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470 — Well Olive Oiled Machine
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Ty & Eric discuss pouring a stiff class of flavored milk, the comeback of the double date, Campbell’s executives spilling the soup, the handheld faux pas at fork & knive strongholds, the sprouting market of mushroom-based beverages, sandwich artist retreats, and carb loading at Elio Volpe.
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Transcript
Balancing Life and Podcasting
00:00:50
Think Fresh
bingo bingo bingo bing ah bingbon b bo were so in the booth dude yeah dude we we are really a touch and go with this whole podcast thing these days and that's on me and we're in like a transitionary phase and think of fresh career and this is must how it feels to be like a woman on a dating net where you like you you're like maybe i will text back maybe i'll wait you know Yeah, that's how we I guess. like Maybe we won't record. and But you know what? It's crazy because we didn't record last Friday and now we're back on the mic and it feels like it's been a long time. um
00:01:25
Think Fresh
and So much has happened that we have to catch up on. But it's kind of like I was using Think Fresh's release calendar for so long as a like, like what what is that? A metronome in my life to keep track of time passing. Be like every couple days.
00:01:42
Think Fresh
tongue don And then it would be like every couple days I'm craving a sandwich. Oh God. I don't know if i would add the sandwich part, but yeah, you're right. Every two to three days when you record, it just feels like consistent. Like it's a pacemaker, you know, it's like, yeah, you just got something to keep you in check. Cause yeah.
00:02:05
Think Fresh
Yeah, life is ah life is way more variable. and It'll get away from you. And this pod is like one of the few constant things in my life. Yeah, it's crazy. I feel like a child of divorce right now. Yeah. Besides from my current life partnership this pod is my other longest relationship it is actually my longest ongoing commitment which is insane yeah except for the life commitment you made in italy that's true that's true we can't forget about that but even that feels fresh compared to the stale bread that is think fresh that's true think fresh uh but dude i don't want to overshare but in your vows you did say
00:02:40
Think Fresh
this is our new something. but You said something along the lines of like, our old anniversary is out the window. This is is is day one or something. It's all about reinvention, you know? you said so I did say something like that. I could pull it up. I have it on my notes.
00:02:55
Think Fresh
No, we don't need to do a vow renewal. But anyway, we should renew our vows. We should. At some point. dude yeah But um by anyways, my point is, this podcast has been going on longer than your
Culinary Conversations and Cravings
00:03:08
Think Fresh
mayor.
00:03:08
Think Fresh
You're right. And longer than honestly, most marriages on earth, like statistically, statistically, most marriages have either like, yeah, we we don't need to get into it. yeah But ah what's funny, though, is like, because we've been variable with the recording, I've also been variable with my ah sandwich in mouth.
00:03:27
Think Fresh
oh great I've been clean for a few weeks now, like, and I don't have the sub cravings that I normally do. Same. i I like walk away from every episode being like, i just need to carb load so bad. And then I'll go eat like a giant bowl spaghetti or eat.
00:03:41
Think Fresh
Yeah. 12 inches of sandwich is the only thing that really satisfies. Do you think that we were just like bad influences on each other? I think so. Like we secretly wanted to like, I don't know, just,
00:03:54
Think Fresh
get the other person to do something bad to their bodies dude this entire day i've been thinking i haven't been thinking about this day as in like oh i can't wait to record with eric after work i've been thinking i can't wait to encourage eric to go drink two or three beers with me after work this is just a formality it's a must yeah to get the boys together get the boys together boys just need a reason to hang out you know there's no like yours pull up no impossible um speaking of drinking eric i started drinking milk again oh cool yeah this is a big life update for me last couple weeks uh the crazy thing about dairy eric it's you go big or you go home with big dairy and like once you start drinking it like the leaders just go they they're going down and like i agree in the last since last episode i've probably drank like three liters of milk
00:04:44
Think Fresh
And I don't know where it goes. I keep bringing cartons into the house and they keep disappearing. They're ghosting. White like a ghost. You're bleeding cartons. Yeah. That's great, dude. That's a lot of calcium for for you. I'm notably deficient. Yeah. I have small, small brittle bones. My teeth are falling out.
00:05:03
Think Fresh
It's the ah iron deficiency that is... ah worse maybe yeah what's worse calcium or iron deficiency i don't know doesn't matter long as you can reproduce this slop anyway yeah exactly you but you're like a known milkhead we've discussed in length your consumption habits so like do you find that like you're a guzzling or do you is this should i is this just a honeymoon phase with the big dairy and i will taper off into a consistent pattern over time what you're saying am i just on a bender I think real milkheads ah would agree that it is difficult to consistently chug the white stuff. Yeah. You know, like slow sipper. It's kind of like you, you want to do it at select times. Like for me, my ultimate milk drinking time is in the bath or after the bath. What the hell? No.
Beverage Exploration and Dining Experiences
00:05:54
Think Fresh
what
00:05:56
Think Fresh
What do you mean? think about yeah Just think about this critically with me. If you're in the bath, you're, simultaneously getting thirsty and hungry yes and the only there's two liquids that can satisfy this thai milk and guinness that yeah yeah i guess i can't argue with that because the bath water uh stimulates the metabolism and the heat dehydrates exactly so you talk toxins coming out toxins going in and you know i'm saying that's true that's true ah Okay, so in the bath. So anyways, my point with that was like, I'm not in the bath 24 seven.
00:06:34
Think Fresh
So like, it's hard to just like pour up a glass of the white stuff. ah Like only a Wednesday at 2pm, you know? I'm not doing that. Is there like, um like a Pavlov style trading that happens where you like get in the hot tub, swim in a pool and you're like, starting to like crave the white stuff? I think there is. like i think there is. yeah um There's something about swimming and just being in water that makes me so fucking hungry.
00:07:00
Think Fresh
Oh, dude. It makes me dehydrated being around water. i get I get what you're meaning. Like craving a consumption. Totally. Totally. um But yeah, I'm a big milk drinker as well. We know. We as in me in the audience. That's right.
00:07:15
Think Fresh
Which is everyone. I recently acquired nice glass bottle of homo milk. And I've been dipping some cookies in that. You are not. homo. It is holidays after all. But yeah, I've got to say the full fat is the way to go. Especially if you're not going to like drink it constantly. If you just have it for like a sweet treat once in a while.
00:07:37
Think Fresh
Well, this is my challenge is because I've seen the world through cream colored glasses right now. Like I want to level up. I want the hard stuff now. And like the 2% isn't cutting. It's not. It's cut. It is cut. It's skinned. It tastes like, you're right. it tastes like water. at Like I bet you once you heavy cream, you can't go back to 2%. Drinking half and half. Crazy. That's wild.
00:08:01
Think Fresh
um it's good stuff though honestly good calcium yeah it's i think it's great i think there's a lot of protein in it too oh so that might actually benefit you quite well yeah you're right that man's eating a lot of tofu right now i need to diversify my assets that's true that's true um also last question on milk are we going plain chocolate or strawberry That's such a sick question here. By plain, do you mean um though the white one? Yeah. yeah yeah that not there's
00:08:36
Think Fresh
I guess I'm going plain, then. Is that lame? no No. I think chocolate's kind of... but The other two options are kind of for sickos. If you're getting in in any milk flavor variant, you're like like it's your addict you're addicted a bit. you know like Regular milk no longer satisfies you. You need the banana milk.
00:08:58
Think Fresh
ah i would recommend everyone try ah flavored milk once in a while you know it it takes you back to being a kid yeah really does especially when it's in like a little juice box carton it's funny that like i'm drawing the line of milk but ice cream it's fair game i'll put anything in ice cream yeah totally yeah why is that why is that better I guess because you kind of expect, yeah I think you expect milk to have this like natural quality to it.
00:09:25
Think Fresh
It's like au natural because it comes from an animal, even though it's heavily processed, and blah, blah, blah. Pasteurized. Yeah. Whatever that means. No one really no one knows. So as soon as there's a flavor injection, it like breaks the narrative of like, this is a natural thing. because you're like, if this was natural, there wouldn't be a pineapple version, you know? There wouldn't be like vanilla in it.
00:09:48
Think Fresh
yeah so it it contradicts my understanding or like the belief self system i've constructed around dairy no totally valid dude like how do they make the strawberry in the milk at least with like like co where are the strawberry chunks yeah um because like with cheese there's like an like expectation that it's going to be processed a little bit. And oftentimes the flavor injections are like it's smoked, which is like, okay. Or there's chunks in it, you know?
00:10:23
Think Fresh
Yeah. but A little chunk of something like a, like a app, apple smokes cheddar. Exactly. Yeah. that Yeah. i And I think in those cases, it feels like you can kind of understand how they got there.
00:10:34
Think Fresh
But when you see it's logical chocolate milk, it's like, guess it's pretty obvious. They put chocolate in milk. Yeah. But the strawberry one gets me. Strawberry one's fucking weird. And in in Korea, dude, like at the grocery stores, they have like all kinds of random milks there. like Like banana, mango, all in little to-go little servings, which is quite nice. Dude, this entire conversation is getting me thirsty.
00:11:02
Think Fresh
For the IRS that's listening, these are bubblies. We're not cracking beers in the car. Yeah, that's true. These are sparkling waters. Mango flavored, ironically. Oh, see? ah How the fuck did they get the mango in there? That's what I want to know. I don't know why I'm not weird. Water is the most natural substance on Earth. And I'm not confused by this having mango in it. I am. I'll be honest.
00:11:21
Think Fresh
fucking yeah I scoop these up for free and a little disappointed they don't bring in the plain sample green oh do you think they'd be more elevated that's like the nicest gift anyone can give somebody it's just like a high-end bottle of sparkling water like everyone wants sparkling water but no one wants to drink the soda stream shit they want to like yeah have a nice quality crack to the bottle mm-hmm slow pour mm-hmm a good fizz a nice little hopped
00:11:51
Think Fresh
i tried some uh sparkling tea the other day don't remember the variant of it but it came in this like beautiful like bottle uh very champagne coated had a cork and everything oh i bought that shit poured it kind of had like a bubbly prosecco e vibe don't tell me it's martinelli's i don't think so i wish i could remember any details on the brand it was from choices market oh cool ah But it just made me realize like we're in this like non-alcoholic era, unfortunately for you and I, we're going against the grain as per usual. um
00:12:23
Think Fresh
And now there's like some pretty good alternatives out there if you don't want to dabble in Prosecco. If you want to have like a little like a shittier Aperol spritz. Yeah, 100% the cider thing.
00:12:34
Think Fresh
I mean, Martinelli's has always been the gold standard for non-alcoholic champagne. Martinelli's. Who is Mr. Martin? I don't know.
00:12:45
Think Fresh
But it's got a nice bottle. So it doesn't feel that different. I think when you like win an F1 race in Dubai or some shit, like that's what they're spraying you with. So you get all sticky after. Nice. You know, because they don't drink there. But um Yeah, it's classic. ah Oh, yeah. this Is this what you had? No, this isn't what I had. Mine was a lot more like it was like a dark mode bottle, like black, really like ah i like a nice script font.
00:13:12
Think Fresh
Nice. Yeah. But these, you know, through a cream color glasses that you as you said you wouldn't be able to tell the difference it's true you're just looking right dude imagine winning a f1 race is getting geeked off the Martinelli's yeah dude dude life is good nice little sugar rush yeah uh speaking of drinking twisted drinks ty i want to tell you about something i had the other night okay uh it is a martini but instead of olive brine it wasn't a dirty martini it was a mushroom martini whoa umami yeah it had mushroom brine in it yikes that's crazy i don't know i even make mushroom brine it was at the new restaurant lm as in elemental i guess so yeah yeah i've seen this place on instagram i saw you following it on uh on the ig that's true i follow every restaurant in the city for some reason
00:14:05
Think Fresh
I don't think you should. i don't think I should either. They make bad content. Yeah, because I looked, I'm like, oh, Ty follows it. So it must be fine. No, what I do is I follow new restaurants when they open because then I remember to go visit them.
00:14:18
Think Fresh
It's like almost like it's a reminder. It's a reminding app. Instagram is just a reminder app You follow something so you remind remember to do something with it later. Mm-hmm. Yeah. um But was the restaurant is actually really good. Yeah. Have you been? yeah No, I haven't. It's pretty expensive. It must have been a date night.
00:14:34
Think Fresh
It was a double date. Double date. Hell yeah. It was nice. Dude, I went on a double date last week too. And I think they're the new date. More people to talk to? Yeah, you have to talk to your partner. No, that's not long. It gives you more options, right? It just adds a flavor to the regular experience because you have navigate a situation as a group. Yeah. I don't usually like doing that, though.
00:15:04
Think Fresh
Dude, the worst thing is sharing food on the double date. if Because you and your partner know what the deal is between each other when you go to a restaurant. Yeah, it's well-oiled machine. Exactly. But as soon as you throw other people in the mix, you're like, that just ruins the restaurant experience for me. It's like, I don't want to pay for half of the food that you want that I
Dining Etiquette and Social Dynamics
00:15:20
Think Fresh
don't really want that I'm going not even eat. That's why it's important to choose your double dates wisely. Mm-hmm.
00:15:26
Think Fresh
um But I'm happy to report that this was great. We had the chef's tasting menu. Of course you did. You you don't go to a place like LM. Yeah. LMNOP. ah Order a la carte. Yeah. Well, I don't know. didn't even get to look at the menu because we got there and our other, our counterparts were like, don't worry, we got ordering covered.
00:15:48
Think Fresh
Whoa. just pretty cool That is a cool move. Yeah. And then fucking like, At some point, they also paid, and we had no idea. Whoa. So this wasn't a double date. They were taking you guys on a date. Yeah, we got rizzed up, dude. Whoa.
00:16:03
Think Fresh
Pretty good. Yeah, it was a great setup. You're clients. No, it was truly spectacular, Ty. I didn't get to look at a piece of paper at all that at that night. Wow, what a nice touch. So yeah why were they celebrating you two?
00:16:15
Think Fresh
Well, we had... um It was ah kind of an exchange, Ty. was a transactional thing. Right, right, right. Because we had provided some BC Lions tickets to them. Oh, I see. Center field.
00:16:26
Think Fresh
<unk> Great tickets, yeah. take keys um And we weren't able to go or something, so we gave it to them. And then as a thank you, they treated us to nice dinner. Classy move. Very classy, yeah. They could have just said, we owe you one and left it at that. That's what I would do. would just throw it out there and leave it. Get you on Monday, big dog. got get paid tomorrow. Hey, don't worry. It's coming.
00:16:46
Think Fresh
Yeah. Yeah. No, they, it was actually guest on episode number three. I mean, Oh wow. Real throwback. Shout out to Amin for always believing in us. Yeah. Dude, tap into episode three. Actually don't. Or not. It was a different era for us. Yeah.
00:17:04
Think Fresh
Yo, that's awesome. I'm glad you checked it out. So LM is probably like only a year old at this point. like Their whole concept is based on the the seasons and the elements, correct? So that seems like it could have some novelty associated with it. yeah Do you have any notable plates from the tasting menu that kind of reflect that?
00:17:25
Think Fresh
You're nodding like crazy right now. So let us spray, dude. I'm nodding off, actually. What's your favorite element? Well, obviously the beverage I had was an earth element mushroom. We got to get back to that for a second. What did that taste like?
00:17:39
Think Fresh
It was awesome. It was like surprisingly good. I was waiting for it to taste like dirt and shit. but That's awesome. But it it didn't. It tasted like like just a hint of mushroom and the vodka, I guess, was very strong and high quality. So it just, yeah, it tastes like vodka with a hint of mushroom, which was great.
00:17:56
Think Fresh
I thought I might be hallucinating into the dinner, but I wasn't, thankfully. Because there was like these like longass long ass, long mushrooms hanging out of the glass. This is in your typical shiitake or. No, it was like it looked like like magic mushrooms. Yo, that's kind of sketched out.
00:18:13
Think Fresh
Um, so that's where I started off. They also gave you, gave us a welcome cocktail, which is great. Like a shot of something. Yeah. Yeah. Um, very cold, like, which is cool. A few places will do that. They'll like do it like a infused Prosecco or something. Yeah, totally.
00:18:28
Think Fresh
Um, and then I won't go through all the dishes most because I don't remember them, but one that I want to talk to you about was this, uh, sea bream or like was that the sea bream or a red snapper not remembering it was a big red fish and uh It was like split open and one side was like a Mexican adobo style dressing. So it was like kind of reddish orange spicy sweet side. And the other side was like a salsa verde like a green kind of. see what i That's what I do at the Mexi spots. i go half and half every yeah time. I can't pick. But the fish was like filleted open and each side was a different color. so it looks really striking. Yeah. yeah
00:19:12
Think Fresh
Beautiful. Yeah. And then one other thing. know you like this. I don't like this. But it's when places like tell you a fucking 30 minute synopsis of a dish before they drop it off. I like to be walked through. i want to know like what micro greens are these? Yeah. You like to be told about what the chef was thinking and feeling when you when you ah when they created that dish. Everything's intentional. Yeah. yeah They dropped off the steak.
00:19:40
Think Fresh
and it had to do with like the chef being in like thailand or some shit i don't know i zoned out but i was like guys let's just fucking keep it moving please i've got like six more courses yeah come on we ended up being a little late to our stand-up comedy show we went to after because the fucking chef wanted to talk through all of his they're doing their own little bit hey their own stand-up routine Yeah, i started heckling.
00:20:03
Think Fresh
But ah there's probably a lot of pressure on like a head chef of a restaurant. Do have world experiences to stimulate the menu? You know, it's like you're kind of a homebody like your food's going to suffer. Yeah. Yeah. and Mac and cheese again. So like maybe there needs to be a sandwich artist retreat.
00:20:21
Think Fresh
Yeah. So that sandwich artists can get new inspiration. you know They should go into like a sandwich making class in like Florence. Yeah. Like I was like, go to bologna. Yeah. oh You know, or other sandwich making centers. but We got to go. We got to go back to where it all began. Mortadella, you origin story. Yeah, dude. Or send them a Philly or something. You know? Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:44
Think Fresh
I had the ah conversation the other day. that the like handhelds are kind of a faux pas when you're eating with people. yeah You don't want to be the one dude with a handheld. Unless everyone's doing it. like I read the room. I see. I'm like, what what do you guys think? yeah the i Are we gripping or are we biting? I actually went for brunch with ah a group this weekend.
00:21:06
Think Fresh
And one girl was like, we all ordered eggs, Benny's. And then one girl was like, shit, didn't know what to say. And we're like, what's wrong? She's like, I was going to order the beef dip, but you all ordered Benny's. And then she ordered a Benny. Wow, you're pressured into the egg. But anyways, like, there's a rule like if one person is getting handheld, everyone's got to do it. think the same rule applies but to the meatball.
00:21:30
Think Fresh
Oh, like, sure. Even if everyone's getting handheld, you can't get the meatball alone. you know It's like, why did you have to like, go all the way? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next level. Yeah. It's like, you can't be the only guy eating a meatball. It's all or nothing. So it's like when you're going out for food, it's kind of like some restaurants, it's just applied, but it's when you get into these like casual fine dining or like genre cuisine ambiguous establishments where you're like, you could get a bowl, you could get they make a few starters into a main. and You can use any kind of utensil you want. That's what the Harris's restaurant is.
00:22:04
Think Fresh
That's crazy. So you almost have to like... prime people before going into the restaurant be like hey i'm really craving a burger do you guys want to go to cactus yeah you got to be like yo guys let's go out for burgers yeah instead of being like let's go to cactus they have burgers they also have sushi and and pasta in case you can't decide damn you're eating a burger and everyone else is delicately moving their chopsticks around embarrassing yeah man Hey, so I went out to a vegan restaurant last week. I'm so sorry. No, it's OK. I was with some people and someone at my table, ah there is a section of the drink menu that was elixirs.
00:22:46
Think Fresh
And they were like non-ease and they were supposed to be supercharged for your health. And one of them had so many different ingredients on it. Someone at my table is like, what's this one? And then the server says, this is the healthiest one on the menu. But I got warn you, it tastes like dirt.
00:23:02
Think Fresh
And it's like kind of just like a bunch of like random mushrooms blended up and shit. Kind of like your cocktail. yeah And then he's like, OK, well, I should probably try it and verify your yeah plane. Just get one for the table. you know Yeah, totally. Table dirt.
00:23:14
Think Fresh
And it literally it pulls up. It's like this. It's like a pint of mud. Like this shit. It licks like dirt water. It's frothing like a Guinness at the top. whoa yeah and it's got a straw in it and i like cough a sip and it tasted like soil dude this tastes like i was sipping dirt and the waitress is like veganism has gone too far that's kind of what i thought i'm like are you selling this for like 15 dollars oh my god um and she's like it'll grow on you it'll grow inside
00:23:46
Think Fresh
oh no damn um yeah dude that sounds ah absolutely awful i don't know what they were thinking they were thinking But I think there's like, living like I've, I've also seen this probiotic soda brand.
00:24:00
Think Fresh
Have you seen this poppy? No, is it poppy? Poopy? Poopy? It makes you go poopy. I'm not sure what it's called. Hold on, let me find it. Probiotic soda.
00:24:18
Think Fresh
doors are all uh i don't know what it's called oh clove oh yeah i know clove i know clove cove cove sorry yeah cove there's like a ginger ale with like uh some kind of like i don't know uh what's it called when you methamphetamines in there oh uh it's like a diuretic diuretic the the those guys hell's angels i don't know dude they had some crazy we just had like a gang walk a literal gang walk by matching fits yeah and we're just looking at gas sodas on our screen you're like they got a ginger ale they got a ginger ale don't kill me please oh we have like seven macbooks in here yeah we're using one 16 inch macbook as a table right now there's so many macbooks and no table space yeah this is crazy
00:25:07
Think Fresh
uh yeah anyways uh dirt water it it'll grow on you it'll grow in you that's for sure um i also went back to think fresh dinner spot elio volpe oh nice i've been meaning to make my way back to that brancino yeah Swim on back, baby. Swimming home. ah I thought it was great. I thought it was actually better than when you went. I think they've kind of tightened up, you know, they're over there. Oh, good. Yeah, were there pretty fresh. Like, they were new on the scene at that moment. Yeah, we got there the week
Vancouver's Dining Scene Revival
00:25:40
Think Fresh
it opened. And recall, like, somebody smashing, like, five plates of food behind me.
00:25:46
Think Fresh
I don't know why people go to restaurants for opening weekend or opening week. You should avoid it. yeah It's the worst experience you're going to have at the restaurant. It's kind of like an IPO. Like if you invest at open, you will lose money. Every time. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. You got to wait like six months.
00:26:02
Think Fresh
Yeah. It's like getting an intern to do your job, you know? Totally. But yeah, Elia was great. Had a two pastas, two pizzas. Great. Another double date. so Sounds like something for a carb loading.
00:26:15
Think Fresh
Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, man. It was fun. They also dropped our pizza on the way to our table. So we had to get a new one. Splat. It just went splat. And he's like, guys I'm so sorry. I dropped one of your pizzas. Did you clock the fall? Yeah. That must have been awesome. The guy looked like he was so depressed when it happened. wass like Oh, for sure.
00:26:36
Think Fresh
I mean, that's like the the last to lose it in the last mile sucks. Hey, like you're so close to closing. Like all that. Because the sad part of that guy, is all he has to do is he has to walk from the table to the kitchen. And we sat next to the kitchen. He had like go three feet to go. ah yeah but actually, you know what? Only one slice fell off.
00:26:56
Think Fresh
So that that one's gone. But that means they could take seven out of the eight slices back to the kitchen. It's an inside job. It's an inside job. Damn, dinner for the staff. Yeah. Whoopsie, got dinner tonight. The chef's like, hey, hey, this is the best one we've made tonight. Like, you know what to do. yeah This is too good to just give to a random guest. Sir, a second slice has hit the floor.
00:27:16
Think Fresh
shit We can't give this to a walk-in. Yeah. It's too good for them. Yeah. Yo, that's great. I'm glad you've been eating and drinking around the city. That's right. I feel like there's just a fucking surplus of new restaurants in Vancouver. It's a renaissance right now. I can't keep up. Yeah.
00:27:34
Think Fresh
I think the post-COVID, like, fear of, like, opening a retail space has kind of died down. Yeah. And, yeah, we just have tons of new shit. So kind of excited to try some some more places the next few months. Turns out this town doesn't just bust. There's also bit a bit of boom to it, too. That's right. Or maybe it's a cycle. Yeah, I hope so.
00:27:54
Think Fresh
I mean, it's it looks like it's on the up and up right now. Yeah. Yeah. um Did you go to June ever? Still haven't checked it out yet. Me neither. The hype is gone. i don't gone No one's talking. It opened like, what, five months ago? Yeah.
00:28:09
Think Fresh
Huge push on social. Everyone who was anyone was there. I missed it. And now I don't I don't have an interest. It's off my radar. on Yeah. um I've heard that it's overpriced for what it is, but I would like to check out that for myself. I find that appealing.
00:28:26
Think Fresh
It weeds out the wrong people. It does. Speaking of weeding out the wrong people, got to talk to you about what happened with Campbell's this week, if you don't already know. I don't know, but something about that sounds familiar. So please enlighten me. So ah guess like a memo leaked from a like C-level meeting. And one of the chairmen of the board, at Campbell's,
00:28:51
Think Fresh
campbell's a wholesome family brand for a hundred years um the guy was saying i wish i should pull up the exact quotes but he was basically saying like uh this is shit for poor people
Corporate Critique in the Food Industry
00:29:05
Think Fresh
he's like i don't eat this because i don't know what's in this shit mean we we make shit for poor people it's insane to be like calling out your demographic like that and Also, yeah, product on like official channels, official channels. Yeah. you're Like our food is shit and it will kill you. Yeah. So I mean, we all knew that.
00:29:26
Think Fresh
Yeah, I know. Totally. Like you look at like ah some creamy tomato soup and like the tomato is like the eighth item on the list. It's like a nonchalant tomato. It's like tomato type vegetable.
00:29:38
Think Fresh
move doesn't really identify as a tomato. you know It's not.
00:29:45
Think Fresh
I don't know what what's going on there, but it just makes me realize like this is probably a systematic issue in food where like every boardroom is saying the same stuff about their customers who they hate. They hate their customers and they hate their product.
00:30:00
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Yeah. And they just sit around hating them and then they take home a paycheck. Yeah. And they don't improve anything. Yeah. It's like, how did all these haters get to the top is what I want to know. It's good question. and I don't know. And then how come nobody wants to do a good job?
00:30:13
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People are just climbing the ladder, the corporate ladder, bro. They don't actually care about the company or the product. They're simply there to make it to the top. And that's that's success in itself, you know?
00:30:26
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Yeah, it is actually to be like, I think we make bad soup. We're killing the society. And I am now this and I am the CEO responsible for that. it' like Yeah, it's kind of crazy to be like, and I've been the CEO for years and I haven't fixed anything. I only made it worse. Yeah, I just increased shareholder value. Yeah, I guess the shareholder is the only customer that matters. That's true.
00:30:47
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That's why i don't think food companies should be like publicly traded. Like your your ultimate objective should be to make yummy, healthy stuff and not to be like maximizing profit, you know, and like growing at scale or whatever. Well, we actually need, there needs to be like the ah stock market and then there needs to be like the soup stock market, you know, the veggie stock market, the chicken stock market, and or maybe we'll call it the taste market.
00:31:17
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yeah you know and people are buying the taste of it i don't know what this the taste economy the taste of economy exactly that's kind of nice i like that flavor but uh who hasn't said like their product is shit in like a drug-fueled rage you know yeah totally like i bet you there's just a bunch of subway directors sitting in a board of being like thank god that wasn't us yeah It could very well be. It could easily be any of us. So like everyone needs to tighten their lips around here. you know Yeah.
00:31:51
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No, totally. loose Loose lips sink subs. Yeah, dude.
00:31:57
Think Fresh
um sink i don't know, dude. Think Fresh Podcast. Yeah, I guess so. Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening, redheads. Yeah. Stay tuned for more episodes. Yeah. We are so back. We keep saying. Keep saying and then disappearing for a month. Back and forth.
00:32:15
Think Fresh
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