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Listener Mail XVI: Tales of the Inbox

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Speaker 1

Hello, and welcome to Savor Protection of iHeartRadio.

I'm any Race and I'm more in Vocal Bomb.

And today we have another listener mail for you.

Yes, you know, these are some of our favorites.

Speaker 2

So good, so good, and this is a good batch and it's Batch number sixteen.

Speaker 1

I think, so I tried to confirm before, you'd think we would have better documentation of it.

Speaker 2

I am.

I'm nearly positive, me too, okay too, Yeah, well I love this.

Speaker 1

We are now we're almost double the amount of main Star Wars movies there are.

Speaker 2

Wow.

Speaker 1

I mean that's without you know, adding in wrote one and all that other stuff.

Speaker 2

Well, sure, but it's the main series.

Speaker 1

Yeah, so the puns are gonna get more and more fun.

Speaker 2

Love it more obscure and yeah, very strange, yeah, very strange.

But we are nowhere near out of titles because if you guys hadn't noticed Star Wars as kind of a thing.

Again, so sure is we have lots of material.

We do.

Speaker 1

I'm very excited about it.

I'm very excited.

Oh the same yeah, oh yes, yes, yes, yes, all right, so let's get into it.

Yeah, Kirsten wrote, lately, you guys have been on a streak of doing episodes about things I've never heard of.

This has led to a lot of cravings for food I've never tasted, which is a weird and wonderful experience.

I only wish I had waited to hear your NSFW warning before I googled guita.

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Sorry.

Speaker 1

But in other news, I was visiting my family, Ohio recently, which led to an opportunity to try brunos.

I can't believe I've never mentioned it in earlier emails, but there is the most amazing international grocery store in the Cincinnati area called Jungle gymsh Imagine your decab farmer's market plus every specialty international grocery store you've ever been to, plus the biggest wine store you've ever dreamed of, plus every soda and then some from the tasting room at the World of Coke, all swirled together and tapped with an animatronic gorilla Elvis impersonator, well what airplane suspended from the ceiling and a literal fire truck full of hot sauce.

If you have a limited travel budget but want to finally have the extremely eclectic feast of all the interesting foods from various episodes, in recent years, I'm confident that you could check off most, if not all, of the items on your list at Jungle Gyms, though you might need an expert guide to help you find everything in the massive store.

A few minutes into exploring, I had an epiphany that I could probably find Brunos here.

After searching the World of Cheese section on my own to no avail, I asked a friendly employee who led me right to it and even recommended how to eat it.

My family was down to give it a try, and we all loved it.

We had it melted on toast with some mixed berry jam.

It had a mild sweetened condensed milk flavor with some of that good goat cheese bunk.

We rounded out our international feast with gluten free Perochi's fresh Momi sipote, homemade fried Colombian Bonuelos bask wine, and from a little closer to home, a pint of Ohio's own Jenny's ice cream.

I really hope you guys get to check out Jungle Gym sometime.

PS.

You know when you learn about something you've never heard of, and then all of a sudden, it feels like it's everywhere for me lately, that's been the Asian condiment chili crisp.

I think it would make for a great episode PPS.

As a fellow peanut butter lover, Annie, you would love the Israeli snack bomba if you're not already obsessed.

They're peanut butter corn puffs and they're insanely delicious.

They even have Natella filled and chocolate dip varieties at Trader Joe's.

Oooh okayoo, I do love chili cris I loved.

Oh yeah, people have written in about jungle gyms before.

It sounds like quite the place.

Speaker 2

That sounds overwhelming in a lovely way.

It Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1

A fire truck of hot sauce at Elvis Gorilla World of Cheese.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, oh I love a cheese world.

Yeah, I do write.

I do get like really just sensory overload in places like that, And that sounds like an extreme iteration of ith, Like I definitely did I ever tell this story on here, Like the first time that I went to the International Farmer's Market, the one that's like up Buford just outside the perimeter, I like, I was completely overwhelmed about everything, and then I got to the European like the Eastern European bakery section, and they had little samples of the kind of farmer's cheese that you put in like blintzes, and I just started crying, like I was just I just started weeping openly in the baker section, going like these are my people, and they understand, like yeah, but like in a nice way, you know.

I yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 1

Yeah that sounds that place is overwhelming.

I the first time I went there, I think I made it because it's kind of laid out in like produce and then and by kind of places around the world share our sections of like baked goods and seafood and then all kinds of things, like all kinds of things.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I think I.

Speaker 1

Only made it two thirds of the way, and then I was tired.

Speaker 2

I was like, right, yeah, I usually have to stop at a certain point and go like I can hit the rest the next time I come here, because yeah.

Speaker 1

I can't just start going the other counterclockwise.

Speaker 2

She over goes, that's such a good plan, Yeah.

Speaker 1

Because otherwise one side is always getting kind of screwed over because you're tired by the time you get to it.

You gotta.

Speaker 2

Gott to plan it out.

Speaker 1

You got to plan it out, but yeah, I do.

I do love it.

I love a place like this.

Also, sorry about Gooey Duck, but.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, I mean it's not technically our fault.

Speaker 1

That it exists, but it is funny.

Yeah, yep, Yeah, that's about all I have to say about that.

Speaker 2

Well, Sheldon wrote, as I had mentioned before, I'm a bit of a brewer, and I brew a bock about every two years.

Coincidentally, I had planned on brewing one the day that your block episode came out.

Some kind of karma there, but more karma as I use Karen Geenan as a finding agent to clarify the beer.

Things like this make me wonder if you too are spying on me somehow.

And I have to thank Lauren for letting me know why some maatzas are kosher for over.

Speaker 1

I never understood that, Well, we're not spying on you are.

Speaker 2

No, oh probably not.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but this does happen kind of a bit.

I feel like sometimes things just are in the zeitgeis for whatever.

Yeah, and because we've had plenty of listeners write in and say.

Speaker 2

How did you know that?

I was yeah, exactly now when we when we do manage to pull something together that's like vaguely timely for the season that we're in, then yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and blame that it's our unexpected timeliness.

Speaker 1

Yes, not spying, not at all, but speaking of timeliness.

Speaker 2

A lot of people did write in about our Matsa episode.

Speaker 1

Yes, Valerie wrote, Hi, I love the Matsa episode, just adding that gluten free Matsa is an addictive substance.

I have Silly Act disease, so the only Masa I can eat is the gluten free kind.

So it was delightful to discover that it's amazing.

My favorite is Yehuda brand.

I hope I'm not butchering that original flavor with a buttery substance spread on top.

Yem.

Yeah that does sound good.

Speaker 2

Yeah right, there's some really good gluten free cracker experiences out there to be had now, Like for a while, for a while it was who that was a bare and wasteland of snack time.

Yes, but I'm glad that they have a good Matsa one.

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Yes, that is good to know.

That is good to know.

Speaker 2

Tracy wrote, just listened to the Matsa episode and had some thoughts to share with you.

I'm not Jewish, but my partner is, and he spent time studying in Israel.

We aren't really religious, but our passive tradition is matza, bal soup and DreamWorks.

The Prince of Egypt Annie mentioned matza being made in under eighteen minutes.

We have a thought on this.

In Jewish numerology, the number eighteen is symbolic of kai or life.

Maybe this is just a coincidence, or maybe there's some symbolism there.

Maybe another listener knowsh oh see, yeah, that's that's probably a good I assumed that it was due to some kind of little bit of mythology like that.

Speaker 1

But yeah, yeah, I'm sure.

I'm sure there is something, whether or not it's gotten kind of muddied in our understanding of it through the I'm sure there was a basis to it.

Speaker 2

There's oh yeah, yeah, because it's so specific.

Speaker 1

It is, it is so so specific.

Also, when I was a kid, I loved the Prince of the I would sing that song Miracle in the shower as if I was like I had a singing career in front of me, which I absolutely didn't, but I thought, like the acoustics in here.

Yeah, the high pitched notes.

Yeah, I'm gonna go far o kid, I did not know.

Well that's fine.

Speaker 2

Hey you are a karaoke superstar.

Speaker 1

For enthusiasm, not for skill, but I will take it.

Speaker 2

I don't think I ever actually got around to watching Prince of Egypt.

Speaker 1

It's got some really I haven't seen it in a while.

I'll ca on there, but it's got some really cool visuals in it.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

I remember it being a big deal when it came out.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Yeah, I haven't seen it since my singing career in the but right, I did love it back then, and I still have the VHS but no BCR with which to watch.

Speaker 2

The Eternal Struggle.

Speaker 1

I think that's a fun tradition though.

I like that.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, absolutely, mm hmm.

Speaker 1

I wrote loved the episode.

It brought back memories from my younger days and the big sator meals that we had at our church.

I went to a traditional satyr with one of my friends in college.

I think it is definitely something that people should experience.

The tradition and symbolism in it is wonderful.

A savor satyr or do I sign up on a side note?

Nice job on the Exorcist Files.

Annie, I thought the voice sounded familiar.

Speaker 2

Ah, thank you.

The Exorcist Files is another show that our buddy Chandler May's put out on iHeart and h uh yeah, Annie, you had a you had a wacky recording experience for that, didn't you.

Speaker 1

I did?

I did, And this the lesson here listeners is always asked for all questions, perhaps especially of Chandler per my door.

Speaker 2

Oh yes, I mean that with no no spite in my heart.

But but he sometimes plans very odd and intricate things.

Ambitious, ambitious, there you go.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

So he is a good friend of ours, him for quite a while, and he just was kind of like, hey, I have some roles in this podcast i'm doing.

I thought maybe you'd be good.

Can you read for it?

And he sent me like eight.

I was like, all right, do it.

And then he's like, I think it'll be good for these two.

The pretty quick like short he made it.

I'm not sure how much it was him making it sound like it wouldn't take too much time and me being so used to recording from my studio, your closet.

Yeah, then I was like, okay, sure I can make time for that.

No, it was.

It was on location with the kind of three D microphones.

Oh yeah, and it was like it was like we were filming a movie but podcasting, and it was great.

It was like really great experience.

But I was not anticipating that, and it was quite a stressor.

Speaker 2

Location, like right, right, right, you're going to this house, You're you're you're suddenly like acting in a room with these people with choreography and like yeah, oh geez a, heck we kids involved.

Yeah all right, yeah, but it turned out really well.

Yeah.

Yeah, and a bunch of a bunch of other bunch of other iHeart hosts are in there.

I think Eli Banks and Diana Brown, who are our friends who do Ridiculous Romance, which is a great, great ridiculous show.

Speaker 1

Yeah, they were cool.

I attacked with them too.

That's fun.

Speaker 2

It was stressful anyway.

Yeah, go check that out, yes, check out.

Speaker 1

All right.

Well, we've got a lot of messages about Cadbury for you.

Speaker 2

We do, uh and we are going to get into those as soon as we get back from a quick break.

For a word from our sponsors, and we're back.

Thank you, sponsae, yes, thank you.

Okay, So Craig wrote, I've just listened to your Cadbury episode and here in Australia Cadbury is quite big.

We have our own flavor of Fretto frogs that can't be found anywhere else, which are strawberry filled.

We also have caramelo koalas which are really nice.

In the past I've also been to the home of Cadbury in Bourneville and done the tour of the factory in the museum.

In the museum they used to give you samples of chocolate how the Mayans used to drink it with chili and honey, which was really nice, although it was fun to see kids try liquid chocolate and then realize it wasn't sweet.

Cadbury chocolate in Australia is definitely better than Cadbury chocolate in the UK, and it's one of the most common chocolates in supermarkets.

Cadbury cream eggs seem also to be sold year round, or maybe just a long time before Easter.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately from my waistline, I can no longer eat most of the Cadbury chocolate as I've been diagnosed as diabetic.

Still very tempting though at times.

Speaker 1

Ooh some fighting words.

Speaker 2

All right, Okay, I love that you put this one first.

Danny, You're like, all right, let's get started.

Speaker 1

People have strong opinions about Cadbury's what I learned through this so good.

Speaker 2

Oh I can't believe I've never had a Fretto Frog.

Speaker 1

I can't either.

I need one.

I need a bunch.

I need an assortment.

Yeah, you do need an assortment, Fredo frogs.

Speaker 2

Oh man, I'll see.

I actually have a friend who's in Australia for the eclipse right now, like, oh, for photography purposes.

I am going to make them bring me back a heck and Freto Frog, as you should.

I'll see what we can do.

I'll see what we can do.

Is okay?

Speaker 1

Yeah, oh, I think it's necessary.

I think it's necessary.

Also, I just want to preface these because we do have a lot about Cadberry.

A lot of you send in pictures of this museum.

It is, it is quite something.

It is exact.

Speaker 2

No expense was spared, Yeah, no, no, no expense was spared.

Speaker 1

So far, no dinosaurs have escaped and murdered people as far as I know.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, and wrote.

You've recently done several episodes that I want to talk about, so I had to write in again.

Firstly, I just listened to your Cadberry episode and this made me think of a particular type of Cadberry bar.

I'm not a big fan of chocolate, but years ago, when I was in a long distance relationship with my British now husband, I would visit Britain every few weeks and came across Cadberry's marvelous creations jelly popping candy chocolate bar.

For some reason, I completely fell in love with this mixture of chocolate, food, flavored soft candy and popping candy.

I would buy it every time to take back home, and he would always bring me someone visiting.

Now, ten years later, I live in Britain and while it's rare, I would eat this every single time.

It reminds me of those early years in our relationship.

Also, did you come across the Fredo index while researching Cadbury?

Sorry if I missed this in the episode.

There is a common belief that the Fredo chocolates are a good measure of inflation.

Essentially, people track the price of the chocolate over time and compare it to wages.

While such calculations are probably dubious.

I love how widespread the idea is, and how much one bar of freddo cost these days is likely to be one of the first things people say if you ever bring up this bar of chocolate.

Secondly, I was listening to your rabbit episode and love that you discussed the scientific fact of them being too cute to eat.

I've always thought this is partly a generational thing.

Once, when I was a teenager, a rabbit accidentally jumped in front of our car a skating a bird of prey while I was crying, and to give the cute little bunny a funeral, my grandparents were delighted to have rabbit for dinner.

H omg.

It was not the greatest day of my life.

But they lived through rationing during and after the Second World War, so fair play, I suppose.

I also have a funny anecdote from a French colleague of my husband, who complained that rabbit is not often on the menu in Britain, saying, quote, rabbit is delicious, but apparently you British people think of them as pets.

Speaker 2

That's a very French thing to say.

Speaker 1

It is gotta appreciate it, gotta appreciate it.

I don't think we talked about the Fredo.

Speaker 2

No, I did not run across that, but that seems right.

That's clearly clearly a benchmark.

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Also, this candy you describe is blowing my mind.

It sounds fascinating.

It sounds like so many things happening at once.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

I think the only reason I didn't mention it out loud and my list of Cadbury products is that it's just like nineteen words and I was like, I can't we have to do the rest of the episode, Like we don't have time.

Speaker 1

As I was reading it, I kept being like, oh, there's oh another okay or another Oh.

Speaker 2

But it does sound really good.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 1

And I love that it reminds you of your early days in your relationship.

Speaker 2

Yes, bunnies are so cute, hack so tasty.

Ariel wrote, it's always a pleasure to listen to your podcast.

I just finished listening to your Cadbury episode, one of my fave chocolate brands.

I wasn't sure if you knew that.

In addition to Hershe having the rights to produce Cadbury in the US, they also successfully sued to ban the importation of Mandolaz produced Cadbury into the US during the twenty fifteen Hershey v.

Cadbury lawsuit.

While you can still find Mandalas produced Cadbury in US specialty shops, it's usually because someone snuck it back in their suitcase.

If you've ever talked to a brit about Hershey's chocolate, they say it tastes like sour milk.

You can imagine how they feel about Hershey banning their beloved proper Cadbury.

Speaker 1

Oh, I've heard it before, angry and I mean rightfully, so I get it.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that.

Speaker 1

Was one of the first things that came up when I went to Europe the first time.

Really, you need to get real, real chocolate, like you've been needing.

It's not any good.

Yeah, it's gotta have European chocolate.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

And they'd get so offended when I'd be like, well, my favorite chocolate is this, and they'd be like, no, no, how dare you?

Yeah, I mean legit, I guess yeah, very very very protective and fond.

Again, I understand understandably of this chocolate, but it does crack me up.

How that is.

Like, if you want to start an argument, this is a good way to do it.

Speaker 2

All right, cool, you're like, well, officer, you see what happened?

Speaker 1

Was I mentioned I liked this Hershey chocolate more than this European chocolate and whoa and yeah that a lawsuit sounds like it also meant business.

That's intense.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised that I didn't run across that in my reading.

But cool, cool, I mean, we love a good lawsuit.

It was a lawsuit intensive episode for sure.

Speaker 1

Yeah, all right, Victoria wrote, I loved your Cawbery's episode and was fascinated by your uniquely American point of view on this beloved British brand.

I came from a chocolate loving family and the Cadbury's brand is very special to us and part of growing up.

We all have stories about our grandmothers sneaking as dairy milk buttons when we were tiny and our parents hadn't yet introduced us to chocolate, but she'd always insist on softening the edges of them by sucking on them a bit first.

If you know what buttons look like, you'll know why that's funny.

A trip to cadbury World was, of course a rite of passage.

As children, we were never lucky enough to go on a school trip, it's too far.

I grew up in York, so school trips usually meant a trip to the National Railway Museum.

Not quite the same, but we'd try to take every child in the family to Cadbury World before they reach the age of eleven.

I cannot overemphasize the elation of getting out of the car on arrival and in hailing the heady, chocolate scented air.

The factory itself is my favorite part.

You can actually see them making the chocolate, and over the years it's become more interactive with chocolate making workshops.

You also learn about the history of chocolate starting with the app text, how modern chocolate was invented, and the history of the Cadbury brand.

We love.

The characters you mentioned are indeed a bit trippy, I think because we're moving away from using cartoon characters to market suites to children.

The park is the only place you see them now.

There aren't many rides, but there is a dark ride, kind of a Pirates of the Caribbean, but with a lurid storybook introduction and glowing miniature houses with anthropomorphized cocoa beans just going about their lives.

Okay, I've attached some photos so you can savor the extremes as an adult.

My favorite part is actually the museum with all the old discontinued chocolate bars and marketing campaigns, as well as the history of the company as a pioneer for employee well being, which you touched on in that episode.

Actually, no, I lie.

The best part is the shop.

It's the largest cabaret shop in the world and has all your favorites plus exclusive treats you can't get anywhere else, as well as branded goods like pencil cases.

I wanted to weigh in on your discussion about the Flake.

They are indeed a beautiful chocolate bar.

But better than the Flake is the Twirl, which is essentially a flake but wrapped in a layer of chocolate for a more robust bite and less messy experience.

Please tell me you've tried a twirl.

I chuckled that the cream egg was your touchstone with the brand for Easter.

They are bottom tier Cadbury's here in the UK.

We all acknowledge they are too sweet and not quite the same since Craft bought them out and we think changed the chocolate recipe to a less creamy and more sickly version.

Speaker 2

I didn't recognize.

Speaker 1

Most of the chocolate bar flavors you mentioned in that episode.

They vary a lot by market, but the other chocolates you mentioned, like fudge and Curly Whortley are staples here.

Anyway.

Sorry for the long Rambley email.

It's just such an integral part of growing up in my family that I just had to share.

No, it's so good.

I for when I was talking about the flake and the twirl, I felt it reminds you of how I feel when I talked to younger folks and they use lingo that I don't know anymore, and like, yeah, the.

Speaker 2

World for sure.

The flake, Yes, yes, fellow kid, I am deeply familiar with that.

Uh I'm not a twirl No, me neither.

But right, but it's starting to make sense.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it is, it's starting to, I think.

So I love genuinely these like strong opinions and fondness for this candy, like the nostalgia being a kid and you love the twirl or the right.

Speaker 2

Right and is like no, no, no, and your grandmama like softening the edges of a perfectly round piece of chocolate for you.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that's that's pretty great, and I do.

I mean again, the pictures that came with this email.

The pictures that came with this email were fantastic.

I'm so glad you listeners answered our hall because, like I said, I don't have this experience with it.

Yeah, but I'd heard about it.

I'd read about it, and I'm loving hearing.

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

These personal stories are really aces.

Thank you all.

Yes, yes, we do have another few for you, and we are going to get into those after we get back from one more quick break for a word from our sponsors, and we're back.

Thank you sponsoring, Yes, thank you.

Okay, we have another note from Uric.

I think the UK version we're still talking about Cadbury is just better than what hers she makes.

I always try to find the imported one if I can.

It costs a little more as the stores have to order directly from the UK and not a distributor, but I think it's worth it.

Now.

How is the Easter Bunny or Cadbury characters coming into the next campaign?

D and D.

Yeah, Lauren, I loved your rendition of the commercial rendition of Major General.

We need more of this.

Don't be sorry.

It was fun.

This is another reason we love the two of you.

I say full steam ahead, and we get you asking those questions as young Annie about the Easter bunny fits in with you.

Zach mentioning the brunos and chocolate and cheese, I can see the combo working.

I can also understand how people would not pair them.

I'm now tempted to put together a combination like that with a goat's milk feta to really contrast the flavors.

It will take a bit since I don't get to the one store where I can get this amazing Greek imported feta often, but we'll keep it in mind for the next trip.

Muscles Muscles, muscles another great seafood.

There are so many amazing ways to cook, like you mentioned, if you really want to do something different that sounds strange but really works.

When cooking your muscles in the typical white wine and garlic grow in some blue cheese, it creates an amazing sauce.

Have some toasted garlic bread for dipping and enjoy do this instead of opening and broiling with cheese.

The first time I saw this in Seattle Little restaurant, I thought it sounded strange, But if a good restaurant puts it on the menu.

I had to give it a try, and it's now my go too when cooking them.

Finally, I guess as long as you stay away from the water, you'll make it harder on Annie to bring them into the campaign.

Oh no, oh no, there's so much water in our campaign.

Wow, that was a really evil cackle.

Speaker 1

My guy ah is so oh yes, yes, yes, well, thank you for giving me ideas.

I think that Easter Bunny would be hilarious in a campaign.

Oh no, well there's time there time.

Speaker 2

That sounds like real nightmare stuff to be honest, but cool but cool.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1

We did talk about trying to get the bottom of my Easter Bunny reservations.

And a part of it, I realize is as little as this really makes sense, I mean I was a kid, so who knows.

Sure, as little as it really makes sense, it's that whereas Santa and Theory is just leaving you gifts because you were good, I don't know why the Easter Bunny was.

And there was like I'm in competition with him and others, okay, and it just put me a little edge.

And then somebody else did a like mastercut of people saying there's terrified of the Easter Bunny because it's like a six foot bunny, dead eyes looking at you.

Speaker 2

It is scary, like a dulls us like yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, well.

Speaker 1

Mm hmmm mmmm.

Speaker 2

I I guess I just really missed out on, you know, horror inspiration via not having that much much exposure to all of this as a kid, like like as I said, like like my like my parents made me Easter baskets, but it wasn't like a big deal, like it wasn't like a whole thing.

Speaker 1

I mean, it's a big it's a big bunny.

Yeah, and he's showing up outside.

Speaker 2

Yeah, as a child, I never ran into an Easter bunny costumed human.

So yeah, well I all I.

Speaker 1

Know is I'm not alone.

I'm still working through some things around it.

Speaker 2

It's gonna be okay, that's all right, that's all right.

You know, we all we all have things to work on.

Speaker 1

It's true.

It is true.

Also, this muscle stressed pea sounds delicious.

Speaker 2

Oh gosh it dad, Yeah, like like a nice like melty cheese in there.

Oh right, yeah, okay, h all right, all right, doing that, we.

Speaker 1

Have one more email, Ben wrote, I loved your Cadberry's episode as it is so ubiquitous here as you pointed out, but this raised a very important question for me.

When you get a soft served ice cream served in a cone from an ice cream truck, do you not get a flake put in them?

Speaker 2

Huh?

Speaker 1

It's a solid chocolate bar made up of laminated layers of chocolate.

In Ireland and the UK, it would be common to get one of these ice creams with a syrpiece, strawberry sauce and a flake, to the point where many people call them flakes or ninety nine's or mister Whippy's see picture attached.

What do you get as topping instead?

Speaker 2

Huh.

Speaker 1

Apologies for the long email, but I have many things to Sharon Cap.

I have been to Cadbury World in the UK.

I'm a school trip.

I grew up in the UK before moving to Ireland in twenty seventeen, and by far the most important aspect of the experience was being able to buy a one kilogram bar of chocolate from the shop.

Even I, a notorious chocoholic, could not finish that one go.

I may have tried Ireland had its own Cadbury factory.

I believe it has closed now and so many Irish people will claim that an Irish dairy milk is better than a British dairy milk.

Freddo is a key inflation indicator for the pub economist in the UK.

Discussing the current cost of a fredo is the short source of outrages.

Many of us millennials remember when they were five pence.

Speaker 2

Wow.

Speaker 1

Wow, we are getting some strong opinions.

Speaker 2

We no, I love it.

I love all of this.

I we love a strong opinion and this is many of them.

Okay, first of all, no, never in my life of ice cream have have I ever had a flake stuck in an ice cream cone.

That sounds amazing.

I want that to occur right now.

Speaker 1

It sounds amazing.

But it's also again like literally before we did this, we talked about it in the Flake Candy Bar in that episode, but you all are referring to it as like a flake and I love it.

I love it, but no, I know.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

One of the common ice cream cones that you would get, like like out of an ice cream truck is a cone with vanilla ice cream and then the inside of the cone is lined with like a mid soft chocolate fudge kind of thing, and then the top has some like some like chopped peanuts and like a crunchy layer of chocolate on top.

I forget what that one's called, but that's pretty ubiquitous.

Speaker 1

Mm hmm.

Yeah, this is not even close to my ice cream experience.

Admittedly I didn't.

I don't have that much in terms of kind of those like novelty things they did with h for kids or an adult too, I guess, but you know, generally for kids.

So but yeah, my my main thing is like plain soft serve and maybe chocolate involved in the cones somehow.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, it sounds like you your your ice cream game is above ours.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

We we don't usually have fresh, fresh piped soft served from ice cream trucks.

They're usually serving prepackaged like factory made yea ice cream bars, like anything on a stick, and occasionally things that come in cones like the aforementioned right.

But yeah, yeah, huh, Yes, And I do really love I've loved that.

Speaker 1

We heard from so many of you who have been to Cadbury World, Yes, and you all talked about like your favorite parts of it.

Yes, I love it.

This is so good.

Speaker 2

Also, of course there is a battle between Irish dairy milk versus a British dairy milk bar.

That is, yes, obviously the way it must be.

Speaker 1

Yep, I love it.

And again Fredo, Yeah, Fredo, Freda was a bigger deal than either of you, either of us, Ye, way big.

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