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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Thursday, September 30th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

The very American history of the Chinese takeout box and a look at the new American core trend.

Plus, archaeologists have uncovered a hidden neighborhood in the ancient Maya

city of Tikal that sheds new lights on the imperialism of the Tewatiwakan. And a lost David

Bowie album is finally being released. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So this was a quick link on Kotki.org earlier this week, and dang did it deliver.

Or should I say, takeout?

Consumer packaging design website DaiLine recently wrote about the history of the Chinese takeout box

and how, like so many things we think

are authentic to other cultures or time periods, was really just invented in America around

the turn of the 20th century. So the original form of what we now think of as the folded-up

paper box used for lo-main and fried rice was patented in 1894 by inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox as a paper pail based on a similar wooden pail used for transporting oysters.

Yes, oysters. You could do a whole history of much of the world through the lens of oysters,

which several writers have done, notably the great monotopic author Mark Kirlanski,

but suffice it to say for now that oysters were not always a delicacy.

In fact, they used to be one of the cheapest foods available,

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