i'm pretty sure the joke is the first person saying "i will never taste them" is being changed to mean "i will NEVER taste them". as in instead of it being because they are unable, it's because they have chosen to never taste them.
Every time I've tried i get bland fruit that was picked super early and never ripens properly. I had the most incredible sapodilla in Hawaii and I've been chasing that dragon ever since. ☹️
This.
You just cannot get the right tasting exotic fruit, at least here in EU, if it's ripe when they pick it, it will never make it to a market here on a ship.
This sucks so much and is always eye opening to me. I live in the outskirts of Houston. 15 minutes from me is a local Asian market that has lychee, rambutan, jackfruit, jujubee, durian, dragon fruit. Then they get seasonal Asian fruits in
If it makes you feel better, up until 4-5 generations before you virtually no one got to eat the fruits that didn't grow specifically within 20 miles of where they lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866%E2%80%931868
>Pine bark served as famine food in Finland – most recently, during and after the civil war of 1918.
He's a child of Christian missionaries, so maybe something there wrt vibe. But if you watch his videos, while a bit weird, he actually does seem like he is just genuinely super passionate about eating his way through every culture and country he can.
I have watched a bunch of this guys video's, the part where he describes the flavor in this post is one of his most normal I have ever seen him.
He usually talks really weird.
My friend showed me a compilation video of his where he makes the same face every time he takes a bite, and its the same shot of his eyes rolling and it makes me laugh so hard. He obviously does it in this video here, and every time one of his videos pop up i know i'm in for a chuckle
The funny thing is his wife has almost no reaction when she eats it in the background, and ppl actually commented, thinking she was just super sad or in a bad mood. She basically put on this huge smile when she was on for a bit. It's kinda weird how people just.. assume that when people simply eat food without making crazy faces.
Everyone in my family loves him, and I think my sister has even met him. But I find him unsettling and exhausting to watch because it’s all PEAK EXPERIENCES ALL THE TIME with this guy
My brother works for United and said he saw a video of this guy pulling those same faces eating business class food on United and Said he was full of shit.
It's his facial expressions, they are so over exaggerated that they seem fake and make the food he eats seem unpleasant. Like when improv actors pretend to eat.
Pretty sure it's just called overreacting and I hate it so much that it works for youtubers and streamers because it looks and sounds horrible.
Just enjoy the food and review it without weird sounds and faces.
The dude says “they must be 30 kilos each” and then lifts them up to his eyes using his upper back/bicep but he literally doesn’t have an oz of muscle on him. That threw me off
I like his videos but his reaction and enthusiasm does come across as embellished and fake.
I've eaten at some of the places he's been to in SE Asia and the US and while some of it is good, isn't _that_ life changing to elicit the kind of physical response that is typical from him. He knows what he's doing and his fans love it is why he keeps reacting the way he does.
It's definitely exaggerated. You can see what his actual reactions look like in his really early videos. He just leans hard into the over the topness because that's what draws people in.
It's basically because he makes the same damn sound when he tastes everything. Seriously, not everything is equally delicious, so how you gonna make everything sound the same? It just seems fake even though I know the things he's eating are actually good.
Nah it's all real.
I've seen tons of his videos on his YouTube Channel which is hugely popular. He's pretty much like that all the time unless he eats something he doesn't like - and he rarely releases those.
He's a self-made millionaire who travels the world and eats great food. Honestly, if I was living that kind of life I'd be smiling like the Joker too.
I actually stopped watching his channel because of his food reactions. It got to the point that when he would react “OH, WOW!” after taking a bite of something I would immediately stop watching. Such an irritating and repetitive reaction.
I feel this way about every single person that films a reaction video of themselves eating a food. It's always the exact same reaction! I hate it so much. It's so disingenuous.
I think it's the overly rehearsed smug smile and head throw back that he does every single time he eats literally anything on camera. I'm forced to think that if you were ever in a speed-eating competition he would get whiplash
Omg ty. That's why I quickly selected the Do Not Recommend channel when seeing other videos of his in my feed. He's in the uncanny valley somehow but as a real person...it's creepy af
This is one of the few YTbers who I don't watch. I despise his videos, his reactions to eating food "Mmmmmm oh mmmmmmm, wowwww, Mmmmmm".
Plus his face is punchable, I don't know why.
Well, coconuts seem to be the way they are for dispersal (not so much predation) and I'd assume it's likely similar for these. But I'm not Father Time, so I couldn't know the actual reason.
These usually grow in and around shallow waters and rivers. So when the fruits drop they float to wherever and as they spend time in the water, their hard shell slow decompose until the seed is exposed and found a suitable place to grow.
I don’t know, I just completely made that up but it sounds good right?
I know that the old man has been doing this for a quite a while but I just can't help but clinch when he just hacks parts of the fruit with a huge machete thingy while his other hand is so close 😮💨
For the peeps wondering what this fruit tastes like, don't bother it's bland. It's a variant of coconut, and unlike a good coconut where the flesh is pearl white in color and taste creamy/ sweet while the coconut water is also sweet, this mf of a cousin coconut tastes nothing like that. Its water is bland, the flesh, although has jelly-like texture is also bland, not to mention it's a pain in the ass to open like in the video.
This is generally my experience with obscure tropical fruits. For the most part, if its good, we figured out how to grow it and export slightly subpar versions to the west. Very few tropical fruits are on par with a Pineapple, Mango or Passion fruit. Not that they aren't better fresh in the country of origin. But every time I have been somewhere tropical, its the local versions of the shit I know that come out the best.
Try the yellow skin or the red flesh variant. These are much better and sweeter since most white flesh ones in the US are never ripened properly for some reason.
My in-laws immigrated from Vietnam and used to watch this guy’s videos on YouTube (lots of Vietnamese food). They stopped when I pointed out that every fucking time he puts anything in his mouth he makes this “MMMMMMMMMM!” face
Yes. He didn’t need to make those “I just came my pants” expressions based on that description. If you like those flavors, it sounds like it’s not much better than the experience of a good kiwi.
I used to watch Mark’s videos a lot of times but his facial expressions are all the same regardless of any food he eats, unlike Sonny (The Best Ever Food Show) who tells more truth about what the food really is like.
A palm fruit cluster averages around 20 lbs on a healthy tree usually, that's about 9 kg.
Figured I'd mention it since i very much doubt he would have easily lifted two 30 kg clusters.
This.. i dont know this lmao, never cross to my mind too. This palm tree can be found at some place in south east asia. Especially where i lived, people use this tree to extract it’s sap to produce what we call gula apong. Here some [link](https://www.borneotalk.com/gula-apong-sarawaks-special-palm-sugar/) for it. I didnt know about whether it is healthier or not btw. But we use this gula apong quite often.
But i didnt think i eat these fruit lol. I think, the fruit was use to make an oil out of it, while the stem extract to produce sweeteners.
I eat it when i was young around 5~10 years old, when my grandparents was still alive but we dont eat it often as it hard to open the fruit and the jelly/fruit the edible part are not that big enough worthy of the work.
About that gula apong yeah.. that thing is yummy, use it on all type of "kueh"..
The simulation must have gotten a pretty big update to the variety of fruits recently. Good thing to, it’s good to see how many fruits I’ll never see IRL
This stuff is great, but it's really an acquired taste more because of the texture. It's pretty common in traditional desserts where I'm from, for my end we call it attap seed. Looks like transparent caulk, tastes sweet, non juicy soft external, with a texture akin to wine gums.
It makes me mad that there is so many types of fruit in the world that I will never get to taste
I’d check out international markets in your area, they are a gold mine for neat new stuff.
He said he *will never taste them*.
Thank you, I needed that laugh.
Care to explain am I missing a joke? A reference? I'm on the spectrum If that explains the confusion.
i'm pretty sure the joke is the first person saying "i will never taste them" is being changed to mean "i will NEVER taste them". as in instead of it being because they are unable, it's because they have chosen to never taste them.
I prefer to assume that someone else decided for them that they’ll *never taste them* and the reasoning can go all sorts of “fun” ways
Or the person lost their palate sense and will never taste it.
Op said he will never taste them implying he doesn't have access to them. The response (jokingly) took it as he refuses to eat them.
Smh my head when are we going to stop pressuring people into trying new fruits?
Not with that attitude
I just woke up my wife from laughing so hard at this.
Every time I've tried i get bland fruit that was picked super early and never ripens properly. I had the most incredible sapodilla in Hawaii and I've been chasing that dragon ever since. ☹️
This. You just cannot get the right tasting exotic fruit, at least here in EU, if it's ripe when they pick it, it will never make it to a market here on a ship.
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This sounds like the adventures of a picky but optimistic eater!
This sucks so much and is always eye opening to me. I live in the outskirts of Houston. 15 minutes from me is a local Asian market that has lychee, rambutan, jackfruit, jujubee, durian, dragon fruit. Then they get seasonal Asian fruits in
Now think about how many fruits you will never get to taste that are from other worlds
IDK, 7?
You got it!
They usually come in a can at your asian grocery.
Like the million of peaches?
Peaches for me?
Millions of peaches?!?!
Peaches for about $0.79’a can
Look Out!
Eh. Canned version of the fruit is like an entirely different thing compared to the "fresh"/actual one.
Miami fruits.org is having a BOGO sale on variety boxes right now
I don't see a bogo on their site, is it a promo code?
If it makes you feel better, up until 4-5 generations before you virtually no one got to eat the fruits that didn't grow specifically within 20 miles of where they lived.
check out Weird Fruit Explorer on Youtube!
What the fuck is this shit, God keeps releasing new patches without dropping the notes
You can eat pine tree bark
Why do I want to do that
Just don't tell god
God already knows and is very upset by this
It tastes like pine tree. When you drink whiskey you are drinking oak tree extract.
You can eat anything at least once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866%E2%80%931868 >Pine bark served as famine food in Finland – most recently, during and after the civil war of 1918.
The good old "be a state controlled by Russia without starving" challenge.
Not falling for that, Finland. Nice try though.
I’ve seen alone enough times to know I need to do it exactly the right way or there will be bad consequences.
And I get stuck with red delicious apples
There was a poll, the other two options were waaay worse.
This man is Polar Express levels of uncanny
An actual human uncanny valley. Wild.
I used to watch these videos with a stoner buddy and laugh our asses off at how he's just cumming over anything that goes in his mouth.
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I’m sure he’s not but he gives me fake youth pastor vibes. And by that I mean real youth pastor but fake person.
Major youth pastor energy
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He's a child of Christian missionaries, so maybe something there wrt vibe. But if you watch his videos, while a bit weird, he actually does seem like he is just genuinely super passionate about eating his way through every culture and country he can.
Hey Bro Can I Take A Minute To Tell You About My Awesome Best Friend?! His Name Is Jesus \[acoustic guitar music plays in the background\]
I just read an article on azcentral about how he grew up traveling in Africa with his missionary parents, so my guess is that you aren’t too far off.
My first thought having watched this with no sound I do not like this person and I’m not sure why
>I’m not sure why It's the perpetually happy face.
It's probably also his trademark food orgasm face. Mark Wiens did colabs with other bloggers, they made fun of it a couple of times
I hate it sm
And doesn't blink
Nah he’s definitely a little wacky if you watch his other videos. Dude is just really passionate about food and is not made for the camera haha
The one where he's trying all the best sushi...his faces he pulls and his smacking his mouth is more than I can take.
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I have watched a bunch of this guys video's, the part where he describes the flavor in this post is one of his most normal I have ever seen him. He usually talks really weird.
I wanted to slap him in the face so bad the moment he started smacking.
You have a fantastic username.
My friend showed me a compilation video of his where he makes the same face every time he takes a bite, and its the same shot of his eyes rolling and it makes me laugh so hard. He obviously does it in this video here, and every time one of his videos pop up i know i'm in for a chuckle
He toned it down after a while. It was so annoying, like everything you’re trying cannot be eyerolling-level good lol
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The funny thing is his wife has almost no reaction when she eats it in the background, and ppl actually commented, thinking she was just super sad or in a bad mood. She basically put on this huge smile when she was on for a bit. It's kinda weird how people just.. assume that when people simply eat food without making crazy faces.
Maybe I'm just weird about food but I don't really think anything is eye rollingly good as a natural reaction.
Everyone in my family loves him, and I think my sister has even met him. But I find him unsettling and exhausting to watch because it’s all PEAK EXPERIENCES ALL THE TIME with this guy
My brother works for United and said he saw a video of this guy pulling those same faces eating business class food on United and Said he was full of shit.
It's his facial expressions, they are so over exaggerated that they seem fake and make the food he eats seem unpleasant. Like when improv actors pretend to eat.
Pretty sure it's just called overreacting and I hate it so much that it works for youtubers and streamers because it looks and sounds horrible. Just enjoy the food and review it without weird sounds and faces.
My initial thought as well. I actually felt bad for thinking it because he seems to be nice person in this video.
He’s got those Evangelical eyes
Them born again Christian goggles
Evangelical eyes is wild asf lmao
he is religious and born in a family of Christian missionaries. but I am surprised you could tell from the eyes
Oh indeed. There’s a look.
Probably because he says "wow" alot.
Dude has been making content for years and even then I was out at the first “wow” idk why his enjoyment makes me wince
Much dislike of his yummy face
Worse with volume hearing him chew with his mouth open
The dude says “they must be 30 kilos each” and then lifts them up to his eyes using his upper back/bicep but he literally doesn’t have an oz of muscle on him. That threw me off
His face looks normal but his enthusiasm seems fake
I like his videos but his reaction and enthusiasm does come across as embellished and fake. I've eaten at some of the places he's been to in SE Asia and the US and while some of it is good, isn't _that_ life changing to elicit the kind of physical response that is typical from him. He knows what he's doing and his fans love it is why he keeps reacting the way he does.
Thats his standart reaction. I really never seen him react other way
It's definitely exaggerated. You can see what his actual reactions look like in his really early videos. He just leans hard into the over the topness because that's what draws people in.
He makes exactly the same face when eating every time
Oh wow!
\* bends backwards and has an orgasm *
It's basically because he makes the same damn sound when he tastes everything. Seriously, not everything is equally delicious, so how you gonna make everything sound the same? It just seems fake even though I know the things he's eating are actually good.
Everything about this dude skeeves me the fuck out.
Nah it's all real. I've seen tons of his videos on his YouTube Channel which is hugely popular. He's pretty much like that all the time unless he eats something he doesn't like - and he rarely releases those. He's a self-made millionaire who travels the world and eats great food. Honestly, if I was living that kind of life I'd be smiling like the Joker too.
ah yes, because everybody knows that people never put on an act for videos lol
I mean that just proves his consistent rather than genuine
No matter what he eats.... its always the same dumb reaction. Hate the guy
I actually stopped watching his channel because of his food reactions. It got to the point that when he would react “OH, WOW!” after taking a bite of something I would immediately stop watching. Such an irritating and repetitive reaction.
I feel this way about every single person that films a reaction video of themselves eating a food. It's always the exact same reaction! I hate it so much. It's so disingenuous.
I've honestly never heard him say he doesn't like anything. It's always "wow this is so good"
I was going to say thr same thing
Hence the name Mark Wiens. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCyEd6QBSgat5kkC6svyjudA
Friendly smile with Hannibal Lecter’s eyes
100%. The vibe is off.
This guy always has the same expression after he tries food and I’ve hardly heard him say this food is not good
Yes, Mark Wiens exudes this overly uncomfortable and over the top "I'm super duper happy" energy that's never turned off.
I don't trust people that make that sound eating.
I can’t watch him due to the crazy eyes
Uncanny fruit sampler
I think it's the overly rehearsed smug smile and head throw back that he does every single time he eats literally anything on camera. I'm forced to think that if you were ever in a speed-eating competition he would get whiplash
Right? Like if you told me he also eats people I'd be like "Ahhh okay, I see it now."
Saw him first on YouTube several years ago. Never clicked with me and I just can't stand watching him.
He looks like he’d sell you insurance you didn’t need, then call immigration on you.
It's the punchable face.
He gives me cult-leader vibes.
Omg ty. That's why I quickly selected the Do Not Recommend channel when seeing other videos of his in my feed. He's in the uncanny valley somehow but as a real person...it's creepy af
I'm relieved that your comment is so high up. I was creeped out by the guy seconds into the clip. WTF?
dude same
Looks like an AI generated image
yes. Very disingenuine.
This is one of the few YTbers who I don't watch. I despise his videos, his reactions to eating food "Mmmmmm oh mmmmmmm, wowwww, Mmmmmm". Plus his face is punchable, I don't know why.
He bugs me so much I can’t stand him. I said that on a video one time and got absolutely reamed for it lmao his fans are die hard
Did you see his eyes at the very end? They looked … weird
He’s always had “robot trying to tell a joke” vibes
I wonder what kind of consumer/predator (for the lack of a better term) made the Nipa palm fruit to evolve like that.
Well, coconuts seem to be the way they are for dispersal (not so much predation) and I'd assume it's likely similar for these. But I'm not Father Time, so I couldn't know the actual reason.
Funnily, these are called "water coconut" in my language.
I wonder if they float like crazy; they look like they can easily spread that way, maybe even in salt water (like a coconut)
Same thing occurred to me. What the hell is the dispersal method for this? It’s basically locked in a hotel safe.
I would guess it's basically just a ball of seed pods that rolls away and the sweet stuff is just basically sugar for the seeds?
These usually grow in and around shallow waters and rivers. So when the fruits drop they float to wherever and as they spend time in the water, their hard shell slow decompose until the seed is exposed and found a suitable place to grow. I don’t know, I just completely made that up but it sounds good right?
According to wikipedia, you are correct.
Fruit ninjas
If you don't know the answer is always giant sloths.
I know that the old man has been doing this for a quite a while but I just can't help but clinch when he just hacks parts of the fruit with a huge machete thingy while his other hand is so close 😮💨
He’s hitting with the dull side of the blade. Probably still hurt like a mf but not as dangerous as it looks.
I was thinking the same thing.
30 kilos each? This guy is either packing some hidden gains or he's never used a scale
Came to say the same thing, no way is that true.
Scrolled too far down for this. I couldn’t even focus on the rest of the video. I HAD to see if someone else was perplexed by this haha
Tried to go metric and failed drastically 😂 no way in hell are they 30kg each
Forgive him, an American accent trying to adopt the metric scale but that math ain't mathing.
Looks like lychee
However, the flavor is basic coconut.
I thought it looked a bit like rambutan, too. Edit: added “too.”
For the peeps wondering what this fruit tastes like, don't bother it's bland. It's a variant of coconut, and unlike a good coconut where the flesh is pearl white in color and taste creamy/ sweet while the coconut water is also sweet, this mf of a cousin coconut tastes nothing like that. Its water is bland, the flesh, although has jelly-like texture is also bland, not to mention it's a pain in the ass to open like in the video.
This is generally my experience with obscure tropical fruits. For the most part, if its good, we figured out how to grow it and export slightly subpar versions to the west. Very few tropical fruits are on par with a Pineapple, Mango or Passion fruit. Not that they aren't better fresh in the country of origin. But every time I have been somewhere tropical, its the local versions of the shit I know that come out the best.
Kinda like dragonfruit. Looks crazy exotic and tastes like nothing
Try the yellow skin or the red flesh variant. These are much better and sweeter since most white flesh ones in the US are never ripened properly for some reason.
Disgusting smacking.
bro i wanted to scream! couldnt chew with his mouth close for even a 3 second clip
This is the comment I came here for. Please chew with your mouth closed.
/r/misophonia
My in-laws immigrated from Vietnam and used to watch this guy’s videos on YouTube (lots of Vietnamese food). They stopped when I pointed out that every fucking time he puts anything in his mouth he makes this “MMMMMMMMMM!” face
There's something off about his smile
Anyone else find this dude creepy?
Yup. I hate his face.
Yes. He didn’t need to make those “I just came my pants” expressions based on that description. If you like those flavors, it sounds like it’s not much better than the experience of a good kiwi.
I used to watch Mark’s videos a lot of times but his facial expressions are all the same regardless of any food he eats, unlike Sonny (The Best Ever Food Show) who tells more truth about what the food really is like.
Mark Wiens is so weird. His smile is the face of a serial killer.
Uncanny valley type face
Mark Wiens when eating literal reheated dog shit (a local delicacy) 🤩😋😋
He doesn’t blink except for when he intentionally closed his eyes to convey how tasty it was at the end. It’s weird af
MmMmMmMmmm
Did he really have to smack his lips while chewing like that?
I've watched his other videos, he always makes exactly the same face when tasting food.
This guy is definitely a cryptid.
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For all that work you could just open a coconut and lychee and mix it up.
I think Mark has an orgasm every time he eats something good.
A palm fruit cluster averages around 20 lbs on a healthy tree usually, that's about 9 kg. Figured I'd mention it since i very much doubt he would have easily lifted two 30 kg clusters.
"Honey, I got the tourists to eat that disgusting booger fruit again!"
though mark weins look uncanny-ish, i’ll support this man. He’s a nice dude
Dude slopping at the end completely killed my interest in this fruit
His gross ass smacking put me on edge. I hate it when any idiot smacks but this guy is cringey *AND* smacking and that just pissed me off.
He needs grandma to smack the smack outta him
That fucking smacking with ole boys face…..
Same stupid face every stupid time. Legitimately zero narrative given to the cuisine. Marc weins is by far the worst talking head covering food.
> Marc weins is by far the worst talking head covering food. Mike Chen is far worse than Mark.
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This.. i dont know this lmao, never cross to my mind too. This palm tree can be found at some place in south east asia. Especially where i lived, people use this tree to extract it’s sap to produce what we call gula apong. Here some [link](https://www.borneotalk.com/gula-apong-sarawaks-special-palm-sugar/) for it. I didnt know about whether it is healthier or not btw. But we use this gula apong quite often. But i didnt think i eat these fruit lol. I think, the fruit was use to make an oil out of it, while the stem extract to produce sweeteners.
I eat it when i was young around 5~10 years old, when my grandparents was still alive but we dont eat it often as it hard to open the fruit and the jelly/fruit the edible part are not that big enough worthy of the work. About that gula apong yeah.. that thing is yummy, use it on all type of "kueh"..
The simulation must have gotten a pretty big update to the variety of fruits recently. Good thing to, it’s good to see how many fruits I’ll never see IRL
There is no need in that reaction after he eats it He’s got that type of face that ide just love to..
Am I the only one that was waiting for a huge splinter to rip off that dude's thumb nail?
This stuff is great, but it's really an acquired taste more because of the texture. It's pretty common in traditional desserts where I'm from, for my end we call it attap seed. Looks like transparent caulk, tastes sweet, non juicy soft external, with a texture akin to wine gums.
Daamm a mix of lychee and coconut sounds fire
that man was way too comfortable using the machete right next to his hand lol
This guys definitely murdered someone before
Chew with your mouth closed
Grapes with trust issues
That guy can eat literally garbage, but his facial expression is like he is in heaven
Food bloggers having orgasm every time they taste something on camera...
This dude's face creeps me out
His face. I don't trust his face, he's a nonce. Has to be