Being Judged For A Posh Dinner

21:36Clair Buckley:Like my ironing hack of using the mattress as a giant press. Or strapping the TV remote to the dog's collar so you always know where it is. No. Or cooking bacon with your spare pair of hair straighteners. Yeah, so you don't have your own straighteners? No, I don't. Did you ever have your own straighteners? No. No. so life hacks that I've been served up the wet knife onion hack now I was chopping onions the other day yeah and you were laughing at me yes because I don't actually really like onions so I don't do it that much I've always said this Claire I'll take an onion whatever way it comes okay ring grilled raw so the hack is you wet your knife before chopping onions and apparently it's supposed to make it helps you not cry as much it stops the tears a little bit we need to do that one yeah that is actually a good one isn't it because it does like oh it kills I know it's like a cliche and it's like but then when you do cut an onion you go oh gosh yeah it is awful it does and then the other one yeah the air freshener hack so you strap a load of cheap little car smelly air fresheners to your fan turn it on and keeps you cool and the house smells nice I might have to get on board with that.

22:54Yeah, put one outside the bathroom.

22:55Clair Buckley:Especially after I've had a curry. Yeah, but those are good hacks, aren't they? They are good hacks. We need to try the wet knife one for sure. They're good hacks. Good job. Thank you. Rah, rah. But you know what the ultimate life hack is? Co-op's new meal range, served. Yes, the meals that basically save my life when there's nothing in the fridge except a bit of old cheese. Yeah, and some old brisket that you made that you buy the biggest bits We have like three slices of it I bought a very small brisket I bought a very small brisket It was fine Anyway These are ready to cook meals Prepared with fresh ingredients That you can cook in 30 minutes Without having to follow An absurdly complicated recipe Proper portions too Enough for both of us What are you doing there?

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25:05Clair Buckley:Dinner is served. £8 for non-members, Co-op group membership required. Subject to availability. See co-op.co.uk slash serve for details. Delivery partners, teas and teas apply. I've always wanted to do that Someone's trying to get some voice over work

25:23Clair Buckley:Food, glorious food Hot sausage and mustard While I'm in the mood Cold jelly and custard Is that Oliver? Yes Hey Claire, do you want to talk about food? Sure Well, I'm fucking glad you do While we were talking about Kit Kats by the way Yeah The foil on the Kit Kat I miss that Yeah I do too Running your finger Doing it Yeah We all did it I know I miss that Yeah Although You still get them On the two finger That comes in the multi-pack No you don't You still get foil Do you not? No You have to tear it And open it Oh is it Even on the multi-pack Two fingers I remember at my school There was a boy That always brought a Kit Kat In with his lunch And it became a thing Where we'd try And grab his Kit Kat And do that So he couldn't do it it's like peeling like the thing off your new phone and putting your finger down the middle we just grab his kick and go there you go oh guys that's it that's my only bit of the day that I look forward to aww yeah good old days we were easily pleased weren't we yeah any food that you miss food that I miss yeah or packaging any food any food stuff now the big one for me is my Twizzlers oh I used to love slimy turkey twizzlers back in the day.

26:44Clair Buckley:Oh no. And then they brought them back. They did. I don't know if they still have them back. I don't know if they... I don't know, but I found them, remember? You got some for me. And we made them and they were still gross. No, but they weren't the same. They weren't the same at all whatsoever. See, I never had anything like that. Oh my God, I used to love a turkey twizzler. We weren't... Little turkey twizzler buddy. Fuck me. Oh my God. We weren't... growing up we didn't have a lot of like oven packaged food. It was all oven for me. Everything was bird's eye. See my gran and papa cooked a lot but it was always like it was always like old school stuff.

27:26It was always just like mince and tatties or homemade soup or it was very homely.

27:32Clair Buckley:My nan was always boiling a ham. Yeah that was always going on. I used to call it nanny's fat ham. Sounds a bit weird now, doesn't it? It does, yeah. When you say it like that, yeah. My mum used to be like, we're going to go around for Nan's, we're going to have dinner there. And I'd be like, oh, is Nanny doing her fat ham? Yeah. But you're that kind of person where it doesn't matter what you say, it sounds a bit rude. I've sort of brought it on. You've got that in you. I've brought it on myself, haven't I? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. Yeah. Oh, well. I can't talk about a Kit Kat without getting embarrassed sitting next to you.

28:05Clair Buckley:My meals growing up was smash turkey dinosaurs birds eye potato waffles fenders crispy pancakes oh you love them i still love them to this day yeah it was all that stuff because do you remember i did master chef yeah a few years ago you did yeah and i had to do this whole research so they want to know a bit about you and like how you how are you in the kitchen and and it was like well you're not what was your favourite meal growing up that you'd have as a family. Yeah. And I was just too embarrassed. I was just like, you know. We don't have a better status order. I did say, I used to do this sort of weird, sort of upside down cottage pie thing where I would make a bowl of smash and then I'd have hot beans poured over the top of it.

28:54Clair Buckley:And that would be a meal for me. Where's the, there's no meat in there? No, but it's sort of like, if you said the beans were the. It's just mash and beans? Yeah, if you said the beans was the meat, but instead of the beans going on the bottom and the mash on top, I'd just make a bowl of smash and level it and then pour hot beans on that. Right. And that would be a big meal. That's not a version of anything. That's a bowl of smash with beans on the top. I don't know why you mentioned cottage pie there. I think I mentioned shepherd's pie. You said cottage. I don't know. I was just trying. what about um i'll tell you what we do a lot in the past maybe 10 years or so because we've been to america i've got family in america so we have been out there quite a lot we do for like your birthday or the boys birthday you can get like american snacks brought in and we do like quite a lot of them yeah the boys are obsessed with um goldfish they love goldfish they're like these little cheesy.

29:54Clair Buckley:Yeah, you can get those here. Yeah, you can now sometimes. But the ones that the boys like, which to be fair, I've never seen here. Extra. It is the extra cheese ones. Yeah, yeah, they are good. So we get a great big massive. I love the cookies. Oh, Milano. Milano cookies. Yeah, they're very nice. They are very nice. Yeah. And I also really love the cheese ruffles. No, they're too cheesy for me. Yeah, too much for you. You can't handle them, can you? Too cheesy for me now. I love it. It's like, do you remember when you used to go on holiday as well? this was when I was younger and it's the same here now but back in the day when you used to go on holiday cheese and onion was blue and salt and vinegar was green but here it was opposite and then at some point they changed it No, this is a Mandela effect It's not We've stumbled onto another Mandela effect So, no, it sort of is and it sort of isn't but Walkers Yeah Green So, if you're a crisp person Green is cheese and onion And blue is salt and vinegar It used to be Yeah yeah But that's That's every crisp Apart from Walker's Green is salt and vinegar And blue is cheese and onion But they changed that No they didn't They dead They didn't They dead And now I looked into it They were always Green with salt and vinegar No But because every other Crisp company Did the opposite I think we've gone When did they change that When did they change it But Walker's specifically Have always Stayed true I don't think that's true To those colours I'm going to need fact checks on this because I don't think that's true.

31:25Paige, get on that. I don't think that's true. Jeez, we are mandelaring our brains out today. Oh, here's a good one. Are there any foods that you think people eat the wrong way? Because people do have specific ways of eating stuff. So, like, my favourite biscuit always has been is a Tunnock's Tea Cake. That's a Scottish company. So I don't know if you do get them here, but not very often. But the only way to eat a Tumax tea cake...

31:57Clair Buckley:Are they the chocolate things with marshmallow in them? Yes. But the only way to eat that is to eat all the chocolate off the top, hold it, lick the marshmallow off, and then eat the biscuit. I'll tell you something that I did used to do. I used to sort of surgically remove, with my tongue, teeth, and lips, the Jaffa from a Jaffa cake. Yeah. See, I'm not a huge Jaffa cake fan. I'd be able to get the Jaffa. Tearing the Jaffa away from the base is easy. But getting the chocolate separate from the Jaffa. Yeah, you'd have to lick it off. Yeah, you'd have to put in some work there. And I'd be left there with just orange jelly.

32:34That's the worst bet. I'd throw that away.

32:37Clair Buckley:What are we saying about the Walkers? Here he goes. Go on, hurry up. Is it in there? I've got an answer for you. Walker's cheese and onion packets have always been blue. It is a common misconception. a.k.a. Mandela effect. You know it, baby. I love a Mandela effect. Yeah, because I think they're real as well because I'm telling you that's not true. Walker's itself confirms that the blue packaging for cheese and onion and green for salt and vinegar has been consistent since the flavours were created. No, they're just trying to freak everybody up. With these colours being signature to the brand.

33:11Clair Buckley:So, there we go. Not buying it. Sorted. What you were saying about people eating food wrong, Yeah. So I do something that drives everyone insane and I get crucified for it, Claire. Go on. I like to have chips with my curry. Yeah, well, we both do. Yeah. I know, it goes against what people believe in, the chips with curry. Yeah. I'm starting to dribble thinking about it, Claire. We had one last night. We did, yeah. Listen, do yourself a favour. Make yourself a little bed of chips. Here it goes with the bed of stuff. Pour curry over the top. Slowly get through your meal. Oh, my God. And those last few chips that have been soaking up the curry sauce.

33:58Yeah.

33:59Clair Buckley:Oh, madonna me. Oh, madonna me. Can I just tell you one little last thing here? You can. However, if it's something that the boss of McVitie's has been saying, I don't want to fucking hear it because I'm sick of that bloke. Well, I'm sorry. But the boss of McVitie's factory Oh, I'm not that guy again Says that we have been eating chocolate digestives wrong for 100 years They're meant to be eaten chocolate side down You mind your own fucking business Mr Coulson said the theory was it starts to melt You start to get the flavour and away you go Adding it makes sense, right? Now, to be fair, that is true And do you know when I think about that a lot?

34:46When I make toast. Because you make yourself toast, right? And I love just a bit of buttered toast, loads of butter, cup of tea. But you always put it in with the butter on the top. You should put it in with the butter on your tongue. I don't know, man.

34:59Clair Buckley:It all gets all chewed up and it all works its way around the tongue. I know, I think you do get there. But that does technically make sense. Listen, it all ends up the same, doesn't it?

35:11Clair Buckley:so we're going into a regular little feature now absolutely one fan favorite called strike it buckley the fast-paced trivia game show presented by yours truly claire buckley james yes you may or may not know your way around a takeaway menu i think you do but today you've proven that you can also cut the mustard in food trivia. So we're going to carry that on. You ready? Sure. Jingle me.

35:49Just cheering for your rain jingles now before end of day. It's for you. It's for you.

35:54Clair Buckley:It's for you. It's to add a bit of Atmos. Well you missed it when I said, presented by yours truly Claire Buckley. Oh is that when everyone's supposed to clap? That's when you're supposed to cheer. Oh. not for your own shit jingle just kidding Paige I saw actually a comment that said that I was really mean to James the producer did you write it James? yeah I thought you did was it your mum?

36:22right James you ready?

36:24Clair Buckley:I'm putting my iPad down strike it Buckley first question now these are all food related Right. Food related. Strike it, Buckley. Here we go. Hit me with it. Ketchup was once sold in the 1830s as a medicine to cure diarrhea. True or false? I feel like that's true. I feel like because those sort of Heinz ketchup, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, they're all these sort of things that were tonics, cure-alls. and then especially in America. I feel like that's true. That is true. It was marketed as a cure before people realised it was just tomato sauce. Okay, second question. In Japan, Kit Kats come in over 300 flavours, including soy sauce and baked potato.

37:19Clair Buckley:I do know that they do what I would consider unusual flavours of Kit Kat because there's a YouTuber who I quite like. They're called Abroad in Japan. Go and check them out. Oh, yeah, I've seen them. Really, really good. Yeah. And he's shown a few... I don't know if it's over 300, though. Over 300 flavours, including soy sauce and baked potato. Flavour of Kit Kat. I genuinely think there was like a wasabi one. Well, I'm looking for a true or false, mate. I'm going to go false. I don't think there's 300. It's true. There is over 300. Oh, I should have gone with that. Including soy sauce. I should have said the other answer.

37:54And baked potato. Yeah. You should have. Question three. The hole in a pasta spoon is designed to measure out one portion of spaghetti.

38:03Clair Buckley:I don't know whether this is true or false. I have seen this on the internet, though, where they, before the spaghetti's been cooked, obviously. The little one, it's kind of spiky and it's got the hole in the middle. And you put that in the hole. That's meant to be one portion. And they go, that's one portion. I don't know if that's true or not, or if it's just something we've adopted. I'm going to say false. That is true. Is it true? Yeah. Or is it just something, or have you just seen the same Instagram video as Matt? The whole also doubles as a way to drain water without a separate column. That's what it does.

38:36Clair Buckley:It drains the water so you can scoop the pasta out. But it doubles as that. I think this is retro. They've retroactively decided. All right. Question four. The word avocado, avocado, that's for the Kevin Bridges fans out there, literally translates from Aztec language as green butter egg. I do believe it is South American, the avocado. I'm going to go true. Jesus, man. I've got to stop playing this. Wait, do you hear what it really means? You're not going to care as much? You're going to be happy about this? Go on. Does it mean green testicle or something? It actually means testicle. If you didn't get it already, this is probably because of the fruit's shape.

39:23Is avocado a fruit?

39:25Clair Buckley:Yes. It's not a vegetable, is it? No, it's not a vegetable. Avocado's like a sort of anomaly on its own, isn't it? Well, what's the rule? Something about... Seeds or stones. Whether nuts are in it or out of it or something. Number five. Carrots were originally purple before orange ones became popular in the 17th century. I think that's true. That is true because, again, you know, where I get all my information from Instagram, I saw a video of fruits and vegetables before humans started sort of playing about with them. Tampering with them. Yeah. So everything was like really little and shriveled.

40:03Clair Buckley:And they showed like carrots and they were like about this big. Yeah. So before the 16th century. Corn. They've obviously, because what they do is they. You're the wrong person to play this game, wait. It's just supposed to be true or false. They get big corn and they make them, I don't know how it works, but they make them mate, don't they? I think it's like those little aliens, those little jelly aliens. They rub them on the back and they put them in an egg and then their babies are big corns. So it's sort of Darwinian sort of selective breeding. Okay. Right, next question. It was once illegal to eat a croissant in England.

40:42Clair Buckley:False. Yeah. Eating celery burns more calories Than you would gain from eating celery I've heard that But again I don't know if it's true or not That's the Billy Conley thing isn't it Oh is it Billy Conley did a bit Where his daughter told him That eating blueberry or something Or a grapefruit I think it was Burns more calories than eating Superfood Than eating the actual grapefruit And he was just like I don't give a fuck And then it was the white and brown bread thing Right Brown bread's an abomination I'm going to go true just wait it's false but I have heard that a Cornish pasty was originally designed with a thick crust so miners could hold it with dirty hands and throw the crust away true true true true it was dropped down in the mines that's fine it was dropped down in the mines that's all we need true they also used to have a little sort of apple crumbly bit at one end so you had your so it was a meal that you could eat right And you didn't need a knife and fork and stuff like that.

41:43Clair Buckley:It was all crimped and in a little pastry parcel. And then you also had your dessert afterwards. Number nine, McDonald's once tried to launch bubblegum flavoured broccoli. False. That's true. McDonald's did develop and consider launching bubblegum flavoured broccoli around 2014 to encourage children to eat more vegetables. But the idea was scrapped after focus groups found the product confusing rather than appealing. I don't really like the taste of bubble gum No It's very sweet The bubble gum flavour If it was like a madras flavoured Well you can dip your broccoli in madras No but then all the broccoli comes through You've ruined your madras there Last question If you swallow gum It will stay in your stomach for seven years That's true And also if you have an apple seed A tree will grow in your stomach Yeah I was being sarcastic But yeah we all had that We all had that threat yeah it was like don't swallow bubble gum yeah or also someone once told me when i was a kid if you swallow bubble gum it will wrap around your heart that's dramatic that is dramatic don't swallow bubble gum because it will go inside and wrap around your heart yeah and i i remember i used to because you would have chewing gum at school and you weren't supposed to have it in class so you would always swallow it and i always years and years and years you always thought oh it's really bad yeah shouldn't do that it's gonna to stay in there now.

43:08Clair Buckley:There was a girl at my school that was so good at swallowing. No,

43:16Clair Buckley:she was really good because she did chew chewing gum all the time and the teacher would go, are you chewing? And she'd go, no. And they'd go, come here. And she'd walk up and she'd go, look. She'd just do it. Yeah. And it was gone. Anyway, you got four out of ten there, Jimmy. That was quite poor. It was really bad, wasn't it? However, it was a fun game. Was it? It was a fun time for me. Good. Is that it? Yeah, I think that's enough. Okay. Well, thanks. Thank you. That was Strike It Buckley. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Go on. Yeah. Go on. Hey, Claire, that's it. Right. That's it for this week's episode of The Buckleys.

43:52Clair Buckley:Thank you for listening. Thank you also to The Co-op for just sponsoring this podcast. And remember that you can get in touch with your stories and questions by emailing thebuckleys at platformmedia.uk. Maybe you stole an old woman's Kit Kat recently or something. Let us know. Oh, that was a good one. You can also message us at TheBuckley'sPod on Instagram and TikTok. And don't forget to follow the show and subscribe on Spotify or whatever lesser podcast apps that you like to use. And if you are feeling inferior, that's the word I was trying to think of. And if you are feeling extra generous, why not go ahead?

44:23If you're feeling inferior.

44:26Clair Buckley:Don't marry Claire, because that won't help. If you're feeling extra generous, why not go ahead and leave us a review? only because you're always the first person to remind me how shit I am at everything, Claire. Oh, get better. All that is left is for Claire to say... See you next Thursday. Thanks, guys. That was a podcast on the Chief Jenkins!