Top Four

00:00:00 ◼   ► you ready I'm ready we're back top four

00:00:03 ◼   ► chief I can't anyway was that was that

00:00:09 ◼   ► our intro we're gonna use that we'll see

00:00:12 ◼   ► anyway so this week I picked the topic

00:00:15 ◼   ► again that's gonna be getting old saying

00:00:18 ◼   ► that over and over and over because

00:00:19 ◼   ► Marko never picks the topic but we I've

00:00:22 ◼   ► decided to do a special for Thanksgiving

00:00:25 ◼   ► since we just had our Halloween special

00:00:27 ◼   ► and this one is a Halloween

00:00:31 ◼   ► tinea says Halloween she says she says

00:00:34 ◼   ► Halloween

00:00:35 ◼   ► and so now I'm I'm infected you've

00:00:38 ◼   ► become a Halloween person no I don't

00:00:40 ◼   ► know what I am I'm confused

00:00:42 ◼   ► yeah we got to work on that okay so

00:00:44 ◼   ► since we did oh he wouldn't silence hops

00:00:47 ◼   ► come here house all right I'll tell you

00:00:50 ◼   ► all what we're doing d well Marco is

00:00:51 ◼   ► financing comps we are going to talk

00:00:53 ◼   ► about

00:00:54 ◼   ► he's so distracting he's looking hurt I

00:00:58 ◼   ► heard that everything is loud okay so

00:01:02 ◼   ► we're gonna do a special for

00:01:04 ◼   ► Thanksgiving and I thought that we

00:01:07 ◼   ► should talk about our favorite takeout

00:01:08 ◼   ► food because everyone gets takeout food

00:01:11 ◼   ► the day before Thanksgiving so because

00:01:13 ◼   ► no one wants to have that food in their

00:01:15 ◼   ► house too because they're cooking the

00:01:17 ◼   ► big meal so you want something quick and

00:01:19 ◼   ► easy that you don't have to clog up your

00:01:21 ◼   ► refrigerator because it's full of food

00:01:23 ◼   ► or you're traveling so you don't want to

00:01:25 ◼   ► have a whole bunch of food laying around

00:01:27 ◼   ► so I think this early week of the

00:01:30 ◼   ► holiday week start kicking off

00:01:32 ◼   ► Thanksgiving for America Markov is

00:01:38 ◼   ► takeout food so yeah let's talk about

00:01:42 ◼   ► our favorite takeout food yeah so this

00:01:44 ◼   ► is actually a pretty broad topic I

00:01:46 ◼   ► thought when you first mentioned this I

00:01:48 ◼   ► thought could we do a whole episode on

00:01:50 ◼   ► that and then I started to take notes on

00:01:52 ◼   ► what I think my top ones would be and

00:01:54 ◼   ► why

00:01:55 ◼   ► and I very very quickly filled up an

00:01:57 ◼   ► entire iPad page with notes Wow yeah

00:02:01 ◼   ► well the small iPad know okay yeah not

00:02:03 ◼   ► the giant the giant one would have been

00:02:05 ◼   ► impressive it would have been but I'm

00:02:07 ◼   ► not that impressive

00:02:07 ◼   ► so so I have a lot of notes on this okay

00:02:10 ◼   ► how do you want to do it aren't you good

00:02:12 ◼   ► why don't you start with your

00:02:13 ◼   ► well when we first started listening

00:02:15 ◼   ► then we could only less three but I said

00:02:17 ◼   ► we can open it up to possible lunch

00:02:18 ◼   ► foods as well if we need to but I really

00:02:21 ◼   ► don't think we need to I have my three

00:02:23 ◼   ► favorite foods takeout food types all

00:02:27 ◼   ► right for forum this is top four I have

00:02:30 ◼   ► my four favorite takeout food types

00:02:32 ◼   ► pretty set so do you want to go least

00:02:36 ◼   ► favorite to favorite

00:02:37 ◼   ► let's do least favorite to favorite okay

00:02:39 ◼   ► what do you have well so I have a whole

00:02:43 ◼   ► I have like more way more than four on

00:02:45 ◼   ► the list of course I don't know how much

00:02:46 ◼   ► you want to talk about the ones that

00:02:47 ◼   ► didn't really make the top four one of

00:02:49 ◼   ► the ones that didn't make the top four

00:02:51 ◼   ► for me was burritos it didn't make my

00:02:53 ◼   ► top four either but I do have it on the

00:02:55 ◼   ► the sideline list

00:02:57 ◼   ► Yesi and so my burritos made it for me

00:03:00 ◼   ► likes it about number six or so I like

00:03:03 ◼   ► burritos a line this would include

00:03:05 ◼   ► places like Chipotle at that day I have

00:03:08 ◼   ► little Baja Fresh stuff like that you

00:03:10 ◼   ► know how fresh was so good yeah yeah

00:03:13 ◼   ► they still exist like in terrible

00:03:15 ◼   ► versions and rest stops but I haven't

00:03:16 ◼   ► actually are they really that fresh then

00:03:18 ◼   ► no they will they they they call

00:03:21 ◼   ► something different the ones in

00:03:22 ◼   ► restaurants are called Baja Fresh

00:03:23 ◼   ► Express or something like that it's a

00:03:25 ◼   ► variant on the name and I tried it once

00:03:28 ◼   ► I would not recommend that you know cuz

00:03:29 ◼   ► their whole thing was originally no can

00:03:32 ◼   ► openers no freezers right so everything

00:03:36 ◼   ► was pretty like yeah it was actually

00:03:37 ◼   ► fresh yeah yeah this this place was was

00:03:41 ◼   ► nothing like the the actual Baja Fresh

00:03:43 ◼   ► places were when I last had them in

00:03:45 ◼   ► Pittsburgh I used to prefer Baja Fresh

00:03:47 ◼   ► way over to pull a yeah it's so much

00:03:49 ◼   ► different and and Chipotle's good I've

00:03:52 ◼   ► we actually had one of the first

00:03:53 ◼   ► Chipotle's on my block growing up like

00:03:56 ◼   ► it opened up while I was still in high

00:03:57 ◼   ► school really well yeah it was it was

00:03:59 ◼   ► Columbus

00:04:00 ◼   ► yeah well because Columbus was a test

00:04:02 ◼   ► market city for a lots of things it's

00:04:03 ◼   ► very it's like it's like the most

00:04:04 ◼   ► average city in America and it's fairly

00:04:07 ◼   ► cheap to develop stuff in so generally

00:04:09 ◼   ► the big chains like Panera was was visit

00:04:12 ◼   ► was there that was the first time I ever

00:04:13 ◼   ► had Panera wasn't was in Ohio

00:04:16 ◼   ► exactly yeah generally chains they don't

00:04:19 ◼   ► they don't often originate in Columbus

00:04:21 ◼   ► but they usually hit Columbus pretty

00:04:23 ◼   ► close to the beginning of their

00:04:24 ◼   ► nationwide expansion for

00:04:27 ◼   ► for that reason anyway so I would say

00:04:28 ◼   ► burritos I like burritos but the reason

00:04:31 ◼   ► they didn't rank high for me was that

00:04:33 ◼   ► they just there just isn't that much

00:04:35 ◼   ► variety at most burrito places for

00:04:37 ◼   ► things that you would actually order

00:04:38 ◼   ► it's like generally you figure out the

00:04:40 ◼   ► one burrito that's your favorite and you

00:04:41 ◼   ► get that pretty much every time and you

00:04:43 ◼   ► really don't take it home do you it's

00:04:45 ◼   ► more of like a lunchtime office takeout

00:04:47 ◼   ► food if you know you're with a group of

00:04:49 ◼   ► people or you want something quick or

00:04:51 ◼   ► you're driving somewhere and you need to

00:04:54 ◼   ► stop I we take we get Chipotle home

00:04:57 ◼   ► because we never leave the house but

00:04:59 ◼   ► other than that I really don't it's not

00:05:02 ◼   ► like our dinner to take out kind of

00:05:05 ◼   ► foods

00:05:05 ◼   ► exactly so burritos for me are fairly

00:05:08 ◼   ► low in lists only only because not

00:05:11 ◼   ► because I don't like them but only

00:05:11 ◼   ► because I just tend to get the same one

00:05:13 ◼   ► every time and and it's it never really

00:05:15 ◼   ► blows me what I've never had a burrito

00:05:17 ◼   ► with you maybe with the exception of

00:05:19 ◼   ► Baja Fresh yeah ten years ago but

00:05:21 ◼   ► otherwise I mean I never get like a

00:05:23 ◼   ► really great Brittan like from the

00:05:24 ◼   ► places in California where everyone says

00:05:26 ◼   ► California burritos are incredible and

00:05:27 ◼   ► they're pretty good well you got to find

00:05:28 ◼   ► the really good places yeah I'm all

00:05:31 ◼   ► places in the city that's true yeah like

00:05:34 ◼   ► you got to find the good halal cart you

00:05:35 ◼   ► can't just get any halal cart because

00:05:37 ◼   ► it's not the same right exactly

00:05:39 ◼   ► alright so anyway I also had a whole

00:05:41 ◼   ► bunch of stuff on here that we don't

00:05:42 ◼   ► need to really go over ahead like the

00:05:44 ◼   ► whole Boston Market category you had

00:05:46 ◼   ► that on there I don't even write it down

00:05:48 ◼   ► that well just it's an option for like

00:05:51 ◼   ► dinner takeout it's like you know a

00:05:52 ◼   ► place either Boston Market or places

00:05:54 ◼   ► like Boston Market where it's like

00:05:55 ◼   ► chicken and side dishes and stuff that

00:05:58 ◼   ► you can pack up and take home the I

00:06:00 ◼   ► didn't rank that highly enough I enjoyed

00:06:03 ◼   ► please like that sometimes but it's not

00:06:04 ◼   ► just not high enough I also I just write

00:06:07 ◼   ► a lot of people get like KFC yeah like

00:06:09 ◼   ► bucket the chicken to take home and eat

00:06:11 ◼   ► yeah we don't do that

00:06:13 ◼   ► no we're not really well that's I would

00:06:14 ◼   ► classify that as really fast food like I

00:06:16 ◼   ► think Fried Chicken it's fast food

00:06:18 ◼   ► roasted chicken with fatty side dishes

00:06:20 ◼   ► for some reason doesn't feel like fast

00:06:22 ◼   ► food yeah but people don't really take

00:06:23 ◼   ► home McDonald's but people will take

00:06:26 ◼   ► home a bucket of chicken cuz they

00:06:27 ◼   ► advertise it as like a family dinner

00:06:29 ◼   ► that doesn't mean yeah I think it's

00:06:32 ◼   ► often times one person even that bucket

00:06:33 ◼   ► just kind of said anyway I also put

00:06:36 ◼   ► burgers down kind of low on a list and

00:06:38 ◼   ► again similar reason to bar

00:06:40 ◼   ► I mean two burritos not because I don't

00:06:44 ◼   ► like burgers but because it's kind of

00:06:46 ◼   ► like a one-hit wonder you know like you

00:06:49 ◼   ► get a good burger somewhere and yeah you

00:06:50 ◼   ► can change up the toppings here there

00:06:51 ◼   ► but like the variety possible isn't that

00:06:53 ◼   ► wide and you never come away from it

00:06:56 ◼   ► saying like this is an amazing burger or

00:06:58 ◼   ► the best burger I've ever had it's

00:06:59 ◼   ► always like yeah this is pretty good

00:07:00 ◼   ► yeah it's never good places that are

00:07:03 ◼   ► specifically burger places like or if

00:07:06 ◼   ► they're a restaurant that happened to

00:07:07 ◼   ► specialize in burgers like we used to

00:07:08 ◼   ► have a restaurant in town that

00:07:10 ◼   ► specialized in burgers that we would get

00:07:12 ◼   ► takeout from but I think those are

00:07:15 ◼   ► different and a little bit higher class

00:07:17 ◼   ► status wise in the takeout food chain to

00:07:20 ◼   ► the fast food burger but yeah they don't

00:07:24 ◼   ► make the list for me either

00:07:25 ◼   ► yeah I think they try to be special but

00:07:27 ◼   ► they aren't always hmm well you got it

00:07:30 ◼   ► cooking a burger as we know from

00:07:32 ◼   ► watching Top Chef is actually kind of

00:07:34 ◼   ► hard to do because you have to get the

00:07:35 ◼   ► ratios right you have to get like the

00:07:37 ◼   ► flavors right you can't just kind of

00:07:39 ◼   ► slap anything on there and hope it's

00:07:40 ◼   ► good because it doesn't work exactly all

00:07:43 ◼   ► right so anyway moving up the list now

00:07:45 ◼   ► so let's see I had oh I want to I want

00:07:48 ◼   ► to mention the red menu Chinese places

00:07:52 ◼   ► it's not on my list not at all but it

00:07:56 ◼   ► used to be I guess because I grew up

00:07:58 ◼   ► with getting really good read menu

00:08:00 ◼   ► Chinese restaurant places on Saturday

00:08:02 ◼   ► nights with my family and then we'd

00:08:03 ◼   ► watch a movie so but that was a

00:08:05 ◼   ► particularly very very good place that

00:08:08 ◼   ► we went to and all of them since then

00:08:09 ◼   ► have just been like salt attacks yeah

00:08:13 ◼   ► those are those are also highly variable

00:08:15 ◼   ► in quality yeah but I would say like the

00:08:18 ◼   ► the ceiling of quality from those the

00:08:20 ◼   ► best they can possibly get isn't that

00:08:22 ◼   ► great like it's it's decent it's like

00:08:24 ◼   ► it's like a good burger place it's like

00:08:25 ◼   ► most great burger place is like the best

00:08:27 ◼   ► you can get from a good burger place

00:08:28 ◼   ► usually is decent pretty good you know

00:08:30 ◼   ► but it doesn't like blow your mind how

00:08:32 ◼   ► good it is and those type of places you

00:08:33 ◼   ► really can't even judge the place where

00:08:35 ◼   ► you go to get the takeout from because

00:08:37 ◼   ► it could be like the grossest looking

00:08:39 ◼   ► place and end up being good food oh yeah

00:08:41 ◼   ► remember that one in where did you live

00:08:46 ◼   ► Pittsburgh Pittsburgh

00:08:47 ◼   ► yeah where that it was like that dirty

00:08:49 ◼   ► little hole where that guy was just like

00:08:50 ◼   ► sweating over that huge guy really good

00:08:53 ◼   ► yeah it was so good yeah it was like and

00:08:56 ◼   ► you get out of there for like six bucks

00:08:57 ◼   ► and have no idea how it's even possible

00:08:58 ◼   ► to get the amount of food you got for

00:09:00 ◼   ► six bucks and it just but it's just one

00:09:02 ◼   ► guy in like the tiniest closet ever of a

00:09:05 ◼   ► room with no tables just like one guy

00:09:08 ◼   ► behind a counter with a giant wok and it

00:09:10 ◼   ► was good it was good yeah yeah so well

00:09:13 ◼   ► it wasn't that good it was really cheap

00:09:15 ◼   ► it wasn't it was remarkable for its

00:09:19 ◼   ► cuteness not as good as anyway yeah

00:09:20 ◼   ► maybe it wasn't that good yeah it was it

00:09:24 ◼   ► was yeah remarkable but not good I was

00:09:26 ◼   ► drugged so anyway I would say moving up

00:09:30 ◼   ► the list now into my top four my number

00:09:33 ◼   ► 4 is Indian food oh that's your number 4

00:09:38 ◼   ► yeah Wow

00:09:39 ◼   ► yeah so it's it's not that it's my

00:09:42 ◼   ► fourth least favorite taste necessarily

00:09:46 ◼   ► it's it's about all overall factors and

00:09:49 ◼   ► and as I move up you'll probably figure

00:09:50 ◼   ► out why but for me it's so Indian food

00:09:53 ◼   ► first of all it is the best if you're

00:09:56 ◼   ► going for some kind of shared or buffet

00:09:59 ◼   ► situation where if you have a bunch of

00:10:01 ◼   ► people and and I know I know Indian food

00:10:04 ◼   ► in reality is a very very large category

00:10:06 ◼   ► I'm referring to like this stuff you get

00:10:08 ◼   ► at an American Indian restaurant like

00:10:10 ◼   ► it's you know it's gonna obviously be

00:10:12 ◼   ► I'm pretty sure British Indian

00:10:14 ◼   ► restaurants are the same but way better

00:10:16 ◼   ► from like the two I went to I can say

00:10:20 ◼   ► that's probably sounds about right but

00:10:21 ◼   ► they're the same they have all the same

00:10:23 ◼   ► dishes but they're just a lot better

00:10:25 ◼   ► yeah but there's like there's like

00:10:27 ◼   ► different like different regions of

00:10:28 ◼   ► India like northern Indians of the

00:10:29 ◼   ► versus oh that southern Indian food and

00:10:31 ◼   ► what we usually have is only one of them

00:10:33 ◼   ► and I forget which one unfortunately but

00:10:36 ◼   ► anyway so I'm talking about you know the

00:10:39 ◼   ► kind of like Indian food with the with

00:10:41 ◼   ► the thick sweet curries and you know

00:10:43 ◼   ► that use a lot of like the clarified

00:10:45 ◼   ► butter and cream curries and everything

00:10:47 ◼   ► that's that's the kind of things I'm

00:10:48 ◼   ► referring to that's what we usually end

00:10:50 ◼   ► up getting talking about what we usually

00:10:52 ◼   ► order because Indian food is on my list

00:10:54 ◼   ► but much higher than it is on yours okay

00:10:56 ◼   ► that's fair but I don't know I could I

00:10:59 ◼   ► could change cuz I panic in the middle

00:11:01 ◼   ► of list making once we start talking

00:11:03 ◼   ► about it but we just talked about when

00:11:05 ◼   ► we order Indian food we order what we

00:11:07 ◼   ► like

00:11:07 ◼   ► call the traffic light which is a red

00:11:10 ◼   ► yellow and green curry yes Chenoa

00:11:14 ◼   ► chicken tikka masala saag paneer and

00:11:16 ◼   ► malai kofta yeah and those are is the

00:11:18 ◼   ► trifecta of delicious oh definitely all

00:11:21 ◼   ► of them together

00:11:22 ◼   ► well no you don't mix them together be

00:11:25 ◼   ► like there on your each other on the

00:11:26 ◼   ► plate you know you scoop with the naan

00:11:28 ◼   ► oh it's so good yeah

00:11:30 ◼   ► my strategy for Indian food is rice or

00:11:34 ◼   ► naan pick only one yeah you can't do

00:11:36 ◼   ► both

00:11:37 ◼   ► yeah and you have a good mango lassi

00:11:39 ◼   ► with that really fills you up

00:11:40 ◼   ► super good I love when the places have

00:11:43 ◼   ► the rice with the peas in it right peas

00:11:46 ◼   ► in the rice they do it at some of them

00:11:48 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's really good or sliced

00:11:50 ◼   ► umm what do they put all that sliced

00:11:52 ◼   ► almonds on and yeah yeah a little raisin

00:11:55 ◼   ► sometimes I'm getting hungry yeah all

00:11:57 ◼   ► right so so I I love Indian food but one

00:12:02 ◼   ► thing about that that I think is

00:12:03 ◼   ► interesting is that at least for our

00:12:05 ◼   ► purposes it kind of has this feeling of

00:12:07 ◼   ► being like a special thing rather than

00:12:10 ◼   ► an everyday thing like you can get

00:12:12 ◼   ► something like pizza every day for like

00:12:14 ◼   ► you know three or four days straight and

00:12:17 ◼   ► kinda not think about it or or doesn't

00:12:19 ◼   ► seem that weird

00:12:20 ◼   ► whereas Indian food you feel it feels

00:12:23 ◼   ► like an extravagance for some reason and

00:12:25 ◼   ► and so it kind of feels like you can

00:12:27 ◼   ► only do it maybe once a week at most and

00:12:28 ◼   ► generally even less than that maybe once

00:12:30 ◼   ► every two or three weeks

00:12:31 ◼   ► yeah and it's better when company comes

00:12:33 ◼   ► over because like you said it's it's the

00:12:35 ◼   ► dishes come in like a large portion the

00:12:37 ◼   ► way we like to order and when people who

00:12:40 ◼   ► we normally don't eat Indian food with

00:12:42 ◼   ► come and they have their own favorite

00:12:44 ◼   ► dishes it's really great to try

00:12:45 ◼   ► everyone's favorite dish without having

00:12:47 ◼   ► to be committed to something that you

00:12:49 ◼   ► know you wouldn't necessarily you might

00:12:51 ◼   ► not end up liking but I mean everything

00:12:53 ◼   ► I've had Indian food wise I have liked

00:12:55 ◼   ► so that's not really a problem

00:12:57 ◼   ► you still want my lentils well that's

00:12:59 ◼   ► because there are lentils I mean they're

00:13:01 ◼   ► delicious anyway so that's that's why

00:13:06 ◼   ► Indian was number four for me it's that

00:13:08 ◼   ► it's like it is kind of restricted to

00:13:11 ◼   ► like special occasion status it's also

00:13:14 ◼   ► it's not incredibly hard to find good

00:13:17 ◼   ► Indian food but it's not that easy

00:13:19 ◼   ► either there are a lot of places in

00:13:21 ◼   ► good Indian food just simply isn't

00:13:23 ◼   ► available really every place I've lived

00:13:25 ◼   ► - that good Indian food

00:13:27 ◼   ► well maybe not Cortland you never lived

00:13:28 ◼   ► in the Midwest no I haven't except for

00:13:33 ◼   ► in college but that's not really that

00:13:34 ◼   ► far up I didn't even know Indian food

00:13:36 ◼   ► about Indian food when we were in

00:13:38 ◼   ► college right right so good thing

00:13:40 ◼   ► because we would have been really

00:13:41 ◼   ► miserable where we were anyway so that's

00:13:45 ◼   ► my number for at least we had 10 cent

00:13:46 ◼   ► wings my number four I have as Greek

00:13:49 ◼   ► food oh I forgot about Greek that's

00:13:52 ◼   ► interesting okay yeah I love good Greek

00:13:54 ◼   ► food I like this is gonna be so

00:13:57 ◼   ► embarrassed in a Greek restaurant when I

00:13:59 ◼   ► was in high school and early college or

00:14:02 ◼   ► maybe just early college can't remember

00:14:04 ◼   ► but I remember just early college early

00:14:05 ◼   ► college okay thanks you're the best for

00:14:08 ◼   ► multiple summers I worked at a Greek

00:14:10 ◼   ► restaurant and I am still embarrassed

00:14:12 ◼   ► about saying the word gyro

00:14:15 ◼   ► in a greekish way I don't know I just

00:14:19 ◼   ► feel silly

00:14:20 ◼   ► sorry saying gyro but I don't know it

00:14:22 ◼   ► sounds it I feel silly even though I

00:14:25 ◼   ► know that's really the right way to do

00:14:26 ◼   ► it

00:14:26 ◼   ► this is a debate there's there's

00:14:28 ◼   ► arguments on both sides of how it should

00:14:30 ◼   ► be said when two Americans are talking

00:14:32 ◼   ► to each other and other Americans about

00:14:33 ◼   ► it you should say zero it's kind of like

00:14:36 ◼   ► a combo of both so that way you offend

00:14:38 ◼   ► everybody yes well yeah I guess if

00:14:41 ◼   ► you're gonna be you can be an equal

00:14:42 ◼   ► opportunity offender you can offend

00:14:44 ◼   ► everybody equally that makes sense okay

00:14:46 ◼   ► so so Jiro what was that it what how do

00:14:49 ◼   ► you really say how do you just say my

00:14:52 ◼   ► fake way yeah zero okay so getting these

00:14:55 ◼   ► zero no they're so good I know I like

00:15:00 ◼   ► well you know actually an actual gyro

00:15:02 ◼   ► however we're gonna say it an actual

00:15:04 ◼   ► gyro I always like the idea of it better

00:15:08 ◼   ► than the actual practice of it I much

00:15:10 ◼   ► prefer a gyro salad to a gyro in a PITA

00:15:13 ◼   ► for two reasons first of all you know

00:15:15 ◼   ► pitas are delicious but they're also

00:15:17 ◼   ► giant and very filling and very calorie

00:15:20 ◼   ► dense and so I I'm kind of not that into

00:15:23 ◼   ► that and but the the permit the primary

00:15:25 ◼   ► reason why I prefer the salad first of

00:15:27 ◼   ► all the the sandwich version of it is

00:15:30 ◼   ► usually very very poorly mixed so you

00:15:32 ◼   ► have like one bite that's all

00:15:34 ◼   ► one ingredient she like one bite it's

00:15:36 ◼   ► all lettuce one bite it's all meat

00:15:38 ◼   ► because like they're just they're not

00:15:39 ◼   ► they're layered rather than blended and

00:15:41 ◼   ► then put in so it's it's not easy to get

00:15:44 ◼   ► a good blend of flavors and then

00:15:46 ◼   ► secondarily the salad is way cleaner to

00:15:50 ◼   ► eat which is usually the opposite but in

00:15:52 ◼   ► this case like eating a gyro sandwich

00:15:54 ◼   ► the whole thing like stuff is falling

00:15:56 ◼   ► out of it you're getting the the grease

00:15:58 ◼   ► from the meat and possibly the dressing

00:16:00 ◼   ► all over your back hand is holding up

00:16:02 ◼   ► the back of it like it just is creepy

00:16:05 ◼   ► it's not that greasy because all the

00:16:06 ◼   ► it's because it's it's cooked on a spit

00:16:08 ◼   ► so all the rips down off of it and then

00:16:11 ◼   ► they shave it so you're not left with

00:16:14 ◼   ► like a greasy pile of meat so maybe it

00:16:17 ◼   ► maybe maybe the stuff that coats the

00:16:18 ◼   ► back hand is just like you know tomato

00:16:19 ◼   ► water and it's all the water from the I

00:16:24 ◼   ► don't want to say the wrong one to Zeki

00:16:26 ◼   ► sauce yeah yeah yeah so so you get a

00:16:29 ◼   ► good Greek restaurant with a good 2zq

00:16:31 ◼   ► sauce cuz if you don't have a good

00:16:33 ◼   ► flavorful 2zq sauce that's it's over but

00:16:35 ◼   ► I mean come on there's so many great

00:16:37 ◼   ► things in Greek food and you totally

00:16:38 ◼   ► took my thunder and trying to describe

00:16:40 ◼   ► the whole salad thing because we order

00:16:43 ◼   ► gyro meat on top of a Greek salad which

00:16:46 ◼   ► is wonderful and also you can control

00:16:48 ◼   ► your portions with how much goes into

00:16:49 ◼   ► the pita like you can scoop and I also

00:16:51 ◼   ► like getting the Greek dressing and all

00:16:54 ◼   ► the other Greek all the other vegetables

00:16:56 ◼   ► that are in a Greek salad combined with

00:16:58 ◼   ► the gyre with the gyro me in like a

00:17:00 ◼   ► little tiny like bites of pita uh yeah

00:17:03 ◼   ► that's just great yeah it's so much

00:17:04 ◼   ► better than an actual taro sandwich but

00:17:07 ◼   ► I mean that's like the gateway drug to

00:17:09 ◼   ► Greek food right yeah totally

00:17:11 ◼   ► it's that baklava and spanakopita which

00:17:15 ◼   ► is the spinach pie I also maybe hummus

00:17:18 ◼   ► and stuff but

00:17:18 ◼   ► Oh Bahamas so and chickpea like you know

00:17:20 ◼   ► marinated chickpeas and things but

00:17:22 ◼   ► that's you know that's a lot now

00:17:23 ◼   ► everybody has something yeah everyone

00:17:24 ◼   ► has that kind of stuff and I've got

00:17:26 ◼   ► lemon Oh soup if you haven't tried this

00:17:28 ◼   ► you really should it's chicken lemon and

00:17:31 ◼   ► rice in its like an egg base maybe oh

00:17:36 ◼   ► I've never watched them make it at the

00:17:38 ◼   ► restaurant I went to that IO that I

00:17:40 ◼   ► worked at I mean it looks like there's

00:17:42 ◼   ► something there's something like foggy

00:17:44 ◼   ► that's not free well it could be the

00:17:45 ◼   ► rice that they cans it up maybe

00:17:47 ◼   ► anyway yeah it's delicious I was always

00:17:49 ◼   ► a skeptic you got it forever and I and I

00:17:51 ◼   ► didn't it's very lemony and very

00:17:52 ◼   ► delicious and now Marco loves it

00:17:54 ◼   ► yep you converted me on the algal amino

00:17:57 ◼   ► soup and there's also this wonderful

00:17:59 ◼   ► dessert that my brother really can't

00:18:01 ◼   ► pronounce ever and it's really kind of

00:18:03 ◼   ► fun to say

00:18:04 ◼   ► it's a Gattaca boutique oh oh it's like

00:18:07 ◼   ► a custard with phyllo dough kind of

00:18:09 ◼   ► fluffy flakiness to it with drizzled

00:18:12 ◼   ► with honey sauce that's also a really

00:18:13 ◼   ► good dessert yeah there's a lot a lot of

00:18:16 ◼   ► good things that Greek restaurants and a

00:18:18 ◼   ► lot of great unpronounceable things it's

00:18:20 ◼   ► all delicious and a lot of it's very

00:18:23 ◼   ► vegetable and meat you like you don't

00:18:26 ◼   ► have to do a lot of car B starches and

00:18:28 ◼   ► the cheese is only you know some crumbly

00:18:30 ◼   ► feta here and there so it's not so true

00:18:32 ◼   ► yeah if you're eight here's Ryan I go

00:18:34 ◼   ► like paleo and stuff I you'd probably

00:18:36 ◼   ► have an easier time there than many of

00:18:38 ◼   ► these types of places oh yeah you

00:18:39 ◼   ► definitely would and the yogurts just

00:18:41 ◼   ► you know the your the sauces is a it's a

00:18:43 ◼   ► mild yogurt so right and you know that

00:18:46 ◼   ► dairy heavy and you could always leave

00:18:48 ◼   ► that sauce off you know you don't have

00:18:50 ◼   ► to go you don't have to coder on Greek

00:18:52 ◼   ► dressing to is vinegar it's oil and

00:18:54 ◼   ► vinegar base so yeah it's great and

00:18:57 ◼   ► Greek is easy to take out it's easy to

00:19:00 ◼   ► have at home if you're gonna transport

00:19:02 ◼   ► take it out take it out a lot of places

00:19:06 ◼   ► have Greek takeout right don't they

00:19:07 ◼   ► isn't it like a thing I have my there's

00:19:10 ◼   ► like a Greek restaurant thing at other

00:19:13 ◼   ► places I don't know

00:19:15 ◼   ► I have diners but those don't count do

00:19:17 ◼   ► not count Greek diners as Greek food no

00:19:20 ◼   ► there and greet diners are a respectable

00:19:22 ◼   ► food choice in many conditions but it's

00:19:24 ◼   ► not the same thing as a proper Greek

00:19:25 ◼   ► restaurant or Greek takeout place

00:19:27 ◼   ► yes yeah alright so moving on what's

00:19:31 ◼   ► your oh do you want to do your number

00:19:32 ◼   ► three my number three on how you want to

00:19:33 ◼   ► do this okay so we both did our number

00:19:35 ◼   ► four so my number three is Thai food

00:19:38 ◼   ► interesting but I might be able to I we

00:19:42 ◼   ► haven't had tired a lot recently and now

00:19:44 ◼   ► because we are trying to do less carbs

00:19:47 ◼   ► and stuff that's why I think it moved

00:19:49 ◼   ► down my list from Indians my number two

00:19:51 ◼   ► right now and so I I moved Thai even

00:19:55 ◼   ► though I prefer the flavors and things

00:19:57 ◼   ► in Thai food so like it's a lot of times

00:20:00 ◼   ► it's our date night we

00:20:01 ◼   ► we get time especially we go to a good

00:20:03 ◼   ► Thai place that's a little bit further

00:20:05 ◼   ► than we would like it to be it's like a

00:20:07 ◼   ► half hour away it's a little bit further

00:20:08 ◼   ► than we would like it to be it's totally

00:20:11 ◼   ► worth the drive because they're at we've

00:20:12 ◼   ► looked and as far as we have been able

00:20:14 ◼   ► to find there is not a better one closer

00:20:17 ◼   ► than that but bad Thai is real bad so

00:20:20 ◼   ► here actually is really good

00:20:22 ◼   ► I have Thai as my number two see I

00:20:24 ◼   ► thought you would yeah so but that's

00:20:27 ◼   ► that's what I'm explaining why it didn't

00:20:28 ◼   ► make my number two is because right now

00:20:30 ◼   ► I'm hesitant about it because of how

00:20:32 ◼   ► carbee it is and I'm trying to do a lot

00:20:37 ◼   ► less carbs and sugar and dairy and all

00:20:39 ◼   ► that stuff

00:20:40 ◼   ► I mean staying within let the general

00:20:42 ◼   ► very broad category of Asian cuisine

00:20:45 ◼   ► it's pretty good to minimize dairy and

00:20:48 ◼   ► so then then the issue becomes carbs and

00:20:50 ◼   ► you know hands and sugar stuff and salt

00:20:52 ◼   ► and how you want to do those things but

00:20:53 ◼   ► I would say I mean the things we usually

00:20:56 ◼   ► get from Thai restaurants are usually

00:20:59 ◼   ► have rice or noodles

00:21:01 ◼   ► what they have many other options that

00:21:03 ◼   ► don't so you have options there anyway

00:21:05 ◼   ► but I agree with what you said a minute

00:21:06 ◼   ► ago which is one of the issues Thai

00:21:08 ◼   ► faces which is it's incredibly variable

00:21:11 ◼   ► in quality between between places you

00:21:13 ◼   ► know like certain kinds of things like

00:21:16 ◼   ► you know like burritos I mentioned

00:21:18 ◼   ► earlier like the range that you that you

00:21:20 ◼   ► generally find in the world of bad or

00:21:23 ◼   ► mediocre burritos - great burritos in my

00:21:26 ◼   ► opinion that range is fairly compressed

00:21:28 ◼   ► relative to other types you know it's

00:21:29 ◼   ► not it's not that huge of a range with

00:21:33 ◼   ► Thai food I think the range is very big

00:21:35 ◼   ► and the good thing is bad Thai food

00:21:37 ◼   ► doesn't taste bad it usually is bland

00:21:40 ◼   ► yeah I also don't like when Thai food

00:21:42 ◼   ► when they get too nutty when they start

00:21:44 ◼   ► throwing lots of nuts all over the place

00:21:45 ◼   ► oh no it's well if they're cashews

00:21:47 ◼   ► that's or peanuts that's perfectly

00:21:48 ◼   ► cashews are fine I don't like when they

00:21:50 ◼   ► throw the peanuts around i I don't well

00:21:52 ◼   ► I don't order pad thai I don't like red

00:21:55 ◼   ► Thai most people when they think Thai

00:21:57 ◼   ► food think pad thai that isn't all that

00:21:59 ◼   ► that's out there I'm a Tom Kha gai soup

00:22:02 ◼   ► person it's like a lime unlike all these

00:22:06 ◼   ► soups yeah it's like a lime coconut e

00:22:10 ◼   ► chicken soup that's delicious and I'm

00:22:14 ◼   ► also a

00:22:15 ◼   ► you had chemo noodles yeah pad chemo but

00:22:18 ◼   ► that's also different everywhere like

00:22:20 ◼   ► they used for noodles I like the really

00:22:22 ◼   ► wide almost translucent goopy noodles I

00:22:25 ◼   ► don't know what they are I'm really

00:22:27 ◼   ► sorry

00:22:27 ◼   ► that's offensive I'm so sorry I really

00:22:30 ◼   ► think it's delicious I just don't know

00:22:31 ◼   ► what they're called yeah we

00:22:33 ◼   ► unfortunately are extremely uneducated

00:22:34 ◼   ► in most of these non American food and

00:22:38 ◼   ► we also like a basil fried rice and we

00:22:40 ◼   ► like pineapple fried rice and and all

00:22:43 ◼   ► the curries that they have there which

00:22:44 ◼   ► are very different than Indian curries

00:22:46 ◼   ► for anybody who doesn't get these type

00:22:48 ◼   ► of takeout foods and you are interested

00:22:50 ◼   ► in trying if you try one it does not

00:22:53 ◼   ► taste anything like the other so if you

00:22:55 ◼   ► don't like one at that you know try the

00:22:57 ◼   ► other anyway because they're gonna be

00:22:58 ◼   ► completely different right like if you

00:23:00 ◼   ► don't like Indian curry or if you don't

00:23:02 ◼   ► like curry powder then you know that

00:23:05 ◼   ► doesn't mean you won't like Thai curry

00:23:06 ◼   ► like these are all all three of those

00:23:08 ◼   ► things are very different yes you know

00:23:11 ◼   ► like chicken coated and curry powder has

00:23:13 ◼   ► a very different flavor from Indian

00:23:14 ◼   ► curry which has varied in flavor flavor

00:23:16 ◼   ► and texture from Thai curry so yeah very

00:23:18 ◼   ► different foods they could share one

00:23:20 ◼   ► word so if we inspire anybody to go out

00:23:22 ◼   ► and try new foods that you haven't tried

00:23:24 ◼   ► before

00:23:25 ◼   ► go forth and try yes boldly yes but I

00:23:29 ◼   ► would say for me Thai food I would say

00:23:34 ◼   ► that the when it's good that it is the

00:23:38 ◼   ► best for me it is my number one for for

00:23:40 ◼   ► taste when it is good Thai food that's

00:23:43 ◼   ► true a good crunchy spring roll or a

00:23:45 ◼   ► good curry

00:23:46 ◼   ► fantastic red curry I mean come on oh

00:23:48 ◼   ► yes red curry you're convincing me and

00:23:53 ◼   ► fried rice hi iced tea I like a fast

00:23:56 ◼   ► food with its own drink as well that

00:23:58 ◼   ► really sells me because Indian food has

00:24:00 ◼   ► a delicious mango lassi and Thai food

00:24:03 ◼   ► has a Thai iced tea Thai iced teas are

00:24:05 ◼   ► one of those things that you try it the

00:24:07 ◼   ► first time because you're like oh this

00:24:08 ◼   ► is interesting what is this Thai I see

00:24:10 ◼   ► you try it and you're like I don't think

00:24:14 ◼   ► I don't like it I'm not weird sure if I

00:24:18 ◼   ► I don't know if I like this and then you

00:24:20 ◼   ► take another sip of it you're like I'm

00:24:22 ◼   ► still not sure I like this and then you

00:24:23 ◼   ► finish the whole thing and you're still

00:24:25 ◼   ► not quite sure you you like it and then

00:24:27 ◼   ► the next time you can

00:24:29 ◼   ► not order another one and you're like oh

00:24:31 ◼   ► this is my favorite drink like it just

00:24:33 ◼   ► that's everyone that I've talked to you

00:24:35 ◼   ► has had that transition when it comes to

00:24:37 ◼   ► Thai iced tea because it's so delicious

00:24:39 ◼   ► after you've had it like a full one and

00:24:43 ◼   ► decided it was delicious

00:24:45 ◼   ► I've never met anyone that took one sip

00:24:47 ◼   ► of Thai iced tea and was like this is

00:24:49 ◼   ► amazing it was like I'm not sure I like

00:24:51 ◼   ► this I've also never had anybody take

00:24:53 ◼   ► one sip and say I hate this and I don't

00:24:55 ◼   ► want any others and like I don't want

00:24:56 ◼   ► any more you know you just it you take a

00:24:58 ◼   ► little thing you're like after a while

00:25:00 ◼   ► the aftertaste makes you want to drink

00:25:01 ◼   ► more sounds like it's there pretty

00:25:04 ◼   ► strong in in dairy and sugar so you know

00:25:08 ◼   ► you can put a lot of dairy and sugar and

00:25:10 ◼   ► pretty much any flavor and most people

00:25:12 ◼   ► will like that flavor

00:25:13 ◼   ► okay I'm going back diet restrictions

00:25:15 ◼   ► aside I'm moving Thai up to my number to

00:25:18 ◼   ► an Indian down all right so you have

00:25:21 ◼   ► some coherence now yeah ooh I might even

00:25:23 ◼   ► you know float up to number one cuz I do

00:25:26 ◼   ► like I do like a takeout with a drink

00:25:28 ◼   ► see but but might what's keeping it from

00:25:30 ◼   ► number one for me is what I said earlier

00:25:31 ◼   ► that you know the the quality range is

00:25:34 ◼   ► huge well and you can't have it all the

00:25:36 ◼   ► time and exactly so I have that here too

00:25:38 ◼   ► it's the same thing I said it about

00:25:39 ◼   ► Indian food which is like it doesn't

00:25:41 ◼   ► feel right for some reason to have Thai

00:25:44 ◼   ► food every day even though yeah that's

00:25:46 ◼   ► my theme is in the richness of it it I

00:25:48 ◼   ► know but I don't think there's any

00:25:50 ◼   ► logical basis for that that's just how I

00:25:51 ◼   ► feel like it just seems like Thai and

00:25:53 ◼   ► Indian are like these special things for

00:25:55 ◼   ► some reason and that is that makes no

00:25:58 ◼   ► sense like logical it makes no sense

00:25:59 ◼   ► there's no reason why those should be

00:26:01 ◼   ► special occasion of foods and something

00:26:03 ◼   ► like pizza shouldn't be there there's no

00:26:05 ◼   ► reason for that but for some reason

00:26:06 ◼   ► that's how it feels

00:26:07 ◼   ► well if we had like a good agent fusion

00:26:09 ◼   ► kind of place around I would eat like a

00:26:11 ◼   ► variety of different Asian cuisines like

00:26:13 ◼   ► every day if I you know I could I'd not

00:26:17 ◼   ► sushi though sorry all you sushi people

00:26:19 ◼   ► and yes we have had good sushi everyone

00:26:22 ◼   ► says well you haven't had good sushi so

00:26:24 ◼   ► that's why you don't like sushi I like

00:26:26 ◼   ► fish I am a seafood eater and I do not

00:26:28 ◼   ► care for sushi there's just a flavor in

00:26:31 ◼   ► it that I just don't care for it's just

00:26:33 ◼   ► not it's not my thing but almost every

00:26:36 ◼   ► other Asian cuisine I think we are are

00:26:39 ◼   ► pretty into yeah we're into many of them

00:26:41 ◼   ► but yeah we neither of us like sushi so

00:26:43 ◼   ► sorry sushi people we yeah really say

00:26:45 ◼   ► anything more about it cuz I'm sorry

00:26:46 ◼   ► yeah Japanese and sushi in general I I

00:26:50 ◼   ► have a tough time with unless I do like

00:26:52 ◼   ► ramen now yeah is ramen classified as

00:26:55 ◼   ► Japanese cuisine neither of us know

00:26:58 ◼   ► anything about Japanese cuisine however

00:27:00 ◼   ► I'm pretty sure it is it is well I like

00:27:02 ◼   ► a very specific type of ramen and it's

00:27:04 ◼   ► delicious

00:27:04 ◼   ► and you asked for half the ingredients

00:27:06 ◼   ► to be removed yeah and some other ones

00:27:08 ◼   ► Oden I like the bok choy yeah I don't

00:27:11 ◼   ► like the fish cake fair enough okay

00:27:13 ◼   ► and so my number 3 which I skipped over

00:27:18 ◼   ► because we because of our order here my

00:27:20 ◼   ► number 3 is pizza

00:27:21 ◼   ► oh no I'm curious what your number 1 is

00:27:24 ◼   ► so don't throw in a creepy lunch food

00:27:27 ◼   ► you are the means I know I see your

00:27:30 ◼   ► smile I see your smirk I keep I can veto

00:27:33 ◼   ► ahh I honestly don't know you mean but

00:27:35 ◼   ► anyway number it so number 4 is Indian

00:27:37 ◼   ► number 3 is pizza number 2 is Thai so

00:27:39 ◼   ► why is Pizza number 3 for me it with a

00:27:45 ◼   ► good thing about pizza is that it does

00:27:47 ◼   ► feel acceptable to have you know

00:27:49 ◼   ► multiple times a week and and so it's it

00:27:52 ◼   ► feels acceptable of you to have multiple

00:27:54 ◼   ► times yeah I have pizza guilt when we

00:27:56 ◼   ► accidentally don't remember to cook or

00:27:58 ◼   ► make meals or anything we have to go get

00:28:00 ◼   ► pizza it's fine I feel so guilty

00:28:03 ◼   ► there's so and pizza also there's

00:28:06 ◼   ► there's a lot of variety at a pizza

00:28:09 ◼   ► place

00:28:09 ◼   ► but within a like a pizza place usually

00:28:12 ◼   ► has a relatively small number of forms

00:28:16 ◼   ► that this that the stuff can take that

00:28:18 ◼   ► you get but what is in or on those

00:28:21 ◼   ► things can be highly variable so it's

00:28:23 ◼   ► like first we need to say we are very

00:28:25 ◼   ► lucky where we live because we are

00:28:27 ◼   ► surrounded by amazing amazing pizza and

00:28:29 ◼   ► even our worst pizza is better than most

00:28:31 ◼   ► people's best pizza that is true so we

00:28:35 ◼   ► have exceptional pizza in our area that

00:28:37 ◼   ► it can make our list as high as it is

00:28:40 ◼   ► because I believe my pizza I have right

00:28:42 ◼   ► now at number one even though I totally

00:28:45 ◼   ► always feel guilty about eating it but

00:28:48 ◼   ► we need to talk about something about

00:28:51 ◼   ► pizza it's not just Italian food we're

00:28:53 ◼   ► talking about pizza right

00:28:55 ◼   ► because there's also calzone restaurants

00:28:58 ◼   ► around here that like are they also sell

00:29:00 ◼   ► pizza but there are places that are way

00:29:02 ◼   ► better at calzones which are very

00:29:04 ◼   ► different that's like a separate thing

00:29:06 ◼   ► like like like I know the food like

00:29:08 ◼   ► there are separate calzone restaurants

00:29:10 ◼   ► well the calzone places will often sell

00:29:13 ◼   ► pizza also but there are placed pizza

00:29:15 ◼   ► places that are better at calzone than

00:29:17 ◼   ► they are a pizza okay I guess that makes

00:29:19 ◼   ► I feel like you don't go to the same

00:29:21 ◼   ► pizza place if you want a calzone or if

00:29:23 ◼   ► you that you is you know the same place

00:29:25 ◼   ► that you want I'm saying that's wrong

00:29:28 ◼   ► you don't go to the same place where you

00:29:31 ◼   ► get your best pizza and your best

00:29:33 ◼   ► calzone they're usually two different

00:29:34 ◼   ► places that's interesting okay does

00:29:38 ◼   ► anybody ever actually want a calzone oh

00:29:40 ◼   ► yeah when you find a good place you

00:29:42 ◼   ► really want a calzone and we had it yeah

00:29:45 ◼   ► remember I brought you the satellite

00:29:46 ◼   ► Pizza Island yeah I don't know to me

00:29:49 ◼   ► like I always they made a damn good

00:29:50 ◼   ► calzone it was amazing

00:29:52 ◼   ► a seat to me I think it's easier to make

00:29:55 ◼   ► a good calzone than to make a good pizza

00:29:57 ◼   ► no no no because you got to get the

00:29:59 ◼   ► ratio right inside you have to get the

00:30:01 ◼   ► fluffiness level you can't have the

00:30:02 ◼   ► dough too thick you have to have a

00:30:04 ◼   ► really good marinara to like pour on the

00:30:06 ◼   ► top and you it just has to have the

00:30:09 ◼   ► right ratio of I'm gonna say this weird

00:30:12 ◼   ► deal with it the mozzarella - the

00:30:15 ◼   ► ricotta it has to be a good ratio inside

00:30:19 ◼   ► with the filling and it has to be like

00:30:21 ◼   ► salted the right way it can't be like a

00:30:23 ◼   ► shredded cheese that there that's put in

00:30:26 ◼   ► there you can't cheap out like there's a

00:30:27 ◼   ► lot and and it can't be burnt you know

00:30:30 ◼   ► and it has to be a little bit bubbly

00:30:31 ◼   ► it's amazing and the good calzone places

00:30:34 ◼   ► always have the best that police okay

00:30:37 ◼   ► cuz that sort of thing that's it's well

00:30:40 ◼   ► because they use the same dough it's the

00:30:42 ◼   ► same dog that wraps the filling of the

00:30:44 ◼   ► cow like that wraps the calzones as it

00:30:46 ◼   ► is to make the zeppoles does that please

00:30:47 ◼   ► just don't have any filling and they're

00:30:49 ◼   ► coated in powdered sugar coz I mean

00:30:51 ◼   ► every culture has their fried dough

00:30:53 ◼   ► of course yeah you got you got to have

00:30:55 ◼   ► your fried dough so I wanted to classify

00:30:57 ◼   ► want to clarify that that the calzone

00:30:58 ◼   ► place is separate than the pizza place

00:31:01 ◼   ► now for pizza places I also wanted to

00:31:03 ◼   ► talk about this is serious I know this

00:31:05 ◼   ► is I mean come on Long Island New York

00:31:08 ◼   ► area that we're all about the pizza so I

00:31:11 ◼   ► need to talk about the garlic knot

00:31:13 ◼   ► conundrum

00:31:13 ◼   ► hmm now garlic knots with your pizza or

00:31:17 ◼   ► not because not or not because yeah

00:31:22 ◼   ► because some places you know it's just

00:31:26 ◼   ► like balls of dough they don't do a good

00:31:27 ◼   ► garlic knot but other places do a great

00:31:29 ◼   ► garlic knot but you're already getting

00:31:31 ◼   ► so much bread and stuff with your pizza

00:31:32 ◼   ► so what do you do it is that is a

00:31:35 ◼   ► difficult choice and it just it depends

00:31:37 ◼   ► highly on whether your pizza place of

00:31:38 ◼   ► choice makes good garlic knots and in my

00:31:40 ◼   ► experience most places don't we had a

00:31:43 ◼   ► place that put garlic knots on the crust

00:31:45 ◼   ► that is insane yeah it was like four or

00:31:50 ◼   ► three and a half garlic knots per slice

00:31:52 ◼   ► of pizza see now I come from the land of

00:31:55 ◼   ► the Midwest which is the land of putting

00:31:58 ◼   ► crazy stuff in and under and between

00:32:01 ◼   ► pizza because the pizza itself is

00:32:04 ◼   ► usually pretty mediocre

00:32:06 ◼   ► so the idea is you get you know the

00:32:08 ◼   ► stuffed crust where you get like you

00:32:10 ◼   ► know the the I don't know put wings in

00:32:12 ◼   ► the crust god knows what they're crust

00:32:16 ◼   ► it's just an addition so you can get a

00:32:17 ◼   ► whole pie and you get garlic knots that

00:32:20 ◼   ► surround the pie so you don't have to

00:32:21 ◼   ► order both it's not it was a thing it

00:32:27 ◼   ► happened when I was in high school it

00:32:29 ◼   ► was a strange time my favorite as an

00:32:31 ◼   ► aside here my favorite thing is when you

00:32:33 ◼   ► see like a pizza ad for a place like

00:32:35 ◼   ► Pizza Hut or whatever we want to do we

00:32:37 ◼   ► are not talking about Pizza Hut no I'm

00:32:40 ◼   ► just saying for the people out there I'm

00:32:42 ◼   ► sorry if Pizza Hut and Domino's and

00:32:45 ◼   ► stuff for the only or Sbarro is the only

00:32:46 ◼   ► thing you have to associate with your

00:32:48 ◼   ► takeout pizza this is not what we are

00:32:51 ◼   ► talking about it is a completely

00:32:52 ◼   ► different food yeah and I cannot wait

00:32:54 ◼   ► for all of you who have never

00:32:55 ◼   ► experienced New York Pizza to come to

00:32:57 ◼   ► New York and experience it because it is

00:32:59 ◼   ► amazing yeah yeah but yeah anyway I love

00:33:04 ◼   ► when the when you see like these

00:33:05 ◼   ► commercials for these big pizza chains

00:33:07 ◼   ► and they would say you know you get like

00:33:09 ◼   ► the the two pies with toppings and then

00:33:11 ◼   ► they say make it a meal by adding wings

00:33:15 ◼   ► it's not already a man like breadsticks

00:33:17 ◼   ► and two liters of soda that's currently

00:33:21 ◼   ► it's like that

00:33:22 ◼   ► that makes it a meal like oh now it's

00:33:24 ◼   ► before I thought it was a snack right

00:33:27 ◼   ► yeah I guess the pizza is the side dish

00:33:32 ◼   ► anyway people are people are not always

00:33:34 ◼   ► healthy but anyway so yeah for me pizza

00:33:38 ◼   ► is pizza is the default for dinner not

00:33:41 ◼   ► necessarily for lunch but it's a it's

00:33:42 ◼   ► the default for dinner which is if you

00:33:44 ◼   ► can't figure out what else to get just

00:33:46 ◼   ► get pizza see I'll always like a slice

00:33:48 ◼   ► of pizza

00:33:49 ◼   ► I'll always eat a slice of pizza if

00:33:51 ◼   ► someone says we're having pizza we could

00:33:53 ◼   ► all agree on pizza pretty much because

00:33:56 ◼   ► it's so it's so easy and good to find

00:33:59 ◼   ► something you love on it and it's

00:34:00 ◼   ► usually extremely tasty like I've never

00:34:03 ◼   ► had I think that that's why I would say

00:34:05 ◼   ► it's my number one because I feel like

00:34:06 ◼   ► most places that we go we can find a

00:34:09 ◼   ► really good pizza

00:34:10 ◼   ► we even fell in love with pizza and

00:34:12 ◼   ► Pittsburgh yeah I found the right place

00:34:14 ◼   ► oh good as long as you go to a place

00:34:17 ◼   ► that is actually making their pizza and

00:34:19 ◼   ► cares a little bit about it even outside

00:34:21 ◼   ► of the New York metro area you can find

00:34:23 ◼   ► really good pizza yeah yeah like good

00:34:26 ◼   ► pizza is not only in New York it's just

00:34:29 ◼   ► more common in New York right well I

00:34:31 ◼   ► think like major cities will often have

00:34:33 ◼   ► like a couple different competitive

00:34:35 ◼   ► pizza places that you can find yourself

00:34:38 ◼   ► a good pie or a good slice yeah

00:34:40 ◼   ► gotta go to Aiello's if you're in

00:34:41 ◼   ► Pittsburgh anyway so so that was your

00:34:44 ◼   ► number one right it was you got to get

00:34:46 ◼   ► the good pizza otherwise there's a hot

00:34:47 ◼   ► ring of garbage I think it's a circle of

00:34:52 ◼   ► anyway so yeah it is hot circle of

00:34:54 ◼   ► garbage yeah it's like eating a hot

00:34:56 ◼   ► circle of garbage my number so if if we

00:35:00 ◼   ► were restricting it to only dinner okay

00:35:02 ◼   ► then pizza might might be my number one

00:35:04 ◼   ► for all those reasons

00:35:06 ◼   ► wait so okay ready give me your dinner

00:35:08 ◼   ► list dinner would be maybe burgers you

00:35:12 ◼   ► forgot about Greek originally so you can

00:35:14 ◼   ► add that back in I think read better for

00:35:16 ◼   ► lunch okay so okay my generalist my

00:35:19 ◼   ► dinner menu would be I think just off

00:35:22 ◼   ► the top my head

00:35:22 ◼   ► unprepared now I think you I think it

00:35:24 ◼   ► would be I just took away one thing you

00:35:26 ◼   ► just got to move some stuff up the list

00:35:27 ◼   ► and then yes well so I think it would be

00:35:30 ◼   ► burgers Indian Thai pizza so with pizza

00:35:35 ◼   ► number one so that's

00:35:36 ◼   ► okay now my dinner list no you're not in

00:35:40 ◼   ► my overall list huh melding lunch and

00:35:42 ◼   ► dinner together into one category what I

00:35:44 ◼   ► thought we were doing I changed it up on

00:35:46 ◼   ► you number four Indian number three

00:35:48 ◼   ► Pizza number two Thai

00:35:50 ◼   ► number one the lunch deli slash sandwich

00:35:54 ◼   ► place I mean yeah I if we were doing

00:35:57 ◼   ► lunch I think lunch is different than

00:35:59 ◼   ► dinner you have to have a separate lunch

00:36:01 ◼   ► and it I don't care what I said before

00:36:03 ◼   ► you have to have it because otherwise is

00:36:05 ◼   ► it a whole different discussion I have

00:36:07 ◼   ► whole different things to add to this

00:36:09 ◼   ► list I don't want any of these things

00:36:10 ◼   ► for lunch

00:36:11 ◼   ► I wanted a totally different list for

00:36:13 ◼   ► lunch many of like I think like Indian

00:36:15 ◼   ► and Thai well Indians a little heavy I

00:36:16 ◼   ► mean you can do it but you got to be

00:36:18 ◼   ► careful no Indiana's feels more dinner

00:36:20 ◼   ► but I often find ty Franck

00:36:23 ◼   ► but Panera needs to be thrown in there

00:36:26 ◼   ► maybe right so cuz they're like a suit

00:36:28 ◼   ► or I shouldn't say Panera but I should

00:36:29 ◼   ► say like soup sandwich places which is

00:36:31 ◼   ► different than the deli well so I have

00:36:33 ◼   ► this kind of as one category because

00:36:35 ◼   ► there's a lot of overlap so maybe this

00:36:37 ◼   ► is my number one this is this is the

00:36:38 ◼   ► lunch deli slash sandwich place now I

00:36:40 ◼   ► have to clarify similar to our pizza

00:36:43 ◼   ► disclaimer there are certain places that

00:36:45 ◼   ► I am explicitly not including that

00:36:47 ◼   ► includes subway and Quiznos and anything

00:36:50 ◼   ► like subway or Quiznos those places

00:36:53 ◼   ► they're just terrible

00:36:55 ◼   ► I mean I've it's not that I've never had

00:36:56 ◼   ► them I've had them plenty of times

00:36:58 ◼   ► because I haven't always lived in a

00:36:59 ◼   ► place with good sandwiches I've had I've

00:37:01 ◼   ► had subway and Quiznos frequently or

00:37:03 ◼   ► often mmm a lot and you're talking about

00:37:08 ◼   ► the East Coast deli yeah yes because

00:37:10 ◼   ► they have them up in Boston Kelly from

00:37:13 ◼   ► the deli they even had some in

00:37:14 ◼   ► Pittsburgh like they were either pretty

00:37:15 ◼   ► easy to find in Pittsburgh I started

00:37:16 ◼   ► going one every day yeah so you can find

00:37:18 ◼   ► them yeah they do exist the deli that

00:37:21 ◼   ► just you know the kind of place that

00:37:22 ◼   ► makes sandwiches and whatever sandwich

00:37:25 ◼   ► you want oftentimes but not always the

00:37:27 ◼   ► bagel place because because or some kind

00:37:29 ◼   ► of bakery because they will often put

00:37:30 ◼   ► these sandwiches on the bread or bagels

00:37:33 ◼   ► that they're baking I do include Panera

00:37:35 ◼   ► and bruger's and in this category okay

00:37:37 ◼   ► they aren't necessarily the best

00:37:39 ◼   ► examples but that's you can find that

00:37:42 ◼   ► did yeah yeah I would exclude Einstein

00:37:45 ◼   ► bagels because I have every time I've

00:37:47 ◼   ► been to one I've been disappointed by it

00:37:48 ◼   ► all right

00:37:50 ◼   ► yeah you you and your New York stuff

00:37:52 ◼   ► it's all awesome but I would say Panera

00:37:54 ◼   ► and bruger's are in Einstein subway and

00:37:57 ◼   ► Quiznos are out but generally you're

00:37:59 ◼   ► looking for a place it isn't the chain

00:38:00 ◼   ► now usually the non chain places are

00:38:02 ◼   ► substantially different and better but

00:38:04 ◼   ► there is still a lot of the road also

00:38:05 ◼   ► because when they cut the deli meat they

00:38:07 ◼   ► actually have a deli slicer in the place

00:38:09 ◼   ► and they exactly slice it from the meat

00:38:11 ◼   ► log instead of having it you know pre

00:38:15 ◼   ► sliced slimy slimy slabs better bit more

00:38:18 ◼   ► shit yeah like you get you go to Subway

00:38:21 ◼   ► you got like exactly the four slices

00:38:22 ◼   ► they're always so thick if you really

00:38:24 ◼   ► want a good deli sandwich you have to

00:38:26 ◼   ► get it like so thin that it's

00:38:27 ◼   ► practically like falling apart like it's

00:38:29 ◼   ► confetti it's meat confetti and it's so

00:38:32 ◼   ► good yeah and let's let's not even talk

00:38:35 ◼   ► about the subway cheese tessellation

00:38:37 ◼   ► ripoff ah I know total complete bytes

00:38:40 ◼   ► without cheese because no subway is an

00:38:43 ◼   ► expert in giving you as little as

00:38:45 ◼   ► possible for your money and making it

00:38:46 ◼   ► like I'm convinced that most people who

00:38:48 ◼   ► assemble deli sandwiches for a living

00:38:51 ◼   ► including all these chain places but

00:38:52 ◼   ► even a lot of actual like you know

00:38:54 ◼   ► defend delis it seems like most of the

00:38:56 ◼   ► people who assemble these sandwiches

00:38:57 ◼   ► don't eat deli sandwiches

00:38:59 ◼   ► yeah the sandwiches are assembled by the

00:39:01 ◼   ► people that eat deli sandwiches right

00:39:03 ◼   ► like it's similar to how like like we

00:39:05 ◼   ► have to go to this place in Manhattan

00:39:06 ◼   ► called called chicken deli on 28th

00:39:10 ◼   ► Street yeah 28 chicken goat and and we

00:39:13 ◼   ► always knew it was a fantastic deli in

00:39:15 ◼   ► almost every regard but we always knew

00:39:18 ◼   ► don't get mustard on the sandwich

00:39:20 ◼   ► because the people who who would

00:39:22 ◼   ► construct the sandwich every day you can

00:39:24 ◼   ► just tell that they didn't eat mustard

00:39:25 ◼   ► themselves because they would apply an

00:39:27 ◼   ► amount of mustard that like in fact if

00:39:30 ◼   ► that were mayonnaise it would be

00:39:31 ◼   ► excessive and for mustard it's like oh

00:39:34 ◼   ► my god it's like overpowering craziness

00:39:37 ◼   ► so you usually like you know just if you

00:39:39 ◼   ► get a mustard sandwich just ask from the

00:39:40 ◼   ► side and you apply it yourself when you

00:39:42 ◼   ► get back to the office so okay there are

00:39:44 ◼   ► things like that you got to learn every

00:39:45 ◼   ► place you go right exactly exactly so

00:39:48 ◼   ► and everything else about that deli was

00:39:50 ◼   ► great except for the mustard and so you

00:39:53 ◼   ► know when it comes to these places it

00:39:55 ◼   ► just seems like many of them they'll do

00:39:57 ◼   ► things like you mentioned like they'll

00:39:58 ◼   ► slice the meat too thick or rather than

00:40:01 ◼   ► laying it laying each piece of

00:40:03 ◼   ► like a half fold over so you get the

00:40:05 ◼   ► kind of like alternating half fold like

00:40:07 ◼   ► stack that looks all pretty and has like

00:40:09 ◼   ► the little ruffles in the side that's

00:40:11 ◼   ► the good way to do it sometimes they

00:40:12 ◼   ► will do it they'll just like lay that

00:40:14 ◼   ► lay the slices flat in a stack oh and

00:40:17 ◼   ► then fold them over oh it's oh yeah see

00:40:20 ◼   ► this is the kind of thing like if you go

00:40:22 ◼   ► to a place like bruger's or Panera or

00:40:23 ◼   ► you know any deli getting the right

00:40:25 ◼   ► employee matters law but anyway that

00:40:27 ◼   ► said I I would say that the the

00:40:31 ◼   ► variability with with minor things like

00:40:33 ◼   ► that aside the variability that you get

00:40:34 ◼   ► between delis is actually not that big

00:40:37 ◼   ► compared to these other options so you

00:40:39 ◼   ► can generally find a decent deli or

00:40:42 ◼   ► sandwich place in most places and you

00:40:44 ◼   ► can get them to construct a sandwich

00:40:46 ◼   ► that you're used to so you're not really

00:40:48 ◼   ► reliant on a menu per se like if you

00:40:50 ◼   ► like let's say you know you like pepper

00:40:54 ◼   ► Turkey with pepper jack cheese on a

00:40:55 ◼   ► croissant mmm this is one of us like

00:40:57 ◼   ► that I don't know one of us might like

00:40:59 ◼   ► that but if you like that you could

00:41:01 ◼   ► probably get something similar to that

00:41:03 ◼   ► at most any deli the same thing if you

00:41:06 ◼   ► like it she can call it sandwich with

00:41:07 ◼   ► certain toppings on it you know you can

00:41:09 ◼   ► get that recreated for the most part at

00:41:13 ◼   ► various different places and it won't be

00:41:15 ◼   ► so different that you know you won't

00:41:17 ◼   ► like it right and and delis also they

00:41:19 ◼   ► have the great advantage that they they

00:41:22 ◼   ► also don't feel weird getting them every

00:41:24 ◼   ► day like you can go to it you can go to

00:41:26 ◼   ► the same deli for lunch every day I've

00:41:28 ◼   ► done this Melton most of my adult career

00:41:29 ◼   ► you can go to the same deli every day

00:41:31 ◼   ► and it's not that ridiculous

00:41:34 ◼   ► and no it's great because they know your

00:41:36 ◼   ► order and there's always regulars

00:41:37 ◼   ► everyone goes to the same daily everyday

00:41:39 ◼   ► exactly and and you know and compare you

00:41:42 ◼   ► know you could also and we've done this

00:41:44 ◼   ► in at various bands as well you could

00:41:46 ◼   ► also just go to the grocery store and

00:41:48 ◼   ► buy deli meat and buy bread and make

00:41:50 ◼   ► your own sandwiches at home and and

00:41:52 ◼   ► there are a lot of advantages to that

00:41:53 ◼   ► but when you go to a deli it's fresh

00:41:56 ◼   ► sliced every day for you it's at least

00:41:59 ◼   ► any reasonable deli not Subway but hey

00:42:01 ◼   ► do not walk out of a deli if you see a

00:42:04 ◼   ► whole bunch of pre sliced deli meat

00:42:06 ◼   ► sitting in their shelf like if you see

00:42:08 ◼   ► that sitting around just leave and go

00:42:10 ◼   ► find a different deli or if the deli

00:42:12 ◼   ► smells like fish yes really feeling like

00:42:15 ◼   ► anything

00:42:16 ◼   ► cow it shouldn't smell like it should at

00:42:17 ◼   ► most smell like a fresh-baked bagel well

00:42:19 ◼   ► that's what I always tell you at seafood

00:42:21 ◼   ► restaurants if you walk into a seafood

00:42:22 ◼   ► restaurant and it smells like fish

00:42:24 ◼   ► you walk out yeah like good rule it

00:42:26 ◼   ► should never ever ever smell like fish

00:42:28 ◼   ► cuz fresh fish does not smell bad yeah

00:42:31 ◼   ► so anyway so yeah a deli is in my

00:42:36 ◼   ► opinion just overall the best takeout

00:42:38 ◼   ► food but you can't get it for dinner

00:42:40 ◼   ► that there's not an open past like two

00:42:42 ◼   ► o'clock yeah that's that's the big

00:42:44 ◼   ► problem is that they it is a lunch only

00:42:46 ◼   ► option breakfast they do eggs that's

00:42:48 ◼   ► true they did they do serve every daily

00:42:50 ◼   ► is open early yeah but and there's also

00:42:53 ◼   ► like you know compared to buying stuff

00:42:54 ◼   ► at home there's a lot of specialty

00:42:57 ◼   ► things that a deli will have that you

00:42:59 ◼   ► either can't easily keep on hand at home

00:43:02 ◼   ► or that you probably wouldn't keep on

00:43:04 ◼   ► hand at home so things like really weird

00:43:06 ◼   ► cheese's like we probably wouldn't buy

00:43:08 ◼   ► an entire package of pepperjack

00:43:10 ◼   ► but we're okay getting a slice of pepper

00:43:12 ◼   ► jack on your sandwich every day okay now

00:43:14 ◼   ► we got a distinct we got to make a

00:43:16 ◼   ► distinction here because we happen to go

00:43:18 ◼   ► to a great deli that is also very good

00:43:20 ◼   ► at making bagels so they're not only a

00:43:22 ◼   ► bagel shop they're also a full deli

00:43:24 ◼   ► there are a lot of those around here

00:43:26 ◼   ► because they're pretty conducive to each

00:43:28 ◼   ► other because a lot of people like to

00:43:30 ◼   ► have their bagel for breakfast or have

00:43:31 ◼   ► lunch food on a bagel like right right

00:43:35 ◼   ► you have that option or you have the

00:43:37 ◼   ► deli that just has like stacks of rolls

00:43:39 ◼   ► that they put everything on and then

00:43:41 ◼   ► they import their bagels from somewhere

00:43:42 ◼   ► else where and that's that's fair you

00:43:44 ◼   ► know warm bagel sandwich like when the

00:43:48 ◼   ► bagels are fresh-baked I mean there's

00:43:50 ◼   ► nothing like it it's amazing

00:43:51 ◼   ► oh yeah and that's that's pretty hard to

00:43:53 ◼   ► get usually because the bagels are not

00:43:54 ◼   ► fresh-baked near lunchtime but you know

00:43:56 ◼   ► you can find it if you're lucky but yes

00:43:59 ◼   ► so anyway that's what that's why number

00:44:00 ◼   ► one is the lunch Dolly's sandwich place

00:44:02 ◼   ► which is often a bagel place

00:44:04 ◼   ► but that doesn't count for our take out

00:44:06 ◼   ► in substitution for pre Thanksgiving

00:44:10 ◼   ► dinner food right so for dinners it's

00:44:12 ◼   ► Thai all right Thai food the highs are

00:44:15 ◼   ► the highest you know like when when Thai

00:44:18 ◼   ► food is is great it is my favorite

00:44:21 ◼   ► flavor and which one is the lows of the

00:44:23 ◼   ► lowest I think maybe pizza mmm

00:44:27 ◼   ► bad pizza is really bad like like a hot

00:44:31 ◼   ► cement carpet like bad Thai Indian food

00:44:34 ◼   ► is usually just bland yeah but still

00:44:37 ◼   ► that's terrible

00:44:38 ◼   ► like bad pizza is like uh nap it's like

00:44:41 ◼   ► greasy or you know I don't know bad

00:44:44 ◼   ► pizza can be really quite unappetizing I

00:44:46 ◼   ► think but I mean I guess so could a bad

00:44:48 ◼   ► deli sandwich like I said like a Subway

00:44:50 ◼   ► sandwich is uh hey are good deli when

00:44:54 ◼   ► they slice my meat stick it is not

00:44:56 ◼   ► appetizing yeah well that's that's why

00:44:58 ◼   ► you got to get chicken so it's like

00:44:59 ◼   ► biting into a bouncy ball that's yes

00:45:03 ◼   ► this is one of the reasons I get chicken

00:45:04 ◼   ► salad but even chicken salad can be

00:45:06 ◼   ► really bad right but I know at this

00:45:08 ◼   ► place it's consistently always gonna be

00:45:09 ◼   ► man easy right no I mean that's the I'm

00:45:12 ◼   ► a chicken salads not pickin because like

00:45:14 ◼   ► you know you with deli meat you're

00:45:16 ◼   ► generally seeing the same meat you know

00:45:18 ◼   ► most places will have Boar's Head around

00:45:20 ◼   ► here like you know like you're generally

00:45:22 ◼   ► having the same meats available in most

00:45:23 ◼   ► delis but stuff like chicken salad can

00:45:26 ◼   ► vary because they usually make it there

00:45:28 ◼   ► or at least they buy it in but they're

00:45:30 ◼   ► buying it from different layers I'm

00:45:30 ◼   ► really bad chicken cutlet sandwich to is

00:45:32 ◼   ► really bad

00:45:33 ◼   ► yeah like when the meat sauce in Yui and

00:45:35 ◼   ► disgusting yeah that's true and they

00:45:36 ◼   ► they make it too thick like the chicken

00:45:38 ◼   ► go laters take this like fry a chicken

00:45:40 ◼   ► breast you're like no you need to slice

00:45:42 ◼   ► that thin and pound it and then bread it

00:45:45 ◼   ► like there's a lot to do it's a lot of

00:45:47 ◼   ► work stick some bread on a chicken and

00:45:49 ◼   ► call it a chicken cutlet I mean what do

00:45:52 ◼   ► you oh my god all right are we done did

00:45:57 ◼   ► we go through both of our lists yeah I

00:45:59 ◼   ► have starting at number one pizza Thai

00:46:02 ◼   ► Indian Greek cool yep so happy ordering

00:46:08 ◼   ► everybody for pre Thanksgiving and Happy

00:46:12 ◼   ► Thanksgiving

00:46:14 ◼   ► traveling yeah yeah don't look at me

00:46:20 ◼   ► like that you offer up any kind of

00:46:24 ◼   ► clothing help here that's that no I just

00:46:27 ◼   ► let you go it's way better to just have

00:46:29 ◼   ► you awkwardly do the entire outro

00:46:31 ◼   ► yourself it's just so painful it's the

00:46:34 ◼   ► best I don't know why you do this to me