Food Theory: Gaston STOLE All the Eggs! (Beauty and the Beast)

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    “Now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs” woah, woah, woah! Hold up there, Gaston. FIVE DOZEN eggs?! Now I don’t know about you, Loyal Theorists, but that seems a bit excessive. Not only do I think Gaston CAN’T eat all those eggs, but I also wonder what his consumption is doing to the local town in Beauty and the Beast, especially with the current egg crisis. To find the answers, you’ll just have to watch.
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  • @Version0111
    @Version0111 Рік тому +3964

    I had this thought years ago. The line "I need 6 eggs. That's too expensive." always makes me think it's because Gaston eats most of them so there's only a small amount left.

    • @Version0111
      @Version0111 Рік тому +78

      @lShowSрееd shorts 🅥 I keep forgetting why I hate leaving comments on popular UA-cam channels.

    • @leoparodo
      @leoparodo Рік тому +43

      @@Version0111 dude got absolutly demolished by bots

    • @jason4443
      @jason4443 Рік тому +29

      @@Version0111
      FR it's such a problem now.

    • @elizabethgraves4765
      @elizabethgraves4765 Рік тому +22

      I keep spamming report and it does nothing :")

    • @Thomas_H._Smith
      @Thomas_H._Smith Рік тому +47

      The thing is though, the "that's too expensive line" is not said about the eggs but rather a jug.

  • @politenonparticipant4859
    @politenonparticipant4859 Рік тому +12154

    Here's a consideration: I'm not convinced Gaston knows how many eggs are in a dozen.

    • @elliottmcleandeboer
      @elliottmcleandeboer Рік тому +2154

      Nice theory - LeFou is illiterate, and Gaston doesn't understand basic maths. A himbo match made in heaven

    • @Jacob-WD40
      @Jacob-WD40 Рік тому +663

      That's the real theory.

    • @tsubasasupremo
      @tsubasasupremo Рік тому

      he's all brawn but no brain

    • @SCdreamdrawer
      @SCdreamdrawer Рік тому +986

      4/3 people do suffer from math illiteracy. 😂

    • @AGwolf2097
      @AGwolf2097 Рік тому +60

      ha

  • @complex2live
    @complex2live Рік тому +837

    Remember, this man calculated the time and place where the movie took place, the chickens that laid the eggs and even used the Laws of Supply and Demand just to figure out if One Man ate an entire Village's Egg Supply.

    • @Kat-mv5dy
      @Kat-mv5dy Рік тому +41

      And then forgot that eggs are not a key ingredient in bread

    • @norwich2009
      @norwich2009 Рік тому +17

      He even looked at old English architecture, this guy should win an Emmy award

    • @realgoofballmoment
      @realgoofballmoment Рік тому +4

      Seems normal to me.

    • @LizLuvsCupcakes
      @LizLuvsCupcakes 5 місяців тому +3

      @@Kat-mv5dysometimes they are. Especially in really good bread recipes, and considering that to the French, bread is like MONDO sacred, it wouldn’t surprise me if this recipe used eggs.

  • @bongpoquito
    @bongpoquito Рік тому +1120

    In the live musical production, the lines "I need six eggs" and "thats too expensive" are sung right after the other. Some directors give the baker's wife the first line with the baker replying. Its a perfect fit for this theory.

    • @ihaveanamexd4466
      @ihaveanamexd4466 Рік тому +22

      I said the same thing and didn't see your comment 😂

    • @Laurenba
      @Laurenba Рік тому +27

      It's said in the background of the animated version as well!

    • @redsteak6694
      @redsteak6694 Рік тому +8

      Funny part is the musical at least the one I was a part of removed the egg line in gaston

    • @toriibarlow
      @toriibarlow Рік тому +10

      The only reason I remember those lines specifically is because I was supposed to be the shopkeeper. I was still in the scene though and they practiced that specific bit multiple times

    • @dorianventa5436
      @dorianventa5436 Рік тому +2

      Same thing happened in the live action version. Surprised Mat didn't mention that.

  • @Shadowgun453
    @Shadowgun453 Рік тому +4764

    I love the fact that MatPat went from food theory to film theory to architectural theory.

  • @SoManyRandomRamblings
    @SoManyRandomRamblings Рік тому +2360

    I like how MatPat doesn't just assume the villain was eggs-agerating.

    • @VistilShaiteth
      @VistilShaiteth Рік тому +72

      Have you come to expect anything else from MatPat?

    • @mell4168
      @mell4168 Рік тому +103

      @@VistilShaiteth eggspect?

    • @HindsightWildin
      @HindsightWildin Рік тому +47

      Simply take the word “dozen” out. 5 eggs is much more reasonable.

    • @SoManyRandomRamblings
      @SoManyRandomRamblings Рік тому +42

      @@HindsightWildin or he misunderstood dos and thought a dozen equals 2. Lol. And since a typical restaurant egg order has 2 eggs, he's bragging he ate 5 orders of eggs. 😂
      Imagine there was a traveler in the tavern when he was a kid, he overheard and instead of hearing 'dos huevos' he heard "dozen eggos" and he's been bragging about eating pairs of eggs ever since. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @beckie8168
      @beckie8168 Рік тому +11

      Too much of an egghead to back down from a challenge 😂

  • @musearrives2am
    @musearrives2am Рік тому +240

    Honestly, Matpat makes it sound like 200 is a lot of chickens to have one hand, but my Great Depression Grandmother raised up to 300 chickens each year to sell for meat to a local inn and used the eggs they laid beforehand to sell and feed her 12 children. A little entrepreneurial for the time, but it has been done.

    • @kingofhearts3185
      @kingofhearts3185 Рік тому +21

      I know someone that raised a dozen or so chickens in his free time back in middle school. He sold them by the dozen on weekends, but I don't have exact numbers. He wasn't a farmer, nobody in the family was. Chickens were just abundant i n the area, you'd see hordes of them on street corners in town.

    • @themusicalhallway3422
      @themusicalhallway3422 9 місяців тому +5

      That's awesome that she was able to do that!

    • @punprincess3214
      @punprincess3214 6 місяців тому +3

      While that does make sense, Mat did the calculations in terms of Gaston's needs, not the villages, all the chickens in town are working for him, unless he has that many chickens of his own, he's the only one that gets the eggs

  • @charlesm6994
    @charlesm6994 Рік тому +178

    Hey Matt Pat, quick note. I live in Washington state and raise backyard chickens. Roughly the same latitude as France so roughly the same daylight hours. Between October and January my chickens don’t lay eggs at all. so there’s even less eggs for bargification

  • @shinyskitty3671
    @shinyskitty3671 Рік тому +3352

    Well, Belle’s dad is a crazy inventor. He could have artificial lighting and feed. It would explain why Gaston is so set on marrying Belle; he’s gotta secure those eggs

    • @avidreader4140
      @avidreader4140 Рік тому +178

      That's also a good theory too

    • @shikhar3281
      @shikhar3281 Рік тому +143

      @@avidreader4140 BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY A GOOD THEORY

    • @dende9043
      @dende9043 Рік тому +89

      If you put eggs in lime water they will keep for about two years, give or take. This was a practice commonly known before refrigerators. Gaston would have had no problem preserving his eggs.

    • @Narra0002
      @Narra0002 Рік тому +13

      @@shikhar3281 and cut

    • @Trulyrucknes
      @Trulyrucknes Рік тому +11

      @@Narra0002 thats for film theory it would be bon apetit for this channel

  • @ilovehamilton0724
    @ilovehamilton0724 Рік тому +388

    "The I need 6 eggs" "That's too expensive" has never aged so well.

    • @shaneg9081
      @shaneg9081 Рік тому +15

      Yeah, if memory serves me at the time the movie came out it was perfectly reasonable to get a dozen for 89 cents, or maybe less. Of course just your basic inflation has a bit to do with the rise, but $5 a dozen is insanity, and lately I've seen it at higher than that at times. Thankfully UA-cam has some great videos about alternatives that you can try out.

    • @Envrionmela
      @Envrionmela Рік тому +4

      Considering there was a French revolution 50 years later I hope there wouldn't be a 50 year wait for fair wages and better working conditions.

    • @LadyOnikara
      @LadyOnikara Рік тому +1

      I know. Now I appreciate my six chickens even more. Chicken food is more expensive now too though. We used to have 13 chickens, but 7 died last year, mainly the red ones. I hope we can get a few more this year. Chickens are silly, but I like them a lot.

    • @anniemal8030
      @anniemal8030 Рік тому +1

      Actually, the that’s too expensive was said by a man holding a vase, not the woman buying the eggs

    • @PixieoftheWood
      @PixieoftheWood Рік тому

      @@shaneg9081 Where I live it's nearly $8 a dozen. Thankfully I only go through a dozen in a week, rather than five dozen in a day.

  • @anthonywynn1812
    @anthonywynn1812 Рік тому +116

    Something to take into consideration: If a hen is frightened, egg production halts for days.
    On several occasions, we had to deal with predators getting into the Chicken enclosure at night.
    Now fortunately, our hens were kept in a building at night, that locked from the outside, so only occasionally did we lose one. Still, the predators got into the fenced area they roamed during the day.
    After firing some shotgun blasts to take care of the problem, hens stopped laying eggs for almost 7 full days.

  • @immistudios5157
    @immistudios5157 Рік тому +81

    5:55
    From someone who speaks French, French people would've definetly understood you
    Very good pronounciation MatPat :)

  • @Tokuijin
    @Tokuijin Рік тому +1287

    Actually, Gaston said he ate eggs but he didn't say that they were chicken eggs. Dude could have been eating quail eggs for all we know

    • @Creation_kitchen
      @Creation_kitchen Рік тому +21

      😂😂😂

    • @nomoresaul
      @nomoresaul Рік тому +47

      Have you seen a quail egg?! 😂

    • @satomz
      @satomz Рік тому +184

      Technically he didn't specify bird eggs either, he could be eating fish eggs or even, uh, invertebrate eggs

    • @robo8478
      @robo8478 Рік тому

      Maybe human eggs, from all the ovaries Chadston is ripping open

    • @SoullessGabe
      @SoullessGabe Рік тому +52

      The man was juggling eggs while singing the song lol

  • @ztslovebird
    @ztslovebird Рік тому +1339

    Gaston didn’t think Belle was being held hostage when Maurice first came to beg for help saving her. He only went after the Beast AFTER Belle had already been freed & showed more interest in the Beast than in Gaston.

  • @notzombie3703
    @notzombie3703 Рік тому +23

    I got an ad at 10:33, so it cut off and was just 1, my monkey brain somehow find this funny

  • @williammcnear3462
    @williammcnear3462 Рік тому +50

    Now what we really need answers to: How did Gaston eat all those raw eggs WITH THE SHELLS ON?

    • @vanguardiris3232
      @vanguardiris3232 9 місяців тому +12

      He has strong teeth from all the calcium in those eggshells, which he's only able to eat because of his strong teeth. It's a real "chicken or egg" situation

    • @DarkAngelHeart-qe6yi
      @DarkAngelHeart-qe6yi 7 місяців тому

      My man swallowed em whole tho

  • @blackgirlyellowsunvibes
    @blackgirlyellowsunvibes Рік тому +388

    Someone once said that "Gaston singlehandedly drove up the egg price and caused an economic egg crisis"
    And it's beautiful

    • @Cerebrum123
      @Cerebrum123 Рік тому +28

      Missed opportunity for calling it an "eggonomic crisis".

    • @blackgirlyellowsunvibes
      @blackgirlyellowsunvibes Рік тому +8

      @@Cerebrum123 that is a missed opportunity!

    • @il3m0n50
      @il3m0n50 Рік тому

      That’s a lotta chickens

    • @ranga274
      @ranga274 Рік тому +1

      Gaston: ensuring the town will soon rely on egg imports.

  • @Derpinator01
    @Derpinator01 Рік тому +1218

    Now for the question, does Gaston eat so many eggs because he's respected enough to get away with it or is he respected because he's able to afford so many eggs? Which came first, the hunter or the eggs?

    • @jamesuthmann940
      @jamesuthmann940 Рік тому +127

      The thing MatPat failed to address is HOW Gaston is able to afford that many eggs. I was hoping for that, given all the other economic points he covered. This is supposedly a small village, how is a hunter able to sell enough game to pay for all those eggs?

    • @ClownHoundII
      @ClownHoundII Рік тому +106

      @@jamesuthmann940 To be fair, it was common to hunters to sell outside the village. If a hunter can find a good trapping area, he could made a quick buck.

    • @whyiamafs
      @whyiamafs Рік тому +38

      @@ClownHoundII (is 'a quick buck' a hunting/trapping pun?)

    • @thewafflegamer6152
      @thewafflegamer6152 Рік тому +17

      @@whyiamafs i think hunting as a buck is a common animal to hunt

    • @Gartersnake970
      @Gartersnake970 Рік тому +7

      if hunters apply to predators then hunters

  • @jacob510
    @jacob510 Рік тому +57

    MatPat and team theorist answering questions we didn't know we wanted to ask for over a decade

  • @angelsister7635
    @angelsister7635 Рік тому +13

    I live in a small town, everyone's solution to the egg price rise is that they have nearly completely stopped buying from the store and are just buying chickens, but I wonder if that would truly be cheaper in the long run .

    • @nidohime6233
      @nidohime6233 Рік тому +2

      You can still sell the left over eggs if you get too many, that way you can parcially cover the costs of feeding.

  • @Convoy00X
    @Convoy00X Рік тому +890

    I've always thought Gaston didn’t know what a dozen means and thought it was how they were prepared.

    • @Jacob-WD40
      @Jacob-WD40 Рік тому +37

      This makes much more sense. XD

    • @WorldWalker128
      @WorldWalker128 Рік тому +84

      I mean, it's already implied that Gaston, although the biggest hammer in the shed, isn't the sharpest tool. I could easily see him doing exactly that.

    • @AnnoyingMoose
      @AnnoyingMoose Рік тому +33

      Even MatPat shows the eggs in cartons of 10 each instead of 12 (a dozen).

    • @bogbog1119
      @bogbog1119 Рік тому +4

      @Dis Dis bot alert

    • @LadyOnikara
      @LadyOnikara Рік тому +9

      @@AnnoyingMoose After we go through this expensive egg thing, they will probably make the packages smaller like they are doing for everything else. (At our local store, I saw boxes of those conversation hearts and the package was half the size they used to be.)

  • @sonicrider321
    @sonicrider321 Рік тому +438

    "When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs. So I'm roughly the size of a barge. "
    I like to imagine that Gaston was just going around early in the morning, pillaging eggs from everyone in town as he slowly grown into a bigger kid and then adult. Gaston going around chicken pens, just swallowing eggs and dipping. Eventually, he just became such a barge that he uses his strength to become the greatest giga-chad in the village.
    And because he's such a barge, nobody wants to challenge him due to his intimidating strength.
    In the song, LeFou says "no one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston" implying that Gaston is so fast at consuming the eggs so then nobody is able to capture him early on which made him become big and strong in the end.

    • @andrewboxall2945
      @andrewboxall2945 Рік тому +13

      nah... he was just lieing about it to make himself look good - it is literally spelled out in the song.

  • @jaydenwallace8967
    @jaydenwallace8967 Рік тому +10

    if you go at 0.25 speed at 12:47 you can see skulls in gaston's eyes, and matpat didnt add those in, that was in the movie

  • @greenbeantm1096
    @greenbeantm1096 9 місяців тому +4

    2:20 the one thing I always found funny about the song was how growing up he only increased his egg intake by a dozen. Well it’s still a lot of eggs the idea that his appetite changed so little between childhood and adulthood I always found entertaining.

  • @konradbox2399
    @konradbox2399 Рік тому +694

    I remember being like twelve and sending an email to matpat to cover this topic. Many years later I have finally received vindication

    • @elle7503
      @elle7503 Рік тому +38

      TWElve?? How many years has it been?

    • @QUBIQUBED
      @QUBIQUBED Рік тому +13

      Dayumm

    • @randomrockerable
      @randomrockerable Рік тому +22

      Me too! I sent Matpat a tweet like 4 years ago asking about this

    • @theleonpasta7336
      @theleonpasta7336 Рік тому +6

      Lmao, how'd you even find his email?

    • @Chronicler9
      @Chronicler9 Рік тому +34

      I like to think that he saw this email and was like "Hmmm We should do a FOOD THEORY CHANNEL!" and then put a pin in it on the creative board and now, years later when the channel is properly up and running, here it is! :)

  • @cacahuete1456
    @cacahuete1456 Рік тому +206

    Fun fact in the french version of Gaston's song, he actually says "when I was little I ate 4 dozen eggs (...) Now that I am big I eat 49" so yeah it starts just like you but the french version in so much funnier when you realize that he just added the grand total of 1 egg to his diet

    • @TheRawrnstuff
      @TheRawrnstuff Рік тому +33

      Another fun fact, in the Finnish version Gaston sings he "ate eggs by tons" while growing up, and that "now, since the task is done, he can't get any stronger".

    • @cobalt3250
      @cobalt3250 Рік тому +29

      @@TheRawrnstuff Didn't realize I needed "alternative language Disney lyrics" in my life, but I was wrong.

    • @SeraliaAerials
      @SeraliaAerials Рік тому +8

      To be fair, growing boys need lots of food to grow. Now that he’s grown, he doesn’t need a whole lot more, lol

    • @hast3110
      @hast3110 Рік тому +4

      in the Norwegian version of the song Gaston ate "3 snes med egg" (3x20=60) eggs as a child, and 5 snes (5x20=100 eggs!) for breakfast, because he thinks it is good for his body

  • @eg_ontoast
    @eg_ontoast Рік тому +22

    I'd like to see a theory on something my sister brought up while looking at some cool color palettes. Could too much color make you go blind, or colorblind? Im genuinely really curious about this, I'd love to see a video on this!

  •  Рік тому +24

    I actually appreciate this video so much, I’ve always wondered why 6 eggs were so expensive.

  • @chal3453
    @chal3453 Рік тому +565

    One thing he didn't mention is that eggs were also significantly smaller back then! There are cake recipes from the 1700s that call for 24 eggs!

    • @EHMM
      @EHMM Рік тому +18

      24.

    • @plushdragonteddy
      @plushdragonteddy Рік тому +61

      tumblr’s vanilla extract cake could never

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Рік тому +7

      Haha

    • @testerwulf3357
      @testerwulf3357 Рік тому +50

      Yea, whilst we bred chickens to create eggs faster we also bred them to create larger eggs; now-a-days many chicken breeds can produce an egg each day roughly (when we cared for chickens at my school we always checked daily for eggs on top of making sure they had enough food and water), it can actually lead to calcium deficiency problems in chickens from producing so many eggs so farmers often to have to make sure their feed contains decent amounts of calcium in it so they can produce eggs (calcium deficiency means no eggs because egg's shells are made of calcium)

    • @cristsan4171
      @cristsan4171 Рік тому +5

      That's roughly 24 ostrich eggs.

  • @elijahkropf
    @elijahkropf Рік тому +135

    10:23 "The grand total of chickens needed to satisfy Gaston's protein fix is... ONE--" [Ad break]
    That's one good chicken

    • @Crunch9999
      @Crunch9999 Рік тому +6

      Egg

    • @misamisaa4547
      @misamisaa4547 Рік тому +1

      that's because creators can adjust when the adds on their videos play - he explained it in one of the couch videos

    • @shadowdove7082
      @shadowdove7082 Рік тому +2

      @@misamisaa4547 ...anyone else getting the feeling that Matpat made that ad placement on purpose just for the sake of getting comments like what we're seeing here? 😅

  • @creativecthulhu
    @creativecthulhu Рік тому +17

    8:27 I can assure you, *I asked.* I'm currently in a production of Beauty and the Beast (the musical) as Maurice, and having heard that lyric over and over during rehearsals, I've bought this idea into question. I was really excited seeing this video!! Also, in the musical, it's the "Aristocratic Lady" who says "that's too expensive!" in Belle for SIX EGGS. An aristocrat can't afford six eggs. That's how you know it's gotten bad 😂
    Anywho thanks so much Food Theory team. Glad this egg dilemma was finally *cracked*.

  • @imakethesites3048
    @imakethesites3048 Рік тому +9

    I’m surprised you didn’t mention the eggshells, chicken poop, or cost of feeding and housing the chickens. In addition, Gaston clearly comes from wealth to have grown up eating so much, rich from inheritance but not royalty or well-educated and willing to marry a peasant. I wonder whether he owns that bar.

  • @vincentchiariello4578
    @vincentchiariello4578 Рік тому +417

    You forgot a MASSIVE point, there's an ENTIRE castle with its staff that effectively up and vanished no longer requiring food. Right around the time Gaston would have started his consumption, so he likely SAVED the town from dealing with a shock & drop in demand.

    • @jamestheaverageman6959
      @jamestheaverageman6959 Рік тому +88

      The castle has its own livestock, Matpat even mentioned this in his last beauty and the beast video.

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 Рік тому +3

      Abd gaston provided meat and leather to the peasants by hunting since previously, the castle's lord would have had exclusive hunting rights over most animals most of the year.

  • @francisfranc3913
    @francisfranc3913 Рік тому +571

    As a chicken fanatic, I was very happy for MatPat to guess Houdans (I have 7 of these cuties) as the egg supplier breed 😄

    • @shouldvesaid13
      @shouldvesaid13 Рік тому +3

      Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

    • @laughsingay
      @laughsingay Рік тому +8

      Aww :)

    • @reekill_playlists
      @reekill_playlists Рік тому +9

      Ooh, I should look those up. We unfortunately lost our coop to predators a month ago and we're getting new ones this summer.

    • @thananightshade
      @thananightshade Рік тому

      Yes but never had a 2 a week production time nor full non laying for 5 months.

    • @joeljustjazzing
      @joeljustjazzing Рік тому

      You have any fighting chickens?

  • @nicholaspoling9691
    @nicholaspoling9691 Рік тому +12

    We never needed proof that Matt Pat was a father, but this episode is all the proof anyone will ever need, the amount of Dad Jokes, and Egg puns is truly remarkable, all within the first 4 minutes too.

  • @juliebradley
    @juliebradley Рік тому +17

    The fowl play meme made me laugh way harder than it should have. Kudos to the editor that slipped that in there 🐔

  • @lillypad5317
    @lillypad5317 Рік тому +711

    I feel that what made Gaston a villain from the get-go was the fact that he doesn't think of Bell as a person he just thinks of her as a trophy with the live action version going as far as to have him try and threaten her into marrying him.

    • @shlatekkin
      @shlatekkin Рік тому +22

      *Biff Tannen has entered the Chat*

    • @pandamonium2653
      @pandamonium2653 Рік тому +8

      @@shlatekkin Bahahaha

    • @AluminumFusion22
      @AluminumFusion22 Рік тому +51

      The difference between Gaston and the Beast is the Beast was a good person deep down and wanted to change, and Belle saw that. If she had married Gaston, she would've been held hostage too, but unlike the Beast he didn't truly love her and didn't think he needed to change.

    • @Rahul_Sastry
      @Rahul_Sastry Рік тому +29

      @@AluminumFusion22 yeah it's not just his views on women but the fact the was desperate, idiotic and not a good person from inside marrying him would be to willfully get married with an abuser.

    • @daikatarokamegawa542
      @daikatarokamegawa542 Рік тому +5

      It's been a very popular theory, that had Gaston starred at any other Disney film, he would've been a hero.

  • @imSeph
    @imSeph Рік тому +140

    I was in a Beauty and the Beast play over the summer this year, and I was a Silly Girl (one of the three girls that constantly fawn over Gaston) and ironically the actor that played Gaston LOVED eggs and I just thought that that was a fun thing to share on the topic of Gatston and eggs lol! 😂😂

    • @DarkPsychoMessiah
      @DarkPsychoMessiah Рік тому +2

      I've seen them being named the Bimbettes

    • @imSeph
      @imSeph Рік тому +1

      @@DarkPsychoMessiahAh, I believe that's what they called them in the play, but everyone just referred to them as the Silly Girls lol! Thank you though! 😂😂😊

  • @squeakssqueakers4905
    @squeakssqueakers4905 Рік тому +4

    I love how in the ad portion about how much time MatPat doesn’t have you can hear Ollie calling for him in the background while filming the cooking portion

  • @thienancr7
    @thienancr7 9 місяців тому +3

    The amount of research that Matt and his team put in the videos on all of the "theory" channels are ridiculous! I subscribed to all of them because they are the best.

  • @freyahealy5355
    @freyahealy5355 Рік тому +245

    The amount of effort that goes into a video answering a question that nobody had in the first place is astonishing, but what is even more surprising is how entertaining it is, how much it makes sense, and the fact that the question has an answer in the first place.

  • @MissOnana
    @MissOnana Рік тому +178

    Even though I knew exactly what this theory entailed, I was still excited to see it covered. It's one that's been floating around the fandom for ages now, and it's really satisfying to see someone dig into the how and why of it.

  • @niallshor3n938
    @niallshor3n938 Рік тому +7

    As someone who grew up with an egg allergy (and who accidentally re-triggered that allergy by having a few too many eggs in a week) Gaston’s diet is my worst nightmare

  • @jake_3728
    @jake_3728 9 місяців тому +2

    Love this episode! Hilarious that we went through literally every other geographical aspect of the movie before settling on the fact that Gaston does, in fact, eat a lot of eggs. But quick question, we saw in the live-action that Gaston is a war hero who just returned, and I don't recall ever hearing that Gaston grew up in the little town where Belle lives...
    Also, Gaston's entrance in the movie is him "returning" to the village after spending time away.
    Wouldn't it be more probable to attribute the economic failure (and possibly the lack of population) to the plague mentioned in the live-action (People dying; less labor to meet demand) instead of Gaston's stomach?

  • @croziesour9734
    @croziesour9734 Рік тому +140

    You know what my parents did to combat the egg shortage? Bought some chickens. Can't wait for some fresh eggs.

    • @kumiho4970
      @kumiho4970 Рік тому +13

      Please tell them not to use the Purina brand of feed, it seems to be inhibiting egg production

    • @mckenziemcintyre1651
      @mckenziemcintyre1651 Рік тому +9

      As someone who’s been raising chickens for almost two years now, they’re so friendly and sweet! And the eggs are pretty nice too. Make sure to give your chickens positive words and cuddles.

    • @donnalynn2
      @donnalynn2 Рік тому +9

      I'm not sure but I think maybe chickens you personally have may produce more eggs. My BIL has a big piece of property with maybe 5-7 chickens. There were only 3 of them living there and every time we visited they would send us home with at least 2 dozen.

    • @nidohime6233
      @nidohime6233 Рік тому +7

      @@donnalynn2 I can atest that. Even having 3 chickens is enough to overflow your fridge if you don't eat eggs that often.

    • @The_Natalist
      @The_Natalist Рік тому +2

      @@kumiho4970 purina isnt cheap either usually

  • @OlyChickenGuy
    @OlyChickenGuy Рік тому +392

    As someone who's dedicated over a decade of my life to rescuing roosters, I applaud your chicken history! I admit to sitting here with itchy fingers, getting ready to point out every point you brought up!

    • @miki7566
      @miki7566 Рік тому +7

      Wow! Username and profile picture checks out lol

  • @l0ca1w3ird0
    @l0ca1w3ird0 7 місяців тому +2

    Me in my schools production of Beauty and the Beast: *Fighting the urge to info dump on matpats Beauty and the Beast theories*

  • @_AshishKumar-jk9uh
    @_AshishKumar-jk9uh Рік тому +7

    I couldn't resist myself from watching the whole video, you made it too epic and the eggs stakes were too high 😂

  • @AidanEu
    @AidanEu Рік тому +423

    It's not eggceptible that Matpat did very few egg puns this video. (I'm not trying to hate on the video)

    • @michaelmehr9264
      @michaelmehr9264 Рік тому +7

      10:28 Egg roll - the absolute best! ROFL!

    • @miragemain105
      @miragemain105 Рік тому +13

      The few puns he did do though were EGGcellent and quite EGGstraordinary, personally um EGGstatic now that I've heard some EGGstremely good YOKE's

    • @road-100k
      @road-100k Рік тому +3

      i thought it was EGGcellent

    • @nathanspencers5803
      @nathanspencers5803 Рік тому +6

      @@road-100k why didnt he say egg-conomic crash it was right there.

    • @doejhonny
      @doejhonny Рік тому +4

      A shell of his former self

  • @LucasThePhantomThief
    @LucasThePhantomThief Рік тому +658

    This is the quality content I subscribed to Film Theory I mean Food Theory for

    • @eyalm867
      @eyalm867 Рік тому +7

      This is the quality content I go to the comments for. Also, the video is part of the quality content I subscribed to game, film, food theory, and gtlive for

    • @eyalm867
      @eyalm867 Рік тому +1

      @Don't Read My Profile Picture gladly

    • @sherillepouncy9956
      @sherillepouncy9956 Рік тому

      Goofy little gremlins

    • @sherillepouncy9956
      @sherillepouncy9956 Рік тому

      @@spidermc3241 sus

    • @sherillepouncy9956
      @sherillepouncy9956 Рік тому

      @Only in Ohio 🗸 sus

  • @slimsackett6199
    @slimsackett6199 Рік тому +10

    Nice video Matt! One idea for a video you could try that I thought of recently: do meatless mondays actually help to reduce greenhouse gasses? I feel like it wouldn’t make that big of a difference, but maybe I’m wrong.

  • @anydoublezer
    @anydoublezer Рік тому +2

    I love the little mention of the Maccas incident because I remember hearing you say it and it was so sudden and jarring 😂

  • @SoManyRandomRamblings
    @SoManyRandomRamblings Рік тому +348

    I have a twist theory. When Gaston was a child a traveler came through town, and in the busy tavern he overheard an order for 'Dos huevos'... he thought he heard "dozen eggos" and has been bragging about eating PAIRS of eggs ever since.

  • @ArJayDM
    @ArJayDM Рік тому +170

    PatMat is low key one of the hardest working youtubers in youtube history.

    • @annajoseph9321
      @annajoseph9321 Рік тому +11

      Pat mat lol

    • @LH44EVER
      @LH44EVER Рік тому +18

      @@annajoseph9321 patthew matrick

    • @blinxly5530
      @blinxly5530 Рік тому +10

      @@LH44EVER tood fheory

    • @Roxelle.
      @Roxelle. Рік тому +9

      lmao these comments I'm wheezing

    • @FriskDrinksBrisk
      @FriskDrinksBrisk Рік тому +5

      He goes to Egg-stravagantly great lengths to give us solid ideas with a few yolks to keep it eggsiting!

  • @allisonfisher9304
    @allisonfisher9304 Рік тому +4

    Thank you for doing such in depth research into chickens, egg production, and historical accuracy, this is a fantastic video!!

  • @TrayCaddyyy
    @TrayCaddyyy 10 місяців тому +3

    Applaud for Matpat for putting the sponsored segment at the end of his video. And includes cool stats about how many videos he films a week

  • @wunderpupjo4223
    @wunderpupjo4223 Рік тому +449

    As someone who speaks french, you didn't actually do too bad on the names of those towns! Sure, you had quite an accent, but you got the pronunciation pretty dang close. Good job! :)
    (also don't worry, even the French themselves can’t pronounce Alsacian town names unless they're actually from there or they looked it up lol)

    • @Computment
      @Computment Рік тому

      He sucked be honest

    • @AdaraVanles
      @AdaraVanles Рік тому +31

      That’s what happen when Alsace keep going back and forth between France and Germany during history 😂

    • @eddylaboriemaye1305
      @eddylaboriemaye1305 Рік тому +13

      True, I thought I wasn't french for a moment there

    • @AdaraVanles
      @AdaraVanles Рік тому +4

      @@eddylaboriemaye1305 same xD

    • @lootownica
      @lootownica Рік тому +11

      It seems all languages have at least one dialect impossible to pronounce for the others xD

  • @SarahAbramova
    @SarahAbramova Рік тому +35

    You're forgetting he bribes a public official to put Belle's father in an asylum.

  • @Missgalaxy731
    @Missgalaxy731 10 місяців тому +4

    Matpat making egg puns while talking about economic crash is the theorist channel's aesthetic

  • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
    @anna_in_aotearoa3166 11 місяців тому +5

    I love how educational these vids always are 😆 Learnt waaay more about egg production here than I ever knew (& possibly needed to know? 😅) Seriously though, the actual research done is very cool!!

  • @seanhannan5415
    @seanhannan5415 Рік тому +68

    Finally! Gaston's egg-cessive diet has been brought to attention.
    Also he's absolutely loaded.

    • @Duckingitout
      @Duckingitout Рік тому

      I don't think Gaston is loaded. His bread and butter is that he was in some war and is now the town's hero. He is using the clout to get either reduced prices to his lifestyle or get handouts. He is the strong guy and has charisma and the town doesn't look at him for why they have economic issues.

  • @nickdohrendorf3931
    @nickdohrendorf3931 Рік тому +27

    Food theory idea: what’s the most calories shaggy and scoot have eaten in one sitting

  • @plushdragonteddy
    @plushdragonteddy Рік тому +7

    y’know, i wouldn’t be shocked if this was intentional. the lyricists needed some extra words to fill out the beginning song, and they’d already written that line about gaston having 5 dozen eggs for breakfast, and one of the writers thought about it and was like “…heh”
    u could even say it was… *an easter egg*

  • @clarencejohnson8964
    @clarencejohnson8964 Рік тому +3

    Just reading the first couple comments paired with the legendary gaston egg lyrics at beginning of the video and I can already tell this is gonna be my favorite theory in awhile😂

  • @jerryjellyshow8193
    @jerryjellyshow8193 Рік тому +104

    I like how Matt says
    "Your time and health are worth it, but hey that's just a theory, a food theory."

  • @farmerproductions9869
    @farmerproductions9869 Рік тому +17

    Gaston ignored Belle when she explained that he was friendly and he did so intentionally when not five minutes ago he tried to blackmail her by having her father committed

  • @ThatsMe123.
    @ThatsMe123. Рік тому +3

    “When I was young I ate 4 dozen eggs..”
    Woah,Gaston, we NEED to talk about the lack of pancakes in your breakfast diet!😂

  • @MonsterPrincessLala
    @MonsterPrincessLala Рік тому +4

    I love that mattpatt's analysis of the date actually is on point when he could've actually just googled when it takes place according to the 2022 Disney exhibit at the MET. In case you aren't familiar Disney actually displayed their references for the film that they point blank stated were based in the rococo era of France that happened between 1740-1770.

  • @southreject
    @southreject Рік тому +24

    The problem with this theory is that Gaston has been eating that many eggs for years so the towns supply would have adjusted for the extra eggs. The real problem would be when he died and all of a sudden there is a surplus of eggs crashing the market.

    • @GremlinSciences
      @GremlinSciences Рік тому +3

      The supply wouldn't be so easy to increase, and the increase certainly wouldn't be without cost. Eggs are not like pearls, where taking them all has no negative effect on the producer, eggs are the way that chickens reproduce. So if all the eggs are constantly in extremely high demand, then there isn't likely going to be any room in production to increase the number of chickens. More chickens also means more feed is needed, and while chickens can get by on kitchen scraps and insects, that alone is only enough to support about 1 chicken for every 2 people.
      They could try buying from a neighboring town, but excess chickens are normally eaten rather than sold except when they're sold to be eaten, in which case they're normally no longer able to lay eggs and are only sold alive because preserving meat is expensive.

  • @TaliesinMyrddin
    @TaliesinMyrddin Рік тому +87

    I always thought Gaston was responsible for the price of eggs going up

  • @nicoled.9491
    @nicoled.9491 Рік тому +4

    I kinda wish he covered how eating that many eggs would affect Gaston long term. Eating that many eggs for a food competition one time is one thing, eating that many every day for years is another.

  • @RaphBlade7
    @RaphBlade7 Рік тому +4

    Gotta hand it to MatPat for making a solid theory with supporting evidence (even if some of that evidence had to come from the remake)!

  • @mentare2831
    @mentare2831 Рік тому +41

    As a French, I can say u did a good job pronouncing the names it’s understandable XD (and worry not, even the French themselves can’t pronounce or even write Alsacian town names unless u come from there of course)

  • @ninasteinman5223
    @ninasteinman5223 Рік тому +141

    I’ve been waiting for this theory for years

    • @kenobean
      @kenobean Рік тому +1

      My life is now complete

    • @Illuminex_XD
      @Illuminex_XD Рік тому +1

      Why would you be waiting for THIS?!

  • @ryanvellos5188
    @ryanvellos5188 Рік тому +5

    Matpat: "I dont want to ruin the names of the villages"
    a couple minutes later later
    "*BROKE* Architecture"
    PS. he even has references on how to say it at 7:30

  • @isabelletayo2604
    @isabelletayo2604 Рік тому

    This is one of my favorite episodes well done 👏👏👏

  • @erictheriault8386
    @erictheriault8386 Рік тому +42

    The "That's too expensive " line actually comes directly after the "I need 6 eggs" line.

  • @medo5417
    @medo5417 Рік тому +87

    Ok, this is not a video I ever thought I would need in my life, but here we are 🤣

    • @shouldvesaid13
      @shouldvesaid13 Рік тому

      Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

  • @laurenhawes7201
    @laurenhawes7201 Рік тому +4

    8:15 this is exactly how I feel as a history major

  • @jellyandsquishy3257
    @jellyandsquishy3257 Рік тому +1

    food theory idea which cereal mascot is the strongest? i love your videos by the way!

  • @ElinaNoodles
    @ElinaNoodles Рік тому +28

    Someone in the world is wondering to themselves: "Man I wish I knew the breed of chickens in Beauty and the Beast"

  • @MaricelAgainstTheWorld
    @MaricelAgainstTheWorld Рік тому +70

    The Thumbnail is gold, whoever does the Theory Channels Thumbnails need a raise

    • @jaycerrito3142
      @jaycerrito3142 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised Gaston would've stolen eggs from Belle

  • @holahola-ym1xv
    @holahola-ym1xv 9 місяців тому

    gaston is so loved so him having so much chickens only for himself would make sense

  • @0Hare_AIR
    @0Hare_AIR Рік тому +2

    A few questions:
    1.)How much money was he spending
    2.)How much money would the eggs be back then
    3.)Does he work a job to get said money

  • @spencerwarren8302
    @spencerwarren8302 Рік тому +31

    I think you overlooked that the town would've because accustomed to gastons egg consumption when he was a child eating 4 dozen. By the time he's an adult and increases his consumption to five, any economic influence would've worn off only effecting things a little as they increase the heard to account for that slight further increase in demand

  • @shineshadow
    @shineshadow Рік тому +60

    The big question is: how can he affort so many eggs?

  • @dennyshei4849
    @dennyshei4849 10 місяців тому +5

    3:18 im concerned about where he got the stomach from

  • @KT-pb6gf
    @KT-pb6gf Рік тому

    These are the type of subjects I need more of in my life... This is fantastic

  • @christopherddrew7555
    @christopherddrew7555 Рік тому +58

    Here in Canada I had no idea that there was a big egg shortage and price spike. We have a tightly controlled market on eggs which apparently has shielded us mostly from this. This video sent me on an interesting news hunt.

    • @caradanellemcclintock8178
      @caradanellemcclintock8178 Рік тому +2

      I didn't realise either I live in South Africa and the eggs price have only gone up a tiny bit but all the groceries went up due to petrol shortages and COVID stuff so I assumed it was just that been eating eggs almost every day still

    • @kristajones7202
      @kristajones7202 Рік тому +3

      I'm not sure how other countries dealt with avian flu in 2022, but in the US over 58 million birds were culled or died.

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 Рік тому +5

      This "controls that shield you" can make the problem worse.
      An example is California's water. It has subsidies to make water cheap and affordable. Nice, yes? But some towns turn in the taps certain times if the year and get zero water at all. This is because nobody rations the water the way they should, so suddenly entire neighborhoods wake up to zero water.
      The same market dynamic could potentially happen to eggs. The low price doesn't fix the supply issue. It just helps the consumer temporarily.

    • @christopherddrew7555
      @christopherddrew7555 Рік тому +8

      @@buckaroobonzai2909 The controls don't make our eggs cheaper, they actually make them more expensive in general. Canada has a lot of rules for importing eggs and dairy, meaning most of the eggs and dairy we use is local. In general we don't have access to US or EU dairy and egg products, which keeps our products costing more. But in this specific case, it has meant we don't rely on the global supply chains for eggs that have run into major issues, so our prices have not really gone up.

    • @cherrysandcats
      @cherrysandcats Рік тому +1

      hi fellow canadian

  • @darkdudironaji
    @darkdudironaji Рік тому +11

    9:09 Hey look, it's those 3 French hens my true love gave to me on the 3rd day of Christmas.

  • @gypsybelle4757
    @gypsybelle4757 10 місяців тому

    I love this channel so much!

  • @user-hq2mn2dn4v
    @user-hq2mn2dn4v Рік тому

    U know what I like about you matpat? That you research all this for our entertainment and ur super good at it too. I have been watching u for almost two years and u never disappointed me

  • @TimKassouf
    @TimKassouf Рік тому +151

    You’re starting with literally my favorite line in any Disney song ever! lol 🥚🍳🥚🍳

    • @klampytoad
      @klampytoad Рік тому

      🎶🎵✨economic crash✨🎵🎶
      Edit: I reported the bots

    • @shouldvesaid13
      @shouldvesaid13 Рік тому

      Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

    • @HarryJSmith
      @HarryJSmith Рік тому +1

      So I’m roughly the size of a BAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!

  • @tylerwilliams6330
    @tylerwilliams6330 Рік тому +19

    MatPat, you need to do video over the onions from holes. I would love to see what you can figure out. What made them so good? Was it where they were planted? Or did zeros grandmother have something to do with it? I need to know. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but I haven't found a video from you or anyone else on the subject.

    • @jessicasnow9007
      @jessicasnow9007 Рік тому +4

      You just unlocked a memory for me. I was like ten sleeping over my friend’s house. We were watching Holes. We got to that part in the movie and she ran to the kitchen, grabbed an onion, and bit straight into it like an apple! She regretted that!

    • @tylerwilliams6330
      @tylerwilliams6330 Рік тому

      @Jessica Snow lol I remembered the movie and was super curious and thought "If anyone is going to figure this out, it's MatPat.". I've never liked onions so I'm curious how an onion can be so good they can bite into it like an apple.

    • @nancyjohnson7147
      @nancyjohnson7147 Рік тому +1

      I need to see a video on this as well. Like I didn't know I needed to until now. But now I do.

    • @spencerwarren8302
      @spencerwarren8302 Рік тому +1

      That's a great theory idea, (my guess is sweet onions and something something soil composition) if they do a holes episode I'd also be curious how you might explain the 'sploosh' (I think that's how they called it) it was essentially canned peaches (I think) that had been left in a desert for decades and were later used by the main charecters dad to cure foot stink after the family curse was lifted. My info came from the book which I read in elementary school so I'm not sure how much made it into the movie but old canned peaches curing foot stink seems like the kind of wild thing this channel would find some truth to

    • @tylerwilliams6330
      @tylerwilliams6330 Рік тому

      @@spencerwarren8302 I forgot about the sploosh. I wonder how it lasted so long out in the desert and was still edible because zero was eating it when he ran away under the old boat

  • @SpringtrapB-qj5bj
    @SpringtrapB-qj5bj Рік тому +2

    Hey Mat , I come from France and I just love how you miss pronounce french words , it's so hecking funny 😂😂
    Btw I love to watch your videos, they're always great !

  • @misseli1
    @misseli1 Рік тому +1

    The grand total of chickens needed to satisfy Gaston's protein fix IS
    **extended drum, er, egg-roll**
    *ONE-* ad break.

  • @greatmaw7033
    @greatmaw7033 Рік тому +12

    I’ve been saying it for years. If Gaston lived past the events of beauty and the beast then he wouldn’t live past the revolution. When everyone is starving the guy eating all the eggs seems the perfect scape goat.

  • @bboops23
    @bboops23 Рік тому +9

    I met my husband when he wrote a reddit theory that Gaston was the hero of Beauty and the Beast and yes, the eggs were crucial to the theory

  • @romanstasyuk5331
    @romanstasyuk5331 Рік тому +4

    2:57 NOT THE EGG PUNS😂

  • @ImTottallyNormal
    @ImTottallyNormal 8 місяців тому +1

    This is the most goofiest theory ever-
    Eggs