The lineup:

Links:

• 50 States. 50 labels. One way to score $100* - MTN DEW®
• MTN DEW DEWnited States: North Carolina - YouTube
• Heinz® Flavor Mashups | Heinz®
• Myrica rubra - Wikipedia

The lineup:

Special Guest: Katie Napolitano.

Links:

• Home - Villain Coffee Company
• The Berenst(E)ain Bears Conspiracy Theory That Has Convinced the Internet There Are Parallel Universes - VICE
• Holla’gram | Fonta Flora Brewery
• Lions Mane Mushroom Jerky 6 pack — OMG ALCHEMY
• Kacie Smagacz (@movethatdoughbakingco) • Instagram photos and videos

A grab bag episode where we try all the special edition snacks April has hoarded in her pantry over the last 3 weeks. Her husband was about to light them on fire if we didn't get them out there.

Many highs and lows on this one. We have my all-time top most favorite candy: Circus Peanuts.

On this episode:

We take a tasty jaunt around our favorite local guilty pleasures with master Charlottean, Erin Breeden. April starts rubbing her thighs vigorously in an attempt to deal with euphoric pallet overload. Ashley forgets that Amanda was our first guest. Eric almost forgot to record the episode. Let's dive in!

Courses:

Erin Breeden is Cheif Relations Officer at Advent Coworking and a true treasure to the local Charlotte community as an entrepreneur, writer, and her just general magnetic presence at any and all the coolest local events. She is launching the Advent Coworking Podcast on May 22nd where she'll be talking with guest from the community who are not just thinking outside the box but are redefining it.

Special Guest: Erin Breeden.

Links:

• Advent Coworking | Creative Coworking in Charlotte
• Erin Breeden (@ErinBreeden) / Twitter
• Erin Breeden (@erinmbreeden) • Instagram photos and videos

Peeps - Fruit Punch

One of these is not a real message printed on Sweathearts brand Valentine's Day candy hearts. Tune in to find out.

We sample a selection of this season's hottest trend: spicy candy.

Plus a couple bonus candies from our recent trips.

April, appropriately, sweats through her sweatshirt. Infant podcaster EP shows off her brand new crawling skills around the studio floor.

Cereal is a podcast from this American life (sorry Sarah Koenig but cereal is more American than Serial so I'm stealing your elevator pitch). Cereal tells one story - a true story - over the first course of the day, breakfast.

Quite literally the Morning Star, cereal follows a hauntingly similar plot arch to that of Lucifer. From humble beginnings created during radical religious-based dietary movements of the latter half of the 1800s, cereal has fallen from a healthy alternative to the "evils of coffee" and overindulgence of morning sausage consumption to a primary sugar blasted processed grain barely considered food.

Join us as we try the worst junk cereals of 2018.

Part 2 of our Holiday Special. We try a disgusting Peppermint Twinkie, classic Christmas Tree Cakes, another Oreo variant (😅), and wash it all down with our pod favorite...Cheerwine Holiday Punch!

We also discuss the etymology of localized sprinkle lingo. Post-pod research, it turns out 'Jimmies' probably isn't an euphemism -- but the urban legend has become implanted enough that it's probably best to avoid the term. We've included the Snopes link in the show notes which inspects the origin of the word (and sprinkles itself) and provides great historical context.

Oh and our special guest Amanda gave up at some point in the episode. TOO MUCH SNACK.

Special Guest: Amanda Price Rone.

Links:

• FACT CHECK: Were Jimmies Named After Jim Crow?

The holiday season brings our first guest, Amanda Price Rone, who was nice enough to let us force feed her junk food on her stateside visit. Amanda teaches at a school in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar and my guess on how her post-xmas interactions with students go...

Students: Amanda, how was your trip back to America?

Part 2 will drop tomorrow (Friday, Dec 20).

Special Guest: Amanda Price Rone.