[Music] on this podcast I usually react to the Wild Things Josh says I believe all Subway sandwiches should be treated as a free public utility but today we’re reacting to all the wild things you say this is a hot dog is a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah I put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich Welcome to our podcast of hot dogs the sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh sharer and I’m your host Nicole anayadi and in the way that the government provides training free drinking water Nicole I’m saying the government should provide all free food in that food is Subway write it up send it to our local government and see what happens okay I don’t wanna deal with it I’m gonna write a letter to the mayor of Burbank Jay Leno is does Burbank have a mare I think all cities have mares can I who’s you know what maybe can you Google the mayor of Burbank do you know what mayor I would be the city of what Funk it down God damn it all right so today we are diving into the voicemail bag we have been left so many awesome voicemails that’s right so many 833 dogpod one if you want to leave one that uh we’re just gonna address all of them today we’re gonna see all the crazy things that are our readers and reader with your ears a listener that’s not right no it’s a listener your ear reader e-reader that’s what e-readers are yeah yeah well let’s jump right into it then it’s time for a whole episode of opinions are like casseroles [Music] all right let’s listen to our first opinion so this is gonna sound super basic [ __ ] but if you take just plain Greek yogurt mix it with peanut butter all natural or just like craft or what have you and then just put a little bit of honey and maybe a little bit of cinnamon you’re gonna mix it together dip apples in it like changing uh this was brought to you by your girl Elise and Castlegar BC thanks for listening guys have a great day BC this is a Canadian yogurt opinion Nicole what do you know about Canadian yogurt opinions not enough apparently but this is a great opinion I would do this in a heartbeat this is something can I tell you what this is something that I make for myself darn really every day some version of it I will tell you um you take a non-fat Greek yogurt and then you add peanut butter into it turning it into Nicole check this out full fat Greek yogurt it’s a bunch of peanut butter but the way that peanut butter reacts to water right it thickens like crazy it like seizes the best seasons yeah but that makes your Greek yogurt extra thick now I’m a teach you one more lesson here dump a bunch of Splenda in there that’s what I do and then it turns it into like a pudding I don’t like Splenda or any sort of like fake sugar I don’t like cheating God it is Splenda is free calories I’m not cheating on anybody especially oh man God the reason we climbed ever since we want everything to the South Pole Nicole was to try and prove that man is greater than God and that’s what we finally did when we invented Splenda We Have Cheated the system we’ve broken through the simulation out of the Matrix into our full selves to create Greek yogurt pudding it just doesn’t do it for me I am okay with the honey like she said I like the idea of squiggling honey in it stealing from bees that’s messed up animals have rights to property no they don’t bro that’s a you problem my cats don’t even come into my bedroom are you serious closed doors and they bang their bodies on the door to get it and I don’t let them in because boundaries do you have twisty door handles or pulley door handles what’s the difference like like the okay what the difference is a cat can pull down on a pulley door handle and a cat could not twist a twisty handle oh it’s pulling down yeah but they don’t do that but they don’t do that my cat jumps and hangs from it like Sylvester Stallone and Cliffhanger that’s because you have an orange cat orange cats are crazy redheads am I right I know all right next opinion let’s see what else is going on here crazy Minds some yogurt got me hankering for somebody first of all that was such a sensual uh voicemail box a lot of sensual people yes I am sensual anyways hi I’m Elena um my controversial food opinion is I eat mustard on just about everything I mustard on pickles I will just heavy cucumbers they’re not cucumbers um carrots in the mustard I will dip cheese in a mustard I don’t care what it is I’m gonna dip it in mustard um I’m gross like that shout out to gross girls Nicole you need to try the new limited edition Lays potato chips that are flavored like Cool Ranch Doritos I thought you would enjoy that anyways um bye love you guys I have thoughts also we I love you too we love you not romantically I love you everywhere as like a family member in whatever way you want to be loved I will love you what’s your lovely tell tell Nicole your love language she’ll love you like that I will what do you think about Alexa it’s not live this show the Sham what I think about mustard on everything yeah I think that it’s some sort of like comfort food for them like like this meal is not complete without a side of mustard I feel that as okay a lot of men get licensed let’s talk gender politics here a lot of men get licensed to turn hot sauce into their personality my husband has hot sauce with every single meal it doesn’t matter where it’s from what it is who made it it is a bottle of Tapatio and a bottle of sriracha and he goes to town he puts it all over his food all over it I’m the same way I’m the same way I got my Arizona Gunslinger and I got my uh Keith habersburger chicken sauce I love that stuff really good oh my God I’ll add it to salad dressings you know I’ll dip things in it um mustard is technically a hot sauce it is it is right I agree same ingredients if you look at a Frank’s Red Hot a Louisiana style vinegar-based hot sauce the ingredients are vinegar cayenne pepper salt ingredients in mustard are mustard vinegar salt right it’s literally you’re replacing the capsaicin of a chili with that uh there’s like some chemical in mustard that gives it the I don’t know what it is mustard gas mustard gas but yeah mustard is spicy mustard is spicy and so yeah it’s it’s as valid of a food personality as somebody who puts hot sauce yeah on other things it’s a comfort food for sure what are other condiments like that that people mayonnaise put everything here I’m a mayonnaise some people love just to put a side of mayo and just use it as a dipping sauce Ranch I feel guilty about the amount of mayonnaise that I consume I’m not gonna lie I turned a corner well it’s associated with it yeah why I don’t know because I’m putting it on like breakfast sandwiches I’m eating mayonnaise eggs yeah you put a lot of mail on your own don’t do that good Nicole you shouldn’t be confirming my shamier oh you’re elevating me okay also wait do it the Lays the Lays chips that are flavored like Doritos ethically opposed to that we’ve gone too far why do you feel though because Nicole the seasonings are meant to match up to the chip base right Nicole they have smell what are you talking about these companies then Millions on folks groups what are you talking about that’s like saying Cinnamon Toast Crunch seasoning should only be on Cinnamon Toast Crunch it should No it should be on other things it makes it worse it could be on so many other things cinnamon toast Cheerios would be significantly worse than cinnamon how do you Honey Honey Nut Toast Crunch would be worse than honey it would be really good actually these things don’t develop in a vacuum well I don’t I don’t care about vacuums I’m not talking about vacuum talk about cereal I I have a Dyson me too I have a Dyson Animal I don’t know that I want the corner inch flavor on my potato chips I feel like it’s too acidic I feel like the corn helps carry the acid I don’t know if I want to set a potato chips you don’t like acidic potato chips you’ve never had lemon potatoes I’ve had them I don’t like them because lemon corn chips no way you don’t like Limon lays I don’t like them no I think to me potato does not pair well with acid what other what dishes out there exist with potato and acid potato salad this is hardly acid that’s mostly mayonnaise there’s like a little bit of pickles there’s a little bit of mustard a little bit no I like eggs nice and yellow I want my potato salad to be half eggs maybe 99 eggs yes because it’s mayonnaise and eggs yeah I prefer oh back to the beginning back to the beginning mayonnaise and eggs a good combo next one God I want egg salad so bad right now ew I’m gonna vomit don’t talk about egg salad warm hey y’all this is Chelsea out of North Carolina and I just would love y’all to settle debate between me and my friends I was making my Savory pancakes which I switch up whatever I put in it but I love it with cheese spices Tomatoes kind of tastes like a pizza um sometimes I make it with my discard from my sourdough starter regardless everybody loved it but this one friend of mine was saying even though it’s a delicious he said that it is not a pancake because pancakes have to be sweet the mix I disagree I don’t think pancakes need to be sweet a cake is a thing and a pancake is a separate thing so who’s right I thought I knew where I was going to fall on this debate in that pancake is a Formula that exists around the world right you see um pajan right in Korea you see John Bing whatever but those aren’t pancakes when we’re like we use the term pancake they use it to help a scallion pancake to help us Define it in terms that we would understand a scallion pancake is significantly closer to a tortilla it’s a it’s an unleavened flatbread right yeah a pancake is like a liquid batter obviously cooked in a pan to me with leavening agent yeah I agree with that statement lefsa not a pancake um a crepe to me I don’t think that’s a pancake that’s it that’s a grape it’s unleavened I don’t think it is um what she’s talking about is uh the Trevor style dirty cakes yeah yeah it’s called the Trevor ever dirty cake special whatever you want into a pancake batter and it’s delicious but I’m a little bit floored on this that when we use the term pancake we’re talking about Flapjacks we’re talking about Hot Cakes we’re talking about griddle cakes we’re talking about American Diner style something that really only exists here and but but when you think about the actual cake batter that’s being poured on the the flat top it’s in itself it’s not necessarily that sweet right it’s not there’s maybe like a smidgen of sugar but there’s also you know baking soda baking powder buttermilk but whatever flavors are in there it’s not a sweet batter so I understand the toppings on it Define it or change it or the fillings Define it or change it but a pancake intrinsically in itself the batter itself doesn’t it doesn’t fall into sweet or savory category it’s blank it’s blink and you are the person who gets to write that pancake story not me not Josh no one else it’s you you are the artist of the pancake we have no other term for it I’m trying to think because I’m if I’m trying to box pancakes into a Sweet Corner then I’m like okay well what do we call what she’s making right here right it’s still a pancake for sure there’s no other word for it no pancake is a blank slate it can go sweet it can go Savory I no I was gonna say I might prefer Savory that’s not true at all sweet pancakes to me I like both yeah pancakes with syrup is preferable but if you were to put like I don’t know cheddar cheese poblano chilies bacon bits yeah a little caramelized onion in there acceptable totally acceptable I want Korean pajan right now really badly go get it oh man go get it [Music] next one hi Josh and Nicole I was just dipping my pizza rolls in marinara sauce that pizza rolls are basically a ravioli I don’t know if this is really a hot take it’s an interesting take it sure blew my mind and it should have blown your mind it sure blew my mind um the dough is different how so ravioli dough pasta dough is different than pizza dough it’s not it’s not pizza dough though so there’s no leavening in a pizza roll if you think about it right it’s purely flat it’s purely unleavened you look at the ingredients purely flour it is water there might be lecithin in there but that doesn’t actually get you anything a pizza roll initially I was like very clearly this is a toasted ravioli right this is a pasta dough that’s been cooked in a way that’s not boiled making a ravioli do you know what it actually is though a calzone no what is an egg roll it’s a egg roll it started as an egg roll company I didn’t realize I never put it together yeah pizza roll it was literally um I can’t remember but the food company that started it wasn’t called Totino’s originally um they started as a frozen egg roll company no idea and then they put pizza ingredients in their egg roll wrappers to create pizza rolls so pizza roll is a portmanteau of pizza pie and egg roll pizza roll crazy that’s the crazy thing that is crazy also I I don’t pizza rolls are one of those foods that I I wish tasted a lot better yeah right yeah if you made a good one I like them sure pop 50 down no problem um but it’s like Bagel Bites as well I know we’ve talked about that before in the show both of them uh pretty damn good I don’t know I think they leave leave something they’re nasty but they’re good I Red Baron French bread pizza that that is where I come down I still have never had you got to sink your teeth so far into it and rip it and rip it but then but then but then the molten cheese burns your nose because you dip so hard you gotta go so hard oh your nose getting in there I bury myself Josh really gets intense with this French bread pizza oh you got no idea steamy make that fresh red piece of your life Mike I am extremely allergic to peanut butter and I have a very visual reaction and I can’t taste it at all so can you explain to me in very detailed words what it tastes like yeah most people just say it tastes like peanuts and it is okay thank you so much this is so tough oh my gosh I’m gonna have to go deep into my eyes I have to go back to my eighth grade creative writing class to think of words to describe peanut butter what a good thought exercise yeah yeah this is good okay good for us Mike I’m assuming you don’t have a tree nut allergy I’m assuming you are coming from this in from some frame of reference right uh you’ve had maybe an Almond a pecan peanut sun butter yes sun butter yeah um peanuts are not nuts technically right they are legumes sure okay and so if you kind of to me legumes uh I guess lentils are technically pulses or whatever but like chickpeas I think to me a peanut is the perfect cross between an almond and a chickpea call me crazy I don’t know if you cream together if you ground together whipped it up almonds and chickpeas I think you get somewhere closer to where peanuts are so peanuts have a much earthier more bacterial taste than something like an almond almonds to me now can you expand on what bacterial means to you bacterial I tend to refer to um alongside things like brassicas which are like broccoli cauliflower you can like taste a kind of fartiness to them which is very peanuts vegetable quality I think I think peanuts have a fartier more vegetable bacterial quality than something like an almond a roasted one or a raw one because that changes things it can be either or to me I guess roasted has like a deeper toastier flavor that kind of counters some of that but to me if you think of an almond as like clean bright buttery buttery um fatty a little bit almost having that astringent like arsenic quality to it okay there’s a sort of bitterness to almonds that’s really delightful yeah peanuts take that and then they merge that with like the fattier more vegetable flavors of something like a chickpea okay I see what you’re saying because um when we have snacks out like Persian people they don’t they don’t like pizza rolls and Oreos right they put out like fruits and nuts that have been dried so we are crazy I know like normal like food eating things that like grow from the ground yeah crazy right so we actually have we like back in the day like we they my mom used to put out chickpeas that were dried and were eating like peanuts and it’s very similar how the flavors now that you mention it are incredibly similar I’m saying I will say the textures are different chickpea has a dryness I think peanuts have a little bit of of softness and butteriness with it the fat of a peanut and replace that with starch yeah sure yeah that’s the difference on that that’s the dryness that you’re getting it’s not having a fat lubricating I say the most similar Nut Butter comparison is for sure sunflower seed butter to peanut butter imagine sunflower seed butter less bitter more fatty and saltier but without but without this it’s like it’s like not the roasty flavor it’s so this is such a hard thing it’s like trying to describe the color blue to a person who’s been blind or the air or like what air is yeah I don’t know what air is no we need we need a dang European you know why because they don’t like peanut butter as much as we do so they’ll have more of a opinion quality or something correct they can analyze it from a neutral place right because most people in Europe didn’t grow up with peanut butter Americans are the exact opposite where we fiend for it because it’s something that has been an assumption our whole lives you’re eating peanut butter and jelly you’re having peanut butter flavored desserts all that stuff I’ve had uh Europeans be like this is dog food really peanut butter yeah that’s crazy disgusting and meanwhile I’m over here sucking down spoonfuls yeah I love peanut butter I like almond butter more than peanut butter at this stage in my life though I got the worst product recently shout out to Trader Joe’s making the worst nut but I’ve ever had um what was it I it was it’s just called like Mixed Nut Butter oh I hate Mixed Nut Butters I hate that yeah leave it to one nut yeah give me one nut actually hybrid almond peanut to me I enjoy um but it’s like Brazil nuts pecans all that and like this is bad dude it is oof that’s dog food have you ever heard of like granola cookie butter change the game okay is it like cookie butter it’s cookie butter but granola and granola the way the weed is basically a cookie already it’s just sugar it’s a sugar butter oh um but no cookie butter is bizarre because they took cookies through it in the blender with oil and now it’s just like a product it’s so strange that that exists and good for them for figuring it out I could eat a whole jar of speculus cookie butter God Biscoff next up this is Tyler from Kansas City uh I don’t want to ask if uh pescetarianism is even worth it um I know a lot of fast food places don’t necessarily have a lot of seafood items you know the filet fish is great and all but just it’s expensive you know I just wanted to ask if pescetarianism is even worth the hype wartha is pescetarianism hyped these days I mean it’s an alternative to eating red meat and stuff and white meat so what’s pescetarians or you believe that like uh Jesus and the holy that’s episcopalianism okay okay is that the one with the fish on the back of the car no that’s a whole nother thing I don’t know what it is Jesus we’re all Jews I’m looking at Maggie like she would know uh sorry the fish is a metaphor I think four but it’s a man’s a lamb teach the man a man to fit if you give them if you give a mouse a cookie teach a man to fish if he no give a man a fish he eats for a day teach a man to fish eats her lifetime yeah yeah the Jewish version of that let’s not stoke the Flames of anti-Semitism here but this is a joke told to me by Jewish relatives um well we’ll go into the Jesus fish real quick but uh uh give a man a fish he knows where to come to buy fish teach a man to fish you just lost a customer and I really like that yeah you know give a man a fish he knows where to buy fish you got good fish you good at fishing you don’t teach math fish that’s your proprietary business knowledge oh God so what is this Jesus fishing boat the ichthys symbol scientifically used to became an affiliation with Christianity fish was adopted by early Christians as a secret symbol and now it’s on everyone’s car nice okay now we got a Holy Eucharist this is so there’s a lot of lore in Christianity and we are the catacombs of Saint Sebastian there ain’t a lot of catacombs in Judaism I don’t believe what’s a catacomb is that where the catacombs or things are buried like Mausoleum yeah catacomb is like a mausoleum pescetarianism let’s talk about it okay what do you want does that include shellfish yes pescatarianism typically includes shellfish mollusks uh I don’t know about sea mammals like I don’t know if you’re allowed to eat dolphins I think you should try it for a month if you are passionate and you want to see if it’ll benefit your your health or your digestion or your overall well-being try it for a month see how you feel and if it’s just too much and it’s too much effort and it’s too expensive just drop it just give it a good old-fashioned try yeah it depends on what your goals are right if your goals are to feel healthier get your cholesterol down if your goals are to feel better environmentally to feel better ethically because oysters have less of a central nervous system than like a pig then that’s one thing um if that’s going to benefit your life feeling like you have that ethical style of eating and whatnot then do it um it is going to be harder to eat it is going to be more expensive it is you might end up eating a whole lot of canned tuna and you know farm raised tilapia and stuff like that to try and get protein in whatever it all depends on what your goals are but like Nicole said I don’t know I’ve messed around with a lot of diets before like for a month period to see how they make me feel done keto for a month done intermittent fasting for a month done vegan for a couple months I’ve never done intermittent fasting before it’s like it all depends how long you fast some people are like I fast for eight hours it’s like sometimes you just forget to eat and you’re at work and you don’t eat for eight hours people forget to eat I know I mean yeah I said something scare the crap out of me it’s like you forget like a bodily function it’s like saying you forgot to pee or poop you don’t Nicole you hold your pee longer than anyone I’ve ever known Okay I hold it but I still do it you see you actively enjoy holding your pee which is like a strange thing for me that’s not true why are you taking everything out of context I say I need to complete a task and then I can go yeah you reward yourself with peeing that’s even weirder that like pee is your like me I’ll be like I’m gonna I’m gonna go eat a Milano cookie after I finish this thing that’s a nice reward yours is like I get to release my urine it’s strange it’s a weird reward system if there’s any like like what what are the brain doctors called psychologists uh podiatrists I need psychiatrists that can sleep a voicemail and tell me what the hell is wrong with me that would be awesome blanket called any psychiatrist tell us what’s wrong with us leave a voicemail.com I like attention too hold on I want an attention things are more wrong with me I know than you I know this is one thing that’s my problem we have like 18 problems okay yeah leave a separate voicemail to figure out why Nicole holds a B for so long and then leave a couple for me just you know diagnosing whatever you want to there’s a lot there’s a lot all right next up hi this is Jim from Ontario Canada controversial thing being a Canadian I’m just going to put this out there oh maple syrup is overrated boom probably should have my citizenship revoked but thanks thanks bye come down to the political Refugee to California my fellow Americans there is nothing like good old-fashioned Canadian maple syrup I love it I don’t know what this this you buy from Vermont Nicole you support American maple syrup syrup from everywhere I love maple syrup but I will say it is overrated because people think because people think that it’s the only flavor that should be in syrup it is somehow dominated the flavored syrup market and breakfast and there’s a hole because the world of other syrups out there okay what other what other Sears come from tree none I believe that’s blue raspberry from the blue raspberry tree if it comes from a tree not but most but whatever no no most maple syrup listen we’re talking real maple syrup that’s coming from a tree you’re getting a log cabin maple syrup that’s coming from boiled now that’s from corn and then that is maple flavoring I’m saying you could take that formula that corn syrupy formula to put on breakfast Pancakes on waffles on French toast and you could use any flavor and you want Maple ain’t the only way to go but it’s the best one no no no best one boom IHOP butter pecan syrup you love that stuff so wait can you explain to me what so it’s so it’s regular maple syrup butter pecan strawberry uh boys and uh blueberry uh it’s I believe boysenberry is it boysenberry I think so gosh it’s been so almost like sat down never gone do you know what David and his fantasy team do to the loser uh no do you have to sit 24 hours in an IHOP and for and they are allowed to um they can only leave when they finish a stack of 24 pancakes or something oh it’s a pancake is like an hour off of their time yeah so they go to IHOP once a year as a group I love that I love that do you know what the loser of my fantasy league has to do what uh the next year’s draft we haven’t enforced it in a while but um some lovely woman left a tube top at our College apartment back this must be now 11 years ago tube top oh it was like like a like a halter top like it has like cups in it uh maybe I don’t know it’s like a leopard print it’s very scratchy because we haven’t washed it in 11 years okay um and the loser has to draft wearing that um I think somebody’s gonna get scabies you have to wear it yeah on your body yeah it belongs to a random lady that’s never 11 years ago 11 years ago she’s that her she’s forfeited her rights too okay so what do they are they wearing what do they do they wear for the day yeah for the day you know we’re all hanging out and we don’t point at them and Laugh You Gotta Wear the gross shirt nobody wants to no one’s like washed it no no you don’t watch at this point I see it’s like wearing it what we’re talking about maple syrup yeah I love it um I like it yeah it’s pretty freaking good [Music] foreign hi I’m Colin from Utah and I love your podcast thank you I shared it with my mom and we listened to the his mayonnaise and aioli the same thing episode and she got really mad at you Josh for saying that they were whoa what do you think could you reconsider that episode no tell your mom to come say that to my face she shouldn’t be going through you for this opinion you are stuck in the middle of this as an innocent victim and now I’m about to shoot the messenger no aioli and mayonnaise are the same thing functionally if you’re looking at you know the ancient catalonian recipe if you’re going all the way back to the ancient Roman version of it of course no that type of aioli is not going to be the same as mayonnaise but functionally speaking 99 of the quote unquote aiolis that are eaten today are the same as mayonnaise their emulsification of egg oil probably a garlic flavoring in there as well yeah and so you either have to change the name of 99.9 of the aeoli’s eaten yeah and he the fact that it has to be pounded in a mortar and pestle yeah which is garlic being forcibly emulsified into the oil and for what to what end to protect catalonian culture the Spanish government won’t even yeah yeah getting political yeah come on Mom thanks for listening with your mom show her more episodes get her matter get her mad at me sometime get her mad at Josh get her out of Maggie just do it just get her angry uh the whole business model was based off of a rage so this is actually what it’s designed to do and thank you for the opinion oh look the same minutes later let’s let’s and I’m Riley and we’re from Utah and our opinion is that Superman ice cream is better with chocolate syrup thank you I love kids I love movies those were children those were children definitely yeah yeah Superman ice cream is better with chocolate do you what’s Superman ice cream what are you doing with the gumballs oh we’re talking about wait hold on well I grew up eating Spiderman ice cream what no they got Superman ice cream yeah no hold on Superman ice cream is a oh I don’t know I’ve never had Superman ice cream oh then I’ve never had oh my gosh so it’s not the ice cream with the gumballs it is it includes Blue Moon cherry and vanilla ice cream no way it’s a it’s a Midwest version of Neapolitan what’s Blue Moon I have never heard of Superman ice cream isn’t that a beer Blue Moon is a is a beer from uh Colorado it’s perfectly fine um but it’s not the ice cream isn’t blue no I don’t believe the children are eating beer flavored ice cream and chocolate it has pop rocks in it oh no make a Google Blue Moon ice cream because I don’t know what that is I believe um this is so cool Jenny’s from Ohio makes a blue moon flavor no way wow what is the flavor of Blue Moon ice cream castorium yeah it’s like just like vanilla okay so Cherry ice cream blue ice cream vanilla ice cream and then is chocolate the other flavor of Superman it’s vanilla it’s vanilla okay vanilla blue and Cherry with chocolate syrup on it hmm sounds good sounds good I want to eat it I will say I do not opt for chocolate syrup as an ice cream topping almost ever do you know what mine is what marshmallow girl like the soft not the marshmallow fluff not marshmallows but the squiggly marshmallow almost like condensed milk yo check this idea out check it check it check it you know how they got hot fudge yeah what if hot white fudge because then here’s the thing I don’t love chocolate flavor of my ice cream but I love the texture of hot fudge okay I want hot white fudge okay and that’s not just my nickname I was gonna say all right hot white bud you can get all my fudge whatever you’d like so like wedges of hot fudge what like fudge have you ever had a hot fudge sundae oh it’s not a wedge it’s a it’s a liquid it’s hot it’s hot but then it gets in the ice cream and it’s slightly I understand it to a beautiful uh I get it coagulative mouth feel all right next up hi this is Kelsey from Detroit I love listening to your podcast and hearing all of your hot foods thank you Detroit Rock City and now you can listen to one of mine mac and cheese and applesauce go very well Nicole’s gonna abuse mix them together don’t just have it on the same plate you gotta mix them together oh boy I know what you’re thinking that sounds disgusting but let me ask you this would you fault somebody for putting apples and cheese on a charcuterie board together you wouldn’t because the flavors complement each other let me try it thank me later let me post another hypothetical to you would you fault somebody for taking the apples and cheese in a charcuterie board putting it in a blender and drinking it with a straw because that’s what you’re doing and heating it up that’s what you’re doing and heating it up putting it in a Vitamix and you’re heating it up on on Full Tilt setting right here uh this is a heady combination I don’t like this I don’t even like the combination of apples and cheese I’ve never quite understood it I like it it’s okay it does not suit my palette um the closest equivalent I have had has been a spiced applesauce on an egg noodle coogle okay which if you’re just adding cheese into that equation I think you’re maybe making it a lot worse I would like to try this though I would like to try this I like my Mac and Cheese the way it is and I’m not adding applesauce I’m not adding blueberries I’m not adding what is it the pecan butter pecan syrup I’m not doing none of that this is obscene I add ketchup to mine but I don’t see here’s the thing ketchup is different you’re saying that she stirs in the applesauce I don’t know what to tell you if you put a dollop on top cold applesauce hot by the mac and cheese I can get that you stir it in you’re heating the apples people that put french fries like put the ketchup all over the french fries oh yeah okay a good virtue of mac and cheese is a silken sauce right silken silken sauce you know what is not silken is Apples applesauce it’s mealy it’s mealy now you’re making a mealy I would love a little cup of applesauce I feel like it would make my tummy just relax I love it I slipped down applesauce all the time I’ve never been an applesauce kid my mom didn’t give me applesauce as a kid really oh my God I remember once I just drank a quart of applesauce just sitting there watching cartoons quarter applesauce that was a big kid I was like a Paul Bunyan my mom gave me a lot of mashed taters and mashed avocados explains a lot still love both of those I think I had an avocado till I was like 14. really no I was I was thinking was a bougie child I had the the Taco Bell guacamole but that’s I don’t know if there’s legally avocado okay okay it’s a wild opinion unnerving so what do we come to you like it you’re gonna try it I’m gonna try it um I but I do find that objectively horrifying and I know I’m normally the one with a very open mind on all these things yeah but to me if you are asking yourself what the good qualities of a food are and then you are negating one of those proprietary qualities by adding another thing in there I think you’ve done it bad I think you’ve done a moral bad I think you should be cosmically punished right cosmically I mean Zeus lightning but like it’s it should happen Zeus lightning bolts upon your family type stuff lightning bolt okay last one is this our last one Maggie let’s do a couple more hey guys this is Bradley from Mobile Alabama and I just wanted to give you a hot take about a Southern food that I just really really enjoy and I feel like uh maybe some guys out on the uh West Coast there may not be into quite yet but it’s uh fried gizzards uh I think sugars is awesome and uh before you say it yes I know sometimes they can be a little chewy but I had a nice little southern belle lady tell me one time at church she said honey if you’ll boil them first Pat them out real dry then fry them they ain’t near as tough and I tried it sure enough they’re not near as tough then I’m sure Josh or Nicole you could tell me why that is but I love fried chicken gizzards they’re awesome love you guys love your podcast appreciate you awesome bye I appreciate you Bradley what a great opinion I have never had southern fried chicken gizzards I have had a lot of chicken gizzards I’ve had a lot of chicken gizzards what is a gizzard can you tell the people what a gizzard is hold on Maggie can you Google this but also I’m going to give my best guess I believe a gizzard is an organ that a bird has because they are called not lithophage something that means eating rocks but I believe the gizzard is where they eat a stone and then food goes into the gizzard and it actually grinds the food with the stone inside the gizzard is that correct made of muscular walls against basically the stomach has gritty sand like particles of the chicken ingests as they pack to help grind the food boom let’s go cool okay so this so whenever people say chicken gizzards that doesn’t include things like the liver now you’re thinking of giblets oh I’m thinking of giblets giblets are all the entrails all the viscera the organs okay and that’s something that people fry up to people tend to make giblets into gravy okay um I I made stock with giblets it was really nice to get that liver in there uh but gizzards have a really interesting texture um that’s why he’s talking about them being tough so I’ve mostly eaten a lot of Korean gizzards I ate a bunch of gizzards in Israel just grilled up I’ve had that too yeah but they have this interesting very crunchy very toothsome texture to it it’s enjoyable it’s kind of like cartilage it’s kind of like cartilage it’s delicious it’s really enjoyable if you’re gonna if you boil it you’re going to be breaking down all those proteins right if you cook something for long enough pressure cook it especially it’s just gonna become more tender gizzard’s no exception um chicken fried gizzards sound really really great because you’re getting that interesting texture from the gizzards lovely flavor Southern Fried anything is delicious oh southern fried chicken livers bro get out of me started chicken livers fried with buttermilk with some hot sauce one of my favorite things to eat I’ll tell you what my maybe my favorite organ to eat is the kidney though I’m a huge kidney fan eat much kidney honestly they have a meteor texture than liver is great for its own qualities right it’s kind of got that like softness that sumptuousness deep uh blood Rich iron flavor that I happen to really enjoy um kidneys to me take some of that flavor but then you have a bit more of that muscular protein chew to it yeah it’s like I’ve had some really really incredible like um I mean steak and kidney pie a great yeah well yeah I’ve had that too uh lamb kidneys oh yeah um or no Devo no uh lamb kidneys uh when I was in Provence really awesome stuff dude I’ve never had kidney I like thymus gland I like sweet bread sweet bread that’s a good organ um what are other organs chicken heart chicken hearts are awesome I took I took a few friends to try to feng Mao which is a Chinese barbecue skewer Place yeah and I got chicken hearts and I had a bunch but it wasn’t like uh the favorite uh Peruvian antiguosos fantastic dude serve it with an Alabama white barbecue sauce they gotta bring over a gizzard Food Truck Yeah a chicken fried gizzard food truck we just opened an organ truck I don’t have to Josh do you know how many things I want to do but I don’t have time where’s the conversation for tomorrow where’s the time are you George Costanza where’s the time I’ve never seen an episode of Seinfeld so I don’t know uh I just missed that I just I missed the bus and I thought it was too late to get back on I didn’t want to run after the bus I was just like I’ve missed this bus you’ve just turn on the CW and watch it freak is that who has the rights to the room everybody everybody just turn on the freaking TV I hadn’t seen Curb Your Enthusiasm until like a couple months ago I finally lost it I had lied to people that I had watched Kirby what about Larry David So neurotic I can’t believe you lied about watching Curb Your Enthusiasm I watched the Palestinian chicken episode because for people who know the Palestinian chicken episode it’s based off of Zankou Chicken that is the local chain in L.A and it is shot in Westwood in sun and the sun in Lebanese Cuisine on Westland that’s so funny I love that episode great episode also shout out to uh somebody left me uh shout out to the person who DN me on Instagram to say hey I’m from Finland but I’m so glad I know about the Burbank restaurant scene in case I ever visit from listening to your podcast and so you are welcome Finnish listener for all of our Burbank restaurants we gotta stop talking about birds airport and immediately go from Helsinki right to zenku chicken and be like oh it’s a perfectly fine roast chicken get the garlic sauce one more one more one more for the road Maggie we’re doing one more we’re in this for the long wow hey Josh Nicole this is Taylor calling from Billings Montana um cool I love the show I was just calling to let you know about this I personally think appalling thing that my dad does my dad’s kind of a quirky guy and he likes to cut calories he’s not like kind of weird ways and I would say he cuts calories so that way he can have his calories in the form of craft beer instead heck yeah um one of the ways he cuts calories is that when he’s cooking ground beef like say for like sauce for spaghetti or for tacos or something like that he takes the ground beef puts it in a strainer and runs cold water over it to wash off all the grease and fat it does not no I personally find this I mean just appalling and I would just like somebody else to publicly shame him for doing this thanks so much guys Nicole again a publicly shamed Taylor’s quirky craft beer drinking calorie cutting dad let me tell you something I saw a tick tock of a young lady doing I remember that she got freaking flayed by the internet yeah skinned her alive skinned her alive she was literally ran her taco meat underwater and let me tell you people will do crazy things to be skinny I get it I understand some people go on the tilapagos diet something the hell is the tilapia stuff you need tilapia and asparagus oh my god I’ve heard of that oh I haven’t heard that name tilapagos in years it sounds like a demon from the Old Testament you turn into a demon when you eat it enough times um you do stupid things to lose weight I don’t think this is the dumbest thing people do Dumber things than this it is dumb I don’t like it I don’t ever want to do it myself but you know if your dad wants to enjoy three or four craft beers after his wash taco salad let the man lay this is not dumb at all this is really smart let me tell you why Nicole how much does 93 7 that’s 93 lean seven percent fat ground beef cost at the store more than 80 20. significantly more and significantly more than the difference in so say 80 lean versus 93 lean is 13 less lean protein per fat total weight right I’m sure it costs it costs like 200 more by taking say 80 20 or 7327 beef and cooking it draining the fat rinsing it you are literally creating 93 7 lean beef is it am I talking like crazy numerology here or is this trackable you are like are you tracking you are Jim Carrey in the number 23. is that the movie the number 23. I don’t know but what I’m saying you are literally just artificially creating a cheaper way to get to buying a leaner ground beef which is perfectly reasonable I made a Bolognese the other day with a 93 lean ground beef I stole it from work we had it for some reason uh oh I think it’s because it’s easier to food style burgers with really lean ground beef because you get less loss on it but anyways I made a super super lean Bolognese and and you know it was really great I cut it with some miso you know add some fish sauce in there bump up the flavor and it was really good so calorie cutting or not this is a really good way to artificially create a leaner beef and your dad is smart and my man drinks some uh double session dry hopped ipas for me out there because it sounds like you’re living brother on that note thank you for listening to this special opinions are like casseroles only episode of a hot dog is a sandwich and this is our last episode of 2022 but we’ll be back on January 11th with even more hot food takes out here uh in the meantime if you want to scroll back into the archive see what episodes you missed Nicole you got any favorites out there so all of them I love every single podcast I do with you that’s a cop-out answer I loved most uh what is the flavor of Docker pep that was my favorite one like of all time my favorite of all time what’s your favorite pasta shape oh that’s a good one oh you do love pasta shapes yeah but for real yeah thank you all so much for listening this year um it’s been incredible the hot dog is a sandwich series I’m really proud of the work that we did I never want to talk about the question ever again ever again but the fact that you all stuck by us throughout this leader um it’s really incredible and we love what we do and we love hearing from you in the voicemail so thank you we love you hot Doggers thank you for your time your energy and your wonderful voices everyone sounds just so beautiful on the voicemails don’t you agree no one sounds more beautiful than us in that voicemail though I’ll tell you what we really hit this sensuality hard on that and on that note if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef or nhandizato with the hashtag opinion casserole or if you want to leave us a voicemail give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833 dogpod one and for more mythical kitchen check us out on YouTube We launch new videos every week we’ll see you next year happy New Year cuties love you bye [Music] the holiday season is coming up so what better way to get your friends and family together than by playing we’re still good developed with our friends at Spin Master we’re still good as a hilariously entertaining game that laughs in the face of disaster just fill in the blank with the best words to create ridiculous disasters and then compete to write the most positive spin for that terrible situation don’t worry we’re still good we’re still good is now available at mythical.com amazon.com walmart.com and select Walmart stores near you Walmart stores near you Walmart stores near you