Eating the Food of Homer's Odyssey

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  @TastingHistory · 2 months ago · pinned

  Just a reminder that there is now a channel of Tasting History marathon videos. It’s made through YouTube as a way to bring old videos back to life and to let people fall asleep to my droning voice. <a href="https://youtube.com/@tastinghistorywithmaxtopvideos?si=PMuOauonQlZLl-nb">https://youtube.com/@tastinghistorywithmaxtopvideos?si=PMuOauonQlZLl-nb</a>

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• CA

  @CantankerousDave · 2 months ago

  Of note, the only one to recognize Odysseus was his dog Argos, who had been waiting 20 years. Old, blind, and covered in fleas, he gave a wag of his tail and then died.

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• KN

  @KnightsofGaming2016 · 2 months ago

  I agree with the others before me: Tasting Mythology would be a fun series to have from time to time because of how mythology has played a role in our history.

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  @user-sh2cc5tc7v · 2 months ago (edited)

  “His cheese racks were loaded with cheeses…”<br><br>If I won the lotto, I wouldn’t tell anyone—but there would be signs.

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• DA

  @DaudROUS · 1 month ago

  Max describing how Polyphemus ate two of Odysseus&apos; men had me worried that the next thing he&apos;d say was &quot;For this recipe what you will need...&quot;

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• TH

  @theawickward2255 · 2 months ago

  One theory I&apos;ve heard is that the Illiad/Odessy&apos;s beef-centric diet was actually a mnemonic aid; these big-ass poems would be memorized and recited, so a lot of short-cuts were used to make them easier to remember, including stock phrases where similar actions in different contexts (either in different times or different poems entirely), like, say, the characters eating a meal, were given the same description every time. Poets would want as few redundant stock phrases as possible to simplify things, so eating the same food repeatedly would save the poor poet from potentially mixing up the one time their guys ate beef with the time they had mutton or venison or forgetting that the dinner scene existed. <br><br>TL;DR: Stock footage equivalents go back a long way. Roasted beef was essentially the Ancient Greek version of the Wilhelm Scream.

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• PH

  @phostetlerart · 2 months ago

  Tasting Mythology would be fun if only because mythological food is usually described like “Hestia’s raspberry pie was so good it made Perseus’s brain explode out of his mouth” and then Max would eat it and say something like “it’s alright.”

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• DR

  @dryphb · 2 months ago

  Tasting Mythology&apos;d be a fun miniseries!

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• NI

  @NinjaGidget · 2 months ago

  &quot;Sacrificing&quot; a god&apos;s own cattle to that god is a wild play for a crew that&apos;s already 5 years late to get home due to divine shenanigans.

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• JD

  @jdrvargo287 · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAvZlsKsPg8&amp;t=153">2:33</a> Hey, that&apos;s the Roman name! He&apos;s Hermes.

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• KT

  @ktaylor9095 · 2 months ago

  @TastingHistory Next, you gotta find a meal in an Agatha Christi novel, and do a Tasting Mystery episode. &nbsp;Maybe something eaten by Poirot.

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• RE

  @Reziak826 · 2 months ago

  Instructions unclear, I followed the recipe and am now a swine.

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