Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show,

to the show, Ridiculous historians.

Thank you as always so much for tuning in. Who mommy?

I love that.

Who's that man over there in the corner?

Why, it's the Willy Wonka, ridiculous history.

Our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

And over here in a different corner, in this corner, in that corner, that's the one I'm in,

and who are you? Oh gosh, yeah, I the one I'm in, it's Noel Brown. And who are you?

Oh, gosh, yeah, I'm Ben Boland, they call me here.

We never say our last name, this may well be a first.

I wonder if there is anyone out there blissfully unaware of our last names and we've just

ruined everything for them.

I think I think people are read on to this and hopefully read on to part one of our exploration of the preposterous history of artificial

flavors.

Now, Noel, when we last left you without a dope beat to step to, we spent a lot of time looking at the strange evolution of vanilla and we spent a lot of time looking at the strange evolution of vanilla and

vanilla in which may well be my favorite word of the week.

Yeah, chilling like a vanilla villain villain.

There he is.

Yeah, and you know and we did decide to make this its own part because the rest of the stuff that we have is

easily it's another episode which you're gonna hear right now but vanilla does

feel like the kind of foundation on which the entirety of artificial

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