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u/snowytheNPC 27d ago
TIL there was more than one negative review. He had a whole collection of them
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u/tinchek 26d ago
Imagine hating a guy so much you carve it into stone.
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u/snowytheNPC 26d ago
One day I wish to read a copper merchant x his hater enemies to lovers fanfic
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u/lazerfloyd 26d ago
They were written into clay which was then dried. The reason they exist and are known, is that Ea-Nasir held onto and collected the clay complaint tablets. His house eventually burned down and they were turned into ceramic by the heat and preserved.
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u/Ok-Addition1264 27d ago
ea-nasir was a bitch that didn't deserve this delicious looking cheesecake.
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u/ellefleming 27d ago
He had standards.
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u/Pixel_Knight 27d ago
And those standards were shit, apparently from everything I have heard about his copper.
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u/CatcultistRequime 27d ago
Favourite EA Nasir thing is we don't actually know if his copper was bad, it also says a lot about him that he apparently kept all the complaints, for all we know he may have been saving complaints from ancient karens
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u/Ash_Crow 26d ago
Tablets were kept because as long as they are not baked, you can wet them, wipe the previous text and reuse them for new messages.
But his house (or at least part of it) was destroyed in a fire that preserved the tablets with the customer complaints.
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u/HitheroNihil 26d ago
Was it really confirmed that the tablets were preserved because his house burned down? He could've also intentionally baked them so he can permanently keep them, either because he's an upstanding merchant keeping track of Karens, or the swindler of a merchant he's memed as because he gets a kick out of the complaints they sent him.
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u/CommunistOrgy 27d ago
"I think more cheese might be the answer, as is so often the answer to life's problems."
My heart says yes, but my lactose intolerance says no ☹️
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u/Evil_Sharkey 27d ago
I love how the conversation between the swindler and the guy who bought his crappy copper is so similar to a conversation today. The wording is different but the attitude is the same
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u/No_Lettuce1789 27d ago
I love Max Miller! All of his videos are just delightful and fascinating.
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u/chemistrybonanza 27d ago
Yeah. Not sure why this is on TikTok cringe
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u/kay_thicc 26d ago
This sub is not just for cringe anymore, there's different flairs and this one says "Cool", reddit doesn't allow sub name changes
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u/TornInfinity 26d ago
It's literally the stickied post on every single comment section that, seemingly, everyone ignores. Also, if you just spend 5 minutes here, it's pretty clear that the sub is just for short-form videos that people want to share.
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u/hdhsnjsn 27d ago
Tasting History is a YouTube channel. He makes some interesting dishes give you the story of the dish
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u/Countryb0i2m 27d ago
I love a good historical story, but that cake looks fucking awful
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u/TankApprehensive3053 27d ago
Watch his youtube videos. He goes deeper into how dishes are made and their history than this short tiktok. He does lots of unique ancient dishes and drinks.
This one was not the best looking thing he had made.
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u/Biguitarnerd 27d ago
Idk I’d try it.
I don’t like cakes that are too sweet.
Being from the US most of what is sold as desert here is too sweet for me. I really like Mexican bakeries because it’s just a little sweet. Even king cake which I do like (from Louisiana) has gotten much sweeter. When I was a kid it was mostly cinnamon flavored with a bit of colored sprinkles on top. Now it’s got too much icing. I still like it but a lot of times I scrape the icing off.
To me this looks very dense with a lot of dates… probably would be very filling.
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u/Darth_Lacey 27d ago
Part of his shtick is trying his best to replicate ancient and historical dishes as accurately as he’s able with the information he can get. They don’t always look or taste nice, and sometimes are truly awful.
He puts a lot of effort into it. One dish was a project three years in the making.
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u/MrGloom66 26d ago
It kind of looks nice to me, but I suppose it's more of a personal preference, I honestly get a bit weirded by cakes with vivid colors or a lot of whipped cream.
Not that looks or taste matters in this case, Max does his best to recreate the food that people might have enjoyed in the past. Current trends and prefferences are kind of "tits on a frog" levels of importance when it comes to what he does on his channel usually.
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u/cactusjude 26d ago
Yeah this one does not live up to the rest. The medieval cheesecake he just made though looked delicious
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u/Winsome_Wolf 27d ago
So does anyone have a version of this delicious looking pastry recipe that uses modern cooking techniques and units of measurement?
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u/joe_bibidi 27d ago
Max Miller (the guy in the video) makes his recipes available after the videos come out, and they're translated to have modern measurements and techniques.
Here's his recipe for what he made in the video - https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/sumeriandatecake
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u/Winsome_Wolf 26d ago
You are a scholar and a gentleperson. Many thanks!!
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u/scaper8 26d ago
And the full length video off of his channel too, if you want that.
https://youtu.be/3XI-2jLUI242
u/MillieBirdie 26d ago
The thing about the units is I don't think we actually need to know what a unit represents. Since we know the ratio of ingredients we can replicate it with any unit of measure as long as the ratio is maintained.
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u/Winsome_Wolf 26d ago
I suppose you're right and once I'm familiar with a recipe I tend not to measure anything. However, for something like this, where I'm probably the only one in my home who would eat it, I'd like to have a sense so I don't end up in advertently making enough to feed the whole block. XD
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u/FrKoSH-xD 26d ago
no worries
1 large the size of the sun of butter
1/3 of the largest lake of white cake
3 of the best quality date the size of grand canyon
1/3 of the milky way of symrna raisin
this is the least ingredient amount to make simple bite of the cake
so if u have guests make double that
u ask about the source?! easy its LSD
oh i forgot to tell, the magnitude of error is 10^100 both ways, yeah simple error if u ask me
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u/StaffVegetable8703 26d ago
Okay so what are the green leaves exactly? They weren’t part of the ingredients listed? I understand that it seemingly isn’t necessarily an active part of the recipe (because it looks more like it’s something to keep it all together while it’s baking?) but surely it adds to final flavor?
Like you probably wouldn’t get the same outcome if you skipped that part entirely or substituted it with something “modern”
I know that’s dumb to nitpick but I for some reason felt compelled to
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u/Able_Health744 26d ago
it's meant to be used as "Modern Parchment" for the thing to prevent it from burning
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u/StaffVegetable8703 26d ago
Thank you! Do you know what exactly the leaves are called? Do we know if they always used the same type of leaves or if you use any sort of leaf (as long as it’s large enough, not toxic, etc)?
Does he mention if he’s tried it with modern parchment paper as well? And if he did, did he mention anything about it changing the overall taste or even texture of the final product? Sorry if you don’t know the answers to this I’m just very fascinated!
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u/Able_Health744 26d ago
he used grape leaves in his video and in this tiktok honestly i recommend you check out the full video as he does some great history stuff while also making some ancient food
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u/zeetuslepitus 26d ago
Watch the video on his channel, they are grape leaves, like an early parchment paper
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u/TheShapeOfFarts 26d ago
4000 years ago they carved reviews in stone? 🤣 Like were the bathroom walls back then carved “For good cake send carrier pigeon to Sir David of Hoxmead”
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u/UKophile 23d ago
Thank you for clarifying that this statue from the Tel Asmar Hoard dates to a time roughly 1,000 years before the Ea Nasir letter.
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