John Cutting: Before Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, meat packing plants in almost wholly unregulated meat packing plants in Chicago were mixing corded rope with meat which got stuck in people's guts and killed them. It was just hard to prove which hellhole to hold responsible so it didn't happen.

british constable, 1757: parliament says to stop putting chalk in the bread modern CEO, transported back in time, trying to disrupt bread industry: what if i pay a contractor to put the chalk in the bread constable: you cannot add chalk CEO: what if i deliver the chalk bread to your house

Why the fuck were they putting chalk I bread? This is the kind of shit they don’t want us learning in history class

Easier to harvest than wheat🤷🏻‍♂️

Please don’t let this be the reason Jesus Christ. Victorian England wtf is wrong with you??

it was no joke to whiten the bread more cheaply than using milled flour

IIRC, they put sawdust in it in WWII to bulk it up.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!??

Before Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, meat packing plants in almost wholly unregulated meat packing plants in Chicago were mixing corded rope with meat which got stuck in people's guts and killed them. It was just hard to prove which hellhole to hold responsible so it didn't happen.

Or the free market life vests used by the SS General Slocum that had cork dusk (that floated away when it got wet) and IRON FUCKING BARS inside the vests which drowned people who tried to swim with the vests on.

Omfg this is horrible!!

This PBS show is worth a watch: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Republican free-market paradise.

That is disgusting to hear. Was that in The Jungle?

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