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Nooks & Crannies

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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Only seven people in the world knew the secret behind the soft, delicious goodness of Thomas' English Muffins. When one of them tried to leave the company...all hell broke loose. Revisionist History senior producer Ben looks at how the breakfast treat came to be at the center of one of the most important legal cases you’ve likely never heard of.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:14.0

Today on the show, I'm sharing part one of a two-part investigation of Thomas's English

0:19.4

muffins, nooks and crannies.

0:21.9

The baking secret at the heart of an influential trade secrecy case that I think is a canary

0:26.9

in the coal mine, a weevil in the flower, signifying a dark future for all of us.

0:32.8

You can listen to revisionist history wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.6

Thanks for listening.

0:39.3

Hold on, let's take a little bite here. One morning, not long ago, my colleague Ben Nadav Haffrey

0:46.6

and I huddled in a small backroom at Pushkin Industries to solve a mystery. It like hits the back

0:53.2

of your palate. There's like a funk to it. You know what I mean, hits the back of your palate.

0:55.5

There's, like, a funk to it.

0:56.2

You know what I mean?

0:58.3

Through the glass wall of the room,

1:00.2

we could see our fellow Pushkinites working on various prosaic podcasts and audiobooks.

1:04.6

While we, alone, wrestled with an eternal question,

1:09.2

involving toasted bread.

1:12.7

Just from a sensory perspective, there's a lot of crunch.

1:17.4

Listen, also not forget it sighs.

1:19.6

Yes, palpable.

1:21.5

It's palmable.

1:23.1

Breakfast is the meal you make when you're barely conscious.

1:26.1

So the breakfast table is a Super Bowl for food

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