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Firms Represents show. All right, let's talk about traditions. You know,
here it is it's Christmas time, a tonic time, and
it's holiday time, and we're just sitting here before the
podcast started talking about, um, these cookies that have crumbled
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up peppermint cane on them, candy cane, candy cane, and
then you're talking about a friend of yours that made
peppermint bark. Yeah. She takes like a chocolate candy cane,
a mold of a candy cane, puts melts the chocolate,
crumbles up the candy cane and puts it on and
then puts it in the fridge and it comes out
like chocolate with candy cane crunches on. It is just
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like an every Christmas thing. Every Christmas she does. These
are these traditions. For instance, I'm talking about my talking
about my mom for a second, and you will immediately
think about a tradition in your family that maybe you've
taken for granted. Like my Christmas, my mother would do
the peppermint bark candy. She makes the chocolate almond candy
bark whatever. But she'd also do that checks mix and
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she with all the different flavors and stuff. The thing is,
you know, when it was there, I was like, oh,
there it is it yeah, and then just let it go.
But now my mom has passed away and she's gone on.
You know, I'm thinking, oh my god, we had these traditions.
I never really acknowledged them as traditions. Do you guys
have some of the same things in your family? Yeah,
we do. My grandmother used to make um She used
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to make krum coca and sand bockles. What is kum
coca socca? Is like it's like a really thin, like
flaky pastry rolled into a tube. So it's like maybe
the it's maybe you know, four inches long maybe and
it's like a very thin tube and it's just like
you put it, you eat it, it it just crumbles in
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your mouth like a straw, a straw, but but it's empty.
Yeah it's yeah, it's a straw and it it's like
it almost looks like if you took a Doyle lee
and rolled it into a tube, but that doily is edible.
It's really really think you can suck hot chocolate with that, yeah,
or you can you know. And she always had that,
and she had song buckles, which just looks like um
if uh Reese's peanut butter cup if you took the
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wrapper and just made that into a cookie. So it's
like empty, but it's that kind of a thing. It's
so good. And we don't have those anymore because she's
so she's gotten older and it's hard for her to
come every year. You ate them really accepting the fact
that this is a tradition that I'm going to miss
one day. Yeah, yeah, here they are and now they're
not there anymore. That's Bethany next to Bethany is scary,
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and of course Brody is here, Garrett is here, and
there's Danielle and straight all right. So my grandma Nancy,
great Grandma Shabiko, and Aunt Millie, the three of them
would collaborate together and they'd roll out these things called
strip every year, which their honey dipped balls of dope
Garrett hasn't pulled up on mountain and then you put
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these little dotted sprinkles Jimmy's whatever you want to call
them on it and they stick together. And the more
the more um I guess uh left out that they are,
the better they taste as time goes by, so they
taste stale, but not really. They get stale so good,
but more stale they are the better. They are absolutely weird.
And it's a Christmas tradition. And my mom tries to
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do it and then she's like this, I'm not doing
this anymore. Your mother would never use that word. Well,
she said, screw this. So I went to Every year,
I go to the bakery and I buy stuff. So, Bethany,
you're showing his pictures online. Crum coca. Those are beautiful. Yeah,
they're really pretty? Kay are you m k A k E.
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It's a word. It's a word that makes pervy guys giggled, like,
for instance, brody. And it sounds like diarrhea, like like
I've got a little crimp coca. It's like cca. It
looks like crumb. It's delicious. It's like what happens after
you eat the dessert. You guys, you know what I
just I just took a crumb cocka. You know what
you're doing. It's not a beautiful language, but it is
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a whim. Then you're making fun of a tradition, and
you said I was a pervy thing. It's a poopy thing.
All right, something, He's gonna have it this season. Now
I'm not going to be able to enjoy it. I'm
gonna enjoy I'm gonna I'll show them, fuck them. I'm
gonna sit here and enjoy my Chrome Brody. Any tradition family,
but we have a we have a Christmas tradition. Sometimes
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when the snow is falling, we gather up the kids
and we get the mittens on in their hats and
and we drive out no matter how bad the weather is,
and we go to the Chinese restaurants. Do that. Yeah,
sometimes before the movie, sometimes after the movie. Right, movie?
Will you see this year? On Christmas? The biggest probably
will probably go see Star Wars for the second time
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that evening when no one's there but the Jews and uh,
and then we just have the whole place to ourselves
and the Chinese restaurants great and uh. It just brings
back so many memories of last year. What about your Garrett,
Do you have any family traditions that you need to
recognize as such? We just really started when where down
the family Christmas tree. So my parents and um Ali,
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my wife and our son. We went out yesterday we
cut down for the second time our Christmas tree, only
to realize that I've learned things over the last two
years that you have to shake out your Christmas tree
because my house is infested with spiders. Now that's apparently
you're hearing more and more this year that there have
been bugs and other creatures in the Christmas trees. People
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have been taken home big, little, small, hairy all over
my wall eating feelings. Well, see our Christmas tree is
bug free this year because we bought it at front Gate.
Well any traditions there, Daniel, Yes, So my mom makes
something called tea time Tassi's every single Christmas. They used
to call that in high school. And they're like these
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little they look like little pastry puffs kind but there's
nuts inside of them and there's my lost You bring
some in, Yeah, my mom makes them every year. I'll
try to bring some in. And then the other thing
we do is called Christmas crackers. But this is a
British tradition. So what it is is it looks like
a little tube and on either side it's like a
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bow kind of. In the middle is a hat and
a present and you grab one end kind of like
if you're doing a chicken bone, and I grabbed the
other end, and whoever gets the larger end gets to
wear the crown and gets the toy inside. There you go,
Christmas crackers. We do that every yeares. Yeah, here's all
tea time tasso. Wow, who's coming over for dinner? Buddy,
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tea time Tassio. We need we need a stripper for
our bachelor party. Brings a really trashy boyfriend, so straight
and held on. Yeah, oh turn uh no. My grandmother,
who has since passed, she started to bring over this
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this dessert when I was a child, and we just
called it Grandma's Jello. And it's really not that fan. See,
it's just jello. And before it fully sets, she would
put in cool whip right up and then it's it's
it's just so creamy in the texture. So we still
call it Grandma's Jello. I get it. And we can
only have it on holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas and and Easter,
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and it just reminds me of my grandma. You know,
jellos and jello mold they get a bad rap. And
I'm telling you right now, I think they're fabulous, so great.
My grandparents and my aunt and uncle actually now they
do it where they have a jello similar to Grandma's jello,
where it's jello plus whipped cream all together, and then
they throw in um pieces of snickers and they call
that the salad. So and our family is salad is
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a fruit salad and the fruit salad is actually jello.
Sounds good to me, Sadie. I would never complain about that.
And I bet you you could find the snootiest of
snooty chefs and if you cornered them, if you cornered
them and they had no microphone them, they would admit
that they love fellow mold dishes just as much as we. Yeah,
I love the best. They're gonna have some nuts in
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them or some some kind of creamy thing, funny thing too.
That's perfectly acceptable to eat during dinner. It's not desserts.
It's not you don't wait for it until you have coffee, laters.
Let's on the dish next to the turkey side. It's
a side. Or you can make it a game where
you put little prizes inside and you stick your hands in. Yeah,
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you've lost your mind. She's in the culinary world. They
would call that something with aspect aspect. They called you
that in school. They did that's what they tried to
do to me in gym class. Aspect is it's it
is a it's used gelatin to make some sort of
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some sort of like usually a savory flavored thing that
goes around. Look up aspect p I c Yeah, always
using the term pecton. Well, pecton forms aspect. Okay, enough
of that anyway, look at that. This one looks pecked
in your ass. Pick it's so bad. So just keep
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in mind. You know what you you you you grow
up eating these things and enjoying these traditions, uh that
are set forth by your mom, your grandmother and your
your great grandmother. You know what when they do, when
they do leave this this universe or this world to
travel to another plane or whatever. You know, they leave
you with that tradition. It's up to you to keep
it going or it will die. You know. Keep that
in mind, so if you can me, I gotta go
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home and make some check mix later. I wonder because
we always talk about our grandparents, you know, then they
came over from the old country. They made this food.
Like Bethany said, her ancestors grandparents made these fun foods
and where they're from. Now that we have the internet
and technology and phones, I don't think we do catchy
stuff like that anymore. Like we don't bring recipes down
from generations like we used to. We just look them
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up on our phone. And I don't know if my
grandkids will look and go, wow, you know, Grandpa David
always used to do this. We don't do that anymore.
We just make an importance is that you have to.
I just think back in the day, that's all they
had was making the meat balls, like like they made
struthful of that was their thing. Now, like there's just
so much we do other than that kind of thing.
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There is an argument to be made for the best
part of the holidays are the traditions, absolutely, because it
is your yearly island. That you land on the island
of traditions and you feel comfortable. It's the same concept
of as comfort food. If you want to eat something
comforting like chicken fried chicken and gravy whatever in March
or April, you can, But during the holidays you have
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these foods that really hit that that happy center, you know,
but scary. Can you make struthful I don't know how
to do it. Can you make strep the caccus, but
I'm gonna learn and my family were teaching ourselves how
to make lefts. So we've made lefts of the past
few years, which is something that my grandparents only did. Um.
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But I think you're right, Elvis, because anybody who has
spent a holiday away from the people they normally spend
it with, it's sad, it's hard, and it's the same holiday,
but it's that you're not with those people. It doesn't
even matter. Even if you have the same food, it's
not the same. It's it's not you know what. So
I guess that's our fifteen minute morning show podcast challenge
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is remember that that tradition that that you grew up with.
Try to do it yourself. Try to make it yourself.
See if you can do it. And even though you
may not be with your family, which is sad, you
can have a little piece of the memory and when
you're eating that. I think it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's
there is. I have actually one of a listeners saw
it on my Twitter when I was posting a picture
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of something else. It was in the background. I have
one of my grandmother's recipe cards framed and it's not
even necessarily something that I make, but it just it's
her handwriting, and it's it reminds me of her, So
it just sits up on my fridge. I can't believe
you just said that, because you know Drew Scott, our
our buddy in Santa Fe. He just sent me a card,
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the recipe card my mom typed out for for the
checks mix. Yeah, I'll find it. Page car. Well, my
mother worked at that law firm and her typewriter it
was an IBM typewriter and she typed it out and
you can see I can see my mom's type because
I remember she used to type things all the time
and reminded me and my mom. That's crazy. Memories are
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a wonderful thing. You know what. Even though you lost
your parents maybe or one day you will, it's those
little things you just never thought about. When you see
them after they're gone, it takes you back to days
when you had them in your life, and it really
is kind of comforting. It's nice. They live on in
weird ways even if you even if you were to
lose everything, nobody could take that memory from you. Ever,
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it's the safest thing. This is the saddest show ever
this picture of aspect. It's horrifying. Yeah, aspect doesn't always
include the best stuff. Don google it. It's like turkey
and olives in a big hairrot suspected a murky jello mold.
Look at that. Oh, that's disgust. It's like suspended in.
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It's like if mop water was turned into a jello
mold and then you put vegetables inside that poor man's
jello mold. Right, you know what. It's one of those
foods that if done right, it looks awful, but if
you eat it, you just start rolling your eyes roll
back in your head. Like the fruitcake like that that.
I started to like fruitcake because my dad like fruitcake,
so that's a tradition. He would always get this fruitcake
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from my aunt Karen because nobody and it's probably the
year's previous fruitcake that she got from someone that she
gave to him. But I started to like it because
of because of my dad's the fruitcakes the opposite for me.
To me, it looks better than it tastes. But these
these aspect freaking things. I'm going to sweep this picture out,
so when you're listening, go to at Radio. Bethany on
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Twitter and you'll see this horrifying picture. You know, if
you ate that, I bet you would love it. Oh God,
I know, I know, I know, and I know the
tasting food begins with the eyes. I get that, But
you have to understand that it could taste better than
it looks. Couldn't get past what it looks like to
put it in my mouth. Looks like turn off the light.
It looks like a solid version of those green drinks
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you guys drink when you're cleansing. And I guess it
is make is made with horse homes if you think
about it, is it most gelatine and including some sort
of hoof? Yeah, and then there's plenty of some type
of gray meat inside that. Sign me up. That's the turkey.
What's the name of that aspect you're looking at? It's
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a extra crispy Um, it just extra crispy. I don't
know crispy. It doesn't I see carrots in there? Aspect
is soft? I don't. I think maybe the name of
the blog is extra were really ending this aspect? Can
we quick say something about anything else other than this?
Watch The Christmas Life Fight, Great Christmas Life Fight tonight.
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They're very good watch that tonight on ABC on Monday,
the fifteen Minute Morning Show off