@@lopde1290 It's just because the video gives off a strong early 2000s youtube vibe. If he started off the video by saying "guys 90% of my viewers are unsubscribed so be sure to hit that subscribe button, click the bell icon, and SMASH that like button!!!" it would take you right out of that deja vu.
20 years ago I went to Ecuador with the family. We were in the car travelling between cities and my cousin stops the car to buy something from the side of the road. He comes back with a large bunch of huge beans that had a cotton like thing in them with these very large seeds. I loved it like mad. Years later I mention this food to my family and everybody was like you are crazy, you were probably dreaming. I never found anything about that so I gave up thinking it was a dream. Now I know it is true! Thanks a lot man!
Colombian and can comfirm guama ice cream is a thing if you look in the right place, there is an ice cream shop in Santander with all sorts of exotic ice cream
In Brazil, we use to call it "ingá", and there's actualy (at least) 5 comon varietys of this fruit here (ingá feijão, ingá anão, ingá cipó, ingá macaco and ingá gigante)... but there are lots of less known wild varietys...
Sou de santa Catarina, e la é impossível não esbarrar com uma árvore dessa fruta onde tem mata nativa... acho que deve ocorrer em boa parte da América latina... Curiosidade: Djavan canta "na barranqueira do rio, o ingá se debruçou, e a fruta que era madura a correnteza levou" na música Correnteza.
In Perú this are very popular to eat when you are taking a long time travel, people carry it in buses, i never though about how convenient it is as a snack for traveling untill you mention it, always thought it was a peruvian thing to do just because
When he heads back and says "oh wait" and you expect he's going to get a face mask but he just wanted to say bye to his kitty... 2020 got me thinkin different
Thank god I live in Florida and havent been indoctrinated to have my crappy blue China mask with me 24/7. Here in Florida we had masks maybe for like 3 months, then after that the mask thing was dropped. I almost feel like the mask thing, in some cases, made things worse, as all people do is use their dirty hands to fiddle with the mask and constantly touch it, which puts germs all over it and when people breathe out they are just blowing more germs out into the air. Personally, as someone who travels for work, I did not see any real benefit to the masks... The "mask" states I visited like NYC and New Jersey had terrible Covid numbers and cases. While Florida had some bad numbers early on, their numbers were not different from places like New York and California with heavy mask mandates and actually drastically improved oddly as they got rid of masks. Who knows.. Im no doctor, but I dont think its hard to not wear a mask and just be sanitary and not spread germs.
@@JonHop1 You are completely misattributing this as a causal phenomenon. NJ and NY why did not have worse cases because of masks (come on now... even you have to be aware that the mask mandates were not put in until after 2 months of COVID cases soaring there) and they certainly haven’t gotten better because of ease of restrictions. In fact, we know that all states that have eased off restrictions early have had spikes in cases, including Florida. NY and NJ have the most frequently visited international airports in the US. That is why there were the most cases in those areas. The masks I think are incredibly helpful, but only if you wear the right kind. A lot of people didn’t, so in this way they weren’t super effective, but it was much better than nothing and likely prevented many deaths. Although, if the US handled it in similar ways as Jordan, we may have prevented many more deaths. But if people are going to pretend being told to wear a mask is oppressive, I can only imagine what these nut jobs would do if they were told they had to stay inside their homes.
Weird Explorer this makes me happier than you could ever know. You are smart enough and well spoken enough to pull it off. Explaining flavor and texture is hard but you do a better job than anyone else I've ever seen try.
I'm so excited for that! Hunting down and trying strange fruits is kind of a lowkey hobby of mine, I have my own list of ones I still have to try but having a book that contains all the info on them would be incredible!
Weird Explorer Hi! I just found your channel and i think is awesome! I really like the idea of a book about your experiences, I'm an artist and I would love to illustrate your book (just like the Colombian Botanical Expedition, have you seen it?)
@ExDeeXD Music it is killing people but very little compared to the population. the ones affected are old and the very young if you are very weak immune system wise you should be careful or family members otherwise do what you want. you want to get exposed to covid to build immunity wanting to getting covid vaccine is stupid unless you are weak immune system wise and comparable to getting a vaccine for flu/cold.
@ExDeeXD Music That is definitely not deaths or people infected. It would make covid worse than the spanish flu and comparable to the black death which it is not even close.
So it's more like a cotton candy/fairy floss fruit? Creamy persimmon sounds delicious. Honestly, I've always felt an impulse to put cotton balls in my mouth. I don't actually do it! Even as a child I didn't. But cotton balls are my "forbidden fruit" So I think this would probably be pretty great.
Honestly, this is the coolest travel video series ever. I'm an avid traveler & for some reason, I have never liked travel vloggers, but I really enjoyed this. Hi from Colombia
2 years late but I think it's reminiscent of those educational videos where someone goes to a South American metropolis to teach you about the culture.
I am getting Milo from Disney's Atlantis vibes from this video. He made me want to be an explorer whilst I was growing up and I'm glad that you've brought that to life for me! 😄
There are many different Inga species, the 1st one you tried looks like Inga edulis. but there are also feuillei, which looks like the second one you tried. could be spectabilis. There are people growing Inga Edulis in Florida.
Wow... nature is stranger than fantasy, would not have thought this was a thing...and a chocolate pudding fruit?? Which brings me to: why...aren't these available, like, everywhere??? Surely there must be a huge market?
Need very specific growing climates and some of these plants but be invasive species on different continents, meaning they would have a bad time interacting with the wildlife elsewhere. Importing is expensive and not worth it when some fruits go for literally 5 cents, if not less in these countries. Also the fruits wouldn't really last. Large greenhouses are more so used for sustainable food and things like that. Private growers may have better luck though! A lot of people just dont know about them!
It's not unusual for a single fruit species to have hundreds of varieties. Maybe even thousands for species cultivated by humans. Biodiversity is mind blowing. Sadly with industrialization of agriculture, lots of varieties go extinct as the amount of farmers and therefore selection and maintenance of certain varieties reduces.
Great video. Loved the cat party! I've only tried one of the three species you were able to enjoy. There is a huge book with info on all the different Inga species (ice cream bean). In Ecuador, the most popular was Inga edulis. The pods were often over a meter long.
I'd like to see you do a comparison between Ice Cream Bean (which I have never tasted) and Guamuchil (which I have had). Ice Cream Bean is said to taste like vanilla ice cream, while Guamuchil is supposed to be like coconut (especially the texture). I know you did do a review of the Guamuchil ("Monkey's Earrings") a while back, but now that you have tried three kinds of Ice Cream Beans, a comparison would be interesting.
WOW, So blessed to be able to travel around the world while tasting lifes gifts, stay blessed and thank you for your valuable time sharing your adventures and great info ❤. I enjoy sharing your videos in hope that others learn more about what our world has to offer and its tastes amazing. Thank you again
😢 you are living my dream, travel, enjoy all the wonderful things in the world, I put myself in debt and chased the dollar all my life, but watch you now and regret some of my path.
This is ridiculous and brilliant and your cat has obviously been running illegal underground poker games in your absence. Well done, kitty- A++, would pet that feline entrepreneur. I found your channel quite some time ago and subscribed immediately because HOLY HELL, I'm not the only person who gets super excited about weird fruit. I definitely have to check out Eataly the next time I'm in the city, I'm local so I'm there often enough. I have a bunch of questions about traveling and fruit and how the two intersect- should I just list 'em here in the comments? I don't think they've been answered in previous Q+A videos, but I could be wrong! Thank you for the excellent fruit-based entertainment.
Yeah, she's the real reason how I can afford to travel. Sure thing, i try to respond to most comments on here. And cool! Eataly is amazing, also the stalls over at Mulberry and Canal in chinatown are pretty great.
I like the idea that your cat throws parties while you're gone and charges a cover so you'll have the money to go on another trip, so the cat can throw another party...and so on.
Okay, I'm a new sub that has been binge watching your stuff. That intro, that cat content, that hard core fruit adventure......this content is high quality!
thats the first video of you that i watch and i instantly see that you are a good man and i see the effort and especially the fun you spend in editing and filming ur videos. u seem like a great person, keep it up
You should try dacryodes edulis. It is a "plum" from west Africa. We have had some luck finding them frozen here in the US in grocery stores specializing in African foods. They are a very interesting fruit with only a thin layer of fruit around what is hands down one of the freakiest looking seeds you will EVER see. They look as strange or stranger when sprouting too. My mother has a USDA seed import license and has some of the trees she has grown from seed in her tropical greenhouse and has pics of them sprouting. They look terrifying!
Thanks for reviewing the Ice Cream Bean Fruit! I found a tree at a local tropical nursery here in the Phoenix area (Arizona), and I bought it! It's doing well so far, some great new growth over the summer, and I'm excited for the day I harvest my very first Ice Cream Bean! I'll let you know how it is. I better go check if I need TWO for best results in fruit production...
Here in Costa Rica the second type are fairly common seasonally, they are called "gauba" here though . There are significant differences between varieties. The most common ones are fairly large up to about 2 feet long but not that great. There are smaller ones with a more square cross-section that I find far better. I wonder if I I could find the first kind you tried here in CR.
Yeah, good luck with the admonition, "No parties!" to the cat. It's as inevitable as roaches in a Hell's Kitchen floor-through. I often pictured turning around after leaving the house to retrieve something and entering a scene of the cats trying desperately to unzip their chicken costumes, a flurry of feathers aloft, after hearing my key in the lock.
Channels like this make me so glad that youtube is a thing. It's based around a super specific topic that could never really have a television show based around it, but still a topic that's really pleasing to watch videos about if that makes sense.
I had flowers on my Ice Cream Bean tree last year and got one fruit. I'm hoping for more flowers this year and finally some fruit set. I've had the tree in the ground about five years so it should start giving some fruit soon. I enjoy your videos!
