September 5, 2025 • 60 mins
This children’s animated comedy/pop culture phenomenon follows the (mis)adventures of an extremely enthusiastic fry cook. Anney and Lauren dive into the fictional foods of SpongeBob SquarePants -- and some of their real-world extrapolations.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, and welcome to favorite production of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie
Ree and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Lorn vogel Bum, and today we have an episode
for you about SpongeBob SquarePants by y.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm very excited as well. This is one of Annie's
favorite series.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, oh yes, And in fact, we tried to do
this episode a while. By a while, I mean several
years ago, and I got intimidated by the number, the
sheer number of academic articles written about SpongeBob and the
foods of SpongeBob. And so here we are. We're still
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not actually tackling those academics. Really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, there was a certain point at which I had
to stop, like I had to it was it was.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
When I just told any of this before we started recording.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But it was when I realized that there is a
book that was written about.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Like the like philosophy, like the study of philosophy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Through SpongeBob and I and I was like, Nope, nope,
that's it, that's it. I cannot go into the academic
riggor that has been spent on SpongeBob SquarePants today, so
I have to focus on the Krabby Patty like that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Not today, but maybe in the future. Yeah right, so hey,
I would happily happily come back.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Me too, me too, And I so okay, so I'm
new to this entire phenomenon. I am so like, I
never watched this show. I was a little bit too
old for it when it came out, and then I
didn't have TV for like ten years, and I just
never picked it up, Like to the point that I
was playing one of those party games one Time Circle,
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like twenty ten, where your partner has to make you
guess a word without saying certain other words. The word
was pineapple, and my good friends, my partner was like,
SpongeBob lives in this under the sea, and I was like,
I was flummixed. I had no I was like, what
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are you talking?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh dear, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But in preparation for this episode, I have watched a
lot of SpongeBob SquarePants over the past week. I would
I would say that I am now familiar with the show. Excellent,
and I love it now time wasted, you know, but here,
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but here we are. But but you you have a
long history with SpongeBob, I do.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So. I actually remember exactly where I was when it
first came out because it was so goofy. The premise
was so goofy, you're going to follow the sponge This
song had come out and it was very goofy. My
parents were making fun of us for wanting to watch it,
as being my siblings and a friend of mine that
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was with me on our summer vacation because I didn't
grow up with cable, which was what SpongeBob came on,
but it was coming out in summer. We were there
and we were going to watch SpongeBob and we did
and we loved it. We loved it, and it just
became a thing that we quoted. It was just part
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of our a term I've read recently as Faneleckt kind
of conversation between fans, and to this day, I was
telling Lauren, they are just quotes. I'm going to apologize
to you listeners. Some of them will come out in
this episode that I just have to say, yeah, oh yeah,
that impactful to me. It is so highly quotable, like right,
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like it is part of mine dialect. After a week,
so I'm like all right, yeah, sure, yes. And one
of the reasons that this is coming out now is
that I recently went to the big NERD convention here
in Atlanta, dragon Con, and we were discussing topics we
could do that might relate to that, and I was
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saying that a friend of mine was going to cosplay
as Smitty Werbin. Jaegerman Jensen, who is a very obscure
character in SpongeBob is in one episode. It's one of
my favorite episodes. But I was confident in this cosplay
she was gonna get at least five people say he
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was No. Number one to her within the first fifteen minutes,
ten people, not even kidding. The first person who came
up to her said the whole name perfectly pronounced it perfectly,
gave her a sticker, and I'm telling you it was
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a hit. It was. Oh, I'm so happy for her.
It was awesome. I was. I was thrilled to just
be in the vicinity and SpongeBob is a pretty big
cosplay contingent. At dragon Con. Two that I wanted to
shout out is, uh, We're gonna talk about this more,
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but there's a SpongeBob ice cream popsicle thing, uh that
historically has looked rather creepy, just in the way the
eyes are somebody was cosplaying as that, yeah, and we
all knew what it was though, we were like bot
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ice cream. Yeah. And then there's an episode of the
show where squid Word gets hit in the face and
he becomes hot.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There was somebody there as Hot squid Word and it
was great. It was so good, y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I was unprepared for the phrase hot squid word to
be facing me in this outline today. Oh, but here
we are, and now I'm rethinking my own Halloween plans.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So you should look up hot squidtered. It's pretty good.
And there was a hole there was a huge group
of SpongeBob cssplayers and they were doing like you know, Barnacle, Bory,
Mormonde man and all the villain cute. It was so excellent.
But another reason this has been on my mind is
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I've started binging binging binging with Babbish. Yeah sure, yeah,
And he has a lot of SpongeBob content, And if
you're not familiar, it's basically like he tries to recreate
something from a piece of entertainment and then tries to
make it better. But he has a lot of stuff
from SpongeBob and it just got me thinking. I was like,
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you know, what I do know about all of this stuff?
We should talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, Oh, I'm really
glad that we are. This is great. Oh, I'm so excited.
But I guess this brings us to our question. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
If you don't know the answer to the question, then
you are very confused right now.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, you are, so, let's help you out, all right.
SpongeBob SquarePants, what is it? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
SpongeBob SquarePants is a children's animated comedy franchise that was
originally created by one Stephen Hillenberg for the kid's TV
channel Nickelodeon. It premiered on Nick's Saturday Morning lineup on
July seventeenth of nineteen ninety nine, and it tells of
the daily, surreal adventures and misadventures of an anthropomorphic kitchen
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sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea alongside
a town full of anthropomorphic marine life and other characters.
Each episode contains two, typically standalone segments running about eleven
minutes apiece, and the concept if you like me not
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too long ago are somehow unfamiliar. The concept is that
this guy SpongeBob like a like like an adult person,
like a youngish adult person named SpongeBob who is just
real sweet and nerdy and eternally optimistic. He lives in
this town called Bikini Bottom with his pet snail Gary,
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which mews like a cat, and his neighbor's Patrick, who's
a sort of simple starfish, and Squidward, an octopus who
is pessimistic all the time. And SpongeBob and squid Word
work at this local fast food joint called the Krusty
Krab under the ownership of mister Crabs, who is a crab,
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a very capitalist crab. SpongeBob works the grill there and
he is so happy to do so, and shenanigans ensue.
A lot of it is like relatively normal life stuff,
like the characters work a night shift, or they spend
a day at the beach, or a SpongeBob has to
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figure out how to deal with the bully, you know,
but with this like highly surrealist edge to it, you know,
just for example here, because because they're spending a day
at the beach, they live underwater. They live underwater. Why
are they going to a beach. I don't understand it.
Don't ask too many questions.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Definitely don't it snows sometimes, Yeah, that's fine. Rains yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Hillenberg developed this concept while he was working on another
Nickelodeon cartoon, Rocko's Modern Life, and he decided to pitch
his own show. He was inspired by his longtime love
of marine life, including like watching Jacques Coustau's documentaries as
a kid, and also personal experience working as a marine
science educator at the Ocean Institute in California, Like he
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majored in marine biology in college before he went to
do an MFA and experimental animation. Not that SpongeBob is
like highly scientifically accurate, Like one of the characters is
a squirrel who lives in a dome of air in town,
like there is. There's a very intentional and studied type
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of nonsense that the show runs on.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
This like really old school like vaudeville to mid century
sort of humor. So I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I tried not to write too many like fun facts
about the show into this outline, because we're not like
children's culture show. But but I need I need to.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I read a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I've read a lot about SpongeBob SquarePants in the past
twenty four hours, y'all, and I needed to inform you
that the character was only not called SpongeBoy and the
show SpongeBoy a Hoy because there was an existing copyright
on SpongeBoy from an old newspaper comic strip that got
licensed for a pencil in the early nineteen nineties. Like
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you know, you know when pencils have like have like
bright like raps on them. That's why, that's why we
have SpongeBob SquarePants and not SpongeBoy a hoy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh. I like SpongeBob SquarePants. My little brother his name
is Bobby, and he would always go as Spongebobby SquarePants.
It wouldn't have worked if it was SpongeBoy a boy
oh man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But like real real sliding doors moment there, you know. Also, sadly,
Hillenburg passed away in twenty eighteen, relatively suddenly of als.
He was only fifty seven. But the phenomenon continues. And
when I say phenomenon, like this franchise, if you live
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under a rock, like Patrick is a really big thing,
like just a pop culture powerhouse. The show was definitely
Nickelodeon's biggest property for a hot minute. I'm not positive
that it still is, but but it's currently in its
sixteenth season, and has spawned two other animated series, six
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animated films, including one that is still in development, a
comic book series I think fifty two video games if
I'm mathed correctly, and a stage musical on Broadway. There
have been theme park rides. There is so much merchandise.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Also, like its influence is just really far reaching. Like
this Dutch tulip gardener developed spent like a decade developing
this bright yellow tulip variety that is named SpongeBob. There's
a really spongy looking fungus that the describing mycologists named
sponge Offma square pantsy. I yes, and there has been
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some rigorous academic study surrounding it. This article that I
did not read that I'm kicking myself in my non
square pants for right now is called Consumption, Health and
Disposability in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh yes, there are so many intense academic articles. I
said it once, I'll say it again. Wow. People put
a lot of thought into this. They have they have,
and I do love I do love it. I love
it as well? Well? What about the nutrition?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I do not eat children's animated comedy franchises, no matter
how popular they are.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
There's probably a SpongeBob episode that I could we could
relate to this. There's a lot of strange episodes, even
for me. Oh yeah, oh yeah, guys, wow, we do
have some numbers for you. Oh my, heck we do.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, So, yes, the franchise just celebrated it's twenty fifth
anniversary last year, if anyone needed to feel old. Also, yeah,
like this was a phenomenon early on, like just four seasons.
In two thousand and six, the show already had over
sixty one million viewers a month and had increased its
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adult viewership by seventy six percent since its premiere. It
was at that time already syndicated in one hundred and
seventy one markets in twenty five languages.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So it did used to I used to go in
college and watch it and would make fun of you
and she's like, you're still watching SpongeBob. Yes, yes, this
is a high quality piece of media entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't want to miss a single minute.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Oh man, and one hundred and seventy one markets is
like basically almost a capacity like it's it's now like
it's only in like one hundred and eighty markets now
though it has been in uh translated into sixty different languages.
At this point, it is one of the most widely
distributed shows in Paramount's history. It still has like over
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one hundred million viewers a quarter.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wow. Well, if you've never watched SpongeBob in a different language,
I recommend it. It comes up a lot, like on
social media. It'll be like, have you heard SpongeBob in German?
It's fun. I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Even just the characters' names are fun. I almost wrote
out a list of different names of SpongeBob in different languages,
but then I did not want to do that to
myself again.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Sometimes you've got to draw lines.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, Yeah, a line in the sand, line in the
bikini bottom sand. Yes, all right, more numbers.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
As of June of twenty twenty one, it was the
eighteenth most in demand show across all platforms and all
genres worldwide.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It and its cast and crew have won a bunch
of awards for their work, including six which are Kids
Programming Things, five Daytime Emmys, eight Sound Editing Awards at
the Golden Reels that's from the American Motion Picture Sound
Editors Society and this one blows my mind. It has
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won the title Favorite Cartoon in Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards
almost every year since it started being nominated in two
thousand and three, with the honestly kind of weird exception
of two thousand and eight, which is when Avatar The
Last Airbender one. But that's twenty one wins and yes
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that includes this year.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow wow Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Also, the Broadway Musical cut twelve tony nominations in twenty eighteen,
tying for most nominations of the year with The Mean
Girls Musical it only won won. SpongeBob only won one
for scenic design, though, proud of them for that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh gosh, listeners, if any of you win, right, it
was only up for like a year. But I've read
really great things about it, to be.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Honest, in Oh Squidward Tap Danced, I don't know, man,
it sounds really good.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When the current season is complete, SpongeBob will have three
hundred and thirty two episodes in the main series alone,
and assuming that every episode does contain two segments and no,
I did not check, sixteen seasons is a lot to
pour over, that will be six hundred and sixty four
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segments of SpongeBob out there in the universe. Traditionally, each
segment is made by about forty five to fifty people
who will work on it for ten to eleven months,
from like premise to storyboard, to voice work to animation
to sound to completion.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Wow wow mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, that's why they're only putting out thirteen episode seasons
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Makes sense? Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The movies have done about half a billion dollars in
box office sales, and don't forget that march. As of
twenty seventeen, the franchise had racked up thirteen billion dollars
in merchandise sales. It is Paramount's most profitable franchise. And
I want y'all to remember right now that Paramount owns
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Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow. I'm telling you. When this show came out, I
remember so clearly how everybody who's making fun of it,
everybody is going to work. Well, look at this weird idea.
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My parents were like laughing aloud at us for this,
and look where it is now. You were right, they
should have listened. I was right. Uh And okay, one
final recommendation before we actually move into the food portion,
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if you. SpongeBob also has a delightful internet meme culture
mashup culture. One of my favorites is when the Lighthouse
came out. There was a lot of fun SpongeBob Lighthouse
mashups for for our older viewers, but I just recommend it.
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There's a lot of fun stuff that SpongeBob has spawned
over the years. And we'll talk some about those real
world food.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Things, yeah a little bit, yeah, but yeah, there is
a lot of food in this show and we are
going to get into all of that as soon as
we get back from a quick break. For a word
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so yes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Since the show largely revolves around SpongeBob's job as a
fry cook at the Krusty Krab, there are a lot
of references to the ins and outs of running a
fast food restaurant. There are episodes centered around a visit
from the health Inspector, which is a favorite of mine,
customer critiques which is another favorite of mine, competing restaurants
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and sabotage attempts of these competing restaurants, minimum wage and strikes,
and multiple food competitions, including with the god Deseiden. Now, yes,
nutrition food health recalls a lot of conversation around that.
There's a food convention, some commentary on fine dining with
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mister Squilliam Fancyson, and yes, I love that episode too,
And of course yeah capitalism. The owner of the Krusty Krab,
mister Eugene Krabs, is the cheapest of all cheap crabs.
He will do anything to make even the most meager
amounts a penny, including sell his employees sold to Davy Jones,
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which he did. He also tries to keep up with
the food trends, even if that means stealing the idea.
So there are several instances of food promotions, including a
dinner theater and a talent show. And there's a really
interesting j exaposition here of mister Krabs, who only cares
about money, and SpongeBob, who truly believes in and loves
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the krabby Patty. He is not in it at all
for the money. In fact, several episodes he offers to
give his paycheck to mister Crabs to continue to work there. Yes,
so there are a lot of themes that if we
were a SpongeBob bassed show. I could unpacked, unpack and
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more depth, but yes that there is a lot of
themes around the food industry. Also, throughout the show, there
are references to the fact that many of the characters
are one deep fry away from being food as well. Yes,
there's one episode where they are quote playing hooky and
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they find a field of hooks and yep, yeah, everything
works out because it's SpongeBob. But yeah, there are multiple
references to the fact that in our real world we
eat seafood. Yeah. Yes, the citizens of Bikini Bottom do
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have a lot of the same foods that we do,
like ice cream, chocolate bars, popcorn, peanuts, and potato salad,
as well as plenty of things that are jokes based
off of real world brands or products like brand Flakes
and Kelp jerkey. So you got that basis. But this
brings us to, I guess the bread and butter of
SpongeBob when it comes to food. The Krabby patty the
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main food item in this show. Without a doubt. This
is the primary menu item at the Krusty krab and
it is something that SpongeBob is very reverent about making
there are multiple episodes about him learning to make it
and then him forgetting to make it and losing his
confidence on all kinds of things. It's very important to him.
While at first glance they are pretty they're pretty typical
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fast food smash burger. What exactly a Krabby Patty is
and has been is the source of a lot of debate.
According to the creator Stephen Hillenberg, the Crappy Patty is
a meatless patty, which has led to much speculation about
what the patty is. Oh. When I say much speculation,
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there have been like, it can't be tofu, It can't
be that people have really gone in down. Oh yeah, Yes,
there's a popular theory that Kelp is involved, perhaps as
a seasoning. Whatever the case, The patty is topped with
sea vegetables, which are pretty much led as tomato, onion,
and pickles, ketchup mustard, occasionally cheese, all sandwich between two
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buns grilled at a particular temperature. SpongeBob mentions the temperature
and two episodes they're different temperatures. Oh, there's also a
secret ingredient that mister Crabs's enemy, Plankton, repeatedly tries to
steal and one episode, we learn the pair invented the
patty together when they were friends. Is the secret ingredient,
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which mister Crabs guards rigorously. The secret ingredient in order
to get the secret formula, mister Crabs has a series
of rules and tests in place. So here's a quote
from a SpongeBob fans Ravioli. Ravioli, give me the formuloe. Yes. Also,
that doesn't remain consistent. That's just a fun thing that
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changes all the time. But that's one of the more
well known tests. SpongeBob once said that the secret ingredient
is love, not magic. That's how he beats Poseidon in
his competition. Dang yes, And by all accounts, the Krabby
patty is delicious even naysayers Squidward can't resist him. After
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getting a taste, he was very much like, I'm too
cool for this. Their gross I'll never try one. He
finally tries one and then cannot stop. Oh yeah, no.
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He goes straight to the patty vault, which he guess
it's sort of like screw the book with coins, but
it's Krabby patties and Krabby patties are the most popular
food item in bikini bottom, despite the fact that they
go straight to your thighs. It is also implied in
more than one episode that they are addictive. The health
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of Krabby patties is explored in multiple episodes, and usually
the negative impacts of grabby patties. The price of the
Krabby patty fluctuates. Most of the time it's around two dollars,
but it has gone as high as ninety nine dollars. Yes,
and as mentioned, there are numerous actual research papers about
the Krabby patty capitalism and consumerism in particular, because that's
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pretty much what it is. Yeah, ye, mister Krab's trying
to make a lot of money and doing all kinds
of things to do so, which brings us to several
Krabby patty variations. All right, First, there's the Nasty Patty,
and this is from one of my favorite episodes of
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the same name. It's the one with the food the
Health Inspector. So a health inspector shows up to do
an inspection of the Krusty Krab. Mister Crabs and SpongeBob
are pulling out all the stops to pass the inspection.
The health inspector has one final request after trying everything
on the menu before he passes them a krabby patty.
SpongeBob and mister Crabs think that they have got it
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in the bag. They're done, so they go to the
kitchen to whip one up. But then the newscasters on
the TV in the kitchen warrant that there's someone posing
as a food inspector to obtain free food, and mister
Krabs is absolutely furious, shall not stand and decides to
serve him up what he calls a diabolical patty as punishment.
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So he and SpongeBob start to compose the nasty patty.
And so the patty is topped with a volcano sauce,
seahorse raddish and tonel clippings. It's dumped in the toilet
and dried with mister crabs old dirty gym socks, and
it looks truly disturbed. It looks like something alive that
will eat you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's surrounded by flies. It's really gross. They serve it
to the health inspector. I mean, luckily he didn't get
to taste it before a fly through it flew in
his mouth and he starts choking. SpongeBob and mister Krabs
think he's choking because of the nasty patty, but you
know it was the fly. Come to find out it
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was the real health inspector, and they think they've killed him.
Oh no, So chaos and an attempted cover up ensues.
The police are there. It's fantastic. It's a great episode.
Obviously this was never on the menu, but I had
to include it. I love it. Beautiful. Speaking of beautiful, Ben,
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we have the pretty patty. These are Krabby patties in
an assortment of colors. Originally six colors, but once they
gained popularity, a huge variety of colors and patterns. The
patties were an idea of SpongeBob's to attract more customers. However,
when he presented the idea to mister Krabs, mister Krabs
left in SpongeBob's face, So SpongeBob started selling them on
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his own and they became hugely popular, much more so
than the original Krabby patty. They draw these huge crabs.
They empty out the krusty krab Mister Krabs, he's on
the news report about their success and how SpongeBob and
his partner Patrick are just giving away all the money
they're making from them. They literally have a money stand
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where they're giving it away and mister Krabs can't take it.
You can't take it. He offers to take over the
stand in exchange for giving SpongeBob the key to the
Krusty Krab. SpongeBob accepts. Mister Krabs is thrilled until customers
start confronting him about how the patty changed their tongues
to the color or pattern of the one ones of
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the pretty patties they ate. The angry customers chase mister
Crabs away after he refuses to give them a refund yep.
There's also the Spongey Patty, which was mister Krabs's attempt
to capitalize on SpongeBob's rise in popularity after his appearance
in a commercial. So mister Crabs pretty much turns the
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Krusty Krab into a SpongeBob themed amusement park and sells
SpongeBob themed food while trying to make room for SpongeBob
themed ice cubes. Mister Krabs discovers expired patties that have
taken on a spongy texture and he thinks, wow, that
will be a great item he can up charge for.
Resembling SpongeBob, he orders that they're fried up to be
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a spongey patty. After eating them, the customers turn yellow
and develop spots similar to SpongeBob. Mister Crabs rested and
taken to courch. Presumably he got off because he's back
in the next episode, Oh, which brings us to another
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transgression of mister Crabs. We have the jelly Patty. The
jelly patty is a krabby patty with jellyfish jelly spread
on it, which is a favorite of Spongebobs, who is
an avid and responsible jellyfisher. After consumer witnesses SpongeBob spreading
some jellyfish jelly on his Krabby patty during his lunch break,
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the consumer asks to try it, and he loves it
like he writes a song about it. Loves it. Mister
Crabs adds it to the menu and convinces SpongeBob to
catch him more and more jellyfish until there aren't any
more jellyfish except the huge blue one named No Name.
Oh oh, yes, oh no, you don't want to mess
with no Name? Okay, No, I don't, Yes, no, you don't.
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Eventually no Name captures SpongeBob and shows him the jellyfish
factory that mister Crabs is milking the jellyfish in horrified,
SpongeBob helps free the jellyfish. They swarm and sting mister Krabs,
and the jelly fatty is removed from the menu.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I oh, my goodness, I love yeah this I yep
mm hm. This is one of those cartoons if you
could if you haven't watched it and couldn't tell from
Annie's descriptions, where like, I'm watching it and I don't
I feel like there is no way to be a
sane person while you are consuming this show.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You're like, oh, okay, this is where we're going. Wow. Yes,
and listeners. If you want any recommendations, I can give
you the episode recommendations and also once for if you
want to feel like you are losing your mind. Yeah,
which there are several that will make you feel that way. Yeah,
(34:01):
that's sort of common. One of my favorites. Yeah, okay,
actually this is a good one and another attempt to
sell more Krabby patties mister Krabs, unless Sandy the Squirrels
help to come up with the secret patty an orange
Krabby patty that floats. Unfortunately, when eaten, it turns people
(34:23):
and machines, including Karen Blanton's wife, Oh no, into Krabby
Patty zombies. Oh yes, the only way to turn people
back into their non zombie selves is by feeding them
chum or on that in a second. The chum is
so disgusting that it causes folks to spit the secret
patty out. But yeah, Sariau's is a zombie episode. Yeah, okay,
(34:49):
this brings us to bubble Basses order. Oh all right,
so there's this character that's kind of a bully who
comes into the Krusty krab with an extremely elaborate Krabby
Patty order that SpongeBob quickly whips up. Bubble Bass tries
it and declares, there's one problem. There's no pickle. SpongeBob
(35:15):
is adamant that he put the pickle on there, but
his confidence is shattered. He can't remember how to make
the Krabby patty it's a whole thing. It is later
revealed that Bubble Bass hid the pickle under his tongue.
It had been there all along. Man. But okay, let's
break this down a bit. Because the Internet loves fighting
(35:35):
about what this order means. So here's what bubble Bass ordered.
I'll take a double triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft
four by four, animal style, extra shingles, with a shimmy
and a squeeze, light axle, grease, make it cry, burn it,
and let it swim, to which Squidward says, I always thought.
(35:57):
I always thought this was just cartoon nonsense, but apparently
not necessarily all right, Okay, so let's break it down.
Double triple Bossy equals six all beef patties with everything
on it on a raft texas toast, four by four,
four patties and four slices of cheese, upping the paddy
(36:17):
count to ten, or multiplying the whole thing by four
to get twenty four patties. Oh, people disagree? Okay, animal
style grilled and mustard or addition of onion jam a
la in and out. People like to disagree. Extra shingles,
extra toast, a shimmy, jelly on the toast, or butter
(36:38):
on the toast, or mail on the toast, a squeeze,
a glass of orange juice, light axle grease, minimal butter,
make it cry, extra onions, Let it Swim extra special sauce. However,
some have pointed out that the take on the double
triple doesn't necessarily equate to six patties. At some places
like In and Out, a double double doesn't mean four patties.
(37:00):
It means two patties and two slices of cheese. Wow.
So there's still argument happening about this. I love it.
I really thought it was just like a cartoon monologue.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, but no, all of these have references in diner
culture and burger culture.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, yes, yes, I am benching with Babbage. She did
try to make it. It's huge like in the show.
It looks like a little bit bigger than a regular
Gabby patty, but it would be enormous, all right. So
moving on from the Krabby Patty, we have the Krusty
Krab Pizza, which is the pizza for you and me,
(37:39):
Rusty quay.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, ye, pizza pizza.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I have to sing it. This is from one of
the earliest episodes, when mister Crabs gets a call for
delivery and from a customer for a Krusty Krab pizza.
He immediately agrees, even though they don't make pizza and
they don't delivered he cartoon Magic makes pizza from some
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Krabby patties and sends SpongeBob and Squidward out to deliver it.
The pair get lost and counters some hardships, including a tornado,
until they finally find the customer SpongeBob was so determined
to get to. However, sad customer is furious that they
forgot his drink and refuses delivery, which causes SpongeBob to
crowd Furious, Squidward throws the pizza in the customer's face
(38:40):
and tells SpongeBob that they successfully delivered it. Yeah. That's
a good episode. That's a good one. I'm not really
going to go in depth on this one, but this
wasn't the first time mister Crabs tried to really change
things up. His daughter Pearl, who is a whale by
the way, tried to make the Krusty krab into like
(39:02):
a trendy health place once and had SpongeBob serve salads
as he called them because he had no idea what
they were.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
There, you go, I'm putting a number of things together
that I read.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Great. Please continue, this is excellent, all right? Yes? So yeah,
now let's talk about the chum Bucket. This is the
arrival restaurant of the Krusty Krab, owned by Plankton, and
this restaurant is situated directly across from the Krusty Krab,
and it serves primarily chum in a bucket. It is
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very unappetizing looking and very unpopular. Even Plankton doesn't like it.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Now, I'm not too sure about this, y'all correct me
if I'm wrong, but I but I'm pretty sure that
Plankton only eats light because he's a Plankton, and from
what i've from what I understand, he only eats light
in the form of holograms that his robot wife Karen
makes for him, which is a sentence that yeah, oh
(40:09):
yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He does indulge in a kilp shake, oh okay, okay,
But I think in general, yes, yeah, the continuity of SpongeBob,
as mentioned before, is not always.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah yeah, it's kind of does the joke work, Let's
go with that. Yeah. And also, Plankton is not a
photosynthesizing plankton.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
The character is based.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
On a copa pod, which is another thing that I
read about earlier today.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Excellent, I love it. I love it well in the
episode where mister Crabs and Plankton they were friends before
they had this falling out, and basically what happened was
Plankton ended up creating chum and mister Krabs ended up
creating the Krabby Patty, And so now Plankton is just
(41:06):
determined to get this formula and it runs a lot
of the plot in the show. Mm hmm okay. So
at various points, this bucket of chum sports bones, organs,
and eyeballs all nestled in this pink viscera. It also
(41:27):
contains quote countless strains of parasitical bacteria. It makes people sick.
Plankton has offered numerous chum based products, from Chumbergers to
Chummy Joe's, to chum sticks, to chum nuggets, to chum
for casse, which was squid word came up with that. Uh,
he like tricks the whole staff of the Krusty krab
(41:49):
into working for him at one point, so squid Word
came up with the chump for casse. At one point
Plankton flushed the chum down the toilet and it led
to the creation of some sewer bass chum creatures. It
has been known to burn a hole in the floor
and send people slash fish I guess to the doctor. However,
at one point Plankton gets a fancy establishment and people
(42:12):
eat his food no matter how gross it is, which
I think is another fun commentary on our dining culture. Yep,
so I would say those are kind of the main things.
I do have a couple of honorable mentions. One is
Kelp Nugat Crunch. This is a candy that appeared in
(42:34):
another favorite episode of mine, rock Bottom. It seems to
be a chocolate bar with nougat and kelp, but SpongeBob
big Fan really wants it. Then there's the triple Gooseberry Surprise,
related to another favorite of mine, the Weenie Hutt Junior Sunday.
(42:54):
This is a menu item at Goofy Goober's ice Cream
party Boat. It is an anthropomorphic Sunday with two scoops
of vanilla ice cream as the body, red liquorice for
a smile, candy, buttons of some sort for the eyes
and the nose, fudge sauce for there, bananas for arms,
(43:15):
and some sort of hat situation. All the bananas are
topped with cherries, and upon eating it, it seems to
cause intoxication, as if it has rum sauce or something.
Oh yeah, okay, mm hmm. Then there's the bad breath Sunday, Lauren,
Oh dear. One Sunday, SpongeBob gets up and is gonna
(43:40):
make this Sunday, but he finds out he doesn't have
the typ of ingredients he wanted, so he makes a
Sunday with ketchup onions and peanut plant. Surprise, surprise, it
gave him bad breath and the whole thing led to
him thinking he was ugly because everybody was running away
from him. Oh yeah, and the whole episode is him
trying to square living as an ugly sponge yep. I mean,
(44:10):
I mean every episode is him trying to square That's true. Nice. Sorry, sorry,
that was perfect.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
That was perfect, okay, and one of the only I
had a couple drinks that came to mind, but none
of them were had much more to say other than
mentioning their name.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
I did want to mention Kelp shakes, which, as I said,
Plankton got into. That was how Plankton and mister Crabs bonded.
In one episode. This was a shake that was offered
by the chain kelp shakes, and they were seemingly addictive.
Everybody loved them. It is ninety nine percent helt juice
and the rest is a dangerous radioactive material that causes
(44:56):
consumers to grow green hair all over. So I think
that it's interesting how many examples in here we have
of these big companies doing these things and the fallout
to consumers and or the jellyfish that it takes to
exploit to make things. I don't know. I think there's
a lot of commentary going on, yeah, or the workers, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
(45:24):
I could go on and on, but those are the
those are the big ones.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
I thought that we would hit for Suah. Yeah, if
there's any that y'all are like, why didn't they talk
about email us, tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, oh yes, I'll be back in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But we do have some real world examples for you guys,
Like I mean, because of course, this is such a
big series that there have been any number of tie
in food products, like Kellogg's has had a SpongeBob breakfast
cereal at certain points over the past twenty five years.
It's made of little vanilla flavored cereal squares, and those
(46:04):
horrifying Cereal marshmallows that are in the shapes of SpongeBob
with pants, Patrick also with Pants, and the Pineapple House.
There are Crabby Patty gummy candies, including like the regular
burger form and also the Pretty Patty original six colors.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah. Well, and then as mentioned, there's the Creepy SpongeBob
ice cream. Well, okay, so this is.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
This is you know, like a like an ice cream
truck treat made by Popsicle. Apparently it is cotton candy
and fruit punch flavored. It originally had gumballs for eyes,
but they changed that to chocolate rounds and twenty twenty three,
and people had opinions about that.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Oh go look it up. Go look up the original
and you'll see why I say. It's pretty horrifying. Yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, And yet for the twenty fifth anniversary, a number
of co brands bubbled up.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yes, Wendy's had a Krabby Patty.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
They did a Krabby Patty collab menu, which was two items,
but sure, it's a menu. Yeah. The Krabby Patty was
a single burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles,
but with Krabby patty sauce instead of the usual ketchup
and mayo, which apparently was similar to you know, your
general fast food special sauce like basically Thousand Island dressing
(47:35):
with a sort of peppery savory kind of flavor. And
then the second item was a Pineapple under Sea frosty
including the vanilla bass with swirls of pineapple and mango.
Yeah yeah. Also also home Chef, which is one of
those male order meal kit companies not sponsored. They currently
(47:59):
have a few themed dishes, including a Pineapple under the
Sea burger, a crusty crab pizza, Sandy's Texas style honey
barbecue chicken, Blankton's holographic meat loaf including a side of
Karen salad, a cuddly crab chicken salad ah yeah yeah,
(48:27):
and a chocolate brownie cookie skillet.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
This makes me so so.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I don't know, I don't know if they still have it,
but for until while supplies last. They you can get
a free SpongeBob spatula when you sign up. Not a
sponsor but no, nope, just saying I'm saying that's adorable.
(49:03):
And also there is a universal resort for families with
younger kids. That's opening in Texas next year and there
is going to be a whole SpongeBob Land, So no
word on the food yet, but that looking forward to
seeing what they do there.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I am as well. This is a delight, I believe that.
So at dragon Con there are five host hotels, one
of them the Hyatts, which is where we did our
video with Scheff Thomas Mukun. They always go all in
on Dragon Conn. Their menu with SpongeBob feet so cute. Yeah,
(49:47):
it was super cute. I love it. It's just nerdery
and huge. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
And it is like SpongeBob is such a sweet character,
like he just is excited about stuff and he's excited
about other people being excited about stuff, and so it's
it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
It is nice and it's a fun. It's a fun
juxtaposition because you have the cynic squid word, you have
the capitalist grab mister crabs, but you have SpongeBob who's
just so he wants to share these crabby pats man.
We didn't even talk about the exploding pod. Just a
million things. Oh yeah, we'll do a part two in
(50:35):
the future.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah. Yeah, as as as we said right, like, if
there's something that we missed, if there's a real world
food that we missed, if you've had like a pop
up in your area, if like you've got a restaurant
that does something goofy and SpongeBob themeed.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Let us know, yes, please let us know. But I
think that's what we have to say about SpongeBob for now.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
It is.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
It is.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
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and we won't get into that as soon as we
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Speaker 1 (51:31):
That theme song gets in your head? Oh it does?
Oh it does.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
I've been walking around my house singing it all week.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
I would apologize, except I'm not song the line that
gets me and porous is he That's a good one.
That's a good line.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Also, is it quancy Brown singing that song? I feel
like it is. Thanks, so I think so. Actually he
plays mister Crabs who and also like I know him
more as you know, like like the Kurgan from the
Highlander who I had a really inappropriate crush on as
a child. So like it's so what, I don't know.
(52:17):
Mister crabs is really confusing to me.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
The number of I'm sure, I'm sure he's he's my
favorite character, and I don't know how to feel about it.
I just think he's so funny. Is it's a very
comical character wherein you just he's playing the comedy game
(52:39):
where you know exactly what his choice will be. Yeah,
every time, and it's funny. Have you gotten to Crabborg yet?
That's my favorite? No?
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Okay, okay, I'm not really going linearly.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Crab Borg. Make sure you get to that one, gotcha.
I'll say I'll resent my list again, which, by the way,
I again years and years ago and I ignored it
and I was like, here are twenty episodes I require
you to watch. They are the best ones in my opinion,
(53:20):
and crab Board number one. All right, So we have
another bit, another longer one today and we love longer ones,
so that's always good. But we're just gonna split it.
U e J wrote, while I loved Mapo Tofu before
coming to Japan, I was so surprised at how popular
it is here and amused by the variety available. I'd
(53:43):
like to share a bit more of my culinary adventures
in Japan, this time with the good, the bad, and
the ugly of Japanese mabo dulfu. None of them are
probably as bad as the Culinary Institute of America's version,
which a link was a sent You're probably familiar with
a YouTube channel Chinese Cooking to mystified. I've been a
(54:04):
fan ever since they unlocked for me the secrets to
making shu mai, which was a lifesaver during the pandemic.
As miside and I may have said this before, In
my opinion, shumai is one thing Japan doesn't do particularly well.
They usually don't make it authentically Cantonese, nor do they
make it more interesting. Japanese shumi is really just the
(54:24):
steamed pork meatball. Mapo dofu is one of my go
to meals when I need something hearty and satisfying while
still having leftovers for the next day. As you said,
many retort packs are available in local supermarkets with fearing
levels of spiciness. Usually you just add tofu and maybe
ground meats and green onions or leaks. The good are
(54:46):
perhaps amazing. Thing I found at a supermarket was a
map tofu snack, tiny dehydrated tofu cubes dusted with mapo
tofu seasoning, and when you pop on in your mouth,
it's an explosion of all the spicy salt, the numbing
goodness you'd expect. It's a shame it was only a
limited time item. On the other hand, you have the
(55:06):
bad things that barely qualify as mabo d'fu. Pictured here
is one from a supermarket deli section. I've even seen
mabod'fu paler and more translucent than this at a Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Hm ej continues, I've personally found the best restaurants by
asking local Chinese people for recommendations. Unsurprisingly, many staff barely
speak Japanese, but the food is always fantastic. As for
the ugly unfortunately, that was something I was personally responsible for,
(55:41):
and depending on my mood, I'll either use a retort
pack or make it from scratch. Chinese cooking demystified recommends
mustard oil as a substitute for Sichuan rape seed oil,
and it was fire both in flavor and in how
it literally made my eyes and nostrils burn the first
time I used it, Like an aerosol version of horse
badish with sabby. Sometimes I add ground sancho or Japanese peppercorns,
(56:04):
ut numbing but more fragrant cousins of Sichuan peppercorns. Since
they're price year, I use them sparingly. The truly ugly
part was when I needed to cut carbs and boost fiber,
so instead of rice, I topped plain oatmeal with Mapo tofu.
And it wasn't bad at all, as the neutral flavor
of oatmeal carried the mapo tofu surprisingly well. Ugly but delicious,
(56:28):
quicker than rice and full of fiber. Mercifully, I have
no photos of this. Frankenstein's monster of a dish. Lauren
and Nanny, in your opinion, does having oatmeal count as
eating a vegetable? On your podcast, you mentioned so many
varieties and riffs on mapo tofu. I've even seen cheese
(56:48):
offered as a topping for a Mapo tofu noodle dish.
So the mapol lasagna sounds promising. Incidentally, I was making
lasagna the evening you dropped your episode. It was too
late to turn it into my polelasagna, but halfway through
eating my portion, I poured some sish one peppercorn oil
onto it numbingly delicious. That wasn't my first time experimenting
(57:09):
with sish one flavors in unexpected dishes. I once had
a sish one peppercorn caffe latte in China and the
numbing sensation added extra warmth, perfect for winter. Recently, I've
started topping leftover costco pepperoni pizza with sish one peppercorn oil.
If people put all of oil hot sauce or serracha
on pizza, why not something with a different kick. Yes, ah, yeah,
(57:32):
absolutely absolutely. I have in my kitchen some Sishwan peppercorn
oil and it I mean, I just want to put
it in everything I like have to hold myself. I
should probably just put it in everything like live right,
you know, but oh yeah, I know it improves anything
that you want to add it to.
Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yes, this, I'm very intrigued by this cafe latte.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah yeah, that I haven't done yet, but I have
had hot sauce and coffee and that's delicious.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah, yes, you gave me someone Yeah yeah yeah mm
hmm uh okay, So I, in my opinion, oatmeal is
not a vegetable. I am I'm not coming I'm not
coming out like hard and saying that if you feel
that way, but in my opinion it is not.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
It's I mean, it's a vegetation, but like corn or wheat,
it's a grain.
Speaker 1 (58:35):
Yeah, I'm glad that because I was very wary when
you said you put the mappo tofu on oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
You could hear my weariness. Yes, so I'm glad it.
I'm glad it turned out.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah, and when you described it, I can see that working.
I think when I think of oatmeal, I think of
a much more sweeter thing, just because that's how I've
normally had it. But yeah, if you had it kind
of plain, I can see that working.
Speaker 2 (58:58):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, you don't have to add any sugar
to oatmeal. You can do save, you can do savery oatmeals.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
It's a whole thing. No, yes, you absolutely can. And yeah,
thank you so much for writing in about We love
hearing from people from other places than where we are
about what's going on there. Oh yeah, we mentioned Japan
and what was going on with Mapoto if we there,
but we didn't really go into it. So very glad
that you wrote in. And this is it's interesting about
(59:25):
like finding it in supermarkets and two varying degrees of quality.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
So yeah, yeah, I need to the next time I
make it out to a h Mart or something like that,
I'll have to look for some of.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
The some of the pre made sauce packs. Yeah, yeah,
you should please report back. I don't get to go
to h Mart often, so every time someone goes, I'm like,
I want to send you on some missions for me.
Speaker 2 (59:55):
Oh yeah, oh that's a place of many wonders.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
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Hello, and welcome to favorite production of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie
Ree and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm Lorn vogel Bum, and today we have an episode
for you about SpongeBob SquarePants by y.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm very excited as well. This is one of Annie's
favorite series.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, oh yes, And in fact, we tried to do
this episode a while. By a while, I mean several
years ago, and I got intimidated by the number, the
sheer number of academic articles written about SpongeBob and the
foods of SpongeBob. And so here we are. We're still
(00:54):
not actually tackling those academics. Really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, there was a certain point at which I had
to stop, like I had to it was it was.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
When I just told any of this before we started recording.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But it was when I realized that there is a
book that was written about.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Like the like philosophy, like the study of philosophy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Through SpongeBob and I and I was like, Nope, nope,
that's it, that's it. I cannot go into the academic
riggor that has been spent on SpongeBob SquarePants today, so
I have to focus on the Krabby Patty like that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Not today, but maybe in the future. Yeah right, so hey,
I would happily happily come back.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Me too, me too, And I so okay, so I'm
new to this entire phenomenon. I am so like, I
never watched this show. I was a little bit too
old for it when it came out, and then I
didn't have TV for like ten years, and I just
never picked it up, Like to the point that I
was playing one of those party games one Time Circle,
(02:01):
like twenty ten, where your partner has to make you
guess a word without saying certain other words. The word
was pineapple, and my good friends, my partner was like,
SpongeBob lives in this under the sea, and I was like,
I was flummixed. I had no I was like, what
(02:22):
are you talking?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh dear, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But in preparation for this episode, I have watched a
lot of SpongeBob SquarePants over the past week. I would
I would say that I am now familiar with the show. Excellent,
and I love it now time wasted, you know, but here,
(02:53):
but here we are. But but you you have a
long history with SpongeBob, I do.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So. I actually remember exactly where I was when it
first came out because it was so goofy. The premise
was so goofy, you're going to follow the sponge This
song had come out and it was very goofy. My
parents were making fun of us for wanting to watch it,
as being my siblings and a friend of mine that
(03:21):
was with me on our summer vacation because I didn't
grow up with cable, which was what SpongeBob came on,
but it was coming out in summer. We were there
and we were going to watch SpongeBob and we did
and we loved it. We loved it, and it just
became a thing that we quoted. It was just part
(03:42):
of our a term I've read recently as Faneleckt kind
of conversation between fans, and to this day, I was
telling Lauren, they are just quotes. I'm going to apologize
to you listeners. Some of them will come out in
this episode that I just have to say, yeah, oh yeah,
that impactful to me. It is so highly quotable, like right,
(04:04):
like it is part of mine dialect. After a week,
so I'm like all right, yeah, sure, yes. And one
of the reasons that this is coming out now is
that I recently went to the big NERD convention here
in Atlanta, dragon Con, and we were discussing topics we
could do that might relate to that, and I was
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saying that a friend of mine was going to cosplay
as Smitty Werbin. Jaegerman Jensen, who is a very obscure
character in SpongeBob is in one episode. It's one of
my favorite episodes. But I was confident in this cosplay
she was gonna get at least five people say he
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was No. Number one to her within the first fifteen minutes,
ten people, not even kidding. The first person who came
up to her said the whole name perfectly pronounced it perfectly,
gave her a sticker, and I'm telling you it was
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a hit. It was. Oh, I'm so happy for her.
It was awesome. I was. I was thrilled to just
be in the vicinity and SpongeBob is a pretty big
cosplay contingent. At dragon Con. Two that I wanted to
shout out is, uh, We're gonna talk about this more,
(05:30):
but there's a SpongeBob ice cream popsicle thing, uh that
historically has looked rather creepy, just in the way the
eyes are somebody was cosplaying as that, yeah, and we
all knew what it was though, we were like bot
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ice cream. Yeah. And then there's an episode of the
show where squid Word gets hit in the face and
he becomes hot.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There was somebody there as Hot squid Word and it
was great. It was so good, y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I was unprepared for the phrase hot squid word to
be facing me in this outline today. Oh, but here
we are, and now I'm rethinking my own Halloween plans.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So you should look up hot squidtered. It's pretty good.
And there was a hole there was a huge group
of SpongeBob cssplayers and they were doing like you know, Barnacle, Bory,
Mormonde man and all the villain cute. It was so excellent.
But another reason this has been on my mind is
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I've started binging binging binging with Babbish. Yeah sure, yeah,
And he has a lot of SpongeBob content, And if
you're not familiar, it's basically like he tries to recreate
something from a piece of entertainment and then tries to
make it better. But he has a lot of stuff
from SpongeBob and it just got me thinking. I was like,
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you know, what I do know about all of this stuff?
We should talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, Oh, I'm really
glad that we are. This is great. Oh, I'm so excited.
But I guess this brings us to our question. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
If you don't know the answer to the question, then
you are very confused right now.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yes, you are, so, let's help you out, all right.
SpongeBob SquarePants, what is it? Well?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
SpongeBob SquarePants is a children's animated comedy franchise that was
originally created by one Stephen Hillenberg for the kid's TV
channel Nickelodeon. It premiered on Nick's Saturday Morning lineup on
July seventeenth of nineteen ninety nine, and it tells of
the daily, surreal adventures and misadventures of an anthropomorphic kitchen
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sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea alongside
a town full of anthropomorphic marine life and other characters.
Each episode contains two, typically standalone segments running about eleven
minutes apiece, and the concept if you like me not
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too long ago are somehow unfamiliar. The concept is that
this guy SpongeBob like a like like an adult person,
like a youngish adult person named SpongeBob who is just
real sweet and nerdy and eternally optimistic. He lives in
this town called Bikini Bottom with his pet snail Gary,
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which mews like a cat, and his neighbor's Patrick, who's
a sort of simple starfish, and Squidward, an octopus who
is pessimistic all the time. And SpongeBob and squid Word
work at this local fast food joint called the Krusty
Krab under the ownership of mister Crabs, who is a crab,
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a very capitalist crab. SpongeBob works the grill there and
he is so happy to do so, and shenanigans ensue.
A lot of it is like relatively normal life stuff,
like the characters work a night shift, or they spend
a day at the beach, or a SpongeBob has to
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figure out how to deal with the bully, you know,
but with this like highly surrealist edge to it, you know,
just for example here, because because they're spending a day
at the beach, they live underwater. They live underwater. Why
are they going to a beach. I don't understand it.
Don't ask too many questions.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Definitely don't it snows sometimes, Yeah, that's fine. Rains yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Hillenberg developed this concept while he was working on another
Nickelodeon cartoon, Rocko's Modern Life, and he decided to pitch
his own show. He was inspired by his longtime love
of marine life, including like watching Jacques Coustau's documentaries as
a kid, and also personal experience working as a marine
science educator at the Ocean Institute in California, Like he
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majored in marine biology in college before he went to
do an MFA and experimental animation. Not that SpongeBob is
like highly scientifically accurate, Like one of the characters is
a squirrel who lives in a dome of air in town,
like there is. There's a very intentional and studied type
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of nonsense that the show runs on.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
This like really old school like vaudeville to mid century
sort of humor. So I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I tried not to write too many like fun facts
about the show into this outline, because we're not like
children's culture show. But but I need I need to.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I read a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I've read a lot about SpongeBob SquarePants in the past
twenty four hours, y'all, and I needed to inform you
that the character was only not called SpongeBoy and the
show SpongeBoy a Hoy because there was an existing copyright
on SpongeBoy from an old newspaper comic strip that got
licensed for a pencil in the early nineteen nineties. Like
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you know, you know when pencils have like have like
bright like raps on them. That's why, that's why we
have SpongeBob SquarePants and not SpongeBoy a hoy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh. I like SpongeBob SquarePants. My little brother his name
is Bobby, and he would always go as Spongebobby SquarePants.
It wouldn't have worked if it was SpongeBoy a boy
oh man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But like real real sliding doors moment there, you know. Also, sadly,
Hillenburg passed away in twenty eighteen, relatively suddenly of als.
He was only fifty seven. But the phenomenon continues. And
when I say phenomenon, like this franchise, if you live
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under a rock, like Patrick is a really big thing,
like just a pop culture powerhouse. The show was definitely
Nickelodeon's biggest property for a hot minute. I'm not positive
that it still is, but but it's currently in its
sixteenth season, and has spawned two other animated series, six
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animated films, including one that is still in development, a
comic book series I think fifty two video games if
I'm mathed correctly, and a stage musical on Broadway. There
have been theme park rides. There is so much merchandise.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Also, like its influence is just really far reaching. Like
this Dutch tulip gardener developed spent like a decade developing
this bright yellow tulip variety that is named SpongeBob. There's
a really spongy looking fungus that the describing mycologists named
sponge Offma square pantsy. I yes, and there has been
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some rigorous academic study surrounding it. This article that I
did not read that I'm kicking myself in my non
square pants for right now is called Consumption, Health and
Disposability in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh yes, there are so many intense academic articles. I
said it once, I'll say it again. Wow. People put
a lot of thought into this. They have they have,
and I do love I do love it. I love
it as well? Well? What about the nutrition?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I do not eat children's animated comedy franchises, no matter
how popular they are.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
There's probably a SpongeBob episode that I could we could
relate to this. There's a lot of strange episodes, even
for me. Oh yeah, oh yeah, guys, wow, we do
have some numbers for you. Oh my, heck we do.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, So, yes, the franchise just celebrated it's twenty fifth
anniversary last year, if anyone needed to feel old. Also, yeah,
like this was a phenomenon early on, like just four seasons.
In two thousand and six, the show already had over
sixty one million viewers a month and had increased its
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adult viewership by seventy six percent since its premiere. It
was at that time already syndicated in one hundred and
seventy one markets in twenty five languages.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So it did used to I used to go in
college and watch it and would make fun of you
and she's like, you're still watching SpongeBob. Yes, yes, this
is a high quality piece of media entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't want to miss a single minute.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Oh man, and one hundred and seventy one markets is
like basically almost a capacity like it's it's now like
it's only in like one hundred and eighty markets now
though it has been in uh translated into sixty different languages.
At this point, it is one of the most widely
distributed shows in Paramount's history. It still has like over
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one hundred million viewers a quarter.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Wow. Well, if you've never watched SpongeBob in a different language,
I recommend it. It comes up a lot, like on
social media. It'll be like, have you heard SpongeBob in German?
It's fun. I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Even just the characters' names are fun. I almost wrote
out a list of different names of SpongeBob in different languages,
but then I did not want to do that to
myself again.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Sometimes you've got to draw lines.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, Yeah, a line in the sand, line in the
bikini bottom sand. Yes, all right, more numbers.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
As of June of twenty twenty one, it was the
eighteenth most in demand show across all platforms and all
genres worldwide.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It and its cast and crew have won a bunch
of awards for their work, including six which are Kids
Programming Things, five Daytime Emmys, eight Sound Editing Awards at
the Golden Reels that's from the American Motion Picture Sound
Editors Society and this one blows my mind. It has
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won the title Favorite Cartoon in Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards
almost every year since it started being nominated in two
thousand and three, with the honestly kind of weird exception
of two thousand and eight, which is when Avatar The
Last Airbender one. But that's twenty one wins and yes
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that includes this year.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow wow Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Also, the Broadway Musical cut twelve tony nominations in twenty eighteen,
tying for most nominations of the year with The Mean
Girls Musical it only won won. SpongeBob only won one
for scenic design, though, proud of them for that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh gosh, listeners, if any of you win, right, it
was only up for like a year. But I've read
really great things about it, to be.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Honest, in Oh Squidward Tap Danced, I don't know, man,
it sounds really good.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When the current season is complete, SpongeBob will have three
hundred and thirty two episodes in the main series alone,
and assuming that every episode does contain two segments and no,
I did not check, sixteen seasons is a lot to
pour over, that will be six hundred and sixty four
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segments of SpongeBob out there in the universe. Traditionally, each
segment is made by about forty five to fifty people
who will work on it for ten to eleven months,
from like premise to storyboard, to voice work to animation
to sound to completion.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Wow wow mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, that's why they're only putting out thirteen episode seasons
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Makes sense? Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The movies have done about half a billion dollars in
box office sales, and don't forget that march. As of
twenty seventeen, the franchise had racked up thirteen billion dollars
in merchandise sales. It is Paramount's most profitable franchise. And
I want y'all to remember right now that Paramount owns
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Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow. I'm telling you. When this show came out, I
remember so clearly how everybody who's making fun of it,
everybody is going to work. Well, look at this weird idea.
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My parents were like laughing aloud at us for this,
and look where it is now. You were right, they
should have listened. I was right. Uh And okay, one
final recommendation before we actually move into the food portion,
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if you. SpongeBob also has a delightful internet meme culture
mashup culture. One of my favorites is when the Lighthouse
came out. There was a lot of fun SpongeBob Lighthouse
mashups for for our older viewers, but I just recommend it.
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There's a lot of fun stuff that SpongeBob has spawned
over the years. And we'll talk some about those real
world food.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Things, yeah a little bit, yeah, but yeah, there is
a lot of food in this show and we are
going to get into all of that as soon as
we get back from a quick break. For a word
from our sponsors, imre back, thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you? Okay,
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so yes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Since the show largely revolves around SpongeBob's job as a
fry cook at the Krusty Krab, there are a lot
of references to the ins and outs of running a
fast food restaurant. There are episodes centered around a visit
from the health Inspector, which is a favorite of mine,
customer critiques which is another favorite of mine, competing restaurants
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and sabotage attempts of these competing restaurants, minimum wage and strikes,
and multiple food competitions, including with the god Deseiden. Now, yes,
nutrition food health recalls a lot of conversation around that.
There's a food convention, some commentary on fine dining with
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mister Squilliam Fancyson, and yes, I love that episode too,
And of course yeah capitalism. The owner of the Krusty Krab,
mister Eugene Krabs, is the cheapest of all cheap crabs.
He will do anything to make even the most meager
amounts a penny, including sell his employees sold to Davy Jones,
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which he did. He also tries to keep up with
the food trends, even if that means stealing the idea.
So there are several instances of food promotions, including a
dinner theater and a talent show. And there's a really
interesting j exaposition here of mister Krabs, who only cares
about money, and SpongeBob, who truly believes in and loves
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the krabby Patty. He is not in it at all
for the money. In fact, several episodes he offers to
give his paycheck to mister Crabs to continue to work there. Yes,
so there are a lot of themes that if we
were a SpongeBob bassed show. I could unpacked, unpack and
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more depth, but yes that there is a lot of
themes around the food industry. Also, throughout the show, there
are references to the fact that many of the characters
are one deep fry away from being food as well. Yes,
there's one episode where they are quote playing hooky and
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they find a field of hooks and yep, yeah, everything
works out because it's SpongeBob. But yeah, there are multiple
references to the fact that in our real world we
eat seafood. Yeah. Yes, the citizens of Bikini Bottom do
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have a lot of the same foods that we do,
like ice cream, chocolate bars, popcorn, peanuts, and potato salad,
as well as plenty of things that are jokes based
off of real world brands or products like brand Flakes
and Kelp jerkey. So you got that basis. But this
brings us to, I guess the bread and butter of
SpongeBob when it comes to food. The Krabby patty the
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main food item in this show. Without a doubt. This
is the primary menu item at the Krusty krab and
it is something that SpongeBob is very reverent about making
there are multiple episodes about him learning to make it
and then him forgetting to make it and losing his
confidence on all kinds of things. It's very important to him.
While at first glance they are pretty they're pretty typical
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fast food smash burger. What exactly a Krabby Patty is
and has been is the source of a lot of debate.
According to the creator Stephen Hillenberg, the Crappy Patty is
a meatless patty, which has led to much speculation about
what the patty is. Oh. When I say much speculation,
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there have been like, it can't be tofu, It can't
be that people have really gone in down. Oh yeah, Yes,
there's a popular theory that Kelp is involved, perhaps as
a seasoning. Whatever the case, The patty is topped with
sea vegetables, which are pretty much led as tomato, onion,
and pickles, ketchup mustard, occasionally cheese, all sandwich between two
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buns grilled at a particular temperature. SpongeBob mentions the temperature
and two episodes they're different temperatures. Oh, there's also a
secret ingredient that mister Crabs's enemy, Plankton, repeatedly tries to
steal and one episode, we learn the pair invented the
patty together when they were friends. Is the secret ingredient,
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which mister Crabs guards rigorously. The secret ingredient in order
to get the secret formula, mister Crabs has a series
of rules and tests in place. So here's a quote
from a SpongeBob fans Ravioli. Ravioli, give me the formuloe. Yes. Also,
that doesn't remain consistent. That's just a fun thing that
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changes all the time. But that's one of the more
well known tests. SpongeBob once said that the secret ingredient
is love, not magic. That's how he beats Poseidon in
his competition. Dang yes, And by all accounts, the Krabby
patty is delicious even naysayers Squidward can't resist him. After
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getting a taste, he was very much like, I'm too
cool for this. Their gross I'll never try one. He
finally tries one and then cannot stop. Oh yeah, no.
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He goes straight to the patty vault, which he guess
it's sort of like screw the book with coins, but
it's Krabby patties and Krabby patties are the most popular
food item in bikini bottom, despite the fact that they
go straight to your thighs. It is also implied in
more than one episode that they are addictive. The health
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of Krabby patties is explored in multiple episodes, and usually
the negative impacts of grabby patties. The price of the
Krabby patty fluctuates. Most of the time it's around two dollars,
but it has gone as high as ninety nine dollars. Yes,
and as mentioned, there are numerous actual research papers about
the Krabby patty capitalism and consumerism in particular, because that's
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pretty much what it is. Yeah, ye, mister Krab's trying
to make a lot of money and doing all kinds
of things to do so, which brings us to several
Krabby patty variations. All right, First, there's the Nasty Patty,
and this is from one of my favorite episodes of
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the same name. It's the one with the food the
Health Inspector. So a health inspector shows up to do
an inspection of the Krusty Krab. Mister Crabs and SpongeBob
are pulling out all the stops to pass the inspection.
The health inspector has one final request after trying everything
on the menu before he passes them a krabby patty.
SpongeBob and mister Crabs think that they have got it
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in the bag. They're done, so they go to the
kitchen to whip one up. But then the newscasters on
the TV in the kitchen warrant that there's someone posing
as a food inspector to obtain free food, and mister
Krabs is absolutely furious, shall not stand and decides to
serve him up what he calls a diabolical patty as punishment.
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So he and SpongeBob start to compose the nasty patty.
And so the patty is topped with a volcano sauce,
seahorse raddish and tonel clippings. It's dumped in the toilet
and dried with mister crabs old dirty gym socks, and
it looks truly disturbed. It looks like something alive that
will eat you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's surrounded by flies. It's really gross. They serve it
to the health inspector. I mean, luckily he didn't get
to taste it before a fly through it flew in
his mouth and he starts choking. SpongeBob and mister Krabs
think he's choking because of the nasty patty, but you
know it was the fly. Come to find out it
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was the real health inspector, and they think they've killed him.
Oh no, So chaos and an attempted cover up ensues.
The police are there. It's fantastic. It's a great episode.
Obviously this was never on the menu, but I had
to include it. I love it. Beautiful. Speaking of beautiful, Ben,
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we have the pretty patty. These are Krabby patties in
an assortment of colors. Originally six colors, but once they
gained popularity, a huge variety of colors and patterns. The
patties were an idea of SpongeBob's to attract more customers. However,
when he presented the idea to mister Krabs, mister Krabs
left in SpongeBob's face, So SpongeBob started selling them on
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his own and they became hugely popular, much more so
than the original Krabby patty. They draw these huge crabs.
They empty out the krusty krab Mister Krabs, he's on
the news report about their success and how SpongeBob and
his partner Patrick are just giving away all the money
they're making from them. They literally have a money stand
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where they're giving it away and mister Krabs can't take it.
You can't take it. He offers to take over the
stand in exchange for giving SpongeBob the key to the
Krusty Krab. SpongeBob accepts. Mister Krabs is thrilled until customers
start confronting him about how the patty changed their tongues
to the color or pattern of the one ones of
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the pretty patties they ate. The angry customers chase mister
Crabs away after he refuses to give them a refund yep.
There's also the Spongey Patty, which was mister Krabs's attempt
to capitalize on SpongeBob's rise in popularity after his appearance
in a commercial. So mister Crabs pretty much turns the
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Krusty Krab into a SpongeBob themed amusement park and sells
SpongeBob themed food while trying to make room for SpongeBob
themed ice cubes. Mister Krabs discovers expired patties that have
taken on a spongy texture and he thinks, wow, that
will be a great item he can up charge for.
Resembling SpongeBob, he orders that they're fried up to be
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a spongey patty. After eating them, the customers turn yellow
and develop spots similar to SpongeBob. Mister Crabs rested and
taken to courch. Presumably he got off because he's back
in the next episode, Oh, which brings us to another
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transgression of mister Crabs. We have the jelly Patty. The
jelly patty is a krabby patty with jellyfish jelly spread
on it, which is a favorite of Spongebobs, who is
an avid and responsible jellyfisher. After consumer witnesses SpongeBob spreading
some jellyfish jelly on his Krabby patty during his lunch break,
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the consumer asks to try it, and he loves it
like he writes a song about it. Loves it. Mister
Crabs adds it to the menu and convinces SpongeBob to
catch him more and more jellyfish until there aren't any
more jellyfish except the huge blue one named No Name.
Oh oh, yes, oh no, you don't want to mess
with no Name? Okay, No, I don't, Yes, no, you don't.
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Eventually no Name captures SpongeBob and shows him the jellyfish
factory that mister Crabs is milking the jellyfish in horrified,
SpongeBob helps free the jellyfish. They swarm and sting mister Krabs,
and the jelly fatty is removed from the menu.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I oh, my goodness, I love yeah this I yep
mm hm. This is one of those cartoons if you
could if you haven't watched it and couldn't tell from
Annie's descriptions, where like, I'm watching it and I don't
I feel like there is no way to be a
sane person while you are consuming this show.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You're like, oh, okay, this is where we're going. Wow. Yes,
and listeners. If you want any recommendations, I can give
you the episode recommendations and also once for if you
want to feel like you are losing your mind. Yeah,
which there are several that will make you feel that way. Yeah,
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that's sort of common. One of my favorites. Yeah, okay,
actually this is a good one and another attempt to
sell more Krabby patties mister Krabs, unless Sandy the Squirrels
help to come up with the secret patty an orange
Krabby patty that floats. Unfortunately, when eaten, it turns people
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and machines, including Karen Blanton's wife, Oh no, into Krabby
Patty zombies. Oh yes, the only way to turn people
back into their non zombie selves is by feeding them
chum or on that in a second. The chum is
so disgusting that it causes folks to spit the secret
patty out. But yeah, Sariau's is a zombie episode. Yeah, okay,
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this brings us to bubble Basses order. Oh all right,
so there's this character that's kind of a bully who
comes into the Krusty krab with an extremely elaborate Krabby
Patty order that SpongeBob quickly whips up. Bubble Bass tries
it and declares, there's one problem. There's no pickle. SpongeBob
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is adamant that he put the pickle on there, but
his confidence is shattered. He can't remember how to make
the Krabby patty it's a whole thing. It is later
revealed that Bubble Bass hid the pickle under his tongue.
It had been there all along. Man. But okay, let's
break this down a bit. Because the Internet loves fighting
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about what this order means. So here's what bubble Bass ordered.
I'll take a double triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft
four by four, animal style, extra shingles, with a shimmy
and a squeeze, light axle, grease, make it cry, burn it,
and let it swim, to which Squidward says, I always thought.
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I always thought this was just cartoon nonsense, but apparently
not necessarily all right, Okay, so let's break it down.
Double triple Bossy equals six all beef patties with everything
on it on a raft texas toast, four by four,
four patties and four slices of cheese, upping the paddy
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count to ten, or multiplying the whole thing by four
to get twenty four patties. Oh, people disagree? Okay, animal
style grilled and mustard or addition of onion jam a
la in and out. People like to disagree. Extra shingles,
extra toast, a shimmy, jelly on the toast, or butter
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on the toast, or mail on the toast, a squeeze,
a glass of orange juice, light axle grease, minimal butter,
make it cry, extra onions, Let it Swim extra special sauce. However,
some have pointed out that the take on the double
triple doesn't necessarily equate to six patties. At some places
like In and Out, a double double doesn't mean four patties.
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It means two patties and two slices of cheese. Wow.
So there's still argument happening about this. I love it.
I really thought it was just like a cartoon monologue.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, but no, all of these have references in diner
culture and burger culture.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, yes, yes, I am benching with Babbage. She did
try to make it. It's huge like in the show.
It looks like a little bit bigger than a regular
Gabby patty, but it would be enormous, all right. So
moving on from the Krabby Patty, we have the Krusty
Krab Pizza, which is the pizza for you and me,
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Rusty quay.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, ye, pizza pizza.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I have to sing it. This is from one of
the earliest episodes, when mister Crabs gets a call for
delivery and from a customer for a Krusty Krab pizza.
He immediately agrees, even though they don't make pizza and
they don't delivered he cartoon Magic makes pizza from some
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Krabby patties and sends SpongeBob and Squidward out to deliver it.
The pair get lost and counters some hardships, including a tornado,
until they finally find the customer SpongeBob was so determined
to get to. However, sad customer is furious that they
forgot his drink and refuses delivery, which causes SpongeBob to
crowd Furious, Squidward throws the pizza in the customer's face
(38:40):
and tells SpongeBob that they successfully delivered it. Yeah. That's
a good episode. That's a good one. I'm not really
going to go in depth on this one, but this
wasn't the first time mister Crabs tried to really change
things up. His daughter Pearl, who is a whale by
the way, tried to make the Krusty krab into like
(39:02):
a trendy health place once and had SpongeBob serve salads
as he called them because he had no idea what
they were.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
There, you go, I'm putting a number of things together
that I read.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Great. Please continue, this is excellent, all right? Yes? So yeah,
now let's talk about the chum Bucket. This is the
arrival restaurant of the Krusty Krab, owned by Plankton, and
this restaurant is situated directly across from the Krusty Krab,
and it serves primarily chum in a bucket. It is
(39:35):
very unappetizing looking and very unpopular. Even Plankton doesn't like it.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Now, I'm not too sure about this, y'all correct me
if I'm wrong, but I but I'm pretty sure that
Plankton only eats light because he's a Plankton, and from
what i've from what I understand, he only eats light
in the form of holograms that his robot wife Karen
makes for him, which is a sentence that yeah, oh
(40:09):
yeah he does.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He does indulge in a kilp shake, oh okay, okay,
But I think in general, yes, yeah, the continuity of SpongeBob,
as mentioned before, is not always.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Yeah yeah, it's kind of does the joke work, Let's
go with that. Yeah. And also, Plankton is not a
photosynthesizing plankton.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
The character is based.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
On a copa pod, which is another thing that I
read about earlier today.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Excellent, I love it. I love it well in the
episode where mister Crabs and Plankton they were friends before
they had this falling out, and basically what happened was
Plankton ended up creating chum and mister Krabs ended up
creating the Krabby Patty, And so now Plankton is just
(41:06):
determined to get this formula and it runs a lot
of the plot in the show. Mm hmm okay. So
at various points, this bucket of chum sports bones, organs,
and eyeballs all nestled in this pink viscera. It also
(41:27):
contains quote countless strains of parasitical bacteria. It makes people sick.
Plankton has offered numerous chum based products, from Chumbergers to
Chummy Joe's, to chum sticks, to chum nuggets, to chum
for casse, which was squid word came up with that. Uh,
he like tricks the whole staff of the Krusty krab
(41:49):
into working for him at one point, so squid Word
came up with the chump for casse. At one point
Plankton flushed the chum down the toilet and it led
to the creation of some sewer bass chum creatures. It
has been known to burn a hole in the floor
and send people slash fish I guess to the doctor. However,
at one point Plankton gets a fancy establishment and people
(42:12):
eat his food no matter how gross it is, which
I think is another fun commentary on our dining culture. Yep,
so I would say those are kind of the main things.
I do have a couple of honorable mentions. One is
Kelp Nugat Crunch. This is a candy that appeared in
(42:34):
another favorite episode of mine, rock Bottom. It seems to
be a chocolate bar with nougat and kelp, but SpongeBob
big Fan really wants it. Then there's the triple Gooseberry Surprise,
related to another favorite of mine, the Weenie Hutt Junior Sunday.
(42:54):
This is a menu item at Goofy Goober's ice Cream
party Boat. It is an anthropomorphic Sunday with two scoops
of vanilla ice cream as the body, red liquorice for
a smile, candy, buttons of some sort for the eyes
and the nose, fudge sauce for there, bananas for arms,
(43:15):
and some sort of hat situation. All the bananas are
topped with cherries, and upon eating it, it seems to
cause intoxication, as if it has rum sauce or something.
Oh yeah, okay, mm hmm. Then there's the bad breath Sunday, Lauren,
Oh dear. One Sunday, SpongeBob gets up and is gonna
(43:40):
make this Sunday, but he finds out he doesn't have
the typ of ingredients he wanted, so he makes a
Sunday with ketchup onions and peanut plant. Surprise, surprise, it
gave him bad breath and the whole thing led to
him thinking he was ugly because everybody was running away
from him. Oh yeah, and the whole episode is him
trying to square living as an ugly sponge yep. I mean,
(44:10):
I mean every episode is him trying to square That's true. Nice. Sorry, sorry,
that was perfect.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
That was perfect, okay, and one of the only I
had a couple drinks that came to mind, but none
of them were had much more to say other than
mentioning their name.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
I did want to mention Kelp shakes, which, as I said,
Plankton got into. That was how Plankton and mister Crabs bonded.
In one episode. This was a shake that was offered
by the chain kelp shakes, and they were seemingly addictive.
Everybody loved them. It is ninety nine percent helt juice
and the rest is a dangerous radioactive material that causes
(44:56):
consumers to grow green hair all over. So I think
that it's interesting how many examples in here we have
of these big companies doing these things and the fallout
to consumers and or the jellyfish that it takes to
exploit to make things. I don't know. I think there's
a lot of commentary going on, yeah, or the workers, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
(45:24):
I could go on and on, but those are the
those are the big ones.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
I thought that we would hit for Suah. Yeah, if
there's any that y'all are like, why didn't they talk
about email us, tell us about it.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, oh yes, I'll be back in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
But we do have some real world examples for you guys,
Like I mean, because of course, this is such a
big series that there have been any number of tie
in food products, like Kellogg's has had a SpongeBob breakfast
cereal at certain points over the past twenty five years.
It's made of little vanilla flavored cereal squares, and those
(46:04):
horrifying Cereal marshmallows that are in the shapes of SpongeBob
with pants, Patrick also with Pants, and the Pineapple House.
There are Crabby Patty gummy candies, including like the regular
burger form and also the Pretty Patty original six colors.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah. Well, and then as mentioned, there's the Creepy SpongeBob
ice cream. Well, okay, so this is.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
This is you know, like a like an ice cream
truck treat made by Popsicle. Apparently it is cotton candy
and fruit punch flavored. It originally had gumballs for eyes,
but they changed that to chocolate rounds and twenty twenty three,
and people had opinions about that.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Oh go look it up. Go look up the original
and you'll see why I say. It's pretty horrifying. Yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, And yet for the twenty fifth anniversary, a number
of co brands bubbled up.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yes, Wendy's had a Krabby Patty.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
They did a Krabby Patty collab menu, which was two items,
but sure, it's a menu. Yeah. The Krabby Patty was
a single burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles,
but with Krabby patty sauce instead of the usual ketchup
and mayo, which apparently was similar to you know, your
general fast food special sauce like basically Thousand Island dressing
(47:35):
with a sort of peppery savory kind of flavor. And
then the second item was a Pineapple under Sea frosty
including the vanilla bass with swirls of pineapple and mango.
Yeah yeah. Also also home Chef, which is one of
those male order meal kit companies not sponsored. They currently
(47:59):
have a few themed dishes, including a Pineapple under the
Sea burger, a crusty crab pizza, Sandy's Texas style honey
barbecue chicken, Blankton's holographic meat loaf including a side of
Karen salad, a cuddly crab chicken salad ah yeah yeah,
(48:27):
and a chocolate brownie cookie skillet.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
This makes me so so.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I don't know, I don't know if they still have it,
but for until while supplies last. They you can get
a free SpongeBob spatula when you sign up. Not a
sponsor but no, nope, just saying I'm saying that's adorable.
(49:03):
And also there is a universal resort for families with
younger kids. That's opening in Texas next year and there
is going to be a whole SpongeBob Land, So no
word on the food yet, but that looking forward to
seeing what they do there.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
I am as well. This is a delight, I believe that.
So at dragon Con there are five host hotels, one
of them the Hyatts, which is where we did our
video with Scheff Thomas Mukun. They always go all in
on Dragon Conn. Their menu with SpongeBob feet so cute. Yeah,
(49:47):
it was super cute. I love it. It's just nerdery
and huge. It's fun.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
And it is like SpongeBob is such a sweet character,
like he just is excited about stuff and he's excited
about other people being excited about stuff, and so it's
it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
It is nice and it's a fun. It's a fun
juxtaposition because you have the cynic squid word, you have
the capitalist grab mister crabs, but you have SpongeBob who's
just so he wants to share these crabby pats man.
We didn't even talk about the exploding pod. Just a
million things. Oh yeah, we'll do a part two in
(50:35):
the future.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah. Yeah, as as as we said right, like, if
there's something that we missed, if there's a real world
food that we missed, if you've had like a pop
up in your area, if like you've got a restaurant
that does something goofy and SpongeBob themeed.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Let us know, yes, please let us know. But I
think that's what we have to say about SpongeBob for now.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
It is.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
It is.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
We do have some listeners mail for you already, though,
and we won't get into that as soon as we
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Speaker 1 (51:31):
That theme song gets in your head? Oh it does?
Oh it does.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
I've been walking around my house singing it all week.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
I would apologize, except I'm not song the line that
gets me and porous is he That's a good one.
That's a good line.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Also, is it quancy Brown singing that song? I feel
like it is. Thanks, so I think so. Actually he
plays mister Crabs who and also like I know him
more as you know, like like the Kurgan from the
Highlander who I had a really inappropriate crush on as
a child. So like it's so what, I don't know.
(52:17):
Mister crabs is really confusing to me.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
The number of I'm sure, I'm sure he's he's my
favorite character, and I don't know how to feel about it.
I just think he's so funny. Is it's a very
comical character wherein you just he's playing the comedy game
(52:39):
where you know exactly what his choice will be. Yeah,
every time, and it's funny. Have you gotten to Crabborg yet?
That's my favorite? No?
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Okay, okay, I'm not really going linearly.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Crab Borg. Make sure you get to that one, gotcha.
I'll say I'll resent my list again, which, by the way,
I again years and years ago and I ignored it
and I was like, here are twenty episodes I require
you to watch. They are the best ones in my opinion,
(53:20):
and crab Board number one. All right, So we have
another bit, another longer one today and we love longer ones,
so that's always good. But we're just gonna split it.
U e J wrote, while I loved Mapo Tofu before
coming to Japan, I was so surprised at how popular
it is here and amused by the variety available. I'd
(53:43):
like to share a bit more of my culinary adventures
in Japan, this time with the good, the bad, and
the ugly of Japanese mabo dulfu. None of them are
probably as bad as the Culinary Institute of America's version,
which a link was a sent You're probably familiar with
a YouTube channel Chinese Cooking to mystified. I've been a
(54:04):
fan ever since they unlocked for me the secrets to
making shu mai, which was a lifesaver during the pandemic.
As miside and I may have said this before, In
my opinion, shumai is one thing Japan doesn't do particularly well.
They usually don't make it authentically Cantonese, nor do they
make it more interesting. Japanese shumi is really just the
(54:24):
steamed pork meatball. Mapo dofu is one of my go
to meals when I need something hearty and satisfying while
still having leftovers for the next day. As you said,
many retort packs are available in local supermarkets with fearing
levels of spiciness. Usually you just add tofu and maybe
ground meats and green onions or leaks. The good are
(54:46):
perhaps amazing. Thing I found at a supermarket was a
map tofu snack, tiny dehydrated tofu cubes dusted with mapo
tofu seasoning, and when you pop on in your mouth,
it's an explosion of all the spicy salt, the numbing
goodness you'd expect. It's a shame it was only a
limited time item. On the other hand, you have the
(55:06):
bad things that barely qualify as mabo d'fu. Pictured here
is one from a supermarket deli section. I've even seen
mabod'fu paler and more translucent than this at a Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Hm ej continues, I've personally found the best restaurants by
asking local Chinese people for recommendations. Unsurprisingly, many staff barely
speak Japanese, but the food is always fantastic. As for
the ugly unfortunately, that was something I was personally responsible for,
(55:41):
and depending on my mood, I'll either use a retort
pack or make it from scratch. Chinese cooking demystified recommends
mustard oil as a substitute for Sichuan rape seed oil,
and it was fire both in flavor and in how
it literally made my eyes and nostrils burn the first
time I used it, Like an aerosol version of horse
badish with sabby. Sometimes I add ground sancho or Japanese peppercorns,
(56:04):
ut numbing but more fragrant cousins of Sichuan peppercorns. Since
they're price year, I use them sparingly. The truly ugly
part was when I needed to cut carbs and boost fiber,
so instead of rice, I topped plain oatmeal with Mapo tofu.
And it wasn't bad at all, as the neutral flavor
of oatmeal carried the mapo tofu surprisingly well. Ugly but delicious,
(56:28):
quicker than rice and full of fiber. Mercifully, I have
no photos of this. Frankenstein's monster of a dish. Lauren
and Nanny, in your opinion, does having oatmeal count as
eating a vegetable? On your podcast, you mentioned so many
varieties and riffs on mapo tofu. I've even seen cheese
(56:48):
offered as a topping for a Mapo tofu noodle dish.
So the mapol lasagna sounds promising. Incidentally, I was making
lasagna the evening you dropped your episode. It was too
late to turn it into my polelasagna, but halfway through
eating my portion, I poured some sish one peppercorn oil
onto it numbingly delicious. That wasn't my first time experimenting
(57:09):
with sish one flavors in unexpected dishes. I once had
a sish one peppercorn caffe latte in China and the
numbing sensation added extra warmth, perfect for winter. Recently, I've
started topping leftover costco pepperoni pizza with sish one peppercorn oil.
If people put all of oil hot sauce or serracha
on pizza, why not something with a different kick. Yes, ah, yeah,
(57:32):
absolutely absolutely. I have in my kitchen some Sishwan peppercorn
oil and it I mean, I just want to put
it in everything I like have to hold myself. I
should probably just put it in everything like live right,
you know, but oh yeah, I know it improves anything
that you want to add it to.
Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yes, this, I'm very intrigued by this cafe latte.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah yeah, that I haven't done yet, but I have
had hot sauce and coffee and that's delicious.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah, yes, you gave me someone Yeah yeah yeah mm
hmm uh okay, So I, in my opinion, oatmeal is
not a vegetable. I am I'm not coming I'm not
coming out like hard and saying that if you feel
that way, but in my opinion it is not.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
It's I mean, it's a vegetation, but like corn or wheat,
it's a grain.
Speaker 1 (58:35):
Yeah, I'm glad that because I was very wary when
you said you put the mappo tofu on oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
You could hear my weariness. Yes, so I'm glad it.
I'm glad it turned out.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah, and when you described it, I can see that working.
I think when I think of oatmeal, I think of
a much more sweeter thing, just because that's how I've
normally had it. But yeah, if you had it kind
of plain, I can see that working.
Speaker 2 (58:58):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, you don't have to add any sugar
to oatmeal. You can do save, you can do savery oatmeals.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
It's a whole thing. No, yes, you absolutely can. And yeah,
thank you so much for writing in about We love
hearing from people from other places than where we are
about what's going on there. Oh yeah, we mentioned Japan
and what was going on with Mapoto if we there,
but we didn't really go into it. So very glad
that you wrote in. And this is it's interesting about
(59:25):
like finding it in supermarkets and two varying degrees of quality.
Speaker 2 (59:33):
So yeah, yeah, I need to the next time I
make it out to a h Mart or something like that,
I'll have to look for some of.
Speaker 1 (59:40):
The some of the pre made sauce packs. Yeah, yeah,
you should please report back. I don't get to go
to h Mart often, so every time someone goes, I'm like,
I want to send you on some missions for me.
Speaker 2 (59:55):
Oh yeah, oh that's a place of many wonders.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
It is, indeed. Yes, well, thank you so much EJ
for writing in listeners. If you would like to write
to us, you can our emails hello atavorpod dot com.
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