April 19, 2023 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The tang the tan. Let's do the tangent. We don't
do this when the tangent doesn't happen. We hear about it.
I mean, it's a it's a whole thing, so we
I mean, even if it's a short tangent tang, I
guess some tang's better than no change, is what they say.
That's what they say, So let's do it. Hit the intro, Rufie,
it's the tangent with the bread show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Giving me all the we couldn't talk about on air.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right, guys, welcome. When I first saw this story,
we didn't have time to get to it on the
program today. But when I first saw it, the person
that came to mind right away was Rufiel. Seven eleven.
Bring your own Cup Day is coming. It's on April
twenty ninth, so we're like ten days away. Apparently you
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can bring whatever drinking vessel you want, yes, and then
fill it up for a dollar ninety nine. They're also
introducing a new flavor ahead of the Can I talk?
I mean, I think I'm just out of words. It happens,
let me try this again. They're also introduced a new
flavor ahead of the event. Phantom dragon Fruit zero sugar
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from Cowboy Boots to fish Bowl. The more creative the cup,
the better. We can't wait to see what our customers
come up with this year. Pro tip a wheelbarrow, barrow?
Wheelbarrow is how you're saying, yea, why I think it
was a wheel barrow?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's yeah, no, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Not barrel, it's barrel. I don't know what saying. I
don't know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I think a lot of people say that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have been saying, damn barrel, me too, wheels on
it anyway, you talk about them a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I have four or five of them, so I always
make me do the thing where like you walk, you know,
you walk with they're the human wheelbarrows.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Just moving dirt around, you know, just my hell yeah,
concrete jungle I live in. Yeah, so they're actually looks
like they're encouraging people to show up with just massive.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I remember they used to have rules for it, like
it had.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I did a kiddie pool one year, like just to
be funny, and they like tried to ban a ton
of stuff after that.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
But maybe now they're trying to be more inclusive.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's cool again, yes, but not I'm staying a wheel barrow,
So that's a that's big.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean, that's right, it's a lot right do it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But I can I can see Rufio showing up with
a wheel barrow. And that's in the list of words
I probably haven't been saying right my whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I just showed it with my McDonald's cup.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That right, nothing has mold on it, but it's.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Full of drinks that you got for McDonald's. Stuff for you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Also in food news, and this is kind of morbid,
but the story came out yesterday and inmate Mississippi was
sentenced to die in prison, but apparently he wanted one
hell of a last meal. So I guess you get
a final meal when you're gonna be put to death.
And this occurred in twenty twelve. He ate the meal
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ninety minutes before he was executed by lethal injection, and
the meal consumed of twenty nine thousand calor he's worth
of food. Hell yeah, here's what it was. You ready.
Pizza Hut medium super supreme deep dish pizza, double portion, mushrooms, onions,
holapeno peppers, and pepperoni. A regular portion with three cheeses olives, belt, pepper, tomato, garlic,
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Italian sausage, ten eight ounce packs of Parmesan cheese, ten
eight ounce packs of ranch dressing, one family sized pack
of Dorito's Nacho Cheese Flavor, eight ounce Holopano nacho cheese,
four ounce slice Holopanos, two strawberry shakes, two twenty ounce
cherry cokes, one supersized order of McDonald's fries with extra
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ketchup and mayo, and two pints of strawberry ice cream.
And I guess he ate all that. I'd probably want
to die after I ate all of that. I mean,
that's disgusting. M M.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
What if you're gonna go out, You're gonna go out
a clean up? After that?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I was, I know it's morbid, but like, oh my god,
I guess if you're I guess if you're If you're out,
you're out. So here's twenty nine thousand calories. But I
just think, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Do you remember when we when we went to lunch
with uh boss not not one of the suits.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, And he asked us that question like that was
a lunch topic.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh yeah, he made us. He made us answer that
question and he wanted specifics you couldn't just say, like
a pizza. It had to be a pizza from mom
and me, you know wherever.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He literally judged us. It's like, that's what you would
get for your last to me. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I want to be from Portillo. So soon he'll bully
you for your own answer.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, he was like, no, I would get my grandma
to make meatballs. I'm like, what the fuck you doesn't
want to make?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You asked me a question, giving you my answer. Listen,
and you're gonna bully me. You bully me on everything,
you attempt to bully me on everything else. Now you're
gonna bully me on my own fucking answer.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's like, I'm just gonna go back to the seafood
tower over here.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Hey, what would yours be? I'm not going to bully
your answer. I'm curious though.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's a really good it is a good question. The McDonald's.
I think a McDonald's french fry might be the perfect food. Yes,
And I don't know. I think I keep it simple.
I feel like I would keep it simple, like I
would just eat a meal that like made me feel good.
I wouldn't do this thing where I'm eating like just
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disgusting food to where I want to crap myself, Like
there's no way you feel good after eating all that,
and again you're about to die. You probably don't care.
But like, I don't know, I think i'd eat like
a like a really good steak or like like a
really really good Italian sandwich or something.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What would you get So I haven't gotten specifics of
where I would get it from, but I think I
would do like a little sampler platter of like my
favorite pizza fries.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Which honestly McDonald's would be in the running.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I would do chicken toendies because you guys know I
love my chicken toendies. And I'm thinking some sort of
vessel for some like cheese, sauce. I don't know, like
maybe Keeso chips and queso. It's a little sampler platter
of all my favorite things that are fattening and just
really go out with a bang.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I see, okay, okay, kiki, Oh, I'm gonna just go
back to where it all started, McDonald's. I want to
fool McDonald's meal. I want the burger, the fry, the coke,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah. I can live, I mean die, happy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I guess, Yeah, I want a big old burger.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, I'm a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Where did I have a coke from that was better
than McDonald's. You don't want to?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I know, I know this is crazy, wager.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
No, your hottest take you've ever had?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You do?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You do know that I've been saying correctly my whole life,
and you guys are the ones that are correcting me
for no reason. It's wild to me that I was
corrected about my own upbringing by people who have never
even been there, and you guys used to ride my
ass about it. It turns out that the colloquial way of
saying it is the way I say it, water burger.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's not gonna say it, But that's not what it's.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's different topic. But and I know it's true here too,
But like, haven't you ever lived someplace where it it
looks the word looks a certain way, But it's just
that it's just adapted to what it because like, you know,
the best example I can think of is when I
lived in Austin. I'm trying to think of the example,
but like there were roads there that they just it
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was a Spanish word, but they didn't say it that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Way like dialect.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, you like like like manchaka is the word they
say manchak, that's just what they say. But I believe
it's manchaka is that's how it looks phonetically. But they
just it's manchak, like that's what they say.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
When I lived in La I was saying every street wrong,
like ven Ventura or whatever. Venture vent Yeah, I would
say a whole different word like that was me all
the time, and I was a no mess.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But there's some examples here. There got to be examples,
I know.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah, Paul Lina is one of the street name Paul. Yeah,
like Levitt or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Those Fogo to chow wrong, that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I was saying wrong pho.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You know I got I got a huge fight with
them about that many years ago. I got a big
fight with their PR people because we were doing advertisements
for Fogo Day Shown, which is Fogo de chao, right,
that's what everybody knows it as, and I know that's
not the proper Brazilian pronunciation or whatever, but they kept
correcting me and being like, you have to say, it's
Fogo Day shown. That's the name of the restaurant, and
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I did it finally, but then I got people call
me up, going dumbass, it's Fogo de chao and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Apparently the way the company wants it said is fogo
day shown, but that's not how anybody. So no one
knew what I was talking about. See, but as far
as as soon as you say Fogo de shao, everybody
was like, oh yeah, the place where they cut the
meat off the fact, and so at what point to
you as a business just say, okay, fuck it. It's
called Fogo de chow. Now that's what it's called, because
that's what everybody calls it. So we're just accepting that.
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But no, they weren't happy with it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
They were not.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's delicious though it is whatever way you call it.
Still well, I don't know how you much you'd like
it's a lot of beef. Yeah, but the salad bar
is bomb.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I heard that, and I will dabble, I guess in
pork if I if I need to get the experience,
have some chicken.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
There's some chicken, not food or no, no, okay, so
there's like smoked salmon.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I would like to try it, just for the experience,
because like I see the people, maybe.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
The mashed potatoes and the plantains they passed out. That's
like the palate clearers.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know what I'm saying. But it's a lot of
it's a lot of beef.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, well my friends would eat it if you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, I would like to eat it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, I would tell me if we're going, then I'm
not going to do I'm not going to eat for
twenty hours before and I need to be alone afterwards
for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You can't. You can't judge us. You cannot judge us.
We could.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I mean, I've eaten with you before and I already don't,
so don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm still your friend.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So you want McDonald's O. No, my hottest take
of all hot takes, I bruh.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Let me hear this.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I had a I had a really delicious Chick fil
a meal last night. And I'm not a Chick fil
A guy, but for whatever reason, I was craving in
and it was right next to where I was, and
so I had the spicy chicken sandwich. I added cheese
to it and it was it was like really crispy
and good. The problem is they put the I know
this isn't the topic, but they put the the chicken
sandwiches in like a bad kind of thing, and it
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makes it kind of not yea. And they must do
it for a reason. I don't know what. I think
it's probably for the opposite reason. But if you don't
eat it right away. But this was crunchy and good
and it's the right amount of spice. I gotta tell you.
It wasn't soggy like it normally is. And then I
got nugs and I didn't get the grilled ones. I
got the breaded ones. I hear the grilled ones are
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really good. I've never had. And the coke was The
coke was delicious. It wasn't too sweet. And the ice
they got, the crust.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The little cubes they got, the little, the little those
little old cubes.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Are they little?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They're little, their little old one. I don't know, like
raising canes ice, HiT's different. I gotta tell you it
was delicious. Sometimes the coke and McDonald's is too sweet
for me. And I feel like people are raving about
the diet coke. I hear more about diet coke fanatics
loving the diet coke at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I love the full fat coke that's.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ships It's like it's sweet, it's too sweet.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I would say my favorite coke after McDonald's is from
White Castle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
White Mexican glass coke after a.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Fountain.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I just don't eat enough White Castle, and I regret
that same.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Their breakfast all day. The breakfast is fire.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It's not too late, babe.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Honestly, maybe for dinner. Maybe for dinner, but I have
to That's another one. Chicken rings that's another one.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You need to be near the I need to.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Be alone afterwards because it's it tastes so good, but
it usually results in you know, fire shakes, milk.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Chicken Castle like a Chicago thing because I feel like
when I moved here and more people, but in Michigan
people didn't really talk about it a lot. Have we
have them, Yes, we have them and like, but it
was never really I feel like as hype as it
was here when I moved here.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It's one of the longest fast food places in Chicago.
I think it's actually based I want to say Ohio somewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
A lot of people here get it as they're drunk
food like you now and I've never I had experience that,
But I what do I need to get? Like, I
know they obviously have burgers, but do they have anything
else that's good that I can try?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Chicken rings?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Chicken rings are fire, like you can ring concerns. Wait
I did not, Yeah no, but it's they're really.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Good, like a chicken fry from from Bingk's.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But they put it in you.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Can get like eighteen.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Is there a part where the chicken comes up park is?
How could it be in.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
A ring because they mashed it up into a liquid
and then they formed it into a ring ring.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
But it's a chickens REALI sticks are fire.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I love though. They got breakfast all day. I mean
there the breakfast is good.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes, the breakfast you have it for breakfast from there
in here before?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, breakfast on a waffle waffle sandwich.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well maybe I'll get another shot. But yeah, it seems
like a big thing when I got it, just.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Added them did like the West Coast, like we Arizona
got one within the last five years.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Was there a line like there always is here when
we get something like.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was crazy. It was crazy like because we didn't
have them. They were on the West coast at all.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
How that happens, you know, like somewhere that other people
were like and but I don't care what the lines
around the.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like in and ou it's always like in and out
always has this massive line, and in and Out is good.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It really is good. But it's not. I don't think
it's I agree it's it's a little over hyped.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It's good's but it's not if the line is more
than about five or six cars I'm driving past.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm not waiting those animal fries, all those animal.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Style right double double. I got so let down. I
had high hopes.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I was like, man, when the Kardashians came on for
the first time, they were eating it, like when I
go to La, I'm going to get in and out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I went to that thing.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I said, this nasty cheese taste. It's just it don't hit.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I'm not mad about it, but I don't I don't know.
You want to talk about an underrated fast food Burgers,
Johnny Rockets. We don't talk enough about.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Johnny Johnny Rockets. The other day.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The problem is that's the thing is, I don't know
where you got to go to them or something like that.
And I don't know, but Johnny Johnny Rockets is a
similar style to in and out the way they I
think it's like they smash it the way, but it's
just better.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's better. Like say, I like sak and shakes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
The chicken sandwich I had at the airport in Mexico
was fucking fire. Johnny Rockets man really yeah, and cheese
fries I was in heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
My problem with the airport restaurants is I don't trust
them because they're they're not usually they're licensed. Like if
it's good, it's good, and I'm sure they follow the recipe,
but like, I don't know. There used to be a
Manny's at Midway and they used Manny's meat and they
did get it. They got it from all the ingredients
they got, but it was like not Manny's people making
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It's like the airport people make it. And that's fine,
but like it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, I mean every time I had a Chili's to Go,
I'm like, this is not the authentic chilies that I want.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Because my issue is right, the guy that like is
cooking in the back of the Chilis to Go is
wearing a generic uniform and tomorrow he's working in Garretts Airport.
That's what I'm saying, right Like, you know, one day
I'm going to Toledo and he's you know, trust he's
making the chilis to go, you know, the triple Dipper.
The next day I'm over at at the Macaroni Grill
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and the same dudes making carbon are And you know
this is not I don't I need some integrity in
my fast food and I'm not seeing it right here.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Rockets well thrown back Burger. Fast food is Culver, Culvers.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Everything from Culver's is fire. I love Culvers.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Culver's is good.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And I got to tell you, and I've said this
before too, but Jersey Mike's is uh. People are just
they're just now talking about Jersey Mikes more. But like
it is wildly.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Under early on that you were early.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
On wildly underrated. It is delicious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
More locations though, I feel like that's the issue. Like
then people will.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Know I'm pissed because I found out one of the
suits lives by one of the franchise, like one of
the guys. I guess who's got a bunch of franchises
and I'm like, I wish i'd not about I would
have bought into that. I would love to own a
part of a Jersey Mikes.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, my god, that'd be funny.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's amazing Jersey Mikes. Yeah. People don't talk enough about it.
They're hot. Sandwiches are yes, put on that. Yeah, I'm
in and I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I don't want to alienate or upset anyone, So I'm
not going to get into the places I think are overrated,
but I I will say the underrated places, and and
the Jersey Mikes is one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, underradiing I've never had I see the commercial all
the time firehouse, so it's good.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Fiuse is good.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, there's not a lot of locations of that either.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Soeah, no, it's not mad. I'm not upset if that's
where we wind up.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know it's in the station. Have you had pun station?
Oh that's pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah. Yeah, what about mister Subbs.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Have you guys been there?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Submarine?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, we'll see. I think he's like a south Side
guy or something, because.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I feel like it sounds like I.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Would like yeah, like I know two locations by me,
but they are fire like these are like low key
little spots.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Mister submarine, you've seen a little m you know it's him.
I don't have him, or I'll tell you something ahead.
They serve rc Cola.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I had a recent experience. Uh I was shocked, to
be honest with you, and I was in Arizona, was
seeing my family, and uh, near my house is a
place called Guido's Chicago something like Chicago restaurant, and it's
been there forever, like it's been since I was a kid,
and I don't remember ever eating there, but I went
to a business near it, and I'm like, hey, what's
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up with this place over? Because anything, I'll be honest
with you, now that I lived here long enough, anything
that said Chicago, that's not in Chicago, I'm like, fuck off,
Like you just serve Vienna beef and you say this
is you don't know what you're talking about, Like this
is not none of this is right, you know, And
I'm I feel like I have a right now to
being a ficionado because I I've lived here long more
than a decade, so that makes me a Chicago and
in my opinion, I am Chicago, thank you. And so
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the guy was like no, no, no, like that place
is legit. So then I go home and I'm like
talking to my mom, Chicago, we gotta go to the
Delhi and then we drive up. We pull up in
front of this place, Guido's Chicago. I'm gonna find out
what's called. And apparently they used to have a location here,
or maybe they still do, I don't know. Guido's, Scott's,
Guido's Chicago meets in the Deli. I'm gonna I'm gonna
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tell you right now. Ship was legit. I mean everything
about it. That's what I had.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
They had all the right stuff, they had the right
menu items. They had Vienna beef. Of course they I had.
The thing I didn't have I need to eat is
and it would be the real test is the is
the Italian beef? You know?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I think if you're.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Gonna call yourself a Chicago establishment on it, Yeah, but
like what I don't. I don't like it when they're like, look,
we have deepest pizza. It's a Chicago restaurant, Like, no, No,
there's way more.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Wouldn't you agree the true test to a Chicago restaurant
is the Italian beef? Yes, I would agree. I think
that's the true test. Because pizza, I guess you could
get it frozen and warman. I know there's a lot
of tricks, I think to the pizza, but I would
say the true test. Would you agree the beef? Yeah, no,
I don't really like Italian beef. But every Chicago in
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rides for this. You're right, but I don't like It's
like I love a beef, but I don't. I only
like Portillo's. No other spot in Chicago to me can touch.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Their conversations to take you the Johnny's.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I don't. I won't like it. It's something about Portillo
that is just I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Us have it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
But and the Italian beef is one of those things
where like if you talk to people who grew up
in the villages and the neighborhoods around here, like they've
all got oh no, you got to go to you
got to go to Little Jimmy's because that's the one
they grew up where it's nostalgic or whatever. And I
think you never hit them all. But pound for pound,
I know this is a this is a hot take.
I think you agree with me, Rufiel, But Portillo's does it?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, Yeah, yeah, I love portillo Yeah, maybe was there one.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Normally I would not say that a fast food version
of of something is going to be the best, and
I think usually there's like a one off that does
it better. But in a pinch, I'll go Portillo's every time.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
A lot of locals hate it, just because you know,
it's they they they sold out because they sold these
sold the business. But it's if you want classic Italian beef,
there's no better place important that will hit every time they.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Have one in scott Stale though, yeah I grew up.
And because basically Phoenix is mini Chicago and it does
not taste the same. I guarante doesn't. I went there,
guarantee the recipe is identical. They're probably using the same everything,
and it does not taste the same. It doesn't taste
the same because you're not I'm looking at a cactus eat.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
In this that water the water out there, you know
what I'm saying. I don't know, but it does it.
It's good. It's good.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But it's like and when I drive right by it,
because I'm like, you know what, I don't need to
eat that one because I'm gonna go home and eat
that one. The real one and it's the same one
they're all on by Warren Buffett. Now, yeah, which is
crazy really Yeah, Berkshire Hathaway, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
On location in Arizona by like a really like good
drive in liquor store. I remember like hitting up Portillo's
with my friend and then going into this.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I've never been like where you drive your car in.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's crazy. It was nearby. Maybe this was a couple
of years ago, so maybe I.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Don't know how many locations they have. I'm thinking I
think they have more than one location.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I've never like driven a car like.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I thought that was a crazy experience that you could
like drive up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To for any of my Arizona people. It's the one
I'm thinking of is Shane one on one and uh,
it's in the parking lot of like a like a
home depot or something like six locations across from a hospital.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
One in Tucson. I want to see the one, but yeah,
maybe there is one. They do.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Drive drive in liquor stores in Arizona are very common.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I've never done that before. I was like, wow, I
would be a monster. If I lived here in.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Texas, they have like garages that you physically drive into
and they're full of liquor and you just point at
what you want and they put it in your trunk
and you pay them. But it like across from where
I worked in Austin, there was you literally drove into
the thing and it's like it looked like a like
a car where I like where they work on your car.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And you drive in there, change places basically, and it's
like it's just is full of liquor and everything's you know,
cold or whatever it is. You'd be like, yeah, I
need I need a case of this, and I need
a bottle of that, and they put it in your
trunk for you and they take your money and then
you just drive out.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But isn't there something inherently wrong about a drive through
liquor store, Like it just seems like a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, I used to live by a it was drive
through like a cigarette place, like you get your cigarette?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What cigarettes? Cigarettes? Yeah, why do we say that? I
don't know the Chicago thing. I guess cigarette sugar cigarettes.
So it was only for cigarettes. And liquor and the alcohol.
You know, I'm saying, you just drive drive up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Ranch Liquors was a driving liquor store near home, and
that was the one with the famous story where I
was sixteen and I walked in because they'd sell to anybody,
and I was like, what do you recommend?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Favorite?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Because I was like sixteen and I walked into this
place and the guy looks at me like, you fucking it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Maybe you want some zema.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're twelve something right, All right, Well there's a tang,
a true tange.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am too. I'm going to go eat. Thank you.
The tang the tan. Let's do the tangent. We don't
do this when the tangent doesn't happen. We hear about it.
I mean, it's a it's a whole thing, so we
I mean, even if it's a short tangent tang, I
guess some tang's better than no change, is what they say.
That's what they say, So let's do it. Hit the intro, Rufie,
it's the tangent with the bread show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Giving me all the we couldn't talk about on air.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right, guys, welcome. When I first saw this story,
we didn't have time to get to it on the
program today. But when I first saw it, the person
that came to mind right away was Rufiel. Seven eleven.
Bring your own Cup Day is coming. It's on April
twenty ninth, so we're like ten days away. Apparently you
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can bring whatever drinking vessel you want, yes, and then
fill it up for a dollar ninety nine. They're also
introducing a new flavor ahead of the Can I talk?
I mean, I think I'm just out of words. It happens,
let me try this again. They're also introduced a new
flavor ahead of the event. Phantom dragon Fruit zero sugar
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from Cowboy Boots to fish Bowl. The more creative the cup,
the better. We can't wait to see what our customers
come up with this year. Pro tip a wheelbarrow, barrow?
Wheelbarrow is how you're saying, yea, why I think it
was a wheel barrow?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It's yeah, no, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Not barrel, it's barrel. I don't know what saying. I
don't know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I think a lot of people say that.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have been saying, damn barrel, me too, wheels on
it anyway, you talk about them a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I have four or five of them, so I always
make me do the thing where like you walk, you know,
you walk with they're the human wheelbarrows.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Just moving dirt around, you know, just my hell yeah,
concrete jungle I live in. Yeah, so they're actually looks
like they're encouraging people to show up with just massive.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I remember they used to have rules for it, like
it had.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I did a kiddie pool one year, like just to
be funny, and they like tried to ban a ton
of stuff after that.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
But maybe now they're trying to be more inclusive.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It's cool again, yes, but not I'm staying a wheel barrow,
So that's a that's big.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean, that's right, it's a lot right do it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But I can I can see Rufio showing up with
a wheel barrow. And that's in the list of words
I probably haven't been saying right my whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I just showed it with my McDonald's cup.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That right, nothing has mold on it, but it's.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Full of drinks that you got for McDonald's. Stuff for you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Also in food news, and this is kind of morbid,
but the story came out yesterday and inmate Mississippi was
sentenced to die in prison, but apparently he wanted one
hell of a last meal. So I guess you get
a final meal when you're gonna be put to death.
And this occurred in twenty twelve. He ate the meal
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ninety minutes before he was executed by lethal injection, and
the meal consumed of twenty nine thousand calor he's worth
of food. Hell yeah, here's what it was. You ready.
Pizza Hut medium super supreme deep dish pizza, double portion, mushrooms, onions,
holapeno peppers, and pepperoni. A regular portion with three cheeses olives, belt, pepper, tomato, garlic,
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Italian sausage, ten eight ounce packs of Parmesan cheese, ten
eight ounce packs of ranch dressing, one family sized pack
of Dorito's Nacho Cheese Flavor, eight ounce Holopano nacho cheese,
four ounce slice Holopanos, two strawberry shakes, two twenty ounce
cherry cokes, one supersized order of McDonald's fries with extra
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ketchup and mayo, and two pints of strawberry ice cream.
And I guess he ate all that. I'd probably want
to die after I ate all of that. I mean,
that's disgusting. M M.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
What if you're gonna go out, You're gonna go out
a clean up? After that?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I was, I know it's morbid, but like, oh my god,
I guess if you're I guess if you're If you're out,
you're out. So here's twenty nine thousand calories. But I
just think, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Do you remember when we when we went to lunch
with uh boss not not one of the suits.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, And he asked us that question like that was
a lunch topic.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh yeah, he made us. He made us answer that
question and he wanted specifics you couldn't just say, like
a pizza. It had to be a pizza from mom
and me, you know wherever.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He literally judged us. It's like, that's what you would
get for your last to me. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I want to be from Portillo. So soon he'll bully
you for your own answer.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah, he was like, no, I would get my grandma
to make meatballs. I'm like, what the fuck you doesn't
want to make?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You asked me a question, giving you my answer. Listen,
and you're gonna bully me. You bully me on everything,
you attempt to bully me on everything else. Now you're
gonna bully me on my own fucking answer.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's like, I'm just gonna go back to the seafood
tower over here.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Hey, what would yours be? I'm not going to bully
your answer. I'm curious though.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's a really good it is a good question. The McDonald's.
I think a McDonald's french fry might be the perfect food. Yes,
And I don't know. I think I keep it simple.
I feel like I would keep it simple, like I
would just eat a meal that like made me feel good.
I wouldn't do this thing where I'm eating like just
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disgusting food to where I want to crap myself, Like
there's no way you feel good after eating all that,
and again you're about to die. You probably don't care.
But like, I don't know, I think i'd eat like
a like a really good steak or like like a
really really good Italian sandwich or something.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
What would you get So I haven't gotten specifics of
where I would get it from, but I think I
would do like a little sampler platter of like my
favorite pizza fries.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Which honestly McDonald's would be in the running.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I would do chicken toendies because you guys know I
love my chicken toendies. And I'm thinking some sort of
vessel for some like cheese, sauce. I don't know, like
maybe Keeso chips and queso. It's a little sampler platter
of all my favorite things that are fattening and just
really go out with a bang.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I see, okay, okay, kiki, Oh, I'm gonna just go
back to where it all started, McDonald's. I want to
fool McDonald's meal. I want the burger, the fry, the coke,
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah. I can live, I mean die, happy.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I guess, Yeah, I want a big old burger.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, I'm a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Where did I have a coke from that was better
than McDonald's. You don't want to?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I know, I know this is crazy, wager.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
No, your hottest take you've ever had?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
You do?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You do know that I've been saying correctly my whole life,
and you guys are the ones that are correcting me
for no reason. It's wild to me that I was
corrected about my own upbringing by people who have never
even been there, and you guys used to ride my
ass about it. It turns out that the colloquial way of
saying it is the way I say it, water burger.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's not gonna say it, But that's not what it's.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's different topic. But and I know it's true here too,
But like, haven't you ever lived someplace where it it
looks the word looks a certain way, But it's just
that it's just adapted to what it because like, you know,
the best example I can think of is when I
lived in Austin. I'm trying to think of the example,
but like there were roads there that they just it
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was a Spanish word, but they didn't say it that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Way like dialect.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, you like like like manchaka is the word they
say manchak, that's just what they say. But I believe
it's manchaka is that's how it looks phonetically. But they
just it's manchak, like that's what they say.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
When I lived in La I was saying every street wrong,
like ven Ventura or whatever. Venture vent Yeah, I would
say a whole different word like that was me all
the time, and I was a no mess.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But there's some examples here. There got to be examples,
I know.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah, Paul Lina is one of the street name Paul. Yeah,
like Levitt or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Those Fogo to chow wrong, that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I was saying wrong pho.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You know I got I got a huge fight with
them about that many years ago. I got a big
fight with their PR people because we were doing advertisements
for Fogo Day Shown, which is Fogo de chao, right,
that's what everybody knows it as, and I know that's
not the proper Brazilian pronunciation or whatever, but they kept
correcting me and being like, you have to say, it's
Fogo Day shown. That's the name of the restaurant, and
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I did it finally, but then I got people call
me up, going dumbass, it's Fogo de chao and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Apparently the way the company wants it said is fogo
day shown, but that's not how anybody. So no one
knew what I was talking about. See, but as far
as as soon as you say Fogo de shao, everybody
was like, oh yeah, the place where they cut the
meat off the fact, and so at what point to
you as a business just say, okay, fuck it. It's
called Fogo de chow. Now that's what it's called, because
that's what everybody calls it. So we're just accepting that.
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But no, they weren't happy with it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
They were not.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's delicious though it is whatever way you call it.
Still well, I don't know how you much you'd like
it's a lot of beef. Yeah, but the salad bar
is bomb.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I heard that, and I will dabble, I guess in
pork if I if I need to get the experience,
have some chicken.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
There's some chicken, not food or no, no, okay, so
there's like smoked salmon.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I would like to try it, just for the experience,
because like I see the people, maybe.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
The mashed potatoes and the plantains they passed out. That's
like the palate clearers.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know what I'm saying. But it's a lot of
it's a lot of beef.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, well my friends would eat it if you.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, I would like to eat it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, I would tell me if we're going, then I'm
not going to do I'm not going to eat for
twenty hours before and I need to be alone afterwards
for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You can't. You can't judge us. You cannot judge us.
We could.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I mean, I've eaten with you before and I already don't,
so don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm still your friend.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So you want McDonald's O. No, my hottest take
of all hot takes, I bruh.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Let me hear this.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I had a I had a really delicious Chick fil
a meal last night. And I'm not a Chick fil
A guy, but for whatever reason, I was craving in
and it was right next to where I was, and
so I had the spicy chicken sandwich. I added cheese
to it and it was it was like really crispy
and good. The problem is they put the I know
this isn't the topic, but they put the the chicken
sandwiches in like a bad kind of thing, and it
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makes it kind of not yea. And they must do
it for a reason. I don't know what. I think
it's probably for the opposite reason. But if you don't
eat it right away. But this was crunchy and good
and it's the right amount of spice. I gotta tell you.
It wasn't soggy like it normally is. And then I
got nugs and I didn't get the grilled ones. I
got the breaded ones. I hear the grilled ones are
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really good. I've never had. And the coke was The
coke was delicious. It wasn't too sweet. And the ice
they got, the crust.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The little cubes they got, the little, the little those
little old cubes.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Are they little?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
They're little, their little old one. I don't know, like
raising canes ice, HiT's different. I gotta tell you it
was delicious. Sometimes the coke and McDonald's is too sweet
for me. And I feel like people are raving about
the diet coke. I hear more about diet coke fanatics
loving the diet coke at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I love the full fat coke that's.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ships It's like it's sweet, it's too sweet.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I would say my favorite coke after McDonald's is from
White Castle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
White Mexican glass coke after a.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Fountain.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I just don't eat enough White Castle, and I regret
that same.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Their breakfast all day. The breakfast is fire.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It's not too late, babe.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Honestly, maybe for dinner. Maybe for dinner, but I have
to That's another one. Chicken rings that's another one.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You need to be near the I need to.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Be alone afterwards because it's it tastes so good, but
it usually results in you know, fire shakes, milk.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Chicken Castle like a Chicago thing because I feel like
when I moved here and more people, but in Michigan
people didn't really talk about it a lot. Have we
have them, Yes, we have them and like, but it
was never really I feel like as hype as it
was here when I moved here.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It's one of the longest fast food places in Chicago.
I think it's actually based I want to say Ohio somewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
A lot of people here get it as they're drunk
food like you now and I've never I had experience that,
But I what do I need to get? Like, I
know they obviously have burgers, but do they have anything
else that's good that I can try?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Chicken rings?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Chicken rings are fire, like you can ring concerns. Wait
I did not, Yeah no, but it's they're really.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Good, like a chicken fry from from Bingk's.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But they put it in you.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Can get like eighteen.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Is there a part where the chicken comes up park is?
How could it be in.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
A ring because they mashed it up into a liquid
and then they formed it into a ring ring.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
But it's a chickens REALI sticks are fire.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I love though. They got breakfast all day. I mean
there the breakfast is good.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes, the breakfast you have it for breakfast from there
in here before?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, breakfast on a waffle waffle sandwich.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well maybe I'll get another shot. But yeah, it seems
like a big thing when I got it, just.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Added them did like the West Coast, like we Arizona
got one within the last five years.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Was there a line like there always is here when
we get something like.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was crazy. It was crazy like because we didn't
have them. They were on the West coast at all.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
How that happens, you know, like somewhere that other people
were like and but I don't care what the lines
around the.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like in and ou it's always like in and out
always has this massive line, and in and Out is good.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
It really is good. But it's not. I don't think
it's I agree it's it's a little over hyped.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It's good's but it's not if the line is more
than about five or six cars I'm driving past.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm not waiting those animal fries, all those animal.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Style right double double. I got so let down. I
had high hopes.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I was like, man, when the Kardashians came on for
the first time, they were eating it, like when I
go to La, I'm going to get in and out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I went to that thing.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I said, this nasty cheese taste. It's just it don't hit.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I'm not mad about it, but I don't I don't know.
You want to talk about an underrated fast food Burgers,
Johnny Rockets. We don't talk enough about.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Johnny Johnny Rockets. The other day.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The problem is that's the thing is, I don't know
where you got to go to them or something like that.
And I don't know, but Johnny Johnny Rockets is a
similar style to in and out the way they I
think it's like they smash it the way, but it's
just better.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's better. Like say, I like sak and shakes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
The chicken sandwich I had at the airport in Mexico
was fucking fire. Johnny Rockets man really yeah, and cheese
fries I was in heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
My problem with the airport restaurants is I don't trust
them because they're they're not usually they're licensed. Like if
it's good, it's good, and I'm sure they follow the recipe,
but like, I don't know. There used to be a
Manny's at Midway and they used Manny's meat and they
did get it. They got it from all the ingredients
they got, but it was like not Manny's people making
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It's like the airport people make it. And that's fine,
but like it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, I mean every time I had a Chili's to Go,
I'm like, this is not the authentic chilies that I want.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Because my issue is right, the guy that like is
cooking in the back of the Chilis to Go is
wearing a generic uniform and tomorrow he's working in Garretts Airport.
That's what I'm saying, right Like, you know, one day
I'm going to Toledo and he's you know, trust he's
making the chilis to go, you know, the triple Dipper.
The next day I'm over at at the Macaroni Grill
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and the same dudes making carbon are And you know
this is not I don't I need some integrity in
my fast food and I'm not seeing it right here.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Rockets well thrown back Burger. Fast food is Culver, Culvers.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Everything from Culver's is fire. I love Culvers.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Culver's is good.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And I got to tell you, and I've said this
before too, but Jersey Mike's is uh. People are just
they're just now talking about Jersey Mikes more. But like
it is wildly.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Under early on that you were early.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
On wildly underrated. It is delicious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
More locations though, I feel like that's the issue. Like
then people will.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Know I'm pissed because I found out one of the
suits lives by one of the franchise, like one of
the guys. I guess who's got a bunch of franchises
and I'm like, I wish i'd not about I would
have bought into that. I would love to own a
part of a Jersey Mikes.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, my god, that'd be funny.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's amazing Jersey Mikes. Yeah. People don't talk enough about it.
They're hot. Sandwiches are yes, put on that. Yeah, I'm
in and I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I don't want to alienate or upset anyone, So I'm
not going to get into the places I think are overrated,
but I I will say the underrated places, and and
the Jersey Mikes is one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, underradiing I've never had I see the commercial all
the time firehouse, so it's good.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Fiuse is good.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, there's not a lot of locations of that either.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Soeah, no, it's not mad. I'm not upset if that's
where we wind up.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know it's in the station. Have you had pun station?
Oh that's pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah. Yeah, what about mister Subbs.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Have you guys been there?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Submarine?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, we'll see. I think he's like a south Side
guy or something, because.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I feel like it sounds like I.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Would like yeah, like I know two locations by me,
but they are fire like these are like low key
little spots.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Mister submarine, you've seen a little m you know it's him.
I don't have him, or I'll tell you something ahead.
They serve rc Cola.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I had a recent experience. Uh I was shocked, to
be honest with you, and I was in Arizona, was
seeing my family, and uh, near my house is a
place called Guido's Chicago something like Chicago restaurant, and it's
been there forever, like it's been since I was a kid,
and I don't remember ever eating there, but I went
to a business near it, and I'm like, hey, what's
(17:49):
up with this place over? Because anything, I'll be honest
with you, now that I lived here long enough, anything
that said Chicago, that's not in Chicago, I'm like, fuck off,
Like you just serve Vienna beef and you say this
is you don't know what you're talking about, Like this
is not none of this is right, you know, And
I'm I feel like I have a right now to
being a ficionado because I I've lived here long more
than a decade, so that makes me a Chicago and
in my opinion, I am Chicago, thank you. And so
(18:12):
the guy was like no, no, no, like that place
is legit. So then I go home and I'm like
talking to my mom, Chicago, we gotta go to the
Delhi and then we drive up. We pull up in
front of this place, Guido's Chicago. I'm gonna find out
what's called. And apparently they used to have a location here,
or maybe they still do, I don't know. Guido's, Scott's,
Guido's Chicago meets in the Deli. I'm gonna I'm gonna
(18:36):
tell you right now. Ship was legit. I mean everything
about it. That's what I had.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
They had all the right stuff, they had the right
menu items. They had Vienna beef. Of course they I had.
The thing I didn't have I need to eat is
and it would be the real test is the is
the Italian beef? You know?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I think if you're.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Gonna call yourself a Chicago establishment on it, Yeah, but
like what I don't. I don't like it when they're like, look,
we have deepest pizza. It's a Chicago restaurant, Like, no, No,
there's way more.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I think.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Wouldn't you agree the true test to a Chicago restaurant
is the Italian beef? Yes, I would agree. I think
that's the true test. Because pizza, I guess you could
get it frozen and warman. I know there's a lot
of tricks, I think to the pizza, but I would
say the true test. Would you agree the beef? Yeah, no,
I don't really like Italian beef. But every Chicago in
(19:29):
rides for this. You're right, but I don't like It's
like I love a beef, but I don't. I only
like Portillo's. No other spot in Chicago to me can touch.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Their conversations to take you the Johnny's.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I don't. I won't like it. It's something about Portillo
that is just I can't.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Us have it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
But and the Italian beef is one of those things
where like if you talk to people who grew up
in the villages and the neighborhoods around here, like they've
all got oh no, you got to go to you
got to go to Little Jimmy's because that's the one
they grew up where it's nostalgic or whatever. And I
think you never hit them all. But pound for pound,
I know this is a this is a hot take.
I think you agree with me, Rufiel, But Portillo's does it?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, Yeah, yeah, I love portillo Yeah, maybe was there one.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Normally I would not say that a fast food version
of of something is going to be the best, and
I think usually there's like a one off that does
it better. But in a pinch, I'll go Portillo's every time.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
A lot of locals hate it, just because you know,
it's they they they sold out because they sold these
sold the business. But it's if you want classic Italian beef,
there's no better place important that will hit every time they.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Have one in scott Stale though, yeah I grew up.
And because basically Phoenix is mini Chicago and it does
not taste the same. I guarante doesn't. I went there,
guarantee the recipe is identical. They're probably using the same everything,
and it does not taste the same. It doesn't taste
the same because you're not I'm looking at a cactus eat.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
In this that water the water out there, you know
what I'm saying. I don't know, but it does it.
It's good. It's good.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But it's like and when I drive right by it,
because I'm like, you know what, I don't need to
eat that one because I'm gonna go home and eat
that one. The real one and it's the same one
they're all on by Warren Buffett. Now, yeah, which is
crazy really Yeah, Berkshire Hathaway, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
On location in Arizona by like a really like good
drive in liquor store. I remember like hitting up Portillo's
with my friend and then going into this.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I've never been like where you drive your car in.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's crazy. It was nearby. Maybe this was a couple
of years ago, so maybe I.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Don't know how many locations they have. I'm thinking I
think they have more than one location.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I've never like driven a car like.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I thought that was a crazy experience that you could
like drive up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
To for any of my Arizona people. It's the one
I'm thinking of is Shane one on one and uh,
it's in the parking lot of like a like a
home depot or something like six locations across from a hospital.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
One in Tucson. I want to see the one, but yeah,
maybe there is one. They do.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Drive drive in liquor stores in Arizona are very common.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I've never done that before. I was like, wow, I
would be a monster. If I lived here in.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Texas, they have like garages that you physically drive into
and they're full of liquor and you just point at
what you want and they put it in your trunk
and you pay them. But it like across from where
I worked in Austin, there was you literally drove into
the thing and it's like it looked like a like
a car where I like where they work on your car.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And you drive in there, change places basically, and it's
like it's just is full of liquor and everything's you know,
cold or whatever it is. You'd be like, yeah, I
need I need a case of this, and I need
a bottle of that, and they put it in your
trunk for you and they take your money and then
you just drive out.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But isn't there something inherently wrong about a drive through
liquor store, Like it just seems like a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, I used to live by a it was drive
through like a cigarette place, like you get your cigarette?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What cigarettes? Cigarettes? Yeah, why do we say that? I
don't know the Chicago thing. I guess cigarette sugar cigarettes.
So it was only for cigarettes. And liquor and the alcohol.
You know, I'm saying, you just drive drive up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Ranch Liquors was a driving liquor store near home, and
that was the one with the famous story where I
was sixteen and I walked in because they'd sell to anybody,
and I was like, what do you recommend?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Favorite?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Because I was like sixteen and I walked into this
place and the guy looks at me like, you fucking it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Maybe you want some zema.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're twelve something right, All right, Well there's a tang,
a true tange.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am too. I'm going to go eat. Thank you.
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