A Historian Reacts | Why Produce Used to Suck | Sam O'Nella

hey youtube i'm mr terry a high school history teacher and welcome back for another history teacher reacts video all right today's video is from a channel favorite and that is the salmonella academy now the video we're gonna watch today is called why produce used to suck so this should be an interesting topic i think a lot of us know that the food especially produce things that we eat now and animals as well the ones we eat now are nothing like they were in their older forms they've taken a long time of human cultivation and different breeding and that's why we have the food that we have today so i'm uh excited to check this out now the original video link is down below i'm sure you're all subbed to salmonella but if you're not you're going to want to do a lot of hilarious history related content over there give it the view like subscribe and all that stuff now you don't have to have bad produce though and that brings me to today's video sponsor green chef if you've followed me over 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the time being hey don't eat those they're made of lies see listen why do fruit exist for a delicious nutritious snack for humans and animals alike to enjoy throwing him into the sun like that you're next susan how did you know my name i created you anyway as most of you pro okay this started off interesting we threw the guy into the sun she looks like a susan though right i agree so all right sam why don't delicious produce just look like that on deserted islands probably no fruit are a thing because nature figured out hey if you put a little bit of deliciousness around your seed it'll convince some idiot bird or something to carry your baby off to faraway lands right but then humans showed up and were like hey that's pretty nifty listen is it cool if we selectively breed you for thousands of years to give you horrific deformities to crank up that whole deliciousness part a couple hundred notches um yes all right cool let's take a look at bananas specifically the cavendish variety that we all know and love on the inside we got like two percent seeds 93 delectable banana meat and five percent that brown part at the bottom that your mom says is perfectly fine to eat but you still don't trust great for a snack terrible for reproducing efficiency meanwhile check out the thing on the right here that's musa acuminata one of the suspected ancestors of today's nanners what i heard of that um you like it's like at some point people were eating this one on the left right and just it was way harder it was harder i mean difficult pick out the seeds and i guess you maybe eat the stuff around and i guarantee it wasn't as good as like the banana on the right that we have today but you can adjust that much smaller and jam-packed with seeds with just enough flesh in there to make it worth some smelly primates time to crack open a yellow one with the boys here's another wild type banana musa balbisiana less sweet way starchier harder to get into hella seeds same different day really but hey if you stick that boy in the ground you've got an okay chance of making a new banana tree you bury a modern banana all you're gonna end up with is a dirty banana and not that one club in miami i mean an actual dirty banana that's because like a lot of cultivated fruit culinary bananas are so inbred and malformed that they can't produce offspring even if they wanted to so word of advice for you men out there if ever a lady points out how poorly endowed you are just show her this jpeg she'll say wow i didn't realize it was so potent and fertile you really opened my eyes thank you bananas aren't the only piece of produce to follow this pattern though not by a long shot for example take the watermelon according to monsanto everybody's favorite corporation the first evidence of human cultivation of the watermelon dates back to egypt around five thousand years ago back then they were only two inches in diameter around the size of a tennis court i always found it interesting i i like researching like where indigenous animals and food come from because a lot of times it's not what you expect you know i think a lot of people might think that most of what you eat can be grown or even comes from where you live and that's just not true at all i mean most of the the most useful animals and plants um came from eurasia right and and a lot of them from mesopotamia by the way that has the some of the most early important ones which is why civilization grew there so fast is because you had you know a food that has uh uh high calories per acre easy to farm animals to help you with such cultivation um and then of course you know i mean it's it's food it's linked to survival and reproduction so something like food is going to reproduce very fast and again continue to improve because it is directly tied with the survival of mankind the flesh was supposedly tough and bitter much like that of a tennis ball of course just as the growth of a delicious green baby takes time to see the evolution of the modern watermelon in fact even as late as the mid-1600s watermelons looked way different from what we have today as shown by this painting by giovanni stanchi notice the thicker rind the larger seeds and the weird segmentation on the inside definitely a cooler still life subject but ultimately inferior as a summertime snack yeah i mean look how hard that would be to eat like to eat the actual nutritious part you want the juicy red stuff right so you have to get out the seeds and just scoop it out and kind of eat around it and then you have the the the kind of inedible part in the middle um kind of crazy now i don't know if we'll get to it we're producing seedless watermelons and seedless fruit in general which is just crazy to think about that we've done that inside definitely a cooler still life subject but ultimately inferior as a summertime snack how about vegetables tell me do you enjoy cabbage brussels sprouts kale collard greens broccoli or cauliflower i mean i guess i like broccoli and cauliflower the rest are kind of gross though wrong all six of these vegetables are actually the same thing that means you like them all that's not how that works i'll be good anyway do you want to go to the sun sun that's great i had no idea that they came from that um those ones specifically but yeah there's you know food's like a family tree too just like animals and how they've evolved you have you know again plants that have done that branched out and different things and again highly accelerated by human innovation and and the human selective breeding of um developing these plants i'm gonna start using that class you be quiet i'm throwing you into the sun maybe that'll work these are all just cultivars of the same species brassica oloratia otherwise known as wild cabbage every part of the plant is edible to some extent but there's not much of it to go around so a bunch of different people throughout history said alright what if we just take one specific part of the plant and go insane with it and that's what they did those who bred for giant leaves got kale going for huge dense flower buds gets you broccoli juicy and gorgeous lateral leaf buds equal brussels sprouts etc speaking of segways let's check out eggplants the og eggplant was first domesticated in india or can still be found in the wild today it looks nothing like an eggplant though they actually resemble little green berries the size of grapes that doesn't look like the emoji at all and that's way less funny the only thing it seems to have in common with the classic purple eggplant is how little both of them have in common with an egg however if we add the rgb percentage values of their color and merge their shapes we do get what looks approximately like an egg so i guess that solves that mystery this whole transformation really is a testament to man's greatness though that's like starting out with a frog and selectively breeding them until you end up with grimace from mcdonald's speaking of which did you know grimace used to be evil and have four arms this is a real thing i'd like to think that when they lapped off his extra limbs all his evil energy went with him and now there's just two people stole all the cylinders scamping around the countryside waiting to pull unsuspecting kids under ball pits never to be seen that's just my mcdonald's head cannon though anyway because says weird what the heck is grimace do you get do you kids even know about the mcdonald's characters or characters they were weird dude with the hamburger head ronald mcdonald creepy clown you wouldn't want anywhere near your kids all the characters are weird whatever we were talking about next is corn or sorry maize i call it corn like a normal person exactly supposed to be called maize these would be called maize mazes obviously that's like the perfect opportunity amazing so putting the edible magical sock in it or stocking anyway i was totally expecting old corn to look like those baby corns you find in chinese food and literally nowhere else turns out those actually are just baby corns once suspected ancestor of corn is known as teo sinti which looks like this gee whiz sam that sure does look like garbage good eye billy that yeah i i believe corn is one of has one of the long i think one of the longest histories of uh human cultivation and it's also and maybe they get to it but um the most the most important food product that developed in the western hemisphere most of the good food products like i said earlier in the video that we have today like wheat developed in the eastern hemisphere so the western hemisphere didn't have nearly as much access to the good foods and animals that existed over in the east so just based off of that you would need even more human cultivation and more innovation and selective breeding to get those types of crops that are going to sustain your population and yeah corn is incredibly diverse and has a lot of dna in it and things like that like like so many lines of it um i'm not not a chemist but from what i understand yeah it's extremely complicated down to like a cellular level which i think is larger because of the the constant selective breeding and improvement upon the crop that's because it was garbage whereas modern corn has a kernel count in the hundreds teosinte only has five to twelve with each one being encased in a hard shell that's basically impossible to get into short of boiling it or chipping a tooth the fact that people decided to domesticate it in the first place makes sense once you realize that most grains are basically the same thing but honestly that just makes me wish people figured out how to turn a piece of wheat into a big chunk of whatever to gnaw on this whole thing disappointed me so much that i actually moved it to the top of my list of reasons not to visit the mayans if i ever get a time machine all right let's go to these uh reasons not to visit the mines the corn was bad yeah it was not like what we're doing today it's not the corn on the cob you get it your barbecue brutal human sacrifice sure overly complex calendar was pretty complex um probably all selfish af even their name sounds like mine scared that quetzalcoatl was real now the mayans believed in quetzalcoatl i know that was uh a major deity for um the aztecs later on um i don't want to say that the mines didn't worship what's a co-waddle but i was i know it's an aztec thing but i wasn't sure it went back that far you guys can help me on that feathered serpent god but big in the aztec empire which is um uh um thrived a lot later than the mines by centuries nonetheless as you can see human endeavor can accomplish amazing things and just as a few thousand years of selective breeding can turn this into this a few hours of learning a week can turn you into you know talented and interesting version of you and what better way to do that than with skillshare.com skillshare is an online learning community with over 22 000 classes in technology design business and more premium membership awesome let's talk about it all right so studying the development of food products is truly an important thing to understand the development of human society because it goes hand in hand i mean the reason why we have this enormous population of humans on this planet and are very advanced is because of this stuff because of agriculture and selective breeding and the human touch that has been put on this is the development of why we can have such a an advanced society right this food becomes you know healthier again this term that's kind of called calories per acre where you're farming and you can get the most calories out of the food and also a high calorie to um what do they call this calorie to to like energy burned if that makes sense for like so for for every whatever unit of energy you spend farming you make that back in extra energy that's going to come from your food right and if you have that kind of high yielding crop you are going to have more sustainable populations right and then fewer people are going to have to do farming in your community which then allows time for people to develop other things like technologies and study different types of things so education right all that comes from having a sustainable efficient diet in the system is what allows what's what created modern society today that people didn't have to spend all their time hunting and gathering or having such a high part of the population involved with that that people can pursue other interests i mean again it's one of the most integral things in the development of human history anyway so that was great to check out um hopefully you learned a lot that was great to see some more examples about where some of the crops had come from with sam's awesome spin there so hopefully you appreciate it or we're gonna throw you into the sun all right so thanks again again the original video link is down below make sure you check that out and once again thank you to today's sponsor green chef go down below into the video description so you can get that link and get your discount and get started eating some good food all right with that we'll see you next time bye [Music] you

Channel: Mr. Terry History

Views: 294,236

Keywords: react, history, food, produce

Id: hASsOxx60WU

Length: 16min 14sec (974 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021