ooh my three day old microwave tilapia is done why did you do that we’re in the office because I play by my own rules Nicole I’m a loose candy you want my gun in my badge you can’t have it 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 here and I’m Nicole and IDI and we are good mythical morning and mythical kitchen food chefs but sometimes when we’re not food chefing Nicole we’re over here breaking down the world’s biggest food debate that’s right Josh and today’s subject matter you’re gonna love this one so much it’s the best workplace snack it is the best workplace snack that’s why we have a giant pile of workplace snacks here these are our workplace snacks these are our workplace yes and this is the no this is the second best company with the second best workplace snacks that I’ve ever worked for sorry mythical entertainment what’s number one first job I ever had it was a it was called participant media it was founded by one of the the eBay Founders he was a billionaire named Jeff skoll hey Jeff come on the Pod Jeff school come on the Pod uh anyways it was like a 200 person company they had their own campus in Beverly Hills oh no I was making like 35 Grand a year like you know what I mean it’s my first job out of college no but the workplace snacks there they had all the cereals in all the cool containers like at the at the Sprouts of the Whole Foods oh my gosh that’s awesome they would have like salad bars every day bulk bulk yeah and it was all organic because they were trying to be like a do-good or Media company but then what happened is they it just kind of fired everybody because he got bored having a company owned by a billionaire is a cool idea in theory because you hit cool snacks but then one day they’re just like I’m not interested my personal trainer said that like I shouldn’t run this company anymore so I’m gonna fire all of you and we’re like why did that happen oh no um anyway that was probably libelous he didn’t do that but it was you know point is we got good workplace next year yeah uh we I feel very blessed for that yeah I mean I’ve worked at places where they don’t give you anything you just gotta bring your own snacks and bring your own lunches I when I worked at Los Angeles magazine it was a very well that company did not make any money um and so you know we had a vending machine where you needed like exact change that is so crazy to get like expired veggie straws that is so crazy and so cringe to me uh-huh yeah but I mean you know I would then just bring a bucket of change so I’d have 65 cents to get me some veggie straws but point is the world of office workplace snacks it is varied and it is it’s a political playground let’s just say that it is it is insane you know well we’re very lucky we work at mythical and they actually ask us what kind of snacks they want to see more of and less of which I think is super sweet I agree but a lot of the times you know I I lean you know we I feel like we you and I and the mythical kitchen crew are in a very uh blessed and and special subsect of workplace I acknowledge my privilege I mean I mean our workplace snacks is just prepped that we didn’t use the day before that’s true yeah so when you work in a kitchen there’s a lot of snacks later yeah especially when you work in a media kitchen I guess you can call it our all of our snacks are like dried I don’t know like dried figs from like Patagonia or like stupid stuff like like limited edition Dorito flavors that only existed in New Zealand for like three months like like we got like limited edition Mountain Dews and Peep soda and all that and those things don’t really help I guess with productivity no so I think it’s nice that we also have you know the the communal snack area where there are there are better quote-unquote options for us I agree with that and so when we’re breaking down the best office snacks we’re also talking about for for all the rest of y’all that don’t work in a very strange company like we do um so like we’re talking about snacks that you would bring from home sure right things you can stock at your office desk we’re talking about snack strategy Nicole what’s your snack strategy what are your go-to’s we got a smattering here well um I don’t eat breakfast at home because I’m just I’m crunch for time typically what I do is I make myself a coffee I pour it in a protein Shaker and then I add a scoop of protein so I have a protein coffee and that’s my I do protein coffee every day I I’ve started I’ve never been more proud of you I’ve started like uh two months ago I don’t do it every day but I do do it because I just think it’s because I work out in the mornings and if I do it on an empty stomach and just caffeine I will pass out and vomit yeah that’s good I’ve done both I know fasted cardio is a myth folks don’t do it you want to give your body bricks to build that podcast this is not that bad I thought you oh God Nicole I thought you wanted to do no nutrition and exercise podcasts but when we do but let me tell you so I do that so I do my protein coffee maybe like three four times a week just because it’s easy for me I work out I come to work I either make one egg or I eat a with toast or I eat a banana these bananas are the best workplace snack in my that’s your number one draft pick right now you’re going bananas I love banana bananas I’m not I’m never gonna pick bananas for a very specific reason okay okay I I picked the bananas again we’re lucky we have someone stocking them once a week so they’re nice and fresh and yellow hardly ever Brown that’s why I don’t like them that’s why I do not like bananas as a workplace snack okay I will apples are the better workplace fruits oh no oh no apples perennially ripe baby crazy long shelf life if I want to eat a banana I refuse to eat a banana at this level of ripeness so what I do is I have to stash bananas underneath my desk I’m like a chipmunk I take my little acorns and I bury them where nobody else can find them because this isn’t a good banana bananas no no this is much too unripe the green that’s gonna give you the diorea green bananas give you diarrhea I don’t know bunch of Chipotle and then a green banana and then the variables you’re allergic to bananas aren’t you oh yeah I forgot about that I’m so unaware of my own body and it always hurts and I’m always uncomfortable yeah that uh I realized that when I eat bananas my roof of my mouth burns like crazy a lot yeah no I love eating bananas I love them my favorite bananas are like my favorite thing to eat do you put the bananas are my hobby bananas are my hobby in ping pong this is another Borat reference huh great um and then and then and then after my my morning single like so if anybody ever makes a Borat reference just go ahead great my wife okay um it’s a banana or one egg I I opt for either hard-boiled or you know cooked in a skillet but you’re hard boiling your own eggs here I can’t I can’t I have the ability to do that but sometimes we have hard-boiled eggs that are already peeled for us I’m like sick um and then um I do my lunch whatever I do for lunch and then I typically Reach For Something Sweet typically as of now we have Milanos in the office and monos are huge those Milanos luxurious so good yeah I make myself a little a little coffee typically it’s a flat white with oat milk you are the bougiest person and this is We Are Gonna Get Wrecked for this sorry my best office snacks a flat white with micronized oatmeal listen I need to be honest with myself I need to be awesome honest with the listeners it’s not fair to me to be like yeah I agree I don’t eat Doritos I don’t I don’t I don’t eat Doritos I don’t eat if I do it’s a very rare occasion when I’m reaching for this for the for the bag of chips I don’t do that yeah I want people to know that this is what I do because they’re listening to me they’re gonna lie what what is what is the psychology behind what you’re doing tell me about it because that’s what I want to get into around like it’s about increasing worker productivity well around 12 o’clock I I find myself you know a little package I don’t want to eat anything salty so I reach for something sweet and then I also have a coffee you know for energy purposes so that’s the psychology behind it but this is about no no because I asked for a specific reason this is about physical hunger for you yeah you are actually peckish yeah I am yeah because for me I like almost don’t snack ever and I don’t snack as a means of necessity what I snack for is a means of mood elevation that is simply it’s a drug to me and oral fixation and oral fiction you have a hardcore oral fixation and you need to satisfy it by can I tell people Josh Vapes what can I say the V word vaping is legal someplace but you’re either vaping or you’re asking for a snack yeah yeah correct especially on set I need things in my mouth all the time um and also I just need my hands to be occupied I got like that mad ADHD just like fidgetiness oh number one baby yeah one pistachios are expensive as hell right and all that money is going straight to Iran this is this is one of the that sounded doobie that I just meant that like it’s it’s a secret pistachio program only the infidels no I just wanted to put on the pistachios are legit like Iran’s like third biggest exporters yeah aside from pubis another Borat reference actually it’s like oil rugs and pistachios I think are actually the big three in Iran nice um anyway pistachios are great I love foods that slow you down intentionally oh you’re like a dog with a lick mat I understand now okay if you just if if you just put a weird little elevated maze on the ground and spread peanut butter around it I’m just screwing up to it I just started drooling over it I started biting at it because I’d get confused why is it purple although dogs are colorblind to never mind my cat is a lick bat and sometimes I see it I’m just like I would love to put like a chocolate cream in there and just like just show you for yourself not for the cat no not for the cat no no no no I want to spread like a beautiful like like creme caramel or something in a lick mat that way it’ll last longer for me and I’m not just devouring it I need something I need an external barrier to slow down my eating otherwise like Doritos I mean that’s gone in three seconds shove in my mouth we also have unshelled pistachios but you never reach for those you never reach for those on your shells you told me about something about instant gratification by the way yeah pleasure delaying when I was eating one of the de-shelled ones you said something about you said something about what was it you’re like Nicole you’re all about instant gratification stop or something I didn’t say stop policing I was just psychoanalyzing so I can manipulate you later I don’t this is how it goes you were like instant gratification huh and I’m like what are you talking about and you’re like you gotta do shell them you know what’s better yeah and I’m like no it’s not it’s like getting uh I don’t know I was gonna say unshelled oysters just loose but I guess I don’t want to I don’t want to show my own I don’t want to suck my own oysters either man I kind of hate peeling my own shrimp crawfish crawfish are the one that I enjoy I enjoy peeling so weird I like peeling shrimp yeah I peel and eat shrimp I think it’s because shrimp are too delicious that I’m like I’m mad but crawfish are like kind of just okay I really love eating crawfish enough sitting down to a giant Crawfish Boil but there’s not this like I can’t get it over and I need that in my mouth it’s like oh I’m I’m here I’m vibing I’m dipping I’m sucking huh you know that would be a good word please snack just be a little bit I was just thinking that yeah I get a feeling it’d be huge that’d be huge for us but no so my my snack motivation is pure mood elevation which is why one pistachios are for me to keep my fingers busy got it well I’m fidgeting and then the other thing what was the one snack that I was clamoring for for years ago for years a years-long mission to get this one type of snack four words one sentence easily said single bite snack cake that’s what we need if I go into my text messages if I go into my emails if I go into my slack threads the the phrase single bite snack cake is all over there and it’s from you because I constantly crave a single bite of a lovely snacking cake that you might ask what is a snack cake I’m so glad you asked so you could look at like the hostess Little Debbie Cannon we’re talking about Star Crunch we’re talking about Nutty Buddies we’re talking about brownies Cosmic Brownies I mean Zebra Cakes what have you a good Twinkie I’m always a fan of um but if you go into the culinary realm we’re talking pediforce that’s right the mythical kitchen loves Petit fours I love petafors in the mythical kitchen you know we love eating bacon covered slop nachos and whatever but you know at the end of the day nice little Petit for it it’s a little ornate cake layered covered in chocolate garnish with little things and that to me is the best single bite mood elevator in the world can I tell you something oh I did so much research to find you a single bite snack and still you came up empty no I didn’t I oh my God you taught me a tray of cookies which was a nice gesture nickel it was a nice gesture no no no no no no no no and then I dropped them behind the fridge I bought you those tin of cookies because I was like okay we’ll start with this and if you like this we’ll just have it on automatic order because I care if you want to be happy that was actually a very nice joke you didn’t need to do that you threw it in the bag I didn’t throw it now we have hands whatever and then we had ants long before that after that after that I started looking more into like okay he doesn’t like these they’re behind the fridge he had an episode whatever I go and I look wait it’s the party line that I like threw these in a fit of rage behind the fridge they fell behind the fridge whatever makes you happy and then after that I’m like okay he said cake so let me go look into cakes and I went and I bought you those rainbow cookie chocolate covered snacks those are they were saturated in Almond extracts so good I opened it I gave you one and I said eat this and you were like oh this is great thank you Nicole Maggie can we pull up an image of that look up Costco Italian rainbow cookie cakes you guys this is the ultimate this is my number one we haven’t had these in months where did they go I stopped ordering them because you told me yes what are they called the original cake bites Italian rainbow they are so almondy it’s like biting into the most delicious flavor it is ever and it has this dark chocolate on it and you’re just like oh my God it doesn’t look hard yeah yeah yeah you asked me to stop ordering these for you because you said you were eating too much too much it was too much it got too much and then and then you would put them in the freezer and you eat them like ice cream have you ever read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton of course not okay so it was the second novel ever right first kite novel The Andromeda Strain of course and then he actually produced the original movie Westworld a creator of er Michael Crichton incredible uh Jurassic world Michael Keaton Michael Keaton I believe uh played no Michael Keaton played Batman at some point and I believe was in Birdman and also played Ray Kroc and the founder back to Michael crater so Michael okay the terminal man this is why I can’t eat the Italian rainbow cookie cakes the terminal man was about a guy who had like epileptic seizures and they create a new device it’s written in like 60s and 70s very kind of like Philip K dick-esque a little bit but more more dad fiction than Philip K dick a little easier you’re correct he’s kind of in that you know new technology sci-fi uh era um but anyways this guy gets an implant in his brain that basically triggers the pleasure sensors of the brain so he effectively has a big O not Oscar Robertson the basketball player but an orgasm so he basically you know triggers the Big O every time he has a seizure and his body snaps out of it but then the body naturally wanting to like so every time his body’s about an epileptic seizure he has an orgasm this device yeah but he doesn’t just like oh you know he just it triggers the sensors in his brain a serotonin Rush all that you know what I mean but the body so he tries to have more seizures but not he tries but his body naturally does because it airs towards the good feeling so that’s the thing and then eventually it happens it’s just happening every single second and eventually his brain shuts down he kills guy spoiler alert for a book that was written 60 years ago um but I think about that a lot in terms of food where it’s like too much of a good thing and you become numb to it oh yeah yeah and so the Italian rainbow cookies are literally too good they’re too good for me to have in the office I will not order them again until what okay I’ll order them in May yeah I need something I need something uh we have them right now I don’t think we brought any but we have Madeleine um yeah those are a great single bite snack cake another one less bougie that I have been really employing Rice Krispie Treat deceptively not super calorie dense but but very pleasured dense I find Rice Krispies very pleasurable um no but it’s like it’s satisfying yeah yeah it’s nostalgic what about you know the refrigerated snacks we don’t get to talk about no get your veggie trays out of here bro there’s so much rotten hummus in our fridge right now everybody gets the fridge snacks well let me tell you I would love carrot sticks with a little ranch I love those very much or even a yogurt if when there’s yogurt in the fridge I eat the I the mini yogurts oh yogurt for me Isn’t a snack though yogurt is medicine yogurt is like my medicine I wake up okay here’s the things that I eat the best podcast ever for me there’s there’s foods that is foods like a meal okay like an omelette I’ll eat a nice omelette an omelette it’s a meal an omelette’s a meal and then there’s things that I consume that are medicines which is creatine pre-workout and then you’re so yogurt with blueberries and protein powder did you notice Nicole tell them about what I had for breakfast this morning Josh had the most violently purple yogurt blueberry mixture I’ve ever seen I actually complimented the color of it because I’ve never seen a color like that in nature so I was like whoa pretty and then he’s like oh there’s like strawberries and cream protein powder in there that’s what’s making it 55 grams of protein in there some say the body can only digest 40 at a time I figure why not tack on an extra 15. just in case what happens to the rest of the protein Robert Irvine actually said it when we were talking about diet and he just goes you’ll just [ __ ] it out and it was pretty funny and then he went like pot in my language which is really funny though um uh so for me yogurt I don’t even count as a snack most people would and it is great probiotics healthy for you I like yogurt as a snack and there’s a lot there’s a lot of incredible yogurts on the market right now dude a lot of good yogurts man let’s talk about the bar yeah okay so the bar wait talk about your favorite yogurts real quick because there’s a lot of we’re in an unprecedented time for yogurt in history especially office yoga there’s this incredible yoga I think it’s called uh Mykonos yogurt and it has passion fruit at the bottom [Music] I’m too fancy for my uncle our chefs who make like quesadillas all day I know because we work we work in a in a production office yeah because there are people here that keep the lights on and they give us good snacks it’s not us it’s not us here bougie we’re merely brought up yeah the coastal Elites around us but but let me tell you about it uh the bar the bar is the best snack I said banana but honestly the bar can take so many shapes any sort of bar it can take so many iterations you can get these granola bars that will literally affect your mood so much higher these These are incredible these Nature Valley crunchy oats and honey wow yeah but that’s like an actual Hazard working around a laptop so what what do you mean so what that’s damaging off this property in the bathroom one I would be a tyrant I’d run that like uh the Branch Davidians um but I wouldn’t was that David koresh’s group wow I really want to watch Waco Waco is great Taylor Taylor Kitsch is that his name I don’t know who you’re talking about a person that people I’m watching The Leftovers Tim Riggins from uh he’s great he saw it too um Nature Valley crunchy totally ignored me you bite into it because I was talking about this I if I ran an office I would refuse to stalk Nature Valley crunch no way every time you take a bite just micro particles the best thing into your laptop you know what you need to do and then you drink it up you break it up like this and then you put it in your yogurt but then it yeah but then you’re you’re talking about a bar and then you’re just dropping up the bar and I’m encroaching on your face you’re you’re denaturing the bar at that point Ergo you’re just saying you want granola which is a great you take a bar and you bash it up it’s not a bar anymore it no it’s just loose granola nickel bar this is a retro Nim you can take it’s like electrifying an acoustic guitar you talk about retro names all the time but let me so what you that’s what I’m saying you can do whatever you want with it you have the freedom to choose free this podcast is about Free Will Josh I don’t believe Free Will exists oh you think it’s predestined by g-o-d that I want to eat pistachios today no Gob this dude named job now um I would rather take granola and just compress it myself into a bar loose granola is better to make granola bars no you just like mix it with some sort of syrup and then bake it it’s I’ve made for my book I made like 14 granola bars because I couldn’t do it you just mix it like egg white inside you know what you know what it’s so simple when you say it like that I use it I used to make my own protein bars in college did you sell them uh no I’d like give them away I like publishable recipe on my little fun food blog and then that like made it into my little book protein bars are good this one actually my favorite protein bars are indeed Robert Irvine’s fit crunch they’re really good he actually sent us a ton shout out Robert Irvine in front of the show and then uh I stupidly was like hey other people in the office you can come take these and normally people don’t take the food that we offer them a lot of protein bars they were down they were out of here in like 20 minutes and I like didn’t even save any for myself um so I am a benevolent God that’s okay yeah yeah yeah but uh protein bars for me obviously like if you’re not again that’s a medicine food there’s meal food medicine food elevation food I think I think food as medicine is fine no but but like food par some food’s in Medicine sure right I’m sounding insane right now but like hear me no it makes sense a cup of tea is medicine I have two medicine meals a day two real meals a day and then two mood elevators a day hmm that’s how I break it down that’s cool first meal all is a medicine meal okay second meal you’re breaking your fast you’re breaking your fast uh-huh second meal real meal I’m making a burrito in the kitchen third meal another medicine meal back to a protein shake fourth meal you just fell into that one I’m sorry I’m moving uh no I shouldn’t tell people where I’m moving I’m moving very close to a Taco Bell and it’s going to be dangerous oh no and we’re talking about how the only thing it’s Gonna Save Us is it’s like literally walking distance from our apartment and there’s so many Taco Bell so nobody can figure out where it is okay um but it’s walking distance from our apartment and we’re saying that the only thing that’s Gonna Save Us is we get back late night and the dining room is closed so you’re gonna have to drive through it and Julie and I are obviously very anti-drunk driving hot take don’t drive drones that’s a good take um but we’re like we’re gonna try and figure out a way to game the system we’re gonna call an Uber to pick us up and go 50 feet to a Taco Bell smart drive through so by the Uber driver dinner and then drive us back that’s actually really cool yeah that’s a good idea about it or you can just like door Dash it huh I guess but that’s weird no it’s not wait can if a door Dasher can pick up Taco Bell late at night why can’t I okay Place snacks we have to become a doordash driver so I can pick up my own Taco Bell Josh you should become a doordash driver and then surprise people and then look in the back it’s me Josh they’re like who the frick are you man like Shaq but you’re like super like you take off your muscles you’re like super guys it’s me mythical Chef Josh and you look back and they’re like who the hell is this guy oh god let’s do it let’s do it I was it when I was at the Super Bowl party at the Elks Lodge um my buddy I was there with like his older cousin he has like Teenage Kids uh-huh and then uh this guy just comes like beckons me over and he goes hey I just found out you’re famous I mean we’re all drunk It’s a Super Bowl and I’m like not really though because you’re on YouTube oh yeah you’re on Tick-Tock yeah he goes hey kids cooler you know who this guy is and I’m just like and they’re like no and one goes have you met Mr Beast I think I’ve like met his like manager once like it goes okay how do you feel about chant and change chip adjacent chips oh I’m a huge fan of Chip adjacency because you’re adjacency planting chips [Music] are you talking about pop into planted who pronounced the Plankton there’s like a Caribbean or something I don’t know I just I heard someone say planting once and I just love saying planting yeah it’s it but so I believe plantain is is like American and then like plantain is like Caribbean no no it’s like saying it mostly it’s not cultural appropriation I don’t know comment below there’s multiple there’s multiple ways to pronounce that word yeah plantings yeah it’s like caramel and caramel yeah yeah caramel um how do you feel huge huge and I think a great way that somebody runs an office can show people that they care is like you get a good mix of like you know the Doritos the Fritos the the normal stuff and then you get like one or two little fun ones against Terra chips maybe it’s Tara they got like the the beat and parsnip chips oh those are so good there was another brand oh it was called like something stupid like food should taste good is the whole name of the brand but they like sweet potato tortilla chips you get some plants and chips get a little pop corners I will say PopCorners kettle corn had these on a plane for the first time immediately went to the store and bought large family-sized bags of it I don’t like those but I do like plantain chips yeah the popcorn is I mean they’re they’re trying to be a healthy chip what do we got nah I don’t care if you’re eating chips like don’t be healthy I always see you stacking on gardettos specifically the brown bread bites and then yeah yeah that’s correct so yeah if we would just by just exclusively the the Rye chips just bread rounds just bread rounds well okay I’m gonna throw out another curveball here so snack mixes are great because I don’t like get them at home so I’m only eating them in the office so it’s a fun little treat um better than snack mix though sacker croutons oh sack of croutons is the single best snack you can ever eat you get one of those garlic olive oil herb ones girl I had that instead of chips in my house that was my snack same thing never had crew never remember eating a crouton on a salad grown up that was just tossing it back man yup yup yup and that is the best we should have croutons in the office we just saw croutons where’s the snacking croutons is that a business that we can start yeah all we gotta do is just take croutons that exist and put them in a smaller bag yeah I agree with that or like get the um you ever go to Wendy’s and get the Caesar salad and never go to Wendy’s no I think you get a salad from the drive-through uh I don’t know if they still have a dollar salad okay going and getting a salad from a fast food restaurant is crazy when I was a kid let’s listen for more depressing jobs today I was so deprived of like homemade food that I was literally sick of eating hamburgers and stuff so we’d only have like three dollars for dinner for dinner and I’d go to Wendy’s and I’d get a baked potato with chili and a uh salad for three dollars because I was like I want home-cooked food I don’t know how to make it myself parents don’t cook this is three dollars baby hot and ready and it was great and but the boy I guess just to make the cool set rename it it’s a happy podcast I’m talking about snacking croutons because you get a one dollar salad and they give you a tiny little bag of like six croutons and you’re so good they’re so good and they’re great and then you get a baked potato so Josh what did we learn today I think we learned today that uh snacks are really a way for offices to manipulate you into being more productive uh and I like that what I think they should do is just crush up um what are they like Ritalin is that what they get the kids yeah yeah crush up Ritalin sprinkle it over your pop chips and that’ll increase worker productivity by at least 40 or 45 I didn’t even talk about prunes no fruit snacks well just fruit snacks prunes they’re kind of the same Gatorade you guys drink Gatorade in the office digestive health is really important yeah in the office yeah and so I think prunes are good because if people if people spend too much time on the toilet you know if they’re having trouble getting this makes a dollar I make a dime that’s why I poop on company time brought to you by prunes [Music] you’re all right Nicole we’ve heard of you and I have to say we got time to find out what do you what do you do you just sing my chair oh gosh say that again um oh right now Nicole we’ve heard what you and I have the same now it’s time to find out what other whack out is they’re rattling out there in the universe 9 for a second we call opinions [Music] where’s that guy from what where’s that one oh he’s like uh outside of New Orleans like like not from New Orleans proper but he’s like out like it’s like east of Baton Rouge you know he’s like hey now baby right down that Delgado next first opinion please please hey did you well Nicole before that it is the last day for the mythical Society comic book that’s right the second issue is out now and it is the last day assuming you’re listening to this right now so order it you can get uh Blood Oath it’s called Blood Oath retin Link versus Barbara and Jade and if you join the third degree quarterly or annual by March 31st then you’ll then you can get it and you if you you know what if you just go to mythicalsociety.com give you a lot better details we love comic books though that was really clean yeah I think I think that’s steak yeah me too all right first opinion yeah um if I eat dried apricots during this whole segment yeah exactly don’t do that that’s rude that’s one give me one then um hi Josh Nicole this is Kalina from Arkansas and I just wanted to let you guys know that whenever I’m at Sonic and I get a mozzarella stick that is significantly shorter than the other mozzarella sticks it’s been real lucky and I make a wish oh this is the type of superstition I can get down I thought she was gonna be like why is that what’s the scientific reason but no Galena just taking it in stride that was beautiful I’m glad that you take you know you know because most people they make wise it’s mozzarella sticks shorter this isn’t fair I’m gonna go you know talk to the Sonic manager but no you take your shortcomings and you make them positive and that is beautiful I love that you’re turning lemons into lemon juice more people can learn something from you that is my favorite thing I’ve ever heard anymore that is wonderful and I hope you get as many short mozzarella sticks as your heart desires Elena you’re a beautiful human being we need more people like you [Music] hey this is Danny from central Pennsylvania yeah sir I just wanted to say hey everyone I love you guys first foremost second of all gosh every time you bring up a Pennsylvania Dutch food or something you know about your father in the Allentown area I immediately get triggered but none more than when you bring up heroes are over hyped whoa if you want something go get a goza go get dumpling pierogies are trash that’s food for babies that they put inside of a dough wrapper um a self-hating central Pennsylvania I will say I like pierogies I like gyoza more because I think the flame sometimes you need bland food in life sometimes in life you know and there’s no more bland food than the Pennsylvania Dutch their whole movement was based off of like not raising the humors in temporary yeah yeah like the Quakers yeah yeah Pennsylvania was founded as a Quaker State there you go well I don’t know in life you need to have the spicy you need to have the the salty you need to have the sweet you know but then you have to have you know the Bland the milk toast yeah boring because it makes you appreciate it you need it makes you appreciate you know those Punchy bright flavors even more so like when I went to Connie’s Seafood I told you about this Connie’s Seafood favorite restaurant all of it like it was delicious I had a wonderful spicy Ceviche I had the smoked Marlin tacos with this beautiful stretchy cheese and the flavors were so gorgeous and Punchy and in your face spicy as hell and then I ordered a sea bass that was just pan seared with some vegetables and a very nice rice on the side and it was delicious the boring complimented the exciting yeah and it made it was a whole well-rounded situation sometimes you gotta eat Bland pierogies man the sweet make the spicy spicier the spicy make the sweet taste sweeter do you remember what I said the last time we made I never remember what you say oh my God I remember everything I say it I’ll tell you about it sorry honey we made pierogies for Chris Collins last meal yeah I couldn’t hear that day unfortunately made him from scratch dough from scratch brown butter bacon bits it was just so good some of the best Froakie I’ve ever had um and I ate it and I was like pierogies are the worst dumpling oh it’s just it’s the worst stuff like it is like he said it’s it’s gyoza but filled with just mashed potatoes instead of like an incredibly spicy and fragrant you know meaty farts um no it’s just you’re correct that they are objectively the worst dumpling they are still a delight because the worst dumpling is still a great good yeah yeah yeah but for me it’s the novelty of going to a place like yako’s hot dogs last time I went to yaco’s at 10 A.M we’re like on a trip out to the Yingling Brewery the most Pennsylvania sends ever uttered and we have to yakos at 10 A.M got to yako style dogs with this like weird vinegary chili sauce on it and deep fried Mrs T’s pierogies that are still finished with french fry salt oh yeah fried I’ve never fried it’s filled with just instant liquidy mashed potatoes oh my God it is the hottest food in the world uh and a birch beer and a tasty cake so for me it’s a regional thing that I just absolutely love but you’re really correct they’re the worst dumplings just still great what food would you serve an alien he argues ever the gracious host you start with something very simple like oatmeal steamed vegetables to rule out any allergies or any reactions that’s a good point I say you give them the very best Humanity has to offer off the bat which is pizza I’ll take my answer off the air okay so wait this is I have a lot of thoughts about the biology of the song I love this so much I almost don’t want to answer because it’d be a great podcast but we gotta give a short answer I Gotta Give a short answer I love this creative so much I think you and your boyfriend are so fun number one we don’t know enough about the digestive system of aliens even say that water will be less likely to trigger anything than something I would give them water you’re gonna start slow you give them water because they came to a planet that’s how much 75 water how much water is we’re like this is what earth is known for yeah water how much is this called water Evian how much is enjoy glorp glop 70 okay I was close the Earth is 71 water there is no way they came to this planet knowing that it was 71 water and won’t drink water it’s like you go to Mexico to eat tacos why would you eat spaghetti you come to Earth to drink water why are you eat pizza unless they came here accidentally and they thought it was like another planet like what happened with Christopher Columbus and then they’d kill him I would have killed him I’d kill him I I’d like to stress that I’d I’d also try to kill the aliens um yeah you go to you go to the history of mankind is that of Conquest um they’re not here to make friends but if you want to make friends I’m here to win if they if they did come here for the right reasons like they’re on The Bachelor I am all about giving them the best that Humanity has to offer which is to say a birya bean and cheese burrito from from burritos La Palma that is my official nomination but I would it would be the last bite of every burrito you’d stand it up because you gotta let the juices drain to the bottom so it eats like a soup dumpling and I agree I think Pizza is a great idea I was thinking a Coney Dog thanks well so American of you you know what I want to find out though what is the most human food what is like the most average food in the world if you were to take rice but like but like a dish something that actually has flavor if you were doing rice with egg here’s the thought experiment if you were to take every single dish in the world and have every single person rank that dish on a one to 100 score um I think there was a website that did that really yeah what do you think would fall at the highest level bowl of white rice the bowl of white rice no but it’d be something more flavorful humans like Flavor Pizza it might be Pizza it could be pizza pizzas Universal thing Pizza hamburgers have traveled the entire Globe yeah yeah um but that said to hamburgers right beef automatically most of India is wiped out yeah a lot of Indian people that’s what I’m saying you take every single culture cheese right A lot of people China you know don’t eat no cheese don’t eat no cheese I mean you know it’s starting to westernize it around to eat cheese though but I’m saying there’s a lot of people that don’t you know mess with that kind of stuff so yeah it might be a rice based dish I’m feeling rice might be rice I’m not a bowl of white rice so it’d be like a fried rice bibimbap I’m I am going to feed the alien a glass of water and go from there lean pocket turkey and general lean pocket companies are going to bid on what to feed him like Totino’s Pizza Rolls oh my gosh imagine the first alien eating is sponsored by like Quaker Oatmeal Nathan’s Hot Dogs put them in the comp with Joey Chestnut they would probably cream Joey Jess now yeah just like eat Joey Chestnut along oh yeah no I hope Joey Chestnut is not eaten by the Nathan’s Hot Dog alien when you when you see an alien what do you see when you close your eyes and you imagine alien who do you see octopus I see Roger from American Dad I see the heptopods from uh the story of your life yeah that’s right the book that arrivals based on oh it’s supposed to say arrival the story of your life okay it’s actually a book of short stories called the story of your life and Other Stories next opinion please the book was so much better hello Josh Nicole this is Nick from Illinois hi I have a food combo and some people are not gonna like this but I say don’t knock it till you try it okay check this out so you got a chicken patty okay any kind of jelly on it yeah pickles any kind of pickles and then boom you’ve got a tasty chicken sandwich I’ve been doing this since like junior high or so I love it so like 12 years wow this is just him coming to grips with his own mortality all right thanks for the voicemail you’re welcome okay so it’s a chicken patty with jelly Mustard Pickles and a Scrabble Scrabble uh this is a scrapple combo yeah yeah and if you look at a chicken patty right we’re talking pretty much ground like that’s scrapple baby that’s just chicken scrap no it sure is I had a chicken sandwich once at a fair no way it was eight years you went to a fair bro Orange County Fair let’s go to the OAC Fair please gotta go visit Chicken Charlie man he’s deep frying a new thing every year you know we did like deep fried Kool-Aid one year but anyway point is I had a Krispy Kreme jelly donut cut in half spicy chicken patty in the middle uh it’s a good combo it’s just a good combo yeah it sounds good it’s a good combo I don’t think I think you’re correct I don’t think there’s any hate to be to be shuffled I think you’re great yeah tomato paste and spices in there that’s a barbecue sauce if you whisk it together if you think about it there you go you know hi my name is Lori I’m from St George Utah nice um and I just kind of had a question for you guys so I recently went through a pretty tough breakup and I used to love cooking but cooking was something I did with my partner a lot and so ever since we’ve broken up it’s just been like really hard for me to get back into cooking and like just got back into my old eating habits and I miss like my relationship with food and my love for it and so I was just wondering like if you guys ever went to a rut with food and like how you fell back in love with it so I’d really appreciate the advice uh love the podcast Love The Vibes keep it up you guys I love this this is a great question and I have an upsetting answer um okay should I do mine first do yours first um I’m constantly in a rut with food there is no uh my job is food I come home I have to eat food I have to cook food I have to there’s just food is like a constant in my life so to give you a short answer is a little bit tough but I will say um I’m learning how to love food in a different way instead of uh thinking of it as content only or as like I don’t know something that I do to entertain myself I’m just trying to re-love food as well so you’re not alone at all in in that scope I will say when it comes to cooking again make a plate of I don’t know broccoli make a plate of broccoli cook it however you want sit down and take a bite of it chew on it for 10 seconds close your eyes take a deep breath let it out and then that’s it that’s what I would do I would just cook a plate of food whatever it is just one thing that will require very little time very little energy sit down and take a bite of it and then go from there that’s my advice this is going to be one of those things where you’re gonna have to choose either between me and Nicole’s advice because they’re going to be opposite so I went through a breakup too this is a long time ago now at this point but it was a very long relationship um really hard breakup actually really affected me a lot mentally and emotionally and I had that same rut with food this is when I didn’t stock salt and pepper in my kitchen and just had Tony sasheries shout out Tony C’s um but the thing that really got me back into cooking is I used to cook for her almost every night and we had a very sort of just a needling toxic relationship where we would just say passive aggressive comments to each other every single moment of every day and did it when I would be cooking she’d be like are you making that again stuff like that and so the thing that got me back into cooking was cooking the things that she hated that I cooked so for me listen I we can’t all have positive healthy relationships with people and food I’m gonna be the devil on the shoulders I don’t have it either but yeah I’ll be the devil on the shoulder and say lean in despite lean into what feels good right for me so literally I got back into cooking but be like oh she hated because all I would make is just like stewed Mexican Meats that’s all I’m gonna cook now but we’re making we’re making mole we’re making carne so Hugo we’re making birya we’re making pozole like I’m leaning into the things that I loved that she could never take away from me and so I like refound my own love nice that’s where this burrito thing comes in because after a breakup especially I was in that relationship for five and a half six years you kind of forget who you are outside of that relationship so I started rediscovering the music that I loved I didn’t have to act like I loved these weird hipster Canadian bands that played oboz anymore uh Andy show if he makes good music but I went to a lot of his concerts so I resent him now um but I I started listening to metal again you know what I listened to that before I met her and I freaking love it man started listening to dubstep start eating spicy stewed meats and burritos re-finding out the things that bring me joy outside of another person and I would implore you to find that because I’m sure you know even if you don’t have that resent or spite towards him um no relationship that ends was a truly happy relationship you know I believe that you can either cook and spite or cook enjoy take your bed try both try both try honestly try both like you said there are two schools of thought here and you decide what’s best for you and take a picture of your food send it to us it’s a good question cook his least favorite food send it to him oh I was saying you send it to us send it to him in like a like a bag of no no send it to us we don’t care what you cook for that I don’t understand I don’t don’t and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich one of my eyes go we got new podcast every week uh for the foreseeable future we don’t plan on stopping we’ve been doing it for a while yeah doing it you can see this you can see us on Friday I like it yeah you can see us on Friday or you can listen to us on Wednesdays Wednesdays is when you can listen to it Wednesday listen Friday look you see this F is for fries fries rhymes with eyes you see us on Fridays on YouTube if you want 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