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Crumb Lore Welcome to Crumb Lore, where we uncover the fascinating history, forgotten myths, and surprising journeys behind the foods we eat every day.

Food is more than just sustenance; it’s the timeline of human civilization.

17/09/2026

The History of Tuna — The Fish Nations Went to War Over

16/09/2026

The History of Oats — The Crop Nobody Respected Until It Was Expensive

16/09/2026

🍪 The history of cookies is way stranger than it looks.

In this episode of Crumb Lore, we dig into the hidden origins of the world’s most famous cookies: from Persian test cakes and Dutch koekjes to Oreo’s copied rise, the real invention of the chocolate chip cookie, the Japanese roots of the fortune cookie, and the billion-dollar machine behind Girl Scout cookies.

What sounds like comfort food history turns out to be a story of copied ideas, stolen credit, wartime erasure, branding, and myths that survived because they were easier to sell.

Inside this video:
• where cookies actually began
• why Oreo was never the original
• how Ruth Wakefield got just $1 for a legendary recipe
• why fortune cookies are not Chinese
• how Girl Scout cookies became a corporate empire
• the marketing myths that changed food history

If you love food history, forgotten origins, and the darker side of everyday snacks, this one’s for you.

👍 Like, subscribe, and tell us in the comments: which cookie fact shocked you most?

15/09/2026

The History of Tacos — The Street Food That Conquered America

In this episode of Crumb Lore, we trace how one of America’s favorite foods evolved across thousands of years and multiple continents. You’ll see how Indigenous Mesoamerican cooks developed tortillas through nixtamalization, why the word “taco” may have started as a name for explosive charges in Mexican mines, how Lebanese immigrants helped create tacos al pastor, and how a family recipe in San Bernardino helped shape the crunchy taco empire Americans know today.

This is a story about migration, reinvention, street food, cultural exchange, fast food, food trucks, and the one folded tortilla that somehow made it all the way to space.

15/09/2026

🌮 From ancient corn dough to silver mine dynamite, from Lebanese shawarma to Taco Bell, this is the wild true history of the taco.

In this episode of Crumb Lore, we trace how one of America’s favorite foods evolved across thousands of years and multiple continents. You’ll see how Indigenous Mesoamerican cooks developed tortillas through nixtamalization, why the word “taco” may have started as a name for explosive charges in Mexican mines, how Lebanese immigrants helped create tacos al pastor, and how a family recipe in San Bernardino helped shape the crunchy taco empire Americans know today.

This is a story about migration, reinvention, street food, cultural exchange, fast food, food trucks, and the one folded tortilla that somehow made it all the way to space.

If you love food history, forgotten origins, and the messy stories behind everyday things, this one’s for you.

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💬 Comment your favorite kind of taco
👍 Like the video if you learned something new

14/09/2026

A sacred Andean seed was hailed by the UN as a solution to world hunger. Then the people who had cultivated it for 5,000 years could no longer afford to eat it.

This episode dives into quinoa’s full history: from the Inca Empire and Spanish suppression to NASA’s endorsement, the global superfood boom, and the collapse that followed. What looked like a health-food success story became a warning about export economies, monoculture, environmental damage, and indigenous communities being priced out of their own ancestral food.

If you’ve only ever seen quinoa in a grocery aisle, this story will change how you look at it.

14/09/2026

Who invented hummus? Lebanon says one thing. Israel says another. History says… it’s complicated.

In this episode of Crumb Lore, we trace hummus from wild chickpeas in the Fertile Crescent to medieval Syrian and Egyptian cookbooks, a Lebanese recipe that looks strikingly modern, Israeli industrial branding, and the bizarre Guinness World Record “hummus wars” that turned a dip into a geopolitical symbol.

This is a story about food, identity, nationalism, marketing, and why a bowl of mashed chickpeas can carry centuries of conflict.

🥣 Inside this video:
• the 10,000-year history of chickpeas
• when tahini, garlic, and lemon entered the picture
• the oldest known hummus-like recipes
• why hummus disappears from the written record for 500 years
• Lebanon’s attempt to legally claim the dish
• the giant hummus battles that followed
• why nobody can definitively prove who invented it

If you love food history, strange origin stories, and the politics hiding behind everyday dishes, this one’s for you.

Subscribe to Crumb Lore for more deep dives into the history of iconic foods.
And tell me in the comments: which country do you associate hummus with?

13/09/2026

The History of Beetroot — The Root Napoleon Turned Into Sugar

12/09/2026

The History of Truffles — The World's Most Expensive Accident

11/09/2026

The History of Hummus — The Food Every Nation Claims and None Can Prove

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