Watch What Crappens - TasteTheNation: If I Were An Oscar Mayer Padma

Episode Date: June 25, 2020

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What Guess what happens Hello and welcome to Watch For Crappins, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to watch. Actually, we're loving to watch some stuff that's not on Bravo too lately, in case you missed it we have been recapping something sunset on Netflix. And today we thought we would check in on Padma Lakshmi's new show, Taste the Nation on Hulu. Anyway, I'm Ben Mandelker and joining me

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Chelsea for that recommendation. Well there you go everybody now it's time for my new show Tasting to Nation where I drive around tasting nations they're delicious. Mmm. So Padma has thrown her hat into the ring of these sort of food travelogue shows, you know, like the dearly departed Anthony Bourdain had won. I forget that was called no boundaries or something like that, no reservations. There's like a ton of them. Hello, diner's driving some dives much. Thanks.

How dare you? How dare you? But there's a whole world of them. Padma's doing one. I actually love these types of shows. This is actually the episode we're covering today is actually the second episode in the series. The first one took place in your hometown of El Paso, Ronnie, did you watch that one?

Yeah, so thanks a lot for ditching that one in order to do this one. You, too. El Paso Hayder, I hear you. Well, you know, I think that it's what's actually really good. The big angle on this show is really kind of an emphasis on the immigrant experience. And so far, I'm loving the show. I can't wait to watch all the other episodes too. Well, I have to watch it while I'm eating because I'm trying to get rid of some of this COVID weight and the show does not help. Let's just put it that way, especially this one, because it's about winners. And so it's like a lot of weenie eating and a lot of bread. And they're like, hey, let's go to a city fair in Milwaukee. And then they go and so it's like a lot of we need eating and a lot of bread and

they're like hey let's go to a city fair in Milwaukee and then they go there and it's just all like you know at you know animals which is gross but also just like the bread and the pretzels and I know I was like why can they eat like that and stay well I mean they don't stay thin okay I'll give them that they don't stay thin on this show but damn, why can they eat like that and stay alive and move? I can't even move. Yeah, seriously, I definitely watch this show

after dinner, which I think is the wise choice because otherwise, it's not like I had a healthy dinner. I think I actually had steak and potatoes right before watching it, so it's not like I was gonna say, because otherwise I would have had such an unhealthy dinner. I'm like, no, I made a caracake this weekend and then steak and potatoes, so I had a fully unhealthy dinner beforehand. But going forward, going forward. I don't see why you had such an unhealthy dinner. I'm like, no, I made a carrot cake this weekend and stick them to the table. So I had a fully unhealthy dinner beforehand.

But going forward, going forward. I don't see why you would watch it after dinner. That's like watching porn when you're not hungry. What's the point? It's supposed to make you hungry. But anyway, so I'm really digging the show. And I also am digging the fact that it's just 30 minutes of pure unadulterated Padma Lakshmi.

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And my right, so the episode opens up, we see a baseball stadium, and Padma is sitting in, like, she's sitting in the seats seats and she has like no one around her. Clearly she's like, excuse me, famous person is coming here to film. Get out of the way, I need a circle of emptiness around me. Thank you.

I've built it now, go away. Alright, like Padma's filled of dreams. If you build it, they will leave you alone because you're more famous than they are. These seats are reserved for my dear friends at the San Pelagrina family Also so Padma to be sitting there and be weighted on at the stadium Like someone brings her to her weener. She's like thank you for a person. Oh wait before I even eat this. Let me just give a preemptive preemptive. Mmm. Mmm.

Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Thank you for this hot dog, but do you perhaps have any deconstructed Caesar salads back there? No? Okay. And then we get like the hot dog montage.

It's like a big guy like, crrrr. Eating his hot dogs, like getting shit all over the place. And then shit being poured all over hot dogs. And Padma just going, Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. And then we get a hot dogs and Padma just going And then we get a three shot of Padmas like three different Padmas ones eating a hot dog

Sexily and when's eating a hamburger sexually and then another one's eating a pretzel sexily Yeah, look at me. I'm Padma Lakshmi and in case you forgot I was in a cause junior commercial eating food sexy like this So Padma is driving in her trademark yellow tinted Yellow tinted aviators They don't keep the son out but they do remind you how just pissy everything can be So she's driving and she tells us her story. She's like, I came to America when I was four. I'm an immigrant and I'm not alone. And I'm gonna explore who we are by the three we eat.

What makes us American? Am I right? I have a pal malachemian. Coming along with me as a tasting nation. Okay, okay, a gal relax. We're not literally tasting this country, okay,ail. And then she has like a super awkward moment where it's like Padma locks me, chasing everything or tastes America. And then she comes up and leans up against the wall that she's supposed to, you know, that the logo's on and she leans up against it and then

she's just kind of looking around like, where do I look? Do I take the picture yet? okay? And they take the picture. Well, my dear friend, Nina Weith, be joining me for this photo, no. Okay, okay. So then- So we are in Bill Walkie. We are, I got this warm tingly feeling because I was like, oh, it was a year ago

that we were over in there in that city having a fun time. So Padma's worst nightmare is that she has to spend this entire episode being driven around in an Oscar-Mire winner truck. She's like, okay, all right, I get the joke. I'm in a hot, what are we doing to host show in here? Okay, all right, all right, all right. It's being driven by a girl named Alex and then her guests like this taking her all over the place is Kathy Bates basically. Wasn't Kathy Bates? Yes. Totally Kathy Bates. And I mean that as a compliment.

I love me some Kathy Bates. Look at me. Yes. I'm driving around in a Wiener model. And my seven-year-old self was very happy. My 30-something-year-old self feels like I'm about to be eaten by gale. But that's neither here nor there. Let's talk winners

Okay, she's like oh show me sing the song. Okay, Alex you're gonna start and I was like I wish I were an Oscar my winner Cazama creep oh, sorry, I thought we're seeing radio heads. I'm a little bit more elevated Alright, alright start again. I wish I were an Oscar-my-a-weener Peacock, cuck-cuck, you're Peacock, cuck, sorry was that wrong, but they are Love Katy Perry. Do we have any... Does this hot dog play Tim and Paula or anything like that? Any arcade fire?

No. Is there a Stevie Nicks mobile we could possibly take around? That would be great. Oh I guess we're stalks seeing the gal national anthem. Okay, I wish I were an Oscar No, I can't even go any further. I can't do it This was gale slow-dance at a wedding One thing that a lot of people probably don't know about me is that my love of the Frank Futter runs deep. Real deep. I'm being ironic.

Don't you think that's funny? Alibag. I hate this. I was like, we know, Padma. We know. So I came here at four. And because of my religion, I was vegetarian. So I couldn't even eat the meat.

So we would get the bun without everything, you know, when you get a bun and there's no meat, but you say put everything else. So we would get onions bun without everything, you know, when you get a bun and there's no meat, but you say put everything else So we would get onions and sauce and other things on there. We would eat those buns So I love the hot dog before I even had the hot dog. Am I right Kathy Bay? So what was your experience with hot dog? They probably came out of Kathy Bay since mother's nipple just hot dog after hot dog. Am I right Kathy? I mean, I love the hotdog before I even had it.

I mean, some could say, I've just sort of like a trend set. I just sort of like, no, what's good without even trying it. I don't know, I guess I just said something about me. Anyway, you know, I've eaten a lot of amazing food around the world in my life, but I gotta admit, sometimes nothing beats a good old American hotdog. But is the hot dog really American? No, it's not it's not American at all so shut up gal. It's not Canadian either

Actually it originated in Germany and the fact that that's a mystery to some it's at the heart of the story What do you have to say about this Kathy Bates? And she's like well, know, the hot dog represents what America is. It's like animal parts that are shoved together, you know, ton of sodium on there and sold a 10 cents of Diablo games, which I will never forget. God, I love you 10 cents hot dog nights. So then, yeah, so Padma now, like, she, she now puts on her, uh, Carrie, um, what's her face from Sex and the City thing? What's with Carrie's last name again? Bradshaw. Um, Bradshaw, yeah. Yeah, she's like, is that how it works? If you're here long enough, a simulation of a ride to roots,

our kin community is being quintessentially American and still keep the roots alive. I couldn't help wondering, am I the bun or am I the hot dog? And when will Gale eat me? Is it possible to keep your culture and also enjoy sales at Marshalls without feeling like a trader? If a Canadian eats your culture, are you still American? Yeah, this is Padma's like cultural appropriation show where she just goes around and yells at us for culturally appropriate And she's pretty much right. What's on totally in my way? She's like right about everything and let us let by the way we are not We are not making fun of her about that at all we are supporting her a hundred percent on that front yeah because it's true but she's like okay Americans you think you're so American let me tell you what you've really been eating

yeah she's a hundred percent right and I so that's actually one of the reasons why I really love this show. By the same time, Pat miscellepadma, and she is hilarious to me, everything she does. So then we're talking to different people around Milwaukee, and they're talking about how Germans came and brought their recipes back in the day. And then there's this random lady who's, she's not really an adorned old, but it's sort of like a dorned old. It's definitely not what I think she's wearing on an everyday basis to the supermarket And she's just sitting in a chair in a restaurant and she's like German culture. Whoa. I mean, it is so embedded in Milwaukee I mean there were three newspapers at the turn of century and two were in German to wow

That gives you the idea of the bandwidth that's some German bandwidth right there Yeah, I think she's a waitress at a German restaurant because growing up in Alpas so my friend Heidi, her family owned a German restaurant, I think it's still there actually. And it was like one of these places here. All the waitresses are dressed like that. Yeah. And it's like real Schnitzel, did I get real Schnitzel? Like we don't even get fake Schnitzel in Alpas so, so just serve me whatever you want. So then it's back to Padma and the Wiener Mabial.

And the fact that like Padma spends so much this episode being driven around in the Wiener Mabial is so amazing. So she finally introduces Kathy Bates and she's like, this is colloquial, culinary, writer and food historian, Christina Wood. She knows everything about the Milwaukee food scene. Isn't that just so sad, everyone? She's like, we grew up thinking German food is American. about the Milwaukee food scene. Isn't that just so sad, everyone? She's like, we grew up thinking German food is American. And you know, we, the way the Americans become American is through our food. I know. In India, we just call you ding-dongs.

So, Christina started talking about the Civil War and how it sent like there was a civil back in the day there was a civil war in Germany that civil war and it's like it's not only it wasn't only a civil war for poor people I mean it was a civil war for like intellectual people too and Padden was like oh how terrible hopefully people with celebrity friends were excluded from all the worry All right, oh dear. I hope no one came for Lena Weithenstein. Please But it's incredible how people were willing to just come here and clear and settle this Virtual frontier. I mean when are they gonna get to work actually? I mean I mean they've been here for a long time and this is all they have to show for it. I mean really anyway Alex little girl driving us around

first of all All right enough with that Listen Uber driver question. I heard this crazy rumor from Wikipedia that Oscar Meyer was started by an immigrant. Kater Shale Alex. Oh yeah, he immigrated when he was 14. Oh look at that picture, he already had a mustache.

So much history Alex. And Kathy's like, oh yeah, Oscar Meyer was actually the first to do the plastic packaging on the meats You know, that's how they could you know take meat so they could just sit in the grocery store for about I don't know up to 90 weeks until finally poor people would get them out of the trash can to feed them to lions So it's been spent great. A pal is just like wow I'm sorry. I wasn't listening to anything you were saying. I was just looking at some of the poor people walking on the street Aren't they just so poor? Well, let me tell you something Oscar Maya made the hot dog popular but the hot dog wouldn't even exist if it didn't culturally appropriate the sausage first

Am I right? Sosage yeah like sausage paved the way you pay Sausage so then some of the locals are talking about like yeah you know if you don't need salt like everyone here eat sausage if you don't eat sausage you're probably vegetarian so get the fuck out of this city am I right everyone am I right yeah but yeah unless you're a loser vegetarian and we throw them into the meat grinder they become sausage so how's that for a circle of sausage life so then we wind up in oh god I'm gonna'm going to miss pronouncing. Is that using usingers? Usingers?

That's why I just don't write things I don't understand down, so I can't miss pronounce them. Okay. Here's what I wrote. Then I went to a sausage factory. There are 125 varieties of sausage here. And remember how is it that when Gail Simmons first visited, she fainted on the spot. Bless her heart 125 flavors. I mean it's basically like a package jellybellies to Gail in here am I right?

So she starts talking she's with this guy Fritz Fritz I'll send her I'll send her oh my god. I'm sorry everyone from Milwaukee you guys are killing me Either you guys are so mad at me right now, but she's talking to this guy, Fritz, who's like the grandson of the guy who started this sausage factory. And he's like, well, welcome to our retail store. This is where my grandma used to do all the work. This is where she sold the sausages and everything. And then we see this picture of young Fritz with his grandma and they're like smiling

with like a sausage links around them. Like they're out of some like Christopher Guest movie. So keeping this cultural landmark alive, that's a tall order. Am I right, Fritzie? He's like, it's what we do. Like, do you have a cult gun? Because this place could use one. I mean, great job on the preservation. But you could use maybe a little paint. Might I suggest some curtains? This place is ideas, Fritz. I was recently reading a book that was recommended by former New York Times book editor Michiko Kakutani And she said this book will fix any sausage factors decor. I mean, I don't know how it could happen this place

But you can always try. I mean, it's just how you make the sausage in my right. That was a joke. I live long So how do you make the sausage? Most traditional sausage is made with finely chopped filth, beef, or apparently vegetarians. Mixed with spices, put into it casing, and by the way, that casing is a gallon-tested. So then Padmogo's down to, they have just like a smokhouse where they have these like very scary ovens, and Padmogo has to put on

like a, she has to put on like a protective suit and everything which I'm sure everyone who worked with a production just loved it like I put her in a not-formed fitting outfit yeah so so she's they're talking about how the sausage is smoked over an open fire and so first thing I have to do is take this sawdust and throw it in the oven. I'm used to doing this is how we feed gale on the non-shoot days. Am I right? That's right, I'm just joking. I love her. I love her so much. This is honestly what I want to do to all her patterns from dress barn.

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So I actually have my own way of eating brats. So here's what I do I take my sausage roll and I take some of the bread out from the center. I do that with my bagels. Yeah, I do that bagels. I love when she said that because that's such a weight watchers tip. You can still have the bagel just take all the bread out of it. What's the fucking point of that? So here's the thing. Like I feel like if you're a food authority, you should not be taking the bread out of bagels. I am like when she said, I got like calories. I got really mad at her. It's a calorie thing.

Listen, Bob, look at all Podma eats just in this episode. She's still so gorgeous. I know. I know. I think you're not gorgeous if you're not thin, but you know what I mean. She just keeps it so tight. Yeah. And she goes, oh, I do that with bagels.

You know, it looks like a hot dog. You know that, right? Yeah, your bread looks like a hot dog. How does that make you feel? You work so hard on this brot and it's just as good as a hot dog. Guess what? I've been driving one in all in one all day so I think I know a little something about hot dogs. Am I right? Am I right? Would you like to would you like me to join in your lawsuit to see the hot dog? We should totally see you hot dogs. Don't mind that weanemovie out of there. I'm not a trader brot. I'm not a trader, Brott, I'm not a trader. Padma's also like takes this moment to subtly one up

for its on his Brott sandwich making skills. He's like, okay, so now the next thing I like to do is add some garden tomato. Great, great, I like that too. And yeah, I just like that. Me too, me too, I like that. Oh, yeah, actually, I think I was sort of an innovative with tomato, yeah.

She loves it too. She loves to interrupt everybody and tell their story. that me too, me too. I like the way it's actually. I think I was sort of an innovator with tomato. Yeah. She loves it too. She loves to interrupt everybody and tell their story. At one point, she's like, mmm delicious. And he's like, yeah, well, fresh broth, but we call them leaners here. And she's, oh, and the beer is really?

He goes, yeah, actually, how these became, how these started was at the world's fair. Oh, I know the story. I love the story You go ahead you tell it well tell that story. I love all the details Wait, tell the story. I'll tell the story That's tell that that's compared to us then I'll tell the whole story and then you sit there pretend that you know even though you don't All right, there was a man who came here. He had a mustache from years 14 He passed out we knowenets to everybody,

but they were so hot that he said, hey lady, lady with the bread, give me your bread, my breading, my hands, you stupid. And then he took the bread and he just ripped it open so his hand wouldn't burn. And then that's how he handed him out to people. Is that what you heard too, Fred? Sorry, I beat you.

Gee, you don't really know the story, do you, Fred? He's like, yeah, that's pretty much the story I was gonna say on your show. Thanks. I'm glad I did that research. I'm so glad you did that research too. Do you want me to tell the story about the time you got married? Okay, I'll say it. So you went and got married the most beautiful day of your life and I was so wonderful. And you had a tuxedo and everyone dance and you handed out sausages to everyone. Is that the story you're gonna tell?

I love the story about how the hot dog became invented because that's how I've invented so many sandwiches. It's just like it's too hot to grab it. But some bread in your hand. Oh look there it is. And even even nice you know, I have in pan cookie sheet sandwich. Got anything's good with bread. Bread can really make anything work. Maybe that's the story of how a fool was invented. Someone was trying to ladle soup into someone's hands and like, this is a district of Milwaukee's legacy, the breweries. And the guy, there's a guy in town, I think he's a hot weener seller because he's standing in front of a hot dog selling thing, a kiosk or whatever.

And he's like, yeah, well, in a town made of 25% Germans, yeah, need beer. He's the same guy who wants to murder vegetarians. By the way way this guy. Yeah, there's like two street vendors that they keep going back It's like two street vendors in the lady in the chair and they pipe it every now and then to be like beer everyone loves beer I mean, I mean even our alcohol drink beer even in AA they serve out beer because everyone loves beer here beer Beer beer is queer and queer is okay. Hey, we're here beer we're here and you better deal with it suckers So Padmas like Germans brought the logger to America light crispy bubbly crispy

bubbly Chris could someone could someone stop me crispy bubbly Chris, could someone, could someone stop me? Chris B, bubbly. Especially the opposite of me. On these hollard grounds, on these hollard grounds, and from this local water, beer got its start. Haps, Miller, bubbly, light, Chris B, salty, mm, anyone, you'll just edit this, right?

You'll just edit this. I'm just gonna say a bunch of words, and then you just edit in the ones that are actual beers. Okay Baba rooftop tire From Amstel But let me tell you something about Josh Strobe

Josh has a gone deep his beers more than just a drink It's a way to connect to his heritage. It's like, wow, me too. If I ever want to connect to my heritage, I just get wasted. And it's like I'm just always talking to my mom. So to learn more about beer, I found a random guy on a garage. She was brewing something. Here he is. I'm going to go flirt with him. Excuse me. Hello, a person in a poor person garage. This is funny. Look at all those cars packed out on that street. hilarious. So what is this whole crazy poor person set up you have here? Are you making like a time machine?

Or what is this thing? It's like, well actually this here this is our mash ton. Oh, that's what we call a new new matamada also. Yeah, yeah. So this filters out into a kettle and that's what cooks the beer Oh, I heard this door. Wait wait wait, let's compare stories. Okay You put the beer in the kettle and then you put the the yeast in the beer And then you drink it and you say that's beer Okay, well, that's good that works for me. You're really pretty All the guys on the show I've been very impressed with their ability to not just be like have their draws on their floor and their tongues rolling out. I mean, Padma is so gorgeous. And this is the first guy who's like, does she really like me?

Padma's always like kind of flirty with men and women. That's just how she is Yeah, it's a personality, but he's the first one. He seems to be kind of falling for it He's like, yeah, that's a nice cooler. But we make beer in it. It's like oh really We love her so cute, so she's like okay, so the cat that's what cooks the beer and he goes well No, that's what cooks the world. I goes, well, no, that's what cooks the work. I mean, the what, the what, the mash ton, I mean, we're just going through the entire cast of Top Chef. What's happening here? Well, it's almost a freeze those off. Let me tell you a little story about how freezing off words became popular. No, no, I meant I meant an ingredient. Oh, my bad.

Okay. All right, let me taste this Munich malt that you have here. Great. I love this. I love flying to know the country eating grain. Okay, let's try this. Wow, that's good. That's good. That was like, he's like, he's like, what we're doing right now in this process is we're converting starches of the sugars. She's like, Oh, so you're galing it. Galing it. So they're pouring the malt to this grinder or whatever. Oh, it smells like a malt and milk bar.

Or so I've been told I've actually never had a malt and milk bar. But I think I liked it before I've even had one. Well, I'll tell you what I would say if I did have a malt and milk bar. Mmm. Who'd be still this one from? Mmm. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mmm, this is difficult. Is this a ritual where you hate new commas? She's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I went to Vienna. I really impressed my heritage. I tried it. It got in touch with your friends. My father liked to be here for a friend's care. Because no one really cares.

So it's a family week. We brewed together in Christmas. I can't believe it's doing it. And so people like Padma's been there already. So you were like, OK, I'll make beer. OK, I'll go with that. Let's just go with that. He's like, you know, my family makes me

are now at Christmas. I mean, why sit in front of the TV for a game when you can sit in front of the pool? And she's like, wow, what a nice way to bond. If you're poor, be honest, Josh. You don't have a TV, do you? You're so OK. You can tell me, we're friends now. I've been swirling your mash-tun

Doing manual labor on TV, which is not in my contract. Who? No So she's like all right where the recipe is German the greatest German and America hood winked to you Is that what you're saying is that what your story is about? And he's like yes Pretty much so so he's like like well we're actually done here. Oh my god you are hazing me. Wow this reminds me of when I was hanging out with my dear friend my dear friend, brand Brandon Frazier and he's What about my odd plug? I just had to come up with something.

Anyway, I was hanging out with my dear friend Brandon Frazier and he said here, if we're gonna hang out any longer, you have to wear the shirt that I wore and see no man. So I did and I said, you're just hazing me, Brandon Frazier. She's like, well, I'll drink some of this beer that we've made because Polar person made it with me and that makes it special. But normally I wouldn't do it because I burp. And it's terrible. And he goes, well, if you burp, just let it out of your nose.

And she's like, I tried that once. My lips splurred open with the first of the burp. Unfortunately, my lips have zero to 1% muscle. And I'm incapable of keeping anything in there. Unlike gal, it's like a steel trap. Once that food's in there, it's not coming out again. She's like, normally I don't like to drink when I work. I prefer a dooby, frankly.

But let's do this. I'll make beer and think of you. And she also tastes like the beer before it's sort of like fully fermented or whatever. And she's like, I'm trying to think of what this tastes like. It tastes like, Coooooon! And he's like, No, not really, but okay, you're pretty. I'll let you have it.

I'll go with that. Oh, so she's back in the Weiner Mobile now. Yeah. And it's so funny actually when she finishes with the guys, she's like, I made it a little bit. And then the camera, they show a camera from far away from the garage and she just starts looking around like we're done here right we're done with the poor right it's her helicopter that's gonna come get me from here because this is

terrible get me out of here thanks and then she's drink she also would switch to shake the drink she goes ah that's downright effervescent. Can you tell? I hate that. Oh, it's so wonderful trying your garage cooler beer. Thank you so much for sharing it with me and Finn's person. So next she's back, so who's the unsung hero, culinary speaking of German food? And Kathy's basically like, well, I think you should really go to Kegels. I mean, I know I've been doing them this entire time, not even intentionally,

there's just something about these seeds and the Oscar Maya ride that's just really inspired a lot of Kegels, am I right? Am I right? Oh, we're going to restaurant called kagels okay? Hmm when we think of whether done we forget about German food because the biggest hits have become well They've all become American by now So they go meet julie and kegel who took over at the family business five years ago, and I'm like uh-oh

Julien's fucking things up because you know julie is that that kid who takes whatever a kid is taking things over five years ago I'm like, uh-oh, bye Cagals. Okay, enjoy Cagals while the year lasts. Julian's got a fuck. Yeah I'm here at Cagals with a ginger who seems very scared right now and in a tight vest Hello ginger tell us about German food So ginger your family have been ginger since the 20s. Am I right? And we see pictures. I mean, well, yeah, no, go on. No, go ahead. I want to know. No, I was going to be like a serious thing. I didn't realize that Germans. I knew that German World War II that obviously Japanese people were put into intermine camps. I didn't realize that Germans were too. I learned something. Oh yeah, I didn't know that either. And she tells us the story. Now she's like, that's good time.

So, interrupted by the world wars. And they talk about how the Germans basically had to go on hiding because they were put in internment camps and everybody hated them. And the guys like, yeah, and then all of a sudden, your label doesn't enemy. And then you get beat up or killed for speaking Germans. So we had to change everything about ourselves, you yeah, and then all of a sudden your label doesn't enemy and then you get beat up or killed for speaking germans So we had to change everything about ourselves, you know, and really Like force assimilation. Yeah, you know sort of had to go underground So then they go into the kitchen and panagas. I have two words Dress barn we should burn it down, right? Oh also we in a schnitzel

Germans began to cloak themselves. Unfortunately so did Gail. Could you maybe give us some tips? You're cloaking his way better. I have to say ginger person. Anyway, so let's make some weener schnitzel. There was Gail calls it. Her parasol. I don't know. Serial. Doesn't make sense. Parasol. Gal has a winner's name to parasol. So it got to help her from the heat. So they're talking about how Germans had to assimilate so much that they're cold. He's like, yeah, the culture basically disappeared. She goes, no, the culture's still here. You just don't know. It's German anymore. And he goes, yeah, I'm hiding what a little too far, you know. And so Padma walks his poetic. She's like, can a simple dish reconnect those roots? I have two words. We're not schnitzel.

If I deep fry something, will you feel your roots? Okay. So he, so basically they're in the kitchen now. And he's pounding this veal really thin. I actually liked it, because I was like, I didn't realize how that was chicken snussel. I think it was chicken a lot of us. I thought it was veal, it doesn't matter. It was a piece of meat. So he's pounding it really, really thin, and now Padma's pounding. He's like, all right, let me see if I can do this. Okay, I'm just pounding at some of that rage I felt for the producers

who made me stand in some unfamous man's garage for five hours yesterday, pushing around a bunch of grains. Okay, wow, I got my rage out. That was wonderful. Thank you. She really does have such an odd energy about her. She really does. Because I go into the kitchen, she's okay, let's see how you pound this baby. And so he starts pounding it. And then she's just, she doesn't watch him pound it. She stands next to him and just stir sideways into his eyes the whole time. It's so weird.

She's such a weird ginger before. And he's like, okay, well, you don't, you don't wanna see holes in this, but you know, it's translucent, right? She's like, so what's the key to being the best and he's like the bread crumbs and she's like all right Well, that's in the bread crumbs then and he's like well that's our secret She's like all right, but then just first use the flower you secret it fuck all right Well, I'm learning right now. It's Milwaukee's a city of secrets. Nobody wants to tell me shit

The beers the secret this This is the secret secret secret secret. I'm at this red. I'm surprised they don't even manufacture secret to your aunt. That was for you, Alie long. So, uh, Julian, that they're sort of cross-cut between them also eating in the dining room and Julian's like, you know, we've had such a disappearance of all our other restaurants, you know the German restaurants and like now It's just about saving the Kegel name, you know, it's not just about that. It's not just about saving the Kegels But also a German heritage. Yes, that sounds like it's really important to tighten up your legacy am I right?

You need to sort of strengthen that legacy and tighten it up. God make sure those You gotta work on that every day. Am I right? Mr. Kegel? Get a work on that every day, am I right? Mr. K go. So they fry the chicken and they, he's like, oh, you can put two in there. You put two in each pan. She's like, what are you sure? This goes against everything I've as taught ginger person. But you were right, it smells so yummy.

Wow, I guess Milwaukee really is the city of secrets for instance did you know that while the entire world for all of humanity is not been crowded the pan apparently milwaki knows the secret which is that you can't crowd the pan thank you mr. keg hmm i bet america is going to pretend it invented that max hey wait i think i know the story about crowd in the pan it goes something like this some idiot in a restaurant milwaki said don't crowd the the pan, and he invented soggy, we understand it. So, congratulations, was that the story?

So, they finally finished it, and it looks like she did it. Yeah. And he has an egg on top of it, and she's like, can I try it? Oh, yeah. and then she gets hold on wait for my review Act fast otherwise I'm gonna eat it all watch out. I'm gonna eat it all Don't you dare eat this that I'm gonna eat it all. Oh, I'm gonna eat it all before me. Oh, well I'm a professional eater Julian So she's like another question that's been burning inside my head the past two days. Who is Neelu and why is she allowed here? I have a question. I'm going to say there is still. Can you look behind me and see if Neelu is still sitting there? Is she there?

Because I cannot turn around until she leaves. I have a question. I hope you don't mind. Is it me or does Gail run with fail? Okay, take it away ginger person. I have a question that's been burning inside my head for two days. If you call an Uber in Milwaukee, is it only the Oscar Maya truck that shows up or can I get a real car? Just wondering. So he's like, oh my god. So she really asked him, Kegel. She's like, are you actually related to Dr. Kegel? Because I've been doing Kegel's this whole time.

He's like, oh, you bet, Ja, and don't mind my face, which is now fully red. He's like, she's like, I bet people ask you that, oh, the time. He's like, oh yeah, that's why I'm not blushing right now Oh really you look like a bottle of ketchup you idiot You're a little pink right now, but I guess that's just how you always are It's weird to say am I right when Tom's not next to me

so Padma and and Kathy Bates are back in the Weiner Mobile. And they talk about roots, you know. How are the current roots in Milwaukee? That's the way she asks, that's what I remember. But either way, she winds up now at a German fest. And she's like, she's with Padmas, she's with actually the guy from the garage, Josh. They're sitting at a table watching like, you know, like a German performance. Wow, look at this terrible version of Hamilton. I'm never coming back here.

And so the waitress, you know, surrounded by beers or whatever, she's like, you know, that festival really shows how Germanic the culture is. And so we go all over and Padma tries different things. And she's like, every summer for the past 39 years, people gather to eat, drink, and party. It's like a turbophess in July. Can your brains wrap their brains around that? October fest in July.

They should just call it July fest, honestly, but I guess we're not at that point yet. Am I right? High five, Kathy, babe. High five. No. Don't leave me hanging, Kathy. All right.

You know, I talk about hot dogs a lot, but my first love as a child was the ever-humbled pretzel, mostly because it was the only piece of bread that I couldn't be expected to take the filling out of before I ate it When I was just as I go to my mother's room I I actually requested a pretzel I couldn't even eat one. Yeah, I literally had no mouth But I just knew I love pretzels before even had a pretzel anyway I just want to take a moment here and since I have been around too many of the regulars for too long, so just to remind myself that I am famous, I'm just going to climb into

this gauntlet and just float over this festival for a little bit for no reason. Okay, feels good to be in this seat alone. Okay, looking down. So then she loves the pretzels, of course, and then she goes over to pig heads. I mean, this show is just trying to trigger me at this point. It's like a big, a big grill full of pig heads. And, um, fur call refers to baby pic. Well, so, so well, first, it's like, uh, it's called the Sponfer, so here's what it was.

So first she goes, uh, the guy's name, fur call. Yeah, oh no, no, she goes, well, the thing is that the, the pick hat is called Spawn Ferkle and the Spawn, I forgot what the Spawn was, but for the first time. Oh, it refers to the baby pig. Yeah. Padma goes, so much of German culture has been integrated into American culture.

It's hard to believe that we actually need a festival. I mean, look at all these idiots walking around, cancel it, let's close it down, okay, done. It's over, you're over. So she she's like how much is the pig head and he's like $15 so she goes that's pretty cheap for someone's head wow that's almost as expensive as one apple so she eats some baby head and she's like mmm mmmm, mmmm, so tender. And then the lady's like, yeah, the skin's nice and crispy, huh? Yeah, it's wonderful.

See you later, or I should I say. What's German for See You Never? Uh, bye. She goes, it's hard to believe I was once a vegetarian. I mean, I just ate a pig's face. And we're not even talking about salmon, Rosti, am I right? Ali, hale wang. picks face. And we're not even talking about Salmon Rosti. Am I right? Ali? Ali? So then

she goes to see the potato pancake guy. And she's like, I hear your potato recipes the best old person. And he's like, it is the mean thing is the potatoes, you know, you've had some eggs, a little starch, a little salt, a little pepper. She's like, I think you're leaving something out of the person. He goes, well, that's the secret pepper. She's like, I think you're leaving something out of the person. He goes, well, that's the secret. And she's like, oh God, another goddamn secret in this town. For a whole bunch of people who aren't even famous, they certainly have a lot of secrets, am I right?

Here's a secret. Don't wear a crocs. You know, some people fight for acceptance, even while wearing crocs. And others fight to remember. It's that push and pull of my friends that is America. And when I say my friends, I just mean that sort of in a rhetorical sense. I, none of you guys are actually my friends.

I'm gonna go back to my dear friend. Lead away! Bye, Milwaukee. Yeah, that was good. I liked it. Yeah, I loved it. I loved it. I thought it was informative. It was fun. I liked it. Yeah, I loved it. I loved it. I thought it was it was informative. It was fun

I love watching Padma as much as we make fun of Padma. It's just because we like I like I love Padma like people may not realize I love her so it was everything I could have wanted for it. I have now yeah I think it's good and I really do like the take you know we make a lot of jokes But I really do like the take, you know, we make a lot of jokes, but I really do like the take of, you know, talking about how much culture that we have from other places, not even realizing they're from other places. I really do that. Like how it's, it's people, we've assimilated so much

that we don't lose our culture, but it becomes part of another culture. And it's not like a bad to remember that. It's just, you know, I like it. Yeah, I mean, I think there's something actually really wonderful about the idea of cultures, sort of like crossbreeding their foods, you know. I think that's actually such a great thing.

I was watching a few weeks ago, I'm trying to remember her name. She is like the best friend on insecure. Why am I like, even orgy? Oh my God, I just started watching that show. It's so funny. Oh, insecure is amazing. I'm actually behind him.

I'm still on season two. But I'm on season one. I just started, but God, that's so funny. So Ivan or G had an HBO comedy special that came out about two weeks ago. Super funny. And so she's Nigerian. And so she talks a lot about Nigeria, et cetera.

And her parents are in Nigeria right now. And so she is so in between her standup. It's in her spurs with her going back to Nigeria and walking around. So we sort of like we're sort of seeing home life in Nigeria. And her mom, because her parents used to live in the States, I'm assuming a sort of piece together

that they went back to Nigeria. But her mom was like, oh, did you bring bagels? Because she brought a bunch of stuff from the States. She was like, oh, did you bring bagels? I love my bag bunch of stuff from the States. She's like, oh, did you bring bagels? I love my bagels. And I was like, that is, I love that. I think that is like what, like that to me is like the power of food.

Like here, bagels, which are, have roots in like, you know, Eastern, Eastern Europe. I don't know, I think, I mean, I, I think they were a Jewish food, but I'm not actually sure if that's totally true or not. But either way, this Eastern European, you know bread bread at item and now you have a lady in Nigeria Be like I love God. I love the bagels like that to me is so wonderful and so powerful I love that and I think I feel like this show kind of taps into that But at the same time is like but by the way like let's not forget the roots of these things

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