Froggy's Food News: Close Enough You Can Taste It!

Froggy shares the best food deals for Memorial Day weekend and counts down America's favorite grocery stores for 2025!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Food Reporting, Froggy's news.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
You can eat. That's right, food news, you can eat.
Froggy reporting, Froggy. What's going on today?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
So, on Tuesday, Starbucks launched their brand new summer lineup
cool summer treats, including the all new iced hor Chotta
oat milk Shaken Espresso. It's a smooth blend of blonde espresso, cinnamon,
sorry Gandhi vanilla, and nutty horror Choda vibes.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Whatever that is? Oh a nutty horror. I heard nutty horror.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Nutty horri vibes. Fan favorite summer berry refreshers are back
to juicy raspberry pearls. Your choice of the base is
water lemonade or the coconut milk version that is dubbed
Summer Skies Drink. And there's also a new Strawberries and
cream cake pop as well as a brown sugar cream
cold foam that you could top off any of your
favorite ice drinks with at Starbucks. This is amazing news.

(00:49):
If you're feeling stressed out, you're not alone, whether it's
from your finances or whatever you got going on, a
lot of us would welcome a break from anxiety or stress.
Science has figured out something that is a stress reliever.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It could be just the smell of pizza, okay, totally.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
A new study from the University of East Anglia in
England finds the smell of freshly baked pizza can significantly
ease stress and boost mood, and it actually calms you
down without even taking a bite.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's just a smell of it. I can see that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Forty two percent of people reported feeling that the aroma
made them feel comfortable. Seventeen percent so they were excited
and had a sense of anticipation just from smelling pizza.
So you don't even have to eat it. Just go
smell some pizza today. Popeyes from Memorial Day weekend almost
here close enough you could taste it. Popeyees is celebrating
the holiday with an offer of two mc chicken sandwiches
for just did I say MC chicken?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
You said McChicken.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I was like, wait a second, two chicken sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
You could get the classic chicken sandwich, the Spicy Chicken sandwich,
or the Ghost Pepper Chicken sandwich, all two for eight
bucks right now through the Popeyes app through Memorial Day weekend. Also,
if you make a smoothie in the morning. How many
of you when you make a smoothie you just throw
bananas in there because that's the thing to do.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, it's this story true. I read this this morning.
It made me very sad, very sad.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Study has found that adding bananas to your smoothie can
make it less less healthy, especially if it's got berries
in it. An enzyme in the bananas prevents your body
from absorbing an antioxidant called is that flabonols as much
as eighty four percent.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, so we feel eliminate berries were good?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, eliminate the banana, the.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Berries from the berries. Yeah, the berries are better.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Has an enzyme that keeps your body from absorbing that.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love. How scary it? Yeah, talking from the heffy
man's point of view. And what did you just put
in your mouth? I put on some egg salad in
my mouth. Okay, just asking. I'll get back to you.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Are you ready for the countdown?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yay?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
According to Food and Wine, these are America's favorite grocery
stores for twenty twenty five. Number five all de coming
in at number five.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Number four is h eb oh yeah, a h Howard
e Butts Oh oh named after Howard Butts said, Howard
eats Butts. Number three maybe win Co Foods. I've never
heard of win Co Foods here. Number three? Number two,
the Florida Staple Public says number two. Plucks.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
What's number one?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
And with a rating of four point sixty five out
of five stars, Trader Joe's coming in.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
And there you go, Wow, it's weird not to see
Wegman's in there. WHOA yeah, the list great love Trader Joe's. Wow.
You know what, that's the thing, you know, these grocery
stores are so regional. H E.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Butch the name of the guy who started H. E. B.
That's grocery stores down in San Antonio in Texas. But
then at one time they were talking about merging with
Whole food. So it had been but Whole Foods.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Stoping, but.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was you got to come up with a corporate image.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Nice anyway, that was great.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
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