Doughboys - Rockaroundtheclockdoughberfest: IHOP 4 with Dan Ahdoot
Episode Date: October 1, 2020Rockaroundtheclockdoughberfest begins! Dan Ahdoot (Cobra Kai, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Green Eggs & Dan) joins the 'boys to kick off a month of 24-hour chains with a revisit of IHOP. Plus, a p...ancake edition of Family Food.Sources for this week's intro: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/bill-haley-rock-around-the-clock-worlds-first-rock-anthemhttps://www.history-of-rock.com/haley.htmhttps://www.pastemagazine.com/food/the-history-of-the-american-diner/#:~:text=The%20diner%20is%20an%20icon,different%20nationalities%20using%20different%20materials.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-05-fi-1603-story.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/business/ihop-history/index.htmlhttps://www.ihop.com/en/about-ihop/historyAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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1, 2, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, rock. 5, 6, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, rock. 9, 10, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock. We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
So begins the song Rock Around the Clock, a mega hit recorded and released in 1954 by Bill Haley and his Comets, the band's name of knowing Wink at periodic earth visitor Haley's Comet.
Though largely forgotten, Bill Haley's group was a force in the early popularization of the music genre in the US.
The website history of rock characterizes their first big single as, quote,
the song that introduced rock and roll to white America, end quote, and their cover of shake, rattle and roll includes what some consider to be rock's first guitar solo.
And so in the 50s throwback sitcom Happy Days premiered in 1974, it was fitting that Rock Around the Clock would serve as the theme song for its first season, discarded for a unique theme for later seasons.
And it was similarly fitting that a primary setting for Happy Days would be Arnold's, a diner.
A product largely of the booming post-World War II economy, standalone diners and diner chains popped up around the country alongside interstate highways and tract housing,
serving patrons around the clock from early morning laborers to late night drunken revelers and becoming a favorite hangout of teenagers.
In 1958, a quartet of investors, Alan Jerry Lappin and Alan Trudy Callis, jumped on board the diner trend, opening a sit-down restaurant in Toluca Lake, California,
the same San Fernando Valley neighborhood as diner chain pioneer Bob's Big Boy.
With a distinct blue A-frame and a focus on breakfast favorites, the business was franchising just two short years after launch,
and as it expanded over the decades, came to found or acquire other prominent brands such as Orange Julius and Applebee's,
today with over 1,800 worldwide locations, living up to its international moniker.
Under normal circumstances, Rock Around the Clock could very well describe this now-acronymed pancake proffers 24 hours of operation.
This week on Doe Boys, we begin Rock Around the Clock Doberfest, our month-long tour of 24-hour chains, as we return to IHOP.
Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, The Big Whopper, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.
Still the Big Bopper, that was courtesy of Brian Belko, who writes,
Hello, Weiger!
My brother Mark was at the party where Mitch brought all those McDonald's burgers and said everyone loved it, much love from the Belkos in SoCal and Sweden,
roastspoonman at gmail.com.
Wait, was that Mark Belko?
I mean, he says my brother Mark, it's from Brian Belko, and he says my brother Mark.
One might infer that it's Mark Belko.
Mark worked on The Birthday Boys.
Wow.
TV show.
He says the McDonald's burgers were a hit.
What's up, Belkos? That's crazy. I love it. What's up, guys?
That's wild. I was about to say Belko.
Shout out the Belkos.
I was going to say Belko, hell no, but hell yeah.
They're your friends. They're your colleagues.
You only roast the ones you love, Mitch, and everyone loves you.
Uh, that's not true.
Wags, howdy-how to Spoon Nation.
Um, look, we got a lot to talk about.
It's Rock Around the Clocktoberfest, Wags.
You said it wrong.
How did I say it wrong?
You said tober, it's dober.
God damn it.
Rock Around the Clocktoberfest, Wiger. How's that?
That's right, Mitch.
Very exciting.
Or Rattk for short.
Rattk.
Rattk.
Rattk.
Rattk.
Rattk.
Rattkada.
There's a D in there.
I'm doing everything before dober.
Look.
Rattkada.
There's something wrong with you today.
There's something wrong with you today.
There's something wrong with you today.
There's not, I regret even trying to tell you this.
I see you like thinking about Rattk too much.
The wheels are spinning.
And I don't like it.
I guess bring an acronym on me.
I want to pronounce it.
Rattk.
Rattk.
Rattkada.
I think the D and B have to be in there.
Alright, fine.
Maybe the F.
Rattkada.
Alright, here's the drop.
Rattkada.
Rattkada.
Rattkada.
Rattkada.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
After listening to Doughboys in the car,
my almost three year old
became very fond of saying
Rattkada and no peeking.
I helped him add Spoonman to that vocabulary.
Wow.
It just says 36 second drop
with my two year old son
on vocals is the email title.
And it comes from Ben.
Ben?
What a cute little kid.
We've reported you to Child Services, Ben.
That's fucked up.
That is a cute kid.
That's a good drop.
Thanks, Ben.
What was the son's name?
The son's name is Rattk.
Rattkba.
Wow. Amazing coincidence.
Well, speaking of rock
around the clock dober fest,
we got to introduce our guest,
but I'm just going to quickly say this.
Here's the deal.
We're going to a bunch of chain restaurants
that are open 24 hours a day.
Right? Yes.
You say your ideas never get in the show.
You get theme months all over the place.
Yeah, I'm the king.
I'm just saying
I want you to acknowledge that I listen to your input
and I incorporate your ideas.
And that this show is both of ours.
It's not my brainchild
that you are just kind of around for.
We both put our hearts and souls
on the show.
When I come here with an idea like Rattkba,
how are you going to turn it down?
It's solid gold.
So anyways,
for Rattkba,
here's the deal.
Wags,
I want it to be a lot like Pokemon sun and moon
where you could choose
the night spoon,
as I'm going to be called
this whole month. I'm not the spoon man.
I'm the night spoon, so you're going to get that right.
And then I was going to call you Morning Burger
or Morning Wags.
Okay.
Burger Don, what do you like?
Don, Don works too.
Burger Don? Don Burger?
Don of the Burger? I don't know.
I'll take Don Burger.
You're going to take Don Burger?
Don Burger is pretty good.
Okay, the worst one.
Sounds like a mafia eater.
All right, Don Burger
and Night Spoon.
And so basically,
what we're going to do is we're going to compare,
we're going to go from morning to night
when we talk about our items.
We're going to talk about our morning stuff
and then we're going to get into the night stuff.
And then at the end,
we're going to say who won the day?
Was it morning or was it night?
What do you think of that?
Okay, got it.
So we're rating the chain, but we're also saying
whether they're morning menu or they're night menu
reign supreme. Who won the day?
That's what we're going to say.
Was it morning or night?
And there should be some different theme songs.
We were going to try to do it so that you could
have it be the Night Spoon podcast
or Don Burger,
which is new, brand new.
Podcasts and there would be different intros,
but we're figuring out a way to do it
because we can't split it up into multiple podcasts.
It's just a fucking mess.
But, yeah, this is
where the concept
kind of fell apart. We were going to have multiple downloads.
It's not
out podcasts. I want people to treat it
like Pokemon Sun and Moon. You got to choose one.
Okay?
All right, now let's introduce our guest.
Way too long.
Is he still here? He's here.
He's still here, guys.
I am riveted
by the Rakutika talk.
So,
wow. No one needs to rush this.
Rakutaba
Rakutaba is, I think it's good.
Nick, I smell T-shirt.
Rakutaba.
Why not?
Let's keep this gravy train rolling.
Our guest is a writer, actor and
comedian from Cobra Kai and
Bajillion Dollar Properties and the host of the food
podcast, Green Eggs and Dan.
He's also on the new sitcom, The Crew,
coming soon to Netflix.
Hi, Dan. Guys, I'm
so honored to be on your show.
You have no idea. Thank you so much for having me.
We're very excited.
I don't know if anyone's ever said
they've been honored to be on here, so this is
new for us. Thank you.
I come with the respect that this show
deserves.
I agree with that. Wow.
Thank you, Dan.
Dan, you're in and coming to us
from the city that never sleeps
New York City. I'm actually
in, I'm not in New York City, I'm in Long Island
right now. Wow.
You're in Long Island. I heard New York,
I assume, the city and that's
for me, that is a
that's a West Coasters perspective of New
York State. That's okay. There's more to it than the city.
You know, we shoot this show, The Crew,
in the middle of Long Island
and we had shot seven episodes and then the pandemic
started, so we all left
and we came back. We're the first
show back in production in New York.
Wow. And I
have been living in a hotel
room in the mall,
in the parking lot of a mall
for two months now.
Wow. Dear Lord.
Yeah. What kind of
you know, what kind of vendors,
what kind of restaurants you got at that mall?
Honestly, the mall
has, okay, it has
a Magianos,
which
I think there's one in LA too. I don't know much about
Magianos. It seems like one not to above Olive
Garden, if I'm correct.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I think it's like
it's like a junior prom sort of
places for special occasions.
They've got, I think, family stylers. We did,
Mitch, we reviewed Magianos.
What junior proms have you been going to lately?
Why?
Yeah, that was a very,
I mean, I was into that reference, but
I see a lot of people flagging that one.
Um, yeah, we, we,
But yeah, the Magianos, they got family style
family style portions.
But yeah, it is kind of like in that Olive Garden,
Buka de Beppo, I think is the closest analog.
We try to be a little snazzy or a little less, less
kitschy than that.
They're not, they're not, they're not good,
but they're not bad.
They're not like terrible.
We had a lovely time. We had a good time.
I haven't, I actually haven't eaten there.
There's a huge Indian community here, so I've been
getting from a bunch of random Indian
places. Oh wow. Oh wow.
Also that travels well. I feel like
there's a lot of food that doesn't travel well.
I don't know if you guys have ever done a show about this, but there's
there's some foods that just, I don't care how good
they are when they come off the grill, after
they take that trip,
whether in someone's Honda Civic
or the back of their bicycle. Right.
It just doesn't have the same
the same depth of,
but it just doesn't, like a burger to me doesn't travel
very well. 100%.
Yes. You know, the place we're talking
about today also might not travel
that well, but
I still got it the travel way
because I'm not going into restaurants
yet. Yeah, same.
I have no desire, guys.
I have no desire. I'm sorry, and I love
I love my restaurant people out there.
I love you all. I hope you survive this, but like
yeah, I have no desire to be read
the specials of the day through a
fucking face shield. Like, I don't want to
know, like, like you're
wearing gloves, like I'm at a hospital.
Every restaurant just looks like a fancy hospital
cafeteria. Fuck that.
100% agree. It's so grim feeling.
Yeah. And also, you know,
from what I know
from friends
and relatives who work in the
restaurant industry that
it like right now, the worst
people are going out to eat.
Not universally, but like it's mostly
people who are like, you know, very
or not, I don't want to say mostly, but it
is the it's shifted towards people
who are like self-interested
enough to go out during
a pandemic. And so like tips
are lower and, you know,
people are being more abusive to the staff. It's
just like, God, what a fucking shitty environment
to have to work in.
And also, like, you're going to go out for a nice time
and just like, I don't want to watch someone berate a server
and then tip 4%. Yeah.
I don't want to be surrounded by COVID deniers
not just yet. It's just
not quite yet.
I'll still, I'll still order.
I've been loving Postmates actually, like
it's a
this pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for me
because I've just been getting tired.
I'm getting a little tired. I'm like in my
early 40s and I'm like, I just want to stay home
and over in and now it's like I have to
sanctioned by the state. Right.
Right.
Right.
That's like a person that that's like a
like a person that the rest of the world would
want to kill is like the pandemic actually
is pretty good. It's actually came at a good time
for me.
It's pretty good.
I feel like it was burning through pages
of my novel. Nick, we've
talked about this. It's that sort of thing of
you know, if you were
if you go out to eat twice
a week or whatever
or once a week or whatever, make
that night a pickup night and go to your favorite
restaurant and go pick it up and
and go there and
and grab it and get out of there. You know what I mean?
That's a way we can still support.
That's all I've dared to do.
It's sad. I agree. I want
to go back to restaurants that the
I feel for everyone who owns a restaurant.
It's just a what a what a fucking
what a terrible year, terrible
year. Yeah, or works at a restaurant.
Yeah, as if it's not enough of a grind
to keep a restaurant afloat
without a pandemic. You know what I mean?
Like their profit margins are very, very
slim and then this shit
happens. It's it's it's it's awful.
We why
brand breaking choose
or actually
the new hashtag we're using for this stuff tragic
choose
sizzler. Yeah, sizzler declare bankruptcy
sizzler.
Do we have have we had a more
fun time at a
one of the best times we ever had on the podcast
for real with Marissa and David, our friends
to the
sizzler and at water. There's a legendary
sizzler in Koreatown, which is shuttering.
You know, a lot of times these chains file for bankruptcy
protection. They're going to stick around in some
capacity, but it just it's it's a bummer
because sizzler I think it offers something
unique that sizzler featured on Anthony
Bourdain. So was it reservations
or it was on one of his shows as a Koreatown
one. Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't even know I didn't
even know sizzler was still still around
guys. I'll I'll be honest. I thought
after I that was
my not my junior
prom, I'd say my middle school prom
probably
no, I haven't been to a sizzler in decades.
I also haven't been to
I hate to be the guy who segues. I don't know if
I can be the guy who segues on your podcast.
Of course, I haven't been to the
restaurant that we chose for
today's episode in
probably two
and a half decades. Wow.
That long.
Yeah. I don't think I've been there since I was
like bar mitzvah. That was like
yeah. Hey, Dan. Hey, Dan.
We got news.
We're going to stop down this episode. We're
actually going to force you to go eat inside
the restaurant. I'm sorry to do this to you.
Oh my god. Could you imagine
that I imagine
it's a it's a it's a higher
ratio of COVID deniers would go to
this restaurant than than any others.
This is
I was the one
where I picked up from they had a
little outdoor area in the parking lot
and just like a like a covered tent and
I you know it's the kind of thing of like I know
people are
people are eager to go out to eat but I'm
like is if you're outdoors but also
in a covered tent what is the ventilation
like in that like isn't
that is that much better than being
indoor I guess it probably is but it still
seems so parallel. Yeah.
I got my I ordered mine off
of Postmates and
I ordered so wait
can we mention the name of the place or we just blue balls
the name of it the whole episode and then at the end
say by the way it was
we know that's that's that's that's usually
when the listeners
all come together this is a big climax moment
when we say yeah you got to leave
them hanging we don't put the the
restaurant in the
in the episode title or anything
we bleep it out when I mentioned in the intro
this podcast it's about
it's about edging this entire podcast is just
well I'll tell you this I ordered
I ordered it I ordered 120 bucks
worth from IHOP Wow
120 bucks worth and
Postmates
young lady brought it to the hotel that
I'm staying in and
I she came up to
my to my room and knocked on the door
I opened it and she saw it's like
a small it's like a small hotel
room and just me and just
the biggest two huge bags
of IHOP and she
almost looked around like this is just for you
you
thank you
God bless her
so living in the hotel right now because
we and we touched on this already but you
know I imagine is as a
as a working actor and stand up
you're touring you're on the road a good amount
like what are your hotel go-tos when
you're when you're on the road
so my I'd say my
on the road fast food
that I you mean just the hotel wise or
the food that I get at the hotel
either I mean yeah hey you know you can
you can handle what you get on the road and also
you want to talk about what you want to do room service wise
that's all that's all well first of all
shout out to the holiday and express I think it's a
wonderful chain
yeah well it counts as a chain that's true
it's a wonderful chain
we'll be we'll be we'll be reviewing
shit like that and I'll be about
I don't want to say year but probably about four months
just desperate for content
reviewing a courtyard Marriott
I I normally
will okay so here's here's my
my fast
I don't know if I even call this fast food
but I think that if you ordered
the southwestern egg rolls
at Chili's
and you put them on a nice plate
and you like made a nice presentation
you served that shit at a
two-star Michelin restaurant people would be like
yeah no this makes sense this is fantastic
like the southwestern
egg roll is so delightful
it's so good it's one of the unsung heroes
of fast food I think
I mean I'm a chicken nugget guy
I'm a big chicken nugget
road guy like McDonald's
and I don't like the fancy
strips that they made because everyone was giving them shit
because there was like weird stuff
and they were like what about this
this actually looks like chicken
no fuck that
I want it to look like a weird
decapitated ear
like
that is the design
I want it's like just perfectly engineered
to fit you know
within my three fingers
you like the little like gray zones
how the nugget has little gray zones
that's the umami man
that's the umami
I
I love McNuggets
Dan have you tried the spicy McNuggets
no I haven't
speaking of breaking chews
guess what
unrelated dough boys I had them
and guess what
I think they should stick around forever
that's all I'll say
wow
there's a mighty hot sauce that comes with them
look
we're gonna review these on a double
I got the uh
Travis Scott meal
yes
I got the Travis Scott meal
just because
it was fun I don't even really know who Travis Scott is
but
I got the Travis Scott
we're at the age where we don't know who a Travis Scott is
yeah
I think he's a very relevant young musician
I think he's a musician as well
Emma's nodding
and he
he dates
Kylie Jenner
is that correct
Emma
yes
Emma is that right
Emma
old fucking assholes
I know
but um
I had the Travis Scott meal it was good but you know
the bacon at McDonald's Wags
it's just they just don't do bacon well
it's just not bacon
it's not their thing but
I got the spicy McNuggets
and I gotta say
I mean we'll talk about it more
but there's a mighty hot
there's a mighty hot sauce that's new
I think you're really gonna like it
explain but the nuggets themselves are spicy
they have an inherent spice
nuggets themselves are spicy yes
but they're very much like the McNuggets
of old like it's they did a great job
of kind of blending
the spiciness into the into the
McNuggets so it's like a dry rub
it's like a dry spice
a dry heat to the
anything for you to just say the word dry rub
you fucking freak
God Nick's giving off creepy vibes
this episode man
first episode
junior prom and then dry rub
I will tell you it does seem like hot chicken
is having a moment hot chicken is having a moment
but you know what I appreciate that
they didn't try to do like Nashville
it is like right it's kind of
buffalo
it's kind of like almost buffalo-y
but just like spicy just a little spicy
it's great but you're talking about I just want to clarify
because you're talking about a mighty hot sauce
but that's not what's on the nuggets
that's the thing on the side it's a dipping sauce
and I gotta tell you
for McDonald's it's got a kick
it's pretty spicy
so basically if you've got you've already got a little bit
of heat with the nuggets but if you want to kick that up a notch
you got that you got that mighty hot sauce
with you or if you want to cool it down you got some ranch
you're gonna be taking a bite you're gonna be going
wooh!
That's what a deal
I'm going to be doing that
I like the barbecue sauce
I think it's fantastic
wow
do you guys hate the barbecue sauce?
no I think that
I was just like
barbecue is one of their better sauces
you guys both said wow
like in harmony
that's what we do
we kind of say wow like
oh really? that's kind of what wow means to us now
which also
oh really is almost too much
it's kind of deserving of a
but then that seems judgy
well wow is way worse
is it worse?
yeah because whom invites conversation
like hmm yeah okay well let me explain
wow is like wow who is this guest that we had
that we brought on today
we're just getting this note like 200 episodes in
so this is from day one
it's saying wow to guests all the time
so Dan your
your note is that wow sounds like
wow you dipshit
that's basically what it is
you know yeah
it made me feel like I wasn't
welcome
it made me feel like I wasn't being heard
no
now you're yelling no with me
and that's
well here's the thing
let's let's going back to crispy chicken
yes this
and I can take it to iHob if we
if we're ready to go there because I'm just pleased
I'm chomping at the bit here
so I feel like
iHob's foray into
chicken has been very interesting because
one of the things that I so they seem to
they underwent some sort of
rebrand right didn't they want to become like
iHob like a burger hub
yes we reviewed iHob
back when they did that stunt
it was not a full rebrand it was
publicity thing
they changed the signage to a couple locations
to be fair we went and then
bugman tricked us into eating big macs
we got pranked by one of
bugman's classic jeeps
but we did have some of the burgers in the end
yes so again
in my $120 worth of stuff
I think I got the biggest variety of stuff
that you could have gotten from iHob
I got again with the wow
Nick sorry sorry
no I'm kidding that was a great wow
yeah I got
the trot and trues
obviously the pancakes I got a couple of different
kinds of pancakes I got the regulars
which came with my breakfast
combo
I got the
now hold on here I gotta interject
yeah
why so we're gonna break it down by morning
tonight or are we gonna get into
it right now too how are you
you guys run the show sorry
I'm uh
why is this usually the quarterback here
he's sitting there silently Dan is chomping
at the bit to get into iHob we can get into
iHob but you know we do have
a little bit of business in terms of how we're going
to break this down I guess
because of the theme month because the theming
of it all Dan this is now a very
contentious episode Nick and I are
we're at each other's throats I don't know
if you can tell but we're at each other's throats right now
well that's my plan
was to divide and conquer you guys
and
the chain is iHob
and we are
going to which we reviewed a number of
times including on our third ever
episode was our first trip to iHob we
reviewed it twice
subsequently so this is actually our fourth trip
and since it is
rock around the clock doberfest
rock rock rock rock
rock we will be
covering both ends of the
menu both breakfast
and lunch slash dinner
now Mitch why don't you take the reigns
why don't you queue be it for once
you sub in
you be backing up cam newton
uh
what's his name I forget
alright you be cam newtons back up
that guy
you're coming in to take over
they just did a piece on him because he's gone
everywhere in the NFL and he's been
uh Hoyer
Brian Hoyer
now let's google and make sure I'm not wrong
um
I don't
I don't quarterback I'm your running
back baby I get in there for a few plays
I'm flashy you're the quarterback
you're flashy
yeah
it's gonna be rumble over the goal line
if I characterize you as flashy
I'm fine I'm a wide receiver how's that
I mean that's even
to me that even
suggests more athleticism yeah I'm
trying to say that I'm athletic okay fine
you're the wide receiver in this weird
podcast version yeah metaphorically
for the podcast he is the athlete
he's the that's true he's very
athletic I'm throwing you
so and you know what that makes sense
because I am throwing you the ball and you're
running with it you're Ryan fits
Patrick if you're a quarterback
who who's that
I'm assuming he's good I'm
gonna surmise he's a quarterback that's all I can
I'm the biggest sport
here
well here's the thing you have a broad
knowledge of sports
I am a sport only when it comes to the NBA
and then if you want to count professional
wrestling
that's like that's that's my domain
but at the NFL I don't follow
now now Dan are you a fan of any sports
do you watch any sports at all
I am an
MMA fan
I enjoy the martial arts wow
how'd you get into that
I do jujitsu
and that got me into it
yeah guys I'm tough
well you know what I was gonna say
is I was gonna say a guest
that can finally kick our ass but I don't think I can think
of a guest that can't kick our ass
that's that's most guests and Emma
Koalik I think we would I think we'd
fucking just kick the teeth out of Koalik's skull
we could maybe two on one take down Koalik
but Koalik is feisty yeah that's true
Wagner and I fear everybody
we're we're we're afraid of all
but but so
MMA there's not there's not a real
there's no real
I can't like are people
eating hot dogs in the stand I guess so
at MMA fights I guess they are right
I've never been to one I've never actually
gone to one yeah I've never gone to one
there's fight island right
there is fight island in Dubai
I imagine they're having they're having homos
in the crowd there a lot of homos
on fight islands
you know I'm a big fan of
I like a fancy fucking
I like that there's all these bougie
hipster restaurant stands
in like the nice
you know arenas the sports arenas
yeah right you know
I love it I love it and it's very hard
to go back like I think because I went to
I went and saw the Knicks and they had
like a whole there there was sushi and
tri-tip and all this beautiful stuff
and then I went to see I think I saw
the Rams like and it was the last year
before their new stadium
and it was just like it was like
carny food and I was like this is
we can do better than this guys
yeah yeah there's
it's it depends it depends
I feel like it really depends on the arena because
why is it gonna tell you right now
if you go to the staple center
that you got some crazy options
right BS stock arena
there's some decent options although
and and it's moot now obviously because
there's no indoor gatherings on that scale but
the but they had like a
you know BS
they had it and BS
the not only has the one inside
staples closed the original restaurant
has closed to the pandemic is one of
the better restaurants in LA it's a real bummer
but they had like a little kiosk version
of BS talkery in there that was quite nice
that went away and then they had
a really good McDonald's in the staple
center that got kicked out and replaced
by this place called like
salt and
or something like that and it's and it's
like this really bad shake shack
rip off it's not even like there's another
salt and char and you know at water
or something like that it's just that
they invented it for staple center
so that's a real downgrade
there's no more McDonald's in in staples
they got rid of it they had like a promotional deal
with like the the LA Kings
and then that ended and then they were
just like fucking out of there it's a bummer
but yeah so I think the quality
in staple center has declined quite a bit
although Dodger Stadium people are pretty fond
of yeah
well I'm speaking of which tomorrow
do or die for the Celtics they gotta win
tomorrow night to
to even things up in the series
but you know by the time this episode releases
we'll know whether they did or died
that's true that'll be figured out
you know who had fantastic dining options
was the US Open
the tennis was open
oh my god it was so great
it was just like they had like
50 different stands anything from
like fucking Indian food to
lobster rolls to you know
weird just like they had
fast food to I mean they just had such a
a nice cornucopia
of options
and then like but their beers were like it was like
it's 12 bucks for like a small can of Heineken
yeah oh man
are you a tennis fan how'd you end up with the US Open
I mean I grew up
in New York so we'd go
I grew up playing tennis so we'd go to the US Open
a lot
and that's like I think that's probably
one of the most fun sporting events you could go to
because it's like I think it's
you're not like trapped in the
in the stadium you can leave the stadium and just hang out
on the grounds and there's gonna be another match
and you can you know so you can take a lot of breaks and
I guess I like sports
where you don't have to be focused on the sport the whole time
no I got ya
I mean that's part of the live experience that's part of
I think that's part of why baseball is so fun to get
to see live
yeah you can fucking vege up do whatever you like up there
yeah take a newspaper out
hahahaha
I've the US Open
seems like it would be like yeah there would
have some more fancy options but yeah that upsell
is the upsell is always pretty bad
you guys mentioned the idea of
of of tense
restaurant tense which yes
I have seen a lot of those popping up and look
I'm not a fucking clown
I don't want to fucking eat in a tent usually
but you're not
you kind of are
not a fucking clown you are a wide receiver
and you're not a clown
hold on first of all in defense
of clowns I imagine they do all their performing
in the tent but then they like they go out
for to eat they don't have to
stay in the tent and eat their meal
they're they're they're human beings they're not
indentured servants also why
am I bad mouth and clowns there's no
why am I getting the clown community pissed off
after clowns I am a clown for God's
sakes poor clowns
are out of business man because of the pandemic
I know
that's so sad and they're probably not getting
a bailout like they tried to apply for
and they're like clowns we're not giving you money clown
hahahaha
I bet you um
it's like uh
you know when like you when you have blue balls
because you don't jack off flags that's the
you know that's the thing with that classic
conundrum
that scenario we've all fixed
but I was just saying that is probably similar with their
with their flowers that shoot water out of them
it's probably a similar thing
they're all backed up and extra droopy
yeah they gotta they gotta
exercise them like once a week like just for nothing
you know it's like when you're when you don't drive a car
for a while you gotta just turn it on and get the battery
going
you didn't like where I was going with that lags
I enjoyed it it was good
I like that it was I like that it was
second reference to blue balls
so far in this podcast
I'd like to go for three or four some
some time you know if we can
but I was saying that
tent I feel like tent eating is
it's gonna be the way to go for a while I know
I know that uh Wu Tang was trying to do it down
at uh in at his
restaurant Ipswich well here's
here's the thing I think like the tent has to be
like it can't be enclosed because that's
what I've seen some of it's basically like a you know
people are inside canvas tents and I'm just like
if the from a
ventilation standpoint it kind of has to be open air
like something to keep you out of the sun is one thing
but when it starts being enclosed
and then also I worry
you know because in in New York and
not just New York but you know much of the country
that that's not as temperate as
as the Southland here in California
it's like gonna be so chilly
soon that you can you even outside
we're gonna do yeah it's
really unfortunate I actually just interviewed uh Ruth
Rachel on my podcast
oh wow and she is
just like so doom and gloom on all this
and she's like a normally a very positive
person but she was just like
she thinks that most restaurants are gonna go
out of business and we're just gonna be left basically
with chains and ghost kitchen and
ghost kitchens just like delivering to us
man so that's when they
yeah that's when they that's when they
that's when they come for the dough boys wager
when it's all all chains left
they're like this is your fault
you guys you guys were
on the right track the whole time
it was prophecy
damn before we're not
we gotta we gotta get into your food order
but before we do
I need some food history from your baby
let me hear it what what what did you
eat growing up
what was your family style like did you
eat out at restaurants a lot or did you
eat at home
bitch this is like you've ran into the back
field I've tossed you a lateral
you're the QB wow
like Julian Edelman
a handoff from Cam Newton
one-on-one they that was a great
game the other night likes I mean this is gonna date
it obviously
we're back why is there was a technical
difficulty had a little stop down
you fucked up
my system stopped working
I didn't do anything
you wise you fumble you were trying to
hand me the ball like I was Julian Edelman
and you were Cam Newton I thought we established
it was a lateral but fine we'll change it to a
handoff it was a lateral but you fucking
dropped that ball
you're no Cam Newton it turns out
so I got the ball
you're not even fucking
more like Fig Newton you fat fuck
oh boy
by the way guys if I'm ever being too
mouthy during this podcast just
start talking about sports and I
I'll just
fade into the background
no this is
this is a lot for even this is the Doe Boys
Weiger it's true you I mean
you already got your MMA knowledge you got
your tennis tennis expertise
you're no slash when it comes to being a
sport oh I like to you know
it's two sides of two very different
coins tennis and MMA
I like to
I like to go to the extremes in my
you know sport fanaticism
I would have to I would have to wonder if those
two crowds run together often I feel like
you
this is like a west side story
yeah yeah
I'm the one thing in the middle of that Ben
diagram for sure
can I ask you something real quick Dan
complete tangent but I saw this in your
Wikipedia page and I was intrigued and I
don't know if it was someone making
mischief or if it's true
your Wikipedia describes you as an avid
hunter
yes no that's true I am a hunter wow
well how did you get into hunting and what
do you hunt well I got into
hunting initially
because I read the omnivores dilemma
by Michael Pollan
and he it's all about the ethics of
eating meat right and
I was kind of interested by it and I had
friends who hunted
and I'd never ever shown any
interest in it I'm like a you know Jew from
Long Island
and I had this
kind of I don't know come to Jesus moment
of like I think I need to do this to
to to earn my meat
I enjoy the outdoor experience
of it I enjoy the
food that I can make with it I mean there's
nothing more
organic or free range than
a deer that's been living
free his whole life
so I really just
I love I
I'm big into it so
what do you use a rifle what do you hunt with
depends on
what you're hunting for
for yeah for like big game it's a rifle
for birds it's a shotgun
for Jews it's a handgun
for
I think that I think I
honestly I respect I'm a meat eater
and I
love animals and I
I don't think I could hunt but I respect
obviously the people that
that do do it
and can do it because it's that sort of
thing of if you hunt and you eat the food
that's
no one is you know what I mean like I think
people will be critical of it but there's
I'm eating this meat that's
dead animals you know what I mean it's
that sort of thing of you have to come to
grasp with that and I don't know how you
square and I think I think this is I
haven't read Michael Pollan's
book but I'm aware of it and and Dan you
can so Dan you can fill it fill this in
at all but I think there's something to
you know like
I'd rather be an animal
that lives free and is
hunted versus like
a pig that spends his entire life in a crate
in a factory farm you know it's just like
we've we've abstracted
what the actual cost
of eating meat
and and so
you know and like I think yeah I think
it's fascinating I haven't hunted
ever
but I am but it seems like an interesting
like a past time
and also
I'm not gonna get into hunting the most dangerous game of all
if that's what you're implying I think it's the most
dangerous game I'm not gonna do it
I want to hunt man
although I could
but I was gonna say I think the
like I don't know
it's interesting that you
it's interesting that you got into it
via that book like I
assume it was like just sort of
kind of an ethical calling
I literally got into it honestly it was
more because I
I'm a I hate the word
foodie but I just love food and
you know you're asking about my food origin
story before like I
I grew up
you know in Long Island with my mom
my parents are both Iranian and
you know home cooked meals every night
and my dad
like went to college in Europe
so like he would like take me to
like French restaurants and all this new
fangled wild stuff that was happening in New York
and then I just
became like a child of the food network in the
late 90s when it was like awesome
and I
you were talking about segues earlier you
you segues right over to that perfectly this is
great yeah it worked out well
it's working out great
yeah and then
I
I moved to New York after college and just got
so into the food scene in New York
and I was touring
as a stand up and I was
just like going all over the country
and eating great food
wherever I went and I came back
to New York one summer and I was just like
I was so exhausted with stand up I was like I need to do
something completely different and I signed up for culinary school
in New York
but then I was there was a restaurant
that was on my block called the spotted pig
which has like one Michelin star
and they were like
I was friends with the manager there and he was like dude
just come work in the kitchen here
and you'll learn so much more than you would
in culinary school so basically for like
three summers in a row I was like the kitchen intern
at the spotted pig
and yeah just kind of learned how to cook
that's is that in a hotel
correct the spotted pig
no it was a stand alone place
it's since
yeah it's since been kind of
disgraced in me too stuff
but
the food was still good
it's very strange actually I've talked about this on my podcast
it's very hard to
like I was a huge fan of Mario Batali
and then he was like completely
scumbagged out but it's like
his food had such an effect on my
like learning about food and stuff
it's always a little conflicting when
your artists that you respect
end up
being disappointing in their personal lives
but then it's like how do you treat the art
right yeah
Dan you mentioned
so did you eat a lot of Iranian food growing up
oh yeah
like my mom made home cooked meals all the time
and I love Persian food
I think Persian food is probably one of the most unsung
cuisines in America
and for most of you
I imagine haven't had it it's basically
imagine Indian food
but sub out spice for herbs
and
it's just like a super vibrant
really ancient
ancient food culture that
I think is just
is very underrated and really delicious
and
you mentioned Indian food
is Indian a go-to for you as far as takeout goes
I mean I agree with you that the takeout
of Indian food is
it's all compact it's usually in a sauce
it's kind of the best
when you're looking for takeout that's like one of the better
things you can do because it just comes
still pretty warm usually when you get it
is a big part of it
yeah I think for takeout
you want something that's very
that's very easily and well
microwavable and like
you can't get better than like a stew
on top of rice you know what I mean
like stews will get better with time
so and
rice is fucking the same when you heat it up in the
microwave or when it comes fresh out of a
you know the pot
so yeah I'm a huge fan of ordering
an Indian
yeah I had
Badmash before I
left was just a
restaurant in LA and
it never came they were like your orders arrived and I was like
it's just not here and so I told them and they just refunded me
and
about an hour later
my next door neighbor
was like hey I found this food on my
front thing and it has your number on it
it was a full hour later
so the person just left it at my neighbor's
door and left
wow and
I ate some of it and I was like
this is like still pretty warm
it's still pretty warm and good
it was like it was it was it was decent
but it was a full
almost got 90 minutes later
but it's still it's that
that's a testament to how well it travels
I also want to say about to quickly say about
hunters I want to say fuck big game hunters
why is of course we don't we don't like
like the Trump sons who hold up
fucking lines that they were
that they yeah
to balance
weird me out
that stuff really weirds me out I don't
quite get that
trophy hunters or whatever trophy hunters
that's what trophy hunters yeah I mean
they the argument that they'll
make which
is still kind of tough but they'll
the thing is if you're if you're going hunting
for a lion in fucking Kenya
you have to pay like something like
half a million dollars for the right to do
that and then they say that the money
is gonna go to the communities
and this and that whether it does or it doesn't
I don't know it's still but even
if even if it is fine let's
let's say that's let's say it goes to the community
and it's and it's good for the community
just the type of person who
it's just weird to me that that you'd get off
on on having
that animal like an endangered animal
like that's where I that when it comes to food
eating that's where I draw like I'll eat fucking
anything but endangered animals is kind
of where I draw the line yeah that's like
my only line really
but I love game meets I which is why
another reason I got into the hunting like
I love gamey flavors I love venison
I love duck I love lamb
like I like stuff that has funk to
it and
there is just like it's like you can't find
this food in restaurants
like yeah literally nowhere else you can find
it that that's wild
and so you know
I'd say I'm like probably 70
30 70% is like just the foodie in me likes
to go hunting and then 30% is like
I you know I like it for the outdoors and
that experience and the camaraderie and
and all that stuff wow which I imagine
it's flipped the other way around for most hunters
because most hunters don't give a fuck about
like making the food delicious
right they just kind
of eat it up and fucking you know
but
yeah I don't know I'm uh it's a
it's a weird thing I kind of just came
out of the hunting closet recently
because you know living in LA you get really
judged by the stigma yeah
yeah even from people who do
eat meat my I got just
gonna be honest with you my head is too big
to ever go hunting I just got too big
my head I'm gonna
get it's gonna get hit it's gonna get
fucking hit by something like a peanut
doctor out there
now Dan to bring it over to
food yes that's
very much not organic
mmm
today the first
episode of rock around
the clock doberfest that's right
we're talking I hop
yes alright we'll give listeners
a few seconds to clean up
yeah possibly finally busted
this is when they busted
wow that's four blue balls
fucking
references we did it guys
we did it
there should be good I'ma put in a nice siren
there for the fourth reference
we so someone's like oh I'm
at work god damn it
now they know I busted
the sirens
going off my pants are soaked
NSFW guys this episode
NSFW
so we're talking
I hop Mitch do you want to break down the
AM and PM side when we
get to the wrap up when we get to our
fork score or do or should we be doing it
the way we're I think
when we talk about what we eat we just start
with morning and then we go into the stuff
that goes later on so let's
we'll start in the morning we'll start with
what I hop is known for and
you know I got a chicken item
and Dan you were mentioning chicken
earlier let's get into
let's let's get into your meal
starting with the morning side of things
well I did not start my morning off
with chicken I
I did get their breakfast sandwich
which was
fine
nothing special really the
like that the fake kind of
imitationy egg
was it was kind of like
the thickness of like two decks of cards
but very kind of
spongy not too much
flavor the bacon is super duper thin
and kind of limp the bun was nice
I like the bun it was kind of like
brioche bun tasting
but in general
I don't know I wasn't nuts about them and then
I got like one of the breakfast combos
with
I got two sunny side up eggs
I got the ham I got the bacon
and I got the sausage
and it comes with two pancakes and
actually one of the most interesting
things about it I don't know if you guys got one of these
combos was the packaging
the packaging is brilliant because
there's a bottom half
that is where they put the eggs and the meats
and then there's like a separate
kind of
top there's like a double
decker part where they put the pancakes so that the pancakes
stay separate from the
egg and the meat which I thought was
fucking brilliant the packaging
is the packaging is really advanced
for a place that I'm surprised
has advanced packaging because
to me IHOP is
so not a place that you get takeout
like to me it's like
like breakfast food to me is rarely
ever takeout food
or delivery food and I know that
that's gotta hurt during these times
and stuff like that but I just
I think it doesn't travel as well
you know you don't want to get
Eggs Benedict to go or something
I think they had to adapt but I will say
that it's interesting to hear this because
my breakfast entree
did not have that I just got
a big heap in a plastic
bin so maybe
it varies based on the franchise but Mitch
what did you or Dan did you have any other
things on the morning side well I just
wanted to say that the ham that I had
in it was I wasn't thrilled
with the ham the bacon was the same kind of
thin you know
limp but the real
showstopper the thing
that stole the show from me
was the sausage
wow the sausage
that I had was fucking unbelievable it was
like had like a really strong
like sage to it
and it was just like refreshing
and beautiful and
like it kind of shocked me
because I was I had a third too
I was like not so into the ham
bacon and then I was like what is
Thomas Keller making the sausages
at IHOP
I did not get any sausage
which which bumps me out
I was I ordered
a bunch of stuff for
for on Sunday
the me my mom and I
I was reunited with her
why is after I got a covid test because I'm
back here in Quincy so she's
back in the house I'm covid free
I ordered up a bunch
IHOP a smorgasbord
is what my mom said your grandma
would love this it's like a smorgasbord of food
and it was very exciting
I had a whole I had a whole list
of things that I was going to order
and it started off with a double blueberry
pancakes so I got the double blueberry
pancakes which comes with kind of like a blueberry
syrup there's actually
blueberries in it too that you pour on top
I've had these before yes
and I like blueberry pancakes so I wanted to get
them anyways they're just a fun breakfast thing
it was kind of like a brunch thing it was around
1pm and
I had also the strawberry
and banana pancakes on my list
and my mom said they're too similar let's get something else
so we went with the french crème brûlée
pancakes is the
I got that too
and I gotta say
I liked them I thought the french
crème brûlée I was happy my mom
made the change they were tasty
I liked both pancakes the blueberry
pancakes were good too
and the thing with the pancakes is they actually
traveled pretty well
especially if they were like a little cool
you could just heat them up for 10 seconds
they traveled well the french crème brûlée had
like kind of like a thick cream
sauce on top of it
and then you pour like kind of like the cinnamon
sugary sort of
deal on top of it and they were
they were pretty fantastic I liked those quite a bit
I got the bacon temptation omelette
which is
an omelette with bacon
and
this like cheese sauce
and temptation
grilled into it
and
and then there's tomatoes on top of it as well
the bacon temptation omelette I gotta say this
I gotta give them credit and this is a harder thing
that it's harder to travel
but the bacon wasn't
overwhelming which is something that my mom
commented on too it wasn't
I thought that you were gonna cut into it and then
it was just gonna be like thick
full of bacon in the middle of the
of the omelette you know what I mean but
the bacon was kind of was kind of was
looked into the eggs and it wasn't overwhelming
the cheese sauce was pretty nice
and so this was pretty good too
I kind of was happy with both
breakfast items I got some buttered
toast which I threw back into my
toaster when it got here
and that was pretty good and I used it
just with butter and that was just plain white toast
and then I got
a 16 ounce
premium orange juice 100%
orange juice and I got
myself a Colombian
blend 100%
coffee I don't know what size that is
hot coffee so I got
a couple drinks there two wigs
to cover my day portion
morning portion
and I used the syrup on the pancakes
it was all the breakfast stuff I was
pretty happy with there was
there was some a little bit of travel
stuff and you had to reheat it
and but it was all it was all
pretty good how about you wigs?
Yeah so I got the Kicken Maple Chicken
breakfast
as I mentioned this is a special
they're adding more chicken to the menu
right now so I got their breakfast chicken
concept it's like it's just
you know it's like a chicken patty
and it's just like a breaded chicken patty
and Natalie kind of assessed it as like
this just seems like something they got frozen
from Tyson it doesn't
feel like a great quality patty it's very thin
it feels like
they arrived frozen and brought it back to life
in the deep fryer
you know it was fine
they give you
so they're supposed to be
a spicy maple syrup
that they give you
and I'm not going to put anything on the staff because
you know it seemed like I went at night
and it seemed like the staff was pretty miserable
there I felt very bad for them they had like
one person working in front of the house look like
one person in the kitchen and you know just
were probably understaffed
and overwhelmed so you know it
it's tip well if you're
eating out these days because it's not great
times for the service workers of America
but I but
there were some issues with the order that
I'm not going to put on the staff
I think it's probably they just didn't have
enough people to help them out so I didn't
get the spicy syrup
that I'm supposed to get
which would have given this sort of a different
feel for sure
because I like it spicy I'm something of a heat seeker
as I've said so I just had
a conventional maple syrup they poured onto this
and
you know it was fine I mean it's just it was
a processed chicken patty
with a little bit of
you know maple syrup it was
exactly as you'd expect it to be
it didn't blow my mind
they forgot the butter for the toast again fine
the crispy hash browns I got
so I so now we got a
spinach and mushroom omelette for herself
and she got conventional hash browns and I got
the crispy hash browns because you can specify
when you're ordering they were just the same
hash browns there was no texture difference yeah
I got the same dude I felt the same exact thing
there was nothing I mean
I didn't I didn't get the the non crispy
to compare it to but I was like this
can I unless the non crispy
is just a bag of raw
sliced up potato
like I don't understand
how this was the crispy
yes I have news
my bacon temptation omelette
came with a side of hash browns I too
chose the crispy version
and they also were just hash browns
maybe they just don't travel well
maybe they just immediately degrade in crispiness
when they're sitting in their own oil
I did get some scrambled eggs with
blue balls once again so all three of us
didn't get the crispy crispy blue balls
yeah that's true
I got the scrambled eggs
with American cheese I thought were
you know decent diner eggs the American cheese
actually gave it a good amount of flavor
I agree with you on the bacon
Dan and agree with you on the sausage
oh yeah
I got a couple sausage links
they were quite nice
dunked them in a little bit of syrup
but delightful
I was shocked by them
let's pivot to
I was going to say I heated up my hash browns
and they weren't bad they weren't terrible
they're not bad flavor wise just texturally
they definitely weren't crispy
they could have been crispier
maybe mine were a little bit crispy
we'll judge by the photos
it was pretty good and the orange juice was really tasty
I didn't get to say that the orange juice was well done
probably just a minute made or whatever
but still was tasting good
and then the coffee was decent
for IHOP so
well let's jump ahead 12 hours in the clock
to the PM
or if you're using military time
we're going up into the high double digits now
okay
we're going to the 20s
I'll start because I got a very similar thing to compare
I got the buttermilk crispy chicken
and dinner
added gravy, no gravy
the red skin mashed potatoes
and broccoli came on the side
and I asked for a side salad which again
was not included
I will say that the
again same chicken patty
you get two of them instead of one
because it's dinner but you know it's not a quality chicken patty
you went with the chicken again
I wanted to see if there was a difference between
the evening chicken and the morning chicken
I like it I'm not yelling at ya
the chicken patty just presented in a different context
however I say
the broccoli was decent
didn't have a lot to it and the mashed potatoes
were the best thing that either of us ate
Natalie and I both really enjoyed those mashed potatoes
they were creamy, the little bit of skin on
I thought was delightful
I also got a house made milkshake strawberry
you know I like vanilla
vanilla is a flavor but I went with strawberry
because there's strawberries made with real fruit
and
there just wasn't a lot of the real fruit in it
it seems like they're selling it up like there's going to be
a bunch of strawberries but there's really just a few
smushed down at the bottom
Dan what did you get dinner wise
so I got a bunch of stuff
I did get the spicy crispy chicken
sandwich
which was
neither spicy nor chicken
in my opinion
I didn't love it
it's sogged up
again I'll give them a little bit
off or I'll give them a little break
but it was just soggy
and it wasn't
the spice had no discerning flavor
it tasted a little buffalo-y but not really
and it's like I feel like
if you're going into the crispy chicken game
you got to bring your A game because everyone's
fucking doing it now and everyone's making really good stuff
you know
so I was bummed about that
I didn't love the burger either
I got a burger, just a regular burger
from them
it just seemed gray and dry and again
I'll give them a little break because I don't think burgers travel
that well
what I loved
was the chicken tenders
I love their chicken tenders
they were
super wrinkly
with fry
they looked almost like a shibu inu
those dogs that are super
just very full of wrinkliness
I don't know how they packed
so much
fry crispiness into it
I thought they were wonderful
also they came with pancakes
and I tried the combo
and I've never been a huge chicken and waffles fan
I think chicken and pancakes
is a much better combination
I loved it
as a vehicle for the chicken and a little bit of the syrup
it also
they had something called iHop Sauce
which was kind of Thousand Island-y
which was nice to dip it in
but I think it's
a nice alternative to chicken and waffles
I then
wanted to get
what would probably be the last thing you would ever order
on an iHop menu for dinner
which was the tilapia
wow
I saw that
but I was eyeing that tilapia
and I didn't get it because you're right
I think it is the last thing you'd want to get on the menu
yes
and you would be correct
I don't know
the tilapia was just
on another level
awful, it was really bad
yeah
it tasted as if it went straight from the freezer
into the microwave
not much seasoning on
they didn't really try even
it's just weird to me
when you're a fast food joint
the whole point is to pack everything
with as much fucking flavor
just punch me in the mouth with flavor
and this was just a really really bland fish
which
I don't know, it just needed a little love
and it had like a little side of broccoli
that seemed very limp and just kind of cafeteria-ish
the corn was actually nice
it came on a bed of like
what seemed like freshly chopped off corn
which I actually really liked
but yeah
I don't know that you needed me to tell you this
but don't get the tilapia when you go to iHop
we
contemplated it for a moment
we adapted for the chicken instead
what did you end up getting for dinner
I kind of have a mix of both your stories
in some ways
I just want to say that
the dinner portion
traveled
it didn't travel as well as the breakfast stuff
honestly which is
I was saying before
but you know it's
breakfast seems to be what they do best
and they do breakfast around the clock
you know what I mean
so it makes sense that some of the more
space items travel better
but I went with the turkey cheddar club
and I added
avocado
and I got that with a side of french fries
the french fries were basically inedible
they got the
first of all
they weren't cooked enough
they weren't well cooked and then the travel just destroyed them
you know what I mean they were nothing
they were soggy
wet lumps
agreed 100%
I agree 100%
just a disaster
look
there's got to be a better way to travel fries
it's just an issue
it's tough no one's really figured it out
it's got to be bags
you got to put them in bags
they can't go in plastic
the condensation
the condensation just destroys it
it doesn't work
I did get onion rings
and they traveled slightly better
you run into a similar issue
the turkey
the turkey cheddar club
there was no avocado
so they've got to add the avocado
and the sandwich
was a little bit soggy from travel
but not bad
my mom enjoyed it and she saved
half of it because there was a lot of food
and she was like oh that was pretty decent
I enjoyed it
I also got
a diet Pepsi
that was
my night drink
and then for my big
dinner meal
I got sirloin steak tips
I was looking at that
and I don't know if they were
I don't know how popular
they are
it's like 13 bucks
it's almost the same thing as
the turkey cheddar club
I went medium rare on the steak tips
maybe a little scary
I got a side salad
with buttermilk ranch
this is why it's similar
the side salad did not come either
no side salad
I got red skin
I got the side salad and you're not missing much
okay good to know
and I'm with you
no avocado
and no side salad
it was a huge order
in the pandemic
they did fine
the side salad came with buttermilk ranch
and then the steak tips
came with
red skin mashed potatoes
and
real buttered corn Dan
so I got one of each
and I'm gonna say this
I liked both the buttered corn
and the red skin mashed potatoes
I really liked the red skin mashed potatoes
I was dipping the mashed potatoes
in the corn and eating it that way
my mom had it and she said
I was a fan
I liked the red skin mashed potatoes
I thought they were surprisingly good for IHOP
my mom was not a fan as much
and I thought the buttered corn was good
now as far as the steak goes
it wasn't awful
it was not awful
for $13 you getting some steak tips
it wasn't bad they were like very marinated
in this kind of onion and mushroom
sauce basically
and so a lot of pieces would be tender
and then when you got a bigger piece it wouldn't be that good
it was that sort of thing of
I would rather just get the turkey club
you should go with the turkey club over the steak tips
but if I got that
in the restaurant they maybe wouldn't be that bad
I think you just gotta know that you're not eating a high quality
piece of beef
it's not a great piece of meat
and you know like
it was like
the onions and the sauce just made it almost
feel like you were eating kind of like
a weird
like steak and kidney pie
what is it?
that's a dish
just kind of like a soupy
steak mess
and it was
fine but it's just
it's like the tilapia
why ever
get it
and a lot of it was like you couldn't really taste the steak
it was just kind of the sauce you were getting
so
but not a terrible outing
I kind of figured it would be similar to the tilapia
it would be awful but it's not awful
my mom said
it was a blue hair special
which is like an older person's
they're going to go and they're going to order
the steak tip dinner which I understand
those are your pubes
when you have blue balls
yeah
speaking of blue balls
I left out
I'm sorry
I didn't want to cut you off though Mitch are you done?
no I'm done
I was saving one thing for the end
which I kind of count this as dessert
so I didn't really talk about it in the breakfast portion
but
this blew
my mind
the cupcake
pancake
now if you saw the picture of it
it's basically a cupcake
that's full of sprinkles and have some
icing on the top of it
and I was like this is the last thing
I would ever order so let me get this
because you know I'm doing tilapia
let's go all the way let's get the cupcake pancakes
I feel like the food reviewer
at the end of the movie Ratatouille
when he takes a bite of that
his life flashes before his eyes
I
think that I've always had an issue
with cupcakes and I never knew
that I did until I had this
this pancake
the issue for me with cupcakes is I love the top
but the cake
is always a little dry
even on the moist ones it's always got a little bit of a dry
sheet cake vibe to it
which I'm just like there's something
missing
the pancake is the perfect
vehicle
for a cupcake top
I mean
I literally you know I ordered all this stuff
and I was just taking like a couple bites of each
I couldn't stop eating this thing
I could not stop eating the fucking cupcake pancakes
it was so delightful
I was like don't walk
to get the cupcake pancake
it blew my mind
I saw those and I'm so sad that I didn't get them now
it's funny to also picture
Weiger in a Ratatouille moment where he
is like a curmudgeonly old man
and then takes a bite of something and then he's like a curmudgeonly child
with the same expression
we'll take a break
we'll be back with our fork scores right after this
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