WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Barbershop Benny 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.760 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.120 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.919 Mahler and Danny g Radio. And we have made it 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:44.320 to the weekend just hours ago, hours ago the Overnight Show, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.239 and I just checked my email before I cranked on 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.880 the microphone here in the podcast studio, and complaint after 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:57.240 complaint after complaint, not about anything that I did on 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.000 the Overnight Show last night, nothing about my commentary. The 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.600 complaints were I don't understand. But why was Lorena not 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.720 there was the where was the queen complaining and all 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.280 that stuff. And here's the here's the funny thing, right, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.880 And I don't know it's funny or not. Every time 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:24.960 someone on the show is away, I get the complaints, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.039 I get the complaints, and I this was actually this 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:34.360 started before Lorena took the night off because a couple 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:35.960 of days ago she announced that she was not going 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.440 to be on last night. People complained. The funny thing is, though, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.560 that people complain when she's there, so I guess it's 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.880 one of these weird things. And this goes back to 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.480 one of my hypotheses of the past that while people 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.919 said back in the day baseball baseball was the past 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:01.800 time of America, I would argue that complaining is the 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:09.200 number one pastime, at least of the overnight talk radio consumer. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:20.200 People love. They absolutely love complaining. They do. It's wild 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.400 and listen. I do too. I complain about things I rant, 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.760 I get on my soapbox, issues in sports. It is 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:32.000 a universal hobby though, and it's something the complaint that 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:37.240 we bond over. Right. There is nothing quite like a 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:45.240 good gripe, a good wine fest that takes place. And 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.800 whether it's the weather or whether it's a person not 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.200 being on a radio show and all that now for 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.960 the record, not that you get any kind of award 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.360 from the company, because you don't. But I check back 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.680 and unless I I miss something, I have not left 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.480 my post for a scheduled radio show or podcast. We've 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.240 had fresh shows every day all year, and here we 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.959 are it's the eleventh day of April, and I'm not 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.960 looking for some kind of award. In fact, that's actually 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.440 a bad thing. You should take some time off from 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.440 time to time, and I do plan on taking a 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.280 few days now and again. We're going to Vancouver next 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.040 month for the Malard Meet and Greet. I think I'll 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.600 be taking a day off in Vancouver actually for the 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.400 meet and greet. That's not official. The rumor is it's 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.120 gonna be on a Thursday. It's gonna be on Thursday, 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.120 the Mallard Meet and Greet in Vancouver. So if that's 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.760 the case, we'll probably take that day off from the 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.280 live show and be present in the moment at that 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:55.320 particular event. There's also some dates in June that we'll 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.680 also be there, and there's some random days here and 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.360 there throughout the year, and so we'll see what happens. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.280 I usually what I try to do, and I'm not 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.920 one hundred percent what's going to happen with the TV show. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.160 We don't know. Hopefully they bring the show back for 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.760 another year, which will be great. And if that's the case, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.400 you got to get all the days off in before 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:19.279 that show resumes production, which is in August, the late 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.440 August early September when the NFL season comes around, and 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.840 then we feel the crunch crunchy, crunch crunch. Anyway, I 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.520 just wanted to point out thank you for the complaints. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.120 I'm sure Loraina is honored that people are upset. She 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.679 took the rare and appropriate day off and you guys 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.400 love to complain. So on this podcast, we've got the 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:46.920 Barbershop Benny Foody Follies, and we'll also have the always 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.320 popular Foodie fun not to be confused with foody follies, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.360 a lot of foodie and the word all the week, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.640 the word of the week. But we begin with this 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.560 and this goes back in the hot top time machine. Now, 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.279 some of you guys have been with me a long time, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.000 o those of you are new. And it doesn't matter 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.720 whether you've been with the show a long time or not. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.400 We've had a lot of great moments. One of the 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.760 fun periods of the time of the history of the show, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.120 the Overnight Show, was I mean, we're going way back, 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:21.680 going back over twenty years. So the Chicago Cubs were 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.080 in the playoffs and the Cubs were going on a run. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.480 They were on a heater, as the kids like to say, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.280 and it looked like they were going to go to 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.920 the World Series. And during this time, we were on 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.080 the Score in Chicago, which was where we got Doc 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.360 Mike from. It doesn't really call a show much anymore. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.040 So during that time, a listener who was a huge 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.440 Cub fan reached out to me and said, Hey, I 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.919 got a song and I'd like you to play it 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.360 on the air, and I said, okay, I'm hoping to that. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.919 So he sent me the copy of the song. We 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.000 played it on the air, and we got in all 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:03.800 kinds of trouble, all kinds of trouble. And it was 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.760 a barber shop song. It was called the Chubby Cubby. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.000 I think we might play a little bit of it 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:24.880 right here. The Chubby Cubby got it. We're looking good, Jobby, Yeah, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:31.640 classic so good. Such a such a wonderful tune back 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.880 in the day. And I can't believe people didn't like 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:39.120 the double entondras in that song. Wow uh, But that 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.039 brings back a whole bunch of memories. And I brought 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.240 this up. And the reason I'm saying barbershop Benny is 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:49.479 today is national barbershop music day. And I didn't know 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.760 much about barbershop music. I just knew I liked it. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.440 I liked the sound. And sure enough, it turns out 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:03.839 the origin is self explained to Barbershop music is deeply 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.920 rooted in the history of Black America and it goes 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.320 back to the eighteen eighties in the South, and the 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:19.280 dudes would hang out with the barbers and others at 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.960 the shop and they're waiting for their haircut, and apparently 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.080 you had to wait a long time, and they would 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.040 sing and harmonize together just like they were in some 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.320 kind of movie for entertainment. It's amazing what people did 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.920 before the smartphone, and you have entertainment right now. You 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.000 can get in that zombie mode and stare at a screen. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.880 So they didn't have podcasting and radio shows or anything 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:48.800 like that in the eighteen eighties. And so anyway, yeah, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:54.120 they started singing, and that simple act in the eighteen 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.920 eighties turned into a genre called barbershop music, and it 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.080 thrive from that point the eighteen eighties until the early 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:09.320 nineteen n nineteen ten, there was a song titled Play 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:14.000 the Barbershop Chord which was released to the public, and 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.400 that was all about that. The harmony, the barbershop harmony, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:23.280 which is so cool, the art of harmonize singing, and 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.200 it's the type of performance and we played a little 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.240 bit here, but it's a type of performance which is 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.720 so good and just catchy lyrics and the melody and 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.760 it's it's great. Now it faded away in like the 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.000 nineteen nineteen twenties, became less popular, and it's really a 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.040 niche type of music even to this day. But the 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.440 Chubby Cubby and how we got in some trouble with 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.960 the affiliate in Chicago for playing that song along with 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.400 Doc Mike. A fond memory, Fond Memory and the hot 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.360 tub time machines. We go back to the some of 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.360 the early days of the Overnight Show when I was 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:10.440 doing weekend overnights and that was interesting. Now it is 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.320 also Poutine day. It is a very important day. My 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.880 favorite thing from Canada is poutine. Now I know it's 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.360 more of a Quebec thing, and it's a French French dish, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:28.440 French Canadian dish. And we're going to Vancouver. Oh, I 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:32.240 cannot wait, cannot wait. Looking forward to it certainly kind 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:33.400 of look around and say, like what do I want 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.920 to check out. And I've seen Vancouver on the TV. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.280 Remember the Vancouver Canucks have been in the Stanley Cup 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.080 Finals and been in big playoff games over the years, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.400 and so occasionally, don't tell anybody, don't tell Eddie, but 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.760 I'll watch hockey. And I've seen Vancouver for other things, 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.120 and it's a beautiful looking city. And I'm excited to 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.680 get there and excited to meet some fans of the show, 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.760 fans of this podcast that'll be there and check out 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.800 the culture in Vancouver. But one of the things I 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.360 would like to do when I'm there is eat the poutine. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.000 I know it's far away from Quebec, but it is 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.840 Poutine Day, and poutine is a Canadian dish that is 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:19.360 heavily influenced by the French cuisine. In fact, I read 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.880 somewhere that in the regions the French dominated portions of Quebec, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:33.720 it is pronounced not poutine but poutin, poutin, like Vladimir Putin. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.520 But in Quebec that is where they pronounce it. But 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.400 but everyone else outside of Theirs, it's poutine. And if 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.760 you don't know what poutine is, you're missing out. You're 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.880 missing one of the great joys of life. Poutine. Putine 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.040 is a dish that has the you got the French fries, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.120 French fries, you got the cheese curds, and then you 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.920 got the basic dishes with brown gravy. That's I guess 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:01.199 the original dish. And other verse versions of poutine. I've 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.400 had all kinds of There's a fried chicken version actually 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.280 a place here in southern California and Anaheim that has 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.760 it's called the Croft. If you're in sokout really good 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.880 and they've got this fried chicken version of it Country 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.520 Fried Chicken, which is outstanding and you know, mixed together 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.440 that put different meats in there, and there's butter and 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.680 other ingredients and all that. I'm just kind of kind 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.560 of cool, and not too many places that have. And 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.360 I know in the Northeast when I was in Boston, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.400 we were were floating around the Northeast states and New 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.199 England states and we ran into a fair amount of poutine, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.960 a fair amount of poutine throughout that region. But in 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.920 California where we do the show from, not so much. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.640 But this is National Poutine Day, which is celebrated every 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.160 year here on April eleventh, and mostly in Canadian cities, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.280 but it's also very popular here in the state. And 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.200 the reason that I wanted to bring up Poutine Day 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.840 is not that I just want a wax poetic about poutine. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:12.600 I love poutine, but did you know that boutine was 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:17.880 created in Quebec by mistake about that and it took off. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:25.120 And that leads us into foody follies, foods that are 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:31.719 tremendously popular that were complete fops in the kitchen. And 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.679 as the Great Paul Harvey would say, the Great Paul Harvey, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.560 you know what the news is. You know what the 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.120 news is, but you're soon going to hear the rest 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.040 of the story. Yeah. When I got into radio, Paul 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.320 Harvey was the most listened to person in radio. Everyone 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.840 knew who Paul Harvey was. He's been dead for a while. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.520 Nobody knows who Paul Harvey is because it was your 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.960 radio boomer. You're mentioning, You're mentioning a guy that's not around. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:04.440 What Paul Harvey, good day? Anyway, She's supposed to ruffle 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.800 papers or something. So the dish, why don't we start 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.000 with poutine? Right, We'll do that. I thought this was 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.720 interesting and it's the fifth Hour podcast we don't do 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.400 sporty here. It's a little extracurricular activity. I think this 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.959 kind of stuff's cool. I like futson around in the kitchen. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:25.920 So it was a mistake. It was a mistake, and 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.040 it was created accidentally. We've talked about this in the past. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.599 But this guy named Eddie, not Eddie Garcia, but a 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.880 different Eddie. I don't even know how to pronounce his 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:40.280 last name. But this guy was working at a restaurant 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.040 in Quebec. He was there and this guy comes in 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:51.719 and he's a regular customer, and the restaurant was located 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:58.160 in Warwick, which is in Quebec. I'm not familiar with 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.480 the geography of Quebec, so I just know that they 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.920 said it's a town of Warwick, and that town was 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.920 known for making cheese kurts. It's a popular dish, cheese skirts. So, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.920 as the legend goes, this guy Eddie, the guy actually 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.360 was the guy at the restaurant who worked there, or 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.200 actually was the customer. Excuse me, it was a customer. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.200 So he asked for cheese kurts to be added to 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:30.680 his French fried and the restaurant owner replied in French. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.880 He said that is going to make a dreadful mess. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.960 That that was the reply, that is that is going 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.120 to make a dreadful mess. Like this was offensive, Like 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.400 what are you doing? I mean, we are in the 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.640 culinary business. We do not want to serve bad food. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.560 And so, you know, it's you know, typical cliche of 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.960 you know, the French guy getting angry and snippy and 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:04.040 all that stuff. And well, they'd made it and people 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.960 loved it, other people ate it, and the rest is history. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.760 But it was a kind of a mistake. It was 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:15.160 like they threw it all together and it was a 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.360 it was a mess, and it's delicious. The chocolate chip cookie. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.480 Did you know? The chocolate chip cookie, which started at 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:29.440 the toll house in in the Commonwealth, started when Ruth Wakefield, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:35.120 here's the legend anyway, ran out of chocolate and substituted 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.960 it with chalked up, chopped up semi sweet chocolate bits, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.200 and she thought that they would melt into the dough, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.880 but instead they didn't. They held their shape, and that 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:53.120 is the birth of the chocolate chip cookie. Nestley later 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.840 bought the recipe and they're still doing pretty well. They're 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.280 doing pretty well. The potato chip back in the eighteen fifties. Now, 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.000 chocolate chip cookie was invented in the nineteen thirties, but 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:11.360 the potato chip came from Saratoga Springs, New York, famous 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.960 for other things. And a guy named George Crumb, George 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.479 Crumb in New York, and he was annoyed because customers 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.880 were sending back fried potatoes were being too thick and soggy. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.680 So this guy was at the end of his robe. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.280 He was at a I want to get away situation, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.800 so he said, screw it. I'm gonna slice these potatoes 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.760 paper thin and I'm gonna fry him. And he did 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.000 just that. And the whole plan was to be a 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.480 douche and he wanted to annoy the person that was 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:53.080 the picky customer, and the customer loved them, and they 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.840 became a sensation, and they were originally called Saratoga Chips, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.280 but again it was to screw over this custom that 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.000 was a douche, and then they of course become potato chips. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.120 And yeah, I mean, there's there's a bunch of other 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:12.480 stories like that. Foody follies. The upside down apple tart 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.880 came from the eighteen eighties and this guy that ran 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:24.119 the hotel kitchen in France was making a regular apple 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.399 pie as we know it today, and the person was 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.479 overwhelmed and accidentally left the apples cooking in butter and 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.879 sugar for too long. Who goofed, I've got to know. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.439 So in an effort to try to salvage the food, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:45.000 the person threw the pastry dough on top and baked 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.800 it and then flipped it over. And the people at 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.080 this hotel in France loved it. Doesn't it seem like 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.800 most of these food mistakes are from France. I mean, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.520 we got the you got the poutine, you got this 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:04.879 upside down apple tart thing. Now, this is an La story, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:10.600 but it's also involving a food mistake of the French variety. Philips, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.720 a restaurant in La which claims the originals Philip the 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.359 original Philips. They claim that they were the inventor of 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.119 the French dip sandwich, and the legend is that a 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:29.119 French immigrant was working at the restaurant. He kind of 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:35.320 ran the place and he accidentally dropped a delicious, freshly 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:40.840 baked row into a pan of hot beef drippings while 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:47.280 slicing the meat, and the customer who had ordered a sandwich. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.280 He didn't want that, but the guy was in a hurry. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.160 He said, listen, I'll take it anyway. And it was soggy. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.000 It was soaked in juice. I guess this was the 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.400 last piece of bread they had and it became a hit. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.520 Now there's another place in La called Coals, which, by 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.240 the way, spoiler alert, I like Coals better. Coals, though, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.200 is at the point of demarcation. It's at the doors 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.720 of Hell. It is literally across the street from skid 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:18.080 Row Coal's restaurant in downtown La. It's an institution. They 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:23.600 claim they invented the French dip, and they say they 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.400 were preparing the sandwich for a customer that had sore 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:32.000 gums and asked for something soft. So the chef dipped 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:38.680 the hard crusted bread we're talking about sliced bread, as 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:44.359 jimbo Fisher would say, and it caught on. It was 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.960 there for some guy that had some dental issues in 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.200 the arrest is issues, So one of those is probably true, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.080 maybe both. Do you know that Nacho was also a 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:59.879 mistake famous story from Mexico and there was a group, 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:06.160 as the legend goes, of military wives nineteen forty three, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.199 the kitchen was closed. He didn't have a lot of 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:16.720 ingredients and so this guy Ignacio Nacho a Naya so 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.240 major d at a restaurant in Mexico. So they didn't 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.040 have a lot of stuff in the kitchen. These US 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:28.400 military wives were were there after everything had closed, and 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.160 so he felt bad, but he threw together what he had, 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:35.800 which was tortilla chips, melted cheese, and halapanos, and the 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:41.520 women could not get enough. And from that mistake, which 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:45.040 wasn't a mistake, it was an act of kindness. This 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:49.080 guy's life legacy was the inventor of the nacho and 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.600 it has evolved and to this day I love a nacho. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.719 I can't get enough cornflakes. We'll get out on this 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:04.280 as far as the food e corn flakes was a mistake. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.760 Doctor John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will the less 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.840 famous of the Kellogg brothers, but they were putting around 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:19.399 in the kitchen with boiled wheat at the sanitarium in 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.640 Battle Creek, Michigan. So they were trying to create a 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.680 healthy cereal. Saw a documentary about this a couple of 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.440 years ago, was pretty good, and I don't remember the 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:32.760 name of it, but it's pretty good. I wish I 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.080 could help you, but just look up weird cereal documentaries. 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:41.800 So the Kellogg brothers accidentally left some wheat sitting out 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.600 a little bit too long and it went stale and 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.680 trying to roll it. They're trying to roll it into dough. Anyway, 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:56.680 it started flaking apart. They toasted the flakes and whila. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:04.720 They later switched to corn cornflakes were born. Will remember 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.560 they were trying to make it healthy. Will said, screw that, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.159 We're going to add sugar, and John, doctor John Harvey, 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:15.320 Kellogg's brother, was like, what the f what are you doing? 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:20.639 You are messing up the healthy meal. But they did it. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:25.679 That's how it went. So we pivot from foody follies, 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:30.960 which aren't really follies, and we go to foody fun 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:35.480 because we all got to eat and some new items. 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.960 Some interesting stories from the food world, other than disasters 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.879 that turned out to be sick, highly successful disasters that 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.960 turned out to be very profitable in the end. What 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.919 a burger kicking off the month of April. I know 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:56.040 it's April eleventh, but they have a mushrooms Swiss burger 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.360 that is back after a three year hiatus. It has 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:04.080 two grilled all beef panties as opposed to partially beef 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:10.080 melted Swiss cheese. It's got the Aju sauce and grilled mushrooms. 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:14.359 I don't need the mushrooms warm toasted bun and that 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:18.600 will be available till June. Second. Jack in the Box 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:23.320 has decided better late than never. They're getting involved into 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:29.520 the Hot Chicken. Yes, the Nashville Hot Chicken limited time. 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.320 If you're in an area with a Jack in the Box, 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.879 check that out. Pizza taking a page out of Kentucky 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:41.880 Fried Chickens playbook. Pizza is launching. They just launched. It's 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.080 actually going on. It started yesterday, it's going on today 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:53.760 and tomorrow. A Pizza Hut Pepperoni flavored caviar. Say what 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:59.480 gets a new pizza caviar bump box? There is one 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:04.880 small problem. The only way you can get this is 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:12.080 by traveling to Eighth Avenue in New York City. PiZZ 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:17.840 Hut located the one location nine thirty two Eighth Avenue 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.200 in New York City, and it's only available from four 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:28.040 o'clock till eight pm this afternoon and then tomorrow. And 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:34.880 that's it. That is all you're done High V. I've 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.720 been to a HIGHVE. They're in Missouri and Kansas and 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:42.320 the Midwest, and they have decided to get rid of 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:47.560 the bar. I actually bought some Chiefs merchandise at a 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.679 high V. They had a store at the front of 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.359 the high Ve that had all kinds of merch It 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:55.720 was very hot. I'd never been to a high V before. 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:57.600 This is when I was last November, when I was 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:02.359 in in Missouri, in Kansas, going back and forth and 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.040 so Hive. They apparently at some of the locations they 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.359 had bars. They're getting rid of those. They're eliminating full 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:13.520 service dining at the High V grocery store. How about 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:18.879 this one? Olive Garden is no longer number one in 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:22.080 terms of casual dining in the United States. They have 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:27.960 been dethroned. So as you know, I do not do lists. 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:31.199 I do not believe in list. But in honor of 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:35.600 Terry and England, a big supporter of Big Ben's Big Board, 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:40.800 has always liked Big Ben's Big Board. In fact, Terry 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:46.520 and England. Every weekend he sends me a message encouraging 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.480 me for more of Big Men's Big Board. He says, Ben, 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:53.959 you've got to do it, we need it, we believe 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:58.640 in you. I demand Big Men's Big Board, I say, Terry, 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:00.600 I just I want you to know it's not he 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:03.200 says Ben. I know it's not a list. You're as 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.080 strong as a lion. Come on, give it to me. 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:12.320 So anyway, here it is the ten top ten casual 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:18.120 dining chains in the United States. Now I realize that 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:19.919 if you're not in the United States, you might not 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.679 know many of these places. Number ten, number ten on 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.760 Big Ben's Big Board. Big Ben's Big Board, Number ten 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:32.320 Red Robin. Red Robin is still despite their issues. They 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:37.439 are number ten Red Lobster. We've done several stories on 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:42.000 this podcast about Red Lobster having problems. Remember they had 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:44.880 the all you can eat shrimp and people ate all 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:48.359 they could eat and it became a problem. Cheesecake Factories 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.600 Number eight. I used to eat at Cheesecake Factory all 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:56.960 the time. Big portions used to be somewhat reasonably priced, 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:00.159 and I have not been to Cheesecake Factory in a 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:04.840 fair amount of time. Number seven is Outback Steakhouse, which 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:09.280 I believe just filed for bankruptcy. They're on there. Number 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:13.840 six is Longhorn Steakhouse. These are the top ten on 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:20.040 Big Ben's Big Board casual dining chains according to market research. 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.119 So Longhorn Steakhouse, which I have been to, not that good. 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:31.119 Number six, Number five, Buffalo Wild Wings, there you go. 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:35.760 Number five Applebee's is number four of eating at several Applebee's. 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:42.240 It's fine Chili's, Chili's Grill and Bar. Number three, Number 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:45.760 two is Olive Garden and number one on Big Ben's 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:53.240 Big Board. Number one, you know it is no, it's 0:27:54.480 --> 0:28:00.240 Texas Roadhouse, not to be confused with Longhorn Steakhouse or 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:04.359