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Feb 2023
34m 34s

Sawbones: Ketchup

Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
About this episode

There are lots of things that aren’t medicine. Taxes. Pound cake. One thing that is definitely not a medicine but at a time was thought as one? Ketchup! Dr. Sydnee goes through ketchup’s journey from a fermented non-tomato condiment to the condiment we know and love, including its brief stint as Dr. Miles’ Extract of Tomato.

Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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