British Couple Reacts to Prohibition - OverSimplified

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[@Alex-kd5xc]

Sorry to break it to Millie but dachshund is German and it’s pronounced…you guessed it, the German way.

[@FarashaSilver]

I really want to see Millie's reaction to the fact that they've been pronouncing it the Anglicized way, and Americans say it closer to how the original pronunciation is!

[@WUStLBear82]

Even in the UK, some people pronounce it correctly😉

[@pjschmid2251]

Yeah that one shocked me as well when they pronounced dash-hound … and I was like what 😳🤣

[@lone6718]

@@FarashaSilver I love my loving dachshunds they are just sweet.

[@piratetv1]

I usually hear it ( docks uhnd )

[@emanymton713]

Yes dachshund is totally pronounced differently in the US. We pronounce it closer to the German like we do most words of foreign origin where you Anglicize them.

[@katyareads221]

Sounds like dohx-hound for us.

[@servantofmelian9966]

Although we also call them wiener dogs.

[@pjschmid2251]

@@katyareads221 more dox-hund i’ve never heard an American say hound at the end but more like hund.

[@otis299]

It's a wienerdog.

[@wuxiagamescentral]

I've always said Dahx-sund

[@michaelschemlab]

12:33 Dachshund is a compound word. “Dachs” means badger and “Hund” means dog in German. The way Oversimplified says Dachshund in the video is how you’d say it in German.

[@rich_t]

"Dash hound" is just wrong. Full stop. I mean what to call the nažı concentration camp....Dachau? "dash ow???" 😉😋😁🤣

[@seantodd8875]

I agree with Michael here. Your UK pronunciation of that word isn't right.

[@markhamstra1083]

Well, it’s closer than “dash hound”, but the German “Hund” sounds quite a bit different from Oversimplified’s pronunciation.

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

@@rich_t stop

[@michaeldesanta977]

We Americans pronounce *Dachshund* as (Docks-Hoond) because the name is German for _"badger dog"._

[@deanbrunner261]

the water quality was really unknown back then and drinking alcohol actually saved a lot of people from getting waterbourne sicknesses

[@Spongebrain97]

One thing about Al Capone was how popular he was with the people. For example when the Great Depression hit America he would give away free donuts and coffee to hungry men regardless of their ethnicity in order to keep himself popular. There pictures online of long lines of out of work men waiting to go into his establishments such as at 35:36

[@jodyarrington8555]

Most Americans use the German pronunciation; "How Do You Pronounce The Word Dachshund? Break the German word Dachshund into two words - dachs (pronounced ‘dax’) and hund (pronounced ‘hoont’ or ‘huhnt’). Then swap the German ‘t’ sound at the end for a ‘d’ sound, like when pronouncing words like ‘hound’. So ‘dax-huhnd’ (rather than ‘dax-huhnt’)." 😃

[@jonathandevoe70]

Interesting fact Jack Daniels in produced in a dry county in Tennessee. They have to have special permits to allow employees to do taste testing

[@Gideon_the_Seraph]

that actually is pretty interesting!

[@goingdownsouth89]

Not just employees. Although it's in a dry county, Lynchburg allows the sale of alcohol that was made on site. You can buy bottles directly from the distillery

[@Chris-rh9ej]

I don’t drink alcohol. But that’s because my mom was an alcoholic and died of liver failure. I don’t wanna end up like her. She was an amazing woman, she just couldn’t put the bottle down.

[@ellenmarch3095]

I don't take antidepressants for the same reason. One case of barely/un-manageable bipolar turned dementia is not sufficient evidence for scientific testing, but it's more than enough to scare me off of them when it's my own mother.

[@Ameslan1]

OverSimplified's Pig War is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS and in my opinion is OverSimplified's BEST video! As an American, I never knew or learned about Pig War in history classes in school or university! OverSimplified channel is how I found The Beesley's channel!

[@williambranch4283]

War of the Bucket: hold my beer!

[@Ameslan1]

@@williambranch4283 That is a great one also!

[@mannyjacobowitz5571]

The original video leaves out a key fact about the temperance movement: distillation had gotten much cheaper, so hard liquor (whiskey, rum, etc.) was MUCH more available, so ordinary working men (women couldn't work outside the home) were drinking MUCH more of it, which caused a boom in alcoholism, domestic violence, drunken men gambling away their paychecks, and divorce. Thus the popularity (especially among women) of the temperance movement, which went hand in hand with the women's suffrage movement and anti-gambling crusades.

[@williambranch4283]

This started in England, during the 1700s, with gin. A huge outbreak of alcoholism then.

[@stephenkammerling9479]

@@williambranch4283 It seems that governments' knee jerk reaction to a substance that causes problems is to ban it entirely. No thought is given to the new problems those "solutions" create.

[@williampilling2168]

Crime in Chicago got so out of control, the Thompson Sub Machune Gun was nicknamed the Chicago Typewriter (because of the sound it made).

[@williambranch4283]

Real gangsters drove a Packard touring car? Helps with no windows blocking the Thompsons ;-)

[@jennyparrish7239]

Chicago hasn’t changed much.

[@bradjenkins1475]

I must say James, that was a gutsy move patting Millie on the head like that!! I must say Millie, That was a nice move, biting your tongue instead of biting James's head off. LOL

[@lazymansload520]

25:08 not mentioned here is how Remus framed his defense. I’m gonna paraphrase here, but he essentially said “I’m just a victim of prohibition, you know, that law everyone in the jury hates! If it weren’t for prohibition, my wife would still be alive!”

[@chriswhinery925]

Not only that but the circumstances behind him killing his wife were a bit.. umm... overly Oversimplified in the video. He left out some pretty important details, most importantly of which is that Remus' wife did hire a hitman to try to have Remus killed. Also, it's not like Remus received no punishment. He pled insanity, so a verdict of "not guilty" just meant he got to go to a mental institution instead of prison. He was in the institution for something like 8 months, in a time period where such institutions were... not famous for their humanitarian treatment of the people in their "care". Arguments can be made over how just any of this one on either side but the video makes it seem like Remus committed cold blooded murder for almost no reason and then totally got away with it, which is not the case at all, it was way more complicated than that.

[@JPMadden]

1) After Carrie Nation became notorious for damaging saloons, many put up signs that read "All nations welcome except Carrie." Some bars still have them today. 2) Giving alcohol to kids was acceptable to many people 100 years ago. Up until the 1970s, some kids in Belgium were served a weak beer at school for lunch! Called Piedboeuf, it had only 1.1% alcohol and contained sugar that was added to make it tastier to children! I remember my Italian-American grandfather and great-uncles, born in the 1910s and 1920s, talk about drinking watered-down wine as kids. I heard men of that generation joke that the drinking age was being old enough to lift the cup to your lips without assistance. 3) I recently learned that my state of Rhode Island twice enacted prohibition laws in the 1800s. Both were repealed after the state experienced problems similar to those described in this video. Rhode Island was one of only two states that rejected the 18th Amendment. 4) I think OverSimplified was just "taking the piss" with that wisecrack about Canada. Wait until the end of the "Pig War" video. 5) The woman who received a sentence of life in prison served only 2 or 3 years. Her sentence was commuted, not because it was wrong, but because the government did not want to pay for taking care of her 10 children. 6) There have been at least 2 movies called "Scarface." The one from 1983 starring Al Pacino is about the illegal drug trade. The classic 1932 film is about Prohibition. 7) I'm always amazed how quickly American society recognized the failure of Prohibition, ending it only 14 years after it began. This makes it even more absurd that the Drug War, which is really Prohibition 2.0 and has been just as big a failure as the first against alcohol, is still being waged more than 80 years after it started. And ending Prohibition required another constitutional amendment, far more difficult than simply changing the law.

[@williambranch4283]

The anti-drug war started in the late 1800s, and like Planned Parenthood, was primarily directed against minorities.

[@dannyp9537]

The takeaway, don't tell Americans you can't or you must. Make a sensible argument and we will consider it otherwise we will exercise our 2nd amendment rights. It might sound crazy but that's the only way true freedom works in this world.

[@JPMadden]

@@dannyp9537 It sounds crazy because it is crazy. Not all government overreach or inconvenience is so intolerable that armed resistance is justified. Americans in the 1920s did not take up arms against the government over Prohibition. Instead, many of them simply ignored the law while petitioning to have it changed.

[@grumblesa10]

France did the same with their school lunches until 1986...

[@justisolated5621]

29:40 that was Johnny Torio, he was the leader of the Italian South Side Gang with Al Capone. The shooting took place in 1926, and although he was riddled with bullets, he would live another 31 years before dying in 1957. After the shooting, he left the entire expire to Capone, and headed for Italy, but returned to the US after Mussolini's movements started occuring

[@pollyduron674]

Everyone else but you pronounces it like daak-snd because in German, dachs means badger and hund means dog. I like the video...informative and funny.

[@CaptainFrost32]

"you'd be fuming..." Yeah, that is how the moonshiners were caught, from revenue agents tracking the fumes from stills.

[@TheGLORY13]

He very much said that far closer to the german pronunciation which is how most americans say it (besides saying wiener dog or hot dog). Never heard it the way you both said it (granted I also don't just ask my british friends to say dachshund)

[@michaelmacdermott6340]

Look up a video on the history of NASCAR racing and you'll find out that it was born out of moonshine runners from the prohibition days.

[@krtaust5]

Yes we say daxhound for dachshund . It's close to German pronunciation which is Daks hoont for dachshund

[@Dante1920]

Yeah, family roles were a lot more strict back then, wives did work in the house, Husband's did work in the fields and factories. If one half wasn't doing their job, the whole system crumbled.

[@williambranch4283]

Win some, lose some. With both parents working, there is better income, but worse parenting. Not as bad as single parenting however. However much people complain, in the long run, women determine society as a whole.

[@Staren01]

Yes, in the U.S. we pronounce that dog bread dox-und.

[@thebeastofrome3600]

12:33 Dachshunde or commonly known as "Dackel" in Germany are one of the most well-liked and common breeds of dog in central europe.

[@P-M-869]

In the song "The Day the Music Died" there was "Went to the levee but the levee was dry" because that country didn't allow alcohol. I drank beer when I was still a young lad.

[@chelleduns8700]

I recently moved to Kentucky and in this county you can't buy alcohol on Sundays

[@killrade4434]

Sourh Carolina here. Dachshund is pronounced both ways but a lot of people also call it "Dutch hound"; as in german for German . So 3 ways its pronounced.

[@parsifal40002]

I agreed with the early goals of the Ant--saloon and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. I saw what alcohol did to some of my friends. Their families were destroyed. Divorces were widespread and children were terribly affected. My wife and I have been married for 38 years and we both don't drink alcohol. I retired after 30 years with the federal government. My children are successful professionals. In my opinion, the aims of Prohibition were well-intentioned it just went too far.

[@hippiemama52]

It seems like Americans take a lot of things too far. Someone gets a bright idea and everyone just runs with it to the point of it getting really stupid. And, yes, I'm an American.

[@imvandenh]

Their intentions were noble but prohibition simply does not work here in reality. Another example of prohibition failure is the so called war on drugs. Well intentioned but laws and threat of punishment will never stop people from having certain appetites nor will it stop criminals from taking a worthwhile risk to satisfy those appetites. Prohibition of intoxicants of any kind is a huge waste of taxpayer $.

[@mcm8737]

Yes , we pronounce it " DOC SAND" . More often we call them Weiner dogs! 👍🍀

[@markhamstra1083]

Or like “dock sunned”, but the German pronunciation would be closer to “docks hoond” or even “docks hoondt”.

[@renaissanceman7145]

My favorite drink? Sweet ice tea or lemonade. I don't drink alcohol. I don't like me on alcohol, so, I doubt others think much of me when I'm on alcohol either.

[@jerzeyguy71]

Some places in the States still have laws called Blue Laws... usually means no sale of alcohol on Sundays.

[@kingwacky184]

The dog breed the way he said it actually is correct. Google it and see for yourself. Just because you know a breed by a certain name does not mean there are no other names for it.

[@ricardocruz4235]

This is the first time in my life I've heard it pronounced dash hound.

[@klausjackklaus]

The original German way to pronounce it is "dah-chs-hund" (rhymes with "Bach" the famous composer). I can see how the English way is a little different as many Low German dialects such as Nedersassich and Plautdietsch (many German immigrants who arrived in the first wave in 1850s were of Lower German states such as Hanover, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Prussia) where you pronounce "-ch" ending more in the back of your throat like an "x" from Greek, where as Modern Germany pronunciation is based on High German dialects and is pronounced "sh" like in "ich"

[@XRP2020]

jack (or double) and coke is nice for the end of a tough day

[@chica9781]

Not every home has a flag. We still love our country but no flag. Toilets-They are not filled to the top. A standard one may be 1/2 way up the bowl. We also have low flush that uses less water, some have a button on the lid for low pressure, the other for higher pressure. We also have the sticky gel cleaners and bleach ones.

[@gregweatherup9596]

I think the pig war is probably the best one oversimplified has done - but it’s also quite long.

[@TylerFromTraining]

My family are some of those mysterious West Virginia moonshiners ;) FYI Americans use original pronunciation for foreign adopted words. Yes, it is Dachshund “Dax-hund” for us. Just like we say tortilla as “tor-tea-ya” and not “tor-till-uh.” That’s because we are introduced to the original pronunciations by immigrant family members, or friends at school. Most everyone here has a mixed cultural upbringing. Thinking of my German grandma saying dash-hound makes me shiver!😂

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The genius epic TV show version of this is Boardwalk Empire.

[@gnranger]

18:30 That’s how it is every Friday at my College😂😂

[@IceKnight81]

What is a dash hound? Dachshund, I have had before.

[@melinda2877]

I’ve worked in several companies that have beer fridges. It’s not unusual to have a beer or a glass of wine at lunch.

[@chriscrews4326]

The county I live in in Florida is still a dry county on Sundays. When prohibition was lifted they kept it on Sundays and it's stayed that way.

[@saltyark7564]

I will always watch any oversimplified videos ya’ll do. I enjoy your reactions to them thoroughly 😃 (I mean… I watch all your reactions or at least 99% of them but I luv the oversimplified videos)

[@halicarnassus8235]

20:05. That look of bewilderment they both had at snake ladies

[@sleepyburr]

I'm happy to see the top three comments (as of right now, anyway) all being about how the American pronunciation of "Dachshund" is more accurate. XD Not 100% accurate, but closer than dash-hound. (As both a dog person and a linguistics nerd, yes, I will die on this hill. :P)

[@YukoValis]

A few things they left out about the George Remus case. He wasn't just let go, he pleaded insanity and was sent to an institute. Also he had evidence that the wife put a hit out on him, so he kind of argued self defense in a round about way.

[@yjwrangler7819]

Hey, prohibition made a lot of people in my city in Canada hella rich having Detroit just across the river lol. Home of Canadian Club y’all!!! 😂😂🥃

[@Damons-Old-Soul]

Some context: In the 18th Century and earlier the amount of alcohol in beer was far lower than it was at the beginning of the 20th. Until near the end of the 19th Century, clean & safe water for drinking was not readily available. Most of the Sodas we know today got their start at the end of the 19th Century. At the point of prohibition coming around in the US, beer and wine were the water and sodas of today (depending on where you were from as to which.) Going into Prohibition, having alternatives to alcoholic drinks was a new thing.

[@KristopherBel]

I have never heard it called "dash"hound but that dog does look like a dash.

[@bobdobb9017]

Up until fairly recently the Budweiser brewery allowed all employees to drink as much beer as they wanted to on the job.

[@mew2.025]

so for the whole adding toxins to the bootlegged alcohol, what they were doing was adding toxins to the products that the moonshiners were using to make alcohol. It was fine at the time because the products they were using to make alcohol weren't meant to be consumed. It's kind of like how if you were to eat a bar of soap, you'd probably get sick because you weren't supposed to eat it. However if the company making soap started adding a new compound that ended up making it toxic, then they wouldn't necessarily be in trouble because people aren't supposed to eat it in the first place. The only thing they would need to change is to add a warning letting people know it's toxic, and most likely adding a poison control hotline in case someone does end up eating it.

[@Jliske2]

I was raised in one of those "dry" counties where no alcohol is sold.

[@Chordonblue]

My mother and father were FOR Prohibition and they had good reason. Both of my parents came from abusive alcoholic families and both rarely, if ever, touched alcohol, knowing the danger. For anyone raised in that situation, Prohibition is VERY enticing.

[@khutchinsoncpa1]

We can’t always afford steak, either. But we so enjoy it when we can!

[@Rocco1332]

My great grandfather had a large farm and was in the mafia during prohibition. My great aunts and uncles had some stories about shootouts and hitmen coming around, was pretty cool.

[@davidhyden6925]

My grandfather was studying at Rush Medical School in Chicago at the time of the St. Valentine's Massacre. He lived in a boarding house on the first floor facing an alley -- one of the other tenants was a Capone foot soldier. He was studying in his room one day shortly after the SVM when two callers visited the Capone member and shot him with Tommie guns. My grandfather dove under his desk and heard the two shooters run down the alley right outside his window. He loved telling that story.

[@Rocco1332]

@@davidhyden6925 my great grandfather had a hitman friend who double crossed a mob boss. He came to stay at the farm, when it was found out what was done he was kicked out. The next farm over was shot up thinking the hitman was there. The hitman went back down to the city and killed 3 days later. I thought it was a cool story, then years later the History Channel did a show about different hitmen that featured the hitman in the story. My great grandfather and the farm weren't mentioned by name, but the story was identical.

[@jaytibbles2223]

As a result of Prohibition the Kennedy family became RICH. Joe Kennedy was the US ambassador to England. He obtained the ONLY license to import alcohol from England. He was a "legal" bootlegger.. I do not understand why the Kennedy clan has a Teflon reputation. Look up Chappaquidic...

[@williambranch4283]

Boston Irish ...

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

A Cadillac Margarita...which I only had when eating in a Mexican restaurant... The last time I had that drink was at least 3 years ago...

[@americanman4508]

My favorite drink is a double shot of wild turkey rare breed 116 proof.. 3 of these and I'm drunk.. 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@markstoltzfus4984]

There's still a lot of dry towns in Alaska

[@SaccharinSweet123]

I grew up in a small town about 2 hours west of Chigaco, and it was a well known fact that one of Bugsy Moran's top men had moved there after the empire fell. One of my (very old) teachers remembered that he gave her candy when she was very young. This is all hearsay, and I couldn't point out a name if I knew it but just the legend of that Era is kinda epic.

[@hehtdnrsibtbsur7974]

This is what I’m talking about beesleys!!!

[@WaywardVet]

I'd just like to say I enjoyed an outside view of our crazy American history. And I was drinking while watching. Cheers! (I'll raise my glass to your water bottles) 🥂

[@flashcar60]

I had read that the Senate, which had passed the Volstead Act, had its own supply of booze. I'm glad that Congressional hypocrisy was mentioned.

[@cac9089]

They are called both dachshund and doxens. They are really cute.

[@tombreon]

Fave drink? I love a good mojito.

[@missouriluv]

My great grandfather ran moonshine but he did get caught and arrested for it so I don't think he was a competent moonshine runner 😆 My fave drink is either rum and coke or whiskey and coke. Mojitos are also good.

[@user-ss7jl8ze9q]

One of the good things that Al Capone did for the school children of Chicago was give them free milk every school day. Before this was a rare treat for the kids to have milk but it cost money. Capone changed that. Also, though he did end up on the Federal Prison of Alcatraz, it wasn't for his gang related activities it was for cheating on his income taxes.

[@GenX1964]

20:30 Can't resist the irony. Now just imagine if the American government poisoned everyone on purpose.

[@majindomttv3903]

Food for thought back in the day people drank more alcohol than water because. It was safer, you were more likely to find beer than clean drinking water.

[@agclemente84]

My hometown was dry on sundays. Don't know if it's still is.

[@juliayoung537]

I wasn't alive during prohibition, old but not that old but George and Martha Washington knew how to make moonshine 😂... just look up Martha Washington's Cherry Bounce 😊❤️

[@williambranch4283]

George was building the largest still in the US, in retirement.

[@bradsavory9880]

In parts of the south in America alcohol is pronounced Al Kee Haul.. .

[@olafm4767]

The same thing is going on with Canavus right now in the US. :)

[@charlieeckert4321]

I can't drink anymore because of changes in medication. But my favorite when I could drink was a Manhattan.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Hope all ok! Atleast it saves some money!

[@mtgo9686]

Then you sir were an alcoholic cuz manhattans are gross

[@wallacemason8203]

My favorite drink is a Burbon Bramble, when its a straight drink its Wild Turkey 101.

[@dracogaming13]

Here's some history on my favorite drink the Cuba Libre (rum and coke). During the Spanish-American War Cuban rebels would gift bottles of rum to American soldiers and they would in turn be given bottles of Coca-Cola and mix them together as Rum and Coca-Cola were/are the national drinks of each country respectively.

[@NickMcGrew1999]

Love how 90% of the commenters suddenly became English teachers 🤣

[@daleowen2606]

You would love pig wars. Probably the funniest oversimplified video!

[@RicardoRamirez-us7hf]

Well I drank a lot before I was 18 back then the legal drinking age was 18. Once I could drink legal I pretty much stopped ( me drink of choice was Mickie's malt liquor) it wasn't a challenge anymore. Now I like wine mostly though I still drink a beer now and then. I knew most of this but not all and it was fun and funny so thank you.

[@ajruther67]

As far as I can remember, we never learned about Prohibition in school. We learned it either from our parents and grandparents or from movies. My generation, Gen X, we didn't have internet to look up anything. We had to go to the library for that.

[@adammartel6588]

I say dash hound but i'm from new england so we tend to be more english in our pronunciations whereas in more german parts of the country like Wisconsin or Michigan probably say it the german way

[@ex-navyspook]

Scotch...although I do love Irish whiskey.

[@pamforrester844]

The more things change the more they stay the same sometimes

[@billr.1566]

My faves are bourbon and lager

[@1776SOL]

Beer: Yuengling Lager Straight liquor: Apple Pie Moonshine Cocktail: Pain Killer (originating from 🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands)

[@ciscokid0110]

All very interesting. Had never known all of this. Us citizen here😊

[@swan4163]

One interesting thing that the video doesn't mention is that Prohibition in the US crashed the Irish whisky market. In the early 20th Century the default whisky around the world (whisky you'd get if you asked the bartender simply for whisky) was Irish whisky. There were more than 100 distilleries in Ireland producing it before prohibition. But Great Britain banned the import of anything Irish during the Irish rebellion, but the Irish weren't concerned because most of their sales were to the US. Then Prohibition happened, and only 5 distilleries survived, decimating the Irish whisky industry. Only in the last decade has there been a return to the pre-prohibition level of production. Some Irish whisky still made it over to the US (illegally), though, and a major figure in that was Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father)--that's where all the Kennedy money came from.

[@allanlank]

Pig War, Canada vs USA or Hans Island War (aka Whisky War) Canada vs Denmark.

[@scoobysnacks]

Yep, we pronounce dachshund as doxen. e also call them weiner dogs.

[@USMC_Veteran]

Jim Beam~Bourbon Whiskey

[@JonBroun]

My favorite drink is Mead.

[@mpierce3]

Some here refer to them as Dotson's or more common Weiner dogs!!!! LOL

[@kevinadams7830]

It's dock-shund

[@tomking4238]

This video made me think of Bill Wither's song Better Off Dead. Check it out. It's a great synopsis of American alcoholism.

[@2WarriorJay8]

In the US we say Dock-sund lol.

[@garyi.1360]

Canadians are known for making generally a subpar whiskey. I would never drink a Canadian Whiskey myself. It's like gasoline. Though some buy it because it's cheaper.

[@Tijuanabill]

To this day, Jack Daniels whiskey is made in a dry county where you can't sell or buy Jack Daniels, or any other alcohol.

[@ptournas]

Scotch Whiskey please, straight up, no ice!

[@shelleytorok1406]

What you also need to remember is that women were not considered as person's under the law. In Canada women got the vote in 1918 but we're not recognized as person's under the law until 1929, so... The women were very bold and brave to take such a stand.