some of the greatest foods of all time have been invented through struggle I make meat slop this is a hot dog as a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah I put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich Welcome to our podcast the hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh Sher and I’m your host Nicole anaiety and Nicole it is a new year it is the same old us people don’t actually change right and that I think so no it’s like you through your developmental years you kind of develop your personality you become the pick me kid in class you were in the gifted classes and so you think you’re special and then I kind of I went to one gifted and talented education class but I wasn’t like honors choir okay honors choir that’s why you crave attention all the time the point is you are the same person that means the struggle is the same that means you will need struggle meals yes and today we’re going to analyze what your favorite struggle meal says about you first up we should probably Define what a struggling I have the definition up here on urbandictionary.com which is my Oxford dictionary um so a struggle meal is defined as a cheap slash a cheap meal slash snack brought bought at the store usually eaten by broke college students examples include include Ramen chips and dip and microwavable meals hey Kyle want to grab some McDonald’s later tonight I’m running low on money man that’s Kyle I think I’m just gonna eat a struggle meal back in my dorm room this has 80 thumbs up and six thumbs down that’s a pretty common sentence I would have said back in the day and also still say now like nah I’m just gonna go eat a struggle meal and as the king of we have food at home are you that guy finally I’m I’m so hard that guy especially because every time we order Postmates GrubHub whatever it seems to be like eighty dollars for two people no matter what you get I do not ever ever never once in my life have I ordered GrubHub or Postmates to my own personal house good never that you’re peeing money away I know money Nicole you’re urinating money you’re shoshing money down the tube when you order phosphates Postmates sponsor us I love your work I mean it’s just it’s just a little bit exorbent and you know I’m trying to buy a house one day same so I don’t think me I I know I’m all about stimulating the economy enemy or whatever but spending thirty dollars on like on like a driving fee and like Tim I can just go and get a pick it up with my husband and we have like a little you know fun time in the car and we chat but whatever see I do that except I’m just cooking struggle meals at home taking whatever grains whatever meat whatever flavorings I have slopping it together in a pot and to me that’s the struggle meal right yeah I think my sugar meal has a little bit of a different definition because I must say I’ve never lived on my own I always had my pain I I’ve never my definition of a struggle meal is a little bit different than other people’s so I would say my struggle meal comes more of like from a pace place where I’ve disassociated the whole day and I come home and I’m like okay I need to feed myself so my struggle meal comes more of like I want to turn on a single Flame or press a single button and that’s where my struggle means so that’s like a struggling to coat meal this is the mental struggle man which is my struggling to cope mental health meal I guess and that’s a big struggle meal for a lot of people a lot of people talk about their depression meals you know yeah you can’t bring yourself to cook a lavish thing or you can bring yourself to go out and get food yeah so it’s like you got to make do with what you got totally totally you want to know what mine was when I lived with my parents heck yeah I do quesadilla great juggle meal best best struggle meal in my opinion I think it toes the line between struggle meal and like nice little treat for yourself you know and that’s what’s beautiful about the quesadilla yeah tell me about your go-to quesadilla so I would of course use Mission flour tortillas and um I I graduated I would initially only use one tortilla unfolded over but when I went to culinary school I learned that you can use two tortillas it’s like the biggest trip of all time and I would and I learned that like you don’t need to use the microwave the microwave is actually the worst way what do you mean you don’t need to use them was that what you were doing before I used to take a single tortilla and I would fill it with any sort of cheese I was in my house it was typically A reduced fat three cheese blend from Trader Joe’s with a little bit of that Mexican spice or whatever the heck that means and then I would fold it over the top I would microwave it for 16 seconds remove it and because my my dad is allergic to Pepper did you know that no I I have very limited uh hot sauces in my fridge I would have my designated hot sauce and like my brother’s designated hot sauce so my brothers was Red Rooster and mine was Tapatio so I would have red rooster Tapatio and then a little bit of ketchup for a little bit of substance so that’s what it used to be and then I gr I like matured and I realized oh I can just cook this on a low flame in a skillet on one side but you truly didn’t know that before culinary school were you starting at that low of a blue this is no chance yeah we’re all in the same struggle when I was well I didn’t start taking food or cooking seriously until I was 18 19 years old until then I was just like oh this food is magically in front of me cool awesome I didn’t understand the way to cook yeah I really didn’t and I learned how to hold a knife properly my first day of culinary school and I actually chopped the nail off of my opposing ring finger that happens so like so I didn’t know what I was doing half of the time and I was like oh I can use a skillet and I can make it like crispy oh my God and it could melt oh my God so that’s my struggle can I tell you what that says about you what okay so this is when you were living with your parents right yes yes I was and I was on auto and I would come home I was like so I was like so intensely like drained from school because I was on my feet I was cooking I was I was being a menace to society I was I was 19 years old Nicole like it was different this to me says that you have dreams of nurturing others when Monday for real for real no no can I see this I don’t know for the mouth from a microwaved quesadilla not the microwave quesadilla this is you graduating from the microwave because the microwave was always just the start right that was the stepping stone every Journey Of A Thousand Miles starts with a single step the microwave is your first step it was my first step but then you were like I deserve better you graduated your struggle meal because I I used to do when I was a kid but we’re talking like six years old microwaving the tortilla with the cheese in it dipping in sour cream whatever yeah yeah but you graduating to the stove realizing there’s something better to me was like I want to one day get out of my parents house right like like it was an aspirational struggle meal I want to one day care for myself better on my own I want to one day care for a partner I want to one day care for children you know if that’s in the cards for you is that like you don’t talk about babies all the time is that really what you think are you just enough for the podcast no I’m dead serious like if I’m if I’m analyz amazing what you were doing with that yeah yeah right that’s to me what it was you were sort of practicing you were almost playing house because you had that bit of Arrested Development living with your parents for so long Nicole so long you know and that’s not your fault it’s really no it was the societal pressures of being a Persian Jewish girl in Los Angeles and I think it’s beautiful that you were then able to you know graduate up to that nice pan-fried quesadilla you were always looking for ways to improve it right you didn’t settle for the struggle you know you went from one tortilla to two tortillas do I think that makes a worse quesadilla yeah I’m very ethically against the two you two I need the hinge the hinge to me provides structure within the quesadilla eggs if the cheese is too much she has properly griddled and crispy and delicious but if the cheese is too melty and it’s slipping and slopping around you know you try and cut it it shifts off you pick it up I think the tortilla to me needs to have that hinge well thank you for totally discounting my struggle meal after building it up so high what the hell was that man okay tell me about your show I have more but let’s ping pong it let’s ping pong it it’s funny because you see a lot of my struggle meals at work and we’re talking like like uh so your struggle meal is defined by how much protein you can shove into your body am I wrong kind of no okay if we’re talking about the mental struggle meal right um one thing that I do I I used to really binge eat on like garbage content yeah when when I was yeah when I was like struggling mentally right that was a way that I would bring myself back to some sort of happiness is just like bingy chips Doritos whatever’s around and then some point in my life the modality flipped and I was like okay now when I’m struggling mentally I go to super super clean eating which is bad like this is bad this is not an endorsement thing it could be it’s a form of like asserting control sure like all these things in my life feel out of control right now you know what I mean I’m trying to plan a wedding dealing with family issues um job we have thousands of pieces of content floating out there at any given point it’s an absolute trip and so sometimes when it gets really overwhelming I make what I call meat slop yes you do and I made do you know what’s in the fridge right now do you want to have for lunch today is it turkey no okay so it was chicken because it was on sale for cheaper but it took chicken thighs and I removed all the skin because that’s got extra fat in it I don’t need that right now and then also that’s gonna make the braids tough and I took a whole jar of air does salsa verde cost like 279 for the whole jar yeah right 18 ounces and I poured that over the chicken thighs I put it with salt in an oven covered for like four hours forgot about it let it just sit out of room temp for another three hours and then shred it into the recipe yeah you just like because there’s no it’s not even set it and forget it it’s like set it forget it do a million other things come back realize it’s there it’s absolutely foolproof just put it in a low oven just chicken Jarred salsa shred it put that in some sort of a tortilla with Greek yogurt and that’s just pure whole grains protein probiotics and for me that’s like I am asserting control over my own life whereas before I was struggling this will now rise Me Like a Phoenix out of the struggle crashes into being a competent human being again um does it work no absolutely not yeah so you’re all about about controlling the struggle yeah about controlling the struggle so instead of just being like hey man I just got this Ramen I’m gonna eat it because I don’t have money and I don’t have time you’re just like I have enough time to do this and this is what I need to do to feel like I’m in control and total total amount of work probably the same as Ramen I literally just dumped chicken thighs into a thing dumped salsa threw it in the oven walked away active time it’s about the same as Ramen yeah it’s not that immediate gratification but for me there’s something like in that little amount of process where I’m like I can I am getting my life back on track with this do you feel like your life is on track after you eat it no man are you kidding no no I don’t know I then why do you keep doing it because I don’t know insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same as a different result right I’m like a dog chasing cars I wouldn’t know what to do that is an impression of Chad Hanks doing an impression of Heath Heath Ledger is the Joker if you’ve seen that video that’s a fun video I like check but that’s a new struggle meal for me that’s my like as a probably when I turned 27 and I was like oh you got to be an adult now that’s a new struggle meal wow right so what were your former struggle meals looking like former struggle meals uh Ramen was a huge huge huge part of that yeah right um but I would generally I’m a big fan of dry noodles I don’t need this I don’t like the soup I drained the soup well I never made the soup I like boil the noodles and then a little bit of water and yeah well like in whatever water boil the noodles and then I strain that and then I add it to a hot saute pan with like soy sauce and I’ll do like a pan fried noodle really go the extra mile and so to me like you get soy sauce you get ramen noodles and you get an egg and I just fry the egg in there and kind of like really stir fry it and burn the soy into the ramen and that was a huge part of my diet and that’s that’s a huge struggle struggle meal success for me I think everybody has that meal like everyone’s done some some kind of like crazy stuff with Ramen I used to I used to remember like blogs and stuff he was like how to make your Ramen taste better and some fools like peanut butter I tried it like four times because like I don’t like this let me try it again and I tried it I’m like I really don’t like this and I’m like let me add a squeeze of lime to make it some sort of like Thai Thai you didn’t like the peanut butter Ramen hack it’s not for me what are the ramen hacks that really spoke to you because Roy Choi had his famous one I love to just uh crack an egg in it yeah that’s my Ramen eggs eggs eggs are a huge part of the struggle meal eggs if if eggs were not in the conversation would it be a struggle meal you know that’s a protein no it’s extra fat and like eggs to me are it was funny uh Danny Palumbo formerlyofspork.com he came to me about an article that he was writing go to sport.com it’s a great website uh but he came to me an article that he was writing about the anti-ketchup on egg sentiment and he was like I have this theory that eggs are such a highbrow dish because people associate them with like French cookery and blah blah blah and so I think people don’t like you soiling this high brow French cookery thing with ketchup and I was like eggs are the opposite of highbrow I understand certain the French chef’s hat right they say there’s one there’s one pleat on the toke for every method they can cook an egg you make sureed eggs you make coddled eggs it’s not true I’m so excited eggs some people associate with the French but around the freaking world eggs are everywhere eggs are everywhere they are the food they are the protein that makes the world go round Pakistani egg curries to like Chinese egg foo young delicious fried omelets like everywhere in the world eats eggs and they’re part of like my favorite personal struggle I eat a lot a lot of breakfast for dinner which I think could be read as a struggle meal I think so I think it’s it’s like one of those internal struggles yeah too it’s like it’s like oh this is comforting this is gonna jump start my day but even though you’re eating it at night time yeah I totally I totally get it but can I tell you what your stroke of meal says about you oh absolutely the first one control freak do you think I’m a control freak in real life though no not with us not with like the mythical kitchen like the people of mythical kitchen no but I’m sure behind the scenes you’re like what what have you noticed you you’ve spent more time with me than like my fiance than my brother yeah right in the last five years oh okay yeah yeah in the last five years okay yeah probably no not lifetime but anyways point is do you do you think that my struggle meal showing that I’m a control freak is exhibited anywhere else in my life like have you noticed that just for me interacting with the world not at work because I try to work if you’re a different person at work than you are in like real life yeah I do think Josh outside of work is a different person yeah I’d say so I think you try but like it doesn’t always work out you know that’s what I think I think I think you’re you’re like uh you’re desperate for control and like you’re yeah you’re like stretching for control but I think it’s because it doesn’t come naturally yeah oh really you know I feel like my light it’s very easy for me to spiral out so I need to grasp at the things in food is one of those things that people you know do grass bat for control sure and I think your old struggle meal was just like man I’m struggling in so many different ways and like you were just trying to find Comfort I think struggle meals a lot of the time especially with college students is uh trying to find comfort and trying to find a home in a bowl of ramen or like finding home and like chips and hummus or whatever it is I think it’s finding like uh it’s finding Humanity to me sure yeah um there is uh you ever flown on an airplane yeah I have one of the most I like airplanes I’m into airplanes really I love going on airplanes to me so okay so I just came back from South Africa I don’t know if you all know this that’s a joke because they’re giving me crap because I won’t shut up about it the point is do not shut up point is 16 hour flights right from like the east coast to South Africa um being on a plane to me is one of like the most dehumanizing experiences really you’re just like shuttled in there like cattle you know and okay so on on the flight taking off to the east coast before we made the big flight we had to sit there for two and a half hours because they forgot to bring the catering on board and when they say the catering you fly cross-country five and a half hour flight in America They don’t serve you a meal right they literally come by and what do they say they say pretzels are Biscoff yeah pretzels or Biscoff depends on isn’t that Delta uh we were United I don’t know United has them they can’t do peanuts anymore because they got the allergies right um food allergies are real and whatever um so people get mad when I talk crap on peanut allergies um but anyways like you’re there for five and a half hours and they delayed us for two and a half hours I almost missed a flight just because the pretzels or Biscoff were not there and then if you want to buy anything else you get like a little pack of overly acidulated hummus for ten dollars to me it is utterly like dehumanizing and to me a lot of that is because of like the food I bring I bring food on an airplane do you cook it at home no I get it from the airport but like what are you like go to the Wolfgang Puck Express and you get like a lentil soup I get a sandwich I get some chips I get some a water bottle and a banner and I just I just prepare for the worst because I agree that airplanes can be dehumanizing and pretty crappy but at the same time if you’re prepared you’re prepared that makes sense I also I had a really bad flight experience recently and it just like totally made me like hate my life and I’m like I need to be a prepared person whenever I go on airplanes yeah so I mean like I was just stuck there overnight and it was horrific so it’s just it’s just I don’t know like airplanes suck but it’s fun you get to go somewhere new you get oh I like getting there it’s fun but I don’t think I don’t think that like constitutes a struggle meal no no but I’m just saying the idea of food being an act of like humanization or dehumanization I think struggle I’m saying do you have a meal for you that like when you’re not feeling like a human when you’ve been so busy beating down something that is gonna like bring you back to feeling accomplished right I’ve never I mean well let me think about that I don’t think I’ve ever felt unhuman before I’ve always felt like a human right I’ve never felt like a robot or like oh my god what the hell what’s wrong I feel like a monkey all the time do you really yeah well how many times has our director Ben just yelled you’re a monkey Derek at me like all the time and to be clear it’s an inside joke but it’s a Zoolander reference take it to heart if someone calls me a monkey what do you mean no but don’t be the b word all the time that doesn’t mean I am a viewer um I’m a [ ] I will say hmm when I’m feeling really like like poopy like I’m feeling poopy probably specifically oxtail [ ] you want to know why because I get my hands in when you make it or you no no I get I don’t know how to make pho well yeah it’s hard I’ve done it that’s just not as good this is an old dish but whenever I’m like I’m like not feeling human I’d like to get oxalpha and then I like to just absolutely ravage it with my hands the bone like suck it on bones when you’re when here when you’re struggling well this is the best that’s the best but I’d say that’s mine what about yours uh uh classic classic Californian very non-mexican breakfast burrito oh and I say non-mexing simply because it’s like tater tots uh some sort of American cheese yeah American cheese and uh bacon yeah in it along with scrambled eggs to me that’s like that might be the single most comforting food for me and I think it’s why and it’s eggs it’s eggs right it’s eggs or Reason breakfast to me is like a passport to comfort also a big old stack of pancakes that hits that as well I think pancakes take too much effort not to make no no okay well they’ll make pancakes sometimes yeah I can’t make pancakes my dad makes really good pancakes but I personally actively pouring in the Bisquick the milk is so much it’s too much too much too much too much for me I can’t do that but you know those little Trader God bless Trader Joe’s can I say that the Frozen little pucks of of hash brown yeah oh when I have no time no energy no nothing the those save the day with a single leg single leg that’s what I need that’s a good struggle meal for me those little Trader Joe’s little they’re like little hash browns they can like sleep on like a little pillow if you had advice for other people right let’s talk Financial struggles let’s talk like cheap like you mean you got no money in the bank account I mean both of us beat poverty bingo I mean I wasn’t like poor poor yeah okay I’d be partying you you know yeah yeah I mean I had like my parents I was like middle middle class a little bit low sometimes like your parents are probably like you know Frugal on the food well yeah a child of immigrants but of course they’re dumbasses move to Beverly Hills of all places I’m so mad about that like you couldn’t go to Santa Monica whatever this is Nicole’s struggle you couldn’t go to Santa Monica uh you’re like a clueless character that escaped from the TV ageless yeah like the Dorian Gray of the clueless universe that’s me I’m I’m the movie really did you know that I haven’t seen it in so long every single person was like bro look at these and then they would back it up a Persian Mafia you see that you see that BMWs you see that okay sorry um poor people like if somebody does not have a lot of money they don’t have a lot of time they’re struggling you as a chef what would you say they should make and what do you think that says about them peanut butter and jelly honestly yeah honestly you get the big old Costco jar of peanut butter you know you get the pickle everything’s gonna come from Costco here because they sell the oral wheat bread in uh in the double packs yes he’s the one yeah frozen bread it literally microwaves to Fresh in 12 seconds that’s right that’s right it’s great I think peanut butter and jellies are the I mean I grew up whenever we would have like uh like um what’s that thing called like brown bag days yeah no no when you would no we would make them for like underprivileged kids oh okay okay yeah and it was always PB and J’s because they were the easiest thing to make and they’re delicious and they have a lot of sustenance and they have a little bit of sugar from the jam and it just gives you energy that is actually a huge struggle that I kind of forgot I think I haven’t made one in a long time which is maybe good for my mental health or bad because I’ve made a lot of meat slop you should make one I think it’ll make you feel really today yeah I think after this podcast you should have a PB J PB J is so so comforting so good and another thing is especially if you’re freezing the bread because I think you have to plan for struggle meals a little you need to like stock your house yeah and that’s the thing cheese can go bad of course uh tortillas can go bad you can freeze them sure yeah but to me something like I’m a big fan of the struggle fried rice oh yeah and not even when I was really struggling so when I went through a breakup a couple years ago right and this is the time sorry about that oh my God it was the best thing that’s ever happened to me I mean she’s doing great out there too as well it was great for all of us you know not no thank you for breaking up no happy relationship uh you know ended in a breakup right um but point is I was like you know going to Craigslist Department uh lived with some cool dudes but I was really struggling mentally with like my place in the world and all that um this is when I use Tony sacheries exclusively oh because you couldn’t travel with a bunch of spices right yeah and like I was in like I felt like I was in a stranger’s apartment and it was kind of like dirty and literally the the old dude’s stuff was still in the pantry but they were like uh don’t throw it out he might be coming back I’m like what do you mean I live in his room why would he be coming back because this makes sense that’s weird that’s weird that was a weird living arrangement I was in a weird mental struggle Place uh and so Tony sachery’s huge savior of mine the other one is minute race oh well I grew up with rice Roney rice great but those pre-packaged things yeah so Minute Rice the mini ones the mini cup ones no no not the mini ones the big old thing okay okay so I was also trying to save and script money because I’d like buy a car because I was using my ex’s car because we like shared it but like really I drove it and so then I didn’t know what to do and I bought a car and I was in an emotionally vulnerable place I got up sold by the Nissan salesman now I have this beautiful Altima oh what a good Altima 2017 certified pre-owned um when is Minute Rice and you take that you have to boil it for like literally a minute a minute hence the name crap and then you just heat a frying pan you throw an egg in there and then you Tony sacheries it up you take whatever scraps that you have in the fridge you take the Taco Bell sauce and the soy sauces that you collect from take out straight up yeah anything any you put ketchup in there right uh you put soy sauce you throw some peanut butter on it if you have any odds and ends of vegetables to me like making the scrap fried rice and we have a video on mythical kitchen that was shot during quarantine right went through my scrap fried rice process it’s nothing thing that would pass muster with the uncle Rogers of the world right it is not a traditional walk fried you know egg fried rice um but it is something that is nourishing it is hot it is cheap and it doesn’t go bad because the minute rice just oh it just stays there forever rice and beans I mean the classic combination it’s like a complex carb right it’s like when you keep that your body like processes it as like as like really good for you or something like that maybe man I don’t know I took like it’s filling classic it’s culinary school and like that’s the only thing I remember she said rice and beans are good for you and I’m like okay yeah beans are to me like the greatest and if you are eating brothy beans the struggle meal you’re you’re you’re a sexy girl you’re a sexy girl your hot girls eat brothy beans hot girls love brothy beans no they don’t and that’s what makes it hot right yeah yeah yeah like and if you’re a boy out there this isn’t gendered like no it’s a hot girl obviously it’s not girl non-binary you can be a hot girl eating brothy beans as well but the key is they have to be brothy gotta be brothy and the reason why they’re brothy I’m asking you oh I don’t know I don’t know why that became a thing it just it just did hot girls started eating brother I think I think they would Wilt kale in it oh that makes sense and the broth would Wilt the kale homemade stocking oh my God no no homemades yeah bone broth for 28 and that’s my personal struggle meal 28 broth um some other things that are struggle meals cereal big bowl of cereal cereal with whipped cream on it I did that last night asserting control over my diet yeah big old bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch you know got the Sunday scaries Cinnamon Toast Crunch low-fat milk whipped cream on top is it better than cereal without whipped cream no but is that a good struggle meal hell yes you know what oh I’m sorry did I say something offensive no I just really wasn’t expecting that um chicken soup that you make from a rotisserie chicken that you picked off all of meat from that’s good rotisserie chicken in general is a good is a great struggle yeah five dollars at the Costco yep big fan of it that’s it you pick it apart you put that in a tortilla all my struggle meals are also all my normal meals yes I’ve realized so it’s a constant struggle and it’s just meat and salsa and a tortilla and that’s all I want to eat all my life I respect you what does that say about me is that what that you like tortillas chicken and salsa yeah you’re a cool gun hey that’s what’s up I don’t know I think I think I think you just have an elevated like palette and those things taste good to you and they’re cheap and you can make it better by mixing however you want I’ll give you all a fun little hack so you gotta buy a jar of salsa that has a mouth wide enough for a whole chicken drumstick to fit in that way you take the chicken drumstick and you can just fully submerge it and then you’re and you suck it right off the bone and that’s my struggle okay [Music] I’ve heard you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the world This Is How They rattle it’s time for second recall opinions are like casseroles [Music] but I’m filming opinions um is that the Seinfeld Baseline no crazy and Jerry Seinfeld you cannot sue us Larry David you either Larry David can’t sue me he’s a sue me Daddy uh he’s already he’s already got the FTX lawsuit to worry about uh it’s fine he’s so tied up in litigation that he can’t touch us all right ready to hit that first voicemail hey guys uh love the show been listening to it since day one I love you um I have a way that I make my Ramen that disturbs a lot of people but spicy every time that I make it and someone tries it they spread it on and it kind of continues you know it creates a contagion and then it has come back to me from someone I didn’t know what I do is I I take the ramen I I make it with you know all the regular stuff and then I put the the seasoning pack in about halfway through cooking it and then I drain off almost all of the liquids by wasting cracking an egg in it good and you know spin it around give it the egg drop soup treatment okay and then I drop in two slices of American cheese yes a tablespoon of butter yes and there’s a scoop of cream cheese and mix that up and boom it’s it’s absolutely fantastic uh I call it my Rogers Ramen cheese is his name wrong people hear about it they’re often disgusted until they try it and they’re like oh my God I think you might be on to something so anyway that is my uh my opinion casserole uh take care first of all the there’s a lot of ramen discourse in his group of friends which I think is so cute I don’t talk about that kind of stuff with my friends oh I talk about Robin with my friends all the time do you really I wish I did it used to be hacks like that but now it’s like ooh we all have jobs what’s the best fancy Ramen we’re all in the shin ramyun train oh nice and Ramy on baby Shin Ramy on black I had 30 Ramen the other day where at this at this place uh called Kazan Ramen oh they’re great it was good yeah like they have the Sichuan lamb Ramen I haven’t tried that spicy spicy spicy that’s the opposite of sharp well that is a treat Ramen yeah yeah um cream cheese and ramen you already know that I love adding cream cheese to like potatoes and pasta bakes and everything so I love it I’ma Do It American cheese is literally a government-funded struggle meal ingredient right I grew up on the government cheese yeah we have the the cheese right yeah brick cheese uh commod cheese they call it it’s the commodity government cheese that literally everybody’s got like a three pound brick of in the like the food stamp welfare basket uh they were all the food banks uh because we have so much of it and it’s very shelf stable so American cheese a huge part of me growing up and still love it to this damn day you can’t you can’t uh you can’t recreate the quality of government cheese though craft American singles don’t quite do it that’s true American cheese and ramen with the egg that was a Roy Choi hack as well what was it haunted Chef Roy Choi published a recipe for that in the New York Times it was brothier and kind of based off the Korean which is a struggle meal Korean army stew yeah it’s like literally from the struggles of war and neocolonization so I think there’s culinary Merit in this and then 100 and then the uh the cream cheese of it all very much the BuzzFeed tastification food but put cream cheese and all your pastas that’s half their damn videos they could launch an Empire off cream cheese and noodles were they ever sponsored by Philadelphia no they sure they didn’t they didn’t need to be sponsoring because they were giving them all the free money Josh why would you buy the now when you get the milk for free Josh who am I big mistake huge uh I oh no I don’t know I’m sorry Julie Roberts are pretty woman oh yeah I’m holding my bag no I just that man when Jason when Jason Alexander started roughing her up in that movie oh I almost cried dude that was that’s a tough scene for me it’s a good movie Tough scene yeah you’re nothing but oh and then he says he you know it does a little anti-anti woman slura there big mistake okay all right next opinion oh that dish needed scallions the ramen you put some scallions in there that’s good that’s good stuff oh man hey hey my hot take on food is that um Cheerios smell like pee Oh yes yes yes Cheerios my nose yes my nose thinks they’re the same thing and my husband agrees and my sister thinks I’m crazy please please please validate me okay regular Cheerios smell like pee I like how you repeated it as if we could possibly forget Cheerios smell like pee Nicole okay I just Googled Cheerios smell like pee and 153 000 people there are results there are results I I think they smell like pee too but it smells like good peanut bad beef there’s good pee and there’s bad pee we can all agree on that there’s like hydrated PNC hydrated there’s this magazine there’s Coffee Bean Coffee peas good P to me it smells like coffee my pee smells like coffee most of the time um so that doesn’t bother me about Cheerios the Pea smell right what bothers me is that if you burp after eating Cheerios it smells like egg farts and and like seriously I could not tell you what’s going on with Cheerios but there are some weird bodily Aromas associated with and produced by yeah them yeah to the point where I would never choose Cheerios as a main cereal which as we discussed is a struggle food it’s for like kids are you kidding me cheers are for children and for old people it’s not but it’s not for people and it is either for a four-year-old child like they had Cheerios at the Sizzler kids Buffet well yeah little children cheers no but but but they have the big old heart on the Honey Nut Cheerios thing oh this is good for heart old people and babies are close together in the circle of life you’re correct Stacy this is us we’re here we’re 30. we’re like here but like babies old adults they’re like the same they wear diapers and neither them are bothered by the smell of pee dude I visited my grandma the other day and like her old phone it’s like basically convalescent home God bless her you know she’s lived a good full life hundred years old but everywhere just smelled like pee man the whole place was just pee because you know at that age you peeing everywhere when you’re everywhere so the Cheerios they don’t smell like pee they smell like humans they smell like you and so you eat them we’re never getting the Cheerios sponsorship we’re never I love Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios were my jam that was my dessert as a child really I wasn’t my house was locked down I was allowed the 100 calorie snack Wells maybe oh no a spoonful of Nutella like a dog Cheerios those are my three desserts as a child I’m imagining your mom just throwing a spoon of Nutella like ordering you scampering mom I got an A on my vocab test good job hahaha every time you got an A back in school did you start tasting chocolate like Pavlov’s dog no no but it was close next opinion please hi my name is Alicia a long time listener I love your podcast so much thanks Alicia my unpopular opinion is chocolate covered pretzels with mustard I think are delicious bombshell and pineapple on Pizza yeah you have a good day hey you too thank you so much pineapples on Pizza 100 chocolate pretzels and mustard what’s going on what’s going on I don’t know Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny just take a look at this right now I’ve been watching it right now such a good show I’m on season six and it’s really funny milk steak hard-boiled jelly beans um I don’t even understand pretzels and mustard that’s never been a thing that I’ve enjoyed particularly Frozen mustard makes sense I was in I would I went to Oktoberfest and I was in Munich oh you’re talking about you it’s cool if you talk about your international travels but I can’t talk about my international travels all the time you know it’s your whole yeah it’s exciting to me I know I’m happy for you you need to get out more that’s not mad lekka bro Josh you need to get out more go to more countries please for the love of God um so I went to Berlin or I went to nine Oberlin I went to Munich Germany and I had a soft pretzel and I dipped it in Delhi mustard or whatever what color is the mustard oh there yeah there was a yellowish and the whole grain mustard whole grain mustard you got all three with one pretzel yeah they give you three different kinds of ones wow must be nice being in Germany what would I wasn’t when I was in this in this specific tent with which I was in yes they gave me through different kinds of mustard is that okay which one do you enjoy more Nicole because yeah mustards yeah you must have explored them all huh is he trying to I don’t know what’s going on I’m not I’m not receiving the information well um uh chocolate covered pretz like flips I think I think they’re ready I don’t like that at all I can see chocolate covered pretzels and ketchup I can see that see that either I can see that I can see mayonnaise I can see I can see mayonnaise you know a little bit of acidity a little bit of creaminess kind of you know with that chocolate but to me mustard and chocolate are maybe the two opposite Foods in the world right um as someone who worked at a chocolate store that was all about opposing flavors we did Wasabi and chocolate which is similar to mustard and chocolate I can see that I could see that horseradishy chocolateiness going well but to me it’s like it’s the astringency and the acidity sure sure that like crushes you I’m interested in trying it though you know probably tastes like because I have everybody’s thrown up Yogurtland after a night of drinking right I think that’s just you what I think no come on you’re throwing up yogurt what is this is not a common experience Yogurtland you’re like drunk meal of choice yeah man yeah I started day drinking you know you got to you like eat a bunch of sushi or something and then creaminess yeah oh no Unity like you get the Dutch chocolate flavor that’s the best they have like four chocolate flavors of Yogurtland Dutch chocolate’s always best no it’s great and then but then you throw it up and you get the stomach acid that’s what the flips covered in mustard would taste like all right next minute I’m gonna go hey Josh hey Nicole this is Ben hey Ben I’m up here in Silverdale Washington so people trash on pilk all the time thank you but honestly if they do it you know use some RumChata and mix that okay and you’re getting a little drunk or you could use Pepsi too I guess that works also apparently people don’t know what Coke floats are and I’ve only ever heard of root beer floats so try it out the coke float is superior to the root beer float the coke float is absolutely Superior I disagree I I prefer the aromatics of Coca-Cola Coca-Cola uh to root beer when it comes I love root beer so would you which makes sense that I would enjoy pilk pilk for people don’t know uh about uh two to one uh milk to Pepsi drink in the country of South Africa Nicole they call it a brown cow which is why I drank it growing up because my mom South African and she would make it for me as a little treat that’s very nice yeah yeah um I believe alcohol is a great equal lifestyle so whenever you add a little bit of spirit in the uh in the you know in the cup it it helps it helps so Let It Go Down Easy especially from Chata that’s crazy Nicole are you familiar with the great nation of South Africa Constitution ratified in 1996. they have a cream liqueur down there called Amarula and and Nicole similar to Amaretto no it is not thank you for trying so Amarula comes from the marula tree which go wild all over the bush and the bushville okay yes side note my body wash is a marula oil bottle really and I smell it really I smell like an M delicious Amber kissed woman well they make a cream liqueur out of it and they’re not allowed to farm the marula fruit sometimes elephants Nicole they get drunk off of the fermented marula fruit on the ground wow and they make this cream liqueur and you will put some elephants and I will put it in Coca-Cola did you similar to RumChata what does this have to do with elephants again oh because the marula tree I don’t know we’re holding the mics like this but the real tree it grows wild in the bushfelt right in the bush and and the fruits they’re not allowed to farm the marula and so people just pick up the marula fruit and bring it to the Amarula Factory and sell it but but when is Rule of fat it’s a tall tree so elephants eat it and they’ll eat the fruit off the ground when the fruit hits the ground it ferments really quickly okay so elephants eat it and they get all messed up and they start wandering around and they’re just like hey man manual experiment with each other you know and that’s what the elephants do in South Africa what does that have to do with the RumChata oh I put Amarula and Coke instead of room challenge oh my God I got it and it’s nice I think he’s right well on that note thank you so much for stopping by a hot dog is a sandwich we got uh new episodes what Wednesdays on Wednesdays on the audio and then Fridays on the video if you are not watching us right now you’re a fool you are a fool huge opportunity to not get more Face Time Josh and I have so much Synergy that is so uh a digestible via VIA video it’s 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