Worldwide Food Special | Ashens

yeah around the world food special I'm so looking forward to this yes I didn't want to do it this week I want to do some retro gaming stuff then I realized retro gaming stuff doesn't have a best before date and food does such as our first stop Japan for some of this yes and that is what it is not a very slightly update I think I should be alright cuz it's dried the person who sent this in has very kindly translated it as roasted squid legs mm-hmm I do actually like squid as a general rule um tweet at is I've never like made friends with one or something but sir I'm not entirely sure hairy dried roasted squid leg that's slightly out of date is going to taste the roomies ops umami selection I seem up Sumeria something to do with squid or seafood or sex monkeys or I don't bloody know let's have a bit of a meatball oh my god it's like the whole bloody squid I've eaten this before I haven't smelled this before that really does smell not magically delicious it's got a real sort of a pong to it yen and little little suction cups mmm little bit of a cutaway there for fans of H R Giger right I'm going to nibble off a tentacle where am i how I'm gonna get for the head I don't know which is the nicest looking part I'm going to go for this bit of tentacle that bit there mmm not bad actually tastes quite squiddy as you would assume very almost a sort of generic seafood taste you know um ya know squiddy now um yeah I don't actually mind that is a bit off-putting when you see it looking like this what's the other one look like even better Zerg rush yeah that's em not the most appetizing if you think that tastes alright tastes of dried squid what do you expect don't have a problem with that do have a problem with the fact that the living room is going to smell of squid for about a million T billion years anyway next our lovely culinary agenda more Japanese stuff some of that which is hmm focus salt flavored chicken skin mm-hmm like a very basic form of KFC without the chicken mmm well should be very basic as I can't imagine how this would be nasty just sorta chicken skin with salt on it sounds fairly sensible to me glued oh god I was expecting it to be dried for some reason it's not at all oh dear oh it's very fatty is that the word gluttonous pale oh my God look at that so I sometimes escaped out of a bloody pork pie ah let's pop that there for a second well mmm a nugget of chicken skin looking very very greasy right let's eat er or the taste of whoo yeah not as marvelous M so right it's taste like very very fatty and sort of damp chicken skin really what would you expect not particularly salty I suppose that's more way of saying it's the basic flavor and you're not massively unpleasant but I wouldn't particularly go and order it from somewhere mah Japan is let us down slightly by having quite half decent tasting snacks if only we had something cheap and horrible from say I don't know Thailand coming in vibe Canada I don't really know yes it is important to Montreal that there's the answer to that one the Canadian dollar 25 from Dollarama man things are so greasy should avoid some paper towel or something bloody didn't know smack kit tuna spread I've had tuna spread before didn't quite look like that that looks like a yeah how can we put it lump of old [ __ ] flaked light tuna spread ready to eat with six crackers spoon and a napkin you can spit it into afterwards mmm right character yoga all right you've got a team we got some crackers we have a tiny little shallow spork and yes indeed a napkin marvelous and a hand less greasy that so I can open the bags later but kinda bloody bear even doubt attack it with your teeth not actually a good thing to do for going into war right spork about the handle bit crackers have a plate for this one I think there is the possibility of nastiness going everywhere god indispensable cracker packaging and here we are yeah let's move it's like a small Ritz cracker type things and nibble one seam it's like in the zone mmm it's alright tastes like a Ritz cracker but very slightly stale not sure it's there I think it's just cheaper right ensemble good dear not another thorn I am gone eat my spread presumably that just means tuna right tuna spread smack kidding yeah I think I was right how about this is going to smell magically delicious mmm-hmm I would say there's most slightly tuner in slightly generic fishy I would say this is technically made out tuna but probably more made out of just to the eyeballs and the tails what do you think what'd it say four ingredients on the back flour well as a crackers now over the tuna spread that'll be more interesting flight light tuna water water chestnuts soybean oil modified tapioca starch sugar vinegar frozen egg yolks salt xantham gum who is of course a Star Wars villain titanium dioxide that doesn't sound good mustard citric acid black pepper flavor black pepper and black pepper flavor why don't you need an artificial flavor for black pepper even especially if you're putting black pepper and that's really odd right then that's er mmm have we made any new vegetarians today I think we have let's have some of these lovely flakes mm-hmm I can get on this small bit of the crackle here and let's see what sort of joy we get out of this or head finna platinum myself yeah it's horrible Oh God oh it tastes like a cross between tuna spread and dirty seawater Oh incidentally if you're starting a bluegrass band dirty seawater is a really good name for it oh that's awful go back to Thailand via Canada yeah well on the plus side I have got something else to put on my crackers Oh God the dreaded American spray-on cheese which is something if you ever see people mentioning horrible food products Americans always jump in and say oh god that spray-on cheese we have the weird thing is they only seems to be sold in America's must be somebody in America who likes it they don't seem to warn you or feel no need to refrigerate yags it's barely food at all pasteurized cheese snack none of these is pasteurized so it won't be just a massive bacteria made with real cheese so what is it it's got real cheese in it what's the rest of it do we really want to know the whole survey labelled in cheddar and bacon flavor American flavors a bit [ __ ] generic isn't it one earth does that mean sharp cheddar flavor does does that mean more mature what flavor is this Oh Jeddah yeah that makes sense American Flair Oh American cheese like that em massively protest stuff there's not cheese at all ingredients water cheddar cheese or doesn't it weigh canola oil whey protein concentrate milk protein concentrate blur blur blur blur blur so big at it enzymes and cheese culture they squeeze in a lot of small paintings and plays and things like that it's an excellent source of calcium and so is eating chocolate right the top is gonna yeah mmm just got some thing let's get out the dried cheese from before I don't hearing me this is not something sold over here and down you only see why right how do we activate the spray thing best results remove cap hold a potato close to food press tip firmly and move slowly across one always one of the things you push to the side right I've got it oh yeah look at that mmm cheese or rific Wow I never thought I'd eat this the only time I can remember actually seeing it is in the Blues Brothers film where that guy goes you got my cheese where's boy and Elwood throws something to him well it's orange deep the orange it smells it smells of cheese out of actual cheese let's try a buy them this is what I'm dreading the most I've just eaten dried squid yeah so it has a vague hint of cheddar cheese and some that shouldn't be there or so those not that bad it's not as bad as the Americans make out the message boards 1g was also not something you would actually want to eat so swings and roundabouts I suppose no I mean it's sort of cheesy little acts that certain a sick qua that the real cheese would give it perhaps well it made out of real cheese but it's not real cheese that real cheese does not do this just in case you were wondering right that's going to one side I'm probably making a [ __ ] mess later move long time to cleanse our palates with a little drink I think inappropriate glass Oh God oh that's right Korres but that cheese was a bit biscuit inappropriate glass for we're off to Europe now with tip go 100% veggie broccoli juice in a carton imagine being the kid at school who gets that in his lunchbox and I said from Europe it's clearly not because it's got quite a horrific looking right I can the kennel Tim what Thailand is that well look at that turn at all time writing look like well back to Thailand again why has it got in it um broccoli juice makes sense there 39.5% broccoli juice Kiwi juice tomato juice grape juice apple juice orange juice pineapple juice and a little bit of green tea powder just to give it that magically delicious flavor I don't mind cooked broccoli but I don't really want broccoli juice you know I mean well it's high in fiber but here no [ __ ] is mostly broccoli juice um I was is within date yeah best before 19th of May door looks of it right let's squeeze some it into the wine glass oh it's amazing this had the contents of a corpses catheter bag look it'll spray everywhere sure though this through a bit more I'll do anyway I didn't need to put that much ended I'm not gonna drink a lot I think ah thank goodness I've got this small napkin to make everything better it smells smells lovely actually it smells like really fresh fruit juice despite the fact it's not fresh it must be that broccoli tang and I'm a god I'm really not looking forward to this one it doesn't taste anything like broccoli in fact it's nice it tastes of apple juice and the sort of other slight juice flavor that I actually can't put my finger on presumably as the broccoli doesn't taste on that now this is great ah how to disappoint an audience now that's genuinely really nice tastes nothing like broccoli juice at all I don't know that I'm not complaining that it doesn't taste anything like broccoli juice but I felt I needed to point that out oh well time for dessert everybody hey and this is not your grandma's candy fruitcake artificially flavored there's a surprise that sort of stuff we region today I know where this has come from looks like it may have been was made in China and imported by Greenbrier international we cut them a lot in chibi food stuff I think that means it's American you know VA is Virginia isn't it as American state to go I don't know I'm been there for years alright the way I say that as if they've changed all the [ __ ] states since I went there in the mid 80s yeah yeah we did away with New Hampshire and replaced it with splud Ville it's great it floats in the air you're crazy kick doesn't one it's answer English you crazy kids with your marshmallow gummy fruitcake oh god is that a fruitcake look at it it looks like that foreign cheese has just made up mold and maggots that's not that's a fruit cage oh this is gonna kill me sweets on it and there's slight marshmallow and is it just mushrooms actually a cake on intrigued by this map right yeah it feels so cakey era oh oh my god I'm ripping open an alien life-form yeah I think there's like a maybe some so take in it I can't with some baked good deer right I'm gonna bite off the bit with the green gummy on it wish me luck hmm-hmm-hmm one of us mother quite nice house its proper marshmallow as opposed to the horrible stuff we usually come across the company's nothing special the texture feels off I think you're not expecting a baked good in the middle - marshmallow rather about yeah it's not that bad i I've got to say most of the things I've eaten this time haven't been that bad some other looked quite nasty but the worst thing by far is probably that tuna paste oh well what can you finish up with how about a rabbit full of marshmallow that makes sense doesn't it strawberry artificially flavored no [ __ ] Sherlock mallow pals squeezable marshmallow so apparently there's a pink rabbit it's got a bit of a problem with its head and you can squeeze past sound of some sort of a giant growth in its head and then eat it marvellous nutrition facts nobody should eat this ever distributed by King of Prussia you have discovered is like some kind of shopping mouse or some sort of you know commercial thing so just bizarre why is it called King of Prussia right ingredients corn syrup sugar egg on killed its corn Cyril the American right that's oh yeah there's like the equivalent of this is the sweet equivalent of that cheese isn't it you know and then squeeze the pus out here bonce mmm it's like that rancid toothpaste I had that time is exactly like this they're on it mmm Bogey's and it tastes but isn't like marshmallow at all it just sort of tastes very strongly a fake strawberry flavoring hmm yeah that's not too fantastic I would not want to be feeding kids or in fact any organic life form that I don't worry we've got the other flavor which is blue I've never understood blue raspberry and I appreciate they did it in order to make it obviously different to strawberry but humans don't eat anything blue Damini got blueberries the Irish bilberry and that's all I can think of top med Irish Bilbrey I believe being the only naturally blue foodie blueberry was a crossbreed oh man when it dries crust lovely yeah well then presumably this will just taste very strongly of some sort of raspberry flavoring yeah stuff you'd use to clean out a drain mmm yep oh god that's horrible oh god I know it looks like - that tastes that tastes like a cross between raspberry build artificial raspberry and toothpaste is disgusting others that haven't won of this order take the taste away hmm Oh whatever flavoring they've used for raspberry does not fit with the goo as well as the pink guest robbery there oh dear well I think that'll do for the time being it's not actually been that bad considering am it really was the tumor spread which you know is one of the more obvious and genuine things but my god it's low quality I dunno I joked about it being all I built eyeballs and tails I think there's maybe eyeballs tails and lips I'm not entirely sure anyway enjoy your food today is whatever it will be it will be better than this to Strong's we'll have Helen all traveled contrast in post anyway look this is a public service announcement please do not send me sir strumming because I will not open it and I will certainly not eat it if you don't know what sir strumming is it's not sadly a knight of the round table it is a Swedish delicacy one of those acquired taste delicacies that means 90% of people in Sweden wouldn't go near a tin let alone eat it and I'm going to join them basically it's rotten fish and I mean really rotten fish comes in a lot of rotten fish juice the stench of which is legendary as in most people vomit at the smell of it let alone at the taste of it there's all sorts of horror stories on the internet if you look it up there's things about aircraft being evacuated after somebody opened a tin on it there's a classes of court case I believe in Germany where a chap spilled some juice from it in like the stairwell or something of the a block of flats where he lived and the landlord just evicted him immediately said oh my god what if he hadn't and threw him out and he took them to court and said you can't throw me out for that and the judge and the jury were like yeah that's nothing at all you can't evict somebody for that so they opened a tin of it in court and yeah then they decided that they could have victim for that it is that bad I'm one of the reasons I'm not doing it is because a friend of mine a couple of years ago had a tin of this given to him and it was slightly old and under pressure and so the juice off squirted out and it went in his carpet he then vomited of the smell of it repeatedly and then discovered he couldn't get out of the car pin had to have the carpet replaced along with a pair of jeans he was wearing because he got juice on him he didn't like [ __ ] then or something and so basically I think we can safely say don't send me this because I will not open it and yes I've been sent more than one bloody tin I was sent this particularly horrible example where the tin is bulging out doesn't smell this one but best before January 2014 so is just about out of dates you can see the pressure this is under presumably from gases building up due to rotten fish so I'm going to get rid of this very carefully before it literally springs a small leak and then sprays death juice everywhere so yeah don't send in I won't eat it thank you bye

Channel: ashens

Views: 2,401,246

Rating: 4.9138994 out of 5

Keywords: food, disgusting, weird, ashens, review, funny, chicken skin, broccoli juice, dried squid, marshmallow, fruit cake, granny, surstromming, tuna spread, easy cheese

Id: ibRDZaVGVWY

Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 22 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/SkaveRat]

now he'll get even more surströmming cans

[u/mattze]

It looks like the contents of a corpses catheter bag.

Spot on!

[u/Themoneymancan]

He's döömed himself tö being bömbarded with Surströmming.

[u/JDGumby]

On behalf of Canada, I apologize for the tuna spread & crackers. The name-brand versions of those kits, sold in actual supermarkets, are actually edible and may even be made of bits of the fish people aren't ashamed to admit to eating. :)

EDIT: Notice the location picture of the final item from Wikipedia. Unusual setting for "food". :P

[u/[deleted]]

As an American, I can't help but be appalled that the best we can do in the "weird food" category is spray cheese. C'mon where's our sense of innovation?

Edit: Then again, we do have these http://vimeo.com/60669594

[u/ChrisDuhFir]

Here's a picture I took, giddy from the recognition that my favorite noncheese product was receiving on Ashens' channel.

Embrace the Cheddar Froth,

-An American

[u/Intetsvar123]

For God's sake, the surströmming :( Can't people send him something that is nicer and least can't be smelled from Aberdeen, like a dead cow or something. (Don't do that. But srsly, surströmming is no joke, people).

[u/Bubba_odd]

dear ashens,

can you please send me the surströmming, i want to see how bad it is.

[u/[deleted]]

Will the Xbox One and Ps4 gameplay reviews be coming out soon?