Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than is explained here. They are caught, the fins are cut off of the living shark, and the quadruple-amputee shark is thrown back in the water, still alive.
That seems really innefficient; there's so much meat on that shark that could be used. There ought to be some legislative action to heavily tax sharkfins sold unpaired with sufficient regular sharkmeat so as to mandate full efficiency-there's less time and space to kill sharks if you need to use the whole thing!, so there could be just as much meat without threatening the extinction as much.
If it isn't Jaws being the number 1 reason people are killing sharks, it's maybe 1 bite of food that is tasteless. Nice. Also what the fuck is up with all the types of food that ""requires"" the animal to be alive during a horrible process? I really doubt throwing a live bird in a jar of liquid does anything else but get someone's rocks off.
Nope, both photorealistic. Difference is that things still look real after a lobotomy, things look all wobbly when you’re loaded up on date rape drugs. Source: I’m a lobotomy patient with a belly full of roofies.
In Brazil, we got Maniçoba, a salted meat stew made with cassava leaves that are highly poisonous and need to be cooked for seven days straight to be safe. The best thing is people say that the taste is very similar to Feijoada, a bean and meat stew that is not poisonous and takes a normal amount of time to cook, so why would go for Maniçoba is a mystery.
When I hear about food like this I always wonder what circumstances led to its discovery - like how many people died until someone figured out if you just boil the *shit* outta these leaves you *might* make it long enough to go "oh yeah, tasty"
I pray for Sams return because as much as I am happy to rewatch these videos 100 times over and over but nothing hits more than seeing a new upload on here
"I've got better shit to do" No but Fr I bet since he makes vids so far apart a mic isn't really in his thoughts. And I personally didn't notice much wrong except maybe a slight echo
Yeah, I caught that too. In my book, he really should’ve been there for one of the others. They were all WAY grosser than shark fin soup (even that fruit didn’t look very appetizing, I think maybe nature was trying to tell us something). It’s mostly cartilage? Big deal, I usually chew that off of chicken bones, especially if it’s KFC and/or my mom isn’t there to complain about it. I’m not advocating putting shark populations at risk, but I can understand the appeal.
Context: Yao Ming is mentioned because of his PR campaigns about not eating shark fin soup was so influential that it was responsible for an immensely steep reduction of the soup's consumption in China. From 2011 to 2018, consumption of shark fin soup dropped by 70% in China.
I remember when I was like 12 during covid and all depressed and shi. And this mans videos not only educated me, but made me happy. And seeing him post like 1-2 times a year still after his break makes me so happy
Fun fact: the bird's nest soup goop goes for over $1500 a pound (dried), so besides being a disgusting concept, it's ridiculously expensive. I hear it's good for various ailments, though, like "having too much money."
Yeah, in my mom's country of Malaysia, this was a practice that people did as far as harvesting them goes. Idk if they actually ate them themselves or if it was only popular as a gourmet fad trend to make money off of. Pretty sure it got banned though
@@AeyakS I'm from Malaysia too and my relatives have a few farms. Basically you have an abandoned building with a big hole and the birds come to roost, thinking it's a cave. After the birds are done doing their business in a few months, you can go in to the shit and featherfilled building a pick out a few empty nests. It was the money fad a while ago. The soup itself is quite nice and the birds nest does have a unique texture.
@@lankeowker5878 I saw a show where these guys were going to a small, uninhabited island, climbing up cave walls to get the nests (already dangerous). Then there are people who painstakingly clean the nests of all debris, so it is labor intensive. Sadly, the locals don't make nearly as much from the efforts.
@@pacniteI don’t know if you’re joking or not but bill Cosby was known for drugging and molesting people and lobotomies can and in most cases will cause memory loss
@@pacnite It's cause lobotomy is an operation that messes up the prefrontal lobe, which could mess up your memory ykyk And bill Cosby is known for... Well drugging women
The interesting thing about bird's nest soup is that the trade is causing the swiftlets to become domesticated, much in the same manner as bees. In order to make harvesting the nests easier and safer, people have began turning abandoned buildings into swiftlet hotels, imitating the caves they naturally roost in. This has resulted in swiftlets beginning to prefer man-made roosts, as they provide protection from natural predators and more reliable shelter, as well as human habitation attracting the bugs they eat. Also like bees and their wax, once a nest is harvested, the bird will simply build a new one, since they make their own materials.
It's like the rare British swines (animal). The conservationists are promoting eating them more so they can be saved from being endangered. Sounds counterintuitive until you realise that the success in evolutionary biology is only about reproducing as many as possible. Which is why Chicken, Dogs and Cats are the most successful species apart from humans.
do they harvest the nests before the eggs are laid, or after they hatch and fly off? I'd imagine it's hard to 'give the eggs back' as shown in the video.
Reminds me of a certain wild bird that started to nest in highly urban areas because work done to stop feeding the local fauna resulted in certain critters to go back at avoiding humans and eating bird eggs. They kinda figured humans will let them be while wild animals won't brave the city for them
I saw the thumbnail of this video knowing that Professor O’Nella hasn’t uploaded in a long time, and wondered, “Oh, how many years ago was this one?” before looking at the time stamp. I can safely say my day has been brightened by the answer.
My favorite part is there is hardly any change in the quality of videos (save for some more intricate art here and there in more recent videos). Is it from 2016 or 2024? There is no way to tell other than upload date.
At first, I thought the whole "eating the ortolan whole while under a sheet" thing was a joke, until he showed the actual picture... A true mental whiplash.
I genuinely couldn't believe it either. Like, the way he described everything sounded so comically exaggerated, like something outta South Park, that I was convinced he was just joking it up with his usual style of humor...nah. Exactly as described. Yeah that picture really put me through some mental turmoil too.
@gangstalker5461 There's a sequence in the second season of _Hannibal_ where Orlotolan is prepared, and Hannibal talks about the preparation and tradition of eating them.
Sounds like some group of people somewhere really thought God is somehow incapable of seeing through a towel? That'll never work. "The eyes and ears of God are everywhere, seeing the good and evil." The only shielding it's going to do is against *pEOPle.*
@@101Volts It's the origin of the idea that hiding under the covers protects you from the monster in the closet. Supernatural beings can't see through layers of cloth.
It’s creation probably went like : “OH SHIT we left the cheese out for too long now It has worms!” And some crazy person went “maybe it’s still good let me try” and boom _worm cheese_
like most fermented things, it's likely a desperation meal that turned out okay. I imagine throwing out an entire gigantic cheese wheel was likely a massive financial blow so they coped.
it probably started when some staving Italians got maggots into their cheese and instead of throwing it out decided to eat it as there was no other foods available
I had shark fin soup one time. It tasted like broth but the texture was so revolting that it legitimately made me not want to eat anything for days because I was so haunted by the way it felt to chew. Imagine Jello or snot but every time you bite into it it crunches just enough to send a shiver down your spine. It's completely soft so you have no idea what's causing that crunching feeling. Even just thinking about it makes me want to gag.
For me it was that one and the one about Bill Cosby and the guy who invented the lobotomy having a mission to eat birds whole and then make people not remember things
6:29 "Our mission is to eat birds whole and make people not remember things." Joke was too perfect. Aged like wine, or that mag and cheese depending on your stance.
Hey I’m a Jamaican from Florida, thats me!!!! Ackee is delicious, “nutty” is like the perfect description for what it tastes like fully cooked and unseasoned. On the tree the fruit splits open like shown in this video when they’re almost ready, we had a tree in our backyard and my grandma would collect the fallen fruit whenever she was out gardening. We never got sick off our own ackee so I THINK freshly fallen is about the right time to prep, but if you ever find yourself in FL and stumble across a tree I wouldn’t risk it bc 1) no way to tell how long they’ve been chilling in the dirt and 2) there’s a non zero chance a Jamaican auntie with a gun is watching from her window, just waiting for someone to try it
Some guy walked in on his wheel of cheese being infested with maggots. Against all common sense he decided to taste it. He then went around telling everyone in his village how great maggot infested cheese tasted, and instead of putting him out of his misery they all said "Sounds great, let's make more!"
Just like in Iceland, some dude after weekend of heavy drinking found a poisonous, half rotten shark carcass fisherman had dumped into local hot pool and decided to to eat it anyways, since he was hungry and drunk enough to ignore the fact that all previous attempts to eat the said shark species had led into light case of dying. So naturally the drunk berserker survived and now all Icelanders eat the rotten, sulphur leached poisonous shark as a "traditional food"....
@@Adreitz7that makes sense for the first wheel of cheese. After that they started ruining cheese by putting maggots into them, whatever nutritional value they add is insignificant compared to the fact they had to wait around instead of eating their perfectly fine cheese with decent nutrition.
Same thing happened to doctors when they decided NOT to give Gender Dysphoria patients the psychological help that they need when they could just drain their wallets of anything they had to mutilate their bodies & affirm their concept of gender despite not understanding how gender works. *cough cough* Modern society, folks, where it’s cool to be mentally ill.
@@Adreitz7 the main problem with that is fact that cheese is already good food to preserve for long time. It's not like eating moldy bread because you have nothing else to
A major reason shark fin soup is also looked down upon is because of how cruel the practice is. They don’t catch the shark to eat, they catch it, cut off its fins and throw the living shark back into the water where they suffocate.
@@DanielPereira-ey9ntI mean he was gone for literal years so most people tend to think he abandoned the channel and either unsubscribed or just didn’t bother subscribing
@@Fruad_jo I don't understand why people would unsub when someone doesn't upload. Like you'd have to purposefully go out of your way to do that. I only unsub when I get annoyed at seeing their new videos.
@@Fruad_jo there was a point where he did that but he has posted a total of three videos in the last 12 months, and the intervals between the videos are getting shorter
Imagine not knowing he was back and getting teary eyed because its the first video you've seen in ages, and opening a bottle of wine because this channel is something that was a comfort many years ago and I--- 😭😭😭 I'm just really friggin happy this amazing channel is back.
Jamiacan here! Ackee is also something that you can develop a resistance to over time, as it contains a minor amount of poison. If you do, however, you'll be unable to enioy Ackee anymore- you'll get what we call "Ackee Ache", which manifests as sharp stomach pains that can last up to two days.
@falconstudios146 Yep! I don't know the exact science behind it, but I get Ackee ache, my mom gets it, my older cousins get it- and it's a legit shame, because Ackee is legit really tasty. I'd do terrible things to be able to enjoy Ackee and Saltfish again without the awful cramps
I love how Sam just reappeared out of nowhere, doesn’t mention anything about it, keeps everything nearly identical to how it was 4 years ago, and everyone still loves it.
That's how TH-cam is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be a job where you have to show up every week to make a video and upload it. It's a sight for hobbyists to upload videos they make. He owes us nothing.
@@TheLemonadeMann actually I'm being more aggressive than defensive here. For a long time I've gotten mad at TH-camrs for stuffing their videos full of sponsors and complaining when they can't make money as a youtuber. Basically I think the whole culture surrounding TH-cam today is atrocious and while that normally comes in the form of me telling TH-camrs to piss off with sponsorships, I also need to defend them in times like this
@@ApfelR The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I think that over the years I developed some kind of pavlovian response to your usual outro because when you said "Thank you for watching" at the end of the video and there was no classical music playing after that I felt like something was missing even though I wasn't exactly sure there was an outro before.
5:50 my dad told me bout this one. Supposedly, the bird has such a beatiful call that people have the things on their heads to cover "cover the shame from God for eating such a beatiful singing bird" or something along those lines
Not quite, the old anecdote is that one must eat it while covering themselves with basically a sheet or something similar, so God wouldn't see them committing such a pointlessly cruel act.
Wow, people really think God is pretty dumb. The Alpha and Omega cant see you through a plain sheet. Same people who think ugly stone statues can scare demons or horshoes and garlic can ward off vampires I guess.
@@MLBlue30it's more of an act of respect, kind of like folding your hands while praying, although no physical action is necessary. That's how I see it anyway
Sardinian here! Personally never ate the cheese but my mother did, she fondly tells the memories of eating the cheese and how it sometimes tickled her mouth as she chewed the maggots, and as a child, she loved to squish the maggots that fell onto the table like a game. My family used to be cheese makers and my great-grandfather was one of the big producers of Casu Martzu before the business got affected by the great depression in the US (a big shipment of normal cheese was lost in NYC when the stock market crashed, never being able to recoup the cost)
Asian young man, grew up in Singapore here! I remember eating shark fin soup at weddings as a kid and it does taste exactly like how the article describes, however the fins themselves have no taste and it's the soup and broth that makes it tasty, nowadays they no longer use shark fin for ethical reasons but still retain the broth for taste.
It's mind boggling to me that they actually catch a shark, cut off its fin, and let the mutilated shark die in the ocean. The fins have no taste AND shark meat is perfectly fine to eat! Why???
Sharks have been hunted and poached just for some vain tcm reason stuff like that is just deplorable in practice. Same thing that happens to rhinos turtles etc.
The Ortolan is a meme in France. There was an old cooking show that was very famous at the time. The lady who was the star of the show was called Maïté, and she once did an episode where she showed how to eat one, and she said something along the lines of "and I suck its behind" with a southern accent, which understandably is where the meme came from.
@youtube-handle-are-a-joke Well when the conversation is in English and the other person doesn't specify what kind of southern wtf else is the brain supposed to jump to
hey smiling friends, yeah i did kinda call earlier for your services but i've sorta figured it all out... except for this oooonnnnneee little thing. do you think you could help me with this now? : } * can i have a moment to speak with my partner?yeahthanks. ~im not liking the sound of this pim~ ~this guy gives me BAD vibes~ ~and his face looks weird~* ~dont say that charlie, he called us and its our job to help him!~
Sam, thank you for the videos through the years. You have truly captivated me with your joking way of teaching history. I hope whatever life has had you doing makes you happy bro
You just brought back a bad memory about the Ortolan. In 1984, there was french chef named Maïté that was well known for her cooking show. She once showed how to properly eat the ortolan and it's just very weird and awkward to see nowadays. It's pretty well-known online and was deemed "sensual" back in the day apparently.
“Like popcorn.” Thank you, Sam, since quitting hard drink I was just forgetting what it felt like to retch recently-eaten popcorn into my mouth, and now you’ve reminded me.
This guy is one of my favorite creators but I’ve watched almost every single one of his videos 20-50 times, like how much longer will I have to wait until he posts again
Sam is not a youtuber. He has a life and job that doesn't revolve around content creation, so I would never expect consistency cuz you will be disappointed
2:29 Shark fins are cartilage because that's what their entire skeleton is made of, which is why they're classified as Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) rather than Osteichthyes (bony fish, which all tetrapods descended from). Their meat is technically edible, but as sharks retain high levels of urea in their cells to maintain osmotic pressure in the salty sea, it quickly starts reeking like urine as the compound decomposes into ammonia after death, which is why it's often heavily flavoured and processed into ground-fish products like surimi (or fermented to repel all non-Icelandic life). So as far as many people are concerned, the fins are the only part worth eating due to no foul odors and superior texture. As an aside, their liver oil is also valuable as a supplement, and their skin - along with that of their close relatives, rays - was historically prized in Asia, and later in Europe as 'shagreen'. The REAL danger of shark food-products, however, are persistent toxins like methylmercury that are as devastating for your health as finning is for the environment (Minamata disease is a particularly gruesome consequence). As you probably learned in biology class, these bioaccumulate in organisms that consume them, and subsequently get bioamplified up the food chain, with large sharks being the biggest reservoir at the top trophic level in their ecosystem. So when we insert ourselves above them by savouring their fins, we get the privilege of inheriting this noxious burden by consuming mercury well in excess of government recommendations. The FDA itself recommends zero consumption of shark for this exact reason. If you're still curious, there are recipes for imitation fin soup that are close enough. GOURMET FUN FACTS 2: While edible bird's nest is one of the most costly foodstuffs in general, there is a more rarified type called 'blood nest' due to its bright crimson color, which can easily sell in excess of $10,000/kg. However, contrary to common assumption, the color is NOT caused by blood from the birds' throats (which would turn brown when oxidised), but is instead a product of gas from bird-soil (i.e. guano), which contain reactive nitrogen species (RNS) such as nitrous acid that nitrate tyrosine in the glycoproteins within the nest. This results in two unfortunate truths: 1. Since blood nests only naturally occur in conditions within caves, harvesting them is a costly procedure, encouraging fraud by dyeing or deliberate fumigation of white nests with bird-soil, and 2. Blood nests are jam-packed with nitrates and nitrites. Yes, the same compounds that also make cured meat reddish, and can form carcinogenic nitrosamines in your gut. While the jury is still out on whether overconsumption (if one can afford it!) might reproduce the same effects of eating too much processed meat, which is itself a Group 1 carcinogen, it almost certainly informs the common advice of soaking nests for a few hours before preparation.
@@nevergiveup5939you die two deaths. First, when your biological functions cease. The second death comes when the last memory of you vanishes from those who are still alive. When your existence is truly wiped away from reality, and all you are is a name on a slab of stone. What is even the point of all of this? It's all futile, we can't change anything and no matter what we do, it all comes to an end eventually. So anyways I just figured out I might as well live petting as many cats as I can.
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Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than is explained here. They are caught, the fins are cut off of the living shark, and the quadruple-amputee shark is thrown back in the water, still alive.
Just when I thought I couldn't possibly hate human beings more than I already do.
@@DreadPirateRobertzare you not a human
That seems really innefficient; there's so much meat on that shark that could be used. There ought to be some legislative action to heavily tax sharkfins sold unpaired with sufficient regular sharkmeat so as to mandate full efficiency-there's less time and space to kill sharks if you need to use the whole thing!, so there could be just as much meat without threatening the extinction as much.
If it isn't Jaws being the number 1 reason people are killing sharks, it's maybe 1 bite of food that is tasteless. Nice.
Also what the fuck is up with all the types of food that ""requires"" the animal to be alive during a horrible process? I really doubt throwing a live bird in a jar of liquid does anything else but get someone's rocks off.
Sometimes they only take the dorsal fin
Samonella is like that one uncle who you rarely see but every time he visits it's a miracle
I get it pretty often from food poisoning. Wouldn’t call it a miracle.
It’s the gift that keeps on traumatizing
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Umm how are the bots posting working links?
Edit: never mind it’s just external links that don’t work never mind
Can’t believe we all just came across one of Sam’s videos one day, became instantly obsessed, and wait patiently every month until he returns.
Speak for yourself
I wish it was every month :(
As if moon worshipers...
Amateurs!!
that's me right there
we miss you sam
Indeed
Quite
You think he'll ever come back?
@@googlesucks1039 His longest hiatus to date is about 2 years. I think it's safe to assume he will upload again soon
@@TheBestPybro nah he ded
“Hey majors”
That settles it. We are all old.
Next video: “Hey seniors”
Also because he can’t say “hey kids” anymore.
Dude i literally was accepted into college just the other week. I started watching him in middle school. He knows. That son of a bitc h
@@moorjamminTH-cam is fucked
@@ChildDevourer83Because youtube is stupid.
I like how the mic quality is slightly shitty, 10/10 brings me right back
even the text zoom on "ortolon" is slightly shitty
Now he sounds like he's supposed to
6:29 I love that the lobotomy guy is photorealistic while Cosby is a horrific caricature
Hahaha I'm so glad you pointed that out, I missed that at first watch but I'm dying now ahahaha
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Nope, both photorealistic. Difference is that things still look real after a lobotomy, things look all wobbly when you’re loaded up on date rape drugs.
Source: I’m a lobotomy patient with a belly full of roofies.
i guess the idea is if he cant remember their name theyre not worth caricaturising
@@PernilleEasterbrookshut up bot
The fact that sam still knows how to draw tararre is awesome (yes i did check as far as i can tell it isnt just a frame from his old vid)
Fr guy was devouring that fin😂
Oh my god I didn't notice that it was him at first!
Lets fucking go bois! We graduated to majors
WE'RE NO LONGER KIDS LET'S GOOOOO
Come on homie we major
YEAHHHHH
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AYYY
In Brazil, we got Maniçoba, a salted meat stew made with cassava leaves that are highly poisonous and need to be cooked for seven days straight to be safe. The best thing is people say that the taste is very similar to Feijoada, a bean and meat stew that is not poisonous and takes a normal amount of time to cook, so why would go for Maniçoba is a mystery.
Yup, as a fellow brazilian, completely agree.
I was expecting something from there as well
as a fellow brazilian i didn't even know
@@sr.brigadeiro7718 ...how did ya not know maniçoba, are you from the far south?
When I hear about food like this I always wonder what circumstances led to its discovery - like how many people died until someone figured out if you just boil the *shit* outta these leaves you *might* make it long enough to go "oh yeah, tasty"
I pray for Sams return because as much as I am happy to rewatch these videos 100 times over and over but nothing hits more than seeing a new upload on here
the notifications gift me heart palpitations
When the last star dies, and the heat death of the universe is complete, one last sound will travel through the void: “hey elders”
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Shout out to the downstreamers tuning in to watch Sam's videos at the end of time
Hey stardusts
With the current upload schedule, this is a likely scenario
Hey seniors I know it’s been 20 years but hey guess what it’s finally time to graduate
It's been 7 years and the mic quality hasn't changed one bit
I love it
Was about to comment exactly this👍
"I've got better shit to do"
No but Fr I bet since he makes vids so far apart a mic isn't really in his thoughts.
And I personally didn't notice much wrong except maybe a slight echo
Yes it has lol have you not watched his old videos?
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I remember what his mic quality was like in his first few videos, it's improved a ton since then
Love the return of Tarrare at 2:37
I'm your 70th like. I'm sorry.
134th like
"Tarrare. Did you eat, a fucking shark?"
@@KinoBarzo 👀
Yeah, I caught that too.
In my book, he really should’ve been there for one of the others. They were all WAY grosser than shark fin soup (even that fruit didn’t look very appetizing, I think maybe nature was trying to tell us something). It’s mostly cartilage? Big deal, I usually chew that off of chicken bones, especially if it’s KFC and/or my mom isn’t there to complain about it. I’m not advocating putting shark populations at risk, but I can understand the appeal.
"So hopefully the French can get back to it soon" is maybe one of the craziest things he's ever said
Kid named Sigmund Freud Video
"I kid you not, Bill Cosby *and* the inventor of the lobotomy"
the return of Terrare at 2:40 was cinematic, iconic, and beautiful.
Omg I didn't even realize it was him, it's glorious!!
Came for this comment
I watched the episode right yesterday 😂
Sam O'nella Cinematic universe
@@kubikkuratko188 i feel like it’d be better than anything marvel could put out
Context: Yao Ming is mentioned because of his PR campaigns about not eating shark fin soup was so influential that it was responsible for an immensely steep reduction of the soup's consumption in China. From 2011 to 2018, consumption of shark fin soup dropped by 70% in China.
just another reason why he's goated
hell yeah yao ming. hell yeah.
Well if it went back up after 2018 then I wish he'd come out and make another statement about it.
Thanks, China? For real, I guess?
Hell yeah Yao.
From “hey kids” to “hey adults” to “hey majors” I feel honored
We’re growing up yo
What’s next on the list?
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Drop-outs
@@attigatorsenior citizens
Does that mean we're progressing in the academy?
I remember when I was like 12 during covid and all depressed and shi. And this mans videos not only educated me, but made me happy. And seeing him post like 1-2 times a year still after his break makes me so happy
"Ah. Today I crave bird spit."
That voice killed me.
"but you can keep the eggs"
Gave me Meatcanyon flashbacks
crave*
Horrifying
Sounded like a Randy Feltface bit for some reason.
The french will do ANYTHING to get mentioned in a Sam O'Nella video
As someone who is a quarter french i plan to take up a quarter Sam O'Nella video one day. Oh boy have i got plans
@@G_lyis that a tf2 reference?
It had to be the french. Oh god WHYYYYY?? I love Sam content but even I have some limits
Oui hon hon hon
@@judahzombiefreak will you outperform Tarrare and eat two babies?
Fun fact: the bird's nest soup goop goes for over $1500 a pound (dried), so besides being a disgusting concept, it's ridiculously expensive. I hear it's good for various ailments, though, like "having too much money."
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Yeah, in my mom's country of Malaysia, this was a practice that people did as far as harvesting them goes. Idk if they actually ate them themselves or if it was only popular as a gourmet fad trend to make money off of. Pretty sure it got banned though
Im in malaysia right now and i have never heard of this
@@AeyakS I'm from Malaysia too and my relatives have a few farms. Basically you have an abandoned building with a big hole and the birds come to roost, thinking it's a cave. After the birds are done doing their business in a few months, you can go in to the shit and featherfilled building a pick out a few empty nests. It was the money fad a while ago. The soup itself is quite nice and the birds nest does have a unique texture.
@@lankeowker5878 I saw a show where these guys were going to a small, uninhabited island, climbing up cave walls to get the nests (already dangerous). Then there are people who painstakingly clean the nests of all debris, so it is labor intensive. Sadly, the locals don't make nearly as much from the efforts.
Bro came back, then left us just as quickly
Sam’s style literally never gets old, his dry humor and animations just make you invested in literally anything he’s making a video about
Facts
Yeah just classic, but there are so many wanna be Clones of his style Out there
How come theres allready over 3k comments after only 8 min ?
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he's been copied by about 100 youtubers
Gotta say man, there are now thousands of Sam o Nella clones (or his children) on TH-cam, but there is only one original
None beats the true master
They beat him when he uploads once every 6 months
@@Kyle41504 You can't rush perfection, my dude
Couldn’t agree more!
True, but some are good enough
Some of them are AI generated slop 💀
"our mission is to eat things whole and then make people not remember things"
That joke SENT me oh my god. Perfect, no notes.
can you explain it please
@@pacnitelabotomies: remove your brain bits, no more thinking for you
Cosby: known for roofie-ing people for sexual purposes
@@pacniteI don’t know if you’re joking or not but bill Cosby was known for drugging and molesting people and lobotomies can and in most cases will cause memory loss
@@pacnite lobotmies make people not remember things, such as how to exist as a human
@@pacnite
It's cause lobotomy is an operation that messes up the prefrontal lobe, which could mess up your memory ykyk
And bill Cosby is known for... Well drugging women
4:55 Sam O'Nella predicted Hwak T'uah girl
She’s not funny
dude its called spitting.
Gen alpha discovers “spitting”
I imagine people like you have a single brain cell that bounces around like a DVD screensaver.
When it hits the corner you have a thought
"spit on that thang yuh feel me"
As a Jamaican, I'm proud that our associated food was the only one on this list that was neither disgusting nor involved needless cruelty to animals.
Same!
hey it looks good
as a not jamaican i agree
Its just the fruit Version of fugu
The most prideful part of that though is that yours isn’t associated with the French 😊
I like how the quality of the drawings has gone up, you can tell in that Chef drawing the most. Even has shadows.
But i felt as if some parts were transphobic
That’s what I was thinking when I saw that character too
@@JamesWagner-vv9izbruh what
@@JamesWagner-vv9izwait how so? Did I miss something?
@@JamesWagner-vv9izwhat drugs are you on? Cause they must be good to have you see and hear things not there
Can you believe this guy pulls half a million views in 3 hours even though he rarely posts? We really love that middle part stickdude goodness
this guy is a classic
The quality of his videos and art is so good/consistent, us followers love it!
I can tell you aren't enrolled in the academy and it couldn't be more embarrassing🤢
He’s created a whole genre of videos
The man really didn't fall off
and then he vanished yet again..
The interesting thing about bird's nest soup is that the trade is causing the swiftlets to become domesticated, much in the same manner as bees. In order to make harvesting the nests easier and safer, people have began turning abandoned buildings into swiftlet hotels, imitating the caves they naturally roost in. This has resulted in swiftlets beginning to prefer man-made roosts, as they provide protection from natural predators and more reliable shelter, as well as human habitation attracting the bugs they eat.
Also like bees and their wax, once a nest is harvested, the bird will simply build a new one, since they make their own materials.
It's like the rare British swines (animal). The conservationists are promoting eating them more so they can be saved from being endangered.
Sounds counterintuitive until you realise that the success in evolutionary biology is only about reproducing as many as possible.
Which is why Chicken, Dogs and Cats are the most successful species apart from humans.
do they harvest the nests before the eggs are laid, or after they hatch and fly off? I'd imagine it's hard to 'give the eggs back' as shown in the video.
Reminds me of a certain wild bird that started to nest in highly urban areas because work done to stop feeding the local fauna resulted in certain critters to go back at avoiding humans and eating bird eggs.
They kinda figured humans will let them be while wild animals won't brave the city for them
@@pungetello birds nest enthusiasts incubate the eggs themselves, sitting on them at the table while eating the nest. it's proper etiquette
You know when you compare the birds' nest spit to bee honey it's not that weird 🤔
@2:43 good to see ol' Tarrare making a cameo on this one, fits perfectly.
I saw the thumbnail of this video knowing that Professor O’Nella hasn’t uploaded in a long time, and wondered, “Oh, how many years ago was this one?” before looking at the time stamp. I can safely say my day has been brightened by the answer.
My favorite part is there is hardly any change in the quality of videos (save for some more intricate art here and there in more recent videos). Is it from 2016 or 2024? There is no way to tell other than upload date.
Same!
@@allovertheplacecreations2787 It's literally exactly the same and I love it
dude i literally did the same shit
Cya friend in another 3-9 months ❤
Okay Sam, it’s been 6 months, time for a lesson
At first, I thought the whole "eating the ortolan whole while under a sheet" thing was a joke, until he showed the actual picture... A true mental whiplash.
I genuinely couldn't believe it either. Like, the way he described everything sounded so comically exaggerated, like something outta South Park, that I was convinced he was just joking it up with his usual style of humor...nah. Exactly as described. Yeah that picture really put me through some mental turmoil too.
This was a scene in succession i really thought tom was fucking with greg about the towel thing
@gangstalker5461 There's a sequence in the second season of _Hannibal_ where Orlotolan is prepared, and Hannibal talks about the preparation and tradition of eating them.
Sounds like some group of people somewhere really thought God is somehow incapable of seeing through a towel? That'll never work. "The eyes and ears of God are everywhere, seeing the good and evil." The only shielding it's going to do is against *pEOPle.*
@@101Volts It's the origin of the idea that hiding under the covers protects you from the monster in the closet. Supernatural beings can't see through layers of cloth.
The art-style has tremendously improved, I feel like; the shading on those more detailed characters is quite nice!
And with greater fidelity comes greater terror!
I was also thinking about that:)
i'm in fear
I disagree. They fall too far into the uncanny valley for my tastes.
@@terrancehood5292 i think that's the point
0:44 the fact anyone thought of this is a crime in itself.
It’s creation probably went like :
“OH SHIT we left the cheese out for too long now It has worms!” And some crazy person went “maybe it’s still good let me try” and boom _worm cheese_
Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?!
@@nevergiveup5939someome lets a fucking fly lay eggs on us and we become a new type of meat
like most fermented things, it's likely a desperation meal that turned out okay.
I imagine throwing out an entire gigantic cheese wheel was likely a massive financial blow so they coped.
it probably started when some staving Italians got maggots into their cheese and instead of throwing it out decided to eat it as there was no other foods available
I had shark fin soup one time. It tasted like broth but the texture was so revolting that it legitimately made me not want to eat anything for days because I was so haunted by the way it felt to chew. Imagine Jello or snot but every time you bite into it it crunches just enough to send a shiver down your spine. It's completely soft so you have no idea what's causing that crunching feeling. Even just thinking about it makes me want to gag.
DAMN
That sounds ungodly
Thank you for your scientific rigor
thank you for doing the service of making shark fin soup sound unfun to eat again i was worried i might do something unwise
How to speed run an eating disorder
6:00 I legit thought you were making the whole thing up until I saw the picture. Wild.
same!
I was so surprised
Fr 💀
Dont know why, but the one joke to make me burst out laughing here was "Like many animals, they have a history of being eaten by the French"
For me it was that one and the one about Bill Cosby and the guy who invented the lobotomy having a mission to eat birds whole and then make people not remember things
*asians sweating profusely*
French AND chinese
We didn’t become the dominant species on the planet by being picky!
Jesus loves you.
At 4:55 Sam O'Nella predicts hawk Tuah
6:29 "Our mission is to eat birds whole and make people not remember things."
Joke was too perfect. Aged like wine, or that mag and cheese depending on your stance.
"Aged like wine", the video was published TODAY.
@@chestnut4860 he is a victim of lobotomy, leave him alone
9mm mags and cheese huh
Well, has it aged poorly since then?
Checked the age, and yep it's still wine. Remind me to check again in 30 minutes.
Hey I’m a Jamaican from Florida, thats me!!!! Ackee is delicious, “nutty” is like the perfect description for what it tastes like fully cooked and unseasoned. On the tree the fruit splits open like shown in this video when they’re almost ready, we had a tree in our backyard and my grandma would collect the fallen fruit whenever she was out gardening. We never got sick off our own ackee so I THINK freshly fallen is about the right time to prep, but if you ever find yourself in FL and stumble across a tree I wouldn’t risk it bc 1) no way to tell how long they’ve been chilling in the dirt and 2) there’s a non zero chance a Jamaican auntie with a gun is watching from her window, just waiting for someone to try it
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dude that's awesome
I am now adding “Jamaican auntie with a gun” to my list of completely rational phobias.
Autonomous Katapulting Ejectomatic Emitter
You too? Dude that's awesome I'm Floridian and my neighbor has a giant ackee tree! :D
I'm obsessed with how horrifying all the gourmands look, especially compared to Sam's normal style.
They’ve got that “Little Nightmares Adult” look to them lmfao
If only Tararre was still alive to eat all of these shameful recipes.
I hope life is treating you well brother, take your time with whatever you need to. We love you Sam
That "mag n cheese" joke is genius
It’s good, but genius? I dunno. He’s had better jokes
Some guy walked in on his wheel of cheese being infested with maggots. Against all common sense he decided to taste it. He then went around telling everyone in his village how great maggot infested cheese tasted, and instead of putting him out of his misery they all said "Sounds great, let's make more!"
Just like in Iceland, some dude after weekend of heavy drinking found a poisonous, half rotten shark carcass fisherman had dumped into local hot pool and decided to to eat it anyways, since he was hungry and drunk enough to ignore the fact that all previous attempts to eat the said shark species had led into light case of dying. So naturally the drunk berserker survived and now all Icelanders eat the rotten, sulphur leached poisonous shark as a "traditional food"....
You'd be surprised what hunger can do to a man.
@@Adreitz7that makes sense for the first wheel of cheese. After that they started ruining cheese by putting maggots into them, whatever nutritional value they add is insignificant compared to the fact they had to wait around instead of eating their perfectly fine cheese with decent nutrition.
Same thing happened to doctors when they decided NOT to give Gender Dysphoria patients the psychological help that they need when they could just drain their wallets of anything they had to mutilate their bodies & affirm their concept of gender despite not understanding how gender works.
*cough cough*
Modern society, folks, where it’s cool to be mentally ill.
@@Adreitz7 the main problem with that is fact that cheese is already good food to preserve for long time. It's not like eating moldy bread because you have nothing else to
A major reason shark fin soup is also looked down upon is because of how cruel the practice is. They don’t catch the shark to eat, they catch it, cut off its fins and throw the living shark back into the water where they suffocate.
Or get eaten by predators. Whichever comes first.
Asians, man
@@DonRoyalXdid you miss the ortolan
@@Hailey-bz2ym French are the chinese of Europe
@@Hailey-bz2ym have u seen the documentaries that show towns in China where there’s hundreds of skinned dogs still alive in cages ready to be cooked 🤣
>Comes back
>Pulls 20x the views of any copycat channel
>Disappears
Matpat retires, GTA 6 is going to come out, and Sam now calls us majors instead of kids
I feel so old, time flies way too fast..
Part II
th-cam.com/video/FPwuLfdJdDM/w-d-xo.html
Sam being “consistent” is the best thing to happen right now
Consistantly unconsistant is still consistant!
When I realized this wasn't another Sam O'Nella clone and it is the real deal. I was pleasantly surprised and very shocked.
Aren't you subscribed ?, it's a very easy way to check
@@DanielPereira-ey9ntI mean he was gone for literal years so most people tend to think he abandoned the channel and either unsubscribed or just didn’t bother subscribing
@@Fruad_jo I don't understand why people would unsub when someone doesn't upload. Like you'd have to purposefully go out of your way to do that. I only unsub when I get annoyed at seeing their new videos.
I thought this is an old video of him that somehow got recommended, but lo and behold, it's released 2 hours ago
@@Fruad_jo there was a point where he did that but he has posted a total of three videos in the last 12 months, and the intervals between the videos are getting shorter
I miss these. Need more.
The visuals are more grotesque than ever, love it.
The fucking guy who ate the bird nest was the cherry on top
Quite liked the example of the guy with the very salivated mouth
@@CODDE117*” ough, today i crave bird spit.. “*
Imagine not knowing he was back and getting teary eyed because its the first video you've seen in ages, and opening a bottle of wine because this channel is something that was a comfort many years ago and I--- 😭😭😭 I'm just really friggin happy this amazing channel is back.
2020 changed a lot of things...
get his meat out yo mouth
Me too! Except I'm drinking orange juice not wine 😅
We have lost many thousands of majors in such time
This was me just now 😭
Sam being brutally aware of his audience as always, Love it
th-cam.com/video/FPwuLfdJdDM/w-d-xo.html Part 2
Because?
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts Because I like your mom
@@pawep5492 same, she's great
4:55 uploaded too early for the Hawk Tuah era
Hawk Tuah before it was cool
Jamiacan here! Ackee is also something that you can develop a resistance to over time, as it contains a minor amount of poison. If you do, however, you'll be unable to enioy Ackee anymore- you'll get what we call "Ackee Ache", which manifests as sharp stomach pains that can last up to two days.
Your country fascinates me
Wait, you start suffering the stomach pains AFTER you develop the resistance to the poison???
Fellow Jamaicans, rise up
@@falconstudios146Your organs are just like, “Dude quit it this is literal poison”
@falconstudios146 Yep! I don't know the exact science behind it, but I get Ackee ache, my mom gets it, my older cousins get it- and it's a legit shame, because Ackee is legit really tasty. I'd do terrible things to be able to enjoy Ackee and Saltfish again without the awful cramps
the quote at 6:15 goes immensely hard for what is essentially a goofy ritual
I love how Sam just reappeared out of nowhere, doesn’t mention anything about it, keeps everything nearly identical to how it was 4 years ago, and everyone still loves it.
It took a while to clone him successfully
That's how TH-cam is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be a job where you have to show up every week to make a video and upload it. It's a sight for hobbyists to upload videos they make. He owes us nothing.
@@Nagasakevideo nobody said he did?
@@Nagasakevideo why are you getting so defensive? nobody said that Sam owes us anything.
@@TheLemonadeMann actually I'm being more aggressive than defensive here. For a long time I've gotten mad at TH-camrs for stuffing their videos full of sponsors and complaining when they can't make money as a youtuber. Basically I think the whole culture surrounding TH-cam today is atrocious and while that normally comes in the form of me telling TH-camrs to piss off with sponsorships, I also need to defend them in times like this
And when the world we needed him most
He vanished
“Killing 1 bird with no stones” made me blow more air out of my nose
i did that the entire video
the aqui
For me it's "Uh, today i crave *bird* *spit*"
@RKW48
I think you misunderstood
That "dish" is just a drunk chicken taken too literally, but a bird marinated in brandy and put on a grill might be good.
“Our mission is to eat birds whole and then make people not remember things”
simply unhinged and I love it
Bill Cosby only remembered the second part of the sentence
Yeah that was good. “Ok they both like ortolan, and the lobotomy leaves u not remembering things. Why’s bill Cosby..Oh. Oh.
@@ApfelR The Kingdom of God is at Hand
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I think that over the years I developed some kind of pavlovian response to your usual outro because when you said "Thank you for watching" at the end of the video and there was no classical music playing after that I felt like something was missing even though I wasn't exactly sure there was an outro before.
No joke, was thinking the same thing!!
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I was thinking the exact same thing
REAL
Sam O'Nella , that drunk uncle who stumbles in every now and then and drops a knowledge bomb on you.
6:19 the moment that cemented this one in the O'nella hall of fame for me. What a rabbit hole.
5:50 my dad told me bout this one.
Supposedly, the bird has such a beatiful call that people have the things on their heads to cover "cover the shame from God for eating such a beatiful singing bird" or something along those lines
just saw this on succession
Not quite, the old anecdote is that one must eat it while covering themselves with basically a sheet or something similar, so God wouldn't see them committing such a pointlessly cruel act.
Wow, people really think God is pretty dumb. The Alpha and Omega cant see you through a plain sheet. Same people who think ugly stone statues can scare demons or horshoes and garlic can ward off vampires I guess.
@@MLBlue30 vampires are real??
@@MLBlue30it's more of an act of respect, kind of like folding your hands while praying, although no physical action is necessary. That's how I see it anyway
Sardinian here! Personally never ate the cheese but my mother did, she fondly tells the memories of eating the cheese and how it sometimes tickled her mouth as she chewed the maggots, and as a child, she loved to squish the maggots that fell onto the table like a game. My family used to be cheese makers and my great-grandfather was one of the big producers of Casu Martzu before the business got affected by the great depression in the US (a big shipment of normal cheese was lost in NYC when the stock market crashed, never being able to recoup the cost)
Uh...
Ok...
☹
@@smickothesmickest rude!
Great...... Personally I wouldn't tell the world my mother loved to eat Maggot but you do you I guess
🙁
Annnnnnnd he's gone again
He’s a sleepy boy 😊
Who knows? He might come back
Asian young man, grew up in Singapore here! I remember eating shark fin soup at weddings as a kid and it does taste exactly like how the article describes, however the fins themselves have no taste and it's the soup and broth that makes it tasty, nowadays they no longer use shark fin for ethical reasons but still retain the broth for taste.
it's literally just soup
It's mind boggling to me that they actually catch a shark, cut off its fin, and let the mutilated shark die in the ocean. The fins have no taste AND shark meat is perfectly fine to eat! Why???
For that reason, I prefer imitation shark fin soup. Still my favourite dish to this day.
Sharks have been hunted and poached just for some vain tcm reason stuff like that is just deplorable in practice. Same thing that happens to rhinos turtles etc.
@@kralevic3297Chinese still do it cause it makes money.
The Ortolan is a meme in France. There was an old cooking show that was very famous at the time. The lady who was the star of the show was called Maïté, and she once did an episode where she showed how to eat one, and she said something along the lines of "and I suck its behind" with a southern accent, which understandably is where the meme came from.
a southern american accent or a southern french accent?
@@evanoconnell2597 French, she was French, speaking in French on French TV. Why would she speak with a Southern US accent in French or English?
@@youtube-handle-are-a-joke why not?
@@Scroolewsebecause that's not the only southern accent that exists?
@youtube-handle-are-a-joke Well when the conversation is in English and the other person doesn't specify what kind of southern wtf else is the brain supposed to jump to
Imagine having a such a cool channel that you get three million views in two days after making everyone wait a year love this channel
Ah yes the Hbomberguy method
They said 2024 would bring flying cars, but we got Sam O'Nella hawk tuah. I am plesently surprised
Sam’s art grows so much with every upload. The characters in this video look straight out of a Smiling Friends episode
hey smiling friends, yeah i did kinda call earlier for your services but i've sorta figured it all out... except for this oooonnnnneee little thing. do you think you could help me with this now? : }
* can i have a moment to speak with my partner?yeahthanks. ~im not liking the sound of this pim~ ~this guy gives me BAD vibes~ ~and his face looks weird~*
~dont say that charlie, he called us and its our job to help him!~
My favorite half yearly tradition is rewatching all of your videos as soon as you release a new one
"MAG&Cheese"
"When the pitter-pattering stops, it's done...just like popcorn."😂🤢
I was literally eating popcorn that I had just pulled out of the microwave when he said that.
@@CaptOrbit I was literally eating maggots when he said that.
HE’S BACK! HE HAS RETURNED!
It’s finally completed: th-cam.com/video/j2hOdE14CxY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zvKhYkcEbCrZmxPW
This exactly 😂😂
5:12 "Believe it or not, eating bird saliva is a great way to catch bird flu"
I've eaten that dish as a child. It was lowkey good ngl.
2:06 Ok, the simplicity and cleverness of this part is my absolute favorite part of the video lol
"like popcorn" absolutely sent me. I had to pause.
I was like “ahhh an old classic “ then I noticed the “1 day ago “😭❤️🔥
“Drop what you are doing, a new Sam O’Nella dropped”
th-cam.com/video/FPwuLfdJdDM/w-d-xo.html Part 2
Eating :(
BABE WAKE UP NEW SALMONELLA DROPPED
Sam, thank you for the videos through the years. You have truly captivated me with your joking way of teaching history. I hope whatever life has had you doing makes you happy bro
This man posts what feels like once every 10 years and yet it’s so good that everybody shows up every time
0:08
One of the few who I’ve set notifications to “all” for
Can't wait in 10 years for Sam to present us our Sam O'Nella certificates after passing our majors.
Bro so famous he made Justin Y come back
4 likes in 2 minutes, you fell off.
Holy shit I haven't seen you in years! Where in the name of the french have you gone?
th-cam.com/video/FPwuLfdJdDM/w-d-xo.html Part 2
W
You just brought back a bad memory about the Ortolan.
In 1984, there was french chef named Maïté that was well known for her cooking show.
She once showed how to properly eat the ortolan and it's just very weird and awkward to see nowadays.
It's pretty well-known online and was deemed "sensual" back in the day apparently.
Well I found it on TH-cam and... it really is oddly "sensual." She kisses the damn thing and whispers to it before sucking on it.
Is that where vore comes from?
Her unveiling the secrets of how to eat Ortolan is literally the opposite of 1984
Heluva3 'tis spam not ham
Fouts mangeant l'ortolan.
Another two year nap for Sam
6:30 "... and make people not remember things." yeah okay i guess that makes sense
One of his best jokes
I mean, I could do that with some guys and a brick but they took the easy way
My fellow students of the Sam O'Nella Academy, I am glad to announce that we have graduated to majors.
we need a chant that unites us
🤖
@@fariesz6786we major? cmon homie we major
A new duck song and Sam O'Nella on the same day. This is a legendary day.
there’s a new duck song?!?
there's a new duck song?
Literally just watched that
they made a new duck song?
@@sonnyshufflebottomyep. The duck song 4
i need you in a time like this....
you’ll be fine
The best part is that he just starts the video like nothing happened and he hasnt been missing. Time to rewatch all the Sam videos again.
“Like popcorn.” Thank you, Sam, since quitting hard drink I was just forgetting what it felt like to retch recently-eaten popcorn into my mouth, and now you’ve reminded me.
Shows up after several months, drops magic forbidden knowledge, refuses to elaborate, disappears.
Love you Sam.
Also gets more views, likes, and comments in 12 hours than comparable creators get on their entire catalogue
I misread this as "Love you, *Satan*".
@lilla4521 we can't be certain he isn't Satan so this still works
Heluva3
'tis spam, not ham
This guy is one of my favorite creators but I’ve watched almost every single one of his videos 20-50 times, like how much longer will I have to wait until he posts again
A while probably.
Sam is not a youtuber. He has a life and job that doesn't revolve around content creation, so I would never expect consistency cuz you will be disappointed
BABE WAKE UP NEW SAM O NELLA JUST DROPPED
Only appropriate creator to say this for ❤️
It’s always a treat every time Sam makes a trip down from his secret arctic bunker to fill our brains with knowledge
2:29 Shark fins are cartilage because that's what their entire skeleton is made of, which is why they're classified as Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) rather than Osteichthyes (bony fish, which all tetrapods descended from). Their meat is technically edible, but as sharks retain high levels of urea in their cells to maintain osmotic pressure in the salty sea, it quickly starts reeking like urine as the compound decomposes into ammonia after death, which is why it's often heavily flavoured and processed into ground-fish products like surimi (or fermented to repel all non-Icelandic life). So as far as many people are concerned, the fins are the only part worth eating due to no foul odors and superior texture. As an aside, their liver oil is also valuable as a supplement, and their skin - along with that of their close relatives, rays - was historically prized in Asia, and later in Europe as 'shagreen'.
The REAL danger of shark food-products, however, are persistent toxins like methylmercury that are as devastating for your health as finning is for the environment (Minamata disease is a particularly gruesome consequence). As you probably learned in biology class, these bioaccumulate in organisms that consume them, and subsequently get bioamplified up the food chain, with large sharks being the biggest reservoir at the top trophic level in their ecosystem. So when we insert ourselves above them by savouring their fins, we get the privilege of inheriting this noxious burden by consuming mercury well in excess of government recommendations. The FDA itself recommends zero consumption of shark for this exact reason. If you're still curious, there are recipes for imitation fin soup that are close enough.
GOURMET FUN FACTS 2:
While edible bird's nest is one of the most costly foodstuffs in general, there is a more rarified type called 'blood nest' due to its bright crimson color, which can easily sell in excess of $10,000/kg. However, contrary to common assumption, the color is NOT caused by blood from the birds' throats (which would turn brown when oxidised), but is instead a product of gas from bird-soil (i.e. guano), which contain reactive nitrogen species (RNS) such as nitrous acid that nitrate tyrosine in the glycoproteins within the nest.
This results in two unfortunate truths: 1. Since blood nests only naturally occur in conditions within caves, harvesting them is a costly procedure, encouraging fraud by dyeing or deliberate fumigation of white nests with bird-soil, and 2. Blood nests are jam-packed with nitrates and nitrites. Yes, the same compounds that also make cured meat reddish, and can form carcinogenic nitrosamines in your gut. While the jury is still out on whether overconsumption (if one can afford it!) might reproduce the same effects of eating too much processed meat, which is itself a Group 1 carcinogen, it almost certainly informs the common advice of soaking nests for a few hours before preparation.
Can confirm shark meat taste like piss
@@Michael-io6dbthat would imply that you know what piss tastes like.
@agamemnonofmycenae5258 it taste like shark
this is beautiful@@Michael-io6db
nah i'm gonna go ahead and bioconsume some shark fin soup bozo
4:54 erm is this real hawk tuah? 😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Somewhere between crunchy and chewy" describing most things. 😂
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What do Cosby and Moniz have in common? They “make people not remember things.”
You never fail us Sam😂😂
its like you wanted to pretend it was your joke but changed your mind half-way through
Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?!
@@nevergiveup59391. Whatever you feel like is right for you
2. Because everything has to die
3. Nothingness
@@nevergiveup5939you die two deaths. First, when your biological functions cease. The second death comes when the last memory of you vanishes from those who are still alive. When your existence is truly wiped away from reality, and all you are is a name on a slab of stone.
What is even the point of all of this? It's all futile, we can't change anything and no matter what we do, it all comes to an end eventually.
So anyways I just figured out I might as well live petting as many cats as I can.