We are kicking it old school with our cocktail this episode by drinking Ben Franklin’s hand-written recipe for milk punch. The punch is just as surprisingly tasty today as it was 256 years ago!
Benjamin Franklin: Milk Punch Aficionado. Here’s His Recipe
Benjamin Franklin's Milk Punch Recipe
Also discussed: Milk with dinner, Fire Island drunkenness, Europe (pronounced Yerp), Snopes, how milk is not getting Stephanie, delicious soft cheeses from Yerp, DJ Khaled, and Tux’s young neighbors’ fancy self care routine.
Tux tells the sickening story of New York City’s swill milk and how it killed thousands of babies annually in the 1850s. This shockingly foul scandal was made possible by booze, capitalism and notoriously corrupt Tammany Hall.
The Surprisingly Intolerant History of Milk
Walkabout: The Great Milk Wars, Part 1
The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants With Whiskey Runoff
Wiki - Swill Milk Scandal
A desperate appeal to save the city’s sick babies
The Swill is Gone
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/when-dairies-dispensed-milk-in-city-park/
Wiki - Michael Tuomey (politician)
They Ought to be Beaten
Wiki - Pasteurization
Wiki - Infant Formula
Wiki - United States Raw Milk Debate
Netflix Original Series: Rotten
Stephanie chronicles the Cuban Project code name: Operation Mongoose, the secret US government-sponsored terrorism campaign blessed by JFK whose sole mission was to topple the Castro regime. The plan was a series of preposterous covert plots and unbelievable harebrained schemes.
Records Concerning National Aspects of U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba
TAYLOR, MAXWELL D.: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW - RFK #1, 10/22/1969
Big If True: E32: Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose
Volume III Evolution of CIA's Anti-Castro policies, 1950 - January 1961
Wiki - Cuban Project
Fidel Castro: Dodging exploding seashells, poison pens and ex-lovers
JFK Documents Highlight Talks On Clandestine Anti-Cuba Ops
Fidel Castro: The CIA's 7 Most Bizarre Assassination Attempts
JFK FILES REVEAL US BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PLANS AGAINST CUBA
Program Review by the Chief of Operations, Operation Mongoose (Lansdale), 18 January 1962
Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose: The Story of America's Efforts to Overthrow Castro
Noam Chomsky on the Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections
Declassified JFK Documents
13 Horrifying Ideas America Had For Invading Cuba
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