MatPat on here? That's crazy. He's retiring soon sadly but all his channels will carry on with new hosts.

It was kinda cute to see VTH react to food theorists without knowing the origins of the channel from the goat Matpat

As the great Scottish comedian Billy Connolly said “who discovered that we could get milk from cows and what did he think he was doing at the time?” 😂😂😂

chris is making puns without even trying "truly inGRAINED"

They have one video on Style Theory called “The Great Pocket Conspiracy.” It traces the history of fashion back in time to discover why women don’t have pockets. Oddly enough, it’s why I started researching the French Revolution.

Never thought I would see VTH reacting to MatPat 😭

As a Frenchman, I am legally and morally compelled to watch this.

Matpat actually has quite a few videos relating to history, mostly on Food Theory, but he has other channels like Game Theory, Film Theory, and Style Theory, and they are really entertaining videos too. Even of you dont react to them due to not following the theme of the channel, I still heavily recommended him for casual viewing.

For specific recommendations, he has a video about the history of Coffee, and an interesting video about carrots and the food pyramid that has a lot to do with history.

The narrator is called Matpat. He runs many channels and is considered one of the classic youtubers.
He has decided to retire March 1st after over a decade of making videos.
You mightve heard of his main channel Game Theory.
He was my childhood, he was one of the first analysts/intellectual youtubers on the platform- prior to his arrival most youtube content was pretty bare bones education wise- and his started that way too. However Matpat grew significantly in a short period of time and became one of the most popular youtubers in America.
Thanks for reacting to this.
He will be missed.

Fun fact, the Roman goddess Ceres is where we get the term “cereal” from

Watched this one when Mr. Terry covered it and so glad you guys tackled this one. This is a topic near and dear to my heart because as a history grad student the role of food scarcity in history is my personal area of focus. Currently working on my final thesis on the 1601-1603 famine in Russia and its role in the evolution of serfdom and the Time of Troubles. Matpat may go a little overboard at times with his praise of bread, but he’s not wrong about just how important it (and other staples) have been significant driving factors in history.

All I'm saying is that Germany has a lot of bread and it took the whole world to take them down TWICE

As a German, i can say, Bread is life, Bread is love. Cant imagine germany without bread.

18:00 When most Latin American countries started to become independent, Spain started the three B's policy (Baile, Botella y Baraja) on the remaining colonies, which we can translate to the 3 D's (Dancing, Drinking, and a Deck of Cards), if you keep the population drunk and entertained, they won't think of revolting against you.

MatPat's Kool-Aid Man becoming the most powerful being in the Marvel Universe is still my all time favorite.

On the topic of your fudge: Have you seen the steps it takes to make chocolate? You gotta grow the fruit, you gotta harvest the beans, then you gotta let the beans ferment, then you have to roast the beans, and then you gotta deshell them, and then you have to grind them up and add them to some water or some milk and add sugar (though the earliest forms of chocolate didn't use milk or sugar). But it's a heck of a lotta steps that someone had to have figured out to produce edible chocolate. Crazy stuff.

Surprisingly the first thing to happen to bread as soon as it got in Greece was NOT get fried 😂🤣

if you didn't know this is the theorist channel he also has style theory, film theory, and most popular Game Theory! Chris, you'd probably enjoy some game theories as well!

the absolute best course (surprisingly) i took for my bachelor's in history was American economic history. it was an entirely new perspective to me and the approach clarifies our history better than traditional approaches i.e. military and political

I remember MatPat on his Game Theorists channel had a pretty interesting video covering the US presidents and which one would hypothetically be the best gamer.