Oh boy. Oh boy. I really hope they have Spider-Man ice cream at the ice cream truck. I want the Powerpuff Girls one. The one with the gummy eyeballs. What the minions? 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. That made no sense. The show where we break down the world’s biggest food debates. I’m your host, Josh Sher. And I’m your host, Nicole and I. And that intro was me and Nicole coming to terms with the fact that we are old and washed and no longer understand popular culture. Well, it’s not our fault. On account of the fact that ice cream trucks are now, one, they’re selling minions. Two, they’re no longer selling cigarettes to kids. That’s effed up. That was our culture that we grew up in going to ice cream trucks in the 90s and early as well. My ice cream truck experience was a little bit different because I, you know, growing up in nice old Beverly Hills, my ice cream truck guy, I I remember him vividly. Actually, I when I was talking about wanting to do this podcast with my husband, he said, “Oh, are you going to bring up Amir?” And I’m like, “Of course I’m going to bring up Amir.” And Amir was the designated ice cream truck guy throughout our entire childhood and adolescence. Oh, funny. And he was he was at Roxberry Park. He was at Beverly Drive. He was at Beverly Hills High School. He was there at all times, no matter what. And he was so nice. He was the only ice cream man that would like let us operate on credit. What? You had a tab at the ice cream truck. We literally had tabs at the ice cream truck. And Amir was the nicest man on planet Earth. Amir, if you’re watching, thank you for being so formative in our childhood. He was the kindest man in the world. Wore the cutest glasses. And he had everything. He had all the ice creams you could ever imagine, all the new stuff. And he actually pioneered freezing um what was it? He would freeze the watermelon sour patch gummy gummies. And he would like dole do it out. I say, “Hey, you guys want to try something new?” We’re like, “Yeah.” And he’d be like, “Okay, this is gummy bears but sour and frozen.” And it was the watermelon ones. And to this day, every time I have a frozen sour patch watermelon, I’m like, “Thanks, Amir.” That’s so funny. Did you guys have um the the ramen in the back? Cuz he had this thing where like for like high schoolers, he would like give them ramen cuz they were like on the football team and stuff. So he had a hot water heater in the back of his car in the back of his truck where you could just like have hot water and a ramen. Isn’t that so nice? No, we didn’t have that. We We had um cap guns and fireworks. This is in Oceanside. A fart um fart bombs. They would sell fart bombs. They would sell poppers. And then yeah, you would sell loose cigarettes to to kids. Um but then when I when I went to like Orange County cuz I spent summers in Oceanside when I was like at prime ice cream truck age, right? Like 7 8 n. But then like in Orange County then it was more straight laced by the books selling ice cream treats. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whenever um my sister lived in Irvine, we would always that ice cream truck had all the naughty things. Like the amount of stink bombs I bought when I was like 10 years old was crazy. I was Yeah. It’s funny like the the gerrymandering I guess of ice cream trucks and what they can sell is pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It’s funny. We uh there’s an ice cream truck. Julia works from home, right? So there’s an ice cream truck that drives around. She hears it. And I was like working from home like one day a month that I do that and I hear the ice cream truck and she goes like, “Oh, you have to see this ice cream truck. It’s so creepy.” And I was like, “No, you just grew up in the suburbs. This is not a thing.” And then I went and looked at it and I’m like, “Oh, what is it?” Yeah. Well, it just looks like the ice cream truck out of a horror movie where it’s just like real beaten down. We live in like a very nice part of town as well in Sherman Oaks in the valley. Um, and no, this this looks like uh it’s going to children. Like is it like white and like the paint is peeling off? Like what do you mean? It’s like dark blue. The paint’s peeling off. Like one of the wheels is wobbly. Like the the copyrightiting on it is really weird. It’s just like for happy children, you know? It’s great. And I’ I’m sure the person driving it is very very nice. Um and I but I’ve never gotten anything from it. I would love to see rates of people going to ice cream trucks over time. I think it’s declined obviously. It’s got to decline, right? It’s got to have declined, especially with like distrust um around parents and children and talking to strangers. Yeah. And like with like people’s diets and stuff being so like Yeah. Sugar’s bad. Sugar’s bad for you. But not today. It’s not. Sugar is good for you today. We have so many ice cream treats. I’m so excited. I am too. What we’re going to do today is us as professional chefs, we mostly use that phrase in the title hoping to entice people to click, but both of us both of us have made money from cooking for a majority of our careers and lives. I would consider us somewhat professional chefs. Yeah. I want us to like really analyze these nostalgic ice cream truck treats. Okay. from a cheffy almost molecular level and as people who who have a lot of interest and former work experience in the consumer package good space. I want us to like really try and dive down the rabbit hole here and see if we were just kind of fooled by marketing as kids or if these actually taste good cuz I love ice cream truck treats. Well, what was your Well, do you have a go-to that you absolutely loved like throughout your childhood? Like we’re talking about the formative like let’s let’s say seven to nine. Let’s say the seven to nine range. What was the ice cream you would always always go for? So, it depended if I had enough money. If I had the amount of money like Choco Tacos were a$125, but the cheapest ice creams were 35. So, there’s always something called a bubble gum bar that was 35. And my mom bubble gum bar. I’ve never heard of a bubble gum bar. It was like a generic brand, just blue and blue and uh pink and like didn’t taste like much, but it was the cheapest one. And my mom, right, she was part of a cult that involved flipping thousands of pennies all the time. I do remember and we can find no record about this and I’m still very confused. A lot of my child were in this cult literally no idea. She had a little girl. You never met other culties. You never met other cult members sometimes. But you just didn’t ask questions when you were a kid. They were around. You don’t ask questions. Um so anyways, uh but we would steal from the cult pennies and we’d take that to the ice cream truck and it was just easier to steal 35 pennies than it was 125 for taco. Fair. But if I could rank them, I would go cho taco. What a treat. Strawberry shortcake bar. Still I’d say my favorite. Occasionally I switch it up. You get the Flintstones push pop. Okay. I I was never a big fan of like the Tweety Bird or the Spider-Man or the Spongebob. Wow. I just to me I was like, I’m 7 years old. I don’t want the gimmick. I’m here for the pure unadulterated taste of a fudgeicle. Do you believe that like this Spider-Man ice cream was the boy ice cream and the Powerpuff Girls one was the girls ice cream? Cuz I believe that there were gender roles in those ice creams. 100%. That’s what they’re marketed towards cuz I remember like oh like and like if the ice cream guy like sold out of the Powerpuff Girl gumball one and he’s like but we have the Spider-Man one. It’s the same like no that’s a boy ice cream. I remember vividly saying that and doing that and think no I don’t want the boy ice cream. I don’t want Spider-Man eyeballs. I want uh what was it? Bubbles. Her name was Bubbles. Yeah, Bubbles the blue. I want the Bubbles blue one. And then the gumballs were just like bleeding. Like the eyes were just like bleeding like this. It was so funny. Gender performance is a prison. We need uh non-binary ice cream treats. And I believe minions are our savior. Minions are non-binary. Minions are non-binary. Can I have an ice cream treat? Yeah. I’m just opening this to see what it is. Okay. This was Okay, so this is Yeah, this is one of my sleeper hits. The orange creamsicle. Oh, yeah. I love this so much. Why? Cuz it’s nice and tart on the outside and it’s dreamy and creamy in the middle. Just like me. This This is an elite. Like I feel like eating an orange creamsicle made me understand flavor from a young age. I think it taught me complexities. I think it taught me the complexities of flavor. It is so good. It still hits. Oh my god, it’s so good. Tastes like hospital though. It does. The artificial orange, but there’s not too much citric acid in there, but like it’s artificial orange, but it it tastes like orange zest. Have you ever like stayed overnight at a hospital or like a few hours and they bring you that little orange juice from concentrate? This is what it tastes like. It does taste like there’s real orange in here fortified with extract. But something about the texture and the flavor of orange concentrate reminds me of hospital now. That’s interesting. That probably didn’t remind me before. I can’t eat chicken white bean chili because of I ate too much of it in a hospital during a traumatic time. Like I really can’t. Okay. I’ll never I’ll never ever put that in front of you. You said chicken white bean chili. Chicken white bean chili. I will never ever as long as I live ever eat that food with or in front of you. It was pretty good and it was like the healthiest, hardiest option, you know, in the cafeteria. And so I was just I probably ate like six bowls of it, you know, in one day. No, like over the course of like a week. Oh my god. You know, I’ll cry. Yeah. I like orange creamsicles. I can’t imagine anything better than this. There. You’re really going to town. Dude, we got to eat so many popsicles. Orange creamsicle on a scale of 1 to 10. Uh-huh. What would you rate that? Oh, it is. Where can that improve? A six. A six. If you were to like make that artisally. Uhhuh. Artist. You like make that from scratch, which would be annoying. You’d need a series of molds. I don’t want to do that, but okay. How would you improve on the flavor? Um, I don’t think I could. I mean, maybe zest. Maybe some more zest. I like taste orange zest. They’re probably I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s like special. This is a fun time. We’re going back to our childhood. We’re reverting. Like I think there’s actual No, there can’t be any real orange in there. Or is that how they make orange extract? It’s just actual zest, right? Well, I recently saw the movie Extract with Jason Baitman and Munas. You know, I’ve been meaning to watch it for like nine years. Oh, honey. It’s Mike. It’s Mike Judge. I know. You love Mike Judge. I love Mike Judge. I love Jason. I love Munas. You should watch it. You It was really good. I’m get they don’t really get into the extract making of it all, but I assume that they take or I think what they do is they take oranges and they whiz them through a machine and then they extract it from the peel. How else could they do it? Yeah, that’s probably easier than like finding it’s not like truffles where they’ve just like found a chemical compound that has, you know, the the same like whatever old factory makeup of it. Oh, hell yeah. Fudge pops. I I give I give an orange cream like that’s a solid 8.1. Wow. Really? Did you ever get the fudge pups that were stuck together and then you would have to rip them apart like a wishbone? I always hated those. They never seemed they never seem to break apart evenly. They were never equal. Okay. Fudge bar. It’s a really nice chocolate flavor. Man, it’s so good but also bad. It’s like the Hershey bar of ice cream. No, it is. It is. I was just going to say that. Mhm. I think um there’s like a journey with every foodie, right? Where you sort of come to you come to feudy consciousness and you start to have these beliefs like, “Oh, I’m not drinking mass market beer. I’m going to drink an IPA cuz I like to taste the hops in it.” Or or like the only good chocolate is 72% dark single origin. you have these like stupid ideas and then you like reach maturity and you’re like the best beer is a cold beer, right? All chocolate’s kind of a fun blessing. You know, you just eat a square of Hershey’s chocolate and you’re like that’s pretty damn good. Yeah. You know, that’s kind of what this is. The fudge bar. Yeah. You know, it tastes like that Hershey’s. It’s like a little bit plasticky. It’s a little bit too sweet. You know, even this you get a little bit of like the dust of the cacao. You taste dust. The flavor is interesting. Like lick like I think that’s fair. I think that’s fair. I think I understand what you’re saying. There’s not a lot of milkiness in it, which I kind of like. No, same. It’s icy. A lot of these are going to be super icy, right? Cuz when it like sits like that, it develops ice crystals. Yeah. But this is such a a unique flavor of chocolate. It’s like a Tootsie Roll almost. You know what I mean? Yeah. It’s It’s Itarkens back to another another time. Truly. Wow. You really got up in there. It was going to break. What do you rate a fudge a fudge pop? It’s not my favorite. I would almost never choose that over. I’d never reach for it. I think it’s pretty well done. Mhm. A little too if like if you were to make that arteasonally and good. That’d be like a good thing. Like as a chef, if you were to like use good dairy, good chocolate. I know we just talked about how like Hershey’s perfectly good and there’s perfectly good, right? But this is something that I think like could actually be improved. And so I’m giving it a 6.8. I’ll give it a 6,2. How much? What did I give the orange creamsicle? I don’t remember what I gave. I don’t think you ranked it. I’m gonna give it an eight. Push pops. Now, this is not Flintstones branded, which does anger me. It puts me in a fit of rage. Well, Josh, it was really hard for a girl like me to find um an ice cream truck in Burbank cuz I’m not from here. And I didn’t feel comfortable. Not from here. I didn’t feel comfortable asking the kids. You know what I mean? Please don’t pull up to a public park and just go, “Hey, I’m looking for children. This tastes like medicine. I don’t like I hate fake cherry flavored things. Tastes like Oh, it tastes like medicine. Oh. Oh, that’s Yeah, that is not good. That’s disgusting. This So, this is It’s called Froley’s. I’m sure the Simpsons one, not the Simpsons, I’m sorry. The Flintstones one was like orange. Uhhuh. That tastes like medicine. Veryetting. That tastes like medicine. I don’t know. It’s very upsetting me. So, it’s like a sherbet. supposed to be like a sherbet. A bad sherbet, not a good sherbet. It’s really There’s so much um like gel gum or guar gum in there. Yeah. That the way it melts, it melts into like a heavily acidified shaving cream. Yeah. It’s not. It tastes like dimeap. It literally tastes like shaving cream and medicine. Robbitasin. I love the Flintstonones ones when I was a kid. I’ve always loved sherbet. I’ve been a big I was a big sherbet kid. Well, the Flintstones one again I couldn’t really enjoy cuz it was a boy ice cream. Flintstones was boy ice cream. Yeah. Because of Barney and Rubble. Yeah, but they had Fred Flma. Velma flip Wilma. No, Willard. Wilma. What’s her name? What? What is Yeah, I guess it’s What about Bam Bam? Pebbles. Pebbles is a girl. I know, but it was such a boy. I get it. It was such a boy ice cream to me at that time. Betty Rubble kind of hot. Betty Betty Rubble. She’s got that cute little that cute little black the black bob. She got a choker on. Yeah. Tight little Damn. Tight little. What are you about to say? Said she got tight little dress on. I thought you say tight little bod. I’m like this is a This is not a children’s show. We can I can talk. I can I can appreciate it. The Flintstones was a children’s show. No, it’s for all ages. What? What? Everyone Oh, everyone can talk about how Mrs. Incredible. Got got a dunk or whatever, you know. But I can’t talk about Betty Rubble and how, you know, but but she’s she’s like a classy. You mean to tell me you think Hannah Barbara cartoons weren’t? Oh, maybe. Well, that’s this proposes a great question. If a show is is a ch quotequote children’s show, does that mean it should be all ages? Something like Bluey. This is something This is very different. Like they had four shows back then on TV at any given point. There were like four a and everybody watch them. Also, the Flintstones is like an 80year-old show or something. Not 80, probably a 60-year-old show. The only people that care about Flintstones IP are old people now who happen to respectfully lust after Betty Rebel who she’s like a mother. She’s like raised a family like she’s a you know What are you getting at? I’m getting it. I don’t think it’s disrespectful to say that Betty Rubble is like a beautiful, classy, dignified woman who, despite having a very schlubby husband in a relationship and family, Barney Rubble, that was his whole bid. He was like stupid and schlubby and he’s got this beautiful wife. What’s Fred? And what’s same? And their wives were too good for them. That was the whole plot of the Flintstones. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I get it. Oh, so now you agree that she’s hot. Yeah. Rubble, what’s up? What’s up, girl? What’s this? You want a real man who has an iPhone in a car? His car doesn’t run. Oh my god, it’s a bomb pop. Well, I’m proud to be an American. Well, at least I got ice cream. These are smaller than I remember. Wait, they used to be literally the size of my forearm. What happened? Shrinkflation, I guess. So, is this a name brand bomb pop? Yeah. also insane with the military-industrial complex that we just created rocket shaped ice cream. That’s crazy. This isn’t if you are creating anti-American propaganda from another country and you’re like their children are literally eating ice creams. Their obese children are eating ice creams shaped like the bombs that they drop on our country. Yeah, I can see how someone would get radicalized against America. You know what I mean? I I see it now. Like, right. This is nuts. This is crazy that we advertised this. The colors The colors are red, white, blue. That’s crazy. But it tastes good. I think the propaganda makes it like a three. Tastes like eight. I don’t know that we should have bomb pops. I don’t think I’m being overly woke here, man. What do you mean? If like North Korea made like If we watch videos of North Korean kids eating popsicles shaped like bombs or guns, we’d be like, they’re brainwashing the kids. You’re 100% right. I was eating this at like a Blue Angels show watching our naval fight. You know about the Blue Angels? No. My parents are like really patriotic, but I don’t think like that. Uh, so my dad was in the Air Force and they have something called the Thunderbirds. Forgot your dad was in the Air Force. The Blue Angels are a team of like stunt pilots. This started after World War II and they like do the flips and and stuff in the They do the flips. They fly in formations. They do air they do air shows. Cool. But they’re all like very very legit pilots in like utterly insane amount of training. But ultimately it is I mean if you call it propaganda, you call it recruiting, whatever. You know, it’s it’s meant to be this like marketing arm and it really is really effective. It really gets people to get jacked about being in Is it during Fourth of July? They they do air shows all the time. They’re on a whole traveling tour. Is this in Oceanside? We used to go God is like Delmare somewhere in San Diego. They would do they would do a famous show. But like I think like 20 pilots have died doing the air shows. Yeah. Over a course of a long time. But there haven’t been that many Blue Angels pilots. Like statistically it’s something like 9% of Blue Angels pilots have died making it the deadliest job in the military. No way. To be stunned by a lot of the deaths were like pre-1970. They they don’t have that many, but there was one in the last like 10-15 years. That’s sad. I know. It’s really sad. So, I would have been eating a bomb pop watching, you know, a deadly naval pilot stunt show. There you go. Um, what would you rate? I’m proud to be uh bomb. It’s It’s still really good. It’s very like artificial in a way that hits different as an adult than when you’re a kid. I agree. But I think still really delightful. The texture on it is really nice. Good blend of like creamy with icy. Yeah, I was very impressed. I’m gonna say 7.4. I’m gonna I’m gonna do this as a whole considering the whole like bomb pop and propaganda. Oh yeah. Are we going to give it I’m going to give it a four. Yeah. It feels weird. They should They should call They should call it the flag pop. They should call it the flag pop. Yeah, that’d be you know make it like Uncle Sam’s hat or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. like just like an AK-47 popsicle, you know? You know what’s that one? That one. Which one is it? I don’t know. This is my favorite podcast ever. Josh talked about his mom’s call. It’s a hand grenade. There were There were hand grenade drinks. We had grenade drinks. Megan, look up hand grenade drinks. What? What the hell? What are you talking about hand grenade drinks? There were drinks that were called like Oh, man. No, it’s not. But it’s not. Is this just an alcoholic thing? I thought there were like children’s drinks that we drank out of grenades or did we just call them juice grenades and they weren’t actually grenades? You You mean the hugs? They were the barrel juices. I swear to God there was like a grenade juice. I don’t remember. Um, so this is an off-brand. God damn it. You got off-brand strawberry shortcake bar. How many times do I have to tell you? I couldn’t go up to the children of Bourbank and say, “Hey kids, where’s the closest ice cream truck?” I had to buy these from the store. Okay. These don’t taste the same. Okay. And it’s bad, but the good ones taste really good. How you can taste the difference between like an RC cola and a Coca-Cola, right? Um, I’ve never done that side by side. taste the difference between, you know, Doritos and like a store brand nacho cheese tortilla chip. Okay. I’ve never seen a greater disparity in quality and taste. Mhm. From an off-brand product. Yeah. Versus the Good Horum. It’s Good Horror, right? This is Good Humor, too. This is Good Humor. Wait, really? What’s What’s the OG brand of strawberry shortcake bars? I thought it was Good humor my whole life. I thought it was, too. Is it not? Megie, what’s the OG brand of strawberry shortcake bars? I’m convinced this is good humor. This isn’t the OG. It might. You know, it might have happened because th this was my single favorite. Me, too. You know what I think? I think that they give the ice cream truck people the legit stuff. Like that’s what it’s supposed to look like. This is the same. Yes. Fascinating. I know the photo doesn’t exactly match, which is fine. We just got catfished. But if you eat the bottom part, it tastes really good, doesn’t it? I mean, the whole thing still tastes perfectly good, but to me, I grew up loving Nesquick strawberry milk. Me. Well, yeah, we love artificial strawberry. Artificial strawberry is And I I I eat probably a half pound of strawberries a night. Yeah, big strawberry. You know what I mean? Big straw. Well, I don’t even like it. Julia likes them. I’d rather get a paniply of fruits, but that’s fine. Happy to indulge. So, I eat a lot of, you know, fresh strawberries. Okay. Nothing hits like the fake stuff. I mean, I stand by that a million%. I love fake strawberry milk. Have you ever made like fresh strawberry milk using actual strawberries? Yes, we’ve made that together and it sucked. Sucks. It sucks. You need the fake stuff. I need Yeah, I do. I need I need the lip filler. I need the Botox. I need the artificiality. The The crumb coating on this gives such a pleasant mouth feel. It when it’s when it’s properly dispersed, it does. Yeah, this this is a poorly executed bar despite being a mass-produced factory product. I agree. They need to work on it. They need to work on it. I’d say this, as far as taste and execution, still a solid 7.1, but the OG Strawberry Shortcake bar, I think, is damn near It’s a 10 out of 10. It’s a single perfect. I agree. Even the chocolate version, the chocolatey cla version. You like the chocolatey? It’s still good. It’s not my favorite, but if they’re all out of strawberry shortcake, I’ll get a chocolate clair. Really? I would not. I would do the strawberry shortcake is always my first go-to. The second choice is always a drumstick. I would always get a drumstick. A caramel filled drumstick. I’ve never been a drumstick guy. Oh, what? Oh my god. I think because you know what I do get? Um, we got to eat these. These are melting. I’ll tell you all about it later. Let’s see. Is that Spongebob? This might be Spongebob. Oh my god. What if there’s no gummy eyeballs? Are you going to hate me forever if there’s no gummy eyeballs? Oh Okay. Wait. It’s melting fast. Are there gummy eyeballs? There’s no gummy eyeballs. What the hell, man? What is this little piece of Is that for me? Yeah, it’s for you. I got this for you. What is this little turd? Is this what they’re selling at the ice cream truck? I’m going to go to the Krusty Krab. [Laughter] Why do you sound like Waluigi? That’s your Spongebob impersonation? Okay, so we’re about to eat Spongebob, but it doesn’t look like Spongebob. This Spongebob ice cream is fake. What What does this Spongebob ice cream look like to you? It looks like an AI version of Spongebob. I will say these our Spongebobs do look Yeah, there’s almost nothing Spongebob about it. Um they they kind of look more like Minions. Exactly. The minion minionification of ice cream treats has gone too far. But if you’re a child, you have such a suspension of disbelief, right? I don’t know what that means, Kobe Bryant. Like you if if there’s a picture of Spongebob on a box, it says popsicles. You go Spongebob and then you open the package and you see a sweet treat. You’re smelling the sugar. You’re getting all hyped up on the fact that you’re about to eat a bunch of sugar. Yeah. And you just go Spongebob and you put it in your mouth and you don’t care. But Spongebob didn’t even have red pants and the gummy eyeballs were like really intense. So this Spongebob does not have any Spongebob was wearing a shirt. Spongebob has a shirt and pants and square pants. But look what they used to do. Look what they used to do. Look what they took away from us. Look what they took away from Spongebob. Spongebob has a a large toothy grin in the cartoons. The ice cream that we are eating merely has a cheshure cat single line drawn smile with chocolate with Is it chocolate though? Yeah. Yeah, I taste it. It’s chocolate. Oh, it’s chocolate. It’s really disappointing. There’s no gumball eyes. I I need the gumball eyes, dude. I’m so mad. Why has time passed us by? The things that we remember as being joyful no longer are. This is wrong. Where else do we get joy out of life, Nicole? I don’t know. I guess maybe doom scrolling on Tik Tok does a pretty good job. Nuts. I give that a I give that a two. I hope I hope that this was a flub on my part and that the ice cream truck people are still serving the gummy eyeball ones. Please tell me you are, cuz for the sake of the children, you must still be selling the gumballs. Are you enjoying it? As far as taste goes. Ew. Honestly, it tastes like butt. I think it’s really nice. I I like eating butt then. I like eating banana flavored butt. Yeah, it tastes like banana flavored butt. If you think I’m a butt eater for loving this Spongebob ice cream that a butt eater I shall be because I actually think this is really well done. That’s because you like banana. It tastes like banana butt. Banana. Banana. We got one more. We got the original Fat Boy ice cream sandwich. out. There are multiple ice cream sandwich options when you go to the ice cream truck. I always did toll house. You were Toll House. There was Toll House, there was Chip Witch, there was UFO. Oh, UFOs. Oh my god. But to me, I’ve always been a Fat Boy boy. Never never had a Fat Boy growing up. This is where it’s at, dude. The chocolate wafer ice cream cookie sandwich is so much better than an actual cookie ice cream sandwich. That is what I believe. That is a delicious treat. Holy crap. I think the majority of the ice creams we’ve had have been on the icier side. Mhm. Well, this is the first time we’re eating um creamy dreamy confection. Oh, how many calories have you consumed today? Don’t think about it, man. Okay. I How many squats did you do this morning? I did a bunch of stretches today. Actually, did I tell you I passed my gestational diabetes test? No. But is this going to make you fail? I don’t know, but I passed it. My doctor’s like, “Hey, normal glucose levels.” And I’m like, “Hell yeah.” I don’t know if that’s the case right now anymore. Sorry. You know what I love about this? It’s not a cookie at all. What is that? The coating. It’s a taste like there’s a taste of a chocolate scented saltine cracker that is left on my palette. It’s really well salted. It’s like a Subét cookie. Yeah, it is. Um, and then that combines with the sweetness and the creaminess, that vanilla. I’m transported. I’m transported back. This is wonderful. But do you think we like it now because our pallets are different? I think so. Yeah. You know? Yeah. What are the foods that you look back on most nostalgically that now you almost can’t even stomach? Gosh, I can’t even think about that. Let me think. I grew up in an ingredient house, not a snack house. So, I don’t know if that says anything, but like any like fast foods. Growing up as a kid, my Oh, McFlurries. I can’t even I can’t even think about a McFlurry without like wanting to vomit. Really? Cuz they’re so I’d rather just do a cone. Yeah, the McFlurry is intimidating. Interesting. It’s huge. Interesting. What do you mean? Does that Am I bad? Was that a bad No, no, no, no. I I still like for me McFlurries are still great. Especially the Oreo McFlurry. It’s like ballpark nachos. Oh, pretty gross. Like liquid nacho cheese. I still I don’t know. There’s like an idea of it that I love and then I actually taste it and I’m just or no, no, I’ll go one more. Box mac and cheese. Oh, I love box mac. That like the chemical cheese taste. Okay. I’m just like this does nothing. This does not make my life better. And I don’t think that makes me an elitist. I still love cheap convenience foods and a lot of them, you know, still mess with a riceeroni, okay? You know, but there’s something about that like chemical cheese taste that when I was a kid inter physically interacted with my palette in a different way than now. Really, I am so deeply nostalgic for it and I crave it sometimes. I have it like maybe once every 3 months just to remind myself what it tastes like. Microwave Stoofers mac and cheese. The thinking man’s mac. Oh, well that’s totally different. So Josh, how do you feel about the ice creams we tried? How do you feel about Fat Boy? What would you rate Fatboy? Fat Boy. That’s a 9.1. Yeah, I’m going to give it a nine. I understand why people would prefer the Chip Witch, the Toll House, you know. Um, but no, for me, that thin chocolate wafer there, I don’t know if there’s a clear winner here. Disappointing showing by the strawberry shortcake bar that we got. It bo It bothered me, too. What’s the single best tasting bite that you had today? Wow. I might just say, well, the one that was that kind of threw me for a loop was the fudge pop. Interesting. The fudge pop was really delicious to me. Like deeply delicious, but the Fat Boy like took it over the edge. Fat boy ice cream sandwich. Also, shout out to the orange creamicle. Love orange creamsicles. Love it. Fall is the perfect season to invest in yourself. And what better way than learning a new language? 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That’s unlimited access to 25 language courses for life. Visit rosettasone.com/hotog to get started and claim your 50% off today. Don’t miss out. Go to rosettastone.com/hotog and start learning today. [Music] Well, all right, Nicole. We’ve eaten about 300 gram of sugar and we’ve heard what you and I have to say. Now, let’s find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the universe. Time for a little segment we call opinions. I like casserole. [Music] Let’s get to that first pin. I hope you don’t play this on an upcoming episode, but I do have a question. You called. Do you think that a milkshake is always a smoothie? Oh, great question. I kind of do. Great question. Do you think milkshake is always a smoothie? This morning I called I called a shake one of those like protein shakes that are like in the little containers. I call that a smoothie which is not right. But a pro when you say a shake. If you say I’m I had a shake for breakfast. I’m going to assume you mean protein shake, right? Not milkshake, but not smoothie. But where’s the difference between I think if we analyze the difference between a protein shake and a protein smoothie? I can tell you what it is. Fruit. I would say it’s fruit, right? fresh or frozen fruit. But I would say there’s one fruit that bridges the gap. And I know what fruit it is. On three. One, two, three. Tomato. Banana. You’re right. Tomato. Tomato milkshake sounds great. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I would consume a tomato milkshake. I would love that. You know what? I love tomato leaf scented items. Like a tomato? Uh, I don’t know that I’ve had tomato. You’ve never smelt a fresh tomato? It smells a fresh tomato in a in like a in like a vine on like a vine. You ever like your fingers? But but where are you? You’re getting products that are scented like tomatoes. Yeah, like tomato leaves. It’s in right now. It’s in vogue. Tomato leaf is I don’t know anything about what’s in vogue. Um but banana is the thing where like you blend it into your concoction. Your concoction. Well, I’m trying because I’m trying if there’s peanut butter, you can go to a smoothie store, right? like a Robex, a Jamba. Uhhuh. A juice it up. Sure. And you can get something a quench that they they just call like Robex used to call like the 800 lb gorilla shake cuz it was like big beefy protein boy shake. But it would just be like peanut butter, chocolate, maybe dates and bananas blended with like frozen yogurt. That’s a smoothie. But it drank like a milkshake. Yes, it did. Jamba Juice had the peanut butter mud. That’s That’s correct. Yeah, peanut butter. Why did they milkshake? Why do they have the accent on the mud? Is there an accent or was it an apostrophe? O apostrophe o like I never understood that. Like a Maui name. Yeah. Um Yes. Yes. Like a name from the Maui. Yes. Chocolate moo. I would always put like a Yeah. That’s just a weird diiocritical to try and separate the anamonopia of moo from the pun on mood. I put like some Arabic sling on it. It’s like mood. Mood. Ah, habibi. Um, come to Jamba Juice. I think the difference between a smoothie and a milkshake ice cream. I don’t think it has to do with fruit. I think it has to do with fruit flavor. Ice cream. But if you put fro you can make a frozen yogurt milkshake. Certainly frozen yogurt and ice cream are I just we got to say they’re the same. They’re the same. What is the same? Soft serve ice cream. You go to yogurt land and they have they have their vanilla frozen yogurt. But Yogurt Land started doing I don’t know if they still have it. They started doing soft serve ice cream. Oh, they had just chocolate and vanilla. They may have discontinued it. Sounds fake, but it’s like the same for all intents purposes as the frozen yogurt. I don’t like that. You know, I mean, I don’t The lines here are razor thin. I I agree. I I agree. I agree with you. I agree. I think the difference between a milkshake and a smoothie is milkshakes are densely highly caloric on purpose and smoothies are that on accident. You know what I mean? I kind of agree with that. Yeah, I kind of agree with that. But you don’t think smoothie is an overarching umbrella term under which we see milkshakes? Um, no. Because when I think of milkshake, I think of I think of an accompany. I think of Johnny Rockets. I think we see No, I agree with that. Yeah, I think you’re right. I think there is an intention split. It’s not ingredientbased. I think Well, no, but also like smoothie uh has like a healthier connotation. Like, but that’s what I’m saying. Intention connotation. Is intention and connotation the same thing? I’m saying if something is conoted differently, it started with a different intention. I think I’m making a peanut butter banana milkshake and I’m making a peanut butter banana smoothie. What are the differences between the two? A smoothie, you want to have likely a meal replacement that is filled with some sort of nutrients that you can easily drink on the go. Okay. A milkshake, you want an indulgence, sweet treat. And I think that’s going to frame what other things you add to that other than peanut butter and banana. Cuz that milkshake is likely just going to be ice cream. A little bit of milk to thin it out. You don’t need that much milk. You always add too much milk and then you add ice and then it gets bad. Mhm. You know, smoothie. I You might be putting flax in there. For all I know, you’re not putting flax in a milkshake. You’re not putting unless you you get a flax milkshake. Sounds kind of nice. Sounds pretty gross. I think flax se I think ground flax meal actually tastes really good. Okay. It reminds me of like honey. It reminds me of like uh the Korean like uh bean powder. Injoli. The injury. Yeah. Is that right? Injor is made with this bean powder, but I can never remember the name of the bean powder. But it’s like Korean bean powder or like malt powder. It’s just that little savory. We spent too long on this. Uh, this is very riveting. It is. It’s a good question. Hi. Uh, my name is Hannah. I am from Michigan. Michigan. I was having a craving for something salty, but still that had some protein to it. Um, so I paired cottage cheese with taco sauce and then I’m scooping that with some tortilla chips. And it’s honestly so freaking bomb. You guys really should try this. What is it? Cottage cheese topped with taco sauce, tortilla chips dipped in it. Craving a salty snack. Still wanted protein. Fine. Pretty good. I I was thinking about this the other day. Cottage cheese and Greek yogurt have almost the identical macronutrient breakdown. Cottage cheese and Greek yogurt. Yeah. Okay. Cottage cheese was really big in like the 80s and 90s during that kind of high protein, lowfat, right? You know, era. And then Greek yogurt got really big in our generation. I think in the same way that we saw we me and Trevor talked about this in the podcast. Chili skipped a generation. Okay. Gen X love chili. Millennials estued it. Jenzie picked it back up. It’s the same thing going on with cottage cheese. Are you okay, Mikey? I hit myself accidentally. I’ll be okay. Okay, good. Um, I think it’s our first onset podcast accident. That’s very poignant. Very poignant. Thank you. I I think this is a delicious snack. Sometimes the curds are off-putting, so I have resorted to blending my cottage cheese a lot of the time. What if I told you you could eat yogurt? I yogurt has that tang. That quintessential yogurt tang. Does cottage cheese not have a tang? Not the way that the way not the way that Greek yogurt does. Greek yogurt has a designated tang. Uh, cottage cheese has a designated cream. Interesting. I have not, full disclosure, I have not eaten cottage cheese in probably four years. And I have not to your own knowledge to my own knowledge I’m sure it’s been somewhere in and also what do you consider cottage cheese is a farmer’s cheese a shephardd’s cheese they’re all terms for the same thing I’m thinking of nudson nudson called cottage cheese in America right but like ricotta is basically the same product just ricotta is basic yeah I’ll give you that you know what I mean I’ll give you that you know what I mean in Spanish you know okay I’m not here to fight you I’m here to find common ground like jubil I’m going to bite. That is exactly what Jubilee does. And they are not just platforming the most extreme people in every single regard. All about finding people. They want people to come together. But this but this series is called Surrounded. The new series. We have Yeah, it’s just Oh, 20 Republican police dogs surrounding a Democratic non-binary police horse. That’s what I want to watch. More animals on Jubilee, you know? Anyways, uh I’m gonna buy a big tub of cottage cheese. Great. You should and mess around with it. You should. Josh and Nicole. Josh and Nicole. I call upon your power. I need you guys to make sure that Carl’s Jr. does not get rid of their new queso burger. It is If you have not tried it, what are you doing? Go get it. What am I doing? We have eaten this burger uh every single day for the past three days. Wow. It’s that good. Can’t get enough of it. We are eating it right now as we speak. Joshua, I beseech you. I beseech thee. Go tell them do not get rid of that. I just said something. It’s a good burger. I don’t even like Carl’s Jr. And then you guys were talking about it. I’m like, “Okay, we got because like I had a bias, but now it’s delicious and I love doing zucchini. Also, more fast food places need to have zucchini rips. I get like Farmer Boys. Have y’all had Farmer Boys? I really I need to have Farmer Boys. Say something nice about Farmer Boys and Patty Mills. They’re really good. They’re really good. Okay, that’s it. Use your power for good. Thank you. What is on my face? I believe in true love. Do you? I should. like this. I’m sorry. Stuff like this makes me believe in true love. I I think you’re so beautiful together. Okay. If I get this queso crunch burger, no, they’re married. They never get divorced. Um I haven’t even heard of this burger. Some have missed all the marketing for it. Me, too. 100% all beef fatty char boiled over an open flame smothered in a warm creamy queso topped with seasoned crunchy tortilla strips pepper jack cheese fresh housemade pico de gallo served on a toasted bun. Wow, that does sound really good. Where can I get Can I get What do you mean where you get it? Carl’s Junior is where you can get No. Do you think it’s still alive? Do you think it’s Do you Do you want to order some? Yeah. You’re Nicole, you got to eat for the baby. Baby needs nutrition. Baby needs Carl’s Junior. I just shoved so much. I’m so I’m so sorry. I just gave her so much sugar and I’m gonna feed her Carl’s Jr. That’s not right. You baby love Carl Jr. This is a proud Southern California institution. You got a proud Southern California baby. I think I got a few fistfuls of kale to negate all the bad I did today. Do that tomorrow. We’re getting queso crunch burgers. Fine. Fine. Are you sure? Can you see if you can order it right now on the on the worldwide web? Maggie, can you call big button? I’m literally putting in the order now. I don’t Yeah. No, but you need to see if it’s on Posmates. Posmates. You need cuz cuz if it’s on the website that’s one thing. If it’s on the postmates that’s that’s actually accessible. I will say I think Carl’s Jr. has the best styled fast food burgers. Yeah. I you know what I mean? I look at a Carl’s Jr. burger on an advertisement and I’m like I want to eat that. Is that like the Paris Hilton like burger? Yeah. They they pine Can Are we doing that again? Uh yeah, they brought back sexy ladies eating hamburger sloppy. Uhhuh. I like that. Um what about sexy guys? When can I see David Corn and Sweat? Is that his name? Cornswe. I want to see David Cornswe eat a spicy queso burger and it like drips down and then he uses a fry to get the sauce off and then eats the fry. Wait, wait, wait. One, that’s that’s great. Um, two, they have a fried zucchini sandwich. Dude, what? That’s so inclusive. We got to We got to get some of this. Listen, we’re already eating ice cream today. I’m so excited. I’m Thank you for reminding me that Carl’s I need to check on Carl’s Junior’s new items because they do incredible work and I’m happy that you’re happy. Can you Can you order it? Do you want me to order it before we wrap up the pocket? Okay, you do that. Are you ordering it on I told you you need to order it on Postmates? If you don’t order on Postmates, it’s not going to come. Jesus Christ. Get your phone and order it. Do it right. If you’re going to do it, do it right. God, do tell the people to watch more podcasts or something. And on that note, thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich. We got new audio only episodes every Wednesday and a video version right here every Sunday on YouTube. And if you want to be featured on opinions or casserles, give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833 Dog Pod One. And for more Mythical Kitchen, check out our other videos. We launch new episodes every week. We’ll see you next time. Thank you so much for watching, listening, indulging us in our absolute psychosis. That has to update. What? Tap to update. Update it. Asking me to I’m updating it, but I’m telling you there might be a delay at our Carl Jr. Good Mythical Evening is blasting off on October 23rd at 1000 p.m. Eastern, 700 p.m. Pacific. So get your tickets now at good mythicaling.com.