Espresso - Green Ketchup Meatloaf (Best Meal Your Mom Made You)

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

The Fam put on a CLINIC with voice msgs this week 🫡  I'm still trying to decide if eating green ketchup meatloaf makes you a complete lunatic or a straight up visionary. BTW THIS IS A PRO PEAS PODCAST🫛 IF YOU DON'T LIKE PEAS GTFO. Quick question you tryna dig holes in an empty lot sometime?  Luh U💕-------------------------------------------------Send this to your homies to support the pod!https://www.patreon.com/benedictpolizzi ☕️FOLLOW ON IG https://www.instagram.com/espressobenny/💕 WATCH BENNY on FBOY & FGIRL ISLAND on HBO MAX🧢 "𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗗"𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟱𝟬% 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛 https://benedictmerch.com/-------------------------------------------------

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It's not a food podcast, but Lord have mercy, are we fat? Um, speak for yourself. I can't help it, all right? It's the only thing I think about. But man, the fire meal my mom used to make? The people don't know, bro. The people don't know. I don't even know if this is a thing or if my family just made it up.

I don't even know. why turkey tetrazini is the first thing that always comes to mind. Turkey Tetrazini. I don't even know what it was. And I think I just liked it because of the name. Turkey Tetrazini? I think it was just a bunch of turkey, like maybe cheese. Hold on.

I got to look this up. Turkey Tetrazine. It had like broccoli in it. Peas, bro. It was just a bunch of like, I don't even know. I think it was leftover. gang and the people the people don't know about that life people don't know about the life the best things i had growing up were kind of leftovers and i just didn't know i was just like i was just out

there i was just out there on the grind i was just out there eating and and little did i know it was leftover gang one of my favorite things for lunch i was kind of embarrassed to eat i don't know why we'd have barbecue chicken probably 17 nights a week and we just have grilled chicken, barbecue on them, that KC masterpiece. Ha, rah, rah, rah. Pretty good. Next day at lunch, my mom would slice it up. Put it in between two pieces of bread, put it in a Ziploc bag, boom.

And then every day at lunch, I'd eat it. And I, like, nobody, like, I was kind of embarrassed because nobody else, nobody else knew about that. Nobody else knew about leftover night before chicken, barbecue chicken sandwiches. Nobody had that. They had salami, turkey, peanut butter and jelly. I was out here. Eating adult food at lunch.

A little embarrassed. A little insecure about it. But I could just picture my mom making it with wet hands. Every time my mom made it, dude, I think my mom's hands are wet right now. My mom's hands were wet. 17 hours of the day. Oh, you need help with your homework. Let me see.

Her hands wet. Wet fingerprints all over my math homework every single day at school. What is this happening at home? I don't know. My mom's hands are always wet. Wet Ziploc bag. In my brown paper bag for lunch, wet. Everything's wet.

Wet, wet. Drips all over the placemat. I don't know. My mom was like washing dishes or something. My mom's hands, pruny, 257. Dude, the wet is hands. in the world. Leftover gang.

Some of the best meals I've ever had, hey, this isn't a fire meal my mom made, but leftover gang, when McDonald's would have 49 cent cheeseburgers and your mom would go to the drive-thru and buy 50 of them and then put them in the freezer and reheat them for like four months straight.

So you're just having McDonald's every day for four months straight? You know about that life? Yo. Same thing with Subway cupcakes. We've been around that block, though. Another fire meal my mom used to make double-decker grilled cheese. I didn't even know it was a thing.

I still don't even know if it's a thing. I don't even know if people are doing that. Are people doing that? I've never seen it. Since I was six, I never seen it. You slip another piece of bread in between that and put another two slices of cheese in there? And all sides of the bread's buttered? Are you crazy?

I was like, this is just a big, I'm eating a Big Mac. Bro, two floors? Ha, ha, ha. Let me take the stairs. Ha! I'm on the top floor. No neighbors. Oh my God, it was good.

Couldn't believe my eyes. Because I always had to have two. My mom was just like, I do, you know what it probably was. There was probably three pieces of bread left. And she's like, what are we going to do? Or it was like the butt of the bread, you know? I'm really trying to. figure this out now. What kind of mastermind thinks of a double grilled cheese?

Double decker. Every time I, every time I picture the double decker grilled cheese. I don't know why I think of Mark McGuire hitting a home run and going to the double the upper deck. Oh, that was every time I took a bite. McGuire. All right. Let's hear yours. It's a fire meal Your mom used to make It's not a food podcast And what are we doing? My mom used to make

We called it a poor man breakfast And it was with white wonder bread A fried egg And a piece of fried bologna All cooked in the same skillet Like separately And then she would stack it Face up with like just yellow French's mustard

Oh And it was so good God I love it Just randomly Dude, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, back that, back that up. Run that back, turbo. And it was with white wonder bread, a fried egg and a piece of fried bologna all cooked in the same skillet, like separately.

And then she would stack it face up with like just yellow French's mustard. And it was so good. Even as an adult, I love it just randomly. That's kind of, it's kind of a egg McMuffin. With the ham? I know, I know, I know. McGrittles get all the praise. Everybody wants to hang out with McGrittle.

Oh my God. McGrittle's so hot. McGritle's so sexy. McGriddle gets all the views. McGrittle's on the cover of all the magazines. But remember where McGrittle came from? Remember where McGrittle learned all his tricks? Yeah.

the McMuffin. Mm-hmm. The OG breakfast Sammy. The McMuffin? That's the only respect I'm ever going to give to the English muffin. That's the only reason the English muffin is where it is today is because of the egg McMuffin from McDonald's. Bro, you see an English muffin on a shelf at the store?

you're like, uh, maybe the most crumbs I've ever seen in the world. Top three. Crum ass food items. You got Nature Valley Bar, number one. You got an everything bagel. Number two. And number three, English muffin. Cut that thing open.

You're going to be sweeping for the rest of your life. Bro. English muffins are just in there's, what are they? nothing a little egg inside of there that's pretty much what your mom was making

Wonderbread fried egg and a little bit of baloney she said I hate baloney I don't really know I don't really know what it is

I did used to eat it but I didn't really know what I was getting myself into my grandma used to make bologna sandwiches and we were like oh god it's like shouldn't I like

not have a tooth if I'm gonna eat this or something egg McMuffin straight gas and it like the way everybody has like their little thing they do with the egg McMuffin too

there's always something my dad for some A the mustard mustard can pop different food items off you just got to know when to use it you got to know when

hey don't use it all the time but you unlock mustard in your food game respect you know ball yep Fat guy level two unlocked if you know how to use mustard the right way. I put, this sounds insane.

I put so many of my friends on mustard. Bro, my friends would come to my house and be like, man, I never ate mustard until I came to your house. I'd be like, that's what I'm talking about. You step in here, this is my house. You step in here, you're going to learn something. You step in here when you leave. You're going to be a different man. You're going to be a better man.

all because he had mustard on a ham sandwich one time. Bro, we were... Ooh! You put a spicy... That's my favorite condiment. Coming out here, shock in the world. Big, big, big statement right now. It's a big question.

You want to get to know somebody? What's your favorite condiment? It'll tell me a lot about you. I don't need a talking stage. What's your favorite condiment? Tell me, tell me. Like the thing that just popped in your head, say it. Spicy mustard.

What's my favorite condiment? Spicy mustard. What if I told you I order six bottles at a time? Because I can't find my spicy mustard anywhere. I'm buying in bulk. It's how much it means. I'm putting it on eggs. A, doesn't get old.

Sweet and spicy. not too spicy so I can just smash and not too sweet so I don't feel guilty. And it doesn't get eight. It's under five calories. See you tomorrow. What's your favorite condiment? Spicy mustard. Right.

You put a little spicy mustard on an egg McMuffin? Dude, my dad would put mustard on an egg McMuffin. Ew! When I was a kid, tried it when I was an adult. Guy knows ball. I'll never forget. I was trying to gain weight for football or something in high school. And like my dad's about it.

My dad's about nutrition. My dad's about food. He's like, dude, if you're, if you're, if I was ever hungry, my dad was coming with the food. No excuses. You just don't. Like, what's the point of being hungry? Eat, eat, eat. I always say that.

I'm trying to gain weight for football. I need to gain seven pounds for football. My dad would come to pick me up for school, drop me off at school with a bag of egg with muffins. jelly packets in there. Me and my homies, joking, putting strawberry jelly

on egg McMuffins and like, we're not just blopping, plopping jelly on egg McMuffins. There's art. It's an art form.

Yeah, and it all starts with the, oh, you open the packets. It's like you're decorating a cake. Yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah. You can even write a message on there. Yeah, yeah. A heart. Boo Boo's hungry. She wants an egg macmuffin. You put a strawberry jelly heart on there. Right before you close it.

She looks. Got this for you. Nah, but the girlfriend I had at the time smelled the egg macmuffin with the jelly and got so grossed out. And I was like, I don't think I like you anymore. If you don't like egg macmuffins with jelly on them, why are we even talking to each other? I don't like you anymore. Tater talk casserole with peas. If there's no peas, I don't want to be involved.

I think I got hooked on this when I had been sick for a while with like the flu or something. And it was my first real meal and I was ravenous and it was incredible. And ever since I asked for it when I come visit home and I'm 36 years old. God. There always is one thing you want your mom to make. And it always pops in my head like randomly. the other day, chocolatey clear cake. Text my mom out of nowhere.

Can you send the recipe for chocolatey clericake? And she sent it knowing I wasn't going to be able to make it good enough at all. I just need that. Chocolatey clear cake. God, I don't even know. Do people even know what that is? Do you know what I'm talking about right now? Talking to you.

You're listening to it while you're working out while you're in the car? Do you know what chocolate is? It has the graham crackers in it. Did your mom make you that? And I'm talking about 70. 30 gram cracker 70 30 is like the vanilla pudding and the chocolate frosting they put on top I want it to be I want a lot going on in there I don't want a lot uh I want a lot of I want a lot of crunch tater tot casserole dude just one of the most underrated things you always talk about

underrated foods. That's all I want to talk about. It's yes or no. Dude, but the underrated food, I swear, peas, man. And I swear if you don't like peas, I'll punch you in the face. And it means that much. It's that serious. If you don't like peas, you deserve to be, if you don't like peas, what's wrong? What happened? If you don't like peas, what happened during your childhood? Peas? You can put peas on a peanut butter and jelly and all smash.

You can put peas on a sandwich. Peas and whatever. Peas and pasta? My cousin came to my grandma's house one time. We had spaghetti with marinera. She put peas on top. I was like, She's playing chess!

She's playing chess! We're playing checkers. All right. Never forget. Christmas 2005. Nicky. Corner of the table. Peas on pasta in a bowl?

Different. Can't teach that, man. Can't teach that. You put peas on whatever. I'm good with it. Peas by themselves? Clear. You put a peas in the mashed potatoes.

Slide it up against the side. I'll build a brick wall out of peas on my mashed potatoes. Brick by brick. God, peas set it off. Turkey Manhattan peas on it? The people don't really know about Turkey Manhattan do that? Do we have to teach you about Turkey Manhattan? I thought, I honestly thought it was like some New York thing because Manhattan.

It's the most Indian a thing of all time. A piece of white bread with turkey mashed potatoes and peas on top. You get the thick cut bread? Oh my God. That's a, that's birthday. That qualifies for a birthday meal. Just kicka. Yo, yo, yo.

My mom used to make a pop over pancake. Okay. It pops up and over the sides like a muffin top out of a fat chick, right? But what it is is like flour, eggs and some other fucking shit, right? You throw it all in a bowl, you mix it up, frozen berries, pop it in the oven. And it comes out like, it. It's a dessert, but it's breakfast time. It's fucking amazing.

I'm looking at this. Do we know? Popover pancakes? He's talking about, it's like a bread bowl pancake. Little cave in there. You know when you dig a hole in the backyard and you're just chilling in it as a kid, it's not too deep.

That's the hole in the popover pancake. You ever sit in a hole under your backyard? What's up? popover pan. You're sitting in a pop over pancake. Actually, you're the raspberries in the pancake. It's good. Oh!

I know this is, this is side note. ADHD podcast, CTE podcast. CTE podcast right now. Hey, this is a major guy thing. You ever just get the urge to dig a hole? God! With one of those shovels and not even, with one of those shovels that looks like it's squared off at the end.

I want to hit rocks down there too there's certain times a day I'm like I could dig the shit out of a hole right now I know every guy feels that there's just like one time of the day you just get like a wave of like man I want to dig a hole you know sometimes you just get you just get a feeling as a guy and you just want to I just got to break ground

I just got to break ground A, and you hit them with this, you get one of those shovels, you put in the ground, and then you hit the pogo on them, and you hear, top five feeling, top five feeling. When you hit a good pogo shovel, and then you pop it out. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The boys know. This one's for the boys, all right?

This one's for the boys. sometimes you just got sometimes you don't leave me around a bunch of bunch of hard dirt in a shovel I'll go to work mm-hmm

mm-hmm oh my god if I was walking around and I saw a bunch of dirt on the ground just just solid dirt in a bunch of shovels I'd swear to God I'd call my friends

hey yo what's you doing damn dog you haven't called me in like seven years It's an emergency. I'm going to need you to... I'll drop that. Yeah, I'll send you the address. Just 17 year boys pull up.

What's going up? Is that a... Yeah, bro. You throw him a shovel. He catches it like this. He all just... No talking, dude. No jokes.

Just work... Just... for free. Ah! Hard work. We're getting tan. Nobody has a shirt on. You kidding me?

No shirts allow! There's just like one of those silver RVs nearby. You know I'm talking about? They look like a Tylenol PM pill. Silver RV. Nothing in it. Maybe some water, maybe, but it's a room temp. You don't even, you just drink it and you just spit it out and pour the rest of it on your face.

Right back to work for free. No W-9s, fellas. We're working for free today. It's for us. Dig the piss out of a hole. All right. Oh, this thing's on? Pop over pancake.

Never seen this in my life. I don't know if we know about this. I didn't know about this, but the picture I'm looking at right now, I'll put it on screen. Lou, hook that up. Popover pancake in a skillet with raspberries inside,

and it looks like it has a little drizzle on top. We all about the drizzle, baby. God, it pops it off. Pop over pancake. It just looks, it looks like a bread bowl, but it's a pancake, shallow bread bowl with berries inside. Babe, shut up, Ashley. You heard what I said.

We're not in France, babe. Let's keep going. Definitely had a few go-toes that she would whip out, but one that just sticks out for sure is, uh, she called it spaghetti pizza when in reality it was just like baked pasta, but, you know, you took like the spaghetti news. You couldn't do like the round ones. Like it had to be the long spaghetti noodles.

Throw some red sauce in it. Maybe a couple of mushrooms, whatever you like. You know, if we had some leftover steak, cut that up, put in it, cheese on top, bake it. Oh man, that shit slaps so hard. Like, you know, and it got better each day. It was in the fridge. So I'd get home from school. Cut up a square.

Put it on one of those like multicolored plates that. You know, you could go play frisbee with outside when you were done eating. This dude knows. Maybe throwing an episode of all that and munch that down before dinner. It was good stuff. And like, I'm 34 and shit. She still makes it for me. And it's still just as good as I remember.

But, yeah, spaghetti pizza. That was my shit. Still is. Hey, can we take a second? I love that dude's voice. He's coming on here dropping dimes. Yeah, yeah, no look, bounce pass on fast breaks. Yeah.

Right when you don't even see it coming. Pull little low-key oob, ha. Shia, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, ch. Brokey of the ear type numbers. Uh, yeah, dude. Never had that. Never had it. I've had baked spaghetti before.

Somebody put me on. One of the running backs in our, uh, on the, uh, on the, JV team I coach was like, bro, bake spaghetti, bake panet from Fizzoli's. And I was like, really? You know something? Like, I trust like high school kids more than like normal people, I think. Because when, when those dudes would tell me something, I'd be like, oh, he probably knows. Well, because they just have so much confidence in what they're talking about.

It's because they don't know anything ever, but. And I'm going to be honest, it was kind of trash. But he got me. I went. I went and tried it. And I tried it twice because I was like, maybe the first time it was just a bad batch. Dude, you ever so fat, you got to try it twice. First time, you know what, maybe I was just in a bad mood.

Let me give it a round two just in case. I tried it twice, pretty mid both times. But it was kind of like I know what you're talking about. You do the spaghetti pizza, though. It's like baked spaghetti, cheese on top. but you got like you get the Pillsbury crust underneath. You got a little crust,

then spaghetti, then baked cheese on top, then you pop some pepperonies on top of there? Ha ha. Pizza party, yo. Who's coming? Baked spaghetti sounds insane, but you,

hey, you get that. You get that like, I don't even know what tool this is in the kitchen, but it's almost like it's a putty knife and you and you scrape the, you know, corner piece? Oh my God.

And you pluck it out with that, put it on a plate. And I know exactly what plate you're talking about. I think you're dead inside if you don't have multi-color plates in your cabinets. What's wrong with you? If you don't have a purple, pink, green, blue,

orange plate in your cabinet. You're a sad person. It's almost the best part of life right there. It's just a December 2nd. You bust a Santa plate for a P.B&J with bananas on it. I'll kiss you where you stand. Mm-hmm.

Hey, you said you're hungry. That's when you have a girlfriend. You fall in love with her for real. Hey, you said you're hungry, so I just made you this. Like, she just... Oh, God, dude. Oh, my God.

I fall in love quicker than a divorce mom. I swear to God. I'm going to start crying. Dude, if a girl nonchalantly, you said you're hungry like a while ago and you're working on something like really hard. And you're like, just one second. So I just made you this. Peanut butter and jelly toasted cinnamon on the bread.

You know how cinnamon sounds when it comes out of the little thing? With the butter on the bread. toasted, P.B and J on deck on the inside. Ha ha. Sliced up bananas thin. Here, I'll get you a drink. You'll never see me without her. On a Santa plate?

Dude, maybe it's just one white plate with a snowman, like real little in the middle, like from Target. Like, it's like modern. Oh. Dude, that would ruin my day. Like in a good way. I'd be like, I got to like, I got to like love her. So a fire meal my mum used to make me, it was called corned beef hash. I don't know if you have corned beef over in America, but it's basically like this tinned meat.

And it was basically mashed up with mashed potato. And on paper, mashed potato mashed up with meat shouldn't work. But oh my God, it's so good. Oh, my God. How did like foreign people convey their point better than people in America? You know what I'm saying? Like I understood that someone. much better than like just a normal guy would here.

Corned beef hash looks gas. Hey, drop some peas up in there. Sprinkle some peas on top. Flara da. Flata ta ta ta. Different. Hey, with an egg? Right here I'm looking at it and it's like chopped up beef that looks like real.

It's like, I can't explain this beef. It does, like when I say beef, I think of like really brown. like, but this is like has a little red to it, you know? It's almost like a Rubin looking chopped up with like tater like almost tater tots but not tater tots in there and you put it plop an egg on top. Serving it up. Dinner served. Okay, so I don't know if you'll include this on the podcast because my mom didn't necessarily

make it for me, but I guess she gave me like the idea because she used to make it for dinner a lot because it was easy. But in high school, I would have two a days for soccer. So in the summer, I would have to wake up but fuck early like 5 a.m. to go workout and play soccer and then come back home and go back in the evening. Well, after the morning workout, I would get home at like eight, nine o'clock. And I would make pony dogs. So I would boil the hot dogs and water.

And then I would heat up a can of freaking. meat sauce whatever and then put like a shit ton of shredded cheese on them and I would smash after like the workout. I don't know what it was but they were so good

I would eat like three or four and then immediately after eating them I would go back to sleep for like four or five hours Oh my God get ready and then go back to workout again but yeah that was my high school high school meal for like the whole summer I think every guy

listen to this just fell in love. Like, when girls talk about food like that, there's just something that is just like, thank you for being honest. Because we all live that life where you got to, yeah, two a days, like you want to die. But after that first two a day, the hunger is unmatched.

You've never been that hungry before. It's like after a workout, your hunger level is different for sure. Then like, okay, I woke up at 10 a.m. kind of hungry, but you wake up at 8 a.m. workout and then 10 a.m. rolls around. You're like, you're like a lion. Dude, and then after a two a day, and you just sweat the most sweat you've ever sweat. Two day sweat is like, oh my God, am I going to die kind of? Like you're eating for survival at that point. And you go home and your thing is cony dog. And like your mom like knows like you're

going hard. So she's like buying you the same. stuff like yeah yeah great situation to be in top tier elite situation go home like the thing that's getting you through that to a day is like it's about to be coney dog time and nobody knows but me and my mom everybody on the team like you're in the hall you're in like the after practice like the coach is talking to you and remember uh tonight if you all that thing that's in your head about to get those dogs boiling I might toast those buns cheese sauce

bro why is why are cony dogs like it's always in the back of my head I don't even like hot dogs like that like I don't seek out hot dogs I don't go to baseball hot dog you know you know girls make hot dogs their whole personality

I'm not a hot dog guy but for some reason when that day rolls around I'm like God a conie dog way slap. Just the amount of cheese they put on there. She goes a shit ton of cheese and then right to sleep.

Strawberries, sour cream and brown sugar. Don't knock until they try it. Hold up. Hold up. These are, I didn't know it was going to be like this. I'm going to be completely honest. I didn't know you guys were going to come with this type of heat. What are you talking about?

Strawberry, sour cream and brown sugar. Don't knock until we try it. You ever been like embarrassed to type something into Google? You know what I'm saying? Like not just this, but I feel like Google's going to look at me like, you good after you type something in? One time I typed in like,

what does the inside of a semi-truck look like or something like that? I was like, it was like a weird thing. I thought Google was going to be like, Hey, we need to talk Strawberry, sour cream, brown sugar Oh Oh

So you put the sour cream And the brown sugar In one little bowl Looks like a little mini bowl of sawdust And then you dip full strawberries in it You gotta be down bad to think of this Who was just being a scavenger? in the fridge when they came up with this thing.

Somebody was starving and didn't have a car. Dang. I'm not even a sour cream guy, but I'd give it a shot. Sometimes you just got to let it hang, dude. I would. Yeah. Because I'm a brown sugar,

bitch. I really am. Dude, you put brown sugar. A bag of brown sugar. I'd sleep on that. Dude, I'm telling you, you see a bag of brown sugar at the store and you don't slap it. So I'm wrong with you. What happened during your childhood?

You see a clear bag of brown sugar and you don't give it a little pop. You're an alien. But brown sugar. God. I feel like I could build a house with brown sugar. It's just like the best. I'm like, can I eat a spoonful of this? Is this sand?

Did the Aztecs build their houses out of this? I don't know, but I'm going to put it on my strawberries. Okay, so my mom used to make a peanut butter grill, and it was like a grilled cheese, but it was a crunchy peanut butter and honey, and you put it in the toaster oven. I'm sorry, I'm still thinking about the strawberries. Okay, so my mom used to make a peanut butter grill,

and it was like a grilled cheese, but it was a crunchy peanut butter and honey and you put it in the toaster oven and like grilled it and then she'd finish it off on a frying pan with some butter no notes

10 out of 10. God, the way she left that oh, the way she ended that she knew. I've never been so close to crying on this podcast. So, no jelly, are you sure?

And she is sure. If I asked her this right now, so no jelly, she'd be like, nope. Wait, hold on. Let run that bag. Hold up. Okay, so my mom used to make a peanut butter grill, and it was like a grilled cheese, but it was crunchy peanut butter and honey, and you put it in the toaster oven and, like, grilled it, and then she'd finish it off on a frying pan with some butter. No notes. 10 out of 10.

God. So confident. Bro, I missed the honey part. I was like, what's the, you know, you can't just have grilled peanut butter on bread. Like, what's like the, what's the razzle dazzle? You know what I mean?

Everything's got to have a little, little something. Honey. Honey slept on. Honey, honey. Honey, honey. Oh, sugar, sugar. You were my candy girl

Songs in my head right when I wake up Honey honey Man Something about peanut butter and honey to get It just works doesn't it? Just a bear's dream, you know? Like sometimes when I'm eating peanut butter and honey I'm like, this isn't for me

This is literally for a bear I'm cosplaying as a bear right now. You ever see those TikTok videos of like, oh my God, and I get so jealous, bro. I've never been this jealous in my life. Somebody will just go in the woods

and put like four jars of peanut butter on a log, spreading it out all. I'm like, whoa, first of all, like that's a lot of peanut butter. Like, give me three of those jars. And then they put honey all over it. and I'm like, damn, like, yo, hold up, where are you?

And then they put a bunch of nuts on top of it, and they set up a trail cam and leave. And they just watch what animals eat it. I'm like, if you are an animal, if you're a raccoon and you find that log, I think I'd die. I think I'd just be like, well, that's it for me. Call the homies.

And, uh, Yeah, my heart would explode. If I saw that as a guy walking through the woods, I'd be like, with the deer and the ants, I'd be like, whatever, bro. Couple birds, get in here. You want some, yeah, these are pistachios. Go, come on, come on. Yeah, bring the gang.

Something about peanut butter and honey turns me into an animal. Like, it shouldn't be allowed, really. You eat peanut butter and honey, the whole rest of the day is canceled. that's it. Don't eat it too early. So why sometimes you got to wait till night. So it gets a little freaky. Gets a little freaky around 9.50 p.m.

You can eat whatever you want and just sleep it off. But if you eat peanut butter and honey at 9.50 a.m.? Plans canceled. My mom used to make what she called slop, which was essentially a shepherd's pie. But it had mushroom soup in it. And it was bomb. I just never been Shepherd's Pie guy.

I've never had it. What is it? Oh, carrots are in it. Peas are in it. I'm in. Beef, carrots, peas, mashed potatoes on top. But there was what mushroom soup in it? I mean, I cannot even imagine.

Shepard's pie. Shepard in home of me on my... How come when I picture a shepherd, this is the only thing he eats? from death into light What part of the country is Shepherd Pie like from? Because I've never even had it on like a weird school theme day

You know We always had like we were eating like weird cuisines At school and stuff like that I never even nope Not once Shepherds Pie I'm gonna be honest too I've never had mushroom soup Who am I?

This is a food podcast and you This is a way Always a mom yelling at me about my podcast. Sorry. I'm sorry. Can you yell that because he never had Shepard's pie? Can you imagine? So I'm Mexican. Don't be shocked when I say

these bean burritos my mom and my grandma used to make. But they weren't like super crazy, right? They were like little compact. So you could have like 10 like easy in a few hours. And you don't, you know, just like to grab it go it was the best and now i just like you know just a little bit of beans

easy just pop it in you can get it like all the time she would just make it like any any moment yeah but now i just always think about those like little taco bell size you know there's kacaritos yes that that's it thanks i love you bro thank you for explaining that that the way you did. Because being burritos just out of the gate sound not that great. Bean burrito, you're like,

sounds like I'm not going to be able to walk 10 feet after a you one. Bean burrito, like, I know people love them and they're good, but I kind of can't get past the name. I am, and I always will. One time this girl I was dating,

she would always get those at Taco Bell. And I was like, You kind of got a point, babe. Those little, she, ooh, a bahoplas, a chicken cassidia and cheesy roll-ups. And I'd be like, what?

The first time she ordered that, I was like, because you know everybody has like a crazy thing they get at Taco about and you're like, what? Yeah, and tell me about that. How do you know about that? And she, wait, wait, wait. in a small cup of nacho cheese

I'd be dipping these cheesy roll-ups like they were just like they almost the tequitos pretty much and you could just bang bang bang they came in a bag of like six I was like what they do this this is what bro's talking about

cheesy bean roll-ups but they're crisp so you could just in salsa because I'm proud to be American? He's talking about Mexican food. Where at least I know I'm free. Things you can just dip

in salsa and crunch. Oh, tortilla chips you mean? No, I'm talking about crispy bean burritos. Little ones. Casaritos. Those are the thing, you know, you have a tequito and you eat it, but halfway you pretend like it's a

cigarette. It's good. Dip it in and stuff. Nacho cheese. Caso. The end of it. put it out on your friend's arm Dude, stop No That's the type of roll up I'm Tom Bat

Oh my guys on the party You reckon that body Shaking that thing Like you know at D.C Got a nice but it's all right Because I'm gonna have to bat Tonight Oh my guys

Ooh is this thing? I'm sorry Uh Spressopod One meal that my mom made Bro Green spaghetti Now

I was like 7, 8 years old So she just called it green spaghetti because we didn't know what the fuck pesto was, but that shit used to bang my dog. Oh my God. That was like easily one of my favorite meals. I didn't know why it was green.

Didn't care why it was green. Tastes delicious. Also, worst meal, though. I'm just flip-flop it for a second. Worst meal. Do your thing? She used to use that Heinz,

easy squirt, colored ketchup back in the 90s. The, like, green and purple. She made a green, meatloaf? Oh my God. I couldn't eat it. I couldn't tell you what it was. I couldn't. Oh my God. It was so bad. My dad and my brothers and I were all like, what the fuck is this, dude?

I felt really bad. She cried and was really upset with us for a few days, but it's all good. You know, that's how it happens. Be like that. Not a reminiscent pot either. But that easy score ketchup was dreadful. Absolutely dreadful. Kind of brazy. love the pod. Thanks.

The beginning of that. Hey, from beginning to end, top five. You lay down a voice message on here. I'm going to make note of it. Clean voice messages. They all play a part. This, though?

Oh, my guys are the party. Rock in the body. Shaking that thing. Looking at a D.C. Got a nice bit of a rat. Because I'm going to have to have a thin night. Oh, my guys. Um, is this thing on?

Sorry. I'm just glad nobody else does that because that is 100% our thing. You can't tell me you're not walking from your bed to the bathroom singing that. Oh my girls of the barnage. I can have a bonnie. I kind of popping that ass a little bit. Got a nice bag of your, I got to burn tonight.

Turn the lights on in the bathroom. Like it never happened. gosh. Dang. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. One meal that my mom made for green spaghetti. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hey, can we cut to

the green ketchup meatloaf real quick? I think your mom was in her bag. I'm sticking up for mama here. What if I said, I don't think you saw the vision? because that's crazy. My mom would have decapitated herself before she bought green or purple ketchup. And do you know how many times I asked for that?

I'm a little jealous of you. I don't know if you knew what you had. Meatloaf itself. A slapperoni. Meatloaf itself, pressure. At first you're like, but then he's, start thinking about it and you're like,

meatloaf's gas, yo. Hey, put the ketchup on top of that seasoned meatloaf? Meatloaf doesn't get the respect it deserves and that's a whole different conversation. You always time to shine. Everybody hates on meatloaf. And the people that are hating on meatloaf,

I don't want to know you. I don't want to know you. You're not part of this program. If you're hating on meatloaf, you don't know ball, you don't see the vision. All the spices. Boom, that's going. Okay, it's, maybe it sounds, it's got a bad name, all right? Don't judge your book! You're literally a hypocrite. And then he put the ketchup on top. Ew, oh my God. It literally disgust. Yeah, I can't believe. You're literally saying this right now. Ew.

Then you put it in the oven and bake the ketchup. Different. What does are in here? We're going to be different. You got to think different, man. Put the meatloaf with the ketchup on it in the oven. Bring them out. Bring them out.

That's hot. That's it. When it's bell in your mouth, swizzy. When it comes out of the oven. And you got a side of macaroni with the meatloaf slice, two of them. little onions on top onions falling everywhere

you slice up you slice of ooh the end piece of meatloaf with the big knife bring out the big knife big knife big knife occasion you slice it bang

onions pop out hey how you doing oh my god where are you been oh my god so good to see you oh my god hey it's been so long onions every I don't even know what to do

and then you fah and you know you're gonna like it so much you take another slice like it's banana bread. I'll take another. And then you get to the macaroni. La da da da. And then guess what? Guess what?

Guess who's waiting around the corner? Oh, did you forget about me? Little bowl of peas? And you know what? You know what you got to drink with that? I'm not even an advocate. You've got to have milk with that. For some reason.

And he sit at the table and you're like, I, mom's got game. Moms got 20-20 vision. No need to go to the high doctor. Mama saw it. Mama eyed it, bide it,

and I tried it. But the green mustard, like, oh my, I would have been hype, bro. I would have been like, oh, we got that? And it's great.

You know, green then was like Nickelodeon slime. It was like, it was like lit. It would taste like normal ketchup, right? It would taste like normal ketchup. It was just a different color. I'd have been about it, bro. I had green around my mouth until Thursday at school. Hey, kickball.

I see the Vige. Great voice message. On another episode of what's your mom make? Dude, what's your mom make? You know, just like on some on some like keeping it simple. Keep it simple for like 25 years now. Tell me. My mom's breakfast sandwich game on the weekend goes crazy, brother.

Goes crazy. I can't even tell you why. I can't even tell you why. The only thing I know she does different than what I do is she like, do she mixes like a little bit of hot sauce into the scrambled eggs, brother? Crazy. What? I know. I know.

I know you could do that. I don't even know you could do that. I was like, yo, hey, is that allowed? Just me, dude. I couldn't believe it. I can't believe my mom's like sandwich game with a little like, with a little whatever is whatever lunch meat is left over. from the previous week just thrown on there. Dude,

going bananas. This straight pound down on that. I think I, I think I gained weight here and that. That was crazy. Who are you, bro? Was that,

did I leave that voice message in my sleep? Bananas. Can we bring back saying that was bananas? Dude, imagine being bananas. And like, Catching strays. Bro, that's, that, that was bananas, dog.

Bananas looks at you in the, what? What do you mean? What are you talking about? I mean, we're just sitting here in this bowl on your counter. What do you mean? Bananas. What is that supposed to mean? Oh my, I forgot bananas was here.

Said the B word. Hard A. Man, that was, oh, yo, you did. That was bananas, dog. It's bananas here? Bananas isn't here. Jesus. Remember the last time.

Bananas heard me say that was bananas. Literally, what are you talking about? Okay, breakfast sandwiches. Special meal. Special skill. Mm-hmm. Slept over at my friends one time. Matt Herbert's.

His brother, for some reason, oh, yeah. You know, and like somebody's like a prodigy at a young age. And I thought everything was crazy because I'm like, how do you guys know what you want to do so early in life? I think that's the most amazing thing. Oh yeah, my brother Mark, older brother, he's going to be a chef. Dude's a sophomore in high school. I'm in seventh grade or something.

I'm like, oh, for real? Damn, impressive. Like, how do you guys know that? I wouldn't know if I wouldn't be a chef until I was 48. Oh, yeah, I kind of want to do that now. Bro was 16 and he knew. Anyway, heard about this. That's crazy.

Cool thing to like want to do. Different. Unique. Everybody else wants to like do some run in the middle at like, like, I'm gonna be a teacher. Bro, wants to be a chef. Okay. Whatever.

We woke up. I forgot all about it. Dude's in the kitchen going brazy. And I'm like, wait. Oh, we said. Oh. He. She.

Oh my God. Yeah, my mom, like, buys ingredients. He just, like, makes us stuff. He's really going in, though. Like, people say they want to do stuff, but they're not putting in the work. He's in there in the kitchen. Cooking. 325. Spices. Oh, hey, dude, is the basil? Like, talking about stuff. 16. Talking about basil? First time I said basil was two weeks ago. I'm 400 years old. Basel, pepper, paprika. What's he making? Breakfast sandwiches, dog. The catch?

They weren't even for us. And I was like, I don't deserve them, honestly. He made two of the craziest-looking, gourmet, white house, crispy, English, peppered bacon, hash, gravy, drizzle. on a Santa plate you've ever and I was like god dang all right

okay just got to take a deep breath and get hit McDonald's on the way home on that one take the L and God this thing is

oh hi honey um hey can somebody just just do that and not like leave the voice message

of the question of the way just saying for three minutes best mail my mom ever made and I do like a rendition of this now as a full grown adult is chicken cordon blue. She would do like a roll up.

So I remember like making making it with her. When I was little, she would like take the chicken. I don't know what she would do with it, but it would be like that thin chicken, you know? And then we layer in honey ham. I think it's swish cheese, like Swiss cheese. And you like roll it up and then like prick it with some toothpicks, you know? Keep the roll up nice and tight, nice and tight like. And then you bake it.

And then the best part is like this like gravy sauce situation that goes on top. It's like yellowy. It's almost like honey mustardy. I don't know. It's like a tangy sauce. It's so flipping good. I want to say there's like breadcrumbs involved. Oh my God.

I mean, it's been since I've been a child. But she used to bang. Oh my God. When it was chicken cordon blue. Roll up day. Shut up. I was not eating snacks. I was saving the hunger.

It was so good. And then like side of mash, I want to say. And then like a green. Peas. Peas. Well, salt. We'll sprinkle salt. I mean, the perfect meal.

Start to finish. Clinic men. I can't. Hold on. Hold on. I need a sec. Give me 10. Give me 10. Give me 10.

Give me 10. Give me 10. Never had cordon blue. Never been blue gang. I want to, though. I want to pledge my allegiance. That's the chicken cordon blue. Hey, when you explain the dish and you know it's going well. And then all of a sudden, you hit us over the head with breadcrumbs are involved somehow. Okay.

Bro, breadcrumbs on anything. I don't even care. I get it, pigeons. I get it. You know how happy? Dude, when your grandpa used to go outside and feed pigeons with breadcrumbs, those pigeons,

I'd fly my ass so fat. I'd be greedy. The greed they talk about in the Bible, me and breadcrumbs. Give me them all. You ever, like, cut up a, cut up some bread. You slice some bread and on the cutting board,

just hella breadcrumbs, and you just, you do the cup scoop into your hand out, Just a mouth full of crumbs. Some on your cheekbone for the rest of the day. Breadcrumbs turn it up, yo. Literally. Life of the party.

Breadcrumbs are the party, bro. Breadcrums walks in the door. Oh, Jesus here. She's been here. We got honey ham? Yeah, this is chicken's house. Looks good. Glad you made it, man. Breadcrumbs look at you.

Hey bro, my friend You haven't seen him in a while either Who? Peas I'm literally not ready to see I need to go to the bathroom I have any peases here You're not gonna believe It's about to pull up too

Shut up Is gravy? His girl great It's a party I want to be at God dang yo Hey just peas dude Peas Peas

Peas All we are saying Is give peas chance. All we are saying is give peace a chance. If you don't like peas, I don't like you. Moral of the story.

What are we trying to portray? If you don't like peas, I don't want to be associated with you. Deal breaker. What are your deal breakers when dating? What are your red flags? If you don't like peas, Beat it.

So being 100% Italian, obviously my mom makes everything and she's been cooking my whole entire life pretty much every day of the week. Even now, me and having my own family, she still makes us meals and brings it. It's crazy. But also, I come from a family

where my dad even owned pizzerias and delis. So everybody cooks in the house. And I even own, also have a 98, 98 year old grandma who's still alive and she's cooks. But my whole point is, you know, all those Italian meals, yeah, they're great. I can go through a whole list of all the ones she makes, but those are boring and like, you know, everybody has those anyway. Good eye, good eye. The fire meals that she really would cook was like just making cream of wheat like in the morning, like on the stove top, which is milk and some sugar, maybe a little cinnamon,

like that simple meal or like she used to make the bisquick you know pancake mix biscuits and then just like mix like milk with confectionary sugar to make icing and like those are the meals that I actually miss confectionary sugar he said it. I wish I had them and I could probably easily make them myself

but the whole point is like having a mom make something for you for breakfast right now I just make my own breakfast for the rest of my life. So I just missed my mom making me some simple-ass breakfast. I know. Like no effort either. Like the breakfast you're making yourself,

zero effort, bro. Just do you ever make something and eat it so many days in a row? You're like, do I even like myself? Do I even like what's happening here? Zero effort. And then all of a sudden your mom's making you breakfast and you're like, oh, this is somebody who like kind of loves me, you know? You like remember what the whole thing is. You're like, damn.

All right, yeah. Okay. Okay. Wait. You like put your soul into it. This is wild. Yeah, this has this has attitude. This has effort.

This has intensive. this has Penn State football in it. Yo, if your mom's making you breakfast, something simple. Hey, just cinnamon toast, cinnamon butter toast. She's whipping that up with the intensity of Auburn Tigers football. Just, da, oh, so corners, lathered.

No shortcuts. Discipline. Intensity. Fast, physical, responsibility, assignment sound. It's butter toast football. Dude, that's your mom. Dude, your mom runs a strict program. That's how she makes the butter toast.

Attitude, effort, poised, composure, locked in to the final cut. And she cuts it diagonal. Served. Hey, what's a miller? Just simple. I don't eat all that. It's the way she... It's what she puts... She puts in there.

You know what I mean? It's from the heart. You don't do that to yourself, bro, because you don't think you deserve it. But other people see it in you. I'm going to cry. Crazy. Crazy. Cream of wheat with a little bit of cinnamon. I don't know about that life.

But one time... It was the closest I can... Closest I can even remember to that. One time before school, I've told you before, but my mom made me just bananas with sugar on them in a bowl of milk. I'll just never forget how special that was. For some reason, I was just like, man, I got it like that. I'm eating, I'm fishing out bananas in a bowl of milk. And no cereal.

It was like we forgot cereal. Oh, well, I made it. but I forgot we didn't have corn flakes. Nope. Just a bowl of milk. Banana sliced up in it, thin, some thick. Sugar on top. And I was finding bananas like,

I'm telling you, every time I went in there with my spoon, I was like, this is a, this got to be the last one. Maybe 30 minutes went by. Oh my. All right,

that's it. That's definitely. Oh, well, that's it. Like, I've been, I drank the milk still. three on the bottom. Oh! Just out of nowhere.

Hey, it was bananas. All right, let's do days. Crazy pod, bro. Love you guys. This is a food pod. Okay. Okay. Hey.

Listen it. Dude, imagine if you actually listen to this for the first time today, you'd be like, bro. Bananas. Oh, God. Thursday. Vanilla ice cream day. More food.

Do they know? You think they know that I do this? No, they obviously don't. Number one ice cream, sorry. Number one base of the ice cream? It's just always number one. Nobody in their right mind thinks chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla ice. Come on, dog.

Be real. I love chocolate ice cream. Nobody's ever said that. My dad, maybe, but my dad's like, ew, bro. You don't know. You don't know, ball. It took me a while. while to get past the point of thinking chocolate and strawberry stuff was because, dude, me and my dad always used to go to steak and shake. And remember when steak and shake introduced half and half milkshakes? Literally revolutionized milkshakes forever. I was like, damn, they're doing that. That was crazy. Just to get a half and half was like, dude, but yeah, okay, okay, yeah, cool, can't wait. We're all going to get half and half vanilla chocolate milkshakes. My dad pulls up to the drive there.

Hey, can I get a half chocolate, half strawberry? I'm like, what? God, you always got to ruin stuff. Like, why can't we just do anything like good? Everything is, oh, what? I'm telling you, B. I'm telling you, this is, this is it right here. And I came from a milkshake family.

Nobody was putting down milk. My friend even told me, he's like, bro, you guys, you guys like shakes, for real. Like, we would get ice cream. Like, my family would get ice cream. sometimes, well, you guys get shakes all the time. I've never had shakes. Like, I come to your house, like, I come to your house two times a week. Sometimes you come over Friday and Saturday for like ever, bro.

Shakes both days. He's like, I've never had more milkshakes in my life. You guys love shakes. I was like, I'm kind of proud. I'm kind of proud of that. Glad you said that. Shake family. Shakes are gas.

A vanilla one from Burger King? Tell me something. Show me. Talk to me nice. Vanilla shake from Burger King in my hand with a straw already in it? Talk to me nice. I'm different.

Dude, it's crazy. What a privilege. That's literally what happens in my head every time I have ice cream. Oh, God. Friday. Drive-thru Day. Well, just did that one.

National Tequila Day. Tequila. Wow. What a time. I want to take shots with you. Do you want to take shots? You're like fun to take shots with. Do you want to take shots?

Come see me at my work. That girl from your hometown. Come see me at work. Come see me three to close. I'm like, uh, okay. Like, why are you making this my responsibility? Come take shots. I'm behind the bar from three to close.

I'm like, why do you think I know when you close? Like, why do you think I want to go see you so bad? Half my brain's like, should I stop by? Come take shot. Girl from your hometown. Has a braid in her hair. Come on. Me and Ryan behind the bar till closed.

Come take shot. Pickle back. Come see me. Oh, shit. Just a whole night. What? What? Hey, close that!

Come see me. Right. Bartender's shaking up the... I know. Like, literally lame. Come see me. Okay. Oh my God.

You're literally a bartender. You're literally about to be a realtor in one year. Saturday. Wine and cheese day. All right, all right, all right. Moms really do love wine and cheese, though. Saw my mom eat one meal my entire life. Glass of wine, triscuits, sometimes with slices of cheese from a block.

You know what I mean? My mom would be working that cheese slicer. You know what I'm talking about? That like tool for slicing blocks of cheese. My mom had that on deck in her belt. Wild West, quick draw, busting down the saloon doors. My mom, cheese block cutters. Then just watches like four soap operas.

Humboldoid. Every day, bro. 5 p.m. Glass of wine. Triscuits sliced up cheese block. Clockwork. Sunday. Bagel Fest Day.

Passed by an Einstein bagels the other day. And I just couldn't even. You ever, do you know? It was like seeing a Victoria's Secret storefront. I was like, just don't. Just don't. Go, go, go, go, go. Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive.

I had a red light with an Einstein bagels staring at me. I was like, oh my God. Like, this is a lot of pressure. It's like when a teacher's staring at you in class, like for an answer and you're like, don't look, don't look, holy shit. Don't look. Oh my God, oh my God, is she looking? She's still looking.

She's not looking. And she's looking. Took me everything, bro. Just to get one of those cinnamon, you know what I'm talking about, those cinnamon swirl bagels. They're like $4 more than every bagel in there. You know, Einstein Bagels has all those bins. Like run at like standard default settings bagels.

Ba, bye, ba, ba, blueberry, blah, da, da. Chocolate chap. Ba, ba, bah, bah. Everything original. And then they have like some like super high security bins for Asiago cheese and soup and cinnamon swirl. No, it's like French toast. What's that bagel at Einstein? Hold on.

Oh, apple cinnamon gourmet and Asiago cheese get their own high security bins. I'm like, okay, guys. Act like you've been there. Too good for the rest of them, huh? But they really are. You get that cinnamon gourmet, apple cinnamon gourmet, sliced in half at Einstein put it in the toaster

and tell them to put cream cheese on it and eat it in your car Oh Talk to me nice I'm different Something about it, bro It's like it's better than a donut It's like

Sometimes you just got to You gotta turn everything off too Phone Radio Mm-mm Car sea belt you have put your seatbelt on

you gotta take like 15 seconds think about your loved ones going for the bite it's that serious Coach Pete Court of the week just got one wow seven minutes ago persist

everything you need will come to you at the perfect time. That's it. All right, y'all. Same time next week. Aha. Ah, ha.