Doughboys - Silverlake Ramen with Sierra Katow

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

Sierra Katow (@sierrakatow, Funt) joins the 'boys to talk soup, Boston eats, and drinking water before a review of Silverlake Ramen. Plus, a special edition of Slop Quiz.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/02/silver-lake-los-angeles-queer-lgbtq-gay-historyhttps://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/the-black-cat-harbinger-of-lgbtq-civil-rightshttps://laist.com/news/how-to-la/where-is-las-eastside-a-brief-history-of-class-gentrification-and-mapshttps://silverlakeramen.com/index.phpSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash doughboysmedia. California Historical Landmark Number 1063. This is the marker on the commemorative plaque outside the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles's Silver Lake neighborhood, where on February 11, 1967, activists held one of the first gay rights demonstrations in the nation, two years before New York City's historic Stonewall riots. The protest came in response to the actions of the LAPD, brutal and useless then as now,

who raided the gay bar and arrested patrons for same-sex kissing, consequently forcing some of the convicted to register as sex offenders. Demonstrators then organized and assembled, holding signs reading, No more abuse of our rights and dignity, abolish arbitrary arrests, and in some instances, simply, peace in Silver Lake. For much of its history as a defined neighborhood, Silver Lake was known as an enclave for gay artists in the Latino working class. But by the 2000s, as housing prices pushed gentrification from LA's west coast ever eastward, Silver Lake rapidly transitioned into its current state as a hotbed for hipster doofuses.

By 2012, when former fine dining chefs Thomas Aono and Gitek founded a ramen restaurant name for the neighborhood, the conversion was complete. By 2012, when former fine dining chefs Thomas Aono and Jitek founded a ramen restaurant name for the neighborhood, the conversion was complete. But despite its surrounding area's reputation for self-parody, the noodle shop developed a reputation for authenticity. Aono was raised in Japan and studied under a master ramen chef before perfecting his recipe stateside. And as the label Silver Lake has become shorthand for cool and trendy, the owners chose to keep

the name as the concept grew citywide and eventually into a nationwide chain. With 30-plus locations in states coast to coast, the growth of ramen's popularity in the U.S. can at least partially be traced through this Silver Lake Slurp shop. Today, the Black Cat Tavern is still open, though it now shares a wall with a Shake Shack and is steps away from a Salt and Straw and a Sweet Green. Not to mention the headquarters of a fucking podcast studio, if you can believe that shit.

And just down the street is the original location of that ramen chain, named for the neighborhood where, over 50 years ago, gay rights activists made their brave and historic stand. This week on Doughboys, Silver Lake Ramen. MUSIC Come on! So it's the Doughboy's Double Heart Doughboy! MUSIC Doughboy! Double the doughboy! Doughboy! Welcome to Doughboy's, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Nissan Altima Gaib, the spoon man, Mike Mitchell. Oh my God. Mitch, this roast, let me give a little context here. I'm reading from the submitter. I seem to remember Mitch saying he drove a Nissan Altima, which is the reason for the roast. But if I'm wrong, then I guess it doesn't make any sense. Good to know you remember my car.

That you probably said once on the podcast like four years ago. You're the thing about me, Wags, I've only owned two cars my entire life. That's wild. What's the other car? Uh, Nissan Altima. Wow. Wait, two Nissan Altimas?

That's it. You're an Altima man? That's all I've ever... So I worked at an auto auction when I was a boy. Yeah. Uh, when I was, you know, 16 or 17 or something in the summertime. I got a Toyota Versailles, we got a 1000, 2000, give me a 2000, 2000, 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000. Right here, 4000, 4000 for the Toyota, 5000 sold. Wise, you would be that guy, the auctioneer. I would be the guy who would,

I would go get cars, but new cars for the dealership. Were you a repo man? No. Oh, do you think I was a repo man? 16 or 17 years old. I go up in the hill, there'd be a chase car, and we'd go up and we'd get cars that were being brought down to the dealership.

Wow. Fork dealership in Quincy. And so I dealt with Nissan Altima's, Maxima's, there were a few VW Beetles in there. They were all like new cars. That's how I learned to drive stick, but I've forgotten how to drive it since. My first car was a stick, and I do not, but I don't know if I could still do it. I don't, I, I, I. I bet I could.

Yeah? I don't know if I could still do it. I don't, I, I, I. I bet I could. Yeah, I don't know if I could do it. I bet I could. And then I would bring those cars down and then they would take them off to the dealership. Very interesting story, but I drove an Altima and Maxima and I was like, these are nice. The Maxima was like the expensive version of the Altima.

And then I went to Ithaca and I had some money from work and my parents were like, we hate driving you to Ithaca. This is my sophomore year. Right. And they're like, we're gonna help you buy your first car. And you've had that since, you've had this car since college. No, so that was my first car. That was your first car, okay.

Yeah, I didn't have a car, my sophomore year of college was the first time I had a car. Got it. My sister had a, she called it Red Rover, my grandma's car, which was a Ford Escort and I drove that a lot. I had a car. Got it. My sister had a, she called it Red Rover, my grandma's car, which was a Ford Escort. And I drove that a lot. I had a grandma car I bought for my grandma. And I actually, I was in it when it died.

Yeah. But I would like, I went to, like I would go to Dairy Mart, which is, I'm not even gonna explain what it is, it's like a 7-Eleven. Uh-huh. And I went inside there and my friends had turned the car around. That's like how, like they like picked it up

and turned it around. Oh, you've told me this before. Yeah, yeah. It's a fun little prank. Yeah it was a fun prank. That's a lot of fun. But then I went, ultimately I never went back. So I've had two, the day my dad told me he was gonna die we bought my second car. Fun story.

I thought so. Wait so the car you have now? What's that? That's the car you have now? Yeah. Yeah. It was the day after what's going on. Yeah. And he was like, the pilot, which you shot the pilot we shot and he was like, I'm sick. And then I needed a new car. He's like, let's go car shopping.

And we went car shopping. It's probably nice for him. Yeah, it was. It was very nice. It was a nice, it was a nice gift, but now it's, it's time for a new one. Yeah. And I want you listeners to decide what car am I going to drive? Is it going to be a limo? Smart car. A smart car, a van? What are those old fashioned ones, like a steam car?

Maybe a Humvee? A Humvee? Why was limo first? Maybe a Ferrari. That's going to be a limo first. Do you drive the limo, or do you get driven in the limo? I would get driven around in a limo if that's what you guys want.

You decide, the listeners. All right, the listeners will wait in. They want you to get a Nissan Altima. I think I might go electric. Boogie, woogie, woogie. I've gone electric. You know it. Yeah.

I've gone electric myself. These younger kids don't get it. We were doing the electric slide left and right. We sure were, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Continuing this email, I guess you're- The Macarena didn't even exist yet, kids.

We were electric sliding. It was before. We were born before the Macarena. We should do a dance episode. Our listeners who were born in 1999 are Googling Macarena. What the fuck is that? Maca? What?

Did you mean Morocco? I think Mitch meant Morocco. To finish this email, I guess you could also use- Mitch doesn't know Morocco, that's what it turns into. It's ignorant that Mitch does not understand this political situation in Morocco. You're getting in trouble. That's why you listen to the show.

You wanna hear me talk about Morocco? You're here to hear me tell you about how my dad told me he was going to die and then I get a car. That's what happened. Two Altamans in a row, two cars, that's all I've ever had. Pretty efficient for the planet, I'd say. That is, Mitch. Good for you. First car in college.

Pretty late for a car, I guess, but I'm sure people have. You know, whatever. Yeah. All right, finishing this email. I guess you could also use Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's before picture, the Spoon Man, Mitchel, that's pretty mean Harkonnen's before picture, the Spoonman Mike Mitchell, that's pretty mean, or Shy Hog Lude, the Spoonman Mike Mitchell. And if you're looking for a Weiger roast,

he could be Spillgar. I like that, Stillgar, but Spillgar, because they tend to spill. Sorry, this email is so sweaty. Jeremy in Nashville, roasts at birdfuck.com. I have a little hot pepper flake in my mouth, I had to get it out. I, sorry, I just had to get it out.

Sorry, I just had to let everyone know that. Yeah. Was it from our meal? It was from our meal. Wow. Speaking of spills, you did spill. I did spill some to you. And so did I, but also my spill was cool.

You spilled into another container. Yes, and you spilled onto yourself. Your guest is nodding that it was a cool spill. Yeah. It was cool. Like I said, it that it was a cool spill. Yeah. Like I said, it made it tastier, honestly. Yeah. Wigs, it's been a tough week with food.

We have to do a healthy month. We're going to figure it out. We'll give ourselves a little bit of a breather. Just this week, I want to give a rundown of, so I'm trying to slim down. So I just want to give us a rundown of what, I've had Korean fried chicken on Saturday, or sorry, Korean fried chicken on Sunday, Korean fried chicken on Monday, fried chicken on Wednesday, New Orleans style

with mashed potatoes and mac and cheese and everything, and then ramen today, and a Mexican dinner with you on Monday night. And none of this is for the podcast. All of it was for the podcast except for the Mexican dinner, which was great, a great time, but it's too much. It's too much. It's excessive.

It's because we're banking records, because we're doing multiple records in a row, and so we've got a bunch of heavy meals today, uh, this week, including today, which we'll get into. Uh, but yeah, we'll figure it out. We'll do, we'll do some sort of, of, of, of break for our digestive tracts. Mm hmm.

Yeah. We'll figure it out. Uh, you got a drop to play. Emma hit him with a drop. Um, what is a maple leaf? Like a maple tree? Yeah, it's like a maple tree's leaf. You know maple syrup?

That kind of comes from trees and those trees have... You know what a tree is, right? What is a tree? Make like a tree and get out of here. I believe that was Scott Joplin's maple leaf rag. Is that the source for that little piano diddy? I don't just very know for a maple leaf centered roast if that's what that was It might have been royalty free because I think that that that that the composition is in the public domain

So if it's a if it's a royalty free recording, you're probably fine. Do you think any human here knows that? Do you know that? Our guest has no idea. Our guest has no idea what the hell that means. I don't know. Maybe some listener out there knows from ragtime. Does the Doe staff know? I did not know that.

Does anyone know who Scott Joplin is? I know Scott Joplin. More famous for the entertainer is. I know his sister. Yeah, it did seem, same. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, big age gap there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, rock and roll. Yeah, that was rock and roll, you know. That was rock and roll. Some of my siblings have an impossible age gap. What's up, Doe Fam? Thanks for all the years of dumb podcasts. You know what's funny? I was gonna try to sing Bobby McGee.

That's where I should have gone. I was trying to think of a Janis Joplin song and I couldn't even think of Bobby McGee. World fucks. What's up, DoFam? Thanks for all the years of dumb podcasts. Truly a blessing in these dark times. What? Oh, I guess-

He's being nice. The submitter is being nice. I just was like, is this from COVID? But it is just now. It just means now, yeah. I hope you enjoyed my first attempt at a drop featuring a little bit of Scott Joplin. Much love, Chris B.

PS, check out my band, The Dusk Whales. The Dusk Whales. Check them out. The Dusk Whales. Good job. Well done, drops at birthfuck.com. I hope the band's better than that drop. Ohots fired at a lovely drop. It was a well crafted drop. Well the drops are supposed to be like stupid sounding.

Yeah, I do, actually I do hope the band is better than the drop. Yeah. Because if you want to see a band and they played that, you'd be like, what the fuck? What is this shit? They played, what is it called? Maple Leaf. Maple Leaf Rag? Yeah, I don't want to see a band play Well, that song's a banger, but. She was in the 1930s, and like. Not much of a job pair there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yikes. What can you do? I mean, like, back then, there wasn't much choice. You know, you'd go to a bar, and you'd hear that song, and you'd drink whiskey, and what, sniffing salts? What do they do? Listen to an entire baseball game on the radio. There was not a lot to do.

That sounds pretty good, honestly. Actually does sound good. Wags were bankin'. We're bankin'. This one is, this episode, as a lot of the episodes we've recorded is fully ensconced in the Frank Bank. You should put obey posters up.

We're like Banksy. Is that Banksy? I think that's a different artist. That's Shepherd Ferry. Cron. Is that Banksy? I think that's a different artist. Oh no, that's Shepherd Ferry. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha with the flower and the cop's gun and anything that looks like that. He did Dismaland. We don't know who he is, right? No, there's been some theories.

Isn't Shepard Fairey the guy who's connected with him? I think Shepard Fairey has worked with him, but Shepard Fairey, we know who he is. He lives in LA. I've actually been to his house. Wow. You've been to Shepard Fairey's house? Yeah, for a podcast many, many years ago

called Lois Felix the Podcast that doesn't exist anymore with Morgan Murphy and Robin Short Shore we went and recorded an episode with Shepherd Ferry. Wow. So I learned he lives right in LA. Did you have did you see the obey poster there? He did have some of the obey stuff up on the wall. Wow, how about that? There you go. He was a cool guy. He's been arrested like hundreds of times for his art, which is also kind of cool. Did you ask him, what was that? I could relate with him about that. The slammer with him? What'd you do to get in here? No, no, no, sir.

Did you ask him what, did you say? I was gonna say, to help bail Mitch out, maybe he's Banksy. He might be Banksy. He might be Banksy. Isn't that the rumor that he is Banksy? He could be Banksy. It's possible. Let's just say he was Banksy. I don be Banksy. Isn't that the rumor that he is Banksy? He could be Banksy. It's possible.

Let's just say he was Banksy. You could be right. I don't mean to say you're wrong. What did he do after Obey? What was the big one? He did the Obama. Did he do Hope? Yeah.

He did do Hope. He did Hope. Oh, see, I got so confused because Mike Mitchell, the artist who's great, and his name is Mike Mitchell, not me, though so I'm Mike Mitchell, an artist, I'm pretty crazy. Did the Conan one, which was like a takeoff of Hope. Yeah, well, and you also, you have that poster in your home that's that, but it says, nope. That's your aesthetic. What was the thing?

You used to have Hope. What was the, you know, you say? We used to have, 20 years ago, we had Bob Hope, Steve Jobs, and Johnny Cash. These days, we have no Hope, no Jobs, and no Cash. Hell yeah. I hope Kevin Bacon doesn't die. That's the last, I always forget the last part of it. Classic joke.

Our guest today, writer, actor, and comedian from Sexualize of College Girls, and the upcoming Golden Axe, her new comedy dynamic special is Funt, Sierra Coteau. Hi, Sierra. Hey, good to be here. Thanks so much for coming back. Very funny special, Dave. That's great.

Oh, Funt, yeah. Isn't it Portmanteau? Hmm. Last time we had you on the podcast was over Zoom, and you Very funny special day, and that's great. Oh, fun. Yeah. Is it a portmanteau? Hmm. Last time we had you on the podcast was over Zoom. It was deep pandemic. This was like 2020.

That was a pandemic, pandemic. The dark times. Yeah. Which, as you mentioned, have been ongoing. Sure, sure. It's just continuous now. But yeah, at the time, we thought maybe it might be temporary.

You know, I have a take, though. Hollywood is back. What do you think have a take though. Hollywood is back. What do you think? Hey, yeah, I like that. I like the optimism. I think Hollywood's coming back. I think people are- Bob Hope.

Bob Hope is back. Hope is not back, exactly. But I think that the people are sick of cynical stuff. They want entertainment. They want media again, in a good way. Yeah, I think so. I think certainly in terms of what people have been responding to, and what, I feel like people are going to movies

and enjoying movies. I don't know, I like going to the movies. Where I was going to the movies? They got, you know, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. There you go. I saw it last night. I like it more than Dune II. Casey would want you to hear that.

Wives specifically wanted me to say that. Yes, yeah, yeah. Anyways, go on, I'm sorry I interrupted. I just, Hollywood isags specifically wanted me to say that. Yes, yeah, yeah. Anyways, go on, I'm sorry I interrupted. Hollywood is back. Maybe Hollywood is back. Spacey's back, Wags. Spacey is back.

In a new special that you were excited about. I'm gonna watch that special. What was it called? Like Catching Spacey or something like that? Catching Spacey. Something like that. I said to you, learn from his mistakes. He says all that, right.

Yeah, yeah, don't make those moves. So here's my question going back to the pandemic. Like, did that, because it certainly did for me, did that like change your eating habits? Or did you like get back to like some sort of sense of normalcy, like once the world reopened? Yeah, I think it did because we got more into cooking. My fiance cooks a lot more now

and has gotten like to an extreme level where, and then I eat it did because we got more into cooking. My fiance cooks a lot more now and has gotten like to an extreme level and then I eat it all and I think that's great because you know, we save some money. Right. Do a lot of the grocery thing. Whip them into shape, get in the kitchen. Yeah, come on, get me into the pandemic. Let's go.

Make some food, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, I think it definitely made us more like, you know, upping the level and I'll do it. You know, I'll make some good things here and there. I learned how to, you know, make some, uh, juck, no, I, that's the, you know, that's like a porridge in the rice cooker, you know?

That's cool. I, you know, and there's some things, yeah, more vegetables maybe. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I think it kind of, it kind of made us more domestic. Wow. You know how it changed my eating habits?

I ate without pants. Nice. The pandemic. Yeah. Yeah, I know, I know. I was in my underwear. Yeah, you are right. No, I got it. I piece it together. No, I know. Honestly, I feel like my eating habits didn't change that much.

Did yours? I mean, like for a couple of weeks, I had like, you know, like there was like, I ate frozen dinner. Remember, there was like the month where it was like, you got to get everything and like, well, we were, you got gotta stock up on food or whatever, like that period of time. Busters. Yeah, yeah. I think it's easier when you have like,

someone you live with because we were also cooking more, but it's not like the burden of like, cooking for one is sometimes, it's a pain in the ass and it's hard to get the right proportions. Do you feel like you're making too much or it's not worth the trouble of making it, you know what I mean?

Or am I gonna just have enough where I'm eating leftovers for a week, you know? But so I think that actually did improve from our side, but the depressing thing that I'm still feeling the effects of is I was just drinking so much. I was just so depressed, I was just self-medicating with alcohol. And that was the real negative change to my body

and my mental state. I think it was a confusing thing of like, oh, like, it's hard to go to grocery stores, which it was. It was awful. And then also the like people, like it was like, it's bad if you get delivery. Like you put a person in like harm's way, but then people are also trying to make money.

And also like people are at grocery stores. You're like, it was just confusing of what was. No one knew what to do. Right and wrong. It's a funny thing of like, you know, after the great depression, did podcasts talk about that for the next five years or whatever after it ended?

Right. I mean, I know that there were probably like, not as many podcasts back then. Show me a podcast in the 1930s. It was Jack Benny talking about this on his podcast? Yeah. The OG podcast, the Fireside Chats, I guess, was probably featuring FPR.

Ever heard of him? We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Now a quick word from me undies. They made it through, at least. They made it through. Yeah, they survived. Yeah. Do you remember Lyndon Johnson's read for MeUndies? Yeah, well he talked about his famous hog, yeah, jumbo, and that he wanted the stitching, you know, set up by his bunghole.

He's like very specific about his custom MeUndies. I mean, listen, if you're president, I guess so. MeUndies will do it for you. That promo code LBJ still works, by the way. You still get 20% off. Yeah, it's been adjusted for inflation. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so like going on in his pants with that jump. Thing was supposedly gigantic. He's part of our tableau now. I gifted you that episode. That's why I was thinking of. That's why he's on the brain. LBJ is on the brain. And I gifted you the Time magazine with Lyndon Johnson. Doughboy's from from our tournament of champions. That's right. The commissioner of dough sport. The commissioner's lovely wife. That's right. Made. Yes.

Yeah, and nice little nice little art piece. We got a nice tableau though. JJ's out today. We got JJ. Our pop figurine of JJ Abrams. He's looking out. If you took him out of the box, you would immediately recognize who it was, right? Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. They just put glasses on the Johnny Galecki pop figurine.

Ha ha ha. OK, I want to talk about soup a little bit. We've got a Young Sheldon pop in here. I wonder if they're going to make a eat little bit. You could get a Young Sheldon pop in here. I wonder if they're gonna make a... I'm sure they make a Young Sheldon. Yeah, yeah. 100%. I wanna talk about soup a little bit, cause we're gonna deep dive on soup here,

but stepping back from ramen and just talking hot liquids in general that you eat, not that you drink, what are your soup preferences? Okay. Just a weird way to phrase it all, but it's pretty normal. No, no, but yeah, I was thinking,

I mean, you know, I think sometimes a soup has stuff you eat inside of it. Yes. But yeah, okay, more of the drinking. I do a miso soup, sometimes do that in the morning. I'll do a lot of, you know, I like a good Panera cheese and broccoli. I do a good Panera cheese and broccoli. I do like a Panera cheese and broccoli.

That's a solid soup. You know, I once got there early, a little early, and they were bringing out the blocks, you know, about this. So they have the blocks of, I think, frozen, probably, cheese and broccoli soup that they ship in or whatever. So you get the, it's consistent across the chains. And so I saw them kind of carrying that block in the back once. And that kind of, I mean, it, it's consistent across the chains. And so I saw them kind of carrying that block in the back once and that kind of, I mean, it didn't, it didn't

take me off of it. Yes. Ultimately, like I still drink it all the time and I like a good bread bowl, but, but that was a shocking reveal. I like that. I like a thing that you see that's like, like would maybe cause some people to be like, I'm not going to do this anymore. But you're like, I'm still in. Right, right. If anything, I think it does tell you, Hey, I'm not gonna do this anymore, but you're like, meh, I'm still in. Right, right, if anything, I think it does tell you, hey, I'm getting some pretty good, you know,

consistent texture across the board, right? Sure, yeah. Is there pre-packaging that? You know, I don't need a different chef to come in and add his own style to it, you know? Yes, I, yeah. I want the, from the warehouse. My thought on that, I agree with you 100%,

and I think that's a great soup. That is a soup that to me though is like, it's like a calorie bomb too. And it's really heavy, but it's really fun. Yeah, I mean, that's like a dangerous lunch soup. Oh yeah, I mean, I will say I haven't had it in a while. It was definitely more of like a teenage metabolism thing probably at the time. And I'm also lactose intolerant now. So probably should stay away unless I'm

really, you know, tossing back those lactate pills, which I do. Do you? Yeah. How often do you indulge in dairy? Yeah, I mean, you know, I try to stay away from it. But I would say sometimes still once a day if I have if I'm like faced with it. Oh, you know, we're all getting pizza. Okay, I can take a couple of pills. Yeah. And it'll be fine, but sure, if I'm stacking that, it's probably not good. I don't try, I mean, me and my droogs used to go

to the milk bar quite a bit, Wags, but not as much anymore. Right. Yeah, me and my droogies. Well, I mean, you got in trouble with that whole home invasion thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then I got, I got, I got, I got,

and then I got, you know, I, I was recalibrated basically. Yeah, yeah. We went to that, that institution and we saw your hog. We'll forget about that. Everyone saw your hog. But I miss hanging with my droogs. You miss hanging out with your droogs, yeah. I don't, I don't do, I rarely drink milk.

I mean, I can't even think of a time, unless it's like truly when I'm't do, I rarely drink milk. I mean, I can't even think of a time, unless it's like truly when I'm drinking milk, it's like for I'm eating spice. Exactly, that's the only context. Cause milk is like the fentanyl of dairy. It's like pure dairy, it's so potent, you know? But like, so even as someone who eats dairy and I don't have, I'm very fortunate

to not have a lactose intolerance. Like for me, it's like yogurt and cheese. Those are be my go-tos, you know, actually I've had yogurt this morning. You know what? That was great. Isn't it funny that I mean, like I know yogurt is a dairy. Yeah. Congratulations.

Emma Casey. Congratulations. Thank you. No, I think I already congratulate you on the yogurt chart chat where you do the same thing, where you post your. You get congrats on your yogurt. I forget that yogurt is, I mean, I know it's dairy-based, but like I don't think of it as dairy-based because it's so good for your gut.

Exactly right, because of the active bacteria. Yeah, I think even if you are lactose intolerant, yogurt's an okay one for the most part. I will say I have a history with milk where, you know, obviously I wasn't lactose intolerant, yogurt's an okay one for the most part. I will say I have a history with milk where, obviously I wasn't lactose intolerant until a few years ago, but I was one of those kids where my mom was really pushing the milk, because it was about milk and you gotta grow.

And so I was like, if I had a cup of water in my hand, it was like, what are you drinking? That should be milk. Yeah, wow. So it was like, I don't think I drink anything but milk for a long time. I certainly talked about that on the podcast before. That for me was just like my dinner beverage and I just thought that's what you were supposed to have with dinner is you had

a full glass of milk. And so like I get to college and I'm like having, you know, whatever, like a chicken sandwich and a full glass of full milk. And my roommate's like, what the fuck are you doing? And I didn't even realize that it was an option to not drink milk with dinner I just thought it was a thing to do yeah well my mom would have loved you as a son man your college year is finding out you can't you're not supposed to drink milk that's like whatever sheltered I was orientation yeah where do you Mitch where do you like, what are your favorite soups? I know we've talked about this before, but...

Well, we did the soup ranking. I got a lot of shit for that. Yeah, so you had a, Mitch had a soup taxonomy that I think a lot of us were kind of like, hey, that's just a little bit restrictive, but you're, do you remember your four categories of soup? I stand by it. Okay. It was, I think it was like...

Cause I remember what they were. Ramen, pho, chowder, right? Yes. And then soup. Yes. Whoa. Which like, I know that ramen and pho are soup and there's a lot of different things, but I was just saying,

in a way I think that that still makes sense. I mean- I mean, I'm not gonna stand by it that bad, but in a way it makes sense. To me, soups covers like boring, basic, Americanized soups. Sure. Pho and ramen are their two own things, and there's a lot of things that fall under that category.

Chowder, of course there's a million different chowders. But couldn't you also put chowder into soup? And also, wouldn't you, like, I feel like there are other soups, that other international soups that other International soups that are not being acknowledged under this the soup umbrella bring them into the conversation like a Thai soup Sure, so that's another category. What else it was a was a borscht. Is that a borscht? Is that under soup?

You bring it into the conversation. I was just saying I was I was ranking saying I was I was I was ranking I was ranking for ramen yes chowder and and I think those are the basic American soup that covers tomato that covers cheddar and broccoli it can be a lot of different things right I think that the ranking is how I get wedding is that under soup that's under soup okay chowder what about like an outboard chowder clam chowder that's under chowders chowders are underowder? What about like an albondigas? Corn chowder. Clam chowder, that's under chowder. Chowders are under chowder. What about like an albondigas?

Is that under? What the fuck? I don't know what it is. It's like a Mexican meatball soup. Yeah, you're trying to trick me, so I don't know. No, this is the thing. This is if you're gonna try to say like, hey, these four categories,

that encapsulate all the soup. By the way, that is under soup, yes. That is under soup, okay, got it. So what defines chowder that doesn't make broccoli cheddar? You know, because I think chowder is under soup. That is under soup. Okay. Got it. So what defines chowder that doesn't make broccoli cheddar You know, it's I think great. I was like thick chowder. I think has to be for me. It's like a milk, right? Isn't it milk based? Base like a Manhattan clam chowder is not tomato based. Yeah, is that under chowder or soup? It's got if it's got chowder in the name. It's fucking under chowder

Broccoli cheddar soup is also like a dairy base like clam chowder is so is that a is it broccoli cheddar chowder in the name, it's fucking under chowder. But like a broccoli chowder soup is also like a dairy base like clam chowder is, so is that a, is it broccoli chowder chowder? It's in soup, no. Chowder chowder. That's in soup. I think you just should stop defending this because- I think it was okay.

Soup is soup, the issue is, the main issue is soup is recursive here. Like you're talking about your categories- How about you just fucking rank it? Your four categories of soup. Why don't you just rank it the way I ask you to? Why can't you rank it? How would I rank it?

Yeah. I would probably put chowder last, honestly. OK. I think I would probably go, I might go fuh, soup, ramen, chowder. You can fucking do it, you little fucking ranking bitch. You did it. Nice fucking rank.

You're right, I can do it. You can do it. I can do it. You're right. And all you nerds online, you can fucking do it too. It's easy. Do you have- Actually, shut up, shut up and just rank them.

Rank them. I wanna hear your rank. What it- At me, with your rank. And tell me what car I should drive next. A plugin? A plugin hybrid? I actually don't know.

You do have like a room for a charging station in your little carport? Yeah, I have like a thing set up where I have a wheel and Wally and Armacoon like run on it. Got it. Thank you. And I would charge the car. Yeah. I think, like, if you have a place to charge it at home, then I think, yeah, you can go full electric. The issue that we run into, because, you know, we rent and our parking structure doesn't have a charger, so we have to go find a public one at a park or something like this. And here's the thing, they're always broken,

or they're always occupied. So it's a little bit of a pain in the ass. Let me guess, you always find a charger in elementary school? Well, it's the one that's working. Hey, kids, can I plug in for a second? Now I've got to stay here for a few hours while this is charging. Oh, funny. They're all out on recess.

Oh, weird. I got all this candy in my throat. It's a good trade, the electricity for candy. Yeah, yeah. What were you going to say about the soups I cut you off? I was going to ask you, like, outside of the classification, what are your favorite just soups overall? If you're doing an individual soup, like, I like this one. This, what are your favorite just soups overall?

If you're thinking like an individual soup, like I like this one, this is what I wanna see on a menu. I think I've told you before about a funny thing to me that changed so much. Is that like, it's funny, when I was younger, chicken noodle soup, I liked of course, but I also like associated with being sick. So I didn't like as much, I didn't like tomato soup.

And now I am a big time tomato fan. I like tomato soup. When I was younger, I don't know, like as far as soup goes, I liked clam chowder, but I was in New England. Like an Italian wedding soup I think I liked. I think I liked like a meatball-y with little noodles, and I think I liked that. I had never tried ramen, had never tried pho until, I mean, I think I had like ramen noodles,

like ramen, you know, like ramen cup noodles. Right. Instant noodle thing. Instant ramen, which like every college kid's like, I had to live off ramen. I was like, you're at college, shut up. I mean, like I know some, there's a lot of people who work and, but like- You're talking about a specific sort of, yeah, like a rich kid who's larping his poor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot of people who work, but like, this rich kid. You're talking about a specific sort of, yeah,

like a rich kid who's larping as poor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a lot of college students. Nick over here was chugging milk, and he was eating a sandwich, so, suck it up. A lot of you just lying to yourselves, you were fine, and you weren't poor, you just like to say that you had to eat ramen every night.

Your families were very wealthy. Just to let you know, just, you just like to say that you had to eat ramen every night. Your families were very wealthy. Just to let you know, you're crazy people. I'm just letting them know. I'm just letting them know that they're lying to themselves. But I did eat, so I wasn't that wealthy so I had to eat ramen noodles. I ate those every so often in like instant mac and cheese, but I never had, I mean when I got here and I tried ramen for the first time, I, it was, it's mind-blowing. It's a completely, it's a completely different thing.

And same with pho, I mean I never even had pho before, and I know they're very different soups. I mean, but I had never tried either of those soups until I was in LA, and it was like, I didn't even know, this is, I don't like soup that much, and then these are like, oh, I wanna go and get these for lunch. Like, I never had a craving to get a soup for lunch if there was like a soup and a sandwich.

Yeah, Nellie does soup for lunch all the time. That's impressive. Yeah. It just doesn't, it doesn't satisfy, I don't know how you feel about it, but it doesn't like, it doesn't scratch the itch as much, or if it's like that thing of like, you were saying like the broccoli and cheddar,

and it's like, it has to be like a bomb, or you know what I mean? Like it has to be like a gut bomb. Sure, I do think it's like, yeah, the, maybe because it's also like you're, you know, kind of getting to customize it, and you get to add your little basil, and do like some street rocker or whatever. Yes, yeah, maybe because it's also like you're kind of getting to customize it and you get to add your little basil and do like some street rocks or whatever. I think that makes it into more of like a meal where it feels like you're getting something

out of it that feels really like specific to you. But yeah, if it's just like chicken noodle, like, yeah, it'd be nice to get a little sandwich on the side or some toast. I mean, tomato soup, for instance, it's like the grilled cheese with the tomato soup. That seems like that's a full meal, but I don't know if just one is the right thing. That I will say, anytime I'm in a situation

where I can get soup, salad, half sandwich, and it's pick two, I'm in heaven. That's like a great lunch. Like I get, and that's a Panera thing you can get off. By the way. Oh, you bet. No. When we went to that Mexican restaurant the other night You had the option for soup or salad. Yeah, what did I? Opted for salad, but it was because we had a heavy day

I love sister soup man went for salad Yes, you got a fucking soup me the spoon man, I got a suit It was great. It was attacking me for something. I didn I got a soup. It was great. It was a- You're attacking me for something I didn't even claim. I didn't say it was Mr. Soup Man. I'm mad at you today. At no point did I claim I was the soup man.

I know you're mad at me for no reason. The Celtics thing you said the other day pisses me off. What did I say that pissed you off? You're rooting for the Nuggets, you fucking piece of shit. Of course I'm rooting for the Nuggets. You're over my house, we can hang out watching the Celtics game. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Hold on. I was watching Celtics Cavaliers. This is really going to date this because the NBA finals will be over. And you know what? The betting favorite right now is still the... July. We know when this will be released.

We absolutely know when this has been released. Congratulations to the final winners. I hope I'm happy. It varied. The betters favorite is still the Boston Celtics at this point, very well may be your team. I'm not rooting against you. I think that probably as of now,

and hey, I'll maybe be proven wrong, maybe be eating my words by the time this is out. I think as of now, it looks like the Western Conference is stronger than the Eastern Conference, and probably the Western winner will end up winning the finals. But who knows? Are you confident in your boys in green?

I mean, they haven't looked great through the first two rounds. Yeah, that's the thing, and they haven't been challenged at all. But they still won 4-1 in each round. They still won 4-1 with two teams that had a lot Of injuries they obviously have perzinkas injured, too So you know it's just like they they haven't faced the kind of competition that is in the West for Zing is injured

Yeah, like you said yeah, they're loaded squad. They might win the title. We'll see we'll see why are you fucking mad at me? I didn't do anything to you. I came over your house Time I'm watching I didn't root for the Cavaliers. I was talking about I'm not really mad, but you call yourself. Mr. Soup I don't get it. I've never once claimed to be mr. So I heard it I heard you say mr. Soup and I had the soup that you said earlier the meatball soup What is that? Oh, won't be Gus. Yeah, I think it was kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good soup It was a good suit and my salad was pretty bad. So I should have gotten the soup. Why are you mad at me? I don't know you attacked me

You know what? I am mr. Soup Finally nabbed mr. Soup behind bars. I Thought of a nursery rhyme thing today that I forget what it was. I thought I was going to say to you. What an insane thing to say. I thought of a nursery rhyme thing today and I forgot what it was. Oh boy. You know how we've talked about stuff you say in the bus, like us kids are the best or whatever, from east to west.

And you never know any of those. And I thought of another one, I can't remember what it was. I was trying to think of what it was. That's why I was getting mad. I was getting mad at my own brain. And all I can think of is milk, milk, lemonade, around the corner, fudges, that's not it. That's not it.

That's not the one I'm trying to think of. That's nasty, we don't say shit like that. Yeah, we don't say shit like that. That's fucking disgusting. That's fucking awful. People are eating. Yeah, I know. Unless it's literally, we don't say shit like that. Yeah, we don't say shit like that, that's fucking disgusting. That's fucking awful. People are eating. Yeah, I know. Unless it's literally, there's two milk stores

and then a lemonade bar and then around the corner there is a fudge factory. That's the only time I want it. Yeah, yeah, that's the only context in which I'll allow. That's the only context in which I want it. But there's only one town in America that has that. There is, yeah.

They don't say, they don't talk about it. They used to be all over this country, but now it's just one town. It's like Walmart. Yeah. to be all over this country, but now it's just one town. It's like Walmart. Yeah. Yeah, remember in this country when there were milk stores next door to each other? What happened?

Next door to a lemonade store. My droogs and I were having a blast. There's so much demand for fudge that fudge factories were in every town in America. It does make me sick. Quincy had a candy factory at one point. Wow. Yeah, it's just shut down.

I got caught in the chocolate pipe. Come on, see that's, can't have anything nice. Did you have any, what is your hometown? Oh, outside of Los Angeles, La Cunha. Oh, wow. But I did go to a fudge store. Based on, is that where the sweets are, isn't there La Cunha de Sweets?

Hmm. You mean La Cinta Inn? Oops. No. I thought you were talking about a candy store. No. No. No.

No. I don't know. I don't know. I genuinely thought you were talking about a candy store. That's what it sounded like. Yeah, that's what we were talking about. And the candy and then getting stuck in the thing. So yeah, that's what I thought too. So you were from?

Yeah, La Quinada. La Quinada. La Quinta Inn, that's what it is. I see what your brain did. Yeah, yeah, I've passed by a few La Quintas. I might wanna go to La Quinta Inn. Not that crazy of a thing. I don't know La Quinta Inn that well.

Sure, sure, there's the law. But there is a connection. Yeah. There is the law, you gotta give them that. There's a law. There's a law in there, and there is a queue, right? In one of them, in one of them. Don't ask me which one, in one of them. In one of them. In one of them.

Don't ask me which one. I have no idea. There is a connection, though. We talked about this before when you're on the podcast, that you went to college in Boston. So you lived there for a time. Right. Right.

Chowder town. Yeah, Chowder town. Wait, where did you go to school again? Harvard. Oh, wow. So yeah, Cambridge. But I got introduced to a lot of good New England stuff. The chowders, the Boston legal seafoods.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah, oh well, there you go. Were you in the lampoon? I was, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Comedy. I was waitlisted.

That's the catchphrase they tell us, to tell everybody. I was waitlisted at Harvard. Were you really? Mm-hmm. What happened? W-E-I-G-H-T. It was like an experiment they were doing. Okay.

I did not apply to Harvard. Yeah. I should have though. Probably would have gotten in. Probably would have gotten in. Mitch could have graduated from Harvard. Yeah, I mean, he kind of would have. I mean, in reality, I probably could have graduated from Harvard.

Yeah, of course you could have. You saw people who were dumb who were there, I'm sure. Yeah, this one. Looked in the mirror. But yeah, yeah, it's got a lot of characters. How did you like the old lampoon building? I mean, there's some cool old buildings. Yeah, it's a pretty wacky looking building from the outside.

It's got a face and stuff, and it's in the middle of the street, so that's cool. Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen it. Did you drive by it when we were there? I don't think so. It's kind of like in a little... Yeah, I know the famous structure. Okay, yeah, yeah. You've looked at it.

You've seen the structure? I've seen a photo of the structure, yeah. I believe you, I believe you. Why would I lie about that? I don't know if you, I don't think you would. I haven't seen it in person. I just, it's just funny thinking of you like looking at, you know, like looking at the structure online, that's all.

It's an interesting- Maybe not if you weren't, wasn't even looking for it. It was just like in an article about it or something. I don't know, I don't remember. Or maybe you saw, there was, wasn't there a Lampoon movie? Well, I mean, there's a lot of Lampoon movies. Oh, yeah, they did a, um, hmm, I don't know what the title is, but yeah, there's something on Netflix. David Wayne did, right? Or no?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Feudal and stupid gestures. Yeah, yeah, that's the reason. Yeah, yeah. Past Doughboy's guest, David Wayne. That's right. Oh, I see, I see. Got it, got it. And Armin plays, past Doughboy's guest, Armin,

or buddy Armin plays Lorne Michaels in that movie. Oh, right. Feudal and stupid gestures plays Lorne Michaels in that movie. Oh, right. You're the Doughboy's guest. Lorne Michaels? He'll be on. Ha ha ha. It's cool we're getting Lorne. In there.

You think we're gonna get Lorne? I'd love to get Lorne in here. Talk Booga De Beppo? Pfft, it is. Is that what he talks about? SNL has its 50 year anniversary coming up and Lorne probably will have to promote it. Do some press.

He'll probably have to come on the Doughboys to get the lead out of SNL's 50th anniversary. He's impressed. He'll probably have to come on the Doughboys to get the week out of the national 50th anniversary. Yeah. Done. I give this one four forks. All right, Lauren. I've never heard of Lauren Michaels impression that good before.

Oh, yeah. Right here. How was so, how was, I feel like this is an annoying questions. But when you were at the Lampoon, like a lot of times people would stay there overnight and sleep over there and stuff like that and work there. I know that there's no bedrooms or anything there, right? I can't say.

Oh yeah, it's inside. Oh, it's called secret stuff. It is secret stuff. But did you have a lot of, when you were around Harvard, would you grab food and bring it to the lampoon or that was there a spread there? Can you say that? Um, I don't know. I mean, yeah, you could I guess you know, I don't know what I can or I don't know I feel like I'm making it up as I go along But I think yeah, I you could bring food in you could go to the dining hall get a little glass of milk or you know

I feel like I stumbled on to I shouldn't have said this There's lampooners who watch this. I'm afraid. Oh, no. I mean, I don't know what I just I don't want to ruin it for the children I'm pivoting. I'm gonna say this. What were some of your local boss? Some Fidelio mask There's gonna be some Fidelio Mask guy chasing her around. Keep a little mystery. Keep a little mystery. Yeah, sometimes there's food. Did BJ Novak comes with a...

He was the big hawk mask. Oh, God. Yeah, I don't know about that. And we're like, oh, my God. He's just wearing that coincidentally. We should have a Doughboyz OmertaMirta. There should be some stuff, some secrets that like only we know. Yeah, everybody can do it.

Yeah, let's do it. We'll start. I think bring back, you know, Secret Society stuff. Conspiracy theorists love it. Yeah, Emma, can we start like a, like a Doughboyz-O-Mirta Google doc and it'll all be shared on it? Okay.

Maybe an Apple Note would be better in the iOS app. I feel like it's not very secretive if it's on a hackable server. I feel like we need our own. But we won't share it and we won't get hacked. OK, fine. Here's an alt. Can you get us a piece of granite in a chisel?

Sure. All right, great. I will put our secrets in there and then no one will know them except for us. Amelia's just walking around with a backpack with a fucking granite piece in the bag. Um, what were your go-to spots? You go to Anistocaria.

Oh. Um, yeah, I mean, and I was just banging everything changes, you know what I mean? So I think some of the good ones. But you know what's good out there? Cilantro. There's this Chinese place that opened up kind of towards the end of when I was living out there. And it's in, you know, it's kind of like on the way to, like, it's still in Harvard Square, but it's maybe near Central, sorry,

Central Square a little bit, cilantro. It's called cilantro. It's called cilantro, but it's a Chinese restaurant. There's also, I mean, That's a bold stroke, because a lot of people have an aversion to cilantro. So making that like the name of your restaurant is like pretty.

Yeah, it's a little strange. A lot of cuisines, yeah, claimed cilantro as their own. So I don't know if Chinese cuisine really is known for cilantro that much, but it works. Once you know, you're in. I gotta try it. I've never had cilantro. I must try it.

Yeah, I think it might just be the one. I'm not sure if there's more. I mean, and then we had, let's see, Felipe's, of course. It was like very popular and they expanded. They were like small and then it became like the big, like two story restaurant with a bar on the roof. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. So that was really good.

And I feel like Dunkin' is just like unavoidable out there. Yeah, you got your like three or four Dunkins you go to all the time. I used to get a good coffee Coolada, which you can't really have anymore. Cooladas are, I used to get a strawberry Coolada back in the day. And now I know what I like a lot from Dunk's

is there's a green, like a strawberry dragon fruit refresher. Oh, nice. That's what I like. I'm trying not to drink any sweet drinks. This is, Spindrift is where I cut it off, right? Yeah, that's fine. Well, you're dealing with three calories there.

You're sipping right now. It just sucks. I like a nice refreshing drink. And that strawberry culotta was probably 700 calories. It was so good. Do you find that since you don't have sweet drinks anymore, do you not crave it as much? No, I crave it all the time.

I want it all. I want it so bad. And I feel like my third, like, I mean, it's, it's, the reason is, is that I'm actually dehydrated-wise. We've talked about this is like, like, but I like want a diet Coke so bad right now. Like I- You're not a water man. Hold on a second. What do now. You're not a water man. I don't, yeah.

Hold on a second, what do you mean I'm not a water man? You don't love just drinking a glass of water. Yeah. You'll do it, because you need to hydrate. I sometimes use the shower without water, you know this. Yes. Um. Do you like the shower?

Don't ask any follow-up questions, just picking this right. I don't drink water, I do drink, it's funny, my dad and sister do not like water. Yeah. They're like, I don't like water. Which I know is kind of strange for some people to hear. I love water, giver of life.

I think that water is- Big water guy. I'll drink a- It is the giver of life, I agree with that. I'm not gonna deny, wow, look at him go. Yeah. He didn't spill it. Mr. Water now. It looks like you've never drank water

before in your life. You just chugged the whole thing, it was insane. Oh my God, wow. This guy, yeah. And then he made a little albacino, a little quiet albacino noise. I shouldn't have done that. I mean, what about like flavored water,

you know, if you're doing like a little spritzer, a little... Yeah, some of that stuff is fun. Squeeze a lemon. Ooh. Chia seeds. Chia seeds, that's fun. I do think chia seeds, I was trying to do chia seeds to get me to drink more water as well.

But then my dad was kind of like, because I feel like also talk a lot of health stuff with my dad and he's onto some strange health stuff sometimes But I told him I was doing chia seeds, you know, and he was like those are gonna actually suck the water out of you Oh, man, so I mean he's a little he has some eccentric ideas. So maybe he's wrong I feel like if you're if it's already soaking the water out of the water, right? Yeah, ideally then you get that water but then he was like what if the seeds are actually the bad guy here? Ideally, then you get that water. But then he was like, what if the seeds are actually

the bad guy here? I would like to do something like that. I have a couple chia pets in my house, a Kermit and a Yoda, if you know this, Wags. So you're like, why would I eat my own pets? So why am I gonna eat them? I'm not gonna eat my own plants and my pets. Definitely not my pets.

But I am trying to drink more water. That's like the plan from doing it I did have what were they called Zemos or whatever? What were the what was the flavored stuff that you put in water? I know what you mean. I don't know the name of it Neo meal Oh meal Yeah, but I feel like that's is that cheating I can't tell I mean I think we I we use this those for my brother a lot because he also refuses to drink water. And so I think in my head, if you're still drinking the water, you're still getting water.

Yeah. Right, right. Even if the meal is not great for you, you still got more water than you would have if you didn't. Sure, yeah. It's true. I'm trying to drink straight up water. And then this, I think the spin drifts are fine.

Yeah. But I understand what you're saying. You get parched. You're naturally dehydrated, you want something with a little bit of flavor over just like a flat water. And so I totally understand that. Yeah, yeah, I don't hate water either.

We've talked about this before, but there's like, when you really are thirsty and you're like a cold glass of water, it can be the best tasting thing in the world. You're Jake Sully, water's your favorite thing these days. But do they drink? The way- Do they have like a purified water there?

I'm sure they got a water. They gotta have like a source of fresh water. You think they're not drinking water? I don't know. I don't see it in the movie. They don't show a lot of water breaks in that movie. That's true. It's three hours, no water breaks.

That's true. Are they absorbing it through like the ocean? Is it like that how they're hydrating? Do they have to take their tails and plug into the ocean and cook that up? So if you sat in a tub, you wouldn't be dehydrated? I'm saying for human anatomy, you still need to drink something. But I think if you were more of an aquatic being, you can just ingest it from being within it, right?

But then manatees, which are mammals, I guess, like they still drink water, like they like to get fresh water. They still drink fresh water. Yeah, so then that's kind of weird. Really? I think a lot of them get it from food. Yeah. Oh, okay, that makes sense. But maybe fish, it's like obviously different. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how fish hydrate. I don't... This is a great question. I have no fucking idea. Imagine a goldfish having to hop out of the ocean

and go find a stream so they can have a drink of water. They can't even remember where they live. They don't know what's going on. A goldfish jumping out of the ocean? That's what I'm saying. Isn't it crazy to think about? I mean. But it's a thing that happens.

Would have to happen. This AI says that fish absorb water through their skin and gills through osmosis. Okay. There you go. So if the mafia are... Osmosis, we should have known. We should have gills through osmosis. Okay. There you go. Osmosis, we should have known. We should have known it was osmosis. My ass hurts so much because you took that.

Jesus Christ. No, no, no. We can switch. You wanna switch? No, no, no, no, no. We'll switch. Oh, I'm the bad guy? We're sitting on different sides,

we're just sitting on different couches. After one episode he was like, Abbey, can we please trade seats? I said sure. And now this couch is, we all agree it's an uncomfortable. I had really bad. You gotta have a pillow on deck. And now this couch is, this couch is, it's a, it's, we all agree it's an uncomfortable. I had really bad. I'm going to get, I'm going to get that. I fucked up. I should have used the butt pill. I had re it's, it's, we're in the, we're in the

adjunct studio for audio listeners. So we normally are in, uh, over there in studio G. Now fuck. You started all over. H came first, the head came first, the gum came second. We're over there in studio H. I need a mnemonic to remember this. And usually over here it's Adam ruins everything. Yeah, Adam ruins everything that's usually in here. Actually, he could actually, actually it's studio H is over there. Right, right, right. Actually, the couch is comfortable and Mitch is just being a baby.

Oh, yes, the man sitting on it is being a baby? How about the guy who had a change to the other couch? I was having back pain. You were very gracious to let me sit over here, which is your normal spot. But so this is better for me. But that couch is not super comfortable. It's not comfortable though.

You're hanging in there. I'm getting that. I'm getting over there for the double. Do you want an ass pillow? I'm gonna get an ass pillow. You want it right now? I can get it. It's right there. I'm getting that. I'm getting over there for the double. Do you want an ass pillow? I'm going to get an ass pillow. You want it right now? I can get it. It's right there.

I'm going to get the ass pillow. They're behind the couch. OK, he's going to step away and get the ass pillow. While he's doing that. And I don't want to disturb Jemmy. That's why I can get it for you. Emma's going to get it for me. OK.

Well, Emma's getting the ass pillow. I'll ask you this, Yara. So we're talking about Silver Lake Ramen this week. We pitch you a few different chains, a few different options. Why did you want to talk about this one? Oh, I just love Silver Lake Ramen this week. We pitch you a few different chains, a few different options. Why did you want to talk about this one? Oh, I just love Silver Lake Ramen. I'm a big fan of their Sukumon, the dipping ramen.

And I think that's kind of my favorite version of ramen these days is the Silver Lake Sukumon. So when I saw that, I was like, that's the one. Are you a big ramen fan? I think so. I've definitely been around a few places around town. I'm a half Japanese American, so I think I probably had a lot of ramen growing up

or something, but then also, I talk about instant ramen. I think you should eat that for breakfast a lot. Oh, wow. I would get the old top ramen and then with an egg for breakfast every morning. I feel like that was the ramen for me for a while, even though that's not obviously the really good, you know, chef-made ramen that we had today. You're just cracking an egg into that.

Just, yeah, you put the egg in when it's boiling, and then that kind of mixes around in there, adds a little body to it. I had a roommate in college who taught me to do that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was poor and I could, it was all I could eat. Yeah to do that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was poor and I could eat. Yeah, oh man, yeah, yeah, when the private chef was gone. Man, what do I do?

What did your roommate, what did he teach you? Like when you boil ramen, you just drop it, just crack an egg in there. Oh, drop an egg in there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good, that's good. Innocent stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You were like-

Put down your milk. Disgusted. Yeah, yeah. He did what to you? You. You. You. You. You. You.

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That's betterhelp, H-E-L-P dot com slash doughboys. I also got to give, look, I walked, there's a couple things, I walked to the studio today. I said I was going to bike and I got my bike fixed. I was very excited to bike. I think I'm going to walk. You got a good walk in. I got a good walk in. It is more of an exercise, I think, walking. I'm gonna walk home, walked with Sus.

I just want to give him credit because Sus walked to the studio and he did not eat lunch today. He opted out of lunch today. He opted out of lunch today. Unprecedented. Unprecedented. Honestly, I offered him stuff

and he didn't even take it. He didn't partake in anything. I do think that he got a few whiffs in, like a few sniffs. So I think that it was still worth it for him for the sniffs. Like he was like, do you know what I mean? He was definitely whiffing.

Yeah, he was whiffing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know my theory? What's that? He left headgum straight to silver like ramen. With the Doughboyz credit card? Yeah. All right, all Yeah, that's good.

No, good for Sus. Good for him, because this is a heavy meal, and this is the big thing. I do really like ramen, I do really like pho, I do really like a soup as a meal, but it is a, that can be a day-runner for me. That can be a day-ruiner for me. Like that can be like, just like such a heavy thing

where like I'm just, I'm ingesting so much salt and starch that I just feel really weighed down. So I have to pick my spots when I do it. Even though I live within walking distance from a really nice, from a really good like local ramen shop. But I'm like, this has to be like a once every two weeks, once a month indulgence as opposed to a regular meal. No, of course.

And I will say, so I appreciate, you know, doing the midday ramen. I did get the curry. I tried the curry because I was like, you know, I don't know if I can do the full dipping ramen and I've tasted that and I love that. So I'm gonna try something new here. I didn't realize they had such an extensive menu.

And so yeah, I got the karage with the curry, Japanese curry, which I really like. And I, you know, I'm the karage with the curry, Japanese curry, which I really like. And I'm always stocked with some curry blocks for in the pantry and that's a good go-to for me. And I thought they did a good job with that. So, yeah. Is that the curry blocks you got? Is this specifically a Japanese curry?

It is specifically Japanese curry. So, yeah, there's like, you know, Vermont or something. That's like one of the brands. I don't know why they call it that, but it is Japanese curry. And then you, you know, like chip off the little blocks and then you melt them in the pot with all your onions and everything you need to make a good little curry sauce.

It's like a smaller scale version of Panera's operation. You bet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like personal little blocks. They got to slice up the cheese and broccoli and get me some of that. I've had Japanese curry, like I'd had it's like personal little blocks. Wow. They got to slice up the cheese and broccoli and get me some of that. I've had Japanese curry, like I'd had it a number of times, but what got me into it, where I was like really fixated a while, was the video game Persona 5 Royal,

where you have a coffee and curry shop that you work at. And there's so much like coffee and curry in this, like I got to be having curry. So I was eating curry all the time. Wow, that's great. I was playing that game. Oh, you were? Sounds like a good combo. I didn't know if it was just you were just eating it in the game. No, I'd be having curry. So I was eating curry all the time. Wow, that's great. I was playing that game. Oh, you were?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know if it was just, you were just eating it in the game. No, I'd go to like Curry Curry of Tokyo or whatever. Like I'd go to some curry place and get, it's like, it's so great. I like it, it's such a great dish. And especially you get it like, yeah,

you get like the fried little cutlet and then you have the dipping sauce. So you're getting both the texture and the sauce. It's delightful. Yeah, yeah. When Silver Lake Ramen first opened, I believe I went with Bobby Lee for the first time I ever went there.

Wow! Wait, what, did we do it? No, we didn't do it. We absolutely did not cover it on the podcast the first time. Silver Lake Ramen was founded in 2012 on Sunset Boulevard, not far from Headgum. It's actually the original location is a stone's throw from where we record every Doughboyz episode.

And this is the other thing. Contra its name, Silver Lake, the neighborhood in Los Angeles, this is now a national chain. There are, Silver Lake, the neighborhood in Los Angeles, this is now a national chain. There are restaurants in California, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. Did you have any sense that Silver Lake ramen blanketed the country?

Cause I had no idea. Isn't that wild? No. And also I didn't like it the first time I had it. And I haven't eaten, like you said, I don't eat a ton of ramen just because it is such a heavy meal. But I do like, when it comes to the tastiness level, I am like, this is maybe the best, you know what I mean?

Like it is so great. Yeah. But I had Silver Lake Ramen at that location with Bobby and I was like so, so on it. And I loved daikakuya, which we were talking about, which I didn't realize was, you were saying is a pretty big chain. Yeah, I think it's an international chain.

But that's, there's one in Little Tokyo, in downtown LA, and I love that place. And I still think we should review it at some point. I think that that place is like the best, and this felt like, I was like, this doesn't feel like as authentic or whatever to me. This feels like a hip Silver Lake spot. And then today, eating it today, I was like, this is damn good. I mean, it's really good. It's also right near that original location, right near my favorite pho spots, pho cafe. I don't know if you've ever had pho cafe. It's great.

I have not. The thing about Silver Lake Ramen, yes, Mitch, I also initially approached this, you know, when I first heard about it with skepticism because it's named after a gentrifying neighborhood in LA or fully gentrified now neighborhood in LA. You think it's going to be like, oh, this will be like the gentrified ramen. But the founders are like ramen enthusiasts,

Chef Jitek, who was an LA restaurant veteran, and then Chef Thomas Iono, who grew up in Japan. So like, and he studied under like a ramen master in Japan. So like there are some real bona fides culinarily for their product, which I was surprised to learn. And yeah, they're about 30 locations. There are four more in the works. So here's the thing I will say about ramen for me.

Like since I haven't been eating pork, this is one dish where it's a big hindrance because a lot of the pork, a lot of the ramen bases are pork, you know? And so it's just hard to find even a broth that you can have, even if you're not having pork, the protein. I have, there was a time when I was giving myself a little bit more leeway with like pork bright white products

and stuff, but I'd be gotten a little bit more strict about that. So this place does have a chicken shoyu broth, which I've gotten before and which is good, which I like, but for today I tried their veggie broth, which I've had some veggie ramen's that were pretty flavorless. This one, which has a miso base, not bad actually, honestly, pretty savory, pretty flavorful.

And it had just like a, just a whole fucking garden in here, bean sprouts, corn, mushroom, tofu, broccolini, baby greens, kale, red cabbage and avocado. Uh, we got everything to go. So it came with the broc, the broth package separately. So I'm looking at all these fresh vegetables

sitting in, you know, my dry bowl with the noodles and I'm worried about what's going to happen when I just pour this broth over it. But you know what? It held up all pretty well. Is that it was a, the. It was the vegetables they picked, particularly the broccoli, and you really, really worked and held up the texture.

Where did you spill though? I was just trying to eat it, and they just splashed it over myself. Oh, that's what happened. I spilled when I was trying to sip from the bowl, and then my bowl fell over it, but it fell into another container, like we said. Yes.

And then there was ginger in there, and it tasted pretty good. Yeah. I got the, what was the one I got? It's spicy, should we talk? We should talk about this, right? Yeah, we're getting into it. I good. Yeah. I got the, what was the one I got? It's spicy, should we talk? We should talk about this, right? Yeah, we're getting into it. I had the spicy.

It's the Blaze Ramen, right? That's what it's called, the Blaze Ramen, which has like a good bit of spiciness in it, but really nice broth. Yes. The broth was like creamy, but also spicy, and it was a nice pork broth. I thought it was almost eggy tasting, which I liked.

There is that egg in there and I think a lot of the yolk did fall out into it when I poured the broth on there. But damn good wags. It was a really good ramen. It was a great outing for this place. Yeah, I've had the blaze ramen before and then there's also a spicy show you they do that they've had. And yeah, it is, you know, I'm a bit of a heat seeker.

And you can jack that heat intensity up pretty high there. Which I do like, yeah, this is a Sierra question for you. Cause like, I really do like spicy, but I feel like if I go to the hottest level of ramen or something like that, it's usually like, I'm just getting spice with every bit of broth and I'm just like crying and dripping, like my nose is dripping,

I'm just not enjoying my meal anymore. my nose is dripping and I'm just not enjoying my meal anymore. So I just feel like I go like one notch below, you know? I think that's good. Yeah, yeah, you gotta excrete everything so you can get rid of the spice. Yeah, I mean, I can't, yeah, I never go too crazy

with the spice. I think ramen doesn't go as high as like some other cuisines, but you know, there is this place in Little Tokyo called Orochon Ramen, which has like a spice challenge. And like, I'm not much of the spicy type, but my fiance is, so he has tried to do it and couldn't do it.

It was like, it was, cause it also comes out piping hot temperature wise. And I think there's just something with that combo, right? It really like synergizes into like intense, you know, heat. So I think, yeah yeah ramen can get pretty intense if you go to a certain level of like both hot and spicy Blaze was pretty the the I got had that was a medium heat and it was pretty it was Pretty spicy not like crazy, but it was pretty spicy. Yeah, speaking of spice. So we should mention you're wearing a sriracha t-shirt Oh, yeah. Yeah, thank you. It was hell for spot spot Yeah, yeah, my parents went and did a tour of the little

The plant in Irwindale back in the day when they were doing I don't know if they're still doing open tours or whatever But yeah, they got some merch So this is one of the things a nice shirt and I do rep the whole phone foods Specific rooster sauce Wow, but you know open to all open to foods specific rooster sauce. Wow. But you know, open to all. Yeah. Right. That's my favorite one. Yeah.

I mean, you know, it's the most recognizable. They've got chili garlic sauce too and some other good products. I do like the chili garlic sauce. Yeah, yeah. It's like the Coca-Cola of Sriracha. It's red and white. Right.

Yeah, they do that. And then, you know, I was free to watch one time for Halloween, so that's also, it's also a good use of this. You were Sriracha for Halloween. Yeah, you just that. And then, you know, I was Sriracha one time for Halloween, so that's also a good use of this. You were Sriracha for Halloween? Yeah, you just get one of these and you get a green beanie, and it's pretty simple. That's a good costume.

Yeah, it's a go-to, very comfortable. And also, for a while there, they don't have Sriracha, the word patented, so there's a lot of Sriracha sauces out there. Yes, yeah. But then, you know, you just... Baby for me, I was a baby quite a few years in a row. Oh, yeah, yeah. People are like, nice Halloween costume.

I'm like, it's Halloween? Yeah. Just came out in a bonnet and a diaper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wives, what are, would you ever do a Halloween costume? I've never done a Halloween costume. You ever done a food-based? I actually did do a food-based Halloween costume

in middle school. I probably said this on the podcast. Yes. Where I was a serial killer. Oh, yeah, you have told that. You have said that. I probably said this on the podcast. Yes. Where I was a serial killer. Oh yeah, you have told that. I had the little boxes. Oh, knives too? And then there were like plastic knives

or forks I think in each one and then there was like blood coming out of them. My mom was a teacher, she was smart to not. But it was like the small boxes. Yeah, I know what you mean. Oh good. So I was a serial killer. No, I have not done a costume as a-

Pretty fucking cool. Yeah, it's cool. The girls went, the ladies went nuts over it. Yeah, I mean, I like it. I'm a serial killer. And like eating cereal out of my fucking shirt. Pretty cool. Everyone wants a thinker for a Halloween costume.

It takes a second for you to put it together. I have not done a Halloween costume I've never done as an adult. The thinker. Oh yeah, that'd be a fun one. Iter for a Halloween costume. It takes a second for you to put it together. I have not done a Halloween costume I've never done as an adult. The thinker. Oh yeah, that'd be a fun one. It'd be a good one. Good to show your hog? So you like paint yourself white

and just have your hog out? Yeah, I think we got it. Right, yeah. So I've never done a Halloween costume as an adult. It's actually like, it's interesting to have witnessed it turn into an adult holiday because it used to be a kid's thing, you know? But I was a, but I'm just like, I don't fucking go out.

What am I gonna do? I mean, what am I gonna dress up and go out someplace? Just don't do that. I felt the same. It was only a couple of years into college where I was like, oh, people are doing this. Oops, I gotta like, I should do this. I actually do remember one.

Me and my buddy, Brandon Warts, who listens to the podcast, what's up, Brandon? We went to, the, uh, we went to a college party and we were, um, pirate mummies. So that is one, one that I did. Yeah. What was, what did that entail? Um, toilet paper and then aluminum foil swords. Nice. I'm not sure if I have little eye patches, too.

Okay, yeah, that's what I was wondering. Poor Brandon, you're in there with a fucking glass of milk at the party. Yeah, Brandon, ditched the milk, man. Then of milk at the party. Yeah, I'm afraid. What the fuck are you doing? I'm afraid to touch the milk, man. Then they see the serial killer and they're like, well. I'm sure he's also like, friends. How close were you?

Were you close? You've met him. He's come to double shows. No, I know, but I'm saying- No, we're good friends, very good friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, he doesn't work in video games, right?

No. What does he do? I don't want to need to dox him. Dox the hell out of him. He really dox him. Dox him. Where does he live? Where the fuck does he live? Don't worry about need to talk to him. Talk to him. Where does he live? Where the fuck does he live?

Don't worry about it. We should know. But yeah, he came to you've met him. He's come to do it. I do remember meeting him. I was shocked that you had someone come to a show at all. Me too Mitch. Natalie doesn't want to come.

I don't blame her. I don't blame her either. I had the. Don't bother her. She's busy. She's tired. she's busy. She's tired. She's busy. She's busy. She's busy.

I had the Blaze Ramen with Pork. Yeah. And I got a spicy chicken bun. Bun. And I got the grilled gyoza, which is oftentimes I feel like it's just pan-fried gyoza. It's funny they call it grilled here, but I think it's just to make sure that you get the right one because they have the pan-fried gyoza. It's funny they call it grilled here, but I think it's just to make sure that you get the right one, because they have the deep-fried gyoza.

We were talking about this beforehand, Wax. The, it was, you know, steamed dumplings, pan-fried, or all fried. Where do you stand? Amelia coined this, and I will be with her. I think I am Team Steam. Team Steam. Well, choice, well, choice. Team Steam is, and Emma, you were Team Steam. Yeah. Both choice. Both choice.

Team Steam is, and Emma, you were Team Steam as well. Yes. Yeah. I like the pan fried. I like one seared side. I'm on that. I think you put it perfectly. Best of both worlds.

Yeah, you get a little bit of the crunch, but also the soft of the steam. I understand, like, if you go full crunch, you know, full deep fried, it gets a little too much, maybe, overwhelmingly. Right, too much. Yeah. It crunch, you know, full deep fried. Yeah, it gets a little too much maybe right too much Yeah, it was like actually getting fried or deep fried or whatever. I that's that I don't want that art So our downstairs neighbor was having that. Yeah, this happened yesterday our downstairs neighbor Like what with the buildings been having some plumbing problems. Her sink was clogged or kitchen sink was clogged with the buildings been having some plumbing problems. Her sink was clogged, her kitchen sink was clogged.

She does not speak any English. And so we, Natalie and I helped her like, with Google Translate, she speaks Mandarin, tried to like get through and talk to a plumber and we got a plumber there, got everything resolved to say thank you, yeah. You know how there's like a neighbor like hitting the ceiling with a broom

because they're too loud? She's like hitting the ceiling with a broom because they're too loud? She's like hitting the ceiling with a broom because she's like, it's quiet up there. What the fuck's going on? They die? What happened? But anyway, so she, as thank you, as a thank you last night, she brought us dumplings

and they were pan fried and they were like, they were like fresh made, like homemade dumplings. They were delicious. The chicken and shrimp, they were like fresh-made, like homemade dumplings. They were delicious. The chicken and shrimp, they were so good. Oh, that's nice. We can go down there with your Google Translate letter and all your steam, team steam, you fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I'm not doing that. Hey, throw it in the back of your face. Yeah, yeah. No, I was saying that could potentially make me, that experience potentially could make me a convert. I'm saying it was such an excellent dumpling. Yeah. That's good, yeah. But it didn't, you're Team Steam.

Right, right, right. Yeah, I'm still Team Steam. Oh no, she's not listening. I'm Mr. Soup and I'm Team Steam. Ha listening to Doughboy, who's trying to learn English and listen to Doughboy's. Yeah, yeah, she's going to have some great vocab. Veggie ramen was, it was a quality ramen and I would get it again if I wanted something that was both a little bit lighter and didn't have any animal proteins.

We got some karage, we got the fried chicken with the aioli sauce, got a little lemon to squeeze over it. Yeah, it was nice. I mean, this and then the California cut roll, which we got, and then also the crispy rice with spicy tuna, they were all things where like, these are all competently made and these are all good. Do they need to be doing any of these?

And I guess there's probably just a demand for it. Yeah, I think you can cut the sushi. I mean, it's so clearly like someone wants to get ramen and then their significant other wants to not eat as heavy and get sushi or something. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it covers that. And then I wonder sometimes like, I sometimes when I'm, if I'm eating with somebody who maybe isn't familiar with Japanese cuisine or something, like they'll expect,

you know, a certain thing. So it's like, oh, we're going to Japanese. Oh, well, can I get sushi? And it's like, oh no, this is like a curry place or something, like they'll expect, you know, a certain thing. So it's like, oh, we're going to Japanese. Oh, well, can I get sushi? And it's like, oh, no, this is like a curry place or something. Right. So maybe it's just there to kind of like catch all, you know, like, hey, if you want to ease your way into ramen, like start with the California roll. Yes. And then find your way to, you know, blaze.

That's that's how I that's and I started with a California. I was talking about this on the way over here today. Just the first time. Yeah, California. I was talking about this on the way over here today, just the first time. Gateway. Yeah, that was the big gateway. This felt like, did you call it sprouts? Yeah, and I like a sprouts grocery store sushi, but it felt like kind of that tier.

I'm not even saying that as a negative, I'm just saying there's so many great sushi restaurants you can go to here. I said it was like the most non-sushi sushi I've ever eaten. It tasted like I was eating almost nothing. Right. It wasn't bad tasting, but it was the worst thing I had, probably.

Yes. I thought that the spicy tuna on the rice cake was good. Great texture to it. And I thought the buns, I think the spicy chicken in the bun was actually kind of works more at the restaurant. And I think that, you I think like the the spicy chicken in the in the in the bun was actually kind of works More at the restaurant and I think that is you say is it karate? Yeah, I mean it fair to karage I don't know the actual car. Yeah, I think that kind of works there, too And it's in a lot of different dishes

And I think it tastes good the sushi just feels like kind of the odd man out Yeah, and I I don't I don't I mean hey if it works and it's selling for them then it then it works But to me it was the worst thing that we had today. I thought that those, I thought those grilled quote unquote dumplings were great. Yes. Do you like them Emma, right? Yeah they're pretty good. Yeah they were good.

Yeah. Yeah maybe not great, but good. I think when something like that travels you lose the crunch you get if you had it, like the point of pan frying it is the like little crispy side, it's not as crispy when it's traveled. But not bad. Emma, you were saying this place is a regular haunt for you. It is, Mike and I will get this for dinner like probably once or twice a month.

Wow. Partially like the bowl I got today, partially because it feels, ramen not so light. But the bowl I got today is just like a ground ginger chicken with like pickled ginger and scallions and scrambled egg and some rice. It's like a ramen not so light. The bowl I'd say is just like a ground ginger chicken with like pickled ginger and scallions and scrambled egg and some rice. It's like super simple. So like, if I don't feel like cooking, it feels like a takeout meal I can get, but I

don't feel as guilty about it. It's not like as heavy as like a ramen could be. So I love it. I think that you're right that some of that, but I think some of the stuff works a little bit on the menu. I like that there's options to get some other stuff. No, I agree I think I do think I do agree with you the crispy rice with the spicy tuna did have like a nice texture to it and Gyoza, I mean I think with those two as apps you'd be good to go

You know like I don't you know if you need this the the the the buns or whatever, but I don't know It's it's all I don't like those trap like I like those better at a restaurant but I don't know. It's all- Those are another thing that I don't like those travel, like I like those better at a restaurant. I don't like those as takeout. I don't think they do as good. Yeah, no, I know what you're saying. But the food was pretty hot.

It's right down the street and we got it basically right as it opened. But I just shot a bubble out and it floated away. I thought it was a fly. I know. But- You saw it, you saw it. I saw it, but I thought it was a fly. You could have said nothing. I know, it was a bubble. Yeah, it was a fly. But you saw it. I saw it, but I thought it was a fly. You could have said nothing.

No, it was a bubble. Yeah, yeah. A bubble just floated out of my mouth. Do you eat soap for breakfast? Did I have any soap today? I think I did. Somebody washed your mouth out after you cursed. My mom used to do that.

Did you get soap ever? I got it from my grandma, yeah. From your grandma? Yeah. Damn, grandma's supposed to be nice. Then you bought her a car out from under her. Is that what happened? Yeah.

I took her for a ride. I'm like, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm supposed to be nice. Then you bought her a car out of Munder. Is that what happened? Yeah. Took her for a ride. No, like I remember, yeah, that was the one time I did it. I can't remember what I said, what curse word I said,

but my grandma was babysitting me and washing my mouth out with soap. Or maybe like I think just rinse out my mouth with soap. I think I had to do it myself. It's probably radical of you coming home rinse out my mouth with soap. I think I'd do it myself It's probably radical you coming home from college not with milk My mom would do ivory soap sometimes oh sure and that would get you yeah, or they they they scrape it on your teeth Oh I never get that for all listeners parents used to beat their kids

I listeners, parents used to beat their kids. That's what used to happen. It was fine, it was normal. Right, it was normal. At least they could. I do think that one time my mom or dad did that and I was like, oh, this like sucks. And they were like, hmm. I think they like scared them into never doing that again. Oh, right, yeah. But anyways, I did not eat soap today. Okay. It was just a cool bubble, you missed it.

I, everything here today was impressive. I thought all the food was good. I, there wasn't really, the sushi was the worst, but it didn't taste bad to me. So. Yeah, I don't think I've ever been to another one, is the thing. Cause for a chain, like we,

so we're talking about the original location here, again, it has about 30 of them. I don't know if I've ever been to one of the other ones in LA. And so I don't know if they, but I assume they've, they've kept the quality level well, if they've been able to scale up and stay profitable. I don't know if they, but I assume they've kept the quality level well, if they've been able to scale up and stay profitable. I don't know. Right. I mean, I wonder like, is this full menu available at others?

Because I kind of, I honestly never had a lot of the, I didn't know they had the curry until today. So like, I wonder if when they open, do they do like a soft or just, you know, just the goods, the ramen and the Sukumon everything. And then, you know, if it does well, they're like, hey, we'll throw in the sprouts roll. Yeah, do they have a much, I mean, that's the other thing with the original location,

sometimes has a much larger menu than the other one. So I don't know. Yeah, cause it is just packed all the time. So I wonder if they just felt like, oh, maybe to like take the weight off of these big pots of ramen, we should add some stuff. That is an issue for me is that it's packed and also the location is just kind of hard to get to.

Right. LA only parking lot, you can't park yourself. And there's not a lot of seating, it's not a big spot. By the way, I just want to tell you that Jemmy readjusted herself and she's resting her head on my arm. It's really cute.

She's so cute. And so I am just very nervously don't want to disrupt this. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I am stuck like this forever. You know it by the end of the episode give yourself a stranger With jemmy's paws Nick I mean your arm would be numb. Oh my god. Yeah, dee, yeah. Oh boy. Oh, you cannot jerk yourself off with my dog. I would never. Nick is out of his mind.

I didn't say that. Doggy stranger, no thank you. Say no to that. Stranger danger, John, run. No. No. A doggie stranger? So you're making your dog's arm a paw numb? To confuse them?

Sitting in Wally and Irma's paws. Kiddy stranger. Look, none of that's going to happen. I think we should get to our final thoughts on Silver Lake Ramen. So Siri. that's gonna happen. I think we should get to our final thoughts on Silver Lake Ramen. There's no animal, there's no, we don't do any animal stuff, Nick and I, okay? We'll eat an animal, we're not gonna fuck an animal.

No, right? We draw the line. We kill them and eat its flesh, but I'm not gonna engage in carnival relations with them. But then when you think about it, is that what's worse? What's worse, honestly? You know? So then when you think. But then when you think about it, is that what's worse? What's worse, honestly. You know?

So then when you think about that. When you think about it. Eating them is definitely the good one there. Okay, okay, okay. If I was a bull, I'd rather be sucked off by a guy than be slaughtered for my meat. I agree with Wags. I mean, honestly. I guess so.

Well, you say that now. When faced with the circumstances, who knows? A bull sees me approaching. Take me to the slaughterhouse. I'm not going to suck off a bull. Right. You're not going to? No, I'm not going to do that.

I'm not going to do it. Ever? I probably won't do it. I mean, Mitch, you sucked off a pony, right? That is true. It's not true that you sucked off a pony. It's not true. You told that story.

That's a story that you made up. I lied that I sucked off a pony. Sierra doesn't know the backstory here. I joked that I sucked off a pony at the wedding. It was a joke. You didn't actually do it. Okay. You ate the pony. You ate the pony. Yeah, we ate the pony. it was fine, it was normal. Wigs, I got a problem.

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right. Your thoughts on Silver Lake Ramen, your fork score from zero to five forks. You are our guests seated to my right. Your thoughts on Silver Lake Ramen, your fork score from zero to five. Amazing. Okay, so big fan of Silver Lake Ramen. You know, I've sung the praises of their Sukhumvit, which I've had in the past. I think what I'm liking about it is, you know, they have, well, now I learn, you know,

some good cred in the founding chefs. And I think they bring, you know, I think they are bringing ramen to the great ginger fried neighborhood of Silver Lake and beyond. And you know, I think they were such a crucial delivery service, you know, during the tough times, getting a little nice ramen comfort food at night during the pandemic was really nice.

And then, you know, today I tried the curry. It wasn't like my favorite curry, but again, it's not their specialty. And I think it's, it's cool that they're expanding out. But anyway, this is all to say, I think I'll go with four forks. Four forks. It's a fave of mine for sure. Very good score. All right, Swimman, what do you think?

I get to see how this place does as they, you know, it's just as they go towards that larger scale and they, you know, they're franchising this place and going across the country. I would love to try it in North Carolina for instance, see how it is. I mean, I don't want to go to North Carolina, but I'm saying, you know, I would like to try,

I would like to try a chain version of Silver Lake Ramen. It's entirely, they're in Atlanta. It's entirely plausible that you'd end up working in Atlanta again, and then you'd have a little taste of home there. Tomorrow War 2, maybe we'll see what happens. Again, I told you, Tomorrow War, it's like right there. Tomorrow War. Tomorrow War 2.

Tomorrow War 2. A really good, I mean, it's a good ramen. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I don't, I couldn't tell where, it's kind of a tricky one to give a fork rating to because I think it is four forks or above. So I'm gonna say that. Yeah.

I'm gonna say four forks. I'm gonna go to the handholding club with our guest. I think it's great. I would love to see how it is more as a chain, which I don't really know. I haven't eaten at this place as much. And I think of it like I love daikakuya and I think that is a better one. That to me is a five forker. So but Silver Lake a really strong outing for what it is. I think that they did a really good job. So four fours. Casey, you ever get a Silver Lake ramen?

Very rarely. I'm not a, I'm a soup skeptic. You're a soup skeptic. I'm not, I'm not a, if I'm eating a meal, I don't want it like a water-based meal. Interesting. I don't want to be filling my stomach up with liquid. Yes, right. Smart. You know could be eating more carbs or something.

Yeah. So it's like a pretty occasional thing for you. And Emily, this is a frequent spot for you. I mean, where do you all end with fork scores? I would give this probably like four forks. I think it's a good spot. It's good. I mean, I've only had the ramen a few times

and it's not the best ramen I've ever had, but it's good. So like for a neighborhood spot. I's not, I've only had the ramen a few times and it's not the best ramen I've ever had, but it's good. So like for a neighborhood spot. I also didn't know it was a chain until you said it, we could do it on the pot. I thought this was the only one for the longest time. So it floored me that it was such a big chain. So for, I mean, for that, it's pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah, Casey, you got a four score or you haven't had it frequently enough? I haven't had it frequently enough, but it is good. And I I think I would also go four. Amelia also landed at four forks. She was at 3.75 and then talked herself, I didn't persuade her at all.

I was just like, she was like 3.75. She's like, hey, but I wasn't really craving it today. So that probably affects thing. I'll go right at four. So I think four forks is kind of like, it feels like four is the floor right here. But here's the thing, I'm Mr. Soup. This is kind of my thing, right?

So I'm the ultimate arbiter of whether the soup is, fits the Golden Play Club or not. Like I'm kind of the authority. Yeah, I guess now you're the authority, even though you order salads, whether you offer your soup or salad. And you went from denying being Mr. Soup to being owning it. I'm, I own it. I should stop. salad. And you went from denying being Mr. Soup

to being owning it. I'm, I own it. I should stop. What was the other thing you're Mr. Soup and what else? You suck off bowls, what is this? What was the other one? That's what it was, yeah. Yeah, which is also kind of Mr. Soup in a way.

I think it was, but yeah. I do think this place is good. And I think that there is better ramen in the city, but in some of the cities that, that silver Lake ramen is there maybe isn't better ramen in the city. And that's part of an endorsement of the concept is like it is, this is bringing to, to your point, this is bringing ramen to the masses. I think this is bringing this, uh, more awareness of, of, of like a higher level and elevated version of this dish to, I think, a lot of people who maybe have not

encountered it. And it feels very approachable for someone who's maybe a ramen noob. And I think that's to its credit. And I think the food quality is high. And I was really impressed with their veggie ramen. So I will say four is the floor. This does belong in the Golden Plate Club.

I will be in the hand-holding club with everybody and say this is a four-fork chain. Wow. And then that's my assessment. I'm not going up to five, but I think this absolutely serves a point. Well-deserved. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, this is the thing. It's good quality food. How does this place accomplish what it is trying to accomplish? Like the whole thesis of this podcast is if you're a ramen place, you should be trying to do good ramen. And I think they are.

And I think that's the whole thing, right? It's like, what are they trying to do and how are they succeeding at that level? And I think they absolutely are here. This place does deserve a revisit in a not flagship location. Yes. I think it would be interesting to see

because maybe the floor Maybe the floor is just a floor and we go to the ceiling Could be maybe we go to that's what I'm saying. We might go to five I'd be interested to see what the El Paso, Texas. So it was Silver Lake ramen is also would just not very geographically Odd to see that. Yes. I know you don't want to go to El Paso, Texas. No, I don't but I was gonna say Here's the thing and I don't know if this, if anyone else clock this or anyone else thinks about this. Silver Lake, the neighborhood, two words, capital S,

capital L. Silver Lake, the ramen, one word. Silver Lake, all one. I honestly have changed my understanding of Silver Lake, the neighborhood, because I just think it's one word, yeah. I definitely think I've always written it as one word and never realized it was two. It's two discrete words, yeah. Fascinating.

Can I tell you my thoughts? Don't give a shit. That was our review of Silver Lake Ramen. Hey, it's time for a segment. I just had a thing I was going to say a long time ago, and it's not worth doing anymore. Okay, well, we can move on. So we've got a food related exam and Mitch and Sierra must compete for superiority.

It's Slop Quiz Extreme Close-Up Edition. These are compiled by Amelia. So Emma, are we gonna get these on the TV? Yeah, I'm gonna put these on. Okay, great. I'm just gonna stop for one second. I was just gonna say that when I was sucking off rodeo.

This is the horse, the pony that was talking about earlier. Not another thing. There's not another thing. Genuine saw me and that's where we got the inspiration. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, a banger. So thank you.

Just let you know that's where it came from. Stroking his chin like, hmm, okay. Okay. All right, I'm hearing this. Are we still rolling here? Yeah. Yes, it made it. Okay. All right, I'm hearing this. Are we still rolling here? Yeah. Yes, it made it in the show.

Yeah, thank God. I'm gonna cut it. Emma! Okay, so here's what you're, these are compiled by Amelia. So you're going to see a close-up image of a food stuff, and then you can buzz in with your name and guess what it is. This is so funny. So, and also feel free to describe what you're seeing for our listeners.

So first up, anyone can buzz in here. I mean, OK. I want to say Mitch. It's some sort of meat in some way. I was going to guess maybe like a burger or a meatball. What are you seeing here, like visually? It looks like a darker red Mars picture. OK, got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a picture of- Topography kinda looking thing. Yeah, yeah. Some cracks. Yeah, there's kinda a little crevice up at the top there. I think this is just where the burger is breaking or the meat. Flex of spinal cord.

Yeah, yeah, oh God. It is, I mean, I'll say this. It's a disgusting thing to look at, kind of. Yes. But I think that it is some sort of meat. I'm gonna say it's a disgusting thing to look at kind of. Yes. But I think that it is some sort of meat, I'm going to say it's a close up of a burger, just because I don't know. Okay, you're saying close up of a burger.

And yeah, we can- It might be a meatball too, I don't know. I was going to have you buzz in, but actually I think with the way this will work, I think you both can take a guess on each one. And if you both get it, you both get it. Sierra, you got any thoughts on this one in terms of what you're seeing? Yeah, I think, okay, so I mean, that was also my instinct was like meatball or burger, but if I'm gonna guess something different,

maybe a, maybe could we say impossible burger? That's fun, I like that. That's another alternative. Okay, we have two different burger varietals. We have a straight up beef burger and an impossible burger. You are both wrong. Emma, do we want to reveal what this is? Let's zoom out. Let's see this.

It is a brownie. A brownie close up looks like a burger. How about that? I mean, it doesn't have those tracks. Did it change colors? Can you go back to the last one? No, it did not change colors. Yeah, it's the lighting.

It did not. It did not. Nope. Wow. I like that big ass fork. Yeah, it's the lighting. It did not. Nope. Wow. I like that big ass fork there. It's kind of a small brownie, I guess. It's a small thin brownie. Yeah. Stunning.

This is fucking weird. Do you not want to do it? No, I know. I like it. OK, good. I like it. It's funny because when I was proofing these images, I thought this was the easiest one.

Oh, no. Well, that's good. Well, that's good. Not so hard. Well, that's good. And you know what, now we know what, you know, the first one you get in your, now we kind of get. Right. That's kind of our tutorial mission. Yeah, we're learning how to play the game.

Right. All right, let's get to the next one. Okay, ooh. Okay. I have a closeup of a... It sucks. I would just describe this as like, kind of like a green...

I mean, this is very funny, it's insane. A green shaft-like object very funny, it's insane. A green shaft like object. Yeah, it looks like the Hulk's dick or something. Yeah, it could be like maybe the Hulk's dick. Yeah, or I guess the Jolly Green Giant's dick. Yeah, Oscar the Grouch's dick. Yeah, could be Oscar the Grouch's dick. We're looking into the turtle's dick.

Pickle Rick's dick. Pickle Rick's dick, yeah, could be his dick. Ooh, pickle, you know what? Cucumber, Yeah, could be his dick. Yeah. Ooh, pickle. You know what? Cucumber. Mitch, cucumber is my answer. Mitch is guessing cucumber. Yeah, that's a good one.

I'm going to say, I'm going to say popsicle. Popsicle. I like that answer. For a weird separate take. I'm tempted to give Mitch partial credit. Is it a pickle? Because it is a sea vegetable. It is celery. I almost said celery. I swear to God. Yeah, I'm going to give Mitch partial credit because it is a sea vegetable It's peeled so that's tricky. Yeah, I almost had celery

When you said pickle Rick, that's when I went cucumber, yeah All right next image. Well, come on now Mitch you say well, come on now. Do you want to hazard a guess? I mean, the issue is that this is clearly melted cheese and I want to say it's pizza. But when you pull out, it's like, it was not, I think it was like on top of nachos or some bullshit. Right.

But I'm just going to stick with pizza. Mitch is saying pizza. Okay, then I'm gonna say lasagna. Lasagna. That's the other one that could be bullshit like that too. Oh, wow. It is pizza, Mitch is on the board. Good work, good work.

Well done, nice slices, cheese-a. Sierra, you have a lactose intolerance, do you still have an occasional slice of pizza? Oh yeah, yeah, oh, you bet, yeah, yeah. I carry my little lactate in my purse all around town, so. What's your occasional slice of pizza? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I carry my little lactate in my purse all around town. What's your favorite kind of pizza? I like a pepperoni pizza. Pepperoni, okay.

Yeah. Classic. All right, next up. We ate yesterday next to, oh. Peach. Damn. Sierra says peach right away. I agree that it's a peach.

Mitch is also saying peach. It's like that emoji. Let's agree that it's a peach. Mitch is also saying peach. It's like that emoji. Let's see, it is a peach. These are very... Now you know why they use the peach emoji. These are thick peaches. But then going out, that looks like my ass. Like the peach now does not look good.

That's like one of those open asses. You know what I'm saying? It's like a, like, it just looks like an open butt. You know what I'm saying? Yes, right, yeah. You know those butts that just have like an open butt? Open butt versus closed? I don't want to make anyone feel bad.

You mean like the way the flesh folds are, their butt is just kind of open? Their butt is just kind of open. You're not talking about someone doing a goatsie, like spreading their cheeks. No, no. I'm saying there's just the sort of butts that just kind of look always open. It's a naturally open butt. Like rusting, open butt.

A 7-Eleven butt. Standing still, Breeze hits butt hole. Yes, yes, yes. It's like a turd could just fall out sort of thing. Oh, boy. That's a lifestyle that, yeah, you've got to change your whole lifestyle. You know what I'm talking about.

You know that there's those open butt people that exist in the world. Wow, now I do. I wasn't thinking about cheeks flapping in the wind like that too much. I haven't flocked to many open butts, but I think I have an idea of what you mean. I haven't seen that many bare butts.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Come on now. We've seen quite a few. I've seen some butts. I just like the open butt is not a term that's new to me, but I'll look out for it. You know what I'm talking about.

I think I know what you're talking about. All right, let's like a wide crack. Fried chicken, Mitch. Oh. Yeah, we're looking at a new image here. So do we get to, can we guess same thing? Yeah, you can guess something. Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah, yeah, fried chicken. Two guesses for fried chicken. It's gonna be like cornflakes. Yeah, it's fried chicken. It, fried chicken. Two guesses for fried chicken. It's gonna be like cornflakes. It is fried chicken. Sierra has two, Mitch has three, I believe. The peach pit looks like a brain, doesn't it? Especially in that, you go back a couple. Can we look at the open body?

Look at that, doesn't it start to look like a brain? It's got those wrinkly things. Narly. Like a walnut. What if peaches are conscious? What if they're sentient? What if they have souls? They're thinking how open their butt is. Yeah, they're really embarrassed right now.

Yeah, they hate this conversation. All right, we were on fried chicken. Next up, close up of something. Oh, I know what it is, Mitch, raspberry. Raspberry, yeah. We had two guesses for raspberries and- See, we've gotten a lot better at the game. You can see the reveal.

Yeah. You are correct. Although, honestly, the zoomed out is not super illuminating. It also is not super clear what that is, but that is a raspberry. That's a little fucking whiskers. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't like that. Is that what's on them?

Yeah, yeah. Fucking gnarly. Little bug legs. Yeah, it looks like bug antenna. Yeah. Take my Gillette Mach 3 to a raspberry next time before I fucking eat that thing. It's nasty damn you upgraded to the Mach 3 Yeah, I'm on that Mach 3. You know I am someone's making money. They got it. They got him at Costco. All right next up ooh Some sort of red onion. I'm gonna go with That's a great guess

Sierra says red onion. I'm gonna go with, that's a great guess. Sierra says red onion. I'm gonna go with, this to me looks like a turnip or a beet. I'm gonna go, turnip. Mitch goes turnip. It is a red onion. Sierra takes it, it is knotted up at four. A little sprig of rosemary in that photo too. Yeah, that's true.

If you guessed rosemary, would you too. Wow. Yeah, that's true. If you guessed rosemary, would you have won? I don't think so. I would have given it to you. Yeah, I think you could. I would have given it to you. Wow, generous. I think you would have had to.

Because it would have been a surprise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, next up. I like a red onion. I like white onion now more though over the years. Interesting. Yeah. Okay, this seems like it has some-

How do you feel about that, Wags? What's that? I said I love red onion, and then I've gone to white onion over the years. I like red onion. They're so different. It's all contextual. Context, I think.

Yeah, that's a good point. If I had to pick one onion, I'd pick green onion. Well. I like green onion. OK, so we've got, because it looks like there's some sort of curvature here. This is tricky. Maybe some condensation on the exterior.

Yeah. I think this is a bottle. Pickle. Wow. Sierra says pickle. Right, we didn't have that before. That's interesting, because it tints green towards the bottom.

I think. I don't know this one as well. I'm going to say cherry tomato. Now, Sierra said pickle, but if this is pickle Rick's dick dick does she still get it? I think that's up to you. Okay I'll probably give it to her. Let's see Wow, it's kind of like a meat pickle It is a meat pickle it is on some surfaces reflecting kind of green that's so strange just a hot dog in a void Yeah, it's a so it's a single sausage. It's not even on the on a bun

It's just and it's just against like a blue sky background. This is like if you and I break into the matrix is what we'd see Fucking a dog in a void. Doughboy's arrival. And it's got like spritz on it, like it's slightly condensation. Yes, yeah, it's been sweating a little bit. Yeah. All right, that one was tricky, next up. It's like Wags and I under these lights.

This is another tricky one. They've gotten hard. We have a close up. Oh, I know, Mitch, chili pepper. Yeah, I was gonna say red pepper. Red pepper, chili pepper, let's see what the answer is. It's a raisin! It's a fucking raisin!

It was a little too wrinkly. It was a fucking raisin. It was too wrinkly. It was too wrinkly. But it could have been like dried pepper, like I understand that. Yeah, it would have been a pretty intensely wrinkled dried pepper.

Yeah, yeah. All right, next up. Hold on a second, can I also just say, that's a fucking nasty-ass raisin yeah that's that's looks like shit you don't want to get too close to a race it's like it doesn't it's a raisins are usually I feel like darker a darker hue I was a lighter this is more of a golden rays yeah this is this fucking this is a golden raisin this is a bullshit one you know it's bullshit

sort of I think this is a reasonable one spotlight on it back lit raisin Bullshit one, you know, it's bullshit This is a reasonable one spotlight on it backlit raisin go go back to the go back to the zoomed-in photo You could have gotten this. Oh, shut up. Could I got the colors? I could not have gotten it, but someone could have gotten it. This is a fair question Let's go, you know the answers. I do know of course you do all right next up you love fucking Wait, someone's got to drive this fucking thing you want to do it no I'm having fun if it's not a Nissan Altima. He's not driving So this is like mac and cheese or like a penne like Yeah, like a cheesy pasta. Yeah

Cheese or like a penne, like, yeah. Like a cheesy pasta. Yeah, a cheesy pasta. Can we guess cheesy pasta? Should we just do it together? Cheesy pasta. Yeah, cheesy pasta. We both want a point. Yeah, I mean, I'll give it to you.

It doesn't matter since you both because it's the same thing. It is specifically fettuccine Alfredo. Oh, interesting. I mean, that's a cheesy pasta. Yeah, it qualifies. That's what I meant. This is a, that is for sure Rumblies for me.

That is a, anytime I'm doing fettuccine Alfredo. Let me tell you, I want to fork that thing right in my mouth. It looks good as hell. Yeah, yeah. I'm sleeping for like two days though. By the way, I chugged that whole glass of water like an hour ago, and I was like, why don't it pee so bad? What happened?

It's fun being fucking stupid sometimes. This is why, I mean, Casey was right, no water-based lunches and water. Yeah, right, that plus the ramen. All right, I think we have one more. Actually, this last one is actually a tiebreaker. So this will determine it if you go different directions. Oh man. But close up on something, I will just say

this looks pretty nasty for our audio listeners. This looks like the nasty for audio listeners. I think I know what it is. I think it's I think it's say I think it's a walnut. Sierra guesses walnut. Yeah you know what you got it first and I think that you might be right but for the sake of it I should guess something different and I guess you're but you're right. You're 100% right. I'm going to just say mushroom to end the game. Let's zoom out. It is a walnut. Sierra wins. All right.

I threw the match at the end there, but I appreciate it. I should have just said walnut. We could have won together. I don't know why I did. But you know what? I made my choice. I wouldn't have liked that, I think. I prefer that. Ty goes to the guest either way.

So congratulations, Sierra. You went outright for a Slop Quiz Extreme Close-Up Edition. Just like a restaurant. That was good. You know what, I wonder, I've never thought about that before because it was fun visually, but is that bullshit for our listeners?

It might be, I don't know. Yeah, I think it might. I think we try to do it. On YouTube, the visuals will be there. Yeah, people can check out our YouTube channel. We talk about it too. I think we try to paint with words for people who are just listening on their commuter

and the camera or whatever. And it's like, that looks like shit. Yeah, perfect. Look at that, that's not a raisin. It looks like Raphael's dick. Yeah, yeah, whose penis is this? Who? Who?

Who had the biggest hog of the turtles? Donatello That was so fast Yeah, Bo Staff, come on He's also like the nerd The nerd has the big hog? Oh, you wish Fucking, that's bullshit Michael Angel, the party dude, has the big hog

No, he's like He's overcompensating No, we're not No, he's like he's projecting. He's overcompensating. No we're not. No he's not. All right, yeah maybe Donatello. You know what, Raph probably has the big one. Raph might have a hugey. You know the only person who knows Splinter. From when they were babies. Yeah, you remember he was changing their little diapers. Who. Nice. Oh, also his crank nose. Well, yeah, I mean, crank's a sick fuck. Yeah.

Yeah. Just like a restaurant with all your feedback, let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from Cody H. Cody writes, "'What up, doughboys? "'In your episode on Oakberry "'with Attaya Valkyrie and Johnny TV, "'Valkyrie edited you both on Calgary Stampede,

"'the flagship summer festival for my hometown. Each year, the Midway has tons of odd, delicious, and even out of this world food ideas that gain much talk in our city. The new food for this year was just released very recently, Calgary Stampede Midway Food, July 5th through 14th, featuring plenty of interesting choices and pickles, lots of pickles for some reason.

I wanna know which items have your attention, good or bad Reactions are both welcome Siri have you been north of the border much? No, not really. Yeah, I've never I've certainly never been to Calgary Mitch You ever been to Calgary? Is it Edmonton where I don't know which broach province. The answer is I have not been. This is this. Or Edmonton is a city in Alberta. I don't. Calgary might just be a province. These look insane, by the way. You got full crabs

hanging out of this thing. Calgary is a city in Alberta. Okay, got it. So I was I was kind of close by saying it was in Edmonton, although it was completely wrong because Edmonton is another city in Alberta. I'm the smart one here. I wouldn't know. You're the smart one here of what? What does that mean? You're sitting next to someone who went to Harvard. You're not smarter than them.

I meant of the doughboys. Who cares? I was just saying I don't know shit. Cowboyaki, little teriyaki donuts, Korean waffle are some of the ones that are up here. Cowboyaki, crispy on the outside and tender on the yaki, little teriyaki donuts, Korean waffle are some of the ones that are up here. Cowboy yaki, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, brushed with teriyaki sauce and salad dressing,

full with meat floss, seaweed strips and big chunks of octopus, pickled ginger and cabbage. I'm not that interested in that, but maybe, I mean, like all of these have to be probably pretty good, right? What are the little teriyaki donuts? Cause those just look like they don't. They are freshly made donuts,

lovingly drizzled with a secret teriyaki sauce. So they've kind of probably got like a, you know, I think that that was actually could be good. Honestly, I liked that over the cowboy-aki. Yeah, the cowboy-aki, the thing is I don't eat cephalopod. So I probably just would not eat that one. Sure. I guess it's probably like supposed to be kind of a take

on a, what's the, is it taco-yaki? Whatever that that dishes? Oh, yeah, yeah Fried we phrase meat floss kind of gets me that is a little yeah full full with meat floss. Yeah Oh, yeah, the Korean waffle is strange because oh wait. It's oh, it's a smash patty. Oh that could be good It was full basically a murk a burger on a waffle. Yeah, like that's I think that could absolutely and it has We talked about Korean barbecue. Yeah, that's okay. We were talking about with Korean of Korean food wise we went to a Korean food restaurant and And sometimes the savory time sweet combo can be to can be a little tough for me And I'm not sure my favorite thing

And that and so I wonder with the Korean waffle if you would get that at all. But some of these ones down below. Yeah, let's scroll a little bit more. We got a lobster bow. Like a lobster bow, of course I'd eat. Yeah, golden spider bow. I mean, is that a soft shell crab? That seems fun. Baller bow. We got a meat, scrolling down a little bit, we got a meatball mac and cheese. Yeah, 100%. A pulled pork mac and cheese

and a giant matzo stick on a stick. Yeah. I would totally do that. That's the three right there. I mean, it's sad because it's like the most boring Americanized food. Yeah. But like, yeah, I would eat all those things

and then love them. I always loved that we reviewed hot dog on the stick on the podcast previously, but they have the cheese on a stick. Yeah. Which I always like, because it's just either like a big, I think it's just Jack or American they got there, but just like a big semi-melted thing of cheese

that's deep fried. It's so disgusting, but it's delicious. All right, yeah, I'm reading the description on all these. So is this like, this has got to be like a kind of akin to a county fair sort of thing, to some degree. Like it's a rodeo, but it's also... Yeah, like it had that signage. Yeah, it's like fair adjacent. Did you ever go to a fair?

Oh yeah, I've been to the OC fair, the San Diego fair out here. Yeah, what do you like to do at a fair? I'll do like, I'll do some of the little games. I'm not trying to go on the rides, honestly, but yeah, I'll eat some deep fried things, get a funnel cake, go to the, yeah, throw some darts at some things,

try to win some stuffed animals. Yeah, oh yeah. Never do. I love that, okay. Our, like, we have more of a Bradley Cooper relationship with Fairs, the, like, we're a biting chicken's heads off, basically. Oh yes, right, like geeks, yeah.

What does that movie call that? We're more of a Nightmare Alley sort of. Nightmare Alley. Fair going, yeah. Got it, got it, got it, perfect. All right, so this next crew, yes, Sour Candy Soft Serve. That looks great. I mean, it looks weird. Watermelon Burger.

Okay, so I'm going to do it. A Watermelon Sesame Bun. They're literally slices of watermelon with a... Is there actual burger on there? I don't know if there is. No, so it's just... It says also available vegetarian, which makes me think there is actual burger on there? I don't know if there is. No, so it's just, it's like- It says also available vegetarian, which makes me think there is a burger.

Yeah, it's weird. It's got that on there. Served with feta spinach, fresh mint, and drizzled with, what is it? Balsamic reduction. Balsamic reduction. So they're just kind of Peter Northing that over the top of it. And they got a Chilean style hot dog over there.

That one looks awesome. I've never had a Chilean style hot dog. Me neither, but it looks fucking great. It's a little bit of a mature aioli, ooh. There was a truck that was near us for a bit. I don't know where it is now, but it was, they did Venezuelan style hot dogs, which I never had, and they have like potato sticks

on them, but it was good as hell. This stuff is like all interesting, but like besides the first row and all of it, I would happily eat Takis mini donuts. Takis mini donuts. Yeah, why not? What is that though? It's made with a, it's a, it's got Takis and a sauce. Oh like the Takis chips? Yeah, exactly. And then we've got an, this is from Avatarapizza. Wow. Avatarapizza. So hey, we were wondering if they had water in the Avatar world. Sounds like they have a pizza place. Sounds like they do. And they've got fire roasted gator Avatar a pizza. Wow. So, Hey, we run out of that water in the avatar world. It sounds like they have a pizza place and they've got fire

roasted gator pepperoni pizza. This is made with gator meat. Now that's something you can have down on the bayou. It's alligator pepperoni. Alligator. So I would have this because I don't have, I don't eat pork. So I actually haven't had pepperoni because pepperoni is usually made with the beef and pork combination. So like the haven't had pepperoni because pepperoni is usually made with

the beef and pork combination. So like, yeah, the idea of having a reptilian version of it, I'd totally do that. Are you gonna ever eat pork again? I don't know. I think it's good to like, I go through phases of like not eating things and then reintroducing them in my diet.

I don't know. Some stuff I don't ever really have a craving anymore. Is it because of, is it the ice cube thing? Cause you never eat a pig? Cause a pig is a cop? Is it that sort of thing or no? Well, I didn't think about it that way. But yeah.

Oh, wow. No, I just, I got, it's the same reason I don't eat cephalopods, octopus, and squids. It was just like reading more about brain function. Yeah, pigs are nice. Yeah, they're intelligent. I just felt, I didn't enjoy it. Oh, we got some more desserts here.

We got a bacon lovers churro sundae. Now that to me feels like it's past it's, like, we've just done so much bacon dessert at this point. Maybe it's a novelty in Calgary, but I feel like it's played out. I like that actually on the Cookie Monster churro sundae. Cookie Monster churro sundae looks good. Dulce de leche, ugh.

Me want cookie, me eat cookie. And they get a dulce de leche cookies. Yeah, the Cookie Monster churro Sunday has like a, it's like white with a bunch of like, it's like a vanilla base with a bunch of like actual chocolate chip cookies. It looks like there's churros put in there and then like cookie dough bites

as well as kind of a blue sauce all throughout. Mitch, it looks like the Cookie Monster freaking nutted in that thing. Do you know what's so bad is that? Because you know cum is the same color as fur. It's fur. Yeah. That's how it works.

You know what's so sad is that Ice Cube didn't say that. It was House of Pain. Way dorkier. Fits me though. From Jump Around. It wasn't even. This is, I heard house of pain Isn't from Boston. They're not yeah, isn't that crazy? They're either from New York or from California think they might be from California

And if they're always wearing like Celtic shit and like Chamrox and stuff what the fuck are they doing and he's whitey Ford Yeah, they really might know what it's like that guy Yeah, yeah, that guy remember the guy he sang sang the blues. Biscoff cookie mini donuts. Biscoff cookies, mini donuts. Oreo cookie mini donuts and lemon meringue mini donuts. I said Bischoff because I was thinking of Eric Bischoff. It's Biscoff. Biscoff.

Biscoff. Those all look great. And then, ube, we were talking about the last, I mean, snow cream looks great. Yeah, I'm pro ube. I think a big part of it is I just like the color. I think the color is fun. You like the color of it.

I like so-so on it, but I would eat both of those, of course. I do love Ube. Yeah. I'm less excited about the two Ube ones. Yeah. I think it could be good in that sort of cream frosting setting. Maybe it's too much in the coconut little donuts, and the donuts are

made of ube. Right. A bit of a hat on a hat. Yeah. That snow cream looks a lot like what they make in New Orleans. It has the condensed milk on it. Are they called snowballs I believe? Oh, it looks like it's from down in the bayou. They had those gator pepperoni on there. Bayou influence with a gator ravioli? I hate ravioli. Don't go up to Canada. They turn you into a pepperoni. That's what they do. That's the alligators warning each other. They listen to that maple leaf rag and they turn you into a pepperoni. Is it from Canada, the maple leaf rag?

I don't think so. I liked that. I actually am sad that you said the answer. Uh. I just asked. Stroopwafel. Stroopwafel, pineapple, orange chocolate, watermelon. Yeah, all this looks good.

Cheese, what? Cheeseburger ice cream? You read correctly. This no meat, vanilla infused, BBQ flavored ice cream is served in a waffle cone dunked in hot cheese and sprinkled with sesame seeds garnished with an onion ring and a pickle. Yahoo, that's fucking disgusting.

I don't know about that. That's a given. I would try it out of curiosity. But that's all of their sales are like, people being like, that looks disgusting, I gotta try that thing and then taking two bites and throwing it in the trash. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Churro fries, yes. And churro fries, that's a no brainer, yeah, I'd eat that. Is there more to the menu? We gotta stop at some point. Jesus Christ, there's so much. Wait, scroll down a bit and see how much there is. Cause we can't do all of this. Jesus Christ.

I don't know. That little spice. It just keeps on coming. It's all a surprise. I just stop. Let's just do a quick run of them, hold on. Chamoy lemonade, real mango. Yeah, we do all these.

Yeah, we do all these lemonades, yeah. We have bubble tea. Ferrero Rocher bubble tea. Yeah, we do all those. We do all those. Yeah, why not? Whipped lemonade, sure. Jack of the...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure, yeah. This is a good ticket value. Yeah, no further sm those. We do all those. Yeah, why not? Whipped lemonade, sure. Jack of the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, this is a good ticket to bow. Yeah, no, there's nothing wrong there. Yeah. Hot chicks, salsa fries. Yeah, why not?

I did all this shit. Cowboy candy, Colossal. Wait, cowboy candy, are those balls? I thought cowboy candy was like... No, it's not. I'm thinking Rocky Mountain Oyster. Yeah. Deep fried jalapenos, yeah.

I got Rocky Mountain... Cowboy candy? Oh, that might be it. That's what I'm thinking of. We do all this. We do all this. We do all this. No, it's not this deep and I'm thinking Rocky Mountain Oyster. Yeah Fried jalapenos. Yeah That's what I'm thinking of we do all this fish pakora. Oh, yeah That is what okay, yeah, I was wrong cowboy Twinkies

Tachana dynamite lumpia Corn dogs cowboy breakfast cornbread doughnut bowl Emma, will you just actually forward me this website? I just wanna look at this stuff. A lot of corn stuff. Yeah, I mean, all of this stuff looks good. There was like probably in total, like five things that I wouldn't wanna eat. Yeah. Maybe six.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not crazy about fried pickles. I'll have them. I love pickles, but just something about, I think the combination of, I think just a hot pickle I don't love. Mac and cheese popcorn chicken poutine sounds a hot pickle I don't love. Mac and cheese, popcorn, chicken, poutine sounds pretty dang good. I like fried pickle, I got it.

Yeah, that does sound good. These all sound good. Fried pickle. Yeah. Yeah, but I guess our answer, Cody H, is that we'd eat all this shit. Yes. Yeah, so yes, that's right.

What are you thinking? Of course we eat everything. Yeah, we eat all the bullshit in the world. Of course we're gonna love the, we eat all the bullshit in the world. Of course we're gonna love the fair. We like the fair stuff, Wags. Yeah, I'm down for all that. We're not gonna go to it. I'm not going.

We're not going. Although what's fun about this one is I think it's a rodeo and I'd be interested in like going to a rodeo. You all ever been to a rodeo? No, gotta go to my first rodeo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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plus our entire pre 2018 back catalog, subscribe at patreon.com slash doughboys. Our producers are my Erdbrink, our associate producers, Amelia Moreno, our engineers, Casey Donahue, and our video editor is Mike Dorfman. Our guests, Sierra Coteau. The specialist font. Tell everyone about it. I think it will be streaming of either shortly after or shortly before this episode releases and July 1, correct? Yeah, my special is called Funt, F-U-N-T. You can look for it right now. It will be streaming on Amazon Prime, I believe, July 1st. And yeah, my first hour debut comedy special. So lots of fun, please watch.

Congrats, people should check that out. Thank you. So fun to have you back on the podcast. Yes. Thanks for having me. Anything else you wanna plug? Oh, I guess, you know, follow me on Instagram. My name is Ciara Cotto, spelled S-I-E-R-R-A-K-A-T-O-W.

And I also have a podcast with Ify Wadiwe and Mike Caballon, where we talk about, we do a Top Chef Fantasy League. When we watch Top Chef, we do a Fantasy League, but we're also gonna potentially continue a year round, watch some other shows. Yeah, I think that's mostly it, but yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you for coming back. Uh, I forgot to mention,

I got the little soup slurp stains on my shirt from the ramen. I can't, I didn't really notice it until you pointed out. You know, the little slurp stains. I think my slurp stain got a tide penned out. Thank you, Ama for being on standby with this hide pen. By the way, I've never been to a rodeo, but I've sucked off a rodeo. So yeah, in some ways you have. I kind of have been to a rodeo.

Arroyos came to me, I guess, is the answer. Jesus. Ooh, yeah. Wow, wow, wow. Not everyone can say that. And hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time, for The Spoon Man, I'm Michael Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating! See ya!

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