A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - What's The Best Meal Of The Day?
Episode Date: July 31, 2024Today, Josh and Nicole are pinning the meals of the day against each other --breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which meal is the best? Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 Check out the video version of... this podcast: http://youtube.com/@mythicalkitchen To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hey, wanna argue about something dumb?
Yeah, kind of.
This is A Hot Dog is a Sandwich.
Ketchup is a smoothie.
Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what?
That makes no sense.
A hot dog is a sandwich.
A hot dog is a sandwich.
What?
Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, hot dog is a sandwich. What?
Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show where you break down the world's
biggest food debates.
I'm your host, Josh Scher.
And I'm your host, Nicole Inayati.
And today I'm wearing a type of shirt
that I've never worn in four years of this podcast
and it's freaking Nicole out.
You guys don't know how, like, is it disarming?
This shirt is disarming to me.
Disarming would mean that you feel somewhat like charmed by me.
And that your normal defenses as a human are not up.
It's the opposite of that.
Oh my god, I was so...
My defenses are all...
I am alarmed.
It is not...
I don't know who this man is.
You're like when a small child...
Whose man is this?
Like when a small child sees his father dressed up as Dracula for Halloween
and doesn't quite have the permanence to understand,
this is still my father.
Or whenever a dad has a beard and then you shave the beard. This is what's happening to me right now.
I'm a three-year-old and you're the dad that shaved his beard and I don't like it!
I'll tell you what happened. This was a prop for a shoot that we did and the only shirt that I
brought I spilled a large quantity of teriyaki sauce on during lunch. That's right. So here we are.
I think I like pretty red. I think you look like an extra from Dawson's Creek. The shirt is a long-sleeve flannel button down from the Tarjay
Describe it. Yes, it has
Burgundy, navy and eggshell eggshell
Checks in a plaid pattern and I feel very strange
I feel like a new person but it's great that I feel like a new person because we're arguing about something that we've never argued about
before.
Which is shocking.
It is shocking because people have said that you argued about every single thing in food.
Alas, we have found one more argument.
The podcast survives another week. Today we are arguing about breakfast versus lunch versus
dinner or as I want to call it, is breakfast really
the most important meal of the day?
Because that's the old adage that we all grew up learning.
But if we're talking about that, we've got to talk about what is the most important.
Is it lunch or dinner?
BLD, baby, BLD.
What is it?
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Chris Angel's Breakfast Lunch Pizza.
RIP, man.
Henderson, Nevada, the greatest restaurant that never was.
You have a poppy seed in your tooth.
Can I help you take it out?
It's not a poppy seed, it's an elderberry.
Smile.
Where is it?
Do you want to?
Oh no, she's actually plucking it from my teeth.
That is... no, it's still in my mouth.
Oh, I hate what just happened.
New level of friendship unlocked!
The importance of breakfast.
Why is breakfast considered important?
I like breakfast.
I eat it almost every day.
If you eat breakfast, you're a peasant. New level of friendship, unlocked! The importance of breakfast. Why is breakfast considered important?
I like breakfast. I eat it almost every day.
If you eat breakfast, you're a peasant.
Well, hold on. There's an old adage that says,
eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a worker bee, and eat dinner like a peasant.
Okay, well, describe why that phrase exists. I've heard that too.
Because at breakfast, you know, you're breaking your fast, you need to eat plentifully, you know, you're gonna go and you're gonna work,
you're gonna be awake for the next gosh-knows-how-many hours.
Lunch, you're a little bit more peckish, you're just there to like kind of satiate yourself.
And then dinner, you're gonna sleep soon.
So why eat so much?
And so there's two ways this argument could go, right?
It's like nutritionally, what does your body actually want and when?
Which we are not registered nutritionists or dieticians.
Neither. We're both studying for it. I watch tic-tacs from them I feel like I should
be I don't want to ever study that yeah eat more Oreos drink you who like I
could do that you know what I mean look eat raw testicles you know that's like
what they do on there I was watching liver King the other day he's in rough
shape he might have felt falling off a little rough shit leaves on such a
ridiculous amount of steroids that even pro bodybuilders are like, this
is too many steroids. Wow, that's saying something. That is saying something. But no, there's
the nutritional route and then there's just like what foods are actually the best that
are typically correlated to those meals and I have thoughts about both. Nutritionally,
this whole eat breakfast like a king, the idea is that you are generally going to be
awake for like, what are people awake for, like 15 hours? I think people are awake for 15 to 17 hours.
Yeah, yeah.
You're active, your metabolism is moving quicker, so the idea is you eat early in the day and
that food is going to be put more towards energy.
Yes.
Right?
Then as you eat later today, your metabolism does shut down.
I mean, do you?
Not completely, but like it does stop, right?
Oh, it doesn't shut down, but it significantly slows down.
Slows down. That's the right word.
Have you felt like there are a lot of things in your old age now
that have really affected you differently?
I'm 31.
That's older than you were previously.
Now is the oldest point in your life.
Do you feel like there are things-
Why do you have to rub it in?
That's so mean.
Because there's a new trigger for me.
What?
I can't eat big meals before bed baby.
Me either, oh my gosh.
Oh.
Let me tell you, I used to be the biggest fan of
dinner. I loved going out. I loved entertaining. Like, you don't get it. Like, I used to love going to dinner with like
maybe up to one to four other people and just getting a platter of stuff just to eat and taste and nosh and talk. I can't,
if we have dinner plans at 9, I can't do it anymore. I need to get out of it.
That rez is 6.30, baby.
I'm spending the next four hours digesting.
Yeah, I literally went to a Brazilian steakhouse with my mom, dad, brother, and sister-in-law,
David and I.
We started at 6.00, we left at 7.45.
We were able to digest the food.
If I started at 8 o'clock, I would have been miserable.
Miserable.
I completely agree. So that's the idea is you eat like a smaller dinner the old adage of breakfast is most important meal of the day
Society what does important mean? I would say and I think a lot of this comes from
You know as a time when the world is industrializing right and people were suddenly like working in factories
You know and they weren't connected to like the farm Like a lot of the reason we eat eggs for breakfast is
because farmers had plenty of them. And before like the late 1800s, a majority of people just
lived on farms because that's how society was. Yes, they were eating gruel. Yeah, but like,
so a lot of these rules that we have heard of of a lot of these societal norms that we think of from
Even dating back to like ancient Rome the Middle Ages ancient Greece a lot of it's coming from like the upper crust
Sure, so there did used to be this idea that breakfast was for peasants because they're like I'm kingly and royal
I have no reason to work like I don't need fuel for to get up. Yeah. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense
Yeah, but then like in ancient Rome they had something like
Intaculum which typically breakfast was a barley bread that was dipped in wine
You'd eat a couple olives whatever you had on hand
But it was just something that was necessary to fuel your day
And then we sort of found ourselves where more and more people needed those necessary calories to fulfill their like factory jobs
Yes, right
And so we even see like a lot of weird modern breakfast, like we've talked before about the PR war for bacon.
Sure, we've talked about that before.
In the early 1900s, like bacon only became a breakfast food
because there was a surplus of pork bellies,
and then you get rid of orange juice,
it's the same thing, how it became a breakfast juice.
So silly.
Surplus of oranges in the early 1910s.
And so a lot of these customs like are very new,
and I think we are in the point Nicole call where we can rewrite our own customs.
I'm ready to decolonize my brain of thinking eggs are only breakfast foods. Okay. I'm
over it. Yes. Because isn't there there's a great dish called titka, right?
Titka. It's an braised egg and pork belly dish. Pork belly bish.
Pork belly bish and it's so damn delicious and it's sweet
and it's savory it's Thai is it Thai? No, thit ca is Viet. Vietnamese and it is so damn
delicious and my whole life I've been told eggs need to be only for breakfast no way
Jose I want to eat that for lunch and dinner it's's so delicious. Thit caw is, so I've grown up eating thit caw and like making it.
It's pork belly, the eggs, they're boiled eggs and you braise it all together and like
typically add some, like it's called nuoc mao or like fish sauce caramel.
But the secret ingredient is a soda called Coco Rico.
Yeah, that's right.
Coco Rico.
Coco Rico, at least in America, in American recipes, I assume Coco Rico was maybe Filipino
that made its way to Vietnam because of the Spanish influence in the name or even just So, at least in America, in American recipes, I assume Coco Rico was maybe Filipino that
made its way to Vietnam because of the Spanish influence in the name.
Or even just a Vietnamese soda that was named...
But what was it?
Canada?
It's like, it's Puerto Rican, dude.
Oh, L.L.
Inexplicably, a Puerto Rican soda has become endemic to this Vietnamese, at least the Americanized
version of this Vietnamese dish.
That's hilarious.
And I think it's hilarious.
But your point reigns.
And if you look at Vietnam and how breakfast typically functions, pho is a breakfast food and so all these ideas that we have what's a breakfast food? What's a lunch?
What's a dinner food? We do not have to be beholden to them whatsoever. I will eat pancakes for dinner
I mean congee right congee is like an incredible broken rice dish. That's typically eaten for breakfast
But for us Americans, it's oatmeal, right? Yeah, it's the same concept. Yeah. Yeah, it's a gruel. It's a gruel
I like gruel. The It's a gruel.
It's a gruel.
I like gruel.
Gruel.
The world runs on gruel.
Gruel rules.
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Let's analyze breakfast.
How much joy do you get from eating early in the morning? So I recently stopped so I used to be a person that would only drink coffee
So I'd get up at like 7. I'd make myself a coffee. I had an espresso. This is pre Nicole
This is Nicole like a year ago an espresso with 2% milk or
hemp milk with like a homemade vanilla syrup and then I wouldn't eat anything
until I would get to work at 9 and then at 9.10 I would make myself two eggs with a big
ass piece of toast buttered and then cheese and I would just love that was like my life
I was like hell yeah breakfast is served oh it was a hot sauce but now I do I don't always eat breakfast
But I do like protein powder in my coffee which helps satiate me and I also do collagen peptides
Which who knows what the heck that means and I got an espresso I got an espresso machine instead of an espresso machine
So like I there's a whole ritual to like making myself a coffee and then I had an espresso machine not an espresso exactly
Yeah
what an espresso an espresso machine, not an espresso machine. Exactly. Yeah. What?
An espresso.
An espresso.
I have a...
An espresso versus an espresso.
Shush, shush your mouth.
This shirt's giving you too much confidence.
I have a...
I got an espresso machine.
I used to have a Nespresso machine, but now I have an espresso machine.
I did it. I did it. It took me a second.
But yeah, and I do that and then I put my protein powder, my collagen peptides,
and then maybe I eat a hard-boiled egg and that's it.
And I love my breakfast.
I refuse to take joy from foods eaten during the daylight.
Oh no, and then I also have avocado.
I have like a quarter of an avocado
and I'm just set for life.
There's a cap.
There's a ceiling to the amount of joy
that I'm willing to have.
If I'm like on a work day.
Why is that?
I want to save it all.
I'm a big like,
Delayed pleasure kind of guy.
Delayed gratification kind of guy.
Sick.
So every morning, 5.30 in the morning,
rip a protein bar.
Nobody likes it, tastes like chalk, I eat it in the car.
Drink pre-workout, go to the gym, grind for two, two and a half hours,
come to work, make a protein shake.
I enjoy the taste of these things, roughly, I don't hate any of it.
I hate your protein shake.
Delightful, it's just blueberries, protein powder, Greek yogurt,
put a little bit of salt in there, just gonna taste nice.
But like, there's never a scenario on a weekday where I am trying to take pleasure in food before I think
Literally before I like if I'm cooking at work
It's like and there's something fun that I want to eat sure
But it's different than like once all of your obligations for the day are done
And you're like finally now I feast interesting and I don't like eat Spartan
I'll eat things that I roughly enjoy, but then I feel like there's a point at which I'm missing out on
Eggs Benedict, I think is one of the world's great foods. Yeah, I love eggs benedict too. A lot of brunchy things. So much effort, but like see this is the thing
Do you think effort is correlated to enjoyment all the time when it comes to breakfast? I don't think so
No, not at all. But what I'm saying is I think we need to completely
Decouple we are in a post historical period right? I don't know what that means. We are in a post-historical period, right?
I don't know what that means.
We've conquered God.
We have VR goggles.
Nicole, five years from now,
five years from now, the VR is gonna be a contact lens.
Touch our.
Yeah, and then like 10 years from now,
it's gonna be brain implants.
There is no God, there is no objective reality.
There is no breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
All we have are the various butter and egg emulsions
that we like to put on cured meats
in little disks of dough that have been cooked.
So we need to completely decouple the idea
that any food is correlated to breakfast,
any food is correlated to lunch,
any food correlated to dinner.
That way, I can fully optimize my life.
Have you ever had an omelet for dinner?
It's not that good.
Yes, it is better, it's better.
A Denver omelet?
I will go to Barney's,
I don't like Denver omelets in general.
I don't like the bell peppers.
Okay, so what's your favorite omelet?
Chili cheese omelet from the Barney's Beanery.
Chili cheese omelet?
I will go to the Barney's Beanery,
the sports dive bar in Los Angeles,
and I will rip a chili cheese omelet at 11 at night
while drinking a couple Barney's Beanery lagers. And I have a great time. Your farts must be wild. You've ingested a lot more of them than you want
to believe right now. You think about the amount of spiders that you've eaten while sleeping,
it pales in comparison to the amount of farts that you have breathed in in this room. And I'm sorry.
In this room? You've crop dusted me in this room? Of course. There's no dusting because it absorbs.
That means you've crop dusted Maggie. I room. There's no dusting because it absorbs
You did that it absorbs into the seat because of the wood it's like farting on an airplane. It doesn't smell
Everybody knows that why am I the bad guy here? Oh my god? Okay? I can't believe you eating in the morning I think inherently
Takes away from the experience
Breakfast most important meal today aren't you hungry? Do you wake up in the morning hungry? No, never.
I do!
You don't wake up hungry?
No.
I wake up hungry.
I could like delay eating until like one in the afternoon if I really wanted to.
Oh no no no no no no.
My brain goes dizzy.
My tummy gets it gets hurty.
I need to eat a food.
I must eat a food.
If I don't eat a food, it's bad news bears.
Do you think that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day?
For me, at this point of my 31 year old life,
I need breakfast to set the tone for the rest of my day.
Interesting. I need it, yeah.
How much pleasure, because we have like, again-
Life's not all about pleasure.
It's not, it's not, but I'm saying, I'm saying food is-
It can no longer be hedonism in this life, Josh.
It's 2024, the VR goggles are doing the hedonism for us.
We're involved in the culinary arts, right? Okay, the co-arts.
No, no, but I'm saying like no other art is necessary to human survival like the culinary arts.
It's really annoying. It's actually frustrating.
Things are important. Music, dance have been around hundreds of them,
but like you don't need to listen to music to physically survive. You need to eat food to survive.
So we are in this weird dichotomous music is my language
God we're in this weird dichotomous thinking right where you have like this pleasure and art and culture and then like survival and
Necessity and performance. Okay, right and then where we find them meeting is to me like a very interesting thing
For me, they meet in like a pollo asado burrito. Okay. It's one of my favorite foods in the world. It gives me so
much joy to eat and make one. A little bit less than carne asado burrito but chicken
is healthier for you than beef according to my personal beliefs. But also it's got 60
grams of protein and is within the like caloric range that I want to be eating for most meals.
Sure. Right?
So to me that's like this beautiful intersection.
So I'm saying like where do you manage that for your breakfast?
How much joy do you take from it versus how much performance do you expect?
Honestly, I'm just happy to be alive another day.
So I guess that's where my pleasure is coming from.
Like I get to eat this egg.
I'm so lucky that I woke up today and I get to eat this.
It's kind of beautiful.
You got to find happiness and joy wherever you can nowadays.
Breakfast for you is objectively probably the most important you'd say I said that yeah if you're listening
I'm reiterating for the audience you've iterated. I'm reiterating listening. They're trying to track lunch
Lunch don't need it makes don't don't need don't need it don't need it don't need it
Do you know you see what I did you threw you threw most your lunch away?
I mean Nicole gave her lunch away to people
and didn't waste any food.
Why'd you do that?
I gave it to you.
I think I'm a little nauseous right now, which is weird.
I don't know.
It wasn't serving you.
Well, I wasn't serving you.
I was a little nauseous.
Are you okay?
Are you gonna get us sick?
I don't know.
My tummy hurts a little bit.
You're worried about breathing in my farts.
I'm breathing in your disease.
I breathe in your disease.
I ate half my lunch,
because if I eat a whole lunch during the day, again, old man, I've
learned that it just makes me slower and I can't think as much.
Which is why lunch, we're nixing out of the equation, right?
Not important.
I think it's important sometimes.
I think it depends on what you're doing all day.
Like if you're sitting at a desk, you should eat lunch.
But it doesn't need to be like a big dramatic lunch.
No, like a girl dinner lunch version girl dinner semi-colon lunch
Is this disordered eating?
I don't like to view things in terms of like normative binaries right disordered ordered again
Which just it's just how we are
People should eat
People should eat 100% people should eat
But I'm saying like when you actually break down the importance of a meal and ranking them breakfast first lunch
Well, well Josh, I'm just slaying my laptop
What what do you mean by important? We need food to survive. There's performance and then there's art
There's performance and then there's take art out of it art smart. You need it to survive food
No, I know eat enough cow handful and nuts handful and that's will get you lot. Right? Big handful- oh god, I'm just an almond mom.
You are. You're being an almond mom right now.
I'm not. I eat so much food.
You do. Right? But I'm saying,
once you get to dinner, to me-
Dinner's more important. So let me tell you.
So breakfast is more important than dinner, is more important than lunch. Is that right?
Breakfast, perform.
Lunch, perform. Dinner,
enjoy.
No.
That's where I go on a day to day.
No, no, no, no, no.
You should enjoy all of them enough.
Enjoy all of them,
but breakfast is an A,
lunch is a C,
and dinner is a B minus.
Does that make sense?
What do you think, dinner's where you like,
can actually like commune with fellow man, right?
Dinner to me is like, that's where I decompress my entire day.
I'm giving it a B-minus!
I know, B-minus does it.
It belies the natural importance of dinner.
To me, dinner is by far-
I'm blessed on God put me on earth to eat breakfast that morning.
Thank you God, I love you.
Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
Lunch, I'm at work, I hate everybody I work with, whatever.
Dinner, I'm making it for my husband that I love so much, but I'm so damn tired
But it's gonna be really good breakfast burritos taste best at 9 45 p.m.. You know I disagree with you a hundred percent
All right Nicole
We've heard what you and I have to say.
Now it's time to find out what other wacky idiots are rattling out there in the universe.
It's time for a little segment we call, Opinions are like Casserole!
Fully ghosted.
Sick.
Alright, let's see. Hello. My name is Evan.
I live in Canada.
So excited to hear what you're going to say.
There's these people in my life like my sister, my mom, they always say soda is the best after
you eat chocolate.
And I heavily disagree. tastes disgusting there's no
flavor left if you eat chocolate and then drink soda after I feel this it
doesn't have any flavor after it's just fizzy water anyway that's my opinion
love the podcast keep doing what you do well what if I told you call her from
Canada whose name I don't remember might be Evan is Evan? Yo, no sir
I hope it's not a slur
Kevin Kevin Evan Evan. I love the name. I'm Canada
We are going to test you look here right now
We have some Reese's peanut butter cups and Nicole has a sprit day and I have a coca-cola
It's pronounced coca
Is that what the animal is? Quokka.
You know what I hate? The genre.
Let me grandstand for two seconds.
The type of person online. Evans complained about his mom and sister.
I haven't complained about people.
The people online who like, they'll show a cute animal video
and it's like a quokka smiling.
And people are like, actually did you know that quokkas only do that
when they're in extreme pain?
It's like, we have no idea.
Let me just put a little bit of a human like thing on it.
Yeah, anthropomorphize. Yeah, let me anthropomorphize in peace. So eat the candy and then drink a
soda. I think I know what he's talking about. I think I know exactly why it happens. It's the same reason why if you drink like a wine that has
blackberry notes and then you eat a piece of wild boar that has a blackberry sauce on it
Next step of that wine is not gonna taste like blackberries
Do I drink now?
Yeah, this is sprite zero. It's a sprite zero
Can we switch it tastes less good the soda tastes less good after chocolate
I know where your mom and sister are coming from.
It's sugar, right?
Where your mom and sister are coming from
is that chocolate is rich and sweet and fatty.
What you probably want is something acidic and bright
to sort of cut that.
It will cleanse your palate and it will.
There's carbonic acid in soda.
There's also a ton of sugar and citric acid.
I will say the Coca-Cola with the Reese's
is quite a delicious combination
It does taste less coca-cola II
Well, maybe I'm happy because you're eating Reese's and drinking a coke two of the most perfect consumer packaged goods ever made. Amen
Took me a while to love Reese's but now I'm like really so I mean it's cuz my dad liked them as I wanted to rebel
Wow, man, we all turn into our fathers eventually, you know what I mean? I'm totally turning into my mom and that rocks. You're kind of becoming, your
palate is becoming desensitized to the sugar of the Coke with the sugar of the
chocolate. So basically like nothing will ever taste as good as your say first
bite of candy. It's going to taste the sweetest because you haven't had that in
a while. So when you taste the sweet from the candy, you drink the Coke, it's gonna
neutralize some of that sugary taste.
Right.
You know?
That said, you are also getting the carbonic acid and the citric acid and just that fizz
to sort of like wash everything out, making the next bite of Reese's taste even better.
So I understand both of your points and I think you should just be happy that you have
a loving family.
They may have other faults that you don't like, but call back and tell us about those.
I liked the combination of Coke and Reisis
more than I did the Sprite Zero and the Reisis. Do with that information what you
will. The chocolate kind of tastes like plastic but I like it. But it's good plastic.
It's not bad plastic. I like chocolate plastic flavor more than cheese plastic flavor.
Does that make sense? 100%. Okay. Hi Josh and Nicole. This is Lyndon Calgary Alberta. Canada has to die. First off love you both you're amazing love the
podcast keep it up. I'm married. I'll tell you guys that Chili Chris and Feta is a killer
combo for pasta I am currently smashing said pasta. Hey you drink it Tony okay
love ya don't change. One love I'm married! Love you, buddy. Two, love your pronunciation of pasta because we should be pronouncing it more like pasta than pasta.
Did you watch Pearl?
No.
No!
What?
I'm married!
Okay, Pearl is, it's Mia Goth.
I love Mia Goth.
This is a great opinion. I love Shirley Criss and I love Feta and mixing that with pasta.
Yum, yum in my tongue.
So when British people hear us say the word pasta,
they internalize an R.
Because Brits say pasta.
Pasta.
And it is probably closer to the Italian pasta.
They think we're saying pasta.
Because the R, the non-rhotic R,
has our effect of where we would likely put in an H.
Like Pamela?
Like when they say Pamela Anderson?
Yeah, well it depends on your regional accent where you're from, whether you rhoticize the
R or not.
But like...
Rhoticize the R?
The R, R. That is a very unique, the rhotic R is very unique to the American English accent.
But some other cultures also do have it and some accents coming from Great Britain do
have a rhotic R. What does this have to do with anything? What, I'm just saying I love this pronunciation of pasta. It's pasta. I like saying pasta
I'm gonna start saying pasta. Okay, it's a channel and pasta channel
Channel it's an east. Anyways, the point is that is a very good combination of foods. I'm down
Where do you think that like lands it on? It's kind of a perfect intersection of like European flavor, because that feta is like a very unique European cheese flavor, typically
Eastern Europe.
Well, do you think they're using like Valbreezo, like sheep's milk feta in water?
They're probably using the Athena brand feta crumbles.
I think so too.
But you hit that Athena brand feta crumbles, little bit of pasta water.
Or do you think they're just topping pasta with feta
and chili crisp?
I would like to think they're making some sort of pseudo
sauce with the issue pasta.
You probably don't want the sauce because the sauce is,
the wet is going to make the chili crisp less crisp.
I've cooked chili crisp down in sauce.
But that's okay.
You're not always trying to get the crisp part
of the chili crisp.
It's also gonna break down the feta to where you don't get
those crumbles and also feta is never going to dissolve truly so high acid high protein. Yeah, but you don't want to completely dissolve you want it to melt a little bit
What I do is I'd make like a simple
Butter pasta water emulsion not even serve it wet serve it like a little dry
Feda chili crisp tossed that's a hell of a combo foods sesame oils like
Almost a little bit clashy with the Feda, but in a way that I think I'd really like it
I think I would be all about yeah dude start start spamming chili
crisp on stuff you'll be surprised Maggie one more my name is Ali and I am
from Southwestern Virginia I have a hot take and my fiance thinks it's nasty I
love a tortilla with some peanut butter on there, a banana, some sort of jelly and some kind
of spicy crunchy element.
Spicy chip or a fried jalapenos that you can get at the store.
Even in a normal peanut butter and jelly, I need some sort of spicy chip inside.
Just wanted to know what your take was on that.
I don't think it's that odd because there are so many spicy peanuts in dishes.
Love you guys.
Oh, oh, oh.
I like this.
This makes sense.
The peanut butter is so fatty and the jelly is sweet
and the banana, you know, has that yummy banana.
The starchy cakiness.
Yeah, yeah, that funkiness.
And then a little bit of jalapeno chips,
the little ones that you get, you top on salads. I love that!
What jalapeno chips are you talking about?
Because you also said that like it was the thing I should know about.
So I feel like I'd really love it.
So it's these things you can buy, they're like in a prepack, they're prepackaged.
It's like the French's fried onions almost, but jalapenos?
Almost, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're like these flat jalapeno flavored like pieces of flour, I guess, that are just
crisped up.
Damn.
And they're really good and I always have them on deck
I throw them in salads. I put them on top of pizza. Sometimes they're really really good
You know, I love about what she did
She did a thing that I I love doing where you're taking these foods and these assumptions that people have and you're almost breaking them
Down into their like platonic forms
It's like why would it be weird to put a spicy chip on this sandwich if you would eat happily a spicy peanut that is probably
Using a very similar flavor profile to something like a spicy chip, right?
Because then the only other thing you're getting in there is like likely crispy corn
Which is lovely adding a little textural element to that corn where did corn come from if you're talking about a corn chip?
Chips I know she's talking about jalapenos and whatnot, but I fully agree with you. You're like taking the individual elements of food that's actually how a chef thinks
about a dish, right?
Like here's one flavor combination.
Thoughtful.
There's a lot of thoughtfulness in this.
Big time.
And then you're sort of changing the vessel on it to create a unique product.
I think your fiancé is weird.
Also, I will say, Virginian Mexican food, they've invented something incredible.
It's the perfect combination of mayonnaise and water.
They call it salsa blanca.
It's more than mayonnaise and water.
You know about salsa blanca?
Look up salsa blanca, Virginia.
It's like apparently served at,
it might be a very specific region of Virginia,
but apparently it is served at a lot of restaurants,
like alongside like a salsa fresca
or whatever they would serve with chips.
Nice.
Yeah, Virginia white sauce salsa
Oregano garlic cumin crushed red pepper and then is the rest just mayonnaise it is muy blanco muy blanco
We're mongo
It's a bn s very miracle whip milk
Spices and crushed red pepper god bless so you come from a very
Culinarily inclined region and that is obviously rubbed off on you and I love that opinion.
Also that's my favorite pre-workout snack.
Salsa Blanca.
Yeah, I mix it with my C4 Ultimate Explode. No, a little banana, a little banana-rito.
That's a treat, man. You toast it up, get the peanut butter a little bit melty, slurp down that banana and now I'm gonna start putting a little bit of spicy chippy inside.
I'm happy for you.
You deserve to be happy.
Sounds creepy, Ben.
What do you know that I don't?
It's like when my cat starts meowing at the wall.
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