A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Raising Cane's vs. Popeyes

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

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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. What? Welcome to our podcast, a hot dog is a sandwich,

the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Popeye the Sailor Man. I don't know if you noticed, but my expression automatically changed when you attempted to do like a silly voice. My wife's name is Olive Oil. She's got a wasting disease. You know.

I have growths on my forearms. I think he was allergic to spinach, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was causing a lot of inflammation in place. He had an ornery disposition and truly bald as forearms. He has the forearms of Devin Larratt. And I'm your host, Nicole Inayati. Professional arm wrestler, Devin Larratt. I've seen his videos.

Larratt? Devin Larratt? You've seen him? Mm-hmm. Oh my God. Large, large arms. Lock up. Lock up, bro. Let. Large, large arms. Lock up. Lock up, bro, let's go over the top. Josh is making me want to, Josh is asking me to arm wrestle.

Should I do it, chat? Should I do it, chat? Do it, do it. This is just an excuse to hold hands. Do it. You gotta posture, you gotta posture. You gotta, okay. I don't wanna be.

Enough roughhousing and horsing around, Nicole. We have a very serious debate to get to, and that is taking the new kid on the block, Raising Canes, just a young 28 years old, prime of its life. Raising Canes founded in 1996, Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the campus of LSU by Todd Graves. That's incredible. He was a young college student when he did this? So he initially, this is coming from... this is all propaganda. This is from the Raising Canes website, but also true.

They say that he put together a college class project for a restaurant that only served chicken fingers. Okay. And apparently, according to the website, he got the lowest grade in the class because it would never work and that was a stupid idea. And then he opens Raising Canes in 1996. Told ya. On a college campus. I believe he went toing Cane's in 1996. Told ya.

On a college campus. I believe he went to University of Georgia though. Now he's on Shark Tank because Raising Cane's. As one of the sharks? As one of the, he's a shark. He has so much chicken that he is now a shark. Every entrepreneur's dream. Snaps and claps. But Raising Cane's, they're one of the fastest growing

fast food restaurants in the history of America. Post Malone loves them. Post Malone loves them. Post Malone loves them. Raising Canes is doing crazy, crazy numbers. Popeye's also a Louisiana based fried chicken restaurant. Love that chicken for Popeye's. And I really do. Popeye's Al Copeland, 1972.

Not named after Popeye the Sailor Man, actually. Okay. Named after, this is one of my dad's favorite movies, Popeye Doyle from the French Connection. I never saw, I've never heard, I've never seen. Your dad loves the French Connection. He does? How do you know that about my dad?

Because all dads love the French Connection. They love Gene Hackman. Your dad loves Gene Hackman? Yeah. Well, my dad, well, we're an Indiana Jones family. Okay, okay. So, I'll see if there's crossover with the French Connection and Indiana Jones. There must be. It is pretty funny though, that the the French connection I think comes out in 71. Al Copeland opens Popeyes Chicken in 1972. And I'm wondering like what that would be for us. Like if we open like an Austin Powers Poke Bowl restaurant in like 2007 after Goldmember comes out. Who was Ayo's character in Bottoms. I don't remember her name. Whatever her name was in Bottoms will open up a restaurant based off of that.

What a Shiva baby themed Jewish deli. The Shiva baby. It is. It already is. But yeah, fair point. But Popeyes, I mean they've, you know, been around for 55 years at this point. And they had a massive explosion with the chicken sandwich. Oh yeah, big time. We've talked about it. Ad nauseam I'd say on this podcast. Ad nauseam. Cane's has a sandwich now too because everyone seems like they need one to compare but I'm really curious to see how these stack up next to each other. We got chicken tenders against chicken tenders and then we got sandwich against sandwich, we got coleslaw against coleslaw,

we got sauce against sauce. I'm really excited to dive in here. Got that like delicious split top Texas toast brioche looking bun. You know what grinds my gears? The sandwich that they have on their menu, it's like a burger bun with lettuce. What I would have done is just take the Texas toast and make that into a sandwich with the coleslaw and the sauce on it. I don't know why they did this.

It makes me angry and sad, and I wanna talk about that. Yeah, should we leave? Should we step out and take a break? Because I'm mad too now. I'm mad too, especially cause I think this is disrespectful to Armenian people. What are you talking about? Let me explain.

So, hear me out. The Nashville hot chicken boom. I think you know where I'm going with this. There was a massive boom in Nashville hot chicken. Popeyes, KFC, they've all sort of jumped on the train at some point. But in Los Angeles, a lot of the Nashville hot chicken spots

are run by Armenian people. A lot of them start as pop-ups, and they would do the chicken tender sliders. They realized the same thing that Raising Cane's realized, which is that like doing whole bone-in fried chicken is not the moneymaker. No, it's the tendies. It's the tendies, that's what a vast majority of people want. Myself, I'm a bone-in chicken guy.

I love a sandwich, I love a tender, whatever. I love bone-in chicken more than anything. But all these places, they would make, they'd call them sliders generally. But their sandwiches would be on like a split-top hot dog roll looking thing. Which is the way to do it, I would say. The better way to do it.

The better way. They drizzle their spicy mayo or crack sauce or comeback sauce, whatever you wanna call it. They got cane sauce, of course, over here at Raising Canes. But yeah, it should be in that little bun. And this is what most people, I think, do with Raising Canes. This is what I do. Make a little sando.

Make a little sando. Mm-hmm. Right? Where do you stand on Raising Canes in general? You know, I haven't had too much Raising Canes. One did just open up in Burbank, and the lines are intense and stressful. They had police stationed there yes. Yes people were making illegal u-turns to get into the raising canes Burbank's biggest problem other than wildfires

It is is u-turns illegal u-turns. Yes, you know raising canes but in Jay Leno driving without proper license Oh, yeah, that guy doesn't give a single I think raising canes does a lot. I think their sauce is pretty incredible. I would say that their sauce is like the perfect chicken dipping sauce. What Popeyes has is more than just chicken. I think they have their seafood options, which are delicious.

I love their little shrimpy shrimps. Phenomenal. I think they have a panoply of sauces to kind of like fit, like choose your character's sauce, which I think is very, very special. They have that little seasoning packet, Creole sprinkle, I think it's called, or whatever it's called.

Magic or something like that. Magic sprinkle, incredible on just about anything. I think there's a lot more variety at Popeye, so you could go there and you could get a bunch of stuff. You could get your bone and chicken. You could get your tenders. You could get your sandwich. You could get your biscuit.

You could get your mac and cheese. I like the shrimp. You could get your shrimp. I like the shrimp with the Popeye. They got the mac and cheese that put the shrimp on it. Like see, like there's those options there. I think the menu at Raising Cane's is limited, but I know that's intentional.

It's supposed to be a limited menu, so it's not too crazy and you don't get too wild with it. So I almost feel like they're two different restaurants in a way. They are for sure. I know they're both chicken shops, but the variety at Popeyes kind of takes it over the limit for me.

I'd rather eat at Popeyes because there are more options But I will say just looking at the tenders. There was a clear difference. There's a clear difference So raising canes there they stake their name on the freshness of their tenders And obviously we've got these delivered to a podcast studio not the ideal way to eat a raisin canes That's all right every time I've eaten a raisin canes. I have been utterly Impressed by how fresh the tenders are they're pretty beautiful thing. I think they're lacking to me is Seasoning I've always found raisin canes tenders to be like really well done But a little cook like a good cook on a good cook on them. They always come out hot right

It's delicious, but the seasoning to me lacks which which is where Popeyes really shines. And the cane sauce for me, I'm a ranch and hot sauce guy when it comes to chicken tenders. And so the cane sauce for me has never quite done it, but I'm fully open to being swayed. I am an open mind and a sponga. Is that a sponge? Sponge, that's how it's pronounced. Try the tender without any sauce on it. That's how it's pronounced. Try the tender without any sauce on it. Very juicy. So juicy. The cook on the chicken's brilliant.

The seasoning's not bad. It's not bad. I've had so many worse chicken tenders. It's mostly salt though. The seasoning is mostly salt. Okay, there's no problem. I have no problem with that. The cane sauce is where you're supposed

to get the flavor from. That sauce is stupid good. That's dummy good. What is in, what is in Cane Sauce? Josh, what is in this damn sauce? I don't, I don't want to be the naysayer here at all. Go, go. It's okay, go. I don't love Cane Sauce. There's too much, too much ketchup for chicken to me.

What are you talking about? This is ketchup-y, right? Am I not, am I crazy? No, but it's great. What's wrong with ketchup? I like ketchup. There's something, and I love any sort of like Thousand Island-y,? Am I not crazy? No, but it's great. What's wrong with ketchup? I like ketchup There's something and I love any sort of like Thousand Island-y mayo ketchup whatever me too to me This is like slightly on the wrong shade of pink. Oh, you like I know I'm in the vast majority That would be better. I want honestly take take this throws I'm not saying they do this or they should but turmeric in there like give me a little orange stop

You know I'm saying give me a little orange. Oh stop. You know what I'm saying, give me a little orange. This is like kind of almost like a grayish like mauve. I don't have. Right, am I crazy? It's not mauve. It's pink with a little bit of gray speckling in there. It's not bad. I wanna do something, Nicole.

Okay, crazy, what are you gonna do? Tender for tender. I don't think Popeye's tenders are the best, but also they're like, tend to be what I go for. Okay. And these are two Louisiana chicken shops, ultimately against each other. Mm-hmm. Dip a Raising Cane's tender in Popeyes Black and Ranch, which to me might be the best fast food dip and sauce for chicken.

Okay, let's do it. In the game. They also got the Mardi Gras mustard in the Buttermilk Ranch. Hey! But there's no reason you would need to go to the buttermilk ranch over the blackened ranch. Hey, I'll say this, the blackened ranch at Popeyes and the cane sauce are quite similar. I thought they wouldn't be that similar. This, no, these are worlds apart. No, I'm talking, no. In color? They're both pink sauces. No, but I'm saying there's more orange. Look, I'm not crazy.

There's more orange in the Popeye sauce, making it a significantly more pleasant looking sauce. Okay, but it doesn't taste good. This is what I believe. I don't think anybody out there should have the same crazy beliefs that I do. I don't think. But it's what I believe. You think the Black and Ranch tastes better

than the Cane sauce? Are you being a serious person right now? It's so bland. It's so flavorless compared to the Okay, and then and then uh-huh dipping it into the cane sauce. I'm trying them back-to-back for the first time. Oh Yeah, can't sauce is great Cane sauce is great. It's a million times better. CALLING ALL SELLERS Calling all sellers, Salesforce is hiring account executives to join us on the cutting edge of technology.

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apparently there's no celery salt in there, but I've always had a conspiracy of there's celery salt in there. I think there's celery salt in there. You think you're tasting celery salt, right? There's a reason why people get like, like diet coke fountain drinks and fill it with the cane sauce.

It's really that good. It is, tasting it next to the blackened ranch from Popeyes, which the blackened ranch from Popeyes comes in the sealed little container that has all the ingredients list on it, because Popeyes now has got 3,000 locations, I think. Incredible. And you look at the ingredients, it's soybean oil, water, vinegar, corn syrup, right? That's gonna be the top ingredient for pretty much any dip exhaust. Yes. Any sort of package sauce like that, yeah. And also anytime you see soybean oil as an amount of ingredient, that means mayonnaise most likely, right? If you were to look at the ingredients list of cane sauce, it would probably read similar because it's obviously mayonnaise based but

The cane sauce comes in just like a little deli cup that you'd get at a family restaurant And it says cane sauce on the cup. It makes me feel like they pour it fresh and that's what I'm saying I it makes you picture somebody like whisking stuff together Whereas the Popeyes it, there is something artificial tasting about the ranch. You're tasting that little bite of pure citric acid that they're adding for freshness, right? Yes, yes.

Whereas the cane sauce, it tastes like something your buddy Tim's mom made to dip her famous buffalo chicken dippers in. There's thoughtfulness in cane sauce that I don't taste in any of those. Her famous buffalo chicken dippers are just like a Costco bag of any tiesers that she puts a little bit of Tony Sashers on. Yeah, I swear. Did you try the Popeyes tender yet? Her famous buffalo chicken dippers are just like a Costco bag of any tiesers that like she puts a little bit of like Tony

Sashers on yeah, I swear. Did you try the the Popeyes tender yet? No, she would again. I tried it already That is an unnatural shape of a chicken. This looks like the HEPTA pod language from Arrival the I will say the consistency of Kane's tenders are great Popeyes has never had very consistent tenders and I do find them generally quite overcooked. I agree with that. Trying to Popeyes tender. I agree with your mentality. The seasoning on it is great. The cook on it, garbaggio.

Very overcooked chicken. Very. However, the dredge. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. The dredge... Phenomenal! Phenomenal! The dredge is benomina! Do-do-do-do-do. Popeye's seasoning, Popeye's dredge is perfect.

If you had Popeye's seasoning and dredge with the raising canes chicken and attention to detail dipped in the cane sauce, I think it would be perfect. I think so too. Like fried chicken for fried chicken, which one of these do you think is better? Which one would you gravitate towards? Based off chicken cookery alone? Yeah. That's have to say Raising Kings. You have to.

It'd be wrong to not. Is there like a thick, well here's a giant thick Popeyes tender. I got a thick boy, I got a thick boy tender. Are they cutting these in stores I wonder? This is very heavily wet brined. You can tell how wet brined it is because like- Because of the snappiness.

The snappiness, the striations of the chicken. I don't- Is this bordering on too salty? The Popeyes one? Popeyes chicken tenders. But there's something- In their bone-in chicken, it works. But there's something other than salt in there,

which I like. There is, it's actually spicy. There's MSG, yeah, there's MSG, there's paprika, there's garlic, there's onion. These are all flavors that I equate with delicious chicken tenders. But unfortunately, the cook on the chicken takes away from it.

My world was really rocked when I looked up, this is the type of stuff that rocks my world these days. My world was rocked when I looked up Taco Bell's top selling items. And I thought I'd see cheesy gordita crunches and crunch wraps and all that. The top selling items are soft taco, hard taco, bean burrito, by far.

Right, 7-Eleven makes their money by selling cigarettes and lotto tickets. Right, it's not their egg salad sandwiches and whatever. That's all window dressing. So all of this like variety at Popeyes, it's really cool, right? Popeyes doesn't make any money selling shrimp. What they do is they have an excuse to advertise, hey new shrimp promotion at Popeyes, remember Popeyes

exists it's the same reason Oreos makes all those stupid flavors. Oh it's not because they're having fun? I'm sure the Nabisco Corporation also loves having fun but I'm saying Oreo isn't like oh my god the bomb pop 4th of July Oreos are gonna make us billions. Sure. They lose money on the bomb pop Oreos, but they remind people that Oreos exists. They get a bunch of people making content, trying the new Oreos, people get excited at the stores, and then Oreos at top of mind. So you think that's what's happening with Popeyes? More or less, right? Like they're, nobody really wants a flounder sandwich from a fast food restaurant that often,

but they had to follow up their success with a chicken sandwich somewhere. What you lose then is attention to detail and consistency. If you're a restaurant and you can do one thing, and that's fry a damn good chicken tender and put together this little home-wist sauce with some little like... Flex? There's flex. I love the flex.

There's black pepper, there might be celery salt, there's something, it's like... This is great, and you can do that consistently. The craziest thing about Canes, so Canes right now, they're I think 22nd ranked in terms of total revenue of all fast food restaurants, all fast food chains in America.

Popeyes is 15th. There are more than four times as many Popeyes locations. So raising Canes per unit does I think something like $5.7 million per unit, which is about three times the average. That is insane. Popeyes is like 1.8. So per store, Canes kills it because they move volume, right? Because they're doing just a few things.

They're doing a few things well. They're not slowing down to fry the shrimp. You know, they're not slowing down to... It must be a French fry from Popeyes. How do you feel about their Cajun fries? It's Cajun fries against crinkle fries. Crinkle fries signify the death of American intellectualism. I agree.

But damn, aren't they tasty. They look so cranny. If we're talking sides, do you go Cajun fries or crinkle cut fries? I mean, to me it's 10 times out of 10 Cajun fries. Potato plus seasoning? No. That's what I'm saying, the crinkle cut fries at Cain's,

crinkle cut does nothing for me. It's like a total nostalgia thing. Crinkle cut's fake. Crinkle cut is fake news. I will say this, Nicole, though, you love crinkle cutting your own vegetables, and I have told you that I hate it. Not fries, though.

But not fries, though. You'll crinkle cut anything except a potato. Yeah. Why is that? Because whenever you're making a large batch of french fries, you gotta do it a lot. But if I'm making, I don't know, like spring rolls, and I just wanna cut a cucumber and a carrot, I'll do it.

But not like 40 potatoes. That's a fair point, actually. I'm willing to express my love for someone in small it, but not like 40 potatoes. That's a fair point, actually. Like, I'm willing to express my love for someone in like small doses, but not too much. They get greedy. What of the bread option, Nicole? Oh, we got the Popeye's biscuit. You gotta drink candy?

That's a meme. I'm gonna dip it in my La Croix. You know what a biscuit is? What's that? It's just a vehicle for eating baking powder. You can taste the baking powder. It's butter and baking powder. Yeah, it really is.

That's what a biscuit is. I don't really care for it though. I'm not a big fast food biscuit. What I do with a fast food biscuit is I drown it in honey and butter. Right? That's a great... You don't raw dog a biscuit. No, no, no. never raw dog a biscuit.

Never, never. Cane's on the other hand. This Texas toast is sexy. Yo, this is a sexy bread, the Cane's bread. It's enriched, it's enriched white bleached flour. I don't know if you know this, but most people do, Nicole, is they eschew the coleslaw. I love the coleslaw because it's the part.

What does eschew mean? Eschew, they forego it. They poo poo it. They poo poo it. I am not here to poo poo the coleslaw because it's the part. What does esjoo mean? Esjoo, they forego it. They poo poo it. They poo poo it. I am not here to poo poo the coleslaw. For extra bread. What? Eat a vegetable? So most people, coleslaw to me, is American panchan.

Panchan are the generally pickled fermented vegetables and sides that go with like Korean barbecue or several other Korean meals. This is all we get in America is coleslaw. And that's fine. It's great. I am a host law for coleslaw. Acidic, sweet, crunchy. I'm a host law And that's fine. I am a host law for coleslaw. Acidic, sweet, crunchy. I'm a host law for coleslaw. I'm also a whore. A whore slar for coleslaw. Crock-o-peanut slar. You mean a Crock-o-peanut pop-eye slar? I'm sorry, did you say words to me?

This is the best bread I've ever eaten in my GD life. Why is Raising Cane's Texas Toast so fire? Do you remember during the chicken sandwich, oh my God, it's so good, there's a margarine-y, I don't know if they're using- Yeah, salty buttery goodness. I don't know if it's butter or if it's hydrogenated vegetable oil plus butter extract.

I like whatever it is. You know what it is, it's excellent. Dip it in the mayonnaise sauce. When Popeye's came out with the chicken sandwich and then everybody was like, we gotta race to make it. We gotta make one. I remember reading about Burger King and their CEO was like,

we went to 14 different pickle factories to find the right pickles. So nerdy. But so much of fast food is about sourcing. I agree, so much about any sort of food item. 100%. And so like, you know, I don't think Todd Graves is out there baking this bread

in his own oven, right? But when they were deciding on a like national distributor for breads, for raising canes. Whatever they chose, it was the winner. This is genuinely the best fast food bread product I've ever eaten, right? I think it's probably number one. This is nuts. It's really good.

And not that I'm like new to it, but this is the first time that I haven't just like inhaled it while mashing it around a chicken tender. Have you been thoughtful? Yeah. Raising Cain is thoughtful, guys. Oh. What? This is great. I know.

Unbelievable. I mean, this is like, if you made a lobster roll out of this bread. You'd be a happy camper. You'd be a very happy camper. Right. It's a good piece of bread. This is unreal. It's definitely in the cane sauce. I'm being converted to a full cane-iac over here.

Dude, me too. I was pro Popeyes, but now I'm starting to eschew. Eschew. Eschew. Can I tell you though why Popeyes has a certain edge? Look at the color of everything. Everything in Popeyes is slightly oranger. The slaw. And that makes you happy?

Orange foods to me are the best. Yeah, it used to be all about brown foods, but now you're not into brown foods? Well, don't say that, I'm still a brown food guy. But no, you know what I mean? There's that little orange of spice that invokes like, oh, there's been a chili pepper in here. There's been a mustard in here.

Interesting, okay. That is the whitest slaw I've ever seen it taste. Well, maybe because they want it to be white. Maybe they want it to be white. Nothing wrong with being white, it's fine. Just like, don't say it out loud, it's weird. Well, this has purple in it a little bit of purple It's a weird amount of purple

I think it's a I think it's studded with purple like and like a beautiful diamond necklace with sapphires So when I was a kid we used to get what was called bagged American salad mix me too We talked about this we have similar experiences. Although we have led different lives just two children of immigrants here, you know My mom left South Africa in 1974. Your stepmom from Vietnam. My mom is from South Africa. Was she really? Yeah she left when she was like 17. What? I thought she was born and raised in America. Oh wait a minute she had an accent. Your mother had a South African accent? Yeah not like that though it was more British. I didn't know that. But there was red cabbage. Bagged American salad mix, it was iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, and carrots. Yeah, no carrots, never had enough carrots. 2% carrot, 3% red cabbage, 95% iceberg.

100% iceberg and like campylobacter bacteria just sitting in the bag. But none of us liked the occasional shard of red cabbage. We had an exotic lizard. You had a lizard growing up? I think my dad was dating, so many stories from our childhood don't really add up. My dad was like dating a woman with a weird son who I'm pretty sure sold drugs. But anyways, he moved into our studio apartment at one point and he brought a lizard. And then he moved out and my dad broke up with the woman, and he left this weird exotic,

so we had like an exotic drug dealer's lizard. Sorry, a drug dealer's exotic lizard. Um... I thought I knew everything about you, but lo and behold... And we didn't know what to feed it, and we fed it the red cabbage from our salad mix. How long did it stay alive?

A little while, I think we kinda just forgot about it. What was the lizard's name? Exotic lizard's name? I don't remember. Braxton or something? Braxton? The exotic lizard? Something.

You have so many great stories and so many not so great stories, but that was a positive one. I liked it. I like the Popeye's coleslaw more. Raising Canes really does taste fresh. Their food really does taste fresh in a way that I... I find the coleslaw from Popeyes to be fresher and crunchier.

You know why I think? Is it cause it's orange? Orange! No, Popeyes, I think it's been sitting in the sugar and salt and acid, and that's been drawing out the moisture from the cabbage, which literally makes it crunchier in certain ways. I like it more.

I do like Popeyes more. I let my slaws sit. I let them sit overnight. We gotta try the sandwich. I'm full. You're full. Nicole, you're at your job. Like, sometimes at your job, people get bored, but you still have to put together the TPS

reports. At our job, I mean, go to your level of comfort. Don't do anything you're not comfortable with. At our job, we have to eat. What's a TS report? TPS report, I don't know, I only know the reference from Office Space. Okay, so I got us a classic sandwich,

I didn't get the spicy, which I know, shame on me. Big breast. Pop-I sandwich, they made a big breast shiny bun. Don't ever look at me and say big breast again. Okay, I'll sue I'll sue So good, man. I Want to pick up a chicken sandwich. I want to for sure pickle remains. I want to pickle for sure the best in the game I will say

They had better quality control of just like So if you get a perfectly cooked breast in that Popeyes chicken sandwich, it's the greatest thing. I have never had a Raising Cane's chicken sandwich. I actually didn't even know they had this. I didn't know either, but there's chicken tenders in the sandwich.

So if you like the cook of the chicken tenders, chances are you will like the cook of this. That is true. And there is leaf lettuce. I don't like the leaf lettuce. Crinkle cut fries, leaf lettuce. There's fries in the sandwich? There's a different sauce on this too, I believe. Whoa.

On the top, or is that just cane sauce that has dried out a little bit? Turn it around, let me see. No, but you see that kind of sugary... I think that's cane sauce. Just cane sauce that's separated nice. How does the bread stand up to the Texas toast? That sandwich is... You ever watch Talladega Nights? No, but I've seen a lot of,

but I finished the Righteous Gemstones and I'm watching Vice Principals right now. What do those things have to do with each other? What's the link? I was thinking like Danny McBride. He's not in Talladega Nights. Oh, what? It's John C. Reilly. Oh! Did you think John C. Reilly's character was played by Danny McBride? Mm-hmm. It's got a big Danny McBride energy. I'm sorry. Maggie, can you confirm that Danny McBride was not in Talladega Nights? He really should have been. Been a great dynamic ride vehicle. The curly hair, a little bit chunky, cute, funny. Sorry I got them mixed up. Don't be mad at me. Be mad at the context.

Yeah, no I don't believe he was in it. Sorry! There's a scene in Talladega Nights where Sasha Baron Cohen is in the dive bar and he starts playing jazz in the jukebox and everyone freaks out and he goes Wait, if you do not want people to play jazz, why is it in the jukebox? Okay, he said we only have it there to weed out people we don't like That's that sandwich. They only have it on the canes menu to weed out people. It shouldn't be at Raising Cans. I agree It's a trap. It's a trap, but there's lettuce. I understand why they had to do it sandwiches are selling No lettuce does nothing makes everything worse build your own sandwich with the Texas toast Absolutely the move Don't don't don't give in don't give in to the BS. Don't fall for it. You're smarter than that

What do you think so right now Keynes has like massive massive? Expansion plans not like massive like we want to take over the world and have 50,000 locations But they're like we want to you know open up like raising Keynes in Dubai. I don't know I don't know about their Dubai plans But no they want to open they want to open up another like 700 locations in the next like five ten in the US In the US and also keep same-store sales above what they are now Do you think that this can just keep growing or eventually are we gonna like see a bubble? Because I thought like 20 years ago,

somebody would have told you what Starbucks is going to become. It would have sounded unreasonable. Yet Starbucks kept growing. Can Canes do that? Although Starbucks got a lot more complicated. I think if Canes remains thoughtful and intentional with their menu,

are you going to throw up? No, I was just burping. Oh, I think if they remain intentional and thoughtful with their menu as they've been so far, I think they can surpass Popeyes. But I think they need to realize what they have, their core competencies and stick to that and just push that into the world. But the thing, the thing I'm worried about is you, that thing about the Oreos you said about constant innovation to remind people that they still exist.

How are they going to do that without compromising their core competencies? I don't know. Post Malone. He can't do everything Josh. Yes he can. Post Malone has new Oreos out too. Oh, he does? Posty, we love you man.

Do they have tattoos on them or something? What is it, temporary tattoo Oreos? What's going on? He literally did design the design on the cookie. Posty, you are holding up half of the food industry at this point. Soon we're gonna have honey bunches of oats by Post Malone. Wasn't, isn't it by Post Cereal?

Post Cereal, Post Malone, like come on. We need you everywhere. But Raising Canes, if I was ever a skeptic before, I've been fully, fully converted to being a caneyac. I will maybe bring my own blackening seasoning to dump on the chicken tenders, but I'm fully converted. They are doing a wicked freaking job.

Absolutely, Raising Cane's is doing it right. Still love Popeyes, but eating them next to each other, man. Night and day. That's a good tendy. Yeah.. God I'm so full. What dessert options do they have? All right now it's time for a new segment called... Yummy in my tummy got some trivia for you. That's right. Robot Meg Maggie has three questions prepared Nicole You and I will wait until the question is complete and then we will answer if wrong the other person gets a chance to steal For the point Nicole you ready for it. Yeah, but I'm so full right now. Yeah, she can't think I can't think I can't drag her down

Into the mud you're in my world now What determines the color of an egg shell oh in the world now. What determines the color of an eggshell? Oh, shoot. This is definitely something I should know. I have a... Yeah. Yeah, I have one to say. On three. One, two. The breed of chicken. I don't think it's feed related. I think it's the breed of chicken.

We got feed and breed. The correct answer is the breed of chicken. Well done, man. The color of the yolk has to do with feed. Yeah, I knew that. Chicken fed with kelp has a... What was the first vegetable ever to be grown in space? Oh, I know.

On three? Peppers. The correct answer is the potato. What? Wait, why do we think pepper? Because we did an episode on this and then they cooked peppers in 2000. But that was NASA related, but there's a likelihood that other space people. Like Martians?

No! Like Matt Damon cooked meat and fruit potatoes in his poop. Maybe the Russians, the Russians and potatoes. That makes sense. Maybe. You're Googling it? I'm doing some Googling. But me and you thought it was.

1995. Who did it, did NASA did it? NASA, why did we both go to Pepper though? Because we did an episode on banned space food and we did something about peppers for some reason. That's so interesting. Well, yeah, what are you gonna do? Nothing lose Which country is the largest producer of olive oil? I'm gonna guess right here. You think America I

Was going to but now I'm gonna change my answer. Oh, no, that that's a pretty I mean America produces a lot of stuff We stuff people but I don't all of all of groves take a lot to Manage I'm gonna I'm gonna make I'm gonna I'm gonna I have an answer. Should I say my answer? Italy I was gonna say Italy too Or Spain Italy or Spain? I'm gonna say Spain I'm saying Italy then I'm fading her bet No, no, I can't do that. That'm saying Italy then. I'm fading her bet. No, no. I'm saying Spain. You can't do that.

That's not allowed. Spain, I think, Spain bigger. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, a mulligan, a mulligan. I'm gonna say Portugal. I'll take Italy. No, no, I take Spain. Definitely not Portugal.

I take Spain, I take Spain. A sea-based economy. The correct answer is Spain. Hey, wait, what did I say? Italy. Ah, dang it. So we're tied? Spain is a lot more just open farming.

Spain is a lot more open farming. Spain is a lot more open farming. Spain is a lot more open farming. Spain is a lot more open farming. Spain is a lot more open farming. Spain is a lot more'd I say? Italy. Ah, dang it. So we're tied? Spain is a lot more just open farmland. Yeah. Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? Let's go to Spain. Let's go to Spain. I want to go to Ibiza. I want to go to Spain and then we go to Ibiza and we party. Nicole, good show. Good show. Well, you know what that means?

What? Well, we do a segment. It's time, I was saying it's the time for a little segment we call Opinions Are Like Casserole! ["Opinions Are Like Casserole!" by The Bachelorette plays.] Josh, before we do this, I have to get something off of my chest that I really want to know your opinion.

I know you want to know mine. I want to do an FMK. You know what that means? I do. Flirt, marry, kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So since you were doing a whole thing about Popeyes and raising canes, let's do it with chickens.

Let's do it. Okay, so FMK, bone-in chicken, chicken tenders, popcorn chicken, tell me your thoughts and feelings. Ooh, well just a little flirtation here. I'm gonna go popcorn chicken tell me your thoughts and feelings. Oh, well just a little flirtation here I'm gonna go popcorn chicken. You're flirting with pop flirting with popcorn chicken It's not my main not my end-all be-all, but just pop in those little spicy nuggies in your mouth I'm killing chicken tendies Oh, I think anything a chicken tendie can do, popcorn chicken can also do.

More surface area on popcorn chicken for breading. As far as marriage, the one that I want to grow old with. Bone-in chicken, there's nothing better than a bone-in chicken thigh. In my opinion, even a bone-in chicken breast, you get a better cook on that breast meat because of the proximity to bone. None of the best chicken tenders

can ever hold a candle to the best bone in fried chicken. What I'm learning about me and you is we have different definitions of marriage. What's your definition of marriage? Well, you wanna grow, well, you're like someone you just wanna grow old and have this long extended, long winded thing with. For me, it's more like, hey, you're there, I love it.

That's not married. That's the F in FMK. That's like you're here for a little bit temporarily. I enjoy my time with you. I wanna flirt you. Mine's the opposite. I wanna flirt the SHI double hockey sticks out of you. Maybe that's something I have to figure out later.

Yeah, this sounds like you should talk to a therapist about. Yeah, but I would flirt with popcorn chicken as well because you can, now listen, with chicken tenders, you can't drench them in sauces the way you can't popcorn chicken. Popcorn chicken, you can put mango habanero over it, like Boneless Wings. You're saying you have more opportunity.

Yeah, yeah, it's saucier and there's more variety and I'm into that. I'm gonna kill bone and chicken because too much work. It's killing history. I'm down. All chicken is bone and chicken. We forsaked God by removing bones. I am here to forsake God in this conversation. Sure.

And then chicken tenders, I'm gonna marry them. I'm gonna marry them. They're there and they're good and I love them and they're in mass quantities and they're always reliable and I love them so much. Chicken tenders were invented for children. You're marrying a child Am I

Is that true I respect your opinions not that but yeah, let's get into the let's get it. Let's hear it Hi Josh hi Nicole Kentucky I have a hot take and Hi Josh, hi Nicole. Hey Betty. We're so far apart. I am from Kentucky. I have a hot take and... Tell me about the hot brown. I think that Chipotle would just completely take over the game if they came out with a breakfast burrito. I think you're right.

I'm talking gravy. Oh God. Little hash browns, sausage, bacon, steak, eggs, you name it. I'm disgusted, but I want it. I just think that would be amazing. Okay. Well, God bless you guys. Interesting.

Okay, you know. Interesting, God bless you, sir, because that is a good idea that we've thought about before. I don't know if I would do an American breakfast. I think I would go towards the Mexican, like, canon of breakfast burritos. I don't know that Mexican, like, canon of breakfast burritos. I don't know that there is a Mexican canon of breakfast burrito. I think that's a very American phenomenon, the breakfast burrito.

You think a breakfast burrito, when you think of a breakfast burrito, is like, um, gravy and- Gravy's a wild card, but they also have like- And sausage like that? The gravy takes the place of the queso on the current Chipotle bar. But like, see, I wouldn't do that. What I would do is I would go with more Mexican flavors. Like I would do a chorizo situation or like a machaca situation instead of like sausage

links. Yeah, I feel like they would have, what about bacon? I would do bacon. I'd like bacon. Bacon's a very American product. Obviously a lot of bacon is eaten in Mexico. It is eaten in Mexico. And it's probably the most popular breakfast burrito meat. That's fine. Yeah.

But I would I would err more to the sides of well when you think of Chipotle you think of Mexican flavors, right? Founded by a guy named Steve from Colorado. I understand that but they just have a white rice. No, you're not understanding the flavors are Mexican. So I think they would have to do Mexican inspired flavors for their breakfast burritos. That's that's interesting. The thing that I think. would have to do Mexican inspired flavors for their breakfast burritos That's that's interesting the thing that I think Even if you go to a Mexican restaurant, right? It was just watering like think about the classic Mexican restaurants in and out like the old-school spots something like I know it's called Lucy's But they're a Mexican restaurant like Lucy's, you know, like they have it's it's

Yellow cheese. It's scrambled eggs, it's bacon. They have chorizo for sure, but that's still just chorizo with potato egg and yellow cheese and a side of salsa most likely. They're not doing, I mean, a lot of breakfast burritos have beans, I love a breakfast burrito with beans in it. I love like a machaca burrito. I don't even, machaca is not even typically

a breakfast dish in Mexico, I don't believe. Really, why have I seen it on so many? Because eggs, Americans only eat eggs for breakfast, and it's weird. We're the only country that does that. I love a chili verde burrito. Chili verde breakfast burrito? Yeah. I don't know that I've ever had that.

I've had it. The thing with the chipotle breakfast burrito is you have to operate on a steam table. Yeah. Which is great for like beans and stewed meats, and they work it with their grilled meats, and the rice always comes out like solid-edged pole. A scrambled eggs in a steam table.

That's reading straight like holiday and express continental breakfast. But it's good. They can find a way to flip the script on it though. They would find a way to do it. They would find a way to market it and it would be cool. And they'd be like, do you want Mexican eggs or like normal eggs? And they have like the huevos a la Mexicana, right? Yeah, or they do chilequiles. Oh, shoot. They do chilequiles. With the tomato and the chile. Oh shoot.

They do chilequiles. Just a vat of chilequiles. You know what else they do? Or migas. They would do a vat of migas. You know what I think that they do? I think, well I've seen at Whole Foods what they did a long time ago

whenever they had those specialty bowls and whatnot, they would have fried eggs ready to go. Wow. They would have a vat of fried eggs ready to go. It would be great. You know what I've done in a breakfast burrito because he said he said gravy and my mind was like that's very normal But I see why you'd think is weird because I once made a burrito at home, which was like Scrambled eggs cheese a dense sausage gravy So a lot of sausage and then I crumble I made biscuits just to crumble up inside the burrito

So it was a biscuits and gravy burrito, and it was GERD. It was GERD? It was GERD. Does that mean good? GERD canter. It gave you GERD? It gave me GERD.

Interesting idea. I don't know if they'll ever do it. I think if they did do it, it'd be in airports. Because they're not contracted through the restaurant. They do it like through their own system. And so I feel like you could find a Chipotle that serves breakfast burritos in airports. That's my advice.

Okay. I love the red salsa. Thank you. Thanks, Nicole. Wow, it's so great to finally speak to you. Hey, Josh. Anyway, my opinion is, I think that pepperoni can be crisped up in a pan

as a good substitute for bacon. Okay. Hey, hey. Notch it almost like you would Taylor Ham. And yeah, anything you would normally use bacon for, you can use crispy pepperoni. You're right. Okay, stop the podcast. Bye.

Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed. The way he greeted me is such big like girlfriend's girlfriend's boyfriend greeting me energy. Oh. So like, like, like a friend of Julia's boyfriend, you know, that I've never met before, first time. And the girl's like, oh my God, hey, oh my God, hi. And then like me and the dude that have never met each other and he's like, sup.

Hey, sup. And then later you just go like. I'm sorry that you and those people have such shallow initials. No, it's not like, it's not, no, I'm saying, you know, it's like a never met. What's the reasoning for saying, you know, it's like a, it's like a never met. What's the reasoning for it? You know, it's like a, men were taught to treat other men

as threats and not have a sort of warm intimacy with each other. Your husband is incredibly intimate. Does he? Such an intimate man. David, you're very intimate. Does he ever feel like any man is his like direct competition? No, no, that's actually one of the things I love most

Yeah, I guess I guess the men I surround myself with are not like that at all. So I I didn't understand the 20 minutes later He's go You play fancy football and I just go no, I'm big into sports betting though. And I go Do you see it now deep conversations? Yeah, why do people ask if people ski like do you think everyone's rich? Yeah? Ski we're in Los Angeles. I went snowboarding once and I was a kid with a borrowed snowboard never basketball teammates Dad who worked for a snowboard company. How do you feel about this opinion though? It's good great. Yeah next He's right. You should say it more. Hey Josh. Hey, Nicole. Hey, Maggie I'm calling from Mormon Sunny, Indianapolis. Heck yeah. I'm a huge fan of the show, so much so I've shared it with friends

and family. But I really appreciate you being able to help me settle a debate that I recently had with one of my roommates. Of course. So basically I found out that he pronounces mayonnaise as mayonnaise. Oh. Cutting out like the Y and O mayonnaise. Yeah. But I've always pronounced it may-nays. Oh, interesting. And we both fully accept that they're both totally incorrect pronunciations of mayonnaise,

but no one has time to say the full Christian giving name. But anyways, I was really hoping you could help us settle the debate. Thanks. I love the podcast. Keep could help us settle the debate. Thanks. I love the podcast. Keep doing what you guys are doing. Thanks. Thanks. Fascinating.

So it's mayonnaise versus mayonnaise? I'm confused. I think I've found a graph. Show me, show me, show me, flip, flip, flip. So wait, do we have it? Wait, Nicole, stall. Okay. La da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.

Mayonnaise. Wait, do it again. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Do we have it wait Nicole stall? Okay? Mayonnaise wait do it again mayonnaise mayonnaise mayonnaise Okay, so so so I have indeed found a graph here, but it doesn't seem to be a clean regional split at all So what you're talking about there are?

Trying to think of a good example. There's something called like the pin pen merger where like, or the, okay, so the marry marry marry merger. Oh yeah, you tell me about this. Right? This is something where for me, M-E-R-R-Y, M-A-R-Y and M-A-R-R-Y all sound the same. They're all pronounced Mary. Mary got married and had a marry wedding. Whereas for somebody from like the East Coast, like my mother-in-law, Susan, is from New Jersey originally, and she would say Mary got married and had a marry wedding.

Three different ways to pronounce it. And you can see that on a graph geographically. Regional accents are sort of like fading away, but I thought that the mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise might have had a similar split. But no, I'm looking at this graph and the data all seems to be completely interconnected. So what they graphed are two syllables as in mayonnaise, which I would say mayonnaise. I say mayonnaise.

You say mayonnaise? I say mayo. So like mayonnaise, two syllables. Mayonnaise. You just say mayonnaise. I say mayonnaise. You say mayonnaise? Well, I say mayo. So like mayonnaise, two syllables. Mayonnaise. You just said mayonnaise. What's the difference between mayonnaise and mayonnaise? It's the difference between Monet and Manet, entirely different people, pronounced two different names.

I guess you're right. Mayonnaise and mayonnaise, there's no data on... Get that mayonnaise from... Get the mayonnaise? Can you get the mayonnaise? Get the mayonnaise. I don't know, How do I say it? I think I also interchange it. I just say mayo. I generally say mayo too, but if you were to say mayonnaise, mayonnaise is two syllables for mayonnaise.

You say mayonnaise, I think I say mayonnaise. So are, but are you slurring the third syllable? Yes, I'm always slurring. Pronounce it very slowly. Mayonnaise. Slower. Mayonnaise. Two syllables. So you're saying slowly. May-nays. Slower. May-nays. Two syllables.

So you're saying may-nays. I'm saying may-nays. So you say- So we have the same problem with these two fighting roommates in Indianapolis. So may-nays versus may-nays? Yes, but- So I'm connecting the ay-uh with the man, so may-uh. So-

So I think- Hold on. So instead of saying may-uh of saying mayonnaise, I'm saying mayonnaise. You know what I mean? I'm combining the mayo, may-uh-nays, the first two syllables I'm doing mea, and it's may-uh, mayonnaise! No, I think you actually raise a good point. You are… Yes, I know what I do. I'm smart. You have an implied third syllable where I don't. Yes, I do. I do. I've always had an implied third syllable when I say mayonnaise.

A hundred percent. Like if somebody's doing mischief, what is the adjective? What are they? Huh? God dang it. If you say somebody who does mischief, they are a? Mischievous person. Say it slower.

Mischievous. Mischievous. Mischievous. Mischievous. Mischievous. I don't say mischievous. I don't say mischievous. I'm strictly a three syllable mischievous guy. Okay.

So that's like a clear split in our syllabic pronunciation, right? So you say this is a mischievous person. You don't say... He's a mischievous person? You're acting mischievous. No. You are mischievous. You are acting mischievously.

You're acting David Miskevichly. So I think the way to fix this, because this is clearly a problem. Huge problem. Just call it Mayo. Just call it Mayo. Congratulations. So there's what they graphed here. We have a two syllable mayonnaise. Patty Mayonnaise.

Because I'm completely forsaking the Y. I'm not pronouncing the May. It is obviously May, even though it's named after a town in Spain that was spelled with an H, Mahone, Mahonez. Is that where Patrick Mahomes got his name? No, that's not where Patrick Mahomes got his name. And God, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is obviously made even though it's named after a town in Spain that was spelled with an H Mahone Mahonez is that where Patrick Mahomes got his name? No, it's not where Patrick Mahomes got his name and God I hope this is I don't know when this is airing after the Super Bowl, but God I hope he doesn't have another ring give it to Jalen Hurts. Yeah, Jalen Hurts. Graf everybody pronounces it differently It's split so evenly between a three syllable mayonnaise

mayonnaise and a two syllable mayonnaise between a three syllable mayonnaise mayonnaise and a two syllable mayonnaise yeah sorry we literally could not solve that whatsoever I just did I told them to call it mayo Nicole do you see the distribution I've been on the same graph as you bestie I'm on the same graph as you show them the graph I'm not crazy there's a graph look at the graph look at this graph well I can't believe we got Nickelback, Patrick Mahomes and Mayonnaise all in the same conversation. David Miskevich. Who's that? Oh the Scientology guy? I knew it. Bad person. Well I'm so sorry I really thought when you said I was hoping you'd settle a debate

for me I'd be like of course we can. Thousands have asked us, 100% success rate. No. We don't have to follow up with any of them. I could have told you about pecan versus pecan. I could have told you about any of that. No, not mayonnaise versus mayonnaise. Sorry, bestie. Incredible.

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