Topic: Secret Sauce

2 chapters across the catalog

Spook Nation
Episode 1383 49:54 - 52:25

1383: Spook Nation

Chris Rock and the McDonald's Secret Sauce History

A discussion on Chris Rock's comments about vaccine ingredients transitions into a history of the McDonald's Big Mac secret sauce. It is revealed that the original sauce developed by Morehouse CEO George Ladder contained fresh horseradish, which was later replaced by a cheaper powder-based flavoring to reduce costs.

What do you call Soy milk?
Episode 207 1:33:02 - 1:40:44

207: What do you call Soy milk?

Sam Knows Secret Sauce and FCC Router Surveillance

The FCC has partnered with a UK-based company called Sam Knows to embed "secret sauce" software into consumer routers, starting with Netgear models. While marketed as a tool to measure broadband speeds, the technology is criticized as a potential backdoor for government surveillance of internet traffic. The company's opaque corporate structure and use of privacy-shielding services for its domain registration have raised significant red flags.