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◼   ► hi everybody welcome to top for the

◼   ► Thanksgiving Black Friday leftover a

◼   ► special extra bonus show that's kind of

◼   ► amazing Thanks I love that like we're

◼   ► like this is the leftover show because

◼   ► we're recording our Black Friday slash

◼   ► Thanksgiving episode after Thanksgiving

◼   ► and at almost the end of Black Friday

◼   ► and we just ate a whole bunch of

◼   ► leftovers so we decided that this

◼   ► episode we would talk about our favorite

◼   ► American Thanksgiving side dishes and I

◼   ► think there should be two judging

◼   ► factors I think the first one should be

◼   ► the the factor of it being the day of

◼   ► how much you like it

◼   ► and then how good it is as a leftover

◼   ► and then on a smaller scale you know

◼   ► we're dropping down the chart level here

◼   ► what's that called we're indenting we

◼   ► have a small a it is the sandwich or

◼   ► plate factor on its leftover ability so

◼   ► that's what we're going to be talking

◼   ► about that is pretty good yeah I mean I

◼   ► think a lot of this will ride on you

◼   ► know for the dear listeners a lot of us

◼   ► will write on whether you are a leftover

◼   ► consuming family or not who isn't why

◼   ► who mad not like there has to be left

◼   ► for leftovers at Thanksgiving there

◼   ► always is so whether you begrudge

◼   ► initely eat them or you lovingly eat

◼   ► them

◼   ► they are there for you I will say that

◼   ► like if if you if you either host

◼   ► Thanksgiving at your house or if you are

◼   ► staying like with your family for a

◼   ► multi-day thing at their house it

◼   ► dramatically increases your chances of

◼   ► having to eat leftovers like if you are

◼   ► just in and out that same night then I

◼   ► feel like you can probably escape

◼   ► without any leftovers or with minimal

◼   ► leftover well someone's definitely gonna

◼   ► push it to go box on you I mean yeah and

◼   ► you have to eat the leftovers otherwise

◼   ► you're a wasteful monster exactly

◼   ► because there's a lotta so and and I

◼   ► think like it's interesting when you

◼   ► think about it as we're gonna talk about

◼   ► it when we think about like which which

◼   ► parts of Thanksgiving meals are better

◼   ► or worse including their ability for

◼   ► leftovers it figure like you're only

◼   ► eating the the fresh hot version for one

◼   ► meal and you're also like during that

◼   ► same meal you're eating so much other

◼   ► stuff that the the individual amount of

◼   ► any particular side that side dish that

◼   ► you might take any

◼   ► for that one fresh meal where they're

◼   ► all hot could be really small and that's

◼   ► just one meal whereas if you then eat

◼   ► leftovers you could be eating a lot of

◼   ► something for one meal or you could be

◼   ► eating these things for like two or

◼   ► three or four more meals after the

◼   ► initial dinner so I feel like the

◼   ► leftover factor for many of these things

◼   ► is almost more important than how good

◼   ► it is on that first that first dinner

◼   ► mm-hmm yeah probably but you could also

◼   ► depending on what time you eat your

◼   ► Thanksgiving dinner you could be

◼   ► essentially having leftovers that same

◼   ► day like if you are a two o'clock dinner

◼   ► family at seven o'clock you're ready for

◼   ► a pilgrim sandwich you know like you're

◼   ► ready to get it going put it on some

◼   ► bread or some rolls if you could find

◼   ► them the rest of the country since New

◼   ► York has the best rolls and they're

◼   ► apparently nowhere else to be found

◼   ► other times when we've had Thanksgiving

◼   ► other places and we have not been able

◼   ► to find rolls just a tragedy tragedy

◼   ► anyway so yeah let's uh let's list some

◼   ► things and then we can pick from them

◼   ► because we didn't prepare yeah TIFF

◼   ► decided to not let me prepare her for

◼   ► this and just basically let's plow her

◼   ► into it record our thought process so

◼   ► yeah so uh I think for me I'm gonna have

◼   ► to start with stuffing you know stuffing

◼   ► which I some people call dressing but

◼   ► it's not the kind of stuff you put on

◼   ► salad is the kind of stuff that you

◼   ► theoretically stuff a large bird with

◼   ► but I don't know if anybody actually

◼   ► does that or if you just serve it on the

◼   ► side these days I think there's two ways

◼   ► to do it depends on how long you want to

◼   ► cook your turkey if you wanna cook your

◼   ► turkey for a very long time or you're

◼   ► not doing one of the new trendy hipster

◼   ► cooking methods of smoking or

◼   ► deep-frying your turkey then I believe

◼   ► you you can stuff it or not but

◼   ► stuffings tricky stuff it or not

◼   ► so stuffing it's tricky because it's

◼   ► very particular it's like it's like red

◼   ► sauce right you you have your stuffing

◼   ► that you like there's also vegetable

◼   ► stuffing which tastes totally different

◼   ► than the delicious sausage stuffing

◼   ► johnswort

◼   ► I think so wet soggy croutons we've also

◼   ► had oysters dressing at one point so

◼   ► there's lots of different things out

◼   ► there that people have for their

◼   ► different family traditions but yeah I'm

◼   ► gonna say my mom

◼   ► stuffing which is made with breakfast

◼   ► sausage kind of meat I don't know yeah

◼   ► it's very good

◼   ► what is a special sausage she always

◼   ► uses she talks about all the time I

◼   ► think it's just like regular brioche no

◼   ► there's like no it's not just regular

◼   ► breakfast it's not like links it's Anna

◼   ► it's in a tube okay it's like loose

◼   ► sausage meat yeah things and you crumble

◼   ► it up oh it is just there's one

◼   ► particular brand

◼   ► I think it's Jones's or something like

◼   ► that who knows I don't know but there's

◼   ► one brand that's like super good that

◼   ► you put in the stuffing and you mean the

◼   ► Turkey drippings and all that business

◼   ► but it is the best stuffing I have ever

◼   ► ever ever had regardless of having to

◼   ► grow up with it everyone who has it

◼   ► thinks it's amazing and everyone who had

◼   ► it this Thanksgiving thought it was

◼   ► amazing so stuffing is pretty high on my

◼   ► list it might even be my number one I

◼   ► think it's my number one two because it

◼   ► is it is not only you know it from a

◼   ► from a pure like you know first day

◼   ► taste perspective it's just awesome like

◼   ► and and you know and it really helps

◼   ► that your mom makes really good stuffing

◼   ► but even when I've had less good

◼   ► stuffings I still love them because it's

◼   ► you know usually the stuff like if it

◼   ► starts from one of those big bags of

◼   ► stuffing mix at the grocery store is it

◼   ► those are basically crew tights like a

◼   ► bag of croutons basically I know like

◼   ► add butter and stuff and so it's

◼   ► basically saturated bread cubes with

◼   ► butter that are then squished down into

◼   ► something else with lots of other

◼   ► delicious things where the record is not

◼   ► from any kind of bag situation

◼   ► sure okay that's fine but I'm just

◼   ► saying like it's pretty hard to make a

◼   ► stuffing taste bad you know like your

◼   ► mom's is exceptional and I and I it is

◼   ► by far my favorite however I've I've

◼   ► almost never had a bad stuffing nope and

◼   ► it's so good as leftovers it's the best

◼   ► leftover food and you know what there is

◼   ► nothing like a cold fistful of stuffing

◼   ► after a Thanksgiving meal and I don't

◼   ► know about cold oh my gosh the morning

◼   ► after the Fistful of tea just grab some

◼   ► stuffing out of the bowl I need to eat

◼   ► it it is just the best

◼   ► I'd rather crumble it up a little bit

◼   ► and put the toaster oven for a few

◼   ► minutes hey I got you over to the side

◼   ► of leftover pizza in the morning for

◼   ► breakfast nice cold slices you like it

◼   ► now you will come over to the side of

◼   ► the cold fist full of stuffing the first

◼   ► thing the morning after Thanksgiving

◼   ► maybe a few more years

◼   ► you can work on me a few more years on

◼   ► that but yeah and I agree like a toe it

◼   ► reheats very well you know and it's as

◼   ► you mentioned like the reheat ability is

◼   ► very important for this ranking yeah

◼   ► it's it's good hot or cold mm-hmm it is

◼   ► good as a plate it is great on a

◼   ► sandwich hmm a little disc and yep it's

◼   ► one of the layers of the sandwich the

◼   ► turkey sandwich so it is an overall

◼   ► win-win-win

◼   ► yeah there there is never a Thanksgiving

◼   ► meal or a leftovers meal in which I

◼   ► don't want stuffing like that is always

◼   ► part of it and I will eat it until

◼   ► there's no more all right so a pretty

◼   ► firm on stuffing as both are number one

◼   ► yeah definite Art in hi

◼   ► all right let's let's move down the

◼   ► ranks here this is top four we got to

◼   ► pick four yeah not the stuffing episode

◼   ► and then we have to consider the turkey

◼   ► itself no we don't its side dishes

◼   ► everyone is Turkey everyone cooks it

◼   ► different it's fine it's Turkey no one

◼   ► cares but we'll see and I think it's

◼   ► interesting to note that the dish that

◼   ► Thanksgiving is known for which is the

◼   ► turkey even if you were to permit it on

◼   ► this list I bet it would be on very few

◼   ► people's top four and I believe it take

◼   ► it or leave it Turkey I don't really

◼   ► mind busy and I actually really enjoy a

◼   ► nicely cooked turkey which is not all

◼   ► not all turkeys of course but I really

◼   ► when a turkey is cooked well I really

◼   ► enjoyed I really do like Turkey a lot of

◼   ► people who just don't like it and I

◼   ► understand that I really do like it but

◼   ► but it's rare to get it well made

◼   ► unfortunately we have we have good cooks

◼   ► in the family so ours usually are well

◼   ► made so we look at in that department I

◼   ► might rank the turkey somewhere in that

◼   ► list near the bottom maybe but the

◼   ► problem with turkey is that it really

◼   ► does not reheat very gracefully like you

◼   ► if it's if it's cooked well and with

◼   ► skill you can get it to be nice and

◼   ► moist and juicy and amazing on that

◼   ► night when it's when it comes out but

◼   ► the second you reheat it it becomes very

◼   ► dry well not even dry it just has that

◼   ► strange reheated turkey taste yeah it

◼   ► gets it gets I don't know what that is

◼   ► wait a sec it's altered slightly and not

◼   ► in a good way

◼   ► I don't know science happens overnight

◼   ► and it just doesn't taste good yeah

◼   ► exactly

◼   ► all right moving on what would you think

◼   ► I'm thinking I'm debating between mashed

◼   ► potatoes and sweet potato casserole

◼   ► they are both potatoes but extremely

◼   ► different one

◼   ► practically a dessert the other is just

◼   ► delicious mashed potatoes and gravy it

◼   ► has of the gravy so I should point out

◼   ► we should point out what sweet potato

◼   ► casserole is for any of our listeners

◼   ► who don't know because I've actually

◼   ► found that fewer people that I expect

◼   ► have have heard of this dish though it

◼   ► might be regionally think maybe or

◼   ► anyway so this is basically mashed sweet

◼   ► potatoes if you're lucky canned if

◼   ► you're not but mashed potatoes which are

◼   ► yams to some people I think there's a

◼   ► difference but nobody cares and they're

◼   ► interchangeable as far as this dish is

◼   ► concerned yes orange sweet potatoes it

◼   ► depends on how orange you want your

◼   ► casserole to be depending on which yummy

◼   ► product you decide to pick yeah anyway

◼   ► whatever your local version of that is

◼   ► you basically make a mashed version of

◼   ► that so it's full of like you know

◼   ► butter and maybe maybe cream or is there

◼   ► butter yes sugar yes you had brown sugar

◼   ► usually a regular sugar or both so you

◼   ► basically make a really good sweet match

◼   ► base you could put eggs in it that's

◼   ► right yeah tooth and then you put it in

◼   ► a baking dish like a big rectangle

◼   ► baking dish and you sprinkle on top of

◼   ► it either brown sugar crumbles

◼   ► marshmallows or both well the brown

◼   ► sugar crumbles are like the same topping

◼   ► that you'd have on a coffee cake yeah um

◼   ► cake yeah so it's a crumb cake

◼   ► essentially toppings basically it's like

◼   ► sugar and butter and yeah balls with

◼   ► with pecans chopped pecans in it yeah

◼   ► optionally chopped be yeah absolutely

◼   ► guys yeah I'm not a huge pecan fan but

◼   ► actually do like this dish with them it

◼   ► does add something but yes so you know

◼   ► this is very very sweet potato mash base

◼   ► that has added sugar in it already then

◼   ► you add a sugary crumb topping to it and

◼   ► then you bake that so the sugary crumb

◼   ► topping kind of like caramelized yes get

◼   ► hot then you put the marshmallows on the

◼   ► last like last five minutes yeah so they

◼   ► post right on top so you have like a

◼   ► crunchy layer of marshmallow with the

◼   ► gooey marshmallow underneath yeah yeah I

◼   ► mean yeah it's basically a hot ice cream

◼   ► sundae like it there's like everything

◼   ► everything about it is Sunday yeah

◼   ► everything about it is like incredibly

◼   ► sugary but it's delicious and it reheats

◼   ► really well yes that's another thing

◼   ► about this like it's in most casserole

◼   ► old-type dishes do reheat well and this

◼   ► one is no exception this ruthless

◼   ► religious reheat very very well and so I

◼   ► think I might put this as my number two

◼   ► because I really enjoy it it it sounds

◼   ► like a vegetable even though it's far

◼   ► from it but it sounds like a vegetable

◼   ► so it has some kind of tastes like

◼   ► dessert yeah it's delicious

◼   ► that's why I think it's falling down my

◼   ► list is because it tastes like dessert I

◼   ► don't care desserts good oh yeah that's

◼   ► not a side dish no number two and it's

◼   ► another one we're like every

◼   ► Thanksgiving meal and reheated meal

◼   ► afterwards I always want some of this as

◼   ► part of that meal so sweet potato

◼   ► casserole is my number two all right I'm

◼   ► gonna put it at my number three actually

◼   ► because I'm filling in my number two

◼   ► slot with mashed potatoes and gravy

◼   ► because you know I love my mom's mashed

◼   ► potatoes again it's all about like what

◼   ► you grew up with my own SMAP mashed

◼   ► potatoes has a whole bunch of onion salt

◼   ► in it mm-hmm oh they are just so

◼   ► delicious no little lumps at all

◼   ► anywhere in them they are wonderful with

◼   ► some nice gravy on them with onion

◼   ► pieces in the gravy oh it's just divine

◼   ► see I'm not sure I'd put my fuse in my

◼   ► list at all maybe because I will see how

◼   ► what I get when it when I get down to

◼   ► three and four but the problem with

◼   ► master Cato's is that they are really

◼   ► good but you could not only do you have

◼   ► those all year round you're like you can

◼   ► get mashed potatoes any time and I love

◼   ► them every time I do too but I'm

◼   ► Thanksgiving there's so much stuff that

◼   ► you can only get on Thanksgiving really

◼   ► that you don't really cook the rest of

◼   ► the year and so like it's against the

◼   ► law you can cook this stuff the rest of

◼   ► the year but nobody does so basically

◼   ► like I feel like mashed potatoes are

◼   ► kind of drowned out by the the novelty

◼   ► and and like the wow factor of other

◼   ► Thanksgiving side dishes because the

◼   ► master haters are kind of they're kind

◼   ► of an everyday thing no for me when

◼   ► we've had Thanksgiving dinner without

◼   ► mashed potatoes I sorely missed them no

◼   ► I can get that also one more but you

◼   ► need a break so like everything is so

◼   ► rich and every I just I like that's what

◼   ► the Turkish for yeah yeah they're very

◼   ► filling and on Thanksgiving you you kind

◼   ► of you really have to control what

◼   ► you're eating that is very filling

◼   ► because you could very easily get

◼   ► carried away and all of a sudden you're

◼   ► full of mashed potatoes and you don't

◼   ► have room for anything else no I like I

◼   ► like a good May

◼   ► mashed potato lots of flavor I like it

◼   ► it's my number two number three sweet

◼   ► potatoes it's so deserty

◼   ► it's just so dude it's so deserty yeah I

◼   ► mean I get that so I don't know what my

◼   ► number three would be I mean I really do

◼   ► enjoy the green bean casserole that's

◼   ► one so we should also describe this for

◼   ► anybody who does not who's unaware of

◼   ► this green bean casserole wait before

◼   ► you get into green bean casserole I want

◼   ► to go back mashed potatoes have great

◼   ► reheat ability and they are also

◼   ► necessary as a layer in the sandwich

◼   ► yeah you do not you do not put the sweet

◼   ► potatoes into the sandwich no they use

◼   ► out you can't do that you're right they

◼   ► only have plate ability for leftovers

◼   ► that's true I will say though that the

◼   ► that a layer of a of a disk of stuffing

◼   ► can serve the same purpose it can do

◼   ► both but why why wouldn't you that's

◼   ► fair I mean you can do both and that's

◼   ► fine I like the distinct layers that's

◼   ► fair okay so yeah green bean casserole

◼   ► this is another dish that I don't know

◼   ► how many people know about so I will

◼   ► describe I forgive me if you already

◼   ► know but basically also called string

◼   ► bean casserole sometimes yeah right yeah

◼   ► whatever those beans are called french

◼   ► beans are they said the same I've never

◼   ► heard it called French bean casserole

◼   ► but yes there it is they're just

◼   ► skinnier versions of green be long green

◼   ► beans that you all hated as a kid but

◼   ► it's an adult you realize hey there

◼   ► aren't too bad just like most vegetables

◼   ► so anyway green bean casserole is an

◼   ► excuse to eat crispy fried onions that

◼   ► are that you buy in a can you sprinkle

◼   ► on top everything below that is less

◼   ► important so what why don't you doesn't

◼   ► have your side dishes crispy fried

◼   ► onions I'm okay I do eat them straight

◼   ► from the can when they're around I

◼   ► always like kind of sneak some some

◼   ► handfuls of him but it's more that

◼   ► nobody would really accept that as a

◼   ► valid side dish choice

◼   ► so my valid side dish choice is green

◼   ► bean casserole because it's I like it

◼   ► you know it's perfectly good perfectly

◼   ► good but so describe for the people what

◼   ► the what makes it a casserole you put it

◼   ► in the oven and then you put something

◼   ► delicious on top which is crispy fried

◼   ► onions no you you're missing an entire

◼   ► chunk of the ingredients here okay so

◼   ► the bottle oh the crispy fried onions

◼   ► you're supposed to have a layer of some

◼   ► kind of combination of green bean

◼   ► mushroom soup all right here

◼   ► talking about I made this so I will talk

◼   ► about it you have green beans and you

◼   ► boil them so that you know they get

◼   ► bright and green and cooked then you

◼   ► make kind of like a mushroom cream soup

◼   ► type of sauce for it so you have like

◼   ► the mushrooms and cream and it becomes

◼   ► soup yes and the magic and cooking and

◼   ► some garlic and you know you're good and

◼   ► you get some magic and some cooking and

◼   ► garlic that's all it takes to cook it's

◼   ► not that hard that's true

◼   ► cooking you're a grown person you should

◼   ► learn how to cook so you put the salt

◼   ► you put the the green beans then into

◼   ► the sauce and kind of like mix it up

◼   ► kind of like you would a pasta and then

◼   ► you dump all of that into the casserole

◼   ► dish and then you top it with crispy

◼   ► onions you can make the onions yourself

◼   ► by deep-frying some very thin sliced

◼   ► onions after you dip them in flour and

◼   ► some like panko breadcrumbs and some

◼   ► salt and pepper and then you can fry

◼   ► them up in like a canola oil something

◼   ► that can tolerate a high heat and then

◼   ► you can put that on top and it all kind

◼   ► of crisps and bubbles up together and

◼   ► it's delicious so here's what I like

◼   ► about green bean casserole which is or

◼   ► you can make it all from canned goods

◼   ► exactly green beans you can mushroom

◼   ► soup yeah and see the great thing of and

◼   ► you can and you can get the canned you

◼   ► know the little tub of crispy fried

◼   ► onions and you just sprinkle the top set

◼   ► and so it's an easy dish to make it as a

◼   ► filler so you have something green on

◼   ► your plate or you can kind of it acacia

◼   ► cameras greenish greenish yeah but it's

◼   ► okay I mean like it's still a thing

◼   ► right like there's a whole bunch of

◼   ► different ways to make all of this stuff

◼   ► well this is like one of the reasons

◼   ► first of all one of the reasons why I

◼   ► think this is a popular dish in this in

◼   ► at least in this part of America I've

◼   ► had all of America who knows but this

◼   ► and and these people tuna casserole are

◼   ► both able to be made basically as

◼   ► freshly and as skilled as you want or as

◼   ► canned and unskilled as you want like it

◼   ► doesn't really I wouldn't say it doesn't

◼   ► matter at all but you can have a green

◼   ► bean casserole it's made of canned green

◼   ► beans and Campbell's mushroom soup and

◼   ► just mix together with you know whatever

◼   ► Frank's just frightened is it are

◼   ► sprinkle on top and it's delicious it's

◼   ► absolutely delicious and like so and

◼   ► it's this year you actually made all

◼   ► this

◼   ► stuff like basically from scratch I did

◼   ► it's my dream it has yeah he's like you

◼   ► know growing up like you know I would

◼   ► had these dishes almost every

◼   ► Thanksgiving we didn't have a lot of

◼   ► fancy cooking happening in my household

◼   ► we had you know the basics happening in

◼   ► my household so we had all you know the

◼   ► can versions of these things I I like

◼   ► them then too

◼   ► like these kind of dishes work whether

◼   ► you use fancy ingredients with like

◼   ► skilled cooking methods or whether you

◼   ► just dump things from a can into the

◼   ► oven and sprinkle stuff on top that's

◼   ► the beauty of these dishes well and it

◼   ► also depends on - how much of the meal

◼   ► you're cooking right like if you're one

◼   ► person and you're trying to cook this

◼   ► tremendous elaborate meal for people

◼   ► sometimes you just need a you know a

◼   ► dump side dish that you just like take

◼   ► some things and you put it all together

◼   ► and then you can focus your culinary

◼   ► efforts on different parts of the meal

◼   ► to me and so it depends on what you

◼   ► yourself are happy cooking right to

◼   ► clarify using the term dump there as

◼   ► like the method not like the

◼   ► classification ya know like you know you

◼   ► open a can and you put it in add say

◼   ► yeah you can add anything and stuff to

◼   ► to heighten the experience but in

◼   ► general it keeps that dish simple so you

◼   ► can then focus on something else yeah

◼   ► and I would say really you know like

◼   ► that your freshly made ones this year no

◼   ► question they were better than the

◼   ► canned stuff but I would say my

◼   ► enjoyment of the canned one it's only

◼   ► maybe you know 60 or 75 percent as much

◼   ► as I enjoy your fresh one well I'm good

◼   ► I only made a couple dishes other people

◼   ► made dishes and then some exact like we

◼   ► split the cooking between three families

◼   ► so we were all able to focus our efforts

◼   ► on our like couple dishes that we were

◼   ► making and then make them really good so

◼   ► I think that that's why this

◼   ► Thanksgiving turned out so delicious

◼   ► my fingers still smell like the smoked

◼   ► turkey is pulled apart no it just smells

◼   ► really good cuz it's not it's not like

◼   ► smoked turkey we've had leftovers

◼   ► leftover dinner like right before

◼   ► recording this yeah our friends you can

◼   ► wash your hands a few times and the

◼   ► smoke smell so doesn't come off had a

◼   ► nice ring around it to the turkey yeah

◼   ► delicious anyway okay so you're number

◼   ► three is sweet potato casserole all

◼   ► right look is mostly a delivery

◼   ► mechanism for crispy fried onions yeah

◼   ► so crispy fried onions is earrin

◼   ► I also discovered over dinner of course

◼   ► we still have the can of crispy fried

◼   ► onions because TIFF made her own so I

◼   ► bought the can as a backup just in case

◼   ► they didn't turn out yeah I also bought

◼   ► mushroom soup as a backup and myself

◼   ► didn't turn it exactly and so now we

◼   ► have is all these extra crispy fried

◼   ► onions are around every I don't know why

◼   ► we don't normally have using the cabinet

◼   ► all year round with maybe a try that you

◼   ► did that before you had that in

◼   ► Larchmont and you would always just

◼   ► sneak in there for like a fist they're

◼   ► amazing

◼   ► it's like it's just like salt but bigger

◼   ► I think we're both into eating fistfuls

◼   ► of food like randomly

◼   ► yeah that's we walk path sir okay so I

◼   ► discovered tonight that so basically we

◼   ► we've reheated our plates of leftovers

◼   ► and I took the can of fried onions and

◼   ► kind of sprinkled some extra ones on top

◼   ► of my green beans and I thought you know

◼   ► I wonder so I went over and sprinkled

◼   ► someone on the mashed potatoes too

◼   ► so we had mashed potatoes with with

◼   ► gravy and crispy fried onions and I'll

◼   ► tell you what that works that really

◼   ► works parently you can just crisp fi

◼   ► onion everything whenever yep and then

◼   ► everything you eat will just taste like

◼   ► crispy fried onion they're really good

◼   ► at least ours were from Whole Foods so

◼   ► you know yes it's organic junk food we

◼   ► are good little hipsters exactly all

◼   ► right we each have one left or our

◼   ► number four slot mm-hmm what do you

◼   ► think yours or do you have any in mind I

◼   ► do it's kind of maybe controversial

◼   ► we'll see it between us I guess because

◼   ► we're the only ones that can dispute

◼   ► each other controversy I'm going with

◼   ► cranberry sauce with mandarin oranges in

◼   ► it

◼   ► okay I'll give you that I love the

◼   ► cranberry sauce that I've learned how to

◼   ► make from my mom

◼   ► it's pretty much you take whole

◼   ► cranberry sauce it's from a can and then

◼   ► you dump another can of mandarin oranges

◼   ► into it and if you do or do not like

◼   ► walnuts um you choose to put them in hey

◼   ► Pete a lot of people like nuts and nuts

◼   ► on Thanksgiving are big things lot of

◼   ► people have bad taste

◼   ► oh come on so that's really one that's

◼   ► are terrible people like them you can

◼   ► tell they're terrible to us but people

◼   ► like them so anyway I love the cranberry

◼   ► sauce I think it is the perfect side

◼   ► dish compliment on Thanksgiving and has

◼   ► that brings that tart element to the

◼   ► plate that a lot of the other dishes

◼   ► don't because there's just so much sweet

◼   ► and there's so much buttery richness and

◼   ► when you bring in the freshness of the

◼   ► citrus from the mandarin oranges and the

◼   ► tartness from the cranberry sauce it

◼   ► really balances everything out and it is

◼   ► absolutely necessary for leftovers

◼   ► because not only does the cranberry

◼   ► sauce help the turkey taste better the

◼   ► second day with it's like weirdness that

◼   ► happens to it but it is also the main

◼   ► moisture delivery device for a sandwich

◼   ► I do not put any mayonnaise on my turkey

◼   ► sandwiches my leftover sandwiches I only

◼   ► use the cranberry sauce so it's

◼   ► necessary then delicious and yeah it's

◼   ► just that's why it has to be my number4

◼   ► you know what I'll give you that that's

◼   ► a really good pick and you know and I I

◼   ► wasn't that into it this year because

◼   ► the turkey was so good but like if you

◼   ► have like an overcooked turkey at dry

◼   ► for here just a bland turkey then it

◼   ► really does help a lot and I agree with

◼   ► you they're like having that extra

◼   ► element that that like tart that nothing

◼   ► else in the plate tastes like that right

◼   ► right so yeah I actually might agree

◼   ► with you I might go number four on that

◼   ► - really awesome so I think about

◼   ► everything else that you have you know

◼   ► you have the turkey which I do like

◼   ► 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

◼   ► it's the sir of the show like out of

◼   ► obligation but nobody actually cares

◼   ► about that much but if I were able to

◼   ► put it on my list I might put the turkey

◼   ► at number four because we do tend to

◼   ► have really good turkeys in this family

◼   ► 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

◼   ► we've had like the standard baked type

◼   ► we've had a maple brined turkey we've

◼   ► had a beer turkey some sort of beer can

◼   ► turkey there was a beer can up its butt

◼   ► or something and it was cooked we just

◼   ► had smoked turkey mm-hmm

◼   ► I don't think we've had a deep-fried

◼   ► turkey yet III at least no I haven't

◼   ► have you know I haven't I've seen it on

◼   ► Instagram a lot but it was lit and it's

◼   ► like insanely dangerous dick well yeah I

◼   ► love like the Alton Brown Alton Alton

◼   ► Alton Alton Brown setup with the ladder

◼   ► to drop it in for safety reasons oh my

◼   ► god yeah that's that just seems like a

◼   ► nightmare like the whole logistics of

◼   ► deep-fried Turkey it's like no but yes

◼   ► we've had a lot of

◼   ► different types of turkey so yeah where

◼   ► are we going with this I got lost I was

◼   ► think about whether to put Turkey as a

◼   ► number four or cranberry sauce gotcha

◼   ► there's really nothing else in the meal

◼   ► that I think is like a star you know

◼   ► like there's like bread and stuff but

◼   ► you know I you're pretty good

◼   ► no yes you your rolls that you made from

◼   ► scratch are really good thanks

◼   ► but again that's not just for

◼   ► Thanksgiving no and pretty much

◼   ► everything else you know almost

◼   ► everything else that we would have on

◼   ► 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

◼   ► cranberry sauce it just doesn't seem

◼   ► worth it it's like making your own jam

◼   ► yeah I've had it before it's fine but

◼   ► it's it's not worth the effort you can

◼   ► add homemade cream sauce yeah it's it's

◼   ► fine but you know you could like the K

◼   ► it's one of those it's one of those

◼   ► things were like just get the canned one

◼   ► 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

◼   ► know if you want to get super cool

◼   ► organic with whole cranberries in it

◼   ► like we do you can if you want to get

◼   ► 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

◼   ► cylinder one but I do think funny funny

◼   ► I don't like that jellied

◼   ► version I like the whole berry one that

◼   ► you like smoosh up and it's like puffy I

◼   ► don't know what would you call that it's

◼   ► just like uh it's like a like a Jambi

◼   ► yeah it's more like a jam or and but

◼   ► know that the cylinder ones you can you

◼   ► can like serve as a disc you like stick

◼   ► a note I was gonna say it's so great is

◼   ► that the ridges of the inside of the can

◼   ► show you where to cut it you guys cut it

◼   ► on the ridge line wow that's a life hack

◼   ► right there that's awesome I never

◼   ► thought of that

◼   ► yeah I still don't know how you get it

◼   ► out of the can with those lines I like

◼   ► 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

◼   ► maybe mm-hmm and is that white cranberry

◼   ► cans are usually upside-down leave it

◼   ► like the label on the minute like it's

◼   ► they're cut they're aligned upside-down

◼   ► compared to other cans I think so it's

◼   ► so that it sits right side up so when

◼   ► you cut it no that doesn't make any

◼   ► sense it's upside down right yeah there

◼   ► whatever reason I was a Fadel it's

◼   ► probably so that the air pocket of it is

◼   ► at the top so when you open it because

◼   ► it's upside down

◼   ► the cranberry sauce is already at the

◼   ► precipice of escaping so you can open it

◼   ► and then it slides right out that makes

◼   ► sense I bet you're right because the air

◼   ► 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

◼   ► us know yeah so I I am gonna pick turkey

◼   ► at number four unless it isn't allowed

◼   ► in which case I'll pick cranberry sauce

◼   ► okay I think that's legit yeah as long

◼   ► 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

◼   ► that

◼   ► 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

◼   ► checking yeah

◼   ► 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

◼   ► 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

◼   ► soul mate put my ladies on me that makes

◼   ► sense

◼   ► you tell me thanks alright how many

◼   ► Thanksgiving Day after two days after