As an Irish person, I always thought the problem with the horse meat scandal in the UK and here was that horse meat was being packaged and sold as beef or other not horse meats.
Yes, same with that frozen lasagna scandal we had in Germany, even though some regional delicacies are traditionally made from horsemeat, especially in Southern Germany.
The frozen meat scandal was because there was no paper trail of where said meat came from. Horses bred for human consumption have certain restrictions when it comes to medications that can be used. There was no provenance paperwork, and that is why it was shady as f-word.
The thing with the horse meat in the UK was more about it a) not being included in the ingredients list, b) it not being what it was supposed to be (which is why it wasn't included in the ingredients list, because it was disguised as other meats), and c) being potentially contaminated with drugs not intended to be in human food. Of course some people were sad about the idea of eating horses too, but that's waaaaay down the list of concerns, obviously food safety and proper ingredient tracking was far more important. Random meats from questionable sources without guarantees of fitness for human consumption disguised/sold as something entirely different could be quite dangerous.
exactly. I have eaten horse meat in italy (where you can get it in the supermarket, not only specialized butchers) but still don't want relabeled and not tracked horse meat in my beef burger. I also do not want untracked beef in my beef burger.
@@noahluppewho wants improperly labeled food? One of the worst things is going to eat or drink something and the flavor is not what you expect at all due to it being weong.
@@DustWolphy again I wouldn't mind tryjng it, but 1. I wanna know im about to eat horse and 2. I don't want dangerous illegal drugs in any food I consume.
I love the interview of the old guy that loved Findus lasagne. He eats it every day. His whole freezer is filled with it. But since the horsemeat scandal he will never eat it again. Dude it's your favourite food you clearly like horse meat try and find us the horse meat version I'll make you a dinner
The tesco horse meat thing was because tesco labelled them as beef, outright lying to buyers, when there was a meat shortage. That pissed everyone off more than it being horse.
yeah, we had that in europe too a couple of years ago. I think the product in itself was ok only it contained horse meat from the balkan countries, wich wasnt mentioned. I think it is proper and ethical policy to mention anything that is in your nutritional product
I don’t think it was Tesco or the other shops mislabelling the horse meat, it was their suppliers. My daughter works for a transport firm and one of their clients was recently closed down for the same thing. Several of the drivers were interviewed by the police to see what they knew.
I feel like getting mad over horses being slaughtered is hypocritical. What's the difference between horses and cows? Horses and pigs? Pretty sure pigs are more intelligent than horses, so why is it fine to eat them and not horses?
@@gentlechaos5911 horses were a pet animal in the US and much of Europe, there was exceptions, historically they made bad choice for meat because of them being work animals. essentially an animal people commonly have as a pet or see as a pet animal. most people see pets as sort of extended family member. I mean honestly better then most of the ones you have, blood of the convent being thicker the water of womb.
It’s also illegal to produce Foie Gras in Germany so these rules don’t always apply EU wide. The import is allowed though. Very interesting and entertaining video ☺️
I remember watching a video the other day of how a Spanish farmer traditionally raised geese for foie gras. The geese were coming to his farm on their own (they would migrate there every year). He would feed them high energy feed and acorns in order to fatten them up. During the whole process that farmer wasn't forcing the geese to do anything. On a certain night when the geese have grown enough and before they would migrate again he would harvest them. Banning his foie gras from being traded doesn't seem that smart. So what I want to say is that banning a certain product in 9/10 cases is quite idiotic. It is infinitely better to set up a regulated market aiming for the best possible way to produce said product than outright banning it.
I should specify. In Germany it is illegal to stuff the geese forcefully. If you could produce it without stuffing geese it world be legal. But this only applies to German farmers. The import is legal no matter how it is produced in the other country.
@@alexandervlaescu9901 Ok, but that's typically not how foie gras is produced. Typically it's made from geese in captivity using gavage (force-feeding). The whole point of foie gras is to give the geese a fatty liver, which is a disease (it's called NAFLD in humans). So it's literally impossible to produce foie gras without intentionally making animals sick. I don't see how you avoid that with regulation. I also don't see the point of regulating this tiny market, because less than 1% of people can afford to eat foie gras on a regular basis. Why should we spend our political resources trying to regulate rich people food, when poor people are struggling to afford any food at all?
The maple producing states have strict regulations on what can be called maple syrup. It has to be 100% maple syrup to legally be called maple syrup. Vermont sued McDonalds over this and that’s why it’s called Hotcake Syrup. The syrup provided at Cracker Barrel is actually maple syrup. Comes from Vermont.
@@misterkite Duh, because hypocritical American businesses only care about correct food labelling when it's their own products affected. (BTW it's not just a French law).
@@nbartlett6538 Meh, it's as stupid as saying that cheddar cheese can only be called cheddar cheese if it comes from Cheddar, England. Or Buffalo Wings can't be called Buffalo Wings unless they were made in Buffalo New York.
@@misterkite What Americans call Cheddar cheese isn't Cheddar cheese (it looks more like Red Leicester to me, which has a completely taste and texture)
As a Canadian that recently watched a video of an American trying foreign treats for the first time and she legit just tried going at the kinder egg whole and choked on the toy container inside 😅🤦♀️ I was like so it’s really true 🤣 I really hope it was fake but it didn’t seem like it lol
Well, if you have never encountered a foreign object in the middle of your candy, you aren't going to be expecting it, so of course you might choke on it.
Kinder Eggs aren't really small so who the heck tosses the whole thing into their mouth?? Also as soon as you handle the Kinder Egg wrapped or unwrapped you'd have to be an absolute moron not to realize that there is something inside of it. Sell them everywhere and rename them Darwin Eggs I guess 🤷♂️😂😂
@@mariateresamondragon5850 well I think trying to one bite something the size of a jawbreaker may also be an issue 🤷♀️ but I assumed they have bitten into large foods before too
@@mariateresamondragon5850 toddlers don’t have experience with that either yet they all seem to grasp the concept of not choking on a kinder egg surprise here 🤷♀️😂
So fun fact: the Kinder Egg and Wonder Ball lasted until 1997 in the states. The reason is because Kinder had already established that the toys were not mixed into the food itself, as the chocolates are hollow and clearly advertise the toy inside. It wasn't until the Hershey Company sued them that they were forced from the states. Turns out, Hershey was pushing to be the primary chocolate provider in the states, so it capitalized on the fact that both the Kinder Egg and Nestle's Wonder Ball had plastic objects inside, suggesting the risk of a choking hazard. This worked, and had the unintended side-effect of setting precedent to ban toys from cereal boxes as well, which combined with the cost of licensing toys and complaints from parents having their kids suggest cereal exclusively for the toy, was enough to have the idea scrapped preemptively.
This seems truer to me. The law he cited meant food items with the non-nutritional thing mixed with the edible portion, but in Kinders you can eat the chocolate and not the toy. I was going to write they just needed better lawyers to argue the case, but it seems a lot of US lawmakers are so stupid it's scary. I was watching a Right to Repair video where a senator was convinced by an Apple lobbyist that replacing a single wire in an Apple product meant the device was no longer an Apple device...
Italian guy here, that kind of cheese was produced and consumed not only in Sardinia but in other Italian regions too. For example I'm from Apulia and my grandfather used to eat it (he says it's actually good), but it's called 'Formaggio coi vermi', literally 'cheese with worms'. Sometimes you can still find it and buy it, but I've never eaten it.
Yeah but it's sold "sottobanco", it's illegal here too, not illegal to produce but to sell it. At least that's what I found out reading stuff about it. In my region you can't buy it at least
I used to work in microbial safety testing in a small lab in the UK and about half of the things we were testing were various dairy products. Any dairies that used unpasteurised milk would send a sample from a batch for us to test before using it in produciton as well. They were actually the most stressful to get in because to be certified legally you have to culture a full 25g for at least two different tests which use reagents which can inhibit the growth of the others, so they need to send at least 75g for a single round of tests. Then you get people who've sent in a single core weighing something like 15g. Try telling a farmer who runs a business with a turnover approaching ten million a year who has product that now has a fairly limited shelf life because he's cracked it that you can't certify his product because he hasn't sent enough and the results are going to be delayed a week. That sure was fun on a near weekly basis.
@@JeronimoStilton14 It happened regularly with the same customers. I have no idea why. Honestly though at the end of the day it wasn't my problem. They weren't legally allowed to sell their products without the safety certification that my lab provided and I wasnt going to run the tests unless they gave us what we needed.
Tonka beans being dangerous feels competitive to almonds or nutmeg being ‘dangerous’ right? Like sure, if you have ‘too much’. But that’s literally what too much means Also, with the kinder egg thing, does that mean they can’t sell packaged fruit chunks with a spoon in the packaging for example?
@@LiqdPT this was why I was questioning. Colleen answered my specific question which I guess is away to get round a law that, in fairness, is there to protect people.
@@robhardingpoetry no, in theory if it was floating in the chunks it'd be fine. It's not ENCASED in food that you might put whole in your mouth. There are toys inside boxes of cereal and cracker jacks (though, the toy is in a plastic bag to keep it clean and probably large enough to be noticed). With Kinder Eggs the issue is that the toy is inside the food, not floating around with chunks of food.
I tried Casu martzu cheese last year whilst on a holiday in Sardinia, it is difficult to find on the island even if you want to try it, but I managed to stumble across it at a family style home restaurant near where I was staying. It likely being my only chance to ever try it, I gave it a go. For context the 'maggots' within it are tiny and are mostly removed before it is served. The cheese is made creamier and softer as a result, but it is incredibly strong in flavour, only a few small bites is enough for most. I would recommend giving it a try if you're ever lucky enough to get an opportunity to try it though.
There is a cheese in a single village in Germany called Milbenkäse where they have tiny mites in the cheese. Afaik it can't be transported though. So Sardinia is not alone in this. But maggots are really beyond my capacity...
The USDA is not an organization whose aim is to improve US food standards. Their job is to ensure that top-level food distributors are happy, just like the FDA. Their guidelines are seldom based on health or nutrition.
@@haroondaman7162When did the WHO do that? Or do you mean during the recent covid pandemic that killed a whole bunch of people and left many with long-lasting health problems? Yeah that wasn’t a common cold.
@@haroondaman7162 The USDA isn't the same as the WHO, a cold isn't the same as covid if that is what you are getting at and in that case you are not the same as a smart person.
If I decided to move from Europe to the US, I could probably deal with most things. Not having easy access to European cheese though would probably tip me over the edge. Having a cheese counter is such a familiar part of food shopping nowadays.
A lot of grocery stores have a section with the good cheeses, usually near the deli area whereas the low quality cheese is the regular dairy aisle. But we do have nicer grocery stores that definitely have cheese counters like Whole Foods. I live in California though so not sure how common this is in other states
@@turtlescanfly7 Yes definitely California it's easier - undoubtedly assisted over the decades by the wine industry. Can find goat, sheep, ewe cheeses, French patés, cured meats - Iberico sausages etc.
I sowas an exchange student in the US and some of the stores had wiles with European cheese, it was just very expensive, but available. Also once I found the sliced cheese section at target (next to the frozen pizzas for some reason) I was quite happy. I really liked the sliced cheeses like “Pepper Jack”. I think they taste of the same quality as the sliced cheeses in Europe and they have some interesting flavones that you can’t find in Europe
@@turtlescanfly7, I live in a medium size town in Missouri. The stores have good cheese, a surprising amount made locally. There are also import stores that carry food from all over, including excellent imported cheeses.
Having once encountered maggoty cheese (bad piece of brie on a camping trip with friends), our response was more scream and hurl it from the tent than 'hmm, wonder if it still tastes good'
I live in one of the US states that allow raw milk. I didn't like milk much until I tasted raw. 😋 About a decade ago, there was a threat that raw milk would be banned so one day, upon picking up my family's raw milk from a private vendor gave me their plan how to get us raw milk if it becomes illegal to sell. 😆I was young and felt so mischievous having this conversation with our vendor. Lol.
Yeah it shouldn't be illegal but people shold be aware of all the risks. Tbh it is how I feel about a lot of drugs, too, and many other things. If it isn't hurting anyone else and the person taking the risk knows the risks what is the issue?
@@Void_Creature4 Non raw is pasteurized. Aka cooked at low temperature to kill all germs and extend shelf life. (Iirc it's like 65 C / 150 F for like an hour.)
I had no idea what tonka beans were until you mentioned it, but the flavor profile you described makes it sound like a really good addition to most hot beverages or even a tea in its own right. Black tea with tonka beans sounds delightful
The "small" Italian island is the second biggest in the mediterranean sea (after Sicily) and the 48th biggest in the world, bigger than any US island 😅
Talking about the horse meat in Tesco, my biggest issue is the lack of communication. I'll eat a horse burger, just dont tell me its beef 🤣 EDIT: Kinder chocolate is the best, I'm nearly 30 and I will still get a kinder bar from the shop
Also apparently there were concerns some of that meat generally might not have been safe for humans, too. Forget what animal it is, people didn't want to be poisoned. 😢
Regarding Foie Gras there's actually a Spanish farmer named Eduardo Sousa who produces Foie Gras from wild geese without force-feeding them, Business insider did a video on him, it's pretty interesting.
In Canada it is illegal to force feed geese, but we have foie gras. In my township we have a duck and goose farmer, whose wife is a chef, and they make excellent foie gras. Personally I think it is because the treat their animals so well. It is totally possible to have humane fois gras.
IIRC the Horse meat 'scandal' came down to a certain supplier or abattoir somewhere in central Europe supplying a number of European food manufacturers with beef contaminated by untraced horse meat. The supermarkets copped for a lot of the flak but ultimately they were being misled. Horse is fine to eat but any untraced meat, especially as in this case that which was not intended for human consumption is a massive issue, hence the 'scandal'.
The "Kinder egg / non-edibles inside food" rule feels really funny to me. Especially given how the Kinder surprise is fine becuase its immediately adjacent to the goop. I guess this is also how cereal companies got away with toys inside cereal boxes too?
If a kinder egg banned according to that law, shouldnt any form of a lolipop also be banned, since it a stick surrounded by a candy. What about corndogs?
No, cause it sticks out and is visible. That’s how “wowzee” (a hollow chocolate with a toy inside, similar to kinder) is allowed to be sold also, because there is a strip of visible plastic.
I lived in Tokyo as a child in the 1970s. My parents belonged to a St Andrews society as my dad was Scottish. The society tried to fly a haggis in for St Andrew’s day but it was confiscated by Japanese customs because it fell foul of their rules too. Not sure what specifically though.
Yes. It has to be either sterilized or no lungs. Same reason as US. I mean I get it and agree, we need to limit things, esp spongiforms and prion diseases from spreading as much as we possibly can. It is scary.
Apparently my great grandfather loved old mouldy cheese with maggots in. The maggots tasted like the stinky cheese too, so I’m told…which leads me to conclude he ate the maggots with the cheese. Lovely. But then he was a colourful guy. He survived the trenches at the Battle of the Somme alongside his best mate, then got sent to Ireland with his best mate only for his mate to be murdered as part of a honey trap. He also went to prison for throwing a debt collector out of a closed window. So I guess a preference for maggot cheese was just part of being him.
Ah, your grandfather was a black and tan. Don't tell this story around Irish people 😉 My great grandfather was of that era, but he went MIA on the last day of the great war.
@@FutureHH I think the whole story is the origin of where he got in contact with the cheese, the trenches at the Somme. I'm not aware of an English version, but never say never.
As an Italian I have to say that casu marsu isn’t available anywhere else in italy, it’s allowed to survive in sardina only for cultural preservation. We on the mainland are safe from rotten cheese 😂 I believe that somewhere else in the world there are other kinds of cheese that have live mites instead of maggots, at least we are not unique in having a cheese that moves…
There were two pretty good reasons for the horse meat scandal being a scandal - firstly, in a lot of cases it wasn't on the labels, which is a serious matter because that could mean any number of other (possibly dangerous) things could also be in the food and not included on the label. Secondly, horses that are not intended to be in the human food chain are given antibiotics and other drugs that aren't supposed to be ingested by humans. There's nothing wrong with eating horse meat, as long as it's pretty clearly shown on the label and the horses were raised with that intention.
The only thing you didn't discuss in the Tonka beans section is what the biological half life of coumarin is. I mean it's all well and good if the limit is 2400 dishes a day or a week, but if it stays in your body on the order of months or years that's a lot more significant.
From what I can see it would appear to be in the region of 1-2 hours so yeah you would need to introduce the entire dose rapidly. I suspect that exploding from the extreme pressure all that food would necessarily need to be under to compress it into ones stomach in order to pull this off might get you first though.
I grew up drinking raw milk from my neighbor's farm. I remember the first time I had pasteurised milk on a camping trip, I thought it tasted really weird. Where I'm from in the US it's fully legal, but now I'm in Scotland where it's not legal :(
You need to make friends with a farmer. They will sell you off some raw milk for a little price. 100% they're drinking raw milk themselves. In my country, we can get raw milk, but also farm to table, due to the wonders of the interwebs.
Tonka beans, unlike vanilla beans, are actual beans. Inside looks like a peanut with little crystals growing in it (sometimes). They’re used for the smell, not the taste, and just a tiny amount of it grated over food has a HUGE impact on the aroma which then changes the perceived flavors. I got a guy in Spain who gets me mine. Personal use only. I use them in my coffee and I use them instead of nutmeg for classic cocktails (nutmeg used to be an incredibly common ingredient in mixology). After using one my fingernails smell for hours. Like vanilla, cinnamon, black pepper, freshly cut grass, sunshine, the love of a woman…. Just a heavenly indescribable scent. Also the reason the FDA banned Tonka Beans was because coumarin was being used as an adulterant for vanilla. It’s a cheap source of coumarin and extracting it is cheaper than synthesizing it. Chemists were making vanilla compounds that could be up to 60% coumarin. The ban went in effect at roughly the same time as other bans on adultering food products.
I’ve seen Kinder eggs in the US. They’re in European specialty stores, like European delis and bakeries. They’re also sold at military base commissaries. And you can get black pudding in every Irish pub in the US, too. It’s lovely.
I'm willing to try just about any food. I've eaten horse meat hotdog in Germany (very tasty), fried locusts and grasshoppers in Bangkok (the locusts were lovely - tasted just like pork scratchings. The grasshoppers, not so much so. Not keen on them), proper haggis in Scotland (love it! It reminds me of savoury duck - which doesn't actually contain any duck, as far as I know), I've made my own duck liver paté and wines from foraged fruits, flowers and berries and I've also really liked every cheese I've tried (including Yarg, which is wrapped in nettle leave - no, they don't sting your mouth because they're dead by that point - and Stinking Bishop, which is named after the Stinking Bishop perry it's washed in. Perry is made from pears and, fun fact, look on the label of a bottle of Rekorderlig "cider" and you'll see it's not made from apples. It's a Perry and is made from pears with fruit flavourings added). But I absolutely draw the line at Casu Marzu. I wouldn't let that stuff pass my lips if I was going to be paid enough money to retire very comfortably on from that day to the end of my life and the very thought of it turns my stomach! I can't even begin to imagine how bad it must smell! Apparently, it's actually quite difficult to get hold of in Sardinia too, which is perhaps a Really Good Thing...
I ordered this Swedish rotten fish delicacy once and had it with my grandpa and my brother. It’s the worst thing I ever smelled in my entire life. Was very close to puking. Absolutely putrid smell. Can’t begin to describe it. Like puke and shit and rotting corpses all together. But worse somehow. But we are some of it and there was something about it. Almost tasted like petrol. Really intense and sharp and chemical but somehow “savory” and satisfying. Still almost puked after a few bites. Idk there’s some weird food out there
You should consider to go to Sardinia, not for the cheese though, but the island got some really nice beaches, and is well worth a trip, even though it doesn't exist 🤣
My dear Evan, I had forgotten my glasses and picked up what I thought was a wedge of Brie at the local market [believe it or not in the US]. Someone had put this Alsatian abomination in the wrong place. I am told that the taste is amazing, but the stench was so off-putting that I couldn't get even a small amount close enough to my mouth to taste it. It so happened that I had some French students, so I brought it to school an offered it to them. Their reaction was, "It may be French, but it smells like "merde" and we won't eat it."
@@noahluppe no, sorry, I expressed myself badly. Its judt whrn people speak about french cheese they ofte mean the soft cheese (like camembert etc.) And from these kind of cheese not all smell a lot. Also I thought there was a famous version of limbourger from feance, but its actually from belgium. (In europe a lot of cheese type coming from one place are made in ithet countries as well.) I guess there would have been a better french example (because there are also some cheese which smell there) but I dont have a name.
I was thinking 'fair enough" to the banning raw milk until you said that means they can't have camembert 😱 I wouldn't drink raw milk personally, don't think its worth the risk. But i couldn't be without nice cheese or clotted cream 😂
Although raw milk wasn't common when I was a kid, any time we stayed on a farm it was perfectly normal to have that-morning fresh-from-the-cow milk. Never thought twice about it.
I often drank raw milk from my grandfather farm when I was young, and I still crave for some from time to time. It's a delicacy when it's fresh enough to still be warm.
You can still buy cheese made from raw milk direct from farmers in many states, so it isn't hard to find in you live in an area with a large amount of dairy farms.
theres no risk. I drank fresh milk tapped right from the udder of a friends cow. you dont know what it tastes like, so overwhelmingly good. you re more likely to get run over by a car.
the idea to kill any living bacteria that are in a food product is just absurd and typically american. You forget that part of those natural bacteria actually help your digestion and immune system. By sterilising everything you might as well swallow a glass of chloronised water. No vitamines, sterile, yes.
as someone who grew up with Kindereggs - even though I wouldnt want to miss them in my childhood - I see the biggest issue with Kindereggs in the gambling addiction they promote. They don't do it quite as much anymore, but they used to have very cool figurine series (little hippos or dinosaurs, or even disney figurines) and the chance to get one of them was 1:6. So on average, you'd get one in every 7th egg. But of course you'd get doubles so to complete your collection you'd have to actually buy quite a lot. there was an aspect of fomo too, because the series would go away to replaced for a new one at some point. Most kids at some point were quite expert in telling from the way they rattle if they'd contain a figurine or not. It was like very rudimentary gacha for playschool and elementary school kids. i think they cut down on that quite a lot as far as I can tell. less elaborate (less thoughtful) in the series they put out, and at least in Germany I see lots of sales displays of them where you get a guaranteed figurine.
In France, there used to be a 'boucherie chevaline' in most towns (horse butcher shop) until the younger generation stopped eating horse meat and also other 'delicacies' such as lamb's brain; tripe used to be popular but is now quite expensive as less people are enjoying it (I love it personally, especially the one cooked in tomato, herbs and white wine).
My grandpa from Germany also told me how they used to eat all of the organs of the animals they butchered when he was a child he said the rabbits brains and the cheeks were what the children would fight over, and they used to eat the cheeks right from the skull and the eat the brain from the skull with a spoon. I was so disturbed but he sounded really happy talking about it lol
@@spaceowl5957 Cow's tongue is still eaten commonly in France even by children. It doesn't taste anything special, it's just meat. Horse meat is like beef, a bit more irony. I don't like most offals though, they always have an aftertaste, for example kidney will taste like piss, tripe will taste like shit, etc.
@@aesma2522 How commonly? I've never eaten it or heard about it being eaten by anyone. Not even my grandparents, who used to eat lamb's brain or make their kids drink blood. Unless it's a regional thing?
The horse meat scandal wasn't because people were necessarily upset about eating horse meat, it was because there was a major discrepancy between the listed contents on item's packaging and the actual thing you were buying - the supermarkets didn't know what they were selling and therefore had no idea if anything unsafe for human consumption was being sold as food.
I remember reading about the maggot cheese on Wikipedia. One section that stuck with me: _Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten._ That's kinda wild.
The horsemeat scandal was primarily based around two problems in the UK: 1. They said it was beef 2. The horses slaughtered weren't subject to the same regulations as cows bred for slaughter, meaning that it was possible they could have been diseased.
Kinder Surprise eggs are great. 🙂 They are available in every grocery store in Canada and they have larger sized eggs for Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day. Children love them. Can't say the waxy chocolate is healthy but neither is vegetable oil.
27 US states allow the sale of raw milk within their borders. Restrictions do apply. In Massachusetts, where I live, raw milk can only be sold on the farms where it is produced. 💕
My class took a trip to the EU years ago. We were around 16-17 at the time and were excited to try these OG kinder eggs that were banned at home. Somebody didn’t get the memo and chewed the toy because they thought it was a gummy, lmao
Actually, there absolutely WAS a scandal about horse meat in France!! It was found in lasagna and not properly advertised, meaning people unknowingly ate some, and it was a pretty big thing at the time.
My Wife and I used to buy a type of meat from Tesco that turned out to be Horse they had to withdraw it due to false labelling. If they had just stuck Horse Meat labels on it we would have continued to buy it. It is delicious.
I live in Sardinia, Italy, although I'm not originally from there but I'm Romanian. Sardinia is very particular, the population loves its island (it has beautiful beaches that you can't imagine) and doesn't even consider itself Italian, on the contrary, it hates the continent. I can also give the example of the language, it is totally different from Italian, more similar to Spanish. I have often tasted Casu Martzu, unfortunately not yet with worms, it is a very spicy cheese and can also be spread on bread. Trying it doesn't hurt anyone, I've eaten some strange things.
Ikea also had a controversy when they had accidental horse meat in their meatballs😂 I worked at Ikea at that point and we had dozens of customers daily coming to ask if they could please buy the meatballs because it was considered a delicacy😅 Unfortunately we were not allowed to sell the faulty items. And I do understand that the issue with this drama was more the fact that the meatballs included meat that was not up to standards😅
there's a way to do a more ethical foie gras (note: it's not eaten just in the form of pate but also just like this is its liver form btw i'm not french). so, some farmers in Spain let their domesticated ducks/geese live with their wild counterparts when they are preparing to migrate: turns out that the fattening of their livers is a natural occurrence. before the migration also for "pepperino" you probably meant pecorino (from pecora, sheep). Sardinia is famous for having various types of pecorino (like pecorino sardo) and other various cheeses. also you can't use the italian-american accent for Sardinians. Sardinian language is one the most conservative romance language and it's very similar to latin. italian accent in america is probably from, that's a guess, derived from southern italian languages like, campanian, apulian, calabrian, sicilian etc. or anyway regionalized modern italian from those parts yes, i'm you annoying italian commenter and on a last note YOU VILL EAR ZE BUGS
I lived in Arizona for a while Right next to a weekly farmers market And one of the usual farmers had a cow farm and sold freshish milk (like milked within the last 2 days) And while I am severely lactose intolerant I bought one it was pretty good some of the best milk I’ve ever had
Don't know what you want, maggots are an excellent protein donor. For sensitive there is also an alternative recipe, maggots together with potatoes to feed the pigs, gives a nice crispy "Schweinshaxn". Process the leftover potatoes into dumplings and all is well.
I can handle it when it's like, cruelty or health related... my favorite UK chocolate bar is a Yorkie bar. Which is banned for import into the US. Hershey blocked it on the basis that it would infringe on the York peppermint patty trademark, and Americans would be confused into thinking that's what a Yorkie was. Course... I can't eat them anymore anyway because I have celiac disease, but when I lived in the US I remember being quite upset when they disappeared from the international aisles.
9:27 I live in Arizona and living anywhere else seems not particularly sensible -- I couldn't imagine being at risk of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, tsunamis, etc. - and not having to deal with snow for half the year is beautiful.
I live in Delaware. We also don’t get tornadoes, tsunamis, blizzards or hurricanes. We don’t have to worry about drought or lack of fresh water and there’s no sales tax.
"Everything is legal in New Jersey, except the sale of raw milk." Yeah, and pumping your own gas. Also, Casu Marzu is pretty unique. Not something I'd eat on a regular basis, but considering all the things in my life I've eaten, it was probably on the least terrible side. :)
@@tylerpatti9038 Because then fools who don't know how to pump their own gas go to a place where station attendants are not a thing and cause a mess for everyone. If you own your car, know how to do the basic thing. Check oil, tyre pressure, the ushe.
Not sure if it's the same in NJ but I dare you to find a Vancouverite who won't fill up their Car in Portland if given the choice instead of having to pump their own, even though they make fun of Portlanders for not knowing how to self-serve.
Honestly fresh honey and some thawed frozen fruit mixed together. The juice that comes out and the tenderness of the thaw is off putting in some places but works beautifully as a syrup substitute. I prefer over maple.
Me: “I have heard of tonka beans before… must’ve been from my ex (professional chef)”. Me after seeing the news blurb: 👀👀👀 (that’s the restaurant he interned at).
My grandma used to boil the milk for breakfast, even if it was pasteurized milk bought at the supermarket. It an habit she inherited from living in a farm for most of her life.
As a Frenchman who grew up with kinder surprises, I was always surprised and amused by the very idea that an American could choke on the toy in the egg. Seriously, in europe, the first thing kids do is break the egg in half along the dividing line. Some even build the toy even before eating the egg. The very idea of someone jumping on the egg and devouring the egg starvingly without looking at it, crushing it, or playing with it is strange to me.
I'd love to see you do a colab with the Lost in the Pond guy (name's blanking on me at the moment). He came from England and has moved to America and he does a lot of America/England comparison or things I only learned since moving there sort of videos. Obviously you're on opposite sides of the pond now but maybe a web cam style convo of various little things you've experienced differently or something like that would be interesting, I think.
The thing about foie gras is that it happens in nature anyway, kinda. Geese don't have humans putting a funnel down their throat and piping food in, true, but geese go foraging before they migrate, gorging themselves to eat more than they usually would so they have a thick layer of fat around their liver which, when they're flying for days at a time, heading to Africa for the summer, they can convert the fat to energy and don't need to feed while flying over the sea.
lots of things that are banned because "it could hurt you or kill you" hits the 2 parts of my personality where I go "that makes sense, but sometimes if you're that stupid to eat something you know will kill you in amounts that will kill you, then it's your own goddamn fault"
Too many idiots today don't know that too much sugar causes diabetes over time, basically a slow acting poison. So how much or how long is the divider line between banning a poison that works slow or fast? Think carefully. Cigarettes, Lead, Asbestos all where at one time not banned.
@Terra Firma you do know you need sugars in some form right? Diabetes comes from 2 parts, genetic predisposition, and your diet/exercise routine. I know people who ate terribly and didn't have diabetes, but people who were still relatively active and got it. Sugar isn't a "slow-acting poison". Stop with the new age hippy dippy nonsense
@@terrafirma9328 only ignoramus are people who go on and on about how everything is bad for you, and 'we were healthier in the past'blah blah blah blah
If you are willing to try Casu Marzu, you might also like to try German Milbenkäse, a historical regional speciality in parts of Thuringia. It uses mites to ripen the cheese and you eat the mites as part of the cheese. It's safe, but also in a legal grey area.
While horse meat is perhaps not as common as beef, chicken, pork or lamb, it's not uncommon to see it sold, at least not in Sweden. It's readily available as sandwich meat in most stores I frequent (often named "Hamburger meat", as in meat from Hamburg, though that's an inherited title for a way of preparing it for consumption), and my local butcher carries horse meat, though the nice cuts are so outrageously expensive that I've never considered trying it. I think the scandal that happened, which was also a thing in Sweden, I don't know if we imported frozen food from the same manufacturer or if it was just a general scare that maybe if it happened in the UK it could happen here as well, but I think it's mostly about your food containing something not specified on the label, as well as if they are filling it up with horse meat it's probably not that super expensive fine stuff that they are adding.
In Finland, 3-5 years old children usually break a chocolate egg because it's fun for them and then eat it piece by piece, after which a plastic capsule remains, which they ask their parents to open because they can't open it themselves. Older children already know how to open the capsule themselves, but over time they lose their attraction to feather eggs. In Finland, maybe something is done right when chocolate eggs are never given directly to children who are under 3 years old, and 3-year-old children already know what they can eat and what they can't eat. But one thing that the EU could ban is the Swedish fermented fish Surströmming, whose smell is so strong that it easily causes people to feel sick and vomit, and the smell of the Surströmming can that has been opened indoors is not easily removed and you have to smell it inside for a week or longer if the can is not opened outside.
I think the taboo about horse meat is mostly in the english-speaking world. I've hadn't had much horse meat in my life because it's often rare and expensive but there is no particular taboo about it. I grew up in a town where in the countryside just a bit south east of it there is a village/meat factory, famous for it's horse meat salami. It wasn't my favorite, I prefer smoked ham, but it's ok on a sandwich. Just a bit too expensive for everyday consumption.
I agree. I grew up in Finland riding horses and eating horse meat salami too. My biggest issue with horse meat is the inhumane transportation those animals are put through in many places, and that mainly happens because horse meat isn't popular enough, so many slaughter houses won't accept horses. In many ways I'd much rather eat an animal that I've known to have a reasonably nice life than a factory farmed chicken or pig.
In Slovenia, we have a chain of horse burger fast food places, and my local market has a stall specifically for (young) horse meat. There's not a specific taboo against eating it, but some people do think horses are too cute to eat
Absolutely. In the English speaking parts of Canada, people are (broadly) horrified by the idea of eating horse, but in Quebec it's not uncommon and they sell it in the supermarkets.
It's also kind of a thing in certain Scandinavian countries. Horses were often sacrificed and eaten as part of pagan culture, but when Scandinavia became Christian, the Pope banned eating horse meat, because it was associated with a heathen practice. I guess the Italians were allowed to eat horse because they had no history of sacrificing it before eating it? But horse meat became a taboo food for many years. There's even a few super old sayings in my language (Danish) which say that eating horse meat is like eating from the Devil. Even if we're no longer very religious, many people don't eat it because we no longer have a cultural history of eating horse meat. You can get it from a few butchers here in Denmark, but it's a rare find.
Raw milk isn’t illegal in my state but you have to buy it directly from a farmer at his dairy. You can’t get it other places. However there are very dairies in my state so make of that what you will. 😂
In Sweden we have horsemeat as cold cuts on our sandwiches. Not super common but definitely available in most stores. But honestly, horsemeat is very delicious. I have been to Kazakhstan where it is very common to eat horsemeat and it was tender and mild and just great to eat. So I feel it is a bit of a social thing to ban horsemeat, not so much to do with wether the meat is any good or not. Like how cow meat is banned in India. We in the west clearly couldn't care less about that.
In Bulgaria, it is most popular among "gymbros" but everyone says you need a second type of meat like pork because it is too dry and they mostly eat it in meatballs.
Regarding CASU MARTZU Cheese, pickles and other preserves are the product of centuries of trying to survive on our own. In southern Greece they make a feta variant called sfela, in northern Greece we call that EXPIRED, but they didn't have a choice and they still eat it today and consider it a delicacy.
@@KomboEzaliTe You're not too far off with what people have to pay to get a burger/ chicken sandwich combo meal at most fast food restaurants. Last week, I went into Burger King and walked right next door to KFC/Taco Bell 🔔 and for $5 and some change, I got a 🌮 supreme meal. Both restaurants are across the street from me. A whopper meal would've been $14+/tax.
The cheapest type of "cinnamon" in every shop is not real cinnamon, but cassia bark. Much cheaper and what you normally get if you buy ground "cinnamon", and it contains far more cumarin than the the real cinnamon. Doesn't even taste as good. But it's legal all around the world.
The "kinder" law was created after Lucky Luck. It appeared when Ma Dalton started putting files in the cakes the help escape her sons from prison. I swear on it!
Our son was born "lactose intolerant" , but turned out that wasn't quite true. He was intolerant to the pasteurising process used for most milk, so we all drank raw milk for ten years or so. It was quite a shock going back to pasteurised milk (less of a pia to find) as it tastes "weird".
I'm in the US, born and raised, and I did not know the Kinder Egg was banned. You could have fooled me since I feel like I've seen them in stores. AND we used to have another type of chocolate ball with a hidden toy that I would have growing up (although I can't remember it's name since it's been about 20 years). Maybe it's another weird California thing 🤷♀️
As an Irish person, I always thought the problem with the horse meat scandal in the UK and here was that horse meat was being packaged and sold as beef or other not horse meats.
Yeah it was the fraud, ready meals that said they were beef mince when they were actually horse
Yes, same with that frozen lasagna scandal we had in Germany, even though some regional delicacies are traditionally made from horsemeat, especially in Southern Germany.
I just liked how it was
“there’s horse meat in ready meals”
*collective shock*
“There’s horse meat in findus ready meals”
“Oh, yeah, that tracks”
That is what it was.
The frozen meat scandal was because there was no paper trail of where said meat came from. Horses bred for human consumption have certain restrictions when it comes to medications that can be used. There was no provenance paperwork, and that is why it was shady as f-word.
If you can't sell non-food covered in food, why are fortune cookies allowed?
Omg
Are they sold?
perhaps they are printed on edible paper?
🤯😂
@@annafrimpongarhin6771 I've seen them in the international section or the cookie section of the stores before, so yes, they are sold.
The thing with the horse meat in the UK was more about it a) not being included in the ingredients list, b) it not being what it was supposed to be (which is why it wasn't included in the ingredients list, because it was disguised as other meats), and c) being potentially contaminated with drugs not intended to be in human food.
Of course some people were sad about the idea of eating horses too, but that's waaaaay down the list of concerns, obviously food safety and proper ingredient tracking was far more important. Random meats from questionable sources without guarantees of fitness for human consumption disguised/sold as something entirely different could be quite dangerous.
exactly. I have eaten horse meat in italy (where you can get it in the supermarket, not only specialized butchers) but still don't want relabeled and not tracked horse meat in my beef burger. I also do not want untracked beef in my beef burger.
@@noahluppewho wants improperly labeled food? One of the worst things is going to eat or drink something and the flavor is not what you expect at all due to it being weong.
Horse meat is delicious. It's like beef but with less fat and more flavor.
@@DustWolphy again I wouldn't mind tryjng it, but 1. I wanna know im about to eat horse and 2. I don't want dangerous illegal drugs in any food I consume.
I love the interview of the old guy that loved Findus lasagne. He eats it every day. His whole freezer is filled with it. But since the horsemeat scandal he will never eat it again. Dude it's your favourite food you clearly like horse meat try and find us the horse meat version I'll make you a dinner
The tesco horse meat thing was because tesco labelled them as beef, outright lying to buyers, when there was a meat shortage. That pissed everyone off more than it being horse.
yeah, we had that in europe too a couple of years ago. I think the product in itself was ok only it contained horse meat from the balkan countries, wich wasnt mentioned. I think it is proper and ethical policy to mention anything that is in your nutritional product
I don’t think it was Tesco or the other shops mislabelling the horse meat, it was their suppliers. My daughter works for a transport firm and one of their clients was recently closed down for the same thing. Several of the drivers were interviewed by the police to see what they knew.
I feel like getting mad over horses being slaughtered is hypocritical. What's the difference between horses and cows? Horses and pigs? Pretty sure pigs are more intelligent than horses, so why is it fine to eat them and not horses?
@@gentlechaos5911 horses were a pet animal in the US and much of Europe, there was exceptions, historically they made bad choice for meat because of them being work animals. essentially an animal people commonly have as a pet or see as a pet animal. most people see pets as sort of extended family member. I mean honestly better then most of the ones you have, blood of the convent being thicker the water of womb.
True… I wouldn’t mind eating horse if you told me it was horse
It’s also illegal to produce Foie Gras in Germany so these rules don’t always apply EU wide. The import is allowed though.
Very interesting and entertaining video ☺️
illegal in sweden to
I remember watching a video the other day of how a Spanish farmer traditionally raised geese for foie gras. The geese were coming to his farm on their own (they would migrate there every year). He would feed them high energy feed and acorns in order to fatten them up. During the whole process that farmer wasn't forcing the geese to do anything. On a certain night when the geese have grown enough and before they would migrate again he would harvest them. Banning his foie gras from being traded doesn't seem that smart. So what I want to say is that banning a certain product in 9/10 cases is quite idiotic. It is infinitely better to set up a regulated market aiming for the best possible way to produce said product than outright banning it.
I should specify. In Germany it is illegal to stuff the geese forcefully. If you could produce it without stuffing geese it world be legal. But this only applies to German farmers.
The import is legal no matter how it is produced in the other country.
@@alexandervlaescu9901 Ok, but that's typically not how foie gras is produced. Typically it's made from geese in captivity using gavage (force-feeding). The whole point of foie gras is to give the geese a fatty liver, which is a disease (it's called NAFLD in humans). So it's literally impossible to produce foie gras without intentionally making animals sick. I don't see how you avoid that with regulation. I also don't see the point of regulating this tiny market, because less than 1% of people can afford to eat foie gras on a regular basis. Why should we spend our political resources trying to regulate rich people food, when poor people are struggling to afford any food at all?
producing no, eating yes...leave the dirty work to the French..!
The maple producing states have strict regulations on what can be called maple syrup. It has to be 100% maple syrup to legally be called maple syrup. Vermont sued McDonalds over this and that’s why it’s called Hotcake Syrup.
The syrup provided at Cracker Barrel is actually maple syrup. Comes from Vermont.
And yet in America you can see Californian sparkling white wines labelled as "champagne" 🙄
@@nbartlett6538 Duh, that's a french law.. why would it apply to the US?
@@misterkite Duh, because hypocritical American businesses only care about correct food labelling when it's their own products affected. (BTW it's not just a French law).
@@nbartlett6538 Meh, it's as stupid as saying that cheddar cheese can only be called cheddar cheese if it comes from Cheddar, England. Or Buffalo Wings can't be called Buffalo Wings unless they were made in Buffalo New York.
@@misterkite What Americans call Cheddar cheese isn't Cheddar cheese (it looks more like Red Leicester to me, which has a completely taste and texture)
As a Canadian that recently watched a video of an American trying foreign treats for the first time and she legit just tried going at the kinder egg whole and choked on the toy container inside 😅🤦♀️ I was like so it’s really true 🤣 I really hope it was fake but it didn’t seem like it lol
Well, if you have never encountered a foreign object in the middle of your candy, you aren't going to be expecting it, so of course you might choke on it.
Kinder Eggs aren't really small so who the heck tosses the whole thing into their mouth?? Also as soon as you handle the Kinder Egg wrapped or unwrapped you'd have to be an absolute moron not to realize that there is something inside of it. Sell them everywhere and rename them Darwin Eggs I guess 🤷♂️😂😂
@@hilpi75 right 😂
@@mariateresamondragon5850 well I think trying to one bite something the size of a jawbreaker may also be an issue 🤷♀️ but I assumed they have bitten into large foods before too
@@mariateresamondragon5850 toddlers don’t have experience with that either yet they all seem to grasp the concept of not choking on a kinder egg surprise here 🤷♀️😂
So fun fact: the Kinder Egg and Wonder Ball lasted until 1997 in the states. The reason is because Kinder had already established that the toys were not mixed into the food itself, as the chocolates are hollow and clearly advertise the toy inside. It wasn't until the Hershey Company sued them that they were forced from the states. Turns out, Hershey was pushing to be the primary chocolate provider in the states, so it capitalized on the fact that both the Kinder Egg and Nestle's Wonder Ball had plastic objects inside, suggesting the risk of a choking hazard. This worked, and had the unintended side-effect of setting precedent to ban toys from cereal boxes as well, which combined with the cost of licensing toys and complaints from parents having their kids suggest cereal exclusively for the toy, was enough to have the idea scrapped preemptively.
This seems truer to me.
The law he cited meant food items with the non-nutritional thing mixed with the edible portion, but in Kinders you can eat the chocolate and not the toy.
I was going to write they just needed better lawyers to argue the case, but it seems a lot of US lawmakers are so stupid it's scary. I was watching a Right to Repair video where a senator was convinced by an Apple lobbyist that replacing a single wire in an Apple product meant the device was no longer an Apple device...
Italian guy here, that kind of cheese was produced and consumed not only in Sardinia but in other Italian regions too. For example I'm from Apulia and my grandfather used to eat it (he says it's actually good), but it's called 'Formaggio coi vermi', literally 'cheese with worms'. Sometimes you can still find it and buy it, but I've never eaten it.
Yeah but it's sold "sottobanco", it's illegal here too, not illegal to produce but to sell it. At least that's what I found out reading stuff about it. In my region you can't buy it at least
Be prepared to have some grappa after you had it, if you ever have it: that thing is pretty heavy on your stomach ( although delicious)
@@iacomary ah, it stays in the family and among friends then. A real traditional product!!!
@TheOdsd1977 I mean, if you don't know about it doesn't mean it isn't real lol
The moment he said Sardinia, I thought: “Maggot Cheese”.
I used to work in microbial safety testing in a small lab in the UK and about half of the things we were testing were various dairy products. Any dairies that used unpasteurised milk would send a sample from a batch for us to test before using it in produciton as well.
They were actually the most stressful to get in because to be certified legally you have to culture a full 25g for at least two different tests which use reagents which can inhibit the growth of the others, so they need to send at least 75g for a single round of tests.
Then you get people who've sent in a single core weighing something like 15g. Try telling a farmer who runs a business with a turnover approaching ten million a year who has product that now has a fairly limited shelf life because he's cracked it that you can't certify his product because he hasn't sent enough and the results are going to be delayed a week. That sure was fun on a near weekly basis.
Stilton and Roquefort. YES please!
That should be a one off, the testing labs should be giving this info to their customers.
@@JeronimoStilton14 It happened regularly with the same customers. I have no idea why. Honestly though at the end of the day it wasn't my problem.
They weren't legally allowed to sell their products without the safety certification that my lab provided and I wasnt going to run the tests unless they gave us what we needed.
LOL, how do the manage to spare 15g from the thousands of litres they would produce? 😆
Tonka beans being dangerous feels competitive to almonds or nutmeg being ‘dangerous’ right? Like sure, if you have ‘too much’. But that’s literally what too much means
Also, with the kinder egg thing, does that mean they can’t sell packaged fruit chunks with a spoon in the packaging for example?
They attach the spoon to the top of the lid or between the lid and the seal, making the inedible thing separate from the edible part
They can't sell food with inedible stuff contained inside the food.
@@LiqdPT this was why I was questioning. Colleen answered my specific question which I guess is away to get round a law that, in fairness, is there to protect people.
I'm not using a sticky spoon
@@robhardingpoetry no, in theory if it was floating in the chunks it'd be fine. It's not ENCASED in food that you might put whole in your mouth. There are toys inside boxes of cereal and cracker jacks (though, the toy is in a plastic bag to keep it clean and probably large enough to be noticed). With Kinder Eggs the issue is that the toy is inside the food, not floating around with chunks of food.
I tried Casu martzu cheese last year whilst on a holiday in Sardinia, it is difficult to find on the island even if you want to try it, but I managed to stumble across it at a family style home restaurant near where I was staying. It likely being my only chance to ever try it, I gave it a go. For context the 'maggots' within it are tiny and are mostly removed before it is served. The cheese is made creamier and softer as a result, but it is incredibly strong in flavour, only a few small bites is enough for most. I would recommend giving it a try if you're ever lucky enough to get an opportunity to try it though.
If you cant eat more than few bites bcs its that dusgusting whats the point, eat it before it rots😂
It's not that it's disgusting, but the natural flavour of the cheese is intensified and has a really strong spicy note
There is a cheese in a single village in Germany called Milbenkäse where they have tiny mites in the cheese. Afaik it can't be transported though. So Sardinia is not alone in this. But maggots are really beyond my capacity...
The USDA is not an organization whose aim is to improve US food standards. Their job is to ensure that top-level food distributors are happy, just like the FDA. Their guidelines are seldom based on health or nutrition.
They let them posion us for the sake of the dollar
ah there s some useful information!
People out here taking there advice,.
Remember the WHO told everyone to not go outside because they might get a cold?
@@haroondaman7162When did the WHO do that? Or do you mean during the recent covid pandemic that killed a whole bunch of people and left many with long-lasting health problems? Yeah that wasn’t a common cold.
@@haroondaman7162 The USDA isn't the same as the WHO, a cold isn't the same as covid if that is what you are getting at and in that case you are not the same as a smart person.
If I decided to move from Europe to the US, I could probably deal with most things. Not having easy access to European cheese though would probably tip me over the edge. Having a cheese counter is such a familiar part of food shopping nowadays.
A lot of grocery stores have a section with the good cheeses, usually near the deli area whereas the low quality cheese is the regular dairy aisle. But we do have nicer grocery stores that definitely have cheese counters like Whole Foods. I live in California though so not sure how common this is in other states
@@turtlescanfly7 Yes definitely California it's easier - undoubtedly assisted over the decades by the wine industry.
Can find goat, sheep, ewe cheeses, French patés, cured meats - Iberico sausages etc.
I sowas an exchange student in the US and some of the stores had wiles with European cheese, it was just very expensive, but available. Also once I found the sliced cheese section at target (next to the frozen pizzas for some reason) I was quite happy. I really liked the sliced cheeses like “Pepper Jack”. I think they taste of the same quality as the sliced cheeses in Europe and they have some interesting flavones that you can’t find in Europe
@@turtlescanfly7, I live in a medium size town in Missouri. The stores have good cheese, a surprising amount made locally. There are also import stores that carry food from all over, including excellent imported cheeses.
Not just the cheese. What Americans call bread is barely related to actual bread.
Having once encountered maggoty cheese (bad piece of brie on a camping trip with friends), our response was more scream and hurl it from the tent than 'hmm, wonder if it still tastes good'
First you have to experience many centuries of extreme poverty, like Sardinia, then you won't throw food away for any reason.
extra protein
You aren't a starving Medieval Sardinian peasant.
@@thescrewfly once it has maggots in it, it is no longer food.
@@thescrewflythat's how haggis was created essentially, just chuck in everything you have left and see what it tastes like
I live in one of the US states that allow raw milk. I didn't like milk much until I tasted raw. 😋 About a decade ago, there was a threat that raw milk would be banned so one day, upon picking up my family's raw milk from a private vendor gave me their plan how to get us raw milk if it becomes illegal to sell.
😆I was young and felt so mischievous having this conversation with our vendor. Lol.
Pennsylvania? It is legal there. I didn’t know it was illegal to bring it across state lines 🫢
Yeah it shouldn't be illegal but people shold be aware of all the risks. Tbh it is how I feel about a lot of drugs, too, and many other things. If it isn't hurting anyone else and the person taking the risk knows the risks what is the issue?
What the fuck is non row milk then?
@@Void_Creature4 Non raw is pasteurized. Aka cooked at low temperature to kill all germs and extend shelf life. (Iirc it's like 65 C / 150 F for like an hour.)
@@MsLilly200 thanks
I had no idea what tonka beans were until you mentioned it, but the flavor profile you described makes it sound like a really good addition to most hot beverages or even a tea in its own right. Black tea with tonka beans sounds delightful
I've only seen tonka mentioned on the ingredients in perfumes
You can buy them in the US easily. They denature the coumarin. I didn't know either and definitely am gonna get some for baking.
The "small" Italian island is the second biggest in the mediterranean sea (after Sicily) and the 48th biggest in the world, bigger than any US island 😅
someone's insecure about their itty bitty tic-tac island
😂I had the same thought - what “small” island?
I recently saw another video from an US RUclipsr who called Cyprus "a small island" too 🙈
@@TheFrenCyprus is pretty small even for European standards.
@@daly9794 It's small for a country. It's actually the 3rd largest Mediterranean island.
Talking about the horse meat in Tesco, my biggest issue is the lack of communication. I'll eat a horse burger, just dont tell me its beef 🤣
EDIT: Kinder chocolate is the best, I'm nearly 30 and I will still get a kinder bar from the shop
Also apparently there were concerns some of that meat generally might not have been safe for humans, too. Forget what animal it is, people didn't want to be poisoned. 😢
Regarding Foie Gras there's actually a Spanish farmer named Eduardo Sousa who produces Foie Gras from wild geese without force-feeding them, Business insider did a video on him, it's pretty interesting.
In Canada it is illegal to force feed geese, but we have foie gras. In my township we have a duck and goose farmer, whose wife is a chef, and they make excellent foie gras. Personally I think it is because the treat their animals so well. It is totally possible to have humane fois gras.
IIRC the Horse meat 'scandal' came down to a certain supplier or abattoir somewhere in central Europe supplying a number of European food manufacturers with beef contaminated by untraced horse meat. The supermarkets copped for a lot of the flak but ultimately they were being misled. Horse is fine to eat but any untraced meat, especially as in this case that which was not intended for human consumption is a massive issue, hence the 'scandal'.
The "Kinder egg / non-edibles inside food" rule feels really funny to me. Especially given how the Kinder surprise is fine becuase its immediately adjacent to the goop. I guess this is also how cereal companies got away with toys inside cereal boxes too?
You got to remember fortune cookies.
@@n0body550 the paper in fortune cookies is considered food grade rice paper so nope
But toys in cereal aren't really "in" cereal like the kinder surprise toys are
@@ripF5C or at least they say it's food grade rice paper
This rule is obviously valid for peach or plum-like food. They should either eat it whole or sell pealed.
If a kinder egg banned according to that law, shouldnt any form of a lolipop also be banned, since it a stick surrounded by a candy. What about corndogs?
*puts fingers to her lips* shhh they might hear you!
No, cause it sticks out and is visible. That’s how “wowzee” (a hollow chocolate with a toy inside, similar to kinder) is allowed to be sold also, because there is a strip of visible plastic.
So you're saying if they put the toy capsule on a stick before putting it in the egg, Kinder Surprise lollipops would be fine?
when they not need to be there, a lolipop do need a stick if there is a big one.
@@ystacalden yeah, or even just not completely cover the capsule, just like a little bit sticking out
I lived in Tokyo as a child in the 1970s. My parents belonged to a St Andrews society as my dad was Scottish. The society tried to fly a haggis in for St Andrew’s day but it was confiscated by Japanese customs because it fell foul of their rules too. Not sure what specifically though.
Yes. It has to be either sterilized or no lungs. Same reason as US. I mean I get it and agree, we need to limit things, esp spongiforms and prion diseases from spreading as much as we possibly can. It is scary.
You can't really bring meat into the country so I'm not surprised
Apparently my great grandfather loved old mouldy cheese with maggots in. The maggots tasted like the stinky cheese too, so I’m told…which leads me to conclude he ate the maggots with the cheese. Lovely.
But then he was a colourful guy. He survived the trenches at the Battle of the Somme alongside his best mate, then got sent to Ireland with his best mate only for his mate to be murdered as part of a honey trap.
He also went to prison for throwing a debt collector out of a closed window.
So I guess a preference for maggot cheese was just part of being him.
Ah, your grandfather was a black and tan. Don't tell this story around Irish people 😉
My great grandfather was of that era, but he went MIA on the last day of the great war.
how that cheese were called? how is it named?
@@FutureHH it's generally called something like casu martzu. It's basically pecorino gone bad. The name does vary a little.
@@ericdpeerik3928 i thought it was some
english cheese in the like
of cazu martzu beacuse you were talking about black and tan and ireland
@@FutureHH I think the whole story is the origin of where he got in contact with the cheese, the trenches at the Somme.
I'm not aware of an English version, but never say never.
As an Italian I have to say that casu marsu isn’t available anywhere else in italy, it’s allowed to survive in sardina only for cultural preservation. We on the mainland are safe from rotten cheese 😂
I believe that somewhere else in the world there are other kinds of cheese that have live mites instead of maggots, at least we are not unique in having a cheese that moves…
'... cheese that moves…' 😂😂😂
Cheddar used to have maggots in it. The more the merrier. Back in the 18th C. Not sure when they stopped it.
@mit cheese: yes, central Germany, "Milbenkäse"
There were two pretty good reasons for the horse meat scandal being a scandal - firstly, in a lot of cases it wasn't on the labels, which is a serious matter because that could mean any number of other (possibly dangerous) things could also be in the food and not included on the label. Secondly, horses that are not intended to be in the human food chain are given antibiotics and other drugs that aren't supposed to be ingested by humans. There's nothing wrong with eating horse meat, as long as it's pretty clearly shown on the label and the horses were raised with that intention.
Yep, dutchy here and for the longest time horse meat was a delicatess in stew for some regions in the country. Great stuff.
The only thing you didn't discuss in the Tonka beans section is what the biological half life of coumarin is. I mean it's all well and good if the limit is 2400 dishes a day or a week, but if it stays in your body on the order of months or years that's a lot more significant.
Good point!
I also didn’t bring up Tonka beans are used for fragrance too
Presumably using them for fragrance is a bit less deadly though...
From what I can see it would appear to be in the region of 1-2 hours so yeah you would need to introduce the entire dose rapidly. I suspect that exploding from the extreme pressure all that food would necessarily need to be under to compress it into ones stomach in order to pull this off might get you first though.
We all die some day anyway. Why worry.
Apparently you want to die today. You should worry just enough to not accidentally kill yourself prematurely. Don't be a moron.
I grew up drinking raw milk from my neighbor's farm. I remember the first time I had pasteurised milk on a camping trip, I thought it tasted really weird. Where I'm from in the US it's fully legal, but now I'm in Scotland where it's not legal :(
You need to make friends with a farmer. They will sell you off some raw milk for a little price. 100% they're drinking raw milk themselves.
In my country, we can get raw milk, but also farm to table, due to the wonders of the interwebs.
Tonka beans, unlike vanilla beans, are actual beans. Inside looks like a peanut with little crystals growing in it (sometimes). They’re used for the smell, not the taste, and just a tiny amount of it grated over food has a HUGE impact on the aroma which then changes the perceived flavors.
I got a guy in Spain who gets me mine. Personal use only. I use them in my coffee and I use them instead of nutmeg for classic cocktails (nutmeg used to be an incredibly common ingredient in mixology).
After using one my fingernails smell for hours. Like vanilla, cinnamon, black pepper, freshly cut grass, sunshine, the love of a woman…. Just a heavenly indescribable scent.
Also the reason the FDA banned Tonka Beans was because coumarin was being used as an adulterant for vanilla. It’s a cheap source of coumarin and extracting it is cheaper than synthesizing it. Chemists were making vanilla compounds that could be up to 60% coumarin. The ban went in effect at roughly the same time as other bans on adultering food products.
As an Italian, when I see ovetto kinder in the thumbnail I just click as quickly as possible.
I really loved the energy you give out in this video. Plus the info, it's so interesting. Thank you for the research and the fun delivery :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve seen Kinder eggs in the US. They’re in European specialty stores, like European delis and bakeries. They’re also sold at military base commissaries.
And you can get black pudding in every Irish pub in the US, too. It’s lovely.
Raw milk is legal in California as well (with a warning label). Every Health Food store in CA sells it.
I'm willing to try just about any food. I've eaten horse meat hotdog in Germany (very tasty), fried locusts and grasshoppers in Bangkok (the locusts were lovely - tasted just like pork scratchings. The grasshoppers, not so much so. Not keen on them), proper haggis in Scotland (love it! It reminds me of savoury duck - which doesn't actually contain any duck, as far as I know), I've made my own duck liver paté and wines from foraged fruits, flowers and berries and I've also really liked every cheese I've tried (including Yarg, which is wrapped in nettle leave - no, they don't sting your mouth because they're dead by that point - and Stinking Bishop, which is named after the Stinking Bishop perry it's washed in. Perry is made from pears and, fun fact, look on the label of a bottle of Rekorderlig "cider" and you'll see it's not made from apples. It's a Perry and is made from pears with fruit flavourings added). But I absolutely draw the line at Casu Marzu. I wouldn't let that stuff pass my lips if I was going to be paid enough money to retire very comfortably on from that day to the end of my life and the very thought of it turns my stomach! I can't even begin to imagine how bad it must smell! Apparently, it's actually quite difficult to get hold of in Sardinia too, which is perhaps a Really Good Thing...
I ordered this Swedish rotten fish delicacy once and had it with my grandpa and my brother. It’s the worst thing I ever smelled in my entire life. Was very close to puking. Absolutely putrid smell. Can’t begin to describe it. Like puke and shit and rotting corpses all together. But worse somehow.
But we are some of it and there was something about it. Almost tasted like petrol. Really intense and sharp and chemical but somehow “savory” and satisfying. Still almost puked after a few bites.
Idk there’s some weird food out there
Love your sarcastic and punny nature, it isn't cheesy at all.
You should consider to go to Sardinia, not for the cheese though, but the island got some really nice beaches, and is well worth a trip, even though it doesn't exist 🤣
My dear Evan, I had forgotten my glasses and picked up what I thought was a wedge of Brie at the local market [believe it or not in the US]. Someone had put this Alsatian abomination in the wrong place. I am told that the taste is amazing, but the stench was so off-putting that I couldn't get even a small amount close enough to my mouth to taste it. It so happened that I had some French students, so I brought it to school an offered it to them. Their reaction was, "It may be French, but it smells like "merde" and we won't eat it."
Isn't French cheese supposed to be smelly in order to taste good?
@@flopunkt3665 only some like limbourger
@@tigriscallidus4477 did you just call limbourg french?
@@noahluppe no, sorry, I expressed myself badly. Its judt whrn people speak about french cheese they ofte mean the soft cheese (like camembert etc.) And from these kind of cheese not all smell a lot. Also I thought there was a famous version of limbourger from feance, but its actually from belgium. (In europe a lot of cheese type coming from one place are made in ithet countries as well.)
I guess there would have been a better french example (because there are also some cheese which smell there) but I dont have a name.
@@flopunkt3665 Some do, some don't. And even when smelly, it must be the appropriate kind of smelly.
I was thinking 'fair enough" to the banning raw milk until you said that means they can't have camembert 😱 I wouldn't drink raw milk personally, don't think its worth the risk. But i couldn't be without nice cheese or clotted cream 😂
Although raw milk wasn't common when I was a kid, any time we stayed on a farm it was perfectly normal to have that-morning fresh-from-the-cow milk. Never thought twice about it.
I often drank raw milk from my grandfather farm when I was young, and I still crave for some from time to time. It's a delicacy when it's fresh enough to still be warm.
You can still buy cheese made from raw milk direct from farmers in many states, so it isn't hard to find in you live in an area with a large amount of dairy farms.
theres no risk. I drank fresh milk tapped right from the udder of a friends cow. you dont know what it tastes like, so overwhelmingly good. you re more likely to get run over by a car.
the idea to kill any living bacteria that are in a food product is just absurd and typically american. You forget that part of those natural bacteria actually help your digestion and immune system. By sterilising everything you might as well swallow a glass of chloronised water. No vitamines, sterile, yes.
as someone who grew up with Kindereggs - even though I wouldnt want to miss them in my childhood - I see the biggest issue with Kindereggs in the gambling addiction they promote. They don't do it quite as much anymore, but they used to have very cool figurine series (little hippos or dinosaurs, or even disney figurines) and the chance to get one of them was 1:6. So on average, you'd get one in every 7th egg. But of course you'd get doubles so to complete your collection you'd have to actually buy quite a lot. there was an aspect of fomo too, because the series would go away to replaced for a new one at some point. Most kids at some point were quite expert in telling from the way they rattle if they'd contain a figurine or not. It was like very rudimentary gacha for playschool and elementary school kids.
i think they cut down on that quite a lot as far as I can tell. less elaborate (less thoughtful) in the series they put out, and at least in Germany I see lots of sales displays of them where you get a guaranteed figurine.
Spoiler alert 😮😅😅😅
In Finland (Non-Ceylon) cinnamon is actually not allowed in any baby food until the kid turns 1 because of the same reason!
In France, there used to be a 'boucherie chevaline' in most towns (horse butcher shop) until the younger generation stopped eating horse meat and also other 'delicacies' such as lamb's brain; tripe used to be popular but is now quite expensive as less people are enjoying it (I love it personally, especially the one cooked in tomato, herbs and white wine).
My grandpa from Germany also told me how they used to eat all of the organs of the animals they butchered when he was a child he said the rabbits brains and the cheeks were what the children would fight over, and they used to eat the cheeks right from the skull and the eat the brain from the skull with a spoon.
I was so disturbed but he sounded really happy talking about it lol
He also told me cows tongue is super tasty and I think he had a lot of fun with my reaction
@@spaceowl5957 Cow's tongue is still eaten commonly in France even by children. It doesn't taste anything special, it's just meat. Horse meat is like beef, a bit more irony. I don't like most offals though, they always have an aftertaste, for example kidney will taste like piss, tripe will taste like shit, etc.
@@aesma2522 How commonly? I've never eaten it or heard about it being eaten by anyone. Not even my grandparents, who used to eat lamb's brain or make their kids drink blood. Unless it's a regional thing?
@@spaceowl5957
Cow tongue _is_ delicious. I personally prefer the front of the tongue, as it is leaner, whereas the back is marbled with fat.
You're one of the very few RUclipsrs that can make a video about just about anything and I'll enjoy it. Fuck the algorithm!
The horse meat scandal wasn't because people were necessarily upset about eating horse meat, it was because there was a major discrepancy between the listed contents on item's packaging and the actual thing you were buying - the supermarkets didn't know what they were selling and therefore had no idea if anything unsafe for human consumption was being sold as food.
My Sardinian wife is laughing. There’s another Sardinian cheese which is called callu de cabrettu. Look it up…
True, I'm Sardinian but I don't like it, too spicy. If they know how it's done they start throwing up all the readers of this channel 😂😂😂😂
Mannaggia a voi e a Google, mi sto sentendo male
I remember reading about the maggot cheese on Wikipedia. One section that stuck with me:
_Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten._
That's kinda wild.
Love this. Keep being creative with your content. Keep your improv songs at the end.
The horsemeat scandal was primarily based around two problems in the UK:
1. They said it was beef
2. The horses slaughtered weren't subject to the same regulations as cows bred for slaughter, meaning that it was possible they could have been diseased.
Kinder Surprise eggs are great. 🙂 They are available in every grocery store in Canada and they have larger sized eggs for Easter, Christmas and Valentine's Day. Children love them. Can't say the waxy chocolate is healthy but neither is vegetable oil.
27 US states allow the sale of raw milk within their borders. Restrictions do apply.
In Massachusetts, where I live, raw milk can only be sold on the farms where it is produced. 💕
My class took a trip to the EU years ago. We were around 16-17 at the time and were excited to try these OG kinder eggs that were banned at home. Somebody didn’t get the memo and chewed the toy because they thought it was a gummy, lmao
Actually, there absolutely WAS a scandal about horse meat in France!! It was found in lasagna and not properly advertised, meaning people unknowingly ate some, and it was a pretty big thing at the time.
My Wife and I used to buy a type of meat from Tesco that turned out to be Horse they had to withdraw it due to false labelling. If they had just stuck Horse Meat labels on it we would have continued to buy it. It is delicious.
If the first package you bought was labeled horse meat would you have tried it?
The sad thing I'm sure horse meat is decent bc at least they seem more well cared for. Unlike the chicken and cow industry especially chicken.
I live in Sardinia, Italy, although I'm not originally from there but I'm Romanian. Sardinia is very particular, the population loves its island (it has beautiful beaches that you can't imagine) and doesn't even consider itself Italian, on the contrary, it hates the continent. I can also give the example of the language, it is totally different from Italian, more similar to Spanish. I have often tasted Casu Martzu, unfortunately not yet with worms, it is a very spicy cheese and can also be spread on bread. Trying it doesn't hurt anyone, I've eaten some strange things.
Ikea also had a controversy when they had accidental horse meat in their meatballs😂 I worked at Ikea at that point and we had dozens of customers daily coming to ask if they could please buy the meatballs because it was considered a delicacy😅 Unfortunately we were not allowed to sell the faulty items. And I do understand that the issue with this drama was more the fact that the meatballs included meat that was not up to standards😅
If I remember correctly the Ikea meatballs were produced in Romania.
Cat balls?
In UK they had shit in their Daim cheesecake, so........
there's a way to do a more ethical foie gras (note: it's not eaten just in the form of pate but also just like this is its liver form btw i'm not french). so, some
farmers in Spain let their domesticated ducks/geese live with their wild counterparts when they are preparing to migrate: turns out that the fattening of their livers is a natural occurrence. before the migration
also for "pepperino" you probably meant pecorino (from pecora, sheep). Sardinia is famous for having various types of pecorino (like pecorino sardo) and other various cheeses.
also you can't use the italian-american accent for Sardinians. Sardinian language is one the most conservative romance language and it's very similar to latin. italian accent in america is probably from, that's a guess, derived from southern italian languages like, campanian, apulian, calabrian, sicilian etc. or anyway regionalized modern italian from those parts
yes, i'm you annoying italian commenter and on a last note YOU VILL EAR ZE BUGS
"If your baby was going to choke on a toy, it was a stupid baby anyway" - W2S, about Kinder Eggs.
I just want to say, to absolutely nobody in particular, that it’s not my fault I have to live in Arizona right now… it’s just temporary I swear 😭
Just say you were there for the superbowl but couldn't find a way to leave just yet!
I lived in Arizona for a while
Right next to a weekly farmers market
And one of the usual farmers had a cow farm and sold freshish milk (like milked within the last 2 days)
And while I am severely lactose intolerant I bought one it was pretty good some of the best milk I’ve ever had
Don't know what you want, maggots are an excellent protein donor.
For sensitive there is also an alternative recipe, maggots together with potatoes to feed the pigs, gives a nice crispy "Schweinshaxn". Process the leftover potatoes into dumplings and all is well.
I can handle it when it's like, cruelty or health related... my favorite UK chocolate bar is a Yorkie bar. Which is banned for import into the US. Hershey blocked it on the basis that it would infringe on the York peppermint patty trademark, and Americans would be confused into thinking that's what a Yorkie was. Course... I can't eat them anymore anyway because I have celiac disease, but when I lived in the US I remember being quite upset when they disappeared from the international aisles.
So you never ate neighborhood cat for dinner? In times of hunger cats are considered a deliciously meal 😮
9:27 I live in Arizona and living anywhere else seems not particularly sensible -- I couldn't imagine being at risk of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, tsunamis, etc. - and not having to deal with snow for half the year is beautiful.
You're in a desert. If the fresh water source goes it's over until you get a monsoon.
I live in Delaware. We also don’t get tornadoes, tsunamis, blizzards or hurricanes. We don’t have to worry about drought or lack of fresh water and there’s no sales tax.
Well we very rarely get tornadoes that classify as EF0-1. Never higher and a few a decade.
Hello from northern Germany, we usually get NOTHING except for dry summers. But dry is something you're familiar with in Arizona
@@phoebeel Northern Germany seems much more appealing than Arizona. In terms of healthcare and and as a woman.
With the sheer absurd quantity of puns, I found myself genuinely wanting somebody to wander in and slap you, which is unusual
8:58 Sehr lustig, wie du plötzlich Deutsch sprichst :D
The US bans food that contains non-nutritive objects. Pity it doesn't ban food that contains non-nutritive substances.
"Everything is legal in New Jersey, except the sale of raw milk." Yeah, and pumping your own gas.
Also, Casu Marzu is pretty unique. Not something I'd eat on a regular basis, but considering all the things in my life I've eaten, it was probably on the least terrible side. :)
why the fuck would you want to pump your own gas when you can have people do it for you?
@@tylerpatti9038 Because then fools who don't know how to pump their own gas go to a place where station attendants are not a thing and cause a mess for everyone. If you own your car, know how to do the basic thing. Check oil, tyre pressure, the ushe.
Not sure if it's the same in NJ but I dare you to find a Vancouverite who won't fill up their Car in Portland if given the choice instead of having to pump their own, even though they make fun of Portlanders for not knowing how to self-serve.
@@RRW359 I live in Europe. We haven't done self-service gas stations here in since around after WW2.
The first time I've heard about Casu Marzu was in a horror movie where it was the favorite of the serial killer 😆😆
America: worried about raw milk, not worried about junk food 🤷
Honestly fresh honey and some thawed frozen fruit mixed together. The juice that comes out and the tenderness of the thaw is off putting in some places but works beautifully as a syrup substitute. I prefer over maple.
Me: “I have heard of tonka beans before… must’ve been from my ex (professional chef)”.
Me after seeing the news blurb: 👀👀👀 (that’s the restaurant he interned at).
I demand a vid of you eating casu martzu. Never heard of it before but now i don't think i could go on living without seeing you try it.
My grandma used to boil the milk for breakfast, even if it was pasteurized milk bought at the supermarket. It an habit she inherited from living in a farm for most of her life.
As a Frenchman who grew up with kinder surprises, I was always surprised and amused by the very idea that an American could choke on the toy in the egg.
Seriously, in europe, the first thing kids do is break the egg in half along the dividing line.
Some even build the toy even before eating the egg.
The very idea of someone jumping on the egg and devouring the egg starvingly without looking at it, crushing it, or playing with it is strange to me.
Fun to see the flip side of your "banned foods" video!
Good illustration of OLD laws that need to be relooked at and likely changed/updated with current information.
I'd love to see you do a colab with the Lost in the Pond guy (name's blanking on me at the moment). He came from England and has moved to America and he does a lot of America/England comparison or things I only learned since moving there sort of videos. Obviously you're on opposite sides of the pond now but maybe a web cam style convo of various little things you've experienced differently or something like that would be interesting, I think.
His name is Laurence Brown
@@racheljones1634 Yep, that's him. Thanks!
The thing about foie gras is that it happens in nature anyway, kinda. Geese don't have humans putting a funnel down their throat and piping food in, true, but geese go foraging before they migrate, gorging themselves to eat more than they usually would so they have a thick layer of fat around their liver which, when they're flying for days at a time, heading to Africa for the summer, they can convert the fat to energy and don't need to feed while flying over the sea.
lots of things that are banned because "it could hurt you or kill you" hits the 2 parts of my personality where I go "that makes sense, but sometimes if you're that stupid to eat something you know will kill you in amounts that will kill you, then it's your own goddamn fault"
Too many idiots today don't know that too much sugar causes diabetes over time, basically a slow acting poison. So how much or how long is the divider line between banning a poison that works slow or fast? Think carefully. Cigarettes, Lead, Asbestos all where at one time not banned.
@Terra Firma you do know you need sugars in some form right? Diabetes comes from 2 parts, genetic predisposition, and your diet/exercise routine. I know people who ate terribly and didn't have diabetes, but people who were still relatively active and got it. Sugar isn't a "slow-acting poison". Stop with the new age hippy dippy nonsense
@@agoddamnferret No, you stop your ignoramous nonsense. Your body does not need you to consume any sugar to live. Study about nutrition bro
@@terrafirma9328 only ignoramus are people who go on and on about how everything is bad for you, and 'we were healthier in the past'blah blah blah blah
If you are willing to try Casu Marzu, you might also like to try German Milbenkäse, a historical regional speciality in parts of Thuringia. It uses mites to ripen the cheese and you eat the mites as part of the cheese. It's safe, but also in a legal grey area.
Kites are so small you can’t see them at least. There are actually mites living on your skin and in your bed eating your old skin
I feel like Evan woke up and chose violence. He was scarred by rotten cheese and decided we also needed to be scarred.
While horse meat is perhaps not as common as beef, chicken, pork or lamb, it's not uncommon to see it sold, at least not in Sweden. It's readily available as sandwich meat in most stores I frequent (often named "Hamburger meat", as in meat from Hamburg, though that's an inherited title for a way of preparing it for consumption), and my local butcher carries horse meat, though the nice cuts are so outrageously expensive that I've never considered trying it.
I think the scandal that happened, which was also a thing in Sweden, I don't know if we imported frozen food from the same manufacturer or if it was just a general scare that maybe if it happened in the UK it could happen here as well, but I think it's mostly about your food containing something not specified on the label, as well as if they are filling it up with horse meat it's probably not that super expensive fine stuff that they are adding.
I just learned that I should probably lower my (currently very high) daily consumption of cinnamon…😅
It is only cassia cinnamon which contains coumarin. Ceylon cinnamon is fine.. You can look up the information yourself and make your decision.
You could go as Shaggy this Halloween 🎃 all you need is a camo green t- shirt and bell bottom jeans 👖 😂
“I’m done with the sheep puns, he said sheepishly.” - ewe did not go there: baaaaaaa-d Evan, baaaaaaa-d Evan.
😜
He was really ramming those puns down our throats.
In Finland, 3-5 years old children usually break a chocolate egg because it's fun for them and then eat it piece by piece, after which a plastic capsule remains, which they ask their parents to open because they can't open it themselves. Older children already know how to open the capsule themselves, but over time they lose their attraction to feather eggs. In Finland, maybe something is done right when chocolate eggs are never given directly to children who are under 3 years old, and 3-year-old children already know what they can eat and what they can't eat.
But one thing that the EU could ban is the Swedish fermented fish Surströmming, whose smell is so strong that it easily causes people to feel sick and vomit, and the smell of the Surströmming can that has been opened indoors is not easily removed and you have to smell it inside for a week or longer if the can is not opened outside.
I think the taboo about horse meat is mostly in the english-speaking world. I've hadn't had much horse meat in my life because it's often rare and expensive but there is no particular taboo about it. I grew up in a town where in the countryside just a bit south east of it there is a village/meat factory, famous for it's horse meat salami. It wasn't my favorite, I prefer smoked ham, but it's ok on a sandwich. Just a bit too expensive for everyday consumption.
I agree. I grew up in Finland riding horses and eating horse meat salami too. My biggest issue with horse meat is the inhumane transportation those animals are put through in many places, and that mainly happens because horse meat isn't popular enough, so many slaughter houses won't accept horses. In many ways I'd much rather eat an animal that I've known to have a reasonably nice life than a factory farmed chicken or pig.
In Slovenia, we have a chain of horse burger fast food places, and my local market has a stall specifically for (young) horse meat. There's not a specific taboo against eating it, but some people do think horses are too cute to eat
Absolutely. In the English speaking parts of Canada, people are (broadly) horrified by the idea of eating horse, but in Quebec it's not uncommon and they sell it in the supermarkets.
It's also kind of a thing in certain Scandinavian countries. Horses were often sacrificed and eaten as part of pagan culture, but when Scandinavia became Christian, the Pope banned eating horse meat, because it was associated with a heathen practice. I guess the Italians were allowed to eat horse because they had no history of sacrificing it before eating it? But horse meat became a taboo food for many years. There's even a few super old sayings in my language (Danish) which say that eating horse meat is like eating from the Devil. Even if we're no longer very religious, many people don't eat it because we no longer have a cultural history of eating horse meat. You can get it from a few butchers here in Denmark, but it's a rare find.
Raw milk isn’t illegal in my state but you have to buy it directly from a farmer at his dairy. You can’t get it other places. However there are very dairies in my state so make of that what you will. 😂
Evan: “Choosing to live in Arizona is about the least sensible thing you can do.”
Ohio: “Am I not a joke to you?”
At least it rains there? 😅
Meanwhile Florida sitting in the corner, chewing their crayons...
We at least have seasons in Ohio.
Anything you put together is fun and informative, like the BBC you inform educate and entertain. Thank you.😊🤗👍
In Sweden we have horsemeat as cold cuts on our sandwiches. Not super common but definitely available in most stores. But honestly, horsemeat is very delicious. I have been to Kazakhstan where it is very common to eat horsemeat and it was tender and mild and just great to eat. So I feel it is a bit of a social thing to ban horsemeat, not so much to do with wether the meat is any good or not. Like how cow meat is banned in India. We in the west clearly couldn't care less about that.
In Bulgaria, it is most popular among "gymbros" but everyone says you need a second type of meat like pork because it is too dry and they mostly eat it in meatballs.
Regarding CASU MARTZU
Cheese, pickles and other preserves are the product of centuries of trying to survive on our own.
In southern Greece they make a feta variant called sfela, in northern Greece we call that EXPIRED, but they didn't have a choice and they still eat it today and consider it a delicacy.
America: Don't over feed those ducks, it's cruel
America: Hey kids here's a burger meal with a gallon of soda for $5
$15.
@@KomboEzaliTe You're not too far off with what people have to pay to get a burger/ chicken sandwich combo meal at most fast food restaurants.
Last week, I went into Burger King and walked right next door to KFC/Taco Bell 🔔 and for $5 and some change, I got a 🌮 supreme meal. Both restaurants are across the street from me. A whopper meal would've been $14+/tax.
its only just banned in a few states
The cheapest type of "cinnamon" in every shop is not real cinnamon, but cassia bark. Much cheaper and what you normally get if you buy ground "cinnamon", and it contains far more cumarin than the the real cinnamon. Doesn't even taste as good. But it's legal all around the world.
I grew up on Unpasturiesed milk, deliverd direct from the farm!
7:56 the biggest joke is that you are still allowed to booster cookies and such with sawdust
Thanks for the info re: the kinder eggs.
The "kinder" law was created after Lucky Luck. It appeared when Ma Dalton started putting files in the cakes the help escape her sons from prison. I swear on it!
Our son was born "lactose intolerant" , but turned out that wasn't quite true. He was intolerant to the pasteurising process used for most milk, so we all drank raw milk for ten years or so. It was quite a shock going back to pasteurised milk (less of a pia to find) as it tastes "weird".
I love how Americans add more flavour to food by using additives, while Europeans add more flavour to food by just letting it rot.
I'm in the US, born and raised, and I did not know the Kinder Egg was banned. You could have fooled me since I feel like I've seen them in stores. AND we used to have another type of chocolate ball with a hidden toy that I would have growing up (although I can't remember it's name since it's been about 20 years). Maybe it's another weird California thing 🤷♀️
The wonder ball!