I’m convinced that most things touted as “local delicacies” around the world were developed during famines when “real” foods were unavailable and parents had to convince unwilling, but still starving, kids to eat something that’s otherwise unpalatable merely for the sake of getting calories in order to survive.
They still serve Octopus and Birds Nest Soup in the Chinese Restaurants. I remember eating the soup as a child just because the family ate it. I'm an adult now, and I do not eat any of that kind of stuff. I'm a Vegan. 💕🙏
Chucks face regarding the birds nest soup resembled my face lol😂. Only since going Vegan 10 yrs ago do I since know what I'm actually eating. Grateful I wasn't that stupid person that makes fun of Vegans, and instead, I listened, and my compassion saved my life
here's my list of scary foods that Dr. Barnard didn't mention: 1 - ambergris 2 - alligator 3 - bush meat 4 - silkworms 5 - veal 6 - brains 7 - horse meat 8 - kangaroo 9 - snake soup 10 - blue cheese 11 (extra) - escargot Ambergris is so gross - but people still eat it - and it's considered a delicacy! I was waiting for him to say it lol, because I know it's totally gross to me! What's everyone else's top 10 list that is unique to everyone else's?
@@susanweiler4948 What about pork intestine soup did they have that too? Did they live a long time in good health? What about sweet potatoes did they like that food or it was just a tiny part of the diet?
@@StanDupp6371 Plants are the main source of the Okinawan diet & animal protein are a smaller percentage. However, Okinawa’s island has increasingly become populated with the western fast food market. Sadly, Okinawa may no longer be the Blue Zone.
I've been offered the fat of a hibernating toad mixed with sugar as a dessert in Asia, so glad I could say I'm vegetarian in their language(actually vegan)
i remember as a teenager working in a coal mine and driving into town and getting a big bag of deep fried chicken livers, of course none for me anymore
Nice timing to bring up the seemingly normal "foods" as it is that we already have horrors in our daily lives right on the kitchen tables and in the supermarkets, it just got normalized. we don't need to "look for" any scarier stories if we dare to confront the reality. 😮😢
1- 15.5 ounce can kidney beans drained and rinsed, 1- 15.5 ounce can of any beans you like drained and rinsed ( I alternated between black, pinto and cannellini), mash with potato masher, mix in 1 cup dry oats, 1 cup cooked whole grains ( I alternate between quinoa, millet and buckwheat), 4 tablespoons of any liquid that you like (catsup, crush tomato, salsa, bbq sauce, tomato sauce), 4 teaspoons of spices that you like (I use onion power, garlic powder, smoked paprika and turmeric), patty into 8 burgers, refrigerator for 15 minute to set and then bake, broil or fry. This is nutritionist Jeff Novick’s recipe and you may find a video on TH-cam? I add diced onions and peppers to mine and broccoli sprouts when I have them. Enjoy!
Before I was vegan, my favorite cheese was maggot cheese from Spain called cabrales 👺. You could find it sometimes in stores with leaves covering it to help it get really rotten 😅
@@NancyCope Okay…you may not personally have heard of Pecorino and fois gras. My bad. Surely you and OP know people eat liver, oysters and grilled chicken. Those are not rare foods.
Another good thing to talk about would be prion diseases, and how they might be transmitted from animals. Maybe already covered in another video? (I'm new here.)
I use a Vegan fertiliser and I use organic Mushroom soil. I belong to a Vegan permaculture fb page. An ex agriculture farmer told me Mushroom soil was better than the animal based ones. He was not vegan
No mention of gutter oil, perhaps because it's mainly a Chinese thing? Might be good to know how to avoid it if you're over there. And is it an issue in other Asian countries?
E. coli can come from meat if raw or very undercooked but most seem to come from plants and vegetables. McDonald’s E. coli outbreak seems to come from onions on the quarter pounder. Some of these foods to stay away from are delicacies in other countries. We are spoiled with the over abundance of food in our country. We don’t know what it’s like to be in a famine.
Before clicking on this, I thought: This must either be about things that are really bad for long-term health, maybe fried Twinkies or something like that, OR…what it indeed turned out to be. Am I glad it is? Well, I'm skieved out, then skieved again and again. But at least not bored. The other possibility I mentioned, the long-term, would have been just boring.
If you listen to the rhetoric of anti-civ thinkers, even though I disagree 100% with almost everything they say, it may well be that they are at least correct when they say that domesticating animals was really the original sin. By "domesticating" I suppose I'd lump in most any form of animal agriculture, probably even including skins for clothing, and other things. I think truly advanced technology will, in many ways, bring us almost back to where we started, in regard to no longer appropriating animals for food and other purposes.
If you're going to talk about any vision of modernity, any scenario for progress, you MUST include radical changes in how we deal with food. There are hideous things that are common in every corner of the Globe.
I have to point out that all ten of these are animal products. Think of anything disgusting, and over 90% of the time it comes from animals. It's just a fact.
Robyn, it seems kinda gross, doesn’t it. Sometimes, the truth really is revolting and upsetting. You describe exactly how it felt the first time that someone told me where natural casing comes from ( for hot dogs and sausages ).
I’m convinced that most things touted as “local delicacies” around the world were developed during famines when “real” foods were unavailable and parents had to convince unwilling, but still starving, kids to eat something that’s otherwise unpalatable merely for the sake of getting calories in order to survive.
They still serve Octopus and Birds Nest Soup in the Chinese Restaurants. I remember eating the soup as a child just because the family ate it. I'm an adult now, and I do not eat any of that kind of stuff. I'm a Vegan. 💕🙏
Love all the Halloween references! Love Dr. Barnard. Eat plants.
I am glad that I live in a place I can be picky with my food. 😮
Me too!
Soon you may have to get less picky. Hard times are coming.
@clacclackerson3678 looks like it😩
@@clacclackerson3678 Luckily we've learned to appreciate starch from mcDougall, in the future it might be the only choice.
Oh my goodness, cracking up on this one! Never ceases to amaze me what us humans will do. Thank you all for doing this. Love you guys!!
Thank You Chuck & Dr. Barnard for an excellent podcast. I shared to my Facebook with the words "this should go viral"
Very kind of you! 🙌
Chucks face regarding the birds nest soup resembled my face lol😂. Only since going Vegan 10 yrs ago do I since know what I'm actually eating. Grateful I wasn't that stupid person that makes fun of Vegans, and instead, I listened, and my compassion saved my life
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here's my list of scary foods that Dr. Barnard didn't mention:
1 - ambergris
2 - alligator
3 - bush meat
4 - silkworms
5 - veal
6 - brains
7 - horse meat
8 - kangaroo
9 - snake soup
10 - blue cheese
11 (extra) - escargot
Ambergris is so gross - but people still eat it - and it's considered a delicacy! I was waiting for him to say it lol, because I know it's totally gross to me!
What's everyone else's top 10 list that is unique to everyone else's?
Doctor forgot to talk about the “incredible, edible egg” which is basically a chicken’s menstruation! 🤢
Technically he did, the "birdsnest" is actually 2 chinese dishes. It's the birds nest in china, but it's an egg dish in European Chinese restaurants.
"Feed me Seymour!" (Without that important comma from "Little shop of horrors", it's obvious: Eat plants, before they eat you, or Seymour.)
He should have focused on Processed Food and Drinks that is available in grocery stores.
Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. 🐙 ❤
Happy to say, I have never had any of those things. Wow.
This scary topic should be an annual thing around Halloween. Perfect reminder of why we went vegan and part of the motivation to stick with it.
What is scary is a bunch of Okinawa centenarians are still consuming goats head soup and sea snake soup. What would a doctor say about that?
I lived in Okinawa & my grandparents are Okinawans. I remember goats & wild black pigs were consumed. After WW2 nothing was wasted on an animal.
@@susanweiler4948 What about pork intestine soup did they have that too? Did they live a long time in good health? What about sweet potatoes did they like that food or it was just a tiny part of the diet?
@@StanDupp6371
Plants are the main source of the Okinawan diet & animal protein are a smaller percentage. However, Okinawa’s island has increasingly become populated with the western fast food market. Sadly, Okinawa may no longer be the Blue Zone.
I've been offered the fat of a hibernating toad mixed with sugar as a dessert in Asia, so glad I could say I'm vegetarian in their language(actually vegan)
Can we get a transcript of this podcast? Such fascinating information!! Thank you!
A delicacy in Asian culture, thank you very much. Do your research.
i remember as a teenager working in a coal mine and driving into town and getting a big bag of deep fried chicken livers, of course none for me anymore
Lol! I used to love those! Gross!😂
Nice timing to bring up the seemingly normal "foods" as it is that we already have horrors in our daily lives right on the kitchen tables and in the supermarkets, it just got normalized. we don't need to "look for" any scarier stories if we dare to confront the reality. 😮😢
Side note: I’m giving out glow sticks for Halloween.
Love this episode!! Can someone share a low calorie, healthy vegan or bean burger recipe please? 💙
You can find a lot of recipes on TH-cam.
Oh you said low calorie. Maybe you can still find it on TH-cam or Google.
Just mix beans and oats and chopped onions and some tomato sauce. Form into patties and bake.
1- 15.5 ounce can kidney beans drained and rinsed, 1- 15.5 ounce can of any beans you like drained and rinsed ( I alternated between black, pinto and cannellini), mash with potato masher, mix in 1 cup dry oats, 1 cup cooked whole grains ( I alternate between quinoa, millet and buckwheat), 4 tablespoons of any liquid that you like (catsup, crush tomato, salsa, bbq sauce, tomato sauce), 4 teaspoons of spices that you like (I use onion power, garlic powder, smoked paprika and turmeric), patty into 8 burgers, refrigerator for 15 minute to set and then bake, broil or fry. This is nutritionist Jeff Novick’s recipe and you may find a video on TH-cam? I add diced onions and peppers to mine and broccoli sprouts when I have them. Enjoy!
@@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c sounds great. Thank you!
Before I was vegan, my favorite cheese was maggot cheese from Spain called cabrales 👺. You could find it sometimes in stores with leaves covering it to help it get really rotten 😅
A whole show about rare foods that nobody in their right mind would eat anyway.
People eat Pecorino and fois gras all the time.
@@chezsuzie what people? I've never even heart of it.
Some of those foods were common in my childhood. I think I have eaten almost anything that was usual in an Italian family.
@@NancyCope Okay…you may not personally have heard of Pecorino and fois gras. My bad. Surely you and OP know people eat liver, oysters and grilled chicken. Those are not rare foods.
Chuck you are so funny. The facial expressions are great. Gross topic but informative.
I've seen bird's nest soup on the menu in Chinese restaurants in the US.
Nathan's restaurant in NYC besides their famous hot dogs, also sells fried frog legs.....
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Mic issue
That number 1 is a horror show! Bravo!
Happy Halloween!
Another good thing to talk about would be prion diseases, and how they might be transmitted from animals. Maybe already covered in another video? (I'm new here.)
I use a Vegan fertiliser and I use organic Mushroom soil. I belong to a Vegan permaculture fb page.
An ex agriculture farmer told me Mushroom soil was better than the animal based ones. He was not vegan
No mention of gutter oil, perhaps because it's mainly a Chinese thing? Might be good to know how to avoid it if you're over there. And is it an issue in other Asian countries?
Thank God I'm vegan
Please get a new microphone for Dr. Barnard. The sound was terrible from his microphone-- very annoying sound!
I couldn't finish this episode - too gross. I very much appreciate the information shared on this channel though.
E. coli can come from meat if raw or very undercooked but most seem to come from plants and vegetables. McDonald’s E. coli outbreak seems to come from onions on the quarter pounder. Some of these foods to stay away from are delicacies in other countries. We are spoiled with the over abundance of food in our country. We don’t know what it’s like to be in a famine.
No more pecorino for me! I think I'm going to be sick
spooktacular!
Sound quality issue?
Before clicking on this, I thought: This must either be about things that are really bad for long-term health, maybe fried Twinkies or something like that, OR…what it indeed turned out to be. Am I glad it is? Well, I'm skieved out, then skieved again and again. But at least not bored. The other possibility I mentioned, the long-term, would have been just boring.
Glad I already ate before listening to all the gross foods that are still eaten.
This food was all so disgusting. Don't anybody ask where i'm getting my protien. Its not from maggots, toe fungus, bugs or any other disgusting thing.
Awful sound quality. Unlistenable on earbuds.
If you listen to the rhetoric of anti-civ thinkers, even though I disagree 100% with almost everything they say, it may well be that they are at least correct when they say that domesticating animals was really the original sin. By "domesticating" I suppose I'd lump in most any form of animal agriculture, probably even including skins for clothing, and other things. I think truly advanced technology will, in many ways, bring us almost back to where we started, in regard to no longer appropriating animals for food and other purposes.
Didn't explain why eating grasshoppers is bad for you. Or octopus. I'm not talking about ethics, of course.
How do they get that many birds nests. No wonder birds are declining around the world.
If you're going to talk about any vision of modernity, any scenario for progress, you MUST include radical changes in how we deal with food. There are hideous things that are common in every corner of the Globe.
Dr Barnard sure picked some nasty ones. Thank God I eat whole food plant-based. The looks on Chuck's face crack me up.
Just hearing all this is making me feel nauseous.
I'm horrified!
🙏🙏🙏
🤯
🤢🤢🤢
Ugh
😮😂😂😂
I have to point out that all ten of these are animal products. Think of anything disgusting, and over 90% of the time it comes from animals. It's just a fact.
🤢 interesting show!
😳🤢🤮
I thoroughly "enjoyed" 🤮 this video 🎪
Sorry. I couldn't continue watching this. I'm not sure who your audience should be for this one, but I'm not part of it.
I’m curious why this isn’t for you… Dr. Neil Barnard has changed millions of lives with a Whole Foods plant-based diet.
I’m here to be educated. The lesson here is, just because something has been labeled as a food by humans, doesn’t mean you should eat it.
Explain?
@@juliehoffman841plant based diets are generaly unhealthy, we evolved to eat meat.
Robyn, it seems kinda gross, doesn’t it.
Sometimes, the truth really is revolting and upsetting.
You describe exactly how it felt the first time that someone told me where natural casing comes from ( for hot dogs and sausages ).
Gross gross gross
What do you have against eating grasshoppers? Didn’t give any reason against it. Just close minded I guess.