Doughboys - Jimmy John's with Lauren Lapkus

Episode Date: April 13, 2017

Lauren Lapkus (Crashing, With Special Guest) returns for a discussion of midwest quick-service sandwich staple Jimmy John’s. The ‘boys and Lapkus debate the ethics of frequenting a chain whose founder is a big game hunter, and delve into London eats and mayo’s worthiness as a condiment. Plus, an Easter edition of Season’s Eatings.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

African Lion, African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, African Leopard, Rhinoceros. This quintet of species comprises the Big Five Game, the targets in the crosshairs of big game hunters in Africa. While hunting remains a common American pastime, the Big Game variant has become a widely derided taboo practiced only by oblivious ultra-rich elites. In 2013, photographs surfaced of Illinois businessman Jimmy Lietow grinning with thumbs up in front of slain elephants, rhinos, and leopards, leading to calls for a boycott of his eponymous Midwest sandwich chain.

While it speaks to our oddly categorized beliefs on animal welfare that customers were outraged by the hunting practices of the restaurant's founder, but not by the company's continued use of deli meats harvested from livestock raised and slaughtered on factory farms, Lietow still issued a tearful apology and claimed he has since abandoned his homicidal hobby. The hunting photos weren't the only controversy faced by his franchise. In 2016, the company set out a lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman due to their practice of forcing employees to sign unlawful non-compete clauses, preventing them from seeking work elsewhere in the sector.

Still, the chain has been a beloved institution across the Midwest since its founding in 1983, when a then-19-year-old Lietow used a substantial loan from his father to begin his business career. Lietow combined fresh-baked breads with store-bought meat to create cost-effective sandwiches and his first shop's limited real estate gave him the idea to offer freaky fast delivery, which made it a hit with a college crowd. As this chain expands from the Midwest and South of the East and West, will Coastal America 2 fall under its spell, or will this be another Heartland fixture that falls flat with city

folk? This week on Doe Boys, Jimmy Johns. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants and the production of Feralaudio.com. I'm Nick Weigar, alongside my co-host, the Steve Bannon to my Jared Kushner, the Spoonman Mike Mitchell. Hey, at least they kind of made fun of you, aren't they? Yeah, that was a twofer courtesy of Michael Cortano from New Orleans, Cortano. Cortano?

I think I'd rather be, I think you get the better of that one, I think I'd rather be Bannon than Kushner. Why? Because he's a cool Hollywood presser. Yeah. You think the man, the mind behind Titus, or what else did he make? He made Titus? Yeah, I think Titus was his big credit.

Really? It's like super over-the-top Shakespearean thing with Anthony Hopkins and kind of the futuristic setting. Oh, yes. Oh, I thought you meant the show, wasn't there a show Titus? Oh, yeah, with Christopher Titus, the comedian, yeah. That's a totally different thing. Still, boycott Christopher Titus.

A very happy howdy-ho to you all today. What do you think of that? Do you like when I don't do the voice? I don't care. Neutral on it. Okay. I thought you'd have some sort of opinion. No, it's fine.

And here's a drop to waste everybody's time. Now you're upset with me. This is fine. You're projecting on me. Oh, it's a minute 25. God damn it. You can still play it. No, I can't.

A minute 25 is insane. Call in O'Day. What the fuck are you thinking? Okay, here we go. I got one. All right, great. This is nice. We're very excited.

This is going to be worth it. The chicken was great. It was fantastic. It was so good. The chicken was great. This is the last punch madness. I don't need the pumpkin flesh. I can't even look at our guests.

I just want to put an end to any of the, um, of the, what do you call it, rumors? Three. Two. One. Wendy's. You are the Trumpian. The people are going to stand for this. We just wanted to let you know you have the heart of a champion.

It's a fun little much madness recap. Yeah, you know what? That was good. Worth it. That was good. That was good. And you know what? That was a minute 25, my man.

Yeah, you got to draw the line somewhere. That was Corey Caswell. Corey, what a great job. Corey C. Oh, maybe she didn't want her last name to be said. Sorry, Corey C. Thank you. We'll bleep it out or something.

Yeah, we'll bleep it out. We won't. Yeah. Thank you. Bye. Yes, Nick. So last, I made this up. I realized this as I was writing up the outline for this episode.

Last week we covered Jamba Juice. Yes. This week we're covering Jimmy John's. Yes. It's JJ April. JJ April. JJ April. We got to come up with some more JJJ.

And we stumbled upon it. This was not intentional at all, but we got to, I think we got to carry this gimmick out to the end. Do we, does it, does it all reach ahead when we have AJ? It's AJ. Jesus fucking Christ. AJ Soprano. AJ Soprano.

When we have, actually that's more likely, maybe, actually it's not likely either. But if we had JJ Abrams as a guest on the show. And review Super 8. Yeah, review Super 8 for him. I think I could give three and a half forks to Super 8. Yeah. You know what?

Super 8 is maybe my favorite of the, one of my favorites of the JJ. I feel like a lot of people don't like that one. I like Mission Impossible 3. I think that's my favorite. But then I love JJ. I love Tom Cruise and I love the Mission Impossible. We know you love Tom.

I know you love, you, she's truly talking about how much you love Tom Cruise a lot. He's great. I agree with you. And I like him too. So I'm there with you on it, but. Who's the next Tom Cruise? There isn't one.

It's still Tom Cruise. There's got to be another Tom Cruise out there. How about the new Han Solo guy? Oh yeah, that guy's good. Is he going to be the new, I don't know. I mean, that feels a little premature, but I wish him the best. He says he's a good actor, movie star quality.

Tom Cruise is, it's that nice combo of he's like, you know, completely crazy, which is great. And then like, he's like wants to do all his own stunts. I feel like he's crazy. Dedicated to his craft. Yeah. Yes. Yes, he is.

He's dedicated. Why did you emphasize craft? Because I'm just like, he's, if you want to talk about his craziness, what's insane is how much work he puts into these films. He does all his own stunts. Are you trying to like hit at me for like being like, he should. Oh, that's what it was.

Yeah. I was like, I mean crazy. Yeah. Maybe he's involved with this, with Scientology or whatever, but I think he's just such a charismatic, amazing actor. Oh, I thought you were trying to get under my skin and say, I should be more committed to my craft. Oh no.

I mean, you're pretty committed to craft of the brand. I knew it was coming as soon as I knew it. I swear to God. I knew it was coming. That's about it. It's supposed to be a glory. Classic Wyger burn. We do have a guest here who is committed to your craft.

We have a great guest. Introduce our guest in one second. Real quick, just a super quick shout out. Graham, a fan from the UK emailed us a few weeks, a few weeks back. Here we go. We missed this, but one of our fans, Chris Cameron, the Spirtle man turned 40 on March 31st. Hell yeah.

So happy belated birthday. Spirtle man. Spirtle man. Yeah. In Scotland, apparently the spoon you stir porridge with is called a Spirtle. And he's such a huge Doughboys fan. He goes by the Spirtle man. Okay.

Season desist. Sorry, Spirtle man. Let's introduce our guest from crashing wild horses. And with special guests, Lauren Lapkis, our special guest, Lauren Lapkis. Hi. Welcome back. Oh my God. Thanks for having me.

Thank you for sitting there through all that bullshit. I loved it. I just had to be silent. I couldn't look at you. I couldn't look at the face after I was playing that stupid fucking. I love the drops. So that's a lie. No, it's not.

The drops are good. I think they're so funny. I've come around on the drops. I think people have stepped up and they put more effort into it. Yeah. That was a good one. That was a good one. Effort really pays off with the drops just for anyone out there who wants to make one.

I mean, it's not that it determines whether or not it will be played because Mitch will just look at his email seconds before we start recording and pick the first one. What's wrong with that? Yeah, it is always funny how you're surprised by how long they are. It's like you have, we were just hanging out for like 20 minutes. The house isn't, it's not covered in cat litter, right? Isn't that a... I think your place looks great and the cats are so cute.

They're adorable. I was so delighted to meet them. I was very happy that you met them. I even, I opened my bedroom door which no one sees inside of. I saw so many secrets in there. Lapkus, how do you, because I would say you're very talented, very funny. Thank you. And you probably work what?

10,000 times more than Nick and I combined. Right. How do you, how do you, how do you, how do you do? And also here's the thing with, we talk about this on the podcast a lot, but as someone who does work a lot, you're very busy. How do you like, what do you do for meals? Do you eat out a lot or do you... That is a tricky thing.

I feel like I, I try to buy a lot of groceries that I have good things to eat at home, but I'm not really much of a cook. So I do blue apron. Okay. And that, I, I've kind of slowed it down because I, when I was doing it for a while, like every week for a bit, and then it was like, they're kind of piling up and it feels like a lot of pressure. And sometimes you don't really think you're going to like the meal.

So it's, it can be like, will I make that one? And then I feel bad if I waste any. So I always make them. But I, so I, I made it like once a month now. So I do that like for one, like one week a month, I'll have those meals, but I do kind of order a lot of food. I order a lot of sushi. Yeah.

I eat a lot of sushi. That's like my thing now. Cause I got into it like this last year, basically. I like never really had it until a couple of years ago. So like now I'm like super into it. How many meals a week is that for you? Probably have sushi like two or three times a week. Wow.

Okay. That's a lot of sushi. I know it is, I guess. Don't sushi shame. I love it. I don't think it's anything wrong. I don't think it's unhealthy. I don't think it's anything wrong with it.

But that's just like, I think it's a lot. I had myself some sugarfish the other night. I love sugarfish. Sugarfish is great. Expensive is the only issue with it. It's a little pricey, but it's, it's very, it's good. You know, there's, there's a leadist over at the New York Times did a review of sugarfish because they opened up in New York city and they panned it.

Like I don't think they, I don't know where these guys get the nerve. They must have some crazy sushi restaurants that they're going to. I don't know. I mean, they have good sushi restaurants, but that's like insane. Cause I was, I was a little, I was a sushi noob at one point and, and, and I like sugarfish. I ate sushi before sugarfish, but then sugarfish, I was like, this is so good. Yeah. This is like another level of, of good.

And, and I'm like, I now I like want, like I'll crave sushi because of that place. And that's just, it's ridiculous. That guy also, his like Twitter avatar is a, is, is the Muppets. What's his name? Um, what are the two Muppets? The ones who like Statler and Waldorf. Statler and Waldorf. Review the old people.

Yes. Yeah. They don't review old people. Um, that's so dumb. Yeah. It's like Statler. You're so corny. Or Waldorf.

Cause he's a reviewer. And also like, I like Statler and Waldorf. Yes. And I'm like, I'm like, you can't like take that away. Show yourself. Yeah. That's ours. Yeah.

Show your face. You coward. Yeah. We also gave a really bad review to, which look, Guy Fieri might be tough to deal with. He might be, he might be, he might be. I like him. I, you and I, you and I have this. Why are you and I have this dance?

You like it. We kind of like Guy Fieri. We kind of like Guy Fieri. Look, I'll watch the show sometimes, but just like out of like, I want to not think about anything, but I can't really handle his, his aesthetic. Right. It is just a little extreme. It's a lot.

I love how you always see him like backstage at Sandler concerts and stuff. Like, Oh my God, really? He's like in pictures of like at Sandler concerts and like, and like he, he like, he's always hanging out with his, his Sandler buddies. He's friends with Sammy. Hey, Gar. I mean, his brand is who he is.

That makes sense. Yeah. He seems authentic. There is, there is a thing though. I mean, but you know what? This happens too much. Even just in, in Hollywood or whatever we're like, it's like, oh, I heard he's tough to deal with it or whatever.

And that's like, I don't know. I like, I, maybe he is, he could be. You start to hear that about everyone though. Right. I feel like anytime anyone gets like kind of famous, they're like, they're really difficult. I don't know what that means. I'd be curious to see what it means for him. Yeah.

What is he doing? Weigur and I talk about how difficult each other we are. Yeah. And we're not famous at all. That's true. We're just too dipshit with a bad podcast. People listen for some reason. It's a good podcast.

I love it. I'm a huge fan. Thanks, Lauren. Yeah. I listen to it all the time. You are, you, you, you are, you shouldn't listen to it. You're so funny. Don't listen to this.

I think you guys are so, I think it's so funny. It's so good. Um, I'm very, I'm actually, I have a question and I don't know if this is a question that's been answered or if it's never going to be answered, but who is bug main? Oh boy. Oh boy. We can tell you off. Yeah.

We'll tell you off there. Okay. Okay. Cause I was listening going like, do I know this guy? You might know him. Yeah. I would say a hundred percent, you know, he is kind of Armini. Yeah.

He's a little Armini. He's not, he's, I think he's a, he's the yang to Armin's yin. Yeah. Yeah. There's an energy there that Armin goes in the opposite direction. They're like, if, if you split two-face the Batman villain into two different people, then like one of them would be bug main and one would be Armin. Really?

Yeah. Before two-face turned into two-face, he was like, I'm like, talked about gremlins all the time. Yeah. You know, I think that's pretty much Harvey Dent's personality. I don't know. Erin Eckart. That's as close as I can come to.

I've seen a movie with two-face. Tommy Lee Jones was the other one. Okay. Billy Dee Williams. Yeah. Billy Dee Williams was the, was the, and I'm sad that we never got to, well, not the original, but I'm sad we never got to, was there one in the, the, the Batman show, like the, Oh, the Adam West show?

Adam West show. I don't know if there was a two-face, but Billy was the, well, he was the, he was the first, right? He was the first two-face. He was the first movie one. First movie two-face. Unless there was one in the Batman TV movie. Yeah.

And are you sad that you never got to see that two-face? I would have loved to see Billy Dee Williams two-face. Why couldn't you see it? Because they, by the time, I feel like this, that storyline was probably like going to be like the third Batman or, well, actually the two-face came around in like the third or fourth Batman anyways. Yeah. But they turned it over to Joel Schumacher.

Yeah. And by the time, the Tommy Lee Jones was coming hot off the fugitive, star power at an apex, and they were like, this is the guy we want as our two-face. Oh, I see. I wonder how he feels about that, Billy Dee. You can't be, that's, that's a bummer. I think he's happy. Yeah.

But you know, he's had a great career. He's a what? He's had a great career. Yeah, you're right. You're right. All right. Lapkus, one thing I wanted to ask you about, since the last time you were here, you, and speaking of you working a lot, you were in London for work for a time.

Yeah. How long were you there? I was there for almost four months. It was a long time. It was a long time. But it was really fun. It was a very cool place to be because London is like an easy, you know, I mean, everyone speaks English.

Right. So it's like, as far as like being in another country, it was an easy place to hang out and it's beautiful. And I got, I've been there a few times before I was a tourist and I'd gotten to like, you know, but I kind of, every time would see the same things over and over again. So it was so many years in between my visits. So I got to like feel like a local and go to all different neighborhoods that I wouldn't have gone to.

And it was cool. That's awesome. You know what? You sound different. Um, did you see, uh, Prince Henry or Prince Harry? I worked out. Wait, I actually called him Prince Henry recently too. I don't know why.

It's Prince Henry. Um, I did, you know, I worked out next to him at the gym. Literally. Yes. I worked out next to him. I, I now work out, which is my new thing. And, um, I was at this like, they set me up with like a real, at a fancy gym, like through the movie.

Like, so I, you know, it was a place I would never find myself normally. And I was like, yeah, it was cool. Um, and then I was like on the floor, like Matt's like doing some like crunches. And right next to me was Prince Harry working out with a trainer who was his trainer was like dressed in like a button down and like khakis. And it was weird. That was what kind of drew my eye over there. And I was like, why is he dressed like that?

And then I realized, oh, he's with someone kind of rich. And I was like, ah, it was cool. Um, Weiger knows my stance. I don't like the royal family. Well, who, why, why, why not? What's the problem? Cause I don't, cause I don't know. I just don't, they annoy me.

Well, I mean, there's something about it that, that I was thinking about while I was there. That's like making me kind of mad in that way where it's like, you could never be them. Like it's crazy to think of like Kate or like Princess Diana, like where they married into this family. They were like regular-ish people or whatever. I don't know like what their like status was before, but like they suddenly become royalty and your whole life is different and everyone knows who you are. And that's the only way it could ever happen.

And like it's, I mean, at least here, like you can, you could be president if you cared enough about it. Like anyone could. Prince. Apparently. Yes, sadly. Um, Prince, Prince Harry, um, he, uh, he gives me like, even though I called him Prince Henry seconds ago.

I did it too. I don't know. It seems like it's more his name. Let's go with it. He's Prince Henry. Prince Henry gives off kind of like a douchey vibe to me for whatever. He's, he seems kind of like, I feel like if he was like, we'll grew up in the States, he'd be like a frat guy I didn't like or something or something.

Yeah. That I, that I don't like. What I thought was kind of interesting and surprising about him. Oh, you've never met him, Mitch? Really? I was surprised that he went to the gym publicly. And then like he also, they went into like a room that he could have shut the door and he left the door open.

So it was like, he was like, I thought that was surprising. Also, I've met Princess Diana. Oh my God. I met her when I was 10 or so, like about like a year or less before she died. That's crazy. Yeah. She came. I know it's so weird.

She came to Evanston because she was having a meeting with the president of Northwestern and that's where I'm from. And she, and I, the president lived across the street from my parents' house. So we knew she was coming. So we all like gathered around and I have like a digital, not digital, um, disposable camera picture of her. And like, it's, I can, I actually have Googled it now and to find like, because I remember from the picture and there's tons of pictures online of her and this kind of mint blazer

and skirt. You can see it. Um, but it was so exciting. That's so cool. Yeah. That's pretty, that's pretty cool. I mean, not to one up your lap, because, but you know who I met around that age. No.

Uh, Faith Ford from Murphy Brown. Oh my God. AKA Corky Sherwood. Oh, I know. Yeah. So, uh, that was pretty cool. Corky, man. That show had a lot of great names.

Murphy, Corky, Miles. They're really just going weird with it. I don't think I met a famous person at that. I, I hadn't met one yet. Yeah. I still hadn't met one. Yeah. One of my, uh, first run-ins with a famous, uh, person out here was, um, I was at a bar

and the guy was with told me that, uh, Sean Livingston was there and I went around looking for Sean Livingston and then I actually turned out it was Ron Livingston and I didn't see it. From the office? I mean, from office space? You're looking for an NBA player of a different ethnicity than Ron Livingston, the actor. That's correct. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I saw Diamond Dallas Page that night. That was like my first. He's a, he's a wrestler. I assumed wrestler. I just seemed.

It was right before he did. He became like a biggie. What if he was a scientist? Diamond Dallas Page. Hey, it works for NASA. I discovered a planet. Uh, he's a, he's all into yoga now, Diamond Dallas Page. I was thinking about this yesterday because Natalie and I have been doing yoga.

That's right. And it's, Thank you. You're looking slimmer. Oh, thanks. Oh boy. You're wearing what I would describe as a childlike shirt. I'm in the same clothes.

Yeah. A striped crew. Next shirt. I do. Yeah. I do kind of have like a, I'm alternately dressed like a lame dad or like a grown up boy man. Like that's just basically my wardrobe.

I think it depends on whether I'm wearing shorts or slacks. I feel like all like improvisers and comedians that are kind of like that. Like it's like all you, they're all like little boy men, right? Clothing wise. Yeah. That's for sure. Yeah. I am.

I am that way. Yeah. See, I'm mentally, I had a, you do look, you've been running more, right? Running more, running, swimming, yoga, but I was thinking about the DDP yoga specifically, which is a thing that, that Diamond Dallas Page does. And it's been rehabilitating people with like injuries or, or, you know, a lot of retired wrestlers who've had all sorts of like mental and physical problems and it like transforms lives.

Yeah. Jake, the snake, Roberts. Oh, I remember him. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he, like he, he was like on death's door and, and he, this DDP yoga. It's miraculous. Isn't it?

Yeah, it is. It feels amazing that it works so well because this guy is, and you know, I watched WCW and I remember DDP and I always thought he was kind of like, not my favorite wrestler. I'll, I'll respect. In fact, I know he's a legend, but like he was like kind of a guy who like played the heel some of the times and it just wasn't, wasn't really into his gimmick. But then he just, this post career is just amazing. What he's doing.

He's a great man. I, I, I always like a, anytime I've met any like WWE type people, which I haven't met a lot, maybe none. That's not true. I haven't met a couple of them. I've always been blown away that they're like, they, they're, I mean, they're so, they're super talented. Right.

But then on top of that, they're like physical specimens and I'm like, what a piece of shit I am. Yeah. I've had a bad, I had one of those bad weeks this week where I, I look tired, I'm sure, but I just haven't slept well. You know, those just bad weeks where I just, I haven't, I haven't slept well. My body is like, I'm like, I just, it was one of those, I was talking to my trainer about it when I'm just like, I just feel like I'm like, I felt like I was dying and like,

I just felt sore all week and like shitty. I heard about this trainer, but I think it's so cool that you're going to the training. Yeah. Jason, he's going to meet my mom. Oh my God. We're going to go for a joint session. Oh, that's awesome. My mom.

Yeah. That's pretty nice. So you'll have two people yelling at you. And it will be fun when my mom outlifts me and she probably can. Uh, yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, it's been good, but I get a, I get a, I get a, I want to try maybe yoga or you, you enjoy it. Oh, I love it. I'm amazed by how much I love it.

See, I don't love yoga. I think it's kind of boring, but I think that I get very like ADD in these situations. Like I'm finding I like classes where they, there's like loud music and they keep like saying do, do, do this, do this, like I like to go ago. And the yoga, I feel like I get like, oh, I'm just like antsy and I don't want to do it. Right. I think it maybe depends on which version.

Cause there are some that are maybe a little bit more intense. But also I'm like, I, I am a boring man. So I kind of like that this is just something that I'm just can sort of live in the boringness for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So wait, what, so what fitness are you doing right now? I guess I've been doing a lot of bar method.

Oh, wow. So I've been going to pop physique bar method. I'm using this app. I mean, this is not an advertisement, but I feel like anytime I talk about it, it feels like I'm doing an ad class pass is this app, but it's great because you can, you pay for like 10 classes or however many you want to do a month and then you can go to any different studio and you have to, you can only go to each one like three times. So you have to kind of try different things.

And it's great. I just did spinning this morning, which sucked. It was so hard. I tried spinning once and I will never do it again. It was insane. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that I was clipped into the fucking pedals. It was like, I want to walk away. Like this is not fun.

It was been fall. I, I, I like, I almost threw everyone I've talked to is like, I like threw up after I did it and I was like, it's, it's, it is like that intense. I took a lot of breaks because I was just like, I'm not going to make myself like throw up from this. Right. I'm scared. But like, yeah, it hurts.

But yeah. Bar method has been really great. I love that. And it's like a lot of like ballet sort of moves, but also like isolated muscle movements. So it's a lot of like, just like you're holding tiny weights behind you and kind of like lifting up a little bit and it starts to kill. Like it's yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You, you saw Prince Harry working out. Yeah. How much could that guy lift? I saw him doing weird moves. He was like, first of all, he was just doing like stretches on the ground with his trainer and then he was in another room doing like these lunges, like all around the room with like no weights.

He was just like lunging through the room. So I don't know what he was doing. Sounds like a fucking wimp. I prefer the days of old when the king was like a 350 pound guy who was just eating mutton and drinking wine all day. Like Prince. What's that? What's that movie?

King Ralph? King Ralph. Wait, was that a kid in King Arthur's court? Mitch, you know King Ralph is not historically accurate, right? What is King Ralph? King Ralph isn't historically accurate. It's where John Goodman becomes the king, but it's like basically a regular guy, a regular American guy because the entire British royal family dies and in kind of like a horrific

scene, like they all get electrocuted to death, including kids. It's fucked up. And then they need him to be the king? Yeah. And then they're like, they trace the bloodline and there's one relative still alive and he's this, this American guy that kind of, I think it was meant to be analogous to Roger Clinton at a time, Bill Clinton's brother is like kind of this, this is every man who's hanging around with royalty.

And I wish, I wish I was historically accurate. Goodman would be a great king. I love John Goodman. He's the best. I love Roseanne. Roseanne was like the best show. He was great. He was so great on it.

I love that guy. And you know what? If you out there are a fan of John Goodman, hashtag John Goodman. And if you don't like John Goodman, hashtag John Badman. Oh my God. I was really hoping that's where it was going. Yeah, that's where it was going. Me too.

Or else it wasn't, if it was just the John Goodman thing, I don't think it would be worth it. Also, John Goodman probably has a lot of hashtags, right? You think people are hashtagging John Goodman all the time? How about good John Goodman? Yeah, good John Goodman. And then bad John Badman. Great.

That's a punch up. I like it. So while you were in London, was there any cuisine of notes? Or was there anything you found yourself eating with any sort of regularity? Well, they put mayonnaise on everything. Really? And so that, I don't like mayonnaise and I avoid it pretty actively, but I found myself eating it out of just like whatever.

So I would eat it on sandwiches and stuff because it was like always on, like any pre-made thing. Like I love Pret-A-Mon-J, you know that chain? Yeah. So they have that on like every corner, like as much as Starbucks, like it's across from the street, you know, it's across from itself on two corners. And it's so good. And like all the sandwiches, I love so much in America, but then so I was like so excited

I was going to get to have Pret and then like all of the things have mayonnaise. So I was like just kind of making concessions everywhere. Wow. And also every salad there seems to have like seafood elements to it. Oh, weird. Like instead of like a salad, like chicken at one of those like to go places, it would be with salmon or like shrimp. And that bummed me out.

Yeah. I don't trust that. Like I don't like it to go salmon really. It makes me nervous. Every time I've had like sushi from like a grocery store, I feel scared. Like I don't know why I do it. I haven't gotten sick from it, but I always think I will. Well, weird Islanders put fucking seafood on everything.

Yeah, no, it is weird. There it's an island, Nick. No, I get it. I get it. I had to take a second when you said those weird Islanders. I was thinking more like Jamaica or something. OK. All right.

Oh, my God. I don't know what else though. A lot. Oh, I do think the chocolate tastes different and I don't like it as much. Oh, I like I like chocolate from London. Yeah, I do. I do. I like I feel like you can get like just like a good solid candy bar or something. Like it's what do you think tastes different? But I'm thinking like like regular like drugstore candy bars, like Snickers or like

just anything like that is just slightly different. And it's like almost like it's milkier or something. Yes. And I don't like that. Well, that's because I'm specifically thinking of like just like a chocolate bar. Yeah. And they are milk. That is the one thing in my mind. I'm like, they're always like milkier. Yeah, there's like a milkier taste to them, which I think

if you're just having like a chocolate bar, I'm like, that's fun. Yeah. But then you're right. If it's when you're mixing like with Snickers, yeah, it changes the whole dynamic of the candy bar. So that's fair. Yeah. Shit, I didn't get that when I when I went. I didn't get any Snickers or something like that. Well, you know, maybe the Spirtle Man can do that.

Yes, Spirtle Man, get on it. We probably lost Prince Harry as a fan, if he was saying. Oh, man, what if he was? The weights are too hard. Pussy ass, bitch. Anyway, should we get into Jimmy John? Yeah, I was going to ask. Go for it, please. Or did you hit up?

Did you hit up a lot of chain? You probably eat healthier than that. I would try to not do chains. Like I really wanted McDonald's while I was there because I usually eat it in every country that I eat. But I did not because I've had it before. And I was like, you know what? I need to be better than this because

but just because of the fact that there's like a pret on every corner where like you can get something healthier and it's still like a to-go meal. I was like, I need to just have that if I'm being lazy about it. I love McDonald's, but I really feel like I'm sad after I eat. I love it so much, though. But yeah, no, I didn't really have any change to try to think of anything else that I would have had that was like that. But no, they have a lot of like pizza chains there that I didn't even try

because I don't know, I'm lactose intolerant. Yeah, I noticed that they're quite a few, which I felt like when I went out, I went when I was eight and I hadn't been like eight or nine and I hadn't been there in forever. Yeah. And I felt like there was like, I didn't see anything like that. Maybe the food has changed a ton since like in the past, like 20 years for sure. Because I remember going with my family when I was little

and it was horrible and the food was bad everywhere we went. And also maybe my parents were like weird choices like where we would eat. But like it was so bad. And now I feel like it's much easier to get like an inexpensive good meal like with healthy components. Right. Yeah, it's funny because there's that two sides of it where I feel like England is known to be like terrible with food. But then also I feel like there's so many like like acclaimed chefs

that come out of there and right there's two sides of it. Weigar, I thought you might know something about it. But no, yeah, I was just I like wasn't familiar with British with pizza in the UK. And so I was just curious what that was all about. Well, when I went in middle school, they I remember we ordered pizza and it had corn on it and I was really upset. Right. That's that and that's big. And like, is that Japan and South Korea?

Yeah. Yeah. But now I but I had a good pizza when I went there this time. So I think that I do think everything's like balancing out. Right. I don't know. Not to mention Corn's Giving, the famous a kiss from Daddy Birthday Boys joint sketch, our two sketch groups when we had a monthly show together. And then every November, we would do like an 11 minute long sketch called Corn's Giving, where everyone brought corn.

And we seriously have to combine the two. But the there were like 20 people in that sketch. Yeah. And so it was just like 20 beats of people entering, bringing corn to a Thanksgiving dinner. And the audience got tired of it, like three beats in three beats in there. They get they get what it is. Everyone's bringing corn. We did it. We did it almost ever. We did we did it even longer than I think we did like the show together.

Yeah, we did. We did it every year. And so this is also a reference for 100 people who probably don't listen to the podcast, because they hate you from that experience. The being that sketch, the beating sketch, I remember is there are two things because I remember you had a beat where you leave to go get a turkey. Oh, no, no, no. Well, the Hanford leaves to go get a. Hanford leaves to get a turkey.

I come in with a. You come in with a turkey and then Tim Calpakis was a magician turns it into corn. And then but I remember you walking in with the turkey and you would do a turkey whale. I go when you come in, I would get the turkey and say happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I hope no one else brought a big old turkey. And then when you do that, when you do the that was like the one point

the audience got back on board, they're like, yeah, we like that noise. You're making it sound like besides the sound of the word corn. Oh, boy, what are memories? We wasted our youth. We I think about that a lot where I'm like, my 20s hosting, not too shabby every Friday, like hosting or going to not do shabby for a decade, even worse. If you're just doing a bit, then you're all night. Just be like, I'm staying for two seconds.

Well, that was that was half of my 20s. The other half is hosting. Anyways, let's let's get into another. You were talking about how England has a lot of May old things. Let's talk about another May old spot that we went to. Oh, they don't mess around with the Mayo on at Jimmy John's, they slather it on. So Lauren, I the research I did into Jimmy John's is it started in Illinois and you're from. Oh, did it?

It did. Yeah, that's that's a. I really felt like I got so excited. I was so late, but I felt excited because it always felt like it was a local kind of vibe to it. I don't know where did it start? Do you have the city like a Springfield, Illinois? I'll have to look up what city is, but you're from Evanston. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we had Jimmy John's and we loved it so much. My whole family. Well, you know, I won't I won't speak for my parents. I don't remember them really eating it, but my brother and I are huge fans. And how often was that a thing you'd get when you were a kid? Only every so often. I feel like it was I was a little bit late to my love of sandwiches. So I would say, like, definitely in high school, I got into well, pot bellies, which I was talking about yesterday,

yeah, which is a great sandwich chain. And now they have it in like it's only in a few places. It's like Illinois, Indiana, New York. I don't know where else, but it hasn't come out here yet. And I'm really sad about it. But Jimmy John's is like a poor man's pot in some way, right? Because it's a coal. I mean, usually cold.

I think they might do some hot sandwiches, but pot bellies is a hot sandwich. It's really good. But yeah, we'd eat it like, you know, every once in a while. It's kind of and it was a fun thing to get delivered because they deliver really fast, they make it really fast, freaky fast delivery. Yes. Sandwich is so fast. You'll freak is another way of they phrase it. I don't want to freak out.

I just want to eat my sandwich. I don't like that quote. But yeah, it's really good, though. It's great to like if you have to run and grab something, you run and you'll be out in two seconds with your sandwich. I was amazed because the two of us went yesterday and that was the first time I'd ever been to Jimmy John's. I was amazed by how quickly it was.

Yeah, yeah. Like it was like quicker than if you just order a regular coffee at Starbucks and then they've got it for you like it was like right away. I feel like the second the sandwich makers here, your order, they're going. Right. Like they don't waste a moment. It's very fast. It's insanely fast. In fact, it should have the name Sonic. It should be called Sonic, right, Nick?

Because it's as fast as Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah, you know what? Sonic and Jimmy John's, you guys should switch names. Yeah, Sonic, Sonic should be known as Jimmy John. That makes more sense because Jimmy John also sounds like a slow person. Like Jimmy John, it sounds like someone's going to take a long time putting this sandwich together. It sounds like a big like a like a cowboy hat.

Yes, the good old boy, the good old boy. And that's that's that's a drive in for Sonic. They should they should swap names, right? If you've got any more restaurants that should that should swap names. The hashtag Mitch switch, bring back the Mitch switch. I love it. Yeah. No, I here's the deal. Because I love you and I feel bad because I might go at Jimmy John's.

I want you to let me tell you, Jimmy John's is like really polarizing. I think some people fucking hate Jimmy John's and I have like I have many friends who all be like, try Jimmy John's and they're like, I don't like it. So it is like I think it's partly because I ate it when I was younger. I did think that this was going to happen. So yes. So here I'm ready for it. Here's here's the deal with Jimmy John's.

And I found out that a lot of people find out about Jimmy John's this way. They go to college because Jimmy John's are big in college town. Yes. And they hear Jimmy John's is awesome. And from some people, some people love it. And then they go to Jimmy John's and they're like, this is an awesome. This kind of sucks. Yeah. And my experience was kind of like that. We're in college like you got to go to Jimmy John's.

Right. And I Quincy has some great local sandwich shops. We've talked about this. East Coast like there's a ton of just like sandwiches and subs that you can get on the East Coast and in the Midwest is similar. Yes. And there are so many that are way better. And I will say, yes, for sure. I agree with you on that. I mean, Chicago is like you got.

Yeah. You got here. Like we have like which which which I like. And Ike's just opened up here, which is like a San Francisco. Oh, yeah. It's really good sandwiches. And they have like a million combinations you can get. So I think sandwiches might be my favorite. I love I love really I mean, like pizza is my number one. I love pizza.

But sandwiches are I love a great same a good sandwich. It's such a broad category. It encompasses so much. I have a friend who says I don't like sandwiches and I'm like, what do you mean? Like there could be almost anything. And then we wild horses went to Disneyland on Monday and we were like standing around eating our lunch. We got these like kebabs.

We were like, we start talking about pizza and we're like, oh my God, I love pizza. It's so good. And we're having this like really like vague, obvious conversation about pizza. We're like, it's so great because you can get it delivered. And like, it just comes to your door and they're like, yeah, and then you put it in the fridge on the next day. It's even better. And like, but it was all like the most obvious shit anyone's ever thought about pizza.

It took us like five minutes. Then we were like, what are we saying? Yeah, it's not interesting. You guys are having like you guys are having like a more high braille version of Doughboy's that is it was it was definitely funnier. One hundred percent like a crowd gathered like kids were like, I don't want to ride the ride. I want to I want to listen to this conversation.

What did you get those kebabs from the Bengal barbecue? Yeah, it's the best place to eat in Disneyland, in my opinion. That place is great. It's like healthy and good and feels like you feel good after. Like there are so many places at Disneyland where you feel like shit. Right. It's one of the places where you can just get like protein. Yeah, pizza port is just like that.

That's just a rock in your stomach, especially before like pizza bar. Right. It really does. So gross. And it's right by those those Tomorrowland bathrooms to me are like my least favorite bathrooms in the park. Yeah, they're really heavily trafficked and just really pizza port is also really funny because like it's the space like that's like you like the spaceship will pull up to pizza port. But like, is that what it means?

Like is that what it is from Toy Story? That was my understanding. Oh, it's from Toy Story. I don't know. Well, they they go to us. That's where I think they get those those aliens in Toy Story because I think that the port was before that. But maybe I wasn't like, no, that's so crazy to me because it's next to Space Mountain and I just don't.

I guess I don't know because it feels like a Tomorrowland type thing to be like spacey and like I was like, oh, did Toy Story put that in as like a reference to Disneyland or was it vice versa? I don't know. I could have seen it retconned either way. Like it could have been pizza port could have been in Disneyland and they decided to put it in Toy Story or vice versa. They they changed the name of that pizza stand into pizza port is that but it doesn't have a space theme.

I don't know. I want to say it does theme or something. Like, man, I this, of course, Toy Story, but that seems like so because my it makes more sense that it's so it is still spacey because in the movie, it's like a space place. That's where they get the aliens. Right. It's like all like space themed restaurant they go to. Man, that's it. Yeah, it was it was always confusing because I was always because with pizza port, I was always like, what a like boring choice for Disney.

Right. But it's not like something big like because I just thought it was like like a little like space station. It does feel random. Yeah. Oh, OK. Wow. The mystery unraveled here. I actually truly feel dumb. I I I I I never I never this is actually blowing my mind. Mitch, this is your cereal. But I also feel like they're missing out on a lot of opportunities

to do stuff like that at Disneyland that they don't do, where it's like the other restaurants are not themed from like a movie and it's like it just should be. And I you know, I now it's all it's all Simpsons land. But I like always liked like Doc Brown's fried chicken. I like that he had a universal studio. Universal sucks. Wow. Lapkis. Mitch is standing up. It sucks so bad. Lapkis sucks. It's bad.

You're done in five minutes. I hate it. It is. It is a pretty compact. It's nothing. If you're going to go to Universal, go to Florida. I've never been there, but I bet it's way better. Man, you know what? Yes, it is way better in Florida. That's for sure. But I don't know.

I feel like there's parts of Universal that the mummy ride is fun. Yeah, Jurassic Park ride is fun. You're right. I mean, your case for it being over five minutes is still very small. And that's why they give you like a season pass when you buy one day. They're like, please come again. It sucks. Yeah. It's you know, they're going to make it what new though. They're doing the Nintendo land.

So hopefully that's good. Is that going to be in the the LA? They're supposed to do it in LA. They're going to fit it. They're out of real estate. Yeah, it's really tight over there. They'll destroy a stage because TV doesn't TV and movies don't matter as much anymore. That's true.

Yeah, I think I think that Mario Land is going in there. Harry Potter World, I don't care about. It's so small. Yeah. I was excited to go. I don't even care about Harry Potter and I went and I was like, that's it. All the stores sell the same stuff. It's like five stores and a ride. I waited in line for the ride for a million years and I laughed at how dumb it was the whole time.

Yeah. Yeah. By the way, what do you even so mad? What do you need to visit? Harry Potter Land, when today in America, Voldemort is president. Wow. Oh, my God. He's throwing down. He's all he put his arms back there.

I thought he was going to fly around the room. I mean, that's what we're dealing with, right? It's true. I was going to say to get to get back into the food. Yes. Even though I could talk about how I don't like Harry Potter, I think that Harry Potter World is stupid. But you still defend Universal Studios.

I still kind of defend Universal Studios. For some things. And also, Halloween, Horror Nights are fun. Whatever. That's fun. It's fun. I love pizza and sandwiches. Like, I love pizza.

You know, when people are like, I love pizza and I'm like, I like, like, like, I love it and I need it every. Yeah. It's such a pizza is we were talking about this recently. Pizza has become like a very comedy. It like hasn't pizza become kind of like a like a comedy word again or something? Like, I feel like it kind of is. And I think it's also to it's kind of like a shorthand stops.

But there's kind of a shorthand. I feel like there's there's it's kind of a people of like, like, I'd rather eat pizza than go out. Like, it's that kind of yeah. It's like a Netflix and chill sort of word right now. Yeah, like pizza. Like, yeah, people do act like they love it so much right now. I mean, act like I'm sure they do.

But it does feel like it's like trendy. Yes, it's my ideal three way me, pizza and my couch. And that's what your shirt says. Beneath all the stripes. That's what the stripes are. It's written so tiny. I have I like have an issue with pizza, obviously, and food in general. But sandwiches are our sandwiches are my sandwiches are my

that's like my go to and I want to eat them every day. Yeah, yeah, and I'm not I'm not against the salad. I'm a salad for lunch guy. Weigher, I know you are too. I have a lot of I don't love salads. Who no one loves salad for lunch is a great move. Yeah, I just do that to myself to try to stay healthy. So I would I would do like a Mendo salad every day for lunch.

I would eat a Mendocino salad for lunch every day and be fine. Oh, yeah, that place is good. There's a local chain out here, Mendocino Farms. It's good. But so sandwiches are I love them. I want to eat them every day. Jimmy Johns was just that thing of like it didn't check off any like boxes for me where it was like you got to try this place and then like in college, like you're going out to like like you're spitting or like splurging

on some sort of like delivery or fast food or whatever. And then like the sandwich is just kind of for me, I feel like it's like it's just kind of like it's mayo we and like plain. It's just kind of standard. Super plain. I don't get mayo on mine. But I imagine that they would slather the shit out of it. But I get the plainest thing and I've been and I only eat the same thing every time and I like it.

I like how plain it is. I like that it's like really predictable and like boring. And like it makes me feel good. Like it's kind of like a comfortable sort of boring thing. I don't know. Yes, I will say. I will say that that the Jimmy Johns I had yesterday, I thought was like it was like a heavy seeming sandwich. And I was like, oh, man, I'm going to get the rumblies.

And I had it and then afterwards I was just feeling fine. I was like, it is actually pretty light, even though it's even with that roll that you expect to be so dense. It's filling, but it's not particularly heavy. Yeah. And I was curious because they offered you a different kind of bread or maybe the sandwich you got usually comes with a different price. And I was curious about it because I've never had one there with that bread, like just like regular, I don't know what you call it, just sliced bread or whatever.

Well, yeah. Well, let me let me let me discuss this because when I went. So we went to yesterday, the Pasadena location, I asked for recommendation from the gentleman behind the counter. He suggested the number 17, the ultimate porker. And the names are embarrassing. Yeah. Every every every the entire attitude there is stupid. Yeah. It's corny as hell. And they have bad signs with like catchphrases on them.

And then like the all the names are pretty dorky. Right. You feel weird saying, oh, the ultimate porker. Yeah. Oh, I'm glad there was a number attached. So I didn't have to say that a lot. But the it's wood smoked ham and bacon with lettuce, tomato and mayo. A lot of mayo, they're they're not messing around with that mayo. Very simple, like you were saying, Lapka is very, very plain, but fine. The only thing I was going to say is like the bacon was like subway caliber

bacon, you know, just like cold, like not crisp at all. It just sort of it felt like they'd cooked it last week and it just been sort of sitting in one of those bins. That's gross. In the cold case. Also, if it's like they're like the ultimate porker sandwich. Yeah. Doesn't it just seem like it shouldn't just be like a simple like it doesn't shouldn't that be something a little bit more?

It seems like you should have piles of meat falling out of it. There's going to be some cheese or something. There is there no there is cheese, but it's it's always like there's no like there's no hot sandwiches, I guess is the issue. Yeah, it's all cold cuts and it was a very thin layer of cold because it was like one layer of ham with two strips of bacon on top of it. It wasn't like this big, you know, meaty sandwich that you might be expecting from the name like you were saying.

But it was like the ham was good. I mean, it was pretty it's pretty unremarkable. I did like the bread. The bread was my favorite part. The bread's so good. Yeah, the bread's really. Yeah, I was going to say the bread is good. The bread at Jimmy John's is good. And and and I actually kind of like that it's an eight inch sandwich because it's it doesn't like you can't be a sick asshole and get like a 12.

Like I would always at some place. It's a nice size. Right. Yes. It's a it's a nice go between between between the six inch and a 12 inch. And the bread is it is just it is good. It sometimes is a little oily, which I've experienced, but it's it's just it's solid. And that that is that is that's where I feel like that's why this place is done what it's done and it's been around for so long.

And even why it got famous is that is the bread is great. And there was like a steady stream of people when you're there, I feel like people just kept piling in. Yeah, so it's very popular. I don't know. And that's it's interesting to me because I I I like playing things. So I'm like, but I know that's boring, but I'm still like, that's fine. Like, that's what I like. But I'm surprised when I see like a lot of people come to a place like that

because it feels like something that like I might just be excited by. Well, I think part of the what you're saying about playing that does kind of translate into unobjectionable. Yeah, that's true. If someone's like, let's go to Jimmy John's. In the future, I would never go like no fucking way. I'm not going that fucking place. I'd be like, yeah, OK, right. Sure. You know, like we got to eat fast. There's something for everyone. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

If you're in need of a quick lunch, that's the the quickest lunch. Like it isn't it's insanely fast for what you get. Right. And also, I feel like for people who are like office coordinators or like if you work in production, if you're like, we need to get like 70 sandwiches to feed our staff or whatever, but like within an hour because we're to go in late. Sure. I feel like Jimmy John's like the people must always go there, right? Like it like it just seems like a place where you can get 100 sandwiches

and you could get them in like 20 minutes or whatever. You know, I imagine it's a workplace lunch. Go to whether you're eating out or getting it for for the office. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Lapkus, what was your sandwich that you got your go to? I get the number four. It's called a turkey tom. I hate that name, but I get it without mayo. So it's it's very simple. It's the white bread,

turkey, lettuce, tomato used to have sprouts on it. Sprouts are optional now. I think they had an issue with them in the past where there was some sort of they had to remove them for some reason. I can't remember what it is, but it was like something like, I want to say that there was like a contaminated bat or something was weird where like they had to take it off the menu. Right. And so now they're optional.

And then it also comes with mayo, which I don't get. And I don't get the sprouts because I don't really care about sprouts. What funny sign did they put up after the sprouts got everyone sick? I don't know. I have to think about what that was because I remember they took it was part of the sandwich and they took it off for I feel like there was a real reason. Do they still have sprouts at Jimmy? Yeah, it's optional on that sandwich. I don't know if I'm sure you can get on anything,

but it's like it was part of it's another like add sprouts if you want. I also noticed too that sprouts on the menu has an asterisk next to it, which is probably cause they're like will cause diarrhea. It's like that's really disconcerting for a menu item to have us an asterisk. It does. I wonder what that means. I don't know. It must have something to do with that vague memory I have. I'm also I'm not trying to I'm not trying to create an enemy here. You're one of my favorites. What are you going to say?

I'm not a Sprout fan. I don't want to hear what sprouts either. I don't even know what a Sprout is. What is it? It's like it kind of is like a dirt leaf. Like I don't know. It doesn't really feel like anything. It doesn't add any like fun flavor. Yes. It's like like I feel like sprouts. There's like the closest to like picking up grass and eating it. Yeah. Right. Guys, I like Sprouts. Oh, my God. I think they're fun.

I like they like that a little bit. Sprouts are fun. They're a little bit boring. Yeah, they're so boring. They're the opposite of fun. Yeah, they're boring. I'm a boring guy. Oh, that's true. Do you like like plain white computer paper? Like what like what do you mean?

You like boring things stationary. I also got plain chips. Yes. And I my favorite combination is like taking a bite of a sandwich with like a plain chip. I like to do that. It adds the crunch factor and I got a Sprite. So that was like my simple meal that makes me very happy. Were they Jimmy these Jimmy's chips? Yes. Yes.

Yeah. And I noticed they had a thing that I hadn't seen before called thinnies, which were like a reduced fat version of it. I'm curious if they're any good because I feel like sometimes those kinds of chips can sell. Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. And that because they're because they're cooked in they're like peanut oil cooked chip right there like there.

Yeah, they're like they're what are what are those styles of chips that are like the like canola oil versus. Yeah, sometimes yeah, sometimes it'll be a different oil. But other times it will just be like a baked chip, but I didn't actually investigate the thinnies. I don't know what the technique is. Yeah. I got the jalapeno Jimmy chips, which were they're all Jimmy chips. I don't emphasize Jimmy there.

I got a jalapeno Jimmy chips. That's what I should have said. Well, at that barrier, I got the jalapeno Jimmy Jimmy chips and they had a good amount of heat to them. Never said. Look, we're going to come. We're going to cut in. Hey, Dustin, make a make a note.

We're going to cut in right here. No, we're not. I got the jalapeno Jimmy chips and they were quite good. They were like, you know, they I think those chips have a good texture to them. They're very crunchy, which I like crunch. It's kind of like a Cape Cod Kettle. Yes. Yeah. Kettle. That's thank you. That's those Kettle chip. Yeah, super good. I got I got the Jimmy's chips.

There were only two options besides the the lady. What are there? Finis, Finis, Finis. I had there were the plain, just the regular Jimmy chips. And then there was the barbecue Jimmy chips. I got the barbecue Jimmy chips and they're good. I agree with you, Iger. There I got a combo and I got a Diet Coke with that. And then I got the Italian nightclub is what I got.

Oh, my goodness. Why is it called that? I'm embarrassed. It's embarrassing, because Jersey Shore, everyone. Dumb and so that it comes with ham. I should look up what's in it, right? It was basically ham, like a salami, cheese, lettuce, tomato. You want to bring it up? I'll bring it. Keep keep talking about your experience. I'll bring up the mail on on the on the regular bread.

And then also they put some like Italian dressing on there. Or oil and actually, I think oil and vinegar. I think I was pretty close. But why are you can correct me in a second? I'll verify. So I was like an Italian sub looks like kind of like the like like the the it just kind of looks like the the most interesting thing. I can like one of the more interesting things you can do on that menu. Right. Yeah.

And I look the cold cuts and the the cheese, like they are like quality. There's no doubt. Yeah. Like, I feel like every ingredient in the Jimmy John's sandwich is of quality. And like, like, it's like, oh, they get like fresh produce or whatever. And they and they and the cold cuts seem pretty decent. And the bread is good. So I'm like, why is this like not working or whatever? And it was just like it's too for an Italian sandwich.

It was just like I was eating it and I was so bored. And I noticed that you can get I was I was so extremely bored eating the sandwich. Did you fall asleep? Literally, I mean, it would have looked good for me. A fat guy eating sandwich falling asleep. I was just like it I was so bored with it. I noticed that you could get hot peppers on it. So like halfway through, I just went up and I was like, can I get hot peppers

on this and like gave them my half eaten sandwich? They can't give you a side. I was trying to get a side, but they won't give you a side, which is crazy. That is crazy. Just give a give a side. Also, here's another thing about Jimmy John's. No nap. The napkins are behind the counter. That's really weird. I was just going to ask for them and that.

But the but the benefit of that is that it's less wasteful, less wasteful. That's that's like I feel bad when I like get like 20 napkins or if I order food and they send me like all the utensils and all the stuff and I just throw in the trash, I feel like really bad about that. For sure. I think that's fair. I will say they hand you your sandwiches without handing you a napkin by default. Yes, you have to ask for a napkin. You should get at least one napkin without as a freebie.

You should get you should get a napkin. Yes, it's insane. Also, like a napkin. I feel like if you have napkin dispensers on the table, you're not going to overuse. You know what I mean? Like you leave them there if you don't use like a ton. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, the Italian nightclub. I was so bored, I went up and got those.

Those I got those hot peppers on it, which then did hurt my stomach later that night. Nick, I got a case of the rumbly. As you closely call it. And and I was just like I was eating the sandwich. And then there was like this moment like where I got like to like because here's another here's here's the thing that probably could help Jimmy John's is like the meats folded up so that like you're you're basically like you're kind of like eating the meat off of the sandwich.

Yes. You know what I'm talking about? Like it falls off the side. Yeah, it falls like it. Yes, it comes off the side and like it's coming like it's like coming out this way out where the where the sandwich is sliced. So the the meat is sliding out of it. And then like when I got to the end of the sandwich, I was just like I remember eating like this like the last like few bites of it were like the bread

and like mayo and tomato and it just tastes and it was it just tastes like such like a like fucking like bummer sandwich that you would get like like someone's like mom made you a sandwich. You're like this like sucks, but like I'll eat it. And it's but it was like so mayo-y and like it reminded me of being at like a funeral or something and having like a like a say like the deli like the deli platter they put out for like sandwiches. I'm like I got like a mayo-y bread tomato taste.

Yeah, which like the tomato was to the good fresh produce or whatever. But like maybe cut too thick like there was just too much mayo and tomato going on with it. Well, you know, I think it's the thing. A lot of sandwich places do to cut costs as they bulk up the bread and they throw in a lot of the produce and then they skimp on the meat and cheese because those are their lowest margin items. And I think I think Jimmy John's is an example of that. I like I think you could get a little bit more meat and cheese in the sandwich.

I think you would be happier. Also, I wish they had put more of the like the the vinegar and oil on. But Nick, do you know what is in the sandwich for sure? I do. I have confirmed the ingredients of the number nine Italian nightclub. And I'll tell you when we come back. Oh, my God. What? Mitch, you and I both love to sleep, but we both have a lot of trouble sleeping. That's true. Well, you know what?

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I am ready to reveal them. OK. Mitch, the first ingredient. Real Genoa salami. Real. Yes. Wait, I was I did I say salami? I think you did. Yeah. Yes. Next, Italian cappicola. Fuck. Smoked ham and provolone cheese.

Yes. And then after that is all the veggies. And they they have on the menu. You have to order hot pepper. You have to order hot peppers. Just ask. And they wrote have to as H-A-V apostrophe. T-A. No, no one's ever done that. I know. I've never seen it. Now, it's either have to or have to or you gotta.

Yeah. Have to have to. I'm annoyed by that. I wish I had known that. But I don't know if it says that on the board. I will have to order. I mean, maybe it does say that and I saw it and subconsciously was just mad and didn't get them. But they they did help.

I'll say that much. I bet. Yeah. They were needed because it was it was a fucking snooze town sandwich. So they took your sandwich with bites in it, put it down on the counter where they prepare people sandwiches. Some guy was holding it the whole time float like in midair because they were making another. OK, OK. Why couldn't they just give me a sigh? I'm reasonably mad about that. Yeah, that's actually more hygienic.

Yeah, that's crazy. I was I was taking a few bites of that sandwich. I was looking around. I saw Nemo and Kirby. You get what I'm you get what I'm getting at Weigar. But because you're in Dreamland. I was in Dreamland because I was so fucking bored. Wow. I actually get it now.

Well, I think I think you were about to be like, you're a fucking loser. I was one. I was just like trying to make up what you could possibly mean. And I came up with a bunch of weird shit, but none of it was right. But you're eating the sandwich and met a night and King Dedede. You're there. King Dedede. I crossed over with Nemo's and isn't isn't Nemo the wasn't that like a Nintendo game?

Yeah, well, that was a Nintendo game, but it was a classic comic from back in the day. I think one of those really, really first generation comics, maybe comic strip King Dedede. He shook me. He said, well, you've got to wake up. You're sleeping to Jimmy John's. And it was just it was just it was just a boring kind of bummer.

And here's the other two. Because because look, I do. There are good things about Jimmy John's. I get why I know I get why you like it. And I'm kind of frustrated by the place more than. Yeah, it's more of a frustration than than than hating it. My my my last hold up with Jimmy John's is aren't the Jimmy John's guys bad?

Well, here's the thing. Oh, the people. The people are bad, maybe. There are a couple of things I touched on in my intro. Wait, I just remembered some things. Yeah, Guy Fieri. Jimmy John was on an episode of that show. That's their friends. That makes.

Oh, yeah. Don't throw this bag at us. But yeah, go ahead now. What do you do? So Jimmy John, the man. Jimmy John Lieto is how you say his name. Jimmy John Lieto. He's been involved a few things.

He was involved in big game hunting. That was one thing. He was one of those guys who had photos of them. You can find the photos. They're they look pretty bad. It's like him. It's basically him giving the pose we give in our doughboys photos of two thumbs up and smiling.

But he's like in front of a dead elephant. No, he's kind of he's dissing a lot of people when they see our photos, they think that that's what it is. They think you and I combined to make one dead elephant. Oh, no. So he's he's like apologized for that. And he claims he those are from the past. He doesn't do it anymore.

But you know, it is what it is. And then also the company has been involved in some labor practices. They're a little troublesome. The labor stuff I had heard. I never heard about the big game. Just by the big game hunter, the arcade game. Right.

Just get that impulse to kill an endangered animal. I don't know. So disgusting. It's weird. It's very weird. Like you really have like a small dick if you do that. Yeah, that's I got to show my power. You know what?

That's an insult to people out there who might have small dicks. Yeah, small dicks are great, but if you hunt elephants, your dick is not like I can't even see it. You're the manifestation of us. And you claim you have a big one. So there's like a lot going on there. Right, Weiger. Let's stick up for guys with small dicks.

Why are you saying that about this? No reason. Anyways, all right. So here's yes. Jimmy John, the man is maybe not a great guy. That's the case with a lot of these people who are, you know, the stewards of these chains is that just a lot of them, a lot of the people.

And I mean, to be a CEO of this one of these companies, you're probably going to be a bad person. Yes. But I mean, he seems like he might be bad, or maybe that's that was a phase that he's gone through. And if you believe in the concept of redemption, who fucking knows? But in any event, I mean, it's I

I'm on board with obviously, why? Why do why do why do I do that? That makes me just so sad. There are other things to do. I mean, like I do I, you know what? I do like when someone apologizes for it and says, that was wrong. I'll give him that.

But he killed an elephant, my man. Yeah, you have to feel sad watching that. I understand hunting like deer or I don't know, more common animals, more than I understand hunting an animal like that. We're like, it's this like beautiful creature that you could never never get up close to. And then you're watching its eyes like die.

That's like so sad. Yeah, it's look, I'm a meat eater. I eat meat and there's terrible animal practices throughout the country, of course, and in manufacturing food and stuff like that and whatever. But I mean, like killing an elephant is like, it's not really for food. It's no purpose.

What do you do with it then? Yes, exactly the ivory. I don't know. So disgusting. You know, I think they should do. I think they should make some monsters. I want these guys hunt monsters. Yeah, good for the world.

It feels like a cool movie. We should create monsters. Yeah, I think like if you had some sort of like. That sounds cool. If you had like a monster island with the monsters created for people to hunt down. I fucking love this. OK, all right.

I'm going to sell this. Lapkus is attached. I'll be a monster. Kill me. Lapkus. Your career was doing so well. The Wyger. Wait, what am I?

You can be a PA. Oh, sure. Finally, I'm going to fuck up your food order every time. No, I mean, like, but I think like there's there is. I get the impulse that they like, I don't know, like I understand hunting. But yeah, big game hunting is its own thing. But here's what I was going to say about Jimmy John's

as a food place. So the first the first time I went, the ultimate porker. That was my first ever experience. The wood smoked ham and bacon was not particularly impressive. It was just kind of limp. It was fine. I felt like I had to go back. And so I went back today.

You went back today. I went to the Westwood location. I love this. For a second visit. It's almost 10 AM, you weirdo. I had a very early lunch. I love this. And I was the only one in there.

And I went to the Westwood location and I got the number six vegetarian, which is I figured I'd go to the total opposite end of the spectrum. I got the vegetarian on the nine grain bread. Oh, so you got the bread. Yeah, I got the bread, which is provolone avocado spread, cucumber lettuce, tomato, and mayo. And I added sprouts.

Oh, wow. The asterisk sprouts I got on there. I also got a jumbo kosher dill pickle. Does the website show the asterisk and explain it? I don't know what. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with it. I don't I don't understand what the sprout situation is. Asterisk probably goes like, you shouldn't put these

on your sandwich face. Only a dork would pick these. It's proven correct. The provolone was was good. But let me say this, the veggies on it, I thought were great. And I thought there was something to just making a sandwich that was just a veggie sandwich that like really sort of featured the produce and that nine grade bread.

I like their rolls, but that bread I preferred to the roll. I was like, that tastes very fresh. It tastes very healthy. I feel like nine is the sweet spot in terms of number of grains. It was just like very it just had a great like like texture to it. And I was eating I was like, this is a really good veggie

sandwich. This is really filling. This is this feels like the kind of thing I could have with regularity. And I think it up my score of Jimmy John's by quite a bit. Wow. I'm actually can you get that bread with any? I'm sure you could.

You can't know I kind of want to try my classic move with that bread. Give it a shot. It's definitely not as indulgent as the other one. I think probably most people will fit will like the traditional the classic roll more. But I liked it. I was just like this feels like a little bit lighter, a little

bit healthier. And I feel great now. Next time you should tell me when you're going to do these sorts of things. I'll give you a heads up. I don't want to ever be surprised like this ever again. He's pounding his fist. You would not gone again.

Yeah, no fucking way on earth. But I will say this that you guys I'm trying to not I'm trying to push you guys out of my head because I feel like you're my score is going to is is itching towards going up. And I don't want it to go up. Right. So should we get into final thoughts? Let's get to it.

I want to lay the score on it. Yeah. All right, let's we'll do this lap casita of the drill. You're you give your closing argument and your fork rating from one to five forks. We'll start with you. I think Jimmy Johns is a great place to go for like a solid sandwich you know what you're going to get.

It will make you feel good afterwards. I eat plenty of other sandwich places where I will feel sick afterwards and I can't put my finger on why. And this one I never feel bad after or or too full. I also think the environment is always clean and simple. It's true. That's huge. And I like that.

I feel like it's a safe bet. All that said, and I've also only eaten one type of sandwich there my entire life. And I'll never have a different one. Right. All that said, I would give it four forks. Wow, very good score. Yeah, Mitch, I'm going to go.

OK. And I'm going to let you close us out and you are going to just keep us out of your head. Yeah, OK. Ignore me. Commit yourself to that. Tune us out. I had two visits to Jimmy Johns.

These are my two experiences with Jimmy Johns. This is the sum total of my Jimmy Johns experience. And it was what will factor into my score. The first visit, I probably would have come out of there with two, two and a half forks, if I'm being honest. I just felt it was a better than Subway, which isn't saying much. It was just sort of like a very solid sandwich. That was a discussion I wanted to hit on.

Is it better than Subway? I would 100% say it's better than Subway. I would rather have this for sure. I feel better after it than I do after Subway. I feel better after I eat Subway. But here's the thing, Subway, you can really make whatever sandwich you want. Yes, and it can get more interesting.

It can get more interesting. And that's huge to me where I was like, I think Subway is maybe better. But Subway always feels synthetic somehow. Right. It does, it does. I think the meats, I think the ingredients at Subway are much lower quality.

I think the bread is not nearly as good. The bread is not as good. There's a totally different class. And I also I also feel like it's just like a, I just feel so sad to want to eat at Subway. I didn't get that feeling from Jimmy John's. I didn't feel depressed while I was eating this meal. I was like, oh, this is very satisfactory.

So my first visit, I was like, this is slightly better than Subway. My second visit, I was like this sandwich, I really am genuinely enjoying. I think this is really good. And if I got this from a deli, I'd just be like, oh, that's a great veggie sandwich. And I wanted to get it again. I was like, my first visit, I was like, OK,

I went here for the podcast. My second visit, I was like, I want to come back here. Just to eat here. Wow. And I feel like I have to weigh that second impression as heavily as the first. And if I'm averaging these scores, I don't know.

I think I got to go three and a half forks. Damn. Wow. I also got to also mention the jumbo Koyle Shirtail Pickle, which I didn't review, but that was a pretty good pickle. I go ahead, Mitch. Look, you guys got in my head. I see.

I see, I see, I see, I see. Immediately. Mitch, I see all the good parts of Jimmy John's. I get it. The bread is good. Yeah. The produce is good. A little too thick on the tomato. And but like Lapka's hit on, which we didn't talk too much about.

The just the environment is so clean. It's a very nice story. Bright white. It's bright. Yes. I think Subway is so dark and 80s feeling. Yeah, but Subway feels grimy and they have like like a weird like yellow green theme where like the aesthetic of Jimmy John's is is good. It's it's a plus.

It's clean in there. I have some issues, obviously, not giving napkins, not being able to get a side of peppers. And honestly, not being able to like kind of like do what's like because there is a version of Jimmy John's. There's some sort of weird Frankenstein version of Jimmy John's Subway, which is a good good like a place I would like to go instead of a place that I feel like I need to like I'm saying like if you combine Jimmy John's

and Subway and like like you can custom like if you could customize your sandwich more and kind of be more in charge of your sandwich like you are in Subway with Jimmy like with some Jimmy John's stuff, I feel like it would be it would be great in the same way that you are kind of a Frankenstein of Jimmy John and Jared Fogle. He sits like an asshole. But look, they didn't put enough of the the there's too much mayo,

not enough of the of the oil and vinegar on the sandwich. And when I was eating that mayoed tomato with bread sandwich, I'd rather throw that in Jimmy's John. I'd rather throw it in. I'd rather throw it in a fucking toilet in a subway. I'd rather throw it in an actual subway and let the rats eat it or throw it into an actual John as in toilet. Right.

Even with the risk of clogging the thing up and flush it down because I that that's that tomato mayo sandwich experience was so bad and depressing and boring. Yeah. And that's that's my issue with the place of of of like I said, I was in dream world. I can't I it's it's it's just very, very boring. I wish there was more meat. I don't like what what Jimmy John himself seems to do.

I don't like his I don't like his big game hunting. I don't like how he treats his employees. Some of some of the practices they have there. But you guys you guys bump me up a little bit because the meats are quality, the cheese are quality, the produce is quality and the bread is good. It just weirdly just doesn't come together for me. But I bumped up my score.

It was going to be a two, two and a half four. All right. Very respectable. Respectable. It's fair. Jimmy John's, though, it's more frustrating. It's one of those frustrating places. Sure. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Yeah, I was really I was really surprised by how much I like that nine grain bread and that veggie sandwich

after that first experience, which was kind of meh. Yeah, that's I was like, this is I like I just had this. I this would be this might be a four forker. Him. Yeah. Jimmy John's. An interesting place. We might have a revisit this at some point. We might have to revisit it for sure. Have you done like a comparison of different sandwich places?

Because it'd be interesting to do like Jersey Mike's Subway, right? John's Ike's. It's a good idea. This is now property of the Doughboy's podcast. I'm not going to do anything with it. I don't know why I immediately think I have to pretend. I go make a show all about like sandwiches.

If we offered you the Doughboy's podcast, you would say no. Why would I do that? Yeah, why would I adopt this bad format? That's a good point. Yeah, that is a good idea. Maybe that's a maybe a TOC Tournament of Champions 2018. We're not going to do Tournament of Champions again. OK, it's time for a roundup.

That was that was our review of Jimmy John's. Yeah, I mean, we could just compare. We could just compare. We could just compare sandwich places. Yeah, maybe some sandwich power rankings. We have more sandwich chains to review, too. We've never done Quiznos. We haven't done a lot.

Really? Never done it. We did this weird thing where we were trying. I feel like we were trying not to hit like a bunch of places. Like the obvious ones, the obvious ones for a long time. And now it's like we're almost at 100 episodes. We haven't done like a shit ton of places like just normal. See, I think I even like Quiznos, more Quiznos and Subway more than Jimmy John's.

Prime Quiznos was pretty good. Quiznos really went downhill. Quiznos, Quiznos went down. Yeah, there was a point where I was like, Quiznos is great. You had it all about the bread. I have had all about the bread. I'm not crazy about it. Really? Yeah. Why?

I'm not all about the bread. He's like, it's all about the bread. That's so stupid. You don't like think about think about the godmother about at all about the bread and how much better that is than Jimmy John's Italian nightclub. Like it's it's a thousand times better. But I mean, like your that's an apples and oranges situation.

We're talking about a local sandwich shop in West Hollywood. That's kind of like a chain almost, isn't it? I don't know if there's more than one apple, all about the bread. All right. In any event, that was our review of Jimmy John's. It's time for a roundup of Holiday Indulgences. It's an Easter edition of Season's Eatings. God, it's Easter, for God's sake.

Everyone, check your phones as Weigur plays Dondest Santa Claus. That's, of course, the theme song of Season's Eatings. Gustur's cover of Mama Cita Dondestas Santa Claus. Dondestas Santa Claus. All right, so we've got a few different Easter treats here. We've got and I'm going to round them up. And you guys, I tasted some of these beforehand.

I might have another bite of these, but you guys feel free to dig into these as we're going. So we've got a few different ones. We've got, first off, you guys are probably familiar with the with the Reese's eggs. They've now got a thing, the Reister Bunnies, which is a bunny shaped version of the classic Reese's peanut butter egg. We also have, speaking of the egg department, some Twix eggs here. OK, and these are like the caramel variant of Twix, which I think is the only real variant that exists anymore.

We've also got some a couple of eggs. We've got these Cadbury chocolate cream eggs. So again, you know, like the regular, I don't know how long the regular cream eggs have been around or I'm sorry, I don't know how those have been around for a while. I don't know at what point the chocolate cream eggs came on the scene, but this is the new version. I mean, this isn't their first year. Yeah, I feel like I've seen them, but I haven't had them before now.

And then we've also got some sour cherry peeps, peeps, the familiar candy from this kind of year. This has sort of a sour sour coating, sort of like a sour patch kids. And then also my wife Natalie picked up some Oreo peeps at Target. She went on a wild goose hunt, was able to track them down. And these are the the golden golden Oreos with a marshmallow peeps flavor cream, kind of a pink flavor cream. Thank you to Natalie. That was very nice.

Yeah, this is so fucking good. Which one are you now? Reister Bunny amazing. Reister Bunny is great. It's basically like a like a it's more like a milk, like a solid milk chocolate Easter Bunny, but then it has the really soft peanut butter inside. So it's not really like a peanut butter cup at all.

Yeah, but it's got a great chocolate to peanut butter ratio. It's just perfect. It's really good. Reese's has done it again. I mean, they're always they're always so good. Right. It is. Here's the thing. I do like I do like the eggs a little bit more because I like how they're like big and soft. I love the eggs.

Sure. And these are like like Lapis are saying these are a little bit more like they're kind of hard. They're like a hard chocolate bar, but interesting and different for Reese's. I feel like kids would love these if you get to eat this little bunny man. It's awesome.

And then we've also got the which ones you what are the ones you guys are going to do? This is the Twix egg. All right. It's really good. It is good. It's really fun. Like I think I like the shape of it. It's it's like exciting to have

Twix flavors coming at you in a different shape. I don't think I've ever experienced it. Right. Not in a bar form. It's good. Yeah, really down with it. Yeah, I think it's, you know, if you like Twix, you're going to like the Twix egg. I like it. I like it.

Yeah, it's basically very parallel. It's very parallel to a Twix. Here's what I'll say. Is that Twix? I like Twix. They're just kind of like a more boring. But Snickers are the more fun. Like they're Snickers. Sure. They have Snickers eggs.

And I like the Snickers eggs because it gives it like a little bit like the consistency is different. And it's fun when you get the Snickers egg. The Twix egg is like it's basically just a Twix. It's like there's not there's not too much different. We're like where I feel like when you get the Reese's egg or if you get the Snickers egg,

it like it kind of changes the candy slightly. Yeah. And then and the Twix egg just seems so much like the regular Twix bar that it's hard to tell the difference. Yeah, exactly. Because they're simpler anyways. But it's just the novelty of the shape that it's really not delivering anything else

from a flavor or texture standpoint. We both you've tried the you've tried. I just tried the Cadbury chocolate cream egg and it's good, but I feel like I need to be high to eat this. It's like too much, but it's good. It's very it's just so much chocolate inside. Do you like the Cadbury cream egg, the regular one? I kind of do, but I have to like I can't eat all the cream.

Right. And I also can only have like one a year. I feel like disgusting. There's so and so sugary. Like I love sugar, but it's so much. I like that the chocolate cream egg. But and I like like I like the initial days of chocolate. But then like the aftertaste of the chocolate is kind of weird. It's not as good.

I know, and these other ones are better chocolate, it feels like. Yeah. Right. The the chocolate filling is a little it reminds me of the inside of like a homerun pie, like one of those chocolate pies you get from a from the grocery store. Is that kind of chocolate? Yeah. Yeah. It's not like it doesn't doesn't taste great like you were saying. And I love the the Cadbury cream egg.

I would not want this over a Cadbury cream egg. I don't know if I would. I don't know if I mean, I do like chocolate up. But I don't know if I would. I can't. But you know what? I'm not sure we might have to do a side by side taste. Yeah. Should we should we try a sour cherry? OK, yeah.

This one kind of afraid about afraid of you said it smelled like medicine. It does. It smells like cherry medicine, which made me look my lips. I love medicine. I don't I don't love peeps to begin with. Me neither. I feel like peeps are kind of gross and weird. Peeps are peeps are not great. Here, here, here's the other. This sucks.

Yeah, I really did not like. Oh, this sucks. You're making such a disgusted face for sure. Oh, it's so sick and it's like hitting me. Yeah. No, I don't want any more. Hmm. Oh, what do you think, Mitch? You like it?

I'm not as hard on it as you guys. Right. It's not. Here's what I'll say. I think it might be one of the better peeps just because there's like some of the other sour. Yeah, there's something to it. The sour is a huge kick after that. Peeps are like, I get it.

Peeps just go well in like Easter baskets for kids. It makes sense to have little peeps. Yeah, the sour is it's not great. It's troubling. It doesn't feel Easter either. Here's what takes me out of the season. Creepy. Here's here's what else. I mean, I do think I like it better than most peeps because peeps are boring

and suck, but here here's what I'll say. What I don't like. I don't like the culture of sour. Whoa. I like strongly disagree. You started sour candy. I love sour candy. I'm I like sour candy.

OK, I don't like like the thing of like, I don't like like it's like shout like I don't like sour version of something that's not usually sour. Yes, I mean, like when they try to sour things up, but also I just don't like like the like the like when people like commercials for sour things. The way it's so like weird, like it's like weird skateboarding. Shit. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, it always feels like like it's like creepy crawlers or something. Remember those commercials where it's like, yeah, it feels like it's like

in your face, right? Yeah, it's it's really cheesy how they always market sour things. Yeah, so I'm not into the culture of sour. That makes sense. But I like so I like I like sour patch kids. Sour patch kids do, though, are I'm more of a gummy bears fan, like like a eating sour patch kids like can be I feel like it's like if I have a bag of them, I'm like,

after I need to be eating popcorn or something, right popcorn. And no, no, I really was happy to witness that. You're going to be self conscious and correct yourself in your pronunciation. I heard someone else say popcorn recently. Fuck, I wish I could remember who it is. It might come to me later. I'm not alone on this. I'm not. You're not. You're not.

I've heard it from other people. And also don't talk down to me, Wiger. I'm not talking down to be ashamed of your how you can't put out. It's I wasn't talking down to you. Guy on Sesame Street. I was trying to reassure you yourself. Be yourself, Christ. Try this rumbo or whatever my name would be.

All right, let's see here. I don't think you'd be allowed near Sesame Street. Hold on. Well, I made those jokes about you. Well, the tables have turned, my friend. OK, wait, peeps, Oreos was now we. Now, hold on a second. You just went hard at peeps lap guess.

And now it seems like this has no fucking connection to a peep as far as I'm concerned. What I'm eating now, there's a pink frosting in between the yellow, like the blondie Oreo cookies, the golden Oreos, which I like more than the regular Oreos. Me too. I like I love the golden Oreos. But this is like at first I was excited and now I don't know. It's just a little much.

It is. It is very marshmallowy. Like it's like I don't know if I if it wasn't pink, I wouldn't identify as peeps. Specifically, I didn't advise. Oh, this is the marshmallow Oreo, which is maybe part of how it succeeds for me. Like I like that that I like that flavor. I was so like I didn't even want to try these

because I find peeps disgusting. And the idea of combining that with a cookie, I just like didn't want to have anything to do with it. But as I was actually eating it, I was like, this is pretty good. This is not bad. I'm going in for round two. I like them. Yeah, I actually I could probably sit there and eat a ton of them if I wasn't paying attention.

Right. But like because I'm really dissecting what I think about it, I'm like, no. But another high food. Yeah, no, if I was high, I'd probably eat the whole fucking box. It's like kind of because they're kind of fun. Do you have a favorite Oreo variety, Lapkus? I actually just like plain, regular, not double stuff. Just regular ones, just classic.

Yeah, my mom, when I was growing up, we always got double stuff. And I was very used to like that double thickness, but I prefer less cream. I ate all my candy. Did you do you like the fins? Have you tried those? I haven't had the fins yet. I think I feel like I need to give them a spin.

Those are good. Now, it's like those Oreo hundred calorie packs where they're like little hexagons. Right. They're good. Oreo is great. We talked about this the other day. Oreo, one of the places that like like when we try to buy these snack or wax or whatever, they consistently have new, weird things always.

Yeah, there's always a new Oreo on the scene. Chips Ahoy, too, does some weird ones. But Oreo really, they that pendulum swung hard from we're only doing classic Oreos and they did that for like 90 years. And now there's like 90 Oreo varieties on the shelves. I think people loved golden ore. I think it worked. Yeah, people liked all the variants they made

and they had more power to them. I love them, too. So should we do a little ranking? Yeah. What should we how should we do this? Should we say maybe we should declare which ones it being Easter? Which one we think will should rise from the grave in three days? I was going to say one is a rotten egg or or this should go in your Easter basket. This is going your Easter basket or the Easter bunny.

Send this to the Easter bunny. But we could say which one will be. I like the religious version. OK, rotten egg will be our least favorite. Our runner up will be in the Easter basket and our winner will be rise from your grave. OK, OK, I'm going to go. I'm going to go rotten egg, that sour cherry peep.

I thought that was fucking disgusting. I didn't want to eat it. I guess I guess rotten egg for me, too, even though I did like it way more than you guys. But I kind of liked all this. I kind of enjoyed all the snacks. Yeah, yeah, the peep was for sure disgusting. Yeah, it's it's I thought it was future I hate it and it's ugly.

Runner up for me, hmm, Easter basket. This is tough. I'm not. I know what's going on. I'm not I'm not necessarily excited about any of these options, like like like jazzed, I mean, I'm not negative about any of them. But I think those Oreo peeps would probably be my Easter basket one. I think I'd rather have that just just edging out the twist, the twix egg. OK, my Easter basket is the twix egg.

I think it's fun. Everyone will enjoy it. It's just kind of a home run, right? In terms of you get what you paid for. Yeah, absolutely. It's delivering on the purpose of the packaging. For me, the peeps Oreo going the Easter basket. Nice. Yeah, I like I actually I enjoy him. But I get what you get. It's the Twix is a classic. Yeah, you can't go wrong.

But I really like I like I like those. Yeah, I like the peeps Oreos. They're they're they're pretty good. Guys, like on the box, the bag says slit appears when open. God, Jesus Christ. Also, look at that peep. Look how like unappealing that peep looks like this pink little blob of a. It looks so gross. The packaging.

The packaging is unappealing. The name peep is disgusting. I really thought I was going to hate these and they're not bad. They're not. They're fine. Doesn't that also make like the cover makes it look like peeps or like a living we really are right. They're fucked up. OK, well, I don't want to I don't want to be like Icarus here.

But I have a feeling that we're all on the same page regarding our number one, our champion here that is going to rise to the grave. And I'm just going to this might be hubris, but I'm just going to say we should say in uniform and unity what it's going to be. I'm going to count down from three to one. Three, two, one. Racer, I forgot its name. What were you what were you saying?

I said I was saying Reese's bunny. I want to argue with you really quickly about the pronunciation of Reese's. People say Reese's, but then I go Reese's pieces at Rhymes. Why would it not be that? I don't think it's Reese's. I think it's Reese's. I would say like 40 percent of the country would call it Reese's. Yeah, it's a regional thing. I think I call it Reese's, but then also if you said it's Reese's.

Wait, what is it? Reese's Reese's. If you said it's Reese's, I'm like, OK, yeah, it's Reese's. You're not like it's Reese's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, fine. Then I won't argue with you. Because if you see R E. If you see R E E S E, because it's possessive, if you see R E E S E, that's the name Reese's Reese's with them. Yeah, Reese's.

Yeah, Reese's. Yeah. So it's Reese's. It's not Reese's. It's not Reese's singular. Yeah, OK. Whatever. It's a fun thing that we all know everyone in America says it different. Nope. And if you're out there saying Reese's, you're wrong. Well, I'm just going to quickly follow up. Yes. I guess Twix takes my third spot in Cabery Egg is the fourth spot.

But but you know what, they're kind of closer than I would think. But Cabery is fine. It's just like a little intense. Give me. I mean, for me, it's always like give me the original over that one. And that for me is it's death now. Yeah, just like why would I want this variant when the original is better? That was Season's Eatings. Just like a restaurant value feedback.

Let's open up the feedback. Daisy Mail comes to us from Rob Strasburg. Rob writes, you guys have talked about bad marketing for chains. But what about any ads or marketing you have liked? My favorite was always the tender, crisp bacon cheddar ranch commercial from Burger King, starring Darius Rucker. He included a little link for this. I'll tweet this link out.

We'll play a little bit of this right now. So you guys can hear a little bit of the song there. Basically, the ads got Darius Rucker and a cowboy get up. And he has kind of turned himself over into a cow in a country Western persona. Now, Darius Rucker was hoodie from Hootie and the Blowfish. I think he doesn't consider himself hootie, but he's hootie. He is. OK, so he is.

He is. He is. He is. He is. He is. Oh, OK. So he is. He's hootie.

Honestly, if anyone's hootie, it's him. But but yeah, he so it's like him and a cowboy get up playing this this tender, crisp bacon cheddar ranch song. And this is one. This is one of Rob's favorites. And Rob, especially as I remember that coming on my senior year of college. I like I know I'm older, but but I like my friend. My shock wasn't at that.

What? Oh, I wasn't saying you were old. No, I think you were responding to my face. I'd be like, I'm older or something. Keep going. Oh, no, I was just like, was it you, too? No, I remember it. Yeah, I was like, it was like this moment where like my buddy, Luke, Luke, Luke Michaels, he was he we'd always he we always sing this song. We were so excited.

Like we thought the commercial was funny. Right. It was like advertising that work. Then we went and got it. We were like, yeah, right. It's not it wasn't that it wasn't that great. It was like it's like it's so so. But I feel like I feel like Burger King was like still a player at that point. Like I feel like they still kind of had they were still in the game.

Are they dead now? It feels like such a dead chain. I mean, they're not exciting. They've tried they've tried a few things. But I think like they're I think they're still very big. I think they're still a top five chain in North America, maybe even worldwide. They're like a big, dominant chain. But just like they're I think that just might just be the numbers.

So like they just have enough restaurants where they continue to do that sort of sales volume. Yeah. And I don't feel like anyone's jazzed about Burger King. Yeah, Burger King. But that that was one that I do remember fondly. Yeah, that's a fun ad. It's do you guys have any any other ads or any marketing campaigns you remember from the world of chain restaurants?

Yeah, I always remember Mick World. Yes. And I love that. I still like quote that. Yes. Weigher lost his mic. He was like, it fell off. This is the thing that the stand fell apart. It wasn't that the mic fell off of the stand. The stand part actually fell off.

Mick World. Mick World was a big one. Yeah, Mick World. Hey, it could happen, I believe. Hey, it could happen. Mick World. Yeah. And like what was what was fun about Mick World?

Like it was like kids imagining like whatever future or whatever. Yeah, something weird happening. Whatever. Yeah. And then that and then that changed into Bada Bada Bada Bada. I'm loving it. Justin Timberlake. Yeah. Which I feel like was was they still kind of don't they still sometimes do

I'm loving it a little bit or is that is that completely phased out now? I just learned that he was the person who originated that song. Yeah, he like he like wrote it, right? But like how rich? I mean, like, of course he's super rich. But like that feels like even like more important than an album. Like that's playing everywhere and everyone's head forever. Yes. Guys, I hate to be.

I'm always saying I hate to be. I love to do this. I'm going to debunk what you just said. What the fuck, Weigher? It was not just in Timberlake. It was Pusha T behind the I'm. But you know what that but Timberlake, didn't he sing it? He recorded a song called I'm Lovin' It and he sang it.

McDonald's paid him to sing it. But the song was actually composed by Pusha T. And Pusha T is good. That makes sense that it's good that it's like that it's memorable. Right. Interesting. Yeah. But yeah, fun fact. Hey, yeah, cool. Thanks for writing on a parade.

I was so excited about that information I recently learned. As far as campaigns that I remember that I like, you know, I've talked about the meaty cheesy boys from Jack in the Box before. It was a fun thing that they did. I feel like a lot of Jack in the Box's advertising is pretty fun. Sometimes it's trying a little too hard, but I kind of like just sort of the randomness of Jack Box, their CEO. But I also like the another one I like is I like the little Caesar ads.

Little Caesar's does some quirky. Yeah, they do quirky oddball ads. Yeah, they had their little pizza pizza mascot for a while. He's fun. Little Caesar. Yeah. Yeah. And then also, too, they just have these ones that are just sort of like tonally weird that just involve just very oddball. I remember one where it was like a pantomime horse that was like the two guys in a pantomime horse who were running to Little Caesar's.

And then it cuts to stock footage of like a horse running through the woods. And then it cuts to the Little Caesar's and the two guys, the pantomime horse are just wheezing because they've arrived. And it's like this is so absurd. And this is that's old. It's an older. This is a fairly recent ad. Oh, OK. I'm doing a bad job of describing.

It doesn't sound interesting the way described it. But I like I remember watching him is like, oh, that's creative. And that's a kind of I wouldn't. I haven't seen a lot of ads like that. As two people will work in comedy. Yeah. Do you two feel like how do you how do you feel about funny commercials? Because a lot of the times they will bug me. Yeah, they can be annoying.

I think a lot of commercials are really just horrible. And also I hate when like I am so used to not watching them now because I can fast forward through anything or like watch on different platforms that like I do get like pretty quickly annoyed with the commercial. Right. But I don't hate a funny commercial. If it's actually funny, then I'm like thrilled. But I feel like somebody are trying where it's like so bad and you're like, sucks. I mean, the weird thing that happened

from that I feel like is like they just all became funny. Yeah, everything is expected. Like I feel like everyone's got to improvise in their commercial and make it unique or something. Yeah, it is a little bit over the top. And then when they're not funny, they're that Kendall Jenner. That was the worst thing we're seeing. I'm as far as funny ads go.

Yeah, that was that was bananas. As far as ads go, like funny ads, I feel like for me, I kind of got worn out about the past few years when sort of ads started embracing like Internet randomness as sort of like, oh, we're going to do some random shit. And, you know, just like like what? Scott Bacchula writing a segue. Like just like, like, all right, fuck off.

I'm just making a jerk off motion in my head every time I'm seeing one of these ads that's just sort of like a bunch of like, whoa, a zombie puking a rainbow, you know, it's just like Jesus Christ. By the way, yeah, you probably get these offers to write these to punch up these jobs all at a time, don't you? The like commercial, shitty commercial jobs. I've worked on a number of like shitty commercials and six sell out. Son of a bitch. Hey, man, commercials.

Sure. Oh, bitch loser. So am I. They won't offer them to me. Lapkus, you were in. You were in a great Snickers ad with Joe Pesci. And Don Rickles. And Don Rickles. Yeah, I was. That was very cool.

But I was also in a Jack in the Box commercial years ago, which was all like they started making breakfast all day. Right. And so the commercial was like people crying to like operatic kind of music in slow motion that their fast food place doesn't have breakfast. So there's a commercial out there. I'm like, yeah. Do you were there?

Was there anything interesting that happened with Rickles or was he was he was very funny? He was he was he came in making fun of everyone like exactly what you would want. Like I don't remember. I'm really bad at remembering like specifics to things that have happened to me. I don't know why, but he'll he came in like I think he called like one guy with a beard called a Moses like kind of just like start like making fun of everyone. And but then also it's kind of sad because he was pretty old.

So like we had to hold these red solo cups and like he couldn't like keep it in a frame because his hand would just be like shaking and going lower. So it was like a huge thing to keep his cup up. And then he sat between like every any moment he could sit. He was sitting, which I also think is fine. I mean, he was very old and Joe Pesci was basically directing and even though he wasn't the director, but he was like really taking control of the commercial.

And that was pretty interesting. That's so cool, man. Pesci. Yeah, it was cool to see him. That is that is fun to look at that Snickers commercial. He'd be like, oh, that's that was Pesci's vision. He's really taken charge. Oh, and I remember that I kind of cried when Don Rickles walked in the room, even though I didn't really like I didn't think I knew who he was.

But like when I knew he was going to be in the commercial and then I got like welled up, I was like, oh, it's that guy, which is so like not someone who knows anything, but whatever. I felt special. Oh, that's awesome. That is very cool. Rest in peace to Don. Rest in peace, Rickles.

Yeah. And Joe Pesci, I'm excited to see the his return in the. Is it the Irishman or something? I don't know what the movie is called. I know it's a movie that's coming up for Netflix, I think. Wow, which is crazy. It's a Netflix movie. Netflix is how did Netflix snag both Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese

and Mike Mitchell of Netflix's love? Hey, baby. Hey, you're great on that show. Oh, thank you. You're so good on it. I love it. I then you're like you're my favorite part. Lapka says very that is very that is very nice of you to say.

Yeah, you're you're one of the funniest and we love having you here. You're great. God bless you. You're great in everything you do. Thanks. What was what was the movie you were doing in London? Did you say it? Oh, no, it's Homes and Watson.

It's with Will Ferrell and John C. Riley. Oh, holy shit. Very cool. Oh, that's really fun. It's it's really funny. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm excited.

That's cool. Lapkas will be working. Well, she's not going to be working with Joe Pesci one day. I think this will be his last movie. It's already has worked. She already has worked with Joe Pesci. Yeah, whatever. You're the best lap.

Thank you. I don't I don't take compliments well, but thank you very much. No, this was so fun. Thank you for having me. Do you have anything you want to plug? Yeah, I'll plug my podcast with special guest Lauren Lapkas. You can listen to that on the Ear Wolf Network on iTunes or whatever. So that's it and crashing.

But maybe this will be over. It'll be over by then. So I don't know. Watch it on HBO. Watch it on HBO. You can watch it anytime. Catch up and listen to the podcast. It's hilarious.

One of the funniest people we could have. One of the best. Thanks, guys. Laura Lapkas, thanks for being here and you out there. If you have a question or comment with the world chain restaurants, you can email us at dobuyspodcasts.gmail.com to get the dobuys double or weekly bonus episodes described at patreon.com slash dobuys Mike Mitchell. Well, weird.

I know I was like, I was going to like, I always call you Mitch. Even I don't know why I said it landed on Mike right there. I was trying to say Mike Mitchell. It felt like like heart warming. I thought you were going to say something. Not like I love you. We'll be back next week. I don't know how I would end after he said that.

I just want to end things in a very awkward note. No, I was trying to say Mike Mitchell, but then I stopped on the mic. It's just a fucking awkward pause. We're going to edit this out. No, no, it's staying. We're getting this. We're getting rid of this earlier. Also, too, I said that thing I was trying to say correctly.

What was I trying to say earlier? I don't know. Don't try to think it. Jimmy John, something. Yeah, we're keeping it in, you fool. Jimmy Chips, the jalapeno Jimmy Chips. Jalapeno Jimmy Chips. Is that you recording it to be used?

We're going to splice that in. Jalapeno Jimmy Chips. Dustin's a wizard. Don't figure that out. It's good that you spliced it in me saying it in the middle of your sentence. Jalapeno Jimmy Chips. Dustin's nodding at me. He's giving me a big thumbs up.

We're going to do it. You're like, you're Don Rickles at 90 was still at it more together than you. And how old are you? 40. I'm not 40. I mean, there's another one being 40. Happy 40th birthday to the Spirtleman again. Nothing wrong with it. Happy 40th Spirtleman.

But I'm 36. Okay. Take it home, Weiger. That'll do it for this episode of Doe Boys. Till next time for the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. See ya.