Good Job, Brain! - 294: Cooking In The Kitchen

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Bonjourno, brilliant babes and buffs, breakdancing to a boltload of brainy bangers. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beet trivia podcast. This is episode 294. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your Troop of Ninkum Poops getting the scoop on poops, goops, and fruit loops. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. All right.

Let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. Ooh, looky here. I got my random Trivial Pursuit cards in my shirt pocket for extra drama. You have those in all of your shirts, right? I have cards in all pockets. You never know. All right. Here we go.

I'm going to pick two random cards from my shirt pocket. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some trivia questions. Listeners, buzz along, yell along. Here we go. Blue Wedge for geography. In the American South, what is the mayonnaise-based sauce served with wings? Multiple choice.

Oh, okay. All right, okay. Yeha sauce. Uh-huh. Mississippi-Burning sauce. Uh-huh. Or comeback sauce. Chris.

That is comeback sauce. Comeback sauce says here, the sauce is thought to originate in Mississippi through Greek immigrants. Comeback sauce. I've never heard of that. You have, if you bought, like, chicken tenders somewhere and you've gotten that sort of, like, you know, pinkish sauce with it. Oh. Again, I'm going to offend a whole group of people by how dare you compare real comeback sauce to, like, raisin canes. sauce or whatever, but, you know, it's, it's something in that area.

Okay. Let's see. The real thing is much better. Oh, it is, you're right, it is the pink sauce. Yeah. Use as a salad dressing and it's orange to pink and it's a spicier type of Thousand Island. That's exactly. There you go.

There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Pink Wedge for Pop Culture, which small city in Tennessee is home to the 700-acre farm that plays host to the Arts and Music Festival Bonaroo every June. Oh. I know Bonarro. I don't know.

I definitely. Is this a know-it-or-you-don't, Karen? I haven't flipped over it. Let me see. It's a city in Tennessee. You know it or you don't. All right. It is.

Go for it. Lynchburg, Tennessee? Oh, no. It is Manchester. Okay. You did not know it. Manchester. Okay.

All right, Yellow Wedge. What creator of a classic sci-fi television series was a World War II pilot who won the Distinguished Service Cross Colin Is that Gene Roddenberry? Yes, it is, creator of Star Trek.

Yes. Purple Wedge. How are Robert Lewis Stevenson's characters Henry and Edward better known? How are Robert Lewis Stevenson's characters Henry and Edward better known. Treasure Island, right? Okay, okay.

I mean, yes, he wrote Treasure Island. What are their, like, what are their nicknames, right? Is it Captain Kidd and I have no idea? No, wrong path. Okay, okay, okay. He wrote something else, turns out. Yeah, yeah. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

So Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. All right. Ooh, that's a good one. All right. Next wedge. grade for science what part of a flower produces pollen um it's chris the stamen yes it is stamen i don't yeah i i confused my flower parts we all know it it's all in there somewhere yep yeah elementary school yeah last question on this card orange wedge who was the first athlete to be depicted on a weedy cereal box oh man we've had this we've

talked about this. Go for it, Chris. Mary Lou Retton. No. Older. Okay. Yeah, it was definitely. It was definitely. Was it Jackie Robinson? No. This is 1934. Oh, my gosh.

Was it, oh, man. Yeah. How many bites of the apple do I get? Mickey Mantle. It is Lou Gehrig. Yes. Lou Gehrig. Okay.

Lou Gehrig. I guess I did not. It was in there. Not Mary Lou Retton. Oh, oh, there we go. Mary Lou. Maybe she was the first female athlete. I got so confident.

She's not even the first woman. Okay. No. 1935 Wheaties Babe Didrickson. Oh, really? The athlete on the Wheaties box goes back quite a long way. Yeah, a long way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

To Lou Gehrig. All right. Let's do one more card. Here we go. Blue Edgewood Geography. Oh, Greenland is part of the King. Kingdom of what country? Colin?

Denmark. Denmark, correct. Pink Wedge for pop culture. Which British comedian wrote, directed, and starred in a BBC sitcom about the Daily Life at the Wernam Hogg Paper Company. Chris. Ricky Jervais. It was the office.

Yellow Wedge. Which Las Vegas Hotel built by Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky was the first. entirely owned by an organized crime syndicate. Oh, ho, ho. That was Colin? Is that the Flamingo? It is the Flamingo. Yeah.

Wow. Purple Wedge. Which long-running Broadway plays replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier contains 6,000 beads. Chris. The Phantom of the Opera. Yes. 6,000 bees.

Man, that's a lot of bees to. That's a lot of bees. I mean, you know, my hat is off to them for, yeah. Every night, man. Yeah, you got to get them back in the box every night, you know, I mean. Each shows a week. Mm-hmm. So many.

Well, they work in ships, Taryn. I mean, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beads. Green retro science, Antarctica is a desert, true or false. Everybody. True. Deserts are measured by precipitation. Yes, correct.

Not how sandy they are. And last question on this. Card, Orange Wedge for Sports and Leisure, which British Prince launched the Invictus Games for Wounded Warriors in 2014 after two tours of duty in Afghanistan?

Colin. That was Prince Harry. Yes, it was Harry. Correct. Good job, Brains. Woo! We did it. We did it. Go us.

Good night, everybody. What a great show. All of those questions. That's all right. Maybe listeners know. We usually record. Good job, Brain, on a Friday night at 9.30 p.m. After a full work week and, yeah, after our kids have gone to bed.

And Colin, props to you. You actually just came back from an international trip. I did. And you're here with us, on top of all of that and jet lag. Yeah, I literally came back from an international flight yesterday afternoon, barely over 24 hours ago. But I had a great time, traveled with the family to lovely, Paris, France. There's my daughter's first visit.

She didn't care too much for the museums, I don't think. She was pretty vocal about her feelings on the various art museums. We went to the Louvre. We went to the Pompidou Center. We went to the Muse Dorsay. You know, we tried to bribe her with food along the way. Did you see the Laboubu store, the Louvre? Karen, I know this is big in your life right now, the Labibu.

No, I didn't. But we did walk through. There's a very fancy mall attached to the Louvre. Yeah, but one thing that we did every morning, every morning that we were there was we had fresh croissants for breakfast. Wow, you got to. It's different. It's just different. Yeah, I'm not getting paid by the, you know, the croissant council.

No, I'm not. I'm not in the pocket of big croissant. So it got me thinking, though, about breakfast and watching at one point, watching it through the window and seeing them making some fresh pastries, the kitchen there, the little baking in the back. I was like, oh, we've got to talk about being in the kitchen. Yeah. So this week we're cooking in the kitchen. Yes, so I, I mean, I love cooking, love my kitchen gadgets, all the cool kitchen stuff. The other day, we had people over, we were eating ham.

My wife wanted to do potatoes, grattan, you know what I mean? And so we had to get out the, got out the old mandolin. Mandolin to slice the potatoes. So much fun until you take a finger off. Super fun to use one of those things. It's like, hey, would you like to cut 10 potatoes really thin? It's like, no, I would not like to do that. You want to do it on a mandolin?

Oh, hell yeah. Give me all of those. So much fun, so dangerous. I'm fine. But it got me thinking, what are the most dangerous? things in the kitchen. What is actually, you know, most liable to really injure you? And so I had to figure out, well, how do I, how do I nail this down?

Like, how do I, is there any data? There is data. Because back in the year 2018, a website called Porch did an investigation to this. And they dug through the National Electronic Injury Survey system. That is a U.S. government service that tracks the causes. It tracks emergency room visits across the U.S. and it tracks what the causes of those emergency room visits were. And they searched for things that pertained to the kitchen. And they came up a lengthy, numbered list of the products typically found in the kitchen that caused the most ER visits.

Through the use of these gadgets, you ended up in the ER. Use, abuse, or otherwise, essentially. By dint of them being there in the kitchen, in some cases. Okay, okay. So we are going to play, I guess, family feud here. I have the top 10. Oh, okay. The top 10, things typically found in the kitchen that caused the most ER visits.

in the United States in the year 2017. And I'll have you guys, I'll have you alternate guessing, and we'll see how many of these you can get before you both get three strikes or whatever. I don't know. I want to remind you this is a couple of things. This list is things typically found in a kitchen. Okay.

It's not going to be a chainsaw. It's not going to be, yeah. Objects, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It could be big objects or little objects. They're going to think about that. All right. I will also, if you get one that's

on the top 10 list, you want to go for two bonus points by guessing the two most common injuries caused by that item. This will sometimes not be super obvious, but that's why they're bonus points. I'm going to say, Karen, you can go first, try to guess an object that is on the top 10 list of things typically found in a kitchen that then precipitated a visit to the emergency. room. All right, Chris, I'm going to say knife. Good answer. Good answer, Karen. Good answer. Good answer. Get it out of the way. Show me knives. Ding. Yeah, it's that's our number one. Yeah. That's our number one. Now, Karen, for any bonus points, would you like to guess the two most common injuries?

By the way, it's written in like medical speech. Okay. The first one I'm going to say is stabbing. Like puncture wound? Puncture wounds? Like, is that what they're looking for or? No. No, and for a puncture, stabbing puncture wounds is not on there. You want to guess again? Slicing? The two top laceration. Top reasons. Number one, finger laceration. Okay, okay, okay. Putting your finger. Number two, finger evulsions. Oh, what? That is removing part of our finger. Like, like you didn't just cut my finger. I took a part of it off.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So, your laceration's, finger evulsions, knives, number one, with a bullet, 322,562 ER visits that year caused by knives. All right, Colin. I mean, I'm not going to overthink it. Just going to go with stove. I'm going to go with the burner on the stove. Show me stove.

Ding, ding, ding. Yes, that's our number six answer, ranges and oven. It's number six. Okay. Colin, for your bonus points. Yeah. What are the two most common injuries, maladies, what have you, reasons to go to the emergency room caused by ranges and ovens? I'm going to say like a severe burn like to the flesh, like putting your hand on it or something like that.

Hand burns is one of them. Okay. And I'm going to guess like burns from clothing catching. on fire or something like that. I don't know if that's too close. That is not it. The other most common malady caused by this

is anoxia. Not getting enough oxygen, yes, I believe. Smoke inhalation or otherwise not getting enough oxygen to the body causing you to go to the emergency room. That also means it caused a fire in the house. Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah. All right, Karen. Oh, man, that's only number six? That's only number six, yep. Go out of limb here. I'm going to say microwave. Microwave oven is just shy of the top ten. Oh, no. It was actually number 11.

Wow. It was just shy of the list. Most common entries include burns to the hand and finger lacerations. Yeah. Oh. Well, burns to the hand because something gets really high. hot you reach in grab it burn your hand or something breaks in the microwave you grab it cut yourself on the thing that broke in the microphone i would have to imagine yeah

all right colin okay so karen think x for karen all right all right i'm i'm gonna guess chris uh refrigerator door Colin guesses refrigerator door show me refrigerator door ding ding ding ding refrigerators come in at number five. Yeah, all right. For your bonus points, two most common injuries. One of them, Chris, has got to be fractures. Like, someone's got their finger caught when the door closes. No, it is not one of those.

Oh, wow. I don't know, man. Or severe bruising, I guess, if it's not a fracture. I'll give you severe bruising for one extra bonus. Contusion? Like you break your head. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Most commonly refrigerator injuries are head injury.

Oh, man. A, opening, somebody opens the door and they open into your head. Or putting away groceries in the fridge and the freezer at the same time. And you're kneeling down and you stand up and you bonk your head on the open freezer or fridge door. I've been on both sides of that. I've been the bonker and the bonky, yeah. And the other one is abdomen injuries. and I think that's got to be somebody opening your refrigerator door into somebody else's stomach or the handle.

All right. Karen. Glass bowl. All right. Show me glass bowl. Ding. I'm going to give you a ding. Glass.

Number two. The number two is tableware. Oh, okay. Plates and bowls and stuff like that because, and again, this is number two. very high on the list, 90,000, 90,000 injuries attributed to tableware like plates because, well, actually, why don't you tell me? Slice injury. Lacerations. Fricing the plate and slicing your finger. Yeah, lacerations is certainly one, yep.

One against the other one, it's kind of different. Is it stepping on loose pieces? For this one, it is not stepping on loose pieces. It is actually upper torso burns. Oh, I see. You can imagine if you have a hot plate and your upper torso, it's. et cetera. Yeah. You guys have like four points each. This is good.

All right, Collin, what do you think? I'm thinking, I was hoping this one would still be here for me on the board, Chris. Okay. I'm going to go for garbage disposal. Garbage disposal is not. Oh, okay. It's too scary. Karen, I think that you are correct.

I think that you are right. It's that garbage disposal is like so obviously. Okay. Nightmarish. Scary and nightmarish that people probably take very good care. Also, you're very

those blades are set down low inside the drain of the sink. So you're pretty well protected. You're not going to like accidentally like mess yourself up on the garbage disposal. Colin, that is a strike for you. Garbage disposal. Karen.

See, I feel like that theory kind of applies to Blender as well because I think blender is pretty scary. But I think my guess is going to be the kettle. Kettle is not in the top 10. I'm sorry. Yeah. I think hot water burns. Yeah.

Coffee makers or te pots. Okay. It's down at number 17. Okay. Finger laceration's upper torso burns. As well. There is your second. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Okay. All right, Colin, you want to throw one out there? Is it just, is it just the faucet? I'll just like the hot water faucet. Just scalds from the hot water.

Well, so faucets is actually at, I believe, number 15 with internal head injuries and face lacerations as being the two big injuries. So it's people hitting their heads and faces on faucets. Okay. So it's not even the hotness of the water. Okay. All right, Carrie, you want to try one more? Okay.

Okay. This happens in our house a lot. The dishwasher, specifically when the dishwasher is open, like it makes us trip or we scrape our ankle or something like that. So I'm going to say dishwasher. Show me dishwashers. Ding, dishwasher's at number 10. Oh.

Number 10. Like more so than the coffee maker. Wow. And you want to guess at those? I'm going to say like falls and then also a bird. So neither of those are the case. Two big injuries from dishwashers. One is finger lacerations.

Again, I think reaching into the dishwasher to grab something that broke. And the other one is internal head injuries, much like the refrigerator. No, I think sticking yourself into the dishwasher to get something and then standing up and bumping your head on the dishwasher. Okay. All right. So you each have two strikes. So I'm going to call it here just so we don't go on and on and on for the whole entire show. At number three, drinking glasses.

They separated that out from plates and things like that. The two major common injuries are finger lacerations, run breaks. And this one is foreign bodies in feet. Somebody drops their glass and then steps on the glass. Number four, similarly, bottles and jars. Okay, okay. Finger lacerations. And in this case, internal.

ingestions because the jar of jelly breaks and then you eat some glass with your PB and J. You eat a PBJ and G. That's grim. And you go to the ER. Number five, we know it was refrigerators. Number six ranges in ovens. Number seven is just cookware. You know, pots and pans. Now here's the funny thing about this. Okay, if you want to try to guess the two

injuries, most common for potts and and pans head injury i was thinking people hang like they like above the stove oh they're good thinking part of this article they do tell you to not well they actually tell you don't don't do that with your knives um but no uh it is too it's it's it's two things for for cookware it's one of them is not dropping on your toe you're correct Colin so the number of the one is hand burns and the number two is foot contusions because people drop their big heavy look crusay on their foot. Cast iron on the toes.

Number eight is all is slicers and choppers. The mandolin. Mandolin. Finger lacerations, finger revulsions. And we know 10 was dishwashers. Number nine on this list is just kitchen tools. It is just a catch ball for every other kitchen tool that it's not a knife slicer or chopper corkscrew.

they got internal ingestions on this one too i'll do 11 to 20 just because we're rushing through this but yeah microwaves is at 11 plastic bags uh apparently a lot of apparently a lot of people cut their fingers on plastic bags if they're really new and really kind of you know thin sharp um internal ingestions for plastic bags yeah um blenders okay freezers i think similar kind of thing although in this case hand fractures is the number one for freezers specific I think that might be because if you have a freezer, you have like a chest freezer, or if you have some of this, just a freezer. It's like the flip top kind, you mean, right?

Stand-alone freezer. Silverware excluding knives. Oh, okay. So forks and spoons. Two big ones, one internal ingestions, because you're putting it in your mouth all the time, so you accidentally swallow a piece of your fork, I guess. And eye contusions in case you poke your eye with the fork. It's a little too bigorous with a grapefruit spoon.

And then we have caught. Coffee makers or teapots, knife sharpeners, and then food processors is also in there. So not the garbage disposal, but yes, the blender, yes, the food processor. Because I think in those cases, we're more used to reaching in to those things, especially for like cleaning it. And it's like, oh, I just got to get this one thing that's underneath the blade. It's kind of like, I mean, it's maybe, maybe paradoxical that the one. one that you can actually see your hand is the one that we get more injured on, right,

than the one that's past this scary little rubber curtain, like down in the depth of your sink, you know. Here's the other thing. Garbage Disposals is down there with things like corkscrews, breadmakers. You know what's also down there is deep friars. And I think what's important to realize about this list is it's not saying that these things are particularly dangerous. They're more common. Like deep friars in your kitchen probably have more persistent. Or a higher rate.

Not a lot of people have them. Not a lot of people have them. Okay, good point. So be safe out there. Also, they say the most common days that you would get injured are number one, Christmas, number two, Thanksgiving. Lots of people, lots of food, trying to get it out on time, you know, moving parts. Yeah. yeah so more amateurs being called into help right you know you got you got the family maybe

contributing you know might be the I'm sorry I'm not talking about me my family yeah I'm not talking about my family oh okay wow that was fun I'm glad you enjoyed it's very like final destination sort of you know it's like I'm picturing how each of these could go wrong some of them are surprising, but it's like, oh, sure, yeah, okay, yep. But now that you know, now you know what to look, what to look out for. Here's my question to you guys. Was there any time that you yourself had a big accident in the kitchen? In college, I had a toaster oven. Like, something happened. There was probably like a lot of oil or something. It caught on fire, like inside. Then it just spread. And the entire toaster oven was on fire.

And I, and I stupidly poured water on it. Because, you know, it's an electrical thing. I mean, but then eventually, like, you know, I got it under control. But, like, that was, that was a close call. Your heart is racing. It's like, that's why after that, always have a fire extingu shirt in the kitchen, no matter how big or how small. Yeah, yeah.

I bought some, like, fire blankets, too. Oh, oh. And that's my list. And you throw over the oven. Yeah. Like, if there's a grease fire, just throw this over it, you know? I was just talking about this with my child, because we were talking about kitchen safety. And I'm like, you know, I saw a, there was a news article from a couple of years ago that was like, children burn themselves attempting dangerous game they saw on Netflix show Squid Game.

And like, that's the headline. I'm like, oh, my God, did they like, what did they do? They shoot each other? Did they like, you know, like, what is it? Right? Like, what did they do? Oh, they were trying to do the candy game, make the candy that you break apart. Oh, the caramel.

Well, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were like, oh, well, how do you make this candy? Oh, you boil sugar on the stove. Oh, well, I don't know how to do that. So I'll just put a bunch of sugar into a solo cup and I'll put it in the microwave for, you know, 10 minutes. And it gets superheated. And then they reach in and they grab the solo cup with the sugar in it. Oh, my God.

Bad things happen. So don't do that. Don't do that. I mean, don't do any of the things they do in Squid Game. They don't even do this in Squid Game. They didn't have to make the candy in Squid Game. It's so dangerous. They don't even yet.

But I will tell you other than like minorly like, oh, oops, I just cut myself a little bit with this knife done. Anything like that, I did once in my parents' house when I was like 18, 19, open up. We had like the pantry, the door to the pantry. And I opened the door up. The door swings about like half an inch off the ground. And it caught my. toe, big toe nail and it took it off.

Oh, man. That was the worst thing that ever happened to me in a kitchen. Well, stay safe out there, everybody. Please. All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive

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And we're back. You're listening Good Job Brain. And we're talking about cooking things up in the kitchen. Big news in my life. We actually just recently got a. a new addition to our kitchen. A couple days ago, my husband drove all the way from San Francisco back up to Seattle to pick up his new baby, La Mazzocco G.S.O., which is a fancy espresso machine that someone

in San Francisco had and was selling, and Cameron had to go down and drive the 200-pound machine. back up. And it's still a deal. You're pretty serious stuff for coffee lovers. It's just non-stop researching, talking to experts, and waiting for the right opportunity, but it happened.

And it just goes to show that like, everything has its own fandom and nerdery. Oh, God. Coffee nerds. You can go as deep as you want in any, like, a coffee is just especially one of those. He's watching videos of, like, Up close, you know, of the espresso machine.

It's like, it's like a metal cup with like a lot of holes. Yeah. And then when you pour the water, when you extract or you pull the machine, then like you see the coffee come out of the, all the little holes. Close up macro, slow-mo videos of the coffee oozing out of the holes. It's like, it's like too sensual. You know, oh, and he would say things like, yes, those are the tiger stripes because it's like the coloration of the extraction from the espresso.

And I was like, okay, I believe you. Fantastic. Great. Yep, that's great. You want to hear about my favorite Pokemon's? Yeah. And so, just like Colin, who recently had a quiz about beers around the world, here I have a quiz about coffee drinks around the world.

All right. Okay. A lot of countries love tea and a lot of countries love coffee. So here is a coffee quiz. Let's do this as a write-down. Please grab a writing utensil and a surface. Let's do it. I'm ready.

First question, the drink known as Sicilian coffee or Roman coffee has been becoming quite popular in Asia during warm weather. Usually served iced. It's espresso with what other ingredient? Neither from Rome nor from Sicily Oh geez All right I was going to say Gabagool I'm going to trust it.

Gapagool infused Sweeping the All right well I committed to my answer here We'll see I have no idea I have no idea Answer is up Colin put ice cream

And Chris put Amoreto So it is lemon. Lemon juice. I have heard of this. Lemon juice. Okay, get this. So you have to have lemon juice and maybe like a twist of like lemon rine or like a wedge of lemon, surfed ice.

And most places will also add in seltzer water. So it's like a lemon coffee soda. And it is so popular, at least in Taiwan, I just came back from Taiwan. Every coffee shop had it. Interesting. It's delicious and you get your caffeine. It's refreshing. But yes, Sicilian coffee, Roman coffee, they're not from those places.

Okay. The origin is unknown. Some people say it's from England. Some people say it's from France. But yes, coffee with lemon, ice coffee with lemon. I will be going to Taiwan this summer. I'm going to look for it. I'm going to look for it.

Next question. Australia and New Zealand have developed a big coffee culture with both countries laying down claim inventing what coffee drink that's similar to a cafe latte but with a little bit less milk

and one could say with a thinner layer of foam I'll read it again Australia and New Zealand both countries laying down claim of inventing what coffee drink that's similar to a cafe latte but just with less milk and one

could say a thinner layer of foam Chris looks confident. Hmm. I'm just going for something else that sounds Italian, but maybe isn't. All right. Colin has put cordo. Chris has the correct answer, which is a flat white. Because it's not a lot of foam.

It's flatter. It's a flat white. But it's white. Yeah. All right. Next question. Egg coffee. Egg coffee.

A drink made of coffee with a sweet. and thick custardy foam made of egg yolk, sugar, and condensed milk is a signature coffee drink of what Asian country? Egg coffee, a drink made with coffee topped with a sweet and thick custardy foam made of egg yolk, sugar, and condensed milk with together is a signature coffee drink from what Asian country? Okay. A lot of different countries and cultures actually do. use egg in some of their coffee drinks, but this one is, this country is kind of almost mostly known for it. Hmm.

Sounds good. One of those things where milk was hard to get, cream was hard to get, maybe it was too expensive. People got inventive and used like egg yolk to thicken and have some sort of creamy. Richness. Yeah, to cut the coffee. All right. Answers up.

Colin put Philippines. Great guess. Chris put Thailand. also a great guest. This is Vietnam. Vietnam. Big coffee drinkers over there. We love Vietnamese coffee and they also have egg coffee. Egg coffee. You find it in almost every coffee shop there.

All right. Next question. Which country consumes the most coffee? Per capita coffee consumption. hint before you commit to your answer it's cold what what is the country is cold not the coffee is cold oh oh oh interesting okay

per capita coffee consumption and it's cold if I didn't give you that clue what would you what would you I don't well I know the most coffee shops per capita but I don't know if you didn't give me that clue I was going to write Brazil

I you know I would have gone with Brazil too. It's a lot of people and coffee seems like it'd be. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Readily available. Yeah. All right.

The answer is up. Colin has put Sweden. Chris has put Norway. The answer is Finland. Oh, it's the other one. We were all just dancing around it. Just dancing around Finland. Finland, Finland.

Holds the title for highest per capita coffee consumption. Average Finnish person. Are they just counting it back? Consumes close to. to four cups of coffee each day. Oh, my God. That doesn't sound that extreme. I feel like I have a lot of coffee.

The average. That's the average. Every day. Every day. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there are some people who don't drink it, and some people who are just like, got the IV in. The average Finnish person is drinking coffee at this moment.

Right now. Okay. So I learned. So we went last year to South Korea. Oh, yeah. I was like, dang, there sure are a lot of coffee shops here. Like, there's coffee chains, like, all over the place. Like, there's so many coffee chains.

And not only that, but we just, like, every 100 feet, we walk past another shop selling, like, these massive, you know, sugar-laden iced coffees. And then there's all these, like, we see all these little mom and pop type coffee shops. They're off-shoot places. And I'm like, does this country have the most coffee? Oh, it does. Like South Korea has the most coffee shops, like, like number one with a bullet per capita. I believe Japan was number two, and South Korea was like way more than that.

Yes. But I guess you're not chugging it like Finland is. All right. Next question. New Orleans. New Orleans style coffee is made with roasted coffee beans and what plant? from the Daisy family All right, Chris knows

We all know this We know this, we know this Yes, Colin and Chris Chickory and Chickory You are correct Chickory Chickory Part of the Daisy family

Many, many cultures have been using Chickory root Like specifically the root That they roast And they grind As a coffee substitute Like during economic downtimes

There's a filler Right, yeah Great to Depression, World War II. Yes, it's kind of used as a substitute or a filler. All right, next question. One traditional method of preparing Turkish coffee involves heating the coffee pot in what medium? One traditional way of preparing Turkish coffee is heating the coffee pot in what medium?

I'm doing an interpretive dance. I don't know of coffee. You're the spirit of coffee. In what medium? In what medium? There's fire involved, but it's not directly over the fire. The fire is heating something else, then that is heating the coffee pot. All right.

All right. Colin has a great answer, hot water. And Chris has put a very similar answer, double boiler, which involves heating water and then using the water heat to heat up the coffee. It is sand. It is sand. Anakin Skywalker's most hated thing. Sand. Part of the trickiness of preparing Turkish coffee is you want it to heat up to a point where

it's almost going to boil and you take it off the heat. And you do that a couple times. So manually adjusting the heat is a big component of preparing Turkish coffee. And so the sand method is like they're experts. So it's like they know when to kind of. put it deeper in the sand for more heat, when to take it away. To watch people do this,

it's really cool. He didn't stand. All right. In Hong Kong, you can get something that is called Yun Yang, named after a duo, a pair, a duo of Mandarin ducks.

But the drink is a duo of coffee and what other popular Hong Kong drink? Oh. This drink's name is Yuan Yang, which translates to Mandarin ducks. Usually there's a pair of them because they're like bonded for life. The duo of ducks. The drink itself is also a duo of things. It's a duo of coffee and what other popular Hong Kong drink?

Please be specific. All right. Chris has put milk tea. Colin has put whiskey. It is Hong Kong milk tea Oh, great answer Oh, all right Good job

Yes You got the coffee and the milk tea All right Next coffee is Cafe de Oia That's spelled OLLA Hopefully I'm pronouncing it right Cafe de Oia

Is a coffee drink from what country Usually brewed in earthenware pots With cinnamon and orange That's orange I'm just pronouncing it This is big in the Bay Area. We see it a lot. Oh, I've had this.

Yeah. Cafe de Oya is a coffee drink from what country usually brewed in earthenware pots with cinnamon and orange. These days, it's mostly brewed in an instant pot like most things. Chris has put Brazil and Colin has put Mexico. It is from Mexico. Very Christmas-y flavors. orange and cinnamon. All right.

Next question. What Spanish drink can you now get at Starbucks? That's equal parts espresso and milk and takes its name from the Spanish word to cut, as in like to cut the coffee, to cut to dilute the coffee. Once again, what Spanish drink can you now get at Starbucks? That's equal parts espresso and milk and takes its name. from the Spanish word to cut, as in to cut or dilute the coffee. Order it.

Starbucks app today. Here we go. Chris has put Restredo, and Colin has put cordo. The correct answer is Cortado. Cortado. Cortado. They're pushing that. They're pushing flat whites, too.

You can buy that also at Starbucks now. Cortato and flat whites actually kind of very similar. There's only so many ways, right, you can mix the coffee. There's so many permutations. I don't know. Is that true? I mean, they keep coming up with more. Last question, we're coming back to America.

Americans love their caffeine. They love their volume. We do. So what's the common name when you add an espresso shot to a regular cup of coffee? Americans love their caffeine and volume of coffee. So what's the common name for when you add an espresso shot to a regular cup of coffee? you add an espresso shot into a regular cup of coffee

different places call it different things there is one common name I also have some other names here that people use answers up Chris put depth charge and Colin put I can't see

red eye you're both correct depth charge or red eye different places say different things and that is my coffee around the World quid. Yay! This is a true story.

It happened right here in my town. One night, 17 kids woke up, got out of bed, walked into the dark, and they never came back. I'm the director of Barbarian. A lot of people die in a lot of weird ways. We're not going to

find it in the news because the police covered everything all up. On August day. This is where the story Really starts. Weapons. All right, and we got one last segment. Colin?

Yes. Well, we're thinking about breakfast and kitchens. And as children of the 80s and the 90s, I think I speak for all of us when I say that breakfast, at many times, involves one of our country's many fine breakfast cereals. I wanted to put together a quiz. Now, we've talked about cereals before. We love serial trivia.

I went back into our into the archives. We've been talking about serials quiz. The earliest one I could find was on episode 19. That's one nine way back, some serials quiz. So I put together a quiz that's got some new stuff in there. All right, all right. You know, there's some tough ones in here, but I'm going to try and throw in some easy ones here

so you guys don't get too, too stranded. But this is the killer serials quiz. Uh-huh. So, thank you, Chris. Yes. Get your writing employees. moments out. We will do this as a write-down quiz. Yeah, the best kind of joke that when you don't get at first.

And maybe don't appreciate even, yeah, when you do get it. That's a joke grenade, you know? Yeah, yeah. All right. Many, many breakfast cereals aimed at children have animal mascots, of course, in the U.S. and around the world. The animal mascot for this popular breakfast cereal is a member of the Kuulidi family. Can you spell that, please? That is the C-U-C-U-L-I-D-A-E family. C-C-C-U-L-D-A-E family.

The sole taxon in the order Cuculaformis. Oh, geez. Oh, man, okay. I mean, I'm just going to... All right, so I'm... Am I putting what animal or the name? You give me both here, if you want. You give me the cereal.

You give me the cereal and the mascot. I did ask for the mascot. But, all right, I'll be generous here. What do you got? Karen has written toucan Sam and fruit loops. Great answer. Chris has also written fruit loops and two cans Sam. Great.

All right. No, I was hoping this, you know, when I was writing this, I was like, oh, is this too easy? I'll make it number one. The Kukulidae, the Kukukukubirds, the Kukukuk. I'm looking for it. Sonny the cuckoo and Cocoa He is of course

famously, perhaps infamously Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Cuckoo Cooleidae How could I miss that? Oh man Birds of course Yeah Sunny has been around for a while since this early 1960s I learned this makes more sense

on his name, Sunny the Cuckoo Originally there were two cuckoo birds there was a grandfather their cuckoo, and then the little sunny cuckoo. And they kind of kicked Grandpa out of the cuckoo. Sunny, the cuckoo, yeah, sort of took center stage.

One of the oldest U.S. breakfast food brands, this hot cereal is made, principally, of Farina. Oh. Farina. Maybe you know it or you don't.

Hot cereal, Farina, answers down. Karen writing away. Chris has got cream of wheat. Karen has got cream of wheat. That's right. You got it. You guys know your Farina. I'm just thinking old hot cereal. Old hot cereal. I like it. Old hot cereal. No actual cream. Right, right. It's a great good marketing. It's a great origin story. I mean, it's not just good marketing. It is a great origin story, which is like it basically came out of the time when the diamond milling company, the original manufacturer, It was after like the panic in the in the markets, the economy, and they couldn't sell enough flour. They held this flour. So like they basically, the wife of the chief miller at the company came up with the idea of a breakfast porridge built around wheat middlings, which was basically the part of the wheat that they were throwing away because they weren't, it's not used in making the flour anyway. They're like, we got this. It's got protein.

So they started with a very small, you know, kind of test marketing, but it exploded. So popular that they shifted their entire production to just cranking out. Right, the farina, right, the middlings for the cream of wheat. Yeah. Okay. We've talked about Lucky Charms on the show before from several different angles. This is going to be a possibility for four points. The original, original four.

original four lucky charms colors or shapes i'm looking for a shape and a color so blank blank you got it oh god answers up karen's got pink hearts blue moons yellow sun and green shamrock all right karen i'm going to give you clover for shamrock chris has written green clover yellow diamond red heart and blue stars. All right. I will ask you guys to score yourselves here. The correct answer,

the correct answer is the originals are pink hearts, yellow moons, orange, orange stars. I'll give you sun, if you wrote orange sun, orange stars,

and green clovers. Those were the original four. I got two. Okay. Can I get point for red hearts then? No. It's pink. I'll give you half a point.

Half a point for, half a point for red hearts, Chris. Half a point. All right. Right. I think is a shade of it. Yeah. Yeah, half a point.

All right. The Kellogg Company, which makes many popular cereals like Rice Krispies, a trademark name, sells three popular cereals whose names are so generic, they cannot be trademarked. These are among their most popular brands, all right? So they basically, you know, they can trademark Kellogg's blank, but the name of the cereal is so generic that imitated. Of course, can also use this name. For one point each, what are these three top-selling Kellogg's brands? Generic names. So generic, Kellogg's cannot claim them themselves.

You have eaten them in your lives. I guarantee you might be feeding them to your children. They might be in your house. All right, answers up. Chris has written Corn Flakes. Oh, that's what I was thinking. Raisin bran, shredded wheat. Karen has written corn flakes, raisin brand, and weaties.

You each get two points. The answers are corn flakes, raisin bran, and frosted flakes. Flakes. Oh, really? Yes. I was thinking about that, but I'm like, I thought that was trademarked. Not trademark. It is not currently trademarked.

Once upon a time, they did have sort of protection on that. Now, it is a description of what it is. They are flakes that are frosted. So that's right. It's Kellogg's Raisin brand, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and Kellogg's Frosted Flake. That's right. They have been making Raisin Brand since 1942 Kellogg's. If you take the Kellogg's slogan at face value, what is the quantity of raisins per box of Kellogg's Raisin brand?

This is the question? This is the question. Like, it's in the slogan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's on the box. Yeah. Sometimes. All right.

Answers up. You have each written the correct answer. Two scoops. That's right. What two scoops of raisins. Now, all right. What is the two scoops? I tried to chase this down.

This was harder than I thought. I thought I would get a definitive answer. And I mean, it is sort of definitive, but maybe not satisfying. Kellogg says they pack two scoops. It's proportional. All right. So the two scoops that you get in a 15, ounce box of raisin is not going to be the same two scoops as you get in a larger box of

raisin brand oh not satisfied with this explanation the science creative quarterly uh out of university of british columbia they they set about trying to measure this scientifically they got two boxes of the available sizes of raisin brand there's a 15 ounce box there's a 20 ounce box and a 25 and a half ounce box they tested and they found a wide range in the amount of raisins you got, as low as 12 raisins an ounce in the large box, all the way up to 19 raisins an ounce in the 20-outs box. They said that if you want to maximize your raisins based on their,

perhaps small sample size, go with the 20-ounce they found somewhere between 294 and 381 raisins in that box. So, yeah, two scoops Kellogg says is a is a term of marketing art essentially it's we don't we don't literally mean it's yeah I know he's holding them right there yeah it's like are you lying to me son shrinkflation yeah he's like well I didn't say how big the scoops are son just you know eat your cereal Tony the tiger of course the animal mascot for Kellogg's frosted flakes he has one of the truly great taglines in all of advertising Tony the Tiger is short memorable

boastful to the point they're great. I mean, that's it. Tell me about Frosted Flakes. Oh, they're great. That's all you need to know. I'm not here to ask you about Tony the Tiger directly. That would be too easy. I'm here to ask you if you can name slash recall the names of Tony the Tiger's

canonical family. Tony the Tiger. Where did it show up? All right. Well, in various pieces of advertising over the years, some of the family are our featured very prominently. Tony's son. Oh, interesting. Tony's son, who is someone who can be named in these

answers here, is featured in many commercials. But over the years, we have seen five members of Tony the Tiger's family. We got his mother and his father, his wife, and two children, and two children. A son and a daughter. I'll even tell you. Do they all have names?

They all have names. I won't give you too many hints, but I'll just say, Don't think too hard. Don't think too hard. Five possible points on the board here for as many members of Tony the Tiger's family as you can think of. His mother, his father, his wife, and his son and daughter. Okay. Yeah, Karen, what did you got?

I got Mama, Papa, Tony Jr., Tanya, and Tonya. Wow, Karen, you're really on the right track. Tony Jr., spot on for his son, yeah. Tony and Tony Jr., who is featured in most of these family appearances. All right, and Chris, what do you got? I think I had too few female names and too many male names, but maybe I'll get it anyway. I put Tony Senior. Oh, I should put Tina.

Tina, Tina. Toby. Toby. the tiger it's Trevor and tanya tanya oh i love how you both came up with tanya yeah no this is this is great all right so tony um papa tony i put papa oh okay okay okay okay you're both in right track and then really creative with this one mama tony that is her yes i'm i'm sorry i it's not my trick it's Blake, talk to the Kellogg's marketing department. Mama Tony.

Mama Tony, Papa Tony. Mrs. Tony. This is how much they think of his family. This is how much they think of it. Yeah. And then now this leads me to think like is Tony, is it his last name? Yeah. I want to marry a girl who's just like my mom.

Yeah. Her name is Tony. Tony. And then. I don't want to flip his table. Yeah. it made me really mad too. I'm like, come on. Give her flesh out this world a little more, please. And then his daughter, Antoinette, Antoinette, which maybe they felt was closer to Tony, you know. I think you have to think even harder to get to the galaxy brain take from like, they all have names that start with T to the universe. I can see the cosmos of everybody.

nobody's name is Tony Mrs. Tony, Ms. Tony. Dr. Tony. The dog's name is, yeah, little Tony. This serial

introduced in 1965 had early TV ads with the tagline A Bowl a Day keeps the bullies away. Whoa. A bowl a day. keeps the bully.

It was eventually changed to a bowl a day gives you energy to play. Uh-huh. Keeping the bowl a day part. I don't know. I mean, what cereal we got.

Yeah. This is a popular one. All right, answers up. Chris has Wheaties. Karen has kicks. Ah, okay. Yeah,

they were going for the Apple a day keeps the doctor away. Uh, reference there. Apple Jacks? No. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it was originally marketed as Apple O's.

And then in the early 70s, they switched it to Apple Jacks. Yeah, but yeah, they're trying to like, I don't know, just get some of the halo effect from healthy apples. What was the last time you had Apple Jacks? I bought some recently for my daughter. What did you think? They're better than I remember. And in the course of putting this quiz together,

I learned that they have tinkered with the flavor a lot over the years. And so it might be different. It's so funny. It's kind of they've gone down the road. and back with this, right? So when they first came out, they were obviously leading into the apple, AppleOs, Apple Jacks.

By the 90s, they were, they had done like almost a 180 where they were marketing the cereal on the fact that it didn't taste like apples. They're like, oh, you know, it's like, don't worry, it tastes like cinnamon, you know?

And like the commercials were like grownups, like, why do you kids like it? It doesn't even taste like apples. And they're like, we just like what we like, you know? And it's just so weird. And it's like they wanted to call it apple jacks, but at the same time we're like, oh, don't worry. It doesn't really taste like apples.

But so they've gone back and forth with it. But it is, I would say the top note, Karen, I would say is cinnamon at this point. Yeah, yeah. All right. Last one. Here we go. You're either going to know this one or I might grant points for the funniest answer. By what name are Rice Krispies marketed in Australia and New Zealand?

Zealand. Friends of the show, Bill and Danny, screaming out the right answer, they know. I wonder, I wonder what's the, why they have to go with another name, you know? Is it like, is it like the three names or is it like just another? It is rice something. I'll give you that. It's rice blank, not rice crispy. Okay, okay. So it's not like a different version of snapcuggled pop.

That's right. Right. It's not like snaps treats or something like that. Right. All right. We're giving points here for creativity. Chris has rice blastos. That's very Australian. That's good. That's great. I love it with the blasto. Karen has rice pops. Yeah, a little more prosaic perhaps. They are, in fact, sold as rice bubbles in the great name. The great nations, Australia and New Zealand. Yes, you can Google it, you can look it up. You can easily verify this back.

Rice bubbles. Rice bubbles. Rice bubbles. Rice bubbles is a better name, I feel like. I like it. It works for me. Yeah, yeah. It's cute.

It is cute. But I'll get, I'll award the point for rice blastos here. Yay. Yeah. That's very, it's very Australian. Very, very Aussie. Yeah. Well done.

Well done, guys. All right. Yeah. A little tricky there in spots, but you guys. What? Okay. You have some good intuition. Currently, what cereal is like your jam?

Like, what cereal do you enjoy eating? Okay. I've accepted that become an older person, and I love heritage flakes. Huh. I don't even know what company makes it. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's boring, but it's delicious. It sounds like a total old person cereal, Karen.

Yes. It's a mom cereal. I have had those, and you're right. They are very good. Because it holds the question. crunch in the milk. Yeah. Those old grains.

Yeah. You can't. The heritage grains. Heritage grains. This is a good question. If you sent me to buy a box of cereal, I go buy a box of cereal that you're going to eat, just get something ridiculous.

Probably honey bunches of oats. For me, if I was just going to go buy a big box of cereal, it would probably be honeynut Cheerios, eating them all my life. And if I'm just going full out, like if I were going to like back in like the college dorm day is sugar cereal it would be like cinnamon toast crunch oh interesting I feel like this uh it's a really good personality test is are you INTJ or are you heritage place I'm a muslox man myself oh my god my dad how my dad would

eat cereal he would put five different types of cereal in one bowl like he would mix them all love, which is like insane, because you can't mix, you know, a chocolatey one with raisin brand. That's disgusting. No, he then pours milk. Then he goes and walks the dog and then he comes back and he eats it. At that point, you can't tell the liquid from the salt. It's like a soup. That's crazy.

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