ICE CREAM BEANS - We Found 3-foot long Beans!

Episode: 739 3 Foot Long Ice Cream Beans
Species: Inga Sp, Inga Spectabilis
Location: Luganville Vanuatu & Noumea New Caledonia
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[@WeirdExplorer]

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[@beliarioc9472]

That laugh from the vendor was amazing

[@ericv00]

Seriously. That should have been recorded for use as a stock sound. It's incredible!

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

No offense, perfect witches laugh from looney tunes.

[@user-hp1jw9tg3l]

These crazy tourist! LOL

[@wingdingdmetrius8025]

@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming ah cmon man aint no witch, just a fullthroated belly laugh without holding back like north american

[@robertanderson3310]

Perfect for Halloween

[@kirstenperez4265]

I ate beans like those in Guatemala. I called them cotton candy beans. I even brought one back in my suitcase to show my family. I didn't know beans could grow that big. I was young back then it was like 25 or 26 years ago.

[@TheRichmaldon1]

You violated USDA law by bringing those into the country and then admitted it 😂 special

[@mrrooter601]

@@TheRichmaldon1 statute of limitations 😊

[@dirtyfiendswithneedles3111]

Lucky you didn’t cause an environmental disaster. Be more careful please

[@vincentdreemurr]

law useless, just eat bean

[@Filipe_Veras]

In Brazil the name is ingá. I ate a lot of those when I was a child. Nowadays I dislike the taste and the texture.

[@TealCheetah]

The vendor cackling was great XD

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

Man, I wish I had a 3 foot long ice cream bean tree

[@OsirusHandle]

thats a tiny tree!

[@ValsLife1]

They grow EXTREMELY easy from seed. So, if you live in the right climate, you can grow them easily. The fruit within 3-4 years.

[@OsirusHandle]

@@ValsLife1 :( alas it frosts here. so jelly

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

@@ValsLife1 I actually have a few trees that are about 2.5 years old atm and about 7~8 ft tall now Hoping for fruit next year, but they're just regular sized fruit I think.

[@SY-ok2dq]

​@@ValsLife1I'm sure they do! Those enormous beans would store a massive amount of energy for the young plant to easily make it through the germinating stage and then for some time after that as it takes root and grows past the 2 leaf seedling stage.

[@antoniohorta5656]

You helped inspire me to go on my own fruit-eating adventures over 8 years ago and it brought me to moving to PR shortly after. I truly hope you take the cheap (comparatively speaking) sometime and visit what the island has to offer! We have multiple Guama species here (including a indigenous) amongst everything else that came before/after the columian exchange. The average citizens' backyard here is like a miniature botanical garden (that you can eat!). Thank you

[@WeirdExplorer]

That is so cool! I had a brief stop in PR earlier this year. I really enjoyed it.

[@PRDreams]

Hi! I'm in Las Marías 😊 I have two guamá trees and I'm growing 10 more to shade the coffee trees. They taste like apple to me. I moved to PR on 2018!

[@lasagnahog7695]

Ice Cream Bean is pretty high on my food bucket list.

[@h.Freeman]

That laugh tho...reminds me of when I went fishing and this asian guy offered to buy the sea Robin I caught, I laughed but not like that and was like dude you can have them. A few years later I caught a few and said let me try this and boy was the joke on me; they are delicious, just alot of work for what you get. You dont know what you don't know until you know🤷🏿‍♂️

[@BigboiiTone]

The idea of an ice cream bean is frankly, provocative. As a chef my mind is filled with ideas of things I could do with this. I should seek out that vendor; I promise you, she wouldn't be laughing once I showed her my creations

[@lovefalcon1111]

Awe, that’s so awesome!!

[@codename495]

As a chef, I’ve learned that despite my degree, decades of experience and different markets haughtiness never ensures that everyone will like your food. You could make the most innovative high quality dish and there will absolutely be at least one person who dislikes it.

[@grugnotice7746]

Local farmers market started offering "yard long beans" which are related to field peas. I bought some and thought I would pickle them with carrots and garlic in some antique half gallon jars I had laying around. But yes, some of the beans were literally three feet long. Apparently they are used in Chinese cooking. Thinking I will stir fry some of the leftovers.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I use long beans all the time. They have a great flavor and texture.

[@grugnotice7746]

@@WeirdExplorer What are some good uses for it. I have like five pounds leftover I thought it would fit a lot more into those jars lol.

[@LindaB651]

I grew them, or something like them, last year. The seed package called them "asparagus beans," and they did not disappoint; fast growing, beautiful twining vines, and prolific flowers and fruits. The one downside is that they have extrafloral nectaries, and a local ant colony decided it was THEIR plant, not mine. Every time I harvested (daily,) the disturbed carpenter ants would drop off, often landing on me. They weren't aggressive, but it was disconcerting.

[@kristinatellefson4149]

@@LindaB651 If you're interested, there's also different colored varieties. I really like the dark red kind. I got my seeds online from Baker's Creek.

[@hollywebster6844]

​@@grugnotice7746I treat them just like green beans. Stir fry, roast, minced with onion & carrot and add to mashed chickpeas to make patties.

[@ShellyS2060]

Mmmhmm, I get it. Call something "vomit fruit" and you totally REFUSE to eat it again. But "ice cream bean" is a total retry😂

[@LeChristEstRoi]

In the first place why someone would want to call a perfectly edible and good tasting fruit "vomit"?

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@LeChristEstRoiThe vomit fruit was noni fruit wasn't it?

[@gingermany6223]

600 or so species/varieties vs 3-4 episodes. You've got a lot more episodes to make!

[@Handles_AreStupid]

Do you think you will ever do an episode on the monk fruit? I've always wondered what it would taste like to just take a bite out of one raw. It would probably be the sweetest thing anyone has ever tasted...

[@johnnyearp52]

Sugar cane juice isn't the sweetest thing ever until it is concentrated. So monk fruit might not be either.

[@Handles_AreStupid]

@@johnnyearp52 Monk fruit doesn't contain much actual sugar, it has a compound in it that triggers the tastebuds and makes it taste sweet. It is so sweet that it is usually used in natural alternatives to artificial sweeteners. They actually have to dilute the powder with a filler powder because of how powerful it apparently is. Some reports claim it is up to 40 times sweeter than pure sugar...

[@johnnyearp52]

@@Handles_AreStupid I wouldn't want to bite monk fruit then. It would be disgusting. I knew it was a no calorie natural sweetener. But I didn't know how concentrated it is.

[@jairocarcamo969]

In Honduras we call the small variety GUAMA and the big variety PATERNA

[@HeyItsFreeman427]

Hi Jared, been watching for a couple years now and just wanna say you really inspired me to seek out odd and uncommon fruit wherever I can find it. Recently, even got started on growing my own! Still in the early stages, but once they’re established, I’d love to share some native North American Ribes species I don’t believe you’ve covered yet. Until then, keep it up my man!

[@sharendonnelly7770]

Loved the grande sized ice cream bean, and the rosewater one was super cool, would love to try that. As you are in New Caledonia, would like to mention that my father was a Marine in WWII and was there. It was fascinating to see a place my father walked so long ago. Love your channel, it may be all about fruit, but there is also much more to the lands you visit.

[@GreenTea3699]

I would adore traveling with you guys & trying weird fruit. So cool! So fun!

[@lemagreengreen]

The Garden of a Thousand Fruits sounds like a very interesting place to visit

[@juanmanuelrodriguezsandova2062]

In Colombia we have one that's called Guama, in my opinion not the type that taste like ice cream, but still really good and sweet.

[@chanajeffus4371]

SO COOL! Thanks for sharing it looks amazing. I wish they had these at supermarkets.

[@hannakinn]

Maybe that first ice cream bean tasted like frozen yogurt if it was vanillais but a tiny bit tart, thats how some vanilla frozen yogurt tastes to me. The rose water tasting one sounds really nice. I learned to love that flavor from eating rose water flavored turkish delight candy.

[@stringsofhell]

Rosewater lokum is sooo good!

[@paraguaydreams8115]

Using scales for tastes helps a lot. Thank you!!

[@Filipe_Veras]

About the vendor’s laugh. Super common fruits are hard to sell. Where I grew up, cashew, mangoes, icecream beans, rose apple, guayaba, and jojoba where so widespread that would be pointless trying to comercialize it.

[@melikecomedy]

In the US people remove the fruit trees from thier yards cause theyre "messy" and then they go buy them at a store, dont ask me why marketing I guess

[@No-Salt]

The Skyrunner!💚

[@stringsofhell]

Very interesting to see the differences in these strange fruits! Thank you for sharing!

[@StuffandThings_]

I love how Jared has a special enthusiasm for beans in particular. Never something I really think about much, even though they're so varied, dependable, and ubiquitous plants. I still remember the original Ice Cream Bean from years ago, didn't know that people bothered growing them in the Pacific!

[@holliluc3497]

I think it is better to pluck the white bit off and eat it, because you can boil and eat the beans, they are a good addition to a soup, or a snack with some lemon and salt

[@Yikes705]

Yet another excellent, informative, and entertaining video

[@j.c.culbreath-julian4230]

Can we just take a moment for the ice cream bean antlers 😆

[@illumina-t-info]

im gonna keep an eye out for ice cream bean

[@stephsexoticpets]

love when you do videos on ice cream bean

[@riverbender9898]

Nice ep! Vincent's English is excellent.

[@Orbacron]

Giant beans, food of the giants. Have you seen the giant corn stalks that are double the size of agriculture corn?

[@TEXAS2459]

in India we call these "Goras/Gorus Aamli" (gujarati word) Aamli is a word for Tamarind, and Goras meaning (not sure but smthg like) white/whit'ish Ice Cream Beans are like slightly different variant/breed of Goras Aamli but essentially very much alike.

[@ValsLife1]

I have at least 20 of the ice cream bean trees where the pods are 2' long or so. I LOVE ice cream beans, and they are nitrogen fixers. It's like a perfect tree!

[@melikecomedy]

What climate are they in? Do you think my friend in florida could grow them?

[@reilea9977]

This was a fun episode!😊

[@rickcarey3820]

Weird Explorer and Smarter Everyday collaboration would be amazing!

[@briankopp1369]

You should try those delicious white sumack berrys. No don't do that , if you don't die, you will wish you did.

[@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126]

Omg imagine the burn lol

[@briankopp1369]

@@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126 winged sumack is actually not terrible,not great, but ok. Anyways, I thought it was funny.

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

2:33 😂 😊 this made me laugh and smile. Perfect looney tunes witches laugh. No offense.

[@mls8668]

I really want to try one of these ice cream tasting delights

[@zaneymay]

Interesting. I tried growing it a few years ago. I had no idea there are so many.

[@micahrobbins8353]

Was not expecting skyrunner in my ears lol

[@dstock9855]

that's some sweet music at the end of the the video when you were naming off super patrons

[@andremadeira6916]

Just planted a few different varieties. Small, mountain, indigo. They are also a high bio mass producer for food forests and nitrogen fixing plants

[@mandab.3180]

FINALLY YOU REVIEWED ICE CREAM BEAN FRUIT 😂😂

[@Werd2jaH]

“OH YEA, THE BEST WAY…” ~ Stephen 😂

[@rodvarmo]

I love those we eat them in Costa Rica as well

[@12time12]

Evolutionary anachronism if I ever seen one, definitely ground sloth and columbian mammoths were two seed dispersers.

[@Orbacron]

Cue ac/dc, "big icecream bean balls"👀

[@zachariahstillwater]

Love this

[@joshualieberman2265]

Really wanna try this fruit but its so hard to get hold of in the US

[@mria621]

I read “Getting Stoned with Savages,” by a man who lived in Vanuatu for a time. It’s in the travel book section, if you’re interested. It’s so interesting and hilarious! I feel like I know where you are! 😂

[@RosieMe5]

Your original ice cream bean video was the first of yours I ever watched :)

[@arandomperson5185]

Very cool

[@diannaodman2847]

growing them in my greenhouse ,now 7 ft tall. who knows might get fruit one of these's years.

[@jhhwild]

Those are some Big Ol' Beans!

[@DH-.]

Seem like fun, its always good to ketchup with the bros too

[@ReapWhatYouSowGardening]

Awesome!

[@banhatlessducks]

Shame you didn't get to try the giant one in its prime, so cool.

[@HFTLMate]

wow awesome rose petal taste

[@hopegold883]

That first type is the kind we have on Maui.

[@theelizabethan1]

Great camouflage for snakes lurking in n trees.....ooh!

[@teamcosmeek6467]

Always wanted to try one of these,people in flea market sell them a lot around here in Florida 6:28 btw...is that earthbound music?

[@keard558]

Prolly he's avgns cousin or sum shit

[@AI3Dorinte]

Could you actually try to blend these with a bit of milk and freeze the mixture and see if it makes for good ice cream? Maybe try it with a banana in the mix as well. Would be really cool to see what happens :) Thanks for the video!

[@WeirdExplorer]

I did! I think it's in the pinned comment

[@AI3Dorinte]

@@WeirdExplorer thank you!

[@wqqdcraft]

lolol jesus, headphone warning with that intro music!

[@erikjohnson9223]

I think some Morpho butterflies use these as host plants (caterpillar food) in the Neotropics. Not small enough for indoor growth here in Ultima Thule, though, even if I were to flaunt USDA restrictions and import insects.

[@That_One_Xatu]

Had to do a double take when I heard that EarthBound music!!

[@Kristenm28]

The way they laugh at you 😂. Sheesh! Rude and funny.

[@loganlogon3720]

That thing's as long as your leg!🤯

[@anthonyparra4497]

Thats a good clump.

[@WeirdExplorer]

It was a good clump.

[@32colaire]

Those are delicious

[@CreamAle]

Everything in Vanuatu is so we'll endowed lol!

[@crumbtember]

do you think it would be possible for me to find any kind of ice cream bean on the west coast usa?

[@FelipeMartinez-zu5ho]

I have one variety of this that has a light cinnamon taste

[@EndChineseGenocide]

I wonder if tthe difference in these beans could partially be explaimed by the soil compisition

[@skittlemenow]

I wonder if you can cook and eat the beans like normal beans and what they'd taste like.

[@bobbyphaypaseuth572]

What do you do with all the seed when people send fruits for you to try

[@telesniper2]

5:07 like Gulkand?

[@RitaElaineHeltonBarker-uz4sz]

I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream beans

[@eddo2001]

Damn I am dying to try this... I wonder how to get it in LA. Maybe mail order? Would it rot during shipping?! Have you guys tried them FROZEN?

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

"soggy cotton candy, but in a good way" I think that's physically impossible, but somehow very descriptive anyway

[@scottfraser706]

I need those seeds. But i cant grow them in zone 5 ☹

[@johnnyearp52]

I would like to suggest having your fruit T-shirt a couple of different colors on black.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I keep those babies in stock, so I can only keep so many design options. They're lovingly made by a independent screen printer friend of mine.

[@johnnyearp52]

@@WeirdExplorer Cool!

[@juandediosreyes8526]

I am from Mexico. We call them "huajinicuil".

[@OsirusHandle]

you gotta start saving seeds 😭 these apparently only last a week tho 😢 wish they were at all frost hardy 😡

[@drecknathmagladery9118]

the giant ones your gettinmg more bang for your buck with the caviat that they are properly ripe

[@TheWeirdestOfBugs]

I scream You scream We scream for ice cream beans! Now I'm craving them!

[@dustinharris7296]

I have found the ones that are fat and about a foot are the best. The 2 to 3 foot skinny wide beans that are like a machete are not as good because less flesh around seeds... maybe I've been getting them too ripe?

[@luke_fabis]

I guess I can understand the laughter. Ice cream beans are native to the Americas. Maybe they're just not part of the food culture in the South Pacific.

[@pierre-alexandreclement7831]

❤❤❤❤

[@ikbintom]

Legume seeds are always edible (after boiling) right? Maybe you could try them too

[@WeirdExplorer]

I did! check the pinned comments

[@josempadilla9761]

The big is guama and the short is guaba

[@snowforest1998]

The guy at 9:05 sounded French and South African at the same time

[@Ultracity6060]

♪ Sky Runner ♫

[@edgarburlyman738]

In New Caledonia, ice cream grows on trees, and people don't eat it. Huh.

[@RoseNZieg]

spread the news!!

[@sdfkjgh]

0:07 Those look like shofroth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shofar

[@famliy60]

I have an Icecream bean tree

[@edgarburlyman738]

The Frenchman knows his ice cream beans!

[@mightyfetheredone]

🍦🌱

[@wqqdcraft]

yall should be saving your seeds.. on all your adventures.. save your seeds and try to grow some of them in a greenhouse or something