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Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Ice cream, no, I don't need ice cream.

Ice cream sandwiches and maybe later. Ah, there they are. The peas. The frozen peas.

I went digging through my freezer for a little show and tell.

To tell you about a man you've probably never heard of,

a man who changed the way we eat.

His name was Clarence Birdseye.

He's been dead since 1956,

but it was Birdseye, a college dropout who basically invented a new kind of food,

frozen food.

Hi, Mac, it's Mark Kirlanski. We're set to go here.

You won't be surprised to learn that there aren't many frozen food experts out there, but we did find one.

I'm Mark Kirlanski.

I have 32 books in print.

And his specialty is turning quirky topics into bestsellers.

What about the history of cod, the history of salt, the history of milk, the history of paper, the history of the Motown song

dancing in the street.

And one about frozen food, a book from 2012 titled Birdseye, The Adventures of a Curious Man.

Born in 1886 in Brooklyn, Clarence Birdseye grew up a city boy, but yearned for nature and

adventure. His parents sent him to Amherst College in Massachusetts, the school his father attended.

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