Chinese Delicacy Special | Ashens

[@denisskenderovic3707]

Who else keeps coming back to Ashen's classics every now and then. It's one of the rare type of content I don't mind rewatching over and over again without feeling guilty

[@ragekinhijikata1344]

All Ashens' videos are rewatchable

[@MedievalFolkDance]

I use the food ones as mental prep before going to dinner parties. Whatever crap they serve up, it can never be as bad as some of Stuarts snacks.

[@ZombryaTheDark]

I've been doing this since 2016. So yeah its been a tradition for a while

[@alt666]

always good to binge the old asshens videos

[@TerminalllyChill]

Why tf would you feel guilty anyway?

[@TheManThatCan1002]

Nothing like a Chinese delicacy at 2:30 am 7 years later.

[@bentramer682]

I certainly get that

[@zacharywaterman862]

Heck yeah, I always come back to the food specials every now and again!

[@bigb0ss282]

I'm subscribed to him since 2010. This is from 2012... Recommended in mid 2020... A BIT LATE, KZbin, BUT THANKS ANYWAY! Craep, geezz...

[@geki5345]

Indeed

[@wulfpv]

Bored out me mind... 1:55am here! I just love re watching Ashens!!!

[@JustinWillisDevil240Z]

This channel may be the most evergreen channel in all of youtube. A video from 8 years ago or any time is basically indistinguishable from a video made today.

[@pprudencio1966]

If Ashens decided to get lazy one day and have no regard for his content he could totally remove a bunch of his old videos and reupload them one by one and I doubt many people would notice

[@primmslimm7185]

@@pprudencio1966 I would but only because I rewatch old ones a lot lol

[@syok1107]

@@pprudencio1966 I mean that's a very nice compliment and all but let's not give anyone any ideas here, shall we?

[@sonarinfection]

​@@pprudencio1966you can tell the difference between the old camera, at least in this video the colors look a bit brighter than usual

[@samholdsworth420]

Camera and audio quality is better now

[@PhoenixFireZero]

It's gonna sound weird, but I often take my meals while watching these videos. Makes me feel a touch better about the drek I eat.

[@cg56578]

xD

[@wolfyboy]

i eat GOOD food, while watching this... it makes me feel EVEN more grateful! XD

[@ronancurtis2616]

Dude I literally do the same thing you seriously don't know how happy it makes me to see other people do it 😭

[@cfothough]

Late but I do the exact same thing

[@jesuswasasausage9262]

Take? Do you inject your meals?

[@warmen123321]

When he said "Be back after this..." I don't think Ive ever heard such genuine horror in someones voice

[@x-LINX-x]

i'd like ur comment but it's the number of pie

[@raygiordano1045]

Your grocery bill must be close to zero, but your mouthwash and Ipecac bills must be out of sight. I bet when you go to the doctor's office, they just immediately go for the stomach pump as soon as they see you coming.

[@IanC14]

Ray Giordano "Stuart Ashen has an appointment today, better get the pump ready"

[@tealeaf7781]

Ray Giordano “oh, it’s the Ashens man again” *flips stomach pump switch*

[@The.throngler]

A what pump?

[@raygiordano1045]

@@The.throngler it's a medical device that is used to remove stomach contents without causing vomiting. Handy for unconscious patients and/or dealing with poisons that will further damage the esophagus if vomited.

[@dr.pepper9893]

The receptionist in the NHS hospital looks through binoculars sees ashens arriving and The receptionist goes, "Ah shit, here we go again", and immediately reaches for the stomach pump

[@willman831]

Ashens bites egg "I'll be back after this" KZbin cuts to a Listerine ad🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ChlorideCull]

2 years later I get an ad for an app that lets you instantly talk with a doctor.

[@brendalees10]

I got a Taco Bell ad. I guess it could get the taste out of your mouth?

[@DragonHeartHisMajestyX]

@@brendalees10 You, Sebastian and Willman are SO damn lucky! I just got a Truth ad about opioid dependency.

[@stawfiq5]

Got a gay ad

[@squigglestherecluse9914]

I got an ad for dog food.

[@88HEATHENWOLF]

I'm checking in 8 years later to tell you I still can't eat a boiled egg without thinking about this video.

[@bing_septic_the_noodle_41]

Here to remind ya its been 10 months- how's the "cant eat boiled eggs without thinking bout this video" goin for you? Lol

[@harleyjune]

Same here

[@tumbles8350]

The whole "eating a chickens period" thing puts me off before I start thinking too much about it

[@GreenerTrees]

1 year later to check in with that

[@obscure.reference]

@@tumbles8350 really inaccurate, reproductive systems in birds are not at all analogous to those in people. even if it were, the analogy would be to a miscarriage, not a period.

[@ChickenPika]

I'm sure Ashen takes this video with him whenever he goes to therapy. It'd save time if anyone asks him where his crippling fear of eggs came from.

[@rambies1516]

ChickenPika I swear I saw you on a cs188 video, or a NerdCubed video. I can't think which one, I've been watching a lot of each recently.

[@spoonman6256]

ChickenPika Do you comment on every Ashens video??

[@spoonman6256]

***** I know. I watch them

[@SageOwl]

epic liampaul Then you have watched his Ashens YTPs. Obviously he is a fan.

[@spoonman6256]

Dr. Steve Brule I'M AWARE. But I'm a fan, and i don't always comment. I'm not saying he shouldn't comment alot, I just found it strange

[@fuegosonic93]

apparently thousand-year eggs are supposed to be tasty, but ashens just had the bad luck to get LITERALLY a thousand-year egg.

[@BobJoeman]

They're actually okay, especially when eaten with rice porridge.

[@xxnooneimportantxx8017]

I hear they're the saltiest things ever and supposed to be used in soups or broths, or just slightly added to a generally bland dish... Maybe it's an acquired taste, maybe he doesn't like things that are too salty... I honestly don't have the guts to even try something that rotten though, so I can't say from experience...

[@BobJoeman]

xXNoOneImportantXx No, you're thinking of a salted duck egg, and yeah, those are really salty. But thousand year eggs are more fermented and brined.

[@eveashe909]

it's real name is a century egg

[@eveashe909]

but its the same

[@scoman91]

Yeah, those eggs weren't preserved right. Real century eggs have a more gooey interior, not that chunky stuff you had in yours. These were probably knock-offs for sale to tourists. Real century eggs actually have patterns on the surface that look like pine needles and smell like horse piss. Yeah, still not very appetizing, I know, but at least now you can tell the real deal from a cheap knock off.

[@Rakinjo2]

On to tourists?! I hear it's bad for the tourist industry to kill your visitors. o.O

[@dokankuun6470]

Are real century eggs shittier than the fake century egg Stewart tried?

[@scoman91]

Dokan Kuun Apparently they taste alright. Kind of like salty eggs. I've never had one but they apparently aren't that bad. They do smell terrible though but that's only supposed to be the shell.

[@dokankuun6470]

+scoman91 Oh, interesting.

[@Rakinjo2]

This sort of thing just kind of strikes me as one of those.. "But why, though?" moments. I mean, there's just no reason to produce nor eat these. There's no benefit to it. It's like the Swedish "Fermented Fish"-thing.

[@zeitgeistofficial8166]

"...oh..." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the most British reaction to eating something truly horror-show

[@KertaDrake]

Isn't it amazing how "delicacy" has almost universally become synonymous with "things that should not be eaten under any circumstance"?

[@notgray88]

None of these are "delicacies" They're all extremely cheap in fact.

[@queenbiscuit311]

Reminds me of that delicacy that is a fish with an organ so deadly that if the chef makes fails to remove the slightest part of it you die painfully. And people ate it in droves

[@peterclarke7240]

Delicacies are thing fed to gullible foreigners for lols. Ashens basically worked out how to monetize the process. 😂

[@KertaDrake]

@@peterclarke7240 Monetizing the process without owning a restaurant, even!

[@masonasaro2118]

@@queenbiscuit311 you mean fugu? that’s just a pufferfish you know…

[@AnUnearthlyGay]

"Which part of the egg do you prefer? The yellow or the white?" ""The grey."

[@Becka_Harper]

Logan Wilton am I the only one who thinks that these regional “delicacies” were created to make fools of non-locals? Because I’ve tried most of the horrible ones and the disappointment on the givers face when I end up loving them...

[@ReallyRedPanda]

@@Becka_Harper Right? Clues you in on their thinking - 'Shit, even *we* don't like this tripe, how can you?!'

[@gaminggrunt6340]

I prefer the black bits, thank you very much.

[@TheHutchy01]

@@ReallyRedPanda Hell, the same thing applies to tripe. I knew exactly one person who liked tripe and he grew during WW2.

[@howeyyadoing9070]

I like the blue meself

[@riverandquiver909]

When he opens the white egg: "uhg, uuueeeeehhhhh, do not want!!" Then when he opens the hundred million year egg: "HOLY SHIT!!!"

[@johndanielkeegan1729]

I love how robotically he says do not want but we all know this dude is gonna eat it

[@smooshk9wolf]

It's 2024 and here i am coming back watching ashens old videos again because his channel is a comfort channel for me

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Right?

[@Jaybird196]

Same. Stuarts food reviews please me :) .

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

The mystery concerning why those eggs smell of wet dog has finally been solved: they are in fact dog eggs.

[@teenwulf12]

Hey, if it's Minecraft, that's pretty much possible. xD

[@ADxTygon]

Sam Skubecz Except nobody cares about Minecraft on an Ashens video about rotten fucking eggs.

[@teenwulf12]

Except for I was just making a comment and there's no reason to be rude, so I'm not going to be rude. You have an opinion, but unless anyone backs you up I can't say it affects me.

[@darkstar1987lx]

Sam Skubecz I back you up! ADxTygon loses 500hp.

[@Evaille]

ADxTygon I bet you're fun at parties.

[@ForteGX100]

Stuart Ashens invites you to crash on his brown sofa for a night. Are you A) Honored to spend a night on the most famous and important couch on KZbin, or B) Offended and repulsed at the mere suggestion? After all, you've seen the shit he puts on the thing.

[@AgentTasmania]

+ForteGX100 Probably not very comfortable but I would accept the implicit trip to the UK. Maybe pop by Jingles' the following night.

[@veronica4878]

+ForteGX100 C Sleep on the table

[@zackl2000]

+King Eric XV Those times where you cant sleep so you switch between the two thinking one would be more comfy?

[@TheCitedAviator]

Sleep on the floor

[@lindastratton152]

ForteGX100 A

[@trustworthysquirrel7740]

Do you ever eat something so bad that you just turn into Santa?

[@rearealovesyuu]

hahahah

[@omegafoxie7707]

+Moodleschang As this video clearly shows.... YES he does.

[@JackAldred]

+Moodleschang I literally read this is he started 'ho-ho-hoing' ...

[@igotbannedk]

+Moodleschang WHAT THE HELL

[@U2SaxFan]

2:40

[@leowhitfield149]

Love how this was made 11 years ago and yet i feel like im watching a video thats just been uploaded, love when things never change means i can watch them all day long

[@dolphin4338]

What came first, the chicken or the egg? I'm thinking THAT egg came first.

[@TheOrnt]

Dolphinbro ikr, it must be the first egg ever.

[@arcuz]

im thinking those were virgin boy eggs or "tong zi dan" don't look it up

[@tronic925]

ThatXoneXguy *sighs*

[@chazhinkley6602]

Depends what you mean. Do you mean a egg that a chicken came out of, that would mean the egg came first. But if you mean an egg laid by a chicken then it was the chicken that came first. Evolution bitches.

[@Abyssal86]

Dolphin Dinosaurs eggs, before chickens were even a thing.

[@john-eirikmichelsen5711]

Hey Ashens! A clip from your video was just on Norwegian TV. A programme about nasty food(of sorts).I recognized your couch instantly 👍🏼 Shoutout from a big Norwegian fan.

[@john-eirikmichelsen5711]

+ashens

[@DanielNylandKollstrm]

+John-Eirik Michelsen Hvilket program? :)

[@john-eirikmichelsen5711]

+Daniel Nyland Det var på "Typisk deg" :)

[@FennecTECH]

"its knobbley its bobbly it makes your tummy a bit wobbley" *lost it*b

[@primmslimm7185]

Damn it's really been almost 10 years since this iconic vid dropped EGG OF ROT never fails to make me laugh

[@scaniadan2968]

This used to be in a bookmark folder called ashens eggs on my old windows xp pc that's how much I loved this video lol

[@TheFiercestCreatureInTheWorld]

Paper Ashens and the Hundred Year Egg.

[@josephlauletta3419]

you get my internet points for referencing one of the best games ever :D

[@josephlauletta3419]

what has lead you to that conclusion?

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

We need a TTYD mod for this. NOW!!!!

[@TheFiercestCreatureInTheWorld]

+Hooded Roxas You got a Crystal Egg!

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

WildKatGirl END OF CHAPTER!!!!!!!

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Century eggs are not supposed to be that bad. They aren't actually rotten, they are preserved in highly alkaline solutions (I believe calcium hydroxide is the most common one), which change the proteins in the egg in a way not all that unlike cooking. And at the same time, the alkaline solution kills bacteria and preserves the egg. I'm sure they certainly taste odd to people that aren't used to them, but they aren't supposed to taste rotten. They're definitely an acquired taste, but they aren't supposed to taste any worse than say pickled eggs (cured in an acidic solution - acids taste sour, bases taste bitter). The 2 shrink wrapped eggs he had were *actually* rotten because they were out of date. These were developed in times when there was no refrigeration and no methods of cooking other than a fire, and preservation methods like these were the only ways for farming villages to save up enough food for the winter. But after they're removed from the alkaline solution and are ready to eat, they have to be eaten fairly quickly, because after that they WILL rot just like any other food.

[@thevigilantsatanicbowser8249]

Thanks for the explanation. I might like them. I like pickled eggs.

[@ctarsund]

The Vigilant Satanic Bowser you should have said Eggs-planation.

[@thevigilantsatanicbowser8249]

ctarsun dysart so many missed opportunities.

[@ctarsund]

The Vigilant Satanic Bowser 😄

[@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95]

+G4M3 4DD1CT And you'd know this how?

[@rebeccah3091]

It's nice to see that I am not alone when it comes to coming back to old Ashens videos to rewatch them. I just enjoy them. His humor is perfectly entertaining without being overbearing.

[@commanderdeckard3003]

I knew a man who ate a century egg once. He ran off into the woods to throw it up and was never seen again. Rumour has it his body is completely intact because no creature or microbe was brave enough to eat bis body and risk a taste of the egg.

[@nasanodia736]

actually, that story is about a Hot Dog dug up under a 60yr layer of landfill... Newspapers found near it gave its burial era and it- Like All Hot Dogs- was completely intact from the levels of preservatives in it halted all decomposition.

[@ticklemyjohn]

@@dj_sp3rmcount agreed

[@benayers8622]

I belive this.. i was exposed to an egg and there was a 3 day.. incident... of runs and vom Eggy runs and vom and i belive no lion or bear would have dared to eat me that does sound right

[@HaydenLau.]

Century eggs are really tasty in congee. If they're not expired.

[@mascats7478]

anyone else love that whenever he eats something, he always has to go nom

[@eshaa4857]

Nom

[@GaMMERKitten]

Nom nom yum nom

[@BatataKarambas]

I find it quite cute! Haha

[@ZealotChemist]

Was literally just thinking this lol

[@Schwillz]

This is my all-time favorite Ashens video, after the Violin out-takes one

[@Dreigonix]

This is one of those times where you think "Whew, dodged a bullet there...!" ...and then the bullet comes back around like a homing missile and hits you in the back of the head.

[@BrutalBarracuda]

😂😂😂

[@cloudfall8784]

*hol Horse intensifies*

[@rocknrevolt938]

@@cloudfall8784 *Emporer noise intensifys.*

[@polarisation]

Epstein

[@mr.bobcyndaquil4214]

Fucking revenant missiles

[@Randomkloud]

2:26 omg, that's salted duck egg, the yolk is supposed to be a yellow/golden/reddish (depending on how its made) color and it isnt supposed to be acidinc in any way.

[@zackl2000]

Someone injected acid into the duck to make alien babies but instead it killed the host and it laid that egg as it died

[@BlazeChronicGreen420]

it was probably starting to break down inside the shell making the yolk black and giving it the acid like taste. it was in early decomposition.

[@cdeer17]

ya read a few comment here and there any people are pretty much saying it's a fake meant to sell to tourists which really i'm not surprised china has so many bad eggs if you will pardon my pun

[@tamlandipper29]

Would you explain that to the chap from the Chinese Communist party in the other comments?

[@DynamicDurge]

I'm Asian and I know a rotten fucking egg when I see one. God bless your soul Ashens

[@Tyrant_8053]

+DynamicDurge Or how about you actually use your brain and google it up? You can easily find out that it's preserved, not rotten.

[@DynamicDurge]

+Qin ShiHuang 秦始皇 Please stop trying to justify a poorly made delicacy. If someone calls TV dinners disgusting, I'm not going to defend that piece of shit. Similarly, you shouldn't be justifying this sad excuse for a pickled egg.

[@Tyrant_8053]

DynamicDurge I am not justifying anything, there's no need for me to justify anything, I am just here to correct your ignorance views and lies. i am also here to tell you that 20% of the world, aka Chinese, doesn't give a fuck about what white people thinks about this egg. I honestly hated this when I was young, but now I know how to enjoy it, because I am eating it in the right way now. I still hate the taste of this egg if I were to eat it alone without other condiments, but that's simply not the way to eat it. In fact since you are calling this a "delicacy", I really wonder how Asian are you. If you are truly "Asian", or specifically Chinese, you would never call this a delicacy because it simply is just a common ingredient. It is not an expensive ingredient, nor is it highly sought after, it's just everywhere as a common ingredient. Finally, I want to see how are you gonna justify cheese, which is pungent, ass tasting, vomit smelling, rotten milk. And if you are Sardinian, you would even have maggot vomit, maggot shit and maggot corpses in it, and white people call that a delicacy. P.S Century egg is not even pickled, smartass.

[@DynamicDurge]

+Qin ShiHuang 秦始皇 Someone's mad. The fact that you get pissed because people don't like your rotten egg says a lot about you. I understand, you're offended. I used to be a lot like you. But cool it hot head. Nobody gives a shit and everyone here has already made up their mind about the fucking egg. You're not changing any minds today.

[@Tyrant_8053]

DynamicDurge I am amazed with your ability to judge someone's tone by reading a piece of text over the internet. Sadly, you are hilariously wrong. I am not pissed, why should I be? Do you get pissed about me hating cheese? No. So why would I be different? You are the one that seems to pissed actually. I understand, you are offended that people disagree with you, but that's life, deal with it. i am not here to change minds, that's like trying to unpreserve a century egg, it's futile. I am just here to spread facts to ignoranus like you. Hahaha. Once again, cheese is actually more rotten than the century egg, because cheese is actually fermented, century eggs are preserved. :)

[@xander2698]

"Egg of Rot" activates my Google assistant 8:27

[@benroberts5898]

Ditto

[@bitterlemonboy]

Why do you have a google spy in your house? It always listens.

[@superninja4687]

That's funny

[@Stoic_Lizard]

@@bitterlemonboy seriously turn off all that shit. Google analytics and always on bullshit. I now get ads for mortgage shit because it doesn't know who I am and I have no money. Also political ads, but from both sides cause they don't track me so I dunno. I feel slightly better about it all now.

[@bitterlemonboy]

@@Stoic_Lizard Get uBlock origin (advanced ad and tracker blocker) and if you can install a Pi-hole in your network. It removes all tracking from your network.

[@maddyfairman4348]

Stuart: *Tries egg yolk* "Oh ho! Ho ho ho! Stuart Ashen is Santa, confirmed.

[@andymadden8183]

Delivering only the worst tat to every child!

[@teh_supar_hackr]

@@andymadden8183 Merry Tat-mas!

[@JULR0W]

Merry Christmas

[@ChrisDied]

Very nice dad joke there!

[@xxcosmicfrostxx]

It’s so weird to me that this video is 7 years old... I remember watching this when I was like 9, and I’m back watching it in quarantine

[@loveutube672]

I love the way you describe things :) also, how you said "And people have a go at McDonald's for how their burgers don't look as good on the advert pictures"? That was PERFECT xD

[@FireFoxBancroft]

I don't think those eggs were supposed to be eaten, I think they were made for throwing.

[@MattyMatthew-m4o]

"chinese delicacies from germany" wat

[@bryanadkins6776]

Directly from China's heartland!

[@thomasl1061]

kek

[@StarmaGeddon]

it was just send in from a german guy i suppose

[@drunkrdm]

made in France. packaged in New Zealand .

[@khmerkandal121]

MR WORLDWIDE

[@edmorrisonjr9088]

I’ve been watching your vids for about a couple of months now and just came across this one, you had me literally crying because I was laughing so hard!! The 100 year egg had me laughing but not until you got to the rabbit meat. When you first said “it looks like they shrink wrapped dog shit,” laughter kicked in harder but once you realized it was rabbit and said “oh good now we’re gonna eat Bugs Bunny” laughter kicked in even harder!! Sorry you had to experience the food to amuse your subscribers. Also thanks for a great video and the laughs Ashens!!! Keep up the great work and vids and again thanks for the laughs!!

[@ahhhhyes]

The vids 6 years old hes not gonne read the comments haha

[@groovylobster]

It's happened. It's finally at 1,000,000 views. And i was here to witness it. This is quite obviously a life changing event.

[@KentuckyFriedNerd]

groovylobster What made it so much better was seeing that brown stuff on the egg, realizing it was a Century Egg, and then watching a video showing that the way he was eating it was NOT the way to eat it and then seeing the inevitable happen.

[@KentuckyFriedNerd]

Joe Moorman Yeah now that you mention it, it CAN be eaten that way.... however emmymadeinjapan has a really good video of century eggs where she showcases how her family eats them, which "mellows" out the flavor for anyone that's unaccustomed to it. That's how I always try really strongly-flavored foods like that, but that's just me. hehe

[@TheTechnosasquatch]

Joe Moorman It is in fact eaten like that. Granted, most wash the dirt and rice hulls off if the outside before opening. The issue was, as he says in later videos, it was expired. I'm not sure but they may need refrigeration after a certain point. I picked up a six pack of them from a local Asian market and consumed one straight with not ill side effects. If one thing is taken away here, it is don't send any egg product through the postage system as it will go bad. Also don't be afraid to try one, what's the worst that could happen?

[@cherrycola1144]

100th like on your comment. It's been an honor

[@devilscore6439]

+groovylobster Me to

[@HermitMoth]

I think even someone who was literally starving to death would turn down those fossilized shit eggs

[@tycho7006]

Four years late but that cracked me up a fair bit lol

[@FranTusajigwe]

@@tycho7006 lol same

[@amplitudemaximum6141]

"It's like someone was trying to make beef jerky out of rabbit and gave up half way through"

[@bachhongoc6461]

14:57 You know in Viet Nam, we describe that egg as "eggs that smell like urine". Just saying.

[@Vamptonius]

There's a very accurate reason for that.

[@owencheng523]

Vamptonius traditionally they spread horse urine over it while burying it within salts

[@lordoftherats8215]

@@owencheng523 I’m pretty sure that’s a myth, bc horse urine doesn’t have the right pH

[@owencheng523]

@@lordoftherats8215 well sure I haven’t try it out as disgusting as it sound,but I am sure they do it over time and spread horse piss over it not just once,thus it’s name thousand year eggs as it’s gonna take ages to make.

[@LovelyCheesePizza]

I think that just reading the description of the video alone was enough for me to give this thing a thumbs up.

[@ricky6608]

11 years later but this video is still fresher than those eggs were

[@brandonjohnson3036]

Paper Mario the thousand year egg

[@TheCitedAviator]

Only cracks in 1,000 years

[@brandonjohnson3036]

TheCitedAviator thats funny

[@superninja4687]

This is the last place I expect to find this reference but I like it

[@oliverhooper435]

"It smells of dog, like musty dog" Ashens - you continue to make me laugh 8 years on 😁

[@turbochargemak]

The few moments of silence after he opened the second egg summed it up haha

[@JohnRedds]

Ironically I was eating a duck century egg as I watched this. I buy them in a carton to snack on. First one didn't look like a century egg at all. It looked like a cooked salted egg, which should come raw and be boiled just like a regular egg, and have a wonderful orange yolk, not that grey ick. Second one did look like a century egg in that typical clay-rice husk coating(I get wax coated ones because those are an ass to remove). Ngl the coating smells like moldy pissed-in loam and the egg itself can smell of anything from mild to strong ammonia to downright fecal matter. They're only fermented for less than a month, and once on the shelves, can have extremely long expiry dates. The batch I have for instance expires 9 months from now. Clearly it's a taste that you grow up with or get used to so I can't say it's 'not supposed to taste like rot'. The whites should be mildly salty and astringent with a gelatinous texture, whereas the yolk with colours that can range from green to brown to black and anywhere inbetween should also be salty, astringent and gooey-creamy or dense-powdery, depending on the manufacturer. I prefer the former. The taste will linger. If you fixate on the smell and the texture as so many youtuber-reacts do, you're going to spit it out right away. They're typically eaten with rice congee and/or sliced pickled ginger, just like surstromming is meant to be eaten with flatbread, potatoes, onions and sour cream.

[@MoundN]

Please visit a fucking therapist if you're actually eating this shit. What is wrong with humanity.

[@liccasinocomfreespins7337]

It taste like rotten fermented ass And here you've exposed yourself as an ass eater connoisseur 💀

[@CntrazZombie4]

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to the Demon Egg.

[@augustoof13]

Happy nearly 11 year anniversary to this cursed egg (in three days)

[@toohao]

happy 11 year anniversary to the hellspawn egg (in -3 days)

[@MrNakki]

Oh God, the sofa looks so clean... So much has changed in the past 5 years haha

[@violinplayer101]

10:52- "Oh look, they're like little things"! lol

[@Mahaveez]

The mochi at 11:00 are real nice to an American tongue, especially the Green Tea ones!

[@gyeahfrug]

Some guy: I've got a stomach of steel! *watches ashens while eating* BAAARF!

[@FenrirBoi]

9 years later and I still come back to this video and it's like it was uploaded yesterday. Ashens' immune system must have turned him into an Elder God at this point

[@moatasemaldayea6502]

i like how brutally honest he, that mixed with the sarcasm is amazing.

[@DjFrexira]

HowToBasic needs some of these eggs.

[@gamerfreak7865]

Don't give them ideas

[@gamerfreak7865]

Ok why does my comment have so many likes

[@DjFrexira]

Hamzah Sajjad Because you're awesome.

[@gamerfreak7865]

DjFrexira thank you, you are awesome too

[@digerttm]

DjFrexira Am I awesome? :3

[@ChickenPika]

I was confused by the ending tune, since there were no tiny plastic chickens being set on fire.

[@thekingsman9773]

y u no new videos pls

[@DemonDemonicGames]

ChickenPika Maybe no burned plastic Chickens, but what happened to those chickens which are rather rotten than living, I guess we had our chicken torture for today and Ashens had his torture for sure

[@DeckerFI]

1:16 The worried mouth breathing is funny. Preparing for a disaster.

[@ColetheAero]

anyone else out there REALLY concerned that one of these days Ashens is going to be sent something that LITERALLY has poison in it ? (like strychnine) or something really fucked up like human flesh in a "mystery meat" can

[@user-ci6oo1uv2k]

Oh

[@meowmint5093]

i would be the one to do it then if i wasn't banned from anything poison

[@ColetheAero]

GoldRimmer that's not true. . .the eyes are green you fool !

[@gzeusone6532]

I have a feeling that concern is part of why he only tries a tiny nibble of things on most occasions. Although there are toxins that can be fatal if you ingest even the tiniest amount... so... yeah, he might want to consider not eating anything sent in.

[@hognosemyan]

I'm pretty sure that the UK postal service scans all mail for possible poisons and things Why do you think mailing drugs is a fucking terrible idea

[@allenberry3614]

If you'll notice, he gave everything a rather good review after the eggs. I believe they must've fried his taste receptors.

[@eduardofromwiisportsresort9636]

“After that egg, b r i n g i t o n” *Aggressive package opening intensifies*

[@Rainielovealways]

Re-watching all the food special videos and these are the kind of videos i wish you'd bring back, these were the best Ashens videos and ones that i really miss!

[@will11600]

omfg on the packaging of the black moldy egg it said in Chinese "not for human eat"

[@chasecolbert1432]

Then what the fuck is it for?

[@rs-sh5ge]

Philbob Yolo Throwing?

[@dylanwest723]

You do realize you eat with something called JOK which is like a rice porridge thing

[@Guoenyi]

Hopefully you already find out what they are but first one is a salted duck egg and the yolk was as you pointed out discolored somehow. Second item is century egg, a bad one too because the yolk is supposed to be semi runny (a snout like texture). It is understandable some ppl don't like the taste of the second egg but cmon salted duck egg is the bomb, especially the golden hardened oily crumbly yolk.

[@user-ci6oo1uv2k]

ts pretty fair he didn't like the duck egg, as it was rotten anyways

[@Mugsi]

I'm somewhat okay with the duck egg. I like the saltiness of the white adding to my rice, but I'm not a fan of the yolk. Actually, I'm just not a fan of hard-boiled egg yolk in general.

[@metademetra]

Guoenyi Eh it looks like that whole brand is crap.

[@ryanfink4206]

Golden?

[@boss_bonard7573]

@@ryanfink4206 normaly These are golden, nur bis was rotten

[@bunnyfreakz]

The first is salted duck eeg, its really popular delicacy in my place. Not supposed eat it like regular eeg, its dish that you eat with rice or porridge

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Not sure if the first is a duck egg or not, doesn't seem quite big enough. I've hard others say it was a hard-boiled egg. Although regardless if it IS a salted duck egg then that particular one is not something you'll eat with anything because it is rotten.

[@EDToasty]

MegaAstroFan18 Most of the time it is actually pretty good, but not that one. Lol

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Clearly, because usually you don't eat rotten ones.

[@unrealeck]

I don't understand why you would add something incredibly horrible tasting to *anything* else. Why not just, you know, eat the rice or porridge *without* that egg?

[@samteejaykay]

unrealeck It's like eating macaroni without cheese.

[@OlagGan]

Chinese food from Germany. It must be the latest Chinese-German fusion food. Half an hour later and you're hungry for power.

[@nathanbarnes6869]

1000 year bratwurst

[@Heneggsboss]

😂😂😂😂

[@temp_name_change_later]

There's a Chinese dish called "皮蛋瘦肉粥" (pí dàn shòu ròu zhōu) that uses those century eggs, and it's actually really good. You're not supposed to eat them by themselves.

[@Existential-Paradigm]

I'll just take some regular fucking food, man. You can keep your dirty eggs.

[@echosbento]

@@Existential-Paradigm Just because it isn't from your culture doesn't mean it isn't normal food. Century eggs are just as 'dirty' as your blue cheese. Next time, keep your racism to yourself

[@nathanbarnes8535]

The egg in this case was actually rotten though. He said so in another video.

[@SomeRandoQuacko]

I'm going to eat the ingredients separately by themselves and you cannot stop me

[@ambustio9807]

@@echosbento it isnt raisict to dislike somthing dummy

[@xen0bia]

I seriously thought one of the eggs was going to be a balut, one of those fertilized chicken or duck egg that has a nearly fully formed foetus inside that you have to eat... Between a balut and a century egg, I'm not really sure which is worst but I really wouldn't touch either one with a 10-foot pole.

[@thirtisankwich]

Actual century eggs that aren't rotten are really good and personally they've never smelt bad in anyway

[@bentramer682]

Balut all the way, when else can you pay to eat a baby

[@revalution1965]

Alita 2 when??

[@notgray88]

@@revalution1965 Never

[@robertbrookes2000]

I'd take a century egg any day. A nice unfertilised egg. Rather than eating a semi formed animal. Honestly balut has got to be one of the most barbaric foodstuffs I've ever heard of, and I love haggis.

[@LilDrawingboi]

2:03 Ashens: it kinda smells like Ad appears: WENDYS BACONATOR!!! Yes that just happened to me.

[@ineffablesplendor4172]

I love the sincerity, the polar opposite of tv food connoisseurs where everything is "earthy" and "authentic".

[@xanderlewis]

6:02 Thought he was going to say ‘let’s have another big of egg!’ for a second.

[@TheNomade5]

Watching this video reminds me of the days when I would listen to Ashens videos while playing Assassin's Creed 2. Good times.

[@angusmacchilly5468]

"Az we sez in NorFulk, greee zeeeeey" Waited 4 years for that. Worth it.

[@ThatBirdLiam]

'Oh I like the packaging. It looks like an old window.'

[@Houndourpup]

The 1000 Year Egg: "Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing" - Wikipedia Yuck

[@xXSpikeMLPXx]

I have ate it when I was young and I LOVED it. Then I found out what it actually was...I still like eating it.

[@TheEnderman67]

The Chinese are INTERESTING people.

[@samteejaykay]

It's called acquired tastes.

[@RoboticRedstone]

Actually there 100 year eggs that's why there called CENTURY eggs

[@RoboticRedstone]

Owen Evans There's tons or reasons....

[@VoidedMirror]

Just some info. The first egg just looks like a salted egg preserved in a brine of salt water. The century egg is made by preserving regular eggs with a mix of salt, ash, and clay.

[@FoamHordikaGrapes]

Clay?!

[@ThemmeFataleKiva]

Rk9 Productions POKÉMON?!?

[@FoamHordikaGrapes]

*DIGIMON?!*

[@ThemmeFataleKiva]

Rk9 Productions Lol. XD

[@snailsucker]

Tamagachi?

[@milky1234123]

This video comes to mind at the most random time every year and it still makes me laugh like a loo.

[@eyeballpaul700]

I always find myself back at these videos routinely...

[@torque5056]

Ashens' videos don't age. I can watch one from this year or from ten years ago and I'm still entertained the entire time

[@Apotheosis_44]

He spits a bit of egg at 3:04.

[@spark95151]

I saw it

[@tomaszlosinski875]

+Spark95151 good for you.

[@nuno_alex505]

+Tomasz Losinski don't you got toilets to clean?

[@CrunchyOver9k]

you try eating a rotten fucking egg

[@iheartcreeper2512]

shlibber its when a egg is spoiled

[@thekingsman9773]

I guess AVGN killed Bugs Bunny, shrink wrapped the meat and mailed it to Stuart

[@nlb2000]

Well I'm a hunter so rabbit didn't surprise me as much as the others

[@Tomothy-e3b]

I love how I can click on any Ashens video weather from now or 14 years ago and it's exactly the same format: raggedy old brown couch with tat and or horrifying foodstuffs shown to the camera. Also at 4:50 the abject horror that's conveyed in a simple "oh" says it all.

[@JellyBeansMystreyMachine]

Just started watching your channel a couple weeks ago, and I've watched maybe around close to a hundred videos in that time... Just wanted to say you are hilarious!!! I can't believe you've been on the web as long as you have and I haven't seen or heard of you?.? Anyways, keep being you and I'll keep almost pissing myself laughing...

[@TheRealBambihooves]

I've been here 12 yrs and just now found his channel. He's freaking hilarious! 😅

[@Kodocha7]

Hey ashens remember the time you ate a funny egg?

[@camdengibson7690]

Maybe Ashens became so traumatized by the egg that he became insane and is actually HowtoBasic smashing eggs against everything xD

[@UncommonSituations]

Wow that joke was astonishingly bad

[@therandomricecake_5584]

That joke made my day 😂

[@ReimuHakureiShrine]

+Camden Gibson That joke was so bad it made Seth Macfarlanes jokes look good.

[@saalkz.a.9715]

"OH Good! We're going to eat Bugs Bunny..." 😂

[@wilrulez811]

"They're like little things inside little cupcake things" - Professor Ashens 2012

[@peewee1064able]

I fucking lost it at 12:20. fell off a leper hahahaha

[@zcarp8642]

I herald you to revist this. Or else you will become a leper!

[@dereksbooks]

Poor sofa.

[@dru-chambers]

dereksbooks I know he's gotta be fucking up that sofa. why not a table? It must be harder to cut 1million year old food when the sofa is sinking under the pressure.

[@AgentTasmania]

CircleInfinite It's iconic. Wouldn't be Ashens without the brown sofa.

[@dru-chambers]

I get it now. it would be too obvious and sterile to use a table, as long as he doesn't lounge on that sofa, i think everything will be ok!

[@watchspotting]

''This is popular? Where?" Many Japanese bins are where that is popular

[@rocknrevolt938]

*Asian bins but that's a fact.

[@notgray88]

Bin? As in the trash can?

[@verminnalee6121]

I want to see Gordon Ramsay eat this. Just to see the contagious joy on his face, when he slowly turnes to looks at the kind (evil) fellow who gave it to him😄😄😄

[@Hivernal]

only a British person would care if it's a saucer or a plate

[@residentelect]

Nah, he's posh... Us commoners just kneel before one long trough, as the Lord of the manor hurls in scraps and leftovers from a bucket...

[@Hivernal]

Resident Elect sounds accurate

[@keeperofthecheese]

yeah but it doesnt though does it.

[@flamnrainbows6260]

What are you talking about

[@AzaIndustries]

I'm aussie and I care.

[@coreyjames9560]

It’s called a Century Egg, it’s not actually rotted for 100 years, it’s put into a room for 6 months and dipped into sawdust. But I bet if anyone tries it they will be too.

[@maxberth3937]

nothing like an ashens video 11 years later

[@spongeb27]

I live about 2 hours drive away from Ashens, and I've NEVER heard anyone pronounce "greasy" as "gree-zee" 😂

[@erumanwe]

Im so glad I'm not the only one who finds it weird it should be pronounced "GREE-SEE"

[@tiki_riot]

I know lots of people who say greezy, it’s a joke lol

[@kerbalindustries4899]

HOUSE PARTAYYYYY

[@Jaybird196]

​@@erumanweI only hear it spoken that way, when a thing promotes feelings of loathing/disgust.

[@240SSONLY]

"when you turn the package over, it seems some one has heat shrink dog shit !!!" I'm done XD

[@TheBestCouchPotato]

Ashens has balls of steel to be able to stomach the kind of food he eats in his food segments

[@leontarmann3449]

I'm amazed with the fish especially. Bad meat is bad but for the most part not dangerous, but bad fish? That's real dangerous.

[@Koisheep]

Have you seen the cresta video?

[@askme7777777]

coming back to watch this 12 years later and i get an ad for poison control. i don't know whether to call it well targeted or ironic.

[@MozillaHostile]

"Hmm... they're like a knotted up thing of stuff." -Stuart Ashen

[@onceuponaban]

You'll notice that it's the description he gave for the one thing he actually liked.