I binged watched all of this series the past few days and was so excited to see this new one pop up today. They’re all so amazingly well done. Great work and thank you.

thanks fred

What happened to your Rajneeshpuram video? Did it get taken down, or did you remove it yourself?

Fredrik Knudsen If I may ask, Fredrik, what is your nationality? I can't pin your accent and your pronunciation of German is very good. It's puzzling, to be honest.

@@anonofpeace6788 he posted the other day about that. The group he criticises in the video (can't remember their name) copyright claimed some of the footage in the video. Probably to try and keep their actions under wraps as much as possible

How inconviententnenentententnet.

the only difference is that one works faster than the other

@@Username-1939t9 yeah but some people wouldnt even know.

it took me longer than it shouldve to get that joke

@@elbozo5723 I got the hangover part immediately, but it took way too long to click. I spent a good ten to fifteen seconds trying to figure it out.

they have a level 3 necromancer on the payroll

he's fine he is now a skeleton

Lol news has always been shit

Once you’ve gotten rid of a major organ and survived, you are _basically_ immortal. That’s just how things work.

That's what happened to me. Lost pretty much all me meat in the battle of Guam. I was only able to salvage my protruding milk balls and my droopy gauged flappers, but they were enough to prevent me from fully becoming a naked walking skeletonion.

A chain reaction of bad decisions.

Actually there are laws against that, and sugar add after fermentation will not create the distinctive thickness, smell or taste of Pradikatswein, and will be detected easily

Isn't it likely that the consumer would consume foods with the wine that contains sugar?

@@solarisveritatis1086 Ehrenmann

Its the governments fault for requiring them to label that its added sugar.

That's precisely what past mistakes is for. To be better and prevent it from happening again.

funny how this scenario benefited mostly the already rich wine companies while the poor ones suffered since they couldnt keep up with the rising costs associated with the higher standards

@@clown134 so what, you want them still pumping out lower quality wine? Theres a reason why strict regulation is a thing, its needed, especially with food items

It is quite interesting that a lot of government health and safety regulations were the result of similar incidents, yet there are people out there who claim that government regulations should be abolished and that the market will take care of everything.

@@Max_Mustermann "no guys i swear deregulation will actually work forget about the 14 million times companies have killed people and/or completely trashed the environment due to a lack of regulation the free market will take care of it"

That's capitalism babey

I've always found Europeans to be far more brash and blatant in their corruption than us Americans. I appreciate that.

Just capitalists.

@@CanIswearinmyhandle whatever, yank

It's like saying "lmao its not my fault I gave people corona in the supermarket, it's their fault for getting infected"

Imagine if this happened during the ww2 and Japan declares war on Austria instead of Australia

@@calmgoodfire4662 austria didn't exist in WW2, it was part of Nazi Germany

"Not the shiraz"

I thought he was talking about Australian wine too before I watched tbh.

@@wasumyon6147 So did I. I didn't know these places were different.

On a similar note, Slovakia and Slovenia have a meeting every month to swap misaddressed mail.

@@unnhkp8mza522 amazon has to get to these places somehow lol

When my dad was in the Canadian navy in the 70s, he exchanged Canadian Tire money for Lira...told them the man with the kilt was our PM lol. He changed about 2$ into equal to about 300 US, because Canadian Tire money are bills worth cents lol.

@@davejones9469Well that’s pretty fucked up, your dad just scammed the dude

@@bb-je1tt You have to change currency at an official exchange, he didn't scam an individual dumbass. How dare you insinuate my dad is some kind of con man.

Much like bakers in the Edwardian/Victorian eras, with various powdered substances to make bread more "attractive" in various ways at lowest possible cost. And selling it to people who often ate nothing else. Yeesh. 🍞🍍

Speaking pragmatically, _everything_ will kill you if you inflict enough of it on yourself. Chocolate will poison you to death if you ingest enough of it. We put a lot of additive shit in our food and drink that already sucks for us, but will absolutely mess us up if we go wild with it. The saying goes "The dose makes the poison." But speaking realistically? *Yeah.* This is _extremely_ a measure of "How many people can we have die to this before the complaining starts to hurt our money?" They knew what they were doing, and what the consequences were. Screw "public outcry", there should have been a public _hanging._

At least it wasn't Beer. That would've been embarrassing... lol

"CJ, presented himself to the emergency room, a few hours after drinking 5 bottles of wine"

God, I hate that channel.

@@MaxwellTornado why :( it's so good

I’m glad it’s not just me who thought of chubby emu! Love that channel

Antony Drossos There’s always an anonymous Good Samaritan in stories like these.

That’s why many governments have increased persecution against whistleblowers. As seen in the video, the government will work for commercial interests even if its against the people’s. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s somebody’s business plan

@@mr.dalerobinson Businesses are conspiracies. They're conspiracies to generate profit. Look up the definition of conspiracy.

Dale Robinson I mean, they’re mostly motivated less by corporate whistleblowers, and more government ones? Like, while they *dislike* reduced commerce, they *hate* reduced faith in their authority, which is what they more harshly prosecute.

I'm guessing they were a time-traveller of some kind ^^

It's insane.

(for the LULz)

You deserve more likes for that joke.

What -emia is ethylene glycol content in blood?

All you had to do was drink the damn wine cj!

"A man drank cheap wine. This is what happened to his liver"

@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 sounds like a Russian proverb

We call it farmers logic.

**Scene from 300** "This is madness!" "Na! DES - IS - AUSTRIAAA!" **kicks guy into a pit filled with wine**

@@xxLiquidxxSnakExx The written out Austrian accent is what makes this funny

Big brain move

Like the crisps that have MSG despite having so much actual salt etc they taste too strong anyway.

We have no cats, Kathleen!

Drink, drink, DEAD

Well he's a documentary youtuber. He literally tries to present the topic as objectively as possible while trying to maintain an aura of seriousness about the topic, to the point where a topic that you would laugh at or be angry about actually sounds like a cautionary tale of how crazy the world can get. Legit one of the best sources of documentaries on UKposts. OKI's Weird Stories is another great series, definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys Down the Rabbit Hole. My personal favorites are the John McAfee series, the Hiroo Onoda two-parter and the Thierry Tilly series.

Yeah. Fredrik's monotone and serious way of speaking pretty much makes the topics he chooses to research on more interesting and entertaining, without tainting the content itself with unnecessary "entertainment glamour".

We have no wines kathleen

That Simpsons episode came to mind as I was watching this video! Air date was April 15, 1990

Same. I always assumed that scene was referencing a real event. Only took 20+ years to find out...

Came here to say this

“Et ils ont donné mon chapeau à un âne!”

Holy crap, you're right. 30 years later, that reference makes sense. Damn, the writers there were gold.

Probably more children than adults. Why? No child is going to drink grape juice and say "too bitter!" unless they just find grape juice to be inherently bitter and just don't like grape juice. And the kids that like grape juice probably aren't gonna be that critical of the taste of their grape juice.

I'll drink to that! Greetings from Austria 😬

The real question is how can you bottle wine in a country where up is down?

@@SToNeOwNz Highly underrated comment here Zack G good one hahahahaha

Zack G We have special gravity harnesses for our kegs and pumps to fill up our wine barrels.

@@joeschmoe3815 prost

@@dotexe1205 for his singular small tractor. so no.

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 That's the joke.

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 bruh

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 who knew a void could be so dense

Connor Pickens well... you tried to be funny

im looking at both the game and automotive industry specifically but really, i can see alot of industries that should tale the same approach

It’s a little more complicated than it seems. The wine companies basically switched from the high volume/low cost market to the smaller volume/high quality market. This would be kind of like if a car company made economy cars, and a scandal broke that they were making unsafe cars; so instead of making better economy cars, the company started building for the luxury car market.

@@Shaun_Jones Well sure, I get that business isn't always about the difference between selling "good or bad" products, still, the course correction seemed to come far later than it probably should have. And at the end of the day, it's the consumers who decide whether an industry is high quality or not, even if its directed towards a specific class of individuals.

@@bingcrosby1660 but, but that would require them to release an actually finished game instead of releasing it only mostly or half finished and selling the rest of it through dlc’s!

americans?!? learning?!?!? ew!

He was a good man.

I mean, wine is a very big deal in Austria and Southern Geramny. It's cheap and he probably drank some everyday at dinner. Maybe he even bought of that brand. And then you see this guys dumping water on it like its nothing.

And then, subsequently, that anonymous man who just leaves a wine bottle with diethylene glycol inside... and walks out like a boss.

@@Foreststrike it would be cool if that man was actually the trucker, his first plea wasn't heard so he decided to take action himself "You dare mess with my wine!? Nobody mess with my wine, *NOBODY!"*

It’s like he was Jesus, except he turned wine into water into diethylene glycol but not really and this metaphor kinda fell apart.

Stefan Voorhout only in the worst cases. You catch that the other(s) were transferred to other departments? Same shit absolutely the world over. No government is free from corruption or nepotism

CAPITALISM WINS AGAIN

well the justice system even today is full of hole and the arsehole with power and money will always got away. like the one said, capitalism win again

Well there's always the problem of Judges potentially being biased toward a politician because of political affiliation. So because of that bias it's very hard to take politicians to court, and for them to go to prison

@@syncategorematically Well; I would try other government forms; but if you look at Russia or China; even if theyre communist; theres still the rich and the poor; and the government still meddles in capitalist affairs. Its hopeless; we will remain idiot fucks all around the planet; until we incinerate ourselves in nuclear fire. Yayyyy.. disappointing

I got a new saying "Life is too long to drink expensive wine."

Duck gang

@@surfinbird221 Duck gang 🦆

And never claimed credit. You gotta admire the integrity.

@@GriffinPilgrim tbh I'm sure it also had to do with the fact that if he revealed his id he'd be fired.

@@fantage20012 Given as he was probably crashing whatever company he worked for I don't know how much that would serve as motivation.

@@GriffinPilgrim It seems likely he never identified himself because he was involved in one way or another... it's not like he was some random citizen who just happened to know about a secret kept by most of the entire wine industry.

@@fantage20012 the numbers and money here are so huge he was probably fearing for his life rather than not getting paid to poison people

@Lassi Kinnunen apparently through entry into Latin, meaning "aust-" could either be "east" or "south". Great. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Austria#Etymology

Lassi Kinnunen when I was in the second grade we had to write an essay on our ideal vacation location. I had wanted to go to Australia but wrote entirely about Austria when I looked online. “Hm those guys just speak German over there I guess!”

@@pokemonsisters your teacher: wow this kid wants to learn about europe and look at the buildings and shit, thats unusual You: kemgoroo

I thought that too, I think because I know of Australia's wine industry, but not of Austria's.

bruh i too thought australia had a wine poisoning and so when he said "austria(n)" for the first time, i was so confused

sigma males*

@@jaden4804 😎

Maybe shouldn't have started WW1

​@@marvinzwettler8171 but Austria started WW1....

no doN'T DO THAT-

@@Echo_the_half_glitch don't worry, it's fine. people did that all the time in the 80's

@RadBaeron what a long name

@@LevakekkuLI That is the longest name I’ve ever seen on UKposts, pretty impressive actually

Go ahead, gene pool needs some culling anyway

[buys cheap wine] "You have lost your kidney privileges"

those wines actually go for around 1-2€ per 0.75l bottle here in austria

$13 for wine can get you a good bottle.

Yeah, like. It's not like you buy a box of Franzia and expect to drop dead afterwards...what an awful argument

@@Yuuzu I remember back in the day we bought 50 cent 1l "Packerlwein"

NineDeath That crack is really moreish

For a second i thought you said something inappropriate

I forget where the reference is from, the simpsons springs to mind? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ah NVM, it's the peep show. Brilliant comment mate.

They should be paying me to drink this shit

For only 50 grand you can have your very own bottle of poison.

I really want to drink it tbh. Not like a lot of course. But like. Just a glass

@@ajj4515 We have some in our wine cellar ranging from 1976 to 1985, but most of them have bad corks by now, they would taste like vinegar.

​@@The_Stigs_Austrian_cousinYummy death vinegar. Sign me up

Think of it as a marketing company for Austrian wine, as propaganda is just marketing your country.

Think of it as a lobbyist/advocate group.

holy crap he said it in the vid the exact same time i read ur comment! what is it tho?

Yeah, nowadays it's just Left Wing Propaganda. Bring back classy propaganda

gross misnomer. it probably (since I do not know the initial source used here) is an interest group, lobbying for wine manufacturers. This is NOT a public office.

Fredrik describing the symtoms of poisoning reminds me a lot of chubbyemu.

Regardless of what is in it, not sure drinking an entire bottle of wine by your lonesome is an advisable idea. _Especially_ Austrian, in that case just go for five and make it a straight up suicide attempt.

@@GabAssbreaker He really does a good impression around 6 minutes

mine 2

Omg thats so true

*cough* very nice

Oooooohhhhh

In his defense, Crystal Head IS the best vodka I've ever had.

Or sugar lol

Ta Seti Fredrik is the definition of not following trends

This channel is one of the best, imo. He does deep research on every subject, cites it, and delivers with massive quality.

Liam L.E. I think the word you’re looking for is, “cite.”

@@derekg5674 thank you

_Raises poisoned wine_ 🍷

I always thought that the wine industry was so incredibly pretentious that wine stewards would eventual justify the poisoning of anyone who dare purchase cheap wine.

Welcome to Austria, if you can't afford bread eat cake 😅

If they'd stop paying so much attention to wearing costumes, we wouldn't be in this mess!

I love how sellers being scam is the consumers fault. Yes, an informed consumer that you give him no information about your product will totally know to make the right decision by just the price. Especially on a simply thing like wine.

Good ole’ fashioned gaslighting

@@dicemm5544 What makes it even worse though is the fact that so many wine brands were affected. It essentially became a 'find the needle in the hay stack' scenario except the customer couldn't even know what the needle looks like.

"i was only pretending that THEY'RE retarded"

Zachary Parker ha

@Egg T I wonder, are you a bot, or just someone who has been hit really hard by the enforced quarantine and isolation?

the way in which chris chan poisoned the internet was a good start.

maybe he is trying to tell us something

Expect a new video in July :)

"Good news, ethanol counteracts the poison!" "Hooray!" "But sugar makes it worse!" "Oh no!" (also, what a wild ride, I did not expect a "this was ultimately the result of global warming" twist at the end there)

But you can't have glycol in alcohol, because glycol is antifreeze. You would know that if you drank Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka, which is vodka in its purest form, quadruple distilled with double terminated quartz.

@@hellothere5843 I finally understand why people who tested the vodka on the shows looked on in horror when they mentioned it....

I bet it was not that harmful before they added that sugar.

God damn, that game was brutal.

Hitler?

@@Uberkatze- That'd be funny but it's a German guy in Austria. With Hitler, it was the other way around.

But Picard is french? And in space.

"Some German guy in Austria" sounds like the ultimate setup for a joke but I don't know how to finish it.

“Takes a giant glug of sweet sweet bleach”

Diet coke is poison

@@babyfacenc yummy poison

Most foods are toxic to a degree. May as well have a good life, not a long one.

Technically speaking, water can poison you in high enough amounts, as can salt. As was said above, ingesting almost anything in very large amounts can damage your body. Everything in moderation.

Good keep the goon in Oz more for me

In Herzog's voice

"Mir geht es gut jetzt". Try that in heavy German accent

Dude had his entire liver fail and was like “Yeah whatever”, wouldn’t be surprised if he went back to drinking. 😂

when did he say that

what does his response gave to do with germany?

There's various glycols, not saying what he has is any good though lmao

For example, vape juice is mostly vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol

Glycol? Should it not have glycol in it??

You mean that time Dan Aykroyd almost killed Larry King?

@@happyveliz Different kind of glycol.

must have been either a worker of a company who developed compassion. or a worker for a company that wasnt using the substance and wanted to strike down competition.

That's hilarious

Classic dry English humor... I love it

I was 12 when all that happened. The Frostschutzmittel-Jokes where off the charts.

I always love how snooty Brits sound when they say" south of north of" that's like saying " when I was in the west of fort Worth"

​@@foxandbarrettshow6916 It rains alot here, we have to do something to pass the time on those days

Sawdust probably wont hurt you tho. Its just cellulose. It could block up your pooper

PolySaken I get my fresh logs delivered every week from a free range tree farm. The logs are poison free, juicy and tender. I usually have mustard on the side for dipping!

"We Tested Positive (For Glycol Poisoning)"

Well, Taco Bell's been going with a 10 to 20% mixture. I say we try that.

@Enterprise Kid I understood that reference

>Never identified, never found >Where is he?

You're wrong on that last sentence

It wasn't ethylene glycol. It was diethylene glycol.

@@Numizard The first sentence also.

Well that's correct! The who gives a shit vibe is pretty strong here in our corner of the world

hey thx for thomas bernhard at least

What could go wrong?

Lassi Kinnunen because unlike glycol, aspartame tastes like poison.

@Lassi Kinnunen aspartame ironically reacts really poorly in most people ( it gives me fucking killer migraines ) but thus far, it hasn't killed anyone (that I'm aware of) so has managed to stay in a lot of American products even though it is banned in some places and other countries. Not surprised tho. but really I just wanted to say that maybe aspartame wasn't being used as an artificial sweetener yet (were artificial sweeteners even a thing? idk) The other thing is they wanted to use something difficult to trace deliberately, in part so their wine *seemed* very pure when it was literal poison lmao I think if they had used aspartame, it would be 1. fairly easy to detect and 2. aspartame just??? isnt even that sweet. Idk how sweet glycol is but i don't intend on finding out :)

Apple

“How could you buy the product I own and made me tons of money? You are to blame, take responsibility, idiot”

The more things change. The more things stay the same eh?

How dare you buy the poison I marketed as wine. Shame on you. How could you do such a thing?

@white How?

Diethylene glycol is not quite the same as other glycol compounds. Ethylene glycol is fairly safe and commonly used in vodka (aside from Aykroyd's) while propylene glycol is a more environmentally friendly alternative used in drinks like whiskey.

I dont know why but this is way funnier on the second read

haha red juice make machine cold

Cold juice cold masheen

That sums it up lmao

LOL Meme Man language.

That's the worst defense ever, consumers make up the public and public opinion is one of the most important thing to any brand. They must have been really desperate to come to that line of defense, or very stupid.

Order now, and you can get another Hades free!

"And then they sunk lower."

Just a horror house with a neverending series of doors lol

This could be said about ANY down the rabbit hole episode

That's the best kind of fiasco right there.

G'Day, mate!

My favorite wine is 19 Crimes so if that happened here I'd riot. They may be called 19 Crimes but they committed 0!

There are no kangaroos in Austria.

Rachel Hallie They have cool labels on their bottles too. I like that stuff

i have been waiting to watch “the Australian wine poisoning” for about four days and now I have an answer as to why everyone keeps talking about German people.

It's funny because one company dumping their poison wine probably wouldn't have had such an immediate effect but they all did it at the same time

Peak comedy honestly

@@rabidfurify something something tragedy of the commons

Huh I guess it's just an Europe thing. Here it was "cow dung" wine. Supposedly because that's what they used instead of grapes

I legit only heard about this only from the Simpson since I live in the former soviet block

Its like Austria has some kind of Vendetta against the French. Started WW1, then Hitler, then they went out of their way to fuck with wine.

You should keep that slang up so nobody forgets the horrific story

In the summer of 2005, I was the beneficiary of an unscheduled paid vacation in Austria, when a shipping company mistakenly sent a robot from my employer in the US to Australia. True story.

Wait. What? Hahahahaha

Ouch.

Oof

@@FizzyGajing you know. the second worst export from austria to germany, just like the wierd mustache man, the first worst.

LOL

Are you an austrian or did this phrase travel further then i realized

@@RealDSY I'm in the UK and still hear cheap plonk being referred to as antifreeze. I used to joke about putting it in my car during winter.

@@RealDSY no Australian ironically. I think it maybe got publicity here at the time because of the name mix-up and Australian wines being suspect idk

I've heard people call extra cheap alcohol that's often consumed by homeless people antifreeze. Never knew where the phrase came from

@@omirandao7958 we call it vinegar

Same with the Noricum scandal. The factory was producing and exporting artillery pieces illegally. Everyone knew it, but it was so profitable that no one did anything against it until it became internationally known.

Wine, wine everywhere and not a drop to dilute your tainted antifreeze-wine with

@@rudito22 What do you mean you're at antifreeze?!

@@Arcueid_Brunestud I MEAN I'M AT ANTIFREEZE

it's like something from the simpsons

“WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?!” “IM IN THE ANTIFREEZE STORE!!!” “WHY ARE YOU BUYING WINE FROM THE A N T I F R E E Z E S T O R E?!!!”

Wouldn't be called a rabbit hole if it didn't get worse

Holy cow I thought I was at least half way through this video when I was reading this comment and I realized I was only nine minutes and fifty five seconds in!!!

As Jeremy Clarkson always says "What could possibly go wrong?"

Absolute Gigachad.

Indeed

always thought it was because of the ethanol in the antifreeze

I thought of the exact same episode.

After all these years I finaly get the joke. Ha ha

Good catch!

Reality is sometimes unrealistic

Aha, this is where I thought about another top comment "the secret ingredient is crime". Cheers.

@@dannylamb456 this is the best phrase I could've seen today. Thank you

i can now deduce that reality is not just a simulation but more specifically a sitcom

@@nutsackvlogz8892 a really bad sitcom at that

'n bisschen Frostschutz bidde

Frosdshudds hea; Leude; aber dalli!

Ah yes, that famous German 'sense of humour'.

Wouldn't be the first time a German fucked up Austria

and that man was named Hitler

@@sharpnail8806 hitler was austrian, not german

@@lonelychameleon3595 Actually, it was the other way around. And World War 2 happened first

Lonely Chameleon what was the first time?

I feel like cabbages would've made a bolder statement!

@@sisterslothington MY CABBAGES

I wonder if they actually just threw lettuce since salad and lettuce are the same word in German (Salat).

Oh it could be way worse. Farmers in France in 2014 sprayed cow feces on government buildings and rotting produce at politicians

@@alexei2249 Yikes

Staying to explain would likely have exposed him to legal action and arrest, unless he managed to make a plea deal or arrange for amnesty. Even if he didn't say anything more than setting the glycol on the table and saying what it was being used for, he still started an investigation that likely stopped the poisoning sooner and saved lives.

@@hariman7727 yes, i realize that. however i was making a joke

Grammar is good yes?

That's what he's known for

@@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627 he does follow trends to but as mentioned by supleted, he also mixes in some stuff that happened on the news outside of the internet

I feel like half of his videos follow this trend, but the other half strike me as very exploitative lolcow kiwi farms type stuff, which is definitely disappointing.

@@saulthechicanootaku I found out about Friedrik from the rat utopia experiment and his old stuff on cryptids and lore, that's hardly bandwagon-y or mainstream, so I guess that notion is just bias on my end

I'm German and I absorbed the cultural knowledge that "sweet wine is cheap garbage mixed with sugar and antifreeze that give you headaches" before I was even of drinking age. I never understood where the prejudice against sweet wine came from.

@@lnplum Here in Belgium, we do have strong prejudices against against german/austrian beer and wine and this scandal didn't help to change that, and plus this is still in the mind of people, per example : Not long ago, my grandpa just stated that the germans can't make wine without pourring garbage in it.

​@@Valandix The virgin wine vs. the chad BEER

@Jay Morgan well no one is arguing that American beer is trash

@Ilja Permiakov no, its really not. In most places in the world out the strongest of our "beer" would be considered light beer. Bad light beer at that. Ive lived here my whole life and i still cant palate any kind of beer from here.

The real question would be what would you die of first: the diethylene glycol or alcohol poisoning

Challenge accepted! Fu, liver!

Best vomiting seizure I ever spent in the fetal position. Thanks!

I don't knwwwwwwwww thys seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeems tow bee gonging pourrrrrlyyyy.

"inmmersion"

SwagHags69 why would you say something like this

The greatest art imitates life

Also The Simpsons episode where Bart goes to France.

@@wheedler That was inspired by this scandal

Explain