June 29, 2021 • 35 mins
On this installment of Food Court with Richard Blais Caroline and Cristen, hosts of Unladylike Podcast, are here to say that when you have to choose between soup and salad, there is only one true choice. They just can't agree on which one is the right one so Richard will have to decide.
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Creamy, Creamy, crunchy food Court, food Court, food Court with Blaze.
Are you in the food Court Court with Blase Cross Food? Hey, everyone,
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welcome to the food Court, a production of I Heart Radio.
That is me banging the gavel. It's also someone doing
some bathroom remodeling under the court today. That's the world
we live in. Food Court is now in session. I'm
your host and judge, Richard Blaze, and this is the
podcast where I tell you if you're right or wrong
about your weird food opinion ins Now listen. You may
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remember me from shows like Top Chef, Iron Chef America,
Guys Grocery Games, Master Chef, Rachel Versus Guy Kids Competition, Crystal,
Why are you writing in? You may remember me from
shows like I'm some sort of like you know, eighties
sitcom star who has faded away. Well, I mean, I
guess I have faded away, but I'm not an eighties
sitcom star. But listen, I'm a judge and I'm here.
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I got a lot to say, and judging is kind
of fun and cool, so let's get into this. Joining
us in the Court today, we have two women who
co host the Unladylike podcast together the podcast where we
find out what happens when women break the rules. But
today they're in the food court to hash out their differences.
It's Caroline Irvin and Kristen Conger getting the air horns. Caroline,
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I cannot see you on the zoom screen. You're one
of those people. You've you you've decided not to show
us your screen. No, I for people with a chrome
book and chromebook cameras don't work. Listen. I like it.
I'm you're saying that, and I believe you. I can
I can tell that that's just an authentic answer. But
I also feel like it's a very big zoom flex
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power play. Yeah, I feel like it's anti factor. Caroline
is trying to psych me out, clearly. Yeah. The weird
thing about me is that I'm actually just a disembodied voice.
There it is. Now listen, you're you're the unladylike media
co founders, which means you've just blown up, because that's
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just like next next level and your journalistically trained, research
addicted feminists who make digital media about all things gender.
I love this. Now, listen, what's something that you're currently
giving the middle finger too? What is what is something
recently that you're just up in arms about Oh my gosh,
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where do we Where do we begin? I mean, I
think COVID gets a big middle finger. I think the
cold outside gets a big middle finger. Now you two
have a great case and I can't wait to hear it.
But before we get started, let's get to know each
other a little better. Kristen, how are you doing? And
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more importantly perhaps well, no, not more importantly. How are
you doing? It is the most important thing. But what
are the best shows you've been watching while you've been
at home? Oh my gosh. Okay, So I'll give you something. Well,
first of all, I'm okay, I'm surviving almays forgot to
answer that because I have been binging a lot of TV.
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And I'll give you something old and something new, which
you want to hear first. Wow, you know what I
want to hear the new? First? Okay? For new. I
binged right through an amazing show on HBO Max called
I May Destroy You, starring MICHAELA. Cole, who was also
um the writer and star of a hilarious sitcom on
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Hulu called Chewing Gum. But I May Destroy You is
so so good. I tore right through it and for
the older show that I have been binging before I
fall asleep is a little sitcom called Cheers. Wow, this
see a little sick. First of all, by the way,
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to are you are you are? Do you have the
mission of binging every episode of Cheers? No, I've been
kind of dipping around. I I started in season four
after Woody Harrelson comes on because he's a real game changer.
But truth be told, Truth be told. All of the
stems from my my one true love that is Frasier,
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And I've never seen Cheers, And since Frasier is essentially,
like you know, first introduced in Cheers, I feel like
I'm just extending my Fraser or universe and I should
probably talk to a therapist about it because it is
a lot of Fraser related content that I'm consuming. But
this is just where I'm at. Okay, Wow, I love it.
And I guess that's also without having gone back and
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watched here since like it aired originally, is there that
breakdown like well, like here comes Woody Harrelson's character and
then here comes Kelsey Grammer's character. Like that's sort of
like part of the chronology there kinda yeah, yeah, I
think that Frasier really has his breakout season the same
season that Woody Harrelson comes on, and you really see
Frasier eclipse Norm, who it seems like they were was
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going to really be one of the bigger stars, but
Fraser really starts to gain steam, and then Lilith comes on,
O Lilith. It's it's kind of incredible. And by incredible,
I mean maybe a little a little sad, but I'm
doing the old like YouTube behind the scenes. You didn't
know but Norm was going to get his spin off show,
but actually it became Frasier and there was all this
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riff behind the scenes. I'm totally making that up, but
it's Oh, but doesn't it sound like that could like
maybe that's the show we should write? Yes, and I
already want to watch it. Okay, now, Christen, I'm I
don't usually do this, but we're vibing. I feel like,
as the kids would say, I don't usually get into
trivia in the introductions. But since you're such a big
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Frasier fan, isn't there a food lyric in the opening
theme to Frasier? And what is it? Come on? Hello,
come on now? Salad and scrambled eggs a foreshadowing perhaps, Caroline,
What about you? What have you been enjoying these days?
Oh God, I've been enjoying whatever I possibly can to
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feel something. But as far as TV goes, I did
just Binge the Flight Attendant on HBO Max, and that
is a wild show. I don't know if you've watched it.
My mother was a flight attendant, and I just have
to say that aside from the drinking, really nothing else
metches besides from the drinking, which I love. Yeah, But
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I think my other, my other binging is slightly more,
uh slightly nerdier and closer to my heart, and that
is Finding Your Roots on PBS with Dr Henry Lewis Gates.
I am a genealogy obsessed nerd and that show just
like warms my heart. I cry in every episode. Someone's
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always finding out something incredible about their family. And it
always usually kind of you're talking about like matching up,
doesn't it always then kind of like match up in
some odd way with the genealogy, like oh like for me,
as an example, real quick, like, we did an episode
of Top Chef where we were at Ellis Island and
they did this big genealogy sort of dig on us
in it. It's like, oh, you have a great great
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great uncle grandfather who was a chemist in Indiana and
ran a butcher shop. And I'm like, I am a
chemist butcher shop guy, Like can you believe it? Yeah, no,
that's that's exactly what happens. And I love it. And
then at the end sometimes they also match up if
you share d n A with a previous celebrity guest,
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and so of course one of the best ones that
was that um Bernie Sanders and what's his name, Curb
your Enthusiasm their cousin Larry David, Larry David, thank you
that they're actually related, of course they and he plays
him on SNL, which is also like exactly, wow, we're
just first of all, we're just we're just getting along
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so well, we're getting along so well. I have only
one I actually I only have one Larry David story,
and that is the only time I've ever done like
a big late night show. I did foul In once
and Larry David was the guest, and I walked I
didn't even know he was the guest, and I walked
by a sort of where like you know, you get
your your hair did and Larry David was getting a haircut,
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and I was like, oh my god. I did not
realize that when you do these shows you can just
get free haircuts. You just walk in there and you're like,
can you please cut my hair? You can't, by the way,
you can. You can't only if you're Larry David. Only
if you're a certain status celebrity. Can you just walk
in and be like, can you cut my hair? It
did not work for me. Also, I like that it's
the bald guy who's getting the trim right, Like, well,
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maybe that's what it is, Like it's not really a cut,
it's just it's just a tiny little trim. And also, Caroline,
you have me now missing flight attendants by mentioning that,
like I used to fly used, I've been on one,
not even a two way trip in a year. Oh man,
I know Kristen and I were supposed to go on
tour last year, like right after the pandemic closed everything
down and so no no flights for us. But it's happening.
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We're coming back now. Listen, Caroline, what are some of
your strong opinions not related to today's case regarding food?
Oh my god, I hate tapas the word or like
the actual like lifestyle. Oh, you put it perfectly. I
hate I hate the lifestyle. I hate it. I hate
the expectation that I'm, as a hungry person going to
go to a restaurant and then I am forced to
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order very small plates that are the same price as
a dinner plate, and then one next to me is
going to take some of it from me. I avoid them.
I remember years ago going on dates to tapas restaurants
and I constantly felt cheated. And last year, before everything
is shut down, on one of my very good friends
had a birthday at a tapas restaurant and I specifically
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called the waitress over and I said, can I just
order a burger? Do I have to share? Yes, Caroline,
you can. But they're gonna be thirteen very tiny mini burgers.
That's fine as long as they're all mine. That's that's
exactly what it is. Can I get more than one
bacon wrapped date? Please? I agree? As someone who who
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lived and worked in Barcelona for a little bit, I
I I kind of share this like who wants to go?
And and of course, like the other thing with tapas
traditionally is like who wants to go? To dinner at
ten pm. Like it's I'm old now, Like I I
like the four thirty reservation. I know that that's sad.
I mean just have lunch bleed into dinner and then
go home and go to bed. I love it. And
it's also that's I think, or health and fitness. That's
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what you want anyway. But anyway, that's a whole another story.
So today, Caroline, please lay out your case in one
sentence or so that you've brought to the food court. Oh,
I am here to argue the case for soup. You
are arguing in favor that soup is an amazing thing,
which means, Kristen, where does that leave you? Well, Richard,
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I think my position is obvious because the inferiority of
soup is obvious. My position is pro salad because salad
is I mean, it's the universal food. It can be
just an appetizer. It can be both a tapas and
the full meal. Wow, okay, so that is what It
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could be a tapas, it could be a full meal.
Look at all the callbacks that are happening. It is
soup versus salad. But first, here at food Court, we
love to have a quick trivia around before the oral arguments.
The winner of the trivia around gets to decide the
order you present. So let's see which one of you
knows the most about whatever random stuff I throw out you.
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And when I say me, I mean producer Kristal, who
is the brains of this operation. Let's be honest. I
have asked our guests to come up with their own
noises that they'll have to perform. Kristen, what's your sounding? Oh?
I like it? Bing? I liked almost. It's a little
like UM, like my favorite search engine. It's like a
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it's a little a nice little notification alert right there
by the way. I think we should record that one,
Crystal and like just people can use Kristen's bing. I
mean it's it's one of the better ones we've heard. Caroline,
what about you? How are you going to top that?
We gotta bing? We got a boop, and it is
time to get into a Christian versus Caroline. The Battle
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of Soup for Salad? Question one starts now, are we
ready ready? Question one? What is Elaine's usual order at
the coffee shop on Seinfeld? It causes a riff between
her and George in an episode, And I'm assuming it's
either a super a salad. That's probably a pretty good guess.
As there we go, Kristen, what is your answer A
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big salad? The answer is a big salad coming through
big with the big salad. It's a salad, only bigger,
with lots of stuff in it. And sometimes these like sitcoms,
they can get silly. I agree with that. Every who
doesn't love a big salad for lunch, right apparently, Caroline.
And I'm not tipping my Christian to which, by the way,
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they just just to just to get this out there.
I may have opinions, but I leave them at the
door of the food courts and listen only to the
arguments today. So I love soup and salad. Let's be honest.
Question two now, with Kristen ahead one point to zero.
This question will make you dig deep into your Internet memories.
What is the name of the series of books whose heartwarming,
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life affirming anecdotes and quotations are intended to inspire joy
in the hearts of its readers People loved to Boop?
Is the answer, Caroline, Chicken Soup for the soul. Chicken
Soup for the Soul is correct, and we are all
tied up, tied up one one. I don't even have
to make any Shenanigans here to make this question count.
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This is gonna literally determine who gets to present first
or second question three. And it's the first time we've
ever done a question like this, and we know that
you can handle it. Christen and Caroline. For question three,
it's a matter of how many you can name? Do
you think you can name? Three? Do you think you
name four? Sort of like name that tune, but like
a food version of it. I think crystals trying to
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create new TV shows while she's writing some of this script,
which could work actually, So I want you to bid
on how many you can name. But remember, if you
bid five and then you don't get five, right, you've lost.
Now does that make any sense? Yes? Okay, great, you're
both a lot smarter than me, but we knew that
right from the let go. How many classically mayonnaise based
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salads can you name? Oh? My god, who's going to
chime in first being that's Kristen. I can name five,
five salads, So Caroline, can you name six mayonnaise based salads?
Six mayonnaise based salads? No, well, Caroline's inner closet, so
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it's not like she's in the kitchen rummaging through the
fridge right now. So no, I have no faith that
I could name six. I think I want to challenge
Kristen to to name at least five mark choice, Kristen,
can you name five mayonnaise based salads for the win
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in the trivia around? Okay? I was born and raised
in Georgia. I feel like I should be able to
do this, y'all. So I got an egg salad, potato salad,
tuna salad, pimento cheese salad. And did I say egg salad?
You did say egg salad, eggs potato, macaroni salad. Macaroni
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salad gets you to five? Kristen coming through big she
knows her mayonnaise based salads. And you know what you
said it you said I raised in Georgia. I lived
in Georgia for a number of years. I didn't even
have pimento cheese salad on here, but it counts. It's
cheese with mayonnaise, and we'll call we're calling it a
salad today. I love pimento cheese. I'm gonna go eat
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a pimento cheese tiny slider Tapas Burger. After today, I
could think of was chicken salad. That's all I could
think of. I'm that's my Georgia roots are failing me. No, no,
I get it. Listen, you could probably couldn't name like
five mayonnaise based chicken salads too, if you really want
to Greek chicken mayonnaise salad. That means Kristen wins the
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trivia around. And now you have the big decision. Kristen,
do you want to present your argument first or present
your argument second? Richard, I would like to present all right.
That means that Kristen, you have won the trivia around
and you have decided that you will go second. It
means Caroline you will present first. But before we get
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into the arguments, first, let's take a quick break. We
are back to recap today. In the food court. We
have podcast co host Kristen Conger and Caroline Irvin, who
are here to argue soup, verse salad and epic debate
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when the server asks you super salad, what do you order?
And also what restaurant are you in? Because who does
that anymore? No one? I mean maybe some franchise restaurants
do that. I actually really appreciate it right. You order
your main plate and then they're like soup or side salad.
I kind of miss that, to be honest, But there
aren't too many restaurants. A long island wedding comes to mind.
That's where maybe someone might ask, are perhaps a cheesecake factory?
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Mm hmm, that's what I'm asked. Some of these big
box corporate places, they might do it and you get
a discount. Do you get a cup of coffee with
that soup salad entree anymore? That's what we need to
bring back. That's how old I want to be, is
like you get a cup of coffee with your meal
as well. Here we go big debates. The way this
works is that each of you will have three minutes
to state your case. During the three minutes, you cannot
use your time to say negative things about your opponent's case.
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We're not going negative until the rebuttals round. I hope
that you both can understand that it is time for
the big debate. Caroline, you are up first. You'll have
three minutes to let us know why soup is awesome,
and it's a lot of time, a lot of time.
Your argument can start now y'all. I love soup. I
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eat it at least twice a week, if not three
to four times a week. Soup is the comforting hug
of the food world. I mean, sick, Try some soup. Tired,
Soup is there waiting for you. Too busy to cook,
Soup has time for you. Soup can be thick and hardy,
a chowder full of potatoes and creamy goodness, or a
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healthy mix of lentils and greens, or a sinus saving
stew of chicken and noodles. It can be vermicelli and
flank steak floating in beef broth and stirred together with
enough seracia your nose runs until you're healed from the
inside out. Soup is what you make it, and you
can make it. Be your own kitchen witch and throw
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a whole chicken carcass, an armload of vegetables, and a
cabinet's worth of seasoning into a pot with water, and behold,
you have a vitamin and mineral rich brew that you
can use as a base for all your other soups
and stews. The collagen, the potassium, the lack of food
waste admitte, y'all, Soup makes you a healthy, sustainable queen,
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whether you're popping a bowl into the microwave or letting
a hot simmer on the stove. Soup is a low mess,
low stress meal. Come on, It's a warm food hug
that fills you up and calms you down. And who
doesn't need that right now? Finn? I mean with time
left on the clock which you don't have to use.
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Who knew that the poetry was going to make an
appearance in a debate about soup and salad? I feel
I feel any more elegant. I feel it lots of
amazing things thrown down. I also, did you say kitchen witch?
And then this witch is making this brew and it's
a chicken carcass and a cabinet full of spices. I mean,
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how else do you like if you were literally throwing
a carcass of some kind. I'm not going to judge
into a pot with a bunch of vegetables and seasoning
like you're you're basically a witch, And I think that's fine.
I love this soup is a hug for your soul.
Collagen and potassium even come into play. Gwyneth Paltrow would
be incredibly happy that the first argument for soup is
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in the books. It was a good one. Kristen, Are
you ready to talk about why salad is so great?
I am, I am. Your three minutes starts now. In
these difficult times, what we really need is to appreciate
our shared humanity, and truly, the best and only food
that is able to speak to that is salads, because
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we are salads. Salads are salads are what make us human.
Salads go all the way back to the days of
ancient Greece and Rome, to the Fertile Crescent, when people
were first plucking greens from the ground and grains and
mixing them together in a bowl, dribbling them with oil
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and calling it an appetizer or even maybe a main course.
I think about salads even if you're not a fan
of vegetables. You're not into vegetables, that's okay, because anything
can be a salad if you chop it up enough.
You got your typical wedge salads and your garden salads.
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But how about fruit. You want a little sweet, have
a fruit salad, have a bean salad, have a grain salad,
have a rice salad, have a noodle salad. Truly, all
cuisines can come up with some sort of salad. And
if that is not something that binds us all together
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as people, I don't know what is. And also, if
it were not for the humble salad, a little something
called ranch dressing would not exist. And to imagine a
world without ranch dressing, I don't know how you would eat, say,
chicken wings, potato chips. Yeah, sure, salads, but again, salads
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are the root of it. It gives you dressings. It
can be an appetizer, the main course. It can even,
especially on your and mother's table, be a dessert when
you throw some gelatine into a mold. That's all I'm
saying is that whatever your mood is, whatever your state
of mind, whatever your nutritional needs, there's a salad out
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there to satisfy. So that's why I'm saying that these
days should be our salad days, because that's the only
way we will make it through together. Vote salads, vote salad.
What an amazing three minutes on both sides. Soup salad,
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ambrosia salad. The cherry jello marshmallow thing making an appearance
in this argument. Not sure if that's good, but it
did come up. Fertile crescent never has been said on
this show before. That's for sure, fruit salad, ranch dressing. Obviously,
Kristen remembers season one of Food Court where ranch dressing
went up against blue cheese dressing and emerged victorious. So
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maybe doing a little stat work on what this judge
has voted for in the past. I like it lots
to be said. And also, we are salad. Salads are
us so Caroline, Kristen, if you were, if you if
you have the decision super salad, you're at a banquet somewhere, Caroline,
are you always ordering soup? I am mostly a soup person.
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I don't want to throw off my own argument and
throw any weight behind salad. Soup soup all the way
there it is, And Kristen, so you're always getting salad.
Someone asked, super salad, salad salad. I'm a I'm a
human person. I'd order a salad, of course, Richard, based
off of your argument, you could just throw the things
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in a blender and make a cold soup salad if
you want. I don't know. I might work on that.
That's that is the healing we need, is gaspachos between us.
That's that's what brings us together. Listen. I don't know.
Gaspacho also falls sort of in the topics world. Perhaps
I don't know's happening. Use fair enough. If it's in
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a tiny shot class, that's what happens. Yeah, all right,
here we go. Time for the rebuttals. It is going
to be Caroline. You're gonna be up first. Here. Now
you have two minutes to let Kristen know if you'd like,
why salads suck? Your two minute rebuttle starts now. I mean,
when has a salad ever comforted anyone? You know, when
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you're sick or short on time, or looking to feed
a whole family, is your first thought? Oh, salad? Like
in order to approach even a degree of satisfaction, you
have to pile a small mountain of ingredients together and
proceed to chew for just god knows how long. And
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also like salad is a mess, the chopping and the
rinsing and the salad spinning. Like by the time you
douse your cold, wilted lettuce or your curly bitter kale
with dressing, what what is the reward there? A little
bit of cheese you've allowed yourself the rush of biting
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into one of the dried cranberries you sprinkled on top,
or or is it really just the fun of wiping
away all the wily dressing that's now like coating your
entire mouth. Region's just no satisfaction there there, It is
no satisfaction digging the bell. By the way, quick little note,
you might notice I have a new bell today. I
broke the wine glass that we've been using for the
last all of episodes. Now we have this little egg
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topper and it's very, very calming. It's sort of zen like,
just like soup is. Perhaps soup it's economic. You don't
want to chew too much. It's too much labor to make,
and sometimes it can be bitter. Butts you do get crazins.
Crazins wouldn't have been created probably if it wasn't for salads.
You might not have ranch dressing if it wasn't for salads. Christen,
your two minute rebuttal starts now. First of all, I
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would like to speak out on behalf of everyone who
has ever burned their tongue on some soup it's too hot?
Who wants a steaming bowl of something that they have
to sit and blow on and wait to eat so
they can then what burn their tongue, dribble it down
their face. What good is that? I would also like
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to speak on behalf of everyone who is ever ruined
a shirt due to chili stains. Often the basis of
soups are the basis of the stains on our clothes
that cannot go away. Salads are far more manageable and
cleaner to eat. And I would also like to speak
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to the mush factor. Sure, a salad every now and
then might have a little bit of wilted lettuce, probably
on purpose. Ever heard of a wilted kale salad, Caroline?
But what about the mushy greens and carrots and onions
just wasting away at the bottom of that soup bowl?
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Who wants that? Who needs that? Because also, by the
time you've gotten to the bottom of your bowl, you
basically consume like two gallons of liquid. And now I've
just got to go pee. So did that? I say,
give me something safe, give me something clean, and give
me something that I can eat in my car while driving.
And that, my friend, is called a salad. Christen, the
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health Department just did send me a text message though,
saying that salads are safe. I don't know if which
one creates more food boarn, illness, salads or soup. But
I might have to say the health department is saying salad. Now,
they do not have a they don't get involved in
this decision. I'm just saying that safety is not something
usually here for salad. But I listen, I agree too, hot,
I have burned my mouth on soup, and like also mentioning,
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like who wants to you know, blow on their soup
to cool it off? Do you remember when we could, like,
you know, blowing a loved one soup and not have
to worry about spreading COVID? It did make me remember
the good times and the laundry times of blowing on
someone else's soup, the laundry cost, the laundry cost associated
with spilling some soup. And Caroline, you said you'd at
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that banquet, you'd you'd get soup, But what if you
spill it on your your your dress or at a wedding,
I mean, or your your suit whatever? And who knew
this was? Here's the thing. Here's the thing, Richard, I
don't spill soup. You know what I dropped? I dropped
lettuce leaves coated in oil off of my fork when
I am trying to raise my fork from my plate
to my mouth. Let us leaves are unpredictable on your fork.
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I'm not slurping soup. There it is but the mush Factor,
new new show Alert, mush Factor coming to my heart soon.
I love it. All right. Well, listen, Caroline and Kristen,
you have both given me a lot to think about.
I'm going to retire to my chambers, come back and
deliver a verdict. And while I do that, let's take
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a quick break. Man. I did I did know a
guy when I lived in Augusta, Bless his heart, he
ordered gaspacho. It was the special at the special of
the day at the restaurant, and he didn't he didn't
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know what it was. He just ordered it and he
was They brought this big, non topic sized bowl of
cold soup to him and he I don't think he
knew what to do. That's a disappointment. Waiter, This soup
is cold. It is ice cold. I think you brought
me bland salsa. What is this? First of all, you
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forgot to bring the chips. All right, I'm back. I've
had a chance to think about it long and hard
for about I don't know forty two seconds the Battle
of Soup verse salad Caroline versus Kristen. But before I
deliver my verdicts, Caroline and Christen, now is the time
you have one more minute each if you'd like to
try and persuade me for your side, Caroline, any last
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closing statements on behalf of soup? I mean, you know,
Kristen made the argument that that that salad was better
on the go, something she could eat in her car.
But I mean, what do they make thermosis for soup
can be very easy to eat on the go and
keep hot for as long as you need it. It's
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also very filling and because of the water content, very hydrating.
And Richard, did I mention the collagen that comes from
all of those bones in your stock? I mean, that's
anti aging magic right there? Talk about a kitchen wedge,
right not the kitchen which there it is, Kristen. Any
closing statements on behalf of salad? Yes? So well. While
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soup is really a reflection of mankind's desperation, salads are
really a reflection of mankind's imagination and creativity. Because while
we might look down our noses at things like ambrosia. Sure.
I mean, what ambrosia is really reflecting is the technology
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advances of of jellos and fruit preserves. You know, like salads,
salads reflect the region and the climate around you. The
reason why I love a salad so much is because
I'm from the South. It cools me down. So I mean,
I just think that there are so many different ways
that you can mix up a salad that it shows
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just the unbridled potential that we all truly have. And again,
I'd just like to say, hashtag vote salad. We are salads,
and salads are the thing that inspire me, I know,
to get up and and live every day. Hashtag votes salad. Unfortunately,
this will not go to the masses for the vote.
It is decided by one person and that is me.
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But Kristen and Caroline throwing it down. I love what
Kristen just said, desperation versus imagination. I have thought about
this and first of all, before I deliver this verdict,
this is an amazing battle. This is what this court
is all about, what this podcast is all about, soup
versus salad? Which one wins. This is based only on
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the argument because I love both soup and salads. But
this court and this judge has decided in favor of
soup as someone who is participating in the health and
wellness game, and it is gonna do it healthy cookbook
here next. It hurts me a little bit to have
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to deliver this, but the poetry there, the kitchen which
the collage, and the potassium, the carcass and cabinet's worth
of seasoning. Caroline, well done. Someone had to win, Kristen,
and you almost pulled it back with desperation versu imagination.
Well yeah, it's so. I mean, I I can drown
my sorrows. And obviously a trough of salad, so there's
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that and ranch dressing which could come in handy. And hey, everyone,
thank you so much for Lisz sitting to food court.
Thanks to our guests. I'm Richard Blaze and I've been
your judge. Thanks so much for coming. Caroline and Kristen.
I hope you had as much fun as I did.
Hope that you had a good time and that you're
not too upset about losing. Someone Someone has to lose.
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I do all the time on television. I didn't invent
court or competition. These things are just part of our culture.
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welcome to the food Court, a production of I Heart Radio.
That is me banging the gavel. It's also someone doing
some bathroom remodeling under the court today. That's the world
we live in. Food Court is now in session. I'm
your host and judge, Richard Blaze, and this is the
podcast where I tell you if you're right or wrong
about your weird food opinion ins Now listen. You may
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remember me from shows like Top Chef, Iron Chef America,
Guys Grocery Games, Master Chef, Rachel Versus Guy Kids Competition, Crystal,
Why are you writing in? You may remember me from
shows like I'm some sort of like you know, eighties
sitcom star who has faded away. Well, I mean, I
guess I have faded away, but I'm not an eighties
sitcom star. But listen, I'm a judge and I'm here.
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I got a lot to say, and judging is kind
of fun and cool, so let's get into this. Joining
us in the Court today, we have two women who
co host the Unladylike podcast together the podcast where we
find out what happens when women break the rules. But
today they're in the food court to hash out their differences.
It's Caroline Irvin and Kristen Conger getting the air horns. Caroline,
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I cannot see you on the zoom screen. You're one
of those people. You've you you've decided not to show
us your screen. No, I for people with a chrome
book and chromebook cameras don't work. Listen. I like it.
I'm you're saying that, and I believe you. I can
I can tell that that's just an authentic answer. But
I also feel like it's a very big zoom flex
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power play. Yeah, I feel like it's anti factor. Caroline
is trying to psych me out, clearly. Yeah. The weird
thing about me is that I'm actually just a disembodied voice.
There it is. Now listen, you're you're the unladylike media
co founders, which means you've just blown up, because that's
(02:33):
just like next next level and your journalistically trained, research
addicted feminists who make digital media about all things gender.
I love this. Now, listen, what's something that you're currently
giving the middle finger too? What is what is something
recently that you're just up in arms about Oh my gosh,
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where do we Where do we begin? I mean, I
think COVID gets a big middle finger. I think the
cold outside gets a big middle finger. Now you two
have a great case and I can't wait to hear it.
But before we get started, let's get to know each
other a little better. Kristen, how are you doing? And
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more importantly perhaps well, no, not more importantly. How are
you doing? It is the most important thing. But what
are the best shows you've been watching while you've been
at home? Oh my gosh. Okay, So I'll give you something. Well,
first of all, I'm okay, I'm surviving almays forgot to
answer that because I have been binging a lot of TV.
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And I'll give you something old and something new, which
you want to hear first. Wow, you know what I
want to hear the new? First? Okay? For new. I
binged right through an amazing show on HBO Max called
I May Destroy You, starring MICHAELA. Cole, who was also
um the writer and star of a hilarious sitcom on
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Hulu called Chewing Gum. But I May Destroy You is
so so good. I tore right through it and for
the older show that I have been binging before I
fall asleep is a little sitcom called Cheers. Wow, this
see a little sick. First of all, by the way,
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to are you are you are? Do you have the
mission of binging every episode of Cheers? No, I've been
kind of dipping around. I I started in season four
after Woody Harrelson comes on because he's a real game changer.
But truth be told, Truth be told. All of the
stems from my my one true love that is Frasier,
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And I've never seen Cheers, And since Frasier is essentially,
like you know, first introduced in Cheers, I feel like
I'm just extending my Fraser or universe and I should
probably talk to a therapist about it because it is
a lot of Fraser related content that I'm consuming. But
this is just where I'm at. Okay, Wow, I love it.
And I guess that's also without having gone back and
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watched here since like it aired originally, is there that
breakdown like well, like here comes Woody Harrelson's character and
then here comes Kelsey Grammer's character. Like that's sort of
like part of the chronology there kinda yeah, yeah, I
think that Frasier really has his breakout season the same
season that Woody Harrelson comes on, and you really see
Frasier eclipse Norm, who it seems like they were was
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going to really be one of the bigger stars, but
Fraser really starts to gain steam, and then Lilith comes on,
O Lilith. It's it's kind of incredible. And by incredible,
I mean maybe a little a little sad, but I'm
doing the old like YouTube behind the scenes. You didn't
know but Norm was going to get his spin off show,
but actually it became Frasier and there was all this
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riff behind the scenes. I'm totally making that up, but
it's Oh, but doesn't it sound like that could like
maybe that's the show we should write? Yes, and I
already want to watch it. Okay, now, Christen, I'm I
don't usually do this, but we're vibing. I feel like,
as the kids would say, I don't usually get into
trivia in the introductions. But since you're such a big
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Frasier fan, isn't there a food lyric in the opening
theme to Frasier? And what is it? Come on? Hello,
come on now? Salad and scrambled eggs a foreshadowing perhaps, Caroline,
What about you? What have you been enjoying these days?
Oh God, I've been enjoying whatever I possibly can to
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feel something. But as far as TV goes, I did
just Binge the Flight Attendant on HBO Max, and that
is a wild show. I don't know if you've watched it.
My mother was a flight attendant, and I just have
to say that aside from the drinking, really nothing else
metches besides from the drinking, which I love. Yeah, But
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I think my other, my other binging is slightly more,
uh slightly nerdier and closer to my heart, and that
is Finding Your Roots on PBS with Dr Henry Lewis Gates.
I am a genealogy obsessed nerd and that show just
like warms my heart. I cry in every episode. Someone's
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always finding out something incredible about their family. And it
always usually kind of you're talking about like matching up,
doesn't it always then kind of like match up in
some odd way with the genealogy, like oh like for me,
as an example, real quick, like, we did an episode
of Top Chef where we were at Ellis Island and
they did this big genealogy sort of dig on us
in it. It's like, oh, you have a great great
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great uncle grandfather who was a chemist in Indiana and
ran a butcher shop. And I'm like, I am a
chemist butcher shop guy, Like can you believe it? Yeah, no,
that's that's exactly what happens. And I love it. And
then at the end sometimes they also match up if
you share d n A with a previous celebrity guest,
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and so of course one of the best ones that
was that um Bernie Sanders and what's his name, Curb
your Enthusiasm their cousin Larry David, Larry David, thank you
that they're actually related, of course they and he plays
him on SNL, which is also like exactly, wow, we're
just first of all, we're just we're just getting along
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so well, we're getting along so well. I have only
one I actually I only have one Larry David story,
and that is the only time I've ever done like
a big late night show. I did foul In once
and Larry David was the guest, and I walked I
didn't even know he was the guest, and I walked
by a sort of where like you know, you get
your your hair did and Larry David was getting a haircut,
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and I was like, oh my god. I did not
realize that when you do these shows you can just
get free haircuts. You just walk in there and you're like,
can you please cut my hair? You can't, by the way,
you can. You can't only if you're Larry David. Only
if you're a certain status celebrity. Can you just walk
in and be like, can you cut my hair? It
did not work for me. Also, I like that it's
the bald guy who's getting the trim right, Like, well,
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maybe that's what it is, Like it's not really a cut,
it's just it's just a tiny little trim. And also, Caroline,
you have me now missing flight attendants by mentioning that,
like I used to fly used, I've been on one,
not even a two way trip in a year. Oh man,
I know Kristen and I were supposed to go on
tour last year, like right after the pandemic closed everything
down and so no no flights for us. But it's happening.
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We're coming back now. Listen, Caroline, what are some of
your strong opinions not related to today's case regarding food?
Oh my god, I hate tapas the word or like
the actual like lifestyle. Oh, you put it perfectly. I
hate I hate the lifestyle. I hate it. I hate
the expectation that I'm, as a hungry person going to
go to a restaurant and then I am forced to
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order very small plates that are the same price as
a dinner plate, and then one next to me is
going to take some of it from me. I avoid them.
I remember years ago going on dates to tapas restaurants
and I constantly felt cheated. And last year, before everything
is shut down, on one of my very good friends
had a birthday at a tapas restaurant and I specifically
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called the waitress over and I said, can I just
order a burger? Do I have to share? Yes, Caroline,
you can. But they're gonna be thirteen very tiny mini burgers.
That's fine as long as they're all mine. That's that's
exactly what it is. Can I get more than one
bacon wrapped date? Please? I agree? As someone who who
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lived and worked in Barcelona for a little bit, I
I I kind of share this like who wants to go?
And and of course, like the other thing with tapas
traditionally is like who wants to go? To dinner at
ten pm. Like it's I'm old now, Like I I
like the four thirty reservation. I know that that's sad.
I mean just have lunch bleed into dinner and then
go home and go to bed. I love it. And
it's also that's I think, or health and fitness. That's
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what you want anyway. But anyway, that's a whole another story.
So today, Caroline, please lay out your case in one
sentence or so that you've brought to the food court. Oh,
I am here to argue the case for soup. You
are arguing in favor that soup is an amazing thing,
which means, Kristen, where does that leave you? Well, Richard,
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I think my position is obvious because the inferiority of
soup is obvious. My position is pro salad because salad
is I mean, it's the universal food. It can be
just an appetizer. It can be both a tapas and
the full meal. Wow, okay, so that is what It
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could be a tapas, it could be a full meal.
Look at all the callbacks that are happening. It is
soup versus salad. But first, here at food Court, we
love to have a quick trivia around before the oral arguments.
The winner of the trivia around gets to decide the
order you present. So let's see which one of you
knows the most about whatever random stuff I throw out you.
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And when I say me, I mean producer Kristal, who
is the brains of this operation. Let's be honest. I
have asked our guests to come up with their own
noises that they'll have to perform. Kristen, what's your sounding? Oh?
I like it? Bing? I liked almost. It's a little
like UM, like my favorite search engine. It's like a
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it's a little a nice little notification alert right there
by the way. I think we should record that one,
Crystal and like just people can use Kristen's bing. I
mean it's it's one of the better ones we've heard. Caroline,
what about you? How are you going to top that?
We gotta bing? We got a boop, and it is
time to get into a Christian versus Caroline. The Battle
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of Soup for Salad? Question one starts now, are we
ready ready? Question one? What is Elaine's usual order at
the coffee shop on Seinfeld? It causes a riff between
her and George in an episode, And I'm assuming it's
either a super a salad. That's probably a pretty good guess.
As there we go, Kristen, what is your answer A
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big salad? The answer is a big salad coming through
big with the big salad. It's a salad, only bigger,
with lots of stuff in it. And sometimes these like sitcoms,
they can get silly. I agree with that. Every who
doesn't love a big salad for lunch, right apparently, Caroline.
And I'm not tipping my Christian to which, by the way,
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they just just to just to get this out there.
I may have opinions, but I leave them at the
door of the food courts and listen only to the
arguments today. So I love soup and salad. Let's be honest.
Question two now, with Kristen ahead one point to zero.
This question will make you dig deep into your Internet memories.
What is the name of the series of books whose heartwarming,
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life affirming anecdotes and quotations are intended to inspire joy
in the hearts of its readers People loved to Boop?
Is the answer, Caroline, Chicken Soup for the soul. Chicken
Soup for the Soul is correct, and we are all
tied up, tied up one one. I don't even have
to make any Shenanigans here to make this question count.
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This is gonna literally determine who gets to present first
or second question three. And it's the first time we've
ever done a question like this, and we know that
you can handle it. Christen and Caroline. For question three,
it's a matter of how many you can name? Do
you think you can name? Three? Do you think you
name four? Sort of like name that tune, but like
a food version of it. I think crystals trying to
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create new TV shows while she's writing some of this script,
which could work actually, So I want you to bid
on how many you can name. But remember, if you
bid five and then you don't get five, right, you've lost.
Now does that make any sense? Yes? Okay, great, you're
both a lot smarter than me, but we knew that
right from the let go. How many classically mayonnaise based
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salads can you name? Oh? My god, who's going to
chime in first being that's Kristen. I can name five,
five salads, So Caroline, can you name six mayonnaise based salads?
Six mayonnaise based salads? No, well, Caroline's inner closet, so
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it's not like she's in the kitchen rummaging through the
fridge right now. So no, I have no faith that
I could name six. I think I want to challenge
Kristen to to name at least five mark choice, Kristen,
can you name five mayonnaise based salads for the win
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in the trivia around? Okay? I was born and raised
in Georgia. I feel like I should be able to
do this, y'all. So I got an egg salad, potato salad,
tuna salad, pimento cheese salad. And did I say egg salad?
You did say egg salad, eggs potato, macaroni salad. Macaroni
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salad gets you to five? Kristen coming through big she
knows her mayonnaise based salads. And you know what you
said it you said I raised in Georgia. I lived
in Georgia for a number of years. I didn't even
have pimento cheese salad on here, but it counts. It's
cheese with mayonnaise, and we'll call we're calling it a
salad today. I love pimento cheese. I'm gonna go eat
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a pimento cheese tiny slider Tapas Burger. After today, I
could think of was chicken salad. That's all I could
think of. I'm that's my Georgia roots are failing me. No, no,
I get it. Listen, you could probably couldn't name like
five mayonnaise based chicken salads too, if you really want
to Greek chicken mayonnaise salad. That means Kristen wins the
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trivia around. And now you have the big decision. Kristen,
do you want to present your argument first or present
your argument second? Richard, I would like to present all right.
That means that Kristen, you have won the trivia around
and you have decided that you will go second. It
means Caroline you will present first. But before we get
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into the arguments, first, let's take a quick break. We
are back to recap today. In the food court. We
have podcast co host Kristen Conger and Caroline Irvin, who
are here to argue soup, verse salad and epic debate
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when the server asks you super salad, what do you order?
And also what restaurant are you in? Because who does
that anymore? No one? I mean maybe some franchise restaurants
do that. I actually really appreciate it right. You order
your main plate and then they're like soup or side salad.
I kind of miss that, to be honest, But there
aren't too many restaurants. A long island wedding comes to mind.
That's where maybe someone might ask, are perhaps a cheesecake factory?
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Mm hmm, that's what I'm asked. Some of these big
box corporate places, they might do it and you get
a discount. Do you get a cup of coffee with
that soup salad entree anymore? That's what we need to
bring back. That's how old I want to be, is
like you get a cup of coffee with your meal
as well. Here we go big debates. The way this
works is that each of you will have three minutes
to state your case. During the three minutes, you cannot
use your time to say negative things about your opponent's case.
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We're not going negative until the rebuttals round. I hope
that you both can understand that it is time for
the big debate. Caroline, you are up first. You'll have
three minutes to let us know why soup is awesome,
and it's a lot of time, a lot of time.
Your argument can start now y'all. I love soup. I
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eat it at least twice a week, if not three
to four times a week. Soup is the comforting hug
of the food world. I mean, sick, Try some soup. Tired,
Soup is there waiting for you. Too busy to cook,
Soup has time for you. Soup can be thick and hardy,
a chowder full of potatoes and creamy goodness, or a
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healthy mix of lentils and greens, or a sinus saving
stew of chicken and noodles. It can be vermicelli and
flank steak floating in beef broth and stirred together with
enough seracia your nose runs until you're healed from the
inside out. Soup is what you make it, and you
can make it. Be your own kitchen witch and throw
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a whole chicken carcass, an armload of vegetables, and a
cabinet's worth of seasoning into a pot with water, and behold,
you have a vitamin and mineral rich brew that you
can use as a base for all your other soups
and stews. The collagen, the potassium, the lack of food
waste admitte, y'all, Soup makes you a healthy, sustainable queen,
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whether you're popping a bowl into the microwave or letting
a hot simmer on the stove. Soup is a low mess,
low stress meal. Come on, It's a warm food hug
that fills you up and calms you down. And who
doesn't need that right now? Finn? I mean with time
left on the clock which you don't have to use.
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Who knew that the poetry was going to make an
appearance in a debate about soup and salad? I feel
I feel any more elegant. I feel it lots of
amazing things thrown down. I also, did you say kitchen witch?
And then this witch is making this brew and it's
a chicken carcass and a cabinet full of spices. I mean,
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how else do you like if you were literally throwing
a carcass of some kind. I'm not going to judge
into a pot with a bunch of vegetables and seasoning
like you're you're basically a witch, And I think that's fine.
I love this soup is a hug for your soul.
Collagen and potassium even come into play. Gwyneth Paltrow would
be incredibly happy that the first argument for soup is
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in the books. It was a good one. Kristen, Are
you ready to talk about why salad is so great?
I am, I am. Your three minutes starts now. In
these difficult times, what we really need is to appreciate
our shared humanity, and truly, the best and only food
that is able to speak to that is salads, because
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we are salads. Salads are salads are what make us human.
Salads go all the way back to the days of
ancient Greece and Rome, to the Fertile Crescent, when people
were first plucking greens from the ground and grains and
mixing them together in a bowl, dribbling them with oil
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and calling it an appetizer or even maybe a main course.
I think about salads even if you're not a fan
of vegetables. You're not into vegetables, that's okay, because anything
can be a salad if you chop it up enough.
You got your typical wedge salads and your garden salads.
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But how about fruit. You want a little sweet, have
a fruit salad, have a bean salad, have a grain salad,
have a rice salad, have a noodle salad. Truly, all
cuisines can come up with some sort of salad. And
if that is not something that binds us all together
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as people, I don't know what is. And also, if
it were not for the humble salad, a little something
called ranch dressing would not exist. And to imagine a
world without ranch dressing, I don't know how you would eat, say,
chicken wings, potato chips. Yeah, sure, salads, but again, salads
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are the root of it. It gives you dressings. It
can be an appetizer, the main course. It can even,
especially on your and mother's table, be a dessert when
you throw some gelatine into a mold. That's all I'm
saying is that whatever your mood is, whatever your state
of mind, whatever your nutritional needs, there's a salad out
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there to satisfy. So that's why I'm saying that these
days should be our salad days, because that's the only
way we will make it through together. Vote salads, vote salad.
What an amazing three minutes on both sides. Soup salad,
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ambrosia salad. The cherry jello marshmallow thing making an appearance
in this argument. Not sure if that's good, but it
did come up. Fertile crescent never has been said on
this show before. That's for sure, fruit salad, ranch dressing. Obviously,
Kristen remembers season one of Food Court where ranch dressing
went up against blue cheese dressing and emerged victorious. So
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maybe doing a little stat work on what this judge
has voted for in the past. I like it lots
to be said. And also, we are salad. Salads are
us so Caroline, Kristen, if you were, if you if
you have the decision super salad, you're at a banquet somewhere, Caroline,
are you always ordering soup? I am mostly a soup person.
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I don't want to throw off my own argument and
throw any weight behind salad. Soup soup all the way
there it is, And Kristen, so you're always getting salad.
Someone asked, super salad, salad salad. I'm a I'm a
human person. I'd order a salad, of course, Richard, based
off of your argument, you could just throw the things
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in a blender and make a cold soup salad if
you want. I don't know. I might work on that.
That's that is the healing we need, is gaspachos between us.
That's that's what brings us together. Listen. I don't know.
Gaspacho also falls sort of in the topics world. Perhaps
I don't know's happening. Use fair enough. If it's in
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a tiny shot class, that's what happens. Yeah, all right,
here we go. Time for the rebuttals. It is going
to be Caroline. You're gonna be up first. Here. Now
you have two minutes to let Kristen know if you'd like,
why salads suck? Your two minute rebuttle starts now. I mean,
when has a salad ever comforted anyone? You know, when
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you're sick or short on time, or looking to feed
a whole family, is your first thought? Oh, salad? Like
in order to approach even a degree of satisfaction, you
have to pile a small mountain of ingredients together and
proceed to chew for just god knows how long. And
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also like salad is a mess, the chopping and the
rinsing and the salad spinning. Like by the time you
douse your cold, wilted lettuce or your curly bitter kale
with dressing, what what is the reward there? A little
bit of cheese you've allowed yourself the rush of biting
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into one of the dried cranberries you sprinkled on top,
or or is it really just the fun of wiping
away all the wily dressing that's now like coating your
entire mouth. Region's just no satisfaction there there, It is
no satisfaction digging the bell. By the way, quick little note,
you might notice I have a new bell today. I
broke the wine glass that we've been using for the
last all of episodes. Now we have this little egg
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topper and it's very, very calming. It's sort of zen like,
just like soup is. Perhaps soup it's economic. You don't
want to chew too much. It's too much labor to make,
and sometimes it can be bitter. Butts you do get crazins.
Crazins wouldn't have been created probably if it wasn't for salads.
You might not have ranch dressing if it wasn't for salads. Christen,
your two minute rebuttal starts now. First of all, I
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would like to speak out on behalf of everyone who
has ever burned their tongue on some soup it's too hot?
Who wants a steaming bowl of something that they have
to sit and blow on and wait to eat so
they can then what burn their tongue, dribble it down
their face. What good is that? I would also like
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to speak on behalf of everyone who is ever ruined
a shirt due to chili stains. Often the basis of
soups are the basis of the stains on our clothes
that cannot go away. Salads are far more manageable and
cleaner to eat. And I would also like to speak
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to the mush factor. Sure, a salad every now and
then might have a little bit of wilted lettuce, probably
on purpose. Ever heard of a wilted kale salad, Caroline?
But what about the mushy greens and carrots and onions
just wasting away at the bottom of that soup bowl?
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Who wants that? Who needs that? Because also, by the
time you've gotten to the bottom of your bowl, you
basically consume like two gallons of liquid. And now I've
just got to go pee. So did that? I say,
give me something safe, give me something clean, and give
me something that I can eat in my car while driving.
And that, my friend, is called a salad. Christen, the
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health Department just did send me a text message though,
saying that salads are safe. I don't know if which
one creates more food boarn, illness, salads or soup. But
I might have to say the health department is saying salad. Now,
they do not have a they don't get involved in
this decision. I'm just saying that safety is not something
usually here for salad. But I listen, I agree too, hot,
I have burned my mouth on soup, and like also mentioning,
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like who wants to you know, blow on their soup
to cool it off? Do you remember when we could, like,
you know, blowing a loved one soup and not have
to worry about spreading COVID? It did make me remember
the good times and the laundry times of blowing on
someone else's soup, the laundry cost, the laundry cost associated
with spilling some soup. And Caroline, you said you'd at
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that banquet, you'd you'd get soup, But what if you
spill it on your your your dress or at a wedding,
I mean, or your your suit whatever? And who knew
this was? Here's the thing. Here's the thing, Richard, I
don't spill soup. You know what I dropped? I dropped
lettuce leaves coated in oil off of my fork when
I am trying to raise my fork from my plate
to my mouth. Let us leaves are unpredictable on your fork.
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I'm not slurping soup. There it is but the mush Factor,
new new show Alert, mush Factor coming to my heart soon.
I love it. All right. Well, listen, Caroline and Kristen,
you have both given me a lot to think about.
I'm going to retire to my chambers, come back and
deliver a verdict. And while I do that, let's take
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a quick break. Man. I did I did know a
guy when I lived in Augusta, Bless his heart, he
ordered gaspacho. It was the special at the special of
the day at the restaurant, and he didn't he didn't
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know what it was. He just ordered it and he
was They brought this big, non topic sized bowl of
cold soup to him and he I don't think he
knew what to do. That's a disappointment. Waiter, This soup
is cold. It is ice cold. I think you brought
me bland salsa. What is this? First of all, you
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forgot to bring the chips. All right, I'm back. I've
had a chance to think about it long and hard
for about I don't know forty two seconds the Battle
of Soup verse salad Caroline versus Kristen. But before I
deliver my verdicts, Caroline and Christen, now is the time
you have one more minute each if you'd like to
try and persuade me for your side, Caroline, any last
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closing statements on behalf of soup? I mean, you know,
Kristen made the argument that that that salad was better
on the go, something she could eat in her car.
But I mean, what do they make thermosis for soup
can be very easy to eat on the go and
keep hot for as long as you need it. It's
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also very filling and because of the water content, very hydrating.
And Richard, did I mention the collagen that comes from
all of those bones in your stock? I mean, that's
anti aging magic right there? Talk about a kitchen wedge,
right not the kitchen which there it is, Kristen. Any
closing statements on behalf of salad? Yes? So well. While
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soup is really a reflection of mankind's desperation, salads are
really a reflection of mankind's imagination and creativity. Because while
we might look down our noses at things like ambrosia. Sure.
I mean, what ambrosia is really reflecting is the technology
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advances of of jellos and fruit preserves. You know, like salads,
salads reflect the region and the climate around you. The
reason why I love a salad so much is because
I'm from the South. It cools me down. So I mean,
I just think that there are so many different ways
that you can mix up a salad that it shows
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just the unbridled potential that we all truly have. And again,
I'd just like to say, hashtag vote salad. We are salads,
and salads are the thing that inspire me, I know,
to get up and and live every day. Hashtag votes salad. Unfortunately,
this will not go to the masses for the vote.
It is decided by one person and that is me.
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But Kristen and Caroline throwing it down. I love what
Kristen just said, desperation versus imagination. I have thought about
this and first of all, before I deliver this verdict,
this is an amazing battle. This is what this court
is all about, what this podcast is all about, soup
versus salad? Which one wins. This is based only on
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the argument because I love both soup and salads. But
this court and this judge has decided in favor of
soup as someone who is participating in the health and
wellness game, and it is gonna do it healthy cookbook
here next. It hurts me a little bit to have
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to deliver this, but the poetry there, the kitchen which
the collage, and the potassium, the carcass and cabinet's worth
of seasoning. Caroline, well done. Someone had to win, Kristen,
and you almost pulled it back with desperation versu imagination.
Well yeah, it's so. I mean, I I can drown
my sorrows. And obviously a trough of salad, so there's
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that and ranch dressing which could come in handy. And hey, everyone,
thank you so much for Lisz sitting to food court.
Thanks to our guests. I'm Richard Blaze and I've been
your judge. Thanks so much for coming. Caroline and Kristen.
I hope you had as much fun as I did.
Hope that you had a good time and that you're
not too upset about losing. Someone Someone has to lose.
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I do all the time on television. I didn't invent
court or competition. These things are just part of our culture.
For more Caroline and Kristin, check out the Unladylike podcast,
which is returning soon. It's going to be a weekly show,
so make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss the
new episodes. I'm subscribing right now. You can also find
their book Unladylike, a field guide to smashing the patriarchy
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and claiming your space in bookstores. Now, gotta go pick
it up. Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
We we hate driving driving a wedge salad through any
relationship or friendship. Look at the puntery happening here on
food Court audience. What do you think? Are you a
sup person? Are you a salad person? Go to the
food Court Pod Instagram and votes past tag vote Salad.
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You can also find me across social media at Richard Blaze.
Food Court is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm
Richard Blaze. My producer is Crystal Fact. Mahi food Court
was created by our executive producer, Christopher hassiotis the rest
of My food Court clerks are David Wasserman and Jasmine Blaze.
The theme songs by Jason Nee Smith. For more podcasts
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