CheapShow - Ep 410: Hot Gesture Avocado

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

Paul is back from his week away in Los Angeles. It was a chance for him to actually unwind and enjoy himself, free from the burden of his podcast duties. However, he wasn’t completely “off the clock” as he managed to pick a few things up from his vacation for the podcast to nibble on and evaluate! In fact, you could say both Eli and Paul are in very chipper moods, despite one of them feeling under the weather and the other a little jetlagged. Over the course of the next hour, Eli will sample some very tasty, and much loved, mustard as well as some moreish snacks bought from the Little Tokyo part of LA. Paul also has a little taste test he wants to try, as he pits the American branded chocolate bars against their UK contemporaries! There’s a Kit Kat, some Rolos and a Snickers bar to compare to see which is actually better, the USA or UK version? Finally, Paul pits Eli to a Goodwill store sourced Price of Shite, with some items chosen to appeal to Eli’s passions. Everyone is feeling good this week, let’s see how long that lasts! See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-410-hot-gesture-avocado And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at [e-mail] And if you want to, follow us on Twitter/X @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid www.thecheapshow.co.uk Now on Threads: @cheapshowpod Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Merch Shop: www.redbubble.com/people/cheapshow/shop www.cheapmag.shop Thanks also to @vorratony for the wonderful, exclusive art: www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ

Right, just at the top, I've got something to say. Yeah, Marty. Yeah, Marty, sure. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, loved it. We've got to do it again. Marty, yeah, sure. We'll sign that deal this week. I can't wait to work with you.

Okay, Marty, yeah, fine, thank you. Yeah, sorry, yeah, you were saying? Who's that? That's Marty. Who were you talking to? Marty Scorsese. Marty Scorsese. Yeah, I was just talking,

we just met Marty Scorsese in Hollywood. Oh, when you were in Hollywood. Yeah, hang on. Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Yeah, I know you want to welcome me on that script. I know. I know. I know. I know. Yeah, no, I can't wait. Yeah, Johnny, we'll do it. Paul, we're meant to be doing it. We'll make it happen. We'll make it happen. Bye, Johnny. Who was that? It was Johnny. Johnny who? Johnny Depp. You met Depp and Marty Scorsese. I met Marty, I met Johnny.

Johnny, who else? Al? Who's gonna ring right now? Is that Al? Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring. Al! Pacino Baby! Pacino Baby. Yeah, who are? Yeah, who are? I'm gone. I'll just put him on mute. Yeah, that's where I've actually got to work with this cunt. Paul, sorry, I've actually got a call. No, I've got a call. No, that's really good. But I've got a call coming through now. Go on. Yeah. Answer your phone. Ring ring. Yeah. Hi, Eddie. Edward. Yeah. How you doing? Eddie baby. Edward. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No, I'll be there. Yeah. Evil Eddie. Yeah. From, uh, no. Yeah. I will listen, I've got it. I've got it. Yeah. Okay, Eddie. Love your Ed.

Love it. Love you. Yeah. XO, excellent. Okay, see ya. Okay, who was that? Prince Edward. Prince Edward, yeah.

Was he the pedo one? Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Mate, I'm just using... I just met Al Pacino, right? I'm gonna rinse him. Because you know he got to rinse for all that money. You're gonna rinse Pacino?

Yeah, you know he just fucking doesn't know where he's giving his money to. So I'm gonna rinse the fucking you know he got rid of all that money you're gonna reach Pacino yeah you know he just fucking doesn't know where he's given his money to so I'm gonna rinse the fucking cunt aren't I proper and teach him a lesson get some money out of him for cheap show for what because you remember he got he talked about in a documentary on BBC recently how he he didn't know he was given like 400,000 pound to his like lawn man or whatever it was wow yeah so he's a fucking dickhead. So I've got him on mute, but I'm just, I'm just going to get... Oh, he's still on the call with him. It's not on mute. Pechino baby, I don't know what you heard, but uh, oh what? Oh, he's sending Marty around. He's sending Marty to do his dirty... Johnny and Marty. Come on, better get on with this

episode and get out of here, mate. Oh! Welcome back to the UK, Paul. Hello, welcome back. Me, Paul Gannon, and this week's episode of Cheap Show. Press the fucking credits. Off, run, run, run, run, run, run, run. Paul, Paul Gannon. Eli Silverman. Welcome to Che Jeep Show. Sources and words and phrases.

Two things I'm responsible for. Chodney, Chodney Borough. I hate you. You've got to be more than possible. Cheap show to the mama mine Cheap show to the mama mine It's the price of shine Cheap show to the mama mine Welcome to Cheap Show. Yes, I am back from Los Angeles.

LA baby, pop pop pop pop. Don't say pop pop, that's like that guy out of community. He's literally called pop pop. I know that's why I'm doing it. I taught him how to do it. You keep saying pop pop. I wrote that for the show. And you nicked it clearly from there.

Pop pop. He's doing the arm movement everyone. Pop pop. It's mine, I can do it. Fine. I sold it to community. It was my idea. Okay fine. Pop pop. Why don't you just be doing all this behind the scenes, wheeling and dealing?

Mate, since coming back from LA, I've met the stars, I've been talking deals, wheeling, dealing, you know. And you also used a time machine to go back six years to sell Pop Pop to the rights of community, yep. No, I just happened to six years ago when I was there, sold Pop Pop. It's an interesting story for another time. Mason- Paul, I was going to say before your semi-successful improvisation at the top of the show there.

Paul- It was alright. I think it was a good enough idea as a conceit. Marty! Mason- I'm a bit under the weather so apologies everyone for the sniffles and the dribbles and the little wheezes. Paul- Wheezes. I'll do my best to cut out, whenever I can, those annoying audio sounds. But what do we have coming up on the show today, Paul? Well Mr Silverman, I went to LA. Did you know that? I was picking up something about a trip that you'd been on recently.

I had a lovely time and I did fucking nothing. I took a recorder and 360 camera on the off chance whatever and just like no just enjoy Doing nothing for a week pool, please. Yeah hang out with your friends go and have a little adventure Go have a wander see places. I didn't see last time and I did it's a big city I was too busy living an LA lifestyle out there. Mr. Silverman. Okay, mr I went to Universal Studios on a whim. I just went oh, I'm'm going to go. So I did. And I went on all the rides because there was no queues and I had a great time. That was fun. I got to go to a place called Halloween Town. Oh, is that in Universal Studios? No. So there's a little, I can't

remember what it's called now, Maygrove Park or something. I can't remember now. Sorry, I got it wrong. But there's a little row of shops, right? And on that row of shops, there's like retro and geeky stuff. And there's a place called Halloween Town where you go in all year round, all it sells is horror and Halloween stuff. Mason Eilish Is it of a higher standard than the spirit stuff or...? Toby Perkins Yes, considerably. Because there's lots of really expensive, I mean look, it's everything. It's like witchcraft and the occult stuff.

There you go. Do you want a doll of art the clown from Terrifier? Mason Eilish That's what I was going to ask. They do do all the tie-in stuff as well. Toby Perkins Do you want a doll of art, the clown from Terrifier? There's one. That's what I was gonna ask. They do do all the tie-in stuff as well. Do you want a shelf of fucking loads of pins? Yes. That one up there, the Chucky one is one of them. A Chucky doll pin. It's a very long, long Chucky doll.

Oh, I see it there. Yeah, nice. I saw that online. Nice pin, man. Yeah, so, yeah. I got a few pins for myself while I was out there. Most of them are Ghostbusters ones on that board. But it's Halloween town, nothing but scary stuff, right? It was great. Then you walk two,

I don't know, two streets down and there's a place called Blast from the Past, which is full of just toys from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. It is just, yeah, it's crazy what you can find in there. I was with Brian Wecht, Ninja Brian, and he was like, holy shit, I've not thought of Robo-Tech in 30 years. And there's a complete set of it right there. Okay, let me see if I can remember what Robo-Tech entails. If I have remembered the name right, but I think I have. Was it sort of Lego mechanical dinosaurs? Yeah, ish. Okay, actually, I've got a picture of it, funnily enough.

I bet it's a dinosaur. It's called Robo-Tix Series R1000. It's not a dinosaur, I will say that. Oh robotics. I thought you meant RoboTech. Oh yeah, RoboTix. I think RoboTech is something else which is dinosaurs. Maybe. But anyway, there you go. You can see that kind of stuff they had there. And are those like Lego things that you have to build? I think they are modular to some extent. And look, it's a great big shop that looked like that. I'll put some of these pictures up on the website. And then we went to the place called the Mystic Museum, which is kind of like Halloween town, but the difference is it's full of more kind of medical spooky equipment and like occulty stuff and weird. Again, but it's costumes and props for Halloween,

or is it more like actual collectible? It's all year round spooky brickerbrack. Spooky brickerbrack. Yeah. So anyway, long story short, I brought a load of stuff back from LA for this week's episode. So let's just get into it. Could it be called Paul? Spicker Spack? Yes. No, it couldn't.

No, you're right. It could be, but it'd be fucking awful to do so. Right. So over the course of this episode, I've brought stuff back. You have. That's what we're doing. Yes. And that's what we're going to get into. All right. So I want to do something right now, right quick. All right. It's a source report, Mr. Silverman.

I'm rubbing my hands in anticipation of some sauce. I'm going to love it as well. So here's a spoon and a little thing all ready to go. On the day before I left, Brian and his family took me to a place in downtown LA called Philly's. And what they're famous for is their French dip sandwiches. Yes. So if you don't know, a French dip sandwich is usually a beef sandwich where they have a little pot of the stock, essentially. Yeah. The sort of broth. Like a gravy. It's relatively thin though, isn't it? Yes. Like the gravy that they've used that's come off the beef basically.

Yeah. And you dip the sandwich in. I've never had one. I've heard people talking about them like they're not that great. You can have one dip where they dip it in once or double dip where you dip it in twice. Oh you don't get the dip for yourself. They do it and then they submerge it and then put it on the plate. It's a wet sandwich. Well, no, no, no. We shouldn't work. Well, here's the thing. The first two aren't particularly wet.

I had double dip, but it wasn't particularly like soggy. But then you can have a wet one where they leave it in forever until it's like literally soaked it all up into the bread. I just love all this, mate. And it came with pickle. Oh, I'm sure it fucking did. And a cup of coffee as well. That would cost 60 cents.

Wow. And it wasn't even that expensive. I think it was like $12 for the... I took it, I sent you a picture sure it. And a cup of coffee as well, that would cost 60 cents. Wow. And it wasn't even that expensive. I think it was like $12 for the, I took it, sent you a picture of it. Yeah, it looked good. It's got like, fuck what I'm eating. It looks pretty dry. But the reason why I'm bringing this place up

is because I think it's Phillies or Phillieps, either way, you gotta see what it is. I think it's Phillieps. They are known. Not Phillies, because Phillies like Philly cheese steak. That's not, it's not, I think it's Phillieps. Well, French dip, Philliepe. Unless they say colloquially, Philly's. You know what I mean? Maybe. Either way, they're also famous for their mustard. And after tasting some of it, I was like,

I'm getting a fucking bottle of this. So I got a bottle of this. Go on, have a little look at it. Comes a little plastic mustard. Now I'm just going to say this, Eli. It says Philippe, by the way, just to clear that up. I know. That's why I was confused about the pronunciation because when Brian was talking to me, unless I misheard it, they were calling it Phillies. It's hot, but good. Mate, I'm just going to say, don't have too much of this. It's a hot mustard.

It is. I wouldn't expect that from an American mustard. No. They're most usually very mild. But this went so beautifully with my steak double dip sandwich that I just had to buy it. The simplicity of that, so there's not like any veg or onions, it's just the beef, the bread and the gravy and the mustard. You have no fucking idea. Oh no I'm having a problem now. It's so good. So I thought I would have to buy this and bring it back and give you a taste of it. Now

this will knock your bollocks off. It's already on the nose man. Oh that smells delicious. It's a horseradishy kind of gruff. So is it as hot as Coleman's? Much more. But the flavour to it as well is what I'm just going to have that much. That's probably enough to be fair. It's got quite a light, it's almost the same colour as like a grey poupon. Yes. Like a Frencheteer yes a beige if you wish it's beige very beige and like i say it's got a lovely horse radish-y odor yeah a sweetness as well in the in the odor anyway go on is there a sweetness on the nose this is gonna get me all the water work going this might actually bleed you out come on see how we go he's taking a little sip off the spoon and it's right down oh Oh baby! Oh no, that is hotter than I thought it was going to be. Wow! Oh, that's so good.

Yeah. That is delicious, must be. Isn't it? Wheatly. That's really nice. So that's what they're known for. Oh, that's really, really nice. Yeah. Oh, I love sauces. And what I mean is it a condiment or a sauce? Well, it's a good question for another time. No, I think it falls squarely into condiment. Yeah. Because you use it sparingly. Yeah a sauce? Well, it's a good question for another time. No, I think it falls squarely into condiment. Yeah. Because you use it sparingly. Yeah. And the sauce, it's about...

So what I've found I can do with this is if I make a ham sandwich or whatever, I mix it with mayo. Oh, beautiful. It's not too heavy, but the mayo balances it out and it just makes it really... I just had to buy some. What a great mustard. What a great mustard. And what a great start to this week's episode of the show. I'm in a good mood good

I've noticed that Paul good the mood to be nasty Paul today. Oh We're both fragile I'm not in the mood to produce anything of real worth or That humorous there was an opening there for Gavin to be cruel. Yeah See you lucky so yeah, I stepped around it like that. You stepped around the opening. Put my leg around it and I went, oh, I'll dodge that. Mind that for that. Dodge the opening.

Like muck on the ground. I was like, mind that. Opening. No. You're not even gonna be nasty. Not even gonna be crude. No. And also I heard someone the other day say,

oh, I listened to a cheap show of my girlfriend, but every time she listens, she goes, don't they talk about their dicks a lot? And I was like, that can't be true. And at random, listen to four episodes and fucking hell do we talk about dicks a lot. It was a dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, this dick, small dick, big dick, wet dick,

dry dick, crusty dick. I'm cutting dick in half. Webby dick. I just slashed the dick. It was just dicks. Cut price dick. Dicks all the way down. So I want to circumnavigate.

I got big dick, little dick. And this is what you just did. Yeah. This is what I mean. I'm feeling very flat. Hairy pussy. Yeah, that's what I've been doing the dust till dawn. Cheech Marin.

Is he called Cheech Marin? Cheech Marin, yes. I believe it is of Cheech and Chong fame. Right. They're from LA. Right. Aren't they? So it's all thematic.

We're tying it to both thematically. I just want to finish by saying, this is what I tried to do at the beginning of the show before your semi-successful improvisation. Semi... Dick. Yeah. Dick, dick, dick, dick. It's not going to be very good for me today. The content. Sorry.

This is why I'm hoping that what I give you today is joyful and cheers you up. Yeah, well, that mustard is, I might have some more. You can have some more. Have another little squirt. Have another little squirt. It's actually having a bit of a stimulant effect. That's what I'm thinking. This might have been exactly what you needed

for your sniffles. Yeah. Because Kjibis Crisp So Mighty. Yeah, you put a much fewer amount of it on your spoon. It's a smaller amount. Yeah, oh, I love it. It's just nice, isn't it? Oh, lovely.

It's just like hot, but also flavourful and comforting. It's got sweetness. Yeah. Oh, it is really hot, man. Boys and girls, we're going to have some fun. Let's crack on with more LA themed Cheap Show. So this is an aside, right, as a segment. This is called On Brand On Brand.

On Brand On Brand? Right, you know usually you get an on brand and an off brand stuff. These are both brand. These are on brand on brand. They're both brands of equal status in the world of the brands at which they are. Yes, because this isn't going to be so much of a challenge for you, but it's just something I want to try. It's a bit too obvious, but I've always wanted to do it.

So you know, in this country we have Kit Kats, Snickers, Rolos, Mars bars, whatever, whatever, but you go to America and they have Snickers and Kit Kats and Rolos and you think they taste different. They are, and in some instances they are totally different bar the vert the American version has a different type of nougat or not nougat. Yeah. Sometimes the same named bar is an actual different bar in a different territory. Yeah. You know, but we're not getting into the weeds of that. We are basically what I mean. Did you bring me weed from LA? Is that what you're saying? Oh, sorry, Paul. that's naughty. Oh, sorry Paul, I'm getting a call.

Get that then. Go on, get it. Hi Chris. Yeah, yeah. Hi Chris, yeah. It's Chris Evans. No, no, no. Okay Chris, yeah, we'll come to that rehearsal

and I'll bring the binoculars, yeah, brilliant. I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah, all right, I'll see you then, Chris. See you, Chrissy, bye. Yeah. Chris Packham. Chris Packham. He wants to do a nature thing with me. Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring. Harvey! Harvey! Harvey Weinstein? No! Is it? Who's this? Oh, it's Harvey Weinstein. Get the things out! I hope you die! Hang off. Right, shut up. Right, so, as a result, I thought we'd just do something that I've always wanted to try, in that I bought...

I'm rubbing my hands in anticipation. Anticipation? British Snickers, American Snickers. Ooh! British Rolos, American Rolos. I did not know they had Rolos in the States. British Kit Kat, American Kit Kat. And I just thought we'd try them and just see what you think. See if we can tell any difference. Oh, there's

going to be an obvious difference because it's that waxy chocolatey texture that they have. Which was, did you know that is because Mr Hershey of Hersheys, I think they may have been brothers even, discovered a way of making chocolate that was cheaper. And to this day, that's the way they make it. Big manufacturers in the States. And it sort of wouldn't be, and it's got more fat and less actual cocoa or something, you know, and it has that flat taste profile. Right. Okay. So it is actually a difference. American chocolate is worse. Just cheaper. It's cheaper and it's a different process of manufacture as well. Because I heard they put something in it to help it not melt in the heat. That's right. Like a waxy element.

Yes, so it doesn't melt so much. But we've not done the research so we can't say for that for certain. But let's just try these chocolates side by side, right? Okay. So, let's start with Snickers. I think we should start with the Kit Kat because the Snickers is going to stick in our teeth and be harder to... Where is the Kit Kat? He's right. He's fucking right. So Where is the Kit Kat? He's right. He's fucking right. So let's go Kit Kat, Rollo, then Snicker, okay?

Alright, yeah, Kit Kat, Rollo, Snicker. So, this is the American Kit Kat. You have that one. I'll take a finger of that. I think we should start with the American ones, so we're not infused with the thoughts of the British original. We can have these right now. Yes. So let's have a finger of American Kit Kat. Will you smell it? Already, it smells like

like Christmas chocolate. That's exactly right. Which is cheap. I'm even going to give you a standing ovation for that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Such an astute observation. Right so I'm going to take a bite of this right now. There's less biscuit. It feels more chocolatey than an English one to me. Like it's thicker chocolate. I think. You know what I'm saying? There's less crunch. It's got a softer biscuit to. Like, it's thicker chocolate. I think. Do you know what I'm saying? There's less crunch. It's got a softer biscuit to it. Yeah, it's less crisp. The chocolate.

Empty, the empty sweetness. That sparkly chemical chocolate, that... Are you trying to avoid saying it's sharply sweet? I am trying. Well, just say it's fine. It's sharply sweet, isn't it? I'm giving you... Hey, I get an ovation.

Ironic standing ovation. I'll take any ovation. I'll an ovation. Ironic standing ovation. I'll take any ovation. I'll take an oration. Oration ovation. I'll take oral on the knob. In your face. Rocket on the knob. Here's a British Kit Kat finger.

Okay. And in it goes down the gullet. Can't really see. They are a slightly different shade it seems. I mean that's just perfect. Ah, the smell is much more subtle. Yeah. It's not, it's less smell but it's much more sort of... Wow, that is just perfect. Oh, the smell is much more subtle. Yeah. It's not, it's less smell, but it's much more sort of,

wow, that is very different, isn't it? I'm surprised. There's more crunch there, there's more flavor. The chocolate feels purer, creamier, like a galaxy chocolate. Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Yeah. It's quite subtle though, but it's nice. And you can taste the milk, you know, the milk more,

has more of a sort of milky profile. And just like... milky profile. You couldn't let it go. I gave her a milky profile. A milky jewellery. I gave her a big old sticky wizard's beard. Sticky wizard's beard!

Yeah, good. Nice, that's a good one. Choked on my own wits! I think it's the wizards who put a curse on you. Yeah, dirty wizard. Sticky wizard beard. I don't know. Anyway, I could finish that on the finger. Much nicer. The British one.

Anyway, I am now going to open the... Which one's the American one? This is the American one. That's the British one. Haircut Masters. All that wait for nothing. Haircut Masters. I didn't say that. I just...

I at least know that. Right, this is the American Eli Rollo. Okay. Now Rollo, for those who don't know, is a little caramel chocolate cup, isn't it basically? It's a chocolate cup containing caramel. Yes, yes. Heavily advertised throughout the 80s, weren't they? Well, do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rollo? That's the one. That's the one. Because you used to get the tinfoil and wrap it around the top. Yeah, so it became sort of...

Like the little Hershey's Kisses. It became a thing that kids... Would give the ones they like. Like, oh, I fancy her, I'll give her the last rollo, and it all became a stupid little game. I remember doing it to someone when I was a kid. You remember giving someone a last rollo because you wanted to bone them. And Mr Donaldson said it was a very sweet gesture. Oh, really? But I... Was it the teacher? Oh my god! I liked him. Anyway, let's have this rollo... What's going

on with that? Let's just move quickly on. I'm gonna have this rollo... Is that where the wizard's beard came from? This is the American rollo. Mr. Grumbledore. You were being... Is this American taste like shit? It's the American roll-up. I haven't done it yet. I've been too busy laughing. Wow, there's almost no flavour. Crumbly. The caramel's better than the chocolate. You're right, crumbly. Doesn't have a plyancy. I'd expect the British one to have a sort of plyancy,

rather than the crumble texture. We'll have some give, almost like an al dente give back. Well, I've kept these in the fridge for a few days, so they've all been ready to go on equal footing. It's a bit sickly, that. Yeah. Now here is the British Rolo. Sorry, there you go, grab that.

British Rolo. British Rolo, again, same thing, just a caramel chocolate cup. Grab that. British Rollo. British Rollo. Again, same thing. Just a caramel chocolate cup. Is that better? Yeah. It is? Yeah. The chocolate's got more bite to it.

Oh yeah. The caramel's softer. Oh man. It's all creamier. The caramel's got a much more distinct flavour. Yeah. The American one was just sweetness and nothing else. Crumble and flop.

It's got that sort of toffee, that slight toffee flavour coming out of this. It's bigger. Yeah. Slightly. It is a world of difference though, it's surprising because you think the basic components are fundamentally the same but the alchemy is different. I'm telling you it's the Hershey's inventing that cheaper way of making chocolate. Yeah.

And it influenced the whole industry out there. Right so this is, oh that's the British one. And it must be something like it's not, it's against the law in Britain to make chocolate of that quality and call it chocolate or something, you know what I mean? It's probably something like that. There is a law that says it has to have an excellent percentage of milk or something. Or cocoa solids, yeah. Pull the top of that off, I've just broken the Snickers, this is the American Snickers.

Oh, I thought you were going to go somewhere else with that. It's not yet. Pull the top of that off and also- Grab that! Right, you're having the American Snickers now. Now a peanut smell we've broken it open and there's a peanut smell there's a there's the nougat layer and the the caramel layer there. What's happened there Paul? Why you? I've lost some chocolate. I don't want to squish it into the carpet. You don't want to do that. I have found the chocolate. You've found the chocolate fragment. All is well.

Okay, let's eat this. That just tastes like a Snickers to me. The peanut, the caramel and the nougat are very similar. Chocolate weak. Chocolate always brings it down. Always. Now I'm wondering if I will actually be able to tell any difference here. I think you will.

I think it's going to be very obvious. And we're now trying the British Snickers. I'm just comparing the size of the nougat lever. Lay it. It's thicker on the American bar. Mm-hmm. See that? Yeah. More nougat. And the Brit one is taller. Look at that. Yeah. They're stingy, aren't they, as well? In America, they are. It's bigger, look.

Look at the two there. You can see that. Yeah, the Snickers from America. It looks to be about 30% larger. Yeah, the American Snickers look squat and squished. They really are fucking their population over. Go on, I've had mine, it's nice, it's a Snickers bar, and the chocolate makes a massive difference to everything. Oh, but it's got more chew to it, the whole thing.

Yeah. You know what I mean? You feel flat. No, it's got more elasticity to the nougat. Yeah, no, that's better. It is, innit? It's strange how effectively... And the peanut flavour, you know, the different flavours coming through more. But, I think the weakest link of all of these is the binding chocolate element.

Yes, but I agree 100%, but everything else is bad as well. Like I say, the size, the other ingredients. The nuts felt a little bit stale in the snickers to me. Like those knockoff M&Ms we tried years ago. And it's just like, oh, yeah, this is obviously the different thing because the peanuts taste fake. They taste whatever. No, I'm shocked at how bad the American stuff is, because the English stuff,

this isn't high level shit. No, not really. But it's so much better than the fucking... We're very fortunate, aren't we, to have, you know, pride of flavour. You know where they do do well in American confectioneries? All their gummies. Yeah, no. You can't complain about those, can you?

But then you get a bag of Haribo in America and you get a bag of Haribo over here and I think they're almost basically the same. So that's why I thought I'd bring these chocolates as a little experiment. Really? More than a feature. I've always wanted to put them side by side and when you do you realise, really, more than a feature. I've always wanted to put them side by side and when you do you realise, ugh, it's a world of difference. Our advice to you, don't bring chocolate back from the States if you've got the same brands

here. Only go for something, you know, like a, what's it called, a Babe Ruth? Yeah, maybe, or three Musketeers if you want to. Well you can get all of those that are here now. Reese is here with their Nutragis and so forth. And all their cupcake, peanut butter cupcake stuff. Well they've two bars now. Have you noticed? Reese have at least two different kinds of bars,

which are basically trying to compete with Lion bars and... Twix or whatever. And Twix and Snickers. Yeah. Oh God. You've gone there. Let's just wrap this up. Do you have any final thoughts?

British chocolate's better. No, like I say Paul, I was quite shocked. I thought there'd definitely be a difference, but the quality is bad. Yeah, I took over to Brian and his family. I took some box of heroes and celebrations, and they were very, very, very, very popular. They like those, yeah.

Yes, very. Once again, proving Britain's superiority in the form of chocolate on a national scale. Thank you very much. Thank you, no thank you very much. No thank you. No thank you very much. Let's move on.

You're welcome. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da kind of you know LA. I'll do the price of shite thing. Ladies and gentlemen, here we are in Harrow and here's your host for the price of shite, Paul Gannon. Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am Paul Gannon and welcome to an LA themed Priceau de Shiteau. Now I went to a Goodwill and as ever in Goodwill it looked like someone took a fucking baseball bat to the shelves and everything was- Was it in Santa Monica? Yeah. No, it wasn't. This was near the same place I saw Halloween Town and Mystic Museum and things like that.

Because we, last year, we went to the Santa Monica one and it had been ravaged by homeless. It seems to be a common theme. I know it's there to help, you know, the disadvantaged, but it feels like they don't- there's no sort of- everyone just goes there and just takes stuff out of boxes and just, you know, the disadvantage, but it feels like they don't, there's no sort of, everyone just goes there and just takes stuff out of boxes and just nicks it all. I think theft is a huge thing. And it was well pricey. And it still was when I went this year.

So there was one moment where me and Brian were looking at records. There was one that we found that I'm going to save for a later episode, a later platter. But we're going to buy them, we're in a queue. And then we just hear this massive clattering of plates smashing on the ground. And the whole shop turn, there was an old man holding one plate, staring at the ground where 20 plates had smashed,

where he'd obviously pulled one from the middle or something and it all crashed. Was he apologetic at least? No, he was just standing there silently until a woman came up with a mop and started sweeping up around him. I think he might have had a snap. Yeah. You know?

Like he had a moment. That's my anecdote from Goodwill. I brought three things from there. Okay. And I'm going to guess the prices of them and I get... What do I get? You get super petwings my friend. You get LA petwings.

Okay, they're more glitzy. Petwing! They're glitzy. Petwing! That's what they're saying. Petwing! Like that. They're like Martin Scorsese presents petwing. Petmarties. Marty's petwings. Right, so I have three things that I bought from this particular Goodwill. Now, the, let me just see.

What's the ceiling? 11, 12, 13. I spent $15 on these three items, right? I could have picked something up there when you said 11, 12. Well, I was counting it in different orders though, but you didn't. I don't know, man. I'm going to look into that. Well, you don't know how many numbers I'm counting. Yeah, but you don't know how it was split, do you? No, but I can make some assumptions.

15 quid dollars, 15 dollar pounds. 15 dollars all in. All in. Three items. Yeah, three items, right. And as you can imagine they're costly, but here is the first. And that's right, I should say that somewhere. Oh yeah, sorry, and that's right.

First item coming up out of the bag is Shuffle Shuffle and he's handed it over to me. Handing it to Eli. What is it? Oh, I like this. Yeah, of course you would. What is it? It's a Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles. Can you just look at... Yeah, thank you. It's a Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles. A guide to the usual and unusual from... What does that say in handwriting at the bottom there?

From... Hot gesture avocado? I don't know. I don't know. I can't understand. I don't know, I can't understand. I don't know. That sounds so much like a sort of dance troupe, like on TV in the 90s or something. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Hot Gesture Avocado, dancing to Starship Trooper. I'm getting...

That was good, Paul. Very good. What are you doing now then? I'm just going to want to see what that says. Oh, I just think, Paul. Very good. What are you doing now then? I'm just going to want to see what that says. Oh, I just think it's illegible. OK, so it's the Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles. Yes. A guide to the usual and unusual from...

You still can't read it, can you? I can. We should explain it's in cursive, this little bit at the bottom. I didn't think we were going to spend this much time on this bit. No, sorry, that's just floored me. Just an avocado! Yeah, that's really very funny. Well, that's what this week's episode is called then, isn't it?

Alright, no, hang on. Oh, God. Herb Lester Associates. Right, okay, so that's who's made this map. So, it is like a travel map of LA with locations based on Chandler books I'd imagine. And on the back there's little descriptions of each probably what book it was from. Yeah. Because LA is the noir city. It is. Chandler is the premium writer. Yes. Of hard-boiled noir. Yes. Leading to The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Lots of those classics.

Yeah. Bogart often playing his Philip Marlowe character. Yeah. I'm a gum shoe detective. Oh, it's got a lovely old vibe. Yeah. Oh, this is cool. It's got a great big map.

Can I have it? Yes, you can have it. I need to take pictures, but yeah, you can have that. You can have any of these things basically. I like maps. Oh, this is a lovely thing. Isn't it? And now you can imagine where these things took place in relation to one another in Los

Angeles. Because Los Angeles, because of Hollywood and everything, is famous for these kind of celebrity maps and stuff, isn't it? So this sort of is that in that sort of genre. They should do a Colombo one. I'd fucking buy that. You can go online and check it, but it's just a faff. Give me a paper map.

They should do a Colombo one. It goes back to our walk. Remember when we said on the phone, it's weird trying to look on a map on a phone because you're moving it and scrolling it, but when you have a paper map that you fold out, it's like, it's much more, you can take it all in. It's holistic. Yes, you can have a holistic view. Yeah.

Anyway, how much do you think that Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles is? Now these are popular gifts. The Brutalist map of London, which I got a few years ago. They're doing like an Art Deco map of London and so I got a few years ago. They've like, they're doing all like an Art Deco map of London and so forth and so on. I just need to mention there's two streams of hard-boiled writing. Raymond Shandler representing one of them. Yeah. And the other, Dashiell Hammett, who wrote? He's a dog. No, who wrote? Dashund Hammett. bit. Ruff ruff cramp. Dash and Hamnet. No, you wrote The Maltese Falcon. Yes. Is the most famous one. Is indeed that one. But they basically invented the whole genre of noir

fiction sort of, yeah, hard boiled fiction. Tone over concise plot. But they have two very different styles. So often, when people write crime fiction now, people say whether it's Chandlerian or Hametian, there's these two distinctions because they're so different. Personally, what do you prefer? I think your Hametian. Yeah, he's much more because there's all this weird stuff with Chandler about like, he was a poet before he was a and so there's this sort of fruitiness, even though it's like paired down and hard boiled. It has this sort of eloquence to it and also he's got this kind of knight in shining armor thing with his character yeah which is a bit

sort of old the problem it's much more amoral yeah Hammett stuff and sort of hard-nosed you know this is the thing about Chandler Bing from his friends. Could you be more? That was good, that was good Paul, but I just didn't get it. First item, how much do you think it is? I always hated friends. I don't care. I don't think it can be that much, it's quite small.

Like three dollars. You want to say three? Can I go back and change this? Of course. And the betweens are normal scoring. Yeah, nothing out of the usual. These are all four numbers, they're like £1.50, there's no £3.65 Yeah, nothing out of the usual. I'll give you, these are all four numbers. They're like £1.50.

There's no £3.65. They're all on the dollar. They're all one, two, three, you know, whatever. I said three for that. So three, but you can change your mind. That's a big clue as well. Yeah. Oh, it's the Wurdle board game, everybody.

It is. It's, well, strictly speaking, it's a party game. Do you know what happened to me today? Did you get Wurdle in one go? No. Oh. I fucking failed. You didn't get a Wurdle at all. No. Why are you here? You know what happened to me today? Did you get Werdl in one go? No, I fucking failed. You didn't get a Werdl at all?

No. Why are you here? You know what word it was? Why are you here with your Werdl failure all over your sting? Man, I'm down to 98% success with Werdl. I don't know how you can live. I don't know how you can bring yourself. It was a tough word.

It was stoic. S-T-O-I-C. Yeah, the O-I is going to throw you off, I reckon. It's the C at the end. Yeah. Can you think of any others? Topic. Yeah.

Optic. Anything that ends in Tic, really. Havoc. Havoc. Yeah, but it's unusual. Cock. No, no. Why are you doing that? Cock. This is the Bordle, Bordle, Bordle.

It's a Bordle Girl game. It's a Bordle Girl game. Gurgle, Bordle, Bordel, Werdel Bordel. It's a Bordel girl game. It's a Bordel girl game. Gurgle, burble, burble. So the idea is... I'm opening it up. It's like Werdel, the word game. It really is that simple. And you have...

Mate, careful now. It's the waterworks. Yeah, it's all drippy. Do you want to get tissue? Go on. OK, so Werdel board game. So the idea is it's like a party game and you need at least three players because one of you is the host to that round. They create the five letter word. Right.

You get- Do they get any help or they just think of one? No, they can come up with any five letter word, provided it fits the rules of word or so. No contractions, no abbreviations. Yeah, it has to be an official word of word. They create that five letter word. Everyone else gets dry wipe boards and a marker. And then they write on their grid their five-letter word. And then the host has to look at each board separately. And give out the green or the grey or the yellow.

Green meaning it's the right letter in the right position in the word. Yellow meaning it's the right letter but in the wrong position in the word. And grey meaning that letter does not appear in the word. Exactly. So that's what the host does and basically is the first person in the group to guess it per round based on the host. Yeah interesting, I mean I'm sure that works, the mechanic seems fine. It just seems like if you've played a lot of Wurdle it must be a pain in the arse, you know, putting the green tiles out and you know what I mean when it's all done automatically for you. That's the weird thing about this though is because part of the charm

of Wordle is it's a solitary experience. Yeah, absolutely. It's like little solitaire crossword puzzle. It's a perfect little puzzle, man. But I guess you don't have to wait a day for the next one though, right? At least this one. It's up to the host. That's part of the magic. I was in America and my nephew, I was going on about Wurdle. He was like, oh look, there's this site where you just get endless Wurdles. No, but that's not... I need the suspense of the word. I was on a downer today because I don't often fail completely.

And then I went on Connections, my other one that I really like playing. And I didn't get that either. You should try connections you like it's like connect. What's that one with Victoria? Corrin only connect only connect. It's like one of those bollocks This is interesting as well because not only is it a Hasbro game, but it's also released by New York Times games Yes, because New York Times bought it famously from the creator one mil or something But they had only one million, but I didn't know that they had a range of games they released as well. Well that's it, they've got the app.

They've got the whole thing on their app now. Let me just say this, since the launch of The Crossword in 1942, The New York Times has captivated solvers with word and logic games like Spelling Bee, Letterboxd, Tiles, Vertex and more. In early 2022, we added Wordurdle to our collection and we offer puzzles for all skill levels that everyone can enjoy and then scan this QR code for a New York Times Wurdle. Yeah, I've got the app. Seems like a weird thing to offer. My uncle Philip, who's in Washington DC, he does the New York and it gets harder during the week. It's daily and it actually gets harder and there's different famous uh you know writers I don't know creators of the puzzles and some people have their favorites it's like it's probably the most famous newspaper crossword in the world the New York Times

one. My question to you is how much is that wordle board game but how much do you think I pay for it in the goodwill? Seven bucks something like that. Seven bucks. Seven. Which would mean the last item would have to be five bucks. Well let's find out what the last item is. So let me pull out the final item. Okay. Here you go. Oh it's a glass item, it's a jar of some sort.

It's a cactus jar with... Oh it's a cactus... These kind of jars, mason jars they call them, don't they? I don't know, are they? Yeah. They're like jam jars. It's like a jam... You know what this is? This is a cactus

mason jar cocktail shaker. Yes, it's all in one. Because you can unscrew the top lid and then take the cocktail bit out. Nice. This is for like doing margaritas on the go. Yeah, you know, I guess it's just a cute little way of making booze. Yeah, it's got a filter thing and a cap. So it's like one of those cocktail shakers that has a built in Hawthorn filter thing. Yeah. So it's for the amateur rather than the professional mixologist. I love the look of it. That kind of mother of pearl glass kind of look to it. Iridescent.

Iridescent. Yeah. Iridesced. Iridesced. It's iridesced glass. I'm getting well into my glassware, secondhand glassware mate. I know it's not. You're getting I'm getting well into my glassware, secondhand glassware, mate. I know, it's not... You're getting a very old man vibe coming off you.

But that is iridized glass. And it's also slightly green, isn't it? So it is a very nice... It's a nice thing, Paul. It's a lovely thing. I like it a lot. It caught my attention after the... You should put it on your shelf in here or something. Rows and rows of shit mugs and cups and teapots. It was like that stood out as a nice little item. The problem with it, it is attractive and kind of nice, but if you're actually going to make drinks, you know, it's on the edge of novelty and utility. This feels like what you have in your tongue-in-cheek retro kitch bar at home in the garage. In your tiki bar, isn't it? But you're not meant to say tiki anymore. No, you're not. No, they are tropical drinks now. So how so now tropical, tropical themed drinks. Now women

have to wear tropical based drinkies. Oh no, that doesn't work with bikinis and tiki, is it? Picatinis? Picatinis of, you know what, at least they've got that bit. Nah. Nah. Always show you're working. Oh, I've left my leave. Anyway, how much? Always show your leave. No, you want to come into the toilet. I got my leave in there. I know your morning toffee. Right. Like wizard sticky beard.

Oh dear. Right. How much is that? I want to change my answers now. See, because I think that's more like $8. Oh, right now you've got seven and three. Are we saying within $1 that I'll get one between? Yeah. So we're tweaking the rules. Usually it's $0.25. Yeah, but I think... Are

we going to go up to $1 for this? Yes, I think that's fair. So I'll get... Okay. So you said the LA map was $3 and the Wurdle game was seven, but do you want to swap all that round? Yeah. What do you want to do? I think Wurdle's five bucks. five bucks wordle five books I'm changing that to five and this eight eight for the shaker thing and that would make that map too, wouldn't it? It would indeed. So I want to take how much yeah I'm gonna stick with that. Two for the map five for the wordle eight for the Cactus Mixology thing glass. Yes. Here we go Also, Brian's daughter told me a joke. Yesterday, I was mugged by six dwarves.

Not happy. That's very good. It is quite good. I thought I was going to be a minute to think about it, actually, to be fair. It's very safe for work, isn't it? Yeah. Anyway.

Apart from the mugging. Yeah, it's true. It's only a mugging. And the incentive use of the word dwarves. But moving along from that. Apart from that, it's hugely problematic, like everything that comes out our mouths. No, not happy. Right. Okay. L.A. map.

Not happy, but isn't that, that's like a British saying, I'm not happy. Isn't it? It was obviously translated quite well for the American child to understand it. I can't think of someone American saying, I'm not happy. You know, it seems like quintessentially sort of British. A British. Mone-y British sort of thing. Weird inflection thing. Yeah.

Right, L.A. Map, you said... Two. Two. The answer was... Six bloody dollars for that. Fuck me. Oh, fuck this. Six bloody dollars.

I'm getting an L.A. glazed doughnut on this, I can tell. I'm getting betweenless. The Wurdle Game. The Wurdle Game. You said five. The actual price was four dollars. Oh yeah, so you get one between. Oh, that's good.

A between. That's my American one. And does that mean I'm within a dollar on the thing as well? Absolutely not. The last one, which was the cacti shaker glass thing, you said eight, was actually five dollars. So the most expensive thing was the fucking map. Yeah and it's just a pamphlet. It's just a pamphlet. I mean it's a nice thing it's probably my favorite item of all three. I probably wouldn't have bought it for that price had I known you'd not want it and like it and appreciate it. I do, I like it a lot. It's also why I got the Wurdle thing because I thought well maybe you want to play

Wurdle. I don't know. Fucking tried. Anyway you don't go home empty-footed this week on The Price of Shite. You do get one lovely petwing. LA Petwing. And it sounds like this. Petwing! Thank you very much, Marty. Thank you very much. And now we move on to, I think, the last segment and we're going back to some American Yankee

Doodle Dandy foods. Hey! Hold on tight, you fucking load of wankers! Come on, we're off! Right so I went to a part of LA I've never been before, Brian and his family took me, it was called Little Japan. Oh I so wanted to check all those places out. And it's a little area. I need to go back there. Yeah. And I need to do that bridge, the pedestrian bridge thing. Let's go back next year. Right. But can't tell Brian now.

Let's not stay with Brian. Maybe not the whole time. Let's get an Airbnb. There should be some deals we can get. Anyway. Anyway. It can't be cheap to go to LA every year. That's all I'm saying. Maybe. This is a holiday for me. It was a holiday for you.

Anyway, we went to Little Japan and it was fascinating. There's loads of, I mean, great bric-a-brac and anime stores and all the kind of usual stuff, but also the food markets were great. fascinating there's loads I mean great These are the most quote unquote boring. Eli, these are all bought in a Japanese food market. I can't remember the name of it now, unfortunately, sorry. Karamucho Strong Potato Chips, Super Hot Chili. And there's a little cartoon. I can't see where its eyes are. It's like that picture of that dog. Yeah, that picture of that dog.

Yeah, it looks like a weird dog with his face melty, but it's actually a dog with his face the other way around. Yeah, no, it's weird. That freaks my mind. Dog needs to die. Oh, yeah, there's his mouth. Yeah his face the other way around. Yeah, no, it's weird. That freaks my mind. Dog needs to die. Oh, yeah, there's his mouth. Yeah. And these are ridged.

Yes. Just a little ridged Crip and their strong potato chip. Now, these are probably going to be, I find, crisps in that part of the world, and we've tasted quite a few. We have over all years. Very sweet, aren't they? Yes. Oh, you know, there's this big YouTuber, big American YouTuber,

and he did the chicken feet ones. Oh, yes. I think someone's YouTuber, big American YouTuber, and he did the chicken feet ones. Oh yes, I think someone's pointing us in the direction. And he did the cup noodles. Yes. But we're there first, mate. You might have a hundred million subscribers. You can't. You may be bigger and better, but are you better than us?

He does these things where he tastes every burger, every fast food burger in America. We'd do that if we had the budget. He only does it because he puts them in spawns from people. I don't know. I wish we were more successful. Oh well. If you listen to this and you like it, share it and review it online. Thank you very much.

Please. Have a sniff-snaff-snuff. I'm going to have a sniff-snaff-snuff of this. Oh, nice flavour coming off from the smell nose. I don't even know what kind of... It's meaty. It's definitely a new mommy Mommy, but like almost like bacon. You almost is it here's some little news about umami Yeah, you know you are mommy receptors get more sensitive when you go up in a plane

I'm facing when you when you did that for you when you die But apparently that's why everyone likes a Bloody Mary or a tomato juice. Hey, there's quite a lot of people drinking Bloody Mary's on the plane the other day as well. Weird. It's because of the umami flavour. So people just think, oh, I fancy a tomato juice because of the umami. Isn't that weird?

I mean, I was thinking of getting one myself, weirdly. Isn't it weird? Oh, there's a conspiracy with Big... Big umami. Big Bloody Mary. Big umami sounds like a wrestler. Big Bloody Mary. Big Umami. Anyway, I've got a crisp. You got one? I'm going to go. Is it ridged? Yeah. It's ridged exactly the same way as the, as the Walker's Max range, isn't it? This, the narrow ridges. Oh, it tastes like a cheese and onion. It does. Oh, there's

some heat. A little bit of heat, not a lot but it's very sweet, very uh yeah cheese and oniony I guess. Very oniony. Maybe with a little bit of paprika in there. That's quite nice. Yeah. A nice little snacksy. It's balanced. The sweetness is sort of balanced but with some of those the sweetness is just too much and it takes away from the other flavors but that's good. That's nicely balanced. You can imagine that with a beer. Yes. That'd be very good. Umama, I can. Umami. Go to the next and most interesting. This is Karamucho. Same brand as the last one, but these are corn snacks, spicy curry. Can I do the fandango? Did that come into your head as well?

Yes it did. Oh same brand Karamucho. I was impressed with those. Yes. Better than I would have thought. Yeah they weren't too crazy or outlandish. You know what, there's been a lot of talk about those bully beef and ale ones. Everyone seems to think those were the best. We seem to like them the best. They were easily the best. I mean, the others were just basically generic sort of crisp flavours. Not unpleasant to be fair though, just solid middle fine great flavours. But the steak and ale had something going for them. Yeah, a little bit like charcoal-y kind of thing. Maybe they had a bit of bully in them. Yeah, sticky white wizard beard.

Whatever, as I said, that was funnier earlier on. It certainly was, it's really lost it now. It's going on around that cycle, isn't it? Bong-bong. That's funny. Now... Pop-pop. Don't say pop-pop, please. Pop-bong.

I noticed when I was in Bristol. In breeding. Spa, oh. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Pool. Whoa. With pee. What? Pfft. You know what could produce a fucking sticky wizard's beard? Yeah. A horse.

Spanking on your face. A big angry horse. Spanking on your face. A big angry horse. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanking on your face. Spanky wizards beard. I don't think I could think of anything scarier to be faced with in a dark alley than an angry horny horse. I know it'd be really, horses

are freaky anyway. Let's see when they ride up. It's in its chest on the wobble on. What are we talking about? You went to Bristol. Oh yeah, I was in a spa, you know spa. They're sort of convenience stores, supermarket places. A co-op or whatever if you want. They have their own range of soft drinks. Oh yeah, of course. But I always thought we should pick some of that up at some point. See what they're like.

Next time you're there do so. Anyway, open up this spicy curry, korm snack. Now this is going to have a Japanese curry, whichump snack. Now this is gonna have a Japanese curry. Yeah. Which is sweet again. I mean to be fair your sniffly condition might be affecting your huff abilities today and I can only... I can still smell. I know I'm just concerned. I'll step down. Just concerned. John Gunty coming. John Gunty. I'm saving Gunty. Yeah we should. Oh. Oh. Has it got a Chicken Katsu Curry flavour? Yeah, maybe a little bit. I'm jostling all. Jostling to postulate.

Oh yeah, it's not, it's close, but it's not exactly like that, is it? Yeah. And it's not like a Chip Shop Curry either. No, it's kind of like the middle ground between the two. Just to let everyone know, this is a knick-knack. Basically, yeah. This is a corn knick-knack. I'm going to pull one out. Or a Cheeto, essentially.

Yes, actually. Now that I've got a big one. I've got a big. Actually, it's a bit thicker than a knickknack or a Cheeto. It's a knobbly corn. They've got a nice size. Nice girth on them. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. They're nice. You like those more? Yeah. They're sweet. Just a nice salty curry flavor. Yeah. Yeah.

They're very moreish. Very buttery. Yeah, those are good. Oh mate. Oh nasty basty basty. Those are good. Oh mate, those are easily better. Bestest.

I love a knick-knack me anyway. And finally. Oh those are, those are. That's savoury. Savoury crack. Lovely mild curry flavour as well. Right, this is from a company called... God, I'm impressed with those. This is a company called Calbee and this is what they've made.

Different company, Calbee. I've heard of them before. I've heard of Calbee before. We might have even had Calbee on the show before. You can't have these. I don't know if I can have them actually. I don't know what the flavour is. I don't think you should. It's octopus flavour. Well then you can have them. There's a little... You can see from the squid. Yeah, there's nothing... Like you're not eating a real person, those Thai strong ones, are you? No, but these are, because they're octopus balls is a dish. What are they called?

Takioki, what's that? Takioki ball. I bet Takioki means, can you spell it for me please? T-A-K-O-Y-A-K-I. Hang on, fucking hell. T-A-K-O-Y-A-K-I. I'm gone fucking out T. A. K. O. O. Y. Y. A. K. I. I. Alright, okay. Takioki is a ball shaped Japanese snack made of wheat flour based batter and cooked in

special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus, tempura, ginger and green onion. Does it have to have octopus in? If you don't like octopus you can try making it without octopus such as chicken. So yeah okay so yeah maybe I can't have these then maybe they are just for you to enjoy Mr Silverman in which case I genuinely hope you do. I'm trying to see if there's your best. I'll stay away. To be fair when I bought these I was what does it say on the back actually there's a little is that English writing on the back? Yeah the ingredients if you've got more light over there I couldn't get through to down to the bottom

Let your taste buds take a trip through the street food stalls of Japan in our tokiyaki ball Each bite has the same savory flavor as takoyaki, but with an airy light crispy texture Like those Bobby's products like like beef balls or whatever, you know I don't think this has anything in it. Reading the ingredients are in English there aren't they? Yes they are but it does also say it's made in a factory that contains fish, crustacean and peanuts. Right I would just give it a miss mate. I'm gonna give it a miss. Just in case. You don't want to have a reaction. You're gonna have to be the voice of the people when it comes to taking your taste buds over this. I'm a jocillat and I'm doing a pre-jostle. Jostle.

It's what I like to do these days. I like to do a pre-tear jostle and an after-tear jostle. I think that's fine. And I'm gonna try and get a nice funnel for the sniff-sniff snuff to go shooting up in a big vroom-vroom. One for mama, one for dada. Ha ha ha!

All right, sometimes, mate, I don't know. I know, I still don't. He's huffing it, of course. Oh, what's going down? Very sweet on the nose. Okay, but sweet in a kind of sugary way or in a... In a savoury sweetness, almost. Like a chickeny sweet kind of scent.

Yeah. Okay. And then we are umami sweetness coming on the nose. Yeah, typically so. And it's a seaweed sort of... Can I have a snuff? I can at least smell the buggy, can't I? Here's a Jocelyn and I'll snuff it up your nan.

It's the old Jocelyn Hough. And I like Jocelyn Hough, she's a lovely lady. Jocelyn and I'll snuff it up your nan. It's the old Jocelyn Hough. And I like Jocelyn Hough, she's a lovely lady. Jocelyn Hough. Yeah. Jocelyn Hough, that's good. It's not too seaweed-y, but yeah. That's good, Jocelyn Hough. We've done that before.

Maybe, maybe I've been desperately. She should call in. I have to think of a voice. What do you think of that smell? I didn't get much out of it, to be honest. So they're little, just like those Bobby's ball things. Yeah. Corn snack, little Bobby ball corn snack.

Yeah. And down he goes chewing on the old balls. Oh no. No. It's got that unpleasant upfront sugariness. Okay. Too sweet. It's nice light texture. And there's a nice umami seaweed, nori seaweed.

You know that? Yes. They're using sushi. Yeah. That nori seaweed. You know that? Yes. They're using sushi. Yeah. That nori seaweed, that on the back. Not unpleasant on the back, but for my palate, a little bit too much sweet on the top. Fair enough.

You think your mouth thinks, oh, am I eating sugar puffs or something? Right. You know what I mean, at front? Yeah. And then you get a more savory, deep umami on the back, which isn't unpleasant. I mean, you've had a few of them since we've been talking,

so they can't be off-putting. So, okay, Rankham, that's your least favourite. What comes second place? The potato chips, the super hot. Yeah. And then first are those... Spicy curry corn snacks, which are just lovely. Actually very good. Well, I thought these might have been an interesting little bring back from LA.

They were, thank you very much. So I don't think we've done anything too similar to these in the past apart from the strong chips I guess but I am do my what tells from the dance floor now in the wrap-up yeah so let's end this segment by saying well that's some of the stuff I've brought back from LA I did bring some records but not worth talking about really save it for another episode okay mate I just I hope you like the stuff I brought back. Hot avocado gesture.

I'm talking to you now. Hot gesture avocado, was it? Hot gesture avocado dancing alongside the music of T-Rex. T-Rex, not fucking the shadows. You know, did I ever tell you? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh plenty. I hope you've enjoyed it. Don't cut my bit about Peregrine Tuck.

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Oh yeah. I've had a little idea. It's a good idea, but I don't wanna let on now. I've just got to see if the Spoff and Pickle will let us read the place for a night. We may as well. They know us right? Yeah let's go back. They've cleaned up after the last time. I don't know. New owners since the last time. Okay they must have. So they've got some new people. I hope they've done something with the basement as well because it was... They said they've given it a full do-over but they've kept the charm of it you know. I hope so. Yeah anyway we'll talk, I'll speak to them next week about it.

Tales from the dance floor! Squeeze it in, why not? Let's end with one of these as opposed to starting the show. If you think about it, it's better to end with one of these. So if it's shit, it doesn't matter because people skip this bit anyway. Stick it on at the end, yeah. But if it isn't beginning, it like underwhelms basically. Do you have any idea the statistics of people that when you start doing your spiel of the housework spiel at the end. don't know they stop and turn it off

it's just the common people must in which case they're gonna miss a very good Tales from the Dance Floor. Let's hear it. I was DJing. I played no don't do that please that really is annoying. I know but it's my running joke. And I did I played September by Earth Wind and Fire. Yes. You didn't think I was going to get that did you? No. Because some people fucking look at me and go, what a dummy dickhead, and I'm like, I'm a big boy with a man's charge.

A fantastic tune that he was, Morris White, the power behind Earth Wind and Fire, was so confident at that period in his career that that's not on any of the Earth Wind and Fire albums. No. He just put it out as a single. And it's you playing any of the Earth, Wind and Fire albums. No. He just put it out as a single. And it's you playing it anyway on Saturday night at your nightclub or whatever. There's a girl right at the front in front of the stage holding up a phone. This is what they do now.

They put the request on the phone and I'm like, I can't see that. Can't see that. And then, but the bouncer there, he's quite a nice guy and he takes a phone from her, brings it up to me so I can read what it says on it. Fine, a nice middle ground. It says, I have the Afrobeats version of this tune on a USB. Do you want to put it on? So this whole thing is sort of, and I'm just laughing now, it just doesn't even piss me

off. And then he takes it back, I'm just like no, no, I'm laughing though, because it's like, what a ridiculous statement. Honestly ridiculous. me off and then he takes it back I'm just like no no I'm laughing though because it's like it's what a ridiculous statement. I happen to have a USB full of Afrobeat covers on the off chance I hear a song at a nightclub and want to recommend it to you that happens to have a USB playable device to get it to work on your analog system. Yeah to be fair to her she was smiling as well but then I go no no no and he takes the phone back and he comes back up with his key fob with a USB on it. I'm like, no, for God's sake. Anyway, that's the story.

Then I'm glad it went here in the show. The bit right before we say, see you next time. Love it. Have a lovely day. We'll see you next week. It will be back. Love you. Bye.

Yeehaw, Marty, Marty. Oh, oh, I'm getting. Marty, beep, beep, Marty. Terry Nutkins is calling. Oh, hang on, who's this? Oh, they'm getting... Marty! Beep, beep, Marty! Terry Nukkens is calling. Oh, hang on, who's this? Ooh, they want me on nature shows. It's fucking Sir Attenborough. Oh, who's this?

Ooh! David, David, I can't talk now. David, yes, I know the sloths. David. What are you doing? Alec Baldwin wants to know if I want to go to the shooting range with him. Bye!

Bye!