The Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower
10/23/22 • 24 min
Join Kelli for this double-feature episode as she looks into two weird food stories - the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.
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Join Kelli for this double-feature episode as she looks into two weird food stories - the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.
Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric
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Insta: @beardwrites
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A Popular History of Unpopular Things - The Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower
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Welcome to A Popular History of Unpopular Things where we love all things weird, gross, and bloody disgusting. My name is Kelli Beard, and strap in, y’all. It’s gonna get real weird around here today!
So what we try to do here on the Podcast is go back in time to learn about some of the less popular things. In other episodes, we’ve looked into cannibalism for survival with the Donner Party. We solved a maritime mystery with the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste. We even tried to find out whethe
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