So, there's nothing dangerous about hard tack at all.  Scurvy isn't caused by what you eat, it's caused by what you don't eat.

Whoever 1st thought of eating Lamprey is one twisted individual. Ugly, ugly creatures.

Plastic in food becomes this century poison.

There is a lot of debate about how dangerous sassafras actually is, with it mostly being considered safe for human consumption in moderation. The levels that had to be used to produce cancer in animal studies were levels that would be near impossible for humans to consume for periods long enough to produce cancer. Basically you would have to eat/drink it constantly for extended periods of time for there to be any real danger of it causing issues. The reason it was banned was mostly the drug war and the fact it can be a precursor to illicit drugs.

This is a horror story. I’ve never been a fan of oysters and the warning on local menus always made me wonder how one person can be disgusted by the smell,texture and taste of something while another found it so pleasing it was worth risking their lives.

The king might've died, but he looks happy though.

This was fascinating. But, obviously, the consumption of these foods didn't end in a majority of fatalities. Or people would've immediately stopped eating these foods, and there'd be a record of mass deaths amoung the royal courts after meals and banquets. Instead, something like eel pie was gifted to royalty for over a century. It is likely most people's bodies over the centuries had adapted to nullify the hidden dangers. Except for the vulnerable few.

the lead consumption was on another level tho😮

Now think about India and Africa today, where cows and pigs roam around eating all the garbage that is dumped around everywhere.    The modern world...... yikes.

The problem is these food were not cooked properly. Also, you harvest food like swans and lamprey's from contaminated water, YEAH!! Saloop like tomatoes were mistaken as being poison. Also Saloop was used to treat VD and it was stigmatized in the 19th century. So it was gone for that reason.

What a great and interesting channel! I just found it. Thank you.

17:59 I can’t remember what channel it was on but I watched a documentary on this on actual TV years ago. It was really interesting

Lampreys, the right way to treat royalty! The guillotine was too merciful.

Wow my grandmother used to make Saloop, except we pronounced it Sooloop.  She called it arrowroot. No matter what you called it, it was a strange gel like sweet watery something that you drank hot.

4:10 i love how theyre like "basically we made this one up but it IS probable that it happened" 😂

I've often wondered if Ergot mold contributed to the mental health problems  in Dudleytown.

....AND it was UNKOSHER......( blood pudding- GAG !  )

I feel like some of these too dangerous foods can be safer to eat today thanks to better methods of cooking and heating. Of course you shouldn't eat them too often.

Game pie nowadays actually sounds exquisite.

You just broke down all the foods I saw but never knew the names of in all my childhood movies with swords and sorcery in the 80’s

This is all bullsh*t. You're assuming the king died from heavy metal poisoning from a lamprey, but he died too fast. Heavy metals kill slowly. His death seems more like food poisoning or something else entirely. Medieval rivers weren't all full of lead. They weren't all filthy. Downstream of London, the Thames was full of human waste. And some industrial chemicals, but NOTHING like would occur closer to modern times.