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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 211: How The Military Designed Our Food
Description: If you are an average American, you are extremely familiar with energy bars, frozen food, and soup in a can, but do you know where each of these technologies originated? If you said “The military because they helped design our food”, you would be correct! You are also great at reading because that is the title of this episode. So why is the military interested in food? Well it turns out that the history of feeding soldiers go back a far as human conflict. As you move an army, you have to feed an army, which means you have to transp...