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Great video! I live in a place called Ballarat in Victoria, Australia - and we have a huge mural as you enter the city saying "Welcome to Ballarat, home of Mars" so I always just assumed it originated here. Now im just assuming its because we have one of their biggest processing plants located here..? Any further info would be fantastic. Ive heard more than one local around here proudly claim Mars was born in Ballarat, hope they dont mind being disappointed! Because we trust everything Simon says as gospel, yeah? Yeahh??
Well this seems to explain why a Mars Bars taste better than Milky Ways despite being the same thing. Why doesn't Mars make the Milky Way taste as good.
2,000yrs in the future some people will interpret it to mean the planet, mars an they'll claim mars was inhabited back then. lolz coz humans are stupid
Kim Jung Un: TGC Jet I hope that happens in the real world like America selling its soul with porn drugs and immigrant trouble makers to be the leader of the free world. I hope destabilizing other countries particularly those with strategic value causing war and so much suffering will propel you to to top like you once where in the early 19th century, even Germany is making you look like the sick man of the Western World.
Quite interesting for me that this showed up in my recommended videos... My late but very great-uncle was the engineer behind the automation of the production of Mars Bars. Before he devised the process they were made by hand. Uncle Jack was an insanely fascinating fellow who had survived a V1 attack in WW2 and married a Wren who worked in one of the Bletchley satellites. Post-war he drove an MG far too quickly around Berkshire and used to head to Silverstone with my grandfather (his brother-in-law) to watch motor racing. In the process he witnessed Fangio do the first 100mph lap of Silverstone and also saw a man tumble into the open latrines that used to be a feature of 1950s motorsport... His engineering prowess showed in everything he did... My uncle told me about him using a theodolite to lay a patio, and carrying out full structural calcs on a straightforward lintel. In retirement he built clocks using a lathe that he offered me (and every day I regret not accepting that offer). The full compliment of marbles was maintained right until his very end and he was a very lovely man who anybody would get along with.
The dude made all the most iconic candy bars still around today. Proof that when you know you can do something to stick with it despite turbulent times.
Pancake clerk He just means they are getting small compared to their original size. And I agree but don't care because I can never finish one anyways lol I agree with you though they arnt going anywhere especially with M&Ms I love those.
In the US Military today, our MRE's (food rations) often come with M&M's in them. It will forever be a hilarious joke that the labeling on package doesn't call them by the name we all know (M&M's), but rather: PAN COATED CHOCOLATE DISCS.
Thank you for this video. I lived most of my life, 4 decades, in Minneapolis, and yet I never heard of the rich history of the city in the candy industry. The Pearson's Salted Nut Roll is still a satisfying treat!
Warren Buffett declined to put an offer in for the Mars company, he says because you shouldn't sell a successful family business. But buffett is a serial liar (like any successful businessman) who probably knows it looks like garbage on the books.
I think it's because the third kid doesn't have many photos online. I tried to find them, but they're almost all him younger and it's hard to tell the two kids apart. If you search for "John Franklin Mars" you see that exact photo early on, from some article about miscellaneous billionaires. I assume he just found the first photo of an unfamiliar face and assumed it was. or it's some weird joke.
Possibly as the Mars Family asked WB's Berkshire Hatherway for a $20B loan (correct me if i'm wrong) to buy out Wrigley, so I think somebody left in the picture by mistake. Remember also that one of the brothers, I think it's John, has since died and passed his 1/3rd onto his kids. Anyway, apart from that mistake, very little is known about the family, so much of what one reads will be 'fake news' as the man with the shredded wheat haircut drums on about.
For that matter, why is a photo of a 70's VolksWagon Beetle with a Just Married license plate at the 2:48 mark used to go with a second marriage that took place in 1910?
Yes, I also did a double take when I saw warren buffett and tried to remember if there was Mars in his name lol. Or maybe they just looked very much alike. Also, @Jared England, he did mention 3 kids, but they way he said John Forrest Jr, made it sound like it was 1 person, but it' John Mars and Forrest Mars Jr
I know I'm 4 years late but what a great video. My dad worked for Mars in Slough and also travelled to Europe and the US doing R n D. He even had Patients to his name regarding cooling chocolate amongst other things. Seeing the black and white photo of the guy in his whites standing next to one of the lines bought back so fond memories of seeing dad in his whites and hat. He managed to shut the Twix line down by mistake once but I can't remember the full story. It was great growing up with a cupboard full of Mars goodies and some some from Europe and the States that we don't have in the UK. I got to tour the Factory at least 3 times. Eating fresh Twix biscuit directly off the line while it's still warm is amazing. If they retain that taste even when it has cooled, Twix would be even better than they are. I also had a hand in the final flavour of Mars Milk as dad bought home 9 samples for me to try. I'm 99% sure what we taste today was my favourite. Thank you for this video.
+Today I Found Out Interesting that you only calculate the inflation when it goes along with the narrative you are trying to construct. Maybe we shouldn't learn history from people on RUclips
You should, but you shoud also verify those informations from other sources since "people on RUclips" are here to make views so sometimes they happend to sort of tweak the reality to make it more dramatic. But still, that's a greate way of hearing about interesting facts.
What i never understood is If Mars is an American company, why is the US the only place you can't find mars bars? that makes no sense what's so ever. I can't imagine my childhoods with out mars bars and kinder eggs, poor American kids.
Well, video kinda explains it: Forest Junior created a new version of the Mars bar in Europe. Its very possible that american Mars bar slowly went away in favor of Snickers bars, while european Mars endured. Like some people above, I couldn't imagine my childhood without a Mars bar. First Snickers I ever tried was at 23 years old lol.
bulbadude I know what's Snickers Almond Bars are, you can find them in Europe and they are manufactured in both the Netherlands factory, and in the Ukrainian mars factory. Mars Bars don't have Almonds in them, the are nothing like Snickers Almond Bars.
Zamolxes77 But you have Snickers bars in Europe, as well as Mars bars, and Twix, and Milky Way and Bounty, and M&M. you never tasted a Snickers bar until adulthood? that's sad. candy are for childhood, I didn't eat candy bar for probably a decade, but i'm an adult, It's really awful to deprive a kid of sweets and candy. that's who it's for.
Maybe it had something to do with an issue in trademarking the names? Or marketing predicted the bars would do better under different names? That's interesting, though. I never knew that. Love your channel btw, definitely in my top 5
black tar heroin Yeah there are, but they are different bars. In Europe they sell 3 Musketeers under the name Milky Way, and there is no American Milky Way equivalent.
I thoroughly enjoy the production value and information your channel produces. Could you gentlemen please construct a video that answers this question which has bugged me for at least 15 years? Why is it that members of the British military exclusively pronounce the word Lieutenant as " Left-tenant" and yet continue to spell the rank with conventional French spelling? Unlike other English speaking countries which use the original French pronunciation. Do they also say "Left-tenant Colonel" or "Left-tenant General" ? Does it have anything to do with avoiding the British colloquialism for bathroom, i.e. the Loo? -Merci beaucoup
I live in London, and I can safely say that left-tenant and Lieutenant have different pronunciations. As far as I'm aware, they mean the same thing, it's just a different way of saying it. We don't think Lieutenant is pronounced 'Left-tenant' haha.
In Canadian military and I am a "left-tenant" :P. Can confirm we say that here though it's written lieutenant. left-tenant actually sounds much more correct to me, nobody says it as its written and its what everyone calls me so.....it'd be interesting!
@Dan S: Apart from the fact that "left-tenant" is spelled Lieutenant and that Lieutenant is pronounced "lef-tenant", everything you wrote is correct...
I was interested so did a little research. It seems there are many theories, one is that way back in the English language the letters U and V were basically the same and the lack of standardised spelling and pronunciation with U and V could have played a part. Also in old french, lieu was spelled luef. Another is that's french and we tended to anglicised words that could be mistaken as french. Another is that traditionally in the military lower ranked officers would walk on the left side of senior officers. Another simply being as a way for America to distance it's self from the U.K after the revolution. Hope this helps with your curiosity, but I don't think there is a specific answer. Language changes :p
I member Mars bars back in the day. The chocolate was so hard you could break off strips and eat them leaving the innards untouched. Then roll the caramel off the nougat and eat that in one go. Finally you ate the shitty nougat bit. You can't do that today because its made with different ingredients that taste like shit. Much better to watch some home made mars recipes on Yotube if you want the real thing as it once was
I'm sure they're doing the same thing everybody else is doing, putting corn syrup in place of the sugar. Which makes them taste like crap and gives them a different texture. But they save money doing it that way, so... you're never going to convince them to do otherwise. Unless, of course, you could convince them that they'll sell more of the things if actually use SUGAR, instead of that corn syrup crap. Good luck doing that...
***** Well I for one will not stand for this, this... supercilious vituperation! So I will sit down and shuffle away awkwardly on my chair. Good day to you sir.
Jaded Sentiments - To be honest, the slightly harder and slightly tackier stuff was MUCH better than what we have available today. Just the way the world is, now. *shrug*
WRONG. Reese bought the rights to make Kit Kats in the United States from Rountree's of York creator of the Kit Kat bar. Reese is owned by Hershey. After this deal was struck, Nestle bought Rountree. Hershey does not own Nestle, Neslte does not own Hershey. Hershey continues to make Kit Kats under the previous licensing agreement they made with Roundtree. So now all Kit Kat bars are made by Nestle exept in the United States (where they are made by Hershy thier competitor).
hachuto He was wrong either way. I'm not sure what your point is. You asked why Nestle was on Kit Kats outside of the U.S. and Hershey was on Kit Kats inside U.S. His reply: "because Hershey is owned by nestle" and that is not true.
Key point here - the founder was almost broke - yet he kept on trying & trying & had self belief ! Definitely one of the keys to success - amazing story !!!!!
7:13 - I'm pretty sure that middle picture is of Warren Buffett, not of Forrest Mars, Jr. I could be mistaken -- they look pretty similar -- but I'll be damned if that's not Buffett.
It is. Not sure how I missed that one. **shakes fist in picture guy's general direction even though I should have caught it in review so it's kind of my fault but it's always nice to have someone else to blame** ;-)
+Colonel_Shrek -- Watch the video again. It doesn't say M&M is failing. What failed were his early business attempts, his marriage, etc. "A Lesson in Failure" is thus also "A Lesson on Perseverance."
+Colonel_Shrek you need to watch the video: the failures were early and numerous, but you're quite right that the Mars Corporation has eventually become incredibly and continuingly successful.
@@vmelkon Odd, I'm in Ontario, Canada, and have always eaten Reese's Pieces and never had a problem finding them in stores. From the time E.T. came out until now, never an issue.
@@sharonsomers : I guess I have to retract what I said. I saw some Reese's Pieces in a store. think it was Giant Tigre, a few weeks ago. I think more stores have M&M than Reese's. I do remember that there was a Reese's based cereal for a while.
The hard candy covered chocolates that Forest Mars saw in Spain were Smarties made by Rowntrees. Forrest Mars knew the Rowntree family. There is something strange about the chocolate business in the early 20 century, most of the families involved were either Quakers; Rowntrees, Fry's, Cadbury, or similar American faiths; Mars. All these families were known to each other and were friends. That is the more interesting story.
Most of the great chocolate brands are now owned by big multinational companies. Kraft went and cocked up Cadbury,s. Thank god Mars is still in famly hands.
Mars is a big multinational company and acting like one. www.ethicalconsumer.org/companystories.aspx?CompanyId=18988&CategoryId=288176 It is not a small family business.
You're deluded if you think being owned by a family somehow makes it any different than any other multinational company. People are people. There's no inherent differences between CEOs of family-owned companies and CEOs of companies that are not.
Joelle Jansen you can buy milkyways just in few countries though (namely uk and france) but mars bars are all over the world. maybe no point in competing with yourself.
Also true: the gentlemen who run the day to day operations of Mars aren't really candy guys, and see it purely as a business. Also true, they're not really into peanut butter. This explains why peanut butter wasn't used in very many of their products for a long time. (I did a presentation with two other people as part of my undergrad work.)
This channel is so much better than top 10 channels. I can actually learn from these videos, but they are enough of them that I can just have them auto play in the background and never run out!
Milky Way is Mars in Germany and what is called Mars in the US is Snickers in Germany. Milky Way in Germany on the other hand is 3 Musketeers in the US. Mars likes to keep it simple obviously.
There's more! What they call M&Ms in Germany, they call a double-overhead cam, horizontally opposed, six cylinder piston engine in the U.S. It's Uncle Ben's Rice in the U.S., but Germany calls it Garage Floor Absorbent.
There's even more! While they're known as Kinder Eggs in Germany, in the US they're known as Contraband Sneaky Toy Child Choking Alarmist Death Cackleberries.
"Many were hooked". Yep TRUE. My grandfather was a WWII US Army combat veteran. "Spoiling" his grandchildren with....M&Ms! He was NOT a big "junk food" guy, But M&Ms were his "thing" only allied with Wint-0-Green "Life Savers" and the occasional "Boyer's Mallo-Cup" We are from Pennsylvania and he worked in Altoona, PA. for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 👍😊👍
That's one of the most fascinating business stories ever! Yes, the lesson is that persistence can win against successive failures. Most successful entrepreneurs build business from their passion for their interest(s) rather than for money, but later discover that the money can expand their power to pursue their interests. Such true passion regards failures as temporary diversions.
You forgot to mention that Steven Spielberg wanted to use M&M's in E.T. but Mars wanted nothing to do with the movie, So Spielberg made a deal with Reese's to use their newest candy the Reese's pieces. Talk about failure to recognize the potential for marketing in movies, Reese's made bank off Mars' blunder.
I loved eating Mars bars but then I had the fortune of eating a Nestle's Coffee Crisp and damn that has become my favourite light snack...Delicious to say the least.
Not really since American chocolate companies are buying up all of the European chocolate companies and changing the recipes to add more sugar, more colouring, more flavours, less milk and less cocoa. So, they are saving cocoa, destroying chocolate, increasing obesity diabetes.
Not really either has europe has this trend of eating 70% and up chocolates in large amounts. High quality stuff with prices up to 50 bucks and more per kilo. And with large amounts I mean large amounts compared to that price tags. The rise in cocoa beans prices becomes less important when your product is anyway already fair trade or organic and expensive even without consideration of the cocoa prices. Furthermore no one buys out nestle anyway and they have a large percentage of the sweets market and … well they like corn syrup as much as the americans anyway. ;-)
At 7:09, or so, I heard Simon say "John Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline". I did some reading about it and discovered that he really WAS saying all three kid's names, "John, Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline". But it was very confusing for a bit, because of the way he said their names. Hearing that fast talking, I was thinking maybe I should post an idiotic youtube comment saying that Simon mentioned the two men and didn't say anything the daughter. I listened to it again, then wondered why he was talking about one of the sons and the daughter, but not the other son. Then I started comparing names and reading about their family, and finally figured it all out. But in the future, Simon, when you're narrating a script, keep this in mind... at 7:09 you literally said "John Forrest Jr. and...", even though now I know you meant "John, Forrest Jr., and..." I understand that you're trying to do this quickly, and you enunciate your words quite well (a rarity on the youtubes). But perhaps, in a case like this, it MAY be better if you had written the script to say, "John, and Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline." I think adding the extra "and" in there would have made what you were saying much clearer to the casual viewer of your video - and would have prevented the initial confusion I had when hearing you list their names. That being said... it's a minor little thing, and I wasn't terribly concerned about it overall. I still thought I should mention it to you, for the sake of future scripts, but it was only a tiny detail in an otherwise engaging video. The videos you make are quite interesting and informative, and I do appreciate the efforts you go to in order to make your videos worth watching. So, thank you for those efforts - and I will be subscribing to your channel now, whereas over the past couple of weeks I've only been looking at your videos every now and then. You're worth subscribing to, because I believe I'll be watching them on a regular basis from now on...
I'm sorry to say but you named just state of the art mass produced palm oil based cheapest chocolates with almost no cocoa at all. I'm not chocolate elitist, I just read ingredients listing
Cadbury used to be the benchmark of good chocolate,I worked at the Ringwood AU factory for 4 years back in the 80's,I cooked on every line from jelly beans to the L.A Olympics Cherry Ripe exports and made Mars bars from start to finish. Nowdays Cadbury is crap,they dropped the 'glass and a half' line years ago because it's simply not true anymore,the ingredients are low grade and highly processed to mimic the original recipes.Most of Cadbury products have succumbed to the scam of halal certification,whilst recent times they don't print the halal logo on the products,Cadbury hide the fact that send money to muzlims.Once a great company,now corporate lowlife,don't go near their shit,it stinks bad.
Kwanglebeh Never heard of that. I know most if not all cadburry chocolate imported in the US from cadburry to hersheys to sell in the US is total shit full of fake shit but i buy my cadburry from UK directly and it has all the real i gredients same as always. Hersheys has way more bad stuff in it even compared to the Cadberry import version. Hersheys is just wax with loads of oil and barely any coco.
Also, it's not only keep trying, but keep trying something new. The mistake some people do is keep trying with a bad idea, which will continually result in bad results.
In the 80s, my mother worked at the Ethel M's factory in Las Vegas. Ethel M's are the Mars Corp. version of See's Candies. As kids, we got to taste test many things that she brought home. We taste tested Kudos bars before their release to the rest of the world. She also played on the factory's softball team with Frank Mars, one of Frank and Forrest's descendants (I forget his exact relation).
blingximus when the US soldiers liberated concentration camps, at first they would give the starving to death victims chocolate, but this actually ended up resulting in some dying because of the suddenly very rich diet from the chocolate
It's actually quite interesting, many armies did this, and some (Germany for example) gave their soldiers chockolate with amphetamine (look up Panzerschokolade ) and some pills with other drugs to keep them fighting "better" (and have less moral qualms I guess). Great Brittain also gave their pilots amphetamine-based stuff.
They also own Domio. The easiest way to check who owns a brand is to a) look for company label e.g. Nestle around the back or b) look for company/factory address as that will have the parent company's name on it. Most brands seem to be owned by a limited amount of companies for example Bertolli (margarine), Flora (margarine), Cornetto (icecream) and Magnum (icecream) are all owned by Unilever.
Here's another fun fact. Because Mars bars (or Milky Way as they are called in the US) are found in every country in the world, they are used by financial institutions to calculate the cost of living in those countries. They are one of a shopping list of goods which they add up to find a total cost of a weekly shop. They look at the retail price and the weight of the bar. The bar's weight is an indicator of how much the manufacturer is having to pay for raw ingredients like sugar, and it varies in order to maintain a steady profit while keeping the price of the mars bar stable.
Marathon was one of my favorites too, with commercials starring Patrick Wayne (whelp of John Wayne). ruclips.net/video/-ib7bQuy_g0/видео.html (oh, and the captain is Roger Carmel, Harcourt Fenton Mudd from 2 Star Trek TOS episodes and voice in one Star Trek TAS episode)
Very interesting story. I happen to be a truck driver that carries rice to Mars's pet food factories in Mattoon, IL.. Clinton, OK.. and Temple, TX on a regular basis.
You are missing some facts!! After attending the world's fair expo in new York he bought what was THE first candy making machine from a German engineer at the expo. He quickly patented the machine with the US patent office. This machine along with it's patent completely industrialized the food making industry! Like Henry Fords patent for the assembly line... He had patented something nobody else had ever done. Companies from all over the country sought after him to design food making machines... They had too..
Yes, if you are born in America you can be successful if your son is brought up in Canada and builds a hugely successful business model in Europe and then has to wait for you to die and your wife to die and your half-brother to die before turning your mediocre regional company into a multi-million dollar global phenomenon!
It has to be a mistake. He's NOT a member of the Mars family. His fortune is famously self-made. My best guess at the only likely connection is if Berkshire Hathaway has any stock in MARS Inc. I suppose it's possible but Warren's chocolate pride and joy is See's Candies. It's very confusing.
www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/10/06/mars-buying-out-warren-buffett-to-take-full-control-of-wrigley/#54544f4a2a86 --- took about 10 second to find the answer you lazy people..
This was really interesting. It is amazing what can happen when a good product gets in the hands of someone with a sharp eye for opportunity and a strong business acumen.
My mum worked at Mars in Slough just after the war. She was in the Tunes division. No-one ever got a stuffy nose in there. The staff were allowed to eat as much as they wanted - so they didn't because it was a bit sickening after a while. Good employee psychology - if they'd been banned stuff would be pilfered all day long!
Those three kids that inherited the company - they'd be able to have a whole big bowl of Mars bars and stuff sitting on their coffee tables. Guests would be able to help themselves to some chocolate any time they wanted.
Indeed, but thank food regulations on portion size for that. Oh, and greed. Charge the same amount for what used to be like 30% bigger not all that long ago.
Sadly, Amerikans selected commie/socialist politicians/mostly Democrats who imposed their "laws" and we are the poorer for it. Voters seem never to have achieved adulthood and demand that politicians be mommy and daddy. Hence, we are just a bunch of stinkin' naggar slaves on the plantation state operated by masters/politicians and their hired thugs/overseers. When will they ever learn? Where have all the flowers gone?
The way to know if it's chocolate or if it's a candy is to read the packaging. If it doesn't explicitely say it's chocolate , then it's a candy. Be aware they will write things like "chocolate flavoured bar/candy" and in the ingredient list it will explicitely say : chocolate XX% In the case of Mars, it's not chocolate , it's a chocolate flavoured nougat and caramel candy bar.
Mr MC I'm a pastry chef , there's international conventions to distinguish chocolate from candy. Chocolate must have certain %s of chocolate , sugar and chocolate butter . If those %s are not respected , it is called candy. For an example , white chocolate is actually candy, because it's basically only sugar and chocolate butter , so is brown cover ( the chocolate enrobage on a mars bar) , white cover , lettering oil , etc.
I was in the candy business as a 3rd generation candy broker and manufacturers representative in Maryland, USA, selling to wholesalers, chain drug stores , chain supermarkets, and vending machine opperators. Now many of the companies I worked for make their iconic candies in Mexico and are part of corporate conglomerates instead of family owned. Some of the products have been reduced in quality so that they do not even resemble the products I sold from 1972 to 1997. It is sad to see good products cheapened to a shadow of their former selves to achieve higher profits and golden parachutes for CEOs.
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I see Warren Buffett is also known as Forrest Mars Jr.
7:08 middle picture.
The biggest mistake he made was not allowing M&Ms to me used in E.T.
Great video! I live in a place called Ballarat in Victoria, Australia - and we have a huge mural as you enter the city saying "Welcome to Ballarat, home of Mars" so I always just assumed it originated here. Now im just assuming its because we have one of their biggest processing plants located here..? Any further info would be fantastic. Ive heard more than one local around here proudly claim Mars was born in Ballarat, hope they dont mind being disappointed!
Because we trust everything Simon says as gospel, yeah? Yeahh??
Well this seems to explain why a Mars Bars taste better than Milky Ways despite being the same thing. Why doesn't Mars make the Milky Way taste as good.
Taken by itself, The line "During his exile from Mars in the 1930's"....sounds so strange.
I had the exact same thought.
2,000yrs in the future some people will interpret it to mean the planet, mars an they'll claim mars was inhabited back then. lolz coz humans are stupid
Actually, it was a Freudian slip from this channel's Illuminati editors. He WAS living on Mars, but no one was supposed to know.
Yeah, and then improving the Milky Way when he was is Excile from Mars...
It won't sound as strange in 2130.
Jameson: "Parker! You know what my favorite brand of rice is?
Peter Parker: "Which one, sir?"
Jameson: "Uncle Bens." *laughs*
Peter Parker: *cries*
Haha that's so aweful! XD
Can anyone explain this?
Spiderman, Peter parker's uncle (ben) died, giving him part of the inspiration to become spiderman.
Kim Jung Un: TGC Jet I hope that happens in the real world like America selling its soul with porn drugs and immigrant trouble makers to be the leader of the free world. I hope destabilizing other countries particularly those with strategic value causing war and so much suffering will propel you to to top like you once where in the early 19th century, even Germany is making you look like the sick man of the Western World.
Hi there, just wanted to point out that a majority of people voted for the OTHER candidate.
"Mars company quickly launched into orbit"
I see what you did there.
wow
Mars dank
MasterG dank-moist according to google
But aren't YOU Mars?
mars is Illuminati confirmed
Quite interesting for me that this showed up in my recommended videos...
My late but very great-uncle was the engineer behind the automation of the production of Mars Bars. Before he devised the process they were made by hand. Uncle Jack was an insanely fascinating fellow who had survived a V1 attack in WW2 and married a Wren who worked in one of the Bletchley satellites. Post-war he drove an MG far too quickly around Berkshire and used to head to Silverstone with my grandfather (his brother-in-law) to watch motor racing. In the process he witnessed Fangio do the first 100mph lap of Silverstone and also saw a man tumble into the open latrines that used to be a feature of 1950s motorsport...
His engineering prowess showed in everything he did... My uncle told me about him using a theodolite to lay a patio, and carrying out full structural calcs on a straightforward lintel. In retirement he built clocks using a lathe that he offered me (and every day I regret not accepting that offer).
The full compliment of marbles was maintained right until his very end and he was a very lovely man who anybody would get along with.
Quite an interesting man your uncle!
Today, more than ever, we need more men like your Uncle!!
@@markc6101
True
I understood about half of those words but it sure sounded cool!
I hope this is not made up. your uncle sounds like a chad ngl
The dude made all the most iconic candy bars still around today. Proof that when you know you can do something to stick with it despite turbulent times.
Oh god, he threw a chocolate bar out of the window.
What a savage.
Domst3r1910
You knew where he was by all of the diabetic squirrels lying outside of the window.
Good one
/r/madlads
I bet the guy outside is like: THANK YOU *nom nom nom*
You know what? I bet if there was a guy outside, he would be like: THANK YOU nom nom nom
Mars bars are about to disappear though.
They are getting so small that soon you will not be able to see them at all.
John Cena's favorite Snack
Mars still owns M&M'S so they will be fine.
Pancake clerk He just means they are getting small compared to their original size. And I agree but don't care because I can never finish one anyways lol I agree with you though they arnt going anywhere especially with M&Ms I love those.
I'm fine with that, seriously, they are freaking sweet.
Mars chocolate bar will always be my all time favorite. I dont like having nuts and crunchy stuff in my chocolate.
A Mars a day keeps the dentists in pay !.
Fun fact- a dentist co-invented the machine that made cotton candy commercially viable. :-)
Ha ! Ha !. Wise dentist !.
unless you brush and floss...
yo why do you got my profile pic dude... lol
Rock n Roll !.
Imagine being Ethel the first, divorces him for not having money, then he becomes a millionaire many times over!
Poor old Ethel tho she did go on to make a mean home made gasoline recipe which ignited much interest!
serves her right the hag
@@JulieDodgshon
You're a silly girl
Silly
>tfw the second wife gets a horse farm
Their son played a part in creating the massive fortune, and he would've most likely looked after his mother.
wife-'I'm leaving you because you are poor' son- 'I'm leaving because you won't give me your fortune'
Shit I'm watching the wrong bald white guy with a beard wearing glasses.
hah i got it
Michael?
Hello, Micheal here. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Just wish he would upload more.
Anthony beardtano
Vsauce, Michael here.
Does anybody else think Hershey's chocolate has an aftertaste of vomit?
John Fallon Hm now that you mention it. Kinda!
It has been described as having a sour milk aftertaste.
John Fallon But it tastes good...
+Joey Slávik Nope.
ALWAYS ALWAYS thought this!!!
Uncanny how much John Franklyn Mars looks like Warren Buffett ;)
I thought the same.
It's now pronounced Boo-Fay😀
Everyone should know what Warren B. looks like.
Its the 3 rochest ppl picture. The mars ppl outside of buffet. I think that was the point
I worked for Mars. The family works very hard and run the firm very effectively.
In the US Military today, our MRE's (food rations) often come with M&M's in them. It will forever be a hilarious joke that the labeling on package doesn't call them by the name we all know (M&M's), but rather: PAN COATED CHOCOLATE DISCS.
Let's put them on a tray... Nice.
@@RobinsVoyage That allows them the ability to buy a similar candy made by a different manufacturer if such is moore economic.
That story reminds me of a price sign I saw at a supermarket offering bananas as "Curved Yellow Fruit".
@@RobinsVoyage LOL! No doubt Steve has eaten his fair share of PAN COATED CHOCOLATE DISKS!
Ike Evans that was actually for NASA astronauts AND the military
Thank you for this video. I lived most of my life, 4 decades, in Minneapolis, and yet I never heard of the rich history of the city in the candy industry. The Pearson's Salted Nut Roll is still a satisfying treat!
Why is Warren Buffet's picture shown as one of the Mars kids?
Warren Buffett declined to put an offer in for the Mars company, he says because you shouldn't sell a successful family business. But buffett is a serial liar (like any successful businessman) who probably knows it looks like garbage on the books.
I think it's because the third kid doesn't have many photos online. I tried to find them, but they're almost all him younger and it's hard to tell the two kids apart. If you search for "John Franklin Mars" you see that exact photo early on, from some article about miscellaneous billionaires. I assume he just found the first photo of an unfamiliar face and assumed it was.
or it's some weird joke.
I noticed that too and was like wtf. It takes away from the channels credibility just because if that was so blatantly overlooked, what else may be.
Possibly as the Mars Family asked WB's Berkshire Hatherway for a $20B loan (correct me if i'm wrong) to buy out Wrigley, so I think somebody left in the picture by mistake. Remember also that one of the brothers, I think it's John, has since died and passed his 1/3rd onto his kids. Anyway, apart from that mistake, very little is known about the family, so much of what one reads will be 'fake news' as the man with the shredded wheat haircut drums on about.
I think because he was listing some of the richest people in the world at the time but yes, it is strange
Warren Buffet is one of Forest Mars' three children? I don't think so.
Warren is the result of a brief tryst Forrest had in France with Mary Buffet. She was sweet.
+1Howdy1 Mary's younger son Jimmy began a lucrative career writing lax songs about sailing/island life.
Dude I'm pretty sure that picture in the middle in 7:08 is Warren Buffett.
*Upvote this so they can see and correct the mistake
Yes it is him!
I don't think he made a mistake in the name I think he just omitted it because he named two of the three who knows why.
For that matter, why is a photo of a 70's VolksWagon Beetle with a Just Married license plate at the 2:48 mark used to go with a second marriage that took place in 1910?
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I thought M&M stood for Milf & Milk
am i the only one who noticed warren buffet's photo? xD had to google it to make sure buffet wasn't a Mars heir
He said "three kids" but only mentioned two 😂
Yes, I also did a double take when I saw warren buffett and tried to remember if there was Mars in his name lol. Or maybe they just looked very much alike.
Also, @Jared England, he did mention 3 kids, but they way he said John Forrest Jr, made it sound like it was 1 person, but it' John Mars and Forrest Mars Jr
@@jaredengland5115 John, Forrest Jnr and Jacqueline. That would be three.
I know I'm 4 years late but what a great video. My dad worked for Mars in Slough and also travelled to Europe and the US doing R n D. He even had Patients to his name regarding cooling chocolate amongst other things. Seeing the black and white photo of the guy in his whites standing next to one of the lines bought back so fond memories of seeing dad in his whites and hat. He managed to shut the Twix line down by mistake once but I can't remember the full story.
It was great growing up with a cupboard full of Mars goodies and some some from Europe and the States that we don't have in the UK.
I got to tour the Factory at least 3 times. Eating fresh Twix biscuit directly off the line while it's still warm is amazing. If they retain that taste even when it has cooled, Twix would be even better than they are.
I also had a hand in the final flavour of Mars Milk as dad bought home 9 samples for me to try. I'm 99% sure what we taste today was my favourite.
Thank you for this video.
Wait... Mars bars aren't sold in America? They're the fuckin bomb diggidy
Dom If your grocery store has a foreign food section, they'll usually have it there
They're sold in Canada too, very popular.
Sorry, i understand since they are from Mars huh
Really? I assumed they were sold normally.
I use to seem them all the time, but have not seen them in along long time here in the US
Oh, he only had $400 to his name? too bad it was 1920, that's like having 10 or 20 thousand dollars.
About $4700 actually. :-)
Well according to the US historical inflation calculator its 10k, and considering wage growth has generally been above inflation...
Spazzen she.
+Today I Found Out
Interesting that you only calculate the inflation when it goes along with the narrative you are trying to construct. Maybe we shouldn't learn history from people on RUclips
You should, but you shoud also verify those informations from other sources since "people on RUclips" are here to make views so sometimes they happend to sort of tweak the reality to make it more dramatic. But still, that's a greate way of hearing about interesting facts.
What i never understood is If Mars is an American company, why is the US the only place you can't find mars bars? that makes no sense what's so ever. I can't imagine my childhoods with out mars bars and kinder eggs, poor American kids.
I think it's because Snickers has more name recognition here. Mars bars are sold as Snickers Almond Bars.
Well, video kinda explains it: Forest Junior created a new version of the Mars bar in Europe. Its very possible that american Mars bar slowly went away in favor of Snickers bars, while european Mars endured.
Like some people above, I couldn't imagine my childhood without a Mars bar. First Snickers I ever tried was at 23 years old lol.
i have seen mars bars in the states
bulbadude I know what's Snickers Almond Bars are, you can find them in Europe and they are manufactured in both the Netherlands factory, and in the Ukrainian mars factory.
Mars Bars don't have Almonds in them, the are nothing like Snickers Almond Bars.
Zamolxes77 But you have Snickers bars in Europe, as well as Mars bars, and Twix, and Milky Way and Bounty, and M&M.
you never tasted a Snickers bar until adulthood? that's sad. candy are for childhood, I didn't eat candy bar for probably a decade, but i'm an adult, It's really awful to deprive a kid of sweets and candy. that's who it's for.
The many decades I've enjoyed Mars bars and I never knew the history of them.
I think I will buy a multi-pack and scoff the lot. (UK)
"Why the hell's your skin crawling around like that?"
"It appears I'm having some sort of seizure."
'Forest Mars' is such a cool name.
I don't know why this video showed up in my suggestions, but it was interesting.
So why was Sniuckers called Marathon in the UK originally and the UK Milky Way being a 3 Musketeers Bar?
Maybe it had something to do with an issue in trademarking the names? Or marketing predicted the bars would do better under different names? That's interesting, though. I never knew that. Love your channel btw, definitely in my top 5
Larry Bundy Jr there are milky ways in the us
Larry Bundy Jr mah nigga i see you EVERYWHERE
Marathon was a great name. I gave up on them when they changed to the ludicrous, Snickers.
black tar heroin Yeah there are, but they are different bars. In Europe they sell 3 Musketeers under the name Milky Way, and there is no American Milky Way equivalent.
"He had a temper"- "he often threw candy bars out the window"!!!!!! What A F*cking SAVAGE! xD
800,000 to 11,000,000 in less than a century? Goddamn FED.
I thoroughly enjoy the production value and information your channel produces. Could you gentlemen please construct a video that answers this question which has bugged me for at least 15 years? Why is it that members of the British military exclusively pronounce the word Lieutenant as " Left-tenant" and yet continue to spell the rank with conventional French spelling? Unlike other English speaking countries which use the original French pronunciation. Do they also say "Left-tenant Colonel" or "Left-tenant General" ? Does it have anything to do with avoiding the British colloquialism for bathroom, i.e. the Loo? -Merci beaucoup
Good one. :-)
I live in London, and I can safely say that left-tenant and Lieutenant have different pronunciations. As far as I'm aware, they mean the same thing, it's just a different way of saying it. We don't think Lieutenant is pronounced 'Left-tenant' haha.
In Canadian military and I am a "left-tenant" :P. Can confirm we say that here though it's written lieutenant. left-tenant actually sounds much more correct to me, nobody says it as its written and its what everyone calls me so.....it'd be interesting!
@Dan S: Apart from the fact that "left-tenant" is spelled Lieutenant and that Lieutenant is pronounced "lef-tenant", everything you wrote is correct...
I was interested so did a little research. It seems there are many theories, one is that way back in the English language the letters U and V were basically the same and the lack of standardised spelling and pronunciation with U and V could have played a part. Also in old french, lieu was spelled luef. Another is that's french and we tended to anglicised words that could be mistaken as french. Another is that traditionally in the military lower ranked officers would walk on the left side of senior officers. Another simply being as a way for America to distance it's self from the U.K after the revolution. Hope this helps with your curiosity, but I don't think there is a specific answer. Language changes :p
I member Mars bars back in the day. The chocolate was so hard you could break off strips and eat them leaving the innards untouched. Then roll the caramel off the nougat and eat that in one go. Finally you ate the shitty nougat bit.
You can't do that today because its made with different ingredients that taste like shit. Much better to watch some home made mars recipes on Yotube if you want the real thing as it once was
I'm sure they're doing the same thing everybody else is doing, putting corn syrup in place of the sugar. Which makes them taste like crap and gives them a different texture. But they save money doing it that way, so... you're never going to convince them to do otherwise. Unless, of course, you could convince them that they'll sell more of the things if actually use SUGAR, instead of that corn syrup crap. Good luck doing that...
Do you not like soft chocolate, nougat and caramel? The Mars candy you're describing “back in the day" sounds hard and tacky...
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Well I for one will not stand for this, this... supercilious vituperation! So I will sit down and shuffle away awkwardly on my chair. Good day to you sir.
Jaded Sentiments
- To be honest, the slightly harder and slightly tackier stuff was MUCH better than what we have available today. Just the way the world is, now. *shrug*
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why in the u.s KitKat is owned by Hershey and in the rest of the world it is owned by nestle?
Der Babo oh, danke
WRONG. Reese bought the rights to make Kit Kats in the United States from Rountree's of York creator of the Kit Kat bar. Reese is owned by Hershey. After this deal was struck, Nestle bought Rountree. Hershey does not own Nestle, Neslte does not own Hershey. Hershey continues to make Kit Kats under the previous licensing agreement they made with Roundtree. So now all Kit Kat bars are made by Nestle exept in the United States (where they are made by Hershy thier competitor).
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch he didnt said that hershey owns nestle
hachuto He was wrong either way. I'm not sure what your point is. You asked why Nestle was on Kit Kats outside of the U.S. and Hershey was on Kit Kats inside U.S. His reply: "because Hershey is owned by nestle" and that is not true.
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch if you know what is wrong can you tell me the right answer?
Forrest was a legend!
Bring back the Mars Almond bar and this time, sell it in Canada!
Key point here - the founder was almost broke - yet he kept on trying & trying & had self belief ! Definitely one of the keys to success - amazing story !!!!!
7:13 - I'm pretty sure that middle picture is of Warren Buffett, not of Forrest Mars, Jr. I could be mistaken -- they look pretty similar -- but I'll be damned if that's not Buffett.
It is. Not sure how I missed that one. **shakes fist in picture guy's general direction even though I should have caught it in review so it's kind of my fault but it's always nice to have someone else to blame** ;-)
Today I Found Out M&M is owned by mars, I don't think they are failing.
and 3 musketeers and lifesavers , but I buy more M&Ms by far
+Colonel_Shrek -- Watch the video again. It doesn't say M&M is failing. What failed were his early business attempts, his marriage, etc. "A Lesson in Failure" is thus also "A Lesson on Perseverance."
+Colonel_Shrek you need to watch the video: the failures were early and numerous, but you're quite right that the Mars Corporation has eventually become incredibly and continuingly successful.
maaaaan found your channels a few days ago and im loooooooooooooving it sooo much ! such cool work! keep it going! cheers
Still loving it?
How about another bonus fact. that they turned down the giving M AND M'S to E.T. Which was awarded to reeses peeses and profits skyrocketed
I had never heard of Reese's Pieces until E.T. I actually like them better!
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I have never seen them in Canada but heard about them on TV.
@@vmelkon Odd, I'm in Ontario, Canada, and have always eaten Reese's Pieces and never had a problem finding them in stores. From the time E.T. came out until now, never an issue.
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I guess I have to retract what I said. I saw some Reese's Pieces in a store. think it was Giant Tigre, a few weeks ago.
I think more stores have M&M than Reese's.
I do remember that there was a Reese's based cereal for a while.
@@vmelkon There still is a Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs cereal available, it's quite good, sweet, but good. Never had a problem finding it either.
The hard candy covered chocolates that Forest Mars saw in Spain were Smarties made by Rowntrees. Forrest Mars knew the Rowntree family.
There is something strange about the chocolate business in the early 20 century, most of the families involved were either Quakers; Rowntrees, Fry's, Cadbury, or similar American faiths; Mars. All these families were known to each other and were friends. That is the more interesting story.
'Bar One' is the South African version of a Mars Bar .. love them 😊.
For somebody who has the middle part of his brain chopped up by the green screen you are really good. Enjoyed your video and learned from it, thanks!
Most of the great chocolate brands are now owned by big multinational companies. Kraft went and cocked up Cadbury,s. Thank god Mars is still in famly hands.
Thank God??? What planet are you living on? Is just a teeth rotting, body polluting business!
Mars is a big multinational company and acting like one. www.ethicalconsumer.org/companystories.aspx?CompanyId=18988&CategoryId=288176 It is not a small family business.
You're deluded if you think being owned by a family somehow makes it any different than any other multinational company. People are people. There's no inherent differences between CEOs of family-owned companies and CEOs of companies that are not.
cadbury is still the same outside the USA, Hershey owns the rights to cadbury north america and it's why they don't taste the same. Blame hershey.
Kraft foods really stuffed up cadbury, especially here in New Zealand, and they also stuffed up toblerone!
Bonus fact: You can buy a 'milkyway' bar in europe, but it's different than the US one. I think this a consequence of Forests' branding in europe.
Yea I've heard that but never knew that Mars Europe was split from the main company like that.
mars bar same thing as USA milkyway.
Joelle Jansen you can buy milkyways just in few countries though (namely uk and france) but mars bars are all over the world. maybe no point in competing with yourself.
...And Holland, and Belgium, and Germany...Denmark...Sweden...Norway etc etc etc...the whole of Europe ;)
Whole point is the Milkyway was stolen and sold everywhere as a mars bar.
Also true: the gentlemen who run the day to day operations of Mars aren't really candy guys, and see it purely as a business. Also true, they're not really into peanut butter. This explains why peanut butter wasn't used in very many of their products for a long time. (I did a presentation with two other people as part of my undergrad work.)
This channel is so much better than top 10 channels. I can actually learn from these videos, but they are enough of them that I can just have them auto play in the background and never run out!
Took me about 40 seconds to understand that 'new-gar' was nougat.
Don't understand proper pronunciation?
@@j.p.6932 it's just how its properly announced
@@yodudeHQ You might want to clue in Mars, Inc. They have apparently been mispronouncing it for decades in their commercial advertising.
@@rudyschwab7709 yes sorry, forgot Mars are the authority here
............thick git!....
Milky Way is Mars in Germany and what is called Mars in the US is Snickers in Germany. Milky Way in Germany on the other hand is 3 Musketeers in the US. Mars likes to keep it simple obviously.
There's more! What they call M&Ms in Germany, they call a double-overhead cam, horizontally opposed, six cylinder piston engine in the U.S. It's Uncle Ben's Rice in the U.S., but Germany calls it Garage Floor Absorbent.
grubbs517 this was funny. seriously.
There's even more! While they're known as Kinder Eggs in Germany, in the US they're known as Contraband Sneaky Toy Child Choking Alarmist Death Cackleberries.
what do you get if you mix a snickers with a milky way?
Milky-nickers
"Many were hooked". Yep TRUE. My grandfather was a WWII US Army combat veteran. "Spoiling" his grandchildren with....M&Ms! He was NOT a big "junk food" guy, But M&Ms were his "thing" only allied with Wint-0-Green "Life Savers" and the occasional "Boyer's Mallo-Cup" We are from Pennsylvania and he worked in Altoona, PA. for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 👍😊👍
That's one of the most fascinating business stories ever! Yes, the lesson is that persistence can win against successive failures. Most successful entrepreneurs build business from their passion for their interest(s) rather than for money, but later discover that the money can expand their power to pursue their interests. Such true passion regards failures as temporary diversions.
You forgot to mention that Steven Spielberg wanted to use M&M's in E.T. but Mars wanted nothing to do with the movie, So Spielberg made a deal with Reese's to use their newest candy the Reese's pieces. Talk about failure to recognize the potential for marketing in movies, Reese's made bank off Mars' blunder.
Imagine a Limited Edition M & Ms bag featuring Es and Ts.
I loved eating Mars bars but then I had the fortune of eating a Nestle's Coffee Crisp and damn that has become my favourite light snack...Delicious to say the least.
Said no one.
A Lesson in Failure: The Greenscreen
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING M&M'S!!!!! 😁😁😁😁👍😎 All throughout the video I was like, "What about m&m's? Where do m&m's fit into all this?"
Mars and Murrie. I always wondered what the M&M stood for but never thought to look it up. Neat.
So is anyone worried about the cocoa bean shortage due to over consumption of chocolate?
don't worry candy bars don't contain 100% chocolate ^^
Not really since American chocolate companies are buying up all of the European chocolate companies and changing the recipes to add more sugar, more colouring, more flavours, less milk and less cocoa.
So, they are saving cocoa, destroying chocolate, increasing obesity diabetes.
Not really either has europe has this trend of eating 70% and up chocolates in large amounts. High quality stuff with prices up to 50 bucks and more per kilo.
And with large amounts I mean large amounts compared to that price tags. The rise in cocoa beans prices becomes less important when your product is anyway already fair trade or organic and expensive even without consideration of the cocoa prices.
Furthermore no one buys out nestle anyway and they have a large percentage of the sweets market and … well they like corn syrup as much as the americans anyway. ;-)
im in the comments looking for IHE reference
and so are you
I hate everything?
p.d d.p RUclips. a common meme in his comment section is "do i hate mars bars"
doihatemarsbars
Lol the only reason I clicked on this vid was to scroll through the comments
Do I hate Mars bars.
Thought Mars Bars were named after the planet . This is crushing news .
At least it wasn't the Uranus bar...
Came here to learn about Mars, didn't expect to learn about M&M's history. I love M&Ms
Tried a Mars bar while in England years ago... Wound up bringing an entire box back home with me to the States cuz they are THAT delicious!!
At 7:09, or so, I heard Simon say "John Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline". I did some reading about it and discovered that he really WAS saying all three kid's names, "John, Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline". But it was very confusing for a bit, because of the way he said their names.
Hearing that fast talking, I was thinking maybe I should post an idiotic youtube comment saying that Simon mentioned the two men and didn't say anything the daughter. I listened to it again, then wondered why he was talking about one of the sons and the daughter, but not the other son. Then I started comparing names and reading about their family, and finally figured it all out.
But in the future, Simon, when you're narrating a script, keep this in mind... at 7:09 you literally said "John Forrest Jr. and...", even though now I know you meant "John, Forrest Jr., and..."
I understand that you're trying to do this quickly, and you enunciate your words quite well (a rarity on the youtubes). But perhaps, in a case like this, it MAY be better if you had written the script to say, "John, and Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline." I think adding the extra "and" in there would have made what you were saying much clearer to the casual viewer of your video - and would have prevented the initial confusion I had when hearing you list their names.
That being said... it's a minor little thing, and I wasn't terribly concerned about it overall. I still thought I should mention it to you, for the sake of future scripts, but it was only a tiny detail in an otherwise engaging video.
The videos you make are quite interesting and informative, and I do appreciate the efforts you go to in order to make your videos worth watching. So, thank you for those efforts - and I will be subscribing to your channel now, whereas over the past couple of weeks I've only been looking at your videos every now and then. You're worth subscribing to, because I believe I'll be watching them on a regular basis from now on...
I am American but Cadburry is 10000000 times better than hersheys lol
I prefer Dove milk chocolate. Nestles next, Hershey 3rd, Cadbury 4th.
I'm sorry to say but you named just state of the art mass produced palm oil based cheapest chocolates with almost no cocoa at all. I'm not chocolate elitist, I just read ingredients listing
Cadbury used to be the benchmark of good chocolate,I worked at the Ringwood AU factory for 4 years back in the 80's,I cooked on every line from jelly beans to the L.A Olympics Cherry Ripe exports and made Mars bars from start to finish. Nowdays Cadbury is crap,they dropped the 'glass and a half' line years ago because it's simply not true anymore,the ingredients are low grade and highly processed to mimic the original recipes.Most of Cadbury products have succumbed to the scam of halal certification,whilst recent times they don't print the halal logo on the products,Cadbury hide the fact that send money to muzlims.Once a great company,now corporate lowlife,don't go near their shit,it stinks bad.
Martin Vaněk Hersheys is wax prett much and taste like shit. Lindit is my fav but cadburry is my main fav cause of their flake.
Kwanglebeh Never heard of that. I know most if not all cadburry chocolate imported in the US from cadburry to hersheys to sell in the US is total shit full of fake shit but i buy my cadburry from UK directly and it has all the real i gredients same as always. Hersheys has way more bad stuff in it even compared to the Cadberry import version. Hersheys is just wax with loads of oil and barely any coco.
How is this a lesson in failure? Because he kept trying?
It is a lesson that you should never give up just because you failed once or twice. It may be more accurate to say "lessons FROM failure"
K1productions Yes. Exactly. It just comes across weird, just like how he says Nougat ;)
K1productions It's better to know when to give up, not to never give up.
Huchychum
and yet, a candy empire was built from not giving up, so... what would have been gained by giving up in this case?
Also, it's not only keep trying, but keep trying something new. The mistake some people do is keep trying with a bad idea, which will continually result in bad results.
In the 80s, my mother worked at the Ethel M's factory in Las Vegas. Ethel M's are the Mars Corp. version of See's Candies. As kids, we got to taste test many things that she brought home. We taste tested Kudos bars before their release to the rest of the world. She also played on the factory's softball team with Frank Mars, one of Frank and Forrest's descendants (I forget his exact relation).
Ironically Forrest’s exile in Europe made the company a giant...wait is his name Forrest Gump Mars? Life is like a box of Chawclates!
Hey Simon, you should do a video about whistling.
Like this one on the language made up of whistles? :-) ruclips.net/video/4KNIDJTTR7c/видео.html
LOL
They gave the soldiers candy in their rations? How nice....always thought it was just hard cornmeal or sumin
blingximus when the US soldiers liberated concentration camps, at first they would give the starving to death victims chocolate, but this actually ended up resulting in some dying because of the suddenly very rich diet from the chocolate
Chocolate is still in emergency rations in the US Navy.
It's actually quite interesting, many armies did this, and some (Germany for example) gave their soldiers chockolate with amphetamine (look up Panzerschokolade ) and some pills with other drugs to keep them fighting "better" (and have less moral qualms I guess). Great Brittain also gave their pilots amphetamine-based stuff.
Well it wasn't entirely for the sake of just being nice. People like sweet things so they're good for morale, plus M&Ms keep for a fairly long time.
Cigarettes were also a standard part of military rations for a long time.
Didn't know Mars owned Uncle Bens
They also own Domio. The easiest way to check who owns a brand is to a) look for company label e.g. Nestle around the back or b) look for company/factory address as that will have the parent company's name on it.
Most brands seem to be owned by a limited amount of companies for example Bertolli (margarine), Flora (margarine), Cornetto (icecream) and Magnum (icecream) are all owned by Unilever.
Tom Williams Productions I always thought the mars bar was a British creation from Slough.
Tom Williams Productions also thought nestle was British.
Well, it's not like Uncle Ben can own Mars. I mean, no one can own an entire planet.
As general rule to keep in mind:
90%+ of the processed foods you eat are owned by four companies nowadays :/
Here's another fun fact. Because Mars bars (or Milky Way as they are called in the US) are found in every country in the world, they are used by financial institutions to calculate the cost of living in those countries. They are one of a shopping list of goods which they add up to find a total cost of a weekly shop. They look at the retail price and the weight of the bar. The bar's weight is an indicator of how much the manufacturer is having to pay for raw ingredients like sugar, and it varies in order to maintain a steady profit while keeping the price of the mars bar stable.
At 3:47 you is there even a difference between you and Forrest? lol i enjoyed quite a laugh.
Mars bars are awesome. Especially when deep fried with a side scoop of ice cream 😏
Sounds healthy.
Sounds Delicious.
what's your weight
+Cornholio777 I heard that in Glasgow it was (or still is) possible to get a Mars Bar deep fried in batter! Instant coronary!
Terry Shulky most fish n chip shops will give you a batterd mars bar
All this time and it's never occurred to me to wonder what M&M's stood for, that's so out of character.
Why is there a picture of Warren Buffett at 7:11 when you're talking about Forrest's kids?
I hnew that 'M&M' meant something, thanks for enlightening me! 👍
And I have been enjoying the multiple channels that you host/narrate.
I had no idea that Hershey's was involved in the invention of the M&M, that's so awesome.
My favorite chocolate bar....
I remember Marathon bars by eck now it's called Snickers lol
I remember when Mars bars used to be the size of a Mars bar.
Yeah marathon bars..... You'd take a bite and the caramel would stretch until all the chocolate started to break apart and fall in pieces on the floor
Marathon was one of my favorites too, with commercials starring Patrick Wayne (whelp of John Wayne).
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(oh, and the captain is Roger Carmel, Harcourt Fenton Mudd from 2 Star Trek TOS episodes and voice in one Star Trek TAS episode)
The vid said they began as snickers though.
Wasn't it a picture of Warren Buffet??
My thought exactly.
Yep. Not sure how I missed that in the final review after picture guy did his thing. :-)
Very interesting story. I happen to be a truck driver that carries rice to Mars's pet food factories in Mattoon, IL.. Clinton, OK.. and Temple, TX on a regular basis.
You are missing some facts!! After attending the world's fair expo in new York he bought what was THE first candy making machine from a German engineer at the expo. He quickly patented the machine with the US patent office. This machine along with it's patent completely industrialized the food making industry! Like Henry Fords patent for the assembly line... He had patented something nobody else had ever done. Companies from all over the country sought after him to design food making machines... They had too..
That, my friends, is the story of the genius of America and capitalism.
Pity the American genius that bought the Cadbury chocolate company has completely ruined it and as a result their UK sales have plumited!!
Yes, if you are born in America you can be successful if your son is brought up in Canada and builds a hugely successful business model in Europe and then has to wait for you to die and your wife to die and your half-brother to die before turning your mediocre regional company into a multi-million dollar global phenomenon!
How is Warren Buffet related to all this?
That's what I was thinking. I think they just made a mistake.
It has to be a mistake. He's NOT a member of the Mars family. His fortune is famously self-made. My best guess at the only likely connection is if Berkshire Hathaway has any stock in MARS Inc. I suppose it's possible but Warren's chocolate pride and joy is See's Candies. It's very confusing.
www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/10/06/mars-buying-out-warren-buffett-to-take-full-control-of-wrigley/#54544f4a2a86 --- took about 10 second to find the answer you lazy people..
Mr. Uncertain he helped them with the purchase of Wrigley’s
Something something Jews something something
The take away lesson is, never quit. Keep after it, and you just might make the big time.
on the other hand, people say doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
So I am conflicted.
The temples of his glasses are reflecting the green screen pretty well. Whenever he turns his head and tilts you can "see" right though his head.
This was really interesting. It is amazing what can happen when a good product gets in the hands of someone with a sharp eye for opportunity and a strong business acumen.
Thank you very interesting indeed 😍
You're very welcome.
3:04 400$ in 1920 is about 5000$ today.
Yup, so Mars wasn't really pennyless, he just wasn't rich at the time.
Make I Hate Mars Bars.
My mum worked at Mars in Slough just after the war. She was in the Tunes division. No-one ever got a stuffy nose in there. The staff were allowed to eat as much as they wanted - so they didn't because it was a bit sickening after a while. Good employee psychology - if they'd been banned stuff would be pilfered all day long!
Those three kids that inherited the company - they'd be able to have a whole big bowl of Mars bars and stuff sitting on their coffee tables. Guests would be able to help themselves to some chocolate any time they wanted.
Oh, you're the guy that does the voice on those other YT videos!
And many audio books back in the day! :-)
It's a useful asset, unaccented to most listeners.
Did you train for it?
A great voice, indeed!
What videos... cos I recognise his voice from somewhere...
Charlotte Savage He's a one man RUclips content machine.
the real failure here is that they've made mars bars smaller :(
Indeed, but thank food regulations on portion size for that. Oh, and greed. Charge the same amount for what used to be like 30% bigger not all that long ago.
TalesOfWar portion sizes drive me crazy. They're ridiculously small, i usually need about 3 times the size to actually fill me up.
Sadly, Amerikans selected commie/socialist politicians/mostly Democrats who imposed their "laws" and we are the poorer for it. Voters seem never to have achieved adulthood and demand that politicians be mommy and daddy. Hence, we are just a bunch of stinkin' naggar slaves on the plantation state operated by masters/politicians and their hired thugs/overseers. When will they ever learn? Where have all the flowers gone?
+Wjack97224
Dude , eat a Snickers. You're not you when you're hungry
The advert though...
Warning, this is a diabetic's horror film!
My mother left Brachs candy and went to Mar's to work back in 1969 or 70. Both were great paying jobs. And good places to work.
Next question: why aren't Mars bars widely available in the US anymore?
Maybe because the demands & the cost`s of insulin production has gone higher.
I'm certain Mars is chocolate not candy.
It actually has more than just chocolate in it. ;-)
The way to know if it's chocolate or if it's a candy is to read the packaging. If it doesn't explicitely say it's chocolate , then it's a candy. Be aware they will write things like "chocolate flavoured bar/candy" and in the ingredient list it will explicitely say : chocolate XX%
In the case of Mars, it's not chocolate , it's a chocolate flavoured nougat and caramel candy bar.
Lot of hate flying in all directions right there.
Mr MC I'm a pastry chef , there's international conventions to distinguish chocolate from candy. Chocolate must have certain %s of chocolate , sugar and chocolate butter . If those %s are not respected , it is called candy. For an example , white chocolate is actually candy, because it's basically only sugar and chocolate butter , so is brown cover ( the chocolate enrobage on a mars bar) , white cover , lettering oil , etc.
It's Bullshit he is talking about the Mars Candy Company aka Mars Incorporated not just one product of a huge company
3:00 in 1920 he only had $400 to his name???!!!??? he was rich!
It's 2019 ! I don't even have $4 to my name! :(
But you have a computer and internet access.
IHE is gonna be so happy.
I was in the candy business as a 3rd generation candy broker and manufacturers representative in Maryland, USA, selling to wholesalers, chain drug stores , chain supermarkets, and vending machine opperators. Now many of the companies I worked for make their iconic candies in Mexico and are part of corporate conglomerates instead of family owned. Some of the products have been reduced in quality so that they do not even resemble the products I sold from 1972 to 1997. It is sad to see good products cheapened to a shadow of their former selves to achieve higher profits and golden parachutes for CEOs.