How It's Made: Piñatas

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[@moose8846]

I wasn't ready to hear the how it's made narrator describe piñatas as "representing satan" at one in the morning but here we are

[@highwayboyjon9517]

Same 🤣🤣

[@miamiaaimaim380]

So we all watch this at 1 am, huh?

[@genericalfishtycoon3853]

@@miamiaaimaim380 2am for me

[@TheGoat-qo6zm]

@@genericalfishtycoon3853 3 am for me rn 😭

[@eatpoop696969]

it's not one in the morning

[@jvoz671]

Went from 0 to 100 real fast at the end. Did not know that about Piñatas.

[@comicluigi7]

yup

[@zoezzzarko1117]

I thought the same thing... "Well that took a very dark turn, very fast" 🧐🤔😲

[@mlkasper]

How it's made: colonialism

[@Turtlezzzzzzzzzz]

God I love this show. The relaxed narration, the interesting machines and processes that we get to see. Me and my dad used to kick back and watch this everytime it came on tv back in the day. Thanks Science Channel

[@Arnoldee002]

Imagine. Sunday afternoon. You're listening to this while slowly falling asleep. Life is good.

[@Kakmanmartinez666]

Especially when you'd stay home from school with a stomach bug or something. Chicken noodle soup, crackers and ginger ale just 👌

[@shoresy6927]

Wow. Didn't expect to find so much respect for the art. This woman is an artist!

[@ixcutamp8059]

In Mexico my school held a piñata competition every year before Christmas holidays. Each classroom would have to come up with a cool design/idea and we would make it using the balloon method. It was tons of fun, because the day of the contest the entire building of the school was decorated with the piñatas we made. Those were the days...

[@heyheytaytay]

I did NOT expect the narrator to start talking about Satan and the 7 deadly sins towards the end... LMAO XD

[@s4494r]

Haha

[@michaelmurray7199]

Uh it’s Sah-teen, actually.

[@jovannygalvez8191]

Lmfao that had me dead now I will see every piñata 🪅 at family parties differently. Lol

[@lilgremlin6222]

LMAO MOOD

[@retrosampleguy]

Timestamp?

[@Insomniac3d]

everyone keeps saying how greedy everyone is for immediately grabbing the candy, just remember you're the one with the bat, do what you want with that information

[@Strawberrybutterfliess]

😈

[@DHMISDuckGuy]

Yes, man slaughter

[@lolabunny1157]

😭

[@Armadurapersonal]

Time to apply heavenly punishment

[@nscaledelights]

And I thought redditors were crazy guess not lol.

[@GreenFoxLuama]

Wow, I never knew a children's game could have a very deep meaning like that

[@veronicarodriguez8171]

Piñata is my favorite game to play with children

[@alisambrano]

It doesn't. It was invented in Italy as a drinking game, taken to Spain where they decided to make it a children's game, then use it to force a religion on people who were living peacefully with the land.

[@lyre3603]

Squid game

[@themechbuilder6171]

i'm a mexican and even i didn't know that

[@DmndT87]

Many games like hide and seek, toys, even the tales our parents tell us to sleep are based on disturbing events many centuries ago, even before the AC.

[@srshama]

I think it's interesting how they described an old school version and a modern version, but neither one of those are the pinatas that I mostly see which are just made out of cardboard on the inside.

[@valentinacolmenares3897]

Where are you from?? I’m from venezuela and we only make them out of cardboard too, I think in Mexico they might make them like this 🤔 since there was pulparindo inside of the piñata.

[@melaniee8781]

@@valentinacolmenares3897 where I am from (Mexico border) they make frames from split bamboo and paper mache the shape

[@OGEdger]

​@@melaniee8781 Over here in the U.S., they're made out of cardboard.

[@wumboqwark]

I always thought making piñatas of beloved characters was odd because the purpose of a piñata is to beat it with a stick but.... Now it's even weirder for a whole new reason... 😳

[@juliusnepos6013]

Yeah

[@budimanhakim1187]

What an Amazing skill shes got. Salute and respect for all the work she had done

[@TaylorRussell_TheAnimator]

I don't know what that poor pinata lady is going through, but she looks like she's going to jump off a bridge the second the camera crew leaves. This is made all the worse with all those warped, horrifying disney characters surrounding her from all sides in the background, staring off into space nearly as vacantly as she is. I weep for her. Life continually beats her down, and all that falls out.... is candy.

[@davidmenke7552]

Yeah I kinda had the same thoughts! She did not look very happy :(

[@alisambrano]

Pinatas were brought to Spain by the Italians. Originally called a Pignata, made from clay pots, and meant for adults. They filled them with booze. The Italians took the tradition to Spain, who decided that it was debaucherous to have an item like that (booze filled) and changed the way they were used, adding candy and trinkets for the children. The missionaries decided to add Christianity to it, but the creators most certainly NEVER intended it to be a way to convert anyone, it was a drunken game by a bunch of Italians. Now Mexicans use it for Jedi training😂😂😂 I am both Mexican and Italian, and ACTUALLY wrote a paper on the origin of the pinata in college.

[@SchnarphStudios]

Honestly, I'd be more surprised if it didn't start out as a drinking game.

[@hopeschannel]

I’m Mexican & Italian too! interesting to learn!

[@mawlinzebra]

And the Italians got it from China

[@Qermaq]

So when the pinata broke, liquor poured out onto the ground? What's the fun in that?

[@irrespondible]

@@Qermaq Drunken Italians licking the ground are funny.

[@cassamoroll]

she did Not look happy blowing that balloon up 💀

[@codykendall2846]

She got lightheaded lolllll

[@kali888]

LMAOO I WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT THIS

[@SCSilk]

It’s kind of hard to blow and smile.

[@rosegono148]

@@SCSilk without context for that comment, it will be sus

[@billybob884]

she looked miserable through the whole video

[@mccartybedell8631]

Okay, funny story: one time when I was like seven, my brother's friend had a birthday party and I had helped setting up, and the pinata was the green power ranger, and when it came to my turn to hit the pinata, I had knocked off one of it's arms and sent it flying into the air. The next day, I was watching power rangers and wondered how the green ones arm was still there 🤣 man 7 year old me was crazy

[@spacepopeXIV]

My mom made pinatas the modern way for both mine and my sister's birthday parties when we were kids. She made a SpongeBob one that we remembered looked good, but when we found a picture of it, we all were shocked and laughing at how ugly and scary it looked lmao.

[@SarahNova]

The concept of character themed piñatas is strange to me. It’s like “Oh my kid loves this character! I’ll have them beat the tar out of their favorite character on their birthday!”

[@llemS_U]

Like a month ago we bought a mario piñata and that sucker was hard to break. The kid inflected no damage to it so they had us the teens break it. We went through 2 wooden Broom stick trying to break it. We found out that thing had double walled carbord. I had to rip mario`s head off with the broken wooden stick. It fell so wrong.

[@fernandagarcia877]

Yeah the ones that aren't hand made are made with super strong cardboard. Same thing happened the kids couldn't break not the teens so the adults just cut it open and threw the candy everywhere

[@Cordova.S.William]

Greetings from piñata land "México "

[@mawlinzebra]

@@millamaya callese envidioso

[@nryanc]

“Todays piñatas are a big hit at parties….” 🤣🤣🤣

[@dinohall2595]

"The star symbolized Satan" remains to this day the most out of left field How It's Made quote, even beating out the closing line from the segment on hearses.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

I need to tell You this once and for all, Satan likes to play with the dogs out the backyard on His birthdays! He loves birthday decorations and party hats! 🤘🤘

[@CelticSongbird9642]

I have autism and when I was 8, I was nervous at a party. My great aunt Janice had me stuff the pinata. Boy do I miss her.

[@extrahyena0303]

The ones at walmart are just cardboard boxes covered in paper

[@coling.4476]

Breaking open the Piñata feels a bit like greed, as everyone just keeps grabbing everything that falls out of it

[@sergioin3D]

Gorl; it’s either you get some or don’t.

[@coling.4476]

@@sergioin3D but teaching to not commit one of the 7 sins, requires you to do a sin aka greed.

[@vernacular1483]

@@coling.4476 Catholicism, yep

[@ixcutamp8059]

@@coling.4476 Probably something that got distorted due to the passing of time. Many factors like candy companies wanting to make more money would influence the tradition.

[@jameshoffa7085]

@@coling.4476 wow religious people acting like hypocrites that is absolutely shocking

[@moogiealways3016]

Real handmade piñatas are hard to find in many places now. I love them.

[@YourDaddy-zs3nz]

Wow. Finally someone knew how piñantas came about. Only a few believed me and I'm Hispanic telling my Hispanic friends this. Thank you

[@ERKNEES2]

Big twist at the end lol

[@tonyrod4388]

Wow! That was quite interesting! Never imagined pinatas had religious origins.

[@intelboydj1]

Piñata, The idea of breaking a container filled with treats came to Europe in the 14th century, where the name, from the Italian pignatta, was introduced.

[@vernondeadmond740]

She looked real Happy to be there

[@paxsmile]

😂😂😂

[@samanthaghost]

This was my favorite one so far, especially with that twist ending. For a moment I was a little confused lol

[@josesegovia8997]

Here in the Philippines we only use a simple clay pots filled with coins and candy 🍬🍭

[@EHFAR87]

5:02 that boy picking up and throwing down candy he doesn’t like. 😂

[@wouldntyouliketoknow1840]

How are we skimming over how insanely pretty her hair is 😭

[@Halo2glitchlover22]

Her curls are beautiful!

[@queen_savanah1620]

Well that end was unexpected

[@thingsnstuff85]

I think it’d be hilarious to fill it with vegetables that none of the kids like

[@apollomacgregor6534]

SURPRISE BROCCOLI! =|

[@jerricaleonard2123]

Having gotten a toy Keyblade for Christmas a few years ago, I hope someone uses the star method to make a piñata that looks like a Darkball.

[@EIbereth]

Here in Mexico we learn to make piñatas in primary school. I love this tradition, even though it was originated in Italy. Saludos, amigos! 👋🇲🇽

[@xeroxcopy8183]

with that video thumbnail -15 social credit points

[@Francis_M]

Thought of good old art attack with Neil Buchanan when he said paper mache. Oh, how a grown man feels nostalgia

[@Minty_Blitz]

my favorite part was the woman ripping apart the balloon with her teeth and then pulling out some scissors

[@elenamc87]

😭🤣🤣🤣

[@dokusha519]

My family and I always have piñatas and I always found kind of weird and sadistic to hit characters we like, why not satan or something we hate? Like a politician or a spider

[@bellapesce]

We used to do balloon meshay in class to make the sun

[@mikeyfn-a6684]

How bout that. Really wasn't expecting such a history lesson at the end there😅👍

[@AlejandroPuenteMX]

Back when me and my brothers were kids we used to make our own piñatas with our parents and I remember have lots of fun doing them. Gosh, how I miss those old days now both are gone.

[@andreimations]

I've seen this before in Art Attack and it was kinda cool

[@Weatherdude55]

I wanted to see them make the Winnie the Pooh one!

[@wamken619]

From the moment my gaze lay upon the thumbnail, I felt a sharp decline of social credit in my veins.

[@jacobheller3146]

The lady looked so pissed making em she was glaring at the camera lol

[@heyodi3092]

That’s the coolest looking piñata I’ve ever seen

[@MediaRavenEditor2024]

Yeah pinatas always have candy.

[@Blackoutfor10days]

Weeee Pinata 😊

[@paxsmile]

And toys ❤️

[@AsteriskDatBoi]

and deviled eggs?

[@MediaRavenEditor2024]

@@AsteriskDatBoi not really.

[@sn5301679]

When they plunder your gold but give you pinata for fun 🤣

[@chriszablocki2460]

One piñata got broken, and all the other piñatas ate all the candy. Now there are lots of piñatas. Enjoy.

[@dannyshipley7590]

Wow..amazing techniques

[@historicalcucumber]

That buzz lightyear piñata looks high af 😆.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

*_“Is that a code for sex?”_* - Ice Cube, 21 Jump Street (2012).

[@tinderbox218]

03:41 You are being watched from inside the piñata.

[@peterjayobillo5674]

It might be also interesting if the worker working on the piñata has its own how its made like how everyone else is requesting a how its made episode of the factory machines 😂😂😂

[@asteverino8569]

Oh my 😮 that history with the missionaries.

[@mwinchester66]

Wow, didn't know the story about piñatas. And I'm from Latin America and grew up beating them to pieces on birthdays.

[@tianhonglaser1227]

Meaningful and colorful game I have seen

[@KesorodaBlk]

The explanation at the end gives it that certain Shin Megami Tensei feel all of a sudden.

[@kimbratton9620]

I got to help break one open before at a birthday party several years ago and then we ate the treats!

[@sebastianriz4703]

Absolutely laughing my ass off at the end. Whole video was all calm and collect, just watching an artist make her beautiful creation and then we are getting lectured on satan worship.

[@narayanannarayanan2601]

Very. Very. Nice👍👍👍

[@AngieAnji]

When he mentioned about satan and the meaning behind that piñata, I had to make sure I wasn’t watching the guy who voices these videos to troll… 😂 was a bit disappointed it wasn’t him

[@mariapatriciachavez214]

Thank you for helping other on how they were made . (Some time)

[@sarahferguson0]

I have a fear of these things. One time, when i was about 6 the neighbor boy whacked me in the head with the stick because he broke the pinata and we all lunged for the candy and he was still swinging that stick and he hit me right in the face. To this day i literally can't stand to even watch kids whack at that thing 🤣

[@angelmarin6442]

Sorry to hear about that!

[@viewy3655]

That pinata could poke someone in the eye-

[@brendakrieger7000]

Love How It's Made!

[@howiesworld9056]

Having an existential crisis while trying to eat ice cream and binge How It’s Made

[@jimoaooo3368]

I think a lot of Chinese will be angry at the cover. 🇹🇼 TAIWAN NO.1

[@wumbology3109]

Lol

[@yiqimei6757]

高端打了？

[@bowenkong7722]

Maybe only pooh will be angry

[@jimoaooo3368]

@@yiqimei6757 沒有耶

[@jimoaooo3368]

@@yiqimei6757 你好可憐，是打科興腦子壞了？ 還是自己想送頭？ 一個政策不能代表國家好嗎，這就可以直接證明台灣民主和你們中國內地的差別了 連民主最最基本的原理都不知道？ 我看你是在牆內自己翻出來然後又說自己在海外工作留學的愛黨國人士吧，支持自己的黨國就遵守規定不要翻牆，講中國厲害就不要出去讀書 😆

[@JoJosLandArabiclearningchannel]

Bro has Barney pinata in the background💀☠️💀☠️💀

[@3xfaster]

Huh, the clay pot method seems time consuming, I’m sure the final blow is really satisfying tho. The balloon method has a lot of wiff when striking it, you might end up with a kick getting overzealous in their swing. But then, that’s why you have the kids standing far away from the action

[@AyuNico]

Balloon pinatas are a lot more flare because on top of the piñatas being able to be moved way faster and swinging farther, kids can now all jump in to get candy when it's finally broken. Clay piñatas are a bit dangerous if you jump right when they are broken because the pieces can be a bit sharp for the children.

[@amaionnaise]

truly an artist! amazing

[@Tony.Technics.1200s]

They forgot to show the best part where some dimwit inevitably gets a bat to the back of the head at these things, lol.

[@Trey_816]

My family don't use baseball bats to open these. Here in Pennsylvania, *we use a Kentucky flintlock rifle*

[@nscaledelights]

I want a Buzz Lightyear pinata and I'm 30 y/o lol, This is very interesting to see.

[@jonathanespadas2045]

Ohhh shit I been playing with the devil since the day I hit a piniata! ! 😆

[@highwayboyjon9517]

You know you’re Mexican if you would walk around wearing the piñata head at a party🤣

[@JuliaCrows]

OMG DID YOU EVER SEE THE HAUNTED PIÑATAS ON SLAPPED HAM? SOOOO SCARY!

[@random1725]

what do you call it when the kids fight over the heavenly goods? that's right, humanity

[@johnathondavis5208]

How and why this ended up in my suggestions....a wonder that will remain unsolved for all of eternity.

[@hannahduggan3599]

My cousin Martha's bridal shower is on July 16th. I want the bridal shower to have a Joel Golby piñata.

[@ShopGurl06]

Wow... that's a lot of work.

[@clsmithcs74]

I love that she bites the balloon to pop it and then immediately grabs a pair of scissors

[@paxsmile]

I saw that too! I literally shook my head 😂😂

[@angelmartinez8778]

I will never waste my money on one again..i will just make my own👌🤣🤣 Those things are not cheap

[@ibruiz5371]

No hay fiesta sin piñatas en México

[@fecamprecords]

Closed caption please

[@mariapatriciachavez214]

That is rite that is the way the piñata where made some time that is rite. But ??? Some time ago Where made a bit different.

[@Phisherman86]

This woman looks thrilled

[@TiredMomma]

I was distracted by the size of them behind her. Life size piñatas 😲🤯

[@Xeeb_the_Dweeb]

Is it just me or is it deeply upsetting that she used her teeth to pop the balloon instead of using the scissors?

[@paxsmile]

It was weird 😂

[@Halo2glitchlover22]

Yeah it doesn’t make sense

[@hermeticbear]

that pinata tale at the end just sound ridiculous and far fetched

[@sailaxmishetty6788]

I have a question. When you make the hole for putting surprises inside, how does the balloon not pop?

[@coolcupcake145]

She already deflated the balloon before doing that.

[@jullyasonhadora1519]

4:55 i can see the banned candy, pulparindo, shes was banned in usa but not in mexico, in other latin america contries

[@kali888]

Why was it banned though?

[@coloradostrong]

@@kali888 Have you even tried to search for it? Walmart and Amazon have it.

[@kali888]

@@coloradostrong I'm not from the US my friend

[@jullyasonhadora1519]

@@kali888 the usa science labs detects a plumbum level but can get health problems content 0,19% of plumbum, default is recomended of 0,01%, and get banned in USA less in mexico, other latin america contries

[@jullyasonhadora1519]

@@kali888 also, I have 11 years old

[@gotmiley2]

Thumbnail: Winnie the Pooh Background: Buzz Lightyear and Princess Aurora The actual video: a generic star -_-

[@monicat9110]

Piñatas lore

[@AyuNico]

I remember crying when I couldn't get candy from piñatas when I was a child, I was too scared at jumping at the mass of other kids and getting hurt haha.

[@pencilpusher7541]

Breaks & removed bites it with her teeth 😂

[@0riginal_panda_child249]

So...pinatas are a moral obligation???