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I've had years of practice doing barmy food experiments

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but you should not try anything you see on Incredible Edibles,

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especially if it involves knives, matches, raw meat, ovens,

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unicorns or windmills.

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If you don't like blood, guts, gore and entrails

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then close your eyes for half an hour

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-and think about fluffy pink kittens instead.

-MEOW

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

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I've been searching for the best,

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the worst and the smelliest food on Earth,

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and now I'm going to serve it to you,

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because this is Incredible Edibles.

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Guys, are you up for an adventure?

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ALL: Yeah!

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Today, I'm in Harthill in North Lanarkshire,

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home to some of the best grub on the planet.

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Guys, are you hungry?

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ALL: Yes!

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Well, you'd better leave your table manners at the door

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cos this is going to get messy.

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Coming up...

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A look at what's in haggis leaves us breathless.

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-Lungs.

-Lungs!

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Our food adventurers go nuts for today's mystery meal...

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-It tastes like chicken.

-Like chicken?

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And can we put a rubbish-powered rocket into orbit?

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ALL: Woo-hoo!

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Here, on Incredible Edibles, I like to start every show

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by doing something absolutely extraordinary,

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something so cool that it'll make you shout!

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ALL: That's incredible!

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Yeah. Now, guys, anyone know what this is?

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ALL: Food.

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It's a lot of mucky food, isn't it?

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It's actually a food recycling box.

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Have a little look in here.

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You've got a corn cob, for you.

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There's some, I don't know what that is, a bit of old squash.

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That's a nice present, isn't it?

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There's some, oh, some bits of carrot peelings.

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What do you reckon you can do with waste food?

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Recycle.

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-Yeah, and after that, what can you do with it?

-Eat it.

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You might get a little bit sick from eating that.

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Just as you can use food to fuel your bodies,

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you can also use it to fuel cars and even rockets.

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It's pretty cool.

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Foods which have loads of starch, especially stuff like this,

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corn, potatoes, bit of old stale bread,

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it can all be broken down and turned into a high power,

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concentrated liquid called a biofuel.

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Do you want to see what sort of power that fuel can generate?

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ALL: Yes!

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OK. You stay there, this could be dangerous.

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Pop that there.

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Now, this stuff is quite literally explosive, so stay well back.

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If you're thinking of trying this at home, DO NOT,

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it really is very, very dangerous.

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What I've got is a small drinking water bottle

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and this is a fuel that can be made from waste food.

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So, I'll put a little bit into my bottle.

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Now, cos we don't need a lot of it, we just want to coat the bottle

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and I'm going to tip the excess out into my bucket of water.

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There's just a little bit of vapour inside there.

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And then, a little match into the end here...

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I'm going to light this and stand well back.

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All fuels can be dangerous

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and even more so when you have a naked flame near them,

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so don't even think about trying to light this yourself.

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Now, are you ready?

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ALL: Whoa!

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Ha-ha-ha!

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That was really cool, wasn't it?

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ALL: Yeah.

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Starch for making this fuel is in all sorts of food,

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like corn and wheat, potato skins and rice.

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If you didn't recycle your waste food,

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it would end up on the rubbish dump, but if you recycle it,

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it can be turned into something useful like a biofuel.

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Do you think it's good to use these things as a fuel instead?

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ALL: Yes!

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It's pretty good isn't it?

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Well, biofuels are now powering buses and cars and even rockets.

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I'm wondering, if we scale up our bottle

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and the amount of fuel that I put in it,

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do you reckon we can do something really cool with this idea?

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Let's see what we need to use.

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-Kayleigh, what have you got there?

-A bottle.

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That's a pretty big bottle. A two-litre bottle.

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What do you reckon, guys, is that pretty cool?

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ALL: Yes.

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It's pretty good, but Lewis has got something even bigger.

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What do you reckon to that one?

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ALL: Yes!

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That's five litre capacity, so if we shot that,

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that might go up in the air.

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But I wonder if we can go even bigger.

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Erin, what have you got there?

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Oh, yeah!

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Guys, shall we use this one?

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ALL: Yes!

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It should work, in theory.

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Whether it works in practice, you'll just have to find out later on.

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Today, I've taken a trip to the countryside in Hampshire

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to follow the journey from animal to meat.

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We've all seen meat beautifully packaged

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and ready to be sold in the shops,

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but how do animals actually get slaughtered?

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Well, I've been invited to visit an abattoir to find out exactly

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what happens between when the animals leave the field

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and when they end up as meat on our plates.

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'Maurice, the Meat Manager, is here to show me

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'how the abattoir at this farm works.'

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I've got to ask this and I'm sure everyone asks you this all the time,

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but they're beautiful.

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They're beautiful, they're cute and they're about to die.

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How does it make you feel?

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From my point of view, it's all about doing the best possible job

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we can for the animals.

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So I take pride in making sure they're relaxed,

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I take pride in making sure that the meat in the chillers

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is the best possible standard we can achieve here.

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So for me, it's about doing the best we can at all times for the animal.

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So once the animals have been kept in these pens and they're calm

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and they're ready to be slaughtered, what happens?

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The next step of the process,

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we take them from the pens to the stunning area,

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where they're stunned

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and remain unconscious prior to slaughter.

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-OK, round this way?

-Absolutely.

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This gate closes behind them.

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Mmhm.

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We've got two slaughter men in here.

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They will use this piece of equipment.

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And what is this?

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These are stunning tongs.

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Basically, it electrocutes them

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and renders them senseless to pain.

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So they're instantaneously unconscious

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and then from here into the abattoir.

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And after it's gone through the doors, what happens?

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One of my slaughter men will cut the throat of the animal

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and it will die by loss of blood.

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We will remove the feet,

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skin and it eventually will end up

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as a carcass in our chiller.

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'With a quick change into some protective overalls,

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'we went down to the chiller to take a look.'

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What we've got here, Stef, is one of our pigs, taken all the insides out.

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All the organs, all the intestines are now ready to be chopped up

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into different cuts of pork.

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-It sort of feels like meat now, rather than an animal.

-Absolutely.

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'The pork carcass is now ready for Simon, the Butcher,

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'to turn into tasty cuts of meat.'

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Where do you start?

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I'm going to start from the head end and take the head off.

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And what we do is we take the shoulder off first.

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Next I'm going to take the leg off.

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And this is what you get your streaky bacon from.

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Or you can cut it into some nice loin steaks,

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sausages, burgers, you can make them

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to suit your own flavour of what you like.

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You mix up the meat and the fat together

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with some herbs and some flavourings.

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Yeah, with some salt, some peppers,

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this has got fresh leek in it.

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The casings are from the pigs,

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so that's your intestines which haven't gone to waste.

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So that's the journey your meat takes from being an animal

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out in the field to being the kind of meat that ends up on your plate.

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If you enjoy burgers, you enjoy your sausages,

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you like bacon and lamb chops and pork chops,

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I just think that you need to know everything

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that happens about how they're raised, how they're slaughtered,

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you need to show the animal the utmost respect before you tuck in.

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I'm in Scotland, which is famous for its shortbread,

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great beef and wild meat from animals like deer.

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But there's another local delicacy that's world famous.

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Kayleigh, bring on my ingredient.

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Very good.

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OK, I'll swap you there, OK,

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and did it wriggle at all, as it came over?

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OK.

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Keeps wriggling about a bit in there!

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OK, are you ready? Aargh!

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No, it's not alive!

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ALL: Urgh!

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ALL: Aah!

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These things are your friends.

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And what else have we got in here?

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ALL: Urgh! Aah!

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Let's have a better look at this.

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Ah-ah!

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Now, this stuff is what's called sheep's pluck,

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and it's used to make a fantastic local dish called...

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ALL: Haggis.

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Haggis, exactly. And I'm going to go and make some.

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So guys, have you ever had haggis before?

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ALL: Yes.

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-Do you like it?

-Yes.

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-Have you ever seen sheep's pluck?

-No.

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-Do you like the look of it?

-No.

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Not enormously. OK, well, any idea what's inside there?

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-Blood?

-Yeah, a little bit of blood.

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It's like sheep's heart.

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Sheep's heart.

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Just something to do with a sheep.

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Do you know what? You're spot on.

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Grab the first piece that you can see in there.

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-Squidgy and gooey.

-Squidgy and gooey, yeah.

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-It smells like something really stinky.

-Something stinky.

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It feels like a jellyfish to me.

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Like a jellyfish!

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This is a beautiful lamb's liver and it's really good for you.

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Shall we cut it open and have a look inside?

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Now, this is a really sharp knife, so keep your fingers well away

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and never play with them in the kitchen.

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Let's have a look. Slice it through the middle there.

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-ALL: Urgh!

-Urgh?

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Looks like there's holes in it.

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That's right, there's loads of little holes.

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These are sort of vessels that will take liquids all around the liver.

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Blah!

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Blah! That's a pretty good description.

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It doesn't look like it would taste very nice.

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It's quite a strong flavour but I think it's really delicious.

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What else have you got in there?

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You don't know where to start with that?

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That's it, pass it all down.

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Oh, it looks like a heart.

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You've dropped it all over the place.

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That's all right, don't worry.

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It feels all bony.

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Oh, that's its throat, I think.

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That's its throat, exactly that. That's the oesophagus.

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Oh, the blood!

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-Now, there's one bit that I want from this.

-Heart.

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The heart! So we'll chop that off.

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Now, the thing about heart is it is a beautiful meat.

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It's really lean, which means it doesn't have very much fat.

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-It's like bits of string.

-Yuk!

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-It's time for the final ingredient.

-Kidneys?

-It's not the kidneys.

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Lungs.

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Lungs!

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Now, lungs are a very unusual meat,

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you don't find it in that many dishes.

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There we go, that's beautiful,

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and look at that!

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Now, this isn't used in many foods at all but it makes up

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about 10% percent of a haggis,

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it's one of the few things that you find it in.

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So, all these three ingredients -

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the lung, the heart, the liver,

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are all minced up and mixed together

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with a fat called suet

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and some oatmeal, and then it ends up looking like this.

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ALL: Urgh.

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-Does that look a little bit more pleasant?

-Yes, it does.

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I'd probably eat the lot.

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You'd probably eat the whole lot.

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What do you put it in before you cook it?

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Something that sausages go in as well.

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That's a good guess.

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-A foil.

-Well, not foil.

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A freezer.

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-When you're sick, where does all the food come from?

-Your belly.

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Oh, yeah! It looks like a pile of rice pudding, doesn't it?

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ALL: Mayonnaise.

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Looks like mayonnaise?

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-Yeah, it does, it looks exactly like mayonnaise.

-Like custard.

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This is what we put haggis meat into.

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ALL: Urgh!

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That's a stomach! Ha-ha-ha!

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Urgh!

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Pass that all down.

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-Oh!

-What does it feel like?

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It stinks and it's actually like really, really soft jelly.

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It just smells disgusting.

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So to make this into a haggis we need to fill it

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with our meat and our suet and oatmeal.

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Chuck it in the middle,

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it might make quite a mess.

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Smells quite nice.

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So now, we've got to squish it all the way down to the bottom.

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Can you see all the veins in the side of the stomach lining?

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ALL: Yeah.

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It's a strange looking thing, isn't it?

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But it's basically just a massive sausage.

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Going to tie it off at the top there and that is ready for cooking.

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So that goes in to be boiled for about three hours

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until the whole lot turns really nice and hard. OK?

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-Do you think it's time to taste some?

-Yes.

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I reckon it is. OK, first of all, let's wash our hands.

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So, after three hours of cooking, haggis looks a little bit like this.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah! So, who's ready to try it?

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ALL THREE: Me.

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Dig in there.

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-Quite nice.

-Yeah, it's fantastic.

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It's quite tasty.

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It's got a bit of spice in it and it's really nice.

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You bite it a lot and it turns all soft.

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It's got a lot of different textures in there.

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It's like teasing your mouth.

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Is it weird to eat this now that you've seen all that goes into it?

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I didn't know what was in it before so I could eat it,

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but now I know what's in it, it's put me a wee bit off.

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Oh, that's a tragedy! I wanted you to enjoy it more.

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Codie, do you like it?

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No, because it's made from lamb and lambs are born in the spring.

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Oh, so you think that lamb is cute and therefore you shouldn't eat it?

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Do you think we should spread the word about haggis

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-and get everyone eating more of it?

-Uh-huh.

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I think it's such an exciting food,

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and here in Scotland you've got something unique.

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So it just goes to show that even food on your own doorstep

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can be incredible.

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Please give it up for the brilliant haggis handlers of Harthill.

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CLAPPING AND CHEERING

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He-he-he...

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Jellied eels.

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They're a traditional dish

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from the East End of London.

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They're stewed

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and then set in a spiced jelly.

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So there's the eel.

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They live in the muddy Thames Estuary.

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It's the perfect place for eels to live.

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Eel pie and mash houses have been around

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since the 18th century in London.

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There's still one just around the corner from here.

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It's tasting time.

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Mm...

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Mm...

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What a clean mackerel-type flavour.

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A little bit greasy and covered in that slimy jelly.

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It's fascinating. Pretty good!

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Today, we're in Shotts, in North Lanarkshire.

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'So far, we've seen Scotland's most gruesome grub,

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'the famous haggis.'

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Basically, just a massive sausage.

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'..and found out how animals end up on our plate.

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'Still to come, we use leftovers to power a rocket.'

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ALL: Woo-hoo!

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'But first, we kick up a stink

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'by looking at what happens when food goes bad.'

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So guys, what happens if you don't put food in the fridge?

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What happens if you don't put it in the fridge?

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-It goes all mouldy.

-Yeah, exactly.

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You won't be able to eat it cos it goes all mouldy.

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Cos it's all a bit mucky.

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Or maybe eat it and it'll just be all yucky.

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-And end up being a real waste.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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-It goes blue, yellow and it smells.

-It goes multicoloured and smells.

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Well, yeah, exactly.

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The thing is the bacteria grows on food and it makes it rot

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and if you put it in the fridge,

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it chills it so bacteria can't really grow.

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But before fridges and freezers were invented,

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people had to come up with different ways to preserve food,

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and some of these methods are still used now

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and they make really fantastic stuff.

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I'm going to show you with the help of Kyle, Nicole and Finlay.

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Give them a big hand!

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ALL: Whoa!

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Oh, yeah.

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But first of all we need to get changed.

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So, do we look good, guys?

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ALL: Yeah.

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You're such fibbers, we look rubbish!

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The reason we've changed into special protective suits is

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that what we're about to handle is a toxic hazard that

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could give you a nasty tummy ache.

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In fact, some of the stuff on these foods I'm about to show you

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could actually kill you.

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Now, in each of these containers is a food that was fresh two weeks ago,

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but it's been left out of the fridge for nature to take its course.

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OK, Finlay, lift up that tin.

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Oh!

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-Urgh!

-Urgh!

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What do you reckon we've got there?

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Apples and onions.

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It's not surprising you say that, cos it doesn't look like

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what it should be, but these are all onions.

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Those are really, really bad.

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It's too gross to explain.

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It's just caught in my throat, that's horrible!

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-Nicole, can you smell that from here?

-Uh-huh.

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It just smells like onion but really strong.

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It just smells like raw stuff.

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Guys, can you smell something weird going on here?

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-ALL: Yes.

-It stinks.

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It stinks! Ha-ha-ha!

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It absolutely stinks.

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This is a sign that there's bacteria on it

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and it's breaking down the food.

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If you ate this, it would make you really, really sick.

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Now, one great way of preserving things like onions

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is by pickling them, and so you put them in some vinegar.

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There we have pickled onions.

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The acid in the vinegar stops bacteria growing

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and that keeps the food safe.

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Pickled food can be kept for months.

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Personally, I love pickled eggs.

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-Anyone ever had a pickled egg?

-No.

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You've never had a pickled egg?

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Who hates pickled food? Put your hands up if you hate pickled food.

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Oh quite a few. Put your hands up if you love pickled food.

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I think the haters win that one.

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But it's still a very good way of preserving food.

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Nicole, let's see what's lurking under your strange little lid there.

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Urgh!

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Oh! Urgh, I can smell that from here.

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ALL: Oh! Ah!

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Oh!

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What do you think that used to be?

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-Fish.

-Oh, gosh, I've just had a big hit of it.

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It's fish, you're absolutely right. What kind of fish?

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Salmon?

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Yes, exactly, it's salmon.

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Really bad, soaked in vomit and that.

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There's vomit and death all rolled up in one piece of fish.

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Now, the thing is, if you don't keep this cold, the natural chemicals

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in the fish and the bacteria multiply because they love the warm.

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And if you eat this, you could get horrible hives,

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violent vomiting and a nasty dose of the runs...

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-Or you could just simply die. Nicole, you don't want to die?

-No.

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No, we want to have you for the rest of the show.

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So any ideas, how would you preserve salmon?

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You could maybe put it in our barbecue.

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What just cook it and eat it?

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-Put salt over it.

-Top man!

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You put salt over it. Well, before fridges were around,

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people invented a brilliant way of preserving fish using smoke.

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Oh, I keep getting terrible whiffs of it!

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First of all, they salted it, exactly as you say,

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to stop the bacteria growing

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and then they hung it over a fire

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so that smoke coats all of the outside of it

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and stops the bacteria from breeding.

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Once the salmon has been smoked like that,

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it looks a bit like what's under the yellow container.

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Now that is smoked salmon.

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-Does that look a little bit more appealing?

-Yes.

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So you can see this sort of brown covering and that's the smoke,

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when it's been smoked in something

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it gets a little layer of the smoke all over it.

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So we're ready for the final one.

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-Lift the lid on your toxic box.

-Urgh!

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Oh!

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ALL: Urgh! Aah!

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It looks like sort of alien eyeballs, doesn't it?

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Oh, gosh, it stinks! Any idea what that was when it was alive?

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-Sausages?

-Not quite sausages.

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-Anything else?

-Potatoes?

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-Not quite potatoes. Finlay?

-Carrots?

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Finlay's retreated into himself here.

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Carrots, don't want to know! Carrots, no, they're not carrots.

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Believe it or not, these were strawberries.

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ALL: Urgh!

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And the thing about strawberries is that

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they have loads of water in them and bacteria love water.

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So what does it smell like?

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It smells like rotten,

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like you would have a bag of rubbish that you would throw it.

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-It smells like that.

-It's like a rubbish heap, isn't it?

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It's so bad I'd rather smell a pig's bum.

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Like a pig's bum.

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Can you believe it just takes two weeks for this to happen,

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for it to go from being beautiful, edible food

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into something this toxic?

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This stuff all honks and being able to smell the bad smell

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of rotting food is our body's way of warning us that it's poisonous,

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and if you ate too much of it,

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you'd end up with a really nasty stomach ache.

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But fear not, we have a way of preserving things like strawberries.

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Kyle, lift that big red lid. What do you reckon that is Kyle?

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-Strawberries on toast?

-It's strawberry jam.

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Now, to make jam you boil fruit with masses of sugar,

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and you reduce the amount of water in it

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and this kills all the bacteria.

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So, guys, what's your favourite jam?

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ALL: Raspberry/strawberry.

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Oh, I think we're split between

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raspberry and strawberries there. Pretty good.

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Well, our ancestors found brilliant ways

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to stop bacteria growing on their food

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and preserving it without using a fridge.

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But if you think that's incredible, check this out.

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Let me introduce you to my friend,

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the durian fruit.

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Now, this is notorious

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because it tastes like heaven

0:20:320:20:34

but it smells like hell.

0:20:340:20:37

Now, I've never opened

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one of these before in my life.

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Smells of, sort of, death.

0:20:400:20:42

Smells of a rotting compost bin

0:20:420:20:45

but quite aggressively bad.

0:20:450:20:48

Oh, smells like hell...

0:20:480:20:50

Mm... He-he!

0:20:520:20:54

Tastes a bit like custard. It's quite sweet. Do you know what?

0:20:540:20:58

The only way to enjoy this is to hold your nose

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and eat it at the same time.

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Now, up on stage are Lewis, Erin

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and Bailey and, like me,

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they are willing to try new and adventurous foods

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to see if they can unearth a new treat.

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Guys, give them a big hand! Oh, yeah!

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CLAPPING AND CHEERING

0:21:200:21:21

-So, Lewis, how are you feeling up there?

-Nervous.

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A little bit of nerves is good.

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-Erin, what would you hope to try today?

-Maybe beetles or that.

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Some beetles? You'd quite like to try beetles. Excellent. OK.

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-Bailey, what's the weirdest thing I could possibly serve you?

-Snails.

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And can have them crawling all over your face before you eat them,

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-would that be a good idea?

-No.

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Not at all.

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What I want you to do is I want you to focus

0:21:430:21:45

entirely on the food that's going to go into your mouth.

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And so, to do that, please lower your blindfolds.

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Now that they're in the dark, it's time for the rest of us

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to see what they're going to be eating.

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They're going to be having this...

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ALL: Urgh!

0:21:590:22:01

What do you reckon that is?

0:22:010:22:02

-Chicken legs.

-It does, it looks

0:22:020:22:04

just like chicken legs, doesn't it?

0:22:040:22:05

-Steak? It looks a bit like steak? Oh, yes.

-Dog meat.

-Dog meat?

0:22:050:22:08

-Looks like what's in your bin.

-What's in your bin?

0:22:080:22:11

I wouldn't serve them that.

0:22:110:22:12

-What do you reckon that might be? Looks a bit like mouse!

-Snails.

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Snails. Well, the thing is you don't have to eat this stuff... They do!

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Well, before anything else happens,

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I can reveal to you at home that today's mystery meal is this.

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There you go.

0:22:310:22:33

-A little bit of this.

-Yuk!

0:22:340:22:36

It's a bit slimy because it's got

0:22:360:22:38

some sauce on it. Don't worry.

0:22:380:22:39

-There you go, Bailey.

-Urgh! Skanky.

0:22:390:22:42

Have a little smell first of all.

0:22:420:22:44

It smells like barbecue.

0:22:440:22:46

-Barbecue sauce, yeah, exactly.

-Dogs' meat.

0:22:460:22:48

It smells like dogs' meat!

0:22:480:22:50

You must have some very posh dogs.

0:22:500:22:52

-What does it feel like?

-Oh, I can feel a bone.

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There is a little bone in there.

0:22:540:22:55

It's like when you eat ribs, there's a bone around ribs

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or eating a chicken leg, something like that.

0:22:580:23:00

-Lewis, have a guess. What do you reckon it is?

-Chicken.

-Chicken.

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-Squirrel.

-Squirrel.

-Beef or something.

-Beef or something. OK.

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Before you eat it let me tell you this.

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This food is very low in fat and it's completely free range.

0:23:090:23:12

Eating it is a bit controversial, mainly because lots of people think

0:23:120:23:15

it's quite cute when it's alive.

0:23:150:23:17

Now, although this comes from the UK, it isn't native here,

0:23:170:23:20

so some people argue that by eating it

0:23:200:23:22

we're helping to reduce its numbers.

0:23:220:23:24

It's very popular in America and it's becoming more so here.

0:23:240:23:27

It's even available in some butchers

0:23:270:23:29

and you can find this in my local supermarket.

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So, guys, are you ready for a food adventure?

0:23:320:23:34

ALL THREE: Yes.

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Yes. They don't sound enormously chuffed about it!

0:23:360:23:38

OK, chomp away!

0:23:380:23:40

-Yuk!

-Ha-ha-ha!

0:23:420:23:44

-Oh, that's so dry.

-Keep going.

0:23:440:23:46

Mine tastes like chicken.

0:23:460:23:47

-Like chicken.

-Aye.

-Oh, and what sort of chicken does it taste like?

0:23:470:23:51

-Chicken wings or anything?

-Aye.

0:23:510:23:53

-Lewis, what do you reckon it tastes of?

-Chicken.

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And do you like chicken? So you're enjoying it?

0:23:560:23:58

-So, Lewis, you quite like this, do you?

-Uh-huh.

-Uh-huh.

0:23:580:24:01

-Erin?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

0:24:010:24:02

-Bailey?

-Aye.

0:24:020:24:04

They're all fans of this then. Fantastic.

0:24:040:24:06

OK. Well, take your blindfolds off

0:24:060:24:08

and have a look at what's in your hand.

0:24:080:24:12

-Oh.

-Urgh.

0:24:120:24:13

That's how it comes. I think it looks pretty good there.

0:24:130:24:16

I can now reveal to you that you have been eating...

0:24:160:24:18

-Urgh!

-..squirrel.

0:24:200:24:22

ALL: Urgh!

0:24:220:24:23

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's pretty good, isn't it?

0:24:230:24:26

We're about to see what squirrel looks like before it's been cooked,

0:24:260:24:30

but will this put off our taste testers even more?

0:24:300:24:33

Well, now, this might be a little bit strange to see,

0:24:330:24:35

because I'm going to show you what it looks like before it's cooked.

0:24:350:24:38

It does look a little bit gruesome.

0:24:380:24:42

Oh!

0:24:420:24:43

-I'm never eating that again in my life.

-Urgh!

0:24:430:24:46

-So that is a grey squirrel.

-Oh.

0:24:460:24:49

And what you've been having there is the legs and the shoulders

0:24:490:24:52

and a little bit of the saddle,

0:24:520:24:53

which is all the piece down the back of it.

0:24:530:24:55

Lewis, what does that look like?

0:24:550:24:57

-A cat. A wee cat.

-A little cat?

0:24:570:25:00

Yeah, I guess so. Erin, are you a fan of chicken?

0:25:000:25:03

Yes, but I don't want to cook that.

0:25:030:25:05

Now that you've seen what it looks like before it's cooked,

0:25:050:25:08

do you still think it tastes good?

0:25:080:25:10

-Aye, it's quite good but I won't eat it again.

-And why is that?

0:25:100:25:13

It's just cos I've seen it when it's still alive.

0:25:130:25:16

So just seeing the thing dead

0:25:160:25:17

-is quite bad news for you?

-Yeah.

0:25:170:25:19

I think you've been brilliant, brilliant adventurers

0:25:190:25:22

trying something with your blindfolds on,

0:25:220:25:24

it could have been anything.

0:25:240:25:25

-Are you glad that you've tried it?

-Uh-huh.

0:25:250:25:27

If you saw this in the supermarket,

0:25:270:25:29

maybe with the skin taken off so it's just ready to cook,

0:25:290:25:32

-do you think you might buy it?

-No.

0:25:320:25:33

-Yes.

-You would? Excellent.

0:25:330:25:35

-Do you think that the audience should try it?

-Yeah.

0:25:350:25:37

If you were given the opportunity, would you eat squirrel?

0:25:370:25:40

ALL: Yes.

0:25:400:25:41

Yeah, brilliant, well done.

0:25:410:25:43

I heard a few no's there but mostly yes's.

0:25:430:25:45

Guys, do you want to try some more? No? Erin? Bailey?

0:25:450:25:49

Oh, I'll have the rest to myself then. I reckon give squirrel a try.

0:25:490:25:52

There you have it - three more volunteers

0:25:520:25:54

who were adventurous enough to try my mystery meal.

0:25:540:25:57

It might look unusual but it tastes great. So I say give squirrel a go.

0:25:570:26:01

You guys have been absolutely brilliant.

0:26:010:26:03

Let's make some noise for the coolest eaters in North Lanarkshire.

0:26:030:26:06

Big round of applause!

0:26:060:26:08

CHEERING AND CLAPPING

0:26:080:26:11

Here, on Incredible Edibles, I like to do something

0:26:140:26:16

that'll make you shout, "That's incredible!"

0:26:160:26:19

Earlier on, we found out that ordinary kitchen waste

0:26:190:26:21

like potato peelings and stale bread and bits of corn and pasta

0:26:210:26:24

can be recycled to create biofuels.

0:26:240:26:27

I want to show you just how powerful fuel from recycled foods can be

0:26:270:26:31

by seeing what it can do to Erin's water container.

0:26:310:26:35

Oh yeah. I'll swap you, you hold that.

0:26:350:26:39

OK, let's see what happens.

0:26:390:26:42

So, here I have my water container

0:26:450:26:48

and I've got my concentrated fuel that can be made from waste food.

0:26:480:26:52

Just going to squeeze a little bit into here

0:26:520:26:54

and you can see it there, in the bottom.

0:26:540:26:56

Just looks like water at the moment.

0:26:560:26:58

And then I tip off what's left into a bucket of water,

0:26:580:27:01

that should do us, and then the lid goes back on.

0:27:010:27:04

Now, fuel of any kind is seriously dangerous and so are flames,

0:27:040:27:08

which is why everyone's standing

0:27:080:27:10

way back over there.

0:27:100:27:11

Fuel and flames together can cause

0:27:110:27:13

serious injury,

0:27:130:27:14

so obviously don't attempt

0:27:140:27:16

anything like this at home.

0:27:160:27:17

OK, what do you reckon will happen?

0:27:170:27:19

ALL: Blow up.

0:27:190:27:20

It might blow up? Do you think it will move anywhere?

0:27:200:27:23

ALL: Yes.

0:27:230:27:24

Fingers crossed. Ten, nine, eight...

0:27:240:27:27

Seven, six, five, four,

0:27:270:27:31

three, two, one...

0:27:310:27:33

How cool was that?!

0:27:430:27:44

That was wicked!

0:27:470:27:49

So the next time you're scraping away your leftovers,

0:27:490:27:51

try recycling them instead, because you never know

0:27:510:27:54

you could achieve lift off. So what do you think of that?

0:27:540:27:56

ALL: That's incredible!

0:27:560:27:58

Oh, yeah!

0:27:580:27:59

Well, that's all we've got time for today.

0:27:590:28:01

My thanks to the nosiest noshers of North Lanarkshire

0:28:010:28:04

and to you guys at home for watching.

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