Everyone knows that food holidays are totally meaningless non-entities cooked up by publicists. And yet they simply will not die. In the animated conversation above, the hosts of The Eater Upsell podcast, Helen Rosner and Greg Morabito, imagine a dystopian future wherein the dining habits of the entire nation are dictated by a bogus calendar of food holidays. Everyone in this grim version of the future follows the rules, until one young hero decides to break free...
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