America BANNED these European foods. Here's Why

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  • @MarcSpark
    @MarcSpark Жыл бұрын

    If you can't sell non-food covered in food, why are fortune cookies allowed?

  • @evan

    @evan

    Жыл бұрын

    Omg

  • @annafrimpongarhin6771

    @annafrimpongarhin6771

    Жыл бұрын

    Are they sold?

  • @richardhockey8442

    @richardhockey8442

    Жыл бұрын

    perhaps they are printed on edible paper?

  • @dansattah

    @dansattah

    Жыл бұрын

    🤯😂

  • @laurie7689

    @laurie7689

    Жыл бұрын

    @@annafrimpongarhin6771 I've seen them in the international section or the cookie section of the stores before, so yes, they are sold.

  • @simonbright8784
    @simonbright8784 Жыл бұрын

    As an Irish person, I always thought the problem with the horse meat scandal in the UK and here was that horse meat was being packaged and sold as beef or other not horse meats.

  • @testosteronic

    @testosteronic

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it was the fraud, ready meals that said they were beef mince when they were actually horse

  • @dansattah

    @dansattah

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, same with that frozen lasagna scandal we had in Germany, even though some regional delicacies are traditionally made from horsemeat, especially in Southern Germany.

  • @shadebug

    @shadebug

    Жыл бұрын

    I just liked how it was “there’s horse meat in ready meals” *collective shock* “There’s horse meat in findus ready meals” “Oh, yeah, that tracks”

  • @eleanorlyndon865

    @eleanorlyndon865

    Жыл бұрын

    That is what it was.

  • @Saavik256

    @Saavik256

    Жыл бұрын

    The frozen meat scandal was because there was no paper trail of where said meat came from. Horses bred for human consumption have certain restrictions when it comes to medications that can be used. There was no provenance paperwork, and that is why it was shady as f-word.

  • @lite6384
    @lite6384 Жыл бұрын

    The tesco horse meat thing was because tesco labelled them as beef, outright lying to buyers, when there was a meat shortage. That pissed everyone off more than it being horse.

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah, we had that in europe too a couple of years ago. I think the product in itself was ok only it contained horse meat from the balkan countries, wich wasnt mentioned. I think it is proper and ethical policy to mention anything that is in your nutritional product

  • @sallyomahony1108

    @sallyomahony1108

    Жыл бұрын

    I don’t think it was Tesco or the other shops mislabelling the horse meat, it was their suppliers. My daughter works for a transport firm and one of their clients was recently closed down for the same thing. Several of the drivers were interviewed by the police to see what they knew.

  • @gentlechaos5911

    @gentlechaos5911

    5 ай бұрын

    I feel like getting mad over horses being slaughtered is hypocritical. What's the difference between horses and cows? Horses and pigs? Pretty sure pigs are more intelligent than horses, so why is it fine to eat them and not horses?

  • @Swampy-ci3np

    @Swampy-ci3np

    3 ай бұрын

    @@gentlechaos5911 horses were a pet animal in the US and much of Europe, there was exceptions, historically they made bad choice for meat because of them being work animals. essentially an animal people commonly have as a pet or see as a pet animal. most people see pets as sort of extended family member. I mean honestly better then most of the ones you have, blood of the convent being thicker the water of womb.

  • @jamessmithson-br7rm

    @jamessmithson-br7rm

    8 күн бұрын

    True… I wouldn’t mind eating horse if you told me it was horse

  • @enxlifestyle
    @enxlifestyle Жыл бұрын

    The thing with the horse meat in the UK was more about it a) not being included in the ingredients list, b) it not being what it was supposed to be (which is why it wasn't included in the ingredients list, because it was disguised as other meats), and c) being potentially contaminated with drugs not intended to be in human food. Of course some people were sad about the idea of eating horses too, but that's waaaaay down the list of concerns, obviously food safety and proper ingredient tracking was far more important. Random meats from questionable sources without guarantees of fitness for human consumption disguised/sold as something entirely different could be quite dangerous.

  • @noahluppe

    @noahluppe

    Жыл бұрын

    exactly. I have eaten horse meat in italy (where you can get it in the supermarket, not only specialized butchers) but still don't want relabeled and not tracked horse meat in my beef burger. I also do not want untracked beef in my beef burger.

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@noahluppewho wants improperly labeled food? One of the worst things is going to eat or drink something and the flavor is not what you expect at all due to it being weong.

  • @DustWolphy

    @DustWolphy

    Жыл бұрын

    Horse meat is delicious. It's like beef but with less fat and more flavor.

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DustWolphy again I wouldn't mind tryjng it, but 1. I wanna know im about to eat horse and 2. I don't want dangerous illegal drugs in any food I consume.

  • @rlindsay-kipp6239

    @rlindsay-kipp6239

    Жыл бұрын

    I love the interview of the old guy that loved Findus lasagne. He eats it every day. His whole freezer is filled with it. But since the horsemeat scandal he will never eat it again. Dude it's your favourite food you clearly like horse meat try and find us the horse meat version I'll make you a dinner

  • @LeadTrumpet1
    @LeadTrumpet1 Жыл бұрын

    The maple producing states have strict regulations on what can be called maple syrup. It has to be 100% maple syrup to legally be called maple syrup. Vermont sued McDonalds over this and that’s why it’s called Hotcake Syrup. The syrup provided at Cracker Barrel is actually maple syrup. Comes from Vermont.

  • @nbartlett6538

    @nbartlett6538

    Жыл бұрын

    And yet in America you can see Californian sparkling white wines labelled as "champagne" 🙄

  • @misterkite

    @misterkite

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nbartlett6538 Duh, that's a french law.. why would it apply to the US?

  • @nbartlett6538

    @nbartlett6538

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@misterkite Duh, because hypocritical American businesses only care about correct food labelling when it's their own products affected. (BTW it's not just a French law).

  • @misterkite

    @misterkite

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nbartlett6538 Meh, it's as stupid as saying that cheddar cheese can only be called cheddar cheese if it comes from Cheddar, England. Or Buffalo Wings can't be called Buffalo Wings unless they were made in Buffalo New York.

  • @cynicaloutlook

    @cynicaloutlook

    Жыл бұрын

    @@misterkite What Americans call Cheddar cheese isn't Cheddar cheese (it looks more like Red Leicester to me, which has a completely taste and texture)

  • @sphhyn
    @sphhyn Жыл бұрын

    It’s also illegal to produce Foie Gras in Germany so these rules don’t always apply EU wide. The import is allowed though. Very interesting and entertaining video ☺️

  • @ThePapaja1996

    @ThePapaja1996

    Жыл бұрын

    illegal in sweden to

  • @alexandervlaescu9901

    @alexandervlaescu9901

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember watching a video the other day of how a Spanish farmer traditionally raised geese for foie gras. The geese were coming to his farm on their own (they would migrate there every year). He would feed them high energy feed and acorns in order to fatten them up. During the whole process that farmer wasn't forcing the geese to do anything. On a certain night when the geese have grown enough and before they would migrate again he would harvest them. Banning his foie gras from being traded doesn't seem that smart. So what I want to say is that banning a certain product in 9/10 cases is quite idiotic. It is infinitely better to set up a regulated market aiming for the best possible way to produce said product than outright banning it.

  • @sphhyn

    @sphhyn

    Жыл бұрын

    I should specify. In Germany it is illegal to stuff the geese forcefully. If you could produce it without stuffing geese it world be legal. But this only applies to German farmers. The import is legal no matter how it is produced in the other country.

  • @WhiteRussianBC

    @WhiteRussianBC

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alexandervlaescu9901 Ok, but that's typically not how foie gras is produced. Typically it's made from geese in captivity using gavage (force-feeding). The whole point of foie gras is to give the geese a fatty liver, which is a disease (it's called NAFLD in humans). So it's literally impossible to produce foie gras without intentionally making animals sick. I don't see how you avoid that with regulation. I also don't see the point of regulating this tiny market, because less than 1% of people can afford to eat foie gras on a regular basis. Why should we spend our political resources trying to regulate rich people food, when poor people are struggling to afford any food at all?

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    producing no, eating yes...leave the dirty work to the French..!

  • @skrcmama
    @skrcmama Жыл бұрын

    As a Canadian that recently watched a video of an American trying foreign treats for the first time and she legit just tried going at the kinder egg whole and choked on the toy container inside 😅🤦‍♀️ I was like so it’s really true 🤣 I really hope it was fake but it didn’t seem like it lol

  • @mariateresamondragon5850

    @mariateresamondragon5850

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, if you have never encountered a foreign object in the middle of your candy, you aren't going to be expecting it, so of course you might choke on it.

  • @hilpi75

    @hilpi75

    Жыл бұрын

    Kinder Eggs aren't really small so who the heck tosses the whole thing into their mouth?? Also as soon as you handle the Kinder Egg wrapped or unwrapped you'd have to be an absolute moron not to realize that there is something inside of it. Sell them everywhere and rename them Darwin Eggs I guess 🤷‍♂️😂😂

  • @skrcmama

    @skrcmama

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hilpi75 right 😂

  • @skrcmama

    @skrcmama

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mariateresamondragon5850 well I think trying to one bite something the size of a jawbreaker may also be an issue 🤷‍♀️ but I assumed they have bitten into large foods before too

  • @skrcmama

    @skrcmama

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mariateresamondragon5850 toddlers don’t have experience with that either yet they all seem to grasp the concept of not choking on a kinder egg surprise here 🤷‍♀️😂

  • @mikimik88
    @mikimik88 Жыл бұрын

    Italian guy here, that kind of cheese was produced and consumed not only in Sardinia but in other Italian regions too. For example I'm from Apulia and my grandfather used to eat it (he says it's actually good), but it's called 'Formaggio coi vermi', literally 'cheese with worms'. Sometimes you can still find it and buy it, but I've never eaten it.

  • @iacomary

    @iacomary

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah but it's sold "sottobanco", it's illegal here too, not illegal to produce but to sell it. At least that's what I found out reading stuff about it. In my region you can't buy it at least

  • @Avalk

    @Avalk

    Жыл бұрын

    Be prepared to have some grappa after you had it, if you ever have it: that thing is pretty heavy on your stomach ( although delicious)

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iacomary ah, it stays in the family and among friends then. A real traditional product!!!

  • @TheOdsd1977

    @TheOdsd1977

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't know an area of Italy where it's called as you say... It is called "Casu Marzu", literally "rotten cheese". WTF?

  • @mikimik88

    @mikimik88

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheOdsd1977 I mean, if you don't know about it doesn't mean it isn't real lol

  • @robhardingpoetry
    @robhardingpoetry Жыл бұрын

    Tonka beans being dangerous feels competitive to almonds or nutmeg being ‘dangerous’ right? Like sure, if you have ‘too much’. But that’s literally what too much means Also, with the kinder egg thing, does that mean they can’t sell packaged fruit chunks with a spoon in the packaging for example?

  • @colleenmarin8907

    @colleenmarin8907

    Жыл бұрын

    They attach the spoon to the top of the lid or between the lid and the seal, making the inedible thing separate from the edible part

  • @LiqdPT

    @LiqdPT

    Жыл бұрын

    They can't sell food with inedible stuff contained inside the food.

  • @robhardingpoetry

    @robhardingpoetry

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LiqdPT this was why I was questioning. Colleen answered my specific question which I guess is away to get round a law that, in fairness, is there to protect people.

  • @deplorible753

    @deplorible753

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm not using a sticky spoon

  • @LiqdPT

    @LiqdPT

    Жыл бұрын

    @@robhardingpoetry no, in theory if it was floating in the chunks it'd be fine. It's not ENCASED in food that you might put whole in your mouth. There are toys inside boxes of cereal and cracker jacks (though, the toy is in a plastic bag to keep it clean and probably large enough to be noticed). With Kinder Eggs the issue is that the toy is inside the food, not floating around with chunks of food.

  • @eshasunrise
    @eshasunrise Жыл бұрын

    So fun fact: the Kinder Egg and Wonder Ball lasted until 1997 in the states. The reason is because Kinder had already established that the toys were not mixed into the food itself, as the chocolates are hollow and clearly advertise the toy inside. It wasn't until the Hershey Company sued them that they were forced from the states. Turns out, Hershey was pushing to be the primary chocolate provider in the states, so it capitalized on the fact that both the Kinder Egg and Nestle's Wonder Ball had plastic objects inside, suggesting the risk of a choking hazard. This worked, and had the unintended side-effect of setting precedent to ban toys from cereal boxes as well, which combined with the cost of licensing toys and complaints from parents having their kids suggest cereal exclusively for the toy, was enough to have the idea scrapped preemptively.

  • @Cheepchipsable

    @Cheepchipsable

    9 ай бұрын

    This seems truer to me. The law he cited meant food items with the non-nutritional thing mixed with the edible portion, but in Kinders you can eat the chocolate and not the toy. I was going to write they just needed better lawyers to argue the case, but it seems a lot of US lawmakers are so stupid it's scary. I was watching a Right to Repair video where a senator was convinced by an Apple lobbyist that replacing a single wire in an Apple product meant the device was no longer an Apple device...

  • @blackforge1374
    @blackforge1374 Жыл бұрын

    The USDA is not an organization whose aim is to improve US food standards. Their job is to ensure that top-level food distributors are happy, just like the FDA. Their guidelines are seldom based on health or nutrition.

  • @sunofpeter2

    @sunofpeter2

    Жыл бұрын

    They let them posion us for the sake of the dollar

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    ah there s some useful information!

  • @haroondaman7162

    @haroondaman7162

    Жыл бұрын

    People out here taking there advice,. Remember the WHO told everyone to not go outside because they might get a cold?

  • @DanDanDoe

    @DanDanDoe

    Жыл бұрын

    @@haroondaman7162When did the WHO do that? Or do you mean during the recent covid pandemic that killed a whole bunch of people and left many with long-lasting health problems? Yeah that wasn’t a common cold.

  • @soapghostroach

    @soapghostroach

    Жыл бұрын

    @@haroondaman7162 The USDA isn't the same as the WHO, a cold isn't the same as covid if that is what you are getting at and in that case you are not the same as a smart person.

  • @marmotarchivist
    @marmotarchivist Жыл бұрын

    The moment he said Sardinia, I thought: “Maggot Cheese”.

  • @Parabueto
    @Parabueto Жыл бұрын

    I used to work in microbial safety testing in a small lab in the UK and about half of the things we were testing were various dairy products. Any dairies that used unpasteurised milk would send a sample from a batch for us to test before using it in produciton as well. They were actually the most stressful to get in because to be certified legally you have to culture a full 25g for at least two different tests which use reagents which can inhibit the growth of the others, so they need to send at least 75g for a single round of tests. Then you get people who've sent in a single core weighing something like 15g. Try telling a farmer who runs a business with a turnover approaching ten million a year who has product that now has a fairly limited shelf life because he's cracked it that you can't certify his product because he hasn't sent enough and the results are going to be delayed a week. That sure was fun on a near weekly basis.

  • @fuglbird

    @fuglbird

    10 ай бұрын

    Stilton and Roquefort. YES please!

  • @Mawyman2316

    @Mawyman2316

    10 ай бұрын

    That should be a one off, the testing labs should be giving this info to their customers.

  • @Parabueto

    @Parabueto

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Mawyman2316 It happened regularly with the same customers. I have no idea why. Honestly though at the end of the day it wasn't my problem. They weren't legally allowed to sell their products without the safety certification that my lab provided and I wasnt going to run the tests unless they gave us what we needed.

  • @Cheepchipsable

    @Cheepchipsable

    9 ай бұрын

    LOL, how do the manage to spare 15g from the thousands of litres they would produce? 😆

  • @laulau194
    @laulau194 Жыл бұрын

    Having once encountered maggoty cheese (bad piece of brie on a camping trip with friends), our response was more scream and hurl it from the tent than 'hmm, wonder if it still tastes good'

  • @thescrewfly

    @thescrewfly

    Жыл бұрын

    First you have to experience many centuries of extreme poverty, like Sardinia, then you won't throw food away for any reason.

  • @XLightChanX

    @XLightChanX

    Жыл бұрын

    extra protein

  • @cat_city2009

    @cat_city2009

    Жыл бұрын

    You aren't a starving Medieval Sardinian peasant.

  • @All-Outta-Bubblegum

    @All-Outta-Bubblegum

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thescrewfly once it has maggots in it, it is no longer food.

  • @hesky10

    @hesky10

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@thescrewflythat's how haggis was created essentially, just chuck in everything you have left and see what it tastes like

  • @antonliverpool1
    @antonliverpool1 Жыл бұрын

    If I decided to move from Europe to the US, I could probably deal with most things. Not having easy access to European cheese though would probably tip me over the edge. Having a cheese counter is such a familiar part of food shopping nowadays.

  • @turtlescanfly7

    @turtlescanfly7

    Жыл бұрын

    A lot of grocery stores have a section with the good cheeses, usually near the deli area whereas the low quality cheese is the regular dairy aisle. But we do have nicer grocery stores that definitely have cheese counters like Whole Foods. I live in California though so not sure how common this is in other states

  • @MPM6785ChitChat

    @MPM6785ChitChat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@turtlescanfly7 Yes definitely California it's easier - undoubtedly assisted over the decades by the wine industry. Can find goat, sheep, ewe cheeses, French patés, cured meats - Iberico sausages etc.

  • @spaceowl5957

    @spaceowl5957

    Жыл бұрын

    I sowas an exchange student in the US and some of the stores had wiles with European cheese, it was just very expensive, but available. Also once I found the sliced cheese section at target (next to the frozen pizzas for some reason) I was quite happy. I really liked the sliced cheeses like “Pepper Jack”. I think they taste of the same quality as the sliced cheeses in Europe and they have some interesting flavones that you can’t find in Europe

  • @bcaye

    @bcaye

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@turtlescanfly7, I live in a medium size town in Missouri. The stores have good cheese, a surprising amount made locally. There are also import stores that carry food from all over, including excellent imported cheeses.

  • @dfuher968

    @dfuher968

    Жыл бұрын

    Not just the cheese. What Americans call bread is barely related to actual bread.

  • @earendil02
    @earendil02 Жыл бұрын

    The "small" Italian island is the second biggest in the mediterranean sea (after Sicily) and the 48th biggest in the world, bigger than any US island 😅

  • @UglyBabyFunny

    @UglyBabyFunny

    Жыл бұрын

    someone's insecure about their itty bitty tic-tac island

  • @nicoeggink7956

    @nicoeggink7956

    Жыл бұрын

    😂I had the same thought - what “small” island?

  • @TheFren

    @TheFren

    11 ай бұрын

    I recently saw another video from an US KZreadr who called Cyprus "a small island" too 🙈

  • @daly9794

    @daly9794

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@TheFrenCyprus is pretty small even for European standards.

  • @makatrull4359

    @makatrull4359

    3 ай бұрын

    @@daly9794 It's small for a country. It's actually the 3rd largest Mediterranean island.

  • @riverstein7251
    @riverstein7251 Жыл бұрын

    I had no idea what tonka beans were until you mentioned it, but the flavor profile you described makes it sound like a really good addition to most hot beverages or even a tea in its own right. Black tea with tonka beans sounds delightful

  • @francesatty7022

    @francesatty7022

    Жыл бұрын

    I've only seen tonka mentioned on the ingredients in perfumes

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    You can buy them in the US easily. They denature the coumarin. I didn't know either and definitely am gonna get some for baking.

  • @joshuamcdonald643
    @joshuamcdonald643 Жыл бұрын

    I tried Casu martzu cheese last year whilst on a holiday in Sardinia, it is difficult to find on the island even if you want to try it, but I managed to stumble across it at a family style home restaurant near where I was staying. It likely being my only chance to ever try it, I gave it a go. For context the 'maggots' within it are tiny and are mostly removed before it is served. The cheese is made creamier and softer as a result, but it is incredibly strong in flavour, only a few small bites is enough for most. I would recommend giving it a try if you're ever lucky enough to get an opportunity to try it though.

  • @MatsYoo

    @MatsYoo

    Жыл бұрын

    If you cant eat more than few bites bcs its that dusgusting whats the point, eat it before it rots😂

  • @Muiuiuky

    @Muiuiuky

    Жыл бұрын

    It's not that it's disgusting, but the natural flavour of the cheese is intensified and has a really strong spicy note

  • @TheFren

    @TheFren

    11 ай бұрын

    There is a cheese in a single village in Germany called Milbenkäse where they have tiny mites in the cheese. Afaik it can't be transported though. So Sardinia is not alone in this. But maggots are really beyond my capacity...

  • @-j5t-893
    @-j5t-893 Жыл бұрын

    IIRC the Horse meat 'scandal' came down to a certain supplier or abattoir somewhere in central Europe supplying a number of European food manufacturers with beef contaminated by untraced horse meat. The supermarkets copped for a lot of the flak but ultimately they were being misled. Horse is fine to eat but any untraced meat, especially as in this case that which was not intended for human consumption is a massive issue, hence the 'scandal'.

  • @treefrog1018
    @treefrog1018 Жыл бұрын

    I live in one of the US states that allow raw milk. I didn't like milk much until I tasted raw. 😋 About a decade ago, there was a threat that raw milk would be banned so one day, upon picking up my family's raw milk from a private vendor gave me their plan how to get us raw milk if it becomes illegal to sell. 😆I was young and felt so mischievous having this conversation with our vendor. Lol.

  • @gigglesmurf2004

    @gigglesmurf2004

    Жыл бұрын

    Pennsylvania? It is legal there. I didn’t know it was illegal to bring it across state lines 🫢

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it shouldn't be illegal but people shold be aware of all the risks. Tbh it is how I feel about a lot of drugs, too, and many other things. If it isn't hurting anyone else and the person taking the risk knows the risks what is the issue?

  • @Void_Creature4

    @Void_Creature4

    Жыл бұрын

    What the fuck is non row milk then?

  • @MsLilly200

    @MsLilly200

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Void_Creature4 Non raw is pasteurized. Aka cooked at low temperature to kill all germs and extend shelf life. (Iirc it's like 65 C / 150 F for like an hour.)

  • @Void_Creature4

    @Void_Creature4

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MsLilly200 thanks

  • @dizuko_
    @dizuko_ Жыл бұрын

    Talking about the horse meat in Tesco, my biggest issue is the lack of communication. I'll eat a horse burger, just dont tell me its beef 🤣 EDIT: Kinder chocolate is the best, I'm nearly 30 and I will still get a kinder bar from the shop

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    Also apparently there were concerns some of that meat generally might not have been safe for humans, too. Forget what animal it is, people didn't want to be poisoned. 😢

  • @DrethenHyena
    @DrethenHyena Жыл бұрын

    The "Kinder egg / non-edibles inside food" rule feels really funny to me. Especially given how the Kinder surprise is fine becuase its immediately adjacent to the goop. I guess this is also how cereal companies got away with toys inside cereal boxes too?

  • @n0body550

    @n0body550

    Жыл бұрын

    You got to remember fortune cookies.

  • @ripF5C

    @ripF5C

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@n0body550 the paper in fortune cookies is considered food grade rice paper so nope

  • @cgmason7568

    @cgmason7568

    Жыл бұрын

    But toys in cereal aren't really "in" cereal like the kinder surprise toys are

  • @LordElpme

    @LordElpme

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ripF5C or at least they say it's food grade rice paper

  • @nikolay9584

    @nikolay9584

    Жыл бұрын

    This rule is obviously valid for peach or plum-like food. They should either eat it whole or sell pealed.

  • @adhillA97
    @adhillA97 Жыл бұрын

    The only thing you didn't discuss in the Tonka beans section is what the biological half life of coumarin is. I mean it's all well and good if the limit is 2400 dishes a day or a week, but if it stays in your body on the order of months or years that's a lot more significant.

  • @evan

    @evan

    Жыл бұрын

    Good point! I also didn’t bring up Tonka beans are used for fragrance too

  • @adhillA97

    @adhillA97

    Жыл бұрын

    Presumably using them for fragrance is a bit less deadly though...

  • @jwb52z9

    @jwb52z9

    Жыл бұрын

    @@evan Fragrances can get away with things like that because the way the body absorbs and metabolizes things directly through the skin is different than having something introduced into the body through the digestive tract.

  • @seraphina985

    @seraphina985

    Жыл бұрын

    From what I can see it would appear to be in the region of 1-2 hours so yeah you would need to introduce the entire dose rapidly. I suspect that exploding from the extreme pressure all that food would necessarily need to be under to compress it into ones stomach in order to pull this off might get you first though.

  • @janebaker966

    @janebaker966

    Жыл бұрын

    We all die some day anyway. Why worry.

  • @molybdomancer195
    @molybdomancer195 Жыл бұрын

    I lived in Tokyo as a child in the 1970s. My parents belonged to a St Andrews society as my dad was Scottish. The society tried to fly a haggis in for St Andrew’s day but it was confiscated by Japanese customs because it fell foul of their rules too. Not sure what specifically though.

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes. It has to be either sterilized or no lungs. Same reason as US. I mean I get it and agree, we need to limit things, esp spongiforms and prion diseases from spreading as much as we possibly can. It is scary.

  • @TheOdsd1977

    @TheOdsd1977

    Жыл бұрын

    In Japan, the introduction of animal organs has always been prohibited.

  • @yuuri9064

    @yuuri9064

    Жыл бұрын

    You can't really bring meat into the country so I'm not surprised

  • @benlime1235
    @benlime1235 Жыл бұрын

    There were two pretty good reasons for the horse meat scandal being a scandal - firstly, in a lot of cases it wasn't on the labels, which is a serious matter because that could mean any number of other (possibly dangerous) things could also be in the food and not included on the label. Secondly, horses that are not intended to be in the human food chain are given antibiotics and other drugs that aren't supposed to be ingested by humans. There's nothing wrong with eating horse meat, as long as it's pretty clearly shown on the label and the horses were raised with that intention.

  • @paddenstoel95

    @paddenstoel95

    8 ай бұрын

    Yep, dutchy here and for the longest time horse meat was a delicatess in stew for some regions in the country. Great stuff.

  • @solla9486
    @solla9486 Жыл бұрын

    Regarding Foie Gras there's actually a Spanish farmer named Eduardo Sousa who produces Foie Gras from wild geese without force-feeding them, Business insider did a video on him, it's pretty interesting.

  • @tinapetrovicz9741

    @tinapetrovicz9741

    Жыл бұрын

    In Canada it is illegal to force feed geese, but we have foie gras. In my township we have a duck and goose farmer, whose wife is a chef, and they make excellent foie gras. Personally I think it is because the treat their animals so well. It is totally possible to have humane fois gras.

  • @lucal2067
    @lucal2067 Жыл бұрын

    As an Italian I have to say that casu marsu isn’t available anywhere else in italy, it’s allowed to survive in sardina only for cultural preservation. We on the mainland are safe from rotten cheese 😂 I believe that somewhere else in the world there are other kinds of cheese that have live mites instead of maggots, at least we are not unique in having a cheese that moves…

  • @eattherich9215

    @eattherich9215

    Жыл бұрын

    '... cheese that moves…' 😂😂😂

  • @johannabarry4672

    @johannabarry4672

    Жыл бұрын

    Cheddar used to have maggots in it. The more the merrier. Back in the 18th C. Not sure when they stopped it.

  • @TheFren

    @TheFren

    11 ай бұрын

    @mit cheese: yes, central Germany, "Milbenkäse"

  • @huwfylt
    @huwfylt Жыл бұрын

    I grew up drinking raw milk from my neighbor's farm. I remember the first time I had pasteurised milk on a camping trip, I thought it tasted really weird. Where I'm from in the US it's fully legal, but now I'm in Scotland where it's not legal :(

  • @ericdpeerik3928

    @ericdpeerik3928

    Жыл бұрын

    You need to make friends with a farmer. They will sell you off some raw milk for a little price. 100% they're drinking raw milk themselves. In my country, we can get raw milk, but also farm to table, due to the wonders of the interwebs.

  • @lotusflower474
    @lotusflower474 Жыл бұрын

    Apparently my great grandfather loved old mouldy cheese with maggots in. The maggots tasted like the stinky cheese too, so I’m told…which leads me to conclude he ate the maggots with the cheese. Lovely. But then he was a colourful guy. He survived the trenches at the Battle of the Somme alongside his best mate, then got sent to Ireland with his best mate only for his mate to be murdered as part of a honey trap. He also went to prison for throwing a debt collector out of a closed window. So I guess a preference for maggot cheese was just part of being him.

  • @ericdpeerik3928

    @ericdpeerik3928

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah, your grandfather was a black and tan. Don't tell this story around Irish people 😉 My great grandfather was of that era, but he went MIA on the last day of the great war.

  • @FutureHH

    @FutureHH

    10 ай бұрын

    how that cheese were called? how is it named?

  • @ericdpeerik3928

    @ericdpeerik3928

    10 ай бұрын

    @@FutureHH it's generally called something like casu martzu. It's basically pecorino gone bad. The name does vary a little.

  • @FutureHH

    @FutureHH

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ericdpeerik3928 i thought it was some english cheese in the like of cazu martzu beacuse you were talking about black and tan and ireland

  • @ericdpeerik3928

    @ericdpeerik3928

    10 ай бұрын

    @@FutureHH I think the whole story is the origin of where he got in contact with the cheese, the trenches at the Somme. I'm not aware of an English version, but never say never.

  • @JMM33RanMA
    @JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

    My dear Evan, I had forgotten my glasses and picked up what I thought was a wedge of Brie at the local market [believe it or not in the US]. Someone had put this Alsatian abomination in the wrong place. I am told that the taste is amazing, but the stench was so off-putting that I couldn't get even a small amount close enough to my mouth to taste it. It so happened that I had some French students, so I brought it to school an offered it to them. Their reaction was, "It may be French, but it smells like "merde" and we won't eat it."

  • @flopunkt3665

    @flopunkt3665

    Жыл бұрын

    Isn't French cheese supposed to be smelly in order to taste good?

  • @tigriscallidus4477

    @tigriscallidus4477

    Жыл бұрын

    @@flopunkt3665 only some like limbourger

  • @noahluppe

    @noahluppe

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tigriscallidus4477 did you just call limbourg french?

  • @tigriscallidus4477

    @tigriscallidus4477

    Жыл бұрын

    @@noahluppe no, sorry, I expressed myself badly. Its judt whrn people speak about french cheese they ofte mean the soft cheese (like camembert etc.) And from these kind of cheese not all smell a lot. Also I thought there was a famous version of limbourger from feance, but its actually from belgium. (In europe a lot of cheese type coming from one place are made in ithet countries as well.) I guess there would have been a better french example (because there are also some cheese which smell there) but I dont have a name.

  • @ausoleil8269

    @ausoleil8269

    Жыл бұрын

    @@flopunkt3665 Some do, some don't. And even when smelly, it must be the appropriate kind of smelly.

  • @doremiancleff1508
    @doremiancleff1508 Жыл бұрын

    If a kinder egg banned according to that law, shouldnt any form of a lolipop also be banned, since it a stick surrounded by a candy. What about corndogs?

  • @eleanorlyndon865

    @eleanorlyndon865

    Жыл бұрын

    *puts fingers to her lips* shhh they might hear you!

  • @ianmitchell750

    @ianmitchell750

    Жыл бұрын

    No, cause it sticks out and is visible. That’s how “wowzee” (a hollow chocolate with a toy inside, similar to kinder) is allowed to be sold also, because there is a strip of visible plastic.

  • @ystacalden

    @ystacalden

    Жыл бұрын

    So you're saying if they put the toy capsule on a stick before putting it in the egg, Kinder Surprise lollipops would be fine?

  • @ThePapaja1996

    @ThePapaja1996

    Жыл бұрын

    when they not need to be there, a lolipop do need a stick if there is a big one.

  • @ianmitchell750

    @ianmitchell750

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ystacalden yeah, or even just not completely cover the capsule, just like a little bit sticking out

  • @sarahl500
    @sarahl500 Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking 'fair enough" to the banning raw milk until you said that means they can't have camembert 😱 I wouldn't drink raw milk personally, don't think its worth the risk. But i couldn't be without nice cheese or clotted cream 😂

  • @DeadDancers

    @DeadDancers

    Жыл бұрын

    Although raw milk wasn't common when I was a kid, any time we stayed on a farm it was perfectly normal to have that-morning fresh-from-the-cow milk. Never thought twice about it.

  • @ausoleil8269

    @ausoleil8269

    Жыл бұрын

    I often drank raw milk from my grandfather farm when I was young, and I still crave for some from time to time. It's a delicacy when it's fresh enough to still be warm.

  • @henrikbakk718

    @henrikbakk718

    Жыл бұрын

    You can still buy cheese made from raw milk direct from farmers in many states, so it isn't hard to find in you live in an area with a large amount of dairy farms.

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    theres no risk. I drank fresh milk tapped right from the udder of a friends cow. you dont know what it tastes like, so overwhelmingly good. you re more likely to get run over by a car.

  • @hetedeleambacht6608

    @hetedeleambacht6608

    Жыл бұрын

    the idea to kill any living bacteria that are in a food product is just absurd and typically american. You forget that part of those natural bacteria actually help your digestion and immune system. By sterilising everything you might as well swallow a glass of chloronised water. No vitamines, sterile, yes.

  • @lushedleshen
    @lushedleshen Жыл бұрын

    Tonka beans, unlike vanilla beans, are actual beans. Inside looks like a peanut with little crystals growing in it (sometimes). They’re used for the smell, not the taste, and just a tiny amount of it grated over food has a HUGE impact on the aroma which then changes the perceived flavors. I got a guy in Spain who gets me mine. Personal use only. I use them in my coffee and I use them instead of nutmeg for classic cocktails (nutmeg used to be an incredibly common ingredient in mixology). After using one my fingernails smell for hours. Like vanilla, cinnamon, black pepper, freshly cut grass, sunshine, the love of a woman…. Just a heavenly indescribable scent. Also the reason the FDA banned Tonka Beans was because coumarin was being used as an adulterant for vanilla. It’s a cheap source of coumarin and extracting it is cheaper than synthesizing it. Chemists were making vanilla compounds that could be up to 60% coumarin. The ban went in effect at roughly the same time as other bans on adultering food products.

  • @christofferdh
    @christofferdh Жыл бұрын

    You should consider to go to Sardinia, not for the cheese though, but the island got some really nice beaches, and is well worth a trip, even though it doesn't exist 🤣

  • @jeanproctor3663
    @jeanproctor3663 Жыл бұрын

    I'm willing to try just about any food. I've eaten horse meat hotdog in Germany (very tasty), fried locusts and grasshoppers in Bangkok (the locusts were lovely - tasted just like pork scratchings. The grasshoppers, not so much so. Not keen on them), proper haggis in Scotland (love it! It reminds me of savoury duck - which doesn't actually contain any duck, as far as I know), I've made my own duck liver paté and wines from foraged fruits, flowers and berries and I've also really liked every cheese I've tried (including Yarg, which is wrapped in nettle leave - no, they don't sting your mouth because they're dead by that point - and Stinking Bishop, which is named after the Stinking Bishop perry it's washed in. Perry is made from pears and, fun fact, look on the label of a bottle of Rekorderlig "cider" and you'll see it's not made from apples. It's a Perry and is made from pears with fruit flavourings added). But I absolutely draw the line at Casu Marzu. I wouldn't let that stuff pass my lips if I was going to be paid enough money to retire very comfortably on from that day to the end of my life and the very thought of it turns my stomach! I can't even begin to imagine how bad it must smell! Apparently, it's actually quite difficult to get hold of in Sardinia too, which is perhaps a Really Good Thing...

  • @spaceowl5957

    @spaceowl5957

    Жыл бұрын

    I ordered this Swedish rotten fish delicacy once and had it with my grandpa and my brother. It’s the worst thing I ever smelled in my entire life. Was very close to puking. Absolutely putrid smell. Can’t begin to describe it. Like puke and shit and rotting corpses all together. But worse somehow. But we are some of it and there was something about it. Almost tasted like petrol. Really intense and sharp and chemical but somehow “savory” and satisfying. Still almost puked after a few bites. Idk there’s some weird food out there

  • @joenathan8594
    @joenathan8594 Жыл бұрын

    When you're above the age of 9, no one buys the Kinder egg for the toy... you buy it for the container, they're perfect for pound coins

  • @anni321
    @anni321 Жыл бұрын

    I really loved the energy you give out in this video. Plus the info, it's so interesting. Thank you for the research and the fun delivery :)

  • @evan

    @evan

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @schoolingdiana9086
    @schoolingdiana9086 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve seen Kinder eggs in the US. They’re in European specialty stores, like European delis and bakeries. They’re also sold at military base commissaries. And you can get black pudding in every Irish pub in the US, too. It’s lovely.

  • @mitchbart4225
    @mitchbart4225 Жыл бұрын

    Raw milk is legal in California as well (with a warning label). Every Health Food store in CA sells it.

  • @ChrissieSM
    @ChrissieSM Жыл бұрын

    In France, there used to be a 'boucherie chevaline' in most towns (horse butcher shop) until the younger generation stopped eating horse meat and also other 'delicacies' such as lamb's brain; tripe used to be popular but is now quite expensive as less people are enjoying it (I love it personally, especially the one cooked in tomato, herbs and white wine).

  • @spaceowl5957

    @spaceowl5957

    Жыл бұрын

    My grandpa from Germany also told me how they used to eat all of the organs of the animals they butchered when he was a child he said the rabbits brains and the cheeks were what the children would fight over, and they used to eat the cheeks right from the skull and the eat the brain from the skull with a spoon. I was so disturbed but he sounded really happy talking about it lol

  • @spaceowl5957

    @spaceowl5957

    Жыл бұрын

    He also told me cows tongue is super tasty and I think he had a lot of fun with my reaction

  • @aesma2522

    @aesma2522

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spaceowl5957 Cow's tongue is still eaten commonly in France even by children. It doesn't taste anything special, it's just meat. Horse meat is like beef, a bit more irony. I don't like most offals though, they always have an aftertaste, for example kidney will taste like piss, tripe will taste like shit, etc.

  • @jadziajan

    @jadziajan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aesma2522 How commonly? I've never eaten it or heard about it being eaten by anyone. Not even my grandparents, who used to eat lamb's brain or make their kids drink blood. Unless it's a regional thing?

  • @ragnkja

    @ragnkja

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spaceowl5957 Cow tongue _is_ delicious. I personally prefer the front of the tongue, as it is leaner, whereas the back is marbled with fat.

  • @SorryBones
    @SorryBones Жыл бұрын

    My class took a trip to the EU years ago. We were around 16-17 at the time and were excited to try these OG kinder eggs that were banned at home. Somebody didn’t get the memo and chewed the toy because they thought it was a gummy, lmao

  • @thelastpilot4582
    @thelastpilot4582 Жыл бұрын

    My Wife and I used to buy a type of meat from Tesco that turned out to be Horse they had to withdraw it due to false labelling. If they had just stuck Horse Meat labels on it we would have continued to buy it. It is delicious.

  • @terrafirma9328

    @terrafirma9328

    Жыл бұрын

    If the first package you bought was labeled horse meat would you have tried it?

  • @milliedragon4418

    @milliedragon4418

    Жыл бұрын

    The sad thing I'm sure horse meat is decent bc at least they seem more well cared for. Unlike the chicken and cow industry especially chicken.

  • @pierfrancescopeperoni
    @pierfrancescopeperoni Жыл бұрын

    As an Italian, when I see ovetto kinder in the thumbnail I just click as quickly as possible.

  • @Bunnybananabunny
    @Bunnybananabunny Жыл бұрын

    In Finland (Non-Ceylon) cinnamon is actually not allowed in any baby food until the kid turns 1 because of the same reason!

  • @Saavik256
    @Saavik256 Жыл бұрын

    "Everything is legal in New Jersey, except the sale of raw milk." Yeah, and pumping your own gas. Also, Casu Marzu is pretty unique. Not something I'd eat on a regular basis, but considering all the things in my life I've eaten, it was probably on the least terrible side. :)

  • @tylerpatti9038

    @tylerpatti9038

    Жыл бұрын

    why the fuck would you want to pump your own gas when you can have people do it for you?

  • @Saavik256

    @Saavik256

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerpatti9038 Because then fools who don't know how to pump their own gas go to a place where station attendants are not a thing and cause a mess for everyone. If you own your car, know how to do the basic thing. Check oil, tyre pressure, the ushe.

  • @RRW359

    @RRW359

    Жыл бұрын

    Not sure if it's the same in NJ but I dare you to find a Vancouverite who won't fill up their Car in Portland if given the choice instead of having to pump their own, even though they make fun of Portlanders for not knowing how to self-serve.

  • @Saavik256

    @Saavik256

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RRW359 I live in Europe. We haven't done self-service gas stations here in since around after WW2.

  • @marihunlep

    @marihunlep

    Жыл бұрын

    The first time I've heard about Casu Marzu was in a horror movie where it was the favorite of the serial killer 😆😆

  • @Bunnybananabunny
    @Bunnybananabunny Жыл бұрын

    Ikea also had a controversy when they had accidental horse meat in their meatballs😂 I worked at Ikea at that point and we had dozens of customers daily coming to ask if they could please buy the meatballs because it was considered a delicacy😅 Unfortunately we were not allowed to sell the faulty items. And I do understand that the issue with this drama was more the fact that the meatballs included meat that was not up to standards😅

  • @aggydaddy

    @aggydaddy

    Жыл бұрын

    If I remember correctly the Ikea meatballs were produced in Romania.

  • @mrkitty777

    @mrkitty777

    Жыл бұрын

    Cat balls?

  • @jackiedelvalle

    @jackiedelvalle

    Жыл бұрын

    In UK they had shit in their Daim cheesecake, so........

  • @1983simi
    @1983simi Жыл бұрын

    as someone who grew up with Kindereggs - even though I wouldnt want to miss them in my childhood - I see the biggest issue with Kindereggs in the gambling addiction they promote. They don't do it quite as much anymore, but they used to have very cool figurine series (little hippos or dinosaurs, or even disney figurines) and the chance to get one of them was 1:6. So on average, you'd get one in every 7th egg. But of course you'd get doubles so to complete your collection you'd have to actually buy quite a lot. there was an aspect of fomo too, because the series would go away to replaced for a new one at some point. Most kids at some point were quite expert in telling from the way they rattle if they'd contain a figurine or not. It was like very rudimentary gacha for playschool and elementary school kids. i think they cut down on that quite a lot as far as I can tell. less elaborate (less thoughtful) in the series they put out, and at least in Germany I see lots of sales displays of them where you get a guaranteed figurine.

  • @mrkitty777

    @mrkitty777

    Жыл бұрын

    Spoiler alert 😮😅😅😅

  • @PatriceBoivin
    @PatriceBoivin Жыл бұрын

    Kinder Surprise eggs are great. 🙂 They are available in every grocery store in Canada and they have larger sized eggs for Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day. Children love them. Can't say the waxy chocolate is healthy but neither is vegetable oil.

  • @sdfghjasdfghjk8175
    @sdfghjasdfghjk8175 Жыл бұрын

    Love this. Keep being creative with your content. Keep your improv songs at the end.

  • @rcm926
    @rcm926 Жыл бұрын

    The horse meat scandal wasn't because people were necessarily upset about eating horse meat, it was because there was a major discrepancy between the listed contents on item's packaging and the actual thing you were buying - the supermarkets didn't know what they were selling and therefore had no idea if anything unsafe for human consumption was being sold as food.

  • @BC_Mina
    @BC_Mina Жыл бұрын

    I just want to say, to absolutely nobody in particular, that it’s not my fault I have to live in Arizona right now… it’s just temporary I swear 😭

  • @hesky10

    @hesky10

    Жыл бұрын

    Just say you were there for the superbowl but couldn't find a way to leave just yet!

  • @raizin4908
    @raizin490810 ай бұрын

    I remember reading about the maggot cheese on Wikipedia. One section that stuck with me: _Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten._ That's kinda wild.

  • @robine916
    @robine916 Жыл бұрын

    27 US states allow the sale of raw milk within their borders. Restrictions do apply. In Massachusetts, where I live, raw milk can only be sold on the farms where it is produced. 💕

  • @barbarianbenji
    @barbarianbenji Жыл бұрын

    My Sardinian wife is laughing. There’s another Sardinian cheese which is called callu de cabrettu. Look it up…

  • @askallois

    @askallois

    Жыл бұрын

    True, I'm Sardinian but I don't like it, too spicy. If they know how it's done they start throwing up all the readers of this channel 😂😂😂😂

  • @fusadiluna

    @fusadiluna

    Жыл бұрын

    Mannaggia a voi e a Google, mi sto sentendo male

  • @endlessteatime4733
    @endlessteatime4733 Жыл бұрын

    You're one of the very few KZreadrs that can make a video about just about anything and I'll enjoy it. Fuck the algorithm!

  • @raventenebris5344
    @raventenebris5344 Жыл бұрын

    I lived in Arizona for a while Right next to a weekly farmers market And one of the usual farmers had a cow farm and sold freshish milk (like milked within the last 2 days) And while I am severely lactose intolerant I bought one it was pretty good some of the best milk I’ve ever had

  • @ravinmarokef
    @ravinmarokef Жыл бұрын

    9:27 I live in Arizona and living anywhere else seems not particularly sensible -- I couldn't imagine being at risk of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, tsunamis, etc. - and not having to deal with snow for half the year is beautiful.

  • @amicableenmity9820

    @amicableenmity9820

    Жыл бұрын

    You're in a desert. If the fresh water source goes it's over until you get a monsoon.

  • @gigglesmurf2004

    @gigglesmurf2004

    Жыл бұрын

    I live in Delaware. We also don’t get tornadoes, tsunamis, blizzards or hurricanes. We don’t have to worry about drought or lack of fresh water and there’s no sales tax.

  • @gigglesmurf2004

    @gigglesmurf2004

    Жыл бұрын

    Well we very rarely get tornadoes that classify as EF0-1. Never higher and a few a decade.

  • @phoebeel

    @phoebeel

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello from northern Germany, we usually get NOTHING except for dry summers. But dry is something you're familiar with in Arizona

  • @gigglesmurf2004

    @gigglesmurf2004

    Жыл бұрын

    @@phoebeel Northern Germany seems much more appealing than Arizona. In terms of healthcare and and as a woman.

  • @hikaritsumi2123
    @hikaritsumi2123 Жыл бұрын

    Love your sarcastic and punny nature, it isn't cheesy at all.

  • @Caiyde
    @Caiyde Жыл бұрын

    The horsemeat scandal was primarily based around two problems in the UK: 1. They said it was beef 2. The horses slaughtered weren't subject to the same regulations as cows bred for slaughter, meaning that it was possible they could have been diseased.

  • @DFHellscare
    @DFHellscare Жыл бұрын

    Honestly fresh honey and some thawed frozen fruit mixed together. The juice that comes out and the tenderness of the thaw is off putting in some places but works beautifully as a syrup substitute. I prefer over maple.

  • @raigne86
    @raigne86 Жыл бұрын

    I can handle it when it's like, cruelty or health related... my favorite UK chocolate bar is a Yorkie bar. Which is banned for import into the US. Hershey blocked it on the basis that it would infringe on the York peppermint patty trademark, and Americans would be confused into thinking that's what a Yorkie was. Course... I can't eat them anymore anyway because I have celiac disease, but when I lived in the US I remember being quite upset when they disappeared from the international aisles.

  • @mrkitty777

    @mrkitty777

    Жыл бұрын

    So you never ate neighborhood cat for dinner? In times of hunger cats are considered a deliciously meal 😮

  • @ohnePixelVids
    @ohnePixelVids Жыл бұрын

    "If your baby was going to choke on a toy, it was a stupid baby anyway" - W2S, about Kinder Eggs.

  • @janebaker966
    @janebaker966 Жыл бұрын

    Like the format. I've just been doing research ie googling,because I've NEVER HEARD of Tonka Beans and now I know all about them. They're from a flowering tree called Dypteryx odorata that grows throughout north-east South America notably in Venezuela,Guyana and Brazil. The pink sprays of pea like pink flowers that are fragrant really make a show in the green rain forest and the fruit is eaten by lots of creatures including monkeys,parrots,bats,toucans,coati mundis and agoutis and great green macaws can strip a tree they love them so much. So if you buy some you're stealing the wild critturs food. I'd like to give one or two a try though. They are similar to Vanilla in culinary use. Due to that illegal logging they're getting cut down and it takes hundreds of years for a new tree to grow to harvest worth size from a tiny seed so that must push up the price. I've learned something new,at my age! As regards horsemeat. It's hugely popular in Belgium,even more than France. Just as well as there has to be some sort of commercial value for those Dartmoor and New Forest ponies or the owners wouldnt bother. Cruel but true. They don't all get bought for little girls. Horsemeat was in everything,ready meals from every supplier out there. And none of us consumers noticed. It tastes alright. In WW2 there were shops that sold horsemeat,it was the only meat that was unrationed. I only know this because a caller in on a radio phone in told of how as a little boy in WW2 his mother sent him to buy horsemeat every day before school for the evening meal because she was too embarrassed to be seen going in as were many people who used subterfuges to get their meat,hoping their neighbours wouldnt notice. I'd like to put in a word for the virtue signal-hated McDonald's,where I never go but I have once ate there with others and twice had some fries and once a cup of tea BUT this much defamed company was the one place thst was totally untouched by the scandal and I actually contacted the information place to check and it's true that in UK at least,can't speak for other countries,they ONLY use British raised beef. They buy beef raised by British farmers that is grass fed grazed in those wild upland areas like Wales etc where no other kind of agriculture is feasible. I'm not FOR McDs but praise where it's due. Better shut up now I didn't intend this comment to be so long.

  • @rebeccarendle3706
    @rebeccarendle3706 Жыл бұрын

    So fun😂. Glad I've found your channel. The maggots cheese sounds "one step to far" 😂

  • @TheDuckMan2523
    @TheDuckMan2523 Жыл бұрын

    With the sheer absurd quantity of puns, I found myself genuinely wanting somebody to wander in and slap you, which is unusual

  • @agoddamnferret
    @agoddamnferret Жыл бұрын

    lots of things that are banned because "it could hurt you or kill you" hits the 2 parts of my personality where I go "that makes sense, but sometimes if you're that stupid to eat something you know will kill you in amounts that will kill you, then it's your own goddamn fault"

  • @terrafirma9328

    @terrafirma9328

    Жыл бұрын

    Too many idiots today don't know that too much sugar causes diabetes over time, basically a slow acting poison. So how much or how long is the divider line between banning a poison that works slow or fast? Think carefully. Cigarettes, Lead, Asbestos all where at one time not banned.

  • @agoddamnferret

    @agoddamnferret

    Жыл бұрын

    @Terra Firma you do know you need sugars in some form right? Diabetes comes from 2 parts, genetic predisposition, and your diet/exercise routine. I know people who ate terribly and didn't have diabetes, but people who were still relatively active and got it. Sugar isn't a "slow-acting poison". Stop with the new age hippy dippy nonsense

  • @terrafirma9328

    @terrafirma9328

    Жыл бұрын

    @@agoddamnferret No, you stop your ignoramous nonsense. Your body does not need you to consume any sugar to live. Study about nutrition bro

  • @agoddamnferret

    @agoddamnferret

    Жыл бұрын

    @@terrafirma9328 only ignoramus are people who go on and on about how everything is bad for you, and 'we were healthier in the past'blah blah blah blah

  • @michaelalpert8328
    @michaelalpert8328 Жыл бұрын

    Definitely enjoy this new format! :D

  • @SnaKops
    @SnaKops10 ай бұрын

    I live in Sardinia, Italy, although I'm not originally from there but I'm Romanian. Sardinia is very particular, the population loves its island (it has beautiful beaches that you can't imagine) and doesn't even consider itself Italian, on the contrary, it hates the continent. I can also give the example of the language, it is totally different from Italian, more similar to Spanish. I have often tasted Casu Martzu, unfortunately not yet with worms, it is a very spicy cheese and can also be spread on bread. Trying it doesn't hurt anyone, I've eaten some strange things.

  • @arx3516
    @arx3516 Жыл бұрын

    My grandma used to boil the milk for breakfast, even if it was pasteurized milk bought at the supermarket. It an habit she inherited from living in a farm for most of her life.

  • @joegrey9807
    @joegrey9807 Жыл бұрын

    The US bans food that contains non-nutritive objects. Pity it doesn't ban food that contains non-nutritive substances.

  • @truestefku
    @truestefku Жыл бұрын

    If you are willing to try Casu Marzu, you might also like to try German Milbenkäse, a historical regional speciality in parts of Thuringia. It uses mites to ripen the cheese and you eat the mites as part of the cheese. It's safe, but also in a legal grey area.

  • @spaceowl5957

    @spaceowl5957

    Жыл бұрын

    Kites are so small you can’t see them at least. There are actually mites living on your skin and in your bed eating your old skin

  • @raventhorX
    @raventhorX Жыл бұрын

    Bit interested in the kinder egg controversy. I was a bit surprised because I remember a similar ban happening for a candy that if I remember correctly was called a wonder egg. Very similar to a kinder egg but it was just a chocolate ball that was hollow in the center with a toy inside. Quite easy to separate the halves of the chocolate to get to the toy as well. I had thought around when that toy was wide spread was when this ban was first introduced because I remember seeing a news report on it and how it was getting banned because the toy inside could easily be swallowed by kids who didn't know any better. They did a presentation on this by using a paper towel tube and said if the toy could fit through that a kid could accidently swallow the toy. I was surprised because only a few years ago did I start seeing kinder products in my state and we did get the ones with toys in them for a while, but i think they were temporarily taken off shelves and replaced with a kinder bar until new eggs were released without toys inside.

  • @inventor121

    @inventor121

    Жыл бұрын

    Even in Canada where the eggs are not banned there are age instructions (ages 2+) and generally kids don't stuff the whole thing in their mouths because they take the time trying to figure out where the toy is. What kind of barbarian swallows whole kinder eggs? As far as I know most children that are dumb enough to swallow a whole kinder egg aren't old enough to swallow a whole kinder egg. Even as an adult I'd have a hard time eating a kinder egg whole.

  • @belindathompson267
    @belindathompson267 Жыл бұрын

    America: worried about raw milk, not worried about junk food 🤷

  • @stoferb876
    @stoferb876 Жыл бұрын

    I think the taboo about horse meat is mostly in the english-speaking world. I've hadn't had much horse meat in my life because it's often rare and expensive but there is no particular taboo about it. I grew up in a town where in the countryside just a bit south east of it there is a village/meat factory, famous for it's horse meat salami. It wasn't my favorite, I prefer smoked ham, but it's ok on a sandwich. Just a bit too expensive for everyday consumption.

  • @durabelle

    @durabelle

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. I grew up in Finland riding horses and eating horse meat salami too. My biggest issue with horse meat is the inhumane transportation those animals are put through in many places, and that mainly happens because horse meat isn't popular enough, so many slaughter houses won't accept horses. In many ways I'd much rather eat an animal that I've known to have a reasonably nice life than a factory farmed chicken or pig.

  • @Hana9916

    @Hana9916

    Жыл бұрын

    In Slovenia, we have a chain of horse burger fast food places, and my local market has a stall specifically for (young) horse meat. There's not a specific taboo against eating it, but some people do think horses are too cute to eat

  • @chrisbuchanan878

    @chrisbuchanan878

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. In the English speaking parts of Canada, people are (broadly) horrified by the idea of eating horse, but in Quebec it's not uncommon and they sell it in the supermarkets.

  • @TheEmeraldLady

    @TheEmeraldLady

    Жыл бұрын

    It's also kind of a thing in certain Scandinavian countries. Horses were often sacrificed and eaten as part of pagan culture, but when Scandinavia became Christian, the Pope banned eating horse meat, because it was associated with a heathen practice. I guess the Italians were allowed to eat horse because they had no history of sacrificing it before eating it? But horse meat became a taboo food for many years. There's even a few super old sayings in my language (Danish) which say that eating horse meat is like eating from the Devil. Even if we're no longer very religious, many people don't eat it because we no longer have a cultural history of eating horse meat. You can get it from a few butchers here in Denmark, but it's a rare find.

  • @Blixthand
    @Blixthand Жыл бұрын

    While horse meat is perhaps not as common as beef, chicken, pork or lamb, it's not uncommon to see it sold, at least not in Sweden. It's readily available as sandwich meat in most stores I frequent (often named "Hamburger meat", as in meat from Hamburg, though that's an inherited title for a way of preparing it for consumption), and my local butcher carries horse meat, though the nice cuts are so outrageously expensive that I've never considered trying it. I think the scandal that happened, which was also a thing in Sweden, I don't know if we imported frozen food from the same manufacturer or if it was just a general scare that maybe if it happened in the UK it could happen here as well, but I think it's mostly about your food containing something not specified on the label, as well as if they are filling it up with horse meat it's probably not that super expensive fine stuff that they are adding.

  • @anniehudd
    @anniehudd Жыл бұрын

    omg yes been waiting for this!!

  • @evawettergren7492
    @evawettergren7492 Жыл бұрын

    In Sweden we have horsemeat as cold cuts on our sandwiches. Not super common but definitely available in most stores. But honestly, horsemeat is very delicious. I have been to Kazakhstan where it is very common to eat horsemeat and it was tender and mild and just great to eat. So I feel it is a bit of a social thing to ban horsemeat, not so much to do with wether the meat is any good or not. Like how cow meat is banned in India. We in the west clearly couldn't care less about that.

  • @todorivanov4753

    @todorivanov4753

    Жыл бұрын

    In Bulgaria, it is most popular among "gymbros" but everyone says you need a second type of meat like pork because it is too dry and they mostly eat it in meatballs.

  • @starparodier91
    @starparodier91 Жыл бұрын

    Me: “I have heard of tonka beans before… must’ve been from my ex (professional chef)”. Me after seeing the news blurb: 👀👀👀 (that’s the restaurant he interned at).

  • @elaineb7065
    @elaineb7065 Жыл бұрын

    My folks have lived on a croft since I was 16, & so they had raw goat's milk all the time, until they grew too old to properly care for the goats. They were told if they sold it, it had to be as "animal food". One of the times it's most dangerous to consume raw milk is during pregnancy, so a way to get round this is to scald the milk & have it hot in things like hot chocolate or porridge. I imagine with raw milk cheeses, if you use them in cooking that will also negate the effects. I live in Scotland for context. PS: called it on the haggis!!!

  • @ronaldlebeck9577
    @ronaldlebeck9577 Жыл бұрын

    I grew up drinking raw cows milk and never had any problems with it. I would still prefer it over the homogenized/sterilized/artificially created D2 added store milk. In Sweden, "hamburger" was thinly sliced horse meat -- don't know if it still is or not (been a while since anyone from that side of the family has been over there).

  • @jarrickhillery8664
    @jarrickhillery8664 Жыл бұрын

    Evan: “Choosing to live in Arizona is about the least sensible thing you can do.” Ohio: “Am I not a joke to you?”

  • @mandiblackwell4668

    @mandiblackwell4668

    Жыл бұрын

    At least it rains there? 😅

  • @nemtudom5074

    @nemtudom5074

    Жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile Florida sitting in the corner, chewing their crayons...

  • @apfwilliams
    @apfwilliams Жыл бұрын

    I grew up on Unpasturiesed milk, deliverd direct from the farm!

  • @bravobytz1820
    @bravobytz1820 Жыл бұрын

    I live in california and raw milk is legal here but only sold in certain stores w lots of labeling on it. I was actually told to drink raw milk by my dr after experiencing digestive problems because raw milk has certain enzymes and probiotics that are only found there. Sure enough a few weeks of raw milk in my cereal and I could digest food again. Glad to have it around

  • @lynette.
    @lynette. Жыл бұрын

    Anything you put together is fun and informative, like the BBC you inform educate and entertain. Thank you.😊🤗👍

  • @Felix-qq6sx
    @Felix-qq6sx Жыл бұрын

    8:58 Sehr lustig, wie du plötzlich Deutsch sprichst :D

  • @RiniAbroad
    @RiniAbroad Жыл бұрын

    I feel like Evan woke up and chose violence. He was scarred by rotten cheese and decided we also needed to be scarred.

  • @Nakai_the_Wanderer
    @Nakai_the_Wanderer Жыл бұрын

    You should also try mite cheese from Germany. I could never bring myselve to eat that but it appears to be a speciality in Saxony-Anhalt. Yes, mite cheese is exactly what the name suggests it is, a chese with mites, their excrement and generations of dead mites, forming a crust around the cheese which helps fermenting its outer layers.

  • @TheFren

    @TheFren

    11 ай бұрын

    My favourite part is the mite statue they have raised in honor of that cheese. No, really, look it up.

  • @lilbaz8073
    @lilbaz8073 Жыл бұрын

    I demand a vid of you eating casu martzu. Never heard of it before but now i don't think i could go on living without seeing you try it.

  • @mbncd
    @mbncd Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see you do a colab with the Lost in the Pond guy (name's blanking on me at the moment). He came from England and has moved to America and he does a lot of America/England comparison or things I only learned since moving there sort of videos. Obviously you're on opposite sides of the pond now but maybe a web cam style convo of various little things you've experienced differently or something like that would be interesting, I think.

  • @racheljones1634

    @racheljones1634

    Жыл бұрын

    His name is Laurence Brown

  • @mbncd

    @mbncd

    Жыл бұрын

    @@racheljones1634 Yep, that's him. Thanks!

  • @marijke313
    @marijke313 Жыл бұрын

    I just learned that I should probably lower my (currently very high) daily consumption of cinnamon…😅

  • @mariateresamondragon5850

    @mariateresamondragon5850

    Жыл бұрын

    It is only cassia cinnamon which contains coumarin. Ceylon cinnamon is fine.. You can look up the information yourself and make your decision.

  • @amaeliss7827
    @amaeliss782710 ай бұрын

    Actually, there absolutely WAS a scandal about horse meat in France!! It was found in lasagna and not properly advertised, meaning people unknowingly ate some, and it was a pretty big thing at the time.

  • @jeffburns1844
    @jeffburns1844 Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoying you videos- thank you! Raw milk cheesed are sold in the US, as long as the cheeses are aged a minimum of 60 days. This was not the case when I was growing up, though. I'm not sure, but I think the law changed sometime around 2010 or so. Raw milk is harder to get- you have to buy direct from the farmer and officially can't buy for other people. It is an option for the lucky few who live near small family farms. (FYI, I live in the Northeast).

  • @lordofuzkulak8308
    @lordofuzkulak8308 Жыл бұрын

    “I’m done with the sheep puns, he said sheepishly.” - ewe did not go there: baaaaaaa-d Evan, baaaaaaa-d Evan. 😜

  • @durabelle

    @durabelle

    Жыл бұрын

    He was really ramming those puns down our throats.

  • @stephaniemaloney4324
    @stephaniemaloney4324 Жыл бұрын

    Fun to see the flip side of your "banned foods" video!

  • @francis2fly
    @francis2fly Жыл бұрын

    Good illustration of OLD laws that need to be relooked at and likely changed/updated with current information.

  • @nkirk8740
    @nkirk8740 Жыл бұрын

    What a great channel, puns and all! Thank you, 😁👍👍👍👍✌️👊🇬🇧🌍.

  • @NeverFullyDigital
    @NeverFullyDigital Жыл бұрын

    Are these cheeses available in Canada? Europe is too far to go for cheese, but I’ll go to Canada.

  • @jerryboba_
    @jerryboba_ Жыл бұрын

    I'm in the US, born and raised, and I did not know the Kinder Egg was banned. You could have fooled me since I feel like I've seen them in stores. AND we used to have another type of chocolate ball with a hidden toy that I would have growing up (although I can't remember it's name since it's been about 20 years). Maybe it's another weird California thing 🤷‍♀️

  • @evan

    @evan

    Жыл бұрын

    The wonder ball!

  • @ravinderkaursidhu5670
    @ravinderkaursidhu5670 Жыл бұрын

    Mustard oil is also used as a hair moisturising oil which is probably how it is sold in the states...

  • @wernerruf7761
    @wernerruf7761 Жыл бұрын

    Don't know what you want, maggots are an excellent protein donor. For sensitive there is also an alternative recipe, maggots together with potatoes to feed the pigs, gives a nice crispy "Schweinshaxn". Process the leftover potatoes into dumplings and all is well.