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debates i’m your host josh sharer i’m your host nicole hendezada and today we are answering the question what makes the perfect burrito so i wrote a little sentence and it says a perfect burrito is a full meal mexican or not wrapped in a tortilla with plenty of sauces for dippage and no rice inside that is a perfect burrito to me no rice inside okay so i’m saying the perfect burrito is made up of no less than five perfect components something meaty something starchy something creamy something spicy and something crunchy and it all creates beautiful flavor harmony you should be able to taste each individual component but they should all come together in an anti-gestaltian the sum is greater than the total of its parts that’s what i think but i’m also a walking contradiction right because my favorite bite of food in i suppose the entire world definitely in los angeles is a burrito from burritos la palma it is to me the burritos la palma chicharron burrito is the single greatest bite of food you get the butt end of it the last bite it soaks up all the juices like a soup dumpling you get that like sumptuous jiggly pork skin and it’s beautiful however it’s not my favorite burrito it’s a paradox because to me like the burritos that i love the burritos that made me love burritos from childhood are these like giant pound and a half to nine pound monstrosities filled with rice and beans and sour cream and guacamole like at the socal taquerias i grew up on they were called like super burritos you know takoyas you go to and it’s like do you want to make it super for a dollar fifty extra and you never quite know what it means but you all but you always have to do it it’s like this beautiful exercise and trust to the taquero or i suppose the buritero at the taco shop that you’re like yeah dude make it super no i totally agree with you but what is what is it about burritos la palma that’s that’s your favorite bite of food but not your favorite burrito is it what’s in it i’ve actually never been but i’ve heard it’s really really good i just don’t know is it just meat it wrapped in uh in a tortilla hold up you’ve never been to burritos la palma no not yet oh my god how have i never taken you there i don’t know you never take me anywhere nice john are you kidding we went to red lobster back in december that’s nice that red lobster meal was still to this day one of the stupidest meals i’ve ever experienced we each got like nine courses of food uh trevor i believe got food poisoning and threw up on an aeroplane from eating undercooked scallops that when i tasted i went trevor those scallops are raw you’re going to get sick it’s like i’m fine ah feels like yesterday all right so burritos of palma i used to think that they did like a regional style of burrito they’re from the city of jerez and sacatecas in mexico and i always thought it was like a regional style of burrito that came from there because regional burrito styles do exist we might get into that later but turns out it’s kind of just something that they invented themselves they opened up their original restaurant in mexico but it is the perfect flour tortilla which one reason i love burritos so much is flour tortillas are so beautiful like the glutinous chew and there’s just enough fat to kind of like make it translucent and so burritos of palma it is just flour tortilla and then a scoop of stew rolled up and served to you and it is the most beautiful simple expression of food possible and it is so good just textural contrast it’s spicy it’s aromatic they do birya deres so like shredded beef and then their chicharron uh so like the pork stew uh chicharron was a chicharron digisato uh like stewed pork skin and so it’s like so simple it almost eats as a dumpling but to me like when i think of a burrito like i don’t want to say that obviously burritos la palma they know what they’re doing they’re serving burritos they’re called burritos but for me like it eats more like a taco when i think of a burrito possibly because of my upbringing in regionality i’m thinking of something that is like wrapped in foil that you can like hold in your pocket because that’s where i stash my food like a chipmunk in my front pocket the groin warmth keeps it you know i’m like toasty what i’m just saying and it kind of steams it from the inside that’s like girls that put mascara in their bras to warm it up before they put it on same exact concept you just put yours in your grendel region i’m basically a beauty influencer yeah pretty much you’re a burrito influencer okay that was bad um but i agree i i that’s definitely a burrito but like you said it doesn’t have something crunchy something creamy something starchy other than the tortilla i mean it what you described sounds so delicious because i know all of these flavors like birya deres and like chicharron i love all of those flavors so much and that sounds phenomenal but i feel like you’re missing a few of your components that make you really like jump for joy because i’ve seen you also thank you so much for teaching me how to wrap a burrito properly because before you my one time josh listeners listen to this one time i was making burritos for an episode of gmm and then josh looked at him and he’s like what are you doing and i’m like wrapping up burrito and then he’s like why is the tortilla not warmed and i’m like what do you mean he’s like you always warm a tortilla before you wrap it because it makes it more pliable and i was like oh life changed so i mean you’re definitely really like insightful when it comes to the burrito world but the one thing i just can’t wrap my head around ever is rice in my burrito i feel like it’s just filler and i feel like maybe it’s because i’m persian and like rice is such an important part of my culture that like that’s the rice i want to eat all the time and like anything other than that just seems like fake does that make sense i feel that and i see what you’re saying about the filler thing like if there’s a component in a burrito it should have some sort of value to add other than just being like a kind of like flavor suck right it’s like some people love the the rice they think the rice is the main starve of like a dish like a like a plate of tamales like having a side of rice or like a plate of flour that’s having some rice on the side but like i’ve just never liked it and i feel bad for not it’s like kind of like a guilt thing because i know it’s such an important like part of mexican cuisine i’ve just never really cared for it in my burritos but like rice inside a tortilla is not a big thing in actual mexican cuisine like that style of burrito it’s what people call a mission style burrito which originated in san francisco um in like the mission early 1900s yeah and so that is where chipotle which has now taken over the burrito world that’s where chipotle founder steve ells got his inspiration for he was like trying to raise money to open up his own fine dining restaurant in colorado and then he decided to open up a burrito shop based on you know what he saw in san francisco uh and so he started like you know doing this assembly line thing putting rice and beans and all this in there and i love that style but i don’t love chipotle like i i i have such weird feelings about chipotle i’ve gone on record as publicly subway of mexican food it’s a subway of mexican food and it i feel like it didn’t used to be that way but i suppose it always did maybe i didn’t used to be this way i think i am the one who changed and chipotle didn’t because i almost don’t consider chipotle a burrito i might consider chipotle a rap why you gotta do that that’s not true i don’t know hold on like okay let’s let’s define our terms here right because okay a burrito is filling rolled up inside of a flower tortilla with the ends fully tucked in right that’s like probably the most that we can define it as but i think there has to be some association to mexico inside of that right because otherwise like if you go to subway you can get a tortilla with turkey and avocado and bacon inside of it and that’s yeah that’s a wrap that’s a wrap in my cookbook that i wrote uh i’m not plugging my cookbook shamelessly on this podcast but i sure am available on amazon for 12.99 i wrote an essay it’s called culinary bro down i like the name of it you know i almost called my blog barbells and burritos i’m so glad you did it i’m so glad i didn’t too it would have been a heck of a logo though but anyways um i wrote this essay called on the concept of white people tacos and i wrote all about the difference between a burrito and a wrap that at some point in the 80s during this like low carb boom white people discovered the flour tortilla and that it had less carbs than bread or at least seemingly less carbs you could call it green with spinach or red with sun-dried tomatoes and they started putting like dijon mustard and turkey and munster cheese in it and that’s certainly not a burrito right like you wouldn’t consider that a burrito no but but it’s like you know you know when like you go to a party and like i don’t know why i always make this cousin i don’t know why i keep making this weird cousin analogy but you know like like you’re like in your community and then like your cousin from like i don’t know like minnesota comes and you’re just like hey like you still like fit in and you still look the part but when i slice you in the center like you’re totally different you’re saying when you disembowel your cousin it’s the same as a burrito yeah when janet and janice come to the party and one of those from minnesota and the other ones from los angeles on the outside they look the same but on the inside once you like really get deep into their ideals and their ideology and the way that they you know they work they’re different but i think they’re they’re closely related you know but you got to give credit where credit is due there would be no caesar wraps there would be no turkey avocado wraps without the burrito no absolutely but like if you look at what chipotle serves here’s one of the biggest indictments against chipotle that i can find so they use the term barbacoa for their shredded beef right yeah dank it’s super dank it’s a tasty shredded beef and like barbacoa is a legit mexican dish like uh if you go to gila gets a like we’ve made the recipe for barbacoa and fancy fast food before you know it’s like typically made with lamb and it has a lot of history i believe from the state of puebla um but then you go to chipotle it’s just like spicy shredded beef and like they also use carnitas carnitas is something that’s like pork that’s been like cooked in its own fat chipotle just kind of like throws pork in you know a slow cooker for a long time but the biggest thing nicole is that they have had steak on the menu that is grilled the entire time right at chipotle like their entire existence they’ve had steak and it is called steak and then do you know what they introduced about a year and a half ago yes because we talked about it at length carne asada carne asada do you know what the spanish word or the mexican spanish word i suppose for grilled steak is yes i took spanish honors for four years i do carnegie carnegie meat is cooked it’s like it’s wild to me that chipotle has had grilled steak carne asada on their menu but they just called it steak and then suddenly they like season it with cumin which has like roughly nothing to do with mexican food and then suddenly they call it carne asada you know so like to me it’s divorce for mexican food chipotle serves wraps they don’t serve burritos stop drinking the kool-aid no dude it’s totally still mexican food all i can say though the carne asada was gross because literally i had a piece of the carne-san and it was literally the length of my forearm and i’m like me it’s not supposed to be this long do you remember that i showed it to you i was like why is this the late why is this like seven inches of just pure meat i was like what the frick is this in my my burrito bowl also i don’t get burritos from chipotle what i do is i get a burrito bowl and then i kind of you know do a little indian style where i take the tortilla and i rip it and i make myself little bites and i shove it in my mouth that’s what i do because honestly sometimes their burrito wrapping techniques don’t really cut it for me it’s it’s wild it’s soggy it’s weird maybe it’s just their tortilla i don’t know and their burritos literally look like a like a seven month old child they have stopped chipotle has stopped trying to create a cylinder out of their burritos and they are always they literally look like a filled diaper that you’re about to throw away they’re just like kind of matted together you know into this weird kind of oblong square shape and you’re just like where do i even start eating this so like i think people associate you know this big mission style burrito now with chipotle because of how fast they expanded which mind you their fast expansion led to a ton of people getting e coli whatever neither here nor there i’m super bitter about chipotle’s plan for global expansion but i think it soured a lot of people on this idea of rice and burritos that’s the sentiment i’ve heard from a lot of people that rice doesn’t belong in a burrito it’s starch on starch it’s because people have been going to chipotle for years and they’ve been filling it with 80 rice because it’s like the cheapest thing you can fill it with rice and a burrito in the proper context like you go to um la esteka tortilla in la and you get the chile rieno burrito with rice in there and like you have this oozing cheese and like the fry oil from the chili rieno that bleeds out into this like delicious fatty savory mexican rice that’s super tender and it’s an absolutely beautiful thing that’s what i’m talking about the symphony of flavors the rice adds this subtle baseline it is just this dulcet ringing tone that flows throughout the entire burrito it cuts any of the acidity from the salsa that doesn’t get matted out by the tortilla the rice dampens its blow and it’s beautiful the more rice you have in a breeder the more salsa you can add i enjoy burritos i really do but you know i’m much more of a taco person to be perfectly honest i’d rather eat like seven tacos than one burrito i agree with that except jonathan gold had this beautiful saying he’s legendary food critic in l.a meant so much to the city he said um taco when properly used should be a verb or something to that effect i’m paraphrasing but the idea that like when you eat a taco and this is how it’s done a lot in mexico and in some places in la will do this the idea is you’re supposed to get like you know two or three tacos to start and it’s supposed to be fresh off the grill because that’s when the corn tortilla is that it’s steamiest and the meat is hot and so you get the cold salsa the hot meat the steamed tortilla and then you eat a couple and then you go to the taquero and you’re just like yo two more and then they do it fresh again and so so many times like i agree with you that i want to eat seven tacos but by the time it like comes out of the truck or whatever and then you you know go to the salsa bar and like you might gotta wait in line then they’re cold but for me the rice in a burrito acts as like a thermos right the rice is what insulates the heat and also the fact that burritos are like wrapped in foil uh internet shaquille did a fantastic video on how to properly make a burrito shout out to internet shaquille i loved internet shaquille when he was on vine and if you’re listening to this internet shaquille please come down to the mythical kitchen and just kick it for like a day or two like it’s fine like just come hang out like we’ll put you in like a bubble suit we just want to get to know you yeah and if if armando is watching i don’t know if you know armando from his videos if armando is watching i don’t know let’s do some uh what is formerly known as crossfit workouts together though crossfit is dead and i formally disavowed crossfit and so is the entire world welcome to reality crossfit sucks i don’t know what to call what i do anymore because now there’s not a brand name attached to it i just look stupid doing a bunch of burpees out in public high intensity interval training no i need to call josh fit that is another thing so much of my life has been framed by like sports including my food life like this is the reason i started cooking such like crazy decadent meals is because when i was shot putting at the ncaa level i needed to be like 270 pounds and i was working out like five hours a day and so i just like needed calories all the time one time i literally got a chipotle burrito and i went home and i fired up a pot of oil and i just deep fried my chipotle burrito that’s not the disgusting part nicole this is the disgusting part i covered it in mayonnaise i just drizzled chipotle aioli on it and ate it you ate a mayonnaise chimichanga is that what you’re trying to tell me right now josh mayonnaise jimmy choco is also my nickname and so for me like you know if you need 200 grams of carbs and 90 grams of fat to eat a 6 000 calorie a day diet what better food than the burrito and i’m always like craving that i need to get a burrito after this we’ve only scratched the surface how do you feel about french fries in a burrito oh my gosh french fries in a burrito sign me that’s what we call a textural difference young man that’s what that is it’s like eating carne asada fries but in its convenient little receptacle yes absolutely yeah i fully agree that’s like there’s this kind of regional split between burritos right so like you go to san francisco you got the rice filled mission style burrito that chipotle was copied from then you go down to san diego and a thing called the california burrito springs up which is typically carne asada and a lot of this comes from like the baja mexico and sonata traditions in tijuana and they put french fries in it and cheese and guac and sour cream and pico and it is out of this world i literally once walked that’s my favorite burrito that’s it that’s my favorite you just described my favorite burrito you did it it’s it’s fantastic but you don’t mind the carbon carb action of that with that nah potatoes are something else man i mean even in my breakfast burritos i love potatoes in my breakfast burritos i agree i also like beans in my breakfast burrito though oh my gosh i love i just love beans in my burritos i like black beans in my burritos though because i like the fresh little pop no because they what i like the fresh little pop of black beans like a popping boba just like little popping beans no i love refried beans don’t get me wrong but there’s something like earthy and hearty about chomping down on a black bean i feel i think the problem is i associate black beans in a burrito especially so much with chipotle that now like when i bean some burrito i want just like the fattiest most silken like refritos possible yeah like one of my favorite burritos in la is just from my favorite taco truck tacos tomics and you get their alpa store burrito and people say like the taco is a more pure expression of it because then you actually taste the char on the meat and it’s not obstructed by rice and beans i’m like if i want to obstruct my palate i’ma obstruct my damn palate you know also it’s outside my favorite bar and they had like five dollar old fashioned so you drink three old fashions and go get you know an alpa store burrito that’s absolutely fantastic i used to love doing that i don’t do that anymore i just hang out with my mom and she knocks on my door when i’m recording my podcast hey hot doggers we wanted to tell you about our exciting upcoming event mythicon heck yeah we do mythical is our first ever immersive weekend 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scrambled eggs i mix the cheese with the eggs and make the cheesy eggs and then i get two kinds of store-bought salsa i put homeboys mild and then i take random green salsa that i find in a jar and then i take a lot of fresh cilantro and then i take hash browns the the shredded hash browns that you get from kroger shout out to kroger and then um some tomatoes some spinach and i just give it a ribbity wrap and i eat it also i griddle it i started griddling mine shout out to josh for teaching me how to griddle a burrito and let me tell you it’s a game changer but yeah i need the potatoes in there but i don’t need the meat in there i can always just put like some veggies like i always have you know those tiny sweet peppers that you can just snack on oh yeah yeah the costco ones yeah i like put like four of them in there and make like a little omelette cheese situation and that’s pretty much my my ideal burrito oh and avocado you know i eat like an avocado a day that’s why my skin is so luminous really my skin’s luminous because i don’t shower and you don’t wash it yeah yeah no you got to keep all the essential oils on your face nicole if you wash your face then you’re just getting rid of the essential oils you need them to stick in there that’s why i just wrap my face in plastic wrap and poke a hole through my mouth before i go to sleep keeps it all fresh you know what i’m saying oh no i remember once we were having like a big taco night at a friend’s place in college and uh you know they just started i was like a friend of a friend and i wasn’t too familiar with them and they just put the tortillas on the table and they were like people you can just grab a tortilla and make your taco and i was like yo yeah you gotta griddle these and they went off on me and they was like you are so pretentious and i was like i will not i will not let you disrespect the taco in its form by not griddling off these freaking tortillas it is like so essential it’s not even like toast your hamburger buns or not that’s fine but like a tortilla literally needs the heat and the steam for it to like become pliable enough to fold like you take a store-bought corn tortilla that’s cold you fold it it just breaks immediately like you need to do that and so that was like a hill that i absolutely died on and i think ruined some friendships in the process and i will gladly hold that badge if you came to my house and i had a taco night party and you disrespected me in front of my house guess i would kick you out just know that nicole i would accept that why are you making a big deal just let the just let the people have their basic taco night with their ortega salsa and their corn shells and let them live their lives okay they’re not hurting anybody by eating their basic not so pliable tortillas for me and you when we’re in our respectable homes and nobody is watching we can you know oh ryan asked a great question what do you think about those flat bottom ortega shells yeah ortega ortega’s standing stuffs they’re whack but i understand their appeal the thing that kind of kills me um uh wes avila of gorilla tacos right like one of the best taqueros in all of la does incredible stuff he was doing like a demo in australia for some reason and the um the anchor asks them like i see you’re doing soft shill tackers and not hard shell tacos what’s the difference in like you could just see him have to bite his tongue to just be like hard shell tacos aren’t a thing all tacos are soft-shell tacos unless you’re talking about like a few very specific regional designations like taco bell bastardized this thing by mass producing about and you could tell that he wanted to say that and he was just like i prefer soft shell tacos you know and so the fact that like people have this false dichotomy in their mind that like this ortega stand and stuff taco shells are like a default taco and not something in an actual you know tortilla like still blows my mind and another thing nicole another thing we have never discussed whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich and we never will one thing i will say a hot dog is not is a freaking taco because every time we say you know a hot dog is a sandwich or something people come in they’re just like according to the cube rule of food a hot dog is a taco and she’s like no no it’s not you know you gotta say you know what you gotta say to them you know what you gotta say to them shut up meg what you gotta hit them with the shut up meg from family guy but josh on the conversation of hard shell tacos have you ever had a tito’s taco and did you know that the only thing better than a tito’s taco is too is that their slogan yeah you didn’t know oh i’ve been to tito’s i love them i actually love tito’s burritos they’re better than tito’s tacos have you ever had a burrito from titus i have it’s very very good have you ever had a tina’s burrito from the freezer section oh my god i grew up on frozen burritos and none of those have rice in them either they are just simply a like a meat and bean slap the funniest thing about tina’s ritos i used to eat their red hot beef burritos all the time uh and there’s beef in it supposedly allegedly i cannot say for a fact because you don’t need to chew any of the insides you can wring out the insides in your mouth and just go and just drink you want to know a fun fact that was a food stylist for tina’s burritos for a little bit if you go onto the tino’s tina’s burritos facebook you will see me and my boss at the time holding a tina’s burritos like a box of them as a value pack of them like a child like we’re the parents of the tina’s burrito super pac i’m not kidding you but yeah i used to be a food stylist for tina’s burritos and the center let me tell you there’s such a specific nostalgic taste it’s like it’s like bean toothpaste it’s ridiculous but they definitely satiate you when you really really need one i think they’re the best frozen burrito honestly i think they’re delicious no they are i i fully agree with you i think they’re better than all the uh like el monterrey is another big brand that doesn’t no no you gotta go tina’s in tina’s when i was growing up they would go on sale five for a dollar and we would just buy like 50 of them and so we would stack them in our freezer and like every day i would come from school from school and i would microwave a tina’s burrito and then i would slice it uh hot dog style i believe is the term down the center i would slice it and then i would open it up pry open the layers and fill it with salsa and sour cream and then eat it like that i have nothing but love for the frozen burrito and honestly the frozen burrito is like a big reason why the burrito proliferated across america and why we know what it is today because they found out like there’s this big gold rush of prepackaged food like back in the 50s like you mentioned ortega chili’s earlier i didn’t realize that ortega was started in a ventura california like just about yeah it is actually yeah they still have like a plant up there and all that and like he took uh you know chili’s from mexico and like that dude literally invented the modern process of chili roasting you’ve ever seen the chilies in the tumbler that they tumble over the open fire and they like hand crank yes the ortega dude just like invented that from some old chicken wire there you go i think what we’ve learned today is that burritos come in many shapes and sizes and there’s many different things to love about burritos from rice to french fries to delicious meat continuously no this is this is just our love letter to the burrito we have differences in what we want from a burrito you don’t dig on rice you don’t think the extra starch is appropriate to me this is probably framed for my upbringing and the need to eat 6 000 calories a day but i absolutely love it i think we can all agree that chipotle serves white-washed garbage that shouldn’t be allowed to be considered a burrito and should have to legally change its name to a wrap you’re not eating a burrito bowl you’re eating a wrap i think we both agree on that right yeah i’m just saying that’s chipotle please don’t smell me [Laughter] [Music] nicole we’ve heard what you and i have to say now it’s time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the twitterverse it’s time for a segment we call on three opinions opinions like casseroles we nailed it god we’re so good at this podcasting thing [Music] first up we got at swag to the max quick pickling is better than slow pickling or is it long pickling ooh i don’t like the phrase long pickling either way by the time you’ve read this you’ll have said pickling so many times you’ll put yourself into quite a pickle got me um we we talked about this concept in the aioli mayonnaise episode where we’re like things need different names too many things have the same names i think quick pickling and slow pickling as he calls i keep saying pickle i’m playing into his game i think they need different names because like long pickling as they’re referring to is you know lacto-fermentation right like when you eat like a good jewish deli pickle it’s literally just salt water and cucumbers and then the lactobacillus you know picks up yadda yadda brad leone stuff and then it turns into a pickle and it creates that sour flavor whereas quick pickling you’re substituting vinegar for that which actually prevents fermentation because it’s a preservative so they’re two like completely different things but there’s no substitution for the umami of a long pickle listen i believe that i should start a company called quickles where i make quick pickles out of the comfort of my own home and it’s gonna be really cute and i’ve always wanted to do it and this just inspired me so uh this is gonna be my last time on the podcast thank you so much i’ma start quickly yo why isn’t anyone started like an artisanal frozen burrito company josh i think it’s because you need to fill that space i think it’s i think they’ve been waiting for me to do it because you look at how much the frozen food game has really expanded over recent years dude have you seen all these like crazy tv dinners now that are like shrink wrapped they’re like vacu sealed and you can like see all the components of it that’s crazy and they’re doing all this like keto like i should do that with burritos yeah um except don’t make it weird and like packaged like that because it makes it feel like it’s like han solo like looking through you know that it’s like a weird hermetic seal i personally don’t like it i’ve never seen star wars before um okay i just i just got the han solo reference because i watched that for the first time like a week ago frozen in carbonite yes there we go lando sells them out you know what’s really funny though i i didn’t know that either i watched cause like in star wars episode five or whatever lando calrissian sells out han and i stopped watching halfway through the movie and i was like dang lando’s a bad guy i can’t believe link named his kid after him not knowing spoiler alert that lando redeems himself so there i was an idiot now you just ruined the whole entire series for me now what am i gonna do let me let me read a controversial food opinion triangle walks underscore says kiwi fruit with the skin on peanuts with a shell on cottage cheese with hot sauce and cracked black pepper um are you eating all these things together because if you are that’s alarming i hope you’re not doing that triangle walks i’ve ever tried to eat peanuts with a shell on no because i’m not a masochist i’ve heard there’s some people before they do that it’s um it’s not bad they have a point where why would you put salt on the peanut shells if you’re not supposed to eat them and i get that but it’s not like a sunflower where you have to like go in and like you know crack open the shell with your teeth also fun fact um i don’t have good oral dexterity read into that what you will um so i can’t i can’t eat sunflower seeds and like crack open the thing to get into the nut meat and so when i eat sunflower seeds i just throw a handful in my mouth and i chew it up and i swallow what i want and then i just spit out a giant wad of chewed seed hull later that’s the only way i know how to do it it’s gross you want to know something i’m just a lazy girl and i don’t like to crack it so i take i don’t do this with with sunflower seeds i do this with pumpkin seeds i just shove them in my mouth and my boyfriend literally looks at me and he’s like are you insane and i’m like yes hi insane nice to meet you i’m dad i don’t even like kiwi fruit with the skin off um cottage cheese savory cottage cheese though is delicious hot sauce and black pepper cottage cheese i accept that i ate a big old bowl of hot sauce yogurt during lunch well i dipped my pizza in hot sauce yogurt for lunch i don’t know again i i’ve just been up to all kinds of gross stuff being at home and quarantine i’ve been devolving into my most base self like the caveman brain is really coming out i was in a meeting when i was just like eating yogurt with my hands uh earlier i don’t know if you noticed that nicole i don’t notice anything about you anymore i’ve just become immune to the weirdness at call me giant convenience store taquitos are actually fantastic i’m a manual laborer and just two for breakfast provide me with the energy and satiety i need to get through the day yes abso freaking lutely and this hits on a lot of things not only are convenience store taquitos really delicious like you go to 7-eleven especially their cream cheese and jalapeno one because it’s literally just like a mini jalapeno popper burrito and it’s delicious um but also people who like very casually crap on convenience store meals are the worst type of people i can’t stand that it’s just like it’s classist and lame and like convenience stores feed so many people i like even convenience store sushi for me is like a really delicious cheap filling meal and i’m all about it those little sandwiches are great i love eating from 7-elevens they are an absolute community resource especially at places like in la because they’re just everywhere convenience store food yup especially taquitos because they fit on the hot dog roller um i will eat sushi from pavilions and that’s about as far as my cookie crumbles with that here’s what i don’t get about people crapping on convenience stores i’m not crapping on it it’s just i don’t want it no no totally totally fair preference is preference but people are always like you’ll get sick from gas station sushi it’s like you know that stuff doesn’t have raw fish in it right like they’re using imitation crab meat which is literally just fish that’s been blended with like sugar and salt i.e preservatives so you are actually much less likely to get sick off of that that’s been sitting in a refrigerated case than something like you know a hot dog that’s been rolling around in open air so yeah gas station sushis sign me up no way have you seen that futurama episode where fry gets sick from eating like an egg salad sandwich but he becomes friends with the bacteria in his stomach or something i love that episode you need to watch more futurama uh luke reagan hill says sriracha is widely overrated and most people only pretend to like it because it’s popular no sriracha is good you’re whack i i think they may have a small amount of a point like nothing has it’s like when people say in-n-out is overrated it’s like i agree i think in and out is great but it has been like fetishized to this huge point and sriracha is like a really fascinating case study because they didn’t copyright any of their logo or anything and so like urban outfitters i remember would sell like a sriracha t-shirt and you’d see a bunch of hipsters walking around like you know loose-fitting sriracha shirts and stuff like that that said a lot of people have been crapping on sriracha and everyone’s trying to find the quote-unquote next sriracha being like sambal gochujang harissa is the next sriracha and it’s like no sriracha sriracha it’s really delicious to me it’s like kind of sweet it’s funky it’s intensely garlicky uh it goes great on like you know any uh east or southeast asian food i’m all about it i also think it’s hilarious that like it has made its way into the like east and southeast asian culinary canon like you go to any far restaurant they have a bottle of sriracha but like it’s literally just made by a vietnamese american dude using california produce like it’s just red jalapenos and like garlic and sugar and so it’s kind of funny it’s this like beautiful story of like you know uh immigrant cuisine in america kind of like finding its way back in asia i’m obsessed with sriracha i love it i like sriracha on my pizza oh yeah all right at jenna max i’m a purist with food and bacon does not in fact make everything better it masks the flavors of everything else i’m trying to experience on its own it’s wonderful but get that off my burger pizza anything else uh i kind of agree i i think it’s overused and we’re talking about food fetishes i’m i’m talking about food fetishes uh like bacon is up there number one or people say you know like bacon makes everything better like no it doesn’t i like bacon on a burger in very specific context uh you gotta be able to like taste the bacon especially bacon and a fried egg on burger but i understand it really does you know mask the flavor of the beef like i probably wouldn’t put bacon on like a beautiful steakhouse style burger that’s made from like you know actually fresh ground cuts and everything like that but if i’m frying up like a grocery store burger at home yeah i’m a slap some bacon on it josh speaking of breakfast burritos that i totally forgot to mention have you ever had everest burritos in glendale no it’s a drive-through breakfast burrito please yo their bacon breakfast burrito like so good makes you get pregnant it’s delicious i’ve i i’ve been trying to get pregnant me and my girlfriend have been trying to get me pregnant and so i would like to eat this breakfast burrito listen to me go to everest burritos in glendale and get their bacon breakfast burrito i think it’s phenomenal and get some avocado in there have you truly have you heard the phrase engagement chicken yes with the lemons and the garlic yeah i didn’t realize that like people didn’t know that was a phrase or concept that existed the idea is it’s a chicken recipe and i think this is a thing it goes back a long time right that the chicken recipe is so good that you’re gonna make it for your man and he’s gonna be so smitten with this chicken that he’ll propose to you right on the spot that’s like that’s the plan that’s what we all want that’s what women want we want us to make we want to make you chicken so you give us a big rock on our fingers so you can claim us i say that as someone who does not believe in the institution of engagement because i don’t like when here’s a problem that i do you want to hear about my dating life let’s hear about my dating life i think that all this happens is like i love cooking so much and i love cooking for myself and i love cooking for other people and to me that’s like a big expression of love but especially i feel like if i’m cooking for a girl that i’ve gone out with uh they’ll feel the need to like you know return the favor and cook for me back and i’m just like no like this no this doesn’t have to be purely transactional like let me do this we can combine our loves and you know interests differently in different ways and then they’re always like self-conscious about what they’ve cooked for me if they’re not like you know experienced cooks and they’re like i know this isn’t up to your standards and i’m like you wanted to do this i don’t know what to tell you now i gotta lie and say that i like it so anyways engagement chicken what a sexist relic you’re interesting oh the next one yeah engagement’s not a thing if you’re in a committed relationship you’re engaged to be married in some way i refuse to use the fiance that’s stupid what i can’t wait to be someone’s fiance kenny can ken underscore theresa’s bacon and frosted flakes smiley face uh i actually think that works so i don’t necessarily agree or disagree yeah put your bacon in your frost flakes it’s gotta be crispy like if you’re doing bacon and frosted flakes that’s got to be something where all the fat is rendered out and it’s just crispy and it’ll kind of mask in there i’ve never tried to put bacon in cereal which is kind of shocking to me josh make bacon cereal you know they i think they did a bacon and pancake cereal gross someone yeah i was saying that as a joke no i think i think someone did that at tree antoinette pickle tails are a delicacy and the prized pickle always has the longest tail i know exactly what they are talking about is it pickled pig’s tails no i think they’re literally talking about when you open a jar of pickles like the whole pickles some of them will have a little bit of like the cucumber stem on the end of it and i’ve like always kind of cut it off but apparently you don’t got to cut it off and you can just eat it and it’s prized interesting very interesting i’ve never experienced this so sorry don’t know what you’re talking about yeah pigtails are fire though uh pigtails yeah you ever eaten pigtails like the tail of a pig yeah i mean it’s the same as like oxtail is like the tail of a cow beat the tail of a pig no i’ve never had it before no it’s good it’s similar to like pig’s feet where it’s just like a bunch of delicious kind of uh gristle and like ligature and it’s fantastic you like braise it and then deep fry it mmm mmm yum that sounds delicious c martins41489 says mayonnaise on the outside of grilled cheese is better than butter uh i’m just gonna go ahead and alley-oop this one to you mayonnaise man uh yeah here so the thing c martin’s four one four eight nine is um nah you’re wrong butter’s king absolutely i get the mayonnaise thing i get why people do it adds you know extra crunch blah blah i’ve never had a problem with toasted buttery bread being not crunchy enough for me i get the mayonnaise thing i know why people do it people have tried to convince me and i am not about it at all you know what i want to try though what i want to try smearing the outside of the bread with ketchup and then griddling it cause hold on have you ever had left up man there’s a mexican sandwich called a pambasso have you ever had it no it’s like a torta ogada right where they like soak the bun in like a red salsa except for the pambaso they soak it in like a salsa roja and then they griddle it until it’s like a little bit burnt and so the salsa like dries out in the bread but it just gives it this like stained chili texture and flavor on it but it’s like still completely dry and it’s just freaking delicious and i wonder if you could do the same technique but with ketchup and a grilled cheese cause i love the flavor of ketchup and i want to end my grilled cheese you got yourself another quarantine activity you should just use this podcast to fill up your schedule man and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog it’s a sandwich we got new episodes for you every wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on twitter at mythicalchef or and handyzadev with the hashtag opinioncasserole and for more mythical kitchen check us out on youtube we got new videos every week and of course if you want to share pics of your dishes hit us up on instagram at mythical kitchen can you buy me a chipotle burrito i’ll buy you a chipotle rap [Music]