How World War II Created One of the World’s Most Popular Soft Drinks 

At 4:15 I think you meant Austria not Australia...

Good day mate! let’s put another shrimp on the Barbie!

Um, mate, 04:33, that's not a real Coke advert. For starters the "Coke is it" slogan didn't exist before 1982, wasn't that a bit of a giveaway?

Yeah, you didn't find this out today cos you meantioned it in a BB video 🤣 Going through old videos trying to find a topic you haven't made a video about yet right? 🤣

Need a link to that Nazi IBM video please

well done sir

Ba-dum-tss

Shhh don’t bring it near Poland or Belgium tho

Do people in Poland drive VW

Fanta free has a whole new meaning nowadays

Rather than fail and go out of business, the German branch of Coca-Cola did what they could to survive and succeeded. They could’ve spun off and became independent but when they reconnected with their parent Company, handed over the profits and let them retake control when the war was over.

@@ronmexico6901 I'm with you on this Ron, it's better than company going under. Although Hugo Boss, who made the SSs uniforms did OK, as did Porsche, who made their trucks, cars etc done OK aswell eh.

Sounds like we trying to defend collaborators and quislings... don't they not worth it ;)

@@NeilCWCampbell ???

@@NeilCWCampbell You must be fun @ parties.

@AB Coke is awesome. Never drank any soda tho

Most of sodas taste different depending on the country. Although the ingredients are same in the name, mostly they are sourced locally, meaning that they are in fact different. The most basic thing like water can alter taste of any beverage significantly, that's why, for example, some Japanese whisky(Scotch) makers actually import spring water from Scotland. There are also some locally specific regulations that sometimes even slightly alter the actual recipe. Regulations like that might be even sugar content, as a lot of European countries introduced "sugar tax" which meant to rise up prices of sugary sodas in order to discourage people from drinking it. Yes, it does not work. I personally find almost all of the global drinks taste absolutely different in UK than in Poland. Simple test I always recommend to Brits is to buy one of Polish beers available in British supermarkets ie Tyskie, and then buy exactly same in a Polish shop. The ones in Asda or Tesco are bottled locally in Southern England, while the ones in Polish shops are normally imported straight from Poland; the difference in taste is quite noticeable. -Unsure about import in Brexit times though. Now that I think about it; I noticed that a lot of big corpo drinks like Sprite or Fanta are way clearer in Poland&Germany, while UK ones are quite hazy. It might be water or what they use as a colourant. I actually don't remember neither German or Polish sodas leaving stains on glass, while British ones do and feel way more stickier than the continental ones.

Is it true german fanta is more of an orange juice?

Fun fact: Stalin did invent potato salad :O

damn stright

People tried to control what we drink once before. I dare people with irrational political ideals to try that again without getting a broken jaw.

@@dariusus9870 I don't know about that. Muslims like to say they invented everything in the world too.

@@sik3xploit Dan Quayle would like to talk to you about that.

I remember that too, in 1986 we were two weeks in Leningrad, Pepsi was everywhere another thing I remember were mechanical arcade shooting game, bit like famous "Alien Gun" but with real mosin nagant attached to it. For a 6 year old it was a treasure.

I remember arcade-sized pong, and some game where you loaded logs onto a flatbed truck. Awful…

@@jaytrace1006 you could literally hear those clockwork mechanisms churning inside. Still I spent a small fortune of 10 kopek coins on that hunting game, oh there was a "claw game" too with Olympic games mascots and other east European cuddly toys.

Russians only drink vodka and read Dostoevsky.

The lesson here is ironically that perhaps Nazism good in a car plant but really bad in politics?!

Yeah I imported some Fanta Klassik to Sweden, that stuff was great! Also lovely bottles.

I ran into,it a lot while I was stationed in/around Asia. The extra carbonation was a sticking point for me.

I remember it was different in the 1980's. But it happened here in Denmark as well. We have these two brands called Squash (orange soda) and then Jolly Cola. The taste was changed back in the 1990's. Sadly. The old Jolly tasted better than Coca Cola. The new Jolly is more Pepsi like in taste.

"Judge" Roland Freisler...most likely. All I can say is GOOD RIDDANCE.

I mean if you're going to assassinate someone it's effective

I doubt he would have seen it as "convenient" ... 🙄😂

In the United States you can find those glass bottle in some stores.

They were available for a year or so in Germany circa 2008, as part of the Fanta Klassik release. I picked some up via Amazon (being in Europe). Fanta Klassik was actually quite nice. Certainly beats the current UK version (The Government here added a sugar tax to soft drinks, so most now have little sugar but loads of artificial sweeteners instead. About the only two fully-sugared soft drinks you can still buy are Pepsi, Coke and Cherry Coke).

@@Senbei01 I’d rather have the sugar than the brain melting sweeteners ✌️

I remember glass bottles too. Every brand had their own shape. Here in Denmark, only the really cheap soft drinks still come in glass bottles and only 25 centiliter size.

@@edh7492 Yup. Same here. Beet sugar is what we use for all. Way more healthy for the liver than that corn sirup.

I hate Freestyle dispensers, because there is always that one person who cannot make up their mind.

Those Freestyle machines suck! They fail to capture the flavors of the drinks, that can be bought off the shelf. Even when it is taken care of, it tastes like flat, watered-down soda. Bleh!

Nein! "Drinking Fanta gives ME the energy to Blitz Europe! Have a Fanta and get Buzzed.";) Fanta: The Power Drink of The Third Reich.

whoa oh oh whoa? Coz that would be erm... erm... (Gotta go now, Mummy wants me to go to bed... See you next season...)

While driving a VW

lol everyone on Twitter would shit themselves. I'd love it.

Because I know the history I will drink Fanta far more than ever

Don't forget if your pregnant take Thalidomide!

@@susieq3950 I found out my mom took it.ew.Lucky I don't have flippers.

Sweet.

Damn gen z kids. I'm millennial and enjoy this. Kids these don't care. Pfff

Mood

If the younger generation doesn't understand history it is a failure of earlier generations

Told my GF this and she brought home 4 cases 👍

Mostly

And all we got in the US was basically grape and orange.

I want to try the elderberry flavor

Yeah, that would be nice.

You would then REALLY want to try the original coca cola formula that actually contained cocaine. If you ever go to Mexico try a coke in the glass bottle. That's the closest you'll get. It has an edge to it that "new coke" doesn't have.

@@muskokamike127 Coca-Cola still contains coca leaf extract to this day, but obviously, it's not going to get you high.

@@mulrich yes because the compounds that get you high are removed.....but they didn't always do that.....

@@muskokamike127 I can easily find Mexican bottled cokes here in Arkansas.

David, small correction, Opel in Rüsselsheim sold themselves in the 1920s due to said econonic problems to General Motors. Ford on the other hand operated a large factory in Cologne.

@@bramvanroosmalen2294 all corrections greatly appreciated 👍

“Great speaker “ backed by not so great people or else he would have been a nobody…

"Coca cola invented a new product (fanta) specifically to keep production up (coca was a restricted good)" Huh? What are you talking about? Fanta was made in WW2 (1941) as a replacement for Coca Cola when America enforced full embargo on Germany, not after 1933. Do you even watch this video?

Not trying to that person but in the credits it says that Simon is the presenter. He doesn't write the scripts, he just reads them.

The sheer amount of channels he narrates for is enough to know he certainly doesn't do the research

Harjutapa: he is the presenter, not the researcher/script writer. Usually viewers are better at reading the credits.

He really doesn’t.

Don’t really trust snopes too much after several shenanigans so telling someone to do research after citing them is kinda humorous.

It's cola and fanta mixed..

@@mergru6371 yea but it's not the same as it bottled as spezi.

That's super META!

Therefore Facebook is worse than Hitler, genocide notwithstanding.

I dont care.... I deleted my FB account in 2014. 😁 Never looked back. Never missed it. Too much bad mouthing went on for my taste. And to be honest. As far as I remember it, then it was not real social interaction that went on. People used it to look into other peoples life, and there were no real communication on a true personal leve going on at that place. Not for me, thanks but no thanks.

@@geraldfriend256 They can not be compared, except for FB want all your information. That is the only comparison.

Cheers I’ll drink one for you

Not sure heaven has beer. That's why we drink it here

Good for you! I also recently dropped sugar drinks, don't put it in my coffee anymore. Course, I'm old and don't want the diabetus

@@bbirda1287 I'm still on coffee but I cut sweetener and sugar-based ones (mocha, the occasional Frap) from my diet. I still do creamer and occasionally do it black but its basically your standard Medium to Light Roast.

@@Flamerule13th Thanks very much. I knew that as a matter of fact, as I lived 20 years in Europe. My favorite was Orangina.

Oh darn! My American military family lived in England when I was a kid in the early 2000s and I loved the grape Fanta at the time (I don’t really like soda at all, so it was impressive to me that I liked the grape Fanta). I don’t like Fanta in the States but I was hoping it was still good back in England, but it sounds like the recipe might have changed.

@@aglaurendance yeah after the sugar tax came in they changed some of the sugar to sucralose or other sweeteners. I believe that there is a few continental Europe areas that have the pre 2010 recipe but the majority of flavours here in the uk now has at least one artificial sweetener in it. Due to the severity of my reaction to sweeteners I have very few drinking options as they have even started adding sweeteners to fruit juice but normal “full fat” cola is about my only option.

Me too, Carol. When they changed ribena to include metabisulphate and acetamin k (SP on both?) I had a migraine so bad I thought I was having a stroke. I'm in the UK too, and cannot fathom how producers/brands adopted the sugar tax and decided to add vile tasting sweetners to their products. We all know sugar is the devil, but it's so frustrating when the "no added sugar" products are sweetened with the fake stuff which either causes migraines or other problems with one's gutty wuts. Any way, i hope you're happy, safe and well. Thank you for listening (reading) my very disproportionate rant...

Anytime I here someone reference Paul Harvey I wonder how old they are

@@mattolds9068 or how old the people that raised them were?

@@jamesheichel9465 yeah that makes sense I'm 28 my parents are in there mid to late 60s. So I have older parents for my age

It freshens your privates.

@@ravendon LOL As a five-year-old in 1964 I'd have wondered what that meant, but today, I'm in.

Switzerland still has softdrinks that contain whey. No idea if this originated from the original Fanta recipe or was invented independently.

@@HenryLoenwind Thanks for clearing up. 👍

You probably mean Rivella. As a child I would always buy it from swiss gas stations when we were driving to Italy for holidays.

What? It did? How?

@@dylanmccallister1888 Well, on June 28, 1914, archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in his motorcade why evading another assassination attempt, and from there, a series of unfortunate events happened that lead to the outbreak of WW1.

How do you even have likes, is the world illiterate? You clearly said NOT A FUCKING THING about the first world war

@@dylanmccallister1888 we get there when we get there! Anyway. After WW1, there was a power vaccuum in germany left enough room for the Third Reich to rise. With Japan and Germany having the same goal of world domination, they decided to Ally up, with Japan dealing with the US and China, with Germany taking over everything else. Basically set in motion the events that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, after the war, having been nuked twice and being invaded by a foreign power, Japan needed something to help them rebuild morale. The main way they did this was through traditionally animated movies and comics; the first forms of manga and anime. Anime would catch on quick, spawning all types of offshoots, one of those being hentai. Now, with Japan having traditional values, they would soon outright ban the depiction of any sexual organs in any entertainment media, which would become a problem. You see, it is incredibly time consuming and expensive to have to censor a dick frame by frame, especially if it's moving a lot...so a loophole was found: tentacles. See, because tentacles aren't human sex organs, they don't need to be censored. Now, I can't say for certain *why* this fucking nonsense picked up and was so popular since, but there you go. Tentacle porn was a direct result of little boy and fat man.

Based and same here

yes definitely especially with some ice Oh boy