STOPPAGE TIME

Show Notes

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10/23/2018  | 78 Minutes

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This week’s guest – Lib and Ben. It’s a stoppage time, where the hosts kick back, relax, and pick a theme that has us ticking. This week: Junk food, which could include gas station food, unhealthy food, road trip food, and everything in-between. We talk ticks and tick offs around chips, pastries, beverages, candy, and candy bars (those two are different). We may argue a little over candy posters and Halloween traditions, and you’re all sweet tarts!

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CHIPS

Lib’s Choice: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Limon Flavored
Ben’s Choice: Sour Cream and Onion Pringles

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TICK OFFS: 

• Lib hates Salt and Vinegar Chips. Vinegar just isn’t a tasty ingredient.

• Ben doesn’t like the inconsistency across flavors in brands. Some chip flavors are delicious, some are untrusted.

• Lib wonders what’s the deal with oven-baked chips. Why even try? It’s a healthier alternative, but you’re still picking chips.

• Both hosts are aware that most bags of chips are 70% air and 30% crushed chips.
   

TICKS: 

• Once you pop you can’t stop. Potato Chip & Drink ratio is real.

• Chips are the perfect road trip snack, the balancing effect.

• Lib loves that there’s a type of chip for everyone - different tastes for different cultures.

• Chips are an essential side-snack at every event. BBQs, Tailgates, Football game watch parties.

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PASTRIES

Lib’s Choice: Hostess Brand Cupcakes
Ben’s Choice: Pillsbury Brand Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

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TICK OFFS: 

• Immediate reward and immediate regret when it comes to gas station pastries

• According to Lib, packs of small donettes are “the worst.” The white powder gets EVERYWHERE, original has fake dough, and chocolate tastes like rubber.

• Lib has to eat his pastries with milk. A very crucial pairing. It’s his tick off and tick.
   

TICKS: 

• Pastries are a cultural thing for Lib. Sweet Bread, or Pan Dulce, is a Mexican pastry and a staple meal in Mexico. Ben had this experience as well while living there.

• Ben loves homemade pastries. He never really buys pastries from a convenience store cause he’s spoiled. Thanks Mom!!!

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DRINKS

Ben’s Choice: Coca Cola
Lib’s Choice: Mountain Dew (with a blast of cherry citrus flavor)

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TICK OFFS: 

• Picking new flavor lines of classic drinks is a total gamble. Lib is more adventurous than Ben.

• Lib hates the “healthier options” to drinks, namely diet drinks. Again, like in chips, Why try?

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TICKS: 

• Ben has to have a drink in his cup holder on those longer road trips, be it a soda or water.

• Lib, again, loves the options and international options to soda. Manzanita, Sangria, Jarritos, Inca Cola, Guarana.

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CANDY

Lib’s Choice: Wild Berry Flavor Skittles
Ben’s Choice: Original Flavor Skittles

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TICK OFFS: 

• There’s a moment when you can have too much, and Ben doesn’t know when to stop.

• Lib hates it when people hate on Mexican candy. Chili powder is amazing on candy.

• The shelf life is never ending on candy, but the advertising on the wrapper is a complete opposite. In all the junk food we purchased, the candy was the only wrapper with outdated advertising.

• Lib’s biggest tick off around candy is the candy posters. Ben loves them. And we read one aloud.

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TICKS: 

• For Ben, Candy posters!

• Kids with candy is the cutest thing.

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CANDY BARS

Ben’s Choice: Snickers
Lib’s Choice: Butterfinger (Crisp, this time)

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TICK OFFS: 

• Candy bars seem to all be chocolate-based. It holds the bar together, and it melts.

• Candy bars are the go-to for Halloween. This is kind of a tick off and tick for us.

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TICKS: 

• Lib: Frooties, Whoppers, Tootsie Pops at Halloween

• Ben: Hershey’s Chocolates, Twizzler bites at Halloween

• There’s so many memories tied to junk food, and road trips and the candy you get at Halloween.