The tomatoes thing also stems from the middle ages, where people were eating tomatoes and getting really sick. In reality the problem was the lead plates people were eating off of, and the acid in the tomatoes was leaching more lead than other foods, but people blamed the tomatoes and not the lead.
Yeah, I even hear that some assassin snuck a tomato into George Washington's food to try to kill him, but because he didn't use a lead plate, he was perfectly fine.
For edible flowers: Always look up if a flower is safe to eat. I've used roses, lavender, elderflower, etc in my cooking/drinks and they can be wonderful additions to your cooking, however, much like mushrooms, you need to be careful that you only eat what you know is safe to eat.
@@kiarashnikkhaah8347 Butterfly Pea is amazing not only as an example of an edible flower but also as an amazing natural colorant! The color changing properties is has have wowed my friends and family and I highly recommend it for any pantry, along with lavender.
@@garycamara9955Rose is a common flavor for candies in the Middle East and surrounding areas, such as South Asia. Like I had rose flavored falooda, which is rose syrup, vermicelli, and sweet basil seeds with milk, often served with ice cream. Definitely an interesting flavor.
I once made jam with wild roses that my sis and I picked in northern Manitoba. The jelly had a nice sweet flavour and made a bunch of batches, we gave one to my grandfather
People have been using chili peppers as pest repellent in their gardens for a long time, so I'm not surprised humans have found a way to weaponize them. And if button mushrooms are your favorite, you should really try morels or chanterelles, they actually have flavor to them
@@PhoenixHealing Sure, but just make sure you know what you're doing, there are poisonous mushrooms that HIGHLY resemble morels and will kill you fast.
I recall some home gardening store selling bird seed laced with chili powder to discourage squirrels from eating them. Birds apparently don’t have taste buds and can eat the the spiced seeds just fine.
yeah 👍I'm sick of lists which just go into that "EaTiNg To MuCh Of ThIs cOuLd KiLl YoU bEcAuSe Of tHiS iNgReDiEnT" because that's a thing that can happen with most foods.
I like how this list is more about telling about the actual dangers of certain foods rather than fear mongering! It's also a bit odd hearing people who don't really like shellfish since I live in a place were shellfish is a quite common food to eat, especially during certain fishing seasons.
I assume if you like 'local' foods, it's kind of a stockholm syndrome? I assume I'd like tea if I'd been forced to drink it from a young age because that's just what us Brits do, right? Nah, smell always put me off.
@@temin2776 Yeah but it's more known as a thing here for me as this is where I've been most of my life? XD I'm sure other places have their own tea, they're not drinking PG Tips and have no idea of the monkey.
As a person with Cajun ancestry, the most humiliating thing to have when going to family reunions in Louisiana is a shellfish allergy. And what makes it worse is that I love the taste of Shellfish, but eating it could send me to the ER.
The marshmallows and Chubby Bunny topic actually reminded me of my childhood, but in a different way. Back when I attended a daycare, we used to play silly Chubby Bunny games. However, my provider used not marshmallows but whipped cream. Turned out to be a great alternative with less risks of choking. Because of this, I legit never knew the actual game used marshmallows. Knowing the reason why we used whipped cream has likely saved my life a couple times.
@@MrsSpyro01 I once cooked a brick of that cheapo Ramen in packs and proceeded to put the whole cooked mass of noodles in my mouth in one go, chew, and swallow it all without so much as a gag. Needless to say, I won that bet.
@Carterb92 right, actually I watched one of his videos the other day and he was kind of snarky about the United States. I get we all have biases, and the Media in the U.S. is a complete joke. I stopped watching the “news” during the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. First of all I did not like either candidate AT ALL lol, but I was seriously trying to research who I should vote for since I was nonpartisan. The media was largely in favor of Clinton, and that became evident once I started researching her political career that traced back to her involvement in Watergate 😧 So as much as I wanted to live to see a female president I did NOT want to vote for a documented murderer. Anyway then the opposite happened when I researched who I perceived as the most offensive, unpolished, irritating and off putting man I’d ever heard speak 😂 couldn’t find any accusations of inappropriate behavior that had been found credible, the media kept claiming he was racist, then as I researched I found he was favored by the NAACP, many black owned businesses and leaders of other black organizations. Racism is a very large concern of mine, I cannot tolerate treating people as if their skin tone magically determines their character. Anyway. Sorry this became political TL:DR, American media makes us sound like a bunch of insane, uneducated tools, and the world all thinks we are all stupid because of our current president.
As a person who has two family members that are allergic to shellfish, I’m glad you mentioned and acknowledged how people can get allergic reactions to them in the video. Edit: you forgot to add potatoes, pufferfish, live octopuses, apple and cherry seeds, cinnamon, and Akee to the video.
@@stevemarco8631 This is just off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure akee flesh can cause vomiting and death, apple and cherry seeds contain ( a small amount) of cyanide, live octopi legit suction cup you and could (?) be a chocking hazard. Potato leaves are very poisonous. I'm not sure about cinnamon but I know rhubarb leaves are also very poisonous.
Shellfish definitely crossed my mind. Come into contact with food or a surface that has touched seafood, and I develop anaphylaxis. My ex nearly killed me with a 💋
I know some people with peanut allergies and it’s severe. One girl at my sunday school was SO allergic to nuts that even smelling them made her sick. I work at an ice cream shop and if someone tells me they have a peanut allergy, I take serious precautions by washing my hands and put on gloves
I remember in Home Ec we were discussing safe food prep. I don't know how true the story is, but the teacher told a story of a man who put chili on to cook while he was at uni, ready to eat when he got home. He didn't prep the red beans properly and either made himself very sick or sadly died. I can't be sure which, it was over 10 years ago but the story really stuck with me.
Pro tip for anyone wanting to try spicy food: Dairy products are the best thing to neutralize the heat. Milk, yogurt, cheese, ANYTHING will do if you're panicking and desperate. Also heard donuts can work as well.
@@ArendAlphaEagle You don't need to drink the milk (whole milk specifically, skim doesn't have enough of the protein that breaks down the capsaicin). Swish it around your mouth and spit it out. Literally rinse and repeat. Swallowing is worse because you move the capsaicin into your stomach and intestines and can cause severe discomfort, especially when it leaves out the other end. That's why I stick to milder chilis like Jalapeno.
Tomatoes and potatoes are members of the nightshade family, that actually allows them to be grafted together to produce both potatoes and tomatoes as a crop ( Though apparently it prevents both from producing very large fruits, which makes sense, they actually are sold grafted together though, I think they're called ketchup and fries plants ), so, technically speaking, they are kinda poison. At least, they are related to poisonous plants. Gotta love people breeding plants to create strange mutations and hybrids of something once deadly into something relatively harmless
Fun story about Mushrooms: While on a one week field trip in College, one of the guys suddenly stood up late at night and exclaimed that he was going to eat a fly agaric mushroom. And with that he disappeared into the night. We called the teacher and went looking for the guy. When we found him, he had just straight up bitten into a fly agaric mushroom without cleaning it or picking it from the ground. And though they are not that dangerous, I would never recommmend you to eat them just out in the wild. This guy is the perfect example, because we did need to call an ambulance to get his stomach pumped. The worst part? I studied Biology. And one more thing for the ghost peppers: do NOT drink water after eating one. Water makes the pain worse. Drink milk.
Better yet, don't drink the milk, rinse your mouth and spit it out. Swallowing it will move the capsaicin into your stomach and intestines, irritating them, especially if you're sensitive, and making elimination later hurt.
To clarify, as a biochemist: the chemical that most directly gives peppers their spice is capsaicin. Capsaicin is largely non-polar, and thus hydrophobic. Water will pass down the gullet and take some but not all of the spice-chemical some but not all of the way down your throat. Imagine you have an oil spill, you try to hose it down with water, and instead the oil just covers more area? Same exact thing, only the oil causes you physical pain. Milk is a solution of water and various bipolar/amphipathic fatty compounds. Hence the milk "grabs" the capsaicin and is thus washed down. Kinda like soap does with dirt when washing your hands or clothes.
I can also recommend olives against the burn from spicy foods. When at a Mexican restaurant I found that they lessened the pain, even though it didn't completely disappear. I guess they help because olives are quite an oily food?
@@thumper188 fly agaric mushrooms are hallucinogenic. To get rid of that effect you have to boil them first. Also, you have to imagine that wild life is probably pissing on them and there is just a lot of dirt. You really have to clean them first.
As someone who loves spicy foods, I love the Idea of a "pepper grenade", it sounds like it's from a food based game, and I love it for that. Also great job as always, these are one of the few list channels I actually trust and enjoy!
The problem with peanut allergies is that many schools consider epipens drugs and the kids have to leave it with the school nurse, who may not get it to the kid in time. Same with asthma inhalers. And some parents go overboard with the whole issue.
That's so messed up?? I had to carry my inhaler with me all the time (obviously), I can't imagine not being able to grab it or quickly tell someone else to grab it... We don't really have school nurses here in Belgium though, but they probably would've been left at the secretary
When I was in school in the US 20 years ago I had the opposite problem. Adults just let me loose with inhalers and bottles of pills, and I intentionally tried to get high off them, but amazingly, nothing bad happened.
So don't listen to them I'll be damned if my child has sever asthma or allergies that they won't have rescue medicine in their pockets at all times with instructions on how to use so many don't know where to inject the pen
As someone Who suffers from anaphylaxis (Insect Stings) I fully agree. If the child is old enough and the parent informed the school that the child understands and knows how to use their EpiPen, they, just like anyone with severe anaphylaxis should always have their EpiPen within arms reach, seconds really do matter with allergies that severe a child can live and die based on a 30 sec. or one minute delay. I had such a difficult time in school because I have to carry an EpiPen, and two emergency drugs. One for my heart condition and one for epilepsy in case I feel an aura before a seizure. The entire point of rescue medication is that it is designed to prevent a serious health crisis that is imminent, you may not have time to get a teachers attention, get to or have the office notified and wait while the nurse is notified gets your medication and gets it to your location. This policy required me to be hospitalized due to not getting my EpiPen on time on one occasion. And probably the worst occurrence was when I was having a seizure aura and required my meds to stop it, I don’t know what the holdup was but it took over four minutes, and I had to have a full convulsive seizure in front of my entire class in middle school. Kids at school either not understanding the condition or just being mean as they are at that age teased and were very mean and said horrible awful things to me after they witnessed that. I’m 31 and to this day I remember one particularly mean girl who told the entire cafeteria that it looked like a Re**rd trying to ummm “play with themselves” (if you can’t tell I cleaned up the language of it). Then she proceeded to imitate the muscle spasms in the eye rolling while standing up and making it look as ridiculously goofy as possible. I will never forget an entire cafeteria of 250+ students, laughing at my condition, thinking to myself if they had to live one day with this disorder and receive the treatment that comes along with it they would never laugh about it again. So responsible informed children should absolutely have a right to carry emergency and rescue medication‘s at school. They could easily exempt legal medicine that fell under that category from Zero Tolerance. 😢 that experience left an emotional scar on me, but it made me strong as an adult and I have always tried to educate others who are misinformed, and I never back down anymore from standing up for my civil rights & medical rights under the ADA.
This was a very informative video, Phantom! I didn't even know about rice until now! Quick fun (or not) fact: peppers and tomatoes are part of the nightshade family, alongside eggplants and potatoes! I learned this while gardening with my Mom, who was confused as to why the tomatoes/peppers (can't recall which one) weren't growing as well as they did. You can't plant peppers/tomatoes in the same spot they were in last season or else they won't grow.
My grandfather worked as a mycologist for the bulk of his adult life. We have gone mushroom hunting my entire life, but I would never eat a mushroom (no matter how distinctive) unless Grandpa said it was safe. Thank you for making so many interesting and fun videos. You do good work.
A pro-mushroom hunter knew someone who ate poison mushrooms but survived. They supposedly tasted delicious, until the symptoms presented. There is one that kills you in two months, long after you forgotten the meal.
I'm shocked that there was no mention of pufferfish/fugu. I know it's a rare Japanese dish but it might be the most legendarily risky delicacy out there
Fun fact: apparently the farmed stuff is far safer to eat. I think it's a dietary/reef thing, since most survival manuals explicitly say to avoid eating fish caught on reefs due to their toxicity to humans.
Same. Pufferfish (also known as Fugu) is the only food I can think of where a resturant needs someone trained in preparing the food (known as a Qualified Fugu Handler) just to legally serve the dish, making it a rare delicacy that is mostly stuck in Japan, because if not propertly prepared, it can kill you within 4-6 hours.
@@coolbrotherj At this point I ask Japan why they even bother have it be an option for food in the first place if our species has to go through a bunch of hoops and hurdles to eat this rare delicacy and actually have it be edible? I get needing a license to cook and serve it but the need to have one to purchase it just scares people off therefore restricting it's access even more. If its this hard to be able to consume safely, it's likely not profitable. I get this is for the thrill seekers and high class citizens out there but this food regardless has always boggled my mind
Fun fact: I actually have a SEVERE anaphylaxis peanut allergy. On top of that, I'm also heavily allergic to some tree nuts, cow's milk, and sesame seeds. I also have a gluten intolerance. (I even used to be allergic to soy, eggs, and almonds) I have to carry an epi-pen wherever I go god forbid I accidentally eat something I'm allergic to... Whenever I have a burger at a restaurant or something, I eat it like a steak. No bun or anything like that on the burger. Yes it sucks but people are now trying to make hypoallergenic alternatives to these foods. There's these brands of vegan ice cream and cheese I eat, and for my peanut allergy, I eat Sunflower seeds and sunflower butter instead. Honestly, thank you for covering how peanuts can impact people like me. I really appreciate it. :) P.S. I think you should do cartoon lists again soon. You haven't done them in a while so that would be cool.
Yikes! The amount of allergies you have makes it quite difficult to enjoy many common foods by virtue of the ingredients involved. However, I would like to try a bunless burger someday. You may not get the bun, but you get to enjoy the burger meat as is.
Damn! Wow! Sheeesh! Thank Akatosh you don't live in the South with these backwards savages I call neighbors they'll call you a weakling & say you need to just eat some to get over it... Also thankfully society as a whole has become more aware & knowledgeable of these kinda situations & like you said made alternatives for ppl of the like it's always heartwarming to see. 🙂
I honestly didn’t know most of these. Friends of mine tried to convince me to do a chubby bunny challenge going on at school but I said no. Boy am I glad I did. In my personal opinion, the whole challenge is super dangerous and like you said in the video, they can be hard to spit out. It is such an awful feeling and I never want to get myself in that situation
Phantomstrider I just want to say thank you so much for explaining how to store rice. I knew that rice became pretty dangerous when left at room temperature or just stored incorrectly in general, but I never knew how long you had until the bacteria spread. Very helpful
I am very respectful of allergies around Christmas I would bring everyone in my class peanut butter fudge but I had one classmate who is allergic to peanuts so I would make her special batch of chocolate fudge instead making sure everything was cleaned very well before making her chocolate fudge I was always careful to keep her fudge separated from the peanut butter fudge as well luckily her allergy was only if she ate it so she was safe around peanut butter as long as she didn't consume it I was always proud of myself for being very careful to protect my friend from her allergy when it came to food and she was very happy that I was so respectful of her allergy
@sunshinegirlmissriddlerent5605, I remember in 5th grade in learning support, my class and I were making these calculators out of grahmcrackers and used peanut butter and marshmallow fluff and other candies for them. One of my classmates was allergic to peanut butter so she chose marshmallow fluff for her calculator.
@shainahullihen1159 one time for science class we bad backbone out of gummy lifesavers weel pasta and a pipe cleaner the idea was to show the structure of a back bone the lifesavers are the cushions and the pasta are the bone you get it I hate fruit candy (fight me) so I didn't eat my left over gummy lifesavers
One of the other reasons tomatoes were considered dangerous back then was because they were eaten on pewter plates. Pewter plates were made from lead, tomatoes would leech lead from the plate and people would eat it. In fact, George Washington's cook actually tried to kill him with a tomato. but it didn't work.
That's true, but it's more a systemic issue than an acute one. Eating one tomato off a pewter plate isn't likely to do much, if any, real damage. Doing it for months can and will poison you.
This dudes humor is so good. "Oh well I guess instead of smearing tomatoes on my face ill just to use sunscreen, Like an animal!" - PhantomStrider, 2022
@@maenad1231 True, even water is dangerous if you have too much of it. Really I wouldn't recommend a "no-sodium diet" at all; you absolutely need sodium to live. Funnily enough, common table salt is famously a chemical compound of sodium & chlorine: the former explodes when it comes in to contact with water, and the latter is a toxic gas, but together their negative traits are cancelled out.
I grew out of my peanut allergies but I do remember how to save someone from a allergic reaction and how to stop people from choking. Cause I was taught it when I was little,along with CPR but thank you for informing people of some dangerous allergies that involve food. I deeply respect and appreciate you phantom strider -Your fan since your top ten worst cartoons list Kringlez.
Did you know people can be allergic to tomatoes, I actually learned this because I decided one of my OCs should have a tomato allergy, so I looked it up, and it is indeed real, just pretty rare
Pepper plants: "I'm gonna make my fruits so hot that mammals won't touch them, only birds. Birds will disperse my seeds." Humans: "Is that a dare? Are you challenging me, punk?"
Allegedly that's why cannabis gets you high as well. Just instead of hurting the animal it just leaves them confused and then they decide not to eat the plant again. Humans, obviously felt differently about that ability and as such we have been consuming cannabis in some way pretty much as long as civilization has and probably before.
With the tomatoes being poisonous, it's most likely because that they ate tomatoes on pewter plates, which contained lead at the time, so the acid from the tomatoes was leeching lead.
My parents used to go mushroom picking a ton when they were younger but they lived in Poland , as far as i know , there weren't many dangerous mushrooms around where they lived and they also had the knowledge from their parents , grandparents and people before then
Lobster can also be dangerous if it's improperly stored as if it's left out long enough it turns Ammonia which can kill you, there was one episode of Kitchen Nightmares where a customer got hospitalized due to the lobster being spoiled, thankfully he ended up being fine.
My wife and I had a stomach bug, and my mom's a hypochondriac by proxy. She found a news story of a college kid dying of Bacillus cereus, and became convinced that we had it despite the fact that neither of us had eaten old rice, lol.
My mom's backyard is fortunate enough to have a small ring of morel mushrooms that grow wild near her firepit. I and a friend who often forages wild mushrooms took the plunge and had one of them in a delightful egg scramble. Now I don't normally like mushrooms (textural thing for me), but morels are one of the very few species I will eat and if you can find and identify them (they are pale yellow, very wrinkly, and if you cut them open will be hollow inside and that is how you know they're the real species, not false morels which are toxic!), they're a delicious, meaty vegetable that makes a fine meat substitute.
Nutmeg is another with potential dangers. It's why recipes use such a tiny amount of it in comparison to other spices. That said I don't recall the exact amount it takes to cause trouble, I just know Nutmeg in excess is very bad.
I'm surprised fugu isn't on this list. For those unaware, fugu is a delicacy eaten primarily in Japan. It's the flesh of the puffer fish and must be carefully prepared. Why? Because parts of the puffer fish contain what is known as Tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin is one of the deadliest poisons in the world, and 334 micrograms per kilogram is fatal. In other words, it is deadlier than cyanide. Symptoms of Tetrodotoxin poisoning can occur within 17 minutes to 4 hours of ingestion. These include- Paresthesia (Abnormal sensations in the lips or extremities), sweating, headache, paralysis, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), seizures, vomiting, diarrhea, respiratory failure, convulsions, mental impairment, and death. Death can occur within 8 hours of symptoms showing, though it is possible to survive if treated right away. 100 people die each year from Tetrodotoxin poisoning from eating fugu. And, given the horrifying symptoms mentioned above, I don't think the risk is worth eating it.
Honestly, I commend you for doing your proper research instead of relying on the sensationalized scare-mongering nonsense. As a lot of these foods are honestly dangerous either just from poor preperation, people not taking proper safety precautions, or from allergies.
I've seen a lot of people eating things that are just completely not healthy for them or just eating things that SHOULDN'T BE EATEN like tide pods or playdough but man, I didn't think people would make food into grenades.. Also congrats on reaching 600k strider!
@@Periwinkleaccount 100%. It's why you are supposed to take caution if one of your pets consumes it, especially if they're on the smaller side. Cats are highly susceptible to hypernatremia at lower concentrations of sodium than, say, an 80 pound dog. While sodium is bad for people in high amounts, it can be fatal for pets. Just search hypernatremia in pets and you'll find everything you need. :(
@@paulw858 I thought so. It smelled about as salty, if not more salty smelling than a Himalayan salt lamp I got. Even those are pretty much entirely salt.
Another danger with shellfish (especially crab and lobster) is that sometimes, the entire shell isn't removed and said shards can pierce your throat. I saw this mentioned in a Gordon Ramsay show; A chef was removing the shell from a crustacean, and left some shell attached. Gordon saw that and told them that it wasn't acceptable due to those pieces being a huge health risk.
I love how respectful you are about these subjects. I feel like more TH-camrs should be more thoughtful of the subjects they talk about, and be less judgmental.
One time, a girl in my school had an allergic reaction to peanuts while eating warheads, simply because they were produced in a factory that were making products with peanuts in them.
@@lightning1392 Not to mention REALLY BORING. They even said VeggieTales was one of the worst kids' shows of all time because talking vegetables aren't religious. Next they'll say Wubbzy is the worst thing to befall mankind or something.
Just letting you know that the choking rescue is now officially called Abdominal Thrusts. The "heimlich maneuver" name had been dropped due to legal issues from the person it was named after; they were demanding royalties for the repeated use of the name.
If anybody is curious, two good examples of common edible flowers are the red clover and the dandelion. Both flowers work well in salads, and red clover can be used to make jelly or be ground into flour. The dandelion is especially versatile - young leaves can also be incorporated into salads or stewed like you would with spinach, the roots can be parboiled and served like asparagus or be boiled and stewed, or be made into soup. The flowers can even be used to brew wine!
I just realized why I always have a slight smile when I watch your content, PhantomStrider. Between Boo and you somewhat resembling Steve from Blue’s Clues, just with an orange tee instead of Steve’s iconic striped green polo, I feel oddly nostalgic for my long lost childhood. Keep up the good work by the way, my dude! 😁👍
I'll be honest. I'm actually very allergic to strawberries. Even the juice that comes from the fruit is enough to get me put in the hospital if left untreated. But if it's made of fake strawberry flavoring, then im able to eat most strawberry flavored products such as Danimals smoothies or strawberry Skittles (I've seen strawberry flavored Skittles).
I haven’t watched all the video yet but I’ve been absolutely loving your content recently since it’s always interesting and I get some laughs out of it. I’m liking all these food videos.
Dang, I never knew about the rice one. I remember I left my food out over night. It was teriyaki chicken with rice, but I ate it thinking it was still good. I didn't get sick luckily, but now I know to be more careful just in case.
As someone who bakes a lot I immediately thought bitter almonds would make the list as it contains quite high amounts of cyanide. So much so that only a few, raw could kill uou. Although I guess it's not as commonly eaten as the other things on your list. I just want to say, though, I love your content and get giddy every time you make an upload. You're amazing 😊❤
There used to be a popular math activity for younger kids involving marshmallows. They were supposed to estimate how many marshmallows they could fit into their mouth and then try to actually shove that many marshmallows in there. I honestly could not go to a teacher training for several years without having this presented. This lasted until a child participating in this activity unfortunately died. Then everyone was horrified that this was a strongly encouraged math activity.
Pretty much the most important lesson is to take everything in moderation. ANYTHING in a certain quantity can be dangerous, including water. So really just be mindful of what you consume and how much of it you consume. ;)
He definitely is! He's certainly saying that we should: - make sure to cook it right - not be an idiot & take on dangerous food eating challenges - watch out for similar looking foods that are toxic Some other dangerous food challenges not mentioned here are the Cinnamon Challenge & the Warhead Challenge. These are likely to cause injury, too. And definitely make sure chicken is cooked too, Salmonella poisoning is no joke.
This was a VERY interesting video! Ever since you started branching out, your food videos have been my favorite genre of yours! Good job on 600k, and good luck for the next 100k!
It's ludicrous, yes, but you'd be surprised the amount of everyday foods that can be weaponized if utilized a certain way. Bananas are naturally radioactive, just as an example, so in some respects you don't need to try all that hard. After all, in regards to the edible flowers segment, modern day medicine was forged by people a couple thousand years ago grinding up plants with certain medicinal properties in and consuming them. Heck, apparently the pestle & mortar have been around for some several thousand years during the era of the Cavemen, so uh...man's quest to eat anything and everything under the Sun is apparently nothing new...like...at all... XD
Always becareful on what you eat, and to keep a balance diet. And also once again Strider it's good to see these get talked about, I myself would or would have never heard of these, and hope you're doing well. Just wanted to mention that
I know you haven’t been making as many cartoon lists lately strider but, I wonder if you could please make a list on cbbc cartoons cbbc was a huge part of my childhood and a lot of the shows are very interesting. Just a suggestion though, I love the direction you’ve been going in lately with your content!
I’m surprised that Casu martzu, a sheep milk cheese that’s mixed with live fly maggots, or fugu, a sushi dish made from pufferfish, didn’t make this list. As a side note, tomatoes were once believed to be poisonous because they are a member of the nightshade family (which does contain a lot of poisonous plants).
I mean, Fugu is fine as long as the person preparing is experienced and knows what their doing and the maggot cheese is probably fine as the maggots would get killed by stomach acid.
@@tempestzeta11 The serving of fugu is so heavily regulated that very few sushi get the training to prepare fugu. Pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, which pretty much destroys your neurons ability to communicate with each other. If neurons can’t send & receive messages, they’re not able to move your muscles. So just lay motionless until you die of asphyxiation. Some food scientists have claimed that it is possible for maggots to survive the stomach’s acids and feed off of your intestines.
I'm surprised that sushi in general wasn't even mentioned (and this is coming from a major sushi lover). Not even because of mercury levels but can cause food poisoning and even parasite infections
Me, a Polish person, listening to him talking about mushrooms xD (Mushroom picking is basically a tradition here and everyone knows at least a bit about our local mushrooms.)
You know i thought this video suggests the food themselves are dangerous, but after i watched it through the end i realised that this is a top 10 list of food that can be dangerous if you're not eating it right or if you're allergic to it that kind of stuff it really is important to very informative about what you're eating, great job josh 👍👍👍
"Chubby bunny" hmm? I remember it by the name of "Gooey chewy" which is essentially the same. as for mushrooms I remember as a kid being fascinated by wild mushrooms while also not liking to eat any mushrooms at all (I still don't to this day it's the one food I WILL NOT eat) but this fascination of mine came with owning a few books on such and over the years has allowed me to warn people not to touch wild shrooms, and thanks to my knowledge I may very well have saved a few lives as the one shroom you will see me panic when seeing someone approach them are completely white, cap, stripe, gills & all. I am, of course, referring to the destroying angel. it's toxicity is on par to the death caps referred to in this video (if not worse).
As someone who has a major peanut allergy, it sucks. Always having to check the labels of food products to make sure that the don't have peanuts or aren't made in a facility that handles them. When it comes to food, having a food allergy makes you very cautious.
Fun fact: ghost peppers are called that because you don't immediately feel the burning like you do with other peppers! There's a solid chance you could consume multiple whole peppers by the time you even begin to feel the heat from the first one. And all of this is in addition to their notorious heat. They're absolutely not something to mess around with
Great video, as always! Lol, when you said, “Number one may surprise you- HOT DOGS!” I just laughed because that totally does NOT surprise me…though I never would’ve thought that the danger comes from choking! Slow down your eating, people! 😂
Thankfully, the only food allergies I have are a mild allergy to tree-nuts. They only really give me nausea for a little bit, and I didn’t really eat them that much before, so it’s no big loss. Another good food video as always, but compared to the previous ones, if doesn’t exactly make me hungry.
Man I love binging your videos! They’re always filled with well meaning and of course well researched topics! Nothing to pander and nothing to slather; just a youtuber sweet as ever!~
I actually remembered why people (specifically European people) thought the tomato was dangerous. Back in the day they used to eat tomatoes on plates that included lead. Since tomatoes are acidic fruits, they would pick up the lead from the plates and become extremely poisonous, which obviously killed them. That would then make people believe that the tomato was poisonous.
Yes, and since tomatoes are in the nightshade family, it was easy for Europeans to think they were inherently poisonous. (Never mind that native people in Central and South America were eating tomatoes for a long time, but I digress.)
I never liked the thought of eating shrimp. When I finally tried it, I found out why. Turns out I’m allergic. Mildly most likely since I didn’t have a severe reaction to it but a notable reaction.
As soon as you said they turned a food into grenades, I immediately thought about that war story in Firefly where Zoe talks about the Alliance hiding grenades in apples.
Thank you PhantomStrider! You’ve given me some amazing advice on how to eat safely and do some research. Your words help save lives and save the world 🌎 and I hope you keep doing that 👍🏽
At my elementary school I remember peanuts being banned because there were 2 students in the school that would die if exposed to peanuts! The school didn't fluff it up either. If a student asked why peanuts were banned the teachers would tell them out right that there were 2 students that could die if exposed! Which in hindsight I really like as it helped me learn to respect people with such allergies at a young age and that it can be extremely serious!
Yeah, but a lot of other foods can be dislodged from the mouth/throat or broken apart enough to let a little air in with enough effort. The danger that’s _specific_ to marshmallows is that they don’t dissolve, and they deform into & stick to each other, leaving no space for air to get through. There are other foods that can be impossible to dislodge from the throat and block off all air flow there, but not many foods create such an airtight, resistant choking hazard from the mouth.
Ghost peppers are about the 3rd or 4th hottest peppers. Next hottest is called "Carolina Reaper",then "Dragon's Breath ". Followed by the "Pepper X". Heard someone put a "Dragon's Breath " in their mouth,but didn't bite it. After a few seconds, removed the pepper. Mouth was apparently NUMB for couple of days. I love hot pepper sauce, but will pass on this or Pepper X. Trying to find Carolina Reaper to see if too hot.
As someone who loves food, I have some thoughts on many of the ones listed in this video, to start with: ghost peppers. I personally enjoy spicy and hot food on occasion, but I'm definitely not crazy enough to want to try one of the hottest foods known to man (it's also somehow not that surprising that someone found a way to weaponize them). I'm also quite fond of peanuts (and most nuts in general, really), to the point where when my dad used to have me help him with the houses he worked on fixing up for his job, he used to joke that they could pay me in peanuts! But more to the point, I work in a bakery in a grocery store myself, and we have several items that contain peanuts and other types of nuts in them, and because we bake many of the items we sell in-store, we all have to be conscious about cross contamination, which can happen if a food comes into contact with another food that contains an ingredient that can cause an allergic reaction (this can also occur if a person's hands aren't properly washed, too), so I'm very well aware of the dangers of peanut allergies. I also am very fond of mushrooms (I'm the only person in my household who actually likes them), but I would never trust myself to pick wild ones because I'm aware of the danger of accidentally picking and eating a poisonous one.
Normally this subject wouldn't interest me, but I known Strider from his guest appearances on Anime America so that's what sold me. Very interesting and fascinating video. I'll have to check his own channel now. 👍
The tomatoes thing also stems from the middle ages, where people were eating tomatoes and getting really sick. In reality the problem was the lead plates people were eating off of, and the acid in the tomatoes was leaching more lead than other foods, but people blamed the tomatoes and not the lead.
Yeah, I even hear that some assassin snuck a tomato into George Washington's food to try to kill him, but because he didn't use a lead plate, he was perfectly fine.
"stems" lol
I remember hearing that it was pewter plates, which pewter is an alloy that uses lead in the mixture.
@@enderknight1442 foiled by my own lack of research again, damn!
Boy were they wrong! (Odd1sOut reference)
For edible flowers: Always look up if a flower is safe to eat. I've used roses, lavender, elderflower, etc in my cooking/drinks and they can be wonderful additions to your cooking, however, much like mushrooms, you need to be careful that you only eat what you know is safe to eat.
honestly my favorite edible flower is the butterfly pea.
@@kiarashnikkhaah8347 Butterfly Pea is amazing not only as an example of an edible flower but also as an amazing natural colorant! The color changing properties is has have wowed my friends and family and I highly recommend it for any pantry, along with lavender.
Why would you eat a flower?
@@garycamara9955Rose is a common flavor for candies in the Middle East and surrounding areas, such as South Asia. Like I had rose flavored falooda, which is rose syrup, vermicelli, and sweet basil seeds with milk, often served with ice cream. Definitely an interesting flavor.
I once made jam with wild roses that my sis and I picked in northern Manitoba. The jelly had a nice sweet flavour and made a bunch of batches, we gave one to my grandfather
People have been using chili peppers as pest repellent in their gardens for a long time, so I'm not surprised humans have found a way to weaponize them. And if button mushrooms are your favorite, you should really try morels or chanterelles, they actually have flavor to them
And it's really fun to go morel hunting! I did that when I lived in Iowa 😊
@@PhoenixHealing Sure, but just make sure you know what you're doing, there are poisonous mushrooms that HIGHLY resemble morels and will kill you fast.
@@Craxin01 oh yeah I had experienced people with me. 😊
I recall some home gardening store selling bird seed laced with chili powder to discourage squirrels from eating them. Birds apparently don’t have taste buds and can eat the the spiced seeds just fine.
@@PhoenixHealing Reason I say that is that similar looking, highly poisonous mushroom grows in my yard, and I too hunted for morels before.
I like how instead of going over what’s possibly in hotdogs, you got over the more immediate choking hazard of eating them improperly.
yeah 👍I'm sick of lists which just go into that "EaTiNg To MuCh Of ThIs cOuLd KiLl YoU bEcAuSe Of tHiS iNgReDiEnT" because that's a thing that can happen with most foods.
I like how this list is more about telling about the actual dangers of certain foods rather than fear mongering!
It's also a bit odd hearing people who don't really like shellfish since I live in a place were shellfish is a quite common food to eat, especially during certain fishing seasons.
@T D, although I like eating shellfish, I do have two family members that are allergic to them unfortunately.
I assume if you like 'local' foods, it's kind of a stockholm syndrome? I assume I'd like tea if I'd been forced to drink it from a young age because that's just what us Brits do, right?
Nah, smell always put me off.
This is why I love your videos, Strider. Most informative and honest TH-camr!
@Roadent1241 Not only Brits. In many countries people like drinking tea.
@@temin2776 Yeah but it's more known as a thing here for me as this is where I've been most of my life? XD I'm sure other places have their own tea, they're not drinking PG Tips and have no idea of the monkey.
As a person with Cajun ancestry, the most humiliating thing to have when going to family reunions in Louisiana is a shellfish allergy. And what makes it worse is that I love the taste of Shellfish, but eating it could send me to the ER.
The marshmallows and Chubby Bunny topic actually reminded me of my childhood, but in a different way. Back when I attended a daycare, we used to play silly Chubby Bunny games. However, my provider used not marshmallows but whipped cream. Turned out to be a great alternative with less risks of choking. Because of this, I legit never knew the actual game used marshmallows. Knowing the reason why we used whipped cream has likely saved my life a couple times.
One time in a cartoon I saw a character swallow 4 marshmallows whole
@@orcaman1353 Yeah, but that was in a cartoon. Cartoon logic is different from real life logic.
@@MrsSpyro01 Same with game logic, Mario eats a Mushroom and he becomes big.
@@MrsSpyro01 I once cooked a brick of that cheapo Ramen in packs and proceeded to put the whole cooked mass of noodles in my mouth in one go, chew, and swallow it all without so much as a gag. Needless to say, I won that bet.
@@amymoriyama6616 jfc please never do that again cuz you got really lucky that time and you might lose the dice roll next time
I don't think I could tolerate a ghost pepper... I can't even tolerate the peppers that come with Papa John's pizza.
I like sweet peppers though.
Rice goes back to the state of Arkansas?
Those pepperchinis ain’t no joke 😂 they’re acidic as hell, too
I appreciate that this isn't dramatic or over done in any way, Phantom's lists are just a friendly informative time :D
Agreed.
@@alexanderklepp I see you're a fellow Ben 10 fan. That's cool because so am I.
@Carterb92 right, actually I watched one of his videos the other day and he was kind of snarky about the United States. I get we all have biases, and the Media in the U.S. is a complete joke. I stopped watching the “news” during the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. First of all I did not like either candidate AT ALL lol, but I was seriously trying to research who I should vote for since I was nonpartisan. The media was largely in favor of Clinton, and that became evident once I started researching her political career that traced back to her involvement in Watergate 😧
So as much as I wanted to live to see a female president I did NOT want to vote for a documented murderer. Anyway then the opposite happened when I researched who I perceived as the most offensive, unpolished, irritating and off putting man I’d ever heard speak 😂 couldn’t find any accusations of inappropriate behavior that had been found credible, the media kept claiming he was racist, then as I researched I found he was favored by the NAACP, many black owned businesses and leaders of other black organizations. Racism is a very large concern of mine, I cannot tolerate treating people as if their skin tone magically determines their character. Anyway. Sorry this became political
TL:DR, American media makes us sound like a bunch of insane, uneducated tools, and the world all thinks we are all stupid because of our current president.
Agreed
which is a huge step above watchmojo imo.
As a person who has two family members that are allergic to shellfish, I’m glad you mentioned and acknowledged how people can get allergic reactions to them in the video.
Edit: you forgot to add potatoes, pufferfish, live octopuses, apple and cherry seeds, cinnamon, and Akee to the video.
Boy, only pufferfish. You are so wrong on the rest man, where the hell you get your info from?
@@stevemarco8631 This is just off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure akee flesh can cause vomiting and death, apple and cherry seeds contain ( a small amount) of cyanide, live octopi legit suction cup you and could (?) be a chocking hazard. Potato leaves are very poisonous. I'm not sure about cinnamon but I know rhubarb leaves are also very poisonous.
@@stevemarco8631 only pufferfish? apple seeds are known to have cyanide, i dunno if the guy is exaggerating that much
Shellfish definitely crossed my mind. Come into contact with food or a surface that has touched seafood, and I develop anaphylaxis. My ex nearly killed me with a 💋
@@summerdais325 Oh my God! I really feel bad for you. 😐
I know some people with peanut allergies and it’s severe. One girl at my sunday school was SO allergic to nuts that even smelling them made her sick. I work at an ice cream shop and if someone tells me they have a peanut allergy, I take serious precautions by washing my hands and put on gloves
I remember in Home Ec we were discussing safe food prep. I don't know how true the story is, but the teacher told a story of a man who put chili on to cook while he was at uni, ready to eat when he got home. He didn't prep the red beans properly and either made himself very sick or sadly died. I can't be sure which, it was over 10 years ago but the story really stuck with me.
Pro tip for anyone wanting to try spicy food: Dairy products are the best thing to neutralize the heat. Milk, yogurt, cheese, ANYTHING will do if you're panicking and desperate. Also heard donuts can work as well.
What about lactose intolerant people. I mean, I can drink milk fine, but what about those who can't?
@@ArendAlphaEagle something thick, cold or sweet to help soothe it is best for lactose intolerance people
I find bread works better than milk.
@@ArendAlphaEagle You don't need to drink the milk (whole milk specifically, skim doesn't have enough of the protein that breaks down the capsaicin). Swish it around your mouth and spit it out. Literally rinse and repeat. Swallowing is worse because you move the capsaicin into your stomach and intestines and can cause severe discomfort, especially when it leaves out the other end. That's why I stick to milder chilis like Jalapeno.
I can't handle mild peppers so how could I handle spicy food?
Tomatoes and potatoes are members of the nightshade family, that actually allows them to be grafted together to produce both potatoes and tomatoes as a crop ( Though apparently it prevents both from producing very large fruits, which makes sense, they actually are sold grafted together though, I think they're called ketchup and fries plants ), so, technically speaking, they are kinda poison. At least, they are related to poisonous plants. Gotta love people breeding plants to create strange mutations and hybrids of something once deadly into something relatively harmless
Fun story about Mushrooms:
While on a one week field trip in College, one of the guys suddenly stood up late at night and exclaimed that he was going to eat a fly agaric mushroom. And with that he disappeared into the night. We called the teacher and went looking for the guy. When we found him, he had just straight up bitten into a fly agaric mushroom without cleaning it or picking it from the ground. And though they are not that dangerous, I would never recommmend you to eat them just out in the wild. This guy is the perfect example, because we did need to call an ambulance to get his stomach pumped.
The worst part? I studied Biology.
And one more thing for the ghost peppers: do NOT drink water after eating one. Water makes the pain worse. Drink milk.
Better yet, don't drink the milk, rinse your mouth and spit it out. Swallowing it will move the capsaicin into your stomach and intestines, irritating them, especially if you're sensitive, and making elimination later hurt.
To clarify, as a biochemist: the chemical that most directly gives peppers their spice is capsaicin. Capsaicin is largely non-polar, and thus hydrophobic. Water will pass down the gullet and take some but not all of the spice-chemical some but not all of the way down your throat. Imagine you have an oil spill, you try to hose it down with water, and instead the oil just covers more area? Same exact thing, only the oil causes you physical pain.
Milk is a solution of water and various bipolar/amphipathic fatty compounds. Hence the milk "grabs" the capsaicin and is thus washed down. Kinda like soap does with dirt when washing your hands or clothes.
I can also recommend olives against the burn from spicy foods. When at a Mexican restaurant I found that they lessened the pain, even though it didn't completely disappear. I guess they help because olives are quite an oily food?
I'm confused, if the mushroom the guy ate wasn't poisonous then why was the ambulance called, and why did he have to get this stomach pumped?
@@thumper188 fly agaric mushrooms are hallucinogenic. To get rid of that effect you have to boil them first. Also, you have to imagine that wild life is probably pissing on them and there is just a lot of dirt. You really have to clean them first.
As someone who loves spicy foods, I love the Idea of a "pepper grenade", it sounds like it's from a food based game, and I love it for that.
Also great job as always, these are one of the few list channels I actually trust and enjoy!
The problem with peanut allergies is that many schools consider epipens drugs and the kids have to leave it with the school nurse, who may not get it to the kid in time. Same with asthma inhalers. And some parents go overboard with the whole issue.
That's so messed up?? I had to carry my inhaler with me all the time (obviously), I can't imagine not being able to grab it or quickly tell someone else to grab it...
We don't really have school nurses here in Belgium though, but they probably would've been left at the secretary
When I was in school in the US 20 years ago I had the opposite problem. Adults just let me loose with inhalers and bottles of pills, and I intentionally tried to get high off them, but amazingly, nothing bad happened.
So don't listen to them I'll be damned if my child has sever asthma or allergies that they won't have rescue medicine in their pockets at all times with instructions on how to use so many don't know where to inject the pen
As someone Who suffers from anaphylaxis (Insect Stings) I fully agree. If the child is old enough and the parent informed the school that the child understands and knows how to use their EpiPen, they, just like anyone with severe anaphylaxis should always have their EpiPen within arms reach, seconds really do matter with allergies that severe a child can live and die based on a 30 sec. or one minute delay. I had such a difficult time in school because I have to carry an EpiPen, and two emergency drugs. One for my heart condition and one for epilepsy in case I feel an aura before a seizure. The entire point of rescue medication is that it is designed to prevent a serious health crisis that is imminent, you may not have time to get a teachers attention, get to or have the office notified and wait while the nurse is notified gets your medication and gets it to your location. This policy required me to be hospitalized due to not getting my EpiPen on time on one occasion. And probably the worst occurrence was when I was having a seizure aura and required my meds to stop it, I don’t know what the holdup was but it took over four minutes, and I had to have a full convulsive seizure in front of my entire class in middle school. Kids at school either not understanding the condition or just being mean as they are at that age teased and were very mean and said horrible awful things to me after they witnessed that. I’m 31 and to this day I remember one particularly mean girl who told the entire cafeteria that it looked like a Re**rd trying to ummm “play with themselves” (if you can’t tell I cleaned up the language of it). Then she proceeded to imitate the muscle spasms in the eye rolling while standing up and making it look as ridiculously goofy as possible. I will never forget an entire cafeteria of 250+ students, laughing at my condition, thinking to myself if they had to live one day with this disorder and receive the treatment that comes along with it they would never laugh about it again. So responsible informed children should absolutely have a right to carry emergency and rescue medication‘s at school. They could easily exempt legal medicine that fell under that category from Zero Tolerance. 😢 that experience left an emotional scar on me, but it made me strong as an adult and I have always tried to educate others who are misinformed, and I never back down anymore from standing up for my civil rights & medical rights under the ADA.
This was a very informative video, Phantom! I didn't even know about rice until now!
Quick fun (or not) fact: peppers and tomatoes are part of the nightshade family, alongside eggplants and potatoes! I learned this while gardening with my Mom, who was confused as to why the tomatoes/peppers (can't recall which one) weren't growing as well as they did. You can't plant peppers/tomatoes in the same spot they were in last season or else they won't grow.
My grandfather worked as a mycologist for the bulk of his adult life. We have gone mushroom hunting my entire life, but I would never eat a mushroom (no matter how distinctive) unless Grandpa said it was safe.
Thank you for making so many interesting and fun videos. You do good work.
A pro-mushroom hunter knew someone who ate poison mushrooms but survived. They supposedly tasted delicious, until the symptoms presented. There is one that kills you in two months, long after you forgotten the meal.
Never liked mushrooms
I'm shocked that there was no mention of pufferfish/fugu. I know it's a rare Japanese dish but it might be the most legendarily risky delicacy out there
Fun fact: apparently the farmed stuff is far safer to eat. I think it's a dietary/reef thing, since most survival manuals explicitly say to avoid eating fish caught on reefs due to their toxicity to humans.
This punk doesn't know what he's talking about. Tomatoes? really? Geez this generation is not built the same as me.
Same. Pufferfish (also known as Fugu) is the only food I can think of where a resturant needs someone trained in preparing the food (known as a Qualified Fugu Handler) just to legally serve the dish, making it a rare delicacy that is mostly stuck in Japan, because if not propertly prepared, it can kill you within 4-6 hours.
@@ChipTunePlaysYT supposedly, you need a license to even PURCHASE it.
@@coolbrotherj At this point I ask Japan why they even bother have it be an option for food in the first place if our species has to go through a bunch of hoops and hurdles to eat this rare delicacy and actually have it be edible? I get needing a license to cook and serve it but the need to have one to purchase it just scares people off therefore restricting it's access even more. If its this hard to be able to consume safely, it's likely not profitable. I get this is for the thrill seekers and high class citizens out there but this food regardless has always boggled my mind
Fun fact: I actually have a SEVERE anaphylaxis peanut allergy.
On top of that, I'm also heavily allergic to some tree nuts, cow's milk, and sesame seeds.
I also have a gluten intolerance. (I even used to be allergic to soy, eggs, and almonds)
I have to carry an epi-pen wherever I go god forbid I accidentally eat something I'm allergic to...
Whenever I have a burger at a restaurant or something, I eat it like a steak. No bun or anything like that on the burger.
Yes it sucks but people are now trying to make hypoallergenic alternatives to these foods.
There's these brands of vegan ice cream and cheese I eat, and for my peanut allergy, I eat Sunflower seeds and sunflower butter instead.
Honestly, thank you for covering how peanuts can impact people like me. I really appreciate it. :)
P.S. I think you should do cartoon lists again soon. You haven't done them in a while so that would be cool.
Yikes! The amount of allergies you have makes it quite difficult to enjoy many common foods by virtue of the ingredients involved. However, I would like to try a bunless burger someday. You may not get the bun, but you get to enjoy the burger meat as is.
I cant imagine not being able to eat cheddar cheese, I hope you know lots of dishes that you like.
Is it common to not have any allergies or intolerence to any food or drink or environment?
Damn! Wow! Sheeesh! Thank Akatosh you don't live in the South with these backwards savages I call neighbors they'll call you a weakling & say you need to just eat some to get over it... Also thankfully society as a whole has become more aware & knowledgeable of these kinda situations & like you said made alternatives for ppl of the like it's always heartwarming to see. 🙂
Aww I feel so sorry for you! Praying you're allergies will get better, and more foods that are easier to get❤
I honestly didn’t know most of these. Friends of mine tried to convince me to do a chubby bunny challenge going on at school but I said no. Boy am I glad I did. In my personal opinion, the whole challenge is super dangerous and like you said in the video, they can be hard to spit out. It is such an awful feeling and I never want to get myself in that situation
Phantomstrider I just want to say thank you so much for explaining how to store rice. I knew that rice became pretty dangerous when left at room temperature or just stored incorrectly in general, but I never knew how long you had until the bacteria spread. Very helpful
I am very respectful of allergies around Christmas I would bring everyone in my class peanut butter fudge but I had one classmate who is allergic to peanuts so I would make her special batch of chocolate fudge instead making sure everything was cleaned very well before making her chocolate fudge I was always careful to keep her fudge separated from the peanut butter fudge as well luckily her allergy was only if she ate it so she was safe around peanut butter as long as she didn't consume it I was always proud of myself for being very careful to protect my friend from her allergy when it came to food and she was very happy that I was so respectful of her allergy
@sunshinegirlmissriddlerent5605, I remember in 5th grade in learning support, my class and I were making these calculators out of grahmcrackers and used peanut butter and marshmallow fluff and other candies for them. One of my classmates was allergic to peanut butter so she chose marshmallow fluff for her calculator.
@shainahullihen1159 one time for science class we bad backbone out of gummy lifesavers weel pasta and a pipe cleaner the idea was to show the structure of a back bone the lifesavers are the cushions and the pasta are the bone you get it I hate fruit candy (fight me) so I didn't eat my left over gummy lifesavers
One of the other reasons tomatoes were considered dangerous back then was because they were eaten on pewter plates. Pewter plates were made from lead, tomatoes would leech lead from the plate and people would eat it. In fact, George Washington's cook actually tried to kill him with a tomato. but it didn't work.
That's true, but it's more a systemic issue than an acute one. Eating one tomato off a pewter plate isn't likely to do much, if any, real damage. Doing it for months can and will poison you.
@@Craxin01 It's speculated that the Roman Empire fell, at least in part, because the elites ate from lead plates-----plumbism.
@@Craxin01 true
This dudes humor is so good.
"Oh well I guess instead of smearing tomatoes on my face ill just to use sunscreen, Like an animal!" - PhantomStrider, 2022
"Take this list with a pinch of salt"
Let's hope the salt isn't dangerous either
All food is lethal at some dose
too much of it can kill you
especially if you have kidney problems like i do :^]
@@maenad1231 True, even water is dangerous if you have too much of it. Really I wouldn't recommend a "no-sodium diet" at all; you absolutely need sodium to live. Funnily enough, common table salt is famously a chemical compound of sodium & chlorine: the former explodes when it comes in to contact with water, and the latter is a toxic gas, but together their negative traits are cancelled out.
@@maenad1231 as Paracelsus said: "all things are poisonous and yet nothing is poisonous, it is only the dose that makes something poisonous"
Only in large enough quantities over enough time!
I grew out of my peanut allergies but I do remember how to save someone from a allergic reaction and how to stop people from choking. Cause I was taught it when I was little,along with CPR but thank you for informing people of some dangerous allergies that involve food. I deeply respect and appreciate you phantom strider -Your fan since your top ten worst cartoons list Kringlez.
Did you know people can be allergic to tomatoes, I actually learned this because I decided one of my OCs should have a tomato allergy, so I looked it up, and it is indeed real, just pretty rare
“I’ll have two number 9’s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45’s, one with cheese, and a large soda.” - Big Smoke.
Pepper plants: "I'm gonna make my fruits so hot that mammals won't touch them, only birds. Birds will disperse my seeds."
Humans: "Is that a dare? Are you challenging me, punk?"
Allegedly that's why cannabis gets you high as well. Just instead of hurting the animal it just leaves them confused and then they decide not to eat the plant again.
Humans, obviously felt differently about that ability and as such we have been consuming cannabis in some way pretty much as long as civilization has and probably before.
With the tomatoes being poisonous, it's most likely because that they ate tomatoes on pewter plates, which contained lead at the time, so the acid from the tomatoes was leeching lead.
I thought the thing about tomatoes was the green leaves
Also, tomatoes are part of the nightshade family and some nightshades are dangerous
@@tidepodpadthai2633 Potatoes are nightshades, not tomatoes
It’s the tomato plant that is poison same with potatoes the plant is poisonous.
@@hypotheticaltapeworm Actually, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, and even tobacco are all nightshades.
My parents used to go mushroom picking a ton when they were younger but they lived in Poland , as far as i know , there weren't many dangerous mushrooms around where they lived and they also had the knowledge from their parents , grandparents and people before then
Lobster can also be dangerous if it's improperly stored as if it's left out long enough it turns Ammonia which can kill you, there was one episode of Kitchen Nightmares where a customer got hospitalized due to the lobster being spoiled, thankfully he ended up being fine.
Is this another excuse for you to avoid fish?
@@stevemarco8631, that was rude. People are allergic to fish, including my grandfather. One bite or scent could kill him and other people.
Some guy eats pepper: WATER!!!
Me: NO MILK!!! WHY DON'T U EVEN KNOW THAT???!!!
This is a very interesting and intriguing topic, I enjoy these generic top lists, keep writing and making videos, keep up the work 😊
My wife and I had a stomach bug, and my mom's a hypochondriac by proxy. She found a news story of a college kid dying of Bacillus cereus, and became convinced that we had it despite the fact that neither of us had eaten old rice, lol.
“You gotta eat to keep your strength up.” Big Smoke
“I’ll have two number 9’s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45’s, one with cheese, and a large soda.” - Big Smoke.
@@TurbidTG1 *inserts bys by gang Starr in background.*
Patty smoke spicy chicken
HEY, I'LL TAKE NUMBER 9s, FAT BOY.
I love the GTA fandom so much! We’re literally everywhere 🥲
My mom's backyard is fortunate enough to have a small ring of morel mushrooms that grow wild near her firepit. I and a friend who often forages wild mushrooms took the plunge and had one of them in a delightful egg scramble. Now I don't normally like mushrooms (textural thing for me), but morels are one of the very few species I will eat and if you can find and identify them (they are pale yellow, very wrinkly, and if you cut them open will be hollow inside and that is how you know they're the real species, not false morels which are toxic!), they're a delicious, meaty vegetable that makes a fine meat substitute.
I'm kind of surprised he didn't mention cinnamon. The cinnamon challenge was like the chubby bunny challenge on steroids
Doh! I forgot about that one
@@phantomstrider
How is cinnamon dangerous on large doses?
@@HashiNuke www.healthline.com/nutrition/side-effects-of-cinnamon#Risks-of-Eating-Dry-Cinnamon
Nutmeg is another with potential dangers. It's why recipes use such a tiny amount of it in comparison to other spices. That said I don't recall the exact amount it takes to cause trouble, I just know Nutmeg in excess is very bad.
@@UnseelieFaelass 2 teaspoons (5 grams) can be toxic and even more can be fatal
I'm surprised fugu isn't on this list.
For those unaware, fugu is a delicacy eaten primarily in Japan. It's the flesh of the puffer fish and must be carefully prepared. Why? Because parts of the puffer fish contain what is known as Tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin is one of the deadliest poisons in the world, and 334 micrograms per kilogram is fatal. In other words, it is deadlier than cyanide.
Symptoms of Tetrodotoxin poisoning can occur within 17 minutes to 4 hours of ingestion. These include- Paresthesia (Abnormal sensations in the lips or extremities), sweating, headache, paralysis, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), seizures, vomiting, diarrhea, respiratory failure, convulsions, mental impairment, and death. Death can occur within 8 hours of symptoms showing, though it is possible to survive if treated right away.
100 people die each year from Tetrodotoxin poisoning from eating fugu. And, given the horrifying symptoms mentioned above, I don't think the risk is worth eating it.
Honestly, I commend you for doing your proper research instead of relying on the sensationalized scare-mongering nonsense. As a lot of these foods are honestly dangerous either just from poor preperation, people not taking proper safety precautions, or from allergies.
In 1988 I was in 8th grade, one teacher wanted a note from my parents about me using cough drops as directed
Agreed - almost half of these are less about inherent dangers of the foods, rather the dangerous nature of human idiocy.
I love how the grenade in the thumbnail isn't even dishonest.
I've seen a lot of people eating things that are just completely not healthy for them or just eating things that SHOULDN'T BE EATEN like tide pods or playdough but man, I didn't think people would make food into grenades..
Also congrats on reaching 600k strider!
I think play doh is salty. I have no idea why, but it just feels like it’s heavily salted.
@@Periwinkleaccount 100%. It's why you are supposed to take caution if one of your pets consumes it, especially if they're on the smaller side. Cats are highly susceptible to hypernatremia at lower concentrations of sodium than, say, an 80 pound dog. While sodium is bad for people in high amounts, it can be fatal for pets.
Just search hypernatremia in pets and you'll find everything you need. :(
@@paulw858 I thought so. It smelled about as salty, if not more salty smelling than a Himalayan salt lamp I got. Even those are pretty much entirely salt.
Honestly playdough tastes good lmao
Another danger with shellfish (especially crab and lobster) is that sometimes, the entire shell isn't removed and said shards can pierce your throat.
I saw this mentioned in a Gordon Ramsay show; A chef was removing the shell from a crustacean, and left some shell attached. Gordon saw that and told them that it wasn't acceptable due to those pieces being a huge health risk.
I love how respectful you are about these subjects. I feel like more TH-camrs should be more thoughtful of the subjects they talk about, and be less judgmental.
One time, a girl in my school had an allergic reaction to peanuts while eating warheads, simply because they were produced in a factory that were making products with peanuts in them.
More than halfway to 1 mil! Dude is better than WatchMojo with his lists :)
Probably because he ACTUALLY does research, and he shows personality.
Of course bro
@@WubbaizyShipper1 They actually said vilgax was stronger than waybig when waybig easily beat vilgax in a stronger form. Watch mojo is stupid.
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Not to mention REALLY BORING. They even said VeggieTales was one of the worst kids' shows of all time because talking vegetables aren't religious.
Next they'll say Wubbzy is the worst thing to befall mankind or something.
And water is wet.
OMG It was just TOO ADORABLE for me when you called graham crackers biscuits 😻😊😁. 😂
That's generally what cookies are called in the UK.
As a person with a nut allergy, I can personally thank you for explaining everything really well for those out of the know.
I'm not allergic, but my mom and sister are. I'm severely allergic to cherries.
Why should u care about your allergies that have litteraly 0 effect on me?
@@devonritchie1899 That's a really selfish perspective, I hope you learn to be more open-minded in the future.
@@rustymidlander05 couldn't care less what you think is selfish, just like I couldn't care less about you or your kids allergies
@@devonritchie1899 That doesn't really effect me though, it's not like I'm ever gonna meet you at an allergen free bakery
Just letting you know that the choking rescue is now officially called Abdominal Thrusts. The "heimlich maneuver" name had been dropped due to legal issues from the person it was named after; they were demanding royalties for the repeated use of the name.
What a greedy cow that originator is for demanding royalties for a life-saving procedure!
If anybody is curious, two good examples of common edible flowers are the red clover and the dandelion. Both flowers work well in salads, and red clover can be used to make jelly or be ground into flour. The dandelion is especially versatile - young leaves can also be incorporated into salads or stewed like you would with spinach, the roots can be parboiled and served like asparagus or be boiled and stewed, or be made into soup. The flowers can even be used to brew wine!
I just realized why I always have a slight smile when I watch your content, PhantomStrider. Between Boo and you somewhat resembling Steve from Blue’s Clues, just with an orange tee instead of Steve’s iconic striped green polo, I feel oddly nostalgic for my long lost childhood. Keep up the good work by the way, my dude! 😁👍
I'll be honest. I'm actually very allergic to strawberries. Even the juice that comes from the fruit is enough to get me put in the hospital if left untreated.
But if it's made of fake strawberry flavoring, then im able to eat most strawberry flavored products such as Danimals smoothies or strawberry Skittles (I've seen strawberry flavored Skittles).
My husband is the exact opposite. He can have real strawberries but no fake strawberry flavoring.
@@ashthemusicalgirl13 That's exactly the case with a good friend of mine
My grandma was like that.
I haven’t watched all the video yet but I’ve been absolutely loving your content recently since it’s always interesting and I get some laughs out of it. I’m liking all these food videos.
You give me so much peace with your calm explanations of whatever strikes your interest. Another wonderful video Strider.
Dang, I never knew about the rice one. I remember I left my food out over night. It was teriyaki chicken with rice, but I ate it thinking it was still good. I didn't get sick luckily, but now I know to be more careful just in case.
As someone who bakes a lot I immediately thought bitter almonds would make the list as it contains quite high amounts of cyanide. So much so that only a few, raw could kill uou. Although I guess it's not as commonly eaten as the other things on your list. I just want to say, though, I love your content and get giddy every time you make an upload. You're amazing 😊❤
There used to be a popular math activity for younger kids involving marshmallows. They were supposed to estimate how many marshmallows they could fit into their mouth and then try to actually shove that many marshmallows in there. I honestly could not go to a teacher training for several years without having this presented. This lasted until a child participating in this activity unfortunately died. Then everyone was horrified that this was a strongly encouraged math activity.
this is perfect timing because of the 'pink sauce' on tiktok
also I’m happy you added peanut allergies because I have it and it’s important
I just learned what that is 🤣
@@PhoenixHealing happy I never ate that crap
I love how much work is put into your videos! It's very appreciated with all the research done too!
He's definitely teaching us to be careful of what we eat, I sure will! 0_0
Pretty much the most important lesson is to take everything in moderation. ANYTHING in a certain quantity can be dangerous, including water. So really just be mindful of what you consume and how much of it you consume. ;)
He definitely is! He's certainly saying that we should:
- make sure to cook it right
- not be an idiot & take on dangerous food eating challenges
- watch out for similar looking foods that are toxic
Some other dangerous food challenges not mentioned here are the Cinnamon Challenge & the Warhead Challenge. These are likely to cause injury, too.
And definitely make sure chicken is cooked too, Salmonella poisoning is no joke.
I recently discovered your channel, and I love it. My favorite part is the howdy where Boo says yaa!
This was a VERY interesting video! Ever since you started branching out, your food videos have been my favorite genre of yours! Good job on 600k, and good luck for the next 100k!
I'm loving thease new Phantom Strider video's...His content really makes my day
Never thought someone would turn a pepper into a grenade lol.
It's ludicrous, yes, but you'd be surprised the amount of everyday foods that can be weaponized if utilized a certain way. Bananas are naturally radioactive, just as an example, so in some respects you don't need to try all that hard. After all, in regards to the edible flowers segment, modern day medicine was forged by people a couple thousand years ago grinding up plants with certain medicinal properties in and consuming them. Heck, apparently the pestle & mortar have been around for some several thousand years during the era of the Cavemen, so uh...man's quest to eat anything and everything under the Sun is apparently nothing new...like...at all... XD
It's the same way that peanuts are used in some dynamites
I had no idea people linked popcorn to cancer all because of the baggage…
But, in their defense popcorn can still be a chocking hazard.
Your content radiates positive energy. Never have I seen a creator more fun to watch.
I love how there's a hotdog, marshmallows, and a grenade in the thumbnail.
"Ask your doctor or nutritionist"
Me: laughs in American. 😂😂😂😂😭😭
Yep
Yeah, our doctors are ligitmately not trustworthy at least 65% of the time.
Even if they were, anything medical is insanely expensive in the US.
Always becareful on what you eat, and to keep a balance diet.
And also once again Strider it's good to see these get talked about, I myself would or would have never heard of these, and hope you're doing well. Just wanted to mention that
I know you haven’t been making as many cartoon lists lately strider but, I wonder if you could please make a list on cbbc cartoons cbbc was a huge part of my childhood and a lot of the shows are very interesting. Just a suggestion though, I love the direction you’ve been going in lately with your content!
I’m surprised that Casu martzu, a sheep milk cheese that’s mixed with live fly maggots, or fugu, a sushi dish made from pufferfish, didn’t make this list.
As a side note, tomatoes were once believed to be poisonous because they are a member of the nightshade family (which does contain a lot of poisonous plants).
I mean, Fugu is fine as long as the person preparing is experienced and knows what their doing and the maggot cheese is probably fine as the maggots would get killed by stomach acid.
@@tempestzeta11 The serving of fugu is so heavily regulated that very few sushi get the training to prepare fugu. Pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, which pretty much destroys your neurons ability to communicate with each other. If neurons can’t send & receive messages, they’re not able to move your muscles. So just lay motionless until you die of asphyxiation.
Some food scientists have claimed that it is possible for maggots to survive the stomach’s acids and feed off of your intestines.
I'm surprised that sushi in general wasn't even mentioned (and this is coming from a major sushi lover). Not even because of mercury levels but can cause food poisoning and even parasite infections
Me, a Polish person, listening to him talking about mushrooms xD (Mushroom picking is basically a tradition here and everyone knows at least a bit about our local mushrooms.)
You know i thought this video suggests the food themselves are dangerous, but after i watched it through the end i realised that this is a top 10 list of food that can be dangerous if you're not eating it right or if you're allergic to it that kind of stuff
it really is important to very informative about what you're eating, great job josh 👍👍👍
"Chubby bunny" hmm? I remember it by the name of "Gooey chewy" which is essentially the same.
as for mushrooms I remember as a kid being fascinated by wild mushrooms while also not liking to eat any mushrooms at all (I still don't to this day it's the one food I WILL NOT eat) but this fascination of mine came with owning a few books on such and over the years has allowed me to warn people not to touch wild shrooms, and thanks to my knowledge I may very well have saved a few lives as the one shroom you will see me panic when seeing someone approach them are completely white, cap, stripe, gills & all. I am, of course, referring to the destroying angel. it's toxicity is on par to the death caps referred to in this video (if not worse).
As someone who has a major peanut allergy, it sucks. Always having to check the labels of food products to make sure that the don't have peanuts or aren't made in a facility that handles them. When it comes to food, having a food allergy makes you very cautious.
Fun fact: ghost peppers are called that because you don't immediately feel the burning like you do with other peppers! There's a solid chance you could consume multiple whole peppers by the time you even begin to feel the heat from the first one. And all of this is in addition to their notorious heat. They're absolutely not something to mess around with
Great video, as always! Lol, when you said, “Number one may surprise you- HOT DOGS!” I just laughed because that totally does NOT surprise me…though I never would’ve thought that the danger comes from choking! Slow down your eating, people! 😂
Thanks for making this video I enjoyed it and learned a lot 😄
Thankfully, the only food allergies I have are a mild allergy to tree-nuts. They only really give me nausea for a little bit, and I didn’t really eat them that much before, so it’s no big loss. Another good food video as always, but compared to the previous ones, if doesn’t exactly make me hungry.
Chubby Bunny Idea: Do It With Mini Mellows, It's Safer
And A Fun Fact: Tomatoes Are A Part Of The Nightshade Family, So No Eating The Green Parts
Fried green tomatoes?
“You know, this sort of thing is important why you should really chew your food.” Kent Mansley
LOVE that you used a bit of JN footage in the beginning! You, my friend, are totally awesome!! 🤩
Man I love binging your videos! They’re always filled with well meaning and of course well researched topics! Nothing to pander and nothing to slather; just a youtuber sweet as ever!~
Based Pokemon profile pic?
Yeah! Based off the thumbnail I knew I had to watch! As a grenade eater, I was so excited 😆
I actually remembered why people (specifically European people) thought the tomato was dangerous. Back in the day they used to eat tomatoes on plates that included lead. Since tomatoes are acidic fruits, they would pick up the lead from the plates and become extremely poisonous, which obviously killed them. That would then make people believe that the tomato was poisonous.
Yes, and since tomatoes are in the nightshade family, it was easy for Europeans to think they were inherently poisonous. (Never mind that native people in Central and South America were eating tomatoes for a long time, but I digress.)
That grenade in the thumbnail be looking like a Green Day album cover
I never liked the thought of eating shrimp. When I finally tried it, I found out why. Turns out I’m allergic. Mildly most likely since I didn’t have a severe reaction to it but a notable reaction.
I used to love shrimp but I lost my taste for it after a while, I do enjoy catfish and salmon though!
As soon as you said they turned a food into grenades, I immediately thought about that war story in Firefly where Zoe talks about the Alliance hiding grenades in apples.
"Because making food into grenades is what we do now."
_When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade_
Portal 2 anyone?!
@@Thedragonlover95 COMBUSTIBLE LEMONS THAT WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN!
@@Megajaybreaker4 I'M THE MAN THAT'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN, WITH THE LEMONS!
Here in France, you can bring mushrooms to your pharmacia to see if it's poisonous or not.
Thank you PhantomStrider! You’ve given me some amazing advice on how to eat safely and do some research. Your words help save lives and save the world 🌎 and I hope you keep doing that 👍🏽
At my elementary school I remember peanuts being banned because there were 2 students in the school that would die if exposed to peanuts!
The school didn't fluff it up either. If a student asked why peanuts were banned the teachers would tell them out right that there were 2 students that could die if exposed!
Which in hindsight I really like as it helped me learn to respect people with such allergies at a young age and that it can be extremely serious!
The only fish that I've officially tried was cod. Roasted cod was one of my favorite parts of living with my mom in Wisconsin.
Informative as always Strides! Loving it!
With #10, it's not even the marshmallow's fault. Could've been done with any food.
Yeah, but a lot of other foods can be dislodged from the mouth/throat or broken apart enough to let a little air in with enough effort. The danger that’s _specific_ to marshmallows is that they don’t dissolve, and they deform into & stick to each other, leaving no space for air to get through. There are other foods that can be impossible to dislodge from the throat and block off all air flow there, but not many foods create such an airtight, resistant choking hazard from the mouth.
@@jasond.b-w Still not the marshmallow's fault. Only weird people and daredevils put more than 4 big marshmallows in their mouths at once.
Ghost peppers are about the 3rd or 4th hottest peppers. Next hottest is called "Carolina Reaper",then "Dragon's Breath ". Followed by the "Pepper X". Heard someone put a "Dragon's Breath " in their mouth,but didn't bite it. After a few seconds, removed the pepper. Mouth was apparently NUMB for couple of days.
I love hot pepper sauce, but will pass on this or Pepper X. Trying to find Carolina Reaper to see if too hot.
As someone who loves food, I have some thoughts on many of the ones listed in this video, to start with: ghost peppers. I personally enjoy spicy and hot food on occasion, but I'm definitely not crazy enough to want to try one of the hottest foods known to man (it's also somehow not that surprising that someone found a way to weaponize them). I'm also quite fond of peanuts (and most nuts in general, really), to the point where when my dad used to have me help him with the houses he worked on fixing up for his job, he used to joke that they could pay me in peanuts! But more to the point, I work in a bakery in a grocery store myself, and we have several items that contain peanuts and other types of nuts in them, and because we bake many of the items we sell in-store, we all have to be conscious about cross contamination, which can happen if a food comes into contact with another food that contains an ingredient that can cause an allergic reaction (this can also occur if a person's hands aren't properly washed, too), so I'm very well aware of the dangers of peanut allergies. I also am very fond of mushrooms (I'm the only person in my household who actually likes them), but I would never trust myself to pick wild ones because I'm aware of the danger of accidentally picking and eating a poisonous one.
I am not surprised either. Pepper spray hits about 3mil on the scoville scale, so it makes sense to me!
Normally this subject wouldn't interest me, but I known Strider from his guest appearances on Anime America so that's what sold me. Very interesting and fascinating video. I'll have to check his own channel now. 👍
Congrats on 600k 😃