[a fool in paradise]

There’s nothing quite like that Olde Worlde Hexane flavor that Ma used to add to her cookies.

Read up on our foodstuffs of the 1800s. The "good olde days".

Cheese may actually have been soap and milk was watery chalk dust.

The ChiComs have nothing on the old American hucksters.

[mountainbunny]

There’s nothing quite like that Olde Worlde Hexane flavor that Ma used to add to her cookies.

Read up on our foodstuffs of the 1800s. The "good olde days".

Cheese may actually have been soap and milk was watery chalk dust.

Specifically, look up details about the New York Swill Milk Scandal of the 1800's. It is estimated to have killed as many as 8,000 American children a year until it was stopped.

Bee Wilson's book Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee is a good place to start.

[1010RD]

Oh Yeah, but it was American soap and chalk dust!