Food Theory: Gaston STOLE All the Eggs! (Beauty and the Beast)

[@Version0111]

I had this thought years ago. The line "I need 6 eggs. That's too expensive." always makes me think it's because Gaston eats most of them so there's only a small amount left.

[@Version0111]

@lShowSрееd shorts 🅥 I keep forgetting why I hate leaving comments on popular KZbin channels.

[@leoparodo]

@@Version0111 dude got absolutly demolished by bots

[@jason4443]

@@Version0111 FR it's such a problem now.

[@elizabethgraves4765]

I keep spamming report and it does nothing :")

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

The thing is though, the "that's too expensive line" is not said about the eggs but rather a jug.

[@shinyskitty]

Well, Belle’s dad is a crazy inventor. He could have artificial lighting and feed. It would explain why Gaston is so set on marrying Belle; he’s gotta secure those eggs

[@avidreader4140]

That's also a good theory too

[@shikhar3281]

@@avidreader4140 BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY A GOOD THEORY

[@dende9043]

If you put eggs in lime water they will keep for about two years, give or take. This was a practice commonly known before refrigerators. Gaston would have had no problem preserving his eggs.

[@Narra0002]

@@shikhar3281 and cut

[@rucknes1]

@@Narra0002 thats for film theory it would be bon apetit for this channel

[@ztslovebird]

Gaston didn’t think Belle was being held hostage when Maurice first came to beg for help saving her. He only went after the Beast AFTER Belle had already been freed & showed more interest in the Beast than in Gaston.

[@L16htW4rr10r]

Oh yeah, I forget that detail in the movie

[@Mythicalina]

Thank you!! This is what I was thinking

[@caradanellemcclintock8178]

Also he wasn't betrothed to Belle she pretty clearly turned him down many times

[@LadyOnikara]

@@caradanellemcclintock8178 Yep, only betrothed in his mind.

[@kitchensinkchronicles3272]

THANK YOU!

[@complex2live]

Remember, this man calculated the time and place where the movie took place, the chickens that laid the eggs and even used the Laws of Supply and Demand just to figure out if One Man ate an entire Village's Egg Supply.

[@Kat-mv5dy]

And then forgot that eggs are not a key ingredient in bread

[@norwich2009]

He even looked at old English architecture, this guy should win an Emmy award

[@realgoofballmoment]

Seems normal to me.

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

@@Kat-mv5dysometimes they are. Especially in really good bread recipes, and considering that to the French, bread is like MONDO sacred, it wouldn’t surprise me if this recipe used eggs.

[@Shadowgun453]

I love the fact that MatPat went from food theory to film theory to architectural theory.

[@OceanAce]

So that's the final theory channel lol

[@fyrelorde]

To economy theory

[@preistestdragon4634]

@@OceanAce the final slice has been uncovered. the ritual is now complete.

[@randomperson1071]

Science Theory

[@assassingamer2505]

its steph theory btw

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

I like how MatPat doesn't just assume the villain was eggs-agerating.

[@VistilShaiteth]

Have you come to expect anything else from MatPat?

[@mell4168]

@@VistilShaiteth eggspect?

[@HindsightWildin]

Simply take the word “dozen” out. 5 eggs is much more reasonable.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

@@HindsightWildin or he misunderstood dos and thought a dozen equals 2. Lol. And since a typical restaurant egg order has 2 eggs, he's bragging he ate 5 orders of eggs. 😂 Imagine there was a traveler in the tavern when he was a kid, he overheard and instead of hearing 'dos huevos' he heard "dozen eggos" and he's been bragging about eating pairs of eggs ever since. 🤣🤣🤣

[@beckie8168]

Too much of an egghead to back down from a challenge 😂

[@cacahuete1456]

Fun fact in the french version of Gaston's song, he actually says "when I was little I ate 4 dozen eggs (...) Now that I am big I eat 49" so yeah it starts just like you but the french version in so much funnier when you realize that he just added the grand total of 1 egg to his diet

[@TheRawrnstuff]

Another fun fact, in the Finnish version Gaston sings he "ate eggs by tons" while growing up, and that "now, since the task is done, he can't get any stronger".

[@cobalt3250]

@@TheRawrnstuff Didn't realize I needed "alternative language Disney lyrics" in my life, but I was wrong.

[@SeraliaAerials]

To be fair, growing boys need lots of food to grow. Now that he’s grown, he doesn’t need a whole lot more, lol

[@hast3110]

in the Norwegian version of the song Gaston ate "3 snes med egg" (3x20=60) eggs as a child, and 5 snes (5x20=100 eggs!) for breakfast, because he thinks it is good for his body

[@charlesm6994]

Hey Matt Pat, quick note. I live in Washington state and raise backyard chickens. Roughly the same latitude as France so roughly the same daylight hours. Between October and January my chickens don’t lay eggs at all. so there’s even less eggs for bargification

[@LobsterMobsterBobster]

“Bargification” that’s great

[@portalworld9880]

As someone whose mom is doing the same thing with 5 hens, I can confirm this is true. They lay less eggs as winter approaches.

[@Convoy00X]

I've always thought Gaston didn’t know what a dozen means and thought it was how they were prepared.

[@Jacob-WD40]

This makes much more sense. XD

[@WorldWalker128]

I mean, it's already implied that Gaston, although the biggest hammer in the shed, isn't the sharpest tool. I could easily see him doing exactly that.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

Even MatPat shows the eggs in cartons of 10 each instead of 12 (a dozen).

[@bogbog1119]

@Dis Dis bot alert

[@LadyOnikara]

@@AnnoyingMoose After we go through this expensive egg thing, they will probably make the packages smaller like they are doing for everything else. (At our local store, I saw boxes of those conversation hearts and the package was half the size they used to be.)

[@blackgirlyellowsunvibes]

Someone once said that "Gaston singlehandedly drove up the egg price and caused an economic egg crisis" And it's beautiful

[@Cerebrum123]

Missed opportunity for calling it an "eggonomic crisis".

[@blackgirlyellowsunvibes]

@@Cerebrum123 that is a missed opportunity!

[@il3m0n50]

That’s a lotta chickens

[@ranga274]

Gaston: ensuring the town will soon rely on egg imports.

[@ilovehamilton0724]

"The I need 6 eggs" "That's too expensive" has never aged so well.

[@shaneg9081]

Yeah, if memory serves me at the time the movie came out it was perfectly reasonable to get a dozen for 89 cents, or maybe less. Of course just your basic inflation has a bit to do with the rise, but $5 a dozen is insanity, and lately I've seen it at higher than that at times. Thankfully KZbin has some great videos about alternatives that you can try out.

[@Envrionmela]

Considering there was a French revolution 50 years later I hope there wouldn't be a 50 year wait for fair wages and better working conditions.

[@LadyOnikara]

I know. Now I appreciate my six chickens even more. Chicken food is more expensive now too though. We used to have 13 chickens, but 7 died last year, mainly the red ones. I hope we can get a few more this year. Chickens are silly, but I like them a lot.

[@anniemal8030]

Actually, the that’s too expensive was said by a man holding a vase, not the woman buying the eggs

[@PixieoftheWood]

@@shaneg9081 Where I live it's nearly $8 a dozen. Thankfully I only go through a dozen in a week, rather than five dozen in a day.

[@musearrives2am]

Honestly, Matpat makes it sound like 200 is a lot of chickens to have one hand, but my Great Depression Grandmother raised up to 300 chickens each year to sell for meat to a local inn and used the eggs they laid beforehand to sell and feed her 12 children. A little entrepreneurial for the time, but it has been done.

[@kingofhearts3185]

I know someone that raised a dozen or so chickens in his free time back in middle school. He sold them by the dozen on weekends, but I don't have exact numbers. He wasn't a farmer, nobody in the family was. Chickens were just abundant i n the area, you'd see hordes of them on street corners in town.

[@themusicalhallway3422]

That's awesome that she was able to do that!

[@punprincess3214]

While that does make sense, Mat did the calculations in terms of Gaston's needs, not the villages, all the chickens in town are working for him, unless he has that many chickens of his own, he's the only one that gets the eggs

[@doughertySD]

Chicken farming was done differently in Gaston's time. It was only relatively recently that it was discovered that chickens could be raised in what would be considered cramped conditions compared to Gaston's time (which is a fun story in itself, some lady accidentally ordered too many chicks and was all "well, guess I gotta try and raise em in the usual space I raise a quarter of them", and now chicken is the most popular meat sold).

[@samtheultimateinformant537]

bless her nose

[@konradbox2399]

I remember being like twelve and sending an email to matpat to cover this topic. Many years later I have finally received vindication

[@Ourelleetsy]

TWElve?? How many years has it been?

[@QUBIQUBED]

Dayumm

[@randomrockerable]

Me too! I sent Matpat a tweet like 4 years ago asking about this

[@theleonpasta7336]

Lmao, how'd you even find his email?

[@Chronicler9]

I like to think that he saw this email and was like "Hmmm We should do a FOOD THEORY CHANNEL!" and then put a pin in it on the creative board and now, years later when the channel is properly up and running, here it is! :)

[@sonicrider321]

"When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs. So I'm roughly the size of a barge. " I like to imagine that Gaston was just going around early in the morning, pillaging eggs from everyone in town as he slowly grown into a bigger kid and then adult. Gaston going around chicken pens, just swallowing eggs and dipping. Eventually, he just became such a barge that he uses his strength to become the greatest giga-chad in the village. And because he's such a barge, nobody wants to challenge him due to his intimidating strength. In the song, LeFou says "no one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston" implying that Gaston is so fast at consuming the eggs so then nobody is able to capture him early on which made him become big and strong in the end.

[@andrewboxall2945]

nah... he was just lieing about it to make himself look good - it is literally spelled out in the song.

[@marlinejoseph7279]

yay

[@dabluepittoo-aqua4213]

Gaston moving at the speed of sound just to eat some eggs is oddly terrifying.

[@politenonparticipant4859]

Here's a consideration: I'm not convinced Gaston knows how many eggs are in a dozen.

[@elliottmcleandeboer]

Nice theory - LeFou is illiterate, and Gaston doesn't understand basic maths. A himbo match made in heaven

[@Jacob-WD40]

That's the real theory.

[@tsubasasupremo]

he's all brawn but no brain

[@SCdreamdrawer]

4/3 people do suffer from math illiteracy. 😂

[@AGwolf2097]

ha

[@anthonywynn1812]

Something to take into consideration: If a hen is frightened, egg production halts for days. On several occasions, we had to deal with predators getting into the Chicken enclosure at night. Now fortunately, our hens were kept in a building at night, that locked from the outside, so only occasionally did we lose one. Still, the predators got into the fenced area they roamed during the day. After firing some shotgun blasts to take care of the problem, hens stopped laying eggs for almost 7 full days.

[@prestonlogan3808]

So the opposite of what happens in cartoons

[@bongpoquito]

In the live musical production, the lines "I need six eggs" and "thats too expensive" are sung right after the other. Some directors give the baker's wife the first line with the baker replying. Its a perfect fit for this theory.

[@ihaveanamexd4466]

I said the same thing and didn't see your comment 😂

[@Laurenba]

It's said in the background of the animated version as well!

[@redsteak6694]

Funny part is the musical at least the one I was a part of removed the egg line in gaston

[@Sammyxcatlover257]

The only reason I remember those lines specifically is because I was supposed to be the shopkeeper. I was still in the scene though and they practiced that specific bit multiple times

[@dorianventa5436]

Same thing happened in the live action version. Surprised Mat didn't mention that.

[@Derpinator01]

Now for the question, does Gaston eat so many eggs because he's respected enough to get away with it or is he respected because he's able to afford so many eggs? Which came first, the hunter or the eggs?

[@jamesuthmann940]

The thing MatPat failed to address is HOW Gaston is able to afford that many eggs. I was hoping for that, given all the other economic points he covered. This is supposedly a small village, how is a hunter able to sell enough game to pay for all those eggs?

[@ClownHoundII]

@@jamesuthmann940 To be fair, it was common to hunters to sell outside the village. If a hunter can find a good trapping area, he could made a quick buck.

[@whyiamafs]

@@ClownHoundII (is 'a quick buck' a hunting/trapping pun?)

[@thewafflegamer6152]

@@whyiamafs i think hunting as a buck is a common animal to hunt

[@Gartersnake970]

if hunters apply to predators then hunters

[@Tokuijin]

Actually, Gaston said he ate eggs but he didn't say that they were chicken eggs. Dude could have been eating quail eggs for all we know

[@Creation_kitchen]

😂😂😂

[@nomoresaul]

Have you seen a quail egg?! 😂

[@satomz]

Technically he didn't specify bird eggs either, he could be eating fish eggs or even, uh, invertebrate eggs

[@robo8478]

Maybe human eggs, from all the ovaries Chadston is ripping open

[@SoullessGabe]

The man was juggling eggs while singing the song lol

[@imukadayo]

5:55 From someone who speaks French, French people would've definetly understood you Very good pronounciation MatPat :)

[@elijahkropf]

10:23 "The grand total of chickens needed to satisfy Gaston's protein fix is... ONE--" [Ad break] That's one good chicken

[@Crunch9999]

Egg

[@misamisaa4547]

that's because creators can adjust when the adds on their videos play - he explained it in one of the couch videos

[@shadowdove7082]

@@misamisaa4547 ...anyone else getting the feeling that Matpat made that ad placement on purpose just for the sake of getting comments like what we're seeing here? 😅

[@chal3453]

One thing he didn't mention is that eggs were also significantly smaller back then! There are cake recipes from the 1700s that call for 24 eggs!

[@EHMM]

24.

[@plushdragonteddy]

tumblr’s vanilla extract cake could never

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Haha

[@testerwulf3357]

Yea, whilst we bred chickens to create eggs faster we also bred them to create larger eggs; now-a-days many chicken breeds can produce an egg each day roughly (when we cared for chickens at my school we always checked daily for eggs on top of making sure they had enough food and water), it can actually lead to calcium deficiency problems in chickens from producing so many eggs so farmers often to have to make sure their feed contains decent amounts of calcium in it so they can produce eggs (calcium deficiency means no eggs because egg's shells are made of calcium)

[@cristsan4171]

That's roughly 24 ostrich eggs.

[@freyahealy5355]

The amount of effort that goes into a video answering a question that nobody had in the first place is astonishing, but what is even more surprising is how entertaining it is, how much it makes sense, and the fact that the question has an answer in the first place.

[@doughertySD]

This question has been asked since about 5mins after the movie first dropped. It's not exactly common, but there's been plenty of discussion about the topic over the decades.

[@jaydenwallace8967]

if you go at 0.25 speed at 12:47 you can see skulls in gaston's eyes, and matpat didnt add those in, that was in the movie

[@MissOnana]

Even though I knew exactly what this theory entailed, I was still excited to see it covered. It's one that's been floating around the fandom for ages now, and it's really satisfying to see someone dig into the how and why of it.

[@francisfranc3913]

As a chicken fanatic, I was very happy for MatPat to guess Houdans (I have 7 of these cuties) as the egg supplier breed 😄

[@ilovetaysabchapliv]

Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

[@laughsingay]

Aww :)

[@reekill_playlists]

Ooh, I should look those up. We unfortunately lost our coop to predators a month ago and we're getting new ones this summer.

[@thananightshade]

Yes but never had a 2 a week production time nor full non laying for 5 months.

[@joeljustjazzing]

You have any fighting chickens?

[@Browhatthesigma69]

I was in a Beauty and the Beast play over the summer this year, and I was a Silly Girl (one of the three girls that constantly fawn over Gaston) and ironically the actor that played Gaston LOVED eggs and I just thought that that was a fun thing to share on the topic of Gatston and eggs lol! 😂😂

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

I've seen them being named the Bimbettes

[@Browhatthesigma69]

@@DarkPsychoMessiahAh, I believe that's what they called them in the play, but everyone just referred to them as the Silly Girls lol! Thank you though! 😂😂😊

[@angelsister7635]

I live in a small town, everyone's solution to the egg price rise is that they have nearly completely stopped buying from the store and are just buying chickens, but I wonder if that would truly be cheaper in the long run .

[@nidohime6233]

You can still sell the left over eggs if you get too many, that way you can parcially cover the costs of feeding.

[@lillypad5317]

I feel that what made Gaston a villain from the get-go was the fact that he doesn't think of Bell as a person he just thinks of her as a trophy with the live action version going as far as to have him try and threaten her into marrying him.

[@shlatekkin]

*Biff Tannen has entered the Chat*

[@pandamonium2653]

@@shlatekkin Bahahaha

[@AluminumFusion22]

The difference between Gaston and the Beast is the Beast was a good person deep down and wanted to change, and Belle saw that. If she had married Gaston, she would've been held hostage too, but unlike the Beast he didn't truly love her and didn't think he needed to change.

[@Rahul_Sastry]

@@AluminumFusion22 yeah it's not just his views on women but the fact the was desperate, idiotic and not a good person from inside marrying him would be to willfully get married with an abuser.

[@daikatarokamegawa542]

It's been a very popular theory, that had Gaston starred at any other Disney film, he would've been a hero.

[@vincentchiariello4578]

You forgot a MASSIVE point, there's an ENTIRE castle with its staff that effectively up and vanished no longer requiring food. Right around the time Gaston would have started his consumption, so he likely SAVED the town from dealing with a shock & drop in demand.

[@jamestheaverageman6959]

The castle has its own livestock, Matpat even mentioned this in his last beauty and the beast video.

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

Abd gaston provided meat and leather to the peasants by hunting since previously, the castle's lord would have had exclusive hunting rights over most animals most of the year.

[@wunderpupjo4223]

As someone who speaks french, you didn't actually do too bad on the names of those towns! Sure, you had quite an accent, but you got the pronunciation pretty dang close. Good job! :) (also don't worry, even the French themselves can’t pronounce Alsacian town names unless they're actually from there or they looked it up lol)

[@AdaraVanles]

That’s what happen when Alsace keep going back and forth between France and Germany during history 😂

[@eddylaboriemaye1305]

True, I thought I wasn't french for a moment there

[@AdaraVanles]

@@eddylaboriemaye1305 same xD

[@lootownica]

It seems all languages have at least one dialect impossible to pronounce for the others xD

[@DoubleDOwnage]

I mean... his pronunciation of Ribeauville was something.

I actually appreciate this video so much, I’ve always wondered why 6 eggs were so expensive.

[@OlyChickenGuy]

As someone who's dedicated over a decade of my life to rescuing roosters, I applaud your chicken history! I admit to sitting here with itchy fingers, getting ready to point out every point you brought up!

[@miki7566]

Wow! Username and profile picture checks out lol

[@AidanEu]

It's not eggceptible that Matpat did very few egg puns this video. (I'm not trying to hate on the video)

[@michaelmehr9264]

10:28 Egg roll - the absolute best! ROFL!

[@miragemain105]

The few puns he did do though were EGGcellent and quite EGGstraordinary, personally um EGGstatic now that I've heard some EGGstremely good YOKE's

[@road-100k]

i thought it was EGGcellent

[@nathanspencers5803]

@@road-100k why didnt he say egg-conomic crash it was right there.

[@doejhonny]

A shell of his former self

[@mentare2831]

As a French, I can say u did a good job pronouncing the names it’s understandable XD (and worry not, even the French themselves can’t pronounce or even write Alsacian town names unless u come from there of course)

[@eg_ontoast]

I'd like to see a theory on something my sister brought up while looking at some cool color palettes. Could too much color make you go blind, or colorblind? Im genuinely really curious about this, I'd love to see a video on this!

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

I have a twist theory. When Gaston was a child a traveler came through town, and in the busy tavern he overheard an order for 'Dos huevos'... he thought he heard "dozen eggos" and has been bragging about eating PAIRS of eggs ever since.

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

DIOS MIO!

[@Vasilios_MaleOC]

That just makes him sound stupider

[@thehousecat93]

no one ever accused body posi icon Gaston of being intelligent.

[@anxiety_ridden3]

NO STOP WHY DOES IT WORK

[@curiosity_light]

¡¿POR QUÉ ESO REALMENTE TIENE SENTIDO?!

[@jerryjellyshow8193]

I like how Matt says "Your time and health are worth it, but hey that's just a theory, a food theory."

[@oximas]

lmao

[@ArJayDM]

PatMat is low key one of the hardest working youtubers in youtube history.

[@annajoseph9321]

Pat mat lol

[@LH44EVER]

@@annajoseph9321 patthew matrick

[@blinxly5530]

@@LH44EVER tood fheory

[@Roxelle.]

lmao these comments I'm wheezing

[@FriskDrinksBrisk]

He goes to Egg-stravagantly great lengths to give us solid ideas with a few yolks to keep it eggsiting!

[@notzombie3703]

I got an ad at 10:33, so it cut off and was just 1, my monkey brain somehow find this funny

[@Alisonslater-47]

Bro same 0_0

[@chillibss]

Same

[@LIZZYBETHAFTON1976]

Same lol (Late replies are always from I)

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

I always thought Gaston was responsible for the price of eggs going up

[@Skellybeans]

Finally! Gaston's egg-cessive diet has been brought to attention. Also he's absolutely loaded.

[@Duckingitout]

I don't think Gaston is loaded. His bread and butter is that he was in some war and is now the town's hero. He is using the clout to get either reduced prices to his lifestyle or get handouts. He is the strong guy and has charisma and the town doesn't look at him for why they have economic issues.

[@spencerwarren8302]

I think you overlooked that the town would've because accustomed to gastons egg consumption when he was a child eating 4 dozen. By the time he's an adult and increases his consumption to five, any economic influence would've worn off only effecting things a little as they increase the heard to account for that slight further increase in demand

[@williammcnear3462]

Now what we really need answers to: How did Gaston eat all those raw eggs WITH THE SHELLS ON?

[@vanguardiris3232]

He has strong teeth from all the calcium in those eggshells, which he's only able to eat because of his strong teeth. It's a real "chicken or egg" situation

[@DarkAngelHeart2014]

My man swallowed em whole tho

[@mkauf84]

@@vanguardiris3232 He swallows them whole because Gaston is Bi.

[@SarahAbramova]

You're forgetting he bribes a public official to put Belle's father in an asylum.

[@erictheriault8386]

The "That's too expensive " line actually comes directly after the "I need 6 eggs" line.

[@farmerproductions9869]

Gaston ignored Belle when she explained that he was friendly and he did so intentionally when not five minutes ago he tried to blackmail her by having her father committed

[@cautionhazardous2236]

“Gaston’s not *that* bad” He literally had Belle and Belle’s father arrested, broke into her house, and CANNOT take no for an answer for the life of him

[@southreject]

The problem with this theory is that Gaston has been eating that many eggs for years so the towns supply would have adjusted for the extra eggs. The real problem would be when he died and all of a sudden there is a surplus of eggs crashing the market.

[@GremlinSciences]

The supply wouldn't be so easy to increase, and the increase certainly wouldn't be without cost. Eggs are not like pearls, where taking them all has no negative effect on the producer, eggs are the way that chickens reproduce. So if all the eggs are constantly in extremely high demand, then there isn't likely going to be any room in production to increase the number of chickens. More chickens also means more feed is needed, and while chickens can get by on kitchen scraps and insects, that alone is only enough to support about 1 chicken for every 2 people. They could try buying from a neighboring town, but excess chickens are normally eaten rather than sold except when they're sold to be eaten, in which case they're normally no longer able to lay eggs and are only sold alive because preserving meat is expensive.

[@medo5417]

Ok, this is not a video I ever thought I would need in my life, but here we are 🤣

[@ilovetaysabchapliv]

Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

[@Chuletbone]

MatPat, you need to do video over the onions from holes. I would love to see what you can figure out. What made them so good? Was it where they were planted? Or did zeros grandmother have something to do with it? I need to know. I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but I haven't found a video from you or anyone else on the subject.

[@jessicasnow9007]

You just unlocked a memory for me. I was like ten sleeping over my friend’s house. We were watching Holes. We got to that part in the movie and she ran to the kitchen, grabbed an onion, and bit straight into it like an apple! She regretted that!

[@Chuletbone]

@Jessica Snow lol I remembered the movie and was super curious and thought "If anyone is going to figure this out, it's MatPat.". I've never liked onions so I'm curious how an onion can be so good they can bite into it like an apple.

[@nancyjohnson7147]

I need to see a video on this as well. Like I didn't know I needed to until now. But now I do.

[@spencerwarren8302]

That's a great theory idea, (my guess is sweet onions and something something soil composition) if they do a holes episode I'd also be curious how you might explain the 'sploosh' (I think that's how they called it) it was essentially canned peaches (I think) that had been left in a desert for decades and were later used by the main charecters dad to cure foot stink after the family curse was lifted. My info came from the book which I read in elementary school so I'm not sure how much made it into the movie but old canned peaches curing foot stink seems like the kind of wild thing this channel would find some truth to

[@Chuletbone]

@@spencerwarren8302 I forgot about the sploosh. I wonder how it lasted so long out in the desert and was still edible because zero was eating it when he ran away under the old boat

[@creativecthulhu]

8:27 I can assure you, *I asked.* I'm currently in a production of Beauty and the Beast (the musical) as Maurice, and having heard that lyric over and over during rehearsals, I've bought this idea into question. I was really excited seeing this video!! Also, in the musical, it's the "Aristocratic Lady" who says "that's too expensive!" in Belle for SIX EGGS. An aristocrat can't afford six eggs. That's how you know it's gotten bad 😂 Anywho thanks so much Food Theory team. Glad this egg dilemma was finally *cracked*.

[@M.A.Ortiz021]

The Thumbnail is gold, whoever does the Theory Channels Thumbnails need a raise

[@jaycerrito3142]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised Gaston would've stolen eggs from Belle

[@christopherddrew7555]

Here in Canada I had no idea that there was a big egg shortage and price spike. We have a tightly controlled market on eggs which apparently has shielded us mostly from this. This video sent me on an interesting news hunt.

[@caradanellemcclintock8178]

I didn't realise either I live in South Africa and the eggs price have only gone up a tiny bit but all the groceries went up due to petrol shortages and COVID stuff so I assumed it was just that been eating eggs almost every day still

[@kristajones7202]

I'm not sure how other countries dealt with avian flu in 2022, but in the US over 58 million birds were culled or died.

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

This "controls that shield you" can make the problem worse. An example is California's water. It has subsidies to make water cheap and affordable. Nice, yes? But some towns turn in the taps certain times if the year and get zero water at all. This is because nobody rations the water the way they should, so suddenly entire neighborhoods wake up to zero water. The same market dynamic could potentially happen to eggs. The low price doesn't fix the supply issue. It just helps the consumer temporarily.

[@christopherddrew7555]

@@buckaroobonzai2909 The controls don't make our eggs cheaper, they actually make them more expensive in general. Canada has a lot of rules for importing eggs and dairy, meaning most of the eggs and dairy we use is local. In general we don't have access to US or EU dairy and egg products, which keeps our products costing more. But in this specific case, it has meant we don't rely on the global supply chains for eggs that have run into major issues, so our prices have not really gone up.

[@cherrysandcats]

hi fellow canadian

[@ninasteinman5223]

I’ve been waiting for this theory for years

[@kenobean]

My life is now complete

[@Illuminex_XD]

Why would you be waiting for THIS?!

[@slimsackett6199]

Nice video Matt! One idea for a video you could try that I thought of recently: do meatless mondays actually help to reduce greenhouse gasses? I feel like it wouldn’t make that big of a difference, but maybe I’m wrong.

[@ElinaNoodles]

Someone in the world is wondering to themselves: "Man I wish I knew the breed of chickens in Beauty and the Beast"

[@shadowpuppet8192]

*THANK YOU!!!* Thank you for *finally* pointing out that that lyric; "That's too expensive", wasn't from the egg lady but someone totally different!

[@TimKassouf]

You’re starting with literally my favorite line in any Disney song ever! lol 🥚🍳🥚🍳

[@klampytoad]

🎶🎵✨economic crash✨🎵🎶 Edit: I reported the bots

[@ilovetaysabchapliv]

Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

[@HarryBoSweets]

So I’m roughly the size of a BAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!

[@nicholaspoling9691]

We never needed proof that Matt Pat was a father, but this episode is all the proof anyone will ever need, the amount of Dad Jokes, and Egg puns is truly remarkable, all within the first 4 minutes too.

[@nickdohrendorf3931]

Food theory idea: what’s the most calories shaggy and scoot have eaten in one sitting

[@LucyWest370]

W

[@nickdohrendorf3931]

I’m no bot

[@greatmaw7033]

I’ve been saying it for years. If Gaston lived past the events of beauty and the beast then he wouldn’t live past the revolution. When everyone is starving the guy eating all the eggs seems the perfect scape goat.

[@jacob510]

MatPat and team theorist answering questions we didn't know we wanted to ask for over a decade

[@imakethesites3048]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the eggshells, chicken poop, or cost of feeding and housing the chickens. In addition, Gaston clearly comes from wealth to have grown up eating so much, rich from inheritance but not royalty or well-educated and willing to marry a peasant. I wonder whether he owns that bar.

[@charleslee8313]

I was hoping that you'd do a Gaston/egg video on Food Theory, but I was expecting you'd talk about Gaston's metabolism. I wasn't expecting the economic ramifications of his breakfast to be discussed.

[@DoctorIglooman]

12:30 that eccentric to egg-centric double entendre was beautiful, you should be proud of it

[@darkdudironaji]

9:09 Hey look, it's those 3 French hens my true love gave to me on the 3rd day of Christmas.

[@niallshor3n938]

As someone who grew up with an egg allergy (and who accidentally re-triggered that allergy by having a few too many eggs in a week) Gaston’s diet is my worst nightmare

[@shineshadow]

The big question is: how can he affort so many eggs?

[@idontknowrn3714]

Hunting dear and selling they're skin

[@nicky7070]

Threts

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@idontknowrn3714 galaxy brain

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Being the biggest bard in town

[@bboops23]

I met my husband when he wrote a reddit theory that Gaston was the hero of Beauty and the Beast and yes, the eggs were crucial to the theory

[@amvlegended]

Man learning the time period of these movies are always interesting. Hey Matt ever thought about possibly creating a believable timeline for the Disney movie catalog in chronological order for their time periods?

[@Crunch9999]

EGG

[@jake_3728]

Love this episode! Hilarious that we went through literally every other geographical aspect of the movie before settling on the fact that Gaston does, in fact, eat a lot of eggs. But quick question, we saw in the live-action that Gaston is a war hero who just returned, and I don't recall ever hearing that Gaston grew up in the little town where Belle lives... Also, Gaston's entrance in the movie is him "returning" to the village after spending time away. Wouldn't it be more probable to attribute the economic failure (and possibly the lack of population) to the plague mentioned in the live-action (People dying; less labor to meet demand) instead of Gaston's stomach?

[@ellykate2136]

Omg this is crazy. Last night I was watching the live action, and when he said this in the song I told my friend “haha, not with these egg prices. Maybe that’s why I can’t afford a carton”

[@TheStone190]

I am actually from this region, hats off to you for nailing Ribeauvillé but the pronunciation of the w was of for Riquewihr. Locations in Alsace are tricky because most are pounced like German words due to local history.

[@brunobrekalo5502]

I love the fact that I have 9 hens in my backyard in this time. Egg shortage couldn't bother me.

[@thienancr7]

The amount of research that Matt and his team put in the videos on all of the "theory" channels are ridiculous! I subscribed to all of them because they are the best.

[@Garbimba1900]

The team must get a prize for the eggroll at 10:28 😄

[@Vixikitsi]

food theory idea: i was thinking about how enzymes in your saliva start to break down food before it even reaches your stomach, and it got me wondering would you be able to eat and get all your nutrients just by licking food or holding it in your mouth without actually chewing or swallowing?

[@Redhollow]

Not likely, it's not "breaking down food" like your stomach does so much as prepping it for the real digestion. Your stomach would still need to do the main work of processing the food. Tho I believe there are some chemicals and nutrients your body can utilize as soon as it hits your tongue? Like glucose gets processed real friggin fast. I've heard that saliva is effective at breaking down bread into usable sugar. So who knows, man. Would be a fun video.

[@Vixikitsi]

@@Redhollow ah i see, thank you! i suppose i should've looked more into how that stuff works heh i don't think that it's likely but i think it sounds like the kind of video they'd do!

[@sorgius01]

Saliva contains amilase, so it can partially break down carbohydrates, but not much else. Also absorbing nutrients via the mucosa in the mouth would be super ineffective.

[@XperimentorEES]

I'd guess it'd turn into a panda problem, you'd have to spend all your waking hours just 'eating' to survive, not counting possible dehydration from the constant spit production.

[@gaghhuh2943]

I always get hyped when a channel I love mentions another of my favorite channels I didnt even know they could be familiar with. Shout out to the Institut of Human Anatomy, everyone here will surely find something interesting there if you are interested in biology or at least in real human cadavres.

[@squeakssqueakers4905]

I love how in the ad portion about how much time MatPat doesn’t have you can hear Ollie calling for him in the background while filming the cooking portion

[@naywingalaxyanimatord2106]

This man will never disappoint us with his content

[@silvanapopa]

it's not his content anymore, he's a consultant now

[@manifestationsofasort]

But he will disappoint us with his pronunciation of foreign names 💀

[@Pistachio_cream]

Why are there so many bots on just this comment??

[@ilovetaysabchapliv]

Here is the full clip (when I stole my shoelaces from the president) : hache te te pee ess colon slash slash stanley tumbler

[@pattik_]

0:33 you had the perfect opportunity to say “eggonomic crash” come on

[@HANKSANDY69420]

*weak ba-dum-ting*

[@denorangebanan]

I was gonna say that!

[@williamporreca3479]

4:44 Who would have thought of writitng eggshell upside down on a calculater? Very Creative.

[@allisonfisher9304]

Thank you for doing such in depth research into chickens, egg production, and historical accuracy, this is a fantastic video!!

[@insightful_fairy8743]

Even though I must of seen this movie at least 50 times (like most Disney classics) these videos always point out something I never noticed before! I never really payed attention when Clocksworth was giving the tour !

[@erez2111]

Only Mat Pat can take one line from a Disney movie that most people didn't even notice and turn it into an economic crisis.

[@L16htW4rr10r]

Nah, I think this one is iconic

[@e_is_for_existential_crisis]

Tern?

[@DawnzeenaMcGill]

I mean people figured out Gaston was the reason for the line years ago

[@erez2111]

Turn. Spell check hates me so much@@e_is_for_existential_crisis

[@dragoaicairis8013]

I need to do my homework..But I need to know more about Gaston stealing eggs

[@ericsalem9791]

Same 😂

[@ericsalem9791]

Was just about to start when I saw this. Had to know.

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

I love how educational these vids always are 😆 Learnt waaay more about egg production here than I ever knew (& possibly needed to know? 😅) Seriously though, the actual research done is very cool!!

[@thunder_2124]

With that much eggs he could have made the mother of all omelette.

[@alliemckenzie1118]

So I’ve been to both of the tiny, adorable towns that beauty and the beast was based on, as I am an American in Europe, and the nearby town in Alsace called Colmar is even more beauty and the beast. All very cute and have underrated Christmas markets. Worth a visit for sure

[@alikalala]

Colmar (bon, Colmar centre ville) is so pretty but my goodness, what a tourist trap!

[@samurexatlas7373]

5:58 Rick-wi and Ri-bow-vill French class. This may still be wrong, but it's my guess.

[@winter_3407]

The accent at the end of the villé, is an acute which means you would pronounce it with an eh sound. I know you don’t speak French and neither do i but just a handy tip if you want to know pronunciations.

[@nicoled.9491]

I kinda wish he covered how eating that many eggs would affect Gaston long term. Eating that many eggs for a food competition one time is one thing, eating that many every day for years is another.

[@camerannicephore5262]

I always figured that Gaston was the towns main source of meat, and that's why everyone likes him he probably brings an animal or 2 back every day, so the towns more willing ti let him eat as many eggs as he wants

[@Virtual_Jester]

I swear, my friend and I were laughing at memes about Gaston eating eggs just last night. This CANNOT be a coincidence!

[@MysteryTheEmsm]

Who’s a mess like Gaston, gives us stress like Gaston, makes the whole country of France recess like Gaston!

[@_AshishKumar-jk9uh]

I couldn't resist myself from watching the whole video, you made it too epic and the eggs stakes were too high 😂

[@lakenburton3222]

As a fellow thespian, this is one of my favorite episodes. We did beauty and the beast my senior year of high school (my first lead in a musical ❤️) and it still is one of those things that stick with me. I even still have the yellow ball gown my grandma hand made for me... Also, I've met alot of Gaston Sympathizes in my life so I'm so glad this took the turn it did ❤️

[@JonhHarvest]

I have a food theory that might just be worth exploring. "Do we really taste like our mood swings?" I want to know if there's a chemical taste correlation between being "Sour" or "Sweet" or whatnot. Does something change inside us that alongside changing our mood swings also changes some taste??

[@IanYt_Gameplay]

Food, Game and Film theory will never run out of theories.

[@ryanvellos5188]

Matpat: "I dont want to ruin the names of the villages" a couple minutes later later "*BROKE* Architecture" PS. he even has references on how to say it at 7:30