Two food and drink indicators

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, we have two episodes from our daily podcast, The Indicator, about things we spend a lot of time thinking about this time of year: food and drink.

First up, we explore how changes in economic conditions led to one of the U.K.'s iconic (and affordable) staple foods becoming a luxury.

Then, the story of one Indigenous woman whose small business went head-to-head with Coca-Cola over a trademark dispute.

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0:00.0	This time a year a year a lot of time
0:05.0	a year a lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about food, making food,
0:11.0	eating food, especially the kind of food that makes you feel good.
0:16.0	You know, the holiday dishes that you love,
0:19.0	the ones that are fatty, salty, starchy, filling, you know, comfort foods.
0:24.0	Yeah, comfort foods are often dishes with humble origins.
0:27.0	They're usually made of inexpensive staple ingredients,
0:30.0	and they're easy to make or cheap to buy.
0:32.0	In the UK, maybe the most iconic comfort... and they're easy to make or cheap to buy.
0:32.5	In the UK, maybe the most iconic comfort food
0:35.2	is also something a lot of people consider Britain's national dish,
0:38.4	fish and chips.
0:39.7	That is, for the uninitiated,
0:41.8	battered and deep white fish with fries.
0:45.0	It does make me wonder why they don't call it fish and fries, because it is kind of
0:47.8	catchy also.
0:48.8	It's not that catchy.
0:49.8	And it's not that catchy. And plus, fries are French, and you know, we don't hold with the French in Britain.
0:53.3	Okay, okay fair enough but the important question here is Patty how do you actually like to eat your fish and chips?
0:58.6	Well I'm actually pretty traditional I like cod with a sprinkling of salt and vinegar on the chips, although sometimes I do go a little
1:05.1	wild with a squirt of Thousand Island dressing.
1:08.6	You know what? I don't like to yuck anybody's yum.
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