So many people don't understand that generations of selective breeding is a form of genetic engineering.

@kevintodd8195

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it is not gene splicing.

@BlankParty

Жыл бұрын

@@kevintodd8195 is gene splicing bad?

@Ornzora

Жыл бұрын

@@BlankParty for humanity health ? Not so much that you care anyway, Invasive species like honey bee ? Yes, like a lot, not just that, some become weaker than their ancestor like banana, but some become too powerfull the native species can't eat them, you can gene split your plant, just don't let it reproduce outside your farm/garden

@kevintodd8195

Жыл бұрын

@@BlankParty It depends on how you look at it, some crops genetically modified, now have carcinogens, and some veggie crops have insecticides in their DNA, do you or anyone you know want to eat that? Artificial bug killers in the creator's natural crops. So many countries have outlawed gmo food, countries with rich culinary culture, it's no surprise that Italy has.

@eno6712

Жыл бұрын

@@BlankParty the entire Soy crown is full of RoundUp^Tm insecticides and one of the main contributors to Soy boys, low sperm counts , low T, infertility, and Gender Dysmorphia. 18 Million x the estrogen of beef . We screwed up one of the Best crops the earth created .

Fun fact - modern corn could not survive without people to plant it. If an ear of corn falls to the ground, the little plants will crowd each other out because there are so many seeds on the ear. Also, the French word for strawberry is Fraise, not Frezier.

@garycarpenter2980

Жыл бұрын

Not only that strawberries were white 🐻‍❄️ not red 🍒

@nedludd7622

Жыл бұрын

The fruit is a "fraise". The plant is a "fraisier". There is the dumb cheap joke about Julius de Berry. Berry is a very old region of what became France. It dates back to BCE.

@garycarpenter2980

Жыл бұрын

Who is Julilus de Berry?

@AliceBowie

Ай бұрын

Yeah, one of the big things about domesticating plants is you don't want the seeds to fall off the plant like wild plants do. Same for rice and wheat, although corn has the biggest grains.

Basically *everything* we eat today is man-made in one way or the other via artificial selection.

@citizentuck

Жыл бұрын

That's fine.

@rachelk4805

Жыл бұрын

I mean, natural/organic doesn't mean it has to be something you found in the wild, which is the only food that isn't man made. I assume most people know farming is a thing.

@markedis5902

Жыл бұрын

Organic means that they only use approved pesticides and fertilisers.

@jek__

Жыл бұрын

And then there are the funny ones, the species that humans didn't deliberately train to be edible but snuck their way into our crops by mimicking other crops, kind of a halfway point between artificial and natural selection lol. Rye became edible because it shifted to look more like wheat because farmers would pull out the rye and leave in the wheat, so any rye that looked sufficiently like wheat was able to survive to the next generation, which eventually morphed the plant into something more edible for us too

@margi.petrova

4 ай бұрын

Animals as well. People chose to slaughter the weakest ones and to keep breeding the strongest animals or the ones that were giving the most milk and eggs. Unfortunately, the same crops are grown globally and the same animals are farmed globally. People are talking about endangered animals going extinct, but not a word about the already extinct plants. Animals feed on specific plants, and if those plants go extinct, animals will also die. Globalization is how we lose all kinds of diversity.

Your corn production statistic is off by many orders of magnitude. It's in the MILLIONS of tons, not hundreds.

You had to bring the grapefruit video into this 😆🤣

Sure I'm only 40ish and grapes, bananas, watermelon...were all different than what you'd buy today. I can't remember the last time I saw grapes with seeds, watermelon seeds used to be horrible, you can almost eat the ones today. Giant strawberries didn't exist. So, it's not a stretch to the imagination to hear how different natural plants are.

@alannasarafat9938

Жыл бұрын

We still have grape with seed, as well banana full of seed too in Indonesia

@EnyaShello

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god I totally forgot about how annoying seeds in grapes were!!! But the watermelon ones were the worsssst

@tinamarie7568

Жыл бұрын

I am 51, and most plants have lost their flavor. Especially tomatoes and strawberries

@alannasarafat9938

Жыл бұрын

@@Dany_Stormborn yup we called it pisang batu (stone banana) because it's full of stone hard seed. It's a ancestors species of modern banana and plantains.

@tinamarie7568

Жыл бұрын

@@Dany_Stormborn I completely agree about homegrown tomatoes. 1,000% tastier🍅😋

… ah. I just realised I watch this channel mostly for the usual narrator

@OmegaRejectz

Жыл бұрын

ditto

@DPSFSU

Жыл бұрын

100% agree! Sorry but Weird History isn't Weird History without our main guy. Feels like a different channel that I don't watch.

@dinkyboss

Жыл бұрын

@@DPSFSUexactly

@turntsnaco824

Жыл бұрын

Thought I clicked on WatchMojo for a second.

@churoman1013

Жыл бұрын

Same

Did I miss something? There is no mention of potatoes?

@toni4729

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I noticed that. They've created more of those things than anything.

Boysenberry! Yes, Knott's Berry Farm's prime export continues to be celebrated!

Citrus is like apples, you need to graft the stock you want to a citron root stock to grow good citrus, as the plants will fertilize easily with any citrus. This gives seeds that could grow wildly different citrus from the fruit it came from, and is also why we have so many varieties of citrus.

@garycarpenter2980

Жыл бұрын

Tomatoes are NOT fruit you don't eat them as a dessert only fruit such as strawberry,🍓🍎 apple, banana 🍌, peaches 🍑 pears 🍐 Kiwi 🥝 cherry 🍒, blue berry 🫐, black berry 🍇 grape, watermelon 🍉, cantaloupe, honeydew, orange 🍊 lemons 🍋🍈are concidered fruit and quava,is too and pineapple 🍍 mostly you can use them for juices or dessert and jelly but tomatoes are veggies and you can't turn it into jelly or jam just as a sauce or in coleslaw or salad or stewed or as a sandwich like my mom used to eat (I'd rather have onions 🧅or garlic 🧄

@THall-vi8cp

7 ай бұрын

Most citrus are polyembryonic - muliple seedlings can grow from a single seed. Usually, the strongest seedling is a genetic clone and true-to-type. The reason citrus are grafted are that seedlings will typically grow straight and become thorny, and because fruiting takes many more years from seed than from a graft.

Grow up people. She did a really good job. Lots of good info.

Frankenberry indeed.

Interesting as always

I chew popcorn kernels all the time with no problems, as long as they’re cooked

@HXXIIA

Жыл бұрын

How does your wife feel about that 🤔

@Bobtony

Ай бұрын

If you cook them they die and you can’t plant them

I should point out that the Oxford English Dictionary properly defines "corn" as any plant that is grown for its seeds, such as wheat,. Maize is one type of corn but not all corn is maize.

@THall-vi8cp

7 ай бұрын

That's an old definition. Nobody says "corn" and refers to anything other than _Zea mays_ anymore.

@alecblunden8615

7 ай бұрын

@@THall-vi8cp certainly not Americans, but , to quote George Bernard Shaw, In America, they haven't spoken it (English) for years. Congratulations on receiving your Royal Warrant to be the arbiter of the language - I must have missed the news coverage.

@THall-vi8cp

7 ай бұрын

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." -Samuel Butler

@alecblunden8615

7 ай бұрын

@@THall-vi8cp Neither are stupidity and arrogance.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Are there any cultivated edible fruits or vegetables that are NOT man-made?

@TDK360

Жыл бұрын

Durian?

@corrodan2995

Жыл бұрын

No, any cultivated edible food has been selected to some extent.

@McGovern1981

Жыл бұрын

Why have you been indoctrinated to believe that's bad? Man made isn't a very good term they've been bred to get more yield and better flavor. The breeding part is called nature and without it you'd probably be starving.

@NashobaLusaTaloa

Жыл бұрын

@Bla Bla: Actually none of these foods are truly "man-made". They've all been hybridized or grafted within their own species to improve them. The only foods that are truly "man-made" are those first created in laboratories, not in fields or gardens or greenhouses. GMOs are man-made because they've deliberately mixed genetic material from different species, including animals, humans, and marine life together with plants species and chemicals. BTW, for several years both Pepsi and Coca-Cola products have contained human placental tissue. Lemon-lime-flavored soft drinks (7-Up, Sprite, Fresca, and Mountain Dew) get their citrusy flavor from one of the same ingredients used to make anti-freeze. Aspartame (artificial "sweetener" used in diet foods, boxed cereals, and even children's vitamins) is a derivative of formaldehyde. If you care what you eat, it's a good idea to read labels, and look up any words (ingredients) you don't know or can't pronounce. Personally? I have no problem with hybridized food. We would have very limited diet without it. But I don't eat anything that I don't exactly what's in it and where it came from.

As someone who lived in Anaheim, the knotts fact was fun to hear

Glad Knott's old neighbor's name wasn't something like Twiggin...

@tinamarie7568

Жыл бұрын

It's Tad Walledor!!!

@theuglybiker

Жыл бұрын

Or Dingle.

Fruits and vegetables are all distinct as well as unique in their own ways. We appreciate the fact that we are receiving information we may not be fully aware of.

I believe the fruit cocktail tree is worth a mention

Concerning carrots, given how closely the wild carrot looks like the hemlock plant, I'm surprised we even tried domesticating it... nowadays, there accidents with hikers and survivalists mistaking helmlock (or other poisonous plants of the same family) for carrrots

Information is worth everything

Yum, I love almonds! Of course I've had dry cereal😂

Love the narration! It made these food facts fun.

thanks for still making this video

I subbed for og voice. Not bad. She sounds really familiar

I was wondering if you guys could make a video about the fries in McDonald’s?

wow horticulture is so cool i never knew

Exactly which invasive species are the result of food engineering mistakes?

This is a bummer. Seems like an interesting topic...

[Gros Michel bananas would be in the chat if they weren't destroyed by disease]

It's easy to criticize a narrator and I agree I'm used to the guy but I'm more then willing to give her a chance because I like this channel

At the start of this video. I hope you realize that this is a very polarizing subject. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) is often misunderstood. This area is very gray. Corn, Wheat, Rice and other very essential abundant foods are derived from selective breeding. The ugliest side of it all is how a lack of diversity can ruin a species of plant (bananas lost Gros Michel to Cavendish). Everything was being bred to to offer the highest yields and make sure everyone was able eat. Monsanto, ‘the company’ made it ugly. They used clinical research to make sure that their pesticides (custom made) but also called Roundup. Not only that, they ensured no viable seed for next crops unless you buy from them again. Bayer just bought them. We all know how ethical Bayer is.

@williamromine5715

Жыл бұрын

You do know that corn does not propagate by itself. This didn't happen on purpose, but was the result of cross propagating by people. This GMO craze is a way to make more profit, and has nothing to do with the safety of food. Always follow the money.

Some would argue that there was actually 4 original citrus plants; the pomelo, citron, mandarin, and the papeda. I've heard debates about the kumquat being a possible fifth, though I'm not sure how true that is. The way citrus plants cross pollinate is as fascinating as it is complex. Pomelos crossed with true mandarins and the result was a number of different oranges, include the sweet and butter oranges. These then would have crossed back with pomelos so that there were more pomelo genes than true mandarin, resulting in the many grape fruit types we have today. There are thousands and thousands of different citrus because of the loosy-goosy way citrus pollinate each other, and that number is still growing.

@garycarpenter2980

Жыл бұрын

Papaya

Yes, tomatoes are a fruit. ❤️😎

As 90 million acres of corn are grown in the US annually, I assume the "284 metric tons" number provided at the end of this video is incorrect. Its probably closer to 284 million metric tons.

Oh! How about a video on why Hershey's failed in Australia? It's not just financially, either. I've heard that Hershey's and American chocolate in general now has a horrible reputation in Australia to this day. Like, it's a popular meme in Australia (and Europe) that American chocolate is awful because of the failed push by Hershey's to sell their chocolate there.

@Ezramicon

Жыл бұрын

To those without a tolerance to American chocolate, it is described as overly sweet and with the twang of vomit flavor

@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917

Жыл бұрын

@@Ezramicon Honestly, I've eaten European food and had meals with Europeans. The food is really bland, and hearing the European guy complain that there was some seasoning on his steak was a really eye-opening experience. Like, imagine being so committed to disliking American food that you turn your nose up at the very idea of putting a little salt on your meat and treat your food as superior because it doesn't have any flavor. Like, fine, enjoy turning your nose up at food with a very small amount of seasoning, you pretentious git. I'm sure Gordon Ramsay would approve.

@RedRoseSeptember22

Жыл бұрын

@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Right? LOL

@tomorrow4eva

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, Hershey's bar vs Australian Cadbury bar? No contest. Cadbury has a nicer flavour and mouth feel. I suspect American candy focuses more on adding things together or mixing salty and sweet flavours then on having a quality chocolate. If you are always eating chocolate with things in it, a lower quality chocolate may not bother you. Whereas a lot of Australian confectionery has only one add-in so if the chocolate isn't good, people won't like it. That's my theory.

@hugolouessard3914

Жыл бұрын

@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 No. It's just that you americans are used to extremely salty, sweet or spicy food, so anything normal feels bland. But it's not. And yes we do add salt on our meat, if needed. And pepper

When you've already passed this class in Sam Onella's academy 😏

@TobeyFairre7861

Жыл бұрын

Same

@giuseppelogiurato5718

Жыл бұрын

Yes, when? Finish your sentence, please.

@codfan2057

Жыл бұрын

"MY HEART'S A-SEIZING! MY LUNGS A-WHEEZING! THE F*CKING WALLS ARE MELTING!"

3:45 Atomic Gardening

👍👍👍

Organic in no way means not artificially selected. It means either not using any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, or made of carbon

@zachazlett

Жыл бұрын

Made of carbon? Like plants?

@chromicapop4595

Жыл бұрын

Economics of organic stuff also different as per guidelines set in place

@spacekoalalove

Жыл бұрын

The writing felt kind of off in this video

@garycarpenter2980

Жыл бұрын

In my mind it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth

@ripleyandweeds1288

Жыл бұрын

"or made of carbon" oh you mean like most if not all lifeforms on planet earth? including plants? you numbskull?

Organic or not, any person starving will eat anything edible

I ate grapefruit withput sugar every morning growing up...

I like it when there’s a different narrator. Of course she might be not as good like our original guy but she trying her best to entertaining and educate in her own way

@motorizedscooter4783

Жыл бұрын

this 😌

@bigmajestic3697

Жыл бұрын

Nobody likes a different narrator

I’m really surprised that these foods are manmade.

This seems to be more, plants that are genetically modified, which is probably all foods we consume.

I laugh when people say nature's dessert. And people get mad when I say that fruits and vegetables aren't natural and aren't healthy. Most of them come from poisonous plants. So if all of this didn't exists before, then what were we eating?

I love grapefruit but can't eat it because of the medication I'm on.. doesn't make sense, but I dutifully avoid it. Personally, I think that the purple carrots taste better than the orange ones...

I wish the narrating felt a bit more personal and connected, this video sounds/feels very professional and corporate to me

"Why does the classification matter?" Oh honey to agriculturists and botanists, _they don't_

How about doing a video on foods that are deadly if not processed? Processed foods are often referred to as unhealthy, but there are products we eat that would potentially kill us if not processed. I am not just thinking about Japanese fish. When I lived in Indonesia, there were chips that were similar to potato chips in use, but as I remember it, the chips were made from a plant that was shredded and rinsed in lye to draw the poisonous ingredients out. Thereafter the result was turned into a powder and fried, sort of like Pringles.

And here is a list of other gmo fruits and veggies 😆

Fruit doesn't taste anything AT ALL like it use to! Fruit used to be like ice cream! There was no need to add sugar to strawberries because they were sooo juicy n good! Bananas don't even taste like bananas anymore!!!!

@Yo-ey4ue

2 ай бұрын

That’s also because our diets have so much added sugar that fruit don’t taste sweet anymore

14:10 wow. thats a lot . so much.

Gotta love the Phoebe Cates !!

I prefer the normal narrator a lot more, however, this is the first Weird History Food video from the non-usual narrator that I don't instantly click off of.

@bettyprettyprincess

Жыл бұрын

I instantly clicked off

More 🙏 Content Daddy

This is all kind of Darwinian. Survival of the fittest, cultivation of the best

I thought this was going to be about Franken Food.

Nice try but everybody know that peaches come in a can. They were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.

Logan pollinated my Grapefruit Juice?

Toe-mates?🤦‍♂️No miss señorita, the Spanish would pronounce it toh-mah-tez more-or-less. Good video though. Julien De Berry is my new hero! 😆

You want real organic food? Go plant the seeds in the ground, wait for spring to come, then be disappointed when nothing grows. And if something does grow, let’s hope you don’t get ecoli, ergot, mold, parasites or anything else.

@spacekoalalove

Жыл бұрын

Wtf. Do you work for Monsanto

@lawrencetalbot8346

Жыл бұрын

@@spacekoalalove that’s classified

11:40 Tow-Mates? really? im surprised you were closer to pronouncing the nahuatl word than the spanish one.

1:53 shout of to The International movie being referenced. It’s a boring movie, but it’s also a conspiracy thriller that got thrown under the bus for being a little too honest about its plot.

I like how the narrator immediately contradicts herself saying carrots were grown only after 900, then goes back to the 6th century. Did nobody edit this script? Also, carrots date back to 3000 BC, not a thousand year ago or so.

@RunesofChange

Жыл бұрын

It's not a contradiction at all, you're just not parsing it properly. The 6th century bullet point was the first written record of someone saying we should eat the undomesticated wild root. It wasn't until 900 (10th century) where they began to be domesticated (via artificial selection) worldwide.

and oranges are the bastard child of pomelo and tangerine, or so I'm told...

So basically all the fruits and vegetables that we eat on a daily basis is not as healthy as we assumed them to be 🤔

@TeamDreamhunter

10 ай бұрын

Literally the opposite of that lmao

@Bobtony

Ай бұрын

It’s selective breeding

You had me at "inbred"

Aztecs weren't around in Mexico 7000 years ago, and citrus did leave Asia through the Arab trade before European exploration, landing in present day Spain and Italy in the middle ages. Otherwise great video!

Thanks China, peaches are my favorite fruit

This simply doesn’t work without the narrator we are used to, at the end of the day he makes these videos interesting and funny

Everything is seemingly GMO from fruits to veggies to the meat that we eat 🤮🤮🤮 ...

Weird.

Mah-eeze not maize

Frezier, is NOT strawberry in French 😒. Close, sort of. Strawberry in French is fraise.

Plantains and the potato have nothing in common

@Nerathul1

Жыл бұрын

I think what she meant is that they're starchy rather than sweet.

You can avoid sugar on the grapefruit and just sprinkle salt on the top. Use natural sea salt to be healthier. Really interesting vid. New subscriber!

Nope...not watching this.

So what common vegetables and fruits are NOT man made?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

So, "gmo" isn't new? Unheard of...

FRANKENFOOD

good video

Without the work of thousands of years of selective breeding we would not be able to feed the world so lets all give a big cheer to plant breeders, an occupation most people don't realise even exists.

Delivery is ugh.. off there. Feels like this is for children or like.. PBS Eons 🤷‍♂️

@cj548

Жыл бұрын

You just not stoned enough bro

I would like to know some history about Guinness Beer and how is turned into Guinness World Records!

@SpearFisher85

Жыл бұрын

Ha! Thats a great joke.

@susana5052

11 ай бұрын

@kaleidoscope3564 I would too! I don’t drink alcohol, but when I was traveling and this is my friend England, I tried my friends husband beer, which was Guinness. It didn’t make me break out in hives nor did I have a headache. 20 minutes after drinking some! I thought I would come home to America and I have the same experience and I was so wrong!😢 I don’t know what the differences between the two different Guinness beer sold in Europe versus in America, so whatever it is, it makes a huge difference in my body.💔

Only Man is Truly Manmade

Well you guys, let's be fair. At least strawberries weren't made from some chemical mutation, but rather from natural crossbreeding practices.

I would like to give thanks today for the regular narrator. Go ahead and make your nice concessions about how hard the other narrator tries to do a good job it has nothing to do with maintaining the characteristic and appeal of the original product so if you're here to look for something different than what weird history usually is then fine here you go Happy Thanksgiving

@Truckngirl

Жыл бұрын

WTF is a "nice concession"? Tom Blank doesn't just do "a good job", he's a widely known voiceover, narration and announcing professional. His voice is part of the brand. His ability to deliver the occasional lackluster writing or poor research of Weird History in a clever way is miles ahead of this. People expressing their preference for the narrator is crucial for the channel to maintain their present level of income. The rest of your post is word salad. Happy Thanksgiving to you.

@Cynocehali

Жыл бұрын

Stupid comment. Old narrator is way better.

@jetcitykitty

Жыл бұрын

@@Truckngirl you just repeated what I said are you sure you understood my comment? Because it sounds like we both like the older narrator I guess his name is Tom blank. We also both understand that he is a part of their brand and is a characteristic element of the product. How do you not know what nice concessions means in that case? Nice concessions as in when people try to say nice things about the younger female narrator, or how hard she tries, etc even though none of that makes a difference when we're talking about brand and product consistency and maintaining the aspects of it that characterize the product. So it's like the nice things are just to make her feel better or be showerly supportive and that's what makes them nice little concessions. Look it sounds like you interpreted my comment as me implying that I like the girl more than the guy even though I said I was thankful for the regular narrator as in Mr blank I guess oh whatever shoot

@sacrosby

Жыл бұрын

​@@Truckngirl l2read

Great video! I'll be showing it to my ag students when we cover biotechnology.

Bring back Tom. I only subbed for his voice and Timeliness series (jokes) love all the content. Keep up the amazing research 👏

Thanks for this! 🍌 #WeirdHistoryFood #Fruit #FoodHistory

Cron, the only fruit of vegetable I actually enjoy

@cj548

Жыл бұрын

It's cron

@Backroad_Junkie

Жыл бұрын

Cron is (and probably always will be to me) a Unix scheduling utility...

@RustyNickels

Жыл бұрын

Cron on the crob, crammed cron, cronbeard, cron fakes, poopcron, etc. My flavorites!

I enjoy this narrator, also I cannot believe you grapefruited all over my screen. Incredible

@bigmajestic3697

Жыл бұрын

Wrong

@drewlovely2668

Жыл бұрын

@@bigmajestic3697 left

@bigmajestic3697

Жыл бұрын

@@drewlovely2668 triangle

@drewlovely2668

Жыл бұрын

@@bigmajestic3697 Sébastien

@bigmajestic3697

Жыл бұрын

@@drewlovely2668 faustian

this video, especially the first half, makes it sound like “effing with the fuit/veggie” by humans is some kind of an evil thing. cross breeding plants for the purpose of getting a plant with higher yield or larger fruit is bad how exactly? also lots of examples kind of lack more in depth explanation or interesting stories, in my opinion.

this info on almonds is false. Fact is there is more then 1 type of almond, and the dangerous bitter ones, are Still Exactly that, a Different Type of Almond, #Research

I will make this short for you , EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER EATEN , yes even that .

I thought this was a WatchMojo video for a minute...ew 😒😩

Horticulture and selective breeding are far from the same thing as man made. 🙄