Why Sea Cucumbers Are So Expensive | So Expensive
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2019
- While ordinary vegetable cucumbers cost $3 per kilo, sea cucumbers can cost over $3,000 per kilo. These animals are prized as a delicacy in Asia, and are used by pharmaceutical companies to treat diseases like cancer. Unfortunately, over-harvesting now threatens many sea cucumber populations.
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They live in saltwater, which leads me to believe they should be called Sea Pickles.
that's actually not dumb
Well played Sir
pickles are like baby salted cucumbers so...
faroshscale haha
@GamingTV no if they live in salt water they can't be slugs salt damages slugs and snails
1)take cucumber
2)throw in the sea and let sit 2 weeks
3)??
4)profit
Haha omg
Wrong but super funny
wouldn't that make it a pickle tho?
😂👏🏼😂👏🏼😂👏🏼
Claudio Andrei 😂😂👍🏼
I love that the main problem of us making more and more species extinct is that they get more expensive because they're getting rare.
Supply and demand aka Capitalism
And for what? Rubbing them on your joints to fix arthritis? lol
@@jinvonastrea1141 Capitalism isn't supply and demand, that's Free Market Economy. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production, instead of state-owned (government owned-) / publically owned (the public owned-) or corporate owned (although most corporations are "privately owned" as soon as they sell shares of their company publically ie. "going public" on the stock market, allowing anyone and everyone to own a part of the company by choice making them factually publically owned) means of production, which would be socialism.
I read this misconception soooo many times and it really hurts my brain when Capitalism is again blamed for things that aren't even it's fault. All a capitalist wants is to own his own company, or maybe a family owned company where he owns the machinery and raw materials/resources to produce the product for profit.
All those animals, plants, whatever living being that is exploited and hunted until extinction? That's on human greed. The "look they are eating X so we have to try X now too!" or "look, everyone bought a Y so we have to buy a Y as well!"
its typically 1 or 2 countries that force this crap cause of their magical fake medicines n other lala land crap.
@@freshnorthwest6756 one or two? How about more than half of all countries push psychological remedies. Now that I think about it, all of them do.
Once I touched one and they are hypnotizingly soft. I sat there with my hand in 30 degree water for 20 minutes fondling a giant sea slug
That's just weird
@@someguy8732 You’d understand
Water freezes at 32 degrees genius
@@BugOnAChip civilized people use celsius genius
@@BugOnAChip wader
Who was the one who looked in the ocean. Saw one of those things...and decided to just eat it?
Hector Cabrera Chinese
Bear Grylls
😂😂😂 Right!!!!
The Cantonese especially. There's a saying in Cantonese, "If its back faces the sky, it's edible".
Dr.Science both...
and thats how an endangered species is made
Merlin rich people kill them
Facts
And pollution for othe animals
*other
I didn't know that. Thanks for the education. My learning curve looks much better now.
I love how cheerful your youthful Zillennial voiceover sounds while she convinces us how super fun, cool, and quirky it is to treat living, near-endangered animals like sea cucumbers like a commodity and nothing more
Yeah cause its just cucumbers. So why care about them?
Your point? It taste good and I’m gonna continue eating it
@@leonzhu5452 Sea Cucumbers subsist off of nothing but literal shit on the bottom of the sea floor, and taste exactly like what they eat. So I think you're lying.
@@Jordan-wc6nh you wouldn’t know unless you try it yourself, taste is subjective
@@Jordan-wc6nhIt tastes like nothing actually. The thing by itself is bland.
Kinda falls down in the same category of shark fin. Majority of the taste that is associated with dishes cooked with this ingredient do not come from the sea cucumber/shark fin itself.
The fact these things are just tasteless is also the reason why they have a tendency to be in stews with extremely rich-tasting stock. People eat them mostly for the texture and sometimes for the allegedly health benefit.
You can find a lot of similar things in East Asian or even South East Asian cuisine. People sometimes eat things because they r fun to bite into/chew on, not necessarily because they have some otherworldly taste of their own.
Imagine diving for a sea pickle that turns out to be a old turd and then drowning because u went too deep
Turds float..
Its not drowning, its the bends from pressure
No one at elementary school.
8 years old Steven Purcell : I'll be the best sea cucumber expert.
WolraadWoltemade 1652 yes
Jajajjaa lmao
His father, expert for regular rocks:
"Didnt know I raised a failure."
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 I prefer spanking
😂😂
i swear there’s an expert for everything, there’s probably an expert for the piece of dust under your cabinet
could you be uneducated more silently
The Vacuum
mee sou he has a phd
mee sou Ok mister yale
@@MisuOfArabonaClan ok mister Cambridge.
I ate one of these at a fancy wedding in HK and it's gotta be the most disgusting thing I've ever had the misfortune of eating!
Go eat your hamburger and fries then.
I'm sorry that you may not have liked that dish, but seriously this thing just tastes bland without sauce its not disgusting.This thing absorbs sauce extremely well, and the worst thing that could happen is that it becomes too salty. It is impossible for this dish to taste "disgusting" (well, unless they ducked up the sauce)
My Dad Tried It He Said It Was Normal But I Am Still Disgusted
@@zulkifli2038 chill lmao, he's probably just not used to it just like how many asians aren't used to western dishes
I never knew these things cost a lot I'm shocked
"It wasn't until the 1980's..."
Displays a black and white picture 😭
Yea like we didn’t have technicolor back then yet? 😞😫😤
"What's the WiFi password?"
"It's on the back of the router."
Back of the router: 2:15
😂
Well, this one actually deserves more likes😂😂
This joke is worth than the sea cucumber itself
@FBI ima call the cia on you
Overused joke
your telling me a long fat stick sometimes with things poking out of it is more expensive than my computer?
Cheap pc m8
Its 2000
Computers dont take 2-6 years to reach a marketable size and you dont have to go dive for them on the ocean floor
@@G5xgajsjY793 but you do have to update them and they can stimulate a cumber
A life vs silicone and plastic.
I used to seeing them everywhere in Greece as a kid. Never thought to myself wow these look tasty or expensive. Also how do people risk their lives to catch them? They are just sitting there close to shore just grab them with your hand.
They explained it is because they're becoming harder to find so people are diving deeper and risking the bends
But don't they shit their organs out if you touch them?
@@komradentomolog7701 what no? they just spit out really sticky stuff
@@swarmeddan1836 i was always taught that they shit out their organs and that they regenerate.
@@komradentomolog7701 there is a worm type creature that does that, just not this one here.
In Asia, literally anything that breathes is a delicacy
Lol truly said but this thing looks disgusting. Idk why would anyone eat this ?
In *China
And Europe
@@sallylemon5835 well Thailand is pretty damn bad so you have to include it
Some literally call this innocent LIVING creature
"Cucumber"-A SALAD🥗
If it moves, It is edible - Chinese
Lol
Chinese don't eat horses and that's about it.
@@almac9203 Chinese are just not picky eaters.
_Classic china_
this comment is underrated
"they are so expensive,people would risk their lives to get hold of one"
*Shows a man diving down, grabbing one and casually going up*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or what lol! U want them to show a man who dives deep and then dies??😂😂😂
@Alen Horiba 😂😂😂
Then you try. That's like a couple hundred meters below surface. These guys are skilled divers without even the right equipment.
@Alex Tremo most exotic sea cucumbers don't just lie around near the shore. They usually live like 50 meters below the ocean floor
There was heaps of these at a certain local beach in the Philippines. Now recently I came back there and they're very rare now, along with sea urchins. I remember maybe around 2007 the locals did a massive harvest of sea urchins, the water was red. Now they're only here and there, not abundant
Some people have way too much money to spend
Alternate title: "How many times can we show you the same 5 sea cucumbers in a blue bucket and get away with it? Click to find out!"
Emily G Trying To stretch out two minutes worth of material
I also wonder why
Three
Was hoping someone would comment this...!
There is also a shortage of sea cucumber bucket footage reels. It's getting harder to shoot them down each year without pucket guns.
"The more they're harvested the rarer and more expensive they become"
I think you got your priorities wrong
Even I as a mafia boss, agree with you
Even I as a melon, agree with you
Nice diavolo is here
Came to the comments after that sentence. This is a trend in this video series that I've noticed like with the stone claw crabs..."Population is dropping drastically leading to even more problems harvesting [substance]...oh and also they're going extinct."
@@dokaplan1 it really is saddening, the human greed knows no bounds
They didn't. They're emphasizing that the rarer they become, the bigger the incentives to fish them. It's a feedback loop.
You know it's going to be a good video when you start with the comparison of a vegetable with an animal as a bait. Well done, whoever you are.
2:20 "..to treat joint problems" shows a guy with no hand. Well played.
Every time I hear "they are about to go extinct" I always respond with "Then stop."
..... and then families in developing nations begin to starve to death because they can’t get enough money to feed themselves.
@@joshbentley2307 There are always other ways.
@@flamevix Lmao. 9 million people a year die of starvation, I’m pretty sure if there were lots of business opportunities for them they’d take them.
But wen you’re brought up in a crumbling nation and shiting in holes in the ground there aren’t that many opportunities for people.
@@joshbentley2307 sea cucumbers aren’t their only sources of food but I hear your point
@@kirbed9486 😂
They aren’t eating the sea cucumbers! There selling them to get rice, bread, fruits ECT.
Shit, can’t believe I once stepped on 3000$ while walking in the sea
You walked on a kilo of sea cucumber?
Crap!!!
@@eeveevulpix4141 how are you a eevee vulpix
@Penguins Rule there goes a new shipping
@Penguins Rule also i see what you mean there's tons of furry artwork of those two pokemon
"Mystical Dragon Slug" is my new favorite phrase
Oh...so unlike ordinary cucumbers, they're actually animals.
I dont see myself ever wanting to eat these 😬
Just so you know.
Depends on how you cook it. By itself, it tastes bland. They are usually simmered with tasty soup or stir fried with other ingredients and sauce it up. It just tastes like jello with a fishy taste and texture. It looks gross, but the health benefits of eating these are well known. That being said, I think the high price will only drive it to near extinction, if strict harvesting regulations are not put in place. It's already showing decline in numbers.
@@peteryeung111 good to know there are wild ones where I live and i have touched one before. Did you know they puke there guts when they get scared?
@@fluffypenguin6695 wft such a fragile creature they should left alone at least 10 to 20 year's to regrowth their population i cant denied we need them for medicine but we need to stop consuming them for food when their on a brick of extinction. Right?
Amen to that,I don’t care what they cook it in 🤮
Yah they are disgusting slugs
Sea cucumbers also cleans the oceans. It has many benefits for our waters.. I hope it doesn't goes extinct..😭
It won't go, as people see a benefit to it.
@@BlacknWhitePhoenix I hope your right.🙂
Humans are assholes.
Sea Cucumbers could be extinct at any moment.
It's sad but it's true. ☹
@@sakatagintoki5562 your right.. I just rewatched the video. At 3:15 its saying the amount of sea cucumbers are getting less, pretty much.. ugh makes me mad. Humans are the main reasons why so many things are gone...
@@firuu645 I'm not sure. Farming might not be as healthy as being in their natural environment.. also we need them in the oceans to clean our ocean... I think it would be a good idea for them to farm the ones they want to eat and not hunt the ones in the ocean so it could populate. 😊
This man been obsessed with sea cucumbers his whole life and finally got his flowers
In Asia, particular in malaysia, we used it as minyak gamat to treat wounds. also, some said it could also helps in atherosclerosis treatment
Because there are more uses with a sea cucumber
lol
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*insert Lenny face*
Lol
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So that’s why Spongebob idolized Kevin so much
Hey
Hiiii, Kevin
😂😂😂
Hollyshhhh it Make sense now 🤣
Am I the only person noticing the importance of the sea cucumber itself is being ignored in this article until the last 10 seconds?
“Why are sea cucumbers so expensive?”
ACNH: “Imma pretend I didn’t hear that”
My big sister must really like sea cucumbers. She has a battery powered one in her nightstand drawer.
kimmer6 hey kimmer?
Is it fishy? If it is then it is really a sea cucumber. Try to smell it
Good one😉
jason, it smells like a shithouse door off a tuna boat.
@@kimmer6 umm..
Animal: *exists
Humans: let's kill it for its magical powers!
Its called learning from life. There is health in every nutritious meals. It benefits everyone eating certain food ingredients that have nutritional values like the sea cucumber.
@@motorola9956 its called creating lies
@@ygotsvlog3762 no
@@motorola9956 well youre right there, but humans are greedy. the video said that in mexico the harvest drops so low ita was very rare to find one
Animals would do the same if they could, in fact they already do, they just don't have the ability to do it massively, unless it somehow gets into a place in which it's presence can bring other animals into extincion.
i just realized i had this for breakfast maybe twice a week for as long as i can remember
Thank you for giving insight
Sea cucumbers exist: .......
Humans: They look tasty
Sea cucumber: Uh oh
Like with any food
that was really bad
not funny
Chinese*
Pew good thing Muslims don't eat like so weird things no offence just saying .................I am OK with chicken 🐔
funny how harming the ecosystem wasn't once mentioned as a problem
asians can get away with stuff that europeans can't. imagine an english chef serving bluefin tuna in london?
They want the video available in China and if you mention the Chinese government is destroying the planet they’ll hunt you like a dog
@Ford Mustang GT selfish way of thinking
@Ford Mustang GT and you are proud of that? Disgusting
Ford Mustang GT i can concur, the planet can go to hell as long as i stay alive lol
They are an essential part of the ecosystem that prevents algea blooms and filtering the ocean floor.
You’re telling me I had a 3,000 pet as a kid that I found from the sea in Mexico
Omg we saw these when we went snorkelling in Japan! Can't believe how expensive there are!
You should've grabbed a few, I'm sure your vacation would've been covered😉
Millennial Travel Confessions i went snorkelling in japan too, in okinawa with my uncle that lives there. i saw about 3 and didnt say anything, i dont want to sell the poor creature it deserves to stay there even if i could re-vamp my entire room with the price of one
Hmm...
Maybe you should check local animal protection laws...
I heard that the Fukushima radiation spills contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean.
It may be just a regular poop from a fisherman.
Calling a sea worm sea cucumber WTF why we don’t call earth warms land bananas
Because they're not technically worms, they're more closely related to starfish.
hahahahah😂😂 thats exactly what i was thinking? at first i thought they were talking about normal cucumbers
Oh man you got me
🤣🤣🤣
@@digiquo8143 then they should be called star-cucumbers
2:13 I whould wanna her the narrators bloopers on those 2 words, hahah!
When my South Koreans grandpa was alive, he loved to eat sea cucumbers with his soju lol. Dang, I miss my grandpa.
Is that Kevin from SpongeBob?? That green one with glasses and the crown.
Yes
I really thought Kevin was a pickle 💀
touch
- Patrick
Omg lol
Yes
They'd have to pay me to eat that.
Wellington S Firebrand for real
Yeah that shit looks disgusting
It’s not actually that bad
Wellington S Firebrand cultural differences, understandable
i tell you it looks just like that but its really good
This makes me feel better about myself lol
my grandma would casually bring me to the market then buy a couple sea cucumbers so casually- man i think i might come from a rich family
Sea cucumbers also play a role in maintaining the ecosystem balance, specifically for pH level of the water and for the growth of hard corals as well
I went to China on a business trip once. I met a client, who was very wealthy, for dinner at his house and part of the meal was sea cucumber soup which had one of these Japanese sea cucumbers floating around. Obviously I ate it and it didn’t really taste like anything haha.
lol
Tastes like chicken
R/that happend
it usually tastes like anything you added such as salt, sugar, spice, etc. because it actually tastes bland
Idk if I could do it. I don't like tough chewy meat.
Thanks you for the video
What i always step on these back in Guam they’re everywhere lol
2:18 Pretty sure sea cucumbers aren't going to fix that guys "joint problems".
I don’t get it
@@haloskaterkid look at his left hand or lack of one
See you in hell
I know I shouldn't laugh, but... 😂
And his joint also looks like a sea cucumber
Noice
I once saw a wierd sea cucumber and just poked it
It's a snake! But weird....
don't do that again next time, it could be poisonous.
you could have been rich...
If I saw that dragon one I’d Lowkey take it
which end did you poke it in?
Would you recommend?
Amazed to know that there is a cucumber called - Sea Cucumber!
Would love to try one day!!
Until today, I thought this is a vegetable, as I saw them in eating shows. 🤣🤣
Here in my island in the Maldives, if people come to know about the price of a sea cucumber, they'd become extinct within days.
well u just invited people to go there.... delete this comment ASAP.. 😢
Thanks. I just let my employers know.
See that's THE LIE. Because they actually AREN'T EXPENSIVE. We have plenty in Australia and export them to china. You can eat them at restaurants here and they're not very expensive. But they taste TERRIBLE. like rotten seaweed.
@@ZhuGeLiang6969 There's MILLIONS of them here in Australia and they're WORTH NOTHING which proves that you believe all this crap. The Chinese will eat anything and sea cucumber tastes like rotten seaweed. They're not in short supply because ONLY CHINESE would eat something that bad.
@@soulfreaz and they'll find out they're not worth much and you can get tinned ones from Australia.
Can we talk about how the fisherman are probably getting payed less than $10
No one is forcing them to fish
Edit: also they probably love what they do and don’t care how much they’re payed
@@Aaronjames2007 the fisherman might not have a choice, in some places jobs are really really scarce and you’ll take what you can get. Also I’m pretty sure everyone, especially these fisher man care about their paycheck, $10 definitely isn’t a lot, and think about all the bills and other expenses they have to pay. There are definitely lots of issues in the industry
@@allisonarts7540 10 dollars might not be a lot where you and I live but it could be a decent amount where they live
@@allisonarts7540 so because there are no other jobs. Magically the remaining jobs can pay more?
you can feed your family for a week in some countries with $10
these "Why so expensive" series is so genius
That sea cucumber expert must have confused a sea cucumber for his mic.
Why is everything Japanese have to be expensive 😂
Including the olympics 😂
Pretentious aristocracy
@@kiren3168 meaning?
@@abhinavbharadwaj9620 meaning they pretend to be the masters of whatever they do.
You sure those arent whale poops?
Mash Z whale poop is worth even more lmao..
Wow.
Whale poops?!
Whale poop is 68k a kilo lol
Sir I'm looking serious buyer we have a cucumber for sale I'm from Philippines
I remember in the 90's I could see thousands of Sea Cucumbers in the beaches where I live, I don't even have to walk far from the shore to see one, Now I am lucky if I could see one.
I didn't know anyone ate Sea Cucumbers until recently. I see them all the time scuba diving and now I want to try one.
I thought the beginning cucumbers in the water were sea cucumbers
Sme
Wholesome Lad same
No those are land cucumbers. They dont even have eyes *or* an anus.
me too🙄🙄🙄🙄
Yeah those are some weird cucumbers
Stop lying they are only 150 bells in Aninal Crossing
And that’s dirt cheap
Haha 😂
Snoi Med the sad thing is after 1 hour after getting a enchantment table I almost got a stack
This this totally new for me, wow !
I saw the man on the boat with zoom in sea cucumber 3x 😆
We just keep on finding a way to screw with every animal.
If only we could drop a few nukes on the most populated human civilizations now.
We are literally Earth's sixth mass extinction event. Humans are a plague. We're wiping out all life on the planet.
TheRobloxNoob I agree because take one animal out and it effects the whole food chain
They should be farmed and harvested. This could be a food source for important ocean wildlife.
You guys don't understand that we are also animals too? Species go exist all throughout history with or without our intervention. survival of the fittest, foid chain etc
love how they're talking about how expensive they are and i got one thrown at me when i went diving 😭
Bro same. I remember swimming where I'm from and seeing the bottom FILLED with these
lol yeah there are tons of them
Ladies, Imma need coordinates.
Chinese would eat an underwater sea slug if their holistic snake oil salesmen told them it cured boredom...oh wait...
0:02 "Cucumbers usually cost around 3 dollars a kilo"
*shows 1 dollar*
Under not around
🤣👀
I completely saw that as $3
😂😂😂
😂🤣🤣🤣😆
There are so many here in the Philippines. We just ignore it
ignore it ka jan punta ka sa amin sa masbate binibilad yan at iniexport
One of many reasons why China wants to take our sea
I went to Lady Musgrave (I think I spelt that wrong) a couple years back and there was quite a few
lodie ngojo totoo dito samin banda sa Gensan at Sarangani binabalewala lang nila yan, nanguha kami during low tide wala naman kaming idea pano kainin binalik nalang namin sa tubig
At this point I am convinced. The weirder something looks, the more at least 1 country in Asia wants to eat it.
I love that "Overfishing destroys the planet we live on" was not even mentioned.
I remember as a young child my siblings and I would often go to the beach and would pick them up to play with them and put them back when we left. Never would have thought they were worth so much.
The sea cucumbers while the kids are holding them:
Internal screaming
Same except me and my brother would just dump it on the sand when it’s time to leave
Just call em sea pickles man.
Its a Sea Penis
Sea tube
Seanis
@@siyacer, 🤣🤣🤣
@@siyacer this is pretty funny lmao
me watching this after catching 15 of these when I was 7: 👁👄👁
Honestly, you could just drop a cucumber,try to find it and boombadaboom you got a sea cucumber
It's a sea turd
Benjamin Gautier An expensive sea turd
I was thinking that too.
It looks like a turd
@@theboyntonbuddies
Asians will eat anything
@@APEX-qv7rm sounds pretty racist to me, time to report
I went to Bermuda when I was a child. There, I was able to hold a sea cucumber while at a touch area of an aquarium. It was such a fun experience, my parents couldn’t pull me away! They were soft, almost like a putty, and really just a fascinating little guy. Hope we can find a way to balance their potential medical value with their inherent value as beautiful creatures!
@@lofimiata And they aren't beautiful either. Sea cucumbers? More like alien sea slugs.
@@2hot2handle65 They are, see some sea cucumber species on Google
Ow.. I already eat that fancy dish many times and did not even realize.
i wish i knew it sooner i just found those things in the side of Beaches
sometimes they are at the rifts
They look so gross! Could never imagine eating them!
Looks creepy
Taste jelly
Yall missing out lmao. Sea cucumbers are used to treat acne/pimples, can be extract as a medicine for cold, cramps, and you can have it as a warm soup with chicken bits and eggs and it taste like mushrooms.
@kxr No, Sea snails are sea slugs.
GamingTV I had them before and I honestly don’t really like them lol
RIP Kevin the sea cucumber.
😂
Now I'm stuck with his laugh in my head at 2 30am thanks lol
i once had a panic attack because there was so many sea cucumbers under me when i was swimming i almost drowned.
No offense but Expert in Sea Cucumber seems like *Onion's Anteater expert* skit 😂
"You drove our species into endangerment,
*TEST FAILED* "
I've been looking for this comment
Ok, I love this comment XD
Nope not again
Where is that from?
CQ cumber is just trying to do his job
Rare animals: exists*
Asains: cowabunga it is!
Bro can you respect asians tbh
Can u not be racist to asians
@@iron8136 its not racist it's a fact, Chinese eat everything even other Chinese people
- Schattenpflanze - how’s it a fact? you can’t assume what every asians’ diet is. im Chinese and i don’t eat like half of what white people think chinese eat
Jordan is he lying?
The most delicious one was the one I caught skin diving down 30+ ft on the sandy bottom. It was a pretty good size one and we made dinner with other fishes we caught. including one Moray eel, which was incredible delicious.
I saw one while Scuba Diving once and it made me happy. Sad people eat them, they help our oceans.
Damn I caught one when fishing one time and threw it back... of course I see this after that😂
Okay.
@BrianByonVEVO The $3000 japanese sea cucumbers are endangered and very rare , you will probably never find one , but regular sea cucumber only sells for $20-50/pound so it's still valuable enough to keep and get some beer money
Lmao
You a liar!!!
I poked a Hole in one when i was 6
0:28 If this was his house, he would have a pretty interesting conversation explaining why he has such strange photos hanging around.
"it wasnt until the 1980s when the demand exploded..." *uses a black and white picture*
It's a big worm. But considering it's under water, it's edible.
"Thick juicy bodies" What the....
Oooh lala most of these gays in comments section don't mention the reporters sexy voice