July 22, 2025 • 5 mins
“Would you dip Gulf shrimp in queso?”
That’s just one of the many deliciously absurd questions tackled in this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Texas pride, food fights, and culinary chaos collide.Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dive fork-first into the second round of Axios’ “Most Iconic Texas Food” bracket. From smoked brisket vs. fajitas to the shocking downfall of kolaches, this episode is a buffet of bold opinions, hilarious hot takes, and mouthwatering matchups.
That’s just one of the many deliciously absurd questions tackled in this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Texas pride, food fights, and culinary chaos collide.Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dive fork-first into the second round of Axios’ “Most Iconic Texas Food” bracket. From smoked brisket vs. fajitas to the shocking downfall of kolaches, this episode is a buffet of bold opinions, hilarious hot takes, and mouthwatering matchups.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, obviously sad day in the world of rock Ozzy
(00:02):
Osbourne has passed away. We'll get into that coming up
at five point fifteen, a deeper dive into that, so
stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
But right now it's time for this. It's time.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yesterday we discussed this Axios the publication surveyed a bunch
of readers out of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio
to conduct this most Iconic food bracket. I put a
post up at ninety seven one The Eagle on Instagram
and TikTok it's at the Eagle Dallas on Twitter. You
can see that if you'd like. We voted on it.
(00:43):
But then they actually have tallied the votes and we've
moved on to a round two. With a score of
seventy six percent, smoked brisket took down Chicken fried Steak
to move in around two. Wow. They will now take
on Fahitas, who, with the score of sixty one one
percent took down Texas Chili. So smoked brisket versus fajitas,
(01:07):
what a classic battle.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm gonna go with Brisket.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Had some brisket today from Tender Smokehouse Insulina.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's it's magical. You had good brisket. I'm gonna go
with brisket.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everyone, What about brisket fijitas?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, should be a thing, it would be. It should
be a thing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm going brisket too.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Wouldn't that kind of be barbicoa kind of yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well we're uh, we're getting there, brisket moving on?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You get there. Yeah, I'll go with brisket.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh, no offense to fias, but you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's you know, as you get closer to the end,
it gets tougher. I mean, yeah, matchups, Yeah, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The confusing one? Yesterday? Golf shrimp at fifty nine percent
beats King Ranch cast Roles, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I mean, that's what a weird matchup.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't I've never heard anyone say, wait, are these
shrimp from the golf?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are these golf shrimp? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No one ever says that they're trying to make They're
trying to make that more Texas than it is.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, for sure, But.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm telling you I am.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And then King Castrole.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What I think that's of that? I think that's a
classic eight nine matchup?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is that for your Austin Houston and San Antonio readers,
I'm wondering the King Ranch Castro.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I've heard of King Ranch Castrole. I know I've had it.
I remember that it had little stuff on top of it,
but I couldn't remember exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Queeso seventy four percent defeats Freedo pie as it should,
leaving us golf shrimp versus caso. Do we even have
to ask no? No, but dipping the shrimp caso gosh.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I had a girl yes, especially if it was fried
gold shrimp.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It'd be weird.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Breakfast tacos took down migas really eighty percent to.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Twenty percent, not even close.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Tomali's dunked on barbacoa sixty five percent. Bring yes breakfast
tacos versus to Molly's.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now I'm a complicated figure here because breakfast tacos for
me can't have egg in them. They just force egg
in it. Like everyone likes egg just as much as
they like bacon, sausage and potato. It's very confusing to me.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Sounds like you're eating a taco you like a double potato,
just like you like wearing denim underwearing denim jeans. No
baked potato sausage, cheese, toato potato, baked potato sprowns, and
potato tots.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah. Well, I would prefer my potatoes to be used
as the softener more than the egg. It's a softener
because they don't eat eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I like eggs.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, well, I'm pretty egg neutral. Honestly, you got to
be in the mood for eggs. I get that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh you're agnostic.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm pretty agnostic, and I'll allow it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Thank you God.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know you don't do this often. But that's one
where I'm a little bit I wish would have thought
of that one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Uh. By the way, breakfast taco is over to Molly's.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Really yep, I'll say that too, as long as there's.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do you want to you want to dispute that krig?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I'm going to Mally's because a good Tomali to me
is way better than a breakfast taco.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But I would also contend that of all Tomali's, only
twenty percent of them are good Tomali's.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Okay, I get good Tomalw's on the rag. Uh fifty
five percent win for cobbler over Texas sheet cake.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Incredible? I mean I've never heard of Texas sheet cake.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And what was seen as the highlight around one the
closest battle that went down to the wire, but a
buzzer beater for the super nut pecan Pie fifty over
kalachis wowing matchup to a cobbler pecan pie round two matchup.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's incredible. I suspect pecan pile win. But I'm a
cobbler guy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So he's voting cobbler.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm voting I'm a cobbler guy and a pecan pie guy.
Oh what you would you do? A guy? Would you
do a double bite? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
This is like Christina's gold shrimp QESO thing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right, gold shrimp? Who says Gulf shrimp? Would you do?
Would you be willing to do a pac cobbler?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That was my nickname, the cobbler. I don't remember when
they call you that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Uh, Pat con pie for me? Yeah, con pie for
me as well? To one and he had a half vote,
so two and a half for Bible advance on our brackeat.
So they have the final four tomorrow and it's kind
of up to us if we want to keep it
going or not. Yes, it feels like a layup of contents.
Let not finished the job tomorrow, thank you Axios.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right, coming up next to the Today Game, followed
by the most important job Skills right now, followed by
the passing of a rock icon, Ozzie Smith. Ozzie Smith,
Ozzy Osbourne is no longer with us, so uh, we'll
get into that. Ozzie passes at five point fifteen.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Don't miss that.
Well, obviously sad day in the world of rock Ozzy
(00:02):
Osbourne has passed away. We'll get into that coming up
at five point fifteen, a deeper dive into that, so
stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
But right now it's time for this. It's time.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yesterday we discussed this Axios the publication surveyed a bunch
of readers out of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio
to conduct this most Iconic food bracket. I put a
post up at ninety seven one The Eagle on Instagram
and TikTok it's at the Eagle Dallas on Twitter. You
can see that if you'd like. We voted on it.
(00:43):
But then they actually have tallied the votes and we've
moved on to a round two. With a score of
seventy six percent, smoked brisket took down Chicken fried Steak
to move in around two. Wow. They will now take
on Fahitas, who, with the score of sixty one one
percent took down Texas Chili. So smoked brisket versus fajitas,
(01:07):
what a classic battle.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm gonna go with Brisket.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Had some brisket today from Tender Smokehouse Insulina.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's it's magical. You had good brisket. I'm gonna go
with brisket.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everyone, What about brisket fijitas?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, should be a thing, it would be. It should
be a thing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm going brisket too.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Wouldn't that kind of be barbicoa kind of yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well we're uh, we're getting there, brisket moving on?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You get there. Yeah, I'll go with brisket.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh, no offense to fias, but you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's you know, as you get closer to the end,
it gets tougher. I mean, yeah, matchups, Yeah, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The confusing one? Yesterday? Golf shrimp at fifty nine percent
beats King Ranch cast Roles, and.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I mean, that's what a weird matchup.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't I've never heard anyone say, wait, are these
shrimp from the golf?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are these golf shrimp? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No one ever says that they're trying to make They're
trying to make that more Texas than it is.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, for sure, But.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm telling you I am.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And then King Castrole.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What I think that's of that? I think that's a
classic eight nine matchup?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is that for your Austin Houston and San Antonio readers,
I'm wondering the King Ranch Castro.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I've heard of King Ranch Castrole. I know I've had it.
I remember that it had little stuff on top of it,
but I couldn't remember exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Queeso seventy four percent defeats Freedo pie as it should,
leaving us golf shrimp versus caso. Do we even have
to ask no? No, but dipping the shrimp caso gosh.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I had a girl yes, especially if it was fried
gold shrimp.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It'd be weird.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Breakfast tacos took down migas really eighty percent to.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Twenty percent, not even close.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Tomali's dunked on barbacoa sixty five percent. Bring yes breakfast
tacos versus to Molly's.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Now I'm a complicated figure here because breakfast tacos for
me can't have egg in them. They just force egg
in it. Like everyone likes egg just as much as
they like bacon, sausage and potato. It's very confusing to me.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Sounds like you're eating a taco you like a double potato,
just like you like wearing denim underwearing denim jeans. No
baked potato sausage, cheese, toato potato, baked potato sprowns, and
potato tots.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah. Well, I would prefer my potatoes to be used
as the softener more than the egg. It's a softener
because they don't eat eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I like eggs.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, well, I'm pretty egg neutral. Honestly, you got to
be in the mood for eggs. I get that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh you're agnostic.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm pretty agnostic, and I'll allow it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Thank you God.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know you don't do this often. But that's one
where I'm a little bit I wish would have thought
of that one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Uh. By the way, breakfast taco is over to Molly's.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Really yep, I'll say that too, as long as there's.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do you want to you want to dispute that krig?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I'm going to Mally's because a good Tomali to me
is way better than a breakfast taco.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But I would also contend that of all Tomali's, only
twenty percent of them are good Tomali's.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Okay, I get good Tomalw's on the rag. Uh fifty
five percent win for cobbler over Texas sheet cake.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Incredible? I mean I've never heard of Texas sheet cake.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And what was seen as the highlight around one the
closest battle that went down to the wire, but a
buzzer beater for the super nut pecan Pie fifty over
kalachis wowing matchup to a cobbler pecan pie round two matchup.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's incredible. I suspect pecan pile win. But I'm a
cobbler guy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So he's voting cobbler.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm voting I'm a cobbler guy and a pecan pie guy.
Oh what you would you do? A guy? Would you
do a double bite? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
This is like Christina's gold shrimp QESO thing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right, gold shrimp? Who says Gulf shrimp? Would you do?
Would you be willing to do a pac cobbler?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That was my nickname, the cobbler. I don't remember when
they call you that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Uh, Pat con pie for me? Yeah, con pie for
me as well? To one and he had a half vote,
so two and a half for Bible advance on our brackeat.
So they have the final four tomorrow and it's kind
of up to us if we want to keep it
going or not. Yes, it feels like a layup of contents.
Let not finished the job tomorrow, thank you Axios.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right, coming up next to the Today Game, followed
by the most important job Skills right now, followed by
the passing of a rock icon, Ozzie Smith. Ozzie Smith,
Ozzy Osbourne is no longer with us, so uh, we'll
get into that. Ozzie passes at five point fifteen.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Don't miss that.
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