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Sweets Talk: Exploring Dessert Favorites with the Fab Five
Dive into a sweet escape with our special guest host Fiddy and "The Fab Five" as they unwrap their deepest dessert opinions and share hidden bakery gems you won't want to miss. This episode is a sugar-coated journey through the world of treats that will have you reaching for your car keys to hunt down local pastry treasures.
Our guests reveal surprising consensus on some topics (ice cream beats cookies every time) while passionately disagreeing on others. When it comes to bakeries worth visiting, we uncover spectacular recommendations spanning from Corbo's in Cleveland to Jimmy's in Liberty and Oakmont Bakery in Pittsburgh—each promising authentic Italian pastries that would make any nonna proud.
The conversation turns hilariously unified when black licorice enters the chat. Every single guest expresses profound distaste for this controversial candy, with descriptions ranging from "if death had a taste" to comparisons we can't repeat in polite company. But it's not all criticism—our guests enthusiastically share their favorite candies, from Heath Bars to Reese's Fast Break to the nostalgic appeal of candy corn pumpkins.
As the discussion moves through morning coffee habits, birthday cake preferences, and even a tour of Hershey, Pennsylvania, you'll discover how dessert choices reveal personality traits and generational perspectives. The show wraps with a heated debate about pie superiority, with surprising contenders for both best (cherry, key lime) and most overrated (pumpkin, apple).
Whether you're planning your next road trip around bakery stops or simply looking to settle a dessert debate with friends, this episode delivers the perfect blend of recommendations, memories, and passionate opinions about the sweeter things in life. Tell
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is your special guest, host Fitty, and today we bring you the all things sweets and treats episode with a fabulous group of people. The Fab Five, as I'm calling them today, are going to be breaking down all things sweets and treats for you. Everything you can think of will probably fall underneath these categories. Before we have the guests introduce themselves, make sure you peep all the sponsors in the pre-roll and the post-roll, especially because they're all small business owners who make this show go. They are huge supporters of this show. We can't do it without them and we can't do it without all you listeners and our guests. So please make sure you're supporting one another here on the Ride Home Rants podcast.
Speaker 1:Without further ado, we're going to have our guests introduce themselves and we're going to get ready to roll on the sweets and treats. So, guests, the Fab Five, you're going to give your name. Do you speak any other languages besides English and if so, what language? And then what your favorite grocery store is and why? So we're going to kick it off with probably the most seasoned veteran guest of the show, mister all right, thank you.
Speaker 2:Like my man 50 said, mr, ask you, aka, you know, vampire coach? Uh, the language I speak is english and english and english, uh, I speak all three of them, um, very fluently. Um, I would tell you the other language that I speak, but I can't, you know, do my tongue like that right now. But the one store I love to shop is any international food store, one particular Jungle Gym. Love shopping there. And then let me see the. What was the other one?
Speaker 1:That was it. Those were the three things.
Speaker 2:yeah, but I've been to Jungle Gyms in Cincinnati. It's pretty see the uh, what was the other one? That was it those are three.
Speaker 1:Those are three things, yeah, but I I've been to jungle gyms in cincinnati. It's, it's pretty cool. It is a pretty unique store, so I have been there, I have been there lando.
Speaker 3:Hey everyone, this is matt lindowski here. Um, I speak english, a little bit of spanish and uh, I'm gonna go with publics down down south there and I always can go for a good pub sub head to the beach, so okay and make sure all of our listeners are checking out Sweet Hand Sports.
Speaker 1:One of our sponsors of the show that is Lando's business. So definitely check them out for all your baseball and softball and golf needs. So I know some of us are baseball, softball and golfers I'm none of the three, um, but if everybody else is doing it, definitely check out Lando's sweet hand sports, andrea.
Speaker 4:Uh, all right, my name is Andrea Um, the only other language I speak in English is scar sarcasm and I'm going to have to just go with basic all these Cause. Um, because there's not really much down here in Youngstown Ohio, so if I got to pick between Walmart, Giant Eagle and Aldi's, it's going to be Aldi's.
Speaker 1:OK, how about you, Marsco?
Speaker 5:My name is Christopher Marsco, speak English, foul English and Italian slang Picked up a lot of good ones from you know Nona, nono, bubby, all them good ones. And then I'd say my store, I'd say Walmart. You know, growing up in Cortland all you really had was Walmart up the road, unless you really wanted to drive somewhere. So Walmart.
Speaker 1:Okay, and Tony.
Speaker 6:My name is Tony. I speak in addition to English. I speak some German, Took it in three years in high school and one in college, and I like Meyer, because you can get a lot of Meyer flies under the radar as far as deals on groceries goes.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I can speak a little bit of Spanish, but mi Español es no bueno, pero lo estoy intentando. I can speak a little bit of Spanish, but me espanola es no bueno, pero lo estoy intentando. I can speak a little bit of Italian and say ciao sono John or me chiamo Giovanni, so I can speak a little bit of those, but other than that I speak nothing else.
Speaker 1:So my favorite grocery store is Menor Family Foods here in Menor Ohio. It's a great grocery store, mom and pop place. You walk in. They got the good music going on, the 60s and 70s music. They make the bread in the back. They got the good deli. The cold foods that they have are great. The pasta salad is great. The potato salad is wonderful. Just had the antipasta salad the other day. It's wonderful. So if you're ever in Clevelandveland, make sure you stop in men or family foods. You won't regret it. They have great, great music. It's all about the ambiance of the music when you walk in the store. You know what I mean, marsco, so that's all. So we're gonna talk about all things sweets and treats. So we're gonna go, mr lando, andrea, marsco and tony. So we'll start with you, mr um, ice cream or cookies. What is no explanation, just what is better.
Speaker 2:Ice cream.
Speaker 1:Okay, lando, ice cream. Okay, andrea.
Speaker 4:I was muted Ice cream.
Speaker 1:Okay, marsco Ice cream.
Speaker 1:Okay, tony, is it a clean sweep here? Yes, it is Ice cream, okay. Okay, starting off a little bit easy, next one's a little bit more challenging. So what bakery or pastry shop do you recommend people should go to? It can be anything that you've experienced anywhere in the country, anywhere that you may live right now. I'm going to say, if you haven't tried Corbo's Bakery in Cleveland, especially the one in Little Italy or Playhouse Square, they're great. They have ultimate, ultimate Italian authentic pastries. It's wonderful. Those guys do a great job there. Valerie, there, she's awesome. So I'm going to say Corbo's, their cannolis are fantastic and the rainbow cookies are outstanding. Mister, what place are you recommending?
Speaker 2:Man, that's a good question right there, the one that I have to say. That comes to mind when you say cannolis. The one place I love to go to get cannolis at is at Jungle Gems in Cincinnati. That bakery there, man, it's really fantastic. You can get a good variety of stuff, so that would be one of my places. Okay, and if no one's ever been to Jungle Gems, if you go to Cincinnati you know you can get a good variety of stuff, so that would be one of my places, okay, and if no one's ever been to Jungle Gyms, if you go to Cincinnati, definitely experience it.
Speaker 1:It is like something you'll never, never experience anywhere else. It's like Walmart on steroids, if you can imagine that. So it's definitely eventful. So take a road trip to Cincinnati, get yourself some Jungle Gyms. All right, lando, what are you saying? Cincinnati, get yourself some jungle gyms. All right, lando, what are you saying? What's the best pastry shop or bakery that you that you've ever been to? Or you get stuff from?
Speaker 3:Well, being right down the road from me is Oakmont Bakery. I'm going to go with that down here in Pittsburgh and yeah, man, they got the best cannoli cake. So it's just like a big cannoli with little cannolis all over it. So you can't really beat that.
Speaker 1:So okay, and Andrea, what are you going to say?
Speaker 4:I've said it before, I'm going to say it again Jimmy's and Liberty. It's a fantastic Italian uh bakery restaurant, uh Italian store and they also, I feel like, have the best. Best can always.
Speaker 1:I figured you were going to say that you know, being a fellow Italian from Youngstown, so we'll see what Marsco says right now, being the other Italian guy on the show here so I'm going to go ahead and double down with Andrea.
Speaker 5:Jimmy's was teed up for me. You know I've worked with them for a couple things with football, and they're great people too. I think that adds to it. Great food, great people. You got to win there. I'll offer up a different one, though. Alessi's up on our way in between here in Cleveland. They've got real good cannoli too. I'd put them up with anybody, but say Jimmy or Alessi's.
Speaker 1:Alessi's is really really great. They are one of the staples here in Lake County. So good, call on that, marisco, I didn't know you knew about Aleshi's. It's a. It's a definitely a great spot. They got some really really good, you know, rolls in there as well, and they have the hot and cold food section too, so it's definitely awesome. So, all right, tony, what are you saying? Because you you've been around a lot of places. Where are you saying is that best bakery or pastry shop east?
Speaker 6:cider guy. I'm gonna go a little off the path here and say chagrin falls pop shop chagrin falls popcorn shop.
Speaker 1:That's a good one, tony. That is a good one. The uh, the hallmark town, chagrin falls Falls. If you ever want to imagine going to a true Hallmark Town, go to Chagrin Falls and get some popcorn. Sit down by the waterfall. You swear you're in a movie there. So that's definitely a good one, tony. All right, we're going to go back to Mister on this. Mister, what's your favorite flavored milkshake?
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh Favorite flavor.
Speaker 1:huh, Yep, and it they can be from like any, any place. You just can't say boozy ice cream here anyone, so just got to be a regular, regular milkshake hey, man, uh, any anything mixed together.
Speaker 2:yeah, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, you know it don't matter. Yeah, anything mixed together. Okay, you put it in a form of a milkshake. It's done, done-dada, it's gone.
Speaker 1:What about you, Lando? What are you saying? I'm going to go chocolate Chocolate huh, Okay. Andrea.
Speaker 4:I got to go basic. I like it simple chocolate.
Speaker 1:Wow, we're simple on a three out of the first five on this. Uh, what about you, marco?
Speaker 5:I too that I can't really decipher because I don't really go with milkshake unless it's unique. So I'd say, uh, chocolate banana shake. I've like get cookout, or one of the places like that where you got a couple flavors you can mix. Or uh, what was my other one? I can't even remember it now, they're all so good. I'd say the chocolate banana one. Or uh, oh uh, arby's jamocha shake. And that's just because the availability of it, its uniqueness you kind of get one everywhere, jamocha shakes underrated okay, tony, before you answer, I will say my favorite milkshake is a banana flavored milkshake.
Speaker 1:But you can't beat the um like the, the mint flavored saint patrick's day ones, uh, the shamrock cakes from mcdonald's? Yeah, they are. They are excellent with that. So but, tony, what's your favorite flavored milkshake?
Speaker 6:I have two actually I like a good peppermint milkshake and I like a good cookie shake okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:That is definitely interesting. All right, this is gonna be a funny one now. Um, how would you describe black licorice and the taste of it? So how would you describe licorice and the taste of it? I'll start with this, as you guys all ponder it, and I'm gonna say if death had taste, it would taste like black licorice. So that's what I'm going to say, because I think black licorice is the worst tasting thing in the entire world. It's terrible. So I'm going to say if, if it tastes like anything, it tasted like death, mister.
Speaker 2:Man, that is absolutely perfect. If I was out in space and Mars, that's what I think it would be something from the third planet. Um, they dried just. Oh, that's yuck, I can't even put it into words. And how about this?
Speaker 3:no comment okay, what are you saying, lando? Uh'm going to go with you on that one, fitty, I'm going to agree with you. It's not that good. And if you want something a little worse, go with the dark chalk with nothing in it. I mean, that's just downright pain right there, man. Okay.
Speaker 1:Andrea, what are you saying about black licorice?
Speaker 4:I don't like black licorice. I don't know anybody that does, and if I did know somebody that liked it, they would not be in my circle.
Speaker 1:They know it. I'm glad you don't like it, so I can stay in your circle of friends. I'm glad. So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5:Yeah, see, now, if I see someone eating black licorice, I'm glad. So what are you saying, Marsco? Yeah, see, now if I see someone eating black licorice I'm like I want that person to be my friend. They're a little on court, they might come in handy. I'm going to copy what my son says Black licorice is cucka Tastes like. I have never eaten poop. Hope I never have to. Don't plan on it. That's probably what it tastes like.
Speaker 1:I'm good what are you saying, tony?
Speaker 6:I will have to say I do not ever wish to eat black licorice in any way, shape or form. It was like one of those things where this somehow was flavored with strawberry. Just looks like black licorice, but it's flavored with like strawberry or something.
Speaker 1:I, just I, I would, I would. I would eat this pen before I'd eat black licorice. If I was starving, I would eat that pen first. I would eat this dookie before I eat black licorice. Black licorice is awful, but going off of that, let's talk about this one. Though. What's your actual favorite candy? You only can pick, hopefully, one if you have two, but I'm going to say mine, and I'm not a huge candy person, but I do like the dark Milky Ways, like the midnight flavored one that has the dark chocolate in it. So that's my jam right there. But, mister, what is your favorite candy? Okay?
Speaker 2:favorite candy man, I have to say man, candy corn, candy, candy, candy corn.
Speaker 1:Give me the candy corn are you eating the candy corn that has, like the pumpkins in it, the little?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely love the pumpkin, especially the pumpkins. Those are those, those are tops. Man, that was the best one right there. Give me the pumpkin.
Speaker 1:What are you?
Speaker 3:picking Lando. I'm going to go with Heath Bar. Heath Bar yeah, I'm actually pretty hooked on these Heath Bar Blizzards right now.
Speaker 1:Well, Lando, there's a difference between a Heath Bar Blizzard and eating a Heath Bar.
Speaker 3:Well, the Heath Bar Blizzard is like the next level man. I'm telling you that's a lot.
Speaker 6:well, the heat bar blizzard's like the next level man okay, that's that's fair.
Speaker 1:Andrea, what are you saying?
Speaker 4:I go through phases where I'm like, oh, this is my favorite candy, but I feel like one that, like, always ends up coming back around, is a fifth avenue. I don't know if you've ever had one, but it's like kind of like a butterfinger.
Speaker 3:But better you know those?
Speaker 1:those aren't. Those aren't bad, those aren't bad. I'll give you that. Those aren't bad. What are you saying, marco? So reese's?
Speaker 5:enthusiast if I had to pick one out of what reese's makes. I'm a big fast break bar guy. That little layer of nougat in there making it a little chewy, it just spreezes on steroids. But I feel like you got to have a whole separate division. That's my chocolate candy, like if I'm doing like a gummy, or like a sweets candy, like that. I got to go nerds clusters. That's just the party.
Speaker 1:Things are great, tony, what are you picking?
Speaker 6:I pick Twix man, just none like a good old Twix, you could just snap and eat. You got caramel, you got a little Twix bar. You can't go wrong with the classics.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's fair. So we're going to bring up this one next and I'm going to shout out my friends Megan Steve and Coach Upton on this one. Shout out Myrtle Beach 2020 on the argument we got into about this Red Vines. Are you, guys, fans of Red Vines and if so, would you eat a Red Vine over a Twizzler? So, are you a fan of Red Vines and if so, would you eat a Red Vine over a Twizzler? Mister, a Red Vine, you never had red vines.
Speaker 2:I've never had that, oh my gosh, you ain't missing too much. I ain't missing too much. I'm like a red vine. I'm trying to look it up. What in the world is that Red vines are life?
Speaker 1:Red vines are life, they're life.
Speaker 2:When you said Andy Upton, I should have known it was something different.
Speaker 1:Because he hates Red Vines. That's why I wanted to bring this up, because we were arguing playing cards in Myrtle Beach Five years ago, like right now, about Red Vines. So, lando, do you like Red Vines? I'm unsure what Red Vines are man.
Speaker 1:They're like the For people that don't know what red vines are. They're like the, the fat, cheap version of licorice, and you can actually like drink a drink through them, cause they're so fat. They sell them at the movement theaters Next time you go to the movie theater. You got it. You got to try red vine. It's a unique taste. So, andrea, I'm looking at your face right now. Have you ever had red vines? It's a unique taste. So, andrea, I'm looking at your face right now.
Speaker 4:Have you ever had red vines? No, but all I can think about is the licorice that has. Like the little things that you can like, pull off you know what I'm talking about. There's a bunch of them. That's like the superior licorice.
Speaker 1:I've never seen red vines at a movie theater I guess I'm going to the wrong movie theaters than if there's red vines there. So what are you saying about red vines, Chris All?
Speaker 5:right. So I have eaten them Fitty and it's not the most diabolical candy. Like it's not my bottom five, I could sit down and eat some red vines. They are no comparison to Twizzlers, in my opinion. I think we're in different categories of licorice. Doing that, I think the Twizzler is vastly superior to a red vine.
Speaker 1:All right, tony, you saving me at all on this one man.
Speaker 6:I like red vines and, don't get me wrong, I do like a good red vine. They're nothing compared to Twizzlers, though.
Speaker 1:Man, everyone is missing out on the red vine train. You got to get on them. They're like I don't know, free 99 at the candy store if you find them. So I mean they're, they are pretty, pretty good. But shout out red vines. Shout out, coach Upton, steve and Megan. You know the argument we got into about red vines, for everybody knows, coach Upton, he tried a red vine and spit it out and like through the other pieces that this is the worst candy I've ever eaten in my life. When he bit into it, so um, but you know, red vines are life, man. Red vines make the world go around.
Speaker 5:So texture I'll give them that they are different. It's not like a mock off of the twizzler, it's kind of his own little thing yeah, and they're probably really unhealthy.
Speaker 1:If you really look at what they're probably made out of, you's probably made out of like like probably I don't even know like some type of plastic coating and sadness or something they're pretty good but I, but I like them, but all right, no more red vines on that.
Speaker 1:So let's get into this, though. What is your favorite um pastry? And you can really answer anything here. Uh, whatever your favorite pastry is, um, you know, you just can't say donuts. So what I'm going to say, though, is I do love cannolis. Um, cannolis are my jam, but I really love rainbow cookies. Um, they're italian staple. Um people that never had them. You can get them at jimmy's or pretty much any store, unless she's corbo's, but I love, um, I love the rainbow cookies, so not the cake ones, but just the regular ones with the chocolate on the top and the chocolate on the bottom. So, mr, though, what's your favorite go-to pastry out of all the great pastries in the world?
Speaker 2:Most definitely man. Cannolis. Man, that's my number one. Yeah, I love the cannolis. I can do those all day long. Yeah, either one that's like chocolate or one that's vanilla. I've been to different places. You know where they actually made it. You know where they made it, you know different flavors, so, but I love cannolis.
Speaker 1:Okay, how about you, lando? What's your go-to favorite pastry out there?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to go with cannolis too. I like them with the chocolate inside though.
Speaker 1:Those are my jam man okay, how about you, andrea?
Speaker 4:um, I'm gonna say a cinnamon roll, if that counts as a pastry. I freaking love cinnamon rolls, especially molnars another thing down here in youngstown, but they have the best molnars, I never heard of that.
Speaker 1:Where is that out in Youngstown?
Speaker 4:so in the summer they like post up down at the corner of the street over here where I live, but, um, they go to like the Canfield Fair a lot and they go around to like different festivals and whatnot. But that's like a really big thing in the area is Molnar's concession stand. So their cinnamon rolls are.
Speaker 6:They're huge, they're, they're great are they north or south side based? I'm from youngstown that's north or south youngstown uh, west side, but I don't know I cover high school football like north is the arsalan side, south is mooney, west is cheney yeah.
Speaker 1:So, tony, next time you're in youngstown you'll have to get a molnars cinnamon roll and think about andrea and be like this is great when you eat it if I can find molnars, then yes, absolutely I got you, I'll help you out all right, perfect. So what are you saying, marsco?
Speaker 5:you know I wanted to try to offer up something to be a little diverse, but it's so far and away cannoli I can. I can't even BS you guys to something else. So the one thing I will do in saying cannoli, shout out to Muscarella's Cafe in Sharpsville. You know, each night you go they got like four or five different specialized cannolis Heath Bar cannoli, Banana Sunday cannoli. They just mix it up all the time.
Speaker 1:So shout out to muskerellas dang marsco, you know everywhere, man. Yeah, you don't even know muskerellas, man, you know back in the old stomping grounds there. So you know, good for you, you must be well traveled on wanting to go to different italian places. I'm a foodie. You're going to dropping a leshies up here at east lake, going to muskerellas in Sharpsville. Man Marsco is well traveled, but but you know, growing up in Cortland, you're in a good spot Cause you're like halfway between all that stuff. So you know, definitely, definitely a good thing, though, to get to all those places. Tony, what are you saying is your favorite best pastry out there?
Speaker 6:I go with the classic traditional croissant.
Speaker 1:A croissant, anything in the croissant?
Speaker 6:Yes, like cream cheese, strawberry or a good Danish.
Speaker 1:What's your go-to flavor? On the Danish, though, strawberry. Strawberry danish is pretty good. I'll eat a cream cheese one, though you can't get down with cream cheese danishes if it has black licorice, I'm throwing it at the wall in a warning, okay I mean, that's, that's fair.
Speaker 1:So the next one, mister, we're gonna, um, you know, go to you on this. So if you had a favorite birthday cake that you could pick for, like for your birthday, and it could be whatever flavor you want it to be um, you know what flavor are you picking for that like best birthday cake that you could have oh baby, 100 baby, it's gonna be a rum cake rum cake wow, rum cake all day long.
Speaker 2:As big, as big and as wide and as long as the table that is on.
Speaker 1:Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 3:Lando, I'm going with the cannoli cake from Oak Palm Bakery. Wow, it's a hit man.
Speaker 1:Cannoli flavored stuff is the big winner on this show today, that's for sure. So, andrearea, what are you going with your, your favorite flavored birthday cake?
Speaker 4:um, I want to do a cookie dough ice cream cake from dairy queen that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That is a good one that makes me think before answer this. Marco, does anyone remember when dairy queen had the pizza? Like frozen pizza cakes that were ice creams. Anybody remember that?
Speaker 1:I do like bagley I feel like they brought them back for a little bit yeah, they were like in the, in the shape of a pizza and they were cut like it and they had like toppings that were like ice cream and like all their goodies on top of it. It was like an ice cream pizza. It was like really, really cool. But I'm also the second oldest person on this podcast, so I remember that when I was like little and a lot of you were like really, really little. So, um man, I just aged myself there, oh geez. So, marco, what are you going with that?
Speaker 5:that favorite flavored birthday cake uh, probably aunt jean's chocolate cherry cake, the the icing's homemade whipped up it ends up being almost like a fudge texture when you cut into it and the cake's nice and airy. Underneath it's a, it's a good mix of dense and light and I don't know the chocolate cherry flavor when you beat up the cherries and adam it's. It's real delicate, real deep.
Speaker 1:Okay, that was a deep answer on that one. So all right, tony, what are you doing with that? That favorite flavored birthday cake? What are you doing here, mom?
Speaker 6:bought me one years ago cookies and cream cake and I especially like one from dairy queen. I've always been a big cookies and cream thing okay.
Speaker 1:So if anyone's ever looking for birthday cakes that you want to get the fab five here, if there's significant others and family are listening to this, you know they just told you what they wanted for their birthday cake, so let's make sure that that happens. So, um, the next one is going to be very interesting, I think. Um, are you eating sweets any type of sweets and coffee for breakfast in the morning? Is that your jam? And I'm going to say for me, um, it was until my pants got a little snug and then I was like, nope, I'm eating just straight fruit or toast with like honey on it. So, but for everybody else on the on the fab five here, are you eating sweets and coffee in the morning for breakfast, mister?
Speaker 2:no, I might have some coffee, uh, but no, I'm not eating those sweets. If anything, man, it's gonna be an apple man. Yeah, because you know, as you get older, you know, hey, no sugar, and then calories add up and you got a bit of burning them off and it just ain't, it just ain't working, you know. So you gotta cut back, but yeah, I go for the coffee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I think I used to love, I used to love just pounding like four cannolis and having some coffee in the morning and just out there vibing like I'm like it's like clemenza from the godfather, just being super fat and unhealthy but you know then I really then I got fat and unhealthy and then I, you know, had to lose some weight, so I cut that all out. But lando, you having sweets and coffee for breakfast, heck no man.
Speaker 3:Um, that that is real man. Like you start eating the sweets a little more, it it definitely hits you at a certain age, man. So I usually go every Sunday night get some ice cream with the girlfriend.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:That's about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about you, andrea? Are you eating sweets and coffee for breakfast?
Speaker 4:Definitely coffee and not sweets. I feel like it just starts your day off sluggish. But I consider a cinnamon roll like a breakfast treat. So like every once in a while I would do a cinnamon roll, I'd settle with that, but nothing else, not like cookies or anything like that.
Speaker 5:Okay, okay. What about you, marsco too? Banana bread, banana bread with chocolate chips in it, cinnamon roll biscotti, biscotti dipped in chocolate with nuts. I really teeter the line of is it as sweet? Is it not as sweet? It probably is as sweet, but I'm still eating it, so I'd say I'm in for it. I had terrible discipline. I've been known to. You know grandma's lemon drops go real good. A little bit of coffee on them too. So yeah, I'm a sweet guy in the morning and it has hit me and I'm too ignorant to stop, so I can't help it.
Speaker 1:What does your wife think of that, Marisco?
Speaker 5:I've got her all confused. She always tells me she wished she knew me a little bit longer before she got married. Jokingly but yeah, I'm a different bird. She raises her eyebrows.
Speaker 1:You know, right. You know what that, that happens, All right, I mean, you know it is what it is. We all find out unique things about our significant others, and you know family as we, as we grow older. So you know things like that, my coverage.
Speaker 5:I married up or so you know, things like that Get to my coverage. I married up, so I expect that.
Speaker 1:All right, tony, you having sweets and coffee in the morning, absolutely.
Speaker 6:Well, first of all, full disclosure. I will not drink black coffee. I need my cream and sugar, I need my creamer in it. I'm not going to drink black coffee for breakfast. As far as sweets goes, like I said, give me a good Danish, a good croissant, something like that. I need that breakfast to get my motor running. I'm probably going to regret it years down the line, but you know, I'm living in the net.
Speaker 1:And Tony, you're the youngest person I think on here, so you know you have a. You have a quite a while to go on. You know, enjoying the sweets in the morning so which actually tony brought this up brings me to my next point. So you know, pretty much america's all obsessed with coffee. You know we, we all, drink coffee at probably some point or multiple points of the day. But are you a coffee fan with, like, super sweets in it, like caramel, caramel or like, uh, anything like some type of flavored vanilla, anything that makes it very, very sweet? Um, is that your jam with coffee? And I'll start with this and I'll say no. Um, I don't put sugar in my coffee, I just do a little bit of milk. Um, but you know, those drinks from Starbucks are delicious until you start gaining weight, so I cut those out. But, uh, with mister, do you like the sweet flavors in your coffee?
Speaker 2:Nah, man, I just take that much straight up dark, straight up black. Man, you know, I have tried it with. You know, with different things different. You know, cream, nah, there's some good creams out there, for sure, but the only reason why you know what I'm saying you cut back on the cream because, again, what's the one thing we talk about, is just adding more calories and calories. Man, I'm telling you, man, you know you don't drink no two, three cups of coffee. Man, you keep adding on creamers and creams. That's a catch up and add up, man.
Speaker 2:So I agree, I agree with you on that, yeah every once in a while, if I'm on like a long trip or something I'm driving, I might add the sugar and I might add the cream, just because I'm on Like a long road trip or whatever. But nah, it's all black though.
Speaker 1:What about you, Lando? Are you enjoying all the sweet flavored Creamers in your coffee?
Speaker 3:Not really man. I actually drink green tea. You enjoying all the sweet flavored um creamers in your coffee? Not really man. Just, uh, I actually drink green tea. So, um, that's usually my go-to in the morning. But, uh, if I do have a coffee, I just go dark so okay, okay, what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4:I do. I like sweet coffee. I will drink like just black coffee sometimes, depending on where it's from, but I do like a good like caramel macchiato.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was just going to ask you what flavor, but you answered it before I could even ask. So there we go. So what about you, Marsco? Are you putting all the flavors in all at one time and dipping your banana bread in there and dancing around the house, the ton and dill and stuff you know, acting like your 1940s Italian person?
Speaker 5:Dark roast black coffee and it's funny how I got started with it. It's like you don't really drink coffee. Like high school I'd mix it and all the sugars and stuff. But I worked at a golf course at the Trumbull Country Club with a bunch of grown men and I asked them one morning before we got our jobs, like 5.30, hey, where's the cream and sugar? And the one dude laughed and they they kind of busted me up pretty good about it and I don't know. I don't want to say I got bullied into black coffee but start drinking it after a while you're like damn, this ain't too bad. So it's been on for over a decade now. That's the way to be okay, what about you, tony?
Speaker 6:I gotta have something in my coffee. Like I said, I'm not going to drink black coffee straight up. Even when I get to my 40s, 50s, I can't drink black coffee straight up. I don't know how y'all do it, but it's not, it's easy, man, it's easy.
Speaker 2:Hey, just keep living, man, don't worry God don't that darn. Mr Askey was right.
Speaker 1:You know, tony hopefully we'll keep the show going for like another 20 years here, so like when we're all old, you know, then you can really talk to us about how your your palate with coffee's changed over time with your taste. So we got two topics here before we end the show, everyone. The first one is, you know, chocolate Town, usa, hershey, pennsylvania, is a very, very unique place. A lot of people just know the name of it. They know Milton Hershey invented chocolate there right originally. But it's a pretty fantastic place with the theme park, the chocolate factory, all the museums that they have here, the Hershey Museum itself. Definitely a wonderful place. If you haven't visited I was there a couple years ago but definitely go there. If you're a candy and chocolate connoisseur, it'll blow your mind. So I just want to go around and ask all the guests you know have you ever been to Hershey? And, if so, you know what was your experience like? So, mister, have you ever been to Hershey?
Speaker 2:No, that's one place I have not been to, so that's one that's on the list to go out there and check out that. So no, not yet.
Speaker 1:Highly recommend and go to the theme park. If you go out in the summer, it's pretty cool. So, um, what about you? Lando?
Speaker 3:um, I have, I have been there when I was a young kid. Um, it was for, I think, a wrestling tournament out there and, uh, we stopped at the candy shop and stuff, and it's definitely something to see, definitely something to see. Now I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for sure andrea I've never been okay, marscoe.
Speaker 5:I don't remember, Ben, but I do have a question for the football people. Is that where they used to play the Big 33 game at?
Speaker 6:And the state championships yes, oh yeah, the Big 33.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a football stadium out there. It's very dated, but they used to do the state championships where they'd move them. But they also do like concerts and stuff. Actually, lady Gaga was out there like three years ago she performed out there, which was pretty, pretty unique. But, tony, have you ever been to Hershey PA?
Speaker 6:No, not for football, not for anything, but I would eventually like to go at some point. I think I'm going to end up finding myself going, whether I go myself or I end up going with somebody else it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:You know, we went out there a couple years ago right before thanksgiving and they, they did everything like decorated for christmas and I mean the chocolate tour was great. I mean the museums are great. It's just a lot of fun. There's like boutiques to go shopping at uh, the museum's a lot of fun. It's just a very, very cool experience. They do have concerts out there. The theme park's great.
Speaker 1:But you know, you definitely got experience, um, the hershey plant, the. You know the, the experience of that. Take the, take the free tour around the building, um, as well, you can do things like we made our own chocolate bars, uh, which was really cool. So it's a very cool place. Just want to shout out you know chocolate town, uh, you know usa for hershey, pennsylvania. They're so very, very unique and fun.
Speaker 1:Fact, before we get on to the last question, when milton hershey was originally starting that, um, they used to make actually the chocolate with milk. That's why it was called milk chocolate. He had his own dairy farm there that he would import the milk and make all the chocolate that way. Anymore chocolate does not have milk in it, so there's actually a fun fact. So that's why there's a difference between milk chocolate and chocolate. Chocolate does not have milk in it. Milk chocolate has milk, but it's it's dilated. So but back in the day, mill and hershey had his own farms there with cows for strictly just milk. So that's why I got to check out the hershey museum.
Speaker 5:So uh, last question, real question for you is it true you can smell the chocolate pulling up that people tell me you can smell the chocolate if you roll your window down. You can.
Speaker 1:You can because, yeah, you can. It's, it's very unique, um, and actually one more cool thing about that is they actually have the Hershey like hotel, so that is actually like everything incorporated chocolate in there. If you like spas for anybody that listens to this if you like a spa, they actually do like chocolate baths and stuff like that that you actually can get into and get covered in chocolate and all types of stuff. So it's a very unique place out there, a little pricey on the hotel, but, uh, I would recommend just staying somewhere else and maybe going to the spa. But yeah, they do like, um, all types of hershey baths and stuff like that and chocolate. So definitely look that up, everyone.
Speaker 1:So last topic what is your favorite pie and what is the most overrated or flavored of pie? So I'll let you guys think about this. My favorite pie is a strawberry pie from Eaton Park. There's not too many Eaton Parks left out there, but strawberry pie from Eaton Park is fantastic. That is my favorite and I think probably a hot take here is apple pie is the most overrated flavor of pie. So, mister, take it away.
Speaker 2:Man, I tell you what I love a good chest pie. So, mister, take it away. Man, I tell you what I love a good chest pie. I love chest pie, but overrated one I would probably have to say probably apple pie. I eat it, don't mind it, but I think there's so many other good pies out there.
Speaker 1:Okay, what about you, Lando?
Speaker 3:I was actually just down in the Keys. I'm going to go with Key Lime Pie. Okay, I had a little bit of that down there and down the Keys in Florida and I'm going to say I don't know if there is a pie I don't like, okay.
Speaker 1:Maybe you got to experience more pies to find one. More pies, more pies. So what about you, andrea?
Speaker 4:My favorite is cherry and I think the most overrated is pumpkin.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's a hot take right there, I know.
Speaker 4:That's a rough one. I don't like pumpkin pie. I don't think it's good do you like?
Speaker 1:not like pumpkin flavored anything or just pumpkin pie?
Speaker 4:uh, pumpkin flavor stuff is like growing on me a little bit but I'm definitely not a fan like I still don't really like. Like pumpkin spice coffee and stuff like that. I think it tastes too fake. But like pumpkin roll, like I think it's all overrated.
Speaker 1:In the fall I'd go apple, which you guys think is overrated, which is fine, but that's my fall pick you know what, and it's like you know, spring's gonna be here by the time this show's released and that's great. Everybody's gonna have so much fun. But in like five months everyone's gonna be like I want it to be cold, I want pumpkin spice coffee you know, and it's like, come on.
Speaker 1:It's like, come on. It's like 89 degrees outside and humidity is like 130. You can't have pumpkin flavored anything right now. It's the middle of August. Let's slow down, duncan. Let's slow down on that. Marsco, what are you saying about the pie? What's your favorite flavor and what's the most overrated flavor?
Speaker 5:My favorite pie is probably a banana cream pie or like a peanut butter fluff pie. Something different with those Most overrated is tough. I mean I don't maybe blueberry. Just with that kind of the consistency it gets after it sits a little bit, I'd say maybe blueberry is a little overrated.
Speaker 1:Probably what you're saying is, though you've never met a pie you don't like? Yeah, come on just like lando, you guys have never met a pie, you don't like no?
Speaker 6:so tony, round us out on this one I've only had strawberry pie one time, but if I had it multiple times I know I'd like it. My favorite pie is cherry pie and I'm gonna have to go with andrea.
Speaker 1:Most overrated pie is pumpkin pie wow, the hot take to end the show two people saying pumpkin pie is overrated and that's a heck of a way to end the show. But that's going to do it for this week's episode of the ride home rants podcast. I'd like to thank the fab five for being here today Matt Lando Landowski, tony Bogan, mr Ask you, aka the vampire, coach Bethany's finest Andrea and coach Chris Marsco. So thank you. So, guys, so much for being here today, talking all things sweets and treats, having a little bit of fun. You know, as we go into the spring here and you know Easter's getting close and we're talking about all those desserts, and what's a better way to have all the desserts coming up on Easter? So, as always, if you like the show, be a friend and tell a friend, and if you didn't like it, tell them anyways, because I bet they like it just because you did it. This is Fitty signing off and we will see you next week.
