1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How does Runza and Half smokes compare to other competitors? - May 26th, 2026 - 11:25am

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. I, I am stunned at how many people don't know hashones. And again, it's like my moving to Lincoln and then not knowing a lot of the things. Like, so what runs it is to, to Nebraska, half smokes are to DC. And loudly so, loudly so that every president eats a binge chili bowl. Every president, every musician eats a bench chili bowl, every politician, both sides of the aisle, eat a bench chili bowl. and the original was iconic.

Are there multiple bins, chili bowl locations? There are, and now it's become an online thing. So it's kind of like Runza. There was the original, which was kind of the iconic thing. It's like KFC, the very first one. And then, you know, you start to branch out and you lose some of the flavor. The further way you go from the original. Yeah.

But to be able to go to the original. And I was just texted and told that, yes, they ship. nationwide, Ben's Chili Bowl, half-smokes, and they send you the whole kit. The mustard, onion kit for you to season up, feed six to eight or 12 to 14 people. Good heavens, man. Good heavens. Comptuous, I'm just this. I'm sorry, I have heard of half-smokes.

I remember the episode of everything on the menu with Braun Stroman. Yeah, when you go to D.C., different pockets of D.C. have that. And it's really, like, I'm just surprised that meat producers and sausage producers in the middle of the country haven't gotten on to half smokes. I need somebody to check to see if Hivey sells any Hapsmonds. But can you Google that and see whether, so it feeds one cup scurs what I'm here.

Yeah. When I, when I, we've had the chili dog conversation and the sloppy Joe conversation that I'm not sure what the appropriate number, max number is for any given human. But it varies, right? That sometimes if you said me a kit from Ben's Chili Bowl that says it feeds six to eight,

that's just me for a couple of days. But let's be real. If somebody said, Bach, I'm going to send you a Rundas package that serves six to eight people. You're not looking for six to eight people to share it with. No,

probably not. No, you figured out, listen, I got my wife and my baby, you know, they're going to eat a smaller percentage, right? But that 6 to 8 is for Bach. Like that's a challenge. Bach and his ketchup. Like,

I'm that way that if you did, you know, there's certain places to do the, you know, the boxes of tacos. Oh yeah. Right? Box of talker.

And in our head, but in our head, oh, it tells you we're going to, it's going to put, you know, 20 tacos in here. And you start to do math.

You start math. You do it. You do with the taco math, man. Bach of the 20. You know how many you're going to eat in the first setting, right? Yeah. Right. So that first sit down, hey, your wife and the kids are going, they're on a trip.

It is just you at home. There's a wrestling pay-per-view and Husker football. And there's a box of tacos delivered to you, Bob. Let's say 24 tacos. how what is what is the what is the destruction curve for those 24 tacos

probably get through about 17 before I can't physically eat anymore especially watching sports or something like that yeah you just you just keep your hands busy keep eating Adam says if it's making 20 tacos the tacos aren't full enough

well I mean just there's the thing right and that's how people you do the math i we we had this harrison and i had this discussion about about manwich about the sloppy joe's and each can they tell you is like a pound of hamburger right you take pound of ground beef with the can and i don't know i think each can and the pound of hamburger meat, make eight sandwiches only because that's how many buns come in the pack. Right? Like, I think you start to ration off. That makes sense. Right. Like, it's like, but if you have 16 buns,

you could make it work. There's a case for I'll eat more bread for the, for the prolonged enjoyment of sloppy jokes. Yeah. Right? If, we used to get this box of hamburgers delivered, right? Pre-pre-handmaid hamburgers, and then you just throw them on the grill. And they came in 1632 and 48. Same situation in place, but it's Russell, it's whatever pay-per-view happens in October, right, or September. And Huskers are playing, right? Yeah.

And it's the grill's heated, right? How many burgers and hot dogs would you go through in that day? That's interesting. I don't know if I could eat, like, I don't know if I could go through like five burgers. There's some food. I don't know if you can make the run. If the grill is hot, right? And the burgers are roll.

The burgers and hot dogs are just, and somebody else is working the grill. And literally they're just there. fuck need anything right because i'm imagining that tomorrow tomorrow uh husker softball plays what six o'clock uh yes six o'clock seven uh and then husker baseball so let's say it's a day of husker baseball husker softball and wrestling w-dhbby peeper view but and we send a chef to your house and he's just going to make you whatever, whatever sports fan food you want. Let's say it's tacos, right? Yeah. How many tacos do you start with? Again, tacos like you put down. Because you don't want to move. Yeah. Right? You don't want to disturb the flow. I think at least, yeah, I think you start with four.

Four, is that the number? Well, if, if nobody else, if nobody else is looking maybe six. Nobody's looking. You don't want to look, you don't want to look like a monster, but. That's the unhinger draw. You don't care if there's, if there's sauce on your, on your t-shirt, on your belly or on your chest, you just don't care. Right. And listen, I know, I want to be fair. I've dated some women who did this with ice cream, who did this with ice cream, where they would come home. And if they didn't think I was going to be around.

they would get a different size of ice cream. Not the little individual cups. Oh, yeah, yeah. But like the full Ben of Jerry's grown up size serving, and they will unhinges themselves, right? They will put on some sweatpants or yoga pants, and they will have at it. That's right.

Because nobody's watching. Like, that needs to be a shirt. Eat like nobody's watching. Because we all have that, version of us that when nobody's watching how you eat. Like, you just don't care. So, Bach, what's the food? Is it tacos? Is it runzas? Is it pizza? What's hot dogs? What's the food that allows, like, if we want to see the monster, like, we just want to set up a camera in your house, right? And nobody's there. Nobody's there. And your three favorite sporting events are on.

what's the food and how many? My favorite is always chicken wings. Or, you know, whatever, any sort of like chicken leg, I could just eat several chickens. No chicken is safe. It's box sports watching. So if it's just, if it's chicken wings, I'm that way with flats.

Yeah. I don't know what my number is with flats. Oh, just the next one, right? Right. It's just the next one. And literally, if it's, if you could put, like a conveyor belt, just of chicken wings just circling in front of me. And I'm watching sports and I don't have to move.

Yeah. Like, let me set, like, ranch or blue cheese on either side, certainly throw up a plate of celery and carrots, right, to dip in. But just wings, right? And a circle. How many are you going through before? How long do you eat before you just, even the inner voice to, your monster says, bro.

Brough, what are you doing? I don't know. I probably like 30 of them. But I always feel bad, especially with the pizza. Like, you go and make one of those pizzas. Like, yeah, this will serve four or five people. It's like, I'm eating the whole thing. We tried that trick in college, was ordering the large pizza and then slicing the

slices. Because we said sometimes it's just the act of eating, right? the act of eating and then you realize, okay, I'm still eating the same amount of pizza. It's just take longer. Ohio Husker says, and this is fair.

He says he can't eat while watching the huskers. You can only have adult beverage. But that's also, that's also a number of how many beverages do you drink in public watching a game versus how you drink at home,

yourself. Especially if they start losing. Well, or if they start winning. Yeah, yeah. If they start winning, like I'm that way, I would indulge more if they're winning than if they're losing. Right? Is that, is that like the beer tastes better if they're winning? Yeah, I mean, you like to celebrate. Yeah, you know, Texas says this. 0142 says

peanut butter sandwich dipped in any kind of soup or sauce. Yeah, Bach, that's the face I'm making. I need explanation on that. I need clarity. I need detail. What are you talking? Especially any kind of soup. Any kind of soup or sauce?

Is there a world that exists where people are eating, making peanut butter sandwiches and dipping them in soup and sauce? Like chicken noodle soup? That doesn't say that. I don't know. I don't know. This is why we have these conversations, Bach, because whenever we go off script, we start finding out about our neighbors. And I, if there's a club that exists where people are making peanut butter sandwiches

and dipping them into super sauce, I need to be made aware. I don't know if I'm going to attend and I don't need if I need to be a member, but I need more detail. I need more information. It's, oh, my goodness gracious. All right. See, this is what happens, Bach, down the rabbit. and hold we go. We'll close out one on one when we come back.