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we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh Cher and I’m your host Nicole handy Zada and Nicole today we are solving in an age-old debate okay uh let’s just go ahead and throw in a wild card RC Cola we can’t we already bought the bought the books we don’t have an RC colon RC Cola that’s any any drink that has the price of it printed on the label Shasta does that RC Cola does that it’ll be like 99 Cents it’s like man they are not planning for inflation on this of course not like Arizona Iced Tea they’ve made an entire just brand I was never in Arizona you were never never this is the first time our upbringings have like different really no I hate I’m not a big fan of like sugary drinks oh give me the mucho mango so I’m not a big fan of like sugary iced tea well they did a good one where it was half unsweetened iced tea and then half just like corn syrup liquid it’s only on half the sugar but they call it like passion fruit tea but anyways the point is what are we doing today okay we are doing a blind taste test between Pepsi and Coke because you think you can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke blind of course I can of course you why are you so confident I am a super taster uh which actually doesn’t mean anything let’s be honest people say like super teasers have like 25 more uh flavor receptors those useless stats um I don’t believe in that at all I just think I don’t know I think I have a very experienced palette and I can taste nuances and things and I just I think I can and now I’m gonna see if it’s actually true or not what nuances do you think you can do it’s like give me your logic behind why you think you can taste the difference I well I think Pepsi has a little bit of a sweet metallicky taste while Coke has more of a of a just like Coke is like I can taste Coke I know it’s Coke because it’s the standard yeah Coke is a standard Pepsi has that sweet metallicky a little bit little bit acidic flavor that like I’m just like this is off interesting interesting so I don’t believe that I can tell the difference but that said I’ve always had a fear of being put through blind taste test because I’m afraid that I’ll get exposed as a fraud oh no I don’t think listen we need to go into this with like confidence and understanding that like this isn’t going to discredit us as no as a amazing culinary profession if we say this isn’t going to discredit us before we do anything nothing stupid then we can ever be discredited that’s such a brilliant hacking cool thank you for thinking of that no problem I do that all the time always cover my bases beforehand but we did do this one thing that gave me some confidence in my tasting ability it was an episode I did with Shane top from Smosh it was like a GMM more where it was a blindfolded Ice Cube taste or wasn’t blindfolded it was an ice cube taste it was like my first week here and like you weren’t allowed to know anything and I’m like I don’t know what I’m doing but okay and I smoked it yeah so I was calling out the specific flavors of Gatorade I called prune juice I called Worcestershire and so I’m a little bit confident in this so you mentioned Pepsi has a more acidic taste I do believe that to be true and that kind of goes back into the history and lore of Pepsi so Pepsi was started like seven years after Coke started essentially it seemed like they were kind of biting off the same they were biting off the Coke Wave does it have to do with like Pepcid or like like easing your tummy or something it so all of these drinks back then right they were these are just all medicines right they’re all tonics I knew they were they were medicines but I was just wondering like what it’s sort of like was it an analgesic analgesic analgesic analgesic how do I say that we got a bleep analysis yeah nlg pain reliever and was it like for stomach pain like what was it used for so it was just advertised as like generic like make you feel good drink but you hit it on the head with Pepsi is short for pepsin which is an enzyme in your stomach that helps reduce it however there is never any pepsin in it interesting so this dude uh what What’s the what’s the what’s the what’s the guy we have the info Caleb Davis Bradham Bradham Bradham Caleb Davis brought him so he started this in 1893 uh Coke famously comes out in 1886 and by that time there were a ton of different you know tonics sodas being sold like I mean Dr Pepper right he’s literally advertising himself as a doctor and then John Pemberton was an actual medical doctor who founded Coca-Cola but income in comes Caleb Davis Bradham who has this drink that he’s calling Brad’s drink that was actually there was no Cola in it at the time it was just sugar water caramel lemon oil nutmeg and like some other natural flavor interesting but apparently there was never any pepsin in it even though that’s what he was sort of advertising on the name but back then they were like you couldn’t advertise a soda without putting the name of a drug illegal or medical in it yeah my question is you know uh it looks like John Pemberton was a pharmacist now my question is are these like the old-timey pharmacies that Soda Jerks and stuff like that or is that like before that time I’m pretty sure that yeah like all this stuff was sort of linked together like you’d go to the pharmacy to get your medical grade cocaine back in 1890. yeah yeah egg creams kids come get your egg creams egg creams and go game down to the pharmacy so yeah meet your Best gal so why do people say that there were cocoa leaves there were in the in the original Coca-Cola like that literally so Coca-Cola was a an basically a headache cure right it was an analgesic okay and um stimulants cure headaches so they used extract from the Coca plant which obviously cocaine is is based off of and that is a stimulant if I’m remembering my sixth grade drug classifications correctly that we learned what is a barbiturate I have no barbiturate we learned about it I was like 11 years old yeah like people will offer you barbiturates you know it’s like I don’t know uh but anyways and the cola nut which is it has natural caffeine in it okay um from you know uh Africa and also has a really lightful flavor to it but Coca-Cola yeah it’s literally like oh did you never know that are you pulling my leg right now right now right now that cocoa plant Cola nut Coca-Cola but you knew of those two things individually never put it together yes I of course I knew both of those things existed I just had no idea that that’s the name of the drink that contains those two because we just know Coca-Cola is the thing that everyone drinks all the time it’s a trademark I never thought of it as like having like a purp like the name having a purpose yeah so that’s what it was so they’re too stupid like if you think about Excedrin right the the headache reliever drug it’s literally just like some sort of pain reliever and then uh caffeine in it wow because caffeine cures headaches and so that’s what all this stuff is about so Pepsi had added Cola to the name in 1898 about a decade after Coca-Cola blew up okay but the things that they left in there he had lemon oil in that original drink so if you look at the label on Coke and Pepsi the only real difference is that coke has phosphoric acid Pepsi has phosphoric acid and citric acid interesting so that’s the acid that we taste that that yeah so you say yeah you taste an extra lemony oh my gosh I I this is the first time I’ve looked at the label like ever but also to counter that acid in Coke you have uh you have high fructose corn syrup yeah and then Pepsi of high fructose corn syrup and extra sugar added Curry who knows how that actually plays out in tastes you’re saying I told you I can taste that it’s sweeter and I can taste that it’s more acidic but I didn’t even know that do you think most people can though no I’m special I’m the special one I told you this already you are special you’re very special the reason I really wanted to do this and to see if I could do it is because so many people you’ll ask what the difference is and they’ll go like Pepsi’s less fizzy and it’s like that all depends on the level of Fizz at the soda machine at the Cracker Barrel that has nothing to do they’re all like that’s not a real thing yeah um but that said it could be the extra sugar that’s making it be perceived as totally so there are slight slight differences I don’t think most people can taste them but do you want to do this thing right now do you wanna do it right now I don’t know do you have a blindfold what do you have a blindfold I was gonna have you close your eyes you have like a cactus over Nicole’s eyes are closed I have three cups in front of me and I have various amounts of Pepsi and Coca-Cola I’m going to put two of one of the drinks into two of the cups and then one of the other drink Nicole I will shift them around I will keep track of them in my mind and you will taste them and tell me what your answer is okay just so you know we’re surrounded by a lot of equipment so just be careful and don’t spill any liquids oh God I’m pouring I’m so nervous I’m scared but I think I’m just kidding why would I be scared I’m gonna do so good I have I contain multitudes Maggie did you know that okay okay my hands are here Nicole I put the first drink in your hand okay do I drink it yeah smell it drink it do whatever you want to do she is smelling the glass I drink it’s kind of he’s drinking yeah what are you waiting for okay may I have the other one please oh actually can I have a palette cleanser oh yeah we have um water do you want do you want me to put your water in your hands yeah I’ll take them do you have any initial thoughts on what that might have been nope I I do not Josh do not Josh put it here put it here what do you mean and let me grasp it and you put it on top of the last day we let us record my darn him be an athlete you don’t have any guesses on what that is you’re establishing a baseline no yes I mean I had an idea when I smelled it I smell him like this is Pepsi but I don’t know if that’s true you know what I mean okay okay I’m ready for the next one do you see how my hand is I see how your hand I’m bumping your microphone making your sound level so good it’s going horribly oh my God we didn’t even tell like Maggie our producers I just walk in and go Mega I need six cups foreign okay they both smell the same okay how do they both taste like Cola your eyes closed just taking alternate chugs back and forth from Cola in the morning is hilarious to me what time is it I have no idea I don’t know hold on wait okay give me like give me like a few minutes you have one more to taste by the way just to be clear to be clear oh God you gotta you gotta brush your teeth later that’s getting into the gums she just garbled it and swished it around okay you ever watch one of those like really grotesque wine tasters yeah they’re just like like snorting with the wine in the mouth and they spin it I am a grotesque Wine Drinker you’ll hear me sip my coffee I’m like I’m a slurper okay okay this is what I think the first cup you gave me I’m not gonna reveal the answer so yeah the third one okay what’s the third one there’s a third one there’s a third one yeah we have three cups okay two of them are one like one of them is the other wait what what there’s a third if it was just one versus one that wouldn’t be George I had no idea you said you were special I am I am she Weeps foreign correct okay number one is Pepsi number two is Coke number three is Coke Nicole number one was Pepsi okay Nicole number three was coke okay they’re called number two was Pepsi a not Coke you’re a frog you can’t taste it I did good I didn’t no two out of three it’s confounded six percent I know that’s a d but these get degrees okay wait hold on can I say something can I open my eyes can I say something about D’s getting degrees it turns out D’s do not get degrees because I got hold on turns out in the UCLA Spanish system yeah let’s talk about this right now it’s 73 did not get me the degree well I thought I guess I just assumed you need a 74 to pass and get the credit what kind of crap is that well I went to culinary school did the seal grades didn’t really matter as long as you just like sweet talk to your Chef so whatever uh no but I did pretty good you did pretty good you you seem to get Pepsi right off the bat I got Pepsi right out of that just by the smell of it I smelled it and I knew it was Pepsi yeah but what happened in drink number two then because that was Pepsi you know what it was I didn’t ask for a palette cleanser I didn’t you did between one and two yes repel cleanser but which one did I get right wait you got number two wrong I got number two wrong you initially said it smells like Pepsi but then you panicked and you went back to Coke so I got two out of three I got one out of three well you got two out of three depending depending on how you view success I got two out of three I think I did good I don’t care well I’m still special that’s not bad you you did guess it correctly and I think that’s better than a lot of people do I’ve done this taste test with other people who made the same bold claim and I just walked this is when I was working in a magazine I walked into their office with Pepsi and Coke and I had like eight cups you’ve done this before yeah oh and they failed but I’m gonna do it with you because I know yeah I say you failed because you had it wrong I did okay I I consider that a pass and I’m curious to see how I’m gonna do Nicole I need you to engineer the same test for myself I didn’t even what I thought what do you mean I’m anxiety can I have an empty cup please oh close your eyes Okay my eyes are closed they’re a few better foods to eat during the summer than a nice juicy grilled piece of chicken or steak or salmon that’s right whether you have a go-to favorite 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really oh okay okay I’m trying to think back to my memories also I get dizzy when I close my eyes I’m trying to think back to my memories of my grandma’s house and she would have caffeine free uh Diet Coke I used to do a lot of it smells like that okay I’m literally I’m trying to smell I’m trying but I’m getting such a familiar like it’s crazy the flood of memories that come back to me when you just smell a cola I just hit the mic with the phone oh no are you gonna smell it smells like the Sizzler buffet to me because I would always just get a bunch of cola Sizzler but are you ready for number two or would you like some water that that has a bit of a lemony taste to me okay so my first instinct would be to say Pepsi okay wait where’s where’s the cup hold on can you put your hand like this I got it I’m drinking them all from the bottom this one smells I could be completely off here but it smells A Little Bit Stronger of cola I’m not holding it anymore oh man I know man this is tough isn’t it okay let me know you want to hand it off to me wait give me number one back okay okay so I’m also tasting I mean there’s citric acid in both of these they’re citric acid and Coke those are phosphoric acid but there’s like there’s extra acid in both of these this is interesting okay so number two has more acid in it okay um which which could be a function of two things though what am I grabbing am I grabbing the microphone you just keep your hand out it’s okay so number two definitely had more acid more acidic flavor at least in it so that could be the additional acid in Pepsi or it could be me tasting the phosphoric acid in Coke because there’s less sugar okay I don’t know what that means this is number three okay okay number this is number two that you’re drinking right now oh okay a bottle with my mouth oh okay okay number two oh boy are you gonna burp after this no oh god oh wait give me number one give me number one again because now I’m trying to track the acid levels that’s what I think the key is I’m trying to track the ass levels in the back of my palette Coke you’re just trying to it’s nice oh God oh God I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know okay number two and three I was tasting similar acid levels one I think had a little bit less acid okay so however I’m going to say that one is Coke and two and three were Pepsi because I taste wait no no I’m saying the opposite sorry I’m saying number one is Pepsi number two and three were Coke one is Pepsi two and three were Coke okay number one was Pepsi yeah number two was coke and no way yeah it’s not weird that’s so funny so what did you get oh yeah we got the same scoring we not only that we did the same thing oh nice were we accurately identified two of them off the bat but then the third that was the same we both flubbed yeah I think it’s because once you have the colas in your mouth it just it just kind of like confuses you yeah because your mouth is still tingling like my like my upper gums are still tingling well that’s because I switched it I’m all tingly but that said to me that says you can’t really tell the difference I mean we we could tell the difference initially but I think once our palettes got blown out by all the bubbles and stuff and the sugar I think that’s whenever our body’s like it’s really really hard to decipher but our first guesses were correct for the two out of the three yeah what did you learn anything from that experience of drinking them blind and just trying to focus on the flavor in your mouth um a little bit like I can just tell the smell of Pepsi is very distinct versus the smell of coke the Pepsi has that ass like that acidic like acreage scent and then Coke is a little bit more muted I was gonna burp you asked if I was gonna burp in there is man there it is I’m sorry we’re done we’re done now we’re done with the burping no you were saying Nicole you were giving it a student analysis please go on I feel professional like this is like a college experience for me as someone who went to like not real cool very collegic this is a very fratty experience for me so thank you yeah uh I mean what was I saying something about acid level you were exactly I know you can smell the acid and yeah I can definitely smell the acid and Pepsi and Coke has a little smell after you smell lemon I don’t well they’re the same thing almost well but I mean think about the smell of but think about the smell of lemon zest versus the smell of lemon juice they’re like pretty different lemon zest you get that like it’s perfumey well no it’s perfumey yeah actual like acid I can interesting I can yes that is I believe you I’m not trying to say you know it’s they use lemon oil back in the day yeah they don’t use it now though well so we don’t know what they use so there’s a lot of stuff BuzzFeed did this article that was like this is the one ingredient difference between Pepsi and Coke and that’s the stuff we were talking about with the citric acid and the additional sugar however if you know anything how the FDA Works which you don’t BuzzFeed it’s that you can couch thousands of ingredients under the term natural flavors yep and so there’s obviously going to be some differences in that so they could be using lemon extract that could be using whatever that you’re legally allowed to put in natural flavors and don’t have to disclose Nicole stifled a burp Nicole had to burp but she didn’t let it out because she tried to put it to the microphone so you could hear it you know I just wanted to be like a part of the crew Nicole you’ll be initiated into the frown yay frat yeah that’s what they do in France they go frat I was not in a frat by the way people think that I was um I fraternity I didn’t even enjoy the Frat parties they were the worst you only had the best rats no they didn’t oh my would you go to zbt oh that’s from someone who like literally doesn’t go anywhere so one time I went to the UCLA zbt party tonight it’s the historically Jewish rat oh no it’s a pie that’s there too a pie is more Jewish than zbts EBT is kind of Jewish roots but as I went there and I made uh everyone deep fried mac and cheese chimichangas wow at the Frat party and they were all very excited about that well who would it be but anyways back back to Pepsi versus Coke um the thing that I was getting and that I was trying to track was is even though people say Pepsi has a more refreshing acidity or lemoniness to it I get more acid off of coke and again that can transmit through the phosphoric acid which is I mean any acid rate is going to taste sour bases taste bitter as this tastes sour that’s just cooking science yeah but aren’t there like different forms of acid like tartaric acid is different than malic acid is different than citric acids different than phosphoric acid exactly and citric acid is going to have like a similar citric acid is basically lemon juice powder like if you really kind of taste it like it’s sort of the most essence of fruity sourness yeah it’s fruity sourness whereas some of the other ones like tartaric acid malic acid we’ve tasted those in our world acid like like the back of my like my glands are starting to brutal like jiggle it’s a chemical acidity that you almost don’t associate with food Warheads yeah Warheads oh my tongue just started [Applause] did you grow up those urban legends about kids burning holes in their tongues with Warheads yeah yeah me too that’s why I was afraid of them I did it anyways yeah lots of dangerously but the thing I was tracking on the coke was or at least that I thought it was until I got number three wrong was like on the back of the palette there’s more of an acidic sort of like twang which one tastes better to you Coke yeah Coke tastes so much better Coke tastes so much better you right well on its own but I mean when we’re drinking you’re not drinking Coke buyers by itself you’re drinking it with food typically no that’s true that’s true their own I’ll drink soda as like a dessert I’ll be like I’ll finish okay so I eat so much spicy meals yeah and after a big spicy meal I need something sweet to calm it down yeah and you know that can be like Nicole you bought me my tray of Josh’s special cookies so I can have my little cookies after my meal yeah that’s the real thing I don’t know if we’ve broached that on the podcast yet but Nicole got me a Costco variety pack of kind of like fancy chocolate covered because every day he would go to me hey can we just buy some like snack cakes I would like I wouldn’t say can we buy them I’d say do we have any single bite snack cakes he used the word single bite snack cakes so I said you know what I’m just gonna get this guy a tray of freaking Costco cookies and he loves them he watches on them all the time oh I have the best time yeah yeah I had the best time I am an easy easily manipulable child yeah and you’re gonna be such a great uh manipulative mother one day I don’t say that no it’s a good way you gotta manipulate I don’t want to manipulate this is parenting with Nicole and Josh I want my kids to flourish and be free and do whatever I don’t want I want to supplement that with love care and attention no anytime can I criticize all the parents that listen to our podcast right now anytime anytime parents are like kid does don’t want to eat vegetables they don’t like them I’m like you’re an adult they’re a stupid child you trick them no no you have to trick them yeah you have chicken that’s manipulation yeah oh you want to know something crazy yeah my niece and nephew are like obsessed with Coke they like love Coke they go hey Nicole can I have a Coke and I say no like please I gotta be on my like this so I did really good in my spelling test I said I don’t care and then one time I gave my niece Pepsi and she knew that she’s six and she goes this isn’t Coke and I said look at the color that’s coach she goes no it’s different and I’m like girl you’re crazy I love her kids have mauritan palettes most I don’t know do they uh they’re more sensitive at least which is why kids tend to I mean at least this is what I’ve done the studies myself I haven’t swabbed some children um but kids they say prefer sweet to Bitter and they love sour candies because their palettes are more easily excitable and sensitive yeah as you get older your your taste buds just kind of dull dull like oh my God my eating with my 99 year old grandma is hilarious she’s like granny do you like the pizza at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse and she’ll just go like I don’t taste anything anymore yeah and you’re like that’s great grandma yeah one time I was hanging out with my grandma and I’m like hey do you taste it and like I’m like hey doesn’t that taste a little salty she goes honey I haven’t tasted anything since like I was 74. and I said what she’s like yeah the older you get you lose your sense of taste and sense of smell and I’m like what I hope that never happens to me because that’s my whole life it might be a beautiful release though right like the fact that we we spend our entire lives chasing New Taste but I didn’t I was yesterday that was just me gesturing into the wide world no no no no no no no okay keep going but I think you know at some point like we need to be released from our prison of chasing down new tastes do you think like you mean like as culinary professionals or just like uh well but I think you and I you and I both would have even if we didn’t do this as a job we would constantly be looking for the best new restaurant trying to find a better version of this dish trying to cook a better version of this dish yeah imagine one day just being released from that wow that sounds so great you can just enjoy all your other Hobbies you don’t have to cook anymore you just boil zucchini it’s a prison of my own design I know it’s a beautiful prison that I love asked for this okay so coke versus Pepsi I think we both established there are differences but we both did struggle amid drinking them side by side I think we both nailed the two differences right off the bat yeah and from slightly different angles which is interesting so there definitely is a difference and people can taste the difference in a truly blind taste test scenario though I don’t think a majority of like America probably will do yeah wasn’t there test didn’t literally Coke and Pepsi do this exact same thing like in the 80s or something or like the 90s there’s like a huge ad campaign where they would have people like lined up outside and they’d be like hey sis no I’ll taste this really yeah I know about this you’re kidding me you know everything I know you’d think so Josh you know no I know they did like the what was it the new coke coke did a full like Flavor in can redesign in the 80s no really mad about it in 1975 they did Pepsi did something called the Pepsi challenge a blind taste test showing more people preferred Pepsi over Coke it was a huge ad campaign I’m surprised you didn’t know about this no that’s really interesting though so that was actually what led to um we’re Googling it out that is actually what led to Coke doing the redesign into New Coke yeah uh which was like one of the biggest flops in history a fun fact I do know uh independently on my own about Coca-Cola and why I mean one of the reasons there’s such a transformative company they invented the freaking coupon what it is the first documented use of a coupon in like two years after the drink came out uh John Pemberton was just like in magazine or in what the Newsies the cereals the Nickelodeons the talkies whatever they called like newspapers local newsletters and stuff he just put in a thing that just said like redeem this for one glass of Coke that’s amazing God bless him and that and that is how I mean now that transforms into okay my lovely girlfriend walking into the Bed Bath and Beyond with a gallon Ziploc just full of coupons your girlfriend and I do the same exact thing and I’m always like a huge stack you just go there you go there you go there you go and I’m always embarrassed about it until you should never be amazed no because the cashiers are like in on it they get excited about it they loved it they like try and find you more yeah there’s like give me a whole stack honey yeah I know yeah it’s incredible embrace the coupon lifestyle when I was little I used to clip them all the time I used to I mean I was uh I still keep the Carl’s Jr coupons oh we have so many El Pollo Loco ones in my house oh two for three dollar on the western bacon cheeseburger yeah with a nice glass of coconut not Pepsi yeah coconut Pepsi okay right like you still even knowing they’re very similar and knowing that you got flubbed and I did too on the last taste test you go into a restaurant and they say it’s Pepsi okay what do you say because I love and care about restaurant workers I’ll always say yes but in my core I’m like no yeah but I don’t mind you know I understand why they choose Pepsi I mean I don’t understand I don’t know why maybe it’s cheaper I don’t know I don’t know I mean that’s all weird business decision with contracts and stuff like McDonald’s uses Coke you know Taco Bell I mean like Mountain Dew is an independently bottled thing yeah um and so is Dr Pepper and but they do Pepsi because PepsiCo has some sort of relationship to Frito-Lay which has some sort of you know all that stuff is really complicated but you’re like an independent restaurant and you’re like can I have a Coke or a Diet Coke and they say it’s Pepsi okay you always got to say yeah don’t make life complicated no no no I go actually can I get an unsweetened iced tea wow that’s my flip because I do prefer I mean The Branding of coke I prefer everything about it the look The feel the feelings that it inspires in me it could be because there was like a LeBron James Coca-Cola commercial in 2006 or something yeah that I remember but all of that you know knowing that they’re very very similar I did find Coke a little bit more enjoyable but I mean when you’re reaching for a soft drink right it’s not all about taste it’s about The Branding it’s about all the memories that you have built up it’s about the Bubbles it’s about it’s all about the bubble Jimmy gotta help with the digestion no but my question is when are we doing Sprite versus seven up oh Sprite versus seven up find out next week on a hot dog is a sandwich when it comes to your journey Hyundai is thinking of every mile that’s where the new 2023 Hyundai Palisade comes in the Palisade offers all the technology safety features and comfort a family needs for the journey ahead and boy does it really have so many Tech safety and comfort features stay connected with the Palisades Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities so you can keep the kids entertained on a long car ride or help a friend work on the go if you want to start that weekend trip early and if you’ve ever been clipped or had a mishap where you opened the door into a vehicle behind you the class exclusive safe exit assist the Hyundai Palisade has is a lifesaver it prevents the rear doors from opening if the vehicle detects traffic approaching from behind the Palisade also has available third row heated power folding seats which is perfect for people who run cold and it can fit up to eight passengers comfortably taking this car with this much capacity would be a huge asset on that next group Cabinetry you can say that again Nicole it’s your journey learn more at hyundaiusa.com safe exit assist is not a substitute for driver passenger attentiveness always be aware of your surroundings and attentive approaching vehicles [Music] I’m so sorry I’m so sorry Nicole it’s still I thought they were gone but they’re back they’re back they’re back okay Nicole in front of you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the twitterverse it’s time for a second recall opinions I like casserole [Music] is that where were you on that I love Whitney Houston wow what range uh okay okay first up first Up Wait first up do you think that there’s something wrong with my body the way that it produces gases no okay that’s just normal but I do burp like more than I think what it is I start my day with a lot of yogurt and I’m talking about 12 to 16 ounces I don’t need to know this information and then I think it’s it’s very kind of thanks for sharing I don’t want to know neither to do the fans I think the dairy okay anyways first up we got at C binge 15 margarine is nasty um this is polarizing I taste margarine it’s like the way that I I love eating fresh cherries right a good fresh Rainier or Bing cherry or Morello ugh delicious I also love the flavor of cherry flavored candy to me they’re different margarine is like fake butter-flavored spread yeah which is still delicious to me yeah margarine has its uses I don’t love it I don’t want to eat margarine I um glazed a steak and we had a bunch of margarine in the fridge in the mythical kitchen I was like I want to use it up so I glaze the steak and margarine and that was great it tastes like movie theater popcorn it tastes like movie theater popcorn yeah I don’t have an issue with margarine again always use butter when you can but like if you have like a recipe that’s like vegan or like if you’re doing kosher cooking like that’s fine yeah also margarine cheap is all hell cheap very cheap all right and so definitely a great money saving thing in there man I like it on toast that’s great ciao Mania says Biscoff cookies and string cheese are the perfect pairing you’re welcome okay I mean this is this sounds doable to me Biscoff cookies are absolute god tier Biscoff is good with anything it’s good with anything it’s pretty much good with anything I don’t think this pairing I don’t think the pairing is what I’m after with the string cheese and Biscoff I would like them separately I would like to eat a nice Savory meal of string and cheese like in your lunchbox yeah yeah you finish with the string cheese like it’s like coursing out a seven course you know French fine dining that’s all lunch boxes are there’s seven course dining meals yeah just in a box you start with your little crudite right you get the carrot you get the celery in there you know and then you move on to like you know the entree maybe there’s a little appetizer of I don’t know what do kids eat potato salad no chips giving your kids potato salad in 2021 please reevaluate Your Life Choices my kids are going to come to school slopping with a lunchbox full of potatoes no no your kid’s gonna come with like monkey hand rolls and stuff yeah because I love them he’s like artisanal jams I made my own confitur uh yeah and then you get your Frito misto with the potato chips and then you move on to the onions so like a mixed fried platter that you might get at the beginning of a meal what does that have to do with the kids lunchbox we’re talking about how it’s like a full courseed out meal who is pudding your Frito miso with the potato chips and then you got your entree with the sandwich yeah we got a ham and cheese hey beautiful yeah it’s gonna like a deconstructed croque Monsieur mustard on the side yeah and then and then you go under your cheese course you know the kids probably drink a little wine because it’s lunch a pouch of Capri Sun or something yeah and then you get to the real dessert which is a nice Biscoff cookie so to me they’re not a pairing but they’re a progression you’re so funny that was one of the dumbest conversations I’ve ever had candy vicky13 I like dipping bread and butter and cornmeal sue me do you think they mean cooked cornmeal or raw cornmeal it’s obviously raw cornmeal cooked cornmeal turns into politics we’re scooping up polenta with bread no they just take the they literally just go yoink and they throw it in there I mean eating raw cornmeal and bread the closest thing I can equate this to is a Chicago deep dish pizza okay think about it huh because you get no you get you’re probably oil in the pan you put the cornmeal on the bottom so it doesn’t stick there’s probably cornmeal in the crust and you get I can see I can see this just adding like a nice texture and if you leave the cornmeal in your mouth long enough it turns to polenta candy Vicky you can send me your lawyer’s information and we can talk about the arbitration process is that is that good was that good it was good yeah that’s a word I I read a lot of John Grisham books when I was a child a lot of upsetting themes in them two that were too upsetting for my young child brain but arbitration is a legal word okay yes uh see you in court yes yes okay Georgian you JR says what defines a Philly cheesesteak the Philly the cheese the steak the bun slash vessel I think it’s all encompassing a Philly cheesesteak must contain in my opinion meat bread in a long roll It’s gotta be a long roll right it’s gonna be long and uh you know some people don’t like cheese but I think it needs cheese yeah because I mean you can’t order like a plain steak and I think you could still say like hey you wanna get some cheese steaks even if you are ordering a plain steak Yeah I think it’s just got to be shinley thin shinly saved shitly saved beef some sort of thinly shaved beef that’s it these places will also likely do chicken steaks but like they do yeah I don’t wanna I don’t wanna I don’t know if you’re like if you’re like trying to eat red meat and you just get a bunch of like thinly shaved chicken meat with American cheese steamed and onions that’s like still a pretty tasty meal but it doesn’t feel right thinly shaved beef doesn’t necessarily have to have cheese to be a cheesesteak in my opinion I know yeah it doesn’t need cheese it needs the the long bun and the thinly shaved meat yeah that is cooked on a flat top because there’s a lot of other sandwiches that do something similar like you know the uh the Chicago beef sandwich I’ve never had Baltimore pit beef sandwich never had that uh a French dip maybe a lot of that yeah but I think it needs to be raw steak that’s cooked on a flat top uh and then doesn’t need onions necessarily because you know obviously get a plain but I think the long roll is a key like if you put that in Focaccia I don’t believe that’s a Cheesesteak anymore yeah yeah God I want a Cheesesteak oh my God can we order from Philly’s Best maybe we don’t dude Philly’s Best does really good work I don’t know why we don’t and she makes some calls I had MJ MCD cold baked sweet potatoes are superior to hot baked sweet potatoes yes this is a really good this is a really good I was just thinking about this because someone wrote an article it was it might have been eater and it was like this is the real best summer treat and it was like a frozen sweet potato I think people freeze them and then they bake them from Frozen I think that’s oh really yeah I think well no this but this article is just saying like rose a sweet potato pop it in the freezer eat like a frozen banana oh interesting and I think it’d be really good and I I was doing this is when I was on a weird not bodybuilding kick but I was like you know I I had the hernia let’s talk about my medical history and my bowels again yeah when I had the hernia and I like came out of that and I couldn’t work out for a year and I got back and working out I was trying to be that person we eat Greek yogurt and sweet potatoes all the time and that did not last very quickly um hard lifestyle yeah yeah it’s just it’s brutal but it was a nice way it was a fun month to kick start the fitness journey back but what I would do is I would roast a sweet potato uh for just like a long time in the skin in the jacket but like poke holes in it so you’re releasing the Steam and it gets so just fudgy and sweet and delicious and I’d put that in the fridge and just eat this ice cold it’s like ice cream so guys it’s like it’s like pudding yeah yeah I mean I I would like I think there need to be more sweet potato based desserts I love sweet potato big fan love sweet potato fries I love baked sweet potatoes I have sweet potato mash yeah sweet potato casserole with the with the marshmallows marshmallows I’m not a big marshmallows person I made it a lot of times though but like I’d prefer not to eat it yeah you kind of make it out of obviation I what I don’t like are sweet potatoes in dishes that like aren’t sweet typically like what if like you’re having a stew with sweet potato chunks I like sweet potato soup I’ve never had sweet potatoes don’t like that I do love though like uh you’ll put like kombucha and a lot of like Japanese soups getting that one little bite but if it’s like an every bite thing yeah yeah you know yeah yeah yeah oh yeah but this is a great opinion good job MJ mcdee we love you our guide nine M Ms and Skittles eating together are amazing it’s like eating chocolate fruit uh this literally is a meme where someone says have you seen the meme when someone’s like I have a bag of M M’s and a bag of Skittles and then pour some both and says let the chaos begin so uh I’ve actually had them together and I’m just not a big fan because Skittles are really acidic so I just don’t like these two together at all but I think it’s funny how like you like this person likes to do this for themselves like the chaotic knowledge like they love chaos themselves I love that yeah they’re engineering their own chaos for their lives chaos yeah that’s really beautiful um uh no the thought of this is nightmares to me mostly because I have soft teeth and eating Skittles scares me that I’m gonna put out pull out a filling yeah and if I’m if I’m jumping in thinking like you’re gonna have some delightful chocolate in your mouth and then it’s freaking lime Skittles whoa get out of here with that I’m not a fan but I love that you found something that you really enjoy that’s important keep doing that at Frank lamarca catch up on potato chips is good yeah it is good I agree I like it too I’m a big fan I’ve done this before more than once yeah I have um uh I’ll say it I mean I’ll just I’ll just make toast and dip and ketchup sometimes because I I feel all I want is a starch as a vessel for ketchup well you don’t have to agree with it I don’t have to yeah I don’t one psycho to another says Loft House Cookies are the superior cookie okay let’s talk about Loft husk cookies uh explain Loftus cookies they are the cookies that you see at the store that are uh kind of like white tan and then they have a beautiful pink sprinkle Circle was that pretty good is that a good way to describe it everybody yeah okay and uh some people they are very polarizing some people are obsessed with them they think they’re the best cookie ever some people think they are nasty and disgusting I actually really really like them I love the texture of them I think they’re nice and sweet they’re a cute little tree and they just they’re a nostalgic beautiful little thing and they’re easy they’re accessible I don’t really see them as a problem at all there are people’s eating them as a problem the plague the blight of Loft House people hate them I can see that um when you were a child Nicole yes you were in a school in Elementary School per se uh what did kids like bring in if it was their birthday like bring in treats to share with the class I don’t remember because I’ve just Associated from that part of my life a lot oh yeah I don’t know do you want to unpack your childhood drama here right now okay that’s fair no at some point there was there was a seismic shift where people were bringing in mini cupcakes to eat for your birthday yeah people used to bring mini cupcakes and stuff all the time but I remember distinct seismic shift between third and fourth grade it switched for me I swear to you this happened it switched from mini cupcakes to Loft House Cookies and then every kid was bringing Loft House Cookies we didn’t bring anything because we were poor as my parents would say it’s your birthday they should be giving you treats and then I’d have to tell that to my classmates that’s your parents they had a good point there uh I I do enjoy what I enjoy about it is that the cookie isn’t sweet it’s just bread yeah the cookie is just bread and then it’s got this bread it’s super sugary hydrogenated oil bread yeah it’s like I remember Trevor who has a degree in pastry we’re trying to get him to sort of diagram out what lofthouse is and he’s like it’s kind of like a biscuit if you just like Blended the dough together but like also has a little bit of like a short crust texture yeah he’s right it’s an undefined disc of barely sweetened hydrogenated oil filled dough and that compounding with the ultra sweet frosting it’s a lovely experience yeah I don’t know why I get so much hair yeah pop them in the microwave for 20 seconds and matching it with a spoon no no don’t have to do all of them see you mash your food I like pay I like paste I like eating paste uh I love Pates I love any sort of paste gruel big gruel guy trying to make girl sexy again you know um yeah any sort of porridge I’m a big fan of um yeah you know puddings paste porridge gruels that’s the world that I like to live in Nicole is reclamped no I did not eat glue I um I like nice tasting pastes glue is it’s salty but I I I didn’t it’s not what I was into but my best friend named Play-Doh how do you know itself oh because I ate I tried it I didn’t like I of course I tried glue when I was a kid yeah yeah so I guess your your question did you eat glue as a kid yeah but I didn’t eat it often like I tried Play-Doh I tried glue I tried the glue stick I tried I tried like the little glitter art things you know but I didn’t like eat them consistently they were all one and done for me when I was like this isn’t as nice as real food I want to try everything I want to try everything you ever bite into a crayon yeah of course yeah yeah of course I was a big fan of that yeah I like the texture of crayons but yeah the flavor it’s lacking I would never eat it I would just I just like would bite them in half and then bite the other half and half like I like I like the way it felt in my mouth but I would never eat I would just snap it with my teeth a pen capturer oh one time that’s oh that’s the best food hey Josh one time I was sucking on a pen and then the ink like came out and exploded in my mouth and it was all blue it was so embarrassing one more let’s do one more actually let’s give some actual cookery knowledge in here at King at 0989 onions can be sauteed in butter or oil but mushrooms should only be sauteed in butter so this is false um mushroom cookery to me I I’m a huge fan of roasted mushrooms like just in a pan roasted mushroom based sauces all that I believe the correct way to do this is mushrooms should be seared in a neutral oil at a super hot temp okay because to cook mushrooms properly especially some bigger chunks you need to hit it with super high heat otherwise the moisture is going to Leach out and you’re going to get Steam and butter can’t handle unless you I guess using Ultra clarified butter yeah butter has trouble handling high heat because it separates and burns and Browns if you want brown butter in there that’s cool but I’m trying to taste the mushrooms bro uh so no I think you should sear mushrooms in a super hot neutral oil and then as you’re finishing them drop the butter in the pan for the last like 20 seconds that that’s a great idea too I like to combine them both I take a knob of butter and I put some neutral oil like some avocado oil and then I cook it like that so I get the flavor of the butter and I get the high heat of the neutral oil that’s why I so many people do that in recipes and I’ve just like never have been the person who combines but I love doing that you get the best of both ones that’s my favorite way to cook also avocado oil big fraud industry oh well I just set avocado oil because everyone says it has a high smoke one but I’m just using vegetable oil like you should just know it’s a low stakes thing to lie about I don’t know man I want to be like I want to be like cool also don’t uh children if you’re listening please do not eat uh school supplies yeah learn from what Nicole and I did one shout out to The Listener who sent us the message that we shouldn’t uh say the Earth is flat on the podcast because now the kid thinks the Earth is flat what have we said that the Earth is floss uh I don’t think it was a wee thing I think it was more of a new thing I was joking the Earth is obviously round we shouldn’t talk about the Flat Earth all right and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich if you want to hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we got new episodes for you every Wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions about casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef 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weekend trip early and if you’ve ever been clipped or had a mishap where you opened the door into a vehicle behind you the class exclusive safe exit assist the Hyundai Palisade has is a lifesaver it prevents the rear doors from opening if the vehicle detects traffic approaching from behind the Palisade also has available third row heated power folding seats which is perfect for people who run cold and it can fit up to eight passengers comfortably taking this car with this much capacity would be a huge asset on that next group Cabinetry you can say that again Nicole it’s your journey learn more at hyundaiusa.com safe exit assist is not a substitute for driver passenger attentiveness always be aware of your surroundings and incentive of approaching Vehicles if of approaching Vehicles they have approaching Vehicles if