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BARRELS, BANS, AND BUFFET BUGS
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- Jun 13, 2026
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- 435
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Summary
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 060826 Original Broadcast Date: 06/08/26 Cruise news this week runs the full range from genuinely cool to genuinely alarming. On the cool end: Holland America has loaded bourbon barrels onto all eleven of its ships in partnership with Jefferson's Bourbon, the same distillery famous for aging whiskey at sea. Six months of ocean movement, salt air, and shifting climates produce a flavor profile that can't be replicated on land. Each ship gets its own barrel, each barrel yields 150 to 300 bottles, and you can only buy them on board starting in 2027. Your floating hotel is now a floating distillery. On the alarming end: Royal Caribbean and MSC are confiscating Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses at the gangway after passengers were caught secretly recording fellow cruisers at pools, in casinos, and in buffet lines. MSC banned them everywhere. Royal Caribbean bans them in restrooms, kids areas, and the casino, and if yours are prescription, they suggest you bring a backup pair. Welcome to your relaxing vacation. Meanwhile over a hundred passengers on the Caribbean Princess are riding out a confirmed norovirus outbreak with days still left on their cruise. The CDC confirmed it. This is the second Princess ship to go down this year. The first outbreak in March took nearly 200 people. And Carnival has replaced the barbecue station on several ships with Chicken, Waffles and Waves. Half the passengers love it. The other half want their pulled pork back and they are not being quiet about it. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restriction…