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Gastropod

The Food of Love

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Throughout history, humans have attributed aphrodisiac powers to certain foods, from legendary lover Casanova’s diet of fifty oysters for breakfast to chocolate, the default Valentine’s Day gift for the uninspired. But how did such varying vegetables as asparagus, potatoes, and Peruvian maca acquire this reputation—and do any of them actually deserve it? Join us to find out the history and science behind edible aphrodisiacs in this NSFW episode of Gastropod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So you guys went to Belize over the break and you ate some things.

0:07.2

So we did, we went snorkeling one day.

0:09.7

The last time we were in the water, our guide did some free diving and he brought up a couple

0:13.4

of conks and he was going to eat them himself later in the day.

0:16.9

So he started kind of pulling the meat out and then he took out this long thin gelatinous

0:21.7

thing and he said, here eat it raw straight from the animal and of course I was like, sure

0:26.0

it's pretty much it.

0:27.0

I'm like, yeah, whatever.

0:29.8

So I took a bite, I shared it around, they were only three of us.

0:32.2

It was me and Tim of course and this other woman who was snorkeling with us.

0:36.4

Describe the taste.

0:37.4

It tasted sort of like savory gelatin.

0:41.0

It didn't a little bit like sea one.

0:42.5

Gummy worm, salty gummy worm.

0:44.6

Yeah, kind of like a kelp like gummy worm.

0:48.5

And he made some comment about it being like bag or I kind of missed that though and I kept

0:52.9

on saying, I wonder what part of the animal this is.

0:55.9

Bless your heart.

0:56.9

Sort of.

0:57.9

I'm in the back of the boat and I had divers on the front and we sort of look at each other

1:02.4

with a bemused expression and sort of two beats and both at the exact same time to Cynthia

1:08.4

said, it's the good part.

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