Potatoes Incredible Edibles: Gutbusters

I'm Stefan Gates and I'm a food adventurer,

which means I've eaten the coolest,

the weirdest and the rudest food on earth.

And now I'm going to serve it to you.

Because this is Incredible Edibles Gutbusters!

THEY CHEER

Welcome to the show. I am ridiculously excited

because I've got an amazing gang of fearless food heads.

-And here they are!

-THEY CHEER

OK, guys. You all look a bit cheeky.

Now, we eat some pretty strange things on this show.

-Are you prepared to eat anything?

-ALL: Yeah!

That's what I'm talking about! But all this mayhem would be wasted

without you watching at home. Here's what we've got coming up for you.

'On today's show, will street dance star Turbo

'dare to dine like a vampire?'

This is potato soup made with blood.

'Will our volunteers chicken out of today's mystery meal?'

-You've been eating... chicken head flaps.

-Urgh!

I'll never get that taste out of my mouth.

'And can we make the ultimate fast food

'by firing spuds at 100 miles an hour?'

-Have we got chips?

-ALL: Yeah!

This show is all about potatoes!

THEY GROAN

Hm. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

They don't look all that exciting but when these ancient roots

were first imported from South America 500 years ago,

they were nasty, poisonous little roots fit for a witch's brew.

But farmers had a hunch, so they kept planting and changing them

until they developed the potato we know today!

Which then became so important that millions of lives and deaths

-have depended on them.

-ALL: Get on with it!

Hm. OK. Now, what no-one seems able to explain

is the amazing, magical transformation

when you cut potatoes into finger-sized slivers

and dunk them into boiling hot fat

-to make them into...

-ALL: Chips!

-Oh, yeah!

But the big question is, is it the simple chippiness of chips

that makes them so good, and if so, can we make any food into chips

and transform it into something delicious? Well, I've got no idea.

Let's try it out, though, with the help of Lara, Ben and Adam!

CHEERING

-Chips. How do you feel about them?

-They're tasty.

-You're a fan?

-I like them cos you can put tomato sauce on them.

-Oh, I like that!

-Lara, do you like a chip?

-Yeah.

-Excellent. Well, you're in luck.

I was wondering, is it just that they've been dropped into hot fat

that makes them delicious?

So, I thought we should try things that maybe we don't always like.

-What do you think about Brussels sprouts?

-ALL: Urgh

Let's give them a go! We're going to make sprouts into chips.

We've got some sprouts chipped up. We're going to drop them in hot fat,

which is what happens to a chip. Will it make them better?

-ALL: No!

-Let's give it a try. In they go.

Ooh! That's lovely. OK. There we go.

All nicely chipped!

-What do they smell like, Adam?

-So bad. They smell of poo.

Fantastic. Grab hold of one. Ben, you grab one.

Have a chew, tell me what you think. These are Brussels sprouts chips.

Ben's almost vomiting at the same time as eating, which is clever.

-Yeah?

-Tastes nicer than normal Brussels sprouts.

-A-ha!

-So chipping it helps.

-I don't think you can make sprouts better.

-They're still disgusting.

-I hate burnt stuff and that's burnt.

OK. I need a thumbs up or thumbs down.

How about Brussels sprouts chips?

That doesn't matter, cos I've got a whole range of different foods

that don't come normally as chips.

Beetroot. I think it's going to taste totally disgusting.

OK. Have a good taste and see what you think.

The great thing about beetroot is it makes your poo red.

-Adam?

-Hard, sickly. STEFAN LAUGHS

It's not good. They don't mix. Do not try this at home.

I think it tastes OK because it's quite soft

-and doesn't taste at all bad.

-OK.

Thumbs up or thumbs down for beetroot chips?

It's about half and half. OK. I'm liking that.

-What have you got there?

-Lettuce.

-Lettuce chips?

-ALL: Urgh!

-It's a bit floppy.

-Oh!

-I think it tastes OK. It's better than normal lettuce

-and tastes a bit sweeter.

-It's OK for lettuce.

Lettuce dipped into vinegar. I like vinegar with chips

-but not with lettuce.

-OK.

-That does not mix.

Thumbs up or thumbs down to lettuce as chips?

Ooh, that's kind of a no. OK.

It's going quite well. Let's lift the blue lid. What's under there?

Wheat cereal chips.

What would happen if we deep-fried our breakfast? Would it work?

-THEY SHOUT

-Let's find out. Looks quite weird.

-Mm!

-They're good! Tastes like breakfast cereal.

-But in a chip form.

-Much more greasy.

I think it's nice because it's breakfast cereal made better

-with the fat and the grease.

-So the chipping's going well.

I think it's really nice. It's a bit dry,

-not very moist, but I think it's nice.

-OK.

So, does the wheat cereal chip get thumbs up or thumbs down?

It's a thumbs up! It's a big, fat sponge.

This is steak chips.

-ALL: Ohh!

-Normally you have steak and chips. We've cut out the middle man.

-Would that be good?

-ALL: Yeah!

-Let's find out. What do you reckon?

Have yourself a steak chip. So this is a chunk of steak

dipped into hot fat. Bit chewy there, Adam?

-Tastes like steak, yes.

-Good steak?

-Yes.

-Is it better because it's a chip?

-Yes.

-I like it! Ben?

-Chewy but really nice.

-I think it's nice and soft and nicer than normal steak.

-OK.

So, steak chips, thumbs up or thumbs down?

Oh, yes, a winner! So some of these things are working better as chips.

So, here's the last one. Liver. Who loves liver?

-ALL: Urgh!

-No-one! This is some of the innards of an animal

and we're going to try it as chips.

So, guys, grab a piece of liver each.

Dig in and see if liver chips work for you.

Easy to bite, breakable, tasty.

Well, it's edible, but it's not very nice.

It tastes like some sort of really bad meat and I really hate it.

Bit of a split vote. So, chipped liver, thumbs up or thumbs down?

Hm. I think that didn't win.

But some of these foods did really well

considering you'd normally hate them.

I want to make the most terrifying chips on the planet

so I'm not going to use a knife, I'm going to use this!

-ALL: Wow!

-Uh-huh.

Over there with Angry Dave is the IR3000 potato obliterator mark 2.

We'll see how it works at the end of the show.

But give it up for our brilliant chip ticklers!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Pottering about on a boat on a river.

What could be more calm and lovely?

But the reality is, underneath the surface of this water,

there's a battle going on between the British

and alien invaders. Oh, yeah.

I've come here to the River Wey in Surrey to find out all about it.

'Landscape officer Jim Jones is going to introduce me

'to a pesky pest from overseas

'that's muscling out a British beastie.

'I want to know if eating these invaders

'could help our home-grown critters survive.

'But first we need to catch them.'

So you're saying that this river is crawling with little beasts?

It is indeed, yes. Right at the bottom here,

-we're going to hopefully find the signal crayfish.

-Crayfish?

-And it's a fish or is it a...?

-It's a crustacean,

so it's related to creatures like the lobster, so big claws.

In the rivers of England there are mini lobsters?

So how are we going to get them out?

Well, we're going to use a crayfish trap, and I've got one here.

-This is a crayfish trap.

-Specially built for crayfish?

Specially built to capture these crayfish.

They'll enter in through one of these holes here

and once they're in, it's designed in a way that they can't get out.

What do you use as bait?

Well, it's a detritivore, so it feeds on dead things

-that wash down the river.

-A detritivore!

So basically, it eats rubbish.

-So what have you got here?

-OK, well, we've got a fish

which we can cut in half and put in the trap.

We've got some bacon. They really like bacon.

-That's really weird.

-It's expensive, so we don't always use that.

You can actually use cat food,

tuna fish or something like that.

So already you can see there's a lot of juice coming out of there

and once you get that in that trap, in the water,

-it will drift out on the water...

-And the crayfish will smell it

-and go, "Oooh!"

-They will indeed.

And so that pops in the trap, like that.

-And then it's ready to go in.

-Let's do it.

Oh, you need a bit of string, as well,

otherwise you drop it in and go, "Ah!

"How am I going to get it out?"

-How long do you leave it for?

-We need to leave it overnight.

-Crayfish are nocturnal.

-So at night, it's a party down there.

-It is really.

-DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

'The crayfish like to par-tay,

'er, I mean, eat, at night.

'But luckily, Jim laid down a trap for us yesterday.'

-Yes!

-Oh, yes!

-We have crayfish!

Oooh!

-That is ugly!

-JIM LAUGHS

They flare up. They're quite angry fellas, aren't they?

They're called signal crayfish cos they've got these little white flags

-on the inside of their claws.

-Big old claws for a little fella.

-Fantastic.

-Oh, he's trying to grab me! Ow! Ow! No!

-JIM LAUGHS

-Ow, ow, ow! Owww!

Argh!

They're actually very aggressive animals,

which is why they do so well in our rivers.

Are these good things to have in rivers?

No, these are aliens in our rivers. They're not supposed to be here.

They were introduced in the 50s and 60s.

And it's a real problem because they eat our native white-clawed crayfish

and they are host to a crayfish plague.

They're a problem species. We're not allowed by law to put them back.

We have to actually get rid of them.

'Well, I really want to help,

'and this being Incredible Edibles,

'I think we can eat our way out of this problem.'

There we go. Purged, boiled and ready to eat.

Ooh, look at that. They've completely changed colour.

They're now bright, bright orange. Beautiful!

So they've cooled down really nicely. Then what you need to do

is break it open, so you pull the back off,

there we go, little bit of guts in there,

but in there, as well, is all the meat. That's where the meat is.

Pull that apart, like that.

Dip that in a little bit of herby mayonnaise.

And have a little taste.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow!

That is absolutely delicious. It's like eating the finest lobster,

which costs you a fortune! The brilliant thing is,

these fellas just come from the rivers around Britain.

And by eating them, we help our own native British crayfish.

I reckon cook them and eat them.

Now, grownups are always banging on about

breakfast being the most important meal of the day.

And sometimes they do have a point. Now, I want to try out

some of the world's great breakfasts.

But I can't do it on my own. So please give a big hand

-to Will, Dheeran and Bronny!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-So, what did you have for breakfast this morning, Will?

-Full English.

-Like it! Dheeran?

-Toast.

-Bronny?

-Cereal.

The same sort of stuff. How about pushing it out there a little bit,

-trying things you've never tried before? You up for it?

-ALL: Yeah.

So, exotic breakfast number one.

Dig in there. Looks like somebody's been sick in your omelette,

in quite a bad way. But what does it taste like?

-Bronny?

-You would think it'd taste disgusting,

but it actually tastes like a normal omelette.

It's quite nice, but the black thing is quite bitter.

-I love it!

-You love it!

-Yeah, it's good,

cos you've got a plain taste then you've got the pepper that's sweet.

There's quite a few different flavours. This is what's in it.

This is called huitlacoche.

OK? So absolutely classic Mexican food.

And underneath there is corn

but on top is a fungus that grows on the corn.

If you have a little taste, it's got quite a sour sort of flavour.

Have a little try.

It's a bit... I don't know.

-It's an acquired taste, isn't it?

-Mm.

-It's quite disgusting.

-Excellent! Let's get another one out.

So now we've moved from Mexico to Hong Kong.

And in Hong Kong, this is a classic breakfast.

-Ha!

-THEY LAUGH

Grab a spoon each. Can you see what's on here? Crab!

So who had porridge for breakfast? Who had crab porridge?

Nobody. Oh, really?

Well, this is crab porridge.

Basically, you take a crab,

you stick it in a load of rice and you boil it for ages.

Have a little try of that.

It's quite nice. It tastes like normal rice

-but it's got a hint of crab.

-Yeah, it's really soft

and it's really warm, so it makes it even more nice.

OK. Now we've got the last one. There you go.

So grab a big spoonful of this green stuff round the edge.

-Ohh, lovely!

-It's quite spicy.

-Mm-hm.

-And it's not crunchy, but it's gooey.

It's quite watery and, like Bronny said, it's quite spicy.

It is very spicy. It's like a soup almost, really.

Do you know what? Exactly. It is spicy and it's gooey

and it's a soup. And it's got this in it,

which is why it's so lovely and gooey.

-Do you want to see what one of those is?

-OK.

Grab one of those. What do you reckon it is?

-ALL: A pig's leg.

-I think it's a joint or something.

This is cow's hoof.

And what you're eating for breakfast is cow's hoof soup.

And it's a Pakistani classic.

And when you said it was nice and gooey,

that's because when you put hooves in,

you get this wonderful gelatine that comes out of it

and it makes things taste really lovely and unctuous.

So, do you think you'd have that in the morning?

-In the middle of your cereal?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

-Maybe.

Not with the middle bit still in.

It does seem amazing to mess with breakfast,

but you've gone on an adventure. Guys, you've been brilliant.

Give them a massive round of applause!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

'Still to come, can we turn supersonic spuds into chips?'

Is this the coolest potato chipper in the world?

ALL: Yeah!

'And will street dance star Turbo get the wobbles

'in Incredible Or Inedible?'

-This is jellyfish.

-Ohh!

-LAUGHTER

'But first...' We have three courageous guinea pigs

who'll be tickling some food that I brought back from my travels

in my Mystery Meal.

Are they brilliant or are they bonkers?

Well, I don't know, but I've locked the door so they can't run away.

Please give a huge round of applause to Luke, Adam and Celeste!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Are you feeling confident today?

-Yeah.

-No.

-Yeah.

-OK.

Luke, if I served you your food nightmare, what would it be?

-Probably fish eyeballs.

-Adam, what's your ultimate food nightmare?

Kangaroo private parts. LAUGHTER

I don't think they've defrosted yet, so it won't be that.

Celeste, what could be your ultimate food nightmare,

-something that'd make you vomit on the spot?

-Yoghurt and mushed peas.

OK. We'd better get some tarpaulin out here

cos it's going to get a lot worse than that. Would you like to see it?

ALL: Yes!

Blindfolds on first. Very important to make this as scary as we can. OK.

-They're going to be eating...

-What is that?

-..these.

-THEY SHOUT

-Starfish!

-Starfish?

-Snails!

-Snails?

-Body parts!

-Well, do you know what?

It doesn't really matter, cos you don't have to eat it,

they do! Let's get on with it!

Now, what's that I hear you cry?

Why do I love putting people through this agony?

Good question. Partly, it's just quite funny.

But also, I'm hoping that once deprived of sensory stimulation,

these guys should be able to appreciate food

on a brand new level. And they might discover

that an ugly food actually tastes fantastic.

After all, before it's turned into a bar, what does chocolate look like?

ALL: Poo!

Poo indeed. So, we haven't got poo, don't worry, it's not poo.

So, Luke, how are you feeling now?

-I don't know.

-OK. Adam?

Worse than I felt before I had this blindfold on.

-Yeah. Celeste, how you feeling?

-I'm pretty calm, but I don't know.

OK. Well, before you even try it, I can reveal to you guys at home

what today's Mystery Meal is. It's these.

-I'm just going to drop this into your hand. Be careful.

-Is it alive?

It is, but they shouldn't last very long once they're in your mouth.

-Are you ready? Here we go.

-Agh!

-LAUGHTER

-OK, are you ready?

-No. Urgh! LAUGHTER

-What is this thing?

-Well done.

-Urgh! Feels horrible!

-I think yours might still be alive.

-Oh, no! Oh! Urgh!

-It has feet.

-Urgh, it's horrible!

Agh! LAUGHTER

-OK, are you ready to eat it?

-No!

-I think I know what it is.

I'm going to have one with you. I'll have the biggest one. Ready?

One, two, three, bite it.

-Urgh, no!

-LAUGHTER

Oh, my... I don't want to eat it.

-Celeste, have you tried it?

-Yeah.

-Where's my water?

-Urgh!

-The water's there. These have been cooked in honey

so they should be nice and sweet on the top.

-Yeah, I quite like it.

-It's pretty good.

-It's disgusting.

I can't tell you what they are yet but I can reveal

they're a favourite food in Italian cuisine, very popular in France

where it's combined with luxury foods like sweetbreads and truffles.

It's also eaten in the East End of London. OK.

-Would you like to see what it is?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

-Lift up those blindfolds.

-Urgh!

-Urgh! What is that?

-What do you think it is?

-Poo.

-Is it a lizard?

-I think it might be squid.

-A fish.

-A spiky fish.

-A spiky fish?

-A foot of, like, a lizard.

-OK.

-Do you want to find out?

-Yes, please.

-You've been eating...

-Urgh!

-..chicken head flaps.

I'll never get that taste out of my mouth.

-If I go like that...

-Oh, it's the wee things on a chicken's head!

-What about the chin things?

-They're also known as cockscombs.

-This is one before it's been cooked.

-That looks a bit nicer.

There you go. Have a look at that.

-LAUGHTER

-It's exactly that.

I actually really like them. It's a bit like an ear.

-Have you ever tasted ear before?

-No.

-Of course they haven't.

-Now you know what they are, would you try it again?

-Don't think so.

-I'm out.

-Me, too.

-I quite like it, so yeah.

-Brilliant.

You guys have been absolutely brilliant.

Some of the bravest Mystery Mealers I've ever come across.

Guys, give them a massive round of applause.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Now, listen here! I try to make sure that everything in this show

is educational and informative. But the next bit, well, it isn't.

It's time to get a celebrity up on stage and torture them

to within an inch of their lives in the name of entertainment.

Yep, it's time for Incredible Or Inedible!

CHEERING

Today's guest is brilliant. He's from Alesha's Street Dance Stars,

-it's Turbo!

-CHEERING

-Thank you very much for coming on the show.

-No problem.

It's a commonly held perception that stars like you

basically eat little slivers of stardust and maybe gold bars

and truffles brought to you on trays. Do you ever eat normal stuff?

Yeah, definitely. Chicken and chips now and again, pizza.

-You're a real person!

-Yep, I'm real.

-That's extraordinary.

And also, you're a dancer. Can you show us some moves?

-You want me to show you some moves?

-Yeah.

-You sure?

-Bit scared now.

-But yeah.

-I'll show you some moves. OK.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

Oh, I like that! Now, what's your favourite food?

Ooh, my favourite food? I love Thai food.

-Thai food?

-Yeah.

-Nice and spicy?

-Yep.

-So Asian flavours you like?

-Yep, creamy, coconuts, all that.

OK. I might have something for you. And what about the worst food?

-What do you really hate?

-Jellied eels and runny eggs.

-Ooh, no.

-Jelly things generally?

-Uh-uh. Can't do it.

-OK.

Come over here and I'll show you how the game works.

We get three dishes, you get to try them,

and then I tell you what it is.

You decide then whether or not you find it

incredible, inedible or somewhere in between.

Over there are some of the things we've tried in the past.

Lamb's testicles, tripe,

lamb brains, which I thought were quite nice, others weren't so sure.

That's the zone we're in. Does that make you feel good or bad?

-I'm not sure. Huh?

-Let's get on with this!

-Please, big round of applause for dish number one!

-# Bring the action

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Thank you very much. OK.

Here we go. We're going to start you nice and easily.

You grab one of those. Go on, tuck in. In you go.

Hey! Top man! These are very simple. They're potato doughnuts.

So they're normal doughnuts but they're made with potato flour

instead of normal wheat flour.

-What do they taste like?

-HE LAUGHS

-LAUGHTER

-It's sweet

and it has that potato texture to it.

-So a bit different from normal ones.

-Yeah.

-It's your decision.

Is it incredible, inedible or somewhere in between?

THEY SHOUT

-Incredible!

-THEY CHEER

Excellent news. OK. Let's bring on dish number two!

-Big round of applause!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-You've done very well so far.

-Cool.

Time to get a bit more challenging. Dish number two is this.

-Are you a chopstick kind of guy?

-Yeah.

-Shall I have a little try with you?

-Yeah, you go.

-HE LAUGHS

-You do it first.

-A-ha-ha!

-Oh, that's too much.

-Oh.

-Top man.

-LAUGHTER

-Wriggles as it goes down, doesn't it? This is jellyfish.

-Oh!

-LAUGHTER

-Oh!

-Ooooh!

-Stings a bit, doesn't it?

-Oooh!

-LAUGHTER

This is a Chinese delicacy. It's cured for a little while,

it's dried out and then it's rehydrated

and it's got a really, really slimy texture.

It doesn't really have any taste of its own.

You add taste to it. So we got a lovely Thai flavour for you

specially cos we knew you liked Thai food.

That looks like it's about to come back up again!

Is it incredible, inedible or somewhere in between?

THEY SHOUT

Inedible!

You're nearly there. We always save the best till last, though. Ready?

-No.

-Bring on dish number three!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much. This is fantastic stuff.

-Do you want to have a little look?

-ALL: Yes!

-Here we go.

-ALL: Urgh!

-Is it poo soup?

-TURBO LAUGHS

-That's actually quite close.

Horse's blood. Poo soup. OK.

-TURBO LAUGHS

-In you get and have a little try.

-Mm-mm!

-Oh, no, a small piece.

-Mm!

-Five, six, seven, eight.

-In you pop.

He's very good. Now, this is a dish

made with potato. It's a potato soup.

Except this is potato soup made with... blood.

LAUGHTER

That, my friends, is duck blood.

-LAUGHTER

-It's duck blood and it's called

czernina. It's a dish that's very popular in Poland.

We use blood in quite a few dishes of our own.

Black pudding, things like that. So, blood soup.

-It's gravy.

-Think of it as gravy.

Get in the zone. And then you need to decide...

What do you reckon? Would you eat blood soup?

-THEY SHOUT

-Quite a few yeses!

-Quite a few yeses!

-No!

There's a big no!

Turbo, it's your decision.

THEY SHOUT

In between! Guys, give him a massive round of applause!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-So, are potatoes brilliant?

-ALL: Yeah!

-Oh, yeah!

And the most awesome form of the potato is the chip.

Now, making chips can be dead simple,

but this is Incredible Edibles, so I wondered how we could make it

enormously complicated and massive spectacular.

So we've made this. This is the IE3000,

the potato obliterator mark 2!

It's a bowling machine used by cricketers for batting practice.

-Do you want to see how it works?

-ALL: Yeah!

-OK!

I've got Turbo here to help me. You're going to protect me.

-I'm going to protect me, yes.

-STEFAN LAUGHS

What we do is, we drop a cricket ball in

and hopefully it flies out of here quite fast.

Whoa!

This goes out at 100 miles an hour,

so I thought, if we can fire a potato,

maybe we can use that speed to chip it. So, bring on the chipper!

-APPLAUSE

-This is Angry Dave.

He's been making the chipper. It's made him even more angry.

Dave, are you very angry today? Yeah, really angry. OK.

Whoa!

Ooh! Ooh!

Oh! Ooh! Oh!

-Have we got chips?

-ALL: Yeah!

Is this the coolest potato chipper in the world?

-ALL: Yeah!

-Oh, of course it is!

Thank you so much to Turbo, to our fantastic volunteers,

our brilliant studio audience and to you guys for watching at home.

Join us next time for more Incredible Edibles! Whoo-hoo!

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