Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etc
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Published 2024-02-01
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 for the Spaceballs reference.
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In the Persian language, which is an Indo-European language, the mud is called "gel".
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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'm so glad to see you are back with the food science content.
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Thank you Adam, its 5am and im doomscrolling, you saved me! 🤣
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Love a bit of linguistics with my cooking content! Something to think about is that the PIE roots for these words don't even necessarily have to "come from" each other, you could make the case that they share the same sound symbolism where /g/ and /l/ together invoked this idea of sticking, freezing, coming together, becoming still, etc on some fundamental level. It's cool stuff!
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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
