War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
During the battle of the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, the First Marine Division seemed doomed. Surrounded, outnumbered, outgunned and running dangerously low on ammunition, the Marines called for an airdrop of ammo only to receive... pallets of tootsie rolls. Over the next two bloody, violent weeks these tiny candies turned out be much more useful than anyone could have predicted -- tune in to learn why some Marines credit their survival to this oft-maligned, strange piece of candy.
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| 0:39.0 | I can tell you about something I love this week's got foam rollers. |
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| 1:44.0 | I'm Yang Haseyo fellow ridiculous historians. Welcome to the show. That is my poorly pronounced attempt at saying hello in Korean or one version of hello. |
| 2:08.0 | Hello to you, Ben. My name is Noel. Hello to you, Noel. My name is Ben. |
| 2:13.0 | Look at that. It checks out. And of course we're joined as always with our super producer, Casey Pegrum. |
| 2:19.0 | You know, Ben, there's one thing we did not learn how to say in Korean. Well, there's a lot of things we didn't learn how to say in Korean. |
| 2:23.0 | One of them is Tootsie role. And I wouldn't be surprised if maybe there was one of those phonetic pronunciations. |
| 2:29.0 | Your girlfriend showed me the other night when we were hanging out a thing that she took back from your trip to Korea that had a phonetic pronunciation of the word lighter. |
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