A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Taco Bell vs. Del Taco

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

Today, Josh and Nicole are diving deep into the ultimate fast-food showdown: Taco Bell vs. Del Taco!  Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 Check out the video version of this podcast: http://youtube.com/@mythicalkitchen To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what? That makes no sense. 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 Josh Ayer. I'm your host Nicole. She's the bell and I'm the down today we're sksksksk scorching your world N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n- like give people autonomy? Something like that. Do you remember Gary Johnson, libertarian political candidate? No. He, his like whole thing, I think this is 2016,

his whole thing was just like, guys, we should really make pot legal. And then somebody during like a debate or a town hall thing was like, but what about the rise in cardiac arrests or marijuana or something? And then he pretends to have a heart attack on stage and falls to the ground and gets up funny

You know I don't generally agree with libertarian politics, but I thought Gary Johnson's fake heart attack was funny. What about Howard Dean's? He really look at I mean you're in an incredible grassroots came anyways today. We are talking about Taco Bell versus Dell Taco Laptops way per laptops way we should be honest with with with our lovely viewers Taco Bell versus Dell Taco. Can we put our laptops away for this one? Put our laptops away, put our laptops away. Josh, I think we should be honest with our lovely viewers. We did shoot another podcast earlier today where we ate Jollibee and now we're gonna eat Dell Taco and Taco Bell. And I'm so full I just burped up Pancit Paraboc. But because I care about this podcast and about giving the people what they want, nay, what they deserve,

I'm gonna suffer and eat like a mountain of fast food. You know, a lot of people say the hardest job is being a mother. We know that's not true. The hardest job is being a podcast host where you have to eat silly little things. So difficult. No, I feel you. I am uncomfortably full right now. Me too. I did just go walk for an hour.

We'll nibble a nosh. We'll nibble a nosh. I'm nibble! And I'm... And we're bringing you the best far-right Jewish news from home. What are they talking about on that side, huh? Somehow only...the only political commentators on AM radio are just so far to the right. Are there like... I don't listen to the radio. Me neither. The only time I do is when I'm in an Uber and it's like, you know, 530 AM,

you're Ubering to the airport and there's just some upsetting things on AM radio. I ask them to put on music or just turn it off. Okay, Del Taco vs Taco Bell. I need my laptop for this. Some people might not know what Del Taco is. Del Taco is is as far as like this era of fast-food Mexicans The second biggest chain in America Behind Taco Bell Taco Bell, and it's far behind Taco Bell But for us is very special very regional if y'all haven't heard of del taco it is I grew up on it

They used to have really you know three for a dollar Taco Tuesday's they'd have 59 cents soft chicken Taco Tuesday They capitalized on Taco Tuesday's uh yeah Tuesdays they'd have 59 cents soft chicken taco Tuesdays Yeah I'm sure they did listen everyone everyone loves an alliteration But there's about 600 del taco locations. There's like 400 taco John's 300 taco times, right? But Taco Bell really is the king of this world del tacos making a huge expansion push The irony is they were founded within a hundred miles of each other and within like two years of each other. Interesting.

Back in the day, Taco Bell, right, was in, God, was Taco Bell downy? I think Taco Bell was in Downey in 1962 and then Del Taco was out in a city called like Yermo, outside of Barstow. Oh, I think I see the signs for Yermo when I go to Vegas. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So that was out in the desert, and Del Taco has been slowly expanding since. They have since opened, they're starting to get to the East Coast, they've opened like Pittsburgh. They got a location in Guam now, so Del Taco could be coming to your neighborhood soon,

and so you might be interested in this. Nice! Should I tell you what I ordered from each place? Absolutely. Okay, so we're gonna start with the Del Taco menu. We got their new Trejo's Tacos, Roasted Pork, Al Pastor, Epic Burrito, because I know you're all about trying the new fangle thing at every pasta place. Absolutely am.

And then we also got their beer battered, crispy fish taco made with stone, trademark, Buena Vesa Salt and Lime Lager. Dude, that is one of my favorite beers of all time. Is it? The Buena Vesa Salt and Lime, yeah. Perfect. Okay, good. It's like a gelata, but in a can. Yeah, meat gelata.

Not a meat gelata.'s like a gelata but in a can not like a me. Not a me gelata just a gelata gelata, so there's Me gelata cubana's and gelata's in different regions use them interchangeably But I would call like a me gelata something with either like a tomato or hot sauce or spice base And then gelata is just salt and lime which I love which I love too. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I throw a little Maggie in there And then we got the V del taco crunchy. We've got a chicken taco Del Carbon We got something called a bun taco. Have you heard of the bun taco at Del Taco? No, okay, literally I saw and I'm like click like instant click. It's taco meat in a it's literally sloppy Joe

It's taco meat inside of a burger bun. Oh, well, that's okay. So Taco Bell used to have that they called it the Bell Beefer Yes, but they have this it's called the bun taco interesting because Del Taco one of the big differentiating factors They have cheeseburgers and fries and they have pork and shellfish and fish, which I think is so interesting My theory is that Del Taco has been trying to scrape the ends of the bell curve because like they gotta be Taco Bell somehow Taco Bell's such a stranglehold marketing decades of consumer confidence Del Taco has gone the cheapest they've made their their original Del Tacos cheaper than Taco Bell And then they are going for the more premium items So I've had like a steak and shrimp burrito from Del Taco that probably cost like eight bucks

I was just delicious. So now they're partnering with Danny Trejo who? Godspeed, I think he filed for bankruptcy. Any home Danny Trejo founded trejo's tacos in Los Angeles They're making al pastor. Yeah We also have the crunch Tata tostada as well as the chicken cheddar quesadilla So this is our del taco menu. That's incredible. Do you want to dig into that or do you want to know we got from Taco Bell? Let's let's dig in a Taco Bell. Let's see where we can find some differences. Okay with the Taco Bell So I got their crunchy taco of course I got their nachos cheese Doritos Locos tacos because why not?

Specialty item. I got their burrito supreme. Love it. Mexican pizza. My mouth is watering The chicken quesadilla cheesy gordita crunch and because again, I know you love high ticket cool like awesome items I got you a crunch wrap supreme, but the big cheese it inside. Oh my god. I haven't had that yet. No But that shows like where they're kind of going right like Taco Bell the big-time cheese it big one new thing Yeah, and then Del Taco's like hey, we got like a like a real Mexican actor that people know I'll say this I'll say this Taco Bell leading into the cheese quite hard. Yes. They're all about the cheese, they're all about the queso.

Cheesy street chalupa, they have the queso lupa, which is Spanish for cheese chalupa. There's so much cheese in Taco Bell's menu, but I think Del Taco really focuses on proteins and like having cool, different, awesome proteins. I've never actually had Del Taco before. What the fudge? I've had Del Taco once. I've had it once before and I think I just had a Tacos Al Carbone once.

Why are you looking at me like that? That's incredible. I do remember the Tacos Al Carbone, sorry, Taco Del Carbone. Yeah, yeah, we have one of them. Tacos Del Carbone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Era when they came out with those because they were like, hey, we can make real tacos too, and I remember them being good. Where should we start? I don't know, but also the Burrito Supreme has steak in it. I decided to go with steak. Yeah, we got it

We got a do stick because we differentiate our This was okay, so the del scorcho This is the og like hottest restaurant sauce. This is hotter than the fire sauce, but then talk about came out with Diablo Oh, well, they never say them together. I shall be exclusively using Del Scorcho me thinks okay? I will do me thinks I'm a lady. I also the fedora I also think I got I tried to get mild and hot but they didn't put it in my order But we do avocado salsa the hot at Taco Bell a lot of people say it's their favorite to me There's a weird spicy fire fire sauce is also my favorite nice and tomato. We were

Bell oh well, okay crunchy dog over crunchy are we starting? Let's start with T-Bell. Oh, well, okay. Crunchy taco versus crunchy taco? Let's, okay, sure. Okay. So, it used to actually be called Casa Del Taco, which makes a lot more sense. And then they dropped that name, I think, in the early 70s.

Also, there was a Schism and Naugles. You've heard of Naugles tacos? Never in my life of being alive. They were like a small chain. I think they, but they're they're on their way back But they split off of their taco back in the day do we do we eat the same thing together? No, I think we should take I'll take a bite of this and give it to you or you take right that and give it To me okay, you can have first bite of everything some grocer To me in my mind I would think that Taco Bell's crunchy taco is considerably better because I think the meat is spiced better.

But I haven't ever tasted them side by side like this. It tastes pretty good. I will say it looks like the cheese has melted on the Del Taco one significantly more. The Del Taco taco, it's a lot bigger. It is a lot bigger and it's not softer. Like the corn, like the corn is a softer corn. Wow. I'm so sorry Taco Bell wins this one by a landslide by a mile. There's too much cumin in the Del Taco one Del Taco meat

It's not seasoned as well. Mm-hmm the tour I mean this this is bordering on a jack-in-the-box taco, right? Yes, like the meat feels like it has more filler and I know Taco Bell has gotten in trouble with their fillers only 88% beef Whatever don't talk. They'll talk is probably running like 79 to 81 percent Like it has more filler and I know Taco Bell has gotten in trouble with their fillers only 88% beef whatever Don't talk to the talk is probably running like 79 to 81% This is no contest yeah, but but but I know this is where they make their money I was arguing that somebody was probably you About I would have thought that Taco Bell's highest selling animals like a crunch rap or something. What is it by far?

It's a crunchy taco. Uh-huh crunchy taco soft taco bean burrito are the top three sellers Wow And then everything else is just a marketing ploy nice to get people to buy more crunchy tacos, right? People are buying sacks of 20 crunchy tacos for football games. Mm-hmm. I do have the other stuff so Taco Bell to me that crunchy taco. It's it's the standard bears like a 9.5 out of 10 Can I have an El El Scarcho, I'm using it as a palate cleanser. Yeah. Yeah, let's hit the del scotch. Oh see where it ranks compared to fire I haven't had this in a long time. I'm doing it by Diablo. Is that not fair? Should it not be Diablo? Should it be fire? Good so good those gorgeous good. Oh Diablo is a new one. Okay, fine. I mean newish

It's probably what like six seven years old, but. Mm. Diablo has a very unique point of view. It has a nice sweetness. More acid, more spice than the Del Scorcho. Yeah, Diablo has less sugar. I love that these just all start with water and tomato paste.

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You know, I can get by in restaurants, but I feel like it's a culture that I appreciate so much. I really want to travel all throughout Mexico and the fact that I don't speak it, I think, is weird and I think I could only appreciate the culture and food a lot more if I was actually fluent and by golly I'm gonna do it! That's great Josh, I really think you have the ability to do whatever you set your mind to and if that's learning Spanish, I think you can do it. And I failed it in college but that's because classrooms aren't always the best environment for me, which is why I'm really excited to do it through Rosetta Stone.

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You versus the guy. He tells you not to worry about. Oh god. This is the size of a Chipotle burrito and honestly when you open it, it looks like the quality of a legit sit down Mexican restaurant. That looks really good. You know? Uh huh. Dude. Is it really good? Dude what? It's excellent. Really? I can't cross-pollinate sauces. Let me uh, let me look at the price difference between the two

so it looks like the Brito Supreme is $5.39 and then the Trillococco is $7.99, but to be fair There's more than 30% bigger. Yeah. Also, I feel like from what I can see it's not a lot of squirties going on You know what I mean like they're not all stuff in there. They're there's the whapping stuff on there Dude, this is hefty and thick. Oh my god. Look at that. That looks like a Chipotle burrito. I'm telling you like Taco Bell is blessed and cursed in a certain way. Mm-hmm that Taco Bell can never taste like anything but Taco Bell Well, yeah, I didn't the day Taco Bell tastes like Taco Bell Maybe I reneged that though.

Because their new Cantina menu is something that's really interesting. For the first time, they're putting like purple cabbage in there, you know? Like the avocado salsa they have. Would you, can you grab me one of those? Because the new avocado salsa, like, this is really good. Shelf stable, salsa, aguacate, a little like,

it's kind of like salsa verde, a little bit of avocado blended in, but it's really, really delightful. They used to have a proper salsa verde, and a chipotle salsa, do you remember the chipotle salsa? No, but I remember the verde. I remember I dressed up as a verde one day. Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right.

Give me this. Yeah, Taco Bell burritos are always like a soup dumpling. I don't love Taco Bell, I don't go to Taco Bell for the burritos. I like to get a Taco Bell burrito, and Maggie, I'm so sorry, do not edit this out. Nicole, say something in value so she can't edit it it because what you do is you push it to the top. Dollars, cents, quarters, coins, paper money, checks.

You can't slurp a Del Taco burrito. But maybe that's a point to it, no? That's a hallmark of Taco Bell. But you don't need to slurp a burrito. Everything supo-fies itself. But I don't like the idea of slurping up maritos. You're gonna get supo-fied! That was my ad. David Dreemond of Disturbed Impression was song Stupified.

If you have to explain it. I know. Um, burritos, where are you going? Even though it's 30% more expensive. Okay, well also I'm biased because I don't like rice in my burritos, but I think the protein tastes so much better in the Del Taco one. So I'm gonna go Del Taco.

Even though Taco Bell, I don't love, I don't, Tastes so much better in the Del Taco one. So I'm gonna go Del Taco even though Taco Bell, I don't love I don't I don't know Taco Bell's good, but the Del Taco tastes better It tastes like a real Cantina situation. Dude. This is a real yeah. I have not seen food this Legit legit coming out of a fast food restaurant a long time. I know right like this feels incredible Yeah, I wish you could see this pork if you're on YouTube you can a little bit But it doesn't do it justice like this looks like it came from a taqueria because it's easy which is crazy It's very well seasoned. Yeah, they did a good job. You know it's almost like a little too heavily seasoned In a way, but I think it's pleasant

No, it's it's like pleasant and the size that you get for eight dollars That's pretty money, and you're trying to paint the corners of that bell curve, dude, Del Taco, you're doing it, man. Okay, let's see. We got Mexican pizza versus what is this? Crunch Tata? Oh no. How? Can Del Taco? This again proves my theory. But how can you go from this beautiful beautiful burrito al pastor? Mm-hmm To the crunch Tata tosada. I know this is their value. This is their value menu item, right? Yeah So it's a tough fight between that because Taco Bell. I think they got rid of their tosada They have a cheese of tosada right now. She's a tosada. Yeah

What are you gonna do? Incredible? But this does look a little bit sad. Uh-huh. It's you know, just beans cheese lettuce on a But this does look a little bit sad. It's just beans, cheese, lettuce on a tortilla. It's not good for delivery. This is not a delivery product. No, no, no. But also the tortillas at Del Taco seem to be markedly worse, I'd say. Yeah, they do fall apart much quicker. They're a lot softer. They're not as sturdy. No, they're not as sturdy. When you're slopping a bunch of liquid beans on it.

It does taste really good, they're not as sturdy. You know, slopping a bunch of liquid beans on it. Mmm. It does taste really good though. It tastes great. Mm-hmm. I wonder bean for bean who wins. That tastes really good. I actually really, I prefer the freshness of this to the insane duskiness from the red sauce from the Mexican pizza. The red sauce? I've never been the biggest Mexican pizza guy. I think people think I would have. You're more of a Cuntrap guy. I'm more of a C Mexican pizza guy. I think people think I would have

I'm more of a contract guy you need the vegetables Except for there's white watery tomatoes on there This like bean lettuce cheese This is like something that I grew up eating at my friend's house growing up same same same when we'd be playing like Dave Mira Freestyle at his place when I was like nine years old his dad would make Almost this exact same to a soda for us as a snack like with the iceberg lettuce. This is a dude I don't know if you remember me telling the story when I was like nine years old his dad would make almost this exact same to Asada for us as a snack Mm-hmm like with the iceberg lettuce is the dude. I don't know if you remember me telling the story where I was like Hey, why do you use lettuce instead of cabbage and he goes cuz we're not poor and he kind of like exploded at me a little bit

Well, he served some prison time. So like, you know, I think he had his emotions check But also that was when I learned that like how cabbage according to him is to him, is for poor people, and lettuce is for rich people. Who knew? Lettuce does spoil faster, makes sense. That's very good. I haven't had a Mexican pizza in a minute. Give this a whack. I'm going to tell you something.

It's not very good. I'm sorry. Mexican pizza slander, starting with me. Didn't they try to remove this and people like had like an aneurysm or something? Was it like ice spice or something? Someone brought it back. Ice spice? Dude someone brought it back? Dude who was it Maggie? You look I know cardi but a cardi was a cardi B I spice brought back the Mexican pizza doja cat. Oh

No, well the people forgiving doja cat hair grow long like Chia Money go long like Nia big me along fam I hope you know I'm using all these sauces as a palate cleanser because I need it as you should If we pick the crunched on it Does it make me a worse person? I think it's it's a bit of an injustice But I think we have to if I'm being honest I significantly enjoyed that more than the Mexican me too me too Josh We're here to be honest the people crave honesty now. know, they've been so they're being they're being

Manufactured false information fake news. It's up to us to be honest. We're the real truth tellers here. Yeah, that's right Cuz I'm the del scooch scooch scooch scorching your brains with the fire is green party takes Josh take out Jill Stein woulda won The quesadilla what's she up to man was Jill Stein would have won They got the the quesadilla. What's she up to man? What's Jill Stein doing these days? Google it Marianne Williamson. I'm telling you listen. I don't don't Google it Taco again in my mind Taco Bell's quesadillas are like the greatest thing in the world, and they made the innovation of putting mayonnaise in them Which is incredible wait look at me. I'm rich

I feel like Nick Okada. Oh God Nick Okada avocado duped us all into thinking he was killing himself, and then it turns out he just Was and then he wasn't I don't understand man. I don't know what's going on with YouTube anymore It freaks me out. He sees exactly the same to me Delta Taco Bell did revamp the grilled chicken a minute ago I think I think they're doing better work These two I used to work in a catering company that would use it shared a commissary kitchen with Taco Bell So they would use their I would take home like 10 pound sacks of Taco Bell's precooked grilled chicken and eat them for my own Meal way mm-hmm. Yeah, and it's it's got a taste to it. This is a previous formula.

It had such a unique taste to it that I got so sick of after a while. Yeah, I'm sure. Taco Bell, the mayonnaise with the hot sauce in it, that's really all it is. They're creamy jalapeno sauce. I think it's excellent. After a while it just melts all together and all tastes the same. But I think it turns it into like a self-saucing cheese. You know? Interesting.

You know what I mean? What is Del Taco? Do we have any sauce in here? I don't think so. I will say, Del Taco's chicken has always been one of my favorites because it is a whole chicken thigh part. It's just marinated in enzyme to hell. You know what I mean?

Like there's a chemical tenderizer in it. But it's good? It's always been great. I can't taste the difference Josh Whoa, whoa, whoa? Can you taste the difference? Del tacos grilled chicken is miles miles better try the chicken out of it Don't who's chicken it. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm drunk this one's better. Try the del taco grilled chicken versus the Taco Bell Okay, but I'm not picking out, but you know I'm not eating it like this I'm not picking it out like I know but I think if you're if you're split even on which one is better

Yeah, shade towards the one with the best grilled chicken Del Del Taco their protein game is miles ahead of well Taco Bell clears on beef Okay, fair, you know, and I think that's what most people are going but chicken quesadilla for chicken quesadilla This to me is a bit of an upset. I am shocked Yeah, and how good the Del Taco quesadilla is this to me is a bit of an upset. I am shocked at how good the Del Taco quesadilla is. They don't use the three cheese blend, they're just using cheddar, which like, is probably the best of the three cheeses in there, so might as well use it all.

But the grilled chicken's incredible. Was Del Taco winning, Meggie? It's three to one, Del Taco. Holy cannoli! Well, well, well. What do you wanna eat now? I'm full. Yeah, go ahead.

Bestie, I'm full. I'm back with part two. We have a, oh, we have to try the crutch up with the cheese it inside I don't know what to compare it to the This podcast and brought to you by half flat fresca. I've seen justice half flat for fresca mug So sorry, which okay, which one are we eating that again? Um this the Shake up this and have now we're getting into some specialty items here. Oh man. Yeah, it's tough Okay, there you go the Dell beef are over here Oh no, there you go. The DelBeefer over here is.

Oh no, it looks like a Sloppy Joe from hell. Yeah, this looks like a school Sloppy Joe, and not one of them nice charter schools either. You know, this looks like public school Sloppy Joe. Ew, ew. This one's tough. This is tough. Their beef, as we've discussed, it's already not the best.

Ew, ew, ew, it's really bad. That bun is sacrilegious. I thought I didn't care about buns. I do. I care about a good bun. You don't care about a bun until you eat a really bad bun. You know what I mean? The best buns should go unnoticed.

What? The best buns should go unnoticed almost. Yeah. You know? You're so right. That is really bad. You notice this bun. I notice it and it's not in a good way. I it's horrible. They've also burnt it. Is it whole wheat? Is that a whole wheat bun? Look how lily white that is but the outside is so dark brown. They've somehow I can't tell at which

stage of the cook it was burnt. Oh my god. It's really bad, but it has been burnt. I don't know why they would be toasting it in the store. Especially the top. Oh, it's accurate It's it's chewy. It's thick. I gotta have some fire sauce as a palate cleanser. Huge bummer Ruin my day Maybe my eve maybe even my week. Yeah, it's gone. Um, let's try this cheese it. Okay. We've made the Cardinal Sand listen This is a production Letting a crunch wrap sit and now it's just a wrap But this is a thick piece of...

Toasty cheese. Oh man. I can't make head or tails of it. It's interesting because the flavor of a cheese is really like oxidized cheese, right? You can give me a fire sauce. Oh sure, here, you can just have the one I had in my mouth all over.

I like to put, no, no, I need like a whole pack of fire sauce per bite. Okay, princess peach. How much fire sauce do you put on your Taco Bell I? Literally hold one like this and I eat and I suck and I eat and I suck oh you never Put it you never put it on the top No, you only can you give me the del taco and even though I know I'm not supposed to please Yes, I haven't even had that which one's this I'm having a lot of fun. I'm I old okay, okay? This is really this is I'm not a lot of fun here. The mild? Okay, okay. This is really, this is, I'm not having fun anymore.

Josh, I'm, true, Josh, I feel like I'm a concubine. You've made a Faustian bard. I feel like I'm a concubine being fed. Because the person who owns the harem likes fat girls. Yeah, like them guinea pigs in Ecuador. My fat. They go, quee, quee, quee, quee, quee. So I like them guinea pigs in Ecuador. I'm fat they go quick quick quick quick quick And you know who's the owner of the harem the harem the algorithm oh

Yeah, the concubine harem algorithm it really does sort of fit if you take the metaphor to its logical end sort of fit if you take the metaphor to its logical end. Um. I like that. Ari, the Crunchwrap with the big cheese it. It tastes worse than a normal Crunchwrap. But it tastes better than that abomination of a Sambichel. This heavily toasted, oxidized, big cheese flavor. I don't like it.

No, I think it steps on the nacho cheese. I don't think it's as good. It's significantly better than the Del B. Yeah, we're gonna give this one to Taco Bell. Gotta give this to Taco Bell. Do me a favor. Let's just do one more thing. Let's eat the fish taco and then be done with it, please. Yeah I eat one of these. It's one of these. It's one of these. What else we got? Oh, it's that's the... We got a CGC. Well fish tacos got the driest limes you've ever seen.

I've eaten plenty of fish tacos from Del Taco. They're pretty good. They're pretty good Now we can either put this up against the cheesy gordita crunch or the Doritos Locos taco I think it should be against the Doritos Locos taco because it's branded Did you hear what I said? Huh? Were you talking to me? Did you hear what I said? I feel like I'm high, but I'm not I'm high, but I'm not. I'm a porcho! Is this what kids used to do?

They used to like smoke a bunch of weed and then like go to Del Taco? Yes. I'll tell you what we did. You would go to Del Taco with basically like as much money as you had in your pocket in high school, and you would kind of just hand it to the cashier and go like, what can I get with this? Like that was kind of the relationship. Yeah, yeah. yeah, sure.

You know, then you'd like go down to San Clemente, T Street. Can you put some lime on that please? You know, you'd start, you know, you'd be like, skin boarding all day. Oh, we talk about skin boarding again. Do a little bonfire night, someone start like throwing cans of spray paint in the fire, I was like, wonder what that does, you know.

That was a gusher, baby. That was like, a fish gusher. How was it good? It was really good. It's really good? It's not like getting a filet-o-fish at McDonald's. That's a pretty good piece of fish. Pretty well fried.

Cabbage, pico. You can taste cilantro, which is a unique thing that you don't often taste from Taco Bell. That's really delicious. What do you want? That's a good fish taco. Cheesy Gordita Crunch or Doritos Locos Taco? CGC. Really?

CGC. This is my favorite menu item. And I think that's where Taco Bell really shines. In a place where Del Taco hasn't really tried to compete. In the wacky, tobaccy... Look how white the lettuce is. It's quite white. I like the white parts of the iceberg.

That's like the creamiest, nuttiest part. You know what I mean? Why parts the iceberg. That's like the creamiest nuttiest part You know I mean why are you laughing at creamy and nutty? That when You're also like cooking nice dinner tonight. Meggie's asking me what this was What where? Anything you say to her you can say to me. I was asking what CGC stands for. Oh, it's really obvious I kind of like Del Taco more. What did we learn about this? I learned that me and you can't eat like this anymore Go over this man. I'm gonna go home eat a protein shake for dinner

Honestly, I will say Del Taco actually had an incredible showing and I'm quite impressed with no you don't need to eat that just because it's There what's there's like an Einstein quote That's like if you judge a dolphin on its ability to fly a tree Yeah, you know what I mean, but it's like you should be judging a dolphin on its ability to fly. Climetry. Yeah, you know what I mean? But it's like you should be judging a dolphin on its ability to sexually harass researchers in the 1960s who were doing a bunch of acid. I don't think he said that. Dolphins are great at that. I don't think he said that. But no, you should, you know, judge them on their core competencies.

I think Taco Bell's beef slop is one of the best items to ever come out of any fast food. And you put that in a Crunchwrap Supreme, any fast food and you put that in a crunch wraps cream It's great. You put that in a hard taco. It's great cheesy gordita crunch. That's great. I think everywhere else Taco Bell is starting to fall short I think they're coming up on it on the canteen a menu and they're finding their stride very strong cantina menu Which we didn't taste today, but if you have it at your local dog, well, you should eat it But hot like beef slop and liquid cheese is where Taco Bell really shines and their inventiveness, right? Del Taco really good job with premium proteins. I don't know man This fish taco tasted like a straight out of like a regular tastes like a Wahoos. It was really good the corn

The quality of the corn tortilla that they use also. I'm quite pleasantly surprised. I thought it was really really delicious I thought that their al pastor was great. I Don't know man. I don't know if I'm gonna give it to Del Taco. Well maybe I am? What are we doing? What are we doing Josh? I wanna agree with you on this one. They're honestly so different. Like you said, this grilled chicken taco, it looks like it's from an actual taqueria, right? Yeah.

You know? Um, I think they can live in tandem. I don't think we need to crown a winner here. Really? I think we're fine. What if they come out with pitchforks and like pick a winner pick a winner Okay, one two three Taco Bell like I don't know they have 8,000 locations Del Taco is 600 there is something right? Now what are you gonna do? Okay, now record an alt in case anyone's okay

Del Taco the food is so much better. Yeah, the little man won The little man won Well now that we can physically feel the inflammation rising through our entire bodies my face is puffier than it was before we did Is mine? Is mine puffier than before? Yeah, but it's cool because we're right next to each other so people are just gonna think they messed up something in the lenses Why are we using those fish eye lenses that look all puffy? Do I have anything in my teeth? But no, what's the beef slop? Uh, no do I? I can feel it when I smiled I felt like- Oh my god, it's a big black dot just a huge Oh, it's like lodged. What is it? In the middle? No, it's on the edge right here. Yeah, what are you gonna do? It's gonna stay there

I don't think there were any black beans cause black bean skin that'll getcha. I think I have a floster. Hold on, Nicole, tell them what the segment is. Robot Maggie O. And now it's time for a new segment where Josh and I put our food trivia knowledge to the test. It's time for our very own trivia segment called Yummy in My Tummy Got Some Trivia for You. Robot Maggie has three questions prepared.

Josh, you and I will wait until the question is completed and then we will answer. If wrong, the other person will get one chance to guess and earn the point. Let's hear the first question, buddy! What are you looking for? Uh, a floss pick. I normally have one in my wallet. Do you want to?

Do you want to? Yeah. Do you mind? Horrible. Ew. Oh, god. Okay. First question. First question! Which spice is derived from the crocus flower and is one of the most expensive spices Oh Okay first question

Which spice is derived from the crocus flower and is one of the most expensive spices in the world? We both know it one two three saffron the correct answer is saffron Okay next one robot Maggie which fruit is known as the king of fruits? I know it, I know it! One, two, three, durian! The correct answer is durian. Meggie, you're gonna have to give us some toughies boo. No, but I kinda like this. Robot Meggie, no I wanna win!

Okay, let's see if the last one divides us. Where does German chocolate cake actually come from? I'll ring in. I know. United States of America? It's American. I just don't know exactly where. Yeah, where or what state or city.

I have a guess. Okay, go ahead. I'll let you take this one. I'm going to guess Minnesota. I'm going to guess Philadelphia. The correct answer is Dallas, Texas. No way. Interesting. You both got America. I'm going to guess Philadelphia. The correct answer is Dallas, Texas. No way.

Interesting. You both got America. I knew it was America. And Philly was a great guess because like Germantown is a thing. But I thought for some reason Minnesota, big cake baking church pot. It sounds like a church pot like Bish.

I don't know if it's from Dallas. I feel like I've heard that before. But also there's like coconut in German chocolate cake. It doesn't make sense that it would be. Did we both or did we both lose do we have any other tiebreakers? All right none. Well, maybe just ask us a question about food. What's your favorite food? Oh, I got it Nicole wins, okay Alright Nicole, and Robotnik, you know what I'm saying? I'm tired of all the work that I'm doing. It's our first session we call opinions are like casseroles.

Everyone got one and they're like, I can't do it. Alright Nicole, let's listen to that first opinion out there. Lot of that first opinion that a lot of people that they got a lot of opinion. Hi guys, you are my son's favorite podcast. And so he and I listened to your podcast when we're on road trips together. And I thought it would be so fun if he was listening to an episode and he heard me. So this is Laura from Maryland. And my food take is that ganache is better than hot fudge. So instead of having that gross corn syrupy

to sugary hot fudge on your ice cream, you just melt some dark chocolate with some heavy cream and you get it into a nice chocolate sauce and then you just plop it on your ice cream and it is way better. Thanks guys, bye! Laura from Maryland and Son, this is a very good opinion. I didn't understand what the other thing was other than fudge. Effectively why use hot fudge on ice cream when ganache is kind of just like... Oh she said ganache! Oh so much better! It's so much better. The world's better

Well, they're okay. So hot fudge. I was trying to think like what the real differences are, but it's yeah It's kind of corn syrup. Corn syrup is what gives hot fudge that Runniness because corn syrup as it gets colder is gonna get less sort of flowy and then it gets hotter But that's also just what the chocolate and heavy cream do in ganache Yeah The heavy cream allows it to flow and then the interesting thing with ganache is then you're getting like real chocolate flavor I had what did I have recently that had such an aggressive? Chocolate extract flavor so if you like a toasty roll for instance, that's chocolate extract. That's chocolate extract

That's what I always associate that like, you know kind of chemically hot fudge flavor with I also happen to love it, dude I probably had like an eight-year gap in my life where I didn't have hot fudge on ice cream Uh-huh, you would just melt down to zero. No, I just it just never came up I didn't I eat a lot of ice cream I just you know, I never really got a budget and then I had it for the first time in a long time I was like, oh, that's that is a nice thing to have. Why doesn't tootsie roll and invite invent like a Like a hot fudge. Why would they to Tootsie Roll has been operating, I imagine, make 99.7% of their profits during Halloween.

And nobody actually eats them, but they do get consumed and thrown in the trash. When you were a kid and you had Halloween candy, did you always like eat? Segment them, yeah. But you'd eat all of it, and then the last things remaining would be lollipops and Tootsie Rolls. You didn't eat all of your Halloween candy?

What happened to it? Almond Mom! Almond Mom! Almond mom! Almond mom! I was an almond joy dad who said give me all your almond joys and then you can just binge eat the rest of your candy. That's nice. No, she would give me some but mostly it would be like the nerds and like some Snickers and then like but no Fun Dips. Fun Dips were automatically out. Yeah. Um, raisins. She would let me eat the raisins. You know, houses that would give raisins and apples. That's another thing as you get older, you start to really see the merit in houses giving raisins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm down with houses that give raisins.

I know people might not agree with that. But regardless, ganache better than hot fudge, I agree. 100%. Laura, you are great. Laura's son. And I'm sure your son is great. You've got a great mom. And if she's making ganache but in your ice cream. Cool moms! When I get older I used to want to be the house that gave king-size candy bars now check this out

I'm gonna dry my own fruits. Oh package them. No give them out It's gonna cause a whole hubbub parents should not in the HOA. No, no, don't do that. They're gonna get mad They're gonna go this person's creepy as hell You need to I'm not letting my kid eat that you need to only give a closed packaged candies to the kids Nope, I'm gonna drive check this out. Yes this out. I'm gonna drive my own raisins on the vine You're not ready for parenthood dry my own raisins on the vine You're not ready for parenthood, and then I'm gonna put them in cute little gift bags And then I can't find Nicole's house everybody come to Nicole's house

I'm gonna go okay, Nicole's house had full-size twigs twigs bars. Why don't we don't you have them mister? I'm gonna go so these are actually gonna live so close actually Catalonian sultanas that I've Rosemary oil and are you gonna live in the same neighborhood? Yeah? Sounds like fun. This is right next door to each other actually we're gonna have a zipline in between them Just me and David hanging out playing cod Mine really have to you than yours though. No, I don't be proud you seen David's baby pictures Have you seen my baby? Yeah, you guys got some yeah, we all got some half to us nice You should be so lucky

nice, Simone looking face. You should be so lucky. My little football playing baby. Next opinion. That would be gross. Oh, okay. I just wanted to point something out when it comes to McDonald's, by the way. So, the McFlurry straw. Or, it should have been a straw.

That spoon that they used to mix the McFlurry, it should have been a straw weird weird. Why aren't we talking about this? What do you mean? My dog left I don't want to talk about this anymore. So can we talk about this? Yes, love the pot. Bye Okay, I got it. I got it. No. No. No, what do you mean? This chunks? Don't go through the frickin straw There's no straw the McFlurry spoon is not a straw There's that's fine. There's an opening that makes you look like you should wrap your mouth around it and suck. Yeah, but you have to be smart enough to know that that's to go into the machine. What are you talking about?

Well, he is. He is. No, he recognized that. He recognized that. So what's the problem? I'm saying if it looked like a straw and it's sitting in something that kind of looked like a milkshake, I should be able to suck it. Okay, but you know that a McFlurry has big old- He should be able to suck it. McFlurries have those big little chunkies in there They can't go through a straw. Well, yeah, but I think you would also maybe maybe before maybe he would argue that the

Be smaller this is before Boba took over a nation, you know with the big straws in the tapioca This is before that. That's the thing. I first had Boba 2004 right about 12 years I had it in Westwood. I had it in Westwood. What year what year? I don't know, but it was that that Boba place next to UCLA, you know the Boba Loka Yeah, Boba Loka has been open that long. I think so. Oh, we had never seen straws that big That was the main thing the the tapioca pearls and the drinks and the ceiling technology That was all very new but more than anything big-ass straws Cool. Never seen anything like that. What we had were the promise, or at least the temptation of a McFlurry big ass straw.

But you're right, they got a Rollo McFlurry, like you're gonna suck half chunks of Rolos through that? No. No, it's gonna get lodged in your throat. They were probably thinking about the lawsuits. They were thinking about the lawsuits. Yeah, what this man wants is called a milkshake. Go get a milkshake, baby.

But, but, but, I think- Also, don't call me gross. I'm not that gross. I did eat like 4,000 calories with a Taco Bell and Del Taco that was gross but as a whole I am NOT gross I shower often I smell I honestly smell so good right now what am I wearing Coco Mademoiselle I'm wearing Coco Mademoiselle I have fantastic deodorant on like I'm not gross I'm beautiful I will say McDonald's standard straw is the thickest straw and maybe the sturdiest so I think it is the best for milkshakes

But I am curious and please write us back if they think that They think the boba straws and okay, so your thoughts should be the standard milkshake straw Have we gotten to a point where we think straws should be so thick and round and voluptuous that that should be in every milkshake Listen does McDonald's have milkshakes? Yes. Yeah. So, and then the McFlurry is something else. It's an ice cream base mixed with a candy. Yeah, okay. So what? What's the big deal? Well, that's what I'm saying. I think what he wants is a milkshake.

Okay, so get a milkshake. And then have some cookies on the side and munch on the coo- I don't know. Well, I think he wants a milkshake in a thicker straw. Okay, well then he used to get a thicker straw I know but I you know what you do should he have to buy his own straw should he have to provide that yes? He should provide his own straw. I'll tell you what I do. So there's a yoga themed frozen yogurt. I love yogurt Oh my god. I know yoga earth never been but I know all about it driven past it for probably 12 years Well, there's one on a Wilshire in like Santa Monica area. I'd driven past it for probably 12 years

and I almost thought who would go to a yoga-themed vegan frozen yogurt shop? And then one day, Julie and I go, you know what? We've lived in LA long enough and not gone into yoga earth, and we did, and it's just like lovely. It's quirky, it's weird. They got like books and board games and anyway. I'm gonna throw up.

I love their little, it's just like blended cashews and dates. You know, like yeah, whatever, this is good. And the problem is though, they have the biodegradable wood spoons that make me feel physically sick. I love wood spoons. It makes my tongue physically recoil in my mouth of thought. I have textual sensitivity issues. So does my husband.

He can't hold certain paper bags. I have to hold them for him. Sorry baby, I know you're watching right now. I love you so much. I think we're incredibly masculine. And it's okay that you have sensitivities I believe in compromise and love and part of that is holding bags for you and you do other things for me And so what I do is I actually will this is something I've done multiple times I will take a plastic spoon in there. I'm bringing my own plastic spoon. I can't do the wood thing. It makes me fine

That's fine. That's fine. So I'm saying bring your own straws You know, you know, why are you waiting, you know for a handout? Hey Josh and Nicole, it's Jacob from Florida. You get it a lot, but I love the message Which honestly seems pretty common people give me crap for putting ketchup on eggs, you know I think the omelet so maybe I'll omelet or I'll just fry an egg put it on some toast with ketchup yeah Josh feel like you might agree with me but I'll have to wait and see what about no no yeah I think you just saying that because I historically kind of take the gross side and people will say ketchup

on eggs is gross ketchup on eggs is delicious no one says not putting ketchup on eggs is gross. Putting ketchup on eggs is great. I agree. What is your favorite ketchup on egg application? Scrambled! Scrambled, right? Hard scramble. Hard.

Hard scramble. Hard dad scramble. Hard dad scramble. Hard Denny's ass, dad ass scramble. A little bit brown. Quiet, I would even say quite brown. Bordering on like Thai omelet. You know, you know the Thai omelet that are like

cooked in oil What no that's that's Vietnamese and that's like a man. I'm so Stupid you're not stupid girl. I mixed up Vietnamese food and Thai food Stupid you said I'm smart for a girl. No. I said you're such a smart stupid stupid stupid Okay, sorry um let's take that back. I like scrambled eggs and ketchup. Oh my god. It's the best isn't it right? It's actually like a Thai omelet. Yeah, what are they called? I don't know actually No, I think ketchup is less good with a fried egg the runny yolk

I don't like when they mix into a sauce. I don't like when they mix into a sauce. I love it I actually really like it really also with hot sauce so hot sauce runny yolk ketchup I actually really like it really also with hot sauce so hot sauce runny yolk ketchup Badda bing badda boom toast dip dip yum. I'll go three to one ketchup to sriracha Hmm you eat sriracha in the mornings. I really do yeah, I hate sriracha in the mornings Well, that's where you and I differ. I like you know what I like. I like Tabasco in the mornings I like Cholula. I like Tapatio. I'd be willing to even do a secret aardvark So mix that together and then sometimes when I'm really hard up for food I'll scramble five eggs. Hard. Real hard. And then I'll let it sit in a plate, let it cool a little bit, you know, go pee, probably wash my hands. Come back so it's cool enough. And I just paw at it.

You don't need to wash your hands after you pee, I feel like. You know what, I made that claim and then I did the research. Uh-huh, you should. I did the work. I'm talking about men. Yeah, no, no, I did the research. You like really should. Even if you're not touching your pee-pee?

No, the problem is you're sitting, you're in a bathroom touching stuff where there's just poo particles everywhere. And there really are so many poo particles everywhere. You should really wash your hands. Not that I never like was, you know, I'm just not going to wash my hands, but it But it really reified the need to so the point is the eggs are cool enough to touch with the poo hands You know and then I just swipe those in it's almost like dipping Unlimited chips into unlimited salsa. I just scoop the ketchup on the eggs and I slurp it off So yeah, I fully agree ketchup on eggs

People are too precious about like basic ass foods. If you wanna get like real precious about like a cultural institution, you know what I mean? Like cassoulet should only be made with the finest de puy lentil, yeah, whatever, sure. It's scrambled eggs, dude. Put whatever the hell you want on it.

Whatever's gonna make your day a little bit better. Do you feel like you're going into like acute organ failure? Oh, it's obtuse. Obtuse organ failure. Acute would be like one, you know, like boom, pointed. Obtuse organ failure. Acute would be like one you know like boom pointed obtuse organ failure is like it's all shutting down. I feel really sick but on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog and a sandwich we got new episodes all the time not going to tell you when you just need to find out for yourself. Yeah keep clicking refresh on the

YouTube page until a new episode comes up no I'll tell you when it's Wednesday the audio version of course and Sunday is when the video version comes out Yeah, Nicole what video platforms are we on? Um YouTube only Statistically are they watching this on YouTube or also like you can check us out on we have a tick tock Tick tock. Yeah, check us out on reels Check us. Do we still have an agreement with Snapchat or is that dead? We're still publishing on Snapchat.

Oh, we're still, okay. Yeah, not as high a clip. CPM started dropping a little bit. They shifted their focus, I think, to spotlight more individual creators. Are we not individual creators? No, and we're not sure you like individual creators on TikTok either, but we're still on Snapchat.

Last meal was on Snapchat. Okay, cool. Yeah, we still have time for like individual creators on TikTok either, but we're still on Snapchat. Last meal was on Snapchat. Okay, cool. If you wanna leave us a message and call us gross or gorgeous, call us at 833-DOGPOD1. And for more Mythical Kitchen, check out all of our other videos. They're all really, really good.

Check us out on YouTube. I've really only been on Snapchat. I sent one picture on Snapchat. I stopped using Snapchat a long time ago. And then I stopped. But then there was like a summer. What kind of picture? Yeah, of course. And then But then there was like a summer. What kind of picture? Yeah, of course.

And then there was one. I'm sorry? Huh? What kind of picture? Definitely. And then there was one summer when I would get recognized and people would just be like, hey, you're the Snapchat show.

Oh, and you think it's because it's that one picture? No. Oh. No, because we were publishing a lot more on Snapchat. And the views were a lot higher. You weren't cooking at 2013. No. No.

Cook it up. I'll see you next time. Bye.