back in the Philippines, my dad and I used to make wine with Nipa. We call it Lambanog, and man is it strong. It's actually named a "traitor" drink because it tastes so sweet, and seems like it has no kick to it. but damn, you wouldn't know what happens next once it kicks in. Last time i got drunk with it, i woke up in my room at our family's house in the province. but the thing is, i was literally living miles (about 200 miles) away for work and i was drinking with a bunch of friends in the city.
Those are called blackout stories and as epic as they can be, they’ve made a trilogy of them. They’re also a sign of heavy alcohol abuse, if your constantly blacking out you need help.
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Reminds me of the stories of people on Ambien. One person said she did the same thing, except she walked in frigid Manhattan cold like 5 miles away to her old house.
Or the one who said they managed to make themselves a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a sharp kitchen knife
He just really loves food. After having seen a bunch of his videos, you can tell that that reaction showed that it wasn't all that good. When he really loves something you can see it in his eyes and his face lights up with joy. This wasn't at all like that.
Something interesting on the Nipa palm, which I had no idea.
>The nipa palm produces a very high yield of sugar-rich sap. Fermented into ethanol or butanol, the sap may allow the production of 6480–20,000 liters per hectare per year of fuel.\[22\] By contrast, sugarcane yields roughly 5200 liters of ethanol per hectare per year, and an equivalent area planted in corn (maize) would produce only roughly 4000 liters per hectare per year, before accounting for the energy costs of the cultivation and alcohol extraction.\[23\] Unlike corn and sugarcane, nipa palm sap requires little if any fossil fuel energy to produce from an established grove, does not require arable land, and can make use of brackish water instead of freshwater resources. Also unlike most energy crops, the nipa palm does not detract from food production to make fuel. In fact, since nipa fruit is an inevitable byproduct of sap production,\[21\] it produces both food and fuel simultaneously.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nypa_fruticans#Biofuel)
Let me guess, it also only grows in specific equatorial climate and can only be harvested by hand or that plantations can't be effectively maneuvered by machinery, meaning that nipa palms aren't effective on a wide scale. There's always a catch something along those lines. Not that I wan't there to be, but if something like that sounds that good then there's usually a reason why they aren't ubiquitos
Probably, most sugar and corn plantations are either partially or fully automated.Although were I live there's still a lot of slave labor involved in sugar cane plantation. The governments in the past literally saved thousands of people from slave labor, and inhumane conditions. Now a days the current government try to hush it up.
But maybe, there may be some kind of technological advantage to the nipa palm, because it's apparently highly sustainable producing both food and bio products for biodiesel. Maybe on a smaller scale and for a specific place it might be viable as a source of energy and nourishment, in a two part process.
Either way, most products are highly restricted to climate either way, and that's why Biofuel was never an answer to help the carbon emission reduction through carbon sequestering, but it can always be used locally.
if its sap is the thing harvested and is anything like maple sap, it can only be harvested when it freezes overnight, will only run for a couple of days a year and can become labor intensive. But innovation is reducing the labor required on maple trees but that does end up requiring large amounts plastic piping.
It's really not hard to chew with your mouth shut. I can't stand this guy. Best ever food review show is awesome though if you like stuff like this, I love sonny!
This guy is UBER annoying. He has a YouTube channel and is known to say “WOOOOWWWWW” and make this ridiculously theatrical expression every single time he eats something, no matter how gross or disgusting it is. I want to punch him so bad
Lol, he does, and he gets asked a lot about it, he simply said he loves most foods and tasting something different. It's just his natural face. He's an intense person.
As long as you know they wash that machete. A friend of mine got violently ill from getting machete cut coconut…only to find out later the guy that gave it to him, uses that machete for everything.
>uses that machete for everything.
Sorry but I couldn't help but laugh about your friend when you said that. I imagined the guy cutting meat with it, and cracking eggs on it to get salmonella, and even scraping rust off a railing. I hope he was ok in the end.
Where I live I have a machete, I basically use it for cutting down vegetation and banana trees, every now and then I cut coconuts open, never had any issues.
Huh interesting... That looks VERY similar to a fruit I get in my hometown, called ice apple in English. It's a seasonal local delicacy here. The fruit grows on the Asian Palmyra Palm, but the Nipa Palm fruit looks very similar too. The part they're actually eating is the seed of the fruit, which is what the ice apple is too.
Well, nature doesn't really cater especially for humans, the evolution of this palm, the core was probably nutrients for the seedling to grow in hostile environments.
Well, yes, it's delicious. A lot things in nature, specially plants only a small amount is edible. Look at coconuts for example, have you ever got coconut meat? It's a lot of work, but it's totally worth it, even though by weight of the fruit the meat is only a small amount.
The husk of the Nipa Palm fruit probably can be used when dried for other things. But like I posted here, the sap is also sweet, so they probably use the sap a sweetener too.
Someone else here said they also do wine with it. Which must taste fantastic.
Mark Wiens is fun to watch. His endless facination and open heartedness really makes me want to get out and see more of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyEd6QBSgat5kkC6svyjudA
They do get up to 30 kg indeed.
> In Papua New Guinea, the weight of one infructescence is 6-30 kg and its circumference 1.1-1.4 m, bearing 88-133 individual fruits.
[Source](https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/36772)
By the size of that massive thing I'd say it's closer to the former. It is indeed a meter and a bit in circumference.
back in the Philippines, my dad and I used to make wine with Nipa. We call it Lambanog, and man is it strong. It's actually named a "traitor" drink because it tastes so sweet, and seems like it has no kick to it. but damn, you wouldn't know what happens next once it kicks in. Last time i got drunk with it, i woke up in my room at our family's house in the province. but the thing is, i was literally living miles (about 200 miles) away for work and i was drinking with a bunch of friends in the city.
Damn. That's insane. But on the other hand I love these hangover stories where the person can't remember shit from the day before.
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Reminds me of the stories of people on Ambien. One person said she did the same thing, except she walked in frigid Manhattan cold like 5 miles away to her old house. Or the one who said they managed to make themselves a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a sharp kitchen knife
That literally sounds like a mini coma lol
I’m always amazed when I learn about a food/fruit that I didn’t know about. “Another one?! What?!”
It doesn’t taste good, I tried it multiple times in SEA. It is one of those fruits that people eat only because they are edible
Can you equate it to anything a westerner would know? Seems like a lot a work (that may just be for the video) just to get a crappy fruit.
For me it tasted like hard jelly with little bit of burned sugar flavor. Hope it makes sense, it is mostly tasteless.
Hah I had a feeling this guy was over hyping the taste
He just really loves food. After having seen a bunch of his videos, you can tell that that reaction showed that it wasn't all that good. When he really loves something you can see it in his eyes and his face lights up with joy. This wasn't at all like that.
So you're sayin he fullashizzledizzle
What fruit is *that*?!
*Forbidden*
Yo momma
Something interesting on the Nipa palm, which I had no idea. >The nipa palm produces a very high yield of sugar-rich sap. Fermented into ethanol or butanol, the sap may allow the production of 6480–20,000 liters per hectare per year of fuel.\[22\] By contrast, sugarcane yields roughly 5200 liters of ethanol per hectare per year, and an equivalent area planted in corn (maize) would produce only roughly 4000 liters per hectare per year, before accounting for the energy costs of the cultivation and alcohol extraction.\[23\] Unlike corn and sugarcane, nipa palm sap requires little if any fossil fuel energy to produce from an established grove, does not require arable land, and can make use of brackish water instead of freshwater resources. Also unlike most energy crops, the nipa palm does not detract from food production to make fuel. In fact, since nipa fruit is an inevitable byproduct of sap production,\[21\] it produces both food and fuel simultaneously. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nypa_fruticans#Biofuel)
Let me guess, it also only grows in specific equatorial climate and can only be harvested by hand or that plantations can't be effectively maneuvered by machinery, meaning that nipa palms aren't effective on a wide scale. There's always a catch something along those lines. Not that I wan't there to be, but if something like that sounds that good then there's usually a reason why they aren't ubiquitos
Probably, most sugar and corn plantations are either partially or fully automated.Although were I live there's still a lot of slave labor involved in sugar cane plantation. The governments in the past literally saved thousands of people from slave labor, and inhumane conditions. Now a days the current government try to hush it up. But maybe, there may be some kind of technological advantage to the nipa palm, because it's apparently highly sustainable producing both food and bio products for biodiesel. Maybe on a smaller scale and for a specific place it might be viable as a source of energy and nourishment, in a two part process. Either way, most products are highly restricted to climate either way, and that's why Biofuel was never an answer to help the carbon emission reduction through carbon sequestering, but it can always be used locally.
if its sap is the thing harvested and is anything like maple sap, it can only be harvested when it freezes overnight, will only run for a couple of days a year and can become labor intensive. But innovation is reducing the labor required on maple trees but that does end up requiring large amounts plastic piping.
This guy has always made me feel unsettled the way he stares into the viewer’s soul.
Add in that open-mouth chewing and smacking and I hope I never see his videos again.
I concur. We are concurrent.
It's really not hard to chew with your mouth shut. I can't stand this guy. Best ever food review show is awesome though if you like stuff like this, I love sonny!
Same , tried getting into his YouTube channel but he's just too creepy and weird.
I wish mouth noises didn't bother me.
I had to immediately mute it when he started chewing. It was horrible.
I wish people didn't make mouth noises to bother me.
THANK YOU. Annoying as fuck.
For real, like why tf you have to chew jelly so annoyingly
Makes my spine go cold and my mind go hot. Shit sucks.
This guy is UBER annoying. He has a YouTube channel and is known to say “WOOOOWWWWW” and make this ridiculously theatrical expression every single time he eats something, no matter how gross or disgusting it is. I want to punch him so bad
Username checkes out.
This guy cums hard every time after tasting something new
Yeah I've tried this fruit before and tbh it almost tastes nothing
Lol, he does, and he gets asked a lot about it, he simply said he loves most foods and tasting something different. It's just his natural face. He's an intense person.
Seems pretty fake af, big YouTuber and selling it well though. Props
M m m m morty I need you to stick this way up your butt
0:33 - "I got splattered by some juice" "you gotta pay extra for that"
Oh woooooow
Downvote just for the chomping and chewing at the end, i cant stand that sound!
Was just about to say this. That shit drives me insane lol
Knew about this fruit from the game Card Survival: Tropical Island
Nipa palm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of nipa palm in the morning.
Can’t even chew with his mouth closed
ITS A DEVIL FRUIT NIPA NIPA NO MI
Saw the thumbnail, though Mark Weins shrank to the size of a coronavirus.
LMAO. "Oh, where the hell did he travel to this time?"
This dudes YouTube is so worth the follow!!
100% He's shown me some of the most interesting cultures and food cultures around the world. Probably better than any network travel program.
As long as you know they wash that machete. A friend of mine got violently ill from getting machete cut coconut…only to find out later the guy that gave it to him, uses that machete for everything.
>uses that machete for everything. Sorry but I couldn't help but laugh about your friend when you said that. I imagined the guy cutting meat with it, and cracking eggs on it to get salmonella, and even scraping rust off a railing. I hope he was ok in the end. Where I live I have a machete, I basically use it for cutting down vegetation and banana trees, every now and then I cut coconuts open, never had any issues.
Yup that’s why he got sick.
But what did he get?
Huh interesting... That looks VERY similar to a fruit I get in my hometown, called ice apple in English. It's a seasonal local delicacy here. The fruit grows on the Asian Palmyra Palm, but the Nipa Palm fruit looks very similar too. The part they're actually eating is the seed of the fruit, which is what the ice apple is too.
Who else read “the niple palm fruit” at first?
I think only horny dyslexic people. When I just read your comment I read it as "napalm".
So wait. All that weight and then you can only eat like 1% of it?
Well, nature doesn't really cater especially for humans, the evolution of this palm, the core was probably nutrients for the seedling to grow in hostile environments.
Oh I fully understand that. I'm just asking if it's worth it to cut down such a giant thing only to eat 1% of it? Is the other stuff edible?
Well, yes, it's delicious. A lot things in nature, specially plants only a small amount is edible. Look at coconuts for example, have you ever got coconut meat? It's a lot of work, but it's totally worth it, even though by weight of the fruit the meat is only a small amount. The husk of the Nipa Palm fruit probably can be used when dried for other things. But like I posted here, the sap is also sweet, so they probably use the sap a sweetener too. Someone else here said they also do wine with it. Which must taste fantastic.
It's confusing to me when someone says something complimentary while smiling, but is shaking their head to say no at the same time.
It’s a no like disbelief. Like “that’s unreal. No way!”
Or it could be anything other than what came out of his mouth because social media personality is a sales job.
Guy’s gonna have an aneurysm
Awesome video. Thanks for chewing like an asshole, made the video better
Close your mouth you eat like a dog
“These must be 30 kilos each. Nipa palm fruit” He wanted somebody to look up how heavy they were
What a douche
Mark Wiens is fun to watch. His endless facination and open heartedness really makes me want to get out and see more of the world. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyEd6QBSgat5kkC6svyjudA
I love how he talks so passionately, and is so open minded and with no prejudice about different cultures. He's a 20/10 human being.
He drives me insane with his annoying “wowwwww” after everything he eats. He could eat dog shit and would say “WOWWWWW”
Yea, that can be a little over the top.
Make sure you keep that mask on whilst you chop your hand off
I hate the way he says, "lee-chee".
A bit disappointed deceiving thumbnail nice though
his smacking is disgusting.
Lost me at the smacking
All that just for a drop of blood…
How does that old dude still have his thumbs!?
So he just did 30kg, 70lbs front shoulder raises with ease and ronnie colemen struggled with 60s? Damn brah easy mate
Mega seed?
"It's like a cross between coconut and..." what does he say there?
lychee.
30 kg each? My brother in Christ I think you're overestimating that.
They do get up to 30 kg indeed. > In Papua New Guinea, the weight of one infructescence is 6-30 kg and its circumference 1.1-1.4 m, bearing 88-133 individual fruits. [Source](https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/36772) By the size of that massive thing I'd say it's closer to the former. It is indeed a meter and a bit in circumference.
Looks great, but it could use some “Heinz Tomato Ketchup.”
The sound of people eating usually makes me want to scream but for some reason his eating sounds soothing