EXPOSING Our Manager | Trash Taste #67
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- Hello my fellow Sigma males and welcome to Trash Taste. I'm with my usual fellow Sigma males, Connor and Joey. - Hello. - And we are with our mom, Maylin, maker of the boys. - She birthed us from her mind vagina. - We were just discussing today and we were like, should we just bring Maylin back on? - Yeah, just start. - And just get Maylin back on. - How many episodes has it been since you were on? You were on like episode six or something?

- Or episode seven, something like that. - You were like one of the first. - It was like 60 episodes ago, something like that. - You're the only person who's been on Trash Taste that has not signed a shikishi.

So we've got to change that now. - She signs our checks. - I do, I do. - She gives us a signature every month. - So we thought we'd mix things up this episode and I guess bring on our manager and I guess get a female perspective on things, right? - What does female sound derogatory when you say it? People who say females, they're like females. Do you like it when someone refers to you as a female?

- I'm indifferent. - Oh, okay. - I know, 'cause I watch- - I've had people who've been like- - Do you hate being called a male? - No, but I've had friends- - Oh, that male over there. - Sigma male too. - Sigma male. - I've had friends who've been like, "Oh, female sounds so incell-y, derogatory." - Oh yeah, I think it depends on the tone. - The females. - The tone you say it. - It's the hard fee.

- Female. - I've had friends who have said it. - I don't think the word itself, but if you're just like, yo, female. How's it going? - That's offensive. - Hello my fellow females. - I watch a lot of animal videos on YouTube. So like, oh, this is fun.

- I'm like, I don't care. - Yeah, but no one goes, this female human over here is- - It would be kind of weird to be like this woman badger. - I think that's just for humans. - This lady badger.

- In like child, like nature shows, I think they say girls and boys, don't they? - The girl badger? - Yeah, like the girl badger. - Oh yeah, I think it depends. - I think for like newborns. - Yeah. - Right. And then like, I guess the, when they reach of age, I didn't even know what that is, but like, but they're an adult, they're just male and female.

- I've never thought about this deeply. - Well because boy and girl kind of sounds more like infants. - We're getting really into it now. - Yeah, yeah. - Whereas like you're not gonna like point to a baby and go that female over there. - You would say the baby. - But like if you were to specify which baby, you would say the girl baby or the girl. - You would just say that little girl. - Or whatever the baby identifies. - Yeah, that little girl, right? You don't say that little female.

- I don't know. - What are we talking about? - I don't even know what we're talking about. - I think it's because it's after dinner, you guys are full and it's just like. - Don't date this. - Don't tell them when we record. - I don't want them to know. - I don't want them to know our eating habits and our recording habits, Jesus, Meilyne. - Oh, I was just sitting up there. - What's the strangest thing you've seen one of us do?

- No pressure. - Just wondering. - Yeah, because I feel Maylene's perspective on weird is very different to the average female. - Give him a look behind the scenes. - You just said female. - Whoa, Joey, Joey, the hard F, Jesus, dude. - Okay, let's just- - Female. - Oh my gosh, what a terrible start.

- Do you have something in mind or do you not wanna say it? - Okay, okay. Well, the most recent stuff is the stuff that comes to mind. I haven't been watching you guys record that much. So I'm like upstairs recently. - Well, it doesn't have to be on camera. - Oh, okay. - Yeah, 'cause I will say like definitely recording "Trash Taste" has made me more self-conscious and also hanging out with Maylynn has made me more self-conscious as well. - I don't understand, what?

- Sometimes I'll just do something subconsciously. Like for example, I'll be sitting there and I'll like have my hand in my sock. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Which just happened like half an hour ago. And she was like- - I wouldn't say, let's see, it's not weird. What is cute? When Sydney calls you little baby man. - It's like dinner- - Why did you have to do my boy? - Sorry. - Oh my God.

- I love it so much. - The sigma male energy. - Like we're eating dinner. - Not in front of the camera, man. - I'm not allowed to say this? - Just kidding. - You said it now. - We're at dinner, it was Thanksgiving and then Sydney was like, oh, my little, Sydney goes, oh, it's my little baby. And then Garnt, I thought Garnt's like this. - It is like when your mom is like, oh, my little boy's doing well. - But after an hour he starts blushing like.

And I'm just like, whoa. Sydney's got like- - She is my fucking mom, isn't she? - Yeah, right? - She's just like trying to fucking embarrass me right now, Jesus. - Jesus Christ. - No, because I feel like Sydney starts saying that just like to piss me off. And then like- - You don't look pissed off. - No, no, no, no, no. - Does it piss you off? - No, because like you know when it's like, you know when you're in like a group of friends, right? And then you say something ironically. And then you just, you start saying something ironically and then you keep doing it

- And then it becomes unironic, right? - Little baby boy. - Little baby man. - No, because that came from just a random fucking video. 'Cause I remember when Joey used to fucking dab everywhere. I'm just like, Joey, can you stop fucking dabbing everywhere? And then I started doing it and I'm just like, I fucking hate Joey. - Yeah, you used to dab all the time. - Yeah, because I made it my life mission. I think it was like 2016, 2017. I told myself at the beginning of that year, I'm like,

I'm gonna do a social experiment. Every photo I upload of myself that year, I need to be dabbing. And I'm just gonna see if I can like fulfill that just to see how far I can. - Did you do that? - I did it. - No way. - Yeah. - Every single photo? - Every photo of me in 2017, I'm dabbing. - Why would you do that? - Because it's hilarious.

- Because seeing the comment, because all of the angry comments of people being like, why are you doing this? It was just funny to me. - Yeah, but then when, at which point did it stop becoming ironic and you just ended up doing it? 'Cause that definitely did reach that point. - I think after maybe the second time I did it, I was like, oh, it's kind of fun. - I did think there was a year that you did Davila and that was probably the year then. - Yeah, that was probably the year we met actually.

- What an awful first impression. - But like, I feel you're very like heavily influenced by the people around you in that sense. 'Cause like recently in that, you know, in that same sense, right? Like you started dabbing unironically after I kept doing it.

- Oh, you dabble? - You dabble in the dab? - Oh, for fuck's sake. - No, but then like on this fucking podcast, right? Like, you know, I'm very known to saying I fuck with this. And then Garnt started saying it chronically as well. - What can I say? If you hang out with your homies enough? - You also say a hundred percent. - A hundred percent. - A hundred percent. - A hundred percent. - Sometimes it echoes in my head. Like after recording, I go home walking to the train, a hundred percent.

- You two are the matrix in sync. You guys are always in sync. - If one of us is doing something, the other is just programming. - I don't think Garnt does stuff that rubs off on you. I feel like it's only you rubbing off on Garnt. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. - Literally. - No, no. - You just hang out with your homies enough and I guess you just start to marry each other. - I hang out with you a lot, but I still sip like a normal human being.

- I mean, that's just me. - I don't know why I sip like that. It's just, I think it's the sippy cups that I just can't sip like a normal human being. I don't fucking know. - It does make you feel like a baby. I feel like a dummy sometimes drinking out of that. - A little baby man? - That's why I can't like stuff. - I'm gonna find the original video that's based on, but one thing I do wanna talk about, Meilyne, is the viewers don't know this, but you are like,

- You are like one of the most prolific Google reviewers in Japan. - Oh yeah, you are. - Right? - Used to be. - Used to be? Okay. - I would say three or four years ago. - Well, who dethroned you? - I just stopped. - What were you like? What was the highest rank of food reviews? - Not high. - Master? - It's like high, was it contributor or something? Like top 5% or something. - Wow. - And it gives you a different score every month. - See, I didn't even know you had scores. - I didn't know that either. - Do they pay you? - No. - Do you just do it for like the clout?

- No, she does it for the prestige. - I do it for the badges. - What do you get for the badges? - Like it just says, oh, you're a novice or novice. - She literally does for the Xbox achievements. - So you literally played Pokemon Go just in real life. - Yeah.

- With like restaurants and stuff. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - To be fair, whenever Maylin has recommended me a restaurant, it's normally very good. - It's usually pretty good. - If I've eaten there. - If I've eaten there. - I'll go there and I'll feel like, wow, this is amazing. And Maylin was like, yeah, I give it a three out of five. And I'm like, what? - Yeah, every time we go to, we can't go to a restaurant with Maylin anymore and have her enjoy her meal because every time we're there, I can see the cogs turning. - You just don't ask me, just don't look at me while I'm eating.

- I can't help it. It's like super fascinating watching your thought process as you eat this food. - I really enjoy food, but I do just eat it very fast. - You do. Like you are someone who eats food so fast that I don't know how you can enjoy it. - Okay, so I've- - Do you have weekday eating mode and weekend eating mode?

- What the fuck is that? - No, speed. - No, I agree. - The speed in which you consume the food. - But also, when I think I'm eating this too fast, and then I slow down my chewing or whatever, I'm like, it doesn't taste any better. - It just makes you more full. - Does it? - Yeah. - The slower you eat, the more full you get. - The slower you eat, the more full you get.

It's like, because it takes a certain amount of time for your stomach to process it and for a signal to get sent to your brain that says, hi, I'm full. So if you actually eat slower, then it's just a much more natural way to eat less because then you'll get full much faster. I think if I'm not like dining with you,

with people, I don't really like to take it slow. I like to just eat it and get on with what I'm doing. - Yeah, if you're at like a fancy restaurant, I like to take my time. - If I'm at a fancy restaurant, I'll be like, oh my God, you have to try these bananas, they're dashing. - Slowly. - Swarps the wine. - Oh my gosh, you know, take one bite, sip one. - I mean, I feel like that's part of the experience. Like, I think part of the experience of enjoying food with me is not just the food, it's like, I did like- - Social aspect. - It's the social aspect and also the drink as well. Like having-

getting the food paired with the perfect drink actually really enhances the experience. - I feel like just food tastes so much worse when you're eating it alone.

- Do you not think so? - I actually agree with you. - Oh shit, what? - Do you not think so? - It depends if it's like A, B, C grade food. - When I have good food, I feel so sad when no one else is around to appreciate the good food as well. I'm like, this is good. - That's why you take a picture and you make a Google review. - That's why whenever we go out to eat, I'm like, "Mail-In, this is good, right?" And then Mail-In's like, "No."

But I'm like, I'm loving it. I'm like, this is great. - Sometimes I'm just like, I'm not gonna ask Meilyne because I am really enjoying the meal right now. And I'm afraid that she's just gonna dash my dreams. - She's like that reviewer that you don't wanna hear the opinion of. - Like, just let me enjoy my Sword Art online meal, Meilyne. Like, I don't care about your opinion. - It's a nine out of 10, right? It sucks. It fucking sucks. - I don't care if people dislike my favorite shows, but when I get to like, when we were at the old studio, we had like the stone bake,

pizza place that was really good. We loved it. And it was like, it was like five, 4.5 or something. It was really hot. - Yeah, it was fantastic. - On Google reviews. And we took Maylene and Maylene was like, "No, I can't eat this." - No, it's just 'cause I don't like pizza to begin with. - What? - What? - What? What do you mean? You're from like America. - Wait, wait. - Just 'cause I just- - Contender for the shittiest take of the year. - That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. Why? - Wait, wait. - There's no type of pizza you like.

There is a specific pizza. What? That's made in San Francisco. Oh, my God. Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh, my God.

- And the entire world grows. - It's the home of pizza, San Francisco. - But even though I could only eat like one pizza a year. I don't really like it. - What? - Yeah. - And it needs to be in San Francisco. - I have never. - I just felt all the Italians just fucking die. - Yeah. - Italian gas. - Mamma fucking mia, what the fuck was that? - There's better food to eat than pizza, I think.

- I just think, I just thought every human on earth enjoyed pizza. - I just thought it was a mutual love. - I just thought it was there. It was just like, I'm pretty sure it's like a test for like how to determine if you're an alien or a human, right? 'Cause like if they don't put love pizza, then they're probably an alien, right? Because no human doesn't love pizza. - What don't you like about pizza? - Do you like cheese? - I think it depends. It's all about timing for pizza, when they get it out and how long they're cooking it, if it's crispy, soggy. And so many places get it wrong.

- How would you rate Domino's? - I wouldn't rate it. - It's like not even worth, it's like not worth eating. - Okay, there's sometimes, there's some moments where you're watching a movie or something during a long break and you wanna eat something greasy, then pizza, the Domino's, I'll eat Domino's. - Right, right. - It's not like freaking amazing. - I'll eat the peasant food. - I'll do it. - It's not like amazing. - Okay, what is like the best fast food then in your opinion?

- If you say In-N-Out, I swear to God. - I like In-N-Out though. I really like In-N-Out. - But knowing how much she loves San Francisco. - I actually really like McDonald's. - Yeah, me too, me too. - American McDonald's or Japanese McDonald's? - Japanese McDonald's. - It's all the same. - No, it's not. - American McDonald's makes me sick every time. - Have you had American hamburgers?

- No, American McDonald's makes me sick. - McDonald's hamburgers. - I just get the nugs. Nugs are like universally just the same everywhere. - When they're freshly fried. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh my God. - I mean, nugs are great. The fries are great. I think McDonald's fries are the best out of like the meat chains. - But if they're like soggy, it's like. - Well, that's. - Actually they're good when they're soggy and cold and they're kind of been like sweating a bit in the bag. - What is this? What is this? Come on, you're joking.

- What is this? - Google food reviewer. - This is the local expert when you go on Google. - How to lose your credibility in like five minutes. - But also the Google review thing, it doesn't really mean much. It just means I contribute a lot. - How did that start? I'm so curious about how you just, who- - 'Cause you are literally the only person I know who does this. - I think it was an obsession 'cause like there would be new restaurants that pop up and then I'd be the first one

- Out of everyone in the neighborhood. - I mean, that is true. Tokyo like switches our restaurants like crazy. - It is, yeah. - It's how fast they like restaurants pop up and go. - Yeah. - And it was really cool whenever I log into my Google maps account and be like, wow, you've got a million point, 1.2 million views on your photo. I'm like, wow. - How it feels to be a YouTuber. - Nobody comments, they just look at it, which I like. Like, oh yay, they saw it.

It's just the YouTube video with the comments turned on. I went to a KFC one time and uploaded a picture of my friend eating a KFC. And for some reason, Google made it the front picture. Sorry about that. It was like, you click on this KFC. It's a pretty popular KFC. And it was just him sitting there eating a KFC. Not a flattering photo at all. Why did you upload that?

- Because I wanted to see how it works. - That's hilarious. - I wanted to see how it worked. And I found out afterwards, you can't take down Google photos. - No, you can't. - And he was furious at me. He was like, why did you put it up? - You can take down Google photos. - Really? - Yeah, I can. - It wouldn't let me take it down. - Maybe it's the privilege of Google. - You gotta be a Google photo reviewer. - Are you in the top 5%? - Every week I go on Google maps and it's like, your picture is popular. And I'm like, what the fuck? It's my mate.

- So you start reviewing things. - Yeah, yeah. - When did you get addicted? Was it like immediately or like? - Like after two months I started eating at more places. - So do you like go out on purpose to look for new places or do you kind of just like wait till a new place pops up? - Well, I get tired of eating the same food a lot. So when my husband asked me, "Where do you wanna eat?" I'll be like, "Can we go somewhere new?" I just want like that stimulation that like,

excitement. I hate it because I never used to be like that. And then I moved to Japan and then I'm just like, I want to eat something different every day. There's so many. Japan has the most, for example, Michelin restaurants in the world. And you don't even have to eat at a Michelin starred restaurant. Everything's extremely good. If you're a peasant. Do you rate the Michelin star restaurants? Because I know you've been to a few. I do. You do? Yeah. Okay. But it's also kind of weird if you go there often and then the chef knows you rated them. So I,

- They probably think you're one of the reviewers at this point. - There's one restaurant that I really liked and then I just don't review it 'cause I don't want them to know my thoughts. - What makes a good and a bad reviewer? - A bad reviewer is just like, oh, this place sucked or it was too expensive. - 'Cause I normally only give out five stars and I don't review restaurants I don't like.

Yeah, that's the problem, I think. A lot of people only review restaurants they hate or restaurants they really like. Right. They call me both a formula and a middle ground. Yeah, when I look at a place and then I see maybe there's only three ratings and then I look at the three reviewers and this person only has two reviews, this person has 40, I look at their

- So you don't look at just the reviews, you stalk the account of the reviewer. You're like a jury analyzer, like the credibility of the jurors. - Yeah, because for example, if these two reviewers have a streak or record of just giving two stars, why would I trust the review? - I just don't think I have the effort to like click on someone's name. - It's 'cause you don't care, you just Uber each everything.

- You don't even check a restaurant before you try it. - The people who normally sound like the biggest dicks are the local experts. They always have the most snobbish reviews. And every time I read them, I'm like, what the fuck happened? He made it seem like- - How often do you read Google reviews? - If I ever go to a new place, I always look at them.

- I just look at the stars and I'm like, yeah, that looks good enough. Is that Maylin's influence? - No, I just always did that. - Oh, okay. - 'Cause sometimes people maybe like comment like the best dish or something to recommend. - Yeah, pictures of, 'cause you don't know what to order either. - Sometimes I don't really know and occasionally I can't read it 'cause it's all in kanji. And then I'm like, I pointed the picture, I'm like, give me this one. What this guy had. - It's like a menu. - What this guy had.

- You don't do that? - No. - Why am I the weirdo? - Aren't there menus here that have no pictures and you can't read it? - Yeah, in kanji, yeah. - So you just go through the pictures. - Sometimes you just gotta put your face in God's and just order food, I don't know. - Throw the dice. - Just throw the dice. - What you do in that situation is, "Oso sume," ask for the recommendation. And whatever he says, you're like, "Yes?"

- I hope that's good. - I just get whatever sounds nice. I don't know. Like sometimes, sometimes- - I just need Hongo Joe's with that shit. - Well, Joey can read. I can't, I'm done. - There's some like handwritten menus. I'm just like, what? - Oh yeah. Those are so hard to even like remotely figure out what's being like said. - Oh, if that's the case, then I asked the waitress. I'm like, what does that say?

- We actually have the way down. - If you can't read it then. - Sometimes like I've seen some handwritten ones, especially like really fancy, like Japanese restaurants where they love to use that like traditional calligraphy style. And I'm like, this just looks like squiggles to me. - Like the ones with the Higelotti menu.

- I mean, well, you know what is the one that changes everyday? - The daily special? - I mean, like daily specials are always asked. But like I've seen menus that is literally illegible where it's just so messy and they always use like fancy terminology that just doesn't work outside of that context. - My favorite moment of eating in Japan is when you go to Ryokan, it's like 20 courses and they just come over to you and explain every dish and I just look at the thing for like two minutes straight just nodding.

- See, I'm actually interested in those kinds of menus though. - I don't know what they're saying to me. I'm just like, what the fuck are you saying? I'm like nodding, nodding. - In your head it's like, this is food. This is also food. This is a food. - I think you eat it or take like half a bite and then tell them, what is this that I just ate? And then that's better. Like if they have time to explain. - But like usually what they do is they bring all the food out, right? And then they explain it and then they just fuck off.

So you don't even have enough time unless you're eating it as they're explaining it. - I'm just like, come back please. - Come over here. - I am formulating a review. - I took a picture and I have to leave notes next to it. - I'm a local expert, I'll have you know. - Are you the local expert? Do you get that badge as well?

- I'm not sure. - Like, I'm just so curious, like how often do you have to eat at somewhere new to be in the top 5%? - I have no idea. I haven't been top 5% since like 2017 or 2018. - That's boring because you do quite a lot of reviews. - I think there's more now than before. - How many reviews does it take to be in the top? - I have no idea. - It's becoming more mainstream. - Maybe. - There's a Japanese guy as well who's like trying to review every single Starbucks in Japan. - Oh yeah, yeah, I know that guy. - And it's like ridiculous. - Do they taste all the same?

That's what I wondered. What can the difference be? Yeah, that's like going to every McDonald's in Japan. He has to probably order the same thing from each place, though. Otherwise, it's not a good comparison, right? But I think they have the season limit.

- Even now, Starbucks Japan just released a thing where every single prefecture has its own frappe. - Oh, does it? That's such a Japanese idea. - It's actually really cool. - It's kind of genius. - They all look super unique as well. Like none of the flavors look the same. - I went to Kyoto the other day and I had like the Kyoto Frappuccino and it was like, it was like matcha with like caramel and some shit. I'm like, yeah, fuck it.

- If I can only have this here, I'll have it. - The Tokyo one sucks. - What's the Tokyo one? - It's like coffee jelly and some shit. - That is a very Tokyo thing, coffee jelly. - Do you like jelly? - Yeah. - I think jelly is the worst dessert. Like it is by far the worst. - Nah. - Have you had Mikan jelly? - I don't give a shit. - Mikan's it is bomb. That shit's bomb. - Jelly is literally the dessert of peasants.

What are you talking about? Jelly is incorporated on all kinds of high-end meals. It's literally the cheapest dessert. What? No, it's the cheapest one. It's the cheapest one.

- Someone needs to take this preparation away. - Cheese can be delicious though. It doesn't have to be expensive to be delicious. - It's basically like mattress filler. I don't want to eat it. - No, because like you don't just want jelly by itself, right? I mean, sometimes you want jelly by itself, but if it's like incorporated in a dessert, it's really fucking good. - You don't like coffee jelly with a bit of ice cream? - No, I can't stand it. It's awful. - Oh, I love coffee jelly. - It's dreadful. - What don't you like about jelly? - It tastes like nothing half the time. And when it does taste like something, it's like you could have made something else. - Maybe you have COVID. - Shut up.

You could have made literally anything else with this flavor profile and it would have been 10 times better 'cause it didn't feel like a floppy mess in my mouth. - It's just a very light flavor that like, it's not too strong a lot of the times. It's just very light. - Sometimes I don't want a dessert that like punches me in the face. - It's like a slippery and all stuff. - It's just lighter than like an ice cream. - Is it more so the texture you don't like? - The texture is a massive part of it.

- But I also find that- - So you don't like gelatinous things? - No, and I found that the flavors can be replicated in any other dessert that is just better. - Like what? - Like ice cream. - Ice cream? - You need an ice cream maker. - Ice cream and jelly don't taste anything alike. What are you talking about? - Coffee jelly, you could have done

- Ice cream coffee, you know what I mean? - Usually you get like a vanilla ice cream with coffee jelly. Like that shit's great. - No, no, just put like a pour espresso on it. I'd rather that, don't do this jelly shit. Fuck this jelly shit. - Ice cream and jelly tastes nothing alike even if they have the same flavor profile. It's like two totally different things. - I don't know, I find that it's like,

- I just don't think you're a fan of gelatinous things. - No, and it's also like when they do it, I'm like, really couldn't afford gelato or ice cream, really? I feel like that's what's going on.

- Peasants. - I was like, I'm like, oh, okay. - Connor's at a Michelin star restaurant. They serve him a jelly restaurant. - Wait, have you been to a Michelin star restaurant before? - Yeah. - Oh, you have. - And if they gave me jelly, I'd be like, wow, I saw what you skimped on the budget. Jelly, you know, I can make 20 liters of jelly in like 10 minutes with like 10 bucks. You know, I don't want this shit. You know how hard it would be to fill a bathtub of ice cream? - That shit's going to actually taste like nothing though.

- Like the jelly that comes out of like higher end restaurants actually has a lot of flavor in my opinion. - Yeah, if it's like fruit, they'll extract the juices from the flesh. - Oh God, I hate fruit jelly so much. - Fruit jelly is the best. - Fruit jelly is the best. - Fruit jelly is literally the best. - Why would you ruin fruit by making it into a jelly format? It's literally the worst. - No, there's some fruits that are better. - Yeah, like Mikan. - Yeah, Mikan. - I would argue that like fruits make better jellies than they do ice cream.

- Yeah, actually yes. - You can try its full potential, the texture of how it's changed by being cooked in the spirit. - Look, look, look, jelly, like fruit jelly is refreshing as fuck. Fruit ice cream is not refreshing a lot of the time. - Unless it's sorbet. - Unless it's sorbet. - Banana ice cream does not count. - Banana. - Banana. - Strawberry. - Banana ice cream does not taste like banana. - I will take strawberry jelly over strawberry ice cream any day. - What? - I've never had good strawberry jelly though.

- Well, strawberry jelly is normally like the cheap jelly. - The jello type thing. - It's normally the cheap jelly, but like so is strawberry ice cream. Strawberry ice cream is normally the cheap ice cream as well. - I don't like strawberry ice cream. - Oh my God. Oh my God, Joey. This is why we're brothers. This is why we're brothers. - Listen, I don't like it either, but I would take it over jelly. - Fuck off. Strawberry ice cream I think is just like the worst ice cream flavor. - It always tastes like fake strawberry. - Yeah. - Banana though.

- Hugging a strawberry. - Banana is good, but that's not the same flavor as an actual banana. - Why does banana lend itself so well to everything? Like everything banana flavor tastes amazing. - Yeah, I agree with that. - And like everything orange tastes so artificial and shit. - No. - No. - No. - No. - Orange lollies and like orange ice cream, not lollies. - What's your point of me? - What? - What the fuck's your point of me? - I didn't say anything. - Why did you guys catch that slam dunk? - Why did you?

- Did you catch that? Oh, it's because we stayed in Australia. - We stayed in the UK too though. - Oh, you guys stay there. - I don't know why you pointed at me. That was just slander. - It just came out and I was like, "Lollies."

- Can't believe you. - We call them ice lollies. - Okay. - The lollipops, right? Americans call them lollipops too, right? - Yeah, lollipops. - Don't choose the subject. - Sorry, orange tastes like shit. - No, you're wrong. You're wrong. I think the orange desserts taste better than banana desserts. - Oh, come on. - Do you like mousse, by the way?

- Yeah, I like mousse. - No, take ice cream. - Sometimes. - Ice cream. - It's like, do you just hate desserts, Connor? - I love ice cream. - We found the reason, ladies and gentlemen. We found the reason. - Categorically, right? I have not had a single dessert, right, that I'm like,

- Ice cream would just be better than this. It's not a single dessert that made me think ice cream is better. - I can find you a dessert. - Like apple pie, apple pie is great. - It's okay, but I can find you something better. - What was the thing that you said? - You only like apple pie because it works well with ice cream.

- Anything that works well with ice cream. - I like waffles. - Do you like chocolate cake? - I love chocolate cake. - What kind of chocolate cake? Like Japanese chocolate cake? - Oh, I don't think I've ever had Japanese chocolate cake. - Oh, like a volcano chocolate cake. - Like American chocolate cake. - I don't know, icing is too, sometimes icing is too heavy, you know? - Yeah. - Sometimes it can be like cement-like. - It gets lighter when you microwave it. - That just sounds- - That's the tidbit for the day, I guess. - No, it's so good.

- Why would you want mousse? 'Cause to me mousse is just inferior ice cream. - Mousse does taste bad most of the time though. - Sometimes you just don't want something as heavy as ice cream, which is a cream, right? - No, even a spoon of the ice cream fills your mouth with the cream though. - If Americans saw the Haagen-Dazs size in Japan, I think they'd cry. I cried when I first saw it. Have you seen how tiny? - No, to me that's the perfect size. I can't have any more Haagen-Dazs than that.

- But I won't lie, I do wish I had the tub just so if I really did have a bad day, I could chow down the two-liter tub. - Like dessert's the one meal where I'm like really picky because it depends on what I've eaten directly beforehand that dictates what desserts I order, right? You can't just order the same dessert every time. - I don't even eat desserts. - Like, okay, like, like,

- I agree that ice cream, I think is the best dessert. It's either ice cream or cake, right? But I can't, if I had an empty stomach, I'd always go for ice cream or cake. But sometimes you just don't feel like that after a really heavy meal. Sometimes chocolate just seems way too heavy and you just want something light and fruity. - Always, always, German soup or ice cream in some form.

- Tiramisu, I could have like anything and I can eat half a tiramisu after it. - To be fair, tiramisu is my favorite cake, but I can't have it after every meal. - I can't have it after every meal. - It's a very heavy cake. - It's a heavy cake. - It feels heavy, but it's heavy. - It doesn't feel heavy at all. - The cream. - Like to me, the biggest fucking lie I hear people say is like, "Oh, you have a second stomach for dessert." I'm like, "Bullshit." - No, that shit's a lie. - Bullshit. - No, no, no, no, no. - You just didn't enough.

didn't eat enough main course, that's it. - No, it's actually, it's true. - You can trick your mind too. - The way your taste buds work is that they get sick of one flavor. So when you introduce a new flavor, it makes more room for it. - No, no, no, that's not with me. - That's how you conquer buffets, you switch back and forth. - Conquer buffets. - Buffet speed run. - I watched a very informal Vox video about this and apparently, yeah, you tend to- - Oh my God, I wanna see Meilyne at a buffet.

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- Las Vegas has a lot of good buffets. - I've heard this actually. - You'll pay like a hundred. - But isn't it like mainly buffets in Las Vegas? - It's all buffets. - Really? - Yeah. - I stay, 'cause you know Aki's from Vegas, right? So like literally every third day is a buffet. And after a while I'm just like, "Bruh, can we have like something else?" Just like a single meal. - I get it though, 'cause you're just gonna sit there and gamble all night. So it doesn't matter if you like just stuff yourself.

- If you've been like walking around on the strip all day and you have enough room, then yeah, of course buffet is fantastic. But you know, if I'm like fucking lazily sitting around in a house and then sometimes Aki's mom's like, "Let's go to a buffet." I'm like, "No, please no." - But they have no time limit. You could be there all day kind of. - Actually, some of them look amazing as well. I think I saw some YouTube videos of them and it's like Michelin star chefs or something working on these things. - We've been to all of them and some of them are fucking amazing.

But it's also like a buffet bus tour. You get a pass and it takes you around to all the buffets. No, I haven't. I know a friend who, why would you want to have

- I always wanted to go. - Dude, when I start eating this- - That's like a buffet of a buffet. - No, I want to. - That sounds horrible. When I start eating, I don't want to stop until I'm done. And then when I'm done, I stop. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the worst thing is when you are- - I don't want to be timed for my meal. - Yeah, and the worst thing is if you- - Get on the bus, we're going. - If you start a meal and you're not totally full, but then you'd stop because you stop anyway, because you've got to leave or you've got to do something else. And then you kind of become full, but not the-

- It's fun for like college student aged people, I think.

and you have a lot of food. - Unfortunately there is not a single- - They love buses. - Why don't you just go to one buffet then instead of going to multiple? - I wanna go buffet now though, but I did used to really like buffets. - I mean, I still do love buffets. It's just that there's a time and a place for it. I can't have it every day. - Yeah, I can't have it every day. - Wait, how do you rate buffets then? Because there's so many different types of food. - I can't rate buffets. I didn't do Google reviews back when I was eating at buffets. - What about Japan buffets? Have you had the buffets here? - Yeah, I've had. I took you, I think, yeah, only Conor and Garnt. - Did we? We went to a buffet? - Yeah, Nabezo.

- It's a hot pot buffet? - Oh, that doesn't count. - That is a buffet. - To me, it's not a buffet if you have to ask the guy to come over and then you order more stuff. - Yeah, but then you go over to the vegetable section and you get your own vegetables. - That's not a buffet. - That's a buffet. - That's a salad bar. - Yeah. - Oh. - That's a fucking salad. - That's just a self-serve salad bar.

- Yeah, I'd say, 'cause buffet to me is truly like everything is you can go up and get it. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - So I feel like when there's a block of you have to call someone over and be like, "Can I have more meat?" - That's how you get the fresh one. - But you can also like go up to like the chef at the buffet and be like, "Can you get me the fresher one?" - Depending at the buffet. I know the Las Vegas ones have that. - Yeah, Vegas you can do that. - There's some really weird buffets in Japan though. I went to one near the- - Like the sweets buffet?

- Company has buffet part, didn't you? - It's like an American chain or something. - American chain here? - It's apparently supposed to be an American dining chain. - Sizzler? - Sizzler, is that what the wait, no, was it Sizzler? - Sizzler in Japan has like the famous salad buffet bar. - Yeah, and it was the most- - There's Sizzlers in Japan? - Yeah, there's Sizzler in Shinjuku. - And it was like the, I think I went to one in Tokyo Stadium or Itabashi Stadium, the one near Itabashi.

- The massive stadium, the park. - Tokyo Dome? - Tokyo Dome, that's it. There was one in there. - There's a sizzler? - Or some form of chain. And I went to it. - A Bubba Gums? - No, it wasn't Bubba Gums. I went to it and I was like, all right, what's gonna be on the buffet? It was the weirdest selection of stuff you can imagine. It was like, the dessert was like first in the buffet as well. So it was like ice cream and like French toast, but this was like 5:00 PM. - What do you mean first in the buffet?

- When you get your tray and stuff, the dessert was there first. - Oh, weird. - And then I was like, okay. And then next to it is like self-service taco station, but there was no salsa or guac. So it was just like beef. - Beef wrapped up. - And the tortilla.

- Tortilla. - Both of those. - Mexicans crying. - It was just beef and the tortilla. - There you go. - Okay, yeah, this makes sense. Next up it's like pasta, Italian pasta. And it was like, I don't know what this pasta was. It didn't taste like anything. It tastes like a weird Arabiata. It was really strange.

And then in the middle, there was like a bunch of salad, but the salad was strange as well. There was like barely any lettuce. There was like chopped oranges, like a bunch of croutons and stuff. I was like, what is this? Is this in the hotel?

- Yeah, next to it. - The hotel buffet. - No, it wasn't a part of the hotel. It was like a- - Tokyo Dome Hotel also has buffets. - Yeah, it was so confusing and it was just the weirdest. I've never seen a buffet like it. And half the stuff was terrible and they didn't have a coffee machine or anything. It was just water. - Peasants. - Instant soft drink. - And if you wanted the soft drink, you had to order it. - That's actually normal in a lot of buffet places. - What? - In England as well.

- Because that's how they make the money. Because that's, you have to pay for the drinks. - We pay for the drinks in the UK? - Some buffet places, a lot of buffet places, the drinks aren't included. - I thought they charge for alcoholic drinks. - Oh no, they charge for like normal drinks as well. And that's how, that's like the secret of how they make the money, right? Because you have to order the drinks separately, but the food is like all you can eat. - Right, right, right.

So, I mean, that's more standards. - How much are buffets in the UK? - It can like depend. - Tanner is like standard. You can go like pretty high end and get like 20 pounds, 25. - Really? In the South, it's like 20 to 30. - Oh shit, really? I thought it's not, it's like a tanner.

- Up north. - I was like up north, oh my God. That's so cheap. - Buffets were around where I was. I think they were like never more than 20 and 20 was like premium. - Like farm produce in your area. - You can't eat out in the south for like less than 15 quid. Like 15 quid is like the cheap, cheap, cheap restaurants. - You could go to any restaurant and get a main for like 10 pounds. Like in like a fresh main that's prepared well. So why would you go to a buffet and stuff yourself full of chips and rice?

And pay 15 quid. Fair enough. Buffets are just fun for family, I think.

- Are they? - Yeah. - Yeah, 'cause you can challenge people. - You should get your kid to shut up and run away, right? - Challenge people? What do you challenge people? - Like who made, who can do the- - Who can conquer it first? - How many plates can you eat? - Who pretends you're Matt Stoney at the local buffet? - Isn't that fun? You should do that as a teenager. - You only eat one plate? - Yeah. - I ate two plates. - Well, when I was a teenager, I did think it was really cool. And there was an all-you-can-eat buffet one time for pizza. - Did you wear buffet pants?

- What? - There's an all you can eat buffet pizza chain here in Japan as well. Yeah, called Shakey's. - That's American. - Yeah, that's American. - In Baba they have it. - But wait, wait, can we go back to that? - Can we go back to the buffet pants? What the fuck is a buffet pants? - I didn't even hear that. - She said buffet. - She was like, do you wear buffet pants? - It's just sweats so you can put the elastic band over your stomach when you're done eating. - That sounds like the most American invention I've ever heard of. - Everyone did it in- - No. - In San Francisco? - In my circle. We were like, let's go to the buffet and then we change our pants.

- I think we went to a- - What? - What? - This sounds like a parody. - No, it's real. - Are you serious? - It's real. Well, in my friend group, we get- - Did other friend groups do this as well? - I don't know. - Was this like a just your friend group type of thing? - No, it was like more than 20 people. - How much does a buffet cost in San Francisco? - An arm and a leg. - $40? - $40? - This was like eight years ago though.

- So it's only gotten more now? Eight years ago? - Well, I mean, yeah, that's how much Vegas parfaits are. They're like 40, 50 bucks. - Are they worth it? - They don't taste good. - Don't eat those. - They don't taste good. - The high end ones though, where you pay a little extra, like 80, $90 is like worth it. - 80, $90 for a parfait? What?

- Did you get sirloin steak on demand? - Yes. - Crab, crab. It's about the crab. - Okay, fine, fine. - You actually get top tier food at those barfests. - Okay, okay, I'm down. - But the $40, $50 ones, in my opinion,

- Maybe, but half the time not worth it. - Yeah, I mean- - Two grand and then spend $90 on steak. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's just like sounds so alien to me because like in the UK, I don't think that kind of buffet exists. Buffets exist as like a cheap alternative to eating a lot of food. If you just wanna order a lot of food, eat a shit ton of food, they don't really care about the quality. - But there are a lot of Indian curry buffets because in SF certain-

- Pretty much every buffet in the UK has Indian curry in it. - Oh really? - I'm gonna be honest though, they're pretty bad though. They're really fucking bad. - I mean, I would argue that pretty like 90, actually I don't think I've ever been to a good buffet place in the UK in terms of like, this is good food. You go there to eat a shit ton of food and you trick your brain into thinking it tastes good because you're eating so much food. But in reality, it just tastes like shit.

- I think that's most buffets. - I just hate like the whole plate situation with buffets, you know, because when you get a dish, right, that you've hand selected, it's normally perfectly fit for that plate. You know, when you start going around the buffet and you start putting things on, I don't want some of the foods touching.

And like, I hate that because I'm like, well, you know, I don't want this saucy dish to touch the thing that's supposed to be like dry. So it's like, it's kind of a mess. - Get another plate. - If there is sauce, it's like, all right, if this dish has a lot of sauce, how do I kind of like integrate this with my other food selection on my plate?

- I've honestly never cared. 'Cause I'm like, at the end of the day, this is all gonna turn to shit. So it doesn't matter to me. - Oh, so it's all going- - No, no, I agree. - You just get a new plate. - You can't just say whatever goes in your mouth is shit. So why give a fuck? - I actually don't. - 'Cause I'm the guy at the buffet. - You should just eat cement. - I'm the guy at the buffet who has fucking three different plates, right? Because you can't like-

- I take the plate, I go and get another plate to like make sure the dishes are right. - You don't get the food, put it down, eat it and then go again. - No, no, no. - No, because that's too much effort. - What if you change your mind though after you eat the first plate? - Just throw it away.

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- What if you take, 'cause sometimes I've taken too much of something starchy and I've been like, "Shit, I can't eat this. "This is prime real estate in my stomach. "I can't have another bread roll." So I just leave it. - 'Cause in Vegas apparently- - I never get bread when I'm in a buffet. - I'm kidding, I would never get bread. - You mad man. - 'Cause in Vegas apparently it's a law now that all the buffet places at the end of every day, they have to throw out everything.

because there was this lawsuit that dead ass, I read about this. There was this lawsuit that happened a couple of years ago where they kept some of the food and like stored it in like the behind, like the store. And some homeless guy came up, ate it, got food poisoning, sued the buffet place and won. - Well, hopefully you got a nice home.

- Yeah. - What? - And so now in Vegas, I don't know about the whole state of Nevada, but in Vegas, every buffet place legally has to throw out every single food that's left on that day and make it fresh the next day. So I can't imagine how much food- - I mean, that's good for customers though, but unfortunately terrible for- - It's also a waste of a shitload of food. - You'd wish they just gave it away, but it's logistically, it's quite hard to just give away a lot of food.

like donate it to the shelters. - I think some coffee chains in the UK, especially London, I think like Pratt does it, where like at the end of the day, someone will come in, get all the sandwiches they didn't sell and then just at that night, go and take them to homeless people. - Yeah, so that makes more sense. - So they're still like good to eat. - Yeah, that makes more sense. - It's good. - I am curious as like the resident American here. - Oh yeah. - Oh, I'm the only American. - Pretty much the only American. - You're the only American in. - In the office, right? Apart from Sydney. Sydney doesn't count.

- I mean, she likes ugly bastard hentai. None of her opinions mean anything. I'm like, how'd you feel when we actually like rant about America and you're just like off camera listening? - I'm just like, that's-

- Confirmation. - We have been wrong about some things. - Yeah, you have been wrong, but I'm just saying, yeah, whatever. - I mean, yeah, we rag on about our own countries just as much. - Yeah, and then also Americans will rag on your countries. - Yeah, of course. - And whatnot. It's interesting though, 'cause most of my foreign friends are usually American, and it's interesting hearing non-Americans talk about Americans that I know. - Has there ever been a time though where you were just like, no, that's so wrong and I wanna tell them?

There are a few times, but I just forgot. I mean, the one that sticks out is the butter or the lard thing. You were saying that there's someplace that they put lard on popcorn. I was like, wait, I've never heard of that.

- Did we ever find out where that was or is that a lie? - I don't know. - I have no idea, but I was like, what? - It's not a lie because I saw it with my own eyes. So it's not a lie. Maybe it was that cinema, I don't know. But I saw it, maybe it's probably- - In Vegas. - Yeah, it's probably not like a common thing. - Because I was like, what? - I mean, melted butter is definitely a common thing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Did you speak to many non-Americans who speak English before? - Non-Americans who speak English? - In Japan? - Like Koreans?

- I guess so, yeah. - Is there a big difference between Americans and non-Americans? - The way you guys talk. Some things you say and then I end up saying it. - Like what?

- Like the time that I almost convinced you that the Australian currency was dollar-reduced? - No, I didn't believe you. I was just being polite to your friends. - So at Smash, which is the convention in Sydney, the anime I won. - Three years ago. - Yeah, so I got invited as a guest and Maylene came with me. And my friend from uni was there. I invited them. And I don't know how we got onto the conversation, but my friend dead ass almost convinced Maylene that the Australian currency was called dollar-reduced.

- And then before going, I actually had an Australian friend here and she was like, "Australians lie a lot, so watch out." And then I went over, I think I told you, I was like, "My friend said Australians lie a lot." - No, no, no, no, nonsense. And then we told you about the drop bears. - I knew about the drop bear. - What is a drop bear? - A drop bear, drop bears are like, there's a specific type of bear in Australia where

that they drop from the tree, they drop down and attack you. So you should never, when you're in Australia, you should never fall asleep under a tree because drop bear could come down and attack you. - Unfortunately that is a lie. - No, no, no, it's absolutely real. And Maylene believed me for a while. - I did not. - Yeah, you did. You were like, are they like,

- An actual species of bear? - Where did the drop bear thing come from? - I don't know, fuck, it's been around since like-- - Every Australian, I swear, I've met abroad tells that story on my first meeting. I'm just like, is this just something the country has just agreed to tell the entire rest of the world? - Well, hundreds of Australians have died from drop bears every year. - Prove that Australia really exists. Prove that it's not a lie.

- I haven't seen it yet. - I haven't seen it. I'm not been to Australia. Have you been to Australia? She's been. - Have I? - Yeah. She went on a flight and she landed somewhere that was called Australia. But that doesn't mean it exists. - You used to be a big gamer back in the day, right, Maylene? You used to play Maple Story? - Yes.

- I was wondering where that transmission was going. - Wait, why did you bring them? - Because, did you not talk to like people on "Maple Story"? - Oh yeah. - From all the countries. - My guild mother was from Australia. - Did she lie a lot? - I don't think so. She told me about a lot of things.

- Like the draw base? - What's a guild mother? - A guild, I don't know. - The person who starts the guild. - It's pretty self fucking explain. - The master of the guild. - I've never heard of it referred to as a guild mother yet. - It just happens like online people in the games, they date each other and you can get married in a Maple store, get crush rings or whatever. - Crush rings? - Yeah, yeah, crush rings. - So did you not have like questions about Australia for her?

- Not so much. I wasn't that- - Because I remember the first time I met an American friend, I asked them about so much shit. - About? - About just like, is it true that like, 'cause you know, in Australia- - I think I did ask a lot of questions. - 'Cause you know, you hear from, you only hear so much from media, right? To the point where like, a lot of it is like over glorified and sometimes just like a straight up lie. So like the first time I met my American friend through YouTube, I just asked them like a shit ton of questions being like, is this true? Is this true? - I did ask my Brazilian friend about Brazil though.

On MapleStory. Do they really have big butts? No. I asked them because there's this one case, the rumor or something, that kids are very violent when they get angry at each other in games. They kill each other. And one of the cases that I was checking out was this 13-year-old that stole a PS4 or something of his friend. And the friend got angry, went over to his house with the matete and just cut him in half. And I was like, oh, is that true? And then my friend, Tiago, was like, yeah, yeah, that happens all the time. So I'm not

- He didn't say yeah, he was like, yeah, that happens a lot in ventrilo. - Can people confirm that in the comments? - I don't know, is it true? - Brazilians, is it true? - I don't know, I was like 13, 14. - Does every Brazilian kid just own a machete? - I don't know. - But it's readily available. Before they learn how to read and write, they just get a machete. - Does it come on Amazon or something? - I don't know.

- I was 13 and they told me that and I was like, "Oh, Brazil's scary." - I was always like the token British guy when I went online to people. They were just like, "Oh, it's a Brit." - Never met any British people in the games. - Really?

- Yeah, none. - Maybe they played on different servers. - Maybe they did. - Yeah, like how much growing up did you know about the rest of the world? 'Cause like the stereotype is that Americans know nothing about the rest of the world. That's like the stereotype. I'm not saying it's true. - I didn't know about Europeans or Australians or South America so much. - Oh yeah, 'cause you're Vietnamese, right? - Yeah, yeah. - Oh yeah, yeah. - I mean, I got to travel to a lot of parts

- I mean, I don't know much about Asia. I know the names of the countries and some of the history. - And here you are in Japan. - And now you're learning, you're educating yourself. - About the culture. - I knew about the history, but that's about it. - You knew the history. We colonized this place. - My finest work.

- You would hear a country, you're like, that's one that we used to have, right? - Just look at the list, it's like, yeah. - Is that part of my collection? - It sounds really like we would name it like. - I appreciate the English. - Often you would hear about countries and it was always like, it was like 50/50. I'm like, dude.

- I don't know. - We got close. - Maybe we just stopped right there. Asian history is really cool when you learn about it, but I was just never got taught in school in the UK 'cause they were like, "That's that far away place that you'll never go." Because Europe and Butlins is an hour away. - Yeah, but at least you guys got to learn about like European history, right? Which is like- - Oh, well fuck that though. European history is such a fucking mess. - Is it? - Yes. - Dude, better than Australian history. We only have 250 years and most of it is racist. - Yeah, but at least you can say like,

- True. But at least- - Europe really isn't any better. - I don't think Europeans are any better in terms of that. - It's literally white men come to person's land, take land away, here we are today. - And then dump the prisoners on them. - Bunch of politics, blah, blah, blah, here we are. - Europe's fucking 900 years arguing about who was the best white person. - Yeah, but at least you guys had like wars and colonies

- Cool shit. - The Romans and like the Byzantines and like all those like that shit's cool. - They make movies out of that. - Yeah. - There's one movie about Australia and it's called Australia.

- Isn't it cool though? - Yeah, Nicole Kidman. - Yeah, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. - That's cool though, you can learn all of your history within like a reasonable amount of time. - Yeah, but like as a 14 year old learning about like politics and shit, I'm just like, I don't care. - I don't know most of European history. I don't know, history was like that one class that I just never paid attention to. - I love history. - Do you know about US history? - I hate history class.

- I don't know about, like the most world history I know is from the fucking video from Bill Wurtz. That's basically- - After Bill Wurtz, everyone is a fucking Japanese historian. - It's like, hello, I am now historian. Hello fellow historians. - I know world history now.

- To be fair, I learned a lot from those videos. - Yeah, I did learn a lot from it 'cause I just never paid attention in a history class. I don't know. - I love history. - But I wish I could learn about the Japanese history or actually about a history of a country that is like, I actually have an interest in. - I think Japanese history is interesting as fuck. - Japanese history is super interesting. - I think Chinese history is interesting as fuck. - Yeah, I wish I learned about that stuff. That's 4,000 years of history that you can look back on.

- Yeah, 'cause that's fucking cool. - That's like so much history and it's just like one place as well as European. It's just like, is it the Romans this time? Like, wait, is it Greece? - Well, Europe had a war like every fucking five years. - Yeah, I know, right? - Literally, like on the dot. - What percentage of like the history of classes that you took or had to take in high school or middle school was dedicated to European history versus everything else? - I mean, it was all European history. - Really? - No, mine wasn't. - So what other history did you learn? - American.

I did not learn anything about American history. - We learned American and Chinese history. - How did they teach American history? - It was mainly the civil rights period. We've covered 50s space, you know, the generic. - The space race. - The highlights, you know, the highlights of the modern American history that they like to tell because it sounds good. It's like, we beat racism. It's ended. We beat the Russians. You know, like that kind of stuff. - Yeah, I've never learned about that. - China was just like,

- Mao, I don't know which one is the correct one. There's multiple pronunciations of like Mao. Mao Zedong, there's Mao Zedong, which, 'cause which pronunciation is correct? 'Cause we got taught a bunch of different ones. - There's like 20 different pronunciations of Mao. - Mao Zedong or something as well. I don't know which one's correct. - Every British person trying to like pronounce Chinese words. - Yeah, terrible. We've learned about that.

- See, that's cool though. Because like we had in Australia, at least in my school, we had ancient history, which was like about like the Romans. - We didn't do any ancient history. - Egyptians, that kind of stuff. That's what we learned as well. - And then we had modern history, which was about like World War I, World War II, Vietnam War. - We did so much on World War II.

- 'Cause British people love World War II. They fucking love it. - Of course they do. - Literally, they're like, "Look guys, we beat the odds. We did it." - Yeah, 'cause I only remember World War I and World War II being taught in my school. I think we were taught a bit of American history, but it was just very glossed over.

- Don't know why. Don't know why it was glossed over. - It was like for, at least for me, I don't know if it was, we have GCSEs, which are like when you get to age 16, you can pick three or four subjects. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - One of them was history I chose. So that's why- - Oh, you chose history.

That's why I did, we learned American history and Chinese history. - Oh, okay. 'Cause the most I did is just like- - But the generic one was just like World War II. - Yeah, I did the generic shit before I took the history. - I've only done the generic shit up to GCSE, which I didn't even pick history. - Oh, I was just always like, "Trench foot, this is bad." - Do you have accelerated history classes too? Like AP, honors, history, technical? - No, we don't do that in the UK. The only one that has it is math. We have advanced mathematics. - Right. - Yeah, yeah. - It's the only one that has it. - We have that for history. - It's called further maths.

- Or is it further? - Further math. - I know 'cause I took it. - That's the only subject in the UK that had it. - Further math. - Who would've thought the two Asians on the podcast took accelerated math. - Wait, accelerated math? - Yeah, we called it accelerated math. - Accelerated math? - Yeah, ours was called accelerated math. - Is that like trigonometry or something? - No, trigonometry was the basic stuff. - Yeah, trigonometry, you had to like pass trigonometry

- Accelerator maths was like three dimensional graphs and like I. - Imaginary numbers. - Imaginary numbers and stuff like that. - But I did notice when I compared what I learned to school to what Sydney learned to school at the same time, especially with maths. I don't know if it's just because I was like, I don't know if it was like the education system, but I would notice that what I learned was like way before what Sydney learned in school sometimes.

I don't know if it's like, I don't know how the education system works, but then I also know that compared to Asian schools, they are like way further beyond whatever I fucking learned in school. - Math is everything. - They were doing like college level maths in high school and I was just like, what? - Yeah, like in Japanese schools, you learn long division at like fourth grade.

And I'm like, what? I didn't learn that shit till I was like 16. - What the fuck is long division? - Long division is like divide 72,463 by 273. - That's so shit though. 'Cause you know, everyone uses calculators nowadays. You don't need to fucking know this shit. - Did you guys have like placement tests for math? - Yeah. - We did, okay. - How was it for you? - Yeah, we had placement. - Oh man, like how did you place? - I don't remember when it was. - Were you good at maths?

- I guess maybe, yeah, kind of. I suppose, yeah. - What did you play? - Lose my test? No, how dare you? - Wait, what subjects did you excel at at school? Like what did you take? - What did I excel at school? - Were you good at anything at school? - Yeah, I had 4.0.

- What does that mean? - Sorry, all As. - That's the highest score. - I always hear they had a 4.0 GPA. - It means you had As. - So you were good at school. - I wouldn't say it's good.

- What are you talking about? - I know, but like people were getting 4.1s and stuff because they do like get- - You can tell she grew up in an Asian family. - Well, 4.1 is like extracurricular activities, right? - I thought 4.0 was the highest. - It is, but then you can get higher if you do extracurricular activities. - Every single true crime documentary is always like, "He was a good kid. He had a 4.0 GPA." - After Harvard. - Yeah. - I totally cut off that woman's arms and legs. - Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

- I think the highest math I got to is like algebra two because you can choose to stop. - Yeah, right. - And I just chose to stop and then fill it with other courses. - So wait, what was like your favorite subject at school? - Favorite subject? Art? - Art was cool. - Maybe, yeah. I got to make like pasta sculptures. I loved art because I would ask my fellow arts students. - All I can imagine is like fucking macaroni art. You make it look like art. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Did you have like, are schools like well-funded? Were you a fan? - I would say, yeah. Well, Bay Area.

- Everything in the Bay Area is more fun than San Fran, right? - All the parents donate money. - Oh, okay. - Like someone I found, like one of my aunts constantly is donating money to her daughter's school because it just makes the program much better. The government's not giving enough money so the neighborhood parents are just giving money. - I remember when I did like badminton, there was only like two rackets out of 30 that weren't broke.

- I mean, that's just like school equipment, school facilities. - The wiring is fucked on the nets to the point where it's like, you just play badminton. - Yeah, we have like 40 acoustic guitars and only two of them work. - Oh my God. - Don't fucking get me started on textbooks. Like when the fucking teacher says, "All right, time to get out of the textbooks." I'm like, "Who am I sharing with today?" - Everyone like huddles around one desk, right?

- Yeah, 'cause like in my school, like when you were reading from a textbook, everyone needed to share at least with one person. So everyone had a partner, like a textbook partner. - Really? - Yeah.

- Yeah, we had that. But not by obligations because like half the class had just forgotten their textbooks. So it just became like a tradition to be like, it's my turn now. - Do you have cooking classes in America? - Yeah, we have cooking classes. It's like home ec or something. - We have cooking classes as well. - I never took it 'cause I hated- - Oh, we had no choice. - Oh really? - Did you have to cook in school? - Nope. - We had to do it for one year, yeah. - Oh, they made us cook and they made us, you won't believe what one of the dishes was. We'd prepare a sandwich.

- That was no joke, one of them. - British cuisine be like. - Wait, wait, is it like a tuna melt? - No, no, no, literally your bog standard lunchbox sandwich. And when I told my mom she had to buy me ingredients to make it, she was so insulted that she complained to the school. - They should teach how to cut vegetables. - That's a waste of an hour. - She was like, "I'm not buying ingredients so you can make a fucking sandwich."

- I'll make a fucking sandwich right now. - How about I just make one? - I made a quiche and I think it turned out to be an omelet or something. - That's common. - Yeah, yeah. - I think something like that happened. I was like, I'm never cooking again. - Egg, just anything that uses egg turns into a different egg dish. It's just halfway through the process every time. - I don't like that many egg dishes.

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- Americans. - Americans. - Americans annoy me more than other foreigners though, I would say. - That's on camera. - Oh. - Why do Americans annoy you than any other foreigner?

Um, very, okay, the ones in Japan, at least a lot of the ones that complain about being in Japan, like I hate Japan. Oh, they're so racist or no one wants to sit on, sit next to me in the bus. And they just have this horrible experience in Japan. And they're mostly, I'm not saying,

all English teachers are like this, but a lot of time they are English teachers who are being there. They stay as English teachers for years and they dream of being in a different position or a different job. - Yeah. - But they're just like all this, I hate Japan, America's the best, but like, why don't you go back to America? But they don't. - Yeah. - So that's why I just find it. - Being an English teacher in Japan seems like hell. - Did they complain more than us? - Yeah.

They didn't complain about me. Wow. Wow. Different type of complaints, though. Okay. And they're usually generally very negative.

- When I complain, I'd like to think, you know, I'm very much understand where a lot of them come from. - But off camera, you guys are always praising how amazing Japan is. - Don't tell them that. - That's our entire brand's made, oh my God. - The absolute slander. - Do we praise Japan a lot off camera? - Not praise, but like you guys seem to be enjoying. - I mean, that's why we're here, right? - That's because we enjoy being here. - You exude this positive energy.

- I would be fucking bored in the UK. What would I do in the UK? Oh, hey guys, gonna go to a bar. - There's different countries. - Gonna go to a pub. And then tomorrow I'm gonna go to another pub. For all the slander I've given it, if I did have to move anywhere, I'd probably go to America.

- Really? - Really? - Probably living in a country you weren't born and raised in is fun. It doesn't matter. - Yeah, it's stimulating. - I'd love to live in America for a short period of time. - See, 'cause I'd like to live in Europe. - Really? - I'd live in Europe. - I'm bored of Europe. - I'd like to live somewhere else in Asia probably.

- I don't know. I just really vibe with Asian culture and Asian mentality. That's what I mean. - I mean, not that we have any plans of movies. - Yeah, yeah. - Just hypothetically. - If you were like Connor, you have to get out of Japan, you're being deported, which country do you wanna move to? I'm like, I'll go to America for a bit. - What do you consider when you wanna move to another country? Is it like the weather?

- I don't give a fuck about the weather. - For me it's about like whether I just vibe with the way of living. - With the culture. - Opportunities as well. - As much as I like America, I personally don't think I could vibe with the American way of life, just personally. - What is the American way of life? - I don't know, it's just like, you know. - I think I'd be a great American.

- I think I'd be a fucking amazing American. - I think you would. I don't know, like I like going to America. I like American friends. You know, I like, you know, being in America when I visit, but like when I envision myself living in America, I just don't see it.

I don't know what it is. It's just a vibe. - As you grow older, you realize that sometimes you just subconsciously jive with some things. And there's a difference going there for holiday and actually living there. And I think we've all experienced this in Japan where coming here on holiday and visiting here and actually experiencing and living the culture here is totally different. What do you do, Meilyne? - Spill some tea on the mic. - I spilled some tea and then I forgot to swallow and then it was gonna spew out. So I was having a crisis.

- No, I think it's fine. It landed on my shirt. - No, I agree though. I mean, you know, I find that socially in America sometimes I'm just like utterly confused. - Yeah. - Where I just don't understand the person I'm talking to. - Yeah. - They'll just say things that I'm like, why would you say that?

- In the UK though, I don't really get that. It's like a script almost that everyone follows. Which is kind of boring though at the same time, but it's comfortable. - It sounds like it gets monotonous though, right? - Yeah, you know, when you go to America, it's always interesting. Like you never have a dull moment. I feel like I'm very easy to approach. - And you're also an extrovert, right? - Yeah, I guess so. - Like for me, whenever I go back to America, Japan has like made me more of an introvert. So when I go order food and then the register person is like, "How are you doing?"

- Where are you from? - Like trying small talk. - I'm just like, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,

- But the food is so delicious. - Yeah, you are frothing over the food. - Oh my God. - The internet speed. - If you're saying the food's delicious, then that. - It was so good. - I gotta check this out. How many Google reviews did you do? - Four. - We didn't have that much time. - How hard is it to get good internet in Australia? - It's gotten a lot better in the past, since I've moved out here. If you go to Melbourne or Sydney, they actually have good internet speeds now, finally.

after all this time, of course they had to do it right when I fucking left the country. - Honestly, like I think I could really jive with the Australian culture from what I've seen. - I probably could. It's so far from everything. Everyone is at least a 12 hour flight minimum from you. - It is, but like how often are you flying out? - Why do you think Australians love traveling? - Yeah, yeah. Exactly right. Australians are like fucking everywhere, especially in Asia.

- Yeah. - Can't get fucking rid of them. - They're invading San Diego apparently. - Huh? - They're invading San Diego apparently. - Really? - Yeah. - Why San Diego? - I don't know. A few of my San Diego friends are like, "There's so many Australians here." - She says after meeting one Australian. - When I was growing up though, I always thought America was way cooler than the UK. I just thought- - I think that's just because you were born in the UK. - To be fair, growing up, I thought pretty much anywhere else was cooler than the UK.

- The UK, right? It's like, you know, our image is on borrowed time. - Yeah. - What the UK actually is and what people think the UK is, is entirely different. - Oh, it's starting to catch up with us now in our lifetime. - When I was growing up, everyone still thought that British people were like charming and sexy. - Yeah. - Like the hell, British people. - Everyone was like, "Oh my God, he's British. Oh my gosh."

And then now it's like Tuesday, bottle of water. That's all I get now. And that's what I always- - Now we just get clowned on by everyone, including us. And I'm just like, no, no, no. We clown on ourselves. You can't clown on us. - The UK has very picturesque things, has very nice and elegant things, but unfortunately- - Stones are pretty. - Stones. - I mean the bricks.

- The bricks. - The buildings. - I love a lot about- - The materials. - Oh, like the stone buildings? Is that what you're talking about? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I love a lot about- - The architecture. - There we go, there it is, there it is. - That's the world we're all in for. - I love the bricks. - No, no, in my mind I was- - I love the rocks. - Zooming in on the image of just one of the bricks. - Right. - Like a stone wall type of thing. - A single brick. - Yeah, and I was like,

- UK has nice bricks. - It was nice, it was nice. The UK was nice. I feel like it's kind of, it's gone downhill a lot since the old days. - The sheep running through the fields. - The good old days. - Not the days where I was born. Before me, it looked like it was pretty cool. I don't know if that's 'cause I wasn't born there yet, but. - Maybe, I don't know. I feel like,

I feel like some things were just cooler before we were born. I feel like, you know, the stereotype about, you know, music was better in my parents' days or, you know, when your parents said that, I think that's actually kind of true. I think I would love to have lived in my parents' age with some of the fucking bands and stars that they listen to. But at the same time, you think about it and it's like, all right, well, there's no internet. There's no iPhone. There's no anything like that. Like how do I,

That sounds pretty crappy, honestly, when you think about it. Like now that you know the whole handiness of today. - You assimilate with whatever you have at the time, right? You get used to it. - Yeah, of course. - Even if you had no phone, you'd get over it. - You enjoy other things. - Yeah, whatever.

- But do you think like, you know, kids 30, 40 years from now will be saying the same thing about the 20s? - No, no, no. I mean, the UK- - The roaring 20s. - It's very unfortunate because I feel like they, coming from like up north, like everything in the UK was kind of like focused on London and the south. And the common sentiment from where I grew up and around the area is that like, which kind of like abandoned

all the money and stuff and all the investment went to like London. So a lot of the northern cities in the UK kind of like been like deprived of any economical advantages or anything. And so a lot of the cities are kind of getting run down. It's not very good. It's kind of like Japan, isn't it? Very much so. But unfortunately it's like, I feel like at least in the countryside of Japan, it's like, all right, well, at least they can still do the local business of farming and stuff. In some certain UK towns, it's just nothing. There's like nothing to do. How do you make money in those areas? It's all like...

it's all like minimum wage jobs and there's no like big business there. - Or it's either like you commute to the biggest city. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, I was thinking about this earlier and I think as we grow older, we will be able to say that we did grow up in a pretty cool time actually because we have like, I was thinking like what would be interesting to like a younger generation to hear about? And I think the fact that we grew up in the age where basically internet was invented, I think that would be cool as fuck to say. - We're like the last generation of like people really who grew up

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Like kids today don't know what a VCR is. I'm like, have I really gotten to that point now where I'm just like, oh you fucking youths of today don't even know what a VCR is. You never had to like stick the pencil in to like rewind the tape and shit like that. - Let me tell you about "Line Wire" and "Navster." Let me tell you the war stories of how we had to download "Lincoln Park." - The history of Webster. - Yeah, had to download "Lincoln Park" and got fucking Bill Clinton for the 50 millionth time.

- Question, when did you guys get your first cell phones or smartphones? - I entered high school. - High school. - 13. - I was 13, yeah. - My parents didn't want me to get bullied. They really didn't want to get me a smartphone, but everyone else had a smartphone. - What was your first phone? - It was essentially a Nokia brick. - Yeah, mine was a Nokia flip phone. I couldn't even get a Nokia. I always got like a knockoff. - This was at the time when the Sony, like the Walkman phone had come out. So that was like the shit.

and it was like the flip Sony. And that was like the big boy. - Now for us in Australia was the Motorola Razor. - Oh those ones. - All the cool kids had the Motorola Razor. - This is back when you couldn't play video on your phone. So that was the phone I had. - Just texting basically. - Especially for emergencies only. But we didn't text each other because it was 10 pens to send a text. - Yeah, that's right. - Texting plans.

- No, they didn't exist back in the day. - Texting your friend was like an urgent thing. But at that time as well, when you had those phones, MSN messenger was a thing as well. So you would never text because you would just go. - You just go home and message on MSN messenger. - The only time I think I ever texted someone was when like we said we're gonna meet at a place and I was there and I couldn't find them. And I was like, where are you? 'Cause calling was too expensive. 'Cause calling was like 10, 20 pence a minute. - Yeah, exactly. If you press the call button, you're just like, this is a fucking emergency now. - This is an investment.

- Like my God, someone must be fucking dying next to me to be making a call man. What is going on? - I got the phone under the condition of it's emergency zone. - Yeah. - What about you? - I don't remember. - When did you get it? - Probably the same age. I was just curious. - Did you go straight to iPhone or did you get like the flip phone? - No, I had, not a flip phone, but it was like non-flip phone and then I got the flip phone. - Like the bricks, right? - Yeah, I think it was like a brick. - With like the little antenna on top?

- Because the old Nokias had like that little like knob at the top, which was like the antenna. - Oh yeah, that one, that one, yeah. - Were you a gamer growing up? - Wait, what? - Yeah, obviously, you played MapleStory. - Were you a gamer? - I played other games in MapleStory. - What other games did you play? - Dory, Fly for Fun. - What the hell was that? - What the fuck is that? - Flip, it's like you learn to fly in the game.

- I don't know. - What? - It's like MapleStory, but then you can level up your flying abilities. - Windows, Windows, I can't simulate them? - No. - So it's a MapleStory expansion pack, in other words. - What console is this on? - It's on PC. - PC, PC, I played a lot of PC games. - Did you ever own a game console? - Yeah, I do. I own all of them. - Which favorite console game? - Console games? - What's your favorite console? - PlayStation, probably. - Which one? - One, two, three, four. - Well, two. I really liked the Lord of the Rings games, King Arthur.

- They're good games. A lot of the games on PS2? - Yeah. - They're very good. - Yeah, they're pretty good. - Played them in like quite a bit, quite a bit. - But you're more of an anime person, right? Obviously you don't bring anime into this game. - I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you trying to bring gaming into this. - Gaming? No, gaming is fun. - The dichotomy of man. So you're a gamer? Well, let me do the middle ground then. Did you play any like anime games? - Isn't "Mabel Story" an anime game?

- That's more like a game that has anime aesthetic, but it's not like- - What is MapleStory? - Okay, visual novel type games, right? - Oh gosh. - I played Hakoky Shinseng, like the dating simulation. - Oh yeah. - Of course you did. - Of course you did. - That's how it started. - Every once she completed, she bought a new body pillow. - And then- - Yeah, 'cause I gotta ask, how the fuck did the body pillow addiction start? How did that side of you start at all, right?

- I don't know, I like pillows. I like, come on. - No, no, no, I like pillows. There's a big difference between liking a good pillow and a body pillow. - Okay, like I was obsessed with 2D. I didn't really like people, like male species. Just kidding.

- Just kidding. - Wow, wow. - Sorry, sorry. - Guys, I just wasn't- - Rich from you coming, rich coming from you female. - Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I wasn't attracted to like- - Real people. - Human men. - You wanted to 3D. - Yeah. - Yeah, you can just say that. You wanted to 3D. - Yeah. - Humans. - And the way the 2D characters look were just so pretty and I needed something lifelike because- - What was the first like anime or whatever that got you into the 2D world?

- That made you give up on humanity. - That made you reject humanity. - The Shinsengumi one. - The Shinsengumi police force thing. - Call back to your "Malians 3x3". - Yeah. - Go watch that clip. - I don't know, it's just the exposure of their chest. - And yeah, now you're like allergic to nipple.

- Because it's 3D nipple. - They don't show nipple. - Oh, 'cause it's 3D. - They always censor nipple. - That's right, that's right. - Yeah, that's why she can't see real nipple because in anime, nipples just don't exist for some reason. - The next time any of you guys come to my house or maybe I'll bring a pillow or something here, the naked ones, they don't have the nipples.

- Why is that? Did they do that on purpose or? - I think so. - Is that how you learn? - I should probably explain, Mei-Lin is scared of male nipples. - Yeah, yeah. - Oh yeah, Mei-Lin, apart from her husband, Mei-Lin is like terrified of like male nipples. - No, it's 'cause you know when you don't wanna stare at something, but then you just end up looking. - What? - And I just feel like it's staring into my soul and I just feel uncomfortable.

- In other words, you don't stare at the nipple, the nipple stares you back. - And I don't wanna confirm. - And you don't want that eye contact. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - When your husband was 2D like. - Yeah. - Does your husband have nipples?

- Wait, wait, the 2D one or something? - No, no, no. - I used to do a ranking. Like my 2D, I would have husband, ex-husband, boyfriend, ex-boyfriend rankings. - Does your husband feel intimidated by all of your body pillows? - No, he says something really weird. Wait, nevermind, forget it. - You can't just tease us like that. - Come on, come on. - I can't. - Is it bad? - No, yeah, it's pretty bad. I'll tell you guys after. He says weird stuff.

- Yeah, he does. - I feel like some of it rubs onto you. 'Cause like you're saying something super weird when we're just doing like the most normal things sometimes.

And I'm like, that didn't come from you. That was from someone else. - Can I tell them what he said about drinking water? That's like- - What? - No. - What? - Oh, when you see like anime characters drinking water. - Oh, okay. There's this character I used to like, are you talking about the taste? - Yeah. - Okay. So one of the characters I used to like, we're still like, oh my God, I'm dripping everywhere.

- When she talks about anime guys. - I'm like shaking. - Oh my God. - Jujutsu Kaisen, his color's orange, everything about him is orange. He smells orange and sometimes, you know, or if he's eating orange and you know, you just wanna know what they're eating.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Does he canonically smell like oranges? - No, no, no, no. She said the weirdest thing to me, right? Because she was talking about her obsession with 2D anime guys, right? And she was just like, "Did you ever see like a waifu or like one of your waifus and you saw them drinking something and you wanted to drink the same thing?" And I was just like,

"No, why did you wanna do that?" And I just thought, so you could taste what they're tasting, right? And she goes to me, "Yeah, 'cause they just sometimes just wanna know what the inside of their mouth feels like." - No, no, it feels like...

- I'm like actually scared. I'm glad I'm sitting this distance from you. - If you were a guy and you said that, everyone would be like, wow. - You would be immediately scared. - What a pathetic man. What a weird man. - Is that correct to what you said? - They sometimes have like commercials in Japan where that character is endorsing this and then you drink it too and then you always think about them 'cause that's what they're drinking in. - Does your husband feel like he's competing sometimes? - No, no.

- Well, like I was also in long distance with my husband boyfriend at the time. So like he would drink coffee and then I'd be like, oh, every time I drink coffee, it's kind of like, ha ha. - You're kissing? - Finish the sentence. - It's not so much kissing as it's more tasting the inside of his mouth. - Every time he pees, I pee. It's like we're peeing into each other. - It's like we're crossing streams.

A cute full thing. I understand that. But like if someone's single and they really like 2D characters and you see your 2D character eating a cake or something.

I definitely recommend it. - It's called immersion. - Yeah. - It's called immersion. - It's like people who are watching this and they're drinking coffee too. It's the same, oh no, nevermind. - He's always just like, yeah, Merlin is weird. That's what he says. - We know. - I remember what he said to you on your birthday. - What did he say to me? - And Sidney told me, well, Maki said, oh, I'm glad someone understands or something. - What?

- No, my husband told you. Like, oh, I'm glad I found someone. - I'm glad I found someone because both our partners are crazy. - They were just sitting next to each other. I think you were in the corner somewhere. - Just having like a bro talk. - Yeah. - It's like, I gotta come clean, man. - And they started laughing out loud. I was like, wonder what they're talking about.

- I wonder what they're laughing at. - Sydney and Malin hang out all the time. And sometimes it's just like, it's just like two, like it's just like the perfect storm. You know in the perfect storm where you have like two hurricanes and they mix and then like they form like a- - Turn into one super hurricane. - One super massive hurricane. That's just whenever Sydney and Malin hang together. - They definitely drink too much. - They just feed off each other's like chaotic energy and they just like start saying the most like cursed shit you'll ever hear. - Sometimes you'll say something and then your husband will just be like, she's crazy.

He just says that so that you think he's normal too. Maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe. That is true. Is he still addicted to Apex? Oh, yes.

- Did you ever say that? - No, I haven't told that story. - Oh yeah. - Oh my God. - I don't know. - We were at your, we were at Maylyn's house having a gathering. - Yeah. - It was like 2:00 AM. - No, it was after, I think you went home. - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Joey, so I think it was, yeah, actually on my birthday. - It was your birthday. - Yeah, it was my birthday. It all goes back to that. - The birthday. - Because a lot of things happened there. So Joey had to go home early 'cause he had to film the next day. - Yeah. - So we were at Maylyn's, I guess just chilling until like 2:00, 4:00 AM.

I remember at 2 a.m., I'm just like having a chat with Maylin and then I look over and fucking Connor is like, Connor takes the controller off Maylin's husband and he's like, you need to play this game. He downloads Apex for Marky and I'm just like, oh, fucks.

- He plays every day. - You've poisoned the web. - I went to his house, get the PS5, I installed Apex. I was like, "Wait now, we'll have so much fun." He was showing me these games on PS5 and I'm like, "This is terrible. These games are terrible. Let me show you a real game. It's free to download. Let me download it right now." I downloaded it. And then I just thought that maybe he would play it a few times and then be done, but he's like addicted. - Yeah, he plays every day, every day.

And I'll be in a call, and he doesn't use his headphones, so the walls will be... And I'm just like...

- Did you hear that right now? I'm so sorry. - Sorry, that's just the AK-47. - Next door. - And so this was awesome. To complete the story, we started like literally, I think like a fucking hour ago. So we start watching fucking Connor teaching Maki how to play Apex, right? And then this is like 3:00, 4:00 AM at this point. And we are obviously at this point intoxicated. Now, you know when you're intoxicated, maybe sometimes you get cravings.

You get cravings. Mostly people crave maybe pizza. Some people crave a pizza. That'd be reasonable. Maybe people crave a kebab. A burger maybe? A burger. Go to local Chippy or something. Get a chicken burger, whatever. So Maylin is just sitting there and she's just like, I feel like Nigerian beef stew. And I'm just like, what?

- What do you mean? Like, where did you get this craving from? And she's like, I'm gonna cook Nigerian beef stew right now. I was like, who has this craving at 3:00 AM in the morning? - It just sounds like a scripted event. - I've never heard of Nigerian beef stew in my life. - And you are hearing it for the first time at 3:00 AM. - Sometimes Maylene does talk like an oblivion NPC. - What is an oblivion NPC?

- It's a game NPC. - I don't even know how I forget to explain it. - I was feeling such a boom when I got it. - You sound like a video game NPC in other words. - There's always so many things you're like, "What is pog?"

- What is? - Oh no, I know what Pog is or Bussin. - I know Bussin. - I know you young people speak. - 'Cause like the reason I bring this up is because like she just had all the fucking ingredients for Nigerian beef stew at 3:00 AM. - It's so simple. - It was a very good dish. - It was fucking great. - It was dark.

So I don't know the color of it. - Maybe we'll give you like some- - I don't know the color. - Maybe we'll present me like a God tier dish. You know, it's 4:00 AM, I'm trying to- - Most of the lights are only the disco lights are on. - I'm very hungry. I'll frankly eat anything. - You're making a Nigerian beef strawn to disco lights? - I got this $5-

- It was so surreal just seeing Meylid in the dark. - Me at the club. - Let me pull up my spice rack. - Someone was sleeping and I didn't want to wake them up. So I just, you know. - Having all my disco homies, Nigerian beasts in the club. - 'Cause you also grow like Carolina Reapers and stuff as well. - Ghost peppers.

- And yeah, you gave them out to people. - Yeah. - And yeah, they were struggling. - Where'd you learn how to cook? Or do you just like follow YouTube recipes? - I don't follow. I just watch a bunch of cooking things constantly. - Do you like watch like what, Gordon Ramsay video?

- No, I used to, not anymore. That was like TV. - Jamie Oliver. - Gordon Ramsay is more entertainment. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Educational. - But nowadays there's so many different sources on YouTube and I just like food wishes. - One thing I've noticed about a lot of top chefs whenever they do like cooking videos, it's like,

they always add so much fucking olive oil. I don't know what it is about fucking olive oil. You see a celebrity chef add olive oil and she's like, "Just a little touch of olive oil." And they fucking invade Italy in the process. I swear to God, man.

- Smash cuts with olive oil. - Just a little dollop of olive oil. - One teaspoon of olive oil. It's like a whole genre of videos, right? That is like absolutely fucking God awful, like cocktail recipes.

and not intentional and some of them are literally just like full bottles of alcohol like spirits is that the two shots of vodka it's kind of like that but taking too far like I was watching a video and there was this woman telling you how to make a drink and it was a cocktail and she put like two leaves of coriander in a bunch of shaved ice and then she just poured like a whole bottle of like Bacardi right into this thing to fill it up she's like

And she's like, and there you go. You have your, and she named the drink, I can't remember what it's called. And it was just like, what the fuck is this? This is straight Bacardi. This isn't a drink. And it was like a pint glass as well. I was like, what the fuck? This is a hospital booking. What is this?

- I gotta show you some of these fucking cocktails. - I didn't see that. - Abomination. - It's not even a cocktail, they didn't mix it with anything. - There's no mixer. It's just like some fucking flowers and shit and a whole bottle of Jack Daniels. That's it. It's terrible. - Essence of the stuff that they put in. - It's still not a mixer though. Still not a mixer. - Who's your favorite YouTuber, Maylene? - That's not us.

- Obviously. - Or trash taste. - We pay the bills, we can't tell us. - Do you even watch a lot of YouTube? - I do, I watch a lot of food related YouTube or animal related. - Do you watch report of the week? - Sometimes. - Do you like him? - Do I like him? - Do you like his videos? - I don't watch all the time. It's like once every two months. - I'm a big fan. I watch every video. - You guys watch a lot.

- I mean, we're like YouTubers, right? That's part of the job. - Wait, are we? - Are you a YouTuber? - We are YouTuber. So it's, I mean, it's just part of the job to watch a lot of YouTube. And I don't know if that's just like warped my experience 'cause I don't know how much YouTube everyone else watches anymore.

Do you find that? 'Cause like, sometimes I talk to someone and now I just assume they are also as versed with like YouTube culture and YouTube videos as I am. - I always get reminded that I'm way too deep into YouTube and memes when I say a meme or I reference a meme that is so in depth in meme culture that it requires like knowledge of like seven previous memes. And then knowledge of each like variation of said meme. Those memes are tough.

- That's when I really feel like, fuck, I'm really like, I'm gonna sweat. Because also some memes, they are funny if you get it, but like when you try and describe like pee-pee-poo-poo stinky, it's like there's no way of describing that meme to someone without showing the video, without also sound like a complete fucking idiot. - I'm glad you talked to me in like a normal English level, you know?

- What do you mean? - I don't reference memes to you. If I was to say like, oh, that's bussing, mom. She'd be like, what is bussing? - I mean, I have that reaction sometimes of you. I think bussing is an awful word. - I love bussing. - I get it, I feel passionate when I say bussing.

- I feel right for me to say like bussin'. - Why wouldn't it feel like bussin'? - Well, because you're not saying it with confidence. - Get comfortable with it. - You gotta be confident, you gotta put some base behind it, like bussin'. - Fucking hell. - My cheek tense up before I can even say it right. - You're trying to say something, bussin'. - It's bussin'. - So, wait, who is your favorite YouTuber, sorry? - Oh, Japan would be like,

- Kimagure cook? - Oh, I love him. - I just love the way he cuts into the fish. - Kimagure cook is this like, he's pretty big. He's like top 10 Japanese YouTubers, I think. But like he basically just dissects a shitload of fish. - Well, he cooks them also. - This is the guy who killed the frog. - No, no, no, no, that's different. That's like the shit. - That was the saddest thing ever. - That frog video. - There was a video on how to like prepare a frog.

And I think Maylene showed me. - Yeah, they just like fucking- - I think we were at an Izakaya and I was like- - No, no, 'cause I remember 'cause like this, like sometimes because Maylene gets recommended so many food videos, sometimes- - You like the weird cooking videos as well where you have to like destroy animals.

- What? - Destroy animals. - What do you mean by annihilate animals? - I feel like saying preparing the frog doesn't do it justice. - It doesn't. - 'Cause that's not what happened. The guy like cuts this frog in half and you hear bones crunching. - He doesn't prepare the frog, he massacres the frog. - He's like robot wolves, but like a man. - I feel like I just watched fucking

- I saw seven and I like just like, we're not gonna put it up on screen. Like if you're squeamish, we're not gonna talk about too much because it's, I still think about it and I'm not like a squeamish person, but I felt so bad for you.

- Pat for the frog. - It's a fucking brutal video. - That was okay because he's going to eat it. - Yeah, no, it is. - He wasn't doing it for fun. - Of course not. - I recognize there's nothing wrong with it 'cause he's gonna eat it and it's no more brutal than killing a cow or something. - It's educational. - Right, right. I guess it's just 'cause it's not every day you see a guy chop a frog in half to prepare some,

Unless you're in Thailand or Vietnam. - Because the thing is, you never really think about how animals die before they cook. I mean, we're so like, we're lucky enough to not have to do it ourselves a lot of the times. That's what it's like to grow up in a civilized society, right? So when I see a full on fucking- - I'm civilized. - Yeah, I mean, when I see a fucking Mortal Kombat fatality being put on this frog, I'm just like, "Jesus fucking-

- I was waiting for like the x-ray zoom. - Yeah. - The head's getting crushed.

- That one was very violent. - I'm sorry to anyone who's squeamish. - It's a brutal video, don't look it up. - Food being prepared is generally not that good. - Yeah, that's why people turn into vegetarians. - I wouldn't eat anything that I wasn't prepared to kill myself. - That doesn't mean I have to enjoy the process. - I feel like you're a psychopath if you enjoy putting down an animal to eat. - No.

No, as in... Yeah, no. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Did you adjust something to say, Leland? No, as in, like, it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's bad. It came out wrong. No. You said that like, no, I disagree. I like the killing part. It's delayed.

- I say if you don't enjoy it, what's the point? - It came out wrong. - Oh my God. - I don't kill animals. - I think just bones crunching is just generally unpleasant. 'Cause even when we had to like dissect fish or like cut the bones just to separate parts of the body, it's often quite, does it sound nice? - I don't enjoy it. - I don't get much pleasure out of it. - When it stops moving is like when it feels a little weird.

- I think it feels weird when it's still moving. - Yeah, that's what is weird. - Oh, like struggling? - Yeah. - Don't say struggling. - Oh God. - No, no, no. - Oh my God. - When I buy live fish, I don't hold it down. My husband holds it down. 'Cause I can't handle- - What are you saying? - Yeah, it's like husband, you put the blood on your hands, not me. - No, because he doesn't want to be the one to poop it, you know?

- Oh, oh. - You're a tag team. - You'll hold it down. - You're a tag team. - So why can't you hold it down? - Because I can feel its muscles moving, like it's struggling. - Like it's alive. - But you should be prepared for that if you're gonna kill it. - Yeah. - If you're the one like excitedly holding the knife- - But he's gonna eat it too, so we're sharing the burden. - Oh, wow. So when I go to the restaurant, the chef's gonna come out and be like, "No, I'm not gonna lie, Connor, I'm quite squeamish." 'Cause you hold down this cow while I shoot it. - You're just blaming the murder on someone else. - Yeah, you're just trying to pair.

- It's like we're in this together. - No, I put the knife in. - I don't wanna go to hell. If I get someone else to do it, it'll be- - No, I put the knife in. - Sharing the sin. - Okay, I put the knife in. - Well, of course, when we asked you for your YouTube recommendations, we get to see you being a brutal nerd. - No, no, I also watch like food travel things, like best ever food review show. - Oh yeah, I like that show. Yeah, that guy's cool. - I've been watching for like years. - Yeah, 'cause like I'm always wondering why don't you make your own YouTube channel? - She does.

- I do? - Yeah, I've seen your videos. - I mean, aside from that one, I meant like a, 'cause I've seen them as well. - That's like four years ago. - Are we allowed to talk about it? - About which one? - The one with you like reviewing like the men's body. - Okay. - You in the cosplay.

No, I wasn't wearing cosplay. It's just I found this water bottle that was the shape of a man's body. And it was a Haikyuu character. And then I saw that it was trending on Japanese Twitter that if you peel off the wrapping, like the clothes, and then pour milk tea in, the naked body appears. So...

- I was so fascinated that I wanted to show people. - You are literally the epitome of the heavy breathing cat. - Yeah. - Like whenever you see like a 2D male. - If you like see after "Dark Tour", it wasn't actually Nami, it was Mei Ling. - What?

- Meilyne was just very excited about it. - Yeah, that was surprising. - No, because I thought it's a really interesting concept with you being such a big Google reviewer. It's like the road to the top 5% or something like that. - How long will it take? - Meilyne has a Twitter now, so you can follow her on there to watch her updates. But I would love to see some Meilyne content. - Gourmet me. - Meilyne content. - Would you subscribe?

- Yeah, of course. - I reckon you'd be really good at just like food reviews. - 'Cause like I've never seen someone so brutal when it comes to reviewing food as you. Michael, like you have no chill when it comes to reviewing shit. - Some of the stuff I've heard you say is like, it's straight to the fucking heart. - I'll be like, this was just the most excellent meal. I'm extremely satisfied. Maylene, what did you think? And then Maylene's like, it tastes like dirt.

- I don't want people to think anyone can run a restaurant. Like in America, a lot of the times there's like these Japanese- - Like you have single handedly deterred me from ever running my own restaurant. - Okay, come on, you can't compare Japanese restaurants to American or European restaurants. - And I'm just saying people will move somewhere or then they, whatever country they're from, they think they can make the food of their country and represent the country with that restaurant, but it's not that simple. - No, of course not. - Actually, it's very easy to represent British food. - I know they're trying to make a living

- Yeah, but I don't know. - Okay, so what are the things you look for when you go to a restaurant? Like what's like the number one thing of like everything? Like the first thing you look for. - Depends what I'm going for. If I'm just going for like Thai or Vietnamese food, I'm not gonna look at how dirty it is. - How do you weigh each aspect? So let's say there's five stars, does like the food get three of the stars, the service gets one and then the- - Or is it kind of just like a package? - It's a package. It's like how do I feel when I leave?

- Or yeah, usually yeah. - Package deal. - Yeah, sometimes I'll think of like, I already know. - Like if the food is amazing but the waiter was rude, is that like? - No, I'll write that and be like, oh my God, the food was so delicious, but it's just unfortunate that the service was bad. - One thing, I was speaking to Chris about this and we were talking about, he was like, oh, you know, I don't wanna say anything bad about some stuff 'cause I don't wanna like, you know, potentially risk them losing business or getting out of business. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

To me, I said to Chris, I was like, if a place is so bad that you give it one stars, I genuinely don't deserve they get to run a restaurant. Right. I give it to the point where it could be like food safety or it's just so bad in every single way. I don't care if someone loses their job because they shouldn't be in that job. You just watch Kitchen Nightmares.

- Yeah, you watch that and you're like, you don't deserve to have this job. - They disrespect the food and they disrespect the customer. - Honestly, sometimes I go to a restaurant and I'm just like, there's nothing more disappointing than going to a restaurant and just having a bad meal. - It's so sad to me. - My day is literally ruined. - Nothing is worse than a bad meal. - Japan changed that for me. 'Cause in the UK it is like a 50/50 coin. - It is, it is. - Whether or not the restaurant is gonna be,

- Just good. - Yeah. - Here most things are good, but they're not amazing. - 'Cause it's about the little things in life to look forward to. And I look forward to just a good meal at least once a day. If I have like a amazing lunch, then dinner could be like, dinner could be okay. But I just want one good meal, whether it be home cooked or restaurant or wherever, it can be expensive, cheap. I just want a good meal. And if I'm wasting my daily meal on a bad meal,

like on a bad restaurant experience, then my day is literally like- - It's scam. - Yeah, I'm just like, you took this from me. You took the only little joy- - You took my time, my money. - You took the little joy I look for every day and you gave me an awful meal. And I'm just like, yeah, no.

That's just bad. And like sometimes I don't, I literally don't understand sometimes how some restaurants can serve bad meals. - It's sad to me that someone went through the trouble of opening up a restaurant to serve shit. - For seafood restaurants right now, it's kind of,

sad for Hokkaido at least. They're not getting enough customers to get like new batches of seafood coming in. So their ratings have dropped because when the customers come in, it's like it's not fresh. Wow, I can't believe this has four stars. I'm going to give it two.

- It's really sad. - Yeah, 'cause the reason it blows my mind is that how can just like myself following a random YouTube video I found, like I'm just following that recipe, how can that taste better than me being served a restaurant meal that has been cooked by a chef? - They shouldn't ask for it. - When you watch "Kitchen Nightmares" it all makes sense. It's like these people just want jobs. They don't wanna cook, they just wanna work. - Yeah, I mean, at that point it's just like,

It's just like, why are you in the restaurant business? In that sense, right? Because it's not easy to run a fucking restaurant. You don't have to run a restaurant to know that that's fucking hard work. So it's like, why would you spend all that time, money and effort to then just get a bunch of people come into your restaurant, hate your food, hate your service and then leave disappointed? It's like, what's the point? I think I would rather my local restaurant to have more passion than whoever's doing surgery on me.

I don't really need my surgeon to be passionate about it. I need my restaurateur to be passionate about what they're doing. 'Cause you know, who cares about doing open heart surgery? I don't care about that. He probably doesn't care about that. - Probably the person getting like- - Yeah, probably the person under the fucking scope. - But it probably doesn't mean shit if then you get the surgery, you live and then you go to a shit restaurant afterwards. What's the point? So to me, it's way more important that there are some jobs that need passion and only a restaurant is one of those. - Well, you say that as if you have open heart surgery as often as you have a meal.

There's a bit of a different story. - Even then, I would still rather, you know, he'd be dispassionate about it. There's some jobs where I'm like, you don't need to be passionate about this job. Restaurant is one of those jobs. - Oh no, definitely. Sometimes you can just feel the passion coming out of like the meal, right? And the people running it. Those are the best meals. - Yeah, 100%. - Do you like it when the chef comes out and asks you like,

- How did you like it? - I love it. - That shows to me he cares. - He cares, yeah. - 'Cause this isn't just me, he's probably doing it too. - Yeah. - Obviously, it's sweet. - Oh my gosh, that's the OVA. - I shake his hand, I get the meal for free. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Obviously he's doing that to like everyone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 'Cause he cares, yeah. - That means a lot. - No, I like that. - Or they'll ask you which dish did you like, which one was a miss, hit or missed. - Yeah, where did we go recently where that happened? - The Italian place. - What happened?

- I swear I got asked somewhere recently. I got asked. - Oh, it wasn't with you. - It was with us where we were sitting at the counter. It was the steak place we went to, the Italian steak place where we get the aged steak. - 45 dollars. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Which place?

- The one where we get the 45 or 48 day aged steak. - 45 day aged steak. - And with the- - We've all been there. - You've been there like three times, I think. - It's a counter seat. They have an open grill. - We took Chris there. - Oh, that place.

- How many fucking 48 day aged steak restaurants do you know? - I have 45. That's on the lower end of age that I have. - I only have the 90 day aged steak. - I typically, you know, I wanna have steak five times a week, I typically go for the higher end stuff. - I wonder if I was good. - No, 'cause I remember the first time we went there and we were like, they gave us- - He does ask every time. - Yeah, they gave us the menu and we were just like, "Can I get this and this please?" And he's just like,

I mean, you can, but I wouldn't. I remember when we first went there, we were like, "What a rude fucking prick, "telling us how to eat our meal." And then we got the meal and we were just like, "Oh."

- Oh, he was right. He was recommending us the good shit. - I mean, if the guy is confident enough, like no. - Yeah. How often did you go to a restaurant where that happens? - Never. - Yeah, exactly. Right? Like the absolute audacity. But like, that's the thing. That's such a big risk. Cause if that risk doesn't, if this is like not one of the best meals I've had, which it was,

by the way, then it's good. - Take some serious balls to do that. - But normally in Japan, it's very common that you will find restaurants that are like max eight seating and there's only like two staff. And normally, to pull off a restaurant like that and make it good requires a fuck ton of care. You can't run a two-man restaurant and it not be totally shit or amazing. I feel like it's very difficult, I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't really appreciate it until basically later in life because I grew up with my parents running a local family restaurant. And I didn't realize before, because to me, every restaurant was run like the restaurant where I grew up in, right? And to me, that was...

the bare minimum, that was the normal. Like I would see my dad really taking care of the customers and you know, really talking to them, getting to know them. And I could see my mom in the kitchen as well. And I cared about her food. So whenever she cooked something that tasted off, I was like, mom, this is awful. Like, why are you serving this to the customers? Like this, you can do better mom. And like, I was like the worst fucking critic there. And I, because it was my mom. So I could criticize my mom's cooking. Cause I was like, I know- - Did she cry?

- She didn't cry. - Why are you putting a Gordon Ramsay on her? - Okay. - Oh shit, what is this? This is garbage. - She didn't cry, but I'm pretty sure whenever I'd say she didn't cook a good meal, she felt it in her soul and she's like, oh, I'm gonna do better next time. Or she was thinking to herself,

- So that's why I like had a high standard when going to restaurants. So that's why it blows my mind when I go to a restaurant and I have like a bad experience. Cause I was just like, well, I thought this was just normal everywhere. You're running a restaurant, you're serving food. If you serve food that's worse than what you serve at home, how is that allowed? How is that legal? - That should be the norm though.

- How is that legal? - You're paying for their skill. - Yeah, you're paying someone to do a service that you can't do. So unless you're a fucking chef, which most of us aren't like fucking Michelin star chefs. I mean, we don't have enough olive oil to be Michelin star chefs most of the time. - I just don't. - So you go somewhere else for them to cook the food for you. And if it's worse than what you cook yourself, then why am I paying you for this meal? That's just,

That's just my opinion. - It was great, you know, growing up in the UK up north, you know, the bar is very low for culinary ability. So literally going outside of the UK is like, holy shit, stuff tastes great. Everything.

- What's the best Welsh dish? - We don't have Welsh dishes. - Oh. - We have some, we have Welsh cakes. - Welsh cakes? - What's a Welsh cake? - It's like a, kind of like a, I don't know how to describe it. It's like a- - Is it like a sponge cake or? - No, no, no. Can you pull it up, Nebi? - A Welsh cake. - It's like this weird like raisin-esque like pastry with some kind of icing on it. I can't remember. I never really liked it. - Oh, you didn't like it? - But people loved it.

And then like had something called Barabreath, which is like- - Butter-breathe? - Yeah, there's Barabreath, which is like bread. - Butter-breathe?

- What is this? So that's the Welsh cake? - That's Welsh cakes. - They look like scones. - Like a pancake? - Yeah, they look like scones. - Raisin pancake? - Wait, was it scones? I swear there's something else as well. - You say scones, not scones or something. - Or scones. - Yeah. - Scones. - You say scones, now I say scones. I don't know why. - Scones. - America.

- Scones? They say scones in America? - No, no. - Scones. - British people say scones. - Do we say scones? - North or south? - I've always said scones. - Yeah, I always said scones. - When I grew up, everyone said scones. - Scones. - Is that a specific term? - Priced out of mine. - Is that something on a hill? - That's apparently the name of the Welsh cake. - I don't know. - Something on a hill. - We had leek soup. That was a dish. - I've seen that on a soup. - What do you call the meal that you have in the evening?

- Tea. - Fucking northerners, man. - There's specific Australians that call that. - So I've had to adapt because nobody understood what I was saying. - 'Cause it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. - Okay, POV, you wake up in North UK. You wake up, you have breakfast. It hits 12 o'clock, you have dinner. And then it gets to 6:00 PM, you have tea.

Not tea the drink, tea the meal. I'll ask my parents what's for tea and then they'll tell me and it's like- - Even now.

- Yeah, it's beans on toast. - I've understood the tea equals dinner thing. I've never understood the dinner equals lunch thing. - That confuses me more. - Because the point is you have dinner in your vocabulary and you just choose not to put it for fucking dinner. This is the one thing northerners and southerners in England can never fucking agree on. - When you grow up in a certain place, you rarely go to like South England if you're from North England. You rarely go to North England if you're from South England.

- There is the real like north-south divide. - People travel a lot in the UK, just out of the UK. People always, it's like 90%. - Actually, it's cheaper a lot of the time. - Yeah, it's cheaper, yeah. - 'Cause like trains in England are so expensive. And I remember, there was this news article about how two students in two different universities wanted, two friends from two different universities wanted to meet each other. So they figured out that flying to fucking Spain was cheaper

Yeah, EasyJet was cheaper than getting a train to like meet each other. - So if you wanted to go from London to Wales where I live, it's a three hour journey and it's about 120 bucks.

- For a really shit train. It's not like a Shinkansen where it's nice and you feel comfortable. There's no outlets. You're very lucky if you get one. And that's like, some of the trains are horrible as well. - Yeah, basically like- - It's very expensive. - As a student to like go anywhere, you need to book your train like three weeks in advance, get the fucking advance ticket. And you better hope that you get that exact train three weeks later. So you better- - And also like, you know,

EasyJet and Ryanair would often have deals where if you flew without any luggage, you printed off your boarding ticket, you could get tickets for like $15 to some European places. So it's like, why the fuck would you ever like go up north or go down south? - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, that's true. - So that's, yeah, so we didn't really interact. So naturally I never really heard people saying lunch and dinner for- - Lunch and dinner. - But now, okay, now I say lunch and dinner because if I say dinner and tea, everyone thinks I'm a fucking weirdo.

- Rightly so. - That's right, Northerners, I said it. - But after like one or two days of being back in Wales, I'll start adapting back. - Assimilating back into the culture. - I'll become one of them. And I'll say, yeah, so we say dinner for lunch and tea for dinner. But it's weird because it's like, do you want tea? But it's like, you understand.

- You just know, depending on how it's been said or you read the atmosphere. - The time of the day. - If it's the meal or the cup of tea, right? - Yeah, you just know. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Do you want tea? - What if you ask for tea at like 7:00? - You just know. You just know what's being asked. - You would say, "Can I have some tea?" Can I have tea? - No, but can I have some tea can also mean can I have some dinner? - Someone could be like, "I'm gonna make tea." - Yeah, what if I make-

- That could mean a meal or that could mean a cuppa. - Sometimes people say cuppa. I don't really like the word cuppa. - A cuppa. - A cuppa. - We say that in Australia as well. - I think I saw one of you tweet about it. - I've never really grown on the word cuppa. I don't know why, it's not really growing on me. - Because some Australians, especially those that have British parents, they sometimes say tea for dinner, even in Australia. - Really? - Yeah. - My people.

- I had a few friends back in high school who had British parents, obviously from the North. And they used to say tea. And I'm like, I don't even drink tea, bro. Coffee all the way, fuck off. - What were they doing in Australia? - And then when I realized they were talking about the meal tea, I was like, what is, do you drink tea with every meal? What does that mean? How British can you get? - My mom, right? She microwaves bacon. Isn't that disgusting? - Oh, I know a lot of Americans that microwave bacon.

- I mean, I know a lot of Americans use a microwave for a lot of things, including boil water. - When I was a kid, I thought I hated bacon, but I realized I just hated microwave. - Microwave bacon. Yeah, I don't fucking blame you. - 'Cause the fat isn't crispy at all. It's just really soggy. - It's moist. Sydney's dad microwaves eggs to make scrambled eggs. - No.

That's like a walk that has to go against the Geneva convention. That's a war crime. - I cook a steak in the microwave. - Nowadays though they're using air fryers.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, we get it, man. - Oh yeah, didn't you fucking buy an ice cream maker the other day? - Oh yeah, I did. - Don't fucking tell Connor, by the way. - See, ice cream is the best dessert, right? - I should bring the ice cream maker here 'cause I've locked it away 'cause I started gaming. - Yeah, bring it here. - Honestly, I would love an ice cream maker here. - Bring it here. - We can make our own espresso affogatos. - No, no, no.

- Yogurt, frozen yogurt from this baby is so good. - We can make espresso affogato. - Just like coffee flavored shit, man. - Yes. - Like not coffee jelly. - Okay, so here's actually, here's the thing I've noticed actually. So I do love coffee. I'm very, I love coffee. It's great. I love my ground water.

- I have noticed there's an awful influx of things that have coffee flavored things that are shit, really shit. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Like what? - You get like coffee cookies or coffee bread and it's just fucking terrible. - Coffee flavor. - I've never seen those. - Really? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had coffee cake, coffee cake tastes like shit. - I like coffee cake, coffee cake's okay. - No, just get a tiramisu. - I mean, that is a coffee cake. - Yeah, but that's not like breaded coffee cake. - It's coffee cake with attitude in it.

- I need to take you to this place in Omotesando where you, it's a $90 espresso. I had it three days ago. - $90 espresso? - It was free though. - Okay, okay. Wait, why was it free? - My friend is a regular there, so. - Oh, well it's good for the 1%, isn't it? - Yeah, good for the regular. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no. - I'm not paying 90 quacking quid for an espresso. - Sorry we're not well connected as like the fucking top 5% here. - You can come with me. - Okay, so I go with you, I get it for free? - Perhaps. - Why is it $90? - Perhaps. - For me?

- I'm gambling if I'm spending 90 bucks or not. - Maybe. - 90 bucks. - No, you don't say anything. If you're regular, you show up and then they pass you the glass and it's the black glass and then they're like. - So wait, what about it is 90 bucks? - Yeah, what about is 90? - The way they roast it, where the beans are sourced. - Oh fuck off, no. - Isn't that like expensive coffee that's made from like that cat poop?

- It's a civet poop. - What? - You mean civet. - Do you know that? - The most expensive coffee. - The most expensive coffee in the world is made out of this like wild cat poop. - It's like a weasel. - Have you not seen the bucket list? - No.

- Oh, yeah, that's it. It's Malaysian. - It's like a big plot point in the bucket list. - I haven't seen the bucket list. - It's like a Malaysian wild cat species that eats coffee beans and then they shit out the coffee beans and the stomach acid creates like the very special flavor of the coffee beans. People collect those beans, wipe off the poop and then grind it to make coffee. - Yeah. - Apparently it's very delicious. - I've had it. It's actually really fucking good. - Is it the best coffee in the world? - It's pretty up there.

- Is it better than Starbucks? - Obviously not. - Is it better than the Nespresso? - Nespresso's in a league of its own. That's readily available. - Have you watched those coffee YouTubers? - Oh, I can't handle it.

- It's like, it's so fucking pretentious. - I like to watch it like muted. - Yeah, they're like- - Or the peaceful ones. - They're like, so I'm gonna make my morning espresso and they bring up like five fucking contraptions and it's like, surely this is just not practical. Like cleaning this is just a nightmare, sure. - Yeah. - Like the reason why I don't grind my own coffee beans and do all that is 'cause the absolute mess that it makes. - And it takes so much time. - The cleaning. - I remember I got an espresso machine before like an espresso.

It actually was a proper expression machine where you had to like grind your beans yourself, put it in. And it just, it made so much fucking mess and it took so much time. - It takes so long. - Cleaning it is such a bitch. - Like having to clean the fucking beans every time you want to just make a fucking cup of coffee. - Yeah, I remember I bought as well one of those like fucking pots that you put on the stove.

And you put the espresso in the top and the water in the bottom and it boils through. - Yeah, we used to have that at home. - I could never get that to taste right. I don't know why. - It didn't taste good 'cause it was so hard to get the balance right. - Yeah, yeah. - And also cleaning it was so fucking difficult. I felt like I was trying to clean like Iron Man's hot socket. My hand couldn't fit in it.

and it never got cleaned. - Yeah, it's a resort to just doing like- - Yeah, and it never got in properly. It was like trying to clean the inside of a fucking Pringles can. It was a nightmare. I couldn't get in there and it was just terrible. And then it kept scratching my stove 'cause it was metal and I was like, "Oh fuck!"

- Oh, fuck's sake. And then it turns out when you grind coffee beans, they expire. No one told me this until I didn't wonder, I was wondering why my coffee tastes like shit. - It tastes sour. - This is a sour blend. - I had like- - Oh, it's got some bite back to it. - I drank it for like, I shit you not, like three weeks. - Holy shit. - Like sour ass coffee. 'Cause I was like, fuck, this gourmet style.

- You drown it in milk though, right? - No, no, I was drinking espresso. And I was like, this is the fucking, this is like one of those- - Wait, stomach acid. - Jesus Christ, this is sulfuric acid espresso, but I thought this is how the Italians do it, fuck. - Did it affect your digest? - I felt awful every time I did it, but I thought this is a good espresso. - Yeah, 'cause they're literally drinking acid. - Expensive coffee beans. - I looked on the back and it expired like three months ago. - Literally drinking what, acid? - Yeah. - Oh God. - It's terrible. - Glad you know.

- Gosh, how have I- - There is so much food stuff there, where it's just a whole thing of balance versus this is just impractical. It's making so much mess. I need so much equipment versus I just wanna eat. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You know? - Yeah. - If you have time though, if you're just doing it to relax, like the process of it is like meditating. - I feel like it's a hobby. It has to be a hobby. - It has to be a hobby. - Why'd you look at me? - You know about meditation. - You're like, "Rosa, same thing."

- That feels racist. - Are you being monk, are you being monk-ist right now? - Monk-ist? - I feel like you're being monk, I feel like you are. - That just sounds like a twitch tune. Monk-ist. - That's like when I said lollies and I left the joke. - We're just getting fucking slammed in. - Did you just assume my zen state?

- That's a type of meditation where you do something, like you clean. - Yeah. - Zen? - I know that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I've done it. - Like when I was a monk, we had a special type of meditation where you walk when you meditate as well. And it's just 'cause you just drown out your mental state with just a monotonous task of motion. That's just constant, right? I mean, I get it, but at the same time, I'm not always trying to fucking meditate when I cook, you know? - Coffee, coffee.

- To me when I do something or when I make something, I eat like food or drink in order to consume, I always like compare the practicality and the time it takes versus the time I enjoy what I'm making. And that's always the problem with cooking for me because the time I take to prepare some certain dishes and to make the food, then eat it, which is,

a very, very short amount of time compared to preparing it. And then I got to wash it as well afterwards. - That's the worst part man, 'cause you eat it, right? And then you're like, you're relaxing. You're like, ah, this is nice. Fuck, I gotta clean all this stuff. God damn it. I used the ice cream machine. It's got like four fucking spatulas. God damn it. - Ice cream machine is very easy. You just rinse it with water and it's done.

- So good. - You're just bribing him now. - No, it's so good. You will know next week. - Yeah, next week bring it and we'll be in a Tesla. - Maybe I'll get a coffee machine. Maybe one day I will. - There have been times where I thought about getting like a proper coffee machine. - Dude, surely you just have to- - That's just so expensive. - Surely you just have to clean- - It's like fucking five grand for like one of the proper coffee. - But surely you just have to clean the metal scooper thing, right? That's it. - No. - The metal scooper thing, no. - No, because you gotta clean the siphon as well. - Gotta clean the siphon, you gotta clean the milk. - You could just use the Nespresso thing.

- Oh, the milk froth. - The milk froth. - Yeah, the froths are pretty good. What do you mean? - Yeah, it does. - I feel like milk frothing does not need to be done by a thousand dollar machine. Like I'm pretty sure I could do it with my finger if I did it faster than that. You know what I mean? Like I don't need a machine to do it. I am the machine. - Pretty sure you'd get bored of that pretty soon though. - Leave me milk frothing machine. - You know what is the worst fucking dessert? - What? - Go on.

- The macaroons. - Oh yeah, no. - Which kind? - All of them. They never ever, ever taste as good as they look. - The sugary things, right? - The little- - Oh yeah, I actually hate it. It's just sugar. - And in Japan, they're obsessed with them. They're fucking everywhere. - Because they're kawaii AF, dude. - It was a thing in LA or SF too for a while. - It just feels like sometimes, especially with dessert in Japan, if it isn't Instagrammable, it's not a dessert. - Macaroons for me are like, I eat two and I'm like done for the year.

- It just tastes like shit. - Do you know what I don't get? - What? - Boba. - That's like... - I like boba. - Why is it so popular? - That's also like a twice a year thing for me. - Boba is just the pumpkin spice latte of Asia. I fucking said it, okay? I fucking said it. - It's good. - It is. - It's good. - It's good. - It's just milk tea. - What's the air? - Just milk tea. - I get it. - But chewy tapioca.

- Sometimes you just want milk tea and there's nothing like, why do you like, why the fuck do you like boba? Do you know what tapioca is like? - Shit. - Jelly. - I know. - I don't like jelly. - No, it's not. - I don't get the tapioca. - It's just jelly. - I don't get the tapioca. - It's just jelly.

- You're putting- - That's what makes boba boba. - You're getting milk tea and you're putting jelly in it. - I don't like tapioca, I don't have it. - Then you don't like boba then. - You don't like boba, you're just drinking milk tea. - You're literally just milk tea. - I'm participating, I turn up to the chain

- Just because you bought milk tea from a boba place, it doesn't automatically make a boba. - It's boba. - It's not boba. - It's boba, guys, come on. But also the second reason why I love boba is 'cause of the hilarious fucking videos we get out of the absolute carnage it causes from people choking on the fucking tapioca.

to people fucking up, stabbing it. It's an endless supply of hilarious videos. - It's got nothing to do with boba. - It's got nothing to do with boba. - It is very funny. - But it's got nothing to do with you drinking boba. - No, but one of the reasons I love it is just the endless entertainment value. And that when I love taking someone who's never had boba to a boba place, 'cause they always fucking choke on the tapioca. - Who hasn't had boba in this day and age?

- In Wales, no one's had fucking tapioca. - Okay, well, yeah, well. - Watching people drink tapioca the first time and they just, 'cause you can never, if you haven't drank tapioca before- - It goes up the straw really fast. - Yeah, they suck it too hard and just stabs the back of the throat. - Because you've never drank anything that is like that. No one's drank balls that big.

- I can't comment on everything, but personally I know. Yeah, so whenever you drink it, right? It always catches you off guard the first time. So it's very fun watching someone go, "Oh, this is good." - Even someone who's experienced drinking, but knowing that it's coming, there's like a little like, "Oh."

- Have you ever shot the boba from a star? - No, no, no. - The thing I don't get about, what can I call it? Boba culture. 'Cause I guess there's a fucking culture around it now, right? - Especially in Japan. - Rise up fellow boba drinkers. - 'Cause what I don't get is that people go out of their way to get boba and I'm just like, why? - It's great. - I've never understood, especially in Japan when like a couple of years ago when the boba craze was huge, of just like these high school kids lining up for like two hours to get boba.

Like...

- What? - It's literally milk tea. Like I get some desserts, I get some special ice creams, you know, because there's only like- - Ice cream? - Huh? - Honestly, yeah. Ice cream's a great dessert. I didn't say it wasn't a great dessert. I was defending jelly. - Is it the best dessert? - It's the way they cook the tapioca pearls, okay? - Hold on, I didn't get my answer. - The what? - Is it the best dessert? - It is the best dessert. - Thank you, carry on. - Oh my God. - The pearls. - But jelly's still good though. - That doesn't mean jelly's a bad dessert. - Jelly's still good. - Jelly's still good. - They're so different though.

- Huh? - Boba jelly. - Yeah, the jelly texture is entirely different. - Oh, it's way more chewy. It is. - I love the chewiness of it. - Do you ever wedge them in between your teeth? - I don't really eat it that much, so no.

- What? Is that part of boba culture? - But also, what the fuck? - Is that what you have to do to assimilate into boba culture? - No, if you have like- - Is that what boba drinkers do? - You're just playing with textures with the food. I just want you to know. Close it. - Yeah, no, 'cause like some cuisines, some desserts, some snacks, I understand people going out of their way to get this certain thing. Boba, it's just milk tea. It's milk tea with a bit of jelly in it. And I just don't get that. - It's stimulation in the mouth.

- With the chewing. - You can do that with most foods mainly. - No, it's different. Is there a food that's like tapioca that's same chewing? - Jelly. - Mochi. No, no, no, jelly is soft. Mochi, there's more bite to it. - I do like mochi actually. - Yeah. - I'm like on the fence about mochi. - I love the chewiness. - I like the way it tastes, but then I also feel like it should come with a health warning. 'Cause my God, I...

Like I'm a normal functioning human being who knows how to chew their food and has no problem doing it. And even I feel like I'm gonna fucking choke on a mochi if I chew it wrong. - A lot of old people actually die. - Yeah, they die. - I know. - I feel like most of you just gotta like rip it into bits and then just eat the bits that you can like. - Yeah, you have to take small bites out. - You can't just throw the whole mochi in your mouth.

- Depends how they eat mochi. - Like fucking mouth breathers should not eat mochi. Like it's like you're- - Stop bringing this back. - You're playing with fire, man. - 'Cause they can't breathe. - Well wait, are they mouth, 'cause their nose is congested. - No, if your nose is congested and you eat mochi, that's like- - That's like instant death. - Instant death right there. - I'm pretty sure you could just die anyway. - Oh my God, how do mouth breathers kiss then?

- They just breathe into each other's mouths. - I don't think they are incapable of breathing through their nose. I think it's the default. - Yeah, they don't have their nose chopped off. - It's like people who have internet explorers, their default browser. It doesn't mean they can't use it. It's just that they don't all the time. - They just had a disadvantage. - They just don't, like it's just slow and consequences happen. - I didn't understand how something could become like a choking hazard, like how food could become a proper choking hazard until- - Lego.

- No, no, no, no, no. Like as an adult, I'm talking like, I understand as a child that a lot of things can become choking houses, but I didn't understand it until I went to America for the first time and I had like my first American steak where they, it's like- - Oh God, I know what you mean. - And where they just like, it's not a steak, it's just a slab of meats at that point, man.

they like plop it on and you're just like, wow, I kind of feel like Hannibal Lecter right now, man. Like Jesus Christ. And then you start chewing into this thing and then you're like, and you start chewing it and it's like, it's just a lot of meat. I've never-

- This can be taken out of context. I've never had that much meat in my mouth at once, like just in general, right? - Was it too much meat in your mouth? - It was a bit too much meat in my mouth. - It was a bit hard to swallow. - It was very hard to swallow. And I'm just like, Jesus, okay, I can understand how people can choke on steaks now. - But also if they use like a really cheap cut of meat, holy fuck. - It's like chewing on leather. - It's like a dog toy. - Sometimes it's good though. It's like beef flavored gum. - What the fuck?

That is the worst take I've ever heard. What the fuck? No, when it's chewy. What did you just say?

- Meat flavored gum. - You're chewing and the more you chew, the more flavors are released. - But it will not break down. No matter how much you chew, you cannot get it to separate. - Beef flavored gum. - Holy fuck, what? - This is like that scene in the 40 year old version where they're describing the feel of breasts. It's like a bag of sand. - I love that, all I want is too chewy that I can't swallow it.

- I don't want to experience a meal where afterwards my jaw is just like ready to fall off my face. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

- There's a restaurant in Japan and it's like a chain called, what is it like Inari Steak? - Ikinari Steak. - Ikinari Steak. - It's fucking abhorrent steak. So I went there and yeah, I went with a friend and we both ordering and I was, you know, steak in Japan is quite expensive to get a good steak. And they bought the cheapest steak, but which also had the option to have the biggest size out of any of the steak. So none of the other steaks were never like 300 grams.

but for some reason this one steak that was super cheap. - US Orlane or something. - It was called like, but it was named something like man meat or something. It was like something supposed to be manly. It wasn't labeled like- - Man meat. - No, it was called monster meat or something. - That didn't even work. - No joke, it was called like monster cut meat.

And I was like, what the fuck is that? So I was like, you know what? The sirloin, you get about half the meat. It's about double the price. I'm sticking with the sirloin because I frankly want to enjoy my meal. So we're eating and they're like the first piece. They're like, shit, this is quite tough. I'm hearing them chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing. And I'm like, are you good? And they're like,

It's really hot tea. They managed to eat one by. And then I felt bad. So I was like, yeah, do you want to have like, we'll trade pieces? Like, so I gave them two pieces of mine and I took two pieces of theirs. Cause I felt bad. Cause it was terrible. Yeah. I nearly fucking choked on how bad the steak was. Cause you literally couldn't break it apart. Yeah. You, you literally can't. And you like, and like, it takes so much effort that you have to start breathing through your mouth in order to like get the air and talk. Yeah. I can.

- You know when you get to that point where you're chewing meat so much, you're like, have I gotten this meat glob into a size that I think is okay to swallow? Because I don't think I can break it down. - How much is it cut? A smaller piece? - Is it soft enough that I won't choke? - And it's just like, one, is it soft enough that you don't choke? And two, sometimes you just cut off a bit too big of a piece. It doesn't break down enough. And you just have to pray to God that your esophagus can just squeeze this

- We had an absolute rookie error. We took out takeout and we had plastic forks. So there was absolutely no chance that we, 'cause they'd already pre-cut it into like pieces like this, which is like too much for these pieces of meat.

from this cow that I assume was just benching all the other cows. I don't know what the fuck was going on with this cow to have meat. - That boy was ripped. - The FDA was probably testing all the fucking drugs on this cow. - Probably doing some roids or something. - It was insane how muscular this cow was. - They have good cut-outs.

- They did, but- - Yeah, but you have to pay a price for it. - The problem was that like this sirloin steak that was like this big was like $30. - Yeah. - It was terrible. - In which case you're better off going to like a higher end steak place. - Yeah, and the only reason I went there is because everything else was closed. It was the only place they could take it. - Oh yeah, they're open pretty late.

- I mean, what did you expect from a place that's literally called suddenly steak? - Suddenly steak. - That's literally what it's called. - Surprise steak. - And then suddenly steak. - It's kind of like Japanese food in the UK. It's like, I'm not expecting much. I didn't go in there expecting a good steak. It's like the same, I didn't expect good steak to be in Japan 'cause Japan doesn't really

Japan imports most of their normal steak. - In terms of like steak steak, Japan's steak isn't great. - They import nearly all of their steak that isn't like the Kobe. - Like Australia. - Australia and America as well. - Yeah, so generally beef here is quite bad unless it's like Kobe beef, but I get sick of Kobe beef. - I mean, we've talked about this previously. - Do you know what I miss?

that I found is like apparently only in Europe, peppercorn sauce. - Yes. - What's that?

- It's this amazing steak sauce. - Yeah, it's like the best steak sauce I've ever had. - I mean, I know peppercorns. - And you only get it with steak. - It's like a creamy literal peppercorn sauce. I thought it was like a universal thing because in England, you have steak, you have it with peppercorn sauce. And it tastes so fucking good. And then I only realized

Moving out of England, even though other places in the world have like better quality meats, like Japan or America, they have like better quality meats than a lot of the steaks you can find in the UK. But it's just- - What the fuck are you going? - Huh? - Where are you going? - I mean, I'm in Brighton. There's not a great steak in Brighton, honestly. - This is really good stuff. You're missing out, Garnt. - Maybe, maybe.

the peppercorn sauce would always save that steak for me because it tastes like the two of them just tasted so good together. And like, it's something you just don't find elsewhere in the world apart from in Europe apparently. That's the only place I've found it. - I swear I've seen it in some restaurants in America. I don't know though. Maybe I have. - Like your steak is mid-common. I didn't properly get until I realized that every steak here is with salt and pepper. And I'm just like, okay. - Wasabi, which I just don't think is good on steak. - I think wasabi is good on steak.

- It depends on the cut. - It depends on the cut. - The fattiest steak. - There's only so much. - Soy sauce. Some of them have like garlic soy sauce. - Actually it's different. It's like if it's yakiniku, then yeah, I'll have like the sauce. - Well yeah, if it's yakiniku then that's good. But that's not usually steak. - That's not a steak. I have a steak and every steak here, every steak I've had in Japan and most of the places I've been in America as well, you have the option of salt and pepper or in America you have ajou.

which I think it's just the- - The liquid that comes out of the meat. - Yeah, it's just the meat. - It's just the meat juices. - It's literally the meat juices. - Well, they pour it back on. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - My dad used to do that. - Go to Lori's here. They have a Lori's.

- And I'm just like, there's so many different steak sauces out there like peppercorn and red wine sauce as well, which goes fucking amazing with steaks and nobody does it. And I'm just like, why? Why? I get steak tastes good, but there's only so many times I can have salt and pepper and steak. - In the UK you eat steak with ketchup.

- Yeah, that's weird. Do they? - Yeah. - A1 I could understand. It's kind of ketchupy. - I like A1. - We didn't have A1 in Australia. - What's wrong with you guys? Why'd you do that? This is why everyone clowns on us. - Everyone mocks me and British people for growing up with this, but you don't understand. We're truly overpowered. We have literally no benchmark for food. It is so shit that when I go- - It's the wild west of food out there. - I literally go anywhere and I'm like, fuck, this shit's bossing and it's got cockroaches in it. And I'm like, damn, this shit's so good.

- I appreciate the Boston. - I think I can do you one worse because I think in Thailand they eat pizza with ketchup. - I'm okay with that. - What kind of pizza? - Are you okay with that? - It's tomato, tomato puree, tomato ketchup. - Just a normal pizza. - Like a cheese pizza? - Yeah. - What other kind of pizza is that? - I don't know, like pepperoni or fucking Hawaiian or whatever. - I'm gonna be honest, if I'm at my house, I put tomato ketchup on the side and I dunk the crust in it.

- Yeah, I do that. - That makes sense. - That's good. - I do the mayonnaise and ketchup combination. - I don't need to do that. - I don't need to do that. - How about Brazilian barbecue? - I fucking love Brazilian barbecue. - Yeah, Brazilian barbecue is great. - Their sauce is...

- That's what we can finally agree. - All of Trash Taste agreeing on food. - Thank you Brazil. - Thank you Brazil. - You finally made us agree on something. - Who knew that Brazilians could bring about world peace? - I remember, the first time I had it was in Japan, 'cause I had a Brazilian in my class.

And they were like, "Oh, come to our barbecue, we're having one." And apparently there's a place in Yokohama, no, Tokyo Bay, where there's like fields where you can rent like a tent spot right next to the Tokyo like water. - Oh, I see. Like a picnic spot. - Yeah, and I think they provide the barbecue. You just bring your own meat. - Oh, right. - Yeah, she was a,

a food scientist or something. Someone who designed food or something of the sort. - Nutritionist of some kind? - Something of that. And then she was like, "You have to come, come try." And I was like, "All right, okay, I'll show up." And they had amazing food. It was so good. The sausage was amazing. I love sausage. Sausage is my favorite. - Gastronomy, right?

- I don't know. - That's the word. - Something like people would pay her and she said that she would go to a place like a chain or whatever and then she would tell them how to make the food better with science or something. - With science. - With science. - Why didn't you introduce me to her?

- Maley's just like frothing at the bar. - And like every single item at this barbecue was amazing. It was like, everything was like pre-season before it went on. And I was like, I feel very happy. - You gotta love the pre-season chill. - So I turned up, ate their food and then I was like, yeah, I've got to go now. But I actually had to go. I couldn't stay for long. It was very unfortunate. But I ate as much as I could.

- I remember like the Geeks Plus opening party that we went to, which you unfortunately was not, 'cause you were at the Crunchyroll Awards. I remember the food there was like so, I still remember it to this day 'cause it was like so unique. - Yeah, it's innovative. - Yeah, 'cause they booked out like, what was it? Like a two-star Michelin restaurant? - Yeah, so Katakawa actually invested into a Michelin, well, no, they didn't invest into a Michelin, they invested in a,

- Innovative restaurant that got two stars after like a year and a half of like research and opening. - I had Chipotle, so who's the girl? I had Chipotle in my boxer shorts watching you guys. - No, but that restaurant is called Inua, and sadly because of coronavirus,

- They were very particular about the meat. They don't serve chicken, beef or pork. No normal meat. - They don't serve the big three. - The big three. - They serve the rarest meat of all. - If they have deer, it has to be a special deer that's hunted in a specific way. And depending on where it's shot and the side it falls, the blood flow affects the meat. - Okay, now that just seems a little too much. - That's a bit wankerish. - No, no, no, no, it's true. - What are they gonna do? Call up the hunter? Where did you shoot it?

- Where did you shoot it? Tell me. I can taste if you shot it in there. - In which way did the blood flow? Did it flow uphill or did it flow upstream or downstream? - It makes sense though. - Which way was the wind blowing? Where did you shot it? - I just find it hard to believe that that could really affect it that much. - It does 'cause like the blood cells rupture and then it contaminates the meat where you shot it. - The same with fish as well. - Do they not clean it? - Yeah, same with fish, same with fish. - Fish is like one of the most sensitive meats, I think, because you can tell when you've had old fish. - Other than human.

- I don't think. - What? - I said other than human. - No, because like you can tell when you've had like, when you have fresh fish, you know, you can tell when it's been in the freezer. - Oh, frozen fish is like instant like, ugh. - Yeah, exactly. - You can immediately tell this is frozen. - You can immediately tell from like the texture and the taste and just everything. - Well, like if you freeze like a piece of chicken. - Well, I'm sad 'cause Japan ruined fish 'cause now I can't eat frozen fish 'cause now I know what it is. - Did you used to like frozen fish? - I never could eat frozen fish. - Yeah, because that's all we really ate.

- 'Cause you couldn't get fresh. - That's why I hated fish in the UK. - It's always frozen. - Yeah, 90% of the time it's frozen. And I just think it tastes real, you can taste the frozenness and that's just like the bland frozen taste of fish that just every person in the UK has grown up with. And that's why I hated fish until I moved to Japan.

- Where 90% of it is fresh. - Yeah, because unless you actually went to a UK restaurant where actually shopped in a fish market to get fresh fish. And even then you better go on the day that they went to the fish market. That's why like if you go eat, you have to eat fish only on like Mondays basically. 'Cause that's when they mostly go shop for the fresh fish on the fish market. And by Friday it's all like old.

So yeah, I mean, that's horrible. - Is that your city though, near the port? - See, that's a good question. 'Cause you know, the UK is an island. Yeah, we don't eat fucking fish. We eat cod and we fry it. That's about it. - Yeah. - Why is it only fried? - Some people grill it. Grilled fish isn't that common in the UK.

- I think fried fish you can kind of hide the freshness a little more than if it was just like made more. - Put it in batter, deep fry it. - Yeah, the batter hides the fact that it was probably frozen. - It's a shame really 'cause I think a lot of British people did like fish. I mean, I grew up loving even like canned fish, like mackerel and sardines. I loved. - I hated that. - I love canned mackerel. Canned mackerel is so good. - With baguette.

- Yeah, you can just put it on the toast. - Is it the tomato-y kind? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Ah, yes. - I love that. - Yeah, that shit's great. - You can just eat it right out of the can. You can put it on stuff. It's so good with bread. - That is good.

- It's so good as well, 'cause it's like one pound for like a can. So it's like, oh, like no, no, in Aldi it was like 60 pounds for a can. And when I was trying to lose weight, that was great, it was just fish. - I thought it was broccoli and chicken. - Yeah, but sometimes you had to mix it up for lunch. - You gotta switch it up a little bit. - For lunch, for lunch, I mix, I put the omelets, I do like that. How long have we been talking for? It feels like forever. - We've been recording 225.

- What the fuck? - What? - It's been a while. - What, have we been talking for that long? - We spoke about food for like an hour and a half. Fuck my life. - It's 9:30. - Hope you guys enjoyed Trash Taste. - Holy fucking shit. I just feel like we've been talking for an hour. What the fuck's going on? - Well, thank you so much. - Yeah, I guess we should probably end it. - Follow Maylene on Twitter @gourmetbeans. - Yeah, follow Maylene. - Gourmet May? - I think it's gourmet May. - Is it gourmet May? - Gourmet. - Her future YouTube channel where she speed runs all the restaurants in Japan. - I think I'll call it gourmet May.

- Gourmet May. - That's a great nickname. How can you not call it gourmet may or something along those lines? I mean, you come up with so many shitty puns when I'm with you and you refuse. - Shitty puns? - Yes. - What's a shitty pun? - Everything that's not gourmet may.

- That's a great username. - Okay, I'll be Gourmet May. - And I can't wait for all the viewers to follow you. - Yeah, you know what? I can't wait till we go to our next anime convention and you actually get recognized because you used to be just the book walker run arounds that just like- - I used to manage your guys' line. - Yeah, yeah, you used to manage our line. - I still will. - But now you're gonna have people being like, "Are you Gourmet May?" "Are you Gourmet May from Trash Taste, maker of the boys?" - I would start sweating a lot.

I'm sweating all the time. So don't worry about it. I know. I know. I watch. I smell bad. You watch? You watch? What?

- I watch every bead of sweat roll down. - Let's get on with the- - Okay, yes, sorry. - Let's check out the patrons. - Look at these patrons right here. - If you'd like to support us though on Patreon, you go to patreon.com/trashtaste. Also follow us on Twitter, send us your memes on the subreddit. And if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. And also go check out Maylene. Oh, I think they're gonna be gone by the time- - They're gonna be long gone by the time. - Hope you got your mugs. - Hope you got your mugs.

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