A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - What's The Best Menu Item At Jollibee?

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

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They have chicken joy, Nicole. Joy is literally in the name. I was just asking if you had a good lunch break. Even their spaghetti is jolly. 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, the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Josh Scherr. And I'm your host, Nicole Inayate. And today we are talking about the real king of the Philippines. You may have thought it was Manny Pacquiao. You may have thought it was NBA player Jordan Clarkson.

You may have thought- Imelda. Imelda. It was Imelda Marcos who. With the shoes. She had a large collection of shoes. Large collection of shoes. She was, I believe, evacuated by a helicopter out of the country when they rebelled. Anyways, the real ruler rightfully of the Philippines

is the Jollibee Bee. If you have not seen it. Jollibee Bee. He is a large anthropomorphic bee mascot with a thick old dumpy. and he has really cool dance moves And he goes to a lot of the new restaurant openings. I twerked on Jollibee one time. Did you ask Jollibee for consent before you twerked on it?

It was a statue of Jollibee, so no. Okay, that's different. You don't need to ask statues consent, do you? No, but if it had been a mascot, you need to know that there's a real person making $15 an hour inside the suit. What? You can't. There's people inside the Jollibee suit? Jollibee B is it real? No it is not. I would have said that Jollibee is the most underrated fast food franchise but there becomes a point where you... It's rated. It's rated now right? People respect the Jollibee. As they should. I remember going to Jollibee for the first time.

It was, at the time, the only Jollibee location in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard. Is that the one next to the city bank that looks like a colonial house? Yes, it is. What's the deal with that bank? I don't know. It looks like it's from, I don't know,

like the, what's that thing? The Antebellum Age. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Antebellum in California looked a lot different than elsewhere is all I'm saying But yeah, there was just one Jollibee and now they have exploded They're making a big run on the American market after they opened in the Philippines damn near 50 years ago. Wow Iconic. Yeah, I'm so excited. I put my laptop down because I'm excited to eat it if you want

I'm excited you too So today we're simply going to answer the question of what is the best thing on the Jollibee menu? I'll say this. I think the best thing on the menu is the thing that we couldn't get which is a spicy chicken joy. Oh the sandwich? No the actual chicken. Oh just the spicy chicken. They didn't have it. They didn't give me the option to order. It was very upsetting. I like it because there's a little flag in it. Yeah, I like the little flag. But Jollibee has a fascinating menu. If you look at Filipino food in general, you know, Philippines a very large mix of Chinese influence, of Japanese influence, other East Asian influence, and then Spanish influence, and then a lot of American

influence, especially after World War II and the Spanish-American War in general. So you get a lot of things like mashed potatoes with gravy and fried chicken, you have things like spaghetti with hot dogs on it, but then you also have like a whole litany of Filipino stews, right? And they have some nods to traditional, well more traditional Filipino food, like the pancit palabok. We got some of that today.

Which we're gonna try today. They have a lot of different tropical fruits in their pies. But this is gonna be fascinating. What are we cracking open? I don't know. I also wanted to preface this that the first time I had Jollibee, I had their sliders. Have you ever had their sliders?

It was Spam, Longanisa, and something else. Corned beef. Was it corned beef? I like the corned beef slider. Let me tell you that. They're dumb with the sliders, they got rid of them, right? You're driving, it's like 11.45 at night, and you're like, I've never gone to Jollibee before,

this is my first experience, and those sliders saved me. They were 99 cents at the time. They were like one of the last 99 cent fast food items that I remember getting. That was an iconic thing. And I wish they would bring that back. Jollibee headquarters in California. Pandesal sliders.

They're so good. They were so good. Oh, and it was pandesal sliders? Pandesal, so the bread, it was pandesal, or literally like a salt bread. It was kind of like a little bit crustier, salt on top. There's the gravy, there's the chicken gravy.

Because I care for you so much, I got you your own gravy because I want you to experience happiness. Oh, you're drinking it straight off the dome. God, that is a really delightful gravy. Oh my God, that's good. Do you think off the bat that Jollibee's fried chicken can hold a candle to the bigger American competitors like Popeyes and KFC.

Let's take a bite. I need to eat it first. Let's try it. Are you dark meat, light meat? What are you? I think a chicken thigh is the single best part of the chicken. Is this all? I would say wing. Here's the thing, this is neither here nor there,

but we need to stop calling the whole wing the wing. I think the drumette should not be part of the wing. I think all chickens should be butchered with the drumette still attached to the breast Okay, because I hate drumettes, but I love flats hot take I think the drumette is maybe the worst part of the chicken and the flat is the best part of the chicken I mean just off the bat like this isn't greasy You got a lot of buckets of KFC chicken where you're like, you know, you were overcrowding that pressure fryer for sure They're the chicken pieces were sitting on top of each other

like, yo, you were overcrowding that pressure fryer. For sure. The chicken pieces were sitting on top of each other. This is an incredibly well-breaded piece of chicken. You see like the skin has stayed flat and intact. That's a sign of good quality control. Right. Looks really, really crispy. It smells good.

What's the first thing you taste when you eat this chicken? I would say it's pure white pepper and chicken juice. I was gonna say salt. Well, salt too, yeah. This is a wonderfully salted piece of chicken. All throughout too. Yeah, I'm digging into the thigh. The meat itself is seasoned undeniably perfectly.

You don't really get that from the taste, you get that from the texture. There's a certain texture that happens specifically to dark meat chicken. White meat chicken too, but it's more prevalent and dark. You can even see it, it looks cured. I know, the stringiness, it's kind of pleasant though. Oh it's great, no that's what I want.

I know, it's really good. I saw this guy online where he removed the chicken skin, took a glob of rice and dunked it in gravy and I want to do that right now. Wait, you make like a little, almost like an inari. A lohme? A lohme. You know inari? No, I've never heard of it before. Inari is the tofu skin. Oh yeah! The tofu skin that's stuffed with rice. Oh my god, that's shite. You're stuffing the chicken skin with the white roe.

Dude, I gotta do that. I ate my skin though. Here, you can take the skin off of another thing. It's okay. You can take it. We got a whole bucket here. We got a whole bucket. This is absolutely incredible, especially with the gravy.

But if you're putting this up, oh god, thank you. You're so welcome. Don't forget to dip it in the gravy. I would not forget to dip it in the gravy. If you're putting this up against, like, KFC, chicken and gravy, you think it's better. I think it's better, Josh. Mmm. Interesting.

This is not about a verse KFC situation. We reserve the right to do that later. Mmm. I feel like I'm a little bit missing the secret urban spices. Really? You know, I do kind of love that about KFC. I think I'm a little bit missing the secret urban spices. Really? I do kind of love that about KFC.

I've always said that I prefer Popeyes better, but I almost think in a perfect world where everybody's operating under the same levels of stress with the same crew, et cetera. I found KFC has much poorer quality control than a lot of other restaurants. That's fair, yeah. And it's hard when you're hand dredging chicken and all that. But I think their flavor profile is really excellent. But Jollibee's also great. Let me tell you the thing about Jollibee.

Again, it's the perfectly salted, I don't know, there's like, I think there might be MSG or something in there. Oh, definitely MSG. It's phenomenal. I don't know what it is. I don't miss those herbs and spices that much. Maybe if we got the spicy one, we would be, you know, saying something different.

But because we just have the original, I think it is a perfectly fine fried chicken. I do think the cook on it and the fry is better than KFC. Hardcore agree. I just think it's better. This is going to be a tough item to beat. Bone-in fried chicken is still, like, my preferred way to eat fried chicken.

Yeah, me too. me too. Right. It used to not be the case. I used to just be like, okay, time for popcorn chicken, ba ba ba ba ba ba. But now, I've grown up. I wanna eat the bones. I think there's a level of maturity to that.

I really do. Right. I don't mind cleaning the bone. Bone sucker 3000 over here. Bone sucker, they call me the bone groucher, they call her the bone sucker. I don't wanna to stop eating. Out of 10, out of 10. Where do you put this chicken? Damn, 8.7.

Right? This is high eights, low nines. This is like really, really... Again, this is just... Here's the thing too. When you have such a pointed international expansion, like Jollibee, right? They're really trying to hit the American market and they're doing a phenomenal job. When you do that, you're sending your best of the best out as emissaries right? You're taking the best regional managers from Manila and you're like hey go to

Glendale California make sure they know the greatness because you've been a loyal foot soldier right? Like that's what they do whereas if there's the millionth KFC opening or something you know it's whatever this is a franchisee he bought it right now They care right now. They care right now. They care, but I hope they keep caring because the quality is Really delicious and some places really do a good job I think especially somewhat newer chains They put a lot more emphasis like I'm thinking about something like a Jersey Mike's versus a Subway

Oh, man, Jersey Mike's had a much later. We did. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, nice But like Jersey Mike's had a much later expansion for did yeah, yeah Okay, nice, but like Jersey Mike's had a much later expansion well They learned they learned they learned what can go wrong And I think they saw Subway's mistakes of like you know quality gotten real low And you're just microwaving plastic bags and slopping them into some bread exactly so Jersey Mike's has great quality control comparatively right How do you feel about the gravy you think the gravy is what would you rate the gravy? Excellent, and I think there's a more depth of flavor than a KFC gravy I'm gonna give it a seven.

Seven? If we're judging by Jollibee's, like, offerings, I think it's a seven because I think it's a great dip. But, but it's a great dip, but... I don't like, I don't think I would like it on potatoes. Did we get potatoes? We did not get potatoes. I decided to go for rice. I'm not a potato guy.

Yeah, rice and gravy also is a delightful combination. Underrated, the rice with the gravy shoots it up to like an eight. 100%. The rice is really delicious too, side note. Yeah, rice with fried chicken is kind of where I wanna be too. I think it tastes better than potatoes and fried chicken. Especially with white rice.

Yeah, yeah, agreed. This rice is also very rice-y tasting rice. Whatever, you can use your hands, yes. Whatever rice they use, it's very ricey rice. You know some rices they don't taste like much anymore? This does. Tastes like a barrel-aged jasmine or something like that. Which is weird. It shouldn't taste so good, but it does. Okay, anyone who has grown up with a lot of Filipino people or especially had a Filipino roommate, like I've had a Filipino roommate, yeah, Emil, what's Filipino roommate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Emil, what's up, dude?

But like, you know, there would always just be a pot of rice on. And like, it would always be much better than the rice that you would make, right? And they, you know, because they likely grew up with a rice cooker. I'm talking to Emil and he'd be like, yeah, I just, I'd wake up before I went to school,

I'd put the rice in the rice cooker and then I'd like come home. And especially because he was a football player and a track athlete. So he'd just be eating like 2000 calories of rice per day. Must be nice. And so like when rice is so important to you, in Jollibee, you get it right.

You know, you go to a, you know, getting like a fast food, the fast food like dirty rice at Popeyes. I love it with the beans, but like, or even an alpollo loco or something like that. The rice is always, you never really want it. A little bit gummy. I will say that they have something called adobo rice at Jolly B2, which I did not get again. But that's because I just wanted to hit the classics.

You know what I mean? I wanted to hit the classicos. Oh! You having a good time? Did you do the skin chicken skin thing again? Mm-mm. Oh, what did you do? I wrapped.

Here's how I eat a chicken thigh. Let me know. That was the one perfect bite. Do you want to swallow first or do you want to? No, thank you, but thank you for asking. I was here to ask and make sure Meggie doesn't get mad whenever she... I'm just going to fill up the white noise a little bit while Josh swallows his mouthful of chicken.

Yeah. I'm like a toddler drinking a glass of milk after four hours of playtime, just choking it down. The hell was I talking about? Oh, how to eat a chicken bite. There's always the one perfect skirt overhang. That's a great bite of skin and meat without bone. That's where you start.

But then I think what you do is you remove the skin and then you pick off the meat across that little top shield layer. And then you wrap that meat in the skin individually so you get a perfectly wrapped bite. and then you're picking around the bones. So impressive. I know some people find me very attractive. I know it's crazy me too stop. Okay.

I want to try okay so I need to talk about this the spicy chicken sandwich from Jollibee. I believe I've spoken about this before is maybe my favorite fast food chicken sandwich. It's a glossy bun. The reason why I love it so much is that they have fresh jalapenos at the bottom and that means a lot to me. The fresh, snappy, spicy jalapenos with the delicious crusty chicken. I think there might be a special sauce too, which is a new addition I think, but let me tell you something about the fresh bite of the jalapeno. Are you done stabbing the sandwich? Dude, check it out, I successfully cut it in

half with just a fork. Wow, you're so strong. Thank you. Oh, he gave me the one with the jalapeno sticking out. Shivalry's not dead. Can I have half the jalapeno? Shivalry's not dead, but it wants half, baby. Shivalry's not dead, but... Evil Rhymes evil. Yeah, feminism is.

Destroyed hundreds of years of... gendered abolition work. Alright, great. How good is that? Well, I'm obsessed with that. With that jalapeno fresh, green jalapeno bite is so special to me. It's pretty incredible that they're using fresh jalapeno instead of just like a pickled canned jalapeno.

Cause that's what most places would do if they're trying to do like the fiery Diablo butthole sandwich. They're throwing canned jalapenos on the air and they're not here a fresh jalapeno is almost always spicier than a can Can the capsaicin is already diffusing into the vinegar right? I think spice you taste from the vinegar is spice that used to things that used to once be in that jalapeno The fresh is great crunch grass all that. What do you think about the rest of the chicken? What do you think about the bun? Because this is a new item at Jollibee.

This is them entering the chicken sandwich where it's trying to go after Popeyes. I think the bun is fine. I like the glossiness of it. I think it's pretty mediocre, but again, I'm not always in it for the bun. Some people are. I'm not in it for the bun.

I'm in it for the spice and the chicken. I think the chicken cook, the cook on the chicken is very nice. I think the flavor of the breading is very delightful. I don't love the texture, but I do love the flavor. And I think the sauce, I could do without the sauce. I'm crazy. I think I would get the chicken sandwich

without the spicy sauce, extra jalapenos, and maybe squirt some ketchup on it. Interesting. Okay, so if we're comparing this again Sin of comparison we don't need to compare jelly be two Popeyes But this was them directly comparing themselves to Bob is the bun what made the Popeye sandwich so special was it was one a giant piece of like Whole chicken Whole chicken breast meat wasn't pressed wasn't formed wasn't any of that crap

Whole chicken breast that was brined super well, super flavorful, snappy, ultra flavorful breading, and then this glossy brioche bun with the spicy mayonnaise. And that for whatever reason was revolutionary. This is very good. The bun here, it's a little less fluffy, incredibly glossy, it eats like a brioche. It's mediocre.

It's mediocre, but I feel like a mediocre bun is like a McDonald's hamburger bun. It's a mediocre brioche bun. Correct. We can agree on that. Not as good as Popeyes. The chicken isn't as big. It's mediocre, but I feel like a mediocre bun is like a McDonald's hamburger. It's a mediocre brioche bun correct, okay? We can we can do that not as good as Popeyes the chicken isn't as big it is really really good I don't need a huge ass piece of chicken in my chicken sandwich if anything I need a properly placed one for a perfect fit. I don't like them too big I like I like them too big because here's why even if there's stuff coming out the end

I can still put my mouth on it. No. I don't like them too big. I like them perfect I like to eat the chicken on the outs that's overhanging that's sticking out of the buns You know that's so I'm so different than you in that aspect. I think it's ostentatious and I think it's To be quite frank. I've always said big ones are just bragging. I'm just saying it's a little crass. It's a little crass I don't need it and it doesn't need to be that big. It's boastful Out of ten, what do, what do you rate this? Okay, well, compared to the bone in chicken, I think it's worse than the bone in chicken.

But it is a really good chicken sandwich. So I'm giving these all like high sevens, high, like low eights. 7.9 maybe, that's where I'm at. I'm gonna say 7.6. Okay. Like it's good, it's a good chicken sandwich. Right.

That's interesting if you look at like, Howlin' Rays, right? Sure. How's good. It's a good chicken sandwich. Right. That's interesting if you look at Howlin' Rays, right? Sure. Howlin' Rays is a spot that makes the best Nashville hot chicken in Los Angeles. Possibly the world. They've been going for years. Possibly the world. I mean, they're awesome.

Chef Johnny Ray's on your mench. For the longest time, one, they didn't have a chicken sandwich in the early, early days. I remember. It was all tenders, right? No, all bone-in. No tenders. What? They didn't have tenders. Really? It was all bone-in. No tenders. What? Really? They didn't have tenders.

It was all bone-in. I love bone-in chicken, especially bone-in spicy chicken. Spicy chicken, okay. But I remember there was a turning point where I was like, oh, their sandwich is so good that I do have to get it. Yeah, their sandwich is so good. Versus bone-in chicken.

Also the components that makes a sandwich a meal. You know what I mean? Correct. Their slaw's great, their comeback sauce is great, their bun that they source is great. This is not a meal. This is not a meal, and know what I mean? Correct. Their slaw's great. Their comeback sauce is great. Their bun that they source is great. This is not a meal. This is not a meal. And this doesn't do anything more than their bone-in fried chicken.

I agree with you. Sometimes they'll still go to Howlin' Rays and just get like a dark chicken quarter. Oh, but even their breast. This isn't the Howlin' Rays podcast. It might as well be though. I'm a tender girl at Howlin' Rays. Really?

Doesn't do it too. I love their tenders. I think their tender game is on fleek, as the kids would say. I remember when they didn't even have wings. Aw, Josh is so cool. He's like so like innovative and cool. He got on the ground floor of what's like a stock? Um... Apple?

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Let's eat some starches, buddy. Let's eat starches. Or we could do this. I saw this and I thought this was so silly, the Yum Burger. I've never had that. Me either. They also have these burger patties that are just coated in gravy. Well, yeah, that's their burger steak, right?

Yeah, I decided against it because the Yum Burger, let me tell you, it comes with a special sauce. And one thing I love is special sauce. Eeeh! There you go. This looks, why is this bun so different than the chicken sandwich bun? It's softer, right? Or are they the same? I think maybe this just steamed a little bit more.

Interesting. Okay, I'm gonna eat it. This is called a what burger? A Yum Burger. A Yum Burger. burger hey oh that burger sauce though hey yo hey yo that burger sauce though why that burger sauce so good yo why is that bugger why are you saying yo all the time you're not a yo hey yeah pretty good fast food burger why is does the burger patty have onion in it I think it does isolate isolate isolate.

Okay, wait, wait, we gotta go SOM mode. Gotta go SOM mode. The burger's like really well, it's like a lot better seared. You know, it's not just like gray. And it's like, it has like a spongy fluffiness that isn't off-putting. No, there's a bunch of additives in this burger, but in a way that feels, why does this feel homemade? It's really good. This feels homemade compared to American fast food burgers, right?

Yes, yes, yes it does. Yes. Yes, it does I'm gonna dip it in gravy because I'm crazy. Okay, you ever have like Like someone from like your culture makes a hamburger and they put like part of your culture in it This is yeah, you mean like cutlet. Yeah, cool. No, but honestly, this tastes like Colette, right? This tastes like Filipino Colette. I don't know why phrase it's so weird You know one of you people no No, literally, this is... This tastes like there's ground onion in stuff. This tastes like my mom's burgers.

This tastes like my mom's like, Nicole, you want hamburger? And then I beg, yeah, sure, whatever. And then like, this is the exact flavor profile. No MSG though. My mom didn't cook with MSG, but there's onion in this. And it's good. That burger sauce is...

It's like, undeniably sweet. It is quite sweet. And I think it adds to the oniony burger in a very unique, delicious way. That is a treat. That's good, wasn't it? I will say, I missed the hot mayonnaise and corned beef sandwiches, but that is a very delightful little, it almost eats like a little dumpling.

I can bow, the bun is super fluffy, super soft. I agree with the name. It is a yum burger, Josh. It sure is a yum burger Like would you ever go to Jollibee and order a burger? I think I might now they also have- no I get out of town I think so this burgers well if I'm craving this flavor profile sure absolutely and also I prefer burgers When's the last time you just like got a fast food and hamburger? Oh actually I went to In-N-Out two weeks ago with Colby. Oh except for In-N-Out. Oh then no. No In-N-Out like ago with cold oh except for in and out Oh, then no no internet like never and I don't know five guys. No shake shack like just a

Burger King I want a whopper right now. I don't I never crave whoppers It's funny. Okay, I'll crave a whopper but last time I I almost dropped it because the grease on my hand I'll crave a whopper, but last time I had one start like three years ago I've never seen it was big Mac occasionally. I'll just be like oh man. I could use a big Mac right now I've never craved a whopper or big Mac before like that. What like I'll occasionally crave a whopper occasionally crave a Big Mac occasionally crave Western bacon from Carl's well, it's cuz like that you were like raised on that But I wasn't but I was raised on like in and out and stuff But yeah, I much prefer like in and out for burgers. I'll

Every time Taco Bell comes out with a new item. I have to tell my bell is T Bell's fire man entirely different I'm changing my whole lexicon. I'm saying yo and fire Like nine years late on the sling. I know right welcome to be in 30. What do you give this burger? Give it a six point seven. I would say seven point one No, seven way one seems high though because this is like yeah, how much of this cost you remember $81? to the burger just $1.79 maybe yeah, it's like a cheap budget burger I think so, but it's a delicious one also doesn't have anything on it

But you know they have this new thing where you can put like pineapple on it and like They have an Aloha burger or something like that Sounds pretty good. I'm chapter Carl's who just brought their Their teriyaki burger back. They did great burger. You's who just brought their, their teriyaki burger back. They did? That's a great burger. You've talked about the teriyaki burger. Teriyaki burgers plus, plus live fire, I think do really well.

You get the char, the little flavor of gasoline on the pineapple. That's a lovely time. I don't like that. I don't, like people love, like grilled pineapple. I really don't love grilled pineapple. Love it, love it, love it. Double patty young man with melty cheese, grilled pineapple, crispy bacon, aloha dressing, and fresh lettuce on a fresh bun. Sounds pretty good.

Damn, man. Should've gone that one. Damn, damn, damn. But hey, what do you do? I'm glad we're trying the baseline stuff. Yeah, I'd say 6.9. Nice. Nice.

Okay. Nice. Should we get into starches now? Get into starches. I'm so excited. Yes! It's spaghetti time! Getting to starches now? Getting to starches. Ba ba da ba ba ba! I'm so excited. Yes!

It's spaghetti time! Filipino spaghetti is one of the greatest joys in the entire world. Tell them about it, Josh. Tell them why it's so damn good. Filipino, okay, Filipino spaghetti is to Italian spaghetti the way white people tacos is to, like carne asada tacos, right?

Yum. In the sense that it's created its own regional identity that is beloved by so, so many people and even has, you know, an area of commerce like Taco Bell selling that, Jollibee selling Filipino spaghetti, but it is like entirely different. So first of all, ketchup became big in the Philippines,

but then there was a tomato shortage, especially post-war. And so they started making ketchup with bananas. It was just like sweet, acidic, dyed red. acidic dyed red and ketchup so it tends to be banana ketchup in here along with tomato paste and then again big American food industrial sort of complex in the Filipina in the Philippines and so like hot dogs deli meats became big so tends to be some sort of like ground pork maybe did generally like a deli meat ham slices slices of hot dogs, banana ketchup, and then a sort of processed cheese that is not dissimilar to American

cheese but don't think like Kraft Singles, think like a Boar's Head or Kraft Deluxe, Cooper Sharp. Kind of like a shredded processed cheddar cheese on there. Right. That in the Philippines I believe was just called queso. And it is delightful. It's super sweet. It reminds me of dumping a can of ragu with whatever meats we had in the fridge on top of cooked spaghetti when I was a kid. And I love it.

You know what it reminds me of? Skeetti. Skeetti. It reminds me of honey boo boo skeetti. You're talking about honey boo boo proper skeetti. Tell them about honey boo boo proper skeetti if they don't know. Skeetti.

Equal parts butter, equal parts ketchup, put it in a pot, put some skeetti in there, and there you go, that's sketti. Generally sounds really good and kind of halfway to like a Japanese naporitan. Pretty much. You know? Not dissimilar to this. How good is that? This is... It's not fire.

So incredible, but it's not just, it's not sickly sweet. The sweetness, so sweet meat's a big thing in the Philippines, right? You think of like a, like, tocino, which is a super sugary, just delicious grilled, yeah, Tocino's pork, grilled pork, or longanisa is a very sweet sausage. Right. This sauce is sweet, but it's also very balanced by like hefty meat flavor. It's deep.

There's depth. There's depth in this. There's Maillard, there's caramelization, there's glutamate action there, that is rad. You don't expect that from a fast food joint. Like, I almost prefer this, like if I were to get fast food spaghetti, excuse me, I was about to go on a spag-

Excuse you! I would rather eat this fast food spaghetti instead of like tomato sauce, basil, and mozzarella. This is so much more pleasant to eat in a fast food capacity, I feel like. What is the level of spaghetti that you would have to hear? Give it to me, give it to me. What is the level of spaghetti you would have to get to to where you go, I prefer that over Jollibee?

For real, like think about, because Olive Garden spaghetti. I think I would prefer this to Olive Garden spaghetti. There's no thinking, of course I'd prefer Jollibee spaghetti to Olive Garden, like Sbarro, of course. Yeah. Like what do you have to get to, to where you're like, oh, this is actually better than Jollibee spaghetti?

Sbarro's close because Sbarro's Big Ziti is also a little bit sweet, because of the ricotta in there. I'm gonna say Big Ziti. The Big Ziti is different at Sabaro. Sabaro Big Ziti, that hits, bro. There's nothing to apologize for. Another world. But next to the Big Ziti, there is a giant tray of wet spaghetti that no one is ordering. Never get it. You never get it. Have you ever tried it?

Never. Why would I? Because next to Big Ziti. Why would I? If there's Big Ziti, why am I gonna get this? I ran through the whole Sabaro menu. Stromboli, like deceptively incredible Sabaro. Oh, the white the white spinach stromboli white spinach stromboli is way better than any honey Don't get me started. Oh, did they have a white a spinach white pizza? Oh, wait, that's better than that's better than the stromboli. Oh, no, they like an Italian like a capicola stromboli Oh, I couldn't eat that cuz I wasn't because I couldn't eat that back in there. But this spaghetti is so damn good

I'm really enjoying myself eating it. That clears most spaghettis until you start to get to like nice Italian restaurants that are like, you know, making stuff from scratch. Gosh, I think this might be a nine. Yeah, I give that a 9.2. Maybe a 10. Like what do you, even the noodles,

like they're not mush. No. They're well cooked noodles. And normally, I would like the sauce to be tossed in This is on the top, but I kind of prefer it because I get that little mound of cheese Yeah, and it like warms my heart. That is a hallmark of Filipino spaghetti It's topped with like a very dense thick ragu. Yeah, and not like a sauce and sauteed 9.2, man All right. All right. What we got here the fun sit ball of up. Yeah

All right, all right. What we got here the puns it ball of up. Yeah, pence it They put us lemon juice also to put on it. I guess crack open the lemon so we got The sauce we got the ground pork here open lemon juice. I'm gonna give this a nice little toss Very very thin rice noodles. Just one pal book. It's a dried shrimp. Yeah, I think so. I make that up. I'm actually not sure Someone Google puns it ball about to make sure we're not dumb. Dumbs. Thank you puns it Paula buck Meg. You got this you grew up in Irvine. I'm not the biggest fan of the the pants at noodles I'll say that but everything on top of it sounds like I would absolutely go feral for it. What is it? Okay, finna write with pork shrimp. Yeah and eggs right with pork, shrimp, and eggs. Cook it up.

Yeah, pork and shrimp sauce, something like that, yeah, yeah. Okay, so there is not a single fast food menu item in America that has as much flavor as that. Not one. I'm so excited to eat it. Not one, try it. And just breathe the breath of fire

in ginger and garlic and dried shrimp. Oh my God, is that a 10? That is so incredibly good. I haven't had this in so long, I forgot how good this was. Oh my god! It's unreal. But like, think about any fast food menu item in America, does it have that flavor? The Jack in the Box teriyaki bowl?

The pita? The chicken fajita pita? I mean like Taco Bell's, I think Taco Bell's Spiced Beef Slop is maybe the only thing that has that level of flavor. But that amount of like, shrimp and fire, I think El P's Spiced Beef Slop is maybe the only thing that has that level of flavor, but that amount of like shrimp and fire. I think El Pollo Loco Chicken, when it's really grilled proper, has an incredible amount of flavor.

Oh my God! But what else is carrying that level of like aromatic in it? Panda Express probably, I think they do a great job of keeping the fresh aromatics live and well. There's nothing I've had that is so delicious from a fast food place. Are we about to go crazy and call the Punsit Bala Buck a perfect ten? Honey, that's a ten! We gotta eat the desserts later. Dude, man, they should just open up like a separate pasta house

and just do a couple different Punsits, a couple different varieties of spaghetti. You know, give me a piece of fried chicken on top. I'm such a happy man. This is so delicious. Cheese and rice. I've never had something so damn delicious from a fast food restaurant like that. And I don't even care for these noodles.

The sauce on top. The lemon juice. Oh my God, 10 out of 10. Dude, this is really- Jollibee. Incredible. Jollibee. What are you doing? You're're killing me it's delicious I'm here I'm

here for the jolly be takeover man I'm down there you know I'm down to jolly be if you need two employees we can work in the marketing department we can do a little taste test or you know hang out I'll be in the be Josh will just have been the be Nicole work on the be I will ask for consent before I twerk on Josh Jollibee. If that sales pitch doesn't win you over, Jollibee corporate. Wow. I don't know what will. What a note to end on.

What a note to end on. We'll eat the dessert pies in the old opinion-jolite casseroles, but man, Jollibee, a hell of a showing out here. Even the burger slap, but that puns it by the book. 10 out of 10. Damn. Wow. Nicole, I'm going to start making some changes in my life. Interesting.

Okay. I've recently decided that I would like to become a world traveler and by God, I'm going to do it. Oh my gosh. Me too. And also, I'm so glad that we get to do it now that we're a little bit older and a little bit wiser. Yeah, a lot a bit older, just a little bit wiser. But as you get older and wiser, you

start to understand what's really important in your life and also what's important in your travel experiences. Agreed. Since I've caught the travel bug more recently, I have started to appreciate the idea of a good flight versus a bad flight. And the food is a huge deciding factor in that. Gone are the days of flimsy sandwiches with God knows what deli meat and lukewarm coffee. That's why flying and eating with Air France is the way to go. I've looked at their most recent in-flight menu and let me tell you, the culinary richness of French cuisine is beautifully represented.

Air France serves a five-course meal served in all classes. All classes? Yes, and it offers complimentary champagne if that's your jam. Air France serves a five course meal served in all classes. All classes? Yes, and it offers complimentary champagne if that's your jam. No it is baby! I don't know about you, but that kind of service in the sky seems really right up my alley. When the food is great, your experience is just that much better. Oh, I've had so much lukewarm coffee and flimsy deli meat sandwiches.

The last one I literally could not have told you what it is. It was so brown it tastes like wet paper soaked in sauce. Disappointing right? It's disappointing but Air France sounds fantastic man. Yeah, they also have a 100% guarantee to only serve French meat, milk products and eggs, as well as fish from sustainable fisheries in all its travel cabins and lounges at its Paris airports, where the airline offers a selection of fresh local and seasonal products. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, nicole, man, leave it.

Leave it. It's the national motto of France. Oh sorry, I didn't know that. Leave it to France to democratize all the cabins. That's incredible. This is something I started thinking about recently, but if you're going on a trip somewhere, like every part of that trip should be devoted to experiencing the culture, right? And that includes being on the plane. Like Air France has partnered with Michelin-starred chefs for their meals, like Anne-Sophie Pic, Arnaud Lamond,

Dominique freaking Crennical, you know where Crennhead's up in this place? Crennhead's rise up. Josh, you were telling me about your experience with some, how do I say this, less than awesome experiences on a flight, right? What happened? Less than awesome's an understatement on that one, dude.

We were delayed two hours on the tarmac because, this is a domestic flight in America, right? Two hours on the tarmac because, quote, the catering never got there. And they were waiting. And they weren't even planning on serving us a meal. It was literally waiting for honey mustard pretzels to show up. And people had to rise up on the flight and literally go, hey, who agrees? We can just take off without the freaking pretzels and everyone said yes But that was like seven hours of total time

I didn't eat a lot before that and so I ate a family-sized bag of trail mix It was like a little dehumanizing as an adult man to eat that for an entire meal That was my rock bottom, but you don't have to deal with that. You'll never reach my rock bottom on air, France They've actually put a heck of a lot of thought in the menu for instance Nicole Do you know that in the air your senses are actually dulled because of the change in pressure and humidity? I did because I'm smart. You are really smart. It makes it harder to actually detect sweet and salty flavors Which is why each wine is carefully selected by Xavier Thuisat who won the best Psalm of France in 2022 Nicole you got to see this guy taste wine. I'm just telling you, look up some videos.

He's unbelievable and he's choosing every wine on that flight. Your journey to find French cuisine starts as soon as you board your Air France flight. Book now at airfrance.com. Nicole, before we get into opinions like cast roles, it's time for everyone's favorite segment on the podcast. That's right. review a review is back That's where we read one of your reviews from Apple reviews in an effort to goad you into making more of them because we have heard That they help us although the relationship seems somewhat undefined today

We have Lord Aculous with a four-star review love the room Room for Improvement, Lovely Nicole, and Trash Raccoon Josh. What's up, baby? Love the pod, watch all your mythical channels, and you two together are hilarious. Aw. Thank you. However, in all caps, for the love of food, can someone mute Josh's mic when he eats something? The amount of noises coming from him

when he eats and talks with food in his mouth into the mic is brazy. Love the content overall though. I do. Just so everyone knows you don't even know how spoiled you are. I get the nitty-gritty. I go in there, I mute his mic and sometimes it shows up on Nicole's mic and I have to go in and I take all that out. You don't even know. I do try my best to take it out is that you why do you sound like Maggie can I get a pony for Rosh Hashanah I'll think about it thank you I mean I give this five stars I found a five constructive criticism I

love that he does appear to be part of the Bloods street game. Yeah, Bon Bull Brazy. Bon Bull Brazy. Twist my fingers with my hands, I just do my dance, do my dance, twist my fingers with my hands. Men need hobbies, you know, it's nice to have a group of people you can hang with, so yeah, no, I, here's the thing, I meet people at Misophonia, I think I have Misophilia, where I, I don't love, there's some ASMR food creators

that'll like put the mic in their throat and you'll hear like the, ugh, and don't give me the glug glug, but I like. You heard it here first, don't give Josh the glug glug. No, I don't need to hear all that, but yeah, I don't find mouth sounds offensive. I understand that some do, and nobody seems to really love them,

so we could afford to lose them. I appreciate this, Lord Oculus. Five out of five no notes. Thank you for your honest, true, real opinion. I love YG. Are you a YG fan? Really not big enough to say that I'm like a fan. I listen to a lot of YG when I drive through the streets of Los Angeles, specifically West Hollywood. Wow. Mean streets. Super mean. Super mean. Once you get like, canthers delicatessen, that's where it gets real. Trouble's over.

All right, well, Nicole. What's up? I've heard what you and I have to say, and Lord Aculous. Now it's time to find out what other wacky it is rattling out there in the universe. It's time for a little segment we call Opinions Are like basso-rolls! Um, alright, should we eat a pie while this is happening? We got a taro pie and a mango peach pie.

Let's eat a pie. Crack open the taro pie. You crack open the peach, I'll crack open the taro. Move your mouth from the mic when you eat, okay? Don't piss off Lord Acculus. Why is everyone picking on me? Is it taro or ube? Taro, I think.

Or ube. I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember. Well, damn, that was sexy. Thank you. So, okay, y'all. I think that was sexy.

I got a really nice snack for you. You take a Cheez-It, you take a dill pickle slice, and you take a piece of Hershey's chocolate. You put it together like a sandwich and you eat it with big old swig of some milk, ice cold milk. That is a good snack right there. Okay, run it by one more time. It's pickle, cheese, chocolate, cold milk. You can cheese it.

Pickle, cheese, pickle, chocolate, cheese it, cold milk. Pickle, chocolate, chocolate, cold milk? You can cheese it. Pickle, cheese, pickled, chocolate, cheese it, cold milk. Pickle, chocolate, cheese it, cold milk. No! I don't think I can think of a worse combination. That was really bad. What can you add to that that wouldn't improve it? Like you put a sardine on there and it makes it better. Oh, peanut butter.

Peanut butter I think makes it better. I think anything you add to that makes it less bad than it was, which I think is a sign that it's- It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. I, you know, if this is like a regional that it's... It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. I, um, you know, if this is like a regional thing, are you from like an Appalachia or like where's this coming from?

Possibly. Where's this coming from? Possibly. We need more context because... You know what would have been worse? Pirate's booty instead of the Cheez-It. That would have just completely turned out. Lateral.

Lateral. Lateral mood. I would love for you to call back and give us a full story of how this happened. And if you do call back, we will try it on the next episode. But I, you know, Joel, you have to. Um, you're on the clock, you know, like this is what we get paid to do, whether you like it or not. We could be doing data entry somewhere and we're not, we're trying.

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McDonald's pies now are terrible. Um, this mango peach one tastes like rugelach. It tastes just like rugelach. Like apricot rugelach? It tastes exactly like rugelach. Like apricot rugelach? It tastes exactly like it because of that sanding sugar over the outside. Yeah. It's literally the most delicious rugelach

you've ever had in your fricking life. That's what this is. The taro one I don't care, the taro slash ube one I don't really care for. It's tough because I don't think taro and ube, I think if you're going to do a pie situation, I think it has to be stodgier. I think it's a little too loose inside

for my own personal taste. I agree, you know real loose goo in there I agree, but the fruit one the mango peach. I Think it's really incredible the peach probably is in there because the mango would be too expensive to just do by itself Makes sense, right? Peach is kind of like the filler It's like white grape juice and every single fruit cocktail juice But this is the og apple McDonald's pie except with a much better more tart more pecan fruit flavor very delicious Very good. I think I think it might be the best dessert from a fast food place you can get Why do I love Jollibee so much should we just buy Jollibee together? Why are you all I be?

Why am we not we should buy a Jollibee together? How much money? Yeah, first of all we thought error should we get like an Airbnb in town, but no Jollibee I know you're getting married soon, but how much money do you have? I don't know, I'm getting a little bit. The wedding's going to make it a little bit less. No, you're going to get gifts. It's going to make it more. Do you guys give cash at weddings?

I don't know. Oh, I give cash at weddings. I don't know how any of this works. We should have eloped. All right, next opinion, please. Hi, I was wondering if you could give a rundown of what is all in different plant-based meats. I would love to start eating more plant-based. Sometimes I get freaked out by some of the ingredients and I'm just like, what is it?

I got it. Thank you. Bye. Number one, we are not scientists. We're just sexy little food freaks that have a podcast for some reason. Number two, you should be scared about what's in there. Some of them are pretty sketchy.

No, don't, don't. Some of them are sketchy. No, no, I'm gonna be honest with you. Don't fear monger about food. I am the fear monger of the podcast. I am here to instill fear in the hearts of our listeners, Josh. That is my job, that is my duty as Nicole Innaite

of the Hot Dog is a sandwich party It's a little scary. I get it some of the foods you shouldn't even you shouldn't be shoveling yeast extract in your mouth That's gross. There's yeast extract in every bit of the fast food that we just say today But you shouldn't be eating it every day you should have a very diet Sure, if you are somebody who it depends on what your goals are, right? If you want to like eat less meat, Red Meat World Health Organization came out with a study that found that like, it's pretty terrible for you. Yeah, it gives you like cancer, whatever, whatever. So there aren't many things I think that you can eat that are like really worse than just shoveling red meat into your body, especially processed red meat. And processed, you get into-

What do you mean by processed red meat? I'm so glad you asked. So, um, Marian Nestle actually heard a great podcast with Dr. Mike Varshavsky, and Mary Nessel, I was geeked out that he had her on, but she wrote a book called Food Politics That I Love, and she actually, she's written a lot of books, but long time, academic. You see my bra. And she talks a lot about government lobbying in the food system, and how it's affected the way that we view nutrition. But there is actually a definition of what constitutes processed and ultra-processed.

I can't remember it off the top of my head, but you can do a quick Google search and find that research. But a processed red meat, anything like a lunch meat, anything like a preformed frozen burger patty, anything like a sausage that you would buy. Sausage is a way of processing meat in a certain way. You're probably adding certain high sodium content additives to it, maybe adding sugar as a preservative,

lot of different acids. But you don't think these ultra-possess things are also in this fake meat? No, they definitely are, but I'm saying, if your goal is to eat less meat, and you would have already eaten a Johnsonville bratwurst, like yeah, dude, eat some Beyond Meat. If your goal is to become a lifestyle vegetarian and vegan,

I think you need to find ways to get protein, or not, we really overstate the protein I think you need to find ways to get protein or not. We really overstate the protein goals that you need. Most people only recommend like 30 to 50 grams a day. I'm out here eating 200. I eat like 150 right now. Trying to get swag-jacked and there are reasons for that, but you really don't need that much protein.

We live in, you know, I know money's tight for a lot of people, but we are in a very developed country where we have ample source of protein. So most of it is just like soy protein, right? yeast Pea protein, but a lot of this stuff if you're scared of that think about cheese, right? Cheese is an incredibly processed food. You are literally using Enzymes to separate the protein from the fat and re-coagulating it. Sounds scary.

That's what you're doing with a lot of soy, right? You're just processing it. Tofu has been made for thousands of years, but it's like a processed soy protein. I guess it's not that scary, huh? It's not that scary. I don't know. Don't be afraid of your food. Most things out there are perfectly fine.

And also, no one ingredient is going to actually harm you, right? There's the war on sugar, the war on fat, the war on preservatives. Prog powder. Eat too much prog powder. Yeah, don't eat industrial nitrate salts that they use in delis across the world. You're welcome. But the problem with health is never one ingredient, right? It's always a large-scale lifestyle sitch. If you're eating mac and cheese with ground-beyond sausage in it for every meal, that's bad. You eat a large variety of foods.

And that's the best you can do. I think it was Michael Pollan who said he can distill all dietary advice into seven words. Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. That's kind of it, you know? Moderation. How many plants did we eat right now? You and I during this? Yeah. Not that many.

A lot of fried chicken. I don't feel good. Hey, folks. Colin from Northern Minnesota here. I have to know what is the best bar food. You've got cheese curds. Bar food? Bar food. Chicken tendies. Bar food. French fries, onion rings, jalapeno poppers.

It's basically a cuisine out this way. Love your pod. Thanks. Bye. You know what's the best bar food? Handful of olives from the bartender and maybe like a pickle if they have a pickle around because at the bars that I go to, onions, cocktail onions, we got a bunch of olives and you got a bunch of like pickles.

That's it. I agree with that. Torshe. Torshe is the best bar food. I mean, all bar snacks are designed to be just super salty to get you to drink more alcohol, right? Right. Olives, pickles, best thing to do.

That's my favorite. Yeah. You ever have like a fried olive? No, I don't care to like delve into that part of it personally. So I was actually, I was at a wedding. I was in the sleepy San Diego town of La Jolla. So not a lot was open late, but we found ourselves at this kind of like Irish bar, you know, 1130 and food at the wedding, you know.

So we ate at the bar. And you know, we're like drinking pints of beer, and we got chicken tenders and buffalo wings and what they called Irish nachos, which were more akin to a potato skin, except they were like half-inch thick slice of potato. They ran big ass russet potatoes, threw a mandolin skin on, and then either baked them or just fried them until they were pale and soggy and wet. And then covered them in just cheese, bacon bits, sour cream and scallions. That's pretty good if the potato was crispier.

Even the potato not being crispy, just like wet potato with cheese and bacon and stuff on it. Fantastic. I'd put potato skins. I'm normally not a potato guy. I would put potato skins up there. You need something that's easy to eat, right? I love buffalo wings, but that needs to be I can't be... Gildas. What... Gildas. What?

Gildas. You ever heard of a gilda? What's a gilda? It's like a pickle and an anchovy and an olive on a skewer. Fry it? No. Why do you... You don't need to fry everything. You're talking about bar snacks. Everything she mentioned were fried. You're the one talking about olives and pickles. She didn't mention olives and pickles once.

Talking about fried cheese curds, man. Fine. Conversationally, it's tough to eat a bone in chicken wing. This is a Gilda. Oh, that looks so funny. I love them every time I go to like a cute little like Spanish bar like Tapas. She's in northern Minnesota talking about bar food and you're talking about Tapas. I'm sorry.

Okay, cheese curds. Yeah. Five. Cheese curds. Um, I, dude, honestly chicken tenders are really tough to beat. Just a classic tendy, you get three, four different sauces. But while you're drinking? Yeah. But what are you, so this is one thing that I never did.

Sure. Like what is like going out and drinking? What is... Uh, can you clear, can you ask that question in a different way that maybe make this, that might make this more productive? That's what you say in a corporate meeting. Can you phrase that question a different way? When you're like, oh, we're gonna go to the bar and drink. Do you guys pregame before?

You talk about what girls from high school were hot. No, but no, I get that, but no, I'm asking like, so how does the plan go? You and your friends, hey, we're gonna go out drinking. What does that mean for you? What does that mean? You probably rip a shot at home and then you take an Uber to like a dive bar

and then you sit there and then you drink like six light beers and you eat them. I'm thinking of like going to a spot in Los Feliz with the chicken wings. Bar Flores. No, no, this like English ass name. Ye Olde King's Head. It's not Ye Olde King's Head, but something similar. I can't remember the name, but anyways, you know they got chicken wings. You go there, you drink like English ass name ye olde King's head you King said but something similar I can't remember the name but I was eating I got chicken wings

You know there you drink like six light beers and you ordered chicken wings to the table and you order some other crap And you just just talk mess. So that's what going out to drink going out drinking. That's what that means So you eat and you drink yeah, okay See you cuz when we say oh, we're gonna go out drinking. It's just pure alcohol 24-7 Yeah, you don't always have to eat. It depends on the place though. If I'm going to like a cocktail bar, I'm probably not going to get food. Yeah, I'm not going to get food. If we're deliberately planning on going to a late-night food spot after.

Okay, okay. Or if you're going to like the club after. Yeah, I'm not a club guy much, but you know. Me, I'm not a club guy. I'm thinking about the times when I would go drinking, like what would lead to it. So I was just trying to gauge like what drinking means for you, and what drinking means for me, and what drinking means for you and what drinking means for me and what drinking means for our lovely caller. And that's why I choose pickled fish and stuff.

Interesting. I'm just trying to get to the root of it. I'm not perfect. You want to do one more, Maggie? Come on, Maggie. Come on, do one more. Come Come on sister friend over there. Yeah Hi, Josh and Nicole. I am a big fan of yours Every episode that you've put out

I do have a question. It's not so much a opinion casserole We'll take Josh. I was just recently listening to your podcast about why we like spicy food and you start pulling all of these fun facts out of your butt like how Thai chilies came about. Where does this information live? Is it in your brain all the time or when you know the topic of a podcast do you do some research to spit out these fun facts? Or is this the way that you are all the time? All right, thank you guys, I love you, bye. I'm sucking out all the filling from the mango peach pie.

Pretty good. Do you want me to answer this for you? Yeah, do it. Okay, Josh is one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. And his brain is phenomenal. And he can like he's so smart and his the way his mind works is incredible and he just has a bevy of

information but that's not to say that there isn't people that do extensive research on the podcast and we have like little research packets that are very helpful no doubt but Josh is just a very smart person and he just knows a lot of stuff. And it makes for a riveting, intelligent conversation and a great co-host. Oh, that means a lot. And I love that Nicole is, um, she sucks the feeling out of pies. You know, I think it's really cool they call her the bone sucker for a reason. Um, no, I probably, depending on the podcast topic that, topic, that Jollibee, we're just kind of sitting here eating a bunch of chicken.

You want to know when it was founded and what's currently going on. It's helpful. Yeah, it's helpful. It gives you context. I've just always been fascinated with food. It's what I know the most about in my life. I remember with the spicy food one, I formerly was a journalist. Was Sola with us?

Sola El-Waili was with us. I had written a lot about spicy food. I used to write a lot about agriculture, so I knew a lot of that stuff. And I'll probably spend 30, 45 minutes before certain podcasts just Googling everything that I find interesting. And then my brain tends to hold on to things that I find interesting. So like I failed a lot of classes in school, could, you know, F in AP chemistry, D minus in oceanography,

but I still passed that one. Because I would read it and it would just go one in one ear out the other, but when I learned about the Hoifong Foods, Sriracha farm contract at Underwood expiring, and then them trying to find supplemental red jalapeno farms in Mexico, it just kind of sticks with me,

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