Malcolm Gladwell Only Drinks Five Liquids

The Sporkful

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Author and podcast host Malcolm Gladwell immigrated to Canada when he was young, the child of an English father and Jamaican mother. He’s always felt like an outsider. He hated maple syrup, in a town that hosts the largest one-day maple syrup festival in the world.

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0:00.0	So you grew up in El Maira, Ontario.
0:05.0	I did.
0:05.0	El Maira hosts what claims to be the world's largest one-day maple syrup festival.
0:10.2	This is true.
0:11.2	Can you tell me about that?
0:12.6	For some reason that I don't know this little town that I grew up in, decided it was going
0:17.4	to own maple syrup in the way that Los Angeles owns the Oscars.
0:24.7	And I went through years of these and the point of the maple syrup festival always eluded
0:30.4	me.
0:31.4	It's April, which is a very nasty time of year in that part of the world.
0:35.7	It's like slushy.
0:37.9	It could get really cold.
0:39.5	It could be freezing rain.
0:41.5	Did you, I guess a kid, did you make the maple taffy in the snow?
0:44.9	No.
0:45.9	Do you know what that is?
0:46.9	I am aware of it.
0:48.9	Yes.
0:49.9	I had a general to stay in for all maple based products.
0:52.8	We had a split here.
0:53.8	Now the truth comes out.
1:00.9	This is the Spork Fall.
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