QI | What's A Purple Emperor's Favourite Food? 

once you're done with Quite Interesting, you can always make your way over to Half As Interesting

Very true man

@@luuketaylor brilliant

With poor enough memory you can just loop it. If you need help, I suggest using a brick.

Oh me too! I watch several several times too 🤣🤣

Fourteen damn you!

Excuse me? 18 till I die, thank you very much! 😜

That's their jobs

My brain thinks I'm about 28, my sense of humour is about 12 and my body is asking if I'm sure I'm not dead yet.

@@gordonlawrence1448 wait until you get to fifty... Well I know where some of my life went. 🤣

guzerator ???

Came here to point that out, actually! Casey's comment was my original thought. Lol

A room is not flawless when it is floorless.

Ogden Nash? I thought that was Spike Milligan.

Yeah, its was a bit odd to hear her say that. I can't imagine how insane youd feel hearing he died an hour later.

Amen to that!

She also has the most Welsh name possible despite not actually being particularly Welsh herself

I was thinking generally Roman, since the upper echelons of Roman society started wearing purple before the split.

I think you'd struggle to market horse manure as a delicacy in any time or culture.

As purple dye required a massive amount of labour to create in ancient times, only the extremely wealthy members of the ruling classes could afford it.

I was thinking porphyria

@@vikramkrishnan6414 Did you mean the purple stone called Porphyry? ("porphyria" is a disease.)

I read that as “Northamphetamine”

@Markus Pollak People having sex in the woods.

I'm from Northamptonshire and I did🙂

@@jimmywoo2022 That's not true, in Northamptonshire they do it in car parks near the woods :D

@@alexyodson5749 Not-so-proud Northants native and I did! When Stephen slated the county at 4:17, I thought "eh, he's got a point."

Luckily it's only served at julbord here in Sweden and can then be easily avoided.

Wouldn't surprise me if that's because there are more of them over there.

0 that white thing supposed to be fish, one of the things I gladly skip during jul

@@nahadoth2087 If its a cool custom, I don't see why you would leave it behind. Lutefisk is trash though.

@@LetsGoGetThem The best thing I've seen is Americans celebrating midsummer, even singing the traditional songs eventhough none of them speak Swedish anymore. Rather impressive actually.

That was Phil laughing while Stephen spoke.

Hi, Bev! Wow, thanks - that Comment was... Quite Interesting. No, really! It was splendid! :-) The title of QI is a bit of a double-edged sword, because in the straight-talking United States the word 'quite' is largely taken literally (so it's generally a good thing to be quite pleased or quite happy), but here in sick, twisted Britain, qualifying anything with the word 'quite' can mean its exact opposite, and an innocent-looking 'quite' can be construed as the most outrageously sarcastic insult... Anyway, I quite enjoyed your Comment. Quite a lot. Honestly. Yay. I was just wondering about your description of how the lutefisk's taste didn't match the pungency of the smell, and that once you'd tried the fish dish, the smell seemed to disappear. Is it possible that there was some sensory overloading going on? I'm thinking of how garlic behaves. [I hate garlic, by the way.] It smells very strongly until it actually gets into your mouth, whereupon you (I mean 'one') suddenly can't smell what all the fuss was about. It's as though your nose has been recalibrated to ignore garlic. To anyone beside you, however, the smell is still eye-wateringly strong, and impregnates your clothes and hair and even begins to exude through your skin after a few days. Stealth-stench technology... My only other encounter with such a taste/smell phenomenon was when I tried durian fruit. Yikes. The odour was ASTONISHINGLY bad. I mean, really, really, dead-dog-in-sewage foul. The fruit, however, tasted delicious. Sort of like a citrus/pineapple and sweet grapefruit 'smoothie'. What was particularly weird was that I could still smell the rest of the dead dog durian in the kitchen behind me as I was eating the yummy fruit a mere 3 yards away, so the magical 'garlic desensitisation effect' didn't happen for me. I'm not keen to try lutefisk, so I'll never know whether its smell behaves more like durian than garlic. Perhaps you could perform some experiments. Maybe post a RU-vid cookery video... I'm sure your results would be, er, Jolly Interesting! ;-)

Can confirm, lutefisk has basically no taste. Not that I remember it having much of a smell either. Of course it's been years since I ate it last time.

@@EleanorPeterson Thank you for your thoughtful reply! I admit I'm rather addicted to Britcoms and mysteries and almost everything British, clear back to the ancient Celts, so I am aware of the double entendre with "quite." :-D I don't know the "magic" of why the smell dissipated when I ate lutefisk and found out it didn't actually have much of a taste; it just did. I also don't eat garlic. I'm afraid my taste buds favor a bland Scandinavian-American diet. I've never tolerated the smell of onions from my first consciousness of it when I was a child to now (I'm 74). If I can smell onions, everything tastes like onions. I describe it as eating while sitting inside of an outdoor toilet (onions smell like shit to me). Many years ago when a neighbor made stuffed green peppers the smell alone would give ME a three-day migraine, complete with vomiting until green bile came up. It was awful...!!! Peppers are another thing that triggers my vomit response just from the smell alone. One teensy-tiny piece of green pepper accidentally got on a small pizza I ordered a couple of years ago, I could smell it instantly but not see it. I bit into it..., and nearly vomited up the slice I'd already eaten as I spit the pepper bite out instantly. Gawd, it was awful...! I suspect I'm highly allergic to onions and green/red peppers. I also can't tolerate tequila. Three teeny-tiny sips of a Tequila Sunrise/Sunset (whatever it was called) gave me a three-day migraine. Most migraines I've had in my life are from food allergies (first discovered when I ate MSG - "Chinese food syndrome" is what my allergist called it). I can't have any grain-based alcoholic beverages since the tiniest sip or two can give me a three-day migraine. I am allergic to grain smut/pollen; I can have white bread, but not whole grain bread (the pollen follows the whole grain, but is somehow killed in the bleaching process for white flour, and I only eat the breads that don't have an overpowering yeast smell). I do have multiple allergies - foods, pollen from various plants, trees (oak is the only tree to which I know I'm not allergic), plus odoriferous chemicals that go into making artificial scents for a long list of products, especially cleaning products..., as well as perfumes and after-shaves. They give me an instant headache and respiratory distress. I had to look up durian; I've never heard of it or seen it. Chances are I'll never eat it. :-) I don't do videos. I do genealogy research and write on a couple of blogs, but that's the extent of my online adventures. :-) I have a bunch of English ancestors, among others. :-)

Who would do this to themselves? Why do N Europeans love self torture so much?

@@LTPottenger - When the choice is to preserve food for the long winter by any means necessary..., or starve..., which would you choose? With lutefisk one must soak it in fresh water changed often to get the lye out (remember, lye is caustic so it must be very thoroughly rinsed). When properly rinsed, then baked (like my mother made it), the fish is rehydrated so it turns out nice and plump, and has little or no taste at all except for the melted butter one dips the flakes of fish meat in. It just smells gawdawful in the pre-preparation process. If you've eaten fish from the boxed frozen section of the store, you'll see that most of the fish is cod which, in its natural state when caught fresh, has little or no taste, so any flavors come from whatever garnish one uses (often lemon and/or tartar sauce - homemade tartar sauce so the onions are left out).

Well, he did play him in a film many years back. ;-)

Again.

His Role Model, don't you know! 😉

Studtall woods?

Stephen and Fry were two Wilde and crazy guys.

That's Phill, not Stephen.

I remember seeing trad Kimchi makers popping in oysters and sealing the lot in a pot to be buried

To be fair, it is DELIBERATELY unpalatable since the main component of any dish of lutefisk is the pea stew and Bacon typically, It is widely appriciated in norway however, I worked at a fishing resturant in trondheim where we served almost half a tonne of the damn thing in the leadup to christmas.

@Håkon Oh god no.....

Lye fish is a thing in Finland too.

My thoughts exactly 😂

You might find the answer to your question here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q105hjXs-ng.html Enjoy!

Fermyn Woods' art gallery does it: www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/oct/05/purple-emperor-butterfly-patrick-barkham

Innuendo my friend.

If one is educated enough in lepidopterology to immediately think of butterflies when hearing purple emperor I suppose.

@@Jotari I'm not even slightly educated in that, but I 'got it'. Emperor is a fairly common name for butterlies in general, or at least the ones that catch the attention of people who aren't educated in the specifics. So the second Fry started talking about odd foods in the first couple of seconds, it was clear it was gonna be butterflies. But clearly you like to show off your knowledge of big words and can't bear us plebs to know things you know, so I can see why you'd wanna gatekeep.

@@andrewsparkes8829 What am I gate keeping? You're going to have to explain yourself better because I legitimately can't even see how gatekeeping is possible in this interaction.

@@Jotari just leave it, this guy is clearly unhinged. I have the feeling that he upvoted his own comment

@Eleanor Bartle It is really, really, *REALLY* hard to actually display "violet" on a TV or computer screen. As we are watching a computer hsow of a tv show f a slide projection via (i assume) a backlit computer-fed display.... I do not think we are likely to actually see any Violet.

"I was admiring a cock hungry purple emperor on my red-hot poker."

Better, but less fun to serve to unsuspecting guests.....

Håkon fydda det klarer itte je og ete. Bare vokser i munnen på meg.

Lutefisk is a big deal in certain parts of Minnesota, in turn a popular destination for many a Norwegian back in the day.

@@alexveldhuis6004 as I learnt from King of the Hill.

@@alexveldhuis6004 - And Swedes and Danes. I have ancestors from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark (plus four others going back to the Mayflower) in my genealogy. There was a kind of mini-population explosion in the mid-19th century in the Scandinavian countries, and land (Norway's arable territory is only 10% of the country; the rest is mountains - hence the over-abundance of fish in their diet; Sweden and Denmark have more habitable land areas to raise grain and animals). They came for the homestead land after Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862. The peak years for immigration were ca 1880-1890, altho many came before and after.

Skulls for the skull throne!

Barbara Joseph-Adam Not yet...

I bet the cow manure was to cook it.

That's Dermot O'Leary if you weren't aware!

@@cowjuicy Never heard of him. I'm in the U.S. Most of the people on QI have a "quirky" appearance... a very british lack of concern with their looks, but he is gorgeous!

@@3506Dodge ah yes, the country famous for their slovenly balls of lard pushed into mobility scooters would be the only place on earth to have the bravado necessary, to state other peoples aren't concerned with looking well put together.

@@aidanrock8719 I have no idea what you're talking about.

​@@3506Dodge That"s probably just as well. The gist being that coming from the U.S.A., from what is seen in Britain, you are in no position to judge appearances.

represent

Presumably Fry wont come back at least until Fry wants to come back. He hasnt even been on as a guest yet

Magmafrost13 Not saying he should be forced, but I think he would enjoy coming back to his show

I really cant see Fry as a guest for some reason.

vasilip your gonna make me cry

dansmudge135 I mean he's too much a host type :D I cant express myself properly in english.

AMEN to that!

She really, really isn't

Wouldn't go that far but she is quite adorable.

Yes, but I have to say that there are a lot of them

...& extremely witty!

According to the story, because the in-laws hate it too.

Agreed. He just talks over the top of people even when its clear they’re telling a story