Friend's House

Listeners share their favorite food memories from a friend's house.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_02 (00:19):
Hello and welcome to Treatland.
This is the podcast where you,the listener, share your
favorite food memories fromchildhood.
We'll be playing your audioclips and reading your stories,
and we'll definitely be sharinga few of our own along the way.
Each episode has its ownfood-related theme.
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(00:43):
Hello everyone.
As you probably notice, ifyou're a subscriber or someone
that submitted a story, it'sbeen quite a while since I put
one out, and I did not mean forit to go that long, and I was
looking.
And last time I put an episodeout was in October of 2024.
And then right away I asked fornew stories for this theme

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today, which is food memories ata friend's house.
And I got responses right awaybecause I felt that this topic
would really resonate withpeople.
And it seemed to.
And I feel like a lot of thestories today are really cute
and really kind of heartwarmingand like definitely bring me

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back and make me think of otherfood at friends' houses that I
remember very significantly thatI forgot to include at the time.
But anyway, I really appreciateyou for being patient.
And if you submitted a storyagain, I apologize that it took
so long.
I want to continue to do these.

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I know it's been a while, but Ialways have fun with it, and it
makes me happy just hearingpeople reminisce.
I don't know, it's justheartwarming for me, so I really
appreciate it, and I hope youenjoyed the episode.

SPEAKER_08 (02:02):
I grew up in a pretty religious household.
I went to public school, butmost of my friends were from
church.
This all changed in 1994 when Imet my lifelong best friend
John.
Now let me say we're both veryfortunate to come from loving,
caring families, but everythingelse about the environments we
grew up in were very different,including the food.

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Yes, there were some food itemsthat you could find at my place,
like peanut butter and jam.
But it ain't going on whitewonder bread like at my house.
It's going on whole wheat ormulti-grain.
And you could absolutely pouryourself a bowl of cereal at
John's, but you better believeit's going to be cornbread.
When I would stay over fordinner at his place, the house

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would be filled with differentwonderful aromas as his dad
would cook.
I tried tofu, fresh springrolls, and so many other
different types of food at sucha young age that I never would
have tried had it not been forJohn and his hippie parents.
As I said at the beginning, Johnand I are lifelong best friends.
Heck, I saw him yesterday.
And every now and then I get togo back to his parents' house

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that's still filled with thosewonderful aromas from 30 years
ago.

SPEAKER_01 (03:13):
My mom was a really good, she still is a really good
baker and a really great cook.
So we didn't really have likepackaged snack food around in
our house.
So like things like Pop Tartswere such a nice, like a big
treat that we used to get themin our Christmas stockings.
And they didn't, they were justnot like around our house.
But my neighbor down this downthe road, my best childhood

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friend and neighbor, her mom hadthat stuff in their pantry all
the time, every day.
So we went after school and justlike raided her pantry and then
went and played in the woods forthe rest of the afternoon until
dinner.
But she had stuff in there likePresident's Choice granola bars
that were like chocolate chip,they're super good.

(03:59):
And Stella Dora breakfast treatsthat I I've never seen them like
I never saw them before orsince.
And this is like the the 80s,you know, like mid-80s.
And they had like regularPop-Tars and they also had a lot
of knockoff Pop-Tarts, whichwere actually pretty good, and
ramen noodles and just all thislike packaged stuff, convenience

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food that was perfect for whenwe got out of school, you know,
and had needed to do something.
But I, you know, when you saidthat the episode was food at
other people's houses, Iremembered like I don't know if
everyone is hyper aware of whatwhat you know things there were
to eat at everyone else'shouses, boy, but we sure were
when we were little, at least Iwas.

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Like one house on our street,the woman had fresh-made iced
tea, you know, that you can doin the sun.
Oh my gosh, it was so good.
And another woman had a bowl ofcandy by her front door, and
then also a bowl of dogbiscuits.
Like if you know, if yousomebody visited with a dog.
And I remember one time we wentthere and my sister was like, I

(05:01):
don't know, maybe nine years oldor so, and she took the dog
biscuit and ate that.
And we just thought that was sofunny.

SPEAKER_04 (05:08):
What's up, everybody?
This is Garrett over at Born toBe Rad.
And this topic of going to afriend's house and things like
sleepovers and snacks, and itreally just kind of makes me
reminisce about my childhood ofthe 80s and 90s, because what
was so fun about that was notonly just hanging out with your
friend, and you know, it waskind of pre-internet and stuff
like that, but I always likedthat they always had different

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foods than I would get.
My parents were kind of strictwith specific things, like we
never had like sugary cereals oranything like that.
So going to a friend's housewhere they were allowed to have
all that stuff was justmind-blowing to me.
And it was always one of thosethings that every time I went to
someone's house, I was like, oh,they always have like the good
cereal, like the fruit loops,and there was even like rice

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crispy treats cereal and stufflike that hanging out in their
pantry.
And it was always one of thosethings where, you know, in the
morning of a sleepover, you'relike, all right, great, I get to
have that cereal.
And other things, like when youwere at their house, you knew
they had kind of like thesespecific snacks that you wanted.
You always like go to them andbe like, hey, are you hungry?
Like trying to get them to toagree to have some food.
And then the worst part was whenthe kid would yell out and say,

(06:15):
Mom, Garrett wants a snack, andI'd be like, No, no, no, I
don't, no, no, no, I'm fine, I'mfine.
But you always try to get themto kind of buy into the idea
that you were hungry because youreally just wanted to have some
of the food that uh they have attheir house you didn't.
So just a really cool memorykind of going back in time and
thinking about you know thosetimes of being a kid and going
to someone else's house where itwas just kind of a whole new

(06:35):
world when it came to food andsnacks and drinks and stuff like
that.

SPEAKER_00 (06:43):
So, one of my food memories from a friend's house
was probably when I was in fifthgrade, I had a friend named
Najwa, and we lived in the sameapartment complex together, and
we'd walk to school togetherevery day to and from.
And I would always stop at herhouse, and one of the items that
she would always make, and I'dnever even thought to make this

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before she did, she would eithertoast a piece of bread or she
would take a plain bagel, shewould slap a piece of American
cheese on it, and she would nukeit.
Now the bread she would toastfirst, then put the cheese on,
then stick it in the microwavefor I don't know, 10-15 seconds
or something.
And what was weird about thebagel was when you didn't toast

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it and you just stuck the bagelin the microwave with the
American cheese on it, it becamevery like chewy.
And to my I don't know, fifthgrade self, that was delicious.

SPEAKER_07 (07:39):
So for my party or hangout get together memory,
what a surprise.
The one I'm bringing up was thisamazing birthday Halloween
mashup that I was invited to.
I believe my buddy Mike'sbirthday was somewhere in late

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October, close to Halloween, andthe parents decided to still
have a birthday celebration, butsort of with a mix of balloons
and Halloween decorations.
There was this costume contestgame where you had to you know
run around and put the costumeon.
Of course, the gift that I gothim was these awesome Sub-Zero

(08:26):
G.I.
Joe toys that that were coming.
Anyway, so the big thing thatstood out to me with the food,
of course, was the Rice Krispietreats.
They had these really neatspider web cobwebs on them,
homemade candied apples andcaramel apples with different
colored sprinkles.
And I remember, of course,orange and black being, you

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know, sprinkles and differentcolors that were on the cupcakes
and brownies and brownies witheyes, and of course, the dirt
pie with the gummy worms.
Like I definitely remember thatwas there.
And and then, of course,homemade pizza was, I believe,
was one of the foods, and youknow, probably pretzels and

(09:09):
chips.
But I really most especiallyremember the rice krispie treat
standing out to me.
And it was just neat the way shehad done these black lines to
form spider webs on the on therice krispie treats, and then of
course cupcakes that had likelittle spider designs on them.

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And that was really neat.
So just you know, once again,this was a birthday party, you
know, and there was, you know,birthday gifts, of course, and
balloons, and we watched Casper.
But at the same time, it washeavily a Halloween, you know,
was happening.
So just such an intense, awesomeparty to get invited to when

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you're younger, and definitelysome great food memories.

SPEAKER_05 (09:58):
I was a really young girl, maybe seven or eight years
old, and was visiting with myfamily, my grandparents and
aunts and uncles and cousins upin the upper peninsula of
Michigan.
And I couldn't have been morethan seven, maybe eight years
old.
And for the first time, I wasinvited to go fishing with my
grandpa and my dad the nextmorning.

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And I remember being woken upwhen it was dark outside, and I
remember it was like fouro'clock in the morning, and I
woke up to the smell of coffeeand bacon.
And to this day, I don't knowwhy, maybe because I knew I was
going on an adventure thatinvolved bears and fish and my

(10:42):
grandpa's old Ford pickup truck.
But to this day, bacon andcoffee, bacon in particular,
always feels like such a treat.
Okay, here's another quicklittle one.
So I was much younger, maybefive or six years old, hanging
out with a little neighborhoodgirl who became my best friend.

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Her name was Tina, and we weresneaking around her parents'
house, and we kept going intolike dress drawers and clothes
drawers, and we startedcollecting these big, brightly
colored, what looked to be likegiant sweet tarts, you know,
those those pink and purple andlight blue sweet tarts, and we

(11:24):
were kind of trying to gatherthem in our pockets.
And then we ran back to her roomand we pull out these giant
sweet tarts, and we were soexcited that we'd found like
five or six of them.
And next thing we know, we bothbit down on one of these giant
sweet tarts, and they turned outthey were those those one of
those funny little aromaticthings that you put in your

(11:47):
drawers to keep your clothesfresh, smelling fresh.
So to this to this day, I Ican't eat sweet tarts.

SPEAKER_11 (12:03):
I have two memories about enjoying food over
friends' houses.
One was in fourth grade.
There was a girl named Vickythat I met while I was in fourth
grade, and it was one of thosesituations where you just kind
of find somebody in class thatyou can kind of talk to, and you
haven't become like super goodfriends yet, but you're kind of
like just trying to find yourway and trying to find your
friend group.
And there was this girl, Vicki,who was really nice, and she was

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the shy girl in the class.
I didn't really have a lot incommon with her, but she was
also very friendly.
And my mom really wanted me tostart having sleepovers and
getting more social.
But so I went I remembersleeping over her house one day,
and she had these things calledpickle chips.
Now, they weren't Lay's, and Ihonestly can't remember the
brand they were.

(12:46):
It was so long ago.
They might not even make themanymore, they might be
reformulated, but basically theywere just potato chips that had
a distinct pickle flavoring.
And they were better than Lay's,the pickle chips that I r you
know they have out now.
But these were so good.
I just remember being soaddicted to them that every time
I went over her house, likethat's all I wanted to eat was

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the were those pickle chips.
And she also turned me on to theRitz cheesecrackers as well in
lunch.
So yeah, that was another thingthat became a fast addiction.
But this is like the mid-90s.
So I remember we would we wouldsit around her TV and we watched
that old MTV show called I thinkit was 15 or something like
that.

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It was like one of those likeearly MTV soap opera type shows,
really bad acting, but it wasone of those things we would
just sit around the TV, eatpickle chips, eat the recipe at
the cheesecrackers, and it wasgreat.
Another memory I have is when Ifirst started college in 2001,
my best friend Bethany and I, welived so close together, I would

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often just walk to her house.
It's about a 10-minute walk, butI wouldn't even go at night, I
had no problem walking there.
And one of the things we woulddo, since it was so new and
novel at the time, was go on toAOL and just like you know,
instant message people, and wewould order Domino's pizza
because that was, you know, backin the day, that was like super,
super cheap.
And we would just order like oneof those personal pies and split

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it.
So those are two really distinctmemories I have surrounding food
over friends' houses.

SPEAKER_02 (14:18):
Growing up, my two best friends were two brothers,
and they came from a familywhere they had a sister, so
there were three kids, and theirparents were my godparents, and
my best memories growing up werespending time with them.
During the summer, we'd go toamusement parks.
During the winter, we'd havesleepovers, we would spend

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holidays together sometimes, andthey were by far the funniest
two boys that I knew, and theywere like brothers to me because
I spent so much time with them.
Our parents were always reallyloose, but they would let us
kind of get away with anything.
We would watch SNL, we wouldwatch R-rated movies, we would

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watch scary movies all the time.
There were no restrictions onwhat we could watch, and so a
lot of the time we would gettogether, and often our parents
and their parents would all sitaround and we would watch
Saturday Night Live together andstay up late and eat pizza and
all sorts of snacks.
And so we were just used to thisfun experience with them anytime

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we were together.
Some of my best times were whenit was just me and Jesse and
Luke, and we would have asleepover at their house, and we
would go in the basement, andthey had a computer down there,
and we'd be downloading music onLimoyer and Napster, and it
would be taking hours and hours.
Sometimes it would take allnight.

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Overnight, the song would stillbe downloading by morning.
We would watch weird shows andalways run a bunch of stuff from
Blockbuster, and sometimes we'dstay up to like five in the
morning.
But one of my favorite thingswas their mom would always heat
up a bunch of mini tombstonedeep dish pizzas, the kind that
had the pepperoni, and she wouldcut them up into like six

(16:07):
different slices.
So they were these triangularslices, and they were really
thick, and she'd bring down aplate and they'd be like stacked
up.
The sauce was very uniquebecause I had never had
tombstone pizza before, exceptat their house.
And the pepperoni, I remember itwas like a little bit spicier,

(16:27):
and the dough was soft but alsocrispy on the edges.
It was kind of baked perfectly.
I almost feel like it was likeblack on the edges, even, but it
was still soft somehow.
Almost like a huge pizza bagelwith way better sauce.
It was the most incredible snackyou could possibly get.

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And it was usually, that's thething, it was usually just a
snack.
Had typically already haddinner, and it was almost like
the midnight snack.
We probably had some kind ofdessert too, like gummies or ice
cream.
But yeah, those were some of thegreatest memories, just hanging
out with them, and so much of itrevolved around food.

(17:07):
Eating whatever we wanted, itfelt like such freedom to me
back then.
Another really great memory Ihave of food was at my next door
neighbor's house growing up,their names were Shanna and Jim,
and their mom was from Mobile,Alabama, and she was always
baking and cooking, and Iremember she tried to be really

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healthy, and I was not a fan ofvegetables or fruit or anything
healthy growing up, butsometimes their mom would
marinate these green beans insome kind of Italian dressing,
and she would have them out as asnack for her kids.
And whatever the salad dressingwas, it was really zesty and
flavorful, and it would makethem taste amazing.

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So I remember that was a healthysnack that I knew I could get
only at their house.
Another thing that she wouldmake that was semi-healthy was
cinnamon bread.
It was cinnamon raisin bread,and it didn't have too many
swirls of the cinnamon in it.
It just had like a nice sweetdough, and you'd get like the
raisins once in a while in it,and it would always be warm, and

(18:13):
you could tell it was homemadeand it was just so comforting.
And she would always bring usout some slices on a plate when
we were outside or something.
But some of those memories wereincredible, and it's funny.
Their mom was pretty strict aswell, so it was a complete 180
from being with Jesse and Luke,where there were no
restrictions, we could dowhatever we want.

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And then going over to theirhouse, she would have healthy
snacks, and they would watchVeggie Tales, which was like a
Christian kid's show with theseanimated fruits and vegetables
that would talk and say grace,and I'm pretty sure they were
putting religious stories intothese episodes.

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Yeah, it was just such a 180.
Anyway, yeah, those are mymemories of food at friends'
houses that I still think abouta lot today.

SPEAKER_09 (19:07):
Okay, so I don't really have a large number of
memories of food at friends'houses.
Like typically I don't reallyfeel like food was a major part
of it.
I mean, I would occasionally goover to friends' houses for
dinner and things like that, butI don't really have much memory
of of what we would have orwhatever, because it was just
kind of standard fare, like, oh,we're over here for either they

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have pizza or or the mom'smaking meatloaf or whatever,
something like that.
Nothing really stands out.
More often than not, I wasprobably the friend where people
remembered going over to thehouse because we always had
candy.
My dad always bought a lot ofcandy, and as the years went on,
he would buy more and morecandy.
So we always had somethingaround.

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We always had something in thecupboard.
And not everyone did, so I guessthat's good.
But there is one memory that Ido have, and it's a pretty
strong one.
So when I was much, muchyounger, probably preteen, like
uh 9 to 12-ish, I wouldoccasionally go over to my
friend Joel's house forsleepovers.

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And as is typically the casewith sleepovers, the sleeping
was secondary to standing upsuper, super, super late
watching scary movies andreading pantries for goodies.
Now the pantry themselves, thepantry itself is not as
memorable as the baking thatwould be done at night.

(20:33):
That's right.
At like four o'clock in themorning, we would get up and go
into the kitchen.
I don't know how nobody woke upand sort of gave us read us the
riot act, but but for whateverreason, we would get up at four
o'clock in the morning, andthere were two things we would
always do.
We would bake brownies, andthese were like some sedimentary

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brownies I'm talking like wouldbasically fall apart.
They would they woulddisintegrate upon touch.
But they still, I remember themtasting very good.
I we used to call them dirtclods because they would fall
apart so readily in our hands.
But I remember them tastingvery, very good.
So that's a very strong memoryright there.
But the one that I was even moreexcited about, remember even

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more vividly, is the chocolatechip pancakes.
So his mom had a griddle, like aportable griddle, not a porta,
you know, a plug-in griddle, notlike a stovetop, but like a pull
a plug-in griddle.
Which I never had and stilldon't to this day.
And it would make very, verygood pancakes.
But we used to love to put thechocolate chips in them.

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And when those were done, whenthose would come out, and I
belie I believe this is my firstexperience with chocolate chip
pancakes, or at least the mostthe first that I can remember.
When those would come out done,they were perfectly golden
brown.
I would love to get a griddlelike that at some point,
although if I did, I wouldprobably never stop eating

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chocolate chip pancakes becauseI to this day, even when Make
the Kodiak brony or sorry, theKodiak cake pancakes.
I put chocolate chips in them.
And they are delicious, butnothing matches up to that time
back when I was a young preteenat four or five o'clock in the
morning making those chocolatechip pancakes on that griddle in

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the middle of the night.
Those were indeed the days.

SPEAKER_10 (22:23):
I've always had almost a fetish for food at
other people's houses.
Something about other peoplehaving different kinds of food
that I would ever keep in myhouse or ever buy and not
knowing what that might be andbeing able to explore the
kitchen in their space.
I still to this day love showingup at people's house parties

(22:45):
where they will have like aspread of food.
And I just can't wait to seewhat kind of food they have.
I still look forward to readingthe kitchen.
And this goes back to when I wasyounger.
I think the first thing I canremember is when I was young, my
younger brother had to have asurgery, and so my mom had to go
with him to the hospital forthis.

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And instead of me going withthem, she had to stay with a few
different of her friends for afew minutes at a time.
And each one of them would makemeals for me and I'd be included
in that, and I would get otherfoods into the house.
And I just thought it was thebest thing ever because each
house I went to had differentkinds of snacks and goodies and
food, and oh my gosh, I was inheaven.

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So I still to this day lookforward to going to people's
houses with the forefront of mybrain thinking, ooh, what kind
of food will they have?

SPEAKER_06 (23:39):
So I was thinking about all the different times
I've been over to friends'houses over the years, and like
as a child growing up during theprobably the greatest era of
snack foods, like you know,gushers and fruit by the foot.

(24:00):
I don't know, just like all ofthe great snacks was during my
childhood.
But then I started to thinkabout let's see, it was in
September of this year, so I'mcurrently a senior doing my
undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, andwhen the school year started, I

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got to see my friends that Ihaven't seen for a while because
they were all gone for thesummertime.
And so I got to see one of myfriends, and she had gotten an
apartment on campus, which wasreally nice because she had been
living in the dorm rooms theyear before, so she had like her
own space and like a kitchen toactually cook, like, she didn't

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have to go to the dining hallanymore, which I love the dining
hall, but I love it from adifferent perspective because
like I have a choice, I don'tlive in the dorm, so I don't
have to be forced to go.
But yeah, so she got a kitchenand she was like, come over and
like we'll hang out and talk andcatch up because we hadn't seen
each other.
And when I went over there, itwas pretty sad because I was I

(25:08):
was really going through it withmy partner, and we were breaking
up basically, and it had beenhappening over the summer and
stuff, but I was I was alonebecause I didn't have like
anyone here, everyone was gone.
I live I live in Santa Cruz, butmost people just go to school
here, and so I was pretty muchby myself all summer, and so

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seeing her was just reallyrefreshing to me.
It was nice to have likeone-on-one time with one of my
girlfriends, and so she waslike, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna
cook you something, and I waslike, I'm really not hungry.
I had felt so sad and justreally out of it, and she was
like, No, like I'll I'll makesomething, and so she's so she

(25:54):
took out some sourdough bread,which is like the best thing to
come one of the best things tocome out of you know, my area
and everything.
So she took out some sourdoughbread, she took out some smoked
sliced turkey, she took out someI don't know if it was
provolone, if it was Swiss, itwas some kind of like maybe it

(26:19):
was white cheddar, it was like alight cheese sliced and pesto,
and like I was just talking toher and ranting to her and
telling her about what was goingon, and she was just like in the
kitchen cooking up the sandwichon the stove, and I was like,
You really don't have to make meone, and I saw her like putting

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pesto on it, and I was I wasthinking like is that good?
Because I've only ever had pestolike in pasta, you know.
So she plated it, she brought itover to me, and when I tell you
that it was the best thing thatI'd eaten in so long, like I'm
not even joking.
I never thought, like, oh, Ishould put pesto on my sandwich.

(27:07):
I usually just have it I guessthe European way where there's
not like any mayonnaise or aiolior whatever.
I like it dry, but the pestotasted so good and it went
perfectly with the sourdough andthe white cheese and the turkey,
just like all went togetherperfectly.
And I forgot like I forgot whatelse she served with it, like I

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don't even know if she did, butit was sort of like an act of
love, like it was like an act ofkindness.
You know, here I was talkingabout all of the stress that I
had been going through in thesummer and you know, my
loneliness and just feelingpretty isolated from everything.

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And she was just sitting with meand listening to me, and and she
wasn't judging me, and she mademe this sandwich, and so I
thought that I would share thatstory today because while you
know, being a kid and growingup, like I said, there was so
many great snacks when you go toyour friend's house, and you

(28:12):
know, if you went to your likerich friend's house, they'd have
like a popcorn maker orwhatever.
But this story like really stoodout to me, and now I try now I
try to make them myself, but Idon't know if it's like the
pesto that I bought or what, butit just never comes out the
same, and I think the reason whyis because I don't make it with

(28:37):
like the type of love, like I'mjust like, oh let me just make a
sandwich.
She actually like put her heartinto it, you know, and was doing
it from a loving perspective, souh I don't know, but I just know
that I I won't ever forget thatlike my whole life sometimes

(28:57):
when you're going throughsomething, like food really does
help.
And yeah, I you know, shout outto her.
I'm still friends with her,obviously.
She's always been there for me,so I really enjoyed that
sandwich.
And I'm just gonna keep I'm justgonna keep buying the pesto and

(29:20):
making it and trying to tryingto live up to to her version of
it.

SPEAKER_03 (29:30):
I remember in college, one of my friends who
lived in Cincinnati at the time,I went to Xavier, so I was in
the dorms, since I'm not fromthere, but one of my friends
that lived in Cincinnati, we'donce a week a couple of us go
over to his parents' house, andhis mom would make us something
called skidone.
Now, I'm Italian, they'reItalian, but I had never heard

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of that.
All it is is pasta with riunitipoured over it, rioniti red,
whatever their Chianti orwhatever they had, it's
rianniti, so I never counted itas wine anyway, because I like
lambrusco, but still, so that'sall the dish was.
I know nowadays people put winein their red sauce for to make

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spaghetti bolognese, or theycall it drunken pasta and they
add stuff to it.
But this dish was just spaghettiwith rioniti, usually lambrusco,
poured over it.
Now, I love wine, lovespaghetti.
Don't think I'd like the twowith each other poured over like

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it was, especially when it'ssomething like rioniti.
But being nice people, we wouldeat it.
And I'd always ask his mom, I'mlike, was this a northern or
southern Italian thing?
Because my dad's from southernItaly, mom's from northern, so I
couldn't figure out I've neverheard of this dish.
But she said it was a central,which I thought was funny.

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In central Italy, I do notrecall the name of the town,
darn it.
But it was just something I hadnever had before, I had never
heard of.
I've never had it again, exceptfor those four years down at
Xavier.
But it was just interesting.
If you want to try, you may likeit.
Again, I because I don't likeRioniti or Lambrusco as a rule.

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Sorry, people who may like that,I just don't.
But it's a weird taste.
The wine is cold, thespaghetti's hot.
So you have that going on.
The texture is weird, a soggyspaghetti, not my favorite, and
the flavor, it just I don'tunderstand it.
But again, it's if you wantedsomething bizarre for this, that

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is your dish.
It's called skidone.
I don't even know how to spellit.
I tried to re look it up justfor fun.
I can't find any reference toit.
So I will just say the strangestdish I ever had at a friend's
house and have never had itprior or after was spaghetti

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with wine poured all over it asa main dish.

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