The Gastronomer’s Gazette

The Gastronomer’s Gazette

By Roger Overall/Show and Tell Communications LtdComedySociety & CultureArtsFood
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The Gastronomer’s Gazette episodes

  • #0051—Should Turkeys All Move to Greenland?

    As many as 46 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving dinners in the USA at the end of November. And in Ireland alone, an estimated 1 million turkeys are eaten at Christmas. In the UK, the Christmas turkey toll is around 10 million.

    But why turkeys? What have they ever done to us?

    SFX from Pixabay.com and Zapsplat.com

    6 min
  • #0050—You're Toasting Wrongly

    Have you ever wondered why we ‘toast’ someone with a drink?

    Even when we don’t like them very much?

    (But everyone else is going along with it and you don’t want to be seen not joining in, particularly if it’s the boss being toasted.)

    (Christ, you hate them.)

    (There it’s over.)

    (Actually, why is it called a ‘toast’?)

    Curious? Good, let’s begin.

    3 min
  • #0049—Poisonous Pomes (You Call Them Apples)

    Are you also upset that apples are still easily bought at the supermarket? Despite the obvious danger they pose to humans?

    Frankly, it’s a miracle we’ve survived as long as we have, surrounded as we are by orchards and greengrocers.

    If you have apples in your fruit bowl, I’d steer clear, if I were you.

    Curious? Good, let’s begin.

    3 min
  • #0046—The Worst Movie Catering in History

    The International Movie Database lists 411 food films. Oddly, Jaws, a 1975 film about a shark on a food binge, isn’t among them. In the film, the protagonist eats a very angry Robert Shaw. But is a very angry Robert Shaw the worst thing a fellow performer has eaten on screen? Find out in this episode...

    5 min
  • #0045—Water Is an Animal

    Greetings gastronaut,


    Have you ever looked at the sea and thought, "That's an awful lot of water"?

    Well, it's not as much as you thought. Turns out, the seas aren't H2O alone. Far, far from it.

    And water itself might not be what you think it is.

    Curious? Good, let’s begin.

    9 min
  • #0043—Holy Spirit & Golden Syrup

    Some people get terribly upset about the bees dying out. They think our crops won’t be pollinated and that honey production will cease, if the bees all die. Well, there is good news and bad news.

    Curious? Listen to find out more.

    7 min
  • #0042—Chicken Whims

    If US meat chickens were to continue at their 1957-2005 rate of growth, then at some point in the early 29th century, the average US meat chicken will have grown to weigh more than Mount Everest.

    What, if anything, is going on...?

    7 min

About The Gastronomer’s Gazette

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The world is even more bizarre than you suspect it is. If you want to understand it, you have to look at the pillar of all life: food and drink. Without food and drink, we can’t live. Also, without…