A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Are Expensive Eggs Worth It?

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

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A hot dog is a sandwich. That deserves a Pepsi. I want an omelet now. They're not for sale. That deserves a Pepsi. I want an omelette now! They're not for sale. Don't care how, I want it now! She was a bad egg. 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 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, the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Josh Scher. And I'm Varukha Salt.

No, I'm Nicole and I. And I feel like I thought that you actually thought that you had them convince that you were Varukha Salt because it was a very convincing acting job. And I feel like I, as your scene partner, left very convincing acting job and I feel like I as your scene partner left you high and dry. I feel like I didn't know how to channel Gene Wilder. Yeah, it's okay.

I don't expect you to. I've learned that, you know, taking the brunt, is it the brunt or the grunt? Definitely brunt. I'm taking the brunt. Emily brunt. I'm taking the brunt of the word. Of the acting, you know, just like always, like 100%, giving 100, expecting zero.

You know what I mean? Here's the thing, I don't think I'd be a naturally talented actor. I don't disagree. You think I could? Yeah, if you applied yourself. I don't know, I think I'm better at like vomiting out facts about things. Like improv? Like did you know that Roald Dahl hated the Gene Wilder casting?

Yes, I did actually. You're not that special for knowing that. I'm not that special. Did you know that Gene Wilder refused to do the movie unless he could do the summer salt scene with the cane guys? Oh my god, that's so fun. We both know the same amount. You know Roald Dahl, like, don't look up his opinions.

I know, I know, I know. Great author, crappy person maybe? Yeah, well, you know, there was some stuff. The sequel to Trondling and Chocolate Factory was a... Through the Looking-Glass? No, that's Alice in Wonderland. The Great Glass Elevator is about... Oh, see, well I knew it was about glass.

Well that's not what we're talking about today. What are we talking about today? We're talking about are expensive eggs actually worth it? Because this is a question that we actually get asked a lot. Yeah, yeah, of course. Is there any difference between the eggs at the supermarkets? Because when you go to the egg aisle, you know how it is, an entire aisle of room temperature eggs, the egg aisle.

They're not room temperature. I'm kidding. You're being silly. In case there are so many different varieties and so many different brands and I have been on record as stating that eggs are one of the things that I pay more money for deliberately because one, I'm not feeding a family of four and I don't even eat breakfast at home in the mornings. And so I'm basically using them for cooking or I'm making lovely little eggy brunchy treats on the weekends.

And so for me, the quality is matched by the price and I get the brands of eggs that I like that I know taste significantly better and I'm fine paying, God, $9 a dozen for them. What is the definition of a good tasting or high quality egg? A good tasting egg. So this will all come home to roost later, because what I would have said before researching for this podcast is that to me, the number one thing I look for in an egg

is the color of the yolk. So I'm looking for color of the yolk, I'm looking for tightness of the whites, I'm looking for an actual deep what I would only call like an eggy flavor, right? To me a dark orange yolk is the the sign of a great egg. A dark orange yolk tastes better, it has a better mouthfeel. I think a dark orange yolk in an egg signifies a higher quality of egg, which will even signify how that white cooks up, because I think lower quality eggs have looser, runnier egg whites.

And that's all what I would have said before, like a couple days ago, when we started researching for this podcast, because it turns out, not exactly the case. Mm-hm, okay. Yes, it's yes. But you kind of mentioned, out of the factors that you used to define a good egg, two of those were visual and one of those were taste. Yes, but I don't think you can separate the visual from taste. So there is...

In the case of eggs? In the case of a lot of food. Interesting. Okay, okay. I think, and not the yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-yee-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye He rips man great practical cookie dish. Come on the show. Come on the show. We should have Ethan on it We probably should have had him for this to rehash it. But yeah, either way but he made a fantastic video essay about expensive eggs and The reason color change happens in eggs and this is something that I knew before I liked it. Go ahead. Diet. It's all diet, right? Egg, I was gonna say egg diet. No, chicken diet. Do you think the chickens are eating eggs to then lay eggs? Is that what you think? Sometimes they do.

I can see that sometimes they do feed. Sometimes they do actually, but no, of course not. Mostly bugs and flowers. Yes. Mostly bugs and flowers. If you eat orange things, the yolk will turn more orange. Correct. Dan Barber famously once fed chickens a diet of just spicy red peppers because chickens cannot recognize

the capsaicin and then turn their yolks bright red. But for me, I remember going to France. I went to France for the first time and I got a normal ass like croque madame and the yolk on that egg was bright bright orange. So I have these like food memories associated with the first time I saw a bright orange egg yolk on food and that was a really good croque madame was it because I could have tasted the difference between that orange yolk egg and your normal mass produced grocery store egg blind I don't think so in fact I'm a hundred percent sure that I could not do that but it's still this taste and sense memory that I have that still means a lot to me. So when I'm cooking brunch on the weekends, a dark orange yolk, I would pay a quarter. I would flick a quarter at a genie if I cooked a pale yellow yolk and served it sunny side

up on my little weekend brunch that means a lot to me. If I could flip a quarter to a genie to turn that yolk darker orange, I would. I'd pay a quarter every time. Because that's what I'm actually doing, is I'm paying an extra quarter per egg for that dark yellow yolk. Is flicking a quarter at a genie something that people say? No, just me.

Is this a new saying? Yeah, I don't know why, I don't know how my brain is different. I love it. But you know what I mean? I'm loving this. I know what you're saying. Will Smith, live action, live action Aladdin,

Will Smith genie. I'll see what you're saying. So it's like your tax. It's like your genie tax. Correct, and that's how I view value in life, right? Okay, well, I never knew that about you. Probably not. I'm not aie. I'll see what you're saying. So it's like your tax. It's like your Genie tax. Correct, and that's how I view value in life, right? Okay, well, I never knew that about you. The problem is I'd flick too many quarters

at Genie's to do a lot of things for me, and so I would end up broke. Because one quarter don't sound like a lot, but it's 12 quarters per carton. You know, times, say you're feeding a family, three cartons per, that adds up. Yeah, and also lugging around a bunch of quarters, boring.

I know, God. Like, hey, ouch. Oh, you're from, Beverly Hills is the only city that will, do they have a card on their freaking parking meters yet? They do, yeah, they do. Okay, because last time I was there I got a parking ticket because I didn't have any quarters and I had to go to a chiropractor in Beverly Hills. You could just use dimes and nickels.

If I have dimes and nickels, I probably have quarters. I have no change. I haven't used cash in years. Okay, Josh, I think it's nice for us also to find like what are... Because there's so much lingo, like when you go to the egg... You said egg case? The egg store. When you go to the egg store. Did you call it the egg case? I just called the egg section.

Or just go into the eggs. Go into the eggs. We're going to the eggs. So when we're going over to the eggs, there's so much lingo, there's pasture-raised, there's cage-free, there's organic, no added hormone, all that stuff. I think we should sift through what these things mean because free range means something

and we should find out and they should find out what that means. Free range and a lot of these are all individually decided by various agencies that actually create these labels, right? You see the KSA sticker. KSA sticker? Is it the kosher one? Kosher, yeah. You know, it's like something that is a governing board that is taking money. Similar with the green USDA certified organic. They have all of their actual tenants listed out on a website. The interesting thing about free range is when you say free range egg, you probably imagine like a happy chicken Yeah, running around. They're free. They're free. They're free. They're free to roam.

I'm walking around. Free range chicken is like a prisoner getting yard time. You know, they get to play outside. What? That's it? The whole industrial food system's a nightmare. We all participate in it and it's fun. I'm sad. Don't be sad. We get to eat their unfertilized ovum. Yeah, so what free range actually means, free range eggs come from hens with the potential

to access an outdoor area, the potential to access an outdoor area, though that outdoor area can be quite small and not all the hens actually go outside. And so if you're buying... What? That's sad. Yeah, so they basically, the hens are, you know, cooped up and then there's a potential for them to roam and... They have the potential to roam, but they're not encouraged to roam?

Well, it's like a Stockholm syndrome thing. If you kind of grew up, you're not, they're not growing up in the like actual pasture. Whereas pasture raised, pasture raised eggs, if certified humane, again, certification comes in all this, come from hens with 108 square feet of outdoor space per bird, allowing for a more natural environment. So pasture-raised... How big is 108 square feet? 108 square feet would be...

Is that like a closet, a bathroom, a one-bedroom? So, 10 by 11. Is this room 10 by 11? 10 feet by 11 feet. This is significantly bigger than... So probably about half this room, I'd say, is 108 11 feet. This is significantly bigger than, so probably about half this room I'd say is 108 square feet. Per chicken, so per chicken.

Yeah, I believe it's per chicken. So where Meggie is, so Meggie's the chicken. Meggie, you're the chicken. Can you make, can you look at? Bok bok. Bok bok. Yeah. So where Meggie is, is like where the chicken can roam.

One chicken can roam. Can you do more of like an Alan Tudyk voicing hey hey from Moana? Oh, well I can't, I can't compete with your master. Try, try, try, try, try. Okay. That was so quick. That was really good actually. It's like seven out of ten Tudyks on the Tudyk scale. The Tudykometer. Tudykometer sounds like you're measuring Tudykometer. Like toot and comment? No. Oh, because Alan has Tudyks. Okay. That's not, no his name is Alan Tudyk. Oh, it Alan has two dicks. No, his name is Alan Tudyk. He went to Juilliard. But you know how people's last names represent what they did, like Hendy Zadeh means born

in India? Yeah, yeah. But Tudyk is not? No, I don't think that comes from that. So Pastor Reyes, are you somebody that, and this isn't to out you as a monster, are you somebody that buys your food with some sort of moral impetus? Yeah, of course, sometimes. What do you mean sometimes?

Yeah, of course, sometimes. Of course, sometimes. But are you somebody that goes out of your way to support local farms? Yes. You just said that like Borat, when he doesn't understand something. Yes, yes, hi farm. Well, all food technically comes from farms. California has a lot of farms, they're local to someone. Well, let me tell you, so like I try to buy organic when I can, especially with my produce.

With my eggs, I don't take that many precautions as much as I do. I kind of like outweigh the pros and cons. Like I don't want to spend $12 on a carton of eggs. I don't want to do that. Already them up to 12? Of course. Which ones? Cause there's the true blues.

There's some organic. The true blues are expensive. Also, when I go grocery shopping, I don't physically go that often. I'm a very busy person. Like I don't necessarily, I go to the grocery. Sometimes I just order from Amazon Fresh because it's convenient for me. Like I just do. I barely go to the farmer's market.

I don't, I'm not that kind of. Same. At this point in my life, time and career, I, and who I am, I don't have the ability to get up and go to a farmer's market. I just don't do that. Yeah. I don't. And I'm sure a lot of people that are listening to this... Do you wish you did? Do you wish you were one of those people? Josh! All I want in my life is to wake up at noon and like go to the farmer's market

and cook delicious food for my family and my friends and you guys. And then like, I don't know, watch TV and watch movies and hang out with my friends and family and get a dog and hang out with my cats and have a garden and then sleep at nine. That's all I wanna do. Ironically, this podcast is preventing you from being a more moral person.

No, this job in total is. What if you and I commit? What if you and I commit right now? Because I have been, not guilt per se, but I think I'm at a point in my life, a 32-year-old, thinking about bringing more life into this world, where I'm like, I should try and at least practice more what I preach in terms of the food that I source, you know?

And so I've been thinking about, I used to be part of like, a community-supported agriculture group, get a box thinking about, I used to be part of like a community supported agriculture group, get a box dropped off, and then I just kinda like moved and forgot to update my address, and just like stopped, right? Or I moved out of range and didn't find another one. But I'm going to get back to it.

Okay. You know, because I can't. What are you gonna do? I can't do it. I'm gonna join the CSA, community supported agriculture, and I'm gonna get local eggs and produce delivered to my doorstep every week. So I use Amazon Fresh to order a lot of my groceries and honestly what I do is I tell myself okay I'm gonna buy a carton

of eggs I eat eggs at home a lot I'm a big egg eater so is my husband so I'm like okay I'm gonna buy 12 eggs but they also have 18 so I'm not gonna buy the 18 because I don't think we're gonna be home for breakfast that often so I like this is literally my thought process I go okay I'm're gonna be home for breakfast that often. So, I like, this is literally my thought process. I go, okay, I'm not gonna be spending $12 a carton on eggs because that doesn't make sense to me. A dollar an egg does not make sense. It's like $4 for an avocado.

Like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not. And then I tell myself, okay, I'm gonna see all these words and all these words are gonna make sense to me. I'm gonna try to buy organic when I can. So, I try to buy organic eggs, but if it's more than $8 for the organic eggs, I'm not going to do it. So my cutoff is $5.99 for 12 eggs, organic. And if I can find that, I'm good.

And if I can't find that, then I start going with like words like pasture-raised or words like hormone-free and things like that. Why do you buy organic eggs? Like what to you is the trade-off? Because I think I should eat more organic food. Okay, for what reason? What bad is happening to you from being on organic food? I don't know. I couldn't tell you. Maybe it's the Monsanto spraying of the things. I don't know what to tell you. So organic is another delineation in the eggs. That means that it's eggs that have come from hens that have been fed in organic diet and that doesn't have any requirements to outdoor excess or space for hen. There's actually so many layers to eggs and why people are buying them, right? If it's for the taste. I'm not buying them for taste as much as I'm... You think all eggs taste the same?

No, I don't. But I'm not buying them. I'm buying them for functional purposes. You know, I'm making an omelet. Like I'm just putting them in recipes. You don't want the best tasting eggs for your omelet? No, I'd rather have the best tasting meat and vegetables. Pursuit, a little pursuit in that omelet. Coach your home, Brazil. I actually bought beef bacon and it was great. Did you?

We do beef bacon in our omelets with veggies. beef bacon and it was great. Did you? We do beef bacon in our omelets with veggies. Thank you. I am craving a big slice of pizza and an ice cold Pepsi for lunch today. Nicole, what if I told you, you have the power to make that happen?

I do? Yeah, and you know how I know that? Cause you're real, real smart. That's one of the reasons, the other reason is that I had the same dream that you had, except this was a couple days ago. We basically lived parallel lives, but I was craving an ice cold Pepsi

and a big old slice of pizza. And I was at the airport and I was coming back to LA. And so I like really needed some food to get me through that last leg of the journey. And I was on the plane, I opened my pizza and the flight attendant came by and I got the free chips and I got an ice cold Pepsi Zero sugar. And I will never forget this borderline

spiritual experience of eating that spicy from the pepperoni salty chewy pizza chips and I got an ice cold Pepsi Zero sugar and I will never forget this borderline spiritual experience of eating that spicy from the pepperoni salty chewy pizza, going to the crispy chips and then resetting my palate with ice cold refreshing Pepsi Zero sugar, that perfect amount of acid to just cut through all that fat in your palate and then back to the chewy pizza crispy chip, refreshing Pepsi, chewy pizza crispy chip, refreshing Pepsi and it made the flight so, so much better. My lunch was absolutely saved. I love story time with you, Josh. It's my favorite.

But moral of the story is, Pepsi makes your food taste better. Everybody knows that. So grab a Pepsi Zero Sugar for your next meal, as food deserves Pepsi. This episode is brought to you by Missouri. From November 25th to December 2nd, get 25% off everything on orders over $150 in Missouri's

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No. I get David like organic 2% or whole milk and I get that, I get Fair Life. Fair Life. So it's weird. I've been drinking Fair Life, more protein. I love Fair Life milk. But like my eggs and my flour and my sugar, like those necessities,

I think it's coming from like a cooking and culinary background. Like those are like all purpose ingredients. Yeah, I know what you mean. Like those are my AP ingredients, like they're gonna be fine no matter where they're from, no matter where I get like, either from Smart and Final or if they're from Whole Foods,

like it doesn't matter, you don't need to be spending top dollar on those things. So that's my mentality. Do I think that's the proper mentality? Probably not. Interesting. Yeah, I know, it's weird, right? Yeah.

I'm like, my home is like, I don't care that much about it It's so funny because I will pay this is wild. I'll pay $10 I vital farms has been my favorite egg producer for a while I think they have cool packaging not that like you should buy for the packaging but like it is a luring And I love the look and taste of their eggs. Happy egg also does a really good job They're all very, very expensive. There was a period of time where Josh said

the only eggs that, he's like, I'm not a picky guy. All I want in the kitchen are single bite snack cakes. Boom, did it. And Vital Farms eggs. Remember that? Vital Farms eggs. Also, we work for a cooking show. They look great on camera, dude. They look so much better. They always do. You know how shitty it is? Gorgeous.

I'm sorry. Do you know how crappy it is whenever you have one egg from Ralph's and then one egg from vital farms And you crack them side by side because the recipe calls for two eggs Yeah, and they're so different in color and the opacity of the of the albumin and all that stuff So I'm saying I think the egg quality really really differs, but I then to save money and also it's just convenient I'll get like the you know the party packs of chicken? Party packs? Dude this is still the the cheapest meat in America you can get is at any mass market grocery store you get what's called a party pack chicken. That is simply drumsticks and thighs

and and the quality will be like some of the thighs are three times bigger than the other thighs. There's bone shards in some of them. Like I'll take take I have to take a boning knife and like trim up each thigh Before I marinate it, but you I swear to God when it's like on sale You'll get a buy one get one free and it nets out to like two thirty nine a pound. Well, it must be nice. It's crazy Yeah kosher meat. Um, so I I save money elsewhere, but Something that I read from series eats Jay Ken. Kenji Lopez, another awesome food creator, writer, whatever you wanna call him, chef. He owns a restaurant, I don't know if it's still around.

I just call him an OG. He's an OG. Kenji's an absolute OG, wicked, wicked smart, does a lot of cool food testing. He designed an experiment where he took all different kinds of eggs. We didn't even talk about omega-3 fatty acids yet, but some eggs have added omega-3 fatty acids.

I love fatty acids! These different kinds of eggs, and he scrambled them all the same, weighed out the egg, the butter, the salt, scrambled it all with the same ratio, and did a blind taste test. And he didn't tell people which eggs were which, but 50% of respondents said that all the eggs taste the same, they're just eggs. And then the other 50% generally ranked the yellower egg to be tastier. Interesting.

Right? Was it a blind taste test? Uh, it was not blind. They didn't know which was which egg. But the yellower egg, but then what he did, smart, smart, smart man, put a couple drops of green food dye in each one and made them different hues of green. Why green?

Because green would obscure the yellow. Oh, I see, I see, I see, I see, I see. Yeah, so people could then not adjust for their sight difference, right? Like you draw a cartoon egg, it's gonna have like a darker yellow-y color. Sure, sure. So after that, that number jumped to like 80% said they were all the same and only 20% said they had preferences and those preferences were very mixed. Interesting.

And then he took the one last person, he took the one last person who in their guessing was consistent that the pastor raised organic whatever eggs were the best and he gave them two eggs side by side and he said, this is the pastor raised egg, this is the, you know, non-pastor raised egg, which one's better? And he lied to them and then they picked the other one. So a lot of this is visibility and power of suggestion. It's all power, it sounds so much like power of suggestion to me. It's a lot of power of suggestion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you come down to if it's not about taste, you know, if it's not about taste, if it's not about that actual visibility, what is it worth to you to give a hen the size of half this room? Yeah. Yeah. I don't want things to suffer. Yeah, of course. But also like- We don't want things to suffer.

I don't know. There's a lot of them. We have a big, big, big industrial food supply. This is what happens when you live in cities, you know what I mean? Like there's a necessary amount of suffering that has to happen if you wanna eat animal products. You know?

There's so much guilt in this podcast. There's a lot of guilt. There's so much guilt. I think what this podcast has turned into is me realizing I should be more conscious about the things that I do, and you just being a guilty man. Just a guilty, guilty man.

I think I've... I just need to be more self-aware, and you need to be... You need to express your guilt. I think the guilt is ultimately me being disappointed in myself for not being a better person, honestly. And it's so funny because I often preach, and I do believe this, that like your food choices do not... They matter. Well, no, but but also but it's not like a

moral Thing necessarily right food eating fast food every day does not make you a less moral person Yeah, yeah Everybody is just like trying to get by the things that give them comfort that they can do within their budget because Yeah, dude nine dollars for a dozen eggs. That's nuts That is Costco you get the five dozen Costco eggs, dude, $9 for a dozen eggs, that's nuts. That is so much... You get the five dozen Costco eggs, dude. I was gonna talk about, like, my mother-in-law,

she always has multiple Costco eggs, and she always says, take eggs, and I'm like, no, I don't want to eat Costco eggs. But where do I get off saying, like, I'm gonna get eggs for $5.99 whenever she's getting 18 eggs for five? Like, who am I? I get that. It's just the disassociation is just so grand

when it comes to things like that. And then why am I able to give grace to everybody else? And again, I truly believe that, but then not give the grace to myself? Right, right, right, right. I think it's because eggs are such a blank slate item. Like all foods are neutral, right? And they get dressed up in these cartons.

And you can decide what kind of carton you want to get because at the end of the day, each egg is pretty much the same. Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all the same. They're all the same. They just go through different gradings and whatnot.

But again, it's a literal chicken period. You're eating a chicken period, right? That's it. That's all it is. You can say that scientifically confidently. I can't, I don't know what it is. What else would it be? If you asked me to explain what a period is, right? That's it. That's all it is. You can say that scientifically confidently. I can't, I don't know what it is. What else would it be? If you asked me to explain what a period is,

I couldn't tell you. But regardless, like it's- Uterine lining? Yeah, shedding your uterus. You shed uterine lining. Shed it. Interesting. Shed it.

But yeah, it's just past, like it's a chicken egg. It's an egg. That's all it is. And we've decided to give it so many different grades and so many different names and treat the hens a certain way and yada, yada, yada. But it's just an egg, man. Do what you can.

Like the most commonly eaten food in the world. Yeah, and listen, if you don't eat eggs and if you're vegan, that's fine too. Like we live in a time where you can make an egg. I literally was on Instacart the other day and they had vegan eggs. They were hard boiled eggs in a package made out of kala namak, also known as black salt.

And it was beautiful. Literally they showed a picture of it, like the packaging, and then the egg itself split in half and I'm like, holy crap, that is an egg. It's just incredible that we're living in like these times, it's very, very cool. Do you have a preference between white eggs and brown eggs or multicolored eggs? Ladies has eggs.

Ladies has eggs. And that comes into play. So we have ovaries. And those aren't eggs. Those make the eggs. Those make the eggs. And then every 28, Maggie, 28 to 32 days, we pass an egg. We pass an egg. Just one, though? Is it just one?

Yeah, I think Maggie's mic's kind of going... Single egg. It's just an egg. We pass an egg. Just one though? Is it just one? Yeah, I think if Meggie's mic's kind of going... Single egg. It's just one egg. So, chickens lay eggs. What's the normal rate of laying eggs? Well, chickens have different cycles. Chickens don't have the same cycles as a human woman. Ladies weigh... Mammals. Mammals typically are basically the same, but chickens is not mammals.

No, no, no, no, no. Dinosaur? Chickens is dinosaurs. Chickens is dinosaur. How often are you laying eggs? Me? Yeah. I release an egg once a month.

Right, Maggie? Nice, you're like an album drop, like a supreme drop. I lay an egg once a month, and I haven't gone through a grading scale necessarily. You're relatively free range. I know you wish your apartment could be bigger, but like. Did you call me relative? Yeah, you had a nice two bedroom, you know.

Yeah, I could like download an app if I wanted to. Big common area. In the end, are expensive eggs worth it? Like, nah, man, not at all, dude. What, if it's worth it to you, if it makes you feel better, if it makes you act better, if it makes you a better person, sure, buy an expensive egg. If buying a less expensive egg makes you a better person, makes you feel better for other factors, that's fine too.

Our whole lives we've been told eggs are good for you, eggs are bad for you. Eggs have high cholesterol, eggs have low cholesterol. Don't eat eggs anymore, eat two eggs a day. Eggs have been the subject of conversation for so long. Now what I want to say is just eat eggs. They're delicious. Yeah, eat the eggs, man. They're delicious little balls of yum. What do Ontario dairy farmers bring to the table? A million little things. But most of all, the passion and care that goes into producing the local, high-quality milk we all love and enjoy every day.

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Berry, white chocolate, and hazelnut and cocoa. Perfect to add onto a small $1 plus tax premium roast coffee. It's a match made by McCafe. At participating McDonald's restaurants, prices exclude delivery. Well now it's time for a new segment where Nicole and I put our food trivia knowledge to the test. It's time for our very own trivia segment called... Yummy in my tummy got some trivia for you.

Alright robot Maggie, throw that first question up there. What is the only food that can never go bad? I have a guess I have a guess what's your guess? Well, I remember Let me tell you something So there was a Disney Channel thing where they would say they would ask questions like trivia questions when we were little kids And then it had this really cool graphic that would say, one of them is flour, but not if you get it wet. But I'm gonna say honey or sugar.

Peanut butter. I believe peanut butter can also last roughly indefinitely. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say sugar. I'm gonna say- That's what you mean by go bad. Honey, I'm gonna say sugar. I'm locking in peanut butter. You gotta choose one, Nicole. Because salt is salt to food? Because one of them is the right answer. I'm gonna say. Spend what you mean by go bad. Honey, I'm gonna say sugar. I'm locking in peanut butter.

You gotta choose one, Nicole. Because salt is salt to food? Because one of them is the right answer. Salt isn't a food. I'm gonna go ahead and say, I'm gonna go ahead and say. I'm gonna say that they are saying salt. I'm gonna say honey.

I'm gonna say salt, but also peanut butter can last indefinitely. The correct answer is honey. Woo! Your girl's so smart. What about salt? Your girl's so beautiful. Your girl's so smart. What about salt? Your girl's so beautiful. Your girl's so educated.

What about salt? Is salt a food? Your girl's so good at this. Is salt a food? Is salt a food? Are you Googling of salt as a food? Ugh. Salt is a mineral.

I agree with that. I'll get in though. You're right. Nicole, you got it. I'm right. You're good. You're so good. Robot Maggie, time for the second question, please. If you haveare-Oka-phobia, what are you afraid of?

McGarek. McGarek-phobia. McGarek. Megarek-phobia. What is fear of large breasts? McGarek-phobia. I'm going to say eggs. It's Megarek-phobia. I'm going to say eggs. No, because that'd be ovophobia. That'd be McGarek-phobia. Fear of large mommy milkers.

I don't have a guess. The correct answer is an extreme fear of cooking. So it's not big bazookas, fear of big bazookas? You asked for a harder question. McGarrakephobia, interesting. Well, now we know it. Interesting. I wonder what the root word is,

because the root word threw me for a loop. Me too, never heard that root. That is interesting, Magyarika phobia. What type of food holds the world record for being the most stolen around the globe? I have an answer. What is... Most stolen around the globe? Bread!

I'm going to say maple syrup The correct answer is cheese cheese most stolen Interesting I'll tell you why cuz there was a great and here's my thought process find me one you won You won one to nothing My thought process behind maple syrup was there was a great maple syrup heist, and I was hoping that that upped the average across the entire globe. I was thinking of Jean Valjean. No, that's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah. 3,000 tons of maple syrup were stolen in 2012. So the largest amount of food stolen was maple syrup, but not...

Well, maybe. I don't know. But I was hoping that that evened out across the entire globe. I have information about the cheese. It is estimated that as much as 4% of the cheese produced around the world is stolen. That equates to as much as 90.6 million tons of cheese each year. Why buy the cow and get the cheese for free? Alright. Well, you know what that means, Nicole.

What? Time for a little second of what we call... Opinions are like casseroles! You didn't even acknowledge the fact that I won. Oh, congratulations. Thank you so much. I'm happy for you. I would like to thank my mother and my father and Robot Meggie.

It was a team win. Yeah, a team win. Yeah, I couldn't do it without my mom and dad. I would like to blame God for me losing. A lot of people thank God for winning, but I would like to blame him for me losing. OK, sorry. No, it's fine. Did I cut you off?

No, my nose feels weird on the inside. I get it. OK. Hi, my name is Lillian from Sacramento, California. Saxy! And I left a message on your Twitter asking about opinion casseroles for Thanksgiving, but I doubt anybody's going to look at it. So I'm leaving you a voicemail too. Smart, very smart Lillian.

I need somebody to know that my mother used to use ramen packet as seasoning in her Thanksgiving gravy with the turkey dripping. So smart. So smart. used ramen packet as seasoning in her Thanksgiving gravy with the turkey dripping. So smart, so smart. And one year she used shrimp flavor. So smart, that's probably great. Let that sink in. That's probably great.

I haven't spoken to her in seven years. I love what you guys do, have a great one, bye. Was it for the shrimp seasoning or did she do something else bad? I'm sorry you haven't spoken to your mother and that's really sad and I hope one day your relationship could be fixed. And if it's not fixable, then I'm sorry.

But I love the ramen in the food. Brilliant. It's just a little packet of bouillon. That's what you would season gravy with in general. And then the shrimp gravy. Listen, I get how that would impart a little bit of a fishy flavor that you may not want, but, but, but. It's just a ubabi. It's umami. I'm into that. impart a little bit of a fishy flavor that you may not want but but but it's just a bobby

It's umami. I'm into that. I'm in for shrimp gravy. I might make a shrimp gravy for my turkey this year. That sounds smart Sounds really good Shabbat Josh Nicole Maggie everyone else My weird food opinion is that I have some leftover chala here and I turned it into French toast But I forgot I didn't have milk in the fridge, but I did have a tube of sweetened condensed milk. I also didn't have cinnamon, but I had fresh ground nutmeg and Angostura bitters. And I tell you, I slapped that thing in a pan in my college dorm room here in Toronto and oh boy, what a treat. Anyways, thanks

guys. Have a good one. That was cute. First of all, it's Shabbat Shalom, not Shalom Shabbat. Is that what he said? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All the way around. Is that a Canadian thing? I don't know.

And also it's Challah, not Challah. But it sounds good. King Challah from the Black Panther franchise. What? King Challah. Chadwick Boseman. Is it T'Challah? Yeah, yeah.

It's T'Challah. I love your innovation and I love your creativity and I love that you're taking the time to be a part of this. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. King Chala, Chadwick Boseman. Is it T'Challa? Yeah, yeah. It's T'Challa. I love your innovation and I love your creativity and I love that you're taking door and room cooking to a brand new level.

What I love about this is in no way is that French toast. That ain't French toast at all. Yeah, it is. What it is, I don't think so. There's no eggs in it, I don't know. I think what they've done though is created a new dessert entirely. It's you know like Hong Kong brick toast Yeah, remember. I feel like that's what you've done, which is even cooler than making French toast

You're gonna get a lot of that caramelization on the sweetened condensed milk That rules man. I feel like Young me inside you you know not me All right, this is gonna be weird, but I think Josh might agree with it. Thank you. Scrambled eggs should not just be a breakfast food. Agreed. If you load them up with like cheese and bacon and whatever you want to put in and out of your fridge, guess what? That's a dinner food now. And I'm tired of getting weird looks because I want to eat scrambled eggs for dinner.

Because like, whoever said they had to just be for breakfast. No me. No one. No one. No one said they should always be for it and in many cultures they're not. But you know, I love the term breakfast for dinner. Same, it's fun, it's still fun. I like saying that and I love the action of making breakfast for dinner, but you know,

you can eat scrambled eggs for everyone. You can have it in the morning. You can have it in the afternoon. Pizza in the morning, pizza in the morning, you can have it in the afternoon. Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time. Yeah, exactly, same for scrambled eggs. Yeah, I love scrambled eggs. When pizza's on bagel, you can have pizza anytime.

Same with scrambled eggs, when the scrambled eggs are in your pan, you can have them anytime. I did this the other day, didn't want to go grocery shopping really hard up. We were about to leave for a weekend or something. I had six scrambled eggs. I had six of them to get 36 grams of protein, a little bit of kimchi fried rice. And I just put kimchi fried rice inside the scrambled, the omelet, and that's a lovely meal.

I've had five eggs for breakfast a few times this week. It's a little bit gross, but I like it at the same time. No, but I love eating eggs for dinner. Eggs are really one of my favorite foods which is why I spend so much money on them despite the fact that I could not tell the difference between them. Hey Josh and Nicole my name is Will I'm from Columbia, Missouri and I get made fun of a lot for this one but I eat the leaves on the strawberries. I just eat the whole thing whole. And yeah, I get roasted quite a bit for that.

I just like to hear what you think. Thanks. Okay, well, I won't be doing that, but you can do it. I don't think you're gonna get sick from it. Or like Josh was actually talking about the other day how you should blend thyme sticks and the tops of peppers into marinades in order to extract the original delicious flavor.

Is that what you were saying? Well, the thyme sticks add like texture. We're talking about making jerk chicken. Yeah. And a lot of people strip the thyme. Strip the thyme. No, throw a whole bundle of thyme in there with the sticks because then you blend that up

and the sticks are actually going to add texture to the outside and help it stick there. Yeah. I, again, I will not be doing this because I don't know. I don't want to do that. But if I were picking them off the vine, like if it's a beautiful summer strawberry and I'm in France and I'm getting, what is it? Froid de bois, is that one?

Froid de bois. Froid de bois. If I'm getting some froid de bois, you better believe that I'm gonna be just chomping it and eating it whole. But for the grocery store strawberries, I don't need to. Tell you what, we'll make you a deal. Every strawberry for the rest of my life is gonna be leaves on.

Because I- He's lying. No, I'm just saying, we run through probably two pounds of strawberries a week in our house. I don't love them that much. You guys are strawberry people? Julia loves strawberries. We don't eat a lot of fruits. And I love eating fresh fruit.

You don't eat a lot of fruits? No. Crazy. I'm not a big fruit person. We guys are strawberry people? Julia loves strawberries. We don't eat a lot of fruits. And I love eating fresh fruit. You don't eat a lot of fruits? No. Crazy. I'm not a big fruit person. We do like fresh fruit for dessert every night. We're more of a vegetable household. We do vegetables too. Like crucifix. You can have the fruit and the veg, you know.

I don't. No, well you gotta choose one or the other. Fruits or veg. Veg. But when you dice up strawberries, yeah. You're like leaving so much fruit on there. You're probably losing about 5% on yield. Even if you nibble around it, you're still losing a lot.

I'm starting to eat the leaves, dude. There's no reason you can't eat the leaves. If I see you eating a strawberry and throwing the leaves away, I'm gonna tell them. How many times have you seen that? We've worked together for like five and a half years. How many times have you seen me throw the leaf top of a strawberry away? Fourteen times.

Fourteen. You think you've seen it 14 times? Recall the last three. Okay. We had strawberries in-house recently and you took a bite and you left four of the leaves. That's one. You got 13 more. I'm counting each strawberry as an event. No, but I agree. It's fine. Well, I'll tell you what, eating kiwi skins, you know? Oh, I don't do that. I don't do that. I don't play that. I mean, I could do it. It's probably really good for like fiber and stuff like that. Yeah, but it makes my kiwis taste worse. And I've been eating a lot of kiwis.

We run through about two pounds of strawberries and about eight kiwis per week in our house. I like kiwis. I need to eat more kiwis. I like them, dude. The new, the Zespri yellow kiwis. Oh, I love yellow kiwis. Oh my God. Change the effing game.

Drop that acid a little bit. You know, probably like increase some of that beta-carene production in there a little bit sweeter more floral really good fudge a dudge man what a time Yeah, I'm not gonna eat the leaves well on that note Thank you so much for stopping by a hot dog as a sandwich Will's friends stop bullying him for his personal choice We're like Joey swole, but for food bullying him for his personal choice. We're like Joey Swole, but for food. I don't know who Joey Swole is.

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