The Delicious Meat Sludge Factory

[@RareEarthSeries]

Feed me sludge: www.patreon.com/rareearth

[@oddish2253]

The title of your Porno.

[@M500VYN]

What’s your source for Prince Andrew adjective?

[@RareEarthSeries]

@itsasin1969 The sludge is called Liebeg's Extract of Meat. Not precisely the most compelling brand name, so I can see why you'd gloss over it. Sounds more like a process. The company is called Liebeg's Extract of Meat Company, later renamed Anglo in the 1920's (although I gloss over the corporate changes in the video).

[@meltedyakkystick3891]

yes daddy 😫💦💦

[@TheMongooseOfDoom]

@@RareEarthSeries He's a household name in Germany. I grew up next to the Liebig High School

[@Bugster4799]

“”Delicious meat sludge factory”” alright rare earth, I’ll bite lol

[@RareEarthSeries]

This is the rare case among my episodes where I work backwards from a title rather than come up with something two seconds before posting

[@debtrunner7929]

lol you don't need too.. it's sludge

[@Soulfulmojo]

@@debtrunner7929 Get me a straw

[@pleasejustletmebeanonymous6510]

Hey, it's not clickbait if it's accurate.

[@armavir740]

"place where cash cow's actually beef" Aesop Rock quote? I see you're a man of culture as well !!!

[@iainhansen1047]

My world history teacher at university started off the year by saying that he would be discussing slavery, colonialism, genecide, language, and bird shit. And that out of all of those bird shit was the most important to modern history.

[@nessbrawlaaja]

Why was it important? :)

[@noamtashma2859]

Because it was used as fertilizer

[@RareEarthSeries]

@@nessbrawlaaja Check out our video on the topic from when we were in Chile. It expands on the nitrogen story. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZKqaImEiLp0mJo

[@bachpham6862]

Guano is one of the most important discoveries that kickstarted chemistry. Its nitrogen content was both necessary for gunpowder and fertilizer.

[@iandalziel7405]

@@RareEarthSeries - a big part of the colonial story in the Pacific too. A phosphate worse than death in many cases...

[@karaiwonder]

My parents were born, grew up, worked, met each other, fell in love and got married in the Anglo neighborhood of Fray Bentos. I grew up with stories of how the factory was so huge it rivaled in size with the town itself. How every worker, apart from their salary, received a weekly allowance of 10 kilograms of meat. How the “Anglo” shaped their lives and identity. They have long moved out and Fray Bentos was only a childhood history for me until I could visit the city with my parents just some years ago. Some of our relatives still live there.. frozen in time just like the old Anglo Factory. Thank you so much for this video. I’m sure it’ll bring a couple of tears to my viejos.

[@user-hx1nr9ru1p]

As someone from the UK, I had literally never heard the name "meat extract" before. I was confused til I realised you meant Oxo or Bovril - which shows just how strong their duopoly on the product is.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Funny enough that Oxo was invented by Liebeg's Extract of Meat company and Bovril is a born-in-the-UK version of the original, also made in Uruguay. :)

[@iandalziel7405]

MOM O X O WOW - apologies to Rick Griffin - who had fun with mirrored palindromes _and_ brought you the Grateful Dead's _'Aoxomoxoa'_ LP cover as well as some fine Captain Beefheart posters

[@MrEvilWasp]

Same here. Quite fascinating. Peace

[@lookihaveausernametoo4231]

Wait are they not a thing everywhere?

[@manusjiedowen-ck12a18]

@@curtin1107 pake naten?? Our food is too salty or too bitter,. Or too sweet (you get the idea) anyways..

[@FonchiCampomar]

My school does an annual visit to Fray Bentos with the 5th graders (second year of highschool) and when I went there it was fascinating! The factory is crazy big and the old docks facing the Uruguay river gives it a unique asthetic, plus the museum that is in the video is bigger than it looks. Its places like Fray Bentos and the Anglo factory that makes me love my country. Edit: I didnt see the "office boy" button at the museum. Makes me eant to go back just to see it!

[@TonyRule]

Wait, what? 5th grade is second year of high school there - at what age is that? Here in NZ, high school starts at what would be year 9 or ~13 y.o. (we start primary school at ~5 y.o., 6 years there, then 2 years at intermediate school from ~11 y.o., then high school at ~13 y.o. for up to 5 years)

[@Sofigonzalez97.]

Tony Rule hi, so we start with pre school, then we have 6 grades in primary education so it’s from 6 to 12 and then when you turn 13 you start high school. So high school is divided in 2, the first 3 grades are called secondary education (from 13 to 15 years) and then 3 grades of third or superior education ( from 16 to 18 - we also call it baccalaureate because we based the whole education system on the French one). So when he said 5th grade of high school he ment 2nd grade of superior education and that means 17 years old, I hope I made sense 😅 and of course after that comes university or technic school

[@knowone11111]

"But unlike Amazon, they actually treated their workers well.." Savage burn, love it 🔥💯🙏

[@avrahamvidal4255]

That Is A 3rd Degree Burn

[@gregthompson5580]

Don’t forget the prince 👀

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Amazon is garbage lately. Shipping is taking 30 days or more.

[@valorantdynasty1890]

Funny I got an ad for amazon and how they are keeping there employees safe during this covid shit

[@ThoseWhoKnowBalkan]

jesus that is an insane burn. it's hotter than a thermonuclear bomb.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Bovril is quite widely available in the UK. I think that's much the same thing.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Old habits die hard I suppose. I'd only first heard of Bovril this week while researching.

[@rolfs2165]

Not any more, wiki says "In 2004, Unilever removed beef ingredients from the Bovril formula, rendering it vegetarian." But it used to be, yeah.

[@skua675]

I can promise you that those Victorian-era folks were severely overinflating the flavour value of it

[@repletereplete8002]

It's a staple of small football grounds. Served hotter than the surface of the sun in polystyrene cups. It was the highlight of 1980's matches being dragged to freezing cold matches to watch Whitby Town take on Redcar FC.

[@SeanBZA]

@@rolfs2165 According to Wiki it came back in 2006, though I prefer Marmite instead, and the factory used to be a few minutes walk from me as well, but they moved, probably because the hotel named after a "singer and personality with a handbag dog" complained about the smell.

[@ZyozyoPadilla]

"He never shot anybody, he just fed people." Damn. This is why I keep going back to this channel. Some of the best writing in video docus.

[@snowblow69]

I am from Fray Bentos..and this Is part of my own childhood. You also told the story nicely. Kudos to that.

[@FefiBurgos]

I live in Ireland, and every time I walk past the canned food in the supermarket and I see the "Fray Bentos" logo I smile and say to myself "CORNED BEEF!!!". I ate a lot of corned beef when I was a child. I still like it! I found corned beef made in Uruguay in USA too. Salú!!!

[@MegaBecboo]

At the beginning of the lockdown in the UK, all the Fray Bentos pies flew off the shelves almost as quick as Toilet paper in my local Supermarkets

[@EthanDyTioco]

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[@alejandroojeda1572]

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[@punishedredruby]

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[@phoneone1371]

Never even heard of it but its now on bucket list to eat just like vegimite from Australia,BTW i live in usa and theres great food especially from Louisiana texas and Alabama.Trust me real Creole is awsome

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Phone One America has awesome food. BBQ, shrimp crab or crawfish boils , hamburgers, fried chicken, even American tacos are fire. We take a little from all cultures represented here and make it our own. American food is some of the best in the world. Mainly because American food is a representation of the world in our own way.

[@Enzo6006]

the prince Andrew comment was a sneak peak of the next episode "Rare earth: Little st.james island"

[@mrnemo204]

Wait, he's going on that cursed ass place.

[@Enzo6006]

@@mrnemo204 yes! and if you sign up for the highest tier of the rare earth patreon, you get to fly out to the island, goto the temple and sit in Bill Clintons special chair!

[@tribalartcollector]

Don’t do it you will be “suicided”

[@krisinsaigon]

I can’t imagine for an moment Andrew ever ate tinned corned beef

[@captainsternn7684]

I was kinda dozing off, then that comment about Prince Andrew woke me right up, I was all like, wait, hol up lol

[@andresflores6815]

Dude, I gotta say, u do shine a different light on my country's history. Thanks for coming by!

[@_asphobelle6887]

It was so strange to hear you say von Liebig has been forgotten, because here in France, Liebig is a huge brand of canned soups, you will find their products in every supermarket. And yes, it comes from the company producing von Liebig meat extract, sold here as Viandox (it still exists today, though I'm not sure who buys it).

[@rdln4313]

My grandpa puts Viandox in his Liebig veggie soup

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaa0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

"A place where the cash cow is actually beef" Ah, a man of culture I see.

[@BirdUpFR]

I M T R Y I N G T O H E L P

[@alexc9624]

Have you ever had a day a cup of meat sludge couldn't fix?

[@chance9512]

Dear Justus von Liebig, I will remember your name and face.

[@Cato-the-Antipodean]

Looks like Evan's not as dumb as the watered down beef from the burgers that jumped.

[@snarfulhusocks1688]

Aes is so underrated

[@spiralpython1989]

Glad you included the correction re Australia’s “mite” in your info. Marmite is so not Aussie… but more so, Vegemite is plant based. Big big difference. And it’s a huge B12 source for those on plant based diets.

[@ElbowDeepInAHorse]

95% into the video: Oh, this was a nice, light bit of trivia! Last 5%: **OOF THERE IT IS**

[@RareEarthSeries]

I'll never let you off that easy

[@Doping1234]

"Because he never shot anybody, he just fed people" You could use that more controversially talking about Fritz Haber ;)

[@Doping1234]

(my opinion of him: disgusting human being, but saved the world, kinda the oposite of Thomas Midgley Jr.)

[@borismatesin]

@@Doping1234 The chemist who managed to mess up the ecosystem. TWICE.

[@iandalziel7405]

@@borismatesin - QI is the best TV show for neural stimulation kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYukn6GsiLR4o9k

[@b.griffin317]

He fed and blew people up, and poisoned them. Two out of three against.

[@harrybetteridge7532]

Haber may have discovered the process of artificial nitrogen fixation but Bosch industrialized meaning Germany had a plentiful supply of nitrates & ammonia gas for world war one.

[@thomas-w8948]

So wonderful to see! A while back asked on patron if you guys were still on Uruguay because i wanted to point you guys to this exact factory .Sadly i was too late. But you guys went there before! So glad!! That's my childhood town right there! I have family living in the same neighborhood now ( Anglo) where the workers of that factory used to live in. So weird to see Evan walk down the same museum i did as a kid . Excellent work!

[@PaulLemars01]

As a 65 year old working class oik (still am) I can honestly say I grew up on Fray Bentos products. Corn beef sandwiches or corn beef rissoles of a Sunday breakfast, Steak and kidney pies inna tin or even tinned beef suet puddings. Good grief for a kid in the 60s that stuff was delicious. Now it's a heart attack waiting to happen. What a fantastic place. I'd love to visit that factory, it was the source of so many childhood memories for me. Thank you so much Evan.

[@iandalziel7405]

He'll probably get a lot of 'SPAM' after this...

[@reaverkai]

Uruguayan meat is healthier though, it's leaner since it's mainly grass fed (plus organic supplements in winter and for the calves). Of course after that it all depends on how you cook it

[@aperson1]

I assume the video slowdown is cause of COVID-19 quarantines... no complaints here, stay safe as long as needed, but hope it hasn't hit you or anyone close too hard! And frankly, good on you for sacrificing a spot in the youtube algorithm for health and wellness of everyone. Sounds a bit ingratiating but sadly hardly a given in this situation.

[@themarky2714]

Having watched Veritaserum's video on Haber, this video immediately sprung to mind due to the parallels. Haber particularly went on to build on von Liebig's findings.

[@wellingtons.cassiano3002]

I have to say I am really enjoying this series. We’ve been to Uruguay last August on a motorcycle trip from Brazil and one of the places I enjoyed visiting was the Fray Bentos factory. I had no idea how present it has been in my life (Anglo products were very common in Brazil). Thanks for taking me back to Uruguay, a country I loved visiting.

[@catnekokotyonok5180]

We Pacific Islanders eat it like crazy! In fact, I am making some tonight. Sauté onions & garlic first. Add the meat & break it up. Add one whole head of shredded cabbage, green or napa. Sauté until cabbage is tender. Serve with rice. Feed a family of four for about 4 bucks! ✌ & ❤ from 😽

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Out off all the comments saying: corned beef IS really good. You're the only one Who sold It to me

[@dkylv]

Islander here too and I live in California now, and corned beef is so expensive here. I buy it every now and then to treat myself. I eat 2 cups of white rice on my own with a can of corned beef.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

So a factory in Uruguay was crucial to the Allied war effort in Europe? Wow, this is interesting

[@PabloBaneira]

si te fijas bien en casi cada película sobre la primera guerra mundial aparece alguna lata de Fay Bentos.

[@Danilium]

Indeed! As we were neutral during most of the war, we sold food everywhere. The only Uruguayan losses of life in World War II were the sinking of the vessels Montevideo and Maldonado, sending food to the Americans through the Caribbean

[@BurnRoddy]

Yeah. Which is why when Germany accused Uruguay of trying to salvage the Graf Spee eagle for Nazi tourism we laughed our asses off, we know why we fought for, we had some good chemistey with the Germans in the late 1800s but Great Britain is like our motherland. There were even some Uruguayan soldiers who volunteered for the liberation of Paris

[@nathanmilaszewski5067]

Casually drops Aesop Rock reference, this is why I'm subbed.

[@beambooi6431]

Aesop rock and the entire Rhymesayers line up is straight fire

[@nathanmilaszewski5067]

@it wasnt bris fault people that grew up with it

[@marsvoltian]

​@@nathanmilaszewski5067 Nah, Aes' last two albums are his best work for me

[@TheTCKreen]

Lost to history? I want to know more about the receptionist who inspired this video!

[@RareEarthSeries]

You see him holding up a Fray Bentos tin at 6:08. He opened the factory floor for us special and clearly was thrilled to have anyone under 90 come through the doors. Lovely dude.

[@Gabriel-re6tf]

Found your videos very recently, these are legitimately the best video essays I have ever come across. Top tier, love every bit of it

[@SimonNZ6969]

That line at the end. That's a quote I like. Your videos are always oddly worth watching. I have a bad attention span, but I can generally always get through these videos. Quite soothing too. Keep up the good work mate!

[@michaelcherry8952]

9:00 "And perhaps that's why we don't remember von Liebig today. Because he never shot anybody. He just fed people." That's a pretty sad indictment of modern society for you. Forget the people trying to help and remember the ones trying to hurt. It's interesting how many of your videos are about just that-people that are remembered for the amount of harm they have caused instead of the amount of help they provided. I think we need to reevaluate our priorities as a species.

[@TM-bn8pv]

Lots of innovators are written into history without shooting anyone. They just had more "exciting" innovations or discoveries than like von Liebig. Sucks, but that's how it works. He's obviously still living on through stories/channels like RE and some science books. But, history books are where the names are etched in stone forever.

[@iandalziel7405]

@@TM-bn8pv - I'm torn between 'Flemings' - Ian or Alexander?

[@kylewilliams8114]

That's the glorification of war for you.

[@jamesdoody7615]

To be positive, whilst still very much true the statement is probably the least true it has ever been

[@jean-cyrillkreuer6410]

I think a piece of glassware for chemistry is named after him... that's what being remembered is lol

[@spiderlime]

lhe leibig company is also famous for creating a series of collectible cards on many subjects, such as history, animals, the arts, and many other subjects, that were collected by people who bought the meat products. they are still sought after today.

[@christopherbollinger4180]

I miss the videos! Please come back to us

[@AvaFayIliza]

"Perhaps that's why we don't remember [him] today, because he never shot anybody, he just fed people." A powerful, yet depressing statement. It really goes to illustrate what humanity as a whole tends to value: Audacious, flamboyant action, even if it is destructive, rather than, quite, peaceful pursuits, even when it is improving lives.

[@avocares]

Some people become famous, some people make themselves famous. It has little to do with if they shot someone or not. Many have killed and we never heard of them, many others saved countless lives, and we all know their names. His comment is depressing because it shows that's how he sees the world, which is sad.

[@lucasbune]

@@avocares It shows not how he sees the world, but which narrative he is trying to tell. Though that does not mean that he is lying. The both of you are equally quite right. War-heroes are often well remembered, even pacifists like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are known for the "conflicts" that they "fought in". That said, many an inventor, scientist or just everyday hero have made a name for themselves without any opposition to spice up the story. To chose one frame over another when telling a story is not sad, it's part of the profession.

[@kidmohair8151]

if I may, we have been taught to value that... it's not intrinsic, but acquired

[@TheRealNormanBates]

That’s not exactly true. Bob Ross is well remembered, and he never killed anyone. That I know of...

[@PumppActionPete]

Times of conflict usually tend to birth great feats, violent or otherwise. A nurse saving tons of lives in WWII would get just as much recognition as a soldier that shot tons of people. It really all just stems from a conflict, which is always remembered depending on scale.

[@Badger13x]

Was the burger, sausages and steak as tasty as they looked, because they looked amazing !!

[@JorgePetraglia2009]

I moved from Uruguay en 1975 to Venezuela and in 1987 to Canada and I haven't had the privilege of tasting beef sooooo good,ever again. Think about this : three cows per inhabitant that eat only grass and live outdoors year round.

[@ninjaslash52_98]

Jorge Petraglia ay my parents are from Venezuela

[@Soofi1906]

Badger13x they are even better than what they look!! Trust me ;)

[@reaverkai]

I've heard americans say our McDonalds and Burger King are way better than in the US, imagine tasty trash food but elevated to a higher level thanks to the meat. Our version of a burger is the chivito if you ever wanna try something similar but local.

[@djflow94]

I absolutely love these videos. Please never stop making these.

[@naanamora3282]

Delightful to listen to. You sold it to me though I live in the UK I never thought of trying it. As for corned beef, my O my. It’s a staple in my family. Corned beef stew and rice. Hmmm. Thanks for sharing.

[@JavierSalcedoC]

Cool video. Humberstone is also a UN heritage site. Amazing how one can recognize your countryside for the vegetation and small details when you see it on youtube

[@dundoderdumme3044]

This is great timing, just a couple month ago I took up cooking cuz quarantine and for the first time understood what a stock/broth is. Of course I wanted to know how they extract from the meat, so I learned about this and von Liebig. You can even still buy their original product. Thanks for showing me how it was made back then! Also, as a well educated german, I knew of von Liebig long before I knew he invented meat extract. I didn't even know what meat extract is.

[@Jyryp]

Aside from Justus most of us can also thank person called Fritz Haber for fact most humans were born aswell. He invented Haber process which is main basis for ammonia production process today and with that fertilizer production basically exploded to roof. Also on other hand he also is also called father of chemical warfare. Just wanted to share this since Justus's discovery reminded me of Haber a lot.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Yep, I did a video on that in Chile at Humberstone. This is kind of like its prequel. :)

[@ctastrophe]

After 2 months of lockdown Black Sludge sounds mouth-watering good compared to Dominos for the 1000th time

[@KalRandom]

Start learning to cook, that shit will kill you faster than the virus.

[@nadtz]

@@KalRandom I was gonna hold my tongue but since you said it... Hell, I haven't had a meal I haven't cooked since February. Actually ordered a decent Chef's knife and after my laptop it's probably the thing I've used most for the last 2-3 months.

[@samjl4]

The comment on british Great War tanks being nicknamed ‘fray bentos’ because of the ubiquity of the product is partly true, not sure if you picked up on the fact that those early tanks were thinly armoured and unreliable and the soldiers inside were effectively ‘meat inside a can’, once you do the nickname makes sense in a rather horrific way, we british tend to do dark, morbid jokes during hard times, it helps get through it.

[@RigGames4]

That Prince Andrew comment :'D Hilarious!

[@naanamora3282]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Animaniac-vd5st]

And an Amazon burn right after that.

[@gutobernardo7457]

I'm from Brazil and I can guarantee most people never heard of this story and product. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheAlps36]

Organic chemists: oh yeah, Leibig - there's a piece of glassware named after him

[@Cecilia-ll6nc]

Once the quarantine is over, I´m visiting the Anglo, even meat museums looks like a treat right now. As for the products, I grew up eating a lot of corned beef, it was quite cheap, not so much the extracto de carne. A really really really small bottle would´ve been 20 dollars (and that was a lot of money in Uruguay at that time): you picked a tiny bit of the paste with a fork and dissolved it in your veggies broth and voila, a delicious soup. We children were not allowed to touch it, only grown ups. Thanks for your videos, they are fun; for some reason Uruguay has become trendi-er in the last years, after decades of being thought to be Paraguay, but your channel is more accurate than other channels. Keep safe!

[@andrewdunbar828]

Ouch Evan! As an Australian I feel so deeply aggrieved by your Marmite smear that I will think of you as an American for a while.

[@richardnavas2207]

Another outstanding video. Thank you!

[@allyhugum6622]

I read the title and I’m intrigued

[@alwingametime]

When is this show returning? I miss it so much

[@laikathunderchild5746]

My Uncle used to offer “Coffee, tea or ‘Bonox’ “ (meat drink) every time we’d visit. The one time I took him up on the offer I gagged before I’d even taken a sip lol. It was truly dreadful.

[@zolacnomiko]

EXCELLENT video, this is Rare Earth at its best. Amazing how a person, a country, a factory, and a couple of meat products, none of which most people ever think about, completely altered the course of human history. SO GOOD.

[@zedeighty]

I've been veggie for years but I used to love Fray Bentos pies. It's one of the few things I miss. But I had no idea they were originally from Uruguay.

[@maurofitermannmoreira7953]

I've always loved how your stories make the colours of the world sharper and brighter, but I hadn't really gotten the idea of *how much* until you started making videos about my country. Thanks!

[@Sim.Crawford]

Australia has Vegemite thank you very much. None of this Marmite business.

[@iandalziel7405]

www.sanitarium.com.au/products/spreads/marmite/marmite

[@Sim.Crawford]

@@silliestsususagest3276 are you sure you're not Hitler, or French?

[@gardnep]

Comes from the sludge at the bottom of the beer brew vat, just add salt.

[@repletereplete8002]

Fray Bentos was a famous tank (the commander was a grocer who sold the pies in his shop) during WWI where it got stuck and for 3 days the crew were besieged by the Germans until nearly all the crew but one escaped.

[@iandalziel7405]

a wee potted history: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jne9ZGWMmsp6sJo I'd thought that the tank was called Fray Bentos because it was a 'tin can' similar to what 'bully beef' came in... but I guess the pies were in a tin wrap too

[@JCavLP]

0:37 He's still well known in germany, there's a bunch of stuff names after him

[@gerdforster883]

I would argue that most people just know the name because there are so many streets (and other things) named after him, but few people know who he was and what he did. Hell, if you just mention "Liebig" to a Berliner, they will probably think you are refering to a former squat.

[@BizzeeB]

You have a remarkable ability to treat any subject concisely and comprehensively and extract maximum interest out of seemingly dry material.

[@palapafox1268]

Dude, I miss you :(

[@bryankennedy3284]

The ending was so sombre and moving. Great video. Would love to visit that factory one day. Show it the respect it deserves. Walls can't talk but I like talking about them, especially when they've done something important.

[@70M80]

More Uruguay please!

[@Kenny_P_abz]

Corned beef is still popular in the UK. Interestingly a catering tin of South American corned beef was the source of the Aberdeen typhoid epidemic in 1964. Anecdotally the after effects of the public health campaign of hand washing in the city at that time lasted for years with residents still having a higher rate of hand cleanliness. Quite useful in the current circumstances.

[@iandalziel7405]

heres the BMJ report: www.bmj.com/content/bmj/2/5514/601.full.pdf Apparently it was then spread through other cold meats by infection on the meat slicer...

[@Kenny_P_abz]

Ian Dalziel Yep. Was at Wm Low supermarket. They didn’t have a store in the city after that.

[@nolan6976]

"the history of the world is simply easier to make interesting when you're talking about bullets rather than beef."

[@leehaseley2164]

Corned beef fed whole generations of children who grew up poor in the uk. To this very day, as I live in Thailand and it is very expensive due to import tax, corned beef is still a rare treat, bringing back floods of childhood memories with every strange mouthful.

[@Alfonso162008]

I saw the title of the video and I immediately knew what it was gonna be about 😂 As a uruguayan, it's weird to think of Fray Bentos as a brand in the UK (we lost the opportunity of the "Denomination of origin" or whatever it's called in english lol), to us it's simply the capital city of the department of Rio Negro. Also, is the factory really so undervisited? I don't know why, but I was under the impression that they were doing pretty well in that regard 🤷‍♂️Anyway, great video, I actually learned a thing or two xD

[@Alfonso162008]

@@silliestsususagest3276 and from Uruguay, thank you for being the negotiators in the treaty that saved us from being part of Argentina or Brazil :P

[@AntonioCostaRealEstate]

A narrative in prose and motion. You’ve done a superb job in marrying your narrative with images that actually synch in. Your narrative is not prolonged , hits in stride, , on point , and not so pedagogical .

[@birkobird]

Is Rare Earth ever going to do a proper set of Australian episodes (obviously you can't just fly here now)? There's a hell of a lot of stories here that I think need to be told to the world, like the Rum Rebellion, the life of (rest in power) Jack Mundey, Lachlan Macquarie vs the Squattocracy, and the Missions.

[@Chill86Master]

One of the best so far. Short yet to the point. So much said with so little words. Yeah - one of my favourite so far (but - amazingly - you're still growing, so I'm expecting better next time ;) ).

[@jerry3790]

Hey I noticed you mentioned the Boers in this video. Do you think you’ll ever go to South Africa and do an episode on the Boers, their wars with Britain and how it led up to Apartheid?

[@yup9918]

every single video made by this guy sounds like an SCP

[@lucianocortes]

More Uruguay please

[@theinternaut1991]

You are a truly excellent story teller, and you continue to get better

[@RareEarthSeries]

Thank you!

[@fongsbasement]

4:26 Did you make this video just so you could casually insert an Aesop Rock reference?

[@BigandDurable]

You deserve more subs, more views, all of it... Possibly my favorite channel.

[@nils1546]

Duude i just found out that Justus Liebig discovered a lot of things working in my small German Hometown. Insane.

[@lovechildmag]

"Because he never shot anybody, he just fed people", but he "fed the world wars for a hundred years", that's quite the paradox.

[@chewyduck1355]

Great story telling as always. Thanks. Now where do I get a a great big can of that steak and kidney pie?

[@RareEarthSeries]

If you're in the UK, corner shop. If not, toss Jeff Bezos your pittance and bow before the lord.

[@santiagoochoa4984]

Great video man, you're super informational and I love the narration. Top knotch!

[@tooominous8256]

We’re these guys go?

[@demetrialowther727]

"And yet nobody ever visits... because it's a factory" Maybe to some, sure, but as someone who has a deep love and fascination for pre-1960's disused industrial architecture/machinery, those shots from 6:20 onwards are the stuff of dreams. Some things you go to see on travels are for beauty and spectacle, but few things have the mystery and wonder of old factories. The former USSR countries are also goldmines of this kind of stuff (except that nowadays they're destroying these precious relics like crazy) but I'd never have thought Uruguay to also hold such an outstanding site, and thank god it's protected as well.

[@fattyacid1901]

Gigantic steak with a little mountain of white rice... oh dear...

[@befree8850]

Dude you Rock! thank you for theses precise hands down knowledge bullets. Too much knowledge i don't know where to put it anymore!

[@BriManeely]

May 18th, the day Evan quoted Aesop Rock... never would've guessed

[@mativonburrata]

I love these Uruguay series! So interesting!

[@Hydrospx]

Does anyone know why he hasn't uploaded a video in 3 months?

[@slice-the-pi]

the quality of the videos you make is amazing! glad I'm subbed.

[@ValensBellator]

Dang I want to try that dark meat sludge after you called it “delicious” so many times lol... all we have here is pink sludge that is essentially just lean meat that is then reconstituted into something I wouldn’t really call “delicious”.

[@seraaron]

honestly, every single Rare Earth video blows my fucking mind

[@oliviagadea8772]

As a Australian Uruguayan I seriously love these videos !

[@ohcaptainmycaptain8902]

I actually recognized the name Liebig, the school I graduated from last summer is located on Liebig street, and this video sent me down an interesting wikipedia rabbit hole. Many articles read, many more to be read... I didn't know Liebig was the guy that invented my favorite experiment I ever got to conduct in class at aforementioned school: coating glass with silver to make a mirror!

[@bigredlemon]

Corned beef is made from sludge?

[@ameiru1]

I mean it comes out as sludge...

[@RazorMureithi]

funny

[@rolfs2165]

No, the sludge is more commonly known as "meat extract" - and pretty much looks like molasses. It can be used to make broth, or as meat flavouring.

[@tams805]

No, that was the second product that that factory made.

[@juliesworld-elmundodejulie5637]

Hey man, i love when foreign people visit our country and see it from a different perspective, its a beautiful thing, and it opens a whole range of new sensibilities. Uruguay has his oun spirit, and we love it, thank you for search it, and share your view about it. I find the Charruas chapter very sensitive, if you want to understand the spirit of a country nothing better than find information about the people who lived here for thousands of years. We Uruguayans ignore it, but the Charrua spirit lives in us. We are chill people, who like simple things, and dont like complications, even the tipical uruguayan word "bo" sounds like an indigena thing, and if you think about it, the tipical Uruguayan carisma has a Charrua spirit. We have a very important singer Jaime Roos, that sings with a very serious tone, and use very grave notes in his songs, nothing more charrua than that. And the thing is we Uruguayans dont see that. So i think this kind of things helps the people to improve their sensibility about their country, so im gladd for what you are dooing. My english is not so good we said a little "indio" so hope you understand this. Best wishes.

[@RareEarthSeries]

You might be interested in my story from two weeks ago about the Charrua.

[@juliesworld-elmundodejulie5637]

@@RareEarthSeries Yeah, i saw it, actually i saw the four chapters about our country, thats why i said those things. Every time someone with a different perspective visit our country and can see something in his own way i feel a very beautiful thing, like a sharing thing.. and maybe this is something about the uruguayan spirit. A country that open his heart to every human being to find love and peace. Once again, thank you for your videos and for the care and apretiation you put in it.

[@211inprogress]

Fray Bentons tin pies are my favorite, I have one at least 3 times a week. 🍽️ 😋

[@razcodes]

Im loving so much this series!!

[@ncc74656m]

YOU'RE LATE. Also hi.

[@RareEarthSeries]

It's more like my quarantine version of on time.

[@ncc74656m]

@@RareEarthSeries I'll take it!

[@debtrunner7929]

ik

[@Yt-jc5sj]

And with THIS ONE I've officially watched all Rare Earth vids available at this time (05/21/2020) it's 4:30 in the morning, my life is going nowhere Thank you.

[@quickiejo3251]

"True history of human civilization ", that's how to ascribe this channel.

[@StuSaville]

1:28 Marmite is British, Australians eat Vegemite. Also that Beef sludge is still very popular in Britain, it's called Bovril

[@RareEarthSeries]

Bovril is to Liebig's Extract as Vegemite is to Marmite :)

[@DanafoxyVixen]

I just realized its OXO.. ive using this tasty meat sludge this whole time

[@Soofi1906]

That is so true, “they never shot people, just fed them”. And sadly the bullets are the only thing people remember. Lovely video!