Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora, and Nora, we're glad you're here, sure are, it's nice to see you. It's nice to see you, and, for our listeners, if it sounds like we're coming to you from a construction site, we kind of are Kind of You're in the real tail end, though, of your project. Oh, my goodness, can you believe that a kitchen, three bathrooms, floors, living room, dining room is all almost finished? No, it's a because.
Speaker 2:I do remember you telling me this in the summer that this was your goal. You're like it'll be finished in you know a couple months and I was like, oh, poor Nora, it will not. I doubted you, I doubted your timeline and you did it.
Speaker 1:I will say that we were on track time-wise for our kitchen. They finished.
Speaker 2:October 31st.
Speaker 1:He said it would take four weeks and it did, wow. And then we just slowly added on three out of our four bathrooms. Why not, why not? So there you have it. If you hear some drilling in the background, like you did last week, you now know what it's coming from Nora.
Speaker 2:there has been a little bit of a riff between England and the United States. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1:You know I'm not a history, nora. Well no, this is happening now, president.
Speaker 2:Day, oh shoot. A little, a little controversy.
Speaker 1:What's between?
Speaker 2:the royals.
Speaker 1:Is it a royal thing?
Speaker 2:No, it's between Americans and Brits over tea, something I feel strongly about.
Speaker 1:Is it about if you add milk to your tea?
Speaker 2:No, there was this researcher at Bryn Mawr College who said the best way to make a cup of hot tea is with salt and lemon. Ew, ew is right. I want the Brits on this one. But it's been really funny because so the American Embassy in London put out a press release acknowledging it. Well, first of all, the scientist said the salt counteracts the bitterness of the tea and then the lemon kind of adds to it as well. But the United States Embassy put out an official press release, kind of like making fun of it, and they said you know, this is an unthinkable notion. This is not the official stance of the United States government to put salt and tea. We will continue to make tea in the proper way, by microwaving it. Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:So it's been like a really funny thing because British people the thought of putting hot water and a tea bag in the microwave just blows their mind, yes, blows their mind.
Speaker 1:What about an electric tea kettle, like we have?
Speaker 2:That is fine, okay, that is okay, and even my friends when I lived there couldn't fathom that I drank iced tea. I love iced tea. I know Well, same's ease. I mean I'll drink it hot, cold, whatever. I just don't like milk or sweetener in it.
Speaker 1:I like it straight out I don't like anything in it either, but that really made me giggle. I thought I had to share. You were going to talk about the other controversy that's all over the airwaves right now. What Well, you should know this. I should, you probably do oh Barbie.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so you are our movies, Nora and all the Oscar nominations came out. Yeah, the picture itself was nominated for Best Picture and Ken was nominated for Best Supporting. Supporting and the other girl America.
Speaker 2:Ferrera, yes.
Speaker 1:But no Love for Margot.
Speaker 2:Robbie, which I think those two people should be nominated, because America Ferrera was not nominated, I don't think, for Golden Globe, which I thought was a miss, because I thought she was great in that movie. What I think is frustrating is that I feel like so much of Barbie is about women and how they can be overlooked and overshadowed. And then the Oscars nominate the movie which is trying to promote women being strong and unified, and then don't nominate Barbie or the female director and then nominate Ken Did they do that on purpose.
Speaker 1:Is there a backstory? I don't think it matters Somebody.
Speaker 2:Somebody. So with these, like award shows, you have certain people who are voters, who vote on, who are people who vote for these things. So one of the guys, one of the men I used to work for, was a Academy voter, so they, they get the movies. They say for your consideration, here's the movie Barbie and for all these categories, consider these people and then a ballot yes.
Speaker 2:And then they vote off of the off of the movies that were offered for consideration, who they think should be nominated. So, in its purest form, I would imagine that the Oscar voters received these ballots and just nobody voted for Margot or Robbie or Gregor.
Speaker 1:I go with.
Speaker 2:And it to me it's just like, oh my God, like seriously, what do you think? How do you not know? I don't get it Because I think I don't think Margot Robbie would win, but I think Greta Gerwig would 100% be a contender. I thought what she did with that movie was incredible.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's you stand with a lot of people that you're super heated about it.
Speaker 2:I would say I'm more heated about Greta Gerwig than Margot Robbie. But I also. I mean, you think about if you were to say to someone you're going to play Barbie and the fact that she played Barbie and it touched so many people and was such a strong to play that character and have that much of an impact. That's a pretty masterful acting role, like experience job I guess, but so yeah sorry, it's a thing, it's a thing, okay, you know what?
Speaker 2:else is a thing. Oh, one of the other nine movies that were nominated. I made a list and did you? Did you catch one of the best news?
Speaker 1:about it oh one of the best news is that I saw one, so now.
Speaker 2:I only have to watch nine. Well, I have only seen two, so I have eight more to watch.
Speaker 1:The other thing I caught was that Mastro had Bradley Cooper in it. Oh my God, yeah, maestro, maestro. I think the only problem is Steven Spielberg is affiliated with it and we're that Whack-A-Doo movie from last year that we had to watch.
Speaker 2:Meet the or the the fablemen yeah.
Speaker 1:Wasn't that him? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I loved that movie. What if this one's?
Speaker 1:weird like that one.
Speaker 2:What I didn't think that movie was weird.
Speaker 1:You didn't think that movie was weird.
Speaker 2:No, I thought it was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that guy wasn't his uncle, so Her uncle Was there. A side piece, yeah, it was semi-autobiographical.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it was heartbreaking.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Karatine. But Did you see anything else on the?
Speaker 2:list that you're.
Speaker 1:Jonesing to see.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, a lot, and oh, I was writing the list and I was like, oh boy. I'm worried about Nora Because there was this one movie. I'm like I think it's Korean with English subtitles, but I think this is going to be your favorite movie out of all of them. Poor thing, no Past Lives, because it's a romantic drama. So it's not a comedy, but it is a romance. Okay, and it's half English, half Korean subtitles. So I'm just going to watch half of it, but the main character's name is Nora.
Speaker 1:Stop it, yes.
Speaker 2:This is a win for both of us, yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope it wins.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that, and I have a friend who saw it and she said it was fantastic. But the Is Oppenheimer, the bomb movie, the nuclear bomb, yeah, that one. Thanks to that. But I'm very excited for Past Lives, the one who was leaving. Nora, poor things is supposed to be pretty zany. Don't watch it with your children because there's a lot of Inappropriate things.
Speaker 1:A lot of adult scenes Does anyone chop their fingers off? Not that I know of, but no promises Got it Well, any of these movies be in the theater.
Speaker 2:That, I don't know. I think they're all, by this point, streaming. I don't think we have to go to the theater to see me, I'd prefer to go to the theater because I'm just here.
Speaker 1:I'm here for the popcorn and diet coke people.
Speaker 2:Okay, yes, all right. Well, I will do some more homework for you on that.
Speaker 1:And I don't fall asleep for as long in the theater as I do at my house, more like dozing, so anyhow.
Speaker 2:I'm very excited to. I will say, the ones I'm feeling a little anxious about watching are Anatomy of a Fall, because it's a French film about a husband who dies and they think the mom killed him and the son is blind so they keep asking him questions, but it's all based off of what he hears. Oh, that's terrible and I will say I'm sure it's a great and very well done movie, but the trailer stressed me out.
Speaker 1:No, thank you. So nice, but I'll watch you a film, yes.
Speaker 2:So I'm excited to talk to you more about these movies.
Speaker 1:I also want to move on a little bit, because we spent a lot of time there and we'll have a whole episode about it. Have you heard about this new trend that is all over TikTok? Probably not, the Eclectic Grandpa trend. What? What is that? It's a thing pairing vintage fashion with bold, bright colors. So think fitted and contoured for one piece and then slouchy and loose for another. So like the G&B bottoms fitted top or like a slouchy, like leggings and like a sweater, Like slouchy cardigan and no loafers. Oh.
Speaker 2:I love loafers.
Speaker 1:These Dr Scholl's white shoes have come back, though like the slides, oh, or they mules, no, no, no, they're like gym shoes, oh, they've made a big comeback. But, yeah, like pajama pants with like a button down kind of cardigan and a cross body bag Like legit pajama pants. Mm-hmm Huh, how do you feel about? This how do you think I might Bad? I don't agree and I tell my high school kids that you guys, pajama pants are named that for a reason.
Speaker 2:Correct. When we went to the high school theater festival, one of the kids asked like well, what should we wear to festival? And the head of the program was talking. She's like not pajama pants. And I was like, do we even have to say that? Yeah, is that a choice? Yeah, does it even wear them? Not outside the house? I will say actually I saw Elle walk into school, your eighth grade daughter, and I forgot it was a gym day.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, she's in SJC pajama pants. So she's in SJC. She looks like she's in her pajama pants.
Speaker 2:And I said to Aiden I was like, oh my gosh, elle forgot her skirt Because a lot of the girls wear their uniform and Rose does it too. They wear pajama pants under their skirts, which is a great idea, but I thought she forgot her skirt because she just had her pajama pants on and Aiden got it and she got it, hooded sweatshirts she was like ma it's a gym day. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:But that's the other thing about this hooded sweatshirt is, in the summer they wear it. I'm like it's 90 degrees outside, I'm like, oh, it's fine, it's fine. But then that's the same sweatshirt they'll wear in the winter when it's two degrees.
Speaker 2:So would it magical. I recently asked some junior high kids about this and they said well, if I'm just going from the car into the building, I don't need to wear a coat because I'm not outside long. That I understand, and that I also do. You do that too. I don't like to drive in a car. But we did a little bit of driving yesterday. Yes, we did. And on preparation for today's topic, Brings us right into our topic.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are talking about fast food today Because, in reverse or not reverse in contrast to what we talked last week about good homemade meals and cooking, let's talk about fast food.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about the newest fast food craze that is not available in all areas. But if you are in the area of Bowling Brook, stop by Cosmix.
Speaker 2:Yes, we went From Austin. It was a little under. Well, it was 25 minutes on the way there, 30 minutes on the way home, because I wasn't paying attention to the GPS, yes.
Speaker 1:So let's tell them we had a good time.
Speaker 2:So Cosmix is a new concept by McDonald's. It's a separate building, although the one in Bowling Brook is next door to a proper McDonald's. It's takeout only, but you can't even go in. It's drive through only.
Speaker 1:It's drive through only.
Speaker 2:It kind of reminded me of my dad. My parents would talk about going to the drive in, not the movies, but where car hops would bring out your food and clip it to the. We could have used a tray.
Speaker 1:We could have used a tray. There's a good drive in in Michigan City, oh fun.
Speaker 2:So you go, it's very high tech. You go in and you order and you pay right there at the little order station. I stuff my credit card in and then there was a red screen that said wait, and then a green screen pops up and tells you what window to go to and get your food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they did a nice. The screen was very clear, like it did a nice job of describing all the products. It was important because there were so many beverage choices. Yes, holy cow. And when we ordered our diet coke oh my, this was, this was the highlight of the trip. The gal was so kind. She said would you like to add a flavor shot? And both of us hurt down. So one of us added cherry and the other added vanilla.
Speaker 1:Yes, and we got to the window and one of us liked what we got our drinks for.
Speaker 2:We were waiting for some food and one Nora took a sip of her vanilla diet coke and one Nora took a sip separate for cherry diet coke and was delighted.
Speaker 1:And the other, nora, was not, and I looked at.
Speaker 2:Nora and I said how is it? And you were like it's good. And I said your face tells me otherwise.
Speaker 1:So, to our good fortune, they forgot to put some of our items in the bag.
Speaker 2:The first time around.
Speaker 1:So when we went through the second time, we had to switch. I made a switch. Yes, Everybody would happily ever after.
Speaker 2:Diet coke with the cherry shot was.
Speaker 1:Yes, I will say that was my high and my low was the cake pops or the yeah. And I had high.
Speaker 2:They almost look like beignets. Ok, it looked like kind of the size Mini beignets, like mini beignets, like a pastry with powdered sugar and then filled. We ordered the hazelnut ones.
Speaker 1:We thought we were going to get like a filled Dunkin' Munchkin kind of.
Speaker 2:I would say the hazelnut was delicious. The pastry itself was a little bland.
Speaker 1:A little bland, it tasted like nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really didn't taste anything. We went carb crazy because, oh my god, Because also they were so generous, they offered us two free items, so we really got a good sense of what the pretzel bites were really good. The pretzel bites were good those little hash brown bites were also good.
Speaker 1:Those were a highlight, and then we ordered the same egg sandwich.
Speaker 2:But because it was the egg. I feel like in the cheese were the same, but I think it was a upgraded English muffin.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's good to know and that was delicious. Did you eat after that, before dinner?
Speaker 2:No, Did you?
Speaker 1:feel like there was a bite, I felt quite full.
Speaker 2:Well, we also ate a lot of different things, because you can't eat inside, and it was 25 minutes away, so Nora and I got our food and we sat in my car looking at McDonald's, eating McDonald's, and then we were listening to the Stand Up Comedy channel to a comedian, nate Birgitzee Birgitzee, talking about McDonald's.
Speaker 2:It was a very it came full circle. It was a very interesting moment. But so we just sat in my car for 25 minutes, then we sat and ate it and then we rode back home it was a lot of sitting.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of sitting around. Would you believe? There's 36,000 McDonald's restaurants around the world.
Speaker 2:I do believe that Because, out of all the fast food restaurants, that's number one as far as number of restaurants in the world, and also, did you know that one in eight people have worked in McDonald's?
Speaker 1:Get out At McDonald's, yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:Have you ever worked in fast food? Well, so this was interesting to me Because when I looked up the most pop not popular by people, but most number of stores, starbucks was on the list and I was surprised that Starbucks was considered fast food. How?
Speaker 1:have that written down in my notes. Is Starbucks a fast food? So, if Starbucks is fast food, then yes, I worked at Starbucks. It made me dig a little deeper to look what. How do you define fast food? And it was any restaurant that has minimal to no table services and focuses on quick delivery. So that would be Starbucks, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because they don't come to you at the table. So it's like table service versus fast food.
Speaker 1:And people say that, or the statistic is that 75% of people eat fast food once a week. But I would think that wouldn't include somewhere like Starbucks, because so many people Well, if Starbucks- is included in that list, then yeah, definitely. Yeah, but don't you think if Starbucks was included in that list, that number would be higher? More than once a week, because so many of those people polled would stop at Starbucks more than once a week or no?
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe I don't know. Well did they say at? Well, they're announcing the average amount of times they eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are, oh, they are OK.
Speaker 2:Anyhow. That's interesting because the top five fast food chains by numbers of locations, it was McDonald's, subway Starbucks. This place based out of China, it's called Mixu Ice Cream and Tea, which I've never heard of, and then came. Well, that would make sense?
Speaker 1:Yes, because we don't live in China.
Speaker 2:I know, but there are American fast food places in China. I wasn't sure if it had crossed the border. Like the way American places are.
Speaker 1:And then KFC is number five and KFC will not reveal their secret recipe.
Speaker 2:I've been to the birthplace of.
Speaker 1:KFC. Where was it born?
Speaker 2:Kentucky, kentucky, yeah, kentucky, oh right, right, alan, I went to my friend.
Speaker 1:Where.
Speaker 2:Elizabeth Hall's wedding in Tennessee, and Rory was January, 4 months old and I was still nursing. I had to bring my pump of meat to this wedding. It was a whole thing. The wedding was amazing. It was beautiful and fantastic and super fun. Our flight got canceled and we had a very thought out travel plan because we were living in New York but we dropped our kids off in Chicago. So we were supposed to fly from Knoxville, tennessee, to Chicago get our kids and then fly back to New York the next day. So our flight was canceled, so we had to drive from Knoxville back to Chicago. So we were driving and then we were looking at the road signs and we were like, oh my god, the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 1:So like the original Kentucky Fried Chicken, the original. Kentucky Fried.
Speaker 2:Chicken when it was born. I believe Al has a t-shirt says I've eat where it all started, or something like that.
Speaker 1:What did you order?
Speaker 2:Biscuits and like chicken fingers. I don't like chicken on the bone either. So that was I forgot about that I didn't even have that written down to talk about, but KFC is very popular in China. When we went to China they were all over the place. Really. Maybe that's why they like it, because I will say. When I was in China, I was definitely like can't eat one more dumpling. I had my fill. I needed something to. Anyways.
Speaker 1:Hi Tygress, I'm surprised Subway wasn't on that list. It is it's number two.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, mcdonald's, subway, starbucks, mixu, and then KFC and then Burger King was number six. Do you know?
Speaker 1:Subway had a little situation with not making 12-inch subs. What?
Speaker 2:Did they were sued? No Well, I thought they were sued over their tuna.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know they should be. That's nasty.
Speaker 2:Because there was like no actual fish in it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that makes it better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, maybe yeah, unless you really want some tuna. You're like, my mercury levels are down.
Speaker 1:Gross. No, they were making 11-inch sandwiches and somebody busted them.
Speaker 2:Stinkers, that's naughty Well they rectified it.
Speaker 1:That's good. So, anyways, I was looking into celebrities and their fast food orders and then I started thinking about fast food for myself and my orders.
Speaker 2:Well, what did the celebrities say?
Speaker 1:Jason Sudeikis is a big Taco Bell guy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:As is Dolly Parton, what I remembered from when Elizabeth did a presentation on her years ago. Oh, she orders a Mexican pizza, a soft taco supreme with a side of rice and beans. Wow, she's a tiny little.
Speaker 2:That's a lot for such a little tiny lady, right? I love Taco Bell. Do you like Taco Bell? I do like Taco Bell. When I was pregnant with Kevin we were living in South Bend and there was a Taco Bell in the parking lot where my doctor was Okay, so after every visit I would go, I would get chips and cheese from Taco Bell, and then I would go to McDonald's a few blocks away to get a Diet Coke.
Speaker 1:Oh, because they have Pepsi there. Yeah, I probably haven't had Taco Bell in 25 years.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:When I was pregnant with Rose too.
Speaker 1:So when we were little they had a Taco Bell on 105th and Western and we ride our bikes. The tacos were 39 cents, 59 cents. Yes, 39, 59 cents. So my dad would leave me money for lunch when he would leave for work. Yeah, yeah, and it certainly was more than 39 cents.
Speaker 2:He was like counting it out, so I was making so much money over the summer.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, dad, because he would leave me money every day for lunch and we would eat at Taco.
Speaker 2:Bell.
Speaker 1:Well, even if he left you $5, you know so then we would use the leftover money for our after dinner stop, which was Dunkin Donuts. Hold it, hey. So we'd get two Dunkin Donuts and a container of chocolate milk. After we would have something like Taco Bell or KFC for lunch, isn't that so? Gross, that seems normal.
Speaker 2:But think about how much you were running around riding your bike.
Speaker 1:We would come home for dinner and then we would all go back out to Dunkin Donuts and get two Donuts and a chocolate milk. Two Donuts is a lot of Donuts, because it was two for a dollar, or whatever it was yeah, oh my gosh, when we lived in California.
Speaker 2:My parents and siblings will have to fact check this. I remember going like some people want. There was like a you know, like a strip mall, I guess I don't know what you would call it like a shopping center. One side was KFC and the one side was Taco Bell and I remember getting tacos for like us and then KFC for my mom.
Speaker 1:I love that your pregnancy craving was fast food too, because so was mine.
Speaker 2:So I had different for every single game. Oh, you did. Yeah, were all your kids different? Or because I was thinking about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just. I always wanted a McDonald's cheeseburger fries and a diet cook. I don't think I've eaten it since. Interesting we don't eat fast food.
Speaker 2:My kids love McDonald's. I actually had Rory for his birthday. We were like we can go to lunch wherever you want to go, and he wanted to go to McDonald's. That's funny. So we went as a family to McDonald's and sat in the McDonald's.
Speaker 1:What did you eat?
Speaker 2:I had well see, this is my problem. I used to like the chicken sandwiches, but now they've made them fancy and even if I say no pickles to me, they still taste like pickles. So now I get a four piece Happy Meal. I get four chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1:I get the kids meal Chicken nuggets Because they don't like pickles and you don't dunk them in anything.
Speaker 2:No, I don't.
Speaker 1:Straight up no sauce for me. I take that back because we eat a lot of.
Speaker 2:Subway and Jimmy John's.
Speaker 1:Oh, chipotle, how about this? Oh, so I never serve fast food for dinner, but I was telling a story about how I had this genius dinner that we all went to Chipotle. They ordered, we put all the food in the bag. We came home, we sat down at our table. I didn't take out plates or forks or anything.
Speaker 2:This was your favorite dinner.
Speaker 1:Oh, this was amazing. We sat down, we all ate out of the containers in which the food came. And then, when it was over because there's so many of us, the bag was giant we put all the containers back in the bag Bag in the garbage. I threw it away. It was genius. And then someone said to me why are you still telling this story? She said, nora, that's called fast food. That's fast food.
Speaker 2:I get it, yeah it is a fableman's dinner. Yeah, because when I was pregnant with Aiden, I craved gummy bears. Rory, I craved chicken noodle soup from Panera.
Speaker 1:That doesn't seem too hearty.
Speaker 2:The chicken noodle soup.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it was, but I did.
Speaker 2:But there was no Panera near me in Manhattan, so I would take Aiden on the ferry across the river to Hoboken, new Jersey, where they had a Panera.
Speaker 1:Do you still like that chicken noodle soup? No, I actually don't. Is there something special about it, like, do they have something?
Speaker 2:in it. I don't know, I don't know what it was. And then Kevin was Taco Bell and Rose was ramen, ramen, ramen. When was the last time you had had?
Speaker 1:ramen before Rose.
Speaker 2:In London. Maybe I think I made it because I saw it in the store and I was like that reminds me of home. That's funny Ramen and smoothies for Rose. But when I studied abroad we used to eat it all the time because my friend Sharon and I would be like well. I don't want to spend a lot of money on dinner because I want to go out, so we would eat.
Speaker 1:That was a smart thing to eat, because it would probably absorb everything.
Speaker 2:And then also in Piccadilly Circus there was a huge Burger King and we would wait for the night bus to take us home and we'd be like, if you just missed a bus, you knew you had like a good 20 minutes. We'd run across Piccadilly Circus to Burger King.
Speaker 1:Did the Burger King taste the same?
Speaker 2:So I don't typically eat hamburgers. Fast food I go chicken, which I don't know if it was good or bad, but I would. The chicken sandwiches tended to taste better in the UK.
Speaker 1:Maybe there's less additives maybe when we were kids, my mom never took us for fast food, except we would go to the local fast food places like Janssen's and Red's.
Speaker 2:But you would go to Taco Bell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mom never.
Speaker 2:Oh, we wasn't like wrong. Yeah, it was always kind of like shoot we had practice or we missed our bath.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just I was in the writer but we had these two great spots in Beverly Janssen's and Red's and they were like one was a hot dog stand.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, and I guess they both were.
Speaker 1:I mean you could go inside, yeah, but those were like legit, that's awesome, yeah, that's what I remember With the cheese fries we used to eat in high school a lot.
Speaker 2:We ate a lot of Boston Market Really yeah, because we, like I, would get this chicken. That's a hearty meal, I would get a chicken sandwich, because they have sandwiches, so I get a sandwich for them.
Speaker 1:You would like your friends.
Speaker 2:No, oh, hey girls, after Poms you want to go to Boston Market, get a quarter chicken and a tub of ice cream. I was just kind of processing that, like wow, that's a big dinner for a group of girls to stop for, like your family in high school, yeah, and I traveled, yeah, and so my mom would be like, okay, I'm going to pick you up after Poms.
Speaker 1:Before rehearsal what do you?
Speaker 2:want and I'd be like I'll have a chicken sandwich from Boston Market.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. Oh you know what is missing. We would go to.
Speaker 2:Benignans with my friends a lot. You know what's missing here. What Is a?
Speaker 1:Jack in the box. What is Jack? Oh, that's a fast food Jack in the box was great in high school. Is it like?
Speaker 2:the place where you get your ice from. Oh, sonic, no, sonic, no, it's not, it's just like, or is it like Steak and Shake.
Speaker 1:No, it's like McDonald's. Oh okay, it's called Jack in the Box. They make a Jumbo Jack. What's that? It's a burger. Oh boy, I think it has mayonnaise on it, which is about when I was in high school. We used to stop for Jumbo Jacks and Monster Tacos.
Speaker 2:They had burgers and tacos they had amazing tacos that they made with soy. Oh wow, so we get Monster.
Speaker 1:Tacos Jumbo.
Speaker 2:Jacks Like soy-based meat.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm Interesting.
Speaker 2:And then Oreo Because we have no meat left over from the Oreo shakes. Wow. Again, you have the stomach of steel.
Speaker 1:Why was I not? Why weren't people rolling me whole?
Speaker 2:My thing with that is not necessarily the quantity of food, it's just the combination of those foods. Like I think if I sat down today and had a cheeseburger, a taco and an Oreo milkshake, my body would be like what are you thinking? This is all coming out Panic. Okay, Like you would be so sick. This is a combination of those foods. Seems wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Adele has a death meal she calls it. Oh, just, I mean, it's aptly named. She starts with chicken McNuggets. Okay, then her second course is a Big Mac, and she finishes it off with fries.
Speaker 2:But those go together.
Speaker 1:But, didn't?
Speaker 2:she just lose a lot of weight.
Speaker 1:She lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 2:See, that to me is better than combining random stuff. I guess, like, if you're like, well, I have pizza and then I have Chinese food, and then I have a milkshake and then I have some Jell-O and a taco, I'd be like, that was like us yesterday.
Speaker 1:I'll have an ethnic muffin and some pretzel bites and some chocolate pops, pops.
Speaker 2:I know, and I think that's why I'm that's like I'm never eating Again. Speaking of McDonald's, though, because you and I, I think our highlight of Cosmix was the Diet Coke with the flavor never signed.
Speaker 2:Why Diet Cokes at McDonald's truly do taste better than Diet Cokes anywhere else, and there is a reason. They do that on purpose. You might know this, but I would love to share it with our listeners. Most people, when they get the syrup for the Coke or Diet Coke for the drinks, it arrives in plastic bags. Mcdonald's insists on it being delivered in stainless steel tanks to protect from light, temperature, air and anything else. They also filter all the water before it goes into their pop machines, and then they also pre-chill the syrup so that the syrup is cold.
Speaker 2:That I did not know, because a lot of those drink machines it's like a flash freeze, so it's like, okay, before it comes out, we're going to flash freeze it before it goes into your cup. They don't. They pre-chill the syrup, they also pre-chill the water and they also have scientifically figured out the syrup to water ratio. But they also keep in mind that the ice will melt.
Speaker 1:So in fact you're in the ice. Yes, Do you think that's why they don't put that much ice in their drinks?
Speaker 2:I think so, because they also said don't order your drink without ice, or else it's going to be too syrupy, it's not going to taste right. You need that ice. And they also said because they pre-chill everything that fosters a better environment for carbon dioxide. So that's why it's like the perfect amount of bubble.
Speaker 1:They've really done a lot of work figuring out how chemicals can taste so good to you.
Speaker 2:But I mean, look at, it's like takes up my notes of how they do their pop, takes up like a half my page, which, when we talked about a few episodes ago that they're going to transition away from self-serve pot machines, I wonder if that's why, if they're like, this isn't the same.
Speaker 1:I mess up their ratio because I like extra ice in mine. But do you find it's watery? No, I think, because it's cold everything.
Speaker 2:No, it's perfect, and I never finish my drinks I always leave like that much yeah that's true, but and now that I think about it, most of the time when I finish my Diet Coke I still have a significant amount of ice left in it, which is probably because they chill. You know you're not putting hot liquid into cold Ice.
Speaker 1:Thank you, mcdonald's, for going the extra mile Right, because it really brightens my afternoons.
Speaker 2:It really does Same sees. Is there any fast food restaurant that you're like? I don't want to admit that I used to eat there and enjoy it, but I did. I'll tackle. Well, that's not bad. A tapestry of my childhood. We used to go to Long John Silver's oh gross.
Speaker 1:That's cheap. Would you get fish sticks? No, why would we get chicken and, like the hush puppies, that's not good. Still, you know it's a great fast food place that we haven't talked about Culvers. I have a diet root beer, oh.
Speaker 2:I don't like custard, so that's. But they have a lot of other stuff. My mom keeps telling me this too. Well, it's a recipe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just the dessert part.
Speaker 2:Do you go in and sit?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can yeah.
Speaker 2:I can't use to like the. Oh, I like it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's frozen.
Speaker 2:I'm like, well, no, it's. That's why I'm like going to Andes, because I'll get it for my kids, but I don't like it.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I feel like it tastes like frozen. Yeah, okay, okay. Should we launch into highs and lows? We should, why not, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Where are you at? Well, I have, I have two. One is that I've been going to bed too late, but you know what else is new? But this is like a Yahoo boo-hoo, boo-hoo for me, because my parents went to.
Speaker 1:Florida. Oh, I hate that feeling. I'm sorry, but Yahoo for them.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy for them. I think it's amazing, but I am.
Speaker 1:I do miss them when they're gone. It's nice to have parents social.
Speaker 2:And I know I'm so spoiled that they are here. You know nine months out of the year, but I'm there. Yeah, I brought them to the airport on Tuesday. I'm like. I wonder if this is what it feels like when you bring your kids to college, like I'm really happy for you, I miss you when you're gone.
Speaker 1:How about you? My high was that I was in Arizona over the weekend. Oh, yay, yes. I had to knock away to celebrate my mom's birthday and Ryan held down.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday, Mrs Hagger.
Speaker 1:Yes, happy birthday. Mom and Ryan held down the fort here which we kind of went back and forth about, because we felt bad that only I was going.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was definitely an adult trip but we felt bad that he wasn't joining.
Speaker 1:We just couldn't connect all the dots and put the pieces together.
Speaker 2:That's hard. So yeah, I had those two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had it out and I surprised her.
Speaker 2:How did you surprise her? Were you just like sitting in a chair and she came home.
Speaker 1:So my brother picked me up from the airport and I ran errands with him in the morning to get ready for the party. So so fun to see him. And then we hosted dinner. It was a small dinner for E and I was just in the room.
Speaker 2:And so she just walked in and was like yep, yep, because she wasn't expecting anyone.
Speaker 1:She thought she was going to dinner with my dad and Ruth. Chris has this little side room which is perfect for like one table, and it was great for our group, and so I had worked hard the last couple of weeks to make sure all of our ducks would be in a row and everything kind of came to fruition.
Speaker 2:It's hard when you surprise someone like that, like your mom, your dad, your husband or your kids, because you realize how hard it is not to tell them.
Speaker 1:I found myself not talking to my mom like the whole week before, so and then I felt bad, I felt sad that she didn't think we were doing anything for her birthday.
Speaker 2:Right, and that's what's hard about surprising someone too. I know, oh my God, I feel like such a jerk.
Speaker 1:But I'm not a jerk. I'm actually going to work for you.
Speaker 2:But you won't know for like weeks. Yes, oh, I'm glad it all went well.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if I really had. I didn't finish my worksheet. Did you have no low? Maybe not a low this week? Well, there you go. Sometimes that happens, I guess. Yeah, Remember when you had two highs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really nice. My high was our road trip yesterday. That was fun, wasn't it? I just like it felt so good. We had a lot of laughs, we did. We had a lovely time in the car.
Speaker 1:We just had fun. We had a road trip to the labor. We can have fun anywhere we go. And thank you for treating me. Oh, you're welcome. Just a generous Nora, so generous? Yeah, not treat for cosmetics, eddie, two of the things we got were free. I appreciated you driving because my car was on zero oil. Did you get that sorted? Yeah, my oil change if you're in the market for an oil change had on over to my Cagarty Buick GMC because they changed my oil in about 36 minutes. Whoa Right, I'm not even going to get it in my high. That's amazing. Yeah, right on the corner, right on the price.
Speaker 2:Yes, and speedy, freaky fast, freaky fast, freaky fast oil changes. Oh my gosh, are you hungry after this episode?
Speaker 1:or do you feel kind of like?
Speaker 2:I need a salad. Where are you at after talking about fast?
Speaker 1:food for 30 minutes. Long John Silver's. That's where I'm at. I'm still stuck on the fact that you would go to Long John Silver's. What about you? I'm a longer. I'm not going to lie, all right? Well, let's play on the plane and head on out to lunch. We'll catch you guys next week. Bye, bye.