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The Food Pyramid (Entry 487.MT0611)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In which budget-conscious Swedes rearrange American ideas about nutritious eating, and Ken is pretty sure M&Ms are not getting smaller. Certificate #54063.

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0:00.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.0

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

0:26.2

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 487 dot M.T. 611, certificate number 54063. The Food Pyramid.

1:25.0

At supper time, you're hungry again.

1:29.0

Everything tastes good and you're eating well. See what good eating well.

1:33.0

See what good eating habits can do for you?

1:36.0

Do you have a sense of all the shows that we have referenced the topic in other shows and said,

1:42.0

hey, that would be a good omnibus and I think we have to do it like four times that's my cutoff

1:46.4

If we don't mention it four times I'm not going to remember yeah I bet you there are there are omnibus

1:57.0

Futurelings who have a better sense of like you guys said back in 2018 that you were going to do chewing gum.

1:59.4

Broken promises.

2:00.4

We're like a political campaign. But I do feel like the food pyramid has come up multiple times and we always put an asterisk by it like, oh yeah, we should do the food pyramid. Possibly second only to brutalism.

2:15.0

Which will never happen.

2:15.8

I'm still working on it.

2:17.2

I have 11 books about brutalism

2:20.2

and for whatever reason, books about architecture are always six inches thick.

2:25.3

Yeah. They're the biggest books and then you open them and you're like this is going to be

2:29.0

full of beautiful photographs and it's it% 80% text.

2:33.0

Well especially books about brutalism should just be big ugly slabs on your coffee table

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