oh all good things take time we’ll explain instant Ramen then Nicole mic drop this is a hot dog is a sandwich H 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 what Welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh sh and I’m your host Nicole and and if you could not tell those of you only listening to this we have about eight bowls inst Ramen in front of us because today as professional chefs people who have climbed to The Culinary mountain tops professional chef now pause what what are you talking about over there buddy yeah here’s the thing we sometimes use the term professional chefs and titles because you and I are for all intents and purposes chefs if you explain it to a normie uhhuh right you I a producer do you yeah I kind of do too but people always call me a chef like dudes in the gym a chef you legally changed your name to mythical Chef Josh right I did I got the tattoo on my lower back as well you haven’t seen the new one um I would never call myself a chef to a chef but anyways we are professional for the sake of this we are professional chefs we’re professional food people and we have been working in this industry for a long time and we’ve climbed to the to the culinary mountain tops we’ve tasted some of the best food in the world and gone into The Valleys it’s hard it’s really hard to beat instant Ramen this is the tree so true yeah I agree I haven’t had instant Ramen in a few months maybe but I used to eat it all the time I used to love it so much I used to have my finger on the pulse of all the cool Ramen coming out I loved all of the the bulldog carbonaras and then whenever parasite came out they did that combo of what was it it was Ram ramdon ramdon R Rd where you would combine two different kinds of ramen packets and then you’d have ribeye steak with it yeah all about it but I’m very excited to try all these ramens so I grew up my dad worked at a 99 cent store and the best thing about 99 Cent Stores is they would get all of the discontinued major the cool ones awesome on so I grew up eating stuff like shrimp Alfredo flavor Ramen my favorite was just jalapeno cheddar oh my gosh those are the best ones those are the best ones the real janky ones highkey best ones um what were your favorites growing up like what are you looking for so I was always raised with the maruan instant ramen chicken flavor we call this cupo noodles well so cup noodles is an entirely different brand right I know but everyone just calls them cup of noodles because it’s so iconic I mean I’m holding it up right now the Maruchan instant lunch this was just called cup of noodles to me and this is what I was raised on it’s like Kleenex or uzzi it’s just uh yeah transcended name brand there has to be a word for I don’t think there is um I have a a special place of my heart for niss who invented cup noodles in 1971 uh quick quick history about instant Ramen because it is really fascinating it’s like really important in how it’s spread around the world U muku Ando is the one who was credited for creating the instant noodle specifically instant Ramen and then cup noodles later in 1971 but it was post World War II food shortage in in Japan the Japanese like Ministry of Health was trying to get Japanese people to eat shelf stable white bread from American companies because they were like these have the biggest factories we can give people bread the Japanese population was like we a really eat bread like that dude that’s that’s kind of weird and so momu fuku Ando who was um in Taiwan that was under Japanese colonial rule at the time he was born there he was like we can get factories going to make Mass amounts of noodles that can cook very quickly and he developed it with a patented like air not air frying uh flash frying technique so you cook them you flash fry them to dry them and then you send them out and they can cook in a minute and so instant Ramen like weirdly helped preserve Japanese food ways in a lot of ways so instant Ramen it’s really special to a lot of people and it’s really big throughout the world and so we have our work cut out for us today I’m excited I know we got some some really popular ones we also got one that kind of um makes me feel a little weird is that the one that I specifically requested because I care about your V so much we decided to go for it listen it is a new year and we’re getting back on the nutrition game we’re trying to pack on some muscle so we have a special protein Ramen that’s right we’ll get to that a little bit later but should we start with the original nissing top ramen chicken flavor absolutely so this is literally the first ever instant noodle in the entire world chicken flavored Ramen but this one comes with a teriyaki sauce pouch inside and I don’t know about you I would like to just taste it OG chicken and then add it I’ll let you have the first bite okay the original n Shout Out muku Ando muku means lucky peach in Japanese and that’s how David Chang named his Restaurant Group very nice okay good vegetable chunks in here that smell is so specific oh my God it takes you back so much I um I decided to go with like some classic chicken ones and then also some out there ones so we’re just tasting all that we can get our hands on right now how’s it taste the original chicken ramen Top Ramen from niss is so scientifically calibrated to hit every major taste scense that you have it is absolutely it’s more comforting than like a Grandma’s Chicken Soup you know what I mean love the veggies in there those veggies are large and in charge the veggies are absolutely spectacular um can I put the put on the Teryaki sauce packet wow living in the dream the big bowl it’s actually funny the cup noodles came about because muku Ando noticed that when Americans were eating instant noodles they would break up the original are the packets right you’d have to boil yourself and then pour yourself a bowl but you notice that Americans would in very American fashion break up the noodles into a styrofoam cup and pour hot water over it and eat it with a fork and so they designed the original cup of noodles to be able to be eaten with a fork and to keep the noodles warm very nice yeah but man even outside of America like instant noodles are everywhere yeah I love instant noodles I find them to be very very terak dude I need the tery M but I mean the fact that it is the OG we got to give it its its points you know yeah I mean there’s points I would say you st that off at like a solid seven I’m going to give it an eight I’m putting respect on the name you know what I I mean they are the original it’s God oh I could just I could eat an infinite amount what would stop you from eating instant noodles it’s like eating bows it’s like eating bowls of Frosted Flakes for me there’s just nothing that would stop inflamation I worry about the inflammation in my face but other than that I would go to town on noodles every day um okay now we’re going to be trying the Maruchan instant lunch this is the one I was raised on yeah so this is like the main competitor to niss as far as like OG instant Ramen Brands go and I’ve never had them side by side so I have no idea how they actually mhm I will say this watching people eat noodles is a strangely intimate event stop trying to be closer um that is less salt less flavorful and the noodles are thicker by like a millimeter I never noticed that but I think niss does have a better seasoned broth than maruan right much better seasoned broth but this tastes a little bit less artificial tasting to me does that does that track for you it does but the niss I think I like the vegetables and aromatics more me too we’re talking like razor thin margins when you’re talking about yeah totally totally we’re just being we’re being hardos right now we’re all like doing the same things right but it’s those little things on the margins that make you actually appreciate something more in ways that you wouldn’t expect absolutely I I would I would downgrade this a full point over over niss I’m going to give this a five give five I’m going to give this a five because there’s something about the ratios hold you given niss you given top romin an eight and Maron instant ledge Yes a five you want to know why yeah I think the ratios are a little bit better I think there’s two too many veggies in the to nissing Top Ramen that almost take away from that Ramen experience stop I’m being so want to slurp the sodium yeah with this I feel like you get you get more noodle you get more like something about the ratios here between the niss and the marchon the marchan ratios make more sense to me than the than the top Ramen but the top Ramen tastes better so I’m going to give this more points I’m going to give the top Ramen more points than the Maruchan at some point I’m going to have to think about my sodium intake not not today I’m talking about like in general in life cuz you know I try and eat somewhat healthy I love sodium too I had a lot of pickles and a lot of people say like if you’re cooking fresh ingredients from scratch you’re probably not going to have high sodium like doctors have told me this that straight up that high sodium tends to be correlated with high processed food diets but that’s not the case for you and I they don’t know how we cook we season to the edge if I make a soup it has the same sodium content and this is frightening if not more I agree with than what because it tastes good and that’s how you’re taught as a chef cuz we’re professional chefs yeah I mean yeah you’re taught to season your food completely and totally and we season literally I went to your house for dinner the other night like your food tasted like restaurant style I went to my mom’s house on Sunday and cooked her some try tip and she says Restaurante style because we season our food so so closely to chefs and processed foods there’s there’s no way the way that we eat is sustainable 2026 the year of kidney stones for Josh and Nicole oh man if I do women get kidney stones I’m not down um so I can actually track my sodium intake only because diamond crystal kosher salt is the best salt it’s what most chefs use it’s just very standardized I can’t find it in my local grocery stores anymore diamond yeah and so I just started ordering it off Amazon I Ed 365 oh yeah do they have it well no no no I use 365 kosher salt brand salt oh I it doesn’t fall out of the hand the same I agree salt feels totally different by by company diamond crystal what’s the other kosher salt that everybody freaks out about oh I don’t know there’s another one that people are like freaking obsessed with not Jacobson but the diamond crystal kosher I ordered I ran out recently and it said when my last order was on Amazon and it was something like four months ago and so I’m like Jules we’ve gone through three lbs of salt that’s too much salt in four months that is entirely too much salt well I don’t know I haven’t broken it down by milligram speaking by entirely too much salt try this gin Ramen it’s really delicious gin Ramen is this from uh Korean this is Korean Ram I believe this is one of sporks um favorite noodles as well God this looks so good so Korean Ramen or Raman in Korean Ramen men means noodle in Japanese right and Manan orain depending if it’s canane or Mander and in China Noodle and then in Korea it’s me uh but it all comes I believe from a Chinese root God this looks good this is really delicious this was delicious salty yummy nummy I don’t even know if there’s MSG in here I don’t care it’s so good it’s phenomenal wow you know what there is is sesame oil is it the Sesame let me see I wish I had that thing that you could control F and you could like see it and you could just like show it they should invent that like mic a oh you’re getting the microchip I’m getting the micro you’re getting the microchip no way I’m getting the micro so yeah there seems to be monosodium glutamate is up there yeast I think there’s a large amount of yeast in there that makes it taste so sexy there’s also though is this Nori um a little bit of nori in there there’s a little bit Nori in there there’s seaweed in there that’s adding a lot of flavor this to me if if maruan and niss are generation one mhm this to me represents like generation two right sure like this is we’ve built off of you know the success that that they’ve had cuz niss was like we need to appeal to as big a group as possible so we’re going to make it somewhat basic right chicken broth little bit of veg famous worldwide now it’s like let’s play with some flavors and these are the brands that are really popping off today this is delicious my God Passa duy P left hand side it leaves your mouth coated craving it’s coated with just there’s a little bit of fat in there the noodles have a good chew that you’re really missing look at the color differences in lighting it is such a pleasant eating experience I eight and a half okay can I go back go back back I would like to give Top Ramen a seven I would like to give maroon a four I would like to let give JY Ramen a 8.9 I’m obsessed bro I’m moving my laptop I’m about to destroy my computer water it’s about to get water damage oh now this is interesting this is Mama noodle so these are from Thailand now these these were very exciting I’m going to open this package right here because I want to show you what it comes with this was very interesting when we were assembling this one it comes with three distinct packages one is chili powder one is um soup base and then this is just I believe a glob of fat that you put in there heck yeah dude a glob of fat and you cook it up and let me tell you the glob of fat made this seem very very interesting to me the fact that they’re adding it in there I love whenever they know there’s something special in there um that is delicious the noodles are a little bit thinner yes they almost eat like um there’s this Vietnamese soup called uh me it’s like verelli but verelli made from wheat which is interesting so this almost eats like it’s a a dish called mang uh it’s a Vietnamese Chinese dish but the noodles are delightful the broth is roasty it’s a little bit spicy that’s like sweet do you taste that sweetness it’s a yeah it’s it’s very it’s dude it’s there’s a Thai term that I talked about a lot called clone clone which means like perfectly balanced of like sweet spicy sour excellent man whoa and it’s not like the Gin Ramen from Korea it’s got a lot more bold flavors to it yeah there’s more body I feel like there’s the noodle being thicker and the and the broth having those special ingredients makes it a makes it a thicker bodied experience that doesn’t eat like the Gin Ramen doesn’t eat like a noodle soup Mama Ramen does does yeah you’re right also I love the mama on the packaging it just says artificial chicken flavor yeah nothing real about this baby hey man if i% artificial if I can put it in my mouth they’re real what’s up talking about Ramen talking about chicken flavor um that’s that’s pretty excellent I I mean I’m giv that I’m giving that Nate as well I think to me that and jyn might be tied they’re very different products they are very different products I will say that I’m going to give this one an 8.5 just because there’s a lack of familiarity to me and whenever I’m looking for ramen I’m looking for Comfort I’m looking for something that is familiar and speaking of unfamiliar this is the RO Ren Josh wanted me to buy I think it’s called Emy right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah this was this brick of ramen was $849 yeah so I’m so glad you mentioned that so I need you to know that this was $8 which is absolutely an insane amount of money for ramen also I have no water in my cup and I’m dying of thirst you don’t need water drink the ramen broth it’ll get you it’s like eating a salt tablet during an NFL game so you don’t cramp up oh my God Emy Ramen so this is been going around the bodybuilding Community okay the macros on it they still aren’t the best but if you’re in a pinch and you want to get 23 g of protein how much carbs uh what do we got 20 grams of carbs 23 gram of protein 20 grams of fat which is a fair amount but this the noodles are made primarily from pea protein and wheat gluten so this is like the new New Gen of where instant ramen’s going black garlic chicken chicken is in quotes why are chickens why is chicken in they could have just said artificial chicken like our homies at mama so all these noodles right these are basically like pure carbs fat and sodium which is great cuz that’s a lot of what keeps your body running but this is the next gen where I always think about what the dietary fads that we’re going to look back on at modern times and go oh my God what’s wrong with us like the way we look at the lowfat diets people eating you know salad dressing cut with a bunch of sugar in it I think we’re going to look back at our protein Obsession and be like that pathological that was disgusting yeah I feel like wearing the throws of it right now 100% there’s there’s no need that I should eat 200 g of protein I know all the studies about muscle protein muscle synthesis and protein absorption y yada I have like 150 gr of protein that’s like so humans need like 30 per day why do we do this to ourselves because we’ve been poisoned by the fitness industry that says we need to do this but what about doctors that tell you you have to eat that much protein are they what doctor dude my doctor is so fed up with me talking about she’s like you have high cholesterol stop eating so much meat and I’m like I need to and she’s like I’m a medical doctor and I’m like how much you bench bro my doctor says I a to eat more protein than one than 15 your primary care physician no no no no this is my cool doctor exactly this is my homie she’s like my friend all my doctors are my friends let’s try this let’s give us a try so the noodles are they kind of look like they look like sludge they look sludgy let’s try the broth they look sludgy but not in I like I most foods are pleasant sludges but that’s not a pleasant sludge you taste the black garlic okay that’s good um are the new hard must have not I cooked it according to the directions on the box I’m going to go ahead and I don’t want to tell you how to feel so I’m going to refrain from comment broth tastes good okay try the noodles oh we’re watching Nicole try the noodles this is primarily made from Pure wheat gluten which is the protein found in wheat um my mind’s Telling Me No but my body you can’t R Kelly’s cancelled that’s R Kelly yeah wait is it yeah oh no I thought it was like Marvin Gay I don’t know music um what do you think about the taste of those noodles really bad I not enough salt there needs to be more salt in this I I’m about to say something very hyperbolic you I love listen I think this is a great product for people who want something like this what’s in your cup it’s stuck in my throat what’s in your cup poppy I’m dying of thirst listen I think this is a great product for people who want something nostalgic I don’t know people who want this is fine I don’t um this is people who want this is fine pound-for-pound one of the maybe worst things this isn’t me taking pot shots this is just if somebody is thinking about spending $8 on this $8 do not do not be prepared for it to to taste anything like Ramen it wasn’t very good there are certain instances in which we try and play God and he spits in our face and I think protein Ramen is one of them I’ve also been eating all of the protein cereals that have and we’re not talking about like there’s a company called like Kodiak cakes right yeah the pancake mix that has like that’s good 10 grams of protein for like four pancakes and that’s quite normal and they taste pretty good we’re talking about companies I would like 40 g of protein in the same thing we’re talking about these are dietary supplements not Reon we need to it’s whenever you’re making products like this whenever you’re in the quality testing whenever you’re in the R&D phase you need to Define what you want to go for like Josh said like this is a dietary supplement as a food if that’s what you’re going for fine cool awesome if you’re trying to have people just eat food and maybe just enhance their protein intake a little bit Kodiak cakes or is a perfect example of that something went wrong with the re R&D and I don’t think they know what they’re doing this is like not to be rude I’m a little rude yeah but I I yeah dude I don’t know how this got out of what if we added something to what if we added something to it like imagine adding wait wait imagine hold on hold on imagine we added like an egg to it that’s great then you’d have egg on top of that um I think the problem is so many of these companies are doing soy protein isolate and when you think about what soy protein isolate is it’s tofu tofu is what happens when you isolate the protein the protein of soy and I love tofu when it’s eaten as people eat tofu these protein cereals are they taste the exact same as these noodles um they’re trying to create a carbohydrate a starch out of pure protein and then it all ends up tasting like enar you know the tofu skin which I love oh I was just about to talk about Yuba or or Yuba yeah those are both great products that are hundreds of years old it’s better for people instead of Reinventing the wheel people have already invented things that can be substituted so if you just do a little bit more research for yourself you could cut your Yuba super thin you could cut your Nar super thin put that in a broth and have a similar experience to the ramen you know and love without spending $8 and eating not such good stuff I’m going to give that a three I’m going to give it a three I’ll give it a three a charitable three um thank you forging indulging me Nicole I had to try it and I was never going to buy it on my own what do we got here sapo ich saporo Ichiban another Japanese product I’ve never had this actually I will say some of our noodles are starting to get a little water log so don’t judge us completely on that I used to be a food stylist for ramen and let me tell you water log noodles are a very big deal but I don’t I don’t care that much right now how is it I feel like you’re really enjoying yourself I feel like you’re really enjoying yourself you did you like it especially coming off of The Last Bow of ramen again I feel like such an aole criticizing it but um that’s a really tough thing for me to eat um Soo Ichibon much much rastier flavor MH they must I don’t know if it’s just caramel coloring or what they’re using but oh yum that is a delay I’m going to try and look at the ingredi vbl no vegetables which I do miss sometimes sometimes but sometimes you don’t need vegetables there’s a fair amount of soy sauce in there yo yeah this is a lot of salt a lot of MSG a lot of sugar a lot of soy sauce caramel color oh you spit into the B dude I’m spitting everywhere oh oh my God there’s leak chips in there okay that’s great I find that to be incredibly Pleasant and well balanced I think that might be the most balanced Ramen we’ve had out of this whole entire I don’t know dude I think Mama from Thailand is more balanced than sapuro yes I disagree with you I think there’s a better like sugar to spice ratio in Mama but do you need sugar in your Ramen I don’t know if I need it but now that I have it I am loving it um give me give me the Gin though give me the Gin cuz the Gin is such a specific flavor Josh my face is about to be so puffy I’m going to look like the moon I’m going to look like the moon after this no the Gin to me is is overseed for I got a gacha I got a GHA um I I’ll give this to me saparo Ichibon I think it’s still probably better than than Maran Nissin um but but not by margins I I kind of have Maran niss and saparo ichiman sort of tied in the same category I think out of the three saporo is the best really of the ones you said I yeah maybe by a SL margin I think the Gin is almost over seasoned in a certain way in a in an unpleasant way yes I feel like if I like really ate a whole bowl of that you’d feel bad or at the end you just feel fatigued your palette would be super fatigued right you ever get to that point it’s like to me like Takis versus like a Flamin Hot Cheeto it’s like Takis they’ve gone past the line of hypers seasoned right to where your your mouth is blown out mhm you can’t eat those every single day but now this was like my graduation into epicism Nim right was going from niss and Maruchan to Nong shim Nong shim is shin Raman red the black is also very iconic black is also iconic let’s get a sip of the broth I like that there’s mushrooms in there little DEH High DEH High mushroom yeah I love the DEH High mushroom something about shin first of all I love their noodle thickness I guess I’m one of those noodle weirdos that like cares about the way the noodle like acts within the broth utterly Elite utterly Elite not not even an elite bowl of instant Ramen that’s an elite plate of food right yum even like you go to some Korean restaurants and spicy if there’s Ramen in a soup that they’re making sometimes it will just be Shin that they’re throwing in which is very acceptable 100% um I’m mostly there for the towers of hey beer uh in the K-pop playing on the screens but that is just a delightful bowl of food I don’t know that I can I haven’t had bulldock in a long time and these are dry noodles so it’s a little bit different oh my gosh these are the super spicy ones the red or the bulldock the bulldock they like do we have a banana on standby what does the banana get where are you going to put the banana what do you mean where am I going to put the banana where you going to put the banana there’s only one place of banana could go can I tell can I lack you lack create can I tell you I I something happened um I went to a spa I went to a spa with Julia as our as our spa I know it was it was like our mini honeymoon kind of thing who are you who have you become it was listen it was old everyone say mleo Josh I got married I forgot my ring cuz I’m was cooking I was looking at it and I’m like where’s your ring I don’t know but it would be fused my finger with all the sodium as it is now I’ll wear it eventually uh but we go to a spa and we did like a Moroccan bath which I don’t know what that is who have you become I was like what is this a Tunisian bath you know it’s Moroccan uh but anyways they had three food items they were like this is grated cucumber for your eyes um and then these are cracker or she said these are grated cucumbers they go on your eyes these are crackers and I said where do the crackers go and the woman did not understand the joke and she goes what I you said the gred Cucumbers go on your eyes where do the crackers go and she goes they’re they’re just to eat and Cas you get hungry grated cucumbers on your eyes put grated cucumbers on my eyes no you slice cucumbers you put on the eyes I tell you they’re grated cucumbers in like a wet nap and I put them on my eyes in a bath I thought I was G have a panic attack trapped where was this it’s got like o o henrion HRI oh that’s famous yeah yeah yeah yeah I actually looked at that um a few months ago but anyways um I don’t think I’m I’m going to give that a 9.2 yeah Shin R 9.2 Shin Raman to me is still like one of the standard Bears the noodles are perfect the broth is perfect spicy so you kind of got to dig on that but now we got to try this to me this is almost the generational divide to me between Millennials and jenzy you’re correct jenz eat bulldock jenzy love bulldock Boomers eat niss uh-huh Gen X eats cup noodles cuz they were lashy kids so they couldn’t even get a pot they said a microwave but Millennials to me like shin Raman was that was our move man yeah yeah now we’re going into spicy bulldock territory some of how spicy are we talking spicy like killer spicy like really spicy a nuts like really spicy should go to the bottom where all the spices oh mix it mix it no no no no no no no please okay stall talk about something my name’s Nicole and I am so hopped up on salt salt salt salt salt I eat lots of salt okay wow okay Full Throttle JW sharer colon Full Throttle not like colon body like but like colon well your lips are stained orange you got orange lips all right Jen Z I’m seeing the vision I’m seeing the vision on the fire bulldock um I’m scared it is ultra spicy it is I can feel my tongue starting to swell out I smelled it I smelled it aside from the spice though I SM so again this is a dry Ramen dry stir fried noodle it’s seasoned really really well there’s some foods that are so spicy but so properly seasoned that you can’t stop eating it which is a problem but that’s a a route that I love to live in if I stop eating this I’m going to die but if I start eating it I’m I’m going to die die later so what do I do I’m On Fire get a banana put it wherever you want um wow the the chew on the noodles take the chew on the noodles is excellent give me the poppy give me the poy right oh God oh my God spicy bulock I have not had that in years oh my God that is making the tongue swell that’s a delight though um what do you rank it how do you even give that a rank it think you can’t even put it with the rest of them I got to go read chapstick all the fires are making my lips crack up I can’t feel I can’t I’ll speak fornical the product’s accidentally done I almost don’t think we can rank it against honorable mention honorable mention very honorable mention the bulldock is incredible we they also have the bulldock carbonara that we don’t have with us today I would love to try that on the pot at another time God they got to the back of my throat um yeah N9 out of 10 for what they were going for yeah yeah yeah they accomplished what they said out to do did you just pallet cleanse with the Gin Ramen I got to do what I got to do yeah what are your overall take R before we fully get to the like ranking ranking of it I I think Ramen is an innovation I think Ramen has done so much good in the world’s Ted Talk Raman has done a lot of good in the world and you know it was an honor to taste all the different generations and all the different shades of ramen that about 50 Shades of ramen that we were here to try um I think think that Ramen is good and I’m happy that I ate it it’s been such a long time since I’ve dipped my toe into the ramen world and it felt nice I will say out of all of these I don’t know how I rank them it’s so spicy in my mind that I don’t know anything about what I said before and it doesn’t matter megie like right now it doesn’t matter but I will say my favorite out of all of them has got to be Jen Ramen yeah 10 out of I mean 10 out of 10 like JY Ramen might be the best instant Ramen of all time but again you can always customize it to your own thing like you know you can put your your butter and your parmesan cheese and your peanut butters and your thises and that and the others make it really fancy my mouth is salivating Jin Ramen was the best one out of all of them but I will say that the um Shin the Nong shim close second yeah fully agreed I think you really do taste the generational divides here like the Maran the Nissin and the saporo eimon like they’re all again they’re all great your body wants the sodium the chicken flavor the the car like they’re all really well done products but then you get into I think to me Nong shim Shin Raman is still the best I still have this overin because I think there’s such a a good deep chicken flavor like with that spice there very impressed by bulldock Mama to me was sort of the sleeper surprise hit here but I think for me Shin Raman ramen’s nostalgic for so many people and I remember myself when I was like 14 my dad just got a full-time job and we’re like wow we can afford the more expensive in Ramen now and I remember making this at home like watching Food Network watching sports center and man that nostalgic taste comes right back God do I need some water yeah all right Nicole now it’s time for a new segment where you and I put our food trivia knowledge to the test that’s right it’s time for our very own segment called yummy and my tummy got some trivia for you robot NE has three questions prepared Nicole you and I will wait until the question is complete and then we will answer if wrong the other person gets a chance to steal and earn the point let’s hear that first question let’s do it there’s a town in the peles region of Greece with a namesake food item known for its purple color and smooth meaty texture what is this fruit fruit what is this fruit or what is this food can you ask hold on hold on okay City in we got to work through this together now City in Greece okay my initial M my brain went to pulot but I think but that’s a combination of a plum and an this is definitely a Greek name like Plum and apricot are not okay something being so mean to me I’m trying to work it out I can’t work it out with you if you’re going to be disrespectful wait play the question one more time play the question one more time go there’s a town in the peloponese region of Greece with a namesake food item known for its purple color and smooth meaty texture purple color smooth meaty texture that’s why I thought pulot Plum wait are they saying fruit that has a purple is it I mean is it fruit fruit fruit fruit do you think they’re using the ban what’s what are purple meaty textured fruits plots PL you’re right Nicole you’re right plats are purple and Meaty you’re so mean to me right I’m so sorry I didn’t I just freak out confidence go from like a 10 to a two just by simply shutting me out I felt small because I didn’t know the answer and I made you feel small and I’m very apologetic for that I’m so sorry yeah should be I worry that I don’t know this wait hold on what’s the Greek word for eggplant Mel Melana but that no that doesn’t make any sense babag babagan it’s Mel Melana I think well maybe it’s an eggplant maybe it’s an eggplant in Greece named after a food um I just it’s not in the peles S I’m going to say um I’m going to say babagan the correct answer is the Olive we’re so stupid we’re so stup we are so Dum that is so God we are the dumbest hottest can I tell you what happened we were too hot I got from the bulldock I’ve been reapplying chapstick every like 10 minutes I look like I got lip fillers look I I look like I look like I’ve gotten lip fillers which really I haven’t I look like I have lip fillers too but it’s all natural I’m an all natural U bodybuild have I gotten some work worked on of course in this town baby who hasn’t are you Anna delie I have been watching inventing an that’s crazy what you wearing you look poor uh wow okay 0 for one let’s get to number two what is the name of the coffee produced from beans that have been eaten and excreted by Civ cats I Know It uh one two three copy luach I totally forgot I blanked on it did you I just blanked on it yeah yeah Nicole gets that the correct answer is lck coffee yeah Lu yeah copi is coffee coffee yeah good job oh thanks blanked Josh thank you so much you’re so sweet thank you real recognize real next which country is the world’s largest consumer of chocolate per capita I know this one I am ready one two 3 Switzerland UK the correct answer is Switzerland dude Nicole Nicole absolutely crushing it she is beauty she is Grace abely Crush she doesn’t know what a colat olive is like she’s a fruit I guess that was a pretty easy question that we both I know both I blanked on all three I went over and I because all of the sodium and spices coursing through your body could be man cuz if anything it made me hyperfocus okay wow well now that we’ve heard me absolutely fail and Nicole crush me it’s time to hear what you all have to say this is a time for opinions are like casser all right let’s get to the first question that’s uh that’s quite a voicemail you guys got there I bet you got quite a Voice Josh Nicole love you guys both so much my wife and I have had this debate for the past gosh 10 years married um I think cook properly done properly rendered fat on any piece of meat or protein I don’t know why I said meat or protein any piece of protein is fantastic my wife thinks it’s repulsive and makes her want to throw up anytime I try to do it or anytime it’s happened at a restaurant um so yeah what are your guys’s thoughts rendered fat I think it’s a beautiful thing love you guys say it back I love you I I love you no I love you I I love you I love you babe I love you babe I love you I okay let’s define rendered fat rendered fat I have a tub of rendered fat in my SK from Thanksgiving Tallow not Tallow no I made duck turkey schmults turkey schms I made turkey schmults so when you to render fat like uh turkey a lot of the Fat’s subcutaneous but you can do this with any meat right you just uh hit it in a pan honestly put water in it if you want to make your own beef Tallow take beef fat and put it in a pan with water and do it multiple times do it multiple times and then the it’ll boil off the fat the water boils out and then you strain that fat through a fine mesh Sie and then you’re left with very pure for me at least turkey fat that I’ve been using I fried lotas and turkey schals yum delicious yeah rendered animal fat it’s a great talking about topping their protein with another kind of rendered fat cuz my mind immediately went to like I don’t know why my mind went here like a a steak with like chicken skin like rendered chicken skin is where my mind went maybe that’s not the right direction maybe that’s not what they’re talking about yeah any fat that cooks is rendered yeah in a way are they talking about like uh you have a plate of roasted broccoli and you’re topping it with some Tallow or some well they then they said oh they say protein they said protein interesting so like yeah just hearing a steak and beef Tallow I guess topping it with some beef Tallow topping it with it yeah it’s I don’t know I don’t think it’s repulsive definitely not repulsive is she talking about mixing animals I think they’re talking about mix in my mind that’s where I went I don’t know if that’s what they’re next time you call us can you be a little bit more specific about what you’re talking right now I’m really confused and because I love you so much I just want you to be better okay need more clear Communication in our relationship hi to Josh how to ni whatever guess there may may not be it’s megie Miss megie Miss Meg if nasty this is Jeremy from Dallas Texas um my opinion casserole it may not be a hot take but we’ll be the judge on me self scrambled eggs freaking suck yes yes self scrambled eggs are just bad and not good give me a hard scramble all day I don’t understand the whole Gordon Ramy with the soft scramble how nice and light and creamy as it no no no throw some eggs in there with a bunch of butter salt pepper hard scramble corre down my throat correct okay bye go ahead I love heart scrambles my whole life I like when there’s a little bit of Browning on my eggs I do yeah same but let me tell you there was a phase I went through a phase where I was a soft scrambled girl and also David and I went on a vacation one time to the Ryu in freaking I don’t know somewhere in Mexico and he emphasized that he wanted his eggs to be softly scrambled and he said no brownie on it he was being very particular about it and then I also learned to be more particular about it and I liked it whenever they were a little bit year but now I’m pivoting back to hard scrambles yeah so I I think it’s a phase I also think sometimes like with soft scrambles a little bit snotty and boogery and vomity it’s just do you know what I mean 100% but this is um B dogs drool I think um it what is it called like the Dunning Krueger effect I don’t know either of those people those who know the most about something and those who know the least about something are going to be the most confident about their knowledge and something right it’s like like the dumbest 10% and the smartest 10% so you get someone like so are you Dunder or KW ging am I Dunder or Mifflin so you get someone like Gordon Ramsey who is cooking very like French soft scrambled eggs that are for a very particular dish right you all see him putting them on toast or something like that or to go with a full English where you have toast and starches and whatever but then you get some like internet hardos who have watched that one video and think that that’s how every scrambled egg in the entire world is supposed to be or how every omelet in the entire world is supposed to be I post picture of an omelette that I made on Twitter like 5 years ago and someone like a bunch of people just went that’s overcooked it’s like you didn’t eat it I was trying to make it like that cuz that’s how I like it so if you look at like a perfect French omelette or uh a a Japanese omu rice which is based it’s it’s yosoku it’s Western Cuisine so anyways you look at a perfect French omelette that is a Marvel it’s delightful you get a perfect American Diner omelet that also is Bomb you get a Thai omelette that is almost fried and it’s crisy and cloudy and it’s brown and crunchy that’s also good there’s no wrong way to cook an egg the only wrong way to cook an egg is the way that you don’t like it yeah so soft scramble if you don’t like it great eat a hard scramble I prefer if I make scrambled eggs at home I have a very particular way that I like to do it tell them what you do cuz I know what you do I don’t know if you do I get it to like a soft scramble consistency and then I kind of let it sit for a second cuzz I love when they’re hard scrambled but they’re not small curds oh so it’s same yeah big curd yes yes yes big like card Med scramble yeah yeah 100% so you have to go in with a fork and get big chunks off it I can take a giant bite yeah yeah that’s like a whole scrambled egg in one the only way to eat a hard scramble is large curs small curs with a hard scramble makes absolutely no sense I don’t like that I don’t like getting it feels like grains of rice falling off my Fork yeah yeah yeah yeah but it’s the beauty about eggs man there’s no wrong way to cook an egg I love it but people who insist at soft scramble is the only way that’s a weird thing it’s a fun weird like warm custardy thing but I don’t want it all the time excuse [Music] me hey Josh and Nicole my weird food habit is eggnog rice yes so you take leftover rice add whole Freaks Come Out cinnamon Alice nutmeg okay and the secret ingredient is rum Essence just a single drop put it all in a bowl put it in the microwave for a minute you should definitely try it are you like a little depressed just wondering very monotone in your delivery and also making eggnog rice eggnog rice tastes good oh yeah that’s great that to me it’s rice pudding that to me is some like generational cooking right that like s five generations from now your children their children’s children their children’s children are going to be like remember I don’t remember your name if it was Andy or not we call you Andy remember Uncle Andy’s microwave eggnog rice right they’re going to be extraplanetary they’re going to be orbiting the rings of Jupiter and they’re going to be trying to recreate has rings orbiting the rings of Saturn talking about Uncle Andy’s eggnog rice that’s like that’s the essence of cooking right sounds delicious let’s just R it’s boot like I would eat this without any problems without any concern without any sort of judgment we listen and we don’t judge and we would never judge your eggnog rice Uncle Andy do we do we address the fact that he called it alpace it’s okay allspice he called allspice allspice it’s okay you call you call you say hospice or hospice it’s it’s hospice actually had a little bit of H spice to your eggnog right some people just have different ways they say start anise and start Anis that’s true I say paprika instead of yeah you have no get off your soap box just never that’s good get off your soap box young man get off my box I’ve just never heard I’ve never in my life heard somebody say alpus that’s okay and I think I might adopt it as a silly affectation think I think you’re being SI now that she said that I am going to exclusively say Alice for the rest of my life um I would eat the heck out of that I would e too sounds really good don’t don’t doubt yourself so much cutie smile a little come on sugar plum stop sexually harassing our callers it’s not hey why don’t you smile a little more when talking about J eggnog right sexual it’s sensual on that on that very specific note thank you all so much for stopping by the podcast we got new episodes out audio platforms on Wednesday new videos out on Sunday if you want to be featured on opinions or like cast rols give us a call at 833 dog pod one it’ll I’ll just sensually sensually bother you and if you want to be Sally bothered by Nicole Moore check out the mythical kitchen Channel that’s basically all she does we’ll see youall next time