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There are few things more universally loved than a good sandwich.
We as humans love the simplicity and deliciousness of having something to hold all of our favourite fillings together.
But there was a time in our history when the venerable sandwich was used not for sustenance, or delight in a tasty meal, but rather as a loophole with which to get around some rather limiting laws.
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raines_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b6ba86c80f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-b6ba86c80f-74451350&mc_cid=b6ba86c80f&mc_eid=3a82d4ea19
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As soon as people became wealthy enough not to have to spend every waking hour of their day, working, cleaning, hunting or cooking, they had enough to look in the mirror and decide what they didn’t like about themselves.
From the truly horrific and crippling footbinding practices in imperial china to modern day plastic surgery, people have been searching for ways to achieve their body goals. Victorian England, the initial setting for todays story, was possibly one of the craziest times in history when it came to the number of diet fads and body morphing practices. So what better place to dive in and see where the stories take us.
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References:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw5nnq/inside-the-lasting-legacy-of-tapeworm-diets
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20695743
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/weird-fad-diets-weight-loss-history-new-year/
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Even the most famous and lauded among us still have a few tasty secrets up their sleeves, and today we’re going to dive into this fascinating side of one of modern cookings most famous gourmands: Julia Child.
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References:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/julia-child-spy
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-and-the-oss-recipe-for-shark-repellent/
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-cooking-up-spy-ops-for-oss/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/02/julia-child-hbo-oss-sharks/
https://www.history.com/news/julia-child-oss-spy-wwii-shark-repellent
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Not only were western cultures happily eating raw fish for ages, at one point they were uh, in fact eating it so raw as for it still, in fact, to be alive.
That’s right, today we’re talking about the 1939 craze of college students competing to swallow as many as they could of the humble goldfish.
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References:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-goldfish-swallowing-craze-1939-180954429/#:~:text=The%20Great%20Goldfish%20Swallowing%20Craze%20of%201939%20Never%20Really%20Ended,-A%20Harvard%20undergrad's&text=One%20of%20the%20weirdest%2C%20most,once%20eaten%20a%20live%20fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish_swallowing
https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/01/1939-the-year-of-goldfish-swallowing.html
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/goldfish-swallowing/
https://dutchreview.com/news/live-goldfish-swallowing/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odori_ebi
https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/the-fish-prasadam-remedy-annual-festival-where-thousands-swallow-live-fish-to-cure-asthma/articleshow/91811468.cms#:~:text=In%20Hyderabad%2C%20fish%20prasadam%20is,that%20fish%20prasadam%20cures%20asthma.
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There is nothing quite like pizza. The variety is endless, the experience is magical, the taste is delicious and they can be found in almost every single country on earth with any number of local variations.
Which makes todays story all the sadder, when we find out that from their humble italian origins, 30 000 of these delicious delicacies were once condemned to mass burial in Michigan.
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References:
https://www.history.com/news/a-slice-of-history-pizza-through-the-ages#:~:text=Pizza%20has%20a%20long%20history,to%20the%20city%20of%20Naples.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/michigan-pizza-funeral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Michigan_Pizza_Funeral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
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There are quite a few stories from historical banquetry that weren’t of the presumed fun and hearty nature. Instead it seems that there was an occasional trend, in wealthy circles specifically, to up the ante so to speak and either trick their guests into believing one thing when in fact an entirely other thing was true, or making them believe that they were about to face actual real death at any given moment. Listen to find out more.
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References:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/20/712772285/the-lavish-roman-banquet-a-calculated-display-of-debauchery-and-power#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20macabre,with%20his%20name%20on%20it.
https://daily.jstor.org/a-roman-feast-of-death/
https://www.thesmartset.com/article08310901/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hell-banquets
http://ancientcelebration.blogspot.com/2013/02/domitians-terrifying-dinner.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grimod-de-la-reyniere-fake-funeral
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We continue to follow the journey of tea as it makes its way to Europe and the Americas. We’ll see the large role tea tends to play politically amongst rival nations as well as internally in Turkey, and we’ll get to have a look at how this humble beverage has made its way to each and every corner of the globe.
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References:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tea-in-tunisia
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eating-tea
https://www.teasenz.com/chinese-tea/tea-story-the-tale-of-bi-luo-chun.html
https://senchateabar.com/blogs/blog/history-of-tea
https://teapeople.co.uk/history-of-tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/the-american-revolution/a/the-boston-tea-party
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The history of tea is as long and complex as its variety of flavours. It's a history quite literally infused with tales of spirituality and mysticism. It has evolved over the ages to become world renowned for it’s science backed health benefits, but to find out the true origins of tea throughout history, we need to go back almost 5000 years.
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This is the story of Gail Halvorsen, who was known to the children of Berlin as Der Schokoladen Flieger or The Chocolate Flier, Uncle Wiggly Wings or the most widely known of all, The Candy Bomber of Berlin.
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In today's society, those who are able to, are always seeking out new and wondrous dining experiences. More than a hundred years ago, men and women with too much time on their hands and more money than they knew what to do with, were hosting equally bizarre and fascinating dinners of their own. But it was a man named C.K.G Billings who would go down in the history books as being the host of one of the strangest of them all.
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