this this this this is mythical I sweat profusely have many physical injuries and I will not rest until I am the best in the world does that mean cooking’s a sport 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 a hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh Cher and I’m your host Nicole all the nighties Nicole the Destroyer standing in five foot what do you like five foot four five oh five foot three and a half in a in like how much how much you weigh Nicole today we are discussing is cooking a sport now you and I hold on hold on before you poo poo this idea I’m not poo pooing anything you and I went to the world’s greatest sporting spectacle together on July 4th 2022. that’s right and we saw Joey American hero Chestnut one take down something like 52 hot dogs those numbers were down because of the heat and humidity and he also hurt himself popped a blood vessel in his eye and choked out a vegan protester Hey listen a lot of people have something to say about that if someone comes into you and like elbows you in the back rushing a stage you kind of have a right to throw him to the ground that’s what I believe in point is eating hot dogs competitively that is definitely a sport and if you can consider that a sport Nicole if you can tune in to ESPN2 at any given time of day and find darts and poker and NASCAR horse racing yeah the world series of darts pretty fun to watch actually from being honest a cornhole then why is cooking not considered a sport I think cooking is a sport uh explain because we’re on the same page and I’m one of the greatest athletes that ever existed are you kidding we’re the Serena Williams no my career of 10 years I’ve done everything from food stylist recipes r d Chef uh uh what else have I done uh on camera Talent behind the camera Talent worked in restaurants catered you got you’re what we call a five tool player in baseball you don’t even know the stuff I’ve done in the food world it is crazy and I feel like a seasoned athlete I feel like I’m an athlete I am an athlete but to be clearly if we can just because I want cooking competitions I’ve also lost cooking competitions I love this because this is literally your Super Bowl as somebody who did not grow up playing sports competitively you were putting the classes I danced a lot I did tennis for like a year and then I tore my daily sunden you told your Achilles playing twice as a child or like like more like a really stretched it almost for it you you you went down you got hurt you were taking off yeah yeah you’re a natural athlete um if I can play devil’s advocate here because I am if I’m being honest I don’t think cooking is a sport um give that Spiel in the beginning saying you did oh I don’t know sometimes I just say things to say them oh really see what you’re gonna say and I’m like well maybe I can just debunk this um but I think Society has turned cooking into a sport Against All Odds I think there are a lot of corollaries with cooking in sports I don’t necessarily know if that means that cooking is a sport but you pick something like Iron Chef right yeah exactly Iron Chef to me half of the cooking content out there in media on streamers Food Network whatever is now a competition yes so we’ve turned cooking into a sport so what is the difference between a comp a competition and a sport like what is the difference well that’s a great example I think if we look at something like dancing right competitive dancing salsa is is competitive dancing at sport Bachata is Bachata a sport yes is uh what’s the other one foxtrot Flamenco Flamenco Fox job Waltz Tango Ballroom ball there’s so many dances whatever Patrick Swayze was doing in Dirty Dancing where he did the humping the dirty dump thing he did the Dirty Dancing that’s the sport no but for real okay if you take something competitive dancing is a sport I part of me takes the definition of sport very literally in a way that I don’t want to bend on right like you look at something like skateboarding right where skateboarding is effectively dancing you have judges who are giving a uh you have judges who are giving a score based on a routine that’s all subjective BMX and snowboarding skiing stuff like that those are sports I don’t know if they are I think they are art forms that can be subjectively and competitively critiqued but I don’t think they’re Sports what and I’ll tell you what is it skiing is an Olympic sport well yeah so with skateboarding This Kiss is a sport but discus is incredibly different than something like skateboarding let me let me explain I believe that cooking skateboarding and ballroom dancing none of them are sports they are all art forms that can be subjectively critiqued they are all physical but it doesn’t mean they’re Sports because of the subject of nature they are judged as an art which to me makes sense it is the same thing as um you ever see like the world uh what do they call like the cattle grading championships yes your team Texas A M always winning every single year they go and they grade the cattle they’re like this cow’s teeth are too big and then they’re judged on their own judging it’s the same thing discus on the other hand Nicole this is a sport that I devoted a large chunk of my life to yes shot put discus hammer throw I love track and field javelin javelin tough on the rotator cuff the reason I think these are the most pure Sports track and field right is that everything is objectively measurable there is no judging involved right you can either what is a referee if not a judge no but but the referee is only there to maintain objective rules right like it has nothing to do with like Oh I thought that 900 you know uh 540 mcquist looked better than this person’s 540 mcquist right this is simply like did the person fall out of the ring or not so a judge in track and field doesn’t need to be there it could be automated it could be it could be a camera with a series of sensors and GPS trackers on it but it’s not but literally That’s What attracted me to track and field so much is that the pure objective nature of it right there’s no um you know if you’re in a cooking competition against somebody you could think that your dish tastes better than another person’s dish you think it’s okay if you are in a cooking competition against somebody right and we’ve both been here yes on our show on other shows you could think that your dish tastes better than another and then the judges could have a completely differing opinion with a true Sport and to me this is the essence of sports Nicole there is no judgment involved but what about like for example oh you have to be able to do a three-quarter inch dice on this carrot you have to be able to do a fine mince on this garlic you have to do a broom wall on the celery and you have to do a tornet of flour potatoes and I will measure and I will measure those those tornays wait now we’re talking okay quantifiable right it’s all about taste you have so a lot of the times like the shows that we watch and stuff in the shows that we’re on are about taste but think about like being graded on a test it’s the same exact thing I had to do that test in culinary school that’s interesting because what you’re talking about now this isn’t cooking we’re talking about um the closest sports corollary I can think of is fencing way better the best sport in the world is not track and field it is competitive lumberjacking oh lumberjacking okay have you ever seen that yes they used to call it the great outdoor games and it would be like yeah actually do you really yeah when I went to Alaska that’s incredible yeah it was cool they like hack into the tree and then they put a board in the tree and then they jump on top of the board and they keep hacking them yes yes yes similar things they’re being judged on their knife cuts on a tree I think there’s a world in which uh competitive technical cookery could be considered a sport but does that exist right now no but I do think well I don’t know well for example like in some cooking shows there’s like you have to make the perfect French roast and this is how you make the French roast you have to do all of these things to be able juice you have to do steps one through seven to get a French roast for example Great British baking show that’s a that is a sport man Paul Hollywood stands there and teaches you how to make a shortbread you just had to make a shortbread you have to follow all the steps and you have to follow them to a tea or else your shortbread will fail all right so that that would be nice that’s similar ice skating right it’s chess ice is chess a sport no I don’t consider chess why don’t you think you don’t think physicality no physicality is not um do all sports require physicality a sport has to involve physicality and physical okay otherwise it’s a game it’s a game what about Rubik’s Cubes what about those kids that stack the cups their food cup stacking stuff no cup stacking is the prime definition of a sport yes cup stacking is just track and field for people who can’t run but can like go really fast yeah my Chapstick fell you have chronically dry lips it’s crazy she’s gonna drink more water um but like I was saying I believe that cooking is a sport because number one danger everywhere there’s okay let’s let’s run down a list of the similarities between cooking and sports okay because there are there’s no similarities to the same thing but okay go ahead okay okay number one um physically demanding oh honey right these dogs are barking woof woof we have similar injuries plantar fasciitis remember remember my feet hurt so bad that I couldn’t wear normal shoes for the past year and I go honey we have to buy you custom insoles and he’s like I don’t want them I’m like mother effort if you don’t spend 700 and get yourself some custom insoles I’m gonna chop your feet off he struggles every day he comes out of bed and he stretches all this stupid stretching thing and I’m like you need insoles two constant striving for progression and greatness always right always that’s the name of the game when you when you’re a cook number three physically demanding which is also number one oh no I gotta go to a number three team atmosphere oh yeah team bonding what is it cooking on the line it’s all about working as a team to have communication we have a coach if you’re yeah you oh that’s oh hierarchical structure yeah similar to sports coach chef sous chef is like a point guard um the the chef de cuisine no the chef to Cuisine is like an assistant coach oh okay no okay Coach is exactly are you wearing a suit coach is executive chef they’re not in there playing the game right and then you got the chef’s Cuisine the CDC right they’re probably in there around the day-to-day operations they’re they’re your point yeah yeah they’re Distributing who’s you got sous chef they’re what I’d call a point forward okay have you ever said have you ever seen the movie where Adam Sandler finds Talent um yeah it was called hustle yeah what would that be in like a restaurant Expo what is oh you’re talking about a scout no okay so Adam Sandler I’m sorry I need to briefly explain Sports to Nicole so Adam Sandler was an International Scout in Russell so he would be like a truffle purvey right in a restaurant like somebody who they are going to fall off lands to find unique ingredients yeah that may or may not pay off for the greater success of the organization is there like a purveyor of rare Goods I have to tie my hair you know Josh let me tell you something uh line cook line cook Nicole that’s your shooting guards Josh I get it whatever they’re in they’re in the sticks I have a scoring for the team they’re getting buckets they’re out there Josh hammering out fuel milanesa I have an idea for you okay think about someone that works at a mattress store okay I am listening Nicole for once I’m listening to you I love mattress stores do you really hi can I tell you a quick mattress store story yeah that’s also a story why I don’t like to poop in public um so I went to a mattress store sophomore year just moved into our first apartment with Jackie Marcus and Andrew my roommates and we’re bargaining on mattresses we got the guy down a really good price if we all bought new mattresses we’re in there we’re joking with him we’re working our charm Jackie out of nowhere just goes where’s your bathroom the guy points to a door that’s like four feet away from where we all are Jackie’s in there for eight to ten minutes we’re like what’s going on Jackie’s really pooping at the mattress stores we’re about to close the deal and then Jackie just comes out leaves the door open and just poo smell waft through the whole magic store and I’ve never so comically seen a man as The Mattress Store salesman go in my life and we’re like so do we got a deal or what and the guy was like yeah like just can we go to the register uh and so that’s why I don’t like um pooping in public but I like mattress so you’re saying to call the floor is yours and Goleta California that Jackie’s absolutely stink bombed and then think about the back stock okay okay think about the guy or the girl that has to lift up the mattresses and put them up and lift him like a clean and jerk they’re clean and jerking like uh like uh exactly like what’s his name Reza dude I don’t know what the f is just because I’m Persian I know all the person how do you no I think you know Persian gold medalists who are heroes and I don’t know who he is he’s a yeah he’s a weightlifter what thank you I’ll look at my butt look at my voice is he the big chungus guy yeah yeah I love that guy yeah big chunkus you were saying this is Jose rizazade yeah he’s the beefiest boy ever oh my gosh oh he cleaned Drake like 500 fans so yeah it’s like Jack block um like I was saying if you I had if if they hey I’m stop looking at him so much I can’t stop watching I can’t stop looking at pictures of this Iranian heavyweight uh pay attention to me look at that oh I’ll just come back on the belly you’re in a mattress store Jackie just pooped go ahead oh you want me to physically look behind me at the theoretical match let’s go ahead someone is putting the mattresses they get it for the forklift no no no a big big Iranian weightlifter’s throwing them up there it’s a Persian American yeah yeah so so imagine I can’t bro uh-huh that ESPN yeah there’s no mattress throwing competitions out there it’s physical labor sure good job yeah but holy crap ain’t nobody watching no ain’t nobody pitching into ESPN hey you want to see mattress stacking no nobody cares about that food you’re saying the demand for audience is what determines Sport Hood a lot of times what a lot of the time yes of course I’ll tell you what I consider strong man a sport but you go to any Regional strong make a better Nicole not one person watching you might have a couple supportive wives and girlfriends you might have some Wags out there you know what I mean okay but what about like ain’t nobody watching it it’s CrossFit a sport because CrossFit is one of the most profitable Sports of the world because there are CrossFit Games correct right there are so many International food competitions that you and I don’t even know about oh the boku’s door all of them talk about the boku’s door Nicole it is literally the most prestigious cooking competition in the entire world and it is old school and it is French yeah and they got the real tall tokes with all of them yeah making that Paul beaucoup style food where you take like a whole goat and you boil its bladder and then you wrap that around a rabbit make a sauce out of its blood and then put the Cucumber shingles on the fish to look like scales and then a Frenchman comes around and goes that is bad and then you lose yeah like see like that’s that’s just I don’t it’s it’s the shoot food is is the is the Apex of sport art and um what is it a biological need because it’s food right you need something like if you had like competitive breathing you know like yeah like you need air if you were yeah yeah exactly okay it’s like it’s like at the bottom of competitive vaping no no that is that a sport competitive maybe one you want to be like who can I don’t know do the sickest clouds yeah I mean it was for a second wait Maggie’s Googling competitive vaping while you keep going keep going yeah okay well competitive vaping is I don’t think incredibly real and Incredibly sick it’s unreal but I don’t know yo bro that is hold on we’re watching videos of competitive vaping and it is sick dude this guy looks super sick I get so much Bros are like the guy probably has like three girlfriends at least at least in each of those girlfriends has three girls this guy’s yeah set 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figured out a I’m just saying this one Mattress Place can’t afford the forklift I see what you’re saying okay but they do have so many mattresses that they need to throw them atop them of course I would invest I would invest in a foreign our mattress I’ve decided the cooking’s a sport and let me tell you why if running Nicole check this out when every time you make an omelet in your home you are not participating in a sport no but you are doing the athletic thing in the same vein that running is both a sport and not a sport in the sense that if you are um running to Elliot kipchoge right yeah big Elliot chip Colgate guy out here if you’re him and you’re running marathons out there winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money you are participating in the sport of running yes if you are Elliot Jones a notoriously slow jogger out of Poughkeepsie where’s that Jersey and you’re out there jogging on a Sunday you’re just doing a fun athletic activity but you are not participating in the sport because there’s no competition involved yeah cooking you’re making an omelette for your own sustenance that’s not a sport however you go to that boku’s door Nicole and you are putting your body on the line your mind on the line you need to stay focused you need to stay physically engaged yeah you need to be with swiftness and deafness yes and touch yes to win especially when it’s country V country for your pride on the line yeah that’s a sport I think I agree with you thank you it makes sense do you think that that athletes are more successful in the kitchen than non-athletes say that one more time do you think that athletes have a successful time crossing over to cooking because I feel like I’ve known myself included you know V college basketball player I knew a chef who refused to hire people from culinary school and mostly staffed his kitchen with athletes because they knew how to work as a team they knew how to default to hierarchy listen to a coach they know how to deal with physically uncomfortable situations you know they could lift heavy cambros Nicole yeah filled with brining corned beef briskets yeah I mean sure I think a kitchen can employ athletes that’s very brave thank you okay I mean yeah I mean I I agree I think I think again there’s a lot of physicality that goes into cooking and consider that because they’re known as you know yeah make Sunday gravy and they’re just like whatever I met some nonas with really big forearms though yeah and I think that comes into play yeah like again it’s it’s I mean on the line and every single meal that you’re cooking is like kind of a sport it is it’s kind of a competition it’s every day is game day every day is game day when you’re on the line yeah that makes sense yeah but when you’re like cooking in a with a competition and like cameras are on you and food has been made beforehand I don’t necessarily even consider that a cooking competition I don’t consider that a sport my bad okay so what you’re talking about is wrestling no no hear me because okay wrestling is not a sport I don’t know if that I mean Olympic style wrestling Greco-Roman wrestling Freestyle Wrestling that’s the sport I’m talking about WWE I love WWE I love WWE WWE is dancing it’s drama it’s drag it’s bro it’s Broadway I love WWE but to me since there’s no real element of competition in there there’s certainly a ton of physicality involved there’s a ton of risk to injury involved my God how dangerous that is they are obviously incredibly athletic people but the act that they are participating in is not a sport it’s an art right it’s a performance you know and I consider cooking to be that same way when you’re on a cooking show like chopped right where like listen some of that’s rigged out there you know I believe the producers determine who’s gonna win in the same way that not to spoil wrestling for you out there in the same way that a wrestling champion is predetermined in the script of the show so I think that you look at something like Top Chef Google top chef is my third favorite sports season after one outdoor track two indoor track three top chef for like NFL college football NBA those are all tied down there um but I believe Top Chef is an incredibly I don’t want to say realistic but I believe they play it very straight in terms of in terms of they aren’t reheating refiring that’s awesome you know I respect it if the clock runs out they do it they don’t hype up the drama in certain ways they do of course but not to the level that a lot of stuff like chop does yeah you know what I mean and I believe that is because Tom clikyo Padma Lakshmi all have it in their contracts like hey the buck stops with us producers won’t have any influence on this I mean who moves forward and whatnot so I think it’s really really uh straight and like in a way that has screwed the show over in times when like I’m thinking about the Nina Compton Nicholas elmy finale here Nicole oh my God Nicole you gotta watch Top Chef I can’t we gotta get Tom clicky on the show to convince yeah oh man I just can’t I watch too much stuff no but this is the one show that I don’t watch I don’t watch MasterChef I don’t watch any of the network stuff Bravo’s Top Chef is the only thing that matters but I can’t just sit there and enjoy it why because you’re picking it apart they’re picking it apart and I’m just like oh why why is that there why didn’t they move this they could have like you know I’m just like that I’m just like I can’t separate some basketball players don’t watch basketball well there you go the Edwards answered recently Anthony Edwards answered who is that Anthony Edwards was the number one overall pick placed through the Minnesota Timberwolves like a shooting guards new man on the Minnesota Vikings is that the same I know Minnesota Vikings is a football team um that they’re doing quite well this year good for them against all Kirk Cousins odds um but what I’m saying is jump into Top Chef and we should do a fantasy league if we’re going to agree that cooking is a sport Nicole that means that cooking can be turned into a fantasy league but can you do Top Chef can you do fantasy league with track and field people yeah you can okay they’re just like not fun they’ve turned everything into a fantasy league which maybe that is the sign that something’s a sport if it can be fantasy sports don’t they do like the bachelor yeah that’s a sport oh Nicole it is it is women just using their physicality in their guile to either work as a team or against each other to achieve a common goal are you saying that love is a sport Love is a Battlefield are you saying that food is love withstand no promises no demands what’s the next one in conclusion Nicole what uh no here’s the thing I’ve actually I’ve changed all my definitions I think it’s not a sport skateboarding is not a sport wrestling’s not a sport bodybuilding’s not a sport track and field isn’t a sport Body field I think it’s not a sport Jack and fit bodybuilding is an art it’s sculpting but of yourself yes yes um track and Field’s not a sport either track and field is a series of athletic events a table tennis is a sport a ping pong Sports must involve offense and defense you are on defense all the time you are using knives and fire no no I’m if I if I were cooking against you and I got the opportunity to just like dump salt into your food as you had to fend me away then it’d be a sport but the way it stands right now there needs to be a clear offense defense relationship cooking is not a sport cooking is a sport to me because I feel it in my heart and my soul that’s beautiful thank you you read that in like a fortune cookie or something just came from came from me like a Snapple cap it just came from me like one of the signs at the Hobby Lobby I’m My Own Snapple cap Josh wow [Music] we’re chugging along into this fresh new year and we know that there’s tons of people out there trying to incorporate a healthier 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cool but Chicken of the Sea products make it a lot easier to get there so what I do right I take canned salmon I think canned salmon is criminally underrated as delicious you can treat it just like tuna and what I do is I make salmon burgers oh yum I love salmon burgers huge fan I take the can of salmon I mix it with some egg a little bit of breadcrumb I add whatever flavorings I want in there you got scallions so that in you got a half an onion in the bag yeah everybody has one of those throw that in I have so many half lemons in bags too because Julie doesn’t throw anything away which I respect I’ll add some lemon juice maybe even some jalapeno maybe even some cheese get crazy with it and then you mash that into a Patty you fry it and just a tiny bit of oil or non-stick cooking spray throw that between a bun or eat it on top of a salad fantastic some Tomatoes pickled onions delish sounds really really good what else you got um okay so I do this spicy tuna pasta it’s kind of like a 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Omega-3s in them is key to any healthy diet since their products are wild caught and responsibly sourced Foods I’d say that’s pretty important to the planet’s Wellness wouldn’t you 100 boss dang straight but for real not just as consumers but as chefs too it’s so important to consider the planet’s wellness and with chicken of the sea it can rest easy knowing they’re taking that into account visit chickenoftheseat.com to check out all of their products and for recipe inspiration I’m gonna make those tuna boats all right Nicole we’ve heard what you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other whack ideas are rattling out there in the world it’s time for a segment we call opinions [Music] Okay let’s listen to our first one please hey Josh and Nicole hey buddy first off I want to say love the podcast love the work you guys do we do thank you I would say here’s my hot take but it’s not a hot taste because this is an objective fact there’s no disputing this objective I love objective facts peanut butter God to your combination that’s all I have to say well thanks for playing this man he comes in he says objective Technical and then he says tuna and peanut butter that’s wild what kind of crazy listen listen Maybe okay okay I’m worked up okay let me tell you if we’ll just listen listen a little splash of soy a squiggle of sriracha peanut butter and the tuna and a little bit of cupid sign me up it sounds pretty damn good all right if we think about this logically uh trout almondine trout almondine you would crust uh trout you would crust a piece of trout and almonds what a little pistachio crusted salmon with the pistachio I’m saying yes and tuna see I got it uh-huh I get it you could mix it in like uh tuna salad you know yeah instead of you know keep some of the tuna water in there to make it a little bit loose I’m telling you I would probably do this but my ratios would be way off the first time I already know that oh yeah you’re gonna want about three parts peanut butter to one part tuna opposite nope nope I want my peanut butter to be interrupted by the occasional fish not the other way around okay next opinion please hi Nicole and Josh love the podcast uh my name is Natasha I’m from Columbus Ohio and my question is the tiny human that I grew is about eight months old and I’m wondering when I can start uh giving her any type of capsaicin sauce did you guys by chance know that um or if you have any good ideas to help my little one have a good palette that’d be cool love the podcast okay as as parenting experts Nicole and I would advise that at eight months start introducing Flamin Hot Cheetos future no no I’m not a doctor so I don’t feel comfortable responding to this well no I feel very comfortable talking about my own thoughts and experiences though uh because I wasn’t exposed to like diverse Foods early okay and like Julia and I you know we both got look at the old baby fever right now sure not really but you know of course we’re talking about um you know our future and having kids and what we want that to look like okay and we’re walking through the farmer’s market the other day and Julia’s like oh my God I can’t wait to have like little babies and we take them through the farmers market and every week we go to the farmers market and we have them try a different piece of produce right like it’s per it was persimmon season it’s really cute and I just I want to take a little four-year-old you know baby future quarterback for the uh Minnesota Vikings and NFL expansion team and she Progressive um would you know just eat Persimmons or gooseberries that’s really trying to introduce them to new foods because I I don’t know I’m probably gonna be cursed with a child that only eats mac and cheese and Nuggets but no I’m gonna do my damnedest to feed them Tuscan kale okay but what about spicy though spicy yeah okay that was that was the thing that I don’t know I’m asking about spicy foods to give to your toddler and I don’t have the answer no in my experience I’ve fed spicy food to a toddler and it went poorly um listen I don’t know it was a famous toddler uh shout out food baby New York um and I felt really bad when you guys hung out yeah I took me to kiss at us again you guys hung out was this little pieces before I asked before I worked here this when I was at La magazine a little piece um in my experience toddlers react very poorly to capsaicin I’d say wait till they’re like six and start dosing I think you ask a licensed professional doctor oh my God Nicole I’m basically a doctor no you’re not I’m a pediatrician you are the what’s the opposite of a pediatrician a doctor for old people a gerontologist there we go good job good job all right next up hi my name is Tim I uh I’ve been listening to talk test for about a year or so now I’ve been listening to you for a year I absolutely love it uh it’s on my weekly rotation uh I just wanted to call in and say that crinkle fries are absolute trash the absolute worst way to have a potato and they are garbage and should be eliminated from the world bye love you too Tim uh I feel the exact same way and I can’t I cannot eloquate why um okay so Shake Shack for one everybody fell in love with their crinkle cut fries because they are nostalgic right stuff like that I get that to me though I immediately saw the crinkle cut fries and I was like you are now lower in value in my mind because of that really and I don’t know if it’s me rebelling against the like crappy crinkle cut fries you’d get in like a cafeteria or something like that but there’s something about them we’ve talked about any crinkle cut vegetable I don’t like I don’t like that in Thai food I don’t like it leave it natural you know I don’t want Josh I don’t want juice I love big natural fries you know what I mean the thickens the thick juicy ones dangerous you know wrap your mouth [Laughter] um but no I I fully agree and I can’t quite if there was like an artisanal nickel you took the best french fry recipe in the world one of them Belgian double fried mother efforts and you did it with crinkle cut fries I still wouldn’t like it as much as a straight fryer I don’t know why that’s fine that’s fine you have your logic you have your sensitivities I like crinkle cut fries I’ll eat them they’re not my favorite I don’t think they should be control all deleted from the face of the Earth that’s a little bit dramatic but they’re good I like curly fries man I love the Jack-in-the-Box curly fries um they don’t why are they so good fire oh it’s because they just drench them in like a seasoned batter and then fry them is that spices is that why I did orange yes I love orange yeah critical fries man don’t do them hey Josh Nicole this is Steven from Alaska Alaska heavy whipping cream on cereal oh my co-workers think I’m weird but yo and it’ll change your life Goblin Goblin mode absolute Goblin mode I think I’ve done that once when I didn’t have any milk but I added water to it that okay I’ve done the heavy whipping cream plus water which um we’ve decided is not milk I made the claim once the heavy cream plus water equals milk it is just virtually untrue false milk is milk um heavy whip it do you use the same amount of milk per solid ratio without you like you’re doing two cups of heavy whipping cream per cup of cereal oh no that’s a lot less less I guess is it just to moisten it it’s just to wet it down your whistle wet it down the whistle with a little bit left over for drinking I mean like yeah why wouldn’t that be good I guess this is the cereal sweetening the cream it’s real fast it’s a different experience than a bowl of cereal I haven’t had a bowl of cereal in months and my body is craving it so bad right now we’ve had a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch I’m at the point where I eat so much delicious junk food at work that I go home and uh last night we we went and drank and I came back at 11 p.m and I ate a salad on my couch with a glass of water do you know what I did I’ve ascended to another plane what’d you do my friend made a ruby Rosa pizza and Paul she gave me a slice smoke yeah and then I also but I’ve never tried the original and I never want to try I’m talking about the pizza that’s a margarita pizza with a swirl of pesto in the middle it’s incredible and then also a Caesar salad pizza like just a slice though like a pizza with Caesar salad and that’s a nice time so I had a salad too I got him yeah I mean what were we talking about heavy whipping cream and cereal I’d like to try it just enough but I’d let it set and I’d mash the cereal and mortar and pestle into a paste and then I would rub the paste all around my lips like a lip gloss like a lip gloss but you keep dropping your Chapstick yeah you wouldn’t drop this one no no no okay another opinion Maggie hey Josh and him my name is Jeff from Texas Jeff that’s not a real name and I just want to tell you a little bit about one of my childhood meals growing up that I think is amazing that a lot of my friends get kind of confused on by the name but seem to love it after they try it it’s called chicken Dorito casserole this is I’m already in an entire bag of nacho cheese Doritos laid out in the bottom of a casserole dish with rotisserie chicken on top of that yeah and then a can of cream of mushrooms yes cream of chicken mixed together with Rotel tomatoes a can of diet grow gel Tomatoes added all together pour it on top more Doritos more chicken and cheese and bacon in the oven 345 or five minutes chicken Dorito casserole comes from my great grandmother made it to her children the depression my mom made it to me and now I make it for my friends in the military just thought I would share that with y’all y’all have a great day wait hold on one thank you for your service thank you for your service to hell yes brother that is good eating right there that is like all the stuff that I grew up on sounds delicious and objectively we are talking objectively delicious morsel of food yeah he said something a little crazy in there did you say that that’s a Great Depression recipe I think so did he claim that the Dorito casserole Doritos well I’m sure that the Doritos were a new addition before that it was awesome yeah but I just love the idea that like most people would consider Dorito casserole like a very kind of Stoner food thing this is family this is Heritage cooking baby all right make it keep it rolling come on I gotta go watch Ally McBeal reruns hey this is Connor from Spokane Washington hell yeah Spokane first of all I still resent Josh for that Spokane Pizza episode I already have enough people who think this play sucks so that you helping out with that opinion eat at Spokane I’ll never apologize uh secondly I think that the best ice cream sandwiches you can get are the cheapest ones you can find because that melt in your hand wafer combined with uh presumably as much air as they can whip into ice cream is uh quite delicious thanks bye what is that oh my gosh so he’s a one I don’t think I should have to apologize to Spokane Washington oh can Pizza is the best pizza I I’ve ever eaten and I think that I’m the best thing to ever happen to Spokane I mean when’s the last time people were really talking about Spokane probably there was like a murderer that lived there yeah probably like a murderer actually I I did start getting Spokane news they’re really didn’t do a news story with Spokane Washington I did so many new stories about it that’s so cool you know talk to one of the reporters on Twitter sometimes I would love to move to spoken that’s like my ideal place to retire where are you gonna go beautiful later I can’t just go to Spokane without telling me the ice cream sandwiches he’s talking about he’s talking about the Chocolate Wafers that’s borderline cracker with one you can tell he knows what he’s talking about because he’s talking about what’s called overrun the amount of air that’s whipped into ice cream and legally there’s like only a certain amount that you can do okay because it cheapens it right per volume um but it’s the thin Chocolate Wafers with that super Airy block shaving cream ice cream that when it melts it doesn’t even run it just kind of stays thick like a fat boy or a UFO is Right UFO I’ve never had a UFO UFO Ice Cream Sandwich I’ve never had a UFO ice cream sandwich no not UFO what are they what are they even called they don’t have a name is it is it called it’s it uh no not it’s it they’re uh Nestle calls them vanilla sandwiches fat boy fat boy fat boy yeah yeah that’s why I said fabulous bad boy yeah I said fat boy I’m totally lying but like the generic version of fat boy like the wall those are those are my favorites yeah I am they’re the best oh yeah they’re the best they’re like discreet they’re thin they eat really tightly um I don’t want the big old chip witch I don’t especially want the ice cream I do not want the artisanal ice cream sandwiches I want the Fat Boys I grew up eating tofuti’s cuties and they were the best they were dairy-free I grew up eating Skinny Cow yeah Skinny Cow my mom used to take the Skinny Cow chocolates and put them in the freezer and that was also one of my treats but I agree I think you like can’t get much better in the ice cream sandwich game than that for sure if somebody wanted to try and make them like really good like what get like a Stroop waffle situation well I would love that right something then discrete a nice salted caramel ice cream or something I probably really enjoy that but it stands now I just like all ice cream sandwiches I just like ice cream in general Lieutenant Dan ice cream and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog sandwich if you want to hear more from us here in the magical kitchen we got new episodes for you every Wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef or Ed handy daughter with a hashtag opinion casserole or 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