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Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-06-29

Books mentioned on Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work

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If you've ever worked in a restaurant, you know the feeling that occurs when the health inspector pays a visit. While nerve wracking, it's the best insurance patrons have that their food will be prepared and served in a proper environment.

Josh Clark discussed The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair · at 7:36 · mentioned 3 times

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 novel that serves as a harsh expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.

    Discussed
    “it wasn't until that book you mentioned the jungle uh was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice and Congress acted almost immediately passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year that's the impact that Upton St Clair's the jungle had”
    Josh Clark Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work 2024-06-29 Listen at 7:36
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Passing The Jungle
“it was like it was like up to in Sinclair's uh the Jungle the jungle like right before my little 13-year-old eyes”
Josh Clark Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work 2024-06-29 Listen at 3:30
Passing The Jungle
“Oh man, it was like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle right before my little 13-year-old eyes.”
Speaker Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work 2024-06-29 Listen at 3:34
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