he likes weird food yeah where's eating his weird food tonight argentina morocco akron ohio when it comes to food we hear about weird stuff going on all the time but just because it sounds fake doesn't mean that it is here are 15 bizarre food facts that are hard to believe i said no lies i think he's telling the truth ketchup was medicine did we take too much cold medicine going back to the early 1800s people strongly believed that ketchup had medicinal qualities this was all thanks to dr john cook bennett who in 1834 added tomatoes
to ketchup claiming it could cure diseases like diarrhea indigestion rheumatism and jaundice this belief led to a 15-year period during which tomato sauce was sold as a form of medication i'm gonna get you the finest medical treatment available crazy to think that nowadays most doctors would tell you to stay away from ketchup due to the health hazards but back then they would have prescribed it to you a little later the tomato ketchup recipe was turned into a tomato pill and the market for ketchup as medicine had collapsed by the 1850s people just couldn't resist putting
the sweet stuff on their food and it became one of the leading condiments all over the world okay be careful that stuff's addictive humans and bananas share dna your dna test shows one living relative we often like to imagine that as human beings we're the superior species because we're so different from the rest of the fauna and flora but surprise we're not that different as we share about 60 of our dna with bananas okay we're not saying that people are actually more than half banana but we do share some similarities between all the living things
on earth including plants it's not my decision it's mother nature our genes are composed of over three billion building blocks which are surprisingly not that unique and out of those billions sixty percent are identical to that of a banana the other 40 percent well let's just say it's different enough to make us who we are i'm a banana i'm a banana fear of peanut butter weird really weird as it turns out there are some people who are afraid of peanut butter but not because it doesn't taste good iraqi butatrophobia is the fear of peanut butter
sticking to the roof of your mouth sure no one likes to have that pasty sticky feeling preventing you from swallowing but to have an irrational fear of it that's a whole other story even though the odds of an adult choking on peanut butter are extremely low it doesn't stop the symptoms from being triggered no chance there's always a chance including heart palpitations uncontrollable anxiety and a fight or flight response when you're in a situation involving peanut butter this very rare phobia might seem a bit extreme for avid peanut butter lovers but just remember this the
chances of peanut butter killing you might be low but they're never zero what's the most you ever lost on a coin toss sir there's a black market for cheese there it is the black market everyone's heard of the black market you know where you can get that fancy watch with no questions asked however we bet most of you didn't know there was a black market for cheese indeed cheese is surprisingly enough the most stolen food in the world but why why does about four percent of all cheese made around the globe an estimated 90.6 million
tons end up stolen we're a choice but for you i got it done easy the high demand easy disposal and it's easy to conceal in recent years there have been some seriously daring cheese heists that made a lot of money for the thieves grocery stores lock up your cheese and people guard that stuff like it's treasure this is good cheese get off my cheese beer was once a soft drink light beer less calories enjoying a beer on a friday night out with your friends is something completely normal and accepted basically it's a good casual drink
that should only be consumed in moderation in russia however up until 2011 they didn't have that standard until then beer and any other alcohol under 10 abv were classified as a soft drink and could be consumed on the streets and in parks just like soda so do you guys drink beer it was sold everywhere soda was sold like at public transport stops gas stations and airports and could even be purchased by teenagers it was former russian president dmitry medvedev who signed the bill to classify beer as an alcoholic beverage in order to control its sale
today you can still see people on the streets with a beer in hand but at least now they've acknowledged that it's not as harmless as soda would you rather have beer or complete and utter contentment what kind of beer food and bugs why why are you whispering i ate a bug we hate to break it to you but you've most likely already eaten bugs at some point without even realizing it that's because according to the fda it's economically impractical and almost impossible to grow harvest or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous naturally
occurring unavoidable defects in other words they can't stop insects from potentially getting in the food you eat and getting rid of all of them would be too expensive you don't understand doing this stuff is very expensive in ground cinnamon for instance there could be an average of 400 insect fragments per 50 grams and chocolate can have no more than 60 insect fragments per 100 grams of course your food can contain a whole lot more gross stuff but some things are better left unsaid let's keep this our little secret food on a plane tastes different yeah
that's why i hate plants okay everybody knows that if you're flying in coach your food won't taste that great or at least it won't taste like anything you would eat if you were on the ground and while yes it might have something to do with the quality of the food sometimes that's not the reason sometimes it's simply because altitude changes your body chemistry how does it work basically like the air inside the plane your body is pressurized which directly affects your senses like smell and taste you're making it too complicated the combination of dryness and
low pressure can reduce the sensitivity of your taste buds by around 30 percent mostly involving sweet and salty foods if you truly want to taste something while you're on a plane try to go with sour bitter and spicy flavors that should get your taste buds going nuts now baby this should tickle your taste buds white chocolate is not chocolate that's impossible obviously it probably won't come as such a surprise to hear that white chocolate isn't actually chocolate yes the name is deceiving since white chocolate doesn't have any components of regular chocolate it's simply a mix
of sugar milk vanilla lecithin and cocoa butter that contains no cocoa particles whatsoever the world will never be the same what it's also missing are compounds that are supposedly responsible for the pleasure-giving effects of chocolate maybe that's why chocoholics cravings are never satisfied by white chocolate but nevertheless technically white chocolate can not qualify as chocolate there he is there's a trader trainer popsicles were invented by accident this is the greatest action of my life is there anything better on a hot day than a sweet cool popsicle the most impressive fact about these little gems is
that they were actually invented by an 11 year old boy from the bay area back in the early 1900s young frank epperson accidentally left a mixture of soda and water with a wooden stick outside in a cup overnight hey sleepy bear what time is it since it was a cold night the mixture froze and the world was changed forever he began selling them around his neighborhood and as he grew up he expanded his sails by the 1920s to neptune beach an amusement park nearby they were sold under the name epsicles until his children started calling
them pops sickles and the rest is history well every journey has to start somewhere fake wasabi i got wasabi in places where one should never get wasabi who else here has made the mistake of chowing down on the little green paste that comes with sushi plates unaware of the consequences yep probably more than one but it might surprise you to learn that all this time most wasabi you've encountered even at fancy authentic japanese restaurants was fake indeed over 99 of wasabi sold in the united states and 95 of wasabi sold in japan is fake nothing
that we had was real well it was all fake instead of the real thing most restaurants and grocery stores will sell a mix of horseradish mustard powder and food coloring to make you feel like you're eating real wasabi this is mostly because of how rare challenging to make and expensive wasabi actually is since wasabi usually comes for free at restaurants offering the real thing would simply be impossible so chances are you don't actually know what real wasabi tastes like wow that's interesting not all wine is vegan three speaking police vegan police you would think that
with grapes as the main ingredient wine being vegan would be a no-brainer however it turns out that a lot of wines aren't as innocent as we thought it's all about how the wine is clarified and a process called fining wine producers will usually use finding agents to help the clarifying process along the only problem the agents often used are casein milk protein albumin egg whites gelatin animal protein and issuing glass fish bladder protein what are you trying to say these cannot of course be considered vegan or even vegetarian friendly which is why you should always
be wary of the kind of wine you buy at least these days most producers are choosing to let the wine self-clarify and self-stabilize by themselves which means a step forward in making the majority of wines vegan it's good to know popcorn at the movies isn't universal he's kidding popcorn when you go to the movie theater and you're feeling a little peckish popcorn is probably your go-to snack right but as common as movie popcorn is in america on the grand scale things are quite different if you go out for a movie night in colombia for example
or miga colona aka dried ants will be the snack of choice imagine reaching for your date's hand in a bucket of ants oh my god i ate an ant oh i just ate another one at south korean concession stands the star is dried cuttlefish which is also popular in other asian countries as well as roasted chestnuts in china salted plums which are dehydrated and pickled sunflower seeds prunes and dried shredded squid all stand in for popcorn of course you can always munch on your favorite pretzels nachos and m m's but just know that you'll probably
have to bring them yourself don't forget to give us your extra snacks because as you know we work for peanuts there's a twelve thousand dollar pizza pizza no i don't want pizza the most expensive pizza in the world believe it or not clocks in at 12 000 the louis xiii pizza was created in salerno italy by renato viola for a very select crowd the hefty price tag comes from both the premium ingredients it's made with and the 72 hours it takes to prepare i can't wait that long the chef will show up at your house
ready to make the beast with three types of caviar buffalo mozzarella seven other types of cheese lobster mantis shrimp prawns and australian pink salt the feast also comes with a bottle of brandy and a bottle of the rarest most expensive cognac on the market this will probably set you back a lot more than your usual domino's order that's for sure i got a little something special for you ranch is died i lied to my father i lied to myself it's no secret that in america we eat ranch with everything wings fries and even pizza the
only thing that might make some people stop eating the sweet nectar could be its ingredients list more precisely the thing they put into making it whiter you see ranch dressing contains titanium dioxide an ingredient often used in body care items such as face lotions and sunscreens as well as paint it does sound a little dangerous while the fda allows titanium dioxide to be in food without exceeding one percent of the product there are some studies linking ranch and inflammation of the gut the good news is that even though this occurs in most brands of ranch
and other white hued dressings like caesar you can always check on the label to see if it's listed check it double check him triple check him quadruple accidental tea bags you don't have any tea bags or coffee grounds to go in the hot water do you it's true that not everybody loves using tea bags as they feel like they're almost blasphemous but you've got to admit they make preparing tea a lot easier simply add hot water and enjoy your tea without any bits of loose leaves and funnily enough this creation was invented completely by accident
it dates back to the early 1900s in milwaukee when mary mullerin and roberta lawson were looking for a way to bruise smaller quantities of tea without having to waste the leaves needed to brew a whole pot just think about just be smart they came up with a cotton mesh bag but the idea failed miserably after a few years the gauze bag sent out by thomas sullivan to sell his tea samples finally took off and we got the version of tea bags that we know and almost all love today in the 1950s when kitchen duties became
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