50 Sauces!?

This was Joe's favorite headline of the day: America Is Swimming In Sauce.  This is where we also learned that the Getty household might have an issue. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I saw this headline the illustration, and I thought,
oh my lord, they're writing about me. Us America is
swimming in sauce. Companies can't quit condiments dividing households.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I want my fridge back.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I guess there's a division in some families on this
sort of thing. But bored with leftovers, or you go
to menu picks, there's a sauce for that, or too,
or several dozen food companies and restaurant chains are flooding
US consumers with condiments. And they go through a bunch
of companies from Jack in the Box to Hinds to
Popeyes that have put out their own sauces. I know

(00:35):
Chick fil A has their chick sauce or whatever they
call it.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
My oldest is so into Whoever's signature sauce, KFC signature
sauce or wherever you go. They all got their own
signature sauce.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah. And I was at the grocery store the other
day and there was a special display of just like condiments, sauces,
and I bought a squeezy bottle of I think they
call it Southwest Sandwich sauce, and it was a somewhat
mayonnaisy kind of text mechsy thing you could squirt on
a sandwich and is pretty good. And I had it

(01:08):
on a couple of sandwiches and it'll be in my
fridge until the next presidential election cycle. Probably help me
using it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I tweeted out a picture from a jelly container
last week that it had expired in twenty one, I think.
I challenged other listeners though, and a whole bunch of
people tweeted out pictures of like mustards and dips, the
sauces they have in their fridge that were very very old.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Passos be extra passos, be nice. So there there's a
big market for what they're calling luxury countenments jack uh
bab bah bah. And also the Heinz company is turning
restaurant condiment counters into research and development outposts, pedaling to eateries.

(01:59):
It's new Heinz Remix customizable sauce dispenser. Using a digital
touch screen, diners can mix a base like Ketchup, ranch
or barbecue sauce with enhancers such as Jlapano, Smoky Chipotle, Buffalo,
and Mango, producing more than three hundred potential combinations Mango,

(02:21):
so you can make a so you can make a
suicide of sauces the way my kids do it the
soda dispenser cool. Is that funny they still call that
a suicide. Huh, because you're doing something dangerous and crazy.
I'm gonna mix it up with doctor Pepper and put
a little Zeta in it. Oh lord, not phantasm. Exotic

(02:41):
condiments like chicken bacon, ranch Korean pronounceable and mecha go
cho juan and Mexican Taijin tajin are spreading across the
US restaurant restaurant menu is faster than they were a
decade ago. Uh. McDonald's last year sold cups of its
creamy Big Max sauce at restaurants from the time.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's that was Nyland dressing. I have one thing of
Frenches mustard, one thing with pines ketchup.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
You cho, That's pretty much it. Are you ready for
the big disclosure? Sure? The Joe and Judy Getty fridge
features three squeezes of mayo.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
There's plenty, I says to my wife.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I says, how do we end up with three? And
she says, well, I either didn't think we had anything
while I was at the store.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I do that a lot where I think, did I
just buy mayonnaise or did I just think that I
bought mayonnaise and meant to buy mayonnaise. Might as well
buy one wall amere and you end up with five.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
And she pointed out the one is too much to
throw away, but really too little to not have a
backup supplace. So any are major decisions. Three Mayos and
one miracle. With there you go for a total of
four from the Mayo family. Seven mustard. That's a lot
of mustards, five barbecue sauce, and many others for a

(04:00):
total of precisely fifty condiments. So fridge you have fifty?
I do so, my god, I think you're sauce heavy.
I'm looking at the diversification of your fridge, and I
think your sauce hevty, We clearly need to divest several
sauces fifty Can anybody beat that? Checking your fridge today, Wow,

(04:24):
I think we have a problem. Armstrong and Yetti