CANNIBAL TOMATO : This Plant Was Once Eaten With HUMAN MEAT - Weird Fruit Explorer

[@WeirdExplorer]

A very big thank you to Matt over at Mattspeppers.com for sending me this incredibly weird fruit. Check this site out if you are interested in growing this yourself (No questions asked).

[@megastoejoe]

This is brutal dude.

[@richardbidinger2577]

Add a bit more ginger to cut the bitterness.

[@Amy-oh8qb]

👀🤫

[@beataens1]

Glad you added references and book readings to your fruit explorations this time.

[@JuanGomez-mv1qx]

Hmm awesome history of the fruit i guess

[@kortexsirvasil]

"This has a smell that is very familiar..." *dark repressed memories from childhood about the special sunday roast come flooding in*

[@HeatherTerry84]

kortexsirvasil that comment made my entire week 😂

[@trinagorden5883]

Omg

[@ronkledonkanusmoncher564]

*weeps uncontrollably thinking about the meatloaf dad made after mom disappeared*

[@DiMacky24]

@@ronkledonkanusmoncher564 So that's why he's vegetarian! :O

[@ianb.2575]

@@ronkledonkanusmoncher564 I think your mom was in that meatloaf

[@lauriepenner350]

It would be unthinkable to consume human flesh ...Without the proper condiments.

[@arnaudmenard5114]

I recommend mushroom-ketchup. Ideally made from chicken-of-the-woods and common chanterelle.

[@gerryilu851]

@@arnaudmenard5114 How about some llima beans and a nice chianti I hear it pairs well with liver.

[@arnaudmenard5114]

Nah... liver goes way better with a nice mustard.

[@jborrego2406]

I wonder if we taste like beef yummy but if taste like pork nope

[@dh3725]

Theoretically any pork recipe or condiment applys. You could do things wrong turn style by making sudo fried pork rinds or go with a more sophisticated sociopath take and have some liver and Lima beans. Personally I like my pork chops lightly breaded and baked so that would be my first choice as well as some vegetable high in fiber as apparently some digestive help would be in order.

[@stanervin6108]

Did you say 'Eat with French Fries' or 'Eat with French Guys' ?

[@Sparkina]

Stan Ervin French guys? I heard that gentlemen from France make excellent dining partners.

[@ikemoon127]

@Apeman Commeth I hear French fries are quite picky; I fear they may not take a liking to the taste of French people.

[@dantheman2907]

"...on French guys, or a burglar, or somebody you don't like."

[@Vibluek9]

🤣

[@censusgary]

Skip ahead? Why would I want to do that? Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the wonderful Internet, where information on how to cook your enemies is never more than a few clicks away.

[@pattheplanter]

First - catch your enemy.

[@ashcarpenter7213]

We already have the tech to grow artificial meat. Why not your friends' meat?

[@pattheplanter]

When the Aztecs ate human flesh they served it with chili and tomato - so the ordinary tomato and chili are also the cannibal tomato and cannibal chili. As most people in the position to know say that human flesh is like pork I would think mint sauce would be the best one to go with it. I think the problem the Fijians had with human meat was reheating it every day for a week. That can't be good for you.

[@stumccabe]

Pat The Plant . No, mint sauce goes wth lamb, apple sauce with pork. I think fava beans and chianti go wth "long pig"!

[@pattheplanter]

@@stumccabe Pardon the mistake, it is 40 years since I ate meat. Always had apple mint in the sauce, hence the confusion. Though Lecter is rather famous I think he was too pretentious and had rather poor taste. I would go with the traditional Mexican chili sauce, though I am not sure the annatto colouring is necessary. www.researchgate.net/publication/273448741_Savoury_Recipes_and_the_Colour_of_the_Tlatelcomila_Human_Bones

[@rdizzy1]

@@adde-j6q It takes far more for tomato paste to kill bacteria than to just smear it on something and eat it, it would need to be soaked and cooked in it for a long time, and even at that point, there are plenty of bacteria that can survive high acidity high temp environments.

[@AeolisticFury]

For sure, that guy in the book probably died from food poisoning. Reheating the same knee and eating from it.. Yikes. I don't think human flesh itself is dangerous to eat, considering, for example, uruguayen flight 571.

[@ahhwe-any7434]

@@AeolisticFury now I gotta look that up. Humans are filthy. It doesn't surprise me that humans are hard to digest. But can you imagine all the bacteria we carry? Humans eat anything, like pigs do. It's kinda funny we supposedly taste like pork.

[@GetToThePointAlready]

"This adorable little fruit was once used to prepare HUMAN MEAT FOR CONSUMPTION!!!" >Mellow intro music starts I don't know why but that cracked me up.

[@censusgary]

Extremely old joke: Vegetarians eat vegetables, and fruitarians eat fruit, so what do humanitarians eat? Extremely old derivative joke: Olive oil comes from olives, and avocado oil comes from avocados, so baby oil comes from ...

[@RavenIsAnArtist]

Baby oil comes from babies 😈

[@mfmatthew420]

@@RavenIsAnArtist best emoji bro good choice 😈

[@FaultAndDakranon]

Humanitarians eat... wait is this a double entendre?

[@windyface9383]

And the classic, why don't cannibals eat clowns? Because they taste funny.

[@crackpapa_]

You crush the olives and avocados to get the oil, so naturally you have to crush the babies too, to get the baby oil 😈

[@Peaveygang4lyfe]

Brazilian Starfish is the most suggestive name for a pepper I've ever heard

[@WeirdExplorer]

There's probably a "chocolate" variety.

[@casof97]

Peppers are delicious

[@benny_lemon5123]

There are two kinds of people...

[@Saturn.argo.]

boy I'm Brazilian and I could not identify this pepper or get this joke I feel defeated

[@tracetassie4637]

@@Saturn.argo. chocolate starfish urban dictionary if thats still confusing peace lmfao

[@dfpguitar]

the death by constipation part is actually the most fascinating to me. All the botanical details added here makes the whole story sound more genuine. Which is important as Victorian explorers very commonly made up wild stories with which to build a career when returning home. Also in terms of health, because there is no reason at all for human meat to cause the human digestive system to behave any differently compared to beef or pork. One would assume tribes living in Fiji hundreds of years ago would be eating a lot of plants already but their "extra vegetable tonic" to accompany human meat suggest that their usual diet was actually pretty low in vegetables. And that present day humans in the developed world eating a ton of meat while not sucumbing to fatal constipation, are probably eating more vegetables than they did.

[@critterjon4061]

I can second this as when it comes to primitive hunter gather societies the vast majority of there diet was made up of carbohydrates with occasional protein and fruit mixed in with leafy vegetables only really being eaten if nothing else was available or to add flavor

[@ZakKohler]

Tasting bit got me 🤣😂🤣😂

[@WeirdExplorer]

Finger-eating good

[@keko9180]

@@WeirdExplorer china: eat your fingers of

[@censusgary]

From your description, these “tomatoes” sound a lot like those small, bitter, orange eggplants that are used in some Indian and Thai dishes.

[@markiangooley]

Used to raise the little orange eggplants which I’m told are also popular in Turkey. They were better when small and not ripe...

[@xdialga361445x]

Botanical interest had it in their catalog they called it pumpkin on a stick

[@nytrodioxide]

Omg when you ate your hand!!! This was definitely one of the most interesting episodes you've made, it's really informative. Cannibalism is fucked up but also super interesting from an outsider's standpoint. Probably not interesting if you're getting cannibalized but... y'know.

[@odah7785]

Rubbing eggplant slices with salt helps draw out the bitterness. You rub them with salt and let them sit then wipe away the liquid and rinse them. Doing that may make them more tolerable.

[@ziggybaker3446]

Jared, this is horrifying. I demand MORE!

[@richardbidinger2577]

Most unexpected video. Who knew Weird Fruit Explorer would turn into "How To Serve Man"............. 💀🦴👅🍽️

[@sdfkjgh]

richard bidinger: IT'S A COOKBOOK! A COOKBOOK!

[@hoboshoe]

I've watched 2 videos about cannibalism in the past week. I'm probably on a list now

[@aprilliac]

The showmanship on this one is great, the whole thing is really well done.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks! This was one of my favorite episodes to make.

[@jasepoag8930]

I was like, "Oh no, he's playing a dangerous game eating it off his finger." Then you ran with the joke. I chuckled slightly but audibly.

[@andrewblack7852]

It grows like a weed in Hawaii.. our local park had a bone pit next to the smashing table. All the rocks involved are now in a pile under a banyan tree, the old tourists and locals walking around the park have no idea as no one wants to talk about this part of hawaiian culture and social reality

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

I lost it at 13:45. I couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 minutes.

[@AlbinoAxolotl]

Lol I know! That surprised the heck out of me and made me laugh so much!

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

@@AlbinoAxolotl He's one serious entertainer. Oxymoron completely intended!

[@FioraTheMasquerade]

Jared, that incredibly creepy minor-key rendition of I Love You from Barney and Friends was amazing.

[@aripent]

It wasn't in a minor key

[@FioraTheMasquerade]

@@aripent I am not a musician, so, I will take your word for it!

[@WeirdExplorer]

I searched "children's music" on a royalty free music page and that was the only option that came up. It was meant to be

[@fr2ncm9]

How about a Will it Ice Cream segment. That might prove to be entertaining, although I doubt anyone would want to try a Cannibal Tomato Gellato.

[@davidh9844]

They already make it in Japan.

[@erarebirth]

13:48 Was not expecting that... LOL!

[@boxmanatee]

The book "Viti: an Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian Or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860 - 61: With Illustrations and a Map" is available for free from google play store.

[@petrygebliebenerschlagerfan67]

So thankful that I stumbled across your channel a couple of years ago. Great videos, you have definately expanded upon the original idea which was to just review fruit. Thumbs up, and keep doing whatcha doing!

[@MickeyD2012]

The leaves are likely poisonous, BTW, like every member of the family _Solanum_ that I know. I doubt they were eaten in any significant quantity.

[@brianmccarrier1605]

Black Nightshade greens are commonly used as a potherb in Africa, apparently parboiling them is enough to get the toxins out.

[@spicefreak4726]

Gochutnip, roughly translated as "chilli leaf salad" is a korean delicacy, though I don't believe it's eaten too regularly.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I wonder if all the concern about eating human meat being unhealthy had more to do with them eating the poison leaves

[@robrod7120]

Weird Explorer probably, seeing as as far as I know human meat has nothing particularly toxic in it

[@k8eekatt]

@@robrod7120 modern humans are loaded with toxins and distributing cremains in nature is against the law because there's so many heavy metals and toxins in the dust.

[@vizwhiz100]

Lol...13:48... too funny, Jared. Great timing, and unexpected irony.

[@sharendonnelly7770]

13:41 LMAO!!!! That was awesome!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL Loved the irony, a vegetarian making sauce for cannibal stew! Going back to watch 13:41 again! Love this channel!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brianthompson2015]

Thanks for the heads up early in the video... eating lunch right now. I appreciate how considerate you are to your viewers. Will watch later!

[@Kikilang60]

They asked cannibals in Borneo what people tasted like. They said, "Pig." In the Polynesian islands, they call people they eat, Long pork.

[@GolosinasArgentinas]

Cannibal tomato ketchup must be a great condiment for Soylent Green.

[@AuntyM66]

LOL

[@GetToThePointAlready]

13:46 - Best part ever.

[@organicgrow4440]

Get To The Point Already - he must be a little high from eating the neighbours.

[@divineinpurple9058]

Anthropophagorum - Pronounced Anne-throw-poe-fage (as in stage) - ore-um. Do you ever worry that the plants you are trying might actually be bad for you? Particularly since a lot of plant toxins tend to have a bitter taste.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I try and do research on it to make sure its okay. If I try something questionable, usually its just a small amount, or I'll spit it out.

[@megastoejoe]

Long pork nightshade... outstanding.

[@censusgary]

I thumbs-upped this just for the phrase “long pork nightshade.” Great name for a band!

[@petefromdewoods5157]

Good old pulled long pork sammiches, just like pap used to make💀

[@TheKopakah]

what a great channel this is

[@Adayintherain]

@9:53 when you said asbestos i died a little bit inside lmfao. You’re a funny guy and very entertaining!!!

[@opal9450]

I'm so happy that someone is sharing the best plants to help me with my favorite meal :)

[@AlbinoAxolotl]

Damn this was such a fascinating and well researched video! Who would have thought a weird fruit video would have such wide ranging information about cannibalism!

[@XoroksComment]

Old eggplant varieties that were more bitter than modern eggplants, were often cut into pieces, heavily salted and put into a strainer with a weight on top overnight to leech out all the juice. With the juice, most of the bitterness went away. I wonder if you could also do this with these.

[@PtolemaicTaweret]

phagorum is pronounced with ph=f as in the second part of the word sarcophagus (it has the same greek root)

[@Grooth]

Thanks for the tips, I have been having digestive issues with my new diet.

[@WeirdExplorer]

🤣

[@SceleToon_and_Games]

thank you for your channel. your work is inspiring. this is the most fascinating video i've seen from this cannel so far (and i've seen quite a few) i hope to see that you produce work for a very long time

[@AlbinoAxolotl]

I found it very interesting that human meat is supposed to be hard to digest and causes constipation. I wonder why that would be? It’s muscle tissue that shouldn’t be all that different from other types of meat that we eat already, especially if it’s cooked. Maybe it has something to do with our own digestive systems and flesh being incompatible with each other as some sort of safeguard? Plenty of other species cannibalize each other without getting all stopped up (I assume) though, so I’m curious why this would be the case with humans. Anyway, super interesting!

[@FaultAndDakranon]

I imagine it was the amount of flesh eaten, a human being is a large amount of meat.eat enough pork and I imagine you get the same effect.

[@landonconway79]

Maybe it's because we are made by God with a conscience, and it is God's creative design that eating each other should be painful.

[@horsepj]

Missed the opportunity to use the Cannibal Holocaust theme.

[@sissypissyrapper23]

horsepj Or a small audio clip of Cannibal Corpse

[@raggedyanarchist]

Hello fellow long-time watcher. :)

[@WeirdExplorer]

If it weren't for the copyright, I would never have changed it. :/

[@kushluk777]

Next on Weird Explorer... F4v4 beanZ and a Nyce Kyanti.

[@MrGlennJohnsen]

Ketchup is the name of any fruit which is cooked with vinegar, sugar and spices then blended to smooth. Chutney is also the same but not blended, you can make ketchup and chutney out of basically any fruit. That's why bottles say 'Tomato Ketchup' and not just 'Ketchup', if it only says 'Ketchup' on the bottle I guess it could have any number of fruits in it.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Mushroom ketchup was more of a Worcestershire sauce too.. It ketchup has an interesting history.

[@ben-chan420]

@Cosmin Costea I mean, you aren't wrong, but at the same time the part of mushrooms we do eat is the fruiting body, so in a way it works.

[@ben-chan420]

@Cosmin Costea No? I'm saying that mushrooms do naturally have functions similar to plants. The best way I can think of explaining it is (and do correct me if this is the wrong term, I'm running off my flawed memory here) more so along the lines of convergent evolution, the whole thing about plants/animals/[insert organism here] being in completely separate but similar ecosystems where they evolve similarities in eachother to fill the same ecological niche. Obviously that's not wholly accurate in the case of mushrooms vs plants, but it's a good way of showing how wildly different species evolve to have similar qualities. Mold does have a species that I would say fall into trans-animal category. I'm pretty sure they're called yellow slime molds, and they form colonies that actively travel in search of food, ideal locations for growth, all that neat stuff. Check them out, hella cool little marvels of nature

[@dr_spwewps]

In some cultures eat their friends and family when they died. It was a way to honor the dead

[@z99ywiec]

Cannilbalism and Barney! Perfect!

[@WeirdExplorer]

it seems strangely appropriate.

[@candiedcrusader7841]

Holy crap

[@viiiderekae]

13:39 AHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH He's eating himself... then he ginna eat us. OUH MY GAHHHHHHH

[@MrTinyLlama]

Thanks for always doing the hard research! Keep up the amazing work!

[@pepsicola6232]

Another great video! Thanks for the upload

[@ristube3319]

A little known fact about food that causes a stingy type of sensation you’d from eggplant or calamari is to marinate the substance in whole milk, the lactic acid breaks down the enzymes

[@PhysicsPolice]

10/10 for comedy in this episode!!!!

[@rakkrisr123]

We still use it to prepare human meat here in our place...I must tell you it's really brings out the flavour of the meat 😨😨😨

[@detectfevi]

The title "Cooking with Jared" was like the cutest thing ever.

[@rosepearl7092]

I'd be careful eating those leaves... Based on the description, it likely prompts the bowels into explosive action. Also, years ago I remember reading that in China up until the 1930s there were still human meat restaurants in operation. Apparently high-caste Hindus were preferred. The reason cited was that meat-eaters' flesh was tough and particularly salty. High-caste Hindus however ate no form of flesh and were therefore not so. When you read "salt was not forgotten" it reminded me of this.

[@timothygreer188]

"...how to prepare human flesh..." going for demonetization so early in the year?

[@christinakasko2082]

This may be the first time I realized your name was Jared.... and I watch you a lot!! You are probably the only KZbinr that doesn’t talk about himself enough for me to know it!!

[@sazji]

“I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.” -James Beard

[@censusgary]

It’s often said that Americans will eat anything if they can put ketchup on it.

[@dataquester]

@@censusgary or ranch dressing...

[@Shane_O.5158]

cooking tip : if you can't get your hands on some human, replace it with pork, it's basically the same. ask any fireman or police.

[@danam312]

You showed my favorite condiment ever. I cannot use tomato ketchup since I discovered Jufran.

[@DeathopTerokkar]

"I don't have any french fries so" *dips in pinky finger* wait no.

[@spearrodnet]

Katchup was originally made from many different things but eventually tomato just became popular

[@emilywarner7707]

Banana ketchup is quite delicious

[@nightmarejr]

Nice now I’ll have something to pair with for my fallen enemies

[@spiritoftheshogunate4496]

Very good guide to a good snack

[@permafrostprod1]

been growing them for years. I use them as i would use small bitter asian eggplants. You can also blanch them in hot water and then cook them into a sauce with chunks like a pasta summer sauce. pulverizing the seed adds to the bitterness. I would definitly not eat the leaves raw as they are from the nigthshades familly but using them to wrap food to be cooked on hot embers or in hot rocks pit like a lot of tribes from the pacific islands do. (i.e.meat or pudding wraped in tender leaves that add flavors, then wraped again in tougher leaves to protect from direct heat).

[@Superchargedbrostime]

Your amazing with the facts and entertainment and the end “you can grow this, would you want to”

[@-jank-willson]

this would've been great for Halloween

[@benny_lemon5123]

"Will It Ketchup (catsup?)" I'll never look at random fruit the same way again.

[@jcman-lp6lg]

This is going straight into my book of cannibalism thanks for the video now I have more ideas for my book. No worries it's for a art class project in college.

[@Venomalia]

Very interesting! Have you tried the yew (Taxus baccata)? the red fucht body is very sweet, almost like mamelade.

[@PhotoAdvanced]

13:44 lol

[@mirandamom1346]

What can I say but: who knew?

[@WeirdExplorer]

I learned a lot researching this. such fun facts!

[@almosthuman4457]

I'd have gone with fire roasting until charred and tender and eat with coarse sea salt first.

[@WeirdExplorer]

You're making my mouth water over here.

[@huntabascan]

Was the kuru/madcow disease named from kuruduahdua?

[@xdialga361445x]

Baker creek has litchi tomato with solanum uporo it seems. thanks for the informative video about this solanium species

[@killermuffin1997]

Jared, did you get/are you sick after eating this? I just have a bad feeling about the plant itself, stigma aside

[@WeirdExplorer]

No problems!

[@mandab.3180]

ahh cool you combined fruit with super weird and creepy stuff. seems like your bread n butter 😂

[@xAkito]

That was unexpected when he ate his finger XDD

[@kristbane]

Don't get any ideas about your terrible neighbors. Hang in there.

[@WeirdExplorer]

If I ate them, I'd get high as a kite.

[@ahhwe-any7434]

It's cv19 time. I only think about stealing animals. I also have pets. But I don't like blood & I couldn't do that to my fur balls, so I'm not gonna last too long.

[@nabadon2853]

@@ahhwe-any7434 why do you steal the animals...

[@shysensei2348]

😂😂😂😂

[@newmle]

Taste wise maybe it's like fish sauce. That stuff is pretty gnarly by itself but it's pretty dang good added to food.

[@LastBastion]

Fun fact: human meat taste like pork

[@FD03]

I think the grizzly details really made this episode one of a kind!

[@glitchedjson4042]

(13:48) Dang it... he got to it before I could point it out... Oh, wow, I just noticed that you're on 99.5K subs! Just a little more!

[@JoseGarcia-uo5qz]

You can make a pork dish with it.

[@raggedyanarchist]

Couldn't get your hands on a Tofuman to try this thing out with, eh?

[@griffinbeaumont7049]

Question, maybe someone can help me: Why would human meat be especially difficult to digest? Is that something psychological, or is there just something about the meat itself? Just wondering

[@pattheplanter]

That description included "so as to be warmed up each day to preserve it". Sounds like they were reheating it a little too often and getting some interesting bacteria growing.

[@keko9180]

It also could be from this plants leaves

[@nytrodioxide]

I think it may be a natural physical reaction. Naturally, as living beings, we aren't physically meant for or designed to devour one of our own species, and so when we do, our bodies react appropriately. I mean... Imagine how fucked up it would be to feed chickens chicken.

[@FaultAndDakranon]

@@nytrodioxide Feeding cows to cows is how we got a mad cow disease epidemic.

[@k8eekatt]

@@nytrodioxide chickens are happy to eat their own

[@henrydickerson9776]

The gory details are why I'm here.

[@AuntyM66]

Wow the is one for Hannibal Leckta. This vlog will make you a become vegan. Some mentioned Soylent green. Jared you killed with laughter when you were tasting it.

[@jomalomal]

damn dude just stumbled upon your channel and it is amazing

[@TNTspaz]

Why does Matt have seeds available. Should we be worried

[@dataquester]

7:18 hey PBS wants a pilot episode

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'm waiting for the call.

[@sharofs.6576]

You should have your own tv show. Why haven't those people found you yet

[@Reth_Hard]

Cool, I am preparing it right now. Now, all I need is a guest. Anyone is interested? Hehehe... Hah... HAHAHA... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[@askhowiknow5527]

Imagine how bad human meat is if this product improves it...

[@danielkorrmann5467]

The time i saw this episode for the first time i tryed to find seed of this fruit. I did not find any, but this year ! This year i can start !

[@ECHOSIDE56301]

"This tastes good but I feel like it's missing something."

[@KateGoldauthoress]

loved the trying ketchup segment.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Many more to come!