1 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we're 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: talking about eggplant. We are, but first I thought maybe 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: we'd address the fact of our new recording situation. Uh yeah, 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: we've got we've got a fancy new studio. And by studio, 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: I mean Annie and I are both in our closets. Yes. Uh, 7 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: you know, when I first moved in here, I did 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: intend for this closet to be my office. So ultimately 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: it's worked out for me in a way. You're fulfilling 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say a dream. Dream is a sharp word, 11 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: but but yeah, you're fulfilling a desire. Yes, yes, an 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: intention exactly because it was my office and then it 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: became a causplay closet and a book closet. Um, I 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: am right next to a window, So if it sounds 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: like a bird house, I mean apologies. Yeah yeah, And 16 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: I'm I'm not like in my closet. I'm just facing 17 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: my closet. Uh. So I'm using like my like Edwardian 18 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: morning gown as sound baffling. There may or may not 19 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: be cats that come and join us at some point, Uh, 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: you know, we're we're just we're just trying to keep 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: each other and and everyone safe during this our time 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: of coronavirus. And uh yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great. 23 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: It is, And so is this episode about egg Yeah. 24 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: So I grew up in a house my dad hated eggplant, 25 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: so no eggplant in the house. But since I moved 26 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: to Atlanta, I've come to love spicy fried eggplant. It's 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: one of my favorite favorite things. Oh wow, huh um, 28 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: my my dad. Eggplant parmesan is definitely one of the 29 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: dishes that my dad would make like at work, never 30 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: at home, not going to go through that mess at home, 31 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: but but but make it work and and bring home sometimes. 32 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: And that was delicious. But yeah, oh I love an eggplant. 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: I love I love it when it's like like nice 34 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: and like silky and and uh, I think we just grilled. 35 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: We just grilled some eggplant a couple of days ago. 36 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: Oh did you nice? There was a lot of eggplants 37 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: be had when I was in China. That was a 38 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: very popular dish. Um stewed eggplant delicious, delicious. Yeah. But okay, right, yes, 39 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: we're also working. We're also working with each other, like 40 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: on Skype, so we can kind of see each other 41 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: via delay. So if we sound like we're working with 42 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: a slight delay, that's why. Yes, there's a reason for everything. 43 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: But okay, let's get her a question. Eggplants. What is it? Oh? Well, 44 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: eggplant is a kind of spongy, moist, slightly bitter and 45 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: earthy tasting fruit. Yes, of fruit with tiny seeds and 46 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: in a thin, glossy skin. It's like a like like 47 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: a more solid through tomato that's been victim to a 48 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: vegetable vampire um, which just reminds me of bnicula. Again. 49 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: But have you read that book yet? People are asking 50 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: I have not read it. I have some time now, 51 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: so get on it. I'll try to get you a copy. 52 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, um eggplant, Yes, yes, um. It is related 53 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: to the tomato. Both are members of the genus Silanum. 54 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: Egg Plant is the species Clannum melingina. Potatoes are also 55 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: in this genus, and tobacco it's in the nightshade family. 56 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: And gosh, we should do an episode about poisons. We should. 57 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: I've eaten there edible. Sure you don't have to convince Lauren. 58 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: I am on board. Yeah, I I really wanted to 59 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: do like a poison rabbit hole and and talk about 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: nightshades a whole lot, but didn't have time today. Subject 61 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: for another episode. We will absolutely come back to it, yes, 62 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah. There are a couple other species in 63 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: slant um Um that are referred to as egg plants 64 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: around the world. Um that there are warm weather tropical 65 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: kind of plant in general um and they grow on 66 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: these a smallish, soft stemed shrubs, usually like a meter 67 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: or three ft tall, broad green leaves that shade these 68 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: pretty flowers that come in shades of white, purple and pink, 69 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: and then develop into fruits with skin in shades of white, yellow, green, red, 70 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: and purple like all the way to purple black, sometimes 71 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: spotted or striped, and in shapes from globes the size 72 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: of a p to a golf ball, or or tubes 73 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: or other like oblongs that can be about a foot 74 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: long about a third of a meter um. The inner 75 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: flesh remains white, though, and we eat eggplants when they're 76 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: still immature, still soft, because they go all like stringy 77 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: when they're fully ripe wouldn't be good. They're used as 78 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: a vegetable. Some varieties are eating raw in some places 79 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: but most are cooked, where where upon that flesh gets 80 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: sort of like a silky and extra soft and almost creamy. Yeah, 81 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: an eggplant is eaten in all kinds of ways, stuffed 82 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: as paramagana, Babican, baked, salted, fried, stewed, pickled, grilled, mussaka rattatui. 83 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: A movie you still haven't seen, I oh, we should, 84 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: we should, okay, and Scooby Doo won Zombie Island of course, 85 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: just on Netflix right now, so oh cool? Okay, alright, um, 86 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I've got a box of wine and 87 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: plenty of time after this, So her Beck perfect. If 88 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: you are looking to fry eggplants specifically, it does indeed 89 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: help to salt it and and press it before you 90 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: do that, because that draws out and then squeezes out 91 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: moisture from that kind of spongy flesh. Although if you're 92 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: preparing it in other ways, that's less necessary. And I'm 93 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: not totally sure about the whole like salt helping with 94 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: bitterness thing, but uh yeah, yeah. The eggplant goes by 95 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of different names, aubergine which is my favorite, guinea, squash, burgial, 96 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: and melonchen So where does the name eggplant come from? 97 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: According to wander Opolis, it has to do with the 98 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: shape of the eggplant in the seventeen hundreds, when it 99 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: was smaller and whitish yellowish, so egg like, yeah, yeah, 100 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: I saw that in multiple places. Um. But oddly enough, 101 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: by the eight nineties, like like a century and a 102 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: half later, purple eggplants were apparently common enough that people 103 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: had started using the term eggplant to mean like dark purple. So. 104 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: And meanwhile, aubergine comes from the Arabic term, which is 105 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: where many languages get their words for eggplant. Yes, and 106 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: now let us discuss the nutrition. Sure, yeah, plant has 107 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of fiber and a good smattering of 108 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: kind of small amounts of vitamins and minerals like vitamin 109 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: C and potassium. It'll it'll help fill you up, but 110 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: it definitely will not keep you going unless you pair 111 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: it with sources of fat and protein. Uh. Plant dishes 112 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: can be pretty fatty because all that spongy fiber soaks 113 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: up oil. Just you know, watch your portion sizes. Nothing 114 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: that has been paramesan is particularly a health food. Um. 115 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: The skins, though, are a good source of a number 116 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: of compounds that our bodies can use to do good 117 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: stuff in the oxidants and stuff like that, and anything 118 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: fibery is good for helping control blood sugar and cholesterol. 119 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: And the flesh does contain a chlorogenic acid which can 120 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: help reduce blood pressure. The leaves of most varieties should 121 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: not be eaten because they can be toxic. Good things 122 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: not to but but they are used medicinally in some places. 123 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: I've read that they have a slight narcotic effect. Um 124 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: the botannical genus name Slantum may in fact refer to 125 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: the soothing effect of the leaves when used topically. And 126 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: the whole plant has been and in some places still 127 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: is used medicinally for all kinds of things which science 128 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: is looking into. Bodies are weird, More research needs to 129 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: be done. Numbers wise, China, India, Turkey, Iran and Egypt 130 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: makeup about of world eggplant production. China alone is like 131 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: fifty seven um and apparently in India it's referred to 132 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: as the King of vegetables. Perhaps it has like a 133 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: cap where the stem connects to the fruit that sort 134 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: of looks like a crown um. Perhaps yeah, sure, totally totally, 135 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: Or perhaps just because it's like an expensive and well 136 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: liked Yeah, maybe both in Asia and the Mediterranean. It's 137 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: considered one of the five most important vegetable crops and 138 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: as of humans were producing some fifty million tons per 139 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: year with a total value of over ten billion dollars. 140 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: Whoa m hmm. The Guinness Record for the heaviest eggplant 141 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: is a specimen from the UK that in at the 142 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: National Giant Vegetables Championships, which is a thing which we 143 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: need to go to clearly. Uh who but but yeah, 144 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: this the specimen weighed in at three point zero six kilos, 145 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: which is six pounds eleven ounces, which is heavier than 146 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: I was as a baby. I would not want to 147 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:55,119 Speaker 1: get hit that egg plant or with the baby, neither, No, neither. Um. 148 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: There's also a record on record setter dot com, which 149 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: is not a site that I have a lot of 150 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: familiarity with, but apparently you can just like submit records 151 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: for whatever, and you can challenge records for whatever. There's 152 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: a record on there for most eggplant passes between two 153 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: people in thirty seconds, and it is eighty three times. 154 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty impressive. Yeah, right, reminds me of field Day. 155 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: Did you have field Day? Oh? Yeah, yeah? And the 156 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 1: water balloon toss and you had to take a step 157 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: back every time. I'm very good at that. Yeah, yeah, 158 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: I was. I you probably wouldn't believe us about me, 159 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: But I am surprisingly good at at throwing related like 160 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: tossing related skills. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe we 161 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: can challenge this record, and we need a record. Oh gosh, 162 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: we do, Oh we could. I I bet we could 163 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: come up with all kinds of creative, weird records. I 164 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: believe in us, I have y'all have any ideas? Right 165 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: in um. Also, the World Vegetable Center has seed samples 166 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: from three cultivated and over thirty wild species of eggplant 167 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: overall upwards of samples collected from nine d countries. Uh so, Yeah, 168 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: there are a bunch of different varieties of eggplants out 169 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: there in a bunch of different places. That's true. And 170 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: perhaps because of that are leading up to that is history, yes, 171 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: which we will get to right after we get back 172 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: from a quick break for a word from our sponsor 173 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you. So. 174 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: Eggplant most likely origind in India, China, Thailand, Burma are 175 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 1: somewhere else in Southeast Asia, though it's genetic descendants may 176 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: have come from Africa. Yeah. That the working theory is 177 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: that this wild Salantum species from Africa and or the 178 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: Middle East slant Um incannum inc that is a hairy potter, 179 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, it is Incantantum salanum incum. If there, I 180 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: cannot argue, and it cannot argue with your logic. Just 181 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: egg plants rained now from the ceiling, so delicious and 182 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: magically whole, it would stop me. I would be confused. Oh, 183 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: you can totally get to jump on me that way. Yeah, 184 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: and then I probably start picking up the eggplant and 185 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: like stockpiling them. Sure right, they're delicious, they can be expensive, 186 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: come on in anyway, Okay, yes, and whatever this thing, 187 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: whatever this thing was, it was domesticated in ancient India, Myanmar, 188 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: and China and became egg plant. An independent domestication may 189 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: have happened later on in what's now the Philippines, but 190 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: but yes, instead of food. Most early documentation indicates it 191 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: was mainly used medicinally. Ara Vetic texts dating back to 192 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: one describes some of the believed health benefits of eggplants. 193 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 1: The first known written direct record of eggplant in Sanskrit 194 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: literature took place in third centuries CE, although a possible 195 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,479 Speaker 1: indirect reference might go back all the way to three 196 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: b C and as far back to ancient Chinese literature, 197 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: possibly was referencing egg plant MHM. Centuries of domestication documented 198 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: by the ancient Chinese increased the weight and size of 199 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: eggplant and changed other traits like flesh and peel, color, prickliness, 200 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: and flavor. Documents and botanical drawings follow the process from 201 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: the seventh to the nineteen centuries C. It's like really 202 00:13:53,640 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: useful and helpful, totally documented that that cleanness is really 203 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: interesting because a lot of wild species still do get 204 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: like a lot of prickles, especially on the plant, but 205 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: but sometimes on the fruit itself, and so it's something 206 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: that has been very specifically bred out of most domestic 207 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: eggplants exactly. Beginning around the sixth century CE, merchants transported 208 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: eggplant for trade along the Silk Road to Africa, the 209 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: Middle East, and further west into Europe, but some evidence 210 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: dating back to the second century c E indicates that 211 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: the eggplant was not unknown outside of Asia, possibly carried 212 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: by Alexander. The Great Records show it made it to 213 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: Japan by the eighth century CE. Menieval Persian medical text 214 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: cautioned the use of eggplant, warning it could cause a 215 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: huge host of negative outcomes, from leprosy to elephant titus, 216 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: to pimples to insomnia, so blood thickening and blackening. However, 217 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: it wasn't all bad. I know that sounds a little 218 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: little ski but it wasn't all bad. With proper preparation, 219 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: which I believed involved salting, salting eggplant. Um they claimed 220 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: it that it could be beneficial. Oh so shrug, shrug. Emoji. 221 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: Eggplant has been in a lot of art. One piece 222 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: in particular that caught our I dates back to the 223 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: thirteen hundred's and depicts the believed aphrodisiac properties of the eggplant. 224 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: And it looks I really enjoyed that painting. The eggplant 225 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: looks quite quite royal, quite the site of behold. During 226 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: the fifteen seventeen centuries, the Spanish brought the eggplant to 227 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: South America, and it was recorded in Brazil by the 228 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: middle of the eighteenth century. In four Urbalis Matthioli wrote 229 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: of the eggplants potential as an aphrodisiac, translating to those 230 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: that eat love apples. Eggplants are receptive to flirting. So 231 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: he basically said, if you eat these love apples, which 232 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: were eggplant, you're gonna be open to possibilities realm. Yeah, yeah, 233 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: And I think that most of this was specifically about women. 234 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: It was said that like, if women eat these things, 235 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: then they'll be more right receptive to flirtation, right exactly. 236 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: Other countries in Europe where the eggplant did not grow 237 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: so well viewed eggplant a lot more suspiciously. In English, 238 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: herbalist Gerard wrote, in Egypt and Barbary, they used to 239 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: eat the fruit of mala and sunna, boiled or roasted 240 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: under ashes with oil, vinegar and pepper, as people used 241 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: to eat mushrooms. But I rather wish Englishmen to content 242 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: themselves with the meat and sauce of our own country 243 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: than with the fruit and sauce eaten with such peril. 244 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: For doubtless these apples have a mischievous quality. The use 245 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: thereof is utterly to be forsaken. Therefore, it is better 246 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: to esteem this plant and have him in the garden 247 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: for your pleasure. And the rarness thereof than of any virtue, 248 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: are good qualities, you know. So some racism there just 249 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: just a little bit of xenophobia. That's I mean, fine, 250 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: thank thank But I do like being something being called 251 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: having a mischievous quality the egg plant. I can just 252 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: imagine it like sitting in my fruit bowl, like I 253 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: have mischievous like like twirl like it's a little mustachio. Yeah, exactly. 254 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: And and mala in sanna Yeah that um, that translates 255 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: to like insanity apple or like madness apple. Right. Yes, 256 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: some countries and yere preferred to eggplant as mad apples 257 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: around this time, and they believed that eating them would 258 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: possibly lead to insanity. And that's actually where we get 259 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: that botanical name from Melanina derives from the Italian name 260 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: for the plant, melanzane, which derives from mala insana. So cool. 261 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't know. People were wary of things 262 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: that reminded them of the poisonous members of the nightshade family, 263 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: which I think is a little bit sure. Um, but 264 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: also cr cr Tomatoes episode for so much more hilarity 265 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: regarding all of that. Yes, and were wolves if you 266 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: need another reason to check it out. Were wolves. If 267 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: we look at art created post Renaissance in Europe, the 268 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: art suggests arise in egg plants popularity as determined by 269 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: its more frequent depictions. I found an entire I think 270 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: it was eighteen pages, eighteen page paper just on the 271 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: art with plan from this time period. So that's so cool, huh. 272 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: I know, I actually I really enjoyed it. Uh. The eggplant, though, 273 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 1: didn't make its way to the US market until the 274 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds. Currently, eggplant is one of the twenty nine 275 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: key food crops being investigated by the Millennium Seed Bank 276 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: and the Global Crop Diversity Trust for development of a 277 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: climate change hard varieties. They're they're doing this by checking 278 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: out the genes and parent traits of wild relatives of 279 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: all of the crops in question and seeing whether like 280 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: cross breeding or genetics could help create cultivars that will 281 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: do well in these our changing climate conditions. The first 282 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: and it, but it took a while for egg plant 283 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: to really receive this attention, perhaps because in some cultures 284 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: it's associated. It's it's like it's like a poor person's 285 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: food kind of thing. So, yeah, the first reference genome 286 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: for agg plant wasn't released until but they're they're working 287 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: on it. And now Emoji news, Yeah, yeah, y'all knew that. 288 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: Get through an episode without talking about the egg plant emoji, 289 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: we add too, and we're going to be pretty tame 290 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: and mature, as we are known to be in explaining this. 291 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: But no, no, really we are. Yes. Yes, um. If 292 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: you have kids around and don't want them to hear 293 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: about the egg plants emoji shenanigans, because there are a 294 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: lot of them, here's your heads up, heads up. Yes, okay. So, 295 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: for perhaps obvious reasons, the egg plant emoji became synonymous 296 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: with a penis and through that sex, to the point 297 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: that in Instagram band Instagram band the egg plant Emoji. 298 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: I love this headline from First We Feast Instagram band 299 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: the eggplant emoji hashtag because we're all children, ye pretty much. 300 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: And also, hey, first we Feast. If you're looking for 301 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: a minor podcaster to be on your not at all 302 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: minor show hot ones, I am so here and ready 303 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: to embarrass myself. Oh me too, absolutely like call us, 304 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: we will totally embarrass ourselves regarding hot sauce and probably 305 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: lots of other things. So that's right, we can go 306 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,199 Speaker 1: as a pair. I like this. I like this. In 307 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: the meantime, while we're waiting for that email or call 308 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: yes Instagram shut down hashtag eggplant Friday for It's Not 309 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 1: So PG thirteen Nature And just to be clear, Instagram 310 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: did not ban other emojis like the cleft peach, the syringe, 311 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: the toilets in our ZiT guys, especially here in the 312 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: United States, the eggplants association with the penis has been 313 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: so solidified culturally. Rather than using similarly shaped emojis like 314 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: corn or bananas, people are using other takes on eggplant 315 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: emoji like hashtag eggplant palm, yep children and delightful I'm 316 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, I guess like like dirty minds, um find 317 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: a way like it's yea. Indeed, I have appreciated the 318 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: many late night talk show jokes about it throughout the years. 319 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: If you're looking, if you're curious the history of the 320 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: eggplant emoji debuted in the US and introduced by the 321 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: Unicode Consortium and adopted a year later on iPhones, and 322 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: very very quickly the eggplant became a sext. The reason 323 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: it was adapted over other emojis is the source of many, 324 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: uh thought provoking papers. Yes, there's plenty of ink has 325 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 1: been spilled on the Internet about this if you choose 326 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: to go read it, but if you don't, if you 327 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: don't want to go down that particularly rabbit hole. We 328 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: got the t L d R. Some studies around emoji 329 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: US have found that around the world, Americans were definitely 330 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: leading the way in the usage of the eggplant emoji. 331 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: So some think that it's because culturally we don't have 332 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: that many associations with it. It's not super familiar, not 333 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: a super familiar thing here in the United States. Yeah, 334 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: especially not compared with the the the kind of short 335 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: squat Italian eggplant. And I have to be fair, even 336 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: seen um okay so, so I was in I was 337 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: in Isakayo once, like a Japanese pub, right um, and 338 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: I ordered a dish of grilled eggplant, and it was 339 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: one of the longer, thinner eggplants, and it was definitely 340 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: served in the most phallic way that I've ever had 341 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: a dish served to me, to the point that I'm 342 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 1: not totally positive that like the wait stuff wasn't punking 343 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: us at this point, because like, oh my goodness, like 344 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: like the like the skin was kind of peeled back 345 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: at one tip of it, and and there was definitely 346 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 1: there was definitely um like like two like round objects 347 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: placed towards the other end um like like lces like 348 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: like like around like slices, and there was um you know, 349 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: you know the little like like Benito flake that um 350 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: in in steam. They kind of do the wavy wavy, 351 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: which is which was fun on dishes. Yeah, those were 352 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: dotted around the base and the circular objects, so it's 353 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: sort of looks like hair. So that's so that's the 354 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: thing that happened. I was pretty brazen. Yeah, yeah, I 355 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: haven't I my my, my Google Food has not come 356 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: up with any kind of official dish that is traditionally 357 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: treated this way. But but also I think there's there's 358 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: a different sense of humor around that kind of thing 359 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: um in in many segments of Japanese culture um and 360 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: and a lot more comfort with just being like, oh man, 361 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: body parts are hilarious, like that's that's great. So anyway, 362 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: did it taste good? Uh? You know, I wouldn't order 363 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: it again. It was a little dry hmm, alright, noted 364 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 1: uh but but but yes, we were talking about emoji, 365 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: the squatter kind of Italian version of eggplant that that 366 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: apparently is what is up on Android phones and probably 367 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to y'all Android users at all, 368 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: But right, yeah. Yeah, I'm an Android user, but I 369 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: just have never Maybe I'll investigate after this, I'll say, Okay, 370 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: I've never felt the need to use the egg plant emoji. Uh, 371 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: but I'll check into I'll just I'll report back, Okay. Well, 372 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: some others have said that maybe the angle of the emoji, 373 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: or the shape or the color could be the reason 374 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: why people just ran with this. Whatever the case, Eggplant 375 00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: Friday was introduced in December. Only five later Instagram said no, 376 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: they put their foot down from that. We got the 377 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: hashtag free the egg plant. It's ongoing. It is ongoing 378 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: debate in battle. Yeah. Sure. I also learned through this 379 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: that eggplant penis is a medical condition. Yep, yep. It 380 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: has been suggested that those in the medical community are 381 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: even more confused, perhaps than Android users about why this 382 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,959 Speaker 1: is a thing that people are using. Is shorthand for 383 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: like sexy times, Yeah, because, yeah, eggplant it refers to 384 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: a penile fracture, meeting that there's a tear in the 385 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: tissue of the penis that can result in blood like 386 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: pooling and therefore like a purple discoloration. It's not not 387 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: particularly sexy times, is what I'm no, So does not 388 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: sound like Sexy Times at all. No, no, so yeah, 389 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: that's what we have to say about plant. It's the 390 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: good as good a place as I need to end it. 391 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: Penile fractures, yep, yep. You never know, you never know 392 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: where the research is going to take you. Um it's true, 393 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 1: it's true. But we do, we do have a little 394 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: bit more for you. But first we've got one more 395 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: quick break for a word from our sponsor, and we're back. 396 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, sponsor, Yes, thank you, and we're back with listen. 397 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: I was trying to do, like, I don't know the 398 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: I'm kind of new to the emoji world. I was 399 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: trying to think of the emoji sound. But is there 400 00:27:53,960 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: an emo emois If emoji falls in the woods but 401 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 1: no one's there to hear, it doesn't make a sound. Um, 402 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm now I'm just picturing falling emoji in 403 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: the woods and what that means for all of us. See, 404 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: this was a really deep thought. We didn't know it 405 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: was going to be deep, but here we are. Or 406 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: maybe it's because we've been inside weeks. Could be that 407 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: either one either one who knows who knows? Yes, Nikki wrote, 408 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,479 Speaker 1: I just finished your Medieval Times episode, and I'm so 409 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: excited to have an excuse to write in. I've been 410 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: a fan since the very first food Stuff episode. Oh hi, Hi. 411 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: My family and I were visiting Myrtle Beach in and 412 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: took our daughter, then four, to Medieval Times. We even 413 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: dressed her up like a princess. She was so excited 414 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: to be going to a castle for dinner and a show. 415 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: We got a flag for our team and she cheered 416 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: for our night and waved her flag enthusiastic you the 417 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: whole time. When the Night was writing around throwing roses 418 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: into the crowd, I caught his eye. I swear he 419 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: gave me a little nod, then no flower. I was annoyed. However, 420 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: towards the end of the show, the Night and the 421 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: Queen announced that my daughter was to be crowned the 422 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: Queen of Love and Beauty. I will attach a picture below, 423 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: and she did. It was super cute. It was pretty late, 424 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: so my daughter looks a little out of it, but 425 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: it was an unforgettable experience. Ever since, when people ask 426 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: because she's a princess, she corrects them and says, no, 427 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: I'm a queen. She still has her little gal or 428 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: a little crown and scepter. Oh that is so delightful. Yes, 429 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: uh yeah, yeah, No, I am a queen. You get 430 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: a little girl. That's right, great, get it right. Address 431 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: people by their proper titles, right exactly. It's all we 432 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: can do to just be polite. M M. Brian wrote, 433 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: although you guys don't sound like pancake connoisseurs, thank you 434 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: for doing an episode on one of my favorite foods. 435 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: I'm in a lifelong pursuit of the perfect pancake, and 436 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few 437 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: secrets I've picked up along the way. Be aware that 438 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: this could change your life. First, add a bit of 439 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: baking soda to the mix. Yes, you heard that correctly. 440 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: In addition to baking powder, add about a quarter teaspoon 441 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: of soda. A second, add a dash of vinegar to 442 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: the milk, then warm the milk in the microwave for 443 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: about a minute before adding the other wet ingredients. These 444 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: little tricks boost the bubble count and make mixing go easier. 445 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: A final trick is to use olive oil as part 446 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: of the wed ingredients. This will make the texture, for 447 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: lack of a better term, more delicate. As with all 448 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: pancake recipes, perfection requires some finesse in the stirring and grittling. However, 449 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: this particular recipe will help ensure that your pancakes are fluffy. 450 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: They will also be so tender that they almost fall 451 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: off the fork. I considered hoarding the sacred knowledge, but 452 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: I thought it was time to share my love of 453 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: the only cake worthy of breakfast. Wishing you a happy 454 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: pancake experience in your future. I appreciate that sharing the 455 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: sacred Yes, that is delightful. Thank you. Yeah, maybe it's time. 456 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for me to give it another go 457 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: and redeem my pancake history. Hey, you've got you've got 458 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: time on your hands as long if you have flour 459 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: in your house, then I think now is a great 460 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: time to attempt pancakes. Maybe I'll document it. There you go, Yes, 461 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: be scientific. That has never gone wrong before with my 462 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:50,479 Speaker 1: lost butter remote biscuit video. Get get your get your 463 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: science goggles on, get your get whatever form the lab 464 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: coat you happen to have around. Yes, all right, I'm 465 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: into it. I'm into it. Um And before we coo 466 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 1: is out, we did want to touch on since obviously 467 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: a lot of us are staying inside and these are 468 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: uncertain times. Several of you listeners have written in UM 469 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: about what you're going through and thanking us for the show. 470 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you for listening. If any way we 471 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: can any sort of relief or distraction, we're happy to 472 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: do that. Yeah. Yeah, And we did want to shout 473 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: out our friend Julius Skinner, who we've had on this 474 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: show and we've done a video with over at Root 475 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: Kitchens started a crowdsourced document of restaurants in Atlanta where 476 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: you can buy gift cards. So if you're trying to 477 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: think of ways that you can support local businesses, restaurants, um, farmers, 478 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: there are a lot of ways other than you know, 479 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: buying stuff from the restaurant. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. The document 480 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: has a bunch of tabs where right um, and it's 481 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: it's totally crowdsourced, so people have just been put again. 482 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: I've put in a lot of Yeah, just restaurants that 483 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,040 Speaker 1: are still doing a takeaway, or that have ghost and 484 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: me's for staff support or or yeah, where you can 485 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: buy gift cards to use at a later time and date, 486 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: just to give them a little bit of revenue while 487 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: they are closed to the public, and yeah, there's been 488 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: I really want to do an episode. I kind of 489 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: didn't want to do it today because I wanted to 490 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: have sort of a normal episode for a us to 491 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 1: concentrate on it and be for y'all to listen to 492 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: um and you know, get get our minds off of 493 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: things for just a minute. But but yeah, I would 494 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: I would really love to do an episode about all 495 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: of the different ways that this is impacting our our 496 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: food world. Um, it's certainly impacting our show, not just 497 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: because we're both talking into racks of clothes right now, 498 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: but uh, but you know, like like we part of 499 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: our show is is travel and eating at restaurants. And 500 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: I've been thinking so much about all of the beautiful, 501 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: beautiful people who have given us their time and their 502 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: food over the past couple of years that we've been 503 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: doing the travel and the interviews, um, and just how 504 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: they're doing and how their business is doing. And uh yeah, 505 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: So I don't know, also, maybe episodes about like comfort 506 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: food because that would be nice absolutely or like creative. 507 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: I want to do some kind of mcgever. How do 508 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,720 Speaker 1: I use this weird ingredient? Let's find out? Oh oh yeah, 509 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: like what we found in our pantries and just be like, 510 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: all right, let's cook at this today. You know what 511 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,879 Speaker 1: I found, the dirty and ice cream I bought years ago. 512 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I'm too afraid to open it in my apartment, 513 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: but maybe outside try some Oh man, I would feel 514 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,399 Speaker 1: really bad if if you had to go through that 515 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: by yourself. I mean, I'm sure it's delightful. I'm sure 516 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: it's just fine, slightly strange as you know, far as 517 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: like normal ice cream flavors go. But um, I'm sure 518 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: no one have made it if it wasn't kind of delicious. 519 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 1: So I imagine it tastes good, but it comes shrink 520 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: wrapped for the smell. That's what I'm concerned about. Yeah, 521 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: I think it'll be fine tasting, but I got small 522 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:18,319 Speaker 1: apartment here. If I, like, my whole building gets evacuated, 523 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure they would really appreciate that. Yeah, that's my 524 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: ice cream. Sorry, I was trying to enjoy ice cream. 525 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, there there's some We've got some ideas rolling around, 526 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 1: but we'll we'll be around. It will be continuing to 527 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: produce content, and we're thinking of all of you, and 528 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: we're still wanting those suggestions are emails. I know I 529 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: posted a thing about what are you all cooking last 530 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: night and so many of you have emailed and that's fantastic, 531 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: So keep that stuff up. Yeah, yeah, please do yes, 532 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: And if you would like to email is you can. 533 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: Our email is hello at sapod dot com. We are 534 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: also on social media. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, 535 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,399 Speaker 1: and Instagram at savor pod. We do hope to hear 536 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,399 Speaker 1: from you, and we yes, we we have been posting. Uh, 537 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: Annie is really good at Instagram stories. I'm too old 538 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: to understand how they work, but but but you're great 539 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: at that. Um and and I've been putting up some 540 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: links to two stuff like uh like like Julia's spreadsheet 541 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: and just other other useful information in these uncertain times. 542 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: So yeah, check us out. We hope to hear from you. 543 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our super producers Andrew Howard and 544 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: Dylan Fagan. Thanks to you for listening, and we hope 545 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: that lots more good things are coming your way