The Most Important Supermarket Visit in History (Encore)

2024-09-03

Download

The cold war was the defining event of the second half of the 20th century. When exactly it ended has been subject to debate. Was it the fall of the Berlin Wall? Was the day the Soviet Union was dissolved?There is an argument to be made that end might have actually occurred before any of those things, although no one knew it at the time. The event in question didn’t take place in Moscow or Washington but in a supermarket in the suburbs of Houston. Learn more about the most important supermarket visit in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail...

The cold war was the defining event of the second half of the 20th century.

When exactly it ended has been subject to debate. Was it the fall of the Berlin Wall? Was the day the Soviet Union was dissolved?

There is an argument to be made that end might have actually occurred before any of those things, although no one knew it at the time.

The event in question didn’t take place in Moscow or Washington but in a supermarket in the suburbs of Houston.

Learn more about the most important supermarket visit in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

Sponsors