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It's the Dell versus the Bell.
This is a hot dog is a sandwich.
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.
Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show where we break down the world's biggest food debates.I'm your host, Josh Ayer.
And I'm your host, Nicole Linaite.
She's the bell and I'm the down.Today, we're sk-sk-sk-skorching your world with the hottest political takes from the Libertarian Party.Nicole, hit them with it.
No government in my tacos, please.
Don't tread on my quesadilla.
That's right.Shred us.More like give people autonomy?
Something like that.Do you remember Gary Johnson, libertarian political candidate?No.His whole thing, I think this was 2016, his whole thing was just like, guys, we should really make pot legal.
And then somebody during a debate or a town hall thing was like, but what about the rise in cardiac arrests for marijuana or something?And then he pretends to have a heart attack on stage and falls to the ground and then gets up. Funny.
You know, I don't generally agree with libertarian politics, but I thought Gary Johnson's fake heart attack was funny.
What about Howard Dean's, yeah.
Yeah.If you really look at, I mean, he ran an incredible grassroots campaign.Anyways, today we are talking about Taco Bell versus Del Taco.
Can we put our laptops away for this?
Put our laptops away, put our laptops away.
Josh, I think we should be honest with our lovely viewers.We did shoot another podcast earlier today where we ate Jollibee and now we're gonna eat Del Taco and Taco Bell. And I'm so full, I just burped up pancit parabok.
But because I care about this podcast and about giving the people what they want, nay, what they deserve, I'm gonna suffer and eat like a mountain of fast food.
You know, a lot of people say the hardest job is being a mother.We know that's not true.The hardest job is being a podcast host where you have to eat silly little things. So difficult.No, I feel like I am uncomfortably full right now.
I did just go walk for an hour.We have to do this.
We'll nibble and nosh.We'll nibble and nosh.
I'm nibble.And I'm nibble.And we're bringing you the best far-right Jewish news from...
What are they talking about on that side, huh?
Somehow, the only political commentators on AM radio are just so far to the right.
I don't listen to the radio.
Me neither.The only time I do is when I'm in an Uber, and it's like 5.30 AM, you're Ubering to the airport, and there's just some upsetting things still on AM radio.
I ask them to put on music or just turn it off.
Okay, Del Taco versus Taco Bell.
I need my laptop for this.
Some people might not know what Del Taco is.Del Taco is, as far as like this era of fast food Mexican, it's the second biggest chain in America.Behind Taco Bell?Behind Taco Bell.Taco Bell, and it's far behind Taco Bell.
But for us, it's very special and very regional.If y'all haven't heard of Del Taco, it is, I grew up on it.They used to have, you know, three for a dollar Taco Tuesdays.They'd have 59 cent soft chicken Taco Tuesdays.
They capitalized on Taco Tuesdays. Uh, yeah a long time ago didn't talk about like a small campaign doing competition.
I'm sure they did listen everyone everyone loves an alliteration Um, but there's about 600 del taco locations.There's like 400 taco johns 300 taco times, right?
Um, but taco bell really is The king of this world del taco is making a huge expansion push The irony is they were founded within 100 miles of each other and within like two years of each other interesting back in the day taco bell Right was in god was taco bell downy
I think that was in Downey in 1962 and then Del Taco was out in a city called like Yermo outside of Barstow.
Oh, I think I see the signs for Yermo when I go to Vegas.
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.So that was out in the desert and Del Taco has been slowly expanding since.They have since opened, they're starting to get to the East Coast.They've opened like Pittsburgh.They got a location in Guam now.
So Del Taco could be coming to your neighborhood soon.And so you might be interested in this.
Nice.Should I tell you what I ordered from each place?
Okay, so we're gonna start with the Del Taco menu.
We got their new Trejo's tacos roasted pork al pastor epic burrito because I know you're all about trying the newfangled thing and absolutely am and Then we also got their beer battered crispy fish taco made with stone trademark when when a Buena Vista salt and lime lager dude, that is one of my favorite beers of all time the Buena Vista salt and lime Yeah, perfect.
It's like a gelada but in a can not like a meat not a meat gelada gelada gelada, so there's
Micheladas, cubanas, and geladas in different regions use them interchangeably, but I would call like a michelada something with either like a tomato or hot sauce or spice base, and then gelada is just salt and lime.
Yeah, yeah.Sometimes I throw a little Maggi in there.And then we got the del taco crunchy.We've got a chicken taco del carbón.We got something called a bun taco.Have you heard of the bun taco at del taco?
Okay, literally, I saw it and I'm like, click, like, instant click.It's taco meat in a... It's literally sloppy joe.It's taco meat inside of a burger bun.
Oh, well, that's... Okay, so Taco Bell used to have that.They called it the Bell Beefer.
Bell Beefer, yes, but they have this.It's called the Bun Taco.
Interesting, because Del Taco, one of the big differentiating factors is they have cheeseburgers and fries.
And they have pork and shellfish and fish, which I think is so interesting.
My theory is that Del Taco has been trying to scrape the ends of the bell curve, because they've got to be Taco Bell somehow.Taco Bell is such a stranglehold.Marketing, decades of consumer confidence.Del Taco has gone the cheapest.
They've made their original Del Tacos cheaper than Taco Bell. and then they are going for the more premium items.So I've had like a steak and shrimp burrito from Del Taco that probably cost like eight bucks and it was just delicious.
So now they're partnering with Danny Trejo who, Godspeed, I think he filed for bankruptcy.Anywho, Danny Trejo founded Trejo's Tacos in Los Angeles.They're making al pastor.
Crazy stuff, dude.Crazy stuff.We also have the crunchtada tostada as well as the chicken cheddar quesadilla. So this is our Del Taco menu.
Do you want to dig into that or do you want to know what we got from Taco Bell?
Let's dig into Taco Bell.Let's see where we can find some differences.
Okay.With the Taco Bell, so I got their crunchy taco, of course.I got their nachos, cheese, Doritos Locos tacos because why not?
I got their burrito supreme.
Mexican pizza.My mouth is watering. The chicken quesadilla cheesy gordita crunch and because again, I know you love high-ticket cool like awesome items I got you a crunch wrap supreme, but the big cheese it inside.
Oh my god.I haven't had that yet.
But that shows like where they're kind of going, right?Like Taco Bell, the big time, cheese it, big ol' new thing.And then Del Taco's like, hey, we got like a, like a, like a real Mexican actor that people know who has a restaurant.
I'll say this, I'll say this, Taco Bell leaning into the cheese quite hard.
They're all about the cheese.They're all about the queso.
Cheesy street chalupa, they have the queso lupa, which is Spanish for cheese chalupa.
There's so much cheese in Taco Bell's menu, but I think Del Taco really focuses on proteins and like having cool, different, awesome proteins.I've never actually had Del Taco before.What the fudge?I've had Del Taco once.
I've had it once before, and I think I just had a tacos al carbón once. Why are you looking at me like that?
Because that's incredible.I do remember the Tacos del Carbón era when they came out with those because they were like, hey, we can make real tacos, too.And I remember them being good.Where should we start?
I don't know.But also the Burrito Supreme has steak in it.I decided to go with steak.Yeah, we got it.
We got to differentiate our portfolios.
This was, okay, so the Del Scorcho.This is the OG, like, hottest restaurant sauce.This is hotter than the fire sauce, but then Taco Bell came out with Diablo.
Oh, well, they look the same.
I never tested them together.I shall be exclusively using Del Scorcho, me thinks.Me thinks, my lady.Tips the fedora.
I also think I got, I tried to get mild and hot, but they didn't put it in my order, but we do have the avocado salsa.
I think the hot, Taco Bell a lot of people say it's their favorite to me.There's a weird spicing.I like the fire fire sauce Oh, it's my favorite nice and tomato.We were worried.
Let's start with t-bell.Oh, well, okay crunchy taco crunchy taco.Mmm, let's okay sure
Okay, so it used to actually be called Casa Del Taco, which makes a lot more sense.Really?And then they dropped that name, I think, in the early 70s.Also, there was a schism and Naugles.You've heard of Naugles tacos?
Never in my life of being alive.
They were like a small chain.I think they shut down, but they're on their way back.But they split off of Del Taco back in the day.
Do we eat the same thing together?
No, I think we should take, I'll take a bite of this and give it to you, or you take a bite of that and give it to me.
You can have first bite of everything, because I'm grosser.
That's not true, you're not gross.
To me, in my mind, I would think that Taco Bell's crunchy taco is considerably better because I think the meat is spiced better, but I haven't ever tasted them side by side like this.
It tastes pretty good.I will say it looks like the cheese has melted on the Del Taco one significantly more.
The Del Taco taco, it's a lot bigger.
It is a lot bigger and it's a lot softer. Like the corn, like the corn is a softer corn.Wow, I'm so sorry.Taco Bell wins this one by a landslide.
There's too much cumin in the Del Taco one.
Del Taco meat, it's not seasoned as well.I mean, this is bordering on a Jack in the Box taco, right?
Like the meat feels like it has more filler.And I know Taco Bell has gotten in trouble.
Only 88% beef, whatever.Del Taco's probably running like 79 to 81%. This is no contest.
Yeah, but but but I know this is where they make their money I was arguing with somebody was probably you About I would have thought that Taco Bell's highest-selling item is like a crunch wrap or something.What is it by far?
It's a crunchy taco Uh-huh crunchy taco soft taco bean burrito are the top three sellers Wow And then everything else is just a marketing ploy nice to get people to buy more crunchy tacos, right?
People are buying sacks of 20 crunchy tacos for football games.Mm-hmm.I don't have the other stuff so Taco Bell, to me, that crunchy taco, it's the standard bearer.It's like a 9.5 out of 10.
Can I have an El Scorcho?I am using it as a palate cleanser.
Yeah, yeah.Let's sip the El Scorcho, see where it ranks compared to Fire.I haven't had this in a long time.
I'm doing it by Diablo, is that not fair?Should it not be Diablo, should it be Fire?
Del Scorcho's good.Well, Diablo's a new one.
Okay, fine, I'll take that.
I mean, new-ish, it's probably, what, like six, seven years old, but.Diablo has a very unique point of view.
More acid, more spice in the Del Scorcho.
Yeah, Diablo has less sugar.
I love that these just all start with water and tomato paste.They're both good, though.They're both delicious.
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I dream of learning Spanish.
Because here's the thing.I love Mexican food.Anytime we cook in the Mythical Kitchen, all I want to make is Mexican food.All I want to eat is Mexican food.
I have spent almost my entire life in Southern California, and I've learned a fair bit of Spanish.You know, I can get by in restaurants. But I feel like it's a culture that I appreciate so much.I really want to travel all throughout Mexico.
And the fact that I don't speak it, I think, is weird.And I think I could only appreciate the culture and food a lot more if I was actually fluent.And by golly, I'm going to do it.
That's great, Josh.I really think you have the ability to do whatever you set your mind to.And if that's learning Spanish, I think you can do it.
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Do you know what the price difference was on this?
You versus the guy.He tells you not, she tells you not to worry about.
Oh God.This is the size of a Chipotle burrito.And honestly, when you open it, it looks like the quality of a legit sit down Mexican restaurant.
Dude, what?It's excellent.
I can't cross pollinate sauces.
Let me uh, let me look at the price difference between the two.So it looks like the burrito supreme is $5.39 and then the trail taco is $7.99, but to be fair It's more than 30% bigger.Yeah.
Also, I feel like from what I can see it's not a lot of squirties going on You know what I mean?Like they're not squirting stuff in there.They're they're thwapping stuff on there.
Dude, this is hefty and thick.
Oh my god.Look at that.That looks like a chipotle burrito.
I'm telling you like Taco Bell is blessed and cursed in a certain way mm-hmm that Taco Bell can never taste like anything, but Taco Bell well Maybe I renege that though because their new cantina menu mm-hmm.It's something.
It's really interesting for the first time They're putting like purple cabbage in there.You know like the avocado sauce that they have would you grab me one of those mm-hmm? Because the new avocado salsa, this is really good.
Shelf stable, salsa aguacate.It's kind of like salsa verde with a little bit of avocado blended in, but it's really, really delightful.They used to have a proper salsa verde and a chipotle salsa.Do you remember the chipotle salsa?
No, but I remember the verde.I remember I dressed up as a verde one day.
Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right.Give me this.Yeah, Taco Bell burritos are always like a soup dumpling.
I don't love Taco Bell.I don't go to Taco Bell for the burritos.
I like to get a Taco Bell burrito and Maggie I'm so sorry do not edit this out Nicole say something of value so she can't edit because what you do is you push it to the top.
Dollars!Cents!Quarters!Coins!Paper money!
You can't slurp a Del Taco burrito.
But maybe that's a but that's a point to it no?
That's a hallmark of Taco Bell.Everything stupefies itself.
But I don't like the idea of slurping up my
You're gonna get stupefied!Hurrah!That was my David Draymond of disturbed impression song, Stupefied.
If you have to explain it.
I know.Burritos, where are you going?Even though it's 30% more expensive.
Okay, well also I'm biased because I don't like rice in my burritos, but I think the protein tastes so much better in the Del Taco one.So I'm gonna go Del Taco.Even though Taco Bell, I don't love, I don't, I don't know.
Taco Bell's good, but the Del Taco tastes better.It tastes like a real cantina situation.
I have not seen food this.
Legit, coming out of a fast food restaurant in a long time, right?
Like, this feels incredible.I wish you could see this pork.If you're on YouTube, you can a little bit, but it doesn't do it justice.Like, this looks like it came from a taqueria, because it did.
Which is crazy, which is crazy.
Yeah, they did a good job.
You know, it's almost like a little too heavily seasoned. in a way, but damn.
I think it's pleasant.No, it's like pleasant.And the size that you get for $8, that's pretty money.
And if you're trying to paint the corners of that bell curve, dude, Del Taco, you're doing it, man.
Okay, let's see.We got Mexican.
That's a winner, Del Taco.
We got Mexican pizza versus what is this?Crunchtada?Is that what they call it?
Oh no.How can Del Taco, this again proves my theory, but how can you go from this beautiful burrito al pastor to the Crunchtada Tostada.I know this is their value menu item, right?
So it's a tough fight between that, because Taco Bell, I think they got rid of their Tostada.
They have a Cheez-It Tostada right now.
A Cheez-It Tostada, yeah.
Incredible.But this does look a little bit sad.It's just beans, cheese, lettuce on a tortilla.
It's not good for delivery.This is not a delivery product.
No, no, no.But also like the tortillas at Del Taco seem to be markedly worse, I'd say.
Yeah, they do fall apart much quicker.
They're a lot softer.They're not as sturdy.
No, they're not as sturdy.
When you're slopping a bunch of liquid beans on it.
It does taste really good though.
It tastes great.I wonder bean for bean who wins.
That tastes really good.I actually really, I prefer the freshness of this to the insane duskiness from the red sauce from the Mexican pizza.
The red sauce, I've never been the biggest Mexican pizza guy.I think people think I would have.
You're more of a corn trap guy.
I'm more of a Gruntrap guy.You need the vegetables.Except for there's white watery tomatoes on there.This like bean lettuce cheese, this is like something that I grew up eating at my friend's house growing up.
When we'd be playing like Dave Mira freestyle at his place when I was like nine years old, his dad would make almost this exact same tofsada for us as a snack.Like with the iceberg lettuce.
This is a dude, I don't know if you remember me telling the story where I was like, Hey, why do you use lettuce instead of cabbage?And he goes, because I'm not poor.And he kind of like exploded at me a little bit.Aw.Well, he served some prison time.
So like, you know, I don't think he had his emotions fully in check.But also, that was when I learned that like, oh, cabbage, according to him, is for poor people and lettuce is for rich people.Who knew?Lettuce does spoil faster.Makes sense.
That's very good.I haven't had a Mexican pizza in a minute.Give this a whack.
I'm going to tell you something.It's not very good.I'm sorry. Mexican pizza slander, starting with me.Didn't they try to remove this and people had like an aneurysm or something?
Was it like Ice Spice or someone?Someone brought it back.
Dude, who was it?Maggie, you look... No, Cardi, was it Cardi?Was it Cardi B?
Ice Spice brought back the Mexican pizza.
It was Doja Cat.Oh, no.Well, have the people forgiven Doja Cat?
Hair grow long like Chia.Money grow long like Nia.
I hope you know I'm using all these sauces as a palate cleanser because I need it.
As you should.If we pick the crunch Tata toast.
Does it make me a worse person?
I think it's it's a bit of an injustice, but I think we have to if I'm being honest.I significantly enjoyed that more than Mexican pizza.
Me too.Me too.Josh, we're here to be honest.The people crave honesty now, you know, they've been they're being they're being manufactured false information, fake news.It's up to us to be honest.
We're the real truth-tellers here.
Cause I'm the Dels!Cause cause cause scorching your brains with the fieriest green party takes!
Josh, take out the... The... Jill Stein woulda won!Take out the... the quesadilla.
What's she up to, man?What's Jill Stein doing these days?
Marianne Williamson, I'm telling you, listen, I don't... Don't Google it! Taco, again, in my mind, Taco Bell's quesadillas are like the greatest thing in the world and they made the innovation of putting mayonnaise in them.Which is incredible.
Wait, look at me, I'm rich.I feel like Nicocado Avocado.
Oh God, Nicocado Avocado who duped us all into thinking he was killing himself and then it turns out he just Was and then he wasn't.I don't understand, man.I don't know what's going on with YouTube anymore.It freaks me out.
He's exactly the same to me.
Delta Taco Bell did revamp their grilled chicken a minute ago I think I think they're doing better work These two I used to work in a catering company that would use it shared a commissary kitchen with Taco Bell So they would use their I would take home like 10-pound sacks of Taco Bell's pre-cooked grilled chicken and eat them for my own meal Yeah, and it's it's got a taste to it.
This is a previous formula It had such a unique taste to it that I got so sick of after a while.
Taco Bell, the mayonnaise with the hot sauce in it, that's really all it is, their creamy jalapeno sauce.I think it's excellent.
After a while, it just melts all together and all tastes the same.
But I think it turns it into like a self-saucing cheese, you know?
You know what I mean?Where's Del Taco?Do we have any sauce in here?
I will say Del Taco's chicken has always been one of my favorites because it is a whole chicken thigh part.It's just marinated and enzyme to hell.You know what I mean?Like there's a chemical tenderizer in it.
I can't taste the difference, Josh.
Can you taste the difference?
Del Taco's grilled chicken is miles, miles better.Try the chicken out of it.
Who's chicken?I'm sorry.I feel like I'm drunk.This one's better?
Try the Del Taco grilled chicken versus the Taco Bell.
Okay, but I'm not picking out, but I'm not eating it like this.I'm not picking it out like this.
I know, but I think if you're split even on which one is better, shade towards the one with the best grilled chicken.
Del Taco, their protein game is miles ahead of Taco Bell.
Well, Taco Bell clears on beef.
And I think that's where most people are going, but chicken quesadilla for chicken quesadilla, this to me is a bit of an upset.I am shocked at how good the Del Taco quesadilla is.
They don't use the three cheese blend, they're just using cheddar, which is probably the best of the three cheeses in there, so might as well use it all.But the grilled chicken's incredible.
Was Del Taco winning, Maggie?It's three to one, Del Taco.Holy cannoli!
What do you want to eat now?I'm full.
We have a, oh, we have to try the Crow Trap with the cheese inside.I don't know what to compare it to, the... This podcast has been brought to you by Half Flat Fresca.
I've seen Josh's Half Flat Fresca mug.
I'm so sorry.Okay, which one are we eating that against?
This, the... Should I cut this in half?
Now we're getting into some specialty items here.
You're probably bitten and bitten.
The Del Beefer over here is.
Oh no, it looks like a sloppy Joe from hell.
Yeah, this looks like a school sloppy joe.Not one of them nice charter schools either.You know, this looks like public school sloppy joe.This one's tough.This is tough.Their beef, as we've discussed, it's already not the best.
It's really bad.That bun is sacrilegious.I thought I didn't care about buns.I do.I care about a good bun.You don't care about a bun until you eat a really bad bun.You know what I mean?
The best bun should go unnoticed.
What the best buns should go unnoticed almost yeah, you know you're so right that is really bad.You notice this bun I notice it, and it's not in a good way.
I it's it's horrible They've also burned it is a whole wheat is that a whole we know look how lily white that is But the outside is so dark brown.
They've somehow I can't tell at which stage of the cook it was burnt Oh my god.It's really bad, but it has been burnt.I don't know why they would be toasting in the store.
Especially the top.It's accurate, it's chewy, it's thick.
I gotta have some fire sauce as a palate cleanser.
Huge bummer.Ruined my day.Maybe even my week is gone.Yeah, pretty bad.
Let's try this cheese it.Okay, we've made the cardinal sin.Listen, this is a production.Letting a Crunchwrap sit, and now it's just a wrap.But this is a thick piece of... Toasty cheese?Oh man.
I can't wait to have your tails of it.
It's interesting because the flavor of a Cheez-It is really like oxidized cheese, right?Can you hand me a fire sauce?
Oh, sure.Here, you can just have the one I had in my mouth all over.
I like to put, no, no, I need like a whole packet of fire sauce per bite.
How much fire sauce do you put on your Taco Bell?
I literally hold one like this and I eat and I suck and I eat and I suck.
Oh, you never put it on the Taco Bell, you only suck.
No, can you give me the Del Taco one, even though I know I'm not supposed to, please?Yes.
I haven't even had the, which one's this?
I'm having a lot of fun here.
This is really, this is, I'm not having fun anymore.
Josh, I feel like I'm a- You've made a Faustian bargain.
I feel like I'm a concubine being fed.Because the person who owns the harem likes fat girls.
Yeah, like them guinea pigs in Ecuador.They're fat.They go, queet, queet, queet, queet, queet.
And you know who's the owner of the harem, the harem?The algorithm.
Yeah, the concubine harem algorithm, it really does sort of fit, if you take the metaphor to its logical end.
I already ate the Crunchwrap with the big cheese in it.It tastes worse than a normal Crunchwrap.
But it tastes better than that abomination of a sloppy joe.
There's a heavily toasted, oxidized, big cheese flavor.
No, I think it steps on the nacho cheese.I don't think it's as good.It's significantly better than the Del Beef.
Yeah, we're gonna give this one to Taco Bell.And Peppa, do me a favor.Let's just eat one more thing.Let's eat the fish taco, and then be done with it, please.
Oh, it's that's the... Well, fish tacos got the driest limes you've ever seen.I've eaten plenty of fish tacos from Del Taco.They're pretty good.They're pretty good.
Now we can either put this up against the cheesy gordita crunch or the Doritos Locos taco.I think it should be against the Doritos Locos taco because it's branded.Did you hear what I said?
Did you hear what I said?I feel like I'm high, but I'm not.This is what kids used to do.They used to like smoke a bunch of weed and then like go to Del Taco.
Yes.I'll tell you what we did.You would go to Del Taco with basically like as much money as you had in your pocket in high school.And you would kind of just hand it to the cashier and go like, what can I get with this?
Like, that was kind of the relationship.
You know, then you'd like go down to San Clemente, T Street.
Can you put some lime on that, please?
You know, you'd start, you know, you'd be like skimboarding all day.
Oh, we talk about skimboarding again.
Do a little bonfire at night.Someone start like throwing cans of spray paint in the fire.I was like, I wonder what that does, you know.
That was a gusher, baby.That was like eating a fish gusher.
It's not like getting a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald's.That's a pretty good piece of fish.Pretty well fried.Cabbage, pico.You taste cilantro, which is a unique thing that you don't often taste from Taco Bell.
That's really delicious.What do you want?
Cheesy Gordita Crunch or Doritos Locos Taco?
This is my favorite menu item.
And I think that's where Taco Bell really shines.In a place where Del Taco hasn't really tried to compete.In the wacky, tabacky.
Look how white the lettuce is.It's quite white.
I like the white parts of the iceberg.That's like the creamiest, nuttiest part.You know what I mean?Why are you laughing at creamy and nutty?
What is the silliest part?We just speed ran the entire menu.Dude, I was supposed to cook a nice dinner tonight.
Meggy's asking me what this was.What?
Where?Anything you say to her, you can say to me.
I was asking what CGC stands for.
I kind of like Del Taco more.
What did we learn about this?
I learned that me and you can't eat like this anymore.
I'm too old for this, man.I'm gonna go home, eat a protein shake for dinner.
Honestly, I will say Del Taco actually had an incredible showing.And I'm quite impressed with... No, you don't need to eat that just because it's there.
What's the, there's like an Einstein quote that's like if you judge a dolphin on its ability to fly.
Yeah, you know what I mean?But it's like you should be judging a dolphin on its ability to sexually harass researchers in the 1960s who were doing a bunch of acid.I don't think he said that.Because dolphins are great at that.
I don't think he said that.But no, you should, you know, judge them on their core competencies.I think Taco Bell's beef slop is one of the best items to ever come out of any fast food.And you put that in a Crunchwrap Supreme, it's great.
You put that in a hard taco, it's great.Cheesy gordita crunch, that's great.I think everywhere else Taco Bell is starting to fall short.I think they're coming up on it on the cantina menu and they're finding their stride.
Very strong cantina menu, which we didn't taste today.But if you have it at your local Taco Bell, you should eat it.
But beef slop and liquid cheese is where Taco Bell really shines, and their inventiveness.Right.Del Taco, really good job with premium proteins.
I don't know, man.This fish taco tasted like a straight out of a regular... It tastes like a Wahoo's.It was really good.The quality of the corn tortilla that they use also, I'm quite pleasantly surprised.I thought it was really, really delicious.
I thought that their al pastor was great. I don't know, man, I don't know if I'm gonna give it to Del Taco, but maybe I am.What are we doing?What are we doing, Josh?I wanna agree with you on this one.
They're honestly so different.Like you said, this grilled chicken taco, it looks like it's from an actual taqueria, right?
You know?I think they can live in tandem.I don't think we need to crown a winner here.
What if they come out with pitchforks saying like, pick a winner, pick a winner!
Okay, one, two, three, Taco Bell.Like, I don't know.They have 8,000 locations, Del Taco has 600.They're doing something right.You know, what are you gonna do? Okay, now record an alt in case anyone's suspicious.Del Taco, duh.
The food is so much better.
Yeah, the little man won.
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Well, now that we can physically feel the inflammation rising through our entire bodies, my face is puffier than it was before we did all that.
Is mine puffier than before?
Yeah, but it's cool because we're right next to each other, so people are just gonna think they messed up something in the lenses.Okay, good.Why are we using these fisheye lenses that look all puffy?
Do I have anything in my teeth?
No, it's the beef slop.No, do I?I could feel it.When I smiled, I felt it.
Oh my God, it's a big black dot.Just a huge, oh, it's like lodged.
What is it?In the middle?
No, it's on the edge right here.
Yeah, what are you gonna do?It's gonna stay there.I don't think there were any black beans.It's black bean skin, that'll getcha.I think I have a flosser.Hold on, Nicole, tell me what the segment is.
Robot Maggie O. And now it's time for a new segment where Josh and I put our food trivia knowledge to the test.It's time for our very own trivia segment called Yummy In My Tummy Got Some Trivia For You.
Robot Maggie has three questions prepared Josh you and I will wait until the question is Completed and then we will answer if wrong the other person will get one chance to guess and earn the point Let's hear the first question buddy.
What are you looking for?
Floss pick I normally have one of my wallet Do you want to do you want to do you mind?
Which spice is derived from the crocus flower and is one of the most expensive spices in the world?We both know it.One, two, three.Saffron.The correct answer is saffron. Okay, next one, Robot Maggie.Which fruit is known as the King of Fruits?
The correct answer is durian.
Maggie, you're gonna have to give us some toughies, boo.
No, but I kinda like this.
Robot Maggie.No, I wanna win.
Okay, let's see if the last one divides us.
Where does German chocolate cake actually come from?
I know.United States of America?
It's American.I just, I don't know exactly where.
Yeah, where or what state or city?I have a guess.Okay, go ahead.I'll let you take this one.
I'm gonna guess Minnesota.
I'm going to guess Philadelphia.
The correct answer is Dallas, Texas.No way!Interesting.
I knew it was America.And Philly was a great guess because like Germantown is a thing.But I thought for some reason Minnesota, big cake baking church pot.It sounds like a church pot like dish.I didn't know it was from Dallas.
I feel like I've heard that before.But also there's like coconut in German chocolate cake.It doesn't make sense that it would be German.
Did we both win or did we both lose?
Do we have any other tiebreakers?
None?Megan, just ask us a question about food.
What's your favorite food?Oh, I got it.Cheeseburgers.I know it.Nicole wins.Okay.
All right, Nicole.And robot neighbor.You know what I'm saying?It's time to find out what we're working in right now in that room in the new room.It's time for a session we call opinions are like casseroles.Everyone got one and it's never a conundrum.
All right, Nicole.Let's listen to that first opinion out there.A lot of people out there got a lot of opinion, you know.
Hi guys, you are my son's favorite podcast and so he and I listened to your podcast when we're on road trips together and I thought it would be so fun if he was listening to an episode and he heard me
So this is Laura from Maryland and my food take is that ganache is better than hot fudge.
So instead of having that gross corn syrupy, too sugary hot fudge on your ice cream, you just melt some dark chocolate with some heavy cream and you get it into a nice chocolate sauce and then you just plop it on your ice cream and it is way better.
Laura, Laura from Maryland and son, this is a very good opinion.
I don't, I didn't understand what the other thing was other than fudge.
Effectively, why use hot fudge on ice cream when ganache is kind of just like.
Oh, she said ganache.Ganache.Oh, so much better.
Okay, so hot fudge, I was trying to think what the real differences are.Corn syrup.Yeah, it's kind of just corn syrup.
Corn syrup's what gives hot fudge that runniness, because corn syrup as it gets colder is going to get less sort of flowy and then it gets hotter, but that's also just what the chocolate and the heavy cream do in ganache.
Yeah, the heavy cream allows it to flow.
And then the interesting thing with ganache is then you're getting like real chocolate flavor.I had, what did I have recently that had such an aggressive chocolate extract flavor?So if you eat like a Tootsie Roll, for instance.
That's chocolate extract.
That's chocolate extract.That's what I always associate that like, you know, kind of chemically hot fudge flavor with.I also happen to love it, dude.
I probably had like an eight year gap in my life where I didn't have hot fudge on ice cream.
Uh-huh.You were just meltdown tootsie rolls?
No, I just it just never came up.I just ate a lot of ice cream I just you know, I never really got a fudge and then I had it for the first time in a long time I was like, oh that's that is a nice thing to have.
Why doesn't tootsie roll invent like a like a hot fudge?
Why would they?Tootsie Roll's been, you know, operating.They, I imagine, make 99.7% of their profits during Halloween, and nobody actually eats them, but they do get consumed and thrown in the trash.
When you were a kid and you had Halloween candy, did you always, like, eat?
But you'd eat all of it, and then the last things remaining would be lollipops and Tootsie Rolls.I wouldn't eat all of it. You didn't eat all of your Halloween candy?What happened to it?
Almond mom!I was an almond joy dad who said give me all your almond joys and then you can just binge eat the rest of your candy.
That's nice.No, she would give me some but mostly it would be like the nerds and like some Snickers and then like but no Fun Dips.Fun Dips were automatically out.Raisins.She would let me eat the raisins.
You know houses that would give raisins and apples?
That's another thing as you get older, you start to really see the merit in houses giving raisins.
Yeah, yeah.I'm down with houses that give raisins.I know people might not agree with that.But regardless, ganache better than hot fudge, I agree.
Laura, you are great.Laura's son.And I'm sure your son is great.You have a great mom.And she's making ganache, putting it in your ice cream.
When I get older, I used to want to be the house that gave king-sized candy bars.Now, check this out. I'm going to dry my own fruits.I'm going to package them.I'm going to give them out.It's going to cause a whole hubbub in the HOA.
No, no, no, don't do that.
They're going to get mad.They're going to go, this person's creepy as hell.I'm not letting my kid eat that.
You need to only give closed packaged candies to the kids.
Check this out.Yeah, check this out.I'm gonna drive my own raisins on the vine You're not ready for parenthood dry my own raisins on the vine.
You're not ready for parenthood And then I'm gonna put them in cute little gift bags and then a five-year-old at Nicole's house.
Everybody come to Nicole's house.
I'm gonna go Nicole's house had full-size Twix Twix bars.Why don't why don't you have them mister?
I'm gonna go so these are actually These are actually Catalonian sultanas that I've rubbed out rosemary oil.
Are we gonna live in the same neighborhood?
Yeah Sounds like fun.The house is right next door to each other actually.We're gonna have a zipline in between them It's just me and David hanging out playing Cod.
The kids could play between our houses.That would actually be so fun.
Mine are probably going to be heftier than yours though.
No, mine will be.Have you seen David's baby pictures?Have you seen my baby pictures?
Oh, David was a baby.Yeah, you guys got some.Yeah, we all got some heft to us.
Nice Samoan looking babies.
You should be so lucky.Have a little football playing baby.
That was gross.Oh, okay.So, I just wanted to point something out when it comes to McDonald's, by the way.So, the McFlurry straw.Or, it should have been a straw.That spoon that they use to mix the McFlurry?It should have been a straw.
Why aren't we talking about this?My dog left because we don't want to talk about this anymore. So can we talk about this?
Bye, guys.I got it.I got it.No, no, no.What do you mean?The chunks don't go through the frickin' straw.
There's no straw.The McFlurry spoon is not a straw.
There's an opening that makes you look like you should wrap your mouth around it and suck.
Yeah, but you have to be smart enough to know that that's to go into the machine.What are you talking about?He is.He is.
No, he recognized that.He recognized that.
I'm saying if it looked like a straw and it's sitting in something that kind of look like a milkshake I should be able to suck it.
Okay, but you know that a McFlurry should be able to suck it McFlurries have those big little chunkies in there.They can't go through a straw.
Well, yeah, but I think you would also maybe Maybe he would argue that the chunkies should be smaller This is before Boba took over a nation, you know with the big straws and the tapioca.This is before that
That's the thing.I first had Boba 2004, right?About 12 years old.
I had it in Westwood.I had it in Westwood.What year?What year?I don't know, but it was at that Boba place next to UCLA.You know, the Boba Loca?
Yeah, Boba Loca's been open that long?
We had never seen straws that big.That was the main thing.The tapioca pearls and the drinks and the ceiling technology, that was all very new.But more than anything, big ass straws.Never seen anything like that.
What we had were the promise, or at least the temptation, of a McFlurry big ass straw.But you're right.They got a Rolo McFlurry.You're gonna suck half chunks of Rolos through that?No.
No, it's gonna get lodged in your throat.They were probably thinking about the lawsuits.They were thinking about the lawsuits.
Yeah, what this man wants is called a milkshake.
Go get a milkshake, baby.Also, don't call me gross.I'm not that gross.I did eat like 4,000 calories worth of Taco Bell and Del Taco.That was gross.But as a whole, I am not gross.I shower often.I honestly smell so good right now.What am I wearing?
Coco Mademoiselle?I'm wearing Coco Mademoiselle.I have fantastic deodorant on.I'm not gross.I'm beautiful.
I will say McDonald's standard straw is the thickest straw and maybe the sturdiest, so I think it is the best for milkshakes, but I'm curious, and please write us back, if they think that Boba straws, I don't care about your thoughts, should be the standard milkshake straw.
Have we gotten to a point where we think straws should be so thick and round and voluptuous that that should be in every milkshake?
Listen, does McDonald's have milkshakes?Yes.Yeah.And then the McFlurry is something else.It's an ice cream base mixed with a candy.It's their blizzard.Yeah.OK.So what?What's the big deal?
Well, that's what I'm saying.I think what he wants is a milkshake.
OK.So get a milkshake.And then have some cookies on the side.A munch on the cookie.I don't know.
Well, I think he wants a milkshake in a thicker straw.
Okay, well then he needs to get a thicker straw.I know, but I- You know what he should do?He should buy his own straw.
Should he have to provide that?
Yes, he should provide his own straw.
I'll tell you what I do.So there's a yoga-themed frozen yogurt restaurant.Yoga-urt?I love yoga-urt.
Oh my god, I know yoga-urt.Never been, but I know all about it.
Driven past it for probably 12 years.
Well, there's one on and on maybe Wilshire in in like what Santa Monica area I'd driven past it probably 12 years and almost thought who would go to a yoga themed vegan frozen yogurt shop And then one day Julie and I go, you know what?
We've lived in LA long enough not gone into yoga earth and we did and it's just like lovely.It's quirky It's weird.They got like books and board games and I I love their little it's just like blended cashews and dates, you know, like yeah, whatever.
This is good And uh, the problem is though they have the biodegradable wood spoons that make me feel physically.I love wood spoons It makes my tongue physically recoil in my mouth the thought I have textural sensitivity issues.
So does my husband.He can't hold a certain paper bags I have to hold them for him.Sorry, baby.I know you're watching right now.
I love you so much We're incredibly masculine and it's okay that you have sensitivities I believe in compromise and love and part of that is holding bags for you and you do other things for me
And so what I do is I actually will, and this is something I've done multiple times, I will take a plastic spoon in there.That's okay.I'm bringing my own plastic spoon.
I can't do the wood thing.
That's fine, that's fine.
So I'm saying, this man can bring his own straws, you know?Why are you waiting for a handout?
Hey Josh and Nicole, this is Jacob from Florida.I know you get it a lot, but I love the message.My hot take, which honestly seems pretty common, people give me crap for putting ketchup on eggs.
You know, I'll make an omelette, maybe some ketchup, or I'll just fry an egg, put it on some toast, with some ketchup.Josh, I feel like you might agree with me, but I'll have to wait and see.
Bye!What do you think about it, Nicole?
No, I think he's just saying that because I historically kind of take the gross side.And people will say ketchup on eggs is gross.
Ketchup on eggs is delicious.
No one says not putting ketchup on eggs is gross.
Putting ketchup on eggs is great.
I agree.What is your favorite ketchup on egg application?
Scrambled, right?Hard scramble.
Hard dad scramble.Hard Denny's-ass, dad-ass scramble.
I would even say quite brown.Bordering on like Thai omelet.You don't mean the Thai omelets that are like wok cooked in oil? No, that's that's been amazing.That's like it.
Oh, man.I'm so great Okay, sorry, um, let's take that back I like scrambled eggs and ketchup.Oh my god, it's the best isn't it right?It's actually like a Thai omelet.Yeah, what are they called?
I don't know actually No, I think ketchup is less good with a fried egg the runny yolk I don't like when they mix into a sauce.I don't like when they mix into a sauce.
I love it I actually really like it also with hot sauce so hot sauce runny yolk ketchup bada-bing bada-boom toast dip dip yum
I'll go three to one ketchup to sriracha.
You eat sriracha in the mornings?
I hate sriracha in the mornings.
Well, that's where you and I differ.
I like, you know what I like?I like Tabasco in the mornings.I like Cholula.I like Tapatio.I'd be willing to even do a secret aardvark.No sriracha.
So mix that together and then sometimes when I'm really hard up for food I'll scramble five eggs hard real hard and then I'll let it sit in a plate.
Let it cool a little bit You know go pee probably wash my hands Come back, so it's cool enough, and I just pot you don't need to wash your hands after you pee I feel like you know what I made that claim, and I did I did the research you should I did the work I'm talking about men yeah, no no I did the you like really should I
Even if you're not touching your peepee?
No, the problem is you're sitting, you're in a bathroom touching stuff where there's just poop particles everywhere.And there really are so many poop particles everywhere.Okay.You should really wash your hands.
Not that I, I never like was, you know, I'm just not gonna wash my hands, but it really reified the need to.So the point is the eggs are cool enough to touch with the poo hands. You know, and then I just swipe those in.
It's almost like dipping unlimited chips into unlimited salsa.I just scoop the ketchup on the eggs and I slurp it off.So yeah, I fully agree, ketchup on eggs.People are too precious about like basic ass foods.
If you want to get like real precious about like a cultural institution, you know what I mean?Like cassoulet should only be made with the finest, whatever, sure.It's scrambled eggs, dude.Put whatever the hell you want on it.
Whatever's going to make your day a little bit better.
Do you feel like you're going into like acute organ failure?
No, it's obtuse.Obtuse organ failure.Acute would be like one, you know, like boom, pointed.Obtuse organ failure is like, it's all shutting down.
I feel really sick.But on that note, thank you for listening to Hot Dog is a Sandwich.We got new episodes all the time.Not gonna tell you when.You just need to find out for yourself.
Yeah, keep clicking refresh on the YouTube page until a new episode comes out.No, I'll tell you when.It's Wednesday, the audio version, of course.And then Sunday is when the video version comes out.Yeah. Nicole, what video platforms are we on?
Statistically, are they watching this on YouTube?
Oh, also, like you can check us out on, we have a TikTok.
Do we still have an agreement with Snapchat or is that dead?We're still publishing on Snapchat.Oh, we're still, okay.
Yeah, not as high eclipse.CPM started dropping a little bit.They shifted their focus, I think, to Spotlight and more individual creators.
Are we not individual creators?
No, and we're not really like individual creators on TikTok either, but we're still on Snapchat.Last Meal is on Snapchat.Okay, cool.
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I've really only been on Snapchat.I sent one picture on Snapchat.
I stopped using Snapchat a long time ago.
And then I stopped.But then there was like a summer.
Yeah, of course.I'm sorry, but can I picture it?And then there was one summer when I would get recognized and people would be like, hey, you're the Snapchat show.
Oh, and you think it's because it's that one picture?
No.Oh.No, because we were publishing a lot more on Snapchat and the views were a lot higher.
You weren't cooking at 2013?
