Jeyca Maldonado-Medina

Sep 16, 2024 | flipboard.com | Roman Mars |Mackenzie Martin |Jeyca Maldonado-Medina |Joe Rosenberg

Today we have a guest episode from 99 Percent Invisible. It is about White Castle, the burger chain. Even if you haven't visited, you have tasted its influence because, as we will learn in this episode, White Castle is really the proto-burger chain. Our friends at the excellent podcast 99 Percent …

Mar 19, 2024 | 99percentinvisible.org | Jeyca Maldonado-Medina

In the middle of the 20th century, the small town of Jasper, Indiana did something that no other city had done before: they made garbage illegal. The city would still collect some things, like soup cans and plastics, but yucky junk, like food waste, wouldn’t get picked up. This change was made possible by a new appliance: the garbage disposer – that little grinding machine at the bottom of a lot of kitchen sinks. Most people call it the “disposal” (or “InSinkErator,” or even the “garburator”).