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Kinda makes sense that the Eastern seaboard economy was fueled by fish consumption in the 18th century.

In the early days of the city of Sydney: The convicts ate salted beef (because beef was expensive) and fresh fish (which they caught themselves). The gentry ate fresh beef (because beef was expensive) and salted fish (because convicts ate fresh fish).

I don't eat cod anymore, it is being overfished. Should ban fishing for it Worldwide for the next twenty years to bring the population back to what it was in the 1970s.

Wish I could afford the working mans seafood.

Thank you Ryan!

My understanding is that when you hear stories about lobsters and crabs being seen as a poverty food (prisoners protesting being fed lobster, etc.) the significant context is that these would have been bigger, tougher lobsters that wouldn't be marketable today, in addition to likely being overcooked and underseasoned. Something more akin to the infamous stewed crab that everybody hated.

This "cheesing time" sounds fantastic!

❤❤❤❤ Am I wrong or there is no chimney?

We are a lot of catfish, bass, bluegill, crapie, yardbirds (chicken) and mud dogs (pigs) growing up in Virginia. Edit: We did eat crabs in the summer if someone would jump in the truck and go get them!

Really enjoying this series :)

25,000 fish is the equivalent of 1-3 cran or 37.5 imperial gallons. Cran is predominantly used for herring. A cran is measured for unclean/unprocessed herring generally.

1:52 Is a dissolat like a distillate? Many thanks.

In Sweden there's tons of traditional dishes based on various kinds of preserved fish. Salted, dried, smoked, brine pickled and then last but not least: the notorious fermented herring (Surströmming). I'll admit that I avoid the last one. It's a very acquired taste to say the least.

Wow, this guy's got really huge hands. WTH?!

I love cod but toooo expensive

"The fancy food of today was the working man's food of yesteryear" And I'm sure if you lived close to a chocolate fountain, a glass of water would seem like a luxury. It's just a case of living close to the source that defines what's exotic on the plate.

Folks eating all that lobster is just shellfish.

I remember reading somewhere that prisoners in 18th century America started to complain about being fed Lobster all the time, and it becoming monotonous. Nowadays, you would find that unbelievable.

shrimps is bugs

My mother grew up in a small fishing village in Nova Scotia and she always said that you could tell the social status of a family by the sandwiches the kids brought to school: mutton for the shop owners children, jam for the "middle class" kids and lobster for the poorer kids. Just boiled lobster on plain dry bread, no butter, no mayo.

Fish was, and is such an important food source around the world. Likely the first harvested meat source for primitive cultures. Fish is so easy to get, often times like with salmon it comes to you, all that is needed is some sort of fish trap, or dip net and you got all the fish you need.

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My favourite accompaniment to Mackerel is Gooseberry sauce. Cuts through the delicious fattiness of the fish perfectly.

Sorry i hate fish so no.

It’s my first time I ever saw an Authentic Apple fritter!!!! I’ve only seen them in the Donut place!!!!! LOL!!!!

Clicks video-no old guy-dislike and leave

Great video

This is making me hungry, I want fish or shrimp or all that. I like these kind of subjects and great show

It always fascinated me how the meals relegated to the poor and working class are now items coveted by the wealthy.

The cod looked so good 🤤

Wow. Everyday life must have been brutal most of the time.

I knew nettles were coming: avoid scurvy, w this or white pine needles. Protein has all vitamin Bs. D from photons. Thx!

probably 1808 onions were considerably smaller! This looks like it would be especially good cooked a bit longer for more caramelization and served with potatoes and butter, going to have to try it. Can't beat the ease or price.

Even in the lemons and limes?

These videos are fascinating. I'd really be interested in learning about early "big" city living. 1800's New York City, for example.

Love eating seafood. All three of those dishes look excellent!

I haven't eaten Eel for many, many years. If I went fishing on a local river with a friend, there was a good chance that at least one hit would yield an eel. They were viewed as a pest - but one that could be disposed of in the best way. We had an old keep net just for eel, and my friend would dispatch, prepare, and cook those eel - simply fried, and eaten with bread and tomato ketchup. Low cooking at it's finest, but quite stupidly good. I have always fancied trying elvers, but they are so rare these days, I know I couldn't justify doing so.

I grew up on the Gulf Coast with a father who was an attorney. When he did work for people on the bayou, they paid him in seafood: shrimp, crab, crawdads, and big croaker sacks of oysters. When those were delivered, it was a party!

At the time we're speaking of, housemaids in England put into their contracts that the housewives were not to feed them salmon on more than 3 days a week. That is how cheap and plentiful salmon was in the 18 hundreds

several bbc shows and several beer documentaries claim quite the opposite about the strong beers in europe at the same time frame and said they were quite strong. im curious about your sources on this one, who is saying their beer was low abv and why please? not saying anyones right or wrong or being snippy, i want to get to the truth of it because its very confusing and im very curious. thanks as always townsends. your family work has enriched us all.

This one looks great 👍

also this is the definition of a scottish kipper A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak).

I would replace the water with dark ale, or porter, and use some chopped anchovies (it might be nice to add a few oysters, if one were feeling so inclined) to season the beef. I would give it, too, a good slosh of mushroom ketchup.

Great video!

also salmon and trout species occur basically everywhere fresh water occurs on earth. even arctic ocean in the form of arctic char

before you applaud their ridiculously destructive overfishing just remember the average adult sze of a lobster for example has shrunk radically, at least a few hundred perhaps thousands of fish species are endangered or totally extinct. they gorged themselves at the expense of long term sustainability.

The video sucks

In a modern bushcraft or survival situation, fishing is an excellent way to get food, if you have a large enough body of water near you. Even a small stream will have fish in it, usually. And all you need is a hook and some line. A pole can be fashioned fairly easily. And a packet of hooks and some monofilament line are small and lightweight. So it's almost a no brainer to carry these if you go out into the woods for any length of time.

Were citrus fruits widely available at that time?? I would think they would be a rich persons food. Love this channel!!

Being from Maine, shellfish was a regular weeknight meal. Lobster was (and still is when compared to other meats) cheap, and shellfish was common. Having fish such as bluefish, flounder, or haddock was a treat. I suppose I never really noticed it wasn’t normal in other parts of the country and took it for granted when I was growing up.