Darn Wikipedia! "Ba Cut" to "Clamato"

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 I'm curious about lots of things by nature. And Wikipedia makes it much easier to satiate that curiosity with the click of a mouse. 

So, how does one go from reading about Ba Cut, a military leader for a Vietnamese religious sect in the 1940's-1950's, to Clamato, the tomato juice and clam broth mix?

1. Wikipedia front page - which had a short article on...
2. Ba Cut - who lived in region know as....
3. French Indochina - which was later divided up, including...
4. Vietnam - who has great food described in...
5. Cuisine of Vietnam - which has similarities to...
6. Cuisine of Thailand - which uses lots of...
7. Fish sauce - which is related to...
8. Garum - which is an ancient Roman fish sauce which may be related to...
9. Worchestershire Sauce - which is used in a popular Canadian cocktail called...
10. Blood Caesar - which also contains...
11. Clamato

So there. 10 steps. Kind of like Connections.

Comments

[felixkatz.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia's link graph is a power law graph (see for example "Is Wikipedia Link Structure Different?"), so we expect its diameter to be fairly low.

There's a web page somewhere that will give you the shortest path between two wikipedia articles, but it's for a fairly old data dump (from 2008.)

[graywolf769.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you can use Wikipedia to get the six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

[gaz-a.livejournal.com]

http://xkcd.com/214/

[siegferret.livejournal.com]

That's called "Falling down a wiki-hole", my friend. Take the red pill.