this right here is a Kinder Surprise egg it's a chocolate it's a toy and it's loved the world
over except in the US where it's actually banned for reasons you're probably not aware of because
I wasn't either until I researched this video I'd heard many rumors none of them were true all that
more in today's video where we look at all the foods that the US has decided to ban from around
the world to quote unquote protected citizens let's see about that this pairs really well
with the video I made a couple weeks ago where we look at all the American food and food additives
that are banned around the world first up on our list of world Foods the US has banned haggis wait
haggis the Scottish dish that I had to learn about to get my British citizenship came up specifically
in my British citizenship test video that haggis what's wrong with that it's pretty much a mixture
of oats and spices rammed into a sheep's stomach sheep liver and sheep lung but it's been banned
in the U.S since 1971. what gives it's one of the specific ingredients is it sheep stomach
no sheep liver that's totally fine sheep long banned that is where the usfda draws the long
well I guess that makes sense if you think no it doesn't I think real haggis being banned in the
States you can buy lung lasagis which is a really weird sentence to say but if you are caught with
traditional haggis in the USA you will be fleeced of your money because you have to pay a fine okay
it's illegal I'm done with the Sheep puns he said sheepishly but the whole sheep long thing
is another reason why black pudding a pivotal part of a full English breakfast is also banned in the
states absolutely no lungs allowed and so they replaced the black pudding with more pancakes
and syrup which is actually just corn syrup look it up most American pancake syrup has no maple
syrup in it all is just high fructose corn syrup sometimes I just want the corn syrup rather than
the maple syrup and it's like a third of the cost number two now this one actually wildly surprised
me have you ever heard of tonka beans if you're an American you're like I know what a Tonka truck
is well yes imagine a Tonka truck except don't do that because it's a bean tonka beans have
an intensely strong flavor that resembles vanilla with a touch of Magnolia and some caramel mixed in
as well and it is unanimously loved by all gourmet chefs and think of it as a vanilla bean you don't
actually eat the vanilla bean it's not like a can of Heinz it's just you know you take the little
tiny bits out and you mix it into your dish and that nice little flavor flavors your dessert but
this amazing flavor has a toxic secret you see it contains the chemical compound called coumarin
which in large enough quantities is incredibly toxic to your liver and can also kill you
so once a study had found that dogs and rats died from just two teaspoons of the stuff the usfda
officially banned tonka beans in 1954. however it is such a ubiquitous ingredient in Gourmet cooking
that Gourmet chefs will continue to illegally import tonka beans into the states despite the
fact that the FDA have actually performed raids on different Chef's kitchens going straight to their
spikes covered being like show me the beans it's quite wild yet despite the fact of there
being threats of raids and also it being illegal completely the US is still the number one importer
of tonka beans around the world love it when a law works but if tonka beans are so dangerous why is
it so beloved in Latin America and why is it that the EU hasn't banned it they seem to be pretty
trigger happy on making sure that everybody's safe and all lame time to finally use those math
degrees I got alright let's do some math here okay so did you know that an amount of coumarin
enough to kill you would be one gram alright so we got to avoid having one gram how many tonka beans
would it take to have one gram of coumarin well that would be 30 whole beans however like I said
you don't eat a whole bean it's actually used for flavoring a dish now how many flavorings can we
get out of one bean well one tonka bean results in 80 dishes so one bean flavors 80 dishes and
since you need 30 beans in order to have a toxic amount of coumarin in your system that means you'd
have to have 2 400 dishes worth of tonka beans in order to have a Toxic effect on your body
Americans do eat a lot though so the usfda might have blown things a little bit out of proportion
with the tonka bean but luckily for me I live in the UK and the UK and the EU still have freedom to
eat tonka beans also I do find it really weird that this was the hill the FDA decided to die
on because kumarin is also in cinnamon in a lot higher quantities and yet that's fully legal so
I wonder what rival to tonka beans possibly paid the FDA for that law I don't know now mustard oil
isn't really a popular cooking ingredient in the States but it really is with most Indian
cooking and it has been used in Indian cooking for centuries the thing with mustard oil is it
really has that intense mustard flavor that packs a punch so you have to use it sparingly and you
also have to use it sparingly because it does have some toxic chemical compounds in it mustard oil
contains high levels of arusic acid which is potentially linked to heart problems for this
reason the United States FDA have banned the use of mustard oil in all cooking practices but that
doesn't mean you can't find it on USA shelves you see there's a really easy loophole for this
one I've seen it before you just gotta slap a label on it that says not for human consumption
but you know whatever you do with it after you buy it that's up to you I don't know I'm using
in a soap give it to a child to give to someone else treat it like a pet rock helps me go use the
loop it makes me feel like I must turn oh you'll be sorry for that uh I'm hurting myself with these
pumps all right next up foie gras the foie gras is actually a French delicacy made from a fattened
duck or Goose liver that's eaten in the form of a pate now I added foie gras to this list because in
the last video we saw that the EU bans a lot of U.S food based on their mistreatment of animals
but this is an example of the US doing that same thing so the US doesn't really enjoy that in order
to get foie gras it means that you have to force feed the animals to a point that's pretty inhumane
and as much as I'm saying you know this is banned in the US it's not actually Statewide just certain
states that actually have slight morals for Animal Health that being California that being said it is
also illegal to produce foie gras in the UK and it nearly became illegal to import last year but
the bill never passed but the French don't give a crap okay they don't get a quack but I did just
want to put this one out there because I felt like even though it's not all the us some of the states
were like don't do that bad thing to animals so slightly simple now this one surprised me
more than most of the other ones here but in the US it's illegal to slaughter a horse AKA kill a
horse primarily for human consumption but that is totally fine in the UK and in the EU in fact you
might have seen some news in the reports that Tesco used to have horse meat in their burgers
and the UK went mad there's quite a taboo on horse meat I believe because the animals have helped us
through a lot of forms of society you know we've ridden horses a lot of people have them as pets
heck I grew up with two horses in my property so like I'm a big horse guy myself but this is
actually a good example of the us being like hey no the UK not actually Banning it but going oh we
don't really like it but we'll have some horse meat and our Tesco burgers and complain about
it and then France going shut up and let us enjoy our Shava and now finally the Kinder Surprise egg
now most of you do know that the Kinder Surprise egg is banned in the states in fact on the back
here it says warning toy inside boy that's scary I hate when there's toys I'm glad there's a warning
here small parts adult supervision recommended not not possible to sell to zero to three year
olds if I saw a two-year-old walking in my shop to buy one of these go back to two-year-old School
what did they do at two years old Rupert grint's two-year-old child just goes to Target now most
Brits that I've talked to know that the Kinder Surprise egg is banned in the States but most of
them think it's because Americans are too stupid they'll just eat the whole chocolate toy and all
and choke the kids to death that's not actually why and quite insensitive first of all the truth
is that the US placed a ban on kinder eggs before Kinder Eggs even existed you see in 1938 they
placed a ban on food containing non-nutritive items aka the toy inside of a Kinder egg and this
was a full 20 years before the Kinder Egg was even invented companies would just invent things and go
I use this for a cold use it for a sore throat selling it to people not realizing because they
didn't actually do any research it was actually poison so many Americans were poisoned so many
children died from this poisonous cough syrup that basically the president had to be like whoa hold
on we need a foundation to look over all the Food and Drugs that are entering our American citizens
bodies and making sure they're all safe or at least that a really rich Corporation is going
to tell us that they're safe and then the FDA was born so it might be an archaic law that prevents
the Kinder egg from being sold in the U.S but you can still get the variant of the Kinder Surprise
called the Kinder Joy which isn't really as joyous it's basically a half toy half weird chocolate
moose thing I've never been a fan but then again I've also never really been a fan of these as a
kid though the Wonder Ball this type of thing I would I would have really liked this to be honest
I enjoyed my Cracker Jacks only kinda makti Kinder neethro does and in almost all 50 states the sale
of unpasteurized or raw milk is fully illegal in fact there's a federal ban on the interstate
sale of the stuff so if it's illegal in the state you live in you're not allowed to buy it from a
vendor outside of your state everything is legal in New Jersey except the sale of raw milk that
is banned but on the other hand Arizona actually allows raw milk to be sold as long as there's a
nice warning label on it which seems like the most sensible thing to do though when I think about it
choosing to live in Arizona is probably the least sensible thing you can do so balances out now the
fda's decision to ban raw milk was because the consumption of raw milk is linked to significant
number of food-borne illnesses some of which can result in serious complications and death fair
enough like okay out of all these this seems the most Fair of all of the fda's complaints I mean
we looked at the previous video it was pretty much carcinogenic things that are actively killing you
and harming children and the FDA goes that's cool even though 160 countries abandoned we're going
to keep it up because it makes people money this is a case where they actually went oh you know
this isn't good I don't agree with them because I feel like a warning would make more sense for this
specific case but what is it that Americans are missing out on you might be wondering you probably
aren't someone that normally buys raw milk no but you probably buy stuff that raw milk is made into
such as clotted cream they don't have clotted cream in the states an authentic brie cheese
what no they don't have that common bear no not happening so many good cheeses do you now know why
America has so many things like American cheese spray cheese they won't let us have good cheese
monterey jack is also top tier now you can find these types of illegal cheeses in the States but
they're not really authentic because they've been done using pasteurized milk which changes
the flavor profile quite a bit so if you aren't American watching this video I highly encourage
you your next time you get to visit Europe to try out these cheeses that you don't get a chance to
try because they're probably gonna blow your mind with just how good they are I am very thankful for
the amount of amazing cheeses I get to try but that being said I was gonna cut this one out I
wasn't gonna tell you but I've been thinking about it ever since I learned about it and now I want
you to as well okay we're gonna talk about cheese now everyone knows that mold make some cheese
taste pretty good I love a good blue cheese it's a bit of a weird thing but it's tasty okay it's
accepted but there's a small island off of Italy you know Italian island of Sardinia they've got a
cheese that they've been working on for centuries it's traditional it's banned in the states it's
mostly banned in the EU except because Sardinia is climbing a traditional they can't technically ban
it there and it's called casuarsu now katsumasu it's translates to rotten cheese bear with me
here it's basically sheep's milk made into a pepperino Romano cheese a standard cheese wheel
and then they get a specific fly to lay eggs in there and wait just wait it gets worse they wait
a couple months open up the top and then it's full of maggots just wriggling around and that is that
is when it's at its peak that is when you try this delicious katsu marsu you dip some chips in it you
have some wine with it it's supposedly a delicacy and if the maggots are gone well you can't eat it
anymore because that means it's too far gone so you have to eat it maggots and all and it's just
I will listen I will try anything so I would try this but we've we can all agree U.S UK most of the
EU we did a good thing Banning this weird thing who was the first person to discover this just
left his cheese out one I have no more to eat I must eat the rotten cheese oh it's delicious
I asked my Italian friend about this and what her thoughts were and she said Evan we Italians
pretend Sardinia doesn't exist I'd like to do but something that isn't incredibly cheesy today's
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I'll see you next Sunday goodbye I don't want to live there anymore you can't buy good cheese
at the grocery store everyone gets around the food laws anyway God how useless is the FDA
mustard oil contains high levels of arusic acid which is potentially linked
to heart problems what's Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo is trying to go to sleep
and have a productive dream cycle he's like row row Reggie I'm trying to Arusha dream no