Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for January 14, 2020

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    mysterysciencefreezer  almost 5 years ago

    He’s not. Google “uranium ice cream.”

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    dwane.scoty1  almost 5 years ago

    Old Phosphorant French Vanilla was my favorite!

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    LKrueger41  almost 5 years ago

    Learned something I didn’t know until today (Wikipedia). “Sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer since sassafras oil was banned for use in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs by the FDA in 1960 due to health concerns about the carcinogenicity of safrole, a major constituent of sassafras oil, in animal studies.”

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    dsatvoinde Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    We used to paint stuff with phosphorescent paints. I can’t imagine that those would be deemed safe these days. (And the plethora of things: rode in truck beds sitting on the sides, rode without seatbelts, without helmets and extremities pads, and even drank from the garden hose…) Amazing we are alive today.

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    Thomas R. Williams  almost 5 years ago

    My mother stopped making snow cream because our family doctor was concerned about the radioactive fallout in snow from all the above-ground tests in the 50s and 60s. https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/home-and-family/recipes/snow-cream I’d bet there is a lot of pollution in snow from coal plants now.

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    Michael G.  almost 5 years ago

    And we liked it!

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    Kaputnik  almost 5 years ago
    I always disliked root beer, but don’t know if I ever had any of the traditional type flavored with a carcinogen. Maybe it tastes better.
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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 5 years ago

    “And Coca Cola contained real coca.” “Not in your lifetime, Grandpa.”

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    AMBER1  almost 5 years ago

    Better check it out on your iPhone to be sure.

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    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    i remember when chock full o’ nuts was really full of psychos…

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    Andrew Sleeth  almost 5 years ago

    Uh oh. I used to chew sassafras root all the time when I went camping as a kid. That explains a lot.

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