Our special guest series continues with Coach Brad Blum! We talk about the meals mom made back in the day: Chicken Fricassee, boiled veggies, Macaroni Junk, and Taco Salad. Plus, who wears socks in the house?
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This is an over Fink pop cofthe Eating Over the Sink Podcast. Yet
another episode of Eating over the SinkSeason two. Second helpings. Thank you
for listening. It's wrapped by GreatBuddies, JP, the britt Pursord to
my left. Everyone, We've gotOfficer Andy Stultz, the pride of grow
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Port Madison High School to my rights. Good morning boys, and we are
joined once again by a special guest, Bradley Bloom. I wanted to jump
right right into this one. Throwback meals meals that you don't really make
anymore, or you're seeing anymore thatmaybe you had growing up as a kid,
that your mom would make love himor hate him. I'll start with
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one. I think my mom listensto this podcast, so she'll get a
kick out of this. Have youguys ever heard of chicken frickacy? I've
heard of it. What it is? Chicken? You know what a frickacy
is? Now, let me imaginewhat it is. First, you say
this is a real dish. Ithink it sounds like something with a white
sauce. Maybe it's like a chickenwith like cream of mushroom soup and broccoli
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and maybe some condensed milk or somethingto kind of get some and then it's
baked. It sounds delicious. Writeit down. Can you smear on the
wall and take paint? Can yougoogle freakacy for me? Is that like
Italian or something? No, it'snot sounds French. Frickasy. It's a
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funny word, it is. Itsounds good. Oh it sounded good up
until you had broccoli put in there. But I remember like going into tears
as a kid when my mom wasmaking chicken frickacy. It's just like,
did you did she put anything elsewith it? Or was it just the
frickasy on the plate? It's justthat And I don't know, maybe a
roll. Do you use a spoonor a fork with that? Because it's
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like a good question. I thinkwe used a fork kind of kill the
juice. It would kind of thickenup with it cooked, you know.
Yeah, it wasn't a super hada thicker they got. You don't have
those in the UK. No facy, Like I don't even think you have
to put the chicken in front ofjust say fricacy. Fay we're having Yeah,
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we're having some fricacy. That meansit means something completely different in England.
Can you can you have like abeef fricacy? I don't know,
endless, Yes, it's a blankcanvas. Actually, I think it's better
if you don't preface the fricacy.You just say we're having fricacy some English
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grammar, right, salty? Whatdid? What did missus stults? Back
in the day in the eighties,So you don't really see you still see
it, but you don't see it. A lot. We did a lot
of sloppy Joe's. Did you guysdo sloppy kid? We did a lot
of sloppy Joe's, but we didn'tdo Manwich. We didn't do it out
of can. It was just ketchupketchup mustard and pickle relish and the hamburger
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ground beef basically broken up like alouseburger, Yeah, like a lusburger.
And then just don't put the manwichcan in like we do nowadays. Mab
wich You just what is that?What are you talking about? Manwich?
Hold on, it's sloppy Joe andman Witch. Manwich. It's a brand.
It's a brand of what sloppy Joemix, Sloppy Joe sauce. Man
serious, you put you eat madwich? No? I don't eat manwiched now,
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but we did eat it back inthe eighties, but we didn't use
man wich. We used ketchup mustard, pickle relish. You made your own
man. Okay, I've never heardof manwich before. Have you ever had
a sloppy Joe sandwich? Not growingup? But when when I came to
the US, was the first timeI had slu which I love, love
slap peach. You've had manwich,you've had manwich then? Probably? Yeah,
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we can. It was all likehomemade on whatever. So you make
the hamburger, yeah, just canslappy it's manwich, sloppy Joe man.
And the cheese you put on thatlike when you grond it was it like
a really bad for your craft,Like there's no cheese Joe? Yeah,
yeah there is. That's not asloppy Joe because the cheese keeps it neat,
so it's not It's just it's justa joe. Is that real thing?
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You guys? That's just an eatingover the sink. Welcome to the
sink, JP. That's just kindof what we Yeah, because I've been
I've been hoodwinked. If that's areal thing, because the last thirty years
i've been in the US, Icalled him sloppy Joe. I'm gonna make
it a thing. If you putcheese on a sloppy Joe, it's just
a joke because it's not sloppy.I would agree with you for that.
Right, makes a ton of senseto me. Are you paying attention to
the topic? But it was,I'm talking about cheese and the sloppy Joe.
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I honestly thought about leaving. Soyou've had a sloppy Joe, of
course, without without cheese. IfI if you asked me if I had
a sloppy Joe and the thing thatI ate had cheese on it, I
would answer, no, that's nota sloppy Joe anymore. That's just a
well, I don't know what itis, Joe. We just made it.
It's upsetting. So what what fooddid you did mom make? Growing
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up? Uh? My mother,God rest her soul. Was not the
greatest chef on planet Earth. Theone thing she made that I loved,
which you'll you'll laugh at, ismacaroni salad. And there's nothing, there's
nothing complicated about. I'd watch hermake it. She'd make the noodles like
the elbow elbow noodles, macaroni noodles, Yeah, okay, macaroni Yeah,
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anyway, see what it's like,See what we do every season with this
guy. I'm better off behind thebench. So she it's just you know,
and she puts some like celery andonion and egg and mayonnaise in it,
and she'd mix up. I don't. I don't know the proportions because
I don't have the recipe, butI've never been able to find anything like
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it. It couldn't be more basic, but it's my favorite food as a
kid. Do you make it now? No? I can't make it now.
Yeah, my sister can get prettyclose. But not a lot of
people don't put the egg in themacaroni salad. I think that's old school.
That's what that's like. Do youdo you don't do? That's well
documented. I do like that.I like to tell your salad, macaroni
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salad, you go up the eggand the crushed out. A lot of
if you buy it anywhere, there'snever egg in the macaroni cell. Yeah,
right, you have to have it. Maybe that was a secret.
Was it? Was it super creamy? I only say that because I really
don't like with macaroni, salad,Coleslaw, past the salad whatever in general,
Like, I don't like it supercreamy, like super mayonnaise. It's
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gotta be I'll ask them to likedig into the bottom or whatever. Coleslaw
the restaurants, I want creamy onmy salad sidebar Coleslaw, vinegar or Mayo
based the room and split or Mayo. Yeah, you guys are vinegar obviously,
so that's probably the only place youhave Mayo versus Miracle Whip. Then
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if I was he's making the switchto Mayo, that's it's it's hard.
Is there a twelve step program forthat? Hi? I'm Andy. I
like Miracle Whip? Hi and meand I like for scene whatever? All
right, GP the Brett. Thishas got to be good. Growing up
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in the Worcestershire, England, theshire. Yeah, what did you have
growing up? Was it like haggisbread pudding? Like boiled vegetables? You
know, well, that's not weird. It's like Brussels sprouts. Like today,
I cannot eat Brussels sprouts because mymum would take massive Brussels spouts and
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just boil them into this soggy messof grossness. It's different. It was
different back then, that's right.Like I wasn't leaving the table until everything
on it. It wasn't like todaywhen our kids freaking decide what they want
to eat and all that rubbish,Like I want leaving the table. So
if I had four soggy big Brusselssprouts on my plate, I was eating
them. So I would cut inhalf and I would just put them in
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a mouth hole and swallow. Iwouldn't even chew. Every time I would,
I would, I would, Iwould gag. Now on the flip
side of that, something my bloomsabout to go right now, something my
mum made really good was was abacon butty, A bacon butty bake bacon
butty? Can you put buddy beyou d d? Why? All right?
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So this is bacon, but we'llgive a little allowances from Pittsburgh butty
butty b you t t y correct, which is a slang term for a
sandwich to two white pieces of bread, fluffy pieces of bread with copious amounts
of bacon in it and just butterbacon bacon behind bacon butty. Now,
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English bacon's different from American bacon,doesn't matter. It's fried fatty meat.
The bread toasted, notast generally notfluffy bad. It's fluffy generally not because
then if you toast it, itputs a little barrier. So the fat
from the bacon did like soak intothe bread, like like you just push
it down, a little squash onthe bread. I swear to God,
I could eat a hundred of them. Bacon butty, bacon butty. Try
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it, folks, bacon butty.Do you guys ever have taco salad?
Yes, my mom still makes that. Does she make it with Catalina dressing?
Yes, French, not Catalina.But is this is that the same
thing? No, Catalina is moreof a sweet. It is sweet.
It's a different color too, It'slike a darker red. So my mom
would make taco salad, this isagain this is the eighties, and she
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would use Catalina dressing with it.Was she put the dressing in the salad
and corn beans, lettuce, whichI'm okay with all of that, but
then the Catalina dressing just ruined it. I honestly just got freaking acid reflux
by from the fro. What's thedifference between that and a tacos? A
salad? There's no shell. There'sno shell. No, I understand that,
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but why would that give you?It's the same thing dress, Catalina
dress, Helena dressing, all theother ones. But I never thought to
put it in a taco cell Ilove taco salad, and I would eat
I would eat that. I'm nota fan of a Catalina dress. I'm
gonna roll the dice. Are youkin, Lena is not a Mexican dressing,
right, I don't think so.Why would you put it in a
Mexican It's a great question, askedmy mom. I'm scaredy mom, you're
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scared of my wife? Oh,Detroit, I got one more quick dish
my mom made. Well. Yeah, so everybody knows Johnny Marsetti, right,
So we didn't call it Johnny Marsetti. We called it macaronie junkies.
My mom said, he we havea macaroni junk basically, big pot macaronie
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noodles, red sauce, meat,cook it, stir it up, and
we eat it for like three daysbecause it's a big pot, so cheap,
fast past meat, sauce meat.Are you describing spaghetti? What is
it? What's it called? Wecalled it macaronie junk. But but it's
Johnny Marsette, Johnny Mozette. You'venever heard that term? Yeah, cousin
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of Sluppy Joe. Is it is'Johnny Marzetti. Isn't layered though, is
it? Like? Yeah, soit's a little different, but this is
basically the same. You've never hadthat brand? I don't. I've never
heard that term. Would you have? And what'd you have? Well?
My mother, my mother in law, is a great cook. So she
could make anything progies like a coupleof Italian family. Yeah, so that's
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where I got my my extra weight. We'll call it from fly nervous laughter.
So what was the so? Whatwas one of the meals that was
so bad that your mom cooked?Do you remember anyhow? So I have
I have a story. I don'tremember how. I was maybe eleven or
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twelve, and we like dinner timein my house. It wasn't a big
deal. Sometimes we eat together.Sometimes you wouldn't just it wasn't a big
deal. Then it's not a bigmeal. Now, so my mom makes
this uhs, I mean literally noneof its homemade. It was Stoers mac
and cheese and salisberry steak. Allright, and we had the garage freeze
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everybody has. I mean, thisstuff was probably in there since the nineteen
seven. I didn't see the box. But she makes it and we're all
we're all sitting there eating it andit's awful, and it's freezer burned.
It tastes awful, and we're alljust we're all just kind of laughing,
but we don't. None of uswant to be rude. And my dad
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he gets up and he he goes. I have never eaten shit before.
But if I did that, ifyou look at me, you probably know.
I don't work out a lot.I try to walk if I can,
you know, get a little sweatgoing, maybe modlawn. So I
have now resorted to getting my workoutsnaturally. So when I go up and
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down the stairs, it's my minimicro workout. So I'll like hustle up
a stairs and like skip as manysteps as I can, and my wife
is like, you're gonna break yourass one of these days going up the
steps. I'll just fly up.We have one of those where it's like
two tears, you go up andthen landing up. So I'll like skip
a couple of steps, turn skipup a couple of steps, get what
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I needed, and then fly downstairsand they go. That's my workout for
the day. Do you guys skipsteps or do you just go up one
step at a time. I don'tskip steps at home, like I'll hit
every step. But like if I'mlike coming upstairs here in the office build,
I always do two at a time. But at home, I never
do that. So you do thatat home every step I can get,
every chance I can get on.I think that's a song, every step
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by take. Yeah, do youskip steps stops? No, No count
them. You gotta touch them all. I touch them all. Yeah.
Yeah, we've talked about counting steps. You now do that? Gp?
Well, well, hold on,there is a breakthrough. I did have
a breakthrough. I did not countsteps. But when I'm watering my flowers
around my house, I count thenumber of loops when I put the hose
back, so you know exactly thenumber of loops. It takes twenty seven
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twenty seven and one hundred foot gardenhose. And is the other thing like
if if I get like if it'stwenty six or twenty three or twenty five
or whatever, it's not twenty seven, Like I'll make sure it's twenty seven
when I got back, when Iput it back on the Holday. Yeah,
so you guys got me into it. Walking steps not in my vocabulary,
so you don't have to, Soyou don't. You don't skip steps
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going up? No, No,are in no hurry to get up the
stairs or down. So you justtake your time. You're not like a
quick step or where you like youkind of like it's not something I think
about. Sometimes coming down the steps, I'll go a little faster. I
get all. That's cool to Nusha. Yeah, that's why we're talking about
it, because this is not somethingpeople think about. Bloom. Do you
skip steps when you go up?Not usually I'll hit every step, but
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I will quick step it to maintainmy foot speed. Yeah. Right,
that's part of my training regimen.That's exactly what I'm saying. It's like
it helps you kind of keep thelegs engaged. Right. Yeah. Do
you quick step going down? No? I he slow rolls. Yeah.
I The last thing I want todo is fall down a bunch of stairs.
However, I will share this withyou, so work. So I
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park on the third floor of ourparking garage, and are you back in
the parking spot. No, Iguess I'm a jerk. So I pull
on normal and I get out andwalk behind my vehicle like you're supposed to
be, like the parking lot wasdesigned to do right. And I'm on
the third floor, so you know, the first I don't know however many
it is six flights or normal flightsof stairs, but the last a little
bit, it's like a half flight. It's like six steps. Once every
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two or three months, I'll justjump down them to see if I still
got it. And one of thesedays I will find out I do not
still got it. It hasn't happenedyet, yeah, I mean it's getting
closer. Like I'll stand there liketoday the day. Can you tell in
your house who's going up and downthe stairs by the way that they go
their patterns, Like kids usually kindof gallop down. They'll like do like
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like chunk down, like I knowthat's that's my youngest coming down the steps
because it's just like flopping down.And my wife is just you know,
little tiptoe. My wife sneaks downthe stairs. You don't even know she's
she's coming to kill you exactly startstoday. Yeah, yeah, maybe not
your current house, but in previoushouses. If you had an old house,
you know, like what steps squeaks, So if you're upweight whatever,
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you know to avoid that area andthat one step, so you know,
you don't telegraph that you're coming upand down the stairs or is that just
me? You guys? I hadWe had basement stairs when I was a
kid that creaked, so my roomwas in the basement, so if I
want to come up and makes sensespeaking to the fridge. How do you
guys feel about handrails on stairs?Do you do? You use it in
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public places? The necessity? Yeah, I'm a look, not that I'm
a germaphobe at all, but Iget a little eked out about public hand
rails because you know, people aren'tgenerally. I mean, we've all been
in a restroom where the guy goesin, takes a number two and comes
just walk straight back out right likewe've seen people do that. It's got
a dump and go dump and goright like no washing liked. So I
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don't generally, I do not generallyuse a handrail, So coming down the
stairs, I'm a little bit morepragmatic and my well, you're more likely
to slip down the stairs because you'rea sot guy in the house. So
you're got socks, they're slippery onthe on the carpet. No, I
go, how shoes? Remember?Saw its stuffy? Stuffy? Howse shoes?
I got? How shoes? Yousee? How how put off?
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Eat this guy? Did you go? How shes? She's done? You?
I don't wear anything in the house. That's true. That's just nothing.
Yeah, that's been proven. Whatare you wearing that in the house.
I don't wear socks, that's forsure. But you have house shoes,
and I don't know how shoes areYou're you're a small guy. You're
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you're you're an attorney. Like theshoes that you wear in the house.
Like how shoes. I walk intomy house and I take my shoes off
the whole time. Socks come offimmediately, or not not immediately, but
they'll why no socks in the house, you take off, you come in
the house, you take off yourshoes. Then you immediately take off your
socks too. I come in,kick my shoes off in the garage to
come in totally take the uniform offwith the socks. They come off immediately.
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Socks part of the unif form.They are, because those the only
time I wear those kind of socksare with the Are they state issued socks?
They're not, but I wear themwith my state issued uniform. I
just wanted to make sure that mytax para money is not going to your
socks. No, okay, nosocks they're white like, No, they're
not white white black. We wereblack socks. So where do so?
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What part of the house do youcome in? Garage? So is there
a laundry room right there? No, So I choose off immediately. I'm
carrying my bag in my lunch bag. Come in, throw that in the
kitchen, straight up the stairs undressed. Okay, so you go up the
stairs with the socks on, andthen you take the socks off in the
bedroom. You don't like sock likeI'm not wearing socks today. I don't
wear socks unless I have to.I don't wear socks in the house.
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You wear a sock when you goto bed? No? Absolutely not,
definitely not. No, No,there's an answer to that question, answers.
No, what about your wives?They wear socks? Yes, my
wife will, especially in the winter. Well, I have dual fans running
at any given time, so shehas no choice. She also doubles up
on blankets. Okay, And youhave dual fans and your ceiling fans,
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that means too, I have aI have a ceiling fan, thanks office
Stell. I have a ceiling fan, and then I have my personal fan
next to my bed. That's exactlyora ceiling fan and a personal fan one
foot from my head. And thepersonal fan travels with me wherever I go.
I've seen it, Rath, No, this is this is groundbreaking.
I don't have I don't have thepersonal fan. I have a ceiling fan
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that's twenty four to seven three sixtyfive. Ye, but I don't have
another fan. Air blown on yourface. I have my I have my wife.
This is an over Fink pop cofthe Eating Over the Sink Podcast. Yet
another episode of Eating over the SinkSeason two. Second helpings. Thank you
for listening. It's wrapped by GreatBuddies, JP, the britt Pursord to
my left. Everyone, We've gotOfficer Andy Stultz, the pride of grow
(00:22):
Port Madison High School to my rights. Good morning boys, and we are
joined once again by a special guest, Bradley Bloom. I wanted to jump
right right into this one. Throwback meals meals that you don't really make
anymore, or you're seeing anymore thatmaybe you had growing up as a kid,
that your mom would make love himor hate him. I'll start with
(00:45):
one. I think my mom listensto this podcast, so she'll get a
kick out of this. Have youguys ever heard of chicken frickacy? I've
heard of it. What it is? Chicken? You know what a frickacy
is? Now, let me imaginewhat it is. First, you say
this is a real dish. Ithink it sounds like something with a white
sauce. Maybe it's like a chickenwith like cream of mushroom soup and broccoli
(01:10):
and maybe some condensed milk or somethingto kind of get some and then it's
baked. It sounds delicious. Writeit down. Can you smear on the
wall and take paint? Can yougoogle freakacy for me? Is that like
Italian or something? No, it'snot sounds French. Frickasy. It's a
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funny word, it is. Itsounds good. Oh it sounded good up
until you had broccoli put in there. But I remember like going into tears
as a kid when my mom wasmaking chicken frickacy. It's just like,
did you did she put anything elsewith it? Or was it just the
frickasy on the plate? It's justthat And I don't know, maybe a
roll. Do you use a spoonor a fork with that? Because it's
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like a good question. I thinkwe used a fork kind of kill the
juice. It would kind of thickenup with it cooked, you know.
Yeah, it wasn't a super hada thicker they got. You don't have
those in the UK. No facy, Like I don't even think you have
to put the chicken in front ofjust say fricacy. Fay we're having Yeah,
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we're having some fricacy. That meansit means something completely different in England.
Can you can you have like abeef fricacy? I don't know,
endless, Yes, it's a blankcanvas. Actually, I think it's better
if you don't preface the fricacy.You just say we're having fricacy some English
(02:45):
grammar, right, salty? Whatdid? What did missus stults? Back
in the day in the eighties,So you don't really see you still see
it, but you don't see it. A lot. We did a lot
of sloppy Joe's. Did you guysdo sloppy kid? We did a lot
of sloppy Joe's, but we didn'tdo Manwich. We didn't do it out
of can. It was just ketchupketchup mustard and pickle relish and the hamburger
(03:07):
ground beef basically broken up like alouseburger, Yeah, like a lusburger.
And then just don't put the manwichcan in like we do nowadays. Mab
wich You just what is that?What are you talking about? Manwich?
Hold on, it's sloppy Joe andman Witch. Manwich. It's a brand.
It's a brand of what sloppy Joemix, Sloppy Joe sauce. Man
serious, you put you eat madwich? No? I don't eat manwiched now,
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but we did eat it back inthe eighties, but we didn't use
man wich. We used ketchup mustard, pickle relish. You made your own
man. Okay, I've never heardof manwich before. Have you ever had
a sloppy Joe sandwich? Not growingup? But when when I came to
the US, was the first timeI had slu which I love, love
slap peach. You've had manwich,you've had manwich then? Probably? Yeah,
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we can. It was all likehomemade on whatever. So you make
the hamburger, yeah, just canslappy it's manwich, sloppy Joe man.
And the cheese you put on thatlike when you grond it was it like
a really bad for your craft,Like there's no cheese Joe? Yeah,
yeah there is. That's not asloppy Joe because the cheese keeps it neat,
so it's not It's just it's justa joe. Is that real thing?
(04:12):
You guys? That's just an eatingover the sink. Welcome to the
sink, JP. That's just kindof what we Yeah, because I've been
I've been hoodwinked. If that's areal thing, because the last thirty years
i've been in the US, Icalled him sloppy Joe. I'm gonna make
it a thing. If you putcheese on a sloppy Joe, it's just
a joke because it's not sloppy.I would agree with you for that.
Right, makes a ton of senseto me. Are you paying attention to
the topic? But it was,I'm talking about cheese and the sloppy Joe.
(04:36):
I honestly thought about leaving. Soyou've had a sloppy Joe, of
course, without without cheese. IfI if you asked me if I had
a sloppy Joe and the thing thatI ate had cheese on it, I
would answer, no, that's nota sloppy Joe anymore. That's just a
well, I don't know what itis, Joe. We just made it.
It's upsetting. So what what fooddid you did mom make? Growing
(04:59):
up? Uh? My mother,God rest her soul. Was not the
greatest chef on planet Earth. Theone thing she made that I loved,
which you'll you'll laugh at, ismacaroni salad. And there's nothing, there's
nothing complicated about. I'd watch hermake it. She'd make the noodles like
the elbow elbow noodles, macaroni noodles, Yeah, okay, macaroni Yeah,
(05:23):
anyway, see what it's like,See what we do every season with this
guy. I'm better off behind thebench. So she it's just you know,
and she puts some like celery andonion and egg and mayonnaise in it,
and she'd mix up. I don't. I don't know the proportions because
I don't have the recipe, butI've never been able to find anything like
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it. It couldn't be more basic, but it's my favorite food as a
kid. Do you make it now? No? I can't make it now.
Yeah, my sister can get prettyclose. But not a lot of
people don't put the egg in themacaroni salad. I think that's old school.
That's what that's like. Do youdo you don't do? That's well
documented. I do like that.I like to tell your salad, macaroni
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salad, you go up the eggand the crushed out. A lot of
if you buy it anywhere, there'snever egg in the macaroni cell. Yeah,
right, you have to have it. Maybe that was a secret.
Was it? Was it super creamy? I only say that because I really
don't like with macaroni, salad,Coleslaw, past the salad whatever in general,
Like, I don't like it supercreamy, like super mayonnaise. It's
(06:27):
gotta be I'll ask them to likedig into the bottom or whatever. Coleslaw
the restaurants, I want creamy onmy salad sidebar Coleslaw, vinegar or Mayo
based the room and split or Mayo. Yeah, you guys are vinegar obviously,
so that's probably the only place youhave Mayo versus Miracle Whip. Then
(06:47):
if I was he's making the switchto Mayo, that's it's it's hard.
Is there a twelve step program forthat? Hi? I'm Andy. I
like Miracle Whip? Hi and meand I like for scene whatever? All
right, GP the Brett. Thishas got to be good. Growing up
(07:08):
in the Worcestershire, England, theshire. Yeah, what did you have
growing up? Was it like haggisbread pudding? Like boiled vegetables? You
know, well, that's not weird. It's like Brussels sprouts. Like today,
I cannot eat Brussels sprouts because mymum would take massive Brussels spouts and
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just boil them into this soggy messof grossness. It's different. It was
different back then, that's right.Like I wasn't leaving the table until everything
on it. It wasn't like todaywhen our kids freaking decide what they want
to eat and all that rubbish,Like I want leaving the table. So
if I had four soggy big Brusselssprouts on my plate, I was eating
them. So I would cut inhalf and I would just put them in
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a mouth hole and swallow. Iwouldn't even chew. Every time I would,
I would, I would, Iwould gag. Now on the flip
side of that, something my bloomsabout to go right now, something my
mum made really good was was abacon butty, A bacon butty bake bacon
butty? Can you put buddy beyou d d? Why? All right?
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So this is bacon, but we'llgive a little allowances from Pittsburgh butty
butty b you t t y correct, which is a slang term for a
sandwich to two white pieces of bread, fluffy pieces of bread with copious amounts
of bacon in it and just butterbacon bacon behind bacon butty. Now,
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English bacon's different from American bacon,doesn't matter. It's fried fatty meat.
The bread toasted, notast generally notfluffy bad. It's fluffy generally not because
then if you toast it, itputs a little barrier. So the fat
from the bacon did like soak intothe bread, like like you just push
it down, a little squash onthe bread. I swear to God,
I could eat a hundred of them. Bacon butty, bacon butty. Try
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it, folks, bacon butty.Do you guys ever have taco salad?
Yes, my mom still makes that. Does she make it with Catalina dressing?
Yes, French, not Catalina.But is this is that the same
thing? No, Catalina is moreof a sweet. It is sweet.
It's a different color too, It'slike a darker red. So my mom
would make taco salad, this isagain this is the eighties, and she
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would use Catalina dressing with it.Was she put the dressing in the salad
and corn beans, lettuce, whichI'm okay with all of that, but
then the Catalina dressing just ruined it. I honestly just got freaking acid reflux
by from the fro. What's thedifference between that and a tacos? A
salad? There's no shell. There'sno shell. No, I understand that,
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but why would that give you?It's the same thing dress, Catalina
dress, Helena dressing, all theother ones. But I never thought to
put it in a taco cell Ilove taco salad, and I would eat
I would eat that. I'm nota fan of a Catalina dress. I'm
gonna roll the dice. Are youkin, Lena is not a Mexican dressing,
right, I don't think so.Why would you put it in a
Mexican It's a great question, askedmy mom. I'm scaredy mom, you're
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scared of my wife? Oh,Detroit, I got one more quick dish
my mom made. Well. Yeah, so everybody knows Johnny Marsetti, right,
So we didn't call it Johnny Marsetti. We called it macaronie junkies.
My mom said, he we havea macaroni junk basically, big pot macaronie
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noodles, red sauce, meat,cook it, stir it up, and
we eat it for like three daysbecause it's a big pot, so cheap,
fast past meat, sauce meat.Are you describing spaghetti? What is
it? What's it called? Wecalled it macaronie junk. But but it's
Johnny Marsette, Johnny Mozette. You'venever heard that term? Yeah, cousin
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of Sluppy Joe. Is it is'Johnny Marzetti. Isn't layered though, is
it? Like? Yeah, soit's a little different, but this is
basically the same. You've never hadthat brand? I don't. I've never
heard that term. Would you have? And what'd you have? Well?
My mother, my mother in law, is a great cook. So she
could make anything progies like a coupleof Italian family. Yeah, so that's
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where I got my my extra weight. We'll call it from fly nervous laughter.
So what was the so? Whatwas one of the meals that was
so bad that your mom cooked?Do you remember anyhow? So I have
I have a story. I don'tremember how. I was maybe eleven or
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twelve, and we like dinner timein my house. It wasn't a big
deal. Sometimes we eat together.Sometimes you wouldn't just it wasn't a big
deal. Then it's not a bigmeal. Now, so my mom makes
this uhs, I mean literally noneof its homemade. It was Stoers mac
and cheese and salisberry steak. Allright, and we had the garage freeze
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everybody has. I mean, thisstuff was probably in there since the nineteen
seven. I didn't see the box. But she makes it and we're all
we're all sitting there eating it andit's awful, and it's freezer burned.
It tastes awful, and we're alljust we're all just kind of laughing,
but we don't. None of uswant to be rude. And my dad
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he gets up and he he goes. I have never eaten shit before.
But if I did that, ifyou look at me, you probably know.
I don't work out a lot.I try to walk if I can,
you know, get a little sweatgoing, maybe modlawn. So I
have now resorted to getting my workoutsnaturally. So when I go up and
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down the stairs, it's my minimicro workout. So I'll like hustle up
a stairs and like skip as manysteps as I can, and my wife
is like, you're gonna break yourass one of these days going up the
steps. I'll just fly up.We have one of those where it's like
two tears, you go up andthen landing up. So I'll like skip
a couple of steps, turn skipup a couple of steps, get what
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I needed, and then fly downstairsand they go. That's my workout for
the day. Do you guys skipsteps or do you just go up one
step at a time. I don'tskip steps at home, like I'll hit
every step. But like if I'mlike coming upstairs here in the office build,
I always do two at a time. But at home, I never
do that. So you do thatat home every step I can get,
every chance I can get on.I think that's a song, every step
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by take. Yeah, do youskip steps stops? No, No count
them. You gotta touch them all. I touch them all. Yeah.
Yeah, we've talked about counting steps. You now do that? Gp?
Well, well, hold on,there is a breakthrough. I did have
a breakthrough. I did not countsteps. But when I'm watering my flowers
around my house, I count thenumber of loops when I put the hose
back, so you know exactly thenumber of loops. It takes twenty seven
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twenty seven and one hundred foot gardenhose. And is the other thing like
if if I get like if it'stwenty six or twenty three or twenty five
or whatever, it's not twenty seven, Like I'll make sure it's twenty seven
when I got back, when Iput it back on the Holday. Yeah,
so you guys got me into it. Walking steps not in my vocabulary,
so you don't have to, Soyou don't. You don't skip steps
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going up? No, No,are in no hurry to get up the
stairs or down. So you justtake your time. You're not like a
quick step or where you like youkind of like it's not something I think
about. Sometimes coming down the steps, I'll go a little faster. I
get all. That's cool to Nusha. Yeah, that's why we're talking about
it, because this is not somethingpeople think about. Bloom. Do you
skip steps when you go up?Not usually I'll hit every step, but
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I will quick step it to maintainmy foot speed. Yeah. Right,
that's part of my training regimen.That's exactly what I'm saying. It's like
it helps you kind of keep thelegs engaged. Right. Yeah. Do
you quick step going down? No? I he slow rolls. Yeah.
I The last thing I want todo is fall down a bunch of stairs.
However, I will share this withyou, so work. So I
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park on the third floor of ourparking garage, and are you back in
the parking spot. No, Iguess I'm a jerk. So I pull
on normal and I get out andwalk behind my vehicle like you're supposed to
be, like the parking lot wasdesigned to do right. And I'm on
the third floor, so you know, the first I don't know however many
it is six flights or normal flightsof stairs, but the last a little
bit, it's like a half flight. It's like six steps. Once every
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two or three months, I'll justjump down them to see if I still
got it. And one of thesedays I will find out I do not
still got it. It hasn't happenedyet, yeah, I mean it's getting
closer. Like I'll stand there liketoday the day. Can you tell in
your house who's going up and downthe stairs by the way that they go
their patterns, Like kids usually kindof gallop down. They'll like do like
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like chunk down, like I knowthat's that's my youngest coming down the steps
because it's just like flopping down.And my wife is just you know,
little tiptoe. My wife sneaks downthe stairs. You don't even know she's
she's coming to kill you exactly startstoday. Yeah, yeah, maybe not
your current house, but in previoushouses. If you had an old house,
you know, like what steps squeaks, So if you're upweight whatever,
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you know to avoid that area andthat one step, so you know,
you don't telegraph that you're coming upand down the stairs or is that just
me? You guys? I hadWe had basement stairs when I was a
kid that creaked, so my roomwas in the basement, so if I
want to come up and makes sensespeaking to the fridge. How do you
guys feel about handrails on stairs?Do you do? You use it in
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public places? The necessity? Yeah, I'm a look, not that I'm
a germaphobe at all, but Iget a little eked out about public hand
rails because you know, people aren'tgenerally. I mean, we've all been
in a restroom where the guy goesin, takes a number two and comes
just walk straight back out right likewe've seen people do that. It's got
a dump and go dump and goright like no washing liked. So I
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don't generally, I do not generallyuse a handrail, So coming down the
stairs, I'm a little bit morepragmatic and my well, you're more likely
to slip down the stairs because you'rea sot guy in the house. So
you're got socks, they're slippery onthe on the carpet. No, I
go, how shoes? Remember?Saw its stuffy? Stuffy? Howse shoes?
I got? How shoes? Yousee? How how put off?
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Eat this guy? Did you go? How shes? She's done? You?
I don't wear anything in the house. That's true. That's just nothing.
Yeah, that's been proven. Whatare you wearing that in the house.
I don't wear socks, that's forsure. But you have house shoes,
and I don't know how shoes areYou're you're a small guy. You're
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you're you're an attorney. Like theshoes that you wear in the house.
Like how shoes. I walk intomy house and I take my shoes off
the whole time. Socks come offimmediately, or not not immediately, but
they'll why no socks in the house, you take off, you come in
the house, you take off yourshoes. Then you immediately take off your
socks too. I come in,kick my shoes off in the garage to
come in totally take the uniform offwith the socks. They come off immediately.
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Socks part of the unif form.They are, because those the only
time I wear those kind of socksare with the Are they state issued socks?
They're not, but I wear themwith my state issued uniform. I
just wanted to make sure that mytax para money is not going to your
socks. No, okay, nosocks they're white like, No, they're
not white white black. We wereblack socks. So where do so?
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What part of the house do youcome in? Garage? So is there
a laundry room right there? No, So I choose off immediately. I'm
carrying my bag in my lunch bag. Come in, throw that in the
kitchen, straight up the stairs undressed. Okay, so you go up the
stairs with the socks on, andthen you take the socks off in the
bedroom. You don't like sock likeI'm not wearing socks today. I don't
wear socks unless I have to.I don't wear socks in the house.
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You wear a sock when you goto bed? No? Absolutely not,
definitely not. No, No,there's an answer to that question, answers.
No, what about your wives?They wear socks? Yes, my
wife will, especially in the winter. Well, I have dual fans running
at any given time, so shehas no choice. She also doubles up
on blankets. Okay, And youhave dual fans and your ceiling fans,
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that means too, I have aI have a ceiling fan, thanks office
Stell. I have a ceiling fan, and then I have my personal fan
next to my bed. That's exactlyora ceiling fan and a personal fan one
foot from my head. And thepersonal fan travels with me wherever I go.
I've seen it, Rath, No, this is this is groundbreaking.
I don't have I don't have thepersonal fan. I have a ceiling fan
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that's twenty four to seven three sixtyfive. Ye, but I don't have
another fan. Air blown on yourface. I have my I have my wife.
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