Snacktime: A Refreshing Trend for Troubled Times

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Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

From daily walks to sourdough starters, many of us found new ways to have fun and stay sane during the pandemic. For some, a new trend has plenty of... appeal.

In this Snacktime episode, Ben tells Amory about an internet trend mixing personal hygiene and your daily dose of Vitamin C. Then, listen to the story of how one Reddit user's overthinking ended up being just the right amount.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Amory.
0:11.0	Ben.
0:12.0	Where during COVID has your happy place been?
0:15.0	Like, what's the thing?
0:17.0	Is it your morning oatmeal and green smoothie routine in the kitchen?
0:21.0	Is it like your bun bun romper room?
0:23.0	What is it?
0:24.0	Oh man, I love the bun bun romper room.
0:28.0	Which is the room that belongs to my rabbit.
0:31.0	It sounds like a weird thing, but it's a normal thing.
0:35.0	I mean, that's your term, but I like it and I'm going to go with it.
0:37.0	No, it's the woods.
0:38.0	It's the woods that's right at the end of my street.
0:42.0	Do you think other people have experienced something similar?
0:46.0	Like, as we all start to come out of this thing in various ways,
0:51.0	what are the alone together things that we've all been doing in your mind?
0:56.0	Remember when everybody was making bread?
0:59.0	And then we were all doing online shopping.
1:02.0	And then some people were learning how to make clothes.
1:04.0	That was like a thing in my feeds.
1:06.0	Gwyneth Paltrow ate too much pasta apparently,
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