Kids Try Food From Fairy Tales | Epicurious

Do you feel guilty eating a man? I mean, unless if it's not cannibalism. Do you want to eat the gingerbread man? Yes! Okay, that was actually kind of cool. Okay. Sorry you have to die. I squished his eyes. I ate his eyes. No, you can't go anywhere! Without me. Without legs. They don't look very appetizing. They sort of look like butterflies. No, thank you. They taste like peaches and like a little bit of orange. I really like them. Tastes like pumpkin. That's dry. Tastes like expired pumpkin. Is this expired? We served you expired food. This is Kids Try Expired Food. This is from a Korean fairy tale called The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon. Is that as scary as a tiger? Yes. If it doesn't have sugar, whipped cream, and ice cream on it, then it's as scary as a tiger. Tell me what you see. This is from the Three Bears and Goldilocks. It's warm. This one's the kid bowl. This one's mama bowl. This one's daddy bowl. That's hot. Is it cold? Yeah. Is it really cold? Mm-hmm. Did you put eggs in here? I thought you were going to put peanut butter. Candy! What is this? Oh, bread. I don't want to eat bread. What do you do with a candy house? Eat it. Would you recommend this to your friends? Mm-hmm. But I really want to share it because it's too good for me to share. I just want to punch it in the mouth. Whoa. Do you guys know of a story that has a house and a witch in it? Mm-hmm. What? Hansel and Gretel. They found this house, and they started eating it, and then the witch came out and lured them into their house. Good. Should I eat you for eating my house? No. Stop! Why? Where am I going to sleep? In the forest. It looks like rocks. Cake pop? Looks like a type of bread or something. It's actually a millet dumpling. So the story of Momotaru is about a boy who's born out of a peach, and his parents give him millet dumplings that give him super strength. So I need you to eat those dumplings and tell me if you become super strong. It tastes like some sort of squishy bread. It tastes really bad. So bad, I cannot describe it. Grayson, does your muscle feel any different? Yes, it feels way, way stronger. Can you take a bigger bite for me? I want to eat... I don't want any. Don't eat me! No! Please, don't eat me. No! Who are you? I'm a talking melon, duh. I'm just trying to open you. No! Ew! It's gross. What's in there? Seeds and a lot of melon. Ouch! Aren't you so disgusted by the idea of eating the talking melon? You mean to tell me you've never heard of a talking melon? Yeah. No, it's gross. Spider. You're a spider inside of a melon. Well, that's what it looks like, doesn't it? Okay, so I'm not a talking melon. It's from a West African fairy tale about a trickster spider who hides inside a melon and convinces all the jungle animals that he's a talking melon. And it's pretty funny. It wasn't that funny. Is there spider ribs in this? Oh! I might not be very funny, but you're not very good at eating melons. Hey, who said that? It does not taste good at all. Well, I like it. It tastes good. This is going in the trash. What are you doing? Spiders don't go well inside. I'd like to see you try. Wait, what are you actually doing? What are you? Ouch! Why do you have to trick people all the time? Because it's fun and you always fall for it. But it's bad to trick. You could end up in jail. I promise to never trick anyone again. I'm pretty sure that's not true. Tastes like radish. Obviously. You said we would like this! Peter Rabbit runs into Mr. McGregor's farm. Yeah. Let me guess. He gets caught. He fails. I think he gets away. He steals all his vegetables and carrots and stuff from the mean man. So he's a rabbit and the man and the girl were in love. Then she moved in with him. I think that's the one. Is this Peter Rabbit or The Odd Couple? I think it's Peter Rabbit. Wait, is this cake? Brown cake, like moldy cake. It's gray. Oh, that smells good. No. I mean, it does actually. But it's like black cake. Gray cake. Oh my god, this is really moldy. It's crumbly. It's actually blue corn cake. Corn? I never tasted something like this. It's from a story called The Blue Corn Maiden. It's about this girl who makes corn for everybody. But since the wind spirit takes her away, she can't provide corn and the village gets hungry. I would eat this whole thing if I could. Me too. Do we have to finish this? I knew it! Wait. What is this? Weird white carrots? This is very close to the food that Rapunzel's mother ate from a witch's garden and then had to give up Rapunzel to the witch. Rapunzel was named after a vegetable called rampion. It kind of tastes like moist. Very moist. And it really doesn't have much flavor. This is a parsnip. Wait, a what? A parsnip. I don't see why anybody would really like eating these, but... What foods would you trade family members for? Nothing. Pizza. It's a marshmallow. It looks like a mushroom. Yeah, it looks like a big mushroom. Ah, a mushroom. Have you ever heard of a story where a girl goes down a rabbit hole? No. Isn't it like from Alice in the Wonderland? You're good. There's like a blue girl and a... No, not a blue girl. A girl with blonde hair and a blue dress. Oh yeah, this guy, he like said like, okay, do you want to get bigger? And what happens when she bites into a mushroom? She bites into a mushroom and she gets bigger or smaller. Ribbit. It tastes like a plain old mushroom. Yeah. I don't think I'm growing. I'm bigger. You should really eat this mushroom. It has lots of protein and it will make you grow. Fact.