During the mid-1980s, a discovery is made about Austria's wine that threatens to destroy the country's entire industry. Patreon: / fredrikknudsen Twitter: / fredintheknud
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@FredrikKnudsen4 жыл бұрын
The music for this episode is all available for listening on the composer's channel. My personal favorite is from section 4, but all of the others are there, as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2Snm5-qrtepr9k For those who want to learn more, much of the information for this episode comes from German sources that are left untranslated. The two sources used the most were "Wine Scandal" by Fritz Hallgarten (in English) and "Der Weinskandal: Das Ende einer unseligen Wirtschaftsentwicklung" by Walter Brüders (in German). Many of the others come from contemporary news reports, both in German and English, but chiefly the former. I was fortunate enough to know someone willing to spend the time reading through these sources and collecting information.
@jacobbell37204 жыл бұрын
I binged watched all of this series the past few days and was so excited to see this new one pop up today. They’re all so amazingly well done. Great work and thank you.
@respies304 жыл бұрын
thanks fred
@anonofpeace67884 жыл бұрын
What happened to your Rajneeshpuram video? Did it get taken down, or did you remove it yourself?
@connorpickens75234 жыл бұрын
Fredrik Knudsen If I may ask, Fredrik, what is your nationality? I can't pin your accent and your pronunciation of German is very good. It's puzzling, to be honest.
@nickh43544 жыл бұрын
@@anonofpeace6788 he posted the other day about that. The group he criticises in the video (can't remember their name) copyright claimed some of the footage in the video. Probably to try and keep their actions under wraps as much as possible
@actionpants31384 жыл бұрын
“Symptoms of poisoned wines are dizziness and vomiting” Well shit no wonder it took so long to figure this out
@officialromanhours4 жыл бұрын
How inconviententnenentententnet.
@Username-1939t94 жыл бұрын
the only difference is that one works faster than the other
@darklegion36933 жыл бұрын
@@Username-1939t9 yeah but some people wouldnt even know.
@elbozo57233 жыл бұрын
it took me longer than it shouldve to get that joke
@None-Trick_Pony3 жыл бұрын
@@elbozo5723 I got the hangover part immediately, but it took way too long to click. I spent a good ten to fifteen seconds trying to figure it out.
@sanspeakrus4 жыл бұрын
"I'm fine now" said a man with no liver who was pronounced dead by the press.
@mangckyatmamon4 жыл бұрын
they have a level 3 necromancer on the payroll
@ghoulbuster14 жыл бұрын
he's fine he is now a skeleton
@Sandux9304 жыл бұрын
Lol news has always been shit
@julianstraub87664 жыл бұрын
Once you’ve gotten rid of a major organ and survived, you are _basically_ immortal. That’s just how things work.
@adistantwail84194 жыл бұрын
That's what happened to me. Lost pretty much all me meat in the battle of Guam. I was only able to salvage my protruding milk balls and my droopy gauged flappers, but they were enough to prevent me from fully becoming a naked walking skeletonion.
@Cheesypotato573 жыл бұрын
"If we add sugar to the wine, we have to label it as such and we'll look cheap!" "That's okay, let's add this poorly understood chemical as an alternative sweetener instead." "Oh no, the chemical metabolises into toxins!" "That's okay, ethanol in the wine inhibits this." "Oh no, something else in the wine has the opposite effect!" "What is it?" "Sugar."
@GirtheAlienGoldfish3 жыл бұрын
A chain reaction of bad decisions.
@solarisveritatis10863 жыл бұрын
Actually there are laws against that, and sugar add after fermentation will not create the distinctive thickness, smell or taste of Pradikatswein, and will be detected easily
@__Razer3 жыл бұрын
Isn't it likely that the consumer would consume foods with the wine that contains sugar?
@jesuschrist26123 жыл бұрын
@@solarisveritatis1086 Ehrenmann
@KrolKaz3 жыл бұрын
Its the governments fault for requiring them to label that its added sugar.
@chiffoncakeandtea3 жыл бұрын
Austrian wine going from "cheap, mass produced alternative to higher quality products" to "high quality, well renowed wine with some of the most strict laws out there" is one of the greatest comebacks I've seen
@immydubby57892 жыл бұрын
That's precisely what past mistakes is for. To be better and prevent it from happening again.
@clown1342 жыл бұрын
funny how this scenario benefited mostly the already rich wine companies while the poor ones suffered since they couldnt keep up with the rising costs associated with the higher standards
@g76agi2 жыл бұрын
@@clown134 so what, you want them still pumping out lower quality wine? Theres a reason why strict regulation is a thing, its needed, especially with food items
@Max_Mustermann2 жыл бұрын
It is quite interesting that a lot of government health and safety regulations were the result of similar incidents, yet there are people out there who claim that government regulations should be abolished and that the market will take care of everything.
@Misha-dr9rh2 жыл бұрын
@@Max_Mustermann "no guys i swear deregulation will actually work forget about the 14 million times companies have killed people and/or completely trashed the environment due to a lack of regulation the free market will take care of it"
@rubyy.73744 жыл бұрын
“A German man drank a bottle of wine. This is how his organs shut down.”
@mementoargentum77334 жыл бұрын
At least it wasn't Beer. That would've been embarrassing... lol
@mrPuddiCake4 жыл бұрын
"CJ, presented himself to the emergency room, a few hours after drinking 5 bottles of wine"
@MaxwellTornado4 жыл бұрын
God, I hate that channel.
@fuckerwhopings91104 жыл бұрын
@@MaxwellTornado why :( it's so good
@LawraaaaPetrina4 жыл бұрын
I’m glad it’s not just me who thought of chubby emu! Love that channel
@arcticdino16504 жыл бұрын
"It's not our fault that people were poisoned, it's the people's fault for buying our poisoned wine" What are they, supervillains?
@CanIswearinmyhandle4 жыл бұрын
That's capitalism babey
@OccasionalNASCARRaces4 жыл бұрын
I've always found Europeans to be far more brash and blatant in their corruption than us Americans. I appreciate that.
@przemysawzanko67004 жыл бұрын
Just capitalists.
@henriquemelchiorgomes87504 жыл бұрын
@@CanIswearinmyhandle whatever, yank
@birdy54754 жыл бұрын
It's like saying "lmao its not my fault I gave people corona in the supermarket, it's their fault for getting infected"
@elfertrn2 жыл бұрын
“They found sugar in the wine” WHAT THE WHOLE POINT OF THE POISON WAS TO REPLACE THE SUGAR “ah yes we substituted the sugar with poison, but let’s put in sugar anyways that makes the poison worse for the lols”
@plot652011 ай бұрын
It's insane.
@pj178911 ай бұрын
(for the LULz)
@christschess70692 жыл бұрын
A fun note about the similarity of Austria's and Australia's name: Australia actually has an official postal stamp to send letters to Austria which have been wrongly sent to Australia instead.
@KlaxontheImpailr Жыл бұрын
On a similar note, Slovakia and Slovenia have a meeting every month to swap misaddressed mail.
@Joe_Potts Жыл бұрын
@@unnhkp8mza522 amazon has to get to these places somehow lol
@davejones9469 Жыл бұрын
When my dad was in the Canadian navy in the 70s, he exchanged Canadian Tire money for Lira...told them the man with the kilt was our PM lol. He changed about 2$ into equal to about 300 US, because Canadian Tire money are bills worth cents lol.
@bb-je1tt7 ай бұрын
@@davejones9469Well that’s pretty fucked up, your dad just scammed the dude
@davejones94697 ай бұрын
@@bb-je1tt You have to change currency at an official exchange, he didn't scam an individual dumbass. How dare you insinuate my dad is some kind of con man.
@kiaayo4 жыл бұрын
"Austrian wine companies were adding a toxic chemical just to avoid having to put sugar in their wine. They also added sugar to their wines, which made them even more dangerous."
@nd77u4 жыл бұрын
We call it farmers logic.
@xxLiquidxxSnakExx4 жыл бұрын
**Scene from 300** "This is madness!" "Na! DES - IS - AUSTRIAAA!" **kicks guy into a pit filled with wine**
@TheOnlyGeggles4 жыл бұрын
@@xxLiquidxxSnakExx The written out Austrian accent is what makes this funny
@MrTigracho4 жыл бұрын
Big brain move
@dentistguba4 жыл бұрын
Like the crisps that have MSG despite having so much actual salt etc they taste too strong anyway.
@antonydrossos57194 жыл бұрын
Hats off to that "Mystery man" whistle-blower. No knowing how many lives he may have saved.
@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick4 жыл бұрын
Antony Drossos There’s always an anonymous Good Samaritan in stories like these.
@mr.dalerobinson4 жыл бұрын
That’s why many governments have increased persecution against whistleblowers. As seen in the video, the government will work for commercial interests even if its against the people’s. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s somebody’s business plan
@Shotblur4 жыл бұрын
@@mr.dalerobinson Businesses are conspiracies. They're conspiracies to generate profit. Look up the definition of conspiracy.
@runeanonymous97604 жыл бұрын
Dale Robinson I mean, they’re mostly motivated less by corporate whistleblowers, and more government ones? Like, while they *dislike* reduced commerce, they *hate* reduced faith in their authority, which is what they more harshly prosecute.
@spekticat4 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing they were a time-traveller of some kind ^^
@wednesday81743 жыл бұрын
Something I noticed is that the people testing the additives aren't saying "how much we can add safely to avoid harming people" it's always "how much can we get away with adding" it really shows you their priorities
@PushyPushyPhoenix2 жыл бұрын
Much like bakers in the Edwardian/Victorian eras, with various powdered substances to make bread more "attractive" in various ways at lowest possible cost. And selling it to people who often ate nothing else. Yeesh. 🍞🍍
@Noxedwin8 ай бұрын
Speaking pragmatically, _everything_ will kill you if you inflict enough of it on yourself. Chocolate will poison you to death if you ingest enough of it. We put a lot of additive shit in our food and drink that already sucks for us, but will absolutely mess us up if we go wild with it. The saying goes "The dose makes the poison." But speaking realistically? *Yeah.* This is _extremely_ a measure of "How many people can we have die to this before the complaining starts to hurt our money?" They knew what they were doing, and what the consequences were. Screw "public outcry", there should have been a public _hanging._
@StookyDoo222 жыл бұрын
Seeing grape juice got affected too really struck me. It's such a carefree drink compared to wine, and children drink it!
@lephishe627110 ай бұрын
Probably more children than adults. Why? No child is going to drink grape juice and say "too bitter!" unless they just find grape juice to be inherently bitter and just don't like grape juice. And the kids that like grape juice probably aren't gonna be that critical of the taste of their grape juice.
@Svoorhout854 жыл бұрын
It infuriates me that scummy politicians are only punished with "resignation" while citizens would go to prison.
@KazzArie4 жыл бұрын
Stefan Voorhout only in the worst cases. You catch that the other(s) were transferred to other departments? Same shit absolutely the world over. No government is free from corruption or nepotism
@jackspedicy27114 жыл бұрын
CAPITALISM WINS AGAIN
@syncategorematically4 жыл бұрын
well the justice system even today is full of hole and the arsehole with power and money will always got away. like the one said, capitalism win again
@lazergurka-smerlin65614 жыл бұрын
Well there's always the problem of Judges potentially being biased toward a politician because of political affiliation. So because of that bias it's very hard to take politicians to court, and for them to go to prison
@EinFelsbrocken4 жыл бұрын
@@syncategorematically Well; I would try other government forms; but if you look at Russia or China; even if theyre communist; theres still the rich and the poor; and the government still meddles in capitalist affairs. Its hopeless; we will remain idiot fucks all around the planet; until we incinerate ourselves in nuclear fire. Yayyyy.. disappointing
@NekogamiKun1274 жыл бұрын
*Austrian Winemakers:* We need to avoid adding sugar to our wine, so let's add diethylene glycol instead. *Austrian Winemakers:* And let's add sugar, because if we're already adding poison to our wine, then who really gives a shit anymore.
@nd77u4 жыл бұрын
Well that's correct! The who gives a shit vibe is pretty strong here in our corner of the world
@GymnopedieTornado4 жыл бұрын
hey thx for thomas bernhard at least
@MirandaSinistra4 жыл бұрын
What could go wrong?
@HannahViera4 жыл бұрын
Lassi Kinnunen because unlike glycol, aspartame tastes like poison.
@kelsiday20844 жыл бұрын
@Lassi Kinnunen aspartame ironically reacts really poorly in most people ( it gives me fucking killer migraines ) but thus far, it hasn't killed anyone (that I'm aware of) so has managed to stay in a lot of American products even though it is banned in some places and other countries. Not surprised tho. but really I just wanted to say that maybe aspartame wasn't being used as an artificial sweetener yet (were artificial sweeteners even a thing? idk) The other thing is they wanted to use something difficult to trace deliberately, in part so their wine *seemed* very pure when it was literal poison lmao I think if they had used aspartame, it would be 1. fairly easy to detect and 2. aspartame just??? isnt even that sweet. Idk how sweet glycol is but i don't intend on finding out :)
@karan_puuung76873 жыл бұрын
When people had this toxic wine, this is what happened to their stomach and liver. CJ is a 40 y.o, PRESENTING to the emergency room.
@stoneman4722 жыл бұрын
You deserve more likes for that joke.
@themurderofcoke2 жыл бұрын
What -emia is ethylene glycol content in blood?
@mattBLACKpunk2 жыл бұрын
All you had to do was drink the damn wine cj!
@angelikaskoroszyn84952 жыл бұрын
"A man drank cheap wine. This is what happened to his liver"
@antidoteforlife94602 жыл бұрын
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 sounds like a Russian proverb
@isaacgruver70613 жыл бұрын
"Ahh shit, they realized we poisoned the wine. Well, Germany hasn't realized yet, let's sell it to them!" What scumbags.
@jaden48042 жыл бұрын
sigma males*
@armitx92 жыл бұрын
@@jaden4804 😎
@marvinzwettler81719 ай бұрын
Maybe shouldn't have started WW1
@lolno6465Ай бұрын
@@marvinzwettler8171 but Austria started WW1....
@HiddenFat4 жыл бұрын
I love how this started with a trucker who was like hell nah, no water in my wine
@wannabehistorian3714 жыл бұрын
He was a good man.
@arturocevallossoto52034 жыл бұрын
I mean, wine is a very big deal in Austria and Southern Geramny. It's cheap and he probably drank some everyday at dinner. Maybe he even bought of that brand. And then you see this guys dumping water on it like its nothing.
@Foreststrike4 жыл бұрын
And then, subsequently, that anonymous man who just leaves a wine bottle with diethylene glycol inside... and walks out like a boss.
@zeromailss4 жыл бұрын
@@Foreststrike it would be cool if that man was actually the trucker, his first plea wasn't heard so he decided to take action himself "You dare mess with my wine!? Nobody mess with my wine, *NOBODY!"*
@KitKatMuskrat4 жыл бұрын
It’s like he was Jesus, except he turned wine into water into diethylene glycol but not really and this metaphor kinda fell apart.
@WhaleManMan4 жыл бұрын
So this is why Dan Akroyd was always talking about "no glycol" in his Crystal Skull vodka.
@cheekyfantasy13144 жыл бұрын
Omg thats so true
@koiirohoshi12184 жыл бұрын
*cough* very nice
@kieranmcinnis85264 жыл бұрын
Oooooohhhhh
@prinnyblackblade4 жыл бұрын
In his defense, Crystal Head IS the best vodka I've ever had.
@Sandux9304 жыл бұрын
Or sugar lol
@rubenj.38943 жыл бұрын
''... Japan and China also ordered a ban on Australian wine, due to the similarity of the countries names'' I am wondering how the Australian vineyards responded to that lol
@surfinbird2212 жыл бұрын
Duck gang
@rubenj.38942 жыл бұрын
@@surfinbird221 Duck gang 🦆
@wouldntyouliketoknow89043 жыл бұрын
I actually learned about this scandal through an early Simpsons episode where Bart goes to France and discovers that two frenchmen have been poisoning the wines. Apparently, the episode was inspired by this event.
@steveboru77343 жыл бұрын
That Simpsons episode came to mind as I was watching this video! Air date was April 15, 1990
@lochshiel3 жыл бұрын
Same. I always assumed that scene was referencing a real event. Only took 20+ years to find out...
@michaelmccray80263 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this
@murielleladouceur64143 жыл бұрын
“Et ils ont donné mon chapeau à un âne!”
@pokehybridtrainer2 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, you're right. 30 years later, that reference makes sense. Damn, the writers there were gold.
@alexbenavidez45004 жыл бұрын
Japan and China banning Australian wine due to getting the names mixed up is honestly the funniest part about this.
@calmgoodfire46624 жыл бұрын
Imagine if this happened during the ww2 and Japan declares war on Austria instead of Australia
@mine2fs2514 жыл бұрын
@@calmgoodfire4662 austria didn't exist in WW2, it was part of Nazi Germany
@Walkth15way4 жыл бұрын
"Not the shiraz"
@wasumyon61474 жыл бұрын
I thought he was talking about Australian wine too before I watched tbh.
@AntonioCunningham4 жыл бұрын
@@wasumyon6147 So did I. I didn't know these places were different.
@m_crowley66744 жыл бұрын
was this the reason behind that "antifreeze in the wine" joke in the simpsons episode where bart goes to france?
@docvolt52144 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@H3wastooshort4 жыл бұрын
always thought it was because of the ethanol in the antifreeze
@bigEB1844 жыл бұрын
I thought of the exact same episode.
@pinkflametheepic4 жыл бұрын
After all these years I finaly get the joke. Ha ha
@Grandmaster-Kush4 жыл бұрын
Good catch!
@Ebinspurdo2 жыл бұрын
Ah, now I understand the saying "Life is too short to drink cheap wine".
@vivil253311 ай бұрын
I got a new saying "Life is too long to drink expensive wine."
@olookslike02 жыл бұрын
I love how the most common reaction from the wine industry in Austria was "how can we continue to make this wine as cheaply as possible and yet survive this mass scandal?" and at the end of the day the solution to the problem was just to make better wine and not be cheapskates. I feel like a lot of companies in America could learn a thing or two from that conclusion.
@bingcrosby16602 жыл бұрын
im looking at both the game and automotive industry specifically but really, i can see alot of industries that should tale the same approach
@Shaun_Jones2 жыл бұрын
It’s a little more complicated than it seems. The wine companies basically switched from the high volume/low cost market to the smaller volume/high quality market. This would be kind of like if a car company made economy cars, and a scandal broke that they were making unsafe cars; so instead of making better economy cars, the company started building for the luxury car market.
@olookslike02 жыл бұрын
@@Shaun_Jones Well sure, I get that business isn't always about the difference between selling "good or bad" products, still, the course correction seemed to come far later than it probably should have. And at the end of the day, it's the consumers who decide whether an industry is high quality or not, even if its directed towards a specific class of individuals.
@Iijjccbb Жыл бұрын
@@bingcrosby1660 but, but that would require them to release an actually finished game instead of releasing it only mostly or half finished and selling the rest of it through dlc’s!
@mechanicalruby Жыл бұрын
americans?!? learning?!?!? ew!
@tlam30284 жыл бұрын
Imagine how confused the Australian wine industry was when they were banned in China and Japan
@joeschmoe38154 жыл бұрын
I'll drink to that! Greetings from Austria 😬
@SToNeOwNz4 жыл бұрын
The real question is how can you bottle wine in a country where up is down?
@sc65544 жыл бұрын
@@SToNeOwNz Highly underrated comment here Zack G good one hahahahaha
@flrs58584 жыл бұрын
Zack G We have special gravity harnesses for our kegs and pumps to fill up our wine barrels.
@stefm.w.36404 жыл бұрын
@@joeschmoe3815 prost
@connorpickens75234 жыл бұрын
"Hey, I have your 400,000 liter shipment of ethylene glycol. Where's it going?" "The wine factory." *"Sounds perfectly good to me."*
@voidofspaceandtime46844 жыл бұрын
@@dotexe1205 for his singular small tractor. so no.
@rebornpheonix10164 жыл бұрын
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 That's the joke.
@shutupgaydog8274 жыл бұрын
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 bruh
@CalderaXII4 жыл бұрын
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 who knew a void could be so dense
@Robert-tl2vg4 жыл бұрын
Connor Pickens well... you tried to be funny
@ShamankingZuty11 ай бұрын
I wonder if surviving bottles of these wines are collector items. There's such a good story behind it and so many bottles were destroyed, so I feel like this would be an extremely rare niche item for someone who is a wine hobbiest. At the very least, it's a talking point for a bottle you have in your collection but can never drink.
@Vulpilux9 ай бұрын
For only 50 grand you can have your very own bottle of poison.
@ajj45158 ай бұрын
I really want to drink it tbh. Not like a lot of course. But like. Just a glass
@The_Stigs_Austrian_cousin8 ай бұрын
@@ajj4515 We have some in our wine cellar ranging from 1976 to 1985, but most of them have bad corks by now, they would taste like vinegar.
@jerryb2166 ай бұрын
@@The_Stigs_Austrian_cousinYummy death vinegar. Sign me up
@abeharis57702 жыл бұрын
-straight up barge into federal institue of agricultural chemistry building -put a bottle and says that inside the bottle was the chemical used to make a lot of wine -refuse to elaborate further -leave That guy with german accent is absolute chad
@PickleSurpriseVEVO4 жыл бұрын
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” - some German guy in Austria
@washingmachine9694 жыл бұрын
God damn, that game was brutal.
@Uberkatze-4 жыл бұрын
Hitler?
@proudtobeme1ashkente4 жыл бұрын
@@Uberkatze- That'd be funny but it's a German guy in Austria. With Hitler, it was the other way around.
@knavenformed94364 жыл бұрын
But Picard is french? And in space.
@sdfabctr4 жыл бұрын
"Some German guy in Austria" sounds like the ultimate setup for a joke but I don't know how to finish it.
@oswaldfigglebottom4 жыл бұрын
"A man drank a bottle of Austrian wine. This is what happened to his brain." - chubbyemu
@GabAssbreaker4 жыл бұрын
Fredrik describing the symtoms of poisoning reminds me a lot of chubbyemu.
@julianstraub87664 жыл бұрын
Regardless of what is in it, not sure drinking an entire bottle of wine by your lonesome is an advisable idea. _Especially_ Austrian, in that case just go for five and make it a straight up suicide attempt.
@absinthefandubs91304 жыл бұрын
@@GabAssbreaker He really does a good impression around 6 minutes
@None-Trick_Pony3 жыл бұрын
Drinking game: everytime he says 'glycol' drink pure diethelyne glycol.
@Echo_the_half_glitch2 жыл бұрын
no doN'T DO THAT-
@LevakekkuLI2 жыл бұрын
@@Echo_the_half_glitch don't worry, it's fine. people did that all the time in the 80's
@jstoned882 жыл бұрын
@RadBaeron what a long name
@gl1tchygreml1n2 жыл бұрын
@@LevakekkuLI That is the longest name I’ve ever seen on KZbin, pretty impressive actually
@richardtherichard262 жыл бұрын
Go ahead, gene pool needs some culling anyway
@Zestric10 ай бұрын
"Frostschutzwein" (Antifreeze wine) is still sometimes used to describe cheap, bad tasting wine. Even by people not alive at the time.
@DeathofHeavens4 жыл бұрын
"The secret ingredient is crime."
@beanwaddlers18834 жыл бұрын
NineDeath That crack is really moreish
@thanatoast4 жыл бұрын
For a second i thought you said something inappropriate
@PaulRudd19414 жыл бұрын
I forget where the reference is from, the simpsons springs to mind? Correct me if I'm wrong.
@PaulRudd19414 жыл бұрын
Ah NVM, it's the peep show. Brilliant comment mate.
@willkatching92194 жыл бұрын
They should be paying me to drink this shit
@holonholon11414 жыл бұрын
"Due to the similarity of their names" Australian here, clicked the video wondering why I hadn't heard about the wine poisoning before...
@holonholon11414 жыл бұрын
@Lassi Kinnunen apparently through entry into Latin, meaning "aust-" could either be "east" or "south". Great. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Austria#Etymology
@pokemonsisters4 жыл бұрын
Lassi Kinnunen when I was in the second grade we had to write an essay on our ideal vacation location. I had wanted to go to Australia but wrote entirely about Austria when I looked online. “Hm those guys just speak German over there I guess!”
@KOTEBANAROT4 жыл бұрын
@@pokemonsisters your teacher: wow this kid wants to learn about europe and look at the buildings and shit, thats unusual You: kemgoroo
@brennencox5164 жыл бұрын
I thought that too, I think because I know of Australia's wine industry, but not of Austria's.
@nameofthename4 жыл бұрын
bruh i too thought australia had a wine poisoning and so when he said "austria(n)" for the first time, i was so confused
@XavierTheNeonTiger2 жыл бұрын
This is by far my favourite down the rabbit hole. The corruption is terrible, of course, but it's so over the top it crosses the line for me to hilarious.
@damienhelmold69782 жыл бұрын
mine 2
@milkyshakes2 жыл бұрын
Waiter: “Our special wine today is a 40 year old rare Austrian known for it’s sweet taste…” All of us: “I’m okay thx”
@t750444 жыл бұрын
I was only a kid in the south of England when this happened but my Dad told me that there was a garage near where we lived that had an advert saying 'Our anti-freeze is 100% wine free'
@logansmith27034 жыл бұрын
That's hilarious
@usecode___74534 жыл бұрын
Classic dry English humor... I love it
@Makumbator4 жыл бұрын
I was 12 when all that happened. The Frostschutzmittel-Jokes where off the charts.
@foxandbarrettshow69164 жыл бұрын
I always love how snooty Brits sound when they say" south of north of" that's like saying " when I was in the west of fort Worth"
@t750444 жыл бұрын
@@foxandbarrettshow6916 It rains alot here, we have to do something to pass the time on those days
@elegantcat14964 жыл бұрын
"They blamed the costumers for buying such cheap wine" Oh, that old trick is even older than I imagined.
@TheGreatAtario4 жыл бұрын
If they'd stop paying so much attention to wearing costumes, we wouldn't be in this mess!
@dicemm55444 жыл бұрын
I love how sellers being scam is the consumers fault. Yes, an informed consumer that you give him no information about your product will totally know to make the right decision by just the price. Especially on a simply thing like wine.
@lunatuna93134 жыл бұрын
Good ole’ fashioned gaslighting
@LUHSTUR4 жыл бұрын
@@dicemm5544 What makes it even worse though is the fact that so many wine brands were affected. It essentially became a 'find the needle in the hay stack' scenario except the customer couldn't even know what the needle looks like.
@chosebine21694 жыл бұрын
"i was only pretending that THEY'RE retarded"
@napatora2 жыл бұрын
"it's their fault for buying cheap wine" doesn't really track when the entire market was tainted, besides the other more obvious problems with that statement
@OtakuUnitedStudio3 жыл бұрын
People: "The people who make cheap wine poisoned us!" Lawyers: "It's your fault for wanting cheap wine." Ha ha, oh wow.
@wegner70363 жыл бұрын
I always thought that the wine industry was so incredibly pretentious that wine stewards would eventual justify the poisoning of anyone who dare purchase cheap wine.
@michaelg55879 ай бұрын
Welcome to Austria, if you can't afford bread eat cake 😅
@enterprisekid4 жыл бұрын
Misistry of Viticulture: How much sawdust can we put in our rice-krispies before people actually notice?
@DeandreSteven4 жыл бұрын
Sawdust probably wont hurt you tho. Its just cellulose. It could block up your pooper
@boilaknezzi89744 жыл бұрын
PolySaken I get my fresh logs delivered every week from a free range tree farm. The logs are poison free, juicy and tender. I usually have mustard on the side for dipping!
@AlexanderLeset4 жыл бұрын
"We Tested Positive (For Glycol Poisoning)"
@dennismartin58214 жыл бұрын
Well, Taco Bell's been going with a 10 to 20% mixture. I say we try that.
@rentori71414 жыл бұрын
@Enterprise Kid I understood that reference
@taseti36074 жыл бұрын
Virgin KZbinr: Gotta get the last scoop on the current drama and memes Chad KZbinr: Austrian Wine Poisoning
@Pin3C0ne4 жыл бұрын
Ta Seti Fredrik is the definition of not following trends
@liaml.e.59644 жыл бұрын
This channel is one of the best, imo. He does deep research on every subject, cites it, and delivers with massive quality.
@derekg56744 жыл бұрын
Liam L.E. I think the word you’re looking for is, “cite.”
@liaml.e.59644 жыл бұрын
@@derekg5674 thank you
@AlanaBananaCanada4 жыл бұрын
_Raises poisoned wine_ 🍷
@germanas78983 жыл бұрын
"How was the government involved? How did this happen in the first place? And why?". The answer is simple - Money, money and obviously, money.
@malign31582 жыл бұрын
You can always count on someone to make a joke out of a bad situation. “Cheers, to Glycol!” What an absolute memelord
@913kaixa4 жыл бұрын
What I love about Fredrik Knudsen is that he uses the same tone of voice for describing glycol poisoning as he does for reciting the angry Facebook messages of an angry cat cafe owner roleplaying as her cats.
@elizabethsullivan18944 жыл бұрын
We have no cats, Kathleen!
@OmniSonic4 жыл бұрын
Drink, drink, DEAD
@revstalker73344 жыл бұрын
Well he's a documentary youtuber. He literally tries to present the topic as objectively as possible while trying to maintain an aura of seriousness about the topic, to the point where a topic that you would laugh at or be angry about actually sounds like a cautionary tale of how crazy the world can get. Legit one of the best sources of documentaries on KZbin. OKI's Weird Stories is another great series, definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys Down the Rabbit Hole. My personal favorites are the John McAfee series, the Hiroo Onoda two-parter and the Thierry Tilly series.
@Anino_Makata4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Fredrik's monotone and serious way of speaking pretty much makes the topics he chooses to research on more interesting and entertaining, without tainting the content itself with unnecessary "entertainment glamour".
@Sandux9304 жыл бұрын
We have no wines kathleen
@spot14014 жыл бұрын
There was a joke in Germany back then. 'give me some antifreeze will ya?' -' sure would that be Red or white?'
@alexanderholzer73924 жыл бұрын
'n bisschen Frostschutz bidde
@EinFelsbrocken4 жыл бұрын
Frosdshudds hea; Leude; aber dalli!
@LeatherCladVegan4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, that famous German 'sense of humour'.
@done81402 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of 'The Tylenol Murders' over here in the USA in the 80's .... still unsolved to this day as well.
@mrdjgosling3 жыл бұрын
China banning Australian wine hits different now.
@youvebeenpwned69882 жыл бұрын
Good keep the goon in Oz more for me
@PlazmaSilvaraGMS4 жыл бұрын
so this unknown man with a bottle of chemicals had basically saved multiple lives from toxic wine holy shit, this is a rabbit hole
@GriffinPilgrim4 жыл бұрын
And never claimed credit. You gotta admire the integrity.
@fantage200124 жыл бұрын
@@GriffinPilgrim tbh I'm sure it also had to do with the fact that if he revealed his id he'd be fired.
@GriffinPilgrim4 жыл бұрын
@@fantage20012 Given as he was probably crashing whatever company he worked for I don't know how much that would serve as motivation.
@Chaotic4Neutral4 жыл бұрын
@@GriffinPilgrim It seems likely he never identified himself because he was involved in one way or another... it's not like he was some random citizen who just happened to know about a secret kept by most of the entire wine industry.
@spencermanyet53364 жыл бұрын
@@fantage20012 the numbers and money here are so huge he was probably fearing for his life rather than not getting paid to poison people
@brodieboy2554 жыл бұрын
"Austrian wine propaganda office" is a phrase I didn't think I'd be hearing today, or ever really
@trieuwerts4 жыл бұрын
Think of it as a marketing company for Austrian wine, as propaganda is just marketing your country.
@SToNeOwNz4 жыл бұрын
Think of it as a lobbyist/advocate group.
@BlueTS7774 жыл бұрын
holy crap he said it in the vid the exact same time i read ur comment! what is it tho?
@MaxiemumKarnage4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, nowadays it's just Left Wing Propaganda. Bring back classy propaganda
@konsfuzius864 жыл бұрын
gross misnomer. it probably (since I do not know the initial source used here) is an interest group, lobbying for wine manufacturers. This is NOT a public office.
@grodcoyote66352 жыл бұрын
Holyshit I finally understand why Dan Aykroyd was so obsessed with saying his vodka had no glycol
@ChrisSmith-mi2zo Жыл бұрын
Diethylene glycol is not quite the same as other glycol compounds. Ethylene glycol is fairly safe and commonly used in vodka (aside from Aykroyd's) while propylene glycol is a more environmentally friendly alternative used in drinks like whiskey.
@SirAsdf Жыл бұрын
4:05 Can we talk about how this one guy likely managed to bring down an entire conspiracy, saved countless lives, and just vanished into the night like a Chad?
@sudanemamimikiki1527 Жыл бұрын
must have been either a worker of a company who developed compassion. or a worker for a company that wasnt using the substance and wanted to strike down competition.
@reviewbooth86863 жыл бұрын
I love the defense of: “well, it’s cheap wine, what did you expect?” As if I should be willing to accept death for a $13 wine
@generalrubbish95133 жыл бұрын
[buys cheap wine] "You have lost your kidney privileges"
@Yuuzu3 жыл бұрын
those wines actually go for around 1-2€ per 0.75l bottle here in austria
@alexs57443 жыл бұрын
$13 for wine can get you a good bottle.
@horseenthusiast12503 жыл бұрын
Yeah, like. It's not like you buy a box of Franzia and expect to drop dead afterwards...what an awful argument
@Rizzydom3 жыл бұрын
@@Yuuzu I remember back in the day we bought 50 cent 1l "Packerlwein"
@BirdieLouise4 жыл бұрын
I'm European and I had no idea what you were talking about, until you mentioned antifreeze wine. The elderly here in the Netherlands still use this term to this day to describe shitty wine. It's rare though.
@vbence124 жыл бұрын
Huh I guess it's just an Europe thing. Here it was "cow dung" wine. Supposedly because that's what they used instead of grapes
@GodsWheat4 жыл бұрын
I legit only heard about this only from the Simpson since I live in the former soviet block
@Autechltd4 жыл бұрын
Its like Austria has some kind of Vendetta against the French. Started WW1, then Hitler, then they went out of their way to fuck with wine.
@adrenalinevan3 жыл бұрын
You should keep that slang up so nobody forgets the horrific story
@redvelvetunderground2 жыл бұрын
i'm cracking up at the wine producers who added sugar to their already poisoned wines to enhance the flavor. like, if you were going to do that then why did you even bother putting glycol into your wine in the first place? lol
@RADZIO8953 жыл бұрын
Damn, adding chemicals that can damage customers' body to your products just to make them cheaper and better tasting, what a scummy thing to do. Luckily that was in the past *takes a sip of coca cola*
@manperor_32b82 жыл бұрын
“Takes a giant glug of sweet sweet bleach”
@babyfacenc2 жыл бұрын
Diet coke is poison
@pinkflametheepic2 жыл бұрын
@@babyfacenc yummy poison
@edwardhisse26872 жыл бұрын
Most foods are toxic to a degree. May as well have a good life, not a long one.
@Shaun_Jones2 жыл бұрын
Technically speaking, water can poison you in high enough amounts, as can salt. As was said above, ingesting almost anything in very large amounts can damage your body. Everything in moderation.
@SaerasChuu4 жыл бұрын
Every time he said "glycol" all I could think of was Dan Aykroyd talking about glycol in vodka.
@hm-jt3os4 жыл бұрын
There's various glycols, not saying what he has is any good though lmao
@hm-jt3os4 жыл бұрын
For example, vape juice is mostly vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol
@happyveliz4 жыл бұрын
Glycol? Should it not have glycol in it??
@plagueofangel86944 жыл бұрын
You mean that time Dan Aykroyd almost killed Larry King?
@ShogunMongol4 жыл бұрын
@@happyveliz Different kind of glycol.
@zacharyparker9954 жыл бұрын
I admire your quest to cover every mass poisoning.
@AnomalySource4 жыл бұрын
Zachary Parker ha
@viesturssilins8584 жыл бұрын
@Egg T I wonder, are you a bot, or just someone who has been hit really hard by the enforced quarantine and isolation?
@Mngalahad4 жыл бұрын
the way in which chris chan poisoned the internet was a good start.
@beruman4 жыл бұрын
maybe he is trying to tell us something
@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt4 жыл бұрын
Expect a new video in July :)
@dda502 жыл бұрын
"How much Diethylene glycol would be hazardous to a persons health?" is a sentence no human should ever have to say.
@WhatTheVoice3 жыл бұрын
Great video! As an Austrian born in the 90s I had heard about this but I had no idea about the scale of this scandal. I found your channel through the official podcast btw.
@KaeYoss4 жыл бұрын
"We can't add sugar, as they're testing for that. Let's add glycol." "Okay, but let's also add sugar" "Wha-"
@ecyor04 жыл бұрын
"Good news, ethanol counteracts the poison!" "Hooray!" "But sugar makes it worse!" "Oh no!" (also, what a wild ride, I did not expect a "this was ultimately the result of global warming" twist at the end there)
@hellothere58433 жыл бұрын
But you can't have glycol in alcohol, because glycol is antifreeze. You would know that if you drank Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka, which is vodka in its purest form, quadruple distilled with double terminated quartz.
@marioanothlp3 жыл бұрын
@@hellothere5843 I finally understand why people who tested the vodka on the shows looked on in horror when they mentioned it....
@SDZ6753 жыл бұрын
I bet it was not that harmful before they added that sugar.
@VersaceJesus4 жыл бұрын
So this was Austria's second worst export to Germany?
@FizzyGajing4 жыл бұрын
Wait. What? Hahahahaha
@facelessidiot64074 жыл бұрын
Ouch.
@channel59804 жыл бұрын
Oof
@red2theelectricboogaloo9614 жыл бұрын
@@FizzyGajing you know. the second worst export from austria to germany, just like the wierd mustache man, the first worst.
@Darrylizer14 жыл бұрын
LOL
@josoffat76493 жыл бұрын
As a plumber, when i heard the words toxic chemical and sweet wine, I instantly knew the answer was ethylene glycol. This story sickens me. Even propylene glycol is bad for you and is in tons of food products, not toxic but still very bad
@Numizard2 жыл бұрын
You're wrong on that last sentence
@JiveDadson2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't ethylene glycol. It was diethylene glycol.
@JiveDadson2 жыл бұрын
@@Numizard The first sentence also.
@dirkbastardrelief2 жыл бұрын
I was also part of a “chemical investigation team“. In high school. We “investigated“ a lot of “chemicals“.
@Sabrowsky4 жыл бұрын
At first I was mad I misread "austria" as "australia" but the Japanese and Chinese governments did the same so its all cool
@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking4 жыл бұрын
G'Day, mate!
@rachelhallie74834 жыл бұрын
My favorite wine is 19 Crimes so if that happened here I'd riot. They may be called 19 Crimes but they committed 0!
@WhoWantsToKnow814 жыл бұрын
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
@shiblamo10024 жыл бұрын
Rachel Hallie They have cool labels on their bottles too. I like that stuff
@stevenbean97314 жыл бұрын
i have been waiting to watch “the Australian wine poisoning” for about four days and now I have an answer as to why everyone keeps talking about German people.
@YT-ge6vl4 жыл бұрын
Imagine: Blaming the customers you poisoned for buying your cheap product.
@docvolt52144 жыл бұрын
Apple
@narbonne76374 жыл бұрын
“How could you buy the product I own and made me tons of money? You are to blame, take responsibility, idiot”
@fenrirsrage46094 жыл бұрын
The more things change. The more things stay the same eh?
@WJINTL4 жыл бұрын
How dare you buy the poison I marketed as wine. Shame on you. How could you do such a thing?
@MahouKat4 жыл бұрын
@white How?
@AbsoluteHaven2 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to know about this disaster, but never found as much information as I wanted to, including all the backstory and the consequences in such detail. Kudos to you for making a crystal clear and still really interesting!
@wind_reader3 жыл бұрын
I love how the wine poisoning led to a complete overhaul of the detection methods the chemists used lol
@drosera884 жыл бұрын
26:41 That's the best defense ever. "Well maybe if you hadn't bought our shitty wine in the first place you wouldn't have gotten poisoned!"
@Chaotic4Neutral4 жыл бұрын
That's the worst defense ever, consumers make up the public and public opinion is one of the most important thing to any brand. They must have been really desperate to come to that line of defense, or very stupid.
@Dther994 жыл бұрын
"Government looking to cheaply dispose of antifreeze wine" That one cement company that couldn't afford antifreeze: *kewlont*
@Ohnonoki4 жыл бұрын
I dont know why but this is way funnier on the second read
@ghoulbuster14 жыл бұрын
haha red juice make machine cold
@Sandux9304 жыл бұрын
Cold juice cold masheen
@hawktalon78904 жыл бұрын
That sums it up lmao
@channel59804 жыл бұрын
LOL Meme Man language.
@baasparkopenings8513 жыл бұрын
"Japan and China also ordered a ban on the sale of Australian wine, due to the countries' similar names" LOL thank god im not the only one who keeps misreading this title as "the Australian wine poisoning"
@JiveDadson2 жыл бұрын
In the summer of 2005, I was the beneficiary of an unscheduled paid vacation in Austria, when a shipping company mistakenly sent a robot from my employer in the US to Australia. True story.
@p.l.vasquez90405 ай бұрын
What an interesting story! I had no idea this had ever happened, even being a teenager during the mid-80s. Excellent coverage of all sides of the issue, and a very entertaining video. Thank You! Sub incoming.
@chutneybucket56224 жыл бұрын
"I'm fine now." That is the most German response ever.
@kostajovanovic37113 жыл бұрын
In Herzog's voice
@neurotoxic18303 жыл бұрын
"Mir geht es gut jetzt". Try that in heavy German accent
@bugjams3 жыл бұрын
Dude had his entire liver fail and was like “Yeah whatever”, wouldn’t be surprised if he went back to drinking. 😂
@ilasq3 жыл бұрын
when did he say that
@Jan-ex3wj3 жыл бұрын
what does his response gave to do with germany?
@The_Andyman4 жыл бұрын
This whole fiasco seems to be one long "but wait, there's more!"
@The_Andyman4 жыл бұрын
Order now, and you can get another Hades free!
@merrittanimation77214 жыл бұрын
"And then they sunk lower."
@LeonardoAddingtonLeo4 жыл бұрын
Just a horror house with a neverending series of doors lol
@TomboTime4 жыл бұрын
This could be said about ANY down the rabbit hole episode
@Tinlion094 жыл бұрын
That's the best kind of fiasco right there.
@mRahman92 Жыл бұрын
I heard on NPR a while ago that they dumped a lot of it on to a frozen airstrip and it helped defrost the tarmac.
@adamfrazer51502 жыл бұрын
Mass-production : the death knell for things like quality and advantages like direct interaction with the seller, face to face transactions. We're going to Starbuck and Wal-Mart ourselves into a thin, bland paste 😐
@Igorcastrochucre4 жыл бұрын
The bit near the end seems almost comical: Boss: "We need to mix clean wine with anti-freeze wine to dilute the poison" Employee: "Sir, look around there is no clean wine anywhere, only anti-freeze"
@shmunkyman334 жыл бұрын
Wine, wine everywhere and not a drop to dilute your tainted antifreeze-wine with
@Arcueid_Brunestud4 жыл бұрын
@@rudito22 What do you mean you're at antifreeze?!
@chippydippy15304 жыл бұрын
@@Arcueid_Brunestud I MEAN I'M AT ANTIFREEZE
@LieseFury4 жыл бұрын
it's like something from the simpsons
@winterwolf69104 жыл бұрын
“WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?!” “IM IN THE ANTIFREEZE STORE!!!” “WHY ARE YOU BUYING WINE FROM THE A N T I F R E E Z E S T O R E?!!!”
@danielyahalom39614 жыл бұрын
the real austrian wine was the friends we made along the way
@YAH21214 жыл бұрын
It's all about family
@oswaldfigglebottom4 жыл бұрын
But they all have brain damage now
@liaml.e.59644 жыл бұрын
@@oswaldfigglebottom But as a Family
@EmperorSigismund4 жыл бұрын
The real poisoning was the friends we made along the way.
@DeathSithe924 жыл бұрын
And ALLLLthe people we poisoned and killed.
@Nugnugnug3 жыл бұрын
Austrians be like, "time to put another schnitzel on the barbie!"
@notthewhitenationalist2 жыл бұрын
When I go to a party, this the only thing I got to talk about
@supleted4 жыл бұрын
I like how Fredrik never follow the trend and report on meme-y internet news, but instead chose to document lesser known stories few has every heard about.
@Robert-tl2vg4 жыл бұрын
Grammar is good yes?
@mikhailthegreatestdragon36274 жыл бұрын
That's what he's known for
@saulthechicanootaku4 жыл бұрын
@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 he does follow trends to but as mentioned by supleted, he also mixes in some stuff that happened on the news outside of the internet
@Mattquatch14 жыл бұрын
I feel like half of his videos follow this trend, but the other half strike me as very exploitative lolcow kiwi farms type stuff, which is definitely disappointing.
@mikhailthegreatestdragon36274 жыл бұрын
@@saulthechicanootaku I found out about Friedrik from the rat utopia experiment and his old stuff on cryptids and lore, that's hardly bandwagon-y or mainstream, so I guess that notion is just bias on my end
@ElArto954 жыл бұрын
Here's a fun game: Take a shot every time Fredrik says "diethylene glycol". For more inmmersion, drink wine sweetened with diethylene glycol.
@zeusrulez4 жыл бұрын
The real question would be what would you die of first: the diethylene glycol or alcohol poisoning
@Sisyphos4204 жыл бұрын
Challenge accepted! Fu, liver!
@MrCantStopTheRobot4 жыл бұрын
Best vomiting seizure I ever spent in the fetal position. Thanks!
@Adamant_Consternation4 жыл бұрын
I don't knwwwwwwwww thys seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeems tow bee gonging pourrrrrlyyyy.
@9a9124 жыл бұрын
"inmmersion"
@WHITEDIRTV9 ай бұрын
The profound statement alluding to what's next -> then fade to black... is exquisite. Pulls me further in each time. Even harder to pull off in KZbin format. Great job
@Soot50072 жыл бұрын
19:27 1) How was the government involved? 2) How could this happen in the first place? 3) Why? The answer? Unregulated capitalism.
@utzius80032 жыл бұрын
Same with the Noricum scandal. The factory was producing and exporting artillery pieces illegally. Everyone knew it, but it was so profitable that no one did anything against it until it became internationally known.
@TSFboi4 жыл бұрын
I can't ignore the fact that this is literally the plot of Goodburger.
@corazondonquixote4 жыл бұрын
SwagHags69 why would you say something like this
@zenoblues77874 жыл бұрын
The greatest art imitates life
@wheedler4 жыл бұрын
Also The Simpsons episode where Bart goes to France.
@MaxiemumKarnage4 жыл бұрын
@@wheedler That was inspired by this scandal
@lakotacorff40124 жыл бұрын
Explain
@NewyAlien4 жыл бұрын
"The Austrian..:" yay he's doing a video about my country! ".....Wine Poisoning" Oh No.
@ralphrichter49764 жыл бұрын
@Carl Moser we don' t talk about that wappler.
@CL-zg6rh4 жыл бұрын
Well it’s not like we lack scandals in Austria. All things considered he could have picked a worse one.
@ralphrichter49764 жыл бұрын
@@CL-zg6rh yeah thats true.. I live in one of the more scandalous cities myself (Amstetten, Home of fritzl...)
@ralphrichter49764 жыл бұрын
@Emperor Ssraeshza yeah, it is definitely a crazy and depressing story. Even weirder when you life in that town and know people that knew the family and event wentbto the same catholic school as some of the kids(not at the same time though) The only good thing is that the daughter and the children now life a calm, publicity-free life... I truly hope they can find happiness. If you are very interested in thevstory, netflix has a doku series about it. I haven' t seen it myself actually but I' ve heard it' s ok.
@NewyAlien4 жыл бұрын
@@CL-zg6rh Definitely, still hurts that we are only ever really acknowledged through controversy, Australia and either losing WW1 or being the baddies in WW2 haha
@aturchomicz821 Жыл бұрын
29:26 Christ I forgot how absolutely god like the music was in this episode, like its so perfectly bitter sweet?? God my country sure was wacky in the 80s...😪😪
@empi41062 жыл бұрын
I really like how you take the time to be super informative on the topic at hand. It really helps the viewer to get the full picture of the scenario.
@Omnywrench3 жыл бұрын
"...anyvey, zat's how I lost my alcohol license."
@tylerlackey11753 жыл бұрын
Ahaha what a story hans
@emilpersidski3 жыл бұрын
"Zey found antifreeze in his wine, and ze brewer was never heard from again!"
@jjayala55122 жыл бұрын
"Now... Hehe, Let's go practice wine-making."
@Alabenson2 жыл бұрын
You see, sandvich, this is why I drink vodka.
@addiction24092 жыл бұрын
“Livers grow back!” *turns away* “No they don’t”
@blanchfor4 жыл бұрын
That one defense lawyer “ the consumer is at fault, they bought super cheap wine and didn’t do any research!” Some people really will do anything for a buck
@jacobford34524 жыл бұрын
It's almost like companies only care about profit under capitalism, and they regularly have to be regulated to prevent these abuses from happening because the whole system prioritises the wrong things.
@merrittanimation77214 жыл бұрын
I remember back in US History about the stuff which would get thrown into meat before the regulations were put in due to poor maintenance and general apathy. It's disgusting how common this sort of thing is.
@ihateyankees36554 жыл бұрын
@@jacobford3452 Austria had government agencies and inspectors, and the poisoning still happened.
@sparetime24754 жыл бұрын
This isn’t the lawyers fault legally they have to support someone even if they know they are guilty
@jimmyseaver36474 жыл бұрын
D Blanch The customers often don't do proper research, yes, which is why they have to be protected, and regulations put into place to ensure safe, quality products.
@Rehteal3 жыл бұрын
As a Sake enthusiast, I wonder if there are any good stories like this. I know that a lot of sake breweries were destroyed at the start of WWII, but maybe there are cool stories there too.
@MaximilienNoal8 ай бұрын
The jazz vibes and story make me listen to this so many times. Here I go again.
@mindshuffler33324 жыл бұрын
Austrian wine companies: "Business is booming!" Unidentified German Man: "I'm about to end this country's whole industry."
@lonelychameleon35954 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be the first time a German fucked up Austria
@sharpnail88064 жыл бұрын
and that man was named Hitler
@klille4 жыл бұрын
@@sharpnail8806 hitler was austrian, not german
@123phi1234 жыл бұрын
@@lonelychameleon3595 Actually, it was the other way around. And World War 2 happened first
@supercool13124 жыл бұрын
Lonely Chameleon what was the first time?
@dalemoss46844 жыл бұрын
When mum went grocery shopping she got my dad a 2 litre cask of cheap port. She'd say "here's your box of antifreeze" Now I get it
@RealDSY4 жыл бұрын
Are you an austrian or did this phrase travel further then i realized
@Gambit7714 жыл бұрын
@@RealDSY I'm in the UK and still hear cheap plonk being referred to as antifreeze. I used to joke about putting it in my car during winter.
@dalemoss46844 жыл бұрын
@@RealDSY no Australian ironically. I think it maybe got publicity here at the time because of the name mix-up and Australian wines being suspect idk
@omirandao79584 жыл бұрын
I've heard people call extra cheap alcohol that's often consumed by homeless people antifreeze. Never knew where the phrase came from
@Pop0134 жыл бұрын
@@omirandao7958 we call it vinegar
@Bondokill3 жыл бұрын
Bro these Down the Rabbit Hole videos are so good. I didn't have any interest in over half of the topics before watching. But them but every single one of them was still fantastic. And yes I watched every single one of them. Amazing content. I hope more are coming!
@Apophoxis Жыл бұрын
The quality of this documentary is astounding, please keep up the good work
@zachanikwano4 жыл бұрын
Honestly hearing how the wine companies tried to hide their poisoned goods and just gloriously f*cking it up and revealing themselves instead? Soothes the soul.
@rabidfurify3 жыл бұрын
It's funny because one company dumping their poison wine probably wouldn't have had such an immediate effect but they all did it at the same time
@lavenderhuman3 жыл бұрын
Peak comedy honestly
@TheBlackRodent3 жыл бұрын
@@rabidfurify something something tragedy of the commons
@Volvith4 жыл бұрын
Antifreeze Wine being used as a coolant... ... I mean, you have to admit; that level of irony is almost poetic.
@hanamoon54742 жыл бұрын
I'm always shocked at the blatant disregard of consumers by corporations. Greed is a failing of our species, and here the progression of it seems almost like a tragic novel.