Double Dusted with Harley Morenstein

Double Dusted with Harley Morenstein

Double Dusted is a food comedy podcast that serves up candid and unfiltered takes on the culinary world and beyond. In a world where customers go off on fast food employees for missing condiments and TikTok kids eat NyQuil chicken, host Harley Morenstein, aka the Sauce Boss and co-creator of Epic Meal Time, is a voice of reason for the people. Join us every Monday for your dad’s favorite podcast. For advertising opportunities please email: PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy

Episodes

Why Pizza Hut Got Sued for $1 Billion Over Stuffed Crust #187

August 31, 2026 • 81 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch are joined by Chef Atari to autopsy the most litigated crust in history. In 1987, Brooklyn cheesemaker Anthony "The Big Cheese" Mongiello patented stuffing the crust of a pizza with cheese and mailed it to Pizza Hut, who told him it was not a new concept. Seven years later, Pizza Hut launched Stuffed Crust with $45 million in ads and a Donald Trump commercial, and Mongiello sued for a billion dollars...
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How Big Food Engineered the Perfect Taste #186

August 17, 2026 • 72 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch go deep on stomach share and the Bliss Point. Lynch breaks down how a Harvard psychophysicist fixing army rations discovered the curve that maps exactly what tastes best, and what happened when the packaged food business got hold of it: 3,904 taste tests to build one Dr Pepper, a spaghetti sauce study that found three kinds of Americans, and $6,500 quietly paid to Harvard researchers in 1965 to point...
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Why Pepsi Won't Admit SoBe Is Dead #185

August 10, 2026 • 54 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch autopsy SoBe, the ghost brand nobody officially killed. The boys trace it from John Bello, Tom Schwam, and Kevin McGovern launching the South Beach Beverage Company in 1995, through the flop first shipment that had Bello putting his house up as collateral, to the ginseng and guarana pivot that made the lizard a gas station king. Then Coke backs out of a deal only for Pepsi to swoop in with a reported...
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How Pizza Humbled the Fastest Restaurant on Earth #184

August 3, 2026 • 56 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch go deep on the McPizza: McDonald's decade-long war to win dinner from Pizza Hut. The boys trace it from the 1985 pizza-pocket prototype to the 145 pepperoni taste tests, the $950,000 custom rapid-cook ovens that still needed 11 minutes to serve a pie, the widened drive-thrus, the Howie Mandel commercials, and the full-size pies served on metal racks across Canada. Then the long death: 500 stores shri...
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How Sizzler Went From Buffet Court to Bankruptcy Court #183

July 20, 2026 • 62 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch autopsy Sizzler: the California steakhouse that sold a 99-cent steak dinner in 1958, grew to 733 restaurants, then invented an all-you-can-eat buffet court that swallowed the whole company. The boys break down the legendary 1991 "Choice of America" corporate video, the Sunday night in June 1996 when Sizzler closed 130 restaurants and cut 4,600 jobs before lunch, the E. coli outbreak that started at a...
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How Denny's Killed the 3 AM Grand Slam #182

July 13, 2026 • 68 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch perform the autopsy on Denny's and the death of Always Open. The guys break down how a donut shop and someone's last $50 became America's 24-hour diner, the Christmas in 1988 when Denny's had to buy 700 locks because the doors had never closed, and the one October earnings call that killed 150 restaurants, half the menu, and the 24/7 rule before the whole thing sold for $620M to the owners of TGI Fri...
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How the Soda with Balls (Orbitz) Died in One Year #181

July 6, 2026 • 57 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down the hit 1991 soda Orbitz, Clearly Canadian's soda with balls: a drink so futuristic it had suspended orbs, a dedicated website, and every flavor except a good one. The boys cover the $155 million company that gambled on science and on balls in a bottle, the 85% sales faceplant, why the whole thing was secretly boba tea arriving a decade early, and the one flavor crime that Harley never for...
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How the Coolest Drink in America Became a $1.4 Billion Mistake #180

June 29, 2026 • 52 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down how the coolest drink in America became the most expensive bottle of iced tea in business history. The boys trace Snapple from a Brooklyn health food store to a glass-bottle, fact-under-the-cap phenomenon, the private-equity operator who bought 70% for $140 million and walked away with $900 million, and Quaker Oats outbidding Coca-Cola to pay $1.7 billion at the absolute peak. Then comes t...
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How Endless Shrimp Sank Red Lobster #179

June 22, 2026 • 55 mins
This week, Harley, Donnie, and Big Lynch break down how a $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal exposed the cracks in a 56-year-old icon and dragged Red Lobster into bankruptcy court. The boys trace it from founder Bill Darden to the $2.1 billion private-equity sale to Golden Gate, the sale-leaseback that gave away the land out from under the restaurants, and Thai Union, the shrimp supplier that also owned the company and allegedly steer...
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How Subway’s $5 Footlong Became a Billion-Dollar Nightmare #178

June 15, 2026 • 96 mins
This week, Harley, Donnie, and Big Lynch break down how a single Subway franchisee accidentally invented the most famous deal in fast food history,  and how that same $5 sandwich nearly broke the empire that sold it. The boys trace the footlong from a slow weekend at a Miami hospital Subway to a 27,000-store juggernaut, the jingle that's still stuck in your head, the $3.8 billion it raked in, the franchisee revolt over a price...
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How Tim Hortons Lost Canada (Then Tried to Buy It Back) #177

June 8, 2026 • 50 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down how Tim Hortons went from owning Canada (eight out of ten cups of coffee, double-doubles, Timbits, Roll Up the Rim) to getting branded anti-Canadian. The guys get into the hockey-player founder, the 2014 sale to the Burger King owners in Brazil, the "always fresh" par-bake reality, the franchise squeeze, and the temporary foreign worker firestorm that dragged Tims into Canada's youth unemp...
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How Wendy's Lost the Beef and 50% of Their Stock #176

June 1, 2026 • 73 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down how Wendy's spent decades trying to replace Dave Thomas and ended up posting their worst quarter in 20 years, with the stock down 50%, 600 stores closing, and CEO Kirk Tanner bailing to run a chocolate company. Big Lynch delivers a full PREsentation on the rise of Wendy's, Dave Thomas, the high-school dropout and Colonel Sanders protégé who founded the chain in 1969, the 1984 "Where's the ...
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Why McDonald's Was Sorry for Selling 100 Million Happy Meals #175

May 25, 2026 • 72 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down how McDonald's accidentally caused the biggest fast food promotion disaster in history: selling 100 million Happy Meals in 10 days during the 1997 Teenie Beanie Baby craze and having to publicly apologize for it. Big Lynch delivers a full PREsentation on the history of the happy meal, the $1 billion 1996 Disney exclusive deal that nuked the toy arms race, and cover some of the other great ...
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How Pizza Hut Abandoned the Red Roof and Lost Its Soul #174

May 18, 2026 • 81 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down the slow death of Pizza Hut and why Yum! Brands is now trying to offload them for $3.5 billion. Big Lynch delivers a full PREsentation on how a $600 loan from the Carney brothers' mom in 1958 turned into the world's #1 pizza chain before losing to Dominos. The boys reminisce about pebbled red cups, Tiffany lamps, X-Men VHS giveaways, Pizza Pete, the salad bar, the dessert pizza buffet, and...
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How Quiznos Lost 90% of Their Empire in 10 Years #173

May 11, 2026 • 76 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down the worst collapse in fast food history, Quiznos. From 4,700 stores at the 2007 peak down to 200 today, the boys unpack the Spongmonkey mascot disaster, the toaster ad nobody asked for, the senior VP sting, and the corporate "trap" that nickel-and-dimed franchisees out of business. Big Lynch delivers a full presentation, with Donnie listening from a canoe somewhere. Plus: meet Sardar "Big ...
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They Spent $200M to Invent This Chip. It Ruined Lives. #172

May 4, 2026 • 77 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch let YouTube's AI pick the episode and dig into the $200 million chip disaster that gave America diarrhea. The boys break down Olestra, the Wow! chip launch of '98, and why "may cause anal leakage" was just printed on the bag like it was a nutrition fact. Then it's an update on Brian Niccol's $100M year at Starbucks, McDonald's launching dirty sodas with no fresh limes in sight, and the 17g protein me...
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Why MLB Made A Nacho Sombrero #171

April 27, 2026 • 75 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch break down how MLB concessions became an all-out arms race for your wallet in 2026. $45 hot dog, a wearable nacho sombrero, and a 24-inch quesadilla that comes in a custom carrying case. Big Lynch created The Belly Index™, the official Double Dusted ratings system for absurd ballpark food. The guys go deep on Aramark and Levy, the concessions companies nobody's heard of who are actually behind all th...
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How Doritos Lost $50 Billion #170

April 20, 2026 • 94 mins
This week, Harley and Big Lynch hold it down without Donnie as PepsiCo erases $50 billion in market value trying to charge $7 a bag for Doritos. Lynch crowns Kevin Hockman the next $100 million man as Chili's surpasses Olive Garden for #2 casual dining in America. The boys break down Denny's launching Project Grand Slam, Hershey's US president dipping after just 14 months of wobbly chocolate and Mr. Beast pressure, Reese's actually...
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The Massive New $45 Billion Flavor Empire #168

April 6, 2026 • 88 mins
This week, Harley, Donnie, and Big Lynch watch a man inhale a full KFC biscuit in one frame, debate the $45 billion McCormick x Unilever acquisition, and Lynch gets clowned after falling for an April Fools' prank. The boys get into Frank's Red Hot vs Cholula, Lynch debuts the Alpine Food Review eating a frozen Snickers on the mountain, Harley calls his mom to settle who grew up richer, mushroom trip stories, Pop-Tarts Super Stuffed...
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Investigating the Chip Liquefaction Profile #167

March 30, 2026 • 68 mins
This week, Harley, Donnie, and Big Lynch react to the viral wobbly Hershey's chocolate video and debate cocoa content in gas station chocolate bars. Lynch debuts a new segment where he weighs chips to verify the grams on the bag, then describes the "liquefaction profile" of how chips dissolve in your mouth. The boys get into influencers heading to Cuba on a flotilla, Donnie's high school knife arrest story, Kraft Power Mac (17g pro...
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