The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 4)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we are start out with an appetizer looking at how chopsticks came to be and why they became so popular in certain parts of the world vs things like spoons and forks. Next up we have a brief message from our sponsor… Ourselves! Go check out our new-ish channel Highlight History, an upcoming re-launch / re-think of Fact Quickie, a new upcoming one in Ancient Marvels, and Simon’s latest attempt to host all YouTube channels- Side Projects. Next up, in the main course, we look at who exactly invented the spoon, knife, and fork, how they became popularized and the surprising amount of time it took for two of the three to become a staple of dinner tables the world over. As for the desert for today, we discuss who actually invented the Fortune Cookie, which pretty much everyone always gets wrong. And, spoiler: no, it wasn’t the Chinese nor Americans. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 4) appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of the brain food show.
0:08.0	Hot off the back of recording our last episode which we wrapped up about five minutes ago in between which I got some
0:13.6	coffee spilled my coffee everywhere and made myself some more coffee which was a
0:17.0	brilliant break but you guys have waited like a week in between so welcome
0:21.1	back to the show uh..., hey, David, how's it going?
0:25.0	I feel like I do these pleasantries to go with you,
0:27.0	but we were just talking to each other, so it's weird.
0:29.0	You know, I think in the last episode you didn't ask me how I was doing so thanks for that.
0:34.0	I'm so sorry where are my British manners?
0:37.2	How are you doing?
0:38.2	I am well thank you how are you?
0:40.6	I'm doing good.
0:42.1	Can we talk about something you recently bought which is extremely cool or is that under wraps?
0:47.0	How did I buy? Oh, dude, what did you buy?
0:50.0	I told you I can't remember anything.
0:53.0	Oh yes, yeah, okay, yeah we can talk about that.
0:56.0	Cool, well what did you buy?
0:58.0	An aeroplane.
1:00.0	You did buy an aeroplane, Dude, it looks so cool.
1:03.4	It is.
1:04.4	Because I mean regular view.
1:06.2	Yeah, go on, go on.
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