Episode 397: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie:The Battered Bastards of Baseball), New Favorite, Pet Story, Interesting Fact, Commercial of the Week, Lowlight of the Week, WTF is Wrong With People?, Amazon Thinks Bet Would Like It, You Rules, Things we liked to eat as kids that we can’t stand now.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra, “Movies” bumper by Duke, “New Favorite” bumper by Krizzer.
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Deviled ham sandwiches! I thought I was the only one who ate those as a kid. I’m afraid to try one now, but I have a feeling I wouldn’t like them. How about spaghetti-Os? Stennie- if you don’t like ketchup, you won’t like them! Limp noodles in ketchup. Ate them all the time as a kid. Not a fan anymore.
Salsberry steak. Potato buds. Creamed corn. Any soup made by Campbell’s. Orange soda. Stove top stuffing. Apparently I ate a lot of shit growing up
Hey gals! Regarding the Daily Show and Jon’s departure, I feel like I keep having to defend Trevor Noah (mostly on Facebook). Online, people keep saying “I’m gonna miss watching the Daily Show,” as if it’s gone and not coming back in September. The crew and writing team are not leaving, so a great deal of the structure and soul remains intact. And if you google Trevor’s standup, he’s solid, political, a bit dangerous, but always as an outsider looking in, which is actually a kind of interesting POV for the Daily Show. And he is young – younger audiences will relate and he will have many years to grow into. Who will fill Jon’s shoes? Trevor will. And we shouldn’t stop watching just because Jon left. Jumping off soapbox now…
Thanks for the show – looking forward to the 400th! Wow!!
Foods I LOVED and now don’t:
Vienna Sausages (can’t believe how many of these I ate, bleah – I can’t even stand looking at the jelly that is in there when you open the can)
Hot Dogs (I only eat now when at baseball games, cook outs, etc where it’s expected)
Oscar Mayer Bologna (we snap on this one – had a ton of these with mayo as a kid)
Foods I HATED and now like:
cranberry sauce/cranberry dressing with Turkey (turkey seems naked without it if not in a sandwich)
Mushrooms (we snap on this one, too!)
Cantaloupe
Oh Heidi, thank you so much for preemptively debunking the myth that there is going to be a musical episode. As much as Bet promises and then you both renege, I always believe you and am horribly disappointed when no musical episode materializes.
Thank you for doing my topic! I liked hearing your answers. As you requested, here are mine:
Things I loved as a kid that I hate now – this list is pretty hard to compile, because I had a very narrow view of what was worth eating. My mother (may she rest) was a horrible cook with a very limited repertoire. I didn’t eat “normal” food until around high school.
1. Bologna. But not the Oscar Meyer kind – no – I only loved the kind that came from the deli and had to be sliced at home. I ate it with copious amounts of ketchup. Keep in mind, I ate other forms of meat at this time, but I didn’t like them very much- I just choked it down.
2. Kool Aid – Blergh
3. Donuts – we didn’t get these very often because we had amazing bakers in my extended family, but when we did, we got them from a non-DD place on Staten Island. Now they make me very ill. I can eat sugar, I can eat fried foods, but fried sugar makes me ill. As in I vomit, in case you’re curious.
4. Potato Knishes – We used to get these when we were in Midtown visiting family or friends, and we always got these. I loved them. A few years ago, I was in NYC for a little weekend trip, found me a street vendor and prepared for bliss. But it was not to be. Yuck. I’ve gotten deli ones since, and they aren’t any good either.
5. Most vegetables. I always liked broccoli though.
6. White bread
7. Mac & Cheese – orange, from the box
8. Relish of all kinds, and 1,000 dressing which is on the same line because it contains relish.
Things I hated as a kid that I like now: (well most things, but here’s what came to mind)
1. Food without ketchup – Unless we’re talking salad or PB&J. Those never got doused in ketchup.
2. Mustard
3. Vegetables – notably Brussel sprouts, asparagus, and cabbage
4. Rice
5. Tuna and salmon
And now for some odds and ends – Bet, listen to WBEZ online when you can. It’s my local NPR station, and it’s quite good. I know it isn’t like your station used to be, but it does play music and it isn’t a bot. What are you doing for radio now?
Heidi brought up NPR being not-for-profit. I’m really wondering if that’s true now. Every third word anyone says has 9 sponsors and underwriters.
OK – one more comment. From Wikipedia:
Bologna sausage, sometimes phonetically spelled as baloney (/bəˈloʊni/),[1] boloney[citation needed] is a sausage derived from the Italian mortadella, a similar looking finely ground pork sausage containing cubes of lard, originally from the Italian city of Bologna, IPA: [boˈloɲɲa] ( listen)). U.S. Government regulations require American bologna to be finely ground [2] and without visible pieces of lard. Bologna can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, venison or soy protein. Unlike the mortadella, bologna sausage is not an Italian product and there are several differences among process and ingredients. Typical seasoning for bologna includes black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, celery seed, coriander, and like mortadella, myrtle berries give it its distinctive flavor.[3]