Food Theory: What Disney Is HIDING About The Grey Stuff! (Beauty and the Beast)

What fictional

food

have you always wanted to try? Let me know in the comments. I will be featuring some of the best answers for me. Well, you have some scenes that look delicious. That Willy Wonka opening room every time they eat in Harry Potter. Because everything in those scenes looks fantastic, then you have things like Winnie the Pooh honey, which always looked so delicious to me, and then you try real honey, which is just disappointing. Every time I take a little honey I feel betrayed, but today I'm more interested. on wacky fictional

food

s weird things that were created because it's fiction where you can do anything when it comes to sandwiches there are two that I really want to try first there's the regular show ultimatum the ultimatum is a cheeseburger

stuff

ed inside a cheeseburger with two deep fried cheeseburgers as buns, we add our special ketchup that we get from the Himalayas, I mean a cheeseburger

stuff

ed inside a cheeseburger with two fried cheeseburgers as buns, probably crazy but I would like to try it alone because of the memes and then there's Jake's. adventure time sandwich cream cheese pickles and some dill cubes boiled eggs window bird common cucumber sliced ​​roma tomatoes sweet yellow onion tears for salt meat sous vide prepared bacon again I don't think it's good window bird is an ingredient which makes me a little nervous, but after dedicating an entire episode on this channel to collecting salt from my own tears, I feel compelled to try this anyway, those are some of my options, let me know yours in the comments below sequel, but probably The oldest fictional food mystery comes from one of Disney's most iconic films.

Beauty and the Beast in the song Be Our Guest. Lumiere presents us with the most wonderful dinner ever. Soups and soufflés. mystery food a thing that remains deliciously vague named only by its color try the gray thing is delicious no, no, no, we don't recognize that version here any movie where an antique chandelier starts flossing with a Disney classic is not okay This is

what

I'm talking about trying the gray stuff, it's delicious, this gray goo on a cookie,

what

exactly is it? Is it as delicious as the chandelier would have us believe? Well, ma'am and missia, today we're looking at culinary history, world history, Disney parks, and tasting. galore in an attempt to finally put a name to the gray things, spoiler alert, Disney is trying really hard to make sure you don't find out what it is, so let's get started.

Hello Internet, welcome to Food Theory, the program where we think like theorists, we eat and drink like theorists, we take our sanity to the limit like theorists, today I invite you to be my guests as we explore a story as old as time, the beautiful and the gray

beast

, now this mystery food first appeared in a random line in the middle of the song be our guest, I guess they needed a phrase that roughly rhymed with the next line, order the dishes and they ended with that because it fit the cadence of song, and yet here we are, is a fictional food that made big headlines when Disney made it available to the parks in 2013.

That movie as a reminder came out in 1991, so it was more than two decades before it eager audiences could finally get a taste of the proverbial gray stuff, but what good is it if you believe the movie? shall not be named, it's just the appearance of caviar, it's right there, just a big old pile of fish eggs. I would say caviar is blacker, but again, this is a movie that has a floss chandelier, so your opinion on anything is immediately invalid, which simply means we have to go back to the source material, here we see which is

grey

, speckled and served on a thin biscuit, so what could it be?

Fair warning, you might not think this is all that scrumptious at the end of today. episode now, as I mentioned, starting in 2013, Disney began offering what purports to be gray stuff, not caviar, in some of their parks at the br guest restaurant in the magic kingdom, you can get a chocolate cake with gray stuff in others they sometimes serve it alone in a white chocolate chunk cup and at the Disneyland Resort in California you can try the serious stuff while on vacation. A spooky reinvention that was served at the Red Rose Tavern in Fantasyland when I first heard they served it.

I ran to Disney World to try it out. Let's say you were excited about the implications of the content. We need this footage so we can write it off as a business expense that required us to come to Disney World for several days, so I tested it and the results. They were good, it's very good personally, I had already moved on to other desserts, everyone overdoes the gray things, I love pink and red things and my mind had already wandered to other new video opportunities coming soon to a channel near you, what health? ramifications when you eat five dozen eggs every morning to help you grow deal with heart problems no way deal with high cholesterol maybe you're a barge because you're dealing with aggressive swelling just so much edema so

disney

would have you believe that how gray is a sweet dessert, thinly whipped light cookies and cream mousse and although I'm sure these desserts are gray and sticky, they are really nothing more than sugar-coated lies, well, you would think that this mystery has already been solved.

I'm about to do it. I'm telling you, you know as much about the gray stuff as Gaston knows about female empowerment. My little wife massaging my feet. You see, Disney wants us to believe that the gray things are a charming chocolate moose, but this is not only rewriting Disney history, but real history as well. Real world history, in truth, Disney is afraid of you finding out what the gray things really are, which means it's my job to expose them, so let's go on a quest to find out not what Disney World wants you to think they are. the gray things but first let me show you what it was actually intended to be from the beginning why the gray thing couldn't have been a chocolate cookie moose.

To do that, we have to go back not to 1991 when the film was released, but even further back. the old b b was just a book b, i mean it all started as a book, the story of

beauty

and the

beast

is based on the novel la belle elabet originally written by gabrielle suzanne barbado villeneuve in the year 1740. yes the french names and pre- The vibrations of the French Revolution gave no idea of ​​the story set in 18th century France, probably between the years 1740 and 1789, later and let's say the beast would have had much bigger problems in its clutches than finding love true anyway. ourselves, a cookies and cream mousse, you need cookies and cream, which means some crucial ingredients like milk or cream, sugar and chocolate, historically speaking, chocolate existed in the time of

beauty

and the beast, records show that Anne of Austria brought it as a wedding gift. for her future husband, King Louis XIII, back in 1615.

Also chocolate as a wedding gift. If I'd known I could show up to a royal wedding with a bit of toblerone, I'd be all over the 18th century French course, no. No, never mind, the point is that the French upper class loved chocolate as much as they loved cake, it allowed them to eat cake to such an extent that nobles and royalty throughout the country appointed their own pastry chefs to They will prepare it now, if you enjoy your chocolate at the bar. or variety of chips, it may be a little difficult to imagine that in the early days chocolate was only consumed as a liquid, it will be even more difficult to imagine that back then the French also considered chocolate a drug, which gives the word chocoholic a whole new meaning.

Which means that, in fact, the first time chocolate took a form remotely comparable to a cookie was when a chocolatier named saplice de bove mixed headache medicine with cocoa butter to create what he called a gun. chocolate for Marie Antoinette. These guns took a spoonful of sugar muffin. by allowing her to take her medicine without the bitter aftertaste, if you want you can still buy them today and then pretend to be an out of touch aristocrat like her, but what we are interested in are the chocolate cookies and the first mention of a chocolate flavored cookies , like those used in dessert at Disney parks, did not appear until 1891, when chocolate manufacturer Cadbury filed a patent for the first chocolate-covered cocoa-flavored cookies.

These cookies actually look a lot like the chocolate wafers you would find. in an Oreo cookie and that Disney grinds up to make their gray stuff, unfortunately these types of cookies weren't invented until over a century after the events of the movie, so there you have it, the gray stuff couldn't in any way be a chocolate cookie moose because chocolate cookies were still a hundred years away from being invented following this logical path that the residents of the beast castle can't get cookies to make the gray thing, which raises the unfortunate question of: What are they presumably getting?

No one here has been able to go to the market for the last decade 10 years we have been rusting and let's face it we are talking about a clock a teapot and a candelabra during the French revolution this is not how these guys are going to send their weekly purchases to the castle gates , which then begs the question of what these characters would be eating over the past decade. Well the answer is actually much simpler than one would think in the 18th century, castles were not dependent on them. what they could buy in stores, but what they could hunt, gather or grow thanks to um oof notes, prepare for the impact on this. francois de pave de vilviel, the patriarch of chateau de vilviel, made it anyway thanks to that guy with the most french sounding name in france, we actually have a pretty good idea of ​​what the chateau would have been eating at the time.

Beef and pig meat probably occupied an important place on the menu along with poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese. They would also have grown grains such as wheat. and rye vegetables such as onions and garlic, as well as popular fruits such as olives, peaches and figs. In fact, we see many of these things exactly in the guest scene, so we are generally on the right track, even down to the foamy beer that was commonly made even by peasants in their own homes as early as the 1620s, there are some glaring exceptions here, although ironically the champagne at the end of the scene is included.

Champagne was only available in the 18th century and couldn't be made in-house, although I suppose there's a world where they're dipping into some sort of champagne reserve as a way to do everything they can to make Bella their last opportunity to break the spell. Oh, and let's not forget those strikes on the matches either. at the top of the song, they weren't available until 1827. Outside of those two, though most of the items here are consistent across the period, so we can still safely analyze all of this based on the products available in the 18th century France beyond availability.

In fact, we get our next clue as to what the gray material is by considering what it is served with. When Lumiere opens the hood, we can clearly see that the gray material is surrounded by savory options including a sausage roll and this orange material on a biscuit that was probably caviar that had just become a hit in this period after migrating from Russia . There's also a sandwich with a green olive on top that's more of a 1960s Italian deli kind of thing, but we'll stick with it. There's also this poop involved. You also see something that could be a black pudding pie, also common at that time.

What I mean is that these are all tasty and considering there is expensive caviar here, so hopefully the gray things will follow suit. This was a period of time in France known for much excess. Historically, Marie Antoinette would have been living in Paris, she was not known for being austere or particularly thoughtful about her food sources. It happens that exactly at the time when Beauty and the Beast takes place between 1750 and 1770, a new food appeared. The craze was sweeping the French nation and that dish was foie gras. If you've seen many food chains or have a famous chef, you've probably heard of this dish before, even if you've never tried it.

It's essentially fatty goose or duck liver, yes, the internal organs of a bird are served exactly as we see it in the movie, whipped into a grape paste mixed with spices and then served as a spicy pate on a biscuit, now I say that This dish is new, it is a It is a bit of a misnomer, since the history of foie gras can be dated back tothe ancient Egyptians, but during the Middle Ages foie gras disappeared from global consciousness like many things, although its modern incarnation was reintroduced in exactly the right place. and the exact time of beauty and the beast would have been something that only royalty or the noble classes would have been exposed to at the time of the film since it was first made as a special preparation for the marquis of kantad and later for king louis xvi.

This helps explain why Lumiere points out this particular plate among the entire canopy on Bell's plate during the song. This is one of the biggest food fads of the time and something that the royal court of the beast would have been exposed to, if not for peasants like Belle. I would never have seen it now, while foie gras is the most likely historical candidate for the gray stuff, it's also understandable why Disney doesn't just serve it from a practical standpoint. Foie gras, as the film shows, is a delicacy that is generally very expensive and served in small quantities. and requires delicate preparation, this won't hold up to the hordes that have just emerged from space mountain in search of a hearty lunch.

Disney is trying to appeal to the nominator with lower comments as millions of park visitors pass through the gates each year. hoity-toit french goose liver for kid-friendly cookies and cream dessert makes a lot of sense, but there's another reason why Disney strayed far from historical accuracy in marketing this gray product in 1991, when this movie was released. Foie gras was widely considered a global delicacy available in upscale restaurants around the world. world since the movies were released, although the public image of foie gras has fallen quite a bit, the problem is that to make high-quality foie gras you need extremely large fatty goose liver, as many of us know from watching late-night infomercials about the dangers. of belly fat, you can probably guess that to get a liver with a ton of fat you need to treat your body pretty badly, and in the case of the geese used to make foie gras, they need an incredibly unhealthy lifestyle to achieve it.

Size and level of fat of the liver used in this dish to qualify as foie gras. The liver of a duck would have to weigh between 450 and 600 grams. A goose liver should weigh between 650 and 800 grams as a reference. A normal duck liver weighs 50 grams, a normal goose liver weighs between 60 and 70. They are expected to swell to almost 10 times their normal size, so the birds are subjected to force-feeding, which is a method of Force feeding designed to enlarge their livers. Ducks and geese are now known to overeat seasonally. to store fat for the winter, which is originally how ancient cultures discovered these fatty livers in the first place, but the degree to which these birds become unhealthy year-round is extreme, today the practice of force-feeding is It is considered so barbaric that foie gras is actually banned in many countries, such as in more countries than Mrs.

Potts has children in that cupboard, so since the global view of foie gras has changed so drastically In recent decades, Disney suddenly has a much more political reason for trying to give that gray thing. a sweet makeover the only food that the film actively pushes on the main character and to which the main character has a positive reaction is now widely associated with global animal rights violations; In fact, the historical and political context of foie gras may also help explain why Disney chose to release the gray stuff in Disney parks in 2013, even though the film had been released since 1991.

I mean, they had all that intermediate time. Why did they wait well in the interim between the release of the film? More and more countries remained. California, home of Disneyland, passed a ban on foie gras in 2004 as one of the first regions to do so. However, the decision was contested for several years until a final decision was confirmed. the ban in 2012 put it in full effect, huh, and once you know, the foie gras ban occurred less than a year before the new gray stuff debuted in Disney parks and became widely available in 2013. 2012 too It was a historic year for foie gras in Europe where the leaders of 12 nations, including the leader of France's Green Party, demanded legislation to end production of the dish and do you notice that all these bands of fog occur less than a year before

disney

's new gray thing debuted in the parks is a wide availability that happened in 2013.

Again, this could be a coincidence, but if I'm Disney and I have some of my most beloved characters actively endorsing a product that is synonymous with animal abuse, I will try to avoid it. in step and what better way to avoid facing animal rights accusations than to create a highly marketable, distracting dessert for nostalgic '90s Disney fans, just cookies and cream, guys, no force-fed geese in this one direction and that, my friends, is the reason why Disney doesn't want you to know the truth about its most famous food is because people wouldn't like it and I'm not just talking about the taste but hey, that's just a

theory

, a food

theory

, bon appetit.