April 29, 2026 • 9 mins
David's got a '2 Foods & a Lie'.... spot the lie and you win bragging rights! Plus, there's scientific data about the taste of stolen fries?!?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Meredith, there's a study out there, and I like
this because we're going to rely on science.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
And it's so silly. Fries are tastier. when they're taken
from someone else's plate.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, somebody had to say it. You are not wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Why are they so good on someone else's plate?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's funny you ask, Meredith. Let me push my glasses up.
New research is confirming what a lot of us already know.
Stolen food does actually taste better. Now, this was a
quite delicious study where they ranked stolen fries as 40%
more enjoyable. Turns out, guilt... Um, positively associated with enjoyment
(00:44):
and the higher risk has a tastier effect on your
taste buds. So in other words, the higher the risk,
the better the taste.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What if you have zero guilt for tasting a fry?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Still tastes pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good to me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think there's a little better taste. But if, like,
say you're out to eat with your husband. George looks
away towards the bar. You snag one. That's going to
taste 40% better. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well, usually I just take it right in front of
his face. So now I'll wait for him to turn
his head.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yes. Wow. And they said higher the risk, the tastier
the fries. And they're saying science is behind this. 40%
more enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So... If you're the one picking up the food and
you're transporting it in the car, everyone puts their hand
in there and sneaks a couple fries.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is that a stolen fry?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I say yes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Maybe that's why those taste so freaking good in the car.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's funny you say that. There were times, and I
feel badly now looking back, where my dad would order McDonald's.
So I would go get it for him.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And on the way back, I would have two large fries.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I would take some out of one of them and
that always ended up being his.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I do it blindly, right? I'm just eating along.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And then when it comes time to give them to
the other people, I even them out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So it looks like we both got shorted. So guess what?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Your dad was getting a medium fry and you had,
your dad got a medium fry and you got a
supersized large.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Because I, you know what? That's the toll. That's the
Uber eats tax.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's right. You didn't tip me, so I'm taking your fries.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do you guys find this the same way? I mean,
according to this, it is science. Now, there's no legal consequence.
But I think this survey, actually, the fries taken covertly
from the stern-looking strangers were found to be far better
than the ones given to the participants by volunteers. So
(02:46):
I think it was like during the study.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Okay, I was going to say, we're not walking up
to other people's plates and taking.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Them our way. They sat a stranger across from them.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Just shimmying by at Capitol Grill.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Taking one right off of someone's plate. I did enjoy
the spicy fries yesterday at the Hobnob.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh, boy. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
When you say spicy, do they just sprinkle stuff on them?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Or is it like that harder coated like a checkers?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, I think it's like what they sprinkle on them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh, the crinkle cut. Okay, quick break. Coming back with more.
Thanks for having us on. It's David and Meredith in
the morning. no warm-ups no excuses start stretching now because
it's game time game time today is a game we
haven't played in a long time and i love this
one because it's the only time i can lie and
(03:37):
get away with it all right okay we call this
two foods I have two stories here that are true.
One I've completely made up and they're all food related.
So see if you can figure out which one is
the lie. Here we go. Story number one. There's a
(04:00):
new Capri Sun out there with electrolytes for kids now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Number two. Little Debbie is teaming up with Nerdy Nuts
for new peanut butter flavors. You had me at Little Debbie.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't know if it's true or.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Not, but yee-haw. I had me at Dee's Nerdy Nuts. Okay.
Number three. Taco Bell debuts a churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh, man, that sounds weird.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
These are all pretty cool. So only one of them
is the lie. New Capri Sun, electrolytes for kids, Little
Debbie Nerdy Nuts with new peanut butter, and Taco Bell
churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
888-599-1079.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And if you can spot the lie, you will have
Busch Gardens tickets.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Start dialing now or bragging rights on the free iHeartRadio app.
Hit the microphone and figure out two foods and a lie.
I love this one. Based upon real stories, or at
least most of them, two foods and a lie. One
(05:13):
of these is completely made up. Which one? Capri Sun.
They have a new Capri Sun with electrolytes now for kids.
Little Debbie teamed up with Nerdy Nuts for new peanut
butter flavors.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why does that make me giggle? I know why.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, it's the word nerdy, of course. And Taco Bell
is debuting a new churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You get that right on the first okay hold.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
On one second meredith is fielding calls yes who do
we have on the line meredith we have derrick this
derrick you here brother i am there here i'm not
there i'm here he's here he's there he's everywhere okay
one of those is a lie which one I.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Think it's the churro milkshake because Taco Bell currently doesn't
have milkshakes or ice cream or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ooh, is he right?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I wish it was true, but he's right. It's a lie.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Derek, how dare you get that right on the first try?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I would love a churro milkshake.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I would love a churro milkshake, and I would love
Taco Bell to have ice cream, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I love that you knew that. I'm telling you. I
know it's a pain because McDonald's, half the time, their
ice cream machine is broken, but that's a billion-dollar idea.
Churro milkshakes?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, I remember years ago, Breyers had churro ice cream,
and it was amazing, and then they took it off
the market and never saw it again. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I will say, last week at Aldi, my husband wanted
something sweet, so I stopped on the way home, and
they had churro ice cream sandwiches with vanilla cookies, the fat,
chunky ones at Aldi.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Check it out.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Okay, I'll be there at 9 a.m. when they open.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's in the ones that you look down and slide
the top open, not the.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, I know where it is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
All right, Derek, hang on the line.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I got to get your info for those Busch Gardens tickets.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
He knows where they are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Stay there, buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He's like, David and Meredith. Everybody knew it was the
churro milkshake at Taco Bell.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I thought it was such a wonderful idea, but I
think putting the word milkshake next to Taco Bell tipped
everybody off. But I just had an inquiry on our
text line about the Nerdy Nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Would you like to explain? Because you gave me that headline.
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Little Debbie and Nerdy Nuts teamed up for three new
limited edition peanut butter flavors.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is Nerdy Nuts a peanut butter brand?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think they're a nut brand.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Either way, this is the second, I think, of their
drops that they're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Listen to these flavors of the peanut butters.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Cosmic Brownie.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Have you had a Cosmic Brownie, Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I have not, but I will put that peanut butter
in my face.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Send you into space. They're so good.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Then there's a Strawberry Shortcake Roll peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
For peanut butter. You know what? You might not need
jelly with that one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It looks great. And Star Cookies. I love a star crunch.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
This.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Is gonna be a phenomenal drop.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You had me at crunch. I'm loving all those.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's gonna be Nerdy Nuts' website.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of course. $ 13.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
99 for a 16-ounce jar.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm reading the transcript of one of our talkbacks. What
exactly is a nerdy nut? That's a good question. Also,
the story about Capri Sun with the electrolyte drink for kids,
I think it's a great idea. I remember back in
the day, Especially during summer. My kids would come in
and they would have that wet ring around the hair.
(09:05):
They were always drenched. Bright red cheeks. So if you
could give them a Capri Sun with electrolytes... And they
say it's 50% less sugar than the sports drinks. I say, hear, hear.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's such a smart idea. Also, since I'm still stuck
on Cosmic Brownie and Star Crunch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you can't get off it.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
NerdyNuts.com, everybody. I'm on it right now. Beat me to it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'm going to get a Star Crunch and a Cosmic
Brownie for my husband.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I love it. Okay.
Okay, Meredith, there's a study out there, and I like
this because we're going to rely on science.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
And it's so silly. Fries are tastier. when they're taken
from someone else's plate.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, somebody had to say it. You are not wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Why are they so good on someone else's plate?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's funny you ask, Meredith. Let me push my glasses up.
New research is confirming what a lot of us already know.
Stolen food does actually taste better. Now, this was a
quite delicious study where they ranked stolen fries as 40%
more enjoyable. Turns out, guilt... Um, positively associated with enjoyment
(00:44):
and the higher risk has a tastier effect on your
taste buds. So in other words, the higher the risk,
the better the taste.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What if you have zero guilt for tasting a fry?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Still tastes pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good to me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think there's a little better taste. But if, like,
say you're out to eat with your husband. George looks
away towards the bar. You snag one. That's going to
taste 40% better. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well, usually I just take it right in front of
his face. So now I'll wait for him to turn
his head.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yes. Wow. And they said higher the risk, the tastier
the fries. And they're saying science is behind this. 40%
more enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So... If you're the one picking up the food and
you're transporting it in the car, everyone puts their hand
in there and sneaks a couple fries.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is that a stolen fry?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I say yes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Maybe that's why those taste so freaking good in the car.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's funny you say that. There were times, and I
feel badly now looking back, where my dad would order McDonald's.
So I would go get it for him.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And on the way back, I would have two large fries.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I would take some out of one of them and
that always ended up being his.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I do it blindly, right? I'm just eating along.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And then when it comes time to give them to
the other people, I even them out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So it looks like we both got shorted. So guess what?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Your dad was getting a medium fry and you had,
your dad got a medium fry and you got a
supersized large.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Because I, you know what? That's the toll. That's the
Uber eats tax.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's right. You didn't tip me, so I'm taking your fries.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do you guys find this the same way? I mean,
according to this, it is science. Now, there's no legal consequence.
But I think this survey, actually, the fries taken covertly
from the stern-looking strangers were found to be far better
than the ones given to the participants by volunteers. So
(02:46):
I think it was like during the study.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Okay, I was going to say, we're not walking up
to other people's plates and taking.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Them our way. They sat a stranger across from them.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Just shimmying by at Capitol Grill.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Taking one right off of someone's plate. I did enjoy
the spicy fries yesterday at the Hobnob.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh, boy. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
When you say spicy, do they just sprinkle stuff on them?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Or is it like that harder coated like a checkers?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, I think it's like what they sprinkle on them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh, the crinkle cut. Okay, quick break. Coming back with more.
Thanks for having us on. It's David and Meredith in
the morning. no warm-ups no excuses start stretching now because
it's game time game time today is a game we
haven't played in a long time and i love this
one because it's the only time i can lie and
(03:37):
get away with it all right okay we call this
two foods I have two stories here that are true.
One I've completely made up and they're all food related.
So see if you can figure out which one is
the lie. Here we go. Story number one. There's a
(04:00):
new Capri Sun out there with electrolytes for kids now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Number two. Little Debbie is teaming up with Nerdy Nuts
for new peanut butter flavors. You had me at Little Debbie.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't know if it's true or.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Not, but yee-haw. I had me at Dee's Nerdy Nuts. Okay.
Number three. Taco Bell debuts a churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh, man, that sounds weird.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
These are all pretty cool. So only one of them
is the lie. New Capri Sun, electrolytes for kids, Little
Debbie Nerdy Nuts with new peanut butter, and Taco Bell
churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
888-599-1079.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And if you can spot the lie, you will have
Busch Gardens tickets.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Start dialing now or bragging rights on the free iHeartRadio app.
Hit the microphone and figure out two foods and a lie.
I love this one. Based upon real stories, or at
least most of them, two foods and a lie. One
(05:13):
of these is completely made up. Which one? Capri Sun.
They have a new Capri Sun with electrolytes now for kids.
Little Debbie teamed up with Nerdy Nuts for new peanut
butter flavors.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why does that make me giggle? I know why.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, it's the word nerdy, of course. And Taco Bell
is debuting a new churro milkshake.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You get that right on the first okay hold.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
On one second meredith is fielding calls yes who do
we have on the line meredith we have derrick this
derrick you here brother i am there here i'm not
there i'm here he's here he's there he's everywhere okay
one of those is a lie which one I.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Think it's the churro milkshake because Taco Bell currently doesn't
have milkshakes or ice cream or anything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ooh, is he right?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I wish it was true, but he's right. It's a lie.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Derek, how dare you get that right on the first try?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I would love a churro milkshake.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I would love a churro milkshake, and I would love
Taco Bell to have ice cream, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I love that you knew that. I'm telling you. I
know it's a pain because McDonald's, half the time, their
ice cream machine is broken, but that's a billion-dollar idea.
Churro milkshakes?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, I remember years ago, Breyers had churro ice cream,
and it was amazing, and then they took it off
the market and never saw it again. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I will say, last week at Aldi, my husband wanted
something sweet, so I stopped on the way home, and
they had churro ice cream sandwiches with vanilla cookies, the fat,
chunky ones at Aldi.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Check it out.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Okay, I'll be there at 9 a.m. when they open.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's in the ones that you look down and slide
the top open, not the.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, I know where it is.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
All right, Derek, hang on the line.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I got to get your info for those Busch Gardens tickets.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
He knows where they are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Stay there, buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He's like, David and Meredith. Everybody knew it was the
churro milkshake at Taco Bell.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I think.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I thought it was such a wonderful idea, but I
think putting the word milkshake next to Taco Bell tipped
everybody off. But I just had an inquiry on our
text line about the Nerdy Nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Would you like to explain? Because you gave me that headline.
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Little Debbie and Nerdy Nuts teamed up for three new
limited edition peanut butter flavors.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is Nerdy Nuts a peanut butter brand?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I think they're a nut brand.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Either way, this is the second, I think, of their
drops that they're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Listen to these flavors of the peanut butters.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Cosmic Brownie.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Have you had a Cosmic Brownie, Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I have not, but I will put that peanut butter
in my face.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Send you into space. They're so good.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Then there's a Strawberry Shortcake Roll peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
For peanut butter. You know what? You might not need
jelly with that one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It looks great. And Star Cookies. I love a star crunch.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
This.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Is gonna be a phenomenal drop.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You had me at crunch. I'm loving all those.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's gonna be Nerdy Nuts' website.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of course. $ 13.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
99 for a 16-ounce jar.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm reading the transcript of one of our talkbacks. What
exactly is a nerdy nut? That's a good question. Also,
the story about Capri Sun with the electrolyte drink for kids,
I think it's a great idea. I remember back in
the day, Especially during summer. My kids would come in
and they would have that wet ring around the hair.
(09:05):
They were always drenched. Bright red cheeks. So if you
could give them a Capri Sun with electrolytes... And they
say it's 50% less sugar than the sports drinks. I say, hear, hear.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's such a smart idea. Also, since I'm still stuck
on Cosmic Brownie and Star Crunch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you can't get off it.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
NerdyNuts.com, everybody. I'm on it right now. Beat me to it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'm going to get a Star Crunch and a Cosmic
Brownie for my husband.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I love it. Okay.
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