[Music] welcome to ear biscuits the podcast where two lifelong friends talk about life for a long time i’m rhett and i’m link this week at the round table of dim lighting we are reminiscing was like yeah that’s like you know that old song i know there’s a song reminiscing but i don’t quite remember the tune right now you might get in trouble singing it anyway yeah so i just bailed i don’t want to get kicked i made up a new song reminiscing [Music] about what is it oh our most memorable meal what is it i almost forgot is that a joke that is uh irony for you ironclad irony uh yeah what are your most memorable meals and what are our most memorable meals and i’m sure hearing from them dang i keep hearing from them and reminiscing about about their most memorable meals will make us remember more meals that are maybe more memorable more ones that i have remembered in advance of this yes uh i do want to say that um we want to give you a heads up about next week’s and the next week’s episodes of your biscuits because we are doing what we’re calling our deconstruction stories one year later and we’re each gonna get an episode because hey we each got an episode before to tell our story so this is going to be where are we at in the process and whatever we want to say one year later from from each one of us so if that subject matter uh intrigues you it’s like an annual dose of spirituality well i’d like to think you get more than just an annual dose yeah we can pepper it in yeah but it will be sort of the like let it all hang out spiritually speaking uh and tell you where we’re at um but yeah so i wanted to start just by asking you do you remember what you had for dinner last night i just found something in the corner of my eye and i’m not gonna eat that no has that been there all day i mean you know you wear glasses you don’t have to worry about eye crusties and stuff i have to scrape eye crusties out of like the corner of jade’s eyes like get kind of weeps down her nose oh yeah well for those of you don’t know that’s my wife no that’s my dog um and then she likes to eat it i’m not saying that i feed it to her i think but are saying that i’m saying that she if she eats it then that means that you you took it off and you put it somewhere when she let her eat it like in her mouth yeah yeah i did yeah you’re admitting that i don’t think there’s anything wrong with it but she wants to eat it i know she wants to eat it because she the moment i get it out of her eye like she’s like scrambling to eat it god man why don’t you just lick her own eyes but i have to admit that i’ve just resorted to just feeding it that’s horrible isn’t it this isn’t the way i wanted to start a most memorable meal i was asking you what you ate last night oh man i regret i regret uh every time i do it i regret it but i regret even more sharing that but you know this is a safe space not anymore oh gosh what do i remember what do you remember what you ate last night you don’t remember my question um yes i do it took a second but i ate a baked fish dish a baked fish dish yeah the reason why i i was like wow of course i remember this is because christy was i was like what’s for dinner and christy was like i’m making some fish i’m like what we we don’t do we don’t really what we don’t eat that much fish at home because you got to fig you know you got to figure out how to prepare it it’s like can i figure it out man chicken is so easy and so many options i don’t know who am i to say anyway you don’t you wouldn’t know how to cook fish chicken regardless it’s not she made she made some uh a baked fish dish do you know what kind of fish it was uh i think it was a rock fish it was a white flaky fish um i really i mean you didn’t ask this but you didn’t i was really torn if i was going to tell her what i thought of it i didn’t i’ll just talk about it on this podcast well i did say you know we found this fish place that we ordered lunch from and i really like it and they make this fish and it’s they put cajun seasoning on it sometimes garlic butter i know garlic butter is not good for you but that’s a really good combination having both of those or just the cajun seasoning and i left it at that what would you you just wanted to take it and run with it and that was basically my way of saying that fish should make a restaurant style that fish is better than the fish he made oh no okay i got what you’re saying which was like it had onions and like lime and it didn’t it didn’t really come together and i was like did you bake it or sauté it she was like i baked it i was like well you could you know you could sauté it i don’t think i don’t think you know what’s going to make it good i don’t but i was trying to come up with a constructive and subtle way to say i didn’t like it well i did i wasn’t really expecting us to get into this level of analysis i was just going to ask you you don’t like something that Christy Christy she makes meals for me all the time i mean Jessie um do you just tell her because yeah no no i just told you no we we we um it’s delicious i don’t know uh cause who am i what it I’m not a cooker well see i am right so i i make i make a quite a few meals at our house not as many as Jessie but it’s getting it’s getting pretty close in something to some degree but um there is this moment of sort of critique when we’re eating when we start eating something like and i if i made something like so last night i made pork chops just well i made pork chops on the grill and Jessie made um some like cauliflower and something else on the side and it’s like when we sit down I’m like all right what are you like what do you think and I’m like i think i may have overcooked these a little bit like there’s a there’s a and then she and then Jessie’s like i don’t know maybe i should start doing a different seasoning on the cauliflower like we have a moment of analysis and sort of like critical analysis around what we’ve made and that’s pretty common it does get kind of demoralizing because our kids are pretty picky um and the nature of the conversation is not anything like what we would have had in my house growing up you didn’t tell so do they get on the critique is that what you’re saying they do yeah my kids are smart enough to stay quiet when i said that of course Lincoln didn’t eat fish at all he had chicken nuggets okay well that was an insult but no my kids will do that they’ll opt out of a dish altogether there was no opting out for us i mean you ate what your mama gave you uh but anyway the thing is is that if i hadn’t have asked you to think about that meal that you had last night and and i hadn’t thought about the meal that i had last night i would forget about it you know what I’m saying i there I’m there might be no other time in my life when i would stop and think about the meal last night there was nothing remarkable about the food and there was nothing remarkable about the setting and the circumstances because it’s interesting as you start looking at people’s most memorable meals it’s definitely there’s not one thing in common there’s a bunch of different sets of factors that can determine something being this meal is going to stick with me for the rest of my life it’s kind of fascinating yeah so we’re going to get into what you said are your most memorable meals thank you for responding you know we make the post on our twitter account at mythical we do that a lot if you want to be recognized get a shout out dictate the conversation to an ear biscuit follow us on our twitter account at mythical uh we do i mean a week won’t go by where there’s some question that we’re trying we won’t go by and we won’t let we won’t let it go we’re trying to we’re trying to put out there i mean the fish i would have remembered i think i’m more likely to remember because we eat so we don’t eat much fish and it wasn’t that great if i said that but um it’s kind of interesting yeah most meals just kind of blow by because you’ve got it you know on average three a day unless you’re a hobbit and they just kind of they just kind of wash over you um but let let’s just let’s get to one here this one um is from a 2237 webb and elise my cousins and i went to yellowstone when i was young we bought a frozen stouffer’s mac and cheese and put it directly in the fire to cook it i could see how you could do that because it’s you know it’s um that aluminum pan you just throw it right in the fire uh it was repulsive half cold and tasted like ash i said ash yeah be clear and the fact that we all got sick later in the trip may have not been a coincidence yeah the old so bad you can’t forget it meal yeah um one thing usually when you’re camping everything yeah everything tastes better one thing i will note about this is this the last sentence we all got sick later in the trip that may not have been a coincidence um i don’t know i don’t remember what the context was i was listening to a uh someone who specializes in foodborne illnesses like they were on a video or a guest on a podcast or something and the woman was saying it cracks me up how often anyone who has some sort of what some sort of sickness mm-hmm they always think they know where it came from yeah they’re like i had some bad sushi last night or da da da da and she and she’s basically like you have no way of knowing but what happens is is when something you get sick after a meal you think in your sleuthing skills you know exactly what caused it and then it turns you against that food for a certain amount of time maybe the rest of your life her point was is people are almost always incorrect about that assumption because she said that for instance one of the most common things is that there was a food handling mistake like you didn’t realize that there was a little bit of salmonella on your cutting board when you cut those vegetables for the salad or something like that and it takes about it could take anywhere from like 24 hours to 72 hours for that to manifest itself and she’s like the window of time between inciting event and your the purge that the body goes through is so variable that people just don’t know but yet you associate everyone always thinks it’s that oh i know exactly what meal it was why and i think saying food poisoning is kind of shorthand of like yeah i was i was sick i was almost to like a debilitat like i couldn’t have i couldn’t come to work or i couldn’t make it to this thing so it’s a valid excuse but then also it’s reassuring when when that person is talking to you is that well it was because of food i ate i’m not contagious so it’s it’s just kind of a it’s a it’s a shorthand to get to both of those i also think another reason people do it is because you know not to get graphic but if you vomit up that ham sandwich you eat at hearties when you were nine years old and you which is what happened to me and i can’t eat roast beef at hardee’s anymore which it’s been tough to navigate that one my entire life i’ll tell you roast beef at heart yes yeah it was like an artillery thing i don’t know an arby’s or no out of hardee’s little hearties carl jr uh but when you you know when you up chuck a meal you think the meal calls and you’re starting to and you’re looking at it it’s an association thing then you’re like that’s gross you know i bet that’s what that’s what came up that must be what my body had rejected because it it was the source of it of course that’s not that’s not how it works no right because i think that that is the principle that your body’s working on but it was probably something that you ate in a previous meal and it’s saying i’m getting rid of everything including what you just ate and you’re just being like well i’m gonna connect the dots and people almost always associate it with a food experience that they weren’t controlling so people almost always say what was that restaurant i went to or was that takeout that i got but it definitely wasn’t the sandwich that i made for myself you know what i’m saying like you don’t want to take responsibility for it well it’s probably the thing you did it might be bad sushi who knows but you don’t know and you should probably just try not to it’s such an expedient ex explanation this is going to change my behavior well i’m just saying next time you get sick and you think it’s food poisoning just resist the urge to tie it to one particular meal because you don’t want to ruin a food for yourself if you don’t have to like i don’t know if annelise now doesn’t eat mac and cheese or if she just doesn’t eat mac and cheese that’s cooked over a fire which that whole thing trying to cook over a fire and not getting the fire down low enough and so you’ve got like ash going into it i’ve made that mistake a few times i mean i most memorable camping story i think that that this triggers for me is the one time we went to summer camp yeah and that’s where we learned about hobo burgers where you you put the ground beef and potatoes potatoes onions some barbecue sauce i seem to remember carrots carrots were in their first time for sure and um barbecue sauce and then you you you make a pocket and then you wrap up the third thing and you seal it tight and then it blows up like a balloon when you put it down in the ashes and if yours doesn’t blow up like a balloon you made a mistake in the rolling that’s right yes that’s on you it’s on you and it was just like one more thing that was an entirely new experience that we ended up doing many times while camping that’s right afterwards yeah haven’t done that with the kids we talked to the kids about that on the death valley trip but we didn’t actually do it yeah because it does require a little more work you got to get you got it’s got to go down to ash yeah to just the coals to work ideally all right here’s another one uh from the real eight whoop on twitter my parents had eight children including me okay wow i am number six mom made spaghetti for dinner mom left the room dad took plain piece of spaghetti and twirled it over his head like a lasso okay all us kids laughed and started twirling spaghetti over our heads ours had sauce mom came back oh end of story that’s it that’s a good that’s a well-constructed tweet i dwoo you know i get painted a picture spaghetti sauce everywhere of course it’s dad’s fault this is like always this is like something that happens in a movie or a book this isn’t something that happens in in real life is it i guess i mean when you have that many kids something’s always happening you know it’s i mean with three kids there’s there’s there’s always something there’s always a fire to put out sometimes literally i’ve only got two and the amount of things that get broken and and i just you know i just don’t think my family’s built for more children i think those those families that have a lot of kids like there they made an observation about the first one and then the second one and then the third one they were like okay we can manage this we made observations about our children and we’re like did we make a mistake christy counts me as one of the children and i can’t argue with that but you know i mean talking about a family memory happening over meal time i mean i as i was racking my brain for my most memorable meals one of the first things that came to my mind was you know it’s it’s not so much the one meal as gathering around the same table like i can picture the table that i that my mom had that the two of us grew up around you know it was um we would sit down and have a lot of meals together it wasn’t you know she might have only made five or so dishes and then rotated them but we would all sit down at that you know that wooden table i actually think it was the table with jimmy and emmy too like so the four of us have family gathered around that table and then when the divorce happened we took that table with us jack but you know it’s i’m glad that as a family we still have this expectation that we’re gonna try to have meals around the table and a lot of times it’s like well let’s just sit around the television there’s something going on let’s let’s watch something or or eat separately or whatever but i mean that’s when it’s not so much the specific memories as it is just the general memory of having a place that you gather and that’s important but the i think just as memorable to me and special to me is growing up every other sunday after church we would go to my nanny’s house so my mom’s mom this is the one my grandma that passed away this past summer and i wasn’t able to go home um and and one of the you know when i was just thinking about all my fond memories of her just her fried chicken like my favorite fried chicken i’ve ever eaten did you do fried chicken every time pretty much every time like one out of every four times it might be like a pork roast or something else but like she knew how much i loved her fried chicken and so she would she would fry the neck bone and i bet it might surprise you but i would eat the neck bone i would eat and i would eat that first and then i would eat it’s not a lot to eat though no eat the breading off of it i mean it’s i mean it’s like that long it’s a lot longer than you think like the neck bone i mean how long is that four inches four inches i said i mean that’s i wouldn’t think a chicken’s not much longer than that that’s more than half of a chicken is the neck it’s longer than you think the neck goes deep down in there and there’s a little bit of meat on it it was kind of it’s kind of nasty to like be gnawing on this like dinosaur-like neck but a miniature dinosaur neck it is kind of weird because i mean a lot of kids are really sensitive about identifying yeah bones and like body parts and meat your kids are like that yeah yeah and i would move on to the chicken leg and then the thigh i would eat i’d eat a lot i’d eat all the dark meat i’d eat two thighs two legs and the neck the neck is the dark meat and um by the way i don’t know if you can hear it it’s shaking our table but the sound that was here last episode it’s back they’re just doing some work somewhere and it like reverberates through the ground and we’re trying to get it out of the uh the mix so you may not hear it at all and then what i just said is pointless but just to acknowledge that but my most memorable meals i think that is like the most memorable meal tradition is all right we know we’re going to nannies after church boy i remember when pastor rogers would be like droning on about his sermon on about his sermon i would be picturing that fried chicken man you came didn’t you you came i don’t think i ever i don’t think i ever had our fried chicken or i guess i don’t remember it if i did huh i’m sure but you came over there because you would ride the golf cart together yeah but i don’t think that was a sunday afternoon thing yeah i think it was other times like a saturday or something it was a small table there wasn’t we’d bring in all the chairs and it was i don’t remember a guest i don’t remember eating dinner over there i think i would invite you to come over afterward i literally don’t give a neck bone don’t give him the ass by the way it’s a capacity thing well because you know my my all my family extended family was in georgia um so i’ve i’ve got some memorable meals and one in particular i’ll talk about in a second but i didn’t have the you know i didn’t have the regular going to uh grandma’s house but i also do have a story about grandma coming over um that’s right but first we wanted to um remind you about the mythical coloring book you know we did this thing we we partnered with uh is fan tunes yeah and uh put together basically brought the world of mythicality the world of mythical to life well to life colorless life and now you can bring it fully to life by coloring it and listen this is not for children i mean i mean children can definitely enjoy it there’s nothing in there that’s offensive to children check that out there’s the ear biscuits but uh this is for basically stress relief for adults of all ages adults of all ages get yourself this coloring book at mythical.com i see fans mythical beasts posting uh completed pages and it’s very impressive and relaxing um while we’re on the subject of family so i i and interestingly that interesting that you mentioned fish because um fish i’ll tell one of my fish stories but fish actually is something that came to mind the first thing uh the first memorable meal that i thought about was at my aunt helen’s house so aunt helen it was my grandmother’s uh sister and my grandmother mama nail helen she’s she’s still around down in georgia she’s the one i talked about uh her husband was gibbs patrick who had the the farm who incidentally when i said that in the in some one recent episode somebody commented i think i said it on good mythical more somebody commented on youtube i can’t believe that your uncle was gibbs i worked at the farm for years really so small world but anyway they had a pond on the farm in a little lake house just a little cabin that was on the main pond there pond house it was a pond house and that’s where we would stay when we went to stay with them oh cool and uh my favorite thing about the whole deal was fishing so we have cane poles and then corn for baked and you would catch brim and bass maybe some crappy can’t really remember that and just have this visceral memory of catching the fish cleaning the fish and all we did to clean the fish was cut the guts out like cut the belly take the guts out and then descale it yeah but they left the fins on left the heads on left the tails on gave it to aunt helen and she battered those suckers up and fried the fish whole and then we would all go and sit around this big plate of just whole fish like i’m i’m going to put a whole brim on my plate i’m going to put a whole bass on my plate yeah and um i just it was so mind-blowing because it was like we were just like we were just catching these fish like these fish were just happening in the lake fresh and now you did this thing to them and now we’re doing this thing to them eating them um you feel like a hunter-gatherer yeah there’s just something you know deep in your your dna that kind of connects with that with the process of like i took this from nature the immediacy of survival processed it and put it in my belly in the context of the people that did that with me and they are my family like that’s a it’s a memorable you know my friend you don’t get that a lot you know we don’t get that in everyday society yeah my papa Neal he would do fish fries like that because he he’d freeze the fish and so you know but by the time he would take the boat out and we’d go fishing and come back or whatever he was typically uh too exhausted to then have an actual a full-blown fish fry but we wait till another time you know okay and then and I’m just gonna just so i don’t double back on this another meal that came to mind was a very similar thing i think it was when we had gone to santa cruz for the first summer project and we in in like Locke had just been born like right before that yeah and uh we got back and Jessie’s family was like hey we’ve rented a houseboat for everybody to stay on and now we’re talking a very i mean not a very big boat and it was going to be me and Jessie and Locke as a baby and then Jessie’s sister and husband and their two boys Jessie’s parents and Jessie’s grandparents both gaga and papa sleeping on the sleeping on this houseboat that was anchored in the sound in between the outer banks and the mainland and north carolina i was like this is nuts but i’m up for it right and um somehow the way it’s kind of like an rv we’re like oh there’s a bed here kind of thing they’ve kind of worked it out so that how i don’t know how many people that was but maybe it doesn’t everybody is sleeping oh wow but they also the the people who gave you let you rent the houseboat gave you like a smaller john boat with a motor on it to like kind of go around the sound with and me and my brother-in-law chris my father-in-law and papa went out and we caught flounder uh and of course you know flounder are those fish that are really like a dinner plate and they are their eyes are on one side yeah they’re completely white on the bottom and then they’re like fish colored on the top and both of their eyes are on because they just stay on the bottom so crazy and we caught a bunch of these flounder took them back to the boat and my brother-in-law cooked them right as soon as we got back he like sauteed them and i remember that my mother-in-law had some sun-dried tomatoes and like olive oil or something and he like cooked these things in in that and then we ate it and i was like this is the best food i’ve ever had in my life and it was again it was something but it was well if you work for it it was the experience and it was the freshness too like taking something out of the water and then within an hour putting it in your mouth i mean it doesn’t get any better than that so i highly recommend fresh fish [Laughter] jamie mitchell naragon replied to us she said on a school trip to germany in the mid-90s we were led into a crypt that apparently served food sounds cool we never figured out completely what we were eating but we maintained it was rat tail soup and some sweet pork butt then a kid lit his hair on fire yeah i mean that makes for a memorable meal if you’re on a a school trip and someone the hair on the hair on fire is probably the exclamation point on that memory that caused it to never go away i mean i i mean this this reminds me of when we were in london and we you know we were desperate to find a place to eat and then pizza where we got the chips oh we ate in an old prison yeah because it was an old prison and they had like somehow forced i mean it’s like a bricked in like cell that then there was in there yeah they had taken the wall down so you you would just scoot scoot scoot scoot on either side of this huge table and we ordered uh we were basically it was a bar designed to just go drink but we were super hungry he was like you have anything to eat he was like um i have some mexican crisps yeah so they were like the worst tortilla chips we had ever had but the best mexican crisps we had ever had i guess and the salsa was ketchup with onions in it it was the best way to describe it i mean one of my best meals if you just focus on the food and we’ve talked about this before and i mean this has to be in your top five it’s like in london going to dishoom the indian cuisine restaurant that was in my on my list yeah when we went to vidcon london uh and we performed and then we we got reservations there we went there with uh our agent and stevie and jenna were there too and it was so good the food was so good the drinks were so good i mean it was just i don’t know it was it was amazing and we we we had to wait you know the that’s that’s part of it you know just having having to wait for over an hour and have somebody wait in line and everyone else could walk around but then someone had to stick around and so there was this expectation that if you can just walk right on to the roller coaster oh it was pretty good but you know if you if you’ve waited for an hour and a half to get on that thing it’s it’s more that’s part of the experience for it to pay off so strong it was the food was just so good and the hype i i think rarely lived up to that well but i think it depends on your personality right so i tend to believe the hype that i you know if you start hyping something up some people are like it probably isn’t as good as he’s making it out to be and they kind of want to contradict you yeah but i’m a i’m a believe the hype go along with the hype if somebody gets super excited about introducing me to something it makes it taste better to me right because i because i do that to people i i’m like hey i want you to enjoy this right and that there’s and there was something part of the fun of how much um it had been talked up and i guess it was brent who was like you got to go to this place i mean i can’t either i can’t remember if he was like you’re gonna absolutely love this place i think we looked it up and it was very highly rated and then there was just so much hype around it and i was just like totally on board and so then it was one of the rare occasions where i mean we were starving and then we had a we had drinks and they were strong drinks and they brought you and they like mixed they brought the drinks in this little they would bring you a glass of ice and then like the garnishes that go in a particular drink like say an old-fashioned so there would be like an orange peel or something like that and then they would bring you the mixed alcohol in a separate container with a cork on it and you take that cork out and pull pour it into your thing now again the old fashioned yeah this if you really think about that it’s just kind of an easy way to mix drinks ahead of time so it makes it easier on the bartenders but again because i fully buy into the hype i think i say things like oh it’s in a little container this is awesome and that’s the the thing i remember is getting a little drunk and then the food coming out and being absolutely the star you want to be and i you know i i just don’t i never i never drink i just don’t drink that much and when i drink it’s i don’t know it’s i don’t have a great experience well i think that’s drinking very exceptional well drinking in the context of great food is when i’m into the concept the idea of like hey let’s just sit around and drink a bunch of beer or something like that or like i’m just sitting around and sip whiskey i’m kind of like i can take it or leave it but if you give me some really good wine with some really good food or there’s like really good mixed drinks cocktails with really good food that there’s just something magical about that you may not feel great afterwards but in the moment you feel incredible you had the and we had good company there was lots of i mean we were in a strange land first time i had ever been to london and we were you know it was we were having a good time we were we were trading stories we were trading laughs and the wait staff were like along for the ride so i think that has to be the most if you isolate the just the meal it it i think it’s my top so much it’s never gotten any better for me it’s like because christy and i took lily back to london it was just a few weeks later i talked about it on this podcast and we went back there and it and we went to the second location in between the two uh i don’t know if you call them acts or whatever it is the two different there’s the first play in the second play for the harry potter play so we went in between the two and it was uh the food i i built it up for them and the food was just as great i mean i i can’t wait to go back at the company well so when i went back to london i also went with my family we went to the same location that we did with everybody before and this we it was incredible but when four people eat you don’t get as many things the thing that made that first time so great is the fact that it was the first time yeah and the group was so big that you ended up getting when you eat indian food you want to you you want to taste everything you want the buffet experience when we went back we were like we got to pick like two two main course things and it just wasn’t the same you know it was good but it wasn’t the same i mean i was trying to think of other i mean we’ve we’ve had the privilege of traveling to so many places i was asking christy to help me remember and she was like when we went to australia you went up to brisbane you and rhett and jenna went up there for the for the one tour stop and i was like yes we walked we basically walked all the way across downtown brisbane because we only had a few hours so we kind of did our own walking tour and we found ourselves that this do you remember what it was it was called like cigar pizza oh yeah yeah yeah remember how good the logo than the guys look like me and you yes right yeah and it was i mean it was it we were eating at a weird time so there wasn’t anybody there but the there were so many good meals in australia though why would that why did they call it the pizza was like it was rolled up it was rolled up like a cigar and they had these like comments it was a glorified pizza roll but it was very really really good because i cuz one of the things that comes to mind for me is first of all almost every meal while in australia was good i do remember uh that mr was it mr wong’s is that the name of the place that was in sydney that was a giant oh yeah chinese restaurant um and we said at that giant table here’s why that meal wasn’t as good as it could have been because we got in a fight well because kids were there oh you don’t remember the fight well we got into a fight yeah because christy thought that i was trying to order for everybody when i was just really i was just like i’m throwing out suggestions and christy felt controlled i think at the at that moment um yeah i i i could see her side because i think i was on it [Music] that’s hilarious though cause you were so excited and you were like let’s order this and let’s order this and we were just talking about it yeah it wasn’t like it was as opposed to what you want it was like ordering with the waitress you were talking about i was like this looks good let’s get this this looks good and you’re and christy was like well hold on a second i haven’t even read the whole menu and i was like okay but and it should have just been everything that’s mentioned we’re going to order but there was some that was my expectation my instinct was that it was like why don’t we get every single thing that everyone wants right but that wasn’t so i started naming things that and i knew that’s what was happening because you know we go you and i go to places all the time but then it was yeah if if the interpretation was oh he’s he’s ordering for the table but that’s i understand that that’s not why i don’t it wasn’t then the kids the kids really screwed it up the kids kids they have to be taken into account it’s like well i don’t know if i like dunk you know what i’m saying it says like listen we’re here we’re at one of the best chinese restaurants in the world by reputation get the peking duck and quit complaining about it i don’t think i ate any of that but i didn’t complain about it right but it’s just like you know i think that a general openness of every single member of the party is part if you’re going to go to a place like that i think that’s the key to enjoyment and children assume children are just not open they had a big experience and i didn’t really love that but i tried it and then i was like okay that one thing’s not for me right um okay well let’s move on where else did we go i i do remember remember we went to austin with stevie and we ordered that huge tomahawk that was it the steak wasn’t that in austin yeah it was a uh it’s like a huge beef it was a japanese meets texas food so it was all in the style of japanese traditional food but done with the meats and the sides that you typically would enjoy in texas so the fusion restaurant that there was a lot of buzz about i can’t remember the name of it but it was really really good and i remember talking to th the trick that we had was you make friends with the with the waitress or waiter waitress in this case and like we were just we were like you know we’re just visiting we heard about this place we’re excited about it what you know tell us what is exciting and then she went through some things and she was like but and she could tell from our vibe it was like but you need to get this thing she like really sold us on this like special huge tomahawk i mean look like a piece of a dinosaur it’s about the experience listen and that’s why i say i know listen if you go and i’m just saying because i know that there’s people who are resistant to trying new things but like when you go to a place that’s known for a thing even if it’s a thing that you don’t think you would like or you don’t traditionally like free yourself towards the experience open yourself towards the experience of that new thing because i think it will make your life better and i will guarantee you will make everyone else’s lives who you’re with better just you know you know i mean i i i understand that’s not directed at you it’s not directed at you it seems like it could have been directed at me but no because you you try you try things i i do understand that like when you’re in it when you’re having a meal and this should be fun it’s like you you want to keep negativity if you have a negative thought keep that to yourself you know if you’re ordering things to share or whatever because i love sharing things i love trying different things i don’t like i don’t like committing to a plate like it’s it’s interesting that i’m picky but i also like to share because i don’t like to commit right um and i’ve been rewarded enough to just give more things to go so it you know it’s happened over time uh i don’t think shaming helps but i’m not did that you may have taken it as a shaming i’m saying open yourself up to the experience because it you will have a better time don’t deprive yourself of that experience that’s my main point i agree with that truly mythical know me twitter handle dink kneel okay uh one year visiting family in china i was around 10 years old we were sat down for a meal entirely made up of plates of bugs and served warm liquidated sweet corn as a beverage i’m a picky eater picky i’m a picky eater i’m a pickier eater than link is so you can imagine my 10 year old self was not having it hashtag ear biscuits yeah again as a kid it’s just like i bet it wasn’t a plate of bugs i mean but i bet in in their memory i could see how as a 10 year old it like comes across that way right but i mean if there’s bugs on the plate there’s bugs on the plate i mean it’s there’s not much mistake in that well and the thing is is that we’ve eaten so many weird things but it has never hardly ever been in the context of a restaurant or uh a meal with somebody it’s on the show and when you we’ve eaten lots of bugs and testicles and hot peppers and all that stuff and while those are memorable experiences some of them more than others like the hot peppers it’s kind of hard to forget right you don’t get the same it’s memorable for you as a viewer i think but for us all the weird things that we’ve eaten kind of just it all blends together there’s not there’s very few moments that stick out in my mind it’s like when you make that live beetle i think was that the episode that shea mitchell was there for yeah and we also were like we didn’t know what was gonna happen and all of a sudden you’re eating this live beetle i’m like well hey people are gonna be mad about this because you’re eating a live animal yeah uh and we probably shouldn’t be doing that and b like okay this is especially nasty so i assume that that stands out in your mind i wonder if like guy fieri remembers all of the diners drive-ins and what is it dunkin donuts whatever the other thing is here’s why here’s what i don’t think he does and this remembers all of the this is why we don’t no way right because your attention is divided when you are primarily in an entertainment mode like when we eat something on gmm we’re not eating it to experience it and enjoy it i mean i try to be as present as possible but really we’re trying to be a conduit for entertainment and we’re trying to you know like the camera’s there even think about when we did the rib tour in memphis to find like the best ribs and we were thinking about the final product you’re not just thinking about the ribs in the moment yeah and um i think we made the right call about who had the best ribs i remember by the end there’s also this thing about like eating on camera you have to eat on camera when it’s time to you know on camera and it doesn’t matter if you’re hungry or not like we we’ve actually you know we’ve looked we finished recording episodes and saying you know what this was scheduled at a difficult time uh in the day for for us to record because we weren’t hungry like um there’s certain will it episodes or i mean in any of those episodes it’s like right we try to manage our stomach so that we can actually be hungry so it’s easier to to actually be enthusiastic about things that are amazing and by the time we got to that third um what was it called central barbecue which is the best one we were hungry again but i think we gave we were not as hungry short shrift to uh we’re not as hungry as the uh the owner assumed we were because that’s actually a pretty memorable meal because we sat down yep and we filmed the episode which involved eating the ribs and eating some beans and then we were like well we got to go back to wherever we were going um but he but we’ve got a little time and he’s like well i want you guys to taste everything and so it was me and you and stevie casey ben is that who the crew was uh and nick came nick was there and i think there was at least two more people so we sit down at this table and uh the guy who runs central barbecue i can’t remember his first name now brings every sing every single thing that they serve every single drink that they serve so like he brought us a bunch of beer i was like oh god and annie brought us multiple desserts and i ain’t complaining but i you know we had to take a lot to go because i mean the crew was hungry and i i wanted to try everything but i just couldn’t do it it was very difficult this is coming from a guy who can eat until he thinks he’s going to faint there was a series of responses that i did not expect yeah this was it totally makes sense but i did not know it was gonna happen so let’s let’s alternate these there’s four of them okay sarah holcomb says for moms it is whatever is given to you after delivery after my first delivery i was given a plain turkey sandwich applesauce and graham crackers and peanut butter because it was late it was the best sandwich ever after eating nothing for 12 hours and delivering a baby georgina gio georgie said post 18 hours of labor and giving birth after the epidural wore off the best chicken fried steak country potatoes and pancakes of my life stephanie acidic yarn one one eight i had a bowl of chili and a hamburger after my daughter was born and was allowed to eat again it had been a minute i had a c-section from the hospital so that was in parentheses to eat again from the hospital cafeteria best burger of my life i’ve yet to have a meal hit me that hard and finally amanda martinson for me it was the first meal after giving birth to my daughter labor for 26 freaking hours after the dust settled is that yeah i don’t remember there being a lot of dust it depends on how long the baby is in utero after the after the dust settled my husband went and grabbed my favorite food from whataburger for me that was the best meal of my life and my first meal as a parent i think that might be what it takes to make whataburger good is i like whataburger the texas joint oh no i’m getting i’m sorry so much crap about that i was thinking about fat burger yeah yeah i don’t like what a burger we don’t like water burgers sorry i mean but they’re texas you’ve got all kinds of great things we’ve established this but whataburger is not the thing you should be leading with um and i mean they’re they’re talking about like hospital cafeteria food being amazing which yeah if you’ve been through that ordeal and you know christy had three c-sections i just i don’t recall i’ll have to ask her if uh if if she was starving i think that i i definitely remember when we found out we were pregnant uh with lily and gonna be parents first of all we but we both took a nap but then well uh when we started going in for like her checkups and her ultrasounds and stuff we would always eat at chick-fil-a because it was the only chick-fil-a that we had access to up in kerry was was next to that so like that became our thing oh we get to go to chick-fil-a and that was uh those are those are memorable meals for us when it’s like you know just preparing to be a parent and eating some eating some fried chicken with extra pickles in her case but i don’t remember after pregnancy i don’t recall it does make me think of you know i i definitely can’t understand if you’ve if you’ve gone through this ordeal and you you know you you haven’t eaten it it does trigger the memory which is basically not related at all of like in college when we would uh we would fast do you remember this and not for health reasons this was like for spiritual reasons yeah that we would uh you know they would say you know what take a take a day or a few days to fast there was a there was at least one time where i said i’m gonna take a a seven day fast well when you tell a bunch of zealous college students um about a spiritual practice like fasting and and challenge them to do it i mean our personality is that well okay well like i’m gonna do this for longer than you asked me to do it yeah right so yeah i do i do remember going for a week in college but i think it ended up being five days i don’t think it would be seven days very irritable but i do remember thinking um i i but by the way i think there were there were benefits to it but i don’t in terms of you know it kind of puts things in perspective it definitely puts your your relationship with food in in perspective uh yeah i think it’s just your dependency like your actual dependency on on food to survive and you can run that through a spiritual grid and gain some uh meaning from it i think there are many other things that you can you you can benefit from spiritually that i don’t think that i did in terms of making it as you say a spiritual practice you know it was more of an experiment for me i think where i just got very angry and irritable that i was doing it but i do remember because sometimes we would do it at the same time we’d do it with our roommates and like we would get fixated on okay this is when we’re all gonna break our fast it’s gonna be at six o’clock on friday night and we’re going to go to the golden corral which by the way if you fast on a regular basis you know this isn’t how you break your fast you’re supposed to especially the longer the fast the more gentle the break right so kind of ease back into it golden corral does not ease you in ease is not a word associated with the only thing easy about golden corral is how easy you can fill up another plate exactly do you remember that though because there was they had a they had a steak and shrimp night at golden corral and i think maybe it wasn’t friday but we would time our fast to end on that night i remember this now that you’re talking about it so we could go eat a bunch of like oddly mediocre steaks yes like i don’t know what part buffet seems like it was rejected from what you could get at the grocery store i i don’t i don’t recall having like any difficulties from that decision you know it’s just glorious it was back when your body could take anything you completely punish yourself and there were no consequence but i mean the thing is is that now i mean i’m not saying that there’s still there’s not still spiritual reasons to fast but like since then they’ve they’ve come out with all this research about how beneficial fasting is in general just for health i mean it’s a the whole intermittent fasting thing all this crazy stuff that happens to your body when you fast and like the cell rebirth and how it cuts down to inflammation and all this stuff it’s a you know it’s one of the most beneficial things that you can do for longevity but last time i did it i hurt my back and i think they’re connected but i won’t even go into why that’s the case long story but it has to do about cell regrowth and people with disc issues and there’s some research that suggests that the renewal process can actually screw something up in your back and that happened to me last time i tried to do a day a one day fast so i don’t know if i’m gonna do it anymore stannah u.s said the first meal i ever made in my first apartment on my own was amazing i made a grilled cheese sandwich with white bread velveeta cheese and butter i opened a jar of pickles and sat on the floor in front of my tiny tv best grilled cheese of my life yeah so like meals to commemorate an occasion uh especially the you know when we moved in our the creative house we made we made the vlog about going to wienerschnitzel and then coming back because there is something about that first meal i can picture my first meal in the houses that i lived in do any of those stand out for you no i can’t i mean the only thing when this made me think about the um when i started cooking for myself when i when i moved into the apartment that i lived in after you got married and i you know i got that new apartment with with some guys and because when we all lived together with me and you and greg and tim we would cook we’ve talked about this many times like a hamburger helper and we would split it four ways and those are some memorable meals yeah like literally it would be the whole skillet which is hamburger helper by the way for you know like 19 year old dude this is not enough food i mean i could easily have eaten a whole hamburger by myself and you should have eaten at least a half that’s why i would say in a quarter and we would cut it like a pie and then give each well the one that we cut as a pie was the one that was supposed to congeal their hamburger helper has all kinds of different like form factors and one of them is the one that congeals into like a disc yeah and the other ones are just like a pasta and meat together the one you’re i specifically remembered that one i don’t remember what it was called but we could cut it into fourths and you got this just this fourth of a pan yeah and i was still so hungry after we were done with it so i remember that but i also remember when i started cooking for myself in my other apartment i had i don’t know i just have a tendency to just jump into things with no expertise or no ability no point of reference for it and this is before the internet so i definitely my mom never taught me how to cook i never asked so i remember i had this thing where i would take chicken and cut it up and take onions and cut it up peppers and cut it up and like saute it together and then pour barbecue sauce into the pan okay and make like a barbecue sauce and chicken onion and pepper soup and then put it over enough barbecue sauce to make a soup yeah and then put it over pasta oh god that sounds nasty yeah it is i’m sure it is i mean it tasted good over over noodles huh and i made this meal for jessie like the first time she came to my apartment she she seemed to like it [Laughter] so i remember those very misguided not following a recipe not having any idea what i was doing meals uh here’s a weird one to end on pigeon tante pigeon uh most memorable meal an edible painting together with a few other people what a famous dutch cook combined all kinds of different tastes and structures in the form of a large painting after she made it we all together had to scrape with special crisps etc the painting empty this is a phenomenal idea it doesn’t sound like it would be satisfying to taste i don’t think it’s yeah i don’t think this is about that um i hope not i think it’s i mean maybe it was good it depends if it was like a bean dip it might be good like if it was like a seven layer bean dip and you had nachos it would be good um but i think this is about common experience and kind of like working together and doing this meal in this weird way this reminds me of and i think i talked about it on something but a few years ago Jessie and i for a valentine’s day or something we went to i told you about this went to this art installation at this museum yeah yeah and they had curated this 12-course meal that corresponded to the specific art that was in this installation so like draw your attention to a piece of modern art of some kind and then you would eat it and then you would eat the meal that corresponded to it now it was and i ha and it’s this is difficult for me because i tend to be you know a little too linear in my thinking sometimes and so it’s difficult for me to just let my guard down and just i’m actually better at it than i was just a few years ago but let my guard down and be like this is crazy and that’s the kind of the point this is totally subjective what does this piece of food actually have to do with this painting and the connections that are being made but nothing right it’s crazy but and there was also the meal where they the the chef had this tendency to take there would be some weird sort of meal taste of something because it’s 12 courses and then there would be a hardened disk of a certain material a certain ingredient that was complementary to this thing and it would like have this disc on top and you would break it with a spoon and it would like break over and then you would eat it and so there was like this sort of like deconstruction thing happening with your food and also the lighting was changing and they were projecting um art onto the ceiling and you were also sitting at a one very long table with everyone else who had paid for this experience and you were supposed to like bring your own drink this is the one where you had to run get the yeah you told us we had to run yeah yeah and then you and you would like get to know people because it was so different and weird it just became it’s a meal i’ll never forget and but it but again do is it the taste of the food that i remember no it’s the presentation it’s the experience and the way that somebody decided to make it happen so i don’t imagine this painting tasted great but and so if you go into the experience thinking that like man i’m because sometimes you go into experience and you’re like i’m really hungry like sometimes you’re going to it’s like a party or something like that and you’re like man i’m hungry and i haven’t eaten dinner i hope they satisfy me you know will there be meatballs and if you don’t get satisfied you get mad so maybe if you’re going to do a an experiential meal like this you should like you know eat it eat a grilled cheese sandwich before you go just or have one in your pocket right just be ready to be ready for reinforcement so you won’t judge the experience too much well that was fun going down memory lane well i have one like i have one last thing i got yes you got you didn’t this is out this is a famous story i probably told it before uh but it remains the most rememberable meal to be one of the most memorable meals of my life and that was uh when mama nell came over for christmas dinner now we had gone to mom and dale’s house for christmas in georgia uh what felt like many times growing up i don’t know and um we had always gone to her house and she very rarely came to visit us where we were at like we would go down to georgia to see her yeah um but then after pop died you know she came up and was living in a retirement home in north carolina that was just like a mile down the street from us and so she would come over quite often in those last few years and i remember christmas dinner and i’m like so excited like even as a kid i mean you know i’m this way now but i was it was just so funny because my kids are not like this as a kid i got so excited about food i got so i can never remember a point in my existence where i didn’t get super amped up about a meal that somebody was about to serve me and if it was like a significant meal like christmas dinner i was like i know mom’s gonna make this this this this this and i would think about it and get so amped up about it and i would like eat so much food so i’m like just getting to the place where i’m really enjoying christmas dinner and uh again this was towards the end of mamanelle’s life and she i mean she just you know she was very old at this time she didn’t participate much in the conversation and she also didn’t eat very much so they would make her a really small really small plate and she would she was eating and then all of a sudden like i mean again she’s not participating in the conversation but she definitely participated in getting all the attention on her when she just threw up on her plate she just and i’m just like sitting across from her and i just see it come out and land on all the there wasn’t a lot of food on our plate like i said and i’m just like it made me mad and it was selfish to get mad oh god you know it may i got mad at her because she screwed up my she was choking on food and she i don’t think so i don’t know i don’t think she was choking i think she just was you know she was just old man regurgitated yeah she was just old and i feel bad to this day and first of all no one was like ah mommy now like no one did that everybody was helpful and they’re like are you okay and everything you put in my mind i thought you were gonna say and i just went right back to eating uh i’m pretty sure i did end up finishing eating but the it it was never the same after that it wasn’t i mean maybe next year but like that meal because i had seen the ingredients that i was enjoying like come out of my grandmother and go on to the plate and so it just changes everything at least i didn’t go on your plate that would have been yeah that i couldn’t have taken that i couldn’t have taken that it was a cross it was across the way and i don’t think there was any splatter oh man so that was a memorable yeah that’s never that’s never happened to me man um you can only you can only hope i got a recommendation for you if you’re if you’re interested in it it’s my turn to give a wreck now um everything’s being delivered to us we got a box problem at the house and like after months and months of trying to break down boxes and get them into the recycling can yeah and my my uh my box cutter was falling apart hold on so you don’t i’ve assigned this i’ve assigned this to lock as in the past like two years i’m like lock you’re on box i’ve i tried and they don’t they i can’t get them to do it how i want it done you got to let it go man i know they don’t do a good job i didn’t i didn’t say he does a good job but if it doesn’t fit then it doesn’t get taken away if it doesn’t fit i’ll go out and if it doesn’t fit and the way to make it all fit because there’s so much and again i got one more person in my house than you do another box a lot more boxes it’s like exponential so i’m like you know what i bet you there is a newfangled like update to the box cutter that i could get excited about ordering and it would make it more of a joy and of course i’m right if you just search box cutter on amazon there’s this company called slice that’s pushing this thing out and it it looks like the top of a cane like the top of a shepherd’s hook and that part can like hook on your pocket or it’s an ergonomic handle that then you can push you push out the blade like you would a normal thing but then you hold it in a more leveraged position yeah and it um you know it goes right like the handle itself goes against the box too so it helps you keep it at the right angle and the blade is ceramic and rounded on the end and it won’t cut you which is great for me cut the box not you yeah it is it is a i mean it costs 19 bucks but it is it is splendid i gotta recommend that you get a slice box cutter three position manual button with ceramic blade available at amazon 2191 reviews can’t cut yourself not a sponsor maybe they should be yeah it won’t um it’s just again it’s not a metal blade it’s ceramic it doesn’t rust and it doesn’t cut you unless you’re really really dumb i’ve not cut myself with it so that’s not an endorsement i don’t know what is okay i’ve enjoyed this thing i i order stuff just for the box so i can cut it and probably not that’s probably not a good way to be slice as a reminder next week we will start with uh our one year later deconstruction stories so stick around here to watch more ear biscuits click on the playlist on the right to watch the previous episode of your biscuits click on the playlist to the left and don’t forget to click on the circular icon to subscribe if you prefer to listen to this podcast it’s available on all your favorite podcast platforms thanks for being your mythical best