ramble ah this Lacroix tastes overrated wait wait wait just hold on a goddamn minute let’s talk about that this is a hot dog as a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah I put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense a 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 IDI and today’s idea comes from the fact that they they made a hot dog flavored seltzer water and I can’t stop it but I don’t know people have been tweeting about us talking about hot dogs bro get it out of here in our intro when you talked about the Lacroix and then said this is a hot dog it’s a sandwich all I could think about is the hot dog Seltzer and how I need to try it because Lacroix which is the topic of today’s discussion we’re talking is Lacroix overrated because it just it was a barn Stormer I remember when it hit the Costco suddenly Lacroix was in Barnstormer it’s a Barnstormer I don’t even know where that term comes from I’ve never heard of the term barnstone a Barnstormer uh I think of it I get it you’re storming the barn that’s not like a messed up why don’t you say like watershed moments that was a Barnstormer type of plane God Josh you just oh a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits and stuff yeah it was a Barnstorm are you calling a Lacroix a stunt traveling sexy stunt pile who just goes and just beds women in Des Moines Iowa Topeka Kansas sexy Barnstorm I could have just said it was a watershed moment because oh that’s good it went immediately from no one drinking seltzers except for old people old people love their polar seltzers people on the East Coast yeah you know what I mean uh fancy Europeans like San Pellegrino and Perrier oh yeah um the occasional health conscious weirdo at the Jack-in-the-Box just gets the soda water out of the machine that still smells like Dr Pepper and it’s like that’s a little weird but I feel like we went from nobody drinking it to everybody drinking it Lacroix in every office I’m drinking nine a day interesting and I wanna know how we got there I’ve always been an asseltzer water girl what was your uh Seltzer of choice or Pellegrino it was always in my house okay okay when it was in your house what format was it in was it in glass bottles plastic bottles the Pellegrino is always in glass bottles and then the Perrier is always in cans the interest you have the small six ounce Virginia slim thin Virginia slim cans yeah I did yep and you were drinking that as a kid I’ve been drinking that since I was like five or six it might have interesting it might have had to do with diet culture and how so photo was bad for you well hold on because that that is definitely a huge part of it yeah all right so let’s let’s get into Lacroix real quick so it was founded in 1981 uh in Wisconsin by the G heilman Brewing Company I don’t like saying Heil um but it was founded in 1981 and then uh it just kind of existed in moderate obscurity the person wanted to create it um as like an antidote to the European Seltzer Waters right he was like we need to create a good domestic sparkling water for Americans to drink by Americans for Americans all that and then in 2002 it gets acquired by national beverage Corp and then it just continued to roughly do nothing um but then 2006 there was a huge sort of watershed moment right uh people started getting worried about type 2 diabetes and obesity and a lot more research came out about soda people started worrying about because not only were they worried about diet related disease right the big thing for me that separates sparkling water from say diet soda is a lack of aspartame sure has no sugar in it there’s no artificial sweeteners in it so not only is it people worried about diabetes because aspartame sucralose Splenda all the Xylitol stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with diabetes um but people are still worried about it because some reports came out there’s carcinogenic which they actually had to retract the original report for aspartame so like I don’t necessarily believe that but point is a lot of people more worried about their health and then in 2006 Lacroix and National beverage uh made a huge gamble to effectively advertise against their own products interesting because they own Faygo And Shasta which are like you know sodas G and F of the soda world right not even yeah like M and N yeah you get like Coca-Cola you know uh Pepsi you got the Dr Pepper Snapple Group you know get down in like the RC Cola seven up conglomerate everybody drinks Faygo unless Juggalos I know all about that stuff heck yeah man Gathering the jugglers we going next year I’m scared why are you scared I know one time I went to Tech Nine concert and then I had to leave why I was scared of the clown man how old were you like 21. Oh I thought you’re like a child uh did you paint your face like a clown no you gotta pay your face like a clown no no no no I love tech nine but I could not wrap my head around the clown people I was like why are there people with clown faces and then I understood that the Juggalos are very cool with tech nine and Faygo Nicole what if I told you that every day we wear clown makeup we show up to the office this is our clown makeup when they put on I’m literally rolling Juggalos when Juggalos and blush put on their clown makeup that’s their real face we’re the clowns to them any point is they own Shasta okay and they basically like they sponsor the the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 2006 Lacroix did trying to be like yo we’re gonna we’re gonna make people associate our brand with health despite the fact that we still own sugary soda companies we gotta make money somehow yeah exactly and like how are you gonna detach Faygo from his Juggalo reputation listen I love the Juggalos America seems to be frightened them I believe the Juggalos were actually a terrorist organization uh the FBI the FBI mistakenly classified them so unfair as a violent gang which is terrible they’re not a gang they’re just they’re just family they’re family Yeah man they take care of each other I’m done with the clown now I wasn’t at 21 but I’m down now uh any whom and so 2006 is when you started to see this big explosion of the entire category in Lacroix they did a big redesign they kind of hit this almost like great design that’s what Drew my eye to it at first I love the way it looks it’s like the Dixie cup it’s like the it’s like a cooler Dixie cup what do they call it’s called like sparkling jazz or something that design on the Dixie cup has a unique name cool it’s very kind of like 80s early 90s vaporwave nostalgic yes yes and Lacroix hit that so so so well and it just exploded the absolute Market 2019 Lacroix took a huge nosedive simply because they didn’t innovate and then every other company started catching up to him but they still are the industry leader which is where we get to the point that we are today which is where we have the luxury to talk about are they overrated is this actually a good product are we overrated for talking about sparkling water you and I yeah I if anything I’d say we’re probably underrated okay cool like I feel like we like we’re like consistently on the top of the charts of the food podcast in America but I feel like we don’t make the lists that often we want a Webby that’s pretty cool People’s Choice People’s Choice web yeah I mean people’s voice okay you know who we are in the sparkling water world if if you say Waterloo I’m going to kill you bro no no Waterloo come on get out of here I’m not even gonna say Spindrift which you thought I’d say you know exactly who the f we are we are freaking Sparkling Ice I’ve never even heard of sparkling does anybody do you make it do you know what the hell I’m talking about someone look up sparkling same Sparkling Ice before what if I told you that oh my God no one drinks that okay no no no but people might say no oh no one listens to a hot dog as a sandwich even though we can prove by the numbers because Sparkling Ice Nicole second leading sparkling water beverage just behind Lacroix they are ahead of the entire Sparkling Ice sells more than San Pellegrino Perrier Poland Spring Arrowhead deer like all all of the Nestle Brands combined I avoid plague are you kid every time I walk by I’m like poo poo Okay so Sparkling Ice is different because all these other Sparkling Waters um I’m looking at a list right now of who controls what right PepsiCo owns bubbly okay uh Lacroix is owned by a national beverage um Coca-Cola just bought Topo Chico and they have aha uh curing Dr Pepper yeah I don’t they all kind of taste the sandwich it’s too sour the point is Sparkling Ice they have flown under the radar the whole time they’re different because they have artificial sweetener in it there’s Splenda in it so it’s basically a diet soda I don’t like it but the fact that they’re even in this category and they’re sold next to the Sparkling Waters means that there’s something about tricking people which is interesting because they literally are just diet soda I guess it’s it’s even colored it even has its color meditation to it Sparkling Ice has food dye in it interesting well I don’t even know if it’s food I actually I think a lot of them are maybe naturally colored oh which is the same as spin drift right I don’t know if Spindrift has any color too I believe it has real Spindrift has a real fruit juice in it that’s real fruit juice what I’m saying like it’s uh it’s colored due to the natural fruit juice and I think Sparkling Ice also has that interesting cool sparkling s is no artificial does boom look at that look at that sparkling ice we’re the sparkling eyes no one cares about it I don’t like that I love it Nicole you wouldn’t kill to have a 12.2 volumetric Market no you know why because Lacroix is overrated it’s not overrated it’s delicious I have like so many at home you think Lacroix okay we don’t have any other brands of sparkling poppy no no we don’t know but do you think that fair we stock like 50 flavors of Lacroix I do two in my house what I have like 50 flavors do you really of Lacroix I’ve tried almost every single flavor right now my rankings are Beach Plum mangoes Beach Plum Beach Plum there’s this flavor called Beach Plum yeah it’s right there it’s called Beach Plum what is it it’s a plum on a damn Beach they misprinted Peach Plum and now it’s just Beach Plum what the hell are you Peach Plum no no there’s Peach pear there’s Peach pear yeah that’s okay who’s Andy samberg’s wife she has a song called Peach Plum pear she’s a folk singer she’s got a haunting voice she sounds like uh sounds like a drunk baby [Music] I see you at the movies I see you with your lipstick on I love Beach pump Beach Plum’s great I love that okay and passion fruit is really good and then mango mango do we have mango mangoes coconut can get fricked okay wait hold up no I like the coconut Lacroix I’ll tell you what because you put coffee in it no matter what ew gross Jesus I know people that have coconut Lacroix and coffee together and I want to be like shut up hipster okay I will never drink Lacroix outside of my brother’s house and this office those the only two places I drink Lacroix and the coconut in an office setting is always gonna be the coldest because nobody’s taking it so it’s sitting in the back of the fridge it’s getting ice crystals on it and that’s what I want um I will say staring down all these Lacroix uh Tangerine pretty freaking fantastic they’re they’re limoncello great Cola maybe the worst thing I’ve ever had in my life they have a cola did not last long yeah they had a cola but I mean that plays to my general idea of why I think Lacroix is overrated is because it tastes Hollow the best the best best Lacroix has ever been put in uh normal speak was a dude who tweeted drinking a Lacroix is like drinking sparkling water and somebody yelling the name of a fruit from a room over but that’s not true that’s not true at all it is these are okay you just said it doesn’t taste it only smells that’s not true at all close your eyes like plug your nose and plug your nose and drink the beach uh no yeah I did I did I lied to you I lied try it try plugging your nose I’m gonna okay Nicole is pouring The Beach Plum and plugging her nose to see if she can discern any actual taste or if it is simply smell because to me looks really tastes no way let me try it definitely has a taste also if you plug your nose give me another one I’m gonna pluck my nose and try all of them and see if it tastes anything different because no you’re only experiencing the smell no oh you’re not only experiencing the smell I spilled that right on my crotch that doesn’t work Tangerine LaCroix oh my gosh okay it does taste a little bit yeah see that’s BS you’re lying people are like oh it sounds like you spring like if you have grape look does anybody have grape Lacroix grape look for anything I don’t know if I’ve seen it well okay let’s just say like if someone says uh pample mousse like the like the grapefruit Lacroix like somebody like wiggled a grapefruit over the sort of thing and no it doesn’t it literally tastes like grapefruit you’re just being facetious okay and a jerk for no reason okay okay well if Lacroix was actually transparent about their quote-unquote essencing methods Nicole then maybe people would trust that I don’t care I don’t need transparency no I don’t either I don’t know I mean I do love the fact that it is transparent and I can see through it and it’s not dark like Coca-Cola but um sure but I mean Coca-Cola is only dark because they add coloring to it like they’re like you ever have Pepsi Crystal no I’m not a crystal Pepsi I’m not 50 years old Crystal Pepsi yeah come on you’re around in 1981. no I wasn’t I was born in 93. rude like I was born in 81. okay but but for real like the whole essencing process right that is a word that they put naturally essence on the can I like that if you look at the can it’s like I don’t know this very retro nostalgic Vibe it’s a pretty freaking clean design got the half sort of rustic looking cursive on it um it says you know sparkling water it’s not a soda pop it says naturally essenced on it I’m into it the calorie label reads zeros across the board honey just like RuPaul um what the hell does that mean tens across the board that was a reference zeros is means you’re bad yeah well you know that’s like if a lip Sinker just like fell down and didn’t get up like zero zero zeros across the board no they feel bad they give them a four yeah it makes sense uh any human point is the naturally Essence thing that was a huge part of the Mystique of Lacroix when it came out people like oh it’s not just natural flavors it’s essenced and then when actually pressed uh what as to what Essence means none of the Lacroix Executives would like give a straight answer like Essence is a feel it is a sensation I think it’s three drops of of uh Beaver butthole juice yeah that’s it castorium baby castorium I think it’s literally every three drops yeah it’s proprietary they don’t need to tell nobody nothing they don’t but my general theory okay so let’s look at that word naturally essenced uh what Nicole what qualifications do Foods need to meet to put the term natural on their packaging but nothing absolutely nothing literally nothing so why would people care if it said essenced you know why would the FDA have any sort of because humans are so stupid no I’m saying that they’re just they’ve just made up a new term of naturally essenced and they’re like eat it people new thing okay let them do it it’s not I don’t disagree with you but all I’m trying to do is trying to break down the fact that there is no Mystique behind Lacroix they are the same exact product as aha as Waterloo as bubbly as what are like the Albertsons brand that like done really got a name it’s just like it’s just like sharp water but sharp sure sure I mean I think it’s the same I don’t think I could I could pick out Lacroix in a blind taste test from anything else I don’t think so either I’m still reaching for this freaking Beach how good is that oh my God Maggie’s also drinking one yeah yeah cheers to you both enjoy it [Music] look in this day and age free time is harder and harder to come by so we have to make the most of it when it comes around like spending a few minutes or I mean let’s face it a few dozen minutes playing best fiends the puzzle Adventure game that’ll be sure to add joy to your routine best fiends is a free to download mobile puzzle game with thousands of exciting levels for new adventures and challenges every time you play and with offline play you’ll never be stranded without fun even if you lose your internet connection so if you’re on a 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here like what what’s the hate for who does the hate help you know who the hate helps for me you know who they hit one myself to sleep at night I just feel better I feel smug that’s sad I’m going oh I’m so better than everybody else because I am drinking spin drift which is my drink of choice because I think Spindrift is one of the few to actually innovate within the category literally three weeks ago you said ugh I hate spindra no I didn’t no I didn’t know yeah I have never complained about sourness and drinking I may or have I maybe said that the Arnold Palmer iced tea and lemonade Spindrift isn’t as good as it could be sure Nicole sure I have said that but I have never disparaged the Greater brand of spandruff because I love it no no you and I literally we and I remember specifically we used to get spindrifts for Mike Paisley and then we would sneak one or two and then you’re like sour maybe it was like one day that I had heartburn I ate a bunch of buffalo wings I didn’t want the sour I love it spin drift for anybody that does not know or or for anybody who listens to a podcast I heard for anybody who listens to a podcast expecting things to be you know explained clearly to them uh spin drift it’s a sparkling water but instead of just adding quote unquote Natural Essence which as we said are just chemicals and they are fake I don’t doubt that these real fruit rind but like what is a Beach Plum and how do they Essence it nobody knows Spindrift is sparkling water with real fruit juice in it yeah but very powerful fruits that have a very minimal amount of calories because ultimately I’m one of those gym boys who despite the fact that I will you know eat gigantic burritos I still drink diet soda yes uh and so for me I’m looking for a very low calorie drink option that has some sort of delicious flavor spin drip they’re putting little raspberry juice in it little lemon juice in it Spindrift to me is a fantastic product I don’t I mean Lacroix is just easy it’s there it’s available they they’re always on sale at Pavilions I mean who doesn’t love that I’m just really passionate about how diverse the flavors are and how how beautiful the packaging is and you don’t reach for a diet soda you don’t reach for a soda I think it’s I think it’s a great fix yeah to people that are addicted to sodas like if I had soda in my house which I do forgets but like me myself I never the only time I reach for a soda or diet soda is if I ate something really heavy and I need like a little bit of carbonation to make me feel better yeah and that Sugar also helps with like the digestion of it but like a Lacroix is like my standard it’s just it just makes the most sense I hate the fact that people assume that it’s overrated it’s literally a beverage with a little little flavor in it and it’s it’s enjoyable it brings joy as somebody who Lacroix it brings joy that should be their new slogan running the marketing department um as somebody who grew up drinking plain sparkling water because when I was a kid chill me too no I’m saying I’m saying because I didn’t yes Jesus I know we had something in common I got so excited no I couldn’t stomach the taste of plain sparkling water when I was a kid because I was just like uh it tastes tastes Sharpie you know I didn’t like that uh it tastes like soda without the delicious syrup but I also grew up drinking massive amounts of full calorie soda sure constantly when I was a kid um do you like the flavor editions like do they actively make your life and experience better I prefer sparkling water without any flavor same but I don’t like Lacroix pure because because it doesn’t taste good it’s not good sparkling water no it is good no it is it’s good sparkling water because of the additions is it better with sour cream and guacamole and hot sauce yeah no but I I think that logic does hold up when you start breaking certain things down and you’re like yeah if you take away this guacamole from this place in this corner it’s like you realize their tortilla is really bad and they could be improved and it also could show potentially nickel bear with me here could show weakness in their plan house built on Sand instead of stone because check this out LaCroix people are coming people are who’s coming knocking on the door they’re taking shots at the king and they are not missing right now with all these other brands Topo Chico just got bought by Coke or sparkling water what how how do you figure it’s not good and the bubbles aren’t bubbly oh yeah cause you grew up drinking Perrier that’s that’s like what happens the best the best tastes like sulfur you know what’s the best sparkling meaning is the best sparkling water you can get wait I feel like that’s very similar to Topo Chico and I feel like no no what would you say Chico first of all whenever you get to bochico the bubbles dissipate like that the bubbles go away faster people are like oh the bubbles last forever not true what format you’re talking plastic bottle glass bottle or both no class bottle they last forever they are like a Willy Wonka Everlasting Gobstopper there’s no way the glass does not keep it the way that like applies is it cold are you drinking a cold of course you sound crazy right now so I’m trying to just make sure that you’re not Chico is a hipster as Frick right now okay it wasn’t hipster once it became it no no no haritos because now that’s the new hipster pick it’s not that’s a new hipster pick who said I was that I was at lunch with a hipster with a hipster and he literally says it was well okay so it’s not him it’s no gluten okay no I wouldn’t say he’s like a hipster but he’s like you know very food he’s like a cool guy but like he’s you know one of those one of those dudes who who just straight up said do you have any like minaragua because it’s good straight ass for that by brand name no I love you shout out but I’m just saying like that’s gonna be the new thing you’re just moving on from one thing that’s perceived as cool to the next thing you think will not yet be perceived as cool in the world I thought it was perceived as cool I would go to freaking 99 cent store and get one how is that the fact that you said you hit double jiggle because it is hipster is heck the fact that you would denigrated the reason people like it is because they think that the bubbles last longer they don’t do you think that they’re lying about their experience of the bubbles last year yes you think it’s a massive hysteria of people just like just creating false memories yes I do bubbles temporality what do you think of caused this Nicole what do you think do you think it’s a marketing campaign and they just want to believe because we’ll do anything if their friends are doing it so it’s like people who like takes an IPA they’re like oh I can taste the Cascade hops and it’s like just go the hipsters go to the museum and watch movies at the music not the museum the freaking what is it where people are dead people are dead Cemetery uh the cemetery and sit on Graves and watch movies on graves little little little break in in container Nicole’s talking about what do they call it the Hollywood Forever Cemetery there’s an event where hipsters do indeed go to a graveyard sit on human Graves and watch freaking watch freaking I don’t know Ponyo yeah yeah yeah that’s a real thing that happened I think I think I got invited to an up Jazz screening there um I’ve never been because I’ve done history stuff before and I understand it when you think about it you’re sitting on a person’s I was next to Alfred Hitchcock’s grave that man’s body was six feet under and I was watching a damn movie why why because it’s cool wait so you think that like the bubbles is important yeah pretty much people just think it’s cool while Lacroix is perfectly fine and it does the job but Chico no Lacroix is fine it does what it does and it’s delicious is it a can it’s convenient it’s beautiful it has bubbles and the bubbles do not go away as possible what yeah I’m sorry I’m passionate about the subject do you prefer sparkling water in cans or bottles honestly I’ll take what I can get but I do love I like it in a nice plastic bottle nice plastic bottle because I can take it with me I I feel that I feel that I am also a glass heart oh though with you today get out of town oh you know what I hate you did they call like a stash of like Red Bulls just under her was she just like drinking I love sparkling water and when people say it’s over there pisses me the frick off you know what I hate at restaurants go on get them Nicole get him oh oh Junkyard Dog Nicole coming baby still sparkling or tab yeah no no give me dab give me the free stuff baby I always get tabs L.A counties and then sometimes they bring like they and then they just bring you this huge bottle that’s ten dollars of water of sparkling water what is that give me a Lacroix Mountain Valley Mountain okay dude that’s hipster water that’s hipster water Mountain Valley it comes in the dark green bottles it’s great and I would drink that you know what really got me through the lockdown of the pandemic what uh the love of friends and family and the knowledge that we’re all in this together but closely after that was a single bottle of Mountain Valley spring water that I would refill I would fill out dude check this out so I had a soda stream right I would fill it with plain water we should talk about SodaStream because I’m obsessed I would fill my soda stream in the bottle that you have to fill it in and pour it I would fill it extra hard so it’s super bubbly extra hoard so that way when I decanted it into the Mountain Valley bottle that I kept for like a year uh it just retained all of its carbonation I’d screw it put it in the fridge and then drink from it because it made me feel like I was in the outside oh that’s the power of this hats you know that’s the power sparkling water has it yeah I mean you’re transfixed by Lacroix you’re you’re freaking dazzled in the lights you know of all the bright designs on the can you know Chico’s hips are not that it’s like a native Texan company have been there for for decades so I have I link the person who signs her paychecks he’s a big trouble chica yeah who does sign our paychecks I don’t know I think like someone from accounting um um what’s her name oh yeah it might be Ellen well I get it I always get an email that says like you haven’t cashed a check because it’ll be my mileage check that’s for like six dollars and like I just don’t do that you do your mileage yeah well no I think like Mindy does it for me but I’ll just oh that’s so nice and I don’t really check my mail and so there’s just like you know a lot of like six dollar checks from the company and I think I’m really sure I think you I think they expire after 90 days you need to like no dude that’s a myth dude checks not expire I don’t know I don’t know anything about money management tell me about your soda stream oh my God okay so SodaStream um I I was God I I’m such a follower of Trends because I used to drink a ton of diet soda and then I was like listen what if the artificial sweetener is actually bad for you it can’t be good we can’t simply cheat God no there’s right and that’s what we’re doing so I don’t doubt there’s something happening um I tried going full cold turkey no artificial sweetener for two months I did it I just like didn’t feel any different and I was like any different no but I’m also pretty blind to how my body feels I had to you I had a fracture in my back for 16 years you are you know how people are like oh intuitive like eating opposite I don’t have that no neither do you I want to put just things in my body yeah crazy crazy insert things in my body any whom and so uh then one day I just realized like oh I don’t need the artificial sweetener I just want the bubbles yeah and then I found out that I was just burning money on uh canned Beverages and so I was like yo sodastream’s gonna pay for itself in two months because I drink how much is a soda stream this is a company from I think Coke I don’t know no PepsiCo that’s incredible one of them you mind looking that up real quick I don’t want to get that one wrong that’s an easy one how much is your how much was yours so stream like 60 bucks no way and I don’t buy the syrups because I just I don’t need them I get a giant bottle of saddaf lemon juice because it’s the cheapest lemon juice is it the best lemon juice no but I just need sour but it’s good actually I was I was at uh mitsu at the Japanese Market recently and I got a thing of Yuzu juice well I was gonna say yeah yeah yeah you crazy crazy that sounds so good dropping some Yuzu juice in SodaStream and so I drink when I’m at home uh for like the weekend I drink three liters of sparkling water a day you know how much I burp throughout the day you like hear me and it gives me hives yeah that’s because I’m obsessed with sparkling water which is why it pains me to see people patronizing Lacroix so much you know because I think it is it is in inferior product truly based on the taste I think it is inferior I think one if you’re going bottled I I’ve actually done a blind taste test like double blind didn’t know who set it up I did it people recorded the results in Topo Chico won by a landslide this is La magazine interesting yeah and Topo chica but we did All Pure flavor so we did look really pure liqueur pure is not good no it’s not so but again they I think do have Far and Away the best flavors which for me we have a giant just drawer full of extracts right yeah like it seems easy just put a single drop of like Peach and then a single drop of pear and be like boom new flavor I know that’s not all that goes into the food science behind it it’s mostly that but to me I view that as smoke and mirrors and cheap tricks I mean it’s a good product Oh gosh at the end of the day it’s a good product and people are gonna buy it they it might they might it might be the fancy packaging it might be you know the sales it might just be they like flavors and I don’t think we should judge a whole company based off of people thinking it’s overrated just because the pier is bad I’ve I figured it out I just had like that aha moment right here not talking about aha but Nicole what does this look like right there on the little Kraken say it you gotta say what it looks like what kind of fruit Nicole Nicole if a popular American Artist would have drawn this picture of a fruit which artist would have drawn that Georgia O’Keefe this is this is a Georgia O’Keeffe looking fruit they are using subliminal sexual imagery uh actually Giorgio O’Keefe had a much more lighter delicate hand and used a lot of um she used a different form of art following more flowing lines absolutely different form of art this is actually more pop art a la Andy Warhol oh you’re right I was kind of like a Liechtenstein anyways Lacroix sexualizing the seltzer water Topo Chico is the official seltzer water of celibate Christian Gamers like myself you are Jewish and your offianst and I’m sure you have like no you’re just a and you’re sexually active and I was like you don’t know that I’m pretty sure you have sex with your fiance I would hope so uh we tried once but it’s gross [Music] hey hey hot Doggers midterm elections are coming up on November 8th and a lot of you across the US will be voting on some pretty crucial spots in Congress and special elections so vote like a beast is here to help go check out vote likeabeast.com to check your voting status register if you need to and stay informed for the midterm elections vote like a beast.com also has stickers for sale with a hundred percent of our profits going directly to our partners at vote.org be your mythical best by supporting a great non-profit that helps all Americans exercise their right to vote all right Nicole I’ve heard of 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 [Music] sometimes Josh calls me a bug which when I don’t comb my hair and it’s really weird no no no I don’t call it I don’t call you that when you don’t come here I call you that when like just you’re normal which because it’d be messed up if I called you a bhagwatino come here then that’s me like policing your appearance at work which isn’t true I don’t do that I just call you occasionally a bog witch not to Humble you no I I said you looked nice the other day you did um maybe I said it in my head at case blueberry and chipotle pepper pie is god tier why are you laughing the sweet and Smoky combo with a bit of heat ah chef’s kiss is what they said that’s all chef’s kiss that’s all I guess it’s almost all those chicks until I kiss them um Nicole I have a lot of spicy desserts more specifically blueberry chipotle pepper pie um Chipotle in Adobo you think no I think we’re talking about like Chipotle powder that’s the easiest way to get pure that’s exciting what I would do is serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream oh my God you’re bad I can’t believe it’s like it’s like do you want to share a piece no I want my own uh I don’t know that I like spicy desserts oh yeah we have to issue a correction it is PepsiCo they bought SodaStream for 3.2 uh billion dollars in 2018. how much PepsiCo 3.2 Billy God bless SodaStream incredible products well I’m gonna buy one what okay right now we should come up with an idea for a new countertop appliance that is doing something like what’s what’s the most annoying kitchen task that you do opening hands oh my God what if you could have like a can opener they have them what do you mean they have automatic can openers I’ve never heard of it okay that’s because you’re just no maybe you’re just I’ve just been bashing my cans against the counter screaming at them until they open for me okay what else do I hate washing dishes oh my God oh cracking eggs we need a thing where I can just I can throw my eggs into a bucket and they come out cracked no egg cracker no um um cutting things what about if you had a thing that could like chop your vegetables but you’re not but you’re not cutting it you’re just slapping it I have one of those I bought one of those for the mythical kitchen which one it’s like a Slap Chop but not really you just stole my idea I invented the slap shop right here you stole that weird guy’s idea the one that was like Hey guys welcome have a Snapchat you know that guy he was so scary I I ordered a bunch of slice-o-matics which was like a slap shot but a slap slice I think they could make a slap slice was there any alcohol bro no it’s the natural Essences if they can invent the slap slice after The Slap Chop already existed then we can invent something after the soda stream that like instead of adding you know carbonation to your drink it just adds like I don’t know like a little bit of fart taste you know I think people would like to purchase that why fart soda Give Me One Reason Why that cause who wants to drink farts I don’t see your point okay uh Mara how do I say it’s Mira dungeon Miranda Jean close Schwing and a mess there’s no way you could have known that as Miranda that’s how people read you take it letter by letter but then you kind of just fill in the entire see mine’s the opposite I just look at it and I just say it okay Miranda Jean says heating up leftovers is completely unnecessary there’s nothing wrong with cold food I agree I want to slice my gravy with a knife can I tell you something I had a slice of pizza last night like 11 18 p.m and I wasn’t about to go in the microwave and turn it on I just want to eat that slice of pizza it was so good I also washed it down with the passion fruit Lacroix it was so good I don’t think there are any leftovers that I eat cold unless it’s meant that I eat a lot of cold foods though for dinner like I make a lot of like mezze style stuff mashed potatoes a lot of dips no cold Mash videos like hey well I didn’t I’ve I don’t think I made mashed potatoes in my two years of living with my fiance wow I probably made him one no I made those were twice those were stuffed twice baked potatoes I made them like three or four times I’m just not not a fan of it I love a cold sweet potato puree oh that’s a funny yeah underrated underrated underrated but no I just ah to me a lot of food is really better hot pizzas better hot fried chicken fried chicken I ate cold because heating it up you’re just overcooking the chicken and then it gets soggy so fried chicken I will eat cold that’s like my one cloth yeah sometimes the Chipotle burrito cold is nice but I never have leftover Chipotle at tux bird Savory cereal heck yeah I love crushing up Ritz crackers in a glass pour milk over them and eat them that sounds awesome yeah I love Ritz uh you know what else would be good like this club crackers chicken in a Biscuit oh yeah chicken in a Biscuit yeah that’s like making soup at that point you’re making a milk stock milk stock milk stock uh this is a genius idea I can’t believe I have never done this I am going out drinking tonight and I have a big old thing of Ritz crackers and some nice one percent milk how many sleeves you got oh three but there’s a Whole Wheat Ridge so I haven’t oh no oh you can’t Julie is one of those people who’s like well even though I know there’s not a big difference nutritionally you know I might as well get the whole wheat yeah that’s okay so I haven’t eaten whole wheat tortillas in whole wheat oh that’s okay yeah whatever that’s nice of her to care enough um slaw 6 says it’s okay and sometimes even more delicious to burn certain foods example bacon and potatoes what foods do you burn the most like intentionally toast same I get a little bit of a toast I like I like like a Sourdough I like this yeah my sister when we used to go to restaurants she would ask for her cabal burnt interesting she would say I don’t want to see any pink in there I want it burnt well well well well done burn it and they do it and they just no they wouldn’t burn it they would like charred a little bit but like she like loves that kind of food I eat some really charred Meats I ate some real charred meat I did it a guy who loved charred me he like was obsessed with it and loved eating it I’m like bro that’s not good for you sometimes it just turns to carbon and then it’s like pretty bad burnt bits okay burnt bacon they make chicken Foods oh I can’t say Amber and bacon I understand that I don’t know there’s something that turns really accurate medicinal with bacon when it burns potatoes did a like a burnt potato chips potatoes no gotta be perfect golden on the potatoes um but certain things like a lot of vegetables I just burned the hell out of like roasting broccoli broccolini roasting fruits also yeah whenever you get a nice Grill mark dude that’s great yeah I agree burn is great at vem626 pickles belong on Pizza this is true this is absolutely true like slice have you seen there’s they’re referring to it’s like the pickle pizza it’s got something like dried dill it’s a white pizza with pickles on it that sounds good I’d eat that but like I kind of like the idea of just like dipping my pizza and like jardiniere oh that’s nice full fresh giant air on there yeah um almost every no I’m probably gonna say every single major Pizza chain in America already puts pickles on their pizza and nobody seems they put well they put a Jalapeno’s yeah when you ask for jalapenos I do too yeah yeah the Papa John’s listen I don’t agree with Papa John’s well anything about them but I am a big fan of Shaquille O’Neal and he has controlling steak and Papa John’s now he’s really the ship around baby he’s in the commercials he’s doing the Undercover Boss thing you know um and uh yeah they’ll put banana peppers pepperonis on your on your pizza people have been putting pickles on pizza for forever it just you know depends on what kind of pickle but it’s good A little acidic bite Hugh underscore Richard says rub Marmite into steaks before frying hmm okay that sounds good this is this is one of them things everyone’s trying to figure out the best way to like people putting mayonnaise on steaks they’re putting sugar on steaks they’re putting Marmot on steaks Marmite to me is a really delightful flavor it’s what like yeast concentrate taste extract I believe and it’s it’s really good but like when people do stuff like this I would just rather have a nice tasting sauce yeah and I think that’s something that people don’t do enough because I’ve talked about I used to call marinating a scam which is an ignorant thing of me to say and I understand and I do marinate a lot of my Meats but the reason I said that is because a lot of people think their job is done when they marinate something when they like lack or something like do you know like get a sauce finish it in a nice sauce put a good sauce on your steak I think some people have like ruin it a negative association with sauce so people are just like sauce is bad for you do they is that a thing is it like a deity culture maybe but not for me I’m a sauce boss I am the same dude I will not eat any food without sauce the other day for dinner I just made like some like roast chicken thighs and I had like four different sauces that I made like an eggplant like roasted eggplant tahini situation I made like a dried mint satsiki and then I had a muhammadra like roasted walnuts and red pepper a little bit of uh what’s the human yeah yeah but what’s the how are you say a little bit of her recess and that’s just that’s how I enjoy that’s how I enjoy my food sauce to the gills yeah like a sauce steak sauce is like underrated like people like like not like I don’t not a one but like a pan sauce oh dude you’re scared to make it because they’re scared of it breaking I ate a broken sauce yeah that makes sense uh shout out to Eli from foodbeast he had a monstrously broken sauce that he poured on it oh yeah I saw that yeah he was really getting a lot of flack from it oh really you like grits your sauce is broken as hell but we still love you but our love for you is not at Brett Richmond sugar on eggs is only acceptable when it’s matzo braai yes I say Mozza Brie it’s definitely pronounced I don’t care what the Ashkenazi say whoa whoa whoa I swore up in this piece Jesus Nicole’s band together have some freaking Unity over here some kiss met Christ um a fellow Jew Christ uh no I I like sweet Mozza Bry I like putting some powdered sugar on uh the eggy matzah yeah we call them matzo fritters in my house I don’t know why that’s fine but is it like it’s like it’s like it’s like do you so how do you make uh you just like crush up a bunch of matzo whiskey with eggs and cook it you don’t do it in like patties you just mix it all up I made Critters I do it like me oh so I makes you like you no I make fritters I make fritters wait how do you do it so I take egg and matzah and I let it hang out yeah like hours in the fridge and then I put salt pepper and sugar and then I make little patties and I deep fry them like a little latkes I make lots of bright vodkas oh interesting it’s a family it’s a family favorite I actually got it from you know the late the mom in uh uh My Big Fat Greek Wedding yes of her recipe she’s a Jewish cookbook yeah she’s not even Greek no I don’t know but the man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head God we really did live the same life Brady Stevenson says caramelized onions are horrific they ruin everything okay speaking of burnt food have some carbonized yo I have some Persian style carbonized onions carbon is it’s caramelization taken to the next step it’s just it’s burning the hell out of the onions to lay down that base yeah it’s really good and that is a good flavor I made uh carbonized onions and then deglazed it and then like added actually added that to that eggplant tahini puree thing um really great I I do think maybe people can I don’t know add too many caramelized onions to things it’s a little funky and sometimes it does overpower a dish I don’t think it ruins everything to me caramelized onions is one of those things where the flavor of the whole dish has to be caramelized onion like a thing that I hate is caramelized onions on a Cheesesteak for instance okay I think that’s bad because for me the onions on a Cheesesteak should be like fried translucent okay fair and then when you put the caramelized onions on there there’s so much like sweetness in it that it’s then taking away from the Flavor of the grease it’s taking away the flavor from the cheese and to me that’s an intricate balance that I don’t want disrupted and I hate when people confuse like the different donenesses of onions you know yeah I think if you’re sauteing onions they got to be caramelized and they don’t they don’t they really don’t there’s nothing wrong with just a soft translucent onion give me a sweaty onion sweat I sounded like like a song sweat sweat what song is that me and you baby ain’t nothing but mama so let’s do it like they do on my Discovery Channel um okay your last one Josh called gazelle style at CJ Heinz butter orange marmalade baloney dill pickle on toast tastes like childhood this is a latchkey kid as a latchkey kid I can tell you know why they hadn’t they had no direction on this they just did what felt right you know it was like uh you when you’re a kid and you didn’t get the talk you were just like well I gotta figure this out for myself like the sex talk you were just like well now it’s it’s the wild west I’m learning from things like that song like you know where there’s nothing but mammals so do it like they do on the Discovery Channel and it’s like well that’s the most anyone’s ever educated me about sex we live in an abstinence only School District that how you learned about sex yeah dude Discovery Channel basically what year did that come out let’s reach race of where I was when I heard that um but that said butter marmalade bologna dill pickle I get the marmaline bologna that’s a really nice yeah yeah yeah what if it was different let me tell you if it was not dill pickle and it was bread and butter pickle oh I’d be more down I agree with that I agree with that but overall I mean Jam butter 99 yes seven years old listener we ain’t nothing but mammals watching MTV by myself oh my God and I had just learned what a mammal was in like first or second grade and then doing it I like vaguely knew what that euphemism was for and they said Discovery Channels they started watching the Discovery Channel trying to learn about sex you know what I mean yeah trying to make my way in the world you know I learned about it when I was 12 and I would Google shower.com woodshower.com still active Maggie ain’t opening Company open an incognito browser don’t go to Wi-Fi good on a hot spot because they’re watching they’re watching what we do oh just type in like body like like body parts like it’s like what is boob you’d be like boob.com man’s wenis all right on that note thank you so much for stopping by hot dog as a sandwich if you want to hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we got new episodes for you everyone see female cloaca I really over share all this podcast if you want to be featured on opinions I like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythicalchef or the hashtag opinion casserole or if you want to leave us a voicemail give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833.pod one leave us a voicemail yes Schmucks for more mythical kitchen check us out on YouTube where we launch new videos every week see y’all next time [Music] here at mythical we’ve been through a lot of strange situations over the years but we’ve always made it through by laughing in the face of danger that’s right we’re still good we’re still good and now it’s time for you 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