A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - What’s The Best Deep Fried Food? ft. Brittany Broski

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

Today, Josh and Nicole are joined by social media personality Brittany Broski to discuss what deep fried food reigns supreme! Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 Check out the video version of this podcast: http://youtube.com/@ahotdogisasandwich 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

This, this, this, this is mythical. Okay, if you were any deep fried food, what would you be? Shoe. What? I'd be a deep fried shoe. A shoe isn't a food. Sure it is. This is a hot dog is a sandwich.

Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what? That makes no sense. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. What? Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich. I'm your podcast a hot dog is a sandwich i'm your host josh share and i'm your host nicole and i.e. and we are back baby we are officially back in the

mythical kitchen we are back on the mythical kitchen youtube channel if you're listening to this on a wednesday there's a video and you can watch it on a sunday please watch and listen twice we need we need please guys let's get those views up, please. Josh has defaulted on his rent twice. Let's get that money up. And who better to kick off this joyous new chapter than our very own Brittany Broski,

Supreme Leader of Broski Nation and the host of the Broski Report. You're officially Supreme Leader. You've been elevated. I promoted myself You're officially Supreme Leader. You've been elevated. I promoted myself from Chancellor to Supreme Leader. Wow, huge. Thank you guys, seriously. That's a big deal.

It is. We just started the Clone Wars as well. I'm finding replicas of myself online. Oh my God, how many have you found? I found three so far. It's just kind of like white ladies with blonde hair and tiny lips and big eyes. And so we're doing it, team Clone Wars.

You gotta start at grassroots. You start with three, go up from there. Because here's the thing. People, they overextend themselves. Exactly. You know what I mean? Speaking of Clone Wars, today we're talking about

is everything better deep fried? Brittany Broski, Supreme Leader, Chancellor of the Ayatollah. Ayatollah Broski. Ayatollah Khabroski. That's good, that's good. That's crazy. What do you think about that?

Is that the craziest question you've ever been asked? No, really. I see in your eyes how much this pains you. You're in pain asking me this question. Is everything better deep fried? I would argue, okay, I've been preparing my statement and I need you guys to like really kind of, okay, give me my platform. When you deep fry something,

you have to consume it immediately. And there's a sweet spot between it's crunchy and it's crisp and it's that gooey in the middle. And then it's just soggy. You want to deep fry Oreos. You want to deep fry butter. You want to deep fry ice cream. Yes, I do.

At a certain point, it's just soggy skin, right? It's like the skin is skinning. Can I say something? It's your tone of voice is what's telling you. You're like, it's soggy skin. But if I go, it's soggy skin. That's exciting. It's just not really going to do it for me.

I love the soggy skin. You don't like the soggy skin? No, the limpy, soggy skin. Soggy, flaccid skin. Soggy, flaccid skin. And then you're excited about it. Around my cream. It's just I'm not really salivating for that.

I am, brother. Well, that's one claim, right? That you got to eat deep fried food immediately. How instead of what if I told you that the original reason for deep frying foods, Nicole knows this is going. I do. Because kimono means winter in Greek. Oh, my gosh.

What do you wear when it is cold? A robe. Kimono comes from Greek. The Jews. Josh is just quoting my big fat Greek wedding. Trying to make a point. Nia Vardalo's classic.

The Jews. Jews invented deep frying foods as a way to preserve them for Shabbat because you're not allowed to Nicole, you're a real Jew. What are you not allowed

to do on Shabbat? You're not allowed to touch electricity or you're not allowed to touch fire. So what a real Jew. What are you not allowed to do on Shabbat? You're not allowed to touch electricity or you're not allowed to like touch fire. So what they would do is they would deep fry food in order to preserve it and then you could just eat it whenever. Okay. Yeah.

So anything falls under the category of deep fry? Not anything, but things like fish and chicken were like the two main ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're making a lot of bold historical claims that are not entirely backed up by evidence i always have to throw that out there don't you dare fat check i swear to god but no nobody fat checks okay because like one of my favorite things is a uh like fish that has been fried and then preserved in vinegar because i'm a little ghoul i eat little vinegar preserved like gollum yeah you live under a bridge gollum was a Jewish icon. I don't agree with that.

He's just like an old man. He's like the 85-year-old guy at the JCC who's just like naked, you know, and his tighty-whitey. Hey, precious. I'm not precious. I'm a filter fish. You know what I mean? Oh, my goodness. Well, I don't know.

Well, let me just say this. You offensive man, you. I just feel wholly underprepared for this podcast. Why? Why? You're doing great, honey. We came in and I was just like, I was overstimulated. I'm hot.

But Josh is like, my back spine's cracked in three places. Josh is injured perpetually. As far as we know, the fracture is only in one of my lumbars. It's in the bottom one. But I'm getting a new MRI soon. I'll keep you all updated. Josh is getting an MRI at 10 o'clock at night. It's a party.

Weird. It's a party. It's a party. They let me's a party. It's a party. They let me put on my own Spotify playlist, too. Shut up, Spotify. You're not going to the doctor. You're going to the club. I think I am.

You're just going to the club. Listen, someone's getting me naked. They're putting me in a machine. I don't ask questions. Put on cheap paint. Here we go. But I think, well, is everything better deep fried? Maybe, maybe so.

But what is the best deep fried food, do you think? If you can think of any food, like this is the best food ever, and it's deep fried. What is that for you guys? I have a vote. Okay, go for it. Pickles. Whoa.

Okay. Hold on. Hold the phone here. I mean, what is your fried? Chips or spears? Hold on. Chips or spears? Chips, of course.

Chips, of course. No, because the spears are too soggy. They don't ever get the juice out of it enough, and then it's just like soggy flaccid in my mouth. Yeah, and it's not a good time. It's not a good time. I love deep fried pickle chips. I'm telling you, dude, with a homemade ranch.

It's so good. What was that noise? For those at home that aren't watching, I'm sorry. Okay. I do love deep fried pickles. God bless you, child. God bless you, child. I'm not Colin Farrell from the Banshees of whatever the hell that movie is called.

Iron Shin. What? No, that can't be it. Iron Shin? In a Sharon. Whatever. I have a bad habit of not saying things right. I'm sorry.

Fried pickles. What I love about that is you get the acid, right? You got acid. You got crunch. You got fried things I love about that is you get the acid, right? You got acid, you got crunch, you got fried things. But my vote would be for deep fried Oreos. Oh, why?

What do you have against deep fried Oreos? You are a proud Southern woman. You are from Texas. God dang it. When you're at a state fair, the funnel cake's so good.

But when you like, they give it to you in that little star-shaped clam shell. And then you got to find a place to sit and everybody's there. It's at the state fair. And when you finally sit down and you eat it, you open it up and then it's soggy. And not only has the oil seeped.

Yeah, tell me about how the oil seeped. It's now like made the, the Oreo's not crunchy anymore. Whoa, that's why I love it. That's why I love it. That's why I love it. You like that. Yeah, he does. You ever dip an Oreo in milk?

I mean, sure. He doesn't just dip it. He saturates it. I saturate it. I float it. He's a saturator. I float it. You like that. Yeah, he does. Do you ever dip an Oreo in milk? I mean, sure. He doesn't just dip it. He saturates it. I saturate it. I float it. He's a saturator. I float it, and then I kind of go in like this, and I kind of fish it out, and then I go.

Okay. Yeah, and that's the Josh thing, though. I don't like defied Oreos for that reason. No, people crave soggy Oreos. This is the thing that I believe. Why else dip them in milk? Why else dip them in milk if you don't want them to soggy? Okay.

It's a ritualistic thing. No, I think it's a ritual. It's simply a wettening. No, no. It's a ritual to get people to a place that they always wanted to

be. And it's simply a wettening. The mass wettening. And when you deep fry it, it's steam, right? It's steam from the hot batter and the

oil. It's not oil getting the Oreo soggy. You're steaming your Oreos. Is that true? Absolutely. Absolutely.

How do you deep fry something? Maybe on a holistic atomic level, I absolutely how do you deep fry something maybe on a holistic atomic level i don't know what deep fry okay let's explain what deep frying is everybody so typically what you do food expert britney broski it's oil it's oil it's not no no you're right it's oil but there's stuff on it okay so there's stuff on it which insulates whenever you're deep frying and then the the water droplets evaporate and come out, but they're inside. So it's kind of like trapped, but is also like coated. That's what makes it crispy.

Yeah. So Oreos would be like a wet battered food, right? So fried chicken, the way you make it, right? You ever cook anything? Valid question. Quick question. Have you ever stepped into a kitchen? Yeah. Do you like know where stepped into a kitchen? Yeah.

Do you like know where you are right now? Yeah. Like, okay, cool. So like fried chicken, the way you'd make it, right, is you like, you know, salt the chicken,

season it, yada, yada. If you don't say season it, then people are gonna go, where's the seasoning? If you do not show the step of you over salting something on TikTok, you will get absolutely

roasted. Right. Fair. Anyway, season the chicken and then you dunk it in flour. Yeah. And then sometimes

in egg batter, back in the flour. So it's like a dry dredge is what I call it, right? But you dunk it into flour. Yeah. And then sometimes in egg batter, egg batter back in the flour. So it's like a dry dredge is what I call it. Right. But you can also do a wet batter. Some people just wet batter the fried chicken. You go down to wet batter. So that's almost like a fried Oreo would be like a pancake batter almost.

So you dip the Oreo into a pancake batter and you drop that bad boy in the fryer. And then Nicole is absolutely correct where the water literally evaporates out. And the what's going on? That was an internal burp. It was like downward. Listen, every time I come to mythical studios, they're like, what do you want to drink?

And then I have a Coke and then I regret it because we have to be my like microphone is in my throat. Let's check about 60 Dr. Peppers. I just chugged a bunch of DPs in the dressing room. Now I'm paying for it. Sorry, you were saying about dumbass deep fried batter. This is so

interesting. That's how they're cooked. I'm sorry. This is a food podcast. We talk about food sometimes. Brittany, what do you want to talk about? Tell me. No, tell me. I want to talk about what probably is wrong with you that you like soggy flaccid food. I don't think there's anything wrong with me. I'll tell you what.

I think that I have just ascended to a different astral plane that's fair thank you thank you thank you I love that the answer

just satisfied her I was like wait a second no hear me out hear me out crispiness is crispy good

soggy bad is not a universal belief in the world I think that's okay it's a very American thing that we're obsessed with crispy fried everything we've exported a lot of that

across the globe right there's KFC's in Korea there are people celebrating Christmas right? There's KFCs in Korea. There are people celebrating Christmas right now in a KFC in Korea. That's how popular it is. Assuming you were watching this video or listening to it on a Christmas day. Right. In the Korean time zone. But the point is

we've exported a lot of that, but like there's a fine dining chefs will always tell you if you deep fry something, never put any sauce or wet vegetable on it, right? If you deep fry something that should stand alone so it doesn't get soggy however i would disagree too like a fish taco where the crema is soaking into the fried fish it's one of those beautiful things the juice from the pico soaks into it to me crispy that is yielding to soggy right like noticing that metamorphic change in your mouth yeah that's a beautiful thing to me

and that's why i love deep fried like cold fried chicken out the fridge. That's a miracle. That is a Christmas miracle. Really? I don't like it that much. I like my chicken hot. I do like my deep fried chicken hot. But let me just say, the best food to deep fry, in my opinion, is shrimps.

I like them deep fried shrimps. Scrimps. I like my scrimps little and deep fried. I like them big and deep fried. I like them with coconut on them. I like them with coconut on them. I like them with tempura batter on them. I think shrimp is the perfect vehicle for frying. You talking about a little bubble gum?

I'll do all the shrimp. Yeah, a scrimp po' boy. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's like one of the best things ever to be invented. An oyster po' boy even. Just something about seafood and oil. Okay.

It's like, oh, it's like perfect to me. Okay. There's nothing like it. We got to get down to like what the best deep fried food is. So we got to start rocket shipping through some of this. Okay. Go through all the meats, all the animals. I have a list right here of the most popular.

Do you guys want me to go through that? Yeah. I think you should go through all the animals. Okay, sure. Okay, beef, not really. Don't care. Got it. Chicken fried steak.

Well, would deep fried beef like a beef wellington? Well, that's more of like a bake Beef wellingtons are technically baked But that is like a beef on croutes Which means like in a crust Okay You know But it's not deep fried

I wouldn't say it's deep fried But like deep fried Carne milanesa In Spanish That's deep fried It's like chicken fried steak It's just fine It's chicken fried steak

It's chicken fried steak Okay You know that's from your people It is from my people But again we smother it in gravy That's true So it's not really I've never been like

Mmm this crispy chicken fried steak It's like When you're at cracker brown you cut into it and it's like oh the skin just fell off yeah slough is crazy like a body horror movie yeah beef overrated as far as deep fried uh deep fried pork we've chicken fried bacon that's a fun time but i think to me it's between, it's probably between chicken and shrimp, right? Yeah. Chicken and shrimp is the best deep fried thing. I almost say shrimp trumps chicken.

Okay, let's go down the, they call it wins over closest replacement in sports. How much y'all like sports? Is this sports betting related? Just say yes. Just say yes. This is sports. This is sports.

Oh, someone's going to talk about sports. Okay, so like in Wii bowling, what would this be? Okay, so no, no, no. Imagine this. This is a good thing. This is a good thing to go through. In Wii bowling, say your average in Wii bowling was like a 185. Great.

Right? But the person who could replace you in your Wii bowling league, they only bowl an average of 135. So you would have like an average of 50 points. Well, no, but imagine. Imagine you need to fill a spot. What if you get sick? You know, you test positive for COVID.

You can't go to Wii bowling anymore. I don't know how Wii bowling works. I haven't done this. I've never Well, no, but imagine. Imagine you need to fill a spot. What if you get sick? You know, you test positive for COVID. You can't go to Wii bowling anymore. I don't know how Wii bowling works. I haven't done this. I've never held a Wii in my hand. But I'm saying like,

what? Never held a Wii. We'll change that. Oh my God. That sounded devious. I just never had. I never grew up with like video games like that,

guys. I'm sorry. You never threw a Wii tennis controller through the TV accidentally because you were trying to hit her just really whack her for you.

You shattered a plasma monitor with a Wii Remote? No, but I'd love to after this if you guys aren't busy. I'm saying, we can change that. If there are other cooking methods of a shrimp that are close to being as good as a deep fried shrimp, I think that invalidates it because

chicken, deep frying it compared to all the other cooking methods of chicken is so much better. Wins above replacement. Fried chicken versus roasted chicken. You know, like grilled shrimp versus fried shrimp. I think I'd take a grilled shrimp just as good as a fried shrimp. I'd take a cold shrimp cocktail just as good as a fried shrimp. Fried chicken.

Shrimp scampi. Shrimp scamps. What's the, when you get that coconut shrimp at a restaurant, is that technically fried? Yeah, that's fried. Oh, yeah. That's definitely fried. Period.

That's technically fried shrimp. I mean, coconut, but you can also get, I've had coconut fried chicken at a place called Cha Cha Chicken, and that's fine oh yeah that's right period i mean coconut but you can also get i've had coconut fried chicken at a place called cha-cha chicken and that's phenomenal too so i don't know maybe i'm back y'all are playing the bubba gump trump card yeah or the margaritaville why do only the best restaurants serve coconut shrimp i don't know i'm telling you i love coconut shrimp but the sauce on the side i don't like very much i still have a red lobster gift card in my wallet y'all talk among yourselves. Oh my gosh. You know what is the unfortunate reality of America

today is that downtown Disney and Universal CityWalk have a monopoly on coconut fried shrimp. Where is it for the rest of us? The people who can't go there? You know what I mean? The people who got banned. It's not accessible. The people who got banned because they drank a couple too many margaritas at Jimmy Buffett's

Margaritaville. I got a Red Lobster gift card. You take your topett's Margaritaville I got a Red Lobster gift card You take your top off of Margaritaville and suddenly You're not allowed back there Let me tell you a story You know how eventually You'll notice if somebody Recognizes you and they're about to come talk to you Yes sure

Which I thought I had a good Vibe on when that was about to happen And I was out at a bar in Austin, Texas. Hey. It was a fun time. And like, you know, great people in Austin. And somebody, it was like a 35-year-old dude, saw me from across the room.

This isn't going where I think you think it might be going to this. And he was like, me and my partner saw you across the bar. I wish. But no, he came over and he was looking at me and I was like, all right, man. And I go and I'm like, hey, what's up, man?

And he goes, put your shirt back on or I'm calling the effing cops. And I was like. all right, man. And I go and I'm like, hey, what's up, man? And he goes, put your shirt back on or I'm calling the effing cops. And I was like. Why were you shirtless? What do you mean why was I shirtless? I was out at a bar in Austin, Texas. Shout out to, I think it's called Eisenhower or something. That is not a good excuse.

Wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Wait, I thought it's no shirt, no shoes, no service. Well, yeah, he apparently came over and I literally was like, I know this must be a very special moment. I'm just a normal man like everybody else. Josh, that's really embarrassing. Oh my God.

You're like, please, I'm just like you. I'm normal. I'm trying to have a beer. He's like, the cops are outside. Yeah, basically, basically. So that was my shouting moment in Austin, Texas. What does this have to do with fried shrimp? Nicole, this has everything to do with deep fried shrimp because i'll tell you what i fail to see

how it doesn't have to be okay officer uh but also i got kicked out of a bull riding place because me and boy took our shirts off again we were like dave he's like six four two thirty we hopped on it you know we did a little double red. Okay. Wow. Were you chasing each other? No, we should have been. We would have held on longer if we were. Shame on you. What I'm saying is,

I think chicken beats shrimp in this regard, right? Or do we use the Bubba Gump Trump card of coconut shrimp? I don't know. I don't know. There's something about, I mean, I love fried chicken, but I really love fried shrimp.

Maybe that's just a me thing. Maybe you guys can assume me. Best fried shrimp you've ever had. Because I'm listening. I'm sold. I do love really love fried shrimp. Maybe that's just a me thing. Maybe you guys can assume me. Best fried shrimp you've ever had. Because I'm listening. I'm sold. I do love a good fried shrimp. I think you're on the wrong side of history, but I'm going to keep my mouth shut. Everywhere. I don't know. There's not one place. Every time I get fried shrimp, I like it. It doesn't matter where it is. Can we talk really quick?

I think here's the deciding factor. What's up? Popeye's. Popeye's has fried chicken and fried seafood, and both are equally delicious. You may disagree. I will always get the chicken at Popeye's. Popeye's has fried chicken and fried seafood, and both are equally delicious. You may disagree. I will always get the chicken at Popeye's over the shrimp. Hold up, hold up.

Their shrimp is so good. It is really good. It is very good. People are skeeved out by fast food shrimp. I am not one of those people at all. And if you have ever thought that you've known me and thought that I wouldn't get fast food shrimp, you are deluding yourselves. I'm not a coward.

Last time I did, it was like right when they opened at 11 a.m. and those puppies were fresh. Okay, good. Why was I eating a bunch of fried shrimp at 11 a.m. from a Popeye's? I don't know. It wasn't from the night before? Thank God. Still going from the night before? Let's go to Popeye's! I love Popeye's, dude.

I think they do great work. Yeah, I think that's one of the best fried chicken culinarily what is happening when you deep fry food Nicole what makes it so special let's break that down real quick

Brittany if you have anything to add from a chef standpoint oh I it's gonna be more of a general public audience question standpoint because i don't know how okay great yeah i can provide that sure because i think you need to like break

down sort of the science of it to figure out what makes fried food so good uh you mean like when i talked about the molecules and stuff let me talk about that again you might lose me if you start on that track again we're talking about like like steam right so like chicken the reason to me like fried chicken so good especially bone- like fried chicken is so good, especially bone-in fried chicken, it's so juicy and people are like, oh, this is greasy. It's not from the grease penetrating into it.

It's from the chicken fat. It's because you're steaming it from the inside and all that steam is cooking it at like a really rapid rate, right? Sure. You can fry a chicken thigh in what, 13 minutes, Brittany, 14 minutes? Yeah, yeah. In my experience, about 13.

About 13 minutes, right? You get that up to like what? You pull like 165, 170? Yeah. Let it rest, get it 20? Let's do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I think like 165, 170? Yeah. But no, I think like fried chicken, I think, we talk about fried chicken too much on the show. It's the world's best food.

Sure. Up there. Yeah, it's up there. But I think one of the reasons that would beat shrimp is because culinarily it gets a bigger boost from deep frying it because you get the steam to break down the fat. Whereas a scram, they're so small, you can cook them any which way. Also, fried shrimp doesn't lend as well doesn't lend as well as sauce

unless you're eating bang bang shrimp I was just about to say what are you talking about honey walnut bang bang oh yeah get into that

how dare you get into that I think that by and large you're gonna have a harder time trying to convince people that fried shrimp

is the best fried food like that's a lost cause I think that's fine. But if that's your truth, live it. But I think I like fried cheese curds the most. Anybody else? Boo! She made my stomach turn a little bit.

Oh my gosh, I love fried cheese curds. She has a problem with dairy. I too. I'm very lactose intolerant. And that won't stop you? No, nothing ever stops me. I will eat a quart of ice cream By myself Period

She grinds the lactate pills Into her gun I do I always I always take a lactate pill When I'm shooting Because I don't have time Yeah

For that stuff But when I'm at home Legs up Ice cream Get that squatty potty going You put that squatty potty On the toilet It's such a ritual

Yeah I know It really is But what about Funnel cakes You like funnel cakes Funnel cakes You mentioned funnel cakes Funnel cakes are great Body punting on the toilet. It's such a ritual. Yeah, I know. It really is. But what about- Funnel cakes. You like funnel cakes? Funnel cakes. You mentioned funnel cakes.

Yeah, yeah, you did. Funnel cakes are great. Sorry about funnel cakes. Good. Funnel cakes do a very specific thing. They increase. Okay, so imagine you're eating, because right, funnel cakes,

did you grow up with something called elephant ears? No. Okay, me neither, but people talk about them. Yeah, people talk about them. Oh, what the hell are they? I've never had them. Or they're called beaver tails in Canada. Nope.

Beaver tails, beaver tails. Okay, so elephant ears are like the ones that are like rounded like this, right? I don never had them. Or they're called beaver tails in Canada. Beaver tails. So elephant ears are the ones that are rounded like this, right? I don't know. Why are you talking about it if you don't know about it? Because to me they're the direct funnel cake competitor that are worse and funnel cakes are better for a specific ride. Y'all have laptops in front of you. No, we don't use these.

I don't know what the buttons do. Look up beaver tails. Look up beaver tails. Elephant ears and beaver tails are, as far as I know, just fried dough. Beaver tails. What if it was

an actual beaver tail? I think they're crisscrossed so they look... We had beaver meat in here once. Ew. We had a beaver meat dealer. This was before me.

This was before you, yeah. I bet beaver meat is delicious. No, it's not good. No? It tastes weird, man. Is it gamey? Well, here's the thing.

This meat dealer, I'll tell you what. The meat dealer! Not the meat dealer! Can we break the fourth wall? All right. Any weird meat that we've ever eaten on GMM, right? And we believe in our heart of hearts that it was that meat.

Of course. Is there any way to know? Absolutely not. You just got to trust. Yeah, trust. And we had a meat dealer that would just drop off a weird vacuum sealed brick that was frozen of flesh. And it was labeled. flesh and it was labeled

yeah it was you know we bought it through these are trackable by the government we bought it on a card it's all accounted for

the website isn't .org we simply yeah like watching these episodes like I mean again like what are we gonna do DNA

test the meat no we just we don't have the science for that we bought beaver from our meat dealer we trust

it's beaver we cook the beaver we give it to them that's that's all we can guarantee okay but I tell you what,

have I had my doubts sometimes? Yeah. You know, also one time shows up with five pounds of frozen iguana meat, iguana meat. And we're like, we ordered two pounds. He's like,

you owe us 500 bucks. And I was like, BS. And he was like, well, I would need a hacksaw to cut it. And I was like, get the gun,

baby. So we ran it through the bandsaw at the art department, handed him back three pounds of iguana meat. So take that back. Thank God I came here when I did. When I write the biography of both of y'all's lives, that's the first chapter. It's a good chapter.

It's a great chapter. There's so much more to go. One time he just showed up with a severed ostrich leg in a garbage bag. And then that was when Post Malone was here and he started swinging it around at us. So what I'm saying is... What are we talking about?

The things these walls have seen. Nothing and everything at the same time. I have a question to make a callback. What is a cheese curd? I don't know what a cheese curd is. It's just good cheese. Tell you what, so a cheese curd, right? You tell me what a cheese curd is. Well, you know, you were about to tell us what it is.

Okay, because you guys asked, I'll tell you. It's like when you have a vat of cheese. It's the... It's not the whey. It's not, yeah. It's like what rises to the top. Okay. Like, kind of, yeah.

Like, pretty much. Isn't that just cheese? Well, yeah, but it's like cheese is, like, pressed and salted and aged and all that. Cheese curds are, it's basically, like, halfway to mozzarella. Oh! Before you, like, finish the process of mozzarella. Like, you're making the cheese, you're stretching it. You're pulling it. It's effectively mozzarella.

I love cheese curds. For all intents and purposes. Mozzarella. But it's not mozzarella. Mozzarella. Come on. Come on. I'm sorry if, don't cancel me, Italian American community.

Che cosa. Yes. That's all I know. I love cheese curds. Very much so. And I can't believe there's cheese curd slander going on the side of the table. It's honestly rude. Do you like how rubbery it is?

Yeah, I do. That's the draw. I love the squeaky. And you know, that's whenever it gets soggy, it's better. I like a soggy cheese curd. Okay. French fries. Yeah.

Do we think potatoes get the highest lift from being fried? Absolutely! I think so. Yeah. Do we think potatoes get the highest lift from being fried? Absolutely. I think so. Listen, I would argue at the top of that list, a waffle fry, that's the king fry.

Nothing beats it. A waffle fry with that Cajun seasoning on top, and then you dip it in. Preach, girl. She's singing now. I'm telling you, dude, there's nothing better, and God bless America. That's me with curly fries. Yes. I love curly fries. Specifically Arby's or any? I like any, but, there's nothing better, and God bless America. That's me with curly fries. Yes. I love curly fries. Specifically Arby's or any?

I like any, but Arby's is better. I think all the other places just get it from the Arby's factory. That's the real thing. Oh, really? Yeah, I think it's the same factory. Jack in the Box, they taste identical to Arby's. Jack in the Box is not a real place. I think Jack in the Box is like a portal.

It's like a vortex. It's like Los Pollos Hermanos. It's like it's always been there, but we don't know what's inside. No one's ever made it out alive what do you mean you can get a burger chicken tacos fries like asian food yeah chicken teriyaki balls it's literally anything you could ever want and it all tastes like relatively the same it's the same it's beaver meat free french fried well it all is the same smell yeah i'll tell you because all the smells the chicken fajita pita smell is infiltrating the teriyaki bowl

is infiltrating the tacos is infiltrating the croissants and when they hand you that brown paper bag and the grease is just dripping from the bottom you accept it you accept it

Jack in the Box they leaned in the most though to the stoner aesthetic and they're just like Jack in the Box we know you're high like literally they partnered with Snoop Dogg

to create his own munchie meal like I love I love that about Jack in the Box good integration fries though fries do potatoes have the highest win Literally, they partnered with Snoop Dogg to create his own munchie meal. I love that about Jack in the Box. Good integration. Fries, though, fries. Do potatoes have the highest win above replacement than any other cookery method? Here's the thing.

I love a boiled potato. I'm like an Irish peasant from 1831. And I like sometimes to salt it, too. Oh, just in the book. A knob of butter. Oh, I'm Sunday. Oh, I'm Colin Farrell in the banshees of Iron Shin, as Nicole calls it.

And I just love me a good salted tatty. I don't really feel alone. Dirty tree potatoes. A little bit of salt. And the more tater tots, there's a bunch of different fries. Yeah. Potatoes are probably the best food

to deep fry, right? Breakfast potatoes. Breakfast potatoes. Are they the best? You think they're the best? 100%? Winds above replacement. Well, let's start rocketing through nicole start start listing off the most popular foods in the world okay no i'm gonna go down the list of the most well-known

deep fried foods how about yeah okay we did french fries we did fried chicken donuts pay now mistake a culinary mistake i don't like donuts that much either i like cake donuts more than deep fried donuts you don't know the lore of donuts no well. Well, like they were on a ship, right? And they like. Was it like someone accidentally dropped it into the fryer? Yes. The lore of donuts is it was like a bagel shop and they accidentally dropped into a deep fryer and thus the donut was born.

I thought it was invented on like Dutch ships and they were called like oil cook. Wrong. Wow. Okay. You know more about food than me. You are the better chef. I agree with this. Donuts don't really matter. Do you like donuts?

I love a donut. He loves a donut. Churros are better than donuts. Then, okay, like a Disneyland churro versus a Krispy Kreme glazed classic donut. Yeah. That's crazy. For me, for me,

but the thing is I like the texture. I like it's a little bit crunchy. It's just a little bit soft, just a little bit soft, and I really enjoy that. I love a good old-fashioned American yeast donut glazed Krispy Kreme with so many chemicals in it that just melt little bit soft just a little bit soft and I really enjoy that I love a good old fashioned American yeast donut glazed Krispy Kreme

with so many chemicals in it they just melt inside your mouth you taste it and you say why is my mouth kind of curdling like that why is it kind of burning it's good

that's all the chemicals they keep you burning alright next beignets beignets they're kind of like I'm not a beignet girl yeah me either

the powdered sugar makes me want to choke and die glazed donut over beignet okay fair corn dog I think worse than a hot dog I would much rather have a hot dog Yeah, me either. The powdered sugar makes me want to choke and die. Play Donut over beignet. Okay, fair. Corn dog. I think worse than a hot dog. I would much rather have a hot dog than a corn dog.

Wrong. Wrong. Okay, that's fine. You just, whatever. Disneyland corn dogs are good, though. I do love the Disneyland. Hush puppies. Disneyland makes it good.

Hush puppies. I like hush puppies. I like a hush puppy. I love a hush puppy. It's just deep fried stuffing, right? It's just deep fried cornbread stuffing. It's just deep fried something. It's literally, that is the most deep fried.

It is deep fried deep fry. It's good. That's like all it is. There's no substance to it. It's like they took the deep fried coating and they just made it a whole bowl. Literally, they made it into a ball and then they deep fried it.

And it's great. I imagine when I'm in front of a plate of hush puppies, it's like if you were to take a little vacuum hose to a bunch of meatballs. That's what I look like inhaling a bunch of Just hoovering it. Just hoovering those games. Fried fish.

Fried green tomatoes. Delicious. Have you ever had a fried green tomato eggs benedict? One of my favorite things ever. I want a fried green tomato BLT, man. I want a fried green tomato po' boy. Tostones?

Oh, tostones. Tostones are delicious. Deep fried plantain, but that kind of like goes along the same lines of deep fried potato, like deep fried root starches. Yeah, but I think plantain's not a root. Oh, well, whatever. Doesn't it grow in a tree? Yeah, I think so. I'm done. But a deep fried starch, a deep fried starchiferous. Like a pork rind? Yeah, we got

chicharrones. Yeah, yeah, chicharrones. Or pork rinds, great. Chimichanga. Carb-free chips. This guy had a chimichanga pop-up once. I had a chimichanga pop-up. You know that about it? Does that just mean you like vomited it up?

Or do you mean pop-up? No, it was like a pop-up restaurant. I didn't know that. It was called Stony Bologna Artisanal Chimichangas. Of course it was. And my mascot, I actually got a really cool artist to draw it. It was like a log of bologna

kind of folded over, smoking a blunt. Love that. Blood red eyes. It wasn't very appetizing to people though, I guess. And I was serving it on like 110 degree days

in the middle of summer. And nobody wanted just a deep fried burrito. Shocking. I would have grabbed one. Thank you. Fried calamari. Calamar.

It has to be done right. It has to be the little pieces. Right. And you got a lemon juice all over it. Thank you. Fried calamari. Calamar. It has to be done right. It has to be the little pieces. And you gotta lemon juice all over it. And you gotta in the red sauce. I like the tentacles. I like the tentacles. I like the way you talk about food. It's very expressive. It's visceral. There's a very oral element.

Oral. A-U-R-A-L element to eating that is very important. What does that mean? Sound. Oh. I did not know. I thought people were asking for something much different when they asked me for that. Same. Let's go through a few more.

Mozzarella sticks. There's a whole list of appetizers that we could, like, if we could talk about pop, we could talk about jalapeno poppers, but. I like jalapeno poppers. But, but, but. I love jalapeno poppers. I love jalapeno poppers. Fried Twinkie. We didn't even talk about the fried Twinkie. A lot of state fair food.

Twinkies are kind of perfect as they are. Deep frying doesn't necessarily increase, whereas I think Oreo, at least, is changing the physical state of the Oreo, right? Interesting. It's doing something different. Deep fried cake is a little off. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you love deep fried cake donuts. No, I like cake donuts. Charleston, they're deep fried. No, they're not. Cake donuts are deep fried. Oh, my God. We went through this. Josh, I like cake donuts. Charleston, they're deep fried. No, they're not. Cake donuts are deep fried. Oh my God, we went through this. Josh, I'm so tired of you doing this. It's literally baked in an oven.

And then deep fried. We looked this up. Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Josh, you give me hives. Josh, come back. I think we weren't both right. No, we weren't both right. Yes, we were both right.

Take the microphone to Maggie. No, we weren't both right because I said they were baked and then fried nicole said they were baked so the camera stationary it doesn't move when you move it doesn't move when you move sit down set and i don't know where i can move in your chair sit in your chair please i'm sweating i need to like go to the bathroom and breathe why do you always do this? This has happened so many times before. Okay, what did we learn today, everybody? What did we learn? We learned that, what the f*** did you say?

165 degrees, 13 minutes? I don't know. In order to cook a chicken thigh. Yeah, chicken thigh. How much is on that? I think like $50. I think you should just give it to Brittany. That can be a pretty...

As an apology for being here. All right, guys, we're going to have him sign it. I'm going to auction it off. Broski Nation, we just hit the lotto for Mythical Chef Josh Phan. $35 for a $50 Red Lobster gift card.

It's probably empty. It probably had like $3 on it. I would, I would, $3.5. You think I'm driving out to what, Woodland Hills to go to Red Lobster? No, we don't have time to go to Woodland Hills these days. Not me, not me. Actually, I live kind of out to what Woodland Hills To go to Red Lobster

No We don't have time To go to Woodland Hills These days Not me Not me Actually I live Kind of close to that

Maybe you should go So what have we learned today Shrimp Yeah Chicken Chicken Fried chicken Fried chicken

And a waffle fry Potatoes It's between shrimp Chicken and potatoes If we declare a winner I feel I feel potato Potato

Potato Potatoes Okay Real quick I know it says warp On the screen But But like let me Let me get in a soap, potato. Potatoes were, okay, real quick. I know it says warp on the screen, but let me get in a soapbox real quick. Potatoes, right?

Potatoes were literally, there were no potatoes in Europe. There it is, warp. Potatoes were original. There were no potatoes in Europe. There were no potatoes in Europe until the Columbian Exchange, right? 1500s.

And then people were literally like, wow, there's a new food that can help feed the poverty stricken masses. That can help damon in the movie the martian that's what i'm saying you know and so matt damon is basically all the peasants of northern europe and now we love potatoes you know but back then they were a food of strife you know what i mean yeah we need to elevate them out of that whereas shrimp right always been a culinary delight little fancy sea bugs you know chicken people for thousands of years have loved eating chicken, but the potatoes, no, no, no.

Potatoes are a new thing. Not really. I don't know what the hell I'm saying anymore. You guys heard about this new thing called potatoes? Like, what are you talking about? I'm saying you need to elevate,

elevate potatoes. You gotta, you gotta rouse them from their slumber into being something that is an incredible human creation such as the waffle fry dusted in Donny Sashry's

Cajun seasoning. God bless. Is that how you say itnie donnie sachery sachery sachery that's crazy i wanted to get a whole sachery up here we should we should get you should get him on the show he's dead britney he's dead he died what's up? All right, Nicole and Brittany. We've heard what you and I have to say. Now it's time to find out what other wacky ideas are rattling out there in the universe. It's a time for a segment we call Opinions Are Like Casserolesoles Hi, this is Eric Morgan My hot take is a

Grandmother cookie My grandmother used to have these in her freezer When we'd come over as a snack It is a Honey graham cracker Split in two Covered with chocolate buttercream fostering yeah baby and then smooth peanut butter and jet puff oh i top it with the top of the graham cracker put it in

the freezer for 30 minutes why does he sound like he's narrating a true crime podcast that was so like suspenseful yeah you should narrate a true crime podcast and speaking of which i thought when he said grandmother cookies, he murdered an old woman and ground her into a cookie. I thought that's what he was talking about. Maybe you should see somebody. I just, I know.

I need to, I need to. Don't get me started. If anybody's a good therapist, just like let me know. Don't get me started. Maybe that's really concerning as we're like, where your mind went.

Can I go to your therapist? My therapist is, she's overloaded, trust me. Oh man, alright. Dealing with old reliable up here. Grandma cookies. Graham crackers split in half, chocolate buttercream, peanut butter, marshmallow

fluff, freezer, sandwiched. Sounds yum. Sounds like the opposite of a s'more and I think that's interesting. I don't know if I would reach for it necessarily but it sounds good i mean if i grew up with that i'd probably love it you know you know what that sounds like y'all ever do like have you ever been on a road trip to the south no you never stopped at like a mega gas

station in the south i have i've been to like a bucky's bucky's at a place like bucky's even not at bucky's just at normal kind of convenient stores. They'll sell little like homemade goodies like that. Just kind of saran wrapped and whatever. That is like a gas station snack for me. I've never been to Buc-ee's

but I've always wanted, it's like Disneyland. I really want to go there. Oh, it's fantastic. Somebody. Someone's grandma. Yeah, someone's grandma. These are the traditions

we're losing. I'm saying. You know what I mean? If people do not pick up their grandmother's recipes, people say Americans don't know how to cook, that we have no culinary tradition. These are them. And we're losing. I'm saying. You know what I mean? If people do not pick up their grandmother's recipes, people say Americans don't know how to cook, that we have no culinary tradition. These are them.

And they're beautiful. Right? You know what I would argue is uniquely American is the fucking Midwest. It's true. When they're like, Jell-O salad. Correct.

Yeah. That is so American because who in their right mind would do that and pass it down for generations? With a little bit of mayonnaise in there? But those are the traditions we're living in. Mayonnaise and like- My nana,

she blends ham with mayonnaise. Who does that? On a cracker. My nana. And I'm going to teach my- a little bit of mayonnaise in there? Mayonnaise and like My nana, she blends ham with mayonnaise. Spread it on a cracker. My nana. And I'm going to teach my Is this your nana in Florida? Your aunt? That you call nana? She lives in Florida now.

Yeah, yeah. She lives in what's the one called? Jacksonville? Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. She blends ham. It's called deviled ham.

You can devil anything pretty. If you got a blender and enough mayonnaise and enough lack of shame you can turn anything deviled. You know you want a blender and enough mayonnaise and enough lack of shame, you can turn anything deviled. You know, you want deviled cherry blended cherry with mayonnaise? Good.

Good to know. Next opinion, please. Hello, Josh and Nicole. I have a controversial take for y'all that me and my wife tend to argue about a lot because she is actually a very well-trained cook, and I'm just a guy who's willing to eat three-day-old pizza but smart my controversial take is cheddar jack cheez-its are the best topping for a mac and cheese okay and i will die with that one hey now put it on my tubes put put it on my headstone please okay yeah on my headstone, please. Okay. Yeah.

Tell me what you think about that. I want to know what else he and his wife argue about. Yeah, that seems very... You know? There's a clear side to that. Yeah. And the answer is yes. Yes. I don't want to team it, but you ever hear a couple argue and you only get one side of

it? Right. Sure. And you're like, I know that's not what actually happened. That wasn't the fight. Sure. You know? I would do this.

Are you listening to her? Are you making her feel heard? Right. Yeah. All right. Next voicemail. Yeah. Hey, Josh and Nicole.

I'm Madeline. And this weekend, I discovered the weirdest combination. I was driving. I was eating snacks, as one does. Hot taste, peanut M&M's and carrots okay I know it's not weird it had like a weird toffee vibe

it was creamy, it was crunchy, it was salty, it was sweet it actually worked really really well don't hate on it, give it a shot peanut M&M's and carrots have a good day guys I know what this is this is a 6 year old inside just screaming to get out. This is just like a childhood thing that she recently,

she's like, if I was six years old, I would love this. And now she's trying to make all of us love and be her at six years old. She's trying to heal her inner child. I think that's what I'm getting from this. I think she's a sick freak. Brittany, how do you heal your inner child? Oh, my God. I go to Disneyland once a week.

He did the NPR voice When he doesn't hear a voice he gotta get out What do I do How do you heal your inner child That's great That's how Josh's NPR voice is Carrots and chocolate can work Carrots are earthy and sweet

I love carrots I love sweet carrots I love carrot desserts Lovely Indian dessert it's like a carrot pudding It's delicious I like a carrot pudding okay delicious oh it's so good i love a carrot cake i like carrot cake carrots and carrots should be made into more desserts i love carrots and i love peanut m&m's so have y'all seen this girl on tiktok who dips everything in cottage cheese and mustard no no i'm not on that side of tiktok i'm sorry an entire tray of like honestly it's a very hearty, like healthy.

It's like broccoli, carrots, potato, yam, sometimes chicken and like celery sticks. And she'll make it in a big thing. And in the middle is a, you know, like on a fruit tray, it's like cream cheese. It's that, but it's cottage cheese with just like a of mustard in the middle. She mixes it up and dips everything in it. And she's like, y'all, I'm telling you, it's delicious. I feel like that sort of logic is the carrot and M&M thing. It's very, very possible.

Have you done it? No, I'm scared. Because what if I like it? What do you have to lose? Maybe because, again, I don't know what cottage cheese is. Cottage cheese is good. It's having a revival. It's having its moment.

It is. It is. And who am I to say you shouldn't enjoy it? You know, people are blending it, putting it in their overnight oats. Yeah, they love it. People are doing it with their pastas. I'm for the cottage cheese renaissance. I'm here for it. High in

protein. It's been big in the gym community for a long time, but nobody liked it. I want to make go-gurts. I want to make go-gurts. Cottage cheese go-gurts, but you have to blend it. Yeah. In the plastic? No, Josh. People blend it now.

No, but I want to suck the curds. There's curds in cottage cheese? Oh, it is like the lumpiest. It's like wet and lumpy. That's what the, okay. But not in the front of the way like ricotta where the lumps are small. These are big, big lumps.

I've had cottage cheese before. Yeah, lovely lady cottage cheese mumps. Mumps. Lumps. Maggie, next voicemail. Hi, Good Mythical Josh and Good Mythical Nicole. I love you guys so much. That's my Christian name. mumps mumps Maggie next voicemail hi good mythical Josh and

good mythical Nicole I love you so much my government name please my hot take is that I love

fish sauce on everything yes the what and it's delicious okay goodbye Brittany how do you

feel about Vietnamese fish sauce you got three crabs woman or you like red boat is fish sauce hoisin sauce? No. No.

But what it is is you take a bunch of anchovies and you basically like salt them and then let them sit outside in the sun to bleed their moisture. And then you like develop umami because the salt breaks down the proteins. And then you strain it. And it's been used as like, so Worcestershire sauce is very close to fish sauce. I like Worcestershire sauce. You coming around? You coming around? You're coming around.

But does it taste like you're sucking on a mackerel head? Yeah, but again, with the tone of voice. It tastes like you're sucking on a mackerel head. It's good. No, it's good. It adds a lot of umami and a lot of salt in dishes. So I actually like to put it in my risotto sometimes because it works with parmesan.

Like I put parmesan cheese when I finish it and I put like three shakes of fish sauce and it adds this really interesting, delicious, well-developed umami that you just can't get in people's teeth. What is that? What is that? But I never tell. I put it in salad dressings a lot. I saw you do that today actually.

Did you see me just put raw fish sauce on my salad? I got a really bland salad from the CPK. We love CPK but their new Bunme Power Bowl, a little bit under-seasoned. And so I just dropped some fish sauce in there. Fish sauce, a little bit of lime. We'll gift you a bottle. We'll send you home with a Red Lobster. You know what? I never leave here unpunished.

Wait, is fish sauce in miso soup? Is that what it is? No, that's miso. And also, it's a lot of times they use a broth that is anchovy flavored. So you might be getting like, it's not the same as fermented anchovy. Okay. But you're tasting the ferment. Like that's what makes miso soup so good. Yeah.

It's the soybeans. It's the soybean ferment. Okay, got it. Fermentation creates umami flavor. Yummy. I love a miso soup. Yummy. I love fermented food.

Hot dog hotline. Yes, sir. Okay. So my unpopular opinion is that if you like melting cheeses like fondue cheeses and sodium citrate, you can't hate on St. Louis style pizza because that's what Provel cheese is. It's just a melting cheese. You put a super thin, like a crazy thin crust. You put a wonderful melted cheese on top and you throw your toppings on it. How people dislike that, I will never understand.

I will die on this hill. I think it's the best type of pizza in America. So yeah, unpopular opinion. Thank you. Well, how does he really feel? I will never bend the knee to St. Louis. Take it away. I'm going to take my headphones off.

No, no, no. People have said, so we've come out explicitly against St. Louis style pizza because to me it's not pizza. St. Louis style pizza, it's on an unleavened bread. It's on a cracker, right? It's an unleavened agent. It's like, what are you making it for Pesach? You know, you got the matzo pizza going.

Provel cheese. I have no problem with Provel cheese in a vacuum. But all food is context dependent, especially cheese. Melting cheese is right. Those go great with, say, a leavened bread. You know what I mean? You get a sandwich that has a nice, like, fluffy bread exterior. The nice melted cheese kind of blends in with that.

But when you're just putting it on a hard-ass cracker pizza, you know, I think that's, like, disrespecting, you know, all of pizza. No, pizza, you want a nice red sauce. You want a slightly burnt crust. A little bit of crisp to it yielding to that chew the tomatoes coming in st louis style pizza it's a cracker with melted american cheese on it and which again i don't dislike but it's not pizza is that do you have anything else to say about it yeah please don't give us more one-star ratings from st louis we really can't afford it because that really happens a lot we really can't take it because that really happens a lot. We really can't take it anymore. Also to the cities

of Spokane, Washington, Rochester, New York, and Bangor, Maine, I apologize. Jesus Christ. I know. He's offended a lot of people. We've got a lot of ops out there.

We try and target cities that are like less than 100,000 people, though, if we can. They can all rise up at once. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. We're not going to dislike Toronto. Broski Nation will rise.

Spokane Nation will rise. Yeah, Winnetka, California, you suck. Yeah. Hey, stop it. You've got to be nice to everybody, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Like we're not going to dislike Toronto. Broski Nation will rise. Spook like a true jail. Yeah, Winnick to California, you suck. Yeah. Hey, stop it. You got to be nice to everybody, Josh. I don't know what, what's the type of cheese he said? Provel. Provel.

Is that like a, when he was speaking, I was imagining like Max from the Goofy movie when he eats that cheese and it's just like dripping off of it. Yeah, kind of. Is that kind of, but it's almost like an American-ish, American cheese type of like Provolone. It's not as Goofy as you think. It's not as Goofy though kind of. It's almost like an American-ish American cheese type of like provolone. It's not as goopy as you think. Okay. It is good. I love Provel cheese. Provel is good. I like Provel as well.

On that note, thank you for listening to a hot dog is a sandwich. I'm going to take my headphones off. Have I been yelling this whole time? Pretty much. Man, anyways, thank you for listening to a hot dog is a sandwich. Brittany, thank you so much for stopping by lending your culinary expertise to the cause, welcoming us back into the Mythical Kitchen. You know what?

Couldn't do this without you. And I know that. That's why I chose to come back. Thank you. I do. Thank you guys so much for having me. This was a blast. We really solved the issues of the world here today.

Is there anything you want to plug? I would love to plug my podcast called The Broski Report. If any of you are recent Broski Nation convertees, we have very basic human rights over in Broski Nation. But come on over because we'd love to have you. Yeah, universal suffrage is about five years away in Broski Nation. Yeah, we're almost there. Almost there.

We've got new audio episodes out on Wednesday, new videos out on Sunday, back on the original Mythical Kitchen channel. Woo-hoo! Big, big exciting time for us, everybody. That's right. And if you want to be featured on Opinions or at Castles, you can hit us up at 833-DOGPOD1. The number again is 833-DOGPOD1.

See you all next time. I guess they'll do a firing squad to kill dissidents, or are you more of like a trebuchet them out of the broski limits? A trebuchet is good. It is good. To catapult someone out of the castle walls is crazy. It's very visual. Yeah, firing squad is a bit outdated.

Messy. Yeah, we prefer lethal injection, whatever works. You gotta clean. You gotta clean. Nice kill.