All You Can Eat, But Shouldn't Part I

Esplicito

They say you are what you eat.

In which case, some people are toxic pufferfish liver. Others are a turkey head sewn onto a pig's butt.

Food is everything to us: life, culture, and community. For millennia we've put all kinds of things in our mouths, some of them deadly, some which seem - to modern eyes and ears - uh, questionable?

Today, as we dig, Jolts & Zing ask:

• What celebrity fad diet did Lord Byron introduce?
• What disgusting meal do George Washington and Warner Herzog have in common?
• Why did Fidel Castro breed a super cow?

Open wide! Here comes the plane! Full of wild weird food. Let's Get Shocked!

REFERENCES

• Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle