Greetings everybody! It's been a wild ride so far!
300 episodes! I've just finished 300 episodes!
And I figured, what better way to mark this occasion, than to do another top ten video
about the worst fruit in the world.
Now, the last time that I did a top 10 worst fruit in the world video - that was back
at episode 101.
So, that means that there has been 200 episodes since then and a lot
really bad fruit. So, I hope you enjoy this top 10
of terrible, terrible things.
Enjoy.
It is... gunda!
(The) english name for it would be glueberry.
Glueberries don't taste especially bad,
but the the thing about them that I just can't deal with,
is that they are slimy.
And, they aren't just like plain, old slimy.
They are, like, mucilaginous.
They're so sticky that some cultures actually have a practice
of using these berries, in order to seal evelopes.
When I was trying them, my lips would actually stick together.
Now, people do eat these!
What they'll do in India, is they cook these with a very, very
tasty spice mixture and they'll fry it up altogether.
And, although I did like that spice mixture quite a lot,
I would rather put that mixture on just about anything besides glueberries.
The texture of this thing is like the bloated grape that you would get at the bottom of a fruit cup.
This is actually - I don't know exactly.
But it looks and tastes like
an Indian gooseberry.
Phyllanthus gooseberries are a popular item throughout India and South-East Asia.
However, they are rarely eaten raw.
They're either mixed in water in order to make a drink.
They are pickled and used in salads or they're used as a souring agent in cooking.
I tried 3 different varieties of this type of gooseberry and, while all of them were not very good raw,
the Laotian gooseberry was especially brutal.
It is painfully sour and painfully astringent and has this kind of chemical taste
that's just like really, really difficult to get through.
I'm sure, like, if you used one of those little berries in a big pot of food,
maybe it's fine.
But eating that, just straight of the tree,
is bad.
(spits and coughs)
Not good!
It's kind of odd looking but I'm pretty sure this is actually a palm fruit.
Coconuts are an example of how a palm fruit can have a high fat content and also be completely delicious.
Uxi palm is an example of a fruit that has a high fat content that fails miserably!
Imagine scraping stale clods of oil
of an old deep fryer
and then putting those clods in your mouth.
That is, essentially, what this fruit tastes like.
It tastes like you're taking like a spoon of oil in your mouth when you eat this.
It's actually like - my fingers are actually like shiny. You can probably see that.
Just from holding the outside of this thing.
This one here is a limau kedangsa.
When I looked this thing up online,
the only reference that I found to it
was it's use in a magic spell
in order to make lucky pennies.
I found no reference to it ever being eaten anywhere.
So, naturally, I tasted it.
And, as you can imagine,
it did not taste very good!
It kind of tastes like you took a swig of lemon scented dish soap.
It's really sour. It's really bitter. It's really astringent.
It smells nice!
This is a cempedak right here. Take a look at that guy.
It's as big as my head.
And itt smells worse than my feet after a long day running in the sun.
I love Artocarpus fruits.
Jackfruit, breadfruit, marang.
These are so good!
Cempedak though
is an Artocarpus fruit that a lot of people love.
But I can't stand it!
It's kind of like how some people really, really love durian
but other people really, really hate it.
For me, I can understand durian.
I can see why people love it or hate it.
For cempedak though, I don't understand why people like it.
It has a very, very soft and slimy texture.
It is really, really overwhelmingly sweet.
And it has like this B.O funk to it.
I've had it 3 times and I've even had it deep fried.
And even being fried,
I couldn't get into it.
If you like this fruit, then great.
I'm sorry I don't like it.
You can have it.
It's not too hard to find one of these.
However, this is a little trickier.
This is a, what I believe, is a ripe tomatillo.
Tomatillos may be delicious in salsa verde.
But, the fruits that are used in salsa verde are typically unripe.
If you let one of those tomatillos ripen until they turn yellow,
they are god-awful!
The best way to describe it is if you were to take parmesan cheese,
suck out all of the creaminess,
all of the fattiness and all of the goodness out of it
and instead just left this flat, cheesy funk.
That's what you get.
Ooh, that is bad! That is not good! Makes total sense to use the green ones.
That makes sense! This thing? No!
This is the wood apple.
Ooh, man!
This one got second place
last time I made a top 10 worst fruit video and it still shines as a dreadful piece of produce.
The flesh of the wood apple looks like dirt and it tastes like dirt with cheesy eggnog in it.
If that sounds like a terrible combination, that's because it is!
Some people that saw my video on the wood apple complained that the one I have is
overripe or wasn't good or whatever and I think a lot of people actually are confusing this for bael fruit
which is sometimes called wood apple, but this fruit on the screen right here, is not bael fruit this thing
This thing tastes bad!
(gagging noises and coughing)
Steven: This is Szechuan pepper, which if you've ever had
Szechuan style hotpot, you might have tried this.
Jared: Szechuan peppercorns are wonderful when they're dry.
I use them all the time to add a little bit of their tongue-tingling
spice to either like soups or like a noodle dish or something.
But, when these are fresh, these things are evil!
I ate two tiny, little, miniscule
pieces of this fruit and my mouth felt like it was turning inside out.
It tastes like chemicals, it makes you salivate buckets of spit,
it burns and it makes your tongue vibrate!
How somebody first learned that you can use this thing as a spice is beyond me.
Because, when you eat one of these things raw,
it makes you feel like you're going to die.
(If you) use a little bit of that in cooking, it would be great.
But, straight on it's own - that is awful!
This, everybody, is a soapberry.
Also known as a soap nut.
As the name suggests, soapberries not only
taste exactly like soap - and don't ask me how I know that -
but, they actually can be used as soap.
These little fruits contain saponins, a natural soap compound.
Some cultures actually cultivate this fruit in order to be used as like a laundry detergent.
And, these days, it's even made it's way over to the West, where
people who want a very mild detergent - like if they have like a baby
or they have sensitive skin - they'll use these fruits in order to wash their clothes.
The flavour though, as you can imagine,
oh God no!
It is... terrible.
(It feels) that my mouth is full of soap suds.
That is umm... pretty awful.
I don't want to do this.
Noni isn't just the worst fruit that I've ever eaten.
It's the worst thing that I've ever eaten in general.
I would rather eat a handful of soapberries,
a bunch of Szechuan peppercorns and wash it all down with a glass of wood apple sludge
than to eat this horrible turd of a fruit ever again.
Oh, and I've had it three times now!
In three different states of ripeness.
Unripe noni, which is eaten in Mexico,
tastes kind of like horseradish.
And it's the least offensive of the three.
It's bad, but it's not nearly as bad as the other two.
A ripe noni tastes like if you were to eat a block of cheddar cheese,
vomit that cheese onto a lemon
and then eat that lemon.
And overripe noni,
just makes it stronger.
When I ate overripe noni,
all I had to do was touch it to my tongue
and it made me immediately start gagging.
I have seen this fruit
in almost country that I have visited on this channel.
Noni is typically sold as like a miracle cure and boasts a slew of health benefits.
But, so do hundreds of other fruits.
I would recommend using a miracle cure that doesn't taste like barf.
(Episode 300) *screams into pillow*
It's not very good!
Typically it's sold as a miracle cure and boasts a slew of health benefits.
But, so do
So noisy! Oh my God!
What the hell?
Oh my God! *cat meows*
I love New York! *speaking to cat* Yeah! Hi!
The city's on fire and the cat just pooped.
It's... not a good time to do a voiceover guys.
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