Very interesting 🤔 indeed. I'm your Brazilian fan Jared go to southern Brazil states like Rio grande do Sul!!! We have monkey puzzle 🎍 pines and butiás palms 🌴 also try bananas🍌 like caturra etc!!! Is infinity possible in this world 🌍🌎 to try fruits and veggies!!!
Fun fact: in Italy its called corbezzolo, and some people considered this plant the simbol of Italy, as it has the three distinctive colors of Italy (green leaves, white flowers and red fruit).
@@WeirdExplorerin Sardinia they make a really nice bitter honey from corbezzolo trees but it’s pretty hard to find nowadays as the production is pretty low due the the short and I believe late flowering season of the tree.
@@WeirdExplorer Salento, southern Italy, this used to be a common wild berry eaten exclusively as is. Now it's mostly disappeared from the local biome.
Medronheiros (strawberry trees) are being pushed in some parts of central Portugal as an alternative to eucalyptus plantations. The fruit has a reputation for fermenting on the tree before it falls, and for this reason children are warned not to eat too many! I've eaten mildly alcoholic medronhos. They get muskier, heading towards mango, perhaps. Loved this episode. Thank you for sharing all this.
@@jannikheidemann3805fermented kiwi is awful. I have a hard time getting my kiwis to ripen, we don't get enough heat. So I leave them on the vine as long as possible. Sometimes I wait a little too long, and we get a frost. When the fruit thaws, it ferments, and is ruined.
Quando o medronho está muito maduro , o fruto fermenta na árvore ,, e fica alcoólico... Os pássaros sabem disso , é apanham monumentais bebedeiras... também têm direito , coitados... É vê-los voar aos ssss...
@@paulo6456 Wouldn't the stomach acid kill off yeast that make alcohol, or do the enzymes from the yeast keep working while attacked by stomach acid and the proteolytic enzymes it contains?
My neighbor had two of these trees and everyone told me they were poisonous as a kid, but when I saw the birds eating them up I figured they must be fine (probably not the best logic children, don't do that lol). I used to LOVE them! I was even looking for the name of this childhood fruit by typing a description into Google with no luck. Thanks for finally helping me figure it out! I bet it would make great cookies and bread, like a persimmon. It can have a similarly sweet, slightly dry flavor that would make for a really nice compliment to something with butter in it I bet!
Haha, yeah in this case it's fine but birds don't digest seeds so certain plants have poisonous seeds to prevent mammals from eating them, cause they digest the seeds and then get sick or die. The plants want birds because they can still spread the seeds in poop. A good example of this is the Yew tree (taxus). It's seeds are deadly poisonous but the fleshy surrounding is edible and sweet
@@plants_before_people5329 Hey cool! That's exactly what I was thinking of- the yew berries on the hedges were mysterious to see as a kid, and they still are!
In Germany, down a lane, I found the European Bread Museum. Little place, way out of the way. Loved it. They were baking and the smell was heaven on earth.
I really liked seeing the reactions of all the performers. They all seemed really nice, and it was kind of nice to get a peak into another part of your life.
You're out here putting in professional quality content for us, and it's appreciated. The amount of detail you go through for each fruit, including the multiple uses for it, and showing the processes behind those uses is amazing. Better than anything you'll find on TV. Good work
I stand by Arbutus as being genuinely good fruit that should be cultivated more. The outer grit may be unpleasant but, if you leave them for a day, they get this beautiful custard consistency and taste like tangy blueberry and banana.
When I told the people on my garden page that this plant was edible, everybody was really surprised. It is grown as an ornamental plant on most of their properties
In northern peninsular Florida it’s loquat trees grown as ornamentals but almost nobody eats the fruit. I suspect the trees are never selected for higher-quality fruit either.
I think there's one of these trees in the front of my apartment complex in Northern California. I also had no idea the fruits were edible, though I've always thought it was quite a shame that such pretty fruits were poisonous/inedible. I'm fixin' to try one when they're growing next.
Love that you came to my country, and tasted one of most traditional wild fruits and its mostly famous alcoholic beverage! I have to point out just on thing, ''Madroño'' and ''aguardiente'' are spanish words, its very similar in portuguese tho ''Medronho'' and ''aguardente''. The NHO sylabal spells like the spanish ''Ñ''. On a curious note, ''aguardente'' is a junction of ''água'' and ''ardente'' literally meaning ''Burning water'' 😁
What a fun episode! I have these growing all through my neighborhood in Central California. When they're in fruit I'll pick them and eat them while walking my dog. Several times I've had people stop me and tell me I'm going to get sick because they're poisonous and I have to explain to them they're not and they're an edible fruit that's eaten all over the world and they always either are surprised and want to try it. Or they don't believe me and say I'm crazy.
I love how seriously he took this episode. It actually felt like an episode of a show. Very awesome production value and I loved how this video was long as well. As I said before it's like a TV show. :)
I’ve bine watching you ever since you made your earlier episodes in the 100s. It is incredible to see your channel grow and evolve over the years. You have keeped me entertained for years and I thank you deeply for it.❤
as a portuguese guy the way you butcher our words hurts but its understandable and this is probably one of your best episodes, extremely well done and entertaining. here's to more!
Had the same reaction...oh please, at least say medronho well. But it had brilliant content. Really enjoy watching it and actually learn new stuff, like the existence of a museum. Great job!!!
If you ever find yourself in Czechia there is a small yet very impressive Church of Bones there as well, also because of the plague. In that one they even use finger bones to write some dates and names on the wall. My favourite part was the chandelier made from hip bones!! Thanks for another great video!!!
Yess! also french here, they are also very common in the pine forests of the oceanic southwest. I was told when I was a kid to avoid eating them as they would give you diarrhea if you eat too many. As you said they are a bit grainy and sometime a bit astringent.
As someone who loves both novel fruits *and* spirits (often made from fruit), this was a really fascinating episode! Thanks for delving into this aspect of things despite being a non-drinker! We appreciate your sacrifice. 🙂 And if you ever need a spirit taster to explore more of that side of things, I'm your guy. 😉
I was exactly in the mood for half an hour of Weird Explorer. I particularly enjoyed this one. It's so cool that there was a whole museum for the fruit.
worked in the mountains of california and these grow all over in the seirra mountains. first they smell like honey and attrack flocks of hummingbirds; then they have these delicious fruit in copious amounts. The trees are very beautiful in structure, bark, and leaves too; much more imho than the famous redwoods. The wood is purple inside and bark is like painted eucalypts but bit less colorful
I live in California and I’ve tasted both type of madrone berries and they taste similar imo, but pacific madrone berries are just smaller. Native people here use the berries similar ways and the bark can be used as well I believe. Not as similar to manzanita but they are related, all are in the same family together with blueberries and huckleberries. I wish we had a museum here for pacific madrone or manzanita!
Portuguese viewer here, Im glad you visited our little country, its always cool to see our traditions being enjoyed by people from all over the world, next you should visit Madeira Island, it has lots of unusual fruits! For example search for: "Maracujá-banana" its a yellow soft skin passion fruit, very bitter but good
the museum/distillery section reminded me of a Tom Scott video, but about fruits. with the rich context of the rest of the video this is a lovely documentary and fruit review :>
Kinda like I said with the last one about colab episodes, you seem to have a real knack for finding awesome people as well as fruit. It's so cool that you're able to share your passion not just on UA-cam but with real, physically there people. Thank you Jared and to everyone who stood by him!
This is a the next level fruit explorer. Tomorrow I will go and pick the last ones of the season. I've planted a few more than the ones I had in my field because they are very resistant in eastern spain and the fruits taste nice and have antioxidants . Used as a garden plant and in reforestation projects.
This video is really exciting to me! When I first moved to California, the property I lived on had many types of Arbutus trees, and when I did some research I learned about Madroño. I tried to make my own and while the result was far from what it should have been, it was still delicious and my friends and family enjoyed it! I also made a jam using the fruit. It was very nice. Reminded me of a light apricot jam.
I never imagined that this would include the description of tourist migrant labor practices! What an awesome business model. The cameo by your associates was a gem as well :)
Funny, I was in Algarve just 2 weeks ago and brought with me a bottle of medronho moonshine. So i had a shot while watching your video. Also, found 1 medronho fruit in the car today and got a few seeds from it that I'll try to grow :)
Love this! We have two of these trees in our yard. The squirrels love the fruit, but I’ve been wondering if there was something I could make with these fruits. Portugal is definitely on my bucket list. So interesting and beautiful. Thanks for this!!❤😊❤
I'm surprised they grow so well there, it seemed like they were good for arid areas. I'm glad to hear it though, I live in the Scottish Borders and it gets a lot of rain! I'd love to try growing one.
One of the best episodes I’ve seen! A lot of us are curious about your performance as well as the fruit. Showing each of the talents was very gratifying. I’ve really learned to appreciate your ability to taste and describe flavors. I also enjoy how you express your preferences about food and alcohol without getting judgmental or preachy.
One of your best episodes ever. Really. The Distillery was A+. It was also great to meet some of the Joes and Betties you work with. From your description of the frozen madrone fruits you had at the distillery--a combination of raspberry and peach--I think you might have found a non-dairy, organic version of Melba Ice Cream. Love your vids.
I loved this! It was great to see your circus mates, I was in a tiny circus for a while years ago, it was probably the most fun time of my life. Whole video was great.
I have been an exotic fruit aficionado for the past 15 years, and after finding your channel so many new fruits and culinary horizons have opened to me. Thank you for your great content. I am thankful there is a person willing to go to such great lengths to speak about all of this different wonderful fruits.
hummingbirds and monarch butterflies feast ( and pollinate) on the profuse clusters of white flowers. The fruit hangs all winter through summer. The smooth cinnamon colored bark is also attractive.
What an awesome episode. I remember when you'd just done over a hundred fruits. You've really, really taken this to a whole new level and it's wonderful, even though your older stuff was too. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us
Great video, I used to eat these as a child in california - I had no idea they were valued as a food/alcohol, so gritty, reminds me of dental tooth polish. Love your series!
Portugal nunca esqueceu o medronho. Desde tempos. Ancestrais, Portugal é o país mais antigo da Europa (900 anos de estória), sempre se saboreou a aguardente de medronho especialmente no sul do país.
Fantastic production. Loved this video. I learned about this one in an edible plants class I took in community college in LA area. It is used all over coastal California and I've never seen anyone doing anything with it except step on it and curse. I was just teaching my young nieces about it over Christmas.
I am an amateur botanist and I've travelled all over Portugal. I saw the biggest trees of Arbutus unedo on the inner north of Portugal, close to the mountains. Some of them were quite thick and I think also very old. I lived close to Sintra and it was wild there and the fruits were quite bigger than the ones from the south. Also there a person told me that he had climbed this tree to feed on the fruits only to find himself on the ground passing out after eating 0,5 Kg. The effect was sudden and unexpected...
Bravo Jared! A wonderful indepth video, so interesting, enjoyable and beautifully edited! I loved meeting your wacky circus cohorts as well as your tours of Medronho museums, distilleries and markets! Above all, I live in Seattle and have a 30-40 year old strawberry tree in my backyard and indeed, we moan and groan about the smushed fruits on our shoes and lawn...but NOW we will cherish, maybe even try to ferment the fruits and enjoy this free bounty in our yard. Thank you!
I think this may be my favourite episode on your channel so far. Really like the interactions and the long form nature of the video. I'm sure it was a lot of work for you to put it together, well done! I absolutely love the work they are doing over there to make produce with this fruit and market it. Very cool. Here in Australia I've seen this plant marketed in the nurseries as an "Irish Strawberry". I'm happy to say it is one of the 59 fruit trees I have planted on my property within the last 12 months.
I love these plants, they grow all over Southern California as a ornamental, no one knows how good they are. I'm going to try and add some of these stops to an upcoming Europe trip in the works! great vid!!
@@pattheplanter I'm guessing you're not from California. They're absolutely everywhere in Cali. Basically every street corner. They are used ornamentally. They are also really common in landscaping in Washington as well.
You did really well making this a flowing and entertaining story. Love that you got friends to try it- it's cool to see their opinion and what they do as well. Samuel and Julio are gems too, just like Marco. And I love getting to see the country, some of the history, and how the ppl there actually eat and live with this plant. Anddd I love the chapel of bones- it's fascinating that you can see that they were stuck in cement.
This was a great video and a very interesting fruit. As another vegetarian who doesn’t drink, I don’t know how many times I’ve gotten that look from servers, but it pierces my soul.
I really, really love your channel and videos. Only a few days ago did I ever see one of your videos. As a fellow lifelong fruit-lover and self-described weirdo, your videos are scratching every itch I didn't know I had, and you and your friends seem absolutely lovely.
In Catalonia we call it "cirera d'arboç" and we also forage it to make jam, liquor, honey, cookies and pies, but usually you have to go to the countryside to find them.
One time my co - worker and i had some free time and so we were eating these delicious small sour plums. She was a country person from Jalisco. I asked her what do you call these? She said ciruela. It was a diffferent fruit, but it is nice to see that word again.
@@richardportman8912 That's cool. Ciruela means plum in Spanish, and cirera means cherry in Catalan (and plum is pruna). Madroño means strawberry tree fruit in Spanish, and cirera d'arboç or arborçer means strawberry tree fruit in Catalan. But if your co-worker was from Mexico and referred to a sour fruit as Ciruela, it seems to me that it was a different fruit he/she was referring to, or at least, a plum variety unusual in Spain, because here in the peninsula plums tend to the sweet side unless unripe. I'm really curious about what fruit it was, as fruit and veggie names might vary quite a bit from American Spanish varieties to the Spaniard one.
This is so awesome. When I was in China, that was the first time I learned of this fruit, and I loved it. LOVED IT. I really want to buy some land when I retire (maybe before i retire) and plant a lot of fruit trees. This is one of them along with Mulberry, Lemons, Avocados, etc. This is definitely a video I will save. Thank you! Have you ever thought about discussing the various fruits you've tasted and where they can grow in the US? I know a lot of yoru fruits are tropical, so they can only grow in Hawaii, Puerto Rico or Florida, but a lot are more resistant. I don't think anyone (on the gardening channels) really talk about what you can grow in your own area. They only talk about how to grow certain fruits. I'd love this. I want to hit the sweet spot between hardy lemons and pawpaw. That's probably South Georgia.
The ones in china are from a different family of fruit! They look similar are very confusingly often called "strawberry tree fruit" or even "Arbutus". The taste is very different though. ua-cam.com/video/qIspCfEApp4/v-deo.html Unfortunately I am not a grower, I think that task is better left for those with green thumbs :)
Here in North Western Greece it is called Koumaro and it grows wild. It is a beautiful tree. Up until the '60s they use to collect the fruit, ferment them, and produced an alcohol similar to Grapa. I never tried it but apparently it gave strong hangovers and head aches the following morning... For this reason it is not a spirit that got established in this region and to my knowledge it is not produced anymore. Instead they produce Tsipouro which is made from fermented grapes. I love the taste of the fruit. Your description of the taste is very accurate. In a visit to New Zealand a year ago, to my surprise I saw a strawberry tree in the wild. I am curious to find out if it is an indigenous species of New Zealand or if it was taken there a few centuries ago by a European colonist.
I once picked an attractive fruit whilst hiking in portugal, but wasn’t knowledgeable about edible fruit back then and therefore didn’t taste it in fear of it being poisonous. It turned iut to be this one. What a shame, I’m very curious as to what they taste like. Thanks for the great video!
as someone that knows this fruit decently well, it'd likely be a bit unpleasant, its one of those fruits that are *extremely* sensitive to ripeness when they are ripe, it's pretty good
I taste most fruit I find. Mostly because where I live there's not many poisonous ones, and the ones that are, I already know not to eat because of grandma.
How lovely to get to meet your fellow performers! Thank you! Edit: I like them all. You are a lucky man, and you deserve it. Second edit: ar BYOO tus. Sorry, I'm a biologist, and just couldn't resist.
Ahhh, they brings back memories. Handing an unripe one to a friend for a priceless facial expression! We still have a few trees growing in coastal Croatia
Here in Madrid it is used as a landscaping tree, and in the biggest park of the city, the Retiro park, in summer you can see whole rows of trees full to the brim with this red delicious looking fruit. Most people know its edible but to be honest, it doesn't taste very good 😁
I remember seeing those in my apartment complex as a kid, there were several trees that grew them. They always just fell off the tree and left the slimiest mess on the ground.
This is some of your best content to date! I love the in-depth-ness, the length, the cuts and the variety of people that appeared :) I hope you will do a whole series exactly like this!
Over the next few days a LOT of exclusive footage for this episode will be going up on Patreon. Check it out over at: www.patreon.com/weirdexplorer
Very interesting 🤔 indeed. I'm your Brazilian fan Jared go to southern Brazil states like Rio grande do Sul!!! We have monkey puzzle 🎍 pines and butiás palms 🌴 also try bananas🍌 like caturra etc!!! Is infinity possible in this world 🌍🌎 to try fruits and veggies!!!
Next level Jared, this would not look out of place as a TV show. Great episode.
It's called corbezzolo .. not strawberry tree xD
@@ricardohorta7004 Is Aguardente de Medronho a Portugal Medronho variety?
17:42 Oh I didn't realize there were other visitors in the museum lol
Fun fact: in Italy its called corbezzolo, and some people considered this plant the simbol of Italy, as it has the three distinctive colors of Italy (green leaves, white flowers and red fruit).
So interesting! Is the alcohol popular there? I did a bit of digging on how it was used in Italy but didn't find too much information.
@@WeirdExplorer its alcohol is only made in few zones and regions of Italy
You mean Italy’s symbolic plant isn’t the rare Neapolitan pizza tree?
@@WeirdExplorerin Sardinia they make a really nice bitter honey from corbezzolo trees but it’s pretty hard to find nowadays as the production is pretty low due the the short and I believe late flowering season of the tree.
@@WeirdExplorer Salento, southern Italy, this used to be a common wild berry eaten exclusively as is. Now it's mostly disappeared from the local biome.
There’s nothing like a liquor review by a man who never touches a drop.
haha, I'm glad I had friends there to try it too. They did a far better review than I could ever do.
He did touch *one* drop
The moment was glorious. I also rarely drink even though I love a good beer or cider, and I would gladly have had that shot of liquor.
Medronheiros (strawberry trees) are being pushed in some parts of central Portugal as an alternative to eucalyptus plantations. The fruit has a reputation for fermenting on the tree before it falls, and for this reason children are warned not to eat too many! I've eaten mildly alcoholic medronhos. They get muskier, heading towards mango, perhaps.
Loved this episode. Thank you for sharing all this.
Mangos, bananas and kiwis also ferment by themselves. Was never warned about that.
@@jannikheidemann3805fermented kiwi is awful. I have a hard time getting my kiwis to ripen, we don't get enough heat. So I leave them on the vine as long as possible. Sometimes I wait a little too long, and we get a frost. When the fruit thaws, it ferments, and is ruined.
Quando o medronho está muito maduro , o fruto fermenta na árvore ,, e fica alcoólico... Os pássaros sabem disso , é apanham monumentais bebedeiras... também têm direito , coitados...
É vê-los voar aos ssss...
@@jannikheidemann3805 these fruits in particular tend to ferment in the stomach, which makes people drunk easily, 10 or so fruits are enough for that.
@@paulo6456 Wouldn't the stomach acid kill off yeast that make alcohol, or do the enzymes from the yeast keep working while attacked by stomach acid and the proteolytic enzymes it contains?
My neighbor had two of these trees and everyone told me they were poisonous as a kid, but when I saw the birds eating them up I figured they must be fine (probably not the best logic children, don't do that lol). I used to LOVE them! I was even looking for the name of this childhood fruit by typing a description into Google with no luck. Thanks for finally helping me figure it out! I bet it would make great cookies and bread, like a persimmon. It can have a similarly sweet, slightly dry flavor that would make for a really nice compliment to something with butter in it I bet!
Haha, yeah in this case it's fine but birds don't digest seeds so certain plants have poisonous seeds to prevent mammals from eating them, cause they digest the seeds and then get sick or die. The plants want birds because they can still spread the seeds in poop. A good example of this is the Yew tree (taxus). It's seeds are deadly poisonous but the fleshy surrounding is edible and sweet
Oooh ! Yes ! I always eat them raw but your suggestions sound nice. I’ll try it when I get some next time :)
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Hey cool! That's exactly what I was thinking of- the yew berries on the hedges were mysterious to see as a kid, and they still are!
I love persimmons
Eat them fresh, make them into jam, mix them with other fruits, put them in cakes... I love them.
I love finding highly specific, hyper local museums like that while traveling.
its so much fun!
In Germany, down a lane, I found the European Bread Museum. Little place, way out of the way. Loved it. They were baking and the smell was heaven on earth.
I really liked seeing the reactions of all the performers. They all seemed really nice, and it was kind of nice to get a peak into another part of your life.
Peek
Peak is the highest point of something.
I had to pause the video in shock when you took a sip and LIKED IT
You're out here putting in professional quality content for us, and it's appreciated. The amount of detail you go through for each fruit, including the multiple uses for it, and showing the processes behind those uses is amazing. Better than anything you'll find on TV.
Good work
Thanks so much!
I stand by Arbutus as being genuinely good fruit that should be cultivated more. The outer grit may be unpleasant but, if you leave them for a day, they get this beautiful custard consistency and taste like tangy blueberry and banana.
I read a lot that they taste of nothing, maybe they need a warmer climate than the UK to taste good.
When I told the people on my garden page that this plant was edible, everybody was really surprised. It is grown as an ornamental plant on most of their properties
yeah saw these all over berkley and santa cruz when i visited
In northern peninsular Florida it’s loquat trees grown as ornamentals but almost nobody eats the fruit. I suspect the trees are never selected for higher-quality fruit either.
I think there's one of these trees in the front of my apartment complex in Northern California. I also had no idea the fruits were edible, though I've always thought it was quite a shame that such pretty fruits were poisonous/inedible. I'm fixin' to try one when they're growing next.
PHAEBRIËL DADDY'O ! ! !
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Loquats are delicious I used to eat them all the time when I was little, but they don't grow or are available where I live now
I am happy you made a new video about my favorite winter wild fruit.
Love that you came to my country, and tasted one of most traditional wild fruits and its mostly famous alcoholic beverage! I have to point out just on thing, ''Madroño'' and ''aguardiente'' are spanish words, its very similar in portuguese tho ''Medronho'' and ''aguardente''. The NHO sylabal spells like the spanish ''Ñ''. On a curious note, ''aguardente'' is a junction of ''água'' and ''ardente'' literally meaning ''Burning water'' 😁
What a fun episode! I have these growing all through my neighborhood in Central California. When they're in fruit I'll pick them and eat them while walking my dog. Several times I've had people stop me and tell me I'm going to get sick because they're poisonous and I have to explain to them they're not and they're an edible fruit that's eaten all over the world and they always either are surprised and want to try it. Or they don't believe me and say I'm crazy.
I love how seriously he took this episode. It actually felt like an episode of a show. Very awesome production value and I loved how this video was long as well. As I said before it's like a TV show. :)
I’ve bine watching you ever since you made your earlier episodes in the 100s. It is incredible to see your channel grow and evolve over the years. You have keeped me entertained for years and I thank you deeply for it.❤
So glad to hear it!
as a portuguese guy the way you butcher our words hurts but its understandable and this is probably one of your best episodes, extremely well done and entertaining. here's to more!
Another portuguese here! Its very funny to listen foreign people trying to say portuguese words! I loved this episode, well done!
Had the same reaction...oh please, at least say medronho well. But it had brilliant content. Really enjoy watching it and actually learn new stuff, like the existence of a museum. Great job!!!
MADRONO
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In Italian you vould spell medronho as medrogno
Gno in Italian sounds the same ad nho in Portuguese
also the J is NOT like in spanish. It’s pronounced like the J in jam not ham.
I absolutely ADORE that you've given each of your performer buddies a chance to shine with their work and websites too
If you ever find yourself in Czechia there is a small yet very impressive Church of Bones there as well, also because of the plague. In that one they even use finger bones to write some dates and names on the wall. My favourite part was the chandelier made from hip bones!! Thanks for another great video!!!
I'm french and I remember very well my sister eating those fruits when visiting family in the south of France, we call them "arbouse" there
Yess! also french here, they are also very common in the pine forests of the oceanic southwest.
I was told when I was a kid to avoid eating them as they would give you diarrhea if you eat too many.
As you said they are a bit grainy and sometime a bit astringent.
As someone who loves both novel fruits *and* spirits (often made from fruit), this was a really fascinating episode! Thanks for delving into this aspect of things despite being a non-drinker! We appreciate your sacrifice. 🙂 And if you ever need a spirit taster to explore more of that side of things, I'm your guy. 😉
Everyone knows drunken teams are always funnier than one drunken person and would like to offer my service as a drinking pall👍😊
I was exactly in the mood for half an hour of Weird Explorer.
I particularly enjoyed this one. It's so cool that there was a whole museum for the fruit.
worked in the mountains of california and these grow all over in the seirra mountains. first they smell like honey and attrack flocks of hummingbirds; then they have these delicious fruit in copious amounts. The trees are very beautiful in structure, bark, and leaves too; much more imho than the famous redwoods. The wood is purple inside and bark is like painted eucalypts but bit less colorful
I wonder how related it is to our native Madrone and Manzanita.
This was probably the pacific mandrone.
I looked it up and Madronho (Strawberry Tree) and Pacific Madrone are both in the _Arbutus_ genus.
I live in California and I’ve tasted both type of madrone berries and they taste similar imo, but pacific madrone berries are just smaller. Native people here use the berries similar ways and the bark can be used as well I believe. Not as similar to manzanita but they are related, all are in the same family together with blueberries and huckleberries. I wish we had a museum here for pacific madrone or manzanita!
@@HansLemursonextremely closely. Madrone is in the same genus Arbutus, Arctosaphylos is the next most closely related genus in the family.
Portuguese viewer here, Im glad you visited our little country, its always cool to see our traditions being enjoyed by people from all over the world, next you should visit Madeira Island, it has lots of unusual fruits! For example search for: "Maracujá-banana" its a yellow soft skin passion fruit, very bitter but good
the museum/distillery section reminded me of a Tom Scott video, but about fruits. with the rich context of the rest of the video this is a lovely documentary and fruit review :>
These are the best episodes!
Edit: The Chapel of bones is wild!
It was really cool! Its not as popular as the bone church in Czechia, but still very impressive.
Kinda like I said with the last one about colab episodes, you seem to have a real knack for finding awesome people as well as fruit. It's so cool that you're able to share your passion not just on UA-cam but with real, physically there people. Thank you Jared and to everyone who stood by him!
This is a the next level fruit explorer. Tomorrow I will go and pick the last ones of the season. I've planted a few more than the ones I had in my field because they are very resistant in eastern spain and the fruits taste nice and have antioxidants . Used as a garden plant and in reforestation projects.
I'm from Northern Europe and I didn't even know this existed. Thank you! Also what a lovely musem, maybe i'll visit Portugal in the near future.
I like seeing Jared hanging out with his friends, it gives him an authenticity you don’t see with other most UA-camrs
This video is really exciting to me! When I first moved to California, the property I lived on had many types of Arbutus trees, and when I did some research I learned about Madroño. I tried to make my own and while the result was far from what it should have been, it was still delicious and my friends and family enjoyed it! I also made a jam using the fruit. It was very nice. Reminded me of a light apricot jam.
I never imagined that this would include the description of tourist migrant labor practices! What an awesome business model. The cameo by your associates was a gem as well :)
I enjoyed this video very much. This tree is one of the few trees that came with our home. It's a fruit we enjoy.
Funny, I was in Algarve just 2 weeks ago and brought with me a bottle of medronho moonshine. So i had a shot while watching your video. Also, found 1 medronho fruit in the car today and got a few seeds from it that I'll try to grow :)
Ha what a coincidence!
@@WeirdExplorer indeed :)
Thank you for your videos!
I loved this one, seeing your day job and your other interests. Just lovely.
the journalistic quality of this episode was really well done! structure felt like a show I'd see on television
Love this! We have two of these trees in our yard. The squirrels love the fruit, but I’ve been wondering if there was something I could make with these fruits.
Portugal is definitely on my bucket list. So interesting and beautiful. Thanks for this!!❤😊❤
As a seattlite, I can confirm - these are everywhere in the PNW. I have 4 in my yard. Time to see if I can make some use of them.
I'm surprised they grow so well there, it seemed like they were good for arid areas. I'm glad to hear it though, I live in the Scottish Borders and it gets a lot of rain! I'd love to try growing one.
One of the best episodes I’ve seen! A lot of us are curious about your performance as well as the fruit. Showing each of the talents was very gratifying. I’ve really learned to appreciate your ability to taste and describe flavors. I also enjoy how you express your preferences about food and alcohol without getting judgmental or preachy.
Shoutout to Julio and to the herdade do rio torto I go there almost every year!
Regards, Simão
that's awesome! tell him I say hi next time you go :)
@@WeirdExplorer sure will man
Memories of visiting the Potato Museum in PEI as a child... And being delighted by how interesting I found it!
One of your best episodes ever. Really. The Distillery was A+. It was also great to meet some of the Joes and Betties you work with. From your description of the frozen madrone fruits you had at the distillery--a combination of raspberry and peach--I think you might have found a non-dairy, organic version of Melba Ice Cream. Love your vids.
Nice to see another long format video from you, thanks for this!
More to come
I loved this! It was great to see your circus mates, I was in a tiny circus for a while years ago, it was probably the most fun time of my life. Whole video was great.
I have been an exotic fruit aficionado for the past 15 years, and after finding your channel so many new fruits and culinary horizons have opened to me. Thank you for your great content. I am thankful there is a person willing to go to such great lengths to speak about all of this different wonderful fruits.
i think this one was really special. super polished and easy to watch. thanks for all the content over the years.
hummingbirds and monarch butterflies feast ( and pollinate) on the profuse clusters of white flowers. The fruit hangs all winter through summer. The smooth cinnamon colored bark is also attractive.
Ohhh! I'm going to Portugal in the Fall, I'm going to have to try to hunt this down!!
What an awesome episode. I remember when you'd just done over a hundred fruits. You've really, really taken this to a whole new level and it's wonderful, even though your older stuff was too. Thank you for making this and sharing it with us
Thanks a ton!
I remember when the Buddha hand video was newish.
Great video, I used to eat these as a child in california - I had no idea they were valued as a food/alcohol, so gritty, reminds me of dental tooth polish. Love your series!
Portuguese Subscriber here ! Happy to see our Medronho
A lot of work went into this video ! Thank you, it was very entertaining
Glad you enjoyed it!
The world is a better place because you put this kind of content out there!
Soooo interesting. Great episode Jared!! Keep it up!
This was a fun episode, and very high quality. Like a legit documentary. Thanks for it and the work you put into it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
HYPE! I love a fruit with a whole story behind it!
Portugal nunca esqueceu o medronho. Desde tempos. Ancestrais, Portugal é o país mais antigo da Europa (900 anos de estória), sempre se saboreou a aguardente de medronho especialmente no sul do país.
A Dinamarca é mais velha. Aliás a Dinamarca foi o primeiro país a reconhecer o Reino de Portugal, ainda mesmo antes do Papa.
Fantastic production. Loved this video. I learned about this one in an edible plants class I took in community college in LA area. It is used all over coastal California and I've never seen anyone doing anything with it except step on it and curse. I was just teaching my young nieces about it over Christmas.
Come for the fruit, but the comedy is always an awesome bonus hehe
one of the best episodes, so much info
Used a lot as an ornamental in Northern California! There are a couple in the parking lot at my work and I always sample a few when I see ripe ones.
I am an amateur botanist and I've travelled all over Portugal. I saw the biggest trees of Arbutus unedo on the inner north of Portugal, close to the mountains. Some of them were quite thick and I think also very old. I lived close to Sintra and it was wild there and the fruits were quite bigger than the ones from the south. Also there a person told me that he had climbed this tree to feed on the fruits only to find himself on the ground passing out after eating 0,5 Kg. The effect was sudden and unexpected...
Thanks for the warning!
From the alcohol content, the fruits were probably fermented!
@@Contanpe Tks, the problem is that part of that alcohol is methanol which has to be extracted.
You hit jackpot with this one! A full museum and production line open for touring? That's awesome
Bravo Jared! A wonderful indepth video, so interesting, enjoyable and beautifully edited! I loved meeting your wacky circus cohorts as well as your tours of Medronho museums, distilleries and markets! Above all, I live in Seattle and have a 30-40 year old strawberry tree in my backyard and indeed, we moan and groan about the smushed fruits on our shoes and lawn...but NOW we will cherish, maybe even try to ferment the fruits and enjoy this free bounty in our yard. Thank you!
Great episode, loved seeing your friends from the cruise, and a sample of your performance :D
I think this may be my favourite episode on your channel so far. Really like the interactions and the long form nature of the video. I'm sure it was a lot of work for you to put it together, well done!
I absolutely love the work they are doing over there to make produce with this fruit and market it. Very cool.
Here in Australia I've seen this plant marketed in the nurseries as an "Irish Strawberry". I'm happy to say it is one of the 59 fruit trees I have planted on my property within the last 12 months.
I love these plants, they grow all over Southern California as a ornamental, no one knows how good they are. I'm going to try and add some of these stops to an upcoming Europe trip in the works! great vid!!
Fire-resistant and hardly need irrigation? California needs to learn more about them. There are _Arbutus_ species native to the USA, I think.
@@pattheplanter I'm guessing you're not from California. They're absolutely everywhere in Cali. Basically every street corner. They are used ornamentally.
They are also really common in landscaping in Washington as well.
@@ASMRGRATITUDE But not the better fruiting varieties, obviously.
This was a fascinating video. Thanks for sharing. I loved the museum footage and it was great to see you hanging out with fellow performers.
Glad you enjoyed it
I love all the performers!! You are all awesome
That crew has some strange but fascinating niche skills; loved the little intro videos for each person.
You did really well making this a flowing and entertaining story. Love that you got friends to try it- it's cool to see their opinion and what they do as well. Samuel and Julio are gems too, just like Marco. And I love getting to see the country, some of the history, and how the ppl there actually eat and live with this plant. Anddd I love the chapel of bones- it's fascinating that you can see that they were stuck in cement.
this fruit looks so amazing. it looks like candy from a fantasy movie/ book. its so adorable i wanna eat it too.
I can trace my heritage to Portugal and the Azores, I'd love to visit someday
This was a great video and a very interesting fruit. As another vegetarian who doesn’t drink, I don’t know how many times I’ve gotten that look from servers, but it pierces my soul.
I really, really love your channel and videos. Only a few days ago did I ever see one of your videos. As a fellow lifelong fruit-lover and self-described weirdo, your videos are scratching every itch I didn't know I had, and you and your friends seem absolutely lovely.
Great episode, thanks for all the work!
dude i just wanna say that i love your job, traveling around the world investigating fruits and all related, what an interesting way of living!
Thank you, Jared, for teaching us the history of a forgotten fruit and traditions
thank you so much for doing this channel, I loooooove your style, your delivery, all of it
Your regular reviews are nice, but the occasional mini documentary is also good. :)
WAIT i didnt know you were a circus performer! that is amazing! your friends are also very cool!
In Catalonia we call it "cirera d'arboç" and we also forage it to make jam, liquor, honey, cookies and pies, but usually you have to go to the countryside to find them.
One time my co - worker and i had some free time and so we were eating these delicious small sour plums. She was a country person from Jalisco. I asked her what do you call these? She said ciruela. It was a diffferent fruit, but it is nice to see that word again.
@@richardportman8912 That's cool. Ciruela means plum in Spanish, and cirera means cherry in Catalan (and plum is pruna). Madroño means strawberry tree fruit in Spanish, and cirera d'arboç or arborçer means strawberry tree fruit in Catalan. But if your co-worker was from Mexico and referred to a sour fruit as Ciruela, it seems to me that it was a different fruit he/she was referring to, or at least, a plum variety unusual in Spain, because here in the peninsula plums tend to the sweet side unless unripe. I'm really curious about what fruit it was, as fruit and veggie names might vary quite a bit from American Spanish varieties to the Spaniard one.
love this guy.........if I had the means to travel like him this is what I would be doing.......great show.
I love these videos where we see the history of the fruit and the culture surrounding it. Makes me want to pack my bags and head out to Portugal.
This is so awesome. When I was in China, that was the first time I learned of this fruit, and I loved it. LOVED IT. I really want to buy some land when I retire (maybe before i retire) and plant a lot of fruit trees. This is one of them along with Mulberry, Lemons, Avocados, etc. This is definitely a video I will save. Thank you!
Have you ever thought about discussing the various fruits you've tasted and where they can grow in the US? I know a lot of yoru fruits are tropical, so they can only grow in Hawaii, Puerto Rico or Florida, but a lot are more resistant. I don't think anyone (on the gardening channels) really talk about what you can grow in your own area. They only talk about how to grow certain fruits. I'd love this. I want to hit the sweet spot between hardy lemons and pawpaw. That's probably South Georgia.
The ones in china are from a different family of fruit! They look similar are very confusingly often called "strawberry tree fruit" or even "Arbutus". The taste is very different though. ua-cam.com/video/qIspCfEApp4/v-deo.html
Unfortunately I am not a grower, I think that task is better left for those with green thumbs :)
Here in North Western Greece it is called Koumaro and it grows wild. It is a beautiful tree. Up until the '60s they use to collect the fruit, ferment them, and produced an alcohol similar to Grapa. I never tried it but apparently it gave strong hangovers and head aches the following morning... For this reason it is not a spirit that got established in this region and to my knowledge it is not produced anymore. Instead they produce Tsipouro which is made from fermented grapes. I love the taste of the fruit. Your description of the taste is very accurate. In a visit to New Zealand a year ago, to my surprise I saw a strawberry tree in the wild. I am curious to find out if it is an indigenous species of New Zealand or if it was taken there a few centuries ago by a European colonist.
I live in washington. my research into the strawberry fruit tree first led me to you so, viva strawberry fruit tree. Love your channel.
I once picked an attractive fruit whilst hiking in portugal, but wasn’t knowledgeable about edible fruit back then and therefore didn’t taste it in fear of it being poisonous. It turned iut to be this one. What a shame, I’m very curious as to what they taste like.
Thanks for the great video!
as someone that knows this fruit decently well, it'd likely be a bit unpleasant, its one of those fruits that are *extremely* sensitive to ripeness
when they are ripe, it's pretty good
@@tiagobelo4965 thanks for sharing
@@tiagobelo4965 and the taste differs from tree to tree as well
I taste most fruit I find. Mostly because where I live there's not many poisonous ones, and the ones that are, I already know not to eat because of grandma.
I really like those berry things that grow on palms and are orange. When unripe they eat you while you eat them lol.
How lovely to get to meet your fellow performers! Thank you! Edit: I like them all. You are a lucky man, and you deserve it. Second edit: ar BYOO tus. Sorry, I'm a biologist, and just couldn't resist.
Ahhh, they brings back memories. Handing an unripe one to a friend for a priceless facial expression!
We still have a few trees growing in coastal Croatia
The format of this video is neat. Good job! I enjoyed watching and learning. 😃
I used to get these in people's yards while doing tree work just outside Seattle. They're really good
I’m your nomad fan and I enjoy this episode a lot. Thank you for sharing another of your many fascinating tales.
Here in Madrid it is used as a landscaping tree, and in the biggest park of the city, the Retiro park, in summer you can see whole rows of trees full to the brim with this red delicious looking fruit. Most people know its edible but to be honest, it doesn't taste very good 😁
WOW I LOVED TO SEE THE CREW! AMAZING!!!!
This was a particularly delightful video!
Great video, Jared. Thanks for sharing your trip with us! ♥️
My pleasure!!
I remember seeing those in my apartment complex as a kid, there were several trees that grew them. They always just fell off the tree and left the slimiest mess on the ground.
This was epic! So many interesting angles and tastings. Thanks for pouring your vacation time into this!
Those fruit creme biscuits he mentioned… in the UK we call those “Jammy Dodgers”
Loved this longer episode with so much neat stuff, thanks!
Here in Algeria we call it " Lenj " we never cultivate it, it just grows naturally in the wild! However if you eat too much of it you get dizzy.
This is some of your best content to date! I love the in-depth-ness, the length, the cuts and the variety of people that appeared :)
I hope you will do a whole series exactly like this!