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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to food Stuff. I'm Anyries and I'm

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Speaker 1: Lauren voc Obam, and it's time for another episode of

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Speaker 1: fictional foods. Yes, today we are embarking on a journey,

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Speaker 1: the Final Frontier, going boldly where no food Stuff episode

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Speaker 1: has gone before. That's right, Star Trek Foods and Beverages. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I wish we knew how to speak cling On. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I definitely don't. Yeah, we're human people who speak English. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so we've tried. We're going to be saying some

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Speaker 1: words if you do speak Clingon or Vulcan or Romulan

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Speaker 1: or Ferengi or bjorn um. And we do stuff wrong,

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Speaker 1: We're sorry yet Yeah, no, not not quite. It is

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Speaker 1: all my to do. Listen, that is not a joke.

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Speaker 1: One day excellent, Yes, So, um, what is it? Well?

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Speaker 1: What what is Star Trek? What is Star Trek? Oh? Well,

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Speaker 1: we're a food show, so we're gonna be talking about

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Speaker 1: the foods and drinks featured in the Star Trek universe,

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Speaker 1: which is just so many. It's a bunch. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: here and the Replicator because obviously yeah yeah, um, and

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Speaker 1: like Star Trek things tend to do, even food wise. Um,

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Speaker 1: the foods in this universe do have some real world implications,

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Speaker 1: which is cool. Um, And right out of the gate,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank Memory Alpha for being a fantastic resource.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're They're great. The fan community around Star

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Speaker 1: Trek is is excellent. Yes, it's very robust, enthusiastic and

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Speaker 1: what is Star Trek? If you don't know about Star Trek,

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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Yeah, where have you been?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm not judging. I'm just curious because I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's huge. One thing it is not Star Wars. Do

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Speaker 1: not make that mistake. They'll get you in some serious

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Speaker 1: trouble with somebody in ear shot. Star Check started as

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Speaker 1: an American science fiction series created by Gene Roddenberry and

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Speaker 1: then expanded into this franchise of movies, books, an animated series,

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Speaker 1: just about everything you can think of. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest money making franchises of all time, with over

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Speaker 1: ten dollars, which is way small in revenue. It's actually

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Speaker 1: ten billion dollars. Ten billion makes a lot more sense.

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Speaker 1: She wrote ten dollars in tens and tens of dollars

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Speaker 1: surmise from that, it's really popular. Hardcore fans are called

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Speaker 1: Within the Star Trek universe, there are so many worlds

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Speaker 1: to make patrons thirst. Dear. I really appreciate that one.

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Speaker 1: And then there's Alfarian hair pasta made from the hair

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Speaker 1: of a mature Alfarian. This one and a lot of

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Speaker 1: the series strangest foods came from Star Trek Voyager, which

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Speaker 1: So a local becomes a kind of makeshift ship chef

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Speaker 1: Uh to create recipes but using local ingredients. Huh. So

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Speaker 1: that's where you get stuff like Farian hair, this angel hair,

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Speaker 1: um and and the results are as you as you

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Speaker 1: might imagine. Interesting. Sure, but I love that the writers

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Speaker 1: find humanity and everyone, even non humans. Well said Lauren,

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Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know. I think it's Ryker. He's

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Speaker 1: at He's at a table. Let me set the scene.

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Speaker 1: He's at a table with a bunch of clingons and

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Speaker 1: they're all eating sets him. He's kind of going slowly

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Speaker 1: and you know, hesitant and the clingon sitting exterhim says,

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Speaker 1: we will get one of the females to breastfeed you.

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Speaker 1: And they all laugh like a which is uh. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like that would be great. Yeah. I think that I

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Speaker 1: was laughing so hard that I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: his reaction was. It's just like a fleeting memory I have, Like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: I love fleeting Star Trek memories. Yeah, it really stuck

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Speaker 1: out pop up all the time they do. Uh. We

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Speaker 1: hope that you have enjoyed this journey, this fictional food

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Speaker 1: Journey Star Trek edition. Yeah, it was very Um it

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Speaker 1: was a fun research project, it surely was. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: if there's, um, if there's some some foods that we missed,

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Speaker 1: foods or drinks that that absolutely should have been included

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Speaker 1: ever made any of these things and you took pictures,

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Speaker 1: please send them. Oh my goodness, yes so much. Definitely

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Speaker 1: tell us how that worked out. Cool. Um, and this

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Speaker 1: brings us to people have already written in and listener, man,

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Speaker 1: that was a weird one. Yeah, it was. You never

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Speaker 1: know how they're going to go, So I love this.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer pre wrote in about our catch up episode because

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Speaker 1: we mentioned we were working on one, and she was

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Speaker 1: so excited about it. She wrote in she says, h

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Speaker 1: J Hinz co now Craft and Mr Hines himself are

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Speaker 1: fascinating to me. I had never spent much time thinking

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Speaker 1: about ketchup or cats up or other condiments until I

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Speaker 1: visited the Hines History Museum in Pittsburgh a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: As you might imagine, they have a display on the

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Speaker 1: history of the company with some really interesting tidbits about

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Speaker 1: idea there was such a thing as well, not ketchup

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Speaker 1: and displays the various viniakers and pickles and jams and jellies,

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Speaker 1: and the subtle changes and container designs, on and on

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Speaker 1: and on. If you ever have reason to be in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: I'd recommend visiting the museum. It focuses, as you might imagine,

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Speaker 1: on the history of western Pennsylvania, but includes stuff like

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Speaker 1: sets from Mr Rogers neighborhood, the history of glass manufacturing

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Speaker 1: and the history of slavery and abolition locally, along with

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Speaker 1: temporary exhibit plus. If you do the Heart Healthy Challenge,

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Speaker 1: take the stairs to all five floors, stamp your card.

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Speaker 1: You get a prize at the end of the visit,

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Speaker 1: a little picklepin. Oh pickle pins. Oh we We didn't

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Speaker 1: include this anecdote in our Ketchup episode, but at one

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Speaker 1: of the World's fairs that Heinz debuted, they're like there there.

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Speaker 1: It was right before the Pure Food Act, I think.

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Speaker 1: And then so they were still like trying to to

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Speaker 1: drum up popularity, and they to get people to come

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Speaker 1: um cards that they distributed throughout the fair grounds. It

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Speaker 1: was like come to our booth and we'll give you

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Speaker 1: a free pickle pin. Uh. And and it caused such

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Speaker 1: a rush that like the weight of of all the

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Speaker 1: people almost buckled the stage that they were on for

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Speaker 1: the pickle for the pickle pins. Yeah, famous pickle pins

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Speaker 1: through right. Alexandra also wrote in ever since your Donut episode,

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Speaker 1: I have been dying waiting for Fat Thursday. I am

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Speaker 1: an American living in vortslof Poland. I think I said

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Speaker 1: that right. I'm so sorry if I didn't. On Fat Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Poles eat a hundred million donuts. This translates into more

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Speaker 1: than three donuts about one thousand, two hundred calories per

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Speaker 1: average pole. One donut weighs around seventy grahams and consists

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Speaker 1: solely of fats and carbohydrates, hence fat Thursday. The tradition

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Speaker 1: of eating donuts on Fat Thursday in Poland goes back

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Speaker 1: Poland's answer to Shrove Tuesday, known as pancake Day, which

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Speaker 1: precedes Ash Wednesday in many English speaking countries. In addition

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Speaker 1: to jam filled donuts known as punch key, thin strips

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Speaker 1: a crispy pastry dough known as favorki are consumed today

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Speaker 1: in large quantities among bakers and confectioners. Fat Thursday is

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Speaker 1: regarded as one of the busiest days of the year,

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Speaker 1: with many cake shops opened from the early hours of

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Speaker 1: the morning after a marathon night of frying donuts. She

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Speaker 1: sent pictures too, and um the lines were enormous, wrapping

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Speaker 1: around buildings waiting to get get some of these donuts

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Speaker 1: and they looked really good. I've still never know I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've had jam donuts, but I know, yeah, I haven't

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Speaker 1: had an authentic like yeah, we need to fix that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah you do. But yeah, so so thank you so

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Speaker 1: much to both of you for writing in Yes, and

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Speaker 1: if you would like to write to us, please do so.

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Speaker 1: Our email is food Stuff at how stuff works dot com.

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Speaker 1: audio engineer Tari and our producer Dylan Fagan for working

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Speaker 1: and we hope that lots more good things are coming

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