The Kitchen’s Open: Sandwich Rewind (Hour 2)

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Yeah, I've been over to the Whitney once or twice.

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And maybe while you're there, you can get a sandwich.

All right.

This month is National Sandwich Month and National Penini Month.

So I thought we'd spend some time reflecting on the history of this meal option.

I love sandwiches.

They are one of my favorite things.

If you can put it between two slices of bread, I'm there.

Mmm.

If we had stopped as a society with sandwiches.

And we never made any other type of food.

Like that was it.

Every food was served inside the dorm.

All right, too.

The slice of history I know about the sandwich is that it's named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

That's right.

According to the website history.com and an article who invented the sandwich,

they say, do we call the sandwich a sandwich because of the 4th Earl of Sandwich?

Yes. Was the first person to come up with the idea?

Was he the first person to come up with the idea?

Not at all.

So even though we think it's named after him, he's not the one that did it.

So the article says the truth is we don't know who invented the sandwich.

But it has existed in various forms for thousands of years.

One of the earliest known sandwich eaters was Halal the Elder,

a rabbi and scholar who was born in Babylon and lived in Jerusalem during the first century BC.

The Haggara, a Jewish text read during the annual Passover Seder,

recounts how Halal made sandwiches using paschal lamb that are herbs and unleavened mots of bread.

In Jewish tradition during the Seder meal, participants remember this

by eating their own mots of sandwiches.

Oh, genius.

Yeah, that's a little genius.

One of the earlier memories I have.

Mots of mots of sandwiches here.

It brings back memories.

I wish we was, you know, sandwich is a name that doesn't really describe what it is.

Right.

So I wish we would have come up with a better name before the Earl of Sandwich got all the credit for doing this.

And is it just bread or if I remember, Motsa is a more like a cracker type, right?

Yes. So it's a lot crispier.

So it's harder to eat it as a sandwich.

Yeah, not the perfect.

No, not the best vehicle for that kind of thing.

When did we stop naming things after the person that we invented it to?

Yeah, that seems like everything was done that way for the longest time.

Everything was named after her last name.

We should start calling it the Hillel.

I think we should try to get that caught on like that.

There you go.

Got my Hillel.

The Mots of Sandwich is the Hillel.

I mean, and really nice pronunciation.

I know it goes without saying for you, but it's nice to hear.

It's just really nice.

You're welcome.

I did my research on that one.

And what do we determine as the bread for the sandwich?

Because would we consider a hamburger sandwich?

Oh, the old thing.

Because that's a bun.

That's true.

I would call it a sandwich.

Right.

And then there's the taco.

Which has more of the consistency of the Motsa.

Right.

So is that a sandwich or is it not?

You might have convinced me.

And now because of that with the Motsa sandwich, the taco may be a sandwich now.

It depends on who I'm talking to.

I am not easily swayed person by most topics on this one for some reason.

I just like, oh, yeah, you're right.

I have no, I am no like a willpower on this one.

Like I bend whatever I'm hearing.

Because it's such a convincing argument.

Right.

Well, you don't have a horse in every song.

I really don't.

Oh, my God.

That's a sandwich.

Sure.

Well, the article goes on to say that it's not clear why the English politician, John Montague,

aka the fourth Earl of sandwich, became the namesake for the food we call a sandwich.

The first known use of the word sandwich comes from the diary of the English historian Edward

Gibbon.

On November 24, 1724, 1762, he wrote about seeing men eating, quote, a bit of cold meat or

a sandwich, end quote, but there's no mention of the Earl being the namesake.

Ah, maddeningly, maddeningly, you know, obscure.

It's just, ah, ah, ah, ah.

Then in the early 1770s, the French traveler writer Pierre Jean Grossley published a gossipy

and satirical book called a tour to London or new observations on England and its inhabitants.

And it grossly described a scene at a gambling table.

The word sandwich does not appear in Grossley's book, but many people assumed the scene in the

book, which grossly may have made up, referred to the fourth Earl of sandwich.

In any case, the name which people like Gibbon were already using caught on.

By at least the mid-19th century, sandwich was so common that English-speaking people were

using it as a verb to describe the process of placing something between two other things,

as if one were making a sandwich.

Wow.

So a sandwich theoretically could also be with two pieces of lettuce.

That's true.

That's as long as it's between something, right?

That makes sense.

It almost feels like anything between something is almost a sandwich, you know?

According to that definition.

I love the idea of this.

If you go, you know, in the afterlife, you ask the fourth Earl of sandwich, what a sandwich

was.

And he'd be like, what?

Yeah.

What are you talking about?

That's my name.

What do you mean?

Exactly.

It's like asking, like, Abner, double day.

How about that baseball you invented?

You'd be like, what?

Right.

What baseball?

What is that?

Right.

Yeah.

So one type of sandwich that has become popular in the last decade or so is the Penini.

This Italian sandwich has an interesting backstory all on its own and an article on the University

of Wyoming Extension website entitled Pressed for Dinner, by the way, Great Title, the

Penini.

Originally, the Penini had a working class Italian origins, whether you're referring

to one on Penino or more duet Penini or Penini.

The first sandwiches were made with a simple recipe, a single filling usually meet paired

with rustic bread.

Cured meats such as prosciutto, salami, and pancetta were often used because they didn't

require refrigeration.

Penini was usually eaten on the go as a quick meal or snack and wasn't toasted or grilled,

which is not how we're used to seeing the Penini.

In our minds, it's always that grilled sandwich.

Get that grilled marks on it, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So somewhere along the way, however, a crucial discovery was made while a regular Penino

is good, a toasted Penino is even better.

Today, many people use an electric countertop grill or a stove top grill pan and press grill

to cook both sides at once and get that perfectly toasted, crunchy exterior paired with a warm

and melted interior.

So again, the original Penini had only the meat.

No condiments, no cheese, nothing.

Just really simple.

Yeah.

Bread and meat, basically.

I love the idea that we're doing it wrong, too, saying it wrong, it's the singular.

Yeah.

I would like a Penino, right?

Instead of Penini.

Penini is the plural, right?

Yeah.

Well, and often we think of a Penino as one half of the sandwich.

So technically, a Penini would be both halves, which would be two, right?

Yeah, okay.

Yep.

So if you only want one half, try and go in and order a Penino.

Good up an era bread and do that, yeah.

Here you go.

I do.

Now I kind of want to do that.

What are you talking about?

Well, and then you can educate them.

Well, that's actually the plural.

Yep.

So.

Sir, police just ordered the sandwich.

Over the years, the Penini has grown in popularity and ingredients began to evolve

into pretty much what we know now.

So the rustic bread, such as Shabbata, Francesco, a small French-style roll, and Faccaccia

became the signature foundation of the sandwich, not sliced sandwich bread.

So that's another difference between what we understand as a regular sandwich.

Wow.

Those are considered rustic breads, which is fantastic.

I love that.

It's not nice bread.

You know, like it's slices.

No, no, no.

This is rustic.

That's a nice crunch to it.

You think of using, like, if you're going to use sliced bread, use the heels of the bread

that nobody likes to eat anyway.

Right.

That's my favorite part.

And that's my favorite part.

Perfect.

My Nana, for every meal I ever had that she made, would save the French bread, would save

the un-pieces for me.

Oh, perfect.

It's perfect.

There you go.

Oh, yeah.

Well, people also began to experiment with fillings then, right?

So meats used in Penini included salami, prosciutto, capicola, mortadella, pepperoni,

ham, roast beef, turkey, chicken, and bacon.

So just about any kind of meat that you would want to put in there.

This is from mozzarella to brie, became standard, which adds welcome depth of flavor.

Vegetables, including tomato, arugula, eggplant, or grilled squash, brought garden-fresh

taste and texture, pesto herbs, mushrooms, roasted red peppers, marinara, marinated artichoke

hearts, pickles, olives, and balsamic vinegar were added to balance and complement flavors.

The combinations really are endless and make each Penini an individual dining experience.

My gosh.

It's the versatility of the sandwich.

You can basically do anything you want with it.

That's what I love about them.

Sandwiches are great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

One of the best things ever.

And the fact that you can still call a sandwich a Penini without it having to be that

grilled Penini.

Exactly.

You don't have a Penini press or something like that at home.

You can still make a Penini.

Got your Chabata bread there, just throw something in between and you're good to go.

And if you want to go throw back, just do a piece of salami in the middle of your head.

There you go.

It doesn't have to be fancy or elaborate or create your own recipe with it.

And if you do include it in our recipe book, we're going to be putting out as part of

our anniversary.

You can do that by stopping by our parking lot party on August 20th.

We'll have sheets for you to fill that out.

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And with that, we'll close the kitchen.

Welcome back to the morning show, everybody.

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Let me get Brittany's weather back in.

So the weather outside, it's not good, everybody.

Well, it's nice for some, and then some people aren't going to like it, and there's other

people who will.

We don't usually have Brittany at the top of the tent.

We do.

She does have a weather break.

Oh, that's what we're missing.

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So the weather didn't play.

So I don't want to.

Nailed it.

No, no, you were doing the right thing, carry on.

We dive right into entertainment news, but do want to send a shout out to Beth, sending

us a great addition of the best of the kitchen's open.

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Listen to that.

And a big thank you to the Hotel Mead as well.

Dolly Parton in the news.

She is postponing her December run of shows at Caesar's Palace, Calcium, and Las Vegas.

In an Instagram post yesterday, Dolly explained she's been dealing with ongoing health issues,

and her team has suggested she undergo several medical procedures.

Luckily, she is taking their advice.

Dolly lighten the moment, of course, by saying she told her doctors, guess it's time for

my 100 million child mild checkup.

She's stressed that these procedures aren't cosmetic, but they will keep her from properly

preparing for her shows.

And she wants everyone to know that this is not a retirement announcement.

Dolly said that maybe it's just God reminding her to slow down a bit.

She said she'll continue working on projects back home in Nashville while she recovers.

The 6th December concerts have now been rescheduled for September of next year.

Okay.

And that's certainly, you know, hopeful of her fans and the people that were hopeful

to see those shows, that they even rescheduled them.

Yeah.

I mean, they didn't have to.

Just outright cancel them.

Yeah.

Fine.

That encouraging.

Also, you know, I feel like we kind of understood that this, it was just a matter of time

before starting to get this news.

The only thing to slow Dolly down is Dolly.

Yep.

I'm happy.

That's her.

Happy that she is listening to her team, happy that she is, you know, doing what she needs

to because as much as we love her as a performer, we just love her and just want her around.

Right.

And we love that no one's going to tell Dolly what to do here.

Oh, no.

Dolly is going to do what she wants.

And she's smartly, I think.

And that's why we love her.

Yeah.

Exactly.

I think she's smartly taking a little bit of time.

You know, it's one of those things that you see a lot with people who have been performing

for so long when their body starts to slow down a little bit.

It's a little harder for them to slow down with it because they're so used to being able

to have, having all the energy, you know, and going out and doing all the stuff that

they do.

Right.

And so it's got to be, you know, kind of a melancholy thing when you realize you can't

do what you used to do, especially when you still feel like you can, you know, there's

still more to do.

The desire is there.

The desire is still there.

Yeah.

One of the most relatable human things in existence is relating to what you just said

there.

And every human being can relate to that.

Now put yourself in that position of you can do something that very few in the world

can do.

Exactly.

And feeling that.

And I can't imagine what that must feel like.

We see it all the time with athletes and they have to retire or they don't realize their

body has let them down or something like that.

Laura touched on something that I, as much as the key part of this is Dali is dealing

with some stuff and we're hopeful for her.

We're all sending her good energy and good vibes.

The statement, um, been dealing with ongoing health issues and her team has suggested her

undergoes.

Yes.

Suggested.

Nobody told like it.

Even with all this out there, nobody's this early telegram.

Oh no.

She made it.

So clear.

So clear.

And in the most Dali way of doing it, too, that was very well done.

Get well soon, Dali.

Get well soon.

Take care of yourself, Dali.

We need you.

We appreciate you.

Uh, last night during the Sunday night football, uh, they announced that the 2026 Super Bowl

halftime show.

Oh, no.

I thought there was quite surprising that they didn't really, I mean, I don't know about

anybody else, but I did not hear about that they were going to announce this.

No, there was no wind up.

No.

Yeah.

I'm excited about this.

Very drop.

Very surprising.

Well, that everybody, when that happens, you can guarantee that this was going to leak

out this morning.

Yeah.

They were, they were just trying to get ahead of this as quick as they possibly could

because somehow they were able to push back the news.

So they were, this was going to break this morning, whether they did it or not, they

were just trying to get ahead of it.

There's no way in this day and age where a movie coming out six months from now, you've

already seen the trailer that they didn't, that they would not have, well, the Super Bowl

halftime show going to be announced during the Green Bay Dallas game.

100%.

How about that for weeks?

Oh, yeah.

No, they, they have commercials leading up to the announcement.

The other part of this is that negotiations for who the act was going to be.

Yes.

We're ongoing up until I would say even this past week.

Oh, sure.

You know, so there were a lot of things to consider.

They were able to put together a commercial and some stuff together pretty well, but you

can also see quite a bit of CGI to it and everything.

So the last minute.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, now I have been on record of saying that I, I bet money, I wouldn't have literally

bet money, but I, I bet money that I thought it was going to be a country star, you know,

Taylor, Lenny Wilson, a Chris Stapleton, somebody like that, I thought for sure, with last year's

Super Bowl halftime show, they were going to go the opposite direction.

That was the thing I was most certain on.

They were going to go the opposite direction.

And they kind of did, they kind of did.

And I say that as somebody who's trying to just grasp a little bit of, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no.

Just the littlest, little string there.

I was correct in them going a different direction to a degree.

That money was announced as the headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.

And it does not look like he was their first choice.

Taylor Swift was allegedly in heavy negotiations for this.

Wow.

But she turned it down because she didn't want to do it for free.

Yeah.

That is the essence of this.

Yeah.

And that's what the Super Bowl halftime show is.

Now, I, I will say that I, any human being, no matter what you do for a living, you deserve

to be paid for your job.

Yeah.

Whatever it is, and you deserve to be paid a rightful wage, no matter what the circumstances.

Right.

I'm not going to disagree with her.

Yeah.

And an organization like the NFL that is literally printing money as we speak right now millions

of dollars.

They can afford it.

They can afford it.

Yeah.

Except for when it comes to literally the, maybe the richest entertainer in all of entertainment.

Right.

And, and when it comes out that like, and this is not the first thing that has come out

about her in recent years and really going past, even past the pandemic of how much is

her career about music and how much is it about making money?

Because she has really, really, her fan base, nobody talks about the way her fan base

that made her the way she is.

She has pretty much cornered out of the market of her ticket sales and done nothing about

it to try to help her fan base.

She has gotten a lot of credit from me, myself, and included for rewriting her songs and

re-releasing them.

But there is no deal on those for people that have already bought her that same album.

Right.

There's no real difference to it other than it's owned by Taylor and you get to the satisfaction

of making Taylor Swift richer.

Right.

Right.

And now it's pointless because she's got them back anyway.

She got the all that, the publishing back, so yeah.

For decades, KISS has taken heat for being a band that markets himself on everything.

Right.

And they get, they get, like, knocked down a peg musically and respect wise because of

this.

Sure.

We see, we cannot wait to do to make fun of a celebrity for endorsing this or selling

this or something like that.

People are still making fun of George Clooney for selling coffee.

Right.

How does she skate by this?

I'm not calling this out.

I'm generally asking the question to everybody out there.

How does she skate by this?

She...

See, it doesn't bother me.

I think that she's entitled to ask, to be paid.

I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift, but honestly, it doesn't bother me.

She has her priority and her bottom line, and they just don't see eye to eye.

I'm much more interested in the bad bunny of it all.

Well, so the other side of this is that.

Now, they definitely had him as a backup plan regarding this, just to wrap up the Taylor

part of this.

An unnamed music executive says, quote, she wasn't asking for favors.

She just was asking for respect.

Taylor knows her worth.

She knows the kind of ratings she brings and the global attention she commands.

That's right.

She wasn't about to hand it over for free.

Bad bunny is doing it for free, and you can make an argument.

Bad bunny is even bigger star than she is.

Worldwide, sure.

And that's where I go, where I grab onto that last little bit of I was right about this,

where they went in a completely different direction.

Something that the NFL is doing already and trying to grow the quote unquote, grow the

sport with all these games being played overseas, that's something that they're this is

not going away.

They are going to keep on trying to get that overseas dollar.

And boy, keep in mind on that oil money, everybody.

Keep an eye on that because that's going to be creeping in more and more and more.

And we're already turning a blind eye to that.

Like Phil Mickelson and a lot of golfers took a ton of heat for joining live golf.

But now I'm seeing some of my favorite comedians and some of the world's favorite comedians

and other people and all that, doing a lot of shows over there, doing a lot of these

things.

And they're not taking nearly any of that heat.

It's very twisted to me.

This, the idea of the bad bunny thing is just trying to grow the sport, but I like bad

bunny.

I like him a lot.

I'm really excited about him doing it.

This is the only concert he's having in America this year.

It's really long.

Yes.

He has canceled all of his other American dates because of fear that ice will fill up

and target his fans.

Yep.

It's an interesting choice with that and all these other factors going in and everything.

And I don't know that it's the first choice that I don't know what the percentage of Americans

would have said that that would have been their first choice.

I feel like this was a choice that was not made necessarily for the fans and not all

fans.

You're your average American football fan.

I don't know how many bad bunny songs they know.

Right.

But at the same time, the NFL also knows that they don't necessarily have to pander to

the football fan for their halftime show because it's going to be on YouTube to be watched

forever.

Pander.

And they're going to get the people who weren't watching the football game watching

the YouTube.

Yeah.

Pander.

Pandering agreed.

But ignoring is another thing.

Sure.

To completely ignore your fan base, something that the NFL has been doing quite a bit over

the last couple of years.

We've been talking about this with streaming, the amount of money that you need.

If you wanted to follow your local team and catch every game this year, we're talking

thousands of dollars you would need to have to be able to do that.

Some of those things.

The NFL keeps trying to kill the Golden Goose.

They just do these things.

Now, I'm not saying any of this because I disagree with some of these things.

Now, the overseas games, I think that was interesting for a while.

I think they need to bring that back or dial it back, something where Roger Gidello is

talking about and bringing on more games.

I like bad bunny.

I think he's hilarious.

He's fantastic on SNL.

Every sketch he's been in, he's nailed.

He's been great.

I'm looking forward to a new audience is getting the chance to experience him and see him

and some of those things.

That's good.

But you can, two things can be true at the same time.

You can chew gum and walk at the same time.

It also looks like the NFL could care less about NFL fans.

They don't really care.

I don't know.

I guess I don't know.

I think you might be underestimating the average NFL fan.

I think there might be more bad bunny fans in there than you think.

Put it on a pole.

And again, what is the, we've, and it's been so up and down with the halftime show.

Honestly, I don't know why they put so much stock in it or anyone does for that matter.

Right.

Because everyone ends up complaining most of the time anyway.

It's just for complaining in every direction.

Yeah.

So I mean, put on like, it just needs to be a good show at this point and have a wicket

off.

Super Bowl 60 goes down February 8th at Levi State even Santa Clara, California, which

is a home of the San Francisco 49ers.

One more entertainment story for you because they we got to get this one.

And just for one, I love the idea of starting it with Dolly Parton and ending with Tina Turner.

But it's also this bronze statue, a 10 foot bronze statue of Miss Turner was unveiled

in a ceremony on Saturday in her hometown of Bronzeville, Tennessee.

And you got to see the hair.

The sculptor says she tried to capture the moment on stage, including how she had held

the microphone in her quote, Maine of a lion hairstyle.

Yeah.

That was exactly what it was.

50 donors contributed to the statue, including $150,000 donation from the Ford Ford motor

company because they're building an electric truck factory nearby.

The Queen of Rock and Roll passed away May 24th, 2023 at 83 years old.

And here is a picture of that statue for you all.

If I can get this pulled.

Get there.

Oh nice.

Oh, the hair is just magnificent.

Oh, that is fabulous.

Oh, that's great.

I love that it's really did capture the hair.

Yeah.

It feels like it's more hair than woman.

Which is accurate.

Tina, Tina Turner.

Tina Turner, Tina Turner.

That is pretty cool.

That is.

It's pretty cool too because again, you know, for any of us that have been paying attention

to the bronze statues and all these things that they've been making, they're normally

horrifying.

They are pretty terrifying.

They're not they're not bad.

They're horrifying.

Look at Christian O'Renaldos.

O'Renaldos.

Oh, yeah.

That one was rough.

It will horrify your dream.

In fact, don't look it up.

Don't look it up.

Good old fashioned nightmare fuel.

I care about you.

Do not let that open, everybody.

Instead, stick around for our new sports and entertainment and partner break.

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Welcome back everybody.

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We hope you're having a good one out there.

I almost said a name of a person that does not, has not been, I almost said Greg and I don't

know.

Wow.

Which one of us was Greg?

I don't know.

I don't, maybe me.

I don't know.

I might have made call myself that a person.

Shout out to Greg Gag.

I get it.

I was going to say you're supposed to be Greg Gag.

You were talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I was thinking about it last night.

I don't know where it came up with today.

I don't know.

We're getting ready to celebrate our 85th anniversary around here and, you know, bring

it back.

Some of those voices, some of those names is something I'm trying to do and get them

on the airwaves with us a little bit here in a morning show and stuff.

Yeah.

So I guess, yeah, that is one way to do it.

We've all had this happen.

You're hanging out with someone and they can't stop talking about some new brand or food

dish or type of, you know, maybe a seasoning that they like or something like that.

Or they, you know, TikTok has got some trend going on.

And then you try it and it's kind of like, yeah, yeah, it's all right.

I mean, it's not so much bad as it is just kind of like, not as exciting as you thought

it would be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You had higher hopes.

Yeah.

People online are listing the foods that were the biggest disappointment once they finally

tried them.

And here are some of the highlights.

And of course, as always, we encourage audience participation, seven, one, five, four, two,

four, twenty, six hundred or caller texts us through the city and the app.

Yeah.

Want to hear from me, everybody.

This is in no particular order.

So we will just start out with truffle oil fries.

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I expected gourmet, but they tasted greasy and artificial, okay.

The ones I've had weren't bad, but they were, they were crisp.

They were crisp.

Yeah.

The way I like them.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know anybody who could like soggy fries.

Okay.

Yeah.

No.

I'm trying to think of it.

It depends on how they do it.

Like are they, are they frying it in truffle oil or did they finish the fries with truffle

oil?

Yeah.

That's a good question, actually.

Yeah.

It is.

And there's an easy way to over finish your fries with truffle oil.

They're harder for rocks.

I think we found out one of James's things.

He doesn't like soggy.

Yeah.

In food.

He doesn't like mush.

The soggy.

In general, mush is a problem.

Okay.

Now we, now we understand a little bit more.

Keep it away.

Oh, starve.

I will.

Yeah.

Dubai chocolate.

Quote.

It wasn't even close to being good for all the hype that it got.

Yeah.

But I am, I am so skeptical of anybody's chocolate review, unless I know their palette.

I'm sorry.

That's a very subjective.

Wait.

It's very subjective.

Yeah.

It's true.

So I don't see it on this list.

Yeah.

I'm not seeing it on this list.

So I would say I have two things for myself.

Caviar was one.

Okay.

As a little kid, I remember going to this family reunion and everybody was hyping up.

Oh, they're going to serve caviar.

They're going to serve caviar and all this.

And oh, grandparents, but really shelled out and got the most expensive stuff and all

this and everything.

And I get to try some as a little kid and I have not had fish eggs in my mouth since

it probably never will.

Okay.

But did you just have it like straight up?

What were you doing?

I had a tracker.

Did you have a tracker?

Okay.

So you had it out and something.

All right.

So at least you tried it right.

Yeah.

But it wasn't because it was not for everyone.

It's not for everyone.

Some of the things that Seth just touched on there and what I am with texture and everything.

But mostly it was, I remember being just let down.

I remember just feeling like, oh, it wasn't as great as it could be.

And then there's the next one on this list, the McRib, quote, and I didn't have high expectations

in the first place.

And they were still let down.

Still pretty let down.

Ooh, that's rough.

Opposite for me where not only my whole life people have been talking about the McRib,

but my good buddy Will, who is a diehard Mickey D's fan, could not stop raving about it and

they didn't have it.

They didn't have it and then all of a sudden they'd bring it back and he was so excited.

He even bought me one.

I took one bite and I look at him as I'm looking up to look at him and everything and his

eyes are like saucy.

He's so excited to see my reaction and I'm just like, and I just went and took another

bite.

Yeah, I didn't even say anything.

No, I had a similar experience.

One of my high school best friends was a McRib guy and I was not impressed.

Also shout out to Eric.

I hope you're doing well wherever you are.

It's the Arablitesian food, but yeah, I hope you're doing all right.

Great taste in music, though.

Solid dude.

So there you go.

All right.

Those gigantic smoked turkey drumsticks at Renaissance fairs, quote, the meat is like

ham and every bite is full of ligaments and tendons.

Yeah, it's me.

It's me.

It's me.

So they've never had a turkey leg before in other words, because that's what it's full

of.

Yeah.

So you're used to having, you know, you're, you're chicken off the bone.

All right.

Just say that.

But still ridiculous.

Hmm.

Giant turkey legs.

No.

Sorry.

It's ridiculous.

I hate it.

It's messy and my hand is always covered in whatever fat.

It's not worth it.

It's all about appearance.

It's all about just walking around with a big old ham-hawk.

It's about being able to walk around with this meat.

Ham-hawk would be better.

Honestly.

I'd rather with ham-hawk.

Yeah, but my hand would still be greasy.

It might even be sweet.

What if it's honeyed ham, anyway?

Anyway.

Turkish delight.

Quote.

All that narnia stuff for this.

I know.

It's so disappointing.

I'd rather have a little bit of bar.

Sorry.

I knew that.

I'd rather have a lemon bar.

They're sweet and tasty.

Nothing wrong with it, but it's not.

They'd rather have a lemon bar.

Yeah, yeah.

And what is about it that's Turkish?

That's what I want to know.

That's like no Turkish.

Country of origin?

I don't know.

Thank you Seth, because...

Also, Turkey's borders are wonky through history.

That's very fair.

I don't know what Turkey is and is not anymore.

I know what Turkish delight is, but for the audience to say, I think it's important to

know everything.

I mean, I know certainly, but I have no idea what Turkish delight is.

It's a family of confections based on a gel of stretch and sugar.

Starch and sugar.

Premium varieties consist of largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts

bound by the gel.

So they would definitely...

It's kind of marshmallow-y.

And it's definitely from Western Asia, because it's got dates in it, which is they originate

from there.

So yeah, for sure.

Yeah, it's sweet.

It's marshmallow-y.

I don't care if it's marshmallows.

So it's...

I'd rather have a lemon bar.

I'm with you.

Sparkling water.

It's not amazing.

It's overrated liquid static.

I love it.

I'm about it.

I don't care.

Oh, I love that.

Sometimes I just want my water to be bubbly.

Liquid static, new band name.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

That's a great band.

Classic band name right there.

Right back down.

I would say...

You bet I can't title the episode liquid static.

I would go see them live.

I would go, whoever they are.

100%.

This one angers me.

Donuts from Duncan.

Quote, they look pretty, but they always seem to be stale.

What?

I mean, the Duncan they're going to.

Yeah, the last few.

I've had work, unless I was getting a fritter.

The fritters are always good.

Fritters, just in general, are superior.

In my mind...

That's the superior donut.

Yes, fritters are better.

You are the flitter twins.

Yes.

Yeah.

I'm the fritter.

Activate.

Oh, you guys got rings and everything.

Yes.

I just make no bones.

I'm just biased about Duncan.

I just...

Well, you like your paint frosted donut.

Yeah.

I'm wrong about that.

I know.

You like a classic.

Yeah.

It's classic for a reason.

Next one is probably the one that I've heard the most

as far as things like this in this realm.

Lobster.

Quote, it's fine, but expensive for a small portion.

I don't get the fuss.

It's again, not saying that people hated lobster.

It was just that all the hype and once they had it,

was disappointing.

Yeah.

It's no fun without lemon and butter.

I'll tell you that much.

Yeah, it makes a lot better.

Eating it right.

I feel like I've heard that one in my mind.

But that might just be the Maryland, didn't I?

It's...

That's very southern all the way around, though.

Obey is very southern and spiced.

Obey is everywhere in Maryland.

Yeah.

Twinkies.

Yeah.

Quote, the most artificial...

No, you know what?

That might be mine.

Surge sugary, plastic-ish flavor I've ever tasted.

Plastic.

No, yeah.

That might be mine.

They're not wrong.

I mean, it's true.

There's not...

I mean...

I don't know the appeal.

No.

Now they became what they were.

Well, and what little enjoyment I once got out of Twinkies when I was younger has completely

faded.

I don't think I like any of those anymore.

They're just a sugar bomb.

Oh, goodness.

There are certain sugar bombs I'm down for.

I don't like those.

No.

I had...

I mean, I've had it recently in the last year or so.

I don't know why it was so different, but I had Mountain Dew yesterday.

And as I took a sip, I realized it's just liquid sugar.

Yeah.

That's all...

For lemon juice.

Like, it's all I could take.

I literally could just taste sugar.

I couldn't believe it.

I was like, I was like, wait a minute.

How have I never noticed this?

Kombucha.

Oh, I love kombucha.

And I used to make it.

I made kombucha for many years.

It's like...

Yes.

So they said that it's something that just didn't live up to the hype.

I'm like...

Well, you hear a lot about it, right?

Not really people saying that they didn't like it necessarily.

I don't think people really hype it up about its flavor.

I wouldn't know.

No.

Kombucha is a probiotic beverage.

And so it's an alternative to having just a sweet beverage.

It's a sweet beverage with probiotics.

Oh, okay.

And it's not as sweet because, you know, the bacteria ate some of the sugar, right?

Right.

And it ate some of the caffeine because it died with tea, like it's...

To keep up with modern trends, something that we are going to be infusing all of our original

programming with is dragon fruit.

Oh, yeah.

Everything has dragon fruit now.

No, with more dragon fruit.

Yeah, we're going to be incorporating that in a lot of our morning shows now.

15% more.

Quote.

Quote.

Ten for ten visual design, ten for ten name.

The fruit has the texture of watermelon, but tastes like water.

It tastes like nothing.

I found that...

I wasn't a fan.

The exotic fruits I have found are very disappointing.

The flavor.

Star fruit was my big one.

I remember seeing a star fruit and I was like, wow, that's so cool.

And then my mom just said, okay, we'll get it.

Whatever.

Cut it up.

And I'm like, this doesn't taste like anything.

It just tastes like fruit.

Yeah.

It just kind of sweet.

Tastes like fruit.

No, no star shine.

I mean, I want to know what star tastes like and they totally let me down.

Well, I'm sorry.

It's just a point.

I like a star fruit.

Maybe with this one in particular, but with a lot of these, I wonder if, because people

are used to the artificial flavor once they get the real flavor and it doesn't add up,

I don't know if that comes in time.

That might have something to do with it too.

Oysters.

It's just cold glob.

You put on a hot sauce on it.

Stop.

Stop.

You guys don't understand.

See, now that one exceeded my expectations.

See, I've never had an oyster.

I haven't quite muscled up the hot.

Muscle hot.

Very, very cute.

Very cute.

Very cute.

It just looks like snot.

It's, hey.

It's really repelling to me.

It's satisfying.

There's something so satisfying about slurping up oysters, man.

I don't know what it is, but they're awesome.

I love it.

I want to agree with you so bad right now, but I just don't have the cojones to try oysters.

Couple more for you.

Champagne.

As a quote, as a kid, I expected it to taste like cherry seven up or taste, uh, you're

going to be disappointed.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Like, bro, that's snot.

Yeah.

What champagne is?

Cherry seven up.

I have a cherry seven up.

I will say, and I've had some very, like, like, $1,000 bottles of champagne.

Right.

I've had some very expensive champagne.

Uh, it is the most overrated drink.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fine.

It's only good as a mimosa.

I'm sorry.

I've, I've had, uh, I've had a little of the dom, uh, the dom appearing on and you're

right.

Nothing exciting there.

It's just, it's like champagne.

Yeah, it's fine.

Yeah.

But I'd rather have it as a mimosa.

Cool.

Have you ever had one with grapefruit juice instead of orange juice?

Anyway.

Uh, coconut water, uh, quote, it tastes like water that's been, you know, like a sat next

to a coconut for a while, that's exactly what it tastes like.

It's fine.

It's shocking.

It tastes like it.

Because that's what it, it is.

It's coconut water.

What were they expecting?

That's what I'm curious about.

It was inside of a coconut.

Yeah.

What else is it going to taste like?

Okay.

And Starbucks pumpkin spice latte.

Oh, okay.

It was so disappointing overpriced sugar and mid coffee.

Mid coffee.

Have you ever, have you ever been to a Starbucks?

And I'm not even trying to insult Starbucks, but honestly, all their drinks are like that.

Yeah.

I, I, I, so many people like it.

That's, that's exactly what it is.

There it is.

It's mid because there's a lot of big, as many people as you can get in there, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of different tastes and stuff.

I'm telling you.

I guess.

And it's working.

I'm not going to, you know, they're just models pretty good.

Visit your local coffee shops.

They, uh, they, yes.

We, they just shut down tones of start like their biggest drawback ever and everything,

but you're right, though, it is still working.

Where's this coffee from?

Is it position coffee house?

Yeah.

That we have here.

It's from mission.

Shout out mission.

Shout out to them.

Yeah.

And a shout out to all of you hanging out.

We got one more segment left for this Monday edition of The Morning Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR.

Laura Seth in James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us, got our schedule to get into some local events

going on in our area and some other fun stuff to touch on as we take you to the top of

the hour.

Lead you leading the way.

Great civic media programming throughout the rest of your day.

Uh, quick programming note tomorrow.

Laura and I are going to be hanging out bringing you your morning show serious comedy

to start your day.

Yeah.

We're going to be joined by, uh, Autumn Ricky, uh, she is a marketing manager with pinnacle

marketing group.

A new heart of Wisconsin chamber member.

Nice.

She's going to join us on the air a little bit.

Tell us a little bit about pinnacle marketing and stuff.

As a chamber member, keep that in mind.

All of you people out there on the fence as far as joining our Wisconsin rapids chamber.

You get to hang out with us for a good 10 minutes or so on the air.

Yeah.

You should join us for that.

We're nice.

Got it.

Cool.

Sometimes.

Got it.

Except for Laura.

She's got.

All I'm a delight.

We.

We have got a great rapids report lined up for you.

That Laura and I are working hard on for, uh, in part one or our main episode today.

We're going to be talking with our good friends from the Wisconsin rapids and

Arabian church in grace and we have their community book sale happening with the Arabian

and Arabian church.

Yeah.

It's almost here.

Everyone.

Almost here.

Beth and Alex are going to join us.

Always, uh, I always like talking to Beth.

I enjoy that.

So that's going to be a lot of fun.

Looking forward to it.

Going to be a good one.