The Extra Legendary Bit: The Titanic's Food System

40,000 eggs. 75,000lb of fresh meat. One Atlantic crossing.

After our Titanic episode, listener Bazil sent in the stat Johnny and Gav have been craving, and it sends The Extra Legendary Bit straight down a rabbit hole of floating farmyards, sub-zero labyrinths and the great mystery of "long egg".

What you'll hear in this episode:

🥚 40,000 eggs, one crossing – the jaw-dropping shopping list behind a single Titanic voyage

❄️ The hidden sub-zero labyrinth – the steam-driven cooling plant, brine-filled pipes and separate meat, dairy and produce rooms that kept an egg tasting fresh on day seven 🐄 When ships carried the farm – why mid-19th century steamships packed live cows, sheep and poultry into deck pens and slaughtered them mid-voyage

🍳 The mystery of "long egg" – Johnny's former-caterer knowledge gets fully unleashed, plus a heated debate about where veal really came from

👁️ Cullen's all-seeing eye – the South African farmer who left his glass eye on a fence post to watch his workers… then spied on them through binoculars from over a ridge

If you love history, the Titanic and comedy, this episode of Bloomin' Legends is for you.

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