WW2 Rationing Almost Made British Poos Twice As Big

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[@yosiahw4305]

Karl seems like a human version of an imp. He just likes to collect his strange little variety of irreplaceable objects.

[@JohnSmith-gr1il]

Fact goblin. Give shiny for fact. Will fight you.

[@krell.1415]

Don't we all love that?

[@weirdalexander8193]

I would have gone with kobold. Same shiny fixation as dragons and gobbos, less likely to burn your house down. The goblins would use Molotovs!

[@jaybee8862]

I do this to... ever since I was a kid I would collect keys I find in case I found what they opened... Stealing my teachers car keys back in preschool was a real issue though... getting branded the 5 year old klepto is pretty fun lmao

[@empressmarowynn]

My parents ran an exchange student company and every year we would get a group of middle schoolers from Japan. They lived in this big city and basically none of them, including their adult chaperones, had ever been to the countryside. So every year my parents would include a trip to a farm as one of the activities. It was adorable how excited they all were to see a cow for the first time.

[@ADMNtek]

I could see that people born in like Tokyo that have never left the city. it must be so strange.

[@CannonRaw]

I think since this is uploaded on Remembrance Day-- is not a coincidence. I think it really shows how much we take for granted what we have access today.

[@travismason2811]

My dad lived in rural Arkansas and didn't see a banana till he was ten or so, so earliest would be 1963. I was surprised to see Britain had them on the reg.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

Another aspect that gets glossed over is that rationing is a significant aspect of why British food has such a poor reputation. When you don't have much in the way of seasoning or fats available for over a decade it's no wonder your food culture basically dies. While the rest of Europe had the means to preserve their regular diet Britain, being isolated from its nearest trading partners by way of Nazi occupation or axis aligned governments, had extremely limited access to anything that makes food taste good and people just completely lost the means to cook palatable meals. Thankfully we're not in that position any more but it's had a real, lasting impact on the types of foods that are associated with us. This is also part of why British cook books from the sixties and seventies are so utterly dire: the idea of sharing food with people outside of your household was kind of new to many people and the British had become accustomed to subsistence foods so spectacle and exoticism were prioritised over flavour when presenting dishes at dinner parties.

[@darkability1393]

Was there a lot of food culture in the UK before WW2?

[@dahjeekwenglee5909]

the germans had to ration too and their food is still good

[@jexnypro11]

I love how as soon as Karl was done with the prop gun, he gave it to Spyro to hold onto.

[@outtagoodnamesdangit]

This is not a fact I thought would ever come up. Nevertheless, I am intrigued. Great video, guys. Edit: Also, I am oddly persuaded by the idea of contributing to the Smallwood Small Wood.

[@TheReecesl94]

There's a really good film on Netflix called all quiet on the western front, there's some scenes where soldier mid charging a trench they find a mess hall and just stop fighting to eat as much as they could, just handfuls of bread and honey, really gets across just how bad rationing was on the German front

[@lordpyro1]

Go read the book

[@TakaComics]

And we now know that, due to the remarkable amount of farts, it was anything but quiet on the western front.

[@TheReecesl94]

@@lordpyro1 I'm dyslexic, I may try the audio book though

[@jffry890]

@@lordpyro1 Books are gay and so are you.

[@rdolmt]

Glad to see your format hasnt changed much. Very enjoyable, would watch again.

[@They_Hit_The_Pentagon]

Great video, I’m glad y’all are still making entertaining and informative content

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I do think it's important to remember that cows are in fact monsters and if you meet one in real life you should not approach it and generally try and avoid being killed by it.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@Hunter Chik-Fil-A does not exist in my country, and if it knows what's good for it things shall remain that way.

[@lucasinazumai9873]

I was not expecting that mid-ad at all, but it somehow fits so well with the channels style of content. I still need some confirmation, is Established Titles an actual company? Because I've been seeing comments on other creators being sponsored by them and saying that it's all fake.

[@alexhando8541]

Established Titles is a proper company but their whole business is based on opacity. Basically, you are simply buying a lease to a tiny plot to plant a tree as the legality around calling yourself a Scottish feudal lord is sketchy to say the least. The Scottish courtesy title of Laird and Lady based on land ownership, and is *not* a substantiative title and thus does not have any legal recognition. One cannot simply walk into Scotland waving a paper that "entitles you" to being a member of Scottish gentry. Lairdships are only recognised by Scottish communities when there is a substantial historic estate which the Laird or Lady is entitled to (which Established Titles obviously do not provide). Established Titles' website claims that the company really does sell legitimate titles, based on the authority of Lord Lyon, King of Arms, the Chief Herald of Scotland (the person who deals with law surrounding coats of arms, crests and the inheritance of titles). However, reading the letter sent by Lord Lyon to the company reveals that since the titles Established Titles sell have no legal standing, they are effectively selling scraps of paper with the words "you are a lord" scribbled on them in felt tip.

[@Del_S]

In terms of the Laird bit? Scam. Illegal under Scots Law.

[@alexhando8541]

@@Del_S Not strictly illegal, but there is no legal standing to using a title for yourself, since they aren't recognised by the Scottish Government, nor by the UK Government either.

[@TommyCrosby]

Imagine making a scientific experiment to test if humans can live off local food only as if humans would be the only animal on earth requiring a global trade system to survive.

[@Alulim-Eridu]

Take a look into the development of vitamins. It’s slightly interesting They used to think palagra was a seasonal disease that was widespread in the American south. Turned out that there just wasn’t enough vitamins in the southern diet. The same way people get scurvy without enough vitamin C …they get palagra if they don’t get enough vitamin A (I believe. Might be a different vitamin) They figured out to just put vitamins in “enriched” food staples, like flour. To make sure everyone was getting enough vitamins And they learned you need vitamin D to absorb other vitamins and calcium so they started putting it into milk and stuff. - Even if there was enough variety of foods in their environments, that would satisfy their nutritional needs, large scale production of a wide enough variety of foods could be hard if people don’t really understand nutrition well enough.

[@wyattcastle7225]

Just a small thing to note about Established Titles is that they don’t have the authority to bestow actual lordship. Even though they say you can legally call yourself a lord, you won’t be legally recognized as one. Technically speaking you don’t even need to buy from them to call yourself a lord. Essentially, all you’re getting is a tree planted in your name and a piece of paper that doesn’t mean anything legally.

[@aspen1713]

ty for saying this! I thought Karl vetted the sponsors thoroughly, kind of disappointed to see him take an Established Titles sponsorship.

[@MineZilla123]

Who cares, the channel isn't doing super well because KZbin sucks so they need the revenue if you want the channel to stay

[@alexhando8541]

@@aspen1713 Same. As soon as I saw the advert appear with Established titles, I thought "Oh no." .

[@wyattcastle7225]

@@MineZilla123 I know but I also don’t want people to be misled about what a service actually provides and waste their money. I acknowledge that people need to make a living and that can be difficult sometimes on KZbin, but at the end of the day, the sponsors will still pay the people a Fact Fiend if they do the ad read regardless of what some rando in the comments ends up saying so I feel like I can still have a guilt-free conscience pointing out the dubiousness of this sponsor. I’m honestly not judging Karl for making the sponsorship deal either.

[@LifeguardLeroy]

@@MineZilla123 It was doing well because of previous values. If it doesnt uphold them then whats the point?

[@CrudzMcKenzie]

"Moving swiftly away from those giant ass turds..." might be the best segway ever.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

To be fair most kids (and some adults) in 2022 don't know what cows are or where meat comes from. Or milk! Shoutout to the lady who thinks milk is cow's blood.

[@clonescope2433]

If I remember correctly in the US there was a study done and like something like 23% of the population thought that chocolate milk came from Brown cows, like I hope that was a joke study but it is not far from the aroma possibilities especially considering how many people live in the city and only go to the grocery store and don't see things like cows dairy farms or farms in general or even a garden

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle I can't tell if you're parodying stupid people, if you're actually stupid or if you mean that mammary milk is in itself comprised out of similar chemicals to blood which... i'm gonna say you're just 90% wrong. But considering this is youtube... well if cow's milk is filtered blood, is baby milk filtered blood too? xD Are babies vampires?

[@etaxalo]

@@clonescope2433 the study could be a joke idk, but i have meet a guy who was looking for the Easter bunny, and my dad once did meet a guy who was looing for the "purple cow" that gives chocolate milk (milka add)

[@lydiabourne8341]

I'm not sure what it is in the top left corner is, but it reminds me of the early videos rougher and it made me very happy 👍

[@powpowpaskue1697]

It really sucks that one of the first companies that karl let sponsor him ended up being a scaming group. Again its not their fault, supposedly established titles sponsorship deals looked really legit before they got exposed

[@egil8058]

I love collecting things other people probably don't have. For example, I work in retail and my manager let me take home the display for Morbius, not because I like the movie but cus i can say no one else has it.

[@AltName7]

The title of the video reminds me of the fast part of that toilet folk song: "Then the flies find their prize twice the size 'tween my thighs" this old ditty is about not quite making it to the outhouse after a big thanksgiving meal though (even though the pov was planning the trip for the whole meal), so surely it's unrelated to WWII Britain.

[@AllDayBikes]

"Remarkable amount of farts" lmfao

[@progers20]

I just bought four of the plots. Yay, Project Smallwood!

[@WILD4X4D]

Already knew this story. I came to watch, but seriously please tell me you are not bringing back the desk. Best ones are stood up with a beer. It's like a friend at a party telling you these amazing facts. If not alcohol, any drink would do.

[@lichguard]

5:09 hello background sirens

[@vesperdxn]

I have that same Spyro stand!! But mine holds a PS4 controller.

[@CressicaStorm]

Great vid btw, but i think horrible histories did a skit for that kid thinking a cow was a monster thing, it was ultra funny, any way keep up the great work!!

[@alexandra1415]

yeah the second he mentioned it I thought of horrible histories

[@MINKIN2]

Karl, your skeleton needs a grey wig! Imagine the fun you can have doing the "SHUT UP LOUIS" slap all day.

[@masonswift6326]

You finally sold out, respect for holding out this long. at least it wasn't an copy/paste ad read

[@Wathulhu]

I have that same shirt, it’s great to see your keeping up the style.

[@Shakis87]

does that mean anyone that owns their own home in Scotland is a Lord or Lady? I'm Scottish and had no idea I was related to Lords and Ladies

[@jimmartin2548]

Now that’s how you title a video.

[@ploperofreach]

Love a big jobby

[@benionsings6840]

I miss the old way of sponsorship mentions

[@telophasemusic]

My great geandmother apparently worked wonders with the rationing during WWII.

[@banjokazooie370]

This video needs to be shown in all schools when they learn about ww2.

[@donhoefelman3181]

Cheese... facts. I'm lactose intolerant and a chef so spend way too much on lactose pills.

[@untrust2033]

Looks like that sponsor uses a fake one hour discount countdown on the website.... Hmmmm

[@boxfoxscoot1614]

dude handed spyro a gun and the dragon looks so confused

[@bandilive]

I've added to the Smallwood Empire

[@TheAustralianMapper5378]

That title gave me a giggle.

[@TnT_F0X]

coming soon to a country near you... Rationing!

[@davidmowbray6352]

Margerine contained whale fat as weel as plant oils during the war. There is a British Pathe film on whaling during ww2.

[@harrietyounger6118]

My grandad worked in submarines during world war 2 in the Mediterranean. They somehow got hold of the whole load of bananas because they knew they were going home in a matter of days and it would be a great present to give people because people couldn't get bananas in England. However they got pulled into an extra shift and therefore couldn't return in time for the bananas to last. So everyone on the submarine just lived off of bananas. As they had all bought so many to take home to their relatives so there were loads. I asked him did anyone get sick because you can overdose on potassium. He said no .

[@whitescar2]

The British rationing system basically proves that we cannot be relied to even feed ourselves properly. :P Basically, any argument that people instinctively know what's best for them is utter bollocks. We're stupid animals, the lot of us, and given half a chance we'd gorge ourselves on sugar.

[@qualitytikoyproductions]

I would have used the term "Confusing" personally

[@prof.loophole9708]

As someone who has a vegan diet I can tell you it is 100% true. More farts, bigger shits, but also easier at the same time. There is also the "Ghost poo" which is when it all says together and just slides down the pipe of the toilet so if you look you cant see it.

[@SEXCOPTER_RUL]

Wait....is THAT WHY ITS CALLED A VICTORY GARDEN?

[@Pucknuckle]

I'm not so sure "Smallwoods' Small Wood" is such a great idea for a legacy, considering there's another thing that Wood can be a slang term for...

[@miguelangelthomas5154]

Do you not know how jokes work?

[@dungeonsanddragonshomebrew3165]

strange seeing a more normal sponsor plug

[@gartsur84]

Fun video, have a great weekend

[@ThundercatDarklion]

Oh man sounds like some toilet choking turds LOL! :D

[@jffry890]

Commenting before watching. Would double size poo mean the food is half as nutritious and be double wasted filler?

[@punderlord]

No, the larger stool is from more fiber. The nutrients are still absorbed, all the extra fiber (which isn't digested) from the vegetables they ate bulked up their stool, quite a bit apparently

[@shubhamanand1446]

They Also starve 4 miilion people to death to get that WW2 Ration.---- Bengal famine of 1943

[@joeydr1497]

Kids not knowing what cows is doesn’t surprise me. I had a classmate who didn’t know what a badger was, not hadn’t seen one didn’t know what it was, I do a conservation corse at an agricultural collage. Half of my class is just Prestoners. I’ve never lived in a city but what the hell are you guys teaching your kids.

[@Steph.98114]

I'm just imaging these researchers getting back after a month or two and being completely jacked from eating healthy and consently working out.

[@Nimrod336]

Ooooo fancy blue screen lol

[@NeonEonsHp]

This is so fun to watch while eating breakfast

[@casperbrenneche8264]

Are we now doing sponsors in the middle of the videos Lord Smallwood? :P

[@ExiILe00]

Nisha and Gromit

[@dseray9494]

My first thought when I heard cheese

[@lewisyc0201]

I mean, there was a generation of people who were born into rationing and, until it ended in the 50s, to them egg was a powder

[@loirai4349]

about 2 years and Karl's still handsome.

[@Mr.Mousey]

Huh you didn't follow your normal sponsor rule just to put it on your bucket list ?

[@JoeSmith-dd2nm]

Loving the Hannibal Shrekter mask, not disturbing at all

[@katherinespezia4609]

Karl you should give that face reconstruction thing another go only this time use the skull from the Business Skeleton. I'm very curious now what his face looks like.

[@romank90]

If you consider rationing of bananas a horrible scarcity, don't read up on how it went in actually affected countries. Also ignore siege of Stalingrad.

[@bigjake360t]

Why are you boiling vegetables when they could be fried, or roasted?

[@DanielsPolitics1]

You can’t fry them without fat, which was in short supply

[@armedkevin1178]

Serious question, is there a Patreon goal to only ever do ad reads at the very end of the video?

[@tevphoenix252]

Mate, this is by far the best sponsership- it's perfect

[@MINIKRIGARN]

Spyro's cool for one reason SKYLANDERS!

[@titanictotired]

I'm 16 and really enjoy very strong tasting foods. Does that mean my taste buds are just dying faster?

[@osmano675]

That bit seems like bullshit to me, especially considering he only mentioned it off-hand and without providing a source. Don't trust everything some guy on the internet says.

[@tjheraud6710]

Rationing as a British person be like: Get the cheese and crackers Gromit!!

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

The idea that people had access to enough cheese to make that viable is kind of a stretch tbh. Rationing was brutal.

[@irishdc9523]

@@casanovafunkenstein5090 For cheese, it was 2 oz a week

[@tjheraud6710]

@@casanovafunkenstein5090 yes but just sit down with me for one moment and imagine that I'm just messing around

[@cameronmakowski6640]

BACON HERESY!!!

[@davidmowbray6352]

Do you have any links to these studies? I don't believe the war diet was as healthy as the government suggested and only claimed it to be so, so the public would accept it.

[@stephaniec9539]

I bought a big wangers t shirt.. no one i know has one :D

[@SmolFrogge]

I eat veggies primarily 'cause I know a tiny bit about the US meat industry. Consume as needed.

[@capriciouszephyr]

So, in my dining room, I have hanging on my wall a crayon/colored pencil/maybe was was crayon drawing of a skull with a mushroom hat and some random scribbles a questionably sober guy drew for me on the back of a coca cola flat box in exchange for my buying him breakfast. Most of my pictures/art are things I picked up from local artists/photographers/spray paint artists, but this is the most unusual. He insisted in doing this for me after I said I'd get him brekky, and he pulled out of his bag all these random art tools to do it, so I said ok, and now it's hanging in my dining room. If you guys can tell me how to post a picture I will. Got plenty of other weird things. Have a cool bottle of some weird Turkish spirit a friend smuggled to me years back, many other things. You are not alone in collecting weird stuff mate. It makes the home fun. I've got a bust that was gifted to me of a dog wearing a monocle wearing an old timey suit that has been gilded that my friend who gave it to me said it had to be named Lord Barkington. We brought him to our wedding to be in the photos. Weird stuff is fun. Thanks for the neat video, and if you can, let me know where you can buy that Spiro phone holder. It's pretty sick

[@nesmario123]

this is why the brits look very skinny

[@rmo9808]

I love cheese for breakfast

[@johnnytwostrike]

Wait is it for Americans aswell?

[@nickburns8096]

If 100 thousand people fall for that scam, and get a tree planted, that's still 59.9 million fewer trees. The only thing you are doing is helping scammers make more money. Too bad you couldn't do any due diligence to discover the 60 million trees scotland already cut down

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

How could you possible read that video title, and not imminently click on it?

[@simien896]

These ration brits are me after going vegetarian

[@unlikelysuspect5491]

People in the past being dumb ex:#8,075,341

[@danstathevikingman5596]

Protein farts, the video.

[@idcgaming518]

Sorry to burst yer bubble mate, but the Scottish government does NOT recognise this whole "established titles" stuff.

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

Ok am I going mad or did you upload this video before

[@DanielsPolitics1]

He touched on the study in a previous video

[@hate6crew6death6roll]

would get rid of any established titles sponserships lad, turned out to be a scam

[@Marx1684]

I keep getting hacked. Excuse me for a month or so. They want my games & whatever else. 2 factor phone authentication is bad on Android. On my first IPhone ever b/c of this foolishness. Thanks for the goods as usual.

[@vexxen8232]

ah yes a great time to view this video whilst it is at 666 likes

[@Naedlus]

It's really sad that you are perpetuating the lie that just owning land makes you a Lord. You aren't in the House of Lords, you are just pretentious.

[@677bmad]

I had heard that established titles is a scam. Can you let me know if they are legit?

[@bigcade554]

They are not

[@2004RADMAN]

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I wrote a haiku about spam once: Spam spam spam spam spam Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam Spam spam spam spam spam

[@StupidMcStupidHead]

Behind the Fiends is a great title

[@JohnnyPenicillin]

Hey so I remember you saying you would never do an ad read in the middle of a video you have betrayed me. betrayed my trust

[@franciscoramirez789]

Established Titles turned out to be a scam. I hope you guys cut ties 🤙🏼

[@bandilive]

The sponsor has an additional 80% off at this time for black Friday. Fact Fiends promo still works with it. And here's for additional $10 for 1 person 1a199834f5fcde6c