March 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Dive into a sweet escape with our special guest host Fiddy and "The Fab Five" as they unwrap their deepest dessert opinions and share hidden bakery gems you won't want to miss. This episode is a sugar-coated journey through the world of treats that will have you reaching for your car keys to hunt down local pastry treasures.
Our guests reveal surprising consensus on some topics (ice cream beats cookies every time) while passionately disagreeing on others. When it comes to bakeries worth visiting, we uncover spectacular recommendations spanning from Corbo's in Cleveland to Jimmy's in Liberty and Oakmont Bakery in Pittsburgh—each promising authentic Italian pastries that would make any nonna proud.
The conversation turns hilariously unified when black licorice enters the chat. Every single guest expresses profound distaste for this controversial candy, with descriptions ranging from "if death had a taste" to comparisons we can't repeat in polite company. But it's not all criticism—our guests enthusiastically share their favorite candies, from Heath Bars to Reese's Fast Break to the nostalgic appeal of candy corn pumpkins.
As the discussion moves through morning coffee habits, birthday cake preferences, and even a tour of Hershey, Pennsylvania, you'll discover how dessert choices reveal personality traits and generational perspectives. The show wraps with a heated debate about pie superiority, with surprising contenders for both best (cherry, key lime) and most overrated (pumpkin, apple).
Whether you're planning your next road trip around bakery stops or simply looking to settle a dessert debate with friends, this episode delivers the perfect blend of recommendations, memories, and passionate opinions about the sweeter things in life. Tell
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is your special guest,host Fitty, and today we bring
you the all things sweets andtreats episode with a fabulous
group of people.
The Fab Five, as I'm callingthem today, are going to be
breaking down all things sweetsand treats for you.
Everything you can think ofwill probably fall underneath
these categories.
(00:20):
Before we have the guestsintroduce themselves, make sure
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They are huge supporters ofthis show.
We can't do it without them andwe can't do it without all you
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(00:42):
Without further ado, we're goingto have our guests introduce
themselves and we're going toget ready to roll on the sweets
and treats.
So, guests, the Fab Five,you're going to give your name.
Do you speak any otherlanguages besides English and if
so, what language?
And then what your favoritegrocery store is and why?
So we're going to kick it offwith probably the most seasoned
veteran guest of the show,mister all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Like my man 50 said, mr, ask you, aka, you know,
vampire coach?
Uh, the language I speak isenglish and english and english,
uh, I speak all three of them,um, very fluently.
Um, I would tell you the otherlanguage that I speak, but I
can't, you know, do my tonguelike that right now.
But the one store I love toshop is any international food
(01:33):
store, one particular Jungle Gym.
Love shopping there.
And then let me see the.
What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That was it.
Those were the three things.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
yeah, but I've been to Jungle Gyms in Cincinnati.
It's pretty see the uh, whatwas the other one?
That was it those are three.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Those are three things, yeah, but I I've been to
jungle gyms in cincinnati.
It's, it's pretty cool.
It is a pretty unique store, soI have been there, I have been
there lando.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hey everyone, this is matt lindowski here.
Um, I speak english, a littlebit of spanish and uh, I'm gonna
go with publics down down souththere and I always can go for a
good pub sub head to the beach,so okay and make sure all of
our listeners are checking outSweet Hand Sports.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One of our sponsors of the show that is Lando's
business.
So definitely check them outfor all your baseball and
softball and golf needs.
So I know some of us arebaseball, softball and golfers
I'm none of the three, um, butif everybody else is doing it,
definitely check out Lando'ssweet hand sports, andrea.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh, all right, my name is Andrea Um, the only
other language I speak inEnglish is scar sarcasm and I'm
going to have to just go withbasic all these Cause.
Um, because there's not reallymuch down here in Youngstown
Ohio, so if I got to pickbetween Walmart, Giant Eagle and
Aldi's, it's going to be Aldi's.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
OK, how about you, Marsco?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
My name is Christopher Marsco, speak
English, foul English andItalian slang Picked up a lot of
good ones from you know Nona,nono, bubby, all them good ones.
And then I'd say my store, I'dsay Walmart.
You know, growing up inCortland all you really had was
Walmart up the road, unless youreally wanted to drive somewhere
(03:15):
.
So Walmart.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Okay, and Tony.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
My name is Tony.
I speak in addition to English.
I speak some German, Took it inthree years in high school and
one in college, and I like Meyer, because you can get a lot of
Meyer flies under the radar asfar as deals on groceries goes.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay.
So I can speak a little bit ofSpanish, but mi Español es no
bueno, pero lo estoy intentando.
I can speak a little bit ofSpanish, but me espanola es no
bueno, pero lo estoy intentando.
I can speak a little bit ofItalian and say ciao sono John
or me chiamo Giovanni, so I canspeak a little bit of those, but
other than that I speak nothingelse.
So my favorite grocery store isMenor Family Foods here in Menor
(04:01):
Ohio.
It's a great grocery store, momand pop place.
You walk in.
They got the good music goingon, the 60s and 70s music.
They make the bread in the back.
They got the good deli.
The cold foods that they haveare great.
The pasta salad is great.
The potato salad is wonderful.
Just had the antipasta saladthe other day.
It's wonderful.
So if you're ever inClevelandveland, make sure you
(04:22):
stop in men or family foods.
You won't regret it.
They have great, great music.
It's all about the ambiance ofthe music when you walk in the
store.
You know what I mean, marsco,so that's all.
So we're gonna talk about allthings sweets and treats.
So we're gonna go, mr lando,andrea, marsco and tony.
So we'll start with you, mr um,ice cream or cookies.
(04:42):
What is no explanation, justwhat is better.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Ice cream.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, lando, ice cream.
Okay, andrea.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I was muted Ice cream .
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, marsco Ice cream.
Okay, tony, is it a clean sweephere?
Yes, it is Ice cream, okay.
Okay, starting off a little biteasy, next one's a little bit
more challenging.
So what bakery or pastry shopdo you recommend people should
go to?
It can be anything that you'veexperienced anywhere in the
country, anywhere that you maylive right now.
(05:16):
I'm going to say, if youhaven't tried Corbo's Bakery in
Cleveland, especially the one inLittle Italy or Playhouse
Square, they're great.
They have ultimate, ultimateItalian authentic pastries.
It's wonderful.
Those guys do a great job there.
Valerie, there, she's awesome.
So I'm going to say Corbo's,their cannolis are fantastic and
(05:38):
the rainbow cookies areoutstanding.
Mister, what place are yourecommending?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Man, that's a good question right there, the one
that I have to say.
That comes to mind when you saycannolis.
The one place I love to go toget cannolis at is at Jungle
Gems in Cincinnati.
That bakery there, man, it'sreally fantastic.
You can get a good variety ofstuff, so that would be one of
my places.
Okay, and if no one's ever beento Jungle Gems, if you go to
Cincinnati you know you can geta good variety of stuff, so that
(06:04):
would be one of my places, okay, and if no one's ever been to
Jungle Gyms, if you go toCincinnati, definitely
experience it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It is like something you'll never, never experience
anywhere else.
It's like Walmart on steroids,if you can imagine that.
So it's definitely eventful.
So take a road trip toCincinnati, get yourself some
Jungle Gyms.
All right, lando, what are yousaying?
Cincinnati, get yourself somejungle gyms.
All right, lando, what are yousaying?
What's the best pastry shop orbakery that you that you've ever
been to?
Or you get stuff from?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, being right down the road from me is Oakmont
Bakery.
I'm going to go with that downhere in Pittsburgh and yeah, man
, they got the best cannoli cake.
So it's just like a big cannoliwith little cannolis all over
it.
So you can't really beat that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So okay, and Andrea, what are you going to say?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I've said it before, I'm going to say it again
Jimmy's and Liberty.
It's a fantastic Italian uhbakery restaurant, uh Italian
store and they also, I feel like, have the best.
Best can always.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I figured you were going to say that you know,
being a fellow Italian fromYoungstown, so we'll see what
Marsco says right now, being theother Italian guy on the show
here so I'm going to go aheadand double down with Andrea.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Jimmy's was teed up for me.
You know I've worked with themfor a couple things with
football, and they're greatpeople too.
I think that adds to it.
Great food, great people.
You got to win there.
I'll offer up a different one,though.
Alessi's up on our way inbetween here in Cleveland.
They've got real good cannolitoo.
I'd put them up with anybody,but say Jimmy or Alessi's.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Alessi's is really really great.
They are one of the stapleshere in Lake County.
So good, call on that, marisco,I didn't know you knew about
Aleshi's.
It's a.
It's a definitely a great spot.
They got some really reallygood, you know, rolls in there
as well, and they have the hotand cold food section too, so
it's definitely awesome.
(08:02):
So, all right, tony, what areyou saying?
Because you you've been arounda lot of places.
Where are you saying is thatbest bakery or pastry shop east?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
cider guy.
I'm gonna go a little off thepath here and say chagrin falls
pop shop chagrin falls popcornshop.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's a good one, tony.
That is a good one.
The uh, the hallmark town,chagrin falls Falls.
If you ever want to imaginegoing to a true Hallmark Town,
go to Chagrin Falls and get somepopcorn.
Sit down by the waterfall.
You swear you're in a moviethere.
So that's definitely a good one, tony.
All right, we're going to goback to Mister on this.
Mister, what's your favoriteflavored milkshake?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, my gosh Favorite flavor.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
huh, Yep, and it they can be from like any, any place
.
You just can't say boozy icecream here anyone, so just got
to be a regular, regularmilkshake hey, man, uh, any
anything mixed together.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
yeah, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, you know it
don't matter.
Yeah, anything mixed together.
Okay, you put it in a form of amilkshake.
It's done, done-dada, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
What about you, Lando ?
What are you saying?
I'm going to go chocolateChocolate huh, Okay.
Andrea.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I got to go basic.
I like it simple chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Wow, we're simple on a three out of the first five on
this.
Uh, what about you, marco?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I too that I can't really decipher because I don't
really go with milkshake unlessit's unique.
So I'd say, uh, chocolatebanana shake.
I've like get cookout, or oneof the places like that where
you got a couple flavors you canmix.
Or uh, what was my other one?
I can't even remember it now,they're all so good.
I'd say the chocolate bananaone.
(09:48):
Or uh, oh uh, arby's jamochashake.
And that's just because theavailability of it, its
uniqueness you kind of get oneeverywhere, jamocha shakes
underrated okay, tony, beforeyou answer, I will say my
favorite milkshake is a bananaflavored milkshake.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But you can't beat the um like the, the mint
flavored saint patrick's dayones, uh, the shamrock cakes
from mcdonald's?
Yeah, they are.
They are excellent with that.
So but, tony, what's yourfavorite flavored milkshake?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I have two actually I like a good peppermint
milkshake and I like a goodcookie shake okay, that's
interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That is definitely interesting.
All right, this is gonna be afunny one now.
Um, how would you describeblack licorice and the taste of
it?
So how would you describelicorice and the taste of it?
I'll start with this, as youguys all ponder it, and I'm
gonna say if death had taste, itwould taste like black licorice
.
So that's what I'm going to say, because I think black licorice
(10:48):
is the worst tasting thing inthe entire world.
It's terrible.
So I'm going to say if, if ittastes like anything, it tasted
like death, mister.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Man, that is absolutely perfect.
If I was out in space and Mars,that's what I think it would be
something from the third planet.
Um, they dried just.
Oh, that's yuck, I can't evenput it into words.
And how about this?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
no comment okay, what are you saying, lando?
Uh'm going to go with you onthat one, fitty, I'm going to
agree with you.
It's not that good.
And if you want something alittle worse, go with the dark
chalk with nothing in it.
I mean, that's just downrightpain right there, man.
(11:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Andrea, what are you saying about black licorice?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't like black licorice.
I don't know anybody that does,and if I did know somebody that
liked it, they would not be inmy circle.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They know it.
I'm glad you don't like it, soI can stay in your circle of
friends.
I'm glad.
So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, see, now, if I see someone eating black
licorice, I'm glad.
So what are you saying, Marsco?
Yeah, see, now if I see someoneeating black licorice I'm like
I want that person to be myfriend.
They're a little on court, theymight come in handy.
I'm going to copy what my sonsays Black licorice is cucka
Tastes like.
I have never eaten poop.
Hope I never have to.
(12:23):
Don't plan on it.
That's probably what it tasteslike.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm good what are you saying, tony?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I will have to say I do not ever wish to eat black
licorice in any way, shape orform.
It was like one of those thingswhere this somehow was flavored
with strawberry.
Just looks like black licorice,but it's flavored with like
strawberry or something.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I, just I, I would, I would.
I would eat this pen before I'deat black licorice.
If I was starving, I would eatthat pen first.
I would eat this dookie beforeI eat black licorice.
Black licorice is awful, butgoing off of that, let's talk
about this one.
Though.
What's your actual favoritecandy?
(13:07):
You only can pick, hopefully,one if you have two, but I'm
going to say mine, and I'm not ahuge candy person, but I do
like the dark Milky Ways, likethe midnight flavored one that
has the dark chocolate in it.
So that's my jam right there.
But, mister, what is yourfavorite candy?
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
favorite candy man, I have to say man, candy corn,
candy, candy, candy corn.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Give me the candy corn are you eating the candy
corn that has, like the pumpkinsin it, the little?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely love the pumpkin,
especially the pumpkins.
Those are those, those are tops.
Man, that was the best oneright there.
Give me the pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
picking Lando.
I'm going to go with Heath Bar.
Heath Bar yeah, I'm actuallypretty hooked on these Heath Bar
Blizzards right now.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, Lando, there's a difference between a Heath Bar
Blizzard and eating a Heath Bar.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, the Heath Bar Blizzard is like the next level
man.
I'm telling you that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
well, the heat bar blizzard's like the next level
man okay, that's that's fair.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Andrea, what are you saying?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I go through phases where I'm like, oh, this is my
favorite candy, but I feel likeone that, like, always ends up
coming back around, is a fifthavenue.
I don't know if you've ever hadone, but it's like kind of like
a butterfinger.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But better you know those?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
those aren't.
Those aren't bad, those aren'tbad.
I'll give you that.
Those aren't bad.
What are you saying, marco?
So reese's?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
enthusiast if I had to pick one out of what reese's
makes.
I'm a big fast break bar guy.
That little layer of nougat inthere making it a little chewy,
it just spreezes on steroids.
But I feel like you got to havea whole separate division.
That's my chocolate candy, likeif I'm doing like a gummy, or
like a sweets candy, like that.
(14:59):
I got to go nerds clusters.
That's just the party.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Things are great, tony, what are you picking?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I pick Twix man, just none like a good old Twix, you
could just snap and eat.
You got caramel, you got alittle Twix bar.
You can't go wrong with theclassics.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, that's fair.
So we're going to bring up thisone next and I'm going to shout
out my friends Megan Steve andCoach Upton on this one.
Shout out Myrtle Beach 2020 onthe argument we got into about
this Red Vines.
Are you, guys, fans of RedVines and if so, would you eat a
Red Vine over a Twizzler?
(15:40):
So, are you a fan of Red Vinesand if so, would you eat a Red
Vine over a Twizzler?
Mister, a Red Vine, you neverhad red vines.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I've never had that, oh my gosh, you ain't missing
too much.
I ain't missing too much.
I'm like a red vine.
I'm trying to look it up.
What in the world is that Redvines are life?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Red vines are life, they're life.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
When you said Andy Upton, I should have known it
was something different.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Because he hates Red Vines.
That's why I wanted to bringthis up, because we were arguing
playing cards in Myrtle BeachFive years ago, like right now,
about Red Vines.
So, lando, do you like RedVines?
I'm unsure what Red Vines areman.
They're like the For people thatdon't know what red vines are.
They're like the, the fat,cheap version of licorice, and
(16:35):
you can actually like drink adrink through them, cause
they're so fat.
They sell them at the movementtheaters Next time you go to the
movie theater.
You got it.
You got to try red vine.
It's a unique taste.
So, andrea, I'm looking at yourface right now.
Have you ever had red vines?
It's a unique taste.
So, andrea, I'm looking at yourface right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Have you ever had red vines?
No, but all I can think aboutis the licorice that has.
Like the little things that youcan like, pull off you know
what I'm talking about.
There's a bunch of them.
That's like the superiorlicorice.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I've never seen red vines at a movie theater I guess
I'm going to the wrong movietheaters than if there's red
vines there.
So what are you saying aboutred vines, Chris All?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
right.
So I have eaten them Fitty andit's not the most diabolical
candy.
Like it's not my bottom five, Icould sit down and eat some red
vines.
They are no comparison toTwizzlers, in my opinion.
I think we're in differentcategories of licorice.
Doing that, I think theTwizzler is vastly superior to a
(17:33):
red vine.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, tony, you saving me at all on this one man
.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I like red vines and, don't get me wrong, I do like a
good red vine.
They're nothing compared toTwizzlers, though.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Man, everyone is missing out on the red vine
train.
You got to get on them.
They're like I don't know, free99 at the candy store if you
find them.
So I mean they're, they arepretty, pretty good.
But shout out red vines.
Shout out, coach Upton, steveand Megan.
You know the argument we gotinto about red vines, for
everybody knows, coach Upton, hetried a red vine and spit it
out and like through the otherpieces that this is the worst
(18:08):
candy I've ever eaten in my life.
When he bit into it, so um, butyou know, red vines are life,
man.
Red vines make the world goaround.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
So texture I'll give them that they are different.
It's not like a mock off of thetwizzler, it's kind of his own
little thing yeah, and they'reprobably really unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
If you really look at what they're probably made out
of, you's probably made out oflike like probably I don't even
know like some type of plasticcoating and sadness or something
they're pretty good but I, butI like them, but all right, no
more red vines on that.
So let's get into this, though.
What is your favorite um pastry?
And you can really answeranything here.
(18:46):
Uh, whatever your favoritepastry is, um, you know, you
just can't say donuts.
So what I'm going to say,though, is I do love cannolis.
Um, cannolis are my jam, but Ireally love rainbow cookies.
Um, they're italian staple.
Um people that never had them.
You can get them at jimmy's orpretty much any store, unless
she's corbo's, but I love, um, Ilove the rainbow cookies, so
(19:07):
not the cake ones, but just theregular ones with the chocolate
on the top and the chocolate onthe bottom.
So, mr, though, what's yourfavorite go-to pastry out of all
the great pastries in the world?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Most definitely man.
Cannolis.
Man, that's my number one.
Yeah, I love the cannolis.
I can do those all day long.
Yeah, either one that's likechocolate or one that's vanilla.
I've been to different places.
You know where they actuallymade it.
You know where they made it,you know different flavors, so,
(19:38):
but I love cannolis.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, how about you, lando?
What's your go-to favoritepastry out there?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, I'm going to go with cannolis too.
I like them with the chocolateinside though.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Those are my jam man okay, how about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
um, I'm gonna say a cinnamon roll, if that counts as
a pastry.
I freaking love cinnamon rolls,especially molnars another
thing down here in youngstown,but they have the best molnars,
I never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Where is that out in Youngstown?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
so in the summer they like post up down at the corner
of the street over here where Ilive, but, um, they go to like
the Canfield Fair a lot and theygo around to like different
festivals and whatnot.
But that's like a really bigthing in the area is Molnar's
concession stand.
So their cinnamon rolls are.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
They're huge, they're , they're great are they north
or south side based?
I'm from youngstown that'snorth or south youngstown uh,
west side, but I don't know Icover high school football like
north is the arsalan side, southis mooney, west is cheney yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So, tony, next time you're in youngstown you'll have
to get a molnars cinnamon rolland think about andrea and be
like this is great when you eatit if I can find molnars, then
yes, absolutely I got you, I'llhelp you out all right, perfect.
So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
you know I wanted to try to offer up something to be
a little diverse, but it's sofar and away cannoli I can.
I can't even BS you guys tosomething else.
So the one thing I will do insaying cannoli, shout out to
Muscarella's Cafe in Sharpsville.
You know, each night you gothey got like four or five
different specialized cannolisHeath Bar cannoli, Banana Sunday
(21:28):
cannoli.
They just mix it up all thetime.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So shout out to muskerellas dang marsco, you
know everywhere, man.
Yeah, you don't even knowmuskerellas, man, you know back
in the old stomping groundsthere.
So you know, good for you, youmust be well traveled on wanting
to go to different italianplaces.
I'm a foodie.
You're going to dropping aleshies up here at east lake,
going to muskerellas inSharpsville.
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Man Marsco is well traveled,but but you know, growing up in
Cortland, you're in a good spotCause you're like halfway
between all that stuff.
So you know, definitely,definitely a good thing, though,
to get to all those places.
Tony, what are you saying isyour favorite best pastry out
there?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I go with the classic traditional croissant.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
A croissant, anything in the croissant?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yes, like cream cheese, strawberry or a good
Danish.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
What's your go-to flavor?
On the Danish, though,strawberry.
Strawberry danish is prettygood.
I'll eat a cream cheese one,though you can't get down with
cream cheese danishes if it hasblack licorice, I'm throwing it
at the wall in a warning, okay Imean, that's, that's fair.
(22:44):
So the next one, mister, we'regonna, um, you know, go to you
on this.
So if you had a favoritebirthday cake that you could
pick for, like for your birthday, and it could be whatever
flavor you want it to be um, youknow what flavor are you
picking for that like bestbirthday cake that you could
have oh baby, 100 baby, it'sgonna be a rum cake rum cake wow
(23:08):
, rum cake all day long.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
As big, as big and as wide and as long as the table
that is on.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Lando, I'm going with the cannoli cake from Oak Palm
Bakery.
Wow, it's a hit man.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Cannoli flavored stuff is the big winner on this
show today, that's for sure.
So, andrearea, what are yougoing with your, your favorite
flavored birthday cake?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
um, I want to do a cookie dough ice cream cake from
dairy queen that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That is a good one that makes me think before
answer this.
Marco, does anyone rememberwhen dairy queen had the pizza?
Like frozen pizza cakes thatwere ice creams.
Anybody remember that?
I do like bagley I feel likethey brought them back for a
little bit yeah, they were likein the, in the shape of a pizza
and they were cut like it andthey had like toppings that were
like ice cream and like alltheir goodies on top of it.
(24:03):
It was like an ice cream pizza.
It was like really, really cool.
But I'm also the second oldestperson on this podcast, so I
remember that when I was likelittle and a lot of you were
like really, really little.
So, um man, I just aged myselfthere, oh geez.
So, marco, what are you goingwith that?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
that favorite flavored birthday cake uh,
probably aunt jean's chocolatecherry cake, the the icing's
homemade whipped up it ends upbeing almost like a fudge
texture when you cut into it andthe cake's nice and airy.
Underneath it's a, it's a goodmix of dense and light and I
don't know the chocolate cherryflavor when you beat up the
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cherries and adam it's.
It's real delicate, real deep.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Okay, that was a deep answer on that one.
So all right, tony, what areyou doing with that?
That favorite flavored birthdaycake?
What are you doing here, mom?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
bought me one years ago cookies and cream cake and I
especially like one from dairyqueen.
I've always been a big cookiesand cream thing okay.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So if anyone's ever looking for birthday cakes that
you want to get the fab fivehere, if there's significant
others and family are listeningto this, you know they just told
you what they wanted for theirbirthday cake, so let's make
sure that that happens.
So, um, the next one is goingto be very interesting, I think.
Um, are you eating sweets anytype of sweets and coffee for
breakfast in the morning?
Is that your jam?
(25:25):
And I'm going to say for me, um, it was until my pants got a
little snug and then I was like,nope, I'm eating just straight
fruit or toast with like honeyon it.
So, but for everybody else onthe on the fab five here, are
you eating sweets and coffee inthe morning for breakfast,
mister?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
no, I might have some coffee, uh, but no, I'm not
eating those sweets.
If anything, man, it's gonna bean apple man.
Yeah, because you know, as youget older, you know, hey, no
sugar, and then calories add upand you got a bit of burning
them off and it just ain't, itjust ain't working, you know.
So you gotta cut back, but yeah, I go for the coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, okay, I think I used to love, I used to love
just pounding like four cannolisand having some coffee in the
morning and just out therevibing like I'm like it's like
clemenza from the godfather,just being super fat and
unhealthy but you know then Ireally then I got fat and
unhealthy and then I, you know,had to lose some weight, so I
cut that all out.
But lando, you having sweetsand coffee for breakfast, heck
(26:23):
no man.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Um, that that is real man.
Like you start eating thesweets a little more, it it
definitely hits you at a certainage, man.
So I usually go every Sundaynight get some ice cream with
the girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That's about it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, what about you, andrea?
Are you eating sweets andcoffee for breakfast?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Definitely coffee and not sweets.
I feel like it just starts yourday off sluggish.
But I consider a cinnamon rolllike a breakfast treat.
So like every once in a while Iwould do a cinnamon roll, I'd
settle with that, but nothingelse, not like cookies or
anything like that.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, okay.
What about you, marsco too?
Banana bread, banana bread withchocolate chips in it, cinnamon
roll biscotti, biscotti dippedin chocolate with nuts.
I really teeter the line of isit as sweet?
Is it not as sweet?
It probably is as sweet, butI'm still eating it, so I'd say
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I'm in for it.
I had terrible discipline.
I've been known to.
You know grandma's lemon dropsgo real good.
A little bit of coffee on themtoo.
So yeah, I'm a sweet guy in themorning and it has hit me and
I'm too ignorant to stop, so Ican't help it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What does your wife think of that, Marisco?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I've got her all confused.
She always tells me she wishedshe knew me a little bit longer
before she got married.
Jokingly but yeah, I'm adifferent bird.
She raises her eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You know, right.
You know what that, thathappens, All right, I mean, you
know it is what it is.
We all find out unique thingsabout our significant others,
and you know family as we, as wegrow older.
So you know things like that,my coverage.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I married up or so you know, things like that Get
to my coverage.
I married up, so I expect that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
All right, tony, you having sweets and coffee in the
morning, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Well, first of all, full disclosure.
I will not drink black coffee.
I need my cream and sugar, Ineed my creamer in it.
I'm not going to drink blackcoffee for breakfast.
As far as sweets goes, like Isaid, give me a good Danish, a
good croissant, something likethat.
I need that breakfast to get mymotor running.
(28:39):
I'm probably going to regret ityears down the line, but you
know, I'm living in the net.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And Tony, you're the youngest person I think on here,
so you know you have a.
You have a quite a while to goon.
You know, enjoying the sweetsin the morning so which actually
tony brought this up brings meto my next point.
So you know, pretty muchamerica's all obsessed with
coffee.
You know we, we all, drinkcoffee at probably some point or
multiple points of the day.
But are you a coffee fan with,like, super sweets in it, like
(29:09):
caramel, caramel or like, uh,anything like some type of
flavored vanilla, anything thatmakes it very, very sweet?
Um, is that your jam withcoffee?
And I'll start with this andI'll say no.
Um, I don't put sugar in mycoffee, I just do a little bit
of milk.
Um, but you know, those drinksfrom Starbucks are delicious
until you start gaining weight,so I cut those out.
But, uh, with mister, do youlike the sweet flavors in your
(29:32):
coffee?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Nah, man, I just take that much straight up dark,
straight up black.
Man, you know, I have tried itwith.
You know, with different thingsdifferent.
You know, cream, nah, there'ssome good creams out there, for
sure, but the only reason whyyou know what I'm saying you cut
back on the cream because,again, what's the one thing we
talk about, is just adding morecalories and calories.
(29:56):
Man, I'm telling you, man, youknow you don't drink no two,
three cups of coffee.
Man, you keep adding oncreamers and creams.
That's a catch up and add up,man.
So I agree, I agree with you onthat, yeah every once in a while
, if I'm on like a long trip orsomething I'm driving, I might
add the sugar and I might addthe cream, just because I'm on
(30:21):
Like a long road trip orwhatever.
But nah, it's all black though.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
What about you, Lando ?
Are you enjoying all the sweetflavored Creamers in your coffee
?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Not really man.
I actually drink green tea.
You enjoying all the sweetflavored um creamers in your
coffee?
Not really man.
Just, uh, I actually drinkgreen tea.
So, um, that's usually my go-toin the morning.
But, uh, if I do have a coffee,I just go dark so okay, okay,
what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I do.
I like sweet coffee.
I will drink like just blackcoffee sometimes, depending on
where it's from, but I do like agood like caramel macchiato.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, I was just going to ask you what flavor,
but you answered it before Icould even ask.
So there we go.
So what about you, Marsco?
Are you putting all the flavorsin all at one time and dipping
your banana bread in there anddancing around the house, the
ton and dill and stuff you know,acting like your 1940s Italian
person?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Dark roast black coffee and it's funny how I got
started with it.
It's like you don't reallydrink coffee.
Like high school I'd mix it andall the sugars and stuff.
But I worked at a golf courseat the Trumbull Country Club
with a bunch of grown men and Iasked them one morning before we
got our jobs, like 5.30, hey,where's the cream and sugar?
And the one dude laughed andthey they kind of busted me up
(31:34):
pretty good about it and I don'tknow.
I don't want to say I gotbullied into black coffee but
start drinking it after a whileyou're like damn, this ain't too
bad.
So it's been on for over adecade now.
That's the way to be okay, whatabout you, tony?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I gotta have something in my coffee.
Like I said, I'm not going todrink black coffee straight up.
Even when I get to my 40s, 50s,I can't drink black coffee
straight up.
I don't know how y'all do it,but it's not, it's easy, man,
(32:08):
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hey, just keep living , man, don't worry God don't
that darn.
Mr Askey was right.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know, tony hopefully we'll keep the show
going for like another 20 yearshere, so like when we're all old
, you know, then you can reallytalk to us about how your your
palate with coffee's changedover time with your taste.
So we got two topics herebefore we end the show, everyone
.
The first one is, you know,chocolate Town, usa, hershey,
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pennsylvania, is a very, veryunique place.
A lot of people just know thename of it.
They know Milton Hersheyinvented chocolate there right
originally.
But it's a pretty fantasticplace with the theme park, the
chocolate factory, all themuseums that they have here, the
Hershey Museum itself.
Definitely a wonderful place.
If you haven't visited I wasthere a couple years ago but
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definitely go there.
If you're a candy and chocolateconnoisseur, it'll blow your
mind.
So I just want to go around andask all the guests you know
have you ever been to Hershey?
And, if so, you know what wasyour experience like?
So, mister, have you ever beento Hershey?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
No, that's one place I have not been to, so that's
one that's on the list to go outthere and check out that.
So no, not yet.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Highly recommend and go to the theme park.
If you go out in the summer,it's pretty cool.
So, um, what about you?
Lando?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
um, I have, I have been there when I was a young
kid.
Um, it was for, I think, awrestling tournament out there
and, uh, we stopped at the candyshop and stuff, and it's
definitely something to see,definitely something to see.
Now I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yeah, for sure andrea I've never been okay, marscoe.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
I don't remember, Ben , but I do have a question for
the football people.
Is that where they used to playthe Big 33 game at?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And the state championships yes, oh yeah, the
Big 33.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, they have a football stadium out there.
It's very dated, but they usedto do the state championships
where they'd move them.
But they also do like concertsand stuff.
Actually, lady Gaga was outthere like three years ago she
performed out there, which waspretty, pretty unique.
But, tony, have you ever beento Hershey PA?
Speaker 6 (34:21):
No, not for football, not for anything, but I would
eventually like to go at somepoint.
I think I'm going to end upfinding myself going, whether I
go myself or I end up going withsomebody else it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You know, we went out there a couple years ago right
before thanksgiving and they,they did everything like
decorated for christmas and Imean the chocolate tour was
great.
I mean the museums are great.
It's just a lot of fun.
There's like boutiques to goshopping at uh, the museum's a
lot of fun.
It's just a very, very coolexperience.
They do have concerts out there.
The theme park's great.
But you know, you definitely gotexperience, um, the hershey
(34:59):
plant, the.
You know the, the experience ofthat.
Take the, take the free touraround the building, um, as well
, you can do things like we madeour own chocolate bars, uh,
which was really cool.
So it's a very cool place.
Just want to shout out you knowchocolate town, uh, you know
usa for hershey, pennsylvania.
They're so very, very uniqueand fun.
Fact, before we get on to thelast question, when milton
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hershey was originally startingthat, um, they used to make
actually the chocolate with milk.
That's why it was called milkchocolate.
He had his own dairy farm therethat he would import the milk
and make all the chocolate thatway.
Anymore chocolate does not havemilk in it, so there's actually
a fun fact.
So that's why there's adifference between milk
(35:42):
chocolate and chocolate.
Chocolate does not have milk init.
Milk chocolate has milk, butit's it's dilated.
So but back in the day, milland hershey had his own farms
there with cows for strictlyjust milk.
So that's why I got to checkout the hershey museum.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
So uh, last question, real question for you is it
true you can smell the chocolatepulling up that people tell me
you can smell the chocolate ifyou roll your window down.
You can.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You can because, yeah , you can.
It's, it's very unique, um, andactually one more cool thing
about that is they actually havethe Hershey like hotel, so that
is actually like everythingincorporated chocolate in there.
If you like spas for anybodythat listens to this if you like
a spa, they actually do likechocolate baths and stuff like
that that you actually can getinto and get covered in
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chocolate and all types of stuff.
So it's a very unique place outthere, a little pricey on the
hotel, but, uh, I wouldrecommend just staying somewhere
else and maybe going to the spa.
But yeah, they do like, um, alltypes of hershey baths and
stuff like that and chocolate.
So definitely look that up,everyone.
So last topic what is yourfavorite pie and what is the
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most overrated or flavored ofpie?
So I'll let you guys thinkabout this.
My favorite pie is a strawberrypie from Eaton Park.
There's not too many EatonParks left out there, but
strawberry pie from Eaton Parkis fantastic.
That is my favorite and I thinkprobably a hot take here is
apple pie is the most overratedflavor of pie.
(37:11):
So, mister, take it away.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Man, I tell you what I love a good chest pie.
So, mister, take it away.
Man, I tell you what I love agood chest pie.
I love chest pie, but overratedone I would probably have to
say probably apple pie.
I eat it, don't mind it, but Ithink there's so many other good
pies out there.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Okay, what about you, Lando?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I was actually just down in the Keys.
I'm going to go with Key LimePie.
Okay, I had a little bit ofthat down there and down the
Keys in Florida and I'm going tosay I don't know if there is a
pie I don't like, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Maybe you got to experience more pies to find one
.
More pies, more pies.
So what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (38:05):
My favorite is cherry and I think the most overrated
is pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Wow, that's a hot take right there, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
That's a rough one.
I don't like pumpkin pie.
I don't think it's good do youlike?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
not like pumpkin flavored anything or just
pumpkin pie?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
uh, pumpkin flavor stuff is like growing on me a
little bit but I'm definitelynot a fan like I still don't
really like.
Like pumpkin spice coffee andstuff like that.
I think it tastes too fake.
But like pumpkin roll, like Ithink it's all overrated.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
In the fall I'd go apple, which you guys think is
overrated, which is fine, butthat's my fall pick you know
what, and it's like you know,spring's gonna be here by the
time this show's released andthat's great.
Everybody's gonna have so muchfun.
But in like five monthseveryone's gonna be like I want
it to be cold, I want pumpkinspice coffee you know, and it's
like, come on.
It's like, come on.
(38:56):
It's like 89 degrees outsideand humidity is like 130.
You can't have pumpkin flavoredanything right now.
It's the middle of August.
Let's slow down, duncan.
Let's slow down on that.
Marsco, what are you sayingabout the pie?
What's your favorite flavor andwhat's the most overrated
flavor?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
My favorite pie is probably a banana cream pie or
like a peanut butter fluff pie.
Something different with thoseMost overrated is tough.
I mean I don't maybe blueberry.
Just with that kind of theconsistency it gets after it
sits a little bit, I'd say maybeblueberry is a little overrated
.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Probably what you're saying is, though you've never
met a pie you don't like?
Yeah, come on just like lando,you guys have never met a pie,
you don't like no?
Speaker 6 (39:43):
so tony, round us out on this one I've only had
strawberry pie one time, but ifI had it multiple times I know
I'd like it.
My favorite pie is cherry pieand I'm gonna have to go with
andrea.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Most overrated pie is pumpkin pie wow, the hot take
to end the show two peoplesaying pumpkin pie is overrated
and that's a heck of a way toend the show.
But that's going to do it forthis week's episode of the ride
home rants podcast.
I'd like to thank the fab fivefor being here today Matt Lando
Landowski, tony Bogan, mr Askyou, aka the vampire, coach
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Bethany's finest Andrea andcoach Chris Marsco.
So thank you.
So, guys, so much for beinghere today, talking all things
sweets and treats, having alittle bit of fun.
You know, as we go into thespring here and you know
Easter's getting close and we'retalking about all those
desserts, and what's a betterway to have all the desserts
coming up on Easter?
So, as always, if you like theshow, be a friend and tell a
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friend, and if you didn't likeit, tell them anyways, because I
bet they like it just becauseyou did it.
This is Fitty signing off andwe will see you next week.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is your special guest,host Fitty, and today we bring
you the all things sweets andtreats episode with a fabulous
group of people.
The Fab Five, as I'm callingthem today, are going to be
breaking down all things sweetsand treats for you.
Everything you can think ofwill probably fall underneath
these categories.
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They are huge supporters ofthis show.
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So please make sure you'resupporting one another here on
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Without further ado, we're goingto have our guests introduce
themselves and we're going toget ready to roll on the sweets
and treats.
So, guests, the Fab Five,you're going to give your name.
Do you speak any otherlanguages besides English and if
so, what language?
And then what your favoritegrocery store is and why?
So we're going to kick it offwith probably the most seasoned
veteran guest of the show,mister all right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Like my man 50 said, mr, ask you, aka, you know,
vampire coach?
Uh, the language I speak isenglish and english and english,
uh, I speak all three of them,um, very fluently.
Um, I would tell you the otherlanguage that I speak, but I
can't, you know, do my tonguelike that right now.
But the one store I love toshop is any international food
(01:33):
store, one particular Jungle Gym.
Love shopping there.
And then let me see the.
What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That was it.
Those were the three things.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
yeah, but I've been to Jungle Gyms in Cincinnati.
It's pretty see the uh, whatwas the other one?
That was it those are three.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Those are three things, yeah, but I I've been to
jungle gyms in cincinnati.
It's, it's pretty cool.
It is a pretty unique store, soI have been there, I have been
there lando.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hey everyone, this is matt lindowski here.
Um, I speak english, a littlebit of spanish and uh, I'm gonna
go with publics down down souththere and I always can go for a
good pub sub head to the beach,so okay and make sure all of
our listeners are checking outSweet Hand Sports.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One of our sponsors of the show that is Lando's
business.
So definitely check them outfor all your baseball and
softball and golf needs.
So I know some of us arebaseball, softball and golfers
I'm none of the three, um, butif everybody else is doing it,
definitely check out Lando'ssweet hand sports, andrea.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh, all right, my name is Andrea Um, the only
other language I speak inEnglish is scar sarcasm and I'm
going to have to just go withbasic all these Cause.
Um, because there's not reallymuch down here in Youngstown
Ohio, so if I got to pickbetween Walmart, Giant Eagle and
Aldi's, it's going to be Aldi's.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
OK, how about you, Marsco?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
My name is Christopher Marsco, speak
English, foul English andItalian slang Picked up a lot of
good ones from you know Nona,nono, bubby, all them good ones.
And then I'd say my store, I'dsay Walmart.
You know, growing up inCortland all you really had was
Walmart up the road, unless youreally wanted to drive somewhere
(03:15):
.
So Walmart.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Okay, and Tony.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
My name is Tony.
I speak in addition to English.
I speak some German, Took it inthree years in high school and
one in college, and I like Meyer, because you can get a lot of
Meyer flies under the radar asfar as deals on groceries goes.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay.
So I can speak a little bit ofSpanish, but mi Español es no
bueno, pero lo estoy intentando.
I can speak a little bit ofSpanish, but me espanola es no
bueno, pero lo estoy intentando.
I can speak a little bit ofItalian and say ciao sono John
or me chiamo Giovanni, so I canspeak a little bit of those, but
other than that I speak nothingelse.
So my favorite grocery store isMenor Family Foods here in Menor
(04:01):
Ohio.
It's a great grocery store, momand pop place.
You walk in.
They got the good music goingon, the 60s and 70s music.
They make the bread in the back.
They got the good deli.
The cold foods that they haveare great.
The pasta salad is great.
The potato salad is wonderful.
Just had the antipasta saladthe other day.
It's wonderful.
So if you're ever inClevelandveland, make sure you
(04:22):
stop in men or family foods.
You won't regret it.
They have great, great music.
It's all about the ambiance ofthe music when you walk in the
store.
You know what I mean, marsco,so that's all.
So we're gonna talk about allthings sweets and treats.
So we're gonna go, mr lando,andrea, marsco and tony.
So we'll start with you, mr um,ice cream or cookies.
(04:42):
What is no explanation, justwhat is better.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Ice cream.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, lando, ice cream.
Okay, andrea.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I was muted Ice cream .
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Okay, marsco Ice cream.
Okay, tony, is it a clean sweephere?
Yes, it is Ice cream, okay.
Okay, starting off a little biteasy, next one's a little bit
more challenging.
So what bakery or pastry shopdo you recommend people should
go to?
It can be anything that you'veexperienced anywhere in the
country, anywhere that you maylive right now.
(05:16):
I'm going to say, if youhaven't tried Corbo's Bakery in
Cleveland, especially the one inLittle Italy or Playhouse
Square, they're great.
They have ultimate, ultimateItalian authentic pastries.
It's wonderful.
Those guys do a great job there.
Valerie, there, she's awesome.
So I'm going to say Corbo's,their cannolis are fantastic and
(05:38):
the rainbow cookies areoutstanding.
Mister, what place are yourecommending?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Man, that's a good question right there, the one
that I have to say.
That comes to mind when you saycannolis.
The one place I love to go toget cannolis at is at Jungle
Gems in Cincinnati.
That bakery there, man, it'sreally fantastic.
You can get a good variety ofstuff, so that would be one of
my places.
Okay, and if no one's ever beento Jungle Gems, if you go to
Cincinnati you know you can geta good variety of stuff, so that
(06:04):
would be one of my places, okay, and if no one's ever been to
Jungle Gyms, if you go toCincinnati, definitely
experience it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It is like something you'll never, never experience
anywhere else.
It's like Walmart on steroids,if you can imagine that.
So it's definitely eventful.
So take a road trip toCincinnati, get yourself some
Jungle Gyms.
All right, lando, what are yousaying?
Cincinnati, get yourself somejungle gyms.
All right, lando, what are yousaying?
What's the best pastry shop orbakery that you that you've ever
been to?
Or you get stuff from?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, being right down the road from me is Oakmont
Bakery.
I'm going to go with that downhere in Pittsburgh and yeah, man
, they got the best cannoli cake.
So it's just like a big cannoliwith little cannolis all over
it.
So you can't really beat that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So okay, and Andrea, what are you going to say?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
I've said it before, I'm going to say it again
Jimmy's and Liberty.
It's a fantastic Italian uhbakery restaurant, uh Italian
store and they also, I feel like, have the best.
Best can always.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I figured you were going to say that you know,
being a fellow Italian fromYoungstown, so we'll see what
Marsco says right now, being theother Italian guy on the show
here so I'm going to go aheadand double down with Andrea.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Jimmy's was teed up for me.
You know I've worked with themfor a couple things with
football, and they're greatpeople too.
I think that adds to it.
Great food, great people.
You got to win there.
I'll offer up a different one,though.
Alessi's up on our way inbetween here in Cleveland.
They've got real good cannolitoo.
I'd put them up with anybody,but say Jimmy or Alessi's.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Alessi's is really really great.
They are one of the stapleshere in Lake County.
So good, call on that, marisco,I didn't know you knew about
Aleshi's.
It's a.
It's a definitely a great spot.
They got some really reallygood, you know, rolls in there
as well, and they have the hotand cold food section too, so
it's definitely awesome.
(08:02):
So, all right, tony, what areyou saying?
Because you you've been arounda lot of places.
Where are you saying is thatbest bakery or pastry shop east?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
cider guy.
I'm gonna go a little off thepath here and say chagrin falls
pop shop chagrin falls popcornshop.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's a good one, tony.
That is a good one.
The uh, the hallmark town,chagrin falls Falls.
If you ever want to imaginegoing to a true Hallmark Town,
go to Chagrin Falls and get somepopcorn.
Sit down by the waterfall.
You swear you're in a moviethere.
So that's definitely a good one, tony.
All right, we're going to goback to Mister on this.
Mister, what's your favoriteflavored milkshake?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh, my gosh Favorite flavor.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
huh, Yep, and it they can be from like any, any place
.
You just can't say boozy icecream here anyone, so just got
to be a regular, regularmilkshake hey, man, uh, any
anything mixed together.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
yeah, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, you know it
don't matter.
Yeah, anything mixed together.
Okay, you put it in a form of amilkshake.
It's done, done-dada, it's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
What about you, Lando ?
What are you saying?
I'm going to go chocolateChocolate huh, Okay.
Andrea.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I got to go basic.
I like it simple chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Wow, we're simple on a three out of the first five on
this.
Uh, what about you, marco?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I too that I can't really decipher because I don't
really go with milkshake unlessit's unique.
So I'd say, uh, chocolatebanana shake.
I've like get cookout, or oneof the places like that where
you got a couple flavors you canmix.
Or uh, what was my other one?
I can't even remember it now,they're all so good.
I'd say the chocolate bananaone.
(09:48):
Or uh, oh uh, arby's jamochashake.
And that's just because theavailability of it, its
uniqueness you kind of get oneeverywhere, jamocha shakes
underrated okay, tony, beforeyou answer, I will say my
favorite milkshake is a bananaflavored milkshake.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
But you can't beat the um like the, the mint
flavored saint patrick's dayones, uh, the shamrock cakes
from mcdonald's?
Yeah, they are.
They are excellent with that.
So but, tony, what's yourfavorite flavored milkshake?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I have two actually I like a good peppermint
milkshake and I like a goodcookie shake okay, that's
interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That is definitely interesting.
All right, this is gonna be afunny one now.
Um, how would you describeblack licorice and the taste of
it?
So how would you describelicorice and the taste of it?
I'll start with this, as youguys all ponder it, and I'm
gonna say if death had taste, itwould taste like black licorice
.
So that's what I'm going to say, because I think black licorice
(10:48):
is the worst tasting thing inthe entire world.
It's terrible.
So I'm going to say if, if ittastes like anything, it tasted
like death, mister.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Man, that is absolutely perfect.
If I was out in space and Mars,that's what I think it would be
something from the third planet.
Um, they dried just.
Oh, that's yuck, I can't evenput it into words.
And how about this?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
no comment okay, what are you saying, lando?
Uh'm going to go with you onthat one, fitty, I'm going to
agree with you.
It's not that good.
And if you want something alittle worse, go with the dark
chalk with nothing in it.
I mean, that's just downrightpain right there, man.
(11:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Andrea, what are you saying about black licorice?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't like black licorice.
I don't know anybody that does,and if I did know somebody that
liked it, they would not be inmy circle.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They know it.
I'm glad you don't like it, soI can stay in your circle of
friends.
I'm glad.
So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, see, now, if I see someone eating black
licorice, I'm glad.
So what are you saying, Marsco?
Yeah, see, now if I see someoneeating black licorice I'm like
I want that person to be myfriend.
They're a little on court, theymight come in handy.
I'm going to copy what my sonsays Black licorice is cucka
Tastes like.
I have never eaten poop.
Hope I never have to.
(12:23):
Don't plan on it.
That's probably what it tasteslike.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm good what are you saying, tony?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I will have to say I do not ever wish to eat black
licorice in any way, shape orform.
It was like one of those thingswhere this somehow was flavored
with strawberry.
Just looks like black licorice,but it's flavored with like
strawberry or something.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I, just I, I would, I would.
I would eat this pen before I'deat black licorice.
If I was starving, I would eatthat pen first.
I would eat this dookie beforeI eat black licorice.
Black licorice is awful, butgoing off of that, let's talk
about this one.
Though.
What's your actual favoritecandy?
(13:07):
You only can pick, hopefully,one if you have two, but I'm
going to say mine, and I'm not ahuge candy person, but I do
like the dark Milky Ways, likethe midnight flavored one that
has the dark chocolate in it.
So that's my jam right there.
But, mister, what is yourfavorite candy?
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
favorite candy man, I have to say man, candy corn,
candy, candy, candy corn.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Give me the candy corn are you eating the candy
corn that has, like the pumpkinsin it, the little?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely love the pumpkin,
especially the pumpkins.
Those are those, those are tops.
Man, that was the best oneright there.
Give me the pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
picking Lando.
I'm going to go with Heath Bar.
Heath Bar yeah, I'm actuallypretty hooked on these Heath Bar
Blizzards right now.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, Lando, there's a difference between a Heath Bar
Blizzard and eating a Heath Bar.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, the Heath Bar Blizzard is like the next level
man.
I'm telling you that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
well, the heat bar blizzard's like the next level
man okay, that's that's fair.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Andrea, what are you saying?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I go through phases where I'm like, oh, this is my
favorite candy, but I feel likeone that, like, always ends up
coming back around, is a fifthavenue.
I don't know if you've ever hadone, but it's like kind of like
a butterfinger.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But better you know those?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
those aren't.
Those aren't bad, those aren'tbad.
I'll give you that.
Those aren't bad.
What are you saying, marco?
So reese's?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
enthusiast if I had to pick one out of what reese's
makes.
I'm a big fast break bar guy.
That little layer of nougat inthere making it a little chewy,
it just spreezes on steroids.
But I feel like you got to havea whole separate division.
That's my chocolate candy, likeif I'm doing like a gummy, or
like a sweets candy, like that.
(14:59):
I got to go nerds clusters.
That's just the party.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Things are great, tony, what are you picking?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I pick Twix man, just none like a good old Twix, you
could just snap and eat.
You got caramel, you got alittle Twix bar.
You can't go wrong with theclassics.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Okay, that's fair.
So we're going to bring up thisone next and I'm going to shout
out my friends Megan Steve andCoach Upton on this one.
Shout out Myrtle Beach 2020 onthe argument we got into about
this Red Vines.
Are you, guys, fans of RedVines and if so, would you eat a
Red Vine over a Twizzler?
(15:40):
So, are you a fan of Red Vinesand if so, would you eat a Red
Vine over a Twizzler?
Mister, a Red Vine, you neverhad red vines.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I've never had that, oh my gosh, you ain't missing
too much.
I ain't missing too much.
I'm like a red vine.
I'm trying to look it up.
What in the world is that Redvines are life?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Red vines are life, they're life.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
When you said Andy Upton, I should have known it
was something different.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Because he hates Red Vines.
That's why I wanted to bringthis up, because we were arguing
playing cards in Myrtle BeachFive years ago, like right now,
about Red Vines.
So, lando, do you like RedVines?
I'm unsure what Red Vines areman.
They're like the For people thatdon't know what red vines are.
They're like the, the fat,cheap version of licorice, and
(16:35):
you can actually like drink adrink through them, cause
they're so fat.
They sell them at the movementtheaters Next time you go to the
movie theater.
You got it.
You got to try red vine.
It's a unique taste.
So, andrea, I'm looking at yourface right now.
Have you ever had red vines?
It's a unique taste.
So, andrea, I'm looking at yourface right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Have you ever had red vines?
No, but all I can think aboutis the licorice that has.
Like the little things that youcan like, pull off you know
what I'm talking about.
There's a bunch of them.
That's like the superiorlicorice.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I've never seen red vines at a movie theater I guess
I'm going to the wrong movietheaters than if there's red
vines there.
So what are you saying aboutred vines, Chris All?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
right.
So I have eaten them Fitty andit's not the most diabolical
candy.
Like it's not my bottom five, Icould sit down and eat some red
vines.
They are no comparison toTwizzlers, in my opinion.
I think we're in differentcategories of licorice.
Doing that, I think theTwizzler is vastly superior to a
(17:33):
red vine.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, tony, you saving me at all on this one man
.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I like red vines and, don't get me wrong, I do like a
good red vine.
They're nothing compared toTwizzlers, though.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Man, everyone is missing out on the red vine
train.
You got to get on them.
They're like I don't know, free99 at the candy store if you
find them.
So I mean they're, they arepretty, pretty good.
But shout out red vines.
Shout out, coach Upton, steveand Megan.
You know the argument we gotinto about red vines, for
everybody knows, coach Upton, hetried a red vine and spit it
out and like through the otherpieces that this is the worst
(18:08):
candy I've ever eaten in my life.
When he bit into it, so um, butyou know, red vines are life,
man.
Red vines make the world goaround.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
So texture I'll give them that they are different.
It's not like a mock off of thetwizzler, it's kind of his own
little thing yeah, and they'reprobably really unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
If you really look at what they're probably made out
of, you's probably made out oflike like probably I don't even
know like some type of plasticcoating and sadness or something
they're pretty good but I, butI like them, but all right, no
more red vines on that.
So let's get into this, though.
What is your favorite um pastry?
And you can really answeranything here.
(18:46):
Uh, whatever your favoritepastry is, um, you know, you
just can't say donuts.
So what I'm going to say,though, is I do love cannolis.
Um, cannolis are my jam, but Ireally love rainbow cookies.
Um, they're italian staple.
Um people that never had them.
You can get them at jimmy's orpretty much any store, unless
she's corbo's, but I love, um, Ilove the rainbow cookies, so
(19:07):
not the cake ones, but just theregular ones with the chocolate
on the top and the chocolate onthe bottom.
So, mr, though, what's yourfavorite go-to pastry out of all
the great pastries in the world?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Most definitely man.
Cannolis.
Man, that's my number one.
Yeah, I love the cannolis.
I can do those all day long.
Yeah, either one that's likechocolate or one that's vanilla.
I've been to different places.
You know where they actuallymade it.
You know where they made it,you know different flavors, so,
(19:38):
but I love cannolis.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, how about you, lando?
What's your go-to favoritepastry out there?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, I'm going to go with cannolis too.
I like them with the chocolateinside though.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Those are my jam man okay, how about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
um, I'm gonna say a cinnamon roll, if that counts as
a pastry.
I freaking love cinnamon rolls,especially molnars another
thing down here in youngstown,but they have the best molnars,
I never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Where is that out in Youngstown?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
so in the summer they like post up down at the corner
of the street over here where Ilive, but, um, they go to like
the Canfield Fair a lot and theygo around to like different
festivals and whatnot.
But that's like a really bigthing in the area is Molnar's
concession stand.
So their cinnamon rolls are.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
They're huge, they're , they're great are they north
or south side based?
I'm from youngstown that'snorth or south youngstown uh,
west side, but I don't know Icover high school football like
north is the arsalan side, southis mooney, west is cheney yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So, tony, next time you're in youngstown you'll have
to get a molnars cinnamon rolland think about andrea and be
like this is great when you eatit if I can find molnars, then
yes, absolutely I got you, I'llhelp you out all right, perfect.
So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
you know I wanted to try to offer up something to be
a little diverse, but it's sofar and away cannoli I can.
I can't even BS you guys tosomething else.
So the one thing I will do insaying cannoli, shout out to
Muscarella's Cafe in Sharpsville.
You know, each night you gothey got like four or five
different specialized cannolisHeath Bar cannoli, Banana Sunday
(21:28):
cannoli.
They just mix it up all thetime.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So shout out to muskerellas dang marsco, you
know everywhere, man.
Yeah, you don't even knowmuskerellas, man, you know back
in the old stomping groundsthere.
So you know, good for you, youmust be well traveled on wanting
to go to different italianplaces.
I'm a foodie.
You're going to dropping aleshies up here at east lake,
going to muskerellas inSharpsville.
(21:50):
Man Marsco is well traveled,but but you know, growing up in
Cortland, you're in a good spotCause you're like halfway
between all that stuff.
So you know, definitely,definitely a good thing, though,
to get to all those places.
Tony, what are you saying isyour favorite best pastry out
there?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I go with the classic traditional croissant.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
A croissant, anything in the croissant?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yes, like cream cheese, strawberry or a good
Danish.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
What's your go-to flavor?
On the Danish, though,strawberry.
Strawberry danish is prettygood.
I'll eat a cream cheese one,though you can't get down with
cream cheese danishes if it hasblack licorice, I'm throwing it
at the wall in a warning, okay Imean, that's, that's fair.
(22:44):
So the next one, mister, we'regonna, um, you know, go to you
on this.
So if you had a favoritebirthday cake that you could
pick for, like for your birthday, and it could be whatever
flavor you want it to be um, youknow what flavor are you
picking for that like bestbirthday cake that you could
have oh baby, 100 baby, it'sgonna be a rum cake rum cake wow
(23:08):
, rum cake all day long.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
As big, as big and as wide and as long as the table
that is on.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Lando, I'm going with the cannoli cake from Oak Palm
Bakery.
Wow, it's a hit man.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Cannoli flavored stuff is the big winner on this
show today, that's for sure.
So, andrearea, what are yougoing with your, your favorite
flavored birthday cake?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
um, I want to do a cookie dough ice cream cake from
dairy queen that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That is a good one that makes me think before
answer this.
Marco, does anyone rememberwhen dairy queen had the pizza?
Like frozen pizza cakes thatwere ice creams.
Anybody remember that?
I do like bagley I feel likethey brought them back for a
little bit yeah, they were likein the, in the shape of a pizza
and they were cut like it andthey had like toppings that were
like ice cream and like alltheir goodies on top of it.
(24:03):
It was like an ice cream pizza.
It was like really, really cool.
But I'm also the second oldestperson on this podcast, so I
remember that when I was likelittle and a lot of you were
like really, really little.
So, um man, I just aged myselfthere, oh geez.
So, marco, what are you goingwith that?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
that favorite flavored birthday cake uh,
probably aunt jean's chocolatecherry cake, the the icing's
homemade whipped up it ends upbeing almost like a fudge
texture when you cut into it andthe cake's nice and airy.
Underneath it's a, it's a goodmix of dense and light and I
don't know the chocolate cherryflavor when you beat up the
(24:41):
cherries and adam it's.
It's real delicate, real deep.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Okay, that was a deep answer on that one.
So all right, tony, what areyou doing with that?
That favorite flavored birthdaycake?
What are you doing here, mom?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
bought me one years ago cookies and cream cake and I
especially like one from dairyqueen.
I've always been a big cookiesand cream thing okay.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So if anyone's ever looking for birthday cakes that
you want to get the fab fivehere, if there's significant
others and family are listeningto this, you know they just told
you what they wanted for theirbirthday cake, so let's make
sure that that happens.
So, um, the next one is goingto be very interesting, I think.
Um, are you eating sweets anytype of sweets and coffee for
breakfast in the morning?
Is that your jam?
(25:25):
And I'm going to say for me, um, it was until my pants got a
little snug and then I was like,nope, I'm eating just straight
fruit or toast with like honeyon it.
So, but for everybody else onthe on the fab five here, are
you eating sweets and coffee inthe morning for breakfast,
mister?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
no, I might have some coffee, uh, but no, I'm not
eating those sweets.
If anything, man, it's gonna bean apple man.
Yeah, because you know, as youget older, you know, hey, no
sugar, and then calories add upand you got a bit of burning
them off and it just ain't, itjust ain't working, you know.
So you gotta cut back, but yeah, I go for the coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, okay, I think I used to love, I used to love
just pounding like four cannolisand having some coffee in the
morning and just out therevibing like I'm like it's like
clemenza from the godfather,just being super fat and
unhealthy but you know then Ireally then I got fat and
unhealthy and then I, you know,had to lose some weight, so I
cut that all out.
But lando, you having sweetsand coffee for breakfast, heck
(26:23):
no man.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Um, that that is real man.
Like you start eating thesweets a little more, it it
definitely hits you at a certainage, man.
So I usually go every Sundaynight get some ice cream with
the girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That's about it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, what about you, andrea?
Are you eating sweets andcoffee for breakfast?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Definitely coffee and not sweets.
I feel like it just starts yourday off sluggish.
But I consider a cinnamon rolllike a breakfast treat.
So like every once in a while Iwould do a cinnamon roll, I'd
settle with that, but nothingelse, not like cookies or
anything like that.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, okay.
What about you, marsco too?
Banana bread, banana bread withchocolate chips in it, cinnamon
roll biscotti, biscotti dippedin chocolate with nuts.
I really teeter the line of isit as sweet?
Is it not as sweet?
It probably is as sweet, butI'm still eating it, so I'd say
(27:25):
I'm in for it.
I had terrible discipline.
I've been known to.
You know grandma's lemon dropsgo real good.
A little bit of coffee on themtoo.
So yeah, I'm a sweet guy in themorning and it has hit me and
I'm too ignorant to stop, so Ican't help it.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What does your wife think of that, Marisco?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I've got her all confused.
She always tells me she wishedshe knew me a little bit longer
before she got married.
Jokingly but yeah, I'm adifferent bird.
She raises her eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You know, right.
You know what that, thathappens, All right, I mean, you
know it is what it is.
We all find out unique thingsabout our significant others,
and you know family as we, as wegrow older.
So you know things like that,my coverage.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I married up or so you know, things like that Get
to my coverage.
I married up, so I expect that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
All right, tony, you having sweets and coffee in the
morning, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Well, first of all, full disclosure.
I will not drink black coffee.
I need my cream and sugar, Ineed my creamer in it.
I'm not going to drink blackcoffee for breakfast.
As far as sweets goes, like Isaid, give me a good Danish, a
good croissant, something likethat.
I need that breakfast to get mymotor running.
(28:39):
I'm probably going to regret ityears down the line, but you
know, I'm living in the net.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And Tony, you're the youngest person I think on here,
so you know you have a.
You have a quite a while to goon.
You know, enjoying the sweetsin the morning so which actually
tony brought this up brings meto my next point.
So you know, pretty muchamerica's all obsessed with
coffee.
You know we, we all, drinkcoffee at probably some point or
multiple points of the day.
But are you a coffee fan with,like, super sweets in it, like
(29:09):
caramel, caramel or like, uh,anything like some type of
flavored vanilla, anything thatmakes it very, very sweet?
Um, is that your jam withcoffee?
And I'll start with this andI'll say no.
Um, I don't put sugar in mycoffee, I just do a little bit
of milk.
Um, but you know, those drinksfrom Starbucks are delicious
until you start gaining weight,so I cut those out.
But, uh, with mister, do youlike the sweet flavors in your
(29:32):
coffee?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Nah, man, I just take that much straight up dark,
straight up black.
Man, you know, I have tried itwith.
You know, with different thingsdifferent.
You know, cream, nah, there'ssome good creams out there, for
sure, but the only reason whyyou know what I'm saying you cut
back on the cream because,again, what's the one thing we
talk about, is just adding morecalories and calories.
(29:56):
Man, I'm telling you, man, youknow you don't drink no two,
three cups of coffee.
Man, you keep adding oncreamers and creams.
That's a catch up and add up,man.
So I agree, I agree with you onthat, yeah every once in a while
, if I'm on like a long trip orsomething I'm driving, I might
add the sugar and I might addthe cream, just because I'm on
(30:21):
Like a long road trip orwhatever.
But nah, it's all black though.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
What about you, Lando ?
Are you enjoying all the sweetflavored Creamers in your coffee
?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Not really man.
I actually drink green tea.
You enjoying all the sweetflavored um creamers in your
coffee?
Not really man.
Just, uh, I actually drinkgreen tea.
So, um, that's usually my go-toin the morning.
But, uh, if I do have a coffee,I just go dark so okay, okay,
what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I do.
I like sweet coffee.
I will drink like just blackcoffee sometimes, depending on
where it's from, but I do like agood like caramel macchiato.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, I was just going to ask you what flavor,
but you answered it before Icould even ask.
So there we go.
So what about you, Marsco?
Are you putting all the flavorsin all at one time and dipping
your banana bread in there anddancing around the house, the
ton and dill and stuff you know,acting like your 1940s Italian
person?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Dark roast black coffee and it's funny how I got
started with it.
It's like you don't reallydrink coffee.
Like high school I'd mix it andall the sugars and stuff.
But I worked at a golf courseat the Trumbull Country Club
with a bunch of grown men and Iasked them one morning before we
got our jobs, like 5.30, hey,where's the cream and sugar?
And the one dude laughed andthey they kind of busted me up
(31:34):
pretty good about it and I don'tknow.
I don't want to say I gotbullied into black coffee but
start drinking it after a whileyou're like damn, this ain't too
bad.
So it's been on for over adecade now.
That's the way to be okay, whatabout you, tony?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I gotta have something in my coffee.
Like I said, I'm not going todrink black coffee straight up.
Even when I get to my 40s, 50s,I can't drink black coffee
straight up.
I don't know how y'all do it,but it's not, it's easy, man,
(32:08):
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Hey, just keep living , man, don't worry God don't
that darn.
Mr Askey was right.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know, tony hopefully we'll keep the show
going for like another 20 yearshere, so like when we're all old
, you know, then you can reallytalk to us about how your your
palate with coffee's changedover time with your taste.
So we got two topics herebefore we end the show, everyone
.
The first one is, you know,chocolate Town, usa, hershey,
(32:39):
pennsylvania, is a very, veryunique place.
A lot of people just know thename of it.
They know Milton Hersheyinvented chocolate there right
originally.
But it's a pretty fantasticplace with the theme park, the
chocolate factory, all themuseums that they have here, the
Hershey Museum itself.
Definitely a wonderful place.
If you haven't visited I wasthere a couple years ago but
(33:01):
definitely go there.
If you're a candy and chocolateconnoisseur, it'll blow your
mind.
So I just want to go around andask all the guests you know
have you ever been to Hershey?
And, if so, you know what wasyour experience like?
So, mister, have you ever beento Hershey?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
No, that's one place I have not been to, so that's
one that's on the list to go outthere and check out that.
So no, not yet.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Highly recommend and go to the theme park.
If you go out in the summer,it's pretty cool.
So, um, what about you?
Lando?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
um, I have, I have been there when I was a young
kid.
Um, it was for, I think, awrestling tournament out there
and, uh, we stopped at the candyshop and stuff, and it's
definitely something to see,definitely something to see.
Now I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yeah, for sure andrea I've never been okay, marscoe.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
I don't remember, Ben , but I do have a question for
the football people.
Is that where they used to playthe Big 33 game at?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And the state championships yes, oh yeah, the
Big 33.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, they have a football stadium out there.
It's very dated, but they usedto do the state championships
where they'd move them.
But they also do like concertsand stuff.
Actually, lady Gaga was outthere like three years ago she
performed out there, which waspretty, pretty unique.
But, tony, have you ever beento Hershey PA?
Speaker 6 (34:21):
No, not for football, not for anything, but I would
eventually like to go at somepoint.
I think I'm going to end upfinding myself going, whether I
go myself or I end up going withsomebody else it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You know, we went out there a couple years ago right
before thanksgiving and they,they did everything like
decorated for christmas and Imean the chocolate tour was
great.
I mean the museums are great.
It's just a lot of fun.
There's like boutiques to goshopping at uh, the museum's a
lot of fun.
It's just a very, very coolexperience.
They do have concerts out there.
The theme park's great.
But you know, you definitely gotexperience, um, the hershey
(34:59):
plant, the.
You know the, the experience ofthat.
Take the, take the free touraround the building, um, as well
, you can do things like we madeour own chocolate bars, uh,
which was really cool.
So it's a very cool place.
Just want to shout out you knowchocolate town, uh, you know
usa for hershey, pennsylvania.
They're so very, very uniqueand fun.
Fact, before we get on to thelast question, when milton
(35:21):
hershey was originally startingthat, um, they used to make
actually the chocolate with milk.
That's why it was called milkchocolate.
He had his own dairy farm therethat he would import the milk
and make all the chocolate thatway.
Anymore chocolate does not havemilk in it, so there's actually
a fun fact.
So that's why there's adifference between milk
(35:42):
chocolate and chocolate.
Chocolate does not have milk init.
Milk chocolate has milk, butit's it's dilated.
So but back in the day, milland hershey had his own farms
there with cows for strictlyjust milk.
So that's why I got to checkout the hershey museum.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
So uh, last question, real question for you is it
true you can smell the chocolatepulling up that people tell me
you can smell the chocolate ifyou roll your window down.
You can.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You can because, yeah , you can.
It's, it's very unique, um, andactually one more cool thing
about that is they actually havethe Hershey like hotel, so that
is actually like everythingincorporated chocolate in there.
If you like spas for anybodythat listens to this if you like
a spa, they actually do likechocolate baths and stuff like
that that you actually can getinto and get covered in
(36:28):
chocolate and all types of stuff.
So it's a very unique place outthere, a little pricey on the
hotel, but, uh, I wouldrecommend just staying somewhere
else and maybe going to the spa.
But yeah, they do like, um, alltypes of hershey baths and
stuff like that and chocolate.
So definitely look that up,everyone.
So last topic what is yourfavorite pie and what is the
(36:49):
most overrated or flavored ofpie?
So I'll let you guys thinkabout this.
My favorite pie is a strawberrypie from Eaton Park.
There's not too many EatonParks left out there, but
strawberry pie from Eaton Parkis fantastic.
That is my favorite and I thinkprobably a hot take here is
apple pie is the most overratedflavor of pie.
(37:11):
So, mister, take it away.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Man, I tell you what I love a good chest pie.
So, mister, take it away.
Man, I tell you what I love agood chest pie.
I love chest pie, but overratedone I would probably have to
say probably apple pie.
I eat it, don't mind it, but Ithink there's so many other good
pies out there.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Okay, what about you, Lando?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I was actually just down in the Keys.
I'm going to go with Key LimePie.
Okay, I had a little bit ofthat down there and down the
Keys in Florida and I'm going tosay I don't know if there is a
pie I don't like, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Maybe you got to experience more pies to find one
.
More pies, more pies.
So what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4 (38:05):
My favorite is cherry and I think the most overrated
is pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Wow, that's a hot take right there, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
That's a rough one.
I don't like pumpkin pie.
I don't think it's good do youlike?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
not like pumpkin flavored anything or just
pumpkin pie?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
uh, pumpkin flavor stuff is like growing on me a
little bit but I'm definitelynot a fan like I still don't
really like.
Like pumpkin spice coffee andstuff like that.
I think it tastes too fake.
But like pumpkin roll, like Ithink it's all overrated.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
In the fall I'd go apple, which you guys think is
overrated, which is fine, butthat's my fall pick you know
what, and it's like you know,spring's gonna be here by the
time this show's released andthat's great.
Everybody's gonna have so muchfun.
But in like five monthseveryone's gonna be like I want
it to be cold, I want pumpkinspice coffee you know, and it's
like, come on.
It's like, come on.
(38:56):
It's like 89 degrees outsideand humidity is like 130.
You can't have pumpkin flavoredanything right now.
It's the middle of August.
Let's slow down, duncan.
Let's slow down on that.
Marsco, what are you sayingabout the pie?
What's your favorite flavor andwhat's the most overrated
flavor?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
My favorite pie is probably a banana cream pie or
like a peanut butter fluff pie.
Something different with thoseMost overrated is tough.
I mean I don't maybe blueberry.
Just with that kind of theconsistency it gets after it
sits a little bit, I'd say maybeblueberry is a little overrated
.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Probably what you're saying is, though you've never
met a pie you don't like?
Yeah, come on just like lando,you guys have never met a pie,
you don't like no?
Speaker 6 (39:43):
so tony, round us out on this one I've only had
strawberry pie one time, but ifI had it multiple times I know
I'd like it.
My favorite pie is cherry pieand I'm gonna have to go with
andrea.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Most overrated pie is pumpkin pie wow, the hot take
to end the show two peoplesaying pumpkin pie is overrated
and that's a heck of a way toend the show.
But that's going to do it forthis week's episode of the ride
home rants podcast.
I'd like to thank the fab fivefor being here today Matt Lando
Landowski, tony Bogan, mr Askyou, aka the vampire, coach
(40:18):
Bethany's finest Andrea andcoach Chris Marsco.
So thank you.
So, guys, so much for beinghere today, talking all things
sweets and treats, having alittle bit of fun.
You know, as we go into thespring here and you know
Easter's getting close and we'retalking about all those
desserts, and what's a betterway to have all the desserts
coming up on Easter?
So, as always, if you like theshow, be a friend and tell a
(40:39):
friend, and if you didn't likeit, tell them anyways, because I
bet they like it just becauseyou did it.
This is Fitty signing off andwe will see you next week.
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