Top Four

00:00:00 ◼   ► Happy New Year everybody Happy New Year

00:00:04 ◼   ► yeah so we have a special New Year show

00:00:07 ◼   ► and we figured you know a lot of people

00:00:12 ◼   ► make resolutions for New Year's and a

00:00:15 ◼   ► lot of people choose those resolutions

00:00:18 ◼   ► to be something to make you healthier

00:00:20 ◼   ► and so I guess we decided we would take

00:00:23 ◼   ► a break from our usual gluttony of food

00:00:25 ◼   ► episodes of things like donuts and ice

00:00:28 ◼   ► cream and stuff and TIFF what are we

00:00:30 ◼   ► doing this week we are going to talk

00:00:32 ◼   ► about vegetables mm-hmm everyone needs

00:00:37 ◼   ► some some recommendations and some new

00:00:38 ◼   ► vegetables to eat since you're probably

00:00:40 ◼   ► there's a there's a better-than-average

00:00:41 ◼   ► chance that you've made some kind of New

00:00:43 ◼   ► Year's resolution to eat healthier

00:00:45 ◼   ► because that's what pretty much

00:00:46 ◼   ► everybody does at least that's what we

00:00:47 ◼   ► do and so we'll just assume everyone

00:00:49 ◼   ► else does too

00:00:49 ◼   ► so we spent the last two weeks thinking

00:00:51 ◼   ► about vegetables mm-hmm for you yes this

00:00:54 ◼   ► is entirely research for the show and

00:00:57 ◼   ► for you to help serve you better and to

00:00:59 ◼   ► tell you what the best vegetables are to

00:01:01 ◼   ► eat because apparently the fun is now

00:01:03 ◼   ► over for us we can't do anything else we

00:01:05 ◼   ► have existing vegetables we can't think

00:01:07 ◼   ► of anything else to talk about

00:01:08 ◼   ► just kidding we have a lot of topics but

00:01:10 ◼   ► when I decided I thought about

00:01:12 ◼   ► vegetables and I turned to Marco I was

00:01:14 ◼   ► like how about we do vegetables and then

00:01:18 ◼   ► we just resilence out laughing so we're

00:01:22 ◼   ► like that's the one that is how the best

00:01:24 ◼   ► ideas are born all right so I actually

00:01:28 ◼   ► have an honorable mention and a number

00:01:30 ◼   ► five I I made a list of what I thought

00:01:33 ◼   ► were four then forgot how many I had and

00:01:35 ◼   ► it turns out I have a top 5 list plus

00:01:37 ◼   ► honorable mention you know we've been

00:01:38 ◼   ► doing this for a while I had always been

00:01:40 ◼   ► four how did you accidentally get 5 it's

00:01:44 ◼   ► me either I have no list or I have too

00:01:47 ◼   ► much of a list so anyway my one

00:01:50 ◼   ► honorable mention in top 4 vegetables is

00:01:53 ◼   ► tomatoes because they're not really a

00:01:57 ◼   ► vegetable yeah

00:01:57 ◼   ► tomatoes are you know no matter what the

00:01:59 ◼   ► government says tomatoes are very

00:02:00 ◼   ► clearly a fruit keep your government

00:02:02 ◼   ► hands off my tomato fruits vegetables

00:02:05 ◼   ► Wow tomatoes to me are kind of like

00:02:09 ◼   ► there's so much greatness that is based

00:02:11 ◼   ► in the tomato like if you think about

00:02:13 ◼   ► like

00:02:13 ◼   ► not only is there like tomato sauce and

00:02:15 ◼   ► ketchup but lots of things that are

00:02:17 ◼   ► derived from that like barbecue sauce

00:02:19 ◼   ► which is based on ketchup and tomatoes

00:02:21 ◼   ► and everything basically without

00:02:22 ◼   ► tomatoes I think there are so many food

00:02:25 ◼   ► they would be no condiments there would

00:02:28 ◼   ► be very few condiments only like the

00:02:29 ◼   ► vinegar based ones that nobody likes

00:02:31 ◼   ► except mustard I guess my looks pretty

00:02:32 ◼   ► good but anyway you know we wouldn't

00:02:35 ◼   ► have good pizza we wouldn't have tomato

00:02:37 ◼   ► water we wouldn't have tomato water what

00:02:39 ◼   ► would we do without tomato water I

00:02:41 ◼   ► really don't know what to do with tomato

00:02:42 ◼   ► water but anyway uh pizza pasta pretty

00:02:45 ◼   ► much all Italian food would be gone

00:02:47 ◼   ► without tomatoes barbecue I think would

00:02:49 ◼   ► be I this is controversial but I think

00:02:50 ◼   ► barbecue would be less interesting

00:02:52 ◼   ► without a tomato based sauce so the

00:02:55 ◼   ► tomato is really to me the best

00:02:58 ◼   ► vegetable that isn't a vegetable if it

00:03:01 ◼   ► were a vegetable officially like by

00:03:03 ◼   ► science standards it might be my number

00:03:05 ◼   ► one

00:03:06 ◼   ► so how strict are we getting for our

00:03:07 ◼   ► list here because I had tomato on my

00:03:09 ◼   ► short list also but the problem with the

00:03:12 ◼   ► tomato is it's extremely seasonal it's

00:03:15 ◼   ► very picky when you get a good tomato

00:03:17 ◼   ► when you get a bad tomato it's so mealy

00:03:19 ◼   ► and gross and flavorless or just like a

00:03:22 ◼   ► bad flavor just biting into a terrible

00:03:24 ◼   ► tomato even cooked on a pizza or

00:03:27 ◼   ► something it is just not good making

00:03:29 ◼   ► sauces out of bad tomatoes the sauces I

00:03:32 ◼   ► mean guess making sauce out of anything

00:03:33 ◼   ► bad is bad okay no but that's a moot

00:03:38 ◼   ► point well one of my considerations for

00:03:40 ◼   ► for my ranking was things like

00:03:42 ◼   ► consistency and how easy it is to get in

00:03:45 ◼   ► store did you think about raw taste

00:03:47 ◼   ► versus cook taste on some of them yeah

00:03:49 ◼   ► yeah because I think that that's

00:03:50 ◼   ► relevant Oh doesn't decision making I

00:03:52 ◼   ► was curious what your criteria for

00:03:53 ◼   ► decision-making was we'll get their

00:03:56 ◼   ► judging categories so judging them each

00:04:00 ◼   ► individually as we do on top forum

00:04:02 ◼   ► because we have no consistency

00:04:03 ◼   ► whatsoever well yeah I mean I'm feelings

00:04:06 ◼   ► it's all about feelings yeah our show is

00:04:09 ◼   ► about feeling exams and food ooh

00:04:13 ◼   ► so anyway do you have an honorable

00:04:15 ◼   ► mention that is before I do my number 5

00:04:18 ◼   ► I'm gonna read my short list which can

00:04:20 ◼   ► which contains one herb that's a tricky

00:04:24 ◼   ► designation but I think like if it's

00:04:26 ◼   ► like a dried

00:04:27 ◼   ► leaf or seed or something I think that

00:04:30 ◼   ► counts but as a fresh leaf okay I'm

00:04:34 ◼   ► gonna have basil as my own honorable

00:04:35 ◼   ► mention it's hard to draw a definition

00:04:37 ◼   ► between to draw a line between herbs and

00:04:39 ◼   ► like because basil if you know you're

00:04:40 ◼   ► eating the whole leaf of it I guess

00:04:42 ◼   ► maybe it's about volume like bulk it's

00:04:44 ◼   ► like you wouldn't like if you look at

00:04:46 ◼   ► like basil versus spinach like they have

00:04:47 ◼   ► about the same size leaf but like you

00:04:50 ◼   ► wouldn't eat a whole bag of basil at

00:04:52 ◼   ► once necessarily although I guess if

00:04:54 ◼   ► you're eating pesto that's a lot of

00:04:55 ◼   ► basil such a picky jerk when it comes to

00:04:57 ◼   ► living well basil seems to grow

00:05:00 ◼   ► perfectly for everyone else in the roast

00:05:01 ◼   ► of us but it seems like everyone else in

00:05:03 ◼   ► the world was able to grow massive

00:05:04 ◼   ► amounts of basil because people water

00:05:06 ◼   ► their plants oh do that yeah that's why

00:05:10 ◼   ► we we only have succulents now yeah my

00:05:12 ◼   ► my theory on on succulents we have we've

00:05:15 ◼   ► had them in our house for a while my

00:05:17 ◼   ► theory is that succulents are already

00:05:18 ◼   ► dead when you get them it just takes a

00:05:20 ◼   ► really long time for you to notice that

00:05:22 ◼   ► they're dead because they take so long

00:05:23 ◼   ► to dry out and fully show that they're

00:05:25 ◼   ► dead so all the grocery stores are just

00:05:26 ◼   ► selling us dead plants that's why it's

00:05:28 ◼   ► so many of them sell succulents and why

00:05:30 ◼   ► they don't cost that much because you

00:05:31 ◼   ► can get something that looks fairly

00:05:33 ◼   ► alive and oh look it's some kind of

00:05:35 ◼   ► weird cactus shaped thing and it just

00:05:36 ◼   ► takes years - yeah it actually died

00:05:39 ◼   ► three years ago and they've been keeping

00:05:40 ◼   ► in the back all this time but doesn't

00:05:42 ◼   ► matter it won't look dead for another

00:05:43 ◼   ► three years and water you can water it

00:05:46 ◼   ► as much or as little as you want to give

00:05:47 ◼   ► it as much as little son as you want in

00:05:48 ◼   ► your house never let succulents really

00:05:50 ◼   ► easy to take care of turns out there's

00:05:52 ◼   ► dead the whole time I think the same is

00:05:53 ◼   ► going for air plants too they're just

00:05:55 ◼   ► dead yeah I think you're right those are

00:05:56 ◼   ► BS yep okay so now we are established

00:05:59 ◼   ► succulents dead air plants BS and

00:06:02 ◼   ► there's tomato vegetable basil not a

00:06:04 ◼   ► vegetable and tomato also not a

00:06:07 ◼   ► vegetable

00:06:07 ◼   ► exactly all right we're doing great all

00:06:10 ◼   ► right so people are great resuming my

00:06:12 ◼   ► number five

00:06:14 ◼   ► you're fired

00:06:16 ◼   ► yeah so my number five which is an

00:06:18 ◼   ► accident but it kind of ties into the

00:06:20 ◼   ► storyline of the rest so I had to

00:06:21 ◼   ► include it broccoli

00:06:23 ◼   ► so my rationale here is you know what

00:06:27 ◼   ► not a lot of people love tons of

00:06:30 ◼   ► vegetables and you know as you're a kid

00:06:33 ◼   ► like you know you really hate them

00:06:34 ◼   ► usually and then as you get older you

00:06:35 ◼   ► realize oh these aren't so bad and you

00:06:36 ◼   ► can actually make good stuff with them

00:06:38 ◼   ► and and some of them are actually good

00:06:40 ◼   ► broccoli I feel like kind of splits the

00:06:42 ◼   ► line of like I don't know a lot of

00:06:44 ◼   ► people who love broccoli but if like

00:06:47 ◼   ► I'll get broccoli on pizza I like I like

00:06:49 ◼   ► that like broccoli is inoffensive

00:06:51 ◼   ► broccoli is just there

00:06:53 ◼   ► exactly it's inoffensive but it's

00:06:55 ◼   ► healthy and I feel like on the scale of

00:06:58 ◼   ► vegetables some of them are like worth

00:07:00 ◼   ► more points than others like health

00:07:02 ◼   ► points you know like like some of them

00:07:04 ◼   ► are kind of a cop-out like I think corn

00:07:05 ◼   ► is a total cop-out corn and like

00:07:07 ◼   ► potatoes those are bit those should not

00:07:10 ◼   ► even be counted as vegetables because

00:07:11 ◼   ► those are just like well they're starchy

00:07:13 ◼   ► bombs right like that's but those count

00:07:15 ◼   ► like so I actually looked up to

00:07:18 ◼   ► Wikipedia I actually did some research

00:07:20 ◼   ► so in so in the US the top consumed

00:07:24 ◼   ► vegetables in the US potatoes potatoes

00:07:26 ◼   ► number one and this is from the USDA

00:07:28 ◼   ► this is 2014 corn so number ones

00:07:31 ◼   ► potatoes and it's mostly in French fries

00:07:34 ◼   ► which I think it'll really sad and again

00:07:37 ◼   ► I as previous data I don't think

00:07:38 ◼   ► potatoes should count fried potatoes

00:07:40 ◼   ► okay number two tomatoes mostly from

00:07:43 ◼   ► pizza again that's not really a

00:07:45 ◼   ► vegetable America number three onions

00:07:48 ◼   ► which I know that was pretty good at

00:07:50 ◼   ► least I guess they're in a lot of things

00:07:51 ◼   ► number four even onions yes of God

00:07:54 ◼   ► number four iceberg lettuce we have the

00:07:58 ◼   ► worst taste that is number five not just

00:08:04 ◼   ► corn but specifically canned corn oh

00:08:07 ◼   ► well candy corn is way better than

00:08:09 ◼   ► frozen corn that's true I will canned

00:08:11 ◼   ► corn is delicious again though I'm not

00:08:13 ◼   ► sure it should count like it's not

00:08:14 ◼   ► particularly healthy and and then

00:08:18 ◼   ► finally number six you have leaf or

00:08:20 ◼   ► romaine lettuce that's like the first

00:08:22 ◼   ► like real vegetable think this yes

00:08:24 ◼   ► romaine is bordering on like it's almost

00:08:27 ◼   ► iceberg lettuce like it is barely a

00:08:29 ◼   ► green and these are all things that are

00:08:30 ◼   ► served by like McDonald's yeah so

00:08:33 ◼   ► depressing yeah and then number seven

00:08:36 ◼   ► this was the last one this is I'm a

00:08:37 ◼   ► little curious about this canned chili

00:08:40 ◼   ► peppers huh is that like roasted red

00:08:43 ◼   ► peppers like you get on in like Italians

00:08:45 ◼   ► like chopped green chilies the little

00:08:47 ◼   ► green chilies probably does everybody

00:08:48 ◼   ► put those in cornbread like we do or is

00:08:50 ◼   ► there another use for those things I

00:08:51 ◼   ► don't know I don't know why you can't

00:08:53 ◼   ► just get a chill

00:08:54 ◼   ► and chop it you chef why is it why are

00:08:56 ◼   ► all these things that they can I don't

00:08:58 ◼   ► know anyway so going back we have the

00:09:01 ◼   ► technology now to have fresh vegetables

00:09:03 ◼   ► like all the time and you know there are

00:09:05 ◼   ► fewer bomb shelters I'm pretty sure well

00:09:09 ◼   ► that's why everyone would get buy canned

00:09:10 ◼   ► vegetables that's my mom was talking

00:09:12 ◼   ► about anyway everybody's doing like a

00:09:13 ◼   ► survivalist crap and all it Unitarians

00:09:16 ◼   ► they're all buying the canned goods and

00:09:17 ◼   ► the Mormons anyway so it's number five

00:09:20 ◼   ► broccoli you know I feel like you know

00:09:23 ◼   ► it's inoffensive you get a lot of points

00:09:26 ◼   ► like you get all the credit for it it's

00:09:28 ◼   ► like a good vegetable and I've also for

00:09:30 ◼   ► for my top five that I've done here I've

00:09:33 ◼   ► also true shows called top four just so

00:09:35 ◼   ► everyone's aware we didn't change the

00:09:36 ◼   ► name of the show yeah I just messed up I

00:09:37 ◼   ► just couldn't count I've also chosen for

00:09:40 ◼   ► each to five for each of my vegetables

00:09:42 ◼   ► well except for my number one so I've

00:09:44 ◼   ► chosen for the four what's happening

00:09:48 ◼   ► my preferred cover-up method because you

00:09:50 ◼   ► know a lot of vegetables are disliked by

00:09:52 ◼   ► like kids or teenagers whatever and you

00:09:54 ◼   ► need to be like a reliable way to cover

00:09:55 ◼   ► up their their bitterness or their fault

00:09:58 ◼   ► or whatever else so broccoli the best

00:10:00 ◼   ► cover-up is clearly cheese right because

00:10:03 ◼   ► cheese is awesome and I'm the best

00:10:06 ◼   ► vegetable to put cheese on I think is

00:10:08 ◼   ► pretty easily agreed on broccoli and so

00:10:10 ◼   ► therefore broccoli is awesome

00:10:12 ◼   ► so that's my number five you really did

00:10:14 ◼   ► spend a lot of time thinking about

00:10:16 ◼   ► vegetables I did my homework I did a

00:10:18 ◼   ► little bit too much of it but I did my

00:10:20 ◼   ► homework so what's your number five I

00:10:23 ◼   ► don't have a number five I follow the

00:10:26 ◼   ► rules I mean if we wanted to do like top

00:10:30 ◼   ► ten here I have a whole bunch so I could

00:10:31 ◼   ► I can rank them but we're sticking a

00:10:33 ◼   ► four because we're professionals

00:10:36 ◼   ► anyway so I November four is asparagus

00:10:40 ◼   ► mmm fresh asparagus oh yeah do not like

00:10:44 ◼   ► to canned asparagus it's all soggy and

00:10:46 ◼   ► terrible but it is down at number four I

00:10:48 ◼   ► love asparagus it's very tasty but it

00:10:51 ◼   ► does make your urine smell awful if you

00:10:53 ◼   ► eat too much of it so it does not get

00:10:55 ◼   ► any higher in the list even though it is

00:10:57 ◼   ► delicious

00:10:58 ◼   ► and it's wonderful especially with like

00:11:00 ◼   ► aioli sauce on it oh that's really good

00:11:03 ◼   ► that okay you're talking about cover-up

00:11:05 ◼   ► method mm-hmm yeah just a little boiled

00:11:07 ◼   ► asparagus

00:11:08 ◼   ► like parboiled real quick so it's nice

00:11:10 ◼   ► and bright still a little bit crunchy

00:11:12 ◼   ► and you got to take off those terrible

00:11:14 ◼   ► root ends of course when you're cooking

00:11:15 ◼   ► it and then some salt and pepper a

00:11:18 ◼   ► little drizzle of aioli oh so good

00:11:21 ◼   ► that's that's my number four solid pick

00:11:25 ◼   ► mmm I'm thinking about right now we

00:11:26 ◼   ► haven't had that in a while

00:11:28 ◼   ► ooh I should make something vegetable

00:11:30 ◼   ► that's why I should make some chicken

00:11:31 ◼   ► cutlets with some asparagus we are

00:11:33 ◼   ► almost as far from spring as we can

00:11:35 ◼   ► possibly be and so that's why we haven't

00:11:36 ◼   ► had it oh we do we try and eat

00:11:39 ◼   ► seasonally a little bit because the

00:11:41 ◼   ► things taste better if you get them in

00:11:43 ◼   ► the right season oh yeah go figure

00:11:45 ◼   ► alright my number four is kind of like

00:11:49 ◼   ► broccoli taken to the extreme

00:11:50 ◼   ► it's Brussels sprouts hey because I feel

00:11:53 ◼   ► like I'm the scale of like what's worth

00:11:56 ◼   ► health points

00:11:57 ◼   ► I think Brussels sprouts are like about

00:12:00 ◼   ► as good as you can get like it they're

00:12:01 ◼   ► basically little tiny heads of cabbage

00:12:03 ◼   ► that you fill with oil and roast somehow

00:12:05 ◼   ► like each one feels like I'm getting a

00:12:08 ◼   ► lot of vegetable credit by eating this

00:12:09 ◼   ► this little tiny cabbage head thing the

00:12:12 ◼   ► only major downside I think to Brussels

00:12:14 ◼   ► sprouts is that they are relatively

00:12:16 ◼   ► difficult to cook well yeah that's why

00:12:18 ◼   ► they didn't make my list at all I love

00:12:20 ◼   ► Brussels sprouts and I love when you

00:12:22 ◼   ► cook them and I love them doused in

00:12:23 ◼   ► balsamic vinegar I don't like when a lot

00:12:28 ◼   ► of other people cook them only like very

00:12:30 ◼   ► good restaurants mm-hmm and so I didn't

00:12:32 ◼   ► make the list I guess that would be my

00:12:34 ◼   ► number 5 if I had to pick there we go

00:12:36 ◼   ► see now you're getting in the game yeah

00:12:37 ◼   ► getting out of the game and and in my in

00:12:40 ◼   ► my typical fashion here the best

00:12:42 ◼   ► cover-up method for Brussels sprouts a

00:12:44 ◼   ► for people who don't like the flavor

00:12:45 ◼   ► that much I think is aromatics so things

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00:15:37 ◼   ► you but it has opened up a whole new

00:15:38 ◼   ► world of specifically vegetables for me

00:15:41 ◼   ► that I didn't think that I would like

00:15:42 ◼   ► and I would never pick a recipe out and

00:15:45 ◼   ► make myself if it had like a certain

00:15:48 ◼   ► type of vegetable that I knew I didn't

00:15:50 ◼   ► like but now because we just get it

00:15:51 ◼   ► delivered and it's like well I guess I

00:15:52 ◼   ► have to try it because it's here

00:15:54 ◼   ► otherwise we wasted money and so it

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00:15:58 ◼   ► my number three is a total blue apron

00:16:02 ◼   ► turnaround vegetable so want to go into

00:16:05 ◼   ► it yeah I kind of do all right what is

00:16:07 ◼   ► your number three blue apron turnaround

00:16:09 ◼   ► vegetable radishes I also come around a

00:16:13 ◼   ► little bit cuz they often had you

00:16:15 ◼   ► pickled them yeah like you know in like

00:16:16 ◼   ► a quick pickle with vinegar and stuff

00:16:18 ◼   ► and they don't like just like a nice

00:16:20 ◼   ► shaved radish on top of something like

00:16:21 ◼   ► it's crunchy it's it's very peppery

00:16:23 ◼   ► they've had a whole bunch of different

00:16:25 ◼   ► types of radishes like those really

00:16:28 ◼   ► pretty they're the watermelon radishes

00:16:30 ◼   ► this one's the purple or the Evoque it

00:16:32 ◼   ► looks like a watermelon when you slice

00:16:34 ◼   ► it it's so cool so yeah radishes are my

00:16:37 ◼   ► number three because they are brand new

00:16:39 ◼   ► I'm super excited about them they have a

00:16:41 ◼   ► very unique flavor if they're really

00:16:42 ◼   ► good raw and they're also good pickled

00:16:44 ◼   ► and I think we've had them slightly

00:16:47 ◼   ► fried in certain things did I ever have

00:16:50 ◼   ► no I don't know if we ever applied heat

00:16:53 ◼   ► to them in any way I think they're

00:16:54 ◼   ► they're almost always like some kind of

00:16:56 ◼   ► thin slice with a quick pickle or

00:16:59 ◼   ► something like that yeah but before I

00:17:00 ◼   ► never knew what to do with a radish I

00:17:01 ◼   ► never thought I would like it and I very

00:17:04 ◼   ► much like them and I find myself putting

00:17:06 ◼   ► extra radish unto things

00:17:08 ◼   ► whenever I have radish available turns

00:17:10 ◼   ► up turns out thanks believer in like

00:17:12 ◼   ► seriously I'm sorry they're a sponsor I

00:17:14 ◼   ► know it sounds like all addy and stuff

00:17:15 ◼   ► but they're very good what also like you

00:17:18 ◼   ► know while we're still you know sucking

00:17:20 ◼   ► up to the sponsor here it's not like

00:17:23 ◼   ► even if they weren't a sponsor I'd be

00:17:25 ◼   ► saying the same thing no but like blue

00:17:27 ◼   ► apron also like it's a really good way

00:17:29 ◼   ► to lose weight like I have found for me

00:17:32 ◼   ► the most effective way to lose weight

00:17:33 ◼   ► when I want to is just portion control

00:17:36 ◼   ► and and calorie control and blue aprons

00:17:40 ◼   ► meals are like if you have that they're

00:17:43 ◼   ► their meals for dinners are something

00:17:45 ◼   ► like 600 to 800 calories

00:17:48 ◼   ► and that's it's pretty easy to fit a

00:17:50 ◼   ► calorie goal for the day with that as

00:17:52 ◼   ► your dinner size because like without

00:17:53 ◼   ► that a lot of times like we would be

00:17:55 ◼   ► inclined to cook much larger portions or

00:17:58 ◼   ► to use weight more like fat or things

00:18:00 ◼   ► and and because they have kind of that

00:18:02 ◼   ► hard calorie cap or they really don't

00:18:03 ◼   ► send you any meals that are above a

00:18:05 ◼   ► certain pretty reasonable number like

00:18:07 ◼   ► seven and they're filling - yeah you

00:18:09 ◼   ► don't feel hungry afterwards yeah so so

00:18:10 ◼   ► it's great for that and so if if you

00:18:12 ◼   ► like try to eat healthy every new year

00:18:14 ◼   ► this is a good way to in addition to all

00:18:17 ◼   ► the other benefits so anyway my number

00:18:19 ◼   ► three is the complete opposite direction

00:18:22 ◼   ► something that I'm not sure we've ever

00:18:24 ◼   ► gotten from blurry from because it's so

00:18:25 ◼   ► incredibly boring

00:18:26 ◼   ► it's Peas I don't think yeah I don't

00:18:30 ◼   ► think they've ever owned oat they have

00:18:32 ◼   ► sent us peas and I've had to bust them

00:18:33 ◼   ► out of the pods oh yeah okay that I like

00:18:37 ◼   ► - I like the Grayson's like fancy Peas

00:18:39 ◼   ► yes but you gotta work for it Peas we're

00:18:42 ◼   ► like I'm expending more calories getting

00:18:44 ◼   ► these keys out of the pot than I am all

00:18:48 ◼   ► right so the reason I like peas so much

00:18:50 ◼   ► like you know to make my number three

00:18:52 ◼   ► here there's not a lot you can do to

00:18:54 ◼   ► screw them up there they're pretty

00:18:56 ◼   ► inoffensive I know even when I was a kid

00:18:59 ◼   ► I liked peas like I know some kids

00:19:01 ◼   ► absolutely hate them I don't really know

00:19:02 ◼   ► what their parents could have possibly

00:19:04 ◼   ► done to them to make them hate them so

00:19:06 ◼   ► much because they just tastes like very

00:19:08 ◼   ► little there's very little flavor there

00:19:09 ◼   ► but what is there I think is nice and

00:19:10 ◼   ► pleasant and so they're they're pretty

00:19:12 ◼   ► versatile they're as you mentioned

00:19:14 ◼   ► earlier with like you know versatility

00:19:16 ◼   ► and stock and consistency you can buy

00:19:19 ◼   ► really good peas in frozen bags and for

00:19:22 ◼   ► very little money and you can just keep

00:19:24 ◼   ► them in your freezer pretty much all the

00:19:25 ◼   ► time so it's really easy to keep them

00:19:28 ◼   ► and to you know they're just like

00:19:29 ◼   ► they're very practical vegetable that's

00:19:30 ◼   ► probably why you see so many people

00:19:32 ◼   ► eating them like they're pretty common

00:19:33 ◼   ► and that's probably why peas didn't make

00:19:35 ◼   ► my list because I feel like they're not

00:19:37 ◼   ► great naked yeah well so and my my cover

00:19:41 ◼   ► up recommendation if for some reason you

00:19:43 ◼   ► don't like peas but also just a good way

00:19:44 ◼   ► to prepare them peas take very well to

00:19:46 ◼   ► fat so my recommendations are butter and

00:19:49 ◼   ► bacon yes these are very fatty unhealthy

00:19:52 ◼   ► things that are offsetting a lot of the

00:19:53 ◼   ► benefits of eating the vegetables but a

00:19:55 ◼   ► little bit of butter or bacon and the

00:19:57 ◼   ► silly fats and particularly salty fats

00:19:59 ◼   ► at ya know nians pea onions mm-hmm

00:20:01 ◼   ► they really go a long way towards making

00:20:04 ◼   ► Pease awesome what is are we up to your

00:20:06 ◼   ► number two now yeah my number two is

00:20:09 ◼   ► also possibly controversial in true

00:20:12 ◼   ► fashion I can switch my number one in my

00:20:15 ◼   ► number two here I have the option

00:20:17 ◼   ► because it's our show and I do what I

00:20:20 ◼   ► want host privilege alright yeah so my

00:20:23 ◼   ► number three is garlic vac totally

00:20:28 ◼   ► counts yeah cuz I looked it up it says

00:20:30 ◼   ► listed as a vegetable garlic is a

00:20:31 ◼   ► vegetable and it is but I mean you can't

00:20:34 ◼   ► possibly eat enough garlic to like eat

00:20:37 ◼   ► some garlic like I'll say it's like I'm

00:20:39 ◼   ► gonna have a meal of garlic you can't

00:20:41 ◼   ► you can't do that yeah I kind of feel

00:20:43 ◼   ► like it's almost in the category of

00:20:44 ◼   ► basil of like yeah it's like an aromatic

00:20:47 ◼   ► it's well I think it I think it just

00:20:51 ◼   ► barely might count but if it counts I

00:20:53 ◼   ► think we might have to allow basil

00:20:55 ◼   ► mm-hmm I don't know but it's like a root

00:20:58 ◼   ► it's like a root vegetable but again

00:21:00 ◼   ► it's like so strong and potent right

00:21:02 ◼   ► although I like the the ramps the garlic

00:21:05 ◼   ► ramps that like come off you can use

00:21:07 ◼   ► those also so that's is that count as

00:21:09 ◼   ► garlic or is that kind of like that the

00:21:12 ◼   ► broccoli vegetable which is like

00:21:13 ◼   ► actually 20,000 different vegetables you

00:21:17 ◼   ► know we what do we listen to about that

00:21:18 ◼   ► that was a episode I believe nine of the

00:21:21 ◼   ► surprisingly awesome podcast yeah highly

00:21:24 ◼   ► recommended it with outs it's all about

00:21:26 ◼   ► broccoli it's like this one this one

00:21:28 ◼   ► species of plant has a handful of

00:21:31 ◼   ► cultivars they represent a pretty good

00:21:34 ◼   ► portion of the vegetable section of the

00:21:36 ◼   ► typical American grocery store it's like

00:21:37 ◼   ► broccoli kale collard greens

00:21:40 ◼   ► Brussels sprouts these are they're all

00:21:42 ◼   ► from cabbage they're all the same

00:21:45 ◼   ► species just just different cultivars of

00:21:47 ◼   ► it and so it's kind of funny to think

00:21:49 ◼   ► about that's all really basically the

00:21:51 ◼   ► same plant just with site variations

00:21:52 ◼   ► what's that crazy broccoli one that

00:21:54 ◼   ► looks like little teepees I like swirly

00:21:56 ◼   ► teepees little cones yeah that is called

00:21:58 ◼   ► broccoflower it's a broccoli cauliflower

00:22:01 ◼   ► it's so collectively a cauliflower

00:22:03 ◼   ► member and it is called broccoflower

00:22:06 ◼   ► which is an awesome name it is awesome

00:22:08 ◼   ► looking oh it's just bonkers it looks

00:22:11 ◼   ► like a little uh sure painting yeah it's

00:22:14 ◼   ► a fractal

00:22:15 ◼   ► it's a fractal vegetable there aren't a

00:22:17 ◼   ► lot of fractal foods that grow in nature

00:22:19 ◼   ► so it's pretty cool oh man I wish I had

00:22:22 ◼   ► a mochi version of that yeah

00:22:24 ◼   ► how'd be great anyway so yeah garlic is

00:22:27 ◼   ► my number three but if I have to do you

00:22:29 ◼   ► mean sorry number two garlic is my

00:22:30 ◼   ► number two because it's just so good in

00:22:33 ◼   ► everything it makes everything taste

00:22:35 ◼   ► better I will always have garlic with

00:22:37 ◼   ► things I don't care what my breath

00:22:38 ◼   ► smells like it doesn't matter I love it

00:22:42 ◼   ► you can also cook garlic the whole

00:22:45 ◼   ► cloves if you cook it the right way you

00:22:47 ◼   ► they'll be sweet like a slow cooker kind

00:22:49 ◼   ► of like meaty yeah if you like cook them

00:22:51 ◼   ► slower and yeah or roast them you can

00:22:54 ◼   ► like do so but should I should I

00:22:58 ◼   ► substitute for something else because no

00:22:59 ◼   ► that's your number two it might not

00:23:01 ◼   ► count as a vegetable I don't care number

00:23:06 ◼   ► three it was a member of everyone list

00:23:07 ◼   ► of vegetables that I saw when I did my

00:23:09 ◼   ► research on what vegetables were before

00:23:11 ◼   ► the show garlic was always included well

00:23:13 ◼   ► I could move garlic anywhere on my list

00:23:15 ◼   ► depending on how much everyone thinks

00:23:17 ◼   ► it's a vegetable or not so if you go

00:23:18 ◼   ► back down to number four and everything

00:23:19 ◼   ► else can just move up a notch alright my

00:23:22 ◼   ► number two building on my list of my you

00:23:26 ◼   ► know building on that my number three

00:23:27 ◼   ► being peas number two is carrots oh

00:23:29 ◼   ► really

00:23:30 ◼   ► so no listen so carrots are so good so

00:23:34 ◼   ► what's nice about carrots are doggies

00:23:36 ◼   ► carrots that's part of the reason

00:23:38 ◼   ► they're so good even dogs love them

00:23:40 ◼   ► right

00:23:41 ◼   ► nearly anything you do to a carrot is

00:23:44 ◼   ► fine like it is I'm not sure it's

00:23:46 ◼   ► possible to cook a carrot badly and to

00:23:49 ◼   ► me like when I was growing up my mom was

00:23:51 ◼   ► not the best chef with vegetables and so

00:23:55 ◼   ► I thought I really hated all these

00:23:57 ◼   ► vegetables like things like broccoli cuz

00:23:59 ◼   ► she would you know burn them or whatever

00:24:00 ◼   ► else carrots I feel like even bad home

00:24:04 ◼   ► cooks can cook carrots to a degree that

00:24:06 ◼   ► they're fine at worst they they are

00:24:09 ◼   ► bland it tastes like nothing like if

00:24:10 ◼   ► they're just like boringly steamed or

00:24:12 ◼   ► whatever but your number two is

00:24:14 ◼   ► something that's just fine well because

00:24:16 ◼   ► it's so incredibly versatile you can

00:24:19 ◼   ► have them raw all the way up to like

00:24:21 ◼   ► fancy like you know maple or brown sugar

00:24:24 ◼   ► glazed and it's good all those different

00:24:27 ◼   ► things are course it's good maple

00:24:29 ◼   ► brown sugar glaze and raw carrots are

00:24:31 ◼   ► like chomping on a piece of bark like

00:24:32 ◼   ► it's just lately it's really got a party

00:24:35 ◼   ► or something in the crudité platter out

00:24:37 ◼   ► I will almost always eat a pretty good

00:24:40 ◼   ► amount of the baby carrots yeah but what

00:24:42 ◼   ► are you dipping at and having come on

00:24:43 ◼   ► some of them I'm not some of them I'm

00:24:45 ◼   ► eating just by themselves now I'll dip

00:24:46 ◼   ► some of them in the ranch dressing but

00:24:48 ◼   ► not all of them but I must have a

00:24:49 ◼   ► different taste buds in you guys carrots

00:24:50 ◼   ► to me tastes like just rods of nothing

00:24:55 ◼   ► and they're orange they're even a fun

00:24:57 ◼   ► color

00:24:58 ◼   ► yeah they don't taste like how fun they

00:25:00 ◼   ► look they really don't be so boring I

00:25:03 ◼   ► might as well she want to stick chewing

00:25:05 ◼   ► on a stick and eating a carrot to me is

00:25:07 ◼   ► pretty phenomenal I will gladly eat raw

00:25:11 ◼   ► carrots on a crudite platter with

00:25:13 ◼   ► nothing on them and be very happy about

00:25:14 ◼   ► that I would eat them if I were starving

00:25:18 ◼   ► and I wouldn't like it anyway yeah so my

00:25:22 ◼   ► best cover-up method for carrots is the

00:25:24 ◼   ► sugar family of cover-ups maple syrup

00:25:26 ◼   ► brown or stuff like that

00:25:27 ◼   ► Marko's cookie show cooking with marco

00:25:30 ◼   ► today we're going to saute some carrots

00:25:32 ◼   ► since the maple brown butter hey my

00:25:34 ◼   ► clears carrots are awesome they are

00:25:36 ◼   ► that's right you are very good at

00:25:38 ◼   ► glazing vegetables

00:25:39 ◼   ► you are very good at infusing vegetables

00:25:41 ◼   ► with fat those carrots it's actually

00:25:45 ◼   ► almost no oil at all it's its eye

00:25:46 ◼   ► because the first time I made them I

00:25:48 ◼   ► used like a regular amount of oil that

00:25:50 ◼   ► you'd use to fry things in and it was it

00:25:51 ◼   ► was way too much so now butter yeah I

00:25:54 ◼   ► don't use that in carrots I don't use

00:25:56 ◼   ► butter really either I really just use

00:25:58 ◼   ► like a very tiny amount of oil and then

00:26:01 ◼   ► a large amount of maple syrup

00:26:04 ◼   ► it's it is a lot of sugar but it's not

00:26:05 ◼   ► it's not fat okay so you're number one

00:26:09 ◼   ► now all right my number one vegetable

00:26:13 ◼   ► number one pick for two pharmacies I

00:26:17 ◼   ► know it's vegetable arugula ah I love

00:26:22 ◼   ► arugula see I like all the peppery

00:26:24 ◼   ► vegetables yeah I like that I love

00:26:26 ◼   ► arugula I crave the blue I can't say it

00:26:29 ◼   ► that well arugula close enough anyway

00:26:31 ◼   ► arugula I love it it's peppery its leafy

00:26:34 ◼   ► its dark green it's delicious it goes

00:26:37 ◼   ► well with salads it goes well with like

00:26:39 ◼   ► little side dishes it's good when you

00:26:41 ◼   ► warm it up

00:26:42 ◼   ► been like toss it with some things it's

00:26:43 ◼   ► really delicious with a fried egg on top

00:26:45 ◼   ► I mean what isn't but making fun of me

00:26:49 ◼   ► for like glazing some maple sugar with

00:26:50 ◼   ► my carrots and you're like this

00:26:51 ◼   ► vegetable is fine if you put a fried egg

00:26:53 ◼   ► on top I didn't say it was fine if you

00:26:55 ◼   ► put a fried egg I said it was also good

00:26:57 ◼   ► with a fried egg it's good with

00:27:00 ◼   ► prosciutto it tasty and wonderful I

00:27:04 ◼   ► craved it like crazy when I was pregnant

00:27:05 ◼   ► and it is just it just exudes healthy

00:27:10 ◼   ► but it's it's just savory in a very

00:27:13 ◼   ► different way that I find most

00:27:14 ◼   ► vegetables aren't and I love it that is

00:27:18 ◼   ► food pepper me up I also love pepper on

00:27:20 ◼   ► everything a lot of pepper that I think

00:27:22 ◼   ► that you listed two vegetables that

00:27:24 ◼   ► taste to what most people describe as

00:27:25 ◼   ► peppery mm-hm and you are like the

00:27:27 ◼   ► pepper Queen so that that does radishes

00:27:29 ◼   ► on arugula Oh with an egg put an egg of

00:27:34 ◼   ► course yeah put it I got everything all

00:27:36 ◼   ► right my number one is the onion the

00:27:40 ◼   ► onion because onions also count there on

00:27:43 ◼   ► every little hey if garlic counts onions

00:27:45 ◼   ► count cuz to be damned you cannot bite

00:27:48 ◼   ► into it and onion right yeah onions

00:27:50 ◼   ► obviously required preparation I think

00:27:52 ◼   ► not like raw onions likes not like

00:27:54 ◼   ► sometimes people will put r onions

00:27:55 ◼   ► unlike certain salads or whatever oh

00:27:57 ◼   ► yeah sandwiches I hate raw onions

00:28:00 ◼   ► because my mouth just tastes like raw

00:28:02 ◼   ► onion for the next hour I think one of

00:28:03 ◼   ► the funniest visual gags is somebody

00:28:06 ◼   ► taking a full onion bulb and just biting

00:28:09 ◼   ► into it I think it's really funny

00:28:21 ◼   ► anyways yet my number one onions because

00:28:24 ◼   ► you if you you know saute or you know

00:28:28 ◼   ► cook some good onions it makes every

00:28:30 ◼   ► other food better like it makes other

00:28:32 ◼   ► vegetables better it makes meat better

00:28:34 ◼   ► like stock make sandwiches yeah it's

00:28:36 ◼   ► like onions make almost every kind of

00:28:39 ◼   ► food you can think of better when used

00:28:40 ◼   ► properly caramelized onions see

00:28:42 ◼   ► everything exactly like they are the

00:28:45 ◼   ► universal condiment to almost any other

00:28:47 ◼   ► kind of food and as you mentioned with

00:28:49 ◼   ► saucers they're often included for

00:28:50 ◼   ► flavor and other things like the it was

00:28:52 ◼   ► so universal I chose not to pick it but

00:28:55 ◼   ► now

00:28:55 ◼   ► you're making a lot of sense onions I'm

00:28:57 ◼   ► really glad you picked it and I'm glad

00:28:58 ◼   ► that we're married to combine our lists

00:29:00 ◼   ► execute them together exactly and you

00:29:02 ◼   ► don't need to cover up onions because

00:29:04 ◼   ► they are a cover up no you do you have

00:29:06 ◼   ► to cover them up by cooking cuz raw

00:29:07 ◼   ► onion is rough

00:29:09 ◼   ► I don't think cooking counts as a cover

00:29:11 ◼   ► up method because you can cook onions in

00:29:12 ◼   ► basically nothing like you cook onions

00:29:14 ◼   ► and other onions and it's fine yeah you

00:29:16 ◼   ► could like I will often if I'm trying to

00:29:18 ◼   ► soften up some onions in a relatively

00:29:19 ◼   ► healthy way I'll just put a little bit

00:29:21 ◼   ► of water in a frying pan with them and

00:29:23 ◼   ► the water will evaporate in a couple of

00:29:24 ◼   ► minutes and then you have caramelized

00:29:25 ◼   ► onions without any crap in them it's

00:29:27 ◼   ► pretty great so yeah onions highly

00:29:30 ◼   ► recommended my favorite kind are Vidalia

00:29:32 ◼   ► of course because there was sweetest but

00:29:35 ◼   ► pretty much like I like all of them like

00:29:36 ◼   ► every kind of onion I like they're

00:29:38 ◼   ► they're just great they make everything

00:29:39 ◼   ► else better they're in lots of things

00:29:41 ◼   ► that are delicious and they for some

00:29:44 ◼   ► reason count as a vegetable and so I'll

00:29:45 ◼   ► take it onions and grilled cheese

00:29:47 ◼   ► exactly caramelized onions and cheese

00:29:49 ◼   ► exactly of course that deco to that

00:29:51 ◼   ► saying and buy caramelized I mean just

00:29:53 ◼   ► like cooked a lot not necessarily cover

00:29:55 ◼   ► in sugar no I in fact I almost never add

00:29:58 ◼   ► sugar if I do add sugar to my frying of

00:30:00 ◼   ► onions it'll usually be in the form of a

00:30:03 ◼   ► dash of barbecue sauce if I'm putting

00:30:05 ◼   ► them on like a hamburger or something

00:30:06 ◼   ► I'll put a little barbecue sauce in with

00:30:08 ◼   ► them but that's that's not a cooking

00:30:10 ◼   ► YouTube channel only if John Syracuse

00:30:12 ◼   ► who agrees to join it with us cooking

00:30:14 ◼   ► for the internet one of my dreams has

00:30:17 ◼   ► long been to create a cooking show with

00:30:19 ◼   ► John siracusa but just him cooking and

00:30:21 ◼   ► me just filming it and publishing it no

00:30:23 ◼   ► I think it should be him watching you

00:30:24 ◼   ► cook and freaking out just him in the

00:30:31 ◼   ► background just be like oh just John

00:30:33 ◼   ► watching other people cook yep and then

00:30:35 ◼   ► like pushing them aside and showing them

00:30:37 ◼   ► what to do the show that's kind of

00:30:43 ◼   ► amazing alright it'll be like comedians

00:30:45 ◼   ► and car was a coffee but John watching

00:30:47 ◼   ► other people cook will come over to your

00:30:51 ◼   ► kitchen oh my gosh will like just oh but

00:30:54 ◼   ► he hates traveling will have to drug him

00:30:56 ◼   ► you get one of those telepresence robots

00:30:58 ◼   ► and there's just like the iPad on a

00:31:00 ◼   ► stick with wheels no no because his

00:31:02 ◼   ► physicality in the space with you and

00:31:04 ◼   ► like yeah that'd be so great John we are

00:31:07 ◼   ► signing you up for this

00:31:08 ◼   ► you're going to make thousands of views

00:31:12 ◼   ► okay all right so I guess I'd say right

00:31:16 ◼   ► well no I want to talk about what I

00:31:17 ◼   ► didn't pick okay yeah okay so I had on

00:31:19 ◼   ► my list I had spinach tomatoes Brussels

00:31:21 ◼   ► sprouts basil bok choy cucumbers sugar

00:31:24 ◼   ► snap peas regular piece yeah that's why

00:31:27 ◼   ► God not bad that's anything like as an

00:31:30 ◼   ► adult I pretty much like all vegetables

00:31:33 ◼   ► now like I mean I can't no no they're

00:31:34 ◼   ► definitely some vegetables I don't I'm

00:31:35 ◼   ► still not a huge fan of the texture of

00:31:37 ◼   ► large pieces of mushroom yeah they just

00:31:40 ◼   ► like ear it's biting into an ear yeah

00:31:43 ◼   ► but no but I loved mushroom flavor like

00:31:45 ◼   ► I you know at thanks to blue apron

00:31:47 ◼   ► actually for the first time ever I have

00:31:50 ◼   ► recently bought mushrooms like I never

00:31:51 ◼   ► bought mushrooms before and I recently

00:31:53 ◼   ► bought them to remake this awesome

00:31:55 ◼   ► tie it's like a it's like a Tom Kha gai

00:31:58 ◼   ► soup but it's like it was a chicken

00:32:00 ◼   ► katsu so it's like a slight variation

00:32:02 ◼   ► yeah I've been enjoying mushrooms but I

00:32:04 ◼   ► do not like biting into a big mushroom

00:32:06 ◼   ► it does just tastes like nibbling on an

00:32:08 ◼   ► ear that you just found in your plate so

00:32:10 ◼   ► you're welcome everybody now you have

00:32:12 ◼   ► that image also beets taste like dirt to

00:32:14 ◼   ► me and will never ever be good I like

00:32:16 ◼   ► beets enough to get like beet salads at

00:32:18 ◼   ► restaurants because then someone else is

00:32:19 ◼   ► preparing them they're good they have

00:32:21 ◼   ► like a little bit of goat cheese it's

00:32:22 ◼   ► great but I don't love them so much that

00:32:24 ◼   ► I buy to myself but otherwise like me

00:32:27 ◼   ► also I really like kale I really like

00:32:29 ◼   ► kale it's just a matter of knowing how

00:32:30 ◼   ► to cook it I think those like big green

00:32:33 ◼   ► leafy vegetables I think it's just a

00:32:35 ◼   ► matter of knowing how to cook it and

00:32:37 ◼   ► when it's actually done I think

00:32:39 ◼   ► blueprint is also shown us how you can

00:32:41 ◼   ► shove kale and pretty much anything

00:32:42 ◼   ► somehow yeah pretty much any recipe you

00:32:44 ◼   ► can shove kale into it in a way that is

00:32:46 ◼   ► like an inoffensive and totally fine and

00:32:49 ◼   ► then you're eating kale and you get you

00:32:50 ◼   ► get points for that too

00:32:51 ◼   ► yeah and it's not like a weird half outs

00:32:53 ◼   ► like shoving kale into things and being

00:32:55 ◼   ► like oh yeah this totally goes and kales

00:32:57 ◼   ► super popular oh it was like popular

00:32:59 ◼   ► like what three years ago so it was like

00:33:00 ◼   ► the kale craze but it is legit good in a

00:33:04 ◼   ► lot of different things yeah alright I

00:33:06 ◼   ► guess that's it right I guess so yeah

00:33:08 ◼   ► vegetables thanks everyone for listening

00:33:10 ◼   ► it's a vegetable episode good luck with

00:33:12 ◼   ► your with your vegetables out there your

00:33:15 ◼   ► vegetable travels we'd love to hear

00:33:17 ◼   ► about the vegetables you're trying this

00:33:19 ◼   ► holiday season I don't know I'm sorry

00:33:22 ◼   ► why

00:33:22 ◼   ► I like a radio announcer the hope is

00:33:24 ◼   ► there also over and that's true this new

00:33:26 ◼   ► year the holidays are why we have to eat

00:33:28 ◼   ► vegetables now yeah because of the

00:33:32 ◼   ► holidays yeah it's like oh crap that was

00:33:35 ◼   ► a lot of sugar and stuff that we ate

00:33:36 ◼   ► over the last few weeks now we have to

00:33:38 ◼   ► eat a lot more vegetables and a lot less

00:33:40 ◼   ► of everything good don't you find that

00:33:41 ◼   ► after you eat a whole bunch of sweet

00:33:43 ◼   ► stuff for like holidays season

00:33:44 ◼   ► overindulgence you just crave salad I

00:33:47 ◼   ► mean like what was the first thing we

00:33:48 ◼   ► had when we got home was a big salad you

00:33:51 ◼   ► have just nailed why I will often go for

00:33:54 ◼   ► the raw carrots on a crudite platter

00:33:55 ◼   ► because usually it is in the context of

00:33:58 ◼   ► a bunch of crap food there's like you

00:34:01 ◼   ► know chips and junk food at a party or

00:34:03 ◼   ► something and there's a crudite platter

00:34:04 ◼   ► that no one else is touching and so I

00:34:06 ◼   ► will grab some carrots and eat them

00:34:08 ◼   ► plain because I feel like it kind of

00:34:11 ◼   ► balances out all the other crap meeting

00:34:12 ◼   ► at that party there you go boom that

00:34:17 ◼   ► convert you or no