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- It doesn't look too appetizing to me.
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- Beets are actually really good for your heart.
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- (moodily) I'm not in the mood for vegetables!
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♪ (French accordion music) ♪
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(screencaps whooshing)
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- (FBE) So we're gonna have you try some Greek vegetables.
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We'll show you the raw version, and then you'll be tasting
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a prepared meal from a local Greek restaurant.
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- Ooh, hope it's good.
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- I don't like vegetables.
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- Yeah, I love trying new things!
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- (moodily) I'm not in the mood for vegetables!
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- What is Greek food-- like, Greek food?
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- Isn't Greek like another place?
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- They're foreign and they're vegetables,
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so it's scary.
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- (FBE) Here is your first vegetable.
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- Ooh, and that's an eggplant.
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- Kinda look like a purple pear with this kind of weird stem.
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- Is this squash?
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- I know what it is. It's eggplant.
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- It's gooey and squishy.
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(mumbling) It's spicy.
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- (gulping) That is amazing. Wow, that is good.
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- Uh-uh, I don't like it.
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It's spicy and it doesn't taste good.
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- It's really spicy, like, ouch!
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- It's very soft and squishy.
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- It was really good.
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I liked how there was feta cheese inside
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and the taste of it.
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- (FBE) This is popoutsakia, or grilled eggplant.
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The word "popoutsakia" is literally translated to mean
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"little shoes" because that is what the cooked eggplant
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looks like when it's cut in half. - "Little shoes."
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Okay.
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- I don't see the little shoes.
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- (FBE) Here's your next vegetable, and a picture of the raw version.
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- That looks weird.
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Wait, is it a leaf?
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It doesn't look too appetizing to me.
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- It's a leaf.
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- It looks like seaweed.
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I love seaweed.
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- The inside looks very weird.
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- It tastes like really, really, really,
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really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
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really, really, really, really, really salty steak.
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- Nice texture, and then the stuff in the inside's nice.
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The leaf is actually pretty good.
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- Oh, ugh.
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This stuff is sour and gross.
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- Mmmm! These are so good.
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There's meat and onion in it, I think,
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and the outside is like seaweed, and there's cheese on it, I think.
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- (FBE) This is called a grape leaf, or dolmades.
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They are most often picked fresh from the vine
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and stuffed with a mixture of rice, meat, and spices,
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and then cooked by boiling or steaming.
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- This is rice?
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It's like mush on the inside and hard and leafy on the outside.
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- I would try this again because it's nicely flavored,
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but I have a question.
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How many grape leaves does it take to cover this?
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One or more?
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- (FBE) Here's your next vegetable.
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- Is this-- is this a radish?
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- They look like radishes.
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- Beets are actually really good for your heart.
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- My dad would ask if I wanted some,
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and I'd be like, "Um, no thanks."
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- It's a little too squishy and doesn't really have
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that much taste.
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- It's kind of sweet.
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- That is not bad.
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It's pretty actually nicely flavored.
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It's kinda soft and stuff.
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I expected it to be hard and taste bad,
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but opposite of both of those.
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- I can't explain it, but... ewwww!
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Hard enough to be a form, but squishy enough
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to almost dissolve in your mouth.
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- (FBE) This is a beet, or teftla.
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Greek salads are a very popular dish,
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typically consumed in the summer,
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and you aren't having a Greek meal
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if it isn't accompanied with a Greek salad.
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This one is specifically a beet salad. - Wow, just this is a salad?
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Wow, usually salads has this, that, that, that.
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But done, here's your salad.
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- Next time my dad's like, "Hey, you want some?"
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I'll be like, "Sure!"
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- (FBE) Here is your last vegetable.
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- That does not look like that.
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- Beans?
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These look like really odd beans.
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- It looks like sunflower seeds.
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So this is raw?
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- Don't judge anything by its looks.
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That is actually really, really, really good!
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- Mmmm. Delicious.
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- It looks like it would taste bad, like throw up soup,
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but nope, it's actually really good.
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- It tastes like clam chowder, kind of,
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but a little more bumpy.
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- Yeah, it just taste like a bean.
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- (FBE) This is lentils.
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Lentils are a staple in the Greek kitchen,
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and they are part of the legume family.
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- That's what they're called!
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I prefer it without all this green stuff,
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but other than that, it was really good.
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- They're really good. I would try them again.
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- (FBE) So which one of these Greek vegetables
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would you recommend people eat?
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- The lentils.
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- The grape leaf one.
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- The grape leaf.
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- Try the beet salad.
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- The beet Greek salad.
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- I think the beets.
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- I would suggest lentils.
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It looks weird and throw up, but try it. It's delicious.
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- Thanks for watching us eat Greek vegetables
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on the React channel.
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- What country should we visit next?
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Let us know in the comments.
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- Bye!
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- Hey, everyone, Alyssa here, a producer from the React channel.
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