January 21, 2025 • 27 mins
The episode reveals the interplay between white privilege and food experiences, discussing how cultural expectations shape dining practices in various countries. By sharing personal anecdotes and reflections, the hosts explore the influences of privilege and identity on culinary adventures, prompting listeners to consider their own experiences abroad.
• Exploring the meeting of two generations' perspectives
• Sharing travelers' stories that illuminate cultural experiences
• Discussing the concept of white privilege and its implications
• Highlighting the differences in culinary customs across cultures
• Examining American dining etiquette versus international standards
• Unpacking food portion sizes and societal norms
• Recognizing the connection between entitlement and food experiences
• Encouraging listener engagement to share personal food journeys
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Two Generations, One Mic.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
My name is Andreina, aka Andy, and I am a 20, no,
it's not 20, listen to me, I'm36 years old.
You wish, I wish.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I wish.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Shut up.
I'm 36 years old and I am aninternational beauty business
owner, and this one here is mytrophy husband.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, participation trophy at this point.
But I'm actually 61 years old.
That's henceforth the twogenerations.
So I'm right there, I'm babyboomer, exactly on the year
between baby boomer and exYou're a baby boomer.
Yeah, so I'm right there.
So we have differentperspectives for different
generations.
If you just started watchingthis, please like, subscribe,
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as we can.
If you want to hate, that'sfine too.
We just want the interactionand Don't hate, don't, hate,
don't hate.
We'll see where we go from there.
And we just did this because wetravel so much, we do so many
things.
We have a lot of followers onsocial media and people always
(01:13):
say oh, we like following youbecause of your.
They said we live vicariouslythrough you Because we have the
international beauty businesses.
We live in the US and also inEurope and we go back and forth
every couple of months.
We travel all over the world alot of Europe, asia, everywhere
and so we get to do some reallycool stuff and travel a lot of
(01:34):
cool places.
So friends always say we livevicariously through you.
So keep it up, and we'd love tohear more about what you do,
what you encounter, butapparently a lot of that
encountering doesn't sit wellwith you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, it's because you, my man, well, you're white,
of course, and an American, andyou grew up in a time and I
mean it still happens nowadaysbut you have white privilege
which, when I married you, Istarted having it.
(02:05):
Well, no, I rephrase that whenI got my American passport I
started having that rightBecause I am a citizen of the
world, as you know, I am Mexican, spanish, italian and now an
American, proud American.
I will say, and I don't knowhow to explain it to you, like
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you, quite, privileged is athing, but you guys don't
realize it and I'm not saying, Imean, I'm a very light colored
Latin person, right, and youdon't realize it that the color
of your skin influence indifferent, influences in
different, how you say, likeactivities or like perceptions
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from other people.
And then if that doesn't, ifthat doesn't suit with you, then
you get mad, like the time wewere in Spain and the guard at
the door asked you to look atyour shopping bag and you were
outraged by that.
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do I look like I'm stealing stuff from your store?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They don't know that there's a lot.
Hey, they don't know that, likethey don't know that, but that
has never happened to you herein the US.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, why?
Well, like you said, I thinkthat it is.
While I acknowledge there is alot of white privilege,
especially culturally and howmarginalized communities get
treated in America, versus howwhite people get treated, you do
get a certain amount of justprivilege that comes your way
and the perceptions that peoplehave of you, that people have of
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you.
But even also there, it wasn'tjust the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Look at the reverse Myself or my daughter, tiffany,
who is a lot more blonde than Iam she had prepped with you for
an hour over all the questionsthey might ask Because she was
coming to Spain to visit us byherself and usually you have to
have an invite letter if you goto visit your family that we are
responsible for her in case shemisbehaves or whatever.
You have to have like an inviteletter from if you go to visit
your family Right.
(04:05):
That we are responsible for herin case she misbehaves or
whatever.
So we had this whole thingplanned right.
Like you're here to visit somefriends and you guys are going
to go touring through Europe.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And primarily because when you go to Europe or any
country there Spain is nodifferent is you have to say
well, here's where I'm staying.
Right, here's my hotel, right.
When you don't put a hotel theywant to know, well then, how
are you here?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And they want to make sure, like in the US, they want
to make sure you're not stayingthere forever.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Right, so that's why that came up.
But you and my daughter sit andpracticed for an hour about
every perceivable question thatcould come up, what they would
be asking you, and here's yourresponse, so that you don't get
asked more and you're not goingto have an issue.
And what did they ask her?
Nothing, nothing.
They were like hello, blondegirl with American money,
welcome to our country.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I know they saw her passport and I was like, okay,
welcome.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was it.
Didn't ask her one single thing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That is true, but that also, like, gives you some
kind of entitlement.
Like I think we're talkinganother episode about that Like
when we go places and they don'thave the English menu, right,
like you get upset.
And I know you get upsetbecause like how dare they not
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cater to you, mr White, americanboy?
Like they don't have to caterto you, like they don't have to,
and you do get upset about that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't get upset as much as again.
I said this before.
I think that it's a missedopportunity for them and now
I've been in Spain for six years, I can read Spanish menus, it's
not a problem.
Now there'll be some thingslike, okay, what the heck is
this?
And then you've even looked atit and go.
I don't even know what that is.
But I have no problem with thatand I don't expect it anymore.
(05:56):
It's nice if they do and I thinkif they're missing a business
opportunity if they don't,because not just Americans, but
also UK, uk visitors that spenda lot of money as tourists in
that country.
So I do see that.
But here and I did notice thatwhen because we've been
traveling the whole time we'vebeen married for 10 years, been
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together for 12.
And I did notice that as, likeevery time we're going through
and we both have, because wetravel so much, we both have the
global entry.
So we have the fast pass,everything, global entry,
everything.
And even with all that, shewould always get flagged to get
searched.
Every single time they wouldflag her, check her for
explosives, something would goon, what explosives would I have
?
I mean, they always check herfor stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They were yeah, that is true.
Before I got my Americanpassport, I was always flagged
for random searches.
I don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And you asked me.
You said well, hasn't thathappened to you?
I said, well, yes, once.
I think in the UK that's beenit.
Oh yeah.
Well, the UK is A lot ofsuspicious things there and a
lot of different people fromaround the world coming in from
countries that are notnecessarily always the most
friendliest countries to therest of the Western world,
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traveling through that airport,so they have to be very diligent
in what they're doing.
I understand it, I get it, butagain, maybe that's my white
privilege of like OK, Iunderstand, you just went
through this whole thing withthis Iranian guy or this guy
from Pakistan or whatever you'regoing through with you know,
here I am blonde-haired,blue-eyed boy.
Why are you asking me all thesame questions?
(07:32):
Because it doesn't reallymatter, right?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
and you get mad.
You get mad because they'requestioning you.
You're mad because they'remaking you count your liquids.
You're mad because they but andagain, again.
I don't blame you.
You grew up in a different time, Right, you grew up.
Your school was not verydiverse.
Right, you grew up anddiversity was of the topic.
(07:58):
Like what?
But even in restaurants, likewhen we go there and they don't
treat you well, like how, likeyou, I can tell you're mad about
it.
Like like when, when they're Idon't know.
I don't know how to explain it,but you feel like because it's
you, you, you deserve to betreated better than the rest.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't want to be treated better than the rest.
I don't want to be treatedbetter than the rest, I just
want to be treated nice and Imean, I think that's a natural
thing.
I'm going to frequentrestaurants that treat me nice.
I like.
It's no secret we don't.
We live a pretty uh, more upupper scale lifestyle.
You know we, we'reinternational business owners,
we have places in internationalcities.
(08:42):
We've lived in la and new york,and you know we, we're
international business owners,we have places in international
cities.
We've lived in la and new york,and you know, and we travel
around the world.
We travel at a different levelas a lot of people.
So I'm used to that.
So I don't.
You know we don't like it's not, it's not conceivable to us
that we're going to have.
Like it's not, we don't go toolive garden eat italian food
that's not our kind ofrestaurant, even when we're in
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Europe.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
like when we're in Europe, you're like you order a
piece of meat.
This is not US prime.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
No, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But see, you have a problem and you want your
American style.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I want my American prime steak if I'm paying money
for it.
Yes, If they don't have ketchup.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
that's sacrilege if they don't have ketchup Now
don't put those in the samesentence.
There's not a chance in hell.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm putting ketchup on steak.
She said that back to back likeI'm a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's a lunatic, but not for that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But no, I do like ketchup.
How many times on the flightsdo I steal the ketchup packets
from the lounge to put them inmy pocket, because they don't
have ketchup on?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
the airline flights You're stealing now.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, I take them from the lounge.
I'm not stealing, I take themfrom the lounge, that's not
stealing.
No, they're there to take.
Whether I eat them there or ona plane, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm going to have ketchup on my eggs on a plane
which they don't have on theairlines Salt and pepper, oh my
gosh.
Sometimes you ask, hey, do youhave salt and pepper?
And they don't.
And then you're like, becausethat's an American thing.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's not an American thing, it's a Western culture
thing.
They also have that in the UK,they have it in Germany, they
have it in France.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not in every table.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Not as much in the Latin countries do.
They have it Not in every table.
Well, they have to cater to youlike the way you.
It's not fresh if it doesn'thave all the crap on it.
And in America we like to eatclean food.
Like I don't like somebodystick me a plate of shrimp down.
I want my shrimp pretty andclean.
I don't mind paying more for it, but make it pretty.
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I want the lobster tail prettybroiled with some nice butter on
the side, like they do at everyhigh-end steakhouse.
I don't want to—here's thething Tear it all apart with
your hands.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I'm not eating like that countries.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's a form of showing you that the food is
fresh if I'm paying that muchmoney for the food, I'm assuming
it's fresh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's why I'm eating at that restaurant yeah, but
you don't know that, like maybehere in the us they just put it
clean and pretty because it wasnot generally not, or they don't
have the prime titles.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's the difference , again, of eating at a
mid-level american chainrestaurant or a high-end
american restaurant.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's hypocrisy, and you're on your end.
Well, not your end americanscent, because I mean, I'm an
american too, but I grew up likewelcome to some freedom I, I, I
grew up in different I mean ina different environment where to
me, like I mean I grew up in adifferent environment, where to
me, I grew up in Mexico City andto me the freshness comes from
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that, like the fish.
They'll show you the head, oryou see the chicken and it's
hanging.
I mean not with feathers oranything, but they're like this
is the fresh.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Here's a dead chicken .
Come on in and enjoy some food.
Where do you?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
think it comes from.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Feel free to set up your lawn chair so you can eat.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, but when you go to the chicken place to buy your
chicken breast to cook to thechickenery, let's say to the
polleria, the chickens arehanging dead, unfeathered.
Of course, but it just when Itook your daughter there down
there and she saw that shealmost passed out.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, it's the same thing that they do over there,
where they give me the fish withthe whole head.
Now, I don't want to see thefish, I want to see the head and
I want my stuff already clean,filleted, looking pretty.
I don't want to see it.
I don't want to look at a fishin the eye when I'm eating it
you guys just love everything sopretty and clean and and
everything's ready and yes, andI don't think that's why
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privilege.
I just think that's it's acultural thing that we like
stuff that's already prettyclean.
We don't mind paying a littlemore for it.
But we want clean, pretty,aesthet, aesthetically nice food
.
That doesn't mean I also don'tlike eating street tacos.
I'll eat that all day long.
We're going out of Mexico, I'llget street tacos.
I'm one of the few widows thatcan actually eat that street
tacos and not even get sick, andyou know that.
(13:13):
So it's like I can eat thatfood too.
But when I go to a nicerestaurant I want my food to be
clean.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, but you like it's not only about the
cleanness, it's and again, likeI think it's your American
showing when we go othercountries in the world where,
like I don't know, maybe a hostor a hostess when we come to the
place they just don't reallylike, like here in America, you
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know, like they're like oh,hello this, and like they kind
of vow to you.
And when we're over thereyou're just like they don't
treat you the same and you'relike I don't like it.
Or or when we go places likewhen we were in Tokyo and day
one you said I don't want anymore Japanese food, I want
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something more American, moreinternational.
I'm like we are in Japan.
This is not Japanese food, it'sjust food and it happens to us
everywhere we go, because youguys like your variety of.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We like different kinds of food and I think when I
said I wanted, I think we weretalking about the breakfast
buffet.
I wouldn't use Americans again.
We have foods that we considerto be breakfast foods and it's
pretty much a general staple ofyou know eggs, bacon, ham,
whatever oatmeal, cereals,breakfast-type foods.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh, or if the bacon is not American way, the
American bacon.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, no, that wasn't .
I'm not talking about the bait,you're talking about germany my
god, it was raw.
There's a difference betweenlike okay, I like it crispy or
something, but raw it was raw,it was just their bacon.
I'm not gonna eat raw bacon.
That's just that's raw.
So it's like I do like crispybut when it comes to that, but I
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think that I like otherpeople's foods and tokyo, that
was the best steak I've ever hadin my life.
That wagyu steak I had was thebest steak I ever had in my life
there was absolutely one daytwo.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You said I don't want any more japanese food no, I
don't mind.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I didn't want to just eat every single meal of
japanese food.
I wanted to try some differentthings there, you know yes, but
you're there.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You cannot try other things, it's tokyo.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It's the biggest city in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes, but 38 billion people eating in an italian
restaurant in tokyo.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That was a bad move.
That was awful.
Yeah, that was the equivalentof you know?
Oh, I don't even know what, butit was awful it was like saying
oh, I don't know like know.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Like spaghetti with ketchup.
That was horrible.
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That was a bad mistake.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's it.
That's when your American showsthat you guys are not.
But it was fun in Tokyo, youguys don't bend to accommodate
yourselves, to discover othercultures.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I discovered a lot of culture there in Tokyo when we
got really drunk in theafternoon and sang karaoke in
the karaoke in the private roomkaraoke bar, drinking gin and
tonics.
That was hilarious.
We actually went there, youremember, we.
We said, oh, we'll be here foran hour, let's just we'll take a
room.
And then we started drinkinggin and tonics and just kind of
nibbling on little whatever theybrought us and I was rapping,
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and you were rapping, eminem,and I'm like calling and playing
making videos, because nobodywould have believed that, and so
yeah, which, by the way, Ican't sing.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You will pay me not to sing.
That's me.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So it was.
That was funny, but it was oneof the most fun times I've had
in Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It was absolutely amazing.
Yeah, but only because alcoholwas involved in the process.
Other than that, like you and Iknow, a lot of your friends are
like that and I don't know ifit's a generational thing.
It might be that you guys arevery set on your ways.
Like you guys, you have a lotof friends that when they travel
they don't.
I'd rather go to a subway otherthan try.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah now that's not me.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
No, I know that's not you, but like you guys don't
really like.
When we were in Korea, we wentto the market in Korea and you
starved yourself that daybecause you'd rather not eat any
food in Korea, because nothinglooked good and everything was
fishy and the fish was fresh outof the little I don't know
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buckets or whatever they had.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, that didn't look good to me at all.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And you literally starved yourself that day
because you said I'm not eating.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't even remember that, you don't remember that
no I don't remember that I justthink about.
But Bangkok was good.
You know the markets there weregood.
Singapore was amazing.
I didn't eat a scorpion likeyou did in Bangkok, but I did
try a lot of different foods.
I thought it was fantastic andI tried that.
I'm not that ugly Americantourist that goes to places.
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I can never fathom that to me,that people would get on a plane
, fly from America and fly,spend 15, 18 hours of traveling
to go eat at McDonald's or eatat Subway.
And I've had friends, literally, that are in Rome and I mean
you're in one of the best citiesin the world for food and
you're eating at Subway.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Because I am.
I can't even fathom that that'sthe American entitlement.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No, it's not.
That's some Americans Again, Iknow.
I agree with you that there are.
It is a white privilege, it isan entitlement thing, but it's
not all.
You generalize a lot.
It's not even close to all.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
A lot of people there are a lot of you get mad
because Popeyes in Spain doesn'thave the same menu as in here.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I get mad.
Yeah, well, there's a reasonit's not just Popeye's, but that
is a thing that if we don't eata lot of American fast food in
Europe, in Spain, and every nowand then we're like, oh God, I
really want to, I have a cravingfor this, because if we're
there for more than two months Iwant a craving for something.
But, for example, mcdonald's inSpain, they only have two
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things that taste likeMcDonald's and that's the
cheeseburgers and, I think, thehamburgers.
Everything else tastescompletely different, completely
.
Now their fries are much better.
They actually have amazingFrench fries so they put like
real cheese sauce and real baconon.
Put that at a McDonald's inAmerica that would sell out like
crazy.
That's amazing.
But again, not a bunch ofchemicals in there, it's real
stuff.
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That's good.
Kfc that doesn't taste nothinglike that.
Popeye's tastes nothing likePopeye's.
They don't have red beans andrice.
They don't have the biscuits.
Biscuits aren't a thing inSpain, so they don't have those.
So half the thing is on themenu out there.
Taco Bell.
Tacos are the only thing thattastes like Taco Bell.
Everything else is completelydifferent.
They're the only thing thattastes like Taco Bell.
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Everything else is completelydifferent.
Sadly, because most everythingwe put in our food here in
America is banned in Europe, sothey can't have a lot of those
products in there.
So they're taking good care ofyou, and then you still get mad
because you get-.
The only thing that they havethat actually tastes like
American version is Five Guys,because Five Guys makes them
have the American version,because Five Guys is clean,
cleaner.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's more like from scratch.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Everything has to be done exactly like Five Guys does
in America, including down tothe air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's another thing.
Air conditioning If we'rewalking into a place that just
doesn't have the AC on, you justget mad In the middle of summer
.
Yes, Well, no, of course in themiddle of summer.
But it could be like Septemberand you're like people don't
turn their AC anymore, or someplaces don't even have AC, and
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then you're like you just wantyour American AC.
That's just a deal breaker foryou.
We can be walking into arestaurant and if the AC is not
on, we leave.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, that's true, I'll give you that.
I like, again, comfort.
I like, and again, I think it'scomforting.
You walk into a place that'snice and cool.
It's more relaxing than walkingin If it's cold inside.
I'm not like, oh, it's cold,I'm not going to.
I don't care about having airaddition when it's cold.
But you're talking about like,just because it's the month, it
could be hot.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
You know, but the whole world has different
cultures and I mean, thank godyou're living over there.
You have been a little bit liketowards the way you used to be,
where, like sometimes, you canhave dinner at 8 pm.
Yeah, Rarely, Rarely but thenyou, because maybe we're taking
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a siesta from 5 to 7.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, when we live in Europe, our basic lifestyle is
we get up in the morning, we cansleep until about 8.30, and
then we go work out and we doall this stuff and then we're
still seven hours ahead of theUS.
So we eat lunch around with hermom, we have a big lunch or we
go out or something.
We usually eat a big lunch withwine and everything around 2 to
3.
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And then we take a nap.
Every day over there we take anap, usually 5 to 7-ish or
whatever, and then we get up andwe go to the bars and the bars
all have food.
With every round of drinks andstuff you get free tapas, so you
don't have to have another bigmeal because you get free things
to eat, whether it's shrimp orcheese or paella or something.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That's another thing.
I mean not you because youdon't get mad because you don't
eat a lot of food, but a lot ofAmericans get mad because of the
food portions.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, much smaller, one-third.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Everything is so, and I personally get mad here
because the food portions are sobig and everything goes to
waste.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, the food portion sizes in restaurants in
the EU are one third of what yousee in the restaurants here.
But there's also a correlationthe people are one third of the
size of the people that are here.
One-third of the size of thepeople that are here.
There's a reason why when youlook at sizes on clothes, it'll
say US size extra large or UKsize extra large or EU size
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extra large, because America thepeople are.
There are so many morbidlyobese people in America,
Morbidly obese because they eatbig giant plates of food three
times a day.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Way too much food and you have a lot of like good
desserts at the store like veryreadily easily and processed
food that they eat and processedfood and way too much fast food
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You know so you have a lot of more obese people here
in America than you do in Europe, and so the sizes are, you know
, different and it's fresh andyou're eating clean and you know
it's fine.
But you don't have to have big,giant meals at night.
You can if you want.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Another one, oh my God, another one.
We're in Bologna, italy, right,and you were mad because you
could not find what you thoughtin your mind was Bolognese
spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Bolognese sauce?
No, but it was like they hadbolognese, something else.
But you want spaghetti like theactual spaghetti shape.
They didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, because I didn't realize that bolognese
spaghetti isn't spaghetti.
First of all, for Americans,for all the Americans, watching
spaghetti and meatballs is not athing.
It's actually an American dishthat was made.
American Italians started makingthat in the restaurants.
Spaghetti and meatballs is nota thing.
It's not available.
A lot of places don't even havemeatballs in the Italian
(24:05):
restaurants Now they're calledpolpettes or, in Spain,
albándigas, but differentflavors, but polpette.
You can get that as anappetizer and you can get
spaghetti dishes, but they don'tmake spaghetti and meatballs.
It's not a thing there.
So spaghetti bolognese isanother creation of mine.
That will do it, restaurantswill do for me, but in bologna
(24:28):
it's actually bologna.
They made it with a really thicknoodle because it holds the
meat sauce better, and it's theway it's traditionally made.
So, yes, that was my fault,because I like my spaghetti
pasta.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So we were walking from restaurant to restaurant to
restaurant to restaurant.
Yes, figuring out if somebodyhad spaghetti that could make
bolognese Like I'm, likestarving at this point.
Yes, I gave up in life.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Right, I'll give you that one, that's for sure.
Oh, that one only.
Like I'm Right, I'll give youthat one, that's for sure.
Oh, that one only.
There's probably many, but thatone for sure I will give.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
you See, but that's your entitlement that you think
that you, the Italy, the placewhere the pasta is born, where
they have the original plates,the original dishes, they have
to be what American-Italiandishes are.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, right.
And we did have our Italianfriend, if you remember, because
we were there for Thanksgivingone year.
We didn't get to come back toAmerica for Thanksgiving and he
knew it was my AmericanThanksgiving.
So he came out and he says andhe's our friend that owns the
restaurant and we were therethree or four days a week
hanging out with him.
And he came and said look, Iknow you can't be home for your
American Thanksgiving, but Imade you something that will
(25:38):
hopefully take the place ofmaking you feel a little better.
He goes I made you spaghettiand meatballs.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Which you didn't like yeah which weren't very good
and you had to eat them.
I got to give you that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I ate them.
But the yeah, I like.
I do like my spaghetti andmeatballs.
That American Italian thing isan amazing thing.
I do like my spaghetti andmeatballs that American-Italian
thing is an amazing thing.
I do like that.
But I'll give it to you there.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That is exactly what it is, but you want that when we
go into Europe to eat Italianfood, you want American-Italian
food and you get so mad becauseit's not American-Italian food.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I do like New York-Italian, new
York-American-Italian food overregular Italian food or real
Italian food.
I know that hurts, that hurts,but I like my New York red sauce
Italian places.
I do like that, you know, withthe big chicken, parmesan and
the meatballs and all this stuff.
(26:31):
It's like I love that.
It's one of my favorite thingsever Exactly.
Well, there's so many things.
I guess I'll try to do betterto recognize what's going on and
be more cognizant of my whiteprivilege that I'm pulling ahead
of you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You can't even Like, you can't even be cognizant.
It just happens.
It's in your blood, it's inyour DNA, it's like you were
born and raised to be that andit's okay.
It's just when I punch you inthe face for that.
Don't ask why, I'll just belike it's your whiteness showing
.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, tell us what you think about food in general
or any comments you have aboutthe privilege.
Do we get treated better?
Are we more entitled?
And I'd really like to know incomments if you eat Italian food
, do you like the AmericanItalian food?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
If you're not white like him.
Have you ever been asked toshow your bag at a grocery store
?
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So friends always say we livevicariously through you.
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what you encounter, butapparently a lot of that
encountering doesn't sit wellwith you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, it's because you, my man, well, you're white,
of course, and an American, andyou grew up in a time and I
mean it still happens nowadaysbut you have white privilege
which, when I married you, Istarted having it.
(02:05):
Well, no, I rephrase that whenI got my American passport I
started having that rightBecause I am a citizen of the
world, as you know, I am Mexican, spanish, italian and now an
American, proud American.
I will say, and I don't knowhow to explain it to you, like
(02:27):
you, quite, privileged is athing, but you guys don't
realize it and I'm not saying, Imean, I'm a very light colored
Latin person, right, and youdon't realize it that the color
of your skin influence indifferent, influences in
different, how you say, likeactivities or like perceptions
(02:49):
from other people.
And then if that doesn't, ifthat doesn't suit with you, then
you get mad, like the time wewere in Spain and the guard at
the door asked you to look atyour shopping bag and you were
outraged by that.
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Do I look like I'm stealing stuff from your store?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They don't know that there's a lot.
Hey, they don't know that, likethey don't know that, but that
has never happened to you herein the US.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No, why?
Well, like you said, I thinkthat it is.
While I acknowledge there is alot of white privilege,
especially culturally and howmarginalized communities get
treated in America, versus howwhite people get treated, you do
get a certain amount of justprivilege that comes your way
and the perceptions that peoplehave of you, that people have of
(03:42):
you.
But even also there, it wasn'tjust the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Look at the reverse Myself or my daughter, tiffany,
who is a lot more blonde than Iam she had prepped with you for
an hour over all the questionsthey might ask Because she was
coming to Spain to visit us byherself and usually you have to
have an invite letter if you goto visit your family that we are
responsible for her in case shemisbehaves or whatever.
You have to have like an inviteletter from if you go to visit
your family Right.
(04:05):
That we are responsible for herin case she misbehaves or
whatever.
So we had this whole thingplanned right.
Like you're here to visit somefriends and you guys are going
to go touring through Europe.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And primarily because when you go to Europe or any
country there Spain is nodifferent is you have to say
well, here's where I'm staying.
Right, here's my hotel, right.
When you don't put a hotel theywant to know, well then, how
are you here?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
And they want to make sure, like in the US, they want
to make sure you're not stayingthere forever.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Right, so that's why that came up.
But you and my daughter sit andpracticed for an hour about
every perceivable question thatcould come up, what they would
be asking you, and here's yourresponse, so that you don't get
asked more and you're not goingto have an issue.
And what did they ask her?
Nothing, nothing.
They were like hello, blondegirl with American money,
welcome to our country.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I know they saw her passport and I was like, okay,
welcome.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was it.
Didn't ask her one single thing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That is true, but that also, like, gives you some
kind of entitlement.
Like I think we're talkinganother episode about that Like
when we go places and they don'thave the English menu, right,
like you get upset.
And I know you get upsetbecause like how dare they not
(05:23):
cater to you, mr White, americanboy?
Like they don't have to caterto you, like they don't have to,
and you do get upset about that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't get upset as much as again.
I said this before.
I think that it's a missedopportunity for them and now
I've been in Spain for six years, I can read Spanish menus, it's
not a problem.
Now there'll be some thingslike, okay, what the heck is
this?
And then you've even looked atit and go.
I don't even know what that is.
But I have no problem with thatand I don't expect it anymore.
(05:56):
It's nice if they do and I thinkif they're missing a business
opportunity if they don't,because not just Americans, but
also UK, uk visitors that spenda lot of money as tourists in
that country.
So I do see that.
But here and I did notice thatwhen because we've been
traveling the whole time we'vebeen married for 10 years, been
(06:20):
together for 12.
And I did notice that as, likeevery time we're going through
and we both have, because wetravel so much, we both have the
global entry.
So we have the fast pass,everything, global entry,
everything.
And even with all that, shewould always get flagged to get
searched.
Every single time they wouldflag her, check her for
explosives, something would goon, what explosives would I have
?
I mean, they always check herfor stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
They were yeah, that is true.
Before I got my Americanpassport, I was always flagged
for random searches.
I don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And you asked me.
You said well, hasn't thathappened to you?
I said, well, yes, once.
I think in the UK that's beenit.
Oh yeah.
Well, the UK is A lot ofsuspicious things there and a
lot of different people fromaround the world coming in from
countries that are notnecessarily always the most
friendliest countries to therest of the Western world,
(07:11):
traveling through that airport,so they have to be very diligent
in what they're doing.
I understand it, I get it, butagain, maybe that's my white
privilege of like OK, Iunderstand, you just went
through this whole thing withthis Iranian guy or this guy
from Pakistan or whatever you'regoing through with you know,
here I am blonde-haired,blue-eyed boy.
Why are you asking me all thesame questions?
(07:32):
Because it doesn't reallymatter, right?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
and you get mad.
You get mad because they'requestioning you.
You're mad because they'remaking you count your liquids.
You're mad because they but andagain, again.
I don't blame you.
You grew up in a different time, Right, you grew up.
Your school was not verydiverse.
Right, you grew up anddiversity was of the topic.
(07:58):
Like what?
But even in restaurants, likewhen we go there and they don't
treat you well, like how, likeyou, I can tell you're mad about
it.
Like like when, when they're Idon't know.
I don't know how to explain it,but you feel like because it's
you, you, you deserve to betreated better than the rest.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't want to be treated better than the rest.
I don't want to be treatedbetter than the rest, I just
want to be treated nice and Imean, I think that's a natural
thing.
I'm going to frequentrestaurants that treat me nice.
I like.
It's no secret we don't.
We live a pretty uh, more upupper scale lifestyle.
You know we, we'reinternational business owners,
we have places in internationalcities.
(08:42):
We've lived in la and new york,and you know we, we're
international business owners,we have places in international
cities.
We've lived in la and new york,and you know, and we travel
around the world.
We travel at a different levelas a lot of people.
So I'm used to that.
So I don't.
You know we don't like it's not, it's not conceivable to us
that we're going to have.
Like it's not, we don't go toolive garden eat italian food
that's not our kind ofrestaurant, even when we're in
(09:02):
Europe.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
like when we're in Europe, you're like you order a
piece of meat.
This is not US prime.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
No, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But see, you have a problem and you want your
American style.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I want my American prime steak if I'm paying money
for it.
Yes, If they don't have ketchup.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
that's sacrilege if they don't have ketchup Now
don't put those in the samesentence.
There's not a chance in hell.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm putting ketchup on steak.
She said that back to back likeI'm a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's a lunatic, but not for that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But no, I do like ketchup.
How many times on the flightsdo I steal the ketchup packets
from the lounge to put them inmy pocket, because they don't
have ketchup on?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
the airline flights You're stealing now.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, I take them from the lounge.
I'm not stealing, I take themfrom the lounge, that's not
stealing.
No, they're there to take.
Whether I eat them there or ona plane, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm going to have ketchup on my eggs on a plane
which they don't have on theairlines Salt and pepper, oh my
gosh.
Sometimes you ask, hey, do youhave salt and pepper?
And they don't.
And then you're like, becausethat's an American thing.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's not an American thing, it's a Western culture
thing.
They also have that in the UK,they have it in Germany, they
have it in France.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not in every table.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Not as much in the Latin countries do.
They have it Not in every table.
Well, they have to cater to youlike the way you.
It's not fresh if it doesn'thave all the crap on it.
And in America we like to eatclean food.
Like I don't like somebodystick me a plate of shrimp down.
I want my shrimp pretty andclean.
I don't mind paying more for it, but make it pretty.
(10:49):
I want the lobster tail prettybroiled with some nice butter on
the side, like they do at everyhigh-end steakhouse.
I don't want to—here's thething Tear it all apart with
your hands.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I'm not eating like that countries.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's a form of showing you that the food is
fresh if I'm paying that muchmoney for the food, I'm assuming
it's fresh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
That's why I'm eating at that restaurant yeah, but
you don't know that, like maybehere in the us they just put it
clean and pretty because it wasnot generally not, or they don't
have the prime titles.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's the difference , again, of eating at a
mid-level american chainrestaurant or a high-end
american restaurant.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That's hypocrisy, and you're on your end.
Well, not your end americanscent, because I mean, I'm an
american too, but I grew up likewelcome to some freedom I, I, I
grew up in different I mean ina different environment where to
me, like I mean I grew up in adifferent environment, where to
me, I grew up in Mexico City andto me the freshness comes from
(11:49):
that, like the fish.
They'll show you the head, oryou see the chicken and it's
hanging.
I mean not with feathers oranything, but they're like this
is the fresh.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Here's a dead chicken .
Come on in and enjoy some food.
Where do you?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
think it comes from.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Feel free to set up your lawn chair so you can eat.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, but when you go to the chicken place to buy your
chicken breast to cook to thechickenery, let's say to the
polleria, the chickens arehanging dead, unfeathered.
Of course, but it just when Itook your daughter there down
there and she saw that shealmost passed out.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, it's the same thing that they do over there,
where they give me the fish withthe whole head.
Now, I don't want to see thefish, I want to see the head and
I want my stuff already clean,filleted, looking pretty.
I don't want to see it.
I don't want to look at a fishin the eye when I'm eating it
you guys just love everything sopretty and clean and and
everything's ready and yes, andI don't think that's why
(12:51):
privilege.
I just think that's it's acultural thing that we like
stuff that's already prettyclean.
We don't mind paying a littlemore for it.
But we want clean, pretty,aesthet, aesthetically nice food
.
That doesn't mean I also don'tlike eating street tacos.
I'll eat that all day long.
We're going out of Mexico, I'llget street tacos.
I'm one of the few widows thatcan actually eat that street
tacos and not even get sick, andyou know that.
(13:13):
So it's like I can eat thatfood too.
But when I go to a nicerestaurant I want my food to be
clean.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, but you like it's not only about the
cleanness, it's and again, likeI think it's your American
showing when we go othercountries in the world where,
like I don't know, maybe a hostor a hostess when we come to the
place they just don't reallylike, like here in America, you
(13:41):
know, like they're like oh,hello this, and like they kind
of vow to you.
And when we're over thereyou're just like they don't
treat you the same and you'relike I don't like it.
Or or when we go places likewhen we were in Tokyo and day
one you said I don't want anymore Japanese food, I want
(14:04):
something more American, moreinternational.
I'm like we are in Japan.
This is not Japanese food, it'sjust food and it happens to us
everywhere we go, because youguys like your variety of.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We like different kinds of food and I think when I
said I wanted, I think we weretalking about the breakfast
buffet.
I wouldn't use Americans again.
We have foods that we considerto be breakfast foods and it's
pretty much a general staple ofyou know eggs, bacon, ham,
whatever oatmeal, cereals,breakfast-type foods.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh, or if the bacon is not American way, the
American bacon.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, no, that wasn't .
I'm not talking about the bait,you're talking about germany my
god, it was raw.
There's a difference betweenlike okay, I like it crispy or
something, but raw it was raw,it was just their bacon.
I'm not gonna eat raw bacon.
That's just that's raw.
So it's like I do like crispybut when it comes to that, but I
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think that I like otherpeople's foods and tokyo, that
was the best steak I've ever hadin my life.
That wagyu steak I had was thebest steak I ever had in my life
there was absolutely one daytwo.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You said I don't want any more japanese food no, I
don't mind.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I didn't want to just eat every single meal of
japanese food.
I wanted to try some differentthings there, you know yes, but
you're there.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
You cannot try other things, it's tokyo.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It's the biggest city in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes, but 38 billion people eating in an italian
restaurant in tokyo.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
That was a bad move.
That was awful.
Yeah, that was the equivalentof you know?
Oh, I don't even know what, butit was awful it was like saying
oh, I don't know like know.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Like spaghetti with ketchup.
That was horrible.
It was awful.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That was a bad mistake.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's it.
That's when your American showsthat you guys are not.
But it was fun in Tokyo, youguys don't bend to accommodate
yourselves, to discover othercultures.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I discovered a lot of culture there in Tokyo when we
got really drunk in theafternoon and sang karaoke in
the karaoke in the private roomkaraoke bar, drinking gin and
tonics.
That was hilarious.
We actually went there, youremember, we.
We said, oh, we'll be here foran hour, let's just we'll take a
room.
And then we started drinkinggin and tonics and just kind of
nibbling on little whatever theybrought us and I was rapping,
(16:17):
and you were rapping, eminem,and I'm like calling and playing
making videos, because nobodywould have believed that, and so
yeah, which, by the way, Ican't sing.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
You will pay me not to sing.
That's me.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So it was.
That was funny, but it was oneof the most fun times I've had
in Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It was absolutely amazing.
Yeah, but only because alcoholwas involved in the process.
Other than that, like you and Iknow, a lot of your friends are
like that and I don't know ifit's a generational thing.
It might be that you guys arevery set on your ways.
Like you guys, you have a lotof friends that when they travel
they don't.
I'd rather go to a subway otherthan try.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah now that's not me.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
No, I know that's not you, but like you guys don't
really like.
When we were in Korea, we wentto the market in Korea and you
starved yourself that daybecause you'd rather not eat any
food in Korea, because nothinglooked good and everything was
fishy and the fish was fresh outof the little I don't know
(17:21):
buckets or whatever they had.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, that didn't look good to me at all.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And you literally starved yourself that day
because you said I'm not eating.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't even remember that, you don't remember that
no I don't remember that I justthink about.
But Bangkok was good.
You know the markets there weregood.
Singapore was amazing.
I didn't eat a scorpion likeyou did in Bangkok, but I did
try a lot of different foods.
I thought it was fantastic andI tried that.
I'm not that ugly Americantourist that goes to places.
(17:50):
I can never fathom that to me,that people would get on a plane
, fly from America and fly,spend 15, 18 hours of traveling
to go eat at McDonald's or eatat Subway.
And I've had friends, literally, that are in Rome and I mean
you're in one of the best citiesin the world for food and
you're eating at Subway.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Because I am.
I can't even fathom that that'sthe American entitlement.
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No, it's not.
That's some Americans Again, Iknow.
I agree with you that there are.
It is a white privilege, it isan entitlement thing, but it's
not all.
You generalize a lot.
It's not even close to all.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
A lot of people there are a lot of you get mad
because Popeyes in Spain doesn'thave the same menu as in here.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I get mad.
Yeah, well, there's a reasonit's not just Popeye's, but that
is a thing that if we don't eata lot of American fast food in
Europe, in Spain, and every nowand then we're like, oh God, I
really want to, I have a cravingfor this, because if we're
there for more than two months Iwant a craving for something.
But, for example, mcdonald's inSpain, they only have two
(18:57):
things that taste likeMcDonald's and that's the
cheeseburgers and, I think, thehamburgers.
Everything else tastescompletely different, completely
.
Now their fries are much better.
They actually have amazingFrench fries so they put like
real cheese sauce and real baconon.
Put that at a McDonald's inAmerica that would sell out like
crazy.
That's amazing.
But again, not a bunch ofchemicals in there, it's real
stuff.
(19:17):
That's good.
Kfc that doesn't taste nothinglike that.
Popeye's tastes nothing likePopeye's.
They don't have red beans andrice.
They don't have the biscuits.
Biscuits aren't a thing inSpain, so they don't have those.
So half the thing is on themenu out there.
Taco Bell.
Tacos are the only thing thattastes like Taco Bell.
Everything else is completelydifferent.
They're the only thing thattastes like Taco Bell.
(19:38):
Everything else is completelydifferent.
Sadly, because most everythingwe put in our food here in
America is banned in Europe, sothey can't have a lot of those
products in there.
So they're taking good care ofyou, and then you still get mad
because you get-.
The only thing that they havethat actually tastes like
American version is Five Guys,because Five Guys makes them
have the American version,because Five Guys is clean,
cleaner.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's more like from scratch.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Everything has to be done exactly like Five Guys does
in America, including down tothe air conditioning.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's another thing.
Air conditioning If we'rewalking into a place that just
doesn't have the AC on, you justget mad In the middle of summer
.
Yes, Well, no, of course in themiddle of summer.
But it could be like Septemberand you're like people don't
turn their AC anymore, or someplaces don't even have AC, and
(20:26):
then you're like you just wantyour American AC.
That's just a deal breaker foryou.
We can be walking into arestaurant and if the AC is not
on, we leave.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, that's true, I'll give you that.
I like, again, comfort.
I like, and again, I think it'scomforting.
You walk into a place that'snice and cool.
It's more relaxing than walkingin If it's cold inside.
I'm not like, oh, it's cold,I'm not going to.
I don't care about having airaddition when it's cold.
But you're talking about like,just because it's the month, it
could be hot.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
You know, but the whole world has different
cultures and I mean, thank godyou're living over there.
You have been a little bit liketowards the way you used to be,
where, like sometimes, you canhave dinner at 8 pm.
Yeah, Rarely, Rarely but thenyou, because maybe we're taking
(21:21):
a siesta from 5 to 7.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, when we live in Europe, our basic lifestyle is
we get up in the morning, we cansleep until about 8.30, and
then we go work out and we doall this stuff and then we're
still seven hours ahead of theUS.
So we eat lunch around with hermom, we have a big lunch or we
go out or something.
We usually eat a big lunch withwine and everything around 2 to
3.
(21:44):
And then we take a nap.
Every day over there we take anap, usually 5 to 7-ish or
whatever, and then we get up andwe go to the bars and the bars
all have food.
With every round of drinks andstuff you get free tapas, so you
don't have to have another bigmeal because you get free things
to eat, whether it's shrimp orcheese or paella or something.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That's another thing.
I mean not you because youdon't get mad because you don't
eat a lot of food, but a lot ofAmericans get mad because of the
food portions.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, much smaller, one-third.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Everything is so, and I personally get mad here
because the food portions are sobig and everything goes to
waste.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, the food portion sizes in restaurants in
the EU are one third of what yousee in the restaurants here.
But there's also a correlationthe people are one third of the
size of the people that are here.
One-third of the size of thepeople that are here.
There's a reason why when youlook at sizes on clothes, it'll
say US size extra large or UKsize extra large or EU size
(22:45):
extra large, because America thepeople are.
There are so many morbidlyobese people in America,
Morbidly obese because they eatbig giant plates of food three
times a day.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Way too much food and you have a lot of like good
desserts at the store like veryreadily easily and processed
food that they eat and processedfood and way too much fast food
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You know so you have a lot of more obese people here
in America than you do in Europe, and so the sizes are, you know
, different and it's fresh andyou're eating clean and you know
it's fine.
But you don't have to have big,giant meals at night.
You can if you want.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Another one, oh my God, another one.
We're in Bologna, italy, right,and you were mad because you
could not find what you thoughtin your mind was Bolognese
spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Bolognese sauce?
No, but it was like they hadbolognese, something else.
But you want spaghetti like theactual spaghetti shape.
They didn't have that.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah, because I didn't realize that bolognese
spaghetti isn't spaghetti.
First of all, for Americans,for all the Americans, watching
spaghetti and meatballs is not athing.
It's actually an American dishthat was made.
American Italians started makingthat in the restaurants.
Spaghetti and meatballs is nota thing.
It's not available.
A lot of places don't even havemeatballs in the Italian
(24:05):
restaurants Now they're calledpolpettes or, in Spain,
albándigas, but differentflavors, but polpette.
You can get that as anappetizer and you can get
spaghetti dishes, but they don'tmake spaghetti and meatballs.
It's not a thing there.
So spaghetti bolognese isanother creation of mine.
That will do it, restaurantswill do for me, but in bologna
(24:28):
it's actually bologna.
They made it with a really thicknoodle because it holds the
meat sauce better, and it's theway it's traditionally made.
So, yes, that was my fault,because I like my spaghetti
pasta.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So we were walking from restaurant to restaurant to
restaurant to restaurant.
Yes, figuring out if somebodyhad spaghetti that could make
bolognese Like I'm, likestarving at this point.
Yes, I gave up in life.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Right, I'll give you that one, that's for sure.
Oh, that one only.
Like I'm Right, I'll give youthat one, that's for sure.
Oh, that one only.
There's probably many, but thatone for sure I will give.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
you See, but that's your entitlement that you think
that you, the Italy, the placewhere the pasta is born, where
they have the original plates,the original dishes, they have
to be what American-Italiandishes are.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Right, right.
And we did have our Italianfriend, if you remember, because
we were there for Thanksgivingone year.
We didn't get to come back toAmerica for Thanksgiving and he
knew it was my AmericanThanksgiving.
So he came out and he says andhe's our friend that owns the
restaurant and we were therethree or four days a week
hanging out with him.
And he came and said look, Iknow you can't be home for your
American Thanksgiving, but Imade you something that will
(25:38):
hopefully take the place ofmaking you feel a little better.
He goes I made you spaghettiand meatballs.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Which you didn't like yeah which weren't very good
and you had to eat them.
I got to give you that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I ate them.
But the yeah, I like.
I do like my spaghetti andmeatballs.
That American Italian thing isan amazing thing.
I do like my spaghetti andmeatballs that American-Italian
thing is an amazing thing.
I do like that.
But I'll give it to you there.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That is exactly what it is, but you want that when we
go into Europe to eat Italianfood, you want American-Italian
food and you get so mad becauseit's not American-Italian food.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I do like New York-Italian, new
York-American-Italian food overregular Italian food or real
Italian food.
I know that hurts, that hurts,but I like my New York red sauce
Italian places.
I do like that, you know, withthe big chicken, parmesan and
the meatballs and all this stuff.
(26:31):
It's like I love that.
It's one of my favorite thingsever Exactly.
Well, there's so many things.
I guess I'll try to do betterto recognize what's going on and
be more cognizant of my whiteprivilege that I'm pulling ahead
of you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You can't even Like, you can't even be cognizant.
It just happens.
It's in your blood, it's inyour DNA, it's like you were
born and raised to be that andit's okay.
It's just when I punch you inthe face for that.
Don't ask why, I'll just belike it's your whiteness showing
.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, tell us what you think about food in general
or any comments you have aboutthe privilege.
Do we get treated better?
Are we more entitled?
And I'd really like to know incomments if you eat Italian food
, do you like the AmericanItalian food?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
If you're not white like him.
Have you ever been asked toshow your bag at a grocery store
?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
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