A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Costco vs. Sam’s Club Food Court

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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This this this this is mythical Welcome to Costco. I love you. Welcome to Sam's Club. I I just I just don't think we're there yet I mean, I've been loving getting to know you I think we've had some really awesome times together But frankly, it's the emotional availability that I have right now isn't commensurate to your level of attachment No, no, no. No, I'm not putting this on you. Really, it's me. I just, I've been burnt before, like a hot dog on a roller. I don't know that I'm ready yet to love again. 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. Hot Dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. Welcome to our podcast, A dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world's biggest food debates I'm your host Josh air and I'm your host Nicole and I ad and those were our odes to big box chain commodity retailers

Costco and Sam's Club, and I think they each kind of exemplify the stores that we're talking about. Costco, it's a very loving place. I love Costco. Everyone loves Costco. The Costco employees love Costco. You walk into Costco, you feel love. I would love to work at a Costco.

I know a lot of people that have worked at Costco for a long time. They seem to like pay their employees well and give good benefits. I know, yes, yes, yes. I have never felt that way in Sam's Club. I've never been to a Sam's Club. I've never walked into a Sam's Club,. My mom talks about Sam's Club a lot. Because Sam's Club,

Costco was founded in California, right? In San Diego. Yeah. It was technically known as something else. It was like Price Club for a bit and the original one was called something else and they dealt with businesses. But like proper Costco has existed in California since 1983. Right. So we grew up Costco people. We're Costco people. Yeah, and the Sam's Club is by the Waltons? By the Waltons. Sam's Club was Walmart's answer to Costco. So like the OG Costco Price Club founded in 1976 and then they sort of like had a couple different stores

and consolidated under the name Costco in 1983, which is when Sam's Club officially launched as well. In the entire time, Sam's Club has been chasing the aura that Costco has developed like that is actually their business strategy Just a copy Costco what is now you can see they're copying Costco and that's not like Necessarily a dig especially because it's not really working. I mean Sam's Club obviously does a lot of business They do how many Sam's Clubs are there in the US? So there's about 600 of each. There's about equal numbers, but the crazy thing is Costco does double the business.

Double the sales. And so the CEO of Sam's Club in a recent interview was actually talking about how good the Kirkland Signature brand is. It is pretty phenomenal. 100%. Sam's Club doesn't have their own unique brand like that. In-house brand. Yeah, they like consolidate a lot of like store brands from Walmart, but they don't have that like je ne sais quoi of knowing that every Every product you see with Kirkland on its name is going to be very good. And of course, it's coming from a factory

That's making other products, but it's that like level of curation. It's really good. So Costco They really do love you. Sam's Club is trying to love you, you know? There's a little bit of distance. Do we give points for trying? In 2025, do we give points for trying still? It's a philosophical discussion that I am not equipped to handle. I'm equipped to handle hot dogs in my mouth. That's about it. Right, right, right, right.

Speaking of which, we have hot dogs put in our mouths. We do have hot dogs. So we are talking about not the actual products from the stores, but the adjacent restaurants. The food court. The food court. The food court. Which is the best part after going bulk shopping with someone you love or someone you tolerate.

You go after, you never go before? Of course I go after, what do you mean? What do you mean, you've worked up the calories, picking up the heavy, like, almonds, you know, the bulk almonds that you get? Are you talking about the chocolate-covered ones or the raw ones? Both.

We have both in my house. They go down so easy. And then, you know, just buying like way too much toilet paper, way too much plastic products that you probably don't even need. You work up an appetite. You gotta go after. No, I like going before. That way it really hampers your buying power because you get like a thousand calories of

greasy pizza in you and then suddenly the sight of all that food makes you sick. That pizza, both of these pizzas right now are so like globby and delicious. I have a love affair with Costco pizza and I'd love to see if I can duplicate it with Sam's Club though. They do have the brownest cheese in a way that is really good. The layer of cheese on Costco pizza is about a half inch thick. You have the Costco foods on your side and I have the Sam's Clubs food on my side. Again they're rocking like very identical menus at least when it comes to hot dog and pizza. Hot dog pizza. Hot dog pizza that's what you're going for. Yeah and to be fair Sam's Club did not have any dessert options for the day they quote ran out. Costco would never run out they

would only run out of sushi at their new Costco sushi counters. Oh, are those open and are those live? They're live, but not in our area yet. Where? Seattle. Aww, come on. Wait, I'm going to Seattle soon. You're going to Seattle? I'm going to Seattle.

I'm so jealous. I gotta try and go to Costco's sushi counter. I've always wanted to go to Seattle. It's so cold and dreary. Oh, I know. I'm gonna feel like Ghost of Kurt Cobain. So, the food court options. You can tell that Sam's Club is definitely trying to copy Costco. It's so cold and dreary. Oh, I know I'm gonna feel the ghost of Kurt Cobain. So The food court options you can tell that Sam's Club is definitely trying to copy Costco I can see and their most egregious act of copying Costco is you know the story of Costco's dollar-fifty hot dog combo I'll never change it. They'll have to kill me, right? No, he said no

So it was this is the co-founder of Costco and president at the time. His name is I believe Jim Senegal Co-founder of Costco and president at the time his name is I believe Jim Senegal And he was talking to like the president of Costco Uh-huh and the president was trying to get him to raise the price of the hot dogs He's like this has been killing us and he didn't say that like I'll die before he change it He said if you change it, I will kill you. Oh, I see. I see and every couple years a media outlet runs that quote Like oh look at this good American businessman trying to Say for the consumers. I'm like oh, no. He's trying to homicide psychopath threatening to kill someone over what is ultimately a good business man

He's trying to unalive someone over Mitt Romney's favorite meat. Hey, man. It's a good meat. So the Costco hot dog is still $1.50 Sam's Club though, right they lowered their price of it to a dollar 38 Just to try and spike Costco before tax or after tax. I don't think they do they tax the food items there I don't know but I do know that that they don't take all the major credit cards Interesting, which pisses and you know what else pisses me off during the pin penini, during the pandemic, they removed the onion, you know that little onion thing? Yeah, this is the big controversy here. No, the onion, what is it, the onion chopper, the handheld onion chopper.

It's a handheld rotary onion mincer. And there was nothing like when you were a kid and you'd be like, Mom, can I go pull onions on my hot dog? And she's like, yeah, go. And just the act of doing it was so fun It was an inner. I was like a it's like a fair game for me Yeah for real for people that don't know they must have just been a whole onions inside of this hand crank machine You crank it and it just grinds the onions into little mints. Costco, please

I'm begging you onion juice flying out of every I used to just put onions on my pizza because I wanted to Don't know man Do you put relish on your hot dogs? Do you put relish on your hot dogs? Yeah. I didn't get you relish, I'm sorry. No, you're totally fine. I'm like ketchup, mustard, relish, onions loaded up. Yeah, you need to load it up because you're so tired from bulk shopping.

Well, I'm bulk shopping. You need everything. You need sustenance. Yeah, I get that. I get that. I don't shop at Costco much. I love going to Costco. I'm like a go to the store every two, three days guy. Yeah, I get that. Yeah. I get that. I don't shop at Costco much. I love going to Costco. I'm like a go to the store every two, three days guy.

Oh, you have so much. I love that. So you have so much time on your hands. You have mountains and mountains of time on your hands. Nicole, do you remember? One, there's a store right by my house. It takes two minutes to walk to. It's really nice.

But you know, you always come in and go, hey, did you see this TikTok? You know, this is the same feeling where I go, oh, you have a lot of time on your hands, because you're, well, I'm shopping. Which, literally, it takes probably 15 minutes. I know what I'm going to get. I go into the plan. Yeah, you're scrolling through the short form social media,

which please keep scrolling our content, but... Listen, doom scrolling is what keeps me alive and current, okay? It's what keeps the body ticking for me. There's one more thing that Costco did that I believe is controversial. Is it chicken related? No, it's not chicken related. Oh, there were Tisserie Chickens.

Yeah, did they raise the price? It used to be $5 for Tisserie Chickens. I think they're still $5. God, that's crazy. But no, the Costco Tisserie Chicken is great. They now require you to have a membership to get food court food, and that didn't used to be the case. I am low-key a little bit down with that.

It like makes a little sense. I'm down with it. Legally, they can't make you show a membership to buy liquor though. I think that's still the case legally. But they don't sell, do you mean, what do you mean, like in the food court? No, no, no, no, like they're like big handles of Kirkland vodka. You, oh really? I believe legally they cannot require a membership to buy they've been college

That's what we used to do. Are you for real? I'm dead for real Yeah, because if to be quite frank, that's the place where I buy my alcohol. I buy my alcohol in bulk Don't need a membership to buy liquor I don't know if Maggie can look that up But that was all as a case or we would just harass the Costco employees until they'd sell us their cheap liquor I don't know. I have gosh, I have an exciting, before we get into it, I have a fully expired Costco business membership card

and they never say a thing to me. They never say a thing, they just let me waltz in and I love it so much. And then they're like, you need a car? I'm like, no honey, I know what I'm doing. And I just love, and I also love whenever you leave any sort of bulk store, there's always someone checking at the end.

When you were a kid, would they ever like give you a little smiley face and like a heart? Like that's the stuff that Costco does love you. And I guess Sam's Club does too. No you do not need a Costco membership to purchase alcohol. That is freaking crazy and what a revelation. I just learned something new. Spring always gets me in the mood for fresh starts, cleaning out closets, planting something new and this year I'm diving into a new language with Rosetta Stone.

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Is that okay with you? Do you mind? Okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you know whenever it's near you. Okay, let me just... Okay, are you putting condiments on hot dogs? No, no I'm not. You're raw dogging right into the mouth, okay? I'm gonna raw dog for you, okay?

This might as well be happening, that's fine. Okay. Do you consent? I consent, yeah, 100%. Okay, cool. You can do whatever right into the mouth. I'm gonna raw dog for you, okay? This might as well be happening, that's fine. Okay, do you consent? I consent, yeah, 100%. Okay, cool. You can do whatever you want to me. Okay, open. Eat. Okay.

That's a hot dog. Very good, very good, Josh. Okay. Yummy, very smoky. A little bit sweet. Okay. Very smoky a little bit sweet, okay Almost tastes Like a kind of um halfway between like a smoked Louisiana hot link and a hot like it's a very smoky hot dog great Keep those eyes closed. Mm-hmm. Just do one just just one wipe of the mouth water over there right there right there

Uh-huh a little higher. I need a palette. Okay, go ahead You have one rogue sesame seed that's bothering me so much. You got it. Okay, okay, keep those eyes closed. Okay, number two. Okay. Okay, keep those eyes closed. That's Costco and it's much better. How can you tell?

Was I correct? You are so correct. How did you know that? So Costco used to use Hebronational. They did. But then, God, it might have been 2008 or something, they decided to take all their hot dog production in-house to save money to try and keep it $1.50.

Because Hebronational also like moved operations to Brazil or something or they got bought by like Brazilian meat conglomerate. Uh-huh. A lot of business stories. But I think they tried to copy Hebrew National as much as possible. Did you try these yet? No, so I can't like eat hot dogs. Oh, cuz you're Pregers! You're Pregananak! You're Prandjant! You're Pergonak! You're Pregant? I mean, I can eat them, but they're not like hot hot. So I'm not gonna like, but the color difference is shocking to me. 100% I'm gonna get these, I'm gonna sauce these up for you, okay? Sauce them up for me, because I wanna keep eating these hot dogs while we talk about it.

No, yeah, you could tell that right off the bat that that was a Costco hot dog, and it was indeed better. Costco also, did they sell these? No, they didn't. Costco also, did they sell these? No, they didn't. Costco also, did they sell these? No, they didn't. Costco also, did they sell these? Cuz I want to keep eating these hot dogs when we talk about it. Um, no Yeah, you could tell that right off the bat that that was a Costco hot dog and it was indeed better Costco also do they still have the Polish dog option?

They do because you used to be able to get was a quarter pound all beef hot dog or a Polish dog And I used to always get a Polish dogs I thought was fancy but now that I've grown up I've realized the taste of hot dog Is very good. Yeah hot dog is good. Um, yeah, no the one from Sam's Club It's very good. There's a lot of sesame seeds on the They look quite similar, let's see how I think the hot dog is a little bigger though I think the buns are this there's actually a coarser grind on the Sam's Club hot dog, which is why I think wow I can see like kind of almost a losing on hot link style, but it also has way too much I don't know if it's a natural smoke on it or if it's liquid smoke in there But it's almost way too much to where it takes it out of hot dog territory

And more into like yeah more into some sort of sausage processed II slightly fine fine-grained sausage Yeah, Costco. It's just it's a better hot dog. There you go a lot Do you look for a red hot dog or a brown hot dog red? It's a better hot dog. There you go a lot. Do you look for a red hot dog or a brown hot dog red? Always I look for a red hot dog because that's how I know it's a hot dog when it's brown something tells me Not that it's off, but it's gonna be a different hot dog experience than I'm used to You know what I mean? Why did you sauce the hot dog but ate it? Ate the butt of it. I wanted to just eat the butt just to get the raw flavor of it before I actually dove into the sauced hot dog because this could add a different variable if it tastes

better with condiments. Fair, fair, fair, fair. This could be its own show. Josh eating hot dogs. Eating hot dogs with Josh. He's a man who loves tube meat. Eating hot dogs with Josh on the YouTube. The meat is a tube. That was pretty good. It's pretty good Also, I'm saving my actual lunch. Oh, yeah Yeah, I'll play a local for dinner. So Julia's going to dinner with friends that way I don't have to cook so I can save time because I spend all my time at the grocery store as you Social life I see mm-hmm good for her and I'm gonna need to go to the gym after this, because I feel sick, because I'm like,

pre-sick from eating all these pizzas. I'm just happy to be... I feel like, you know how like, people say they get like, phantom pregnancy pains, or like, they gain weight because their partner's pregnant? I feel like I am also tasting the hot dogs watching you do this. I'll tell you what. More longer hot dogs, less thicker hot dogs. I like long dogs.

Love a long dog, love a steamed bun. But I like thick too. It's very hard. It's very hard if, but I, I think I just love hot dogs in general that I'm just down to eat them no matter what. Sure. Somebody said something interesting where they says to me, they says Josh, it says Josh. Yeah, they say Josh, Josh. They says that and then they says to Josh. It says, Josh. Yeah? They say, Josh? Josh. They says that. And then they says to me, they says, Josh, hot dogs in 2025 are what bacon was in 2011. You know, can I tell you why I kind of agree?

Because there's this fashion round called Stoud. Have you heard of Stoud? They've made a hot dog bag, a purse. They're commodifying hot dogs as this weird way to virtue virtue signal to people that hey, I'm a cool girl I eat hot dogs. Yeah, it's like a like post ironic Americana. It's the reason Von Dutch hats are back Yeah, I don't get it. The reason the the Jorts like Woodstock 99 fashion is back is like people are post ironically Loving hot dogs. Oh, it's not post ironic for us, so we are genuine dog aficionados. Just a guy that likes tubes of meat.

We wouldn't name our podcast A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, we both didn't like hot dogs, right? You know what it is. You know what the hot dog fetish of 2025 is. It is the camouflage Waltz Harris hat. I've never seen a Waltz Harris hat. The Waltz Harris hats.

You know what I mean, Maggie? It's like this flipping of like, commodifying like, rural Americana of like, the hunter camo. Oh, I see. Okay, okay. But for progressivism. I see, I see. Okay. You know, so now you got a bunch of like, kind of like, leftist cool girls eating hot dogs. As is kind of like, ironic meditation on Americana. Right.

Not me! I just like the tubes of meat. Yeah, no political affiliation. We just like me I could eat pizza though right what dr. Josh pizza. Yeah Yeah, here's I have a lot of thoughts about what pregnant women should and shouldn't eat and pizzas pizzas definitely a thing You should eat this was hot at one point. Can I just look at the bottom? Look at the bottom. What is what is that? That's the grate that the pan that is the pizza grate Is there one on over there? Yeah, they both have the markings. They both have the memento style tattoos of what has happened But this is have you ever slept on one of those mats that like is like an acupressure mat? Yeah, this is literally it. It's almost like braille. I had to close my this is Sam's Club. This is Sam's Club

They're so similar looking yeah They're so similar looking they are just Unrecognizable to the Italian brain You know what I mean as pizza if you show this to an Italian and one like this is pizza. They'd be like No similar though to potentially an Argentinian fugazetta I No. Similar though to potentially an Argentinian Fugazeta. I was literally about to say it's just like Fugazeta.

I was literally about to say that. Tell them about Fugazeta. It's this big like, it's this big pan of pizza that's just like, it's like a thick, thick, thick crust, almost like a focaccia covered with white white white cheese And it has a speckling just like this and then you could put like onions on it. Sometimes you put ham on it It's really good. I don't care for that. Maybe it's better when it's like piping hot

Should we microwave it for 10 seconds? I think we can get a pretty good representation of it. Um, I love the little pimples on the bottom. They're so, it literally looks like cystic acne. The dough is just like, So yeasty. It's so yeasty and like, wetted. It's too yeasty.

From all of the fat. The cheese is adequately salty. Like this is a no-frills, big ass slice of pizza. It's going to keep you full for a long time. I heard a slice of Costco pizza has like 46 grams of protein. It does. And then there's a lot of other things in it as well. But it's just like, it's so heavy and there's just so much mozzarella cheese on it.

Yeah. You can see the different cook times on the pizzas. The Sam's Club was clearly cooked a little bit shorter. You need a hot dog palate cleanser. And it looks like the Costco one was almost overcooked. The style of pizza you want well done. You I agree because there's a likelihood that the cheese on the bottom might be a little bit under and you don't want that. But you know what I used to do when I was a kid? I used to take the cheese off and I would eat the breadie, I'd eat the breadie saucy bit and then take the cheese and eat that.

In case you were wondering. Like are they just getting everything from the same factory though? I have no idea. You left the tip for me? Best friends forever. The crust tastes the same. It has this like very easily collapsing gluten structure, you know what I mean?

The sauce is different. Okay. The sauce is so different. Sam's Club sauce is sweeter. Oh yeah. The Costco sauce has more depth. Do you taste that? It's pretty insane.

Salt levels are completely different for both. Completely different. Wow Costco clear Sam's Club. 100%. That sauce takes it over the edge. That's a real, that's good. That's good cold pizza. Wow how did Costco do so much better than Sam's Club? Because they look so similar. You know whenever like you you appropriate a piece of art? Yeah. You're just copying the visual of it. Sure, yeah, yeah.

You're not copying the soul of it. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like every single brush stroke, because that artist adding their personality and touch into it, and that's every single Costco pizza. Costco pizza dough actually a lot thinner, a lot better structure than Sam's Club as well. Wow.

It's probably cooked at a higher temperature for longer. Yeah. Everything, everything from the cheese, to the sauce, to the crust, to the cook, Costco clears. There's no hope for a return in Sam's Club here. Well, we do have miscellaneous baked good Savory baked good as well to get through they took a pretzel and they put their said the same pizza toppings on it Yeah, oh, maybe that'll save them

Oh, oh my god Costco pizza, it's been too long Do you know why I never get Costco pizza? Because you're watching your macros. No. Why? Because I'm at Costco, I don't care. Macro schmackros, am I right? No, because the chicken bake exists. Oh, you go for the chicken bake more than the pizza?

I have always been. Maybe you're so wrong. I mean, I've eaten a fair amount, I've eaten a lot of Costco pizza in my life. Okay. But I've always gone directly for the chicken bake. The chicken bake, the reason why I love it so much is that it retains heat

Yeah, you know what I mean. It stays. It's still warm Yeah, crack it open like a glow stick sure Look at that. Well. Yeah, that's pretty good hot caesar dressing you smell the hot mayonnaise in it. That's why I love it This is sick. This is sick. The amount of carbohydrates we're eating right now is sick. Mmm! Wow! I got tempo pause bench today.

What? Trying to work on my bench technique doing tempo pauses again. Back to building from the ground up. Is that like Tabata? Kind of. Why do you know what Tabata is? Honey, it takes a lot to live this bad. To be clear I didn't mean that to do. Honey, it takes a lot of trial and error to look this fucked up. You think this comes natural? You think? I get that too man. You think this comes natural? You think?

I get that too, man. There's so much black pepper in this, it's so good. I know. So, the Costco chicken bacon is presumably some sort of pizza-adjacent dough. Yes. That is then covered in whatever cheese gets this hard when you bake it. Parmesan. You think this is parmesan? I don't know if they can legally say parmesan.

It's probably an osteoaggious situation. Parmesan. You think this is parmesan? I don't know if they can legally say parmesan. It's probably an obvious situation. Parmesan or Jason. Parmesan or Jason cheese. Yeah. And it is filled with more mozzarella cheese, chicken, bacon, and Caesar salad dressing. All that's missing is lettuce. They should serve it with a side of lettuce. You know like you can go to like bodegas in New York and get like a Jamaican beef patty and then get it cut open and add stuff to it? Mm-hmm. That's what I want with my chicken bakes. Why What yeah, they should be offering that. I want to take that I want to take it to the onions I want some pickled jalapenos in here Some people like to put their hot dog inside. You should do that Put your hot dog in the chicken bake

Yes, sir Oh my god And then sometimes people wrap the pizza around it, but you don't need to do all that. That's too much, wrapping the pizza, but the hot dog and the chicken bake is a good idea. I'm smoking into the bacon, the hot dog really works all together.

Josh, I'm so glad that you are living your best life right now. Come on, man. Are you having a good time? This is the best episode we've ever done. Okay, now it's time for pizza pretzel. Repeat after me. Pizza pretzel!

Pizza pretzel! Pizza pretzel! Okay, Josh needs to swallow. But basically this is a pretzel that is coated with pepperoni, cheese, and I don't think there's sauce. No, looks like there's no sauce, but you dip it into the sauce. And I don't know, are you a pretzel person? The only time I ever eat a pretzel

is when I'm going, when I'm at the outlets shopping with my mom. I buy a pretzel from Wetzel's Pretzels. Okay. I'm not a pretzel guy. I'm not a pretzel guy. I'm not a pretzel guy, Nicole. Why not? I, you know, a lot of people talk about the Philly,

the Philly soft pretzels and all that. I just, to me it's, I like like a good German pretzel that's just like darkly brown and hard. You know what I mean? Yeah, you like German pretzels. Like German, yeah, but like, you know, your normal like Moll pretzel I've never been a fan of. I love mall pretzel with like a little

jalapeno cheddar dipping sauce. Honey. I feel like you're depressed. What's going on? Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about my life choices after eating that hot dog chip inside of a chicken bake. Are you sad?

My problem with like, mall pretzels like this is they're not like, pretzeling enough. They're not hard enough? I don like, mall pretzels like this is they're not like pretzely enough. They're not hard enough? I want the pretzels, I want that like deep dark brown weird like- Bavarian! You know what I mean? That like sodium bicarbonate kind of funk? Because that's what like makes a pretzel a pretzel, right?

I disagree. I like a soft salty easy to swallow pretzel. I don't know, I want it to be like gnarled and dark and small and dense. You should go to Oktoberfest. I would love that. What are you doing in America still, dude? And then I don't think putting the pizza stuff on it makes it better. You know, I don't like this.

You know, Sam's Club, you tried and you did not succeed. Give me a different flavor profile than pizza. You already got pizza. Why would you get this over pizza? There's the novelty to pretzels that pizza doesn't have. It's the novelty. They should make a jalapeno cheddar pretzel. I agree with that.

I would eat that. Why don't you do that, Sam's Club? I love a jalapeno cheddar bagel. Why not? Sam's Club, call Josh and I. We will literally build you a whole new menu and we'll do it really well. All in all. Yeah. Pretty poor performance by Sam's Club. Sam's Club. What the hell? What the hell, Sam?

I was expecting a sequence. From the Waltons? From the Waltons? A name that everybody can trust. From the Waltons? I expected more. No? Gonna go back Give me the marinara. I want to dip my hot dog chicken bacon in the marana. The marinara at Sam's Club is oddly too sweet Like it is very sweet. It's it's almost sickeningly sweet. There's almost a corn syrup element to it that makes me wanna gag? Excuse me

Would you call this gluttonous in nature what we're doing? I don't feel good. But if I stop eating now, then it's all gonna really set in. So I gotta keep eating. Yeah. Like you said, Sam's Club did not have any desserts. They do offer a Sunday.

They have a Brownie Sunday. Uh-huh. However, you gotta show up to game day. And today was game day. You know, Sam's Club didn't know that. But what we do have. Practice how you gotta show up to game day. And today was game day. You know, Sam's Club didn't know that. But what we do have. Practice how you play, Sam's Club. Damn right.

Nicole, tell them what cheese this is. I don't think I've ever had this, by the way. Me either. It's a double chocolate chunk cookie. Dude. Stop treating it like that. This is like, this is a half a pound at least of cookie. Oh my god, there's so much chocolate in there. I've half a pound at least of cookie. Oh my god

There's so much chocolate in there. I've never had a double chocolate chunk cookie. No wonder those fuck What are their names? I have big justice in age Fumo no wonder those big boys are so big Oh my god, I'm gonna cry. I see the vision. You see the vision right now? How many booms does this get? Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

That's a five boom double chunk chocolate cookie. This is really great. This is phenomenal. This's better than crumble. This is Crumble can eat my shorts. I'm talking about this is this is what crumble wanted to be it was like this just big-ass cookie This is really really well done. It's super crispy on the bottom, but you know what it's not though It's not just a raw dough ball in the middle. It is phenomenal So many big freak cookies these big genetic freak, big pop-a-pump Scott Steiner ass cookies out here,

right weighing two pounds, got nine million calories in them. Oh, cut them into fourths. They're all just like raw cookie dough in a way that I've been like, dude, just eat the raw cookie dough. I thought we decided as a society that we could do that. But this is like a properly baked cookie

that is also massive. It's the size of a big ass brownie. Tastes like a cookie, it's really well done. Delicious. It's so, it's like Mrs. Fields adjacent. Yeah. It tastes like Mrs. Fields, but it's in a crumble package and I think it's incredible. I think Costco really showed out today. It's really, I've always of course loved Costco food court food, but I kind of thought it was just the nostalgia of me having Gone there with like a basketball teammates mom and you felt the mother's love when you were nine years old for the first time She bought you a chicken bake

This food is actually like really good especially compared to the alternative their pizza is really really well seasoned well done for the style That it is it's a big wet greasy cheese blanket, and that's delicious. Mm-hmm. The cookies really well done It's a perfectly seasoned hot dog. They're making it in-house and then the chicken bake is a modern marvel of handheld meat and mayonnaise. Costco, I love you and you clearly love me too. Bring back the carne asada bake. The new BMO VI Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks. More points. More flights. More of all the things you want in a travel rewards card. And then some.

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Opinions are like casserole! Let's get to that first opinion before I throw up a chicken bake. Hi, Josh. Hi, Nicole. Do it in my hands. This is Carrie from Michigan. I just wanted to know your opinion on something that I get judged on quite frequently. Who's judging me wrong? So I like to eat my candy in layers. For example, if I'm eating the Twix, I have to eat the chocolate and the caramel first

and I save the biscuit for last. I understand. I also do this for Kit Kats and pretty much any other food or candy that you can think of So what are your thoughts? Do you do this or am I just weird? Thank you. Bye Let me take this one. Take it take it take it. I do this with KitKats too I have a very specific way of eating it some people call it the Kardashian method because I believe Khloe Kardashian did this on the show. I was doing it before her though and But I only do this with KitKats.

I don't do this with any other candy, but this is a little bit OCD to me. What about you? I do this only if I'm eating a large amount of candy. Because I'm somebody who really loves variants. How much variants? How much? So if I got, say I got five KitKats, say I'm really going really loves variants. How much variants? How much? So if I got, say I got five Kit Kats, say I'm really going to town on them. You eat five Kit Kats in a sitting?

Sometimes. And what I'll do... What do you mean like, like, like, we're talking about like... Bars, like a bar of Kit. So say a standard Kit Kat has four bars of Kit. Yes. And then, you know, of cat. And then, so what I'll do is I'll eat two straight up.

And then, for the last two, I'll get a little freaky with it. You know? I'll start trying to nibble off all the ends of the chocolate. Yeah, and then just leave bare wafer I'll try and bite the wafers in half You know ditto something's very fun about taking a Twix and scraping off all the caramel with your teeth But I will say I think the best experience These are products that are not just somebody experimenting with making delicious food, right? These are products that have been dialed in over decades and decades of research of focus grouping To create the best experience possible. So I think I'm not objectively subjectively

It is a better experience to eat the candy as it was intended by the manufacturer. What do you think has the highest? return on Like futzing with your candy. Kit Kat. You think like that's a better eating experience to like separate the layers. It's fun to eat a Kit Kat like that. There's people that like say a frozen York peppermint patty. That's like a good way to improve.

I think that's a fun time. The menthol, the cold temperature gets nice and chilly. Oh, you're saying what candies deserve to be changed a little bit? Yeah, a little bit. Okay, I like to take a red vine and bite the tip and bite the bottom and use it as a straw and when I'm done using As a straw I eat it great use of red vine a much much better use of red vine than just eating a red vine Yeah, yeah, yeah, huh? You know what other people do well even like I'm so Reese's I I never really liked it because you eat the skirt I eat the skirt

And by far the best the best Reese's eating experience is the original cup. I disagree with you. I love the mini cups. You love the mini ones? You like the depth and the hardness of the chocolate? I like the mini ones because I like the thickness of it. I like how tall it is. See, I like how thin and wafery... Oh. I like how thin the chocolate layer is

above the peanut butter, but then it gets thick by that sexy little skirt. The skirt is so sexy. The skirt is so sexy. It's the sexiest part of any chocolate bar. I've never seen a sexier part of a chocolate bar. I say that. I will say close is the little Snickers chocolate dimple

at the top. That's also sexy. The vein? The vein. The Snickers vein is sexy. Did I just find out something about myself? Whenever you eat the Snickers, do you put the vein on the tip of your, on like your tongue side?

No, I'm not tonguing the vein deliberately, but like I see the Snickers vein, and I think that looks like a really good chocolate bar. It's an attractive part of the chocolate to me. Ditto, it's not just the vein of the Snickers, it's not just the vein, but also I would say, the almond in an almond's joy That's also sexy to me. Why are you gay?

Is that a reference? You don't know what that is? Yeah, you're going to the grocery store. You're not watching the TikToks I'm listening to like like punk music in one earphone in the grocery store. You don't know that meme? No. Oh my god, I hate you. I don't like the meme culture. I think we're too, stop going on the internet,

start going to the grocery store every couple days. People are like, it's too expensive. Thank you for your honesty. It's like you spend less if you go to the grocery store more. You're not weird. Hey, this is a mythical beast from Hawaii. I just wanted to say I love listening to the podcast. Oh, thanks.

But it really aggravates me when I hear anyone say a Hawaiian thing has pineapple on it. Oh, interesting. If you look at the history of Hawaii and pineapples, Pineapples aren't from Hawaii, they were imported to Hawaii and they were... there's a complicated history with them. Absolutely. So pineapples are not inherently Hawaiian? No, pineapples come from South America, I believe. I had no idea. Which is interesting, but also Hawaii, it's... I don't believe pineapples are part of the canoe crops

But if you're like the the canoe crops in Hawaii I believe is where native Hawaiian sea fairs would hop in canoes But they're they're big-ass canoes and they could go hundreds of miles in these canoes And they would go to other islands that are in the Pacific and they would bring back crops So Hawaii is like a really really interesting Agricultural phenomenon and then you bring in like American colonization and commerce So like the Dole Pineapple Corp. or the Dole Corporation Kind of is the reason that we like forcibly annexed Hawaii and like dethroned their Queen

At the time because of American fruit interest so there is a lot of controversy around it But the usage of the term Hawaiian to mean pineapple likely comes from a brand of pineapple slices called Hawaiian. I believe that's a true story. So they, God, it was a Greek immigrant in Canada who made Hawaiian pizza for the first time. And it was canned pineapple.

And I believe the brand was just called Hawaiian. So that's where you get the name interesting But yeah, it is funny that you know anything now just with pineapple on it people kind of brand as Hawaiian Let me tell you I learned something new because I used to be that person that would associate Pineapple to be Hawaiian and Hawaiian to be pineapple 100% well, thanks for teaching me something new mythical based in Hawaii There's always this um, you know this question of of what is native to a place and not, right? So even like tuna poke, right? Okay, that was from Japanese.

Japanese fishermen in Hawaii did it with soy sauce, the shoyu, you know? And there's a lot of great indigenous Hawaiian food as well, but I think when you take such a purist view of like, listen potatoes were not in I, they didn't grow in Ireland either, you know, but now it's become an important part of Irish food. Ditto with tomatoes in Italy, ditto with chili peppers in Thailand, you know, crops change, the history of everything is like always brutal and depressing. What about lily koi? This is what I, like, is that how it's pronounced? Lily koi, yeah, passion fruit.

Passion fruit. I associate passion fruit more with Hawaii than I do pineapples though. Same, I'm sure lilikoi is native to Hawaii. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But either way, that's a very fair and valid point. Also, Hawaii, very, very interesting food history. Hi Josh and Nicole. It's Pia from Maryland. Hi Pia from Maryland. I recently went to Australia and I got these crackers and they're Vegemite and cheese flavored crackers. They're absolutely delicious and I also put almond butter on them

which made them even more delicious and that's probably extremely controversial but y'all should try them. Anyway, hope you guys have a great day. Can I confess something? Yes. One of my current pregnancy cravings is Vegemite toast with butter. Interesting. Why do you think it is? You need yeast extract? It's so salty. What other pregnancy cravings have you had? One day I craved Bloody Mary's non-alcoholic, Jollibee's spaghetti, and cantaloupe all in the same day.

My cravings fluctuate and they last for like 10 minutes and then they go away. But I love Vegemite. Like right now if you were to offer me a Vegemite toast with butter, oh my god. I would literally cry. It's so good. It's like so savory and so delicious. I love Vegemite. More people need to eat Vegemite.

Do you wanna talk now? Sorry. Do you wanna talk? Sorry, I'm looking up what fruits are actually native to Hawaii. And it's crazy. So there's a lot of like non-native fruits, like banana, coconut, papaya, passion fruit, guava, mango.

None of those are native to Hawaii, but they were brought by canoe plants for the Polynesians. What were you talking about? I'm so sorry, I wasn't listening to you at all I was just saying how much I love Vegemite right now and like Vegemite butter toast some of my favorite things eat while pregnant Oh, yeah, it's delicious These crackers sound good too the almond butter Almond butter, I mean, it's not inherently sweet, but I think we associate with sweet things almond butter. Sure. Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know put it up put it on put on some Vegemite You think you think they have shapes, vegemite in cheese? Arnott's shapes, hey? I freaking love speaking in an Australian accent. Maybe I should move to Australia. I don't think I'm very good at it. Would you miss me? But I'll walk to do it. Would you miss me if I moved to Australia? I'd miss you, yeah. I'm talking to the people. I know you'd miss me. I'm talking to people. Interesting, it's a fruit called ala Kala

What's it taste like? Ala Kala breadfruit. I've had ulu. I've had ulu. Never. Mountain apple Is it scaly or mountain apple scaly? I don't know noni fruit my mom was in a my mom was in a multi-level marketing scam about noni juice Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's fun. Noni is apparently not a very delicious fruit Yeah, well anyways anyways that's cool. Next, Benny. Hey Josh, Nicole. This is Carly. I just had the craziest dream where I was served a red tomato based curry with unidentifiable things in it. I don't even know what they were but the most strange thing was

it was carbonated. What do you think that dream even means? Thanks guys. And I just want to say everyone at Mythical Kitchen brings so much happiness in the world. Thank you both so much. Bye. Meggie, you hear that? You bring happiness to the world. Aww. There you go. I think you hungry. And not only you hungry, you're also thirsty. What? You're hungry. Okay, no, no, no. I hear you saying hungry.

But you're not only hungry, you're thirsty. Do you mean physically or do you mean of the soul? They're like touched starved in a way. Like what are you talking about? No, they're just hungry and thirsty. Eat a snack and drink some libations before you go to bed boo. I think that maybe you have that disease

where food ferments in your stomach. Yeah, that's a cool disorder. Yeah, it was. You get drunk. Yeah, you get drunk off the food. Yeah, that's a cool disorder. Because that's carbonation. I went to a restaurant once.

This wasn't a dream. I had the deviled eggs, and they were wildly carbonated. They were so fizzy. The deviled eggs were fizzy. Ew. And I think it might have just been the hot sauce, because they had a lacto-fermented Fresno chili hot sauce.

This wasn't a fancy restaurant. This is Finney's, the bar in Burbank. I've never been to Finney's. Anyways yeah don't get lacto fermented hot sauce from a bar in Burbank at the movie theater. So anyways I've had savory fermented or savory fizzy foods because of fermentation so against what's happening inside your gut and your gut brain is trying to tell your brain brain to signal something to you. Either that or you need to repair your relationships. I don't think it's that deep. I think you just eat a little cracker before bed and then have a sippy sip of some La Croix Clear.

Well, yeah. See if that solves your problem. Or maybe talk it out with a second cousin. I don't know. I don't think they were asking us to solve a problem either. I wish, I love interpreting dreams though. Like honestly, all jokes aside,

whenever people come up to me and tell me about their dreams I like interpret the crap out of them, but not this one What are you looking up pay attention? That's needed by Native Hawaiian fruits You know Hey, Maggie and and and You know my name the other two So I'm not a hot sauce connoisseur by any means, but I think hot sauces that include

like the flesh of, I don't know, vegetables is better than ones that are just straight liquid. Like I really love Tabasco. And I feel like it would be so much better if we got actual pepper pulp in there. You know what I mean? Like spicy liquids are cool, but like I want,

I guess I just want some body. You know what I mean? Anyway, love you guys. For someone who doesn't know our names. He said he loves us. Sometimes it's easier to love somebody anonymously. You know what I mean? It's like no connection.

We're just lovers for the night. You know what I mean? It's like no connection. We're just lovers for the night. You know what I mean? I had one of those. Don't know your name. And I already forgot their name. But I will say I love you too because this is a very good opinion. And I recently made two hot sauces. This we're going to bring to a party because that's the kind of guest that I am.

I bring hot sauces and I made like a roasted, like a roasted, bordering on burnt habanero guajillo. Habanero guajillo, garlic and then actually like mustard seeds, a little cumin, bordering on burnt habanero guajillo. Habanero guajillo, garlic, and then actually like mustard seeds, a little cumin, coriander, fresh toasted spices. You don't wanna get a lot of flavor because it's gonna be really spicy, so you gotta pack it in there.

Yeah. You know? But a big part of hot sauce making, you could blend all the stuff and then strain it and then add any thickener, like a xanthan gum to give it some artificial body. Sure you can. But yeah, just use the pepper pulp as the body. I like, I love pepper pulp. I think it's underrated in a lot of hot sauces and yeah I like that textural element. I do like the body. I think whenever it's too chunky though it can get a little

bit off-putting and it adds texture to a dish when all you want is to add a little bit of spice and vinegar and salt to a dish. It's like people that like orange juice with pulp and without pulp, I'll always be a pulp person just because I like, like even whenever I get coconut water, like I like it with a pulp. I like that pulp. I hate orange juice pulp. I love orange juice pulp. It's like hairs. It reminds you what you're drinking. It's hairs. But they're good? Yeah, I guess. So I'm on your team too. If I can make a recommendation, because you said you like Tabasco. Tabasco is just salt, vinegar, pepper, right?

There's a great hot sauce out there called Arizona Gunslinger. They also go by the name... He doesn't get paid for this by the way, he just really likes it. I really love Arizona Gunslinger. They go by another name. It's like Arizona Pepper Company or something like that. I don't know. Anyways, Arizona Gunslinger Red Jalapeno. It's like Arizona Pepper Company or something like that. I don't know. Anyways, Arizona Gunslinger Red Jalapeno. It is just like red jalapenos, water, salt, vinegar, but they leave the pulp in and it is the best hot sauce in the game. It's so good.

Check it out. David tried it the other day and he didn't like it. Why not? I don't know. He's also a hot sauce connoisseur, so I was like, the math isn't math-ing. Joshie likey, David don't likey? Question mark? Who of us has the more exquisite palette?

David, I challenge you to a hot sauce stool. And on that note, thank you... I'm gonna do this one. You do the other part, okay? And on that note, thank you for listening to A Hot Dog is a Sandwich. We got new audio-only episodes every Wednesday and a video version here, here live not live, but here Yes on YouTube every Sunday

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