Miss Me? - Listen Bitch! A Political Hot Potato

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver answer your questions about potatoes.Next week, we want to hear your questions about PARENTING. Please send us a voice note on WhatsApp: [phone]. Or, if you like, send us an email: [e-mail] episode contains very strong language and adult themes. Credits: Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith Production Coordinator: Hannah Bennett Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford Assistant Commissioner for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor for BBC: Dylan Haskins Miss Me? is a Persephonica production for BBC Sounds

BBC Sounds music radio podcast. This episode of Miss Me contains some strong language, some adult themes and some references to carbohydrates, which some people may find distressing. Oh hello! Hello! Is everyone happy and good and in a great place to talk about potatoes? I know we are. We got more questions about potatoes than pleasure. Hmm. Hmm. Everyone loves potatoes. I'm just gonna start something off quickly. If you had to choose for the rest of your life, you can only have one of these three. Pasta, bread, or potatoes.

Yeah, I know this question. It's always potatoes for me. And I found out why the deep shit is real. And I think it's a Celtic thing. Oh, okay, yeah. Of course, it's all to do with your heritage. That's right. Of course, what we eat is about who we are and where we're from,

you know, it just is. And actually, with the famine and everything, I just feel like this is the Irish potato famine, of course, of, what is it, 1840s. I think maybe we would see potatoes as not just a sustenance, but survival, because when I want mashed potatoes, it's so deep. It's not just like, I'd love some mashed potatoes. It's like, I need them. They need me. And we are one.

I told you last week when I was in my flat in London, and it was the first meal that I cooked, I cooked cheese pie with my new masher. Is that the first meal in the flat? Yeah. Grandad Aaron, my mom's boyfriend of many years, bought me for Christmas a thing called a masher, which is a potato mashing machine. It looks a bit like a hand immersion blender thing. So it doesn't rice them? It makes the most perfect mashed potatoes I have ever had in my entire life. I'm going to get you one for Christmas. Yeah, put some meat on those bones. Get really into mashed potato in the new season. I had a huge argument with Grandad Aaron when he came over here to New York last time because

we were making sausage, mash and beans. And I love Grandad Aaron pretty much more than anyone in the world, right? He's like one of my favorite people. He's like a pillar of support. He's like the main male person in my life that is great and positive and supportive to me. And he was in charge of the mashed potatoes. And he, it was just this moment. I was like stressed out. And the potatoes were kind of mashed already. And he was putting the butter and the milk in. And mashed already and he was putting the butter

and the milk in and he just went way overboard with the milk and I was like that's way too much milk and instead of just pouring some of the milk out he just started stirring it in and I was like what the fuck are you doing? Okay, calm down. He was really taking it back, he was really taking it back. I was just like are you an idiot? Don't fuck up the mashed potatoes, but... No, but it wasn't that.

It was just that it was salvageable. It was like, you could see that there was too much milk in there. It's like, obviously you just pour a bit out. But he just went and stirred. No, but this is gonna come up. I was like, this is the point of no return. Like you can't do anything once there's too much milk in there.

No, you're wrong there. But you're wrong, actually. It's too much of a disaster. I'm not. I'm not wrong. No, you're silly. You not wrong. I'm not wrong. You are wrong. Not only do I have 19 chefs in my family, one of them, my cousin, Silliman, I'm working with him at the moment, and he cooked the team a shepherd's pie. And I looked over at the mashed potato and it was full of milk in the pan. I was like, what are you doing? And he was like, let me do this for you. And it was bad. So anyway, we really have to get into questions.

I would like to just apologize to Grandad Aaron because I took it too far. He was shocked. I was shocked. I don't think I've ever snapped at him. It was potato related madness. Let's have our first question, please. Okay. Hi ladies. Barbara Streisand here, actress, singer. So when I was a kid, my mom gave me tinned new potatoes, which were absolutely disgusting. And I will never forgive her to this day that she tried to ruin potatoes for me. So my question to you is have you ever eaten potatoes in like a really disgusting format? Anyway, don't let anyone rain on you.

Bye! Last little Barbara line at the end. Thank you so much, Barbara Streisand. There's two particularly offensive potato scenarios that we can talk about. and they both are rooted in them being undercooked right an undercooked potato is just like so disappointing and it's most disappointing in mash a couple of weeks ago I had Gracie and Iris over here my Irish cousins and you know sometimes when I'm doing my mashed potatoes here I do it in my kitchen aid you know sometimes when I'm doing my mashed potatoes here

I do it in my kitchen aid you know I'll put the butter and the milk in there once I've heated them up and then you know mix it up. Whip them up. Oh yeah. Depends what the accompaniment is but she had put the potatoes I'd gone upstairs to like help the kids with the bath or something and I came downstairs and she put the potatoes in the blender. Like one for liquid. Yeah, like a liquidizer.

And I was like, what the eff are you doing? And also they were undercooked and it was lumpy and I was just really angry. Is this a generalization, but they're Irish. No, they're a bit Irish. They're mainly Welsh. So yeah, I think it was the Welsh part of them that got it wrong. Anyway, the other disappointing potato is an undercooked dauphinois.

Yes, of course, because when you slice through, you want it to feel like butter. Yeah, if it's a little bit hard and it's got that like slightly raw potato taste, it's just like inedible, disgusting, get it away from me. I don't think I've ever had potato in a form I didn't appreciate. No form of potato is bad for me. Let's have another question. Hi, Lily Anne Makita.

My name is Jessica. I am a secondary school teacher in Cambridge. Potatoes are just the best. They are my desert island food. But my question to you is, if you could be represented as a type of cooked potato, what would that be? So is that a dauphinoise or are you more of a potato waffle? This isn't kind of what you would like to eat. It's more what represents your energy and your personality in potato form. Lots

of love. Let's say it at the same time. No, that's going to be confusing for people. Okay, Gargoyle, I knew you'd become a tyrant in this episode. I'm not a tyrant. A potato tyrant. Me first, you say. I think I'm like, not like mashed potatoes, I think I'm like whipped potatoes because I like to, I feel like I'm like comforting but chic and classic. So more like a pom puree.

Do you agree? That you're a pom puree? I think you might be more of an Alligoo. Okay, not everyone knows what Alligot is, you know. Okay. Do you want to explain? Not everyone's from chefs and fancy. It's boiled potatoes vigorously mixed with garlic, milk and butter.

And butter. Obviously potatoes and butter. Thank you. I'll be in Aligot. I am. I know what I am. I know what I am. The only way you've ever been able to explain who you really are in potato form. I am a reloaded baked potato. So I'm baked and then I am emptied out. I am mashed and

butter and cheese put in and then I'm put back into the skin and then heated up so I'm basically like an updated more refined version of a classic do you know what I mean I'm developed yeah I'm a developed classic it's not deconstructed no no no is it not not deconstructed no no it's actually reconstructed With a crispy hard Exterior and cheesy on the inside down on yeah easy But you're not gonna you're not gonna see that just by looking at me Wow, I think the new music might need to start in potatoes

Something's there to unlock you okay Okay. Right. Okay. Next question about the glorious, humble potato. Hello, this is Martha, originally from Bath in the southwest of England, but now living in Melbourne, Australia. My question for you regarding potatoes is about crisps. I bloody love crisps. They're just so good aren't they? It's a crisp for every occasion and I am curious to know what are your favorite flavor of crisps? Also are there certain crisps that you have tried in other countries that you love and think about? My personal favorite in Australia is honey soy chicken. That's just so, so yummy.

Thanks. I fucking hate weird flavored crisps. I don't like that. Honey soy chicken is not for me. I went to a party the other night where they had caviar crisps. I was like, this is fucking disgusting. Get it away from me. Caviar on the crisp. Yeah. You know, like there's that fancy Spanish company that make like the truffle crisp. And now they've gone one step further and done like caviar flavoured. And I was like, oh, caviar flavoured. And I just looked at the packet

and thought it was the truffle ones and I ate it and I was just, I actually retched. I had to spit it out. I was like, this is foul. Because even their truffle ones, I find a little rich. I know what you mean. I know you mean but I can have one and they're A barico ham. I know who you mean. We don't need to name them. They've done very well for themselves that crisp company I love walkers. I'm such a I just love but then I really loved all the like 90s Walkers advertising is something about like like Golden Wanda was a little bit more like rough Are we gonna talk about Gary Lineker again? Actually, we can't really use potatoes and not talk about Gary Lineker.

I just thought that marketing was so interesting why those two things paired up. I like that they were two kind of two mainstays of the country, two kind of things that make up the country coming together like Walkers, Gary Lineker, you know where you are, you know where you live. I just, I miss the 90ss I've told you this many times and I just like cheese and onion ready salted salt and vinegar I hate chicken I hate meat flavored crisps yeah I know what you mean and spicy and all that shit like that. Oh no hang on flaming hot or pickled onion monster munch knick-knack scampi and lemon my God, I fucking love those crisps.

Ew, gross. I know. And also gross. Skips. Eww. Yeah, I do quite like fish-flavored crisps. Eww, so rank. But this is just like how you get to know each other

in the playground, like, oh no, you like prawn cocktail. Eww. That is butters. I like, my favorite are salt and vinegar chips sticks. Oh yeah, every time. You must miss that shit, you can't get that in New York. You can hardly get them in London, they're hard to find. You don't really eat crisps in New York, do you?

Like, I buy a packet of crisps maybe like every other day. Do you know where I eat the most crisps is on a plane because I hate plane food, but crisps feel safe. My mom's always like complaining to like the chef on a plane. I'm like always like complaining to like the chef on a plane. I'm like, mum. There is no chef on a plane. Like, that's what I'm saying.

I'll just put that out there. She's always like, this fish was a bit undercooked. I'm like, what the fuck do you expect on a plane? Oh, I'll just message the chef. He's in a warehouse in Solihull. I'll let him know, ma'am. Like, what on earth? I don't know. That was made a few months ago.

Planes aren't restaurants. Well, you tell Andy Oliver that. I will next week. All right, let's have another question about potatoes. Hi, Lilia Makita. Nikki here from South London. Potatoes. Well, once a very bored son came in and I thought, I know, I've got a spud gun, which is an old fashioned toy probably now. Gave him a spud, gave him this little gun.

You push it in and then you shoot things in the garden. Thought that was great. He went out. 10 minutes later, he came in and he looked like he'd been in a fight or something awful. His whole face had completely swollen up, eyes, lips, the lot. So hence, I found out he was very allergic to potatoes. And I was just wondering, have you ever been allergic to potatoes or any other vegetables? Had a heroin reaction to them? Thanks. Bye. No, I would literally die. Be careful because they're a nightshade aren't they? And like every person I know that goes

to see a nutritionist always come back going I can't have nightshade. I'm like I'm not going to see them. Not being told I can't have my potatoes. No potatoes. And so is that a gun where you stick an old potato in it and that becomes the bullet? I don't remember that existing. You chuck the potato gun into the potato and it like takes out a bit of a potato. It's a little bit like you know when you have when you go and get like cancer test on your boobs. A biopsy. It's a biopsy. It's like a biopsy of potato.

They stick the thing in, it pulls out a bit of the potato and then you shoot the bit of potato out. It turns the potato into a bullet. That's really hot. Yeah, it does. Okay. It's good to hear it called a spud. Do you remember Spud You Like? Obviously. Do you?

Because they weren't around that many places. We're the same age, by the way. We're the same age. This is a location thing. No, but I lived in Shepherd's Bush when the Spud You Like was around, so I was only around the corner. Oh, right. So we are talking about the same branch.

I think this is an important moment to talk about poverty and potatoes because they really were a backbone in our life as kids, particularly at Phoebe's house. Phoebe's like, don't talk to me about baked potatoes because her childhood was like, what's for dinner test? Baked potatoes, there's no cheese and sometimes no butter. I think Phoebe would put Marmite in it to give it some of Marmite flavouring. And I remember that. Phoebe has that memory. So it's like potatoes, oh god, we're scared, still we're scared. But then me and Marmite, it was a bit more of a glamorous tale because if we were going to Spudger like, that means she'd got a job doing something and she'd been paid and we would like go and get creme fraiche and spring onion and cheddar. I mean

smudgey like could still exist it's not like people stopped eating baked potatoes. There are similar businesses now I've seen them on Instagram anyway I digress. You actually really don't digress this is we're still very much in potato land. Well cheese pie was my mom's poverty dish. Yeah. You know, I know we've spoken about cheese pie. It's just tinned tin spaghetti with cheesy mashed potato on top and baked. Exactly. That was what we had when we were poor. That's what I mean. Thank God for potatoes.

I still eat it now. I love it. We're going to take a quick break now. We'll see you after we do that. We're going to go eat some potatoes on either side. New York to London. I can have some crisps. Little packet crisps. Yeah, a little crisp break. Let's have another question about potatoes because it seems we all love them. It's nice to know, isn't it?

Hi girls. It's Karl here in Anik, Northumberland, which is not too far from Newcastle. So Lily, if you want to do that Geordie accent, please do it. It is really impressive, by the way. I've been to this podcast in the last week while I've been off work, like from start to finish. And I love it. And the reason I found it is because I've been seeing a lot of very obviously out of context headlines, the clickbait basically that's thrust at us left, right and center these days.

And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna go and listen to this podcast and find the actual truth out, which I have and I did. And I absolutely fucking love the truth. So some of us are finding you because of that and make of that what you will. So my potato related question is this, twice now on two separate occasions,

I have had something in my potato that shouldn't have been there. So once in a bag of crisps and once in some chips from the chip shop, I found a stone. Now the first time this happened was crisps and I sent that back to the manufacturer at their request. They did lab tests on it apparently, I mean they probably didn't, but

they concluded that it was a stone and that this is a naturally occurring thing that sometimes happens. It has now happened twice to me. But anyway, I got like a box of crisps in compensation like a hundred bags I think I got, which was amazing. So my question to you guys is, have you ever had something in your potatoes or any other food that shouldn't have been there? And what was it? Keep up the good work. Genuinely do love you guys. Bye. Thank you. I think we need to take that apart a little bit. There's no such thing as a naturally occurring stone in a packet of crisps. I was going to talk to the, I was the I was actually about the first bit of the story in the question

Which was very nice. Oh, wasn't that sweet saying to you? Don't worry all that bullshit written about you know still he went to find the truth and he found the truth and he likes The truth we like the truth, too Yeah, no, I don't think that was a natural Occurrence I think that was a factory slip. I mean, unless the stone came from the land where the potatoes came from, and it was also like deep fried and then ended up in the, but I just don't see how that could happen in the, in the factory. Well, exactly. So we think it probably was more of a factory

in the sap. Anyway, have I ever found anything in food that shouldn't be there? If I actually can't tell this just disgusting. I lived in Spain. It's not potatoes, but it was a salad. But my, when I lived in Spain, with the cherries, we went out for dinner most nights and I love Spanish salads. Basically they teach you in Spain. Oh, I learned this. Dress your salad like meat and fish, oil, vinegar, lemon, salt, pepper.

Do not be afraid to season your salads. And I love them so much, but once there was a fly dying in the middle of it and I nearly ate it and it fucked me up for about five years. I couldn't really eat lettuce and I love lettuce. Wow, that seems like really not a big deal. Can I just tell you how many insects you have eaten?

If you're eating like organic food, which I imagine you do living in East London, you're eating lots more slugs, flies, all that shit. I wouldn't even mind slugs. I don't, it's flies. I have a real, obviously I have an issue with flies. I get it. I found a cockroach in my spaghetti bolognese once in Paris. A cockroach actually in the bowl of pasta? A cockroach in my bolognese once in Paris. A cockroach actually in the bowl of pasta. A cockroach in my bolognese. Did it fuck up spaghetti bolognese for you for a while?

Because that would be upsetting. It fucked up room service for me. I don't really fuck with room service. It'd be upsetting if it had ruined spaghetti bolognese for you because I told you I did a spaghetti bolognese tour when I was very, very depressed. Just after bankruptcy and went around trying to find all the best places to eat spaghetti bolognese. You know where the best place is, my house. I don't know why it didn't just come to me.

I think I was maybe a little bit ashamed of my spaghetti bolognese tour. It was like instead of having a job or anything to do in the depths of depression at like 27. And then I actually maneuvered it into a mashed potato tour. I learned a lot about where to get good mashed potatoes. Italian restaurants do mashed potato very well. Caffes, unfortunately, they always have mashed potato as an offering, which is fantastic, like Arthur's and Kenzel Rise, they do quite good mashed.

But these days when I get, because I get calf delivery. Wow. It's amazing. That should have been on your guilty pleasure list last week. I can't actually believe I'm telling people. I never get the eggs. Oh, that's okay then. What?

Because eggs don't travel well. Okay. But anyway, they have just found this place, this like chicken restaurant, and they do the most incredible delivery mashed potatoes. Really good to know things like this because sometimes you just can't be bothered to make them. Until I get my machine from you, you won't be able to bloody stop me. Just while we're on the subject of calf potentials, the other thing that I find particularly offensive

is a microwaved baked potatoes. Yes of course because let's say it all together shall we? One, two, three... I remember my nan was like you can do it in the microwave when she first got one I was like that's not right. No you can't. I didn't come out all the time. No you can't. But it is eight minutes instead of 50. I don't have a microwave. I refuse. No, neither do I. It's a political hot potato. Should we tell people what that's from? I don't know where it's from. I've just always said it.

It's a political hot potato. If you know where that's from... Please let us know. That'd be great if you could tell us. Another potato question, please. Another potato question. My name is Meg and I'm calling from London, well voice noting from London. In terms of potatoes, I'm going metaphorical with this. Me and my friends call one of their ex-boyfriends potato head because he just kind of laid about, barely made any effort, didn't appreciate

how fun she was, you know, just a bit meh. And from the moment he broke up with her, we called him Potato Head. I was just wondering, is there anyone in your life, in your past that was just an absolute potato head? Thanks so much. Love the podcast. Bye. No, but I have got a very funny story about somebody that we know, you don't know him necessarily as well as I know him, but he had lost his phone in a nightclub and asked another one of his friends if he could call his phone so that he could find it. And he dialed his number and his name came up as Turniphead. Oh no. He was like, who's Turniphead? Oh, you've got me saved as Turniphead

on your phone. So mean. Was it? Was it? Was it? No, it's ****. Oh, because I feel like **** has more of a Turniphead than ****. No. Anyway, we'll beep these names. Yeah, obviously. Let's have a penultimate question. We love a penultimate one. Hi, Lillian Makita. My name is Ivana. I'm currently living in LA with my husband and two kids. We moved here about a year and a half ago. And Lily, I was so happy when you recommended the Russet as a good Maris Piper alternative,

because up until that point, my roast game had been seriously suffering so that was a total game changer. My question for you today is as a fellow Brit living in the US have there been any other meals or ingredients that you've like struggled to replicate or find since living in the US. For me, it has to be the sausage. Americans just cannot seem to make a decent sausage. Yeah, I feel like my job here is done. I feel like that is my public service.

I'm so happy that somebody has benefited from my potato knowledge. What was it you said? A russet is better for mash. that somebody has benefited from my potato knowledge. What was it you said? A russet is better for mash. After having done a lot of research on which potatoes are best for roasting, I've discovered that it was the russet. Oh, for roasting. Got it. Russet for roasting. I wanted to ask you something because as we know, it's deep. It's not just mashed potato. I live for a good shepherd's pie or cottage pie. What do they call it there? What is the version of shepherd's pie or cottage pie?

You do not have cottage pie. No, you don't have cottage pie. I just wouldn't be able to get it if I lived in America. That's a reason for me to, I could never live in a land that you couldn't get it anywhere unless you made it yourself. True.

Lily. Sorry, I'm just looking something up. Is this potato-based? Yeah, it's potato-based. It's a potato-based joke. Would you made it yourself. True. Lily! Sorry, I'm just looking something up. Is this potato-based? Yeah, it's potato-based. It's a potato-based joke. Would you like it? Oh, fuck off. Okay.

So there is, there is a young female potato, actually there's three young female potatoes in a family of potatoes, and they are of the marrying age, shall we say, and the eldest daughter goes back to her mom and dad and says, mom, dad, you're gonna be so happy with me.

I've found a husband, I am marrying King Edward. And they are like, oh my God, we've hit the jackpot. This is amazing, we're so proud of you, this is great. Second daughter comes along, she goes, mom, dad, I know it's not King Edward, but I am marrying into the Jersey Royals. And they are so beyond happy and can't believe their luck. Two out of three of their daughters have managed to set themselves up with some very prestigious potato families and the third daughter comes along and says, Mom, Dad, I'm getting married to John Motson. And they say, what, the commentator? Dino, you must get that. Maybe I should change it to Gary Lineker, because he's more of a commentator. Yeah, maybe.

I can't believe no one in the studio is in hysterics about my potato joke. I think you might have taken us to the end of Listen Bitch today, thank you. Do you know what, Lily, I hate jokes and you love them. That was a great joke. Fuck you. Lily, I do get it. Our listeners won't know who John Motson is. He's a commentator from the 70s. Yeah, and so is this joke, bruv. Let's move on to the final question of today's potato themed

listen bitch. Merry Christmas. Hello, Lily and Miquita. I'm Ross in London via Glasgow. I love potatoes of every single kind. I think they're honestly the most magical food in the world. And I want to know what your wildest topping combination has been on a jacket potato or like the wildest one that you've seen. I would have baked potato, put cheese on it, put a full tin of tuna, tuna mayo on top, then I'd put beans on top, and then I'd put cheese on top of that. So it was kind of like a cheesy bean or baked potato with tuna. And I thought like, oh my God, this is so good. Like, you know, I'm getting my proteins, I'm getting my fiber. So yeah, what about you? This is quite deep for me. I'm really uptight about my potato fillings, like baked potatoes.

I have to have the beans like in a bowl on the side. I don't like them all over the potato because then I also don't like when the cheese melts. I need it to still be like cold and on top. This is why I like Spudgy like because Spudgy like was very classic. Now when classics are brought back, unlike you because because you're a reconstructed classic, which is great for you and your personality and your energy, but I really don't like when they do it too much to food, so it's like they jazz it up. And so now when you have a baked potato offering, the toppings are too fucking jazzy. It's like pulled pork.

It has no place near a baked potato. Just really classic things like cheese, beans, tuna, tuna mayo and chili con carne are quite like that. You're forgetting the most important thing and actually I realized this is why the roast potato doesn't factor into my favorite potato category. Potatoes are essentially a vehicle for butter. Yes. Okay. She said it. And so, yeah, my favorite thing for a baked potato is cold butter.

You don't want it melted in. No, I do. I want to experience the melting. So I like the butter cold, and I like to be able to taste the contrast of the cold butter melting in the mouth with the hot potato. Yeah, actually baked potatoes again are quite traumatic because after Shaun died, my mom could not stop eating baked potatoes with cheese. Again, I think she's needed that comfort, of course, but she would stop grating the cheese and she would do more like slices of cold cheese on the hot baked potato and she still does it now almost like

Lily almost a curl of cheese. You know what I'm saying? Like a flat curl and when I watch her do it now I'm like that bitch knows her shit. That's why she's a food judge on Great British Menu because she knows how to make good baked potato. And I can't wait to have her here with me next week. What a way to end the show. What a segue. I better watch out. That was good though. Feels really good for you and mom to just chat food.

I mean, you just chat, you know what you love talking to one about. And she can't wait to see you. And I thank you both for supporting me through this. Tough time. Sticky moment Door opening to a new chapter I might run the world after this Because they said they've been sucking my energy for five or six years

Yeah, your fibroids been holding you back Let's get rid of those shits Imagine my energy without them It'd be un-fucking-stoppable So bye Bye fibroids Bye fibroids Bye broids

Bye broids Bye broids Woah woah woah woah You need a theme for you and mom Bye fibroids. Bye fibroids. Bye broids. Bye broids. Bye broids. Woah woah woah woah you need a theme for you and Mum. So the subject matter for next week is... Parenting. Very good. And you can obviously send your voice notes to us via WhatsApp on 08

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