June 27, 2025 • 9 mins
T’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about Olive Garden releasing three new products that are inedible, the great round divided serving tray at Aldi, Sonics new pickle flavored meal, and the new Dollar Tree iced coffee people are raving about.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neil, I'm gonna pretend you are a guest just appearing
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, Neil, and thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good to be here, Bill, big fan, big fan.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Now we start with the Olive Garden. I happen to
like Olive Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is a chain. You know, people really look down
at chain restaurants.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I don't either. I like him, So this is hilarious.
This hold on, I'm gonna sneeze. Oh boy, Okay, I
turned off the mic. I turned off the mic. Oh god,
what a messis mic? Sock is god? It's actually dripping.
Uh okay, that's completely disgusting. You can actually put these
(00:48):
on the washing machine, you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay? Where worry Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Uh? And the title that you put up, Neil comes
up with these topics. The Olive Garden just released three
new products that are inedible.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well these three food products.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You know, this is a story that I love because
it shows how you have to be a player in anything.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You have to think out of the box.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So as Bill said, and I've said many times, I'm
a fan of Olive Garden. My family loves it, and
we go all the time. I love chain restaurants. I
think they're an important part of the ecosystem, the culinary ecosystem,
just like fast food, mom and pop and chef forward places.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But I thought this was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
For summer, they launched new pool noodle floats and I
was just and they're actually kind of cool looking. So
they have their classic float to lie on is inspired
by their feticini alfredo.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about a
float as a drink and I'm going flat that that
got me interested.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, they have it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They have the taking it easy Tortellina Tortellini rather uh
and uh. You can sit on top of it or
float on it. They have the relaxing Rigatoni float. They
even have the uh, you know, all these different shapes
to create your own pasta menu the things that we
know and we love breadsticks and all that, but these
(02:30):
are blow up pool floats and the Tortellini cracks me
up because you could sit in it. It's like a
blow up chair for the pool. These are all in
time for summer, and I just thought, as I'm going
through the stories, how funny it is that it's not
even about food. Stuff anymore. To be out there, you've
(02:51):
got to come up with other ways and what people
you're there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'm thinking I never would have thought it out.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What a great marketing tool that's fun that people talk
about for example, it's we're talking about it and they
effectively gotten a commercial for no money. You know, whoever
came up with whoever came up with that at the
either the advertising agency or the pr agency that they.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Have deserves a raise because it's clever as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and you go to.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Their website and that's where you can find it and
the I think it's at shop dot olivegarden dot com.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can you get? Can you get as many as you want?
It never ends. They just keep on giving it to
you and giving it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To your pool floats.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
No salad redsticks, Yes, which is a great deal, by
the way, it's a stellar deal. But you have to
be a club member to get the early which has
already passed. But the June thirtieth at two pm Eastern
Standard time is when the it goes on sale.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. I hate I hate those special because you have
to give them your email and you make a femail
blast fifteen times a day and it's here's our menu item.
Here's one next to you when they go geo targeting.
Here's our special.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, no, just do the garbage one. I know, and
I haven't done that yet, and I'm going to do that.
I'm absolutely gonna do.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You're absolutely right. Aldi great round divided serving tray. Okay,
what's that about? And by the way, yeah, yeah, I
don't know what you mean by divide.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I don't put these together usually for you. I do
it for the audience. I know that confuses you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes it does.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Here's the thing you have the fourth of July coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And in this case, there is this round divided serving trade.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's actually quite nice. It's ceramic, it's round, and then it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Has these It's got five separators in it and then
a sixth round one in the center. So it's great
for dip and things like that. These go for about
seventy seventy five bucks at some of your other retailers
and at Aldi, and it looks almost identical at Aldi
(05:19):
their own I think their their brand, their you know,
Kirkland brand is called Crofton and that's the that's the
chain's line of in house brand for like kitchenware and
home goods and things like that. This is nineteen ninety nine, Okay,
So to find something exactly like this at Pottery Barn
(05:40):
or Williamsonoma would be seventy bucks.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I have looked at these before, and seventy dollars down
to nineteen dollars usually means paper mache.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, actually, and I misspoke. I said this was a ceramic.
It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It's melamine. And they're exactly They're both made from the
same thing. And the reason why I say that these
things work excellent outside, they work very well outside. They
have they're tough, they're nice to look at. It's a
(06:16):
great way to separate different types of chips or if
you're gonna have a crew to tee or and a
dip or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
These are really good. We have a bunch of mellowing.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Plates and cups and things like that for around the pool,
and they look nice, but they actually hold up quite well.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. Now, let me tell you about my July fourth,
which is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What I do is I.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Put all the crudites, the appetizers in one big bowl,
and then I just dump it onto one of the
tables and my guests go at it like they're looking
for cabbage patch dolls just before Christmas, So that one,
I may actually.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Actually it is.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
That sounds like yeah, nothing like you know, prison style feeding.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, well that's all the What else do they have?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, I've heard a lot about all the and
I don't know if there's anyone they have.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It's hit and miss with their food because some of
it's different than what used to what's that used food?
No used, I'm saying that it might be different taste wise.
But if you're looking to if if you're looking to
really find some great deals on on you know, all
(07:35):
kinds of brands that are similar to what we have,
then you're good to go and you experiment. But the
thing with this, they have this aisle bill called the
Isle of Shame some people call it, and it's just
this isle of random stuff and you never know what
you're going to find. Sometimes it's house good, sometimes it's
small electronic.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's fun stuff. Yeah that is when those are fun. Okay,
let's do this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think we have one more Sonics, which there was
Sonics near where I lived because I lived in Mission
Viejo for a.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
While until I moved. Then I look at Sonics.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think it's they have near NASCAR and people shouldn't
have teeth going to Sonic.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh, I love Sonic. We have one you do.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
New pickle flavored meal? Is that the entire meal that
is pickle flavor?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
This is this is what's funny about this.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
There are some people that swear by pickles, the flavors,
pickle juice, all these things. Well, Sonic Drive In now
has launched this new limited time Big Dill Meal in
collaboration with Grillo's Pickles, a very famous popular brand of pickles,
and it's going to be nationwide starting on June thirtieth.
(08:51):
Meal includes pickle centric items all across the board, so
the Big Dill, double and triple Sonic Smasher Burger, the
I gotta say this, the pickle or rita slush, pickle,
seasoned tots or groovy fries.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
The whole thing is that people that love that brininess
of pickles, you know, love this type of thing and
flavors as.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You describe it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It seems to me that that's what you would be
told to ingest by the Center for poison control after
you've ingested some kind of poison, so you puke it up?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
How dare you? How dare you and your your filthy,
filthy mouth.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, absolutely all right, guys, let me tell you what's
gonna happen. Neil, by the way, of course, heard tomorrow
Saturday afternoon, two to five pm with a Fork Report,
which is always fun.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He's at Fork Reporter
Neil, I'm gonna pretend you are a guest just appearing
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, Neil, and thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good to be here, Bill, big fan, big fan.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Excellent.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Now we start with the Olive Garden. I happen to
like Olive Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is a chain. You know, people really look down
at chain restaurants.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I don't either. I like him, So this is hilarious.
This hold on, I'm gonna sneeze. Oh boy, Okay, I
turned off the mic. I turned off the mic. Oh god,
what a messis mic? Sock is god? It's actually dripping.
Uh okay, that's completely disgusting. You can actually put these
(00:48):
on the washing machine, you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay? Where worry Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Uh? And the title that you put up, Neil comes
up with these topics. The Olive Garden just released three
new products that are inedible.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well these three food products.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You know, this is a story that I love because
it shows how you have to be a player in anything.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You have to think out of the box.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So as Bill said, and I've said many times, I'm
a fan of Olive Garden. My family loves it, and
we go all the time. I love chain restaurants. I
think they're an important part of the ecosystem, the culinary ecosystem,
just like fast food, mom and pop and chef forward places.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
But I thought this was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
For summer, they launched new pool noodle floats and I
was just and they're actually kind of cool looking. So
they have their classic float to lie on is inspired
by their feticini alfredo.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about a
float as a drink and I'm going flat that that
got me interested.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, they have it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They have the taking it easy Tortellina Tortellini rather uh
and uh. You can sit on top of it or
float on it. They have the relaxing Rigatoni float. They
even have the uh, you know, all these different shapes
to create your own pasta menu the things that we
know and we love breadsticks and all that, but these
(02:30):
are blow up pool floats and the Tortellini cracks me
up because you could sit in it. It's like a
blow up chair for the pool. These are all in
time for summer, and I just thought, as I'm going
through the stories, how funny it is that it's not
even about food. Stuff anymore. To be out there, you've
(02:51):
got to come up with other ways and what people
you're there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I'm thinking I never would have thought it out.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What a great marketing tool that's fun that people talk
about for example, it's we're talking about it and they
effectively gotten a commercial for no money. You know, whoever
came up with whoever came up with that at the
either the advertising agency or the pr agency that they.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Have deserves a raise because it's clever as hell.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and you go to.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Their website and that's where you can find it and
the I think it's at shop dot olivegarden dot com.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Can you get? Can you get as many as you want?
It never ends. They just keep on giving it to
you and giving it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To your pool floats.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
No salad redsticks, Yes, which is a great deal, by
the way, it's a stellar deal. But you have to
be a club member to get the early which has
already passed. But the June thirtieth at two pm Eastern
Standard time is when the it goes on sale.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. I hate I hate those special because you have
to give them your email and you make a femail
blast fifteen times a day and it's here's our menu item.
Here's one next to you when they go geo targeting.
Here's our special.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, no, just do the garbage one. I know, and
I haven't done that yet, and I'm going to do that.
I'm absolutely gonna do.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You're absolutely right. Aldi great round divided serving tray. Okay,
what's that about? And by the way, yeah, yeah, I
don't know what you mean by divide.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I don't put these together usually for you. I do
it for the audience. I know that confuses you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yes it does.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Here's the thing you have the fourth of July coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, you do.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And in this case, there is this round divided serving trade.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's actually quite nice. It's ceramic, it's round, and then it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Has these It's got five separators in it and then
a sixth round one in the center. So it's great
for dip and things like that. These go for about
seventy seventy five bucks at some of your other retailers
and at Aldi, and it looks almost identical at Aldi
(05:19):
their own I think their their brand, their you know,
Kirkland brand is called Crofton and that's the that's the
chain's line of in house brand for like kitchenware and
home goods and things like that. This is nineteen ninety nine, Okay,
So to find something exactly like this at Pottery Barn
(05:40):
or Williamsonoma would be seventy bucks.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I have looked at these before, and seventy dollars down
to nineteen dollars usually means paper mache.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, actually, and I misspoke. I said this was a ceramic.
It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It's melamine. And they're exactly They're both made from the
same thing. And the reason why I say that these
things work excellent outside, they work very well outside. They
have they're tough, they're nice to look at. It's a
(06:16):
great way to separate different types of chips or if
you're gonna have a crew to tee or and a
dip or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
These are really good. We have a bunch of mellowing.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Plates and cups and things like that for around the pool,
and they look nice, but they actually hold up quite well.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. Now, let me tell you about my July fourth,
which is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What I do is I.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Put all the crudites, the appetizers in one big bowl,
and then I just dump it onto one of the
tables and my guests go at it like they're looking
for cabbage patch dolls just before Christmas, So that one,
I may actually.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Actually it is.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
That sounds like yeah, nothing like you know, prison style feeding.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, well that's all the What else do they have?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I mean, I've heard a lot about all the and
I don't know if there's anyone they have.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
It's hit and miss with their food because some of
it's different than what used to what's that used food?
No used, I'm saying that it might be different taste wise.
But if you're looking to if if you're looking to
really find some great deals on on you know, all
(07:35):
kinds of brands that are similar to what we have,
then you're good to go and you experiment. But the
thing with this, they have this aisle bill called the
Isle of Shame some people call it, and it's just
this isle of random stuff and you never know what
you're going to find. Sometimes it's house good, sometimes it's
small electronic.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's fun stuff. Yeah that is when those are fun. Okay,
let's do this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think we have one more Sonics, which there was
Sonics near where I lived because I lived in Mission
Viejo for a.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
While until I moved. Then I look at Sonics.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think it's they have near NASCAR and people shouldn't
have teeth going to Sonic.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh, I love Sonic. We have one you do.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
New pickle flavored meal? Is that the entire meal that
is pickle flavor?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
This is this is what's funny about this.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
There are some people that swear by pickles, the flavors,
pickle juice, all these things. Well, Sonic Drive In now
has launched this new limited time Big Dill Meal in
collaboration with Grillo's Pickles, a very famous popular brand of pickles,
and it's going to be nationwide starting on June thirtieth.
(08:51):
Meal includes pickle centric items all across the board, so
the Big Dill, double and triple Sonic Smasher Burger, the
I gotta say this, the pickle or rita slush, pickle,
seasoned tots or groovy fries.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
The whole thing is that people that love that brininess
of pickles, you know, love this type of thing and
flavors as.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You describe it.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It seems to me that that's what you would be
told to ingest by the Center for poison control after
you've ingested some kind of poison, so you puke it up?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
How dare you? How dare you and your your filthy,
filthy mouth.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, absolutely all right, guys, let me tell you what's
gonna happen. Neil, by the way, of course, heard tomorrow
Saturday afternoon, two to five pm with a Fork Report,
which is always fun.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He's at Fork Reporter
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