Fun fact about mangosteen: locals in Indonesia use it to gamble. They remove the flowery part under it and people win by guessing correctly how many cloves it has inside. There's actually a saying here that says "tebak tebak buah manggis" which literally translated to "guessing the mangosteen fruit", a proverb we use when we are uncertain of an outcome or trying to gamble on our choices 🙂
I live in Denmark and I have a cucamelon plant in my small greenhouse. It grows like crazy and puts out SO many fruits I can't keep up with it. So I'll say it's a really easy cucumber to grow and if it thrives here in Denmark I'm sure it will easily thrive in the UK as well. Ebbers should add it to the allotment next spring. I usually just snack on them as they are or add them to salads.
They work brilliantly when pickled since the thicker skin results in them staying crunchy! Which is especially nice when the plant suddenly takes over the green house and you end up with kilos and kilos of them.
We have markets near where I live in Australia, and one of the stalls in that market is an Asian stall, and they make sugar cane juice fresh, and it’s delicious.
Hey, in Brazil too! Usually in street markets, and it's customary to have a snack and a sugarcane "juice", some people even sell fermented sugarcane juice known as Garapa. If you ferment it long enough, and distill it you get cachaça.
There’s a few fruits native to the UK that are rarely eaten - I’d love to see you source and try medlars, they’re in season just now, look like a butthole and have to be left to rot before eating. They taste like a mix between dates and cooked apples but a bit tangier, and make a lovely jelly! There’s also service berries but they are truly quite rare. Rosehips and hawthorn berries are also out just now!
@@wave1090 huh. I'll admit, I don't know much if at all about alcoholic drinks. I know a little, just from watching like HtD or Cocktail Chemistry, but not much.
Speak for yourself. I live in the US Midwest and we have morels and puffballs growing wild. I also grow different varieties at home and local stores have many varieties. LOVE mushrooms.
@@bcaye also a US midwestern and I can agree with you. Fried Morels are my favorite and going mushroom hunting every year is a hobby of mine. Kansas City, Mo here. Love me some mushrooms. All kinds
I’ve grown Sandiitas (cucamelons) before and I will say kids really love them! They’re tiny and cute and easy to eat so they’re great for a crudités platter or a veggie in a packed lunch. I will say in my experience the reason the guys might not have liked them as well as they could is because they really are best fresh-picked and picked right before they reach their full size. That way the skin is more tender and they’re less sour. If you do grow them (which I highly recommend) just know that the plants are very very vigorous and need to be trellised. Two plants got me hundreds of fruits across three months. They do love hot weather though and need a lot of sun and heat to really thrive. (I lived in Alabama in the US when I grew them and they were very happy on a 7ft tipi style trellis.)
I’m in Australia and I actually have some seeds just starting to germinate this week! I’m so excited to grow tiny cucamelons! Very pleased to hear you all enjoy them so much ☺️
Wow, as an Australian I never would've thought sugarcane, that I saw out the window at the farm nearby when I was a kid, was exotic. I remember the rain of ash after a burning. I've had sugarcane juice and it's quite nice.
Interesting. I'm austrian and have never seen sugar cane either. But sugar beets grow everywhere and pretty much all of our sugar is made from that, which is a thing you might not have ever seen.
It's really common in Mexico, too. You just buy a load of it at the market, or buy it prepped and chopped from a stall and chew it on for a nice treat.
These people are cooking with products made with sugarcane every week and then coming in talking about the plant like it's only grown by one tribe in antarctica
Haha, fancy seeing you here Weird Explorer! Been watching your channel for a long while now so I had no trouble knowing what they were eating. Thanks to you I definitely pick up unusual fruits that I happen to find now.
"The best revenge is that which waits the longest." Ben Ebbrell, continuing his career of punishing Barry for trusting him with mystery food. They all pick on Ebbers, but the man knows how to pick his moments!
Here (the Bahamas 🇧🇸) we eat soursop just as is, mixed with sweetened condensed milk as a kind of faux ice cream or blended into actual ice cream 🤤😋🤤😋🤤😋
In Thailand, sugarcane is one of the most grown crops and is grown mostly in the upstream central and western region. Usually, sugarcanes can be either sold to sugar factories, or sold as intact sugarcanes to be cut as chewing snacks or squeezed for juice by vendors. Atomic Shrimp has done a review of canned sugarcane juice imported from Thailand in one of his "Weird Stuff in a Can" videos. The way to obtain juice, either in the industrial level or street vendor level, is to squeeze by rolling mills, in the same way people in the past squeezed wet laundry. As sugarcanes grow really fast, they are considered as a "lucky plant" alongside banana trees in wedding parades and housewarming celebrations.
The same here in Dominican Republic! the most commonly sold in the streets is a redskin sugar cane, but we also have the one featured in the video. it's so good!!
I'm from Iowa, and my mom grows mouse melons, we actually sell them. We like to pickle them and they are super tasty. I was excited to see them in this video. It is always interesting to see a food that I recognize in these videos and then see that you guys don't know what they are.
I'm from Iowa too & we grew mouse melons to pickle. I didn't know they were exotic. Same with ground cherries ...they sell "golden berries" as expensive exotics, but they're really easy to grow---especially if you have a patch of sandy soil.
How would they know? They live a long way from IA. You remind me of when my dad and I went to the NOLA zoo and we're looking at some nutria. Some obnoxious teenage boy commented "Why would they have nutria, they're common as mice?" Dad calmly replied "Not in MO. Go away and stop ruining our vacation."
Barry made a good point about feeling better about using something that’s grown in your own part of the world instead of it being shipped halfway around it, just for a pretty plate. Especially when you know that people in the origin country might be deprived of it when something becomes trendy on our end of the globe.
:') mangosteens used to be pretty affordable in my country (SEA country), until the mangosteen craze kicked off in the West. Apparently they're anti-oxidant or anti-cancer or something? These days they're pricy as heck. I've only had them once in the last 5-ish years.
@@tiacho2893 that was the one I was thinking about when making my initial comment. Having the privilege of being able to eat food from all over the world comes with great responsibility.
Growing up in South Africa, we spent many a school holiday in the Kruger National Park. My uncle used to own a holiday home in an estate bordering the southern border of Kruger. There used to be (and probably still is) a large sugarcane plantation on the main road heading to the South Africa/Mozambique border. I can remember the plantation workers selling offcuts of sugarcane next to the side of the road and it was always a treat to buy sugarcane and chew on it for hours as we went game watching in Kruger.
Fun fact in the Mangosteen: you are able to tell the number of "seeds" inside the fruit by looking under it and counting the number of clover-shaped markings under it.
I really enjoyed this because I LOVE mangosteen and sugarcane, I remember my dad would get like 30-40 mangosteen in a bag and we would eat like 3-4 each in the afternoons in Thailand. So delicious and super fun to get into when you get a knack for it.
I just have to say that I really like how often Sortedfood uploads videos nowadays. Don't know the reason if there is one, or how long they will keep with it, but this channel has really grew into becoming one of my ultimate favourites so every time a new video pops up I'll watch it asap.
Mike and Barry's disappointment at uncovering the sour sop vs. my complete and utter delight at seeing one because I've had one about four years ago and have been thinking about it ever since 😬
Sugarcane is so nostalgic. As a child, I remember my mum and grandmum telling me if I eat sugarcane but bitting and pulling on the cane my teeth will be stronger and I will grow taller sooner. Though it was not true I still believe in it. Sugarcane is not only delicious when eating in its original form but also beautiful when mixed in with other fruit juices, drinks and food. Sugarcane juice is also very delicious when prepared correctly.
The soursop we grow in Cameroon is really sweet and delicious. It is my favorite fruit and it has so many medicinal values. We juice it and even boil the leaves and drink to help lower blood pressure.
I'd love to see a celebration of the guys friendship... Maybe meals from your school days or iconic times, your favourite times. The banter and way you're all so familiar with each other is one of the biggest reasons I watch Sorted.
Mangosteen is known as the Queen of Fruit for a reason. They are undeniably delectable. They are only available for about a month where I live and are rather absurdly priced but I'll be damned if I don't buy a bunch of them every year.
Mangosteen is probably my absolute favourite fruit. Alas, the ones I've bought in Europe (for an outrageous price) have always been disgusting, usually half rotten. Nothing that even approached the deliciousness of the ones that I tasted in Asia. I reckon they just don't travel well. You're lucky to live in a place where you can buy them fresh !
@@anne-claudec9405 It's a gamble every time I buy them. I live in Canada, we're not exactly known for our tropical fruit production. I know the ones I get aren't anything compared to the ones in Asia but if I still find them delicious HERE, I know they are incredible in Asia.
@@mokko759 If you are able to travel to Asia, definitely try out mangosteen. One of my favorite fruits here in Indonesia. Super sweet with a nicely creamy texture.
I'm so excited you boys tried the soursop! I went to a restaurant on the Oregon coast (U.S.) that their chef created a soursop sorbet- first time ever trying it myself, kinda reminds me of if a banana, pear & mango had a baby- it was quite tasty & the natural 'fizziness' the fruit gave definitely explains why the sorbet had that gentle effervescence to the tongue. Very impressed :D
I once bit into a Mangosteen to get to the centre and had the exact same sensation as Baz and Mike here. Watching them I could feel my face contorting and reliving that experience, but as they said, definitely worth it for the fruit inside!
I’m from Mexico and this is my first time hearing about cucamelons, I should be on the lookout for them. Otherwise, we have here all sorts of things made from guanábana, ice creams, gummies, juices... you name it, it’s just another fruit. Also, sugar cane is a traditional thing to put inside piñatas, alongside peanuts, tangerines, and tejocotes
I’m also from Mexico and this is the first time I hear of the cucamelon or sandita or sandía de ratón. But Mexico is big and diverse, maybe it’s used in certain regions. Besides a filling for traditional piñatas, I’ve also had sugar cane in punch, together with tejocotes and guavas.
I grew up having sugarcane juice in Venezuela! And also chewing on sugarcane sticks in my uncle’s farm! We also eat a lot of guanabana (my grandmother used to make a guanabana cake that it was to die for!) And then, living in Asia, I got to try the mangosteen and fell in love with it forever 😍 Love your vídeos, guys! Greetings from Madrid 🇪🇸
I have grown cucamelons in my garden for years and they are always unique and people love them. I usually just eat them raw or pickle them, and they are always an interesting talking point with people I work with.
Im so so happy that some of the fruit presented can be grown in Puerto Rico Guanabana (soursop) and Caña (sugar cane ) are a childhood staple get a nice frozen piece of cane and chew on it for a refreshing summer snack, so many memories
Oh the guyabano and the mangosteen have made me miss my childhood. 🥺 We used to have trees of those in our backyard, and would just gorge ourselves whenever they bore fruit. If you guys liked those, you might also like santol (cotton fruit), caimito (starapples) and aratilis (jamaican cherry). Santol in particular has a lot of different uses in traditional Filipino recipes.
I’m from Indonesia. I got so excited when you showed Barry and Mike the sugarcanes. Brought a lot of memories when I was a kid and going to the malls, I would buy sugarcane juice from the stalls. Its so sweet but not too sweet. I love it so much.
We grow Cucamelon in our garden in Oregon. The kids took them in lunches. I’ve pickled them (with alum or grape leaves for crisp) and we use them in salads. They’re very wispy vines but produce quite well, even this far north.
Ahhh boys you’ve made me miss Sri Lanka now with the sugar cane, soursop and mangostene. It was also absolutely hilarious watching Mike and Baz bite straight into a mangostene. Never thought I’d see anyone do that.
@@GirishManjunathMusic I'll never forget a supermarket near me making a mistake about 20 years ago. They had what should have been the price per mangosteen fruit as the price per kilo. I got three kilos before they noticed.
In Trinidad and Tobago, the cane cane is eaten just like they did it but cane juice is also popular. The Soursop is often made into smoothies or ice cream. They can both be found in gardens in the country. My parents have a Soursop tree in their garden.
Mangosteen is really great: its been years since I've had it but it is still one of my favorites. On a side note for exotic fruit you should try, I'd say to give either the Hardy Kiwi, Pineberry, or Rose Apple a try.
Yep mangosteens are great - had some when I was in Sri Lanka on holiday. How about Wood Apple (I've only had the jam), or the fruit of the cashew? Maybe even a mulberry or a chocolate vine or honeyberry. Maybe even a nice bletted medlar. Black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit) might be a good one too.
In Brazil we use sugarcane to make a sweet beverage called Garapa or Caldo-de-cana. It is just sugarcane squeezed, usually with lime, but we can drink it pure as well. It is fairly common to eat a Pastel (a fried pastry stuffed with meat) with a caldo-de-cana on saturday's morning.
Now all they need to do is the same amount of research on Barry's cognitive issues. They're all responsible about sourcing, sustainability and packaging, why don't they wake up and treat Barry like he deserves to be treated, instead of making fun of him all the time, and having who-knows-what impact on young viewers?
Fan from India here! In rural areas people generally "De-shell" sugarcane with their teeth and is a go-to snack! We also have sugarcane juice for a nice adrenaline kick :)
Aaaah, I love sanditas (cucamelons). I grew them at home in Texas before I moved away to the Seattle area two years ago, but it doesn't get hot enough here to get much of a crop, unless you have access to a greenhouse. My favorite preparation is an ACV quick pickle, equal parts quartered sanditas and quartered tomatillos, plus half as much sliced poblano pepper and a clove or two of garlic. I'll happily snack on them, or sometimes chop some up to toss in a tomatillo salsa to garnish barbacoa tacos.
I've lived in Louisiana, Thailand, and Taiwan so sugarcane has always been a common sight for me. Taiwan seems to use it most often as in every night market here you will see people grinding it into juice.
Thanks you guys, you just brought back a great childhood memory for me. I lived in Louisiana between the ages of 5-10 and I loved when my mom got us a chunk of sugarcane. For those that don't know while it is sweat it doesn't taste like your just eating plain sugar. Sugarcane has a pleasant taste all it's own. We all loved pealing open a section of cane and chewing on the white fibers inside for all that lovely sweetness. (best done outside so you can spit out the fibers when done) Now for cucamelons, aka cherry tomatoes that look like watermelons. I don't personally care for them but if you can grow tomatoes and you have a place for a trellis or trellis arch (recommend the arch, very cute to see these little things hanging over you and easy for kids to pick, eat and run. Best way to eat them and get kids to eat more veggies, just don't tell them. lol) If you don't have actual ground you could also use a large pot but the more important thing is actually the trellis as this is a vigorous vine plant. That being said I prefer giving that space in my garden to sweet 100 cherry tomatoes instead. As those are my favorite species of cherry tomatoes so far. Thanks again sorted for the great sugarcane memories. 🍬💜
True on the mangosteen part, it's very hard to find once the season is over. Never tried cucamelon but I've seen it being sold at some premium supermarket locally since it's not a native in my country. Luckily we have both sugarcane & soursop planted near our house gate. Can get them anytime
This was a rare time where I was able to identify (and eat) 3 of them. Love sugar cane juice. Love Soursop (Guyabano as we call them) and Mangosteen on their own. For next episode, I suggest calamansi. It's what we have here in the Philippines instead of lemons. Use it as 1 to 1 substitute. Also, sugar cane juice with calamansi to cut through the sweetness is the best way to have it
I live in the middle of nowhere, and the (one) local Asian store used to carry frozen sweetened calamansi juice concentrate, in a tube like you'd find orange juice in an American supermarket. I must have been the only person buying it because now they only carry the powdered calamansi for cooking, and life is worse.
Grew up eating sugar cane, soursop, and mangosteen with my grandparents. Grew cucamelons for the first time this year and have jars upon jars of pickled cucamelons that I am enjoying and will be enjoying all winter!
The way the mangostene looks reminded me of medlar a bit... I don't know how common they are throughout the UK or the west in general but I'd love to see you guys try medlar fruit. It's a weird fruit that requires bletting to become edible, though I preferred it ripe off the tree when I was a kid much more.
I am dominican and with the soursop/guanabana you can either eat straight up or you pick the seeds out, chuck the pulp in a blender add some evaporated milk and some sugar you throw some ice cubes as well or make it with the frozen fruit, and it's absolutely delicious. We call it champola. You could also freeze the champola and eat it as a frozen treat in a hot summer day.
I have had sugar cane before. Where I am from, we have a Sorghum Festival each year and there are some cane farmers who set up their tractors and mills to process the cane and make the Sorghum on site. They always hand out pieces of cane to all the children and a lot of the adults as well. It's funny to watch people from the city when they first try cane.
The song Bare Necessities is my favorite song from The Jungle Book, and when Ben read that one long tongue-twister of a line from the song, it made me LOL. It was great.
For soursop you can make ice shaving soursop from it... A nice spoonfull of soursop + ice shaving + condense milk... Perfect for summer 👍🏻 Edit : Fun fact about mangosteen, the skins contain antioxidant so there a lot of pharmateutical company here make an antioxidant pills from that... The extract of mangosteen fruit..
I genuinely appreciate the recognition of the history of sugarcane because it cannot be forgotten and glossed over as a novelty food, its history is a part of it
I agree but I feel that using the term "trading triangle" sanitises it a bit though. I would have respected the use of the word "slave" being used as part of the explanation.
@@AnstariaJones specially because it still heapens today, in Brasil police is constantly setting free people that live like slaves on sugar cane plantations.
I have an exam soon and I'm literally surviving off of Sortedfood videos during breaks for entertainment. So glad you posted a new video! I had almost watched all of the latest ones!!
I ate heaps of sugarcane when I was a kid..., couldn't wait for my Dad to bring some back from the markets..., one of my fond memories of my childhood. I grow cucamelons every summer (have some growing at the moment) I use them cut into quarters in salads.
I love items with Soursop in it. the first time I tasted In had bought a canned version of soursop at a local shop selling them. However it's almost impossible to get them fresh (unless paying just to much for them) I would also love to try the other fruits and the sugarcane. here in the Netherlands sugar is more harvested out of sugar beets.
When I was a kid we used to buy sugar cane juice (aka garapa or caldo de cana) from carts in fairs, street markets and parks on the weekends. My favorite was sugar cane juice with lots of ice and a touch of lime juice. Delicious!
I cultivated the cucamelons on my balcony last year - in germany. They can be grown in a big pot and a trellis no problem! So even if you live in europe, give them a try and grow them yourself! Really fun. :)
I haven’t seen sugar cane and guanábana in so long. Reminds me of my childhood. I don’t remember guanabana being sour, I used to have it in smoothies and of course freeze it(ice cream) So good. This video made my day.
I just had sugarcane the other day! I was so excited to see it, definitely a favourite treat here in Jamaica. First you guys did stinking toe and now sugar cane! I feel like my food culture is being seen. 🥺💯 It's an awesome feeling to recognise something that's been apart of your upbringing.💕🇯🇲
(Halves a Sugarcane) Mike: “I am strong.” Me: “I’d like to present Exhibit A where Mike drank water after he tried that bitter agent they add in household products aka Bitrex.”
I'm from Florida, specifically the Everglades, where we have the biggest sugarcane crop in the country. Controlled burning is a thing, it helps cut done on production costs by burning away all the leaves. Smaller fields near houses tend to be burned during the day while larger fields away from houses can be burned day or night. We often go "rabbit hunting" during the burn as field rabbits run out. I don't go because you also have huge spiders that crawl out of the field as well.. My father worked for the sugar company. He'd sometimes bring home a few stalks from that days burn and my family would sit on our back porch at night and chew on them after dinner.
@7:24 Barry doesn't realise lemon juice and cream is basically sour cream. Also, sugarcane is better eaten as cubes that fit your mouth and can easily chew and throw the pulp away
7:05 we have a smaller version of this. It's lovely. And super creamy but it's usually better to eat the brown ones, when it's really really soft. At least the ones found here. They're lovely though. The version here is sweet though, not sour at all. It's very custardy. But maybe it's just the version available here.
I live in Davao Philippines so sugar cane, soursop (guyabano), and mangosteen are very abundant here. hope to see more exotic fruits to be tasted or be a theme ingredient on the kitchen battle.
In Mexico, we regularly add sugarcane sticks to fruit punch (completely different to regular fruit punch), In my opinion it’s the absolute best part of it
I was exposed to guanabana when I spent some time in Colombia South America. Fell in love with the smoothie version of it. Also goes REALLY well with gold rums. I've told friends the flavor is kinda like strawberry, apple, and banana + creaminess. Glad you all got ahold of some. Cant stress enough, make some rum cocktails with it!
I live in Australia and we have a tropical fruit farm that grows allll the fun fruits nearby. I LOVE soursop (aka fruit tingle fruit) and it makes awesome sorbet! And we often have sugar cane juice with fresh lime and ginger at local markets.
Haha, watching this literally while eating sugarcane! They are super common here in India and just few days back there was a festival of which sugarcane are core. So you can be assured that during this time, almost everyone has sugarcane in their home.
we have sugarcane juice stalls here at hawker centers and it is delicious and extremely affordable. You can cut or squeeze some lemon in it and it tastes refreshing. Good for hot weather. Sugarcane juice is green in color when squeezed, unlike the white in the plant.
Cucamelons are not hybrids between watermelons and cucumbers, they’re their own species. They are however in the same family as both of them (cucurbitaceae).
For the sugar cane, Not just the tropics.. lol We used to grow it in Kentucky.. I can remember going out and getting some fresh from the field back in the 1970’s .. we also have wild rattan and bamboo here.. technically we border on the subtropical and piedmont zones..
You guys are so funny! Mangosteen season comes along the same time as the Durian season. So around twice a year. Choosing them is an art in itself. The skin has to be soft all around the fruit for it to be edible. Hard ones cannot be opened and should be thrown away. We eat them as it is. My fave! We drink Sugarcane juice on ice with a squeeze of lemon juice. Try it on a hot day, really refreshing. Soursop is eaten as it is or as a dessert. Over shaved ice with sugar syrup. Yums! Come to Singapore where I'm from. They are available here.
Fun fact about mangosteen: locals in Indonesia use it to gamble. They remove the flowery part under it and people win by guessing correctly how many cloves it has inside. There's actually a saying here that says "tebak tebak buah manggis" which literally translated to "guessing the mangosteen fruit", a proverb we use when we are uncertain of an outcome or trying to gamble on our choices 🙂
That's such cool trivia
Such a random fun fact! ^_^
Thanks, that's a fun fact! Really interesting 😊🖤
Rather than removing the "cheat" flowery part, i think it's more fun to use it to find the 4 or 8 cloved mangosteen fruit cause they're kinda rare lol
Thats fun, in america we have a ton of variations, but my favorite one that is positive, is "roll of the dice".
I live in Denmark and I have a cucamelon plant in my small greenhouse. It grows like crazy and puts out SO many fruits I can't keep up with it. So I'll say it's a really easy cucumber to grow and if it thrives here in Denmark I'm sure it will easily thrive in the UK as well. Ebbers should add it to the allotment next spring.
I usually just snack on them as they are or add them to salads.
My Mum's friend used to grow them on their allotment in Portsmouth, UK. They're really good.
They work brilliantly when pickled since the thicker skin results in them staying crunchy! Which is especially nice when the plant suddenly takes over the green house and you end up with kilos and kilos of them.
Tak for tippet :)
A note on Sugarcane: In India, there are so many stalls that crush Sugarcane to make juice. It’s brilliant. Makes me want to have some again.
We have markets near where I live in Australia, and one of the stalls in that market is an Asian stall, and they make sugar cane juice fresh, and it’s delicious.
We do that too in trinidad..plus sugarcane is really good after a few hours in the fridge..
Have seen this in Jordan and Kenya also
Hey, in Brazil too! Usually in street markets, and it's customary to have a snack and a sugarcane "juice", some people even sell fermented sugarcane juice known as Garapa. If you ferment it long enough, and distill it you get cachaça.
We also have them here in Brazil, i love some fresh squeezed cana.
There’s a few fruits native to the UK that are rarely eaten - I’d love to see you source and try medlars, they’re in season just now, look like a butthole and have to be left to rot before eating. They taste like a mix between dates and cooked apples but a bit tangier, and make a lovely jelly! There’s also service berries but they are truly quite rare. Rosehips and hawthorn berries are also out just now!
Sugar cane juice is really refreshing on a hot day…sometimes we mix it with some freshly squeezed lemon or sour plum…can be used in mojitos too
Now your'e talking. What cocktail would you go for?
Sugarcane in mojitos? Surely you've already got sugarcane in a mojito, it's a rum number innit?
@@SortedFood the only Pina colada I have ever liked had sugarcane in it. Normally I think Pina coladas are way too sweet, that one was perfect.
@@GirishManjunathMusic mojitos are made with white rum, lime juice, mint leaves and sugar cane juice.
@@wave1090 huh. I'll admit, I don't know much if at all about alcoholic drinks. I know a little, just from watching like HtD or Cocktail Chemistry, but not much.
I'd love to see an episode of this where you test unusual mushrooms. There's so many mushrooms and it's such a shame we only really use button caps
Speak for yourself. I live in the US Midwest and we have morels and puffballs growing wild. I also grow different varieties at home and local stores have many varieties. LOVE mushrooms.
It’s high time for this episode!
@@bcaye also a US midwestern and I can agree with you. Fried Morels are my favorite and going mushroom hunting every year is a hobby of mine. Kansas City, Mo here. Love me some mushrooms. All kinds
@@trillnix3043, I live in Columbia, neighbors!
YES
I’ve grown Sandiitas (cucamelons) before and I will say kids really love them! They’re tiny and cute and easy to eat so they’re great for a crudités platter or a veggie in a packed lunch. I will say in my experience the reason the guys might not have liked them as well as they could is because they really are best fresh-picked and picked right before they reach their full size. That way the skin is more tender and they’re less sour. If you do grow them (which I highly recommend) just know that the plants are very very vigorous and need to be trellised. Two plants got me hundreds of fruits across three months. They do love hot weather though and need a lot of sun and heat to really thrive. (I lived in Alabama in the US when I grew them and they were very happy on a 7ft tipi style trellis.)
I was about to say this same thing, I feel like they had some overripened gherkins
Yeah same, pick when they are not so seedy yet, they are delicious and a great snack while gardening
They are my absolute favorite thing to pickle.
I’m in Australia and I actually have some seeds just starting to germinate this week! I’m so excited to grow tiny cucamelons! Very pleased to hear you all enjoy them so much ☺️
@@caitlinallsopp8479 So jealous, that you guys are going into spring now. Here it‘s cold, miserable winter. 😭
Wow, as an Australian I never would've thought sugarcane, that I saw out the window at the farm nearby when I was a kid, was exotic. I remember the rain of ash after a burning. I've had sugarcane juice and it's quite nice.
I'm a SAffa. Sugarcane was a nice little treat once in a while. Chewing on it, watching Growing Pains and The Nanny. Showing me age eh?
Interesting. I'm austrian and have never seen sugar cane either. But sugar beets grow everywhere and pretty much all of our sugar is made from that, which is a thing you might not have ever seen.
It's really common in Mexico, too. You just buy a load of it at the market, or buy it prepped and chopped from a stall and chew it on for a nice treat.
Honestly I grew up in Florida and we had sugar cane growing in our trailer park 😂
These people are cooking with products made with sugarcane every week and then coming in talking about the plant like it's only grown by one tribe in antarctica
Careful once you go down this rabbit hole, you may not get back out.
Funny I was thinking of your channel as I was watching this.
oh hello, fancy meeting you here ...
sadly, durian season in southeast asia feels a bit empty unfortunately ...
I was just about to comment and mention your channel for anyone that may be looking for more weird fruits 😄
I thought for sure I'd beat you here! Dang it.
Haha, fancy seeing you here Weird Explorer! Been watching your channel for a long while now so I had no trouble knowing what they were eating. Thanks to you I definitely pick up unusual fruits that I happen to find now.
"The best revenge is that which waits the longest." Ben Ebbrell, continuing his career of punishing Barry for trusting him with mystery food. They all pick on Ebbers, but the man knows how to pick his moments!
Here (the Bahamas 🇧🇸) we eat soursop just as is, mixed with sweetened condensed milk as a kind of faux ice cream or blended into actual ice cream 🤤😋🤤😋🤤😋
flipping heck that sounds like perfection!
That sounds amazing!!!
@@SortedFood Sounds like the start of an alternative ice cream challenge to me. Bananas are also a great ingredient to disguise the not-dairy.
Here in Brazil we mix it simply with milk. We also call it "graviola", not whatever word Ebbers used.
@@sylviatamieanan4088 odd I had a Brazilian (?) drink in London which was called guanabana
As soon as the pawpaw came out I started humming along to 'Bear Necessities'. So glad Ben referenced that line in the show.
In Thailand, sugarcane is one of the most grown crops and is grown mostly in the upstream central and western region. Usually, sugarcanes can be either sold to sugar factories, or sold as intact sugarcanes to be cut as chewing snacks or squeezed for juice by vendors. Atomic Shrimp has done a review of canned sugarcane juice imported from Thailand in one of his "Weird Stuff in a Can" videos. The way to obtain juice, either in the industrial level or street vendor level, is to squeeze by rolling mills, in the same way people in the past squeezed wet laundry.
As sugarcanes grow really fast, they are considered as a "lucky plant" alongside banana trees in wedding parades and housewarming celebrations.
Chai
Man I use to drink sugarcane juice
The same here in Dominican Republic! the most commonly sold in the streets is a redskin sugar cane, but we also have the one featured in the video. it's so good!!
Atomic Shrimp ❤️🦐
Same in Pakistan :)
I'm from Iowa, and my mom grows mouse melons, we actually sell them. We like to pickle them and they are super tasty. I was excited to see them in this video. It is always interesting to see a food that I recognize in these videos and then see that you guys don't know what they are.
I'm from Iowa too & we grew mouse melons to pickle. I didn't know they were exotic. Same with ground cherries ...they sell "golden berries" as expensive exotics, but they're really easy to grow---especially if you have a patch of sandy soil.
How would they know? They live a long way from IA.
You remind me of when my dad and I went to the NOLA zoo and we're looking at some nutria. Some obnoxious teenage boy commented "Why would they have nutria, they're common as mice?"
Dad calmly replied "Not in MO. Go away and stop ruining our vacation."
Barry made a good point about feeling better about using something that’s grown in your own part of the world instead of it being shipped halfway around it, just for a pretty plate.
Especially when you know that people in the origin country might be deprived of it when something becomes trendy on our end of the globe.
Yeah, definitely worth being aware of!
:') mangosteens used to be pretty affordable in my country (SEA country), until the mangosteen craze kicked off in the West. Apparently they're anti-oxidant or anti-cancer or something? These days they're pricy as heck. I've only had them once in the last 5-ish years.
Same with the past popularity of quinoa. Poorer Peruvians saw the prices rise because of exports and had to switch to other food staples.
@@Frostdraga that’s so sad to hear. And a good reminder for all of us to check where the fruit we’re eating comes from.
@@tiacho2893 that was the one I was thinking about when making my initial comment. Having the privilege of being able to eat food from all over the world comes with great responsibility.
Growing up in South Africa, we spent many a school holiday in the Kruger National Park. My uncle used to own a holiday home in an estate bordering the southern border of Kruger. There used to be (and probably still is) a large sugarcane plantation on the main road heading to the South Africa/Mozambique border. I can remember the plantation workers selling offcuts of sugarcane next to the side of the road and it was always a treat to buy sugarcane and chew on it for hours as we went game watching in Kruger.
Fun fact in the Mangosteen: you are able to tell the number of "seeds" inside the fruit by looking under it and counting the number of clover-shaped markings under it.
that works with citruses. tear out that "pimple", which is remain of a stem/flower, and count yellowish dots under it
I never knew this! Thanks guys, such great tips!
Thanks KJ TB and MisanthropyFerret for that. Learnt something new today.
awesome tips, thanks to both of you
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I really enjoyed this because I LOVE mangosteen and sugarcane, I remember my dad would get like 30-40 mangosteen in a bag and we would eat like 3-4 each in the afternoons in Thailand. So delicious and super fun to get into when you get a knack for it.
Would really love to see some battles, challenges, or a pass it on with exotic fruit and foods you guys have been discovering
I just have to say that I really like how often Sortedfood uploads videos nowadays. Don't know the reason if there is one, or how long they will keep with it, but this channel has really grew into becoming one of my ultimate favourites so every time a new video pops up I'll watch it asap.
Maybe next you could try taste testing exotic cheeses?
amazing idea!!! We'll start our research!
@@SortedFood Two words: Casu Martzu. I'm sorry.
Or Rommadur, from southern Germany
@@SortedFood ah then definitely look up Rygeost and Potkæs/potkäse if you're feeling particularly adventurous
Poor Mike. 😂
Mike and Barry's disappointment at uncovering the sour sop vs. my complete and utter delight at seeing one because I've had one about four years ago and have been thinking about it ever since 😬
Even in the tropics it's underrated
Big fan of soursop
Sugarcane is so nostalgic. As a child, I remember my mum and grandmum telling me if I eat sugarcane but bitting and pulling on the cane my teeth will be stronger and I will grow taller sooner. Though it was not true I still believe in it. Sugarcane is not only delicious when eating in its original form but also beautiful when mixed in with other fruit juices, drinks and food. Sugarcane juice is also very delicious when prepared correctly.
The soursop we grow in Cameroon is really sweet and delicious. It is my favorite fruit and it has so many medicinal values. We juice it and even boil the leaves and drink to help lower blood pressure.
I’m very impressed that Ben got all the way through those lyrics in what I shall I assume was the first take 😝
As soon as I saw that prickly pear, the song came out of my mouth lol I've never had one though. That's what it looks like in Baloo's paw 🐾 lol
He juggles basketballs AND words with panache!
I'd love to see a celebration of the guys friendship... Maybe meals from your school days or iconic times, your favourite times. The banter and way you're all so familiar with each other is one of the biggest reasons I watch Sorted.
Barry's hair is getting fluffier and fluffier
Barry: if I cant create the cloud egg... I must BECOME the cloud egg!
His mane is legendary and magical.
Ben: *exOtiC fRuIts, yaY*
Mike and Barry: *War Flashbacks*
Mangosteen is known as the Queen of Fruit for a reason. They are undeniably delectable. They are only available for about a month where I live and are rather absurdly priced but I'll be damned if I don't buy a bunch of them every year.
Mangosteen is probably my absolute favourite fruit. Alas, the ones I've bought in Europe (for an outrageous price) have always been disgusting, usually half rotten. Nothing that even approached the deliciousness of the ones that I tasted in Asia. I reckon they just don't travel well.
You're lucky to live in a place where you can buy them fresh !
@@anne-claudec9405 It's a gamble every time I buy them. I live in Canada, we're not exactly known for our tropical fruit production.
I know the ones I get aren't anything compared to the ones in Asia but if I still find them delicious HERE, I know they are incredible in Asia.
@@mokko759 If you are able to travel to Asia, definitely try out mangosteen. One of my favorite fruits here in Indonesia. Super sweet with a nicely creamy texture.
Mangosteens are absolute delicious and when i just watched them bite it whole i couldn't help but scream " thats not how you eat them! "
now, we will never forget! haha
True! I literally closed my eyes can’t watch for the pain
Ben is so mean, sometimes!😂😂😂😂
I now want to try to make a cider, sour ale or a wheat ale with it.
Using that bit as the thumbnail was a genius move. As a Southeast Asian, I immediately clicked 🤣
I'm so excited you boys tried the soursop! I went to a restaurant on the Oregon coast (U.S.) that their chef created a soursop sorbet- first time ever trying it myself, kinda reminds me of if a banana, pear & mango had a baby- it was quite tasty & the natural 'fizziness' the fruit gave definitely explains why the sorbet had that gentle effervescence to the tongue. Very impressed :D
In Brazil we have juice, popsicles and soursop’s ice cream! It is nice 😊
Soursop can also be used for tea and you can make ice cream with it. 😋 It also is medicinal 🇹🇹
Brilliant! thanks for the extra info
Oooh, yes. The leaves, not the fruit tho
Came here to say that. Got soursop tea from Sri Lanka and it was so good. I think the brand was called Mensa
Your videos make learning enjoyable and accessible. Keep up the excellent work!
I once bit into a Mangosteen to get to the centre and had the exact same sensation as Baz and Mike here. Watching them I could feel my face contorting and reliving that experience, but as they said, definitely worth it for the fruit inside!
BEN, that reading of the lyrics was spot on, and if you did that in a single take hats off to you...! And now the song is gonna be stuck in my head...
I’m from Mexico and this is my first time hearing about cucamelons, I should be on the lookout for them. Otherwise, we have here all sorts of things made from guanábana, ice creams, gummies, juices... you name it, it’s just another fruit.
Also, sugar cane is a traditional thing to put inside piñatas, alongside peanuts, tangerines, and tejocotes
The name cucamelon was made up in English. In Mexico the fruit is called sandita or sandía de ratón. Botanists call them _Melothria scabra._
I’m also from Mexico and this is the first time I hear of the cucamelon or sandita or sandía de ratón. But Mexico is big and diverse, maybe it’s used in certain regions.
Besides a filling for traditional piñatas, I’ve also had sugar cane in punch, together with tejocotes and guavas.
I grew up having sugarcane juice in Venezuela! And also chewing on sugarcane sticks in my uncle’s farm! We also eat a lot of guanabana (my grandmother used to make a guanabana cake that it was to die for!)
And then, living in Asia, I got to try the mangosteen and fell in love with it forever 😍
Love your vídeos, guys!
Greetings from Madrid 🇪🇸
I have grown cucamelons in my garden for years and they are always unique and people love them. I usually just eat them raw or pickle them, and they are always an interesting talking point with people I work with.
Oh cool
Im so so happy that some of the fruit presented can be grown in Puerto Rico Guanabana (soursop) and Caña (sugar cane ) are a childhood staple get a nice frozen piece of cane and chew on it for a refreshing summer snack, so many memories
Oh the guyabano and the mangosteen have made me miss my childhood. 🥺 We used to have trees of those in our backyard, and would just gorge ourselves whenever they bore fruit.
If you guys liked those, you might also like santol (cotton fruit), caimito (starapples) and aratilis (jamaican cherry). Santol in particular has a lot of different uses in traditional Filipino recipes.
TRUE! Or kamiyas/iba, the super sour fruit you use for kilawin (fish ceviche)!
I’m from Indonesia. I got so excited when you showed Barry and Mike the sugarcanes. Brought a lot of memories when I was a kid and going to the malls, I would buy sugarcane juice from the stalls. Its so sweet but not too sweet. I love it so much.
I love how suspicious they were about them all tasting nice, and then Ebbers tortures them by telling them to eat the skin of that mangosteen! ♥
I love when I’m reading through the comments and it happens in the video just as I read the comment 😂 that was hilarious 😂
To be fair, he didn't tell them to eat the skin, he told them to eat it and they did it in the predictably wrong way haha.
We grow Cucamelon in our garden in Oregon. The kids took them in lunches. I’ve pickled them (with alum or grape leaves for crisp) and we use them in salads. They’re very wispy vines but produce quite well, even this far north.
Ahhh boys you’ve made me miss Sri Lanka now with the sugar cane, soursop and mangostene. It was also absolutely hilarious watching Mike and Baz bite straight into a mangostene. Never thought I’d see anyone do that.
Aww I want mangosteen now and they're so expensive near my house.
Right? I honestly did not think that anyone would bite into one. But my mom loves them. Makes us stop everytime if we see it by the road side
@@GirishManjunathMusic I'll never forget a supermarket near me making a mistake about 20 years ago. They had what should have been the price per mangosteen fruit as the price per kilo. I got three kilos before they noticed.
Miss these two but definitely not woodapple which is the worst.
Wow.. 3 exotic fruits that are grown in Sri Lanka. Awesome!
In Trinidad and Tobago, the cane cane is eaten just like they did it but cane juice is also popular. The Soursop is often made into smoothies or ice cream. They can both be found in gardens in the country. My parents have a Soursop tree in their garden.
Mangosteen is really great: its been years since I've had it but it is still one of my favorites.
On a side note for exotic fruit you should try, I'd say to give either the Hardy Kiwi, Pineberry, or Rose Apple a try.
Yep mangosteens are great - had some when I was in Sri Lanka on holiday. How about Wood Apple (I've only had the jam), or the fruit of the cashew? Maybe even a mulberry or a chocolate vine or honeyberry. Maybe even a nice bletted medlar. Black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit) might be a good one too.
In Brazil we use sugarcane to make a sweet beverage called Garapa or Caldo-de-cana. It is just sugarcane squeezed, usually with lime, but we can drink it pure as well.
It is fairly common to eat a Pastel (a fried pastry stuffed with meat) with a caldo-de-cana on saturday's morning.
Always love the amount of research you do on these foods!! I've learned so much from the sorted crew!
can't do much research if they're gong to call sugar cane a fruit
Now all they need to do is the same amount of research on Barry's cognitive issues. They're all responsible about sourcing, sustainability and packaging, why don't they wake up and treat Barry like he deserves to be treated, instead of making fun of him all the time, and having who-knows-what impact on young viewers?
@@Drnaynay hhhh
@@Annie1962 I'm pretty sure I heared Ben say it's actually a grass, but classed as a fruit.
Sugarcane is such a nice childhood memory. As a child in the 1908s I got a piece from family that visited from Brazil. It was really special.
Fan from India here! In rural areas people generally "De-shell" sugarcane with their teeth and is a go-to snack! We also have sugarcane juice for a nice adrenaline kick :)
Aaaah, I love sanditas (cucamelons). I grew them at home in Texas before I moved away to the Seattle area two years ago, but it doesn't get hot enough here to get much of a crop, unless you have access to a greenhouse. My favorite preparation is an ACV quick pickle, equal parts quartered sanditas and quartered tomatillos, plus half as much sliced poblano pepper and a clove or two of garlic. I'll happily snack on them, or sometimes chop some up to toss in a tomatillo salsa to garnish barbacoa tacos.
I've lived in Louisiana, Thailand, and Taiwan so sugarcane has always been a common sight for me. Taiwan seems to use it most often as in every night market here you will see people grinding it into juice.
Cucamelons are absolutely adorable and they’ve made me unreasonably happy!
I can totally see a smoothie with all four of these tropical ingredients in it if you get the ratios right. Might be a fun idea.
Smoothies, custards, ice creams! The possibilities
Mangosteen has too little of a yield to make a smoothie. Each clove ban be half seed. Also quite difficult to separate it other than eating it.
Thanks you guys, you just brought back a great childhood memory for me. I lived in Louisiana between the ages of 5-10 and I loved when my mom got us a chunk of sugarcane. For those that don't know while it is sweat it doesn't taste like your just eating plain sugar. Sugarcane has a pleasant taste all it's own. We all loved pealing open a section of cane and chewing on the white fibers inside for all that lovely sweetness. (best done outside so you can spit out the fibers when done)
Now for cucamelons, aka cherry tomatoes that look like watermelons. I don't personally care for them but if you can grow tomatoes and you have a place for a trellis or trellis arch (recommend the arch, very cute to see these little things hanging over you and easy for kids to pick, eat and run. Best way to eat them and get kids to eat more veggies, just don't tell them. lol) If you don't have actual ground you could also use a large pot but the more important thing is actually the trellis as this is a vigorous vine plant. That being said I prefer giving that space in my garden to sweet 100 cherry tomatoes instead. As those are my favorite species of cherry tomatoes so far.
Thanks again sorted for the great sugarcane memories. 🍬💜
Soursop ice cream is one of the best flavours! 🇹🇹
True on the mangosteen part, it's very hard to find once the season is over. Never tried cucamelon but I've seen it being sold at some premium supermarket locally since it's not a native in my country. Luckily we have both sugarcane & soursop planted near our house gate. Can get them anytime
This was a rare time where I was able to identify (and eat) 3 of them. Love sugar cane juice. Love Soursop (Guyabano as we call them) and Mangosteen on their own.
For next episode, I suggest calamansi. It's what we have here in the Philippines instead of lemons. Use it as 1 to 1 substitute. Also, sugar cane juice with calamansi to cut through the sweetness is the best way to have it
I live in the middle of nowhere, and the (one) local Asian store used to carry frozen sweetened calamansi juice concentrate, in a tube like you'd find orange juice in an American supermarket. I must have been the only person buying it because now they only carry the powdered calamansi for cooking, and life is worse.
Grew up eating sugar cane, soursop, and mangosteen with my grandparents. Grew cucamelons for the first time this year and have jars upon jars of pickled cucamelons that I am enjoying and will be enjoying all winter!
The way the mangostene looks reminded me of medlar a bit... I don't know how common they are throughout the UK or the west in general but I'd love to see you guys try medlar fruit. It's a weird fruit that requires bletting to become edible, though I preferred it ripe off the tree when I was a kid much more.
I just learned yesterday that until the Victorian period, a medlar was called by its Saxon name “openarse” 😂
@@ryanbeckman8453 A fitting name if I've ever seen one lmaoo
@@ryanbeckman8453 I've heard them called monkey-arses
I am dominican and with the soursop/guanabana you can either eat straight up or you pick the seeds out, chuck the pulp in a blender add some evaporated milk and some sugar you throw some ice cubes as well or make it with the frozen fruit, and it's absolutely delicious. We call it champola. You could also freeze the champola and eat it as a frozen treat in a hot summer day.
I loved the tiny watermelons! Such a cute way to spice up a salad! Thank you for the video, I missed Jamie tho! ☺️❤️
I have had sugar cane before. Where I am from, we have a Sorghum Festival each year and there are some cane farmers who set up their tractors and mills to process the cane and make the Sorghum on site. They always hand out pieces of cane to all the children and a lot of the adults as well. It's funny to watch people from the city when they first try cane.
one more thing for the mangosteen: you can dry the skin(rind?) and then steep them to make an amazing tea. just dont forget to add sugar
Or you can buy the extract. Because kulit manggis kini ada ekstraknya.
The song Bare Necessities is my favorite song from The Jungle Book, and when Ben read that one long tongue-twister of a line from the song, it made me LOL. It was great.
Always love a good practical joke, well done Ebbers! lol Great video you guys!
We grow Cucamelons in our garden in the US. My kids eat them off the vine. One of their favorite fresh snacks.
For soursop you can make ice shaving soursop from it...
A nice spoonfull of soursop + ice shaving + condense milk...
Perfect for summer 👍🏻
Edit :
Fun fact about mangosteen, the skins contain antioxidant so there a lot of pharmateutical company here make an antioxidant pills from that...
The extract of mangosteen fruit..
I genuinely appreciate the recognition of the history of sugarcane because it cannot be forgotten and glossed over as a novelty food, its history is a part of it
I agree but I feel that using the term "trading triangle" sanitises it a bit though. I would have respected the use of the word "slave" being used as part of the explanation.
@@AnstariaJones specially because it still heapens today, in Brasil police is constantly setting free people that live like slaves on sugar cane plantations.
@@AnstariaJones That was exactly my issue. I didn't like the use of that term at all.
I have an exam soon and I'm literally surviving off of Sortedfood videos during breaks for entertainment. So glad you posted a new video! I had almost watched all of the latest ones!!
Good luck with your exam finger crossed that you will pass it
I ate heaps of sugarcane when I was a kid..., couldn't wait for my Dad to bring some back from the markets..., one of my fond memories of my childhood. I grow cucamelons every summer (have some growing at the moment) I use them cut into quarters in salads.
I love items with Soursop in it. the first time I tasted In had bought a canned version of soursop at a local shop selling them. However it's almost impossible to get them fresh (unless paying just to much for them)
I would also love to try the other fruits and the sugarcane.
here in the Netherlands sugar is more harvested out of sugar beets.
When I was a kid we used to buy sugar cane juice (aka garapa or caldo de cana) from carts in fairs, street markets and parks on the weekends.
My favorite was sugar cane juice with lots of ice and a touch of lime juice. Delicious!
I cultivated the cucamelons on my balcony last year - in germany. They can be grown in a big pot and a trellis no problem!
So even if you live in europe, give them a try and grow them yourself! Really fun. :)
In that case... we'll give them a go!!! Coming to an allotment near Ebbers SOON!
They even grow in Canada's cold climate. 👍
Ofc they grow in coldee climates, they are cucumbers after all
I haven’t seen sugar cane and guanábana in so long. Reminds me of my childhood. I don’t remember guanabana being sour, I used to have it in smoothies and of course freeze it(ice cream) So good. This video made my day.
I just had sugarcane the other day! I was so excited to see it, definitely a favourite treat here in Jamaica. First you guys did stinking toe and now sugar cane! I feel like my food culture is being seen. 🥺💯 It's an awesome feeling to recognise something that's been apart of your upbringing.💕🇯🇲
And y'all tried soursop too! I love this show🇯🇲🙌🏾
Cucamelons are great garden snacks. I haven't had luck with pickling. But they are great to pick young and tender.
I'd love to see an episode on gooseberries. It's something i've grown up with but it's rarely seen in cooking videos.
Mangosteen and guyabano are some of my favorite fruits. And we can grow them in our garden! Niiiice
(Halves a Sugarcane)
Mike: “I am strong.”
Me: “I’d like to present Exhibit A where Mike drank water after he tried that bitter agent they add in household products aka Bitrex.”
I'm from Florida, specifically the Everglades, where we have the biggest sugarcane crop in the country. Controlled burning is a thing, it helps cut done on production costs by burning away all the leaves. Smaller fields near houses tend to be burned during the day while larger fields away from houses can be burned day or night. We often go "rabbit hunting" during the burn as field rabbits run out. I don't go because you also have huge spiders that crawl out of the field as well.. My father worked for the sugar company. He'd sometimes bring home a few stalks from that days burn and my family would sit on our back porch at night and chew on them after dinner.
@7:24 Barry doesn't realise lemon juice and cream is basically sour cream. Also, sugarcane is better eaten as cubes that fit your mouth and can easily chew and throw the pulp away
i ate all of these during my childhood and it was awesome to see them all
7:05 we have a smaller version of this. It's lovely. And super creamy but it's usually better to eat the brown ones, when it's really really soft. At least the ones found here. They're lovely though. The version here is sweet though, not sour at all. It's very custardy. But maybe it's just the version available here.
Cherimoya?
Ben's little looks at the camera are so funny in this video - on par with Jim from the office - ICONIC
I live in Davao Philippines so sugar cane, soursop (guyabano), and mangosteen are very abundant here. hope to see more exotic fruits to be tasted or be a theme ingredient on the kitchen battle.
In Mexico, we regularly add sugarcane sticks to fruit punch (completely different to regular fruit punch), In my opinion it’s the absolute best part of it
I think I prefer these more exploratory/discovery ones over the poker face ones!
Agreed, but I wish we got to see some of these in dishes like the poker face challenges.
@@NerdyMusicChef same
We've grown cucamelons in our garden the last couple of years. We eat them in salads or ferment them (which makes them taste like dill pickles).
I'd really like for you guys to try out Ube! They are amazing when made into a dessert or when used in baking!
One of my favorite episodes so far! Soursop is also often made into juice. Mangosteens are extra yummy when eaten chilled.
Ohh I love these vids these reactions are so funny 😂
I was exposed to guanabana when I spent some time in Colombia South America. Fell in love with the smoothie version of it. Also goes REALLY well with gold rums. I've told friends the flavor is kinda like strawberry, apple, and banana + creaminess. Glad you all got ahold of some. Cant stress enough, make some rum cocktails with it!
I live in Australia and we have a tropical fruit farm that grows allll the fun fruits nearby. I LOVE soursop (aka fruit tingle fruit) and it makes awesome sorbet! And we often have sugar cane juice with fresh lime and ginger at local markets.
Haha, watching this literally while eating sugarcane! They are super common here in India and just few days back there was a festival of which sugarcane are core. So you can be assured that during this time, almost everyone has sugarcane in their home.
Don't those cucamelons look like tinde?
we have sugarcane juice stalls here at hawker centers and it is delicious and extremely affordable. You can cut or squeeze some lemon in it and it tastes refreshing. Good for hot weather. Sugarcane juice is green in color when squeezed, unlike the white in the plant.
Cucamelons are not hybrids between watermelons and cucumbers, they’re their own species. They are however in the same family as both of them (cucurbitaceae).
yeah and they don't really taste of tomato, more like a slightly sour cucumber.
For the sugar cane, Not just the tropics.. lol We used to grow it in Kentucky.. I can remember going out and getting some fresh from the field back in the 1970’s .. we also have wild rattan and bamboo here.. technically we border on the subtropical and piedmont zones..
Love how a lot of these are just fruits we eat here casually in Philippines. Hope you enjoyed it!
You guys are so funny! Mangosteen season comes along the same time as the Durian season. So around twice a year. Choosing them is an art in itself. The skin has to be soft all around the fruit for it to be edible. Hard ones cannot be opened and should be thrown away. We eat them as it is. My fave! We drink Sugarcane juice on ice with a squeeze of lemon juice. Try it on a hot day, really refreshing. Soursop is eaten as it is or as a dessert. Over shaved ice with sugar syrup. Yums! Come to Singapore where I'm from. They are available here.