• 16. RIP Brownie Wise, You Would Have Loved MLMs

  • Jan 4 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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16. RIP Brownie Wise, You Would Have Loved MLMs

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  • Does anyone else pronounce Tupperware as “Tubberware?” No? Just me? Well, in this episode Julia and Nicole travel back to the post-war 50s to learn about the one woman who’s responsible for your plastic leftover containers piled high in your kitchen cabinet. Along the way we’ll learn how to throw a Tupperware party, experience some real Sales Department shenanigans, and watch the rise and fall of the first MLM Queen — Brownie Wise.

    Our theme song is “Red Onions” by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

    We’re on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

    Links to sources:

    • Kealing, Bob. Life of the Party. Crown Archetype, 12 July 2016.

    • Clarke, Alison J. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Inst. Press, 2001.

    • The Brownie Wise Papers, Archive Center, National Museum of American History

    • “The History of EPCOT’s Defunct Kitchen Kabaret,” by Storybook Amusement

    • “The Defunct History of Food Rocks at EPCOT,” by Storybook Amusement
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