The Ortolan is drowned because its lungs fill with brandy, so when you chew it, they burst and release brandy. The whole thing really was conceived by someone I'm certain must've been a serial killer

@petthequeenofmaddness8592

4 ай бұрын

I feel like it was to ether impress someone rich or for someone to cover their butt or maybe it just happened and they were really hungry like lobster used to be a poor mans food same with ox tail but now look at them

@negate4828

4 ай бұрын

@@petthequeenofmaddness8592 nobody sane captures a bird, leaves it in the dark, have it eat food til its fat, put it in a bottle of brandy while its still alive, have it get filled up by brandy, and then break its bones while eating it while also fucking up their gums. I refuse to believe it.

@CorvusCorone68

4 ай бұрын

i have a feeling it had a start back when it was ok for nobility to kill their servants; gourmands were originally nobility, since commoners often couldn't afford to eat just for pleasure; i believe there'sa an overlap in the Venn diagram here

@charliebaker1427

4 ай бұрын

Ive heard of the ortolan cause of roger from american dad

@BananaMike780

4 ай бұрын

@@charliebaker1427same. It was so ridiculous, I thought it was something they made up for the show.

What makes ortalon even more horrifying is that breaking the bones is supposed to make your gums bleed to "enhance the flavor." American Dad did not do this horror justice.

@watershipup7101

4 ай бұрын

The American Dad version was pretty tame by comparing.

@mervynlarrier9424

4 ай бұрын

I didn't even know the gum bleeding bit, ew

@ellarasei4404

4 ай бұрын

I didn’t even know the “hiding it from god thing” was a REAL PART LF THIS AND NOT SOMETHING ROGER MADE UP

@TnT_F0X

4 ай бұрын

The only thing they did right was Francine being the one to cook it. She is a psychopath.

“Imagine if pizza was a type of bird, we’d be tearing that shit up”. This is my new favorite Chavezz quote.

@redmist6630

4 ай бұрын

"T H E Y R E B I R D S"

@karaoconnoraliasraidra

Ай бұрын

In that world there would be a Pizzas Aren’t Real subreddit/meme.

I can understand where most weird foods come from, either by accident or out of desperation. Maggot cheese? Pretty easy to make happen if you leave it out too long or are stuck in a seige. Shark fin soup? If you catch a shark and eat the rest of it, why not eat the bones or fins as a nice soup? Keep from wasting the fins. The fact that the Ortolan has a built-in shaming mechanic means the French knew what they were doing, had a choice about doing it, and did it anyway.

@bolbyballinger

4 ай бұрын

I'd really like to know who the hell first decided to start eating a bird nest though. Like, was it a conscious decision or did one of the nests randomly fall into a boiling pot?

@lred1383

4 ай бұрын

@@bolbyballinger a starving person is going to try just about anything that looks like it has calories in it, and boiling is the most efficient cooking method. If desperate individuals throughout history were willing to resort to things like leather shoes or wallpaper, bird nests don't even seem that outrageous

@blablubb8615

4 ай бұрын

​@@bolbyballinger starving people will even eat treebark and grass. So its not that strange to eat anything thats not a rock. Especialy if people probably stole the eggs first.

@fallingstars5683

4 ай бұрын

no, worse: shark fins are the only parts harvested from the sharks, who are basically turned into live amputees and then dumped back into the ocean to die slowly. shark fin soup was only created as a status symbol; it has absolutely no real value and shouldn't exist.

@watching7721

4 ай бұрын

From what I understand, the bird nests were originally used as medicine more often

I learned about Ortolan from American Dad, where Roger said “You drown it in Merlot, save its life with Bird CPR and then drown it in Amaretto.”

@TheAngryXenite

4 ай бұрын

"It's so sinfully decadent that you have to eat it under a napkin to hide your crime from God."

@83gemm

4 ай бұрын

It’s mentioned in Brooklyn 99, too, isn’t it?

@uyuman1

4 ай бұрын

I heard about it from Succession

The whole kinder joy controversy is way blown out of proportion. People use the story to say how stupid Americans are, but the only kids who have died from them were in Britain. It was banned in America due to fda regulations, not because someone choked on it.

@AjZ530

4 ай бұрын

But that just makes the US look even stupider, they now have less of an excuse to do so than they would've had

@TheCsel

4 ай бұрын

Yeah they just did a blanket ban of foods with non-food (toys) in them. Imagine there were other foods in the US where kids choked, but not Kinder eggs specifically.

@JustSomeGuywithEpicGrasses

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheCsel no. They didn't. It was for a certain pharmaceutical decades before.

After the "drowning in brandy" part, the Ortolan description just sounds like Sam is making an increasingly obvious joke about the needless decadence of the dish, and i was waiting for him to just go "yeah, nah. Im just messing with you guys, but the brandy thing is real." AND THEN HE SHOWED THE PHOTO. I JUST...

@daisyjoy242

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes food is crazy

It’s like my granddad used to say: “What’s worse than finding a maggot in your food? Finding half a maggot.”

Shit on a shingle is a wartime meal apparently from 1910 it's made of chipped beef and cream. Tasting history has a good video on it

@FalconHicks

4 ай бұрын

While that is the original version, the more common version I hear about around the country is basically biscuits and gravy, but with toast instead of biscuits. But thanks for sharing your source, it was very interesting.

@joshuamcdowell1460

4 ай бұрын

Technically biscuits and gravy is just fancy s.o.s. ​@@FalconHicks

@karaoconnoraliasraidra

Ай бұрын

@@FalconHicksThat’s the version my late parents ate. Their version had cooked hamburger bits in gravy on toast.

Shit on a shingle is named that way because it's a WW2 US soldier dish. It can be actually pretty good, but if you're a soldier stuck with mostly canned food you obviously will use colorful language.

The ortolan was even mentioned in COD WW2, “take the ortolan; that tiny, delicate songbird. It’s eyes poked out so that it can gorge, and then it’s drowned in cognac it’s ingenious. I’m not sure what I’ll miss more; savouring the sweet flesh, or watching it thrash to death.”

@goldeneagle802

4 ай бұрын

I respect the fact that you remembered that

@m_a_n0258

4 ай бұрын

​@@goldeneagle802me too

@CelticRot

4 ай бұрын

Actual serial killer shit

@TheLuckyOne-rg4vk

4 ай бұрын

You must've really liked that game to post this comment on almost every reaction vid about this. 😅Please tell me it was one of the "Notsees" who said it at least.

A Chinese classmate informed me that Chinese history is marked with several occurences of nightmarish famine and strife, either through war, disaster or government incompetence. There are countless accounts of mass starvation and cannibalism Thus, the Chinese pride themselves on being able to eat literally fucking anything, considering a sign of health, strength and determination

Most weird foods and delicacies get their start as poor people food. When there's no food and people get desperate, they find anything that formerly looked disgusting and eat it. How else do people get the idea of eating bird spit nests?

@erodnelps4965

4 ай бұрын

Not really, swiftlet's nests are usually very high up a cliff wall or in a cave, therefore pretty hard to harvest it's not something that poor people can just stumble upon. It's the other way around actually, it's popular among the high class and royalties in China first and THEN introduced to common folks. People just had a tradition (?) of going out and find all sort of exotics to offer to the King/Emperor.

@Raiju2

4 ай бұрын

@@erodnelps4965 So some noble saw mountain people picking bird snot while up in mountains and thought that the emperor will make him a rich man for bringing some to the court. Must have been a local recipe.

@captainslender12

4 ай бұрын

@@Raiju2 anything and everything to try get an in on the imperial court, anything and everything.

3:00 Btw. if maggots are dead (not from the bag method) - the cheese is likely spoiled. 7:25 So apparently he was a face of the anti-shark fin campaign. It supposedly caused drop of 70% of shark fin consumption in China between 2014-2018.

Shit on a shingle is basically biscuits and gravy Only you use bread instead of biscuits It’s still good too

@denisemadison1298

4 ай бұрын

Yep and it's soo good. It can be any gravy like substance, usually with a meat base or meat in it, on top of, usually, toast or plain bread. Toast is best.

@UnlicensedOkie

4 ай бұрын

@@denisemadison1298 I’ve honestly never had it with toasted bread But I bet that’s awesome too

I remember when the maggot cheese was the big shocker for food shows lol. Also, the Ortolan was indeed a fad in upper class societies, especially among French chefs as it was a tradition to make and consume this dish as a right of passage.

Bird's Nest Soup reminds me of how honey is made, which is nectar and bee spit except it's actually sterile with antibacterial and antifungal properties that have been used for millenia.

Shit on a shingle is a food from the Great Depression and WW2. It’s just chipped beef, and cream gravy on toast.

@TheCsel

4 ай бұрын

Also abbreviated SoS

@totaldan99

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheCselAptly named.

Both of you guys reactions to Sam Onella will always be my favorite videos😂

"Did I agree with me, me?" (HELL YEAH) "Thank you, me" (NP) The self-consultation sent me😂😂😂

Shit on a shingle is bread(toast if you can swing it) covered in gravy n sausage, its usually a budget/lower income breakfast item, hence why toasting is optional

9:05 It's chipped beef in cream gravy on toast. Scrapple is organs, Chipped beef is like a giant dry slim jim. It got that name during wartimes cause well... Chipped beef is salted and cured so it lasts forever, meaning wartimes people ate it for breakfast a lot. If you like sausage gravy you'll probably like SOAS but you'd understand the name eating it every day for months in a military cafeteria.

Is nobody going to talk about Skitten's shirt?! 😂

@alicewe_

4 ай бұрын

THANK YOU BECAUSE *WHAT* IS *THAT*

@bird-war

4 ай бұрын

​@@alicewe_ ahegao, that's all I know

@user-hq2oc2rg4o

4 ай бұрын

Looks rad!

@jackattack3429

3 ай бұрын

yeah im gonna need a sauce on that top left panel 🙏

@noahgray543

3 ай бұрын

​@@bird-waradmitting you know that much is already...

My mom use to tell me, if you hungry enough you will eat anything. I don't think there exists a level of hunger that I will look at bird spit and say yeah I am going to eat that.

“Why is it white” - Skitten, 2024

13:33 the American dad episode where Rodger has Francine make the bird? Yeah now you have another reference

"Some things are cultural." I hate that excuse. If someone eats bird spit, it's disgusting. If ten thousand people eat bird spit, it's a culture.

@mdl9224

4 ай бұрын

Dude, eggs are bird ovules. And we here arguing that their saliva is disgusting

@dino5373

4 ай бұрын

@@mdl9224 At least the eggs are nutritional.

@KokomiTeruhashi

4 ай бұрын

Thats... literally correct.

@watching7721

4 ай бұрын

From what I know, the bird spit actually is a good source of protein

@dontassociate

4 ай бұрын

@@watching7721a specific non nutritional protein

Im literally here so early I love you guys so much!!!!! Ive been watching you FOREVER! Since the old japanese sheet screen days and when you were watching dumbest criminals videos (rip those videos)! You guys are amazing!!!!!

My paternal grandfather had a lobotomy to treat alcoholism. It did not work.

havent peeped a chavez vid in ,, some time to say the least , glad to see y’all still going strong

Clicked that notification so fucking fast lol

What else is disgusting about ortolan is it's not just the meat that's eaten. It's also the innards since it's eaten whole without gutting and cleaning it.

@8cladgamer210

4 ай бұрын

I didn’t even think of that!

@Merilirem

4 ай бұрын

Though you are likely past the point that would concern you if your eating it.

Wow that recap was such a throwback. Didn't realize I'd been following you guys so long!

Haven’t seen your channel pop up in my feed in a while, glad you guys are doing well! ❤

AHA! YES! I waited all day for this 😂😭

10:57 nah that's what happens when a wealthy person has eaten literally everything they had to eat and comission someone to make a brand new dish (Or some poor person was extremely down on their luck and they just made that until it became an exclusive type shit

btw when the maggots get stuck in your intestines they FEED OFF OF YOU....yeah that detail was missed.

I absolutely love the chaotic energy you two bring to the reactions!

Gordon Ramsey has a whole video on bird's nest soup and another on puffin.

ay i missed you guys. It's been a long time since i've seen a video showed up in recommended. Been keepin up since 2017, i was fresh outta middle school back then, now im almost done with uni 😅😂

Shit on a Shingle can also be called Creamed chipped beef. It's good when the bread is buttered and lightly toasted.

I think the Sam Onella reacations are what brought me to your channel😅

As an enjoyer of shit on a shingle, it is literally an open face sandwich with any kind of ground meat. You make gravy with the ground meat then you go toast, then mashed potatoes on top of the toast, and then the meat and gravy on top of that and it’s pretty fucking good.

Also for your reading pleasure here's q quote from Anthony Bourdain when he tried the Ortolan: “I bring my molars down and through my bird’s rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I’m giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly - ever so slowly - to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull.”

@fallingstars5683

4 ай бұрын

man i love horror novels

@jarrettadams4102

4 ай бұрын

Reads like Clive Barker

@sr.fluffuls

4 ай бұрын

I can see why we all make fun of the french now. they make serial killers' methods sound like they came from a kindergarten teacher.

@RedeemerofDark

4 ай бұрын

@@jarrettadams4102 who's Clive Barker?

@jarrettadams4102

4 ай бұрын

@@RedeemerofDark Author of Hellraiser

Definitely midnight snacking to this one

Very unrelated but I wanted to let y’all know that victor from the mortician answers questions from twitter guy has a third entry to their series. Look for the thumbnail with x in the thumbnail. I wanted to say as much cause skitten and Chavez’s reaction to the first two are some of my most persistently rewatched videos

Want some bird nest soup skitten?

Sam needs a part 2. No Surstromming? No Fatty duck liver? No Hakarl? Not even Haggis, banned in the US if its made traditionally.

If I ate ortolan, I would feel guilty because they had drowned a bird in order to make it

@Okurka.

4 ай бұрын

I guess you don't eat any meat unless you're a hypocrite.

@Merilirem

4 ай бұрын

@@Okurka. There is a big difference between giving animals a purposefully painful death by Drowning and just killing it for food.

@Okurka.

4 ай бұрын

@@Merilirem Painful? The bird is drunk as f*ck.

11:18 perfectly acceptable to be culturally insensitive here! The practice is making the birds go extinct because it stops the birds from having babies!

@Okurka.

4 ай бұрын

So should we stop consuming chicken eggs?

@ScanovatheCarnotaurus

4 ай бұрын

@@Okurka.Chickens are domesticated, meaning we literally made them to accommodate us over thousands of years, they’re the most populous bird on Earth, and chickens pop out eggs daily regardless of whether a baby’s in there or not. Different story from wild birds.

@Okurka.

4 ай бұрын

@@ScanovatheCarnotaurus That doesn't answer my question.

@Crowvithian

4 ай бұрын

@@Okurka.Because you’re trying to bait a specific answer out of a question that is not similar, yet posting it as a 1 to 1. You’re mentally deficient. Stop drinking clue and pick up a book for once.

@Merilirem

4 ай бұрын

@@Okurka. It should have. The answer is that chickens are not going to go extinct so its fine from this point if view. Reasons to not eat chicken eggs do not include them going extinct because eating their eggs is only making them more numerous via farming.

Just wanna say that I always love hearing people use the ME2 starboard music in their videos, it takes me back

THE NEW SALMONELLA!! IT HATH COME!!!!

@Dr.J0905

4 ай бұрын

But its quiet :(

The sad part about Shark Fin Soup is that shark meat is actually quite delicious, meaning that they are throwing out perfectly good met for some cartilage

SOS or shit on a shingle is usually just chipped beef in gravy on toast, sometimes it can be made with ground beef. My family has it sometimes, my grandpa was in the army so that's where we got the recipe from.

Shit on a shingle is what my grandfather told me he ate in the army during wwii. He never said what it was, only that he hated it and everyone called it “shit on a shingle.”

@Okurka.

4 ай бұрын

It was jizz.

My grandfather came from Sicily and loved the cheese... it apparently doesn't taste as good if you kill the worms because it was done by putting the cheese in a bag with dry ice, not an empty bag. The Subtle flavors of living worm cheese are disrupted easily I guess. I will stick to the other Sicilian poor foods that are delicious like Spinach and beans with crusty bread and normal romano cheese.

The King is back again.

Birds nest soup is not only considered a delicacy in China, its also super expensive because the nests have to be picked by hand from cave walls and ceilings that are like 30 ft up. You can find it in America just from more sketchy stores.

Bird nest soup is one of those famine dishes. It’s insane to me that food snobbery infiltrates food like that.

Sam 'o nella carries y'all channel so much

I'm slowly trying to recover from a stomach bug, and thanks to the maggot cheese now I don't know if I'm nauseas from the stomach bug or from this video lmaooo

S.O.S. is also called "creamed chipped beef on toast". It's toast, a cream gravyy, & thin slivers of meat. While it kind of sounds like a knock-off of biscuits & gravy, it's very differnt taste & texture. Stouffer's actually sells a frozen version you can buy in grocery stores if you want to try it. It was a common foodstuff in the military for many years.

Growing up in a Jamaican household, ackee is so freaking good

Did i notice it late with the last few videos and you've been using the mass effect galaxy map mudic this whole time?

Managed to snag a vid b4 the hour mark! What a gift 🎉 🎂

You ever seen the movie The Menu? One of the characters mentions how they hate “mouth feel” too

🤔What's the name of the song in the beginning? I'm gettin' late 90s early 2000s Toonami and Adult Swim vibes on some nostalgic ish fr...

Fun fact: they actually used to pluck their eyes out before they learned that putting them in the dark gets the same result of them overeating :)

Nice Ahsoka trooper shirt on Chavezz.

Shit on a shingle is widely served (used to be at least) in the military because it’s cheap and easy, it’s basically biscuits and gravy on bread instead of biscuits

I knew about the ortolan from american dad

I'm surprised that haitian mud cookies weren't in this video, they are what they sound like they are. But they are born from extreme poverty so I get why they aren't in the video, it gets pretty dark. But I think thats the case with the bird spit soup aswell, similar to how some people consider fried pebbles a meal. Its a thing in china where you fry pebbles with alot of spices then just suck on the stones afterwards. Food born from extreme wealth and extreme poverty is always interesting.

I was about to say: I have seen that fruit in Miami. Never tried it but it is weird to see a fruit I’ve seen on local fruit ads on this list.

I'm surprised that Virgin Boy Egg wasn't on the list. Search it up, and you'll understand real quick why only one city in all of China allows it.

Ortalan is just KFC with extra steps. They actually ate that in Succession.

What is bro’s shirt 💀

As a Jamaican Hoe Biscuit myself, I recommend Ackee and Saltfish that's correctly prepared. Also never knew the name of that sickness you could get from eating ackee, this video was doubly educational.

Posted 2 days ago, youtube telling me now, I'm hoping that is cause of Patreon not KZread being broken lol.

What makes bird nest soup worse is that they remove those nest so much eventually the bird starts to bleed from the mouth trying to remake its nest and the red bloody spit nest is considered tbe best to eat

I’m just so distracted by that shirt

New superhero backstory dropped. The Maggot Magnet.

Shit on a shingle is basically just biscuits and gravy but on toast

I live in florida, my old house still had the Ackee fruit tree outside in the backyard that the former owners planted (all i know was that they were infact Jamaican) when i saw the tree drop its fruit here n there it looked just like the image but some were still closed, i asked the landlord about it n best to say i found out the husband of the former tenant’s died in the backyard eating that fruit. Never touched the tree again i just let the squirrels have at it.

I've had both shark fin soup and birds nest soup. Back when i was a teen.. they both just taste like the broth they are in. The fins and the nests are completely pointless. But some people think they have magical health benefits. So they keep getting made. And yeah... you're not wrong about the texture of birds nest soup, but also add a weird stringyness...

Im surprised Balut wasn't on the list, Balut is a fertalized bird embryo (usually duck) which is incubated for 14 to 21 days, depending on local culture, and then steamed. You crack open the egg and eat the streamed bird fetus inside, and the taste is described as "savory, gamey, crunchy (if developed more and has bones), and rich characteristics that make it mostly an acquired taste for many Filipinos" (This is usually sold as street food in places like the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam)

Shit on a shingle is just cooked hamburger or ground sausage in a sauce on bread. Technically biscuits and gravy is a type of s.o.s.

Shit on a shingle (SoS) is Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast.

The reason texture and mouth feel are different is that I see texture as applying more toward only solid food. One does not talk about texture when talking about soup unless they are talking about something added to the soup. An example being if something feels greasy or oily then I would say this soup is oily or something like that. I mean to each their own but mouth feel is literally just how something feels in your mouth vs something's texture. Doubly so for something that is more of a concept like something having a refreshing mouth feel or something like that which can't be used as a texture.

@swhaw

4 ай бұрын

Also from my understanding shark fin soup is more for the perceived benefits of eating it in traditional medicine. All of which are not grounded in any kind of study such as the most common reason I have heard in that it increases vitality. Also Scrapple is served more like sausage and isn't really hard, more formed paste (hot dog of breakfast food is a good comparison), it's delicious though depending on where you get it and how its spiced. Shit on a shingle is more (at least from my experience) thinly sliced beef with a white gravy/béchamel sauce and served on toast, it is very good. People need to chill about food, I get not liking something and these are extreme examples but damn. Don't gotta be super adventurous but you really never know what you might wind up liking. But again these are extreme examples.

Dolly: I Commented that my Cousins on my Mom's Side Calls Ice-Box Cake "Sh!t-Box Cake" 😅

First time watching yall, PLEASE I BEG YOU WHERE DID YOU GET THAT TSHIRT FROM GURL IT SLAYS SPILL THE TEA

Atempted to google the maggot cheese? I wanna eat it now.

I feel like meetCanyon gave him a lot of ideas on how to do art now

The bird nest soup has British written all over it.

When my family makes Shit on a Shingle, we basically just mix ground beef with white gravy and biscuits.

I genuinely thought Sam was doing a when he was describing the Ortolan ritual, until he showed the picture

Shit on a shingle is just sausage gravy on toast😂 and it's a Delaware thing? Lol what?

mass effect ost woop woop

Osmosis jones is an underrated joke 😂

10:23 it says quite a bit about Chinese food sensibilities that at least 75% of the internationally banned foods and “miracle drugs” come from China like this.

Ackee is quite delicious when served with, nice t-shirt, fried dumplings or fried breadfruit & fried sweet plantains.

@Crowvithian

4 ай бұрын

Why the hell would you be eating a t-shirt