ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -29th Feb 2026

Episode Date: February 28, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Producer Carwen has realised she is old because of this one thing...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDEM Podcast Network, it's Fletchfallen and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And producer Carwin, this may be a sign she's getting old. Yeah. But she does have a favourite brand of Apple at the supermarket. Yeah, guys, how old do you think people perceive me as? I don't know. Like, people think you're like 25, but then you choose like a favourite apple.

And now it's like 40s, your 30s, 40s. Yeah. But I get it though, because once you, you're like 25, but then you choose like a favourite apple. land on the apple of your choosing, you know, and it clicks with your soul, you never go back. I can't say that I've ever really been drawn to a specific one. I don't even know if I would know the variety I've been buying. I'm very attuned to it. Pacific Rose. I never buy. Pacific Rose is number one. Pacific Rose is number one. There's also just a rose, I think, that's very, very good. Not as good. Pacific Rose. Yeah, what's your, what's the one you've? Well, because I have been buying, well, I say I, my

partner does the groceries. Oh, modern household. That is a modern household. He does all the cooking. He does all the cooking. He does all the cooking. He does it look. Modern household. Modern fucking household. Yeah, well, pussy whip. I was going to say, my, my, uh, hell, mate, come on down the pub. My, my, uh, hell escape, if like I end up in hell, it will be a soup market. So that's, I try to avoid it. And because he loves me, he goes for me. Yeah. I love the soup. I'm, it's just a wonderland of goods. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Hate it. Who's buying those whole fish carcasses on ice at a supermarket? That's fucking mad behaviour.

Yeah, fish bits as well. He was grabbing them by the tail and moving them around. He was looking for a specific, like, I can understand that with a bit of fruit. Or maybe if broccoli's $2 a head, you want the biggest one. I always get the biggest one. Yeah, dude. But, you know, when you're... Broccoli.

Don't touch that shit. Yuck. Get the plastic. Pick a fish. Okay, so anyways, it wasn't A1. A1 apples. That's a new brand of apple. My daughter, Indy, loves them.

For me, they go flowery in day two. That's a bad name as well. We've got jazz, gala, Pacific Rose, and it's like A1. But the one that has captured your heart? Has captured my heart. Jazz. What, you just forgot the name. Sweet tango.

Sweet tango. Yes, they're good apples. Yeah, sweet tango is good apples. If you see an embryo, I'll punch you in the face. I reckon traveling around the world when you go into the supermarket, I reckon America, whenever you go into American supermarket, We always have the shittest apples. We're so lucky.

We're so lucky. But the Sweet Tango is honestly like drinking juice. Like it is so sweet and so lovely, but in like such a refreshing, healthy feeling way. Sweet Tango is a brand name of a cultivated apple variety, Miniscia, a hybrid between the honey crisp apple and the Zestar apple belonging to the University of Minnesota.

The Minnesota University owns these apples. The apple is controlled and regulated for marketing, allowing only exclusive territories for growing. So do you reckon we must grow them here? And what they license it. Wow. You know, like a... It's copyrighted.

Yeah, wow. You know, that's the situation with Kiwi fruit as well. Remember when I was sitting on the plane to Taorong or sitting next to that guy and he was like doing an investigation into Chinese spies coming and taking cuttings. And then they grow them and sell them. And then smuggle them out of the country, presumably up their... Sharon is laughing, but this is industrial espionage. I'm laughing because this feels like I'm going to go home and watch a documentary.

Yes. I'm like, this is a new tree. crime hole I'm going to fall into. Do you think I could grow my own sweet tango tree? No. I've got an apple tree at home, but it gets absolutely maimed. But no, but if you took the seeds

out of your... No. What? Every apple, you could grow up from the seed it would be a different apple. It's from grafts. You have to take the graft of the tree to get it genetically identical. If you grow an apple from a seed, it's going to be different from the apple. How? How? You just like... No, that's

not like us. It is. It's like us. I couldn't chop Shannon's arm off. and grow a whole Shannon. I know that. You're growing from your father's seed. Don't talk about my dad's seed. Your father's seed. I sort of to seed.

Yes, and I'm not the same as my father. That's what you meant. We went from apples to that. Genetics. That was a ride. That was a big juicy ride. Anyways. That's your apple of choice.

Actually, Harwin's a nissy natural out there. Yeah, that's okay. I just wanted to do it. That's why I tried to pick it up to find a second natural out. What year were you guys born? 1998 9. Okay, sweet tango is older than you.

It was born in 1991. Whoa, embarrassing. Oh my God. We'll be older than that. Okay, Boomer!