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Who Did What Now

141. That Time the USA Banned Sliced Bread

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sometimes history is depressing, other times it's downright silly, like that time America outright banned sliced bread, much to the chagrin to housewives everywhere!


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your

0:13.9

history class with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books.

0:19.7

I had an experience this morning.

0:22.8

Let me tell you all about it.

0:24.5

So I'm on the phone to my mum.

0:26.1

I got my earbuds in.

0:27.1

She calls me first thing in the morning

0:28.4

because she knows that's when she'll get through to me.

0:31.9

So I'm tottering along as I am, chatting away.

0:35.4

I'm walking past the college.

0:40.1

And this bus, like a proper coach,

0:48.7

like a full bus, right, pulls up and it sort of honks at me and I'm like, oh, not me. No worries,

0:55.9

buddy. Because I'm walking past the college. I'm walking past the college. You know, I've got pink hair. I'm in a summer dress. Like, maybe they think I'm a student, like, from behind. And, and anyway, I keep walking,

1:03.2

still on the phone to my mum. And as I'm walking, the bus comes over again. It pulls over, right?

1:10.6

Doors open. And I was like, okay, I better speak to

1:14.1

him. And I pull the earbuds out. And the driver is just like, hi, I see you every day.

1:20.8

It's when I say, like, I watch your stuff. I love your, I love your content. Who's doing what

1:25.2

now today? And I was like, thanks buddy.

1:29.5

Because my mum's just like laughing on the other end of the phone. It's the first time that a,

1:36.1

you know, like proper transport vehicle, like something that is designed to transport many people,

1:42.7

like, you know, like a football team, has physically

1:46.2

pulled over on a main road to like talk to me. Like that is, that was wild. I mean, it's

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