Context: Garum has been featured in several memes in this channel already. But in case you didn’t know, it’s a sauce made from fermented fish that Romans loved to put on all of their food.
Ye olde Worcestershire sauce.
YAGM = Yet Another Garum Meme
Submitted 2 days ago by deathmetal27@lemmy.world to historymemes@piefed.social
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
dregan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
from what i’ve heard, it mostly just tastes of salt. apparently the romans weren’t big on spices and hadn’t figured out rock salt. so i can imagine why it’s was popular.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 days ago
Have you tried east asian fish sauce? “mostly tastes of salt” might be for some low quality variants, but the decents ones are very flavorful. I mean c’mon, it’s fermented fish and the Romans had decidedly pre-modern technology, seems like you’d have to try pretty hard to make something that is not flavorful without an industrialized food factory.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 days ago
Judging by what little I know about fish sauce (roman, thai or otherwise), the process seems more similar to east asian fish sauce. Fish isn’t even really the main aroma in Worcestershire sauce.
folekaule@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I only know this because of Max Miller’s Tasting History.
dregan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Same. I’ve been making that Parthian chicken about every other month since it aired though, and now I’m that monkey. So delicious.