Hi proof

Bridget Lancaster here to let you know that we are back

with another season of proof.

We're bringing you more of the fascinating characters,

surprising history, and unexpected stories

that change the way you think about food.

This season we asked the question,

does color really influence how we perceive food?

Midway through the meal, somebody flips a switch and all of the sudden the lighting is no longer

known and the people look down and they see that in fact the steak is blue and the peas are red and the potatoes are green and they react with extreme distress.

One of them, you know, becomes sick, like physically ill.

We learn how one bottle of soda changed consumer protection law forever.

It's one of the most fundamental cases in the whole of Scott's law and the law of the United Kingdom and the law of many

legal systems around the world.

We meet the Renegade French Ventnor that's making illegal wine in a hilltop village.

It's illegal.

I see why are you?

Forbiddle, why are you?

And we share an immigrant family's story of how food helped them adapt to life in a new country.

And I would be like, mom, it's the Thousand Island is not fancy.

Mom, they're better dressings.

She should try some other dressings.

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