The Gastronomer’s Gazette

Auteur(s): Roger Overall/Show and Tell Communications Ltd
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  • The world is even more bizarre than you suspect it is. If you want to understand it, you have to look at the pillar of all life: food and drink. Without food and drink, we can’t live. Also, without food and drink, why would you want to? Let me tell you, if wine or cheddar ever runs out, I’m on the first rocket ship out of here. Do you feel the same way? Then this is the podcast for you.
    Copyright Roger Overall/Show and Tell Communications Ltd. All rights reserved.
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  • #0052—We Live in a Giant Cheese Vacuum

    #0052—We Live in a Giant Cheese Vacuum
    Jan 28 2025

    Cheese is one of the world’s most offensive foods. In fact, given the lack of cheese on any other known planet, it is quite possible there is a universal ban on it.

    Such a cheese ban would explain two things...
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    2 min
  • #0051—Should Turkeys All Move to Greenland?

    #0051—Should Turkeys All Move to Greenland?
    Dec 19 2024

    As many as 46 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving dinners in the USA at the end of November. And in Ireland alone, an estimated 1 million turkeys are eaten at Christmas. In the UK, the Christmas turkey toll is around 10 million.

    But why turkeys? What have they ever done to us?

    SFX from Pixabay.com and Zapsplat.com
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    5 min
  • #0050—You're Toasting Wrongly

    #0050—You're Toasting Wrongly
    Oct 8 2024

    Have you ever wondered why we ‘toast’ someone with a drink?

    Even when we don’t like them very much?

    (But everyone else is going along with it and you don’t want to be seen not joining in, particularly if it’s the boss being toasted.)

    (Christ, you hate them.)

    (There it’s over.)

    (Actually, why is it called a ‘toast’?)

    Curious? Good, let’s begin.
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    2 min

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