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In this sticky sweet episode, Bretton and Z are getting ready for Jesus' homecoming by talking all things CANDY! It's colorful, it's sweet, your grandmother always has the worst kinds, it will rot your brain! Everyone has a favorite, and more importantly a least favorite kind, typically the one that cuts the roof of your mouth. We unpack the insane highs and lows of the most famous candy movie of all time, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, plus Bretton eats Pop Rocks and drinks a Coke and explodes and dies on the air!
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On today’s episode, Bretton and Z are joined by Gin expert, friend of the show and man about town, Robby Nelson! As a seasoned bartender at some of New York’s best bars, and current Gin King of NYC, Robby brings a certain panache to the usual low brow antics of your beloved hosts. The team talks the science behind hangovers, their own personal cures, plus the history of the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich! So pour yourselves another and throw your head in a vice, it‘s LIFE‘S A BANQUET!
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We love you so much that we brought you all FLOURS! Thats right babes, Bretton and Z are taking it way back this week, as they sift through the mother of all ingredients.....FLOUR! Hear its's origin story, how to use it, and why we need to stop fearing it. Plus the lore of the Great Depression era's amazingly creative use of flour sacks! So grab a loaf of sourdough and tell your "celiac" friends to go fly a kite! it's Life's A Banquet!
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Wake up with some Life's a Banquet in your cups! On this very special and highly caffeinated episode, Bretton and Z are joined by the one and only Dana Cowin of HRN's "Speaking Broadly" podcast. The trio tawk all things cawfee, and learn about the woman behind the invention of the coffee filter. Tiramisu eating happens live. So pour some cream on yourself and jump in a cup, it's Life's a Banquet!
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It's crunchy, it's smelly, it's drenched in mayo! That's right babes, today Bretton and Z are talking mother natures most glamorous creation.....CABBAGE! Tune in to hear all about the vegetable that inspired history's most terrifying dolls! Plus the riveting history of cabbage in food culture, and the contentious origin story of the Reuben sandwich!
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Eggs, bacon, hangovers, sweat, and rage. The bittersweet combonation of French Toast and vomit. It's that meal that can't quite be explained, or contained....it's BRUNCH! It's delicious, it's painful and there are always too many beverages on the table for human consumption. one thing is for sure, there will be bloody mary's!
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Spaghetti, Udon, Lo Mein, those things that old people grip onto in the pool. What do they all have in common? They are all noodles of course! Tune in for some bad noodle jokes, some noodle trivia, plus the surprising history of Lasagna in Ethiopia! Pasta is obvious people!
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On today's extra cheezy episode, Breton and Z sink their teeth into the history of FROZEN PIZZA!!! So, here you are in the dead of winter, suffering from that post Valentines Day break up that you just didn't see coming, and you are just coming back from a night of drinking away your sorrows.....so what do you eat at 3 am so that you don't throw up??? Frozen pizza! You're moving to a new house, and a bunch of your unreasonably active friends are helping you carry all your basketballs and lacrosse sticks into the house. You break a sweat, you wipe it off with the plaid shirt tied around your waist, but now you're starving!! But what do you eat?? Well the DiGiorno pizza that your hot wife popped in the oven of course!! Tune in kiddos, because when Life's a Banquet's on a bagel, you can eat Life's a Banquet anytime!
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We want to suck your........BLOOD! Or eat it, or make a sausage with it! On this weeks Valentines Day special, Bretton and Z are talking blood in and as food through out the ages. Black pudding, ducks blood soup, and a fascinating tale of edible blood in cinema history! Have a bloody good V Day ya little vampire babies!
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On today’s steaming hot episode, Bretton and Z are dishing about everyone’s favorite drinkable meal, SOUP! It’s hot, it’s wet, it makes your nose run, but where does it come from?? The duo will explore the origins of soup as well as recant the riveting history of America’s forgotten favorite, Turtle Soup. Hilarity ensues!
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