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Sloppy Joes? Swedish Meatballs? Chicken Fried Steak? If those foods made you happy, you grew up on the 80s diet. We talk about those and more, and maybe even share some of our favorite 80s foods too! @nestle @pepsi @cocacola @tysonfoods @fritolay @kraftbrand @generalmills #food #dinner #recipe #80sfood
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I hope you guys enjoyed our morning show
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we are back for more and we hope you are
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hungry literally because we're going to
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talk about some recipes that you might
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have grown up with and you might still
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eat today so let's uh roll that intro
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thank you
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[Music]
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hey everybody we are back
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um so today we are doing some
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scrumptious yummy and what other other
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words we can describe food as as we're
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going to dive into the time machine and
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take a trip back to the 80s to talk
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about just a few it's hard to pick but
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just a few uh some of the most iconic
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and delicious recipes while giving some
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reminiscing and personal opinion while
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we do so so
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shall I start number one let's go for it
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what's number one so number one and
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you'll appreciate this as with anybody
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who goes to Ikea will it's the Swedish
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meatball now I didn't realize it was
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actually specifically just an 80s food
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but this is one of those things that
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almost everybody in the world probably
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has seen of probably has had some and
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again if you like the store you probably
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had to stop at the food court and get
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some so I remember I think it was in the
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crock pot that was one of your go-to's
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because it was pretty quick and easy it
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was basically just the meatball and the
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sauce right
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was it yeah mine weren't Swedish though
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mine were different mine are sweet and
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sour got an s word in there sweet
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instead of like okay I mean to me yeah
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you know stand by it absolutely when all
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else fails let's make some meatballs
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right
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so was that something familial or did
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you just decide like this is super easy
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to make let's just always make meatballs
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because they're delicious
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sad when we first started dating so
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interesting okay back in you know 82 or
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83 or whatever when we got married and
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that was something that I made for him
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that he really really liked so it became
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part of our family tradition and it was
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during the 80s so I guess yes
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all right no that's fair and you know
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and I know okay so sweet and sour fruits
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are different but I'm going to say
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generally I think meatballs were a big
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popular thing probably because it was
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one of the few ones because ground beef
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was cheaper you know in the 80s one of
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the big things was
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um you know spending wisely so most
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likely people ate a lot of Meatballs
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because you could probably pick up a
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good pack of you know ground beef or a
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little little money right yeah right
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which brings us to the second one if you
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don't mind me popping in no go for it
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sloppy joes now I will tell you I don't
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know why this thing is good because
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today looking at it it I'm not even
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gonna use the words that come to mind
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but
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really again and I think probably
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because it's a simple easy dish to make
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because all it is is I think tomato
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sauce some seasoning and you can buy it
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in a jar in a can you yes you can I uh
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there's the um I forgot the company but
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there's one that makes sloppy Joe mix I
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know right so again I know where these
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two growing up and I'm sure as a kid I
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loved it
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is it the same time it's on fruit food
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it's really comfortable okay you know
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it's something you can make easy
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Everyone likes it you sit around the
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table as a family and you you drink you
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eat this slop because it looks like slop
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I think that's what I'm saying because
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today I don't think I'd want to touch
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that with anything but you know Chris to
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point out they are good and I'm sure
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they still are good by just looking at
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the images I don't know about you but it
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just it doesn't bring to mind edible
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food it's it's not offense to the people
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who made it but you know and I did
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actually come because I was thinking
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about it what where did the Joe come
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from and I want to ask you what you
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think my guess is they use that name
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over anything because the average Joe
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who probably wasn't making a lot of
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money needed something that was
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nutritious or or filling and that's what
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it was that's what I think because
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honestly I don't know where the name
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came from but that was kind of what my
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brain went to what do you think no that
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actually makes sense I don't know where
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the sloppy part comes in except that it
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actually is
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sloppy you can't really pick it up
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without it like you know
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we used to eat it with a knife and fork
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really because it was it was really a
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mess it was gross
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but tasty
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all right um okay next one that I had to
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pick because I actually still eat it
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today and a lot I was gonna and I'm
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bringing up this version the chicken
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fried steak which until recently I
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didn't actually have a appetite for it
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but I've tried it a few times it is
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actually delicious it's not good for you
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but it is delicious basically what it is
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is deep fried steak so it looks like a
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piece of breaded chicken but it's not
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it's actually meat usually served with
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stuff like mashed potatoes and veggies
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so think of it as a steak dish just deep
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fried again not healthy but delicious
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but I'm wondering because and I think we
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brought this up before on other shows
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too things that were old are are now
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back again right how you know and maybe
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because it's steak and I know steak is a
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very popular dish no matter what part of
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the world country what do you think
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something like this is able to hold on
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to and again the restaurants that I get
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it from are usually delis or stuff like
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that so it's usually a restaurant that
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has a mix of food but what is it about
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this you think that still Rings true
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decades after it was you know popular
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you know and I I think you touched on it
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I I think that we're seeing people now
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revisit some of these Foods now because
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the economy isn't great and so when you
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can spend less money like for instance
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chicken fried steak I believe is a
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lesser cut of beef meaning they're not
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using filet right and and they pound it
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I believe to give it more you know
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tenderize it so it's less expensive and
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I think that in this day and age we're
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seeing a revert back to things that are
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less expensive because I mean we've all
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been to the grocery market it in the
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last you know several months everything
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is so much more expensive so if you can
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make a meal that is comfy and it brings
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you back to a really good time and it
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tastes good and it doesn't cost that
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much I think that that's what's good I
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think that's what we're saying now
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so you might notice that on this list
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many of these things are things you can
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either make with cheap ingredients or if
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you're ordering from a restaurant it's
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probably a cheaper meal because they too
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aren't able to pick up the materials as
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you said at a much lower cost right the
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next one that I had to go over and this
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is hilarious and I love the Fritos bag
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but the walking taco this literally was
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a bag of Fritos you pour some chili on
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top if you had some broken up chicken
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you can do that too and you literally
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walked around with a bag of chili in a
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bag of your Fritos now this leads me to
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the Frito pie where it's basically chili
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with the fritters on top but I love and
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the fact and it makes me think again I'm
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not a big taco fan but it makes me think
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of the infamous taco truck right around
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the city where you have walking tacos
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because you basically are buying a taco
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from the truck
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and then you're mosing around to the
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thing but how funny is that yeah that a
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big company like Freedom we actually
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tagged them so that's why I brought it
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up because Frito Lay to this day is one
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of the biggest chip snack companies
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right what do you think I mean this is
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hilarious and again I don't think of it
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as a dinner you make at home but I guess
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it is no it sounds like a snack to me it
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sounds like the kids are home let's open
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up a bag you know one of those snack
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bags of Fritos exactly Foods right they
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make Cheetos I'm not Cheetos Fritos as
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their scoop Fritos just for this and I
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think it's it actually sounds like an
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interesting snack right you don't know
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what to eat and when the kids come home
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from school open up a bag of Cheetos
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throw some canned chili into it sprinkle
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some cheese in it you got it you got a
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snack
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I think I don't know so Chris I just
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wrote up there I like Frito pie but I
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never walked around with it in a bag of
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Fritos that stream yes that probably is
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strange to many people I'm sure it just
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it makes me think of because I know like
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when I was in school we had the food
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trucks come and we had the taco trucks
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that's what I think of when I think of
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the walking taco because that's that's
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what we got we got to eat that for lunch
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so this next one here probably is near
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and dear to you because we made these a
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lot but the stuffed pepper filled with
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again ground beef right of course you
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could add your Tomatoes you can add your
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vegetables your rice so I'm gonna pass
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it to you so what
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because waited a lot what what came to
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mind when you made well again I'm I was
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I was the cook the mom that would um
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prepare a humongous pot of spaghetti
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sauce and then one meal we would use it
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for spaghetti and meat sauce right but
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there's always left over so what do you
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do with the leftover and that really is
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kind of why I started doing stuffed
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peppers it's a great way to stretch
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ground beef because when you take that
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meat sauce and you combine cooked rice
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in it it stretches it it makes more
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filling meal right and then you stuff it
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into the peppers I mean how good is that
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it's delicious you get it's like a full
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meal you get your vegetable you get your
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your protein you get your uh you know
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everything everything in in combined to
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one your carbs
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um delicious is all I can say I think
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it's I'm actually surprised because I've
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never seen this on like a menu anywhere
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but it's so popular 80s through 90s
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through whatever
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Stouffer's makes you can go to the the
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marketplace section you can literally
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order peppers stuffed peppers and but I
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say don't do that make your own and you
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know take advantage of that I mean I use
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the sauce just it's not a comfort food
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but I also use the sauce for lasagna
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make it once ah okay okay I'm gonna walk
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with different things
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all right so I'm noticing there's a
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trend a lot of the stuff can overlap and
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probably why a lot of these Foods now
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this next one I think we have a show and
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tell item from you and again you
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actually have probably the most iconic
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one because who does not remember Ray
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Connors I was gonna say they're not
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around but I think they are just at a
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lesser capacity yeah they're still not
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not as many restaurants are around but I
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know you can still buy it but the
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classic chicken pot pie basically stuffs
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with whatever the classic one was
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obviously the chicken and vegetables
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today you can get it with beef beef pot
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pie turkey turkey yeah all sorts of
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stuff so this is delicious this is
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delicious not what it is you know it's a
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little messy but it is delicious and I
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think because I remember when I used to
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go to the restaurant and get it there
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you know they had the bigger ones
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but they managed to make what would call
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the you know the mom made chicken pot
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pie like they were known for their
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chicken pot pie and what's funny to me
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because you know I was reading through
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the article that we have and they're
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saying it's a bigger than 80s but would
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you think think that this kind of has
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been just throughout the decades because
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I feel like every decade has had a
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filled crust right right I think so too
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and I think and you can and even to this
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day I think you can go to a fancy
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restaurant and they'll have their
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version
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of eight
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a stuffed something but obviously it'll
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be with with a different kind of um
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sauce and you know they make it more
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elegant because it's a restaurant but
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like yes you said Marie Callender's
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carried it so does um
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uh there's some other places that also
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carry a Daily Grill also has it oh
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interesting okay I've heard of that
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place oh the city is very excited about
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what we're talking about a couple more
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that I wanted to bring up this one makes
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me think of The Brady Bunch and you all
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understand why in a minute but breaded
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pork chops of course we know the
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infamous pork chops and applesauce line
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from the show but pork chops are a big
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thing now I remember you did lamb chops
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and whatever I don't know if it's the
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meat cut whatever but I can tell you
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pork chops sound not appetizing at all
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to me
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I because I'm it's a pork thing you know
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I'll have a sausage I'll have some bacon
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but pork in general never was my thing
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did we have a lot of it growing up yeah
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why not for any other I mean we had
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bacon
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and that's pork um and you know sausage
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but I I never made pork chops and I and
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or what do they call it a pork butt or
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or a shredded pork I never did any of
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that and that's probably why you don't
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have a taste for it because we never ate
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it ever there you go so Krista said pork
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chops are delicious I you know and again
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it's because I've eaten a lot of foods
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with a pork product on it so it's not
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the pork I think it's just you know and
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maybe it's watching too much food
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network and being like that just looks
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weird but pork in general over like
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let's say beef or chicken it's kind of
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the Third on my list you know what I
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mean like I think I've heard it called
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the other white meat yeah
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it's white and I guess for me the color
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of it it's not chicken even though it
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looks like chicken and so it's not
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appetizing to me but I will take
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Christa's word for it and Christy you'll
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have to make us dinner one of these days
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and make pork chops so we can try them
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yeah yeah well you will convert US right
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so the last one I wanted to bring up
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before we pop off is something now
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everybody eats and again you brought up
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Stouffers and they make this wall the
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flatbread pizza I'm sorry the French
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bread pizza which is the thicker one and
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literally what it was and I didn't bring
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up a story you'll probably remember but
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literally it's like a half a loaf of
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French bread you put your cheese and
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sauce if you want to pop on some
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pepperoni and you bake in the oven
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Stouffer's infamously is known for their
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personal size kind of like what you know
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Pizza used to do but I remember for New
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Year's when you guys were eating your
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Lobster your stuff whatever we were
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having our pizza bagel things and that's
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what the French bread pizza was you take
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your bread you put the sauce whatever
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you pop it in the oven and it was
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personal pan pizzas delicious I love the
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idea and it's probably the one thing off
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the list other than maybe the chicken
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pot pie that is just synonymous with
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childhood for me or for others who grew
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up in 80s and the 90s because it's so
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easy and even if you weren't home I
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could actually do it because all it was
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was literally taking out a piece of
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bread spreading the stuff stuff and I
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think it was like I don't know 10
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minutes in the oven
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yeah and you're done so other than the
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New Year's do you did I did I eat a lot
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of it is that why I love it or was it
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kind of something you bought for us what
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was the well it sounds like you're like
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revealing all of my my um
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you got the good food I got the not so
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good food I think we ate the French bed
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pizzas as well we also did them on Pita
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and we did them on naan bread and we did
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them believe it or not on matzah we
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would make matza pizza when it was
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Passover because you're not supposed to
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eat bread so we'd take the you know the
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pot the pizza sauce on and put a little
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mozzarella cheese what is it see who's
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who's
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oh there you go okay so people still
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make pizza that way there you go there
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you go
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you know brings back memories truly it
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the the food brings back memories and um
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I guess I didn't remember all the stuff
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that I used to serve you all the time so
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thank you for reminding me I can
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probably go on but that's for another
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show but no I mean one reason why I
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thought about doing this other than just
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loving being Foodies is I kind of
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thought this would be a fun reminiscing
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show and give people watching kind of
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like an in-depth look of what we do but
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you do make a point though the stuff to
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me that doesn't sound good I didn't eat
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really all right very little of it the
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stuff that sounds delicious to me is
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kind of the 90 of what was in our
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household exactly most of the year so I
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think food and you might agree well uh
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it affects what you do who you are
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because of what you're eating it doesn't
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have to be a cultural thing it's just
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whatever is in your pantry right and
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you're saying it elicits memories you
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literally were saying how you remember
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you know eating this and it does food
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has a tendency to elicit memories when
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did we eat that like right what how old
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were we we're eating that like maybe oh
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trust me there are times where we're
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eating dinner here and I'm just like why
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does this make me think of like when I
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was 15 I'm like oh I did that so it's
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really funny how you're you're and even
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a snack or whatever and you're just
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sitting there you go like like I just
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got myself oatmeal and I had oatmeal
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this morning and I'm like I remember you
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oatmeal all the time and now it's like
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now I remember why because it's actually
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pretty good it's really good yeah it's
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totally something fun so I think we will
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do more uh rum you know old school 80s
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90s 70s stuff because I think the fun
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part about it is not only reteaching
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people about this stuff but also
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eliciting as you said the memories
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exactly and I'm curious what our viewers
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are thinking whether you're here live or
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in replay what is your favorite food
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your comfort food from the 80s let us
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know did we touch upon those that you
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like or do we miss something and Rob but
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wait there's more we want to show I'm
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just gonna say we have a few good things
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for you guys
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cool things so we we went way back into
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the time machine and on Amazon and found
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some really cool vintage candy boxes
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from the 80s and I will tell you I
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bought in I think one like this before
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and other than maybe a couple things
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that I had not heard of this is like
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your go-to 80s snacks I mean Skittles
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Bubble Yum trolley like good stuff
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really good stuff so if you're wondering
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how you can go check it out take your
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phone out I'll hold this up here for
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just a second take your camera and just
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point it towards the screen it will give
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you a link and you can go check it out
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now another favorite
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oh my gosh I remember these we used to
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put well we didn't you did we put them
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on our finger and you was litter people
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would walk around sucking their finger
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right
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it looked really weird and honestly not
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normal but oh my God they're not and
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again not good for you at all but
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everybody and you had you look like you
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were in you know some sort of Rich uh
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I remember these too much but I remember
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eating a few and my dentist going why
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are you eating Ring Pop stop eating Ring
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Pops have an apple instead like I'm like
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but they're good but this would be fun
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over like Halloween you know and and
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instead of doing like maybe the little
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um uh you know candy bars the little
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teeny do a ring pop how cool is that now
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Krista apparently she remembers the Ring
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Pops as well so let me put that up hold
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on let's put this up here
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haha yes ha
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absolutely
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there's links popping up in the um the
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screen if um you know you can click on
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that as well and check it out now the
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last one and this is one when we picked
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it out you said oh I remember that and
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that was the Fruit Stripe zebra gummy
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candy but I remember this this Fruit
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Stripe gum not gum that's it yeah
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and if you remember I think the gun had
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the stripes obviously that was the
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rainbow zebra that was the point of the
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whole thing but apparently just like
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ever candy does they had to get a gummy
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so this is actually kind of cool I might
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actually have to grab a bag because I
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don't know if I've ever eaten them but I
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do like a good gummy
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so click the link go get it exactly I'll
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click the link and go get one right now
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wait a second we have another comment so
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that oh you don't remember that one okay
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so totally you have to go out and get
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some zebra gummy things because maybe
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we'll get the gum and then be like oh
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the gum the gummies there you go I don't
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know exactly hey Krista do us a favor
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right now just click on that link
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that you see in in the chat just go
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ahead and click on the fruit and stripe
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zebra and see what happens I just want
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to see if something happens on our
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screen because you know it's just you
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and us right now
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anyways guys we love doing shows like
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this is there a decade you want to hear
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about that the food like you know what
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was the popular food when you were
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growing up I think we could probably go
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back to when I was you know the
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dinosaurs but maybe in you know maybe
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the 70s or the 60s you know psychedelic
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stuff might be kind of fun
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um any last thoughts on this Rob this is
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so much fun I love this I had a lot of
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fun you know I was like we were talking
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about I was trying to think of something
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I didn't have anything in my pantry that
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was specifically 80 so maybe next time
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I'll make sure to grocery shop
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um and uh do that but no I just thought
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I thought it was a great um little topic
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to do
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um again like you said whatever decades
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you want to maybe we'll do the toys
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maybe we'll do the fads maybe we'll come
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wearing weird uh you know headbands and
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brightly colored
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or exercise or exercise clothing
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remember oh you were you were young but
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you know with the legs
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Jane Fonda doing her you know her uh
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yeah
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you know it'd be fun get moving all
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right guys we love you we're so thrilled
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you joined us let us know what you
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thought in the comments and um we'll do
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some other shows like that in the
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meantime go out give somebody an awesome
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