Why This Japanese Farmer Plays Music for His Konnyaku Potatoes
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Kunihiko Ishii grows konnyaku potatoes on his farm in Showa-Mura, Japan. Konnyaku potatoes are not really potatoes. They are roots. Still, everyone calls them potatoes because they look like potatoes. They are the key ingredient in konnyaku, a firm, tasteless jelly that’s used in lots of Japanese dishes. But konnyaku potatoes-which, again, just for the sake of transparency, are not really potatoes-are sensitive. So Ishii plays music for them. We’ll let him explain.
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I love how the potatoes are treated better than me
@@thrvhaze It's WAY better than my house to be sure.
Rea Rae gay
Oh to be a Japanese potato
Rea Rae Gay
Your icon says otherwise
*Everybody Gangsta Until The Potato Starts Breaking Down*
Better not insult their hairstyle
Break Down Break Down
Insert JoJo noise here
Tree Deku What did you say about my hair?!
@@XDPerson17 *u h*
What is "gangsta"?
I love how Great Big Story treats all stories with respect. When I was growing up as a Japanese American kid, I used to avoid TV/movies about Japan and other Asian countries because almost all of them were about ridiculing the cultures and treating them like freak shows. So it’s so nice to see videos like this one which just tells stories like they actually are with dignity and respect. I also love how they just leave the voices of those who are interviewed in the videos speaking their native language without dubbing them over with English.
Thank you, Great Big Story, please keep up the awesome work. I really appreciate your wonderful videos!
check garbage plate great big story they disrespect the owner
Never has it crossed my mind that I'd wish I was a potato
...til there was konnyakuuuuu 🎶
potato glados
Excuse you >:(
it tax deducible and used it as cheap marketing.. not that good a potato either since japan import potato for thing like for fast food... most japanese are soft and frie them don't help... so need strong sauce or won't work...
You want to get fried
No taste and contains 0 fat, protein, carbs , sugars. So you're basically eating nothing. Sounds like great diet food.
TyrranicalT-Rad it’s basically solid water
Where i live, they sell konjac noodles and konjac rice, and yeah its popular with ppl who are on a diet lmao
You won’t really gain much energy when eating it though
@@trash0175 very tru
@@trash0175 Hence good for loosing fat. As there is no calorie input, your body will burn the stored fat in your body. But i think it's bad to only eat konjac every day just for diet, our bodies need vitamin, minerals and other nutrients, so it still better to combine it with other food.
Slogans from famous brands:
Red Bull: "Red Bull gives you wings"
McDonalds: "I'm lovin it"
Random guy from Japan talking about his potatoes: "they're pretty much tasteless"
Lol I'll take 100!
And no calories. Eat to fill up and stay sexy
Frank Lee *oooh yeah.*
That's why they are great ingredients! Add ANYTHING to em, they'll take on the taste 😁
*Nature's blank canvas
I was literally drinking a Konjac jelly drink wondering where it came from a couple days ago!!
Well now you do lol
@@Usman_khan. Well*
@@VeevVeevs yep my mistake
Its the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
@A M ........ this video was probably planned out, produced, edited months ago long before I bought a Konjac jelly drink and just so happened to be uploaded days after I bought.... a Konjac jelly drink
"They spend a long time in the quiet warehouse so I wanted them to feel more relaxed..
I keep playing music out of kindness so that they can fell relaxed some how"
Pure kind hearted ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
"Plants are alive too"
Vegans: Guess I'll die
Lmaaooo
Tbh when vegans go really mad they start protecting trees.
Not really lol 😂
Vegans be like damn it, we can't eat animals and now plants 😂
Some people just don’t believe in killing. Lol
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
- Socrates
Love it
@Roger Alvarado Love it
Old Man Jenkins • 8 years ago Love it
@Old Man Jenkins • 8 years ago Love it
Old Man Jenkins • 8 years ago Love it
Me: ay remember that guy that can’t taste food...
He’d love this vegetable
Seems not many people remember that guy, though his story is pretty cool.
Yea
I know probably that people be confused at this comment
He wouldn’t eat me right?!?
@@canthispotatoget10ksubs97 your a another species of potato so no. Your Lucky to live but an American might chop you up to make french fries
We love potatoes so much, we made a song about it called Potato Pride
North korea is best korea
North Korea is only Korea
North korea is the true korea
Kim what’d I say in the w2s diss track shutup
@@barackobama331 😂😂😂
Mom: Don't play with your food
Me:
Why hello there, finger
I see u everywhere. Do u spend 10 hours on CZcams sir?
The historical finger👆
Me wat?
Андрей 'Снайпер' Кузнецов *y e s*
"What an idiot. Plants don't have any ears, they can't hear music!"
...which isn't likely the case here. Everyone knows that plants doesn't have ears, and I'm sure this man too. Regardless of whether music helps or not, it clearly shows how much he cares and loves those plants. What a hardworker!
_ファタン There is scientific evidence that music helps plants grow. So the plants are affected by the music he plays.
Jagdesh Chandra Bose conducted experiments and proved just read it plants can listen music
There is also experiment by mythbuster and there is significance effect. beetween how different kind of music can affect plant so it make sense.
It's still uncommon for people to play music to cultivate plants though.
@@saguthetrader992 Jagadish Chandra Bose not CV Raman.
I have never in a quadrillion years been treated like a God my entire Goddamn life...
Lmao
now's a good time to start treating yourself like one then
Same man
Bruh
lmao
i live in a japanese household in america, and i'm gonna tell you, this stuff is great. it is a good addition to random meals
"This potato has zero calories."
*Proceeds to fry it*
No he's boiling it
Any man who treats potatoes with this much kindness must be a wonderful person at heart.
Man: "plants have feelings too"
Vegans: 😧😧😧
I do recall the _MythBusters_ testing the effects of sound on plants, and finding that (certain) kinds of music and ways of speaking to the plants had positive effects, so yeah, this guy playing music for them makes sense to me
This guy breaks every, and I mean every, rule of marketing and he is still making it happen. Just remember that.
Music affect water crystals. Smart move.
Hello Ray Mak 🙋♂️
Everybody gangsta *till the potatoes start humming murder on my mind*
His heart is beautiful to think of improving the life of what in a way gives him life. A deep respect. Someday maybe I’ll meet a love so kind. 💜
I’m so stupid 😤😤😤😤
I read
“Why This Japanese Farmer Plays Music FROM his Konnyaku Potatoes”
That’s so lovely ☺️ I do sometimes feel sad that we don’t ascribe to plants the same value of life as other living things - they may not make sounds or move noticeably but they are the foundations of almost every food chain, predecessors of most life forms and essential to ecosystems. When we eat them, we should still recognise that we draw life from taking theirs, even if it is a different kind to our own. Plants are great 😄🌱
That's a really beautiful sentiment, and is exactly how I feel about them, too!❤️
Ikr, vegans accuse us of eating animals but they are brutally murdering these li'l previous potats
Generally I prefer plants to animals including humans.
I spank my baby greens and I swear you can hear them moan
It looks quite unappealing but also very intriguing, I’d love to try it
Wondering whether it's the classical or pop rock music that would give us the best yield.
i bet Mozart would give some funny taste
Dubstep
Pink Guy
jazz duh
Japanese noise rock
I really really love Konnyaku!
Hi
i see this guy everywhere
@@aijint OMG IKR
So far we have
1. Justin Y
2. Just some guy with a moustache
3. R A Y M A K
0:28 I fully expected him to start dancing to the tune, lol
Meanwhile in America : Karen is throwing a fit about having to wear a mask in a public space.
@ボイス r/woooosshhh
River Abreu not a woosh
this is the most wholesome thing I ever heard, this man needs a medal of kindness
Now I need music for my bean sprouts
1:29 The kid just made my day :”)
dairy farmers without the cows:
Imagine finding out the jelly thing u just ate is a metalhead
0:50 "Konnyaku might not look tasty in its appearance"
I disagree I think it looks delicious
That farmer is one of the most sublime and outstanding embodiment of being humane towards nature.
Plays music for potatoes :
A certain irish man : TOP IN THE MORNIN TO YA!!
LADDYS
Potatoes prefer the highest quality memes
You qualify
He’s how the music helps
Gives a cool headline for free publicity
I thought the title was "Japanese Farmer Plays Music out of Konnyaku Potatoes"
It is a well known fact that music influences plants, not only that but it also changes the structure of water, crystals in it to be more precise. Classic music has the best effect :)
I'm skeptical of that. Can you link me to a scientific article or some source?
@@efrenchen293 same
@@portgasdann3389 same
@@Leo-cb3jj same
I remember watching a myth busters episode about plants having feelings. They attached a monitoring system to it and played music, slapped it, and it responded. Anyway here's the article about plants responding to music dengarden.com/gardening/the-effect-of-music-on-plant-growth
I’m not quite sure what’s the effect when playing music for potatoes which were harvested and already in a warehouse. But for people who don’t know there’s actually a study about how music affect the growth of plants just like sunlight does.
My team when I was a 6th grader actually conducted an experiment for our research based on that study and passed the results for a local Science Investigatory Project (SIP) Contest.
It was already 8 years ago but I still remember the general results which turned out that different kinds of music (jazz or rock etc.) actually made the final growth of the plants (which in our experiment were bean sprouts) a bit different from each other. Set A being grown with classical music, while Set B with jazz music and Set C with rock music.
So this farmer actually has a point, just like other living organisms music also affect plants.
Plants are peo heple too !
People too !
I agree with this!
Tomorrow I'm going to eat my konnyaku noodles in awe. Honestly, that's amazing.
the roots look so cute, like tiny cute hedgehogs
my grandpa used to talk with plants and so do it!
Imagine if he played The Wiggles' Hot Potato song, that would be fitting
I love the way you think
That part where he clicked the music on for the potatoes is gonna be memed so much 😆
Who thought those were all moles or some type of rodent
Yeah, I thought they were rats!
Not really
Spifey might get harvested in here
I heard of guy playing classical music for his weed plants
Hi. Hope everyone reading this have a good day and a great life ;).
Thanks friend :) you too!
Stop its everywhere its nice but too much of these comments
Imagine him using spotify for his plants and them hearing a bunch of ads telling them to buy premium
*plants carrots*
Aight, its BFG Division time.
Sir.. the carrots have evolved... And apparently they have biceps and a thirst for violence
@@yamumisgae Now its time to fight my children
3 years of planting, harvesting, planting, harvesting, planting, harvesting the SAME ROOTCROPS before they can be processed takes a lot of patience. Japanese farmers are tenacious.
"Konnyaku might not look tasty in its appearance", the very next sentence "It is pretty much tasteless".
Because it is a texture food. Taste is irrelevant, you can just season it however you want.
I want those here in México , I'm obsessed by plants and Also... Love
America : we have the best potatoes
Japan: hold my beer.
Konnyaku is also used as desert jelly, since they’re tasteless and can be flavored however you like. Added bonus is that unlike gelatin, konnyaku is pretty filling despite having zero calorie. So they make great vegan snack jelly!
"Hello everyone this is YOUR Daily Dose of Internet"
Get yourself someone who treats you as well as this man treats his Konnyaku potatoes
The man plays music for the potato’s so they can feel relaxed, only to eat them afterwards. Poor potatos.😔👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊
NebulaGlitch
Rip my Family :(
I thought there was some kind of scientific answer to why he plays music, but the actual answer was so wholesome. He just wants the plant to be happy.
Playing music to something u took away from their family put in a ware house with no food and eventually going to kill and eat
Just like the ones in my basement
Oh ur talking abt potatoes
@@nickhuynh8641 *hol up*
@@nickhuynh8641 💀💀💀
Animism is a really wonderful concept; every blade of grass, pebble, insect and animal has a soul, and as such deserves the respect due to it.
Also, a word of warning; konjac is very difficult to digest as it's largely composed of dietary fibre, so don't eat too much at once or you could risk intestinal blockage.
Who else along with me likes the video first and then watches it???
2:31
Checkmate vegan.
Lmao!
Are japanese also vegan ?
Funny.
I thought vegans were more about “minimal impact” living. This is as opposed to “no impact “ living which to me reads as an impossible goal. Industrial animal husbandry is taxing on natural ecosystems and human bodies for that matter. I also doubt vegans are asking everyone to be vegan or vegetarian because it would be silly to ask, say, Arctic and Antarctic diets to be vegetarian. But most people in the temperate and tropical climes easily and pleasurably pull it off.
Vegans: PLAN B EVERYONE... WE HAVE TO EAT OXYGEN!!!
Plants are definitely alive. Vegans know plants are alive. However, they know the difference between a potato and a dog. You can boil a potato but you shouldn't boil a dog. It's that simple.
we’re privileged to be top of the food chain being considerate in all things and allowing plants to enjoy music is indeed a kind gesture
It makes my mouth start watering.
because I know how much it tastes so good .
He just wanted to listen to some music while he is working but people thought that the music was the reason why his stuff was good.
So he basically was like, Yeah definitely.
I believe it. I heard plants respond well to positive things like compliments, proper love and music.
Love and respect for living creatures will keep life circle in peace and harmony.
This how you treat plants with passion
he actually plays hard metal to them and only classical when the cameras are rolling
This is so cute, I might try playing music to my plants too 😄
Music makes it happy so it’ll taste good.
potatoes: *INTENSE BOPING*
I believe there was a study that pointed out how the frequency of the music is what develops growth in plants and not necessarily the genre of music 👂🎶
That baby is such a cutie 🥺❤️
I heard about plants that do get affected by music while they are still growing.. in the ground. But hey, props to him for caring so much about his potatoes!
I love those weird jelly candies that come individually packaged in those big barrel things...love those leeche and melon flavored ones
Of course the farm is in Japan Everything that is either amazing or insane is in Japan
i love konnyaku so i'm happy they released this video. konnyaku itself tastes like nothing but it soaks up a lot of the flavor in pot roasts and it tastes great!! sometimes at festivals here there are vendors that sell konnyaku balls cooked in broth that you dip in mustard which tastes great as well. it has no calories but lots of fiber so it's great as diet food or as an ingredient in low calorie desserts.
They look like my dog when its excited
Next: "Why this Swedish chef makes love to his meatballs"
this is so wholesome i love that
That’s incredible..! Mad props to the farmer
Respecting fod at its finest💚
These potatoes are literally more relaxed that I am.
1:16, that lady is eating in weird way.
#Respect
This stuff is like the water of food. No calories and tasteless.
Konnyaku jelly is popular in Korea too except it’s called acorn jelly over there, they have a more smooth & sheer finish though. But definitely delicious as a side dish with particularly thinly sliced hot chili, sugar + soy sauce, green onions. Or even in cooked dishes. Similar to tofu. Tasteless sometimes but enhances a dish.
Konnyaku can hear and feel the music.
Your stories are incredible! Thanks thanks thanks for sharing!
I love Konnyaku for a long time, but I've never thought that they listen to music!
My friend ‘potato man’ would be pleased.
JC Bose would be proud of you! Good job.
Mmmmm yes. this I like.
Konnyaku my fav food on earth, zero carbs zero calories. I can eat a ton without injecting insulin.
i love konyakku, especially as grape jelly and in noodle form for soup. i first tried it when i lived in japan a few years ago and cannot live without it lol
Lmao he plays music to give a false sense of security, then when processing time comes BAM they never saw it coming!