Nixtamalization

Yes.

Nixtamalized.

And-

I can't wait for us to get into that.

That is the vehicle that his superiors at Time Incorporated use to send our hero back into history to bend, fold, spindle, and sometimes just even mutilate it.

And in keeping with our previous note of a food-oriented version of a segment that isn't the Food Hut, beloved Patreon backer Robert Wolf says, "Mixing time travel with food, what historical effects would be present if Ken could get nixtamalization accepted by European settlers in the New World?" And so Ken, I guess we have to begin with a definition of nixtamalization.

Nixtamalization is from the Nahuatl word nixtamal, which describes the process.

It comes from other Nahuatl words, but that's hardly point to, to break it down.

And the process is soaking and cooking corn in an alkaline solution, and this is usually lime water or soda ash water.