In case anyone is confused why Yao Ming is mentioned it's because he helped raise awareness towards the Chinese public towards shark fin consumption and effectively reducing its consumption there down to 50-70 percent

@vault6242

3 ай бұрын

Common Yao Ming W, first he gave us funny memes, then he gave his people clarity

@Fritz-co4pb

3 ай бұрын

How cool. I thought he was an activist that was you know not that successful but it's nice to know he had a great affect on the world

@Asterion_Mol0c

3 ай бұрын

Well what about the concentration camp

@quanghuyvo6112

3 ай бұрын

​@@Asterion_Mol0cwell what about watanamo bay

@insertsomethingfuni2617

3 ай бұрын

What do you want him to do about it?​@@Asterion_Mol0c

6:34 Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than explained here. They capture the shark, the fins are cut off from the live shark and the quadruple amputated shark is thrown back into the water, still alive.

@jeffslote9671

3 ай бұрын

It’s also mostly eaten was a status symbol

@PHIL_123

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, however, I witnessed on a fish market in Taiwan, they were literally cutting off only the dorsal fin of what I could see smaller hammerhead sharks. After the fin was cut off, the 'rest' was thrown on the pavement, alive. When they would go for a break, they were collected in some buckets and thrown in the ocean. I am an angler in my spare time. So I don't pretend to have a moral high ground, but this is on a different level.

@pepperjack2410

3 ай бұрын

I wonder what the logic behind that is... You'd think after already have caught the shark it'd make sense to at least butcher and sell the rest of it

@elmascapo6588

3 ай бұрын

​@@pepperjack2410there was a point in which the fin was more worth than the entire shark Meaning that it would have been a waste of time and space to use the rest of the animal

@ZeallustImmortal

3 ай бұрын

​@@elmascapo6588But shark meat from the rest of the shark is delicious

7:56 No, Chris, Yao Ming appearing there is not random. The context is that Yao once shot an ad for WildAid for the sake of saving sharks from poachers etc. by persuading people to stop consuming shark fin soup. Another interesting fact: before joining Houston Rockets, the basketball team Yao Ming was in is Shanghai Sharks : )

@jimgu2578

3 ай бұрын

And that was one of the most effective PSAs in China too.

Almost all of mankind's food discoveries fall into one of two categories. We saw something else eat it and decided to try it or "dude, I dare you to eat this!"

@davidkinsey8657

3 ай бұрын

Or "I am so hungry I'll eat anything."

2:57 I feel bad for all of our ancestors who found the disgusting or deadly foods. Imagune being the guy who tries new mushrooms, either its tasty, violently deadly, or gonma send you on a crazy journey.

@Leo.V

3 ай бұрын

Hey 2/3, i'll take that chance

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

You really have a good point

@Macilmoyle

3 ай бұрын

All fungi are edible. Some fungi are edible only once. 🙂

@JABRIEL251

3 ай бұрын

Worth the risk.

@ZeallustImmortal

3 ай бұрын

They just watched other animals and ate what they ate

Sad to hear about the Covid!!! Hope you recover! Your history videos keep me going

@lssweet

3 ай бұрын

Same

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

Same

You really need to start reacting to tasting history. It's literally all about the origins of historical foods. Such a good channel and directly answers your question about "how'd they learn to do that."

@TheGallantDrake

3 ай бұрын

Second that! Great vibes and good history.

His videos "Scandalous Pope from the Middle Ages" and "Pre-Industrial Surgeries" are amazing.

A bit of a history fun fact regarding Ackee. Ackee was brought to Jamaica in 1778 by Capitan William Bligh as a domestic food source for the enslaved at a time when regular food supplies were blocked due to the American revolution (He also brought breadfruit from the Pacific, another Jamaican staple). It is said that the presence of ackee trees (that have not been recently planted) is a strong indicator of a location of abandoned slave village sites. When I went to Ghana, where ackee is supposed to have originated, it was interesting to find that they had ackee but did not really eat it. I always wonder how much trial and error it took for people to find out how to cook ackee without getting poisoned, to the point that it became our national dish. Anyway, so glad a bit of caribbean history got featured on the channel😊. Big love from a Jamaican history nerd 🇯🇲. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

The person who figured out that cows milk is edible must have been one very strange person.

@AjZ530

3 ай бұрын

People say this a lot but is it really that weird? A common way to know if something might be edible is to check if animals eat it. Water that animals dont drink from? Stay away. Weird plant that the local wildlife never eats? Maybe dont try. It's not a far stretch that since human breastmilk is obviously edible bovines milk would be too

@SootyPhoenix

3 ай бұрын

Well, the guy who figured out you could milk animals was probably a weirdo, but before any milking occurred our ancestors were already consuming milk by eating the animal. Only in our modern culture do most people only or mostly eat the muscles, ancient man ate every organ, including milk-filled ones.

@fatedsculpture2596

3 ай бұрын

I feel like there are other foods that are weirder because as humans we drink milk as babies so I can see the logic how someone is really thirsty and wonders if they could drink milk from another animal. They could see baby cows drinking it too and probably assume it's pretty safe.

@kingthomasthehun8408

3 ай бұрын

Its even worse than that it used to be all humans were lactose intorlerant and when people started drinking milk they would vomit but kept on doing it and developed a gentic tolerance

@bryndensnow

3 ай бұрын

​@@kingthomasthehun8408 Isn't that just evolution at work?

Bone marrow has a very significant amount of nutritional value and is also absolutely rich and delicious. This is why most soup stocks today are made using bones.

Ok the worse thing never want to think about eating is from Iceland.....Hákarl which is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. So the corpse of a Rotting pickled shark which apparently smells of Ammonia. Now I can only think that this was found due to the requirement of Survival in a shipwreck and this was the only think someone found to eat on a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic

@matthewkane1188

3 ай бұрын

So I actually know a little more about that meal. The fermentation agent is lye, the main use of the food is survival food, the fermentation process makes the food pretty unspoiled over long periods of time but isn't salt dependent so it's cheap enough for middle age peasants. The food was used to survive long winters on Iceland or long boat rides, as most of the salt was used for salted fish and meat, which was paradoxically a trade good so it wouldn't have been eaten unless absolutely necessary.

2:35 Your family made what we call Dulce de Leche (Literally translates to milk candy). It's very popular here in Argentina, like Nutella is in America times 10. And, although it's a bit different here since we don't add the peanut butter it was invented pretty much the same way, by accident! In the mid 1800s one of our "próceres" (Important historical figures) Juan Manuel de Rosas loved to drink milk with a lot of sugar. Even back them they understood that milk had to be boiled to stop it from killing you, and since the man wanted his milk with extra sugar one of his servants decided to just put it on the pot from the get go. Thing is she forgot the pot on the fire and when she came back it turned into that candy you speak off, she was about to throw it away but Rosas came with a spoon and said "Hold on a second I think you might accidentally be onto something", took a spoonful and ate it. It was the best thing in the world so he asked them to keep making it, and those servants spoke about it to other servants and Rosas spoke about it to other important people who in turn asked their servants to recreate it. The result: Dulce de Leche is now a part of Argentine culture like Mate and Football (The correct football). I mean we literally put the stuff on everything, if it's sweet someone is going to add some Dulce de Leche on it and make it even sweeter

Love it! Even if it's not specific history we still love your reactions & commentary to just about anything.

I bet the other channel is Oversimplified. Also from my understanding of sharkfin soup, it's just a flex. The soup itself tastes like nothingness, has little nutritional value and is expensive af, you only eat it to impress your date.

@DSzaks

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

5:16 got me 💀

👇one millennium club Hope you recover from Covid

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

😅 Hey people, of topic but would you like the idea that our beloved KZreadr reacts to videos on Simon Whislers "Decoding the Unknown" channel?

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

...like the phenomenal video about the J0hn F. K3nn3dy a$s@sination? Thanks for listening 😊

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

Like the )ohn F. K3nnedy Assasination?

@aDeathbomb

3 ай бұрын

@@dertroll1034yea

@dertroll1034

3 ай бұрын

The videos of the youtuber Wendigoon about stuff are fantastic as well.

Banning something can make a great demand, when Monty Pythons "Life of Brian" was banned in Norway, Sweden made the advertisment..Life of Brian, so funny it was banned in Norway (or something along those lines).

@ConnanTheCivilized

3 ай бұрын

Not to mention that the whole reason the creators decided to make Life of Brian was in defiance of organized religion staging international protests in hopes of canceling them. It only made the movies more popular of course.

Shark Fin Soup is delicious. I stopped eating it when I found out how it's made. The fins are cut off the shark while it's alive, the shark is then thrown back into the ocean where it drowns.

Even if you still have COVID, it's good to see you're feeling better, Chris. If you do want a good video for later, one of my favorite channels(I sent the link in a Patreon message earlier) put out a video today on an event I had never heard of and it was TR-era, who I know you're a huge fan of. It's by a channel called National Park Diaries and the video is about how a Fur seal poaching/burglary in Alaska nearly lead to war between America and Japan in 1906.

Really surprised you didn't know about the shark fin soup thing! It's been a bug topic of conversation because often the sharks are simply maimed of their fins and left to die in the ocean, there's a big movement for awareness especially in China and one of the poster boys is Yao Ming

Get well soon man! I got covid about a year ago, and it was the most sick i have ever been 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 i was bedridden for days. Wishing you a speedy recovery 🤞

You mentioning Rachel's challenge unlocked a memory. Remembering we had people come to Arlington High School to talk about it.

Wishing you good health VTH

Get well soon! With love from Michigan

I have questions about these foods as well. Thank you so much!! This was great. Hope you feel better soon!!

@7:00 in Poland traditional chicken soup is made on bones. They are richer this way - the meat is till there.

My family and I just got over covid and I hope your family makes a speedy recovery. Love from Virginia❤️❤️

Get well soon. I've been watching your channel and I learned a lot... Keep up the excellent work and thank you

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

This is so fascinating. I think it’s interesting to look at other types of videos. This does give a brief history of each food though. He has a great scenes of humor!

Get better VTH! Thanks for the upload, always look forward to seeing you on my feed

Get well soon man! And best wishes to the rest of the family!

Sorry to hear about your COVID diagnosis. Im still reeling with health issues since I got it in November. Hope your recovery goes smooth!

Wishing you and the family a speedy recovery! ❤

Yaaaay! A new Chris video! Please do stay safe!!! May God keep u safe

Ouch. Covid is not fun. I had it myself in November last year. Hope you recover and get well soon; best wishes to you and your entire family.

In my country (Malaysia), my late grandfather told me that back in the day, they determined if something is edible (mostly plants) by observing if birds will eat them. If the birds eat the fruits or plants, it’s safe to assume that they are edible for human. I’m sure there are other ways, but that’s how he was thought

Get well soon. I love your history videos. I hope you feel better.

Nope, as a french it is one "meal" I'm more than happy to forgot in the depth of history

Hope you get better soon, Chris!

Sending some well-wishes from Germany to you and your family! Hope you're all gonna be fine soon 🙏🏻

Watching this video whilst having the whooping cough myself. I wish you a good recovery from the Netherlands.

hoping for the speedy recovery Chris!

I remember a children's book about the birds nest soup. I havent thought about it in decades but yes people did try it at some point

Get well soon! I got covid last year, but thankfully for me it was basically just a headcold. Not even a rundown feeling. Only reason why I didn't do shows was because I was very stuffed up and sounded weird.

Hey, sorry to hear you've got Covid, luckily there is still enough time to recover before our trip to Italy. There is also a scene in the series Victoria, where they eat Ortolan while visiting the french king and they mention how Ortolan is made but only surface level, now with that description it sounds not only cruel but also disgusting to eat. They really have to hide their faces from god in shame...

@12:13 that was Tom and Gregg's dinner in Succession too @VloggingThroughHistory

Hoping for a speedy recovery for you and your family 💚

Get well soon Chris Love The Channel

Interesting stuff. I have to say, although I was sorry to hear you were sick, the slightly disheveled faces of horror were spectacularly fun to watch.

I'm sorry to hear that you have Covid, and I hope you get better soon.

Sorry you are sick, hang in there, hope you and the family get well soon.

Hey man hope you and your family make a quick recovery!

I watched Billions and I feel like that show has more scenes of the characters eating stuff than most shows.

“Augh today I crave bird spit” “You can keep the eggs”

12:04 A few characters eat it in the first season of Succession

12:10 You're thinking of the American Dad episode where Stan took Steve to a Vietnam War reenactment. The Ortolan was part of the B plot where Roger wanted to watch a once-in-a-lifetime broadcast, but Stan wouldn't let him

Jamaican national law prohibits.We have it preparing ackee fruit by anyone who is not fully trained and licensed.Just like japan does with Puffer fish. You can actually get several years in prison if you get caught trying to serve ackee fruit without a license in Jamaica.

Hopefully you and your family will feel better ❤❤❤❤

Hope you feel better man ❤

Hope you and your children have a strong recovery.

Im gonna leave this quote i got from another video from Chef Anthony Bourdain that was eating Ortalon "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."

6:35 I never thought that bone broth wasn't common in the Us, here in Italy it's kind of traditional and it adds a lot of flavour to meat broths. Butchers usually sell Ossobuco, basically sawed off discs of cow femur with the marrow exposed, specifically for this reason

@uztre6789

3 ай бұрын

Nah, there's no way "bone broth" isn't a thing in the US. That's just how meat broths are made. You take the parts of the animals you can't otherwise use and cook the flavour out of them

Interesting choice of words there at the end, Chris. "Gonna throw up some links." Seriously though great job getting through this video while feeling sick. Get better soon.

Praying for you and your family's recovery! ☦️

Casu martzu is the holy grail of gross foods. Been wanting to try that for the 14 years we've been active. It's so tough to find unless you go directly to the source.

Thanks for working sick feel better soon.

3:36 that's basically how tempeh was found. As many local Indonesian experts and historians belive and argued that tempeh were originally an "Accidental" byproducts from tofu making. Basically someone just left some cooked soybeans outside, or wrap it with banana or teak leaves that happens to have the spore from certain fungi, and starts to grow and spreads the mycelium on those cooked soybeans, and somebody found out that those moldy bean cake was edible. Similarly, civet coffee was discovered after some colonial plantation worker (slave) manages to collects those civet poops, as the civets swallows the coffee berries whole. and roast those "excreted" berries/beans to make ground coffee from.

Get well soon. Gute Besserung

Would you believe i clicked on his new video and got like 40 seconds in before i realized it was new? Im getting so conditioned to watching his old videos.

Boiling bones is actually how you make stock for lots of different soups, especially if you want a clear broth. It is used in traditional ramen and several other dishes from Asia. You do remove the bones and typically add a meat directly to the dish itself. If you like I will link a cooking video where someone makes stock like that.

Get well soon. 🙏

good to hear your taking care of yourself, get better soon dw about posting too much!

Hope you and your boys get to feeling better soon, Chris. Being sick, regardless of with what, sucks. If you want a family friendly food history video to watch, virtually everything on Tasting History with Max Miller’s channel is exactly that. He’s done a variety of historical dishes from those of Ancient Rome to the Civil War to Titanic, and so many other delicious, or not, foods.

hope you feel better.

Here in Piedmont we also have a cheese very similar to the Casu Martzu: we call it Bross ch'a marcia (literally "walking cheese" because of the maggots in it), which is also banned by the EU.

Had both shark's fin soup and bird's nest soup. Pretty nice, but I'd say it's not really impossible to substitute with other things that don't necessarily involve an extinction of species.

Interesting video

Most VTH Reactions: pauses video to give commentary VTH reacting to maggot cheese: pauses to wince in pain

It's a shame Sam didn't include the quote of that one chef Anthony Bourdain that was eating Ortalon. That was some next level debauchery. Imma look if I can find it. Found it: “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.”

I've been wondering who figured out how to make foods (popcorn is a great example) for a while. Fascinating to think about.

Oh My God. When we thought that the Covid pandemic where over... Or least severe, our absolute Favorite youtuber and historian gets it! I really hope it will be over soon, Chris! And that you'll soon be recovered from this horrible virus that we all hate! ❤❤❤😢😢😢

Sam's amazing video paured with your reaction has me cracking up. Hope you feel better soon!

Hope you feel better

I had Covid just the one time. Was vaccinated, so it was mostly mild cold symptoms, but a real fatigue. I’d sleep 10 hours, watch a tv show and then fall asleep again for a couple hours. For a couple days I was sleeping 12-14 hours in 24 hour period.

I’m glad its Ramadan right now because otherwise, this video would’ve made me really sick. Hope you get better real soon Chris.

Hope you recover Get well soon Greetings from North Germany

Yao Ming spoke out against shark fin soup, he was so popular in China it did actually reduce demand

I’ve had Ackee is Jamaica, and it’s actually very good. Like a cashew and a kidney bean mixed in look and flavor.

From what I understand, shark fin soup became popular because royalty were doing their usual gig of "If it's rare we should pretend it tastes good" then the living conditions improved so the mid-class starts emulating ye olde traditions of emperors, to the point they throw out the actual nutritional parts of the still-living shark.

A little unknown fact about Casu Martzu is that while is a well known delicacy of Sardinia. Casu Martzu is also a delicacy of Corsica.

Show us how to make the fudge Chris! Hope you get better soon.

hope u feel better

5:00 Not only that. They make it wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more potent so they can carry less then cut it with filler when they get to the distribution site. Weed is like that and so was alcohol.

I truly hope that you and your family are on the road to recovery very soon.

Well that was horrifying... I knew about shark fin soup though. It's pretty brutal how they get the fins too which Sam didn't mention. They catch a shark, cut the fins off and then throw it back in the water still alive. As a side note, hope you get better soon Chris!

I was just in Jamaica last month and they had this dish as their signature breakfast (ackee and saltfish omelette). They had to explain every time that ackee had to be fully cooked in order to be edible. I’m all for trying new cultural things, but yea I wasn’t gonna ruin my vacation.

wish you heal up soon from covid if you need time off we will wait for you!

5:36 hey Chris as a Jamaican I can say without a doubt that Ackee taste pretty good but like Sam said you can get extremely sick if you eat it before it’s ripe