1 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Below, and welcome to save our production of I Heart 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: Radio and Stuff Media. I'm Annis and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: and today we're talking about picnics. Yes, and I would 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: like to start a story with a picnic basket, um, 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: because this idea has been on my mind since I 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: went to a weird Al concert a couple of weeks ago. 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: And this was courtesy of our coworker and friend Alex Williams, 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 1: which if you had checked out his new show that 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: I see might produce Ephemeral, you totally should. Oh yeah, yeah, 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: it's super excellent. It is. But anyway, he gave me 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: some free tickets to the show because he had some 12 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: family members cancel um and it was outdoors on the 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: grass and you could bring in your own food and drink. 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: And the people in front of us had our attention 15 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: the whole time because they had this picnic basket that 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: blew our mind and everybody around us. We were not 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: the only ones that were staring at this picnic basket 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: because it was like steampunk and had these leather straps 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: on the inside for plates and utensils champagne flutes, but 20 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: they didn't have the bottoms and there was this thing 21 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: you could put them in in the picnic basket, but 22 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: there's this almost it had a fan, a fan inside 23 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: blowing to keep it. That's wild. I mean, in Atlanta 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: in the summer picnic basket with a fan. Dang, my mind, 25 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: you are impressed. I was very impressed. And at one point, 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: because I was kind of having a side conversation about 27 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: it with my friend on the right, at one point 28 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: I turned to Alex and I overheard him and his 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: wife and they were talking about it was awesome anyway. 30 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: Also in Eastern Egg, we had to make a promotional 31 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: video once this very show, and there's a scene towards 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: the end where we're having a picnic with several of 33 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: our past topics like pineapple fried chicken. Yeah, all of 34 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: these food items from past episodes that we had done exactly. 35 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: And it was in Piedmont Park and they were filming 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: Avengers Infinity War right next to us, and they can't 37 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: like technically kick us out, but I could tell they 38 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: were annoying. They were getting real ready to do it. Yeah, 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: they were like I think that we had to time 40 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: our shots very carefully because they kept like like trouncing 41 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: across the background with all of these giant like rig 42 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: works that they were getting ready to set up. So 43 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: if we had gotten there like an hour later, I 44 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: don't think we could have done it. Yeah, there was 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: some guy in a golf cart who was just driving around, 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: clearly waiting to tell us you gotta get here. It 47 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: was the scene in the beginning where Doctor Strange comes 48 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: in and it's like, yo, Tony Stark, we got a 49 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: big problem here. Anyway, when I was thinking about this, 50 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: I have had some successful picnics in my day, and 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: they mostly are are we're at concerts or shows once 52 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: and from the Eiffel Tower. But I'm usually more of 53 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: a packed lunch or a cooler situation. Yeah. Yeah, I 54 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: usually have a lot of snacks with me. A picnic 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: is not something that I would organize on my own 56 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh man, that's a lot. But um, 57 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: but but I've got I've gone to a few. I 58 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: had a really excellent friends going away picnic. I mean, 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: I'm sad that she went away, but I'm glad that 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: we got to have a nice picnic about it. Um. 61 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: I one of my most successful dates that turned into 62 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: one of my least successful dates. At the end of 63 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: the evening started with a picnic. Oh well, I'm very 64 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: curious about that. I'll ask you later. But this all 65 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: brings us to our question picnics. What are they? Well, 66 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: sometimes you take food outside and you eat it there 67 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: instead of eating it inside. It's a very simple explanation. 68 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: Usually the ones that have simple explanations. It's like in 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: the word that's not in the word here, no, no, 70 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: and I I can make it a little bit more 71 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: complicated for you if you want perfect sure. Um. Yeah, 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: picnic is a meal prepared to be taken and served outdoors, 73 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: often all pre cooked and preassembled so that you don't 74 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: have to do any work other than unpacking once you 75 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: reach your destination. Um is sometimes brought to parks that 76 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: have tables or even grills, or even you bring your 77 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: own grill wild um sometimes uh brought to be served 78 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: out on blankets on the grass, often packed up in 79 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: special basket sets or coolers or something like that. On 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: a picnic, you might play lawn games, or or you 81 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: might be on a picnic in order to watch a 82 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: sporting or art event of some kind, or or you 83 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: might bring a picnic lunch with you as you're going 84 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: Berry picking or on a hike in the woods or 85 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: something like that. Uh. Fun times. In Europe, I think 86 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: it seems like the word picnic is applied to outdoor 87 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: events of many kinds. Of note, there's an annual science 88 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: picnic in Poland. It's been running since and um it 89 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to necessarily be food related, but rather just 90 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: like a like a big public science festival thrown by 91 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: the National Public Radio of Poland and by the Copernicus 92 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: Science Center. That sounds fun. I know, I want to 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: go to this thing now. Yeah, put it on our 94 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: field ship list. Some popular picnic options in the US 95 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:22,119 Speaker 1: are fried chicken, potato, salad, watermelon or other fruit, lemonade, beer, 96 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: hot dogs, pie, doubled eggs, sandwiches, wine, cheese, bread, cold cuts, 97 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: cut fruit, cut vegetables, chips, dips, handheld baked goods, chicken salad, 98 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: tuna salad. M Yeah, and there are all kinds of 99 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: traditions around the world. I would love to hear some 100 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: of y'alls from wherever it is that you hail from. Um. Yeah, 101 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: on Geary and pickles in Japan, warm weather, Christmas picnics 102 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: in Argentina, your mate in Brazil Scotch Eggs in Britain, 103 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: hot Tea in New Zealand. Apparently picnicking is a super 104 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: big deal in Turkey and there are thousands of parks 105 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: like kind of specifically for picnics throughout the country. Oh yes, 106 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: please is right in about that. Yeah, and if we 107 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: do have some picnic numbers. Okay, So the world's largest 108 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: picnic basket is. It's a building that's shaped like a basket. 109 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: It is seven stories tall. It's over two feet wide, 110 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: that's about sixty um And yeah, it's made to look 111 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: like a big woven basket like gaps in the weaving 112 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: are the windows. It does have two giant handles on 113 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: the roof. Yeah. It was built as the headquarters of 114 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: the basket making company Lunga Burger. Yeah. Cost thirty two 115 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: million dollars to build it. Yeah, I mean, and it 116 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: looks like they're iconic picnic basket. It even has like 117 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: the little brass plate on the top of it. Anyway. Yeah, 118 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: the company has since fallen on rough times and abandoned 119 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: the building. It's abandoned. Uh yeah, I think that. I 120 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: think as a sten no one was in it. Um, 121 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: this is rife for a horror movie. Oh my gosh, 122 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: I have got to give this more thought. Leader. There's 123 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: abandoned picnic basket building. Yeah, that I could shoot a 124 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: horror movie. Yeah. At the time, I think it had 125 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: like maybe reverted to um to to the local government 126 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: ownership UM, and was possibly for sale for as little 127 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: as like six thousand dollars. We can do this, Lawrence. Yeah, 128 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: I know, I get it, Kickstarter. We have a picnic 129 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: building all to ourselves. Soon enough, all right, I need 130 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: this horror movie to involve giant ants for sure. Yes, okay, okay, 131 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: I need to focus. UM. Some places on our very 132 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: own belt line offer baskets with food for the park. 133 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: UM for Pemont Park in the belt line is case 134 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: you don't know, it's sort of like a converted railway walkway. Yeah, yeah, 135 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: it's it's it's for um, humans to move across. So 136 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: that's not very descriptive. It's it's for walkers and bike riders, 137 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: and it's like the high Line in New York if 138 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: you've been to that share and yeah, no, this is 139 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: a this is a whole business. In many places around 140 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: around the world. UM. Lots of restaurants and caterers will 141 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: offer UM uh sometimes literal baskets they will pack up 142 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: for you, ranging from simple sandwiches to whole spreads with 143 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: like steak and trim cocktail and whatever. It is. What 144 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: a fancy picnic. I know in the UK National Picnic 145 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: Week is in June. Um, and there are all kinds 146 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: of holidays around the world celebrated with picnics. The one 147 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: that's coming to mind is da del Sport, those where, um, 148 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: you would frequently go with your family to have a 149 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: kind of little picnic in the cemetery where you have 150 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: family plots. But yeah, that's that's the one that's coming 151 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: to mind. Lots more, lots more. Oh yes, and I 152 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: wrote picnic baskets, picnic baskets. Um, it's a mystery to 153 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: all of us. But I think it just to reiterate 154 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: how impressed I am. I didn't know there was this 155 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: whole world of, um, picnic baskets that are very They're 156 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: much more than I thought they were, I guess, is 157 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. They're more than just a basket. 158 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and in all kinds of there's a 159 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: there's a whole industry of designing these baskets and blankets 160 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: and yeah, Yeah. Actually, um, one of our past parent 161 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: companies when they bought us, gave us a picnic blanket 162 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: that folds folds up and you can kind of el 163 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: grow it together into the tiny little package. Had it. Yeah, 164 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: I'm still confused by that, like introductory gift but too 165 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: but I have used it, so gosh, I don't think 166 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: I wound up taking on her. If I did, it 167 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: is in a box somewhere that is not my home. Um, 168 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: well as lass a lack. There's a surprising amount of picnic. 169 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, there is, um. And we will get 170 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:53,839 Speaker 1: into that as soon as we get back from a 171 00:09:53,920 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: quick break for a word from our sponsor, and we're back. 172 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: Thank you sponsored, Yes, thank you. And before we get 173 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: too deep into the history, we really have to talk 174 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: about where the word comes from. Yes. Yes, because a 175 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,439 Speaker 1: lot of the Internet will tell you that it has 176 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: a racist background. Yeah, that almost of your first results 177 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: will be pages looking into whether or not it is 178 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: racist or that practices racist. Yes. And this is partially 179 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: a misunderstanding that stems from a rumor that the word 180 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: picnic comes from murders and lynchings of black people in 181 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: America during the eighteen and nineteen hundreds um that it 182 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: originally meant to pick an n word to murder. Right, Um, 183 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: it does not, it does not. Historians agree that the 184 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: word derives from a mid sixteen hundreds of French word picnic, 185 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: referring to essentially food ease or snobs who bought their 186 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: own wine when going out. The peak most likely referred 187 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: to either picking at your own or just pick um, 188 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: what are you going to contribute? The unique was probably 189 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: just a silly or nonsense rhyming word um, or possibly 190 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: maybe an obsolete term meaning trifle or a small amount 191 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: or nothing whatsoever. Picnic translated to each pick a bit. 192 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: The word appeared in origine de la longe francois demonage 193 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: in Swo, which historians take to me and it had 194 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: been around in that country for a while. It popped 195 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: up even earlier, though with a different meaning, in sixteen 196 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: forty nine De chaman bedequet la de la compagni, Oh 197 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: my goodness, such a long time? Why uh French. This 198 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: was a burlesque satire, and the character Peicnick is a 199 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: hero but also at gluton out of place when compared 200 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: to the food shortages in the background resulting from his rebellion, 201 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: So historians speculate that it's an ironic name that had 202 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: an association with over the up meals born from the 203 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: expense of others. It didn't appear in English until but yes, yes, uh, 204 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 1: the the etymology of the word acide. An estimated four 205 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: thousand lynchings of black people did take place in settings 206 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: similar to a picnic between eighteen eighty two. In nineteen 207 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: sixty two from historian Philip dre quote, lynching was an 208 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: undeniable part of daily life, as distinctly American as baseball 209 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: games and church suppers. Men brought their wives and children 210 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: to the events, posed for commemorative photographs, and purchased souvenirs 211 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: of the occasion as if they had been at a 212 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: company picnic. And there are a lot of truly horrific 213 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: stories out there, Yes, um, people have been terrible, and 214 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: there are if if that is a piece of history 215 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: that you are interested in researching, there is certainly very 216 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: upsetting information out there for you. Okay, But with that 217 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: out of the way, yes, hard to make transitions from 218 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: something terrible that yes, okay. The first fancy meals enjoyed 219 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 1: outside probably took place in the Middle Ages, when hunting 220 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: was all their age. Among the will to do and 221 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: art from this period like robin Hood are the Bayout 222 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: tapestry feature picnics. Yeah, these would have been banquets for 223 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 1: the ruling class and royalty, prepared and carried and served 224 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: by dozens of servants, although woven baskets might have been 225 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: used to carry the food and dishwear like even back 226 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: then as there so light and strong just makes sense. Convenient. 227 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: Art from China around the same time, like nine d 228 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: or So, depicts picnics as well, elaborate lunches staged on 229 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: brightly colored rugs with all his fancy dining wear like 230 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: cast bronze coated in gold or silver and intricately etched. 231 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: Lots of servants at attendants there too. Later Chinese design 232 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: circle the fourteen to sixteen hundreds ditched the waiting metal 233 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: for bamboo lacquer ware. Um, he's really smartly nesting pieces 234 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: with a with a core of wood uh coated in 235 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: in lacquer, several layers of lacquer, and then an outside 236 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: layer of sturdy woven bamboo. And yeah, it would keep 237 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: the contents insulated like a thermos and was waterproof. Popular 238 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: among wealthy folks living in cities. Chinese laquerware would spread 239 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: to Japan and was expanded into varyingly fancy stuff from 240 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: like relatively simple red and black party wear two super 241 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: elaborate gilded picnic cabinets. These portable lunch cabinets had like 242 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: tears of trays and spaces to hold plates and cups 243 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: of different sizes, and often a little niche where you 244 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: could secure a sake, bottle or teapot. In Tokyo and Kyoto, 245 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: these picnic sets were often wedding gifts. Yeah, and for 246 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: a long time picnics worse squarely in activity for the rich, 247 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: because you didn't have time or funds for leisurely meal outdoors. 248 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: If you weren't right right, You might be served a 249 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: meal outdoors if you were working in a field, or 250 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: you might take your lunch along with you, but it 251 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: wasn't like a oh us retired to the blanket, yes exactly. 252 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: This started to change around the seventeen hundreds in Europe. However, 253 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: at the time, a lot of these picnics took place indoors. 254 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: Anyone invited had the option to bring a dish or 255 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: drink or simply pay their share. They had this air 256 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: of refined, intelligent, witty back and forth, like a verbal 257 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: chess match, complete with food and drinks on picnic. As 258 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: Jean jacq Rousseau wrote, some bigger picnics went all out 259 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: with music and dancing, sort of like a ball. Lady 260 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: Mark Coke described a subscription ball, and Hanover called a 261 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: picnic in seventeen sixty three. Author Cornelia Right fondly described 262 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: a picnic of dancing and song in seventeen seventy seven 263 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: while in To Lose. And this was the same time 264 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: the first restaurants were opening in Europe, and the same 265 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: people who picnic excitedly checked out these restaurants and sometimes 266 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: would bring like a picnic to a restaurant. From what 267 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: I understand, H think that's still a thing in some places. Well, 268 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: I mean you need snacks along the way, of course, 269 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: for your your long trick to eat, you need a 270 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: basket of food to eat. Yeah. Then along comes the 271 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: French Revolution. A lot of those who had the means 272 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: to picnic fled France. Some went to Austria, Prussia, or 273 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: the US, but most went to nearby Britain and specifically London. 274 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: While their financial situation was tighter than before. These French 275 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: aristocrats introduced the British to the picnic. This had two 276 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: main consequences. The first one is my favorite one. For 277 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: a hot minute, picnics became a bit wildlding a lot 278 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: lesser fine. And this was thanks to a group called 279 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: the Picnic Society, the brandchild of two hundred rich British Francophiles. 280 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: They rented out space and buildings on Tottenham Street for 281 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: their lavish gatherings and each attendee was tasked with bringing 282 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: a dish and bottles of wine. Eh. Yes, it was 283 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: going down for real, as every member tried to be 284 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: the most extravagant with their offerings. Post dinner, the festivities 285 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: continued with dancing, gambling, but the play was the main event, 286 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: and it wasn't a professional play. There was no orchestra, 287 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: the actors weren't professionals. The stage was really small and 288 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: kind of cobbled together, but everyone loved it, to the 289 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: point that the owner of the Drury Lane Theater noticed 290 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: the dnt this picnic thing was putting in his sales, 291 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: and he was a politician and a journalist and had 292 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: enough sway to shut the picnic party down. This was 293 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: well known enough an affair that a cartoonist depicted it 294 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: in a piece called Blowing Up the Picnic, and in 295 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: it you could see the theater owner that got the 296 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: thing shut down in a harlequin outfit, an empty purse 297 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: on his built you know, no money, leading professional actors 298 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 1: into battle against the picnic puppet on their small, crude stage, 299 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: and all the lavish food strewn about in the background. 300 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good, alright. The other 301 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: consequence was longer lasting. The middle class started picnicking. And 302 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: the reason why it's a bit muddled. It could be 303 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: that the British were already doing it and just applied 304 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: a fashionable French word to something that they did already, 305 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: especially those that add hopes of rising the ranks in society. 306 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: The picnic dropped the music and dancing part largely and 307 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: became more like how we know it today, a meal 308 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 1: a host invited others to attend. It took on an 309 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: innocent connotation, perhaps due to the its association with the 310 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 1: countryside yeah the The late seventeen and early eight hundreds 311 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: brought Romanticism into fashion in Europe, a sort of longing 312 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: for a return to nature considering civilization and industrialization forms 313 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: of corruption. So there was this increased interest in parks 314 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: and in countryside excursions. Yes, The Courtship Mary, Marriage and 315 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, a children's 316 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: book written in eighteen o six by John Harris, is 317 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: the first instance of this type of picnic on record. 318 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: Jane Austin's eighteen sixteen work Emma featured an awkward picnic um. 319 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: Soon after, the picnic made its way to the United States, 320 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: where it took on more of a get away from 321 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: it all attitude um and not in the same kind 322 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: of innocent countrysideway. Close but not quite the same. Art 323 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: from this time included picnics with the backtop of old 324 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 1: twisted trees and jagged rocks. At the same time, France, 325 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: with a fresh new monarchy, went back to indoor picnics 326 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: um and they said to me they just seemed like 327 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: dinner parties. I don't know, but anyway, again, particularly for 328 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: the rich. Author George sand described picnicking sixteen hours in 329 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: a restaurant in eighteen thirty nine. That is a long picnic. However, 330 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: picnicking was no longer reserved exclusively for the aristocracy In France, 331 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: um not only the middle class, but the working class 332 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 1: started picnicking. You can see this in eighteen seventy seven's 333 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: Lasamir by a meal Zola, when the financially strapped couple 334 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: through an indoor picnic for their wedding. Five francs each 335 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: got the invotees invitees excuse me, super rabbit, sue ham 336 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: free and other cheeses, fruit, coffee and brandy, which sounds 337 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: pretty good to me. A little before this work came out, 338 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: some French people did start picnicking outdoors, but most regarded 339 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: that practice with a lot of concern. Perhaps it had 340 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: an air of sinfulness, of a wickedness, and you can 341 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: see that reflected in eighteen sixty two and Manat's The 342 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: dejournat Sleb two fully dressed men enjoying a picnic with 343 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: a naked woman and a baylor also a woman uh 344 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 1: wearing practically nothing. Huh. Yeah. A little book we've discussed 345 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: on this show before, Mrs Beaton's Book of Household Management 346 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: had instructions on how to have a good picnic, and 347 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: if you remember, this book was all about being accessible, 348 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: not intimidating. UM For forty forty people. She suggested things 349 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: like four roast chickens for meat pies, four dozen cheesecakes, 350 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: to roast ducks, cold roast beef, a large plum pudding chilled, 351 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: three dozen quart bottles of beer, brandy, sherry, and claret. 352 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: I would totally be in. I would be so excited. 353 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I have never seen such a fancy 354 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: picnic um. The section also included a list of things 355 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: not to be forgotten, including horse radish, a bottle of 356 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: salad dressing, a bottle of vinegar, good oil, mustard, pepper 357 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: and salt, pounded sugar, lump sugar, tea cups and saucers, 358 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: teapots and cork scraps very important. Yeah, the English were 359 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: pretty into outdoor picnics throughout the Victorian era. Lots of 360 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: societies and clubs from like sports to academics to religious 361 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: groups held annual picnics. And this is when the picnic 362 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: hamper or basket um that we think of today, made 363 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: of a wicker or wood and leather cloth that evolved 364 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: during this time. Their popularity soared to such heights that 365 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: businesses started selling specialized picnic baskets. Yeah, yeah, packed with 366 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: a travel tableware and portable kettles and burners, and ready 367 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: made meals everything from meat pies and hot house fruit 368 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: so fancy to to wild duck that required a no cutting, 369 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: thank you very much, ragu of veal, lobster salad. Oh yeah. 370 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 1: And in England, these hampers were particularly popular among spectators 371 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: at sporting events like Derby's. Apparently on Derby Day, carriages 372 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: would start lining up to pick up a posh picnic 373 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: basket from from Fort and Mason starting at four o'clock 374 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: in the morning. Oh yeah. And also apparently rich British 375 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: and American tourists in the middle of the eighteen hundreds 376 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: would picnic at battlefields um of the Crimean War and 377 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: the American Civil War, like like just hoping to check 378 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: out some action, Like they don't have Netflix, so this 379 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: is how they make their fun. Huh okay, I don't 380 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: like it. Nope, nope. The expression no picnic meaning not 381 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: fun was first recorded in and in the US as 382 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: um as cemeteries, like park like rural cemeteries started to 383 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: be built on the outside of city centers with grand 384 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: architecture and statuary and gardens through the latter half of 385 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds people took to picnicking in cemeteries. Um, 386 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: either in like private ish fenced in areas with their 387 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: own family plots, or in more public areas. These were 388 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: kind of America's first public parks. Interesting yeah, in in 389 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: in the city sense. Anyway, It wasn't until the twentieth 390 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: century the outdoor picnic entirely lost its stigma and surpassed 391 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: the indoor variety and popularity. And this was in part 392 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: thanks to new ways of getting out to the countryside. Trains. 393 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: I wanted to say the movie title planes trains, automobiles, trains, 394 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: automobiles and bikes. No planes yet, not yet. I don't know. 395 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure some rich people have taken, oh gosh, 396 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: a plane for a picnic, but most of us have 397 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: not done everything. Um. We see this in Wind in 398 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: the Willow is not the plant thing? When a hungry 399 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: mole asked Ratty, what's in his picnic basket? Quote, there's 400 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: cold chicken inside, it replied the rat briefly, cold tongue 401 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: called ham, cold beef, pickled harring, salad, French roll rolls, 402 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: crests and sandwiches, spotted meat, ginger, beer, lemonade, soda, water. 403 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: Oh stops up, cried the mole in ecstasies. This is 404 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: too much, do you really think so, inquired the rat. Seriously, 405 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: It's only what I always take on these little excursions, 406 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: and the other animals are always telling me that I'm 407 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: a mean beast and cut it very fine. Who knows 408 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: what that means? Think about it later. I'm sure there's 409 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: been some literary discussion around it. Um. It was around 410 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: this time, the turn of the twentieth century, that baskets 411 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: with built in spaces for tableware, all those little little 412 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: little loops and stuff to hold all your stuff in place, 413 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: became popular then. Uh. In nineteen eleven, Edward Fitzgerald published 414 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: his very loose, very Victorian minded translation of some uh 415 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: quatrains by the eleventh century Persian poet and mathematician oh 416 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: Marie hi um Um, including the famous here with a 417 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, 418 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: a book of verse, and thou beside me singing in 419 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: the wilderness, and wilderness is paradise now, yeah, sweet yeah. 420 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: Awarding varies again, that's a that's a I. Mr Fitzgerald 421 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: was was doing it very Victorian lee m but but yeah, 422 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: you get that, you get you get the idea from 423 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: New York Times article quote. A few cold fried chickens, 424 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: some peanut sandwiches, a big paper sack full of Saratoga chips, 425 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: some potato salad and fruit jar, two or three kinds 426 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: of jelly, and bread and butter, a couple of chocolate 427 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: cakes and a coconut cake, and a freeze strawberry ice cream, 428 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,719 Speaker 1: and a few accessories were practically all we expected at 429 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: a picnic dinner. In those days, it was customary for 430 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: people who went on picnics to go to a certain 431 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: spot where there was a small river the size of creek, 432 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: with some right respectful sized cliffs on both sides. The 433 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: advantages of this place where that it was twelve miles away, 434 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: which meant a long drive home by moonlight or starlight 435 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: as the case might be, it didn't matter much, and 436 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: there were a lot of rocks in the creek where 437 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: the girls could cross over to the other side. To 438 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: make anybody desire to be there. One of the great 439 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: problems and making arrangements for a picnic was the selection 440 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: of a chaperone. Were usually succeeded in getting hold of 441 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: somebody only about four or five years older than ourselves, 442 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: and then one of the boys would fix it with 443 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: an older brother to go along and look after and 444 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: keep her mind occupied. The day after the picnic, the 445 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: local paper would write it up and close by saying 446 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: that a delightful time has had and that's the true wow. 447 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: And there are so so many picnic bill of fares 448 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: out there from like this general era, and they're fascinating 449 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: and specific, like the Fire Island costume, body picnic menu. Okay, 450 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to include so many, but yeah, I only 451 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: have so much time for picnic bill a fair um. 452 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: The lyrics to the Teddy Bears Picnic The song Um 453 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: were published in ninety two by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy, 454 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: set to a composition then known as the Teddy Bear 455 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: Too Step, which had been composed back in um after 456 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: it was created. After that whole thing where Teddy Roosevelt 457 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: was caricatured in a political cartoon for refusing to shoot 458 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: this bear that his staff had like captured for him 459 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: and like kind of subdued, and he was like, I'm 460 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: not going to kill that bear. And then there was 461 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: this political cartoon that came out that was depicting the 462 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: whole thing. And that's where we got Teddy Bears from. 463 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: And so then we got the Teddy Bear too step, 464 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: and then decades later we got the Teddy Bear picnic, 465 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: unrelated mostly to Teddy Roosevelt. Um. And it's a pretty 466 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: weird song. I don't know how much of the lyrics 467 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: y'all remember to this song. UM, But okay, I'm not 468 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,719 Speaker 1: going to sing it for you. That would be terrible 469 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: and it would get it's stuck in your head for 470 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: literally ever. We don't want that. No, no, nobody needs that. 471 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: But okay, if you go down to the woods today, 472 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: you're sure of a big surprise. If you go down 473 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise, for 474 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,719 Speaker 1: every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain, 475 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: because today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic. 476 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 1: If you go down to the woods today, you'd better 477 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: not go alone. It's lovely down in the woods today, 478 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 1: but safer to stay at home. That's terrified. This is 479 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: a two step. Oh god. Um. There is a beautiful, 480 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: just beautiful piece published in the Paris Review UM about 481 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: how dang creepy the song is. Um. It's written by 482 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: one Sadie Stein. Um quote like Mason's, the Teddy Bears 483 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: guard their secrets closely and will punish any spies in 484 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,719 Speaker 1: their midst. The picnic sounds less innocent playtime than secret 485 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: history style bachanal with a dash of wicker Man into 486 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: the bargain. Oh dear, this is gonna make me see 487 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: teddy Bears in a whole new light. Maybe that's what 488 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: are we got? A giant aunt, a big teddy bear. 489 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: Oh no, it's coming together, Okay, it is rights itself. 490 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: In nineteen nine, Franklin Roosevelt hosted a picnic for the 491 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: visiting King George the sixth and Queen Elizabeth, which we 492 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: have mentioned before because yeah, because they served hot dogs sandwiches. 493 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: Oh controversy um. And then I just figured i'd mentioned 494 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: Yogi Bear because if I don't someone right in, he's 495 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: always after a picnic basket. Probably have to do with 496 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: that teddy bear thing I've never really considered. And then 497 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: one last thing. Some more recent works of art, especially literature, 498 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: from what I remember, have reverted back to that kind 499 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: of man Nay, picnicking is a symbol of moral corruption thing. Yeah, okay, 500 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: I don't know why but you know, interesting people having 501 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: fun outdoors. Gosh, no one likes that, especially not the 502 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: teddy Bears. We've learned a lot today. We have we, 503 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: we have yes and uh and that that is about 504 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: all that we have to learn, I believe about picnics 505 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: on this current day. Um. We do have some listener 506 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: mail for you, but first we've got another quick break 507 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsor. And we're back. Thank 508 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: you sponsored, Yes, thank you, We're back with That's a 509 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: Yogi beart that's signed to attack you like I think 510 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 1: he wants to. I've never seen Yokie Bear. I don't 511 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. You've never seen Yokie Bear. Nope, 512 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: what I know? I want the picnic basket though? How 513 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: did you escape it? Okay? Anyway, anyway, Chanel wrote, I 514 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: recently bought myself a cast iron pan. Congratulations. While certainly 515 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: not unheard of in Australia, cast iron pans are not 516 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: standard here. I'm obsessed with it and have been cooking 517 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: everything I can think of in my lovely new pan. 518 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: I even went and bought six tiny baby pants to 519 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: cook individual desserts. While listening to your Chocolate chip Cookie episode, 520 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: I proudly told the empty car that had recently made 521 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: a giant chocolate chip picky or cookie as you say 522 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: in my cast iron pan. No one I know has 523 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: ever seen a giant chocolate chip picky before, so it 524 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: was quite exciting. I'm sure the car was thrilled. Uh. 525 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: Just this weekend, my brother and I went to the 526 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: shops and saw rhubarb sitting out the front of the 527 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: fruit and bed shop. I bought some for another cast 528 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: iron experiment and told my brother that you can't eat 529 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: the leaves, as they are poisonous. A podcast told me so. 530 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: He found it amusing that I listened to podcasts about rhubarb. 531 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: We walked onto the Dutch carrots and I informed my 532 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: brother that you can eat the tops of tops of carrots. 533 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,239 Speaker 1: A podcast told me so. While he was laughing, an 534 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: old woman who had overheard me came up and said, Wow, 535 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: what can you do with the carrot tops? While I 536 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: was trying to remember if you should steam them or 537 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: stew them, the lady said, but don't eat the leaves 538 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: of that rue barb. It's poisonous. The lady continued to 539 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: press me on carrot details. I tried to sneak away 540 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: to purchase my fresh produce, and just as I thought 541 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: I had got away from the lady, she helped from 542 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: the other side of the shop. Hey carrot lady, can 543 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: you eat the tops of purple carrots too? And brandished 544 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: a purple carrot at me. So thanks for being the 545 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: influence of a very interesting grocery shop. I made a 546 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: delicious rhubarb cobbler in my big and small cast in 547 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: iron pants. If we were closer, I'd save something for you. 548 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: My husband had never tried rebarb before, and the dessert 549 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: won him over a pictures and it looked amazing. Oh yeah, congratulations. Yes, 550 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm excited about all of this. I know. Oh that's 551 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: it's all beautiful, bringing people together, annoying them sometimes pretty much. Yeah, 552 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: we do our best, Victoria wrote, I'm sure I won't 553 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: be the only one to point this out, but you 554 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: didn't mention that Pixars Cars three had a scene where 555 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: Lightning McQueen is relearning the ways of racing with the 556 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: vehicles of Legend themselves. In the training montage, all the 557 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: cars went for a moonlight drive no headlights, and so 558 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: they used to run moonshine back in the day. A 559 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: spirited little alcohol history hidden within a children's movie. Huh 560 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: huh indeed shine Yeah, Cars three. You know, I'm not 561 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: going to go into it right now, but I made 562 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: Dylan listen to it the other day. My whole the 563 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: Pixar Connected universe, And if anyone's interested, you should look 564 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: up because Cars well, there's a lot of stuff in 565 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: here about moonshine that I find fascinating that they would 566 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: bring it up. Sure I have, I haven't. I haven't 567 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: seen Cars three. Um, I can't wait. I'm annoy you 568 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: with this. I can't wait. I forgot about that though, 569 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: So that's great. Yeah, thank you, Yes, thanks to both 570 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: of them for writing in. 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