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.
YAGM = Yet Another Garum Meme
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.
9 Comments
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 50d
Ye olde Worcestershire sauce.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 50d
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.
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 50d
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 · 3 pts · 50d
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.
lime@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 50d
i mean the recipe for garum is literally just "leave fish to rot until it's liquid".
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 45d
which.. produces a shitload of flavour..
dregan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
The hardest thing
folekaule@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
I only know this because of Max Miller's Tasting History.
dregan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
Same. I've been making that Parthian chicken about every other month since it aired though, and now I'm that monkey. So delicious.