In case anyone is confused why Yao Ming is mentioned it's because he helped raise awareness towards the Chinese public towards shark fin consumption and effectively reducing its consumption there down to 50-70 percent

6:34 Shark fin harvesting is actually worse than explained here. They capture the shark, the fins are cut off from the live shark and the quadruple amputated shark is thrown back into the water, still alive.

7:56 No, Chris, Yao Ming appearing there is not random. The context is that Yao once shot an ad for WildAid for the sake of saving sharks from poachers etc. by persuading people to stop consuming shark fin soup.

Another interesting fact: before joining Houston Rockets, the basketball team Yao Ming was in is Shanghai Sharks : )

Almost all of mankind's food discoveries fall into one of two categories. We saw something else eat it and decided to try it or "dude, I dare you to eat this!"

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Sad to hear about the Covid!!! Hope you recover! Your history videos keep me going

You really need to start reacting to tasting history. It's literally all about the origins of historical foods. Such a good channel and directly answers your question about "how'd they learn to do that."

His videos "Scandalous Pope from the Middle Ages" and "Pre-Industrial Surgeries" are amazing.

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I feel bad for all of our ancestors who found the disgusting or deadly foods.

Imagune being the guy who tries new mushrooms, either its tasty, violently deadly, or gonma send you on a crazy journey.

A bit of a history fun fact regarding Ackee. Ackee was brought to Jamaica in 1778 by Capitan William Bligh as a domestic food source for the enslaved at a time when regular food supplies were blocked due to the American revolution (He also brought breadfruit from the Pacific, another Jamaican staple). It is said that the presence of ackee trees (that have not been recently planted) is a strong indicator of a location of abandoned slave village sites. When I went to Ghana, where ackee is supposed to have originated, it was interesting to find that they had ackee but did not really eat it. I always wonder how much trial and error it took for people to find out how to cook ackee without getting poisoned, to the point that it became our national dish. Anyway, so glad a bit of caribbean history got featured on the channel😊. Big love from a Jamaican history nerd 🇯🇲. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

The person who figured out that cows milk is edible must have been one very strange person.

10:36 apparently legend goes there’s this famous sailor that got trapped in an island after a storm without food. All they managed to find was these bird nests which happened to be edible and tasty.

Ok the worse thing never want to think about eating is from Iceland.....Hákarl which is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months.
So the corpse of a Rotting pickled shark which apparently smells of Ammonia. Now I can only think that this was found due to the requirement of Survival in a shipwreck and this was the only think someone found to eat on a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic

Bone marrow has a very significant amount of nutritional value and is also absolutely rich and delicious. This is why most soup stocks today are made using bones.

I love how he went from accepting to down right disgusted so fast

Love it! Even if it's not specific history we still love your reactions & commentary to just about anything.

2:35 Your family made what we call Dulce de Leche (Literally translates to milk candy). It's very popular here in Argentina, like Nutella is in America times 10. And, although it's a bit different here since we don't add the peanut butter it was invented pretty much the same way, by accident!

In the mid 1800s one of our "próceres" (Important historical figures) Juan Manuel de Rosas loved to drink milk with a lot of sugar. Even back them they understood that milk had to be boiled to stop it from killing you, and since the man wanted his milk with extra sugar one of his servants decided to just put it on the pot from the get go. Thing is she forgot the pot on the fire and when she came back it turned into that candy you speak off, she was about to throw it away but Rosas came with a spoon and said "Hold on a second I think you might accidentally be onto something", took a spoonful and ate it. It was the best thing in the world so he asked them to keep making it, and those servants spoke about it to other servants and Rosas spoke about it to other important people who in turn asked their servants to recreate it.

The result: Dulce de Leche is now a part of Argentine culture like Mate and Football (The correct football). I mean we literally put the stuff on everything, if it's sweet someone is going to add some Dulce de Leche on it and make it even sweeter

Banning something can make a great demand, when Monty Pythons "Life of Brian" was banned in Norway, Sweden made the advertisment..Life of Brian, so funny it was banned in Norway (or something along those lines).

Really surprised you didn't know about the shark fin soup thing! It's been a bug topic of conversation because often the sharks are simply maimed of their fins and left to die in the ocean, there's a big movement for awareness especially in China and one of the poster boys is Yao Ming

I bet the other channel is Oversimplified.
Also from my understanding of sharkfin soup, it's just a flex. The soup itself tastes like nothingness, has little nutritional value and is expensive af, you only eat it to impress your date.