The History Guy proving a cranberry history is more interesting than anything on network TV.

@t.j.payeur5331

4 жыл бұрын

Bravo! Well said...

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Bob G Sitting on the side of a bog and watching the cranberries grow. Much more interesting than the Impeachment hearings. Same thing as watching paint dry.😬🥴

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

While not a high bar to cross these days, I agree completely!

@Landrew0

4 жыл бұрын

If only such hysteria were no longer with us today.

@pratherat

4 жыл бұрын

With the internet what's the point of television anymore?

Several viewers have mentioned that there is a picture of a basket around 9:12 that is filled with red currants, not cranberries. I apologize for the error.

@TERoss-jk9ny

4 жыл бұрын

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered : My gosh..... Who cares? People can be so....... Foo/unmmmnn petty!

@Mr.Unacceptable

4 жыл бұрын

At least it was current.

@jupitercyclops6521

4 жыл бұрын

FDA has a $15 billion budget!?!? (And many of them are still on the take)

@mikeyoung9810

4 жыл бұрын

Got to error free or the masses will revolt...

@SteveLombardi58

4 жыл бұрын

CurrAnts

The writing here is berry, berry good. Not bogged down in saucy prose. I pemmicannot wait to see what's next. I'll show myself out now, thanks.

@scottyj6226

4 жыл бұрын

Don't stop what you're doing

@kimberlytancrede5468

4 жыл бұрын

😄👍

@bluekitty3731

3 жыл бұрын

This reply is a real Turkey! And I don't relish having to say this.

@ajwilson605

3 жыл бұрын

But you're here all week.......

@BenState

3 жыл бұрын

EPIC FAIL

"If we both pass away, I shall have performed a great public service." What a guy!

@skie6282

4 жыл бұрын

Good to hear the 1960s had just as much discourse in politics as today. Just worded a bit different

@stormharman5843

4 жыл бұрын

If he had been gifted with foresight he would have admitted that he would have done TWO public services.. :D

@jimmym3352

4 жыл бұрын

Nixon does have a bad rap. While he did break the law with Watergate, he did good things like create the EPA. In some aspects, he was a better President than JFK. He should have ended the Vietnam war earlier, but at least he ended it.

@stormharman5843

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimmym3352 The EPA has been a horrific failure. It is a tyrannical agency without oversight that protects the biggest polluters (the government) while shutting down backyard barbecues.. There is no possible world in which we would not have been better off without it.

@billaustin650

3 жыл бұрын

Storm Harman you don’t have a clue about what you’re commenting on. The epa has been good for this country.

I can just see the reporting on this with cigarette smoke filling the room.

@rlguerrero2263

4 жыл бұрын

Good point.

@keithhyttinen8275

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God for the smoking police.

I remember the "Cranberry Scare". I was 14 at the time. Having been a chemist for 50 years, I am retired now, I would be willing to bet I could find a suspected carcinogen in any food. I remember one time we were analyzing corn stalks for a pesticide and we found that natural products in the stalk were more toxic than the pesticide.

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

Your corny story contains a kernel of truth.

@goodun2974

4 жыл бұрын

Do we feed corn stalks to people? Not to my knowledge we don't. If we feed them to animals, do those naturally occurring toxins end up in the animal's flesh?

@jamesstaley5611

4 жыл бұрын

@@goodun2974 Well the whole subject of what happens to chemicals when they are ingested by a human or other animals is a very complex chemistry. Most substances are metabolized in the digestive system to something else and the liver plays a big part also. I can't really give you a definite answer.

@goodun2974

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesstaley5611 , The reason you can't give me a definitive answer is because you are a retired chemist and you never apparently really looked into the issue of the question that I posed. Which is why, with all due respect to you, it is a good idea to have currently working, non-retired chemists, pose such or similar questions and entertain hypotheses and then embark on research to prove or disprove them. "I don't know" isn't an answer; but it can spark the beginning of a quest that may end in knowledge. I will hazard a guess that your search for pesticide residues in those cornstalks may have been limited to a question of whether the pesticides would interfere with the corn taking up nutrients from the soil. Hypothesizing that you might have been engaged in this scientific research on behalf of some big agricultural company, I'd postulate that any further research into the ramifications of pesticide residue, or naturally occuring toxins, were immaterial to the subject at hand.

@rlguerrero2263

4 жыл бұрын

You could take a look at senescent cells and how they secret cancer inducing factors at late ages. What mean we all have endogenous carcinogenics.

Wisconsin produces 64% of the cranberries harvested every year. As a Wisconsinite I pass cranberry bogs all the time. Never heard this story! Very educational.

@caturdaynite7217

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever we travel north from Madison we alway stop in Warren, WI to buy cranberries. A very Wisconsin product. We always have a bag in the freezer. You never know when you will want cranberries. I've consumed them in July. My fav jam is rhubarb and cranberry. The brand? Slack's from Wisconsin.

@joshuasnore3600

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the best are grown in South Jersey.

@715rdmail

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuasnore3600 LOL, I don't like cranberries so I couldn't say which are the best.

@gailhuggard6060

3 жыл бұрын

I live on a cranberry bog in Grayland, WA. My sons are cranberry farmers

@beefcurtains6691

3 жыл бұрын

Nah guys best cranberries are in MA near cape cod

"contradictory science and breathless news reports" It sounds like not much has changed, just that we've added internet trolls.

@beyondrepair8949

4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to the comment. It's 1959 all over again.

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

I resemble that remark!

@paulboy9101

4 жыл бұрын

The politicians, who are mostly lawyers, don’t understand how to formulate policy based on the common sense use of science. Nothing has changed.

@MrGoatflakes

4 жыл бұрын

And Internet content producers that produce balanced and informative content like The History Guy, while the media is running around like chicken little trying to convince people the death camps are coming if you don't vote for Bloomberg...

@annwilliams6438

4 жыл бұрын

J Smith Just look at the weather and you will see a change - unless you are younger than 25 I suppose, because then you may think that ridiculous weather patterns are normal. Many of us can SEE what is happening, but we still find Americans who just follow what their President tweets. This is the same guy who asks 'whose boat is that?' when visiting storm wrecked areas....

The cranberry colored bow tie and kerchief were a nice touch.

@Genii69

4 жыл бұрын

Just came here to see if anyone else noticed that! 😊

Thank you for sharing this reminder of how little it takes for media to go off on a hysterical rant. I enjoyed the information about cranberries. I'm grabbing a handful of dried cranberries now.

"More distrust of corporate motives." But not enough distrust of government.

Reporter: "Mr. Simpson, tell us about your thrilling career." Abe Simpson: "I worked 42 years as night watchman at a cranberry silo."

@OhMySack

4 жыл бұрын

Good catch! Let us not forget Abe's 'Walking Bird' and the ol' trick of tying an onion to his belt!

@pino6247

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a title for a creepypasta

@deadfreightwest5956

4 жыл бұрын

@@OhMySack - "Which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, on account of the war. Now where was I?"

@deadfreightwest5956

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamespfitz - "Which in those days they called Morganville!"

@ws2228

4 жыл бұрын

@@deadfreightwest5956 But the important thing was he had an onion on his belt. He couldn't get white ones because of the war.....

Reminds me of the “Red Dye #2” scare, and the one about a shampoo that was force fed to rats in such amounts that a person would have to drink dozens of bottles of it a day to get an equivalent amount of the supposed carcinogen.

Once again, THG comes up with another subject that I am not that interested in but, since it is the THG that puts it out, I watch. And again I learn something new and interesting. Again when I first click on the video, I also click on the tumbs up. Always interesting. Way to go THG.

@gusmc2220

4 жыл бұрын

same here, thought 'no way I'm watching 15 minutes about cranberries, I don't even like cranberries' 15 minutes later, 'wow that was interesting, still don't like cranberries though' LOL

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

I think he should do an episode on paint, just to prove that he can make watching paint dry interesting.

@JTA1961

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reminder 👍

@methree9800

4 жыл бұрын

Hard and sour and bitter... that’s why she’s your “ex!”

@scorpion19142001

4 жыл бұрын

"Watch" Paint dry! "OR" Watch GRASS Grow!

I never skip any episodes of The History Guy. Repeated examples have demonstrated that no matter how seemingly uninteresting I may initially find the subject matter I am certain to be both entertained and informed with out fail. The History Guy has no peers.

I was 14 during the great cranberry scare. In Massachusetts, where I grew up the word was out, it was a small number of west coast cranberries not in Ocean Spray products, but the that season I still remember we would ask for another helping of cancer, and enjoyed our cranberries as we always did. I've thought about the scare many times over the years, and was pleased to watch your excellent report. Just a few years later, in Vietnam, I was exposed to agent orange, which we were told was harmless... Four of us went to Vietnam together, we all survived the war, but I am the survivor, they all died of agent orange exposure... and I am a cancer survivor. But the VA denies agent orange benefits.

I have been trying to remember the details of the cranberry scare which occurred shortly after I graduated from high school. I was quite fond of cranberry sauce and was devastated by not having any more for the holidays. Many thanks for your talk on this topic. It certainly contains lessons worth remembering in a day when knee-jerk reactions to rumors and news seem to be the order of the day.

One of the most captivating channels on KZread. Not a single episode is anything short of fascinating. I recommend you to everyone I know who enjoys historical trivia and content. Keep it up sir!

I was 12 that year, living/working on a busy 10 Section farm in a then rural part of western Washington. That news, via the "farm network" swept through the area like wild fire - it's all the grown ups talked about "...what will the government declare unsafe next? As berry farmers, our crops could be it." Looking back I now can see how fast "regular" people can go stupid when they feel stressed. Another great memory flogger - you are GOOD. Thank you for sharing...

In another life, I remember the cranberry scare of 1959, but until I listened to your post, I’d forgotten it. Several lives later, I was working in a Ukrainian part of Canada and regularly ate at a Ukrainian café. They had cranberry tarts on the menu so I ordered one. It was good and I asked them where they got the cranberries. They said from the banks of a local creek. I assured them that was nothing like our cranberries as ours grew in water-filled bogs and not on dry land. It’s the only way I’d ever seen them in advertisements. Much later I found out they are grown on dry land, but the fields are flooded to make harvesting easier. Live and learn. Thank you so much for the reminder.

Cranberry sauce is best when it stands in a serving dish retaining the shape of can.

@judydoyle1124

4 жыл бұрын

Jim's videos that’s our traditional method of serving, too

@scottyj6226

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Ralphieboy

3 жыл бұрын

That was my task as a kid at Thanksgiving: de-canning and slicing the cranberry gelatin

@davidcox3076

3 жыл бұрын

Non-can-shaped cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving is jut plain un-American!

@rubynelson1164

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no. Homemade sauce only 😋.

Interesting how the Delaney act was appealed in the 90's and then the group Cranberries came out.

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

@Greg Moonen Gotcha! Thanks for sharing what you know. I didn't know about until the 90's. I guess either way the 90's was a win for the Cranberries!

@djdemondude6593

4 жыл бұрын

It's in my head!! In my head!! Zombie zombie zombie

@ThePhoenix198

4 жыл бұрын

Illuminati confirmed?

@RhettyforHistory

4 жыл бұрын

@@djdemondude6593 That was a good one!

@djdemondude6593

4 жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory It really was a good song.

Lance, a zillion of us are supportive. Keep going just as you like! This historical event makes me recall that the cranberry industry has always included wimsy and humor in their advertising. This makes their product harmless and delicious! Twenty years ago we had to live in New Jersey for over three years. Nobody had any negative comments about the cranberry industry when we were local to that industry. And that's pretty good for Joisey people!

One of my favourite sandwiches is smoked bacon, brie and cranberry sauce. Now, fond as I am of this sandwich, I have a feeling I am never going to eat enough for of them for the cranberry sauce to be a problem.

@celtisafricana4984

4 жыл бұрын

And the bacon?🤣🤣🤣

@nickmadigan2824

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of bread?

@chrisebert7307

4 жыл бұрын

That sandwich does sound quite interesting. I'm also curious as to what kind of bread you use...

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

That sandwich sounds amazing! I'm going to go get some Brie cheese and try it right now!

@mytech6779

4 жыл бұрын

All bacon is smoked, otherwise it is just plain salt pork or fresh pork belly.

Amazing we've lived so long! Actually we live in a world with starkly lower poverty rates, much longer expected life spans, and lower hunger world wide. Due in large part to agricultural advancements including chemicals and techniques. It's amazing that we feed 7 billion people! Great video, thanks history guy & family. Happy holidays to you and all of yours.🎄⛄

@suleskos.2743

4 жыл бұрын

Glenn thank you for recognizing modern agriculture's contributions to a better society. As an "Agvocate" and member of an agricultural group I watch ag, (American or otherwise), villified every single day when in reality it has come so far to feed so many with so much less.

Awesome history channel. It kills me a little that you beat us to covering the great cranberry scare. XD

Born 1949, Halifax MA, cranberry country. My first job ever was mucking ditches. I remember the scare and that my parents were adamant that berries were safe to eat. But through the years, and urban sprawl, most bogs north of Carver and Cape Cod have been abandoned and left to go wild. Yet even through the good times of the 70s and 80s bog growers ne er forgot 1959. Great video! Thanks

Thank you, History Guy, for once again highlighting the ineptitude of any federal bureaucracy and why we need to rid our selves of these plagues upon humanity.

@elizabethsohler1847

3 жыл бұрын

That's not entirely fair .The FDA was created for a reason.

Where else are you going to get history served up to you like this. Great job History Guy, keep up the good work :)

This was a berry good story HG, and it won't sour me from watching your future episodes!

@Beardwhip

4 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh no

@ttystikkrocks1042

4 жыл бұрын

That was an awfully tart reply!

@carlcushmanhybels8159

4 жыл бұрын

juicy and saucy future episodes.

@scottyj6226

4 жыл бұрын

Can you berry kindly cran some more puns into your comments?

I just watched a video about cranberries at 5am while drunk and very tired... The History Guy can literally make anything interesting!

I remember this. My mother always made Cranberry Nut Bread, a family favorite, at Christmas. Loaves and loaves of it. She would even give it away as Christmas presents. It was quite an outstanding delicacy. Not that year, though! Rest in Peace, Mom!

I remember when it happened, I was nine. No cranberries at Thanksgiving. It's funny that you want something much more, when you can't get it.

No cranberries were harmed during the recording of this video.

@nameinvalid69

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha would be funny if the History Guy took a bite at the end 🤣🤣🤣

This episode contains Partisan renarks....yet the History Guy remains. Just history, just information, and just educational. That's why we all love him. Dont you ever change. For us.

It's amusing to note that the state that produces the majority of cranberries, 62 percent per 2017 study, is Wisconsin. It was not mentioned *at all* in the video. Also, especially in the last part of the segment shows how an industry, particularly in agriculture, markets it's products in a singular & specific way. Essentially it is a monoculture, or specific one use product. (The same can be said for countries; oil only producing, coffee only, banana only, etc.) Once cranberries were found to be used for more than "cranberry sauce" i.e. cranberry cocktail, dries cranberries, etc., the product not only survived, but thrived! Another great video History Guy! Thank You!!!

As a Beekeeper, I use time tested example of 'if it hurts my Bees it's no good for me!' as my 'touchstone' of whether something is good or bad for you. Since I have been a beekeeper, I have not been sick once.

@kristenheuer5676

4 жыл бұрын

We have bees as well. We have trouble losing hives in the winter. We lost 2 hives last year.

@cliveschoonover1367

4 жыл бұрын

I dunno, my varoa mite dipping sauce is pretty good. Bees just need to toughen up.

@rlguerrero2263

4 жыл бұрын

Had you perceived you underrated yourself from a person to the level of mere insects? And what about bees poison? Is it good for you? By the way, I'm starting on beekeeping as well. But without any chemophobia.

"People were bombarded with contradictory science and breathless news reports." Just like today.

@dukecraig2402

4 жыл бұрын

Just like global warming.

@comms9803

4 жыл бұрын

Not much has changed.

@gebali

4 жыл бұрын

Science is seldom the problem. It is the weaponisation of science by media, politicians and corporates that is the problem.

@dukecraig2402

4 жыл бұрын

@@gebali Using science in a manner other than exactly what it is is called religion, and that's exactly what global warming has been turned into, the next religion, like any religion it's all fear and guilt, fear and guilt, and just like each religion it has it's own "official scientists", and just like a religion if you don't accept the findings of their official scientists you're declared blasphemous. In 1990 I was dating a girl whose oldest sister is a college professor, in the 80's her department got the grant from the federal government to get to the bottom of the issue of whether or not acid rain was harmful to plant life on the North American continent, they ran a program where they had plots of land sectioned off and would go around to them regularly to check plant and insect life along with rain samples in these control areas, after several years of study they concluded that acid rain only affected one particular type of plant that only grew above a certain altitude which rarely saw acid rain anyways. Any one old enough will remember that in the 80's acid rain was the thing that was going to end life on the planet but all of a sudden around 1990 the subject just kind of went away, that's because the scientists came to conclusions. As a footnote at the end of her telling us about her research department's work and findings she mentioned with a slight chuckle that some of her colleagues are angry with her because she came to conclusions about acid rain and then the research money dried up. Throughout the years since the acid rain scare went away I've watched the "researchers" use their same doomsday scare techniques to get the global warming thing to gain traction and they finally have flung a ball of crap that stuck to the wall, since I've been alive the list of things that were going to end it all have been; Next ice age (1970's) Killer Bee's (late 70'-early 80's) Acid rain (80's) Ozone layer depletion (90's) Yep they finally flung a ball of crap with global warming that's stick to the wall, over the years everytime I've heard the researchers say "We need more funding for research" I think about my girlfriends sister mentioning that her colleagues were upset about how her coming to conclusions dried up the money for those research labs, that's probably why I just won't fall for the doomsday BS from them, in my 54 years on this planet they've already killed me off so many times that none of us shouldn't even be here, it's all about the 2.5 billion dollars that the federal government hands out for global warming research.

@sailorarwen6101

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Gee “scientific studies” are often paid for by large corporations and conveniently always get results in their favor. 🤔

There is NO way I can listen to this without it reminding me of the HILARIOUS Bob & Ray sketch, with the interview of a cranberry farmer. I highly recommend anyone, unfamiliar with the routine, to Google it/listen to it.

I want to thank you, as the "guy who likes old stuff" in my circle of friends I get to be the one who tells stories about history to my friends. Finally having someone more educated than me pronounce Sulfanilamide is a wonderful thing. You don't want to know how many times I've told the story about it, and never with a good grasp of Any reasonable way to properly pronounce that word. >.< Thank you, sir. Also, I found this episode to be both fun and informative, but all your videos are That, so it gets second billing.

This channel is fantastic!

If it's not screwed up, the government hasn't tried to fix it yet.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, life would be so much better without the fda..

@desmondregan7499

4 жыл бұрын

@Greg Moonen how are you being a sarcastic? thats actually a legitimate argument,whos going to continue buying something thats killing people.. and its not like the fda is exactly doing a great job at stopping dangerous pharmaceuticals from hitting the market anyhow

@MrTitaniumDioxide

4 жыл бұрын

Yours is completely invalid 'through the looking glass' thinking, propaganda straight from amoral corporations. You want lead in gasoline or DDT & dioxin in our food & water? It's better to err on the side of caution, especially when feeding rapidly-growing, fragile children. Look to poorly-regulated, corrupt China with deadly toothpaste & infant formula powder, disgusting 'gutter oil', fake plastic 'eggs', toxic farmed seafood, etc. before you spout your 'libertarian' hogwash. We have regulatory agencies in place for very _valid_ reasons. Pesticides, fungicides and herbicides are inherently hazardous substances. As in, -cide, from Latin _-cida,_ 'cutter, killer, slayer'.

@AJ-ln4sm

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like I stirred up the freeloaders on the government dole.

@MrTitaniumDioxide

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJ-ln4sm Supurb counter-argument -- the morally- and intellectually-bankrupt corporate stooge segment has triumphed! P.S. I'm going to work on a later shift today, you douchebag.

Why would anyone give The History Guy a thumbs down? He delivers an almost 'behind the scenes' account of historical events.

I was amazed years ago when I first learned how many of the ordinary foods that we experience in the United States, including cranberries, had never existed in Europe.

When I was younger I believed all the cancer scares that this, that or the other will kill ya. Then a few years later its reported, "not so much" then ok again. I began to ignore all these scares and still do. Moderation in all things is my motto.

@voornaam3191

4 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Murphy Weird kind of sarcasm. It sounds exactly like the reassuring stories.

@waynevreeland3141

4 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Murphy "From the wonderful people who brought us NAPALM !!" "Better living thru chemistry".

Delaney forgot that the "dose makes the poison" .

@rlguerrero2263

4 жыл бұрын

As all chemophobics

@elizabethsohler1847

3 жыл бұрын

Truth!

How well I remember this. In the end, we had cranberry with our Thanksgiving turkey, and I will be 73 in 3 days.

I am old enough to remember the cranberry scare of ‘59. I really enjoyed your walk down “memory lane”!!!

I was nine years old at the time, I remember it was of no concern to my mom.

It would be nice to do a video about the introduction of Fluoride into the drinking water. For many years myself and my medical colleagues have held the theory that this process is what lead to a sudden spike in diabetes around the world. The reason being that fluoride is actually toxic to the pancreas. Thank you.

@ashleyhathaway8548

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, it's the fluoride that's responsible of the spike in diabetes, not the alarming obesity epidemic.

@WWTormentor

3 жыл бұрын

Ashley Hathaway yes, obesity is a factor. But it is not the only factor. We are also seeing a spike in people with no family history of DM who are not obese also developing DM. Take a look at the rise of DM in other countries where obesity and fast food is not present in large numbers we see in the US but yet we see a spike in DM diagnosis there as well. There are multiple factors that can cause the disease from genetics, to trauma, to poor eating habits, but let’s not ignore the environmental factors as well. The effects of fluoride on the pancreas and other organs is well documented. Cities and states routinely monitor water systems for heavy metal and other mineral levels. Yet they are not checked for fluoride levels. I am not saying that it is the only cause but I am suggesting that it can be the cause in some cases where other factors such as family history, obesity, and poor eating habits are not present.

My Grandmother was a big advocate of "everything in moderation"... perhaps influenced by the FDA? In any event, cranberry sauce is an important part of our holiday traditions! Thank you for posting this fascinating snippet of history, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

I vividly remember the 1959 Cranberry scare!!! I was 10 years old and I thought every kid in America was given a wonderful early Christmas gift!!! Cranberries were bitter, and, if not prepared with enough sugar were really awful tasting!!! Thank goodness I learned how to cook them!!! I love them today❣️❣️❣️

I remember when my relatives used to speak of this, when I was very young, & were in the midst of cranberry harvest.

An interesting and informative episode even if there were no pirates involved.

@rlguerrero2263

4 жыл бұрын

I beg your pardon, but those folks profiting on the fear of the people are worst than pirates

@kimberlytancrede5468

4 жыл бұрын

Bog pirates.

Not one person harmed by the berries, millions harmed by reckless mass media through history. The History Guy takes any subject and makes it awesome

THE HISTORY GUY : HISTORY DESERVERS TO BE REMEMBERED IS THE PLACE TO FIND SHORT SNIPPETS OF FORGOTTEN HISTORY FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN MINUTES LONG.IF YOU LIKE HISTORY TOO,THIS IS THE CHANNEL FOR YOU. : THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.Non Censuram ! ! ! ! 👍 👍 👍 👍 Plus The History Guy is So Cool 😎 Gotta love a guy that wears a bow tie 😊

Please do a full episode on the 1937 Sulfanilamide diaster!

@goodun2974

4 жыл бұрын

@Medicinehat Pinto Dahl , If not for the government having banned DDT we probably wouldn't have any bald eagles left, they would be extinct or very nearly so. Our national bird! Ditto for ospreys and other large raptors.

How about the red food coloring scare? I remember as a kid the first time there were red M&Ms.

@Pfsif

4 жыл бұрын

Red dye #6 ?

@MrWATCHthisWAY

4 жыл бұрын

TheC4FourHundred -Red dye #4, I believe is the dye your speaking of. It eventually was outlawed all together from being used in foods & cosmetics that humans or animals were to either consume or have contact with. I think it was used to color hotdogs at the time?? Not sure. Loved me some #4!

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pfsif Red Dye #2, aka Amaranth, was found to cause cancer in rats. Red M&Ms never used that dye, they used #40, but Mars decided to pull the color to avoid confusion. Red M&Ms were reintroduced once they deemed sufficient time had passed. Many red dyed food items are dyed with carmine from the cochineal insect and the main risk is from an allergic reaction causing anaphylactic shock. Naturally derived dyes like this and annatto don't get a listing number as they are exempt. Red dye #3 has fallen out of favor and been replaced by #40 partially because the high amount of iodine in it sensitizes the thyroid and causes concern about possible non-cancerous tumorigenesis. Two other red dyes, including #4, have been delisted as well. Red dye #32 is actually orange in dilution and was found to actually be toxic and delisted in the early 1950s. This is particularly bad because it is used to dye fat-soluble stuff and so can accumulate in the body. Don't eat red or orange candles.

@voornaam3191

4 жыл бұрын

@@Markle2k Don't you use E-numbers? You can hate Europe (like the Brits) but in Europe you know exactly what you eat. You can read it on the packaging. I dare you Americans to introduce those laws, too. But I guess your powerful food industry hasn't got the balls to be honest.

@lowellmccormick6991

4 жыл бұрын

@@voornaam3191 What are you talking about? Ingredients are listed on the packaging of food I buy in the U.S.

I used to be a nurse. I really enjoyed this particular article. Thanks.

I don't know how you do it; EVERY episode is educational and entertaining. You're my new History Channel, because the original couldn't be bothered to stick to its mandate. Thanks again for your hard work!

Very interesting! I feel somewhat smarter than I was a while ago! Thanks History Guy.

I like your aptly selected bow tie for this topic!

This is why I love youtube. excellent content about things I never knew.

I put off watching this from my suggested list for over a week. Glad I finally watched. Very good history 👍😊

It tickles me to see you at the end of the Tank Museum's video time and time again since your visit. You must have made as big a splash across the pond as you do here.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

We had a great time there, and the people at that museum are simply awesome!

@alanhelton

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel As I didn't know about them while serving overseas in Germany and thus missed that chance, I don't know I'll get a chance to visit Bovington. It was great to tag along virtually. They put on a spectacular show with tank chats series. That leads me to a topic. I feel so much like Howard Hughes these days being able to choose what I watch on the regular if you're catching my drift...

Why on earth would anyone dislike 👎 this little history lesson? ...or any fact based, brain feeding, morsel of history for that matter....they must be flat-earthers who spend all day in their parents basement watching cat videos by day, and stocking Walmart shelves by night...🐈

@waynevreeland3141

4 жыл бұрын

Oh come on now! Anybody who spends any amount of time with a cat KNOWS the Earth is not flat... if it was, cats would have pushed everything on Earth off the edge by now !!! Ok, I'll let myself out, now. Sorry, Mark.

@AkX1353

4 жыл бұрын

@@waynevreeland3141 😂

i have to say this , you are THE beatles of youtube history stuff . . . best ever , thank you and your staff for your efforts . i cannot tell you how much i enjoy the time i spend enthralled . . .

@dwlopez57

4 жыл бұрын

If hes the best ever dont you mean hes the Rolling Stones of you tube?

Mr. & Mrs. History Guy, we absolutely love and look forward to your posts. This is what YT should be about. Thanks ! (Really love the Naval History stuff)

This story has a close parallel in the near-destruction of tha apple industry with Alar, a growth regulating chemical that was used sparingly by limited growers to provide uniform color at harvest. Our increasing ability to measure minute quantities certainly promotes the investigation of our effect on the environment. Although a variety of chemicals have been used for quite a while, the post WWII era and subsequent evolution of the mass production of a variety of crops have brought chemicals into mainstream concern. While the obvious concern is that of immediate health threat, the more insidious is the long-term effects of exposure to tiny amounts. Those effects may not show up for many generations, far too late for prevention. I happen to live in Wisconsin very near the nation's most productive area of cranberry production, so the specifics of this well-researched story are interesting. At the same time, the premise can be extended to almost all of 'agriculture'.

@edsmith4148

4 жыл бұрын

Every single substance in the universe, whether natural or artificial, will harm any living organism if you force feed enough of it.

I came for the aviation history. I stayed for the hats and cats and cranberries!🤣 Thanks History Guy! 👍

Grew up in Massachusetts not too far from cranberry bogs!!! Growing up at holidays my mother would make homemade cranberry sauce. She would boil and add sugar.

Anyone else get the biggest grin when he says his catch phrase, maybe even say it along with him? Such a great channel.

Edward R. Squibb started the process of regulating the quality of medicine after the Civil War. You might look into that as well.

You are the BEST! I love hearing your history! But another good part is the comments, as people get on their soap boxes and really get wound up. Some make a lot of sense others are down right funny.

@goodun2974

4 жыл бұрын

David Schonhardt, any Internet video having to do with possible government overreach and/or media scare tactics that well papers invites all the people who hate the government and believe all news is fake to put their own thoughts into the comment field: to wit, "government bad", "news is fake". "Take that, you big-government liberals"!. No further thought or parsing of details is required. Conflicting or opposing information is summarily ignored.

Thank you again History Guy for another great lesson. I used to own a lake front home in New Jersey at #10 Dakota Trail on Presidential Lakes in the Pine Lands. Berry’s are grown in the bogs and prior to harvest the bogs are flooded then machines are used to whip up the berry’s off the vines and these berry’s float to the surface and then harvested by vacuums off the surface. Our lake was inline downstream on the water supply chain for Ocean Spray. During harvest you would see many a loose berry floating on our lakes surface. One year our entire lake was covered completely by these red cranberry’s that had been released from upstream, by deer who love to feast on cranberry’s. Deer had pulled up several of the temporary wood slats that held the berry’s in place to allow for them to be harvested. This proved to be a nightmare situation for everyone living on our lake this year because Ocean Spray could careless about our homes or property at this time they were in panic mode and only thing they concerned themselves with was collecting their lost berries. Ocean Spray just drove their machinery equipment and personnel all over our properties with no regard to lose or damage to our homes, trees, Blueberry bushes, grass, lighting, docks or Driveways. The lack of concern and responsibility from Ocean Spray during this time left a fracture going forward between property owners and Ocean Spray. I believe had Ocean Spray just covered the cost of the damages they created all the animosity would have been avoided. But I do love the taste of fresh Cranberry’s to this day.

This channel stands out as having consistently excellent videos. Interesting. Informative. Well paced. Concise.

Who thumbed down the cranberry story? I was in school in the early 60s, we were told to read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. There's been many changes in the foods industry, in my lifetime.

@tonicastel2390

4 жыл бұрын

I love Upton Sinclair’s books. The Jungle is eye-opening.

History Guy, your shows are AWESOME !!!!

The parallels to recent events are hard to ignore.

This story reminded of a Thanksgiving Day dinner when a friend kept calling a bowl of cranberry sauce as the cancer bowl and most of the adults laughed. I was 11 at the time and maybe the laugh was because the scare was doubted or they were tempting fate. Thanks for the memories of a Thanksgiving Day dinner.

Been watching the channel for about 2 years. Your Dale video brought me here. It's good to see you get the attention you deserve. Bring back the old intro.

@chrisneedham5803

4 жыл бұрын

'Been watching the channel for about 2 years'.................. I think that's long enough ........ your soup has gone cold

@dexterkoula3407

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 dude, you're super schizo

@cseivard

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, about three weeks ago, I had a stroke.in recovery, and therapy,and rehab. I basically need to learn to walk again,but ,am listening to many of these to help my healing.. I talk way too quickly after my stroke . It’s another thing I am learningThanks very much !very much, IT helps! Here’s a tip:: maybe q story about the Honda point disaster sept. 8,1923 .? Eight destroyers ran aground,amazing pics,taken originally by the Hindenburg,who took photos of the wreck great story, I will be watching, and learning to talk more slowly! Thanks,Chris Seivard

@waynevreeland3141

4 жыл бұрын

@@cseivard Quick and positive recovery to you, sir !!

It has been a long time since I was like number 11 or so. Love your work.

Just found your channel and in addition to the content I really enjoy your presentation and apparent lack of slick computer generated graphics or intro. Thanks too for addressing us as individuals rather than "you guys" like so many other KZread content providers. Cheers!

I love cranberry sauce and cranberry juice. The juice is a great tonic for urinary tract infections. I'm a Texan and remember fondly a tour of a cranberry farm when I visited Massachusetts on a vacation. I set aside the time for the visit and don't regret it! Why is there not a cranberry ice cream?

I was just a 9 year old then but I remember this, when my Mom could not find any cranberries.

Anyone getting Popeye's Chicken Sandwiches should use cranberry sauce. It makes it totally different and better. Or even candied yams. And you don't have to the munchies to enjoy it. But it doesn't hurt!

@hellosunshine1090

4 жыл бұрын

Wow great tip & from a funny name too. Constipated, if you add salads & fruit and decrease Chicken sandwiches by 50% you won't be, LOL

@billrentz

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds good. I always ask for extra pickles.

@constipatedinsincity4424

4 жыл бұрын

@@billrentz I promise you save some cranberry sauce or candied yams. Use a lot of mayonnaise or Miracle Whip

@kamenridernephilim

4 жыл бұрын

The more pressing problem is dealing with the idiots knifing each other or fighting over a chicken sandwich.

@lowellmccormick6991

4 жыл бұрын

I've noticed lately that some of my friends in New Orleans are putting honey on their fried chicken.

I remember that time and my family ate cranberrys that Thanksgiving and every year since.

Thanks again for another great presentation HG and Mrs HG. Although there was some short term pain, thanks for letting us know about the good things that came out of the scare. A little warning about carcinogens. Two time Nobel prize winner, Dr. Otto Warburg in his Landau Lecture, pointed out that all cancers have an interruption of the flow of oxygen into the mitochondria of the cell. In higher species, one of the functions of the mitochondria is to convert glucose to adenosintriphosphate, ATP, which the body uses for energy. In his lecture, Warburg explains how scientists create cancer cells in a lab from normal cells by placing them in a petrie dish under a bell jar and reducing the atmospheric pressure to two thirds of normal. Within two cell divisions, the cells become cancerous. The change causes a genetic transformation, making it permanent. All cancer cells in varying degrees produce lactic acid. The lactic acid is produced when the Krebs Citric Acid Cycle (which takes place in the mitochondria) lacks the oxygen to convert glucose to ATP. We are all familiar with that. When we exercise heavily and our muscles lack oxygen, they produce lactic acid which causes muscle pain. Cancer is so painful because in the end stage, there is so much lactic acid that it affects every thing around it, causing pain in tissues and organs alike. Carcinogens probably affect the oxygen flow in a cell which can lead to a cell turning cancerous. Cancers vary in the interruption of the Krebs Citric Acid Cycle. The degree of interruption of the cycle is directly proportional to how aggressive the cancer is. Normally the immune system gets rid of a cancerous cell before it becomes a problem. It is wise to limit or if possible avoid exposure to carcinogens. Wear gloves or breathing masks, etc to avoid or limit exposure. It is amazing how fast your skin and lungs absorb things. Maintaining your body's alkalinity, especially if you contract cancer, is important. The immune system functions best in an alkaline environment (just over 7.0 pH).

20 people thought that this was a documentary about the band.

@radon360

4 жыл бұрын

Gosh, are they still lingering around somewhere?

@mattd1188

4 жыл бұрын

@@radon360 I want to hate you so much.

TheHistoryGuy, how about an episode about our (The U.S.A.) all but forgotten type of government. The U.S.A. is often touted as being "democratic" or a "democracy" when we are neither. To be certain, this is NOT about partisanship or whether one party fits the type of government we have better than the other. In fact, we are a "Democratic Republic" as I understand but not like the communist countries that called themselves a "democratic republic" in an effort to make their country's government look, to outsiders, like a fair and decent government. An episode describing our true Constitutional form of government and the wholly incorrect use of the term "democracy" and the use by communist countries of the term "democratic republic" would be a great episode. I am certain that the vast majority of us will certainly know that this a nonpolitical subject but it is definitely one, as you say, that deserves to be remembered.

@silverload3622

4 жыл бұрын

John Cashwell check out the big picture here on you tube it was a weekly tv show of our military reported every week back in the 50s!its amazing how different America has became after watching a couple of shows

@servico100

4 жыл бұрын

The word democracy is used in many applications. Many years ago I read a book about democracy. It was written by a Canadian whose name and book title escapes me. In it the democracies of the world were discussed in some depth. Technical and historical democracies were compared philosophically and practically by the practitioners and others outside of these democracies. In the conclusions it became apparent that democracy was strictly in the eye of the beholder. Communists, who voted for leaders, believed they lived in a democracy. Those living under dictators believed they too had a democratic process. THG might have to have an ongoing series to discuss democracy. It saddens me looking at our system (US) today, I am uncertain if it is truly " the Republic for which it stands"

@Silverado138

4 жыл бұрын

Its a "presidential republic" or simply a republic… I guess you have forgotten to say the Pledge of Allegiance🤦🏻‍♂️ I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I can't find were it says it's a democratic republic. The major difference between a democracy and a republic is that a republic is a form of government whereas a democracy is an ideology that helps shape how a government is run. Put another way: a republic is the system of government that allows a country to be democratic!

@servico100

4 жыл бұрын

@@Silverado138 Sir, you just proved the point , everybody has their own point of view.

@billpostscratcher2025

4 жыл бұрын

There are essentially two forms of government - Monarchies and Republics. Our Federal Republic is a Representative Democracy. Many folks will claim that because we are not a direct democracy we are not a true democracy - that is disingenuous. We are a western style Representative Democracy. The use of the term democracy is NOT wholly incorrect. That line of reasoning is used by certain folk to promote Executive Absolutism - a return to monarchy/dictatorship/tyranny. Is it imperfect? Yes. This is because of the problems of scale and the evils of men. Mobs cannot rule; tyrannies cannot stand.

My uncle raised turkeys. The collateral damage from the cranberry scare, was the decrease in turkey sales. My uncle claimed he nearly lost everything. Just like the cranberry industry, the turkey raisers started to look for ways to boost sales year round.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

That is a good point- I did not see anything in the research mention the collateral damage to other holiday foods.

As always another great and interesting video from the History Guy. I don't think I have ever seen a bad video from this channel. And he's good at picking subjects.

The fact that people worry about trace amounts of agricultural chemicals in their food while consuming fried food soaked in sodium and sugared drinks in copious amounts astounds me. While there is a movement towards eating more healthfully, Fast foods still do a good business and lines at the funnel cake stand during state fairs are very long.

@waynevreeland3141

4 жыл бұрын

But funnel cakes are.... Like, NERVANNA, man !!!

I remember when they banned the artificial sweetener cyclamate, which is still used in the EU.

Love the format and content

I love watching these. History is fascinating and you seem to tease out all the juiciest tidbits. Thank you History Guy! Also, I like your bowties.

You sir, are the new Paul Harvey.

@ldowdy9828

4 жыл бұрын

Try the podcast "The way I heard it" it is set up almost exactly like Paul Harvey's show.

@gregcollins3404

4 жыл бұрын

@@ldowdy9828 Ya, Mike Rowe is wonderful too, but THG is every day....

@hellosunshine1090

4 жыл бұрын

FACT Brother, he is and I like it so do many others !

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Harvey's son often (perhaps occasionally is a better word) embellished the facts in the script to give the story a bit of "just so" zing. That's why they often line up with a certain world-view a little too perfectly.

I remember the cranberry scare. My cub scout troop used "poison" cranberries as a prop in a skit.

Great video as usual. I always enjoy your short history videos.

As a native of Southeastern Massachusetts I found this fascinating. I've never heard the story. Good job!