Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor Prediction of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie
Speaker 1: Ream and I'm.
Speaker 2: Lauren bubble Bum and today we have an episode for
Speaker 2: you about Tai Yuki.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's going to be fun with pronunciation or
Speaker 1: at least.
Speaker 2: And y'all get to hear my slightly hilarious Japanese accents.
Speaker 1: So here we go. Yep, it's going to be fun. Yeah. Yes.
Speaker 1: Was there any reason this was on your mind? Lauren?
Speaker 2: Ah, it had been on my list for a while.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, maybe I just had one and
Speaker 2: I was like, why don't we do that as an episode.
Speaker 2: I have no idea why I originally added it to
Speaker 2: our list. Maybe I was avoiding doing a red bean
Speaker 2: paste or a zookie bean episode in general. Anyway, they're delightful.
Speaker 2: Here we are.
Speaker 1: They are delightful, and yes, here we are. I did
Speaker 1: encounter some recently at a festival, and my friends all
Speaker 1: got some. I definitely have had them in the past,
Speaker 1: but it's been a minute. I did not partake in
Speaker 1: this thing.
Speaker 2: You're not usually a sweet human, so yeah, yeah, And it.
Speaker 1: Was a fest. It was like a food festival, so
Speaker 1: I had to pick and choose my battles, but I
Speaker 1: did have them and they are delightful. I do love
Speaker 1: red bean paste, oh yeah, meaning of red bean paste.
Speaker 1: And they're just kind of fun.
Speaker 2: They are, I know, right. Yeah. A shout out to
Speaker 2: friend of the show Brandy, who recently gave me a
Speaker 2: little like wafer and chocolate taiyaki for my birthday.
Speaker 1: So it was really nice.
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, this is this is so nice,
Speaker 3: just cute, just cute and nice. Yeah yeah, nice little
Speaker 3: bite and it's it feels very it feels very fustive.
Speaker 2: It does it does? You can see, perhaps weirdly, our
Speaker 2: Pizel episode for more on like this type of treat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know how things will connect in the
Speaker 1: food Savor universe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're talking about like waffle iron desserts, then
Speaker 2: here we are.
Speaker 1: Here we are. But I guess that does really to
Speaker 1: our question. Taiyaki what is it?
Speaker 2: Well, taiyaki are fish shaped pastries that are made with
Speaker 2: a light, slightly sweet wheat flower batter encasing some kind
Speaker 2: of sweet filling like sweet red bean jam or maybe
Speaker 2: like a milk based custard, something like that. The fish
Speaker 2: shape is specifically this kind of cartoony version of a
Speaker 2: red sea breeze, which are these flat but tall fish
Speaker 2: taiyaki do not contain any fish or fish flavoring, it's
Speaker 2: just the shape. They are cooked quickly until golden brown
Speaker 2: in molds that are heated on a burner or over
Speaker 2: a flame, or in an electric mold, and served hot
Speaker 2: as a snack or dessert, often on the go from
Speaker 2: street venders and especially at festivals. There are also iterations
Speaker 2: like frozen treats made out of like a thin wafer
Speaker 2: shell containing ice cream, and packaged treats of a wafer
Speaker 2: containing chocolate filling. The shape and just simple delight really
Speaker 2: are the main points here. In those traditional fresh ones,
Speaker 2: you get this crisp outer layer giving way to maybe
Speaker 2: a little soft inner dough and then even softer filling,
Speaker 2: not too sweet, and they're so cute. They're just they
Speaker 2: are a fish shaped waffle with a sweet filling. Like
Speaker 2: eating taiyaki is a direct portal to feeling the uncomplicated
Speaker 2: joy of being five years old and getting a nice treat,
Speaker 2: just pure childlike whimsy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree on they're just fun.
Speaker 2: They are, right, Okay, So why a fish shaped treat?
Speaker 2: Well in Japan, where taiyaki are from. The red sea
Speaker 2: bream is like a special occasion protein and a symbol
Speaker 2: of good fortune. It features in a bunch of like
Speaker 2: idioms about luck. The red seabream is sometimes called tai
Speaker 2: in Japanese, and the association with good luck is possibly
Speaker 2: because of a pun involving like the fish tie and
Speaker 2: the word metatai, which means auspicious or joyous puns. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the word taiyaki comes from the fish tie plus yaki,
Speaker 2: which is a word for cooked, like cooked with heat,
Speaker 2: like on a grill or in a pan, and taiyaki
Speaker 2: get their shape from specialty pans. They're basically waffle irons
Speaker 2: in the shape of a fish, with like scales and
Speaker 2: fins and tails the whole thing, and they can come
Speaker 2: in either individual or multi fish pan sizes. It's a
Speaker 2: two sided, three dimensional mold with some kind of handle,
Speaker 2: So like you heat the mold, you pour in the batter,
Speaker 2: close it up, and then place it over a heat
Speaker 2: source and flip it to get even coverage. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: there are electric models these days that you can use
Speaker 2: at home the or I mean you can use the
Speaker 2: regular ones at home too, depending on your level of
Speaker 2: bravery here we are. The traditional batter can be anything
Speaker 2: from like basically just like a thin cracker batter to
Speaker 2: a puffy waffle batter right meant to get crispy on
Speaker 2: the outside but stay soft and fluffy on the inside,
Speaker 2: And it can range from like super thin to fairly
Speaker 2: thick and chewy, depending on how you like them. The
Speaker 2: traditional filling is a zuki bean paste, also called uncle
Speaker 2: or on. Azuki beans are a typically like deep brownish
Speaker 2: red colored type of mung bean that have a thick
Speaker 2: and slightly creamy consistency when they're boiled and mashed, and
Speaker 2: are usually cooked down with a little bit of sugar
Speaker 2: into a variably thick paste or jam, either smooth or
Speaker 2: a little bit chunky, depending. It always reminds me of
Speaker 2: if peanut, butter and jelly were a single product, like
Speaker 2: slightly savory, kind of toothsome soft and nicely sweet, and
Speaker 2: the layer I know, right, so good, and the layer
Speaker 2: of filling inside the pastry can range from kind of
Speaker 2: minimal to like super thick, like bursting at the seams.
Speaker 2: Other fillings like flavored custards or chocolate are also common,
Speaker 2: but people do all kinds of things with the concept.
Speaker 2: You can use like a flaky croissant dough instead of
Speaker 2: waffle type batter. Yes, In fact, there are magic harp
Speaker 2: taiyaki molds. Why wouldn't there be. They can come in
Speaker 2: other shapes as well, like Sega recently did Demon Slayer
Speaker 2: anime taiyaki that were shaped like the character's faces. There
Speaker 2: are molds made that are basically for making like taiyaki
Speaker 2: ice cream cones. Like the waffle fish has a big
Speaker 2: open mouth, that's a deep pocket that you can fill
Speaker 2: up with soft serve, ice cream or whatever. The filling
Speaker 2: can be anything you want. You can put mochi or
Speaker 2: fruit compote, or ntella or cookie butter in there. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I've seen fusion takes like tayaki filled with
Speaker 2: guava paste and cream cheese, or like trist late chase
Speaker 2: macha soft serve in American Japanese restaurants. They're often served
Speaker 2: with a side of like ice cream or whipped cream.
Speaker 2: You can put savory batter and ingredients in there, like
Speaker 2: basically make like a tai shaped okamiyaki, or maybe a
Speaker 2: taiyaki filled with sausage or curry or ham and cheese.
Speaker 2: There are street vendors serving tayaki everywhere from like Rhode
Speaker 2: Island to Switzerland.
Speaker 1: So yes, there are so many iterations. Look it up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Recommend, And I do want to specify here that I
Speaker 2: didn't make any of those things up. Everything that I
Speaker 2: just said to you is something that I personally saw
Speaker 2: or read about on the internet today, So these are
Speaker 2: all real world examples. I do also understand that there's
Speaker 2: like a playful debate about how to eat taiyaki headfirst
Speaker 2: or tail first, and like what that says about you.
Speaker 2: Apparently if you go headfirst, you you're like a very
Speaker 2: like seize the day kind of person. And if you
Speaker 2: go tail first, you might be a little bit more cautious.
Speaker 2: But maybe you just like the crunchy of the tail better.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, man, you do you anyway?
Speaker 1: See I thought about this because I saw this too,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I'd be worried about the filling
Speaker 1: coming out, so I would go for the head.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's how I feel, because the filling tends to
Speaker 2: concentrate towards the head.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, listeners, please let us know. I love these kinds
Speaker 1: of things. Well, what about the nutrition.
Speaker 2: Treats are nice.
Speaker 1: Treats are nice. Treats are nice, and people love them.
Speaker 1: They do. We do have some numbers for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one was difficult to find numbers four because
Speaker 2: taiyaki are largely made and sold by individual vendors. But
Speaker 2: I did find a report on the larger industry of
Speaker 2: both traditional and electric taiyaki irons, and as of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, the global market for those was worth nearly
Speaker 2: twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I did read that in traditional shops the bean
Speaker 2: paste can take eight hours to cook and the taiyaki
Speaker 2: themselves take thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Wow. I did find a lot of videos about people
Speaker 1: going to visit shops where taiyaki are made, and I
Speaker 1: was looking for pronunciations. I enjoyed the watching of them
Speaker 1: get made, but it was fast. I was like, whoall,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, we've got a very interesting history for you.
Speaker 2: I have to say, oh yeah, yeah, and we are
Speaker 2: going to get into that as soon as we get
Speaker 2: back from a quick break. For a word from our sponsors.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So researchers think that tayaki originated in Japan during
Speaker 1: the Meiji period, which was a period of modernization from
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty eight to nineteen twelve, and that it was
Speaker 1: an evolution of pastries that came before it. Anytime we
Speaker 1: do these pastry episodes, it's sort of hard to hard
Speaker 1: to really pin down exacts, but there is a very
Speaker 1: specific story about how this pastry was invented. It credits
Speaker 1: a tokyo shop called Naniwaya Sohonten. The owner said Jiro
Speaker 1: Kobe was trying to come up with a way to
Speaker 1: use up any unsold imagawayaki, which is another similar pastry
Speaker 1: traditionally filled with sweet azuki bean paste, and he got
Speaker 1: the idea to use this mold of a seabream fish,
Speaker 1: which symbolized good luck in Japan and is associated with celebration,
Speaker 1: to make a novel, festive pastry product that quickly became popular.
Speaker 1: It was fun, it was an accessible way for people
Speaker 1: who couldn't afford seabream, which was expensive at the time,
Speaker 1: to celebrate. However, there really isn't anything concrete backing this up.
Speaker 1: From what I can tell, It is possible that I
Speaker 1: couldn't get sources from Japan, but I tried to get like,
Speaker 1: where's the specific thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I couldn't most in English, this is the
Speaker 2: story that is repeated.
Speaker 1: That it was at this shop by this guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: and some specifically cite a nineteen oh nine recipe from
Speaker 1: this shop as the first known recipe for tayaki.
Speaker 2: The story also goes that that Kobe was looking like
Speaker 2: he tried a few different shapes for this pastry before
Speaker 2: he landed on the fish shape. I don't know, you
Speaker 2: know here we are, yes.
Speaker 1: And kind of expounding on that. There's another story, and
Speaker 1: this is stepping back a bit and varied briefly because
Speaker 1: we can only do so many pastries in one episode. Everyone.
Speaker 1: Historians think that imaga wayaki was invented in seventeen hundreds
Speaker 1: and it was pretty popular. They were coin shaped pancakes
Speaker 1: made in special irons sort of like a waffle iron
Speaker 1: without the grid pattern, usually filled with sweet azuki bean paste,
Speaker 1: but could be a bunch of other things in there too.
Speaker 1: I actually am really interested to come back and talk
Speaker 1: about them, because I was. I got fascinated by all
Speaker 1: the different iterations of bost and the irons specifically, but anyway,
Speaker 1: different time for that. By the nineteen hundreds. These pastries
Speaker 1: were sort of old news, though, so vendors got the
Speaker 1: idea to mold them into animal shapes and it was
Speaker 1: mildly successful at first, but it didn't really take off
Speaker 1: until someone used the seabream shape. Again, evidence is sparse,
Speaker 1: but this is the generally accepted history and it makes
Speaker 1: sense to me personally. Sure. Yeah, stepping back way way,
Speaker 1: further evidence suggests that azuki beans for domesticated in Japan
Speaker 1: for over ten thousand years. They have a long long
Speaker 1: history as an important food stuff there that we're going
Speaker 1: to have to tackle in another future episode.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah again. Super Briefly, red bean paste was
Speaker 2: originally like a salted savory filling that was used as
Speaker 2: a vegetarian protein source, but morphed into the sweetened product
Speaker 2: we know today as sugar became more available, and it
Speaker 2: was also going into other treats like a pun which
Speaker 2: are like soft bread buns filled with red bean paste,
Speaker 2: and doriyuki, which are pancakes sandwiching red bean paste around
Speaker 2: the same time that Taiyaki developed. But yeah, other episodes
Speaker 2: episode or episodes, Yeah, anyway, so.
Speaker 1: Many episodes were giving ourselves so much homework. But whatever,
Speaker 1: the case at the pastry. Taiaki in question was available
Speaker 1: across the country by the early nineteen hundreds, thinks in
Speaker 1: part to railroads, mass production, and department stores offering them
Speaker 1: for sale. Naniwaya itself franchised, setting up locations across the country.
Speaker 2: I read that at its height there were one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty locations. Today there are about ten, so.
Speaker 1: Here we are one hundred and fifty, I know.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: During the Japanese occupation and colonization of Korea in the
Speaker 1: nineteen thirties, tayaki was introduced there, leading to the Korean
Speaker 1: version called Bounepong or carpret another separate episode, but from
Speaker 1: what I read, they were popular during tough times, and
Speaker 1: many specifically associate them with winter.
Speaker 2: Yeah in general, but both of these treats that the
Speaker 2: Japanese version and the Korean version were probably originally cold
Speaker 2: weather treats because they were served hot, like piping hot
Speaker 2: out of the mold, which would be nice if you
Speaker 2: were walking or working outdoors.
Speaker 1: Does sound lovely, But speaking of tough times, in the
Speaker 1: utter devastation of the aftermath of World War Two, tayaki
Speaker 1: was an affordable source of comfort for many in Japan.
Speaker 1: In the post war period, taiyaki spread to other Asian
Speaker 1: countries and then around the globe. I couldn't find an
Speaker 1: exact date, but sometime in the ensuing decades, grocery stores
Speaker 1: started offering frozen tayaki. This brings us to something I
Speaker 1: had no knowledge of me neither, but very excited to
Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Super producer Android was like, oh, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Knew immediately and new a facts about it. Okay. So
Speaker 1: this brings us to the popular children's song oh Yoka
Speaker 1: Taiyaki kun, sung by Masato Shiman, which debuted in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five, and it really boosted taiyaki's profile in a
Speaker 1: way I feel like I can't even accurately encompass for you,
Speaker 1: and perhaps specifically the profile of Naniwaya Sohonten, the then owner,
Speaker 1: served as the model for the old man owner of
Speaker 1: the shop, which is in the lyrics and in the video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's about a taiyaki coming to life and swimming
Speaker 1: away to avoid being cooked. He gets in a fight
Speaker 1: with the old man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't want to be put to the fire.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving, So he goes out into the ocean and
Speaker 2: swims away.
Speaker 1: He does, but Taiyaki kun is caught by a fisherman
Speaker 1: at sea, so you can never truly escape, and he's eaten. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He goes on all kinds of adventures, he makes friends,
Speaker 2: he makes enemies, but eventually is caught eaten.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yep. It sold four point five million copies. It
Speaker 1: was the first single to debut, is number one on
Speaker 1: the Oricon Singles chart in Japan, and it held the
Speaker 1: top spot for eleven weeks, and it holds the Guinness
Speaker 1: World Record for best selling physical single in Japan to
Speaker 1: this day and yeah, to this day, and it just
Speaker 1: had a resurgence recently. It's huge.
Speaker 2: It's really yeah. I had no idea highly recommend looking
Speaker 2: at it up. It's really catchy. I'm gonna be singing
Speaker 2: it to myself all day, and the recent pop metal
Speaker 2: version is just adorable.
Speaker 1: So yes, I was telling Lauren, I put off listening
Speaker 1: to it for as long as I could because I
Speaker 1: was worried I'd never get it out of my head.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad I listened to it. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: pretty intense actually, yeah.
Speaker 2: Thematically, thematically, yeah, it probably helps that it's in another language,
Speaker 2: and so like unlike something that you can really get
Speaker 2: the hook in your head for in English. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know just enough Japanese to be in trouble there, so
Speaker 2: like welp here, I am.
Speaker 1: Best of blok Lauren. But that was a really fun
Speaker 1: thing to learn. I had no idea about that. Something
Speaker 1: else I didn't know anything about. In twenty sixteen, New
Speaker 1: York's Tayaki NYC restaurant got all a lot of traction
Speaker 1: on social media by offering soft serve taiyaki. It was
Speaker 1: essentially the taiyaki serve doesn't cone, Yeah, the soft serve,
Speaker 1: and it was very pretty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's super cute again, right, that just
Speaker 2: it's just the taiyaki has like a really big mouth
Speaker 2: and that's where you put the ice cream and they
Speaker 2: top it with other stuff and it's adorable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, And taiyaki innovation and experimentation continues. They are cute.
Speaker 1: Like we've we've talked a lot before about how social
Speaker 1: media can really move these trends or or make a
Speaker 1: food more popular in places where it wasn't as well
Speaker 1: known before, and they just are visually kind.
Speaker 2: Of they're so adorable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eye catching, you're like, yeah, yeah, But as as
Speaker 1: you were saying at the top, lorn people all kinds
Speaker 1: of fillings. People are trying all kinds of things, and.
Speaker 2: I want to try them all too.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love a good stuffed dough product. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm in that's.
Speaker 2: Good, right, More animal shaped waffle treats please?
Speaker 1: Is that too much to add?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Animal crackers are kind of boring, but I think that
Speaker 2: we're onto something here.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. Well, listeners, please write in, send photos
Speaker 1: if you have any, if you've made them, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: let us know how that went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you possess one of these irons, if you
Speaker 2: have a memory, or have been to any of the
Speaker 2: famous shops, yes, the festivals.
Speaker 1: Please let us know. But I think that's what we
Speaker 1: have to say about Tayaki for now. It is.
Speaker 2: We do already have some listener mail for you, though,
Speaker 2: and we are going to get into that as soon
Speaker 2: as we get back from one more quick break for
Speaker 2: a word from our sponsors, and we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you, And we're back with a listeners.
Speaker 1: Now mom off of its head. I just feel like
Speaker 1: if I next time I have a Tayaki. I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to see what naturally I would do, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like I would go head first.
Speaker 2: The tail is kind of easier to hold on to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it seems like a natural handle, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I think. And then I read some
Speaker 1: people go for the finn first. No, like the top fin.
Speaker 1: I see that. I see that. Yeah, that could be
Speaker 1: kind of an ease of operations thing.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, like nibble around the
Speaker 2: edges kind of situation.
Speaker 1: I get that. Yeah, well, listeners, let us know if
Speaker 1: you have thoughts about that as well. Okay, so listener,
Speaker 1: Ruth has once again really blessed us with an amazing song.
Speaker 1: Ruth was the one behind the Pumpkin smash. Oh yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I will not be singing this, but I do think
Speaker 1: that if you hommet in your head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it scans really well.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, yeah, yes. So Ruth wrote a song
Speaker 1: about canon Bear to the Bear Necessities that I shall
Speaker 1: read for you now, with apologies to the mouse. It
Speaker 1: says the cam and Bare necessities a tasty cheese necessity.
Speaker 1: Who thought it caused such trouble and such strife? The
Speaker 1: camm bear Necessities one of Mother Nature's recipes to bring
Speaker 1: more cheesy goodness to your life. Now? Was it a
Speaker 1: monk's gift or just a gal from breed with a
Speaker 1: funky fungus brought it to be? Did Napoleon the one
Speaker 1: give it its name? Or was Number two the one
Speaker 1: to blame? Well? Whoever gave it the name. It's a
Speaker 1: great cheesy treat, just the same. We all agree, it's true.
Speaker 1: The canon Bear Necessities of Life taste real good too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I was so happy to see this. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing your gift. You could be like
Speaker 1: the weird aw Yankovic of just Food covers y yeah food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I love it. Yeah, yeah, it's it's fantastic. Nos.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also I have to say that The Bare Necessities
Speaker 2: is a is a song that I get in my
Speaker 2: head about like once a quarter, like once every couple
Speaker 2: of months or so apropos of nothing. M h, I
Speaker 2: just I watched too many Disney cartoons as a kid.
Speaker 2: But yeah, beautiful. Now, now I'm going to have this
Speaker 2: alternate version in my head.
Speaker 1: I like how we have two different ear potential earworms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this episode. That's that's fantastic, beautiful, Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you genuinely.
Speaker 2: Melissa wrote, I've been meaning to write in for a
Speaker 2: while about strong tea opinions. I spent a year abroad
Speaker 2: in England during college and thought years of preferring tea
Speaker 2: to coffee would serve me well. I was there less
Speaker 2: than a month before shocking a British friend by putting
Speaker 2: milk in my earl gray. This is an insult to
Speaker 2: the tea. It should be drank black with sugar or
Speaker 2: lemon if you have to. I was taken aback. It's
Speaker 2: not that different than black tea right. Also, this wasn't
Speaker 2: coming from some posh snob. My friend was a gutter
Speaker 2: punk with a foot high mohawk and he was being sincere.
Speaker 2: Strong food opinions come for us all, even the anarchists.
Speaker 2: A few random related asides. If you're ever in Montreal,
Speaker 2: there's a Japanese restaurant, Kazu, that's worth visiting for so
Speaker 2: many reasons, including their desserts, offering soft served ice cream
Speaker 2: dusted with earl gray tea ground to the consistency of
Speaker 2: powdered sugar. It's incredible, but also bring flows related to
Speaker 2: other countries having better Dorito's flavors, at least when I
Speaker 2: was there fifteen years ago. England's chip or as they
Speaker 2: would say, crisps flavors are no joke. Look Walker's offerings.
Speaker 2: It felt like having a full synthetic meal, like roasted
Speaker 2: chicken and thyme, lamb and mint, et cetera. I recently
Speaker 2: started seeing ketchup doritos in Canada, and personally I find
Speaker 2: this horrifying, but they keep selling them, so I guess
Speaker 2: someone likes them. Lastly, in response to the pasta salad episode,
Speaker 2: I recently came across a Martha Stewart tip to add
Speaker 2: Sauer kraut to potato salad. I tried it on a
Speaker 2: basic mayo potato, boiled egg and vinegar recipe and can
Speaker 2: concur the sauer kraut is pretty great as an add on.
Speaker 2: It worked especially well on leftovers. I'd imagine it'd work
Speaker 2: well on pasta salads as well. Hmm, that's blowing my
Speaker 2: mind a little bit, but sure, yeah, no, I can
Speaker 2: I can see the saur kraut thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I'd have to experience it personally, but I
Speaker 1: can see it working. Yeah, certainly in potato salad. I
Speaker 1: still like, my brain still doesn't want pasta salad to
Speaker 1: really exist, so it's sort of resisting that concept. But yeah,
Speaker 1: someone try it. Let us know, yes, yes, please also
Speaker 1: please keep this chip information from other countries coming flavor information.
Speaker 1: I love hearing about this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And it is super fascinating to me that, like,
Speaker 2: we don't have meat flavored chips in the United States
Speaker 2: for some heck in reason because you would think with
Speaker 2: as like macho as we get about more streak or
Speaker 2: eating meat today, guys like you would think that this
Speaker 2: would be a flavoring for everything, but it's not. It's
Speaker 2: certainly not. No, And I'm jealous because it just sounds
Speaker 2: like good ramen powder, but you just have it on chips,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, yes, I want that.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, and I do. I do kind of love
Speaker 1: that the the way you're framing it, as it feels
Speaker 1: like a full mill almost by the way, they're like, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's kind of Wonka related, it's like Wonka adjacent.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, ye. Yes, we have talked about ketchup doritos or
Speaker 1: ketchup chips, ketchup chips. Yeah, in Canada. Before I believe
Speaker 1: you've tried some on next stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds right. Sure, I think someone someone brought
Speaker 2: them into the office back when we all went into
Speaker 2: the office more often. I think I ate a great
Speaker 2: deal of those. Yeah, mm hmm, I can see, I
Speaker 2: can see not being into it. Oh sure, especially on Durito's.
Speaker 2: I'm like, for some reason, it makes sense to me
Speaker 2: on potato chips, but on douritos I'm kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree. However, thank you for the Montreal restaurant recommendation.
Speaker 2: And I love I love strong opinions about tea so much.
Speaker 2: I love that that this anarchist was offended, offended by
Speaker 2: here use of milk and earl Gray, how dare you?
Speaker 1: That's fantastic?
Speaker 2: What are you doing, Epoxy American get out of here?
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