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hendi-zadeh and today we are discussing what’s better canned or fountain soda whoa big big hard hitting topic yeah this to me we’re coming up on election season right yeah to me i think they should be asking this question at every presidential debate i want to know kamala harris’s take on cancer everyone talked about you know back in the bush days like i want a president i can enjoy a beer with no i want a president i can enjoy either a canned or fountain soda with depending on their preferences well what’s your preference what’s your preference well you think i could be president he’s never said that i have never seen at least you cannot hold office in any capacity i would no i would be so terrible on like a school board on anything i would just my problem is i over promise and then under deliver anyone who works at mythical entertainment can tell you that you know i got these big grandiose ideas none of them counted fruition but that said i like fountain soda i am a huge fountain soda fan for many reasons but one is a recent development in the fountain soda game you asked me this uh was it 11 years ago i may have a different answer for you but 2009 the coca-cola freestyle machines came out oh yeah and full disclosure i once did a sponsored post for jack of the box in congruence with coca-cola freestyle that has not tainted my opinions at all i am a huge fan coco freestyle machines that found soda where you can add any combination of flavor syrup and soda adding up to over 164 different combinations in there and to me alone that that makes it infinitely more customizable than cans for many reasons we’ll get into later fountain sodas is the way to go remember when i took those pictures of you a jack in the box oh yeah i forgot i paid you like you literally said hey nicole you ought to make 20 i’m like yeah i have nothing to do and then you’re like you wanna go to jack in the box with me i’m like yeah whatever and then you wore a christmas red christmas sweater i’m supposed to wear a red christmas sweater but i forgot that that was like in the thing and so i just had a random cutoff sweatshirt that kind of looked vaguely christmassy i got it at goodwill for four dollars i remember that very vividly and i just took like 25 million you took thirst trap photos it was sleeveless it was a sleeveless sweatshirt i’ve like wore it to a rave and also the gym sometimes you’re welcome but but on the subject of fountain versus canned i love canned sodas because i’m a woman who knows what she wants you should be the official spokesperson for canned soda like if there’s a female empowerment drive for say i don’t know cactus cooler oh you know me so well that is another thing though that we got to bring out because i’m a huge fountain soda fan and the cocoa freestyle okay have you used coca-cola freestyle machines of course i have and they’re so much fun and i love the fact that i can get like seagram’s ginger ale with a hint of lime yeah and then in the middle i’m like you know what screw it i’m going to do a fanta berry yeah yeah what do you have like do you have go-to’s on that no i don’t because i’m curious listen i’m a purist when it comes to my sodas i love a good sprite i love a good coke i love a good perrier did you know that i’m a perrier girl why don’t you drink more berries i drink so i drink so many periods oh you’re the reason for all is out of periods yes me and that makes sense lucas and i all right so we talked about this a little bit with the cookie podcast last week where i talked about how much uh diversity of experience means to me and how i’m always chasing this high to find like the best combination of things and so for me cocool a freestyle machine is literally like a kid in a candy store so i keep trying them but i’ve come down to a couple favorites diet barks beer with vanilla and i only drink diet soda that must that must factor into the equation yeah i like never drink regular soda i suck ever since i was like a 14 year old and like lost a bunch of weight playing basketball i’ve only drank diet soda since then so the conversation is slightly tainted from that from my weight loss journey from my weight loss journey as a 14 year old portly teen i used to drink a 20 ounce diet pepsi from a bottle not even in this discussion but we can get in the box later we should talk about bottom every time we did conditioning in basketball i would drink a 20 ounce diet pepsi before conditioning and then a 64-ounce diet pepsi after condition oh my gosh i don’t my body is just running purely on chemicals i have a theory that i’m never gonna die i know what you’re saying i really hope you don’t i hope i don’t even we’re gonna be doing this podcast for the next i don’t know 200 years until until the thermonuclear apocalypse have apocalypse but anyways i’ve drank so many preservatives through diet pepsi over the years that i think i’m just going to kind of be a living mummy of sorts just like a preserved head yeah maybe cocoa freestyle machine so they’re cool i’ve experienced them and they’re awesome but it’s like it’s almost like pandora’s box like the options are just overwhelming it’s like it’s like whenever i would go to san francisco on vacation and i would drive through the streets of san francisco i’d be like whoa there’s too many restaurants like that’s how i feel whenever i’m at the coca-cola freestyle zero machine like it’s like oh my gosh there’s so many options i can’t handle it and i just faint on the floor i feel that i feel like and there are certainly drawbacks to it i also feel like half the time they are out of like almost every flavor syrup exactly and they’re just like well you can get vanilla in your mellow yellow or like diet grape in your root beer and that’s all we got today i’m like come on someone needs to maintain this but how many places have those machines not enough not enough not enough but there also do you know pepsi came out with a competitor no i did it which is kind of a metaphor for the coke pepsi debate like hey did you hear pepsi to this you’re like i certainly did not unless it’s uh you know kendall jenner solving america’s racial hatred issue with the pepsi or whatever that deal was what was going on society spawned a fantastic generation of memes yeah good memes but no with with cans though we have shared a love of cactus cool it is if if no one knows what cactus cooler is it is i believe a regional soda right like i think so i don’t know if it has like nationwide distribution it’s kind of like mellow yellow how mellow yellow didn’t come out to the west coast until relatively recently thanks in part in my opinion to the cochola freestyle machines mellow yellow is better than mountain dew i firmly believe that but cactus cooler is an orange pineapple flavored soda that to me has that kind of vanillin pheromonic taste to it yeah and i grew up uh drinking that at college football tailgates mixed with vodka we called it the college screwdriver and so like things like that you can only get those sodas in cans and so i do respect that you know that like cans you can get it in bottles no you can get in yeah you can’t buy like certain vending machines and whatnot yeah but as far as an actual soda delivery mechanism there are differentiators between fountain in cans right so like cans to me can get tainted by the heat really yeah i feel like cans are more consistent than fountain machines because fountain machines have a lot of technical issues with it sometimes the fizzy the fizzy maker and fizzy make it the the fizzy bubbler oh you know the physique of the fizzy maker sometimes the soda the soda spurter ain’t spurting sometimes you know i feel like if i get a can of soda i know what i’m drinking i know what i’m getting every single time have you ever had an expired can of soda no because i love myself okay i agree with that but this is so my grandma right god bless her uh she moved out of her she was in this like big retirement community and they had a big ol apartment shout out to leisure world in laguna woods california lovely place um but she was moving out and me and my brother were cleaning out her pantry and we found straight up like cans of you know pickled beets that actually expired like 25 years ago but they’ll stay forever those yeah they’re pickled for a reason like botulism you know whatever if granny wants to eat those campaigns she’s going to eat those candies she’s lived like 97 years on this earth she deserves the damn can beats knock on wood every time we come over she’ll have like a caffeine free um diet coke that she will offer the gold again the gold cans that no one under the age of 70 has ever bought i know all about those gold the goldkins they sells them at costco but every single time she will like invite us over and then she’ll be like ah josh josh have a cola cause that’s how my grandma sounds she’s adorable um but i remember cracking it open and drinking it and it just tasted like pure like fermented salty seltzer water and then i looked at it and of course it expired in like 2005. but i have that taste memory locked up and that has happened three or four times to me where i will taste the canned soda and then i’ll look at it and just be like something’s off and sure enough it’ll be expired so cans do have a shelf life on them i see what you’re saying about the consensus machines though if you don’t if you certainly if you don’t have upkeep with your fountain drink machine you’re in trouble you’re gonna have a lot of places don’t you’re gonna have gunk you got the gunk you’re gonna have scum you’re gonna have what is gingerbread you’re gonna have gingivitis nausea upset stomach heartburn diarrhea you’re gonna have all of that no i know you’re saying that with the fountain sodas a lot of people say i never used to buy into this hype when people would say like oh mcdonald’s has the best fountain soda and there’s all the memes about mcdonald’s sprite like cutting up your tongues yeah it’s spicy mcdonald’s sprite is spicy and i think there’s actually a reason for mcdonald’s sprite being spicy apparently so coca-cola when they give certain restaurants these machines they have guidelines on the ratio of syrup to carbonation that they’re supposed to do and i think it’s typically a five to one carbonated water two syrup um solution but you can tinker with that mcdonald’s says they don’t tinker with the ratios but what they do when they use filtered water to keep everything more consistent great so by region it doesn’t change based on the tap but then two they chill their syrups which to me that is what is keeping it their sprite as spicy as it is interesting because if you’ve ever like poured carbonated soda into anything warm it fizzes like crazy and anytime you see that fizz happening that’s carbonation leaving the system yeah by chilling this air if they’re keeping it extra spicy and extra crackling on your tongue wow right how interesting and so for me it’s like these little like scientific marvels that can cause fountain soda to be the best but i agree with you that it can also go poorly have you ever gone to a fast food restaurant and gotten a fountain soda and you know the syrup’s low but you like really wanted a dr pepper yes that is one of the few times in life that i will complain to like a manager not even complaining like hey the syrup needs to be changed no you know what it is you know what it is you don’t really grind you found soda what grinds you found so okay you know whenever i’m trying to get a free soda by just asking for a watercolor no you do that of course josh that’s a crime josh i am a dangerous woman i am femme fatale i will steal your doctor peppa i live dangerously but you know how like you go and like let me finish you know what really pisses me off in the fountain soda whenever i’m just trying to steal a soda like i don’t know you’re treating that as if it’s your god-given right yeah what do you mean it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation if i want a high c i’m going to get a high c you’re stealing from me but you’re not stealing from like a mom and pop shop of course i would never do that i would never do that if there was a mom pop soda shop chances are i’m getting something from like the fridge because yeah the fridge yeah um but you know the water is always with the lemonade or the juice and nothing pisses me off more when i just want a cup of water or a sprite i push the button and then it’s like that like milky yellowy reddish color that is like flavored water i hate that about fountain drink machines i hate that that is once you get cross contamination yeah because it’s all around the same spigot yeah i don’t change your spigots clean your spigots speaking of spigotry talking about the coca-cola freestyle machine okay so it was why are you so obsessed i’m sorry i’m obsessed with this because to me it’s like the most innovative drink technology you know what’s innovative these are the things that keep me up at night this is the spice of life you know what’s innovative putting something fizzy in a can i i i don’t disagree that it’s not innovative hey what do you ever drink tab no you ain’t never drink no tab josh who drinks tabs okay another point for can soda is the fact that i love obscure sodas especially old ones so tab was like the original diet cola that came out it was a diet cola that came out before they had the technology to make diet colas not just taste like complete poison like now it’s only half poison flavor okay you know which is good but tab is just like this weird sour kind of poison and it’s pink because of course it was like the 70s or 80s and they were marketing it to women it was like the virginia slim cigarettes oh okay sure i know about it i just never cracked one open we gotta we gotta go down to the pavilions and get us a 12-pack of tab because they still sell them in they still exist oh they sure do oh my 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everyone’s talking about again okay so someone someone there was once like a fifth grader or so he was a child i don’t know but he did some anonymous child he did a science experiment for his class where he measured the bacterial contamination levels at a taco bell ice machine and toilet wow and found that there was like 30 times more fecal bacteria in the ice than there was in the toilet water and i was like oh but i almost uttered i will ask you a question nicole you and the rest of the listeners out there how much fecal bacteria is too much to consume i don’t know if it’s someone would say like maybe yeah but what if they’re both very low numbers what i’m saying is we don’t have the information to really suss that out yet what i’m just like you know okay so if you’re i i eat in the bathroom a lot you know well every single day before senior year of high school i would enjoy a bowl of special k red berries mixed with protein powder sitting on the toilet and to me there’s nothing wrong with that because it’s like a closed-loop system you know food in food out you’re being efficient about it but everyone’s like there’s poo air in the bathroom that seems bad and like i don’t disagree but i just i don’t know i to me it’s like if there’s not a physical chunks i’m laughing at poo hair because it’s a type of teeth you know there’s poo air tea floating around everywhere what i was talking about the google freestyle machine right so you got like 165 different soda comments it was designed by italian automotive design firm pinion farina who is responsible for designing every single model of ferrari except for two dating back like 1973. they use micro dispensing pure pureport technology both of which were originally designed to dispense proper dosage of pharmaceuticals they also use radio frequency identification to track flavor concentrate levels so we’ve discussed there’s consistency issues with soda fountains however but they’re they’re italian sexy sexy sports car makers nicole who are trying to solve this they understand that fountain soda is the best because one you can get it in giant quantities i always get the large fountain soda and then i fill it all the way up to the top with ice and then i let all the soda trickle down the ice and then i drink it without a straw and i chug it down and then refill it nine or ten times why no straw so this is a bit of a what’s wrong with this straw there’s nothing wrong with this do you just drink like a little bit you just yeah i like to let the ice press up against my lips and teeth and then i go and i suck the soda through that oh my gosh you’re getting the coldest soda possible i’m struggling but no i i don’t drink sodas out of a straw because i often talk about um the the deleterious effects of toxic masculinity on the male psyche on this show maybe not often but it comes up a lot i was told when i was eight years old that drinking through a straw makes you gay because of course back then there was this so sorry yeah oh it’s like 80 percent of childhood as a young male in the 90s was like trying to avoid being called gay because that was just a thing like it was so bad that hillary duff had to come out with a psa commercial did you ever see this of course i did where she’s like at a mall or something and someone goes like don’t buy that top that’s gay and hilary duff comes out and goes like hey you don’t say that yeah i know it’s not cool what a great ad it’s a great ad honestly and it’s something that i’m like very glad that as a culture we’ve moved away from you know at least you know a a certain degree it’s fantastic but anyways i’m eight years old and i’m like i don’t even know what being gay is but all i know is you’re saying this in a bad tone of voice meaning that i shouldn’t do this and so it’s the same with like black coffee like sugar and coffee you’re good oh no yeah that was like a hundred percent whatever you want well i fully agree now do you of course can we get you to start using straws now but your patterns are so set i can i should like try and wean myself off of that toxic you know commentary i agree a child and try using straws again because maybe i’m missing out on a lot but i’ve gotten so accustomed to drinking without a straw that i seem to enjoy it more now same as black coffee well there you go well i think you should do whatever you want and if you want to drink a straw with your soda that does not define your sexuality and and even if it does then it’s okay what are we talking about you know what i think we’re both losers in this debate because there is no better soda than bottle soda have you ever had a bottled soda syrup i’ve never had a bottle okay you’re crazy soda out of a bottle they can do that yeah it’s crazy technology better than ferrari um they do they do uh glass bottles and they do uh a paraffin uh plastic viola paraffin you know when you’re sending uh when you’re a civil war field general and you’re sending a letter to your sweetheart you seal it with paraffin gosh what’s wrong with me i think i was thinking of polyurethane but yeah but yeah i love bottled soda more than both of our sodas why did we do canned versus fountains why should we have done bottles someone just wrote it down and we’re like yeah we talked about that no i think bottled soda is better than all of the sodas we’ve said all of the delivery mechanics why come why come is that um i like glass bottled because it’s cold and it’s reminiscent of a time in which i don’t know when i take a glass of soda i feel like i’m at a sock hop you’re in a sock off with your best sweetheart we’re going steady you’re not gonna work you’re gonna stay home with the kids yeah great i’m gonna work as a janitor and we’re still gonna afford a four bedroom house um no i glass bottles have had a huge resurgence in especially the hipster restaurant realm recently because somehow when everyone found out that mexican coke sold in the glass bottles is made with real cane sugar it became this like very kind of gentrified phenomenon sure where you get you know some food truck that’s selling i don’t know uh belgian fusion cuisine and they’re like we have jaritos and mexican coke for five dollars a bottle that’s another thing it’s kind of like just annoyed me enough to where i don’t want to buy it from them and those seem to be the places that actually sell it i do enjoy favorite la ramadita in north hollywood you get an extra spicy torta ogada and then you get the mexican coke with it in the glass bottle there’s something about that fiery chili day or a bowl just getting quenched with this ice cold glass oh yeah mexican coke big time i totally love that but to me there are actual advantages to a can versus a bottle tell us what it is anyway i don’t know if i necessarily enjoy it but i think the science behind it makes sense so it’s the airflow coming out of the can there’s you know the little like like the way you can kind of suck down yeah like that like this like this what what you’re drinking is a whole nother thing that’s a can of if no one can see this on account of this is a whatever internet radio nicole’s drinking a liquid death water that comes in a can and i got stuff to say about that as well because i didn’t think i enjoyed cans as much as i did until we had liquid death water it’s good water it is someone once described it speaking of toxic masculinity as uh if toxic masculinity were drinkable this is very aggressively branded can with like yeah it’s got like a skull on it right oh my god this whole liquid death on her laptop let’s talk about liquid death of your company issued macbook but the point is it’s this very it’s like if ed hardy made a can of water but somehow like i almost never drink plain water i’m constantly drinking diet dr pepper and diet red bull’s nicole is your computer okay i need a towel help down wait take my headband use my headband to sop up the water in your laptop yeah that’s good i’m gonna take it i’m gonna drink from my can of diet red bull this is so sorry ryan oh this is so us you’re right this is so us take your head i’m never drinking a liquid ever again i’m just gonna consume solids until the day i die um what were you talking about water liquid death is a whole nother situation it has been described where’s my headband i want it back give it i don’t feel right without it did you actually use it to soak up the water now i’m just putting a wet headband back on i’m cooling though on your scalp oh god it’s so nice you’re welcome well i was talking about with the liquid death water i almost never drink plain water because i’m always drinking something more flavorful plain water tastes like sand i will always plain water is gross they put it in toilets why would you put it in your body you’re talking about fecal bacteria you’re drinking the same stuff they put in toilets they didn’t even got electrolytes in it it’s not even i was going to say that sounds like something out of idiocracy so i was directly getting india go away baitin is to me one of the greatest lines in movie history shout out shepard actor of a generation but what i’m talking about liquid death i almost never drink plain water except if it’s liquid death because i will go to the office fridge and i’ll open it and we are a canned carbonated beverage company we have big time lacroix red bull diet red bull coke diet coke sometimes we’ll get a ginger ale in there when we got diet ginger ale that was huge for the kitchen oh my gosh that was what a moment freaking jackals were all like running to yeah we’re hoarding the diet ginger ale but liquid death water occasionally i will choose it over a canned soda beverage which is which i would never do with a bottle yeah so to me there must be some psychological implication that like i do enjoy cans more than i think you know when i really think about it i think maybe my life is just over saturated with cans by the amount of uh i would call them millennial offices that i’ve worked in that have free beverages probably you know because i’ve worked in a non-millennial office nicole it ain’t like this what’s it like it was okay one it was like yellow lighting everywhere cubicles they had that kind of oh it was absolutely depressing we won’t name the company let’s call it like a a magazine in los angeles um like los angeles magazine or something uh but no there’s a great place to work but it was like you know in a typical office building that hadn’t been renovated like really cubicles fuzzy you know yeah yeah yeah they had that like that fuzzy yeah throwing up it was wild working in a cubicle was like a crazy experience for me but anyways like no free drinks anywhere like they had like a donation cup for coffee if you pour yourself a cup of coffee you’d like put a dollar in the thing what yeah dude this is it and also they had a vending machine where for 65 cents only exact change you could get a diet coke this must be a very revealing conversation for a lot of people because a lot of people are probably like yeah this is a normal job but then when you’re working in a creative industry you work at all these like you know studios or whatever that their perk is like we have a giant fridge full of lacroix and diet coke and you’re like oh my gosh this is like next level i never knew that was like like a vending machine in the office oh straight up yeah that like wouldn’t get restocked and so everyone buys the diet cokes immediately and then you’re just like how do i drink a normal coke right now so i think my life has been so saturated with cans of soda from like working in offices and also being a person who needs to consume constantly just anything i just need to put things in my body yeah someone asked me what one word that sums up my personality is and i just said consumptive unsatiable unseen insatiable unsatiable yeah and so maybe i’m i’m being bogged down by that and for me is the soda fountain feels like a treat you know like i’m going to arrest you i’m going to the movies this is special okay whereas a can for me is utility really i think i like it more because it’s more utility i like because it’s more useful and you can like you can take the little top of a can and you can like say like abcd until like you meet your soulmate you ever did that did you meet your soul mate uh yeah but it that has nothing to do with the canon but yeah it’s like a game do you believe in soul mates of course i do i have multiple soul mates that i don’t have just one but then what’s your concept of a soul mate someone who’s a mate of your soul but like like you can have multiple soul mates and like sure you can if you like move to a different region do you think you because my theory is that like i like the idea of a soulmate that you can colloquialize this idea that there is one person out there who’s more compatible with you i think you kind of break it all down to compatibility ratings yeah i don’t think there’s one person that’s like more or less compatible i think i have different soulmates because there’s different uh parts of my uh personality that certain people adhere to and make better that makes sense yeah can sodas yes the mouth on a can soda that you can slurp out of there are features of that that actually make the soda taste more like soda and that’s because you’re juxtaposing airflow against it when you drink it which is maybe a reason that i like to sip other than the whole uh homophobic toxic masculinity garbage that i and a lot of people seem to have grown up with in the 90s uh you know an advantage to actually drinking the soda without a straw is because you’re getting air flow into it so you’re actually tasting it more but i like that we kind of took this talk in a different way of just thinking what emotionally a canned soda and a fountain soda means to us because i think you can get bogged down in the science you can talk about the polyurethane coating on cans and bottles and all that and like the ergonometric shape of things when you clutch them all you want but this comes down to just like your own experiences what has led you to kind of equate these things together i think i think you live your life in a very uh this is a treat this is a treat this is a treat way yes and i think i’m more of a person who like appreciates the the uh utility and uh ergonomic way something makes my life more efficient i am a completely a treat based person you are i’m like a seal you’re like a puppy yeah i’ll do it i’ll do whatever it takes yeah to take that treat yeah very easy to manipulate no no yeah you’ve never done that no no you’re not easy to manipulate what i’m going to say is that fountain drinks are great not as great as a soda no offense because canned sodas have this sort of utilitarian exactly something that you drink every single day and you’re grateful for this every day appeal that you have i don’t drink soda every day but like you know when i want a soda and it’s there easy peasy lemon squeezy there’s no syrup machine is out there’s no the ice machine isn’t working it’s none of that it’s just easy you get a can you drink it as someone who is constantly chasing the dragon like i’m always nicole i’m out there i’m looking for my soul mate you know i i’m actively searching the greater los angeles area no i’ve i’ve found my soulmate she’s i’m searching for my soul soda you know i want that perfect combination of diet grape syrup and diet mellow yellow syrup combining with this italian ferrari engine design radio frequency distribution blah blah blah to come together perfectly over a large mountain of ice chugged while watching the previews for some god-awful movie that i’m watching at the regal cinemas and then i can refill it before i go back in to me that is the ultimate treat and i want to chase down that ultimate treat soda god i’m all jacked up i’m thirsty you know what’s weird you had this machine at your disposal but you stopped and found your perfect soul soda yet and maybe i never will maybe maybe that’s not the point yeah you know yeah i think you know we’re all just in this crazy life trying to find some soda that makes us whole cactus cooler oh god i want to catch this cooler right now cheese and rice do they sell them at the gas station down the street i think so we should go i’m gonna get a cactus yeah let’s go yeah bottles are better yeah hey hey hot doggers in case you all missed it we just launched a new collection over at psych where products and apparel change before your very eyes and if you didn’t know what psych was you’re in luck because we’re giving all our listeners a discount code to use on their first visit shop psyc.la that’s s-i-k-e-l and enjoy ten percent off your whole purchase when you drop in audience made you look at checkout now hold on i know that’s a difficult promo code but check this out that’s audios a-h-d-i-a-s for a hot dog as a sandwich made you look all caps no spaces at checkout for 10 off your whole purchase that’s right that’s adios made you look at psyc.la for 10 off your whole purchase nicole we’ve heard what you and i have to say let’s find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the verse it’s time for a segment we call opinions are like cancer rolls [Music] in my notes in the script i wrote blah blah blah blah blah and all caps and highlighted green and that is a very accurate representation of what this box that sounds about right you want to take it off you want to you want to you want to take it pick it up you want to start yeah i’ll start okay at wowwee 10. hard seltzer is not alcohol it’s carbonated alcohol essence uh you tell that to me on the beach nine hard seltzers deep harassing children to let me play volleyball with them you tell me that it’s just alcohol essence because oh my gosh i believe that you do that no let me play with you kids i’m i swear i’m not as good as i look and you just cream them so mean no you know what i love spike ball i am spike ball it’s the sport that’s going to sweep the nation in 2021 invest all your money in spike ball nets all i want to do is go to the beach and play spike yeah my friend tried to make a sport happen in the united states i think she’s still trying i don’t know we’ll talk about it later what uh heart seltzer’s delicious i love heart seltzer i also really enjoy hard kombucha oh yeah heart salts in your hard kombucha i think it’s really funny because speaking of toxic masculinity it keeps rearing its head like you know you’re taught that mike’s hard lemonades are girly and that a real man drinks miller light like that’s an idea you you grew up with you know we’re like 16 sneaking our first beers and we’re like oh this tastes really good now everyone is finally realizing like yo this this stuff just tastes like peepee water you know like like we like hard seltzer is absolutely delicious me and like all my college buddies we you know a couple months not a couple months ago now jesus is like a year ago time passes weirdly these days uh you know we’re all like pregaming for a party and we got a couple 30 racks of light beer and then you know two 12 packs of white claw just in case 24 white claws were drank before the first light beer was drank there you go and then we just went out and bought more white claws yep you know if you’re going like drink by drink if you’re trying to drink a four percent alcohol something heart seltzer man it’s delicious i didn’t i wasn’t a believer at first and now i fully am yeah i had six white clothes this weekend they’re just so easy to do and like in like four hours it was great oh hard boots also i do love beer just you know like if you’re drinking to drink osman alonso says latino food is ultra is ultra underrated not talking mexican talking latin america i think that’s correct but because i live in la there’s such a saturated market of mexican food which i’m not complaining about i love mexican food it’s wonderful it’s diverse it’s delicious it’s fantastic i’ve recently realized that there’s a lot of argentinian food popping up and a lot of peruvian food popping up which is wonderful because those flavors are so unique and so fantastic that more people need to try them i can believe great yeah um uh like salvadoran food is also huge salvador population and i love me some papooses i love what is that beef and radish salad that i really like i don’t i don’t know what it’s called oh i can’t remember but like even like like pan con pollo like salvadoran food is absolutely dope so good um yeah we were just talking about this so there’s a lot of misconceptions that like all food from latin america is spicy absolutely then you go to like argentina like brazil certainly has its peppers but like you know it’s not chili pepper based there’s wide diversity of cuisines but like i never had bolivian food i never had ecuadorian food that’d be really cool uruguay uruguay has this sandwich called a chivito i believe okay that’s like a goat sandwich that looks absolutely incredible and i would like love to try all these foods so i totally agree with you i think that you know i would love to see more you know diverse south american food representatives i agree if you find one that you like that’s just randomly in your yelp go eat there like do yourself a do yourself a favor peruvian chili pepper culture dope ah mario rakoto peppers oh my god uh i literally dipped my chicken nuggets in ahia mario dude there’s a new uh the shout out to pablito’s tacos and burbank uh ultimate peruvian mexican fusion taco spot but they just opened this uh nikkei style sushi restaurant okay downtown so nikkei apparently is like a peruvian term referring to just like the general dispersion of japanese culture throughout peru because there are a lot of time yeah and so they’re doing this like kind of peruvian japanese nikkei style spot that i really want to go to cool we’ll go yeah you’re absolutely right osman at julia g rockwell the best way to dress up boxed mac and cheese is with ranch dressing and sweet barbecue sauce yes sir absolutely ranch and barbecue sauce on mac and cheese is a combination of old time that’s like a slice of american cheese on apple pie i like mine with a little buffalo sauce yeah that’s the safe bet you get you know the nice spice playing off the cheese but no no give me the mayonnaise and the sugar sauce that’s what i want mayonnaise sauce and sugar sauce we recently uh had a glut of jack-in-the-box curly fries left over that was great and nicole just squirted ranch on one side of just like a paper bag and ketchup on the other side and then we kind of gradually mixed them together to create crunch with the fries yeah it was a beautiful salmon pink oh lovely millennial pink lyracoon123 chicken nuggets are best dipped in ketchup and vinegar nope ahia mario just said that uh ketchup and vinegar is also just called ketchup you’re just making them more vinegary exactly which is kind of like an australian tomato sauce tomato sauce uh tomato sauce remember when we talked about tomato sauce yeah the sausage roll the tomato sauce you see how good my my australian accent is it’s getting pretty good the more i do it the better i get the best chicken nugget dip honey honey musty yeah mcdonald’s honey mustard chicken nuggets i was gonna say barbecue but it’s almost a little too robust i want the chicken to shine ranch is better with chicken tenders than the processed nuggets 100 oh my gosh yeah we got each other yeah like even like dipping chicken nuggets in buffalo sauce does not feel right to me yeah i don’t like doing that either too much guys i do that with with a chicken strips yeah a grade yeah honey monkey honey musty’s the way 100 all right at charlie carey whoa whoa whoa pickles are gross maya was overrated wrong and wrong pickle pickles are like literally important in the evolutionary history of humans becoming a species i agree yeah like you get it’s just a way to get like fermented foods our way to get probiotics in your diet it’s a way to preserve vegetables and nutrients for a long amount of time and they’re just freaking delicious yeah like you should eat something fermented almost every day i think it’s important because not it’s probiotic it’s delicious it helps you poop that’s good for you i ate about a cup and a half of greek yogurt every day yeah you need to i take a probiotic every morning it has 30 uh raw probiotics and it’s really really good and if you can’t do that just eat a pickle because the fermentation is good for your soul so i need you to eat a pickle once in a while it doesn’t even need to be a pickled cucumber it can be a pickled radish it can be kimchi it can be anything just don’t be a baby also mayo is great you’re just a hater did i ever tell you about the time i was at the farmer’s market and someone was making a beat glass yes and you had so much probiotic you’re like this has six million and you’re like six million probiotics in it that’s too many man you could have told me it was eight probiotics and i would have been like that’s just a lot i think i don’t know anything more than two seems like a lot of probiotics for me six million get the heck out of here rocket p2 says tomatoes only taste good cooked okay i used to be the same way as you and then and then i i took a tomato and i dumped a bunch of salt on it like a bunch and then i ate and it was really good so you need to try raw tomatoes with a little bit of salt on them if you want let the moisture even kind of drip out of them and just have your tomato with a little bit of salt and it will change the way you eat tomatoes uh bad tomatoes only taste good cooked great tomatoes not even great tomatoes just like a normal tomato that has been like ripened yeah i used to think i didn’t like tomatoes because i had only eaten them inside of a whopper sandwich oh my gosh ew oh yeah i mean i don’t know about tomatoes yeah those are bad tomatoes so yeah you just got to get a good tomato but you know a lot of people have issues with the texture and seeds and all that at aj averback sugary cereals are way overrated true yeah that’s that’s one of the things that i never thought would happen as an adult because so many people so many adults i would hear as i was a kid there’s like i lost my taste for captain crunch and now i prefer you know i don’t know praying raisin bran praise friend and now i’m just like i have actively chosen a bowl of special k red berries just some lightly sweetened brown flakes 100 crunch i want to taste the grain it’s too okay i hate i love geriatric cereals i say this all the time because it’s true i love me some grape nuts i love me some weetabix and i love me some special k because those it gives me the energy i need throughout the day without all the stuff let me talk it gives me the energy i need from the wheat and barley and the milk goodness let me speak i’m queen go ahead and then the sugar you know it’s just a crash after you have a bowl of fruity pebbles you just crash like it’s not the same but i will say cinnamon toast crunch it kind of uh goes through the lines like it goes yeah it’s past that stuff it’s so good yeah i i still i still get down with some tricks and fruit loops you like tricks i still get down with that but that’s like a dessert like it’s a nice treat it’s a dessert like what do we have we have the birthday cake from fruit loops the other day yeah like i enjoyed eating those birthday cakes it tastes like poison in a good way okay belly dalen says my dinner is a pharaoh boiled brats canned beans mushrooms cheese and leftovers all in one pot okay uh do you want is this an opinion do you want a medal like i’m proud of you i’m happy that your your meal is so diverse but like uh pat’s on the back pharaoh is the thing that people should be eating more yeah people need to get more faro people need to eat more amaranth people need to eat more quinoa because people can’t know what cause people always talk about how like not people not all people find rice difficult to cook many people seem to find rice difficult to cook pharaoh is a thing that like you almost can’t overcook because it’s got all that nice hole and chaff on it and so like i literally just like toss some pharaoh the whole enchant that’s the part the difference between brown rice and white rice is that the brown rice still has the hole in the chaff intact and so it makes it a sturdier grain uh yeah faro’s like a grain that’s really hard to screw up but uh not really an opinion more just to dinner but i’m proud of you at kira j dot mp4 breakfast food sucks only cereal and fruit tastes good i’m guessing i’m guessing they’re an egg hater yeah because for me i’m such an egg lover like i love eggs i love it i could eat two eggs every day i absolutely could do but it to me it’s not just a breakfast like i love to eat eggs at any time of day true and so i understand if you’re an egg hater or if you’re someone who does not like processed meats how you would not like the american conception of breakfast food but i do agree cereal and fruit tastes good i found myself craving more sweet things in the morning than i used to i don’t like fruit in the morning i just don’t like fruit i need to eat more fruit you know my mom does i already told you she brings a plate of fruit cut up whenever i’m like really stressed out and like sad so like she started doing that again recently she’s not even having a lot of fruits at home like but like i don’t talk about it no not right now um she brings me like a plate of peaches and like some cut up cucumbers and stuff she goes here you go eat it’s like i eat more fruits at night personally that makes sense i’m a morning fruit guy gets things moving okay fiona underscore chug raisins are disgusting no they’re not raisins are delicious what are you talking about yeah prunes are better though here’s the thing i love prunes prunes there is no more maligned food for young people prunes have been maligned they have been pigeonholed to being only for making old people poop but no they are also for making young people’s mouths happy because prunes are a fantastic dried fruit it’s just a dry plum they need to get away from the word prune i love prunes i think they’re good they’re good for you they’re a secret ingredient and a lot of foods that i like to put in nice jewish and ashkenaz braised brisket with prunes i swear uh apricots and prunes in your in your brisket it’ll completely change the way that you enjoy food i love it yeah raisins are good too someone brought up raisins we’re just like i’m looking to talk about prunes let me switch let me hit the switch because i want to yell about prunes right now but no dried fruit what a lovely drink i love i think americans need to enjoy more dried fruit we don’t have a big dried fruit nut culture my mom goes to me whenever we were younger we didn’t have candy bars and then she pulls out a handful of nuts and seeds and dried food she goes this was my candy bar like okay what an immigrant parent thing to say so funny at joe anderson 707 green peppers belong on a philly cheesesteak this caused a bit of controversy me too i would like to apologize to the greater uh lehigh valley tri-city area that’s bethlehem allentown and whatever the other city is because i i made a claim that allentown style cheese steaks have cream cheese on them this is not true at all yeah you hurt some people i just i i just i do i say things out loud that need to be fact checked and then no one factor something that just goes there but this is the thing i remember my dad bringing up the phrase allentown style cheesesteak he was an allentown pennsylvanian native and i was like well it’s different about allentown cheesesteak and he’s not a food person at all he doesn’t know anything he just goes like i think i put cream cheese on or something yeah and i’ve like internalized that as a fact that’s not true but it turns out there is a lehigh valley style cheesesteak where they put marinara sauce and pickles on it so i spoke and several lehigh valley experts reached out to me on the subject of green peppers on cheesesteaks i said i don’t feel they belong on there i didn’t say they were necessarily inauthentic because like most cheesesteak places will offer onions mushrooms and green peppers but the mushrooms the green peppers are kind of like to weed out the narcs you know it’s like they’re on the menu but you don’t get them oh really not necessarily like people can enjoy it however they want i just prefer the purity occasionally i’ll get a mushroom and white american steak i think it’s really nice combo i love green peppers in my cheese steaks oh my gosh i’ve just had so many bad like diner cheese steaks like a like a denny’s cheese steak you know that’s just like gross kind of chopped up sirloin and then just like some raw green peppers no that’s good i just love the the vegetable like green pepper flavor with all that fatty fat mcfadderson fatty fats mcfatterson i’m from the mcfatterson clan i think it i i enjoy the little pop of freshness yeah it kind of cuts but that’s just me for me the cheesesteak is almost the perfect food that i don’t want anything to cut it i want to embrace just the fatty of the beef the silkiness of the cheese and just that little bit of sweetness from the onions lisa mogram jam in diner packets is better than the same brand in the jar i took smuckers up on this okay this is so funny because this is the same concept as perfume samples whenever you try a perfume on in the sample it stays like for so long you smell it on your shirt you’re like oh my god this is so amazing i can’t wait to try it and then i go to the store and i buy the perfume and it’s not the same i think you’re right i think they make the samples of whatever they’re making a little bit better so you buy it and it’s similar to the first time you try it with that sample so i agree with you lisa mo graham i like when you get the little smoker’s package at denny’s and it’s it’s like been sitting in the sun by a window seat and then they kind of sweat it’s good and then you get jam sweat yeah it’s good that’s all i have to say about that at phil ray a non-prosciutto mozzarella and garlic mayo sandwich rules yeah phil you don’t come hang out yeah it does this sounds delicious yeah you’re next level oh yeah you’re a good person like let’s yeah come to the kitchen man let’s just make us some garlic non sandwiches prosciutto motts man please do god i’m hungry i’m hungry we gotta leave i didn’t i did not eat breakfast yeah no i i had my protein good oh yeah but you had to yeah we should stop this stupid podcast so we can go eat some food let’s go do it and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich we got new episodes for you every wednesday if you want to be featured on 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