Banned and Controversial Foods - Sam Onella Reaction

I don't know if this is the best video for me to be reacting to right now apologies for those of you who have been wondering where I've been at the last few days uh I have covid uh so I mentioned in my last video I did four days ago that I was sick turned out it was covid and now my kids all have it as well well my boys have it my daughter's been immune so far um so I've been pretty much laying in bed uh so I might still look a little disheveled and maybe now's not the time to be doing a video on B in controversial foods but here we are uh there are really probably two channels that I instantly get hundreds of people requesting the second they uh have a new video that comes out and samonella Academy is one of those so uh this is one of those rare occasions where I will not wait a week uh for the video to be out before I'll do a reaction a lot of other people have already done their reactions to it so I'm going to do my breakdown my commentary on it as well hopefully you have already seen the original if you haven't please make sure that you go over and support the original content creator we want him to keep making videos and do it more often so the Link's in the description if you haven't seen it definitely check it out uh just as always a warning samonella Academy is not typically a family-friendly channel so if that's important to you be warned with that in mind let's go ahead and dive into this one I'm a little nervous hey Majors so I'd like to start off with a little biology lesson when a species finds itself living on an island it can start to evolve in strange ways based on the different pressures applied by the new environment this is called Island syndrome and while it can manifest in a lot of ways the biggest driving force is often a lack of predators for example the dodo lost its ability to fly since there was nothing to flee from the saint killed a field mouse got twice as big since it no longer had to hide and with no one around to bully them the sardinians started putting maggots in their cheek meet kazum marsu literal translation rotten cheese I I said this a while back when we were doing another video that involved talking about food and things like that that think about some of the things that we eat that are really commonplace parts of our diet at some point somebody had to figure out that you could make that I use the example of my family's uh fudge recipe that has been pass down at least going back to my great great grandmother in Kentucky and I thought to myself who figured out that you could add so much sugar and so much milk and boil it for a certain amount of time and then add some peanut butter to it and a little bit of vanilla and poof you have this really amazing tasting what is basically a candy uh who figured that out who figured out that you could make popcorn who figured out that putting a paste of tomato and sugar suar and vinegar onto ground up cow that's been cooked would taste really good oh and you could throw on some pickled uh cucumbers on there as well so while some of this stuff sounds gross I get it I I get it that somebody figured out oo this isn't bad it's made by taking a perfectly good wheel of peino and letting a special type of fly lay eggs in it the fly babies then work to partially digest the cheese r ring it goopy and wet and maybe quite tasty and I'm guessing what happened was somebody left this out that happened by accident and somebody didn't realize it it happened they tasted it it was really good so then they figured out how they could recreate the experience and worm filled now cheese as a concept is already quite suspect it's pled milk that you fill with bacteria and mold and let sit for a while but cheese is safe and delicious cheese is my friend I trust cheese so my guard would be down around kazum marsu I've learned to look past to Cheese's childhood strange upbringings are what give them their character but it turns out those maggots are still alive and if you don't chew well enough they can cause anic myiasis which is a fancy term for fly larvae living in your intestines I like the fancy word better than the actual definition symptoms are similar to food poisoning except with the added psychic pain of knowing that again your bowels are full of squiggly new friends it's for this reason that kazum marsu was banned in the EU and elsewhere a black market still exists which is wild and it's not a small one in 2019 the illicit kazum marsu trade was estimated to be worth 2 to3 million EUR annually personally I would just do it prohibition style like definitely don't put these fly eggs on this Sumptuous wheel of pecky prohibition style if there's one thing we've learned from history it's that banning something is a great way to make it lucrative look at drugs look at prohibition with alcohol when something becomes illegal and there's an inherent risk involved in creating it and selling it and distributing it it becomes much more valuable you want to reduce the value of it make it legal regulate it tax it know but if you do you absolutely shouldn't keep it warm and damp for a week but although it's traditional to leave the larae alive when you eat your mag and cheese something mag and cheese I love his sense of humor it's disturbing at just the right level prefer them dead shocking in that case one puts the cheese in a sealed bag and when the maggots run out of oxygen they ride around and fling themselves all over the place this is heard as a distinct pitter patter against the walls of the bag and when the sound stops the contents are ready to eat like popcorn shark fin soup is one most of us have heard about already mostly in reference to its effect on shark populations and the wastefulness that goes into making it until recently now here's the thing I don't like seafood in general and I have a general rule when it comes to my food that if it looks like it did when it was alive I won't eat it so that covers a lot of seafood though I never looked into the nature of the dish itself I figured right the fins are just the only part of the Shark worth eating big whoop it's probably not much different from like swordfish apparently though I had it backwards shark fins aren't even meat they're made almost entirely of cartilage and collagen they are the last part we should be eating that's why it's only made into soup because without being soaked in broth it has zero flavor or nutritional value on it own now this actually makes a lot of sense because there are stories throughout history of people making things like bone broth right where you're in situations where there's a desperate lack of food a lot of times when there's a Siege going on and there's nothing else to eat they'll start eating like the leather from shoes uh or they'll boil things like bones and eat eat the broth because it's better than just straight water at least it's pulling a little bit of nutrients out of the bone their only redeeming quality is their unique mouth feel due to how stringly the collagen grows in structures called serat treia the texture has been described as somewhere between chewy and crunchy which I find describes most things actually other adjectives present on wikkipedia include Snappy gelatinous and sinu the exact sensation of eating this substance remains a mystery to me and the unintended side effect of all this research is that I now really want to try it like it's a big trade I've got to be the one that's no I don't have any desire whatsoever to ever put that in my mouth ever there is imitation shark fin soup available but I've already decided that it's not nearly as good so I've come up with a compromise to this controversy everyone on Earth gets just one bite say there's 10 bites to a fin four fins to a shark 200 million sharks die sure a necessary casualty but then we can end the practice forever all done I I he has thought this through way too much way too much you can finally rest Mr Ming come here be y Aki what that was random Aki the Aki is a fruit originally from West Africa which is most commonly associated with Jamaican Cuisine where it appears in such dishes as Aki and saltfish it's interesting to see and I paused this on a really disturbing image um how because of connections from history Jamaica obviously having connections to West Africa in part because of the slave trade that's happening how there are connections with culture same thing is true with some strange places like Scotland and Austria because they both have some Celtic Roots there and so there are similarities in Highland culture in Scotland and in the Bavarian Alps in places like Southern Germany and then of course Austria uh so this doesn't completely surprise me but all right let's hear more these alien kidneys here are called the aols and they're the only part of the fruit that's actually eaten the flavor is on the Savory side being described as kind of nutty or bean-like what makes the Aki controversial though is the effects it can cause when prepared improperly if the arrows are allowed to completely ripen they're harmless but if you eat them too early or don't thoroughly clean off all the non- Aral stuff they can cause Jamaican vomiting sickness this disease doesn't sound real it sounds like it belongs next to Eastern sweats and tangeri and Bone grindings but that's actually an official term and as for symptoms it does what it says on toxic hypoglycemic syndrome so it sounds like a situ where your body doesn't have enough sugar wow can cause vomiting and even death sudden onset vomiting so there are a lot of foods right that uh if you don't prepare them properly can cause can be very harmful or even fatal uh but prepared properly they're perfectly acceptable Foods on the tin plus maybe death while AI based products aren't outright legal in the United States they are very tightly regulated and the raw fruit itself cannot be imported so if you're American and want to try it your options are fully cooked canned aie or going to Florida where a few people grow it domestically next we have bird's nest soup this is another one that I've vaguely heard of and for years I just assume the name was a playful metaphor like ants on a log or [ __ ] on a shingle turns out nope this dish contains an actual bird nest not like a pile of Twigs like I was picturing but rather a specific type of Nest only made by certain species of swiftlets these nests are mostly made out of mucin which are so again this begs the question going back to what I said at the beginning who first tried this who said ooh bird's nest wonder how this tastes everything in history that we consume had to have been eaten by someone for the first time you know when I watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and they pull out the chilled monkey brains or the snake that they eat who first thought great idea set of proteins that among other things serve to thicken all those wonderful secretions our bodies make there's a little bit in human saliva a little bit more in mucus and in swiftlet saliva look out pal so all the swiftlet does is it finds a nice wall starts laying out fat strings of slobber which dry and eventually she's got a nice place to roost that is right up until some Gourmand says today I crave bird spit you can keep the eggs though and they then reconstitute it back into its original gelatinous texture unfortunately these nests can't enter the US since believe it or not eating bird saliva is a great way to catch bird flu and now the time has come to speak of the oron I I love I love how he's presenting all of this and I'm really really scared of how he's built up to this one the ortalon is a kind of bunting which is a sort of passerine which is a type of bird they're birds like many animals they have a long history of being eaten oh please don't tell me these are the birds that like wasn't there a movie where they like go under a a thing and they eat birds was that in billions that they did that the TV show was just fantastic by the way the French but what separates the ortalon from your average squab or pheasant is the unique way in which it is prepared and eaten they're typically caught with Nets and kept in the dark which causes them to overeat for some reason once it's about twice as fat the entire bird is then thrown into a container of Brandy alive and sealed in while this serves to marinade the creature it also drowns in the process thereby killing one bird with no Stones the orelon is then roasted plucked and presented whole to the consumer who inserts the carcass into their mouth feet first as they chew one hand continues holding the bird's head while the other picks out the larger bones this whole ritual is usually performed with a towel this is I I'm I got to check I think that was in billions yep that's exactly what they did in billions that's insane napkin over one's head there's a few explanations for the purpose of the towel some say it's just there to keep the Aromas in While others say it's there to quote shield from God's eyes the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful I'll go with that one yeah this one I'm okay with not trying actually notable fans of this dish include not joking Bill Cosby and the guy who invented the labotomy ah to be part of that so all right the guy who invented labotomy I honestly just wouldn't put anything past him Club our mission is to eat Bird's hole and then make people not remember things killing Orlons was banned across the EU in 2007 not for any ethical reason but because French people did this so much that the hey to be fair in 2007 the EU included Great Britain did it not I see the Republic of Ireland is still showing there EU in 2007 not for any ethical reason but because French people did this so much that the entire Ordon population was threatened thankfully as of 2018 their conservation status is under least concern so hopefully the French can get back to it soon anyway that's all I have for today till next time I'm samonella and thank you for watching I have questions so many questions that I don't think will ever be answered but fantastic job as always from salmonella some interesting stuff uh if you want to see some of the other videos that I've done reactions to from him I'm going to throw up some links here in just a second at the end and as I said please go and check out his channel let's support our original content creators so they keep making great content thanks for watching we'll see you again soon

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Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 25 2024