Inside the Mind of David Chang!
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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Rats and Drunkenness
Every four or five days in the rat colony, they suddenly all up their alcohol intake. So they appear to be having little rat parties every few days. And it sounds rather lovely and rather human. But then there'sa strange and much darker side to it,. which is that a rat colony has a very strict social structure - with low status males who drink the most. They seem to drink out of stress. The king rat is always a teetotaler, which is a bit senisible. It's very hard to say why they're doing this but i can't help thinking how much we are projecting on to the animals of our own human ideas.
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