It’s Gen X vs Gen Z vs Generation Alpha and the ultimate generational cook off, Skibbity Toilet Indeed! Today we’re gonna find out which generation made the best chefs. Now, we got Trevor. Yeah. Representing Gen Z, the Zillennial himself. You know it, it’s Trevor. What’s up? Fortnite or whatever, and I will not be representing the Millennials today, I’m representing generational, come here Drew, my guy, tell him your favorite thing about being a gen alpha overlord. Um, I have a lot of technology. That’s all I can say Basically, that’s what the That’s what the aliens say when they invade Earth to destroy you. Then representing Gen X the forgotten generation Joel Stein! Yeah! I’m not a chef. He’s not a chef. Uh, he is an extra from the movie Reality Bites. Is that all you know about Gen X? Mostly, yeah. That and your parents learned about divorce for the first time, I think. That hurts. That’s gonna take me a while. Wait, are your parents, are they split up? Of course. Yeah, that makes sense. We’re all gonna be making a dish with the same three ingredients, but then we have each brought a secret generational ingredient. Then we’re gonna have a judge blind taste test each dish to see if they can tell which generation made which, and which generation reigns supreme. Mm hmm. Ready to get to it? Yeah. Drew, we’re gonna smoke them. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. Well, it’s Gen Z Trevor back at it again showing some boomers and Josh is Millennial, we got a good friend Joel Stein good buddy, Generation X. There’s also an alpha. So that’s really big, the most threatening of the generations to me, honestly. I’m making some salmon. I’m making some fried salmon sando a little bang bang sauce uh, and some White Claw pickles. Cause this is my ingredient. This is just watermelon White Claw. Just screams Gen Z. So I’m gonna get this simmering. In a little pan here. You really want it to just do that. When you pour it in. I’ve never tried White Claw. You’ve never tried, well, can we get a White Claw? I used all this one. Hold on, here we go. Doesn’t taste like anything. Go to [bleep]! Hey, I’m Joel Stein. I’m a member of Gen X. None of us in Gen X think about our generation, care about our generation. I once wrote a cover for Time Magazine called the Me, Me, Me Generation describing you millennials. You suck! My first job out of college was working for Martha Stewart. This is the Martha Stewart softball team t shirt. And, uh, I was so proud of this dish that I’m about to make. Then I, on like one of my first weeks, walked up to Susan Spungen, who was in charge of all the recipes and food there. And I was like, got a little gift for you. A recipe you can put in your little magazine. And I told her I was, it was salmon with raspberry sauce. And she said to me, that’s so 80s. And I didn’t know food could like be of a time period yet. And I just thought she was a jerk. And now I know she was very, very right. Oh, and my ingredient is balsamic vinegar, because there is this whole California movement where we just ate sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, sometimes with basil and a pesto, and artichoke hearts, and we just drank this. They never came this small. Like, our balsamic vinegars were, like, Costco sized. Uh, so, um oh, yeah. That is delicious. The white claw of the 80s. It is. Take it away Drew. So we’re gonna make, um, like, um, a cooked salmon sushi thing. Heck yeah we are. What are people in your generation eating? When I bring seaweed most of the time to my school, a lot of people are like, Can I have some? Can I have some? So, like, basically seaweed. Seaweed as currency on the lunch card now? No, no, what? No! Alright, do me a favor, grab like a pinch of that salt and just, big pinch not when I say pinch, so this is a that’s like, that’s a drew pinch, I need you to do a chef pinch that’s a big chef pinch and you’re gonna sprinkle that all over the salmon Is this good? So this is a process called curing. Take your hands, rub that salt in. That’s the perfect amount of salt. Yeah, you gotta get your hands dirty. And now we’re gonna flip it over and do the same thing to that side. Yeah, there you go. You ever done this before? No. I’m here to make your vision come to life. And then I’m gonna make a bang bang sauce. Pretty simple. I’m just gonna add some mayo. A little bit of sriracha. Little bit of Thai chili going in there as well. And not a common ingredient in bang bang sauce, but one that I’m being forced to use is figs. Everyone loves figs, except me. I don’t know if dry figs are going to roast, but I will use all these ingredients. A little butter. Little bit of honey, but that balsamic is really sweet, so I’m going to pretend to use some honey. I’m going to use a little bit of cinnamon. This is all going to go on a salad. Why is it coming out so slowly? I need like a gallon of this. Alright. What cultural or economic factors do you think led to the balsamic boom? Why’d you ask that question like it was an SAT essay? I don’t know. What cultural or economic factors, what? Why did Gen X love balsamic so much? What happened? Well, okay, so when I was a kid there were two good apples plus Red Delicious. So we just didn’t have that many foods in our supermarkets. There was like Iceberg and Romaine. So then we got a bunch of stuff, and it all seemed to have come in my imagination from Italy. They were new! We used them everywhere. Eelsauce. You know when you get sushi, you get that like sweet brown sauce on it? You like that stuff? No, I, my dad does though. Your dad? And my, and Grayson. But most of the time, no. We’re gonna make it. We gotta do something with the pigs. Did you fart? Drew, if you farted legally, you have to tell me. It didn’t. They call that a squeaker. Are you aware of your generation? Like, you see people older than you, maybe by like 10 years and you’re like, they are a different generation than me who cares about different things. I haven’t really thought about that. But I’ve been good. This is a good generation. Here’s the thing about my generation, the millennials. We thought we were like the best. We were like, we’re gonna save. Everyone, we’re going to make this the best world ever. We were arrogant. Well, look at that. Cause I’m the only generation that’s grown up with technology, so I’m. He’s right. I am the superior generation. He’s correct. He’s correct. I don’t, you know I’ve never used an iPad? No. I don’t know how to use it. How often have you used an iPad? Um, not that often. Oh, thank God. Oh, the iPad kids. They’re not, they’re not all going to destroy us. Trevor, why do you think Gen Z loves White Claws over light beer? I think that maybe it’s just younger generations don’t love the taste of beer. Maybe it’s like a carb thing. The purpose is to have you lower calories? Or why, why am I drinking this? Oh, so what happened is, uh, people found out that, uh, like, piss flavored sparkling water. Beer was bad, and so they turned it into watermelon flavored sparkling water. Legally, this is a beer. It’s sweet beer. Yeah, correct. Oh. It’s Zima. It’s Zima! It’s Zima! It’s for me! It’s Gen Zima! Oh, I used to drink that in high school. Now I like it. Sorry, Trevor. Go ahead. I’m honestly doing nothing. So, I’m glad that you had something there. Uh, I’m putting these, these, kukumbas, uh, in there. And then I’m just gonna pour some of that over the top. And that’s called cooking. Alright, I’m gonna drizzle, we like to drizzle, we like, this almost looks like a coulis, which is a word we like to use a lot back then. Alright, I’m gonna shove this in the oven for very little reason. It’ll warm up with the goat cheese. Alright, and now I’m gonna make the salmon for the And I cook it as if I’m camping. What is this? Are you aware that they call Gen X the DIY generation? Really? That’s a real thing, yeah. What did we DIY? Everything, cause your parents, both of them were finally in the workforce. Yeah, that’s true. I made dinner for my family once a week. And I made burger logs, which are a food I invented that you guys should make because there were never enough hamburger buns, there’d always be extra hot dog buns. So I took hamburger meat I put some barbecue sauce in it because I was an aspiring wannabe chef and then I would make Ham, uh, hamburger logs. They were a huge hit. Hey, everyone, speaking of being, uh, marketed to, uh, you should go check out Sporked.com because they have a series called 10 Items or Less, and it’s their new interview show. And they had friend of the show, Nick de Giovanni on, uh, just talk about, yeah, yeah, big claps. Uh, just talk about, you know, stuff that he loves, stuff that he makes, his favorite grocery store items, all that Sporked stuff. He was over there chatting it to go check it out. You probably can guess what I’m going to do here. See, we got our flour. And a cornstarch mixture. Unseasoned. Seasoned. Don’t laugh at my process. That’s seasoned. Egg and panko. I’m going to fry the salmon. I don’t know why I’m dragging that on that long. I’m going to use a lot of oil because I’m going to crisp this. What, everyone’s disgusted with the amount of oil I used? Gen Z doesn’t eat seed oils. I’m going to wander off camera to get a tiny bit of water. You’re not going to like that. You know what? I won’t even. I know it’s going to make you mad, so I’ll just use a White Claw. Hold on. There he is. I just want to see. Oh, that’s hot. That’s hot. What is this stuff? It’s all the chemicals. That wasn’t just alcohol. You drink this? This is like mix it with oil and heat it up first. We’re gonna use this, we’re gonna use this love it. Tell me about these seaweed snacks, these were like super new when I was a kid. We didn’t a couple kids brought these, look at my man. Look at him. Just just ah. Here we go. I’m going to pop, oh my god, I made a mess. I’m going to put some white pepper on the salmon. Going to get that going. In the cornstarch flour. I, I did it again. See, that’s one thing about Gen Z is we really repeat our mistakes and get stuck in, you know, horrible cycles. So now I just want to sear this. It’s just going to take a little while, then we’re going to put it in the oven. Meanwhile, so this is the sauce that’s going to ruin this meal. I remember I made it for some woman and I was so proud of this dish, and she told me how delicious it was, and then, she was rich, and she could cook it turned out, because I was at her apartment, and we had to go somewhere, and she’s like, oh I’ll just make a quick souffle, and she made like in a half hour a souffle, and I was like, oh she ate my salmon with raspberry sauce and pretended to like it. I’m just realizing she really liked me. Call her. Can we, do you have a phone? I’m gonna blend this up. You ever go to the dentist? Does this inspire fear? Kind of. Just step back, this is dangerous. I’m a professional. I’ll shield you with my body. Nailed it. I have such protective instincts. Alright, we’re blending up the sauce. You gotta try this. Where’s he at? I don’t see him. I’m right here. I’m gonna go in the egg, get that nice and coated. Trevor, earlier you described Gen Alpha as quote, a threat. Yeah. Why do you think that? Cause they’re funnier than me. Uh oh. Yeah. I got a friend I play video games with, his name is Alex. He’s so funny. But like the stuff he says, it’s like sometimes I don’t even get it. But he’s saying it and I’m like, this is hilarious. You have a friend who’s a child? Well, no, he’s like he’s like higher end gen alpha, you know, he’s like 19. How old is this boy you’re talking to? Okay, weird. So I was just checking to see how crispy the skin had gotten and thanks to the white cloth it really crisped up nicely. I’m pretty happy with that and then I’m just gonna bake it. This has panko on it. I’m gonna put it in the fryer. I’m always looking at Taylor. I love looking at the close up, how’s it going guys? This is going in the fryer. This is gonna fry. I don’t know how long you guys want to hang out. Feel free. I’m gonna slice up some of the salmon. I’m gonna try and slice it into planks. You wanna eat some raw fish? Uh, no. You don’t wanna eat this? What? What if I eat it? You dare me to? No. I don’t want to. But I can actually eat it. That’s good stuff, man. I can actually eat it if I want to. Yeah, if it’s cool with your mom. It’s very thin. You put this on. A bagel with cream cheese is called a schmear. That’s good. You took that like a champ. That’s rad. Let’s put the rice down. You ever made a sushi roll? No, all right, man. So grab this, put some rice down and then I can help you kind of like pat it out. Yeah, I could, so how do I uh, You gotta do like 10 times that, 10 times that. Yeah, there you go, there you go, dig deep, Drew. And then you can take your hands, dip it in the water. Alright, so you want to get this as even as possible. And you want it to be pretty thin. You want to know a funny thing about getting old? What? Is, cause like, you know, I grew up with teachers and for me they were like authority figures. But then, when you get like 24, 25 you have friends start to become teachers? And you’re like, oh no, not them. Oh, were my teachers doing that? Oh god. You’ll get there. You’ll get there eventually. And you’ll remember this conversation. It’ll be like, Kyle? What are you saying? Nothing. These are good raspberries. When I was a boy you couldn’t get raspberries in the winter. Why eat raspberries from Chile for you? Cause you feel like raspberries. Alright. Well this is just straight up vinegar. You know what, I’m gonna keep it Gen X. A little bit of this. I can’t believe I used to make women eat this. I can’t believe they did it. Oh, I’ll add dill. There’s gonna be some dill in the salmon too when it’s done. All the professional cooks over here are completely horrified with the combination of flavors in that pot. You know what though? They’re gonna love it. You know why? Cus we’re on a date. Alright Drew, now we gotta lay down the seaweed. You can take six of these. You’re going to place it 1, 2, 3. I’m going to slice up some more fish. You got it? Okay. Do you like bagels? Do you eat them? Yes. So this is going to be kind of like bagels with the cream cheese and the fish in there. Sushi. Okay. I think you’re going to like it. I’ve had salmon on bagels before. They were good. I think you’re going to love this. I think we’re going to make some magic today. Alright. What do I do? Take three cucumber, cucumber pieces and go 1, 2, 3. I saw you snacking on cucumbers earlier. So I know you like cucumbers. My guy! First, I’m gonna reveal my second outfit of the evening. Um, don’t worry, there’s, don’t, you look so uncomfortable to see a 53 year old man take off his shirt. That’s the right answer to that. So this is to represent my generation. It’s the most important thing to my generation. It’s David Letterman. Like, I got this at some kind of taping in the 80s. Um, I’ll be making, this I also made. It’s a, it’s like a mixed green, maybe arugula, back then, or now, salad with goat cheese that’s been warmed up and some, uh, honey mustard vinaigrette. That was also very important to me back then. We liked everything sweet. Um, so these have been frozen. Add a little thyme. Very little time, apparently. Uh, some salt and pepper. Real complainer. Okay. So I’m gonna dip these in some egg white, a little panko. You’re gonna like these. This is gonna bring you, most of you, to a place you’ve never been before. A place called the early 90s. Okay, I’m gonna deep fry this. Not for very long. I just want to get them crispy. I’m gonna let them sit there for a second, but not long. Alright, I just want Oh, they’re brown. They’re brown. This is good. This is perfect. Look at that, guys. Oh, this is going to be so good on the salad. You guys. You’re in for a treat. Now, cream cheese. I’ve eaten cream cheese before. What are you talking about? Where do I put it? Actually, put it right there. Yeah, there you go. I think we’re ready to roll up now. I’m actually going to do something crazy. Check this out. Can I eat the long one? What? The long piece of salmon. Yeah, dude. You’re getting protein goals for the day, man. I like it. What, are you doing bi strides after this? A little chest trap workout? You want to go hit the gym? What are we doing? Alright. Mmm, that looks good. I botched the role job. I botched the role job so hard because I didn’t trust myself. I need you to know that, Drew, the best thing you can do in life, trust yourself. Okay. And don’t listen to strange men who have cooking shows. That’s so millennial. Alright, let me taste this. It’s gonna taste like raspberries. Yep, just tastes like raspberries. Alright, it’s, uh, I guess duck a l’orange is okay, but fruit and meat is never my thing. I mean, I shouldn’t say never, it clearly was my thing. But, uh, it’s no longer my thing. Ugh, it doesn’t even look. It’s really just about this presentation. I didn’t get laid a lot. But the fact that I did at all after giving someone this. Alright, and on the side of this is gonna be the salad. I believe in the salad. So, I was super into honey mustard. I kinda still like the idea of honey mustard. I kinda still do. It’s so sweet. It’s got the balsamic, so we’re just gonna, we’re gonna go light, cause it’s real sweet. Add some yellow peppers. And then, we’re gonna plate this. Did I go too light with this dressing? Joel, what foods did you associate with your parents generation? My mom enjoyed putting Saucy Susan on a, on a chicken. Saucy Susan’s a 70’s ingredient. It’s a bottle, I think it’s duck sauce, basically. Yeah, we have Saucy Susan here. There’s a smiling white girl with pigtails on the jar. Yeah, everyone was white when I grew up. Now we’re gonna unroll this. Hopefully this works. Drew, I’m not going to BS you. I’ve never done this before. Alright, I’m going to trim this a little bit. Drew, eat that. Drew, I got another one. Thank you. There you go, buddy. Alright, we’re going to go into some tempura batter. And then this is going to go into panko breadcrumbs. Hold on. Drew, how are you doing with that sushi roll back there? Are you chilling? Alright, cool. You see what’s going on here, though? Got this crusted in panko. Now we’re going to fry it. Alright. Y’all stand back though, because deep fryers are dangerous. No, no, go this way. Go this way. I’m gonna do that. And, nothing to it but to do it. Run! Drew, run! Okay. I have a bun here. That’s what the salmon’s gonna go on. I have my sauce. Salmon was on there. I don’t put the bun on there. Put the bun on the counter. Surely nothing bad was there. Sauce. And here’s the thing, there’s so many figs in this. Don’t love it. But, you know, I am bound to the will of others. Do you always cook with a towel over your shoulder? A hundred percent. At home, I will only cook with a towel. You’re with me on this? I will only cook with a towel. And this one’s skimpy. I like a bigger towel. Is that unusual? No, why would you say that? I’m not a professional. I like a Gen X thing. I think, like, I enjoy it, but I always see my dad anytime he’s cooking. He always has a towel over his shoulder. Do I seem like your dad? I think you and my dad would get along. I think you could be friends. You don’t seem like him, though. Okay, I’ve got my pickles. Actually, I want to try the pickles. Who knows how these taste with White Claw brine? You actually taste watermelon. That’s incredible. Yeah. I didn’t think, I didn’t think you were actually gonna get White Claw because White Claw doesn’t taste like anything, but somehow it tastes more like White Claw than a White Claw does. Alright, here. You drink that sauce. You love it. He loves the figs. What is this? It’s the fig sauce. It’s the fig unagi sauce. No. I think if you just give it a last try. I’ve tried it already. Here, eat the end. Thank you. I’ve never had this. It’s hot, but it’s good. Hot sushi! What will Gen Alpha think of next? No, it’s good. You can get that too. Still gotta finish this one. This is a thick sushi roll. This is the thick boy sushi roll. It’s looking pretty good though, huh? Mm hmm. Do we put the sauce on? I think we have to. Okay. We’re doing it, man. Wait, check it out. Do you want to know a cool chef trick? What? Try and draw your best, like, zigzag on this cutting board right now. That’s really good. And then the chef trick is I do this and eat it. And then I’ve got cabbage and I’m going to hit it with some little, little green onions here. Is there anything else I can do? Pep this up. Really give it that Gen Z flair. Oh, I got an idea. Here we go. Check this out. Thank you. All right. As Emerald used to say, Emerald, Emerald. I was on it. I sat on his show once while he cooked. I eat Emerald’s food and I told him you did it. Boom, bam, bam. It’s your, it’s your. Boom is the Costco guys. Boom’s the Costco guys, this is, this is not a five boom dish. Um, bam. Woo! Yeah, buddy. One more. Keep going. Just a little bit. That’s perfect. That’s perfect. Now take these. Here’s what we’re gonna do is. Okay. Yeah! Boom. There you have it. Boom shakalaka. You hit em with the boom shakalaka? Boom shakalaka. Dang. Boom shakalaka indeed. Hi. Okay, so I’m gonna start with this one here. Eating sushi on camera is one of my greatest fears in life because I can’t do it. I can’t do it in one bite, but I love that this is fried. What a sense of fun. Sorry, I just like absolutely mangled. This piece of sushi, I’m gonna use a fork and don’t yell at me about it. Just come on everyone, shut up. Don’t do that. I love it. A lot. It’s so, can you really? Oh wait. I’m getting notes from the sidelines here. Is that true you love raspberries? I’m going to try it with sauce. Delicious. Really fried sushis. It’s so good. I like the look of this. Because it looks like we have like some goat cheese medallions here. Is that right? Starting with that. This is like a really berry forward salmon. Isn’t it? I don’t know if I’ve ever had such a berry forward salmon, but I’m excited to try it. Wait, what’s your first clue that there’s berries on that dish? Is that jam on it? Mmm, that actually tastes good. I’m gonna eat some of the goat cheese. with some of the salmon. Am I doing it right? There’s a lot of components to this dish, so I just want to make sure I’m getting, like, a little bit of everything. I think there’s some, some wal, there’s some walnuts on here, too. Wait, we have a can of whipped cream. Oh, my God, go get it. Are you getting any generational cues from these first two dishes? As an elder millennium, this has, like, very strong Gen X vibes for me. Like a salad with goat cheese on it. It’s like, that feels like very, like, 90s, I think. And, I don’t know. Berries on salmon? I don’t know. I don’t remember. I was on drugs all the time. If you were on a date, and someone served you the thing you ate, do you think you would have a second date? Have a second date with someone who made this? Absolutely. Even though they’re maybe kind of old. It’s okay. And then this looks like a Gen Z sandwich to me. It just looks like a sandwich. Wow. It’s a big fat piece of salmon on a sandwich. I like it. Yeah, it’s good. Everything, I don’t know. That feels, honestly, that feels millennial to me, but I don’t think millennials are represented here. Okay, I’m gonna try the pickles now. They’re not very strongly pickley, but maybe a little, they’re a little fishy tasting, but I think that might just be from the salmon. And maybe also, in addition to which is the best, I don’t know. Which person you would most likely date? Answer carefully, man. I can’t believe you guys have, like, you’re setting me up like there’s cops in the back waiting to arrest me. As I already said, I think this is the Gen X dish. There are a lot of berries on the salmon. Like, and I didn’t even eat just like one of the, like, untreated ones, but. It’s fun. The goat cheese medallions are delicious and I love that. Um, and then I’m gonna say that this is the Gen Alpha dish. I really, honestly can’t tell you exactly why. I don’t even know a lot about Gen Alpha. I forgot to have kids, so I don’t like, I don’t like interface with them very often. But as I said, I think that this feels like very gen, this feels very Gen Z to me. It feels millennial leaning Gen Z. Um, I think that my favorite was probably the sushi. All right, we got our Gen Alpha here. This is Drew. He indeed made the sushi. You nailed all of the Gen Alpha. Nice! Give it up for Drew, your official champion. Again, he’s gonna be our boss in at least 10 years. Good job! That was so good! You didn’t answer all the questions, though. Your goat cheese medallions are delicious. I would date those. Oh, yeah, what was in the pickles? White claw. Watermelon. Okay, that’s super fun. I’m sorry. Yeah, it just had some fish juice on it. Bruh, what? Gwynedd, thank you so much for your fair and impartial judging. Drew, you’re a rock star, and boy, you can eat more raw salmon than anyone I’ve ever seen. You can find Drew when he’s my boss in 15 years. I’ll be answering all his emails. Joel, tell them where they can find you. In 15 years, I’ll be dead. Ha ha ha ha! Sadly. You got anything to plug while you’re alive? I’m past that. Alright, see y’all next time. Super gen, super gen X! Nothing for me! Ha ha ha! Oh Trevor, sorry, what do you got going on? That’s fantastic, we’ll see you guys! Sporked does a new interview series called 10 Items or Less. Check it out at Sporked. com to see Nick DiGiovanni’s favorite grocery store items and hacks.