063 Beef - It's American Food Now

This week the ox stops being fancy food for fancy people and becomes workaday food for city people and sailors alike. But it also became manly party food all at the same time.

I explain why its ox, not cow - but will be cow again.

Here's Bugs Bunny in the Bull Fighting Ring - nostalgia or new? Just watch it. It's all fun.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yzp40

Not up on yourColonial History of New Spain? Here's a cheat sheet on Coronado - https://www.desertusa.com/desert-trails/coronado-expedition-cibola.html

And one on Oñate (just wikipedia, but hey I have deadlines here) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate

And the Boat Stuck reference was to the Ever Forward getting stuck in the Chesapeake in March 2022 (for 5 weeks!). This of course was the sister ship to the notorious Ever Given (or the Evergreen Shipping Lines) that got stuck in the Suez Canal in March 2021. Leading me to be #Team "Beware the Tides of March".
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-boat-shipping-supply-chain.html

But the Beefsteak makes it first appearance as do Beefeaters, Paddington Bear & the first appearance of Barbecue.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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