Fun Food Facts and Fables
There’s a huge problem facing crumpets. We’ll guide you in navigating the rough crumpet seas to ensure you have delicious crumpets (or at least innovative and interesting crumpets) for your breakfast and/or mid-morning snack. Also, is crumpet toast worth buying? And WTF is it?
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We are divided on whether it’s ok to eat Weet-Bix sans milk – where do you stand? There’s a world record attempt, truckie food and some real exposés in the fourth episode in our Icons of Australian Food series. Em interrogates her childhood to get to the bottom of a religious Weet-Bix tinged memory and Ben goes deep on ad jingles and finds some truly scary stuff.
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It’s porridge glow-up time! We make the traditional porridge recipe Australia’s oatmeal making champion swears by and investigate the closest thing to a multi-dimensional mystery the oats world has ever seen. We also look into whether the oat milk hype is valid; a vintage recipe from 1942; an original muesli bar hack and investigate the provenance of ANZAC biscuits.
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What is a hot sauce fiend's fave hot sauce? And do bay leaves actually contribute anything? All shall be revealed (or at least discussed) in this rapid-fire interview with Ben Birchall... who you may know from hosting this very podcast. Yes, this week the tables are turned and avid kitchen utensil collector Ben is in the Ingredipedia Bites hot seat. So... will he survive this grilling?
This episode is part of our Ingredipedia Bites rapid-fire interview series (basically a guise to snoop inside our favourite foodies' kitchens). Main ingredient-based eps are released every other week.
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