Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etc
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Published 2024-02-01
All Comments (21)
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Well, "Adam boiling rawhide treats" wasn't on my bingo card.
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The line "I am the pedant who corrects other pedants" is hilarious. Also, very informative video Adam!
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Easy. Gluten was the tenth glue they tried, glutamate was the glue used for his buddy, gelatin was the tenth gel, and gelato was the gel used for potato.
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Big props for conveying the Proto-Indoeuropean stuff as "might have been the origin" instead of saying "this is how they said it way back when" which is totally inaccurate. Looking at historical/prehistorical linguistics is super complicated, but as you're doing here it can be valuable at showing how modern words are related.
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Love how the dog is scared of the word "glue factory"
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"Flour glue" is a mixture of just flour and water, and it was actually a common makeshift solution for small tasks until recently in many parts of the world. I distinctly remember the Greek comedian and actor Thanassis Veggos talking about how he once ate flour glue while doing crew work on the set of a movie, because the crew got nothing else to eat.
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This video perfectly combined three of my biggest interests in life, incredible! Linguistics, biochemistry, and cooking. Excellently done, even if simplified.
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As someone who has Celiac Disease, thanks for explaining why Glutinous Rice is called what it is
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It's like 'But-' (eg Butane) being the prefix for a four carbon chain because a compound with it was found to be prevalent in butter.
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Thank you for the Spaceballs reference.
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Huh, only now has it occurued to me that Polish 'klej' and English 'Glue' are related. Oh, and yeah, 'klej' is pronounced exactly like 'clay', if you were wondering
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Thanks RaGLUsea for the knowledge
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This is the Ragusea that I know and love. Thanks Adam.
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Thank you Adam, its 5am and im doomscrolling, you saved me! 🤣
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This video made me realize that the Polish word for glue is "klej", which is pronounced exactly the same as English "clay".
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In the Persian language, which is an Indo-European language, the mud is called "gel".
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I'm so glad to see you are back with the food science content.
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This is funny how it works in other languages. In Polish: Klej (sounds like clay) is glue, and clai is "glina" - so still in the same big pot with prefixes just mixed differently.
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'I am the pedant that corrects other pedants' i aspire to this level of pettiness
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I like to think that there is a band of human history known as "the soup age" where clay pots had been invented and everyone was just really into soup. I imagine it's identified by a clear strata of fossilised spoons and conspicuous stains on cave floors
