#96 Quirky Monarchs (Part 1)

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on the show we’re discussing regents who were, let’s say, a bit different. We’ll be meeting the 11th century Norwegian King Magnus Barefoot, we’ve got the avid collector that was George III and let’s find out how terrible Russia’s Ivan the Terrible actually is.

And this week we’re bemoaning expiry dates and the roulette of consuming slightly off food. Elis is happy to consume nuts that are 8 years out of date, but as Tom points out.. “you never see a squirrel with a Tommy ache”. If you’ve got anything on this or anything else: [email protected]

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0:20.1	Hello and welcome to Oh, What a Time, the History Pod, that tries to decide if a time before sell by and use by dates would have been just incredibly stressful.
0:31.5	Okay. So now I can open my fridge. I can go, I know that this bacon is a week old and I shouldn't have it. Whereas
0:37.8	previously you just have to sniff it and go, well, we'll find out, I guess. Let's just
0:41.3	see what happens. It's funny though. I think nothing winds up a certain kind of person, especially
0:47.9	man, as much as people who adhere to sell by dates. Yeah. I remember seeing a long thread about this on the Swansea City football forum.
0:58.0	Right.
0:58.9	Where someone was like, do you sniff or do you go by sell-by dates?
1:02.9	People are like, I will not have anyone dictate to me when bacon is going off.
1:08.3	Listen, we've been using our noses to exact where the bacon's going off for a thousand
1:13.4	bloody years.
1:14.6	So I will not have a company who are doing it just so they can sell more bacon.
1:20.0	It's a bloody scam.
1:21.0	It's a conspiracy.
1:22.3	I'm going right to the heart of big bacon, okay?
1:25.7	My mother-in-law, Elle, is one of those people, but less swearing.
1:29.2	She is completely, like, absolutely by the nose, and it'll be chicken, and it'll be three days
1:36.2	after.
1:36.7	And she'll like, no, they don't know anything, I'm going to eat it, it's fine.
1:40.2	And then, it's not about, I would say, not a lie, most of the time she's fine, but twice a year she'll be violently ill.
1:47.7	That's fascinating to me. I have been violently ill once. I've only, I've had proper food poisoning
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