Humans love to thumb their noses at Nature for sure. My favorite is _Brassica oleoracea_ -- which has been jacked up into over a dozen different veggies we eat, including cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, collard greens, and others -- but the absolute, most delightfully absurd one is Romanesco broccoli. If you've never heard of that, well, you're in for a real visual treat. I hear it tastes like regular broccoli, but it looks like something so impossibly mechanical that Nature could not have come up with it -- and yet it did, with just the right luck and tweaking. It's nicknamed fractal broccoli for a reason!
Thank you. I was coming here to make this same comment. The so-called taste zones of the tongue idea was debunked many years ago. Why is a video in 2023 still perpetuating this myth??
Well, technically it's the animators who messed that one up. If you listen to the script, she doesn't say that there are separate areas of the tongue for each taste, but it's implied by the animation that plays. Now granted, I'm not sure if that's their animation or if it's sourced.
So when we did the biology test to See wich part of the tongue has the best sensory for bitter and sweet and etc. The entire class fell for a illusion, and the parallel class too, and the classes that came before and after also?
The reason for the Sriracha shortage is not because of a bad growing season. It's because they screwed over Underwood Ranch, their long-time pepper supplier in the US, for cheaper growers without experience. Look it up. Also Underwood Ranches Premium Sriracha is like the OG Huy Fong, much better than the current stuff.Highly recommend.
The weather conditions have nothing to do with Huy Fong's decreasing output rate of sriracha, it's because they ceased their partnership with the farm that supplied their peppers.
That Andy Capp section reminded my that May 5th is also National Cartoonist's Day (along with it being Cinco De Mayo and National Totally Chipotle Day). Last year, I printed off a bunch of images like Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Batman, Superman, etc. for the holiday and put them in a binder.
If you don't wanna pay $90 for a bottle of Tuong Ot Sriracha (aka Rooster Sauce), I'll point you to Underwood Ranches, the former supplier of red jalapeño peppers for Huy Fong Foods. HF breached contract with Underwood a few years ago, signing up for the year's usual production purchase and then reneging on it. Underwood sued and won a $22 million decision -- and then they started selling their own hot sauces. Their Sriracha is every bit as good as the rooster sauce, maybe even a little better. And there ain't any shortage of it. Also, a little correction: Si Racha had an influx of Chinese immigrants from Guangzhou (Canton) in the 1800s. They brought their chili garlic sauce with them, which eventually became first the popular Thai version of that sauce (Sriraja Panich) in the 1930s, then more so after David Tran brought it to the US after moving there in the 1970s and coming up with the famous Rooster Sauce.
5:42 For my last Christmas present from my parents, I received the books The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby Jr. and its summary book The Columbian Exchange. They are about the massive amount of significant trading that occurred after Columbus arrived in the Americas.
She does a fine job -- I especially enjoy her bright, clear diction. The gent has his particular humor and styling that a lot of folks like, but I've been warming up to the narrator in this video lately, too.
Vanilla is a spice. Cinnamon is a spice. Cardamom, cloves and ginger are spices. Coca cola is a spicy drink full of spices. So is pumpkin spice latte. So, the hot peppery taste/pain sensation of capsaicin is not the definition of the word "spicy", it's a very limited category of "spicy". Chili is not the only spice.
Yeah, never understood why the English language refers to the hot burning sensation as spicy, not exactly fitting definition. No other language does this.
@KaisaIslamovawell English is a diverse language. If you live somewhere that snows frequently here in the US you will find that the local region has like 20 different words to reference different kinds of snow. Where as down south in the US they don’t have them in their stand vocabularies. Going back to the term spice/spicy the big thing is context within the sentence. Other words get used as well such as the food being “hot”. Other spices get referred to commonly as herbs or spices. When we talk about food that uses those spices people say it’s well seasoned
Coming from someone who likes to eat spicy food, I have some interesting facts that some may or may not know. I've learned that most countries whose cuisines are spicy (or pungent if you like), like Mexico, India, and Thailand, tend to have warm to hot climates. I believe it's just a coincidence, but I may be wrong. But I can list reasons why the foods in those countries taste that way. Spices and peppers grow well on those climates, so those are always readily available. Second, we know what happens when you eat spicy food, with the capsaicin and stuff. It makes your body temperature increase, which makes you sweat. Perspiration is human's natural cooler. This helps when dealing with very hot temperatures, especially if it's a dry one. Third, and I'm not sure if this is true, but I heard spices have antibacterial things that would at least prevent the food from going bad, since food usually goes bad faster in the heat. Now just because a country has a warm to hot climate doesn't necessarily mean their food is spicy. Greece has a warm climate, but I don't think their food is pungent. On the other hand, South Korean cuisine is, even though that country has a cold climate.
Points 2 and 3 have had multiple studies to disprove them. Point 1 referenceing availability is the largest contributor. Although there has additional studies referencing how peppers may have been used for medicinal purposes as odd as that sounds.
Thanks for such a most accurate reply. Been to India, where the climate is very hot & a lot of the folks there, who really couldn't afford either housing or gourmet food, they use their curried dishes to both nourish them & make them sweat to cool them down while living outdoors.
When I was a kid in the 90s I had a local store run by an Indian immigrant and always called andy capps and flamin hot cheetos "hot chips" 😁I prefer the Jalapeno Cheetos more these days, but I have tried pretty much every Flamin Hot creation so far. Definitely check out the Flamin Hot Ruffles 🤘
8:20 I graduated from Southeast Community College with a Health Sciences Associate Degree on May 5, 2022. It was Cinco De Mayo and National Totally Chipotle Day, so we ate at Chipotle's after the ceremony.
I'm such a wimp, I can't handle truly spicy food. It leaves me with a really upset stomach, in the bathroom for hours. I don't know how people do it. This really annoys me, as the food smells wonderful.
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Wow, very interesting that spicy is not part of one the taste senses! It is actually pain to our sensors, crazy! 😝 Love spicy food, love the sensation it goes to my taste buds! Love Siracha! Yum! ❤😉🌶️
I just love Indian and Tex-Mex cuisine! I use jalapenos, chipotle powder, serranos, hot paprika, or long green chilies in whatever stews, gulyas, chilis, or curries I cook up. McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce or Cholula are great on fried eggs or potato salad. I find lots of foods bland without a little heat. But I think anyone who tries using Carolina reapers are suicidal!
First of all it’s not pronounced “Ear-windale”. 🙄 It’s Irwindale! Secondly, YES Andy Capp was a VERY POPULAR comic strip even in America. It was my favorite cartoon growing up….and his Hot Fries are always my first choice in a vending machine.
The "Taste Regions" of the mouth is so ubiquitous that at this point, even if it's a myth, people come to expect it. So I'll give the video a pass for that. It's sort of like the "Carrots improve your eyesight" myth, it's so widespread that people accept it as common knowledge even if it was a WW2-era British invention to help explain their fighter pilot's success against the German Luftwaffe (it was actually their top secret radar system).
Sriracha is not only produced in the US, a common brand in Europe is Flying Goose which actually is produced in Thailand, just not in the city of Sri Racha. The US market is not the world, please do thorough research before making such absolute statements.
Sorry, your taste buds are just the bumps on the back of your tongue. There’s over 1,000. I just learned this in anatomy and physiology when talking about the digestive system
Andy Capp was in U.S.news papers comics for year and the Hot Fries are one of my favorite snacks when I can find them witch is getting a little hard these day for some reason.
The variants are great too. Cheddar is good. Ranch is awesome. BBQ is my favorite but it's pretty much impossible to find. They have the beer battered onion rings and hot rings too. They arent bad either but I prefer the fries.
I have a bag of hot fries in my pantry right now but long before Frito lays found the heat people in Chicago were enjoying Hot stuff potato chips from Jay's. And before you ask Jay's chips came first. While they don't have a version of Cheetos they do have a hot stuff popcorn
What do you mean Irwindale isn't an Asian locale? It is part of San Gabriel Valley, a place with one of the biggest populations of Asian Americans in the United States. If anything it is located in one of the premiere Asian locales.
"One of those youtube shows where people eat hot wings" You're not going to get copyright struck for mentioning hot ones lol, have a black caffeinated soda beverage and chill
A lot of reservations from others about the female voiceover and you can drag me thru the mud and even quicksand when I say I adore the essence of it all and I will speak words with those so hostile. 🔥
10:25 I remember eating a handful of wasabi peas because I thought they were some type of nuts on a coffee table. My entire head felt like Ghost Rider.
One of the hottest pepper that I've ever eaten raw and know by name is the habanero. One of my managers was on lunch with me in the break room, where someone had brought a mini collection of peppers to share with all the employees. I picked out a smallish, orange one and bit into it. As I did, I noticed my manager had stopped eating hers and was staring at me apprehensively, as though I didn't know what I had just done---and in truth, I actually didn't. It felt like the oil/juice of the habanero was rolling slowly over my entire tongue. It was hot...then it got _really_ hot. But I didn't complain. I sweat, and had to breath a littler heavier, but I didn't freak out. I had already liked spicy foods of lesser intensities prior to that for years (spicy snacks/chips, cayenne pepper, tabasco), so I feel like that gave me at least _some_ form of "training". When my manager saw that I wasn't making a fuss (outwardly), she complimented me by saying, "Wow, I'm impressed. Most people who eat those can't handle it. They're all like, _oh my god, I wanna' die_ after they try it."
3:47 The 80s G.I. Joe is one of those phenomenas, like Thundercats, Jem, Denver The Last Dinosaur, He-Man, She-Ra, and Pee-wee's Playhouse, that is uniquely 80s.
@@gracekim25No, it is VERY disrespectful to mispronounce someone’s or some place’s name. As a Californian I was also really offended when she said “Ear-windale”. 🙄
Stevie Wynne Levine, Is THAT the annoying narrator that some of us LOVE to hate? Sure sounds like it! I know she is a GMM fave and very cute, but please, not in this format.
The sound balancing in these videos with the female narrator is always too quiet. There's quite a big difference between the volume level of these videos and the videos with the male narrator.
Clearly it was meant to be cheeky to state that ENgland/UK introduced colonialism to the world, saying and spreading such monumental nonsense is really hurtful to understanding of the human condition. Colonialism is documented from thousands of years before there was even an England. Your attempt to focus derision on one country that participated in a practice that so many other countries have practiced as well deceives people into thinking that no other country practiced it, that the desire to expend one's culture and influence is not a common trait among peoples, and that only one group should be blamed.
5:42 I went to grad school at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, a settlement named after Christopher Columbus. My maternal grandmother's family came from Germany and lived in Columbus, Nebraska, also named after Christopher Columbus.
