ramble [Music] people say that it’s not about the destination it’s about the journey i say it’s actually about how many snacks you packed when do you say that all the time you just don’t listen this is a hot dog it’s a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah i put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates i’m your host josh sharer and i’m your host nicole and iady and today we’re joined by sport writer danny palumbo sports is mythical’s new website where tastes are tested they want to help you make easy decisions when it comes to the best pasta sauce of frozen chicken nuggets and danny works hard tasting and ranking in order to bring you expert authoritative opinions on the best package foods you can possibly buy danny also has the kindest most trusting face and best mustache in the entire mythical office i we have to break that down first yeah of course of course break down my face oh yeah yeah oh god listen like details not like punching it yeah please don’t break down my face well danny i’m really glad you’re here in studio with me it’s nice to have a white man next on my left shoulder sure this is your safe place a white guy on a podcast yeah what do they think of next who knows well today we’re talking about road trip foods uh which danny you have written an article about something similar uh yeah i’ve written a few i’ve written a few i am well versed in road trips i have driven uh very long distances i drove from la to i’m sorry pennsylvania to l.a like a year and a half ago and i’ve done that twice how long did that take uh well i made it like a two week thing so it took a long time but i stopped in i’m gonna name the cities cincinnati louisville birmingham alabama new orleans austin and then i think just one night in el paso and then i ended up in l.a and were you alone uh i was it was just me and my dog wow so no one fought with you about what snacks to take no high five yeah hell yeah wait wait is that a big is that a big concern fighting about fighting over snacks with your road trip partner i don’t know if it’s like well maybe a little bit if you’re the one driving and it’s like i don’t know i kind of have like my own thing going on you know i want my little bag to myself like in the front little you know what i mean like open up the little front side compartment and stash like a bag of chips or something there and like you know that’s for me that’s my time i prefer a road chip alone to be honest with you i would rather no one be in the car what i feel like i’d be so bored by myself i can’t be by myself for long oh really i need a companion hence why and so you’re here josh is here i like having friends and companions when it comes to road trips i was oh i always went on road trips with like my family like my mom and dad and like siblings yeah and uh my parents uh are are from iran so uh they don’t believe in snacks like at all oh so my roast wait wait wait wait wait people from iran don’t believe in snacks dude every time i go to an iranian household it’s filled with snacks let me tell you what i mean so like we had snacks but our snacks were for the road trip a bag of fruit and a bag of roasted nuts and my mom would bring a knife on the road trip and she would peel fresh cucumbers and split them and hand them to my dad while he was driving and back like this to feed the kids i love that so much so my road trips might be a little bit different than your road trip snacks but like that was just my like when we drive to vegas yeah just a bag of tangerines and a bunch of cucumbers with salt and limes that was my snack i love that though because it like makes the car super aromatic also that helps this is a little off topic but i was on a flight recently and there was a couple next to me and the uh the woman was just peeling an orange for her husband and i was sitting next to them and it was the most delightful smell yeah and i was like i think i believe in monogamy i think i want to get married it was just beautiful exactly and fresh fruit is great yeah because it’s like super healthy again the smell it’s like not gonna make you feel like crap like that’s a good one for sure yeah uh i wrote an article for sports about why i like uh gas station eggs yes i saw that is a little people everyone think it’s gross but i don’t know it feels like a safe bet i used to go to i used to take my best friend doris to school and we would go to smc together and she would eat hard-boiled eggs in the car and i would just be like stick your head out the window girl like i can’t the smell of eggs i can’t handle but it is the best interesting it is a good way to get protein in your body i do agree yeah it’s a handheld protein how how concerned how concerned are you with like health in actually sustaining your body using food as fuel during a road trip though like should you be is that part of it well for me yes so my road trip snacking philosophy is eating relatively healthy so when i get to a place that i’m excited to be i am there to eat the local like thing you know so unless because because you know if you’re in a specific place it’s like you gotta try what they’re good at of course but like you know the only time i deviate from sort of a healthy protein filled snack as i’m like okay what are the bag of chips in this area what is the you know jerky or the jar of weird hard-boiled eggs like a generous or something like i have to try it uh so those are the things that i spring for but like i do and this might help me as like a food snob or something but i’m like i think the saddest thing you can do is like eat at a subway at a gas station while you’re on a road trip i can’t do oh that’s all i do is it oh i can’t well because because we use coupons we’ve got a coupon family uh me and my husband my husband has so many subway coupons you guys so many so we have him like just in the car in case like he’s like hey do you want to stop like if we’re on a road trip or like driving to like camping or something it’s always subway and it’s gonna wait to confirm but i agree yes i have done it many times before yeah i confirmed extreme to confirm nicole’s extreme couponing she once sent me a text and was like yo do you want to go to this revolving sushi bar tonight and i was like uh i don’t know i’m kind of busy she goes no no i have a coupon it expires tonight and i was like i i don’t know i’m still doesn’t change the fact that i’m booked and she’s like fine i’ll send you the coupon in case and it was like five dollars off on like spending a hundred dollars or more it wasn’t like a free meal it was right you are gonna get coffee for tomorrow you are getting scammed in that situation not the sushi bar you’re gonna you know what you know what you say what you want but i am hurtling towards becoming an extreme couponer and that’s my greatest privilege like i’m happy to be that person who doesn’t love savings i guess josh what do you eat on road trips my guy what’s your road trip snack du jour man okay so road trip snack philosophy here i i do agree with danny because if i’m going on a road trip that means that i am going somewhere to eat right like i plan my entire vacations around whatever the regional specialty is if i’m going up to central california i’m trying to find the best santa maria barbecue or whatever uh if i’m driving up to like sacramento the bay area and i’m going up the five i’m stopping in bakersfield or fresno to get either basque or punjabi food you know so i am like finding these special spots along the way and so most of the time on a road trip i’m star i’m just starving myself i’m going pure austerity measures on the road trip i have caffeine so i don’t fall asleep and die at the wheel but then and then after the caffeine becomes pm which is piss management piss management is the biggest part of a road trip for me because i have the bladder of a child 100 yeah and i never want to be the person who one inconveniences my road tripping partner uh by having to pull off and pee and then two if there’s no available bathroom i grew up learning that if you get caught publicly urinating you’ll be a sex offender for your whole life and so i am so scared to whip my dingle dangle out underneath my basketball shorts in public and take a pee pee i’m with you it’s my biggest gripe with los angeles coming from like a pennsylvania i’m like i just i can’t just pee outside whenever i want no i can’t do that here you know guys this literally happened to me last weekend we drove to bakersfield for reasons i was with my husband and my mom and dad and we were at a very we were in like really bad traffic and then david’s like yo i got a pp and i’m like don’t go outside you’ll become the registered sex offender he’s like shut up i’m going in the bush and then so that happened and then we also have to stop for my dad to pee too and there were no there was like no bathrooms they like couldn’t wait and i’m like can’t you guys wait and they’re like no and i’m like i once i once urinated myself in the car i just peed my pants because there was no other option i was stuck i was stuck going out you didn’t have a gatorade bottle somewhere i had a can and i was afraid of lacerating my ding-dong and so i was driving up to santa barbara and a tree had just fallen over and blocked when the freeway bottlenecks to two lanes and so we were stuck there for like four hours and there’s a cop like right next to me and i’m like i can’t just whip it out yeah and so i just resolved this is fully a nightmare yeah i felt trapped man it was like a found footage horror film that sounds horrible so wait i have maybe a few additional questions so you were driving you just peed your pants right then and there yeah and so see soaked pants soaked yeah i mean how did that oh how did that sorry the other moment that that sounds barbaric what i did is i found a gym towel in the back seat of my car and i stuck that i thought you were just gripping the steering wheel like well no i stuffed that into my pants like a makeshift diaper and then pee that’s good oh no you made a diaper i made lettuce like really you made a diaper that is not that bad that is like resourceful thank you i’m a very smart young yeah i um i don’t think i would have thought of that i think i would have done what i said to just peed my pants no you guys always got to have a towel a plastic bag and a gatorade bottle also a knife in the car these are all things you need to have i do have cucumbers good good for the cucumbers to feed your children cucumbers only you know what i really like too i like corn nuts corn nuts is probably my favorite modern snack corn nuts and chex mix i think are like the top tier also bugles big bugles fan nicole are you nicole are you separating modern snack in like ancient persian snack in your mind is that what you’re like what the dichotomy is i guess i’m thinking of road trip with my parents versus road trip with my friends that’s like how my brain is like processing this i would you ever eat corn nuts outside the context of a road trip like would you ever buy corn nuts to eat because i have a theory about retro food do you want the last time when’s the last time you bought it bugles never okay when we had him on the show i had a packet of the ranch ones and they were good oh that does sound good yeah yeah i know corn nuts i know those are bomb i think going on a road trip it like allows people freedom to eat random snacks that they never would even in their daily home life snacking or if you’re like stocking snacks for say a super bowl party or whatever you’re not gonna get like corn nuts you’re not gonna get like the weird pickled sausages you’re not gonna get the loose beef jerky that’s just in a drawer by a cash register you know in barstow but on a road trip it’s freedom there’s nobody especially if you’re alone then there’s absolutely no judgment and it’s kind of beautiful like i’ll get a bag of like chex party mix i’ll get a tijuana mama spicy pickled sausage i’ll get a loose sheet of beef i’ll get trolley sour eggs those little gummies and then like the biggest diet energy drink you can possibly imagine and i’ll just sure just let all the sugar and gelatin and salt and caffeine and just gross artificial sweetener wash over my body and i love it i i am big on the diet energy drinks as well for a for a long road trip because at a certain point you kind of get sick of coffee you got to go to like the weird like you know zero sugar venom or whatever yeah the thing that’s really gonna take off a couple years of your life i i think as a whole i do eat like the road trip style snacks in my day-to-day life but but like you know i buy a bag of beef jerky maybe at the store here when i’m on the road i’m like nah give me like the giant you know three foot long it’s like a huge lollipop that you’re you know you’re kind of snacking on like that’s that’s what i spring for because they sell them in like giant like four foot sticks wow especially in like texas or something yeah [Music] in the mythical kitchen it can get really messy really quick oh yeah every time the camera cuts we’re cleaning up whatever debris is lying around and it is a lot but we gotta use cleaning spray to get it in tip top shape we don’t just take a dry piece of paper and start smearing everything around to clean it so why would that be your method of cleaning your butt after using the bathroom yeah stop smearing your business around your butthole toilet paper and start washing with water with a hello tushy bidet the hello tissue bidet attachment washes your butt with fresh water for a way better clean than toilet paper simply spray and pat dry yeah and when we got our tushy bidets here at mythical they even sent some bathroom reading material called this number two shall pass it’s full of fun facts like did you know that in ancient greece they used pottery shards to scrape the poo off their butts sometimes they’d even inscribe the name of an enemy on them before being used oh no way i inscribed the name of my enemy on my toshiba day that’s fun make the restroom your best room with a complete tushy system it cuts down your toilet paper use by 80 and your pottery shard use by 99 that’s just facts right there baby hello tushy has cleaned over 1 million happy bums join them and take care of your business the cleaner way we want all our listeners to have clean bums so visit hellotushy.com hotdog to get 10 off plus free shipping right now tag us and at hello tishi on social media so we can celebrate your clean butt with you that’s hello tushy dot com slash hot dog for 10 off [Music] danny explain explain your hat no this is this is a bucky’s hat this is uh do you guys know what bucky’s is i think i’ve seen you talk about it or posted yeah so uh fitting for the topic this is a uh gas station slash convenience store in texas that is sort of branched out uh into the south it is a massive gas station uh some of them i feel like have like 60 different pumps the store is the size of a walmart they have every like snack imaginable they make their own brand of like dishware i feel like it’s a place where you can also buy like random knickknacks like trophies or something it’s huge it is gigantic and it is like the iconic like sort of like road trip or gas station stopover in texas nice i want to go to a wawa yeah where’s the closest wawa well could not tell you i mean i i think it’s only east it’s probably eastern pennsylvania because in western pennsylvania we have sheets which is the wawa sort of uh counterpart counterpart that it was a big argument over sheesh versus wawa but everyone says i went to wawa for the first time in atlantic city at like two in the morning i was getting absolutely just rather drunk i was getting knackered that’s a good that’s a good thing it’s pretty good too smothered’s pretty good anywho i had a couple adult beverages and i spent forty dollars trying to beat the top scorer on a papa shot machine that was right next to a blackjack table because i was i don’t know how to gamble but they had a papa basketball machine anywho point is i was sweaty i’d been drinking and we found a wawa driving on the way i was not driving on the way home and i was like oh my god this is gonna be the best experience of my life and um emperor’s emperor’s not wearing any clothes nicole tell you what they and this could be controversial people like they make good sandwiches uh and i suppose they do but i think it’s like when somebody from the east coast visits in and out for the first time they’re like it’s just a hamburger and it’s like yeah dude that’s the point it’s like it’s a hamburger and that was the same thing for me with walnuts yeah it was like it was a 7-eleven with somebody making sandwiches fresh it’s a great that’s that’s a great point there is like i don’t think there’s anything like overly spectacular about it but if you’re from the area i mean it just lives in your heart as like a super special place that wawa for sure i mean i’ve been to philly a few times which is on the other side of the state from where i grew up but uh that is a place specifically for the inebriated the drunk the rowdy like those types of people sheets to me on the on the western side of pennsylvania feels like it’s more like oh these are like truck drivers and people going to work in the morning yeah like i don’t see like many like classier yeah it’s a little bit classier but wawa is a chaotic wonderful place that we should protect at all costs fully agreed fully agreed i fee i feel very protective like 7-elevens i know it’s a big worldwide chain but like i love 7-eleven so so so much because like they’ll have innovations like the crystal light diet slurpee they figured out how to take slurpees and make them zero sugar it’s got a lot of other things in it that really make your throat burn and gives you a very upset stomach on a road trip but sugar-free slurpees i highly advocate for i will also say this about 7-eleven for uh sport when we can’t find like certain things they’re like oh they won’t deliver it from instacart i’m like i guarantee 7-eleven has this bad bag of chips i’m looking for and they do they always carry like a wide array of stuff they carry hers which i love like all kind of different hers flavors and i know i can go there and they like rotate it often so like their chip selection is like good and it’s changing a lot i love am pms the most oh yeah i think they’re cool and also i went recently and they had rap snacks they’re little boosie rap snacks and i’m like that’s oh really yeah free little boosie weight is free it’s free boosie is ampm uh tungis is that the the commercial tim yeah yeah timgis that’s uh it’s an acronym for tim tim it’s tmgs too much good stuff is the acronym oh i didn’t know that i think it’s a very smart marketing game and also they have horchata which is another i would advocate for as a great road trip drink you got a 44 ounce orchata and you just fill it up and then you just get sweet milky goodness like an iv running into yourself because that’s like another thing that i believe about road trip snacks is you need something to entertain you so i like foods and drinks that last a long time right yeah like beef jerky is perfect that’s why beef jerky i believe to be the ultimate road trip snack because yeah it’s healthy it gives you it i say it’s healthy as if it’s not just like dried salty red meat salt yeah but that said i mean it’s got protein it’s got electrolytes from all the salt in there it keeps you entertained and engaged because you gotta chew it for so long and then the salt helps dry up your pee so it has a high piss management coefficient is that scientific it’s all helped dry up your peas josh is pseudoscience you just have to accept it sometimes he like makes claims he just gotta be like all right we’ll fact check check that never feels like something dr oz has said i don’t know that’s a really good point though i i agree i agree with you i love i think my go-to now that i’m going back to like friend road trips or like if i’m just like not even friend road trips if i’m just like out like beef jerky and an iced coffee is like my go-to road trip snack it is i like jerky i like a bag of chips and then i also like the sabritas the you know the uh flavored peanuts have you seen those things oh the yeah the salted lime the salted lime i have been pimping for years and they cost like 50 cents it’s 50 cents dude for peanuts and the lime flavor is good killer yes there is so much citric acid in those 100 yeah there is too much i grew i grew up on those they used to you know thanks to inflation uh they’re now 50 cents they used to be like 25 cents and it was the cheapest gas station you could get uh sabrita’s got into it once like you know that’s right snack chips started like really like pumping for the latino market but like it used to have three flavors it was honey roasted it was salted and it was spicy and i used to rotate between those three on road trips and i was a kid because they were so damn cheap and it just fills you up dude yeah wait peanuts peanuts in general peanuts planes trains and automobiles all three it’s it’s it’s it’s good for people on all of those well yeah i mean they’re synonymous with uh planes okay not anymore though because everyone has peanut allergies oh that’s true well they ask links they ask you now though well i guess it’s mostly pretzels now you’re right yeah no or gluten-free snacks i’ve been getting popcorners pop corners sure on planes does anybody know what a the hell a pop corner is it’s like a quaker chip same thing it’s like the quaker chips well it was popped it was pop chips they’re the the puffed potato chip that are like very low calorie and like taste about 30 as good as an oral potato chip but then they started making pop corners which are their tortilla chip equivalent but then it’s it’s just still made out of popcorn and they started putting like a kettle corn sweet and salty seasoning on it and that that’s a really good snack man that’s a good airplane snack that translated into my own home because we got two mini bags of them on a plane ate them real quick they gave us four more ate all those immediately went to ralph’s bought the family size bag of popcorns started slamming them in the house i know this isn’t about air travel we’re talking about road trips however when you are on a plane i just didn’t realize you could do this you could be like hey uh give me four biscoff cookies and they’re like okay all about the biscoff cookies they just give you whatever you want man yeah and biscoff cookies yeah for sure that’s the best biscoff also makes a cookie butter oh yeah yeah i know all about that cookie butter baby yeah all about are there any road trip snacks that like you think are missing like what do you want in a road trip snack that you don’t think currently exists oh that’s interesting um well i think it exists but this is just something i started dipping into but thinking of foods that keep you active i like a good lollipop i like the the tootsie pop but maybe something that like lasts longer what’s going on i’m just laughing at you why why an adult you’re an adult man with a mustache eating lollipops man oh everyone it’s it’s it’s cool i also wrote about this all oral fixations are cool like cool guy things lollipops gum cigarettes toothpicks kojak had a lollipop that dude solves mysteries i think nobody knows yeah but jackie i don’t either but someone brought him up and i googled him so danny danny with your mustache if you you have a very trusting face against your trusting face if you were to go next to a school and just suck on a lollipop with that mustache and glasses of yours you’d be arrested full stop done and they happen to have probable cause but this is this is a road trip context this isn’t a josh roach he’s alone in his car there’s no children there’s no children some schools on your way to a place i uh all right you might be right don’t get out and pee near one i’m gonna i’m gonna i’m gonna i’m gonna put this to the test i’m gonna you’re gonna see me walking around the office next week just with a lolly lollipop and just see what happens maybe see if someone says anything i think on the subject of oral fixation and stuff i think quench gum is also a great road trip about quench gum my sister showed me quench gum at a very young age we would go to big five yeah she would just get a handful of the orange flavor and she beg here so that was also a weird road trip snack that we had a lot too was quench gum it claims to quench your thirst but all it does is just like draw a ton of saliva out of your mouth right yeah but it’s incredible i do love it very very much it makes me salivate a lot yeah well is that a good is that a good pm strategy if you’re drawing all the moisture out of here i guess you’d have to spit it i don’t know if this is tmi but i i’m very good at holding my pee i’m like a camel like it stays up there and it’s not a problem i don’t have i don’t have this sense of urgency that you two seem to have yeah i just i just take it and i just like a lady i just wait there until i see the blue sign that says rest station hey do you think you can pull over that’s not what i do i’m driving 95 miles per hour i’m pounding the steering wheel no no no i’m a lady and i am able to hold my peepee very very well think knock on wood that’s a problem a lot of women have to deal with not being able to hold their feet what do you think quench me throw in another one uh pumpkin seeds i like pumpkin seeds we were big pumpkin seed people too salty uh good protein they have a like butteriness or fattiness to them or something that’s just like really delightful as well but i that’s something i will buy a bag of and keep them up front and and eat pretty much the whole thing on a road trip worst road trip snack sunflower seeds yeah messy messy yeah you don’t want to be spitting in your car uh you know having a cup for sunflower seeds is bad news it’s distracting we did that my family did that because again ancient snacks and snacks cucumbers yeah just like you know it’s a very common thing it’s a it’s a big road trip snack i kind of love i kind of love the idea of like bringing back ancient snacks though to like like making that the thing yeah puff some amaranth seeds and keep them in your car you know have some sorghum cakes yeah some carob sticks and just spit out the seeds out the window then they’ll become an invasive species now we can’t have that oh that’s right you can’t have can’t be spitting out the seeds like that it’s a problem danny making school children uncomfortable with this lollipop and introducing invasive carib species to the palm desert ah i’m gonna destroy los angeles not so trusting anymore it’s already doing it on its own you don’t need to help it i like agua frescas too i like when it comes to liquids i like a good agua fresca and i like a good i like a good sprite because fun fact about me sometimes on road trips i get a little queasy i get a little bit seasick carsick so i like to have a nice ginger ale aqua fresca or a sprite so i don’t vomit that’s pleasant if i’m not if i’m not driving i can get a little sick myself yeah i’m the one driving no i don’t feel so bad yeah no i get it thanks i get it milk milk all the way big big ol i’m dead i’m surgery road trip no no no you’re not serious though milk i am well not plain milk uh well going back to the like road trips are a time to eat things that you normally wouldn’t in your day to day life but you love nesquiks nesquik strawberry milk or better yeah i’ll do y’all one better with a milk adjacent product yoo-hoo no 100 strawberry there’s our medium bakery in my neighborhood is one of the only drinks they have is strawberry yoohoo and i’m like i don’t get it but i love it uh it’s great you who’s fine but i like the yuhus that are in the uh the little boxes i don’t like the the give me the glass bottle give me the glass bottle no i need the strawberry throw it out i need this strawberry control when i’m going on the bumpy bumps yeah what are you off-roading on this road trip nicole you’re just atv maybe sucking down yoohoos i’m going off the beaten path on the road trip i’m on zuzix zizzix road going to las vegas you guys know what i’m talking about yeah i’m going to barstow barstow i mean the greatest thing to drink on a road trip and this is a very hyper regional reference is a date milkshake because on the way you pass hadley’s date orchard hadley’s date orchard oh and dates in general ancient snacks meet in the modern you’re going out to vegas you’re passing the california date orchards wait a good old where do i get this milkshake it’s like palm yeah yeah i would drive out there right now okay because i love dates in a smoothie milk okay ooh that sounds delightful wow that is that is so good that is the best answer beef jerky and a date shake yeah okay one more time right i guess the podcast is over now huh we found the the two things needed cause then that that beef jerky it’s soaking up all the piss [Music] there are few better foods to eat during the summer than a nice juicy grilled piece of chicken or steak or salmon that’s right whether you have a go-to favorite or you like switching up what you’re grilling you can improve your grilling lineup this summer with butcher box the subscription service that delivers a large selection of high quality meat and seafood right to your door now my favorite thing about butcher box isn’t just the top tier quality meat but it’s super affordable we’re talking less than six dollars per meal on average here people 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claim this deal [Music] all right nicole and danny 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 opinions are like casseroles [Music] josh where are you i closed my eyes and i have to let you shine dude you got the voice of an angel nicole thank you so much that’s so nice of you to say and i know you’re being honest i am being honest also hey what are y’all doing on october 28th the 30th well i’m going to mythicon obviously danny yeah what about you i think i’ll be also going to mythic yeah oh my god what a crazy coincidence we’re all going to mythicon and you can come to mythicon too uh it is the biggest live event mythical’s ever thrown it is a portmanteau of mythical convention just like theranose is a pointmanteau of therapy and diagnosis uh and you can get you can get all the information at mythicontickets.com seriously come hang out austin texas uh land of beer and barbecue i’m gonna have such a fun time i’m gonna wear a hat a 10 gallon hat i’m just gonna be plied with so much lone star and brisket and god i love austin texas absolutely i lived there for five years i had my bachelorette party there really yeah yeah i’ve been to i’ve been to four bachelor parties in austin wow i don’t know how i don’t know how it’s happened um yeah i know a white guy on a podcast loving austin texas what do they think of next yeah all right let’s get to it let’s get to it nicole first up we got at bassoonist7513 man who’s playing the bassoon in 2022 love that as a kid at sonic drive-in i used to mix sprite with their chocolate flavoring huh nowadays they put an oreo in their mouth and have a swig of sprite that’s very strange chocolate and sprayed how do you all feel uh i feel less confident about the oreo and the sprite together it’s like two it’s it’s in my mind it’s like sugary backwash or something i don’t but maybe like i don’t know when i tried the pilk i was like i think i understand it i i could be better but maybe sprite and chocolate is like i don’t know maybe that’s the way to go i’d have to try it uh i grew up eating chocolate oranges my whole life uh like we used to slam it on the table and that was me and my dad’s like thing that we would do together and i understand it a little bit the idea of citrus and chocolate but the carbonation kind of throws me off yeah yeah chocolate soda has had a poor reception literally everywhere it’s gone it all just ends up tasting like a carbonated tootsie roll water you know because it’s that artificial chocolate flavoring it’s like real chocolate because to get real chocolate you’re going to need some sort of fat most likely right and so then like it’s it’s a weird situation that said sprite doesn’t exactly have citrus flavor if you think about it it’s not sour it’s a lemon and lime soda i know i know but it’s not like sour there’s no acid there’s no acid to spray think about it how do you know that well there’s acid in every soda but i’m saying think about the flavor of sprite it’s like just sugar and carbonation and then like that there’s a little bit of smell there’s like a little bit of taste significantly less tangy than coke though right i think about it yeah yeah yeah you’re right coke coke is more citrusy than sprite i would no here’s a question okay does does sprite list lemon or lime juice concentrate in it or cause you know that’s good cause you know like i don’t think so hint of lime tostitos like have no lime or whatever and like other things like that i’m like i wonder if it actually has citrus in the ingredients i don’t think so but mountain dew does have orange juice does it really yeah that’s like the main flavor of mountain dew it’s like chemicals a little bit of orange juice that’s wild oh thanks all right next opinion at dd film underscore ontario they say i was making rice one night and had an idea i grabbed a bunch of semi-hot rice pressed it flat and put peanut butter in the middle then i wrapped it into a rice ball and spoon some strawberry jam on the top best pb and j variation i have ever eaten i’m into it i don’t know that sounds good onigiri is this onigiri yeah yeah they’re they’re almost doing like a deconstructed mochi right it’s just it’s just a whole grain whole grain mochi you know what i mean instead of pounding out the rice you just leave it whole rice is great in desserts man what a pleasant texture bounces off anything sweet and savory i love this i love it too yeah did they fry the rice ball or no did they just no they just kind of made the ball and they just put it on the plate and then probably this is very very creative i’m a big fan i love this yeah me too super creative wow good on you dd film underscore ontario all right at zrs underscore 41 instant mashed potatoes especially instant sweet potatoes are far superior than scratch mashed potatoes you never got to worry about lumps and it saves you loads of time wow uh well i will say growing up my family every time they made gnocchi instant mashed potatoes dude that’s i mean that was just like a thrifty italian american like hack they use i never saw them rice the potatoes from scratch always instant and they were always consistent and yoki can be like pretty finicky so that got me like into using and buying it more and i like instant mashed i’m not even a big mashed potato person but when i do want mashed potatoes i was talking about this is jules the other day uh i don’t want any lumps in it i don’t want any skin on i don’t want those like rustic chunky rachel ray ass mashed potatoes god bless her she’s an icon i want instant mashed potato i want a smooth baby food like paste that is holding butter and chive garlic parm whatever you’re putting in there i want it smooth baby so i can just slurp it with a boba straw uh no instead mashed potatoes are not good regular potatoes are good and they do a good job and i mean your application that’s fine like the gnocchi application i totally understand like using it as a quick fix i get but yeah side by side you gotta go with a natural potato man i’ve never had instant sweet potatoes by the way i’ve never had this also what is this person talking about instant sweet potatoes they must exist they must exist send it to us wait is this guy from canada was that one of the was ontario in his name or is that the last that was the other person if you give up keep updated it feels like a canadian thing also hey you know what a super unpopular opinion is is not liking mashed potatoes that much which i don’t really either people think i’m crazy for that i don’t seek it out you guys don’t seek it out you need to shush your mouths mashed potatoes are the best potato application i’m going to read the next one before you have any time to rebut uh vega wolf vega fox wolf says i have had a filipino dish called punset that was really amazing but the worst thing i’ve ever had that my stepdad made was called a poor man’s punset it was made with ramen noodles ground beef and frozen vegetables with the ramen flavoring and lime juice that doesn’t sound bad no the lime sounds excellent yeah that does sound great are they talking about puns is it they spelled it putin said but are they talking about panzit i’m guessing i think i think so yeah yeah the delicious like rice noodle um i like pancetta it’s not my favorite filipino dish but i do appreciate it yeah i i would i would agree there and the lime sounds delightful yeah squeeze a little lime on there i think they need to give their stepdad a little bit more wiggle room on it yes you know what i mean i don’t mean to dive into their family i don’t know the city he’s trying you know he’s crying step dads are trying out there call him no don’t have to do that call carl or dale or whatever his name is no i need to call him dad i don’t need to do that most people would kill for a stepdad to make him frozen beef with noodles and vegetables and lime you know you can’t tell yourself lucky out there that’s right i hope the rest of your relationship is okay look i’m dead peeling potatoes ain’t nobody got time for that i can’t remember the last time i peeled a potato and i’m not sad well i am sad on the inside okay it’s about potato skins a lot of things i like potato skins too what is that time there’s much more time consuming things than peeling a potato i would think you know you get fast at it you know like it doesn’t strike me as a super time consuming thing it is like it’s like great they’re probably though yeah they’re like the best thing to peel i think potatoes are the best most thing you can peel yeah because you can just kind of like yeah angle it and just like turn it with a y peeler yeah oh yeah no that is so and then you end up with a really long peel how satisfying very satisfying yeah but you don’t have to peel carrots that’s the thing unpeeled and unpeeled carrot like especially roasted i think is just absolutely better than a peeled carrot potato is not the case i i actually do i think i am with you there i i eat carrots with the skin on all the time just wash it smudge it well or don’t even do that guys gonna kill it no no no no no no you peel your carrots you don’t peel your potatoes you are crazy nicole you’re out of your gdp yes correct you’re a little cannon maverick is that you’re dangerous i think so never i don’t have trouble don’t want to watch it i don’t have strong enough teeth to go like val kilmer does i can’t i can’t make the noise cow lady 1990 says craisins are vastly superior to raisins grapes are superior to cranberries although cranberries are good i love that they’re working through their whole thought process right yeah i do like craisins don’t hold me to this but grapes are superior then yeah i don’t uh what’s a i don’t know that i’ve had a craisin in a long time that’s just a dried cranberry right i keep well but okay it’s not just a dried cranberry though so it’s like is it it’s a dried cranberry but cranberries are so so so sour that craisins are just like packed with sugar it’s dried with a ton of sugar so that’s why they’re saying grapes are superior to cranberries of course because they’re both in their natural sort of state cranberries are damn near in it we ever had a raw cranberry it sucks so when you dry it you got to put a bunch of sugar in it and then it shrivels up into nothing i disagree with our assertion i love raisins i ate probably a quarter cup of them this morning put them in my oatmeal rehydrated them a little bit and some cinnamon tea and it was a delight i enjoy them raisins i’m a fan of raisin bran i like raisins hell yes i like raisins i ate a lot of raisins i’ve always had raisins every time my mom packed me lunch i always had a little sun made container always i think raisins get a bad rap i don’t know why in popular culture people are like you know crapping on raisins all the time like why is why are raisins in here i’m i don’t know it makes sense there’s don’t need raisins sure there’s one person that is responsible for all the negative raisin press and that’s like the super a whole crunchy healthy parent who gives them out on halloween that’s the whole reason whole reason people don’t like raisins yeah that’s a good point it’s like why people don’t like dentists because they give out floss all right didn’t you i’m not even gonna say it j m dizzle says i never got ice cream as a child oh so i would mix ness quick strawberry milk with my mom’s diet coke and it tasted like a root beer float i’m so sorry pilk rises again this is milk oh it’s milk pilk is for you it’s pilk the remix soda and milk belong together people act like i’m crazy you go to the jewish delis the soda fountains the druggists in new york city in 1903 and egg creams are all the rage they’re mixing the heavy cream with the soda water with the chocolate syrup this is a canonical good food that has been maligned through history i rest my case i think that’s a good idea i thought i would like the milk to be creamier though i’m just sad that this person never had ice cream as a kid like what the frick that was the satisfaction so unfair what is that lifestyle come come to my house i’ll give you ice cream i’m not giving you my address i was gonna say throw out your address no i can’t do that can’t do that all right at pita bacon is the least important part of a blt let’s go wow disagree it’s the l ooh no no no no i think the l is v i think that l is more important than the b if you use the wrong l you can use any bacon and make a good blt i think if you use like say romaine instead of either butter or iceberg lettuce i think that makes a worse blt than using microwaves what are you talking about i’m with yes but a bacon and tomato sandwich is as good as a bacon lettuce tomato sandwich but a but a tomato lettuce sandwich what the heck is that you’re changing the field of battle here nicole because they’ve established that we’re eating we’re talking blts right so we’re saying that all the ingredients have to be there we’re specifically talking about the blt no one’s talking about the bt sandwich no one’s talking about cbt don’t google that shut up you know what i mean uh it’s a blt and i think any bacon can make it again i think the bread is incredibly important i think the schmear mayonnaise is incredibly important i think a nice sweet very crunchy lettuce either iceberg or butter boston bib whatever you want to call it and then the tomatoes of course got to be ripe and they got to be salted i want to blt now you know what i like to do with my blts i like to i like to salt my tomatoes before i put them on the blt 100 yeah i think that’s like that’s maybe one of the most important pro tip pro tips first sell your tomatoes i’m with you an iceberg too crunchy delicious it’s gotta be iceberg for me people who say iceberg has no flavor they have they have no palate iceberg nicole what lettuce would you use romaine people say the same thing about parsley parsley has flavor tons bro leave me alone it’s my opinion what are you talking about yeah i like romaine on my blt’s get over it take a shower about it god and on that note thank you for listening to the hot dog it’s the sandwich thank you so much to danny for being an amazing guest danny is there anything else you want to plug follow me on instagram palumbros p-a-l-u-m-b-r-o-s and also sport i write for the website sport read my things on sport thanks for coming you are so much fun thank you and if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on twitter at mythicalchef or and handyzotto with the hashtag opinioncasserole and for more mythical kitchen check us out on youtube where we launch new videos every week and of course if you want to share pictures of your dishes hit us up on instagram at mythical kitchen see y’all next time i gotta go i gotta go figure out my pm situation 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