– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Oh boy. Oh boy. I really hope they have

Spider-Man ice cream at the ice cream

truck.

I want the Powerpuff Girls one. The one

with the gummy eyeballs.

What the minions?

This is a hot dog is a sandwich.

Ketchup is a smoothie.

Yeah, I put ice in my cereal. So what?

That makes no sense.

A hot dog is a sandwich.

A hot dog is a sandwich.

What?

Welcome to our podcast. A hot dog is a

sandwich. That made no sense. The show

where we break down the world's biggest

food debates. I'm your host, Josh Sher.

And I'm your host, Nicole and I.

And that intro was me and Nicole coming

to terms with the fact that we are old

and washed and no longer understand

popular culture.

Well, it's not our fault.

On account of the fact that ice cream

trucks are now, one, they're selling

minions. Two, they're no longer selling

cigarettes to kids.

That's effed up.

That was our culture that we grew up in

going to ice cream trucks in the 90s and

early as

well. My ice cream truck experience was

a little bit different because I, you

know, growing up in nice old Beverly

Hills, my ice cream truck guy, I I

remember him vividly. Actually, I when I

was talking about wanting to do this

podcast with my husband, he said, "Oh,

are you going to bring up Amir?" And I'm

like, "Of course I'm going to bring up

Amir." And Amir was the designated ice

cream truck guy throughout our entire

childhood and adolescence.

Oh, funny.

And he was he was at Roxberry Park. He

was at Beverly Drive. He was at Beverly

Hills High School. He was there at all

times, no matter what. And he was so

nice. He was the only ice cream man that

would like let us operate on credit.

What? You had a tab at the ice cream

truck.

We literally had tabs at the ice cream

truck. And Amir was the nicest man on

planet Earth. Amir, if you're watching,

thank you for being so formative in our

childhood. He was the kindest man in the

world. Wore the cutest glasses. And he

had everything. He had all the ice

creams you could ever imagine, all the

new stuff. And he actually pioneered

freezing um what was it? He would freeze

the watermelon sour patch gummy gummies.

And he would like dole do it out. I say,

"Hey, you guys want to try something

new?" We're like, "Yeah." And he'd be

like, "Okay, this is gummy bears but

sour and frozen." And it was the

watermelon ones. And to this day, every

time I have a frozen sour patch

watermelon, I'm like, "Thanks, Amir."

That's so funny. Did you guys have um

the the ramen in the back? Cuz he had

this thing where like for like high

schoolers, he would like give them ramen

cuz they were like on the football team

and stuff. So he had a hot water heater

in the back of his car in the back of

his truck where you could just like have

hot water and a ramen. Isn't that so

nice?

No, we didn't have that. We We had um

cap guns and fireworks. This is in

Oceanside.

A fart um fart bombs.

They would sell fart bombs. They would

sell poppers. And then yeah, you would

sell loose cigarettes to to kids. Um but

then when I when I went to like Orange

County cuz I spent summers in Oceanside

when I was like at prime ice cream truck

age, right? Like 7 8 n. But then like in

Orange County then it was more straight

laced by the books selling ice cream

treats.

Sure.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Whenever um my sister lived in

Irvine, we would always that ice cream

truck had all the naughty things. Like

the amount of stink bombs I bought when

I was like 10 years old was crazy. I was

Yeah. It's funny like the the

gerrymandering I guess of ice cream

trucks and what they can sell is pretty

crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. We uh there's an

ice cream truck. Julia works from home,

right? So there's an ice cream truck

that drives around. She hears it.

And I was like working from home like

one day a month that I do that

and I hear the ice cream truck and she

goes like, "Oh, you have to see this ice

cream truck. It's so creepy." And I was

like, "No, you just grew up in the

suburbs. This is not a thing." And then

I went and looked at it and I'm like,

"Oh,

what is it?"

Yeah. Well, it just looks like the ice

cream truck out of a horror movie where

it's just like real beaten down. We live

in like a very nice part of town as well

in Sherman Oaks in the valley. Um, and

no, this this looks like uh it's going

to children.

Like is it like white and like the paint

is peeling off? Like what do you mean?

It's like dark blue. The paint's peeling

off. Like one of the wheels is wobbly.

Like the the copyrightiting on it is

really weird. It's just like for happy

children, you know?

It's great. And I' I'm sure the person

driving it is very very nice. Um and I

but I've never gotten anything from it.

I would love to see rates of people

going to ice cream trucks over time.

I think it's declined obviously.

It's got to decline, right?

It's got to have declined,

especially with like distrust um around

parents and children and talking to

strangers.

Yeah. And like with like people's diets

and stuff being so like

Yeah. Sugar's bad.

Sugar's bad for you.

But not today. It's not.

Sugar is good for you today. We have so

many ice cream treats. I'm so excited.

I am too. What we're going to do today

is us as professional chefs, we mostly

use that phrase in the title hoping to

entice people to click, but both of us

both of us have made money from cooking

for a majority of our careers and lives.

I would consider us somewhat

professional chefs.

Yeah.

I want us to like really analyze these

nostalgic ice cream truck treats.

Okay. from a cheffy almost molecular

level and as people who who have a lot

of interest and former work experience

in the consumer package good space.

I want us to like really try and dive

down the rabbit hole here

and see if we were just kind of fooled

by marketing as kids or if these

actually taste good cuz I love ice cream

truck treats.

Well, what was your Well, do you have a

go-to that you absolutely loved like

throughout your childhood? Like we're

talking about the formative like let's

let's say seven to nine. Let's say the

seven to nine range. What was the ice

cream you would always always go for?

So, it depended if I had enough money.

If I had the amount of money like Choco

Tacos were a$125, but the cheapest ice

creams were 35. So, there's always

something called a bubble gum bar that

was 35. And my mom

bubble gum bar. I've never heard of a

bubble gum bar.

It was like a generic brand, just blue

and blue and uh pink and like didn't

taste like much, but it was the cheapest

one. And my mom, right, she was part of

a cult that involved flipping thousands

of pennies all the time. I do remember

and we can find no record about this and

I'm still very confused. A lot of my

child were in this cult literally no

idea. She had a little girl.

You never met other culties. You never

met other cult members

sometimes. But you just didn't ask

questions when you were a kid. They were

around. You don't ask questions.

Um so anyways, uh but we would steal

from the cult pennies and we'd take that

to the ice cream truck and it was just

easier to steal 35 pennies than it was

125 for taco. Fair.

But if I could rank them, I would go cho

taco. What a treat. Strawberry shortcake

bar. Still I'd say my favorite.

Occasionally I switch it up. You get the

Flintstones push pop.

Okay.

I I was never a big fan of like the

Tweety Bird or the Spider-Man or the

Spongebob.

Wow.

I just to me I was like, I'm 7 years

old. I don't want the gimmick. I'm here

for the pure unadulterated taste of a

fudgeicle.

Do you believe that like this Spider-Man

ice cream was the boy ice cream and the

Powerpuff Girls one was the girls ice

cream? Cuz I believe that there were

gender roles in those ice creams.

100%. That's what they're marketed

towards

cuz I remember like oh like and like if

the ice cream guy like sold out of the

Powerpuff Girl gumball one and he's like

but we have the Spider-Man one. It's the

same like no that's a boy ice cream.

I remember vividly saying that and doing

that and think no I don't want the boy

ice cream. I don't want Spider-Man

eyeballs. I want uh what was it?

Bubbles. Her name was Bubbles.

Yeah, Bubbles the blue.

I want the Bubbles blue one. And then

the gumballs were just like bleeding.

Like the eyes were just like bleeding

like this. It was so funny. Gender

performance is a prison. We need uh

non-binary ice cream treats. And I

believe minions are our savior. Minions

are non-binary.

Minions are non-binary.

Can I have an ice cream treat?

Yeah. I'm just opening this to see what

it is. Okay. This was Okay, so this is

Yeah, this is one of my sleeper hits.

The orange creamsicle.

Oh, yeah.

I love this so much.

Why? Cuz it's nice and tart on the

outside and it's dreamy and creamy in

the middle. Just like me. This This is

an elite. Like I feel like eating an

orange creamsicle made me understand

flavor from a young age.

I think it taught me complexities. I

think it taught me the complexities of

flavor.

It is so good.

It still hits.

Oh my god, it's so good.

Tastes like hospital though.

It does. The artificial orange, but

there's not too much citric acid in

there, but like it's artificial orange,

but it it tastes like orange zest. Have

you ever like stayed overnight at a

hospital or like a few hours

and they bring you that little orange

juice from concentrate?

This is what it tastes like.

It does taste like there's real orange

in here fortified with extract.

But something about the texture

and the flavor of orange concentrate

reminds me of hospital now.

That's interesting.

That probably didn't remind me before.

I can't eat chicken white bean chili

because of I ate too much of it in a

hospital during a traumatic time.

Like I really can't.

Okay. I'll never I'll never ever put

that in front of you. You said chicken

white bean chili.

Chicken white bean chili.

I will never ever as long as I live ever

eat that food with or in front of you.

It was pretty good and it was like the

healthiest, hardiest option, you know,

in the cafeteria. And so I was just I

probably ate like six bowls of it, you

know,

in one day.

No, like over the course of like a week.

Oh my god.

You know,

I'll cry.

Yeah.

I like orange creamsicles.

I can't imagine anything better than

this.

There. You're really going to town.

Dude, we got to eat so many popsicles.

Orange creamsicle on a scale of 1 to 10.

Uh-huh.

What would you rate that?

Oh, it is.

Where can that improve?

A six.

A six.

If you were to like make that artisally.

Uhhuh. Artist.

You like make that from scratch, which

would be annoying. You'd need a series

of molds.

I don't want to do that, but okay.

How would you improve on the flavor?

Um, I don't think I could. I mean, maybe

zest. Maybe some more zest.

I like taste orange zest.

They're probably I don't know. I don't

know. It's like special. This is a fun

time. We're going back to our childhood.

We're reverting.

Like I think there's actual

No, there can't be any real orange in

there. Or is that how they make orange

extract? It's just actual zest, right?

Well, I recently saw the movie Extract

with Jason Baitman and Munas.

You know, I've been meaning to watch it

for like nine years.

Oh, honey. It's Mike. It's Mike Judge.

I know.

You love Mike Judge.

I love Mike Judge. I love Jason. I love

Munas.

You should watch it. You It was really

good. I'm get they don't really get into

the extract making of it all, but I

assume that they take or I think what

they do is they take oranges and they

whiz them through a machine and then

they extract it from the peel. How else

could they do it?

Yeah, that's probably easier than like

finding it's not like truffles where

they've just like found a chemical

compound that has, you know,

the the same like whatever old factory

makeup of it.

Oh, hell yeah. Fudge pops.

I I give I give an orange cream like

that's a solid 8.1.

Wow. Really? Did you ever get the fudge

pups that were stuck together and then

you would have to rip them apart like a

wishbone?

I always hated those. They never seemed

they never seem to break apart evenly.

They were never equal.

Okay. Fudge bar.

It's a really nice chocolate flavor.

Man,

it's so good but also bad. It's like the

Hershey bar of ice cream.

No, it is. It is. I was just going to

say that.

Mhm. I think um there's like a journey

with every foodie, right? Where you sort

of come to you come to feudy

consciousness and you start to have

these beliefs like, "Oh, I'm not

drinking mass market beer. I'm going to

drink an IPA cuz I like to taste the

hops in it." Or or like

the only good chocolate is 72% dark

single origin. you have these like

stupid ideas and then you like reach

maturity and you're like

the best beer is a cold beer,

right?

All chocolate's kind of a fun blessing.

You know, you just eat a square of

Hershey's chocolate and you're like

that's pretty damn good.

Yeah.

You know, that's kind of what this is.

The fudge bar. Yeah.

You know, it tastes like that Hershey's.

It's like a little bit plasticky. It's a

little bit too sweet.

You know, even this you get a little bit

of like the dust of the cacao.

You taste dust.

The flavor is interesting. Like lick

like

I think that's fair. I think that's

fair. I think I understand what you're

saying. There's not a lot of milkiness

in it, which I kind of like.

No, same. It's icy. A lot of these are

going to be super icy, right? Cuz when

it like sits like that, it develops ice

crystals.

Yeah.

But this is such a a unique flavor of

chocolate.

It's like a Tootsie Roll almost. You

know what I mean?

Yeah. It's It's Itarkens back to another

another time. Truly. Wow. You really got

up in there.

It was going to break.

What do you rate a fudge a fudge pop?

It's not my favorite. I would almost

never choose that over.

I'd never reach for it.

I think it's pretty well done.

Mhm.

A little too if like if you were to make

that

arteasonally and good. That'd be like a

good thing. Like as a chef, if you were

to like use

good dairy, good chocolate. I know we

just talked about how like Hershey's

perfectly good and there's perfectly

good,

right?

But this is something that I think like

could actually be improved. And so I'm

giving it a 6.8.

I'll give it a 6,2. How much? What did I

give the orange creamsicle? I don't

remember what I gave.

I don't think you ranked it.

I'm gonna give it an eight.

Push pops.

Now, this is not Flintstones branded,

which does anger me. It puts me in a fit

of rage.

Well, Josh, it was really hard for a

girl like me to find um an ice cream

truck in Burbank cuz I'm not from here.

And I didn't feel comfortable.

Not from here.

I didn't feel comfortable asking the

kids. You know what I mean?

Please don't pull up to a public park

and just go, "Hey, I'm looking for

children.

This tastes like medicine. I don't like

I hate fake cherry flavored things.

Tastes like

Oh,

it tastes like medicine.

Oh.

Oh, that's Yeah, that is not good.

That's disgusting.

This So, this is

It's called Froley's.

I'm sure the Simpsons one, not the

Simpsons, I'm sorry. The Flintstones one

was like orange.

Uhhuh.

That tastes like medicine. Veryetting.

That tastes like medicine. I don't know.

It's very upsetting me. So, it's like a

sherbet. supposed to be like a sherbet.

A bad sherbet, not a good sherbet.

It's really There's so much um like gel

gum or guar gum in there.

Yeah.

That the way it melts, it melts into

like a heavily acidified shaving cream.

Yeah. It's not.

It tastes like dimeap.

It literally tastes like shaving cream

and medicine.

Robbitasin.

I love the Flintstonones ones when I was

a kid. I've always loved sherbet. I've

been a big I was a big sherbet kid.

Well, the Flintstones one again I

couldn't really enjoy cuz it was a boy

ice cream.

Flintstones was boy ice cream.

Yeah. Because of Barney and Rubble.

Yeah, but they had Fred Flma.

Velma flip Wilma.

No,

Willard.

Wilma.

What's her name? What? What is Yeah, I

guess it's What about Bam Bam? Pebbles.

Pebbles is a girl.

I know, but it was such a boy.

I get it. It was such a boy ice cream to

me at that time.

Betty Rubble kind of hot.

Betty

Betty Rubble. She's got that cute little

that cute little black the black bob.

She got a choker on.

Yeah.

Tight little Damn.

Tight little. What are you about to say?

Said she got tight little dress on.

I thought you say tight little bod. I'm

like this is a

This is not a children's show. We can I

can talk. I can I can appreciate it.

The Flintstones was a children's show.

No, it's for all ages.

What?

What? Everyone Oh, everyone can talk

about how Mrs. Incredible. Got got a

dunk or whatever, you know. But I can't

talk about Betty Rubble and how, you

know, but but she's she's like a classy.

You mean to tell me you think Hannah

Barbara cartoons weren't? Oh, maybe.

Well, that's this proposes a great

question. If a show is is a ch

quotequote children's show, does that

mean it should be all ages? Something

like Bluey. This is something

This is very different. Like they had

four shows back then on TV at any given

point. There were like four a and

everybody watch them. Also, the

Flintstones is like an 80year-old show

or something. Not 80, probably a

60-year-old show. The only people that

care about Flintstones IP are old people

now who happen to respectfully lust

after Betty Rebel who

she's like a mother. She's like raised a

family like she's a you know

What are you getting at? I'm getting it.

I don't think it's disrespectful to say

that Betty Rubble is like a beautiful,

classy, dignified woman who, despite

having a very schlubby husband in a

relationship and family, Barney Rubble,

that was his whole bid. He was like

stupid and schlubby

and he's got this beautiful wife.

What's Fred? And what's same? And their

wives were too good for them. That was

the whole plot of the Flintstones.

Okay. Yeah. Okay, I get it.

Oh, so now you agree that she's hot.

Yeah.

Rubble, what's up? What's up, girl?

What's this?

You want a real man who has an iPhone

in a car?

His car doesn't run.

Oh my god, it's a bomb pop. Well, I'm

proud to be an American.

Well, at least I got ice cream. These

are smaller than I remember.

Wait, they used to be literally the size

of my forearm. What happened?

Shrinkflation,

I guess. So, is this a name brand bomb

pop?

Yeah. also insane with the

military-industrial complex that we just

created rocket shaped ice cream.

That's crazy.

This isn't if you are creating

anti-American propaganda from another

country and you're like their children

are literally eating ice creams. Their

obese children are eating ice creams

shaped like the bombs that they drop on

our country.

Yeah, I can see how someone would get

radicalized against America.

You know what I mean? I I see it now.

Like, right. This is nuts.

This is crazy

that we advertised this.

The colors The colors are red, white,

blue.

That's crazy.

But it tastes good. I think the

propaganda makes it like a three.

Tastes like eight.

I don't know that we should have bomb

pops. I don't think I'm being overly

woke here, man. What do you mean? If

like North Korea made like

If we watch videos of North Korean kids

eating popsicles shaped like bombs or

guns, we'd be like, they're brainwashing

the kids.

You're 100% right.

I was eating this at like a Blue Angels

show

watching our naval fight. You know about

the Blue Angels?

No. My parents are like really

patriotic, but I don't think like that.

Uh, so my dad was in the Air Force and

they have something called the

Thunderbirds. Forgot your dad was in the

Air Force.

The Blue Angels are a team of like stunt

pilots. This started after World War II

and they like do the flips and and stuff

in the

They do the flips. They fly in

formations. They do air they do air

shows. Cool.

But they're all like very very legit

pilots in like utterly insane amount of

training. But ultimately it is I mean if

you call it propaganda, you call it

recruiting, whatever.

You know, it's it's meant to be this

like marketing arm and it really is

really effective. It really gets people

to get jacked about being in

Is it during Fourth of July?

They they do air shows all the time.

They're on a whole traveling tour.

Is this in Oceanside?

We used to go God is like Delmare

somewhere in San Diego. They would do

they would do a famous show. But like I

think like 20 pilots have died

doing the air shows.

Yeah. Over a course of a long time. But

there haven't been that many Blue Angels

pilots.

Like statistically it's something like

9% of Blue Angels pilots have died

making it the deadliest job in the

military. No way.

To be stunned by a lot of the deaths

were like pre-1970. They they don't have

that many, but there was one in the last

like 10-15 years.

That's sad.

I know. It's really sad. So, I would

have been eating a bomb pop watching,

you know, a deadly naval pilot stunt

show.

There you go.

Um,

what would you rate?

I'm proud to be uh bomb. It's It's still

really good. It's very like artificial

in a way that hits different as an adult

than when you're a kid.

I agree.

But I think still really delightful. The

texture on it is really nice. Good blend

of like creamy with icy.

Yeah, I was very impressed.

I'm gonna say 7.4.

I'm gonna I'm gonna do this as a whole

considering the whole like bomb pop and

propaganda.

Oh yeah. Are we going to give it I'm

going to give it a four.

Yeah. It feels weird.

They should They should call They should

call it the flag pop.

They should call it the flag pop.

Yeah, that'd be you know make it like

Uncle Sam's hat or something.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

like just like an AK-47 popsicle,

you know?

You know

what's that one?

That one. Which one is it?

I don't know.

This is my favorite podcast ever. Josh

talked about his mom's call.

It's a hand grenade. There were There

were hand grenade drinks.

We had grenade drinks.

Megan, look up hand grenade drinks.

What? What the hell?

What are you talking about hand grenade

drinks? There were drinks that were

called like

Oh, man.

No, it's not. But it's not.

Is this just an alcoholic thing? I

thought there were like children's

drinks that we drank out of grenades

or did we just call them juice grenades

and they weren't actually grenades?

You You mean the hugs?

They were the barrel juices. I swear to

God there was like a grenade juice.

I don't remember. Um,

so this is an off-brand.

God damn it. You got off-brand

strawberry shortcake bar.

How many times do I have to tell you? I

couldn't go up to the children of

Bourbank and say, "Hey kids, where's the

closest ice cream truck?" I had to buy

these from the store. Okay.

These don't taste the same.

Okay.

And it's bad, but the good ones taste

really good.

How

you can taste the difference between

like an RC cola and a Coca-Cola, right?

Um, I've never done that side by side.

taste the difference between, you know,

Doritos and like a store brand nacho

cheese tortilla chip.

Okay.

I've never seen a greater disparity in

quality and taste.

Mhm.

From an off-brand product.

Yeah.

Versus the Good Horum. It's Good Horror,

right?

This is Good Humor, too.

This is Good Humor. Wait, really? What's

What's the OG brand of strawberry

shortcake bars?

I thought it was Good humor my whole

life.

I thought it was, too. Is it not? Megie,

what's the OG brand of strawberry

shortcake bars? I'm convinced this is

good humor.

This isn't the OG.

It might. You know, it might have

happened

because th this was my single favorite.

Me, too. You know what I think? I think

that they give the ice cream truck

people the legit stuff. Like that's what

it's supposed to look like.

This is the same.

Yes.

Fascinating.

I know the photo doesn't exactly match,

which is fine. We just got catfished.

But if you eat the bottom part, it

tastes really good, doesn't it?

I mean, the whole thing still tastes

perfectly good, but

to me, I grew up loving Nesquick

strawberry milk.

Me. Well, yeah, we love artificial

strawberry.

Artificial strawberry is And I I I eat

probably a half pound of strawberries a

night.

Yeah, big strawberry.

You know what I mean? Big straw. Well, I

don't even like it. Julia likes them.

I'd rather get a paniply of fruits, but

that's fine. Happy to indulge. So, I eat

a lot of, you know, fresh strawberries.

Okay. Nothing hits like the fake stuff.

I mean, I stand by that a million%. I

love fake strawberry milk.

Have you ever made like fresh strawberry

milk using actual strawberries?

Yes, we've made that together and it

sucked.

Sucks.

It sucks.

You need the fake stuff.

I need Yeah, I do. I need I need the lip

filler. I need the Botox. I need the

artificiality.

The The crumb coating on this gives such

a pleasant mouth feel.

It when it's when it's properly

dispersed, it does.

Yeah, this this is a poorly executed bar

despite being a mass-produced factory

product. I agree. They need to work on

it. They need to work on it.

I'd say this, as far as taste and

execution, still a solid 7.1, but the OG

Strawberry Shortcake bar, I think, is

damn near It's a 10 out of 10. It's a

single perfect.

I agree.

Even the chocolate version, the

chocolatey cla version.

You like the chocolatey?

It's still good. It's not my favorite,

but if they're all out of strawberry

shortcake, I'll get a chocolate clair.

Really? I would not. I would do the

strawberry shortcake is always my first

go-to. The second choice is always a

drumstick.

I would always get a drumstick. A

caramel filled drumstick.

I've never been a drumstick guy.

Oh, what? Oh my god.

I think because you know what I do get?

Um, we got to eat these. These are

melting. I'll tell you all about it

later.

Let's see.

Is that Spongebob?

This might be Spongebob.

Oh my god. What if there's no gummy

eyeballs? Are you going to hate me

forever if there's no gummy eyeballs?

Oh Okay. Wait. It's melting fast.

Are there gummy eyeballs?

There's no gummy eyeballs.

What the hell, man?

What is this little piece of

Is that for me?

Yeah, it's for you. I got this for you.

What is this little turd? Is this what

they're selling at the ice cream truck?

I'm going to go to the Krusty Krab.

[Laughter]

Why do you sound like Waluigi? That's

your Spongebob impersonation?

Okay, so we're about to eat Spongebob,

but it doesn't look like Spongebob. This

Spongebob ice cream is fake.

What What does this Spongebob ice cream

look like to you?

It looks like an AI version of

Spongebob. I will say these our

Spongebobs do look Yeah, there's almost

nothing Spongebob about it. Um they they

kind of look more like Minions.

Exactly. The minion minionification of

ice cream treats has gone too far.

But if you're a child, you have such a

suspension of disbelief, right?

I don't know what that means, Kobe

Bryant.

Like you if if there's a picture of

Spongebob on a box,

it says popsicles. You go Spongebob

and then you open the package and you

see a sweet treat. You're smelling the

sugar. You're getting all hyped up on

the fact that you're about to eat a

bunch of sugar.

Yeah.

And you just go Spongebob and you put it

in your mouth and you don't care.

But Spongebob didn't even have red pants

and the gummy eyeballs were like really

intense.

So this Spongebob does not have any

Spongebob was wearing a shirt.

Spongebob has a shirt and pants

and square pants.

But look what they used to do. Look what

they used to do. Look what they took

away from us. Look what they took away

from

Spongebob. Spongebob has a a large

toothy grin in the cartoons. The ice

cream that we are eating merely has a

cheshure cat single line drawn smile

with chocolate

with Is it chocolate though?

Yeah. Yeah, I taste it. It's chocolate.

Oh, it's chocolate.

It's really disappointing.

There's no gumball eyes. I

I need the gumball eyes, dude.

I'm so mad. Why has time passed us by?

The things that we remember as being

joyful no longer are.

This is wrong.

Where else do we get joy out of life,

Nicole?

I don't know. I guess maybe doom

scrolling on Tik Tok does a pretty good

job.

Nuts.

I give that a I give that a two. I hope

I hope that this was a flub on my part

and that the ice cream truck people are

still serving the gummy eyeball ones.

Please tell me you are, cuz for the sake

of the children, you must still be

selling the gumballs. Are you enjoying

it?

As far as taste goes.

Ew. Honestly, it tastes like butt.

I think it's really nice. I I like

eating butt then. I like eating banana

flavored butt.

Yeah, it tastes like banana flavored

butt.

If you think I'm a butt eater for loving

this Spongebob ice cream that a butt

eater I shall be because I actually

think this is really well done.

That's because you like banana. It

tastes like banana butt.

Banana.

Banana.

We got one more. We got the original Fat

Boy ice cream sandwich. out. There are

multiple ice cream sandwich options when

you go to the ice cream truck.

I always did toll house.

You were Toll House. There was Toll

House, there was Chip Witch, there was

UFO.

Oh, UFOs. Oh my god.

But to me, I've always been a Fat Boy

boy.

Never never had a Fat Boy growing up.

This is where it's at, dude. The

chocolate wafer ice cream cookie

sandwich is so much better than an

actual cookie ice cream sandwich. That

is what I believe.

That is a delicious treat. Holy crap.

I think the majority of the ice creams

we've had have been on the icier side.

Mhm.

Well, this is the first time we're

eating um creamy dreamy confection.

Oh,

how many calories have you consumed

today?

Don't think about it, man.

Okay. I

How many squats did you do this morning?

I did a bunch of stretches today.

Actually, did I tell you I passed my

gestational diabetes test?

No. But is this going to make you fail?

I don't know, but I passed it. My

doctor's like, "Hey, normal glucose

levels." And I'm like, "Hell yeah." I

don't know if that's the case right now

anymore. Sorry.

You know what I love about this?

It's not a cookie at all.

What is that?

The coating. It's a taste like there's a

taste of a chocolate scented saltine

cracker

that is left on my palette. It's really

well salted.

It's like a Subét cookie.

Yeah, it is. Um, and then that combines

with the sweetness and the creaminess,

that vanilla. I'm transported. I'm

transported back. This is wonderful.

But do you think we like it now because

our pallets are different?

I think so.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

What are the foods that you look back on

most nostalgically that now you almost

can't even stomach?

Gosh,

I can't even think about that. Let me

think.

I grew up in an ingredient house, not a

snack house.

So, I don't know if that says anything,

but like any like fast foods.

Growing up as a kid, my Oh, McFlurries.

I can't even I can't even think about a

McFlurry without like wanting to vomit.

Really?

Cuz they're so I'd rather just do a

cone.

Yeah,

the McFlurry is intimidating.

Interesting.

It's huge.

Interesting.

What do you mean? Does that Am I bad?

Was that a bad

No, no, no, no. I I still like for me

McFlurries are still great. Especially

the Oreo McFlurry.

It's like ballpark nachos.

Oh, pretty gross.

Like liquid nacho cheese. I still I

don't know. There's like an idea of it

that I love

and then I actually taste it and I'm

just or no, no,

I'll go one more. Box mac and cheese.

Oh, I love box mac.

That like the chemical cheese taste.

Okay.

I'm just like this does nothing. This

does not make my life better. And I

don't think that makes me an elitist. I

still love cheap convenience foods and a

lot of them,

you know, still mess with a riceeroni,

okay?

You know, but there's something about

that like chemical cheese taste that

when I was a kid inter physically

interacted with my palette in a

different way than now.

Really, I am so deeply nostalgic for it

and I crave it sometimes. I have it like

maybe once every 3 months just to remind

myself what it tastes like.

Microwave Stoofers mac and cheese. The

thinking man's mac. Oh, well that's

totally different. So Josh, how do you

feel about the ice creams we tried? How

do you feel about Fat Boy? What would

you rate Fatboy?

Fat Boy.

That's a 9.1.

Yeah, I'm going to give it a nine.

I understand why people would prefer the

Chip Witch, the Toll House, you know.

Um, but no, for me,

that thin chocolate wafer there,

I don't know if there's a clear winner

here. Disappointing showing by the

strawberry shortcake bar that we got.

It bo It bothered me, too.

What's the single best tasting bite that

you had today? Wow. I might just say,

well, the one that was that kind of

threw me for a loop was the fudge pop.

Interesting.

The fudge pop was really delicious to

me. Like deeply delicious,

but the Fat Boy like took it over the

edge.

Fat boy ice cream sandwich. Also, shout

out to the orange creamicle.

Love orange creamsicles.

Love it.

Fall is the perfect season to invest in

yourself. And what better way than

learning a new language? Whether you're

planning a trip, craving a new

challenge, or just looking to make the

most of cozy nights in, Rosetta Stone

makes it simple to turn just a few

minutes a day into real progress.

Rosetta Stone has been the trusted

leader in language learning for over 30

years. Their immersive, intuitive method

helps you naturally absorb and retain

your new language with lessons available

on desktop or mobile so you can learn

anytime, anywhere.

I love how approachable the lessons are.

Bite-size, easy to follow, and their

true accent speech recognition gives

real-time feedback that actually helps

me sound more natural. It feels like

having a personal language coach right

there with me.

And with 25 languages to choose from,

from Spanish and French to Japanese and

beyond, you'll find the one that fits

your goals. So, don't wait. Unlock your

language learning potential now.

A hot dog is a sandwich. Listeners can

grab Rosetta Stone's lifetime membership

for 50% off. That's unlimited access to

25 language courses for life. Visit

rosettasone.com/hotog

to get started and claim your 50% off

today.

Don't miss out. Go to

rosettastone.com/hotog

and start learning today.

[Music]

Well, all right, Nicole. We've eaten

about 300 gram of sugar and we've heard

what you and I have to say. Now, let's

find out what other wacky ideas are

rattling out there in the universe. Time

for a little segment we call opinions. I

like casserole.

[Music]

Let's get to that first pin.

I hope you don't play this on an

upcoming episode, but I do have a

question.

You called.

Do you think that a milkshake is always

a smoothie?

Oh, great question.

I kind of do.

Great question.

Do you think milkshake is always a

smoothie? This morning I called I called

a shake one of those like protein shakes

that are like in the little containers.

I call that a smoothie which is not

right.

But a pro when you say a shake. If you

say I'm I had a shake for breakfast. I'm

going to assume you mean protein shake,

right? Not milkshake,

but not smoothie.

But where's the difference between I

think if we analyze the difference

between a protein shake and a protein

smoothie?

I can tell you what it is. Fruit.

I would say it's fruit, right? fresh or

frozen fruit.

But I would say there's one fruit that

bridges the gap.

And I know what fruit it is.

On three. One, two, three. Tomato.

Banana. You're right.

Tomato.

Tomato milkshake sounds great. Wait,

wait, wait, wait.

I would consume a tomato milkshake.

I would love that.

You know what? I love tomato leaf

scented items.

Like a tomato?

Uh, I don't know that I've had tomato.

You've never smelt a fresh tomato? It

smells a fresh tomato

in a in like a in like a vine on like a

vine. You ever like your fingers?

But but where are you? You're getting

products that are scented like tomatoes.

Yeah,

like tomato leaves.

It's in right now. It's in vogue.

Tomato leaf is I don't know anything

about what's in vogue. Um

but banana is the thing where like you

blend it into

your concoction.

Your concoction. Well, I'm trying

because I'm trying if there's peanut

butter, you can go to a smoothie store,

right? like a

Robex, a Jamba.

Uhhuh.

A juice it up.

Sure.

And you can get something a quench that

they they just call like Robex used to

call like the 800 lb gorilla shake cuz

it was like big beefy protein boy shake.

But it would just be like peanut butter,

chocolate, maybe dates and bananas

blended with like frozen yogurt.

That's a smoothie.

But it drank like a milkshake.

Yes, it did. Jamba Juice had the peanut

butter mud.

That's That's correct. Yeah, peanut

butter. Why did they milkshake? Why do

they have the accent on the mud?

Is there an accent or was it an

apostrophe?

O apostrophe o

like I never understood that.

Like a Maui name.

Yeah. Um Yes. Yes. Like a name from the

Maui. Yes. Chocolate moo. I would always

put like a

Yeah. That's just a weird diiocritical

to try and separate the anamonopia of

moo from the pun on mood.

I put like some Arabic sling on it. It's

like mood.

Mood.

Ah,

habibi. Um,

come to Jamba Juice.

I think the difference between a

smoothie and a milkshake

ice cream.

I don't think it has to do with fruit. I

think it has to do with fruit flavor.

Ice cream.

But if you put fro you can make a frozen

yogurt milkshake. Certainly frozen

yogurt and ice cream are

I just we got to say they're the same.

They're the same. What is the same?

Soft serve ice cream. You go to yogurt

land and they have they have their

vanilla frozen yogurt. But Yogurt Land

started doing I don't know if they still

have it. They started doing soft serve

ice cream.

Oh,

they had just chocolate and vanilla.

They may have discontinued it.

Sounds fake,

but it's like the same for all intents

purposes as the frozen yogurt.

I don't like that.

You know,

I mean, I don't

The lines here are razor thin.

I I agree. I I agree. I agree with you.

I agree. I think the difference between

a milkshake and a smoothie is milkshakes

are densely highly caloric on purpose

and smoothies are that on accident.

You know what I mean?

I kind of agree with that.

Yeah,

I kind of agree with that. But you don't

think smoothie is an overarching

umbrella term

under which we see milkshakes?

Um, no. Because when I think of

milkshake, I think of

I think of an accompany. I think of

Johnny Rockets.

I think we see No, I agree with that.

Yeah,

I think you're right. I think there is

an intention split. It's not

ingredientbased.

I think Well, no, but also like smoothie

uh has like a healthier connotation.

Like,

but that's what I'm saying. Intention

connotation.

Is intention and connotation the same

thing?

I'm saying if something is conoted

differently,

it started with a different intention. I

think

I'm making a peanut butter banana

milkshake and I'm making a peanut butter

banana smoothie. What are the

differences between the two? A smoothie,

you want to have likely a meal

replacement that is filled with some

sort of nutrients that you can easily

drink on the go.

Okay.

A milkshake, you want an indulgence,

sweet treat.

And I think that's going to frame what

other things you add to that other than

peanut butter and banana.

Cuz that milkshake is likely just going

to be ice cream.

A little bit of milk to thin it out. You

don't need that much milk. You always

add too much milk and then you add ice

and then it gets bad.

Mhm.

You know, smoothie. I

You might be putting flax in there. For

all I know, you're not putting flax in a

milkshake.

You're not putting unless you you get a

flax milkshake.

Sounds kind of nice.

Sounds pretty gross.

I think flax se I think ground flax meal

actually tastes really good. Okay.

It reminds me of like honey.

It reminds me of like uh the Korean like

uh bean powder.

Injoli.

The injury. Yeah.

Is that right?

Injor is made with this bean powder, but

I can never remember the name of the

bean powder.

But it's like Korean bean powder

or like malt powder. It's just that

little savory.

We spent too long on this. Uh,

this is very riveting.

It is. It's a good question.

Hi. Uh, my name is Hannah. I am from

Michigan.

Michigan.

I was having a craving for something

salty, but still that had some protein

to it. Um,

so I paired

cottage cheese with taco sauce and then

I'm scooping that with some tortilla

chips.

And it's

honestly so freaking bomb.

You guys really should try this.

What is it?

Cottage cheese topped with taco sauce,

tortilla chips dipped in it. Craving a

salty snack. Still wanted protein.

Fine.

Pretty good. I I was thinking about this

the other day. Cottage cheese and Greek

yogurt have almost the identical

macronutrient breakdown.

Cottage cheese and Greek yogurt.

Yeah.

Okay.

Cottage cheese was really big in like

the 80s and 90s during that kind of high

protein, lowfat,

right?

You know, era. And then Greek yogurt got

really big in our generation.

I think in the same way that we saw we

me and Trevor talked about this in the

podcast. Chili skipped a generation.

Okay.

Gen X love chili. Millennials estued it.

Jenzie picked it back up.

It's the same thing going on with

cottage cheese.

Are you okay, Mikey?

I hit myself accidentally.

I'll be okay.

Okay, good. Um, I think

it's our first onset podcast accident.

That's very poignant. Very poignant.

Thank you.

I I think this is a delicious snack.

Sometimes the curds are off-putting,

so I have resorted to blending my

cottage cheese a lot of the time. What

if I told you you could eat yogurt?

I yogurt has that tang. That

quintessential yogurt tang.

Does cottage cheese not have a tang?

Not the way that the way not the way

that Greek yogurt does. Greek yogurt has

a designated tang.

Uh, cottage cheese has a designated

cream.

Interesting. I have not, full

disclosure, I have not eaten cottage

cheese in probably four years. And I

have not

to your own knowledge

to my own knowledge I'm sure it's been

somewhere in and also what do you

consider cottage cheese is a farmer's

cheese a shephardd's cheese they're all

terms for the same thing

I'm thinking of nudson

nudson

called cottage cheese in America right

but like ricotta is basically the same

product just

ricotta is basic yeah I'll give you that

you know what I mean

I'll give you that

you know what I mean

in Spanish you know

okay

I'm not here to fight you I'm here to

find common ground like jubil I'm going

to bite. That is exactly what Jubilee

does. And they are not just platforming

the most extreme people in every single

regard.

All about finding people. They want

people to come together.

But this but this series is called

Surrounded. The new series.

We have Yeah, it's just Oh, 20

Republican police dogs surrounding a

Democratic non-binary police horse.

That's what I want to watch. More

animals on Jubilee,

you know?

Anyways, uh I'm gonna buy a big tub of

cottage cheese.

Great. You should

and mess around with it.

You should.

Josh and Nicole. Josh and Nicole. I call

upon your power. I need you guys to make

sure that Carl's Jr. does not get rid of

their new queso burger. It is

If you have not tried it, what are you

doing? Go get it.

What am I doing?

We have eaten this burger

uh every single day for the past three

days.

Wow. It's that good.

Can't get enough of it. We are eating it

right now as we speak. Joshua, I beseech

you. I beseech thee. Go tell them do not

get rid of that. I just said something.

It's a good burger.

I don't even like Carl's Jr. And then

you guys were talking about it. I'm

like, "Okay, we got

because like I had a bias, but now it's

delicious and I love doing zucchini.

Also, more fast food places need to have

zucchini

rips.

I get like Farmer Boys. Have y'all had

Farmer Boys? I really I need to have

Farmer Boys.

Say something nice about Farmer Boys and

Patty Mills.

They're really good.

They're really good. Okay, that's it.

Use your power for good. Thank you. What

is on my face?

I believe in true love. Do you?

I should.

like this. I'm sorry. Stuff like

this makes me believe in true love.

I I think you're so beautiful together.

Okay. If I get this queso crunch burger,

no, they're married. They never get

divorced. Um I haven't even heard of

this burger. Some have missed all the

marketing for it.

Me, too. 100% all beef fatty char boiled

over an open flame smothered in a warm

creamy queso topped with seasoned

crunchy tortilla strips pepper jack

cheese fresh housemade pico de gallo

served on a toasted bun.

Wow,

that does sound really good.

Where can I get Can I get

What do you mean where you get it?

Carl's Junior is where you can get

No. Do you think it's still alive? Do

you think it's

Do you Do you want to order some?

Yeah.

You're Nicole, you got to eat for the

baby. Baby needs nutrition. Baby needs

Carl's Junior.

I just shoved so much. I'm so I'm so

sorry. I just gave her so much sugar and

I'm gonna feed her Carl's Jr. That's not

right.

You baby love Carl Jr. This is a proud

Southern California institution. You got

a proud Southern California baby.

I think I got a few fistfuls of kale to

negate all the bad I did today.

Do that tomorrow. We're getting queso

crunch burgers.

Fine. Fine. Are you sure? Can you see if

you can order it right now on the on the

worldwide web? Maggie, can you call

big button? I'm literally putting in the

order now. I don't

Yeah.

No, but you need to see if it's on

Posmates.

Posmates. You need cuz cuz if it's on

the website that's one thing. If it's on

the postmates that's that's actually

accessible.

I will say I think Carl's Jr. has the

best styled fast food burgers.

Yeah. I

you know what I mean? I look at a Carl's

Jr. burger on an advertisement and I'm

like I want to eat that.

Is that like the Paris Hilton like

burger?

Yeah.

They they pine Can Are we doing that

again?

Uh yeah, they brought back sexy ladies

eating hamburger sloppy.

Uhhuh.

I like that.

Um

what about sexy guys? When can I see

David Corn and Sweat? Is that his name?

Cornswe.

I want to see David Cornswe eat a spicy

queso burger and it like drips down and

then he uses a fry to get the sauce off

and then eats the fry.

Wait, wait, wait. One, that's that's

great. Um, two,

they have a fried zucchini sandwich.

Dude, what? That's so inclusive.

We got to We got to get some of this.

Listen, we're already eating ice cream

today. I'm so excited. I'm Thank you for

reminding me that Carl's I need to check

on Carl's Junior's new items because

they do incredible work and I'm happy

that you're happy.

Can you Can you order it?

Do you want me to order it before we

wrap up the pocket? Okay, you do that.

Are you ordering it on I told you you

need to order it on Postmates? If you

don't order on Postmates, it's not going

to come.

Jesus Christ.

Get your phone and order it. Do it

right. If you're going to do it, do it

right.

God,

do tell the people to watch more

podcasts or something.

And on that note, thank you for

listening to a hot dog as a sandwich. We

got new audio only episodes every

Wednesday and a video version right here

every Sunday on YouTube. And if you want

to be featured on opinions or casserles,

give us a ring and leave a quick message

at 833 Dog Pod One. And for more

Mythical Kitchen, check out our other

videos. We launch new episodes every

week. We'll see you next time. Thank you

so much for watching, listening,

indulging us in our absolute psychosis.

That has to update.

What?

Tap to update.

Update it.

Asking me to I'm updating it, but I'm

telling you there might be a delay at

our Carl Jr.

Good Mythical Evening is blasting off on

October 23rd at 1000 p.m. Eastern, 700

p.m. Pacific. So get your tickets now at

good mythicaling.com.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot verb - to manage or operate
bright /braɪt/ A2	adjective - giving off a lot of light
podcast /ˈpɒdkæst/ B1	noun - a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically
culture /ˈkʌltʃər/ B1	noun - the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society
credit /ˈkrɛdɪt/ B1	noun - the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future
formative /ˈfɔːrmətɪv/ C1	adjective - serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development
gerrymandering /ˈdʒɛriˌmændərɪŋ/ C2	noun - the practice of dividing a state, county, etc., into electoral districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage in elections
molecular /məˈlɛkjʊlər/ C1	adjective - relating to or consisting of molecules
nostalgic /nɒˈstældʒɪk/ B2	adjective - characterized by or exhibiting a longing for the past
pioneer /ˌpaɪəˈnɪər/ B2	noun - a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area verb - to be the first to do or discover something
tab /tæb/ B1	noun - a small flap or strip of material attached to something, typically for identification or opening purposes
watermelon /ˈwɔːtərmɛlən/ A2	noun - a large round fruit with a green rind, sweet watery red flesh, and black seeds