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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Hippo Meat Plan (1910) w/ Dan Pashman
Description: It’s April 2nd. This day in 1910, a Louisiana senator proposes allocating a quarter of a million dollars to import hippos from Africa and grow them in American swamps, then harvest them for food.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Dan Pashman of The Sporkful to talk about how the hippo plan was intended to solve a hunger and ecological crisis — and why Americans never quite found the taste for hippo meat.
Be sure to check out Dan’s podcast and the new pasta shape he created!
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