OK, your turn: Shoddy Goods 016
4You’ll hear a bit about Jason’s latest trip to the US, and we want to hear from you about what you’ve liked best so far and what you’d like to see more of in future Shoddy Goods.
Feel free to treat this like an Ask Me Anything Shoddy Goods related, and I’ll see if I can come up with answer.
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What’s the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
@xobzoo What do you mean? African or European swallow?
As someone who typically used to read the newspaper from “cover to cover” I found myself frequently attracted to deep dive articles on subjects that I had no idea I was even interested in. Keep up the good work!
The history of fast fashion
Why US chocolate bars taste so nasty. (And why cheap dutch ones are so waxy, LOL)
Salt - do with that what you will
The rise and fall of the paperback book
Modern news, including making money versus reporting, feel free to go back to WRH or before
Trying to think of things related to purchasing things that I have read interesting things about before
HP vs TI and the rise of the age of the calculator.
@Cerridwyn
HP and RPN FTW
@duodec that be the one
Who started the pervasive myth that fat is fattening but carbs arent, and who tried to correct the error but got shouted down.
@werehatrack can’t take that further to discuss the full on impact of big business on the concept of diet and nutrition