didn't have cabbage. Chinese have been fermenting cabbage, won bok, gai choy, turnips… for thousanads of years.
You should do a whole segment on the stylings of Sandra Lee. Pretty much anything she made qualified as weird food.
I can see how this video is gonna end up pissing everyone off. Lol
Fun fact – placenta the organ was named after placenta the cake, not the other way around.
It was originally pronounced more like "pla-chen-ta" or "pla-ken-ta".
Dear Weird History Food, it seems that you have just declared war on Italy.
US is especially bad at origins, only because the consumption of food is separated from culture. Speak to ethnic minorities, and careful listening will pull past the curtains on food origins.
I guess Cheese Cake and Apple Pie are staples in modern bakery in a lot of country. For example nearly every Cafe offers German style Cheesecake and Apple Pie.
Well, the Reubuen sandwich origin can also be traced to Omaha, Nebraska. We may never be sure which is accurate but, it is a dad gum good sandwich!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_sandwich
Belgian chef : "Ça j'ai inventé cela moi-même monsieur, c'est comme des pommes…mais ça pousse dans la terre! J'ai pas encore trouvé le nom…"
Where is the origin of dog meat dishes?
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How about crepes Suzette? 😊
NOT THE PLACENTA FACTORY
The oldest recipe for French Fries was in a French cookbook belonging to Louis XIV's chef: La cuisine du Roi
Tomatos originated in Mexico and Mexico is in North America not South America, also frogs are and where eaten in every place frogs existed.
"French Fries" are an American invention, the European (Belgian, Dutch, British etc) versions are much thicker. The two can not be compared besides the fact they are both potato based.
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Would love to know the history of the doughnut. Seems interesting, yes?
Cheesecake as a basic isn’t commonly believed to have been invented in NY, just that particular style, which is denser and richer than previous variants. The base ingredient cream cheese is a relatively new invention, and first developed in NY dairies. Hence sometimes restaurant menus and packages specify “New York style” cheesecake, as distinct from Italian ricotta pie or French style.
According to Gramsci, spaghetti' came from Germany🤔
Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish.
I wonder if Vincenzo will put out a video saying, "the French didn't invent tomato sauce." lmao
Sauerkraut, I was surprised that it wasn't German origin.
F ME, NOT FRANCE.. MÉXICO… VIA SPAIN, THEN FRANCE. TOMATO SAUCE IS ‘MEXICAN’ … WAY BEFORE THAT. NOW DO A F’N ESCOFFIER DOC ALREADY, EH! 😂
Sauerkraut literally means "sour herb." Cabbage translates to "Kohl."
That’s an unconventional pronunciation of Parmesan.
the first mention of a tomato sauce was actually from the conquering of Mexico, recepies exist in some of the chronicles of the Spanish
It's almost like people have always been exchanging ideas, changing them up and improving on them, almost like we've always been a global village 🤔
Most of what we call Italian is Italian-American, most of what we call Mexican is Tex-Mex
Bonus fact about Croissants, they were originally created in the late 17th century after the battle of Vienna. Insert Winged Hussars by Sabaton here.
Hold on, Marie Antoinette was the one who introduced the croissant to France, not whoever that baker was. The croissant began in Austria, her homeland. Why did they not mention this??
I never heard any debate on the origin of french fries, France usually doesn't take credit for it. The only ones that are confused are americans. Actually this sums up the entier video, americans being confused about countries and cultural influence.
You could do an entire series just about the foreign origins of Japanese cuisine – Ramen, sushi, nikuman, gyoza, shabu-shabu, and matcha from China, tempura and castella (and other sweets and baked goods) from Portugal, curry rice from India by way of the UK, taco rice from Mexico by way of the US, baumkuchen from Germany, tonkatsu, pottage, karokke, and hayashi rice from France, naporitan from Italy, piroshiki from Russia, etc…
It's not "restauranteur" , it's "restaurateur". ie no "n".
British soldiers behind the lines in Belgium in WWI spoke highly of the 'pomme frites' (fried potatoes) that almost every restaurant served, often with fried eggs and beer. It seems to have been a long established dish by the time the war started in 1914, not something invented during the war.
Sauerkraut may not be German-born, but my German grandmother could whip up the most delicious version. It is one of my favorite foods.
Ancient Incans probably invented fried potato dish thousands of years before anyone…
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Claiming that something that didn't originate in American is something inherently American is ironically in and of itself as American as apple pie.
Rubens are disgusting no way I would believe that guy also invented cheesecake
When professional chefs cut produce into pieces larger than julienned, the result is said to have been "Frenched." Resulting in "Frenched" fried potatoes.
Interestingly, you missed another classic national food, that comes from similar origins to Tempura…
The very British dish of Fish and Chips is not English at all, but was originally called "fish fried in the Jewish-manner," a cheap and popular London street food of starting in the 16th & 17th century. Jews expelled from Portugal brought with them a love for fish battered and fried in oil, which they shared with their new neighbors. The chips came from the late 18th and early 19th century, as Irish started to mix with Jews in the London slums, and shared their love of potatoes…..which got added to the fried meal.
Y'all…read your comments. Look how many people are correcting you. It's statistically unlikely that they are all wrong. Look into it!
Tempura comes from Portugese Tempora
there is a story saying that the first guy who made fortune cookie in usa is japanese but due to wwii, he cannot sell it as japanese so he had to sell it as chinese food.
Also another thing, I always thought cucumber pickles were American invention but turns out I was wrong. It was just brought to the US by european immigrants at the end of 1800s.