Food desert
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Sep 2, 2026
Rebecca LiebHOST
We go somewhere else besides Houston and New Orleans.
Rebecca LiebHOST
We go to Chicago, right? And he visits a food desert in Chicago.
Rebecca LiebHOST
Now, food deserts, too, are something that we kind of started to get to know in the era of Fast Food Nation.
Rebecca LiebHOST
So this is not new either.
Rebecca LiebHOST
And it's not new to say, like, oh...
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Jason HortonHOST
I don't know.
Jason HortonHOST
Like.
Jason HortonHOST
There could be something positive gleaned from it, especially, you know, culturally and, you know, kind of talking about the food deserts and all of that.
AndrewHOST
No real food that you could get at a retail level if you didn't bring it in here yourself.
AndrewHOST
And what we're seeing, Juniper and I, on this trip around the southwestern United States is that vast areas of this part of the country are absolutely struggling and a vast food desert where there is, for restaurateurs, no point in being there, here, where I'm talking about.
AndrewHOST
And so, I just wanted to give an early morning note observation about the tragedy of what happens with paving over, piping in, trucking in, building concrete structures, throwing in air conditioners, and then you can't even find a good head of lettuce.
AndrewHOST
You can't even find a good peach.