1 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to savor production of iheartradio. I'm Annie 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 1: Reese and I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we have an 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: episode for you about pop rocks. Yes, I'm very excited 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: for this one. Yeah, Oh, it's so it's so weird. 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: We do love these brand ones and uh, this one's great. Yes, 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: not currently a sponsor. Um. was there any particular reason 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: pop rocks were on your round? Um, I'm pretty sure 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: that I like googled like interesting brand stories or something 9 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: very pedestrian like that, and then I was like, Oh, yeah, 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: pop rocks, that was it. When you suggested it, I 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: immediately was like have we not already done this? Um, yeah, 12 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: it's a very fun one. I went through like a 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: very brief pop rocks phase that was mostly about the novels. 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: You of them, sure, but they're never been my candy 15 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: of choice, not on your top five list at all. 16 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: But I did, I did enjoy them and I liked 17 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: the sensation. Um, and when I was researching this one, 18 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: I did find so many fun experiments like science, experience 19 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: and that. I loved that kind of thing as a kid. 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: I love it now. So I'm sad I didn't have 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: that when I was younger. Yeah, there's just just lots, 22 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: lots you can do with them. Um, lots to kind 23 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: of think about as you Um, as you watch them 24 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: work or experience them work. Uh. Yeah, I also I 25 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: have a pervasive fondness for them. I I can't say 26 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: I remember what the flavor of them has ever been like, 27 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: but that sensation is oh so fun, so weird. Yes, Oh, yeah, 28 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: especially when you're a kid and like Oh yeah, yeah, 29 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: this candy is exciting, right, and you're like, I don't, like, 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: like you're you're you're a child. You don't have that 31 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: much experience with like Soda Pop, hopefully not with alcohol 32 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: at that point. And so, yeah, so anything that creates 33 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: such a such a strong sensation in your mouth, you're 34 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: just like, Oh yeah, that one again, twenty nine packets later. No, 35 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: I don't know, probably not. Well, I am going to 36 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to the store soon, which is still kind 37 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 1: of a big announcement for me. Yeah, I know, right, 38 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: I know. I'm going to see if I can get 39 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: pop rocks there. I'm not I don't think I'll actually 40 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: buy them, but I'm just like, I don't even think 41 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: I can get them at my local grocery store. But 42 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. I don't know, I have no idea. 43 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: I have not looked for pop rocks and check out 44 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: in a very long time. I feel like they're probably 45 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: a target. Yeah, I think at a bigger store. I 46 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: got a pretty small one. Yeah, but I bet it 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: like a bigger where they have that like not just 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: the checkout aisle, but that kind of key, the bigger 49 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: checkout aisle. That's not the candy aisle. It's separate than that. 50 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: Some of you know what I'm talking about, that that 51 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: spontaneous purchase uh area. I bet that. I bet they 52 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: hang out around there a lot of times. Um. Well, 53 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: I'll report back, but in the meantime I guess this 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: brings us to walk question. Uh Huh. Pop rocks. What 55 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: are they? Well, pop rocks are a brand of hard 56 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: candy that comes in small granules like we pebbles or 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: gravel Um, that are flavored with fruit or whatever candy 58 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: flavors and contain pockets of pressurized carbon dioxide gas. When 59 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: the candy starts to melt in your mouth, those pockets 60 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: lose structural integrity and audibly burst open Um. But they're 61 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: so small that it's a pretty gentle sensation, just like 62 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: a like a popping tangle with a with a phizy sound, 63 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: like you're like you're listening to it, to a fresh 64 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: glass of soda pop that's just been poured. Yeah, it's 65 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: it's like eating a packet of dry soda pop. It's 66 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: it's weird, um right, like a like an unexpected even 67 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: if you know what you're getting into, like an unexpected 68 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: and delightful sort of way. Yeah, yeah, it's hard to 69 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: at least in my experience. I'm sure there are people 70 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: that would have a different experience in me, but even 71 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: if you've had them, it's hard to prepare yourself for 72 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: like Oh yeah, yeah, like every time it's just like Haa, 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is a very niche comparison. Um or 74 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: like like like similarly compared to a lot of my 75 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: other ones. But but I was trying to think of 76 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: what it feels like in an emotional way and I 77 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: was like it feels like watching what we do in 78 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: the shadows. It's it's a little bit unexpected and weird 79 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: but like delightful. But like every time you're you're like, 80 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm gonna do this, and then you're like 81 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: Oh heck, this is how inning. I love that. Yes, 82 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: they should slept that on their marketing. If they're smart, 83 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: pop rocks, what we do in the shadows, get in touched, 84 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: I mean obvious, obvious cross marketing opportunity. I want. That's 85 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: so much. Okay, alright, alright, alright, Um, the the pop 86 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 1: rocks brand does sell a bunch of flavors. Currently, those 87 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: are strawberry, watermelon, tropical punch, Blue Raz with two Zis, Um, 88 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: original cherry. They specify original grape, green apple, cotton candy 89 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: and a sugar free strawberry. Um. Then extreme flavors, including 90 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: sour apple and Sour Berry. Um, Oh and and blue raspberry. Yeah, Um. 91 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: Also a formulation that contains chewing gum, so like it's 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: bubblegum flavored, and it contains gum in the granules so that, 93 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: like you're, once the candy melts, you're left with a 94 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: mouthful of gum. Yeah, sorry to say it that way, 95 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: like so disappointed, but I feel that's just how I feel. Okay, 96 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: isn't it? or at one time, wasn't it called like 97 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: a incredit gum? Oh, heck I oh, it had. It 98 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: had some kind of it has some kind of marketing 99 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: term attached to it and I'm not remembering. I didn't 100 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: record it for this but all right, you can. You 101 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: can look it up if you need to. Um. They 102 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: also do have some seasonal releases including, Um, a formulation 103 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: that's coated in milk, chocolate, Um, a pumpkin patch orange 104 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: flavor and a candy cane flavor. Yeah, yes, I think 105 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: I have had the candy cane flavor, probably the most recently, 106 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: because people like to experiment with that on like baked 107 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: goods and in cocktails. Oh sure, yeah, and they're how 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: have been other flavors over time and and possibly availability 109 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: differs in Canada and Australia. In the UK, Um, I 110 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: saw for those countries specifically cola flavor and tooty fruity. 111 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. Right in let us, yes, please, to 112 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: make pop rocks. You, Um, and actually not you, because 113 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: you probably need a lab for this. Uh, but you 114 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: the royal. You basically heat sugar and water and whatever 115 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: flavorings you're using until it all melts together and begins 116 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: to boil. Um. You then cook this mixture to somewhere 117 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: between what's called the soft crack to the hard crack stage. Um. 118 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: That's something around two D and Eighty Fahrenheit, or a 119 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: hundred thirty eight Celsius, meaning that you boil off enough 120 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: of the water that when the mixture comes back to 121 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: room temperature it'll be a hard solid, like a like 122 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: rock candy or like glass. Don't eat glass, I'm just saying. 123 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: It's all so an amorphous solid like rock candy. goode. Yeah, 124 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: any blood to help? Okay. So so you have your 125 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: you have your your sugar mixture, and then here is 126 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: where it gets crazy, hat to bend Bolen, because before 127 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: you let this sugar stuff cool back down to room temperature, 128 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: you see a lot in a chamber that also contains 129 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide gas and then pressurize the chamber to like 130 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Fifty Times like normal earth atmospheric pressure, something like six 131 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: pounds per square inch. Then you super cool the whole thing, 132 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: hardening it into a mass and trapping carbon dioxide bubbles 133 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: throughout the Matrix of sugar that you've got going. When 134 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: you open the chamber and release the pressure, the mass 135 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: will fracture into those we pebbles of candy with little 136 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: pressurized gas pockets trapped inside. It's so cool, Um, and 137 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: you can do this because at normal earth temperature and pressure, 138 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: dry sugar is hard. You've experienced this if you've ever 139 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: crunched on a grit of granulated sugar, maybe like on 140 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: the top of a Muffin, or if you've ever eaten 141 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: a lollipop or other hard candy, or if you've cracked 142 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: the crust on a chrome brulet. Sugar, hard sugar, hard, 143 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: dry sugar has the structural integrity to hold little pockets 144 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: of pressurized gas. But the thing about sugar, and this 145 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: is a thing that I love, is as a kitchen human, 146 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: sugar is very soluble in water. Makes for easy clean 147 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: up because it just melts away. But in terms of 148 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: pop rocks, what that means is that this hard substance 149 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,599 Speaker 1: comes into contact with the moisture in your saliva, or 150 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: or any other liquid for that matter, Um and it'll 151 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: pretty quickly dissolve. Opening the little po gets of pressurized gas. 152 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: They expand quickly in the normal earth pressure of your 153 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: mouth Um, shattering the thin walls of the candy pockets, 154 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: creating the popping sensation on your tongue. Yep, so cool, 155 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: so weird. This is technically called in the patents Um 156 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: Gasified Candy. Nice, which is just not not a marketing term, though, 157 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: but Um. But that's, I strongly suspect, not the only 158 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: thing that's happening when you eat pop rocks. And okay, 159 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: we're going to go back to some of the stuff 160 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: that we talked about way back when in our carbonated Beverage, 161 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: Um Soda Fountain episode, because We're going to talk about 162 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide, because it does a couple of really interesting 163 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: things in our mouths. Um. First of all, our tongues 164 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: have cells that contain this enzyme, that that that catalyzes 165 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: the hydration of carbon dioxide. So all that means for 166 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: our purposes today is that when we drink soda or 167 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,719 Speaker 1: eat pop rocks, our mouths are beakers in which a 168 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: chemical reaction is happening. Um, and the end result of 169 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: that reaction is that some free protons are released and 170 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: they trigger some of our sour sensitive taste buds. Carbon 171 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide tastes sour to us, a little bit. Huh. Yeay, okay, Um, 172 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: in a roundabout way, it doesn't itself taste sour, but 173 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: it creates a sour taste. Yeah, kind of like watering. Yeah, 174 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: almost sure. Yeah. Yeah. Also, research out of the University 175 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: of Southern California has indicated, the carbon dioxide bubbles trigger Um, 176 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: specialized pain related nerve cells in our nasal cavity, um, 177 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: the same ones at register the burn of like horse 178 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: erradish and mustard. Yeah. So, so that's why, if you're 179 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: drinking a soda, you get like just a little bit, 180 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: like a little bit of like a burning sensation, but 181 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: not it's not like bad burning, it's just just tingly. Yeah, 182 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: I think we talked about that in our Moscow mule 183 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: episode two. Soda, yeah, alcohol, and it creates kind of 184 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: that like yes, stinging. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but so I 185 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: didn't read about that specifically as it refers to pop rocks, 186 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: but I assume that a bubble of carbon dioxide is 187 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: a bubble of carbon dioxide one way or another, you know. 188 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: So I think that's also happening here. Um, I chemists 189 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 1: right in I. Yes, Um, although pop rocks was the 190 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: first brand of this type of popping candy to market, Um, 191 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: there are competitors like aftershocks, Um and uh, and there's 192 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: some other physic and candies that don't use compressed carbon 193 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: dioxide but rather a combination of sodium bicarbonate and an 194 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: acid that will combine in your mouth to create carbon 195 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: dioxide bubbles. Yeah, a little bit different, but still cool and, 196 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: like you said, Annie, because of the kind of like 197 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: interactive element you've got going here. Pop rocks. Pop Rocks 198 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: are considered a novelty candy, yeah, which I don't feel 199 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: like I have a firm grasp on what that means. 200 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: Like I have a vague understanding, but I assume it 201 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: means like, yeah, I can't get it with like the 202 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: Basic Candy Lineup. I have to kind of go out 203 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: of my way to find papera rocks. Yeah, I think 204 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: it's just kind of like like niche, nichely marketed, Um, 205 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: kind of specifically to kids and or adults who are nostalgic, Um, 206 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: and or like thrill seekers. Heavy scare quotes there. Yes, 207 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: I gotta get my operas. Oh No, Um, uh, the company, uh, 208 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: this brand is currently owned by a holding company called 209 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: Zeta Espiciale out of Spain. Um, but the brand itself 210 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: is based in Atlanta, where we are based. Like they 211 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: were our neighbors when our offices were in Buckhead and 212 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: we never knew what. Yeah, why didn't we? We could 213 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: have gotten some samples. Oh, my goodness we could have. Um. 214 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: They do license the candy to manufacturers of faked goods 215 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: and chocolates and ice cream products and even yogurts and 216 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: like breakfast cereals. Um. And, although these are not food products, 217 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: they also licensed out to makers of cosmetics like a 218 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: bath salts or bath bombs, Um, and pharmaceuticals like kids 219 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: vitamin supplements. Interesting, right, I love it. Okay, well, what 220 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: about the nutrition? UH, they're mostly sugar. Sugar is a treat. 221 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: Treats are nice. I will say a single packet is 222 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: only like a third to a half of an ounce 223 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: of candy, which is not a whole lot of sugar 224 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: in one go. So so that's that's that's pretty cool. Also, 225 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: they are of no danger to you at all. We're 226 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: going to get into that pretty extensively in the outline. 227 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: But they're not going to make your stomach explode at all. UH, 228 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: they might make you belch, MHM, the same amount of 229 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: belch that you would get from like half a can 230 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: of soda or less. Yes, yeah, yeah, we're gonna we 231 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: have a lot to say about that, because people have 232 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: long had a lot to say about that. They have. Yes, 233 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, it is um, but before we do that, 234 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: we do have a couple numbers for you. Yeah, yeah, 235 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: according to the brand of Americans recognized pop rocks. Their Creator, 236 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: William Mitchell, held over seventy food related patents and apparently 237 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Um, I was looking for a world record, 238 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: as I usually do. Um, I didn't quite find one, 239 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: but in competitive eater Matt stoney tried to eat like 240 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: a bowl full of of pop rocks, like like three 241 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: D and fifty packets worth of pop rocks. M Uh, 242 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: but he only got like a third of the way through. 243 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: Oh Gosh. Yeah, I mean it's like you said, there's 244 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: not like there's a lot of them, but that sensation 245 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: is so it's very bracing. Yeah, yeah, I can't, I 246 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: can't imagine. Oh, and I used to be somebody. I 247 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: was that kid who's like how many words can I 248 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: put my man? Jeez, I don't think I ever tried 249 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: anything like that with pop rocks. Yikes. Um. But there 250 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: is a history of some rumors of people trying things 251 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 1: of pop rocks and we also have some more numbers 252 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: in our history section. We do. We do, and we 253 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: are going to get into all of that as soon 254 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: as we get back from a quick break for a 255 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: word from our sponsors and we're back. Thank you, sponsor. Yes, 256 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: thank you. Okay. So the invention of pop rocks is 257 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: a thing of Candy Lore. People like talking about it. 258 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: It is really fun Um and it starts with food chemist, 259 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: then at general foods, as previously mentioned by Lauren, named 260 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: William Mitchell, and just a little bit about him because 261 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: he seems like a fascinating guy. So Mitchell was born 262 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: in nineteen eleven in Minnesota, paid his way through his 263 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: chemistry degree with farm work and then proceeded to get 264 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: a job at the agricultural experiment station in Lincoln Nebraska, 265 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 1: which proceeded to have some kind of lab explosion that 266 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: left him was second and third degree burns over most 267 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: of his body. Wow, yeah, uh. At any rate, though, 268 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: he seemingly undaunted by this, was hired by General Foods 269 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: in one and would work with them for over thirty years, 270 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: through like World War Two and the space race, developing 271 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: products like like a tapioca substitute during World War Two 272 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: for Um, for for wartime related foods, Um also Tang 273 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: plus stuff like cool whip, powdered ed whites and quickset Jello. Yeah, 274 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: he was up to a lot of stuff. Yeah, Oh, yeah, 275 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: we've mentioned him before. UH, well, when it comes to 276 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: pop rockx, Mitchell was experimenting with some ingredients in an 277 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: attempt to create an instant soft drink in nineteen fifty six, 278 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: somewhere around it. That's the date most people use. Um, 279 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: the goal was to create a powder that could be 280 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: mixed with water to instantly create a tasty carbonated beverage, 281 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: so basically like carbonated Kool aid. Um. As part of 282 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: these experiments, he put some sugar flavoring in his mouth 283 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: and mixed it with this carbonated powder and to his surprise, 284 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: the Combo formed these sweet chunks, like small sweet chunks 285 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: that quote exploded and sizzled on his tongue as small 286 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: pops of carbonation were released thanks to the moisture and 287 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: heat of the saliva. Um. And so he's so excited 288 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: about this he invited all kinds of people to try 289 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: and he's like, Oh, look what I've discovered Um, and 290 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: they made a game out of who could swallow the 291 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: biggest chunk and he knew he was onto something. So 292 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: he filed a patent that same year and started refining 293 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: the recipe, coming up with a carbonated nugget candy composed 294 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: of sugar, Corn Syrup, lactose and a fruity flavoring that 295 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: popped and sizzled when eaten. Um. However, I did see 296 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: other sources that made it sound like he kind of 297 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: forgot about it, like he did this and then kind 298 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: of forgot about it other than making it as sort 299 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: of a wacky gift for friends and family. And another chemist, 300 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: food chemist, found the recipe several years later and revived it. Um. 301 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: But a lot of things I read said that Mitchell 302 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: did like make it and handed out into like parties 303 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: and stuff. So that's that's fun. Yeah, but the company 304 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: was at a loss with what to do with this 305 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: product and decades passed before they sold it. And that 306 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: only happened after a small subsidiary in Canada sold them 307 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: as a novelty product and, based on some sources I read, 308 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: it was after some of the people who worked at 309 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: that subsidiary had tried Mitchell's kind of like holiday candy. 310 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: Why aren't we selling yeah, this is brilliant. People would 311 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: pay for this. Let's go. Yes, pop rocks debuted to 312 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: the public in nineteen seventy four, seventy five or seventy six, 313 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: the date marries. I think it depends on where exactly 314 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: we're talking about, because it was pretty regional, okay, early on, 315 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: and it came in Cherry, grape and orange originally, and, 316 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: as company Legend has it, a group of grade schoolers 317 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: voted on the name. I feel like we've heard that 318 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: story a lot as well. But pop rocks was the 319 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: overwhelming winner. Uh. Five hundred million packets were sold over 320 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: an eighteen month period and the company raked in about 321 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars, which is over five hundred million 322 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: dollars in today's money, in profits in that first year, 323 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: despite a whole bunch of stuff working against them that 324 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: we're going to get into. Yeah, so they were doing well, 325 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: but production of this candy did prove to be a 326 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: challenge and it impacted the amount that they can make. 327 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: Um Workers had to wear suits to protect themselves from 328 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: scalding sugure. Is No joke. No, I'm afraid of it, 329 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: absolutely healthy fear. M Hmm. Then the product had to 330 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: be crushed. Allegedly, this led to at least one employee 331 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: losing a finger. I know. Um, there's also a couple 332 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: of stories about a shipments or multiple shipments of pop 333 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: rocks blowing the door off trucks because the trucks heat 334 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:29,719 Speaker 1: turned on and like set them off. I guess, yeah, yeah, UM, okay. 335 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: And then there's this whole thing. They originally sold for 336 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: fifteen to cents a packet, Um, but this regional popularity 337 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: led to a markup as high as one dollar for 338 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: a packet. And some of that was from kids who 339 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: would buy it all up and sell it to their friends, 340 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: but some of it was from legit candy smuggling from 341 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: like truckers or other employees. Um. Here's a quote from 342 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: the New York Times from one day last month when 343 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: Justin Prison doorff was still nine years old, someone came 344 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: up to him at the exclusive collegiate school and gave 345 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: him a free sample of some pink granules. The next 346 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: time Justin wanted some of the granules, he had to pay. 347 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: The price was a dollar. More than a month had passed, 348 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: Justin is ten years old now. These days he is 349 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: popping regularly. Each week he buys a couple of envelopes 350 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: of a substance whose price tag on the streets figures 351 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: out to eighty dollars a kilo. In some places, according 352 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,719 Speaker 1: to word reaching the manufacturers, it commands two dollars a kilo. 353 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, oh, I know. Oh, yes, I know, 354 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: and I mittel like commented on this and he was 355 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: so frustrated. He was like, if you're buying it for 356 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: more than fifteen cents, you're being robbed. He was just like, 357 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: I'm not happy about this whole situation. Um. And yes, 358 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: the company also had to grapple with public perception. Um, 359 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: though the product was extensively tested for safety, it still 360 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: made parents nervous, to the point that the F D 361 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: a set up a hotline in Seattle to feel these concerns. 362 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: Like the whole hotline was just then like pop rocks 363 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: are safe, okay, totally chill y'all, and a whole lotline. 364 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: But this didn't assuage everyone and kids started sharing horrific, 365 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: almost certainly made stories of eating pop rocks gone wrong. Um, 366 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: and it's funny reading about this, where they're like, you know, 367 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: kids just like to at that age. They just like 368 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: to tell these stories like uh, and pop rocks was 369 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 1: pretty new. It was a it was a novelty, it 370 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: was a new candy, and so these stories just started 371 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: spreading and soon after pop rocks had debuted, an urban 372 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 1: legend started spreading that little Mikey, who was the kid 373 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: from the life serial commercials Um, died after consuming a 374 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: combination of pop rocks and Coca Cola and the resulting 375 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: carbonation from the two products in his stomach exploded his stomach. Yeah, this, 376 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: this is not again. This is not going to happen. 377 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: It's flatly not going to happen. Um, no pun intended. 378 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: They're there. You can, in fact do an experiment at 379 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: home if you would like to, where if you if 380 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: you just take like a like a like a balloon, 381 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: like a balloon that you would blow up, put a 382 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: packet of pop rocks in there, seal the edges of 383 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: the balloon to a soda pop bottle and then just 384 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 1: dump the pop rocks into the Soda Pop and watch 385 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: whether or not the balloon inflates and explodes. It will 386 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: inflate shockingly little. It's it's, at the end of the day, 387 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: quite a boring experiment, Um, but it really demonstrates how 388 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: little gas is put off by this kind of thing. 389 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, yes, but people believed it like this hold 390 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: of our like national, psyche like collective imaginations. Absolutely, Yes, 391 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: by as early as nineteen seventy nine, general foods was 392 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: trying to combat this rumor of Little Mikey or an 393 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: equally anonymous child Um ex floating because little Mikey, like 394 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: no one really knew who he was. Like everyone knew 395 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: who he was, but they didn't know his name or 396 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: anything about it. was just the random actor who was 397 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: random Commercial Mike likes it. Yeah, exactly, or yeah, another 398 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: kid that's like a friend of a friend, or like, 399 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: you can't verify the details. Um Dying because of pop 400 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: rocks and usually in combination with something else like Coca Cola, 401 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: Um and general foods. Obviously this is not a great 402 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: rumor to have about a product, but their profits. One 403 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: of the reasons they were so concerned about this was 404 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: their profits fell by two on the final quarter of 405 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: that same year when this rumor by the time they 406 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: were like, Oh Gosh, we've got to do something about 407 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: this rumor up and they tried all kinds of things, 408 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: including sending the Creator to explain the science of the 409 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: product across the country and he would assure folks that 410 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,919 Speaker 1: it only produced. I saw a less than a half 411 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: or a tenth of the amount of gas as a 412 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: can of soda. So like half or less, but I 413 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: also saw a tenth. I think he kind of changed 414 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: his the number he was giving, but less than half 415 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: for sure, and perhaps way less than half. And, as 416 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: you said, like he was like at most it will 417 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: make you BURP, but you're gonna be fine. Yeah, right, Um. 418 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: The company also took out full page ads in forty 419 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: five major publications and sent fifty thousand letters to principles 420 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: all over the US, like the school principles. Yeah, like 421 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: don't worry, all the pop rocks are not going to 422 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: kill anyone. Yes, and on top of that, it didn't 423 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: help because, as you kind of alluded to, with this 424 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: sort of like New York Times article, it's making it 425 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: sound like pop rocks are drugs. Well, general foods launched 426 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: a spinoff product in the seventies called space dust, which 427 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: was basically pop rocks and powdered form, and it was 428 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 1: ill timed, Um and ill named. Rise of powdered drugs 429 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 1: and parents fears around that. Um, so the company changed 430 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: the name to cosmic candy, but it was soon, it 431 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: was too late. It was mm hmmm. Apparently, by the 432 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: end of the seventies, tons of pop rocks had been destroyed, 433 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: like three hundred million pouches, sometimes literally buried in the ground, 434 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: because the guy who's been really outspoken about this said 435 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: we didn't want kids finding it, so they were just 436 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: like bearing it. Heck, I know. And then, to add 437 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: further fuel to this rumor that pop rocks were dangerous 438 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: in some way, Um, they were taken off the shelf 439 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: in night three, which confirmed the truth and heavy quotes 440 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: of this legend in the minds of many like they're like, 441 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: ah see, they took it off the shelves, it must 442 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: be true. It is dangerous. Craft Foods purchased pop rocks 443 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: and started selling them under the New Name Action Candy. 444 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: That I believe they also sold through a company called 445 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: carbonated candy ventures. kind of like to add a step 446 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: of separation. Sure, UM, likely in part to leave behind 447 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: this gruesome story if they could, which, yes, as you said, 448 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: it is of course not true, but it is so persistent, 449 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: like it's like clockwork. About once a decade some version 450 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: of the story resurfaces, like I've heard it. And then 451 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: in two thousand one a couple sued basking and Robbins, 452 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: and they were claiming that their five year old daughter 453 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: was hospitalized after consuming pop rocks in the company's Shrek 454 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: Swirl Flavor ice cream. And then there was a related 455 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: story over rumored lawsuit around Mintos and coke that circulated 456 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. Both are not true, by 457 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: the way, but again it's like those kind of vague details, 458 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: like did you hear about? Like you don't know anything 459 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: other than the kind of headline bit and no details. Yeah, yeah, 460 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: you're like. Oh Man, my cousin's teacher said that. Yeah, 461 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: so I found this really interesting. John Gilchrist, or perhaps 462 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: is Gil Christ, the kid who played little Mikey, has 463 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: indeed commented on all of this Um. So here's the 464 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: quote from a twenty twelve Newsday story about him. Yes, 465 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: John Gilchrist enjoys life cereal and keeps it in his home. No, 466 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: he does not get a free lifetime supply. No, he 467 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: was not a particularly picky eater as a child. Yes, 468 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: he really is the guy who played one on TV. 469 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: Oh and one more thing. He is most certainly not dead. 470 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: The folklore is that I ate pop rocks at the 471 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: exploding candies and I drink a soda and my stomach 472 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: blew up, he said, recalling along ago urban legend. One 473 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: day in the late nineteen seventies, his mother summoned him 474 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: from a playground baseball game to tell him she had 475 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: received a call from a concerned friend who said, through tears, 476 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to hear about your son. Replied Mrs 477 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: Gil Christ, he just came home from school. How surreal. 478 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: I know that a friend could think. Yeah, be like 479 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, Mrs Gil Christ. Um, the pop rocks official 480 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: company website or brand website does address this as well. UH, 481 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: in their in their F A Q section. Um, quote, 482 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: the actor who played little mikey lives today in a 483 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: completely unexploded form in New York. Oh, I love that. Um, 484 00:31:53,680 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: but yeah, as mentioned, this really this legend sticks around. Um, 485 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: so this whole thing was mentioned in the movie urban legends, 486 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: when a woman refuses to eat pop rocks and coke 487 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: when offered because she knows it kills people, including that 488 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: quote kid in the commercial. Uh. Yeah, so, thanks, snopes 489 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: for this whole breakdown. It was very, very helpful, um, 490 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: but also, like, there are some things that I just 491 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: remembered in relations to all of this. For one, mythbusters 492 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: even tested this whole thing a lot, along with Mintos, 493 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: mintos and coke, and pop ros and coke, and found it, 494 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: of course, to be false. Yeah, and that was in 495 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: their first episode. Like that's how pervasive this myth is. 496 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: There's a green day song called pop rox and coke, 497 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: and I've found this whole thing to be a really 498 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: fascinating study in how urban legends worked. Like I was 499 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,239 Speaker 1: reading kind of the science of how this happened and 500 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: how so many people believed it. It's really interesting. Oh, 501 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: it's super fascinating. Um Uh. And it appears in the 502 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: urban legends related episode of Supernatural. Yes, yes, oh my gosh, 503 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: I love it so much. Listeners, if they are cultural 504 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: instances we're forgetting, let us know. Oh yeah, urban legends. Right, 505 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: I went on a whole candy man streak recently and really, 506 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: really interesting is it? If you say Oh, if you 507 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: say candy man, do you have to be looking in 508 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: a mirror? Yeah, you have to say it into a 509 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: mirror five times. Okay, I'm just making sure I'm looking out. 510 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: I don't want anything to happen to you or me. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 511 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: I wonder if a video camera counts that I just 512 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: had this conversation about bloody Mary. These are important questions, 513 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: because if so, I'm in trouble. I guess I'll ponder 514 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: that later, but if any listener, you have insight on this. Yeah, 515 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: I I have not watched all of the UH candy 516 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: man films, so I don't I don't know what and 517 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: how many are we up to now? It's okay, all right, 518 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: let's let's let's, let's back off of it, all right, cool, 519 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: sit back home and sit back and then. Uh. In 520 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: more recent years, when it comes to pop rocks, yes, 521 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: and alongside the cocktail renaissance here in the United States, 522 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,320 Speaker 1: pop rocks have become a pretty popular cocktail ingredient. Um, 523 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 1: they've been showing up in foods too. Is mentioned at 524 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,439 Speaker 1: the top in food republic listed thirty restaurants using pop 525 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:33,879 Speaker 1: rocks on their menus, including previously mentioned Atlanta Restaurant Poor Calvin's. Um. Huh. Yeah, 526 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: and we're talking things like Sushi with pop rocks, fog raw, 527 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,320 Speaker 1: lobster tail. Oh yeah, all kinds of things, because I 528 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: mean a lot of it was baked kids, but there 529 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 1: were there were plenty of savory things on there too. Sure, 530 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: as a little pop of Uhum, a little little pop 531 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: of acid. I guess probably, as long as you can 532 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 1: balance that sweetness with something. Yes, Um. And okay, we 533 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: this could be a whole episode, but I'm just gonna 534 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: conviense it because that's a whole other episode. But in 535 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: two chefs in New York were involved in a lawsuit 536 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,280 Speaker 1: about the use of, quote, unique food combinations and unusual ingredients, 537 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: and the big ingredient question was pop rocks. Um. One 538 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: of the chefs claimed he'd been using them for years, 539 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: including in his two thousand nine appearance on the next 540 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: iron chef. Yeah, Um. And is it a modern DAY APHRODISIAC? 541 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,359 Speaker 1: What what Modern Day APHRO D C Act? I Know 542 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 1: Lauren Molecular gastronomist, Heston Blumenthal, kind of think so. Um. 543 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: He set out to prove so in his twenty show, 544 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 1: Heston's recipes for romance, or the very least, he was 545 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: trying to prove that the sound of popping candy was deductive, 546 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: and the results he got, you know, seemed to people 547 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: find that sound pleasing. That was what I basically took. Okay, sure, yeah, 548 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: I do, like I was like read that and kind 549 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: of like marinated on it for a minute and uh, 550 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: and I think like it kind of reminds me of 551 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 1: some of the scenes in Um, in the film Tam 552 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: Popo Um, if y'all have ever seen that one. That 553 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: kind of ties just like the sensuality of food together 554 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: and and I and I you know, like whether it's 555 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: sexy or not is, I'm mean, up to you again, 556 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: hands up, defensively backing away. I wouldn't, wouldn't, I wouldn't 557 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: dare tell you how to feel about it. But Um, but, 558 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: but it is a sensation and it's an interesting one 559 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: at that. So yeah, yeah, I agreed. It was. It 560 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,800 Speaker 1: was interesting. I'd recommend looking it up if you're curious, 561 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: because it was the reasoning given for it. I thought 562 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: it made sense to be again, yeah, I was kind 563 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 1: of like, I don't know if I would say that's 564 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: like sexy essential, but I get I get it, I 565 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, Oh, and then we gotta hand on this. 566 00:36:53,800 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: Um Pop rocks are, more accurately, popping crystals or an 567 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 1: ingredient in Taco bells menu item, the fire cracker Burrito, 568 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: offered in popping cheesy and popping spice. Someone. However, it 569 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: never made it out of the testing phase and was 570 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 1: quickly retired. Um also, apparently, oh gosh, we kind of 571 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,440 Speaker 1: talk about this too someday, but apparently Taco bell is 572 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: kind of MM HMM, I don't want to say vague. 573 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: They don't always they're not always super clear about what 574 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: their ingredients are like. I think they have the proper 575 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: nutrition allergen information, but everybody was like these are pop rocks, 576 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,919 Speaker 1: aren't they? And they would just be like no, they're 577 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: like talking about yes, exactly, but people were trying to 578 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: figure out like, Um, there are still some patents, like 579 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,400 Speaker 1: there are a number of Um, what was was the 580 00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: term gasified candies? Patents for gasified candies out there and 581 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: and some of them are are up, some of them 582 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,760 Speaker 1: are you know, so so you can use a similar process, depending. 583 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 1: I mean check the patents. If you happen to have 584 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: the equipment to do this. Don't get in trouble on 585 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:18,720 Speaker 1: my account, but yeah, I check the patents. I cannot 586 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: get over how much I do not want to eat 587 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: something called popping cheesy. To be honest, it gives me 588 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 1: I feel a little threatened by the name and I'm 589 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 1: not sure it kind of makes me want to like 590 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: hunch in on myself and back up. I'm not sure. 591 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: So I get it. I get you. Yeah, something. Yeah, 592 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: it feels like a character from like a nineties Sitcom 593 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,680 Speaker 1: who's going to show up like like Steve a Shammy, 594 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: with a skateboard, being all like hello, fellow kids, and 595 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: something's immediately off. You're like, oh no, I can't trust 596 00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: popping cheesy. There's another character for a long awaited radio series. 597 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 1: Oh dear, we need to ask superproducer Dylan, who is 598 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,840 Speaker 1: a notable Taco Bell Ficionado, what his thoughts are on 599 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,479 Speaker 1: on this. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, if, if, if, any 600 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 1: of y'all have strong opinions about it, please, please, let 601 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: us know. Yes, yes, and if any of YOU HAPPEN 602 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: TO HAVE LAB R be in any way connected to 603 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: the pop rocks universe, let us know that as well. Yeah, 604 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,520 Speaker 1: that would be so cool. That would be so cool. 605 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, in the meantime, I think that's 606 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 1: what we have to say about pop rocks. Phone now 607 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: it is. We do have some listener mail for you, though, 608 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: and we are going to get into that as soon 609 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,880 Speaker 1: as we get back from one more quick break for 610 00:39:49,920 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsors. We're back thank you sponsoring. Yes, 611 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:16,319 Speaker 1: thank you, and we're back with I see. I knew 612 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 1: that one was gonna be tricky and also, I could sense, 613 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 1: you're very rightful, feeling that this one was going to 614 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,880 Speaker 1: be a little rocky. Yeah, there there was some trepidation 615 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,160 Speaker 1: going into that. We all knew pop rocks was gonna 616 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: be who knows where it could go, but all of 617 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: it was going to be a bit of a challenge, 618 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,799 Speaker 1: at a risk a little frightening. There you go. That's 619 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:44,439 Speaker 1: that's just okay. That's I think we did something. Yes, 620 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: we did something. Yeah, we did something. Now for a segue. 621 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: I'm very excited to use, speaking of Afrodizi X, Julia wrote. Um, 622 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,719 Speaker 1: I saw this and one of my friends books of 623 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,760 Speaker 1: folk magic, and I need you to witness this iconic spell. 624 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 1: Sexual Prowess. Potion to chickpeas to enhance Mele sexual prowess. 625 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:13,120 Speaker 1: One soaked chickpeas and water. They will swell. Two when 626 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,840 Speaker 1: they are completely soft and swollen, strain out the chickpeas 627 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 1: and drink the water. This allegedly makes a man so 628 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 1: viral he can to flower seventy two virgin cows in 629 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,479 Speaker 1: one night. Julia continues the wording of it is so 630 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: funny and in case you're ever looking for a use 631 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:36,600 Speaker 1: person leftover Aqua Faba, look no further. Wow, it was fun. 632 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 1: Julius sent to a scan of the page and, uh, 633 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: it was pretty good. I could see some of the 634 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 1: other recipes in there. I liked the fun. I like 635 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: the whole situation alright, but yeah, it was quite funny 636 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:55,400 Speaker 1: to afrodisiac mentions in the pop rockx episode. Not what 637 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: I was looking looking for. You never know, you never 638 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 1: know where it's gonna take you. That's true. Thank you. 639 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:08,160 Speaker 1: That's very strange. Heck, Um Ariel wrote. I always look 640 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,360 Speaker 1: forward to a new episode of Savor and the lively 641 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: conversations you have about so many different food topics. As 642 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: I know you want to make sure you're pronouncing things correctly, 643 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to pass on the correct pronunciation for Oregon. 644 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,359 Speaker 1: They continue. In your most recent episode on Massalid Chai, 645 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 1: you noted the brand Oregon shy, which is delicious, but 646 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,560 Speaker 1: pronounced it Oregon. The correct pronunciation is Oregon. Wanted to 647 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,440 Speaker 1: pass that on in case you ever decided to make 648 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,600 Speaker 1: an episode about one of the State's many foods, including 649 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: Marion Berries. Gooey duck or hazelnuts and didn't want an 650 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 1: army of Oregonians blowing up your inbox. We can be 651 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:50,560 Speaker 1: a little touchy about it. Smiley face, thanks for looking out. 652 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,400 Speaker 1: We don't want that. Yes, Oh, and now I'm paranoid 653 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: that I didn't say or or or going did. Oh, 654 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 1: I don't know Oregonians what I just say. I don't 655 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,719 Speaker 1: I'm not always listening to myself. Ah, heck, well, it's 656 00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:11,919 Speaker 1: gonna be okay, Lauren, um I. I hope I haven't 657 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,560 Speaker 1: offended anybody. Um, working, working on it every day. Always, always, 658 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: feel free to send in corrections. Yes, yes, and all 659 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: those topics sound great. Oh, yeah, yeah, I also did 660 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 1: Google how to pronounce Goody Duck just to make sure 661 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,640 Speaker 1: I had it right, which I have never heard of. 662 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:34,560 Speaker 1: So I man interested. You are way more interested than 663 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:39,879 Speaker 1: you even know. They're bizarre. Okay, Oh, cool, alright, awesome. Well, 664 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,839 Speaker 1: that's exciting. Uh and, as always, exciting to hear from 665 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 1: you listeners. Thanks to both of these listeners for writing in. 666 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: If you would like to write to us, you can 667 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,320 Speaker 1: our emails hello at Savor Pot Dot Com. We're also 668 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: on social media. You can find us on twitter. FACEBOOK 669 00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 1: and Instagram at Savor pod, and we do hope to 670 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: hear from you. Savor is production of my heart radio. 671 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,680 Speaker 1: For more casts from my heart radio, you can visit 672 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 1: the I heart radio APP, apple podcasts or wherever you 673 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows. Thanks, as always to our superproducers, 674 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: Dylan Fagan and Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening 675 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,919 Speaker 1: and we hope that lots more good things are coming 676 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:19,799 Speaker 1: your way