Savor Classics: Eggo Waffles

This brand of frozen, breakfast-oriented foods was the first to make waffles a no-cook convenience. In this classic episode, Anney and Lauren dig into the history and stranger things about Eggo waffles.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello, and welcome to Savor Prediction of I Heart Radio.
I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vogel bam, and today
we had a classic episode for you about Ego Waffles. Yes,
and I have stuff to say about this before I
get into it, alright, just want to confirm, uh that
this is Stranger Things related. Stranger Things related. Yes, okay,

(00:34):
So this is a super early episode that we did.
It came out in October of UM to coincide with
the release of season two of Stranger Things coming out. Whoa, yeah, wow, Okay,
So things to say. I am very tired right now

(00:56):
because I stayed up until three am bening the season
four part one, which is how far We've Okay okay, yeah,
right right, and Ego Waffles were featured. Also, the e
Walk song that I've mentioned before is featured. So I

(01:17):
never heard it. Go look it up and you can
curse my name later because it's going to be stuck
in your head and haunt you forever. Um. But also
I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it. Um.
And then on top of that, I saw Kate Bush's
song Running Up That Hill, uh, is now like number

(01:40):
one on like iTunes charts. He tracks me up. I
love that song. That's in my top ten favorite songs, um,
and I have loved that song for a long time,
and it was the closest I've gotten a long time
for being like you kids don't know anything. But also
welcome kids. I'm glad that you along, children. Yes please,

(02:02):
I'm not in a creepy way though, no. Oh goodness. Now, however,
Kate bush Is is good, wholesome fun for the whole family.
It was excellent. I was very happy to hear at
that show in general has pretty good music. Um. But
it just kind of cracked me up that they were
all these like news articles about it, like why is
this number one of the shorts? Because that's excellent and

(02:26):
also stranger things. I have not watched the new season yet.
I actually haven't watched past season like two point one.
I fell I fell off of it. But um, but yeah,
now now that I was kind of like looking into

(02:47):
it and I heard that this season is really really
a Barkery, really Clive Barkery, um, and that last season
was really cronin Bergie. So I'm like, oh, I've missed things,
all right. It is funny because they definitely do a
lot of nods, which I appreciate. It passed Horror Things. UM.

(03:09):
But it was funny because this weekend, this past weekend
was a big Star Wars weekend for me, and I
had a friend TEXTI and he was like, so, what
are you gonna do? Are you gonna watch obi wan Kunobi?
Are you going to watch Stranger Things? And I was like,
do you even know who I am? I will get
to Stranger Things? And did I did? I did bene

(03:32):
it Stranger Things all last night, Like I should have
gone to bed, but clearly I gotta know what happens. Um,
but it was. It just cracked me up because clearly
Netflix and Disney Plus are rivals. Yeah, I did enjoy it. Well,

(03:52):
this is ostensibly a food show, yes. Um. The reason
that we did uh Go waffles uh in coordination or
not in coordination with but but timed to the release
of Stranger Things is that they were featured in season
one and have continued that featuring UM through lots of

(04:13):
marketing and throughout the seasons. Uh. The show did actually
boost EGO sales an unknown amount in after the first
season's premiere and then again in uh UM with the
second season drop. Apparently there was a four percent growth

(04:33):
in justin h Q four after after season two came out.
Oh wow, I would love to know, because they were
featured in this most recent season. Um, and they were
featured in a positive manner. I'm curious. I wonder if
there's been another boost. I mean, you know, the sales.

(04:57):
The sales have yet to show us. Um I but yeah,
re listening to this episode was a trip because it
was so early, Like I feel like like like we
hadn't quite figured out the structure yet, but the bones
are all there, and I was like, man, we were
entertaining five years ago. We did an okay job. One

(05:18):
one fact that I had forgotten that like I need
to highlight because like we kind of go over it
quickly and then move on. So. Uh. The words gopher
and waffle share an etymology. Oh you know love etymology. Yes,
and it's because one burrows honeycomb patterns into the ground

(05:40):
and the other kind of looks like a honeycomb. Thank
you early American French colonists. Beautiful, it is indeed beautiful.
Um uh. But um again ostensibly a food show. Um.
We have a few small updated ego facts for you.

(06:03):
The Ego brand currently features lines of frozen waffles, pancakes,
French toast, and stuffed pancake bites, which are like a
like a snack food with either like chocolate or strawberry
stuff inside of them. I haven't tried them. They look delicious. Yeah,
they're pretty good. They're pretty good, and sales within the

(06:24):
Ego brand surged in March alone due to COVID shifts
in purchasing. Wow, Like I was prepared to be impressed
by that four q ye Stranger Things Boost forty five. Heck, yeah, yeah,

(06:53):
that's that's pretty astounding. It makes sense. I mean definitely
in my family, Ego was a we gotta get the
kids to school and we don't, so let's just do it.
And I loved it, Like sure, I was always a
fan of it. Go, but it was definitely like on
my parents and a time saving Like yeah, yeah, so right, Yeah,

(07:18):
sales had been dropping off a little bit before then,
and yeah, I know the with the with the shift
in shift in everything in COVID. Yeah, um, we we
do have a few more updates for you, but I
feel like I feel like we should just just go
ahead and get into the original episode and yeah, yeah, okay,

(07:39):
all right, so let us let former Annie and Lauren
take it away. Hello, and welcome to food Stuff. I'm
born vocabum, and I'm Annie Reese. And today we're going

(08:00):
to talk about frozen waffles and eggo waffles in particular. Yes,
because it's about time for a lot of us to
retreat into our caves over the next few days and
Netflix caves, Yes, and binge watch the second season of
Stranger Things. If you've seen Stranger Things, I'm going to
guess a lot of you have. If you haven't and

(08:21):
you're interested, check it out. Um. But we all know,
we all know those frozen waffles that Eleven loves in
the bright yellow box are Head does. And that's what
we're going to talk about today. Um. So first, as
we frequently do. By frequently, I mean all the time,
what is it? I think it can be explained in

(08:43):
this simple quote. A waffle is like a pancake with
a styrup trap from Mitch Hedberg. Yeah, a waffle has
kind of like a like a grid pattern. It's like
a three D pancakes sort of kind of. Uh, it's
it's within the realm of a pastry. It's usually a
lightly sweetened kind of bread product. Mhm, it's um. The

(09:04):
dough was usually got some kind of milk, eggs, butter,
maybe a levening agent, a rising agent. Um. They run
into the into the light and fluffy on the inside
and crispy on the outside kind of concept. They're very tasty. Um.
Eggo waffles are generally frozen waffles that come in yellow
boxes eight to a pack, nutragrain Eggos where my go

(09:27):
to breakfast for a number of years when I was
a kid. Yeah, I loved the blueberry ones. I love
waffles in general, but that I feel you have to
get the texture right. Are they're they're worthless. They have
to beat krispy. If you get like a saggy waffle,
it's so disappointing. Oh zoggy waffle. Yeah, that's a that's

(09:47):
a great name for something. Um. Frozen waffles, pancakes and
French doast is a one point to billion dollar industry,
and Ego accounts for sixty of that s over. Yeah. Yeah,
and um, if we look at Kellogg's sold four point
five percent more waffles and preceding five years than any

(10:10):
year coming before that. They also sell aforementioned frozen pancakes
and French toast, along with frozen breakfast sandwiches. And the
Bloomberg article I got this number from, by the way,
was titled who killed Tony the Tiger? Huh Yeah? Okay,
basically that egga was capitalizing off of fears about the

(10:32):
health of cereal, even though they're both carb products with
sugar added. Okay, yeah, yeah. So let's do a brief
rundown of waffles, shall we Yes, So, the ancestors of
waffles are oblios, which are these ancient Grecian cakes that

(10:54):
were roasted between two metal plates, and then the two
metal plates had it had a wooden handle attached so
that you could just slide it into and out of
an oven. By medieval times, these had developed into oblius,
which were these these large, unleavened wafers that were made
primarily by u either members of the Catholic Church or
people trying to sell stuff to the Catholic Church um

(11:15):
and a lot of them depicted religious iconography. By the
fourteen hundreds, these had developed into recipes more like we're
familiar with waffles being today, and the Dutch had started
using rectangular plates that were forged with a grid pattern
on them, though historians aren't sure whether this was a
decorative choice or like a practical matter for the blacksmiths

(11:36):
or a practical request on behalf of the bakers to
design something with a greater surface area so that you
can you can get you know, the waffle more crispy
or faster. Yeah. Um. And to make these old school
waffles slash wafers was kind of darrible, just just awful.

(11:57):
So you have those two baking plates with the long handles,
and they need to stay hot and oiled. It's a
two person job to hold these heavy handles and to
get the baking plates over a fire at the batter,
close it between the plates, put it over a fire
minute per side, and then quickly remove the waffle so
it didn't overcook. Yeah yeah, real paint um. Americans were

(12:17):
the ones to pair waffles with maple syrup of a
staple up in the New England area, and we're really
the first to adopt them as a breakfast food everywhere
else it's kind of a snack or like something that
you eat with with tea or something like that. Yeah, okay,
so let's talk about Thomas Jefferson again. Wait what why
I know. Right, So, the first thing you need to

(12:38):
know about Thomas Jefferson in the context of waffles anyway,
is that he love loved them. He loved them. He
loved them so much he transported a waffle iron from
France the US in Sight nine and would cook them
at waffle parties. Waffle parties, yes, waffle parties. Man, Leslie

(13:00):
Nope would die of happiness, are over eating? Possibly maybe both? Yeah, simultaneously.
I'd be pretty excited to someone. By the way, I
figured out that Leslie Note probably eats around three d
three waffles a year. Oh my goodness, that's a lot
of waffles. Yes, Leslie Note from Parks and Wreck for
you guys who don't know. Also related, in Sweden, there's

(13:21):
a Waffle Day which shares the date with Our Lady's Day.
So Leslie Nope was onto something with Gallantine's Day being
celebrated with waffles, or at least in Sweden anyway, those
those waffle parties of Thomas Jefferson's, where we're called waffle frolics.
Waffle frolics. I am going to add that to my calendar.

(13:44):
I'm gonna throw a waffle frolic, Yes for sure, um
and f y I. The word waffle first appeared in
the English language in from the Dutch word waffle hey,
which probably comes from a similar Germanic word meaning honeycomb
or web or we've also f y i. The word
gopher probably comes from the same route golfil waffle um,

(14:09):
and it was a reference to the the woven and
or honeycomb like structure of their burrows. Birds are so cool,
it's very interesting, um after A waffle iron maid to
be used over a cole stove was patented in the
US in eighteen sixty nine by Dutch American Cornelius Swartwout. Swartwout,

(14:31):
Cornelius Swartwout, where have you been all my life? Okay?
Please get the Harry Potter name if I've ever heard one.
Americans followed the lead of Jefferson and through their own
waffle parties or frolics, and a few years later and
Fanny Farmers, the Fanny Farmer Cookbook came out with a
recipe on how to make raised yeast waffles. And this

(14:52):
is a big moment on the waffle timeline. Before that,
waffles were essentially just pancakes. But with holes. No. Yeah,
the first electric waffle iron was introduced in nineteen eleven
and released commercially by g to the public in nineteen
Apart from efficiency improvements and some bells and whistles, we

(15:13):
generally use the same thing to this day. However, cooking
waffles took freshest time, and we Americans didn't want to
wait that long. Dishove some delicious golden waffle in her face,
of course. Not so. Time is money, It is time
is waffles. Time is waffles. Enter the frozen waffle. But

(15:36):
first a quick break for a word from our sponsor,
and we're back, Thank you sponsor. Okay, so, now it's
time to talk about what's on everyone's mind. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Yeah, wait,

(16:00):
where do you think this was going? This is this
is like a sleeper episode. It's actually about mayonnaise. Okay. Yes,
So Ino and San Jose, California brothers Frank Anthony and
Sam Dorset decided to do some food experiments in their
parents basement, of course, until they came up with their
own brand of mayonnaise, which they advertised throughout the Great

(16:21):
Depression as using triple refined vegetable oil and on fresh
range eggs, ranch eggs, Ranch eggs. I can't forget that,
which led them to call their product Eggo. Mayonnaise. Ads
at the time touted the product as having the highest
egg content of the leading brands who fight mayonnaise Kingdom,

(16:44):
Oh my goodness around their San Jose digs. The product
was quite popular, popular enough that, according to Frank Dors's obituary,
the brothers used a fifty dollar and infusion from their
mayonnaise business to break into the waffle one. Also, I
couldn't leave out that the headline of Frank Dors's obituary
was he triumphed with waffles, but died without vanquishing the pancake.

(17:09):
Kind of a low blow for an obituary, right, Let's
catchy though it is. And another thing I gotta mention.
This guy also invented a machine that curls bacon. Or no,
it's a it's a machine that that that when bacon cooks,
it prevents it from curling. Oh yeah, that's right. Clearly
where is this machine? Can I purchase it? I don't

(17:29):
think you can. Um And an automatic potato peeler. He
also invented automatic like continual potato peeler just can't stop
on stop um. But yes, so this was how Ego
Food Products the company was born. There was a problem though,
While they had no trouble selling their products near their

(17:51):
home base, shipping mayo and fresh waffle batter really limited
the reach um and this spurred them to recreate in
powder that just needed a bit of milk added to
it as a as a waffle batter exactly. Restaurants looking
to turn out waffles more quickly were some of their
most profitable customers. Yes, this was not the first powdered

(18:13):
waffle mix, however, that distinction goes to Pearl Milling cos Aunt, Jemima,
Pancake and waffle Mix all the way back to goodness.
Well that explains the racism in the name. Laurence Giljoy
Corner back again, kill J Corner with a k by
the way, with the dough flowing in, I know. With

(18:36):
from their expanded market. The doors of Brothers purchased the
Garden City Potato Chip factory in ninety eight and we're
soon selling potato chips alongside their waffles and mayonnaise. What
an interesting product. I mean, they got a lot of
diversity going here. They did yeah, and this is what
inspired Frank Dorset to invent the automatic potato peeler, by

(18:56):
the way, But let's jump ahead to the nineteen fifties.
The Americans consumer wanted convenience. They want a mess was
making fresh waffles or even powdered mixes. So I'm sure
you remember from our frozen food episode. This is when
frozen foods were taking the US by storm. The doors
To Brothers knew that in order to stay afloat, they

(19:16):
needed to compete by coming up with a frozen waffle.
But first they needed to figure out how to produced
waffles on a large scale. Frank was undeterred by this challenge,
and in three he utilized the engine of a merry
go round with just as many waffle irons as possible
attached to it. What. Yes, I love this. It's it's

(19:39):
monstrous in my head, the thing I'm imagining just like nightmares.
But it worked. The contraption as it rotated, the waffles cooked,
and there were employees placed around this thing flipping the
waffles when it was time, and after they were cooked,
they were frozen. Thousands of waffles an hour were turned

(19:59):
out this way, and when the first of those waffles
hit the grocery store aisles later that same year. They
were called Froffles, frozen waffles, frothles yp. They boasted major
convenience factors. You put them in the toaster and they
were ready in about a minute. That's pretty convenient, which
pretty much killed their tend to mixline. Oops. Yeah, and

(20:23):
also took a swing at the waffle iron business. And
they were very popular on the West coast because that's
pretty much where they were shipping them at the time. Right. Um,
the name Froffles did not stick. Um by the dorses
adopted they're already well known Eggo name for their waffles,

(20:44):
So that is when Eggo waffles were born officially. Officially
in nineteen sixty, they trademarked a mascot named Mr Ego,
which was this like dancing stick figure egg that was
wearing a top hat. Um one of just total side note.
One of the design search codes that it falls under
in the U. S. Trademark Office is zero two point

(21:07):
zero one point three three and I quote grotesque men
formed by letters, numbers, punctuation, or geometric shapes, semicolon stick figures.
I've got to look this up. It's it's it's just
I mean, it looks sort of like Mr. Peanut, but
as an egg sort. Yeah. At the time, the company
um Ego Ego Food Products offered all manner of stuff,

(21:30):
including pickles and salad dressings and canned tuna and gelatin
desserts and like barbecue sauces, all sorts of stuff. Wow.
By nineteen sixty two, Ego Food Products was booming and
they moved out to a huge new plant on the
outskirts of San Jose, um On on a street called
Ego Away I believe, yeah. Um. It was there that

(21:53):
they caught the attention of Fern Foods, Inc. Which made
the dorses a tempting offer, and they sold old the
company in nineteen sixty six, and Aunt Jemima came out
with its own frozen waffle in nine, which is Ego's
most serious competitor. Jumping ahead to nineteen seventy, Kellogg. You

(22:15):
remember Kellogg acquired Fern Foods, Inc. And it was their
first foray into frozen foods And this was obviously a
game changer, and Atlanta one of the catchiest slogans from
my childhood, at least Lego my ego. This came about
due to an ad agency Leo Burnett. After the slogan

(22:37):
burst under the scene in nineteen seventy two. It gained
such popularity that they kept it until two thousand eight,
and when they retired it briefly, they brought it back. Yeah.
And a bonus fact, Americans got their introduction to the
Belgian waffle at the nineteen sixty four World's Fair by
the Van Damn family, who went on to open a

(22:59):
location in Mardondo Beach four years later. Twenty years after that,
in Night, they introduced their own frozen waffle Vans waffles
that were marketed as more wholesome as they were made
up with Emma Renth and Keenoa. Yeah, ancient grains. I know,
we'll do an episode on belt and waffles one day. Oh, absolutely,
and ancient grains, but probably mostly separately, probably, yeah, but

(23:23):
there will be some overlap Kellogg's um. They also pushed
EGO into many new flavor territories blueberry, strawberry, chocolate, chip,
brown sugar, cinnamon, et cetera, and of course, the seasonally
available pumpkin spice. It all comes back to pumpkin spice.
Other occasional flavor releases French toast. French toast waffles always

(23:43):
confused me. Anyway, s'mores and confetti, confetti, confetti flavored waffles.
Anytime that you can put colored sprinkles in anything, I'm
pretty excited about it. I've never thought about how weird
it is that we call it confetti, though, like that's
the flavor. It's more of just the look. It's it's
wanted thing taste like confetti. I'm have you Have you

(24:04):
swallowed enough confetti to be able to say that definitively?
I was at a concert once where I was right
next to the confetti canyon, and uh, alright, I have
an idea with expert witness testimony. UM. Frank Dorsa meanwhile
passed away in Um, survived by by his by his
loving son Um. And meanwhile, Kellogg's just keeps on pushing

(24:29):
the bounds of breakfast through the Ego brand. In the
two thousand's they debuted just a number of really amazingly
ridiculous products that I mostly missed, so just in case
anyone else is super entertained by them, Ego Real Fruit Pizzas,
which is this like like a cinnamon and maple flavored
crust with fruit and granola on top wafflers and minis,

(24:52):
both of which pull apart for for easy hand eating
and condiment dipping. Toaster muffinto lights, which were muffin tops
for your toaster, Ego maple syrup cereal, which was a
breakfast cereal that was like vaguely in the shape of
of waffles. There were Lego branded Eggos, Lego my Eggos.

(25:15):
Oh man, my mind just got blown. That's amazing. They
came out with a waffle syrup. They have waffle breakfast sandwiches,
Eggo biscuit scramblers which were kind of like breakfast top pockets.
And yes, finally too late for Frank, they came out
with toaster pancakes. Yes, and he was working on that.

(25:36):
That's one of the reasons. Yeah, they put that in
the eventual or even though I thought it was a
little a little bit snarky, Yeah, but but still he Yeah,
his his son said that that he just never quite
never quite got the texture right. I imagine it would
be very tricky. Due to a listeria infection scare at
the Atlanta plant that resulted and recall of four thousand

(25:59):
five cases of waffles followed by flooding just as soon
as the plant was about to reopen, followed by a
temporary shutdown of the plant in Tennessee, there was an
Eggo waffle shortage from two thousand nine to there's a
little bit of like hoarding that went on. Um, they
limited their releases of their waffles to various stores, and

(26:21):
there were definitely a few people that were like selling
them for not charge on eBay. WHOA, yeah, I know,
buying your Ego waffles on eBay dangerous prospect. Yeah, that's
a little bit of a risk. And then along comes
stranger things in bringing Ego back into the site geist.
And so that is our Eggo waffle timeline. Yes, and

(26:42):
it brings us back to another quick break for a
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So a lot of there's a lot of interesting little

(27:06):
cultural things that come up when you look into waffles,
frozen waffles in particular. UM, when I was searching, this
is something I've never heard of before, but a lot
of the results in the Google came back with the
taco bell, Taco Bell waffle, taco waffle, Taco waffle taco.
I think I saw a commercial for that. Oh boy,

(27:28):
it was introduced in and it's pretty much what it
sounds like. Taco Bells, director for product development, stumbled on
a Facebook post of an egg avocado taco and rushed
to the store for frozen waffles to test it out
herself the team. The development team went through eighty different tacos,
changing things like waffle thickness and amount of vanilla until

(27:51):
they settled on the one. If anyone has experienced one
of these, I've had a savory waffle before, um, but
I've never had a taco. Oh yeah, I mean I've
had like chicken and waffles, which are sort of savory. Yes.
And speaking of chicken and waffles, UM, just a brief

(28:14):
I kind of got curious about this when I was
researching after the talk about waffle taco, I looked into
chicken and waffles. So this duo dates back to the
sixteen hundreds in US, when the Pennsylvania Dutch would put
chicken and gravy on top of their waffles. Virginia breakfast,
or a meal consisting of fried or baked meat in

(28:35):
a quick bread, was the standard of Southern hospitality by
the eighteen hundreds. It's also very likely that African American
slaves were making a version of this too. But then
we take a massive leap forward to the Wells Supper
Club located in Harlem, New York. In night, musicians playing
at Wells, as it was called by the locals, would

(28:55):
either arrive too late or get done too late for
either dinner or breakfast, so they wanted a combination of both.
Chicken waffles. The trend transverse the US, and in nineteen
seventies six Roscoe's House of Chicken Waffles opened in Los Angeles, California.
Um started by someone who had grown up in Harlem,

(29:16):
Gladyson Ron's chicken and waffles restaurant, until recently operating here
in Atlanta, was in part inspired by nights night spent
at Wells. Yeah, and I found this funny quote that
I wish we had included in the Fried Chicken episode,
but putting it in here. Anytime you talk about fried
chicken in the South, you're in essence talking about somebody's mama.

(29:36):
And when you talk about somebody's mama, somebody's gonna get mad.
That's from an NPR story I read about the Oh yeah,
fried chicken waffles. Yeah, it's do people. Yeah, we we
all care a lot about fried chicken around here. We
do if you couldn't tell from our fried Chicken episode.
And another thing we care about down here at waffle House.

(29:58):
Waffle House, I know. Okay, so we're gonna do this
in another episode. Yeah, yeah, I I actually already did
some preliminary research and then I had to be like stopped.
I got other things to do. Um, but but I
have to leave you with this. Apparently there's no deep
friar at waffle House. I don't believe it. No, I
don't believe it. Oh my gosh, yes, it seems impossible,

(30:18):
but it's true. I can't wait. Okay, future episode And
apparently last thing, there was a big kerfuffle on Top
Chef when one of the contestants used frozen waffles. It
was called waffle Gate, and that brings us to the

(30:39):
end of this classic episode. But as promised, there are
more ego facts to be had. Yeah yeah, yeah, a
few updates. Okay, so um so uh. Some of the
numbers that we give at the top of the original
episode are are, of course a little out of date. Um.
As of April, frozen breakfast food as a category had

(31:04):
grown to four point three billion dollars per year. Uh,
within that frozen waffles by themselves, we're at one point
one billion dollars as a segment um, which is only
a tiny bit lower than what the whole category was
doing in COVID, y'all wild. Yeah, of of that as

(31:33):
Kellogg's had of the market share, which is up about
ten percent from the numbers that we reported in And yeah,
the brand really leaned into the kind of um like
lightheartedly fatalistic marketing that reigned during the early part of
the pandemic. Like remember there was that whole rash of

(31:54):
like heck it, we're in hell, like do whatever makes
you feel just all right? Like corporate as well. Yeah,
Kellogg's launched a campaign called Lego with ego my Goodness,

(32:17):
with slogans like mornings are hard, yes, agreed, and get
your wins where you can. Oh my gosh. Apparently they
did a million waffle giveaway on social media. I wow.

(32:41):
I mean it was a strange time. It still is
a strange time. Are you trying to find ways to
address that? And also set some are more successful than others. Hey,
I don't know. You know, mornings are hard and you

(33:03):
should get your winds where you can. I agree with you,
Friendzen Waffle brand that me as well as well um
other other updates. I guess I wanted to say, uh r,
I p to the Taco Bell Waffle Taco you were

(33:24):
only with us for a brief time from but we
remember you fondly or I I don't remember you at all,
but I you know, some people do. Some people remember
you fondly. Well, given recent news, could always come back.
Oh sure, But also there are waffle opportunities are wide

(33:48):
and vast wafful opportunities. Yeah they are. Uh speaking of um,
we promised to its some later dayton time do a
couple follow up episodes after this Belgian Waffles, waffle House,
maybe something else in there that I'm forgetting right now.
But we have done either of those, and well, so

(34:11):
waffle opportunities truly do abound. They do, and I can't
wait to talk about both of those. Uh. Museum is
in Decatur, near US. Yeah, yeah, it's like it's like
a twenty minute drive from where either of us are
sitting right now. I have been waiting on on doing

(34:34):
a waffle House episode because I feel like, you know,
if we're the the original store is here. The museum
is here, Like, there's no reason why we shouldn't do
have like interviews or stuff like that involved in an
episode about waffle house. So I've been like putting it
off until we can do interviews again, I mean Belgian

(34:55):
waffles we could do like today or I mean not
today because I'm busy, but my schedule is already see
but soon, yes, yes, yes, yes, um, I'm always happy
to talk about waffles, so I am into it. Oh

(35:17):
July one, when part two of Stranger Things, Um, maybe
that will be a good time. Okay, we'll to tie in,
all right, all right, well we'll see, we'll see, We'll
see what the schedule is, do it. Yeah, there's definitely
a lot of food involved in that show, so there's options,
but waffle is always a good one always. Yes. Wow.

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