1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to save a protection of I Heart 2 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Radio and stuff Media. I'm an Aeries and I'm Lauren Focalbaum, 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 1: and today we're talking about flax seed. Yes, and this 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: isn't part inspired by a mystery find in my cupboard 5 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: because I was cleaning it out and in the very 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: back I found a huge bag like thirty two ounces 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: of whole flax seeds. Okay, recollection buying them? And you 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: don't you don't like keep food around? No, And that's 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: why I was searching through my cupboard is because my 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: friends always complain you don't have any snacks, And I, 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: very angrily and wrongfully, was like, yes I do, and 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: I was. And so you pulled out this heck of 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: thirty two ounce bag of flax seed and you were like, 14 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: seed right, thirty two whole ounces flax seeds? Oh, no, 15 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: who you want? But then, as you can imagine, they 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: weren't convinced. They weren't very happy about this. So I 17 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: took to Google and was like, well, how can we 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: cook these? What snack can we make? And Google basically 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: returned It's complicated, which is not what you want at 20 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: night snack suggestion. And so this is partly a selfish episode. 21 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: I want to know what to do with flax seeds, 22 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: but also I feel like they get swept up in 23 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: a lot of New Year's resolutions, the food trends exactly 24 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: exactly and um. For this particular episode, I feel like 25 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: in some episodes we're on a zoo show or a 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: weird biological show. Absolutely, this one feels like a strange 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: fashion episode. It does. Yeah, I'm sort of wishing that 28 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: we had like hooked up with the ladies from Dress 29 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: and done a co flax episode. Reasons for which if 30 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: you are unaware of them, we will get to in 31 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: just a moment. I was unaware of them. I was too. 32 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: But this brings us to our question flax seeds. What 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: are they? Well? Flax seed is the seed of an 34 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: annual flowering herbaceous meaning like soft and not woody plant 35 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: by the botanical name of Linum usa tassimum sure yeah um. 36 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: The plants grow about two or three feet tall up 37 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: to about a meter and bear multiple stems that grow. 38 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: These are pretty usually blue flowers, and when pollinated, the 39 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: flower will develop into a seed capsule called a bowl 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: uh containing boll bowl containing four to ten like we 41 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: glossy brown seeds, and the seeds contain a lot of mucilage, 42 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: this expansive water activated like viscous, slimy, sticky stuff that 43 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: would help protect the seeds and let them sprout in 44 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: dry conditions. UM and also a lot of oils oil 45 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: by weight. The seeds canna be used whole, usually toasted 46 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: to add like a nutty flavor and a crunchy texture 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 1: and a nutritive punch to dishes and baked goods. Um. 48 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: If it's a moist that mucilage will add some thickness 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: or or cohesion, like like when you cook with okra 50 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: so or Instead of whole seeds, you can grind them 51 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: into a flower for a similar effect you can for 52 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: for all of those vegans and Maveterranians out there. You 53 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: can totally sub out an egg in recipes for a 54 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: tablespoon flax flower plus three tablespoons of water and it 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: works surprisingly well. Yeah yeah, um yeah or um. If 56 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: you don't want to use the whole seeds or the flower, 57 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: you can just use the oils, or or you can 58 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: just use a gum made from the muslage and dried 59 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: out into like a white powder kind of situation, which 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: is really good for stabilizing emulsions like in a like 61 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: in a salad dressing, or for preventing baked goods from 62 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,839 Speaker 1: going stale so quickly. Though it's more of a commercial 63 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: production ingredient than like a home ingredient most of the time. Yeah, 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: not too many snack ideas so far. Yeah, well, I 65 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: mean you could bake them into granola or muffins, but 66 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: I would have to have those, Yes, you would have 67 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: to have those other things. Maybe my friends have a point. 68 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: You can totally just like toast like a like a 69 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: spoonful and just eat them. I could again not really 70 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: like the most delicious look if they might stop being 71 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: my friends at that point. Name you offered as a 72 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: spoon full up flax seeds for their health, It is absent. 73 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: Maybe no abs and no no um. Flock seeds are 74 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: sometimes also called linseeed. When the seeds are they're pressed 75 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: oils or the meal left over after you press out 76 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: the oils are going to animal feed or industrial use. Um. 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: And yeah that species name that I pronounced so readily 78 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: and well, um it means very useful in Latin because 79 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: linseed oil is a great wood finish and paint component 80 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: because it dries rapidly and helps out waterproof surfaces. Um. 81 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: But it is used all over the place in linoleum, oilcloth, raincoats, tarps, 82 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: in the manufacture of soaps, and particle board in printer 83 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: ink um to preserve and protect concrete. But we do 84 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: not just use the seeds. Oh No. The stems of 85 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: the plant contain these fibers that are long and soft 86 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: but tough, and it's what's used to make linen. Uh 87 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: huh um. And the fibers are Yeah, they're great for 88 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: both fabrics and paper. They've got a little bit of 89 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: a sheen to them. They're stronger than cotton or ray 90 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: on or wool, and they are used in everything from 91 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: clothes to canvas to currency to cigarette paper. Yeah. I 92 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: feel like in a lot of articles ire they referenced 93 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 1: this old SNL skit that was about some product, and 94 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: it was they were arguing about it's floor cleaner, No, 95 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: it's dessert because it could be used for both and yeah, 96 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: huh yeah, Blacky, I don't remember that sketch, but I 97 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: love it. I had never seen it, but I enjoyed 98 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: it excellent. Uh. The etymology of flax is argued, as 99 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: many etymologies are but but but in any case seems 100 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: to come from the use of the plant's fibers, either 101 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: from the proto Indo European root plick meaning to braid, 102 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: or from p like meaning to flays and to strip 103 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: the fibers to to prep them for weaving. Probably not 104 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: anything darker than Okay, I'm not I mean, you know, 105 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: asked the proto Indo Europeans. I stayed up very late 106 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: playing a horror video games on my mind already, Like no, no, no, 107 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: not fla. Uh. Yeah, the flax is a is a 108 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: really hardy plant and it does well in temperate and 109 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: subtropical conditions and can be grown from seed to harvest 110 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: in like three months. Yeah. A lot of different varieties 111 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: have been developed in response to differing growing conditions and 112 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: pests or diseases, and for optimal seeds versus optimal fibers. Yes, 113 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: makes sense, And let's talk about that nutrition. Okay, so um, 114 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: the seeds do contain a bunch of omega three fatty 115 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: acids a k A good fats um, the same reason 116 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: that nutritionists are like, hey, you should eat some fish um, 117 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: but because these can help your body lower your bad 118 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: cholesterol levels and thus protect against various diseases, especially at 119 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: cardiovascular related conditions. By the way, if you've ever seen 120 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: high omega eggs in the store, chances are that they're 121 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: high omega because the chickens are being fed flax seed. 122 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: Oh interesting, yeah, um, but yeah, they're also high in 123 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: protein and fiber. Got a good spattering of vitamins and minerals, 124 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: and all kinds of research is being done into the 125 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: potential benefits a flax seed. Um. Some of the compounds 126 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: it contains seem to have anti inflammatory effects, antioxidant effects, 127 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: anti cancer effects, anti depression effects, anti diabetic effects, antimicrobial effects. 128 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: They may help prevent blood clots and irregular heart rhythms, 129 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: all kinds of things, all kinds of stuff, I mean 130 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: and like partially because it's just been an important fiber 131 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: and food crop for like a long time. Um. The 132 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: list of things that flex has been considered as a 133 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: folk remedy for honestly reads like a comedy routine from 134 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: Pretty University, and in alphabetical order, quote lineum finds its 135 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: way into folk remedies for boils, bronchitis, burns, cancer, carbuncles, 136 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: cold conjectivitis, corns, coughs, diarrhea, gonorrhea, gout, inflammation, intoxication, labor, rheumatism, 137 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: scaled sclerosis, sore spasm, swellings, tumor, warts, and whitlows. I 138 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: have no idea what that is, and I didn't look 139 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: it up. That's that does sound like snl on that, 140 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, in general, bodies are complicated. More researches needed. 141 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: Talk with the medical professional before incorporating medicinal amounts of 142 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: anything into your diet or routine. Eat what you like. 143 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: If you if you enjoy flax seed, put it in stuff, 144 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: Or if you find a mysterious thirty two ounce bag 145 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: and you're frue goal and you don't want to get 146 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: rid of it, look up some recipes and be adventurous. 147 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, I mean watch out because it can have 148 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: a laxative effect from all of that, friends, Oh my god, 149 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: all of that mucilage in it can have a laxative effect. 150 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: So just you know, for seed with CAUs yes, now, 151 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 1: you could have turned up so much worse. I'm glad. 152 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm glad y'all kept it together. We did say we're 153 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: not eager to try the flax seed, which is all 154 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, you can really just order pizza, 155 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: like at a very late hour. It's true. I believe 156 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: that's what we did. We're bad Chinese anyway. Yeah, there 157 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: there are a couple of options. Oh man, we do 158 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: have some numbers, we do. Um. There are about two 159 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: hundred cultivated species of flax and uh Russia is the 160 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: top producer, accounting for nearly a quarter of the market, 161 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: but Canada exports the most. Um also lots produced in 162 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: India and China. As of nearly three million tons were 163 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: being produced worldwide every year, and the export market was 164 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: worth nearly a billion dollars a year. Wow. M. Though 165 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: it was once a popular crop all over the Eastern 166 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: United States over the flag, production in the US nowadays 167 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: takes place in North Dakota. Uh huh yeah, more on 168 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: that in a little bit. Minnesota is also a big player, 169 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: but uh yeah. In recent years, coinciding with an increased 170 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: focus on health, flax seeds have become more mainstream as 171 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: a health food. Ground flax seed can go into all 172 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: kinds of things smooth these sandwiches, yogurt in bank, good salad, cereal, soups, 173 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: pretty much anything you want. To put flax seeds in 174 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: or on. You could, I guess. I mean, no one 175 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: stopping you, right, that's not necessarily a good idea, Not necessarily, 176 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: but no, I mean they're they're they're nice. They had 177 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 1: like a little bit of nutty flavor. If you're looking 178 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: for that viscosity, then that's the thing. Yeah, most of 179 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 1: my Google search returned you should grind them up, and 180 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. The reasons I easily guessable. 181 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: I am lazy, but I have had them before and 182 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: I like them. It's just got to find how to 183 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: use that many. I just need to get you a 184 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 1: little coffee grinder or something. That's another thing my friends 185 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: don't like about me is that I don't have good coffee. 186 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: And they were discussing how they're going to buy me 187 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 1: a coffee maker because they couldn't stand the coffee I drink. 188 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: If you want to buy it, that's fine with me. 189 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: This is the way I get a free coffee maker. Yeah. Absolutely, okay, 190 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: but I okay, Now, I do have to tell you 191 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: that if they do buy you a coffee maker and 192 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: like a coffee grinder, do not grind things other than 193 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: coffee and your coffee grind under because you'll get like 194 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: mucilage in your coffee and like you don't you probably 195 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 1: don't want that. No, I love that. You know me 196 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: so well, and I would have tempted such a foolish 197 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: and never I absolutely would separate your coffee grinders from 198 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: your other stuff grinders noted, noted. Okay, anyway, flax seed, Yes, 199 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: we do have some history for you, because because the 200 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: medicinal use of this stuff goes back a very very 201 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: very long time as that wacky list perhaps let you know. 202 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, what we'll get into that as soon as 203 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: we get back from a quick break for a word 204 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, 205 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: thank you. Flax has been kicking around a while, at 206 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: least since eight thousand BC, and was one of the 207 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: first crops domesticated by humans, originally primary early for their 208 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: seeds in the eight founder crop archaeological theory. This is 209 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: a popular theory that eight crops were the foundation of 210 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: agriculture on our planet. Flax or lindseed, is the source 211 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: of the oil and fiber of those eight crops. Yeah. Yeah, 212 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: The plant probably originated in the Mediterranean or in what 213 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: is now present day Georgia the country. Obviously, perhaps remnants 214 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: dating back to the Stone Age were found in Switzerland. 215 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: There's a surprising amount of research into this ongoing yes, 216 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: including a twenty nine team study that suggested for almost 217 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: five thousand, seven hundred years, our ancestors have had and 218 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: used technology to make linen from the flax plant. The 219 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: researchers found evidence of flax production, including spindles and finished 220 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: products like nets, shoes, and hats in a late Neolithic 221 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: village and Central Europe. The study authors described at the 222 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: end of the Neolithic as quote flax boom, flaxpoo, flax boom. 223 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure it was exciting. Yeah, flax oil production remained 224 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: important and happened in tandem with linen. Prediction, whole craft 225 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: settlements devoted themselves to making things with linen. Oh yeah, 226 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: I mean aside from wool, Like woolen, lenen were like 227 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: the two fabrics. Yeah, for pretty much. Ever, this reminds 228 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: me of video game, like you would go and visit 229 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: this this place to get your your armor, needs your 230 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: clothing knees. Yeah. I think Settlers of Catan is really 231 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: missing out on some kind of flax related square. They 232 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: are who can get in touch with. If anyone's listening 233 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: or has any influencers, way let them know. Flaxy needs 234 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: to be involved. Our chaeolog just found flax fibers in 235 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: a cave in Georgia that are over thirty thou years old. 236 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: An examination of the pollen from the caves in that 237 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: area revealed much of the pollen contained flax fibers. Flax 238 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: was growing in the wild at the time. The fibers 239 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: appeared to have been braided in some cases died, though 240 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: probably not for clothing. Elizabeth Barber, author of pre Storic 241 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: Textiles Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages 242 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: with special reference to the Aegean, said of this discovery quote, 243 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: I mean talk about the proverbial needle in a haystack. 244 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: Trying to find fibers that are thirty thousand years old 245 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: really is almost impossible. Sure enough, She hypothesizes that the 246 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: invention of string helped our ancestors survive the Ice Age, 247 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: providing a way for people to tie packages together and 248 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: carry more and catch more game with snares and nets, 249 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: which would be super important in the Ice Age. It's 250 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: always always, but yeah, the ancient Egyptians use flax fiber 251 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: to make Linen's class fish nets and for wrapping mummies. 252 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: They also ate the seeds and prescribe them for all 253 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: kinds of elements, primarily yes as a laxative. Some anointed 254 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: themselves with the oil before leaving the house, and custom 255 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: called for guests to be anointed with oil by servants. 256 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: Women might have used it to style their hair, and 257 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: perhaps utilized it as sort of a sunscreen in at 258 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: repellent combo. Yeah see, we're still talking about food kind 259 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: of sort of, yeah, fascinating. Hippocrates recommended flax for digestive 260 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: problems and mucous membrane inflammation. Dioscurieties to prescribe flax seeds 261 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: for internal or external inflammation. Some accounts posit that the 262 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: Assyrians and Mesopotamia used it for coughs, bladder and vaginal 263 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: and rectal health, and as an aphrodes. You knew it 264 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: was coming. Flax was mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and the 265 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: Bible several times. One example, when God sent a plague 266 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: of hail, the quote flax and the barley were smitten. 267 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: Rabbis argued that the story of Cane and Abel. In 268 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: that story, Cane bought flax seed as his offering, and 269 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: able bought lambs. And this is why woolden flax. I'm 270 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: not oh, I see okay. Plenty observed that ground lind 271 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: seed was mixed with porridge among the peasants of northern 272 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: Italy and galand described peasants eating roasted land seeds with honey. 273 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: Historians believe that the Phoenicians introduced flex to Ireland very 274 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: early on, where it was readily adopted to make linen 275 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: and went on to become a huge agricultural important thing 276 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: in that country. There's a whole like oh my god, yeah, 277 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: oh sure yeah. Flex Seed oil was also mentioned in 278 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: our vetic texts going back to at least one thousand 279 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: b C, especially as a topical treatment to extract oil. 280 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: In ancient times, folks roasted the seeds in an oven, 281 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: ground them up with a millstone to make flour, and 282 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: mix them with water to make dough. This dough was 283 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: put in baskets that were stacked under these big, hefty 284 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: wooden beams that were tightened down on the baskets with 285 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: a wooden screw, and they remained under pressure for over 286 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: a day, during which the oil drained out. The oil 287 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: was used for lamps, cooking, as an insect repellent for 288 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: water buffaloecifically. Many early colonists to North America planted plots 289 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: of flax, mostly to use the fiber to make linens. 290 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: During the eighteen hundreds, as settlers moved west, they bought 291 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: flax with them. In many cases, it was among one 292 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: of the first crops they planted. Bundles of raw flax 293 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: were sometimes exchanged for goods, and the seeds were baked 294 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: into breads, are mixed with cereals, or given to livestock. 295 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: The seeds were also viewed as valuable and used for trades. 296 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: They're kind of during a similar thing that we're doing now, 297 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: And here's how they went about harvesting flax back then. 298 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: When the flax is ready, women and children pull it out, 299 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: roots and all, and bundle them together for drying. Then 300 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: the seeds were removed by pulling the flax through what 301 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: was known as a hetchel, which was a wooden board 302 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 1: with spikes snailed to it, speaking of a horde. This 303 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: was usually done by men. Once that was done, then 304 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: came the retting. People went about this in different ways. 305 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: In England, they soaked bundles in bodies of water, but 306 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: in North America people preferred to just spread them out 307 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: on the ground and let the dew do the work. 308 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: Then the wooden hus were broken to reveal the inner fibers, 309 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: either with wooden planks or paddles. Beating the flax was 310 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: often a social affair for all ages. The inner fibers 311 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: were hetcheled again, and this was typically done by women 312 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: to remove the debris and separate short fibers destined for 313 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: coarse cloth and the more desired long fibers. Women did 314 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: the spinning too, and this process was an all day affair, 315 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: labor intensive. Having a flax wheel during the seventeen hundreds 316 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: was an indicator of domesticity, and women who spun flax 317 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: were called spinsters. That's why I wanted to talk about this. 318 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: Women soon took over the weaving as well, an occupation 319 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: that had previously been dominated by men. In pre revolutionary America, 320 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: making your own clothes was seen as almost patriotic away 321 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 1: to not rely on imports, and Lenin went on to 322 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: become vital in the clothing for revolutionary soldiers. Lennon's were 323 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: so commonly used as garments during the during the day 324 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: that around the sixteen fifties, the phrase linen lifter was 325 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: slang for an adulterous man. Oh little, oh, my goodness. 326 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: Commercial production of flax really got started in the seventeen fifties, 327 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: a production declined when the cotton gin was introduced in seventeen. 328 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the cotton gin really screwed up the flax 329 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: industry in the United States. Like before the gin, yeah, 330 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: your cloth fibers were linen or wool, and that's what 331 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: they were. Um. Cotton was very expensive. Um, but the 332 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: gin opened up cotton as a fiber that way more 333 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: people could afford. We Lauren and I'm when we were 334 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 1: in our Dothan, Alabama peanut trip. We got to pick 335 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: some cotton, and I keep forgetting. I have it in 336 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: my in my coat pocket, my rain jacket, and it's 337 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: like a wonderful little surprise every time. I'm like, oh, yeah, 338 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: that's right there. Yeah, And it still has like the 339 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: little pointy thorn in it, but it doesn't hurt. It's 340 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: just how I usually notice it, Okay, because right, right, right, 341 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: right future episode, peanut episode. During the nineteenth century, Russia 342 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: produced the most linen from flax, followed by France and Holland. 343 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 1: In eighteen eleven, an organization was formed in Ulster, Ireland. 344 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: This is from that paper I mentioned earlier, quote for 345 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: the improvement of the growth of flax. This was around 346 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: the same time that Thread Machinery was modernizing the making 347 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: of lenin. In eighteen fifty, the organization congratulated members in 348 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: a report, reading quote, although it has had many difficulties 349 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: to surmount and many prejudices to contend with, it's been 350 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: productive of much good. That quote was really really long, 351 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed all of it. That's that's the 352 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: heart of it, right right, right right. This was from 353 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: the report of the Flax and Himp Commission, appointed under 354 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: Active Congress February twenty five, nineteen sixty three by United 355 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: States Congress Flax and Himp Commission the United States Department 356 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: of Adega Culture, which I read and it was very Yes, 357 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: it was very very dry, very thorough interesting, very dry. Anyway. 358 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: It also contains the tale of a man from Holland 359 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: who invented a way to spend superior flax in the 360 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds, but despite many offers, he would not sell 361 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: this idea, believing people would cheat him out of profits. 362 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: Probably true. His flax was even displayed at the eighteen 363 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: fifty two London World's Fair, where it won a metal 364 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: But then flax cotton hybrid came along and nobody really 365 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: wanted it anyone. Yeah yeah, yeah, well mm hmm. Speaking 366 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: of things that aren't food. Uh. In eighteen sixty four, 367 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: production began on a new household product, Linoleum uh Lynn 368 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: meaning lindseed and oleum meaning oil linseed oil. One. Frederick 369 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: Watson invented it. It's cotton canvas pressed with a cork dust, 370 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: oxidized linseed oil and whatever coloring you'd like. These days, 371 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: other stuff might be added in, but that's that's the basics. Um. 372 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: And yeah, waterproof, easy to clean, doesn't show where um. 373 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: It's considered the first product name to become a generic 374 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: term for that product, and it did so in under 375 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: two decades. Like before social media, linoleum quickly became one 376 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: of the most widely used floor coverings in the world. Wow, 377 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: that's oppressive, it is. Beginning in the eighteen nineties, professor H. L. 378 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: Bali started researching flax in North Dakotas, specifically focusing on 379 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: flax wilt. He set aside a research plot in fargo 380 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: in eight plot thirty. In nineteen eight he released the 381 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: first wilt resistant seed flax, and that plot is still 382 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: used for research to this day. And that's part of 383 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: why North Dakota is one of the biggest producers in 384 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: the United States. US commercial flax production nearly disappeared though 385 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: after the nineteen forties. On the individual level, some still 386 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: grew it, primarily to make their own linen. Yeah, and 387 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: uh that that's because you've got the cotton gin wearing 388 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 1: away the need for flax flax fibers. And also um 389 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: that the use of linseed oil was vastly decreased by 390 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: the development of the petroleum industry, and it's inexpensive byproducts 391 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: like like vinyl in the case of linoleum. Right, but 392 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: it didn't go away completely in the nineties fifties. Are 393 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: eating it didn't. A German biochemist named doctor Joanna Budwig 394 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: espoused eating a mixture of cottage cheese, low fat milk, 395 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: and flax seed oil as a cancer preventative and treatment. 396 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 1: She believed that the oil made the omega three fatty 397 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: acids easier for our bodies to access. The Budwig diet 398 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: cuts out sugar refined and hydrogenated oils, most other dairy products, tea, coffee, 399 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: refined grains, at cereal, shellfish, pork, and cold meats. She 400 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: also recommended someun big thing in time outdoors. While this 401 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: diet is still around to this day, there is no 402 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: scientific evidence that it works. Yes, uh and yeah. With 403 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: all that interest in a good fats since then or so, 404 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,679 Speaker 1: and in fabrics made from natural fibers, the production of 405 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: flax in the US is increasing again slowly, like it's 406 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: a lot down from where it was once, but yeah, 407 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: but but on the on the up swing. Yeah. A 408 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 1: lot of things I read about why associated it with 409 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: the Mediterranean diet, the popularity of the Mediterranean diet, and 410 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: just in general, as we spoke about four on the show, 411 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: kind of towards the end of the nineties beginning two thousands, 412 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: health like a more focus on health. Yeah, and on 413 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,479 Speaker 1: the idea that fats aren't always poison, because somehow we 414 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: started defeating the sugar industry just a little bit by 415 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: a little bit, slow but steady. That is interesting because 416 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: that the fifties is when the sugar industree was like 417 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: fat worse exactly, no more fats. Ever, sugar is healthy. Yes, 418 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: our early sugar episodes about that or I don't know. 419 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: I guess just anytime if you want to hear his 420 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 1: rant about it, we probably talk about that. And I'd say, 421 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: like a quarter of our episode. Yeah, they had a 422 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: lot of influence they did. Yeah, it's it's one of 423 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: those and we're not being like conspiracy theorists right now. 424 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: This is like a conspiracy fact. Yeah, you should listen 425 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: to her if you haven't. The Miracle Berry episode. Yeah, 426 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: there's like car chases, break breaking in gosh. Yeah, but 427 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: that brings us to the end of this episode. It does. 428 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: We still do have a little bit more for you, 429 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: but first we've got one more quick break for a 430 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsored, Yes, 431 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: thank you. We're back with Listen to Your Health, Your Health. 432 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,360 Speaker 1: Binny wrote, just listen to the Noble Bay Leaf episode 433 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: you're part of people finding them and their Chipotle dishes 434 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: really took me back. I am in the Army and 435 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: now a huge fan of cooking. When I first joined 436 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 1: and was in basic training, we often got food bought 437 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: to us in the field from the dining facility to 438 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: allow us to continue training. I always thought I was 439 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: very unlucky that leaves kept getting into my food. It 440 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: was not until I really started cooking that I realized 441 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: Bailey's were a thing and instantly felt silly. If you 442 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: don't know sure it, you're like, what's this leaf doing here? 443 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: It looks like leaf? I love how much there's like 444 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,120 Speaker 1: some people believe it's good luck, some people believe it's 445 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: bad luck. I always thought it was just pretty cool. Well, 446 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: if you if you don't know that it's there for 447 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: a food purpose, then that's bad luck. Of clear, how 448 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: did this leaf getting my food? Is someone trying to 449 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: curse me? Yeah? Yeah, sense Caroline wrote. A few years back, 450 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: I was dating a guy who was in the Marine Corps. 451 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: He delighted in educating me on military life, such as 452 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: having me watch documentaries on combat boot camp and the like. 453 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: Another part of this was convincing me to try an 454 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: MRI one day. Well, grocery shopping at the commissary, we 455 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: picked out one for me to try a preferred meal flavor. 456 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: According to him, hilarity ensued as he suggested, I consumed 457 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: the emery while broadcasting it to Facebook Live for the 458 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: amusement of his other marine buddies. I settled down on 459 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: the patio and had at it with him, filming and 460 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: narrating the experience. Unfortunately, or fortunately, perhaps we split up, 461 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: so the footage is lost in the Facebook ether. My take, Uh, 462 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: They're fine, I suppose, but I wouldn't want to eat 463 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: it every day. The next were okay. The entree chili 464 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: I think was decent, but salty, as one would expect 465 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: from any canned foods. The heater didn't make the food 466 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: super hot, more like lukewarm, but was cool to try using. 467 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: But it was fun for sure, and gave me an 468 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: appreciation for part of what service people deal with. Side note, 469 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: if you can believe it, there are entire message boards 470 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: where that's discussed, the various menu selection based on taste, rarity, etcetera. 471 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: Also not sure if this bit was ever discussed, but 472 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: I just recalled a pineapple story as well. I used 473 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: to wear for a group home and prepared jello for 474 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: everyone one evening. A few hours after I went to 475 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: take it out and liquid spilled everywhere from the cups. 476 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: It was still watery. I had put in chopped fresh fruit, 477 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: including pineapple. Imagine my frustration after calling my mom for advice. 478 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: It turns out there's an enzime in pineapple that breaks 479 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: down gelatin. Canning and freezing eliminates it, but using fresh 480 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,719 Speaker 1: will result in jellow flavored soup. Live and learn. At 481 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: least we lived. That's one of my favorite Steinfeld quotes. 482 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: That's not mine. Yeah, we have two ma's waiting for 483 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: us to try, sitting at my desk. Oh, we should, 484 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: we should do. We haven't done a social post like 485 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: that recently. We should totally get on that Facebook. Maybe 486 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: not live, but you know, post a little video. Yeah, 487 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: I'm the flavors are very interesting. I think they're good. Yeah, 488 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: they're like the good ones. Okay, okay, I think the 489 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: listener that sent them wanted us to have the best 490 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: experience possible, which we appreciate very mind. Yes, yes, yes, 491 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: we also have someone with sabby oreos. I think. Oh 492 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: we still haven't eaten those. Okay, alright, cool, Yes, we're 493 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: on this. We will get it done. Yeah, New Year's 494 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: as um. But in the meantime, thanks to both of 495 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: them for writing. If you like to write to us, 496 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: you can. Our email is hello at savor pod dot com. 497 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: We're also on the aforementioned social media. You can find 498 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at Savor pod and 499 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: we do hope to hear from you. Uh. Savor is 500 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio and Stuff Media. For more 501 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: podcasts my heart Radio, you can visit the I heart 502 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,239 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 503 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: favorite shows. 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