As one coming from NORWAY here. It was a total disaster. So many Christmas cookies that were under threat of not being made. HOW can you celebrate Christmas with just Christmas soda !!!!! Families threatened to go from Christmas party. Divorces lay heavily in the air. Children stopped believing in Santa Claus.
@@MarkBonneaux And it's called julebrus in norwegian. So the literal translation is christmas soda, but I guess it sounds a bit odd in english that way.
Yes, I remember that time. Here in Sweden we had a butter-shortage too, and for weeks on end all the headlines were "SWEDES ARE OUTRAGEOUS TO FIND DANISH BUTTER IN STORES, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR COWS?"" But in all fairness, Sweden had a "O'boy-crisis" just recently. It's like Nesquik powder, you mix it with milk. The factory had a shutdown and was waiting for repairs and new parts, production was completely haltered. It was in the headlines, on tv news, mum's where angry and wrote to the company demanding they fix it because their kids NEEDED their chocolaty drink. Rumors where spread online where you could find bags in stores still, and people on Facebook sold bags for 10 times more the original price, even opened ones. And as with the norweigans, swedes could not find themselves buying other brands, like Lidl or some dark organic powder. It went so far there was even a psa on a morning news show on how you could mix your own O'boy-powder.
+@@lazergurka-smerlin6561 Yep, it's 100% legal to bring in as much chocolate milk powder as you want into Sweden. Norway... Yeah, we regulate agricultural products, food etc quite a bit more...
@@Luredreier Sweden has been one of the outliers in the EU in that area. We have regulated almost everything agricultural related, especially farm animals. And just recently agreed to loosen the restrictions after the EU commission pushed a EU-wide ban on using antibiotics on healthy animals.
8:28 Another reader here. As someone who has minor hearing issues, it is so refreshing to have clear and accurate captioning. It's weird, I actually hear better with the subtitles....
The problem was as you said caused by a poor milk harvest, but also by poor central planning of agricultural production (agriculture in Norway is really far from free market capitalism) including continuing to export butter even though there was a shortage growing. But it was worsened by a surprising high consumption of butter caused by the "low carb" fad at the time. But the main reason people were genuinely worried and willing to pay for expensive and even smuggled butter was that quite a few of the traditional Norwegian Christmas kakes/pastries require butter not only for the flavor but to "work" properly chemically. We had plenty of margarine but it would not work as a substitute when baking. But really the "panic" or "crisis" were mostly the media hyping up the story, mostly humorously and to make the issue more embarrassing for the politicians and bureaucracy that should have been able to see the problem a lot earlier. The "crisis" was more or less resolved by the tariffs being lowered by 80% allowing more import.
Ah, the sweet old times when the only worry we had was lack of butter in December. The crisis was supposedly also worsened by hoarding, this was before the age of "price wars" when shops learned to limit items. I remember images of people buying like 10 kgs of butter at once. The imported butter was also controversial, as it did not behave properly taste properly. Also, as there was about one type of real butter in stores at that time, nothing else could possibly be real butter. My family was not touched by the crisis, as most of my mothers cookie recipies rely on margarine. It does actually make a difference.
I, too, appreciate the irony of the dialog: Tom: why didn't capitalism fix this? Garry: the invisible hand had butter fingers Tom: that's a good metaphor for all the problems of capitalism. The real reason for the problem was government tariffs.
Back in the 60's the state of Wisconsin (known for its dairy cows and cheese) banned yellow margarine. The law was only repealed after a state senator did a blind taste test and ended up picking the margarine. I was reminded of this because of the butter smuggling, because margarine smuggling was an actual thing that happened here.
In some places, butter lobbyists were so concerned about the risk of margarine cutting into diary profits they managed to get a law passed to dye the synthetic substance red instead of yellow in hopes of putting customers off.
I remember at least one trip (late fifties) the family took out of state in which the trunk of the car had a case of margarine on the return. That was a time when it was thought that margarine was somehow more healthful than butter. Medicine is not science, it's applied science. When they don't have the science, sometimes they apply it anyway. Actually I suspect that the reason the law isn't in effect anymore is that it's unconstitutional. States don't have the right to regulate interstate trade.
Ah yes. The year of the butter crisis. That was the year I learned how to make my own butter from cream. Out of SHEER NECESSITY. How on earth would we have celebrated Christmas without the butter cookies. How would we have basted the pork ribs? No it would have been unthinkable.
How wasn't there a shortage on cream as well? I would've guessed that "butter manifacturers" buy all of it. I sometimes make butter, but I only have a hand whisk so it almost counts as a gym session
@@phoenixoutoftheash try doing it with bare hands, i think townsend made a video about it. its soooo much faster and easier, at least for small batches
When my dad was young in the 1940s southern Finnish countryside, "slice up some butter like cheese and put it on bread" definitely was the staple food, in addition to potatoes. According to him, their family of five went through 30 kg of butter per month. When I was a kid in the 1980s, my grandmother used to give me some rye bread "med mycke' smör på", meaning a thick slice of bread with a thick slab of butter on top, and I loved it. (My grandparents were Swedish-speaking Finns, which explains the Swedish phrase.)
I laughed out loud at 8:30 when Gary called us "readers" because I always watch Technical Difficulties with subtitles! I don't want to miss any of the humour through your accents! Hahahaha.
Hey Tom. I really appreciate your trying to, and largely succeeding in, pronouncing the Ø (Ö), and not treat it like a common O like so many of your fellow Anglophones.
I want more Citation Needed, to be honest, it’s been one of my favorite shows since I found you years and years ago. That said, do what makes you happy, do what is emotionally fulfilling for you. The fun of these shows is laughing along with you, so I care most that you have fun too.
Yeah, Iowa got mentioned in something! Did you know that someone vandalized the butter cow one year? Well, not the cow directly, but they spray painted the glass case it was in. Was big news because trust me, that was the most interesting thing to happen that week.
8:34 as a matter of fact, I don't really understand your accents most of the time so I have to watch with subtitles on. So no, Gary's not necessarilly wrong when talking to readers
Hmm, they didn't specifically mention it that way. I've kept a list of the countries they've insulted, but I left this episode blank. Oh, and if you're wondering, it's France on 6, the United States on 3, the Netherlands and Italy on 2, and Britain, Australia, Morocco, Eritrea, Chile and Norway all on 1. Norway's one instance was 6x01 by the way, not this one: I'm not contradicting myself... The definition I use is _"Only counts if Scott or the contestants explicitly refer to a country as being the one insulted in the episode, or take out an amount of time specifically to insult a country"._
+Magnus Peacock - In episode 4x01, they're taking the piss out of their own insults to countries, and they just randomly insult two countries, one of which is Eritrea. It's between 1:08 and 1:44 in that episode.
My dad worked in Norway and would commute there every week. During the butter crisis, my dad would smuggle in butter in for his Norwegian work mates as they needed it for their Christmas biscuits. Because they had to import from Denmark it was extremely expensive. X
During a section of this video, you-all kept repeating the phrase "famous potatoes". That cracked me up, because the slogan on Idaho, USA license plates was "famous potatoes".
It's funny, as a native Ohioan, I answered "cow" immediately when Tom asked what someone would carve out of butter and thought nothing of it. It's just the obvious answer (after 120 years of being a state fair tradition).
You've always been Tom Scott, ya know, someday, you could just continue to be Tom Scott after the cameras stop rolling, and no one would think worse of you for it.
I know the episodes have already been filmed but I hope one of them is a “Tom’s-not-in-charge-special”. I listened to that Reverse Trivia episode and thought it would be good as a citation needed episode.
Spot on. Ironically vaping diacetyl (the buttery flavour) didn't cause any problems because the highest recorded amount was still hundred of times less than in cigarettes. Scared a lot of people when the press got hold of it, though, so became a useful way to keep people smoking.
Aren't there some (all?) varieties of vape which lead to Popcorn Lung if you overdo it? I mean, probably in quite gross amounts, and it's not quite as bad as lung cancer or COPD, but still... edit: maybe that's what the diacetyl stuff did, in fact. The term actually comes from a condition that popcorn factory workers developed, maybe they were using artificial butter flavour on that instead of actual butter, so it's more a matter of the chemical itself than the fact of breathing overly humid (or greasy) air?
@@gwenynorisu6883 There are all sorts of reports and so-called studies published by the press telling of the health risks of vaping. There was another one just recently. The studies are probably funded by the tobacco industry because a lot of credible, independent studies have found no serious harm from vaping and show it to be a lot healthier than smoking. If I remember rightly, popcorn lung was completely fabricated by one such press article. Unfortunately, when you mix industry with science you rarely get to the truth. I think, however, that sucking anything into your lungs that is not clean air may have some amount of impact on your health.
I was born in Des Moines Iowa, and I've been to several Iowa State Fairs. The butter sculptures are actually a competition, so there's a whole tent filled with butter sculptures every year, at the center of which is the butter cow. I've seen the Harry Potter, barns, all sorts of stuff.
It was great watching an episode about something I was a part of! There was a surge in norweigan speakers in my local grocery store in Sweden during this time
I love this format Tom, especially now. I feel like I can call you Tom now, 10 or so years on. I hope that’s ok, and thank you for so many years of amazing stuff. I hope you’re enjoying semi-making-less-stuff. ❤
Tried solving the riddle at the end myself, but once I came up with the phrase "Kermit's hermit permit" I couldn't do it because I was laughing too much...
I'm from Iowa, and I can attest to the fact that they carved EVERYTHING out of butter. There would be an entire refrigerated barn dedicated to them every year.
I hope this never ends, but I guess one day it will. The combination of these 4 guys and their type of humour and knowledge made the best possible show.
You know you're from the Midwest when you're screaming at a video of four Englishmen trying to guess what could possibly be sculpted out of butter for a state fair...
@@lawrencecalablaster568 And there's a fair in Mass(achusetts) for all of New England where the butter sculpture is different every year. I remember it being a horse-drawn carriage once.
I’ve been watching Tom Scott for a while now and only recently discovered this series and I’m absolutely astounded that this hasn’t been picked up by channel 4. This is on par and sometimes even passing the level of production and comedy that’s on 9 out of 10 cats or QI. I mean the staff and production template is there so why wouldn’t they pick this up? I’m watching from NI and literally slapping my knee at the jokes!
The only reason why C4 won't be picking this up, is possibly because their viewers would literally be working in this sector alone.. and then they already know the issue, and is trying to find ways to stop it from being an issue. So when one goes home.. should they still watch this any way? And not to watch something more entertaining? If you worked in the food sector, then you would know and know exactly the prices and what is happening to the supply-chains.... but this is quite a good video nevertheless. And in all honesty, if you want to broadcast this, then don't you need to do something with the infrastructures? Which it is doing.. or going down that road.. Having Huawei's masks in your local community farm... and then forget that the rest of the country is going down the pan, is like a GOOD move. Sorry, but not sorry.
This reminded me of the danish general strike in 1998, where people hoarded, among other things, bakers yeast, even people who couldn't bake hauled home several packs of yeast (50g each).
Forgot to mention that the butter crisis was in December. The butter was needed for baking Christmas cookies(we bake 7 kinds). You can't use margarine for cookies, would taste bad and no crispy texture.
Before the butter chrisis in norway, butter prices in finland were around 1€/pack. the chrisis struck, prices rose to about 3€/pack, chrisis calmed down, but the prices never came down. Also finland never truly ran out of butter. But fear kept prices high and the people in charge of our biggest food stores just saw an opportunity to make money so they did. And still are.
Vaper here chiming in on Diacetyl, it was a big to-do over nothing really, in the 90s some workers in a popcorn factory inhaling dust had popcorn lung, and the diacetyl was blamed. Cigarettes have much more diacetyl in them than even the butteriest e-liquids, and no instances of popcorn lung have been reported from either smoking or vaping. I mix my own liquids and use flavourings with diacetyl and I'm fine, I hope.
Every episode is a bit bittersweet. On one hand I'm excited for a new episode, but I also know with every episode I'm closer to the end of the series :( Suppose it's better to enjoy it though! Great stuff as always, guys!
MN state fair still has butter carving every year, you can watch it done live. The artist and subject sit in a big clear refrigerated cylinder on a slowly rotating platform
Every year, the Minnesota State Fair carves the heads of contestants of the "Princess Kay of the Milky Way" beauty contest out of butter. These are quite ingenuously called "butterheads".
𝐵𝑅𝒜𝒩𝒟𝒴
Tom Scott is Just Scott without his red shirt
Tom you're breaking my phone stop
ok.
I can't read those.
𝒜𝒩𝒟𝒴
Panic at the Tesco
godly
Just take my likes. Take them all.
I CHIME IN WITH A HAVEN'T YOU PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF HAVING ENOUGH BUTTER NO
That's just normal Tesco's
Topical
Will always love that Mystery Biscuits range from "Buttery hand of capitalism" to "literally the entire answer"
Wait but the butterfingers of capitalism are the ACTUAL ANSWER to let's just say every episode and every topic
.....
I like how the closed captions at 5:05 transcribe Gary's accent as "Nøt bütter."
Nut butter? O_O
@@Efreeti nut butter is a real thing, Ꙩ_ꙩ
I would like this comment but it has 666 likes and I don't want to anger Satan.
1,000th like!
Genius subtitles
I survived the Norwegian butter crisis! We were only able to bake 3 different chrismas cookies that year instead of the traditional 7 :(
Question. Is it three cookies as in a count of three cookies? Or, do you mean like three types of cookies?
@@ShroudedWolf51 3 different types.
There were no "smørkranser" that year, and so my grandmother perished.
RIP
@@ImperiousViking my condolences. Really a shame you couldn't bake this type, I really like them.
Rene helvette.
I could only make 2 :(
Given that this channel (unlike so many others) actually has legible subtitles, I'd say there are probably a fair number of readers. I'm one of them.
I almost always end up putting them on because it helps to catch what's being said when multiple panelists are talking over each other...
The combination of British accents and high speed speech gives me problems sometimes. I usually watch once without subtitles, and then once with.
I always have subtitles on if they are an option. On anything from Movies to Tech Diff.
Nøt bütter
HoH gang rise up
As one coming from NORWAY here.
It was a total disaster. So many Christmas cookies that were under threat of not being made.
HOW can you celebrate Christmas with just Christmas soda !!!!!
Families threatened to go from Christmas party. Divorces lay heavily in the air.
Children stopped believing in Santa Claus.
Glad for at jeg ikke spiser smør. Så jeg ble ikke påvirket av smørmangelen, og skjønte ikke så mye av heile greia 😂
Wait, what's "Christmas soda"???
Mark Bonneaux knock off coke that's also drank during easter, unless I'm confusing it for "Must" or whatever it's called.
Fizzy soft drinks. Usually it have some kind of candy flavor.
@@MarkBonneaux And it's called julebrus in norwegian. So the literal translation is christmas soda, but I guess it sounds a bit odd in english that way.
It'd be funny if they smuggled the butter in packs of "I can't believe it's not Butter"
The perfect crime.
I can’t believe it’s nøt Bütter
@@2tri749 üäö=herrenrassesprache.
@@harambo88 So germans,Turks, swedes,danes,norwegians,finns and hungarians are all herrenmenschen?
Yes, I remember that time. Here in Sweden we had a butter-shortage too, and for weeks on end all the headlines were "SWEDES ARE OUTRAGEOUS TO FIND DANISH BUTTER IN STORES, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR COWS?""
But in all fairness, Sweden had a "O'boy-crisis" just recently. It's like Nesquik powder, you mix it with milk. The factory had a shutdown and was waiting for repairs and new parts, production was completely haltered. It was in the headlines, on tv news, mum's where angry and wrote to the company demanding they fix it because their kids NEEDED their chocolaty drink. Rumors where spread online where you could find bags in stores still, and people on Facebook sold bags for 10 times more the original price, even opened ones.
And as with the norweigans, swedes could not find themselves buying other brands, like Lidl or some dark organic powder.
It went so far there was even a psa on a morning news show on how you could mix your own O'boy-powder.
Yulia Bighood I need to follow the news more, I've completely missed this.
Compelling evidence that some people may in fact be corporate-brainwashed sheep...
But hey at least it wasn't tarriffs restricting us
+@@lazergurka-smerlin6561 Yep, it's 100% legal to bring in as much chocolate milk powder as you want into Sweden.
Norway...
Yeah, we regulate agricultural products, food etc quite a bit more...
@@Luredreier
Sweden has been one of the outliers in the EU in that area.
We have regulated almost everything agricultural related, especially farm animals. And just recently agreed to loosen the restrictions after the EU commission pushed a EU-wide ban on using antibiotics on healthy animals.
8:28 Another reader here. As someone who has minor hearing issues, it is so refreshing to have clear and accurate captioning. It's weird, I actually hear better with the subtitles....
It's not weird. Reading and listening occur at that same part of the brain
I've never heard anyone call it smør-panik, we all call it smør-krise.
Source: Norwegian
Some more cries?
The problem was as you said caused by a poor milk harvest, but also by poor central planning of agricultural production (agriculture in Norway is really far from free market capitalism) including continuing to export butter even though there was a shortage growing. But it was worsened by a surprising high consumption of butter caused by the "low carb" fad at the time. But the main reason people were genuinely worried and willing to pay for expensive and even smuggled butter was that quite a few of the traditional Norwegian Christmas kakes/pastries require butter not only for the flavor but to "work" properly chemically. We had plenty of margarine but it would not work as a substitute when baking. But really the "panic" or "crisis" were mostly the media hyping up the story, mostly humorously and to make the issue more embarrassing for the politicians and bureaucracy that should have been able to see the problem a lot earlier.
The "crisis" was more or less resolved by the tariffs being lowered by 80% allowing more import.
Ah, the sweet old times when the only worry we had was lack of butter in December.
The crisis was supposedly also worsened by hoarding, this was before the age of "price wars" when shops learned to limit items. I remember images of people buying like 10 kgs of butter at once.
The imported butter was also controversial, as it did not behave properly taste properly. Also, as there was about one type of real butter in stores at that time, nothing else could possibly be real butter.
My family was not touched by the crisis, as most of my mothers cookie recipies rely on margarine. It does actually make a difference.
I, too, appreciate the irony of the dialog:
Tom: why didn't capitalism fix this?
Garry: the invisible hand had butter fingers
Tom: that's a good metaphor for all the problems of capitalism. The real reason for the problem was government tariffs.
Back in the 60's the state of Wisconsin (known for its dairy cows and cheese) banned yellow margarine. The law was only repealed after a state senator did a blind taste test and ended up picking the margarine. I was reminded of this because of the butter smuggling, because margarine smuggling was an actual thing that happened here.
I believe artificially coloured margarine is still illegal in Quebec.
In some places, butter lobbyists were so concerned about the risk of margarine cutting into diary profits they managed to get a law passed to dye the synthetic substance red instead of yellow in hopes of putting customers off.
I remember at least one trip (late fifties) the family took out of state in which the trunk of the car had a case of margarine on the return. That was a time when it was thought that margarine was somehow more healthful than butter. Medicine is not science, it's applied science. When they don't have the science, sometimes they apply it anyway.
Actually I suspect that the reason the law isn't in effect anymore is that it's unconstitutional. States don't have the right to regulate interstate trade.
Didn't it turn out that his wife had been feeding him margarine for years and claiming it was butter?
My (late) Dad (grew up in Beloit, WI) used to tell of buying clear blocks of margarine and getting a Red Dye pack to mix it in until it was yellow.
Norway is a country that subsists solely of butter and salmon so I understand their concern.
Hey, we eat other kinds of fish as well! And potatoes.
@@Sofie424 and oil, we also eat oil!
I swear you could serve potato some meat and butter in a Norwegian household without anyone looking twice.
@@magicpensel9548 wait that is not a normal meal?
Ah yes. The year of the butter crisis. That was the year I learned how to make my own butter from cream. Out of SHEER NECESSITY. How on earth would we have celebrated Christmas without the butter cookies. How would we have basted the pork ribs? No it would have been unthinkable.
How wasn't there a shortage on cream as well? I would've guessed that "butter manifacturers" buy all of it. I sometimes make butter, but I only have a hand whisk so it almost counts as a gym session
@@phoenixoutoftheash There was a shortage of milk as well, it's mentioned in the video. But maybe this person owned their own cow.
Wild Blunt Hickok there was a shortage of milk but it was easier to get than butter. I also fully remember making my own butter
now they invented corona and ppl are not allowed to celebrate christmas bc some dudes that faked their way into medicine have fantasys.
@@phoenixoutoftheash try doing it with bare hands, i think townsend made a video about it. its soooo much faster and easier, at least for small batches
13:34 Someone please cut the clip and after "There is only one way to find out" cut to Tom choking on a vape.
Was just coming here to see if anyone had mentioned this
"Tis but a flavouring."
Best line of today!
I don't get it
@@columbus8myhw
The subtitles explain it: "Tis but-ter flavouring!"
@@ZardoDhieldor that's a wonderful username
@@kiro9291 Thank you! It's inspired by a wonderful game!
@@ZardoDhieldor what game is it
There's a jump cut at 5:30 just before Chris says 'television' and I don't think anyone else has noticed.
When my dad was young in the 1940s southern Finnish countryside, "slice up some butter like cheese and put it on bread" definitely was the staple food, in addition to potatoes. According to him, their family of five went through 30 kg of butter per month.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, my grandmother used to give me some rye bread "med mycke' smör på", meaning a thick slice of bread with a thick slab of butter on top, and I loved it. (My grandparents were Swedish-speaking Finns, which explains the Swedish phrase.)
SOOBTITLAYS, MATT. WE'RE READING SOOBTITLAYS.
I laughed out loud at 8:30 when Gary called us "readers" because I always watch Technical Difficulties with subtitles! I don't want to miss any of the humour through your accents! Hahahaha.
Also, did anybody else notice how wiggly Chris's Beard is? It is mildly distracting whilst also being oddly satisfying,
abhisha Ratna Glad to be of service :)
It's not his beard that's growing, it's his chin under the beard. Therefore, it's his chin which is wiggly.
Steckelton beard physics to be implemented in dating sims by 2019 confirmed.
3:41
My member does the same
Tom does an amazing job herding cats (i.e., keeping the show moving along). Great episode, never butter. Cheers.
obligatory AWRGH
The video is edited down a lot, the actual shows are usually about 40 minutes.
Hey Tom. I really appreciate your trying to, and largely succeeding in, pronouncing the Ø (Ö), and not treat it like a common O like so many of your fellow Anglophones.
My biggest pet peeve. Like, do they not see the diagonal line going through it?
@@havardmj we do, but we don't know what it means, so we default to the letter it most resembles, 'o'
@@havardmj Could you be any more ignorant? I suppose you can perfectly pronounce any Chinese character or Thai word from simply looking at it.
@@Yom_Bristol no, but you don’t try and pronounce し as L in Japanese either, you look it up.
@@oxybrightdark8765 looking it up isn't the hard bit. Pronouncing it correctly is.
Tom and Matt's next project after Park Bench:
Will It Vape?
Lawrence Calablaster I have news for ya pal, park bench is dead
@@AntiSlimeDrago That's why it's Matt and Tom (channel's not dead) project *after* the park bench.
Didn’t say the channel’s dead, just the series, and didn’t see the ‘after’ there
*Buttery vape*
Buttery biscuit vapes?
I want more Citation Needed, to be honest, it’s been one of my favorite shows since I found you years and years ago. That said, do what makes you happy, do what is emotionally fulfilling for you. The fun of these shows is laughing along with you, so I care most that you have fun too.
reminds me of the new zealand marmite crisis, which I just learned was called "Marmaggedon"
𝕸𝕬𝕽𝕸𝕬𝕲𝕰𝕯𝕯𝕺𝕹 𝔒𝔘𝔗𝔗𝔄ℌ𝔈ℜ𝔈 ?
Do they not do Vegamite over there.
@@qwertyTRiG we do, but marmite is better
"What are you in jail for?"
"Murder."
"And you?"
"Butter smuggling."
When Tom asked the question "what are we famous for historically" I almost instantly snapped back at my computer with "imperialism"
Imperialism... _powered by cheese and grains_ (and potatoes)
*EMPIRE*
Also sheep.
@@w4tchdoge *COMPIRE*
Massively high drinking and driving fatality rate due to pub culture being so widespread.
Yeah, Iowa got mentioned in something!
Did you know that someone vandalized the butter cow one year? Well, not the cow directly, but they spray painted the glass case it was in. Was big news because trust me, that was the most interesting thing to happen that week.
8:34 as a matter of fact, I don't really understand your accents most of the time so I have to watch with subtitles on. So no, Gary's not necessarilly wrong when talking to readers
for me it's not the accents but just the usual talk of obscure things - hard to google something when you have no idea how to write it
“Was it a crisis involving butter?”
“In Norway?”
That killed me
The wheel spins and lands on Norway
the wheel of countries whose viewers they'll alienate with this episode? ;)
Hmm, they didn't specifically mention it that way. I've kept a list of the countries they've insulted, but I left this episode blank.
Oh, and if you're wondering, it's France on 6, the United States on 3, the Netherlands and Italy on 2, and Britain, Australia, Morocco, Eritrea, Chile and Norway all on 1. Norway's one instance was 6x01 by the way, not this one: I'm not contradicting myself... The definition I use is _"Only counts if Scott or the contestants explicitly refer to a country as being the one insulted in the episode, or take out an amount of time specifically to insult a country"._
@@rjfaber1991 r/theydidthemath
@@rjfaber1991 where is Eritrea?
What episode
+Magnus Peacock - In episode 4x01, they're taking the piss out of their own insults to countries, and they just randomly insult two countries, one of which is Eritrea. It's between 1:08 and 1:44 in that episode.
This episode feels a lot better than the last. Everyone seems to be enjoying it a lot more and more used to the flow again. Such a good series...
This is so much worse than Cuban Missile!
I should be studying for English now, but I guess this'll pass for it too
Me too and much more fun.
'Tis but a flavour
Yup same
This is how I've learned all my English.
As am I! Funny that.
My dad worked in Norway and would commute there every week. During the butter crisis, my dad would smuggle in butter in for his Norwegian work mates as they needed it for their Christmas biscuits. Because they had to import from Denmark it was extremely expensive. X
Gary calling us readers when I'm reading the subtitled. Bless you, old sod.
During a section of this video, you-all kept repeating the phrase "famous potatoes". That cracked me up, because the slogan on Idaho, USA license plates was "famous potatoes".
I'm surprised none of them made a reference to the UK band, The Famous Potatoes.
It's funny, as a native Ohioan, I answered "cow" immediately when Tom asked what someone would carve out of butter and thought nothing of it. It's just the obvious answer (after 120 years of being a state fair tradition).
You've always been Tom Scott, ya know, someday, you could just continue to be Tom Scott after the cameras stop rolling, and no one would think worse of you for it.
I know the episodes have already been filmed but I hope one of them is a “Tom’s-not-in-charge-special”. I listened to that Reverse Trivia episode and thought it would be good as a citation needed episode.
Vaping butter would lead to lipoid pneumonia.
Spot on.
Ironically vaping diacetyl (the buttery flavour) didn't cause any problems because the highest recorded amount was still hundred of times less than in cigarettes.
Scared a lot of people when the press got hold of it, though, so became a useful way to keep people smoking.
Aren't there some (all?) varieties of vape which lead to Popcorn Lung if you overdo it? I mean, probably in quite gross amounts, and it's not quite as bad as lung cancer or COPD, but still...
edit: maybe that's what the diacetyl stuff did, in fact. The term actually comes from a condition that popcorn factory workers developed, maybe they were using artificial butter flavour on that instead of actual butter, so it's more a matter of the chemical itself than the fact of breathing overly humid (or greasy) air?
@@gwenynorisu6883 There are all sorts of reports and so-called studies published by the press telling of the health risks of vaping. There was another one just recently. The studies are probably funded by the tobacco industry because a lot of credible, independent studies have found no serious harm from vaping and show it to be a lot healthier than smoking. If I remember rightly, popcorn lung was completely fabricated by one such press article. Unfortunately, when you mix industry with science you rarely get to the truth. I think, however, that sucking anything into your lungs that is not clean air may have some amount of impact on your health.
worth it
I would pay good money for William Shakespeare: Food Analyst
"'t ain't much smør but a flavour" :)
I still don't get the "''tis butter flavoring" joke. It's clearly a reference to something Shakespearean, but what?
@@columbus8myhw I assumed it was a reference to the black knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
(arm gets lopped off) "Tis but a scratch"
I was born in Des Moines Iowa, and I've been to several Iowa State Fairs. The butter sculptures are actually a competition, so there's a whole tent filled with butter sculptures every year, at the center of which is the butter cow. I've seen the Harry Potter, barns, all sorts of stuff.
It was great watching an episode about something I was a part of! There was a surge in norweigan speakers in my local grocery store in Sweden during this time
"This time, we're taking on smør-panik"
Panikk, not panik.
Smååaaarr-pänick
But the phenomenon is Norwegian, and since the languages are mutually intelligible, I feel that it is more correct to use the Norwegian spelling.
Actually, the term was coined by Danish television and so doesn't follow Norwegian spelling.
Butter fingers of capitalism.
What?
@@blueghost3649 *BUTTER FINGERS OF CAPITALISM*
Martin Šalko not capitalism tho
also, they're all thumbs
steve1978ger thumbs up
I am reminded of Marmageddon around the same time, when the only Marmite factory was put out of action by the Christchurch earthquakes!
"What's in the van?"
"Not booter?!"
I kept searching "Citation Needed 8x02" on the search bar just so that I could watch it as soon as it got uploaded
Milking the algorithm seems appropriate for this episode...
Robert Faber yeah, but it's a slippery slope that leads to bad jokes.
8:22
Archivist gear engaged!
I love this format Tom, especially now. I feel like I can call you Tom now, 10 or so years on. I hope that’s ok, and thank you for so many years of amazing stuff. I hope you’re enjoying semi-making-less-stuff. ❤
Tried solving the riddle at the end myself, but once I came up with the phrase "Kermit's hermit permit" I couldn't do it because I was laughing too much...
Am I having a fever dream? This seems _very_ fast paced
This series seems to be edited to fit each episode more or less into 15 minutes. I coulda sworn they used to be 20...
Ayyyyyyyy, shoutout to Nashville! Not exactly the type of international acclaim we’re used to, but we’ll take what we can get
See, that is how to begin a month in a really good way :3
11:40 is just so well timed i love it
"Margarine is colored yellow to look like butter."
Butter is dyed yellow.
Butter is white.
You might almost say it's milk colored
Some butter is naturally yellow, i've seen it made by hand from a cow. It is less yellow than most store butters though.
Just finished a massive essay - last minute submission, of course - and needed to de-stress. Thanks, lads!
My kitchen may now be called the Ark of Taste.
Full of endangered, outdated flavours?
Mmmmh... Melts the butter right off your face :)
mspenrice Much of the time, yes.
I'm from Iowa, and I can attest to the fact that they carved EVERYTHING out of butter. There would be an entire refrigerated barn dedicated to them every year.
Butter crisis? If Toast doesn't win I will rage-quite life!
(Didn't happen)
Never happened
12:25 This is my favorite joke in all of Citation Needed 😂
1:10 You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
There is not a single comedy show on the television that makes me laugh out loud. You guys do. Thank you.
Coming back to this when butter can costs over 7 quid a pack and rising 👀
8:35 "they might be blind and reading this in a book"
(tech dif reverse trivia podcast, a very niche but how well fitting quote)
The Technical Difficulties: The Butter Special
The Reverse Trivia Podcast Butter Special, surely
As an Iowan, I knew The Butter Cow immediately, and loved hearing the disbelief of the concept
The “and some cheese” at 9:12 is one of my favourite Tech Diff moments
I hope this never ends, but I guess one day it will. The combination of these 4 guys and their type of humour and knowledge made the best possible show.
Nøt bütter
After much thought, I've declared this as my favourite Citation Needed episode.
I fully agree! Everyone is in top form. The puns just never stop coming. The wit is sensational.
"Plato's world of the buttery cave!" XDXDXD
You know you're from the Midwest when you're screaming at a video of four Englishmen trying to guess what could possibly be sculpted out of butter for a state fair...
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania we’ve been doing stranger & stranger things- the other year we had all the Philadelphian sports mascots.
@@lawrencecalablaster568 And there's a fair in Mass(achusetts) for all of New England where the butter sculpture is different every year. I remember it being a horse-drawn carriage once.
I’ve been watching Tom Scott for a while now and only recently discovered this series and I’m absolutely astounded that this hasn’t been picked up by channel 4. This is on par and sometimes even passing the level of production and comedy that’s on 9 out of 10 cats or QI. I mean the staff and production template is there so why wouldn’t they pick this up? I’m watching from NI and literally slapping my knee at the jokes!
The only reason why C4 won't be picking this up, is possibly because their viewers would literally be working in this sector alone.. and then they already know the issue, and is trying to find ways to stop it from being an issue. So when one goes home.. should they still watch this any way? And not to watch something more entertaining? If you worked in the food sector, then you would know and know exactly the prices and what is happening to the supply-chains.... but this is quite a good video nevertheless. And in all honesty, if you want to broadcast this, then don't you need to do something with the infrastructures? Which it is doing.. or going down that road.. Having Huawei's masks in your local community farm... and then forget that the rest of the country is going down the pan, is like a GOOD move. Sorry, but not sorry.
This reminded me of the danish general strike in 1998, where people hoarded, among other things, bakers yeast, even people who couldn't bake hauled home several packs of yeast (50g each).
"We're not doing it in Kronor, I don't have a calculator"
Hmm... You sure about that, Tom?
Thank you Gary, I am actually *_reading_* all this. A subtitle reader is a perfectly good reader, dammit.
Forgot to mention that the butter crisis was in December. The butter was needed for baking Christmas cookies(we bake 7 kinds). You can't use margarine for cookies, would taste bad and no crispy texture.
I just realized that Tom complained about the use of Krone, saying "I don't have a calculator here" WHILE INFRONT OF A LAPTOP WITH INTERNET ACCESS
Ah, the butter crisis. A dark and troubled time in my country's history.
Before the butter chrisis in norway, butter prices in finland were around 1€/pack. the chrisis struck, prices rose to about 3€/pack, chrisis calmed down, but the prices never came down.
Also finland never truly ran out of butter. But fear kept prices high and the people in charge of our biggest food stores just saw an opportunity to make money so they did. And still are.
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."
I can. It's not even similar. :-(
And here we are in Oklahoma, USA deep-frying butter packs, and eating the butter whole on a stick. Like a corndog.
Did...did Tom say “Ark of Truth” instead of “Ark of Taste” when talking about the UK?
Vaper here chiming in on Diacetyl, it was a big to-do over nothing really, in the 90s some workers in a popcorn factory inhaling dust had popcorn lung, and the diacetyl was blamed. Cigarettes have much more diacetyl in them than even the butteriest e-liquids, and no instances of popcorn lung have been reported from either smoking or vaping. I mix my own liquids and use flavourings with diacetyl and I'm fine, I hope.
4:33 Yes Gary, Norway borders Norway. Well done!
Lots of smugglers on the Norway-Norway border.
Every episode is a bit bittersweet. On one hand I'm excited for a new episode, but I also know with every episode I'm closer to the end of the series :(
Suppose it's better to enjoy it though! Great stuff as always, guys!
3:40 There's a GIF in there.
This is one of those videos where I'm enjoying it so much that I forget to hit the like button and have to come back to hit it ;)
NORGE!!! love to norway from sweden :3
OliviaPi you betray your land?
@@khaledchaban Nah we like Norway. It's Finland and Denmark that we dislike
@@joacimunicorn Especially denmark
;D
@@joacimunicorn Denmark is basically just "South Sweden" anyway.
If you haven't seen Tom's video on jingles bells you're missing out, but when Gary says Mr. Blobby now I can only picture Mr.Blobby take a squat
"not bootar" best line.
is it me or does this particular studio and camera positionment make matt look really good
Panic on the streets of Oslo, panic on the streets of Kristiansand
Bergen, Trondheim, Haugesund
I wonder to myself
MN state fair still has butter carving every year, you can watch it done live. The artist and subject sit in a big clear refrigerated cylinder on a slowly rotating platform
7:27 any specific potatoes?
King Edward?
Maris Piper
Tom: your just naming potatoes-
Guys: thats what you told us to do!
😂😂😂 i am diseased
deceased surely?
Every year, the Minnesota State Fair carves the heads of contestants of the "Princess Kay of the Milky Way" beauty contest out of butter. These are quite ingenuously called "butterheads".