Cooking With Poison in Japan
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2019
- The native people of Amami Ōshima, a remote Japanese island, harvest and eat cycad-a plant that in its rare form can be deadly because it’s packed with poison. Over the years, the islanders have developed a way to remove the toxins and now use the cycad plant to make everything from noodles to mochi. But why do they bother going through the process at all? During U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II, the people of Amami had no access to the mainland and were struck by famine as resources dwindled. The only staple they had on the island was the cycad-so, out of necessity, they had to discover ways of removing the poison to make the plant safe for consumption. Today, the practice of cooking with cycad lives on as a treasured tradition-a way for the people of Amami to never forget their history and honor the ancestors that came before them.
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Everyones making fun of the "trial and error" bit, but listening to the man speak about the origins of the plant as a food, it sounds like the people were in a position where they didn't have a choice. Imagine being so desperate for food that people were willing to try to make a poisonous plant edible. It might have been trial and error, but it sounds like it was out of desperation and need, not just for the fun of it....
Owh fuck rebecca he did not say that
Little Lamb Yes he did. He said the peasants were forced to offer all of their crop harvests to the elites, so they were left with nothing but the poisonous plants to save themselves from starvation
@@MegaDaniel24680 you didn't even watch the video did you..
@@MegaDaniel24680 roasted! Hahahahahah
@@MegaDaniel24680 you played yourself
Do you ever stop and think about how many people throughout history must have died trying to figure out what's ok to eat?
That being said, it's pretty amazing that through human ingenuity, they found a way to not only survive, but also figure out so many different uses for this poisoned plant.
Trur
True*
They could have sneaked it into the rice they were forced to give to the ruling classes , that way all of their problems would be over and they could freely eat what they wanted to and they toiled to grow.
A lot of people died finding out what plants are poisonous. But imagine how many people died trying to find a way to eat this plant, *after* knowing it's poisonous. That's crazy
Imagine all the different stuff they tried: mushrooms, insects, worms, some livers are toxic because of too much vitamin A (if I remember correctly). I am thankful that these people tried so that I don’t have to 😢 RIP
"Through trial and error", I wonder how many people died in the process! That perseverance, some of us may die, but it's a sacrifice we're willing to make.
Kamikaze
Perhaps more an act of desperation, if all the other food had been taken and they were starving.
Well either eat that and make a meaningful sacrifice so others may live or just starve to death lol. Peasant Life
It said that it's a home to many such type of plants...how many plants ...how many trial and errors would it have taken....also wonder what the other plants were...
Basically the motto of people finding edible mushrooms long ago.
Tree : Make poison so people don't eat them
People : eat that tree
Tree : Am I a joke to you?
Excuse me wtf*
I got my grandma pregnant
I Quote Dead Memes ummmm ok-ey
Yes
Tree: imma make poison so people can't eat me
People in japan: hold my sake
They eat poisonous seeds and they look like they lived a really long life
I open a bag of chips, and soda and dying all of the sudden, I'm not even 30.
Blou Bear The trick being pulled there is making people believe the chips and especially the soda isn’t poison.
Plot twist: no-one in this video is over the age of 25
but no you're totally right. I live in the same food culture you're describing and it is awful.
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Cuz the bags of chips are worse
@@parkpatt lmao
Nobody:
Everybody: *Overuses this comment structure*
Everyone: Says something generic
CZcams user who has noticed a trend: I'm going to ruin this man's whole career
Nobody:
Everybody: Nobody:
Everybody: *Overuses this comment structure*
TravasFeneley
Nobody:
Everyone: *I dOnT LiKe jOKes I dO nOt UnDerStAnd*
_why_ _intestifies_
This is hypocrisy but then again negativities are considered humor nowadays so *PASS*
Real definition of:
Improvise, adapt, overcome
I don’t even need poison to cook with. Whatever I cook tends to end up as poison
Good one
Shion feel triggered lol 😂
@@lordtea TenSura reference
If I want to eat something that could possibly kill me, it better taste DANG good if I survive.
Yeah, and apparently in the video it says it doesnt have much taste, which is why they eat it with really anything
That's not good. He said that if you eat enough it is deadly.
Eat some cashews, they are poisonous
They used is as a substitute for rice back in the war, just like rice it doesn't have much taste.
@@_mgzzzz I don
t know which type of rode you eat but it has a taste. So much that you grow tired of it.
Customer: This noodle tastes really good! What's it made of?
Chef: Poison
Customer:
I'm envisioning the Customers reaction as the suprised Pikachu face
Zuzu I see you everywhere
guess ill die.
"When people went low on rice, they ate cycad seeds to fight hunger" - is the part where tears instantly trickled down my cheeks. I can understand the respect and regard they owe to those plants and those traditional dishes.
Ok
This is really amazing! I think a lot of American commenters forget that cashews and kidney beans are on a similar boat if consumed raw or cooked incorrectly (hence why cashews are actually only sold cooked!)
Nature is pretty cool, and humans figuring out how to work with food is equally as amazing.
Lol through trial and error. Imagine ur the next person in line.
I have that palm tree in my garden and when I was a child I opened the seeds and tried it, I dint know it was poisonous, but I didn't eat it all because I didn't like it
@Al Castill dying slowly makes you aware of it, people don't like surprises
It was done during a war, as most of our foods too.
@@bryanmartinez6600 lol i agree on this one.
@@eduardov7687yikes
So we just gonna ignore how she walked away with the tree
1:48
Poisonous Plants: I'm quite poisonous but delicious.
Takifugu Fish: Do I look like a joke to you?
😂
Taki approves
These Palms are far more toxic than tetradotoxin laden flesh, Amygdalin (the poison in these plants) is converted into Cyanide by your body which deactivates your mitochondria (shuts down your body). The antidote is rarely given before permanent liver damage/failure occurs.
@@Taqqee09 Thank you Taki.
@@roundsquare6820 Now that's really interesting, it was just a joke but gotta do more research on that, thanks mate.
Nobody:
Japan: We have all kinds of delicious poisonous dishes, ranging from fugu to cycad!
They could have sneaked it into the rice they were forced to give to the ruling classes , that way all of their problems would be over and they could freely eat what they wanted to and they toiled to grow.
@@mohammedhassanakbari6722 I'm not Japanese, but i think thats a bad idea... also, famine.
@@mohammedhassanakbari6722 I highly doubt they would do that as during those times they had a very high sense of pride and honor and they still do
@@bryanmartinez6600 So this Pride and Honour makes them Vulnerable to oppression.
@@adventofnull The Famine will be a result of having to give away much of your Produce to the Rulers, otherwise if you would taxed in a just manner there will be no problem at all.
Chef: *cooks with poison*
Customer: *dies*
Chef: *ہ o ہ*
How rude when you cook with a human called poison and the cust-
oh I get it it's the poison called dude killed him with poison
UwU
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Learning this just made my YEAR! I'm constantly foraging for wild edibles and am always happy to learn of ways to eat plants I previously thought were toxic. We have a lot of these Cycads growing in San Antonio TX. And they're producing the red fruits right now!
Another wonderful video. Love this story.
I'm so grateful for this story. Thank you GBS & Japan ❤
This is poisonous
Me : No thanks fam
Japan : "I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A NEW RECIPE"
Poison : *exists*
Japanese : _Hey it's free real estate_
In Brazil, we have also a poisonous plant that people eat 'cause is delicious, it's called "maniçoba". It's very commom in north of Brazil, made with the leaves of yuca plant and it has to be cooked for 7 days to make it non-poisonous.
@LagiNaLangAko23 Yes. Yuca or cassava has cyanide in its leaves, stems and roots. If its not cleaned and prepared right, it can lead to poisoning. In 2005, a wrongly prepared cassava cake killed 27 children as pinas. They had bought it from a nearby food stall. 100 more were taken to the hospital and treated.
Yuca is poisunus ????? What ??????
In the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus rediscover the west indies the native people use grate, squeeze out the juice of the cassava and dry it before they make cassava cakes and they fermented the juice to make alcohol. That is how it was made edible.
That's a lot of effort to make something edible! Can't you guys just skip it for something else? :P
@@rumblefish9 We've been eating cassava roots raw. Of course I've experienced eating it raw causes gastritis but haven't heard or seen other complexities. That's just me telling my experiences not denying anything otherwise. 😊
"I would never eat that, thats poison" he says as he munches down his second Mc donalds burger with extra large coke.
🤣🤣
Cycads: are poisonous
Amami people: eats them anyway
Cycads: "am I a joke to you?"
And it tastes like glue
fascinating this, thank you!
Another great story from great big story.
The video was indeed soothing to watch, these Japanese people are so calm and not greedy with city life.
Sounds too dangerous for me to try eating. But then, we in the West put all sort of petroleum products and additives into our food. I suppose it's a matter of choosing one's poison.
Well put
I mean if they figured it out then it must be safer anyway than the fast food we eat.
Thing tastes like glue if ur interested
@@Zahrul3 fr? I'm actually interested in trying it out
@@MEGASTRIX Good point, that's something to think about!
I love how japanese people are so respectfully of their food
this place looks so peaceful...
These people are remarkable. Im very glad to have watched this video. It was very awakening to compare it to my own life.
Holy crap, we had one of these at my primary school and I thought these were edible and nearly ate one. Dodged a bullet there.
Lmao shouldve eaten it its edible only once
@@shonsenjaime177 ok
I wish to visit Japan in the future! The Japanese have unimaginable rituals and curious habits, and I find their culture really fascinating
Honestly I’m inspired by there dedication to this tree even though it was poisonous they still found ways to survive and thrive off it I. Impressed
Very hard working people. Much much respect.
Toxic tree and fish : *exist*
Japanese: *eat them*
Toxic tree and fish: *Am I joke to you*
Mother nature: I'll make this nice plant poisonous so that nothing will eat it
Japanese people: *nom*
Mother nature: Sumimasen, nani ga fakku?
Hahaha fakku buddy
Translation is
“Excuse me, wtf”
fakku is dead
That doesnt make sense but i get your point and it was funny lol
How the hell do these guys manage to make a couple of videos like these in a week? Do they have like 10 crews constantly traveling from one continent to another? And is it even profitable, spending probably thousands of dollars on every video?
It's not advertised but they're part of a larger media company
You can always hire local talent
They're part of CNN. I suspect this was borne out of a passion project by some there, so they might do work for normal CNN most of the time, but get time to research these and then time to go and shoot them.
freelancers can do the job ez
@@tams805no, they are part of Time Warner which also owns CNN
Nevermind with the poison with the food, but can I say how awesome and happy they all are that they're really old in age but still do all of these and in groups? (I dunno why but when I see a group of granny friends, I just immediately smile)
Not a native English speaker so forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the title of the video make more sense if it said palate?
you are correct. It's spelled wrong.
Poisonous plant that is not supposed to be eaten: *exists*
Humans: *yum yum yum, in my tum*
Wonderful. I’d like to know more about the process of removing the poison of the cycad plant. No matter the hardship, we always manage to push through. I also agree that the plant deserves an award or something.
The cycad porridge looks really delicious, similar to a rice porridge. It’s definitely the food that needs something to be paired with it. Thanks for this topic.
Salute to these grandmothers and grandfathers
Nature: developes ways to protect themselves
Human: it’s free food
Well old cassava variety also contains high amount of cyanide. People still eat it
Made Ari My sister got poisoned from not cooking cassava properly.
Great Big Story needs to be a TV channel.
What a beautiful place !!!!!
Worth mentioning, Taro is also a very poisonous plant.
But everyone eats that too!
Casava too, also ackee.
What?? I’ve eaten lots of Taro and Cassava, how come I’m alive
@@AF-qn9hc They've been boiled for a long time to destroy the poison
Just... don't eat it raw. It's a sure way to die.
World: "one does not simply eat poison and live!?"
Japan: "hold my saki"
Sake
Those grandma tho..I remember my Lola to them..my Lola is hardworking too in farming sugarcanes and peanuts. Miss her so much 😔
Us: ugh I'm not eating that banana it has a brown spot on it.
Japanese: wE eAt TrEeS
Tree makes poisen so it can protect itself.
Japanese people eats it.
Tree: I am a joke to you?
They could have sneaked it into the rice they were forced to give to the ruling classes , that way all of their problems would be over and they could freely eat what they wanted to and they toiled to grow.
It's poison
Am I getting r/woooosh ed?
That’s in Japan?! Wow that’s paradise
facts
JP you never to amaze us.
It’s pretty cool! The thing used to make boba pearls are also toxic. We eat a lot of food from toxic materials without knowing.
2:38 How do you eat that porridge with chopsticks?
don't tell me by trial and error :/
2:37 did he…… no, did they eat porridge with… chopsticks……?
……how-
It's the power of asian people we can even drink water with chopsticks
The Cycad may have outsmarted us.
but we outsmarted it's outsmarting!
Love how much respect and love this guy has for the tree.
"Cycad"
*there is prehistoric plant named cycad*
COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT
It’s the same plant, Cycad aren’t uncommon in Asian countries
@@Shnozzler Huh
God: yo this plant is poisonous. be careful
Human: ya aight
Human:
Human:
Human:
Human: yo ain't that look kinda delicious tho
The island looks like such a lovely peaceful place to live
This is so interesting, ive never heard of a whole tree being eaten. I guess you do learn something new everyday
The more I see Japanese contents, I understand the deeper they have traditional associations. So my concern is, Do the modern Japenese people are actually interested in preserving the heritage?
I didn't know something like this existed and im Japanese myself. I thought the only poisonous we eat is fugu/blowfish. Interesting!!
That place is so beautiful 😍 japan amazes me
This channel deserve my Subscription.
You ever heard of an eggplant?
Yeah, it's poison.
Let's tell Pit about the "eggplant curse" thing.
I need some of these
I'm beginning to think that you've commented on every single YT video on the entire platform.
Why are you everywhere.... like legit every video on every channel i watch youe there....
Through 'trial n error'.. Eat and whops, error..
Truly a dedication of their ancestors
What a beautiful island.
Nice video poision can be cooked and eaten is surprising
Through trial and error.............
🥴
Very nice!
Hats off to the islanders, they did whatever was necessary to survive in those harsh times
oh, so the silly question on the community tab foreshadowed this video.
*weird flex but ok*
Also eaten in Papua and other pacific island nations
really? i just heard this. thank you for the information.
Yeah, sago palm.
People always drying their food just outside but it somehow never gets stolen
I really watch these videos to hear Japanese people talk, it's so soothing
Like puffer fish but for plants
“Eating this raw is deadly” isn’t that the case for most raw food
We have two of those things in our garden. They have never borne fruit. But we pluck a few of its prettiest fronds every Palm Sunday in lieu of woven coconut leaves.
Great discovery it is then. Exotic plant like this make me wonder what other plants that are edible but yet to known or well documented.
wait i have one of those plants outside my house. ummm
*im trying this recipe!*
I do like myself some good old fashion poison!
such a good effort. Those people didn't cut all of the cycad trees and planted another kind of tree, but they learned, adapted, and overcame.
As a Japanese person, I am amazed to learn about this part of our culture! Thank you.
2:37 a Spoon would be easier...
that's how we Asians roll.
@@ThomasKrKr nope
I'm hungry
Omg i always see you in every video comments
That grandma is so strong👍
Bravo!
I want the opportunity to try!
I don't know if I'm willing to eat it but *damn this tree looks amazing and I want one as a house plant*
Tree : evolves poison over millions of years
Human : dries them
We have these cycads everywhere in southern California as decorative plants, including in my own front yard. I've seen them all my life and here I'm barely finding out they're both poisonous and edible!
Cycad: I'm not meant to be eaten but they do it anyway
Cactus: First time?
I live in Fresno California. People grow Cycads everywhere here. We call them Sago Palms.
Tree look so beautiful
seems similar to sago palm. the sticky starchy stuff they were eating also looks like linut, a common melanau staple in sarawak borneo.
We used to have this in our garden. Never knew you could eat it!