CLASSIC: The Wide World of Food Conspiracies

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Whether rich or poor, young or old, everyone on the planet has to eat. Government institutions monitor the safety, cleanliness and consistency of our favorite foods, but as with any global industry, there are more than a few skeletons in the collective closet of the food and beverage business. Join Ben and Matt as they dive down the gastronomic rabbit hole of food conspiracies in tonight's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	fellow conspiracy realist. This is a classic episode that you want to hear while you're gnaishing.
0:08.4	Back in 2020, we started exploring the wide world of food conspiracies. I believe this is where we give.
0:17.0	This may be the one where we start our obsession with checkers and their amazing fast food motto, you've got to eat.
0:24.0	Yes.
0:24.4	You got it.
0:25.1	You got it.
0:25.7	Yeah.
0:26.6	I like that translation too.
0:30.0	That's a little more hardcore and somehow Gothic, one must eat.
0:34.0	Well, yes, I would also say that this may also be an episode that you don't want to be
0:38.5	gnaishing while listening to. Just, you know, results may vary. Whatever your thing is, we're
0:43.3	going to talk about a wide range of food conspiracies, some of which are not gross and some of
0:49.5	which are, you know, a little gross. All right, we tricked you a little, folks. This is not super appetizing.
0:57.2	Yeah, not at all.
0:58.6	And this is right before COVID happened, too.
1:01.0	So we're not really sure how that is going to affect things, like the way we thought about food before COVID.
1:07.7	Weird.
1:09.6	Remember when people were putting their groceries in the garage for like a cool down period?
1:13.8	At Washington.
1:14.7	Washington.
1:15.2	I loved it.
1:15.8	I loved it.
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