"PASTA?!" Taste Testing Desserts From Around The World

[@shelbyfawn1337]

as a real geography dummy, I genuinely appreciate popping the maps in when you reveal the country. I loosely know where countries are but seeing them in context really supports the conversation.

[@Superchick513]

I was enjoying that this video too!

[@spfisterer3651]

German here with Hungarian grandparent. Poppy seed pasta was a nostalgic surprise and a wonderful trip down memory lane. It was always a main dish in our house, often with soup before ❤

[@raeperonneau4941]

I love how international the Sorted audience is! All I have to do is read the comments and the awesome people from whatever country will give me the history and all the wonderful variations of the dish you’re talking about.

[@SortedFood]

Totally agree, so wonderful to have all this knowledge in the comments :)

[@jessicakorte]

It really is! ❤

[@lapluie91]

Hungarian here. It’s kind of a main dish, not a dessert. We usually eat it after a hearty soup or as a quick lunch/dinner. I never had it with butter. It’s just poppyseeds grinded together with sugar. Or just walnuts grinded with sugar. An other version is breadcrumbs browned with a bit of oil, that goes on the pasta than you add some homemade apricot jam.

[@sneg__]

In eastern Austria, we eat it exactly as shown :) Greetings from Felsőőrvidék!

[@FredrikOstrozanszky]

Yeah, my mom used to make it for me when I was a child and it was never as a dessert. From my experience sugary main courses are quite common in Hungary

[@loveisall5520]

Thanks so much for the information!

[@mporvichova]

Same in Czech republic. From my experience we don't really stray away from the poppy seed. This dish (and also a very similar one that uses boiled potatoes mashed with flour instead of pasta) was my favourite when I was a child.

[@Arrynek01]

In Czechia, we either do poppy seeds and sugar, or cocoa and sugar, or browned bread crumbs and sugar. Always with butter. This is feels correct.

[@MakeUpWitch]

The poppy seed pasta is served in my country, Czech Republic, as well. We share a history with Hungary (Austrian-Hungarian Empire). The poppy seed should be ground finely and it's a main course for us. My country has a great tradition of sweet main dishes - all kinds of pancakes, crepes, dumplings etc. They are still served in school cantines and families.

[@Gametherapist]

Austrian here, can confirm. Just not pasta. Here, they usually make "potato pasta" like.. roll potato dough into a long sausage, then cut into noodles. poppy seeds, sugar. And possibly the butter to make the stuff stick, but it really doesn't need it.

[@Katkak90]

@@Gametherapist You can actually have both in Czech Republic

[@seekyunbounded9273]

@@Gametherapist in Czech we call the potato stuff šišky : pinecone

[@TK007CZ]

Nudle s makem Czech

[@PetraBenkoe]

In Austria, we use a different kind of pasta - made from potato and usually thicker. (mohnnudeln). Babies were given a "Mohnzutz" Poppyseed passivier. This was obviously not good for the mental development and was stopped.

[@self.construction.day1]

I will never forget Sao Tome and principe because I had the pleasure of meeting and teaching a boy from there when I was working in the UK. He was one of the most inquisitive and bright boys I've ever taught.

[@traciechakraborty3829]

when I was pregnant with my son, I craved almond jello. Ate it 3-4 times a week. But now I know it was the cheap version. The real thing is made from nothing but almonds, rice & sugar. Cecilia Chiang, a renown Chinese=American resturanteur, drank it regularly & claimed it helped her reach 100 years of age.

[@Dunadi]

Hungarian here, but I would like comment on the apricot kernel-almond similarity. I remember my grandfather saving the seeds of apricots (we had an apricot tree), after we ate the fruit, drying them, then cracking them for the kernel. It was the only treat that he gave me in strict moderation (no more than 3 or 4 pieces), because it contains cyanide (which gives it the almond flavor) and more than that amount could give you mild poisoning. (I mean like a stomach ache, not like rushing to the ER and dying poisoning). He did this beacues we had no almond tree and you couldn't really get in a store, or if yes it was very expensive.

[@josephsweeney9981]

to piggyback off of 13:35, i think adding a rule if you are a certain distance wrong away (eg 4500 miles away) you shouldnt get the point, just to add extra pressure to get it at least close!

[@timanctil8225]

"Poppies" did make them sleep in The Wizard of Oz, but "snow" woke them right back up...😂

[@KayBeeLAX]

I grew up in Austria (living in the US for 25 years now). This was one of my favorite things growing up, yum, Mohn Nudeln! Delicious. As everyone else has been saying, this is eaten throughout the region, and yes, growing up we had a poppy seed grinder in the kitchen.

[@TheBazino]

Greetings fellow citizen. This is what I would have said. The Austrian version is a more refined thing (not common noodles) and not just a desert, we eat it as main dish as well.

[@swissfoodie3542]

Thank you everybody at Sorted for bringing joy, laughter, fun and interesting facts about food every day into our homes during advent

[@SortedFood]

You're very welcome! Thanks for tuning in 😁

[@swissfoodie3542]

@@SortedFood Thanks Ben for the last clue (about being impressed if they got it) on dish 3, that made it clear for me.

[@teje25]

As a hungarian, we tend to have a very heavy soup like Jókai bean soup or goulash and this is the second dish. We also have walnut with apricot jam pasta. Or just apricot jam pasta. But for me the poppy is clearly not crushed enough. 😅

[@petitenarc]

agree. Poppy seeds need to be finely ground.

[@stapuft]

Meaning 6ou have it as a dessert.

[@stef.828]

@@stapuft no! it's not a dessert portion.

[@stapuft]

@@stef.828 it is though, you have it AFTER a "hearty filling course" AND its sweet, its the literal definition of a dessert.

[@teje25]

@stapuft no, never on a dessert menu and also when eating out we will order a third dessert course. Here you go soup second dish and rarely any desserts. Hooooowever for some reason on Fridays we tend to have a sweet second dish in the schools and traditional daily lunch menu places as an option. Some like aranygaluska can be in a smaller portion just dessert. But you would never order màkos tészta as a desert. Also another option after a heavy soup is làngos. So yeah not dessert just not the main attraction either

[@loveIetter]

i’m from the czech republic and we eat noodles with poppy seeds a lot here! we also eat “šišky s mákem”, which are sort of like potato “gnocchi” with poppy seeds, butter and sugar. there’s also a different noodle dish with grated hard quark cheese, butter and sugar called “nudle s tvarohem” 😊

[@seekyunbounded9273]

have you seen the episode where they showed dumplings filled with fruit for Czech dish? they put whole peach into it :D

[@malamalinka]

I’m Polish and we have it too.

[@dorinakeller-beaumont9559]

I'm hungarian and we have it too and it's one of my fave dishes!!

[@Occanti]

I saw poppy seed pasta and had to click it immediately, haha. Sending all the love from Poland

[@SortedFood]

Haha! Have you had poppy seed pasta before?

[@Occanti]

@SortedFood Hell yes! It's quite a popular dish in Poland, usually prepared for Christmas. Most of the time it comes with raisins in it too.

[@klaradyszynska4668]

In some regions of Poland poppy seed pasta is a christmas dish 😅

[@friedsugar2701]

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[@connie171717]

@@SortedFood Poppy seed pasta is quite popular in the Czech republic too! I remember it was often served to us kids back in elementary school.

[@dramafreakm2]

Epic that David Beckham and Jolly got listed together 😂😂

[@RaymondArias]

It's so cool. Here in the Philippines, we also have a dessert called "bukayo" (pronounced as "boo-kah-yoh") and the only differences are the form and the addition of lemon. Bukayo is made with coconut strips, while Açucarinhas look like they're finely shredded. Açucarinhas 🤝 Bukayo. ✨🥥✨

[@marie-]

Omg a fellow Filipino! Akala bukayo siya tbh hahaha tapos nung sinabing nilalagyan ng lemon, etc. i was like that isn't right haha

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Hungarian poppy seed pasta is indeed an everyday classic. On Christmas Eve, however, a slightly more difficult variety is traditional in some Hungarian families, which is called "mákos guba". To make it, pieces of baked leavened dough, or at a pinch, a stale crescent roll cut into rings are scalded with hot milk or just water, ground poppy seeds are added and thoroughly mixed, taking care that the pastry pieces shouldn't turn into mush, then honey is poured over. It is good as is, however, some serve it with vanilla custard.

[@RyeMi]

We do the same in Slovakia but we also add caramel :D

[@timhyatt9185]

that sounds amazing!

[@SortedFood]

This sounds utterly delicious, thanks so much for sharing 😁

[@biankatoth1786]

@@SortedFood Also we don't really eat it with Ricotta :D Maybe in some fine dining restaurants. But as Erzsébet said we also have "mákos guba" and that tastes much better.

[@michaelterry9257]

That vanilla custard sounds like the perfect thing with this

[@neenajaydon9641]

Both annin dofu and koohii zerii? You’re really taking me back to my days in Japan. The coffee jelly is sold in convenience stores in cups with little coffee cream containers attached. You lift the lid, pour in the cream, and mix it up. Annin dofu is so good, too.

[@melaniedoc]

Canada here but from Romanian and Hungarian ancestors. Every Sunday as a child my great-grandmother fed me pastries and cakes HEAVILY laden with poppyseeds because “it is time for a nap for the children” I thought it was a well known sedative. Very cool segment. HAPPY HOLIDAYS BOYS

[@SHAMECZ]

Comment from the Czech Republick. The pasta dish with poppy seeds is common sweet dish in my country as well. Not as a dessert but as a main dish. Just as someone from Hungary pointed out. Once I saw it, I was hit with instant nostalgia. This dish was frequently served as one of the options at school,

[@FieryHammer]

I’m Hungarian and when I saw the firsr dish I really wanted to hear Ben say “Mákos tészta”. It made my day and he didn’t say it that wrong either. :D

[@ChaitraSagar]

Sortedfood Christmas Advent Calendar makes my December so festive and cozy. Thanks you guys!

[@ian3314]

These are so wonderful. Thanks Sorted crew! Kind of makes me realize how little I know of geography and how ingredients came to countries, be it via battles, settlers, or trade. Learn a ton of stuff.

[@32zelaw]

My partner's family are Polish and they serve poppy seed pasta as part of their Christmas ensemble. I first tried it a couple of years ago and I look forward to having it every year!

[@OphatTaerattanachai]

I want to share some of Thai desserts that are very exquisite in their taste and look. 1. "ขนมช่อม่วง (kha-nom-chor-muang; meaning, "Purple bouquet")" is a very beautiful purple flower-shape snack. It looks like a dumpling with a savory filling, made of chicken with other seasonings and herbs. 2. "ขนมผกากรอง (ฺkha-nom-bha-ga-grong; meaning "Latana plant")" shares a similar look with the first one, but its filling is made of sweet mung bean paste.

[@SortedFood]

These all sound incredible! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us 🫶

[@gogogaga001]

Jup, poppy seed pasta (although we use potatoe based pasta or Gnocchi) is also quite popular in Austria. What a treat

[@Newneo]

Was looking for the Austria comment in here, was screaming Austria at the screen when they came up. Loved them as a kid(and yes we use potatoes, flower, egg, semolina) to make thicker "noodles")

[@kazuian]

the way that i immediately scream it's China when ben said the name of the dish is Almond Tofu cause it's one of my favorite character favorite dish 🤣🤣

[@Bryn3333]

I grew up getting it at dim sum and we called it junket

[@Jamie_D]

Those cubes were so satisfying to look at

[@SortedFood]

We know right?

[@lizchesser1914]

I'm so excited, I guessed Hungary straight away, although I wouldn't have been surprised by a few other places. For me, it's the Ashkenazi background that gives me a love and appreciation for poppyseeds in so many forms. I'm a little surprised that none of the boys had seen any cakes/ nut rolls/ etc in their European travels.

[@toni_go96]

1:30 - Barry and Mike are probably thinking about making it for Austin and Lottie cuz they may enjoy it. 1:40 - Barry and Mike are thinking "WTF EBBERS?!?!?!"

[@themightyai-5302]

You should review Tepache! The Mexican street drink made from pineapple!

[@SortedFood]

Definitely!

[@TheCardinalFang]

@@SortedFood Please do a recipe as well as it's such an easy way of using pineapple rinds, so good way of reducing food waste

[@tiagopessotti4875]

Açucarinhas are also very consumed in Brazil, we call them "cocadas". And can also be made with other tropical fruits mixed with the coconut and sugar, like pineapple and passion fruit.

[@dejavu011]

I thought maybe Cabo Verde

[@telebubba5527]

I wouldn't be surprised if it actually stems from the colonial periode and there are versions of it in all former colonies. I was thinking Angola, Mozambique or East Timor. Sao Tomé and Principe never came into my mind. You hardy ever hear about them, so it's nice they found something to put attention to them.

[@yadiracamacho499]

In Venezuela we also have something similar, we call them conservas de coco. My favorites are the ones made with papelón (panela) instead of sugar. Here cocada would be a coconut and condensed milk drink

[@tiagopessotti4875]

@@telebubba5527 Yes! Now you got me intrigued by the history behind this :D

[@nwoida8057]

poppy seed noodles served in austria are typically served with thick nooodles made of cooked potatoes, served with apple sauce, important for the flavour are of course butter and sugar, but i think you guys forgot to grind the poppy seeds, so the oils with flavour come out better

[@Nakamura65]

0:20 dude the poppy seeds are supposed to be ground up, we have a special grinder for that,.... you never eat it with raw whole seeds like that,... must be like eating sand

[@LILEE376]

Lots of Hungarian desserts made with poppy seeds and those are the best ones. You should really try the "Mákos Beigli" and the "Mákos rétes", but you need a poppy seed grinder for it.

[@jamyedowell245]

Barry saying "wibbly-wobbly" is my second favorite use of the phrase 😄

[@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259]

Is the first the guy who burned down the parliament?

[@Toocurplants]

wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey

[@sodapop83]

lovely jubbly

[@landerceuppens]

There's a dessert dish in Belgium (I think you'll also find it in the Netherlands) which is macaronipap. Basically pasta (usually Chiocciole incidentally) cooked in milk, with sugar, raisins, chocolate,custard powder, egg sometimes...

[@SortedFood]

Ooooh this sounds delicious! Thanks so much for sharing :)

[@emy7873]

Huh, I've never heard of that 😮 Regional thing?

[@swissfoodie3542]

I lived with a dutch couple for a year, and they used to make a savoury/sweet dish. A kind of swiss roll made of a layer of mashed potatoes, topped with a layer of peanut butter and salad leaves. It was strange but delicious. Do you maybe know the name of the dish ? Is this also something in Belgium ?

[@landerceuppens]

@@swissfoodie3542 no, never heard of that :) sounds awful, but then I've never tried it

[@telebubba5527]

@@swissfoodie3542 As a Dutch person I can assure you that that is not a very common dish. Probably something those people thought up for themselves, but even then 🤔. If anything, I would rather do fries (frites/patat) and peanut butter sauce (pinda saus), which you could wrap into salad leaves. We do have a combination of (leftover) warm rice, with butter, sugar and cinnamon though.

[@dot_the_O]

love the Hungary representation! Ebbers' pronounciation is almost okay too, loved the effort :D but it is not a dessert, it is a main dish, poppy seeds are ground together with (powdered) sugar, tossed with the cooked pasta, and there you go. rarely have any butter or syrup or oil on it. I tried to make it when i was little, like 7 or 8, didn't know you have to grind the poppy seeds. it was terrible, learned my lesson and never messed up again :D I'd like to recommend some more interesting pasta dishes: pasta with semolina and apricot jam, pasta with cottage cheese, sour cream, bacon (the proper lardy one) bits and loads of dill; pasta with cottage cheese and sour cream and sugar, and my personal favourit, pasta, cabbage, onions, loads of pepper and some sugar.

[@bodresz]

As a hungarian, I am so proud that You guys sometimes show my/our cousine. I have figured out 3 out of 4 correctly. Hungary, China and Japan.

[@crimsonlilyfairy]

so what's funny is i knew immediately what dish #2 was, not because i've ever had it, but because i'm a gamer, and one of the big game titles that's been out for years now is genshin impact from hoyoverse in china. food is a major gameplay aspect of genshin, and every character (and yes, i do mean EVERY CHARACTER; all 91) have a favorite dish. my personal fav character is Xiao, and his fav dish (and canonically one of the only things he'll eat) is almond tofu. so when ben said the name, i had to run around the room screaming "I KNEW IT!!" from the top of my lungs. just had to be done. so thanks for making me feel smart guys 😊

[@Getpojke]

The almond tofu dish is lovely & pretty gentle on the stomach if not feeling well. Conversely some of the Asian sodas/cans of pop can be a bit of a surprise to Westerners not expecting it. Remember bringing a case of mixed cans from a Chinese supermarket to work for my staff to try. They liked the flavour, but gave some odd reactions when they tipped the cans to finish & a pile of jelly cubes rushed down their gullets. 😆

[@swissfoodie3542]

I really love the story behind the dish, its so interesting and beautiful. I wonder, where in China is this dish famous from ? I have been in China for a year in different trips, and never had it (but then, I dont like desserts, so maybe thats why).

[@Getpojke]

@@swissfoodie3542 Don't have a huge sweet tooth either, but the texture & delicate flavour of xing ren tou fu is nice. Seemingly popular in a lot of provinces but a favourite in Beijing and Guangdong. Seemingly popular outside of China as I found this: - "𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘪, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 "𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦".

[@TF_NowWithExtraCharacters]

@@swissfoodie3542 Immediate guess is the Canton region (so Guangdong and its surroundings, Hong Kong, etc). Googling says there and Beijing as well, though recipes may vary.

[@BolFelix]

Got China bang on but this one was a tough episode!! That doctor story has got to be the chiniesiest story ever 😂

[@chandrasunny]

Yes, the second he mentioned the inside of Apricot seeds being used interchangeably with almonds I knew it was China... finally my boba obsession paid off for something!

[@beth56764]

I fully clicked after Ben said Almond Tofu and immediately thought that is SUCH a Chinese story. Loved it.

[@dduong2269]

that's exactly what i was thinking when i heard the doctor story hahaha! even as someone half-chinese, i couldn't have explained to you at the time WHY it felt like SUCH a chinese story, it just does. maybe because it has kind of a collectivist message to it and is very much valuing community and others over the self. then the recipe itself being supposedly 2000 years old (so a country old enough to have a pretty ancient civilisation), plus it being called tofu and having such a strong almond component (cos like plant-based milks including almond milk were already common in Asia before plant-based milk became a popular trend/alternative for vegans)

[@sophykitten2212]

I did actually get Japan spot on. Not only because it seemed very Japanese and the convenience store clue. Also, their cafe culture. It very much reminded me of the sort of dishes in the cafes in animes and mangas.

[@raideurng2508]

Culture is culture. Gotta get those wins where you can, especially after that almond milk one. That felt like an Ebber's "gotcha".

[@torielliott5751]

It's mentioned by name in the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. That's how I knew lol.

[@HAbarneyWK]

Poppy seed pasta is usually served as an "entrée" in Hungary when the soup is hearty (like a goulash soup)

[@SortedFood]

Thanks for the added context :)

[@petitenarc]

yes, same in Czech republic. Hearty soup and then some sweet dish (poppy seed pasta, bread pudding, sweet dumplings, pancakes...) as a main entrée. It certainly baffles foreign visitors :)

[@LauberEva-cq2kh]

@@SortedFood "entrée" would mean that it is served before something heartier , although the opposite is happening, it is actually served after it - when you already had a hearty soup or "creamy vegetables with some sort of toppings" (good luck to find and translate the latter one to English!)

[@stapuft]

Entrees are the "main course" they are hearty filling and furfilling, what you describe is a dessert, as it is both sweet and come AFTER the hearty, fillingz and furfilling course

[@celinavivian1162]

@@stapuftdon’t correct people about their own culture? Sounds like they mean it’s part of the main meal…

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

14:09 YES! Been waiting For this one to appear! Japan! Learned about this from anime and i LOVE it! Thanks For showing it! 🇯🇵🇯🇵☕☕

[@gateauxgato]

LOL was this Saiki K? I craved coffee jelly many times watching it :)

[@tracykaebisch993]

Every time I watch this kind of video, it impresses me on their geography without a map.

[@janosargyelan2732]

come on, Hungary 😍😍 next time you will try - túrós tészta szalonnával (pasta with hungarian ricotta, with fatty bacon) - túrógombóc cukros tejföllel (cottage cheese dumplings, with sweetened sour cream) from the hungarian cousine. :)

[@SortedFood]

Those sound delicious! Thanks so much for the suggestions 😁

[@Nixx0912]

Hungarian cusine is wonderful.

[@sodapop83]

don't forget the cheese too with túrós tészta! the sweet version is sour cream, cottage cheese and powered sugar

[@maxdixonman]

I would love to see an "office leftover" battle where the dish has to be refrigerated for 24 hours then reheated before being judged

[@zaldarion]

first dish: as a child (germany), my mom gave me a pretty similar dish, but with butter, sugar and cinnemon. I liked it. so it's not that unusual to me to see this

[@Kittiesforthewin]

The way i felt so proud knowing the almond tofu on sight because of a video game XD... and the Coffee Jelly from an anime

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

I'm guessing, Xiao's favourite food?

[@Munchkin895]

I got so excited once I heard the name. My favorite character's favorite dish! 😂

[@Kittiesforthewin]

@@GuyWithAnAmazingHat you know it 😎 XD Love the random crossover of fandoms here lol

[@Slythiechickdoesgaming]

glad I'm not the only Genshin fan here, rofl

[@Kinuki1190]

Bazzs "oooooohhhhh" reactions to everything is making me think of japanese tourists when they see something really cool

[@llovellycat]

In Poland we eat the poppy seed pasta on Christmas. It's called "makiełki" and we also add nuts and dried fruit to it. Personally, I'm not a fan but so many people loves it.

[@x3xmikey333]

Thanks for everything you are, boys. Love you so mucho, and have the happiest Christmas and new year! 🖤

[@adamrobertson4100]

Dessert episode, first reveal - PASTA?! You so know this is going to be a mind blowing brilliant episode

[@MorusRubra]

It is a main dish.

[@SchuldigChan]

I was going "Japan, Japan, Japan" over and over for the last one. Who knew having watched a couple episodes of the disastrous life of saiki k would help with this. Lol

[@timhyatt9185]

I'd had almond tofu before. I had a friend in HS who's parents were first generation japanese immigrants, and his mom served us those when a bunch of us were at his house to play games and she made us an amazing dinner. the little cups of almond tofu were the desert. She told us the story about the doctor telling people to plant trees.

[@ingewulleman1]

Love the addition to showing the country on the map..(educational!!)

[@alexdavis5766]

I had a chocolate pasta pudding dish in Europe, Germany I think at a Christmas market (sadly can’t remember where) and it was so so good.

[@toni_go96]

Its been a Sorted day for me.. catching up on all the things I missed from the Weekend Live and came to this video after pausing Ben's game show!

[@SortedFood]

Awesome! We hope you're enjoying the LIVE show :)

[@toni_go96]

@@SortedFood It is taking me forever to finish watching it cuz I keep pausing and replaying stuff cuz it's soooooo good. I'm literally savoring it!

[@swissfoodie3542]

@@SortedFood I loved the live show, but missed parts of it. Before I answer your mail about the review of it, I want to make sure that I have watched everything, so that my review is fair.

[@LiqdPT]

4:28 we know about the poppies we wear for remembrance day, but Flanders Fields were in Belgium, nowhere near Hungary.

[@pendragonianlaw]

Haha this was the comment I was looking for! In terms of Europe, Hungary and Belgium aren't exactly close together.

[@bjdefilippo447]

Thank goodness. I was questioning my memory.

[@etherdog]

This format is entertaining and educational. Big praise!

[@tatfOOl]

I'm liking the showing the map afterwards!

[@AngelavengerL]

Really loved the format of this one. Love the geographical part as so many cultural things i've never heard of and i love seeing them have to guess closest county.

[@raideurng2508]

Ebbers mentioned the cream over coffee jelly and "Oh !@#$ this was in some weird anime, wasn't it?"

[@Nixx0912]

Saiki K anime for me, it was pretty weird.

[@LILEE376]

There is a wallnut version of that Mákos Tészta, which simply means Poppy seed pasta. Replace the grinded poppy seed with grinded wallnut. Both are very jummy.

[@freeubi]

Add a bit of apricot jam and its 10/10

[@sodapop83]

then it's walnut pasta simply

[@LILEE376]

@ These are very simple a very delicious dishes. Pasta, grinded poppy seeds or walnut and granulated sugar mixed while it is hot, so the sugar dissolves, and a pinch of salt. Salt is important, as usual in every sweet dessert. We have special grinder for the poppy seed, which is kinda crush the seeds.

[@raccoonthatneedssleep]

This is the first time I knew where one of the dishes was from!! So proud of myself for knowing coffee jelly was Japan :) Also, thank you for bringing so many new and interesting dishes to my attention that I now want to try!

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

18:41 I guessed it spot on because of anime. Mostly because the main character in Saiki k is obsessed with coffee jelly

[@majdshamrookh6160]

Same

[@xandercage2107]

Yep

[@ShatteredKnight]

I was waiting for a Saiki K comment

[@gateauxgato]

Otakus unite!

[@DoctorsCookbook]

First one was INSTANT cause of KWOOWK!

[@CorinneClassic]

Saw those satisfying coffee cubes and went “got to make that today”, heard they were “crunchy” and went “no, that’s alright.”😂

[@lcg8220]

Coffee Jelly is great and you'll often see it in more artisanal cafes in Japan as well in certain cold coffee drinks, absolutely love the stuff.

[@oscrito]

The use of Almond (Apricot Kernels) roots in China, but Almond Tofu is much more popular in Japan nowadays and it would be seen as a post meal dessert more common there. Other notable almond dessert including Almond Tea (a pasty dessert, like red bean soup, sesame paste) in places like Hong Kong

[@senor.molina]

Not Barry thinking that Uruguay was a Portuguese colony until tbe 70's 😂

[@vampire847]

OKAY there needs to be videos showing how these recipes are made to go along with these. I REALLY want to make those Açucarinhas, but non of the online recipes I can find are in English.

[@re-boot3601]

The way I got so excited over the coffee jelly saiki k really came in clutch with that knowledge while all my other guesses were way off

[@PonyTaledBaka]

My fiancée was so highly amused by today's ep because just HOURS earlier, I had MADE some almond tofu and it was chilling in the fridge to finish setting up. He was like "Hey! I recognize that!" :D But not just almond milk, soymilk has also been a thing for, what feels like forever, in Asian culture, so it was probably also made with that in the past.

[@tastymedleys]

Me, a Greek, absolutely baffled by the pasta dish and Barry tries guessing Greece 😂 That cracked me up. Seems kind of delicious though, I guess pasta is so versatile it can even be a dessert!

[@may_beck6224]

poppy seeds as part of sweet things was one of the things I was really fascinated by when I first moved to Germany. Poppy seed stollen is my absolute favorite!

[@HuSanNiang]

As Austrian we have a lof poppy seeds here in Austria. There is the story of puppy seeds dummy/ pacifier -- mostly for the 2nd born son , to keep him a bit back. We have Schupfnudeln with poppy seeds , pancakes with poppy seeds , Yeast dumpling with plum jam and poppy seed but pasta? As kid I can remember pasta (must be the broad long pasta ) and sweeten bread crumbs (Bröselnudeln).

[@mofredur]

best live show yet thx boys :) loved this one too

[@koxy_xix]

Immediately recognized the first dish, so nostalgic

[@SortedFood]

Did you used to have this as a kid?

[@koxy_xix]

I used to have it and sometimes still do occasionally after a hearty soup

[@Tonz_of_Fun]

I'm a little proud for instantly recognizing th last dish.

[@hannahbul]

Can't believe it, I beat the boys for once! Well done Baz!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

On the fifteenth day of Sortedmas, my true love gave to me: 1 Chef-a-hosting, 2 Normals-a-answering and 12 guesses on all the items.

[@moonbowplushie]

Pole here! Sweet poppy seed pasta is actually a Christmas Dish over here! Usually served after Christmas Eve Dinner, and made with raising, walnuts and honey too!

[@grantbosse6437]

An idea to boost the scoring: 3 points for getting it right; 2 points if your guess shares a border; 1 point for closest.

[@AnyoneGuild]

A dip one of these could be fun. Kiwi onion, Bagna Cauda, skordalia

[@vedant2795]

I suggest not giving point if distance is more than 3000 miles which will also make game more interesting

[@theanita1]

I guess Australian coffee shops have to catch up before Mike gets here 😂😂😂

[@tarahbutler2169]

Enjoyed this so much. Knew none of them. Enjoyed them how much they truly try.

[@sandrap.3399]

Austrian here... No.1 I only know with small long-shaped potato dumplings, called "Mohnnudeln" or "Schupfnudeln". As for calming down children...poppy seeds were often used for pacifiers made of linen, the children sucked on that, we call it "Mohnzutz" (Mohn= german for poppy seeds)

[@soojinumma]

We also have it with the dumplings, it’s called nudli :) we Hungarians love poppy seeds with a lot of things haha

[@ViaAngeles-ve5uj]

Kudos to mike for saying " halo halo" correctly 😊

[@NaishaS]

I love how they gave them the clue of Portuguese colony and they went with former Spanish colonies 😭

[@chris_is_here_oh_no]

Fantastic video, these were some great finds!

[@goldasian347]

Almond tofu is my favorite dim sum dish! It is also very popular if you mix it with fruit cocktail from the cans.

[@acidhelm]

Wooo I guessed São Tomé right! I figured, a place with beaches and coconuts, Portuguese-speaking, gotta be São Tomé.

[@swissfoodie3542]

Same for me. The biggest help for me, was Ben tellings Barry and Mike, that they would not get it. So I knew it would have to be a not so well-known country. Cabo Verde was too easy imo, so I was between Angola and Sao Tome & Principe, but thinking about coconuts & beaches, definitely not Angola.

[@HomesteadJapan]

As soon as the cover came off the last one, I was 99% sure it was Japanese. I loved the reaction to the agaragar jelly. They make some gummies/snacks with it that actually can't be imported into the US because of choking hazard. Recently, some packaging has been changed so they're smaller, but they don't melt like normal galantine will.

[@helenswan705]

Love these, such fun and no ridiculous time pressure. Have you done a Global Christmas video before? Ah yes, I see you have.

[@flea0309]

I instantly knew the last one! I first had it in a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City around 20 years ago and since then I’ve made it several times. I like to serve it with evaporated milk, Kahlúa and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

[@kms7527]

Woot early !!! Its 1am here ! Waited all night for the new video