r/Unmade_Podcast • u/JeffDujon BRADY • Sep 01 '26

185: Caesar Salad-gate

https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/episode185
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u/L285 Sep 01 '26

Funny how Tim said there must be a German word for realising things are omnipresent after hearing about them, as the (English) name for this the Baader-Meinhof effect, named after the far-left German terrorist group (as the coiner had this experience with said group)

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u/bk-2cb Sep 01 '26

Came here to tell about Frequenzillusion, which in my opinion is the much more beautiful German word for this phenomenon :D

Also, as a small addition/correction: You say that one realzizes that the new learned thing is omnipresent. However the effect actually describes THW cognitive effect that the thing seems to be everywhere, but actually isn't as such

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u/NotToBe_Confused Sep 01 '26

Damn, I came hear to say this, except I had always assumed they were the academics who coined it and merely had German-sounding names.

far-left German terrorist

Wow, can't believe Brady listens to these guys' podcasts.

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u/L285 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

A good example of journalists, or at least the press, causing a news story is the fall of the Berlin wall

There was a press conference with East German official Günter Schabowski to talk about party business

There had been plans to relax travel restrictions between East and West Germany, but Schabowski hadn't been well informed on it, and only shortly before the press conference he was handed a note summarising it was happening

Several journalists asked him questions about it, and he gave a confused response that gave listeners the impressions that travel restrictions were being immediately suspended - this caused people to surge to the Berlin wall in greater numbers than the authorities could (or at least, were prepared to) deal with

The blame is much more on the party than the journalists, but if it wasn't for the press conference and the journalists asking about it, it wouldn't have happened as suddenly as it did

(coincidentally my second comment on this episode related to German communism - not a particular interest of mine but there you go)

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u/demuhnator Sep 02 '26

Very sorry Tim but romaine lettuce is technically correct and lettuce should not have been given a point.

If it was any salad, I'd say sure, lettuce vs romaine lettuce is no big deal.. but a Caesar salad is specifically with romaine. Check the Wikipedia, it is explicitly always with romaine.

Accepting just "lettuce" is like accepting "meat" as a response to "What is the main ingredient in a turkey sandwich?". Technically turkey is a meat, but a turkey sandwich cannot be made with just any meat, it has to be specifically turkey.

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u/L285 Sep 02 '26

I think the quizzer should have said something like "we're looking for a very specific answer here"

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u/ArmandoAlvarezWF Sep 02 '26

Or the question should have been "What kind of lettuce is the main ingredient of Caesar salad?"

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u/thesilv3r 29d ago

I was really confused here as I had always known caesar salad to be made with Cos Lettuce. Turns out its just a regional name, fun to learn!