The Unsettling World of Retro Radiation Testing

As I sat down to review some old dishware and food items from before World War II, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia wash over me. The dishes, which included pottery from the 1930s, were a reminder that even in the simplest of things, there can be a fascinating history lurking beneath the surface.

The first item on my list was a Geiger counter, which Amy had recently acquired and asked for my opinion on. As I held it in my hands, I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. The device was old, with badges from 1930 that looked eerily similar to those used today. But what really caught my attention was when I began to scan the items using the Geiger counter.

As I brought the device closer to each item, I was shocked by the readings I saw. One of the dishes, which Amy had identified as a souvenir from before the war, gave off a reading of over 1,200 microsieverts. That's equivalent to being exposed to over 12 times the recommended safe limit for radiation exposure. It was a sobering reminder that even in the past, there were risks associated with everyday objects.

The Geiger counter readings only got more alarming as I continued to scan the items. A Fig Newton, which had been my dad's favorite snack growing up, gave off a reading of over 2,200 microsieverts - nearly twice the recommended safe limit. That's equivalent to being exposed to almost 22 times the recommended safe limit for radiation exposure.

As I finished scanning the items, I couldn't help but think about the potential risks associated with eating food that had been stored for so long. Was it safe? Was it even possible for someone to consume these items without risking their health?

I decided to take a closer look at the Fig Newtons, which were still sealed in their original packaging. As I opened them up, I was greeted by a familiar smell - a sweet, nutty aroma that brought back memories of my childhood. But as I took a bite, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.

It turned out that the Fig Newtons had been stored for so long that they had become home to a small colony of dead wasps. The insects had likely died from being trapped inside the packaging, and their bodies were still present in the figs.

As I sat there, munching on the Fig Newtons, I couldn't help but wonder about the potential health risks associated with eating these items. Was it safe? Should I be worried?

The experience left me shaken, but also reminded me of the importance of being mindful of our surroundings. Even in everyday objects, there can be hidden dangers lurking beneath the surface. It's a sobering reminder to always approach life with caution and curiosity.

In conclusion, if you like Limburger spread, this is an adequate substitute - it's not the same, but it's a decent alternative. The original Limburger spread was likely to never come back unless Kraft is forced to bring it back by sheer public demand through social media campaigns. And who knows? Maybe one day we'll see the return of this nostalgic snack.

For now, I'm just going to enjoy my memories of eating Limburger cheese as a kid - and try to forget the unsettling experience of discovering dead wasps in my Fig Newtons.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm about to eat a food that I have not eaten in over 20 years that's not by choice this food was discontinued about 20 years ago much to my dad's dismay I'm talking about Mohawk Valley brand Limburger cheese spread which was distributed by Kraft and leaf for some reason unknown to beö or my dad in the past Kraft decided that this item was not popular Limburger cheese was invented early in the 19th century by monks who lived out in Limburg that's not a lie I'm not lying random wall I'm staring at think you're gonna sass me Waldo I'll get you to eat you the rose in popularity in the early nineteen hundred's in America when it came over here and it even surpassed Swiss cheese in terms of popularity it was very popular in the German populations much like New York and Cincinnati however during the Prohibition apparently Limburger cheese could not be eaten without an accompanying beer so it lost popularity this is all true this is all true all true now what I have here is not Mohawk Valley brand Limburger cheese spread this is Amish country old fashioned Limburger pasteurized processed cheese spread the real stinky stuff I'm not joking that's that's what it says the real stinky stuff now if you don't know Limburger cheese you may have heard of it it's the cheese that smells like feet and this spread is something that I cherished as a child my dad ate this probably because he was German and it's kind of a German thing you know weird food but I liked it you know I really really liked it as a kid and I haven't had it just because it wasn't available so this people online have said tastes similar this only came out a few years ago and there's a small but very energetic portion of the internet that is kind of missing the old Limburger cheese spread I am kind of that hyper person and my dad's go-to snack was Triscuits and Limburger cheese spread love this my dad got mad at me because I ate all the jars were only ever like this big and sometimes it was a big one and this Dez was in that big around that big that's it these I had a special order from Wisconsin which is the mecca of cheese if you didn't know I love cheese don't mention that I really love cheese but I have not had this in ages I don't know what kind of here's okay food memory is a real thing food triggers very specific memories it can be one of the most like throwback e foods it makes you go back in your brain it make you go back way back in your past it makes you think a long time ago if you get food that you not eat for a while you get big brain and then you remember you must like smells so I have not opened this I've had this for about two days now and I've been looking at it and I'm like I really want to eat it but I don't know if it's gonna be the same I don't know if I'm gonna remember it the same way I don't know if I'm gonna hate it but if it's even anything close to what I remember as a kid I honestly don't know I I really I don't know how it's gonna affect me yeah yeah risking cardboard cut your yeah yeah I'm at risk in addition to I forget I stopped eating Triscuits at the same time because why else would you buy a Triscuit nothing against Triscuits but what's the point good and so long that's delicious she already like already I'm kind of getting this rush back I I took one bite of that I was taken back to my childhood home the first one I remember in Cincinnati I just remember like for some reason right now all I can think about is sitting in or standing in the middle of the kitchen in there just I can remember the smell of the walls we have like old-style wallpaper so it had a very distinct smell to it and then we eventually stripped it off of me at this like that wood paneling on the walls they're the kind of fake wood weird that's crazy okay anyway this is the coup de Gras it looks the same by the way it looks much the same that smells exactly the same Prabhas it smells like Limburger and it's super stinky I don't hate it which is a good sign and that's crazy for some reason I just remembered sitting in the garage whittling a horn down this is a very strange memory to come back to it because it has nothing to do with Limburger cheese my dad used to make old-style musket rifle muzzle loaders that you had to do they're handcrafted out of wood and my dad needs to making them and he used to make powder horns which literally just bull's horns that you shaved down for gunpowder and you put them the muzzle and that's it I used to to try to press this bandit I used to sit in the garage and I used to just whittle down the Horde it was horrible horrible horrible but I did it because you know I wanted to be involved so I just sit for hours with a nail a big old file like a huge one like a footlong just like on this horn and it was never enough it's not it's not it doesn't smell quite the same and I remember the the other spread being a big goo beer but maybe because this one's more substantial no maybe it's got more flavor to it that's crazy this is where rubber meets the road this is like just doing it's so weird picking something up that you haven't done in 20 years and doing it again like this was my after-school jam like I would like I'm not gonna make it like I ate it every single day but I loved this it was delicious that is weird um not the taste it tastes exactly the same I don't know why I'm like that's really I like as soon as I took a bite I started tearing up and I don't know why I just like as soon as I took that bite I was taken back just every the only time I had it was in that house only I grew up and I have this weird like question of memories that are popping up I remember this one time my dad was pissed off I don't know why this is coming up my dad was pissed off because the alarm was going off the fire alarms going off and he he was really frustrated about something so he just jumped up and I think that's the thing is just like this this is such a my dad thing and for the longest time my dad was pissed off because they didn't make it anymore for some reason he scoured the internet for it my dad was always very tech savvy so he was on the internet long before I was he introduced me to computers and so he would scour the internet I bet on some obscure cheese forum that's still in existence to this day is a post made by mine that's incredible I love it who could we do it's really good you want it's really good yeah for those at home you know obviously there's no YouTube smellivision Limburger it's smell is very strong and very distinct and this isn't even accurate Limburger cheese this is liver ger spread which is different than straight up cheese so if anything this is like a mild introduction to Limburger as a whole and I may not like the cheese straight up but I love this I remember my dad told me I couldn't ride my bike through the backyard cuz it tore up a lawn so what did I do a road but like one lap around the backyard no I was looking in the windows like you can see you know he can't see him in then I rode through real quick and then I came around for the second lap have like and then I look in the window and he's just standing in the glass doorway just very slow that's so weird yeah god I don't know it's really really weird this is a very specific food and I doubt that anybody would like it if you want to try Limburger spread I'll put a link in the description it is most likely a purely acquired taste so if you didn't grow up with this you may not like it and they take a while for you to become a customer but if you like soft stinky cheeses I think the trick it's the only thing that brings it back I don't know I don't even have the words to describe how I'm feeling right now I'm very nostalgic about my dad right now like I don't think about my dad's on a daily basis but you know he was probably you know the best dad that I could have hoped for you know for those of you don't know something you may not my dad passed away when I was 18 and he was just a really good dad that's all he ever wanted to be was a dad and he had me and my brother when he was very old in life he had my brother when he was 46 47 I bet if you tried this he would say it's not the same to me Kraft bring back Mohawk Valley brand limburger's red but this is good this is really good I'm not joking about it I'm legitimately like this is pretty good pretty good but you know this probably horribly dangerous for me so I also bought this this is a Geiger counter so this measures radiation for those of you don't know so little uh it's got a big old screen is a little baseline okay that's low I think good cheese is not ready maybe can you go get your new dishware sorry old dishware pre-world War two yeah I got this yeah yeah it's relevant yes relevant you anytime a Geiger counter is relevant you gotta know what you're safe look I got this because Amy got these new dishes and you never know when you want to check the radiation of something is that 13 these that okay this is fine okay this is pottery from when the 1930s this is a lottery from the 1930 before the war nothing right it's totally fun right very good very good yeah very good first thing first this is also from lending a 1930 same badge okay you see the it's not shooting little sparks of radiation as she flares to my eyes from the neutrons okay it's it's peeking up over 1,200 if it's over a thousand very high leave the area a ship and find out why mm says extremely high evacuate immediately report to government and its it's just crossing 1500 Amy it's going up this is evacuate immediately oh it's up over 2200 that's evacuate immediately and report to the government level I this is it 14 microsieverts not joking yeah but now it's in context take away Hellmuth I'm going to check the spot that it was on my hat like Chernobyl fell no no it's not funny it's not funny anyway that's not the point in this video but it's a good sidebar it's a good be plot to this book so this is another food that I've had more recent than 20 years ago but I haven't had for probably about 10 years now the radiation anyway so this was my dad's favorite snack Fig Newtons you want to know confirmation that my dad was at one point an old man he loved himself a Newtons so this is just like this is the coup de Gras is my dad's two favorite snacks of all time was Limburger spread Triscuits and Fig Newtons so I'm just gonna have to complete off the memory I'm gonna see where this one takes me because the last time I had this was it not in my first child at home but the one after my dad met my stepmom good good they're good stuff they're really good stuff and they're not too terribly bad for you yeah they used to be bigger I mean there's really nothing else to say about this I just I really like Fig Newtons marching band two different minded me a marching band oh my god not marching man like on the field marching but the era in which I was doing marching band that was crazy it's not as like a visceral kick in the brain as Limburger was but this is pretty good delicious they're like nutrigrain bars but cut up into thirds very good if you've never had a Fig Newton and you want to real good try full fiber the prunes no they're the same thing if burn is just a fig right oh wait no this doesn't have a lot Harbor Oh am I crazy are there dead wasps and figs are there female wasps no they need to get inside a fake to lay their eggs so the chromosome of male and female dicks are trying to do that the female wasp burrows inside the faith through a narrow opening if she arrives in a male thick she's able to lay her eggs in an ideal environment and then dies male or female so yes there is a likely at least one death wasp inside of things I would like to eat okay great okay in conclusion if you like me you Steve Mohawk Valley brand Limburger spread this is a adequate substitute it's not the same that it's very likely that the original will never come back unless we all cumulatively tweet at Kraft and demand scream rant rave and never stop tweeting at them until they bring it back I'll just move on and maybe try this and hey if you guys manage to try this and you've never tried Limburger spread film it send me the video because I want to see that since the reactions to eating this right here I love this this is amazing it is good enough in my mind to bring back the memories of the times when I ate it as a kid I know it'll wear off eventually but I really like the fact that every time I take a bite of this it makes me smile cuz I remember like my childhood and I didn't have a great childhood because I was so poor you know we had to eat a Limburger cheese but no oh yeah I had a great childhood and that's largely impart to my dad because he was just such a good dad well anyway that's all for now if you got other foods that you want me to review let me know down in the comments below thank you everybody so much for watching and as always we'll see you in the next video byeI'm about to eat a food that I have not eaten in over 20 years that's not by choice this food was discontinued about 20 years ago much to my dad's dismay I'm talking about Mohawk Valley brand Limburger cheese spread which was distributed by Kraft and leaf for some reason unknown to beö or my dad in the past Kraft decided that this item was not popular Limburger cheese was invented early in the 19th century by monks who lived out in Limburg that's not a lie I'm not lying random wall I'm staring at think you're gonna sass me Waldo I'll get you to eat you the rose in popularity in the early nineteen hundred's in America when it came over here and it even surpassed Swiss cheese in terms of popularity it was very popular in the German populations much like New York and Cincinnati however during the Prohibition apparently Limburger cheese could not be eaten without an accompanying beer so it lost popularity this is all true this is all true all true now what I have here is not Mohawk Valley brand Limburger cheese spread this is Amish country old fashioned Limburger pasteurized processed cheese spread the real stinky stuff I'm not joking that's that's what it says the real stinky stuff now if you don't know Limburger cheese you may have heard of it it's the cheese that smells like feet and this spread is something that I cherished as a child my dad ate this probably because he was German and it's kind of a German thing you know weird food but I liked it you know I really really liked it as a kid and I haven't had it just because it wasn't available so this people online have said tastes similar this only came out a few years ago and there's a small but very energetic portion of the internet that is kind of missing the old Limburger cheese spread I am kind of that hyper person and my dad's go-to snack was Triscuits and Limburger cheese spread love this my dad got mad at me because I ate all the jars were only ever like this big and sometimes it was a big one and this Dez was in that big around that big that's it these I had a special order from Wisconsin which is the mecca of cheese if you didn't know I love cheese don't mention that I really love cheese but I have not had this in ages I don't know what kind of here's okay food memory is a real thing food triggers very specific memories it can be one of the most like throwback e foods it makes you go back in your brain it make you go back way back in your past it makes you think a long time ago if you get food that you not eat for a while you get big brain and then you remember you must like smells so I have not opened this I've had this for about two days now and I've been looking at it and I'm like I really want to eat it but I don't know if it's gonna be the same I don't know if I'm gonna remember it the same way I don't know if I'm gonna hate it but if it's even anything close to what I remember as a kid I honestly don't know I I really I don't know how it's gonna affect me yeah yeah risking cardboard cut your yeah yeah I'm at risk in addition to I forget I stopped eating Triscuits at the same time because why else would you buy a Triscuit nothing against Triscuits but what's the point good and so long that's delicious she already like already I'm kind of getting this rush back I I took one bite of that I was taken back to my childhood home the first one I remember in Cincinnati I just remember like for some reason right now all I can think about is sitting in or standing in the middle of the kitchen in there just I can remember the smell of the walls we have like old-style wallpaper so it had a very distinct smell to it and then we eventually stripped it off of me at this like that wood paneling on the walls they're the kind of fake wood weird that's crazy okay anyway this is the coup de Gras it looks the same by the way it looks much the same that smells exactly the same Prabhas it smells like Limburger and it's super stinky I don't hate it which is a good sign and that's crazy for some reason I just remembered sitting in the garage whittling a horn down this is a very strange memory to come back to it because it has nothing to do with Limburger cheese my dad used to make old-style musket rifle muzzle loaders that you had to do they're handcrafted out of wood and my dad needs to making them and he used to make powder horns which literally just bull's horns that you shaved down for gunpowder and you put them the muzzle and that's it I used to to try to press this bandit I used to sit in the garage and I used to just whittle down the Horde it was horrible horrible horrible but I did it because you know I wanted to be involved so I just sit for hours with a nail a big old file like a huge one like a footlong just like on this horn and it was never enough it's not it's not it doesn't smell quite the same and I remember the the other spread being a big goo beer but maybe because this one's more substantial no maybe it's got more flavor to it that's crazy this is where rubber meets the road this is like just doing it's so weird picking something up that you haven't done in 20 years and doing it again like this was my after-school jam like I would like I'm not gonna make it like I ate it every single day but I loved this it was delicious that is weird um not the taste it tastes exactly the same I don't know why I'm like that's really I like as soon as I took a bite I started tearing up and I don't know why I just like as soon as I took that bite I was taken back just every the only time I had it was in that house only I grew up and I have this weird like question of memories that are popping up I remember this one time my dad was pissed off I don't know why this is coming up my dad was pissed off because the alarm was going off the fire alarms going off and he he was really frustrated about something so he just jumped up and I think that's the thing is just like this this is such a my dad thing and for the longest time my dad was pissed off because they didn't make it anymore for some reason he scoured the internet for it my dad was always very tech savvy so he was on the internet long before I was he introduced me to computers and so he would scour the internet I bet on some obscure cheese forum that's still in existence to this day is a post made by mine that's incredible I love it who could we do it's really good you want it's really good yeah for those at home you know obviously there's no YouTube smellivision Limburger it's smell is very strong and very distinct and this isn't even accurate Limburger cheese this is liver ger spread which is different than straight up cheese so if anything this is like a mild introduction to Limburger as a whole and I may not like the cheese straight up but I love this I remember my dad told me I couldn't ride my bike through the backyard cuz it tore up a lawn so what did I do a road but like one lap around the backyard no I was looking in the windows like you can see you know he can't see him in then I rode through real quick and then I came around for the second lap have like and then I look in the window and he's just standing in the glass doorway just very slow that's so weird yeah god I don't know it's really really weird this is a very specific food and I doubt that anybody would like it if you want to try Limburger spread I'll put a link in the description it is most likely a purely acquired taste so if you didn't grow up with this you may not like it and they take a while for you to become a customer but if you like soft stinky cheeses I think the trick it's the only thing that brings it back I don't know I don't even have the words to describe how I'm feeling right now I'm very nostalgic about my dad right now like I don't think about my dad's on a daily basis but you know he was probably you know the best dad that I could have hoped for you know for those of you don't know something you may not my dad passed away when I was 18 and he was just a really good dad that's all he ever wanted to be was a dad and he had me and my brother when he was very old in life he had my brother when he was 46 47 I bet if you tried this he would say it's not the same to me Kraft bring back Mohawk Valley brand limburger's red but this is good this is really good I'm not joking about it I'm legitimately like this is pretty good pretty good but you know this probably horribly dangerous for me so I also bought this this is a Geiger counter so this measures radiation for those of you don't know so little uh it's got a big old screen is a little baseline okay that's low I think good cheese is not ready maybe can you go get your new dishware sorry old dishware pre-world War two yeah I got this yeah yeah it's relevant yes relevant you anytime a Geiger counter is relevant you gotta know what you're safe look I got this because Amy got these new dishes and you never know when you want to check the radiation of something is that 13 these that okay this is fine okay this is pottery from when the 1930s this is a lottery from the 1930 before the war nothing right it's totally fun right very good very good yeah very good first thing first this is also from lending a 1930 same badge okay you see the it's not shooting little sparks of radiation as she flares to my eyes from the neutrons okay it's it's peeking up over 1,200 if it's over a thousand very high leave the area a ship and find out why mm says extremely high evacuate immediately report to government and its it's just crossing 1500 Amy it's going up this is evacuate immediately oh it's up over 2200 that's evacuate immediately and report to the government level I this is it 14 microsieverts not joking yeah but now it's in context take away Hellmuth I'm going to check the spot that it was on my hat like Chernobyl fell no no it's not funny it's not funny anyway that's not the point in this video but it's a good sidebar it's a good be plot to this book so this is another food that I've had more recent than 20 years ago but I haven't had for probably about 10 years now the radiation anyway so this was my dad's favorite snack Fig Newtons you want to know confirmation that my dad was at one point an old man he loved himself a Newtons so this is just like this is the coup de Gras is my dad's two favorite snacks of all time was Limburger spread Triscuits and Fig Newtons so I'm just gonna have to complete off the memory I'm gonna see where this one takes me because the last time I had this was it not in my first child at home but the one after my dad met my stepmom good good they're good stuff they're really good stuff and they're not too terribly bad for you yeah they used to be bigger I mean there's really nothing else to say about this I just I really like Fig Newtons marching band two different minded me a marching band oh my god not marching man like on the field marching but the era in which I was doing marching band that was crazy it's not as like a visceral kick in the brain as Limburger was but this is pretty good delicious they're like nutrigrain bars but cut up into thirds very good if you've never had a Fig Newton and you want to real good try full fiber the prunes no they're the same thing if burn is just a fig right oh wait no this doesn't have a lot Harbor Oh am I crazy are there dead wasps and figs are there female wasps no they need to get inside a fake to lay their eggs so the chromosome of male and female dicks are trying to do that the female wasp burrows inside the faith through a narrow opening if she arrives in a male thick she's able to lay her eggs in an ideal environment and then dies male or female so yes there is a likely at least one death wasp inside of things I would like to eat okay great okay in conclusion if you like me you Steve Mohawk Valley brand Limburger spread this is a adequate substitute it's not the same that it's very likely that the original will never come back unless we all cumulatively tweet at Kraft and demand scream rant rave and never stop tweeting at them until they bring it back I'll just move on and maybe try this and hey if you guys manage to try this and you've never tried Limburger spread film it send me the video because I want to see that since the reactions to eating this right here I love this this is amazing it is good enough in my mind to bring back the memories of the times when I ate it as a kid I know it'll wear off eventually but I really like the fact that every time I take a bite of this it makes me smile cuz I remember like my childhood and I didn't have a great childhood because I was so poor you know we had to eat a Limburger cheese but no oh yeah I had a great childhood and that's largely impart to my dad because he was just such a good dad well anyway that's all for now if you got other foods that you want me to review let me know down in the comments below thank you everybody so much for watching and as always we'll see you in the next video bye\n"