1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor Protection of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: and Stuff Media. I'm Any Rees and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: and today we're talking about arugula a K A rocket, 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: a K A rocket, salad, a K A roquette. Um. 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: I think there's a few others there are, and I 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: didn't know about any of those, and I'm delighted by 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: all of them. It's so fun to say. All of 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: them are so fun to say. All of those words 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: are great. Um. It's kind of a companion to our 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: salad episode. Sure, because we got curious about the PEPPERI 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: what is it in arugula? Yeah? What what makes arugula PEPPERI? 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: And well you'll have to wait just a minute for that. Um. 13 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, then we started looking into it and this 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: is actually one I'm slightly embarrassed because, um, I was 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: just like basic Google search, so many references to it 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: being an Awford easy I came up that I was like, dude, 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: we have to do this episode. We have to talk 18 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: about this. We've got to get to the bottom of this. Yeah. Yeah, 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: that's another teaser for what's to come. Oh goodness, yes, Uh, 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: it's also my favorite salad. I mean like a like 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: a very simple like a rugula salad with like like 22 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: a lemon vinegarrette. Um, maybe some like pecorino shaped on 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: there or something like that. I love arugula too. I 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: feel like it's it's one of those things that's semi 25 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: newish in my life, but that one, now that I've 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: discovered it, every time I see it on a menu, 27 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. Yeah. I think it was introduced 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: to it actually as rocket um really at a British 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: themed pub oh here in Atlanta. But then but then 30 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: after that, I saw it said both ways, So I 31 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: don't know, I kind of picked up both I've never 32 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: seen it as rocket, or maybe I have. And every 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: time I see rocket, I assume that's a sauce because 34 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: there's a rocket sauce probably in the salads, and I'm 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: thinking that's a whole salad rocket sauce. That's well, that's 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: America for you. But okay, let's get to our questions. Arugola, 37 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: what is it you like? Saying it's so much I love? Um? Well, 38 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: arugula is a leafy green in the wide, wonderful brass 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: of Caseye family. Um. I'm still not sure if I'm 40 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: saying that right. I'm sorry, my Latin is terrible. Um. Anyway, 41 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: it encompasses mustards, cabbages, and crucifers, everything from like kale 42 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: to cauliflower to horseradish. Arugola looks sort of like a weed. 43 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: It's kind of is a weed. Um. It's it's this 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: vaguely stringy looking flowering plant that um that grows to 45 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 1: a couple of feet tall, that's two thirds of a meter. 46 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: So with these are delicate lobed leaves coming off of 47 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: the stem um, you can grow a plant to harvest 48 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: within like a month. Yeah. Like many of its relatives, 49 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: arugola has this peppery, bitter sharpness to its its fresh 50 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: green flavor, and it can range from mild to like 51 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: really kind of hot in taste. Typically, just the leaves 52 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: are eaten with very little stem involved because they're kind 53 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: of tough and stringy, But the flowers, which are small 54 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: and white or white purple or kind of greenish, are 55 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: also edible. Now about that word. Yeah, the name arugula 56 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: wasn't commonplace in the United States until the nineteen eighties, 57 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: when it started to take off among the more trendy foodies. 58 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: Italian Americans, who were more familiar with the ingredients previously 59 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: called it rucola or arugula. Rucola is the Italian word 60 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: to this day, but if you were from the toe 61 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: of Italy's boot, Calabria, the word used was aarkulu. Since 62 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: most Italian immigrants to the United States came from southern Italy, 63 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: we commonly say arugula versus rocket, which was derived from 64 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: northern Italian dialects. Sometime in the sixteenth century, the French 65 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: called arugula roquette, and the British turned that into rocket. Yes, yeah, um, 66 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: And there are a bunch of cultivated varieties. Um. There's 67 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: also so a separate, less mucked with species called wild 68 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: arugula that is grown and consumed and tends to be spicier. 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: Nutrition wise, arugla is pretty great for you. It's got 70 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: some protein and dietary fiber, and just so many vitamins 71 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: and minerals, especially vitamins A and K and calcium and potassium. 72 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: That signature peppery bite of arugla is due to a 73 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: group of sulfurous compounds called glucose sinolates um, which botanists 74 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: think that this family of plants developed in order to 75 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: discourage pathogens from infecting them and pests from eating them. 76 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: But as with many other plants like suckers, humans decided 77 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: that we like that. Um it's a pretty cool group 78 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: of compounds, though researchers think that they might be how 79 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: produced in this family helps prevent certain kinds of cancers 80 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: when we eat them, because some of the compounds that 81 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: glucosinolates break down into when they're eaten have been shown 82 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: to just just really mess up tumor cells, Like they 83 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: can prevent them from dividing, and they can encourage the 84 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: cells to just up and die. Yeah. Um, and the 85 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: breakdown of glucosinolates, um it is that defense mechanism, Like 86 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: if something takes a chomp out of the plant's leaves, 87 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: they spill out and interact with with an enzyme that 88 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: breaks them down into these other compounds that taste all 89 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: bitter and sharp and unpleasant. Yeah. I feel like we've 90 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: talked about glucosinolates and are at least a couple of episodes. 91 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: But cauliflower, I think it's definitely in there as well. Yeah, 92 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: I've talked about it before. Numbers wise hard to come by. 93 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: How I looked for it inappropriate amount of time to 94 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: try to find global arugla rocket production, like the number 95 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: of search terms that I used and the amount of 96 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: time I spent was not worth the answer that I 97 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: have for you, which is that I have no idea, hope, nope, 98 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: zero clue. Maybe one of our listeners knows and can 99 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: write in there you go and tell us. Yeah. But 100 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: other than a sold superstar, you can eat arugula all 101 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: types of ways, sandwiches, burgers, pastas, soups, stews on pizza, 102 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: and pesto like sauces. You can just simmer up some 103 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: of our sat up, some with a little bit of 104 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: butter and lemon, maybe in certain sort of like spinach. 105 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: And other than its food uses, the seeds contain some 106 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: compounds that folks are researching for possible use in making 107 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: industrial lubricants or biodiesel. Wow, okay, well it's time to 108 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 1: talk about some history and some aphrodisiac yep, yep it is. 109 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: But first it's time for a quick break for a 110 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsored, Yes, 111 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: thank you. Arugula probably originated in the Mediterranean, and it 112 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: goes and has gone by many names, which makes yeah, 113 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: searching for it, A little complicated salad rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rugola. 114 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: The ancient Romans called arugula ruca and thought it was 115 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: say it with us now, and Virgil wrote of it 116 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: and the rocket, which revised drowsy venus sexual desire exactly. 117 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: Aruca was the Latin word for caterpillar, because caterpillars that 118 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: loved the plant so much, and or a type of cabbage. 119 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: I saw some different reports on that one. It is 120 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: the genus name of the of the main group of 121 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: a ruglas. Now, yes, our pal plenty the Elder also 122 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: wrote about its properties as an affronusiac as well as 123 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: an aesthetic. Ancient Greeks considered it a remedy for male 124 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: sexual impotence. In mythology, it was one of the sacred 125 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: plants of the god Priapus. He's this fertility god who 126 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: was thought to watch over like edible gardens and vineyards 127 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and farms, and dude was always portrayed with his with 128 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: his genital's hanging out and like really over exaggerated and 129 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: in a state that explains why he's where we got 130 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: the medical term priapism from oh so uh Man. Greeks 131 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: didn't have Netflix like, they had to make their own fun. Apparently, 132 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: folks have put up figures of him in their gardens 133 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: to encourage the plants to grow and to double as 134 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: a scarecrow. Okay, sure. The ancient Egyptians eight arugula, yes, 135 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: used it as an apronusiac for the sexually impotent. Medieval 136 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: Arab doctors would frequently recommend eating a mixture of arugola 137 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: and honey. Arugola was name checked in both the Bible 138 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: and the Talmod. Ninth century Rabbi alm Ram got On 139 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: recommended arugola for passover Sader Talmudic stages sometimes also suggested 140 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: rubbing it over your eyes if you found some in 141 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: the wild. However, the High Priest was not allowed to 142 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: partake in any arugola in the week leading up to 143 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: Yam come forward, because say it of us now, it 144 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: wasn't for yeah. Some historians believe medieval monasteries also forbade 145 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: the growth of rugola for that same reason. Arugula made 146 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: its way to the New World with European colonists. The 147 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: first known instance of arugula in American English was in 148 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty an article written by Craig Claiborne featured in 149 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: The New York Times. Yeah and now a rugge so 150 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: heavy sigh. It was two thousand seven, yes, and Barack Obama, 151 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: then campaigning for the presidency. He was speaking at a 152 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: farm in Iowa, and he said, anybody got into a 153 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: Whole Foods lately and see what they charged for rugla, 154 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: And of course it caused controversy, all kinds of controversy. 155 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, 156 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: this was evidence that Obama was more in touch with 157 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: quote wine track of a 's as opposed to beer 158 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: track voters, because arugola is fancy and why does fancy? 159 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: I guess uh quote. That comment came despite the fact 160 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: that Iowa does not have any whole food stores, nor 161 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: to its farmers typically grow the leafy green. Media matters 162 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: looked into this and surprise, surprised. You can find arugola, 163 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: and you could at that time at stores throughout the state. 164 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: It's also grown there. It is. Um, It's true that 165 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: at the time they did not have whole foods. I believe, yes, 166 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: I think they have one. Now, good job Iowa, I guess, um. 167 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, this arugala gate was a very real thing. 168 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: It was, the media was all about it, um, and 169 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: it might have had long term effects on the American 170 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: consumption of arugola um. Apparently, kale and arugola were just 171 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: about equally popular at the time, but after a rugla gate, 172 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: kle pulled way ahead, and currently arugola is way less 173 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: popular than either kail or spinach um, and the the 174 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: fancy eaters who kind of picked it up in the 175 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 1: first place have sort of gotten distracted by newer choices. Yeah. Uh. 176 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: The two thousand eight election cycle, though, was part of 177 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: a larger conversation about elitism in and through food culture. 178 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: And it's also kind of when people started railing against 179 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: Latte the evils, what is that even? No, No, I mean, 180 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: it's it's an understandable thing, you know, these kind of 181 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: luxury items that oh and and not not everyone is 182 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: a foodie. I kind of dislike the term foodie myself, 183 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: despite the fact that I like a lot of food, 184 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: but um, because I do. I do think that there's 185 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: a sort of elitism in there that's unpleasant. It's like, 186 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: this thing isn't better than this other thing necessarily, and 187 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: it's not there's nothing wrong with having ignorance of these 188 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: foods if you just haven't been exposed to them. Oh sure, Yeah, 189 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: someone who grew up in a very small place that 190 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: when Walmart opened in our town it was a huge 191 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: deal because otherwise you had to drive twenty thirty minutes. Um, 192 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know what kale was until 193 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I talked abo that an 194 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: episode be doing. There's just a lot of foods I 195 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: didn't know about until I came to Atlanta. And it's 196 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: kind of shocking in a way that to think that 197 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: certain grocery stores just don't stock certain items and you 198 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: would never really know. Yeah, if you didn't write, get 199 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: further out there in the world, or watch a lot 200 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: of cooking shows or etcetera exactly. Um and David Camp 201 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: wrote a book kind of related to this whole idea, 202 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: The United States of Arugula, How we became a gourmet nation. 203 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: Also because it grows so quickly and because it's considered 204 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 1: a bit of a premium item, you know. Um, it's 205 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: one of the crops being grown in a lot of 206 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: vertical farms. And if you haven't heard of vertical farming, 207 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: it's these indoor computer optimized multi story vertical farms um 208 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: that are meant to bring fresh produce to the very 209 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: centers of cities so that you can pick stuff and 210 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: have it fresh in a grocery store for people to 211 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: buy the same day, rather than having to have all 212 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: this time and money in carbon footprints transporting things in 213 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: from outside. Um. Yeah, and there there have been a 214 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: bunch of articles about this, and most of them play 215 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: on the term rocket science. Nice m yeah. Yeah. When 216 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: I first started researching this episode, I was very, very tired, 217 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: and probably should not have been researching it because I 218 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: fell for so many like puns and jokes that I 219 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: thought were serious. I I wrote out it arugula is 220 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: called rocket because rocket scientists wanted to get kids to 221 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: eat more vegetables. And I thought about for a minute, 222 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I came back in 223 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: fact check when I wasn't as tired. Good, good, good, Yeah. 224 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: There are a lot of a lot of plays on that, 225 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: on that word and name for it. It's fun. It is, 226 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: It is so fun. This is part of me that 227 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: wants to call it rocket, but arugala is also so good. 228 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: Just a mix and match depending on your mood. Yeah, yeah, 229 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: I do think it's funny that arugala grows so quickly 230 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: and is I've read it described as a weed in 231 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: some places and fancy sure, Yeah, I mean for I 232 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: think for hundreds of years, people weren't too keen on 233 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: actually like planting and growing it. They were just like, 234 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: I can just get that just down the road. I 235 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: don't need to put that in my garden, Like what 236 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: are you talking about? Um? But then that aphrodisiac thing happened, 237 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: and everyone was like, oh in my garden all the time, 238 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: in my house, plans everywhere. The power of the half roadsiac, 239 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: belief of an aphrodisiac hey placeba works of the time, 240 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: we cannot underestimate. Yeah. Well anyway is about what we 241 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: have to say about arugala. But we do have a 242 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: little bit more for you. Well we do, but first 243 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: we've got one more quick break for a word from 244 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you, sponsored, Yes, thank you, 245 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: And we're back with I think that's what the rocket 246 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: sounds like. I'm pretty sure that is totally what rockets sounds. 247 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: I'll go, I'll go with it. Yeah, I like it. Yes, 248 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: According to Savor, there's a ding sound in the rocket 249 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: launch perfect Ethan wrote, I thought you might get a 250 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: kick out of this. It's yet another example of human 251 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: kind's uncanny ability to pursue alcohol by any means necessary. 252 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: Late nineteenth century NYC prohibition laws prohibited the sale of 253 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: alcohol and Sundays and last the establishment also served a 254 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: meal to go along with it. Thus was born the 255 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: rain sandwich, sometimes made of rubber. These cheap, generally sickening 256 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: sandwiches were served with tall glasses of SuDS as a 257 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: way to circumvent the prohibition laws of the time. I 258 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: think he sent along an article with this email, and 259 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: I read it, and I think it was they would 260 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: pick it up and pass it on to the next person, 261 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: like nobody was eating eating right, Just a way to 262 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: get around the law. Sure human ingenuity, I know, I know, 263 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: Dale wrote, My father worked for American Airlines for thirty 264 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: years from nineteen fifty two to nineteen eighty two, the 265 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Golden Age from d C H to se and yes 266 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: to when they deregulated and killed the industry. Anyway, one 267 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: day in the early nineteen seventies, and aircraft had some 268 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: mechanical issues and there were major delays. The meal for 269 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: the flight was to Leymanyon. You always got good food. 270 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: Then the food was too close to the allowable time, 271 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: so they ordered a new meal service from sky Chef 272 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: and disposed of the two hundred plus meals on board. 273 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: The meals were still all ice cold, so instead he 274 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: took the entire old meal service and put it in 275 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: the car. That night, we all sat around the table, 276 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: opening over two hundred plastic wrapped little white trays and 277 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: pulled out the cold flame from each one, packed four 278 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: each in plastic bags. There were four of us, and 279 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: then placed them in the deep freezer. For well over 280 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: a year, we were the only family I know of 281 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: that had a weekly fileme in Young Night. Good on 282 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: your dad? Right? That is that sounds like something you 283 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: would do? Anny, totally can't. That's delicious and expensive on 284 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: so weak. Gosh, steak, I've been wanting to steak for 285 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: a while and we just did that thing on the 286 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: Impossible Burgers. Just confused? Can I can I make a 287 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: small confession. I went out to a restaurant like the 288 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: night that we recorded the Impossible Burger episode in ordered 289 00:17:54,160 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: a regular burger. I appreciate your honesty, I just but 290 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: did it. It didn't have the impossible burger on the menu. 291 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: Oh it was a joint that has the beyond burger. 292 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: Oh dear, but I wasn't sure if I could eat 293 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: the sauce. And they are like a little bit picky 294 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: about like substitutions and stuff, and I didn't want to 295 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: ask the question because sometimes I just get tired and 296 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: I just know that's fair. I think it is, too, 297 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: And that was a really good cheeseburger. I'm glad you 298 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 1: enjoyed it, Lauren glad guiltily guiltily enjoyed it. Sometimes the 299 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: craving you get from an episode is not the one 300 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: you enter. Yeah. I was just going, like, how many 301 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: gallons of water am I wasting? Oh? But so good, 302 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: but so delicious anyway, conflict. Thanks to both of them 303 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: for writing Yes, we would love to hear from you. 304 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: Listeners that you can email us at hello at saber 305 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: pod dot com. We're also on social media. You can 306 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at savor pod. 307 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: We would love to hear from you. Savor is production 308 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and Stuffed Media. 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