What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws

02/13/24 • 47 min

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There was a brief period in America’s history – after people left the farm to work in the city and before the government started regulating it – when there was a total, lawless free-for-all in the food industry. Things were bad. Really, really bad.

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Welcome to Stuff you should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and we're just stuff you should know in it, doing some stuff you should know, kind of stuff on the Stuff you should know podcasts.

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