July 17, 2025 • 31 mins
The comfort foods we grew up with don't deserve their bad reputation. From cereal and hamburgers to mac and cheese and fried chicken, America's favorite dishes can actually be part of a balanced diet with some thoughtful modifications.
Breakfast becomes a nutritional powerhouse when you add fresh fruit to cereal, use high-protein milk, or mix in fiber-rich options. Even the humble peanut butter and jelly sandwich – which University of Michigan researchers found adds more years to your life than almost any other food – proves that comfort and nutrition can coexist.
Those classic hamburgers? They're already a balanced combination of protein, carbs, and fats – the problems come from preparation methods and proportions. By choosing leaner beef, whole grain buns, and generous vegetables, you transform fast food into real nutrition. The same goes for pizza, chili, and spaghetti with meatballs. These aren't inherently "bad" foods; they just need some rebalancing.
The air fryer revolution has breathed new life into fried favorites. Chicken coated in cornflakes and air-fried delivers that satisfying crunch without excessive oil. Homemade french fries get crispy exteriors and soft interiors without deep-frying. Even simple swaps like mixing Greek yogurt with mayonnaise in potato salad maintain the creamy texture while improving the nutritional profile.
American cuisine doesn't need to be abandoned for health – it just needs thoughtful modifications. Try our tuna mac and peas recipe with protein-enhanced pasta for a quick meal that satisfies comfort food cravings while delivering balanced nutrition. What American classic will you reimagine tonight?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast, which is
slowly becoming what Liamthinks up on the fly, because
for a second week in a row, Ihave come up with an idea, like
last minute, what we're going todo, and I think it's actually a
pretty good idea.
Ready for this, rob?
You ready for this?
I'm ready for this.
Okay, here's my idea.
We uh, what I wanted to dooriginally was look up the most
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common breakfast, lunch anddinners in America and then be
like how do we make them morebalanced?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
right, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
America, because obviously that's really all that
matters in the world.
Anyway, the problem is likelunch and dinner and stuff, like
it's all just kind of all overthe place, because I've learned
that America's a melting pot.
Did you know this?
That like America's big andthere's a lot of different
cultures and shit.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Who knew I didn't I mean it was a melting pot.
I mean I feel like they'retrying to get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We're working on that .
We're making that melting pot,just one thing of I don't know,
just chicken stew.
That doesn't make any sense, Idon't know whatever.
So what I'm thinking is, uh, II have like this poll for like
breakfast, but then I have alsojust like a list of like some of
the most common american fooditems, like food setting in
(01:10):
america there's probably peopleeating this in canada along with
their whale blubber or whateveryou guys eat.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know, I don't judge um I feel like we're more
of melting pot than you guysare.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I don't I have no idea.
What I do know is starting withum, uh, the poll for, like,
what americans eat for breakfast.
I bet you can guess what mostamericans are eating for what
the most common breakfast itemis right, is it sausages?
Not, so, no, not sausages.
What do you think?
no, it's not rob, rob, rob, robRob, you came to this.
(01:46):
You came to America and sawthat there was just like aisles
of this thing.
There's just so many options.
Aisles of this thing, yeah, wehave just aisles with just tons
of different options of this andwe eat it for breakfast.
Alcohol yes, we have alcoholfor breakfast.
That's our most common fuckingJaeger bombs, and I don't know,
(02:08):
for breakfast, that's our mostcommon fucking jaeger bombs and
I don't know.
No, that's that's.
That's a firework.
I was saying something else,doesn't matter.
Uh uh.
Cereal.
Was the?
Was the answer, rob.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Cereal, breakfast cereal it's like in the name I
mean, that does kind of surpriseme I would have assumed it
would have been more like asausage and egg no, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I thought it was higher than this.
Uh, the study cited 31 percentwho eat.
They eat cereal for breakfast.
I thought it would be more likecloser to 50.
I thought it'd be at least over40, because, like cereal is
just like so common right, I wasdefinitely expecting bacon.
Um, I think that there are someafter that but anyway
cerealereal is like actuallypretty easy to balance.
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We've talked about this a littlebit before.
Easiest way is just like addfruit right To whatever you're
eating.
What did I eat the other day?
I had a bunch of kiwis.
I had some like Cheerios,because my daughter really likes
like Cheerios.
Now for some reason she getslike different kinds of Cheerios
, like Honey, nut Cheerios.
And then I just put some likeKiwis in it, cause I had a bunch
of the gold Kiwis and they weregoing bad, so I put those in
there.
Boom Easy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Another one is just using the high protein milk.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, so like you get fair life or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
U?
S has fair life.
Canada's got dairy land.
You can tell they're slightlymore expensive, but the
trade-off's kind of worth itbecause you're getting double
the protein Right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So you get protein with it.
Um, like the some of the morelike, like some people, like the
Catalina crunch cereals andstuff, those things are like, uh
, it's, those are like realcrunchy.
There's something once inAmerica that are like, uh, I
don't know about that, but whatI will say?
Taking like some fiber, onecereal or whatever, and adding
it to your cereal, not a badidea.
You just add a little bit ofthat to the cereal that you like
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a little bit extra fiber yeah,the cereal doesn't need to be a
hundred percent compressed.
Metamucil tablets yeah, I knowman like those that's, you don't
want to just eat like purefucking fiber one for breakfast,
but like sprinkling some ofthat into, uh, you know um,
whatever your cereal is.
And then let me tell you,especially in the States,
puffins, puffins, man, those areunderrated.
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I need to get some more ofthose.
I love that cereal.
It's like four or five grams offiber along with shredded
mini-wheats.
It's up there with me withshredded mini-wheats.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But yeah, mini-wheats and raisin bran are two awesome
just out of the box.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Man my daughter's been, Oakley's been just
smashing raisins.
So many raisins I'm likewhatever man, just eat as many
raisins as you want, I'm sure itwon't go bad, doesn't matter.
So then, yeah, so breakfast, socereal's like really not bad at
all, and then about two in 10,you usually eat eggs with or
without bacon or ham, so that's.
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The next one is eggs, and likeeggs, that's pretty easy on
itself.
I think people just get.
I feel like people get bored ofeggs really quickly.
That's what I see a lot.
It's like people start eatingeggs and then they get bored of
them quickly, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, I prefer my eggs in the form of French toast
or pancakes.
French toast right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I prefer it in the form of cake Chocolate cake.
That's how I get my eggs in.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I mean, that's what French toast is.
It's just bread dipped in eggs.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, and you can do like egg whites and stuff like
that.
What I'll say with like eggs ifyou're trying to get more
protein, egg whites on their owntastes like sadness, but adding
like, having like two eggs andthen adding in some more egg
whites, it's not bad.
It just kind of ups the protein.
You still get the eggs, likethe egg yolks and stuff.
So I think that's a pretty goodidea.
And then having it with likeobviously it's more breakfast.
I usually have fruit in themorning.
(05:26):
So yeah, just like whateverfruit, easy peasy, right, easy,
easy, eggsy, easy, eggsy Put alittle berries on your French
toast.
Yeah, exactly, that's good.
So and then just over one in 10usually have a bagel, toast,
muffins or pastry.
So that's a few things there.
With the bagels man, like Ithink people think of bagel
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anything like oh, just bagel andthen and then butter or like, I
guess, cream cheese or creamcheese, yeah, you can do more
stuff with that right, like youhave, like an avocado thing, a
smile of the smoked salmon.
I'm a big smoked salmon fancan't say I've tried that oh,
man, they got.
They got different ones.
They got like everything, bagelseasoning this or like spicy
ones.
Those are really good with, uh,some yeah, again some avocado
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or something like that a littlehot sauce.
Oh so, like you know doing that, or obviously they have now
like the fucking fiber bagels,bro, those I think it's called
better bagel.
Yeah, better bagel is one ofthem, and they are just like 40
something grams of fiber in abagel.
I'm like there's.
You can't do this to peoplelike I get.
I've eaten them, I'm fine, butyou can't do that to the average
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person no, the average personis gonna.
Their intestinal tract's gonnadie from that they're gonna be
stuck to the toilet, like that'sjust mean, uh, but yeah, so
like those, at least they dohave those.
Or like toast you could get the,the bread or whatever, right,
that's like, oh, protein bread,fiber bread, that sort of stuff,
right?
Um?
Like jams there's like lowersugar jams, if you want to do
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that, like I've been using this.
Like jelly, that's like halfthe sugar jelly or whatever I've
got.
Like peanut butter, I do likepeanut butter and jelly, and
fuck it.
It's breakfast.
Who gives a shit?
Like breakfast food is whateverfood you're eating, right, what
I do like whatever food startsyou off on the day.
On the right foot doesn't matter, or just whatever you're
feeling.
Four donuts, man, I've likecrisp, like I got crispy cream
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like they came.
I remember I was like in albany, like new york, and they came
for the first time and everyonestarted going to crispy cream
for like the coffee, because wewere used to Dunkin' Donuts and
everyone goes to Dunkin' Donutsfor the coffee.
So they went to Krispy Kremefor the coffee and were like
this coffee tastes like shit.
It's like, well, yeah, they'renot known for their coffee,
they're actually a donut placethat's known for their donuts.
They're not a donut place knownfor their coffee like Dunkin'
Donuts, but their donuts arevery good.
(07:36):
Krispy Kreme best, healthiestbreakfast ever.
But hell, I'll definitely haveone here and there Dip it in
some protein milk.
39% of Americans have at somepoint eaten cold pizza for
breakfast and I'm like, yeah,totally, I would do that too For
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me.
I know you put it in the airfryer it's better, but I just
eat that shit cold.
I have it in a Ziploc bag, Itake it out and I just eat it
like it's good.
It works those are.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Those are the americans that are having a
hangover.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I bet this will help some cold pizza well you, I mean
, that is our most commonbreakfast item is fucking
alcohol, so maybe just throwsome of that in there with it
all right.
so that was kind of like themost common breakfasty stuff and
then for like lunch it was kindof all over the place.
So I found this list.
I found this list of, liketraditional American food.
So I feel like this issomething you know a lot of
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people eat, right.
So maybe how we kind of workwith this a little bit, number
one what do you think number oneis with, like most common most
traditional American foods, mosttraditional American food.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Like what do you think america and you're gonna
be?
Oh, is it.
Are we including desserts?
Is apple pie gonna be in there?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
uh, I'm sure apple pie is here somewhere but no,
the first one is not apple pieum what does?
all of our fast food places sellbasically hamburgers.
There you go, hamburgers withfixings, that's pretty much that
is the number one and likeagain, I feel like this is
really not like.
I remember this was goingaround for a while, like I did a
video on this there was like awoman that was like why are
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hamburgers unhealthy?
Cause it's like you got bread,you got, or you got carbs, you
got protein and you got fat.
So you have all those things.
Yeah, throw some vegetables onthe more.
The issue is you get a fastfood place and there's a lot of
extra calories.
So just, we've talked about itbefore A lot of extra oil.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, leaner beef, the ratio of like vegetables to
everything else We've talkedabout that before.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Just throw more fucking shit on there If it's
green or red or whatever, likeyeah, and now I'm going to get
people like I put Swedish fishon there.
Good for you, Tony, fuckingputting Swedish fish on your
hamburger.
If that's what you want to do,I would say, come on tomatoes.
But you know what you got freewill Do whatever the hell you
want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Whenever I go to a fast food place, I always ask
for extra lettuce on my burger.
Sometimes I'll ask for tripleif I feel like they'll actually
do something.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I really like pickles and jalapeno Relish though
Relish, I know it'straditionally more on hot dogs,
which I'm sure we'll see on here.
But yeah, number two, I'm notsurprised.
Pizza, like you know, likehamburgers, pizza, right, I feel
like that's, that's most common, like you know, american foods,
and again, pizza gets a lot ofshit, I guess, just because of
the calories, right.
Um, but you know what I foundat aldi?
(10:18):
They have like some flatbreadsI guess maybe they're not
technically pizzas withflatbreads, whatever right and
they have and they have like agarden vegetable one which is
like a bunch of differentvegetables on there and the
whole thing was only like fouror 500 calories and tasted
pretty good.
So, like they do have some ofthose options now where they
have the pizza crust that arelike hired fiber and stuff you
know the hamburgers and thepizza.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's always a case of if you ate each individual
thing separately, consider ithealthy, but as soon as you put
them together, it's all of asudden bad, but it just comes
down to the extra calories,whether it's from oil.
Sometimes it's from putting allthe alcohol you drink with a
cheese on on the pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All the alcohol washing it down with jack
daniels.
That's the problem.
But yeah, like you know,there's a like margarita pizzas.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh fucking good margarita pizza I'll often like
I often, when I order pizza,I'll ask for half cheese,
because it's still plenty ofcheese on it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Cheese the cheese.
I guess there's two, I don'tknow, I'm I'm iffy on that.
The third, number three, though, is meatloaf.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't remember like the last time I ever had a meat
, really I've.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, I don't even to be, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna
be real with y'all.
I don't really know what's inmeatloaf I'm assuming meat put
into a loaf and I don't reallyknow much past that I don't
think I've ever really heardamericans talk about meatloaf
here we go.
Okay, it's made with freshground beef, savory, breadcrumbs
, eggs for binding, andseasoning like garlic or sweet
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onions.
That doesn't seem so bad.
Beef breadcrumbs, eggs,seasoning, I don't know.
I got nothing on meatloafbecause I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm sure lots of people also throw vegetables in
there too, like yeah and likeyou have it on the side, like
they a little picture like greenbeans with it or something
great.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, number four is s'mores.
Fucking I what s'mores fuck.
Fuck being healthy.
You just need to eat a s'more.
Sometimes when you're outcamping.
You fucking get that.
You get that marshmallow allmelty and the chocolate and the
crunch of the graham crackeryeah, but like how many people
are eating s'mores in theirhomes?
(12:22):
A lot apparently if it's on thelist.
Apparently this is like kind ofthe most traditional american
things.
Uh, what traditional americanfood?
So s'mores are apparently superit's.
It's even higher than apple pie, which I'm sure will be on here
somewhere, but even more thanthat fucking s'mores.
But you know what S'mores smackLike s'mores are so good, it's
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the quintessential camping treat.
Man, when you just get, it'slike you're working when you're
there to get the marshmallowperfectly melted, so it's not
like too melted or burnt, butit's got a little bit of that
toast on it.
I know some people really likefully burnt.
I don't like that.
Then it's just like kind of gotthat bitter, a nice golden
color, yeah, exactly.
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And then you get the chocolateit's like warmed up from the
marshmallow.
You heat up just a little bitin the graham crack.
Man, those are so good but likeyou know, I'm not eating
s'mores all the time.
Right, you go camping, you eata s'more.
Yeah, oh, number five is hotdogs.
I'm surprised that's not evenhigher yeah, I thought that
would be higher yeah, but againlike, oh, I tried the keto buns,
you know like the, the highfiber buns, and they were
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actually pretty good.
I was surprised.
I was like this this tastes forthe most part like a regular
bun and you know hot dog, howmuch, like how many calories a
hot dog gotta be like 100,around 100, that's not too bad.
Uh, you know, like some, likehigh fiber buns, a hot dog.
I've even tried like the vegandogs and they're not bad,
because I know some.
You know the processed meatsaren't great for your health,
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blah, blah, blah.
So like you could try like the,the meat alternative ones.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I like them all those people going out to the
baseball games eating theirglizzies and then yeah like you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Could you throw a bunch of stuff on there?
Man, fucking mustard too, Ilike, I love mustard.
I don't give a shit if othercountries give us like crap
about.
You know, like all yellowmustards, I'm real muster.
I don't care what, if it's realor not, I like it.
I mean I also like othermustards, like your dijon's and,
like you know, stone ground,whatever.
But man, I love mustard, youknow what I don't love.
You know what I really don'tlove?
Uh, children.
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Yes, that's why I had one.
Fucking just gotta give it.
I was very mad at myself.
So no, clam chowder, I don'tlike clams, I don't like clams.
I don't like clams.
Or oysters, fucking sea boogers.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
They're gross I don't like it.
I had oysters only once and Iwas like yeah, that was an
experience that was meant tostay in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what that was meant to do, not get dragged out
.
And oh, they're just.
I don't like shellfish, I don't.
I'll do a shrimp.
I can deal with shrimp, I can'tdo it.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
I got nothing on clam chowder.
I got nothing except ew.
At least shrimp is meat.
Shrimp is different thanscallops and oysters and clams
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Mussels.
I'll eat them if they're there,but I still don't love them.
I don't know.
I got nothing on clam chowder.
It doesn't seem that bad.
I guess there's a lot of cream,it's a lot of heavy cream, yeah
, it's a lot of fat, so I guessI could see that.
But yeah, macaroni and cheese,yeah, see.
See, now we're talking likeclassic, like my wife all the
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time makes tuna mac to mac andpeas, I guess.
So she makes tuna, mixes tuna,peas into mac and cheese and we
generally get like the goodles,which is like the high protein.
They throw a bunch of vitaminsand shit in there and there's
more fiber.
That's a great meal.
You got tuna for more protein,peas so you get technically a
legume, but it's kind of like aveggie and it's good.
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I highly recommend it.
Tuna, mac and peas.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Mac and cheese would probably be number three on the
Canadianadian list, just aftermaple syrup and moose jerky
syrup and just maples.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
As find it funny with the canadians is always with
just like the maple syrup on oneverything.
I mean it's good, I can't.
I can't lie like maple syrup isgood but it's just like it's
just everywhere.
I always find it funny, uh.
But yeah, like mac and cheeseis really not bad, it's just
like you know, like again, youknow, if you do like kind of
traditional style, it's just alot of calories, not a ton of
nutrition.
So it's just about adding to it.
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You know, um, add what you need.
And then potato salad fuck,potato salad's good, bro.
Like a good potato salad, loveit.
Like your thanksgiving.
If I'm at thanksgiving, mostlywhat I'm eating is like mashed
potatoes or potato salad orwhatever, something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I usually just eat the potatoes raw.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, okay, cooked I just see fucking Canadians over
there drinking their maple syrupand eating raw potatoes.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Maple syrup and the potato just fresh out of the
ground.
I cook my potatoes in maplesyrup.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But so what I find?
What I find is that I seepeople like substitute mayo for
Greek yogurt and I'm like I likethe idea.
It just loses all of like thatflavor when you're like nonfat.
A cup of nonfat Greek yogurt isso fucking far from a cup of
mayonnaise, it's not, it's justso.
It's different, differentworlds, right, but doing a
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little bit of both, thatactually kind of works, I'm
telling you.
So you do some mayonnaise andyou do some Greek yogurt.
You also do some sour cream, orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you don't have to go 100% in one direction or
the other.
There's a middle ground there.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I think mixing those two together with some potatoes
which potatoes are greatPotassium, vitamin C, all that
stuff.
So I think potato salad againall that stuff.
So I think potato salad again.
Not that hard man, I'm stillnot seeing fucking apple pie.
Maybe it was somewhere else.
No, this is weird.
Oh, cornbread, I like cornbreadman, have you had cornbread?
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Do Canadians have cornbread?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
No, I've never had cornbread.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I got nothing on that besides, have some cornbread
and like this I'm sure you couldmake it like more nutrition,
whatever.
But when you just get thatsouthern cornbread, that's all
the butter and everything, it'sreally good.
And then number 10 is friedchicken probably.
I mean it's fried chicken.
Oh, you know what I've seenpeople do and I've tried it and
it's good.
Here's the thing it good.
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It takes a little bit more work, but I guess fried chicken just
kind of does take work on itsown.
I've seen people take more likechicken breasts and you can
either like just slice them thinor, I guess, into strips.
But typically I see peopleslice them thin and then do this
traditional, like you know, eggbath and like flour.
But then they do corn flakesthey brought up in corn flakes
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and instead of deep frying it,they air fry it.
I did that once and it actuallyturned out pretty darn good.
I'll say that, like the cornflakes give it that crunch that
I really like I was gonna say,yeah, the corn flakes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
At least give it the texture that you don't really
get when you right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So when you grill it or whatever, just bake it, so it
gives texture that you don'treally get.
When you're right, so when youlike grill it or whatever just
bake it so it gives it that, soI think it's worth it.
I like that.
It's just for me like it's sucha pain in the ass when I'm like
, okay, I've got this chicken,now there's chicken juices
everywhere, right, and I'm liketrying to clean stuff and
cutting it and I'm gonna cleanthis, and then I'm like I got
three plates and I'm like, okay,I've got my eggs, the eggs, I
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got the flour and then I got thecorn flakes and then I air fry
it and for again.
For me, like I when I cook, Ilike to make a bunch of
something so I have more mealsfor the future, like kind of a
meal prep style, like I makedinner and then I also have more
meals.
You can't do that shit withfried chicken.
You don't just put it back inthe fridge and it's fine.
It doesn't work like that, youknow.
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So that's always been kind ofmy issues.
I make it for one meal.
Like this is kind of a lot forjust one meal, you know that's a
lot of cleanup to dothat.
Well, there's a bunch on thislist and I'm not gonna like say
every one of them, I'm justgonna go through and pick some
ones I like.
After number 10, there number13 peanut butter and jelly
sandwich Bro.
I'm planning on making a videohere just being like, why don't
more people eat peanut butterand jelly for the health?
(19:57):
Everybody's like?
Oh, it's expensive and it takesa lot of work.
Fucking peanut butter and jellybro.
Like University of Michiganlooked at like almost 5,000
foods or something and theyfound out all the foods that
take away time or add time toyour life.
The food that added the mosttime was peanut butter and jelly
.
Fucking peanut butter, it'sjust a classic peanut butter,
jelly peanut butter, jelly, andmost of us like the peanuts.
Peanuts like nuts and seedssuper good for your health.
(20:19):
So, like whatever and peopleallergic to peanuts, almond
butter, sunflower butter whogives a shit?
Any sort of seed or nut butter,giggity will be fine, just use
that.
Uh, so yeah.
And then obviously you can dolike whole wheat bread and blah,
blah, blah, but just eat apeanut butter and jelly peanut
butter and jelly poke bowls.
I feel like that's.
Is that a quintessentialamerican food?
I don't feel like poke bowlsare like traditionally american,
(20:41):
is it?
Oh, originally in hawaii.
All right, I guess, did they?
Oh, this is news to me, I didnot I guess that does make it
american then it does make itamerican.
Hawaii is technically we.
It may not be continental inthe United States, but it's
still the United Statesnonetheless.
I like, because I like, I dosort of that.
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But like I don't have, like theraw tuna or whatever I
typically have, like the edamame, like I love edamame, you just
keep it in the freezer.
It's good for freaking ever,and then I usually have avocados
on hand.
So like I have that avocados,maybe tomato, something like
that.
Uh, and that's really simple.
Put it over rice, boom, ricebowl, call it whatever you want.
Oh, bro, chili, chili, though,that's one of the easiest ones.
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Man and people say like, oh,without beans, fuck it.
For me chili isn't chili if itdoesn't have beans, I don't care
, I don't want just a beef chili.
It's gotta have beans was goingto say.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That sounds like something entirely different if
it doesn't have the beans Right.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But people are like no, it's not chili, it has beans
.
Like what?
The first thing I think of isbeans.
I know it's me, so I'm notsurprised, but still.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Actually, wouldn't that just be meatloaf if you
made it without the beans?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It.
It's meatloaf, it's meatloafsoup, meatloaf soup oh shit.
But yeah, that's like one ofthe easiest ones.
Oh, you know what's really good?
Great tempeh.
A lot of Americans don't knowof tempeh.
It's fermented soybeans.
You can get it next to tofutypically in most stores.
Oh, just be aware, it does looklike it's moldy out of the
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package.
Time I ever got it I threw itaway, thought it was moldy, and
then I realized oh no, that'sjust what it looks like so heads
up, um, but yeah, I just get itand then I just grate it just
like a grater, just shred it allup, throw it in there with the
beans and then, you know, itjust kind of gives it this
slightly meaty texture, I guessI don't know a little crunch.
Uh, it's kind of the tempeh'skind of got this like nutty
(22:32):
flavor.
It's good, I mean, I like it.
So I think that's somethingreally good.
You can throw in your chilies,uh, but it's just more for me.
Like in the winter I reallylike a good chili.
It's summertime right now, so Idon't really like, you know, a
hot chili.
That's, that's not.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love the.
I love the dynamic we've gotgoing on here you without a
shirt, me with a sweater it's,it's too hot here for me, to me.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I had to.
I put on a sweater for a videofor like five minutes and I was
like that's too much, that's toomuch.
Uh, oh shit.
Red beans and rice.
Red beans and rice, that's.
I mean you don't have to doanything to that.
I eat that like all the time.
I mean, I mean not red beansand rice, like rice and beans.
You get a bunch of seasoningswhen they get.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I love cooking my rice with edamame that's good, I
like.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I like that that I usually go more like the asian
route with like uh, soy sauceand that sort of thing and like
sesame oil.
But red beans and rice.
When they throw a bunch of likecreole seasoning and everything
like the creole like cuisine orwhatever, oh man, and it's got
so much sodium that all that yougot like the amount of sodium
that you need for a week, that'sthe best.
Oh man, and it's got so muchsodium that you've got the
amount of sodium that you needfor a week, that's the best.
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Spaghetti and meatballs I cansee that that's not bad at all.
You get a lean ground beef andthen you get some pasta.
You get the chickpea pasta orthe protein pasta or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Or even just whole wheat pasta.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Why isn't tomato sauce like?
Tomato sauce is just tomatoes,little bit of oil, tiny bit of
sugar.
Sometimes they'll add a littlebit of sugar Some basil some
oregano.
Yeah, seasonings.
Like tomato sauce is like itfucking don't tell me tomatoes
are fruit, I will hurt you.
Like it's not put in the fruitsalad.
So basically it's a jar ofvegetables a little bit of like
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oil, so like shit, spaghettimeatballs.
That sounds great, um.
And then as you talk about uh,number 23 french fries, you know
I mean right now air fryerfries.
That's what I made for a video.
Real quick.
I just, you know, I got thelittle uh fry cutter that you
just put the, you put the littlepotato on, they go and it cuts
them right into fries and then Ijust uh, like I wash them, get
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the starch off them.
You can microwave them for likea minute or two to kind of
partially cook them.
That way when you throw them inthe air fryer they crisp up a
little bit more.
They're never going to be likethe french fries you get from
deep frying, but a little bitbetter.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So I think, sprinkle a little baking soda on them
when you air fry them.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh, you know what?
I have seen comments about that.
That's right, I haven't triedthat.
I guess I'll have to do that.
Maybe some MSG as well.
It makes shit good, heck yeah.
Oh man, you know what?
Have you ever had a really goodjambalaya?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
No, I've never had jambalaya.
Jambalaya man, so I can't havehad a really good one at all.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You need jambalaya, you need cornbread.
You need some jambalaya andcornbread together.
That's what you need.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Can you make them with maple syrup?
That does not sound all thatgreat.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I guess cornbread is usually sweet, so you could
probably do.
I guess you could add a little,a little bit of that, I can see
that.
But yeah, again, it's usuallygot like sausage or shrimp and
some vegetables.
Bro, jambalaya is so good.
I haven't had it in a while.
I need to do that.
Uh, oh, to number 27 apple pie,damn we had to get low for that
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uh but yeah, it's way downthere fuck being healthy with
that shit?
I Just give me a slice of applepie with a scoop of ice cream.
That's delicious.
Corn on the cob, Bro.
Why does corn get so much shit?
Like corn is a vegetable.
Like corn has fiber.
It even has some protein.
It's got fucking antioxidantsin that bitch.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Come on, you can turn it into popcorn.
It's an amazing snack.
I've got a bowl of it righthere.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, corn on the cob , you could grill it, you could
do a whole bunch of things withit.
I get it Like high fructosecorn syrup.
That's not the same thing ascorn.
Duh, duh, buh, buh.
So, yeah, corn man.
I feel like like for me whenI'm just like shit, I need a
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meal, like I need somethingquick, I'm like it gets a.
Put some rice in the ricecooker can of beans corn, mix
that together.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Whatever else, I have vegetables, you know, if I got
something thrown, they'reawesome if not, we have this
brand of corn, or I shouldn'tsay branded, you know, but a
cultivar of corn that's calledtabor corn, up here from the
town of tabor in the area oh itis.
It is amazingly juicy and justthe right amount of sweetness,
(26:58):
beautiful, beautiful that soundsgood.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I, I mean, I, besides candy corn, I haven't met a
corn.
I don't like candy corn'sfucking weird man, I don't like
it.
That's one of those thingsthat's.
It's divisive.
You love it or hate it, and I,I hate candy corn, like of all
the of all the candies, why it'swaxy and the flavor is not even
good.
Oh, what's this down here?
(27:22):
I don't know what this list is,uh, but yeah, I mean, that's
pretty much the list there.
I'm just seeing if there wasanything else that was like
popping out oh, grilled cheese,though that's okay.
Grilled cheese, that's classic.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I could grill cheese, it's good Grilled cheese,
tomato soup.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
They go together.
Man, I'm telling you, just dipthe grilled cheese in the tomato
soup.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I don't want grilled cheese now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I could totally go for a grilled cheese man.
That's good.
Well, we're off to make agrilled cheese.
We're both off to get somecheese, maybe some high-fri no,
probably just regular-ass bread,I don't know Whatever works.
You got any quintessentialCanadian foods?
That all the Crap.
(28:06):
What do we call Canadians?
I don't even know what we callCanadians.
Nice, canucks, Canucks there wego, they all.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Uh well, I mean, you mentioned it before.
We got the seal blubber up here, of course.
Yeah, um, I feel like I don'tknow I was surprised to not see
um bacon higher on your guys'list.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I feel like a lot of people here going for the kind
of a cross between american andenglish breakfast okay, so like
eggs, sausage, bacon, that sortof thing, yeah, and I mean this
list said like in the beginning,like they'll have eggs and they
might have it with sausage orbacon or whatever um, which, and
of course, it's customary incan, canada, to have a shot of
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canola oil, because canola oilis from Canada, the Canada oil.
Man, I didn't for the longesttime.
I had no idea that's what likecanola was.
It was Canada oil.
I had no idea.
I just saw a rapeseed.
Sometimes I was like, oh, Idon't want that.
Like no shit.
They rebranded Good call,canola sounds a lot better here
comes the train, just at the endof the podcast, to see you off
(29:11):
yep oh, I was helping a friendmove the other day and like
literally the place they moved,I look out the back window and
there's the train tracks, likeyou can see the train.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The train tracks are connected to their backyard and
I was like damn that's evencloser than me, like yeah, mine
are, mine are at least a blockover there and yours is loud.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I was like, are y'all like gonna be okay with this?
Like it's that's?
Look at that shit's loud.
You want that right next toyour house, that is loud, like
literally, like listening.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Unfortunately, my good microphone broke and so now
I'm on the cheap microphonethat's picking everything up.
I can't move.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I don't think I can move to a place that has, like,
the railroads right next door.
Like a few times a day, a fewtimes is too much.
A few times is too many times.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
One time is too many times no, thank you, but hey,
you can, I can go out there andwave them down and get a fresh
maple syrup right off the thetracks, you know, right out of
the storage.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I feel like the main benefit is when shit goes real
bad for you.
You just get a stick and thenlike a little knapsack and you
connect it and you just hopright on board.
I'm gonna hobo this shit out,yep.
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast, which is
slowly becoming what Liamthinks up on the fly, because
for a second week in a row, Ihave come up with an idea, like
last minute, what we're going todo, and I think it's actually a
pretty good idea.
Ready for this, rob?
You ready for this?
I'm ready for this.
Okay, here's my idea.
We uh, what I wanted to dooriginally was look up the most
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common breakfast, lunch anddinners in America and then be
like how do we make them morebalanced?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
right, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
America, because obviously that's really all that
matters in the world.
Anyway, the problem is likelunch and dinner and stuff, like
it's all just kind of all overthe place, because I've learned
that America's a melting pot.
Did you know this?
That like America's big andthere's a lot of different
cultures and shit.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Who knew I didn't I mean it was a melting pot.
I mean I feel like they'retrying to get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We're working on that .
We're making that melting pot,just one thing of I don't know,
just chicken stew.
That doesn't make any sense, Idon't know whatever.
So what I'm thinking is, uh, II have like this poll for like
breakfast, but then I have alsojust like a list of like some of
the most common american fooditems, like food setting in
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america there's probably peopleeating this in canada along with
their whale blubber or whateveryou guys eat.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I don't know, I don't judge um I feel like we're more
of melting pot than you guysare.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I don't I have no idea.
What I do know is starting withum, uh, the poll for, like,
what americans eat for breakfast.
I bet you can guess what mostamericans are eating for what
the most common breakfast itemis right, is it sausages?
Not, so, no, not sausages.
What do you think?
no, it's not rob, rob, rob, robRob, you came to this.
(01:46):
You came to America and sawthat there was just like aisles
of this thing.
There's just so many options.
Aisles of this thing, yeah, wehave just aisles with just tons
of different options of this andwe eat it for breakfast.
Alcohol yes, we have alcoholfor breakfast.
That's our most common fuckingJaeger bombs, and I don't know,
(02:08):
for breakfast, that's our mostcommon fucking jaeger bombs and
I don't know.
No, that's that's.
That's a firework.
I was saying something else,doesn't matter.
Uh uh.
Cereal.
Was the?
Was the answer, rob.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Cereal, breakfast cereal it's like in the name I
mean, that does kind of surpriseme I would have assumed it
would have been more like asausage and egg no, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I thought it was higher than this.
Uh, the study cited 31 percentwho eat.
They eat cereal for breakfast.
I thought it would be more likecloser to 50.
I thought it'd be at least over40, because, like cereal is
just like so common right, I wasdefinitely expecting bacon.
Um, I think that there are someafter that but anyway
cerealereal is like actuallypretty easy to balance.
(02:46):
We've talked about this a littlebit before.
Easiest way is just like addfruit right To whatever you're
eating.
What did I eat the other day?
I had a bunch of kiwis.
I had some like Cheerios,because my daughter really likes
like Cheerios.
Now for some reason she getslike different kinds of Cheerios
, like Honey, nut Cheerios.
And then I just put some likeKiwis in it, cause I had a bunch
of the gold Kiwis and they weregoing bad, so I put those in
there.
Boom Easy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Another one is just using the high protein milk.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, so like you get fair life or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
U?
S has fair life.
Canada's got dairy land.
You can tell they're slightlymore expensive, but the
trade-off's kind of worth itbecause you're getting double
the protein Right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So you get protein with it.
Um, like the some of the morelike, like some people, like the
Catalina crunch cereals andstuff, those things are like, uh
, it's, those are like realcrunchy.
There's something once inAmerica that are like, uh, I
don't know about that, but whatI will say?
Taking like some fiber, onecereal or whatever, and adding
it to your cereal, not a badidea.
You just add a little bit ofthat to the cereal that you like
(03:47):
a little bit extra fiber yeah,the cereal doesn't need to be a
hundred percent compressed.
Metamucil tablets yeah, I knowman like those that's, you don't
want to just eat like purefucking fiber one for breakfast,
but like sprinkling some ofthat into, uh, you know um,
whatever your cereal is.
And then let me tell you,especially in the States,
puffins, puffins, man, those areunderrated.
(04:07):
I need to get some more ofthose.
I love that cereal.
It's like four or five grams offiber along with shredded
mini-wheats.
It's up there with me withshredded mini-wheats.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But yeah, mini-wheats and raisin bran are two awesome
just out of the box.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Man my daughter's been, Oakley's been just
smashing raisins.
So many raisins I'm likewhatever man, just eat as many
raisins as you want, I'm sure itwon't go bad, doesn't matter.
So then, yeah, so breakfast, socereal's like really not bad at
all, and then about two in 10,you usually eat eggs with or
without bacon or ham, so that's.
(04:39):
The next one is eggs, and likeeggs, that's pretty easy on
itself.
I think people just get.
I feel like people get bored ofeggs really quickly.
That's what I see a lot.
It's like people start eatingeggs and then they get bored of
them quickly, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, I prefer my eggs in the form of French toast
or pancakes.
French toast right.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I prefer it in the form of cake Chocolate cake.
That's how I get my eggs in.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I mean, that's what French toast is.
It's just bread dipped in eggs.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, and you can do like egg whites and stuff like
that.
What I'll say with like eggs ifyou're trying to get more
protein, egg whites on their owntastes like sadness, but adding
like, having like two eggs andthen adding in some more egg
whites, it's not bad.
It just kind of ups the protein.
You still get the eggs, likethe egg yolks and stuff.
So I think that's a pretty goodidea.
And then having it with likeobviously it's more breakfast.
I usually have fruit in themorning.
(05:26):
So yeah, just like whateverfruit, easy peasy, right, easy,
easy, eggsy, easy, eggsy Put alittle berries on your French
toast.
Yeah, exactly, that's good.
So and then just over one in 10usually have a bagel, toast,
muffins or pastry.
So that's a few things there.
With the bagels man, like Ithink people think of bagel
(05:49):
anything like oh, just bagel andthen and then butter or like, I
guess, cream cheese or creamcheese, yeah, you can do more
stuff with that right, like youhave, like an avocado thing, a
smile of the smoked salmon.
I'm a big smoked salmon fancan't say I've tried that oh,
man, they got.
They got different ones.
They got like everything, bagelseasoning this or like spicy
ones.
Those are really good with, uh,some yeah, again some avocado
(06:11):
or something like that a littlehot sauce.
Oh so, like you know doing that, or obviously they have now
like the fucking fiber bagels,bro, those I think it's called
better bagel.
Yeah, better bagel is one ofthem, and they are just like 40
something grams of fiber in abagel.
I'm like there's.
You can't do this to peoplelike I get.
I've eaten them, I'm fine, butyou can't do that to the average
(06:32):
person no, the average personis gonna.
Their intestinal tract's gonnadie from that they're gonna be
stuck to the toilet, like that'sjust mean, uh, but yeah, so
like those, at least they dohave those.
Or like toast you could get the,the bread or whatever, right,
that's like, oh, protein bread,fiber bread, that sort of stuff,
right?
Um?
Like jams there's like lowersugar jams, if you want to do
(06:54):
that, like I've been using this.
Like jelly, that's like halfthe sugar jelly or whatever I've
got.
Like peanut butter, I do likepeanut butter and jelly, and
fuck it.
It's breakfast.
Who gives a shit?
Like breakfast food is whateverfood you're eating, right, what
I do like whatever food startsyou off on the day.
On the right foot doesn't matter, or just whatever you're
feeling.
Four donuts, man, I've likecrisp, like I got crispy cream
(07:15):
like they came.
I remember I was like in albany, like new york, and they came
for the first time and everyonestarted going to crispy cream
for like the coffee, because wewere used to Dunkin' Donuts and
everyone goes to Dunkin' Donutsfor the coffee.
So they went to Krispy Kremefor the coffee and were like
this coffee tastes like shit.
It's like, well, yeah, they'renot known for their coffee,
they're actually a donut placethat's known for their donuts.
They're not a donut place knownfor their coffee like Dunkin'
Donuts, but their donuts arevery good.
(07:36):
Krispy Kreme best, healthiestbreakfast ever.
But hell, I'll definitely haveone here and there Dip it in
some protein milk.
39% of Americans have at somepoint eaten cold pizza for
breakfast and I'm like, yeah,totally, I would do that too For
(07:56):
me.
I know you put it in the airfryer it's better, but I just
eat that shit cold.
I have it in a Ziploc bag, Itake it out and I just eat it
like it's good.
It works those are.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Those are the americans that are having a
hangover.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I bet this will help some cold pizza well you, I mean
, that is our most commonbreakfast item is fucking
alcohol, so maybe just throwsome of that in there with it
all right.
so that was kind of like themost common breakfasty stuff and
then for like lunch it was kindof all over the place.
So I found this list.
I found this list of, liketraditional American food.
So I feel like this issomething you know a lot of
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people eat, right.
So maybe how we kind of workwith this a little bit, number
one what do you think number oneis with, like most common most
traditional American foods, mosttraditional American food.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Like what do you think america and you're gonna
be?
Oh, is it.
Are we including desserts?
Is apple pie gonna be in there?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
uh, I'm sure apple pie is here somewhere but no,
the first one is not apple pieum what does?
all of our fast food places sellbasically hamburgers.
There you go, hamburgers withfixings, that's pretty much that
is the number one and likeagain, I feel like this is
really not like.
I remember this was goingaround for a while, like I did a
video on this there was like awoman that was like why are
(09:09):
hamburgers unhealthy?
Cause it's like you got bread,you got, or you got carbs, you
got protein and you got fat.
So you have all those things.
Yeah, throw some vegetables onthe more.
The issue is you get a fastfood place and there's a lot of
extra calories.
So just, we've talked about itbefore A lot of extra oil.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, leaner beef, the ratio of like vegetables to
everything else We've talkedabout that before.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Just throw more fucking shit on there If it's
green or red or whatever, likeyeah, and now I'm going to get
people like I put Swedish fishon there.
Good for you, Tony, fuckingputting Swedish fish on your
hamburger.
If that's what you want to do,I would say, come on tomatoes.
But you know what you got freewill Do whatever the hell you
want to do.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Whenever I go to a fast food place, I always ask
for extra lettuce on my burger.
Sometimes I'll ask for tripleif I feel like they'll actually
do something.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I really like pickles and jalapeno Relish though
Relish, I know it'straditionally more on hot dogs,
which I'm sure we'll see on here.
But yeah, number two, I'm notsurprised.
Pizza, like you know, likehamburgers, pizza, right, I feel
like that's, that's most common, like you know, american foods,
and again, pizza gets a lot ofshit, I guess, just because of
the calories, right.
Um, but you know what I foundat aldi?
(10:18):
They have like some flatbreadsI guess maybe they're not
technically pizzas withflatbreads, whatever right and
they have and they have like agarden vegetable one which is
like a bunch of differentvegetables on there and the
whole thing was only like fouror 500 calories and tasted
pretty good.
So, like they do have some ofthose options now where they
have the pizza crust that arelike hired fiber and stuff you
know the hamburgers and thepizza.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's always a case of if you ate each individual
thing separately, consider ithealthy, but as soon as you put
them together, it's all of asudden bad, but it just comes
down to the extra calories,whether it's from oil.
Sometimes it's from putting allthe alcohol you drink with a
cheese on on the pizza.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
All the alcohol washing it down with jack
daniels.
That's the problem.
But yeah, like you know,there's a like margarita pizzas.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh fucking good margarita pizza I'll often like
I often, when I order pizza,I'll ask for half cheese,
because it's still plenty ofcheese on it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Cheese the cheese.
I guess there's two, I don'tknow, I'm I'm iffy on that.
The third, number three, though, is meatloaf.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I don't remember like the last time I ever had a meat
, really I've.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I mean, I don't even to be, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna
be real with y'all.
I don't really know what's inmeatloaf I'm assuming meat put
into a loaf and I don't reallyknow much past that I don't
think I've ever really heardamericans talk about meatloaf
here we go.
Okay, it's made with freshground beef, savory, breadcrumbs
, eggs for binding, andseasoning like garlic or sweet
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onions.
That doesn't seem so bad.
Beef breadcrumbs, eggs,seasoning, I don't know.
I got nothing on meatloafbecause I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'm sure lots of people also throw vegetables in
there too, like yeah and likeyou have it on the side, like
they a little picture like greenbeans with it or something
great.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, number four is s'mores.
Fucking I what s'mores fuck.
Fuck being healthy.
You just need to eat a s'more.
Sometimes when you're outcamping.
You fucking get that.
You get that marshmallow allmelty and the chocolate and the
crunch of the graham crackeryeah, but like how many people
are eating s'mores in theirhomes?
(12:22):
A lot apparently if it's on thelist.
Apparently this is like kind ofthe most traditional american
things.
Uh, what traditional americanfood?
So s'mores are apparently superit's.
It's even higher than apple pie, which I'm sure will be on here
somewhere, but even more thanthat fucking s'mores.
But you know what S'mores smackLike s'mores are so good, it's
(12:44):
the quintessential camping treat.
Man, when you just get, it'slike you're working when you're
there to get the marshmallowperfectly melted, so it's not
like too melted or burnt, butit's got a little bit of that
toast on it.
I know some people really likefully burnt.
I don't like that.
Then it's just like kind of gotthat bitter, a nice golden
color, yeah, exactly.
(13:05):
And then you get the chocolateit's like warmed up from the
marshmallow.
You heat up just a little bitin the graham crack.
Man, those are so good but likeyou know, I'm not eating
s'mores all the time.
Right, you go camping, you eata s'more.
Yeah, oh, number five is hotdogs.
I'm surprised that's not evenhigher yeah, I thought that
would be higher yeah, but againlike, oh, I tried the keto buns,
you know like the, the highfiber buns, and they were
(13:26):
actually pretty good.
I was surprised.
I was like this this tastes forthe most part like a regular
bun and you know hot dog, howmuch, like how many calories a
hot dog gotta be like 100,around 100, that's not too bad.
Uh, you know, like some, likehigh fiber buns, a hot dog.
I've even tried like the vegandogs and they're not bad,
because I know some.
You know the processed meatsaren't great for your health,
(13:46):
blah, blah, blah.
So like you could try like the,the meat alternative ones.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I like them all those people going out to the
baseball games eating theirglizzies and then yeah like you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Could you throw a bunch of stuff on there?
Man, fucking mustard too, Ilike, I love mustard.
I don't give a shit if othercountries give us like crap
about.
You know, like all yellowmustards, I'm real muster.
I don't care what, if it's realor not, I like it.
I mean I also like othermustards, like your dijon's and,
like you know, stone ground,whatever.
But man, I love mustard, youknow what I don't love.
You know what I really don'tlove?
Uh, children.
(14:17):
Yes, that's why I had one.
Fucking just gotta give it.
I was very mad at myself.
So no, clam chowder, I don'tlike clams, I don't like clams.
I don't like clams.
Or oysters, fucking sea boogers.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
They're gross I don't like it.
I had oysters only once and Iwas like yeah, that was an
experience that was meant tostay in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what that was meant to do, not get dragged out
.
And oh, they're just.
I don't like shellfish, I don't.
I'll do a shrimp.
I can deal with shrimp, I can'tdo it.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
I got nothing on clam chowder.
I got nothing except ew.
At least shrimp is meat.
Shrimp is different thanscallops and oysters and clams
(15:03):
Mussels.
I'll eat them if they're there,but I still don't love them.
I don't know.
I got nothing on clam chowder.
It doesn't seem that bad.
I guess there's a lot of cream,it's a lot of heavy cream, yeah
, it's a lot of fat, so I guessI could see that.
But yeah, macaroni and cheese,yeah, see.
See, now we're talking likeclassic, like my wife all the
(15:24):
time makes tuna mac to mac andpeas, I guess.
So she makes tuna, mixes tuna,peas into mac and cheese and we
generally get like the goodles,which is like the high protein.
They throw a bunch of vitaminsand shit in there and there's
more fiber.
That's a great meal.
You got tuna for more protein,peas so you get technically a
legume, but it's kind of like aveggie and it's good.
(15:46):
I highly recommend it.
Tuna, mac and peas.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Mac and cheese would probably be number three on the
Canadianadian list, just aftermaple syrup and moose jerky
syrup and just maples.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
As find it funny with the canadians is always with
just like the maple syrup on oneverything.
I mean it's good, I can't.
I can't lie like maple syrup isgood but it's just like it's
just everywhere.
I always find it funny, uh.
But yeah, like mac and cheeseis really not bad, it's just
like you know, like again, youknow, if you do like kind of
traditional style, it's just alot of calories, not a ton of
nutrition.
So it's just about adding to it.
(16:17):
You know, um, add what you need.
And then potato salad fuck,potato salad's good, bro.
Like a good potato salad, loveit.
Like your thanksgiving.
If I'm at thanksgiving, mostlywhat I'm eating is like mashed
potatoes or potato salad orwhatever, something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I usually just eat the potatoes raw.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, okay, cooked I just see fucking Canadians over
there drinking their maple syrupand eating raw potatoes.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Maple syrup and the potato just fresh out of the
ground.
I cook my potatoes in maplesyrup.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But so what I find?
What I find is that I seepeople like substitute mayo for
Greek yogurt and I'm like I likethe idea.
It just loses all of like thatflavor when you're like nonfat.
A cup of nonfat Greek yogurt isso fucking far from a cup of
mayonnaise, it's not, it's justso.
It's different, differentworlds, right, but doing a
(17:13):
little bit of both, thatactually kind of works, I'm
telling you.
So you do some mayonnaise andyou do some Greek yogurt.
You also do some sour cream, orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you don't have to go 100% in one direction or
the other.
There's a middle ground there.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I think mixing those two together with some potatoes
which potatoes are greatPotassium, vitamin C, all that
stuff.
So I think potato salad againall that stuff.
So I think potato salad again.
Not that hard man, I'm stillnot seeing fucking apple pie.
Maybe it was somewhere else.
No, this is weird.
Oh, cornbread, I like cornbreadman, have you had cornbread?
(17:47):
Do Canadians have cornbread?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
No, I've never had cornbread.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I got nothing on that besides, have some cornbread
and like this I'm sure you couldmake it like more nutrition,
whatever.
But when you just get thatsouthern cornbread, that's all
the butter and everything, it'sreally good.
And then number 10 is friedchicken probably.
I mean it's fried chicken.
Oh, you know what I've seenpeople do and I've tried it and
it's good.
Here's the thing it good.
(18:14):
It takes a little bit more work, but I guess fried chicken just
kind of does take work on itsown.
I've seen people take more likechicken breasts and you can
either like just slice them thinor, I guess, into strips.
But typically I see peopleslice them thin and then do this
traditional, like you know, eggbath and like flour.
But then they do corn flakesthey brought up in corn flakes
(18:38):
and instead of deep frying it,they air fry it.
I did that once and it actuallyturned out pretty darn good.
I'll say that, like the cornflakes give it that crunch that
I really like I was gonna say,yeah, the corn flakes.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
At least give it the texture that you don't really
get when you right.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So when you grill it or whatever, just bake it, so it
gives texture that you don'treally get.
When you're right, so when youlike grill it or whatever just
bake it so it gives it that, soI think it's worth it.
I like that.
It's just for me like it's sucha pain in the ass when I'm like
, okay, I've got this chicken,now there's chicken juices
everywhere, right, and I'm liketrying to clean stuff and
cutting it and I'm gonna cleanthis, and then I'm like I got
three plates and I'm like, okay,I've got my eggs, the eggs, I
(19:17):
got the flour and then I got thecorn flakes and then I air fry
it and for again.
For me, like I when I cook, Ilike to make a bunch of
something so I have more mealsfor the future, like kind of a
meal prep style, like I makedinner and then I also have more
meals.
You can't do that shit withfried chicken.
You don't just put it back inthe fridge and it's fine.
It doesn't work like that, youknow.
(19:37):
So that's always been kind ofmy issues.
I make it for one meal.
Like this is kind of a lot forjust one meal, you know that's a
lot of cleanup to dothat.
Well, there's a bunch on thislist and I'm not gonna like say
every one of them, I'm justgonna go through and pick some
ones I like.
After number 10, there number13 peanut butter and jelly
sandwich Bro.
I'm planning on making a videohere just being like, why don't
more people eat peanut butterand jelly for the health?
(19:57):
Everybody's like?
Oh, it's expensive and it takesa lot of work.
Fucking peanut butter and jellybro.
Like University of Michiganlooked at like almost 5,000
foods or something and theyfound out all the foods that
take away time or add time toyour life.
The food that added the mosttime was peanut butter and jelly
.
Fucking peanut butter, it'sjust a classic peanut butter,
jelly peanut butter, jelly, andmost of us like the peanuts.
Peanuts like nuts and seedssuper good for your health.
(20:19):
So, like whatever and peopleallergic to peanuts, almond
butter, sunflower butter whogives a shit?
Any sort of seed or nut butter,giggity will be fine, just use
that.
Uh, so yeah.
And then obviously you can dolike whole wheat bread and blah,
blah, blah, but just eat apeanut butter and jelly peanut
butter and jelly poke bowls.
I feel like that's.
Is that a quintessentialamerican food?
I don't feel like poke bowlsare like traditionally american,
(20:41):
is it?
Oh, originally in hawaii.
All right, I guess, did they?
Oh, this is news to me, I didnot I guess that does make it
american then it does make itamerican.
Hawaii is technically we.
It may not be continental inthe United States, but it's
still the United Statesnonetheless.
I like, because I like, I dosort of that.
(21:02):
But like I don't have, like theraw tuna or whatever I
typically have, like the edamame, like I love edamame, you just
keep it in the freezer.
It's good for freaking ever,and then I usually have avocados
on hand.
So like I have that avocados,maybe tomato, something like
that.
Uh, and that's really simple.
Put it over rice, boom, ricebowl, call it whatever you want.
Oh, bro, chili, chili, though,that's one of the easiest ones.
(21:25):
Man and people say like, oh,without beans, fuck it.
For me chili isn't chili if itdoesn't have beans, I don't care
, I don't want just a beef chili.
It's gotta have beans was goingto say.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That sounds like something entirely different if
it doesn't have the beans Right.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But people are like no, it's not chili, it has beans
.
Like what?
The first thing I think of isbeans.
I know it's me, so I'm notsurprised, but still.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Actually, wouldn't that just be meatloaf if you
made it without the beans?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It.
It's meatloaf, it's meatloafsoup, meatloaf soup oh shit.
But yeah, that's like one ofthe easiest ones.
Oh, you know what's really good?
Great tempeh.
A lot of Americans don't knowof tempeh.
It's fermented soybeans.
You can get it next to tofutypically in most stores.
Oh, just be aware, it does looklike it's moldy out of the
(22:12):
package.
Time I ever got it I threw itaway, thought it was moldy, and
then I realized oh no, that'sjust what it looks like so heads
up, um, but yeah, I just get itand then I just grate it just
like a grater, just shred it allup, throw it in there with the
beans and then, you know, itjust kind of gives it this
slightly meaty texture, I guessI don't know a little crunch.
Uh, it's kind of the tempeh'skind of got this like nutty
(22:32):
flavor.
It's good, I mean, I like it.
So I think that's somethingreally good.
You can throw in your chilies,uh, but it's just more for me.
Like in the winter I reallylike a good chili.
It's summertime right now, so Idon't really like, you know, a
hot chili.
That's, that's not.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love the.
I love the dynamic we've gotgoing on here you without a
shirt, me with a sweater it's,it's too hot here for me, to me.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I had to.
I put on a sweater for a videofor like five minutes and I was
like that's too much, that's toomuch.
Uh, oh shit.
Red beans and rice.
Red beans and rice, that's.
I mean you don't have to doanything to that.
I eat that like all the time.
I mean, I mean not red beansand rice, like rice and beans.
You get a bunch of seasoningswhen they get.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I love cooking my rice with edamame that's good, I
like.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I like that that I usually go more like the asian
route with like uh, soy sauceand that sort of thing and like
sesame oil.
But red beans and rice.
When they throw a bunch of likecreole seasoning and everything
like the creole like cuisine orwhatever, oh man, and it's got
so much sodium that all that yougot like the amount of sodium
that you need for a week, that'sthe best.
Oh man, and it's got so muchsodium that you've got the
amount of sodium that you needfor a week, that's the best.
(23:40):
Spaghetti and meatballs I cansee that that's not bad at all.
You get a lean ground beef andthen you get some pasta.
You get the chickpea pasta orthe protein pasta or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Or even just whole wheat pasta.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Why isn't tomato sauce like?
Tomato sauce is just tomatoes,little bit of oil, tiny bit of
sugar.
Sometimes they'll add a littlebit of sugar Some basil some
oregano.
Yeah, seasonings.
Like tomato sauce is like itfucking don't tell me tomatoes
are fruit, I will hurt you.
Like it's not put in the fruitsalad.
So basically it's a jar ofvegetables a little bit of like
(24:16):
oil, so like shit, spaghettimeatballs.
That sounds great, um.
And then as you talk about uh,number 23 french fries, you know
I mean right now air fryerfries.
That's what I made for a video.
Real quick.
I just, you know, I got thelittle uh fry cutter that you
just put the, you put the littlepotato on, they go and it cuts
them right into fries and then Ijust uh, like I wash them, get
(24:37):
the starch off them.
You can microwave them for likea minute or two to kind of
partially cook them.
That way when you throw them inthe air fryer they crisp up a
little bit more.
They're never going to be likethe french fries you get from
deep frying, but a little bitbetter.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So I think, sprinkle a little baking soda on them
when you air fry them.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh, you know what?
I have seen comments about that.
That's right, I haven't triedthat.
I guess I'll have to do that.
Maybe some MSG as well.
It makes shit good, heck yeah.
Oh man, you know what?
Have you ever had a really goodjambalaya?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
No, I've never had jambalaya.
Jambalaya man, so I can't havehad a really good one at all.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You need jambalaya, you need cornbread.
You need some jambalaya andcornbread together.
That's what you need.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Can you make them with maple syrup?
That does not sound all thatgreat.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I guess cornbread is usually sweet, so you could
probably do.
I guess you could add a little,a little bit of that, I can see
that.
But yeah, again, it's usuallygot like sausage or shrimp and
some vegetables.
Bro, jambalaya is so good.
I haven't had it in a while.
I need to do that.
Uh, oh, to number 27 apple pie,damn we had to get low for that
(25:46):
uh but yeah, it's way downthere fuck being healthy with
that shit?
I Just give me a slice of applepie with a scoop of ice cream.
That's delicious.
Corn on the cob, Bro.
Why does corn get so much shit?
Like corn is a vegetable.
Like corn has fiber.
It even has some protein.
It's got fucking antioxidantsin that bitch.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Come on, you can turn it into popcorn.
It's an amazing snack.
I've got a bowl of it righthere.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, corn on the cob , you could grill it, you could
do a whole bunch of things withit.
I get it Like high fructosecorn syrup.
That's not the same thing ascorn.
Duh, duh, buh, buh.
So, yeah, corn man.
I feel like like for me whenI'm just like shit, I need a
(26:32):
meal, like I need somethingquick, I'm like it gets a.
Put some rice in the ricecooker can of beans corn, mix
that together.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Whatever else, I have vegetables, you know, if I got
something thrown, they'reawesome if not, we have this
brand of corn, or I shouldn'tsay branded, you know, but a
cultivar of corn that's calledtabor corn, up here from the
town of tabor in the area oh itis.
It is amazingly juicy and justthe right amount of sweetness,
(26:58):
beautiful, beautiful that soundsgood.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I, I mean, I, besides candy corn, I haven't met a
corn.
I don't like candy corn'sfucking weird man, I don't like
it.
That's one of those thingsthat's.
It's divisive.
You love it or hate it, and I,I hate candy corn, like of all
the of all the candies, why it'swaxy and the flavor is not even
good.
Oh, what's this down here?
(27:22):
I don't know what this list is,uh, but yeah, I mean, that's
pretty much the list there.
I'm just seeing if there wasanything else that was like
popping out oh, grilled cheese,though that's okay.
Grilled cheese, that's classic.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I could grill cheese, it's good Grilled cheese,
tomato soup.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
They go together.
Man, I'm telling you, just dipthe grilled cheese in the tomato
soup.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I don't want grilled cheese now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I could totally go for a grilled cheese man.
That's good.
Well, we're off to make agrilled cheese.
We're both off to get somecheese, maybe some high-fri no,
probably just regular-ass bread,I don't know Whatever works.
You got any quintessentialCanadian foods?
That all the Crap.
(28:06):
What do we call Canadians?
I don't even know what we callCanadians.
Nice, canucks, Canucks there wego, they all.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Uh well, I mean, you mentioned it before.
We got the seal blubber up here, of course.
Yeah, um, I feel like I don'tknow I was surprised to not see
um bacon higher on your guys'list.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I feel like a lot of people here going for the kind
of a cross between american andenglish breakfast okay, so like
eggs, sausage, bacon, that sortof thing, yeah, and I mean this
list said like in the beginning,like they'll have eggs and they
might have it with sausage orbacon or whatever um, which, and
of course, it's customary incan, canada, to have a shot of
(28:48):
canola oil, because canola oilis from Canada, the Canada oil.
Man, I didn't for the longesttime.
I had no idea that's what likecanola was.
It was Canada oil.
I had no idea.
I just saw a rapeseed.
Sometimes I was like, oh, Idon't want that.
Like no shit.
They rebranded Good call,canola sounds a lot better here
comes the train, just at the endof the podcast, to see you off
(29:11):
yep oh, I was helping a friendmove the other day and like
literally the place they moved,I look out the back window and
there's the train tracks, likeyou can see the train.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The train tracks are connected to their backyard and
I was like damn that's evencloser than me, like yeah, mine
are, mine are at least a blockover there and yours is loud.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I was like, are y'all like gonna be okay with this?
Like it's that's?
Look at that shit's loud.
You want that right next toyour house, that is loud, like
literally, like listening.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Unfortunately, my good microphone broke and so now
I'm on the cheap microphonethat's picking everything up.
I can't move.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I don't think I can move to a place that has, like,
the railroads right next door.
Like a few times a day, a fewtimes is too much.
A few times is too many times.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
One time is too many times no, thank you, but hey,
you can, I can go out there andwave them down and get a fresh
maple syrup right off the thetracks, you know, right out of
the storage.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I feel like the main benefit is when shit goes real
bad for you.
You just get a stick and thenlike a little knapsack and you
connect it and you just hopright on board.
I'm gonna hobo this shit out,yep.
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