The lack of knowledge about health and sanitation in the past led to appalling conditions. Sewage was dumped on the streets, clothing was caked with manure, and vermin infested even the beds of the wealthy.
The consumption of meat played a vital role in the evolution of human species by providing excess calories needed for a larger brain as it has much more calories. This allowed Homo erectus to thrive and evolve as a species without the need for as many gut layers to break down root fibers and other vegetation.
The hosts discuss the poem "Celia Farts" by Jonathan Swift and how crude and lowbrow it is, despite him being a famous poet from the Victorian/Edwardian/Regency Era.
The Scarsdale diet originated from a single paragraph article in the New York Times in 1978, in which a Bloomingdale's Vice President lost 20 pounds in 19 days from the diet and claimed he was never hungry or tired. The diet plan consisted of a seven-day meal plan to be repeated for two weeks, and it became popular during a time when fad diets were embraced by many.
The speaker ate some delicious cheesecake and peanut butter chocolate cake at their family's Christmas party, and they also hired the Waps to cater some savory dishes.