Top Four 22: Thanksgiving Side Dishes
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hi everybody welcome to top for the
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Thanksgiving Black Friday leftover a
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special extra bonus show that's kind of
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amazing Thanks I love that like we're
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like this is the leftover show because
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we're recording our Black Friday slash
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Thanksgiving episode after Thanksgiving
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and at almost the end of Black Friday
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and we just ate a whole bunch of
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leftovers so we decided that this
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episode we would talk about our favorite
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American Thanksgiving side dishes and I
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think there should be two judging
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factors I think the first one should be
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the the factor of it being the day of
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and then how good it is as a leftover
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and then on a smaller scale you know
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we're dropping down the chart level here
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what's that called we're indenting we
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have a small a it is the sandwich or
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plate factor on its leftover ability so
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that's what we're going to be talking
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about that is pretty good yeah I mean I
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think a lot of this will ride on you
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know for the dear listeners a lot of us
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will write on whether you are a leftover
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consuming family or not who isn't why
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who mad not like there has to be left
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for leftovers at Thanksgiving there
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always is so whether you begrudge
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initely eat them or you lovingly eat
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they are there for you I will say that
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like if if you if you either host
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Thanksgiving at your house or if you are
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staying like with your family for a
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multi-day thing at their house it
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dramatically increases your chances of
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having to eat leftovers like if you are
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just in and out that same night then I
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feel like you can probably escape
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without any leftovers or with minimal
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leftover well someone's definitely gonna
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push it to go box on you I mean yeah and
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you have to eat the leftovers otherwise
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you're a wasteful monster exactly
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because there's a lotta so and and I
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think like it's interesting when you
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think about it as we're gonna talk about
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it when we think about like which which
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parts of Thanksgiving meals are better
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or worse including their ability for
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leftovers it figure like you're only
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eating the the fresh hot version for one
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meal and you're also like during that
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same meal you're eating so much other
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stuff that the the individual amount of
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any particular side that side dish that
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for that one fresh meal where they're
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all hot could be really small and that's
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just one meal whereas if you then eat
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leftovers you could be eating a lot of
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something for one meal or you could be
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eating these things for like two or
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three or four more meals after the
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initial dinner so I feel like the
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leftover factor for many of these things
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is almost more important than how good
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it is on that first that first dinner
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mm-hmm yeah probably but you could also
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depending on what time you eat your
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Thanksgiving dinner you could be
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essentially having leftovers that same
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day like if you are a two o'clock dinner
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family at seven o'clock you're ready for
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a pilgrim sandwich you know like you're
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ready to get it going put it on some
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bread or some rolls if you could find
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them the rest of the country since New
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York has the best rolls and they're
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apparently nowhere else to be found
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other times when we've had Thanksgiving
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other places and we have not been able
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to find rolls just a tragedy tragedy
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anyway so yeah let's uh let's list some
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things and then we can pick from them
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because we didn't prepare yeah TIFF
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decided to not let me prepare her for
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this and just basically let's plow her
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into it record our thought process so
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yeah so uh I think for me I'm gonna have
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to start with stuffing you know stuffing
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which I some people call dressing but
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it's not the kind of stuff you put on
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salad is the kind of stuff that you
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theoretically stuff a large bird with
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but I don't know if anybody actually
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does that or if you just serve it on the
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side these days I think there's two ways
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to do it depends on how long you want to
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cook your turkey if you wanna cook your
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turkey for a very long time or you're
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not doing one of the new trendy hipster
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cooking methods of smoking or
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deep-frying your turkey then I believe
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you you can stuff it or not but
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stuffings tricky stuff it or not
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so stuffing it's tricky because it's
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very particular it's like it's like red
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sauce right you you have your stuffing
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that you like there's also vegetable
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stuffing which tastes totally different
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than the delicious sausage stuffing
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I think so wet soggy croutons we've also
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had oysters dressing at one point so
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there's lots of different things out
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there that people have for their
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different family traditions but yeah I'm
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stuffing which is made with breakfast
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sausage kind of meat I don't know yeah
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what is a special sausage she always
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uses she talks about all the time I
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think it's just like regular brioche no
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there's like no it's not just regular
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breakfast it's not like links it's Anna
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it's in a tube okay it's like loose
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sausage meat yeah things and you crumble
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it up oh it is just there's one
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I think it's Jones's or something like
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that who knows I don't know but there's
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one brand that's like super good that
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you put in the stuffing and you mean the
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Turkey drippings and all that business
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but it is the best stuffing I have ever
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ever ever had regardless of having to
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grow up with it everyone who has it
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thinks it's amazing and everyone who had
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it this Thanksgiving thought it was
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amazing so stuffing is pretty high on my
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list it might even be my number one I
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think it's my number one two because it
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is it is not only you know it from a
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from a pure like you know first day
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taste perspective it's just awesome like
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and and you know and it really helps
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that your mom makes really good stuffing
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but even when I've had less good
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stuffings I still love them because it's
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you know usually the stuff like if it
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starts from one of those big bags of
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stuffing mix at the grocery store is it
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those are basically crew tights like a
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bag of croutons basically I know like
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add butter and stuff and so it's
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basically saturated bread cubes with
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butter that are then squished down into
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something else with lots of other
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delicious things where the record is not
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from any kind of bag situation
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sure okay that's fine but I'm just
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saying like it's pretty hard to make a
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stuffing taste bad you know like your
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mom's is exceptional and I and I it is
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by far my favorite however I've I've
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almost never had a bad stuffing nope and
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it's so good as leftovers it's the best
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leftover food and you know what there is
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nothing like a cold fistful of stuffing
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after a Thanksgiving meal and I don't
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know about cold oh my gosh the morning
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after the Fistful of tea just grab some
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stuffing out of the bowl I need to eat
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it it is just the best
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I'd rather crumble it up a little bit
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and put the toaster oven for a few
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minutes hey I got you over to the side
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of leftover pizza in the morning for
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breakfast nice cold slices you like it
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now you will come over to the side of
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the cold fist full of stuffing the first
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thing the morning after Thanksgiving
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maybe a few more years
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you can work on me a few more years on
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that but yeah and I agree like a toe it
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reheats very well you know and it's as
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you mentioned like the reheat ability is
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very important for this ranking yeah
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it's it's good hot or cold mm-hmm it is
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good as a plate it is great on a
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sandwich hmm a little disc and yep it's
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one of the layers of the sandwich the
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turkey sandwich so it is an overall
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yeah there there is never a Thanksgiving
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meal or a leftovers meal in which I
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don't want stuffing like that is always
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part of it and I will eat it until
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there's no more all right so a pretty
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firm on stuffing as both are number one
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yeah definite Art in hi
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all right let's let's move down the
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ranks here this is top four we got to
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pick four yeah not the stuffing episode
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and then we have to consider the turkey
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itself no we don't its side dishes
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everyone is Turkey everyone cooks it
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different it's fine it's Turkey no one
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cares but we'll see and I think it's
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interesting to note that the dish that
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Thanksgiving is known for which is the
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turkey even if you were to permit it on
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this list I bet it would be on very few
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people's top four and I believe it take
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it or leave it Turkey I don't really
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mind busy and I actually really enjoy a
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nicely cooked turkey which is not all
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not all turkeys of course but I really
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when a turkey is cooked well I really
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enjoyed I really do like Turkey a lot of
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people who just don't like it and I
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understand that I really do like it but
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but it's rare to get it well made
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unfortunately we have we have good cooks
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in the family so ours usually are well
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made so we look at in that department I
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might rank the turkey somewhere in that
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list near the bottom maybe but the
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problem with turkey is that it really
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does not reheat very gracefully like you
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if it's if it's cooked well and with
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skill you can get it to be nice and
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moist and juicy and amazing on that
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night when it's when it comes out but
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the second you reheat it it becomes very
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dry well not even dry it just has that
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strange reheated turkey taste yeah it
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gets it gets I don't know what that is
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wait a sec it's altered slightly and not
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I don't know science happens overnight
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and it just doesn't taste good yeah
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all right moving on what would you think
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I'm thinking I'm debating between mashed
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potatoes and sweet potato casserole
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they are both potatoes but extremely
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practically a dessert the other is just
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delicious mashed potatoes and gravy it
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has of the gravy so I should point out
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we should point out what sweet potato
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casserole is for any of our listeners
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who don't know because I've actually
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found that fewer people that I expect
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have have heard of this dish though it
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might be regionally think maybe or
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anyway so this is basically mashed sweet
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potatoes if you're lucky canned if
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you're not but mashed potatoes which are
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yams to some people I think there's a
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difference but nobody cares and they're
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interchangeable as far as this dish is
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concerned yes orange sweet potatoes it
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depends on how orange you want your
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casserole to be depending on which yummy
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product you decide to pick yeah anyway
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whatever your local version of that is
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you basically make a mashed version of
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that so it's full of like you know
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butter and maybe maybe cream or is there
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butter yes sugar yes you had brown sugar
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usually a regular sugar or both so you
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basically make a really good sweet match
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base you could put eggs in it that's
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right yeah tooth and then you put it in
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a baking dish like a big rectangle
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baking dish and you sprinkle on top of
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it either brown sugar crumbles
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marshmallows or both well the brown
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sugar crumbles are like the same topping
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that you'd have on a coffee cake yeah um
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cake yeah so it's a crumb cake
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essentially toppings basically it's like
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sugar and butter and yeah balls with
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with pecans chopped pecans in it yeah
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optionally chopped be yeah absolutely
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guys yeah I'm not a huge pecan fan but
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actually do like this dish with them it
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does add something but yes so you know
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this is very very sweet potato mash base
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that has added sugar in it already then
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you add a sugary crumb topping to it and
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then you bake that so the sugary crumb
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topping kind of like caramelized yes get
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hot then you put the marshmallows on the
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last like last five minutes yeah so they
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post right on top so you have like a
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crunchy layer of marshmallow with the
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gooey marshmallow underneath yeah yeah I
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mean yeah it's basically a hot ice cream
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sundae like it there's like everything
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everything about it is Sunday yeah
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everything about it is like incredibly
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sugary but it's delicious and it reheats
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really well yes that's another thing
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about this like it's in most casserole
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old-type dishes do reheat well and this
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one is no exception this ruthless
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religious reheat very very well and so I
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think I might put this as my number two
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because I really enjoy it it it sounds
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like a vegetable even though it's far
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from it but it sounds like a vegetable
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so it has some kind of tastes like
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dessert yeah it's delicious
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that's why I think it's falling down my
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list is because it tastes like dessert I
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don't care desserts good oh yeah that's
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not a side dish no number two and it's
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another one we're like every
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Thanksgiving meal and reheated meal
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afterwards I always want some of this as
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part of that meal so sweet potato
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casserole is my number two all right I'm
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gonna put it at my number three actually
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because I'm filling in my number two
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slot with mashed potatoes and gravy
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because you know I love my mom's mashed
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potatoes again it's all about like what
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you grew up with my own SMAP mashed
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potatoes has a whole bunch of onion salt
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in it mm-hmm oh they are just so
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delicious no little lumps at all
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anywhere in them they are wonderful with
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some nice gravy on them with onion
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pieces in the gravy oh it's just divine
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see I'm not sure I'd put my fuse in my
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list at all maybe because I will see how
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what I get when it when I get down to
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three and four but the problem with
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master Cato's is that they are really
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good but you could not only do you have
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those all year round you're like you can
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get mashed potatoes any time and I love
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them every time I do too but I'm
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Thanksgiving there's so much stuff that
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you can only get on Thanksgiving really
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that you don't really cook the rest of
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the year and so like it's against the
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law you can cook this stuff the rest of
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the year but nobody does so basically
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like I feel like mashed potatoes are
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kind of drowned out by the the novelty
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and and like the wow factor of other
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Thanksgiving side dishes because the
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master haters are kind of they're kind
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of an everyday thing no for me when
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we've had Thanksgiving dinner without
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mashed potatoes I sorely missed them no
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I can get that also one more but you
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need a break so like everything is so
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rich and every I just I like that's what
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the Turkish for yeah yeah they're very
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filling and on Thanksgiving you you kind
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of you really have to control what
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you're eating that is very filling
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because you could very easily get
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carried away and all of a sudden you're
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full of mashed potatoes and you don't
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have room for anything else no I like I
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mashed potato lots of flavor I like it
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it's my number two number three sweet
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potatoes it's so deserty
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it's just so dude it's so deserty yeah I
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mean I get that so I don't know what my
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number three would be I mean I really do
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enjoy the green bean casserole that's
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one so we should also describe this for
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anybody who does not who's unaware of
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this green bean casserole wait before
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you get into green bean casserole I want
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to go back mashed potatoes have great
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reheat ability and they are also
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necessary as a layer in the sandwich
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yeah you do not you do not put the sweet
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potatoes into the sandwich no they use
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out you can't do that you're right they
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only have plate ability for leftovers
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that's true I will say though that the
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that a layer of a of a disk of stuffing
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can serve the same purpose it can do
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both but why why wouldn't you that's
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fair I mean you can do both and that's
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fine I like the distinct layers that's
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fair okay so yeah green bean casserole
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this is another dish that I don't know
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how many people know about so I will
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describe I forgive me if you already
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know but basically also called string
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bean casserole sometimes yeah right yeah
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whatever those beans are called french
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beans are they said the same I've never
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heard it called French bean casserole
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but yes there it is they're just
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skinnier versions of green be long green
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beans that you all hated as a kid but
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it's an adult you realize hey there
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aren't too bad just like most vegetables
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so anyway green bean casserole is an
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excuse to eat crispy fried onions that
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are that you buy in a can you sprinkle
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on top everything below that is less
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important so what why don't you doesn't
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have your side dishes crispy fried
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onions I'm okay I do eat them straight
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from the can when they're around I
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always like kind of sneak some some
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handfuls of him but it's more that
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nobody would really accept that as a
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valid side dish choice
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so my valid side dish choice is green
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bean casserole because it's I like it
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you know it's perfectly good perfectly
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good but so describe for the people what
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the what makes it a casserole you put it
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in the oven and then you put something
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delicious on top which is crispy fried
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onions no you you're missing an entire
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chunk of the ingredients here okay so
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the bottle oh the crispy fried onions
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you're supposed to have a layer of some
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kind of combination of green bean
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mushroom soup all right here
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talking about I made this so I will talk
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about it you have green beans and you
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boil them so that you know they get
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bright and green and cooked then you
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make kind of like a mushroom cream soup
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type of sauce for it so you have like
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the mushrooms and cream and it becomes
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soup yes and the magic and cooking and
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some garlic and you know you're good and
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you get some magic and some cooking and
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garlic that's all it takes to cook it's
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not that hard that's true
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cooking you're a grown person you should
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learn how to cook so you put the salt
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you put the the green beans then into
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the sauce and kind of like mix it up
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kind of like you would a pasta and then
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you dump all of that into the casserole
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dish and then you top it with crispy
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onions you can make the onions yourself
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by deep-frying some very thin sliced
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onions after you dip them in flour and
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some like panko breadcrumbs and some
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salt and pepper and then you can fry
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them up in like a canola oil something
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that can tolerate a high heat and then
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you can put that on top and it all kind
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of crisps and bubbles up together and
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it's delicious so here's what I like
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about green bean casserole which is or
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you can make it all from canned goods
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exactly green beans you can mushroom
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soup yeah and see the great thing of and
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you can and you can get the canned you
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know the little tub of crispy fried
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onions and you just sprinkle the top set
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and so it's an easy dish to make it as a
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filler so you have something green on
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your plate or you can kind of it acacia
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cameras greenish greenish yeah but it's
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okay I mean like it's still a thing
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right like there's a whole bunch of
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different ways to make all of this stuff
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well this is like one of the reasons
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first of all one of the reasons why I
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think this is a popular dish in this in
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at least in this part of America I've
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had all of America who knows but this
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and and these people tuna casserole are
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both able to be made basically as
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freshly and as skilled as you want or as
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canned and unskilled as you want like it
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doesn't really I wouldn't say it doesn't
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matter at all but you can have a green
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bean casserole it's made of canned green
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beans and Campbell's mushroom soup and
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just mix together with you know whatever
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Frank's just frightened is it are
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sprinkle on top and it's delicious it's
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absolutely delicious and like so and
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it's this year you actually made all
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stuff like basically from scratch I did
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it's my dream it has yeah he's like you
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know growing up like you know I would
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had these dishes almost every
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Thanksgiving we didn't have a lot of
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fancy cooking happening in my household
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we had you know the basics happening in
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my household so we had all you know the
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can versions of these things I I like
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like these kind of dishes work whether
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you use fancy ingredients with like
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skilled cooking methods or whether you
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just dump things from a can into the
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oven and sprinkle stuff on top that's
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the beauty of these dishes well and it
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also depends on - how much of the meal
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you're cooking right like if you're one
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person and you're trying to cook this
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tremendous elaborate meal for people
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sometimes you just need a you know a
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dump side dish that you just like take
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some things and you put it all together
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and then you can focus your culinary
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efforts on different parts of the meal
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to me and so it depends on what you
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yourself are happy cooking right to
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clarify using the term dump there as
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like the method not like the
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classification ya know like you know you
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open a can and you put it in add say
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yeah you can add anything and stuff to
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to heighten the experience but in
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general it keeps that dish simple so you
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can then focus on something else yeah
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and I would say really you know like
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that your freshly made ones this year no
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question they were better than the
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canned stuff but I would say my
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enjoyment of the canned one it's only
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maybe you know 60 or 75 percent as much
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as I enjoy your fresh one well I'm good
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I only made a couple dishes other people
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made dishes and then some exact like we
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split the cooking between three families
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so we were all able to focus our efforts
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on our like couple dishes that we were
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making and then make them really good so
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I think that that's why this
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Thanksgiving turned out so delicious
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my fingers still smell like the smoked
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►
turkey is pulled apart no it just smells
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really good cuz it's not it's not like
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smoked turkey we've had leftovers
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leftover dinner like right before
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recording this yeah our friends you can
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wash your hands a few times and the
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smoke smell so doesn't come off had a
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►
nice ring around it to the turkey yeah
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►
delicious anyway okay so you're number
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three is sweet potato casserole all
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►
right look is mostly a delivery
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►
mechanism for crispy fried onions yeah
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►
so crispy fried onions is earrin
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I also discovered over dinner of course
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we still have the can of crispy fried
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onions because TIFF made her own so I
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►
bought the can as a backup just in case
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they didn't turn out yeah I also bought
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mushroom soup as a backup and myself
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►
didn't turn it exactly and so now we
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have is all these extra crispy fried
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onions are around every I don't know why
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we don't normally have using the cabinet
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all year round with maybe a try that you
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did that before you had that in
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Larchmont and you would always just
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sneak in there for like a fist they're
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it's like it's just like salt but bigger
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►
I think we're both into eating fistfuls
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►
of food like randomly
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►
yeah that's we walk path sir okay so I
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►
discovered tonight that so basically we
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we've reheated our plates of leftovers
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►
and I took the can of fried onions and
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kind of sprinkled some extra ones on top
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►
of my green beans and I thought you know
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►
I wonder so I went over and sprinkled
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someone on the mashed potatoes too
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►
so we had mashed potatoes with with
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►
gravy and crispy fried onions and I'll
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►
tell you what that works that really
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►
works parently you can just crisp fi
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►
onion everything whenever yep and then
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►
everything you eat will just taste like
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►
crispy fried onion they're really good
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►
at least ours were from Whole Foods so
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►
you know yes it's organic junk food we
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►
are good little hipsters exactly all
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►
right we each have one left or our
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►
number four slot mm-hmm what do you
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►
think yours or do you have any in mind I
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►
do it's kind of maybe controversial
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►
we'll see it between us I guess because
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►
we're the only ones that can dispute
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►
each other controversy I'm going with
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►
cranberry sauce with mandarin oranges in
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okay I'll give you that I love the
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►
cranberry sauce that I've learned how to
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►
it's pretty much you take whole
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►
cranberry sauce it's from a can and then
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►
you dump another can of mandarin oranges
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►
into it and if you do or do not like
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►
walnuts um you choose to put them in hey
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►
Pete a lot of people like nuts and nuts
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►
on Thanksgiving are big things lot of
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►
people have bad taste
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►
oh come on so that's really one that's
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►
are terrible people like them you can
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►
tell they're terrible to us but people
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►
like them so anyway I love the cranberry
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►
sauce I think it is the perfect side
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►
dish compliment on Thanksgiving and has
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►
that brings that tart element to the
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plate that a lot of the other dishes
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don't because there's just so much sweet
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and there's so much buttery richness and
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►
when you bring in the freshness of the
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►
citrus from the mandarin oranges and the
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►
tartness from the cranberry sauce it
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►
really balances everything out and it is
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absolutely necessary for leftovers
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►
because not only does the cranberry
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►
sauce help the turkey taste better the
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►
second day with it's like weirdness that
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►
happens to it but it is also the main
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►
moisture delivery device for a sandwich
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►
I do not put any mayonnaise on my turkey
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►
sandwiches my leftover sandwiches I only
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►
use the cranberry sauce so it's
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►
necessary then delicious and yeah it's
◼
►
just that's why it has to be my number4
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►
you know what I'll give you that that's
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►
a really good pick and you know and I I
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►
wasn't that into it this year because
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►
the turkey was so good but like if you
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►
have like an overcooked turkey at dry
◼
►
for here just a bland turkey then it
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►
really does help a lot and I agree with
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►
you they're like having that extra
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►
element that that like tart that nothing
◼
►
else in the plate tastes like that right
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►
right so yeah I actually might agree
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►
with you I might go number four on that
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►
- really awesome so I think about
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►
everything else that you have you know
◼
►
you have the turkey which I do like
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►
turkey I like Turkey a lot well it's
◼
►
kind of a side let's face it it's it's
◼
►
really not the star of the show
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►
it's the sir of the show like out of
◼
►
obligation but nobody actually cares
◼
►
about that much but if I were able to
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►
put it on my list I might put the turkey
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►
at number four because we do tend to
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►
have really good turkeys in this family
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►
and I really do enjoy Turkey when it's
◼
►
when it's done well yeah we've had a lot
◼
►
of different turkeys over the years
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►
we've had like the standard baked type
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►
we've had a maple brined turkey we've
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►
had a beer turkey some sort of beer can
◼
►
turkey there was a beer can up its butt
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►
or something and it was cooked we just
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►
had smoked turkey mm-hmm
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►
I don't think we've had a deep-fried
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►
turkey yet III at least no I haven't
◼
►
have you know I haven't I've seen it on
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►
Instagram a lot but it was lit and it's
◼
►
like insanely dangerous dick well yeah I
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►
love like the Alton Brown Alton Alton
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►
Alton Alton Brown setup with the ladder
◼
►
to drop it in for safety reasons oh my
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►
god yeah that's that just seems like a
◼
►
nightmare like the whole logistics of
◼
►
deep-fried Turkey it's like no but yes
◼
►
different types of turkey so yeah where
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►
are we going with this I got lost I was
◼
►
think about whether to put Turkey as a
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►
number four or cranberry sauce gotcha
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►
there's really nothing else in the meal
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►
that I think is like a star you know
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►
like there's like bread and stuff but
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►
you know I you're pretty good
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►
no yes you your rolls that you made from
◼
►
scratch are really good thanks
◼
►
but again that's not just for
◼
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Thanksgiving no and pretty much
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►
everything else you know almost
◼
►
everything else that we would have on
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►
the on that plate or on that table you'd
◼
►
also have a different other parts of the
◼
►
year I would like to try a homemade
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►
cranberry sauce it just doesn't seem
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►
worth it it's like making your own jam
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►
yeah I've had it before it's fine but
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►
it's it's not worth the effort you can
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►
add homemade cream sauce yeah it's it's
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►
fine but you know you could like the K
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►
it's one of those it's one of those
◼
►
things were like just get the canned one
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►
because it's just as good nobody knows
◼
►
the difference nobody cares about the
◼
►
difference in many ways it's actually
◼
►
better and it's just no effort
◼
►
whatsoever and a canned version is you
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►
know if you want to get super cool
◼
►
organic with whole cranberries in it
◼
►
like we do you can if you want to get
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►
the one that cost 40 cents that is just
◼
►
like a big you know jello cylinder okay
◼
►
fine okay I don't like the jello a
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►
cylinder one but I do think funny funny
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►
I don't like that jellied
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►
version I like the whole berry one that
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►
you like smoosh up and it's like puffy I
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►
don't know what would you call that it's
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►
just like uh it's like a like a Jambi
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►
yeah it's more like a jam or and but
◼
►
know that the cylinder ones you can you
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►
can like serve as a disc you like stick
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►
a note I was gonna say it's so great is
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►
that the ridges of the inside of the can
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►
show you where to cut it you guys cut it
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►
on the ridge line wow that's a life hack
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►
right there that's awesome I never
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►
yeah I still don't know how you get it
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►
out of the can with those lines I like
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►
that I think you have to open up both
◼
►
sides like for those old juice
◼
►
containers where you had to punch two
◼
►
holes to get some air in it yeah yeah
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►
maybe mm-hmm and is that white cranberry
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►
cans are usually upside-down leave it
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►
like the label on the minute like it's
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►
they're cut they're aligned upside-down
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►
compared to other cans I think so it's
◼
►
so that it sits right side up so when
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►
you cut it no that doesn't make any
◼
►
sense it's upside down right yeah there
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►
whatever reason I was a Fadel it's
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►
probably so that the air pocket of it is
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at the top so when you open it because
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the cranberry sauce is already at the
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►
precipice of escaping so you can open it
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►
and then it slides right out that makes
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►
sense I bet you're right because the air
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►
is behind it well for all of our
◼
►
listeners who work in the cranberry
◼
►
sauce canning industry please write in
◼
►
and explain this to us I'm sure at least
◼
►
one of you like science that you're
◼
►
probably right but I would love to hear
◼
►
it from an audience member in case
◼
►
they're in the business okay the canning
◼
►
the Canon cranberry sauce for
◼
►
Thanksgiving business so again you're
◼
►
the member of the cranberry cartel let
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►
us know yeah so I I am gonna pick turkey
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►
at number four unless it isn't allowed
◼
►
in which case I'll pick cranberry sauce
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►
okay I think that's legit yeah as long
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►
as you have a backup yeah that's me
◼
►
that's my backup in case just in case
◼
►
turkey was excluded from this from this
◼
►
classification all right cool well
◼
►
thanks everybody for joining us for this
◼
►
episode of top four I'm sure you wanted
◼
►
to hear more about Thanksgiving food
◼
►
right now you're tired of these dishes
◼
►
already by now yeah because my time is
◼
►
to get release will be like two days out
◼
►
from Thanksgiving yeah exactly
◼
►
super planners we are we are awesome at
◼
►
podcasting uh yep cool you want to go
◼
►
have some pie yeah pie all right thanks
◼
►
everybody for listening and I will talk
◼
►
to you next time ala mode or not well
◼
►
come on I mean if I screws available if
◼
►
you take it okay heated or not depends
◼
►
on the pie apple pie yes most most apple
◼
►
like pausing other fruit pies heated
◼
►
with ice cream what do you mean just
◼
►
nothing ice cream no why would you do
◼
►
what wait so you would have cold pie
◼
►
with cold ice cream oh no you you you
◼
►
heat the pie first yeah then you take it
◼
►
out of the heating instrument then you
◼
►
put your ice cream on it I need it but I
◼
►
all scream my self is not getting heated
◼
►
no no no I mean you know slowly melting
◼
►
from the but slowly getting heated from
◼
►
the pie yeah just yeah I just had to
◼
►
quiz you had to see ad to see where you
◼
►
stood I mean I know you but just
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►
now maybe the question is like other
◼
►
kinds of pies things like pumpkin pie or
◼
►
it's more of like a moose style
◼
►
I don't heat those normally no an ice
◼
►
cream is probably the wrong choice with
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►
cream probably a better choice for those
◼
►
alright shout-out to my best friend
◼
►
Tania's pumpkin pie which is the only
◼
►
pumpkin pie I have ever truly really
◼
►
liked Thank You Tonya be my eyes I mean
◼
►
she is my soul mate so she makes your
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►
soul mate put my ladies on me that makes
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►
you tell me thanks alright how many
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Thanksgiving Day after two days after