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Testing Struggle Meals That Became Luxury Foods
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- Published on Apr 14, 2026
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Someday beans and rice will be a luxury food, and when that day comes, we're fucked.
Shoot we'll be in major trouble when hotdogs and baked beans are a luxury
Well, in turn a5 wagyu will be poor people food.
Cassoulet exists. The french already got the beans.
According to a news outlet *rotisserie chicken* is a luxury food. Y'know, the thing that costs *less* than just buying a whole bird at most stores
Luxury natural ingredients
The thought process for eating snails was likely a struggling farmer who had snails eating his crops and went full, "You eat my food, I eat you."
😂😂
I guarantee that was part of it
Relatable.
It was probably someone who was so hungry they were willing to eat anything they could find in the dirt.
You might be the first person in human history to make a chicken sandwich with dino nuggies, blini, and caviar. Only a depressed bachelor could come up with such a culinary tour de force.
This comment is amazing 😂
Right there it was anything but "blini" maybe that's why he called them more like "Bellinies"
Also "blini" are thin and wide, little puffy ones in this vid are more like to be "oladi"
@chelobanga2964*bliny.
It's actually just "blin" (блин).
The "i" sound at the end is the Cyrillic character "ы" which denotes plurality, like an "s" added to the end of a noun in English ("pancake" vs "pancakes").
Anyway, the point is that if you're typing the rest of the word with English characters, then the plural should be "blins."
@chelobanga2964 If you're going to type "blin" in English then the plural should be "blins"
"блин" = pancake
"блины" = pancakes (plural)
"оладьи" = a pancake made specifically with buttermilk or kefir
As a french person I can confirm french people only eat escargot to have an excuse to eat half a litre of compound butter soaked up with baguette. No one gives a damn about those snails
the snail is disgusting and has the worst texture, the sauce though is heavenly
@Imb@Imblu95they just taste like a mushroom. Disgusting is a stretch. But yeah the butter is the best part.
Understandable, have a nice day.
Caviar is actually disgusting. Stupid trend. I trust the later queen of England’s menu she never ate anything weird due to trends. Kind of interesting actually
@NoxLegend1 It's actually not. (Notice anything?)
7:01 "Cold water doesn't make a difference" and then cuts to the noodles being soggy because you used cold water
He literally just learned that key to good cooking is patience, when making sushi. literally the no cook foods.
>says "us peasants"
>has pearl caviar spoon
something doesn't add up
those usually come with the caviar
@FlameDarkfire I wouldn't know
I always knew he was rich as fuck. Who gets a pearl caviar set for xmas? lmao
They're like 10 for $5 if you shop at the right ethnic market
A quick Amazon search will reveal that you can get a pearl caviar spoon set for like 20 bucks lol
FutureCanoe you ain't slick, we all know you just wanted to eat caviar and lobster as a video idea
hi justin
here already ?
as a tax write off too
damn... future canoe used to be the relatable home cooking channel. Now McScrooging on us. He's lost his ways
Our boi just wants the tax writeoff
FutureCanoe: [Makes a dish including heavily salted-pork, squid ink, and Parmesan cheese]
FutureCanoe: Not a single gram of salt in this dish
lol, that occurred to me, too.
Pretty sure that meant he didn’t add any additional salt that wasn’t in the ingredients already.
@enlongjones2394I’m pretty sure that’s what he MEANT, but that’s not what he SAID.
@anna9072 okay.
@anna9072right after he made that comment he says "and yet its perfectly salted"......so yes he did
17:03
*has sushi rolling mat
*rolls by hand anyways
*it's shit anyways
Hell yeah
13:35 not canoe casually droppin date lores
Like she "identifies"as a woman.
he kept meantioning it lil bro was so proud
There's something especially ironic about that "this is the smallest egg I've ever seen" about the chicken egg... with the tin of fish eggs *right there*.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
they hated lobster because they degrade so quickly after death (hence why theyre often kept alive!) and would be horribly ammonia ridden by the time they got to whatever prison
Interesting with how much disrespect we treat a meat that's very common, and now we make sure it doesnt die a milisecond before cooking to not ruin the flavor.
@ionpopescu3167 or maybe just so it doesn’t have an ammonia smell and flavor.
@ionpopescu3167 get your hippy dumbass shit out of here dude. Every meat that you buy at a store was alive at one point. I think it's more respectful to end your food yourself, you can't beat fresh.
Gradually boil the lobster
@leebratina1089 have a friend in culinary school at the moment. he cooks a lot with shellfish (and seafood in general). you don't need to boil the lobster alive, you just need to kill it right before you boil it to not get the ammonia taste/smell. they don't decompose that fast.
now, if we're talking about crawfish... that's different, because you're usually boiling so many at once, so it makes sense not to kill them before tossing them in.
13:20 - bro made an absolutely STUNNING picture-worthy Paella and then had to balance the vibes out by going at it with a broken plastic spoon
I'm both astounded and not surprised at all
The only thing he got right about the paella, is the plastic spoon
For the record - I'm aware that paella is a recipe that people are very specific about, so I'm not claiming this one is a perfect one, just saying that visually it's very pretty. Comparing to all the other "charred" creations on this channel, it might as well be an art piece
@GroovyFrog420in Spain we'd call this arroz con cosas, I think the only things that actually are in a real paella is the chicken and rice, maybe a bit of tomato puree for seasoning.
A real paella obviously doesn't have chorizo, prawns, onion and peppers.
@GroovyFrog420 yeh, the thing is that most people do boiled rice with stuff and call it paella, and sadly its not it. Its like having the whole world making cold blt with cheese sandwiches and calling them pizza. It has bread, cheese and tomato, but nothing else is the same, so its sad for us that no one gets to try paella, since they believe that blt with cheese to be the real thing.
@Alderaeney There are variations. I believe theres the rabbit paella, and the seafood paella, and in that one there would be prawns. But yeh, you wouldnt mix prawns.. or anything with chorizo. Chorizo overpowers everything.
17:22 the instagram comments would have been wild😆😆
hey man you've probably been getting this a lot by now but your grind is very admirable and i'm grateful to have you as my #1 foodtuber channel to watch while having dinner. not just for the distraction, but your outro segments genuinely put a smile on my face and are at times the only real joy i have in my day.
please don't stray away from who you are, you have something truly special here and it would be a shame to see you turn into foodtuber#3847. thank you.
Hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic
It dot ton meaning in Hebrew brother is making shit up😂
@GreatTaiwan
Gee, we couldn’t tell he was making stuff up. Thank goodness we have you to call him out on it! 🤪
Beef bones have gotten insanely expensive thanks to social media's obsession with bone broth and roasted bone marrow. I distinctly remember my Grandma going to the Butcher and getting FREE beef bones in a bag(she made THE BEST soups with roasted beef bone broth). Now grocery stores are selling 3 little sections of of beef leg bone for like $10.00. That's insane.. from free to expensive in like 20 years.
Even organ meat (like tripe??? why??) that used to be cheap AF is getting expensive. I work as a butcher for a local chain and it kills me how much we even charge for pigs feet these days.
Ikr! Here in india the bones would be free af. My mum used to make soup from it (not beef or pork tho ) because i was anaemic. And now because everyone wants it because it's popular it's super expensive😭😭
Barbacoa is like this. Its the cow head/cheek. You used to be able to buy the whole head for cheap but now its a lot more popular to eat so prices of barbacoa has skyrocketed.
It's time to start eating the rich
@Karadoxicalbahahaaaaaaa You win the internet today 👏
6:26 looks like it missed February... We're now in March after all.
Well he didn't state the year
ruclips.net/user/shortsh1gadLQ-5Ww?is=eYPLcDNLMdmYC442 sure 😅😅
Back in the day they served lobsters by crushing the meat with the shell on and serving it together as a paste. That's obviously garbage which is why even prisoners rioted against eating it.
Do you guys eat your lobster with or without the peel?
@CyanCyborg-v8zboth
Exactly, lot of these foods DID used to suck. These lazy RUclipsrs always leave this part out of the lobster factor.
@bannedmann4469so the difference between old lobster nd new lobster is the crushed shell
Still dont see why the fuck lobster is so expensive nd sought after nowadays
@KryptoKn8 It's just an excuse to eat a bunch of butter!
I will say, when he was shuffling around for the pearl caviar spoon, I thought he was going to return with a plastic spoon.
"that'll be 300 dollars sir" 21:20
Testing medieval peasent foods next🤓
Peasant*
Alot of these were peasant foods lol.
Do all the Tasting History foods.
@r2dezki ball knower
My tayta used to have her own falafel shop in our village. She’d make more than 5 kilos of chickpeas worth of falafel per day, and she’d give out whatever was left to neighbors and friends at the end of the day. She used to wrap the falafel in our Lebanese khebez, with some spicy taratour (tahini with lemon and garlic, it comes out creamier than tahini), cilantro, tomato, picked radish, and pickled wild cucumber (they were drier than your typical cucumber, denser and had ridges along the length)
I miss her, it’s been four years since my lovely Yvette passed. Love from Lebanon 🇱🇧
sounds like she was a sweet lady. i bet her cooking was incredible :) i know my palestinian tayta's was.
4:22 hummus means chickpeas in Arabic :D
What does humus mean?
@Larryland209 Organic material of which digestible parts have already been broken down
i love how he folded to the Israeli propaganda so quick
@Bombastic_vibes yeah I really like FutureCanoe but that was very distasteful. As a Palestinian, Israel has takes credit for some arabic food which is insane and a form of culture removal. It's not that bad in this case as it's rare to see someone say falafel originated from Palestine but yeah.
@RieMUisthegoaT Yeah, it's not like Jews were kicked out of Arab countries as retaliation to formation of Israel. Totally rational and humane response. As if there was a history of Arab nations oppressing Jews before Israel was formed.
the word hummus, comes from the arabic word himas(or hummus depends on what dialect your speaking). which means chickpeas
2:53 imagine an 80 year old country trying to claim a food that's 1000 years old, actually insane
they'll steal a house from a native, why not their food?
The recipe was promised to them 3000 years ago
1:14 Shirt hangers getting boiled
4:01 bro cannot imagine the humble grinding stone lol
He is beyond human comprehension.
11:00
Spanish people are having a heart attack... La madre que le parió, poniendo chorizo a una paella!! 😂
Lobster was served to prisoners way back not because it was “poor man’s food”, but because it was at that time so plentiful it was said that lobster literally washed up on beaches like shells after a storm. They made fertilizer out of lobster - fertilizer. It was a near zero cost meal.
3:20 in egypt we make falafel from beans not hummus
That fact he used peas instead of all purpose flour itself is a huge improvement
And they are a struggle meal what do you mean luxury 😂
Hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic
It dot ton meaning in Hebrew brother is making shit up😂
20:40 absolutely the first time someone has ever used tweezers to place a dino bite on film
Can you blame him though? 😂
called a dino nuggie XD
I love how many emotions in his voice we can hear.
at least two!
It's too much I wish he would stop doing that
oh yeah such a commoner "like us" with his personal caviar spoon
"It doesn't smell 'that' bad" are not words I would be comfortable using for chicken I'm planning on eating, lol.
3:03 as an Egyptian i guess it did originate from Egypt, but here we tend to remix each other’s food, so it is hard to identify where it exactly came from. Nevertheless, in Egypt we use fava beans to make falafel and fun fact we don’t even call it falafel, instead we call it Ta3myah. (Ta’ameya). Falafel is more commonly used in levant countries and gulf countries as well. And in Levant counties they use hummus (chickpeas) to make falafel. But it most definitely didn’t originate from Israel 😂😂. Almost all Israelis are from European countries (literally the prime minister is from Poland and changed his name to sound more ‘ethnic' 💀) or the US that steal from our culture to ‘try' to ‘fit in’, but technically they’re actually colonizing palestines. Also idk about the whole hummus story thingy, hummus just means chickpeas in Arabic.💀😭
yea we can very quickly take israel out of the competition for who invented falafel. but as they are doing with the land, they are attempting to reappropriate the culture. in fact, israeli 'cuisine' could even be said to be an extension of their genocidal culture of reapprorpriation.
6:34 the ides of March, RIP Julius Caesar
I'm only just now putting 2 and 2 together and realising why Julius Caesar videos popped up in my feed recently
Et tu Brut😨
14:16 - "Mysterious Whitefish" was my nickname in high school.
Why? 😶
Iykyk
21:26 I think technically this counts as a surf n turf.
Bro did not just pull a McDonald's CEO on us at 21:20
Chorizo in paella is pure rage-bait, ask Jamie Olive Oil
5:04 nahh dude, the true street food way of serving falafel (in Egypt) is in disposable paper that's similar to newspaper's papers
Hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic
It dot ton meaning in Hebrew brother is making shit up😂
@GreatTaiwan what does this info have to do with my comment??
He did use a disposable paper plate
@Laci11280 yeah I know, I meant the normal way they serve it in Egypt as a street food. They use disposable news papers, not paper plates
1:34 I think rainbolt is gonna find you bro!
7:30 Okay but healthy food tasting weird on purpose has to be a psy-op
It is, it's basically two pronged psychology, If you can't virtue signal it it's just meant to demoralize you into giving up and just eating a big mac because "Healthy food tastes bad".
If you "acquire" the taste it's to signal to you that it's "Totes healthy" because it tastes like sun dried emu knees therefore it's good for you (It's often horrible for you it's just branded healthy)
Meanwhile not advertised as health food real food with just balanced amounts of ingredients and no mega processed crap (including the oils) tastes good and is healthy enough for you unless you are power slamming 3K calories of anything a day.
No it’s just that fat and salt and sugar taste good
Alcoholic Girlfriend 😭
Bro doesn't hold back on his Gf😭😂
My boy canoe can legit cook, I always forget that part fr😭
20:20 just gonna put this here
13:57 Guess who made jambalaya...
Louisiana 😭😭
@fam0us.m0net83 Spanish settlers in Louisiana trying to make paella
@PunishedKeyes so like previously stated… Louisiana
@fam0us.m0net83ah yes. I remember that day. When Louisiana grew gigantic arms and started attempting to make Paella.
@Rafy-e1dtrying to call me a dumbass whilst trying to prove your point by thinking I literally meant the state as a whole”body” made jambalaya gtfo
My grandfather grew up in Rhode Island, he moved to the Midwest after marriage. He refused to eat lobster as that was a huge staple of his diet while growing up because it was so cheap at the time.
Avocado toast and avocados in general being so expensive is one of the craziest things to me because my mom grew up eating "pan con palta" (bread with avocado) in Peru becasue her family didn't have a lot of money and avocados were dirt cheap and now brunch places out here serving it for like $30+ for some toast 😵💫
the trick to eating caviar is eating a really really small amount of it at once
Thank youuu. Falafel did originate in Egypt,indeed. Ours is made from beans tho not chickpeas. The Chickpeas one is the Syrian version. (The main idea is Egyptian tho)
chickpeas are beans tho...
@nobodyqwertyu Specifically fava beans but egyptians just call it beans.
Hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic
It dot ton meaning in Hebrew brother is making shit up😂
Way to call out the alchoholic date and the bellinni mould buddy.
Fine french cuisine is a perfect example. Everything is from the butcher's scrap pile or the local pond. The only thing Peasants could eat before the revolution. Now served at rip off prices.
"I ate garbage yesterday and it didn't cost me $50"
-Zoidberg.
3:16 Authentic Egyptian falafel uses peeled fava beans but anyway good video
21:26 childhood memories of my parents getting a divorce😭😭😭
I’m dying😂 bro said an egg has the potential to become chicken 23:10
17:47 lol using the qr code as ragebait
6:39
So, you blaming em?
6:12 We got HAMZA ALI MAZARI on futurecanoe video. Peak datailing by aditya dhar
"look! snail is eating that plant! try it to see if its good"
*eats the snail*
"i was talking about the plant you idiot!"
Fun fact:
My godmother was Sicilian, and she lived there during WW2. She told me how she had to hide in caves with her family to avoid shelling/bombing, and she *hated* “the black pasta. Was all we could eat! In a cave we cook that black pasta” -as close to a direct quote as I can remember.
2:48 ...yeah bro is cooked!!! If he goes missing yall would know what's up!!
You can never tell with canoe it could be anything this comment to him butchering recipes 😂
10:00
Desperation.
The reason crab and lobster are “luxury” now is because the poor people that ate them worked harder than the people born into riches who then fell into poverty because they were lazy, and the poor people became the wealthy ones, and they decided to keep their shelled foods because they loved it, and now it’s expensive
This video was amazing!
THAT KOREAN PACKAGE RICE IS GOATED!!! It saved me during my deployments! It is the best packaged rice that you can get.
20:30 the precise moment you needed to scrape a knife along the top of the dino nuggies box for the ASMR as if you're showing off a creme brule or pork shoulder crust.
Eating lobster and caviar as a “Self-Employment Tax” 😭😭
GeniusCanoe
Most Egyptian falafel are made with fava beans not chickpeas
12:29 💁🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️💁🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
19:16 That story telling part is so untypical that it’s kinda typical for FutureCnoe again 😭
Nephew Canoe about to hear from Uncle Roger soon because he spoke positively about Jamie Oliver.
Uncle roger get angry when he hears about Jamie
14:27 ONE ONION!?
As an Italian I'm Just Happy you made Italia food! also the amatriciana looked good! Love from puglia!
Long form Canoe is good for the soul.
4:39 drop it in... Breaks it instead 😂😂
22:34 bro finally made a good looking eggs
We say "socarrat" in Valencian the language of the region where paella is from. It is not a word in Spanish.
Real food will become a luxury someday💀
"Cold water made no difference" "the noodle is fragile than normal ramen" Yeah, I wonder why.
FutureCanoe x Tasting History collab when
lol never
That’d be terrifying
Don't forget to write this off on your taxes, homie
14:38 “The dill from the fennel”
😂
Hummus sounds legit. Man man dirt
Jamie Oliver helped Uncle Roger start a restaurant by cooking Asian cuisine.
17:30 right... 😶
23:00 bro just saying random shit
Future just joined Jamie Oliver and insulted the Spanish by including chorizo in his paella 😂😂
4:24 okay so like hummus is an Arabic word that just means chickpeas…
The grapefruit was a nugget of unexpected gold
2:44 FC is now trying dangerous things other than having spoilt food and mould 😂😂😂
In medieval times, they did sketchy stuff in french castles
Did yall know one day canoe woke up and said “I wanna eat snails today” with a big grin
"us peasants"
casually uses saffron
saying Jamie Oliver is a good chef has to be the most heinous amount of words possible
Don't use a metal spoon on caviar but it comes in a metal container.
0:55 the stray piece bouncing out of the pan is so distracting😅😂
you finally posted brudaa you had me watching ur vids from 3 yrs ago
4:14 John, get the hummus
modern canoe will find literally any excuse to make a "watch me eat luxury food" video