which grocery store would you rather be stuck in during a snowstorm Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s um we live in Los Angeles it’s a figure of speech no it’s not snowstorm is a 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 a hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich Welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich I’m your host Josh sharer and I’m your host Nicole Nicole the asthma breather I literally got my breathing check today and they’re like your lungs are gorgeous they said your lungs are gorgeous that’s the creepiest thing a doctor good lungs I don’t have asthma anymore did say something about me never mind it’s I had a hernia and the surgery is down there and he like made a comment like wow this looks beautiful and I was like thanks Doc anyways we’re internet chefs over the Good Mythical Morning what are we we’re internet chefs apparently yeah over the good mythical morning and mythical kitchen channels yes right maybe you have heard of them I don’t know man uh we’re also here we’re bringing you the internet’s biggest food debates and today we’re taking on a real Disney Nicole the biggest Susie of them all the biggest news is because there are two grocery stores by my estimation that have bigger cult followings in America than any other grocery stores and we’re talking Trader Joe’s we’re talking Whole Foods I think I’m acting like I don’t know but I do know the prompt yeah because we talked about talking about this yes I’m talking about it before we actually talked about it really like oh we know we’re gonna fall on different sides of the aisle here because I’ve been vocally not against one of these but I have personally said that I never personally shop at one of these grocery stores which one is that one which which how about you just say which one you’re for Okay so let me get this out of the way okay I’m a Ralph’s man I’m a Kroger man hold on we’ve taken Kroger Money on on the mythical kitchen YouTube channel really incredible Integrations with Kroger and the reason I felt comfortable doing that is because I’ve shopped at Ralph’s my entire life every single Sunday I go to Ralph’s however there’s one store Nicole however when I go to oh I feel like I’m in Disneyland except I don’t really like Disneyland so but I feel what people feel when they go to Disneyland what’s that and that’s Whole Foods really oh it’s a nice little treat when you like feel like spending anything the whole paycheck but for real I mean I go there and the grocery trips probably 60 more expensive than when I go to Ralph’s sure of course probably 75. yeah yeah but that is part of it is because their food is just more expensive right and then the other part is that I get real excited oh I saw a nine dollar bottle of like Harissa paste and it had real nice branding on it and I was like oh I’m gonna make some Tunisian inspired food today and so I I love elephants I love Whole Foods because I’m someone when I cook at home I cook with a lot of fresh produce because we are eating generally a lot of kind of packaged Goods here at work you know really horrible and when I go home I want to have like really dank fresh produce really good quality meat Whole Foods has cuts of meat Nicole that you can’t get anywhere else you go to Whole Foods they sell chicken spines you know that special you go there you can get a chicken’s fine you’re like I want to make stock but I don’t want to waste the meat and I don’t like when the meat is all just like shreddy yeah super overcooked in stock you can just buy the chicken spines you can get fresh chicken livers you can get chicken feet I guess I’m just impressed that they do a whole chicken yeah we can get skin on pork belly Nicole they got three kinds of marinated bacon I’ve had blueberry bacon from Whole Foods before was it good no but their other Bacons are pretty good they got fresh sausage and sometimes Nicole the butcher man who runs the Whole Foods butcher case he’ll just make little experimental sausages just because he wants to he’ll do a little bourbon sausage in there do a little smoked bourbon bratwurst that’s a fun time they got lamb they got Mary’s chicken breasts I bought a whole Goose from Whole Foods once the shrimp at Whole Foods allegedly are not caught by slaves most of the time look up NPR did a really incredible piece on on how most your shrimp got by slaves but the ones that Whole Foods allegedly are not that’s fine you can believe in it also their shrimp tastes better they got black cod Nicole they got Sable fish they got you ever go to their smoked fish section of course there’s salmon candy unbelievable smoked white fish where else are you getting whole smoked white fish Costco when I tried Nicole last Christmas because this is how Julie and I celebrate Christmas and we made a Seafood Tower yes I know we’re like we’re gonna spend 300 on our own Seafood to make what would be a thousand dollar Seafood Tower at a restaurant okay and we’re just gonna drink throughout the whole day and just eat like kings because we don’t have to buy gifts for anyone because we’re Jewish we don’t have friends and when we tried to get our Seafood from a specialty Seafood supplier Santa Monica Seafood Co huh they had a line 200 people deep so what do we do we went to a Whole Foods and we got the single best Alaskan king crab legs that I’ve ever had Whole Foods it is all in one you know your daily Market where you can go in and you can buy just a nine dollar protein bar if you want to but Nicole you can also get 300 for the crab legs and then really regret those choices that you made in life and that’s why I love Whole Foods that was very nice did you practice that at all Jeffrey Bezos did you practice that at all right that’s jacked now is that just stream of Consciousness For You Justin I was really just you know a couple like two weeks ago I am I was like a little I some people complain they talk about drinking too much which I don’t know it’s just weekends you know live a little live a little bit that’s what I’m saying don’t be puritanical about this but anyways I was like a little hungover and I needed a treat to sort of Rouse myself out of that hangover got it and my treat was just doing a full shopping run at Whole Foods that’s wonderful and it was great I went to that one in in West LA off of like Barrington you know a small parking lot a lot of the parking lots are pretty does it look kind of like post-colonial kind of yeah yeah exactly it’s like white yeah it’s not one of the new fangled cool Whole Foods like no not yet they had to it’s like if you see somebody that has like one of those houses that they like added four different rooms on and all the rooms are in random Parts sure you’re like oh this is the baby’s room in art studio and it’s just like in the backyard and that’s horrible do not put your art studio with your baby’s room the fumes it will be bad for the baby that’s what this whole foods like it’s like you walk in and you have to like walk through the bakery and the cashier is just in the center of it I’ve never been to that one because Whole Foods used to be a really small uh chain of health food stores it was just a niche yeah and then especially after the Amazon acquisition just blew up but tell me about why I’m wrong well do you know how you said when you walk into Whole Foods it’s like Disneyland for you yeah when I walk into Trader Joe’s I’m at my funky Grandma Carol’s house which I never had so um when I walk into uh Traders I live very close to Trader Joe’s and it’s very convenient for me so whenever I’m you know coming home from work I just do a little detour and I just go into the parking lot and I see the beautiful Graphic Signs the beautiful signage that is just so inviting and I’m like all right this is Comfort I just walk in and I’m like this is Comfort the first thing you see beautiful plants just the most beautiful plants you’ve ever seen and you’re like I could be a plant parent if they can do this at Trader Joe’s I can do this in my own home they have the most stunning bouquets just hanging out they have flowers that I’ve never seen before maybe at Bristol Farms but who has Bristol Farms money so I’m just going through Russell Farms as a poke bar I like yeah I went today actually I went today actually and I had a Pokeball I had another time yeah but besides that um when I walk into Trader Joe’s I feel very comfortable and I and I know that what I’m getting what I pay for which is very nice and what I pay for is reasonable in comparison to lassens and Whole Foods and what is that really fancy on air one I mean yeah when you think about when you think about those grocery stores and there’s 26 dollar water bottles and an avocado can be three dollars I mean it’s just not sustainable for my personal lifestyle and you know I want to buy a house one day and I’m trying to you know I’m trying to save money where I can and if that means you know I’m gonna buy some apples that might not be the most incredible apples I’ve ever had in my damn life They’re Gonna Be Good Apples and I’m gonna buy those apples I’m gonna put them in my car and I’m gonna give them to me and my husband in the mornings I’m gonna juice them with some celery and that’s all that matters when I walk into Trader Joe’s when I go through the frozen food section I don’t feel bad because I see all the things there and I’m like cauliflower okay string beans all right oh is that zigzag butternut squash sign me up so I do I do think that Trader Joe’s I know when I just walk into in Trader Joe’s I just feel really comfortable and the way that this the shelves are all designed I just think it’s beautifully organized they’re really smart yeah Trader Joe’s is an incredible like uh exercise in understanding what people actually want what people actually buy it sure there’s a crazy stat not to cut you off but go ahead that uh Trader Joe’s stocks something like 15 the products at a mass Market grocery store stock yes that’s true I think whenever I was doing my research it said about 80 of their stuff is all their own private label and I think that’s cool is it oh I did the private label stuff weirds me out why the pro okay so one I I give Trader Joe’s massive props I do not ever shop there I went there once in the past year uh solely because I love to cook at home and I don’t need like frozen convenience meals like I would rather and you’ve seen me do this just like scramble two eggs and grab a fistful of ham and put a handful of spinach in there and call that a cheap easy yeah it’ll work as opposed to like uh you know microwaving Trader Joe’s chicken soup dumplings that’s gonna be 75 as good as an actual soup dumpling sure to me it’s going to not satisfy my actual hunger gravy at all because I’d rather just have a great soup dumpling yeah but that said they’re incredibly smart about what products they choose to feature of course and they are always I’d say ahead of the cultural moment but what they are is they’re more ahead of the cultural moment than other Mass Market grocery stores like and yeah a lot of people talk about cultural appropriation with this and I know Trader Joe’s they called oh the Italian stuff is called Trader I have the whole list would you like the Mexican food is Trader Jose’s yeah Baker Joseph’s is the flour and bagels Trader giodos is the Italian Trader Trader Joe songs is Japanese that one just sounds racist like Trader Joe son come on Trader Mings is just Asian food I’ve seen this list but what is the Asian is Japanese food not Asian I don’t know I guess it’s anything other than Japanese yeah um Joseph’s brow is beer and Trader Jacques is French food and soaps yeah the the Trader Joe’s it’s so weird because they’re both like ahead of the times and behind the times constantly but they were the first they were the first that I saw like have their own private label Sichuan chili crisp right which is good I use it I bought it like four times it’s a staple in my house I always have everything bagel seasoning have it in my house right incredible uh what do they have um cauliflower and gnocchi cauliflower stacks of them mofo that’s big uh the origin of Trader Joe’s is really fascinating to me because I didn’t realize that it was a pun on like Trader Vicks Trader Vicks which was a restaurant yeah the legendary Tiki Bar yeah right that invented a lot of modern Tiki cocktails that’s right and so literally the origin of Trader Joe’s was like we’re trying to take this Tiki aesthetic that was all post World War II boom right after the annexation of Hawaii and in statehood and all that and they were like we have a more educated Workforce coming back off the GI Bill people are more traveled now on account of war and so we want to sort of bring them more worldly uh grocery items that they couldn’t get in a mass market so they’re kind of cool which is very very cool and as much as if anybody wants to Flame them for cultural appropriation stuff they have flame them flame them flame away I got no problem no problem with with admitting the fact that Trader Joe’s doing that is wrong I will admit that but I love their products and I love what they do aside from that they make some great products yeah the interesting thing so the fact that you said 80 of all of Trader Joe’s foods are like their own private label yeah they any distributor they work with so what happens right you go into a Trader Joe’s and you say want to buy their chocolate covered peanut butter pretzel nuggets which are delightful they’re great um Trader Joe’s the grocery store does which it’s owned by Aldi now right they don’t necessarily own a pretzel making factory in a peanut butter making factory in a chocolate making factory and they certainly don’t own a chocolate peanut butter pretzel making factory what they do is they go to a company that owns a big Factory could be ConAgra which is this massive massive food food you know conglomerate uh could be ConAgra and they go hey we want to put our own label in our own bag on this product we’ll test it make sure it’s quality enough for our stores and then you factory can tell nobody like they’re under contract to not tell anybody where their food comes from that’s like what everybody does it’s what everybody does that’s what everybody does I know Costco famously does it as well everybody knows their what the Kirkland brand vodka is you don’t think 365 does that I don’t know 365 though I mean everybody right like they’re not all owning their own means of production but 365. I have the floor I’m talking about milk can a man talk about milk all their milk yeah comes from Family Farms you might wonder who owns a farm if not a family right anyways okay it’s like when places say Farm Fresh Produce it’s like where else did you think it came from regret to inform you all produce is indeed grown on a farm uh what are you saying I’m just confused why you’re so mad at the fact that Trader just does what everyone else says you’re just calling Trader Joe’s out oh I’ll tell you what I’ll tell you why no problem because people think that oh this is gonna get a whole Wormhole oh here we go Josh acting all crazy people think that Trader Joe’s is like healthier and better for you and they feel better about buying Trader Joe’s than they do a mass Market brand like say Kellogg’s I don’t agree that it is better for you but I think you feel better buying it because you think it’s independent as opposed to modeling a major brand I think you do I don’t I don’t I think Nicole when you I live next when you walk into Trader Joe’s you feel better about your choices because when you when people come visit you in your home and they see a bag of Trader Joe’s pretzels they’re gonna think you have a higher status than if you bought rolled gold that’s not true at all why’d you say I don’t know man I kind of forgot about rolled gold yeah it’s pretty good they’re fine they have the good little nuggets that are flavored like the rods yeah I mean I like gold what is it is it rolls golds I like roll gold rods particular pretzels okay oh they do the fake butter flavored one so yeah I don’t like that I like that the regular rolls gold sticks I’m all about but the flavored Snyder signed me up what I’m trying to say is I don’t agree with you I don’t need to Virtue signal with my chip bags Josh I live in close prox I go to Whole Foods too I love walking through a Whole Foods my dream one day is to be a mom and to have two kids right in the front with a beautiful bouquet of flowers okay they’re also going to be twins I’m rolling through the whole foods and I’m going everywhere I’m buying echinacea pills I’m getting Elderberry syrup I’m buying three bottles of Kombucha I’m buying it all I’m buying Percy that’s 279 just because it’s organic and I don’t care that’s my dream the railing lines of ashwagandha in the bathroom with all the employees yeah and then like Rider and then you see a girl in here for high school and you’re like you know what I mean like that’s the dream what’s up Meadow yeah with anyone named Meadow that’s a weird name but uh I I just it’s just at this point of my life Trader Joe’s does what it has to for my lifestyle I have a kosher kitchen you know this I go to Trader Joe’s has Kosher meat it’s incredible I don’t eat a cheese steak inside your home less than two weeks ago shut up hold on no I know but no no let’s see we have rules okay you want to know what my rules okay I’m allowed to give people food I can’t cook it myself I can put it on a paper plate yeah and serve it to and use uh plastic forks we did use plastic forks in on a paper yes but like my own home things cannot touch it I took homosack and meat the other day and I couldn’t heat it up on a pot so I had to microwave it it’s ridiculous it’s absurd I know it is oh it’s your culture it’s absurd and I know it but you have to make loopholes for your for the a modern age you live in and this is my loophole like whatever I have to do what I have to do but I still have to buy Kosher meat in the house now I have to cook it that means I don’t have to go to a damn I don’t have to go to Pico have you ever driven down Pico and Robin don’t you don’t you put this don’t you put Peter Robertson have you ever dreamed so stressful let’s get into our tour local La Street City politics it is so stressful for me to go to one grocery store and then have to go to another grocery store to buy things from that grocery store that I can’t buy from this grocery store this is where all the kosher markets and groceries Trader Joe’s is my One-Stop shop and it does the damn thing for me by the CVS I can’t tell you the listeners will know I love Whole Foods but at this point in my life going to Whole Foods as a regular grocery store is not in the picture for me it’s just not it doesn’t make sense for me and it doesn’t make sense to a lot of people people don’t have the financial capacity to pray no don’t paint me as this well I’m not saying you should get all your groceries organic from Whole Foods I’m saying personally that I find it a better shopping experience that more fits my life and again I do not I disagree I do not shop there you don’t shop there I don’t know I don’t know it’s like a daily lifestyle I shot there as a treat then why are you sure if there’s a treat it’s like how I love you go to the grocery store as a pretty expensive brand that I love because I don’t know nothing no it’s like oh yeah I love it you’ve lost his Warby Parker yeah yeah I don’t think I love an expensive Brands what I was trying to say because there’s expensive brands that like I can say like they’re nice but I don’t wear them every day I don’t drive an expensive car you know do I think Audi looks cool yeah you know I think Audi looks cooler than like a Tesla I see someone in Tesla and I just immediately think yeah have you ever tested either of those cars no neither okay so who are you guys I can still have preferences because you can’t sit on a podcast because somebody on in a Tesla Cuts me off every single without question I drive 20 miles to work across La freeways you are going to get cut off by a Tesla within like three years Tesla drivers overtook BMW drivers by far the biggest a holes oh you think BMW drivers are used to be no no it was always Prius it was always Prius Drive is the worst in a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s parking lot oh the parking lots the parking lots in both of those places need to be obliterated nightmares they shouldn’t exist the parking lots just need to be a continuation of the store until everyone to get street parking that’s it if I am spending 300 for a week’s worth of groceries at Whole Foods you should send an Uber that is crazy you should send an Uber black card it’s crazy oh dude okay wait 300 a week if you’re shopping at Whole Foods I spent 300 last time on the whole base and I’ll tell you what happened so I accidentally sustainable okay no and I don’t do it listen you said I feel like we got here on a level and now we need to get here and I need you to understand where I’m coming from a weekly treat you I know it doesn’t seem like it’s in the card for me right now uh I went as a weekly treat I was like I want to do all my grocery shopping here because I had something very specific I wanted to make right I was making like a very kind of Spanish like gambas kind of thing I love going I want to shrimp with garlic and I want a good quality garlic I want good quality shrimp I made a remesco sauce I want to make sure those peppers were firing I want to make sure everything was good I wanted a nine dollar bottle of Sherry vinegar I wanted marcona almonds I was gonna make myself something nice instead of going out you know who’s spending 95 you know who has marcona almonds everywhere has marcona not everywhere yeah I got marcona olives from from are you Dennis now from It’s Always Sunny honey you can get more Kona almonds from Ralphs I’m gotten them before more than once you can get them from Pavilions you can get them from anywhere you just like to shop at Whole Foods because you feel you feel better than everyone you feel good about yourself you feel better than the population when you go there yeah you’re like all the produce it’s so bright oh they got black radishes there can I tell you something you know who cooks with black radishes zero I hate black they’re throwing away every single black radish in that freaking store I’m the only person who’s ever bought a black radish from Whole Foods you know what I did with it I threw it away because black radishes are terrible I’ve tried boiling them I tried roasting them I tried pickling them uh for every single thing terrible yeah I found out if you’re great at raw and treat it like grated daikon and Japanese Food I don’t need that I’d just rather buy the diet got a damn diet um where were we oh so wait this one time at Whole Foods the only time I’ve been so incensed at a price that I straight up was like I’m putting this back was I got a bag of grapes and I thought it was like a four dollar bag of grapes and then I I ran it up and they were like that’s a 21 bags it was like a four pound bag of grapes but it must have said like Mom would throw it unless you said like 4.99 per pound I didn’t realize they had a big old sack of grapes but I could I would probably eat that today um because I eat like Paul Bunyan grapes what is with you and grapes right now every podcast we’ve talked about this year here in 2020 you talk about grapes I like to watch my Netflix while eating just ice cold grapes they’re refreshing it’s like it’s hydrating you at the same time they’re sweet I don’t know I love grapes uh anyways and I was just like I will not stand for this I was misled and I and I brought them back good okay that’s so I’m learning to stand up for myself that’s really important I like that I’m glad but I will say Trader Joe’s has better snacks than Whole Foods Trader Joe’s I got puffed lotus seed snacks at Whole Foods Get Wrecked that sounds disgusting yeah that’s right it’s called Asha pop and it was like uh cacao and like I don’t know black cardamom I got chocolate covered but uh uh peanut butter crisps and they were really good I don’t think it’s that whole foods makes me feel better than people but not going to Trader Joe’s does make you feel better with people we forgot to mention the way you’re treated out of Whole Foods versus the way you’re treated at Trader Joe’s at Whole Foods they’re like toy you come into my space I disagree I disagree I have gotten nothing one at Trader Joe’s there trying to seduce you every single employee at Trader Joe’s it is just one big bisexual you know Fest in there and it’s great it’s kind of awesome shoes bisexual and but when you’re buying like a spicy tahini wrap and someone just goes like Oh that’s a great choice yeah you’re gonna have such a good time with that spicy tahini wrap you know like I I you know I don’t know if I need that energy that happens to you when you go to Trader I’m just trying to buy a tahini wrap okay when you go to Trader Joe’s they do that too and I don’t care if my outfit is distracting to you Josh answer the question no I don’t actually but people have made a lot of jokes about the sexual attention with Trader Joe’s employees I don’t feel any I don’t feel any at all when I go there I feel so comfortable am I crazy do you know what I’m talking about I feel like they’re all my friends I’m like I’m like where do I get this validated and they’re like come follow me I’ll show you where it is and then you’re so beautiful ah just kidding not that kind of like the other the other day like I was looking at the cards and they had really cute Valentine’s Day cards and then the cashier goes oh those cards are so cheesy I love them and then I pick up one with pizza and I go this one’s the cheesiest one right and then we just started laughing that’s sexual attention Nicole you just don’t notice it was it absolutely are you kidding you’re like laughing about Valentine’s Day cards and cheesy just like ooh oh I thought we were just being friends no absolutely not no no they’re trying to seduce you into up charging you for like a more expensive you know I am never seduced by that little I’m never seduced by the the candies and I’m never seduced by the gums you want to know why because I got enough of that at home because I have a shopping list and I adhere to it very strictly very strictly you should see me at the grocery store I’m like bam bam boom Oh that’s incredible I’ve I’ve wasted thousands of dollars on four dollar kombucha at the cash register no I don’t know I never do that plan done because of that nope I I you should sometimes I’m gonna tell you something and you’re not gonna like this about me if there’s ever like free herbs you know what I do like like that are not packaged like herbs that are just free you know they’re not free to buy like they’re you have to pay money no when I say free I mean like unpacked like a Lucy cigarette yeah yeah if I say like a like a parsley Bunch yeah I and I want a cilantro Bunch but I just want a little bit of cilantro I take like two videos oh yeah you love Trader Joe’s so much that you just shoplift from it Trader Joe’s Trader Joe’s packages are mostly packaged so I can’t do so you so you like what you’re trying to do is because of their anti-theft devices because you can’t just steal from them yes is that we’re talking about it makes you feel more structured I’m not as crazy when I go into Trader when I go into Trader Joe’s I know what I’m doing and I know what I’m getting I’m in and I’m done when I go to Whole Foods I want to be there for hours and just buy everything but my lifestyle does not allow for that and I don’t allow myself to be put in those situations Josh Trader Joe’s employees are smug because they tell them because this is okay you don’t think I’ll tell them have you ever gotten a bottle of medication from Whole Food no because I don’t think medicine God I’m a Church of Jesus Christ scientists believe Josh Mary Baker Eddie Jesus heals all the ails you okay I don’t buy medicine I do crossfits I go and I’m like oh I’m feeling a little energy my doctor told me to take vitamin D pills okay and then they’re like vitamin D vitamin D’s they go they go you vitamin D won’t do anything for you and then they give me like 12 supplements they’re like here you go and I’m like no I can’t do that Greg I can’t do that I don’t have the financials for that Greg they always want to upsize the Whole Foods I stay out of that section I don’t know what section you’re going to I I know what the section he’s in the middle of the store and I’ve never I’ve wandered into that section once looking for like uh like soy lecithin or something because I wanted it for cooking okay and then they were weird and I just wandered out so yeah I ignore that part of the story it creeps me out yeah that part of the store bad but that part of the store doesn’t even exist in a Trader Joe’s that’s fair they have the like one little thing of like soaps that don’t work yeah I don’t go there I actually bought their retinol night cream and I’m really excited to use it so Trader Joe’s employees are they’re literally trained at the cash out of store to go like oh I love that thing that’s a great choice right I don’t know that’s the thing that’s why they do it are you sure no I don’t have the trainings there’s only one Trader Joe’s in America that does not have a bell and it’s in Toluca Lake which is close to Burbank and they don’t have a bell because they’re so close to a neighborhood that the old Rich nimbies they’re not in my backyard folks uh complained that the Trader Joe’s Bell was too loud what do the bells mean they have a featured item they’re like oh our butternut squash pasta sauce is this one’s future item and anytime people buy the butternut squash pasta sauce they go hey they ring a bell and everyone goes hey it’s like you’re my best friend and we’re all at the Chili’s watching the game together at Whole Foods they’re like you mean to tell me you didn’t buy the organic Sarsaparilla no I never get that horrible one they don’t sell stuff if they sold organic sauce real root I would have won it’s from Sarsaparilla and I would buy it if they had it there but no sometimes I get bird off root Nicole got a problem with that I have a problem with you I will I have a huge problem with you because you are not acknowledging the fact that Trader Joe’s does good work and it makes people feel good in like a suburban area where there’s so much noise and there’s so much human and there’s so much sidewalk all you want to do is just go in somewhere that makes you feel good they wear Hawaiian shirts they’re cute they’re nice the signs are nicely drawn on you buy peanut butter you buy Jam you buy some fideo for some reason they just have it there and you just have a good time I like the little bags of Faro yeah the 10 minute 10 minutes I have three bags of that don’t have to boil it for 40 minutes and it’s in such a small bag that you don’t have to buy it in bulk you can just say like hey I’ve never done the air conditioner I’ve never really tried Farrell before and I really want to see what this is all about like you know maybe um they have a little bag of free k next and you don’t say it’s like it’s two dollars so it’s not a big investment that’s right but the thing is at Trader Joe’s the employees are trained to tell you they love stuff and I remember one time I like went and I bought food and you could tell the employee was new and they forgot to compliment something and then the last thing I was buying were just oranges and they just went oh I love orange and I was like okay and they’re like yeah okay and I was it but at Whole Foods this is the thing that I love Whole Foods is an Indulgence for me and that’s what I love about it but I feel like the people who work at Whole Foods especially at like the butcher counter and in the produce department which were the places where I’m spending 90 of my time I’m not getting vitamin D pills I’m not buying snacks because I just eat gigantic meals and all I snack on are grapes apparently grapes and beef jerky but I go to Whole Foods and like I will buy a cut of meat and the butcher will very earnestly Nicole they care they’ll go they don’t care hey what are you making I think they care I can send something I’ve been to the I’ve been to that counter the exact counter you’re talking about and I have been I have been Mr cares I have been disrespected I have been I have been ignored because Oscar could tell that you didn’t like Whole Foods I’ve been treated poorly and no no I think the customer service at Trader Joe’s is better than Whole Foods but I will still go to Whole Foods sometimes and I think that’s the most important thing I go sometimes Trader Joe’s has these cashews yeah they’re so good the roasted ones yeah oh my gosh yeah I actually do the Almond ones because I think the Almond works better than the cashew yeah that makes anyways uh I actually okay okay in summation in summation information Whole Foods to me is an absolute guilty pleasure and I think it’s generally probably bad forces I know what they’re trying to do is like a good thing right more better produce organic for the people they started Whole Foods 365 markets which they promised for going into low-income areas and they’re gonna end food deserts and bring produce people and boy do I not truff Jeffrey Bezos to fulfill that message nor do I trust uh what’s the name John Mackey or something the founder of Whole Foods to actually do that so I don’t think there’s like Merit in Whole Foods I do wish people had access to better produce I do Whole Foods is the doing the opposite of that they’re just running in and everything’s expensive as all hell um Trader Joe’s I do think does a really good job of curating their products and also making really convenient products for people to eat on a day-to-day basis personally it doesn’t fit my lifestyle for weekly grocery shopping shout out Ralph’s you just it’s it’s great products at a great price point and I’m in I’m in I’m out and I’m in there 30 minutes I do a full week’s worth of grocery shopping no Dilly dallying I know what I want I’m there so your team Ralphs I’m team Ralphs we gotta do this again oh shout out to Bob at Pavilions to announce that we’re dropping some new content over at the mythical kitchen Channel yeah yeah we are we’re calling it aprons off our chance to stop cooking and just hang out we’ll be swapping stories giving advice tasting Foods we’ve never tried and tons more that’s right Josh the first episode airs on March 10th and we’re ranking our school lunches from childhood Josh’s lunch will make you feel some kind of way it is depressing Nicole anyways come support our new stuff uh Darren every Friday on the mythical kitchen Channel we’re really excited about it worked really hard yeah see you there [Music] all right Nicole we’ve heard what you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other way I keep videos opinions [Music] all right I think you were trying to make me laugh and it worked uh yeah it was you don’t you didn’t laugh as hardly as you normally laugh though I think I lost my touch I’m not not everybody’s on their A-game all the time I’m rocking it like a beep like an 87 average that’s generous teetering from a b to a B plus but nephew told me he gets bees in school and he’s 12 and I said you better get A’s why why put that pressure he’s like 12. he’s like he’s like sixth grade is really hard but seventh and eighth grade could be so easy and I’m like if you don’t get at least one a you’re in trouble grades are utterly useless I can’t wait for our like uh post-institutional education Society yeah just like he likes and you either learn how to use a lathe or you don’t and that’s it who’s a lady down with all Kings except King lud who’s a lead lathe are you lathed no a lathe is what you used to it was there was a lathe was initially what you used to sew oh but now it’s using a lot of metal work it’s like a spinning anyways uh yeah look at look at a lady looks like a cotton gin yeah yeah anyways anyways you’re using reticle you ready to get into some opinions so ready hey Josh and Nicole hi my name is Kim and this unpopular opinion is actually from my two-year-old daughter Aaron I think it’s mostly your fault Josh’s little kitchen and listen to the podcast quite often and every time you say hot mayonnaise yeah probably way more than you think I know exactly how much it’s the funniest thing to her but so now if you have this thing where she will just eat a mayonnaise sandwich yes mail on bread no meat no cheese you’re welcome or anything um yeah so I Blame You Josh but she’s still cute anyways wanna say hi Erin oh say hi um Nicole you don’t want to say hi hello okay that makes sense yeah wait you can’t train kids like you used to um I will pay for your child’s first therapy session bucks no 20 no what that’s really cute I’ll pay for 20 your child’s first therapy session for any way that my videos have messed them up I think it’s fair I knew a girl who ate mayonnaise sandwiches in school yeah I know uh mayonnaise is a better condiment on bread than butter I’ve said that oh because butter tastes better than mayonnaise but then why you why you want mayonnaise why is everyone all you want mayonnaise and no but nobody is you on butter butter has like the same puss like consistency it’s not how do you spell p-u-s-y pubesy no what do you p-u-s slash e y I don’t think that’s just t-u-s-z-i-e Ah that’s the Polish last name I think yeah the wrongest man in all of Poland um I’d love man I I love you but give me a nice toasted piece of bread some mayonnaise spread on it maybe like a bit of Olive and that’s a great sandwich mayonnaise versatile you can eat it by itself you can put it on things your baby’s living babies deserve access to mayonnaise it’s a political platform that I’m running on more mayonnaise for babies don’t use the term baby mayonnaise though because that mean something else don’t say that one this is stupid you’re a stupid man all right next one hi love the podcast um thanks man just wanted to say that Starburst is basically better Laffy Taffy yeah yeah correct and if you don’t agree I can take it oh no I don’t I’m a pacifist I’m gonna throw this out there though what Laffy Taffy is just Taffy that comes with jokes girl shake that laugh oh I can’t sing girls shake that laffy taffy yeah Laffy Taffy Nicole I will Shake It Off Laffy Taffy that laffy taffy I don’t like laffy taffies very much I do love star it’s like Laffy Taffy plus citric acid equals Starburst there’s a lot of citric ads in life if you get the grape Laffy Taffy a lot of situations I hate great Laffy Taffy I like banana Laffy Taffy that’s a hot take that I also love because I love artificial banana flavor because it tastes like the smell of gasoline I love the way fake banana tastes same banana runs banana laffy taffies all about it banana runs so when he says Starburst serves better laffy Taffy’s what he’s saying is Starburst sits at Taffy because The Laffy and Laffy Taffy Nicole is that they write jokes on the inside you know to speak it again oh no no no please don’t oh Mr Chico stick I wanna cause you’re so thick those are the lyrics yeah Girls Club uh girls call me Jolly Rancher because I stay so what what’s the word for a long time oh my God you don’t know oh my God I just know shake that I just want to shake that laffy taffy lyrics and I mumble along to the rest I just didn’t I know that song by heart I know all the lyrics to that song yeah I mean live tapping Starburst is even wrapped in paper which is like you know historically part of Taffy so yeah they’re they’re pretty naked about their Ambitions but strawberry says somehow become a very modern candy whereas citric acid citric acid citric acid kids love it kid number 40 makes them hyperactive like the betta fish they fight next opinion hi Josh and Nicole this is Sammy from Michigan I was just calling to let you know that I think that the best way to eat a grilled cheese sandwich is uh just using sharp white cheddar and slicing up green olives and putting it inside all right bye that’s not the best way but it’s a very very good way this is a person that could share an entire pickle plate with you yeah you go to a restaurant and they’d be like hey this they got a pickle plate wait wait you don’t go to restaurants with pickle plates what’s up I’ve never had a pickle you’re gonna like give me a frame you get used to get a pickle plate so long you go to a deli I went to a deli and uh and what’s where’s Julia from Great Neck New York Valley take her brother we just shared a pickle plate look Maggie Google pickle plate oh just a plateful full of pickles well but the laughs like random picks it’s like a charcuterie board without the meat or the cheese which I don’t need because I’m there for the pickles um I do like that green olives sharp white cheese that is a grilled cheese with a point of view and that’s what I love about it that’s really interesting apples I’d be like but I mean this person I’ve never heard that combination before and I love that she has she knows what she wants and she’s going out there to get it good for you girl I was really into the fact that you said point of view of this person yeah and I’m gonna start using that and I’m just gonna sprinkle it in and you’re not gonna expect it but it’s gonna happen hmm that’s a charcuterie board with a point of view you’re like yeah I like it hey Josh and Nicole this is Callahan um for my birthday my family and I are going to a like hot pot I live in like around Kansas City and we just got our first you know Korean Hot Pot place it’s called K-pop and um at least I think it’s Korean and this isn’t really opinion but uh what should I get I’ve heard you guys talk about it before and I’ve never done it before and you know the parents are paying so you want to get whatever you guys say so thanks okay so hot pot refers to a lot of different things right that’s right um there are there’s like you go to Japanese Restaurant They’re likely calling it shabu-shabu or Sukiyaki or Sukiyaki yeah yeah correct correct um all the hot pot that I’ve had is mostly Chinese also like the ethnically Chinese Singaporean family okay my ex was related to we used to go to their house for hot but all the time cool um my favorite spot is a how is it from Shanghai Heidi Lao yeah but it’s a Chinese chain that is open in Los Angeles Maggie you a big fan dude Heidi allows some of the best I like it too I’ve been once or twice and I’ve had Korean Hot Pot before which if you conceptualize it’s Korean barbecue except you dip it in soup instead of grilling it but I kind of love it because you get all the Korean banchan with it so you get like the the spinach with the Sesame you get the fish cake you get the kimchi and that’s the one thing I really miss from Chinese hot pot is all the cold pickled vegetables to cut through the meat as far as what to actually order though um beef you gotta do beef beef on beef on beef underrated uh it’s fun to get a lot of different shrimp balls if they have it and you sort of like fish cake fish tofu always get fish cake if you’re going to a Korean spot where you have to cook your own food yeah the fish cake is what makes it that beautiful unique flavor that is specifically Korean food 100 fish cake is one of my favorite things uh make sure if they have it on the main just get some sort of green especially if it’s a green that you’ve never heard of yeah like yachoi yeah yeah like a YouTuber that I just really love yeah yeah like Chinese broccoli um really super fun stuff I love mushrooms and hot peppers I love mushrooms that’s a big thing but again the the menus are probably gonna differ if I had to guess this Korean spot’s gonna be very focused on the meat uh because they probably if I if I live in another guests this place might even own a Korean barbecue spot that’s really close by exactly no for real and so they don’t have the sort of supply line so yeah well we can open up a hotbot space next door um so they’re probably getting a lot of the same products but to me as a Korean barbecue and with hot pot you’re going there for the beef for sure other things are fun you get some pork belly let it sit in the broth for a long time that’s cool but I mean get us like the thin sliced brisket is my favorite brisket’s always good beef tongue if they have it on the menu yeah belly what’s the other one it’s like not very striated it’s more of like a lean uh one that’s like super thin it’s not brisket maybe I’m just not thinking of it correctly kind of different cuts into me it’s okay bottom round maybe oh top round maybe maybe it’s top round top round I’d be good but um okay Adam Sandler um I Echo everything Josh says and also happy birthday I hope this gets to you when it is your birthday or almost your birthday so you have time to plan if not well you got another happy situation coming up I’m sure of it call us uh call us back and tell us what you yeah let us know even if even if you went before you actually heard this yeah I guess which is a definite possibility but call us back tell us what you ordered and how your experience was because um I think Heidi Lao is probably the restaurant that I’ve been to most in the last six months that’s incredible it’s I can’t go more than once a year because of the Sichuan that I get oh like the chili Amala the Mala yeah so you can get four different soup bases which is fun to dip in but I’m no longer allowed and it’s for my own safety to get the spicy oil base it’ll ruin your night because I was a little litty and um and I kept dipping really absorbent stuff yeah spicy chili oil you can’t put mushrooms in there for the meat you can’t put noodles in there you can’t put tofu in there no no don’t and so I’m having the time in my life drinking a beer tower right uh and I’m just sucking this down it tastes so good and then the next day I was absolutely ruined but it was because of my own hubris yeah and Julia does not trust me to order it again and frankly she’s probably right but you get the spicy pork you get the mushroom broth you get the they have Tom Yum broth that’s what I get I get I get the mushroom the tom yum I do clear and Mala yeah that’s what I do you cook the freaking the fish the the the sliced fish that they have I never got favorite thing on them next time I will I got the seafood sampler plate you get the fish you get shrimp you get gamma I said kalamazovic you can’t tell we’re hungry I am so hungry I had sushi from Bristol Farms was it good for lunch no it was wet Whole Foods I’m saying Whole Foods makes good sushi yes Sushi ahead was sopping wet where’d the wetness come from I don’t know there’s spritzed it down some windows that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich you want to hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we got new episodes for you every Wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef or Henny’s audit or you can call us at 833 dog pod one once again that’s 833 dog pod one Josh yeah uh oh thanks uh what did you want to say anything more we’ll see you next time no yeah thank you no no thank you for supporting us yeah thanks for being yourself yeah if you’re if you’re not being true to yourself right now no why not no just think about that yeah yeah because it comes from in here yeah because here’s the thing why would you be any like why would you want to be like anybody else please cut when you and you are yourself wait there’s only one of you Josh so why try and be like anymore what’s that say [Music]