BANNED FOODS! GROSS AND COOL! | Sam O'Nella Academy Reaction

[@DanGamingFan2406]

What makes ortalon even more horrifying is that breaking the bones is supposed to make your gums bleed to "enhance the flavor." American Dad did not do this justice.

[@KarmasAB123]

I've seen you make the same comment three times verbatim. Are you a bot?

[@TheUltimateShade667]

@@KarmasAB123 Copy paste.

[@smokinggnu6584]

I'll stick with fried chicken, tyvm.

[@AMobutter]

Hello again Dan, I've seen your comments everywhere

[@TheKeller101]

I read this before watching the video and thought you mean that by eating the ortalon you broke your teeth, causing bleeding, which "enhanced the flavor"

[@chaos4654]

Shark fins share the same issue as Elephant tusks where 99% of the hunting is over "medicinal" reasons that wholly BS.

[@Googleistheantichrist]

The biggest problem I have with Shark fin is they cut off the fins and dump the animal back into the sea. WTF? Eat the whole thing if you catch it!

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@GoogleistheantichristFr, at least kill the animal so it doesn’t have to die in slow motion.

[@ailospjellok7475]

@@Googleistheantichrist yeah like sharks arent the tastiest animals from what i have heard, but at least its edible, people are so messed up

[@miku_dayo7688]

​@@Googleistheantichrist I agree with that statement.

[@miku_dayo7688]

​​@@ailospjellok7475 I've tasted shark meat they are quite smiliar to sting ray meat they are quite chewy.

[@figment820]

For anyone wondering what Yao ming has to do with shark fin soup. When he retired from basketball, he decided to use his influence fame and wealth to campaign to save sharks. he has been massively successful in reducing consumption by more than 50% and has most people in China now calling for a nationwide ban.

[@theotherjared9824]

Keeping Ortalons in the dark was a fairly recent innovation. The chefs originally gouged their eyes out, which would have the same effect of overeating.

[@EchoObserver9]

At what point do you stop and ask... is this TOO UNHINGED.

[@isaacdayton4962]

@@EchoObserver9it’s the French they aren’t exactly known for caring about that kind of thing

[@EchoObserver9]

@@isaacdayton4962 Wanna hear something funny. I am a naturalized french man. I CHOSE TO BE FRENCH!

[@isaacdayton4962]

@@EchoObserver9all jokes aside. France is a beautiful country and I can understand why you chose that.

[@EchoObserver9]

@@isaacdayton4962 Indeed it is. The people are great too. But i still love and embrace the silly internet stereotypes.

[@Animartyr]

Sam O'nella telling us not to get Salmonella is so real

[@its_renren7292]

Things I learned today: There is enough of a demand to create a *BLACK MARKET TRADE* for *MAGGOT FILLED CHEESE*

[@npc6817]

In my defense it tastes real fucking good.

[@l0sts0ul89]

​@@npc6817 is there a difference if the mags are alive or dead

[@npc6817]

@l0sts0ul89 idk. Only had it once and they were alive. I'm guessing it's probably the same unless they've been dead for a while

[@Tpm12luv]

What makes Ortalon even more horrifying is that you are supposed to eat the tiny/small bones, which makes your gums bleed and the blood is said to "enhance the flavor". Also, it is drowned in brandy to fill the lungs with brandy, so when you chew it, they burst and release the brandy.

[@AnAmericanMusician]

Jesus Christ... suddenly, the Shark Fin Soup doesn't seem so terrible...

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@AnAmericanMusicianThe terrible part about shark fin soup is the fact that the fins are taken from the shark while it’s still alive and the crippled shark is then released to starve.

[@Tpm12luv]

​@@peggedyourdad9560 Great White Sharks, Whale Sharks, Hammerhead Sharks and Mako Sharks are the only known sharks to not be able to breathe without forward motion or a strong current flowing toward their mouths. What are the majority type of sharks that are hunted for their fins? Hammerhead, Mako and Blue Sharks. So in actuality, they don't starve. They suffocate.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@Tpm12luv Good point that further proves the cruelty of how the fins are harvested and why the sharks should just be killed immediately if the fins must be harvested at all. I generally think that shark fin soup should be phased out since it has no real culinary value and requires such cruelty.

[@valashar5313]

The Bill Cosby sketch about eating Ortolan is mainly about how being on a vacation in Italy made him feel like a child due to not speaking the language. He ended up ordering the dish after insisting that he'd order for himself, thank you instead of letting their local guide handle things. He spends more time talking about the semi-lethal gas it gave him and about the laxative that cured him of it than about the dish itself. I grew up on his comedy but these days so much of it just sounds like 'Yeah, all this should've been red flags about him being a predatory shit bag.'.

[@tariqshort4025]

hindsight is 20/20.

[@davidkoudelka10]

“To shield from God’s eyes such a disgraceful and decadent act”…Slaanesh vibes anyone?💜

[@riccardocastiglioni1611]

Italian here: never tried Casu Marzu myself, but according to some friends of mine who tried it, it's quite good! Also there are at least 7 other variants of this cheese in different parts of Italy (Not just in the islands) so there must be something to it I guess... On a different note, another food that is "banned" here is the 'Nduja: a mixture of pork and hot peppers mashed together, mostly eaten on bread slices like butter. Now you will find 'Nduja everywhere in the south, but they won't sell you the stuff made with the original recipe: people would try that and being rushed to the hospital right away, it was that spicy.

[@oldeskul]

Part of me wants to try cazu martzu, but the other part of me conjures up horror images of my belly swelling up, bursting open and a cloud of flies comes swarming out. Shark fin soup was originally eaten by the nobility in China, Korea and Japan, now it's fed to tourists and the wealthy. Originally bird's nest soup was only consumed by the emperor of China, his family and other nobles, now it's mostly given to well-to-do tourists. The ortolan was originally consumed by French nobility, now it's anybody who has the money can get it. I first learned of the ortolan from an episode of American Dad and thought it was a joke made up for shock factor, then looked it up and wished I hadn't.

[@slitheen3]

You just gotta chew the cheese very... very... VERY throughly. Let it sit a minute to make sure there's not squirming in your mouth before swallowing 😅

[@alexispalangeo8643]

I'd just do the bag trick thank you very much.

[@Igny306]

You know Shark fin soup is not worth it when GORDAN RAMSAY himself asks the people at the restaurant he tried the dish at,”why do they eat something so tasteless and bland”…this man ate ant eggs💀💀💀💀

[@windspank530]

I learned about the Ortalon courtesy of American Dad. Roger the alien wanted to eat it while watching a Celine Deon PayPerView concert, and apparently it was so good he tripped balls.

[@KenVermette]

*When you grab the ice pick after an argument and you don't remember why it's already used*

[@MastaChiefa99]

Anthony Bourdain on eating ortolan: "I bring my molars down and through my bird’s rib cage with a wet crunch and am rewarded with a scalding hot rush of burning fat and guts down my throat. Rarely have pain and delight combined so well. I’m giddily uncomfortable, breathing in short, controlled gasps as I continue slowly - ever so slowly - to chew. With every bite, as the thin bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and wondrous ancient flavors: figs, Armagnac, dark flesh slightly infused with the salty taste of my own blood as my mouth is pricked by the sharp bones. As I swallow, I draw in the head and beak, which, until now, have been hanging from my lips, and blithely crush the skull.”

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

Isn’t eating brains super dangerous? I heard you can get a 100% fatal disease from eating brains.

[@Thiccubus]

@@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539 HUMAN brains - and nerves... mostly. Our own neurological system poisons us -- or, I suppose, more accurately would be diseased? It's a neurological impairment -- when consumed by another of our species, though it's commonality is largely played up. Still, it's probably some evolution from when the other subjects of our sister-species -- Neanderthal, etc. -- were around, and we had a legit concern of being predated on. Eating human brains/nerves can also give us the Death Shakes. It's called Kuru, technically, and largely seen only in a New Guinea - a people/tribe/whatever had cannibalistic funeral rites -- but is rarely seen elsewhere. Considering CJD and the honest relative ease of transmission, however, I imagine the chances of having something similar to Kuru crop up were you to Hannibal the brain pan wouldn't be out of the question. Either way, when the symptoms show, you're fucked; Kuru and CJD incubate for 5-25 years, and then you begin shaking and wasting for 1-3 years before your brain shits itself.

[@Astronometric]

Fan fact: There are no recorded deaths because of Casu Marzu. In fact, Sardinia is one of the places where people live the longest in the world, with many elderly centenarians. And it’s easy to assume that these people had maggot cheese very often in their life.

[@prestonjones1653]

I can understand where most weird foods come from, either by accident or out of desperation. Maggot cheese? Pretty easy to make happen if you leave it out too long or are stuck in a seige. Shark fin soup? If you catch a shark and eat the rest of it, why not eat the bones or fins as a nice soup? Keep from wasting the fins. The fact that the Ortolan has a built-in shaming mechanic means the French knew what they were doing, had a choice about doing it, and did it anyway.

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

Maybe they started eating it before the shaming mechanic existed. They were eating it for a while and all of a sudden some priest or something said it was sinful

[@bauz5565]

Exactly what thought. Like the Nest thing is such a European famine food but the Ortoans sub culture is way to complicated for that.

[@MattStMarie-bm5sq]

They were shielding themselves from the shame others would give them if they knew they were giving into a sin and liking it.

[@dneennen]

"I LOVE EATIN FWEND" Alicia 2024

[@angrybrony]

...vore

[@carlmoats8673]

The US has Kinder Surprise eggs but they're just different from the European version

[@AnAmericanMusician]

Only slightly. We even sell them at my Home Depot. Both white and milk chocolate.

[@thejas123rapperdude]

Kinder Joy is a different product and the EU and Asia has those too.

[@Manawolfman]

Alicia at the start: I only knew about kinder eggs. Us: Oh sweet summer child...

[@mikonyx7712]

The fact that the "Hiding from gods eyes..." in reference to ortalon is a legitimate statement, and yet people still, nearly drove it into extinction, sheerly by how many people ate them, is telling something "quite unfavorable" about our morals.

[@Yhelta]

So you're saying God can be fooled by putting a napkin over something you don't want him to see? Good to know.

[@its_renren7292]

The napkin stays ON during pre-marital handholding lmfaoooo

[@Striker775]

Yeah it definitely works, Mormons go a step further and use a whole blanket when they're soaking.

[@ChaosActual1]

Personally, I just use nord vpn.

[@hriscuvalerica4814]

In my culture both Satan and God can and are easily fooled . But God is wise while Satan is considered a moron basically.

[@Osiris_Drake]

My favorite chat message from this vid was “never forgive the French.”

[@sipofsunkist9016]

10:40 you can be pretty damn poor, but still be able to drown a bird in wine. this is like, the LEAST "rich guy" meal ive ever heard of

[@Pihsrosnec]

Considering the price of the bird due to the illegality of it... It is a rich person food

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Well, It's probably expensive brandy, not to mention it's an ilegal bird to eat

[@aydinbiber7616]

In Japan it's only 1 specific poisonous fish and hardly anyone there eats it.

[@Imasuky]

Alicia is the reason I started watching Sam.

[@Mare_Man]

Eating bones feels pretty much how you'd expect it to; it's very crunchy, and you have to chew _very_ thoroughly, so there's no sharp bits. At least, that's how it is with chicken bones in soup

[@dustindurham6825]

Fugu is a status thing. Apparently it has a pretty neutral taste, but people have described it as "the taste of death." It's literally just for the thrill and the status.

[@mew2.025]

At my local Walmart in the states, we have something incredibly similar to the kinder surprise egg. It's by another company, and it gets around the law by having the plastic egg on the inside actually protrude to make the chocolate two separate pieces. The original law actually says that you can't have a non-edible object within an edible object, except for a few scenerios that the surprise egg does not fit into. The separation of the chocolate means the non-edible plastic egg is not completely within the edible chocolate.

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

10:45 Canadian discovers average French home for the first time

[@lazymansload520]

4:39 Tarrare!

[@stefanc4520]

I've honestly been waiting for you to react to this one forever so thank you for doing so! Please more Sam O'nella and Internet Historian I BEG OF YOU! ❤

[@jeanbathistedurand3657]

Theire not fancy there ✨french✨

[@theVoid_yn]

In the beginning I genuinely didn't recognize her voice

[@Nobodywithabeard]

Fun fact for the day. Depending on how you make it Biscuits and Gravy can be considered Shit on a Shingle.

[@arnaudmenard5114]

The shark fin soup and bird nest soup, and a lot of chinese strange dishes like that have more to do with traditional medicine. It has to do with essences and things... Also dont lookup "3 screams" its a dish ment to provide youth, but its fucking grim.

[@EddieB-ready]

Honestly the Ackee isn't even that bad when you remember that potatoes are kinda similar, both are poisonous unless prepared correctly and both are used in the cuisine of where they're originated

[@LilithCatgirl]

You can eat raw potatoes just fine. They aren't that poisonous. Ackee is more like pufferfish.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

An undercooked potatoe will not kill you...

[@dontragedia4999]

yummy maggot cheese makes sure I have friends everywhere I go

[@chaost4544]

Things like Bird Nest Soup make me wonder how someone came up with the idea in the first place. What life decisions did some mad lad make to where he got to the point he said "you know what.... that bird vomit might be good in a soup"?

[@dneennen]

Welp, Not going to be paying my Cheese tax with that Cheese!

[@wessltov]

That would be like paying regular taxes with monopoly money

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I would want to get rid off it ASAP so I definitely would I just hope that they except it. If I was a cheese tax collector I wouldn’t

[@Rowan_A_Boat]

Grandma had an akee tree out back growing up... I thought it was more normal than it apparently is lmao

[@AroWolfArts]

Sam never disappoints

[@hoangdung7494]

Shark fins are tasteless btw, I ate one dish and didn't even notice. I thought it's like jelly fish or s.thing

[@MuffinHunterX]

Things that make me lose faith in humanity.

[@mr.mobboss1190]

ALICIA IS A FELLOW CANADIAN! LETS GOOOOO!

[@randommaster06]

We eaat weird stuff all te time. Caffeine is a pesticide but we use it as a stimulant. Capsaicin is an irritant meant to deter mamals from eating the fruit, but we said "Mmmm, tasty pain" and ate more of it. People gaslighting each other into eating whatever it is they found lying around is just part of the human experience.

[@nouhorni3229]

Capsaicin was so good at keeping undesirable things out of the food that it became a signifier for food safety.

[@KarmasAB123]

You know it's a good Sam video when there's a double WTF early on.

[@Sylfa]

I think one of the most horrifying traditional "dishes" is how hunters ate sea turtles. They essentially ate them alive, in the most gruesomely torturous way you can imagine. Saw it on a TV show where they were documenting the culture of whatever this area was, and the reporters "partook" in the custom. Hopefully that was just faked like the documentary about lemmings jumping off cliffs were, but considering it was filmed up close and personal… Don't look it up if you're squeamish, it's not pretty even in description.

[@Boomstick836]

How dare they do that to the Kingdom’s official food! Desecration of the holiest of cheese 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

[@Luke_Cage_offical]

I know about the whole waiting thing you do to make sure the og video get its views but holy crap I yelled FINALLY when I saw this lol

[@d112cons]

Salmonella Academy, amirite?

[@akumuryuu]

Yeah, that's a good way to tell if someone watched Sam frequently. Not even acknowledging "hey, majors".

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Well... you say I can't judge them for that (eating poisonous fish and stuff), but I counter that it makes perfect sense to me to judge someone as being at least some degree of stupid whenever they do anything they know could kill them, without a really good reason to.

[@lenny_has_arived6679]

Fun fact, today is day 63 of recommending alicia play Outer Wilds. May this sacrifice please the algorithm gods. also, holy shit is Ortalon an absolutely evil dish

[@sonofhades57]

As a fan of sharks, I fucking despise shark fin soup. Eat a shark if you must, but ripping off their fins and throwing them back into the water is cruel and wasteful.

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

There's a bit where people hypothetically did this thing with other animals and the most horrific one was Whale Blowhole followed by Cheetah Heels and Hummingbird Paté

[@Definitely_Not_Shakespear]

Learning more about shark fin soup just makes me hate the concept even more, and I didn't think that was possible

[@Yuki_Ika7]

Yup, any kind of traditional medicine that results in deaths of animals and/or where they only use 1 part of said animal and they have no good reasons aside from tradition I find wrong, I mean, I eat meat, I am no vegan, but at least use something common and use more than 1 part of it for example

[@wessltov]

Rich gearing up for a lobotomy is crazy given Alicia is the one with the degree for brain-picking

[@saduwu2002]

I said this on Mr Terry´s reaction a i´ll say it here too. The Ortolan was shown in the Hannibal TV show and it was the most disgusting part. Yes, more disgusting than the cannibalism. (good show tho)

[@liamcringe5724]

how did i not know that alicia was a moose lady😭, im one of themn moose people too😭😭.

[@lieutenantlobster_gorbman]

Today I crave bird spit.

[@Crazael]

As far as I'm aware, it's just the Kinder Surprise eggs that are banned. I see Kinder-brand stuff all the time at my local grocery, and even get some of it sometimes.

[@yinakiyama]

Oh boy. Sam O’ Nella

[@Madjo-qj2ge]

From other reaction videos and Sam o nella original video, every food here was once a famine food

[@MegaMusikMan]

i used to be able to get shark fin soup where i live but that is over 20 years ago, the soup is the hard carry of the dish, and that place made a good soup, the shark fin it self was a nice texture.

[@OReiCesar]

To be fair, the last one intrigues me, how anyone thought about the process

[@jademirror]

An interesting, controversial food that didn't make it to the list: Live monkey brains. It is kept alive since the brain gets bitter within minutes.

[@RevanXIII]

wow people in the past were just like "hm. nobody knows what this is....I'm gonna eat it."

[@edward18517]

I'll be lucky to have any relationship by the end of my life at this point XD

[@deku_vt]

Idk wut to comment but since its food bans uhhhh I can let pineapple on pizza slide but.. Sardines?! Nahhhh that feels illegal

[@terablocks5380]

Seeing how you appreciate Sam O'Nella and Internet Historian I feel like you'll like the channel of Noodle, a lot of interesting and funny animated essays/critics themed around video games, animation, movies... If I had to recommend one to start with it would be "Adaptative Music (in gaming) Is Amazing"

[@TheKingofGods69420]

Time to get yucky

[@davidecascapera987]

Bird bones are so tasty ~ Too bad it isn't "safe" to eat them anymore here in Italy

[@asura7322]

please more sam when you get the time

[@Frequencydead]

If you think about it Honey is the tastiest of all the insect vomits we ha tried so far.....just saying

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

It's still mostly suggar

[@nomad628]

You should watch more of TheFatElectrician, especially the Dan Daly video

[@arnaudmenard5114]

Also, about the whole bird thing...i knew a french guy who had it before... And really, rural french cooking is really trippy. Snails? That barely register on the weird scale there...

[@arnaudmenard5114]

Ive had akhee before, it was strangely similar to scrambled eggs... And you can occasionally buy canned akhee in african grocery stores.

[@rapsody230]

nobody eats casu marzu with worms alive anymore mostly. but its disgusting and delicious. And illegal. truly a perfect combo.

[@gundamforever6109]

Shark fin soup is for peasants. Gura's bathwater soup is true luxury.

[@aurielkudo9595]

Alicia is not surviving the pre watched accusations.

[@Jan_erd]

Is this the “evil tyrannist”?🤔🤔🤔nah I don’t think so

[@garrettdavis8272]

Please do more Stupendium videos! I think you’ll really enjoy Shine Through

[@maple_leaf_soup]

Oh Alicia you NEED to react to his video on the hungriest man ever

[@attackinglizard3429]

Ngl, shark fin soup is so awful in my mind , that I have no joke, quit jobs because the convenience store I worked at decided to get some to sell

[@legohunter1020]

I would actually try the ortolan. I don't need the sheet over my head though. I'm not hiding it. 🤷‍♂️

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I’m not a religious person but I don’t understand why people consider eating it sinful since we eat chicken and turkey all the time.🤔I guess it’s just the way it’s eaten but it’s not the only food we eat with our hands rather than using a fork or whatever. I think the only people who are being sinful are the people who cook it. For the record I would not eat it

[@legohunter1020]

@@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539 We boil lobsters alive.🤷

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

⁠@@legohunter1020then nobody needs to wear a towel since you don’t need one to cook lobsters.

[@Twiska]

I never saw the logic in banning foods just because they can be toxic if improperly prepared. Chicken can be toxic if improperly prepared. Don't outright ban foods, that just leads to people trying to prepare it themselves. Just enforce higher quality standards on businesses thay serve the food. Maybe have a special license for people who want to prepare it.

[@valkyrie283]

I’d love to see you react to North of the Border ☺️

[@clashashura2977]

8:42 Spit on that thang

[@MattStMarie-bm5sq]

Make sure it's not the Hatchet (Liz)

[@MozzieWozzie]

YAAAAY more sam reacts

[@kramooo9666]

please more Sam O'Nella

[@Cortanis001]

Everything related to the food in this video can be summed up in a one word qustion. WHY? Seriously, just why? Who decided these things were food any why are people eating these abominations when actual food is available?

[@Tpm12luv]

What makes it worse to me is that, iirc, Sharkfin Soup and Maggot Cheese were originally just peasant foods back in the day and people who couldn't afford good food, had no choice in the matter but to eat this kind of food

[@Cortanis001]

@@Tpm12luv The same can be said about a lot of organ based foods that somehow were elevated to a popularity. They were all birthed from a time where one needed to use every part of the animal.

[@TheRhuen]

America has kinder, just the toy is not inside the egg...also as a weird aside food stamps in some states don't apply to them because there is a toy in the box...yet food stamps do work with cereal and various holiday goody bags.

[@Lastofthesigilites]

Please do non water floods.

[@MrCreepjo]

There's btw cheese mites cheese which is legal and extremely safe to eat as mites is really small to see and It's always around us like our face is probably covered with hundreds of mites eating oil and pooping on usm

[@11ncross]

Has anyone recommended the True Facts series yet?

[@williamhoeft2903]

I think its just the kinder egg with toy inside Alicia I think you can buy the bars in America

[@DarkestNova556]

Will chat stop spoiling?

[@umwhat7965]

What is this abt kinder being banned in the states we buy that stuff all the time everywhere

[@DANCERcow]

The whale watchers complaining about Japan eating all the whales don't even bat an eye at the poor sharks!