1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: We must try Melvin's Best. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: Potato edition, guys, Melbourne's Best. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 3: It's something we like to do every now and then 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 3: on this show. Last time, the great debate was over 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 3: Melbourne's best scrolls, and we all agreed that the winner 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 3: was Lamaro. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 2: No No, no. 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 4: Heart Bakes anyway, none of us. We all agreed to 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 4: disagree on that. 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 5: That's right, that's all pretty good. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: Today might be a different story. I remember last week 12 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 3: in the news the biggest manufacturer of potato cakes here 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 3: in Melbourne went belly up. 14 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 5: Just a very sad day for Melbournian's. 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 3: Really, we asked, where in Melbourne do you get the 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 3: best potato cakes? We are about to find out. We 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 3: have three of the best options ready to face off, and. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: We have three of the best judges. 19 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 5: Yeah we do. Now here's the thing. 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 4: When we did the debate over what the best scrolls were, 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 4: we were all representing a brand because we all felt 22 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 4: quite fierce about it. 23 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 5: So even if yours was. 24 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 4: Better than mine, I was never going to vote for 25 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 4: yours because that's how I play. 26 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: Which you admitted privately. 27 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 5: No different. See two of these I never did. 28 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 6: Two of these. 29 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 3: I've tried in the wild I've tried Hunky Dory Hunky 30 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 3: Dory South Melbourne. They're putting up their potato cake. And 31 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 3: I've tried the spread Eagle Hotel in Richmond, right who 32 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 3: do a in house homemade potato And then we have 33 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 3: a wild card. 34 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 4: We do the chicken salad shopping Gladstone Park. Now, we 35 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 4: had a woman on whose boyfriend worked there and she 36 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 4: was being an ambassador for the brand. 37 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: Yes, I love the deal they come with though, if 38 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: you're listening right now, eighty cents each or five or 39 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: four bucks, because they say it's not about the size 40 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: of the potato cake, it's what you do with them. 41 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: What a time to be alive. You can get five 42 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 2: potato cakes four. 43 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 4: Does that mean they are each seventy five cents discount 44 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: per potato cake if you buy them in a pack. 45 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: Those little mini Dutch pancakes, they could be the size 46 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 3: of that. 47 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 4: We don't know yet, all right, No, So I like 48 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 4: the ones at the storehouse so relatable, and they can 49 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 4: serve them a caviar on top. They have not offered 50 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 4: theirs in for breakfast taste. 51 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 6: We don't have the caviar topped. 52 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: Staff representing each Potatoka here and they are flying their. 53 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 4: Chicken shop a chicken salad shown Glenson Park, have their 54 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 4: own secret housemade chicken salt. 55 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 5: Now I am a big fan of the Hunky Dory. 56 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. 57 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 4: So they're also coming in and they're they're helping out 58 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 4: the good Friday appeal as well. 59 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 5: So they're good people. 60 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 6: All right, bring in the potato cakes, let's go. 61 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 5: All right, Eagle's been around for one hundred and fifty years. 62 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: So stufre also anxious talking you guys. 63 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,839 Speaker 5: They're all sitting very separate. You're gonna fight out they're 64 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 5: all come from. 65 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, first up or do we just know? 66 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 4: We don't know? 67 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 5: No, it's blind. 68 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 4: All eating the same one and then scoring. It's a 69 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 4: blind taste test. Okay, so number one go to Aroma 70 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 4: about it now, don't tell us. 71 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 5: Till the end. It's got little herbs on it. 72 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 6: And this is a home. This is an in house job. 73 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 5: Oh god, that'slious. 74 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: That's absolutely that's pretty good. 75 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 6: It's got a twenty eight years of radio and this 76 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 6: is what it comes down. 77 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 5: It's got it's quite thick. 78 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 6: Mm hm, you know what. 79 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: Oh god, that's so. It's got a fluffy interior as well. 80 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 6: That'd be amazing when you hung up with a millionaire. 81 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm giving up. Oh no, I'm not giving scores. 82 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 4: I'm just going to remember that's thick, fluffy and delicious. 83 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with the interior of it. Next, how soft 84 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: is that? 85 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 6: Next time? 86 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 5: It is fluffy? 87 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: Did you score me, clip? 88 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: I did. 89 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 4: It's fluffy and delicious, but it adds some herbs, all right? 90 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 3: Next one up, I would say, this looks a little 91 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 3: bit more regulation manufactured, regular and size. 92 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Now they're salting them themselves because the first 93 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 4: one had thick, like rock salt. 94 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 5: This is more fine salt. 95 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 6: I would say, not as not as greasy this. 96 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 5: One, yeah, definitely nice. 97 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 6: Great here a little bit more manufactured, still into it? 98 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 5: Oh oh god, oh my god. Salty. 99 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 4: I'm just confirming. Then News put their own salt on these. 100 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to know because if no, no, our 101 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 3: team have Okay, we've we've sold. 102 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 5: That's quite good that one. 103 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 6: Sorry, that's part still what do you think? Clip? 104 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 5: Very salty? 105 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: All right? 106 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 3: Last, but not least, we are trying to find Melbourne's 107 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 3: best potato cake. Oh yeah, see, I would say again, 108 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 3: this one looks a little manufactured like it's it's. 109 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 5: Not hand cart. 110 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 111 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 5: Oh oh that one's that's a good crunch you got 112 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 5: on that. 113 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 6: There's a different taste of this one. 114 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: It's really salty as well. 115 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 4: This is more chicken salty. Okay, I'm just saying between Look, I. 116 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 3: Have a clear winner in my mind. Yeah, he's a 117 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: clear winner in my mind. 118 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 5: I think you're going to say number one. I don't know. 119 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 5: It's between one and three for me. 120 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 6: I'm voting the first one. 121 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going okay, how do we do this picture? 122 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 2: Wash it? Wash it down with a coffee. 123 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 4: I need I need to superford it. 124 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 6: Okay, we're on the little Gut for Melbourne's best potato cake. 125 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 2: I really enjoyed number two. 126 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 5: Oh that was my third favorite to their own. 127 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 6: One vote one potato cake. 128 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have one more nibble of it. 129 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 5: I don't know, yeah, I need another nibble. 130 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 3: Yes, listening to the crunch, can I suggest not doing something? 131 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: Don't look at the grease that has residue on the 132 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 3: paper with the. 133 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 6: Potatoic I haven't put them. 134 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 5: I've got mine on plates because I'm not an animal. 135 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 2: All right, I'm ready to go. 136 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 5: No, we're all saying it at the same time. 137 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 4: Our favorite is number one, two or three, but we're 138 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: doing it three two, one three our favorite. 139 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 6: Of one two, so go three to one, and then 140 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 6: we say the number. 141 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 5: One, two or three. 142 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 6: Okay, I just can we we got blinds. 143 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: I don't want these staff members looking at It's fine. 144 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 6: It's fine. Three two, one, three one. 145 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 5: One was a bit too greasy for me. One the pub, 146 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 5: isn't it it is? I knew number is number three. 147 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: That the chicken chop, the Spread Eagle Hotels in Richmond. 148 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 6: No, the Spread Eagle Hotel in Richmond is taken out. 149 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 5: I need a hone of number two in their own. 150 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 3: Melbourne's best potato cake in our mind. 151 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 2: Oh, you're all on the podium. 152 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 4: Which is. 153 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, but they're all excellent. 154 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 6: As they did. 155 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 3: You know at my school for the sports carnival, everyone 156 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 3: gets a participate. 157 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 5: This would be a pub one. 158 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,119 Speaker 2: Can we just quickly just hear from the Spread Eagle. 159 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 6: I know that he didn't want. 160 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 4: To talk, even though you've just won the best potato 161 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 4: cake in Melbourne, as voted by the three biggest food 162 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 4: critics in the country. 163 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 5: Shaking their heads. 164 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: Well, I just really enjoyed the interior of that one. 165 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: It was very fluffy and. 166 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 6: It's very Chada Blaze. Yeah, they handcuffed, made in house. 167 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 4: Even even the guy from the Spread Eagle doesn't. 168 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 6: How do you know that you don't want to know? 169 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 6: Apparently people. 170 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: Apparently maybe too much potato, Sorry, too much potato potato cake? 171 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: Can I tell you? The best deal of the day 172 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: is Glad Gloods and Hanky Dorynkey Dory. Some fantastic work, 173 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,679 Speaker 1: Laurence Fish, Lawrence favorite. 174 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 5: I got to get back into the Glodston Park. You 175 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 5: can sellt. 176 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: Melbourn's best potato cake. It is gone to Spread Eagle 177 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 3: Hotel in Richmond. They've been for one hundred and fifty years. 178 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 3: They've had time to get it right. Let's be honest. 179 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 6: It's Melbourne's best wake up Feeling. 180 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 4: Good of them on the socials. Yeah, I