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491: No Such Thing As The Beurre War

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The World's Most Expensive Soup

Soup is made with Cordyceps, which goes inside caterpillars and then grows out of their brains. It's the same mechanism as in the TV show and the computer game The Last of Us. People in the Himalayas are burning $600 pounds to buy it - so they take them to rich Chinese cities. Can you do it? You know, when we go see flowers that we know are going to bloom once every hundred years and they open... can your meal arrive as just an intact bird?

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