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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 air and I’m your host Nicole inaiti and today we are going to talk about the official Belinda Carlisle fan club that we have started you know what’s the best Belinda Carla Carlisle song Circle in the sand actually I had to Google who sang oh really place on Earth Greek sauce I love Belinda Carla wait name other rivers do I know where other songs I don’t know if you’re part of the membership you should know at least four she had a lot of great songs but Circle in the sand is my problem she’s alive Belinda Carlisle God bless anywhoom uh today we are talking about buffets we’re talking about our worst Buffet experiences because as much as I love buffets I think we’ve had some bad experiences I’ve had so many bad experiences yeah I mean it’s it’s Rife for fantastic experience yeah no Dad yeah of course no duh but also the fact that you have such a high ceiling on great experiences means you have such a low ceiling on terrible experiences now now that Nature’s healing Nicole you know people getting back into the swing of things after covet because it took buffets completely away from us you go to the Newtown Chinese buffet in Burbank greatest Buffet to ever exist but see I’m not a buffet frequenter is that a word I don’t frequent buffets often but when I do it’s like a big deal like it’s a big deal for me to be at a buffet okay what’s what’s your Buffet strategy because I think people should know some of the the groundwork before we get into it well the first thing you have to do whenever you get to any Buffet is you need to scope out the scene take a lap take a look number one take a lap take a look at what’s good what’s getting replaced the most take a look at what people are flocking towards and just you know feel out the crowd number one number two you I feel like the crowd doesn’t feel like all right I know there’s an old lady at the crab leg Yeah like an elbow hurt at the side I mean kind of yeah um and then and then number two you have to always go for high quality Pro proteins first yes so you want to go for the seafood typical quickly because that’s how you win yeah so you win the buffet you got to go for the peel and eat shrimp you have to go for the crab legs and you have to go for the steak or the carving section because there’s typically a carving section if you’re at a real real group of things yeah but not if it’s like a ham it’s got to be like a freshman no no it’s got to be a side of beef and a turkey yeah yeah yeah correct correct and then number three then after you get all of your your premium meats you want to start getting the veggies the veggies are very important because the Bold move to eat vegetables at a buffet you have to you have to because the name of the game is quantity you want to be able to fill up on all the things you need to fill up on does that make sense because you can get bread from anywhere you can get pasta from anywhere although I do absolutely adore the bread baskets that they do offer and I do know the bread baskets are how they win Nicole that’s what I’m saying against the buffet I’m literally telling you what I do can I finish my damn more of attrition okay so once I get some nice Patty pan squash and baby carrots is it worse than Bar Mitzvah Patty pants gold no do you think people know what Patty pan squash it’s the yellow pretty scallop squash that you see at bar mitzvahs come on people oh nuggets yeah the bar mitzvah School the bar Mitzi squash are my favorites and little baby carrots and then maybe you got a side of spinach if it’s not too wilty and then you go into the Asian section yes and then you get the cream cheese and tuna canned tuna rolls you know what I’m talking about they don’t do they’re spicy tuna probably can the Newtown Chinese Buffet they got a lot of canned tuna in the rolls they will have some fresh raw fish which people say Josh you’re insane next to a dilapidated Kmart in Burbank yeah yeah don’t do it don’t do it no I get it I eat the raw fish unless you’re at a really high quality Buffet if you’re at the win like sure like you can have their their tuna you can have their like salmon sashimi if you’re if you’re willing if you’re willing I will eat raw fish fish from anywhere anytime don’t care where it came from if a Toyota Tacoma Nicole pulls up and Ally behind a 7-Eleven says we have raw fish I will say how much you’re wild and then after that you have to get um bottomless alcohol right what do you mean after that’s how you that’s how you get hungrier for the meal and also alcohol is a diuretic so it opens up more room I’m not see I’m not the kind of person who who drinks in order to get hungry I’m the opposite I drink and I go I’m not I’m not kidding equal food no I drink champagne when I go to it yeah that’s probably the way to go you gotta get bottled bottles of bottles and bottles of champagne and then you enjoy yourself and that’s how I like to do my Buffet experiences I I’m very similar um I mentioned buffets are about winning because when I grew up like feeding us Via Buffet we would go to the Sizzler and eat the all-you-can-eat salad bar buffet for every birthday a kid’s under 11 8 for 99 cents yeah my brother we would hide him in the bathroom as we paid he was 11 until he was like 17. correct yeah he had his little prepubescent mustache at 15 in the bathroom and then he’d go sit down they’d be like that’s a that’s a big 11 year old man and we’d be like shut up we’re poor John go find the shrimp they didn’t have shrimp at Sizzler but point is I I’ve been always taught to like break the bank at a buffet I’m trying to beat the house at a casino that’s exactly it yeah don’t fill up on bread never do not drink a single sip of water oh no you got it well they always offer you coffee orange juice alcohol coffee is good people say it’s an apple or so depressant but if you fight through that the coffee will just get you to metabolize the food that’s what I’m thinking yeah yeah that’s why morning buffets are a really good way to go correct and I love laying down a base of like four to five Champagnes on an empty stomach yeah me too I was once asked to leave if we’re talking about worst Buffet experiences uh being asked to leave a buffet in Reno Nevada for drinking 11 mimosas oh I’m sorry I think that’s BS it was all you can drink I had not yet drank all that I could drink I was trying to push for more and I wanted any crab legs you should have fought them no they were actually pretty nice about it it was kind of like they were nice when they were kicking you out they were kind of like hey you know you’ve been here for three hours you didn’t have a cap on it not an explicit one but apparently an implicit one because yeah yeah um yeah you can’t be at a buffet for too long and a lot of the buffets I go to they like have like the rule like your this is your table for x amount of hours you gotta get up my friend records was a little belligerent because yeah yeah records like like last name like Ricketts yeah okay yeah like Ricker’s Island yeah it shouldn’t like uh I don’t want to put them in Bomb Blast with his employ lawyer but he he was respectfully belligerent I thought I thought we were I would love to meet Rickers just to say his name Rickers all right so oh I was gonna say also um find the old people not to Elbow them out of the way but to learn from them quarantine eggs Florentine eggs florentine they are Shameless about how many crab legs they will stack on one plate you gotta follow the veterans you know yeah yeah you’re a rookie in the NBA you go find yourself a veteran Mentor I’m doing that with random old ladies at the buffet me and my dad we would go to the we would go to the buffet at the MGM because he was one of those like high rollers that had like the card yeah yeah so like me and him he’d be like he’d be like Bubba let’s go to uh let’s go to the buffet crab legs and then my mom wouldn’t eat crab legs at the time and then I would but I would eat them because I was with my dad and my dad allowed me to and then he’d be like don’t tell yourself and it was so fun because from like a kosher perspective yeah yeah yeah and at that time like he’s like this is how you do and he taught me how to open a crab leg like he taught me how to peel any trip and then he’d be like go go go get the dessert or like go go get this and I’m like okay and it was so much fun for us the best child parent bonding happens in the face yeah it’s like that in like a baseball game yeah maybe if you go to baseball games not so much me but yeah all right tell me about tell me about a buffet Horror Story okay tell me you’re worse so I hate to crap on this place but my mom and I went to a Hokkaido Seafood Buffet before we went to a movie at the Landmark do you know where the landmark is there’s a couple landmarks uh The Landmark there’s one in Westwood the one in Westwood yeah so we were gonna go watch some sort of weird Indie flick or something because we like to do that sometimes me and my mom and I was like I was like fresh in culinary school like not even there for a year okay we go to some people see the word seafood buffet and they run I’m somebody who flocks to it because I’m no stranger yeah yeah my mom wanted to try and I was like okay we’ll try it but I I heard it’s not the best but we’ll try it we’ll try it we’ll try it so we go there and we you know we start out with the sushi and then we start out with the are we talking raw fish sushi or canned tuna sushi canned tuna sushi okay and then and then we get we get like a little side salad and then and then we start you know we start enjoying ourselves and then all of a sudden this waves hit this wave it hits the two of us and we’re like oh no and then we look at each other I’m like Mom do you feel okay she’s like no I don’t and then I I’m like me either let’s get out of here let’s pay for the bill and let’s go and then the manager stops us and goes why are you guys leaving so soon like or did you guys not have a good time and I’m like oh that was great thank you so much and then my mom goes and for some reason she goes my daughter she goes to cooking school do you need someone to come help you and I’m like Mom this place is literally giving us active food poisoning we need to run away in an alternate reality you would have been sauteing yeah like salt and pepper calamari I would have been the head I guess I was the head culinary Innovation artist and no not even not even no no I don’t even think they offered that would have just been that the head of the Brigade at Hokkaido stuff yeah the place doesn’t even exist anymore the one that I’m talking about and then for some reason this guy hands me my my card he looks like the guy from Aqua Teen Hunger Force you know the ones he looks like Carl just with a few more rings on his hands you love that and he goes here’s my cards called me when you graduate I have a job for you and I’m like I’m literally like vomiting in in my throat like I need to get the heck out of here and I’m like okay thank you so me and my mom run we get movies we get we got tickets to the movies and then like I just get violently sick at the movies in the bathroom do you remember what movie it was I can’t it was some it was some weird it was some weird like off the beaten path film I guess no I didn’t watch out with my mom it was probably some sort of like Persian movie like some sort of weird subtitle Persian movie or mom’s like Oh your cousin invested money in these movies so something like that so that was my worst experience because I almost got a job out of it wow yeah always be working how do you always be hustling how do you think your life would be different if you were the chef at a Hokkaido Seafood Buffet I would be very unfulfilled well one yeah I’d smell like calamari every day that’s not bad though yeah I hate going from smelling like food I it’s one of my most like uh like uh it’s kind of one of those things I’ve learned to accept what I hate about myself like I go home smelling like food every day when I should be smelling like flowers or like a freshly done manicure no no those are gendered stereotypes so we don’t need to describe to but what I do to combat that Nicole I’m very glad you asked is that I I work out in the morning and I cover myself in lifting children you don’t smell which sucks I know but but the body odor enough of it covers up the food smell to just create this sort of like neutral man scent you know yeah it’s a lot of pheromones mixed with like old deep fry oil have you heard of vapping what do you know what vabbing is no what’s that Google it later oh I don’t want to know what’s wrong oh no what is that baby oh boy um I was gonna say I have also had I have also had an incredible experience at the Hokkaido Seafood Buffet and I know you know the story yes yes because the story it has been in my Twitter bio that I I said did journalism one sort of cookbook once through soy boy threw up in the soy boy threw up in the bathroom with a Hokkaido Seafood Buffet once what are the chances that one Seafood chain about 40 miles apart this is in Newport Beach in high school uh having like probably one of the first dinners with my stepmom and I for whatever reason I was you know big old 270 pound shop this is when you were a big guy this one was a big guy I was I was like probably 18. um no it would have been 17 like so earlier in my senior year and I was what was called Dirty bulking which is oh I know lifting as much as possible eating eating as much as possible whatever is in front of you just who oh and when you’re at the Hokkaido Seafood Buffet and I don’t know why for whatever reason I maybe it’s because I was trying to like talk to my new stepmom you know I wasn’t like uh enacting my typical Buffet strategy plan okay because all I ate were the Chinese spare ribs you know the real red ones that are like yeah they’re like chocolate but not really yeah and they’re kind of like leathery but you love it yeah I ate like probably two pounds of those and probably three pounds of Bang Bang Shrimp did she make any comment too or two yeah she was just like oh my God you can eat so much that’s so cool really yeah she was obsessed with it she’s I mean probably like a four foot ten like literally 80 pound uh woman big boy you can eat no she was super stoked on it and so I was like I’ll keep doing it if you like it you’re gonna be my new mark do I call you Mom it’s confusing because I’m an adult almost you know any whom and so I did that and I I had driven my own car there and like my dad my stepmom left and they were like you’re not gonna go and I was like I gotta take care of some business in the bathroom it came at me like I mean it’s not crazy a tsunami like it’s just faster Just Hits Florence I know and I do not get foodborne illnesses Nicole my stomach is a cast iron just it’s almost like a um The Hurt Locker you know they have the bomb diffuser me neither but it’s like but I know what it’s about it’s like it’s like the locker where you throw the bomb in yeah yeah you you sure I think is that what it’s about even I don’t know what does hurt locker even mean why do I make so many movie references for films that I have never seen I don’t know I feel like it’s a it’s a flex that you know the movie exists but you haven’t watched it and like you know maybe like a short synopsis about it yeah I understand why you do it but nobody knows what a hotler that was made in 2008 and I thought that was like 2019. anyway but you know they take the bombs and they like put them in the thing and it explodes and suppresses I feel like that’s my stomach for like foodborne illness it’s like if you have extra small vanilla extra E coli extra listeria throw that in me and it’ll just go like really do you think that you are just a human anomaly in that sense that you just don’t get sick from from certain things like why do you think that is one of my theories is that I do get sick but I’m so out of tune with how my body feels that I’m always in pain and that I just like sports have just stationed me over years to not notice my own pain well TSA did not do sports but but but no it’s great Sports will toughen you but it will also deaden you and yeah I heard about it yeah and then you gotta take your rage out by listening to death core and lifting weights so your hands bleed every morning but the foodborne illness is unmistakable Nicole when it starts literally squirting out of you yeah I’ve been there you know I’ve been there I’ve gotten food poisoning so many times because I’m also an adventurous eater you know I’ll eat stuff that other people don’t eat and I’m getting a lot of questionable oysters I’ve eaten oysters from shopping carts yeah I’ve eaten some gross stuff before and some questionable stuff but like yeah my body just like sometimes it’s just like uh nope sorry too much slow it down like when I eat a lot of kosher food at a wedding piece the F out all my bowels evacuate why coach your food Gala I don’t know I don’t know there’s like the meat at gallat kosher places instant instant regret my dad’s the same way I think it’s just a genetic thing for me and my dad that makes sense our bodies are just like anti-evacuate must eat before the party foreign ERS 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 100 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 [Music] and so there I am Hokkaido Seafood Buffet probably 9 p.m on a Tuesday and I am what time did you guys get there I had probably like 6 30 you know we’re trying to meet my stepmom trying to get to know each other I’m trying to get three pounds Bang Bang Shrimp it’s a win-win-win um and then I I go to the bathroom and I’m like pants around the ankles just absolutely it felt like my body oh my God like I got the cold sweats that’s the worst and my body just like you know it sneeze your body recognizing some particulates are in there and they’re like you gotta get it out yeah yeah it was like my whole body sneezed through my b-hole continually over the course of about like a sea cucumber yeah it’s like a siphon purging itself and then and then my body was like that’s not enough something’s still in there gotta come out the other end oh my God and so I am then on the toilet in an emergency situation trying to lean forward to get past my pants and underwear so I can throw up oh so you did one of these yeah I’m I’m like I’m I’m I’m so you’re pooping and vomiting pooping and vomiting same time and of course a lot of the vomit gets on my pants uh and I’m just like wearing jeans basketball shorts okay that’s okay no it’s better because you can wash basketball shorts yeah yeah okay see if you’ve lost jeans I wash jeans no people wash I used to work at Levi’s and they told us not to wash jeans oh yeah fun fact but I wash my jeans you’re supposed to put them in the freezer um but it’s so much better that you’re wearing basketball shorts because that way you can rinse it in the in the sink yeah flip-flops too you could also rinse those no I know but it’s weird because you’re getting a lot of vomit on your bare feet when you’re driving it’s you’re supposed to rinse in the bathroom why didn’t you rinse I tried I tried I was like splashing water water all over myself and there’s a bunch of vomit on the ground I’m like listen there’s no paper towels did you tell anybody in the bathroom no but but but I walk outside and like I open it and you can just see vomit on the ground and like the janitor is there and I just go I’m so sorry and just run away oh my God oh my God that doesn’t count as a nightmare Buffet experience that was a nightmare bathroom experience but the buffet experience was great the bathroom was in the buffet he technically you had to kind of like walk outside to get there oh I know bathrooms like that bathrooms that are like outside yeah what are the you got any other Buffet horror stories I mostly have great experience I love well the one time I went to the what was it called the New Town Buffet Chinese yeah Newtown Chinese buffet in Burbank I used to bring everything out I didn’t really like it so so this Buffet um it’s the type of Chinese buffet that has one Sushi which again most of it is canned tuna which is still fine which is fine yeah it’s basically Korean kimbap at that point which I love me too it’s a delicious rice roll you dip it in soy sauce um they have green tea ice cream that is like self-serve that’s good and then they have all their Litany of orange chicken General Sal salt and pepper mackerel stuff like that uh and then they have like mac and cheese pizza fried chicken french fries and it is single favorite place in the world it is like 10.99 on weekdays for lunch no I don’t like it I once walked in there’s a group of Buddhist monks eating there and I thought that was cool you take a picture you know uh no that’s weird no I don’t ask to take a picture of them um I would have dated but you don’t like that place no why not it’s icky it’s not icky it makes me feel icky after I leave which is really bad well yeah but I mean that’s because you know you’re using everything every new hire there why did it take you a year and a half to take me there um I think I was trying to impress you because I took you to like a nice kosher like a kosher even though I’m not a coach yeah I don’t know I feel like Nicole’s Jewish I’m like Jewish let’s like take her to a kosher spot in Toluca Lake and get some show Arma one time I went to the wind buffet and I did too much yeah Vegas buffets I love Vegas buffets my whole childhood was Vegas buffets your whole day though because if you’re in Vegas I’m not a big Vegas guy I’m a big Reno Nevada guy I want to get into Laughlin a little bit oh cool maybe a little bit of Henderson Nevada I think you need a boat to be in Laughlin I’ll be a boat person have you are you a boat guy oh yeah oh my God I love drinking on both I don’t want to like Captain a boat but have you ever like done the thing on the boat what’s it called uh you hold on and then wakeboarding yeah no but I like the I like the lying down version of wakeboarding no they just slapped sleeping throw your ass in an inner tube and they go hold on to this rope and you’re just getting Dragon behind the boat like someone being drawn on a horse yeah those are fun one time me and my friends at a banana boat in Mexico and Doris got hit in the eye Vegas like if you are there to drink and party and do all that which if you’re going to Vegas and you’re around our age that’s what a lot of people go there to do but I would love to go to Vegas on just a Pure Food trip where we have nothing we’re not going to a club we’re not going to a pool party we’re not even going to a bar trying to be social it’s like we’re here to throw the F down you know that they do that now there are special tours in Vegas you pay a flat fee and they take you to everywhere you want they take you to all the steakhouses all the all the threes all the five star I don’t know the star rating all like the the diamond star rated like uh like steakhouses they take you to all the the local places in Vegas they take you like off the strip and stuff they take you to like all the buffets so that exists already and if you want to do that there are people like-minded people like you that want to do that and you should sign up and go oh man I would I want to yeah in bed with them no embed embed like a a wartime journalist embeds with the rebel group I would want to embed not I don’t want to bed them although if it’s like a nudist group who just goes around to buffets around I would love to do okay okay so I was there was this one uh piece that was written for Lucky Peach magazine okay okay that was about the buffets they would have at like nudist Gatherings and like greatest orgies effectively okay okay uh and they were like they were just you know people would go into rooms they’d play together and then they’d come out and there’s a journalist just at the buffet just like writing down talking to people and they’re just coming out naked you know hanging their dangly bits ever eating chicken wings and mini corn dogs speaking of dangly bits have you ever gone to a buffet on like a cruise ship oh have you ever gone sick from that yes I did too I was a kid I was a kid and I ate a lot of Caesar salad and I threw up Caesar salad and it was like really bad it was embarrassing how do you feel about cruise ship a phase bad don’t do it bring your own language meal yes yeah yeah there is something that Phil Rosenthal best friend in the world and our dad our new dad said we’re talking about all-inclusive resorts but I think cruise ships are the the worst version of that which is everything that’s included you don’t want and everything you want it ain’t included yeah and imagine that except you’re parked out in the middle of the ocean I do love cruise I’ve gone on a fair amount we did our 2015 Fantasy Football Draft that’s fun as a bunch of dudes on a cruise that’s cool um and we all you know smuggled in some bottles liquor we’re doing the all-you-can drink option which is very fun you smuggled alcohol but you still had an all-you-can drink option and I I do not advocate for binge drinking no no not at all but I’m saying if you’re a big enough human and you’re drinking for long enough 15 drinks goes by kind of quick they also water down their drinks I was drinking Mike’s Hearts I wanted to see if I could drink 15 Mike’s hards in a day one time I had 13 beers then I ended up upside down on the couch and I woke up it was actually a chair it was a big green chair when you wake up when you wake up at eight in the morning to start drinking Mike’s Hearts because it’s college football season and then no no here’s the thing here’s the thing and then and then you go to the buffet and you just get as many fried shrimp as you can like to me that represents a beautiful kind of freedom you know it’s so it’s America it’s America no I love that you just said it’s America and then grab my hand like we’re gonna start saluting the flag I gently graced it it is America there there are positive and negative freedoms right there’s Freedom too and freedom from like okay like Okay okay right okay like so you know we have the freedom to I don’t know uh protest and freedom of speech and freedom religion but then it’s also like well you know some people think you should have the freedom to not wear a seat belt you know some people think you should have the freedom of drinking 15 Mike’s hards out in the open seas and eating as many as possible and then you get the the direa you get a little bit of the diarrhea yeah yeah well it could have been a lot from that trip yeah I ate I that was also the trip where I ate shopping cart oysters there were oysters in a shopping cart we’re in Ensenada and oh I got a bunch of oysters from a shopping cart and I don’t like the man was pushing a shopping cart it was a woman ugh a sexist match and women ice in the shopping cart no not like a lot why do you make these decisions for you I don’t know but I also had some really great tostadas there that’s fine um yeah I had like a manta ray tostadas Souplantation slash green tomatoes um I gotta okay one you invoked the name Souplantation how the hell did they get away with putting the name Plantation in a restaurant I think it’s I think it’s what the I think it’s antalytion it’s soup oh and she’s super annotation how the hell I know it’s called Sweet Tomatoes in other parts of the country Tomatoes oops it’s called Sweet Tomatoes in other parts of the country and like who the hell in that company was lobbying for like no we gotta keep the name history maybe it started by someone whose family was the plantation owner I don’t know the details utterly Bonkers that Society let them get away with that but do you like the idea of of something like a buffet being so readily available to the American people I don’t think it’s good for society but I think it’s great for me and I love it okay because I hate it I talk well you like you think Buffet I think buffets are a an excessive wasteful form of food and you can have them every once in a while but like when it’s right in front of you you want to eat it all the time and you want to eat that tuna tarragon pasta salad you know what is what I’m talking about I like Jones broccoli Madness oh I do like that one so good they put the sugar in it yeah it’s just like in your face and it’s like what are you supposed to do like it’s not fair to the average human that’s dumb aka me and you just like you know all the time yeah yeah so for people who don’t know how a buffet makes money um there was a really incredible I think God might have been lucky Peach again I think they did a whole Buffet issue but they talked about the economics of Buffets and it really is as simple as for any schmuck like us who goes I’m gonna try and break the freaking system here and eat as many crab legs as possible even if it ends in dysentery there’s a three-year-old who’s eaten six animal crackers at the painful price yeah that’s right but it also does lead to like an utterly insane amount of food waste but again I’m not here to moralize I’m here to tell tell you how much I love eating fried shrimp that’s been steaming in its own juices for six hours under a heat lamp because I really do one of my favorite times at a buffet was that the Sizzler also with my brother we probably hadn’t been there together since we were like children and we went maybe five six years ago uh with my grandma and I think my Grandma had like had a bad day and she was really complaining a lot and so my brother and I got like we got like a little bit lit you know what I mean and then we decided to have a little bit of an iron chef competition to see uh Sizzler who could create the most insane Buffet dish like I was taking like I was taking their artificial crab and I was like trying to make like a vinaigrette like from scratch with like lemon juice and olive oil trying to emulsify it with mustard and we were like saying I made like Ceviche crabs yeah well I tried to make like a competjana okay with like the ketchup like a cooked sure okay um but then uh I did that I did I did the the meatball meatball tacos of course um that was again it was so interesting I made a I took the bacon bits and I made like a cornbread ice cream sandwich that I rolled in bacon bits did you feed your grandma this no my grandma’s like what the hell and you guys were also judges well yeah we were just kind of like trying to one-up each other but we like formalized it we’re like yo three courses how old who can make the best um John was probably 30 you know it’s probably 26. oh kids were kids no no no one would do no no this is like you thought I was trying to emulsify vinaigrette when I was seven to make honest it’s not the furthest thing from reality no we’re trying to like piss off my grandma and she didn’t get pissed off six years old why are you pissing off your grandma she’s a hundred years old bro like 97 . do you Nicole you’ve known me for like several years do you think that I am the most mature person who handles their emotions in the best way possible this is incriminating this is totally incriminating but Josh what I’m trying to say is buffets even though we’ve had such bad experiences there would you go again soon oh I fully believe that life is about riding the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and it’ll take a lot more than me throwing up in my basketball shorts all over my bare feet and it was a cold rainy day too at the Hokkaido Seafood Buffet in Newport to get me a stock going to buffets I want to go to the Newtown Chinese buffet right now Nicole and I want to put some orange chicken on top of their spicy tuna and then just drizzle that sriracha and eat it with a scoop of green tea ice cream you can do it Josh there’s nothing you can’t do God Bless America stand beside her and guide her let’s see the light from the light from above front to the mountains to the Mount I already said mountains you’re about to get your citizenship revoked I’m not [Music] all right Josh we’ve heard what you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling around out there in the twitterverse it’s time for a segment we like to call opinions are like casseroles [Music] that was good wow are you one of the Neville Brothers uh who are they you don’t know anybody I know who are the Neville Brothers the singers the singers the Neville Brothers Brothers No the the um the Neville Brothers what do you mean I don’t know who they never really name it sing one of their songs okay they have this part of Family Guy where uh they they’re in the sack race and then one of them has a microphone Brothers well no I don’t know I don’t know Nicole I don’t know I’m trying my best I just don’t know let’s start with the first one Ben understand coded says boil hot dogs and use hot dog water to make craft mac and cheese cut up doggies and nudes yeah so uh the technique he’s talking about here is creating what’s called a flash hot dog stock it’s it’s no I’m saying listen this is based in French cookery what you’re doing is you’re taking the hot dogs gross and you’re getting all of your extracting Nicole you’re extracting that yes Josh yes Josh I did this with something and I can’t remember what it was I was boiling hot dogs and then I said blaze with hot dog stock I don’t think there’s Ramen it could have been a rice dish because what would I have been putting rice maybe risotto don’t believe I was like cooking at home it wasn’t like for a bit oh oh you did this at home yes oh it was really chilly I was probably making chili dogs from scratch I was like yeah why not Infuse some hot dogs stock into the chili um so I love this you’re just infusing the flavors You’re Building layers of flavor Nicole that’s what we’re taught when we learn to cook I love this that’s what we were taught you’re taught to build layers of flavor are you not we were taught in different schools you went to the School of Hard Knocks I went to a defunct Sports yeah we make hot dog water hot dog water macaroni Nicole it’s full of Hard Knocks I do like the idea of this but I don’t want to do it I want someone to do it for me you know what I’m saying cut the dogs into noodles yeah oh that’s it no no cut the dogs in the noodles out of the noodle no of course they wouldn’t well you ever had like squid noodles it’s a really weird technique it was popular probably like a decade ago you mean the hot dogs that look like squids no no you make like a farce like you blend raw squid meat with like some liquid and maybe a little bit of starch to bind it and then you like put it on a Silpat and you like gently cook it with steam and then you cut it into noodles no and you made so you make like noodles out of squid um classic French train Chef jgv uh he had a famous dish where he would cut ahi tuna into like fettuccine shape and then he would like make a little twisty thing and dress it and you’d like and it kind of was just bad like you’d rather just have like a I like the idea of Sashimi uh but anywhoom I like that at Riker Garrison ketchup is a perfectly reasonable condiment on tacos breakfast tacos I okay so so so so this has an interesting cultural lineage um first we Feast once produced a really great documentary on what have become known as black tacos black are tacos you’ve heard the phrase white people taco night sure right um if you go to uh say Taco Mel right Taco Bell is a black run Taco Shop that makes never crispy remember taco melt no oh dude it’s in South La and so there’s kind of this like you know obviously in La black and Latino communities have been around each other for forever um and it for whatever reason I believe ketchup on hard shell tacos is a big thing in the black community I don’t know if you identify as black record Garrison um but this is a thing that I have heard and has uh cultural lineage which if you look at the origin of taco sauce I’m not talking about ketchup taco sauce is basically it was literally a way uh in the Taco Bell early days era to try and Market tacos to non-mexican diners they were like yo the salsas are too spicy too acidic too flavorful for you we’re gonna blend it with some ketchup and call it taco sauce that’s very cool and so taco sauce is already halfway to catch up like why not put ketchup on it especially if you’re eating the type of tacos with like sour cream yellow cheese lettuce tomato ground beef I haven’t had an automatically Taco like that in a long time I’m sure ketchup would work fine on something like that but I don’t like a street Taco yeah no like I wouldn’t put ketchup on like a carne asada Taco but I had carne asada fries the other day and there was no ketchup on them and I didn’t need it no you know I’m gonna put ketchup on carne asada fries I would really if it was offered to me but it’s never been it’s not salsa Roja it’s never been offered uh Ariana blade says kiwi should be eating like a apple bite right into it with the skin on I don’t I don’t like kiwis in general they’re like probably my bottom oh my bottom fruits I don’t mind kiwis I just don’t like the fuzzy bits like I don’t need to bite into a like a apple but you’d eat like an apricot a peach fuzzy yeah I like those things with the skin you know I was eating a peach the other day yeah and I had like a pretty fuzzy skin it was a really good Peach it was I accidentally got white peaches instead of yellow peaches ruined my day when I found out I made the mistake but they were really good white Peaches I was really having a Time big like 12 ounce sons of biscuits you know what I mean and then every every I cut it I cut it into slices so I could eat it nice while watching the TV and not get the couch messy okay but I was like man I I’d enjoy this a lot more if the skin wasn’t on you could peel it yeah I don’t know why I thought my story had more of a point than that and it didn’t didn’t at all no I mean no kiwis should be cut and and you should remove the center you know just you’re doing the center of a kiwi I like to eat the center first the white part I eat the white part first Gillette or the Kiwi no okay it’s just for visuals it’s just I have to eat that part first get rid of all the whites and then I go for the seeds and then I get all of the the green Parts it’s a lot of work it’s yummy I used to have a kiwi knife I had a spoon on the end that’s like they Market it as a kiwi knife I loved it what happened to it it’s not my mom’s house bro go get that Kiwi Spoon I know I’m gonna go how many other fruits have their own spoons banana there’s a banana spoon I mean it’s a knife or like a cutter what are you Maggie Google it it’s a banana knife look a banana cutter what do you like a cup of bananas okay yeah you’re talking about the thing the the it’s like a a sheath it’s a blade you could put a hot dog in there jeez you could put a zucchini in there you could put a carrot add velvet faux says not sure how controversial liking gefilte fish is but that’s all I got and that is all you need velvet faux because I see you I am with you I love gefilte fish it’s wet bread meatloaf it’s wet bread really bad if you didn’t grow up with it you’re not gonna like it do you think that’s true yeah well okay what about uh this isn’t like exactly analogous but you know you go to a hot pot or something sure and you get the like fish balls or fish cake fish tofu they’ll call it but that’s delicious why not gefilt the fish the texture is off well it’s a little bit soft and it’s cold you’re gonna get filthy fish hot if you want I’ve never had has anyone in this room had to filter fish hot Maggie was like when she’s lying my family has their own recipe and so we’re very proud of it and very good okay see wait okay Maggie okay just bring it bring in your families get filter fish one day I’d really like to try it I’d love to say I love and I want to make my own gefilte fish recipe okay do it I’m gonna pass it down to my children you know I have a point of pride of good filter fish Nicole is all they had okay they couldn’t make anything different okay one time I thought it was Gundy which is like a Persian meatball but it was not and it was good feltification I was so disappointed if you’re not ready so disappointed that wet spongy fish flavor oh then you’re gonna be disappointed but if your mouth is ready if your body is willing um with the beat and horseradish on this side I’m sorry guys give me give me give me sorry I’m sorry uh different as one says oregano makes every anything savory better oh hard disagree yeah I know hard to disagree um you know what does parsley flakes you know it does MSG okay MSG too but because here’s the thing when I when I was a little baby boy and I was cooking I’d be like I’d be like green Flex on food green Flex on food make it taste better yeah and we’d have oregano in and I put it on everything oregano is a very very strong flavor it’s actually soapier than cilantro it’s it’s soapier than than Rosemary it’s Oregano’s aggressive and I I like oregano I love oregano on like a pizza I I would rather oregano with tomato than basil sure yeah I do love I do I I agree and most of the time in Italian cookery you would never mix fresh basil with oregano because and I agree with that they’re consumers yeah very competing profiles totally and so if you just want green Flex on your food because you see food with green Flex on it it tastes better automatically it’s like how you see if rice is yellow it tastes better I don’t agree with that statement if meat is tinged red it tastes better don’t agree with that’s the statements but green flags oregano is like incredibly strong and if don’t want that flavor parsley flakes have when you dry parsley not a lot of flavor fresh parsley is pretty aggressive yeah um some people say it has no flavor which is wild that’s weird parsley is very very obviously it’s impressive also you say parsley parsley parsley whenever we’re cooking in the kitchen Josh goes do we have any parsley you got any parsley no you don’t say parsley say do we have any porcelain no he goes do you have any Porsches got any parsley I said parsley I do not say parsley you say parsley ooh dried chives dried chives chives I hate dry chives I like fresh times but but fresh eyes sometimes they don’t sprinkle unless you dry them out so I’ll like cut my here’s what I do what do you do this the other day I knew I wanted chive sir garnish I was making like a pretty short of things like come and chives and then I just let them hang out in the fridge to like kind of evaporate so I could sprinkle them better I love a smattering of green onions on any plate of food give it to me all right at Joshua C Jones if I could only eat one cheese for the rest of my life it would hands down be Cotija interesting okay what’s yours desert island cheese your first you go first okay it’s gonna be so controversial it’s gonna be those mini Bay Bells the red ones it is okay that’s because I can form the wax and if I eat enough of them I can make a bow out of the wax I could get off the desert island they did not introduce the desert island scenario they said for the rest of your life they you take that Island okay I said but they yeah okay fine then I I would uh I get a thousand pound parmesan wheel uh and then I would Hollow that out and then I’d float in it as a wrap Nicole that’s what it would be but is it because it’s your favorite cheese maybe American White America White America yeah because it’s the only cheesy identified oh is there like a white half Jewish American non-practicing cheese I think it’s the white American yeah that’s still it like you go to a kosher deli and they got like the white cheese they don’t have a name for it there’s like the kosher doesn’t have white that’s how non-jewish I am cheese and rice oh man all right let’s see uh Desi Ray 1105 says quesadilla is a panini and a panini is a sandwich so a quesadilla is a sandwich hold on hold on hold on hold on here’s the thing that people do with arguments where so this is like transitive property right if a equals c math i f i Capital failed math I don’t remember the properties quesadilla is not a panini what is it I don’t remember if a equals b and b equals c then so a equals c right but but that is under the assumption that a does in fact equal B quesadilla is a panini is simply not true in my book so uh a panini or a Panino in Italian just means sandwich right okay is the word for bread yeah uh Panini is actually a pluralization of Panino in America we consider a panini to be like a pressed sandwich I have a question like a Cubano I have a question what’s that a penino is is individual uh Panino is a single sandwich if I slice the sandwich in half do I have one penino or do I have two Panini oh yeah you have a penino that you’ve sliced in half okay but what if I give it to somebody Nicole if you slice of sandwich in half do you have one sandwich or two sandwiches well this is back to the little quesadilla is not a sandwich and it’s not a panini get out of town um what are gosh there is an Italian piadini or a piadino I don’t know what that is piadino is an Italian flatbread sandwich but I believe the dough still 11 kind of akin to a pizza dough but it’s called piadino yeah that’s closer to a quesadilla and that may or may not be a sandwich but penino is literally just the Italian word first thing which a quesadilla is its own thing and I love casing and if you go to El Salvador quesadilla is a little uh cheesecake with sesame seeds it is a little cheesecake do you know that there is actually quesadillas in Mexico City that are served without cheese yeah that freaks me out yeah so I’m scared to I’m scared to go there because what if I what if I make a mistake and then I say no queso and then they’ll just look at home and then they’ll just look at me so I refuse to get quesadillas in Mexico City if I ever go there yeah I remember when um I was in Cabo and tried to order like tacos de Papa and they said like no Taco solamente Papa and I I didn’t really hear what they said and they just like brought out a single just like a potato potato how yummy are those are they were they like were the potatoes like soaked in like red sauce uh no no Nicole like uh uh potato natural cooked uh just straight potato boiled uh I think baked in foil thrown in foil on the grill oh it’s like baked potatoes listen oh yeah I just I know it was very vegetarian friends and I was like I didn’t know the vegetarian I was already like okay you’re dragging me out here like don’t speak Spanish I know how to say like like Tres Tacos de carne asada you know I know how to do that yeah you know I know how to do that um but uh yeah yeah not like I’m a vegetarian what do they have and I’m like figure it out I don’t give a fudge anywhoom does anyone want me to speak Spanish again I I saw the comments how much you guys liked it too curious mucho coin last podcast no no no no and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich if you want to hear more from 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