Welcome to Costco. I love you. Welcome to Sam’s Club. I, I just, I just don’t think we’re there yet. I mean, I’ve been loving getting to know you. I think we’ve had some really awesome times together, but frankly, it’s the emotional availability that I have right now isn’t commensurate to your level of attachment and No, no, no, no. I’m not putting this on you. Really. It’s, it’s me. I just, I’ve been burnt before, like a hot dog on a roller. I don’t know that I’m ready yet to love again. This is a Hot Dog is a Sandwich. Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah. I put ice in my cereal. So what? That makes no sense. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. What? Welcome to our podcast. A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show where we break down the world’s biggest food debates. I’m your host Josh Scherer.A And I’m your host Nicole Enayati. And those were our odes to big box chain commodity retailers, Costco and Sam’s Club, and I think they each kind of exemplify the stores that we’re talking about. Costco, it’s a very loving place. I love Costco. Everyone loves Costco. The Costco employees love Costco. You walk into Costco, you feel love. I would love to work at a Costco. I know a lot of people that have worked at Costco for a long time. They seem to like pay their employees well and give you good benefits. I know. Yes, yes, yes. I have never felt that way in Sam’s Club. I’ve never been to a Sam’s Club. Well, I’ve never walked into a Sam’s Club, but my mom talks about Sam Sam’s Club a lot because Sam’s Club, uh, Costco was founded in California, right in San Diego. Yeah. It was technically known as something else. It was like Price Club for a bit. And the original one was called something else. They only dealt with businesses, but like proper Costco has existed in California since 1983. Right. So we grew up Costco people. We were Costco people. Yeah. And the Sam’s Club is by the Waltons. The Waltons Sam’s Club was Walmart’s answer to Costco. Mm-hmm. So like the OG Costco Price Club founded in 1976. And then they sort of like had a couple different stores and consolidated under the name Costco in 1983, which is when Sam’s Club. Officially launched as well in the entire time Sam’s Club has been chasing the aura that Costco has developed. Can’t, that is actually their business strategy. Just the copy Costco. What in doubt? Just the copy. You can see they’re, they’re copying Costco and that’s not like necessarily. A dig, especially because it’s not really working. Mm-hmm. I mean, Sam’s Club obviously does a lot of business. They do. Well, yeah, they, how many Sam’s clubs are there in the us? So there’s about 600 of each. Okay. There’s about equal numbers, but the crazy thing is Costco does double the business. Wow. Double the sales. And so the CEO of Sam’s Club in a recent interview. Was actually talking about how good the Kirkland Signature brand is. Mm-hmm. It is. Sam’s pretty phenomenal a hundred percent. Sam’s Club doesn’t have their own unique brand like that inhouse brand. Yeah. They like consolidate a lot of like store brands from Walmart, but they don’t have that like quais of knowing Kirkland that every, every product you see with Kirkland on its name is going to be very good. Yeah. And of course it’s coming from a factory that’s making other products, but it’s that like level of curation that’s really good. So Costco, they really do love you. Sam’s Club is trying to love you. You know, there’s a little bit distant we points for trying in 2025. Do we give points for trying Phil’s philosophical discussion that I’m not equipped to handle, I’m equipped to handle hotdog in my mouth. That’s about it. Right, right, right, right. Speaking of which, we have hot dogs that put in our mouths. We do have hot dogs. So we are talking about not the actual products from the stores. No, no, but the adjacent restaurants. The food court. The food court, which is the best part. After going bulk shopping with someone you love or someone you tolerate, you go after. You never go before. Of course I go after. What do you mean you need to? What do you mean You’ve worked up the calories? Picking up the heavy, like almonds, you know, you know the bulk almonds that you get? You talking about the chocolate covered ones or the raw ones? Yeah, both. God, those chocolate covered ones both in my house, they go down so easy. And then, you know, just buying like way too much toilet paper. Way too much. Plastic products that you probably don’t even need. You work up an appetite, you gotta go bef, you gotta go after. No, I like going before that way. It really hampers your buying power because you get like a thousand calories of greasy pizza in you and then suddenly the site of all that food makes you sick. That pizza, both of these pizzas right now are so like the lobby and delicious. I have a love affair with Costco Pizza and I’d love to see if I can duplicate it with Sam’s Club though they do have the brownest cheese in a way that is really good. The layer of cheese on Costco Pizza. Is about a half inch thick. You have the Costco Foods on your side? Yes, and I have the Sam’s Club food on my side. Again, they’re rocking like very identical menus, at least when it comes to hot dog. And pizza. Hot dog pizza. Hot dog pizza. That’s what you’re going for. Yeah. And to be fair, Sam’s Club, um, did not have any dessert options for the day. They quote ran out. Costco never run out. They would only run out of sushi at their new Costco sushi couches. Oh, are those open and are those live? They’re, they’re live but not in our area yet. Where? Seattle. Aw, come on. Wait. I’m gonna Seattle soon. I gotta try. You’re gonna Seattle gonna Seattle So jealous. I gotta try and go to co club Sushi Counter. I’ve always wanted to go to. Seattle, it’s so cold and dreary. Oh, I know. I’m gonna feel the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Uh, so. The food court options, you can tell that Sam’s Club is definitely trying to copy Costco. I can see. Yeah. And their most egregious act of copying Costco is, you know, the story of Costco’s dollar 50 hotdog combo. I’ll never change it. They’ll have to kill me. Right. That Is that the call? No, he said no. So it was, this is the co-founder of Costco and president at the time, uh, his name is, I believe, Jim Senegal. Um, and he was talking to like the president of Costco, Uhhuh, and uh, the president was trying to get him to raise the price of the hot dogs. He is like, this has been killing us. And he didn’t say that like, I’ll die before you change it. He said, if you change it, I will kill you. Oh, I see, I see. And every couple years a media outlet runs that quote like, oh, look at this good American businessman trying to say for the consumers. I’m like, he’s like, oh no, he’s trying to homicide someone. He’s a psychopath, threatening to kill someone over to what is ultimately a good businessman. He’s trying to unlive someone over mit. Romney’s favorite meat. Hey man, it’s a good meat. Uh, so the Costco hot dog is still a dollar 50. S uh, Sam’s Club though, right? They lowered their price of it to a dollar 38. Interesting. Just to try and spike Costco, both of ’em before tax or after tax. I don’t think they ta Do they tax the food items there? I don’t know, but I close do know that close that they don’t take. All the major credit cards. Interesting. Which pisses and know what else pisses me off during the pan, the panini, during the pandemic, they removed the onion. You know that little onion thing? Yeah. This is, this is the, the onion chop. Big controversy here. No, the onion. What is the, the, the, the onion chopper. The handheld onion chopper. It’s a handheld rotary onion mier. And there was nothing like when you were a kid and you’d be like, mom, can I go put onions on my hotdog? And she’s like, yeah, go. And just the act of doing it was so fun. It was an inter, it was like a. It’s like a fair game for me. Yeah, for real. For people that don’t know, they, there must have just been a whole onions inside of this hand crank machine. It was fun. You crank it and it just grinds the onions into, into a little mince. Costco, please. I’m begging you. Bring your bags, onion juice. Flying outta every, I used to just put onions on my pizza ’cause I wanted to, to mess with onion. I don’t know, man. You put relish on your, do you put relish on your hot dogs? Yeah. Okay. If I, I didn’t get you relish. I’m sorry. No, you’re totally fine. I’m like ketchup, mustard, relish, onions loaded up. It’s soft. Yeah. You need to load it up because you’re so tired from bulk shopping. Mm-hmm. Well, I am bulk shopping. You need everything. You need sustenance. Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I get that. I don’t shop at Costco much. Um, I love going to Costco. I’m like a go to the store every two, three days, guy. Oh, you have so much. I love that. So you have so much time on your hands. You have mountains of, mountains of time on, on your hands. Nicole, do you? Do you remember one? There’s a store right by my house. It takes two minutes to walk to. It’s really nice. But you know, you all always come in and go, Hey, did you see this TikTok? You know, this is the same feeling where I go, oh, you have a lot of time on your hands ’cause you’re, well, I’m shopping. Which literally it takes probably 15 minutes. I know what I’m gonna get. I go in with a plan. Um, yeah, you’re scrolling through short form social media, which please keep scrolling on our concept, but listen, doom scrolling is what keeps me alive and current. Okay. It’s what keeps the, the body ticket for me. There’s, there’s one more thing that Costco did. That I believe is controversial. I feel like, is it chicken related? Is there rotis? No, it’s not chicken related. Well, oh, the rotisserie chickens. Yeah. They, they did, did they raise the price? They used to be $5 rotisserie chickens. I think they’re still $5. God, that’s crazy. Um, but no, the, the Costco rotisserie chicken is great. They now require you to have a membership to get food court food and that didn’t used to be the case. I am lowkey a little bit down with that. It like, makes a little sense. I’m I’m, I’m down with it. Legally they can’t make you show a membership to buy liquor though. I think that’s still the case legally. But they don’t sell, do you mean what do you mean? Like in the food court? No, no, no, no. Like, like, uh, they’re like big handles of Kirkland Vodka you. Oh, really? I believe legally they cannot require a membership to buy like they’ve been in college. That’s what we used to do. Are you for real? I’m dead. For real? Yeah. Because if I. Uh, to be quite frank, that’s the place where I buy my alcohol. I buy my alcohol in bulk. Don’t need a membership to buy liquor. I dunno if Maggie, if you can, can look that up. But that was always the case. Or we would just harass the Costco employees until they’d sell us their cheap liquor. I don’t know. Oh my gosh. I have a, sorry. Before, before we get into it, I have a fully expired Costco business membership card, and they never say a thing to me. They never say a thing. They just let me waltz in and I love it so much. And then they’re like, you need a cart? I’m like, no honey. I know what I’m doing. And I just love a. And I also love whenever you leave any sort of bulk store, there’s always someone checking at the end. Mm-hmm. Were you, when you were a kid, would they ever like give you a little smiley face and like a heart? Yeah. Like, that’s the stuff that Costco does. Love you. And I guess Sam’s Club does too. No, you do not need a Costco membership to purchase alcohol. That is fricking crazy. And what a revelation. I just learned something new. Yeah. Josh, close your eyes. Okay. Okay. I’m gonna feed you hot dogs. Okay. Oh, is that okay with you? Yeah. Do you mind? Okay. I’m gonna, I’m gonna let you know whenever it’s near you. Okay. Let me just, okay. Are you putting condiments on hot dogs? No. No, I’m not raw. You raw dogging right in the mouth. I’m gonna raw a dog for you. Okay. This might as well be happening. That’s fine. Okay. Do you consent? I consent, yeah. A hundred percent. Okay, cool. You can do whatever you want to me. Okay. Open eat. Okay. A hot dog. Very good. Very good, Josh. Hmm. Okay. Yummy. Very smoky. A little bit sweet. Okay. Almost tastes. Like a kind of, um, halfway between like a smoked Louisiana hot link and a hot, like it’s a very s smokey hot dog. Great. Keep those eyes closed. Mm-hmm. Just do one, just do one wipe in the mouth. Where’s my water? Over there. Right there, right there. A little higher. I do, I need a palate hunter. Okay, go ahead. You have one rogue sesame seed that’s bothering me so much. You got it? Okay. Okay. Keep those eyes closed. Okay. Number two. Okay, keep those eyes closed. Mm-hmm. That’s Costco and it’s much better. How can you tell, was I correct? You are so correct. How did you know that? So Costco used to use Hebrew National. They did, but then, God, it might have been 2008 or something. Mm-hmm. They decided to take all their hot dog production in house to save money to try and keep it a dollar 50. Because Hebrew National also like moved operations to Brazil or something. Or they got bought by like a Brazilian meat conglomerate, Uhhuh a lot of business stories, but I think they tried to copy Hebrew National as much as possible. Did you try these yet? No. Um, so I can’t like eat hot dogs. Oh. ’cause you’re Ps you’re proac. You’re prt, you’re Pergo nuts. I mean, you’re pregant. I mean, I can eat them, but they’re not like hot, hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I’m not gonna like. And, but the color difference is shocking to me. A hundred percent. So I’m gonna get these, I’m gonna sauce these up for you. Okay. Sauce ’em up for me ’cause I wanna keep eating these hot dogs while we talk about it. Okay. Go for it. Um, no. Yeah, you could tell that right off the bat that that was a Costco hotdog and it was indeed better. Um, Costco also, do they still have the Polish dog option? They do because you used to be able to get, it was a quarter pound all beef hot dog or a Polish dog. Um, and I used to always get the Polish dog because I thought it was fancy, but now that I’ve grown up, I’ve realized the taste of hot dog is very good. It’s better. Yeah. Hot dog is good. Um, yeah. No, the one from Sam’s Club, it’s very good. There’s a lot of sesame seeds on the bun. Is it different than coffee? They look quite similar. Let’s see how size here. Same. I think the hot dog is a little bigger though. I think the buns are the same. There’s actually a coarser grind on the Sam’s Club hotdog, which is why I think, why I was reading. Wow. I can see. Like kind of, uh, almost a Lian Hot Link style, but it also has way too much, I don’t know if it’s a natural smoke on it or if it’s liquid smoke in there. Mm-hmm. But it’s almost way too much to where it takes it out of hotdog territory and more into it. It’s a little, yeah. More into some sort of sausage processy, slightly fine, fine grain sausage. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, Costco is just, it’s a better hot dog. There you go a lot. Do you look for a red hot dog or a brown hot dog? Red. Same. Always I look for a red hot dog because that’s how I know it’s a hot dog. When it’s brown, something tells me, not that it’s off, but it’s gonna be a different hot dog experience than I’m used to. You know what I mean? Why did you sauce the hot dog? Butt ate it. Ate the butt of it. I wanted to just eat the butt just to get the raw flavor of it before I actually dove into the sauced hot dog. Got it. Because this could add a different variable if it tastes better with condoms or not. Fair, fair, fair. Fair. This could be its own show, Josh. Eating hot dogs. Eating hot dogs. With Josh. He’s a man who loves to meet. Eating hot dogs with Josh on the YouTube. The meat is a tube. That was pretty good. It’s pretty good. Also, I’m saving my actual lunch. Oh yeah, your loco. The loco for dinner. Mm-hmm. Because Julia’s gonna dinner with friends. That way I don’t have to cook. So I can save time. ’cause I spend all my time at the grocery store. As you, as you see, Gove got an, an active social life. I see. Mm-hmm. Good for her. And I’m gonna need to go to the gym after this ’cause I feel sick because, I mean, I’m like pre sick from eating all these pizzas. Mm-hmm. I’m just happy to be, I, I feel like, you know how like people say they get like phantom pregnancy pains or like they gain weight ’cause their partner’s pregnant. Mm-hmm. I feel like I am also tasting the hot dogs. Watching you do this. I’ll tell you what. What, more longer hot dogs. Less thicker hot dogs. I like long dogs. Love a long dog. Love esteemed bun. But I like thick too. It’s very hard. It’s very hard if, but I, I think I just love hot dogs in general, that I’m just down to eat them no matter what. Sure. Somebody says something interesting where they says to me, they says Josh. It says Josh. Yeah. They say Josh. Josh, yeah. They says that, and then they says to me, they says, Josh, hot dogs in 2025 are what Bacon was in 2011. You know, can I tell you why I kind of agree? Yeah. Because there’s this fashion round called Stout. Have you heard of Stout? No. They’ve made a hot dog bag, a purse. They’re commodifying hot dogs as this weird, like weird of virtue signal to people that, Hey, I’m a cool girl. I eat hot dogs. Yeah, it’s like a. Like post ironic Americana. It’s the reason von Dutch hats are back. Yeah. I don’t get it. The reason why the, the jort, it’s like Woodstock 99 fashion is back, is like people are post ironically loving hot dogs, you know? Oh. It’s not post ironic for us. So we are genuine dog aficionados. Just a guy that likes tubes of meat. You know? Don’t, wouldn’t, yeah. We wouldn’t name our podcast. A hotdog is a sandwich. We both didn’t like hot dogs. Right. You know what it is? What is it? You know what the hotdog fetish of 2025 is? Mm. It is the Camouflage Waltz Harris hat. I’ve never seen a wall’s hair, hat of the wall’s, Harris hats, you know what I mean? Me, it’s like this, this flipping of like commodifying, like rural Americana of like the hunter camo. I see. Oh, I see, okay. Okay. But for progressivism. I see. I see. Okay. You know, so now you got a bunch of like, kind of like leftist, cool girls, uh, eating hotdog. Mm-hmm. As is kind of like ironic meditation on Americana. Right? Not me. I just like the tubes of meat. Yeah. No political affiliation. We just like meat and tubes. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. I could eat pizza though, right? What? Dr. Josh? Let’s eat some pizza. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s, I have a lot of thoughts about what pregnant women should and shouldn’t eat and pizza is, pizza’s definitely a a thing you should eat. This was hot at one point. Can I just look at the bottom? Jesus Christ. Look at the bottom. What is, what is that? That’s the grate that the pan, that is the pizza grate. Is there one on over there? They both have the markings, they both have the memento style tattoos of what has happened. But this is, have you ever slept on one of those mats that like Is like an acupressure mat? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is literally it. It’s almost like braille. I had to incredible close my, this is Sam’s Club. This is Sam’s Club. They’re so, can I tip similar looking? Yeah. Eat the tip. Eat the tip. They’re so similar looking. They are just unrecognizable to the Italian brain. You know what I mean? As pizza, if you show this to an Italian, like this is pizza. They’d be like, no, it’s not. No. Similar though to potentially an Argentinian futa. I was literally about to say, it’s just like futa. I was about, I was literally about to say that. Tell him about futa. It’s this big like pan. It’s this big pan of pizza that’s just like co, it’s like a thick, thick, thick crust, almost like a focaccia covered with white, white, white cheese. And it has a speckling just like this. And then you could put like onions on it. Sometimes you put ham on it. It’s really good. I don’t care for that. Maybe it’s better when it’s like piping hot. Should we microwave it for 10 seconds? Do you think that’ll change it? I don’t think it will. Then you don’t think? I think we can get a pretty good representation of it. Um, I, I love the little pimples on the bottom. There’s, so it literally looks like cystic acne. The dough is just like so yeasty. It’s so, it’s so yeasty and like wedded. It’s too yeasty from all of the fat. The cheese is adequately salty or salt. Like this is a no frills, big ass slice of pizza. It’s gonna keep you full for a long time. Mm-hmm. I heard a slice of classical pizza has like 46 grams of protein. It does, and then there’s a lot of other things in it as well, but it’s just like, it’s so heavy and there’s just so much mozzarella cheese on it. Yeah, you can see the different cook times on the pizzas. The Sam’s Club was clearly cooked a little bit shorter. I need a hot dog pallet cleanser. And it looks like the Costco one was, is almost overcooked the style of pizza you want. Well done. You, I agree. Because there’s a likelihood that the cheese on the bottom might be a little bit under. Mm-hmm. And you don’t want that. But you know what I used to do when I was a kid? Ah, I used to take the cheese off and I would eat the bread, I’d eat the bready saucy bit and then take the cheese and eat that. In case you were wondering like are they just getting everything from the same factory though? I have no idea you left the tip for me. Yeah. Best friends, the crust. The crust tastes the same. It has this like very easily collapsing gluten structure. You know what I mean? The sauce is different. What’s that? The sauce is so different. Sam’s club sauce is sweeter. Oh yeah. The Costco sauce has more depth. Do you taste that? It’s pretty insane. Salt levels are completely different for both. Completely different, wow. Costco Clear. Sam’s Club a hundred percent. That sauce takes it over the edge. That’s a re That’s good. That’s good. Cold pizza, you know what I mean? Wow. How did Costco do so much better than Sam’s Club? Because they look so similar, you know, whatever, like, um. Like appropriate a piece of art. Yeah. You’re just copying the visual of it. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. You’re not copying the soul of it. Yeah. You know what I mean? It’s like every single brushstroke. ’cause that artist adding their personality and touch into it, and that’s every single Costco pizza, Costco pizza dough, actually a lot thinner. Mm-hmm. A lot better structure than Sam’s Club as well. Wow. Wow. It’s probably cooked at a higher temperature for longer. Yeah, everything. Everything from the cheese to the sauce. To the crust, to the cook. Costco clears. Mm-hmm. There’s no hope for return. Sam’s Club here. Well, we do have miscellaneous baked good, savory, baked good as well to get through. But they took a pretzel and they put their, the same pizza toppings on it. Yeah. Oh. Maybe that’ll save them. Oh. Oh my God. Costco Pizza. It’s been too long. Costco Pizza. Do you know why I never get Costco Pizza? Because you’re watching your macros. No. Why? If I’m at Costco, I don’t care. Macro macros. Am I right? No, it’s because the chicken bake exists. Oh, you go for the chicken bake More than the pizza. I have always been. You are? So, I mean, I’ve, I’ve eaten a fair amount. I’ve eaten a lot of Costco pizza in my life. Okay. But I’ve always gone directly for the chicken bake. The chicken bake. The reason why I love it so much is that it retains heat. Yeah. You know what I mean? It stays warm. It’s still warm. Should I crack it? Yeah, crack it open. Crack it like a glow stick. Sure. Oh, look at that. Well, yeah, that’s pretty good. Hot Caesar dressing. You smell the hot mayonnaise in it. That’s why I love it. Give it to me. This is sick. This is sick. The amount of carbohydrates reading right now is sick. Mm Wow. I got tempo pause bench today. What John Work on my bench technique doing tempo pauses again. Back to building from the ground up. Is that, is that like tabban? Kinda. Why do you know what Tabata is? Honey? It takes a lot. Is bad to be clear. I didn’t mean that, honey. It takes a lot of trial and error to look this. You think this comes natural. You think I get that too, man? Um, there’s so much black pepper in this. It’s so good. I know the Costco chicken bacon is presumably some sort of pizza adjacent dough. Yes. That is then covered in a, a whatever Cheese gets this hard when you bake it. Parmesan, you think this is Parmesan? Don’t know if they can legally say Parmesan. It’s probably Parmesan adjacent situation. Parmesan adjacent cheese. Yeah. And it is filled with more mozzarella cheese. Uh, chicken, bacon and Caesar salad dressing. All that’s missing is lettuce. They should serve it with a side of lettuce. You know, like you can go to like bodegas in New York and get like a Jamaican beef fatty and then get it cut open and add stuff to it. Mm-hmm. That’s what I want with my chicken bakes. What? Yeah. They should be offering that. I wanna take that. I wanna take it to the onions. I want some pickled jalapenos in here. Some people like to put their hot dog inside. You should do that. Put your hot dog in the chicken bake. Yes, sir. Oh my God. Oh my God. And then sometimes people wrap the pizza on it, but you don’t need to do all that. That’s too much wrapping the pizza. But the hot dog and the chicken bake is a good idea. I’m smoking this to the bacon. The hot dog really works well together. Josh, I’m so glad that you are living your best life right now. Come on, man. Are you having a good time? This the best episode we’ve ever done. Okay, now it’s time for pizza, pretzel. Repeat after me. Pizza pretzel. Let’s jump back. Pizza pretzel. Okay, Josh needs to swallow, but basically this is a pretzel that is coated with pepperoni cheese, and I don’t think there’s sauce. No. Looks like there’s no sauce, but you dip it into the sauce and I don’t know, are you a pretzel person? The only time I ever eat a pretzel is when I’m going, when I’m at, um, the outlets shopping with my mom and I buy a pretzel from Wetzels pretzels. Okay. I’m not a pretzel guy. I’m not a pretzel guy. Nicole, why not? I, you know, a lot of people talk about the Philly, the Philly soft pretzels and all that. I just, uh, to me it’s, I like, like a good German pretzel that’s just like darkly brown and hard. You know what I mean? Yeah. You like German pretzels? Like German? Yeah. But like, uh, you know, your normal like mal pretzel, I’ve never been a fan of, I love mal pretzel with like a little jalapeno cheddar dipping sauce, honey. I feel like you’re depressed. What’s going on? Sad. Yeah. I’ve been thinking a lot about my life choices after eating that hotdog chef instead of a chicken bake. Are you sad? My problem with like mal pretzels like this is, they’re not like pretzel enough. They’re not hard enough. I want the pre, I want that like deep, dark, brown, weird, like larian sodium, you know what I mean? That like sodium bicarbonate kind of funk because that’s what like makes a pretzel pretzel, right? I disagree. I like a soft, salty. Easy to swallow, pretzel? I don’t know. I want it to be like gnarled and dark and small and dense. You should go to October Fest. What do you do? I would love that. What are you doing in America still? Dude, I don’t think putting the pizza stuff on it makes it better, you know? You know what I mean? You don’t like this. You know, Sam’s Club you tried and you did not succeed. Gimme a different flavor profile than pizza. If you already got pizza, why would you get this over pizza? There’s a novelty to pretzels that pizza doesn’t have. It’s the novelty. H They should make a jalapeno cheddar. They, they should make a jalapeno cheddar pretzel. I agree with that. I would eat that. Why don’t you do that? Sam Club? I love a jalapeno cheddar bagel. Why not Sam’s Club Call Josh and I, we will literally build you a whole new menu and we’ll do it really well. All in all, yeah. Pretty poor performance by Sam’s Club. Sam’s Club. Sam’s Club. What were you there? What the hell? What the hell? Sam? I was expecting is from the Waltons. From the Waltons. A. A name that everybody can trust from the Waltons. I expected more. No. Could it go back and? Yeah, gimme the marinara. I wanna dip my hot dog. Chicken, bacon. The marana. The marinara at Sam’s Club is oddly too sweet. Like it’s, it is very sweet. It’s, it’s almost sickeningly sweet. There’s almost a corn syrup el element to it that makes me wanna gag. Excuse me. Would you call this gluttonous in nature what we’re doing? I don’t feel good, but if I stop eating now, then it’s all gonna really set in. So I gotta keep eating. Yeah. Um. Like you said, Sam’s Club did not have any desserts. Mm-hmm. They do offer a sundae. They have a brownie sundae, uhhuh. However, you gotta show up to game day and today was game day. You know, Sam’s Club didn’t know that. But what we do have practice how you play Sam’s Club. Damn right, Nicole. Tell what? Jesus, I don’t think I’ve ever had this, by the way. Me either. It’s a double chocolate chunk cookie. Dude, stop. Unbelievable treating it like that. This is like, this is. Uh, of half a pound, at least of Cookie. This is nuts. Oh my God, there’s so much chocolate in there. I’ve never had a double chocolate chunk cookie. No wonder those. What are their names? Big justice and age? No wonder are those big. No wonder those big boys are so big. Oh, wow. Look at all of this. Cry. Cry. Oh my god. Cry. I see the vision. You see the vision right now? Mm-hmm. How many booms has this got? Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. That’s a five. Boom, double chunk chocolate cookie, which is, this is really great. This is phenomenal. This is better than crumble. This is crumble can eat my shorts. I’m talking about that. This is, this is what crumble wanted to be. It was like this just big ass cookie. This is really, really well done. It’s super crispy on the bottom, but you know what? It’s not though. It’s not just a raw dough ball in the middle. It is phenomenal. Some of these big freak cookies, these big genetic freak, big papa pumps, Scott Steiner, Hass cookies out here, right? Weighing two pounds, got 9 million calories in ’em. Oh, cut ’em in into fourths. You know, they’re all just like raw cookie dough in a way that I’ve been like, dude, just eat the raw cookie dough, right? I thought we decided as society that we could do that, but this is like a properly big cookie that is also massive. It’s the size of a big ass brownie. Tastes like a cookie. It’s really well done. Delicious. It’s so, it’s like Mrs. Fields adjacent. Yeah. It tastes like Mrs. Fields, but it’s in a crumble package and I think it’s incredible. I think Costco really showed out today. It’s really, I’ve always of course, loved Costco, food court, food, Uhhuh, but I kind of thought it was just the nostalgia of me having gone there with like a basketball teammate’s mom. And you felt a mother’s love when you were nine years old for the first time and she bought you a chicken bake. This food is actually like really good, especially compared to the alternative. Their pizza is really, really well seasoned, well done for the style that it is. It’s a big wet, greasy cheese blanket, and that’s delicious. Mm-hmm. The cookie’s really well done. It’s a perfectly seasoned hot dog. They’re making a house and then the chicken bake is a a, a modern marble of handheld. Uh, meat and mayonnaise Costco, I love you and you clearly love me too. Bring back the carne asada. Bake Spring always gets me in the mood for fresh. Starts cleaning out closets, planting something new. And this year I’m diving into a new language with Rosetta Stone. 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Who’s judging you wrong? So I like to eat my candy in layers. For example, if I’m eating a Twix, I have to eat the chocolate and the caramel first. Oh, and I saved the biscuit for less. I understand. I also do this for Kit Kats and pretty much any other food or candy that you can think of. So what are your thoughts? Do you do this or am I just weird? Thank you. Bye. Want me to take this one? Take it, take it, take it. I do this with Kit Kats too. I have a very specific way of eating it. Some people call it the Kardashian method because I believe Chloe Kardashian did this on the show. I was doing it before her though. And, um, the Kans. Um, but um, I only do this with Kit Kats. I don’t do this with any other candy, but this is a little bit OCD to me. What about to you? I do this only if I’m eating a large amount of candy. Mm. Because I’m somebody who really loves variance. Like how much variance? How much? So if I got, say I got five Kit Kats say I’m really going to town on ’em. You’re, you eat five Kit Kats in a sitting sometimes. And what I’ll do, what do you like, like bar like we’re talking about like bar, it’s like a bar of kit. So say a standard Kit Kat has four bars of kit. Yes. And then and four, you know, if Cat and then, so what I’ll do is I’ll eat two straight up. And then for the last two, I’ll get a little freaky with it. You know, I’ll start trying to nibble off all the ends of the chocolate. Yeah, that’s, and then just leave bear wafer. I’ll try and bite the wafers in half. You know. Ditto. Something’s very fun about taking a Twix and scraping off all the caramel with your teeth. Mm-hmm. But I will say, I think the best experience. These are products that are not just somebody experimenting with making a delicious food, right? These are products that have been dialed in over decades and decades of, of research, of focus grouping to create the best experience possible. So I think, not objectively, but subjectively, it is a better experience to eat the candy as it was intended by the manufacturer. What do you think has the highest return on like Futsing with your candy Kit Kat? Oh, but you think like that’s a better eating experience to like separate the layers. It’s fun to eat a kick out like that. There’s people that like, like say a frozen york peppermint patty, that’s like a good way to improve. I think that’s a fun time. The menthol, the cold temperature gets nice and changey. Oh, you’re saying what? Candies deserve to be changed a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Okay. I like to take a red vine and bite the tip and bite the bottom and use it as a straw. And when I’m done using it as a straw, I eat it. Great use of a red vine. Uh, much, much better use of a red vine than just eating a red vine. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uhhuh, you know, what’s what, what do other people do? Well, even like, um, a so. Reese’s. I, I never really liked it because you eat the skirt. I eat the skirt. And, and by far the best. The best Reese’s Eating experience is the original cup. I disagree with you. I love the minis mini cups. You love the mini ones. Well, you like the depth and the hardness, the chocolate. I like the mini ones because, um, I like the thickness of it. I like it tall. I like how tall it is. See, I like how thin and wafery. Oh, I like how thin the chocolate layer is above the peanut butter, but then it gets thick by that sexy little skirt. The skirt is so sexy. The skirt is so sexy. It’s the sexiest part of any chocolate bar. I, I’ve never seen a sexier part of a chocolate bar, I’ll say that. I will say close is the little, little snickers chocolate dimple at the top. That’s also sexy. The vein. The vein, the snickers vein is sexy. Did I just find out something about myself? Uh, whenever you eat the Snickers, do you put the vein on the tip of your, uh, on like your tongue side or on the side? No, I’m not tongue the vein deliberately, but like I see the Snickers vein and I think that looks like a really good chocolate bar. It’s an attractive part of the chocolate to me hot. It’s not just a vein of Snickers, it’s not just the vein, but also I would say. The almond in an almonds joy, that’s also sexy to me. Why are you gay? The almond, is that a reference? You dunno what that is? Oh yeah. You’re gonna, the grocery store, you’re not watching the tiktoks. I’m listening to like, uh, like punk music in a one earphone in the grocery store. You don’t know that meme? No. Oh, I don’t. The meme culture. I, I don’t, I think we’re too, stop going on the internet. Start going to the grocery store every couple days. Um, people like, next opinion, please. Too expensive. And it’s like you spend less. Thank you for your honesty. If you go to the grocery tomorrow, you’re not weird. Hey, this is a mental to be diagnosed beast from Hawaii. I just wanted to say I love listening to the podcast. Aw. But it thanks really aggravates me when I hear anyone say, uh oh. A Hawaiian thing has pineapple on it. Oh, interesting. Which, if you look at the history of Hawaii and pineapples, pineapples aren’t from Hawaii, they were imported to Hawaii. Mm. And they were, there’s a complicated history with them. Ab so literally, so pineapples are not inherently Hawaiian. No pineapples come from South America. I believe that. I had no idea. Which, it’s interesting, but also Hawaii, it’s um, I don’t believe pineapples are part of the, the canoe crops. Um, but have you heard of like the, the canoe crops in Hawaii? No, I believe it is where native Hawaiian sea fares would hop in canoes, but they’re, they’re big ass canoes and they could go hundreds of miles in these canoes. Mm-hmm. And they would go to other islands that are in the Pacific and Interesting. And they would bring back crops ing. So Hawaii is like a really, really interesting. Agricultural phenomenon. And then you bring in like American colonization and commerce. Mm-hmm. So like the Dole Pineapple Corp. Well, the Dole Corporation kind of is the reason that we like forcibly annexed Hawaii and like dethroned their queen at the time because of American fruit interest. So there is a lot of controversy around it. Um, but the usage of the term Hawaiian to mean pineapple likely comes from a brand of pineapple slices called Hawaiian. I believe that’s a true story. So they um, uh, uh, God, it was a Greek immigrant in Canada who made Hawaiian pizza for the first time, and it was canned pineapple, and I believe the brand was just called Hawaiian. So that’s where you get the name. Interesting. But yeah, it’s funny that you know anything now just with pineapple on it, people kind of brand as Hawaiian. Let me tell you, I learned something new because I used to be that person that would associate. Pineapple to be Hawaiian and Hawaiian to be pineapple. A hundred percent. Well, thanks for teaching me something new, mythical based in Hawaii. There’s always this, um, you know, this question of like, what is native to a place? Sure. And not Right. So even like, uh, tuna poque. Right. Okay. That was from native Japanese, Japanese fishermen in Hawaii. Ditto with soy sauce to show you, you know, and there’s a, there’s a lot of like, great. Indigenous Hawaiian food as well. But I think when you take such a purist view of like, listen, potatoes, were not in, I, they didn’t grow in Ireland either, you know? But now it’s become an important part of Irish food. Um, ditto with tomatoes in Italy, ditto with chili peppers in Thailand. You know, uh, crops change the history of everything is like always brutal and depressing. Um, what about Lili Coy, this is what I like. Is that how it’s pronounced? Lily Coy? Yeah. Passion fruit. Passion fruit. I associate passion fruit more with Hawaii than I do pineapples, though. Same on roof. Li Coy is a native to Hawaii. I’m not sure. I’m not sure. But either way, that’s a very, that’s a very fair and valid point. Also Hawaii. Very, very interesting. Uh, food history. Hi, Josh. Nicole, it’s Tia from Maryland. Hi Pia. Um, I recently went to Australia and I got these crackers and they’re Vegemite and cheese flavored crackers. Yeah, they’re absolutely delicious. And I also put almond butter on them. Oh. Which made them even more delicious and that’s probably extremely controversial, but y’all should try them anyway, I hope you guys have a great day. Can I confess something? Yes. One of my current pregnancy cravings is, um, Vegemite Toast with butter. Interesting. Why do you think it is use this need yeast extract? It’s so salty. What other pregnancy cravings have you had? Um, one day I craved bloody Mary’s non-alcoholic, um, jolly Bee spaghetti and cantaloupe, all in the same day. My cravings fluctuate and they last for like 10 minutes and then they go away. I love Vegemite. Like right now, if you were to offer me a Vegemite toast with butter, oh my god, I would literally cry. It’s so good. It’s like so savory and so delicious. I love Vegemite. More people like to eat Vegemite are, do you wanna talk now? Sorry. Huh? Do you wanna talk? Sorry, I’m looking up what, what fruits are actually native to Hawaii and it’s crazy. So there’s a lot of like non-native fruits like. Banana, coconut, papaya, passion fruit, guava, mango. None of those are native to Hawaii, but they were brought by new plants for the Polynesians. Okay. What were you talking about? I’m so sorry I wasn’t listening to you at all. It was, I was just saying about how much I love Vegemite right now and like Vegemite butter toast is some of my favorite things to eat while pregnant. Oh yeah. It’s delicious. These crackers sound good too. The almond butter. I know. Almond butter. I mean, it’s not inherently sweet, but I think we associate it with sweet things. Almond butter. Sure. You got what I mean? Yeah, yada. I mean, you know, put it on, put it on, put it on some Vegemite cheese you think? You think they have shapes? Vemo in cheese, AAUS aaus shapes. Hey, I freaking love speaking in an Australian accent. Maybe I should move to Australia. I don’t think I’m very good at it. Would you miss me? But I’ll luck to do it. Would you miss me if I moved to Australia? I’d miss you. Yeah, I’m talking to the people I know. You’d miss me. I’m talking to people. Interesting. There’s a fruit called aala. What does it taste like? Aala. Breadfruit. I’ve had ulu, I’ve had ulu, uh, never mountain apple. Is it scaly or mountain apple? Scaly. I don’t know. Noni Fruit. My mom was in a, my mom was in a multi-level marketing scam, uhhuh about Noni juice. Oh yeah. Yeah. That’s fun. Noni is apparently not a very delicious fruit. Yeah. Well, anyways, that’s cool. Thanks, Benny. Hey, Josh. Nicole. This is Carly. I just had the craziest dream. It’s my niece’s name where I was served a red tomato based. Curry. Mm-hmm. With ident, unidentifiable things in it. I don’t even know what they were, but the most strange thing was it was carbonated. Oh. Oh. What do you think that dream even means? Oh, got it. A, I just wanna, everyone at mythical kitchen brings so much happiness in the world. Aw, thank you both so much. Bye Maggie. You hear that you bring happiness to the world. Aw. Aw. There you go. I think you hungry and not only you hungry, you’re also thirsty. What? You are hungry. Okay. No, no, no. I hear you saying hungry. But you’re not only hungry, you’re thirsty. Do you mean physically or do you mean of, of the soul? Their like, uh, touched, starved in a way. Like what? What are you talking about? No. They’re just hungry and thirsty. Okay. Eat a snack and drink some libations before you go to bed. Boo. I think that maybe you have that disease where food ferments in your stomach. Yeah. That’s a cool, and you’re getting, yeah. Well, you get drunk. Yeah. You get like drunk off the food. Yeah, that’s, that’s carbonation. I went to a restaurant. I want that once. This wasn’t a dream. I had the deviled eggs and they were. Wildly carbonated. They were so fizzy. The devil eggs were fizzy. Ew. And I think it might have just been the hot sauce. ’cause they had like a lacto fermented Fresno chili hot sauce then. Yeah. This wasn’t a fancy restaurant. This is Finney’s, the, the bar in Burbank. I’ve never been to Finney’s. Anyways. Yeah, don’t, don’t get lacto fermented hot sauce from a, a bar in Bur Burbank movie theater. Um, so anyways, I’ve had savory fermented, or savory fizzy foods because of fermentation. So I guess what’s happening inside your gut and your gut brain is trying to tell your brain, brain to signal something to you. I, either that or you need to repair your relationships. I don’t think it’s that deep. I think you just do eat a little cracker before bed and then have a sippy sip of some LaCroix. Clear. Well. See if that solves your problem or maybe talk it out with a second cousin. I don’t know. I don’t think they were asking us to solve a problem either. I, I, I wish, I love interpreting dreams though. Like, honestly, all jokes aside, whenever people come up to me and tell me about their dreams, I like interpret the crap out of them, but not this one. What are you looking up? Pay attention. Fascinated by native Hawaiian fruits. Ugh. You know, Hey Maggie, and, uh, and, and uh, you know, my name, the other two, you know my name. Um, so I’m not a hot sauce connoisseur by any means, but I think hot sauces that include. Like the flesh of, I don’t know, vegetables is better than ones that are just straight liquid. Ah. Like I really love Tabasco. Yes. And I feel like it would be so much better. Good man, if we got actual pepper pulp in there. You know what I mean? Oh, pulp. Like spicy liquids are cool, but like I want, I, I guess I just want some body. Mm. You know what I mean? Body. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Love you guys. You know, for someone who doesn’t know our names, he said he loves us. Sometimes it’s easier to love somebody anonymously. You know what I mean? It’s like no connection. We’re just lovers for the night. You know what I mean? I had one of those, dunno your name. Dunno your name, and I already forgot their name, but I will say I love you too because this is a very good opinion and I. I recently made two hot sauces, um, this weekend to bring to a party ’cause that’s the kind of guest that I am. I bring hot sauces and I made like a roasted, like a roasted bordering on burnt habanero, guillo, habanero, guillo, garlic, and then actually like mustard seeds, little cumin, coriander, fresh toast, spices, you know, wanna get a lot of flavor ’cause it’s gonna be really spicy, so you gotta pack it in there. Yeah. You know. But a big part of hot sauce making, you could blend all the stuff and then strain it. And then add any thickener, like a xantham gum to give it some artificial body. Sure you can. But yeah, just use the pepper pulp as the body. I like, I love pepper pulp. I think it’s underrated in a lot of hot sauces. Mm-hmm. And yeah, I like that textual element. I do like the body. I think whenever it’s too chunky though, it can get a little bit off putting and it adds texture to a dish when all you want is to add a little bit of spice and vinegar and salt to a dish. Um. It’s like people that like orange juice with pulp and without pulp I’ll always be a pulp person. Just ’cause I like, like even whenever I get coconut water, like I like it with a pulp. I like that pulp. I hate orange juice. Pulp. I love orange juice. Pulp, it’s like hairs. It reminds you what? It reminds you of what you’re drinking. It’s hairs, but they’re good. Yeah, I guess so. I’m on, I’m on your team too. If I can make a recommendation because you said you like Tabasco. Tabasco is just salt vinegar pepper, right. There’s a great hot sauce out there called Arizona Gunslinger. They also go by the name, he doesn’t get paid for this, by the way. He just really likes it. Really love Arizona. They go by another name. It’s like Arizona Pepper Company or something like that. I dunno. Anyways, uh, Arizona gunslinger red jalapeno. It is just like red jalapeno’s, water salt vinegar, but they leave the pulp in. Mm-hmm. And it is the best hot sauce in the game. It’s so good. Check out. Uh, David tried it the other day and he didn’t like it. Why not? I don’t know. He’s also a hot sauce connoisseur, so I was like, mm. Some the math isn’t math thing. Joshy leiki. David Donky. Question mark. Who of us has the more exquisite pals? David, I challenge you to a hot sauce stool. And on that note, thank you. I’m gonna do this one. You do the other part. Okay. And on that note, thank you for listening to a hotdog as a sandwich. 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