What Aztecs Were Eating Before European Contact
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Published 2021-01-31
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All Comments (21)
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Lol what a mad man. The Aztec saw the fungus on his corn and was like “fuck it, I’m eating it anyway”.
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I love how, throughout all of time, and throughout all cultures, everyone had found fun in getting super drunk.
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Mexican cuisine still one of the best in the world, thank you ancesters
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I am proud to say I am Mexicano and hundreds of years later We still enjoy all these delicious meals and drinks!!
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Fungus: *kills the Aztecs’ corn Aztecs: “Joke’s on you, we’re into that shit”
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That green slime was "rediscovered" as spirulina, which turns out is an extreme superfood with most if not all the minerals and vitamins you need to survive as a human adult
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The spirit of the Mexican cuisine is alive in each one of the traditional Mexican cooks. I live in California USA and the number of authentic restaurants of Mexican food are growing like wildfire 😁
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This is why Mexican Food is considered top gastronomy in the world! Thank you MesoAmerica! 👏👏👏 because of you I consume Tortillas, amaranto, chocolate, Pulque, pinole, pozole, Mole and atole everyday! But the Aztecs came much later than the great MesoAmerican civilizations! Like the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs , Teotichucans and Zapotecs
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AMazing the Aztecs accomplished this massive urban society with no wheels, no screws, no metal working, and no large animals like horses or oxen. All of that was built with physical human labor.
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Imagine what the night sky would of looked like without light pollution.
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Actually pinoli are pine cone nuts! Amazing that the “poor” ate them😮 today they are very pricey and used sparingly in various recipes like pesto and desserts 😋
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It shows the importance of their culture that literally all these preparations are popular to this day. 🤗💚
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I imagined Bubba from Forrest Gump in the Tortilla list part. “Tortillas go wit everythang, you can boil em, baste em, sauté em. There’s corn tortillas, flour tortillas, cactus tuna tortillas, fat tortillas, old tortillas, cube tortillas, lemon pepper tortillas...”
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In terms of food, seems we have the Aztecs to thank for a lot of what we consume today
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You forgot two very important ingredient for the Mexican cuisine then and now; Tomato (tomatl) and chili Pepper (chili). There are plenty varieties of peppers in around Mexico.
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Best fun Fact about the Aztec language is that the word origin for "Avocado" referred to "Testicals".
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I don't think it was "tuna cactus" tortilla but rather prickly pear tortilla. In Spanish "tuna" is the name for the fruit of the cactus while the tuna fish is "atún"
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There’s a really neat restaurant near the Teotihuacán pyramids called La Gruta, that serves very traditional Aztec dishes, including ones with caterpillars and ant larvae. Definitely check it out if you’re near the ancient city, it’s just a short walk away and absolutely worth the visit.
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It's great that unlike the Victorian era the Aztecs knew how to keep clean, not afraid of water in any sort of way, everything having it's proper place with waste disposal.
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I've read articles on this topic, and the Aztecs enjoyed dishes that were as complex and multidimensional as French cuisine. They used more vegetation than meat, and layered many flavors into carefully crafted, hand-pounded sauces. They thought western cooking was too oily and lacked flavor, apparently. This is so fascinating, and although this video is quite simplistic, it does give a little window into the unique and well-developed aspect of Aztec life that has been much forgotten.
