A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Pro Chefs Rank Nostalgic Ice Cream Truck Treats

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

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Oh boy, oh boy, I really hope they have Spider-Man ice cream at the ice cream truck. I want the Power Puff Girls one, the one with the gummy eyeballs. What the minions? This is a hot dog is a sandwich. Cetchup 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. That made no sense. That made no sense. Joe, we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Josh Sher. And I'm your host, Nicole, Anody.

And that intro was me and Nicole coming to terms with the fact that we are old and washed and no longer understand popular culture. It's not our fault. On account of the fact that ice cream trucks are now, one, they're selling minions, two, they're no longer selling cigarettes to kids. That's effed up. That was our culture that we grew up in going to ice cream trucks in the 90s and early aughts. Well, my ice cream truck experience was a little bit different because I, you know, growing up. in nice old Beverly Hills my ice cream truck guy

I remember him vividly actually when I was talking about wanting to do this podcast with my husband he said oh are you going to bring up Amir and I'm like of course I'm going to bring up Amir and Amir was the designated ice cream truck guy

throughout our entire childhood and adolescence and he was at Roxbury Park he was at Beverly Drive he was at Beverly Hills High School he was there at all times no matter what and he was so nice he was the only ice cream man that would like let us operate on credit what you had a tab at the ice cream truck we literally had tabs at the ice cream truck and emir was the nicest man on planet earth

emir if you're watching thank you for being so formative in our childhood he was the kindest man in the world wore the cutest glasses and he had everything he had all the ice creams you could ever imagine all the new stuff and he actually pioneered freezing um what was it he would freeze the watermelon sour patch gummy gummies and he would like dole it out to say hey guys want to try something new we're like yeah and he'd like okay this is gummy bears but sour and frozen and it was the watermelon ones and to this day every time i have a frozen sour patch watermelon i'm like thanks ameer that's so funny did you guys have um the the the ramen in the back because he had this thing where like for like high schoolers he would like give them ramen because they were like on the football team

and stuff so he had a hot water heater in the back of his car, in the back of his truck where you could just, like, have hot water and a ramen. Isn't that so nice? No, we didn't have that. We had cap guns and fireworks. This is in Oceanside. Fart bombs? They would sell fart bombs. They would sell paupers. And then, yeah, you would sell loose cigarettes to kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then when I went to, like, Orange County, because I spent summers in Oceanside when I was, like, at prime ice truck age, right? Like 7, 8, 9. Right. But then, like, in Orange County, then it was more straight-laced by the book, selling ice cream treats. Sure.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Whenever my sister lived in Irvine, we would always, that ice cream truck had all the naughty things. Like, the amount of stink bombs I bought when I was, like, 10 years old was crazy. I was, yeah, it's funny, like the gerrymandering, I guess, of ice cream trucks and what they can sell is pretty crazy. Yeah, yeah. It's funny, there's an ice cream truck. Julia works from home, right? So there's an ice cream truck that drives around.

she hears it. What? And I was like working from home one day a month that I do that and I hear the ice cream truck and she goes like oh you have to see this ice cream truck it's so creepy

and I was like no you just grew up in the suburbs this is not a thing and then I went and looked at it and I'm like oh what is it? Yeah well it just looks like the ice cream truck

out of a horror movie where it's just like real beaten down we live in like a very nice part of town as well in Sherman Oaks in the Valley and no this this looks like it's going to live back children Like, is it like white and like the paint is peeling off?

Like what do you mean? But it's like dark blue, the paint's peeling off. Like one of the wheels is wobbly. Like the copywriting on it is really weird. It's just like, for happy children, you know? No. And I'm sure the person driving it is very, very nice. But I've never gotten anything from it.

I would love to see rates of people going to ice cream trucks over time. I think it's declined. It's got a decline, right? It's got to have decline. Especially with, like, distrust around parents and children. and talking to strangers. Yeah, and like with, like, people's diets and stuff being so, like, it... Yeah, sugar's bad.

Yeah, sugar's bad for you. But not today, it's not. Sugar's good for you today. We have so many ice cream treats. I'm so excited. I am too. What we're going to do today is us as professional chefs. We mostly use that phrase in the title, hoping to entice people to click.

But both of us, both of us have made money from cooking for a majority of our careers in lives. That's true. Somewhat professional chefs. Yeah. I want us to, like, really. analyze these nostalgic ice cream truck treats. Okay. From a chefy, almost molecular

level, and as people who have a lot of interest in former work experience in the consumer package goods space. Yes, that's very true. I want us to like really try and dive down the rabbit hole here and see if we were just kind of fooled by marketing as kids, or if these actually taste good, because I love ice cream truck treats.

Well, what was your, well, do you have a go-to that you absolutely loved like throughout your childhood? Like, we're talking about the formative. Like, let's Let's say seven to nine. Let's say the seven to nine range. What was the ice cream you would always, always go for? So it depended if I had enough money.

If I had the amount of money, like chaco-tacos were $1.25, but the cheapest ice creams were $35. So there's all something that's called a bubble gum bar that's $0.35. A bubble gum bar? I've never heard of a bubble gum bar. It was like a generic brand, just blue and pink and like didn't taste like much, but it was the cheapest one. And my mom, right, she was part of a cult that involved flipping thousands of pennies all the time. Yes, I do remember you telling them. And we can find no record about this. And I'm

still very confused. How many people were in this cult? Literally no idea. She had a little group, but she had thousands of pennies. You never met other cult members. Sometimes, but you just didn't ask questions when you're a kid. They were around. You know, you don't ask questions. So anyways, uh, but we would steal from the cult pennies and we'd take that to the ice cream truck. And it was just easier to steal 35 pennies than it was 125 for chocolate. Yeah, okay, fair, but if I could rank them, I would go chaco taco, what a treat. Okay. Strawberry shortcake bar, still, I'd say my favorite. Oh, yeah. Occasionally I switch it up. Occasionally. You get the Flintstones push pop.

Okay, okay. I was never a big fan of like the Tweety Bird or the Spider-Man or the SpongeBob. Wow. I just, to me, I was like, I'm seven years old. I don't want the gimmick. I'm here for the pure unadulterated taste of a fudgecicle. Do you believe that like this Spider-Man ice cream was the boy ice cream and the Power Puff Girls one was the girls ice cream?

Oh. I believe that there were gender roles in those ice cream. 100%. That's what they're marketed towards. Because I remember like, oh, like, and like if the ice cream guy like sold out of the Powerpuff girl gumball one and he's like but we have the Spider-Man one it's the same like no that's a boy ice cream oh shoot I remember

vividly saying that and doing that and like no I don't want the boy ice cream I don't want Spider-Man eyeballs I want what was it bubbles her name was bubbles yeah bubbles the blue one and then the gumballs were just like bleeding like the eyes were just like bleeding like this was so funny gender performances of prison we need non-binary ice cream treats and I believe minions are our savior minions are non-binary

Minions are non-binary. 100%. Can I have an ice cream treat? Yeah, I'm just opening this to see what it is. Okay, this was, okay, so this is... This one? Yeah, this is one of my sleeper hits, the Orange Creamsicle. Oh, yeah.

I love these so much. Why? Because it's nice and tart on the outside, and it's dreamy and creamy in the middle. Just like me. This is an elite. Like, I feel like eating an orange creamsicle made me understand flavor from a young age. I think it taught me complexities. I think it taught me the complexities of flavor.

It's so good. It's still hitched. Oh my God, that's so good. It does the artificial orange, but there's not too much citric acid in there. But, like, it's artificial orange, but it tastes like orange zest. Have you ever, like, stayed overnight at a hospital or, like, a few hours? And they bring you that little orange juice from concentrate. This is what it tastes like.

It does taste like there's real orange in here, fortified with extract. But something about the texture. And the flavor of orange concentrate reminds me of hospital now. That's interesting. They probably didn't remind me before. I can't eat chicken, white bean chili because I ate too much of it in a hospital during a traumatic time. I really can't. Okay, I'll never ever put that in front of you.

You said chicken white bean chili? Chicken white bean chili. I will never, ever, as long as I live, ever eat that food with or in front of you. It was pretty good. And it was like the healthiest, heartiest option, you know, in the cafeteria. and so I was just, I probably ate like six bowls of it, you know. And one day? No, like over the course of like a week.

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Orange cream school, on a scale of 1 to 10, what would you rate that? Honestly, where can that improve? A 6. If you were to, like, make that artisanally. Uh-huh, artistically. If you were, like, make that from scratch, which would be annoying. You'd need a series of molds, whatever. I don't want to do that, but okay.

How would you improve on the flavor? I don't think I could. I mean, maybe zest, maybe some more zest. I like taste orange zest. They're probably, I don't know. I don't know. It's like special. This is a fun time.

We're going back to our childhood. We're reverking. Like, I think there's actual, no, there can't be any real orange zest in there. Or is that how they make orange extract? It's just actual zest, right? Well, I recently saw the movie extract with Jason Bateman and Milakounis. You know, I've been meeting to watch it for like nine years. Oh, honey.

It's Mike Judge. I know. You love Mike Judge. I love Mike Judge. I love Jason Amy. I love Milikunis. You should watch it. It was really good.

They don't really get into the extract making of it all, but I assume that they take I think what they do is they take oranges and they whiz them through a machine and then they extract it from the peel. How else could they do it? Yeah, that's probably easier than finding, it's not like truffles where they've just like found a chemical compound

that has, you know, the same like whatever olfactory makeup of it. Oh, hell yeah, fudge pops. I give an orange cream school like that's a solid 8.1. Wow, really? Did you ever get the fudge pops that were stuck together and then you would have to rip them apart like a wishbone?

I always hated those. They never seemed to break apart even. They were never equal. Okay. Fudge bar. It's a really nice chocolate flavor, man. It's so good, but also bad. It's like the Hershey bar of ice cream.

No, it is. It is. I was just going to say that. I think there's like a journey with every foodie, right? Where you sort of come to feudy. You come to feudy consciousness, and you start. to have these beliefs, like, oh, I'm not drinking mass market beer. I'm going to drink an IPA because I like to taste the hops in it.

Or like, the only good chocolate is 72% dark single origin. You have these, like, stupid ideas. Right. And then you, like, reach maturity, and you're like, the best beer is a cold beer. Right. All chocolate's kind of a fun blessing. Right. You know, you just eat a square of Hershey's chocolate, and you're like, that's pretty damn good.

good. Yeah. You know, that's kind of what this is. The fudge bar, yeah. You know, it tastes like that Hershey's, it's like a little bit plasticy, it's a little bit too sweet. Mm-hmm. You know, even this, you get a little bit of, like, the dust of the cacao. Do you taste dust?

The flavor's interesting. They're like, look, like. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think, I understand what you're saying. There's not a lot of milkiness in it, which I kind of like. No, same. It's icy.

A lot of these are going to be super icy, right? Because when it, like, sits like that develops ice crystals. Yeah. But this is such a A unique flavor of chocolate It's like a Tutsi roll You know what I mean? Yeah, it's it harkens back to another time

Truly Wow, you really got up in there It was gonna break What do you rate a fudge pop? It's not my favorite I would almost never choose that over anything else I'd never reach for it I think it's pretty well done

A little too, Like if you were to make that Artisanally and good that'd be like a good thing Like as a chef If you were to like use Good dairy, good chocolate I know I just talked about how like

Hershey's perfectly good And it's perfectly good Right But this is something that I think Like could actually be improved And so I'm giving it a 6.8 I'll give it a 6.2 How much?

What did I give it the orange creamsicle? I don't remember what I gave it. I don't think you ranked it. I'm going to give it an 8 Push pops Now this is not Flintstone's branded Which does anger me It puts me in a fit of rage

Well Josh it was really hard for a girl like me to find an ice cream truck in Burbank because I'm not from here and I didn't feel comfortable I didn't feel comfortable asking the kids you know what I mean? Please don't pull up to a public park and just go hey I'm looking for children

This tastes like medicine I don't like I hate fake cherry flavored things Oh It tastes like medicine Oh Oh that's yeah that is not good That's disgusting

So this is it's called Frawleys. I'm sure the Simpsons one, not the Simpsons, I'm sorry, the Flintstones one was like orange. Uh-huh. That tastes like medicine.

That tastes like medicine. That's pretty upsetting me. So it's like a sherbet. It's supposed to be like a sherbet. But a bad shirbit, not a good sherbet. It's really, there's so much, like,

jellin gum or guar gum in there. Yeah. The way it melts, it melts into like a heavily acidified shaving cream. Yeah, it's not. It tastes like Diamond Tap. It literally tastes like shaving cream and medicine.

Robitusson. I love the Flintstones ones. I've always loved Sherbet. I've been a big, I was a big Sherbet kid. Well, the Flintstones one, again, I couldn't really enjoy it because it was a boy ice cream. Flintstones was boy ice cream?

Yeah, because of Barney on Rubble. Yeah, but they had. And Fred Flintstone. See, you don't even know the girl. Velma, Wilma. No, she. Willard. Wilma.

What's her name? What is their name? Wilma. What about Bam Bam. Pebbles? Pebbles is, uh. girl. I know, but it was such a boy. Will Mifflinstone and Betty Rubble.

But you don't get it. It was such a boy ice cream to me at that time. Betty Rubble kind of hot. Benny Barney? Betty Rubble? She's got that cute little black bob. She got a choker on. Yeah. Tight little, damn. Tight little, what are you about to say? So she got a tight little dress on. I thought you're going to say tight little bod. I'm like, this is a

This is not a children show. I can talk. I can appreciate. No, the Flintstones was a children's show. No, it's for all ages. What? Flip, what, everyone? Oh, everyone can talk about how Mrs. Incredible got a dunk or whatever. You know, but I can't talk about Betty Rubble and how, you know, but she's, she's like a classy. You mean to tell me you think Hannah Barbaric cartoons weren't, oh, maybe?

Well, this proposes a great question. If a show is a quote-unquote children's show, does that mean it should be all ages, something like bluey? This is something that I'm... This is very different. Like, they had four shows back then on TV at any given point. There were like four, and everybody watch them. Also, the Flintstones is like an 80-year-old show or something, not 80, probably like a 60-year-old show. Yeah.

The only people that care about Flintstone's IP are old people now, who happened to respectfully lust after Betty Rubble, who, one, she's like a mother. She's, like, raised a family, like, she's a, you know. What are you getting at? I'm getting it. I don't think it's disrespectful to say that Betty Rubble is like a beautiful, classic, dignified woman. who, despite having a very schlubby husband in a relationship and family, Barney Rubble, that was his whole bit.

He was like stupid and schlubby. And he's got this beautiful wife. And what's Fred? And what's Fred? Same. And their wives were too good for them. That was a whole plot of the Flintstones. Okay, yeah, okay, I get it. So now you agree that she's hot.

Yeah. I do. What's up? What's that? You want a real man who has an iPhone? In a car? His car doesn't run off feet. Oh my God?

God, it's a bomb pop. Well, I'm proud to be an American. Where at least I got ice cream. These are smaller than I remember. They used to be literally the size of my forearm. What happened? Shrinkflation? I guess so.

Is this a name brand bomb pop? Yeah. Also, insane with the military industrial complex that we just created rocket-shaped ice cream. It's crazy. This isn't, if you are creating anti-American propaganda from another country, and you're like, their children are literally eating ice creams, their obese children are eating ice creams shaped like the bombs that they drop on our country. Yeah, I can see how someone to get radicalized against America. You know what I mean?

I see it now. Like, right? This is nuts. This is crazy. That we advertise this. The colors. The colors are very. Red, white, blue?

That's crazy. But it tastes good. I think the propaganda makes it like a three. Tastes like eight. I don't know that we should have bomb pops. I don't think I'm being overly woke here, man. What do you mean? If like North Korea made like...

If we watch videos of North Korean kids, eating popsicles shaped like bombs or guns, we'd be like their brainwash. You're 100% right I was eating this at like a blue angel show Watching our naval fighter You know about the blue angels? No, my parents are like really patriotic

But I don't think like that So my dad was in the Air Force And they have something called the Thunderbirds The Blue Angels are a team of like stunt pilots This started after World War II And they like do the flips and stuff in the sky They do the flips, they fly in formations They do air shows.

Cool. But they're all like very, very legit pilots in like utterly insane amount of training. But ultimately it is. I mean, if you call it propaganda, you call it recruiting, whatever. You know, it's meant to be this like marketing arm. Sure. And it really is really effective. It really gets people to get jacked about being in the Navy.

Is it during Fourth of July? They do air shows all the time. They're on a whole traveling tour. Is this in Oceanside? We used to go, oh, God, it's like Del Mar. Somewhere in San Diego they would do, they would do a famous show. But like, I think like, 20 pilots have died.

Doing the air shows? Yeah, over a course of a long time, but there haven't been that many Blue Angels pilots. Like, statistically, it's something like 9% of Blue Angels pilots have died, making it the deadliest job in the military. No way. Is to be a stunt by the air show. A lot of the deaths were like pre-1970. They don't have that many, but there was one in the last

10, 15 years. That's sad. I know. It's really sad. So I would have been eating a bomb pop watching, you know, a deadly naval pilot stunt show. There you go. What would you read? I'm proud to be a bomb pop. It's still really good.

It's very artificial in a way that hits different as an adult than when you're a kid. I agree. But I think it's still really delightful. The texture on it is really nice, good blend of, like, creamy with icy. Yeah, I was very impressed. I'm going to say 7.4. I'm going to do this as a whole, considering the whole, like, bomb pop and propaganda stuff. Oh, yeah.

Are we going to drop it? I'm going to give it a four. Yeah, it feels weird. They should... They should call it the flag pop. They should call it the flag pop. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be, you know, make it like Uncle Sam's hat or something.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, just like an AK-47 popsicle, you know? You know? What's that one? Open that one. Which one is it? I don't know.

This is my favorite podcast ever. Josh talked about his mom's call. It's a hand grenade. There were hand grenade drinks. We had grenade drinks? You look up hand grenade drinks. What the hell? What are you talking about hand grenade drinks?

There were drinks that were called, like... Oh, man. No, it's not, but it's not... Is this just an alcoholic thing? I thought there were, like, children's drinks that we drank out of grenades. Or did we just call them juice grenades? And they weren't actually grenades. You mean the hugs?

I mean, there were the barrel juices. I swear to God, there was like a grenade juice. I don't remember. So this is an off-brand. God damn, you got off-brain, strawberry shortcake bar? How many times do I have to tell you? I couldn't go up to the children of Burbank and say, hey, kids, where's the closest ice cream truck?

I had to buy these from the store, okay? These don't taste the same. Okay. It's bad, but the good ones taste really good. How? You can taste the difference. between like an RC Cola and a Coca-Cola, right? I've never done that side by side.

You can taste a difference between, you know, Doritos and like a store brand nach cheese tortilla chip. Okay. I've never seen a greater disparity in quality and taste from an off-brand product. Yeah. Versus the good humor. It's good humor, right? This is good humor too.

This is good humor. Wait, really? What's the OG brand of strawberry shortcake bars? I thought it was good humor my whole life. I thought it was, too. Is it not? Meggy, what's the OG brand of strawberry shortcake bars? I'm convinced.

This is good humor. This isn't the OG. I might have happened. Because this was my single favorite. Me too. You know what I think? I think that they give the ice cream truck people, the legit stuff. Like, that's what it's supposed to look like.

This is the same... Yes. Fascinating. I know. The photo doesn't exactly match, which is fine. We just got catfish. but if you eat the bottom part it tastes really good doesn't it I mean the whole thing still tastes perfectly good but yeah I grew up loving Nesquick strawberry milk meat well yeah we love

artificial strawberry is and I I eat probably a half pound of strawberries in night yeah big strawberry you know what I'm big straw well I don't even like it Julia likes them I'd rather get a panoply of fruits but that's fine happy to indulge so I eat a lot of you know fresh strawberries okay that's cute nothing hit It's like the fake stuff. I mean, I stand by that a million percent. I love fake strawberry. Have you ever made, like, fresh strawberry milk using actual strawberries?

Yes, we've made that together, and it sucked. Sucks. It sucks. You need the fake stuff. Yeah, I do. I need the lip filler. I need the Botox. I need the artificiality.

The crumb coating on this gives such a pleasant mouth feel. When it's properly dispersed, it does. Yeah, this is a poorly executed bar, despite being a mass-produced factory product. I agree. They need to work on it They need to work on it I'd say this as far as taste and execution Still a solid 7.1

But the OG strawberry shortcake bar I think is a 10 out of 10 For me it's a 10 out of 10 It's a single perfect I agree Even the chocolate version The Chocolate DeClair version of it You like the chocolatey Claire?

It's still good It's not my favorite But if they're all out of strawberry Shortcake I'll get a chocolate of Claire Really? I would not I would do The Strawberry Shortcake is always my first go-to The second choice is always a drumstick

I would always get a drumstick a caramel filled drumstick? I've never been a drumstick guy. Oh, what? Oh, my God. I think because, you know what I do get? We gotta eat these. These are melting. I'll tell you all about it later. Let's see. Is that SpongeBob? This might be SpongeBob.

Oh, my God. What if there's no gummy eyeballs? Are you going to hate me forever if there's no gummy eyeballs? Oh, shit. Okay, wait. It's melting fast. Are there gummy eyeballs? There's no gummy eyeballs. What the hell, man? What is this little piece of shit? Is that for me? Yeah, that's for you. I got this for you. What is this little turn?

Is this what they're selling at the ice cream truck? I'm going to go to the crusty crab. Why do you sound like Walloichi? That's your SpongeBob impersonation? Okay. So we're about to eat SpongeBob, but it doesn't look like SpongeBob. This Spongebob ice cream is fake. What does this SpongeBob ice cream look like to you?

It looks like an AI version of SpongeBob. I will say these are sponge bobs do look. Yeah, there's. Almost nothing SpongeBob about it. They kind of look more like minions. Exactly. The minionification of ice cream treats has gone too far. But if you're a child, you have such a suspension of disbelief, right?

I don't know what that means, Kobe Bryant. Like you, if there's a picture of SpongeBob on a box and it says popsicles, you go, PunchBob! And then you open the package and you see a sweet treat. You're smelling the sugar. You're getting all hyped up on the fact. that you're about to eat a bunch of sugar. Yeah.

And you just go, SpongeBob, and you put it in your mouth. You don't care. But SpongeBob didn't even have red pants. And the gummy eyeballs were, like, really intense. So this SpongeBob does not have any... Spongebob was wearing a shirt.

Spongebob has a shirt and pants. And square pants. But look what they used to do. Look what they used to do. Look what they took away from us. Look what they took away from children. Our SpongeBob has a large toothy grin in the cartoons. The ice cream that we are eating

merely has a Cheshire Cat single line drawn smile. With chocolate. Is it chocolate? Yeah, I taste it. It's chocolate. Oh, it's chocolate. It's really disappointing. There's no gumball eyes. I need the gumball eyes, dude. I'm so mad. Why is time passed us by?

The things that we remember as being joyful no longer are. This is wrong. Where else do we get joy out of life, Nicole? I don't know. I guess maybe doom scrolling on TikTok does a pretty good job. Not much. I give that.

a three, I give that a two. I hope that this was a flub on my part and that the ice cream truck people are still serving the gummy eyeball ones. Please tell me you are. Because for the sake of the children, you must still be selling the gumballs. Are you enjoying it? As far as taste goes. Ew, honestly, it tastes like butt. I think it's really nice. I like, well, I like eating banana flavored butt. Yeah, it tastes like banana flavored butt. If you think I'm a butt eater for loving this SpongeBob ice cream, then a butt eater, I shall be. Because I actually think this is really well done. That's because you like banana.

It tastes like banana, but. Banana. We got one more. We got the original fat boy ice cream sandwich. Now, there are multiple ice cream sandwich options when you go to the ice cream truck. I always did Toll House. You were Toll House.

There was Toll House. There was Chip Witch. There was UFO. Oh, UFOs. But to me, I've always been a fat boy boy. Never had a fat boy growing up. This is where it's at, dude. The chocolate wafer ice cream cookie sandwich is so much better than an actual cookie ice cream sandwich.

That is what I believe. That is a delicious treat. Holy crap. I think the majority of the ice creams we've had have been on the icier side. Well, this is the first time we're eating a creamy, dreamy confection. Oh. How many calories are we consumed today? I don't think about it, man.

Oh, okay. How many squats did you do this? this morning. I did a bunch of stretches today. Actually, did I tell you I passed my gestational diabetes test? No, my... Is this going to make you fail? I don't know. But I passed it.

My doctor's like, hey, normal gluglose levels, and I'm like, hell yeah. I don't know if that's the case right now anymore. Sorry. You know what I love about this? It's not a cookie at all.

the coating it's a taste like there is a taste of a chocolate scented saltine cracker that is left on my palate that's really well salted it's like a sablea cookie yeah it is

and then that combines with the sweetness and the clemeness that vanilla I'm transported I'm transported back this is wonderful but do you think we like it now because our palettes are different

I think so yeah you know what are the foods that you look back on nostalgically that now you almost can't even stomach gosh I can't even think about that let me think I grew up in an ingredient house not a snack house so I don't know if that says anything but like any like fast foods growing up as a kid my oh McFlurries I can't even I can't

even think about a McFlurie without like wanting to vomit really because they're so I'd rather just do a cone yeah the McFlurie's intimidating Interesting. Interesting. It's huge. Interesting. What do you mean? Is that, am I bad?

No, no, no, no. I still, like, for me, McFurries are still great, especially the Oreo McFurray. To me, it's, like, ballpark naches. Oh, pretty gross. Like, liquid nacho cheese. I still, I don't know. There's, like, an idea of it that I love, and then I actually taste it. And I'm just, or, no, no.

I'll go one more. Box mac and cheese. Oh, I love box mac. That, like, the chemical cheese taste. Okay. I'm just like this does nothing This does not make my life better And I don't think that makes me an elitist

I still love cheap convenience foods And a lot of them You know Still mess with a riceroni Okay You know but there's something about that like chemical cheese tastes That when I was a kid physically interacted with my palate

In a different way than now Really? I am so deeply nostalgic for it And I crave it sometimes I have it like maybe once every three months just to remind myself what it tastes like. Microw's Stofer's Mac and Cheese. The Thinking Man's Mac. Oh, well, that's totally different.

So, Josh, how do you feel about the ice creams we tried? How do you feel about Fat Boy? What would you eat Fat Boy? Fat Boy? That's a 9.1. Yeah. I'm going to give it a 9. I understand why people would prefer the Chip Witch, the Toll House, you know, but no, for me. That thin chocolate wafer there.

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Well, all right, Nicole, we've eaten about 300 grams of sugar, and we've heard what you and I have to say. Now let's find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the universe. Time for a little segment we call Opinions I like casseroles. Let's get to that first opinion. I hope you don't play this on in the first. upcoming episode. I do have a question. You called. Do you think that a milkshake is always a smoothie?

Oh, great question. I kind of do. Good question. Do you think milkshake is always a smoothie? This morning I called a shake, one of those like protein shakes that are like in the little containers. I call that a smoothie.

Which is not right. But a pro, when you say a shake, if you say I'm, I had a shake for breakfast. I'm going to assume you mean protein shake. Right. Not milkshake. Not smoothie? But where's the difference between, I think if we analyze the difference in a protein

shake and a protein smoothie. I can tell you what it is. Fruit. I would say it's fruit, right? Fresh or frozen fruit. But I would say there's one fruit that bridges the gap. And I know what fruit it is. On three. One, two, three. Banana. Banana. You're right.

Tomato? Tomato milkshake sounds great. Wait, wait, wait. I would consume a tomato. milkshake. I would love that. You know what? I love tomato leaf scented items. Like a... You like tomato leaf? Uh, I don't know that I've had tomato.

You've never smelt a fresh tomato. I've never smelt a fresh tomato leaf. In like a vine, on like a vine. You ever like... Yeah. But where you get, you're getting products that are scented like tomatoes? Yeah. Like tomato leaves? It's in right now. It's in vogue. Tomato leaves? I don't know anything about what's in vogue. She doesn't. But banana is the thing where like you blend it into... Your concoction.

Your concoction. Well, I'm trying, if there's peanut butter, you can go to a smoothie store, right? Like a Robex, a jamba, a juice it up. Sure. And you can get something, a quench that they just call like, or Robex used to call it, like, the 800-pound gorilla shake. It was like big, beefy protein boy shake. But it would just be like peanut butter, chocolate, maybe dates, and bananas blended with, like, frozen yogurt.

That's a smoothie. But it drank like a milkshake. Yes, it did. Jamba Juice had the peanut butter mo'ed. That's correct, yeah, peanut butter mood. That's a milkshake, dude. Why did they have the accent on the muud? Is there an accent or was it an apostrophe? It was M-O-A-Postrophe O-D.

Like a Maori name. Yes, yes, like a name from the Māori's, yes. Chocolate mu-ood. I would always put like a... Yeah, that's just a weird diacritical to try and separate the automotopia of moo from the pun on mood. I put, like, some Arabic slang on it. It's like, ma'ud.

Ma'ud. Habibti. Come to Jamba Juice. I think the difference is in a smoothie and a milkshake. Ice cream. I don't think it has to do with fruit. Ice cream. Ice cream.

But if you put – you can make a frozen yogurt milkshake, certainly. Frozen yogurt and ice cream are – I just – we got to say it. They're the same. They're the same. What is the same? Soft-serve ice cream. You go to yogurt land and they have – That's ice cream.

They have their vanilla frozen yogurt. But Yogurtland started doing, I don't know if they still have it, they started doing soft serve ice cream. Oh. They had just chocolate and vanilla. They may have discontinued it. Sounds fake. But it's like the same for all intents as the frozen yogurt. I don't like that.

You know? I mean, I don't. The lines here are razor thin. I agree. I agree. I agree with you. I agree. I think the difference between a milkshake and a smoothie is milkshakes are densely, highly.

caloric on purpose, and smoothies are that on accident. You know what I mean? I kind of agree with it. Yeah. I kind of agree with that. But you don't think smoothie is an overarching umbrella term under which we see milk shakes? No, because when I think of milkshake, I think of an accompany, I think of Johnny Rockets.

I think we see, no, I agree with that. Yeah. I think you're right. I think there is an intention split. Of course. ingredient-based. I think, well, no, but also like smoothie has like a healthier connotation. But that's what I'm saying intention, connotation.

Is intention and connotation the same thing? I'm saying if something is connoted differently, it started with a different intention, I think. I'm making a peanut butter banana milkshake and I'm making a peanut butter banana smoothie. What are the differences between the two? A smoothie, you want to have likely a meal replacement that is filled with some sort of nutrients that you can easily drink on the go. a milkshake you want an indulgence. Sweet treat.

And I think that's going to frame what other things you add to that other than peanut butter and banana. Because that milkshake is likely just going to be ice cream. Ice cream. A little bit of milk to thin it out. You don't need that much milk. You always add too much milk and then you add ice and then it gets bad.

You know, smoothie, you might be putting flax in there for all I know. You're not putting flax in a milkshake. You're not putting, unless you get a flak milkshake. Sounds kind of nice. Sounds pretty gross. I think flaxie, I think ground flax meal actually tastes really good.

Okay. It reminds me of like, with honey? It reminds me of like the Korean like bean powder. Injolmi? The Injormi, yeah.

Is that right? Enjormi is made with his bean powder, but I can never remember the name of the bean powder. But it's like Korean bean powder. Or like malt powder. It's just that little savory. We spent too long on this. Sorry, this is very riveting.

It is. It's a good question. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am from Michigan. Michigan. I was having a. I'm craving for something salty, but still that has some protein to it.

So I paired cottage cheese with taco sauce, and then I'm scooping that with some tortilla chips. And it's honestly, so freaking bomb. Yeah. You guys really should try this. What is it? Cottage cheese, topped with taco sauce, tortilla chips, dip in it, Craving his salty snack, still wanted protein. Fine.

Pretty good. I was thinking about this the other day. Cottage cheese and Greek yogurt have almost the identical macronutrient breakdown. Cottage cheese at Greek yogurt? Yeah. Okay. Cottage cheese was really big in like the 80s and 90s during that kind of high protein, low-fat, you know, era. And then Greek yogurt got really big in our generation.

I think in the same way that we saw, me and Trevor talked about this in the podcast, Chili skipped a generation. Okay. Gen X love Chili's, millennials eschewed it, Gen Z picked it back up. Mm-hmm. It's the same thing going on with cottage cheese. Are you okay, Maggie? I hate myself accidentally. I'll be okay.

Okay, good. I think that's... It's our first onset podcast accident. That's very poignant. Very poignant. Thank you. I think this is a delicious snack. Sometimes the curds are off pudding.

Uh-huh. So I have resorted to blending my cottage cheese a lot of the time. What if I told you? You could eat yogurt. Yogurt has that tang. That quintessential yogurt tang. Does cottage cheese not have a tang? Not the way that, the way.

Not the way that Greek yogurt does. Greek yogurt has a designated tang. Cottage cheese has a designated cream. Interesting. I have not, full disclosure, I have not eaten cottage cheese in probably four years. And I have not. To your own knowledge. To my own knowledge.

sure it's been somewhere in. And also, what do you consider katas cheese? It's a farmer's cheese, a shepherd's cheese. They're all terms to the same thing. I'm thinking of Nudsen's.

Nudence. That's what we call Katashees in America, right? Right. But like, ricotta is basically the same product. It's just... Ricotta is basically...

Yeah, I'll give you that. You know what I mean? I'll give you that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Ceso blando in Spanish. You know? Okay.

I'm not here to fight you. I'm here to find common ground like Jubilee. I'm going to buy. That is exactly what Jubilee. what Jubilee does. And they're not just platforming the most extreme people in every single regard. Nope, they're all about finding middle ground. For views and what people to come

together. But this series is called Surrounded. They literally have, yeah, it's just 20 Republican police dogs surrounding a Democratic non-binary police horse. That's what I want to watch. More animals on Jubilee.

You know? Anyways, I'm going to buy big top of cottage cheese. Great, you should. And mess around with it. You should. Josh and Nicole, Josh and Nicole, I call upon your power. I need you guys to make sure that Carl's Jr. does not get rid of their new queso burger.

It is... Whoa. If you have not tried it, what are you doing? What am I doing? We have eaten this burger every single day for the past three days. Wow, it's that good. We're not getting it right now as we speak. Joshua, I have a C-T.

I had to teach me Go tell them To not get rid of that I actually see something It's a good burger I don't even like Carl's Jr. And then you guys were talking about

And I'm like Okay we guys I've got to get a bias But now it's delicious And I love doing zucchini Also More fast food food I eat to have

Carl Jr. Fried zucchini rips I get like farmer boys Have y'all had farmer boys? I need to have farmer boys I need to have farmer boys and patty melts They're really good

Okay, that's it You're your power for good Thank you What is on my face I believe in true love Do you? Shit like this I'm sorry

Stuff like this makes me believe in true love I think you're so beautiful together Okay if I get They're probably friends Caso Crunch Burger No they're married Never get divorced

I haven't even heard of this burger Some I've missed all the marketing for it Me too 100% all beef fatty chobroiled Over an open flame Smothered in a warm creamy Keso topped with seasoned

crunchy tortilla strips, pepper, jack, cheese, fresh housemaid pico de gallo served on a toasted bun. Wow. That does sound really good. Where can I get? What do you mean work you got? Carl's Jr. is where you can get it. No, do you think it's still alive?

Do you think it's still? Do you want to order some? Yeah. Nicole, you got to eat for the baby. Baby needs nutrition. Baby needs Carl's Jr. I just shoved so much. I'm so, I'm so sorry.

I just gave her so much sugar and I'm going to feed her Carl's Jr. That's not right. You baby love Carl's Jr. This is a proud Southern California institution. You got a proud Southern California baby. I think I got it eight fistfuls of kale to negate all the bad I did today. Do that tomorrow. We're getting queso crunch burgers.

Fine. Fine. Are you sure? Can you see if you can order it right now on the World Wide Web? Meggy, can you call it? Big button. I'm literally putting in the order now for it. Meggy, I don't. No, but you need to see if it's on Postmatis. Postmatis? Because if it's on the

website, that's one thing. If it's on the postmatis, that's actually accessible. I will say, I think Carl Jr. has the best style fast food burgers. You know what I mean? I look at a Carl's Jr. Burger on an advertisement and I'm like, I want to eat that.

Is that like the Paris Hilton like burger? Yeah. They pint. Are we doing that again? Yeah, they brought back sexy ladies eating hamburgers slop. I like that. What about sexy guys?

When can I see David Cornswet? Is that his name? Corn Sweat. I want to see David Cornswet eat a spicy Koso burger and it like drips down. And he uses a fry to get the sauce off and then eats the fry. Wait, wait, wait.

One, that's great. Two, they have a fried zucchini sandwich. Dude, what? That's so inclusive. We got to get some of this. Listen, we're already eating ice cream today. I'm so excited. I'm, thank you for reminding me that Carl's, I need to check on Carl's Jr.'s new items because

they do incredible work. And I'm happy that you're happy. Can you order it? Do you want me to order it before we wrap up the pocket? Okay, you do that. Are you ordering it on... I told you, you need to order it on post-mates. If you don't order on post-mates, it's not going to come.

Get your phone and order it. Do it right. If you're going to do it, do it right. God. Tell the people to watch more podcasts or something. And on that note, thank you for listening to a hot dog as a sandwich. We got new audio-only episodes every Wednesday. And a video version right here every Sunday on YouTube.

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