I have had some of that coffee, I also fed one of the Civets that was providing it. The coffee was ok but the Civet was really sweet. We ended up buying tea from the place instead of the coffee. We could see that the civets were well treated and the place its self was beautiful
It's not a secretion; it's crushed bug juice. And what's wrong with beet juice, anyway? Or just leave the carmine out of my strawberry yogurt and leave it white...
You forgot one of the most common red dyes, cochineal, which is the crushed shells of insects, most often used as a food dye. There was some controversy over its use by Starbucks in something a few years back. It's still being used today in food products around the world.
I knew where all of these things came from before except lanolin. I had heard of & used lanolin many times before but never realised it came from the oh so common (especially where I'm from) sheep. Isn't it strange how we can be totally informed about the exotic but yet totally ignorant to the normal. Or maybe it's just me?
So THAT'S how Jersey Shore keeps their participants (I'm not calling them actors/actresses) that lucious ... orange color. HIPPO SWEAT! Yet another mystery solved by Hank. John needs to step up, because he's falling behind here...
Thanks Lac Bug! Now I too can feel like Bear Grylls! Except I'm not in danger, nor athletic, nor drinking my own pee. But I can tell you what _is_ in danger... These yummy Jelly Beans...
there are various other ingredients made of bugs that you eat. like some food coloring and other things. so yeah all non vegans are basically Bear Grylls.
@@kshitijsharma759 and you do know we don't care right? Do you ever wonder if vegans realize every inch of their veggies have had slugs bugs and worms slathering their secretions all over them. What's more, the soil they grow in can't exist without living creatures enriching them and those living creatures die by the billions every time a crop is planted or harvested. Let's not even get into the fact that plants let out the chemical version of a scream for help whenever they are messed with in any way, more so when parts of them are lopped off. The sad fact is, there can be no life without lesser life being taken to support it. Hopefully our young friend can come to terms with that and concentrate their mind on something they can actually change.
@@overcookedwater1947 I'm not the one freaking out about insects somehow unjustly being forced into servitude by people who place them in the equivalent of luxury housing and then shuttle those houses between several prime territories with more flowers than they could ever hope to encounter in the wild. Oh, and did I mention that they are insects?
Some extra information about ambergris from an Australian government website if anyone is interested:Ambergris is a solid, waxy material produced in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and also in the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). It is however, only found in about 1-5% of these whales, so is not a common substance.Clarke (2006) explained the process of ambergris formation in sperm whales. It is suggested that it is formed in the intestine of the whale to cover the indigestible objects from the animals on which it feeds (mostly the beaks of squid). A common misconception is that ambergris is released as faeces, however whale faecal matter is fluid and whales could have difficulty processing large pieces of solid matter. Large pieces of ambergris seem to build up in the whale intestine over its life and is usually released when the whale dies. Initially it floats on the ocean's surface and is black and sticky. Exposure to sun, air and salt water oxidizes it, and eventually it becomes grey and waxy, often still embedded with small squid beaks. and losing its unpleasant odour.Ambergris is found in lumps of various shapes and sizes, ranging from 15 grams up to 420 kilograms. Ambergris floats and is sometimes found on beaches and shorelines. During the days of whaling ambergris was one of the many products to be taken from sperm whales. Ambergris has been known to come from sperm whales since 1724 (Boylsten in Berzin 1972).
Lanolin was also used, sometimes mixed with bee's wax, to wax bowstrings with. this is done to increasing the lifetime of traditional linnen or hemp bowstrings. And as a woodworker, I must say I much prefer french polish over modern synthetic varnishing agents, since one can achieve very high, natural looking polishes with it while synthetics often harden irregularly.
its also one of the active incredients in Bag Balm, one of the best anti-anything creams you can buy. It'll heal a cut udder, block infections, cure dry skin, and damn near anything else you could need a cream for
I think shellac is the only one that applies to me directly and very light as I don't really eat jelly beans or need medicine all that often. Beaver scent might be the most common I've dealt with, with how often people have smoked cigarettes around me in my youth. I don't really dig any part of the cigarette plan but I do agree that the right ones have a nice musk to them and now I know why, because they really do.
I thought for sure this would mention the hagfish secretion, but oh well. Look that one up--it's really interesting. Perhaps someday making an renewable alternative to lycra, spandex or nylon out of its slime.
+Londronable Unless you do not consume that particular secretion. Milk, yuck. If people are so keen on milk, they should aim at milking lactating women. Oh wait, would that be unethical and weird by any chance? Yep, thought so.
@@dragonspriter8796 just saying, if the original commenter was surprised about the use of shellac in pills, something that you *might* have to swallow at some point, then he'd probably be more surprised about it's use in an actual food like jelly beans, something you actively chew and eat, not just something that slips down your throat.
@@dragonspriter8796 but there's other substances that can do the same things, and don't cause harm to the insects. This especially applies to anything that comes from animals. Such as the sheep and civets.
I don't mean to be argumentative here, just genuinely curious. I'm a smoker myself. What do you roll and how do you know it's additive free? That sounds almost too good to be true.
Raider Badlands I smoke american spirit tobacco, which you can find everywhere. In Italy there is a lot of choice as almost every brand sells an additive-free version of their tobacco, usually those tobaccos aren't of the best quality except few exceptions, while brands that focus on additive-free tobacco like american spirit, yuma, pueblo, maya are really really good. I know they additive-free because if they aren't and say they are they risk not being sold in the EU anymore and a fine because of the lawsthat protect the consumers.
Cows mainly. The cows secrete breast milk for their young, which humans then steal and ferment into cheese. They then kill the cow, along with some pigs and chickens, and grind them into pepperonies.
Booyah young Hank! Either undersleeped or overdrinked, or maybe both, you were a sight to be beheld and a delightful, um, sherpa? in this freaky episode. Fan already. Now more so.
+On Yeung Li Sources please? I've heard it from someone in the industry when I was ordered to fix their technical equipment by my boss, the guy I met there kinda had a small talk with me while I was fixing their PC's software (and a couple hardware problems) problems and asked me about rumors in my industry so I asked him about the raspberry flavor rumor in his industry and he told me they do use it. And I read it too, from a science news sort of page (not clickbait tabloids like buzzfeed and that crap).
www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/does-beaver-tush-flavor-your-strawberry-shortcake-we-go-myth-busting Castoreum aka "beaver butt" is used but so infrequently it may as well not be used at all. It's relegated to the specialty foods section rather than an actual industrial ingredient.
On Yeung Li Thanks, didn't think you'd provide sources. But I think this may be a misunderstanding, I was only saying it is used because it sounded like you were trying to say it was not used at all. My point was just that it is sometimes still used, in some countries it is used more often and in others it's not at all used. Let's hope that stuff isn't used in the countries we live in :'D
Ronn Chua this video is racist. Birds nest soup has been eaten for thousands of years. Gelatinous textures are highly prized in Asian cuisines so I can see why white people wouldn't get this at all.
Mark Balahadia مارك الامريكي the rate in which they are consumed in Harvest has increased does China have more of a middle class that can afford these sort of things the same thing that happened with shark fin soup and look at how many sharks are now being consumed in the last 10 years as opposed to last hundred years it's not racism it's fact.
+Mark Balahadia yes, racism is an issue but it is not an issue in this video. No1 said anything negative about any race / nationality. The dude in the video only said that those nests of Asian birds were collected and eaten in Asia. And they totally are. This makes it a fact, not a racist remark
You actually watched it xD New favorite person. I said that episode because it has a bit of a satire on people who want to know where their food came from and all hahah.
Very interesting. Glad that you referred to biomimicry. Biomimicry as a model for research and development and problem solving is a game changing approach. It takes advantage of natures laboratory doing all the laborious work, to offer up what is usually a most effective strategy to resolving a problem. So many innovative advances were due to biomimicry.
Ooh! I've tried the civet coffee when we were vacationing in Cambodia. It's really good! Also, my dad is part Chinese so the bird's nest soup is kind of a regular thing to us.
You could of mentioned Cochineal, another scale insect that we widely use as a crimson food coloring by mashing up the dried insect. I was expecting you to drop it in there the whole time because it is so commonly used and yet so... interesting...
bird spit? no problem, people like animal spit. you can see them sticking their tongues in cats, dogs and pretty much any pet. hmmm, yummy, yummy. I think you missed one, bee vomit, AKA honey.
Urine was also used to dye fabrics back in the day. And I think that your spit is a natural antiseptic. Also, if you think about it - all our secretions are useful, we wouldn't secrete it if it wasn't. Sweat cools you, urine gets rid of waste, mucous has a whole bunch of uses (it's used in the lungs for diffusion as well as other nose related things).
These are the stories of the mighty animals that live each as if it was their last, sweating, spitting, urinating or pooping their hardest to make our days safe and our products appealing. God bless America!
I am so glad I keep kosher. I was surprised that carmine (or E-120) was not mentioned. It's made from bugs and used as coloring in most types of candy.
About bird's nest soup, here in Malaysia there is a large entrepreneurial market where people would literally build buildings with running water and megaphone speakers to entice the birds to nest there. There more you know...
Well, that's medicinal. And it works mighty fine too, has saved a lot of lives already. Aside from how little we know about the bacteria in our guts, I don't really see what's bizarre about it.
Yeah, but nobody has to eat poop to achieve that. Actually, some patients get a stool transplantation, where surgeons induce stool of a healthy person to help them with their gut problems. Quite bizarre in a way, you probably shouldn't think about it too much, but for people who struggle with constant gut inflammation or other digestive problems probably don't care as long they finally can live a somewhat normal life.
I almost SH** myself i was in the middle of lighting a cigarette and all i heard was "...And that cigarette you shouldn't be smoking."
Omg I came here to say that exact same thing!!! Hank be watchin us, lol 🤣🤣🤣
tbf he's right
@@whatsomeonesaidwastaken9216 tbf no one asked
Not to mention the anal gland secretions of beavers they add to them... I sure hope they don't do that anymore.
I have had some of that coffee, I also fed one of the Civets that was providing it. The coffee was ok but the Civet was really sweet. We ended up buying tea from the place instead of the coffee. We could see that the civets were well treated and the place its self was beautiful
“Please look for an ethically sourced company to waste your money on” lmao
I'm actually looking into the possible uses of gossamer (spider silk) for scaffolding nerve cell regrowth! Good stuff out there.
The poop coffee part would totally worked as a monty python sketch.
It's really good actually
I've heard the phrase "hot shit". However I never knew it was a beverage.
Should watch the bucket list. Talks all about it!
Poop coffee, did you mean decaf?
+sara richmond *High 5*
True
Defecaf
heyyy :(
i had chapstick on my lips, i looked at the ingredients, it has lanolin...
Well you're lips are now coated in wax and sheep goo. You happy now?
*_NOT VEGAN_*
Nothing on cochineal? Quite frankly, I'm amazed this red food colouring derived from crushed beetles didn't make it in
It's not a secretion; it's crushed bug juice. And what's wrong with beet juice, anyway? Or just leave the carmine out of my strawberry yogurt and leave it white...
AbsintheRed2019
don't say that two more times man it can get pretty ugly. (i hope you get the joke)
ToGoHats XD
Jen Dowie
i think this guy gets it
Carmine, carmine... hmm, nothin'. Was I too specific? ;P
"Varnishing your violin" LOL
"without turning anyone orange"
TOO LATE
OMalleyTheMaggot orange is the new black. lol
OMalleyTheMaggot no kidding
You forgot one of the most common red dyes, cochineal, which is the crushed shells of insects, most often used as a food dye. There was some controversy over its use by Starbucks in something a few years back. It's still being used today in food products around the world.
hes mentioned it before in a diff episode i think
I was waiting for the red dye, also. Thanks for mentioning it.
I knew where all of these things came from before except lanolin. I had heard of & used lanolin many times before but never realised it came from the oh so common (especially where I'm from) sheep. Isn't it strange how we can be totally informed about the exotic but yet totally ignorant to the normal. Or maybe it's just me?
Whispers "its poop" hahahaha
So THAT'S how Jersey Shore keeps their participants (I'm not calling them actors/actresses) that lucious ... orange color. HIPPO SWEAT!
Yet another mystery solved by Hank. John needs to step up, because he's falling behind here...
Cant help my self, scishow episodes with Hank are just the best! :D He is so cool guy, i want to meet and greet him one day :).
Thanks Lac Bug! Now I too can feel like Bear Grylls! Except I'm not in danger, nor athletic, nor drinking my own pee. But I can tell you what _is_ in danger... These yummy Jelly Beans...
I mean hey neither is he
there are various other ingredients made of bugs that you eat. like some food coloring and other things. so yeah all non vegans are basically Bear Grylls.
The greatest violins are varnished. Shellac may be used as a ground. Many fine artisans are using French polish for handmade furniture.
You guys do know that honey is bee vomit, right?
Technically yes but not exactly
@@kshitijsharma759 and you do know we don't care right?
Do you ever wonder if vegans realize every inch of their veggies have had slugs bugs and worms slathering their secretions all over them.
What's more, the soil they grow in can't exist without living creatures enriching them and those living creatures die by the billions every time a crop is planted or harvested.
Let's not even get into the fact that plants let out the chemical version of a scream for help whenever they are messed with in any way, more so when parts of them are lopped off.
The sad fact is, there can be no life without lesser life being taken to support it. Hopefully our young friend can come to terms with that and concentrate their mind on something they can actually change.
Not really. Bees suck it up it and put it back into their hive until they are ready to eat it. They basically process nectar into food and we take it.
@@mustwereallydothis jeez. Calm down...
@@overcookedwater1947 I'm not the one freaking out about insects somehow unjustly being forced into servitude by people who place them in the equivalent of luxury housing and then shuttle those houses between several prime territories with more flowers than they could ever hope to encounter in the wild.
Oh, and did I mention that they are insects?
His sarcasm is great and hilarious 😂
I nominate Hank for the new host of Jeopardy after Alex kicks it.
Agreed
Mathew Egan this is 2 years after
Mama Brigitte don’t talk like that.....pointless and rude
LOL
Why wait?
In my opinion, one of the best SciShows recently
Some extra information about ambergris from an Australian government website if anyone is interested:Ambergris is a solid, waxy material produced in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and also in the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). It is however, only found in about 1-5% of these whales, so is not a common substance.Clarke (2006) explained the process of ambergris formation in sperm whales. It is suggested that it is formed in the intestine of the whale to cover the indigestible objects from the animals on which it feeds (mostly the beaks of squid). A common misconception is that ambergris is released as faeces, however whale faecal matter is fluid and whales could have difficulty processing large pieces of solid matter. Large pieces of ambergris seem to build up in the whale intestine over its life and is usually released when the whale dies. Initially it floats on the ocean's surface and is black and sticky. Exposure to sun, air and salt water oxidizes it, and eventually it becomes grey and waxy, often still embedded with small squid beaks. and losing its unpleasant odour.Ambergris is found in lumps of various shapes and sizes, ranging from 15 grams up to 420 kilograms. Ambergris floats and is sometimes found on beaches and shorelines. During the days of whaling ambergris was one of the many products to be taken from sperm whales. Ambergris has been known to come from sperm whales since 1724 (Boylsten in Berzin 1972).
+Devils Advocate i dont get why its illegal in some places though? are people hurting the whales to get it?
***** Yes there were / are poachers who kill sperm whales and try to collect the ambergris. Makes me wonder about those dead whales washing up lately.
Thank you hank for taking me to places I have never even pondered in my life and thus forever changing me for the better
Lanolin was also used, sometimes mixed with bee's wax, to wax bowstrings with. this is done to increasing the lifetime of traditional linnen or hemp bowstrings.
And as a woodworker, I must say I much prefer french polish over modern synthetic varnishing agents, since one can achieve very high, natural looking polishes with it while synthetics often harden irregularly.
its also one of the active incredients in Bag Balm, one of the best anti-anything creams you can buy. It'll heal a cut udder, block infections, cure dry skin, and damn near anything else you could need a cream for
I almost always watch SciShow while eating. I don't regret it as often as one might think.
I play violin and like jellybeans. Thank you for the nightmares.
I eat vegan jelly beans
I think shellac is the only one that applies to me directly and very light as I don't really eat jelly beans or need medicine all that often. Beaver scent might be the most common I've dealt with, with how often people have smoked cigarettes around me in my youth. I don't really dig any part of the cigarette plan but I do agree that the right ones have a nice musk to them and now I know why, because they really do.
I was eating jelly Beans while watching this XD
LOL
+Stephy Casstevens with gelatine? yum.
This was a very interesting video! Thank you for making awesome stuff like this.
In hotdogs it is the poop gland of the beetle
I'm a band instrument repair technician. We use shellac to install saxophone and clarinet pads, and we use lanolin as slide grease on trumpets.
Cuddling with friends and what happens with the brain and the attachment to that person
Oxytocin
0:36 Geez don't call me out like that Hank
1:43 I think it's time to stop smoking
i am now disgusted by humans except you hank you're okay
I thought for sure this would mention the hagfish secretion, but oh well. Look that one up--it's really interesting. Perhaps someday making an renewable alternative to lycra, spandex or nylon out of its slime.
Then there's my favorite animal secretion: milk!
+BigBen Hebdomadarius Hence, why I don't see the problem with most of the ones mentioned in the video.
+Londronable Unless you do not consume that particular secretion. Milk, yuck. If people are so keen on milk, they should aim at milking lactating women. Oh wait, would that be unethical and weird by any chance? Yep, thought so.
Olka Olka
Notice how all things in the video have nothing to do with humans?
Yep, thought so.
Londronable Oh right, except that we abuse and exploit the animals for their secretions. And it's done for humans and their needs.
Olka Olka
Yes...
So?
That's my point. Exploiting animals, ok. Exploiting humans, not ok.
I was just unsure of why you brought humans into this at all.
I really linke the mixture of fun and facts you deliver.
Thumps up from Germany.
poop coffee! Yum yum! 😣😣😣
I prefer that my jelly beans are rolled in bug secretions over petroleum
Honestly, I think Hank and John do a better job of making me want to quit than anything else.
I learned about ambergris from bobs burgers
+Mia Soriano I learned of it through Futurama :)
Me too!
+Mia Soriano Encyclopedia Brown.
I learnt it from the Misadventures of Flapjack
+Jordan Mitchell What episode was that?
Loved the list. Especially number 7!
WHY IS EVERYONE SO GROSSED OUT BY THIS? I mean, if they use shellac to coat prescription pills, it's got to be okay for consumption.
they used it in *jelly beans*
@@SpydersByte and? I'm fine with it as it keeps the sugar in a packet and without it prescription drugs that some people need would fall apart
@@dragonspriter8796 just saying, if the original commenter was surprised about the use of shellac in pills, something that you *might* have to swallow at some point, then he'd probably be more surprised about it's use in an actual food like jelly beans, something you actively chew and eat, not just something that slips down your throat.
@@SpydersByte okay, sorry
@@dragonspriter8796 but there's other substances that can do the same things, and don't cause harm to the insects. This especially applies to anything that comes from animals. Such as the sheep and civets.
Thank you, Scishow. I feel enlightened.
I roll my sigarettes using additive-free tobacco. I like to know what I'm dying for
cool story bro
I don't mean to be argumentative here, just genuinely curious. I'm a smoker myself. What do you roll and how do you know it's additive free? That sounds almost too good to be true.
Raider Badlands
I smoke american spirit tobacco, which you can find everywhere. In Italy there is a lot of choice as almost every brand sells an additive-free version of their tobacco, usually those tobaccos aren't of the best quality except few exceptions, while brands that focus on additive-free tobacco like american spirit, yuma, pueblo, maya are really really good. I know they additive-free because if they aren't and say they are they risk not being sold in the EU anymore and a fine because of the lawsthat protect the consumers.
Interesting. I'll have to look into that then. Thanks for the intel.
+iafozzac mkay..
Thanks 10 years ago hank! I've been thinking about you! Still praying for you!
What animal secretes hot pockets?
Lol, rolling on the floor.
Microwaveious heatious
Cows mainly. The cows secrete breast milk for their young, which humans then steal and ferment into cheese. They then kill the cow, along with some pigs and chickens, and grind them into pepperonies.
You're right! I was thinking of E120 dye, which is made from Cochineal. Sorry about not double checking which dye it was.
How about the lactated secretions of the family bovidae, Milk.
milk glands are also just modified sweat glands that produce a fat and protein rich liquid
Awesome show, thank you
I hope they skipped honey and bee's wax because they are so obvious....
+Ken Oakleaf 0:12 he mentions honeycombs
Honey....bee vomit.
Rata Touille
Great...
if they're obvious, i doubt they'd be featured in a video with "bizarre" in the title
"varnishing your violin" - yeah, lanolin works great for me, in conjunction with xhamster.
What about honey! Honey is literally bee barf! Yet it still tastes just as sweet
That's because (according to Doctor Who) Bees are aliens ;)
Aaah; bee barf by any other name...
Booyah young Hank! Either undersleeped or overdrinked, or maybe both, you were a sight to be beheld and a delightful, um, sherpa? in this freaky episode. Fan already. Now more so.
Castoreum is also used as a natural flavoring for anything raspberry flavored. You're welcome.
+Cynical Cthulhu Except it's not. Despite all the clickbait tabloids saying it is.
+On Yeung Li Sources please? I've heard it from someone in the industry when I was ordered to fix their technical equipment by my boss, the guy I met there kinda had a small talk with me while I was fixing their PC's software (and a couple hardware problems) problems and asked me about rumors in my industry so I asked him about the raspberry flavor rumor in his industry and he told me they do use it. And I read it too, from a science news sort of page (not clickbait tabloids like buzzfeed and that crap).
+Cynical Cthulhu Yeah it's used for raspberry flavor a lot but it's even used for vanilla flavor especially in ice cream.
www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/does-beaver-tush-flavor-your-strawberry-shortcake-we-go-myth-busting
Castoreum aka "beaver butt" is used but so infrequently it may as well not be used at all. It's relegated to the specialty foods section rather than an actual industrial ingredient.
On Yeung Li Thanks, didn't think you'd provide sources. But I think this may be a misunderstanding, I was only saying it is used because it sounded like you were trying to say it was not used at all. My point was just that it is sometimes still used, in some countries it is used more often and in others it's not at all used. Let's hope that stuff isn't used in the countries we live in :'D
Yea I've actually seen cochineal scales and got the reddish stuff out of it before. Fascinating stuff.
i guess you could say that the coffee is pretty... shitty.
The thing about being on top of the food chain is having everything below you as a diet. We don't normally get eaten.
I actually tried that birds nest saliva soup, and it has a mild ly sweet taste thats actually appealing, probably because im asian but idk man
I had that coffee. Best cup i ever had. Don't know what he was saying about burnt taste.
Ronn Chua this video is racist. Birds nest soup has been eaten for thousands of years. Gelatinous textures are highly prized in Asian cuisines so I can see why white people wouldn't get this at all.
Mark Balahadia مارك الامريكي the rate in which they are consumed in Harvest has increased does China have more of a middle class that can afford these sort of things the same thing that happened with shark fin soup and look at how many sharks are now being consumed in the last 10 years as opposed to last hundred years it's not racism it's fact.
+Mark Balahadia
yes, racism is an issue but it is not an issue in this video. No1 said anything negative about any race / nationality. The dude in the video only said that those nests of Asian birds were collected and eaten in Asia. And they totally are. This makes it a fact, not a racist remark
Yes it is because you're a Asian
The beaver gland secretion is also used to make strawberry flavourings in ice cream, yogurt and some candy.
How the hell did Hank know I was having a ciggie? *starts looking for hidden cameras*
One episode is about as long as I can tolerate this guy.
#MyViolaIsCoveredInBugPoo
You actually watched it xD New favorite person. I said that episode because it has a bit of a satire on people who want to know where their food came from and all hahah.
I eat that bird nest soup. The soup is sweet and goes well with milk! It's really tasty! It costs a lot of Hong Kong dollars though...
Do you know that it was harvested humanely?
You don't want to contribute to any extinctions...
Or at least I hope you do not...
I know it was harvested humanely
'kay.
k
don't do that. why would you put your pleasure above the life and well-being of animals? that's like eating shark soup!
Very interesting. Glad that you referred to biomimicry. Biomimicry as a model for research and development and problem solving is a game changing approach. It takes advantage of natures laboratory doing all the laborious work, to offer up what is usually a most effective strategy to resolving a problem. So many innovative advances were due to biomimicry.
i was eating pizza when i watched this.
i dunno i just commented this. I have no idea what past me was up to.
soccerkins That is exactly the same thing for me!!!
Vegtables that are fertilized with excrements... I quote Hanky the christmas poo said: It is all about the circle of poo :)
Ooh! I've tried the civet coffee when we were vacationing in Cambodia. It's really good! Also, my dad is part Chinese so the bird's nest soup is kind of a regular thing to us.
Whale Poop for the win! Love the delivery!
I want a civet! It looks cute!
You just wanna eat its poup
🤣🤣
The whitest thing ive read all day...
@@shainemaine1268 Leave race out of it you brainlet.
"I want to own a living being, because its cute."
...what other word was I supposed to use to describe this? Plus, I am white, so I dont care.
Thanks. We all needed to know that.
I think I'm going to become a vegetarian
Arvens Not possible, you eat insects all the time.
Elixz Emalius ^^^
Dumbest thing I ever heard.
XxXShrekXxXmlgXxX420BlazeXxX XxXSpoodermanXxX There's organisms, not insects. Lmfao
Daryl Joplin Faks ake why the hell are you bitching about this crap
Arvens How am I "bitching"?
The first minute of this video reminded me to smoke a cigar while relaxing after work.
Bird Spit Soup (shiver)...
+Willems Pierre I wish I could turn my spit into a nest
It taste nice
its actually tastes really good! :)
Its good. And farmers usually took care of the birds properly. Only greedy bastard toss the eggs off the nest.
+Anne Ly your waifu sux. :l
You could of mentioned Cochineal, another scale insect that we widely use as a crimson food coloring by mashing up the dried insect. I was expecting you to drop it in there the whole time because it is so commonly used and yet so... interesting...
I was waiting for the red dye from insects, too! Thanks for mentioning it.
bird spit? no problem, people like animal spit. you can see them sticking their tongues in cats, dogs and pretty much any pet. hmmm, yummy, yummy.
I think you missed one, bee vomit, AKA honey.
The Asian Palm Civet at 3:09 is adorable!
Nothing has made me laugh harder in a long time than "Hot Viscous Bird Slobber."
LOL
I read it after seeing her TED talk. Really informative.
shellac is also in sprinkles
Urine was also used to dye fabrics back in the day. And I think that your spit is a natural antiseptic. Also, if you think about it - all our secretions are useful, we wouldn't secrete it if it wasn't. Sweat cools you, urine gets rid of waste, mucous has a whole bunch of uses (it's used in the lungs for diffusion as well as other nose related things).
These are the stories of the mighty animals that live each as if it was their last, sweating, spitting, urinating or pooping their hardest to make our days safe and our products appealing. God bless America!
I am so glad I keep kosher. I was surprised that carmine (or E-120) was not mentioned. It's made from bugs and used as coloring in most types of candy.
And Mauna Loa guava nectar at least years ago--it gives my dad hives.
Everyone in new jersey would fall in love with the orange sunscreen hippo sweat.
About bird's nest soup, here in Malaysia there is a large entrepreneurial market where people would literally build buildings with running water and megaphone speakers to entice the birds to nest there.
There more you know...
That was disturbingly amusing and interesting. Thank you!
We love you hank!
this was awesome to watch while eating.
I've been waiting to for over 24 hours and I have to thank you, thanks for getting me through a nice Ice trip.
I love that I learnt about Ambergris from Futurama years ago
Hank Green sneaking public service announcements in every video.
Varnishing your violin.....he even said it with a straight face. Lol
honestly, that coffee is really damn good. it's expensive, and the idea of it is slightly gross, but it's well worth it.
An interesting tidbit is lanolin is used in embalming fluids as a means to help return skin to a healthier appearance and feel.
great show !
You're right! I was thinking of E120, which is made from Cochineal. Sorry about that.
I used to have a friend who'd say "sweat your mightiest" when he talked about working hard or perseverance etc.
the most bizarre would be our own feces, mainly as away to treat certain digestive problems
Well, that's medicinal. And it works mighty fine too, has saved a lot of lives already. Aside from how little we know about the bacteria in our guts, I don't really see what's bizarre about it.
Yeah, but nobody has to eat poop to achieve that. Actually, some patients get a stool transplantation, where surgeons induce stool of a healthy person to help them with their gut problems. Quite bizarre in a way, you probably shouldn't think about it too much, but for people who struggle with constant gut inflammation or other digestive problems probably don't care as long they finally can live a somewhat normal life.