Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
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Fish are served as fish. Chickens as chicken. Turkeys as turkey. But when it comes to other commonly consumed animals in the English-speaking world we use different words for the animal and the food. Cows, pigs, sheep, and deer become beef, pork, mutton, and venison.
Why? Well, it starts with the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and has to do with social class divisions between speakers of Old English and Anglo-Norman (the predecessor of modern French).
You'll never look at the meat department the same way again.
Minicasts are short (approx. 5 min) stories for fans of quick, to-the-point podcasts and as a nice change of pace from the longer full episodes of Mass for Shut-ins.
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018 - Amanda Litman of Run for Something / Why You Can't See Out of Your Car
Atlantropa
017 - The Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Minicast B5: The Cannibal Food Critic
016 - Radical Suburbs / Amanda Kolson Hurley / Diamond Jim Brady
Minicast B4: The Virginia Lottery Buyout Scheme (1992)
015 - How to Hide an Empire / Daniel Immerwahr
Minicast B2: Naked Came the Stranger
014 - Dr. Rebekah Tromble / Civility on Twitter
013 - Dr. Stephen Pettigrew / The Drunken Inauguration of Andrew Johnson
Minicast B1: The White House Arsonist
012 - Folger Shakespeare Library / How to Run for Local Office
Minicast A6: Nuclear Fracking and Project Plowshare
011 - Special Midterm Election Episode
010 - Ten Cent Beer Night
009 - LIL BUB / Harold Holt
MInicast A5: Why do Trump's Suits Look So Bad?
Minicast A4: The Origins of "Filibuster"
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