Why Chicken Sandwiches Don't Cost $1500

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Chances are if you make a chicken sandwich yourself it will cost less than $5, but Andy George's chicken sandwich cost $1,500 because he made everything from scratch. What causes this huge difference in cost between chicken sandwiches made from scratch and bought at the grocery store?
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[@yamatosucks]

i thought this video was about a chicken sandwich and not on how to start a salt empire based on a rented boat

[@skeebas_2541]

Teleila lol

[@yankychannels]

That's exactly what I thought

[@SturmZebra13]

Lmao

[@adirtyhippy]

where your main expense is buying plastic jugs to collect free seawater and dont reuse them either

[@mohamedrafiktalbi5322]

lmaooo so fkn true xD

[@andrethedoubleviciousgiant5805]

$5 Chicken Sandwich vs $1500 Chicken Sandwich - Buzzfeed

[@leoterss]

"It tastes the same wtf"

[@mbnba3821]

AndreTheDoubleViciousGiant lol

[@romchompa6858]

i've made as close to scratch chicken sandwiches like this before (skimped on the obvious like flying on a plane to get salt..) and it was worlds better than the one you can get at the fast food spot.

[@meyoudodo8097]

getting food from the source in season is always going to taste 1000% better fresh backed bread nothing like it. anyone that travels to the tropics and has fresh tropical fruit picked right there off the plant will tell you it not the same as what you get in our stores. the same goes for food grown here. the reason for this is shelf life and travel time. if you picked a rip fruit then shipped it across the world it would be rotten by the time it got to you, so its picked well before it is rip then shipped.

[@9.1416]

Scrolling for Content..😂

[@quack420]

he cheated though, he didn't build then fly his own plane to get to the ocean

[@borntopoopforcedtowipe838]

Did not ask

[@saymyname5942]

@@borntopoopforcedtowipe838 wow your so funny, you said did not ask. i bet you get your comedy from your mom. i wonder where you get this intuitive humor. good job, you should get a medal of honour

[@skkadoot9533]

he also hasn't created his own ocean

[@borntopoopforcedtowipe838]

Shut up u have tf2 profile picture lil crap

[@neoandroid4203]

@@borntopoopforcedtowipe838 didn't ask tho.

[@MB-st7be]

Who rents a boat? Dude, the sea is right there, just walk into it.

[@jgperes]

Lmao right just pull a jesus how hard can it be

[@DiomedesStrosMkai]

Water close to the shore of a city is usually quite polluted

[@MB-st7be]

@@DiomedesStrosMkai There's plenty of sea that isn't right next to a city...

[@somerandomperson2934]

@@MB-st7be he was visiting his sister in LA so he would've had to go out of his way to go somewhere else

[@MB-st7be]

@@somerandomperson2934 Yeaaaah... I don't think he'd be doing that if he was scaling up to tons of salt like Wendover was demonstrating!

[@apowers7783]

TSA: what is this white powder in your bag? Him: yeah, it's home made salt...

[@saltyman7888]

smells like urine

[@Wherrimy]

97 kg of it, to be precise

[@buttersquids]

Alfie Powell Well, it's not a bomb

[@heart0fthedrag0n]

I wonder how will they react. Like, seriously, it's not a liquid or anything, so it's not technically illegal, you can fill your bag with whatever you want. But would they let you just carry it on a plane like that, or would they invent some bullshit reason and throw it away?

[@OCinneide]

They'd have to search it in case you have a bomb inside of it, they'd probs dump it in a bin then shake it around a bit. Say all clear and walk off leaving you to have to take your now dirty salt from the bin.

[@theCodyReeder]

Or you know, just step outside in Wendover Utah and scoop some salt up off the ground. ;)

[@froggyvids5050]

Hey guys welcome back to Cody

[@froggyvids5050]

I love the song rooftops

[@iNezerroth]

Can you scoop ground near mcdonalds for sandwiches?

[@richmelchr]

So this is why this video was suggested to me lol.

[@Bbderbala]

There is literally a city called Salt Lake City in about half the distance

[@user-pl4fx1jl3u]

Title: why chicken sandwiches don't cost 1500$ 1920s Germany: **laughs in hyperinflation**

[@ummmhelp]

2008 zimbabwe *laughs in super hyperinflation*

[@nose766]

Venezuela: "You guys are cute"

[@beforecuddlybunnylps841]

Venezala: (so much laughing we had to replace the laugher and hire a new one)

[@PSkullKidDnazen]

***cries in hyper inflation**

[@guillee12]

Hungary 1946 "Awwww, look at them, so cute and tiny"

[@Riasat202]

You forgot to add the price of energy required to boil all that water.

[@markeyboi6545]

Yeah, but it's negligible, would barely make a 1 cent difference. I mean if you got a huge pot, and start a fire under it, the only cost would be fuel for the fire.

[@Septimus_ii]

That's the sort of cost which is negligible on a small scale, but once you start making these massive efficiencies of scale it becomes relevant

[@hariseldon3786]

Its called sunlight

[@kbs1212]

Riasat202 It’s called gigalaser evaporation chamber.

[@sbhattacharya7389]

Salt water is dried by the sun

[@morgancook4288]

To make a chicken sandwich from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

[@paulol7224]

Morgan Cook just like ur mom

[@yelectric1893]

Kitchens are filled, with a network of cabinets

[@addisonalbert9078]

Morgan Cook 100 likes to prove you're not wrong

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

Morgan Cook just like your mom

[@JonathanHartwig]

But what if you invent a universe in which chickens never occur, sandwiches are never eaten and thus the original challenge is rendered moot?

[@willc4627]

No officer, that is not cocaine. It is a carry on full of salt.

[@dendaky]

My thoughts exactly. "It's just salt, I swear."

[@RichFreeman]

will clayton NTDB determines reason for crash was carry on bags loaded to 5x the allowance with salt...

[@jkacvbhijfn]

"Oh yea?" "Yes sir. I'm a professional CS:GO player." "Ok you may go"

[@ctemogarcia2682]

I wonder how they checked

[@tedtalkhighlights2472]

Ctemo Garcia they have machines

[@d-nyce544]

He focused on salt so much i think he completely forgot he was talking about a sandwich.

[@omkarnagarhalli5217]

he said in the beginning of the episode he would only talk about salt for simplicity's sake

[@TheSecondVersion]

He left out the best part: The guy said the sandwich didn't even taste good

[@DAventador44]

Wait this video was about sandwiches?

[@Rosie-fx1rp]

He could've gotten salt in Minnesota, there are saltwater lakes here.

[@luucvinky2194]

I’m proud to give the 1000th like to this comment.

[@soulplexis]

At the airport Guy: "um sir-" Him: "ITS SALT I SWEAR"

[@ryannitoi2993]

Thinking the same thing 😂

[@NebbyTheProtogen]

The endangerd rare oneshot pfp in its natural habitat

[@Loj84]

Why go through all that effort and money to get salt from the ocean when you could just get it from youtube comments?

[@ashleyfromresidentevil4618]

lol

[@GozUnlimited]

/airport security opens Andy's 100% salt packed luggage for a drug inspection....

[@skittybug6937]

*Insert Jack Yelling Here* DETAINED!!!!!

[@newfoundlandknowledge8141]

Skitty It DETAINED

[@CACubed]

They actually did.

[@TomJerry12933]

"uhhh.....BOSS!...this guy has TWO HUNDRED POUNDS of salt in his carry-on.......there HAS to be something wrong here right?!"

[@boriskoblents8586]

I swear im just making a chicken sandwich!

[@Colink101]

Sign my petition to rename this video to "How to Start Your Own Salt Empire"

[@foty8679]

Just milk KZbin

[@icystalin2941]

Copied

[@obamagaming7909]

Wow, that semitruck can hold up to half of the amount of salt produced in one game of low rank league of legends!

[@kamk7465]

xD

[@me_memo]

what if he made it with no salt ..he could have saved 1000$

[@MrPENGTINGZ]

without salt

[@REDNBLUEBROS1337]

Worth

[@leoterss]

fuck physics

[@FinlandForceTeam]

Daniel Tekle no you dont

[@lhl]

Minneapolis is only a 3 hour drive to the Salt Lake in Marrieta, MN - much quicker and cheaper. I assume he could have gotten a flight to Kansas City cheaper, which has a big salt mine nearby (just 2 minutes of searching, there might be one closer) as well.

[@wompstopm123]

why not just go to a smash brothers tournament and get all the salt there for free?

[@givant]

CaptainSkelebones why not go to the Clinton headquarters and get all the salt there

[@TheSymboz]

just find a pm tourney and collect all the tears

[@anta2413]

CaptainSkelebones go to a league game and get more salt than my mom

[@1001011011010]

CaptainSkelebones Genesis 4 would've been enough.

[@toaster8907]

CaptainSkelebones Just go play cod or talk to a kid in tf2

[@stellie3553]

Imagine the airline loses your bag, and you have to tell them to give you back your 6 ounces of salt

[@TheSecondVersion]

John Green said it well in the first episode of Crash Course: World History "Hi there, camera two, it's me, John Green. *Let's start with that double cheeseburger.* Ooh, food photography! So this hot hunk of meat contains four-hundred and ninety calories. To get this cheeseburger, you have to feed, raise, and slaughter cows, then grind their meat, then freeze it and ship it to its destination, you also gotta grow some wheat and then process the living crap out of it until it's whiter than Queen Elizabeth the First, then you gotta milk some cows and turn their milk into cheese. And that's not even to mention the growing and pickling of cucumbers or the sweetening of tomatoes or the grinding of mustard seeds, etc. How in the sweet name of everything holy did we ever come to live in a world in which such a thing can even be created? And HOW is it possible that those four-hundred and ninety calories can be served to me for an amount of money that, if I make the minimum wage here in the U.S., I can earn in ELEVEN MINUTES? And most importantly: should I be delighted or alarmed to live in this strange world of relative abundance?"

[@RetroRadianceLight]

Alarmed because it’s because of this that the earth is slowly dying. In 30-50 years, the earth will start looking like Venus and humanity will be nothing more than a footnote in the universe because we got greedy and made more than we can consume

[@stinkytoy]

@@RetroRadianceLight I think Venus is a bit of a stretch, but in 30-50 years we will most certainly not be having a good time. I'm always wondering if I should even keep bothering to save for retirement.

[@jesseli9868]

Why chicken sandwiches don't cost $1,500? Simple. Apple doesn't sell them.

[@soulextracter]

The iCluck Under-mayonnaised, Under-cucumbered, Under-tomatoed , Under-lettuced...Looks really sleek though.

[@kindacruise]

Under-Chickened, Also inedible... but why would you care about that?

[@kalvincastro9042]

Jesse Li Extremely thin sandwich, the "bread" is just a tortilla, we have a scrape of mayo, 1 ham, 1 cheese and 1 unbelievably thin slice of tomato and pickle. All cut up to a rectangle, with an apple logo then burn-stamped on top.

[@icy_swoosh]

You buy a chicken sandwich from Apple and then you need to additionally buy a slice of tomato, a bit of lettuce and of course a special Apple knife to open the box with the sandwich.

[@thatguy4084]

All for the $1 samsung sandwich.

[@alfredo.zauce1892]

You didn't build your own plane; it doesn't count.

[@danielprestwich7422]

Stolen

[@wandaperi]

*U Fucking NORMIE! !!!!!!!!*

[@Mark_Master1]

Or boat

[@Cjnw]

U Fucking NORMIE !!!!!!!!!

[@cadespaulding3837]

The transport devices are not part of the sandwich

[@The_Horizon]

he looks so depressed at the start

[@FRMC_SALMON]

Hello

[@FRMC_SALMON]

Have a nice day

[@mikus5521]

"BUT WE CAN KEEP SCALING"

[@kbs1212]

Mikus BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE-

[@JJRicks]

Great video, but you're missing a huge part of how things are shipped around the US. The rail industry is the main way to ship things in bulk. Super cheap, fast,100s of thousands of tons per train, no weight limits. So much better than trucks. And EXTREMELY fuel efficient.

[@Rolando_Cueva]

oh yeah nigga!

[@JJRicks]

Jonathan Stiles can't fly a plane as one person either

[@xraze6906]

Trains are nice and all, except when they come by at 8:20AM and 3:20PM, stop an entire county for half an hour, and do this every single day.

[@JJRicks]

xRaze Yup. They tend to do that.

[@troodon1096]

Good point. Passenger trains may suck in America, but freight trains are excellent. Only downside is that they're limited to where they can go; they can only go where the tracks are.

[@MistiriousStranger1]

Thanks, now i want a chicken sandwich.

[@CasperKersten]

I will make you one, but it will cost you $1500 and you'll have to wait 6 months for it.

[@iamagi]

Also labour cost, average cost for labour in US is $36.34/h. This adds $35 000 to the sandwich. But this assuming it was a full-time job. I have not seen the original video yet so I don't know if he did everything. Doing literally everything would be impossible. I don't think anyone has managed to make a pencil by them self witch is the classic example used to demonstrate how hard it is to make something by your self.

[@joecarter5001]

Casper Kersten Ya know what I'm good

[@plumeater1]

No use minimum wage, well I know he isn't a fast food employee, but he's a slow food employee.

[@seigeengine]

"Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $34.15 per hour worked in September 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $23.42 per hour worked and accounted for 68.6 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $10.73 and accounted for the remaining 31.4 percent."

[@oggeenock]

10 minutes later: *ok now kets say andy boiled down the entire ocean via global warming, and collected all the salt*

[@silverhawk7324]

For some reason this video reminded me of how hard it was saving up for materials to reach level 99 on Runescape. However when the Grand Exchange arrived it became much easier because of the distribution of materials. Did not expect this many fellow runescape players to be here :D

[@thepedrorriva]

CAPITAILSM

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

#crafting

[@stefanstankovic8716]

Ryaken botting is better than playing :)

[@silverhawk7324]

lol

[@josephjackson1956]

If you reused 10 five gallon jugs and bought your own boat for $1000 with the same method for driving and transporting the salt, you could drop the price to a little under a penny ($0.008) for an ounce of salt.

[@samarium1934]

That's kind of the point lol

[@razvan19010]

Yeah but just imagine having to collect all that water with one boat and only 10 jugs. It would take a very very long time and it might not be worth it.

[@raifikarj6698]

@@razvan19010 oh yeah we need to see how much time is worth in production scale

[@htsandy3136]

Youd get a paddle boat for 1k

[@notoriety8865]

What about mantancice

[@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

4:16 One of the 64 cents is a 67 cent.

[@brickman409]

and he thought no one would notice!

[@ultimobenjio3738]

Sir Francis j

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

damn nice catch.

[@mwbgaming28]

If only he looked at the KZbin comments section, he could've harvested all the free salt he could ever want

[@OhYeaMista]

$57 to rent a boat?!? That's a deal and a half. Who's his boat guy?

[@OhYeaMista]

Aden John I rented a boat last summer and it was $300 for 4 hours.

[@demented9131]

It was probably a shitty fishing boat.

[@boimeme.]

@@demented9131 you can see in the video its not

[@yourgooglemeister6745]

He probably felt bad for him because it's such a stupid project

[@gamesetmatt23]

I imagine it might have been cheap because as he was collecting his water, he was also making a 'drop-off' for the boat owner.

[@daanwillemsen223]

Wendover doesn't except the superiour metric system... Wait, suitcase-liters?

[@Wendoverproductions]

For some reason bags in general are generally measured in liters even in the US. I don't know why, but it's the case so I used liters.

[@fatpeopleeatpeople12]

Accept^

[@adamhanly5250]

*superior

[@jarimesce]

Units arent even real man, we made them all up

[@DeepDuh]

Yes, however, there are units that are more made-y-uppy, like Fahrenheit, and those that represent a intrinsically defined natural phenomenon, like 100C and 0C being the boiling and freezing points of water at sea level.

[@rolan638]

That 1500$ sandwich looks delicious though.

[@AllenLinnenJr]

It does. A comparable sandwich, with those thick slices of chicken, here in Texas, would run you ten bucks, easy.

[@adrian5b]

guy said it sucked

[@thatoneguy33198]

+adrian5b probably because it wasn't loaded with sugar, like most bread(at least here in the us)

[@hexx2211]

ᅝᅝ It was probably because he didn't have enough seasoning. You can't cook food on salt alone.

[@toafloast1883]

Yea, this guy's an idiot.

[@game_generation]

Unless that sandwich was made by Gordon Ramsey, I'm not paying for it.

[@khandapwner6805]

*_SEASONING SEASONING SEASONING_*

[@Roylinns]

Yeah but...there is probably an idiot in it though...

[@danielarroyave421]

For 1500$ I hope those chicken are able to understand the complexity of the universe.

[@aakashyadav8327]

Rip his soul

[@allenmeza6786]

I don't care if Gordon Ramsey dedicated his every waking moment to produce a sandwich then dies of bliss after sampling it and declared it the best meal he made, I'm not paying $1500 for a sandwich

[@GamerTrashPanda]

You can get free salt by playing Overwatch!

[@souravzzz]

Salt prices are going to crash once the election results come out 😂

[@zenninja10]

And the pitchfork emporium will have supply issues.

[@mlgdoritos3158]

U Wot M8

[@nnslife]

Why? Can you explain the joke?

[@dragohammer6937]

everyone will be salty as f*. so no one is going to buy salt.

[@josepenuelas4987]

yeah but that would make it cheaper not more expensive

[@saintsav7934]

BUT WE CAN KEEP SCALING

[@oxergamingperagoodo]

Jordan Carter was in italy

[@Isopropyl_Alcohol]

*BUT WE CAN KEEP SCALING*

[@albingrahn5576]

we need a incremental game like a clicker game where you start off by just gathering water, make salt by hand and sell it, and later you slowly evolve your salt production until you have a fully automated salt empire which generates trillions of pounds of salt/money per second.

[@dsdy1205]

Cookie clicker already has something like that

[@ramuk1933]

If he was trying to do the chicken sandwich by hismelf, then how did he get the seeds to plant the vegetables, fly on a plane, rent a boat, and get chicken? It would seem like he still relied on other people...

[@0n0nym0us0]

It's just an illustrative example of what it would take to do it yourself. It really goes to show how much we depend on trade and economies of scale to get things done efficiently.

[@TechDeals]

His $1,500 sandwich missed the point... He "bought a plane ticket", which someone else had to do work to provide the plane... how much would that have cost if he could not have flown? Or had to build his own plane, from scratch... and build his own boat...

[@joshi5507]

Tech Deals that's taking it a little too far. Taking advantage of technology is totally viable in my opinion. That's like saying a person didn't really write a book because he used a printing press.

[@Someone-cd7yi]

And breed his own cow from scratch

[@redmo1494]

COW? It's a chicken sandwich

[@Someone-cd7yi]

Red Mo Yeah but he needed milk

[@redmo1494]

Forum for Democracy For cheese?

[@zolikoff]

Wait... he FLEW from Minneapolis to LA to collect ocean water... did he make his own airplane for that? I suppose not... so he didn't do it all from scratch!

[@andresgarrido5776]

Thank you soooooooooooo much for this video! For some reason, when I read this in my textbook, the concept just doesn't sink in, but since this gave me a visual example, it was easier for me to understand.

[@priestpilot]

I was recently in the UK and I loved how Tesco had cheap sandwiches! It really cut down the cost of my trip!

[@feynstein1004]

"Self-sufficiency leads to inefficiency and inefficiency can lead to poverty." Words to live by. Also, I recognized some of the footage from Crash Course Economics.

[@richardross1754]

Feynstein 100 I thought It looked familiar

[@kalebbruwer]

Yes, he had to rent a boat because everyone knows seawater stops before you reach the shore and you need to go deeper into the water to get water. Edit: read the replies, HTME explained it himself.

[@daedra40]

Kaleb Bruwer interesting point, and I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. My thinking would have been maybe the water around the coast might not be as pure as the ones floating in deep sea. Just a thought!

[@kalebbruwer]

daedra40 Well my first thought was to avoid collecting sand, but I'm sure there are cheaper ways to do that like running it through filtration paper afterwards.

[@kalebbruwer]

LightbulbTedbear2 Well, I don't really know where he is from and I don't know American geography. I guess he tried to make the thing as expensive as possible to emphasise the effect.

[@htme]

I looked at various possibilities, because I really didn't want to spend a ton of money just to get a little salt. Between going to the Hudson Bay, Salt Lake City, Atlantic, Pacific or gulf costs, a cheap flight to LA where I had family I could stay with for free ended up by far being the cheapest option.

[@kalebbruwer]

How To Make Everything That makes sense, but why the boat?

[@daikicipolloni3151]

Why do you need a boat to get sea water you can get it on the beach

[@jonnyb9843]

Hey, thanks for picking a great sponsor. I've been looking into my options for after hs, and I appreciate it!

[@ZurilasZone]

My online friends produce around 240.000kg Salt per minute.

[@ZurilasZone]

"240.000kg"

[@seculus3767]

Zed´s Zone it should be 240,000 not 240.000

[@andikawardhana9616]

Zed´s Zone how?

[@vincent7976]

Miles Pasamba How do yall tell the difference between 100.001 (one hundred thousand and one) and 100.001 (one hundred and one thousandth) in england then?

[@shonpatso6816]

No they don't, both the U.S. and U.K. use commas to separate thousands and periods to indicate decimals. You need to find a better school and educate yourself properly mate.

[@FlyingPastry]

4:15 One of the squares says 67 instead of 64.

[@BopsRusher]

Yes it was the first thing i saw xD

[@yusuf1597]

That ounce was made with extra love...

[@Anolaana]

FlyingPastry - I suspect it was the remainder from dividing

[@loookas]

That's how the imperial system works, you have to add a quarter of a mile for every half dozen fahrenheit, hence 67 instead of 64. Easy.

[@bluesquare23]

loookas you've forgotten the wapagui principal which says that fluid ounces are roughly equal the 7 foot-pounds of penny farthings.

[@janellwilliams2394]

Ahhh! I forgot how exactly how I found your channel, which I love, and it was this video! I saw it when it first came out, then binged your whole channel.

[@crispybaguette8670]

I love these types of videos completely random stuff I would never look for but yet you make it interest me

[@avanmisaki8756]

My economics teacher won't stop talking about this chicken dude jfc

[@T2uyu]

he's actually a pretty good example for demonstrating some of the econ principles

[@DoRC]

I wonder how quickly the bulldozers at that desalination place rust to death.

[@gewdvibes]

Do R/C! There’s coatings to prevent rust, and as long as they keep up on the maintenance with the coatings it shouldn’t ever rust

[@IronKing79]

They last for couple of years...

[@anshul9856]

galvanising

[@Blueshirt38]

Gewdvibes I would imagine the maintenance on those machines must be very specific, and frequent. Think what would happen if a dozer broke down and started leaking oil, or diesel on the salt mountain. You would lose so much product, and production time spent having inspectors come out to assess how much product is contaminated.

[@SuperStruct]

Zinc

[@ray313ray]

This is the video that made me start watching Wendover Productions and the one I come back to watch every so often.

[@TankerMan3000]

Your voice is so much better now, it’s amazing to see your growth!

[@frantisekzverina473]

he could have made the salt from his sweat way cheaper

[@jacobk7010]

Anyone else think its odd that Wendover is a city in west Utah, like in the channel name. In Wendover you can walk a bit and pick up some pure salt from the ground.

[@thetelephoneprankster4254]

It is also a place in Buckinghamshre, England

[@thetelephoneprankster4254]

John Peric It is a county not a buck hampster condition. Nobody asked about what you thought either

[@climax7260]

Thank you very much! You are helping me with my business management exam.

[@SILASJP]

I‘ve watched this video probably every year since it came out because it’s just so good! Should be shown in every basic economics class.

[@cy9141]

would've been cheaper had he gone to the Great Salt Lake in Utah... just saying

[@Mernom]

Closer doesn't always means cheaper.

[@LamNguyen-pd8iu]

Marik Zilberman Aye.

[@sirpdubs]

Marik Zilberman it would have been cheaper. The closer lake means less transport costs, and higher salt concentration means that per bucket he would get much more salt. It would be much more efficient

[@tobe.moemeka]

Michael Yang One comment below explains why he didn't

[@mejhdhhicbfshihids652]

Just go to the White House there’s plenty of salt there

[@dragosudrea6533]

Macroeconomics, division of labor and diminishing returns explained better than school ever could. Perfect video!

[@calCR09]

Just found this channel, it's awesome!, congratulations

[@jackd6269]

i think this is probably one of your most interesting videos, i loved watching it!

[@sbblakey]

Why are mozzarella sticks so fucking expensive at restaurants?

[@TheMoi]

Because people are willing to pay that price.

[@oniinu]

because cheese is expensive

[@oniinu]

***** i'm sure that's all they do. sucks that you went to some shady terrible places.

[@Mustang424]

Because that's the going price for them. Also very few people I've ever run into actually make them at home from scratch, so they know short of you going to get frozen ones from the store (yuck), you'll be inclined to pay a premium for them at a restaurant.

[@kalvincastro9042]

Lots of people like them, might as well hike up prices on what people like, right?

[@PeePoolOfficial]

If you did the whole thing exclusively in metric, you would get my like.

[@rdlplays9472]

this video was great and made me understand a lot more than i knew, thanks.

[@choojunwyng8028]

This dude taught me more useful things about business in 10 minutes than my 2 year business studies class

[@KnowingBetter]

I get the point of this video, to show economies of scale and how specialization brings costs down. But the quick and easy answer, which even an elementary school kid should get, is that he could have probably made a second chicken sandwich for only $50-100 more... Since a lot of the things he spent money on wouldn't have risen by much at all to do it for two (or three or four) sandwiches. Right away, with the second chicken sandwich, the cost per sandwich is halved. With each consecutive sandwich costing even less, but cutting the cost per sandwich dramatically until it's down to pennies.

[@nykidxxx]

KnowingBetter So yea, making more sandwiches is cheaper = an economy of scale

[@meyomix2816]

KnowingBetter wow you're so smart and totally didn't just reword most of what was explained in the video

[@duckymomo7935]

law of diminishing returns

[@FeatherWait]

205 likes for someone answering a question no-one fucking asked.

[@cazek445]

KnowingBetter but what about when your school system is so shit that we have only 2 classes? We only have Dutch, (I come from the Netherlands) and math. Really. We learn nothing in elementary.

[@DoomFoxofDeath]

But..... Was the sandwich any good?

[@leoterss]

Now we're getting to the real questions.

[@SnakeVenomTV12191]

no, but it wasn't bad

[@cjmq0o]

@@SnakeVenomTV12191 If it aint great for a $1500 sandwich its a terrible sandwich

[@takigan]

Tasted....a bit salty.

[@Robert-bo9kw]

I believe it was quoted as "Not Bad". Which means terrible considering it was $1500 and 6 months of the dude's life.

[@crystalblueocean]

Wow, fabulous presentation, thanks for that

[@allenwang202]

"We're going to need a bigger boat."

[@edwardallen3062]

Nice non-accent, thought you were from the states!

[@Wendoverproductions]

+Edward Allen I'm a thoroughbred American who happens to live in Scotland

[@edwardallen3062]

No way, I'm a thoroughbred Englishman living in Wisconsin!

[@davieh6]

lol england too warm for you? ;)

[@edwardallen3062]

Im used to it now, been here a long time, don't miss the rain tho

[@Dara-rv4pg]

non accent? americans have one of the strongest accents possible.

[@skyhero789]

Typo at 4:17 one of the 64 cents is 67 cents

[@LamNguyen-pd8iu]

Sky Hero good eyes

[@tim-4368]

Lol

[@johnnyb.1849]

Thats what I saw too. Thought I was the only one.

[@realscentreview]

This is probably the most informative video on KZbin.

[@sharkyj368]

Thanks for introducing me to there channel Ive been watching them for a probably a year now

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

This video is great! Your airline videos are great too. They are some of the most simple explanations of economic principles I have seen, and actually drive home the points better than any econ professor ever has been able to do so for me.

[@PatrickStar-kd7ij]

So, So, So, So,

[@Wendoverproductions]

I HAVE A PROBLEM I KNOW (so,)

[@steveo101112]

I honestly didn't even notice.

[@mmmcake44]

We still love you though

[@herpderpmonkey]

there were hardly any so,'s. dafuq you talkin bout?

[@sammorrell2525]

$419.98, we were so close to perfection

[@oscarkronborg7176]

7:08 If this was RealLifeLore it would have said x number of Toyota corollas

[@catbutt4020]

8.6 pounds per 1 gallon, so much easier than 1 kilogram per 1 liter

[@nathanberrigan9839]

Water is 1 ounce per 1 ounce. The extra weight is the salt.

[@catbutt4020]

How much does an ounce weigh?

[@nathanberrigan9839]

1 ounce of water (29.6 mL) has a gross weight of 1 ounce (28.3g) . It's the reason the base unit of volume and base unit of weight have the same name in the Imperial system.

[@catbutt4020]

1 ounce = 1/16 pound. How much does a pound weigh?

[@nathanberrigan9839]

A pound is the weight of 1 pint of water.

[@vvinny8]

This guy flew in a plane to make salt? Doesn't add. He should walk, or build his own bicycle with sticks and wood..

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Good stuff. There's a 1958 essay on this topic called "I, Pencil:, by Leonard Read, about why a pencil doesn't cost a million dollars. It's online in many places, and there's a good animation illustrating it on KZbin, called "I, Pencil: The Movie." Basically this all comes down to "no man is an island", and how cooperation, mechanization, and trade lifts all boats, not just one boat. (speaking of boats.)

[@fqidz]

4:16 67 cents on the 3rd from the right and 3rd from the top

[@drac124]

Why in 6:33 the 18.000 Kg = 17.500 liters? 1 Kg = 1 Liter, that is the beauty of the international system.

[@OldLordSpeedy]

Douglas Yes, 1 Liter clear drinking water = 1 kg weight. But many other things have different weight, specially if it have less water in it ... e.g. oil, meat, egg, dry corn, aso.

[@myak37]

OldLordSpeedy true physics is godly easy using SI, I can imagine using fathom and inches or pounds, like shit that stupid asfuck

[@SportSoulLife]

Depends on the waters density. If it has salt in it its more dense. Likewise if the water is cold. On ships this is crucial for calculating the weight of the cargo. The density differences usually are between 1,010 L/m^3 and 1,025 L/m^3. The weight of the cargo (bulk in particular) is measured by first taking the ships displacement (the amount of water the ship displaces) when its empty and then again when its loaded. After that by subtracting the original displacement with the loaded displacemet you get the weight of the cargo, but if the water density has changed and you forget to include that in the calculations you could miscalculate the weight of the cargo and therefore miscalculate its total value by millions of dollars.

[@wsuhgaming4613]

coz saltwater higher density than pure water

[@frankramsden8697]

OMFG boi got the classic ,£3 Tesco meal deal

[@boycotgugle3040]

Talking to whom? What's a b.o.i. anyway?

[@vinegardoppio1807]

boi=boy

[@frankramsden8697]

Presley Snyder at least someone speaks internet

[@boycotgugle3040]

Frank Ramsden Captain obvious does xD Presley Snyder Sorry, m8. It was just too tempting.

[@phaidonify]

I feel like prepping for a McKinsey interview watching this video

[@The_Professor_]

You can also utilize the boiled off water in salt production for sale as fresh water to increase value. Similar to how chocolate and soda companies use leftover water to bottle and sell!

[@josephjackson1956]

So it was really the salt that made the sandwich so expensive

[@adamhanly5250]

You wouldn't RENT THAT MANY BOATS.

[@larryb3430]

With that many boat rentals, it'd be easier to just buy a boat

[@baltasarjimenez2091]

But even with multiple redundant boat rentals, you can still see the effect of an economy of scale; I think that's the point of the video. Even keeping with these ridiculous choices, you can still reduce the cost of the product by scaling up. I mean, he could have saved money by driving to a closer saline water source, like the Great Salt Lake, or just gone to a salt mine; there's one in Detroit, Michigan.

[@RedMinion5051]

Science is about eliminating variables. If you are changing multiple variables between experiments you are not doing your experiments correctly. (Though Economics is about minimizing all costs. Just explaining why he didn't change too many variables.)

[@LHswe]

Yeah and I dislike the idea that the sandwich is supposedly costing 1500 dollars...if he made a garden, raised multiple chickens, and boiled enough salt for many sandwiches. The price per sandwich is still lower as the crops, chicken and tools are still there to give him more sandwiches. He just stopped at one sandwich, my guess lower than the total yield of his crops and the slaughter on one chicken would yield many many more sandwiches. I get the point they were trying to make but it's too convoluted to intrigue me. It's like a Marvel movie, too many fantastical explanations when some well reasoned, simple and logical one's suffice.

[@slydevil4759]

That is also asuming he is renting the boat for one trip only. Isn't it more like rent for a day, he can make a lot more than one trip per rent.

[@asharahmed9734]

This was the first Wendover video I watched!

[@josephjackson1956]

0:00 did he really just stare at the camera for 10 seconds?

[@boimeme.]

Yes

[@Willybean08]

It looks looped and reversed

[@B3Band]

Why do you need to rent a boat to get salt water? And why does it have to be California water? Pacific Northwest (or the Northeast, for that matter) are closer, and probably even cleaner.

[@danielabdalla8488]

That's what I thought, you could fill it up by wading right in the beach.

[@mcearl8073]

Riku Penttila did you ever see that huge island of trash and plastic floating in the middle of the ocean? I think they say it's about the size of Texas. I'd like to actually see some tests of the salt pulled from shore vs further out and see if it is in fact cleaner or not. I'm skeptical

[@pretzelstick320]

billy mccabe It not an island, and it's hundreds of miles out. But imagine what pollutants are off of the la coast.

[@mcearl8073]

Pretzel Stick I know it isn't an island, that was somewhat metaphorical, how about a huge floatilla of garbage in the middle of the ocean. Pollution is going to be anywhere, I'm sure it is higher right off the coast but I'd still think it would be far cheaper to filter it out or Un-contaminate it somehow.

[@pretzelstick320]

billy mccabe I don't know, if you look at the water off the la ports, you would see why no one would want to ingest anything that came from there

[@Kingpingamer]

all these flavors you choose to be salty

[@ariflastname2588]

Easy to understand and educational

[@tacticaljackson]

“It’s sea salt, I swear!”

[@GaviLazan]

I think you have a little math error there (at 6:09), 40,000lbs doesn't equal 6.3kg.

[@onee]

18,000 kilograms

[@stephentroyer3831]

What about the math error 0:38 ?

[@onee]

Stephen Troyer 2 pounds is approximately 2.5 dollars

[@stephentroyer3831]

I'm referring to using the mathematically incorrect term "times less."

[@GaviLazan]

Huh?

[@retak4110]

I thought salt was extracted from salt lakes like the Uyuni one in Bolivia and not from evaporating sea water. He could have also gone to the east coast and it would have been cheaper.

[@pennsylvaniaball9137]

Evaporating sea water isn't the only way to get salt, so it is possible some companies take salt from dried lake beds but idk.

[@geeklyweekly7979]

the great lakes(the closest to where he lived) are fresh water

[@hexx2211]

neonlent You can get salt from any water source with salt in it. Of course, some sources are better than others because water can have other contaminants in it, so when boiled, you not only get salt, but whatever else was mixed in, too

[@retak4110]

Hexx But I mean he could have gone to Manhattan, where the sea water is still salty and is nearer from Minnesota

[@hexx2211]

neonlent I guess so

[@9manny99]

This old videoes sound so odd. Your voice and narrative ability has become great!

[@MrBluemanworld]

I can honestly say that I graduated from college and passed exams with the definitional concepts like economy of scale and scope, but have never really understood what that meant until this video.