Plumluvfoods on WICC ep 68 Halloween Candy!

Halloween candy is dead!!! plus what on earth to do with all this stuff!

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And the rest.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Oh yeah, ladies and gentlemen, what's going on? How are
you happy? Halloween? Spooky? I don't know, maybe it's not
that spooky. You Hope you guys are doing fantastic. Hope
the week is going fantastic. I hope your day is
going fantastic. Because friends, my background music is way too loud.
I'm turning down the wrong slider. But that's okay. Happy Halloween, everybody,

(01:23):
I hope you doing. Welcome to Plumbla Foods right here
on WICC, the Voice of Connecticut. My name is Chef
Plum and I along with my co host, the one
and only, the legendary Chef Jeffy, we are your Halloween experts,
is what we are. We are here, we are ready
to talk about it. And listen, friends, I know you're
what you're thinking. How in the world did you guys
make the show? Weren't you guys just in Morocco and

(01:46):
Casa Blanca, Because listen, we're not going to miss any
shows when it comes to Plumbla Foods right here on
wic see. No, no, we're not gonna that happen. We're
gonna be here and make new content for everybody, Jeffy,
because we got some fun stuff to talk about today,
don't we. Absolutely, we do day after Halloween, this Saturday,
the day after Halloween. Here, we are doing it, you know,
as we got to do it. That's what it is.
And we also have to talk into our microphone. Jeffrey

(02:08):
gets so cordibly, does lean it back. Yeah, you know,
it's gonna be a good show. You know, I love you,
but I have to call it out. That's all you
have to You have to keep me on the line.
Just you know. It's not a bad thing. It's not
in an angry way. I'm a pacer. I just like
can move a lot. Yeah, well, you talk with your
hands too. That's what we do, Jeffy Halloween for you
were always a Halloween fan? Yes, like favorite holiday, second

(02:31):
favorite holiday. Where we're at, I would say top three. Okay,
do we call Halloween a holiday? I call it a holiday. Yeah,
I guess it's holiday. I mean, you don't get it off.
But it's a lot of fun. We particularly when it
falls on a weekend. That's when it's really great. Right,
Halloween fell on a weekend. Oh that's right. We're going
trigar treating. Yeah, I tell you it's funny, man, because

(02:53):
my clients are big, big Halloween people and massive decorations
as yours are too, right, Yes, huge, huge, huge huge.
They have a this year.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
We have a gigantic Frankenstein on the corner, a thirty
plus foot Frankenstein my gosh. Yeah, and like a castle
and like a bride Frankenstein underneath and all these spotlights
and it's really really like a hole to do.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
It's really crazy. That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
We're a couple of blocks away from the sixth Avenue Parade,
so it's a it's pretty wild. It's a fun atmosphere.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, my client has I don't know if you remember
what the best way to describe if you ever beal
Juice were like, yes, the tentacle looking things that were
like black and white kind of that were coming out
of the ground and were like, I don't know, it's
hard to It just reminds me of beele Juice.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeaheah, I know what you're saying, Like the black and
white like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and like the underground
world or whatever, right, like you know the upside down
with beetlejuice or whatever.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
It was, So all that is happening in our fouryer, Now,
oh that's cool. It's pretty cool. And they're big Halloween people,
so they like to sit outside and give out candy
and drink wine. It's a big thing where they live.
So I love it. Halloween's fantastic. As a matter of fact,
one year I was there working and I ended up
putting in red contact lenses. Jeffy and I had a tattoo,
a massive like clown like smile that went out from

(04:04):
the top of my cheek bones all the way around
my mouth and it was so creepy. I did the
whole tattoo but to put the contacts in, and my
client freaked out and ran back downstairs. She was so
scared of me. She was like, you can't look at me.
Stop looking at me. That's amazing. Yeah, that's why I
love Halloween. It that's always one of my favorites. And
as a kid, I always loved it too, because I
just thought it was fun to walk around the neighborhood

(04:25):
to go trick or treating and uh, you know, get candy,
and then it became trick or treating in the neighborhood
and then went to the next neighborhood. I feel like
as you get older, you progressively tend to go further
away trick or treating. Uh yeah, definitely.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
And I feel like it's like you want to go
to everyone else's neighborhood like we used to, like you
come to our neighborhood, We'll.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Go to your neighborhood. Yeah, you know, like it was
like a like real communal kind of thing. Like where
I live, there's like four neighborhoods that people go to
and everyone kind of like donates all their candy to
those four neighborhoods. Oh right, right right, because all the
kids go there, like they'll have like ten thousand kids
walk up and down the street, you know, and like
any given any we have that new Town right here
on Main Street in Newtown where it gets a little wild. Man.

(05:04):
I think like twenty five thousand people from all over
come and like, are you know our main you know,
our main street here in Newtown is like very New
England d like you know, super creepy too. Yeah, and
all the houses get dulled up. It's crazy. There's a
lot of kids walking around. It's really really fun and
like it's just I think, I think it's great. It's
very New England and and everybody goes trigger treating up there,
and you know, I think it's that haunted feel. It
has like those oh yeah, big old buildings everywhere, and

(05:27):
like it's like you know, like I feel like the
center of town with that like monument or whatever with
the I mean even it's a flagpole in the center
of time. All the houses on Main Street all get
dulled up and they look crazy and like comes a
big party. It's pretty fun. It's pretty I mean, it's
a lot of kids, man, But you know, yeah, I'm
at I'm at the age now that where my kids
kind of you know, my my twins are in college
and my youngest I think she's going to a party
this year for Alloween. Yeah, I was gonna say that.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
Now that everyone's a little older at my house, I
really get into decorating my house when I'm home and
handing out candy. Oh yeah, you know, I'll put the
fire pit out in front, and I'll get dressed up
and I have the whole you know, I'll have like
the twelve foot fifteen foot gool or whatever like hanging
over the top of me like whoa every time somebody
walks up and it's all lit up around me, and
I'll like hand out candy and like sere the.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh that is fun. See. I just think so where
I live though, because where we have, like the main
street here at New Talk, not many people go into
the neighborhoods. That's everybody's at main Street. So it's like
but one of the things I loved. One of my
favorite Halloween memories, to be honest with you, is during
the pandemic. Oh you know our kid My kids were younger,
and you know, I really wanted them to still be
They love Halloween. I want to have Halloween. I have

(06:29):
trigger treating. So I ended up putting a note in
all of my neighbors mailboxes and saying, hey, listen, we're
gonna go do some trick or treating because they canceled
Main Street and I was like, we're gonna come to
triger treating in the neighborhood. You know, if you can't
do it, don't want to, don't leave it light on.
But you know, if you want to be a part
of it, that'd be great. If you need help, If
you need help getting candy, we'll buy you candy to
give out. You know, if you don't want you to
just leave it out. Everybody in a neighborhood did it,

(06:51):
and they all absolutely loved. Everybody answered the door like
they were all. It was very festive, felt very like,
you know, twenty years ago it was. It was very cool.
That is very cool. That is cool.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
That's that's actually how we picked our neighborhood when we
bought our house, is that we used to come here
and trick or treat. And Amber would always be like,
I love this neighborhood so much because everyone kind of
gets together and yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it's a
bunch of cul de sacs, so everyone kind of like
you know, walks back and forth and it's safe for
the kids and there's not a lot of cars.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
And you know, it's a it's a it's a fun
I love that vibe. I love that like old school,
letting your kids be able to run around and you
feel kind of safe. VI right, Yeah, absolutely, and especially
with everyone neighborhood knows each other. Now listen, Yeah, is
there any the kids come home they bring, particularly when
they were younger, But I'm sure, I'm sure there's adults
and dads who do this now, but candy, Like they come,

(07:34):
they come home, they dump their bags on the floor
and they start organizing and doing the whole thing that
You're like, Yo, all those beezey cups are free, free
pop you know that, right? Like I need I need
my little cut of that. Like what was what was
your go to from them? Yeah? Always anything peanut butter
and chocolate. Honestly, they know they're a better combination, and
not to me. You know, it's funny.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
My roommate Eric hates that peanut butter and chocolate. It's
we almost aren't friends sometimes over that.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
That would be He's not he's not a real person. No,
it's wild, like I'm just he's always like, oh, I'm
always like, what.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you mean?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Uh, yeah, what's he talking about? H He hates it,
like I don't want my peanut butter and my chocolate,
or a vice versa. He doesn't like it mixed. You
tell Eric, I said, he's not even an American. I
don't even like chocolate that much. I don't like it
with peanut butter. It's the best with me, DoD. There's
sometimes even like before Halloween, we don't have Halloween candy.
I would have like a handful of chocolate chips and
a spoonful of peanut butter. Yeah. But so it breaks down.

(08:25):
It's like the Reese's peanut butter cup is the king
of the peanut butter sure, okay, and then maybe Reese's pieces. Okay,
no chocolate there. But the newcomer. The newcomer though, is
the peanut butter Eminem's.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
I was gonna say the peanut butter Eminem's right, And
then this is I'm going on a limb here, but
bro the butterfinger.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Okay, so butterfinger is great. We're gonna get into this.
We're gonna get pretty deep in. It's in a minute,
a butterfinger delicious candy bar rough on the teeth rough
on the teeth. But it's that peanut butter brittle or
whatever that's made, like the the waffle brittle or wait
for brittle. It's amazing, it's amazing, it's delicious. It's so good.
It's like Halva made out of peanuts or something. We

(09:07):
don't give its many butterfinger commercials anymore. Remember we were kids,
butterfinger commercials was a thing. Yeah, because Bart Simpson was
cool with the butterfinger commercials. Yeah, so okay, so we
got we got what we go for. We both go
for the peanut, butter and chocolate, of course, like that's
the go to, no doubt about it. Number one. Yeah,
but what else? What goes first? You think, like, so
I go reasy cups, and then I gotta go I

(09:28):
gotta go milky ways. I love milky ways. And then
I also gotta go the occasional like one hundred grand
candy bar. I love that one fifth avenues You like
the what's fifth avenue again? Fifth avenues like peanuts and
caramel and toffee or something like that. Oh it's a
toffee one right, right, right right, really good, really good.
The one hundred grands always go fast, Big winter big win,

(09:49):
big Winter. But it's like because it's a lot like
a butterfinger, similar, similar texture on the inside, but it
has that kind of rice thing going on, which is yeah,
whatever that is. It's like that crunch there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's yeah, I think so. And then probably Eminem's probably
fall in that category to the little and have you
had a peanut butter snickers?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I have?

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Yeah, I mean bangers. That's a slapping little candy bar.
You know what else is not the almond butter, the
almond I'm sorry. The almond snickers are pretty good, all right.
I haven't had an almond snickers, but you just said almond,
And I'm going to tell you sometimes I like it
nut and sometimes I don't. Okay, Hey, listen, listen, come on,
what we're talking about here? So almond joy in the
in the in the mountains. We're talking to mountains. Yeah.

(10:28):
And here's the thing that's a very delayed gong. I
feel like those I feel like those candies are gonna
fall into our next category, the leftovers, right, because here's
the thing. So let me just talk. Let me say
explain to you why I'm saying that, because I think
about like so the ones we talk about, that's what
you go for first, and the recy cops all that
sort of stuff. Then like you've gone through all that,

(10:49):
like okay, what's left here? And you look down you're like, ah,
someone gave us the score bar. S ko r remember
the score bar?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
What? No?

Speaker 5 (10:57):
I yeah, that's gone well, but like it is from once,
I forget how good it is because I don't go
for it first. And then what's left? I'm like, oh
a score bar, let me try that. I'm like, oh
my gosh, the toffee is so delicious, oh so good,
and like and I always think it should be in
the first, it should be first, but I always forget
about it. Heath heath bar score yeah, top two, top tier,

(11:17):
top tier toffee bar, yep, yeah yeah. And then I
go for the tiny little Hershey's like like variety pactics
given out, yeah, you know, like mister goodbar or like
all right, you know, like those are good, and then
somebody always a sidebar here with these for a second,
because there's five in that pack. Right, we got the
milk chocolate delicious, we got the mister goodfinger good No,

(11:38):
mister good bars. Making you're making up, You're making candy.
It's a mister good Finger. You're combining two different candy bars.
You can't do that. You should be having a candy expert.
You're making candies. Hold on, I got a little I
got a little word salad it because I'm excited. Uh
So we got milk chocolate, the classic Hershey Bar, a
special dark Okay, So are we're not giving opinions out?

(12:02):
You just name it? No, no, no, no, I'm just
i'ma name them all out. We got the mister, we
got the mister Goodbar. Yeah, there's the rice crispy bar.
What's that one called?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Is it Crispy's? No, it's like the red one. What
is that one called something? Crispies? All right, I'll look
it up. You keep, you keep, you keep telling us
the rest of them real quick. There's one more. I think, well,
the the the one with the nuts, right or we
say that way? Yeah, almonds, it's a it's a Hrshey
bar with almonds. Is that right? I'm pretty sure that's
what it is. The Minister's back. I'm gonna look up

(12:33):
the ministers right now. I'm doing something right now. You
keep talking. We can't both do it. So so uh
crack crackles, the candy crackleckle. Yeah, I don't know. I
think it's only I think it's only four now, dude,
I think you get the Hershey's Special, the Crackle and
mister Goodbar and then the Hurshy's Chocolate.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
It's only four, okay. So let's break these down real quick.
Always like, the special Darks to me are like probably
the third best. The regular Hirshey's Bar is the get
just thrown in back in the orange.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
That's crazy. That's the crazies thing anyone's ever said. And
then I go back and forth between mister Goodbar and
Crackle Ackle okay, So okay, all right, So and then
you think the worst one out of the bunch is
the regular Hirshey Bar. Yeah, the old school, the o
g Hershey Bar. So you're going Crackle, You're going mister Goodbar,

(13:22):
You're going Special Dark. Then you're going to hers then
the rigular. Okay, so that's your So I'm gonna go
a little bit different. I'm gonna go. Number one is
mister Goodbar. Okay, I like that. I'm gonna go then
the regular Hershey Bar, the plain chocolate. That's crazy. Then
I'm gonna go the crackle, right, and then the special dark.
I mean, the only thing that's throughly that that's good
for is making hot chocolate. Wow. Yeah, you pour a

(13:46):
little warm milk, put a couple of in a cup,
pour some warm milk over it, mix it up. Makes
a great hot chocolate. It does make a great hot chocolate.
But it's also the best. You're saying that no one's
ever said that good like I would. I would, dude,
I was still so much of your candy. By trading
you right now, I'd give you like all my Rushl
darks and you give me all of your like kit Catay,
No way.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
No.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
First of all, you never get a kick cat for
me because you throw those in the freezer and they're
the best because you get the the double crunch, the
snap of the front chocol the crunch of the oh Man.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Well, let me ask you this, So are those candies
the Hershey's mixed pack that we're talking about. Would you
consider those like the champions what you go for first?
Or they fall in the leftover category? Oh? That's it.
That that'd probably be like a that that's a that's
a dreg kind of in between I think that could
be a drag in there. Yeah, I think I'm gonna
go leftovers in there. I'm gonna call it leftovers. They're
gonna be leftovers, you know. But they're not like they're

(14:36):
like top tier leftovers, you know what I'm saying. They're
not like down there with like the candy corn and
the candy corns the worst, but like good and Plenties,
Good and Plenties as a garbage trash, Yeah, Mike and Ikes.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
I mean they're like a little better than good and plenty,
but still trash. Any licorice is pretty much garbage.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
I couldn't agree more, especially when it comes from a
culinary standpoint, like I don't like fennel, like I don't
like sarrow anise, like I don't like of those fights.
I love those things in different applications, but in my candy,
it's not really it doesn't slap black.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Black candy is not always the tastiest candy. Like, it's
just like because it it always tastes like like it
hurts somebody.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
So what do you think from a color, Well, let's
lets let's keep going a little bit deeper here, so
we're kind of getting there. The why on earth to
be get this candy. Like when you when you're dividing
the candy bags up, you're watching the kids, you're doing
it on your own whatever, and you're dividing it up,
which ones do you look at right away and go?
Come on? You know, every once in a while somebody
will give out like some like weird old school candy.
Like it'll be like beechnut gum or like those beach

(15:39):
I thinks are gross? What are those lavender things called? Remember?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Like that?

Speaker 5 (15:43):
It's like a lavin violet. It's like violet candies. They
smell and taste like perfume and they're like little purple squares. Yeah,
they're so gross. Violaments I think they're called Oh does
that like? I don't know, but I remember one time
my kids were like, I was like, ooh, I actually
love a violament. It just reminds me of my grandpa

(16:03):
for some reason. Well, a little bit later on, we
got a whole list we're gonna go through and talk about,
like we'll give what what's the best, what's not. We'll
talk about that a little bit later on, but clearly
we're now we're just talking about what the candies are
that your kids get. But let me ask you this question, Jeffy.
This is gonna be one we haven't talked about ahead
of time. So I'm going off script here a little bit.
So just ride with you. I'm riding from a culinary standpoint,
from a chef standpoint, which candy out of the candy

(16:27):
bag do you think has the most uses outside of
just being a candy that you could do more with?
And I'll start because you think about it for a second,
because I have answers for sure. You know I've I've
been a part of the Ammy nominated Bodega Bites segment
on Good Night New York. You sure have, And where
they go and they buy a bunch of stuffrom a
bodega and they make me make something out of it.

(16:50):
And one of the things they had had was Rezey
cups at one point. And you know, when you make
a mole sauce at home, and listen, I don't ever
want to say a Moley sauce a version of a
Molay sauce. R. Yeah, I mean you know where I'm
going here, right. You can make you put some peanut butter,
a little chocolate, You can throw some chili's in there. Right,
but you can make it out of peanut butter and chocolate.

(17:11):
So I end up making a Molay sauce out of
Reesea Cups, and now Reesea Cups have become kind of
my ingredient when I'm making it for clients. You know,
if I'm making a Molay sauce, it's just but I
do it more for the show, you know, like, hey,
look here's the sauce. Look I'm dropping Resa cups in
Oh my gosh, what's going on? And people love it
because it adds the chocolate that peanut butter adds a
thick to anyway. Yeah, So, in my opinion, I think

(17:31):
the most from a culinary standpoint, the most useful candy
in my brain is the Reza cup. What do you think? Wow,
I don't know about a Reese's cup being you've cooked
with some kind of candy before.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Come on, Well, certainly, I've definitely cooked with all sorts
of candies and used them for all different things. I mean,
I've a I've honestly used uh uh, what you might
call it candy canes. I've crushed them up and used
them as sugar.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Nobody gives candy canes for for Halloween. That's true, But
I was just trying to think of all, if they do,
we should talk to them because they're confused about the
terrible person. Yeah, and there clearly And by the way, ps,
those candy canes are not from this year. I promise you.
I'm trying to think, like I wait, wait, time out.
They do have Halloween candy canes. So have you seen them?
Like purple and black?

Speaker 3 (18:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Yeah, it's a thing, is it really? Yeah, Halloween candy
canes is definitely a thing. Well, I don't never seen
a Halloween It probably tastes like licorice. Really, I don't know.
It seems like you're probably right, I mean continues, Sorry
I'm interrupting you. It seems like a bad candy. It
seems like it's in the candy candy corn varietal. Yeah,
I agree, i'd agree. Yeah, I mean I just googled

(18:38):
it right now. There's tons of I'm not there. Yeah,
you know, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
I haven't really used Honestly, I haven't used that much
Halloween candy for much other than making like sweets with
other pieces of candy in them and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Like, I uh, I think if I was forced to like,
just off the top of my head, I was thinking, like,
bit of honeys.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
I feel like you can use a bit of honey
because it really is just like concentrated honey.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, I guess you probably could bit a
honey and break that and down into almost anything. You
can make it into like a glaze of something if
you just broke it down a little vinegar or something.
What do those tastes like, the bit of honeys? What
do they taste like? Do you remember?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
It's like a sweet honey kind of like almost like
it almost is like a soft hard candy, like you know,
it's like a little kind of soft like but you
don't want to chew on it because then your teeth
will get stuck.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
In it like a jolly rancher. Oh, it's one of
those right right right, it's almost like a toffee type situation. Yeah,
but it's like and it's all honey. It's like made
out of like if it tastes like it's like just
concentrated honey and whatever it is to make it stay
together like that interesting? Interesting, but it's like a honey.
So anyway, yeah, I coun see how could use that
to do stuff. You can put that in like tea,
like a hot drink or a hot Yeah. It almost

(19:41):
has like a little nutty flavor to it. It's like, yeah, okay, okay, okay.
It was like peanuts and honey together. Maybe. I don't know,
it's funny. I was so ready to fight you, and
I'm kind of agreeing with you. I'm like, oh, that's
not bad. I kind of get that. I make sense.
He go, here's some Halloween Halloween uh candy canes right there.
Look at that's Halloween candy canes. They're orange and brown
and purple and kind of like a yeah, and they
don't hook. They're straight. Yeah, they're straight, like like just

(20:02):
a sugary, you know. I mean it's not really cane.
The cane is a bent thing, right, It's you can
get a bent I'm sure you can get whatever shape
you want out of them. What would you call that,
like a sugar stick or Halloween candy cane? Halloween Halloween
candy stick? Yeah, lick at these kids say that. I
don't know if that is it's Halloween. Friends, you're on

(20:22):
Plumblotle Foods and Jeffy and I are talking all about
stealing our kids candy baskets one of our favorite things
to do. Not really we do. By the way, how
long do you keep Halloween can before we got we
gotta go break in a minute, But how long is
Halloween candy stick around your house? My wife has like
like weird rules about like she's like, you have to
pick out so many pieces now, and then we're gonna
put them up until later. And then we give you
out like a little at a time, and then once

(20:44):
it goes up, it's like, you know, I hit it.
I just hit it at night, and then they get
mad at me a little by little, but they forget
that it's up there. That's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
One of the things that we do is that we
started having like a little candy bowl out around the house,
and like I walk around ignoring it until it's like,
you know, ten already eleven o'clock at night, and I'm like,
you know, it sounds great, this piece of candy. You
know what I could use? I could use a handful
of M and m's. You know, I wish it wasn't there,
But I think the Halloween candy in my house lasts
probably about I don't know, six months or so. It's

(21:14):
a little way longer than it should. Well, I throw.
I usually end up throwing some out, no doubt about it,
no doubt. Like there's always I usually end up throwing
a bunch away, which is like kind of sad, but
at the same time, it's like how many nerds can
you eat? That's the way it goes. You're checking out
Plumblove Foods right here on WICC, the Voice of Connecticut,
and we come back. We're gonna be talking all about
the eulogies from some of our candies that get eaten

(21:35):
first and go down. Plus we've got Gordon Ramsay talking
all about his favorite or not so favorite candies. And
we've got a list that we're gonna break through some
of our favorites and break it down what's good, what's bad,
and hey, well you just shouldn't buy it all. Stay
right there, you check out Plumb the Foods right here
on WICC with Chef Plumber, Chef Jeffey, were right back.

(22:14):
Happy Halloween, everybody. We're celebrating here on Plumb food Chef Plumb,
Chef jeff right here on the Voice of Connecticut w
i c C. We appreciate you guys listening checking us out.
I hope you're having a great time. Hope you're getting
ready to have a great time, trick of treating with
your family, going to a Halloween party, whatever you got
going on. Man, Jeffy, what are you doing tonight for Halloween?
Something fun? Right? Well, Saturday, so it's the work. Yeah,
it's a day. Yeah, I guess it is Halloween. It's

(22:36):
not Saturday. Yeah, Halloween yesterday. Today's my brain's messed up, Jeffy,
and a lot of people can probably be the Halloween party.
Halloween weekend. I think it's like a weekend of I
think it's my problem, Halloween weekend. And honestly, a lot
of towns do their tricker treating things on Saturday, because
it's true, you know, it's like it's a thing. So
my friends Anna and Raven from Starday and nine right
down the hall over there have been pushing to move Halloween,

(22:57):
not trick or treating always on like a like a
like a like a Saturday night or Friday night so
they can have off the next day. Or you know,
they tried for a while to have the government here
in Connecticut making an official holiday of the day after
Halloween didn't work so well. If they won't make Super
Bowl to day, they have to Bowl Holiday, they're not
going to make the Halloween after. Yeah, you have to
get a pretty cool go I don't think any of

(23:19):
that's gonna happen to anybody. It just doesn't make need sense.
But listen. If you miss any part of the show,
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(23:42):
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can get all of our delicious interesting audio. And I'm
saying interesting, I call it interesting, right. Yeah, we're getting
feedback on the show, which is pretty cool, like if
people are listening, which makes me excited. Yeah, I love
hearing that. We get people calling in where they're alive.
That's true. Do you know at least once a month

(24:02):
we had jumping in there sooner and doing a live
show here, Jeff. I know we've had a lot going
on with our trip and all other stuff, but we
had to go back in and get a live show in. Yeah,
definitely many a pre Thanksgiving. So I think we should
talk about some of the candies as professional chefs from
the professionals perspective. We you and I have been in
the business combined over sixty years now, right, cooking professionally.

(24:25):
It's been a long time, long time, long time. So therefore,
I would think if someone's been doing something for sixty years,
that would consider them an expert, wouldn't you. Yeah, I
got my ten thousand hours for sure, no doubt about it.
So I feel like that makes us experts and be
able to tell people what Halloween candies should be served
and what shouldn't be couldn't agree more So I think

(24:46):
we should officially Jeffy on this program right now, right now,
Let's delay some of our favorites to rest and be
done with them forever, and anyone listening to the show
has to abide by these rules. How do you feel
about that? I'd like it to be my lead favorite. Yeah,
Like like you're like, that's why I said, right, Like
the ones you can't stand the ones that just should
not even be I got confused because I was like,

(25:07):
I don't want to put my favorite ones the rest. Yeah,
that just shouldn't be around anymore, and it should be gone.
My least favorite candy, yeah, that should never ever be served.
And I'll start, Jeffrey, I'll start if you want, what's
your least favorite candy? Friends and family, I appreciate you
all coming here today to hang out with us and

(25:27):
mourn the finality of the tutsi role. Yes, friends, the
tutsi role has years and years of making younger generations
happier and happy by getting that little piece of toffee
that looks remarkably like a rabbit turd dropped right into
their Halloween bag to be chewed on and chewed on

(25:50):
and chewed on, to never fully actually be digested the
way it's supposed to be. No, friends, don't want the striggery,
semi chocolately taste define candy should be no, no, no no,
it defined generations. Now, now we have things such as
hundred grand candy bars, Reasty Cups, Milky Ways. Heck, even

(26:12):
Jolly Ranchers are there. Why why does the tutti role
still need to be there. Here's the thing. The biggest
question you have to ask, are are those Toutti rolls
you're getting from nineteen seventy seven? Because Tutsi rolls, my friends,
they don't go away, they don't die, They could last forever.
Apocalypse could happen and the Tutty roll would still be
standing friends. And this is why the Totti roll must

(26:35):
be laid to rest. Were gathered today, my friends, to
say goodbye two the Tutsi role. The only good thing
the Tutti roll brought to us was the wax paper
it was wrapped in. As a chef, I can tell
you those wax papers can be used to light pilot
lights on our stove that continually go out and never
stay with it. Because it's wax paper, it can burn
and burn and burn and last for a long time.

(26:57):
In my opinion, this is yulgi. You don't interrupt, preci sure,
Oh I'm just trying to, like, you know, go on, Okay,
I got her. In the end, friends, it is time
to say goodbye to the Toutzi roll. If you're giving
tutsy rolls away in twenty twenty five to children who
spend time dressing up and coming to your door to
celebrate all hallows E with you, friends, I think it's

(27:18):
probably time to put them away. If you love children,
if you love life, if you love holidays, bid adio
to the Tutzy Roll Tutsi Roll. We appreciate you. We
appreciate all the work you've done. We appreciate what you've
brought to the table over the years. But it's time
to say goodbye, particularly when we have things like Reaesty Cups,

(27:41):
Peanut butter m and MS, one hundred grand candy bars, and,
for goodness sake, the Caramelo. Who would choose a Tutsi
Roll over a Caramelo? Goodbye, Totsy Roll. We wish you
the best, said, you're looking like you don't agree. I
feel like you like tutzy rolls. Nobody likes the roll.

(28:02):
You're a weirdo. Tootsy rolls are like you can load
them into a sling shot and shoot them at people's
car windows. I used to do that one as a kid.
Tootsy rolls are all I see, whatever it is I
think I see. Because Jeffy, no one likes to Sandy

(28:25):
Way Chocolady to listen. There is no kid in twenty
twenty five that likes to totty roll. Come on, man,
it's not the butter pecandy candies. It's delicious. They're disgusting
and they should be gone forever. And I would like
a little credit for my eulogy off the top of
my head. All right, off the top of your head.
That's a fantastic eulogy. Do you have one yourself? Are
you prepared to do one? Reverend? I am, I'm I'm honestly,

(28:49):
you feel like you're scared, like you're like, I don't
know how it is if you like me to eulogize
for you. No, I got this, I got this, you
know what. It's surprising to me though. You eulogized the
legendary TUTSI Roll, and you left the peppermint patty just
sitting there gleaming. And I know how much you hate them.
I don't like how much you hate them. I don't
like mint. You're correct. However, if I had to choose

(29:12):
between peppermin patty and twtty roll, I'm taking peppermint patty.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
I know, I know, I know. At least the mint
in pepperin patty is kind of sweet and not real
ment you're weird, am I? Well maybe, I mean you
don't even like to stop acting like you actually like
a toutzy role. It's not true. I love a tutsi roll,
and you ever have the flavored tutti rolls the worst? Well, man,
the vanilla totty roll is disgusting. Why are you? I

(29:36):
don't feel they were friends anymore. Do you know that
if there was an atomic bomb, tooti rolls would survive?
And I'm questioning whether even if you look at tutzi
roll rappers like you look at the writing on it,
how the rappers designed, particularly with the different colored ones.
I'm telling you they haven't made any new totzi rolls
since nineteen eighty six. It's the same ones. It's the

(29:58):
exact same ones, cuzio roles, not even tottyo same and chocolate.
It's toffee, I mean same and toffee. It's like like
like I don't even know how to explain it. It's
like cornstarch and fake sugar and and aspic and rat poison.
That's what they make totty rolls out of. That's official.
I have a microphone. You can believe me. You're so
full of hate I'm just gonna let it slide. What

(30:21):
are you eulogizing? Or do you want to start? I'll
just let you start. I'm gonna I'm gonna eulogize a
little music when you eulogize or now, sure you want
to hit me a little tune?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Here?

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Are you ready for it?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Not yet?

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go. All right, here we go. Friends.
I'm just kidding. That's not your music. I'm just kidding.
That's it was a versatility of corn from our corn show.
Yeah right here, I'm sorry. Let's bring a somber down
a little bit. Here.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Here we go, friends, families loved one on the day
after Halloween. I think it's time if we get together
to dispose of the circus peanut. Amen, and let's be honest,
good riddance.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
We gather, not praise. It's vague banana ghost flavor. Nobody
likes those.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
It's a front of candy as a culinary prank. The
texture a stale marshmallow that was left in a time
capsule experienced in disappointment. Its ungodly orange hue was a warning,
what color is that? Anyway? Not an invitation? It was
a paradox wrapped in cellophane, shaped like a peanut, but
tasted like a fruit that doesn't exist. It asked for

(31:36):
nothing because it had nothing to give, no joy, only
a chalky, clawing surrender on the tongue in a world
of delicious things. It was a stubborn monument to strangeness.
It was an unhipp uncool, utterly terrible, and I will
not miss its peculiar chew. I'm sorry, you're not gonna

(31:58):
what I just want to make sure I got that
word right. You're not gonna remiss. I'm not going to
miss miss got it peculiar too, and lack of texture.
It is pretty peculiar. So let's be clear, we will
not mourn the loss. We're simply closing a chapter on
a confectionery mistake. It was weird and we hated it.

(32:18):
Rest in peace. Circus peanuts are terrible. Stop giving those away.
Awful bad stuff, Stop giving those away. No one likes that.
Everybody hates a circus peanuts. So our list is you're
doing away with circus peanuts and you're doing with ttsy rolls. Yeah,
I mean, but we can go. Yes, Jeffy, we're together.
We are a team. I mean, I don't want to

(32:40):
get rid of TUTSI rolls, but if I have to,
what if I told you I love Circus peanuts, you
were WEIRDO. I don't like circus. Nobody does. Nobody does.
I packed male number. I've never gotten one and been like, ooh,
that's great. Like there they literally taste like they taste
like a can a low banana cardboard. Wow, they look

(33:05):
like peanuts. Okay, bright orange if bright orange was left
in the sun for six months, Okay, Okay. I kind
of agree with you, Jeffy. And I think there's a
list we could add to other things there and and
but I think that's our main Well, we'll leave that
alone because we can keep we can keep eulogizing candies NonStop.

(33:26):
I mean, I'll do We'll do one more each, hobout
one more each? Want to do one more? One more each?
Let's do one more each. I like to do one more.
Who are you gonna do? Well? I think we both
are thinking one in particular. And I'll save that one
for you because I know that that. I mean, let's
I'll just say it out loud. No one likes the
candy corn like it's ridiculous. You should never be giving
candy corn out, But I have one to give. Are

(33:46):
you ready? And it's gonna be one that's gonna surprise you.
Go ahead, ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today
to mourn the finale of the Charleston Chew.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
What I know?

Speaker 5 (34:04):
Listen, I'm telling you again, Yeah, Charleston Chew is disgusting.
It makes no sense. It doesn't work in your brain.
When you take a bite of it, you expect to
have chocolate e euphoria topped with that little vanilla sweetness.
No no, no, no, no no. What do you get?
You get that little bit of odd plastically chocolate followed

(34:25):
by a styrofoam nougat that has no flavor. Friends, Charleston
Chew's are one of those candies that, for some reason
never even show up until Halloween. How many times have
you walked into a seven eleven, a mobile station, any
gas heck, even a grocery store and said, you know
what I want to buy from this candy out A
Charleston Chew? You don't, do? You know why you're giving
Charleston Chews when it's when it's checkout time for trick

(34:48):
or treating I'll tell you why, because they're on sale.
They came from the dollar store. I'm telling you, these
candies are on top of the same pyramid that totsy
rolls are. No, it has made a new Charleston Chew
in years. They haven't been made since like eighty six.
It's the same ones. These candies are not good. They
are not delicious. And while this eulogy may be polarizing

(35:10):
to some, some of you may be saying, that's part
of my childhood, that's part of my Halloween when I
was a kid. I'm telling you right now, there is
not a kid on planet Earth currently who would enjoy
a Charleston Chew over a delicious caramel milky Way or
even a delicious bag of simple peanut eminems. No, no, no,

(35:31):
Charleston chew is my friends. Their day is done. It
is time to move on. It is time to find
a new candy. It is time to figure out where
on Earth do we keep all these Charleston shoes the
rest of the year, because we can't find them anywhere.
The reason why because they're gone, And don't hit me
with that. Hey, you know what, it's great when it's frozen.
You can Freeze Charleston Chew. It tastes delicious. No it doesn't.

(35:53):
It doesn't at all. It's not good. No one likes it.
You just think you're supposed to because you look at
it and you expect chocolate, the goodness and a little
bit of Anella cree right in your mouth. No, no, no,
no no, it's like eating plastic chocolate flavored and styrofoam
Charleston chews. May we rest in pieces? You don't agree

(36:15):
with that? No, man, You're like, I feel like we're
again top of the head, top of the head. I
feel like I'm like, uh, but where else and when
else in the world in life? Can you buy a
Charleston Chew? Dude?

Speaker 6 (36:30):
They were the best nickel candy in the bin maybe,
but not now free You can't even buy him anymore.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
They're the greatest thing ever. Jeff, you stop it.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
They I just I'm like, I just feel like you
never had one. I feel like you didn't have a childhood. Geez,
come on, I come on, I feel like the band
nailed it this week.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Well we're gonna find out in the third break. All right, listen,
give me your last eulogy and listen, We're a team.
You have to agree with me, and I agree with you.
I agree with you, Sure, I agree with you because
you're my life partner and I just support you. But
I'm gonna I'm gonna like low key eat Charleston choose though,
would you stop it? I'm gonna like if you're gonna
if you're gonna eat them, It's like me left. There's

(37:13):
only seven of them left in the entire planet right now.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
They're so good, all right, But let's be real here, guys,
everyone we all think the same thing. Here, Let's get
together and let's all throw a handful of dirt on
the grave of the candy corn.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
Okay, okay, okay. This is a candy equivalent to finding
up a chewed up crayon in the bottom of a
child's backpack. It's even really a candy. Its texture was
was a dare could you withstand the sensation of eating
a scented candle without the satisfying glow of a flame.
I was gonna stay. It's like eating candle. It was
less of a food and more of a craft project,

(37:48):
made with solidified regret and wax. Its flavor profile was
yellow number six with a hint of sweet and plaster.
The color scheme looked like it was designed by a
traffic cone that was trying to be festive. It's only
candy that could simultaneously give you sugar high and a
profound sense of existential despair. Wow. Lots of big words

(38:10):
from Jeffy.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
There.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
It was the seasonal squatter of the candy bowl, showing
up in August and refusing to leave till Thanksgiving, mocking
the superior chocolates it muscled out. It only legitimized the
use as a decorative topping for haunted House gingerbreads. Wow.
Even then, it was committing a crime against architecture. So

(38:32):
we say goodbye. You were not a treat. You were
a three colored warning. You were a waxy. You were useless,
and you are. We are thrilled to see you go.
Do not rest in peace, rest in pieces, you unhinge,
pointy little nightmare. I agree, I agree, Jeffy. I have

(38:54):
a rule in my household. I don't eat any candies
that were the same color as people who direct traffic.
I don't do it. I don't do it. And I
couldn't agree more. That was beautiful. That was beautiful. I
appreciate that thank you for that, Jeffy, Candy Corn. If
we're gonna let it out, we gotta let it out,
Candy Corn. We'll see you in hell in hell. Wow,
I feel better. I feel like I got a lot
off my shoulders. There. Listen, this this break went way longer.

(39:18):
I thought it was gonna go, but we got a
couple of minutes here. It's amazing. Can we just talk
a little bit about what the wrest of the world does?
Like rest of the world, like don'gle trigger treating. We've
talked about what we do. I mean here in America,
clearly we do eulogies for candy. What's wrong with us?
It's a chef brain, I guess. I don't know. But
like the rest of the world, like there's so many
things like I know that you know, like like Dia

(39:39):
de la Muertos, you know the Day of the Dead,
right m h. I wonderful holiday in Mexico and they
do lots of stuff with candies. What do you think of?
What do you know of?

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Like?

Speaker 5 (39:47):
What do you think about other countries and how do
they handle their holiday suits? I think let's see the
Day of the Dead microphone, Jeffy, do you have a
microphone talking too. I'm sorry, I was looking at them.
The Day of the Dead. We just look this up
real quick, which, by the way, I mean a great
I mean the great parades. I've been in Mexico during
this actually great times. It's really really beautiful. Which is

(40:11):
actually would be today November one, yeah, and November two
or November six, depending on where you are. Okay.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
They celebrated using fun. They dress up. It's to kind
of like ward off the evil spirits. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And they give out these like sugar skulls, I.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Mean, and they're beautiful, like they paint them and they
make them different colors. They paint them with food coloring
and all kinds of things. Are really really beautiful, right exactly.
That's amazing. What about the UK that would do what
they do, they just call bonfire.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Ueen They do Halloween, but then on the fifth like
for leftover candy, like they save their leftover candy.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Usually they take their like cakes and their.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
Their chocolates and stuff and they bring them and they
make like toffee cakes and parking cakes, bring it to
bonfire night. It's kind of like a bonfire night is
also like gully falks.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Night, which is like they celebrate somebody was trying to
assassinate the king in like the sixteen hundred interested. Do
you know what I used to do? A candy corn,
which I would make a candle out of it every year.
Uh huh. You can melt it down and put a
wick in it and it burns like a candle, does
it really? Yes, sir? How crazy is that? If you
melt down it? You put a bunch of candy corn
a pot, melt it down, put a string in it,

(41:26):
and let it sit in there so it can absorb
it and soak it in nicely, and then pour it
into a jar with that string, And my friends, you
have made a candle, which is a little bit scary.
It does smell a little sweet when it burns, but
almost like a caramelized sugar kind of thing. That's basically
what's happening. But it does work candandles. Wow. Yeah, I
don't worry about chemical park. Come on, we can all

(41:47):
use the chemical life just flaming away there. Sure, but
we're burning it off, Jeffy, We're not consuming it, we're
burning it off. We got a few more minutes here.
What else we got here? I think there's a couple
of like, what other places do. I think that's an
interesting kind of take because in Japan they give away
small gifts. They said, it's the concept of amayaji. Wait,

(42:09):
it's not like they regift the candy.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Yeah, yeah, really, yeah, they'll take like candy and they'll
give away souvenir gifts to people.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
I don't know. I guess that's I guess, uh, we
only country that has candy corn. We can't be I
think we might be using leftover candy in other countries.
What they do, they're leftover candy makes sense. Yeah, So
it's like, all right, I mean, lit's I stort of
like giving away like leftovers to people. I feel like,
I mean something that was already you know, I don't know.

(42:39):
Is that weird that regifting? Is that cons regifting? I
think giving away leftover Halloween candy? Is that's a bold move?
You think? Yeah? I kind of agree, unless it's like
like like if I knew you loved a certain Halloween candy, right,
and then I collected all of them just for you, Okay,
and then I wrapped a special rapping what would look

(43:02):
like what wild the wrapping paper look like? Well, it
would be like bubble wrap, of course, on the inside
of a nice box, like one of the fancy boxes
that fold up really cool. You know, like they bend
and fold to like rap and then like like a
like a like the salad bar containers at Whole Foods. Yeah,
like it's like all one paper and then like folds
all up and then it's like a nice tight little box.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Okay, I'm in give that to you. I appreciate it.
I'd be like, where'd you get this. I'd be like,
I say, these from Halloween. You'd be like, weird. But
it's very thoughtful, good news. I've saved every Charleston true
for in the past twenty five years. I put them
in a box for you. As long as they were frozen,
they'd still be delicious. It's gold. Be excited. You're checking
out Plumb the Foods right WICC with Chef Plump Chef Jeff.
We're talking Halloween friends. Hope you had a great one.
I hope you're enjoying Halloween weekends. Stay right there and

(43:41):
we come back. We have lots more for you and
our song, our song of the week from our friends
the Flames. Stay right there. We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Nice drink, so.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Fell so.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
Manzo the Manza, the things.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
We did on how.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
So never sc scared exaipman. He won't start making you.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Jeez, wish up.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Plumb of foods right here on a Saturday. Happy Halloween,
everybody help you have a great Halloween weekend. That song,
my friends, is called Oh Halloween by our friends the Flames. Jeffy,
why is this thing? I'm just carrying children? That's great,
It's so good. It's so good. I mean, this was
a fast turnaround for this song. I gotta tell you what.

(46:10):
They They're amazing, these guys, these guys are honestly some
of the best in this In fact, we're we've been
talking a lot.

Speaker 6 (46:16):
They're gonna let me put together a greatest album. Come on, yeah,
we'll have a commercial for it.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
We'll be selling it. You guys can pick it up.
The greatest hits of the Flames from Plumbo Foods Live.
We're gonna put on Spotify or something and make I
don't know, yeah, we probably yeah, we'll probably put it
out there. It'd be ninety nine cents, you know, something,
just in a little just a little something to throw
towards the guys. Uh, maybe a little beer of money. Okay,
you know, maybe twelve tracks, some of the bangers, maybe something.
I think this is a great idea, you know the guys.

(46:41):
The guys are really into it. You know, it's kind
of like a side project. Wow, so fun. Well, Happy
Halloween everybody. And by the way, if you've missed any
part portion of this program or want to check out
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That's not the website p O M P I used

(47:01):
to be the website p l U M l U
V f o O d s on any of your
podcast providers, Jeffy, that's what we're looking for. Although I
think if you got a plumbo Foods dot com it
takes you to a chef plum dot com. Now I'm
sure it does. But and also if you just put
in Plumbo Foods, it'll come up. Yeah, it's a type
of chef plumb chef, Jeff It pops up too. You
can find it anyway anyway. Uh yeah, you can get

(47:23):
all the episodes there and check them out and find
if you like the show too. Hey, do his favorite
email Allen at w y c C. Yeah, yeah, just
just send him a message and be like, oh, we
really like those guys. That's Alan dot LAMBERTI at Connoisseur
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we love Chef Jeffy, we love Plumbo Foods. Yeah, that's

(47:44):
a lot to remember, though. No one's be able to
spell that properly, so it's not gonna happen. And I'm
not gonna go deep and spelling it because he might
yell at me and say, why did you do that? Yeah?
You know, what do you say? Jeffy's doing sign language.
I mean about following, which is unfortunate because I think
it was funny. I was trying to say something inappropriate.
Ah got you, Yeah, my fault. I apologize, So, Jeffy.

(48:04):
Gordon Ramsey is a fan of Halloween, huge plumb of foods. Yeah,
and he was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and he
was talking about Halloween candies and I thought maybe we
could check out what Gordon thought and we would give
our thoughts and see what his thoughts were and take
it from there. It's almost kind of like having a
Halloween interview with Gordon Ramsey. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Sure, I love playing that. Yeah, why don't we give
it a go. Let's see Ramsey, So let's see what
he has to say. I listen. He's a sweetheart of
a human being. I've met him. He's a very very
nice guy, very inspiring guy. You see on Hell's Kitchen
is not the real I mean, it's him, it's just
a different side of him turned up to ten. Yea,
you know. I mean, if you watch any of the
British stuff with him, he's very inspiring to people, very
very like uplifting. He's a really good human and uh

(48:49):
talent greed and a talented check. I would say of
all the TV chefs, he's the one chef that I
think he could probably outcook me. He's he's a really
great chef for sure.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
I'm not a Bobby play I'm not afraid of Michael Simon.
I'm not afraid of any of those guys. Not in
the least big words. I mean, Jamie Oliver maybe I
think Jamie could probably because Jamie's quick British people because
they speak proper English, nervous. And Gordon Ramsay is a
phenomenal chef and that's phenomenal training has worked his butt
off to get where he is and he can still cook.

(49:21):
And even he says, hey, Bobby Flay, let's do a
competition between you and me for charity, and Bobby won't
do it because Gordon will embarrass him. Listen, man, Bobby
Flay is a og you stop it. He is though
he is. Yeah, well, you know he's been doing it
a long time, man, got it. He hasn't actually been
a cooking a long time though. Gordon still cooks every day.

(49:44):
Been a bunch of pretty successful restaurants. And uh, he
saw his shows and he's still kind of giving people opportunities,
you know, maybe not.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
He's not.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
Yeah, Michelle loves him, well, our friend Michelle course loves
him because she has connections to him from way back
when when Food Network Star was a thing, and like,
you know, he still calls the people that he likes,
and you know, he's like a lobster.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
I think when he likes you, he likes you and
he keeps you in his little circle. But I think
he's definitely one of those people that's you know, we've
seen him at events and it's interesting to see him
with a you know, it's a weird sidebar, but you know.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
Uh yeah. Well my point is this that if it
was a my nightmare, my nightmare opponent for any kind
of food competition wouldn't be Bobby Flay. No, I'm not
afraid of Bobby Flay. What could you beat him at? Whatever?
So if it's like, beat Bobby Flay, what's the dish?
You would beat Bobby Flay at short ribs?

Speaker 3 (50:34):
What kind?

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Just short ribs? Yep, my short My apple side of
portende line I just made it today is phenomenal. I mean,
any kind of steak dish. I would crush him, crush him.
Come on, you're not gonna Jeffy, are you really question
You have cooked me for years, you questioned my grilling skills.
Would you not put money on me? Would you say
that your boy would not take them down? I put

(50:57):
money on your voice, and I would talk trash the
entire time. They would all right, you want to go
really deep, you want to get really behind the scenes here.
They wouldn't take me on beat Bobby Flay because he's
afraid of me. He's what. Oh, there's the whole story.
You're heard here at Plumbo Food's Live. Bobby, we're calling
you out, son. He wouldn't he wouldn't have me on
the show. He's one of this. I'll you know much trash.

(51:17):
I would talk the whole time, dude. I'll do a
eulogy from Bobby Flay. Here lies Bobby Flay here. All right, friends,
our friend Gordon Ramsey who has been on the show. Actually,
uh via sadllite and what's not on this program? We
actually try to get an interview with him. We should
try to do that. Would be a fun show. Be
a fun show. I bet we could. I bet we

(51:38):
he'd get him. We can get him. But Gordon was
on the Jimmy Camel Show talking about some of his
Halloween candies. I don't want to say favorite or not favorite,
but we're gonna find out whether he likes him or
whether he doesn't and give our two cents. Check it out.
This is Gordon Ramsey on the Jimmy Camel Show.

Speaker 8 (51:54):
Hello on Gordon Ramsey. This Halloween. Excited young children will
come to your door with bags open.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
You have a choice.

Speaker 8 (52:01):
You can give them something good to eat, or you
can give them smartish all.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
Right, smarties, Jeffy, here we go. So first candy up
for Gordon is Smarties. I think Smarties are pretty good.
What do you think? Basically, Chalky? I get it, but
you're a terrible person, got rid of tutsi rolls and
you're gonna keep as smarty? Well what a Smarties taste like?
Fake cherry and sugar? Do they kind of? Do they?

(52:31):
Or is that just something you made up to make
yourself feel better for yelling at that's poor tutsi roll.
If I have to picktween a Smarti and Tutsi roll,
I'm picking Smarties. I don't think I like. I don't like.
Am I saying it's an amazing candy?

Speaker 3 (52:40):
No?

Speaker 5 (52:40):
Am I taking it over a milky way or a
recy cup?

Speaker 3 (52:44):
No?

Speaker 5 (52:44):
How do you hate a Tutsi roll so much? Well?
What do you think? Let's find out what Gordon thought
about Smarties? Is you ready? I hate it? Smarties? Are
you smart? You don't like smartis? Nope? Card Let's do
a Gordon thought? He's eating them? Oh?

Speaker 8 (52:58):
They came out the perfect combination of a sprint and tongues, smarters, dummies,
circus peanuts.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Okay, circus peanuts. We already know how you feel about this, Jeffy,
But I feel like it could be a great British snack.
Maybe he doesn't, maybe he likes them. What do you think? Uh,
I'm gonna say there's no way anyone with a culinary
background could like a circus peanut or smarty. But you know,
would you stop it? Let's fair to find out. I'm

(53:27):
like nervous now, all right.

Speaker 8 (53:29):
How it's Saturday. Do you know what circus peanuts are.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Enjoy? No?

Speaker 5 (53:35):
No, it's not candy.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
It's not corn.

Speaker 8 (53:39):
It's air wax formed in the shape of a rotten tooth.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Oh it's on candy corn. Oh, he hates candy corn seriously. Apples,
all right, Apples, so some people I remember growing up
as a kid with throw an apple in your bag
of your trick's treating. I was very upset by apples,
and no kid should ever eat the apple. And of
course you always hear about there's razor blades to be careful.
I don't think we've ever had a story of razor blade.

(54:02):
It's ever actually been in candy. That was a whole
uh uh Snopes thing for a long time. Has anyone
ever actually had a razor blade in their candy or
their apples of Halloween? And know it's never happened, ever
been reported. However, apples not a good trick or treat?
What do you think? I mean? You know you're not
the house that gives apples? Stop it. No, I don't

(54:23):
give out apples, but I like to bob for apples
on Halloween. And this is purely trick or treating. What
do you get? And then, uh, I think apples go
hand in hand with Halloween, though a little bit fall.
I get it, but you don't give them out for Halloween?
People tricker treating? What if somebody like, what if you
know someone who's coming over your house and say they
have like something you're making. You're making all these coveyats

(54:44):
and I'm just saying them an apple. And then like
you're like, we're a healthy house. We have diabetes, so
we have what do we have? What do we have? Diabetes?
And we're giving out the apples to be nice? Listen,
listen because we don't want to give diabetes to other people.
Here here's my thing, Jeffy. We're talking gen pop coming
to the house, trick or treating. If you give apples,

(55:06):
your house is getting egged. Bottom line. Oh man, you
and Wilford Brimley and your diabetes. You can take your apples.
We're not taking them. That beat us. Listen, but can
we see what Gordons are good? They're great, but not
for how not for trick of treat treats. Le's see
what Gordon thought. He's very angry. I think it's a
nice roffage.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Teacher, mate.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Let me give you a big lesson. Buy candy. He said,
go buy some candy. What did you say? He said? Pennies?
All right, here we go. Let's see two thousand and
six things. You'll still give me out pennies for people
who give up Gordon things, people give it up. Pennies

(55:47):
are terrible. Either give it up. Pennies are terrible. Don't
give out pennies. I feel like it's always that one.
I feel it's always at one house that doesn't give
up the pennies, which is yeah, I don't know about that.
You know that's terrible. We did have a growing up
there was a house that gave out dollar bills. They
give up one dollar bills to people that's rich. Well,
I mean one they'd have like one hundred dollars and

(56:07):
then just give it was interesting. We tried to go
back several times. I think it went back twice, and
then they finally caught on. Couldn't get any more shot
to Gordon Ramsey. What do you think Gordon Ramsey gives
out you know, full sized candy bars, tart to ten. No,
he gives out like full size Cadbury Cadbury chalk. Okay, okay,
can we just talk, okay, okay, from England. Cadbury chocolate

(56:30):
is freaking delicious. From England. You're making a face like
someone stepping on your toe. Codberry. I think Cadbrey chocolate
is delicious. You don't like it?

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (56:42):
It makes me all sixes and sevens? Oh like six seven?
Well no, I don't. It means crazy six to seven
six seven. Yeah. That's the kids thing now remember no, no,
never mind, anyway, it's a thing for all the kids listening.
They just lost their mind They just lost their minds.
I'm telling you kids listening listen. I think I agree

(57:03):
with Gordon on all of his uh, except for Smarties.
I think smarties are probably pretty good. I just can't
believe you like Smarties over tutsi rolls. Well, because like
you get a lot of them, you get like a
nice big buy a big mouthful of them, and you
can crunch down. I don't know talking about they're like
Pezz's like bad ugly cousin. It's like it's like the
worst candy of Smarties. Do you think of tutsi rolls

(57:26):
better than the Smarties? Hands down? You're one hundred thousand percent.
You know what you could do with tutsi rolls, which
is awesome. You can collect them and you can make
a tutsi roll abomination where you just like keep mashing
them together until you get one giant tutsi roll and
you can eat it like it's like a song. And
you know how I know that. I know people have
been collecting them since nineteen seventy two and they still

(57:48):
give them out, the same ones from nineteen seventy two.
They haven't made new tutsi rolls. They don't go bad.
You just suck on them a little bit and then
they're all right. Nineteen eighty six was the last time
new tutsi rolls are made. They're a hard candy now,
but until you get them over.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
There are candy down.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Stop it. That is your answer. Yeah, that's terrible. Listen,
you live on a totsy roll. Yo. We didn't even
talk about the toutsy pop, which is like the in
the in the lollipop. Yeah, man, no one likes that,
all right. And and and this is the other one
that I think is honestly, I think a blow pop
any day of the week, A blowpop is over a

(58:22):
Toutsi pop for sure, But totty pops are awesome. And
then the other one that don't really like or the
dumb dumbs. Oh well, I don't think you talk about
yourself like that, Jeffrey. No, you know what I mean,
the dumb dumb, like the mystery meat dumb dumb, and
like the there's no mystery meat dumb dumb. But are
you talking about the mystery flavor. Yeah, there's like a
cream soda, Yeah, cream sod dumdumbs delicious, strawberry dum dumb delicious.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
I don't know, man, I just feel like it's like
it doesn't make me feel good when I get a
dumb dumb or Jolly Ranchers.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Another one is like jolly ranchers. I feel like Jolly
rancher is not a Halloween candy. People give them out,
but it's not a Halloween candy. It's like a day
It's like a Tuesday candy. It's like an old Lady can.
Although I used to sell them for a quarter apiece.
When I was in high school, ninth grade, eighth grade,
I saw Jolly ranchers for a quarter apiece. Bro I
had a fanny pack full of joy Ranchers and had
two pockets, one for quarters and dollars. I could make change.

(59:12):
I was selling for quarter apiece. I'd buy a bag
of my selling for a quarter apiece. Who is stupid
enough to give you a quarter for a Jolly rancher?
Eighth grade? You're going to fourth period? You want a
Gilly rancher. This dude's gone for a quarter. It's nineteen ninety, Like,
what are you talking about? My favorite story about you,
this is what I'm talking about, the Jolly rancher hustling.

(59:34):
Bro I sold Jolly Ranchers. I sold the whole pop pack.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
I had a fanny packful of Johnny Ranchers and blowpop.
I'll hook you up. You don't even know all right.
What about Laughy Taffy. It's another one of them that
I don't really love. But we're gonna find out what
you love and what I love because I got a
great list, and you and I are going to go
through this list, Jeffy, as professional chefs, not as parents,
not as Halloween, not as a candy fans, as professional chefs.

(01:00:00):
Would we give this candy out? Or would we not
give it out? And why are you ready for this list? Yes?
This is the list from delish dot com, which is
a great food website. Number well, well we already covered that.
We're not gonna go that one. But number thirty three,
the Almondjoy and Mounds on the list, I would say yes,
all Maenjoy and Mounds. They fall in the the secondary

(01:00:23):
category for me when you think about candy for Halloween.
You know we talked about the champions, the leftovers, and
the why do we buy this in the first block.
Those candies are delicious, but they fall into the leftovers
for me. But the top end of the leftovers, Jeffy,
Allmendory in Mounds talk to me, yeah, I'm I'm honestly
with you. On Almonjoy, I love an Almaldoy in mounds
on but like I don't think of them at first,

(01:00:44):
but like I think almondjoy first and then I eat
the mounds. But like, but like first you think rece
cups and all that sort of stuff. But like once
you're going through all those, you're like, oh, and here's
an Almondjoy and you're like, I'll eat that, and you're like, oh,
it's delicious. But you forgot that that's a delicious candy.
Does that makes sense? You see what I'm saying. It
doesn't come first in your first thought, but like it's there.
As soon as I see an almon Joy, I get happy. Yeah,

(01:01:04):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:05):
I get it one Like all of enjoy, especially I'm enjoy.
I feel like it's like a you know, in between
first and second tier. It's a close runner up to
the first tier.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Mounds I believe would fall a little low mid mid tier,
mid tier. You might find a mound's floating in the
in the in the sack, you know, the big pumpkin
right top of the fridge that you hide and digging.
You know, you go in there late at night. You're like,
there's gotta be one good one in here. Pick around
and you find a little blue wrapper in the bottom
and you're like, oh, there he is. See I feel
like those candies should be in the top tier, but

(01:01:35):
we forget about them until we have one. They're like,
oh yeah, that's delicious and we want to have that.
But it's like coconut and the coconuts not the something
that I want to eat all the time, right, right,
it's a one in ten flavor. Yeah, I mean like
when I want it, I want it the once. Three
times a year you have a coconut candy. It's delicious,
but any more than you, like I would have been
doing exactly. I love coconut cream pie. I won't eat

(01:01:56):
one every week, but when I have one, I'm like, right,
this is which ironically, if you look at everybody's Halloween
bad they've probably got only two or three mounds in there. Yeah.
People don't give them out like they used to. No,
they don't at all. How about the good and plenties.
They look like little aspirin pills or little tailant all pills.
I mean, come on, trash. Oh wait wait wait, the
allmonjoy the allmenjoys and mounds we're giving those out? Yes, well,
say yeah, giving them out? Yeah, yeah, Good and Plenties.

(01:02:18):
I would never do that to someone unless I hated them.
And for those who don't know, Good and Plenties they're
shaped like Thailand all pills. I kind of taste like
soap in my brain. I don't know, they're disgusting. It
tastes like licorice. They're like licorice, candy, liquorice, soap. Brother
kind of yeah, maybe it is like a.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
Little soapy, but it's like they're white and black or something,
and yeah, yeah, yeah, they're just miserable candies, Good and Plenties.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
It's like my mom likes that again. Up there with
things like the uh Charleston shoes, when do you find them?
When it's not Halloween? When do you find them it's
not Halloween. You can't just go find a box of
Good and Charleston. Yes you can. Charleston shoes and Good
in Plenty are in the grocery store in the candy Wreck.
Can we agree that Good and Plenties were not given out?
We'll agree that as chefs, Good and Plae were not
giving out. No, no, definitely not. We're not doing that.

(01:02:59):
Okay about the Twizzler Jeffey Twizzlers, I mean you know,
I think Twizzlers they make different classic red Twizzler, the
cherry ones. They make different ones now, like there's also
a strawberry flavor. The regular cherry flavor Twizzlers are boring, however,
the strawberry ones still red, but strawberry absolutely delicious. Uh
if you I I love the classic Twizzler. Okay, slap

(01:03:21):
they slap. I'm not gonna argue. I don't hate it.
I don't hate it, so I'm gonna say, yes, I
give that out. Yeah, no slaps. I'm deep in the
one hot to Molly's. There's those cinnamon sugary candies again,
kind of shaped a little bit like a Thailand all.
It's like it's a Latina cousin to Mike and Ike. Yeah,
I mean, but what's the flavor beyond spicy? Spicy cinnamon? Girl?

(01:03:44):
But what's the flavor beyond spicy? She's a hot Tomaley
And what kid likes and would you stop it? What
kid likes spicy? It's spicy cinnamon dog. Yeah, I say, no,
what do you mean you didn't like? You didn't eat
the flaming hot gop stopper, not for having a wing candy, No, dude,
when I got a flameing hot gob stoppers. Okay, I

(01:04:05):
got you. I just need you to answer this question.
Would you give these out or no? Yes? Damn, I
disagree completely. I'm sorry, Okay, okay, Uh it was something
you started talking about little polarizing the airheads and laughing Taffy.
What do you think? Uh hard Todchew. No, I wouldn't
give them out. I'm not. I agree. I think all

(01:04:28):
the dentists are listening and agree. I agree, and psh,
blue raspberry on a side note, is not a good
flavor of anything. Stop giving out blue raspberry anything anything
that is a mystery flavor too bothers me. Yeah, I
kind of agree with that. Heath bars. I think we
talked about this in segment one, but again at second
a second tier category like I forget how much like

(01:04:48):
a heath bar Like I don't go for them first
because you forgetful dude, man, that's true. Milk duds talking
about milk does Jeffrey Ah, milk duds. They have a
soft spot in my heart. My dad loves milk duds. Yeah,
and I'd say yes, and I'd say sugar sugar babies.
Milk duds. They're all in the same category, right, like
this like the similar right? Yeah, what is that? It's

(01:05:09):
like a little caramel wrapped in chocolate exactly exactly. It's
like a little like you know, let's shape of like
a little bit bigger than raisin, you know, kind of
looks like a deer dropping. That's true, that's true. We
got about a minute left, Jeffrey. Let's finish. Let's go
through with two more of these three musketeers. Yeah or nay, nay?
Oh interesting, I say yes on that, but I get it.
I get it. Blow pops yeah or nay yay? Okay,

(01:05:31):
all right, and let's do one more. I think we're
both on this. Kit cats, I say yes, absolutely. Kit
cats are fantastic, dude. Nothing like you eat a kit
cat and someone thinks you're gonna share it with you
and you just eat it. Yeah. Ps, that was a commercial,
But no one's ever shared a kit cat with me. Nah.
I mean the four way I will split, but a
two way, like a two like two cookies. That's a

(01:05:53):
self server. Yeah. I kind of agree with that. I
kind of agree that kit cats are fantastic. One of
my favorites. Uh, getting crazy, that's the hurry up and
finish up music. Yeah, I love a kick catch eff uh.
We come back. We're gonna be getting down and talking
about some things to do with this candy. We're done,
some takeaways for you and how we can continue to
re use this candy and make something fun out of it.
You're checking out Plumbing of Foods right here, wy c

(01:06:15):
c stay right there, We're right back.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Very story brings out.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
Oh yeah, ladies and gentlemen, Happy Halloween. Do you hope
you're having a great Halloween weekend? Thanks for joining us
here on w I see the boys of Connecticut. It's
plumb love Foods with Chef Jeff and Chef Plumb. We
hope you're having a great Hallow. We hope you're going
out to some fun tonight, Jeffy hope some people are
having out. It's hallowme weekend, right, it's a weekend thing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
It's a weekend, baby, It's Saturday. Even though Halloween was
last night. There's style lots of Halloween parties today. There's
also trick and treating things for your kids. Oh, come on, sure,
there's all sorts of great events going on.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Dude, I'm telling you listen. I went to a Phantom
fear Fest at Lake Compounds up in Rocky Hill. Yeah,
you're dude, so fun, had a great time, soul worth
it so inexpensive. I mean, I'm telling you go out
there and check out these haunted hay rides. It's so fun, dude.
We had a great time, such a good time. It's

(01:07:56):
worth the trip.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
If you haven't gone yet, If you for something to
get some friends, go do. That's a lot of fun.
On the way there, you can listen to some old
episodes of Plumb Love Foods. We can get inspired to
make dinner for your friends. When you're done getting scared
out of your mind, just go to any place to
get all of your podcasts type and Plumb Love Food
Type and Chef, Plump, Type and Chef. Jeff it's all
set in the metadata. When you type that in, it'll
pop up. You can find all of our old episodes
right there. Jeffy. That's all you do. That's it, that's

(01:08:19):
all you need to do. Very very simple, Jeffy. I
know we talked about a lot of things and stuffs.
We've covered a lot of ground. I think more importantly,
we've learned a lot about each other here and after
all the years we've been friends, I feel like this
was the most educational episode about you and I. Well,
I think I learned a lot about your palette. Really,

(01:08:39):
I mean, you like Smarties and you hate TOUTSI roles. Okay,
to be slow down. I didn't say I like Smarties.
I said if I had to choose between Smarties and
a Tutsi role, I'm choosing Smarties. You said they had
a flavor. They do No one's ever said that. It's
kind of like gas station coffee. It satiates the need
for something, but it isn't the best of the world.

(01:09:02):
What and you're gonna I just a tutzi rold does
none of that. A Tutzi roll is only good for
a toutzi old is great for plugging holes in anything plastic.
I just am flabbergasted. I can't believe you like them
at your I know, And this is what I feel like.
We're at a real impasse. And it's like I'm a

(01:09:23):
little worried about your palette because like you're saying things
like I'll beat this guy and I'll beat that guy.
But then you're like, I like Smarties, and I'm like,
oh man, First of all, you should never doubt me
when it comes to that because I don't know, but
you've worked with me. I could be a mania, I know,
but you like and Charleston Chowes, You're like, what do
you mean? They even have four fla If you want
to know he's talking about, download the episode here, go

(01:09:44):
back to where I get podcasts. You see which I
was talking about. We we in a second break, We
laid to rest. We read some eulogi and candies that
we think should be gone. And I thought Charleston Shoe
should be out of the mix. You chose two delicious
candies and sent them off to the end, retired the
jersey of two greats way before their time. Great stretch. Yeah,

(01:10:06):
and then there's candies like a peppermint patty. I guarantee
if I gave you a peppermin patty you throw it
back at me. You would be so upset. Depends on
the scenario, because peppermint patty, the mint is not crazy strong.
I know you're going you're like, what mint? I know,
I know, peppermint Patty's like chewing on a mint leaf
and a sugar packet together. I mean, I'm just telling
you I disagree a little bit. I think Peppermin Patty's

(01:10:29):
had their place. They're not the best candy, but they're
definitely better than Charleston Show, definitely better than Dude. I'm
just saying, Dude, stop getting angry at me. We've already
covered this. Ah. I just you said, we learned a
lot about each other, and you know, I'm just like,

(01:10:49):
I just I don't know, man, everything's different now, Well
that hurts. I want to talk a little bit about
some of the ridiculous things that have been given out
as as as trick or treat things, and then after
that we're gonna get into some takeaways and what you
can do with some of your leftover candy too, so
they can take that home with you and do something
fun with it. But first let's go into a couple
of things that were actually given away as trick or

(01:11:14):
treat things from people. Are you ready for this, Jeffy,
because you and I have boke on a field day
with this. I can just I can feel it. It's
twenty seven ridiculous weird things kids actually got Altria treating.
We're not gonna do all twenty seven of these, but
I think it's hilarious. This yeah, this is BuzzFeed. Obviously
it's a BuzzFeed our article it love it, you know,
which is hilarious to me. But my neighbor gave out?
Are you ready for this?

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
This is?

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
This is? Oh I don't know. Can we say this?
I think we say this period starter kids to the
girls and condoms to the older kids. Okay, what that's
a spicy meatball? How do you I mean, who do
you give? I don't know. Uh, yeah, what do we

(01:11:56):
say to this? We should put that neighbor on a list?
Maybe I feel like, I mean, it goes on a list.
Is that that neighbor definitely made the list, There's no
question about that. Keep that guy away from the school functions.
That neighbor is not coming to the neighborhood barbecue. Stay
away from the playground, sir, Yeah you're doing here. Sorry,
your invitation must have got lost. We EVI died, You
must have gone to your spam. I don't know. That's
a weird one. That's a weird one. That's a and

(01:12:17):
it's also a bold one, A bold one. Yeah, no doubt,
one hundred percent of bold one. Like what do kids
think of that?

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
I don't know. Again, it's like giving out tootsie rules, Like,
what are we thinking on to the next one? Oh
terrible person? Am I am? I that bad? I don't think.
I think Here we go it hurts uh. Actually reported
Here we Go by Sarah seven sixteen says potato salad
in a plastic bag. That's not real. It's it's it's

(01:12:48):
I don't know, man, some of these places, I made
a bunch of ptatoes out and put something bags on
the kids k trick re treat, and I gave them
a little goodie bag of potatoes. I'm gonna call a bluff.
I feel like this is why, like my you know,
people people think that white people put raisins and potato
salad and then go down on Halloween because the stories
like this, this is like an urban legend. This is

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like a terrible thing and potato salad and who puts
them in bags for kids? I just don't understand what's
going on. I mean, would you The whole thing is
making me feel crazy. I mean, you're you're the guy
who would have sushi on the ferry. I'm just saying,
would you taste a paloe if it was ice cold
potato salad and it didn't have anything weird in it.
I probably would have a taste. Would you choose over

(01:13:30):
the toy roll? No TOWTSI roll first potatoes, south Way last.
Come on, that's ahtiblarious. One year I got an actual cat.
His name is Levi, and I still have him seventeen
years later. Here's the thing. When kids go trick or treating,
or when kids go to the county fair or to
the fundraising event at the school, don't give somebody else's

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kids something alive. You know what I'm saying, Like, yep,
so rude to do to the parents. Don't do that.
I was just gonna say that that guy or lady
or house that gave that cat away, they're just absolute jerks,
terrible people, because you know, if my kid comes home
with a kitten, I mean, what do you get. It's
just a nightmare. Yeah, and what do they can't have it?
I think that person makes that person in the neighborhood
and the person that gave with the period starter kits

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and condoms, they're they're they're on the same list. Definitely
the same list. Same list. It's weird, weird, weird. It
gets worse, believe it. That's a weird neighborhood. Yes, it's
a I mean, it kind of sounds interesting. I'm not
gonna Lieta in Florida. I don't know, it's not Germany,
one of the two. Same thing. There was a neighborhood
that was a neighbor was giving out wigs clown wigs

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to kids. Another list maker. They're on the list right,
no question yep, no, they're on the list. They're on
the list. House nineteen on the corner. Nop, We're never
gonna talk about them ever again again giving out live
things a baby turtle and a can of orange soda
in in a can of orange soda. Nope, it was

(01:14:55):
a can of orange soda and a baby turtle, all right.
That it seems like that person was intoxicated who gave
those things away? How many baby turtles could you possibly
have to give away? That's what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:15:10):
I just feel like they were like a little drunk
and like they the doorbell rang and they were like
trick or treat and the guy was like, oh hold.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
On, and I was like, oh god, okay, so this
baby turtle. So clearly we're not giving that away either.
And they made the list. House thirty four nineteen and
now twenty six are not on the list. I can't
go there again. It gets worse. Jeffy, are you ready
h a gingerbread cookie in the shape of male anatomy?

(01:15:39):
Whoa again? Who are these people? And where are these people?
Germany and Florida is a crazy place and how old
are these people that are getting these things? There's a
picture too, which is hilarious. It's not even that great
of a picture. I mean, well, it's just not a
good like like like, well, maybe it's supposed to be
a ghost. Yeah, no, it's definitely not a ghost's definitely Nope,

(01:16:04):
that's not gonna be a ghost. I don't think. I
just don't get like, is it an executioner? Is that
a helmet?

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:16:09):
Well, I'm gonna listen. Here's the thing. I just think
that that comes a point in time where it's like
you're doing something as a joke and you're doing something
as serious and you have to just say, I'm just
gonna call it a joke because I don't know what
else I could I could call it. That's terrible. I
mean it has to be right, It just I just
don't Again, homemade gifts are bad idea could not agree more.

(01:16:34):
I think it's just if you're gonna give away something homemade,
it should just I don't know, it should be shaped
like phallic It shouldn't be a phallically shaped definitely, not no, no,
I mean, it's just it's unbelievable. I feel bad for
the family. So you have to like, Oh, your kids
going through the Areta cup. Here's a M and ms.
Oh there's a Charleston truth throw that out of way. Wait,
what is this? Here's a cat? Oh my gosh. It

(01:16:57):
just feels like it's we're getting a little this. Maybe
we shouldn't do that. I was trying to the picture us.
You can see it, but it's not that necessary. It's
not that necessary. You can imagine. Yeah, okay, well believe
or not. It gets worse than that, Jeffy, how about this?
Can a kid goes tric of treating and a neighbor
gives them pamphlets about why about why Halloween was a

(01:17:18):
celebration of Satan? All mean when that makes sense? I mean,
if you really, really, if you really really love Jesus
in America, you want to scare kids on Halloween into
going to heaven? Okay, I'm not. That's you're rage baiting
me into getting into a conversation with religion. I'm not
going to do it here publicly. You and I can

(01:17:38):
get up privately, but like publicly, I'm not gonna do that.
But listen, I just think there's no place for anybody's political, religious,
all those stances in a holiday situation with kids. There's
no reason to make kids into it. I just don't understand, Like,
I mean, how about this, turn your light off, just
have kids not come to your house. Well, listen, And

(01:17:59):
this is one thing I will say to all the
people out there who think Halloween has become demonic or whatever.
You could monitor your own children's you know, behavior on
Halloween and what they're gonna wear, and how much they
participate and all that kind of stuff. You don't have
to like other people's time and judge other people trying

(01:18:21):
to like point fingers. It's like, live your life, live
your life holy and healthy and the way you want
to live it, and let other people enjoy themselves if
they want to enjoy themselves. There's certain places that any
kind of like I don't know, something that can be
polarizing shouldn't be a part of it, particularly when it
comes to kids, and agreed, this is one of them,
or maybe perhaps a girl's volleyball game. But that's all

(01:18:43):
we're gonna say. This guy, Oh there's a story. Okay.
This person says, yeah, there's a story there, Jeffy. This
person says, I got a small plank of wood, literally,
a small plank of wood. Now here's my thoughts. It
rolls downstairs, it's great in pairs, it rolls over your
neighbor's dog. It's great for a snack if it's on

(01:19:05):
your back. It's log. Log log. It's log. It's log.
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood. It's log, it's long.
It's better than bad. It's good. Everyone loves log. You're
gonna love your lug. You gotta have a log, dude.
Log by W Brinton. Stimpy was the best show. Do

(01:19:27):
you know how red button? It's National yak shaving Day?
Do you never know? Powdered toast Man. How many good ones?
How many adult jokes were in that show? And we,
oh my god, I know them all the best. Anyway,
small plank of wood. Here's what I'm thinking. Maybe they
want you to roast some salmon. Have a little seedter
playing salmon at the house. I mean, I think you're

(01:19:48):
judging here, Like maybe they're they're trying to help you.
You know, maybe they know you and you have a
tile out that could be the same thing. They're like, look,
you have a little shingle over there, it's missing. Here
you go boys, put that in. They're thinking, maybe someone
gave you a bunch of you just soft them outfore
you can eat them. So I hit them as the wood. Yeah,
hit them with the wood. Maybe you're you lost your
soul for me in smarties. Maybe to crush up those
smarties so you can snort them instead of eat them. Stop. Okay.

(01:20:13):
Uh someone got a little metal elephant figurine. The house
was giving up little mellw elephants. I mean, I think
that's actually lovely. A little keepsake is nice. I disagreed
they made the list. That's a weird house. There's weird
things going on in the house. People. It's an elephant too.
I feel like elephants are just like it's a sweet animal.
We're gonna go a little faster here because we're gonna

(01:20:34):
get through this list. Uh. A deflated balloon that said
over the hill that's weird. Yep, Nope, they're on a
list as well for the neighborhood list. A packet of
McDonald's crutons. That's it. This is a cracky it's a
real lack neighborhood here. This is like my guesses were

(01:20:54):
in Daytona or something like, I don't know it was
this semi Florida made. It's a hard time, hard times daddy.
He's a bad neighborhood man. Give it out croutons on Halloween.
It's hilarious. A pack of cigarettes from my dad who
was trick or treating with me. All right, that's solid, solid,
move solid. I give out beers to parents. Let's not

(01:21:14):
be crazy when I give the marble reds, we give
the marble lights. Let's not be crazy. Everyone's small. I'll help.
I'll bring the crock pot out with the extension cord,
and I'll have the cider, and then I got the
whiskey under the chair. And when the folks come, I'll
be like, hey, yeah, you want yourself a nip daddy,
and they come right over. How about the one house
that gave out pizza slices but also makes you put
your name on a raffle to it a huge model airplane.

(01:21:39):
All right, neighborhood participation. I love these people. Friends, friends,
That's what I'm saying. So funny. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
I got an Xbox three sixty from last year from
a stranger and it worked fine. They make the list.
That's a listaker. That's a big gift to a child.
How about a mini pumpkin shaped bible. Again, we have
different opinions on this. Whatever, I'm into that. I think
that's a sweet Yet we're talking just to the generality here.

(01:22:08):
How about a walnut with happy Halloween witting on the
showy Happy Hallow. It doesn't say he is Haboween. No,
it's fonically written. Oh no, yes, an Avon lady would
always give out guests soaps. That would always give guests
soaps shaped like animals. Oh oh. One year a friend

(01:22:33):
got a miniature scrap booking kit because I look like
a smart kid. Here we go, Oh my gosh, live goldfish.
Not even in plastic bags. They just panicked and dumped
the fish into our bags. Those people, those people seem

(01:22:55):
come on just not with it. Yeah, people are coming
over to your house or like they didn't know it
was Halloween. Apparently oldish. What were they doing? Apparently it's
just crazy talk. I don't even know what to say
about that or how I feel about that, but I'll
revert back to what I said before. No live animals
for Halloween. Yeah, we're hurting this. And finally, how about

(01:23:19):
a package of hot dogs? I mean it's weird but
also solid in a weird way, you know how, I guess.
I guess they're good. Will you get home? All I
know of this neighborhood, it's gonna be a lot of
fun to go for the first time. But then once
we go through our list of stuff we're gonna have, like, yeah,
we're not going back there again with our kids. Yeah, no,

(01:23:41):
your kids can never go back to that neighborhood. Definitely not. Jeffy,
I thought we'd take the last few minutes of the
show and give a few takeaways on what you can
do with Halloween candy, to make some fun things to
do with it as chefs. You know, we've we've kind
of it's been a fun Halloween episodeboutay, Happy Halloween to you.
It's been a fun Halloween episode. We're just kind of
goofing off and talking about things, you know, But I
think there is some usefulness that can be done with

(01:24:01):
Halloween stuff and Halloween candy and one of the ones
I like, And jeff Y, I'll let you think brainstorm
from minute. I'll go first. Yeah, we all know how
to make rice graspeye trees, right, some marshmallows put the
rice crispberes in kind of mix it together, that whole thing. Right,
here's the news you're ready, news flash, friends, that works
with any type of cereal. So count Chocula, right, one

(01:24:23):
of my favorite cereals, Count Chocula. Make rice creaspe trees
out of Count Chocula. But take the candies that are delicious.
Break up some reasy cups, break up some of those
Hershey bars. Heck, even grab the Hershey's Dark Special ones
we talked about in the first break and break those up.
Put them in there and mix them up in there.
After you take the pan off the heat, put it
into a small and a larger like you know, cookie

(01:24:45):
sheet or something like that, and let it dry. Let
me tell you something. You get the most delicious Halloween
crispy treats in the world by using the count Chocula
and some of that Halloween candy. You can put it
all together and cut them and they come out fantastic. Jeff,
that's I love that. I love that. That's a great one.
It's an easy one, right, Yeah, that's a super easy one.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
The one I like to make isn't as easy, but
it is easy if you have an ice cream maker
like I do. But I love to make like an
everything ice cream. So I'll go to my favorite vanilla
ice cream base and then I take all different candies
and I chop them up and into like different sized
little piece.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Make it super simple yourself. Content use a cannic adas
milk and two cups of milk and just make that together.
And that's a great manial ice cream bag.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
That is a great vanilla ice cream bass, super easy,
and then you know, once it's semi solid, it'll usually
there's an add in bell and then or you can
hear the machine doing its thing. You drop in all
your little chunks and then finishing up and freezing.

Speaker 5 (01:25:42):
That's great. Such a good ice cream. That's great. That's great. Hey,
well more for you you want to get crazy, you
want to make some Halloween bark melt down some chocolate
and then top it with all of the candy you
don't like. Just pour it on a sheet pan. Top
it with the candy you don't like. I'm not saying
use those good and plenty. I'm not saying use anything licorice,
but some of the other candies we talked about. You

(01:26:03):
want to take those Charles and Jews and put them
on there, put them on top of it. You wanna
pu those toty rolls off it, put them on top
of it. A great way to use it, and you
get this beautiful chocolate bark with the candy pieces on top.
How Halloween is? That's I love all this.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
You know, it's fun to take candy and melt it
down and make it into other stuff. Like you take
a hole all those candies and just melt them on
a sheet pan. It becomes a bark.

Speaker 5 (01:26:24):
Oh how about that? Yeah, I guess it does. It's
just like you just lay them all out. I've done that,
and you just like bake them for a while and
then pull you know, melts together to kind of pap
it together with a rubber spatula, and then you have
this like weird melted like you know, Hodgepodge of all
the different things. I love that we're getting down to
the wire here. But the last one for me, Jeffy, is, Hey,
you want to make it simple, baker, go to the store,

(01:26:44):
get yourself a yellow cake batter, cake kit or whatever,
and mix it all together and then toss in the
candy you don't like right into that batter and bake it.
I'm telling you what. You'd be surprised how great it
comes out. Jeffy, Dude, that is a great idea. In fact,
I've done that with nerds. We had a ton of
nerds come on. We computed all into a cake batter
and it was so good. We didn't talk about nerds.
What a great candy. What about nerd clusters? Yeah, nerd

(01:27:08):
clusters are the bomb. Or ropes, Oh, the ropes are
the best. What about runts? Remember runs? Those are great?
Hate them? Should gum be in your Halloween bag or no?
Oh well if it's in a lollipop, I don't know.
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(01:27:29):
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rolls

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
And the rest