How Uneaten Potatoes Killed an 8-Year-Old's Entire Family, One Minute Apart

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A little girl lost her entire family when they descended the stairs to the cellar one by one, and never came back up. What food that was essential for dinner, can turn toxic and cause this deadly result? Let’s get into it!
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[@SmplyBoi]

Nice Thanks bro

[@MINDYOBUSINESSDAVID]

Hello

[@fire777.]

Joe

[@MINDYOBUSINESSDAVID]

First

[@hamzaosama08]

@@ahmedyare6783 you aren't

[@loudstone9193]

And I thought potatoes were the last thing that could terrify me

[@SmplyBoi]

Same bro We came unprepared

[@DeltaChaosMix]

I was always petrified of potatoes from the beginning

[@Trip_koLng]

Now we know why Technoblade farms potatoes

[@shslidiot2342]

@@Trip_koLng -stares at my massive Minecraft potato farm suspiciously-

[@loudstone9193]

😅😶🙄

[@ChristianJGentlemanhorse]

I now finally understand why my 70 year old mother, raised on a farm, would never let us keep potatoes for longer than a week

[@kerrynicholls6683]

What a great looking horse

[@sirpiddlefartiii]

@@kerrynicholls6683 Yeah, That horse is amazing. And it tastes just like raisins!

[@Miuu_DoesStuff]

@@sirpiddlefartiii I don't like raisins :(

[@jayflores1185]

I ate 3 week old potatoes and im still standing explain that

[@tylerboothman4496]

@@jayflores1185 I ate a cheeseburger last week, and I haven't had a heart attack. Explain that

[@fluffyhedgehog1936]

You can boil em', mash em', stick em' in a stew, but if they're green, they're not for you. When potatoes are green, they'll put you in a coma, so be very careful, not to breathe in their aroma. Thanks for the video, and I hope you liked my addition to your rhyme, Brew! :)

[@mariegregurkova4640]

Am I the only one here who deeply enjoy the LOTR reference? 😂

[@mackenzielenneth8395]

I see you guys are cultured as well 🤣

[@nineplustentwentyone26]

ayo that was nice

[@Roadent1241]

I just knew green = icky, so I always put them aside if I thought I could peel it off or dumped them in the food waste. We have the same huge bag for weeks, and gone through multiple a year for over a decade I wonder how we've managed so far XD Also good LotR ref.

[@stayshocked.]

TRIPLE POTATO HE☠DSHOT

[@mealiemil]

I can't Imagine losing your entire family to something as simple as potatoes rotting! I send my condolences to the girl and may their family Rest In Peace.

[@AllHighAustin]

I just can't get over the fact this happened only 6 years ago. It's absolutely crazy this kind of stuff still happens.

[@u.g.3298]

Seven...

[@Mic_Glow]

I was about 20 when I learned about solanine... Randomly stumbled upon it, was looking for something else I think. And everybody I tell it to as a joke or "fun fact" (that drinking water or potatoes can be deadly) doesn't know either. Since it's seemingly "secret, deep knowledge", this stuff will happen. You can't take precautions if you don't know the danger.

[@randomness8819]

Most of just know if they are discolored or start growing those lil vines (i forgot what they are called sorry long day). No one tells ypi about the gas nor how to store them properly outside of just a cool area. Did you know??

[@mmercier0921]

@@randomness8819 store bought ones are processed and sprayed to keep the budding down. I mostly leave them in the ground until november. Same with the carrots and turnip. I am a legend in the groundhog, rabbit and opossum community here. They consider me a god.

[@cinnay99]

...why would it not?

[@crayolaclouds2696]

I work in a kitchen. Ive noticed that the prep cook who cuts the potatoes never cuts off the green or rotten parts. Ive always thrown those fries away as i see them but now that I've seen this, I'm going to alert the head cook to how dangerous it actually can be so he can stop the prep cook. Thank you, brew

[@harritran8284]

U sound so rich

[@michaelcorbidge7914]

Especially fried is when they are safe to eat . Boiled in salt water till they lose the colour is okay too then 100% fine if vinegar further added as in a salad dish.

[@Acidfunkish]

There are higher levels of solanine in the green parts and sprouts of potatoes. If the potato is fully green, throw it away. However, you're probably fine, as long as you cut off any small green parts AND skin the potatoes (as well as removing any eyes), then cook them. It's a lot of waste, to throw out all potatoes with any green on them.

[@freedomdividendnews5042]

what you mean those fries. Are you referring to the fries with the brown spot on them. I thought the skin was good because of pottassium

[@chocofrolik834]

@@freedomdividendnews5042 No, he means the fries with green parts prepared by the prep cook.

[@OriginalMeanGirl]

For those of you that do not wish to endure the rabbit chasing, 10:00 is when you finally get the answer to the question you clicked for.

[@bijayagurung258]

Thank you

[@stephanethewriter6998]

Thank you

[@GimmeMyHandleBack]

To be fair, that’s what makes Brew’s videos fun

[@mauricedavis2160]

🙏👍👻

[@fckjb284]

🍟❗ 🐧

[@bt70a9]

The green spots on the potato is not dangerous in themselves, but can be an indicator tha Solanine is present.Peeling it away may reduce the amount of it, but if larger areas or the entire potato has turned green, it may be a good idea to throw it away.

[@crocodillyglasses1354]

I never knew potatoes were poisonous. We just tossed a bag we hadn't used in weeks nor stored properly. I just opened all our windows. As terrifying as it was to learn this, it was also wisdom I needed. Thanks for that.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yep, they’re part of the nightshade family, same as tomatoes. A few centuries ago people were afraid to eat tomatoes because people thought they were poisonous.

[@ringofasho7721]

Most of the info in this video is wrong. Solanine is in potatoes, not nightshade. Atropine is in nightshade. And it's not rotten potatoes that are poisonous, it's green potatoes that have sprouted. Also, don't eat the leaves of potatoes or tomatoes because they're poisonous too. While we're at it, don't eat raw beans, especially kidney beans. Legumes have a different kind of poison, but it's much more potent

[@samthunders3611]

@@ringofasho7721 do restaurants and food companies strictly follow these rules? Makes one worry

[@boo9781]

@@ringofasho7721 are the tomato stems poisonous too..? Just asking for… no specific reason…

[@phantomaviator1318]

@@ringofasho7721 whag

[@sirpiddlefartiii]

My hubby eats green potatoes all the time even when I tell him to toss them out. But he's cheap so he eats them unless they smell. Then he will throw up and not make the connection at all. Smh

[@nec4480]

Time to take a life insurance policy, hes gonna destroy his liver doing that.

[@pinkipromise]

why marry an einstein?

[@KT-pv3kl]

On the other hand by now he is probably immune to the more severe symptoms of solanine poisoning...

[@Blahalel]

@@KT-pv3kl No, if he vomits any proof of it came out and their body does not really become stronger ^^’

[@SoulDelSol]

He's disgusting

[@behzadmirmozaffari2563]

I can't even imagine what this young girl went through. Just the thought of that is absolutely horrifying and incredibly sad. I hope she finds some measure of peace in the future.

[@lizruizmundaca930]

WHAT. I'm from Peru. We eat potatoes, many kinds of potatoes, all the time. Why have I never been told about this? I mean, I think our ancestors knew. Incas. They used to keep food in special buildings, avoiding sunlight to keep it fresh. But...wow. Maybe it was also related to how dangerous potatoes can be.

[@robynbirde]

I'm curious if they knew about the gases and if the buildings had a particular ventilation

[@AtlasDeValle]

Something everyone should learn from this and every horror movie: if someone (or especially multiple people) suddenly disappears near you and does not respond to any communication, maybe ✨don’t follow them✨. There are people out there much better equipped to help than you

[@DeathnoteBB]

The thing is in the moment people panic and know time is often important. If you don’t know why someone collapsed it is instinct to follow and see what’s wrong…

[@liveonflow6976]

What if it had been a heart' attack , same thing ??

[@asads132]

@@liveonflow6976 the odds of multiple people having a heart attack is less likely than poisonous gasses. Once 2+ people have gone missing one after the other it's safe to assume its more than a random medical condition

[@bogdangabrielonete3467]

This reminds me of a story from a dock worker in China. He had 2 colleagues inspect some containers. Neither responded to their radios. When he went to inspect, as soon as he got out of his car towards the containers, he had a really bad feeling and immediately closed of the area and called help. Turned out, one container released some deadly gas that blanketed the surrounding area

[@gangleweed]

A similar thing happened a few years ago near us........2 men were welding in a large water tank and died from the build up of Argon gas they used for welding. One of the men died while in the tank and his mate died an hour later when he went to call him for a tea break and tried to get him out. Any gas that is heavier than air will occupy the lower levels and displace O2........never use a C)2 fire extinguisher in a confined place. At the same time, a doctor was almost suffocated in his car when he carried a bag of dry ice (frozen CO2) on the back seat to keep some frozen food cold.......as the dry ice melted it gassed and he almost died.

[@JustAFace_InTheCrowd]

It is so kind of you to mention that there are fundraisers for this young girl. Even though it’s been many years, I’m sure the continued exposure this story gets will continue to gather more funds for this girl some way or another. I only hope she is doing okay now. Wishing her the best.

[@ulysselouisdatoudelmer7365]

Yea I feel like if another KZbinr did this they wouldn’t mention the fundraisers

[@kyrab7914]

It would be nice if they were linked tho... Not sure that's like allowed, but it would be helpful

[@vstopbiaswreckingme7194]

@@kyrab7914 well a different youtuber who also covers serious topics like this always links to the fundraisers if there are any

[@SelfxMade32]

I looked around and wasn't able to find it. Looks like the incident was from 2013 in Russia.

[@kyrab7914]

@@SelfxMade32 bless for doing the legwork

[@MissMeganBeckett]

The oven of a stove is also a bad place to store potatoes, there’s no way to let out the condensation automatically so if you leave it closed with potatoes in it for storage and forget that you bought them, especially since I forgot to take them out of the plastic bag. they started to smell horrible, they still looked okay but we threw them out anyways because of the smell and had to turn on the oven automatic cleaning function twice to get rid of the smell. Mom said that the basement of the farmhouse we lived when I was a baby used to smell like that and she was thought that something had died down there but now she knows that it must have been old potatoes in the farmhouse basement that caused the smell it is a really bad pervasive odour a

[@sharpstealz858]

So i can fully confirm I was poisoned by potatoes. I had eaten some local-harvested potatoes years ago and had the very same symptoms: severe hallucinations followed by nausea and severe stomach pain (the first and only hallucinations and the worst pain I've endured to this day). I still remember vomiting the whole day, one of the worst days of my life... caused by a potato💀

[@jamilgonzaga7081]

It's a miracle that you survived those terrifying symptoms

[@SugaryFun27]

🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

[@fricki1997]

Up until the last moment I thought the reason of their deaths would be carbon monoxide poison, or something like methane from rotten stuff. Did not at all know that Solanine could become gaseous.

[@ericwilner1403]

Almost ditto... I was thinking of grain silo poisonings, involving nitrogen dioxide and/or oxygen depletion. I'm kind of wondering how reliable the information here is. What's the vapor pressure of solanine at root-cellar temperature, anyway? Is this really a case of silo-gas poisoning, but somewhere in a game of international/multilingual telephone someone interpolated "old potatoes were involved, therefore solanine"? Also, rotten/moldy potatoes and sprouty potatoes are both likely to be dangerous, but not in the same way... or at least I'd expect the toxins to be different.

[@christiangomez7301]

@@ericwilner1403 I agree, I think it was probably hydrogen sulfide poisoning, because hydrogen sulfide is denser than air, is produced by fermentation, and in high enough concentrations will "knock out" your sense of smell.

[@GRBtutorials]

@@christiangomez7301 Indeed, that was my first thought too, and it fits, considering Maria smelled something foul. Also, considering the melting point of solanine is about 271°C, it’s very unlikely it was solanine.

[@dbrock1553]

I think carbon monoxide was the real issue here, maybe there was solanine present but the speed at which it took it's victims and the door being left open briefly allowing the smallest, most vulnerable person to survive sounds more like what CO gas would do. I wonder if there was an autopsy. CO poisoning is usually quite easy to see from pink coloured skin after death.

[@PattyDung]

One reference shows the (calculated) vapor pressure of solanine at an absurdly low 1.5 x 10^-34 mm Hg at 25°C. No way could the vapor be toxic. See "Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Solanine Toxicity (Solanum tuberosum L.,Solanum lycopersicum L.)"

[@TheDendran]

Rotten potatoes be like: "Another one, and another one, and another one..."

[@grognakthedestroyerattorne3211]

As a wise man named Freddie Mercury once said 'And another one gone and another one gone Another one bites the dust Hey I'm gonna get you too Another one bites the dust'

[@Elminster-ln4yw]

*Riff* Plenty of ways that you can hurt a man and bring him to the ground

[@benargee]

Potato Khaled

They could be the last thing >:)

[@newgothwhosdis]

@@grognakthedestroyerattorne3211 ok boomer

[@guitarman416]

Loved this episode. I was taking a break because the constant near death stuff was giving me anxiety, but for this, I had to know. Thanks for the awesome content!

[@AmyraCarter]

Sprouting potatoes are interesting; the sprouts themselves are actually edible. Well, there are some potato types where this is not the case, but we don't grow those back home. Take caution with blue moon potatoes (it's a rare type that grows well in tundra clay but doesn't grow at all in most other soils and soil climates); those potatoes are dense in nutrients but will never show signs of rot and do not grow sprouts externally. Those potatoes, when decaying, produce cyanide. We all know the perils of cyanide.

[@nicolestafford9418]

I was today years old when I learned that there's a species of potato that produces cyanide.... mashed mortatoes...

[@OrangeSpaceNewt]

This TERRIFIED me and made me think back to the times I found potatoes just-- rotting-- when I cleaned out my older sisters open pantry! We were fortunate though that my family's living space is very airy for the size... the topic of this video was overall so SO sad

[@undeadknight01]

Remember the smell? It's the worst smell I ever smelled. Rotting potatoes made my entire apartment smell for weeks before I found them in the back of my pantry! (I had gnats flying everywhere too. They were growing from maggots.)

[@UmatsuObossa]

@@undeadknight01 Yes, a dead body literally would smell better than rotted potatoes.

[@yogijaya2897]

Rotten potatoes smell like dead bodies frfr

[@munemshahariar2503]

Potato cellars are sometimes used as interrogation rooms just because of that stench

[@kripto999]

I live in a Area with a ton of Vineyards, back in the day when they didn't have Gas Measuring tech they used a candle when going down into the Wine Cellar, if the candle went out - RUN

[@cynthiaholland13]

Ohhh. I've heard of that

[@AhJodie]

In a wine cellar? Wow, never heard of this!

[@seraphina985]

@@AhJodie Any enclosed infrequently accessed space without continuous active ventilation ie fans etc should really be considered a potentially toxic or anoxic environment. That is to say a place where you may have mere seconds of useful consciousness if you enter, thus why you should also never try to search for someone that becomes unresponsive after entering one yourself. Well that is unless you have your own SCBA (Self contained breathing apparatus) and are trained to use it safely in a hazardous environment because you are not helping anybody when you promptly become a second casualty. Call for an ambulance and the fire and rescue service immediately because if the person has succumbed to hypoxia or toxic gas as this is the persons only chance of survival if it is not too late already. The simple fact is that toxic gasses and hypoxia act so quickly there is no way you will be able to drag them back out of there before succumbing yourself anyway, in most cases environments like these can render a person fully unconscious within a minute and sap you of almost all of your strength and ability to think clearly in as little as 10-15 seconds. Worse still "ideal" conditions would mean sitting in a relaxed state not exerting yourself in any way or being under any sort of stress neither of which would be the case if you were trying to rescue someone. Humans are after all rather heavy especially as a dead weight and any rescue situation is naturally stressful obviously the latter can be minimised with intensive training, preparation, and prior experience. But lets face it for any normal person without that training trying to rescue someone they know personally your heart and respiration rate will be maxing out before you even try to physically move the person.

[@robertkustos2931]

Or a Canary , like the miners of old .

[@dnomyartrejo2650]

Yeah I read that in an article somewhere

[@MajinOthinus]

I would venture this was a simpler case than something as esoteric as poisoning by gaseous solanine; especially since that poison isn't really fast acting enough to incapacitate in mere minutes. It was very likely a relatively deep, unventilated cellar and such pits are extremely dangerous because they are susceptible to carbondioxide accumulation; the symptoms fit as well: such high concentrations of CO2 incapacitate within *seconds* without easily identifiable symptoms. Decomposing organic material also releases additional CO2, further increasing the concentration. This is btw why one should never enter cellars in abandoned buildings.

[@colingrindulo1028]

“This 8 year old found her family dead in her family’s cellar, but first! i wanna thank dragon city for sponsoring this video!” 💀

[@Simon-1965]

Green discolouration in potatoes is down to exposure to light, potatoes once harvested last a long time when the dirt is left on them,wash them and they rot very fast. A great way to stop this happening is 'don't wash potatoes before storage ' pretty simple. I'm a simple country man and even I know this. Same goes for eggs, wash them, keep them in the refrigerator and they last a week or two, don't wash them, leave them on a shelf and they'll last for months.

[@walterdavis4808]

All true. When potatoes start to dry out. I rebury them and they start growing again

[@JackofWhitechapel]

I've also pulled green ones out of the dirt that weren't totally ready but frost doesnt care about if it's ripe or not. Those ones we usually replant first next year.

[@Slowly_Going_Mad]

That at first glance is somewhat counterintuitive. Good advice though although I would like to understand the reasoning on the eggs.

[@JackofWhitechapel]

@@Slowly_Going_Mad commercial egg producers wash their eggs in a bleach solution that strips the outer layer of the shell making it thinner, more porous and more susceptible to spoiling. They wash their eggs like this to prevent salmonella transfer to the customer. Alternatively using similar logic, when we do wildlife culls to control Canadian Goose populations, we dip the eggs in oil so oxygen can't pass through the shell and the embryo suffocates.

[@Slowly_Going_Mad]

@@JackofWhitechapel Right. I remember watching a How it's Made episode on the processing of eggs commercially where the give them a rinse in water glass to seal them off. I was just wondering about the homegrown method and reasoning. Edit: I learned something new. They apparently have a thin film on them that gets washed off. I imagine the sodium silicate treatment is rather sub par which is why those still should be refrigerated.

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

And DO NOT do as the video shows. Do NOT line the potato box with PLASTIC! It makes them sweat and slows down the air circulation at the bottom of the box resulting in faster decay If anything just put some news/PAPER at the bottom.

[@malibuhiegts]

Just keep them outside behind a led screen

[@baneverything5580]

We stored our farm potatoes one layer thick covered in lime dust.

[@unworthy.potato]

A wooden box with a slightly to large lid is pretty good, it allows some air in and also keeps them cool and last longer

[@kugicaimp192]

♡♡♡ TRUE. ♡♡♡

[@melasaylor5984]

Anyone noticed that a LOT of producers are packaging and shipping potatoes in PLASTIC bags?

[@kanz_alzikrayat]

Even wheat makes poisonous gas when stored, it is fatal. You have to open some ventilation before entering wheat sotrage

[@supertom2316]

I like that the Brew videos teach about dangerous things (such as solanine poisoning from rotten potatoes). Thanks, creators of Brew, I like your videos! Keep making more! Also, I give my condolences to the young girl. I feel bad for her because her family died. I hope they rest in peace. 😔

[@supertom2316]

Also, this is why people should store food properly and this is why spoiled/rotten food is bad.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Potatoes are awesome and tasty in so many ways....unfortunately they, like tomatoes, can be super poisonous if not handled right. Still love potato everything and most italian foods. Just gotta avoid the bad bits

[@juliaf_]

Luckily tomatoes have very very little solanine when ripe. Eating them green is more dangerous, but if you pick them when they're turning paler green then they're much safer. I do not trust stems at all

[@Myar692]

Just last night I had to stop my family from cooking potatoes that were pretty green. They had no idea they could be toxic.

[@Rokomarn]

@Jezze Bellerina why?

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

@Jezze Bellerina you know 500 years have passed right? There are even varieties of tomatoes in italy you wouldnt find in america and well tomato is one of the most used ingredients in italian cuisine.

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

@Jezze Bellerina not really american plants anymore, everyone who can grow them eats them.

[@coryman125]

Rotten potatoes smell pretty horrid too. I once had some in a plastic bag, opened it so I could dump them in the woods behind my house- the second I undid the tie, the entire room smelled absolutely AWFUL and I had to just throw the bag as far as I could out the door and then run to another room. Didn't get sick or anything but the memory of that smell has stuck with me ever since

[@anthonycampbell8876]

A guy I worked with ran his tank through a buried truckload of rotten potatoes ,tank went under had to be cleaned for days.

[@babybluehashyo]

they definitely do... so you'd have to either be pretty desperate or not give af about someones health to feed people/eat something that smelled like that.

[@that_kid_nobody_notices]

On the bright side, it's so distinct and pungent that the poison shouldn't catch you by surprise. As long as you know what to smell for.

[@iagas9]

Rotten potatoes were the worst thing I have ever smelled. I'm just glad I didn't get poisoned.

[@vickst0892]

Same. I'm actually a M.D and the smell of rotting potato still tops almost everything I've had to deal with at work.

[@justinwhite2725]

Thank God for the ending. I sometimes use potatoes after they 'sprout' and they get spongy. This video had me highly concerned. But I would never eat one that's green.

[@RCSVlogzz]

9:50 oh my god did he just say 100 words in one sentence

[@dangrossman3008]

After having worked in the produce section of a grocery store, I can at least say that the potatoes don't surprise me. When potatoes go bad and begin to rot, you have to be careful when disposing of them so that they don't contaminate other food. The fact that the potatoes caused this is very sad but unfortunately isn't all that surprising.

[@stormcherry6064]

"one bad apple ruins the batch"

[@meganfedor]

I can smell a rotten potato so fast when ringing it up (I'm a cashier) it's not even funny. I set the bag aside and summon our stock associate to dispose of it immediately. The strawberries and black raspberries are the same way. It's like a cancer; you have to 'nip it in the bud', and quick!

[@raymond289]

Produce warehouse is store in the cold and dry cooler @2C 36F. To keep dry.

[@PruNiichan]

@@meganfedor can you describe that smell? I'm curious how it smells like, so I can watch out incase I smell anything like that.

[@meganfedor]

@@PruNiichan The only way I can describe it is death. The only smell that compares is the smell of rotten tomatoes. There's often wetness and softness accompanying the smell as the offending potato is decomposing rapidly and falling apart. I'm amazed that I catch this at this end phase while ringing up and not the customer while checking out the produce.

[@elipayne5343]

"boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew" nice one Brew

[@wiiblii8584]

Boil em, mash, em, stick em in a brew

[@merekcook573]

Lord of the Rings infects everything and I love it :3

[@therandomguy6200]

fry em'

[@dennisyoung4631]

Mash and ferment into a distillable brew…

[@downhomesunset]

I heard that one as a kid-reminds me of the song “Found A Peanut”-we had morbid songs and nursery rhymes when I was a kid.

[@hebneh]

There's another case where people in a small town in France in the 1950s abruptly began hallucinating and acting like they were insane. It took months at least to figure out they had eaten bread made from wheat that had been infected by the ergot fungus, which caused these symptoms. Not everyone recovered. But it was very scary when this suddenly began happening to more and more residents with no apparent explanation. Who got sick depended on which bakery in the town the poisonous bread had come from, which made the effects seem so random.

[@AegixDrakan]

That's. HORRIFYING. :o

[@hebneh]

@@AegixDrakan This happened in the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in August 1951. Over 250 people were affected, and from 4 to 7 people died. Many were hallucinating so vividly and were so delusional that they had to be physically restrained.

[@trevordick272]

@@hebneh There is also some discussion that the Salem Witch Trials were a result of mass ergot poisoning as well.

[@RRaucina]

@@trevordick272 Yes, the victims were basically tripping on LSD, au natural. Many witch trials came from that innocent poisoning.

[@sfertonoc]

Is that related to the rough skin disease in Italy due to corn picked from the road by poor people? That disease still is a mystery.

[@KLune92]

My nan used to keep her potatoes in a vacuum sealed container that had 3 layers of black the inside was painted, black cloth to wick any moisture away, and a black mesh bagto keep them from touching the bottom or side walls, in the bottom under the cloth she would toss in a few bags of the silica packets. Never had to worry about rotten potatoes, my grandpa made the box after getting tired of throwing out his hard work since they grew most of their own produce.

[@ZeroAnalogy]

WOW! This video got a 100 spud rating on Rotten Potatoes.

[@totesmygoats-bq8mk]

🤣

[@LikaLaruku]

Yes. 🙌🙏

[@WisdomEDM]

Omfg

[@texasnewt]

Clever, good one!

[@zachkauffman6399]

Consider the fact that the potato was a staple food, not just in Ireland, but across the globe.. We'll never know how many unreported, or mysterious cases, of illness & deaths were attributed to solanine poisoning... especially during different eras of history when other crops were failing or when potatoes were shipped over long distances. There are so many avenues of research one could do based on thus. Great video!

[@sallylauper8222]

Potatoes were native to the Americas. So, consider the FACT that the potato was never a staple food in Ireland or anywhere across the globe until the 16th century except in the Americas. Hey Zach- You're welcome!

[@catsdogswoof3968]

Apparently solinine is a solid

[@holographiccowboy5271]

@@sallylauper8222it’s not a big deal

[@jayhill224]

So sad for this child and family 😢 this however explains why my mother kept the potatoes under the kitchen sink cabinet with the pots and pans. I thought that was strange as a kid, but I understand now that was a perfect storage spot, in darkness with periodic ventilation.

[@nightdream6622]

I love that the gravestone said “Poe Tato” Got me laughing for a good 5 minutes! Keep up the just absolutely amazing work!

[@devadethereal6301]

We used to keep bushel baskets of potatoes in our root cellar when I was a kid. Once every week my Mom and I would go down there and "turn" them. We would just take an empty basket and sort through each bushel of potatoes moving each lot to a new basket looking for any rotten ones to throw out. Same with our squash, carrots, onions, and apples.

[@rheticus5198]

12:15 Not a good idea to store a potato on plastic as it tends to rot fast where it sits on the plastic. They need more exposure to air.

[@Blahalel]

Is that why leather potato bags exist?

[@mmercier0921]

The ones i bring in sit in a wooden bowl on a little rack. I keep them with the onions and garlic. They last about 2 weeks. Once i see the fruit flies... out they go. I probably poisoned myself a hundred times over the years. Never really made the connection with the neurological disorder... but it makes sense. 3 incidents of alien hand syndrome. I thought it was the clams.

[@lowtech67]

Disagree. Grandparents would spread sheets of plastic in the cellar and lay the potatoes on it. It kept them off the dirt floor and they lasted longer. On plastic is OK but don't wrap them in plastic.

[@dansnickles]

So why do they sell potatoes in a plastic bag if this can happen. I always buy potatoes in a plastic bag and the stores keep them out on the shelves for a while. They put alkaloids in a lot of processed food we eat.

[@lowtech67]

@@dansnickles Those bags are made with holes in them so the potatoes can breath. They also sell them in burlap bags too.

[@marigold6920]

OMG I discovered a stack of rotten and dreadful smelling potatoes in a cupboard that I rarely use. Having put them in the cupboard I totally forgot about them. The smell was dreadful. I threw them out of course and had to wipe the cupboard out. To think that could have been the end of me is terrifying. Fortunately I have a tendency to hold my nose and or hold my breath when I am around anything that smells bad so that might have saved me. I am glad I have seen this video. I will be very careful in future.

[@wombat5628]

I really like the drawings in your videos. 😊Keep up the great work!

[@sinfulwrath666]

On the intro, first thing popped into my mind was that Dr. Stone episode where they make gas masks to protect themselves from a deadly invisible gas.

[@eisflamme2438]

Dont forget the silver Speer they made to detect it

[@zapario4460]

That popped in my mind when I heard to use vinegar in your car to make it smell better

[@beccachan8219]

No way I was thinking of this too 😂

[@Kamidake83]

Hydrogen sulfide came to mind as well.

[@FNQua]

Yee sulfuric acid ep right

[@emero.a.scythe1786]

I love how widespread "What are, tAtErs?" "Po-Ta-Toes! You know, Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a Stew!?" Is.

[@Trinity4me]

Bless her sweet heart. Prayers eternally. Your story will save hundreds of lives. Much love and best wishes.

[@jswilliams-waldron7602]

Sad, interesting, etc but I would love to see a study on the TYPE of potato and the DEGREE of rotting as well as the amount of TIME acceptable for storage in general circumstances. The need in me is wide awake lol

[@harukik2634]

Everyone : Potatoes. Me : Wow! they are drawing noses now.

[@sodaswhy]

Exactly lol

[@nightmareunleash3402]

YES someone noticed

[@LikaLaruku]

I'm rewatching the whole series & have seen many noses in past episodes, but only when it's portraits of real people.

[@merekcook573]

LOL YES, I was so confused. The lack of noses before always threw me off.

[@sarahgray430]

I am watching this and eating latkes, which are tasty potato pancakes that my husband (who was Eastern European, and almost as fond of potatoes as Samwise Gamgee) taught me how to make. He also taught me the correct way to store potatoes, and about the dangers of eating green potatoes, so I can confirm that Brew's advice on this topic is correct.

[@merekcook573]

Yes

[@AlanTrades]

Ok so what's the correct way of storing them

[@ydgames4291]

@@AlanTrades idk how they can be stored "wrong" but my family keeps potatoes on a dry shelf

[@goblinwisdom]

Mmmmmmmm ok now i know what I'm making for a snack this weekend. And might I share Cullen skink a creamy potato and smoked haddock soup worth looking up.

[@whoahanant]

We just had some latkes at our Thanksgiving dinner too lol

[@cindychristian1700]

I heard this very sad and tragic story years ago! I hope the little girl is healing and pray that she has a good life!!

[@Underqualified_Gunman]

This goes to show that verifying if the scene is safe is the still the most important part of first aid.

[@S_Carol]

Suddenly, I've decided to have a talk with my parents about their habit of using the still white parts of half rotten potatoes.

[@monsterglacier]

You can still eat potatoes if you cut off the rotting and green parts. The white parts are still fine to eat

[@stoegerstewie8351]

@@monsterglacier don't risk it, a rotten potato is a rotten potato.

[@jirou6228]

@@monsterglacier rotten potato tend to grow mold and when you see the mold it already spread everywhere but your eye can't see it

[@bestopinion9257]

If you can see a bad part of the potato, the whole potato is bad. It is spread everywhere but at different rates.

[@thebrianchannel9890]

That's what I do. I'm fine.

[@stevereagon9734]

This happened in East Tennessee in 1958 to my mothers pastor and family. I wrote a short story and published it 2 years ago. Most people of that time kept their potatoes in storage under stacks of hay or left them in the ground partially turned for easy access.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Did that help them not be dangerous?

[@michaelaclark2147]

I am from east tn, was this in Elizabethon? I swear I heard a story about it

[@agentnine3973]

Whats the name of your story? Is it available to read?

[@medigoomnis]

I lost all my family in about 3 years, it was horrible but I can't imagine losing them all at once and seeing all their bodies at such a young age...

[@manher4335]

2:36...Wow. The grandmother has a very handsome mustache.

[@blitoris]

"What's taters, Precious?" "Po-Ta-Tos, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"

[@GeezSus]

It feels so different in books tho, like in Hobbit, Gollum may feel like he would sound the same, but he is not the same Gollum you visualized while reading the book

[@gianghuynh9570]

I remember reading about this story in a newspaper handed out for free around Sydney’s Central train station. It was chilling then as it is now. Something as simple as your food storage can take away your entire family, scary.

[@michelemoneywell8765]

@Brew Thank you for the information. You did a wonderful job illustrating and presenting the story. It's quite interesting! I'm glad the girl survived.

[@JW-uy8ej]

I recently lost a very healthy pet unexpectedly…. I think she might have eaten potatoes off the compost pile….I never even thought about it before!! I’ve been so sad since I lost her, but I feel even worse now…😢 I will definitely change how I compost from here on out….😞

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Whew! This is important information. So sorry

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@lazyhomebody1356 Most people say that you should never compost potatoes. As well as solanine it encourages fungal infections and attracts numerous pests. Not sure how true it is but that's what I've always been told.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@kubhlaikhan2015 We always put the potato peelings on our compost pile. Luckily our dogs must not have liked them! I will inform people from now on

[@missidkthegreat123]

I feel bad for her. She outlived her family at age 8. This 14 year old girl will remember her 8 year old self outlive her whole family. What happened to her is sad. Edit: Thx for the likes! What happened to her is sad 😢

[@zasadjen]

ikr :(

[@starchannel123]

I thought outlive means to live “longer than”

[@MoNehNeh17]

@@starchannel123 what’s your point? she lived longer than all of her family. she’s alive right now and they are not.(im not trying to be rude as it may seem, im really confused)

[@karnudom]

@@MoNehNeh17 I think what starlyn meant by "to live longer than" is that to be "alive for total longer period". And going by that definition (which is wrong, I know), the 8yo girl did not outlive her parents because they were still older than her.

[@SwapPartLLC]

@@starchannel123 Simplified, outlive means: To be alive at a point in time when another is not. Bob outlived his wife. This means Bob's wife died before Bob.

[@bdbgh]

My condolences to her, I hope the best for her, I can't imagine losing your whole family like that.

[@Nothingtea]

... so I just threw my rotten carrots, with maybe rotten potatoes, out into the backyard to deal with tomorrow. As it's midnight. Opened a few windows.... ... started to breathe easier. I had no idea that storing them in a unventillated cellar could go this poorly. So uh, thanks for this video, very well timed

[@jrdmgl6190]

I don't know whether or not I experienced any symptoms but I strictly remember me and my family eating a bunch of potatoes that had gone green, just a few months ago, I know because I was the one who peeled them. I remember hating the stew that day bc the texture of the potatoes were not like usual 😭

[@sillylittleinternetperson3932]

Irish Potato famine: Revenge of the Potato

[@SmplyBoi]

OOF

[@zherean42069]

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE, YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO DESTROY THE TAYTOS NOT JOIN THEM

[@markgutierez9922]

Potato gas

[@what-es8gf]

Seriously tho that was sad

[@slkgamer-255]

Losing 5 family members in just a few minutes

[@Appleblade]

Since you can suffocate painlessly on nitrogen gas, and solanine has a nitrogen base, I wonder if that's why the family members didn't feel like they were suffocating and so didn't realize until too late, if ever, that they were. Also, why not use potatoes to execute murderers instead of injections, that often go wrong?

[@elinope4745]

Doesn't leave enough room for political families to get rich with corruption in cronyism.

[@katalynbabe]

I had near death experience 2 years ago & went to hospital with several tests only to find 0 I had putrid rotting potatoes in my pantry I wonder now if this is what it was

[@MariaElena51185]

@@katalynbabe do you remember your nde? Sometimes the death experience is amazing..

[@BonnieBuggie]

lethal injection is to ensure their deaths are humane and as painless as possible. death by poisonous potato is excruciating, and to do so intentionally is needlessly cruel.

[@Appleblade]

@@BonnieBuggie Why do you think potato poisoning is painful? The whole point of the video was person after person seemed to just fall asleep in the basement.

[@Snowman1755]

I love your subtle Lord of the Rings reference! "What's taters, precious?"

[@susanpost.9398]

My mom would always take the potatoes out of the bag and put them in our improvised veggie drawer that let's a lot of light through. We also have a love for potatoes and eat them up mostly in a week! However, good to know this... I had no idea they could be this dangerous. I hope Maria does well 😔

[@SilverSunPublishing]

I never knew any of this, and I'm in my 60s. This is very important to know.

[@thekrohster]

Eating french fries trying to find something to watch and then stumbling across this was not how I expected my night to go........

[@michaeltheoret8913]

Yeah, I'm having stew made with these weird looking purple potatoes . Nothing is wrong that makes them purple ,it's just the type that's all. Nobody else seems to like them and my Neighbor gave me several pounds of these "purple tatters " that He grew . I'm definitely gonna check for green or brownish spots !

[@indraneeldebnath7597]

@@michaeltheoret8913 u alive?

[@michaeltheoret8913]

@@indraneeldebnath7597 , Of course . I just like weird foods.

[@elizabethsedai854]

7:26 I see what you did there!🤣

[@mattsmith1137]

I experienced this phenomena years ago when a big bag of potatoes stored in a hot barn went rancid. The smell was horrendous !

[@GriseBlacolar]

I've read about this story before. I got sad while reading it because the girl instantly became an orphan and she doesn't even know what happened. I'm imagining her crying hysterically for hours when it happened.

[@skingerskanger]

Now I know what Mr. Burns was talking about when he was telling Bart (dressed as a rich kid as a result of a prank, having switched places with a wealthy child who looked just like him) how he lost several family members from eating poisoned potatoes

[@crackhead5238]

Wasn't it like implied that Burns just offed his siblinhs

[@mumujibirb]

I read a storybook about people getting sick because of soup. The trace was found to be potatoes. Since then I've always known that potatoes are dangerous if stored improperly.

[@lemonIn3D]

i feel so bad for that child, But i cannot be the only one who thinks that 0:47 looks like the danganronpa animation when finding the dead body.

[@xBluegamerx]

Something about this episode feels different but i can't quite put my nose on it.

[@michaelreid8636]

LOL, looks better with noses

[@diomorota9178]

@@michaelreid8636 aside from the noses, the lack of other characters may also be the reason.

[@cynthiaholland13]

😂😂😁😂

[@kimcooper4489]

🤭🤣

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

Next time I prepare potatoes, I will do so with the prestige and dignity of japanese fugu master chef.

[@kimvanderlinden1842]

I live in the Netherlands where potatoes are a staple in every dinner meal. I also have a mental thing where I inspect literally anything and everything I eat or drink. When I was younger I had many fights over the potatoes being discolored. I didn't want to eat them. My parents however told me that it's nothing and I shouldn't overreact and just eat them..... I'mma totally show them this video....

[@whitesapphire5865]

Well, there's one possible explanation why my granny, who came from Glasgow, was always a bit twitchy about spuds that had turned green. My dad on the other hand, a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in Edinburgh, would simply cut away the green bits before they were cooked! Granny was born in the 1890s, and dad in 1926.

[@cosy_cuddlez]

Hold on a minute. The 1800s? Then you should be gone now

[@whitesapphire5865]

@@cosy_cuddlez Your logic is flawed! My granny was born in 1898, my mother was born in 1932, and I was born in 1957! Why should I be dead and gone by now?

[@miamha]

​@@cosy_cuddlezif the average lifespan is around 70 years then only around 3 or 4 generations seperate us from the late 1800s

[@peripheralvisionarymedia2817]

This video is going to save lives!! At the same time it's also probably going to give some devious people bad ideas involving potatoes.

[@em4392]

Nah, cyanide is much more easy to get

[@totallyjokers]

@@knie1172 There is a small amount of cyanide in peach pits I think

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

@@knie1172 don't

[@totallyjokers]

@@knie1172 Idk it’s just there

[@chadsonnenberg2692]

Potato plants left in the ground long enough develope seed pods that look like small tomatoes, those pods are extremely toxic.

[@joshualee6200]

Love how every time I watch your videos, I come away with a fresh new anxiety... Cheers Brew!

[@user-wy8yh3mi2x]

I am from poor region of Belarus, so in my youth we ate potato quite often. And the common recipe for cooking potato was "fried-boiled potato". One should boil unpeeled potato, then get it cold, peel it, cut and fry. This dish has quite strange bitter taste because of solanine and bitter aftertaste, but I never heard of anybody who died or even feel sick from eating it. People boil unpeeled potato if it's too small to peel it with knife. Also in villages people stored potato under the house's floor and it started to grow out in spring, but again I've never heard of anybody who died because of it.

[@tomraw4893]

Interesting. There are many stories about mushroom also.

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

same, maybe they had a CO2 leak from the boiler? the whole story seems strange and not realistic

[@Arcadian888]

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd I think you could be correct. CO2 tastless, heavy, fast acting. Or they may have brought some fish back on dry ice. By the time they investigate it's all gone. More than trace solanin should not be in the air. Most likely, as you say, a heater. Found this on the internet: "Solanine is one of the major potato glycoalkaloids, protective compounds that deter animals from feeding on potato foliage. Glycoalkaloids are toxic to mammals, including humans, but they are not normally found in a high enough concentration in tubers to be dangerous. I found the claim of solanine gas very suspicious because glycoalkaloids have high melting points. The melting point for solanine is 520 degrees F (271 C). It is not just going to turn into a cloud of gas in your root cellar. There is a simpler explanation for what happened in this case. One of the major breakdown products from rotting potatoes and any other rotting vegetable is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is heavier than oxygen and will displace it when there is no air movement. A root cellar, a space closed off below ground with limited air exchange, is the ideal place for carbon dioxide to pool. The family in this story was likely asphyxiated due to lack of oxygen, not poisoned by toxic gasses."

[@hebneh]

This same thing regularly happens when a worker will be overcome in an enclosed space, and someone will go in to try to save the guy and be similarly overcome. Then again, and maybe again, till others figure out that there's some poison gas in there that's immediately making people unconscious or dead.

[@jonunciate7018]

All these years I've always just cut away the dark parts of a potato of questionable age and cooked the rest. Not doing that anymore!

[@amandawilliams2266]

Right ,I had no idea potato's could do any of this 👀

[@chicknman7415]

Minecraft poison potato, watching from the sidelines: they all called me useless >:)

[@MyMomSaysImspecial]

I could've died many times but thank God I didn't. Your videos made me learn new things. Now I'm more paranoid.

[@paulyiustravelogue]

Using footage from Ren & Stimpy is great! Nice episode, by the way 👍🏻

[@1locust1]

I would occasionally spot a green patch along the edge of a potato chip and place my finger tips over it to avoid biting into it then tossed that leftover piece away. At the time I thought I was being silly for avoiding it but know I"m glad I followed my instincts.

[@LillianaLobster]

plus those green bits taste gross

[@taylorwright7428]

I don't know about the rest of the US, but where I live, we were taught about the Great Potato Famine in middle school. However, we learned mostly about the events surrounding the famine, how the famine got started, and the people affected and involved. They never really talked in depth about why the potatoes were so deadly, other than they were rotten. This explains a lot more about how, and now I know why the potatoes we get from the store are practically vacuum-sealed. (Also, it's really weird that so much food is related to nightshade. They're all really different, you definitely wouldn't think they're related! Also, I hope that girl has a good life and any counseling she may need.)

[@bigred9428]

The potatoes did not poison people. They did not eat them, and so starved. Think of it like this...if 90% of your diet consisted of milk, and all the milk spoiled and turned moldy for three years straight, you would more than likely starve to death. Also, the clear sealed bags in the supermarket are precisely what potatoes should not be stored in. Up until 10-15 years ago, potatoes were always sold in baskets in the shade under the vegetable counter, or most often, in paper bags with a tiny mesh window.

[@taylorwright7428]

@@bigred9428 Right! I think I got that mixed up. It's been a while since I have thought about the Famine. My bad! Also, is there a better way potatoes are stored in-store?

[@marilyntaylor9577]

The potatoes rotted in the ground. Can’t remember if it was disease or weather, they were black

[@lazyhomebody1356]

The English orchestrated the Potato Famine. It's not hard to find out about

[@humanperson9443]

In the us a lot of us don’t actually learn anything

[@loylem]

I love how casually he announces his sponsor for the video "an 8 year old's family was left dea- THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR DRAGON CITY"

[@juliejeavons6949]

Important lesson from confined space training; don’t go in to ‘rescue’ someone from a cellar, hole, tank. Call emergency services, or they’ll be rescuing both of you.

[@Jackson-ll5zg]

Bruh imagine an entire family dying because of potato’s.

[@Jackson-ll5zg]

@Leo_Incognito nooooooo!

[@theoverlord4936]

Imagine saying bruh for your first word of the sentence.

[@Jackson-ll5zg]

@@theoverlord4936 bruh

[@theoverlord4936]

@@Jackson-ll5zg Disgusting

[@fragtlyer4613]

@@theoverlord4936 Bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh du lu chu mu cu. Sorry for the inconvenience

[@HBIDamian]

Samwise Gamgee: "Potatoes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew!" Brew: "They'll put you in a coma!!!"

[@theangellad]

Idnt get it 😬

[@HBIDamian]

@@theangellad Lord of the Rings.

[@theangellad]

@@HBIDamian thanks 😊

[@yu-gi-ohfanboy2808]

Other than that, I heard a similar case of an ENTIRE family getting perished in a cellar/basement. But it's not potatoes to blame, but revolutionaries.

[@cosmicbrambleclawv2]

Lesson to be learned here: Always properly vent your root cellar. And discard super old potatoes to be safe especially if you cut them open and they are green

[@brad885]

Reminds me of the safety video on confined spaces. This happens tragically in confined spaces far too often. If the gas alarm light is on, you don't go in. Many mechanics dies this way over the years.

[@joewynn2445]

My dad always put potatoes in a dry sandbox and they would always start to grow roots but they always lasted a long time. I'm glad I watched this. Thanks Brew

[@morgellon9449]

Cutest depiction of a child's entire family dying ever. I really like when the happy jazz music interjects and then there's the video game commercial.