Food Theory: Should I DELETE This Video?

Theorists, we need to talk. My last video on milk was called out by another creator for spreading false information. Ann Reardon, also known as How To Cook That, reacted to my video and had a few corrections. Today, I'm going to be going through those fact checks to see what actually went wrong in that video and make sure we are setting everything straight. Is it a video I should be deleting off the channel? Let's find out.


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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper
Editors: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi and Forrest Lee
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

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[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It’s rare that Matpat tackles criticism head on, but he does it really well actually.

[CZsWorld]

Two creators criticizing each other's theories and improving on each other's information. The true spirit of great science on display! 👍

[and_gelitan]

Matpat: “No intro today friends!”

Also Matpat: *”HELLO INTERNET, WELCOME TO FOOD THEORY!”*

[nicholasprovencher]

Haters: "Matpat is a shill for veganism"
Matpat: "in today's episode, I'm going eat several pounds of fried chicken to see if I can identify KFC's secret recipe"

[NoOne-xlui]

-proved the hate comments wrong
-provides evidence and facts to why his video was correct
-explains everything calmly and confidently
-agrees with the other party, but still proves his point
-gives response that avoids starting drama

Now this is how a real professional youtuber responds

[hooman]

I feel like over the years, Mat has gotten a lot better at taking criticism. At first he wouldn't really do anything, but now he is able to talk about what happened in a really effective manner.

[brycetonbennett]

She also said that it was a lot of Kale to get a child to eat. But she said herself, no one was disputing that kids need milk. You were talking better alternatives for adults

[freyjathehealer]

Honestly he basically just proved that he knows what he’s talking about. But also he gave the woman as much credit as she was owed and I respect the heck out of him for doing that.

[Dufb]

“MatPat is a shill for veganism”
MatPat: To summarise, to get the most out of a buffet, only eat the meat

[liev_x]

Whoever said that Mat is a "shill for veganism" clearly didn't watch the video of him tossing steaks into a dryer and then excitedly tearing into them after being tumble-cooked.

[shaylafey]

Rewatching all the food theory videos, and I can't help remember Ann's responses, comments, etc. It was what made me stop watching her TBH. I was not really a "fan" as in attached to either at the time, I enjoyed both content but the individual creators I was not attached to. So when the...lack luster video came out, followed by her comments within that video to this one. Yeah, I noped out. She refused to admit areas she was wrong in, doubled down constantly, and was more interested in vilifying other creators than actual facts, which made her far less trustworthy as a source to me.

[HidinginPublic]

Matt has had a few mistakes in his theories in the past, but all in all for the amount of content he puts out, with the amount of research, detail and organization. Few creators are as unbelievably impressive as what "The Theorists" have built across their channels. I feel like this general sentiment has lead to a lot of bad faith criticisms or assumptions about him, but Matt seems like a good guy, or in the least, someone who Is putting in effort to get things right. This video did a wonderful job basically conclusively responding to the insinuations around this particular video- but never does he even acknowledge the sort of snide cynicism from the original video. Just the points. Respects to Matt here. Respect where it is due.

[Michylawhty]

You're underselling yourself, MatPat. I would definitely have the patience for a 90 minute dissertation on bio-availability.

[myStitch]

I appreciate how maturely Mat handled this. Clearly he was a bit upset about it, but he does have every right to be. It’s disheartening when you put a lot of effort into something you spend months on and someone rips into it over one small issue. Instead of being immature and attacking Ann, he addresses her issues and clarifies them, even specifying his resources for us to look into them.

The Brew channel is really fun, nice to listen to and their animations are pretty funny. I jumped over to watch their video. Both videos come to basically the same conclusion through different evidence, though are a bit similar, but that is going to be the case when two people tackle researching the same topic. It’s like a teacher calling plagiarism on a kid who did the same topic as a kid the year before despite the two papers aren’t copy and paste. (Also that thumbnail Brew has used in total 4 times on their own channel but is a simple idea to come up with, if you came up with something, high likelyhood someone else has had the same idea at some point)

[emmabrook]

She’s now coming for Sugarologie and grouping her in with “hacks” when Sugarologie has a PhD in biochemistry

[emmae]

As someone who's been eating kale for a really long time, the other thing to note about that huge bowl is that kale is one of those greens that cooks down a LOT. You throw it in a pan, start sautéing it, and it shrinks down to the point where you can't imagine that it came from a huge bowl in the first place.

[Lovesickobsession]

I love Anne's channel, but also notice she said "if you put this much kale in front of a child"- and it's a moot point because they both specifically said that a CHILD benefits from drinking milk, whereas ADULTS generally do not.

[charlessaintpe]

I, for one, would totally watch MatPat do a 90 minute dissertation on bioavailability.

[Savasaurus]

I can tell how mad Matt Pat is but the fact that he's still smiling the entire time is hilarious lol

[Halcyon]

He makes an extremely valid point that talking about nutrition in general is extremely complicated and diverse. Its also important to note that this is "edu-tainment" its education mixed with education. Those things don't easily mix and MatPat and team do an incredible job of it 90% of the time.