Podcasts by The Fantastic History Of Food
Stories of the fun, bizarre and often ridiculous, history of food.
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50 - How Alcohol Prohibition Created NASCAR from 2023-11-08T11:51:47
This episode is a look at how in the early to mid 1900’s the abolitionist laws banning the production and consumption of alcohol played a majorly significant role in the creation of what, today,...
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49 - Charles Domery Ate Cats, Grass&A Fellow Soldier's Leg from 2023-10-06T11:09:30
There are many stories throughout history of individuals with freakish appetites, who seem to be able to consume quantities of food well past what a human stomach should be capable of handling.<...
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48 - The Dutch Once Ate Their Prime Minister from 2023-09-15T08:57:46
For most of history, the Dutch have been an almost all-powerful force to be reckoned with. They were the forerunners for a lot of the world's exploration, and for a long time dominated the seas and...
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47 - William McKenna the "Human Ostrich" from 2023-08-31T13:31:31
For today's story we will be diving into the life of a truly extraordinary man named William V McKenna, and while he fits the category of “people who eat random things”, those things that he ate ca...
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46 - Turning Hitler Into A Woman By Poisoning His Food from 2023-08-16T19:10:25
WW2 was raging onwards, with men fighting and dying each and every day. It was so delicately poised that there seemed to be no end to the fighting in sight.
Weeks and months dragged on i...
45 - A Spice Worth Killing For from 2023-01-04T14:09:43
There is a spice we use so commonly today that it's hard to believe that at one time, wars were fought, people were killed and entire civilizations almost wiped out, simply so that the strongest fo...
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44 - Were The Salem Witch Trials Caused By Infected Food? from 2022-10-24T04:30:02
If ever you’ve doubted food's integral place in history, today’s stories are sure to remind us all, that no matter what life and history in general, wouldn’t and in fact, couldn’t be the same witho...
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43 - Foodie Fortune Tellers from 2022-10-19T11:38:45
Many old food-based fortunes were light-hearted party games mainly played around Halloween time, but some of there were deadly serious, and their results were taken as gospel truth. And at the time...
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42 - Delicious Robberies from 2022-10-07T14:09:37
Today's stories aren’t just about the small-time pilfering of food here and there from your local grocery stores. No, today we’ll be talking about people stealing truckloads of the stuff at a time,...
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41 - The World's Worst Sandwich from 2022-10-04T08:04:46
There are few things more universally loved than a good sandwich.
We as humans love the simplicity and deliciousness of having something to hold all of our favourite fillings together.
40 - The Tapeworm Diet from 2022-09-09T18:42:52
As soon as people became wealthy enough not to have to spend every waking hour of their day, working, cleaning, hunting or cooking, they had enough to look in the mirror and decide what they didn’t...
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39 - Julia Child: WW2 Spy Who Created Shark Repellent Cakes from 2022-08-20T04:00:02
Even the most famous and lauded among us still have a few tasty secrets up their sleeves, and today we’re going to dive into this fascinating side of one of modern cookings most famous gourmands: J...
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38 - The Great Goldfish Eating Craze of 1939 from 2022-08-16T10:23
Not only were western cultures happily eating raw fish for ages, at one point they were uh, in fact eating it so raw as for it still, in fact, to be alive.
That’s right, today we’re tal...
37 - Michigan Held A Funeral For 30 000 Pizzas from 2022-07-04T14:19:30
There is nothing quite like pizza. The variety is endless, the experience is magical, the taste is delicious and they can be found in almost every single country on earth with any number of local v...
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36 - Black Banquets&Funeral Feasts from 2022-06-11T20:24:56
There are quite a few stories from historical banquetry that weren’t of the presumed fun and hearty nature. Instead it seems that there was an occasional trend, in wealthy circles specifically, to ...
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35 - How A Tea Craze Took Over Tunisia from 2022-05-17T20:19:47
We continue to follow the journey of tea as it makes its way to Europe and the Americas. We’ll see the large role tea tends to play politically amongst rival nations as well as internally in Turkey...
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34 - Healed By Tea After Fighting A Dragon from 2022-04-22T20:56:22
The history of tea is as long and complex as its variety of flavours. It's a history quite literally infused with tales of spirituality and mysticism. It has evolved over the ages to become world r...
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BONUS: KFC Chickens In Space (With Melissa McCue-McGrath) from 2022-04-01T09:24:09
The time Kentucky Fried Chicken teamed up with NASA, some space ready chickens, and an 8th Grader FOR SCIENCE.
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33 - The Candy Bomber Of Berlin from 2022-03-26T15:31:29
This is the story of Gail Halvorsen, who was known to the children of Berlin as Der Schokoladen Flieger or The Chocolate Flier, Uncle Wiggly Wings or the most widely known of all, The Candy Bomber ...
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32 - A Banquet On Horseback from 2022-03-06T14:31:44
In today's society, those who are able to, are always seeking out new and wondrous dining experiences. More than a hundred years ago, men and women with too much time on their hands and more money ...
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31 - Using Onions To Heal Gunshot Wounds from 2022-02-21T07:22:26
Onions have been a part of human history since long before records began. It's played a vital part in our diets, but also in our mythology, representing eternal life to some cultures, as well as...
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30 - Japan's Accidental Killer Rice from 2022-02-05T12:19:09
In the late 1800s in Japan, there was a disease that seemed to target not just inner-city dwellers in Edo, what we know as modern-day Tokyo, but it affected mainly the upper classes. Not even th...
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29 - Food Obsessed Pirate William Dampier from 2022-01-20T15:15:14
Pirates weren’t known for their discerning tastes in cuisine. If movies and television are to be believed they seemed to subsist purely on rum alone. But it was out of this quagmire that one of ...
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28 - When Parmentier Tricked People Into Eating Potatoes from 2021-12-17T10:45:35
It’s almost unthinkable that just a few hundred years ago, potatoes were only eaten in a very small corner of the earth. They are now one of the most widely eaten vegetables around the globe and...
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27 - The Nottingham Cheese Riot from 2021-10-15T04:00
The people of Nottingham don't take kindly to people fleecing them for their very own cheese. The time had come to stand up and fight the gouda fight.
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26 - The Giant Frog Farming Swindle from 2021-10-01T04:00
Albert Broel was a man of mystery. Claiming to be the son of Polish nobility, he arrived in America during World War 1 and set out to make his fortune. After a few failed ventures in alternative...
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25 - Pushing A Peanut Up A Mountain With Your Nose from 2021-09-17T04:00
3 men, at different times, have all tried to push a peanut up Pikes Peak with nothing but their noses. This episode tells you all about their grueling efforts and what led them to attempt such a...
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Bonus Episode: "In The Blink Of An Eye" - Useless Information Podcast from 2021-04-14T22:44:14
Today is a special bonus episode for you that gives you an insight into another podcast that, if you enjoy the stories told on here, I think you'll love. It's all part of a fun podcast event tha...
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24 - The Eggnog Riot from 2021-03-19T21:07:35
What begins as just a little bit of seasonal fun, ends with smashed windows, bannisters ripped from stairways and a military barracks surrounded by rubble in a state of near ruin. By the...
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23 - The Nazi's Exploding Chocolate Bar from 2021-02-25T21:08:05
Food inherently is meant to sustain life, but this has not always been the case, in fact, for as far back as history goes food has also been used as a vehicle, not for invigorating life,...
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22 - Leonardo da Vinci The Waiter, Chef & Party Planner from 2021-02-05T11:26:20
For many of history’s most famous characters, we all know, at the very least, the basics of what makes these men and women famous to begin with. And of history's most famous people, outside of r...
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21 - Crazy True Stories About Ice Cream from 2021-01-22T11:59:46
From it's origins in ancient China, to the accidental discovery of the first ice cream cone, we take a journey to see how ice cream has influenced cultures all around the world. World War 2 play...
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20 - Al Capone Once Ran A Soup Kitchen from 2020-10-02T08:00
Al Capone was a model student for most of his childhood, but he didn't take long to go from fresh-faced to scar-faced.
The Great Depression had just hit and people were out of work an...
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19 - Tomatoes Were Blamed For Witchcraft & Werewolves from 2020-09-19T05:53:48
The past is a crazy place, and no matter how many times we go back there, there's always something new to surprise us. This episode we learn about a continental witch panic that just happened to...
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18 - The Worlds Most Dangerous (And Illegal) Cheese from 2020-08-30T12:52:36
For this episode we're travelling to the small Italian island of Sardinia where we explore the a generations long delicacy known as Casu Marzu. While the Sardinian people love it, it's been name...
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17 - When Drinking Coffee Could Get You Decapitated from 2020-07-17T11:52:54
This is the 2nd episode in our two part series on coffee. Last time we heard about the origins of coffee discovered by dancing goats in Ethiopia, as well as a few scandinavian kings who took a p...
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16 - The Swedish King Who Tried To Kill A Prisoner With Coffee from 2020-06-30T19:31:54
Coffee was discovered in the 9th century in Ethiopia. From there it spread across the globe, making its way through Europe and at some point into Sweden. It was not as welcome there as in other ...
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15 - 3 Tales of Cheese: From Egyptian Mummies to Uruguayan Cannonballs from 2020-06-12T08:43:44
In this episode we explore one of the worlds favourite foods, CHEESE! We hear a bit about it's origin story and then dive into 3 different stories involving cheese throughout history, and it's a...
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14 - Piracy, Witches and Hot Chocolate from 2020-05-16T09:01:41
Hot chocolate has been a favourite drink of so many households throughout the ages. Not many people know the rich and varied history that this simple drink actually has. From Columbus first enco...
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13 - Charles Darwin & The Glutton Club from 2020-04-26T13:51:08
Charles Darwin is one of the most famous men in history. Not as many people know about his penchant for eating almost every animal he studied, from puma to armadillo, tortoise to brown owl. Disc...
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12 - The Man Who Ate King Louis XIV's Heart from 2020-03-20T15:13:39
William Buckland and his son Francis were two men whose goal in life seemed to be to consume every single animal on earth. From bluebottle flies to mice on toast they were not afraid to try anyt...
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11 - Bathing In A Meaty Broth from 2020-03-06T06:43:38
Throughout medieval times all the way until the 19th century, there are tales of people using food in all manner of creative ways.
We know that ultimately what we put into our bodies will hav...
11 - When People Bathed In Meat Soups from 2020-03-06T06:43:38
Throughout medieval times all the way until the 19th century, there are tales of people using food in all manner of creative ways.
We know that ultimately what we put into our bodies will have...
10 - Hitler And The Secret 'Margarine Whale' Plan from 2020-02-21T10:31:44
Hitler had a plan to make Germany self-sufficient during World War 2. The German people had a craving for margarine, unlike any other nation. In order to keep his people happy, Hitler and his ad...
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9 - The German Coconut Cult from 2019-09-12T07:35:17
The bizarre story of a man named August Engelhardt who started a cult on a tropical island in the early 1900's. He forced his followers to only eat coconuts and to worship the sun. They weren't ...
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8 - Tapioca Time-Bomb from 2019-08-23T14:56:03
It's August 1972 and the Swiss freighter Cassarate is bound for Europe with 1.5 Million kg's of Tapioca on board. Somewhere along the way a fire breaks out below decks. Mix tapioca, heat and the...
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7 - The Deadly Tidal Wave Of Molasses from 2019-07-26T14:02:03
Just 2 months after WW1 one of the most bizarre tragedies in history would strike a crowded neighbourhood in Boston. Thanks to some unseasonably warm weather, some poor construction and the gree...
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6 - The California Egg War of 1863 from 2019-07-15T08:34:10
The California gold rush in the mid-1800's brought hundreds of thousands of people through San Francisco in a very short amount of time. The sudden demand for food sparked an entirely different ...
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5 - Ancient Warrior Diet: Ninjas From Medieval Japan from 2019-06-29T12:54:42
Ninjas are everyones favourite ancient warrior class. We take a look behind the scenes at what fueled these simple guerrilla warriors and kept them in such lithe and agile shape.
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4 - When a NY Yankee Challenged an Ostrich To A Spaghetti Eating Competition from 2019-06-29T12:50:14
Francesco Stephano Pezzolo, otherwise known as Ping Bodie, was a famous slugger for the NY Yankees just after WW1. This is the story of the day he challenged the famous Jacksonville ostrich Percy "...
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4 - NY Yankee vs. Ostrich Spaghetti Eating Competition from 2019-06-29T12:50:14
Francesco Stephano Pezzolo, otherwise known as Ping Bodie, was a famous slugger for the NY Yankees just after WW1. This is the story of the day he challenged the famous Jacksonville ostrich Perc...
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3 - A Gross History Of Competitive Eating from 2019-06-29T12:45:43
We all know the stories of modern day competitive hotdog eating competitions, now we look way back in history to possibly the first ever competitive eater known as The Great Eater Of Kent. From ...
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2 - A Conspiracy. A Murder. An Egyptian Bread Pudding. from 2019-06-29T12:40:47
An exploration of three different origin stories for the famous Egyptian pudding Om Ali. We dive deep into the story of the famous female Sultan Shajar Al Durr, and her far reaching influence in...
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1 - The Day Paris Ate Its Zoo Animals from 2019-06-29T12:33:24
It's 1870 and Paris is under siege. It's the middle of the Franco-Prussian war, and the German army has the city surrounded. Their food and supply lines are cut off and the Parisians find that t...
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Introducing The Fantastic History Of Food from 2019-06-25T14:59:02
Season One of 'The Fantastic History Of Food' will soon be launching with the first 5 episodes.
I'd really appreciate all of your help in getting more listeners for this podcast as we...
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