A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Breakfast Tacos vs. Breakfast Burritos - Live at Mythicon

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

LIVE FROM MYTHICON, Josh and Nicole talk about the big breakfast debate: breakfast tacos or breakfast burritos? Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 To learn more about listener data and our priva...cy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This, this, this, this is Mythical. How we doing today, Austin, Texas? Woo! Speaking of Austin, Nicole, did you know that we have been lied to our entire lives and the breakfast taco was not invented in Austin, Texas? Well, that's bold of you to say, considering we're inside Austin, Texas. This is a Hot Dog is a Sandwich, live from Mythicon! Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what?
Starting point is 00:00:55 That makes no sense. Hot Dog is a Sandwich. A Hot Dog is a Sandwich. What? All right, enough chit-chat. We got to get down to business here here because we have a very serious topic. We are talking about breakfast burritos versus breakfast tacos.
Starting point is 00:01:11 I know what you're saying. You didn't think we'd get political up here. But we're doing it, baby. It's happening. No, and the reason I want to talk about this, we are in Austin, Texas. A lot of people associate Austin with breakfast tacos. Exactly. No, totally.
Starting point is 00:01:24 Reasonably, but, but, but, there is a, I was going to say famous incident, but I realized that the things that are famous to me are famous to exactly zero people out there. Yes. I'm calling this a famous incident. Someone for eater.com wrote an article about how the breakfast taco was invented in Austin. Then the city of San Antoniotonio the city itself issued issued a uh there was a petition that was signed by over 2 000 people to quote exile the author of the article out of the state of texas this actually happened uh freaky deaky man because san antonio claims to have invented it and so that's that's strike one. Unclear origins. Breakfast burritos, however. Strike one against what? Breakfast tacos.
Starting point is 00:02:08 I am in favor of breakfast burritos. That is where I come down. Thank you! Right side of history. Well, what if I told you that's such an odd coincidence? Because I freaking love breakfast tacos! I know you do. Breakfast burritos? I know, I know. Okay. We'll get more into it, but breakfast tacos?
Starting point is 00:02:24 All I got... That's all I got to say. Okay. Keep going. What was that? You know what this means? This is the Italian hand gesture for taco. What's your next strike? Okay. So my next strike against breakfast tacos is that I believe food is incredibly personal, incredibly regional. And I think you should root for the food from your home state. And so I am saying that the breakfast burrito, which I believe to be invented in Pasadena, California, does history actually verify this fact? Not at all.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Probably not. Was it probably in New Mexico sometime in the 1960s? Yes. However, I believe Lucky Boy in Pasadena, which was a part of my childhood. Which is delicious, by the way. Lucky Boy breakfast burritos are the business. Oh my God. So good. We used to drive up to UCLA games in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl. I'm eight years old. I'm there. You hear the roar of the fans. You believe in something greater than yourself. That is both the power of sports and food. And then afterwards, after we saw the
Starting point is 00:03:23 Bruins just get wiped out by some better football team, because they kind of sucked back then, but we'd go to Lucky Boy and get breakfast burritos at any time of day, because they're open 24 hours ago at 7pm, you know, or we might even be there, it might have been a night game, I've been 10pm, I'm there past my bedtime, eating a Lucky Boy breakfast burrito. And to me, that is one of my greatest food experiences of all time. And that's what I try to recapture. But not only that, that is the experience that I want to share with other people when I talk about breakfast burritos. Does that mean I'm incredibly biased and there's no actual answer to this? No. I just like breakfast tacos more.
Starting point is 00:03:59 They're easier to eat, they're easier to construct, and they go down quicker. to eat, they're easier to construct, and they go down quicker. If you eat a breakfast burrito, your whole entire, like, hour is dedicated to that burrito and that burrito only. And that's beautiful! And I don't know about you! That's beautiful! No, no! Don't applaud her!
Starting point is 00:04:16 Let me just say, I'm a busy girl. I got a lot of things on my plate. I can't have a breakfast burrito be them. I love going out and getting a breakfast burrito, don't get me wrong, but I'm just home. I just slap three corn tortillas in the microwave, do a little toast on the end with my, you know, I turn on the gas burner,
Starting point is 00:04:35 and then I just kind of flick it on the flames to get a little bit charred. I scramble some eggs. I put on some salsa. I put on some avocado. I go chomp, chomp, chomp, and I'm done. Okay? With a burrito, you have to have a minor in architecture to be able to make a good breakfast burrito.
Starting point is 00:04:50 I don't have that kind of education, and I'm not willing to go to any sort of online college degree to get that. You know what I mean? University of Phoenix online for burrito architecture? I paid $900 for that class, and I'm going to use it. It's just the ease of, it's about the ease of eating it, you know? And that's where I'm coming from, you know? Easy, fast, get it done, eggs in my body, tortilla, peace out. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:05:15 I respect that. I respect that breakfast tacos might be more democratic. And who am I to sit here and gatekeep the egg and tortilla eating experience? That is not my intention. It's so good. What my intention is, is to preach to all of you out there to take more time with your food.
Starting point is 00:05:29 You said it's easier to eat breakfast tacos. It's faster. Take more time. Does that mean better? Does that mean better? You literally take fistfuls of lunch meat and shove it in your gullet because you don't sit down to take a lunch break. And you mean to tell me, take your time
Starting point is 00:05:45 with your food. You're lying! You're a hypocrite! I did not perjure myself. Also, as the person who ate three pounds, three ounces of baby food in one minute, not one day ago. Give it up for Josh! I know something about eating food quickly. I'm proud of you.
Starting point is 00:06:02 That was quite a feat. Can we address the elephant in the room? Did you try at all yesterday? What do you mean? I looked at your can of baby food and it was 99.9% full. I was, you know, have you ever seen that meme that's like pie eating contest? Nasa
Starting point is 00:06:19 free pie. Oh yeah. That's me but with apple baby food. Yeah, but that meme is successful because people universally love eating pie you're just down to nosh on some baby food you're like i'm feeling peckish let's add some prune puree it's mythicon boo like what else are we gonna do i think that breakfast tacos and breakfast burritos to me they're not like a staple of my day-to-day right my day-to-day well that's you you see staple of my day-to-day. Right? My day-to-day. Well, that's you. You see me in my day-to-day. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:47 In what I eat. Yeah. And like you said, it's fistfuls of lunch meat. Yeah. It's a lot of protein shakes. So much mustard recently. Yeah. You look like a mustard kick. Let me explain what she's talking about. So often, you know, we're both busy gals on the go. We were, you know, our job,
Starting point is 00:07:03 we're always producing a lot of food, we're filming a lot of stuff, recording a lot of podcasts. There's not a lot of time in the day, so sometimes for a quick and healthy lunch, I'll put a pound of ham on a plate, but I spread it out so there's a lot of surface area and then you make like a spider web of mustard and then you shove that in your face
Starting point is 00:07:20 over the trash can. And to me... Clap if you relate. That was a lot more clapping than I was anticipating. Life is hard, okay? Life is hard. Sometimes you just gotta shove lunch meat in your gullet.
Starting point is 00:07:34 But for me, something as special as a breakfast burrito. It is special. I agree it's special and it's an event. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying eventize
Starting point is 00:07:43 your food more, right? Like almost treat it as a meditative experience. Eating a breakfast burrito is meditative for you? Yes, 100%. 100%. It is, you can find God in a good breakfast
Starting point is 00:07:57 burrito. Nicole, when you get to that last bite, when you hold a burrito vertically, talking about architecture, this is where a burrito really shines to me because the last bite all of the juices from the bacon they've now trickled downward like a babbling brook into the potatoes at the bottom and the body is barely holding on by a thread because you can literally go and slurp up the breakfast juices from the butt of the tortilla and to me that is a religious experience and I think, thank you.
Starting point is 00:08:26 And I think every time you mindlessly shove these breakfast tacos that you're making into your mouth, I think you're spitting in the face of burrito god up there, okay? I think you are a burrito heretic and you need to atone. You're just being a weird burrito zealot right now. Okay, but besides
Starting point is 00:08:42 all this anger and all this what is your favorite breakfast burrito? Like, or taco? Like, what is your ideal situation? Like, tell me. Okay. So there are a lot of like fancy new school breakfast burritos out there. And a lot of them are really fun.
Starting point is 00:08:56 I've had, there's one from a spot in Los Angeles that does like some of the best pastrami you've ever had. And they're smoking this Texas style, you know, it's like a Texas style brisket, but with pastrami spices. They smoke their potatoes. And they do poached eggs in there. So you get the runny yolk and peppers and onions. And it's really beautiful and great. But to me, the glory of a breakfast burrito is in its simplicity.
Starting point is 00:09:19 You get some sort of crispy fried potato. And I think maybe the best potato for a breakfast burrito is the tater tot. The tater tot. No. No. It's home style potato. No, no. That's where you're wrong.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Boo her. Boo this woman. Don't boo me. I love- Tater tot. Well, I'm a tater tot hater. I know, which I don't understand. Can you-
Starting point is 00:09:43 Okay, everyone- No, no. Explain to the people. Take a breath. Breathe in, breathe out. Yeah, I'm just not a big tater tot person. What do you mean you're just not a big tater tot person? They're always too dry. They're too crispy.
Starting point is 00:09:56 The potato's beauty is the soft, creamy inside that you get with a home style or a french fry. Tot is too much crisp, too much crunch. I don't need fry todd is too much crisp too much crunch i don't need that too much crisp too much crunch no no the point of a potato is that it was a food of austerity right it was literally do you who wants to hear about potato history yeah do you have it doesn't matter because i'm gonna talk about it yeah so okay so a lot of people um somebody sent
Starting point is 00:10:23 me a meme that was like, mashed potatoes are just Irish guacamole. I get sent that often, too, actually. But potatoes did not come to Europe until the Columbian Exchange. So, until 1492, potatoes are native to Peru. Correct. Specifically. And so, they were growing in South America. So, literally, you think of Ireland and potatoes,
Starting point is 00:10:42 they literally weren't even there until the mid 1500s. And a lot of dishes, recipes, the tortilla, for instance, dates back probably around 10,000 years, which is incredible. So Ireland and potatoes only, you know, maybe 500. And so literally the government was like, we've had a lot of wheat crops failing. We've had a lot of wheat crops failing. We need a new plant to be able to feed the masses, especially as there was a little bit more industrialization, urbanization, people moving to cities, stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:11:15 So they literally just started planting potato crops. And you'll see a lot of philosophers actually write about potatoes. There was one, I can't remember the name of the philosopher, but he was talking about how he thought the Irish were the most beautiful people because they ate the most potatoes. And yeah, so it's a really new crop, but it was also a crop specifically for the peasants. You've heard the Irish potato famine, of course. It was all because of like really predatory British taxation policy that basically there was one potato blight. Suddenly the Irish had nothing to eat. So potatoes have always been a food of necessity and austerity.
Starting point is 00:11:46 I love them. However, I think a lot of the best recipes try and get the most potato out. So to me, you grind the potato, you grind it with MSG, with salt, with oil, you mash it into a tot shape, you deep fry it, and then to me, that is the best because it removes the austerity from the potato and transforms it via industrialization, Nicole. I just don't like tater tots! Thank you!
Starting point is 00:12:09 Okay, so you like tater tots. What else? Wait, real quick. Y'all want some tater tot history? Sure! I'm sorry. I couldn't turn this off if I tried. It's okay. Go for it. Tater tot is actually one of the most protected pieces of intellectual property
Starting point is 00:12:26 by Orr Ida, right? Yeah, the Orr Ida company, which y'all have seen that brand in the freezer and stuff. It's literally a portmanteau of Oregon and Idaho because that's where all the potatoes are grown. It's a co-op. And nobody else can use the phrase Tater Tot legally. Yes. That's why you'll see Burger King will have like
Starting point is 00:12:41 potato nuggets or it'll be like Tater Crowns, Tater puffs. Tater nuggies. Tater tot. They are so protective of it, and I think that's hilarious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's such a stupid name. And they have lawyers in suits in New York filing injunctions against a diner.
Starting point is 00:12:58 I can't say tot. But anyway, so I love tater tots. Okay. Give me a good hard scrambled egg. Hard scramble. Hard scramble. Okay, yeah. I don't need a soft scramble. I agree. I agree tater tots. Okay. Give me like a good hard scrambled egg. Hard scrambled. Hard scrambled. Okay, yeah. I don't need a soft scrambled.
Starting point is 00:13:08 I agree on the hard scrambled. Give me a Denny's style hard scrambled egg. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. And then I don't, I love chorizo and eggs as a thing, but in a breakfast burrito, I'm probably going bacon. Yes. And then some. Crispy bacon.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Crispy bacon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not, it's separate from the eggs, not scrambled in. No, no, no. Tater tots. Yes, yes, yes. A ton of just the eggs, not scrambled in. No, no, no. Tater tots. Yes, yes, yes. A ton of just the most processed yellow cheese possible. It needs to be yellow.
Starting point is 00:13:29 It needs to be yellow. Yeah, yeah. And then here is the kicker that a lot of people have started doing today. I think that in the past five years, we've found out that people love mayonnaise a lot more than they thought they did. Can we get a shout out for mayonnaise in the crowd? He's right. He's right.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Yeah. Watching a giant crowd chant for mayonnaise is kind of weird looking on it now. But no, people will, they'll mix anything red or orange with mayonnaise and then they'll call it something else. And people are like, I love this. And it's like, that's 98% mayonnaise. You just love the mayonnaise. And that's fine.
Starting point is 00:14:02 You're 98% mayonnaise. I really am. I come from a long line of mayonnaise. I grew up eating it out of the mayonnaise. And that's fine. You're 98% mayonnaise. I really am. I come from a long line of mayonnaise. I grew up eating it out of the jar. Oh no! But no, you put some sort of like spicy chipotle aioli and you're fancy. And then to me, that's a perfect breakfast burrito. You have a great
Starting point is 00:14:16 salsa roja on the side and then you wrap it up, you griddle it off, you wrap it in foil for at least five minutes to steam. That is the ideal breakfast burrito. It's just so involved. It's exhausting. Yes, but... Nobody has time for that in this world right now, Josh.
Starting point is 00:14:33 I don't... Maybe on a Sunday. Well, I'm not talking about making breakfast burritos. I do that sometimes. That's like a special occasion, which is to say only when I'm deeply hungover. Oh, yeah. Because there's only one
Starting point is 00:14:46 cure for that. To me it's a breakfast burrito, a quart of black coffee and a 16 ounce green juice. A quart? A quart of black coffee. With a Q. That is not medical advice by the way. How much caffeine is that? I'm a quart of black coffee. Probably like 450. And how much is
Starting point is 00:15:02 a human supposed to drink? The FDA says anything over 400 per day is toxic. Josh! But, but, but... And how much is a human supposed to drink? The FDA says anything over 400 per day is toxic. Josh! Butt, butt, butt. Jeremiah Sherrod. I'm at least... No, it's Daniel. Okay, Nicole, Miriam, and I.
Starting point is 00:15:12 I had a moment, I had a moment. My thought is I'm 30% larger than the average human. I can drink 30% more caffeine. I don't know, I don't know, okay. Thank you. No, no, no, no. I'm built different. Okay, tell me about your ideal breakfast taco. I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Thank you. No, no, no, no. I'm built different. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Tell me about your ideal breakfast taco. Okay. So, like I said, you put the corn tortillas on a paper plate, and then you microwave it for 13 seconds. You're talking about the cheap paper plate, too, right? Cheap. It has to be cheap. You got to use three of them so it doesn't fold over?
Starting point is 00:15:42 And then you take it while it's still piping, piping hot. And then you slap it on the grill. Not on the grill. What's it called when the fire comes? A burner. Thank you. From the gas burner. Ah, the old fire hole, you say.
Starting point is 00:15:57 And then you singe it ever so gently so it gets a little bit of color. You know what I mean? And then hard scramble. And then some delicious salsa that's just hanging out in your cupboard. Wait, do y'all have cupboard salsa? Because that's, yeah. As much as I wish I could make my own salsa, some jarred stuff is just better, man. It's good.
Starting point is 00:16:19 It's good. I'm not going to front. And once you find a brand that you trust. Yeah. I've been obsessed with that. It's called Casa Martinez. They do this like chipotle salsa, and then they call it like salsa de tatamara. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:16:31 Oh, man. I will literally, it's actually shocking how fast I'll eat a jar of salsa. It's good. Especially when Julia's out of town and I'm left to eat for myself. Fistful of meat in the salsa jar. Oh, no. Whole rotisserie chicken. And if you break it apart just right, you can fit each piece
Starting point is 00:16:46 inside the jar of salsa and pull it out. And then it's like... Pure class. Just pure class. Thank you. I am very dignified, man. But I have literally eaten a full jar. It's like a 16-ounce jar in a day and a half. That's a lot of tomato. Yeah, yeah. It's good.
Starting point is 00:17:01 Do you have acid reflux? No, but now that I've turned 30 give it up for 30 year olds 30 year olds we're trying our best now that I've turned 30 I can like feel all the gears unraveling in my body
Starting point is 00:17:16 and things are just starting to go south so give me a year and a half and I'll be there nice nice I've had acid reflex since I was like 11 heyo and I'll be there. Nice, nice. Yeah, yeah. I've had acid reflux since I was like 11. Hey-o! Where was I? Oh, I was talking about what I like to put in my breakfast tacos.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Okay, salsa from the cupboard and then just a very light slice of avocado and then a single cilantro piece. Wait, are you serious? That's it, that's it, that's it. are you serious? That's it. That's it. That's it. I don't, that's it.
Starting point is 00:17:46 That's my favorite. Do you keep cilantro? Cilantro, it goes pretty quick. Like that wilts in the fridge fast. You're keeping cilantro on hand just for the single piece to go on a breakfast taco. I always have cilantro and parsley in my fridge. That's actually smart. Always.
Starting point is 00:18:00 I actually do too. And I do switch it out whenever it starts to look a little bit funky. But yeah, that's my ideal breakfast taco. And I think it's delicious. And I do switch it out whenever it starts to look a little bit funky. But yeah, that's my ideal breakfast taco. And I think it's delicious. And I think it's easy. It's for the working girl. And you just put it in. And let me tell you, sometimes people are so talented. Their breakfast taco game is
Starting point is 00:18:15 incredible. Like here, I've had a chorizo. It was chorizo, egg, and Monterey Jack. And it was just perfect. You don't need anything. You don't need all the bells and whistles. You don't need to put it in foil and griddle it. No, just eat it. It's delicious.
Starting point is 00:18:31 Go away. I'm legally obligated to be here. You can leave now. I do think one thing about food that I generally believe in, I'll never forget, I went to a restaurant with my great uncle and my brother, and it was called House of Cheesesteaks, somewhere
Starting point is 00:18:51 near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Allentown. Go birds, baby. Allentown. The town of Allentown. But my brother orders a plate of spaghetti, and my great uncle stops him, and he goes, it's called the House of Cheesesteaks. Okay, yes.
Starting point is 00:19:05 You get a cheesesteak. Yeah. And so my brother still ate the spaghetti. Oh, yeah. He's just that kind of guy. Yeah, he's kind of a schmuck. He's really picky about stuff. But anyways, if you're in a place like Austin, Texas, for instance,
Starting point is 00:19:16 you should be eating the things, one, eat whatever the heck you actually want. That's true. But two, eat the things that Austin is known for, right? Yeah. That's why yesterday, before the baby food competition, we ate like two pounds of brisket. It was so much fun. Actually, not brisket. Smoked
Starting point is 00:19:29 beef cheeks. Beef cheeks? Oh my god. Dang. Yeah, shout out for Cabeza. Wow, wow, wow. The barbacoa we had was fantastic. Incredible. We had a smoked cheeseburger. I mean, what kind of timeline is this? But that's something we can't get that anywhere in LA where we're from. No, we can't this but that's something we can't get that
Starting point is 00:19:45 anywhere in la where we're from we can't you can't get stuff like that in a majority of america that's one of the beautiful things about food right yeah is it's rooted to time it's rooted to place it's rooted to tradition and so if i'm in austin texas which i am now and i have not had a breakfast taco yet on our trip you haven't tomorrow's Everyone scream the best place to get a breakfast taco right now. Taco Deli. Taco Deli? I got it all. Okay, Taco Deli is OG. Went in there. Taco Deli. Tamale House East? Tamale House East? Yeah? The Vasquez family?
Starting point is 00:20:16 Diana Vasquez at Tamale House East? What? Alright, stop. I'll go already. Jeez. Calm down. I like it when they scream. But no, that's kind of my point, though, is like if you're in Austin, get the breakfast tacos. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:31 But the only ones that we're exposed to in LA are the ones that are transplants from Austin. So we're getting like a facsimile on a facsimile, you know what I mean? Yeah, I guess. Which isn't like an argument for, my deeper thing, though is that i i generally love variety right and that's what you can get with a taco that's the beauty of a taco love variety
Starting point is 00:20:52 but sometimes you need a little bit of structure a little bit of you got to know what you're doing in life sometimes you know when you wake up you brush your teeth you just it's natural you eat a breakfast burrito and then and then you just don't know what you're gonna do for the rest of the day i can't live like that that is fair if i too much stress and anxiety with eating a big ass burrito like that if i eat a burrito like in the first the first two hours of the day i'm kind of done for at least six hours i know that's like don't talk which is kind of how i plan out all of my days now though is that i'm just because we don't mess around we don't make little dinky ones. We make, like, hefty, big...
Starting point is 00:21:28 I'm kind of burping a baby. Sometimes I like to... That's how big they are. They're big. They're huge. We don't mess around and make these little baby ones. We go hard.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Sometimes I like to weigh them just to see if I can hit a personal record. And right now we're, like... But it's got to be one standard 12-inch tortilla. So far, the record for me is, like, 2.3 pounds. Thank you. I'm sorry? I'm also impressed.
Starting point is 00:21:48 You know what it was? There was a day on set where we had a bunch of leftover, some sort of like ground chuck, some sort of like heavy fatty beef, and we made like birria out of it. Oh, was that the day you made the roll-ups? And we just made burritos that were just straight filled with two pounds of beef, and we just housed them. Like, all of us individually ate two pounds of just the fattiest cut of beef
Starting point is 00:22:10 wrapped in tortillas, braised in spicy sauce, and we were dead to the world. Sorry to Rhett and Link, we lost the company money that day because we did no work. Josh stared at me, and he's like, wow, you ate that quick. And I'm like, yeah, it was good. I remember that very vividly.
Starting point is 00:22:26 I remember you stood the burrito up because that's how thick it was. And you weren't using your hands. You were literally just like a bird eating seed. Just like. It was really impressive. It was a feat of athleticism. My mom would be so proud. Yeah, weren't you going to be an English professor?
Starting point is 00:22:47 Yeah, this is better. It's way better better it's way better this is much more exciting you could um could you imagine if this was like a symposium on charles dickens instead no it's like a tale of two cities what dickens was really how do you feel okay we were talking about breakfast and breakfast tacos how do you feel about chili chiles because i really like those oh wait no no hold up that's that's the best How do you feel... Okay, we were talking about breakfast zubis and breakfast tacos. How do you feel about chilaquiles? Because I really like those. Oh, wait. No, no, hold up. That's the best breakfast dish in the history of breakfast dishes, right?
Starting point is 00:23:13 Chilaquiles. I think chilaquiles over migas. Me too, me too. The way that I view this as a Californian, at least, is that chilaquiles, you take the tortilla chips, and they are sauteed in some sort of a salsa, which, as a lover of wet foods, I
Starting point is 00:23:28 just think it's the most beautiful invention. And then most of the time they'll be topped with a fried egg, you can get it with scrambled eggs. Sometimes there's no egg at all. But then migas, our Jewish people call it matzah brie, where you break up the matzah and the eggs. But migas is like tortillas scrambled with
Starting point is 00:23:44 the eggs, right? Yeah. See, I go chilaquiles over migas. Me too. I want the separate experience of the egg breaking into the spicy. Yeah, we should debate that, but there is no debate. Have you ever had a chilaquiles breakfast burrito where they take the chilaquiles, the soft, wet tortilla chips, and they just shove it inside of a tortilla with eggs and more bacon? And to me, Nicole, to me, to me, to me,
Starting point is 00:24:05 this is the promise of the breakfast burrito. You can take anything in the world that you treasure and you want, and you can shove that inside of a tortilla, and you can eat it in your car. I do love eating breakfast burritos in my car. More than tacos. What are we going to do? What am I going to do? I'll tell you what
Starting point is 00:24:25 You know what podcast Actually influenced the way That I think about food Which one? More than ever Which I didn't think This man Is it a hot dog?
Starting point is 00:24:32 Is it a sandwich? No I'm saying The one I'm saying the one That we It's another one No it's an episode Of our show
Starting point is 00:24:36 Is what I was saying Oh oh oh Okay okay okay And I didn't think This man would ever Influence the way That I thought about food Hmm
Starting point is 00:24:41 It was with Charles Lincoln Neal Oh I know that guy. I don't know if y'all listened to the episode with Link called Why Do Picky Eaters Exist? But we wanted to have him on to talk about it because we've been cooking for him. I've been here for five years.
Starting point is 00:24:54 We're the opposite of picky, so I really wanted to pick his plate and find out what that means, yeah. And I thought we were going to go away from that episode imploring him to eat more adventurously. Not in the show, at least, because he'll eat anything, but I'm talking about in his real life. I was like, oh, he's going to come out of this eating tomatoes, you know,
Starting point is 00:25:12 all that stuff. Yeah, we're going to inspire him to try new things, but that didn't happen. The opposite happened where he inspired me to be more picky. Yeah. Straight up. Because he was like, forgive me, if Link's listening, forgive me for paraphrasing here or misrepresenting, but he was like, I'm not picky. I'm preferential. He's like, I'm a 44 year old man. Is he 44? Sorry, but he looks great, but he's like, I'm a 44 year old
Starting point is 00:25:38 man. I have spent my entire life figuring out what gives me pleasure, what gives me pain, what I want to do, what I don't want to do. And these are simply things that I don't want to do. So for me, my allegiance to breakfast burritos at this point, I don't know if it's because I'm a 30 year old man now and he can't teach an old dog new tricks. You're only 30. My bones feel so old. The world is your oyster.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Shout out to the person at the meet and greet who was like, hey, can we do a jumping picture? And I was like, physically, I don't know that I can. I couldn't do it. We all immediately started like warming up our knees. We're like, well, let's see if it's possible. I got two inches off the ground and crumbled. I got zero inches. I got like, what, like a quarter of an inch.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I was like, eh. But you know what I mean? I'm at this point where it's like, I don't know that I want to change. Do you picture yourself spending the rest of your life in California? Yes, of course. Really? 100%.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Like, you wouldn't. I've never lived anywhere else. I never went away for college. I never did that study abroad stuff that all the cool kids did. Like, I never did that stuff. You never studied abroad in Barcelona? No, I didn't. But I've always wanted to. But I'm just so rooted and connected in California. My parents are here.
Starting point is 00:26:50 My in-laws are here. My life is here. And I don't know if I can necessarily reroute and go to, I don't know, Idaho? No. No, Trevor's family's there. I can't go there. We do have a loose plan to all move to a commune outside of Boise, Idaho. That is not true. Wait, no. I'm saying it's a loose plan right now. This is the first time I'm ever hearing about it. Oh, no, no.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Me and Trevor talk about it all the time. You do? Well, mostly me and Trevor's dad. Yeah, we talk. His name's also Josh. Cool guy. But no. To answer your question, no.
Starting point is 00:27:21 I imagine my whole life will be in California. So I'm saying that influences your food decisions a lot, right? I guess. Like in all the things that you make. If that were the case, then I would be team breakfast burrito. Well, no, but I'm wondering where this is coming from then. You know, is it, Nicole, is this you rebelling against your, do you wish that you would have studied abroad in Barcelona?
Starting point is 00:27:40 Do you think that's related to my breakfast in the morning? I'm just asking. I'm trying to learn, Nicole, we're best friends, right? Yeah. Yeah, of course. We spend more time together than any. I just got two kittens and they're in the running, honestly. I thought you were about to say two kids and I was like, what, dude?
Starting point is 00:27:56 No, not yet. No, I just got two kittens and they're pretty sweet. How am I not the godfather? They're pretty sweet. So they're like in the running. It's like, Josh, two kittens. I'll take that. No, you are my best friend. Yeah they're like in the running. It's like, Josh, kittens, you know. I'll take that. No, you are my best friend.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Yeah, you're my friend. I had a hair in my mouth. My cat the other day, speaking of breakfast burritos, I was literally eating a breakfast burrito. It was from a place called Serviteca. You ever had that one? No, I've never had Serviteca. Wait, somebody has had Serviteca breakfast burrito in here?
Starting point is 00:28:21 Yeah, wait. I'm proud for that place. The place is so good. They do good work. The one on Venice? Yeah, wait. Let's... They do good work. The one on Venice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who wants to hear more about Los Angeles
Starting point is 00:28:30 cross streets and breakfast burritos? I was eating a breakfast burrito and it was standing up and my cat comes up and literally claw... He like... The way somebody would like
Starting point is 00:28:41 open a manhole cover, he like clawed off the top of my burrito and it was incredible and i was i couldn't even be mad at him because i was just impressed that's cute but i don't know why i like i don't know why i like breakfast tacos so much they're just more compact they're easier to eat like i said i'm i'm i'm on the run you know i don't have time to you know roll up a breakfast burrito and and put stuff in it and make sure all the stuff is good. I don't have that time.
Starting point is 00:29:09 I just got to scramble some eggs and just go. You're talking about breakfast tacos and breakfast burritos that you yourself make, right? Yeah, that's where I'm coming from. Because you have issues with control. Oh, my God. Don't psychoanalyze me in front of my friends. Don't do that. control. Oh my god, don't psychoanalyze me in front of my friends!
Starting point is 00:29:28 Don't do that! No, but that sounds like, you know, what part of it is that you want to have that control over what you're putting in it. You know, you can have if you want to architecture each of those things differently, you're not then stuck with a thing to call you're afraid of commitment. You're afraid of control. Okay, the heft of a burrito scares me at times. It's a commitment. Yeah, maybe I have commitment issues. That's what I'm saying. You're a plate of commitment. I have commitment issues. Open your heart. I was at your wedding. How the fuck can I open this damn thing?
Starting point is 00:29:52 I ate so many skewers of meat at your wedding. I was... Like literally, that was what I was doing 90%. If you didn't see me on the dance floor, I was eating skewered meat. Thank you. And for anybody wondering, it wasn't just cabob. I mean, you had like nine different kinds of skewered meat at the wedding. And to me, that's the height of luxury.
Starting point is 00:30:09 I had a lot of meat at the wedding, yes. That's true. Thank you. Shout out to my mother-in-law for making that menu. No, but I don't know. I just can't commit to eating all of this in the morning. I can't. I can morning. I can't. I can't.
Starting point is 00:30:28 I can't. I can't do it. Okay, so this is a thing I like to do with breakfast burritos, especially if I'm a little bit, they call it cruda in Spanish. I'm a little hungover, right? Uh-huh, uh-huh. Then I'll take one bite every three minutes. It's like power hour where you take a shot of beer every minute for 60 minutes.
Starting point is 00:30:45 I've never done that before. What is power hour? That was a college thing. Nobody did that in college, power hour? What is it? Yeah, come on. Wait, repeat.
Starting point is 00:30:52 What is it? You take a shot of beer once every minute for 60 straight minutes. Can we do that later? So it's like, it's ultimately five beers in an hour, which is a lot.
Starting point is 00:31:02 Oh, that's... It is a lot. And again, this is not medical advice. Yeah, a quart of coffee, five beers in an hour, which is a lot. It is a lot. And again, this is not medical advice. Yeah, a quart of coffee, five beers in an hour, normal. But I'll do that with a breakfast burrito and I will graze on it.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Also, last time I got food poisoning was from a breakfast burrito that had been sitting at room temperature for like six hours. So maybe don't do that. That's true, you did. I think if I've learned anything today, it's that I do a lot of dumb things. Rel's true. You did. I think if I've learned anything today, it's that I do a lot of dumb things. Related to food? Yeah. Does that track? Yeah, I'd say so.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Okay. But yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe just tacos are just easier and they're just my comfort. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe just scrambled eggs and a little tortilla is my comfort food. And I don't want to change that. Just like how you don't want to change your love of breakfast burritos. And that's fine.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Right? You know what we can't agree on? No, I do. I fully agree with that. Again, Link taught me that. Food is really personal. Yeah. Nicole, I'm not trying to change you of anything.
Starting point is 00:31:55 I'm trying to change myself. I'm trying to convince myself to open my heart to the city of Austin, Texas, and let me inside their breakfast taco culture. Okay? Because I want to believe honestly, like I, I probably spent more time in Austin, Texas than any city outside of LA. Uh, in college, we used to come here every spring break for the Texas relays. And I take my little like per diem money and I would just go find the best
Starting point is 00:32:17 barbecue. I mean, I was waiting in line for Franklin barbecue before I, the day I was supposed to thank you. The day I was supposed to compete in the hammer throw. Shout out track and field throwers out there. Oh my goodness. I was waiting in line for Franklin Barbecue and ate brisket before I competed in an athletic event. And so I have a deep, deep love for this city,
Starting point is 00:32:39 but there's always been the one thing, and that's breakfast tacos that I've never been able to fully embrace, but I want to open my heart, Nicole. Teach me to open my heart. I have the solution. What's that? Let's go to breakfast tomorrow and just eat both of them.
Starting point is 00:32:54 I'm in. And let's just do that. I'm in. We don't always need to agree, but we need to be open-minded. I agree with that. And that's what this whole podcast is about. Honestly, people out there, especially locals, like on Twitter, Instagram, send us all of your breakfast taco wrecks
Starting point is 00:33:08 because we actually are going to do that tomorrow. We're going to do that tomorrow, yeah. I want to give it a chance. Let's do this. I want to give it a chance. Let's do it. If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that Gordon Ramsay sucks.
Starting point is 00:33:19 And I'll tell you why. No, no, really quick, really quick. Because we both mentioned specifically hard scrambled eggs. I love hard scrambled eggs. I love hard scrambled eggs. You know who hates hard scrambled eggs? It's Gordon Ramsay. Because I have had breakfast tacos and breakfast burritos.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Have you all seen his video of the eggs? Where he makes like a hot salty pudding and he's like, oh, these are the best scrambled eggs. It's like a custard. And he's like, I don't know, man. Put a little bit of creme fraiche, take it off the heat, put it on the heat, take it off the heat, yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Just give me a hard scramble, man. And I've had breakfast tacos where they've tried those Gordon Ramsay eggs, and you take one bite and it just goes, it just spurts out the back. So Gordon Ramsay, for ruining the couple breakfast tacos that I've tried to love, screw you, man. Still, if he's out there listening,
Starting point is 00:34:06 come on the show. We, we really would like that. That'd be, that'd be really big for the squad. That'd be really big for the squad. Very good. Ready?
Starting point is 00:34:21 Oh, we're doing the next part of it. Holy smokes. There's two parts to the podcast. Oh yeah. And we say something. Yeah. Do you want me to say it? No, wait, doing the next part of it. Holy smokes. There's two parts to the podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. And we say something. Yeah. Do you want me to say it?
Starting point is 00:34:28 No, no, no. Wait, do you want to say it? No, you say it. All right, Nicole. 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 crowd. We're doing a special live version of Opinions Are Like Casserole. Circular breathing.
Starting point is 00:34:50 Wait, well, we didn't do the full song. Okay. One, two, one, two, three. Opinions are like casseroles. Everyone's got one and they smell like onions. That's the only thing we've written so far. But if somebody wants to like really, you know. What rhymes with onions?
Starting point is 00:35:12 Bunions. Obviously, what's the other one? Bunions, bunions. And if you don't have comfortable shoes, you'll get bunions. We need to get sponsored by like a bunion cream company first. This is a business, folks. This is a business.
Starting point is 00:35:30 This is a podcast, Dr. Scholls. Dr. Scholls is a real doctor. Anyways, we got people out in the crowd. Form your opinions. We got people with microphones. Alright, Annalise is finding it. If anybody has... Oh, please raise your hand. Annalise is finding it. If anybody has...
Starting point is 00:35:46 Oh, please raise your hand. Annalise will find you in the crowd. Oh, Josh will find you. Okay, I'll pick. Alright, we got right up front. He gave me a great Taco Deli taco recommendation. Annalise, sorry to make it run around. Also, can everybody give a hand to Annalise who is literally... She's the best!
Starting point is 00:36:02 She's the best! Literally the MVP of Mythical Kitchen and most of Mythical Entertainment. Mashed potatoes are savory pudding. Wait, wait, mashed potatoes are... What's your name? Hold on. And my name's Clifford.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Mashed potatoes are savory pudding and my name's Clifford. Mashed potatoes are savory pudding. Hold on. Hold on now. Are they? Okay, so, so, so, so, so, so. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:36:31 No. Gravy. Gravy. Have you ever put like chocolate sauce or whipped cream on like pudding? Yeah. That's fair. I will say, okay, so. That's just gravy.
Starting point is 00:36:43 So pudding. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's right. I think he's fair. I will say, okay, so. That's just gravy. So pudding. Yeah, yeah. I think he's right. I think he's right. Because pudding is something that, it's like a sweetened cream that's thickened by starch, right? Because if you look at like French custards that's thickened with egg.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Yeah, sure. American puddings, and we're not talking about British pudding because when British people say the word pudding. It means cake. I have no idea what they mean. It's a sponge. No, no, no. But like sometimes it means an actual pudding and then sometimes it means just something I'm eating for dessert
Starting point is 00:37:08 and then sometimes it just... Like what's a Yorkshire pudding? I have no idea. A bread. It's like a bread. But like how do they... Do we have any British people in the crowd? Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:37:19 Over there. Wait, hold on. Microphone's going to you to explain pudding, please. Okay, so you can use the word... The accent's legit. Sorry. That was real. You can use the word pudding for any dessert, but mainly it's like sponges,
Starting point is 00:37:35 like hot sponges with sauce. Like sticky toffee pudding. Pudding. And like, yeah, Yorkshire puddings are great. They're amazing. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. Also, the way you say sponge is right to Great British Bake Off for me.
Starting point is 00:37:50 It is just right. It's real. It's real. That's a lovely sponge. The crumb on it is beautiful. Paul Hollywood's eyes haunt me in my sleep. I would agree that mashed potatoes are a savory pudding. It is thickened with starch.
Starting point is 00:38:03 I think you're right. And the gravy is the whipped cream slash syrup you put on top. So very astute. Do I still think mashed potatoes are the worst form of potato preparation? Yes. That's shady. That is so shady.
Starting point is 00:38:17 Keep booing me. Yeah, boo him. You're going to do a mashed potato eating contest just because of this. That's fair. Yeah, all potatoes do turn into mashed potatoes within five seconds of entering your mouth. Do we have another opinion? Raise your hand.
Starting point is 00:38:34 I've been booed in this tent so much now. I love it. Right over there. You. I'd like to talk about avocado being added to everything, making it more expensive. Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:47 It's kind of not that strong of a flavor. I mean, it is good, don't get me wrong, but you put it in something like, say, a grilled cheese with some nice strong cheeses, you just completely lose the avocado. Preach. Wow. Preach. Be more discretionary with your avocado usage. This is true. This is true.
Starting point is 00:39:07 I love avocados. I put them on just about everything. But whenever I go to a restaurant and it says $1.75 to add an avocado, I want to rage. Too damn high. I get so mad. The price of the avocados are too damn high. I get so mad. I'm like, $1.75?
Starting point is 00:39:22 I could just buy another bagel with that. What are you talking about? So I love avocado and I understand why it's so delicious and unctuous and beautiful. It's like fat from a tree. It's beautiful, but I just can't justify constantly getting it on my food for that kind of price.
Starting point is 00:39:38 I also love that you didn't just come in with a flavor argument, but you were like, this is an issue of supply and demand economics. If you see the elastic curve on the avocado demand scale, but you were like, this is an issue of supply and demand economics. If you see the elastic curve on the avocado demand scale, but no, it's true. The fact that people love avocado so much that you will throw it on, if I see avocado
Starting point is 00:39:53 and a fried egg on a burger, I immediately don't trust whoever made that because I'm like, it's either or. The egg and the avocado function as the same thing. Unless it's a breakfast burger. I'll let that slide.. Unless it's a breakfast burger. I'll let that slide. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:40:08 But if it's a breakfast burger, it probably has bacon to cut through that. Because avocado, like you said, it's tree fat. It's tree fat. It's just a little fat thing that grew from a tree. And so for me, if you view cooking like algebra, who wants to hear a metaphor about algebra? Sorry. No, but I'm saying like, if you view
Starting point is 00:40:29 cooking as having different variables that you can plug in different values for, right? You already have fat with the avocado, kind of like plugging up that hole for a variable and if you put egg in there, it's like, well, that's already been if you have fat taken care of, you need to add in If it's a runny egg, yeah. Yeah, you need to add acid.
Starting point is 00:40:46 You need to add salt. You need to add something else. I totally agree with you. We need to be more discretionary and a grilled cheese with avocado is the perfect example of a bad use of avocado. Agreed. Amen. Great opinion. Great opinion. That's why we do this.
Starting point is 00:41:01 We also have a mic with Logan on this. Oh, yeah. Who else has a terrible opinion? Right there, glasses. Sorry I called you glasses like an 80s bully. Hey, you, glasses. Don't worry, I'm very self-conscious about my glasses. They look good.
Starting point is 00:41:20 Thank you. Anyway, I don't know how you classify uh cereal but i classify cereal as a soup cereal is a soup yeah i i think i'd agree with that right so uh we talked about this on the pod this was maybe episode two or three i think it's episode it's episode three thank you so much he knows he knows thank you thank you um and you. And you kind of brainwashed me into believing that a cereal is a soup. And I did it not because I believed it, but because I could. And I hate to say it, but yeah, cereal is a soup. And I hate that.
Starting point is 00:41:57 That's true. Yeah, it's a cold soup. Gazpacho is a cold soup. Is oatmeal a cold soup? No, oatmeal is a porridge, which is distinctly different from soup. It's a gruel. It's a gruel.acho is a cold soup. Is oatmeal a cold soup? No, oatmeal is a porridge, which is distinctly different from soup. It's a gruel. It's a gruel.
Starting point is 00:42:08 It is a gruel. And gruel is... I freaking love gruel. I love gruel. We... Right? Is gruel a pudding? We got to ask the Britain back there.
Starting point is 00:42:17 I don't know if gruel is a pudding. The Britain. But no, I have since... I've evolved my stance on this to now believe that soup does not exist and I refuse to recognize it as a term. So thank you for your time. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:42:30 You can listen to the podcast episode, Soup Does Not Exist. All right. Let's see who wants to answer the question. Let's go over there. Thanks, Logan. Everyone clap it up for Logan, too. Hi, Logan. Cutie.
Starting point is 00:42:46 What a cutie cutie okay the best snack to have with a glass of red wine is jalapeno goldfish dipped in honey wait what someone run that back
Starting point is 00:42:59 okay the best snack to have with a glass of red wine is jalapeno goldfish and honey. Okay. All right. Let me mull this over.
Starting point is 00:43:10 Sounds good. Yeah. Are you tasting the notes? Because I immediately know what that tastes like. There are only those mega goldfish. The big blast goldfish. Big blast goldfish. I've had those before.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Okay. I hate them. I do too. But the jalapeno ones are good. But the jalapeno ones, man. Okay. Okay. Okay hate them. I do too. But the jalapeno ones are good. But the jalapeno ones. Honey, jalapeno, fake cheddar, soft, nice,
Starting point is 00:43:34 red wine. What varietal? What kind of red wine? Whatever Trader Joe's has for $6.99. That's right. Amen. That is the only correct answer. That is the only correct answer. That is the only correct answer. That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:47 I love savory sweet combos like blue cheese and honey is one of my favorite flavors in the whole entire world. So jalapeno and honey makes a lot of sense to me. And red wine always makes sense to me. So I can't wait to try this. I'm going to preface this with all wine pairings are a scam. It's literally all of them. It's a magic trick.
Starting point is 00:44:09 If somebody sells you a good story, you'll buy it. I know. I know. And that's fine. But what I'm saying is if it tastes good to you, that's the only thing that matters. I will say most spicy food people tend to pair with young harvest Rieslings. My brother is a sommelier and he's really annoying
Starting point is 00:44:28 and so I was trying to channel him on that. But no, I'll come eat goldfish with you, drink some red wine. Let's do it. What else we got? Big man in the orange sweater in the back. I like your glasses
Starting point is 00:44:45 Thank you Peanut butter and jelly On toasted bread With hot tea Is the best comfort food You say with hot tea? Yes Dude, wait
Starting point is 00:44:59 Okay, let's break this down You sound like my dad No, not your voice But that sounds like something my dad eats. Hot tea. It's got big dad energy to it. Toasted bread. Oh, because the hot tea just calms him down after a hard day. No, I get it.
Starting point is 00:45:15 I get it. That is something my father would consume. Wait, can I ask a follow-up question? Yes. Do you build the PB&J on the bread while it's hot, or do you let the toast cool down? No, you have to do it while it's hot. It's got to be hot.
Starting point is 00:45:29 It melts the peanut butter and makes it very creamy and also helps melt the jelly as well. Sounds good. I'm ethically opposed to this. I don't know if anybody else is. I'm ethically opposed to this. You're ethically opposed to this of all the things? Hold on.
Starting point is 00:45:43 Why, is it the toast? Is it the toast that bothers you? To me, okay, no, no. I like, I asked that question specifically because for me, I like that, but I let the bread cool down strictly because of the runniness. So if you like the meltiness
Starting point is 00:45:57 of the peanut butter, but to me, the peanut butter when it melts, right? So peanut butter is, I believe it's like what, partially hydrogenated oil a lot of the time and so the oil is going to be at room temperature, very solid. When it's
Starting point is 00:46:10 hot, very liquid, right? And so the liquid starts to seep into the bread, which to me, loses the essence of peanut butter, which is that creamy mouthfeel. I like hot peanut butter. And then again, it's a matter of preference. De gustibus non est disputandum. He's speaking Latin again. I'm speaking in tongues. There's no disputing in matter of butter. And that, again, is a matter of preference. Yeah. De gustibus non est disputandum. He's speaking Latin again.
Starting point is 00:46:25 I'm speaking in tongues. There's no disputing in matter of tastes. So this is pure, did I bring up ethics? Sure, but other than that. And then the jelly, the same thing. It melts, the sugars run. Sometimes you bite into it, it spills over. I like it. Yum.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Thank you. That was wonderful. You should host the podcast. Another opinion? Right over there, Mr. Shakehand. Yeah, you. Back there. You're next.
Starting point is 00:46:55 You're next. Hey, it's better to share vegan food with people and not tell them it's vegan first. Okay. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Oh, yeah. Big time, brother. Yeah, like come over for pizza. It's just pizza. And then it's vegan pizza. And they don't know. How do you feel about that? I am a huge...
Starting point is 00:47:22 I am a huge... I thought he was about to say it's better to feed vegans non-vegan food and not tell them. I was like, no, no, no. Don't do that. Don't do that. That's not fair. But the opposite. Everybody should be eating vegetables and more. Yes. More veggies in your body.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Yeah. And I we so we recently did an episode where we called it like Catch the Impostor Cook with Damien from Smosh. But I made what I was calling like a sort of vegan carnitas, which I know carnitas means little meat. So you can't have vegan carnitas. Yeah, whatever. But we like confit mushrooms and made them super crispy and they tasted like meat. And we made just this super spicy salsa on it.
Starting point is 00:48:01 And if like you ate a bite of it, you probably wouldn't think it was made from animal product but you would think this is freaking delicious and I think one of the problems with like you said if you tell people it's vegan food they think healthy that does not I assure you if I'm cooking vegan food it probably won't be vegan does not equal healthy you can deep fry something
Starting point is 00:48:19 and still make it deep fried cauliflower that's not healthy falafel is vegan and it's just deep fried beans. Maybe it's delicious. And so I totally agree. I agree. It needs a rebrand. Yeah, I agree.
Starting point is 00:48:32 Drop the V word. Feed your non-vegan friends vegan food, but don't tell them it's vegan. All right. I'd say put that on a t-shirt. That's a big paragraph. Michelle, say your name. Oh yeah, Michelle. It's a big paragraph. Michelle! Say your name. Oh yeah, Michelle. It's me, Michelle. I believe
Starting point is 00:48:49 that the best topping for popcorn is not butter, but hot sauce. Okay. Wow. That is an opinion. I hate soggy popcorn so much.
Starting point is 00:49:06 I make popcorn at home to watch shows with my very loving husband. And if it is wet, I do not, like I just can't. How often is it wet? I don't know. Sometimes, I don't know, water spills in it. You know, accidents happen. Whatever. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:49:23 So if it's too saturated in butter or oil it's just you know it's not fun what i like to do is a light spritz of some sort of like spray oil and then i put like a like are you talking about pam non-stick spray yeah are you just pamming down your popcorn i pam my popcorn what of it yeah and then and then i put like some sort of sometimes i put tahini on it. Sometimes I put chipotle pepper. Sometimes I put like truffle dust if I want to be fancy. But yeah, that's how I do it. But I love the idea of a hot popcorn.
Starting point is 00:49:52 Like spicy popcorn is just, the wetness just turns me off like immediately. You know what a food memory that I try and recapture in my life all the time is? What's that? Because it's so strong. Is being in a public pool as a kid and you get out and you reach your hand into the bag of the communal Doritos. Communal Doritos! Yeah, like everyone who's reached it.
Starting point is 00:50:11 The bag might have even been next to the pool. You might be reaching out of the pool. And there is at least a quarter cup. Some of you look disgusted and I feel judged and attacked, but there's like a quarter cup of just pure chlorine in these Doritos. And they're the best Doritos you will ever taste.
Starting point is 00:50:27 Oh, childhood. You're talking about childhood right there. But I love wet popcorn. I will take hot sauce. I do it with bags of chips. I'll just pour hot sauce in there and then shake it. I like it with chips. Lime juice. Something like that. I'm down with the wet popcorn. Didn't you used to like dip it in like pickle
Starting point is 00:50:43 juice or something? Oh no, you'll flick some jalapeno juice at it. Oh, yeah. This is what she does. You just flick it. Nice. Just a flick. Just a flick. All right. Who else we got? Let's go to this side. Let's go to this side. I have analysis paralysis. Nicole, you pick.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Blue hat up in the air. Oh, yeah. That's good. Dude knows how to get noticed at an auction. 4.5, 6.5, 7 an auction. He really wanted that rim rent. Hello. Hi. Howdy. Hi.
Starting point is 00:51:12 So I think bacon at its best is a crumbly thin slice of meat that's like 50% fat. If you're going to get bacon, you might as well get a real meat to get the best bang for your cholesterol buck. Interesting. A proponent of thin, crumbly bacon. We call this condom meat theory. This is the theory that certain meats are only meant to act
Starting point is 00:51:36 as condiments. Facts. Which bacon, I think, would be part of that. And that's something that I generally agree with. I think thick cut bacon is, was that a baby crying or somebody yelling? No. That inflammatory. Maybe it was both.
Starting point is 00:51:51 But I think, I think thick cut bacon is more often worse than thin cut bacon. And people advertise like it's a good thing. We're Denny's and we got the thickest bacon in our new bacon apia, bacon copia, brought to you by Minions 3D Dinner. Okay, breakfast time, I like the shoddery, crispy bacon in the morning. But if I'm having bacon in the evening... Oh, a little under the cover of night. I like it a little juicy.
Starting point is 00:52:18 I like it a little unctuous. Oh, that's sexy time, bacon. I like sexy, floppy, a little bit like, ugh, bacon, you know? That's the sexy bacon noise. Hard as a rock! Hard! Morning time hard as a rock.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Nicole and Heidi, everybody. Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. It's like the snippy snappy in the morning and then a little softer, like, throughout the day. No matter what you say, it's going to be hilarious after that. Sorry. All right, who else we got? Who else we got? Who else we got? Dude in the hat up front.
Starting point is 00:52:49 You can just. Freaking sick. I saw that, dude. So I don't think it's a bad thing if I mix everything on my plate. Oh, you're a plate mixer? Can we give a brief example? Paint me a picture. So let's say I have maybe a Salisbury steak,
Starting point is 00:53:08 some mashed potatoes and green beans with some gravy. I'll chop up my Salisbury steak, put it in my mashed potatoes along with the green beans. Oh. Talk about efficiency. Okay. I did shudder a little bit, but I kind of like it.
Starting point is 00:53:28 You've seen me eat. Yeah, I've been there. Have you seen me eat more than anybody else on the planet? Yes. Wait, no, actually, crunch the numbers in your head. You have, right? I don't know. Like a parent, maybe, has seen you eat more? Not to get into my childhood,
Starting point is 00:53:44 but I think you've been around me more than my parents will have eaten. Yeah! Healthy! He's talking about treating every plate like a burrito bowl, which I love. Okay, so did you know that at Chipotle, you can ask them to mix the stuff inside and then close up your burrito?
Starting point is 00:54:02 Do you do that, though? No, I don't. I don't either. But you can ask them and they'll do it. But because for me, a burrito or something like Chipotle, it gets mixed up incidentally enough. Sure. Right? They're violently wrapping it.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Yeah, I mean, honestly. And then they're throwing it in a bag. It's like, you know, it's going into your car. You get in like a little fender bender, you know. And then you're like, you know, your license got suspended, so you make a run for it. And you got the burrito in your back pocket. And that's really hypothetically. Somebody's been there before. We're talking.
Starting point is 00:54:32 What does the term active warrant mean? I don't know. Me neither. I probably won't worry about it. I don't know what that is. I probably get it. Are you raising your hand because you know it? Or do you have an opinion?
Starting point is 00:54:42 Or do you have an active warrant out? But no, I'm saying incidentally, it gets mixed up to the perfect degree and i think probably the degree that this young man's talking about with his salisbury steak you know good because i don't think i don't think you're advocating like pureeing it you know no no no no but yeah i want reasonable i want everything on the plate touching loving you know i know a lot of people have food sensitivities. Yeah, some people like their food separated, and I get that. But if you don't have that sensitivity, go for it. Mash it all up.
Starting point is 00:55:10 Yeah, and then you just take a piece of bread and you just go and swipe the whole plate. La escarpeta. Esca la escarpeta. Okay, opinion. One more, one more. Oh, the last one. It's got to be good. Right there.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Yes. Yeah, he's been there from the beginning, man. We got to get him. Go, Logan, go. Last opinion. Let's see. Wow. Hello. So, my opinion is that when I was a little kid, my favorite snack after
Starting point is 00:55:37 school was Trix yogurt and a stick of string cheese, and I would dip the string cheese into the Trixie yogurt. Let him speak! Let the man speak! And I tried it recently and it was still as good.
Starting point is 00:55:53 I know it for a fact! Was it a mozzarella cheese? String cheese? The mozzarella one? Okay. I'm trying to find like a way in. You know what I mean? Okay. First things first. Trix yogurt, yum. Trix yogurt is, it's like. The splitsies, the splitsies with the pink and the blue.
Starting point is 00:56:09 Yes. Except most of the time it just gets mixed and it's like a weird gray. Yeah, I would purposely mix it. It turns like indigo gray. If you could call it indigo. And then. Wait, are you biting? Are you biting?
Starting point is 00:56:27 We have so many questions. Are you biting the string cheese or peeling it? Yeah, I'm biting it. Bite, okay, so... It's the perfect way to eat it. That's how you eat it. The microphone rejected it. It was just like...
Starting point is 00:56:40 You're a string cheese biter? Yeah. Okay. I'm also a Kit Kat biter as well. What? What happened? What happened? How can one man turn a crowd against him?
Starting point is 00:56:51 He bites Kit Kats, Nicole! You bite Kit Kats? In a world where the edges are perfectly lined to be bitten, you bite it? Yeah. I can't look at you! Being the biggest badass in the world. That's what I do.
Starting point is 00:57:06 I can see this being good. I can see the string cheese and Trix yogurt being good. You've had like goat cheese with cranberries on the outside. This is the same flavor combination he's talking about. He's working within an Epicurean framework. Yeah, sure. And also he's a badass. Okay, can I suggest something?
Starting point is 00:57:23 Of course. Can you just peel, okay, do this. Peel all of the string cheese like spaghetti. Throw it in the Trix. Mix it up. I like where you're going.
Starting point is 00:57:36 Eat it like fettuccine. Yes. Yes. See at me. And tell me how it is, okay? I will, I will for sure. Tell me how it goes. All right, y'all.
Starting point is 00:57:46 That wraps up our first ever Mythicon edition of a hot dog and sandwich. Thank you for being here. Honestly, give it up for yourselves. We got a whole lot more. You guys are incredible. Thank you for coming out to Austin, Texas. You are all incredible. Be your mythical best.
Starting point is 00:58:03 It's an honor. Thank you. Enjoy Mythicon Be your mythical best. It's an honor. Thank you. Enjoy Mythicon, y'all. Peace.

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