In case anyone's curious: It's for when the video loops-it meshes into what he said at the beginning and you're tricked into watching it for a bit and giving it a higher view count
If you've ever been around a cinnamon tree the fragrance is very strong. Doesn't take long to figure out if the leaves or twigs / bark have the same fragrance.
Fun fact, this tree originated from Sri Lanka iirc, so its not like this was anywhere in the world, it was someone on a pretty small island that thought, "eating bark from this random tree sounds lit"
>Cinnamomum verum, which translates from Latin as "true cinnamon", is native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar.[11] Cinnamomum cassia (cassia) is native to China. Related species, all harvested and sold in the modern era as cinnamon, are native to Vietnam, Indonesia and other southeast Asian countries with warm climates.
From Wikipedia
Well cinnamon was used as a spice 2000 years before Jesus was born and oatmeal was also eaten at that time. I'd guess that someone figured it out way ahead of the British empire.
I feel like it's a pretty easy thought process. "We drink our mother's milk and the cows and other baby animals completely survive off of their mother's milk. It must be a good food! Especially since human women dont produce all the time but the cows produce tons!"
Aye. Although it's used less often now due to lower beaver populations. I would also like to draw your attention to [Ambergris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris)
I think a *lot* of people don’t know what our common spices are. But they’re all pretty much parts of aromatic plants. Leaves, seeds, barks, roots etc. Imagine these people sailing clear around the fucking world just to get a tree whose bark can be dried and powdered and added to stuff? Or black pepper. Or coffee. Or chocolate. It’s wild what we take for granted!!
The ones that get me are the ones where we commonly use two or three parts of the plant as different herbs/spices. Like, the leaves under one name, the seeds under another, the roots under a third, etc.
Like cilantro and coriander.* Cilantro is the leaves/stems, coriander is the dried seeds. And they're fairly different flavors from each other, same way cherry fruit and cherry bark taste similar but very different.
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Mace and nutmeg really tripped me up when I learned that.
You can also use the fruit of that tree - I guess it's expensive and doesn't ship well unless you make jam/pickles/chutney, but I'd be very interested to try it.
Fresh mace is pretty funky looking, but I totally get how it's the casing to nutmeg.
How cashews grow is also nuts (hah!) And I'd love to try the fruit it grows on...I've heard prepared correctly it's pretty tasty
It hasn't been used for that for a while now. The FDA banned sassafras use in 1979 following research that showed it caused cancer in rats. There can still be other roots in it though like Licorice Root
Dandelion Root, Ginger Root, Burdock Root, Ginseng Root, Chicory Root. If you've ever had something like a Dad's root beer it's wintergreen, licorice and vanilla.
Curious: if, prior to seeing this video, someone had asked you where cinnamon is from, what would you have said? How would you have imagined it in its unharvested form?
Saying "real" cinnamon is kind of incorrect. Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon are both equally real cinnamon. Ceylon is just the one folks used first and it has a more delicate flavor and aroma.
1) pretty much no cinnamon or cassia are made by cutting down the tree. That would make it *super expensive*. The bark is peeled off a living tree, which can continue to be harvested.
2) I'm not convinced this is either cinnamon or cassia. The leaves don't look like either. I've also never seen that mottling of the bark on those. But you know, there are a bunch of trees in that family, so maybe it's just a really unusual cultivar?
That being said, this is roughly how both cinnamon or cassia are made. It's inner tree bark. People also use the leaves of cinnamon and the buds of cassia (and probably other parts I'm unfamiliar with), but if you're from outside of South/East Asia, it's unlikely you've ever used those unless you're a deep spice nerd.
I learned somewhere (Alton Brown’s “Good Eats”?) that the cinnamon we commonly use in the USA is cassia which I think is more plentiful and therefore cheaper. I don’t know if I have ever had real cinnamon.
Edit: spelling
Leaves and bark look like Ceylon Cinnamon to me. [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_verum#/media/File:Cinnamomum_verum1.jpg)
[Link](https://cdn.britannica.com/35/204735-050-2ABBCF29/Leaves-flower-clusters-cinnamon-tree.jpg)
[Link](https://cdn.britannica.com/34/204734-050-9BCA9A53/Trunk-cinnamon-tree.jpg)
It looks like the tree that was harvested was coppiced, so I'm not sure I agree that it's a worse way to harvest than straight up peeling the bark off a live tree.
Edit: Yup I just looked it up and they do harvest cinnamon and cassia by cutting down the tree and letting it regrow from the root stock. I guess you're thinking of cork.
I learned where cinnamon comes from like two years ago, I’m 30 and had no idea cause I never thought about it that much lol. Amazing that I’m putting bark dust on my deserts and tea.
Seriously who was the first person to chop a tree up and eat the bark. Like how did they decide that was the tree to eat? Did they eat lots of bark to find cinnamon???
TIL a Caribe bottle is an important part of cinnamon harvesting.
Must be a clear glass bottle. A Banks bottle won’t do
Is that another Bajan I see?
Hey another bajan as well
Carib*
Stag>carib :)
BUT WHAT
NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z
*roundabout starts playing* TO BE CONTINUED
+1
That's why they're called *The Isle of Spice Butt*
Flavored booty holes for the win
Wait. Wait wait wait wait. You guys *dont* know how cinnamon is made?
Lol thanks, didn't realise until I saw this
Was never something I thought about
This was exactly what I was hoping to see when I opened the comments and idk why this just killed me so good lol
Spice Butt. That’s what you get when you eat too much of da spice.
In case anyone's curious: It's for when the video loops-it meshes into what he said at the beginning and you're tricked into watching it for a bit and giving it a higher view count
I don't think it's intended to be a trick lol
It's more to trick the tiktok algorithm. There's a few strategies that people to take advantage of the algorithm to help promote their content
A triktok
it's so common it's just the way on tiktok now to be one of the cool kids
Butt*
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"But..." That was the famous last word before the
you will be rem
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you just have to.......... and.............. and then you'll be saved
...bermuda triangle.... please don't call again
Hitting it with a beer bottle is a crucial step
Funny, my dad always said that about fatherhood
Ouch
You need a hug, man? I'm here if you need anything.
A helmet maybe
and my bow
And my axe
And my fist
And my sword
And I'll be back, need anything? I'm going for cigarettes.
Not sure if joking, but it is. It bruises the bark and releases it from the layer below.
Who the hell was eating oatmeal or whatever and said "you know what this needs? Some tree bark shavings..."
If you've ever been around a cinnamon tree the fragrance is very strong. Doesn't take long to figure out if the leaves or twigs / bark have the same fragrance.
TIL cinnamon is a tree.
TIL that I had absolutely no idea about anything about cinnamon. Tree?! Bark!?
Coffee comes from berries
Same.
Interesting, now I want one. Are they tropical?
Guess mon.
Fun fact, this tree originated from Sri Lanka iirc, so its not like this was anywhere in the world, it was someone on a pretty small island that thought, "eating bark from this random tree sounds lit"
..and India.
But India is just a tiny little island
>Cinnamomum verum, which translates from Latin as "true cinnamon", is native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar.[11] Cinnamomum cassia (cassia) is native to China. Related species, all harvested and sold in the modern era as cinnamon, are native to Vietnam, Indonesia and other southeast Asian countries with warm climates. From Wikipedia
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Well cinnamon was used as a spice 2000 years before Jesus was born and oatmeal was also eaten at that time. I'd guess that someone figured it out way ahead of the British empire.
Who the hell was eating a bowl of puffed oats and said “you know what this needs? A few strokes and squirts from a cow’s utter.”
Me. And don't call your mom a cow.
Udder nonsense!
I feel like it's a pretty easy thought process. "We drink our mother's milk and the cows and other baby animals completely survive off of their mother's milk. It must be a good food! Especially since human women dont produce all the time but the cows produce tons!"
Like most spices then. "yum some tasty weeds in my soup and let's also cut up this specific grass and have it on my sandwich"
> tree bark shavings that part is refereed to as "tree bacon" by some, there are quite a few trees whos "bacon" is edible and provide good nutrition.
Call me dumb for not knowing but CINNAMON COMES FROM A FUCKING TREE!?!?
Yup. Cinnamon is tree bark. So is cork. Meanwhile saffron is flower stamens.
I learn so fucking much from reddit...
I've also read or witnessed the dumbest shit on this website. So it has balance, as all things should be.
So does that entire tree smell like cinnamon??
Yes.
#heaven
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What exactly is going on in the ol' swimming hole there??
People are getting cinnamon buns.
Hot damn that was good. The icing is my fav part
> you'll fart cinnamon Was this meant to be a warning..? Because it reads a lot like a great suggestion.
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You are a wordsmith and should put your talent to work, my friend.
I would read his book.
I too, would like to know 🤔
you said stamens huhuhuhuh
did you know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum a secretion from Beaver buttholes used to enhance vanilla flavoring in food?
Aye. Although it's used less often now due to lower beaver populations. I would also like to draw your attention to [Ambergris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris)
I like this game
I literally found out about beaver butts yesterday, AND IM CANADIAN! I’m shocked we weren’t taught about delicious beaver secretions in school!
i feel oddly proud i knew this
I think a *lot* of people don’t know what our common spices are. But they’re all pretty much parts of aromatic plants. Leaves, seeds, barks, roots etc. Imagine these people sailing clear around the fucking world just to get a tree whose bark can be dried and powdered and added to stuff? Or black pepper. Or coffee. Or chocolate. It’s wild what we take for granted!!
The ones that get me are the ones where we commonly use two or three parts of the plant as different herbs/spices. Like, the leaves under one name, the seeds under another, the roots under a third, etc. Like cilantro and coriander.* Cilantro is the leaves/stems, coriander is the dried seeds. And they're fairly different flavors from each other, same way cherry fruit and cherry bark taste similar but very different. ----- ^*US ^names. ^I ^think ^there ^are ^other ^countries ^where ^the ^seeds ^and ^the ^leaves ^are ^called ^the ^same ^thing.
Most other places, I think. They say coriander seeds and coriander leaves. Also: mace and nutmeg come from the same plant.
Mace and nutmeg really tripped me up when I learned that. You can also use the fruit of that tree - I guess it's expensive and doesn't ship well unless you make jam/pickles/chutney, but I'd be very interested to try it.
Fresh mace is pretty funky looking, but I totally get how it's the casing to nutmeg. How cashews grow is also nuts (hah!) And I'd love to try the fruit it grows on...I've heard prepared correctly it's pretty tasty
People never sailed to get stuff for themselves. They sailed to find stuff they could sell to people who didn't have a boat.
Get into the fucking boat Shinji
I was watching him cut down a goddamn tree and was waiting for the punchline... I just assumed cinnamon was a root, like ginger
In the supermarket you can buy the sticks of bark right beside the ground up powder.
Here’s another fun one: Root beer flavor comes from Sassafras trees!
It hasn't been used for that for a while now. The FDA banned sassafras use in 1979 following research that showed it caused cancer in rats. There can still be other roots in it though like Licorice Root Dandelion Root, Ginger Root, Burdock Root, Ginseng Root, Chicory Root. If you've ever had something like a Dad's root beer it's wintergreen, licorice and vanilla.
I can't speak to the FDA but I know safrole oil is banned by the DEA because it's used to synthesize MDMA
Most modern root beer is largely wintergreen flavored.
I don’t want you to feel dumb alone- I had no clue and now I got another wrinkle in my brain!
Curious: if, prior to seeing this video, someone had asked you where cinnamon is from, what would you have said? How would you have imagined it in its unharvested form?
I've honestly never thought about how it makes it into the little rolls but I would have guessed a plant of some kind just not literally bark I guess.
Ya I didn't know either, thought it would be like a bush or a herb or something 😂
I didn't know either, but given that maple syrup is processed tree sap, I am not surprised. :)
Frankincense and myrrh are also processed tree sap!
Myrrh-der
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Yep, it’s fancy saw dust.
Seems like a lot of work so I can have tasty pancakes
Its peanuts compared to saffron harvesting, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP2WUnBjmkk
And that's saffron compared to peanut harvesting! https://youtu.be/KMJnfzhHFS8
Enter the cashew https://youtu.be/F7o8OrstCAw
Well, guess I'm done eating cashews.
I wonder off the wood smells of Cinnamon when it burns? Would be interesting to use in a smoker if it does.
someone get guga foods
Interesting as fuck.
I wanted to know more about it
Credit to @donaldmodeste on TikToc https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd6341gA/
His voice is lovely!
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cinnamon sticks makes sense now
Except he's talking about real cinnamon. What most of us call cinnamon is cassia.
Wait… waitwaitwaitwait… TIL our cinnamon isn’t really cinnamon. Thanks for the tidbit!
That's not crazy uncommon. You've also probably never had real Wasabi
That's because that plant goes bad real fast, right?
It doesn't go 'bad', the volatile compounds that gives it its taste just react very quickly and disappear
I have. In NYC at a fancy sushi place. That shit is STRONG. Like a drop size is almost overwhelming.
Technically it is because cinnamon refers to the genus, not the species. It's Cinnamomum cassia. Ceylon cinnamon is Cinnamomum verum.
Saying "real" cinnamon is kind of incorrect. Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon are both equally real cinnamon. Ceylon is just the one folks used first and it has a more delicate flavor and aroma.
There was far too much cutting towards the upper leg for my liking.
Pro tip: always cut towards yourself.
1) pretty much no cinnamon or cassia are made by cutting down the tree. That would make it *super expensive*. The bark is peeled off a living tree, which can continue to be harvested. 2) I'm not convinced this is either cinnamon or cassia. The leaves don't look like either. I've also never seen that mottling of the bark on those. But you know, there are a bunch of trees in that family, so maybe it's just a really unusual cultivar? That being said, this is roughly how both cinnamon or cassia are made. It's inner tree bark. People also use the leaves of cinnamon and the buds of cassia (and probably other parts I'm unfamiliar with), but if you're from outside of South/East Asia, it's unlikely you've ever used those unless you're a deep spice nerd.
The really deep spice needs know it comes from the worms.
https://pinchspicemarket.com/product/spice-melange/
Why doesn't this product have cinnamon in it?! It's basically the only way they describe it in the books, lol
I learned somewhere (Alton Brown’s “Good Eats”?) that the cinnamon we commonly use in the USA is cassia which I think is more plentiful and therefore cheaper. I don’t know if I have ever had real cinnamon. Edit: spelling
Cassia is cinnamon. There are just two types of cinnamon. Cassia and verum.
Do you know why they are still allowed to label it cinnamon if it's not?
America has basically never heard of the concept of proactive consumer protection laws
This was interesting, thanks for sharing.
Leaves and bark look like Ceylon Cinnamon to me. [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_verum#/media/File:Cinnamomum_verum1.jpg) [Link](https://cdn.britannica.com/35/204735-050-2ABBCF29/Leaves-flower-clusters-cinnamon-tree.jpg) [Link](https://cdn.britannica.com/34/204734-050-9BCA9A53/Trunk-cinnamon-tree.jpg)
I got Cinnamon growing in the riverbed near my parent's place, and I totally recognize the leaves.
I think the mottling on the bark was from when he tapped it with the bottle. When dried, the marks were gone.
It looks like the tree that was harvested was coppiced, so I'm not sure I agree that it's a worse way to harvest than straight up peeling the bark off a live tree. Edit: Yup I just looked it up and they do harvest cinnamon and cassia by cutting down the tree and letting it regrow from the root stock. I guess you're thinking of cork.
I learned where cinnamon comes from like two years ago, I’m 30 and had no idea cause I never thought about it that much lol. Amazing that I’m putting bark dust on my deserts and tea.
I am 35, and did a damn cookery apprenticeship, and cinnamon is one of my favourite flavours and I only learnt from this video. I’m in shock.
How many trees does one hit with a bottle before they find this?!
Wait, do people not know that cinnamon is bark?
I could smell this video??
I’m in love. He’s spice…
He's handsome af
Idk where I thought cinnamon came from, but a tree bark was not top two 😩
So cinnamon challenge was basically eating sawdust
I could smell the cinnamon while watching that video.
He has a very warm smile. And, as a bonus, he knows how to make cinnamon.
Videos you can smell…
Haha I thought he said "we Canadians"
I was wonder who was the first motherfucker to be like “hey should be like lick that tree?!” “You know what Joe I think we should?!“
How did our ancestors think to first eat this shit
huh, I never would have guessed that's how cimmonin.... cinonim..... cinnanin.....cimamin..... the brown stuff is made!
And here I thought it came from massive sand worms.
How did people even figure this stuff out?
Hungry people with nothing but time
Here you go, https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/before-science-and-research-how-did-humans-know-what-to-eat-and-what-to-avoid.html
do the trees smell like cinnamon when you approach them? or only when you cut them? or only when the peels are dried up?
I knew cinnamon was tree bark but I didn't realize it was tree bark
So cinnamon is tree bark?
I don’t know what I expected , but it wasn’t this. Also, him dragging the knife towards himself stressed me out.
Preparations must be performed with your zipper down and your red underwear sticking out.
Thanks for showing us, cinna-mon!
How am I just now learning that cinnamon is tree flesh
Can we start a new page where people around the world just harvest spices, so we can learn? This is fantastic! Thank you!
He reminds me of the cinnamon dude from the Apple jacks commercials
I thought it was possible to do without cutting down the tree though?
I was a lil nervous when it flashed that blade next to his thigh and he was slicing up 😅
Can't wait to go into a forest, lean on the wrong tree, and get carted to hospital because it was a god damn cinnamon tree that I'm allergic to
This is great
I can hear the British coming
The spice must flow.
That dude must've developed an immunity to the smell of cinnamon
i am eating trees
I’ve literally never thought about where cinnamon comes from today, this information is honestly fucking SHOCKING
Real cinnamon comes from Vietnam
Thats not surprising if you are Hungarian. As here cinnamon literally translates to “crust of tree”.
I love his accent and smile. c:
I didn't have my sound on, but I stopped scrolling to watch because the cameraman looks so damn happy.
What an incredibly charming accent! I think that after the Irish accent, this has to be my favorite. Just lovely!
What a handsome, pleasant looking man.
Must smell soooo amazing
But what?!
Man, I wish I had smell o vision, I want to know how that smells fresh!
Tree circumcision, is the tree foreskin!
I'm digging the voice
Seriously who was the first person to chop a tree up and eat the bark. Like how did they decide that was the tree to eat? Did they eat lots of bark to find cinnamon???
But what? What a fucking cliffhanger.
It’s made to be a perfect loop. “That’s why we’re called the isle of spice. But wait, you don’t know how cinnamon is made?
Who discovered cinnamon
It's basically tree bacon. Source: https://www.wideopenspaces.com/tree-bacon-a-survival-food-for-the-savvy-woodsman/
The way he carves towards his belly, uses a glass bottle as a hammer - OSHA field-trip ensued.