Lol what I don't get it? Well for one off the top of my head is "Sit your 5 dollar ass down before I make change!" -New Jack City. Lol I am crying because I don't get the connection. Is this engagement bait?
Cutie Pie, Troll 2 is this amazing horror movie where goblins eat people, but first they make their victims eat green jello that turns them into plants... because the Goblins are vegetarians.
There’s a good documentary movie *about* the movie “Troll 2” and its cult following, called “Best Worst Movie.” By the way, there are no trolls in “Troll 2,” and “Troll 2” has nothing to do with the first “Troll” movie.
Greetings from Berlin! In spring is practically impossible to ignore the woodruff, you sees it everywhere. The ice cream is peculiar but usually too intense for me. Strangely even in other European countries almost nobody knows anything about it.
In the States, sweet woodruff is grown as a decorative plant. We use it in sachets, and teas and liqueurs. We of German descent are the ones most likely to grow it though.
German here who is living in the UK [decades]. I miss Woodruff [Waldmeister]. When I came to the UK, I thought that everything green would be Woodruff but it is lime here. Haven't tasted this since my teenage years. Sigh. Good taste description.
the plant itself can be used as bedding stuffing too. the leaves and seedpods are sticky and matt together; in this manner they don't slip and slide and make a great stuffing material. Of course the bedding goes bad with time! sometimes this plant is called bedstraw for this manner
The main taste and smell of woodruff is coumarin. I think that is what is meant in the video, described as "vanilla like". Coumarin is naturally present in many edible grasses, herbs and berries. It is added to parfumes, hard and soft drinks, and tobacco (some tobaccos has a natural hint of coumarin). As it is slightly toxic, use in EU countries is very restricted, especially regarding foodstuff and tobacco. But in US, where there are no restrictions, it is generously added to most tobacco products and used as a cheap vanilla substitute, mainly in cola flavoured products. It also taste and smell a lot like rat poison (warfarin is chemically similar to coumarin).
We make beer with Woodruff in it. If you have it in any food products other than alcoholic drinks, it’s always artificial as European law has controls over how much you can add to packaged foods (it contains Coumarin which *may* be mildly hepatotoxic in large quantities). Even the main brand of Berliner Weisse in Germany uses artificial Woodruff flavour. The real stuff is much more nuanced. It has elements of vanilla, cinnamon, and play-doh (do you have that in the States?). It doesn’t smell like anything when fresh. You have to let it wilt before it becomes fragrant. You’d like meadowsweet too which is similar. I’ll send you some of each next summer when they’re in season.
Bilberries (or as I call them urts) are delicious, they're a favourite of mine when I get time to wander the moorlands. I'm not sure if you've tried any of the other Northern European/hemisphere moorland/tundra berries but it'd make for a good few episodes I reckon- could do Lingonberry (cowberry to me), crowberry, bearberry (although I've not read fantastic things of the culinary aspects of the last two) and of course the cloudberry, if you should be so lucky!
Funny about Bilberries. In Sweden, they have both American type blueberries and smaller bilberries, but you have to find bilberries in the wild (my friend told me they account for 24% of Sweden's ground-cover) or at farmer's markets. They boil it with cornstarch to make Blåbärssoppa, or bilberry soup, for when you're sick or after being out in the cold skiing.
《《Sugar buzz alert 》》 I like your commentary on whether the flavorings were natural or not. I wonder if it would be too outside the scope to do an actual comparison between artificial flavorings and their corresponding fruits.
Weird Explorer I would be delighted to send you pop rocks or odd artificially fruit flavored candies. Popping candy comes in lychee flavor which I shamefully like more than the lychees I have tried 🐴
Himbeere is Raspberry, Woodruff is Waldmeister, I also know it as Bowle, sparkling fruit juice containing sparkling wine. We used to collect the plants in the fir woods when we were kids. As pupils we ate the powder pure, spread it on the tongue, sparkles a lot, never put it in water. I like katjes more than haribo, they also have varieties without gelatine, veg style. I know the Götterspeise in green and red, not sure if it 's raspberry or cherry. Also sold ready to eat in the german supermarkets
Thankyou for the Upload regarding my Home of my Heart of Hearts! Love Woodruff as a Drink! Love your Videos! Woodruff quenches your Thirst in the Summer! Love Pears and Bilberries! Keep up the great Work! You are one of my favourite You Tubers! 👍💖 Blessings! 🕯🌛🌝🌜🕯🙏
When you were talking about the different taste of candy in Germany vs the US: could it be corn syrup? It's used much more often in America than it is in Europe
The plant is also called master-of-the-woods (waldmeister just translated), and is used in Southern US hoodoo for charms to take control of a situation, like a job spell. Sweet woodruff contains coumarin, which makes up the sweet vanilla-ish sort of scent. Its a little bit toxic (hepatotoxic), and a blood thinner.
Bilberry is very good for you, btw. Studies were done during WWll on pilots in England using Bilberry for their night vision. It was shown to actually help with making their night vision better. Having personally used if for that I can say it does work.
English people in World War II may have had vitamin deficiencies, due to wartime food shortages. Berries could help reverse that problem- for example, they are a good source of vitamin C.
I'm so glad I heard your description of woodruff using bitter/vanilla/terragon, it is such a difficult to put to words flavor! had a great time watching your video :) Russia in specific but slavic countries in general also dabble in woodruff and their stuff is in general more bitter than what we have in germany. We do like our sugar too unfortunately :D but again, great video!
I thought I never heard of it either but when I googled the local (Czech) name it turns out I had a soda with it a few times at a hipster café in Brno, a nearby microbrewery makes it. I haven't seen products with it anywhere else in the country and I don't live far away from Germany though there are a few recipes online, looks like it's only used as an old-timey medicine these days... Crazy! Never made the connection to tarragon in taste but it makes sense.
You also have to try Che fruit from China. Related to Figs and Mulberry, supposedly tastes like a juicier fig with additional watermelon taste. It's pretty rare, but nurseries in the US do sell the trees.
Review marshmallows made with marshmallow root, as they should be. Marshmallow is found in the mallow family, Malvaceae, the same family as okra, hibiscus, cotton, tilia, cacao, durian, etc Characterized (but not always) with flowers of varying colors and big stamins in the middle, I really like the look of them. Marshmallows were used in egypt in combination with honey to soothe a sore throat. Gelatin does a similar thing. The root powder acts as an emulsifier
Haha in 5 years I have never heard of it. I guess I will ask my friends and try it. I have had the fizzy vodka shots though, but only in Lennon and raspberry.
Check out the Jared's Junk Food Playlist. Those videos ended up not being nearly as popular as the fruit ones so I stopped making them, but maybe I'll do more of if they catch on again
I've always compared pandan to a creamy vanilla, hazelnut, coconut. It has that earthy sub flavor that just screams hazelnut to me. I even made a pandan coffee creamer once, and my dad said it tasted like hazelnut coffee mate.
oh, I would imagine that would be more of a vegan thing because bones are a byproduct, therefore they aren't killed FOR the gelatin, they just also happen to get gelatin from them (like how chickens aren't killed for eggs but whatever)
It just kind of grosses me out to know that there are bones in my skittles. I'm not nearly as strict about it as I am with actual meat, that actually makes me sick when I eat it.
Hey Jared! The reason why woodruff reminded you of vanilla is due to its flavour component coumarin. It is also present in Tonka beans (something you'll definitely have to review at some point), dates and (cassia) cinnamon, in all of which it is responsible for the slight to strong vanilla notes. Unfortunately coumarin is hepatotoxic (toxic to the liver), so you should limit your daily intake of it to what equates to less than a teaspoon of cassia cinnamon per day, which luckily is plenty... It's actually banned in the EU as a food additive, so I'm not even sure the stuff you ate actually contained any. Cheers!
I love learning about what the flavor componants are, thanks! I have tried tonka beans before, so good! they're like vanilla and almond extract combined.
As a german I never ever put Ahoi Brause into water :D I don’t even know how it tastes that way and I consumed a whooooole lot of that stuff as a kid :D
XcaptainXobliviousX yeah, that is usually how it is eaten - atleast in my area and circle of friends - might be different from region to region. We usually dipped our fingers into it or just poured the whole package into our mouths as a „Mutprobe“. I once snorted a whole package „for the lulz“.
Gary Cooper i‘ve never seen this movie and just searched a scene on youtube where they are showing the „brause“. I‘m deeply disturbed now but yes - that is how I remember eating it. Take away the beach and weird sexual tension and you‘re there :D
Brausepulver schnupfen hat auch irgendwie schon jeder gemacht, oder? Als ich mir mal eine Prise "gegönnt" habe, hat meine Nase danach stundenlang gebrannt
I enjoyed watching your '50 Citrus Varieties' video. Maybe you could make videos to illustrate the diversity (in terms of of species and cultivars) to be found in other fruits, such as mango, avocado, passion fruit, lychee, pineapple, theobroma (cacao, grandiflorum and other more obscure ones), sapodilla, banana, annonas, guavas, and so on.
tarhun the tarragon soda he mentioned has tarragon lemon, lime or keylime and vanilla.The vanilla is to boost the floral flavor ( Russian tarragon is tougher but is less flavorful than the French variety so it needs vanilla)
Woohoo!! As a German girl I freaked out of joy to see you testing our fabulous waldmeisterfood! Waldmeistergötterspiese (jello) is my special birthdayfood my mom makes every year for me even if I'm 22 now ^^ Edit: Ahoibrause is also available as bonbons and pressed into cubes and most kids just dip their finger into the sherbet and eat it that way ^^ definitely a childhoodmemory here :)
The flavorful chemical component of woodruff, coumarin, is "banned as a flavorant food additive, due to concerns regarding its hepatotoxicity in animal models" according to Wikipedia, and is also found in some cinnamon.
Thank You for the answers and I agree that the meat processing need revamped completely. It is one thing to raise animals for food but torture and abuse is uncalled for. And the more I raise animals ass pets the more I learn they are so smart! We had goats and we still have a potbelly pig who I swear is as smart as our dogs. Thank again for you responce keep up the good work I bet there still many fruits to video
Have you ever had that staple of east bloc soft drinks, Tarhun (тархун, ტარხუნა)? Apparently, that can also be flavoured by woodruff (but mainly it'll have russian tarragon)
A double-decker bologna sandwich! And this is my house! Also, nilbog is Goblin spelled backwards. And the only other ones are what people have already put here like oh my God they're going to eat me oh my God oh my God. But I knew those Three number one because I you still love fried bologna sandwiches, I know God strike me dead from fried bologna to vegan the second one was because at the time I was living in a house not an apartment where I could bang on the walls for help and the third one I just like to see what words are when they're spelled backwards sort of a mental hobby to ward off Alzheimer's and I remember that being done backwards. I remember the plant people Etc.
Himbeere is raspberry, while strawberry is Erdbeere. If I have to describe woodruff aroma, I would say it's taste is like sweet hay, something flowerish and some kind of vanilla...
I've been watching your videos there inforative. I have 2 questions that I hope aren't too personal you said you started vegetarian when you were 4, why was health religion or animal rights? Also what is your job you go to so amazing places and I think it's as much for work as for fruits.
Hi Becky. My parents raised me vegetarian for health reasons, but as I got older my reasoning changed. Now its that the concept of eating meat just is foreign to me and has no appeal. Add to that the few instances I have accidentally eaten something non-veg, it has made me feel ill. I'm not against people eating animals, but think there should be drastic changes in how the animals are treated. I am a professional entertainer, which allows me to travel extensively around the US. International trips are now from support I get on Patreon. Thanks for your questions!
Here in the South the Hackberries are getting ripe. I finally tried them for the first time in my life after seeing your video. They taste like almonds and dates combined.
i don't know if it's just your accent but pandan is pronounced p-ah-n-done! ahahah but i don't think malaysians are gonna burn you at the stake for it! love your videos and i adored this one! really entertaining! and it's a fun break from fruit reviews!
I spent almost a year in Malaysia on and off and got giggled at quite regularly, but still everyone was so chill and accepting about me not being from there. KL reminds me a lot of NYC in that way.
Ha yes! We call woodruff "Waldmeister" - Master of the forest! What you do is put some powder on the back of your hand and lick it after having a shot of Wodka - we call it Wodka Ahoj!
I can hardly keep up with the videos as it is. So unfortunately no. I do send them to people on Patreon, but its more like a gift, not with any guarantee of frequency
Weise is pronounced with a v in the beginning not a w. It means wheat or white. And Morocco Citron is lime and Sheen phonetically spelled is lemon. I think it's better if you would get into iced tea. I grew up with it's very common and now it's hard to find fizzy tablets and they came and soda flavors and you dissolve it in a glass of water and it became carbonated and sweet and tasted like either orange or Cola or lemon lime. I begged my mother for them every week and she bought them and I drank them but I didn't love them. My friends did but I wanted them. I put it in my green iced tea now but in Morocco we used to get very tall glasses of hot Lemon Verbena tea and the whole plant as where was in the glass and it's a similar taste but there was also sugar in the tea. I'm vegan are you? I make vegan treats and candies at Christmas time and weather and celebrate Christmas or not it's still a nice time to give homemade things. If you have a PO Box I would be happy to send you a box. When I lived in the UK I absolutely fell in love with pear drops and I'm trying to find someone who lives there to do box swapping. I will box swap though with anybody. And you have to decrease the water for jello jigglers. There is no animal hoof jello brand but there is keratin so people who are extreme vegans better check all of their shampoos conditioners soaps because keratin is in a lot of them. If you're not such an extreme vegan he might just go for the jello. I use agar agar and it is definitely different than Jello but you get a sweet fruity cold firm jelly. My favorite thing to make is Chinese allmond milk jelly. It is made with plant milk and almond flavoring and almonds and it is Simply Delicious if you like that almond oil almond extract flavor! You can also do layered things easier with agar agar. You can also find vegetable sheet gelatin in any Halal store and we used to make something called Moroccan yogurt and it was similar to custard that you didn't have to cook and it was delicious but I wasn't vegan then. They still use vegan gelatin.
Vodka tastes like water. So whatever you add to vodka it will go with it. The difference of the two is Vodka will get you drunk and won't cut what you are mixing it with. While water cuts the flavour of what u mix it with. Also, water does not get u drunk. Unless u mix it with vodka.
If your vodka tastes like water, you’re drinking inferior vodka. I once said to a vodka-loving friend that vodka has no taste (except the taste of alcohol). His response was to pour me small glasses of half a dozen brands of vodka. They all tasted quite different. He made a believer of me.
You haven't eaten bilberry 😲 We call it blueberries in Sweden and it's much tastier than what you call blueberries in US (that reminds me of the taste, and smell, of a cheap and nasty parfumed soap, with a lot of suger added). Unfortunately, a lot of "blueberry" products and "blueberry" flavoured products sold in Sweden nowadays, taste and smell (yuk!) like American blueberries. Usually you can't distinguish from the package what kind of blueberry that has been used. "Real" blueberries (bilberries) is much harder to cultivate and is mostly picked from wild plants that is growing in the forrests, hence American blueberries is much, much cheaper and more available.
Wow i had never heard what i think of as blueberry being called bilberry, very interesting since i consider your blueberry to be an an american blueberry 😵💫
Lots of reasons, but mainly the idea of losing control freaks me out. Also its an expensive habit here in NYC, everyone I know that goes out drinking on the weekends is broke as hell.
@@WeirdExplorer haha, I can relate. I live in a college town and everyone I know drinks on the weekend is dirt poor as a result or are too poor to drink in the first place but have more money in the end than the others.
Post Troll 2 movie quotes here:
Lol what I don't get it? Well for one off the top of my head is "Sit your 5 dollar ass down before I make change!" -New Jack City. Lol I am crying because I don't get the connection. Is this engagement bait?
"Grandpa, Are you really in Hell?"
"No, But I know a trick that a friend of mine who went there taught me"
They're eating her....and then they're going to eat me!......OH MY GOD!!!
Cutie Pie, Troll 2 is this amazing horror movie where goblins eat people, but first they make their victims eat green jello that turns them into plants... because the Goblins are vegetarians.
There’s a good documentary movie *about* the movie “Troll 2” and its cult following, called “Best Worst Movie.” By the way, there are no trolls in “Troll 2,” and “Troll 2” has nothing to do with the first “Troll” movie.
Woodruff isn't sour by itself, but the brause powder is sour because the powder is sour in general. All the flavors of the powder are sour.
Wow, woodruff is pretty difficult to describe. But vanilla and terragon is by far the best description! Greetings from germany!
Greetings from Berlin!
In spring is practically impossible to ignore the woodruff, you sees it everywhere. The ice cream is peculiar but usually too intense for me. Strangely even in other European countries almost nobody knows anything about it.
Anna Feola I'm English and I grow it in my allotment =) tried a sweet woodruff liqueur a few years ago - delicious!
Anna Feola. I love every Food thats German! Woooruff is one of my all Time Favourites! 😍
In the States, sweet woodruff is grown as a decorative plant. We use it in sachets, and teas and liqueurs. We of German descent are the ones most likely to grow it though.
German here who is living in the UK [decades]. I miss Woodruff [Waldmeister]. When I came to the UK, I thought that everything green would be Woodruff but it is lime here. Haven't tasted this since my teenage years. Sigh. Good taste description.
the plant itself can be used as bedding stuffing too. the leaves and seedpods are sticky and matt together; in this manner they don't slip and slide and make a great stuffing material. Of course the bedding goes bad with time! sometimes this plant is called bedstraw for this manner
The main taste and smell of woodruff is coumarin. I think that is what is meant in the video, described as "vanilla like".
Coumarin is naturally present in many edible grasses, herbs and berries. It is added to parfumes, hard and soft drinks, and tobacco (some tobaccos has a natural hint of coumarin). As it is slightly toxic, use in EU countries is very restricted, especially regarding foodstuff and tobacco. But in US, where there are no restrictions, it is generously added to most tobacco products and used as a cheap vanilla substitute, mainly in cola flavoured products.
It also taste and smell a lot like rat poison (warfarin is chemically similar to coumarin).
We make beer with Woodruff in it. If you have it in any food products other than alcoholic drinks, it’s always artificial as European law has controls over how much you can add to packaged foods (it contains Coumarin which *may* be mildly hepatotoxic in large quantities). Even the main brand of Berliner Weisse in Germany uses artificial Woodruff flavour.
The real stuff is much more nuanced. It has elements of vanilla, cinnamon, and play-doh (do you have that in the States?). It doesn’t smell like anything when fresh. You have to let it wilt before it becomes fragrant.
You’d like meadowsweet too which is similar. I’ll send you some of each next summer when they’re in season.
If you are from Germany, could you give a link to that woodruff beer? :-)
@@benjaminkuhn2878 Einfach Berliner Weisse Waldmeister, gibts "im Westen" oft bei Globus und manchmal bei Lidl. "Im Osten" so gut wie überall
Götterspeise is exactly the same as Jell-O
Götterspeise is also a very weird name.
literally translates into Meal of Gods.
Thank You Maria ❤
i like this video! you should make more of these and keep branching out your series. i really like your perspective
Thanks Bobby!
Bilberries (or as I call them urts) are delicious, they're a favourite of mine when I get time to wander the moorlands. I'm not sure if you've tried any of the other Northern European/hemisphere moorland/tundra berries but it'd make for a good few episodes I reckon- could do Lingonberry (cowberry to me), crowberry, bearberry (although I've not read fantastic things of the culinary aspects of the last two) and of course the cloudberry, if you should be so lucky!
Definitely will be a future trip!
I herd of this plant before, I make a Georgian tarragon soda called Tarhun that sometimes has woodruff added to it.
Funny about Bilberries. In Sweden, they have both American type blueberries and smaller bilberries, but you have to find bilberries in the wild (my friend told me they account for 24% of Sweden's ground-cover) or at farmer's markets. They boil it with cornstarch to make Blåbärssoppa, or bilberry soup, for when you're sick or after being out in the cold skiing.
《《Sugar buzz alert 》》 I like your commentary on whether the flavorings were natural or not. I wonder if it would be too outside the scope to do an actual comparison between artificial flavorings and their corresponding fruits.
ooh... I'm liking this idea. I'll put it on my list :)
Soooby Doooby Sounds like an awesome Idea. Would love to it happen! 👍🙂💛
Weird Explorer I would be delighted to send you pop rocks or odd artificially fruit flavored candies. Popping candy comes in lychee flavor which I shamefully like more than the lychees I have tried 🐴
Lol I love the German names of products. "Ruf".
Himbeere is Raspberry, Woodruff is Waldmeister, I also know it as Bowle, sparkling fruit juice containing sparkling wine. We used to collect the plants in the fir woods when we were kids. As pupils we ate the powder pure, spread it on the tongue, sparkles a lot, never put it in water. I like katjes more than haribo, they also have varieties without gelatine, veg style. I know the Götterspeise in green and red, not sure if it 's raspberry or cherry. Also sold ready to eat in the german supermarkets
Russia makes drinks with tarragon and woodruff! It's called Tarhun, and tastes a lot like licorice.
Thankyou for the Upload regarding my Home of my Heart of Hearts! Love Woodruff as a Drink! Love your Videos! Woodruff quenches your Thirst in the Summer! Love Pears and Bilberries! Keep up the great Work! You are one of my favourite You Tubers! 👍💖 Blessings! 🕯🌛🌝🌜🕯🙏
Thanks Beth!
Weird Explorer You are welcome! 👍🙏🕯
When you were talking about the different taste of candy in Germany vs the US: could it be corn syrup? It's used much more often in America than it is in Europe
Real sugar does taste better in my opinion, but I think in this case its just the source for the natural flavors that were used.
The plant is also called master-of-the-woods (waldmeister just translated), and is used in Southern US hoodoo for charms to take control of a situation, like a job spell.
Sweet woodruff contains coumarin, which makes up the sweet vanilla-ish sort of scent. Its a little bit toxic (hepatotoxic), and a blood thinner.
Ich bin ein Berliner!
Is that a JFK reference? 😉
Bilberry is very good for you, btw. Studies were done during WWll on pilots in England using Bilberry for their night vision. It was shown to actually help with making their night vision better. Having personally used if for that I can say it does work.
interesting!
English people in World War II may have had vitamin deficiencies, due to wartime food shortages. Berries could help reverse that problem- for example, they are a good source of vitamin C.
Waldmeister is the best flavour ever to exist!
Dr. Fittentick Jawohl! 👍
In der Tat.
I'm so glad I heard your description of woodruff using bitter/vanilla/terragon, it is such a difficult to put to words flavor! had a great time watching your video :)
Russia in specific but slavic countries in general also dabble in woodruff and their stuff is in general more bitter than what we have in germany. We do like our sugar too unfortunately :D but again, great video!
Waldmeister Götterspiese ist so gut!
Years ago I read that Woodruff-Galium odoratum contains coumarin.So care when using may be necessary. Always loved the smell.
I thought I never heard of it either but when I googled the local (Czech) name it turns out I had a soda with it a few times at a hipster café in Brno, a nearby microbrewery makes it. I haven't seen products with it anywhere else in the country and I don't live far away from Germany though there are a few recipes online, looks like it's only used as an old-timey medicine these days... Crazy! Never made the connection to tarragon in taste but it makes sense.
The soda powder... Is that the thing mentioned in Gunter's novel Die Blechtrommel?
I don’t know if it’s the same brand, but it’s the same stuff.
Im declaring your catchphrase to be "10s a lemon" 😂😂
The funny thing is that they use Pear to flavor just about everything, especially apple and as a base natural sweetener in gummies.
You also have to try Che fruit from China. Related to Figs and Mulberry, supposedly tastes like a juicier fig with additional watermelon taste. It's pretty rare, but nurseries in the US do sell the trees.
Meooow. That kitteh looks adorable.
she's the sweetest little thing
I like when you use the "Wong-Baker Faces Sour scale Pain scale"....lol
Lemony vanilla? I want some!
Review marshmallows made with marshmallow root, as they should be.
Marshmallow is found in the mallow family, Malvaceae, the same family as okra, hibiscus, cotton, tilia, cacao, durian, etc
Characterized (but not always) with flowers of varying colors and big stamins in the middle, I really like the look of them.
Marshmallows were used in egypt in combination with honey to soothe a sore throat. Gelatin does a similar thing.
The root powder acts as an emulsifier
Another great reason to tune in! Awesome!
Haha in 5 years I have never heard of it. I guess I will ask my friends and try it. I have had the fizzy vodka shots though, but only in Lennon and raspberry.
Huh. I have a big patch of this in my yard. Going to have to play around with it a bit!
I think foreign candy would be nice for you to do..yea others do it..but i likey your style..
Check out the Jared's Junk Food Playlist. Those videos ended up not being nearly as popular as the fruit ones so I stopped making them, but maybe I'll do more of if they catch on again
I've always compared pandan to a creamy vanilla, hazelnut, coconut. It has that earthy sub flavor that just screams hazelnut to me. I even made a pandan coffee creamer once, and my dad said it tasted like hazelnut coffee mate.
That actually sounds pretty good
you mentioned the gelatin thing, so why don't you eat it anymore? is it an allergy?
He's vegetarian (gelatin is made from animal bones)
oh, I would imagine that would be more of a vegan thing because bones are a byproduct, therefore they aren't killed FOR the gelatin, they just also happen to get gelatin from them (like how chickens aren't killed for eggs but whatever)
It just kind of grosses me out to know that there are bones in my skittles. I'm not nearly as strict about it as I am with actual meat, that actually makes me sick when I eat it.
Most Skittles are vegan, btw
@@Elekea just curious how do you get bones from an animal without killing it lol
Makes me want to try the jelly. I grow cincau minyak. Just crush the leaves in water to get jelly but it has no taste
Hey Jared! The reason why woodruff reminded you of vanilla is due to its flavour component coumarin. It is also present in Tonka beans (something you'll definitely have to review at some point), dates and (cassia) cinnamon, in all of which it is responsible for the slight to strong vanilla notes. Unfortunately coumarin is hepatotoxic (toxic to the liver), so you should limit your daily intake of it to what equates to less than a teaspoon of cassia cinnamon per day, which luckily is plenty...
It's actually banned in the EU as a food additive, so I'm not even sure the stuff you ate actually contained any.
Cheers!
I love learning about what the flavor componants are, thanks! I have tried tonka beans before, so good! they're like vanilla and almond extract combined.
You can get (natural) Tonka bean pudding in Germany so I don't think it's banned entirely 😅
As a german I never ever put Ahoi Brause into water :D
I don’t even know how it tastes that way and I consumed a whooooole lot of that stuff as a kid :D
so do you just eat it as fizzy powder then? like german Pop Rocks! sounds great tbh.
XcaptainXobliviousX yeah, that is usually how it is eaten - atleast in my area and circle of friends - might be different from region to region.
We usually dipped our fingers into it or just poured the whole package into our mouths as a „Mutprobe“.
I once snorted a whole package „for the lulz“.
If you’ve seen the movie “The Tin Drum,” you saw Germans playing around with that fizzy powder. They don’t put it in water, either.
Gary Cooper i‘ve never seen this movie and just searched a scene on youtube where they are showing the „brause“.
I‘m deeply disturbed now but yes - that is how I remember eating it.
Take away the beach and weird sexual tension and you‘re there :D
Brausepulver schnupfen hat auch irgendwie schon jeder gemacht, oder? Als ich mir mal eine Prise "gegönnt" habe, hat meine Nase danach stundenlang gebrannt
I enjoyed watching your '50 Citrus Varieties' video. Maybe you could make videos to illustrate the diversity (in terms of of species and cultivars) to be found in other fruits, such as mango, avocado, passion fruit, lychee, pineapple, theobroma (cacao, grandiflorum and other more obscure ones), sapodilla, banana, annonas, guavas, and so on.
There is actucally not woodruff in it, but it is a artificial aroma compound that is also found in woodruff + lots of citric acid + lots of sugar.
What plant does woodruff come from?
woodruff is a plant
tarhun the tarragon soda he mentioned has tarragon lemon, lime or keylime and vanilla.The vanilla is to boost the floral flavor ( Russian tarragon is tougher but is less flavorful than the French variety so it needs vanilla)
I love your facial expressions! Great vid!
Tarragon hits the spot, only tarragon is more like savory woodruff
Woohoo!!
As a German girl I freaked out of joy to see you testing our fabulous waldmeisterfood!
Waldmeistergötterspiese (jello) is my special birthdayfood my mom makes every year for me even if I'm 22 now ^^
Edit:
Ahoibrause is also available as bonbons and pressed into cubes and most kids just dip their finger into the sherbet and eat it that way ^^ definitely a childhoodmemory here :)
The flavorful chemical component of woodruff, coumarin, is "banned as a flavorant food additive, due to concerns regarding its hepatotoxicity in animal models" according to Wikipedia, and is also found in some cinnamon.
In other words it damages your liver.
Well, anything for science.
I didn’t know this was a series fun to watch though
Thank You for the answers and I agree that the meat processing need revamped completely. It is one thing to raise animals for food but torture and abuse is uncalled for. And the more I raise animals ass pets the more I learn they are so smart! We had goats and we still have a potbelly pig who I swear is as smart as our dogs. Thank again for you responce keep up the good work I bet there still many fruits to video
thanks! Yes pigs are so very smart. You can train them to do tricks the same as dogs. Plenty more fruit videos on the way!
Hehe, I'm German too :3
Wooow - Now i know why we commonly pour vanilla sauce on our woodruff jello 🤯
My guess is that the gelatin alternative is an agar type of substance.
Have you ever had that staple of east bloc soft drinks, Tarhun (тархун, ტარხუნა)? Apparently, that can also be flavoured by woodruff (but mainly it'll have russian tarragon)
I've had tarragon sodas before, tasty stuff.
As a western New York native, I would genuinely like to hear your opinion on mighty taco.
Interesting, it uses Carrageenan in the Götterspeise.
A double-decker bologna sandwich! And this is my house! Also, nilbog is Goblin spelled backwards. And the only other ones are what people have already put here like oh my God they're going to eat me oh my God oh my God. But I knew those Three number one because I you still love fried bologna sandwiches, I know God strike me dead from fried bologna to vegan the second one was because at the time I was living in a house not an apartment where I could bang on the walls for help and the third one I just like to see what words are when they're spelled backwards sort of a mental hobby to ward off Alzheimer's and I remember that being done backwards. I remember the plant people Etc.
I forgot about the bologna sandwich! Haha. I need to rewatch that movie
@@WeirdExplorer me too! Hahaha! :-)
All of your videos are well put together. I like the way you speak and you remind me of the dad from coralline
Best woodruff-flavored product is woodruff gelato IMO. But that would have been impossible to send to you.
Maybe one day!
Himbeere is raspberry, while strawberry is Erdbeere. If I have to describe woodruff aroma, I would say it's taste is like sweet hay, something flowerish and some kind of vanilla...
I like pear soda. I wish it was more popular in the USA.
This is a goof quality video
I've been watching your videos there inforative. I have 2 questions that I hope aren't too personal you said you started vegetarian when you were 4, why was health religion or animal rights? Also what is your job you go to so amazing places and I think it's as much for work as for fruits.
Hi Becky. My parents raised me vegetarian for health reasons, but as I got older my reasoning changed. Now its that the concept of eating meat just is foreign to me and has no appeal. Add to that the few instances I have accidentally eaten something non-veg, it has made me feel ill. I'm not against people eating animals, but think there should be drastic changes in how the animals are treated.
I am a professional entertainer, which allows me to travel extensively around the US. International trips are now from support I get on Patreon.
Thanks for your questions!
Here in the South the Hackberries are getting ripe. I finally tried them for the first time in my life after seeing your video. They taste like almonds and dates combined.
Hackberries are good. The fruits are very small, though, with relatively big seeds, so you’d need a jillion of them to make, say, a hackberry pie.
I put them in a blender with a little water and made a smoothie, seeds and all.
I live in Germany so even though i dislike woodruff I've had some woodruff flavored things but I've never tasted vanilla in them
Yeah? What do you think it tastes like?
The smell mainly comes from coumarin, which is also in similar amounts in cinnamon as well.
should've tried Woodruff Popsicles
Busta Yum! 👍
Will you be doing another favorite and least favorite fruit video since you reached 300
Top 10 worst coming Sunday!
@@WeirdExplorer awesome love the videos man
i don't know if it's just your accent but pandan is pronounced p-ah-n-done! ahahah but i don't think malaysians are gonna burn you at the stake for it! love your videos and i adored this one! really entertaining! and it's a fun break from fruit reviews!
I spent almost a year in Malaysia on and off and got giggled at quite regularly, but still everyone was so chill and accepting about me not being from there. KL reminds me a lot of NYC in that way.
Waldmeister (Master of the Woods)
Blueberry in the US? Ive never had any candy or soda thats blueberry themed
Always wondered if you ate normal food too
Whats wrong with Gelatin?
it's made out of bone tissue, so a lot of vegetarians don't eat it.
You have to eat the Ahoj Brause like it is. Without water! :D
New addition to the herb patch next year it seems.
Huh, I saw this thumb nail, but I didn't know it was you. Thanks
Woodruff is even an ice cream flavour here!
Also the jello’s literal translation would be ‘Food of/for the Gods’
any good as ice cream?
It's actually pretty good! Not sour at all but depending on where you go it tastes less natural and more artificial
Nice Mighty Taco shirt.
Ha yes! We call woodruff "Waldmeister" - Master of the forest! What you do is put some powder on the back of your hand and lick it after having a shot of Wodka - we call it Wodka Ahoj!
Have you ever thought of selling your seeds on ebay?
I can hardly keep up with the videos as it is. So unfortunately no. I do send them to people on Patreon, but its more like a gift, not with any guarantee of frequency
Weise is pronounced with a v in the beginning not a w. It means wheat or white. And Morocco Citron is lime and Sheen phonetically spelled is lemon. I think it's better if you would get into iced tea. I grew up with it's very common and now it's hard to find fizzy tablets and they came and soda flavors and you dissolve it in a glass of water and it became carbonated and sweet and tasted like either orange or Cola or lemon lime. I begged my mother for them every week and she bought them and I drank them but I didn't love them. My friends did but I wanted them. I put it in my green iced tea now but in Morocco we used to get very tall glasses of hot Lemon Verbena tea and the whole plant as where was in the glass and it's a similar taste but there was also sugar in the tea. I'm vegan are you? I make vegan treats and candies at Christmas time and weather and celebrate Christmas or not it's still a nice time to give homemade things. If you have a PO Box I would be happy to send you a box. When I lived in the UK I absolutely fell in love with pear drops and I'm trying to find someone who lives there to do box swapping. I will box swap though with anybody. And you have to decrease the water for jello jigglers. There is no animal hoof jello brand but there is keratin so people who are extreme vegans better check all of their shampoos conditioners soaps because keratin is in a lot of them. If you're not such an extreme vegan he might just go for the jello. I use agar agar and it is definitely different than Jello but you get a sweet fruity cold firm jelly. My favorite thing to make is Chinese allmond milk jelly. It is made with plant milk and almond flavoring and almonds and it is Simply Delicious if you like that almond oil almond extract flavor! You can also do layered things easier with agar agar. You can also find vegetable sheet gelatin in any Halal store and we used to make something called Moroccan yogurt and it was similar to custard that you didn't have to cook and it was delicious but I wasn't vegan then. They still use vegan gelatin.
my favorite pokemon is woodruff
The only way to consume Ahoi Brause is to snort a line of it
Yoghurt gums used to taste much better than they do now
have you read homestuck?
Haha I just did one of these on my channel a few weeks ago
Vodka tastes like water. So whatever you add to vodka it will go with it. The difference of the two is Vodka will get you drunk and won't cut what you are mixing it with. While water cuts the flavour of what u mix it with. Also, water does not get u drunk. Unless u mix it with vodka.
Are you really going to argue with a bartender?
xPumaFangx only if he/she refuses to serve me a drink!!
If your vodka tastes like water, you’re drinking inferior vodka. I once said to a vodka-loving friend that vodka has no taste (except the taste of alcohol). His response was to pour me small glasses of half a dozen brands of vodka. They all tasted quite different. He made a believer of me.
You're way more gutsy than I'll ever be Jared...🤢🤣
Woodruff is the Best bruh
How cool 😎
Hi from Germany :)
You haven't eaten bilberry 😲
We call it blueberries in Sweden and it's much tastier than what you call blueberries in US (that reminds me of the taste, and smell, of a cheap and nasty parfumed soap, with a lot of suger added). Unfortunately, a lot of "blueberry" products and "blueberry" flavoured products sold in Sweden nowadays, taste and smell (yuk!) like American blueberries. Usually you can't distinguish from the package what kind of blueberry that has been used. "Real" blueberries (bilberries) is much harder to cultivate and is mostly picked from wild plants that is growing in the forrests, hence American blueberries is much, much cheaper and more available.
We dont talk about flavor-aid anymore after the incident....
Wow i had never heard what i think of as blueberry being called bilberry, very interesting since i consider your blueberry to be an an american blueberry 😵💫
Nice mighty taco shirt haha
I grew up on the stuff, can't make a trip out to WNY without buying a veggie burrito there
Can I ask why you don't drink? Not passing any judgements, just another interesting facet I want to learn about you
Lots of reasons, but mainly the idea of losing control freaks me out. Also its an expensive habit here in NYC, everyone I know that goes out drinking on the weekends is broke as hell.
@@WeirdExplorer haha, I can relate. I live in a college town and everyone I know drinks on the weekend is dirt poor as a result or are too poor to drink in the first place but have more money in the end than the others.