@simongames100 it wasn't stated here but it is far worse than you think. The bones from the bird literally cut into your gums and cause bleeding which is AN INTENDED EXPERIENCE. Cause the blood from your gums with the brandy and meat is supposed to do something?
Apparently you are supposed to bite hard into it and pick the bones out of mouth after they stab into your gums. The gums bleeding enhances the taste. At least that what I heard about it. Don't know if it's true.
“I’m not looking for food that are built in with a SHAME MECHANISM.” To be honest, while eating I like doing so in as much comfort as possible Which would involve not having to hide my face from the guests
@@ConnanTheCivilized I still don't understand the Internet's steely determination when it comes to likening pineapple-on-pizza to dead-ass rape and murder. It's a fucking fruit, get over it.
Same, but specifically to showcase whatever screwed up thing I'm doing. Like that time I put both salt and pepper in a glass of apple juice, drank it, unironically liked it, and then ate whole shrimp with my bare hands. At a formal event no less. That was fun! I also had an entire plate of individually picked croutons. Which somehow got more comments, though one of the people present at the time, who had also initially pointed out the plate of croutons I had, admitted that same day that he often didn't react to my bullshit because he was afraid to acknowledge it, so... I guess really liking croutons but having everything else in a salad is much less uncomfortable.
3:51 Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than explained here. They capture the shark, the fins are cut off from the live shark and the quadruple amputated shark is thrown back into the water, still alive.
It's worth mentioning that peppers are 'hot/spicy' as a defense mechanism of the plant, same as the caffeine coffee bean plants. Shoot there's a premium coffee that is made of partially digested coffee beans pooped out of a specific animal. People are weird man..
Jamaican here Once you've eaten ackee, you'll never stop. You'd be begging for more. It's part of our national dish: "ackee and salt fish". It's very tasteful especially when prepared with natural spices: peppers, onions, tomatoes, black pepper and so on. So find yourself a Jamaican restaurant & order it with some fried dumplings (it can be eaten with anything else). Death from this fruit is so rare that anyone that dies from it usually makes the headlines and seems very "suspicions".
can i just say out all of of these here the ackee thing is the most normal especiallly compared to the maggot cheese and the atrocity that is the ortolan
@@noahmiller8042 “This soup is made of bird spit” “This soup requires us to kill members of an endangered species” “This bird was tortured and drowned in the dark” vs. “This might kill you **if** we make it wrong (true of many foods, maybe not to the same extent)”
Also its not hard to get ackee at the right time, the fruit opens on its own when ripe, so most times people get sick it’s because they forcibly opened the fruit early. Hell, if it’s ripe you can eat the aril raw (although who would wanna do that)
Famous chef Anthony Bourdain on eating an ortolan “I bring my molars down and through my bird’s rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I’m giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly - ever so slowly - to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull.” The fact that the pain of having your mouth cut and the flavor of blood enhances the experience is wild. Also Jeremy Clarkson has eaten this and quite liked it.
I'msure it would taste delicious, I mean its basically just really fatty, brandy infused, roasted fowl. That sounds delicious, but the fact they they drown it in brandy makes the whole thing disgusting
@@AjZ530Some sources say they used to gouge the bird's eyes out to blind it in the past instead of simply covering the net. F I wonder how they clean the birdshit out of the intestines though? That' shit's a massive carrier of disease.
In defense of the Birds Nest Soup, it contains high amount of protein and minerals, and are historically eaten as a supplement by people suffering from malnutrition, and is generally not considered as food. Historically these nests are plucked after they are deserted by the birds (as they leave their nests behind as soon as the baby birds take flight), but in more recent history people started plucking nests that are still home to bird families. In modern times, people actually build habitats for these birds to roost and nest in, and then collect the leftover nests after the birds leave. These birds are not fed in any way though, and still gather food in the wild.
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f I reiterate, Chinese people do not consider bird nests "food". They are used as "supplement" or "medicine" in Ancient China (in Chinese culture, supplement and medicine are not two different category of items), and Chinese medicine can get very weird. Even human fingernails is considered a Chinese medicine. And the craziest part is, they do work as effectively as modern medicine.
@@hanswang7891Disclaimer: Chinese traditional medicine _does not_ work as effectively as modern medicine. This is literal propaganda. Powdered animal penises will not cure ED, and ground rhino horn is not a curative medicine. The fact that some things were gotten right on accident does not validate this pseudo-scientific bunk that Chinese chauvinists continue to push as fact.
@@user-pi3hd2bt3fif you look at Chinese history, most wacky “miracle cures” were just supplements, basically, because most illnesses were simple infections that were only deadly because people were malnourished. Birds nest soup was one of these supplements. People would go great lengths to get some for a sickly family member. Then, in modern times, scientists look at the wacky medicines and go “haaar, it does nothing, just some common minerals”. It’s not common to a peasant who eats nothing but rice and a bit of preserved cabbage for 90% of the year.
Hello! Italian from the Monkey Banana Republic (Calabria) here, we consider Sardinians to be a weird breed (expecially due to the inbreeding stereotype lol) for their dialect, culture, identity and food. And everyone here dislikes Casu Martzu (except for Sardinians). My big sister is married to a Sardinian who likes it and he says that yes it tastes good but no one else has tried it for obvious reasons :D (he eats it with the maggots alive)
How is it that when someone eats shark fins or birds nests, people think it’s just a culture thing, but when someone has pineapple on pizza, everyone looks at them like a psychopath.
I find it interesting that pineapple on pizza is known as Hawaiian, a state where they routinely cook their meat with a sweet sauce. Hawaiian is also popular in Jamaica where I live, and we make our meat with sweet sauces occasionally as well. It might just be popular with people who are used to a sweet taste accompanying their meats. I don't have enough evidence to make a conclusion though.
The sushi (Actually sashimi) you mentioned is called Fugu. It's Blowfish meat. It is supposedly very tasty, and historically has been banned multiple times in Japan. Throughout history, eating it is said to take courage and makes you more charming. Currently, in order to prepare fugu, a chef needs an extremely strict license that needs to be renewed regularly. The only thing I don't get is how the first guy that decided to eat fugu died from the poison, and then people kept trying to eat it.
calling fugu "tasty" is a very subjective, even most japanese people who have tried it says that the meat itself is basically tasteless at first and starts getting a flavor only if you chew it throughly
My teacher smuggled Bibles into China. And one time her handler was late at the restaurant so she closed her eyes and randomly picked an item with her eyes close she didn’t look suspicious in the China restaurant. Luckily her handler showed up because she was about to order bird nest soup. and ordered for her in time.
Mr. Terry reacts to some controversial political stuff: Works really hard to stay neutral and asks the audience for their own opinions. Mr. Terry reacts to some controversial foods: "YOU ARE WRONG AND SHOULD FEEL BAD!"
For real though when the standard protocol for eating something is to cover the entire fucking process because it is so deeply disgusting and horrifying to the good sense of man, maybe you should reconsider your life choices.
You also have southern soul food in America but at least it was made to taste good. Took about 100 years but they pulled it off. Then again we also used to feed prisoners lobster because we thought of it garbage seafood. Can you imagine the sarcasm prisoners had to use to make sure they kept getting fed it. "Oh lord please don't make me eat this with melted butter too!"
@@shadowprince4482 the lobster was a really shit food back then tbf Is a food who start to root as soon as the animal die so what they eated spoiled lobster Only later when we started to boil the lobsters alive we discovered they taste good
The reason why you never felt like eating maggoty cheese or bird spit is because you were never hungry. Not hungry as in "I'm kinda peckish", but hungry as in your stomach telling you "Eat something. We're dying."
I am so glad that he bought up ackee. As a person of Jamaican descent, I grew up on this with saltfish, dumpling, plantain and green bananas. I even have a story of accidentally getting my grandmother sick because of opening a few pods.
I had first learned of the Ortolan from American Dad. When I first watched that episode, I thought it was entirely a joke made up, then I looked it up and realized it was real. WTF France?!
One food I said should also be there is Three Squeak. Newborn baby mouse eaten alive, named after the three squeaks as it's picked up, dipped in sauce, and eaten
Poland also has some strange stuff, although not as much as France. This dish is meant to use as much of an animal, that is being slaughtered, so less goes to waste. It's a soup made of guts (the name itself implies that - "flaki" - guts). Specifically cow guts, mostly stomach. I eat it sometimes and are often seen in grocery stores' freezers as ready-to-cook packets. Regarding the consumption experience, from texture side for obvious reasons seems like chewing on a scaled up version of microfibre, but with proper seasoning it actually tastes nice.
goat stomach is cooked with white beans in the North of Brazil to make a dish called Dobradinha, and it's notoriously a risky dish to eat mainly because if the cook doesn't know how to season it, it is abominably bad. Also, it reeks to high hell.
Rhubarb has real hard time making you even just sick, let alone die. Eating a lot of uncooked rhubarb can give you a stomachache, but that's about it. Eating the leaves will make you sick, but that's the same as saying potatoes are poisonous because the fruit that grows in the above-ground part is.
About the ortolan, I remember hearing of how in some preparation methods, the chefs gouge out the poor bird’s eyes prior to throwing the bird into brandy. The French really perfected cruel ways to kill birds for cuisine, looking at you too Foie Gras.
Collagen is great. Soups made with bone broth are wonderful. But it's not so great when it's solid. And it's certainly not worth killing a shark for or any fish. On the other hand, I have no problem with in regularly do make broth out of the leftover parts of a fish or chicken. Roast to the bones and little remaining meat. Then boil it and add some vegetables or vegetable trimmings. Great stuff. A surprising amount of things we eat would make you sick or even kill you if not prepared properly. Unripened tomatoes or improperly ripened potatoes contain toxins. We forget that these are part of the nightshade family and the potato berry and the tomato tuber are both quite poisonous. You need to eat the potato tuber and the tomato fruit. Cassava is a staple food on par with wheat and potatoes. If improperly ripened and not fully cooked it too is poisonous. Many beans not only contain antinutrients but also toxins and need to be boiled or prepared to allow these to leach out. Sweet almonds contain a very tiny tiny amount of organic cyanide. They are a cultivar of bitter almonds which contain quite a bit of cyanide. In fact cyanide smells like almonds. My father was a partisan in World War II and carried cyanide around his neck and could smell it. It took him over a decade before he could enjoy almonds.
I like how Sam often doesn't even make history content, yet a history teacher still reacts to it and manages to give it a historic context. Terry's the goat
I guess I can understand that in the ancient and prehistoric worlds there was so much else that could kill you anyway, so it makes sense that some foods that were dangerous might have lasted.
“Added psychic pain” I am both laughing really hard and that is a fantastic analogy for the worlds. Worst possible headache that that is perfectly understood.
Fun facts about gourmet food! Everything considered elite, high class, etc. gourmet food was once considered poor people food! Caviar? Poor people food. Foil Grad? Yep Kori Lusaka? Yeah that was only for the slaves running the coffee plantations at the time Lobster? Considered food for only prisoners in colonial America.
I really doubt Ortolan the way it was shown in the video was ever poor people food. If you didn't notice, it's killed and flavored by drowning in Armagnac, which would never have been that cheap of a method.
I got 3 rules when it comes to food 1. Not illegal 2. Im eating it from someone apart of directly related to the culture that prepares it 3. I wont take psycic damage from eating it
I 1000% guarantee that if a group of people only had skunks to eat, one of them would figure out how to eat "Skunk Butthole" and make it taste ok at a minimum
These types of videos remind me of that cannibal lady from Library of Ruina and that entire area that she lives in, not to mention the chefs that aside from one were so obsessed with discovering the ultimate flavor that they literally started cooking themselves
I love that something that I eat on a regular basis and is my National Dish is seen as controversial. We eat ackee on a regular basis with zero repercussions. In fact I don't know of anyone here that has ever gotten Jamaican vomiting sickness. I did not even know it was called that until today
Yeah there are a lot of foods that are poisonous if prepared incorrectly. Including quite a few mushrooms we eat, like morels, honey mushrooms and gyromitra esculenta (which apparently doesn't have an actual English name, but it's called "ear mushroom", "stone morel", and a few other names in other languages). I don't see how ackee is really that different from many mushrooms, and the pufferfish that Terry talked about, in that aspect.
Since its Ramadan Mr Terry this video makes me glad I’m fasting. Also any chance you can do some early Islamic era stuff like the First Muslim civil war or Fitna
When it comes to shark fin soup, it’s not just the fact that the sharks are over harvested, but also that they are killed in such a brutal manner. From what I have heard, they just cut the fins off of the sharks while they are alive, and then throw them back. 😰
Look, I’m not defending the practice, but back when I was a child a posh friend of my dad’s took us to a fancy restaurant, and the appetizer soup was legit delicious. It was unlike anything I’d ever had, with a mouthwatering sour soup base and crunchy jelly sponge things that feel like what asmr sounds like when you bite them. So I asked for another bowl, but then I learned it had an insane price tag. Yeah. It was shark fin soup. I don’t think it’s available anymore these days, but back then it wasn’t controversial yet and we had no inkling that it was wrong. The business friend was just showing off his big bucks.
Ackee is actually really good you don’t need special skill to cook it I have been cooking it from I was a kid you just need to make sure it’s ripe 😂 it’s our National dish it’s really delicious
I mean lots of plants have developed things to tell us not to eat them, but we eat them anyways. Best thing I can think of off the top of my head is how peppers grew to be spicy to stop being eaten, yet what do humans do? Seek them out even more specifically for those spices and try to cultivate them to be stronger in some cases. Ackee really isn't all that bad, and it's pretty easy to tell ripened ones from unripe ones. I've never had it tinned though since my house has an ackee tree, so I can't really say how those compare to freshly picked ones. But it's soft and really versatile. Heck, it's part of our national dish! I love ackee
to be totally fair to Akee, /pork/ is a food that can kill you if its not prepared properly. and ackee has an extremely clear tell when its ripe. the pod splits completely open into a three lobed claw to drop seed. you have to go out of your way to open sealed ackee or chew on the pods to get sick for the most part. usually its kids who dont know any bettter getting poisoned. its not comparable to fugu at all, its a staple and iconic dish of the caribbean.
Another fun example of Island Syndrome is the Hobbits of Flores aka Homo Floresiensis. Really tiny humans with really tiny skulls in a time where humans basically looked like us.
The state I currently live in some guy literally spent 26 million dollars to get the first thing “that cheese” legalized and 12 million to get the last thing “that bird” dish legalized as well. Mind you the same guy spent over 100 million to lobby the state to keep cannabis illegal. He has now spent over 206 million dollars to try to make it illegal again. He is the same crazy guy that spent over 300 millions to lobby for the death penalty to be brought back while at the same time spent 500 million dollars to outlaw abortion at any stage. The guy is 1 of 20 billionaires that live in our state that literally own 2 of the 10 Mega Churches in the state. In the span of 30 years he spent billions of dollars to legalize 10 food products and outlaw 20 freedom of choices. One of the food products is literally a form of cannibalism and is only legal in a specific location in India and most of North Korea. The guy is currently spending 50 million dollars to bring back legal duels. Thankfully only thing he only got passed was a moonshine that makes people go blind. The moonshine killed 570 people in the United States alone last year.
So, Mr. Terry. The ash on cheese thing. Believe it or not, we've been using ash of all kinds (primarily vegetable ash) for thousands of years! The ash helps rind form and speeds fermentation up slightly because the alkaline nature of the ash helps balance out the acidity of the curd that can slow it down. It also is somewhat repellant to flies and other insects that may try to eat at the cheese while it ages. Wax, leaves, and other materials have also been used. Cheesemaking is actually a fascinating history topic because it's one of the oldest forms of long-lasting food humans discovered and utilized as a society. Its origins aren't known but some suspect that it was accidentally created when containers (possibly tied animal stomachs or hides) full of heated milk were stored in caves containing bacteria helpful to cheese formation. Similar stories for yogurt exist.
For the swiftlet, you can actually tell when the bird is about to lay eggs if there is blood in the saliva and nests. The soup is also supposed to help improve your skin.
Sinewy is a bad description of shark fin, it's actually pretty good. I get that the flavor isn't from the fin, but it's still good. Think slightly undercooked vermicelli. As a Chinese person, I have NEVER heard of ANY case of bird-related diseases from bird's nest. It's more like jello if the original gelatin came in strings, vaguely. It's usually part of pricy desserts. You can even get it from Costco as sweet drinks with bits in it.
Ackee isn't hard to prepare and boil for 30-45mins and you're good. If you actually get sick from it in Jamaica it's very weird, such a rare thing to happen Edit: probably should have said until soft.
All defend pretty much any culture’s weird food because I always want to try and like new things. In fact, I get angry when I don’t enjoy something. So if someone wants to offer me maggot filled rotten cheese, I will try it with gusto.
the maggot cheese I'm fine with although I won't eat it myself (maybe if the maggots were removed) , the ackee I think shouldn't really be on this list, it's the same category as any other food you can get sick from if made incorrectly, the shark fin soup I wouldn't mind if they ate the whole shark but they waste it so screw them, the bird's nest soup I just find disgusting and I morally object to eating it but my feeling towards it is you do you. THE LAST BIRD HOWEVER! Absolutely not, that's horrible, drowning it in wine?? Disgusting. I don't midn eating the bird itself if it was just prepared normally but what the hell!
haitian culture has them eating cookies made out of literal dirt, well not dirt, because dirt is organic matter, its clay really. im sorry but some cultures are better than others, just because its weird and unique doesnt make it a good thing, in many cases thats a bad thing, like the aztecs
The ortolan was even mentioned in COD WW2, “take the ortolan; that tiny, delicate songbird. It’s eyes poked out so that it can gorge, and then it’s drowned in cognac it’s ingenious. I’m not sure what I’ll miss more; savouring the sweet flesh, or watching it thrash to death.”
I've had more than one occasion of sinew getting stuck between my teeth and on my braces. And this gave me another reason to not consume shark's fin soup
There are certain plants like rhubarb that have an edible section, while the rest of the plant is toxic. And rhubarb pie can be absolutely wonderful. Also, we have a number of berries in the US that need to be ripe to be non-toxic, and can very much ruin your day (or worse, if too many are consumed) if eaten before that point. We make jams and preserves, and pies and other desserts out of these, and have been eating these things for tens of thousands of years (less so for the non-native peoples). But yeah, there are some things where it's really more of a "I could see eating this if you were starving to death", comes into play. Often, things like that could better be used to catch something more proper to eat. I won't eat maggot cheese. I might use it to catch fish with, though...
If you ever have the time, I'd love for you to check out some of QXIR's Tales From The Bottle videos. They're basically an Irish Sam O'Nella. His video on Aimo Koivunen, the WWII soldier who ODed on Pervitin (aka meth), is quite interesting
Mr Terry I highly recommend trying beef tongue tacos. Aka lengua. It's not gamey. It just tastes like extremely soft beef. Just get past the mind game and it's heavy in a tiny tortilla.
Fun fact: Hot Pockets contain "plant cellulose," which is actually wood pulp, or sawdust. Bonus fact: Beaver testicle and bum bum grands are used for artificial blueberry and vanilla flavoring.
I thought that I read years ago that they don’t exactly kill the shark…they catch it, cut the fins off and let it go…which is terrible but then also renders the shark unable to swim, so…
I heard stories of bird nests sup from where I'm from (slightly different from this story...by adding a bunch of herbs and spices) even my folk have eaten once...is often said in the old day ( somewhere monarchy system probably) kings often feasts on this delicious food due to it has super naturally health properties... and to flex the poor
Like this comment to ban Italy and France from making any new food.
Italy isn't real i swear to god bruh 😂
There are probably some Appalachian "gourmands" who have had skunk butthole. 😂
Well then...give 'em the boot! @@PinkusFloydus67
Like this comment to ban Italy and France
Naaa man Italy has spaghetti and garlic bread and wine it has some good stuff but french food is definitely sus at times all jokes
The French seeing the absolutely least edible item in the world:
“imma eat that”
Nah i'd eat that
- The French.
I feel like bird with brandy is the most edible thing on this list. Even more edible than most shit I eat probably
Also Asian people seeing an endangered species
@@simongames100nah the ackee is def most edible on here
@simongames100 it wasn't stated here but it is far worse than you think. The bones from the bird literally cut into your gums and cause bleeding which is AN INTENDED EXPERIENCE.
Cause the blood from your gums with the brandy and meat is supposed to do something?
Humans basically call EVERYTHING delicacy thats not yummy or even edible.
Cue the video clip of Zoidberg complaining about rich people food being garbage.
A rusty nail stuck to a piece of bark
@@theironrubberduck cinnamon is tasty bark xD
there is a saying "perfection is the enemy of good" i would like to change/add to it: "delicacy is the enemy of tasty"
Everything is edible once
How do you even come up with the idea of keeping a bird in the dark, then drowning it in brandy?
Probably the same fucked up monsters that came up with force feeding ducks and eating their then fatty livers.
From the whisperings of Satan in the ear of a cook suffering from Ergot
being french
Apparently you are supposed to bite hard into it and pick the bones out of mouth after they stab into your gums. The gums bleeding enhances the taste. At least that what I heard about it. Don't know if it's true.
having too much money and too much free time
“I’m not looking for food that are built in with a SHAME MECHANISM.”
To be honest, while eating I like doing so in as much comfort as possible
Which would involve not having to hide my face from the guests
Clearly you don’t eat cereal dry, nor put pineapple on pizza. One develops a thick skin. Still, I agree with you.
@@ConnanTheCivilized
I actually eat cereal dry so😭😭🤣
@@ConnanTheCivilized I still don't understand the Internet's steely determination when it comes to likening pineapple-on-pizza to dead-ass rape and murder. It's a fucking fruit, get over it.
Same, but specifically to showcase whatever screwed up thing I'm doing. Like that time I put both salt and pepper in a glass of apple juice, drank it, unironically liked it, and then ate whole shrimp with my bare hands.
At a formal event no less. That was fun!
I also had an entire plate of individually picked croutons. Which somehow got more comments, though one of the people present at the time, who had also initially pointed out the plate of croutons I had, admitted that same day that he often didn't react to my bullshit because he was afraid to acknowledge it, so... I guess really liking croutons but having everything else in a salad is much less uncomfortable.
3:51 Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than explained here. They capture the shark, the fins are cut off from the live shark and the quadruple amputated shark is thrown back into the water, still alive.
Plus there's a neurotoxin in the fins that can cause poison to the brain if eaten.
Another marvelous economic practice we get to thank traditional chinese medicine.
It's worth mentioning that peppers are 'hot/spicy' as a defense mechanism of the plant, same as the caffeine coffee bean plants.
Shoot there's a premium coffee that is made of partially digested coffee beans pooped out of a specific animal.
People are weird man..
Chocolate is also lethal to a lot of animals.
yeah but poison is on the amount so is not really a defense agaings us, unlike those devil beans that 100 percent are
:(
@@MySerpentinegrapes are lethal to dogs, avocados are lethal to birds, potatoes and tomatoes are part of the Deadly Nightshade family.
That coffee would be Kopi luwak. My friend had some when he went to Indonesia, and apparently it actually is very good.
Jamaican here
Once you've eaten ackee, you'll never stop. You'd be begging for more. It's part of our national dish: "ackee and salt fish". It's very tasteful especially when prepared with natural spices: peppers, onions, tomatoes, black pepper and so on. So find yourself a Jamaican restaurant & order it with some fried dumplings (it can be eaten with anything else). Death from this fruit is so rare that anyone that dies from it usually makes the headlines and seems very "suspicions".
I second this
can i just say out all of of these here the ackee thing is the most normal especiallly compared to the maggot cheese and the atrocity that is the ortolan
@@noahmiller8042 “This soup is made of bird spit” “This soup requires us to kill members of an endangered species” “This bird was tortured and drowned in the dark” vs. “This might kill you **if** we make it wrong (true of many foods, maybe not to the same extent)”
Same here FACTS
Also its not hard to get ackee at the right time, the fruit opens on its own when ripe, so most times people get sick it’s because they forcibly opened the fruit early. Hell, if it’s ripe you can eat the aril raw (although who would wanna do that)
Famous chef Anthony Bourdain on eating an ortolan
“I bring my molars down and through my bird’s rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I’m giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly - ever so slowly - to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull.”
The fact that the pain of having your mouth cut and the flavor of blood enhances the experience is wild. Also Jeremy Clarkson has eaten this and quite liked it.
Imagine an alien reading this lmao. Humans are actually just space orcs.
I'msure it would taste delicious, I mean its basically just really fatty, brandy infused, roasted fowl. That sounds delicious, but the fact they they drown it in brandy makes the whole thing disgusting
@@AjZ530Some sources say they used to gouge the bird's eyes out to blind it in the past instead of simply covering the net. F
I wonder how they clean the birdshit out of the intestines though? That' shit's a massive carrier of disease.
holy fucking shit
I knew I had heard of the ortolon and its strange ritual somewhere before. Anthony Bourdaine
In defense of the Birds Nest Soup, it contains high amount of protein and minerals, and are historically eaten as a supplement by people suffering from malnutrition, and is generally not considered as food. Historically these nests are plucked after they are deserted by the birds (as they leave their nests behind as soon as the baby birds take flight), but in more recent history people started plucking nests that are still home to bird families. In modern times, people actually build habitats for these birds to roost and nest in, and then collect the leftover nests after the birds leave. These birds are not fed in any way though, and still gather food in the wild.
That is actually hortifyingly sad. Being so hungry and desperate you resort to eating bird houses made of saliva.
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f I reiterate, Chinese people do not consider bird nests "food". They are used as "supplement" or "medicine" in Ancient China (in Chinese culture, supplement and medicine are not two different category of items), and Chinese medicine can get very weird. Even human fingernails is considered a Chinese medicine. And the craziest part is, they do work as effectively as modern medicine.
@@hanswang7891Disclaimer: Chinese traditional medicine _does not_ work as effectively as modern medicine. This is literal propaganda. Powdered animal penises will not cure ED, and ground rhino horn is not a curative medicine.
The fact that some things were gotten right on accident does not validate this pseudo-scientific bunk that Chinese chauvinists continue to push as fact.
@@user-pi3hd2bt3fif you look at Chinese history, most wacky “miracle cures” were just supplements, basically, because most illnesses were simple infections that were only deadly because people were malnourished. Birds nest soup was one of these supplements. People would go great lengths to get some for a sickly family member.
Then, in modern times, scientists look at the wacky medicines and go “haaar, it does nothing, just some common minerals”. It’s not common to a peasant who eats nothing but rice and a bit of preserved cabbage for 90% of the year.
Hello! Italian from the Monkey Banana Republic (Calabria) here, we consider Sardinians to be a weird breed (expecially due to the inbreeding stereotype lol) for their dialect, culture, identity and food. And everyone here dislikes Casu Martzu (except for Sardinians). My big sister is married to a Sardinian who likes it and he says that yes it tastes good but no one else has tried it for obvious reasons :D (he eats it with the maggots alive)
They also make sweet sweet love to their sheep
@@bryanfongo327 true
I love how every country has some part they talk shit about, and it’s always the same bad things like inbreeding and super weird traditions
so it's basically Alabama for Italy.
@@GiordanDiodato Sardinia is like Urk for the Netherlands, Wales for the UK and Alabama merged into one place
How is it that when someone eats shark fins or birds nests, people think it’s just a culture thing, but when someone has pineapple on pizza, everyone looks at them like a psychopath.
The pineapple thing is disgust in a joking way but the other ones are genuine wtf moments
Because they are psychopaths
They can all be psychopaths you know.
@@theironrubberduck it's sometimes not a joking way.
Pineapple is good, but just not on pizza
I find it interesting that pineapple on pizza is known as Hawaiian, a state where they routinely cook their meat with a sweet sauce. Hawaiian is also popular in Jamaica where I live, and we make our meat with sweet sauces occasionally as well. It might just be popular with people who are used to a sweet taste accompanying their meats. I don't have enough evidence to make a conclusion though.
Being omnivorous has very big advantages. But as we can see from Sam's video, it can have even bigger disadvantages.
Damn it France!
as a german i will say: alot that has happened in our past was atrocious and shouldnt have happened.... but the french had it comming
The sushi (Actually sashimi) you mentioned is called Fugu. It's Blowfish meat. It is supposedly very tasty, and historically has been banned multiple times in Japan. Throughout history, eating it is said to take courage and makes you more charming. Currently, in order to prepare fugu, a chef needs an extremely strict license that needs to be renewed regularly. The only thing I don't get is how the first guy that decided to eat fugu died from the poison, and then people kept trying to eat it.
calling fugu "tasty" is a very subjective, even most japanese people who have tried it says that the meat itself is basically tasteless at first and starts getting a flavor only if you chew it throughly
My teacher smuggled Bibles into China. And one time her handler was late at the restaurant so she closed her eyes and randomly picked an item with her eyes close she didn’t look suspicious in the China restaurant. Luckily her handler showed up because she was about to order bird nest soup. and ordered for her in time.
Noble birds nest soup
Humans: No we cant eat that!
Also humans: lets call it delicacy and charge even more for it.
Humans: shxt up and take my money!
Mr. Terry reacts to some controversial political stuff: Works really hard to stay neutral and asks the audience for their own opinions.
Mr. Terry reacts to some controversial foods: "YOU ARE WRONG AND SHOULD FEEL BAD!"
Tbf, you're supposed to feel like a terrible person for eating an ortelan... Kink shaming their food choices only turns the diners on more.
For real though when the standard protocol for eating something is to cover the entire fucking process because it is so deeply disgusting and horrifying to the good sense of man, maybe you should reconsider your life choices.
“Not everything is food”
Tell that to Asia, china specifically
Add the fr**ch to that list as well
Add France to this aswell
Also Thailand's (I think) literal garbage feast
You also have southern soul food in America but at least it was made to taste good. Took about 100 years but they pulled it off. Then again we also used to feed prisoners lobster because we thought of it garbage seafood. Can you imagine the sarcasm prisoners had to use to make sure they kept getting fed it. "Oh lord please don't make me eat this with melted butter too!"
@@shadowprince4482 the lobster was a really shit food back then tbf
Is a food who start to root as soon as the animal die so what they eated spoiled lobster
Only later when we started to boil the lobsters alive we discovered they taste good
I laughed way too hard at how angry this video made Mr Terry
The reason why you never felt like eating maggoty cheese or bird spit is because you were never hungry.
Not hungry as in "I'm kinda peckish", but hungry as in your stomach telling you "Eat something. We're dying."
Being boneless is one of the top attributes of pizza
I am so glad that he bought up ackee. As a person of Jamaican descent, I grew up on this with saltfish, dumpling, plantain and green bananas. I even have a story of accidentally getting my grandmother sick because of opening a few pods.
10:15 Also in medieval times, monks used to eat snails in times when eating meat was religiously prohibited, because snails weren't considered meat.
I had first learned of the Ortolan from American Dad. When I first watched that episode, I thought it was entirely a joke made up, then I looked it up and realized it was real. WTF France?!
One food I said should also be there is Three Squeak.
Newborn baby mouse eaten alive, named after the three squeaks as it's picked up, dipped in sauce, and eaten
That hurts my soul. How could anyone do that and not feel awful?
What place invented such a thing?
Poland also has some strange stuff, although not as much as France.
This dish is meant to use as much of an animal, that is being slaughtered, so less goes to waste. It's a soup made of guts (the name itself implies that - "flaki" - guts). Specifically cow guts, mostly stomach. I eat it sometimes and are often seen in grocery stores' freezers as ready-to-cook packets. Regarding the consumption experience, from texture side for obvious reasons seems like chewing on a scaled up version of microfibre, but with proper seasoning it actually tastes nice.
Cow stomach is hugely popular in Mexico too, made in a soup called menudo. Apparently it helps cure hangovers
goat stomach is cooked with white beans in the North of Brazil to make a dish called Dobradinha, and it's notoriously a risky dish to eat mainly because if the cook doesn't know how to season it, it is abominably bad. Also, it reeks to high hell.
alright but here me out, your not actively torturing the creature in the preparation for this soup unlike the ortolon
Cow stomach (specifically the tripe) is also a standard dish in Cantonese dim sum.
thats just like haggis really, sheeps stomach filled with the rest of the offal
So Ackee's similar to almonds or rhubarb, if it's not ripe or pasteurized enough, it can induce sickness and/or death.
Rhubarb has real hard time making you even just sick, let alone die. Eating a lot of uncooked rhubarb can give you a stomachache, but that's about it. Eating the leaves will make you sick, but that's the same as saying potatoes are poisonous because the fruit that grows in the above-ground part is.
Come now Mr. Terry, if we trusted nature, we'd miss out on such hits as: Honey, Hot Peppers, various plant based drugs.
There's a soda in Malaysia that my dad's called Bird's nest soda and it's actually tasted so good actually.
Tastes like coconut water.
It's Popular in Indonesia too, especially during Eid Fitri
About the ortolan, I remember hearing of how in some preparation methods, the chefs gouge out the poor bird’s eyes prior to throwing the bird into brandy.
The French really perfected cruel ways to kill birds for cuisine, looking at you too Foie Gras.
When my french friend calls my people disgusting for liking pinapples on pizza.
I can now safely ask how is the Ortolan population doing in france?
Collagen is great. Soups made with bone broth are wonderful. But it's not so great when it's solid. And it's certainly not worth killing a shark for or any fish. On the other hand, I have no problem with in regularly do make broth out of the leftover parts of a fish or chicken. Roast to the bones and little remaining meat. Then boil it and add some vegetables or vegetable trimmings. Great stuff.
A surprising amount of things we eat would make you sick or even kill you if not prepared properly. Unripened tomatoes or improperly ripened potatoes contain toxins. We forget that these are part of the nightshade family and the potato berry and the tomato tuber are both quite poisonous. You need to eat the potato tuber and the tomato fruit.
Cassava is a staple food on par with wheat and potatoes. If improperly ripened and not fully cooked it too is poisonous.
Many beans not only contain antinutrients but also toxins and need to be boiled or prepared to allow these to leach out.
Sweet almonds contain a very tiny tiny amount of organic cyanide. They are a cultivar of bitter almonds which contain quite a bit of cyanide. In fact cyanide smells like almonds. My father was a partisan in World War II and carried cyanide around his neck and could smell it. It took him over a decade before he could enjoy almonds.
I like how Sam often doesn't even make history content, yet a history teacher still reacts to it and manages to give it a historic context. Terry's the goat
Hey food history is still history!
I guess I can understand that in the ancient and prehistoric worlds there was so much else that could kill you anyway, so it makes sense that some foods that were dangerous might have lasted.
It is funny that you covered your eyes when it was one of the few things essentially not shown Lol
I wonder when we gonna graduate
Only in death u will graduate from life
This makes eating natto look safer than that, like what the hell.
“Added psychic pain” I am both laughing really hard and that is a fantastic analogy for the worlds. Worst possible headache that that is perfectly understood.
Fun facts about gourmet food!
Everything considered elite, high class, etc. gourmet food was once considered poor people food!
Caviar? Poor people food.
Foil Grad? Yep
Kori Lusaka? Yeah that was only for the slaves running the coffee plantations at the time
Lobster? Considered food for only prisoners in colonial America.
I really doubt Ortolan the way it was shown in the video was ever poor people food. If you didn't notice, it's killed and flavored by drowning in Armagnac, which would never have been that cheap of a method.
@@wombat4191 Likely just a bird fell in and drowned then they ate it.
Pufferfish is what you're thinking of, I think. Yes, if any of the guts get into the dish, you're in big trouble.
Yeah and the dish is called Fugu
I got 3 rules when it comes to food 1. Not illegal 2. Im eating it from someone apart of directly related to the culture that prepares it 3. I wont take psycic damage from eating it
I 1000% guarantee that if a group of people only had skunks to eat, one of them would figure out how to eat "Skunk Butthole" and make it taste ok at a minimum
These types of videos remind me of that cannibal lady from Library of Ruina and that entire area that she lives in, not to mention the chefs that aside from one were so obsessed with discovering the ultimate flavor that they literally started cooking themselves
3:36 A pufferfish.
Ive had some of the cheese (feed the maggot's to my chicken) for my cheese tasting certification, it was 8/10 depends on what you eat it with
I love that something that I eat on a regular basis and is my National Dish is seen as controversial. We eat ackee on a regular basis with zero repercussions. In fact I don't know of anyone here that has ever gotten Jamaican vomiting sickness. I did not even know it was called that until today
Yeah there are a lot of foods that are poisonous if prepared incorrectly. Including quite a few mushrooms we eat, like morels, honey mushrooms and gyromitra esculenta (which apparently doesn't have an actual English name, but it's called "ear mushroom", "stone morel", and a few other names in other languages). I don't see how ackee is really that different from many mushrooms, and the pufferfish that Terry talked about, in that aspect.
Thats because you know how to handle it, or at least your people do. Its dangerous for people who don't though.
Since its Ramadan Mr Terry this video makes me glad I’m fasting. Also any chance you can do some early Islamic era stuff like the First Muslim civil war or Fitna
When it comes to shark fin soup, it’s not just the fact that the sharks are over harvested, but also that they are killed in such a brutal manner. From what I have heard, they just cut the fins off of the sharks while they are alive, and then throw them back. 😰
Look, I’m not defending the practice, but back when I was a child a posh friend of my dad’s took us to a fancy restaurant, and the appetizer soup was legit delicious. It was unlike anything I’d ever had, with a mouthwatering sour soup base and crunchy jelly sponge things that feel like what asmr sounds like when you bite them. So I asked for another bowl, but then I learned it had an insane price tag. Yeah. It was shark fin soup. I don’t think it’s available anymore these days, but back then it wasn’t controversial yet and we had no inkling that it was wrong. The business friend was just showing off his big bucks.
bird's nest soup actually tastes delicious! i'm filipino-chinese and it's a very common thing to eat at parties
6:56 b-b-b-but what would the angry video game nerd rather eat then playing these bad games?!
Sometimes i understand the reason for the FDA
I love how terry nearly says salmonela at the start of every Sam O'Nella video
Ackee is actually really good you don’t need special skill to cook it I have been cooking it from I was a kid you just need to make sure it’s ripe 😂 it’s our National dish it’s really delicious
I mean lots of plants have developed things to tell us not to eat them, but we eat them anyways. Best thing I can think of off the top of my head is how peppers grew to be spicy to stop being eaten, yet what do humans do? Seek them out even more specifically for those spices and try to cultivate them to be stronger in some cases.
Ackee really isn't all that bad, and it's pretty easy to tell ripened ones from unripe ones. I've never had it tinned though since my house has an ackee tree, so I can't really say how those compare to freshly picked ones. But it's soft and really versatile. Heck, it's part of our national dish! I love ackee
to be totally fair to Akee, /pork/ is a food that can kill you if its not prepared properly. and ackee has an extremely clear tell when its ripe. the pod splits completely open into a three lobed claw to drop seed. you have to go out of your way to open sealed ackee or chew on the pods to get sick for the most part. usually its kids who dont know any bettter getting poisoned. its not comparable to fugu at all, its a staple and iconic dish of the caribbean.
As a descendant of the French even I say they must be stopped.
There are several nuts that can kill you if not prepared properly, including cashews.
Another fun example of Island Syndrome is the Hobbits of Flores aka Homo Floresiensis. Really tiny humans with really tiny skulls in a time where humans basically looked like us.
Casu Marzu is known to have a distinct and sweeter taste
The state I currently live in some guy literally spent 26 million dollars to get the first thing “that cheese” legalized and 12 million to get the last thing “that bird” dish legalized as well.
Mind you the same guy spent over 100 million to lobby the state to keep cannabis illegal. He has now spent over 206 million dollars to try to make it illegal again. He is the same crazy guy that spent over 300 millions to lobby for the death penalty to be brought back while at the same time spent 500 million dollars to outlaw abortion at any stage.
The guy is 1 of 20 billionaires that live in our state that literally own 2 of the 10 Mega Churches in the state.
In the span of 30 years he spent billions of dollars to legalize 10 food products and outlaw 20 freedom of choices. One of the food products is literally a form of cannibalism and is only legal in a specific location in India and most of North Korea. The guy is currently spending 50 million dollars to bring back legal duels. Thankfully only thing he only got passed was a moonshine that makes people go blind. The moonshine killed 570 people in the United States alone last year.
Sometimes people think too much if they could and not if they should.
I have never seen Mr Terry get this upset 😂
Clearly he spared no expense. 🦖
So, Mr. Terry. The ash on cheese thing. Believe it or not, we've been using ash of all kinds (primarily vegetable ash) for thousands of years! The ash helps rind form and speeds fermentation up slightly because the alkaline nature of the ash helps balance out the acidity of the curd that can slow it down. It also is somewhat repellant to flies and other insects that may try to eat at the cheese while it ages. Wax, leaves, and other materials have also been used. Cheesemaking is actually a fascinating history topic because it's one of the oldest forms of long-lasting food humans discovered and utilized as a society. Its origins aren't known but some suspect that it was accidentally created when containers (possibly tied animal stomachs or hides) full of heated milk were stored in caves containing bacteria helpful to cheese formation. Similar stories for yogurt exist.
For the swiftlet, you can actually tell when the bird is about to lay eggs if there is blood in the saliva and nests.
The soup is also supposed to help improve your skin.
Sinewy is a bad description of shark fin, it's actually pretty good. I get that the flavor isn't from the fin, but it's still good. Think slightly undercooked vermicelli.
As a Chinese person, I have NEVER heard of ANY case of bird-related diseases from bird's nest. It's more like jello if the original gelatin came in strings, vaguely. It's usually part of pricy desserts. You can even get it from Costco as sweet drinks with bits in it.
Ackee isn't hard to prepare and boil for 30-45mins and you're good. If you actually get sick from it in Jamaica it's very weird, such a rare thing to happen
Edit: probably should have said until soft.
btw casu marzu tastes like really strong cheese
I was literally rewatching Mr. Terry's Sam reactions the day before Sam posted so you know I was expecting this
6:38 so... Kidney beans are out for you?
I learned about Ortolan from the Hannibal tv show. It was the one scene that made me gag. The MURDER AND CANNIBALISM were less disgusting.
That bird reminds me of eating crunchy chicken in the original Fable game.
If you ate like 3 crunchy chicks in front of one of those face doors it would open up for you cause it was evil and edgy
@@erikgilson1687 Ah fable. Such a good game.
Ah, it's a good day for balut to never make it to Sam's list.
All defend pretty much any culture’s weird food because I always want to try and like new things. In fact, I get angry when I don’t enjoy something. So if someone wants to offer me maggot filled rotten cheese, I will try it with gusto.
the maggot cheese I'm fine with although I won't eat it myself (maybe if the maggots were removed) , the ackee I think shouldn't really be on this list, it's the same category as any other food you can get sick from if made incorrectly, the shark fin soup I wouldn't mind if they ate the whole shark but they waste it so screw them, the bird's nest soup I just find disgusting and I morally object to eating it but my feeling towards it is you do you. THE LAST BIRD HOWEVER! Absolutely not, that's horrible, drowning it in wine?? Disgusting. I don't midn eating the bird itself if it was just prepared normally but what the hell!
Some people blend it to make it creamy and the maggots add protein to the cheese
haitian culture has them eating cookies made out of literal dirt, well not dirt, because dirt is organic matter, its clay really. im sorry but some cultures are better than others, just because its weird and unique doesnt make it a good thing, in many cases thats a bad thing, like the aztecs
The cheese was fine, though you shouldn't eat it live.
"Hmm, yes, what a fine and delectable cuisine."
~A Frenchman in hell being forced to consume the most horrifying foods possible as his punishment.
Ive actually had bird nest soup growing up in Hong Kong, and it was actually was very good, couldnt bring myself to try shark fin though.
I'm so glad you're also that much of a Sam fan
"A built-in shame mechanism" hahahaha
Sam actually find the way to "disarm" the Rotten Cheese. Very cool
I was waiting for your reaction to Sam’s new video,Mr. Terry.
Mr. Terry: "I'm not a food wuss."
*proceeds to spend the rest of the video talking like a food wuss*
Like a real American
More like a sensible person
The ortolan was even mentioned in COD WW2, “take the ortolan; that tiny, delicate songbird. It’s eyes poked out so that it can gorge, and then it’s drowned in cognac it’s ingenious. I’m not sure what I’ll miss more; savouring the sweet flesh, or watching it thrash to death.”
So happy whenever sam uploads, extra happy whenever mr.terry reacts
I have a friend who worked in France for 9-10 in restaurants and he said most of people who ate snails were tourists from Asia and North America.
1:56 enteric myiasis gives some serious System Shock 2 vibes.
I've had more than one occasion of sinew getting stuck between my teeth and on my braces. And this gave me another reason to not consume shark's fin soup
There are certain plants like rhubarb that have an edible section, while the rest of the plant is toxic. And rhubarb pie can be absolutely wonderful. Also, we have a number of berries in the US that need to be ripe to be non-toxic, and can very much ruin your day (or worse, if too many are consumed) if eaten before that point. We make jams and preserves, and pies and other desserts out of these, and have been eating these things for tens of thousands of years (less so for the non-native peoples). But yeah, there are some things where it's really more of a "I could see eating this if you were starving to death", comes into play. Often, things like that could better be used to catch something more proper to eat. I won't eat maggot cheese. I might use it to catch fish with, though...
If you ever have the time, I'd love for you to check out some of QXIR's Tales From The Bottle videos. They're basically an Irish Sam O'Nella. His video on Aimo Koivunen, the WWII soldier who ODed on Pervitin (aka meth), is quite interesting
I saw this morning and was like whatttt again?! Awesome
Mr Terry: That fish that can kill you if not done properly in a sushi or something.
Homer Simpsons: WHERE'S MY FUGU!?
I remember when a Kid in my school died cuz he ate a burger that wasn't cooked properly so the trusting nature thing only goes so far
Mr Terry I highly recommend trying beef tongue tacos. Aka lengua. It's not gamey. It just tastes like extremely soft beef. Just get past the mind game and it's heavy in a tiny tortilla.
Fun fact: Hot Pockets contain "plant cellulose," which is actually wood pulp, or sawdust.
Bonus fact: Beaver testicle and bum bum grands are used for artificial blueberry and vanilla flavoring.
Nature telling you to go away is the appeal I'd imagine
the fish you referred to that can kill you if not prepared properly is fugu and i would absolutely try it
We all know Mr. Terry is an expert when it comes to food
Art is suffering, but in gastronomy the suffering is often on part of whatever is being eaten.
I thought that I read years ago that they don’t exactly kill the shark…they catch it, cut the fins off and let it go…which is terrible but then also renders the shark unable to swim, so…
I heard stories of bird nests sup from where I'm from (slightly different from this story...by adding a bunch of herbs and spices) even my folk have eaten once...is often said in the old day ( somewhere monarchy system probably) kings often feasts on this delicious food due to it has super naturally health properties... and to flex the poor