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

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[@trippieau]

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

[@ronmexico6901]

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

[@marvindebot3264]

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

[@StevenLockey]

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

[@iknowyouarh]

Need a link to that Nazi IBM video please

[@Discosaturn]

Fanta. Conquer...I mean, annex...I mean, quench your thirst!

[@masterred82]

well done sir

[@michaelwalsh3474]

Ba-dum-tss

[@Whiskers4169]

Shhh don’t bring it near Poland or Belgium tho

[@beekeeper8474]

Do people in Poland drive VW

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Fanta free has a whole new meaning nowadays

[@Sacto1654]

The story about how Fanta was created by Coca-Cola Germany and why the Coca-Cola Company decided to re-introduce it in 1955 is actually surprisingly interesting.

[@ronmexico6901]

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

[@scotmac5143]

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

[@NeilCWCampbell]

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

[@SauceCake0]

@@NeilCWCampbell ???

[@MrSebs2010]

@@NeilCWCampbell You must be fun @ parties.

[@robd1365]

I remember a dream I had about a walking along a tropical beach, the ocean was fizzy orange juice and it was lapping at my feet. I woke up and realised it was only a fantasea.

[@JustinWillisDevil240Z]

When I was a little kid when ever my Grandma would come visit from Germany she would always bring me Fanta merch. I never understood why until many years later.

[@Liquid_Mike]

Why would I "not want to drink it again"? I don't give a percentage of a shit where some food item started, Stalin could've invented potato salad that doesn't mean I'm not going to eat it

[@dariusus9870]

Fun fact: Stalin did invent potato salad :O

[@coreydeluna5258]

damn stright

[@sik3xploit]

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

[@sik3xploit]

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

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

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

[@susandebruin8648]

Fanta’s origin was once a pub quiz question, but it was interesting to hear the entire history. I never liked coke, but always loved Fanta. I however only drink it when I travel on holiday as at home I try to live a bit more healthy. The interesting part is that the colour and taste of Fanta are not the same everywhere.

[@splattt8088]

@AB Coke is awesome. Never drank any soda tho

[@Wolfgrand]

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

[@kiddankula5480]

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

[@Rouxenator]

I can still remember ringed Fanta glass bottles here in South Africa in the 80s and 90s. Never saw them again since.

[@strangerinwhite]

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

[@Senbei01]

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

[@edh7492]

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

[@brostenen]

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

[@brostenen]

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

[@OldVermontGuy]

Mark Pendergast did a super job of documenting the whole Coca Cola saga. He was the research librarian at a college where I taught in the 1980's. I had a chance to get to know him during the period when he was researching Coca Cola and writing his book on its history. A first rate scholar as well as a superb storyteller in his own right!

[@Tmanaz480]

I highly reccomend the book Simon quoted from: "For God, Country, and Coca-Cola" by Mark Pendergast. It's a thorough and honest history of the company, with amazing insights into its distinctive management culture.

[@dinomonzon7493]

If I remember correctly, Der Fuehrer also had Dr. Ferdinand Porsche design and build the Volkswagen, still one of the most classic and popular cars to this day. So, why should I not drink Fanta? I remember it having root beer and grape soda variants. A bit sweeter than Coca Cola for me, but still a good drink to have. Nice video.

[@raymondlong7833]

That stuff is poisoning man. Its not good for you or anything bar the exception of profits

[@DarkKatzy013]

@@raymondlong7833 neither is any other soft drink....

[@raymondlong7833]

@@DarkKatzy013 duh

[@richardpowell1772]

I’m drinking a Fanta right now. I hope I don’t spill any on my Hugo Boss tie. 🤞

[@MrKbonez]

@@richardpowell1772 Meh. I'm sitting here wearing lederhosen, drinking a lager/fanta shandy, whilst smoking a pipe and proposing anschluss with Austria while the TV plays a continuous loop of every goal Germany has ever scored in the World Cup. Prost!

[@jaytrace1006]

When I was in college, I took a trip to the USSR over Christmas break. They only had two kinds of pop available to us. One was a homegrown Fresca-type drink called Sport, Pepsi, and, to my surprise, Fanta Orange.

[@realtsarbomba]

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

[@jaytrace1006]

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

[@realtsarbomba]

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

[@andym28]

Russians only drink vodka and read Dostoevsky.

[@Archimedes616]

I took a couple of semesters of German during my university days back in the 1970s, and one of the exercises involved reciting a restaurant menu selection whose beverage item was "ein glas Fanta." Although I thought it strange at the time, I see now that it would have been a very common beverage choice in a German restaurant.

[@Tenkai917]

Told my kid about this while they were drinking orange Fanta. They just looked at me, took a big swig, and said, "Oh rly? That's cool." Based.

[@karlbush89]

Sweet.

[@theenzoferrari458]

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

[@joshfontanella]

Mood

[@NeilCWCampbell]

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

[@madmaxthrax2964]

Told my GF this and she brought home 4 cases 👍

[@Lineandsinker87]

“Killed in an air raid before charges could be brought” 🤔 convenient….

[@bosmerfromcanada3878]

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

[@incredibleflameboy]

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

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

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

[@johnnydollar666]

wear Hugo Boss, drive a VW, and take a BAYER aspirin with a Fanta...

[@susieq3950]

Don't forget if your pregnant take Thalidomide!

[@geraldfriend256]

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

[@AspenDarkfire]

The elections in Germany on march of 1932 was a very close race. President hindenberg beat adolf hitler by 49% to 30% and gained reelection. However, because of hyper-inflation, a stagnant and declining industrial base, and the crippling of the economy because of ww1 reparation and trade embargos. The quality of life for the average german continued to decline. By july of that year, confidence in hindenberg had wavered and Hitlers promise of a return of german greatness became ever more appealing. .... But... Hitler faced the same economic collapse hindenberg faced... How could he do any better than hindenberg? Well.... Ibm gave them state of the art computer systems Coca cola invented a new product (fanta) specifically to keep production up (coca was a restricted good) Aeg developed state of the art electrical systems that "got the trains running on time" Ford (opel in Germany) started producing illegal engines (that would later by used in the tanks of the blitzkrieg. General motors started producing armoured cars and trucks. Standard oil provided the oil. Firestone and du point made the wheels Hugo boss designed the uniforms Jp morgan and chase bank provided huge financial aid in $ instead of the useless dauchsmarks his political opponents were forced to use. .... And the German economy boomed so much that hitler was awarded time magazines, man of the year. So remember... When your asked "why did the nazis rise to power?" The correct answer is "because hitler was a really good public speaker.

[@bramvanroosmalen2294]

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

[@AspenDarkfire]

@@bramvanroosmalen2294 all corrections greatly appreciated 👍

[@felipe367]

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

[@quocvinhnguyen2063]

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

[@brett4264]

A Volkswagen Fox was the best car I've ever owned. The cost per mile on that car was only 25% of the the cost per mile of all the other cars I've ever owned. I'll probably buy another if needed.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

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

[@darrenohairtneide1494]

Love all the fantas. At Leeds airport I had Coca Cola “orange”. It was fabulous

[@JessicaDuBois]

I never liked it much, have it here in certain stores. I've always wanted to visit overseas!!! I bet it's amazing ☺️

[@darrenohairtneide1494]

@@JessicaDuBois I’m from Ireland and we’ve very limited drinks in comparison to the US 😵‍💫

[@aidanmoran12]

@@darrenohairtneide1494 gwan the Bohs!

[@zappababe8577]

There used to be a type of squash drink which was coca-cola and orange flavour. As kids, my sister and I used to love it! There also used to be a sachet of powder called "Appeal" which you mixed with water to make a very tangy orange drink. It was delicious and so refreshing! Wish it was still on the market. The closest thing which tastes like it is Libby's Orange C, but it's not quite the same.

[@BBulletin]

@@darrenohairtneide1494 Yeah, over here in the US we will drink practically anything, and, being capitalists, our market provides practically everything! (No wonder we are overweight!)

[@Jaysin412]

I really wanna try the black currant flavor now

[@maryvon8518]

I want to try the elderberry flavor

[@doomgod314]

"We wanted to remind people of their childhoods" -Coca-cola Not ALL people, apparently. Just people who grew up in the 1960s and no earlier

[@twizz420]

Smh... Coca cola has been around for 126 years lol

[@Shadowkey392]

What’s worse: Coca-Cola was invented by a Confederate soldier.

[@tonytiger2914]

@@Shadowkey392 yeehaw yankie doodle dandy😂

[@theJellyjoker]

@Rolling Stone a fitting metaphor for post war south

[@NeilCWCampbell]

@Rolling Stone although in classic confederacy and previous slave owning societies show it likely a slave invented cola also ;) Remember apparently a man responsible for bayeax tapestry ;)

[@nonyajones4484]

There was some degree of Fanta advertising in the United States during the early 90s. I believe this video states that all US advertising and marketing was pulled until 2001. You were able to KZbin the “don’t you want a Fanta” Video from the 90s

[@Opharg]

Fanta sadly changed their recipe again a few years back in Germany, making it significantly sweeter and add more carbonation. I loved Fanta Klassik and am still sad, that it was a temporary product

[@HorrorshowEU]

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

[@OldNew45]

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

[@brostenen]

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

[@glazdarklee1683]

Fanta is my favorite part of the Coca-Cola "Freestyle" dispensers, which allow me to revisit the flavors of my wild youth.

[@johnharris6655]

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

[@Wraith_of_Storm]

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

[@legind7549]

Hitlers annexation of Australia in May 1938 ? Really ? First time I’ve head about that.

[@SethAurelius94]

Now I want to see a commercial of hitler singing don't you want a fanta.

[@Otokichi786]

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

[@podulox]

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

[@beekeeper8474]

While driving a VW

[@sik3xploit]

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

[@kateofone]

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

[@smashboogietheilladelic5740]

I rock with Fanta! You learn something new everyday. Great segment

[@LuvJT101]

And yet, it didn’t need to rebrand like Facebook did. Conclusion: Fb is the worst of all.

[@slyguythreeonetwonine3172]

That's super META!

[@geraldfriend256]

Therefore Facebook is worse than Hitler, genocide notwithstanding.

[@brostenen]

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

[@brostenen]

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

[@NathanCassidy721]

I’m not drinking Fanta ever again. …along with all other sodas as part of an effort to improve my diet. Seriously, I dropped almost all candy, sodas, and sugar-based stuff from my diet last year and have never felt better. And you should too if you got this far in the comment, it’s worth the trouble.

[@josemeza3986]

Cheers I’ll drink one for you

[@mergru6371]

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

[@bbirda1287]

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

[@NathanCassidy721]

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

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

Love Fanta, the regular orange and the tangerine. Would love to see like... blood orange, or mikan (satsuma).

[@hilotakenaka]

Personally I’d love to have a Shimanto bushukan variant

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

@@hilotakenaka That could be tasty... I've never tried buddha's hand, is it good?

[@KaoticReach1999]

“Now that I know this history, I don’t want to drink this soda anymore!” *Tards of the world*

[@beekeeper8474]

Is there a way so many liberals Drive Volkswagens?

[@KaoticReach1999]

@Jacob Armstrong You proved my point while completely missing it 😭

[@KaoticReach1999]

@@beekeeper8474 Because we like things as dysfunctional as us

[@KaoticReach1999]

@Rick Jackson u gai

[@bladerj]

or stop using baygon......and that mertholaid company

[@dcseain]

This was one of the most interesting videos to date for me.

[@vustvaleo8068]

meanwhile there are those funky flavors from the Asian regions.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Mostly

[@valiroime]

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

[@SovekOnivris]

I do not know why my youtube decided to turn CC on but I am glad it did as everytime "Fanta" was said it mis-transcribed it as something else. At one point it wrote it out as Panther. I had to keep going back every few minutes to re-listen to sections because the CC had me cracking up too much to pay attention the first time

[@UncleCuck]

When will people understand big companies don’t really care, they only want your money and will advertise to do so.

[@josephswaney6420]

I've kind of always wanted to taste the original flavor of it, just to see what the wartime product tasted like

[@mulrich]

Yeah, that would be nice.

[@muskokamike127]

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

[@mulrich]

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

[@muskokamike127]

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

[@user-neo71665]

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

[@harjutapa]

3:40 AND 4:29 that is a fake ad created in 2004 for an "art exhibit" called The Coca-Cola Nazi Advert Challenge Snopes has a well documented break down of the whole thing. I'm surprised, Simon. Usually you do better research than that.

[@hannahatkins636]

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

[@slinkerdeer]

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

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

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

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

He really doesn’t.

[@HeilRay]

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

[@chrissirvid5845]

Another great show from the team. Interesting and informative as usual.

[@armedpenguin3825]

Fanta: orange 🍊 Fanta: blitz w/ pervitin (Limited time only) 😆

[@stevejohnson6248]

You should do an episode on IG Farbin, it was a major German chemical corporation prior to WW2 that did business all over the world. After the war it was broken up into several pieces that still exist today.

[@random_adventuring]

we should all pitch in and buy Simon a beard comb.

[@VeraBean]

Yeah, we should look at the company beard blaze. I've heard good things about them somewhere... Can't quite place where.

[@ShidoDraws]

Beard... Yeah, I got none.

[@theenzoferrari458]

@@VeraBean my brain needs a good Blaze.

[@johnharris6655]

If you can find it, one of James Cagney's best movie is a comedy called "One-Two-Three." He plays the head of Coca-Cola in post war West Berlin and causes the closure of East Berlin from the West.

[@williamswartzjr4497]

Growing up on the 70s, I remember Fanta root beer, orange and grape being sold in Coca-Cola vending machines. I always liked the root beer, was sad when they stopped selling them in the US.

[@Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

"Good times" for me meant watching the Fanta girls TV commercials when I was young.

[@Intaketv]

Is it coincidence that yours and what cultures Fanta video were released within 6 hours of each others?

[@arkady714]

I think I remember reading that Fanta has the highest sugar content of any carbonated beverage sold in the US. I, personally, like the stuff but the thought of a liquid containing more sugar than Coke itself turns me off.

[@arkady714]

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

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I recall drinking Fanta grapes, my fave. However, the brand was discontinued in my country in the late '90s

[@muskokamike127]

Yeah, grape was one of the best around.....

[@susandebruin8648]

You can still get it here in South Africa

[@rkn700]

Henry Ford not only did business in Nazi Germany, he also did business with Soviet Russia under Josef Stalin. Fanta has long been available in Chicago, but made in Mexico. Coca Cola from Mexico which uses real cane sugar in less carbonation.The Chicago area was also the last market to drop Tab, which happened a few years ago.

[@reginaldscot165]

I have known this since the 90s. My friends and I used to say when drinking it. “Fanta, a fantastic drink for a fantastic race.” 😅

[@ludoxz]

im german and didnt knew Fanta comes from germany, you learn something new everyday

[@myrtlefishing7722]

Spezi came about around that time I believe as well. I love spezi its been years since I've had an authentic bottle.

[@mergru6371]

It's cola and fanta mixed..

[@myrtlefishing7722]

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

[@JoshSweetvale]

7:40 The correct answer to _that_ one is "Whoever won the war."

[@bobtheduck]

I remember going to Australia and Fiji and getting Fanta in one of them (or both?) and being like "Weird foreign drinks" and coming back home and seeing it on the shelves. Same thing happened with Nutella and eventually Milo. Just looked it up and Nutella apparently came to the US in the '80s, but I had never heard of it until I went to the South Pacific. I guess it just wasn't popular in my circles. Pretty sure Milo first came to the US around that time, though (~2001)

[@bespoke2147]

Can't forget Henry Ford made the Furnaces

[@pakde8002]

Interesting topic. I was surprised to find Fanta in Indonesia (orange and strawberry flavors) and apparently more popular than Coca-Cola judging by the stocks in refrigerated drink cases in the corner shops.

[@ferminbf2224]

Anyone who doesn’t like Fanta just because it was created in Germany´s III Reich is kinda idiot because both VW Beetle and Porsche can be tracked back to that Germany. Nevertheless, everybody love both VW Beetle and Porsche

[@lizzi7128]

Lol that's literally tip of the iceberg and pretty boring compared to the many, many, many other creations that came about via Nazi Germany.

[@COWBAYOUBADASS]

I know! Ww2 Era German engineering was superior to the whole world. Especially when it comes to logistics and furnace operation.

[@Blackinterceptor999]

And BMW and Mercedes...And Audi AKA Auto Union.

[@chrishei3111]

What a crazy thing it is to NEED to invent a new soda, and for it to be a hit!

[@paulwolf7562]

Okay, Steve1989MRE has a new mission... To find original bottles of"Fanta". Let's try to find em?

[@user-sc2bl5fc7b]

Grew up in west Australia and enjoyed fanta through the 70s till now and was never off the market here .

[@FearlessLeader2001]

Considering WW2 also caused the existence of tentacle hentai, and everyone knows, yeah I think most people are still gonna drink fanta.

[@dylanmccallister1888]

What? It did? How?

[@FearlessLeader2001]

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

[@dylanmccallister1888]

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

[@FearlessLeader2001]

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

[@Notsosweetstevia]

Well Volkswagen has similar origins.

[@jayt.640]

Loved ice cold strawberry fanta when I was younger but things change and evolve.

[@bobalenko]

Fanta is derived from the German word "Fantastisch", which translated to English is Fantastic

[@calebfromblood6915]

Listen here.... I love Fanta and I’m not gonna stop drinking it. Also, work will set you free... I think. Idk. It’s orange and tasty I still like Disney movies and I still eat Chick-fil-A. The world continues to turn

[@DocBree13]

You and I think alike :) except you’re wrong - it’s grape and tasty lol Edit: I should have said “was,” as I haven’t had it in a very long time. I don’t know if they still make grape Fanta, but I sure am craving it, now

[@alesbianhotmess]

I'm a gay woman and still eat chick-fil-a occasionally lmao. It's really good.

[@michaelmacdonald329]

@@alesbianhotmess why wouldn't you lol. They make good food and are respectful af lol. Best fast food experience that exists

[@tpl608]

@@alesbianhotmess quislings and kapos do what they do.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

@@DocBree13 I've seen grape Fanta™, pineapple Fanta™, strawberry Fanta™, and even apple Fanta™ on the shelves. Because of my diabetes, I only drink the sugar free Fanta™, which they only have in orange. They should make it in the other flavors as well. 😢

[@TooLameToDie]

Strawberry and orange Fanta are amazing.

[@TheMDJ2000]

What a fascinating story - there's a film in there somewhere...

[@RISE-327]

Thankyou for the Uplifting intro .

[@Joeltravels]

So in Fantas most recent commercial, they use a slogan: “when boring gets in the way, fanta comes out to play”. Anyone else thinking about the Fanta origin story? 🙃

[@merakki]

World War 2 introduced me to Methamphetamine and I been hooked since thanks.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Simon, Another interesting video from the team, From an Aussie Fan Ta 😁

[@charlesmadisonrhea]

Fascinating. Thanks Simon

[@charlesperez9976]

That was,as always,fascinating! I’ll try harder in the future to not be lazy,and will leave comments more often! 😅

[@InstiGator805]

Orange Fanta slaps way too hard. Hail fanta 🕵️‍♂️

[@coreydeluna5258]

yes definitely especially with some ice Oh boy

[@junahn1907]

That would put a lot of things on a list I couldn't enjoy. BMW's, Porches, VW's, Scho-Ka-Kola, Hugo Boss suits, methamphetamines....

[@jamesheichel9465]

In the words of Paul Harvey. " and now you know the rest of the story". Or better yet the actual truth behind the story.

[@mattolds9068]

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

[@jamesheichel9465]

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

[@mattolds9068]

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

[@fxrmike5145]

I love complicated history

[@Moose92411]

Fascinating historical clarification!

[@jamesbuchanan3145]

Just sitting here on my IBM Personal Computer, rocking my Hugo Boss, sipping on some orange Fanta

[@ieyke]

NOW....can you figure out why German Orange Fanta tastes completely different from Orange Fanta everywhere else in the world? THAT is the only Fanta mystery I care about.

[@Flemdragon]

“In Germany” I absolutely died. Lol

[@commandZee]

Coca-Cola: Fanta wasn't Nazi, but the cocaine thing... Yeah, we do- ehm, did that. Ok, ok, we still use coca leaves, but there's no cocaine in it - we swear!

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

I remember those Fanta TV ads in middle school. That was around 2001 and I had no idea that was when the brand made a surgence that late in the US.

[@flushedphoenix81]

I used to love Fanta unfortunately since they changed the UK recipe to have sweetener in it I have been unable to have any in over 10years after it triggered a hemiplegic migraine. Interesting to find out some of its history

[@aglaurendance]

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

[@flushedphoenix81]

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

[@snugglebugglewoowoo]

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

[@agcons]

"Only Fanta freshivates!" was the slogan, at least in western Canada, in the summer of 1964. I still have not figured out what "freshivates" means, but it sounded good at the time.

[@ravendon]

It freshens your privates.

[@agcons]

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

[@ziggyblue782]

I love Fanta! I don’t give a hoot where it came from or who invented it. The man was a soda genius.

[@georgesoncrant4648]

I had no idea that Hitler had invaded Australia. I guess I need to go back and read my history books.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@bbirda1287]

Fanta, you will remember us for a thousand years

[@chrisp1016]

Already knew and definitely would

[@chrisrey8964]

Based and same here

[@SmithFriscoFamily]

Pepsi and Dr Pepper have separate branded multiple flavored drinks as well.

[@combatking0]

They should make a confectionary product. The FantaStick.

[@mannacler]

"Do ya' wanna Fanta, Fanta..."

[@MikeADee]

I had a pina colada flavored Fanta the other day. Yum. Excellent video thank you so much.

[@didikohen455]

Funny thing is that Israel didn't have Fanta for decades, not because of the history, but because the trademark was used by someone else. In the early 2000s, the trademark holder went bankrupt and Fanta got its original name back in Israel. It was available by a different name before.

[@darkball31]

*were bringing back the good old times* facisum

[@Trav_Can]

I'm sorry mammy... I'm just all full of Fanta tonight!

[@ryancoulter4797]

Used to be a Fanta machine at my dads job here in Canada. Loved the orange. Hated cream soda. At one point, when I was five or six, Fanta printed flags of the world on the bottle caps and I was scooping them from the trap under the bottle opener.

[@Otokichi786]

I'm not sure where I found out about Coca Cola, Fanta, and the Third Reich, but it wasn't a Simon Whistler video. When I think of "Coca Cola" and "Germany," I think of the movie, "One, Two, Three" (1961). ;)

[@johnnail532]

Fanta is great- just because I enjoy it doesn't make me a Nazi. My favourite rifle is the AKM but that doesn't make me a commie.

[@modenasolone]

I just brought myselfa case of strawberry and pineapple fanta. Absolutely refreshing.

[@snugglebugglewoowoo]

Oooh. Where from and does it have sweeteners or just sugar? Greetings from UK