WEBVTT - 9 Somewhat Tasteful Facts about Salad!

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<v Speaker 1>Guess what, mango, what's that? Well, you know, I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I've been reading over the past few years about

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<v Speaker 1>all these ways that airlines are trying to save money,

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<v Speaker 1>and it feels like every month you'll see some new

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<v Speaker 1>way that they're trying to save a few bucks. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I was actually just thinking about this last week, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's so weird how much the industry has changed. Like

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<v Speaker 1>if you look at those ads from the fifties, Pan

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<v Speaker 1>m and whoever used to serve these big meals with steaks,

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<v Speaker 1>and they'd have pianos on board, and they've had these

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<v Speaker 1>like free flowing cocktails, and every ad was about luxury

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<v Speaker 1>and people having a party. And now it's definitely not

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<v Speaker 1>a party, certainly not with a piano or they're really

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<v Speaker 1>pianos some of these planes. Yeah, definitely, that's unbelievable. I

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<v Speaker 1>was reading about some mothers and one of the most

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<v Speaker 1>legendary cost cutting measures came with salads. At least it's

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<v Speaker 1>legendary in the business world if you're looking at various

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<v Speaker 1>case studies, and this guy, Robert Crandell, he was the

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<v Speaker 1>head of American Airlines in the nineteen eighties. He was

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<v Speaker 1>looking for different ways to cut expenses. So he thought,

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<v Speaker 1>what if I removed just one olive from every dinner

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<v Speaker 1>salad I served my passengers. It was thinking, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>would anybody even notice this, And so, hoping they wouldn't,

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<v Speaker 1>he made the change, and the effect rippled out and

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<v Speaker 1>it wouldn't seem like they would save this much money

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<v Speaker 1>from it. But American Airlines saved forty thousand dollars from

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<v Speaker 1>making this one little change, and in today's money, that's

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<v Speaker 1>actually about a hundred thousand dollars. And it kind of

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<v Speaker 1>makes you wonder, though, why didn't he just take away

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<v Speaker 1>two olives? Because obviously, like taking away two olives would

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<v Speaker 1>have started a riot, You're probably right. Instead, they just

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<v Speaker 1>took away our leg room. That's God's good point. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>May is National Salad months. So for today's nine Things,

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<v Speaker 1>we're digging into a whole bowl full of weird and

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<v Speaker 1>funny salad facts. So let's dive in a podcast. Listeners,

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as

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<v Speaker 1>always I'm joined by my good friend Manes Ticketer and

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<v Speaker 1>sitting behind the soundproof glass wearing a T shirt that

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<v Speaker 1>says you don't make friends with salad. That's our friends

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<v Speaker 1>and producer Tristan McNeil. I like how he was hiding

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<v Speaker 1>it at first, and then he took off the hoodie

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<v Speaker 1>to reveal the big surprise. You know, I love that

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<v Speaker 1>joke so much, and it's obviously like a Simpsons gag.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're a Simstons fan, you know that. But I

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<v Speaker 1>was reading about that, and uh, there's this episode where

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Lisa's Asselmer like, why don't you offer some

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<v Speaker 1>non meat options at a party? And Homer says, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't make friends with salad, and then Bart goes, you

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<v Speaker 1>don't make friends with salad. You don't make friends with salad,

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<v Speaker 1>and they make this congo line and they just go endlessly.

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<v Speaker 1>They go like through the room, they go out of

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<v Speaker 1>the room, they come back into the room, and then

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<v Speaker 1>it just goes on just like never stops. And I

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<v Speaker 1>was actually reading about that gag online and I saw

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<v Speaker 1>the writers say they were trying to create a joke

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<v Speaker 1>that was funny and then went on for so long

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<v Speaker 1>it became annoying and not funny, and then long enough

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<v Speaker 1>there went back to being funny again. It's true, it

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<v Speaker 1>kind of does accomplish that, and and now it's made

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<v Speaker 1>its way to Tristan shirt. Well, as we mentioned earlier

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<v Speaker 1>on the show, Maya's National Salad Month, and oddly, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know who declared it National salad Month. It's it's

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<v Speaker 1>referenced everywhere from Smithsonian to cooking magazines, but it is

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<v Speaker 1>kind of hard to PenPoint the creator. Yeah. I was

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about that too, and I think maybe the Association

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<v Speaker 1>for Dressings and Sauces might be responsible. I mean, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna sell more dressing if everyone's eating salad. But

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<v Speaker 1>what's stranger to me is that it's also National Hogie

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<v Speaker 1>Day this month. It's like, yeah, May fifth, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>almost like the HOGI makers looked at the calendar and thought,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, people are going to need a cheat day.

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<v Speaker 1>So so Sinco de Mayo is the same as National

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<v Speaker 1>Hogy Day. Yeah, I guess that's pretty big. Wow, who knew? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's actually it's kind of weird. They didn't try to

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<v Speaker 1>grab their own Hogi month. I feel like hoagies are

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<v Speaker 1>worthy of an entire month. But all right, well, I

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<v Speaker 1>kicked off today's nine things without sacrificing. Just one olive

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<v Speaker 1>can save your business. So what's first salad fact of

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<v Speaker 1>the day? How about a fact about McDonald's. So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>actually guessing most people aren't flocking to McDonald's for their salads.

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<v Speaker 1>But according to CNBC, Mickey D's Kale Caesar isn't exactly

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<v Speaker 1>a healthy option. And while the ads say keep calm

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<v Speaker 1>Caesar on and talk up the nutrient rich lettuce blends

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<v Speaker 1>of baby kale, the numbers actually tell the different stories.

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<v Speaker 1>So the salads are seven thirty calories and four hundred

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<v Speaker 1>milligrams assault with each one, and that's actually slightly worse

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<v Speaker 1>than a double Big Mac, which has just six d

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<v Speaker 1>eighty calories and milligrams assault. Waits, he're saying of the

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<v Speaker 1>two of those, that the double Big Mac is the

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<v Speaker 1>healthy option. Yeah, it's also the vegetarian option, right right, No,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I think not going to McDonald's is the

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<v Speaker 1>healthy option. But reminds me of that story and uh, Paris,

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<v Speaker 1>I Love you, but you bring me down, which is

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<v Speaker 1>this really wonderful memoir. But the author was in shock

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<v Speaker 1>at how pre Asians eat McDonald's for lunch, because they

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<v Speaker 1>eat it in a typically French way to actually start

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<v Speaker 1>with like a chicken nugget course. Then then they'll have

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<v Speaker 1>like a big mac or two Big Max, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they'll follow it with a salad course, and then they'll

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<v Speaker 1>finish with a coffee and possibly dessert. And I know

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<v Speaker 1>the average meal at a French McDonald's is supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be like twice or thrice the cost of what it

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<v Speaker 1>is here that is unbelievable. And it's funny to think

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<v Speaker 1>how different the McDonald's Kale Caesar is from the original

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<v Speaker 1>Caesar salad, which was invented by Caesar Cardini. I read

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<v Speaker 1>this account from Julia Child where she talked about the

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<v Speaker 1>experience of ordering the salad at Cardini's restaurant. Actually, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just going to read the quote from it. It says

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<v Speaker 1>one of my early remembrances of restaurant life was going

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<v Speaker 1>to Tijuana in n Or nineteen twenty six with my parents,

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<v Speaker 1>who were wildly excited that they should finally launch at

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<v Speaker 1>Caesar's restaurant. Tiajuana, just south of the Mexican border from

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<v Speaker 1>San Diego, was flourishing them in the prohibition era. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>word spread about Tijuana and the good life, and about

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<v Speaker 1>Caesar Cardini's restaurant and about Caesar's salads. My parents, of

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<v Speaker 1>course ordered the salad Caesar self rolled the big card

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<v Speaker 1>up to the table, tossed the romaine in a great

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<v Speaker 1>wooden bowl. And I wish I could say I remembered

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<v Speaker 1>his every move, but I don't. The only thing I

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<v Speaker 1>see again clearly is the eggs. I can see him

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<v Speaker 1>break two eggs over that romaine and roll them in

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<v Speaker 1>the greens, going all creamy as the eggs float over them.

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<v Speaker 1>Two eggs and a salad to one minute coddled eggs

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<v Speaker 1>and garlic flavored crutons and grated parmesan cheese. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a sensation of a salad from coast to coast, and

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<v Speaker 1>there were even rumblings of its success in Europe. That's

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<v Speaker 1>really awesome. It's so awesome to think of like a

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<v Speaker 1>young Julia child with their parents just being floored by

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<v Speaker 1>this production. Yeah. Yeah, and and and it's like how

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<v Speaker 1>chefs at a fancy Mexican restaurant make table side guacamole

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<v Speaker 1>for you. It almost makes you want to order a salad. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's true. So here here's the story I read in

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<v Speaker 1>Atlas obscure as news site. It's called gastroid Scura and

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<v Speaker 1>it's all food related. Ends really good, but they mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>this Burmese salad, which sounds amazing to me. It's called

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<v Speaker 1>a lape and it's made from fermented tea leaves along

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<v Speaker 1>with rock cabbage, lime, finally sliced garlic, green chili, fresh tomatoes,

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<v Speaker 1>sesame seeds, and peanuts, and I think it has some

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<v Speaker 1>other spices in there too. But the description from a

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<v Speaker 1>New York Times reviewers is that it's deeply savory and

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<v Speaker 1>strangely addictive. So you know already that has me and

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<v Speaker 1>I do love Burmese food. But the key here is

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<v Speaker 1>the tea leaves, and I'm curious off Starbucks will actually

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<v Speaker 1>start serving these as morning salads or if people trade

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<v Speaker 1>out their breakfast cereal routines for them, because the tea

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<v Speaker 1>actually makes the salad highly caffeinated, and in fact, that

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<v Speaker 1>same Times reviewers said that the leaves contain quote enough

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<v Speaker 1>caffeine to twang the nerves like a harp. It actually

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<v Speaker 1>kind of feels like a salad for like adrenaline junkies

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<v Speaker 1>or Wall Street execs or something. It does sound like

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<v Speaker 1>a weird salad, but but actually caffeinated salad. Well, it

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<v Speaker 1>may sound like a novelty. We've actually been making them

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<v Speaker 1>stateside here for a while. Really, I haven't heard of this. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>this came out of my research and looking up some

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<v Speaker 1>of those gross and amazing jello salads. You know, people

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<v Speaker 1>used to bring these to like church potlocks and dinner

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<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that. I follow a Twitter account that

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<v Speaker 1>has tons of these, and I just love seeing pictures

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<v Speaker 1>of like hard boiled eggs and olives and tuna fish

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<v Speaker 1>like celery jellos. It's it's just so good. It is

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<v Speaker 1>amazing but also disgusting. But I mean, there are tons

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<v Speaker 1>of those nineteen fifties recipes, but one I'd never heard

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<v Speaker 1>of is called coke salad. And this comes from Mental

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<v Speaker 1>Flaws and apparently it's the crown jewel of jello salad recipes. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>a coke salad is a fizzy jellow fruit salad that's

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<v Speaker 1>made with a mix of cherries, pineapple juice, and coke,

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<v Speaker 1>all cooked up with flavored jellata and if you're up

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<v Speaker 1>for the Midwestern variation, just add some dollops of cream

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<v Speaker 1>cheese on the top. Is disgusting, awesome. It's almost weird

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<v Speaker 1>that you're allowed to call it a salad. It feels

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<v Speaker 1>like you shouldn't be. But because it's not. So here's

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<v Speaker 1>something I hadn't read before, and that comes from that

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<v Speaker 1>incredible quiz show q I, and it's the perfect come

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<v Speaker 1>down after you're done doing some coke salad, I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's a wild lettuce or something that's called Luktuca seiola,

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<v Speaker 1>and the plant, which was also known as prickly lettuce,

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<v Speaker 1>was apparently grown for medicinal purposes, and partially it has

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<v Speaker 1>this like milksap that has these sleep inducing properties. I've

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<v Speaker 1>never heard of this before, but the Romans would eat

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<v Speaker 1>a salad course at the end of dinner with this

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<v Speaker 1>lettuce and you know, kind of the way the French do,

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<v Speaker 1>but this was specifically as a sleep aid and that

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<v Speaker 1>way you could rest and digest. And apparently over the years,

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<v Speaker 1>both the bitter taste of the wild lettuce and also

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<v Speaker 1>those sleep inducing qualities were bred out of the lettuce.

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<v Speaker 1>But this wasn't before Peter Rabbit got involved, so I

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<v Speaker 1>haven't read the original Peter Rabbit Tails in a while.

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<v Speaker 1>But in the early from feasting on so much sleep

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<v Speaker 1>inducing lettuce, that Mopsy and Flopsy and the whole lot

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<v Speaker 1>of them all got caught by Farmer McGregor and just

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<v Speaker 1>narrowly escaped getting put in the pie. Remember this, But

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<v Speaker 1>I really hope someone brings back this sleep inducing lettuce,

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<v Speaker 1>just because I'd love to see people after like a

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<v Speaker 1>long night of drinking and partying and just wanting to

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<v Speaker 1>go to sleep, reaching into the back of their fridges

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<v Speaker 1>and just taking a bite out of a head of lettuce.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I feel like that would be just such a

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<v Speaker 1>great scene. Well, hopefully that dream will come through one day.

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<v Speaker 1>But all right, well here's a quick fact. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's pretty fun. Did you know you can actually buy

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<v Speaker 1>a fruit salad tree? So I don't know what that means. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>they're basically the same as when you can't choose a

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<v Speaker 1>breakfast cereal, so you get that variety pack. Nurseries sell

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<v Speaker 1>these young saplings with different fruits grafted onto one tree.

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<v Speaker 1>So you can get a stone fruit salad tree, for example,

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<v Speaker 1>and you'll get peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots or peach cots

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<v Speaker 1>on there. You can get another one that's called a

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<v Speaker 1>citrus tree that has limes and lemons, tangelos, oranges, grape

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<v Speaker 1>fruit and mandarin's all growing on the single tree. It's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty crazy, and that's amazing. So I've heard of people

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<v Speaker 1>like grafting trees like that together over time. But the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that you buy them as saplings, you know, or

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<v Speaker 1>small fruit salad trees, that's that's pretty incredible. Yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>can actually do this with apple trees as well, so

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<v Speaker 1>you get all sorts of apples all growing on one tree.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's both actually really pretty to look at but

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<v Speaker 1>fun that you can make these little peach and plum

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<v Speaker 1>fruit salads without having to walk, you know, all the

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<v Speaker 1>way over to another tree. Just kind of safe sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>second location. Yeah, Well, for those of you listening, don't

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<v Speaker 1>go anywhere, because you've got a few more salad facts

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<v Speaker 1>for you for first quick break. Welcome back to Part

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<v Speaker 1>time Genius. We're talking salads in honor of National Salad Bund.

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<v Speaker 1>So I feel like every time you say the word salad,

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<v Speaker 1>I just think of how eat it. Zimmerman at the

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<v Speaker 1>Hairpin found all those stock photos of women laughing alone

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<v Speaker 1>eating salad, and I don't know how she picked up

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<v Speaker 1>on the trend, but it is so absurd, and once

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<v Speaker 1>you notice, you really can't stop seeing photos of women

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<v Speaker 1>just like laughing, eating alone needing their salad. Is really amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>A little bizarre. All right, So what's your last factor

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<v Speaker 1>of the day. I'm gonna be so I think I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about a study out of Iowa State

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<v Speaker 1>that's kind of terrific. And this took place in two thirteen,

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<v Speaker 1>so it's a few years old now, but it was

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<v Speaker 1>conducted at a Y m C A camp and basically,

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<v Speaker 1>instead of telling kids what to eat, the researchers used

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<v Speaker 1>this digital screen to show an image of a bright,

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<v Speaker 1>fresh salad and then they just have it rotate on

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<v Speaker 1>the screen. And there was a salad bar in the cafeteria,

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<v Speaker 1>but there were also plenty of other camp options, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>hot dogs and sloppy joes and tacos. But these kids

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<v Speaker 1>started serving themselves more salad after seeing this digital version,

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<v Speaker 1>and in fact, the scientists were surprised to see that

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<v Speaker 1>the digital display had the most effect on hungry boys.

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<v Speaker 1>They actually served themselves fift more salad when they encountered

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<v Speaker 1>the display. Wow, that is pretty amazing. I'm curious, So

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<v Speaker 1>does it matter if the image is digital? Does it

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<v Speaker 1>have to be digital or would like a paper ad

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<v Speaker 1>work just as well? Yeah? I wondered the same thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and apparently it has to be digital. The scientists tried

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<v Speaker 1>paper and static versions, but as the salads got more

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<v Speaker 1>and more realistic looking, and as the scientists added motion

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<v Speaker 1>for some reason, that's when the hungry kids really took

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<v Speaker 1>the bait. And of course, after seeing the results of

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<v Speaker 1>that study, Burger King immediately adopted the technology into their

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<v Speaker 1>billboards and ads and got people to eat whoppers. That's

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty good fact, and it's amazing you can convince

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<v Speaker 1>hungry kids to eat salads over tacos. But I think

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna like this last fact. Have you ever heard

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<v Speaker 1>of cucumbers? Straight nurse? So this sounds like a fake

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<v Speaker 1>product or some sort of get risk scheme. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>that too, But they actually are a real thing. So cucumbers,

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<v Speaker 1>or cowcumbers as they were originally called, They used to

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<v Speaker 1>be super wayward and curvy, but that made them hard

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<v Speaker 1>to slice up for sandwiches, and that really annoyed this

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<v Speaker 1>guy named George Stevenson. So Stevenson is also the inventor

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<v Speaker 1>of a number of things like a miner's lamp. He

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<v Speaker 1>also built the first railway to use steam engines, and

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<v Speaker 1>he was very ritated by these curvy cucumbers, so he

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<v Speaker 1>decided to invent this cucumber straightener, and it's basically just

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<v Speaker 1>this kind of this phallic looking glass tube that you

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<v Speaker 1>put over the cucumber so it grows contained within the

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<v Speaker 1>shape of the tube. And people went crazy for these things.

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<v Speaker 1>You can find all these ads and Victorian publications for

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<v Speaker 1>these cucumber straighteners, and there's actually one from James Phillips

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<v Speaker 1>and Company where the ad just says cucumber glasses made

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<v Speaker 1>to any length twelve inches, sixteen inches, twenty inches, four inches.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are a lot of inches. Gives you so many

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<v Speaker 1>different options. But what's funny is that they're not exactly

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<v Speaker 1>outdated either. And apparently Disney makes cucumber straighteners that shape

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<v Speaker 1>the veggie so that when they cut a cucumber for

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<v Speaker 1>their salads, every slice comes out and Micky shaped. That's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty wonderful. And I do love that George Stevenson has

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<v Speaker 1>all these important inventions, and then he really should be

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<v Speaker 1>remembered for this key car definitely the biggest one. Yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 1>I think you do take the trophy with that fact. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you very much, and thank you guys for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll be back with a full length episode tomorrow. M