S2 Ep14: Swill Milk Mongoose: Episode 14 (NYC's swill milk scandal & Operation Mongoose)

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

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

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