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Let's find out what our task is this week.

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What's the world's weirdest diet?

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The Gastronuts uncovering the world's weirdest diets today are:

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The weirdest diet I've heard of is eating hamster.

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Maple syrup and olive oil.

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Cooked badger. I think it might taste like smelly poo.

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Ox tongue because it's a tongue and it comes from an animal.

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We have tongues and it's bloody. Eugh!

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Coming up on today's show.

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The Gastronuts get their heads around eating brains.

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It just looks wrong.

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They discover the glamorous diet of an Arctic explorer.

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It's like something you find

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on the bottom of your mum's cooking pan.

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And they dine on a dinner that is fit for a King.

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All that is coming up later.

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First, the question today is what is the world's weirdest diet?

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I'm not just talking about people trying to lose weight,

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but people who eat strange things for some reason.

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Anyone know of a strange diet?

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I've got a friend who just eats ham and has to have ham with everything.

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-Why?

-I think she just loves it.

-She has to have it.

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What happens when she doesn't have ham with the meal?

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She gets quite angry.

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And demands ham. Bring me ham!

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OK. Alex, any ideas about people who eat certain ways?

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Vegetarians don't eat meat.

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Some people don't like meat or they think eating meat is wrong.

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Would you be a vegetarian?

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I like meat too much.

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Yes, same here. Anyone else, what do you reckon Ellen?

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My friend's mum is on a diet to lose weight.

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-She's only eating chocolate and milkshakes.

-Would you ever do it?

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I like the sound of it.

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A life of chocolate. Not a bad idea, I guess, is it? Nathan?

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I won't eat anything green.

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-You won't eat anything green. Why's that?

-It tastes plain.

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I don't like the taste.

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You've come up with a new religion. Anti-greenism or something.

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Today, we're going to look at why people eat certain foods

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that seem a little bit weird to us or maybe a bit disgusting,

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but make complete sense for them. OK, are you up for this?

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-ALL: Yes!

-OK, let's go!

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Colin Jackson is a former 110m hurdler who won gold

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at the Commonwealth, European and World Championships

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and held the world record for an astonishing 13 years,

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but what was the diet that fuelled him to victory?

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Gastronuts Colin, Colin Gastronuts.

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What's happening?

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What we want to know is how do you create

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a running machine like yourself?

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How much does food play a part in it?

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Well, food is your fuel. It's the most important thing for any

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sports person, to get the energy to go out there and compete and train.

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Do you have time to cook for yourself?

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You want the right minerals and vitamins, everything that gives you

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the right type of energy. It's pretty important that you cook for yourself.

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Do you usually eat fast food or do you have it every once in a while?

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Does fast food make you fast?

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I know of lots of athletes who used to eat a lot of fast food.

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But, me, no, I want to eat more pure food which I think was better for me.

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Underneath one of these lids is what Colin eats as an athlete.

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What will be in it?

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-Carrots.

-Salad, vegetables.

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-Healthy food.

-Just healthy food.

-Colin, would you like to show us?

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All right.

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-Da, da!

-It looks quite nice.

-OK.

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Chicken is really good for you.

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It's really high in protein which helps you build muscles.

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The salad will fill you up.

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It's also really high in minerals, vitamins and also fibre.

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So, this is the sort of food that a power athlete would eat.

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Does that mean you would be rubbish at a marathon?

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Yeah. That is not the real source

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of energy that somebody who runs for a long distance or football players,

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people who are active for a long time, would rely on.

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-What would they need?

-More carbohydrates.

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They call it complex carbohydrates,

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something that gives you energy, but over a long period of time.

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Complex carbohydrates are found

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in foods such as bread, pasta, potatoes and rice.

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They are good for athletes who need energy for long periods of time.

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A sprinter, like Colin, only needs to perform for a few seconds.

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-He gets his energy from a rather surprising source.

-Ready?

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ALL: Ooh!

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Yummy.

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-Does that surprise you to see chocolate and sweets?

-Mm-hm.

-Yes.

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There is always a good reason for it.

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After training you really need your energy back quickly.

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So, I'd have wine gums. They are full of sugar which gives you a lift.

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But there's zero fat in them.

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Also, the chocolate was perfect.

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It has sugar, it has fat, which slows down your digestive system.

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It's also got the carbohydrate to give me an energy boost.

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Let's be honest, it tastes good as well, right? Yes?

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I'd eat that much the evening before a competition.

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200 grams worth of chocolate there.

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I'd have to get it down me

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to make sure I could perform well the next day.

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Because you are obsessed with your food, I wondered if you could

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create for us an athlete's salad.

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Yep.

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By the way, Colin, I don't think I mentioned... this it's a race, mate.

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No way!

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-Come on.

-No way!

-YE-E-ES!

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Whoo-hoo! Well done.

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-Well done, guys.

-Skin!

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Where were you?

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At the back!

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Well done, Alex.

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We managed to beat a world champion even without eating like he does.

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What other weird diets do professional sports people have?

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You, Ellen, are a sumo wrestler.

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-Strong.

-Big, fat, strong. Swimmer, Nathan?

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-Sporty.

-Lithe, strong.

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Alex, you are a footballer.

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Footballers need to be able to run around a lot, I guess, don't they?

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-Yeah.

-And a jockey.

-They can't be too big

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or the horse might break their back.

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So, let's look at what foods you are eating here.

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You are a jockey. This is what you'd have.

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Jockeys eat pretty good meals, with a big range of different foods.

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Just a relatively small portion.

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Would you be happy with that meal?

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No. Not enough for you, is it? There we go. That is a jockey's meal.

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Nathan, this is a special meal for a swimmer. Why is it special?

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It has complex carbohydrates.

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This is the breakfast that

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Michael Phelps ate before he did the Olympics. He won eight gold medals.

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He ate vast amounts of food every day

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because he just needs masses and masses of energy.

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'Michael Phelps ate the breakfast of a champion.

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'Well, actually several champions.

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'It consisted of three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, tomatoes,

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'lettuce, fried onions and mayonnaise

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'followed by three chocolate chip pancakes, a five egg omelette,

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three sugar coated slices of French toast, a bowl of porridge

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and two cups of coffee.

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Could you eat that for breakfast, do you think? You could.

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Top man!

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Alex, what do you have here?

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-Energy drinks. Pasta.

-Footballers,

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they need a lot of energy that will release slowly over time.

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They need a lot of salt which is why they have lots of fluids to last

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them throughout the whole match. Would you like that kind of meal?

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-Yeah.

-It's pretty good, isn't it?

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Big lady, let's look at your meal.

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Why do you think a sumo wrestler needs this?

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-Because it's got so much.

-There's so much food.

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What sort of food you have got?

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-Everything.

-Everything.

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This is called Chankonabe.

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'Sumos skip breakfast. They exercise on an empty stomach and eat

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'before they go to bed so they don't burn off any food they have eaten.

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'In doing this, their bodies store fat and put on loads of weight.'

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Although they look fat, there is a vast amount of muscle underneath it.

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They are fighting fit.

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Do you think you could eat that whole meal at one sitting?

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-No.

-It's pretty difficult, isn't it?

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Who would plug for the footballer's diet?

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Two votes. The swimmer's diet.

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OK. So that means none for the jockey's diet

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and none for the sumo wrestler's diet.

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We are both footballers or swimmers.

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So, we've learnt that sports people not only need to eat a good diet,

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but by eating specific foods they use the energy released

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to enhance their performance. In some cases become world champions.

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There are some diets where people

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eat specific foods for health reasons. Other diets where people

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eat specific foods because it's all that is available for survival.

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We will look at one diet that combines survival and health in one.

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Gastronuts, let's dine like it's 1944.

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That's not working.

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Is this the kind of food that you'd eat on a normal day?

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-ALL: Yup.

-It's good stuff. A bit of meat, sweets, sandwiches.

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You like chocolate?

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-ALL: Yeah.

-OK. Well, during the war you didn't have...

-No!

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-You didn't have that.

-Uh!

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-You didn't have that.

-NO!

-I'm afraid so.

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-And you didn't have that.

-NO-O!

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Do you think you would still survive quite like this for a day?

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-ALL: Yes.

-Not so bad, is it?

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During World War II, and for some years after,

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foods such as meat, milk, eggs, sugar and sweets were rationed.

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Even foods that weren't rationed were often in short supply.

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In the war, all of Europe was occupied.

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We couldn't get any of the food that normally gets imported from Europe.

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It was difficult for ships to cross the sea bringing

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all the foods we normally get from a long way away like fruit, rice.

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You would have to make do with foods that were grown

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in the UK as far as possible.

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And to make sure that you didn't buy more food than you were allowed...

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You'd get rationed.

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You'd all have one of these.

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There we go. Have a flick through. What can you see in there?

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-Are these coupons?

-These are coupons.

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One for meat, butter and margarine.

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You'd have to give in your coupon.

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You would only be able to buy this amount of food every week.

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People were encouraged to dig up their back gardens and plant food.

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We would make use of absolutely everything that you can get

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from animals, from vegetables, and people were creative with food.

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Would you like to find out?

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-Yes.

-OK. Come over here.

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-Urgh!

-What's that?

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-Plants?

-Plants. They are indeed plants.

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Don't grab these.

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-Stinging nettles?

-Exactly. They were really good, they grew everywhere.

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You didn't need to plant them.

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People would use them in what?

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-Soup.

-You're good! Grab a little teaspoon of that.

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Be careful. Have you eaten stinging nettles before?

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-They do really sting.

-Why are you telling us this?

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OK, I'm fibbing.

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Stinging nettles don't sting once they've been cooked.

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-It's OK. I'd put up with it for my food.

-That's brilliant.

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-I'm very impressed.

-I won't.

-Ellen is less keen.

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-It doesn't taste nice.

-I wouldn't each much of it.

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The stinging nettles didn't taste, it was the soup that tasted.

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OK. In wartime it wasn't just trying to get the most out of hedgerows,

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people had to make use of every last bit of meat.

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Every last bit of an animal. What's this?

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Umm, the heart.

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Brilliant. In wartime you wouldn't throw these away.

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You'd put them in your pot and they would end up looking like this.

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Stuffed lamb's heart.

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-Lamb.

-Little baby...

-Oh!

-..fluffy lamb.

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Let's all take a little piece.

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-It's nice.

-What does it taste like?

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-Lamb.

-Lamb.

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Well done. Let's take a look at the next one.

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Argh! Intestines.

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Very nearly. What would you find in the head?

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-Brain.

-Brains. What do you think about the idea of eating brains?

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-Revolting. It just looks wrong.

-You're going to break the mould.

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I'd like to introduce you to brains on toast.

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Just don't say it's brains.

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-Say it's tuna.

-It looks like tuna.

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Brains used to be commonly eaten in Britain. These are sheep's brains.

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Traditionally served on toast with parsley sauce.

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It literally is food for thought.

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-Let's tuck in.

-# Insane in the membrane

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# Insane in the brain

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# Insane in the membrane... #

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-I really don't like that.

-Quite nice. It's really slimy.

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If you eat brain, does your brain increase and get cleverer?

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It's really good for you but it doesn't mean

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your brain will be any better. But it's a really good meat.

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Masses of protein. This is what kids in World War II needed.

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Now, open up that red cover for me.

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This is tripe.

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Tripe is the lining of an animal's stomach. Usually a cow's.

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It's low in fat, high in protein.

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But some people are put off by its unusual smell and texture.

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Will the Gastronuts be able to stomach it?

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That, my friends, is curried tripe.

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-How do you feel about the idea of this?

-Not so good.

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It's weird. You're eating stomach and it's going into your stomach.

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Sounds good to me. OK, everyone have a taste.

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Argh!

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Oh, you put your...

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Nathan's gone for it.

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What do you reckon, Nathan?

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Go on, Ellen, give it a go. How come it's the stomach

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-that makes you go funny?

-Eugh!

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-It's chewy.

-If you didn't know what it was,

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you would probably think it was noodles.

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If it was plain, I wouldn't eat it.

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The cow guts got a mixed reception.

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But there's another even weirder part of the animal

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that was eaten during the war.

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-Ever seen one of these fellas before?

-It's a cow foot.

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It's a cow foot. You chop it up into pieces.

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You need a really good saw or a massive knife.

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It's really, really thick bone. Then add a few herbs, loads of water,

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boil for three or four hours.

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You are then left with a sticky substance called gelatine.

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Believe it or not, this is the jelly you have in your ice-cream

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or that's used in chewy sweets.

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The gelatine is diced up and mixed with our old parsley sauce.

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Will it make the cow heel any more inviting? OK everyone.

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Have a little taste.

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-So, what do you think?

-It's got a jelly texture.

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-What about the flavour?

-Vegetables.

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-Just jelly.

-What's bad about jelly?

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I don't like jelly.

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-It doesn't have flavour to it.

-True.

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It doesn't have that much flavour. The wartime diet

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has less fat, they're getting more vegetables,

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eating less meat. It's actually a very, very healthy way to eat.

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Bizarrely, although they had

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less available to them, a lot of people were really, really healthy.

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Why do some cans float and some cans sink? Let me explain.

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We have six cans of different drinks.

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We're going to put them into some water here.

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I want you to watch what happens.

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Three of them sink to the bottom,

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three stay at the top. Why the difference?

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Well, if you look at them, you'll realise that the three that float

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are actually the diet ones, while the sugared drinks go down to the bottom.

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Why should this be?

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Well, the reason is, the volume is exactly the same.

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What must be different is the weight.

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That means the sugar ones are actually denser.

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Now the sweetener you have in diet drinks is so much sweeter than sugar

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that you need much less to make it as sweet as the sugared one.

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So that means the sugared drinks are much heavier.

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It's a bit like the difference

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between a cricket ball and a tennis ball.

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The cricket ball and the tennis ball are about the same size.

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The cricket ball is much denser, heavier, and sinks in water.

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While the tennis ball floats.

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We're looking into the world's weirdest diets.

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So far, the Gastronuts have learnt how you can eat your way to success.

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They've stuffed their guts with wartime weirdness.

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Later on, they show us some bling when they dine like a king.

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You need to put the whole jar

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of peanut butter in and the whole jar of jam.

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But first,

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Benedict Allen is an explorer and adventurer who survived the freezing

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windswept wilderness of the Arctic and the searing heat of the desert.

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What he ate, and how he ate it, kept him alive to tell the tale.

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What kind of diet do you survive on?

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Imagine you're in the Arctic.

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It's minus 40, maybe. That's five times colder than your deep freeze.

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You still might find berries. But that's only if you're lucky.

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Tell me what you think you'd eat.

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-Penguin?

-No, penguins are right down there in the South Pole.

-Polar bear.

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The trouble is, Polar bears don't like to be eaten.

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They tend to go for you and they eat you. What else do you get up there?

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-Walrus?

-I've eaten a lot of walruses. They taste disgusting.

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It really stinks.

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But that's what being an explorer is all about.

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I'll show you one thing that you can eat.

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What do you reckon that is?

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-It smells disgusting.

-Seal.

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No, that is reindeer.

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There's hardly any fat on it.

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The fat is on the outside because it's trying to keep warm.

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It's out in minus 40, something like that.

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It's got to insulate itself.

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-Are you tough enough to be explorers?

-Ta-da!

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-That is reindeer, but cooked.

-OK. Let's all have a little taste.

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-It's actually quite nice.

-What does it taste of?

-It tastes

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a bit like lamb, but it's a bit chewy as well.

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OK, so you'd find reindeer in the North Pole.

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What about in the South Pole?

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If you're right down at the South Pole, Antarctica,

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there's much less to eat.

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Explorers made their own food so they could survive.

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-I'll show you what people used to take with them.

-Wow.

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-What do you reckon that is, guys?

-Bones.

-Yeah, bones.

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They are from a small cow. Inside you have the marrow, there.

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Juicy. Very, very very nutritious.

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You mix it with anything that's got a lot of energy in.

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That's lard.

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The marrow is scooped out of the bones and mixed with lard to make

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a high energy food called pemmican.

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So why do you have something that's so fatty?

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If it's minus 50 degrees, you want energy to try and keep your body

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going and try and keep it warm in that terrible temperature.

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OK, go for it. Blimey.

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What does it taste like?

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-It just tastes of lard.

-Quite slimy.

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Like something you'd find on the bottom of your mum's

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cooking pan when they've used too much oil.

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-Nasty.

-You must be under extreme hardship to enjoy this stuff.

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-It's disgusting.

-It is disgusting.

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Besides surviving extreme cold, Benedict's travels have taken him

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to places where it's so hot that anything struggles to live.

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How does he survive in the dessert?

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You're walking, looking around for something to eat.

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Not a single tree, just mile after mile of sand.

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Can't find any water. What would you eat?

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There's nothing much you can eat.

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It's a tricky one. What's around in the desert?

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-Sand.

-You can't eat sand.

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Maybe you could dig and find something.

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Maybe start thinking about snakes.

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Look for burrows, a lot of animals come out at night.

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You might have to eat your own companion.

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What do you think this is?

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-Have a good feel.

-Camel.

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-You are holding camel.

-It's cold!

-So it would be that you only eat

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your camel if you are really desperate?

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It's a last resort. It's also your friend.

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You'd think a camel would walk off, cos it doesn't need you.

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It has its humps, its big feet, big eyelashes to keep out

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the sand in a sandstorm.

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It's totally adapted to the desert.

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They can even smell water.

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You really want to stay with your camel, cos it knows

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what it's doing, even if you don't.

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It's camel time.

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Everyone have a taste, then.

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-Chewy.

-Chewy. That's the thing about camel, it is chewy, isn't it?

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What do you reckon, Alex?

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Hard to eat, isn't it?

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OK. If there's no camel available, what else would you go for?

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-This is what you can find if you're lucky.

-Insects.

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We have locusts or grasshopper.

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And that is a cricket.

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In lots of places around the world, people eat these

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because they taste really good.

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OK, guys, I think it's time to be brave. Let's try one of these.

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-Quite crunchy.

-What do you reckon, Nathan?

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Tastes a bit dull.

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Insects are commonly eaten by people in the desert because they're a good

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source of protein. But sometimes they object to being made a meal of.

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Once I had to eat alive a sago grub.

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It's like a maggot. The length of your little finger, very, very fat.

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I didn't have the chance to cook this sago grub.

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I just put it into my mouth.

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This sago grub decided it wasn't going to be eaten.

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Slowly, it turned itself around.

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I was trying to swallow the sago grub.

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Eventually, it just climbed up my throat and jumped out.

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Do you like the idea of eating an explorer's diet?

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Yeah, but not the bugs and the pemmican. The rest is all nice.

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Excellent. Benedict, that's fantastic.

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Thank you so much for introducing us to the explorer's diet.

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I still prefer chocolate.

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To survive, you've really got to be prepared to eat anything.

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There are exceptions to this rule.

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Some people have been known to eat exactly what they want,

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when they want it.

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One of the strangest diets out there is one not just fit for a king,

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but fit for THE King!

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Gastronuts, have you ever heard of Elvis Presley?

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-Uh-huh.

-Who was Elvis Presley?

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-A singer.

-What kind of music?

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-Rock and roll!

-Oh, yeah, baby!

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He must have been the most famous rock star of all time.

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If you were a rock star, what would your life be like?

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-Amazing.

-Fantastic. You'd have lots of money.

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You'd be able to do anything you wanted really, wouldn't you?

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-You'd be able to eat absolutely anything you wanted.

-Any fast food.

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I'd have a hamburger joint in my house.

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What a brilliant idea.

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-What would you have, Ellen?

-A chocolate machine and doughnuts.

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Nathan, what would you do?

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A popcorn machine.

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Well, Elvis was a guy who could do anything he wanted.

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He had anything at his disposal, oodles of cash.

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Let's try Elvis's diet.

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Whereabouts did Elvis live?

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-America?

-In America, in the USA.

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In the Deep South. He lived in Tennessee.

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So this is soul food. You should all try some.

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-What have you got there, Nathan?

-Chocolate brownie.

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-Do you like chocolate brownies?

-Yeah.

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-Ellen, what have you got there?

-Banana sandwich.

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Deep fried banana sandwich.

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Reme is holding cornbread.

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It's a cake made with corn. Is that any good?

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-It's nice.

-Pretty nice, isn't it?

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Now that is grits.

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-What does it taste like?

-Quite plain.

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It's really filling, though.

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-Alex, you're eating meatloaf, what does it taste like?

-Nice.

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I've got southern fried chicken.

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-What do you think about this kind of food?.

-Unhealthy.

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-It's all deep fried.

-A lot of fat.

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Elvis loved this kind of food.

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When he died, Elvis weighed more than twice

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what he should have done. He indulged himself.

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Elvis had one famous dish

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that he loved more than anything else in the world.

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-I think you'd probably like it. Do you want to try it?

-Yes.

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OK. We're going to cook Elvis' Fool's Gold.

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Fool's Gold starts with a loaf of bread.

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There is a loaf of bread each.

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This loaf of bread has been baked with butter.

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What we need to do is we need to hollow this out.

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Then you add peanut butter and jam.

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You need to put the whole jar of peanut butter in and the whole jar

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of jam. Go on, wallop it down!

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You have to be bold. That's it.

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A huge amount of sugar and fat in there, isn't there?

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All that sugar from the jam is pure sugar, in a way.

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The peanut butter is pretty much pure fat.

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-Do you reckon that's healthy?

-No.

-Not healthy, but tasty.

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Absolutely right.

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However, Elvis wasn't happy yet.

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So he added...

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Bacon.

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A pound of bacon.

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Whole load of bacon. Say that again?

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That's the weirdest combination ever.

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Absolutely. Go for it.

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The final ingredient in the sandwich is two whole packs

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of fatty streaky bacon.

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No wonder it's called Fool's Gold.

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You need to perform a bit of a flip.

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OK, are you ready? This is one heck of a sandwich, isn't it?

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You're really excited! Wow, look at that. Hold that.

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# You're the devil in disguise

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# Oh, yes, you are... #

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A grown adult needs 2,000 to 2,500 calories a day.

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Each of these sandwiches packs how many calories, do you reckon?

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2,000.

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You reckon 2,000. Anyone else?

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-3,000.

-Each of these sandwiches packs 4,000 calories.

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He would eat two of these entire loaves,

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8,000 calories, in a session.

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He was 42 years old when he died.

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Could have been something to do...

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with Fool's Gold. Chow down!

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-What does it taste of?

-Everything.

-Nathan, what do you reckon to that?

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I can taste the peanut butter.

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-Excellent.

-Loving it.

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I'm feeling like I'm enjoying it,

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but I'm slightly disgusted with myself.

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It's definitely rock-and-roll style.

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This might just look like a whole load of silliness, but what we've

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discovered is that when you indulge yourself

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and you eat anything you want, you end up having a weird diet.

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It's when you're struggling to survive

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or when food is scarce, that's when you have a good diet

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because you end up thinking about your food.

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I never thought an athlete like Colin Jackson had to eat

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sweet stuff like that.

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I enjoyed eating the bugs.

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Normally, you wouldn't eat things like that.

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I'll be more careful about eating

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less sweets and chocolate because I don't want to die early.

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Or less Fool's Gold sandwiches.

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I think I eat a bit too much than I'm meant to eat.

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Maybe I could ration my food.

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