You Eat Funny

12/14/22 • 35 min

You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)

You take a totally normal trip to the supermarket to buy some totally normal meat. But what you purchase comes in a geometric shape that looks nothing like the animal that it originally came from. In this episode, we learn that modern meat-buying is utterly bizarre when compared to the meat-acquisition experiences of virtually all humans for virtually all of our species' past.
Discover how and when our animal products turned into disks. And cylinders. And cubes. And oozy concentrates. And--hot soda?

Learn more about this rogue, underdog, Hail Mary pass of a project at findyourselfinhistory.com !

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Thanks for listening! To learn more about this history project, check out findyourselfinhistory.com.

Learn more about this rogue, underdog, Hail Mary pass of a project at findyourselfinhistory.com !

Support the show

Thanks for listening! To learn more about this history project, check out findyourselfinhistory.com.

Next Episode

You Don't Get The Joke (Probably)

You might think you have a totally normal sense of humor, but then you hear a joke from the past and it sounds like it came from some other dimension. That's when you realize once again that your normal can be another person's weird.
Join your new favorite podcaster-historian host on this journey through space and time, and open your mind to myriad manners of mirth-making. Along the way, you'll meet some fancy-pants anthropologists, a hungry international traveler, a possibly crazy dude from Kansas, some talking animals, a U.S. Senator, and a gassy Sumerian, among many others.
You'll also find out far more about lusty sea creatures than you'd ever thought possible from a history podcast.

Learn more about this rogue, underdog, Hail Mary pass of a project at findyourselfinhistory.com !

Support the show

Thanks for listening! To learn more about this history project, check out findyourselfinhistory.com.