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July 10, 2026 14 mins

It’s FOODIE FRIDAY! The Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra joins the show and speaks on food linked to lower blood pressure, new Costco food finds, the recycling symbol vs the reuse symbol.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Foody Friday with Neil for half an hour and
then ask handle anything. So Neil, who hosts Yes you
do know him, hosts The Fork Report All Things Food
tomorrow from two to five, and we do Foody Friday
because he is such a foodie. Neil and I have
known each other for many many years. We have gone
on vacation together where food was a big thing. We

(00:22):
have gone dinners and lunches together where food is a
big thing. Because this surprise to a lot of people
that when you go to lunch or dinner en food
is generally part of the.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Except today, we're gonna go out.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
We're gonna go out to breakfast after this, and I
will have a scrambled ey one scrabble day.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, scrambled softly, yes, not even hard yes. Okay. So
we always start with because Costco. I went to Costco
two days ago. It's only once this past week. Interesting,
Hell yell, norm, I know, So what's going on? What's
the new stuff at Costco.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
There's a couple of really cool cool things at Costco
that is catching people's eye. And I always like to
see what these these things are, what the trends are,
and what triggered this conversation today was that earlier this week,
your infamous sandwich in the morning was darker than normal

(01:28):
because it was on what I believe is the new
pretzel bagels from Costco.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yes, okay, so that's one of them. Yeah, you triggered
that because I hadn't seen them.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I really enjoy those pretzel bagels because they are they
they're pretzels.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
They look great, nice and dowey on the inside. They
just got the oil on the outside and the it's.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Just yeah, I bought that well Costco. Unfortunately, I never
thought Costco would do this. But it used to be
twelve bagels for eight ninety nine. That's two six packs
and you could mix and match Plaine cheese whatever. Now
it's eight bagels for the same amount of money. They go, whoa,
that's a kind. And one of the new bagels is

(02:11):
the pretzel bagel, which imagine a you're when you get
one of those soft pretzels like it the food kiosks
at major malls. You know that wonderful pretzely flavor and
texture on the pretzels themselves. That's this bagel.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'm going to go to Costco today because I want
to get them for the house and see what my
family thinks. I can't eat bread yet, but I want
to see how dowie it is.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's very dowey. It looks I think you.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Could put a Patty on there, burger on there, easy peasy,
and make yourself a pretzel burger.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, it's very good. It's very very bad.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
They look good. So that was one.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Another one that's been popping up on quite a bit
different food sites and the like, and I saw it
there in person the other day is the Kirkland signature
waffle cone bar cake.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So these bar cakes are great.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
So it's it's like a sheet cake cut in half lengthwise,
so they're about five inches wide and I don't know,
like twelve plus inches long, and so it's a great
you know for summer or parties and stuff like that.
This one has little ice cream cones on them and

(03:32):
the little the sugar cones on them, and it's just
layered with different flavors and stuff, and it's they call
them the bar cakes. You can find them in chocolate
and different things. This particular one is the crunchy cone
pieces on top and chocolate chocolate drizzle. They're about nineteen
bucks and then they serve around twelve people.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
But that is.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Pretty good. The Chavani pistachio chocolate creamer. Now you like creamer,
I don't use creamer.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Now I'm not a big fan. I'd rather have a
frothy either milk or almost milk kind of sort of
airsots milk, and I'm not a big fan of creamer.
When i have to, I'll as last resort, I'll cream
use creamer.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thank you for yours using earsts for the morning word
of the day, Yes, Texas Roadhouse. Listen to these descriptions.
Texas Roadhouse honey cinnamon, whipped butter spread. Come on right,
and yeah, that got Ann's attention.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh, this is an interesting one because I'm not crazy
about marshmallow. I like it in certain things, not in
other things. They have a signature marshmallow crispy cookie. So
the combination is it's melted marshmallow on the inside. And
the whole word on this is even if you don't
like marshmallow, the combination of the crunchy cookie with this

(05:00):
soft center that's kind of it's wisped throughout the cookie
rather than big bunches or something like that, and people
are freaking out about those. So those are a couple
of things that are out with Costco right now, including
and this one is the one that made me kind
of chuckle, including a new ice cream from our very

(05:23):
own LCB or LBC rather representative Snoop Dogg at Costco
Snoop Dogg's Snoopsicle.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
You were right? That great?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, Ras, they're rased out cherry lime Sherbert snoopsicle that
you can get at your local Costco.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I happened to be a fan of their she cake.
When Barbara got married, she had this incredible cake. Well
actually she's nanny case. We had to give her a
like a wedding cake. And I said, tell you what,
why don't we just go to Costco and get one
of their sheet cakes. I'll even have it that personalize

(06:06):
congratulations Barbara. And I can do that for nineteen dollars.
Oh no, no, I want a real cake. You don't
have any idea how much wedding cakes cost? Oh yeah,
it is science fiction how much a wedding cake can cost.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Now, I will tell you the artistic ability and you
to make those beautiful cakes and have them taste good
and all that is no easy fee, but yes they
are astronomy.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
What two three hundred dollars is a cheap Oh yeah,
cheap cake. Yeah, you're talking seven hundred, eight hundred and
fifteen hundred dollars for a cake.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, it's a little bit much.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, the marriage was a little bit much.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
The cake. The cake still lasted longer than the marriage.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
True.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Is the cake topper in the free are still No?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, I don't know what the cake topper was. I
don't remember what the cake top, not.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
The topper, but the top layer.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, the top the top piece.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
No, I don't Yeah, I don't think so. I don't
know people that do that. One. The other thing is,
you know, the stuffing of the cake in each other's mouths,
that sort of thing, which I think is just the
stupidest thing in the world. So at my wedding when
I married Lindsay, we didn't just you know, grab a
piece of cake and put in each other's mouth. We
actually threw entire layers of cake at each other in

(07:32):
the face they.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Had built and they launched them at each other. All Right,
we're gonna talk about hot dogs at the beginning, and
the show technique of the week different things due to
hot dog get the most flavor out of them and
different combinations and types.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, we talk One of the things that you know,
back to Costco, just a throwaway is I was devastated
when Costco moved away from Hebrew National hot dogs because
come on, I mean those are good.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
They're great dogs.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, I mean the best. They're the best dogs out there.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
But so I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
But which has what It depends what you do, and
I think Hoffe makes a fantastic hot dog. I think
they've got great hot dogs that well Fork, They've got
some fabulous ones there. You know, you couldn't get go
to some wonderful butchers that have some.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
And then there's gosh, what is that. It's an old
school hot dog place.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
It just depends what what you know you're looking for
health wise, if you go for nutrients and things like that,
hands down, the low fat Hebrew Nationals are some of
the best for you. And that's what we give to
Max when he wants a hot dog. That's what we

(08:51):
give to Max.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, uh, Now we this is something we've been talking about,
and that's the new symbols that are now For example,
the everyman is doing best buy used by uh the
recycling symbol which I always look at to see if
they recycled. This is crazy because it's surprising how much
into recycling I am.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
You would not think so it's we should we should
have a better system of doing it because it is
the smartest thing to do when done right. But this
is a move in another direction that I think it
is a great partner.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Okay, and that's the reuse symbol. Every time I look
at the REU symbol, I think of you in terms
of a kidney.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, well not exactly recycled, but yes, thanks Julie.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Actually it is recycled when you think about it.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, no, because it's not reformed.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, it's reused. It's gently used uses j owned kidney.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Uh. So this reuse symbol. Now keeping pulling.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Keep in mind here in California, the laws are different
than other places. So if you're looking at the recycled
symbol and you just look at the symbol, that doesn't
mean it's recyclable in California. You have to look at
the center number. The number that's in the center of
the recycling symbol, I think one five, and there's another one.

(10:16):
I think that you can recycle here plastic in California.
But this reuse is teaching people how to clean and
properly reuse certain containers, and I think that's more practical
in many ways and easier to do. But someone like

(10:36):
me who uses three D printers and uses plastics like
PLA and the like, those things are recyclable to it
a certain extent too, So I try and find ways
to reuse those pieces. I can't reuse them currently back
into the machine easily, but I can find ways of
using that plastic to make other sculptures or things like that.

(11:00):
This is doing something where you can take packaging and
reuse them. So the Global Alliance to Advance Reuse has
this new symbol. It's kind of basically it's an arrow
that goes from the bottom left up and then turns

(11:20):
into itself almost like a circle, to tell you this
is to be reused, and this is really new. You're
going to start seeing it more and more, and that
this is something to encourage you to start using it
different when you see the reuse, you.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Know one of the things a supermarket they used to
say paper plastic. Course, plastic is no longer around so
now it's just paper. But one of the things that
and they're supposed to be reusable paper this say, because
they're ten cents and they're thick or whatever. And I
don't see a huge number of people bringing their own
really reusable I didn't say. I have not seen an

(12:01):
increase with that, and I never reuse every time I go,
do you want a bag?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'm talking about that.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
The paper ones are the thicker plastic one. Either way,
we reuse them for things. One of the things we
will do is put recycled stuff in there and they'll
be going to the recycled bin with everything else.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
It's good clean out the cat box. That's what I
use them for.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Gross And that's so it's a reusable uh cat crap.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
But you can't You can't fill them full of cat
poop and recycle them.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
No, you can't recycle them. But you're using those bags again,
you're repurposing them.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I thought you could recycle cat cat No, here's the
thing you don't want, like if you get a pizza box.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
They had situations. By the way, that was a joke.
You understand that recycling cat poop.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Oh, okay, you meant the bag that had the cat
poop in it. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
You take a joke, Neil, but when you do it's true.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
When you get a pizza, you can. You can recycle
the part that doesn't have grease on it. So the
top usually has grease on it. You tear that at
the perforation and you can put the non greased part
into that.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
I never knew that.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, you don't want to put the grease party.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, they can't use that. They just throw that away.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Also containers that have wax inside, Yeah, you can't do that.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Which is all milk cartons, right right.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
All milk cartons, although they don't does have a recycle
sign on all the milk cartons.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well, some of them possibly, but they might need special handling.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Like things like.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Bubble wrap can be recycled, but it's much more difficult
and it can't it doesn't go into your recycling pin
from whatever.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
You have to pop all the bubbles first.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
You do well, just for mental health. That's when you
run out of pimples too. Then you go to the
bubble wrap. Okay, we're done, guys.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Another thing, wait on that note, is many of your
pill bottles can be recycled. Just look at the recycling
sign on the bottom or logo and see what the
number is and check it with California law. I know
one can go in there, and I think five, but
I'm not sure about the other number.
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