The Passing of the Cereal Box Toy. | Ocracoke’s Dialect. | Finding Marco Polo.

You may remember when buying cereal was as much about the toy inside the box as the cereal. Then it just stopped. 

There’s a unique island that’s less than 10 miles long, has under 1,000 permanent residents, and speaks its own language. And it’s part of North Carolina. This week, we set sail for Ocrcoke. 

We all know how to play Marco Polo, but no one knows where it came from - until now.

Sources:

https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2022/04/why-do-we-yell-marco-polo/amp/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/why-toys-disappeared-from-cereal-boxes

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english

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