Aug. 3, 2026

Episode 1: Famous Food Trends for the Ages

We hope you enjoyed our first episode!

 

Here are a few things that didn’t make it into the final script:

 

  1. Ted rejected this as a bonus question (probably with good reason) for Ranch dressing:

 

Ranch dressing has provided flavoring for a number of food products, such as chips and snack mixes.  It also flavors a type of beverage.  What is that beverage? 

 

The answer is soda.  A company called Lester’s Fixins Soda offers a ranch dressing soda, along with a number of other interesting food-flavored sodas.  

 

  1. We also had a question about State Fair food trends:

 

What do these 4 foods have in common?

  • Deep-fried Twinkies

  • Porkchops

  • Chocolate-covered bananas

  • Pickles 

 

The answer is that they are all available on a stick.

 

  1. Finally, we had a bonus question about Fondue parties: 

 

What is the “bread-dropping” rule?  

 

The answer is that people who accidentally drop their bread into the cheese have to pay some sort of playful penalty, such as singing a song or kissing someone at the table.  However, since no one got it right in any of our test sessions, we consulted Nana and Poppa, who attended and hosted a number of fondue parties back in the day.  Neither of them had ever heard of any such rule.

Episode 2: Dance Moves for the Ages

Some Fun Facts About Today’s Questions: So how did The Duck Dance become The Chicken Dance? Apparently this happened at an Oktoberfest celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1981.  The short version is this: they wanted to have someone we…