ramble [Music] since its invention in 1863 cereal selections are endless and today we’re talking creeped out scraped out screaming god nicole save it for the show this is a hot dog as a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah i put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates i’m your host josh air and i’m your host nicole inaudible and today we’re joined by the editor-in-chief of sport justine sterling sparked is mythical’s new website that’s dedicated to helping you find the best foods on grocery store shelves or virtual internet store shelves i guess they’re taste testing everything from frozen lasagnas to oat milks to spicy chips and sharing their expert top picks with the masses that’s you welcome justine welcome to steve hi hey did you use the term the masses to describe the the the readers that follow y’all i didn’t say that you said that yeah i don’t know i just felt yeah you wrote it i need to imagine them all just huddled up in one group just chanting the masses yeah just like lasagna lasagna as you tell them that um what’s uh what’s the frozen lasagna brand that i love the vegetables stover stouffer’s vegetables the one you insist on letting sit for two hours before you eat it yeah we had a long discussion about this you got a lot of rest for up to two hours covered room temperature oh no you wanna you wanna let it evaporate from the top because otherwise the moss is real wet interesting in the game uh we’re not here to talk about lasagna though justine we are talking about the best cereals in the game right now i assume you have a lot of serial opinions i have many cereal opinions uh the first of which though is that cereal should not have flavor thank you so much because it raises the humors and then it leads to intemperance and then god will punish us you have the same values as every serial inventor of all time because that’s what they all were it’s true i mean you know history has prove is always right obviously and yes everybody from the 1800s right yeah exactly my humors are perfectly balanced because i refuse to have sugar in my cereal literally five minutes ago you’re talking about just drinking cups of buttermilk and so i deeply respect your food opinions yeah no i’m amish i’m sorry yeah we have a big one yeah zippers rule all right so what do you have as your number one cereal of all time like we’re talking about desert island cereal here okay i i do uh it’s really hard because i do have to agree with nicole on grape nuts i think they’re so unique thank you there is such it’s so rare that you get to eat stones just tiny tiny rocks so true and i like that and i and i like that it’s a it’s a it’s a once in a lifetime consistency i know what you mean that i never get to have it’s almost like they had to try to make it that teeth shatteringly hard you know what i mean and they did i did as well and if you look at it and you think like this must have been chiseled from a cave or off a stone or scraped or somehow and then you look at the ingredients it’s just like wheat and flour it’s like what you think what cereal would be made of but it’s like it’s it’s like a couscous kind of a thing i think of yeah i think of like grandmothers like rubbing their hands together and little grape nuts falling out of it it’s good uh so i mean that one is definitely definitely very much at the top of my list i think it actually was an accident the invention of grape nuts yeah so it was cw post which is like of post cereal he was a patient of john kellogg at his weird health spa where he invented corn flakes to again i had to ask earlier if i could talk about masturbation because that comes up all the time in this literally all these people were trying to cure alcoholism and masturbation those are the two biggest plagues of like the like early early 20th century and so cw post goes to kellogg’s health spa to try and cure whatever urges he had and then he just became an acolyte and believed that like you shouldn’t drink coffee and so he invented a wheat-based beverage brand called post-em and then grape nuts were supposed to be his like follow-up to this postum beverage so he was literally trying to create a grain that you could brew a drink from and so i’m guessing he tried to make something like a coffee and so i’m guessing he tried to make them as sturdy as possible so they would never dissolve in liquid and they would just you know brew it doesn’t mean i mean there is something about like uh grape nuts that is reminiscent of the slop you get when you home brew which smells amazing and does feel like you should just be able to eat it yeah like you can’t make a nice bread out of it and everything but like yeah so that makes sense and and actually i do have a still at home so i can try and improve some of this still at home wait what do you distill or whatever i haven’t actually used it yet it just sits there kind of looking at me being like come on try and blow up the neighborhood i live in i feel like most people their crafts will be like i’m going to make a wreath i’m going to make a fl you’re making your own hooch yeah well one has to be prepared for the apocalypse with boxes of grape nuts and the ability to create booze yeah but i respect that i could distill some some grape nuts why not yeah wait soak it in some milk distill it it’s a thing wait that would actually work it might be good right i don’t know i haven’t again i haven’t tried it again i mean i feel like all you need is just the sugar milk we talk about all the time here yeah yeah cause i love just mixing straight whole milk with vodka and just drinking it straight sure i like doing it with like working man’s russian i guess like cult and soju it’s very famous probiotics love it love it my thing about probiotics and liquor is if you i went to a what i thought was a craft beer brewery and it turned out as a craft kombucha brewery and i was you know out to try and get a little bit litty titty and um i was like the probiotics are gonna get me before the the alcohol does like how much is that just gonna make you evacuate yourself i don’t know you know what i mean how’d you feel afterwards uh healthy i guess very uh so your official answer is grape nuts i guess it i like can’t think of anything else that actually rivals it okay i have one that is going to get a go mildly against my i don’t think it should have flavor but i think it’s the least flavorful of the kids cereals which is kicks yes yes kicks is just i love cakes love love cats just corn cereal did you eat it growing up yeah i did um definitely growing up but like oh it’s that perfect bit of yeah that little bit of like sweet corn again you do not get the opportunity to eat like tiny balls of uh styrofoam very often and i like that opportunity um i think it just yeah it’s that perfect blend of just like bland with just that little hint of flavor like you can’t stop eating it yeah it’s that kind of bland that like certain foods have where you’re like did i taste that or let me let me taste it again yeah like that’s how i could i could definitely eat a whole box of cakes yeah just like i i mean i think in college i did you still have like a jug of milk and like a box of cereal and then just kind of you just go at it like filling milk because i also like a milk very very cold so i would i like i if i’m gonna do that i want a small amount of cereal and then i’ll just continue to add the milk or i do add ice cubes to milk uh to it do you eat your cereal fast or do your cereal no i eat it slowly that’s the problem and i do not like a soggy cereal i hate soggy serious so i just go to i have to eat it within like 60 seconds or else it’s all done for it you like to let it cook that’s you don’t have to worry about it because no they get soggy it turns into a like a paste yeah i know i like this idea of the grape nut paste because here’s the thing justine i’m an active member of the soft teeth community i have soft teeth and if i eat hard things i’m afraid of them breaking oh my gosh i’ve had a lot of dental work done and i uh i was once like eating like a gummy worm on a plane it just like yanked out a filling you know like i just that just sounds like bad dental work to me i think so shut up it’s not your fault i went to a lot of real bootleg dentists growing up sure you know some i remember one just microwaved a hot pocket like the microwave was like three feet from the dental chair and it was just like in a home i don’t know you went to a home dentist yeah a homeopathic dentist no i don’t think it was she was there homeopathic dentist she was doing real dental work but in a home but it wasn’t like a naturopathic was it sterile was it licensed no uh i reckon not just like a friend of a family i think so she did not speak english and i actually do appreciate that as a dentist yeah it’s kind of nice but she was just yeah microwaving hot pocket like three feet from me so anyway the point is grape nuts i’m always worried about just like chipping a crown but let it dissolve into a paste because like nicole said i will i pour i pour a bowl of cereal you know that i think time is the most important part of cooking it’s why i let the lasagna set i let my cereal rest for about three to four minutes it’s really cold i’ll go put all the stuff back in the fridge i go set you know set the dishes in the dishwasher you know i might go pee or something wash my hands of course hygiene’s important and then i come back and then like the cap’n crunch or whatever is at its perfect consistency just slop just like a cold breakfast well here’s the thing it’s not always cold because sometimes i do microwave cereal hold on well it’s nice it’s like a it’s like a hot porridge the the oatmeal industry oatmeal then well the oatmeal you can’t just see oatmeal justine that’s the point very underrepresented in terms of flavor okay i will say having just we just did an a flavored oatmeal we’ve done both a plain oatmeal taste at sparked and a plain oatmeal in a day what a time and then we also did a flavored oatmeal taste us there are cereal companies now make oatmeal uh and they they come with little flavor packets of like toppings you can put on them which is essentially just versions of their cereal to put on top the craziest one uh which was lucky charms which just came with with a packet of their marshmallows like they didn’t even try they’re just like oatmeal and marshmallows and those just melt right into the hole yeah it was a real slurry oh they also have a hot cocoa which turns into a lovely kind of muted brown rainbow on top i’m down i’m done with that something about marshmallow oatmeal colors just doesn’t make sense did you guys ever eat the oatmeals that had the dinosaur eggs in there no me neither my mom never bought them for me no it was it was called dinosaur egg oatmeal and you would put the you would you know open the packet you put hot water in and then the eggs would hatch into little dinosaurs this is a few guys look at the screen guys it’s real i promise you this isn’t even co-branded with like um okay but i want to see one hatched right now this just looks like marshall yeah cause we pull up the oatmeal don’t even know i’m imagining like actual dinosaurs emerging from this segue into my favorite cereal so my mom never let me have fun cereals unless it was like a really random occasion she’d be like here like she know she’d throw me a bone like here’s your here’s your sugary cereal young child so i grew up eating geriatric cereal my whole life i you know what was a special k kashi golems good all that stuff but grape nuts is my end all be all cereal but a second favorite that i have is oreo o’s oh no no no no no no no no justine it’s so good you have to hear me out can i tell you why okay because it’s like a dark cocoa cereal it’s not too sweet it has little punches of sweetness but the actual cereal when you get down to it it’s like a dark chocolate when was the last time you had it like eight years ago we had it in the studio recently did we oh maybe then it was like a month ago we just did also a chocolatey taste test okay chocolate cereal and if you like that i do may i may i suggest a cocoa puff no no no yes that’s that’s cocoa and then okay tell you what it is the texture doesn’t it doesn’t work for me i guess i like that weird crunchy i like to know i’m eating cereal i love the puffs sometimes but for me i need that crackety crunchity crunch to know i’m eating a grain if that makes any sense i don’t know my brain i feel like the point of cereal is to divorce ourselves from grain really no they put it so hardcore on the cover because people think they should be eating grains but then once they hook people in with the like idea of healthiness then they’re like let’s get as far away from anything natural as possible and that’s why because cereal started as the ultimate health food right they’re all trying to cure the grape nuts were literally marketed explicitly as a cure for alcoholism said that in the 30s it’s going great for me yeah we’re over two on developing alcoholism from but then in the 50s it switched it as being like absolute sugary nightmares like captain crunch came out in 63. wow i don’t think it’s my favorite but it’s it’s up there is i was researching like what is the flavor of captain crunch do you all have any like um peanut butter honeycomb no neither honeycomb’s a little closer malted malted wheat malt i mean there’s like wheat in it malted barley there’s no mol i always thought it tasted malty too though but i think it’s just salt so it’s supposed to be salted butter and brown sugar because at least the inspiration it sounds lovely right which is why i love captain crunch but they literally this is coming off of the era of health food cereals going through the 40s and 50s and then they were just like we’re gonna spray each little nugget with oil so we can stick our sugar to it better that’s why captain crunch gives you a weird film on the roof of your mouth it hurts it’s just oiled it’s hydrogenated oils and so i think ever since then it’s just been like how do we hook people in with saying like honey nut cheerios cure heart disease it’s like piss off sanctimonious bee uh and then it’s like all right now let’s let’s hit him with just a nuclear flavor bomb of oreos you know crushed into a loop and i love that oreo o’s will always connect to me with uh with gene simmons i love jeans he well you’ve got this in common if you ever hang out what’s his name again is that his real name is it uh i he tweeted out a picture of like it was back in the one of the many times where the ice cube in the serial has like come up and been a whole debate on twitter or whatever one he started one of them by posting his picture of a bowl of cereal but the ice cube was not the part that got me it was the fact that he mixed oreo o’s and shredded mini weeds and i was like that is a bold mix combo did you guys mix cereals yes of course oh my god oh my god i’m like we’re like sommeliers what yeah what do you guys mix this is so weird corn pops and apple jacks what do you make this morning i mix straight up like trader joe’s shredded wheat with a little sprinkling of honey bunches of oats oh my god honeybunch wait what’s the psychology behind that you download that little bit of like a little little something funny like a texture well yeah because this the the shredded wheats do get soggy pretty fast like stay crunchy a little bit longer you want that very textural experience i don’t have much going on in my life right now i am i do a thing that we’ve talked about my maybe disordered eating on here before but what i do nicole is i take diet coke at like a soda fountain and i’ll fill it 90 of the way up with diet coke and then give it a splash of root beer oh hundred percent yes yes i also do a little bit of like 100 of a full fat coke on there too just like yeah take take that little edge off the little chemical edge yeah i thought you were going to say you put in your cereal first oh no i’ve i’ve done non milk yeah protein shake cereal that’s just a good time yeah you that’s dairy i get that i understand i don’t like red bull cereal it’s bad that was a yeah it was a failed experiment i didn’t think it would be good i’ve done the beer cereal as a joke in college sure you know that was a big thing i knew somebody who did water just which just felt like just drinking just eat it dry at that point that’s austerity measures [Music] there are 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 or you like switching up what you’re grilling you can improve your grilling lineup this summer with butcher box the subscription service that 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lap and and the bowl just went everywhere i’m so sorry so and so the image of freeze-dried strawberries and cereal just sitting in my naked lap oh um ice cold milk ooh it was a cold winter morning fountain valley california nicole that will always tame me so honey bunches of oats with almonds i think a honey roasted is perfectly fine um but to me it like has it’s that blending of two worlds it’s like it has the sweetness it’s certainly sugary of a child cereal but then there’s just enough real food in there with the almonds and the granola to make you think like i’m being an adult for me that’s like it’s the bildungsroman of cereal it’s like it’s a coming-of-age cereal for me that’s beautiful yeah i’m glad you found yourself through cereal thank you and also i didn’t realize this it is literally it’s a combination of four different cereals that post already made oh wow which i didn’t i didn’t realize that it’s um the original cw post granola which dates back like 100 years it’s toasties which was their answer to like bran flakes i think their answer to wheaties and then it’s like sparkle flakes which is just frosted flakes and then another type of flake so it’s literally just four coast cereals blended into one that came out in the 80s and i think that given the taco bell ethos that we have 10 ingredients let’s just mix them all up that is yeah more more cereal companies should do this i agree because again yeah mixing cereals it’s the way to go like i agree who wants just a bowl of one thing i don’t want a hand mixed cereal i want someone else to do it for me i don’t want you to get a perfume mixed yeah exactly yeah i don’t want to mix my own cereals well i i love uh cereal bars i think should be way more common than they are yeah there was i mean kellogg’s i think was it alex did have a restaurant like in in union square in new york may still be there for a long time like it was one of those things that opened up that you’re like what a cute publish like publicly stunned and then year after year i was like so this is just happening this is just real we just pay for this yes yeah and i’ve never been inside and i just assume it is exactly that it’s a you know cold stone creamery but for cereal which how fun i mean great yeah well what i used to do was there was a um yogurt land next to a starbucks by my high school mm-hmm and so i would go and i would build and build a bowl of cereal with fruit and chili cheesecake bites and it would cost like 80 cents because you pay by weight so it’s so light with the cereal and then i just go to the starbucks and i get the free milk so they just have sitting down and then pour that on and then for 80 cents you got just a big old bucket of happiness that’s smart now yeah i don’t know the ethics i’m stealing the starbucks milk but like uh no you’re not stealing it it’s there to be taken for free borrowing i don’t know i don’t think what’s the starbucks guy’s name what’s his name no number number two cereal though this is this is a big nostalgia thing for me i’m going frankenberry i’ve never never had it never seen it yeah wait you’ve never seen frankie you guys know what frankenberry is i know that there’s like a little like a monster on the front no no frankenberry is the name of the doctor nicole this is frankenberry’s monster frankie mary’s monster cereal good one josh literary joe got her uh no it’s it came out in 72 alongside count chocula and boo berry sure and so this to me is like one of the first i won the seasonal release around halloween that’s fun scarcity makes a heart growfonder it’s mcrib theory all over again okay and so the fact that i can’t have a nicole makes me want it two this ended up in actual medical they journals a pigment in there that was not digestible by the human digestive tract and it caused uh a bunch of kids to just poop red for like a while i don’t know it was a red cereal yeah is it all red no uh it’s multi-colored or the no no frankenberry is all red it’s all red blueberry is blue oh sure yeah yeah they split their effort so like we could do one cereal but then and then there was also fruity yummy mummies and fruit brew which i think i phoned it in on fruit brute the name well it’s not really a classic monster is it just and so frank and mary count chocolate those to me have like a lot of nostalgia in my heart for i never had them so i can’t say that i hold any sort of like emotional ties to that kind of cereal unfortunately describe the flavor yeah the fl okay so have you ever had tab cola this is going somewhere yes you’ve had it you’re like tab was the original diet cola right yeah um and beautiful yeah it’s like the virginia slims marketing yeah the era um there’s like a certain punishment to coming first where everybody that comes after you is just going to do a better job of course right and so like every diet cola that has come out since tab has just been way better you go back and drink tab now and it tastes so chemically and awful um frankenberry was kind of like that with fruit flavored cereal okay because i don’t think there was much before it if anything i know blueberry was the first blueberry flavored cereal ever and like like a lot but that was what they like marketed it as so it was one of the first iterations of like artificial berry flavoring out there um so it’s just got this like real heady aroma the ones where like you understand how the origins of a lot of these flavors were from beaver pheromones very perfumey and you eat it it’s so aggressive and it’s got little marshmallows in there that just pop with that flavor it’s like you just uh huffed a thing of nesquik strawberries okay okay and we’re going for a strawberry flavor yeah oh yeah it’s a strawberry yes sorry yo is that not crazy there’s a couple of options i mean there’s two really well i mean uh special k red berries the only berry in it is straw and that’s not even a berry what yeah have you ever especially get red berries it’s just freeze-dried strawberries with yeah yeah um they call them red berry but it’s only strawberry oh sure okay several years ago i tweeted special k mad about it and uh turns out they have other berries in different markets they responded they did they they well actually do yes they were very sweet about it though but when special k mansplained my caring i supposed complaining about their cereal on twitter the great karaningo special case they were like well in britain actually there’s like currents and raspberries freeze-dried sure so they just didn’t want to print multiple boxes yeah yeah okay i can appreciate that if i was more aggressive absolutely cannot handle a current wouldn’t know what to do with it no like what is this what is this you know what cereal i can’t stand puffins they turned on me even maggie even maggie’s eyes just got wide and she touched her hand you throw your water at her that’s a perfect eat on its own are you guys kidding me it’s like a styrofoam nasty no it’s not styrofoam goodness it is not bomba bomb connection very close you guys are tripping hardcore no way what do you got against muffins they’re not good you think like taste or taste it doesn’t hold up but you have some weird childhood traumas no i feel like they were sprayed with some weird sugar fake sugar i don’t know as opposed to every other thing i don’t know it’s like pleasant it’s like it has this like weird like honey burnt aftertaste that’s nice you guys like that yeah oh my gosh no i hate sugar smacks okay yeah that’s that was i don’t like those either only yeah yeah we digs we mix the big ones that just turn into straight maps yeah yeah those are my favorites i’ve never had a weetabix and i didn’t know what it was until somebody described to me what a weetabix is it’s good it’s a mega week it’s a mega week huge yeah it’s a it ain’t no mini it’s a mega wheel it does feel like a mistake can you can you like dip that in milk like a la minute and just eat it yeah it’s actually probably a better way to eat it right some people have it with like yogurt and they just kind of like break it up and like mix it into their yogurt not i don’t know i don’t know i oh here’s another the cereal that i’m going to eat the most of uh magic spoon oh i’ve never had it i’ve i’ve i’ve had it in a cart i’ve like i’ve honestly like like thought about it for an entire i remember the car drive it was driving back from the beach um in new york and i had them all in my cart and i looked at it for a long time and i was like you’re not going to eat this much cereal they just make you buy too many boxes i want to buy one box and try it nope i bought 60 with a magic spoon and i ate them in like a week which one or all of them all of like oh i still have a little if you want to come by my desk and try the chocolatey variety it is by far the worst variety which is why it’s the only one that i have left um but talking about people getting punished for being the first brands out there like i remember i’m fascinated with the health food industry um but not like the organic like we put dates and coconut and our thing and make it sweet i’m talking about like we’ve killed god and then remade his sugar in our image right like um aspartame was like meant to be an industrial adhesive to stop people getting decapitated in car crashes it was meant to coat the windows of like a windshield okay i was imagining it coating like your body it’s like these industrial accidents that are like the origin of a marvel superhero and then people taste it and they’re like wow now you have 80 less calories in your latte you know um arctic zero is a great example if you ever had halo top ice cream uh-huh halo top is not as good it’s not it’s not as bad as one might think it is correct and arctic zero is bad sure like if it is if you’ve had art you can only appreciate halo top if you’ve had like the worst diet food versions of right like the tab sodas are the hilotop and so magic spoon comes out and they’re like we’re gonna cheat god’s cereal edition and it’s incredible for what it is it does it take like if you know you had their um fruity o’s or whatever pinned up against fruit loops was gonna taste good hell no not at all but life’s about a series of compromises to try and you know uh stop you from hating yourself um and magic spoon does a really great job okay great and most people aren’t just sitting there side by side food products no i was gonna say we are all in like unique positions here especially yeah i mean most people wouldn’t choose to again eat of i don’t know upwards of 15 types of plain oatmeal in a day but how are you doing emotionally by the way let’s break this down like with all the constant taste testing like let’s not pull it that straight oh yeah we get real deep here yeah yeah we have days where we only eat content and then we go home to our loved ones and we’re like sorry babe i filled up on content i’ll make you dinner but i will not be partaking yeah i do that a lot yeah me too it makes me sad something just need to get sad at night sometimes um you know i crashed too hard from all the like ketchup i’ve eaten by the spoonful during the day to actually contemplate my emotions all right we’re gonna do a quick quick lightning round these are we’re just gonna go like yay or nay we’re just gonna yell let’s do it we’re going to go through the top 10 best-selling serials circuit 2018s that’s the only data stretching okay um this actually shocked me because i i had never seen this list before uh do you have any guesses number one um cheerios number one yeah how do you feel yeah okay i like it i have no problem which is all right it reminds me of children it’s the worst geriatric cereal it makes my burps taste like i think it’s a really nice pairing with milk which is a crazy thing to say about cereal but it does particularly pair well with the whole milk number two honey nut cheerios great i love this whatever i think they killed my dad um but i’m sorry hold on nero seriously she always does this something always kills his dad they’re marketing the marketing campaign of like cures heart disease or whatever i know they they have their you know but i think they tricked a lot of americans into thinking that all you had to do was eat honey nut cheerios you know is it on the individual consumer sure the marketing pretty misleading dude anywho cheerios killed my dad so i don’t like him okay next number three frosted flakes i hate frosted flakes it’s a it’s another tiny box situation nobody’s ever bought a full box of frosted flakes it just comes in one of the tiny boxes in the multi-pack and then you eat it mexican frosted flakes zuccaritas that’s cereal in the game they didn’t kill any of my uh close-knit members so i left frosty yeah uh honey bunches of votes yeah yeah should be number one should be number one yes ctc cinnamon toast crunch number five no i like it but it’s not for me i know why it’s in the list wow the texture feels like the like thinking of the texture hurts my teeth it’s like gritty and like it’s banned it’s a big square i kind of like it like there is something about it where i’m like yes like i remember there’s a childhood nostalgia to it but like uh the idea that it’s that popular is kind of wild to me it’s really so strange i feel like that’s like the hot girls the it seriously oh is it do they do they even think so i haven’t kept up with them like like like i’m a hot girl you know like cool like internet hot girls don’t eat cereal we’re just gorgeous girls they eat chicken pudding fish and chia seeds and fish uh number six lucky charms sure i believe that i believe that’s i don’t agree with i mean i don’t like it but i i i understand i’m happy for the irish american community you you need a good role model you know he’s a knight what the leprechaun i i don’t know who actually but like i looked up his like name and he’s got like he’s like it’s either it’s like sir lucky charms or it’s lc charms or it’s this or it’s that but he is yeah i i picked out the fact that he is a sir so respect him that’s something you want more than i do fruit loops yeah yes okay toucan sam’s hot i like chicken sam i don’t like the milk turning colors but other people do hmm i don’t like the mixed fruit pick a fruit pick one pick the best i think they all taste the same that’s the fruit in you speaking you gotta have it mixed in the fruit loops uh number eight frosted mini wheats coming in 241.99 sales yeah should be higher what i love them i just don’t get it you can milk pillows it’s like it’s like weird and like when i was a kid i would only eat the sugary parts and then put them out okay so i will i will say one one smart suggestion from jordan myrick uh staff writer at sport is that they should make uh essentially oops all frosted first yeah why are we even like playing with this half frosted half knot like come on how healthy is this like let’s just let’s get it going let’s fry i’m sorry not sorry that would save my mom a lot of angry conversations with me but okay number nine i’m surprised i didn’t i didn’t bring this up because i grew up eating this this is life i know oh life life is great what does life taste like that’s another burnt money situation yeah you burn honey it’s kind of like molasses stale checks yeah it is so good very flat very crunchy another one that kind of hurts the top of your mouth love it yeah but but if you let it soak for three to five minutes all right and uh number ten i have mixed feelings about this fruity pebbles are they still a thing do kids know what flintstones are i don’t know they have like vitamins that’s it yeah but i i don’t know if they they make a really good easter candy also but like again surprised that that branding has any appeal towards children i think children love john goodman in the flintstones viva rock roses i love that movie so much it’s the colors kids love colors they love the colors this is it’s an instagramable cereal i don’t think it holds up kids love instagram yeah on kids i don’t follow mythical kitchen i have to live their whole lives online don’t tell them to go outside uh well what did we learn today folks i learned that we should all get a bowl of cereal after this at yogurtland and then go to starbucks and get free milk yeah steal more from howard schultz that’s what i got yeah yeah yeah yeah it’s a good hack it’s like a life hack i yeah i learned that uh i learned far too much about josh’s cereal eating habits and his high school experience sorry about talking about my dead dad again it’s okay it’s just not even what i was referring to no i brought it up again it’s normal after a while you really get desensitized but you’re just here to be a lean you can lean on you like support that’s fine what did you learn what what did you learn oh i learned nothing oh no i just i i black out in the middle of each podcast and then wake up and it’s like yeah it’s like you did research masturbation i researched a lot of masturbation yeah yeah but that was just in your spare time it turns out it does make you go blind [Music] all right nicole and justine we’ve heard what 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 segment we call opinions are like casseroles [Music] all right first up we got at peyton blackledge savory cereal is low-key the goat savory cereal as in like like unclear meal with okay so i mean i do like oatmeal with soy sauce and like togarashi and things like that so so with that part i would agree with it with this idea that you’re kind of like this idea of cheese frosted flakes or something i haven’t heard of it but i’m not against it if there was a soy nugget i could eat i think we need to work on the branding and soy nuggets we could make like a mochi cereal and like put like spicy like soy milk is the weird thing there yeah a cream i guess you have poor cold broth i think they’re just making a soup but my savory cereal exists whether or not we call it savory cereal right extrapolate okay thank you i’m thinking like um you know like the they just call it like quote unquote asian pub mix you buy it like the staples yeah and they got those little like puff seaweed and nori crackers yeah that’s great dump that in a bowl with milk on it that’s savory cereal it exists it’s just cereal we’re just not milking it we gotta start milking cheese puffs bowl with milk bingo mango savory cereal you got it i guess you know the the combinations are out there we like uh water water everywhere not a drop to drink like just reach your ladle down and dip into the pool of savory cereals y’all it exists we’ve made chicken chex before we did make chicken we made chicken chicken we mostly put msg on checks it was good that sounds good which is but i don’t want milk on that you think you don’t want milk on that kind of like a creamy chicken ramen situation it kind of tastes good yeah like cleaner chicken soup yeah it tastes good okay something i’m d i’m down i’m done okay tisha alexis says if you eat lays white cheddar poppables and then a bowl of waffle crisp cereal your burps will taste like you ate an entire beef ramen seasoning packets there’s too many variables that’s a good thing why don’t you just eat an entire beef ramen cereal packet or whatever seasoning packet then you’re implying that the the burps are their end goal their needs to get there maybe it was the way nicole read it it sounded like like if you do this you get this and this that’s how they wrote it it’s a mean journey let me tell you we should play a game one time where we eat like two weird foods and then we all have to find out what our burps smell like interesting i think that would be a fun game to play everyone we’re gonna be burping at each other’s yeah guys we’re becoming best friends right now accept it all of us right now it’s happening sorry i don’t make the rules it just happens you burp in your best friend’s mouth and then try and yeah okay i like waffle crisp i think it’s good it’s got like the little holes in it and it’s fun it is fine i forgot it existed it’s nice to remember it exists it looks like a dream catcher oh dream catchers were serious i i said something earlier that no one responded to you so i’m going to bring it up again i said what’s that i think i started talking about honey nut cheerios killed my dad immediately after but they make my burps taste like eggs and i don’t know why both cheerios and honey nut any cheerio products what kind of egg um soft scramble but well no not soft scrambled hotel uh steamed eggs in the basin that have been sitting there because you got there five minutes before they closed the continental breakfast okay so old old eggs yeah i think that’s your stomach situation is this the thing where it’s like fermenting the food inside me like i don’t have that enzyme josh thanks josh watched one episode of like my weird my weird disease or something and now he thinks every time he eats wheat he gets drunk off of wheat dude i don’t think that’s true yo my bro i’m getting drunk off something i do eat more grape nuts um my my brother watched so many of those like my medical nightmare stories on like tlc the learning channel for kids growing up but i have these weird phobias when i went in for my first surgery uh to repair an inguinal hernia i went to the anesthesiologist and i was like hey i know this is really stupid i watched this thing with anesthesia didn’t work on a person and i watched it when i was like seven and like can i have your guarantee like hey that that doesn’t really happen he just goes problem i’m worried about and this happens a lot because people just not waking up when i put him up oh my god and then he walks away what a jerk like what a dick no bedside manner zero zero zero bedside manner uh yeah i think this person’s burps probably smell like that at sam rj griffiths i eat my cereal in my room simply because i add the leftover cereal milk to my coffee for an interesting flavor combination interesting the best i found is cinnamon flavored cereal milk the worst is crunchy nut cereal milk coffee creamer i would have thought that the crunchy nut one would taste nice because it’s similar to like a sweet almond milk or something like that i like this idea though i’m surprised they probably do market cereal milk creamer already i think we got one in the fridge i’ve been using cinnamon toast crunch yeah because it’s just cinnamon and then a little bit of chemical but this is a nice hack and it’s a way to avoid food waste if you’re not the type of person to just drink the milk after you’re done so good i feel like most people that’s what i’m there for i’m there for the the drinking milk out you guys never had those bowls that had the straw in the bowl when you were a kid i did i love those very much i wish i had it one now i promise that’s like drinking wine with a straw you know i drink wine all the time i i don’t want to screw up my lipstick or my teeth but i’m saying like you don’t get it but you drink like you get a glass of pinot and you’re like crazy straw please yeah i love drinking liquids out of straws i mean i agree it is better i also drink beer out of a straw sometimes that’s not good yeah you need the aroma you need to shove your face in it you need to bury your whole face that’s how you get the full experience my experience is a hundred percent fine without stubbing my face into it trust me i just you know i just want to stain my face and my lips and my teeth i think you need to work on drinking from a glass no that’s true you should see her it’s like you should talk a drink with her you know like rattling around everywhere into the cup oh my gosh you should see me drink a water bottle literally i get scolded by people they’re like why do you drink water like that i’m like like what okay yeah you should stick with straws yeah yeah i need straws oh i’m next um bertram max says if you’re not eating a spoonful of powdered peanut butter in your greek yogurt or your cereal are you even living okay powdered peanut butter is something i just heard of like two weeks ago i had we haven’t done a taste test of it yet i’m very fascinated by it i didn’t know it existed and now i i love that idea i think that sounds great yeah i used to uh do honey nut cheerios and a spoonful of almond or peanut butter and i would just like put like balance a little bit of like milk and cereal and then i just nibble you’re putting whole nuts peanut butter i don’t put the powders i put the actual like spoonful of nut butter i love a process like that oh so good it’s so delicious so much of my chocolate it was just making things very complicated to eat yeah really nice i did it like a week ago yeah okay uh yeah the powdered peanut butter that it’s a shark tank thing right i don’t know is it yeah so it’s a new thing so that’s why it is really new yeah pb2 is the brand that i would use it sucks if you think of it as peanut butter but if you think of it as again man triumphing over a malicious god um by ruining uh the bounty that he or she bestowed on us um as if god is a gender the hell am i talking about any whom uh it’s great you just mix it with the greek yogurt and you can mix it in anything cooking with peanut butter is tough because there’s much like fat and yep lipids and binders oh yeah so it’s good in like a sauce yeah add some peanut powder like a whipped cream you just make a little peanut butter cream stuff it’s good stuff at antdog76 sandwich bread miracle whip yellow mustard any plastic wrap cheese and any chips you got mainly cheetos or goldfish for me buried the lead gold fisherman’s chips cracker it’s cracker cheetos are cheetos a chip though no cheaters are a separate thing they’re a cheese puff it’s the puff it’s a puff we’ve debated this once and i don’t remember where we landed i don’t remember either it’s hard to remember i think they’re not so i don’t think they’re chips yeah yeah we’re hot doritos 3d that’s a puff that’s a puffy okay you’re a puff down there fella yeah i’m down yeah cheap sandwich is really great chip sandwiches completely regressive well okay that was my one thing i was like let’s leave that out oh no i love miracle lip it tastes like coleslaw i love it they’ve isolated the coleslaw variable and put it into a jar of fake mayonnaise it’s not for me but i would eat the heck out of the sandwich yeah i mean even if it had miracles if you gave it to me i would eat it yeah true okay sam’s skills id yes i dip zebra cakes in roasted red pepper hummus and i swear on my life it tastes just like an orange creamsicle this is chaos incarnate what’s a zebra cake oh my god it’s one of those is it little debbie it’s a little different posters i think it’s hostess a little dessert little debbie i don’t know what it is but it’s like it’s one of those like snack cakes you get from like the store um yeah okay yeah it’s chocolate chip vanilla filling white chocolate fudge drizzle yeah it’s definitely debbie yeah what happened in this person’s life that they uh took that dip i’ve i’ve i don’t know what caused the initial dip but i feel like i would want to be friends with this person based on how their brain works because i understand it you know what i mean you do yes what do you understand about it orange cream school right like uh red bell pepper right roasted red pepper hummus like that has a ton of fruity qualities to it if you ever just like dip bell pepper into like sugar or something why not why not you know and then when you get like all the white chocolate and all of that just like artificial sort of flavor enhancers that are going into those little debbie cakes you know that like fake ass vanilla extract you know and then you combine that with the slight fruitiness a little bit of salt and acid from the hummus it’s just gonna wrap all those flavors up yeah and they do make chocolate hummus now whether or not they shared this question but like they make it people buy it yeah so okay sure i get it hear me out just buy a creamsicle you don’t need to do all this well what if but then you don’t have any leftover hummus enough nicole what are you gonna do what do you want me to do with all my hummus you got a thousand pounds of pita cheese you know what are you gonna dip it in you know what you do you you thin it out with a little bit of water you make it into salad dressing i literally did that last night and i was so mad about it really i do it all the time i add some lemon juice water salt and pepper oh well you’re not getting a good hummus that sounds like a personal problem yet again yeah i was going to make amba and then who has the time to make it that’s good that’s good and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich and thank you so much to steen for being our amazing guest justine where else can listeners check you out well they can read everything i’ve written along with other sport staffers on sports.com and follow us on social at sport on all of your favorite social media channels hell yeah and if you don’t do that me and nicole are personally going to come hunt you down and kill you with kindness and say i respect your personality i’m just going to tell them to press the button i don’t want to hunt do you not believe do you not believe believe in my work i’m a gatherer yeah he’s the hunter i’m the gatherer okay this is how it works the original name for the podcast is the hunter in the gathering if you want to be what’s the point if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on twitter at mythicalchef or and hendy’s otto with the hashtag opinion casserole nicole the point is the words exist on the page therefore we must read them for more mythical kitchen check us out on youtube where we launch new 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