Episode 60: Don't Eat Lead

Patrice and Marleah drink more quarantine cocktails and talk bags of boobs, genderbending authors, wolf peaches, and droolworthy Southern cuisine.

Mercritis Mania //

Urban legends of Mississippi women losing their minds and reeking havoc on their menfolk because of some lead induced B.O....sounds crazy? Not as out there as a related syfi tale (and subsequent movie) of the end of the human race written by the amazing Alice Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr.

• Mississippi’s Secret Disease the Government Tried to Cover Up – The 13th Floor
• Mercritis - UrbanLegendsOnline.com
• The Classics: 'The Screwfly Solution' - The Verge
• The Screwfly Solution (Masters of Horror) - Wikipedia
• James Tiptree Jr. - Wikipedia

The Wicked, Tasty Tomato //

Southerners have some weird culinary traditions. (I'm lookin at you, pokeweed.) But nobody can beat the way we serve up a good, ripe tomato. I wanted to do a feel-good homage to the humble tomato, and turns out its history is full of odd shit - witches, werewolves, poison, and evil worms! 

• A Hunger for Tomatoes, The Bitter Southerner
• When Tomatoes Were Blamed for Witchcraft and Werewolves, Atlas Obscura
• Taming the Tomato: The Strange Case of the Edible Wolf Peach, New Historian
• The Epic Stories Behind 6 Heirloom Tomatoes, Mother Nature Network
• Cherokee Purple: The Story Behind One of Our Favorite Tomatoes, NPR

EPISODE DRINK:

Whatever you got.

Cheers!