When I was a kid, my Grandmother would visit her family in Germany and would always come home with a literal egg carton full of Kinder Eggs for me. Grandma was a criminal and didn't even know.

Lol they ban sassafras because it's toxic but food coloring, alcohol, refined sugar and yoga mat buns are all FINE. This is completely wrong.

I live in Michigan, which is right next to Canada. It's insanely common for Americans to smuggle back Kinder Eggs via Windsor Ontario. There's often rumors of speakeasy candy stores in the areas that sell the eggs black market. Also kinda surprised by the lack of mention about black currants.

The maggot cheese is def the most wild one on the list imo.💀 That’s just foul.

Raw milk: banned in half the country due to health concerns. Cigarettes: whistling nonchalantly

I love Kinder Eggs, the chocolate is really tasty, but the toys aren't as great as they used to be (that could just be me lol.)

The image was shown of people dining on ortolan without the explanation: Custom dictates that the diner eats the bird while wearing a napkin over their head; this, it is said, is to ensure the rich aromas do not escape while the gourmand chews the bird, bones and all. More recently people also say it is to hid the sin of eating this bird.

For those who haven't had it, Haggis tastes like a spicier, tangier meatloaf.

You guys should do a video on the history of the Fanta drink cause that’s some interesting stuff right there.

It is funny how we’ll ban foods for their possible health risks but I can buy a carton of cigarettes and a gallon of alcohol right now. Could even have the latter delivered to me

If your kid can swallow one of those Kinder capsules, he's earned it!

Raw milk is amazing. I did some IT work for a local dairy and the The guy’s wife asked me if I wanted some fresh unpasteurized milk. I was a bit leery but she assured me that it was totally fine, and that her, her husband and her three kids drink it every day and had never gotten sick from it. That was probably the best tasting milk I have ever had. It was thicker, creamier, and sweeter. Definitely a noticeable difference

Now do a series of “American foods banned everywhere”

Here in Idaho we have lots of raw milk in grocery stores. It tastes a bit creamier and thicker. Great stuff.

Dang! I was ready for a new video. Excited for this one!!

RE: Raw Milk. Roughly 20 years ago, in Texas, my mother found a dairy farmer that Would sell raw milk. The local laws were such, that instead of selling the raw milk directly, we bought in to the farm co-op, and would get a weekly share of milk and cream relative to our buy in. Store bought milk tastes like water, compared to milk that's only had the cream skimmed off it once.

Haggis can be found in the U.S. sans-lungs, but I’ve got to imagine it’s just not as good- and make no mistake, haggis is damn good, not to mention filling as all hell. As for Casu Marzu, part of the reason for the ban still being in place is that the maggots can survive a trip through the human digestive system, causing pseudomyiasis. There’re efforts to produce the cheese without the maggots’ involvement though.

Grew up on raw milk. We even sold our surplus to neighbors. No one ever got sick from it.

Man I frickin love this channel

I feel blessed to have enjoyed a lot of these. And blessed to have not had maggot cheese.

I remember having sassafras tea and cookies every year during my hometown's spring festival. I also like to put brown sugar in my sassafras tea.

Wow. I didn't think there was any cheese grosser than blue cheese. I was wrong

Safrole was also banned do to it being a precursor for the manufacture of MDMA (ecstasy), and it was actually banned by the US FDA in 1960.

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Thanks for this info 🎉

I grew up eating Ackee and Saltfish. I’ve lived most of my life in the US and whenever any family member came to visit from Jamaica, they knew they had to bring ackee. Usually they would partially boil it and freeze it for the trip. I also knew a family friend who did have the tree in her backyard but I’m sure the city eventually cut it down. I was shocked the first time my brother told me that he heard in one of his college classes that it is poisonous. We live in South Florida where there is a large Caribbean community so all you have to do is go into a Jamaican restaurant around breakfast time and buy takeout.

The whole fin thing is actually pretty harsh and heartbreaking. I mean, if you gotta steal their fins, for your benefit, their means of survival, then just kill them, you sorry pieces of crap 🤬

Fortunately, I did my research before posting here. I was all set to say that you missed gaejangguk (a Korean dog meat soup) as rightfully being banned in the USA. To my shock and horror, it is only illegal to eat dog in 6 states. I also thought that you had missed the controversial foie gras (duck/goose liver) but again it is only banned in a handful of places in the USA. While it is very difficult to find, it is because retailers like Amazon have refused to sell it for humane reasons.

Ban haggis but here's a drink with 5tbsp of sugar and 1000mgs of caffeine 😂

I really need to watch HIGHLANDER again. I didn't remember how ironic that scene with Sean Connery was.

I've had Sassafras soda many times! Didn't know it was illegal 😳

Well, I don't thing sassafras extract or ackee are more harmful than American "cheese" or McDonald's burgers.

Oh shiz! Best ever food review dude got a nod by the Voice. His best day ever lol.

This guy has the best narrative voice 🥰

I expected a lot more ignorant comments about the Kinder egg and not understanding that the ban isn't specific to Kinder eggs. In fact, the ban predates the candy by about 40 years.

Yay, a new Weird History Food video! Thanks Weird History Food for posting/creating awesome content!

I'd love to see a video about knock-off brands. For example, did you know Orea was in fact a knock-off and not the original? Despite being the most popular/well known?

you should do a video on the history behind sea salt or himalayan salt vs regular table salt (the truth beind the sodium chloride craze)

Thank you for saying something about shark finning!

Grilled sparrow (complete with heads and wings) are still served as street food in Japan.

Sassafras oil is also used in the production if MDA which with more processing is turned into MDMA.

Can you please do an episode on Miracle Whip?

I was in Scotland last September, and ate haggis most days with breakfast. Very tasty!

the haggis ban is not so bad. since nothing stopping you from making it yourself. all the ingredients are cheap and easy to get at any half-decent butcher. and while it sounds bad, it's such a satisfying meal

It's one thing to know that cheese and yogurt come from curds and cultured bacteria. It's another to see maggots squirming and eat it.

Sassafras is also illegal because it's used in the manufacture of MDMA. It's one of the biggest reasons the trees are in verge of extinction for adult trees. It can take 150 years to reach maturity to use

You forgot to mention Fugu, which is also banned in the US, except in New York, because New York has street cooks that cook it, because they have the license for it.

Sassafras oil is also the precursor for MDMA which is more likely why it's banned :)

good video

Sassafras produces saffrol oil, which is one of the main ingredients in the manufacturing of MDMA, also known as Molly. This compound was first synthesized in the mid 70s. Sure was a convenient coincidence that saffrol oil became illegal in the same decade. 😏

My family has really enjoyed this channel. The narrator's voice matches the video vibe quite nicely. Keep up the good work with the videos.

With all the things that are in food that can cause cancer that are legal, sassafras being banned for that reason is hilarious to me

I had no idea about the existence of ackee fruit (though I don't think I would want to eat one). You learn something new every day.

My family lived in Germany in th early '90s me my siblings had Kinder Eggs all the time. It was super sweet milk chocolate with hints of white chocolate. It's a shame we can't have them here. The little toys were a bonus.

The Stephen Colbert of food is back!

Considering many unhealthy chemicals and ingredients in American foods that are banned here in Europe, it's funny the US would ban haggis the Scottish have been eating for years wich is very healthy

Safrole, from sassafras, is also a key component in the production of MDMA.

Bring back graveyard shift that channel was awesome

I'd probably like haggis. Someone would have to trick me into eating it though, lol. I've also found I have a hard time eating anything that stares back at me....

Mirabelle Plums look good, but I understand why they have to be protected. I would love to see a video on Jack In The Box [even if it's just a little segment, please talk about the little known 1970s JITB characters and the fact they were voiced by Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger], or maybe Howard Johnson's [one of the first restaurants to start franchising, died out because they didn't adapt to the changing fast food market]!

I love weird food history notifications let's do this!

Great video as always. Haggis is a lot more delicious than it sounds, especially with a whisky sauce! 😉

Grandma used to make sassafras tea. Man I loved it

The correct narrator 🙌.

Rawilk with the cream on top is so delicious! Poor birds that's so sad

However, beef pumped full of growth hormones is OK.

At 6:03 I recognize those tattoos from anywhere. That’s Dave Canterbury from the Pathfinder survival school.

Technically, if you have your own shape you can make your own haggis. They just said it couldn't be imported

With the ackee fruit, I was thinking that maybe the U.S. was affraid that the fruit was laced with something else. But just the fact it can be poisonus left me far from that fruit too.

this cheese was invented when someone had a nightmare

Kinder Surprise is even very popular in Germay.Like the other stuff from Ferero.The Toys became Collectibels.

I should make a top ten video of all the times someone used my ackee footage without asking.

The caviar ban probably did not reduce the sale of the fish eggs. It merely allowed people in other countries to afford it. While the U.S., which could afford to pay high prices, was buying a larger share of the product, less affluent countries were left out of the market. With the U.S. gone, poorer countries could now afford it. Unless there is a world wide ban on something, the product, what ever it is, will continue to be sold.

I literally buy kinder eggs for my kids all the time. They are very much sold in the US

Caviar was coming from the Shovel nose sturgeon when there was a shortage from Russia. I’ve caught many sturgeon full of eggs. I let all go. I’m not into the fish egg thing.

I got canned haggis, Mirabelle plum jam, canned ackee fruit

I want to hear the history of genetically modified foods and corn syrup

I ate red caviar in Japan on sushi. I like it, but it's not something I can live without. Never tried the expensive black kind. The texture of it popping when you eat it is the best part. I wanna try a truffle just to see what I was missing out.

Could you please make a video on the history of root beer

When I was a kid and we’d go get firewood dad would get some sassafras root to make tea. Was absolutely delicious.

Raw milk contains good and bad bacteria, cheese made with raw milk is just delicious.

Haggis looks like a thing my parents would cook, its looks ok enough to try

Kinder eggs are actually sold in California. Can find them in almost every grocery store.

Is this a reupload?

I used to get kinder eggs from my grandma when she came back from germany all the time growing up. When i saw that we got them in the US, but theyre just baby ferrero rochet with a toy. So disappointing.

My family buying milk from an Amish farm. Never knew it was illegal to buy raw milk all together.

America allows bleached mass produced "bread" with 15 different carcinogens, bans funny looking chocolate egg

I wish we had White Castle on the west coast. I miss it.

Hmm haggis is something similar we make on balkans, after butchering a pig. Its stomach is cleaned off and you put in some meat mixture. Usually red in color. Although I don't know how its prepared we call it "Švargla". Maybe other countries have different names but its a similar thing. And I can say its delicious.

The US also banned mustard oil for consumption or cooking purposes.

What about Fugue puffer fish, any place in the U.S. that can be gotten?

The USA should banned all junkies food that comes from fast food restaurants. And more..

I would like to know the efficacy of the studies that linked sassafras to cancer. A lot of the studies done during the '70s and earlier did not control for tobacco smokers. A lot of things were linked to cancer that shouldn't have been because nearly all of the participants smoked tobacco and developed cancers from that instead of the thing being studied. Marijuana is a good example of that. Early studies said it was carcinogenic because most participants also smoked tobacco. In reality, cannabis has many anti cancer properties. In the early '90s, Dutch researchers were able to eliminate cancer in mice with cannabis.

I am not sure how kids in the US can choke on the toy inside kinder egg. The capsule is huge!

The sturgeon are also grown on farms in the US, shark fishing, dogfish to be exact is a thing, it's well regulated and finning is a crime, but neither haggis nor kinder surprise has ever killed a person unless they were obese or stupid, Now pasteurized milk saves lives ok, yes in older times drinking fresh milk was ok, but we don't have the digestive system or bacteria our ancestors had, and for kids its dangerous, The bird is to cute to eat, as for the cheese its a matter of taste

There's an English tea room here in California that has a little shop attached, and they sell canned haggis. 🤷‍♀️

I use to love getting the little toys in the kinda surprise eggsa

I was in Scotland for 2 weeks and I only found the canned haggis. No one I talked to knew where I could get it. I had to settle for black pudding.

For some reason, looking at the title on the thumbnail, there's a Bruce Springsteen song running through my head ... 😁

All the Canadians🍁 vibing with kinder 😂