The Plaice to Know

Episode

291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip

2019-10-18 · 3 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. UralsOne-offRussia

    They were in the deep snow in the Urals, hellish, worst place to accidentally land, and they'd waited three days. Then when the rescuers arrived, apparently, because they were very cold, they dropped a huge cauldron of…

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  2. NassauOne-offGermany

    That's why you've got two places, one's called Baal-Hertog and one's called Baal-Nassau. The Baal-Hertog comes from the Dutch word meaning duke. The Nassau comes from the house of Nassau, which was the aristocratic…

    mentioned at 00:21:35 · See it on the map →

  3. The European Space Agency used its centrifuge and a specially made deep fat fryer to make fries. They found that the sweet spot for the best chips was about three times the Earth's gravity, which is about the same as…

    mentioned at 00:47:23 · See it on the map →

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