1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Now it's time for Foody Friday with Neil Neil Sevadra, 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: who is. 3 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: Like that guy. He seems nice. 4 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: He is nice, sort of the host of the Fork 5 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: Report tomorrow from two to five pm and you can 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: reach him into social address at Fork Reporter. And I 7 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: love doing this. So what do we start with? What 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 1: is the most important item we could ever do in food? 9 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: And that's Costco. Did I go to Costco yesterday? I 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: did go to Costco yesterday and there I noticed that 11 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: the food court where quite often I eat lunch and 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: food both coming and going going into Costco. 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 3: And I'll grab a piece of pizza and coming to. 14 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 4: You out a slice of pizza. You go in, Yeah, 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 4: you have all the samples. Then all your way out 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 4: you grab a hot dog Annesota. 17 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 3: That's actually correct. 18 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: Wow. 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: And I spend five bucks or whatever, but and. 20 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 2: You look great. Quite honestly, I do it for you. 21 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 3: I don't understand it. 22 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: So anyway, Costco, and this doesn't happen very often, but 23 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: I go into the food court and they have new stuff. 24 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, they do on occasion. 25 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 4: They sometimes it goes over like a turt and a 26 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 4: punch bowl, like when they got rid of the Tcheudeau. 27 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 3: Oh, I know it had those chocolate cookies. Give me 28 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 3: a break. 29 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 4: Yeah, the chocolate chip cookies that are twenty five hundred calories. 30 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're horrible. I think I haven't had well, 31 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: they're not that good. The churros were phenomenal. 32 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 4: People love and churros are I mean, they don't cost much. 33 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 4: I would imagine the chocolate chip cookie is actually more 34 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 4: expensive to make, but a lot of people still smarting 35 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 4: about that. But Costco Fruit Court added a caramel brownie 36 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 4: Sunday for only two ninety nine and it's people are 37 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 4: loving it now. Some say that it mirrors the Sam's Club. 38 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 4: They had a brownie. They have their own brownie Sunday, 39 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 4: but they go back and forth. We don't have as 40 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 4: many Sam's clubs out here. I'm trying to think where 41 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 4: the nearest one is. You've never had a You've never 42 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 4: dipped your toe in another. 43 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: I've never been in a Sam's Club really, right, Okay, 44 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: And they have the. 45 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: Not exactly new, it's been around for a little while. 46 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: But that turkey and Provoloni sandwich which is oh, that 47 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: massive sandwich at Costco enormous. 48 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 3: And pizza is always there and pizza. 49 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: It's a little greasy, but it's a little greasy, so 50 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: what you do. 51 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 3: The crust is not real crispy. 52 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: I like their dewey cisto and you have to take 53 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: the napkins and blot off. 54 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, but it's very very good. 55 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: And their hot dog a dollar fifty will never go 56 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: away a dollar fifty and the drink for a buck fifty. 57 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: Well here's two things. 58 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 4: So now Costco has this particular new item which is 59 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: the Sunday the brownie Sunday. 60 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 2: But do you remember that really. 61 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 4: Good Costco chocolate cake with the shavings of chocolate on top, 62 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 4: and it was fudgy and delicious throughout. That went away 63 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 4: sometime go and now there's a chocolate fudge cake that 64 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 4: they brought back. The only difference that I can see 65 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 4: at this point is they don't have those chocolate shavings 66 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 4: on top, but otherwise it looks like the exact same cake. 67 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 4: And that is back at Costco down at the food court. No, 68 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 4: this is inside the bakery, okay. 69 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: And is it a boint cake. 70 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 4: No, it's a layer cake, round layer cake, which is 71 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 4: you know my favorite. 72 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: I love a good layer I'll tell. 73 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: You the thing the one thing at Costco that they're 74 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: actually poor at their bagels. 75 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: Their bread is spectacular. 76 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, they get great bread. I don't like their bagels. Huh, 77 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 4: bagels are weird. Though you're not veruper particular about bagels. 78 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: I am you need. First of all, I don't think 79 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: they're real jew bagels at all. 80 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: Which you say are toothy and chewy. 81 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, just you have that perfect chew and the crust, which. 82 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 4: Is they've been boiled so they have the tight skin 83 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 4: on the outside. 84 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: That's a lot of us. 85 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: Don't need to know that. 86 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: Okay, let's take a Okay, back we go and Trader Joe's. 87 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: I happen to like Trader Joe's my two favorite places 88 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: to shop, or of course Costco and Trader Joe's. 89 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 4: Hey, before we get to Trader Joe's, I wanted to 90 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 4: give you a heads up on something recently. We were 91 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 4: talking about corn dogs on the air and Amy and 92 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 4: I were singing the praises of the Little Red Wagon 93 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 4: in Disneyland on Main Street because they're phenomenal. But you 94 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 4: said something, You said you can't you were having problems 95 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 4: finding corn corn dogs that were beef at the store 96 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 4: at the supermarket. Yeah, so guess what's happening. Wiener Snitzel 97 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 4: is putting out frozen corn dogs. 98 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 3: Now, and I love their career dogs. 99 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 4: So they are putting I know because you and I 100 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 4: used to go just right over here, yes, right down 101 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 4: the street from the station. 102 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: We'd go eat them here. 103 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 4: So they are putting their standard one and then they're 104 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 4: putting one with like queso or cheese, spicy cheese or 105 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 4: something like that in it. But my understanding is there beef, 106 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 4: all beef. So yeah, that's a real corn dog. I've 107 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 4: never understood chicken corn dogs. 108 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: You go to the county Fair, those are real corn dogs, 109 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: none of this chicken crap. 110 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: And Wiener Stitzel real corn dogs, and you. 111 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 2: Want to taste the horns and the doves. 112 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: And I'm assuming Disneyland those are real beef hot dogs. 113 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 4: They are. It is so magical. I know chefs that 114 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 4: are like, yeah, that's the best corn dog I've ever 115 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 4: had in my entire life. It really is quite spectacular. 116 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 4: But now on to Trader Joe's. They've got some new 117 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 4: products under five bucks, and these really caught my eye. 118 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 4: I love this. Now I know you're not a balsamic 119 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 4: vinegar guy. If I remember no I am are you okay? 120 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 4: I thought you were. 121 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: I thought you're like and no good good balsamic vinegar 122 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: from Italy for example, from Madna. But we're talking about 123 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: twenty five five year old balsamic vinegar. 124 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 3: I mean you know this stuff. 125 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 4: Is Yeah, you like them like you like your new wives. 126 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 4: The peach flavored glaze and Viscus bro that sounds like 127 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 4: the worst rap team in the world. Ladies and gentlemen 128 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 4: coming to the stage. Thick of viscus yo yo yo 129 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 4: okay peach flavored glaze to ninety nine. But this is 130 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 4: a a balsamic vinegar peach glaze that you can get 131 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 4: there at Trader Joe's. 132 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: That looks delicious. 133 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 4: Also, this one, what a magic combination goat cheese and 134 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 4: camelized onion wrapped with Baoli. 135 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: Ninety nine baby, So how magical is that? 136 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 3: Yeah? 137 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 4: So that's a that's a great appetizer there, that one 138 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 4: they have these protein pancakes. Protein pancakes are starting to 139 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 4: become popular right now, and those are just you know, 140 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 4: higher protein pancakes, and in this case, they're made with 141 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 4: cottage cheese, egg whites, oak flour. 142 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: These kinds of thtu I was disgusting real quickly Trader 143 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: joe As you go in, either you get it by 144 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: mail or you're going to the store. The Fearless Flyer. 145 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: They're monthly sort of news magazine. You read it and 146 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: it's the best written stuff. I don't know who writes 147 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: the car It's hilarious and it's wonderful. You want to 148 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: buy everything that's in the flyer. 149 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 4: There there was a company that I think recently closed 150 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 4: its doors, but it's been them around for a long 151 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 4: time online called Scientific something that you could buy like 152 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 4: use science equipment and things like that, and they wrote 153 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 4: like that, they wrote it's with tongue in cheek, but 154 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 4: also describe something so wonderfully that you want to you know, you. 155 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: Want to buy it, and say things like our buyer 156 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: was in Italy and ran across this vineyard and said, 157 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: you've got to buy every last one to bring them 158 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: to the States. 159 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 2: And yeah. 160 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 4: So so Trader Joe's has a lot of really they're 161 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 4: known for their false stuff. Those were some things that 162 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 4: stood out. In addition to they have the simmit Turkish 163 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 4: sesame bread, which sounds delicious as well. 164 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: They just have a good variety of things. 165 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, they just they're so inexpensive relative to other stores. 166 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: They're so reasonably priced. Hey, we just had had time 167 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: for one more, and that is a new limited time 168 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: cereal which we used to never see hitting the shells. 169 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: My favorite one is smoked mackerel oat flakes. 170 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 4: It's delicious, especially with a raw oat milk to really 171 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 4: add to it. 172 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: That's gross. This one. 173 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 4: I love cereal. I don't know what it is, but 174 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 4: it's a comfort food to me. I love being able 175 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 4: to pour a bowl of cereal, even like hot cereal, 176 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 4: your cream of weeds, that type thing, your grits, those 177 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 4: types of things. But there's a limited time cereal that 178 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 4: just dropped and it sounds delicious. It's from the folks 179 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 4: that bring you the honey Bunches of Oats, but this 180 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 4: one is sugar cookie flavored. Oh for the holidays, right, 181 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 4: I love a good sugar cookie, So Honey Bunches of Oats, 182 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 4: they're introducing this first of its kind holiday flavors, sugary 183 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 4: sugar cookie. And it's all their crispy flakes and other 184 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 4: crunchy oak clusters and all of that. But instead of 185 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 4: you know, the honey, it's gonna be that buttery goodness 186 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 4: that we love around Christmas. 187 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we've been talking a lot about additional flavors. 188 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: You know the other day, I was in the supermarket 189 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: and I happen to go down the cookie aisle and 190 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm looking at. 191 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 2: What happened to stumbled. 192 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: I bought a couple of cookies. But I go down 193 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: the cookie aisle and I'm looking at oreos. They had 194 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: eighteen different kinds of Oreo cook. 195 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 4: Absolutely. Sorry, I just took some water. Absolutely. They're known 196 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 4: for it, and some of them are kind of they're 197 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 4: more novelty, and they come and go, and then some 198 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 4: of them are so beloved they stick around. 199 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the traditional Oreo, but the super thin Oreo, 200 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: the extra thick cream Oreo. Yeah. 201 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 2: And then you have stuff like. 202 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 4: You also have like birthday cake Oreo, which is pretty tasty. 203 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 4: And Mike mackerel, even the smoked mackerel. I know, are 204 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 4: you're not getting enough mercury in your life? 205 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: What's the problem. 206 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if you can take your temperature with fish 207 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: sticks these days, you know, Okay, we are done.