Episode 6 - The Marshmallow Trap: Moles, Myths, and Marketing
What do backyard mole hunters, fat squirrels, and Thanksgiving sweet potatoes have in common? Marshmallows.
In this delightfully bizarre episode of True Crime Culinary, host Leah Llach uncovers a real-life backyard “mole war” sparked by an internet myth — and somehow connects it to the sweet, squishy history of marshmallows.
From ancient Egyptian medicine to French confectioners and early 20th-century marketing magic, this story traces how a swamp plant called Althaea officinalis became the modern marshmallow — and how one 1917 ad campaign made it a Thanksgiving staple.
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