It’s a Maneater New Years!

Episode Transcript for Beer-Cheese Balls

it's almost New Year's Eve and you know what that means uh yes making resolutions that you have absolutely no intentions of actually keeping no appetizers and drinks to ring in the New Year Of course oh right and being stuck in Time Square without a bathroom to be found ew what [Music]  welcome to Mom's wooden spoon where the recipes are retro and so are your hosts you can say that again [Music]  happy New Years everybody I said Happy New Years all of them happy for all of them past and future yes yes indeed gosh Kristen you're just all encompassing when you're oh my gosh happy yes I am well today's recipe came out December 27th 1982 okay since it's New Year let me just mention that 1982 was over 40 years ago we're old yep yep I was going to say something cute about what Mary wrote on the memo and you're Gonna to call us old well a great way to start the new year grab your cane and tell us something cute Kristen my back hurts all right here here put some cream cheese on it oh cream cheese that'll help Yeah we actually do have the cream cheese on our person today uh-huh yeah cuz I didn't get it out soon enough and so I have bra cheese yeah I have um waistband cheese it's kind of in the area in which you'd get a steroid shot that's all I'm saying I think it's in her gluteal fold it is so not in my gluteal fold I am merely warming one side at a time okay yeah oh it's just on a glute a glute this is really gross people are not going to want to listen to this happy New Year Mary said dips to do and cheese balls too for New Year's Eve look at Mary in her little rhymey Rhyme I love it and we had five recipes to choose from on this we did a lot of well dips and cheese balls yes and of course we chose the one with beer yes I'm so excited about this one me too I was tasked with bringing the beer yeah like I was with the whiskey and that's right I just want to share that once again I have gone above and beyond oh she certainly did I'm an overachiever people yep how many do we have here seven so not all of that will go into beer cheese ball no it'll go into carries yay I think we should do a little taste test I think we should yeah are we do it right now well I think we need to at least look at them I can't imagine that we need to open seven and waste them I think it only calls for a third of a cup of beer okay does it give any instructions on the kind of beer not warm yeah warm I think we have to warm it up let me I'm reaching over to look she can't see cuz we're not old no hush as our grandma would say wheesht hold your wheesht uh one third cup of beer warmed that's all it says Okay so we're going to mix this with cream cheese cheddar cheese and what paprika is that it and paprika and a little fresh parsley okay which I have chop chop chop so it might have been Bud Light that she used because Bud Light came out in 1982 to great success huh still great success yeah we don't have any Bud Light no we don't no we have okay yes a Yeungling lager nice a MC Ultra I will say that was Kristen's uh donation uh we have a Guinness we have a red bridge which we own specifically shout out to my stepdad and mine too just mine and he has to eat gluten-free and Redbridge is a gluten-free beer pretty cool so that's handy dandy we have I think this is called I don't even know how to pronounce it leffe leffe it's a blonde and it's a Belgian ale Belgian ale it looks very fancy it does I think I'm going to like that one and then we have a hoegaarden oh I'm Gonna to start calling you that when you took me off you hoegaarden and we have a Corona okay not even a Corona Light no so the question is is How Beery do we want this cheese wow because if we want the beer flavor yes we're going to need to do like a Guinness that's going to add some really good that's beer true and Guinness is in a lot of different things they make a Guinness stew and they make a Guinness bread they make a Guinness Book of World Records they do indeed yeah yeah it's on all kinds of stuff it is yeah it's also very very tasty and it's also good for your health when I was in Ireland I was not feeling well I had jet lag and everywhere we went people tried to give me a Guinness and the signs up all over Ireland are try a Guinness it's good for you oh nice yeah yeah so I mean it might make us feel better we both of us have a touch of a cold right right I don't know I don't know okay so feel like is too many I agree so let's start by narrowing it down as much as I do want to call you a hoegaarden I feel like that's going to be kind of fruity and pretty nasty with cheese so I feel like that's a good one to eliminate okay okay oop clinkety okay so now we're down to six Kristen do you have one that you want to say no to oh it's so tough I don't think that I would mind wasting the MC Ultra to be honest you're right right that's going to have probably the lightest beer flavor that I'm afraid that the cheese is going to dominate and you're not going to get any beer flavor right cuz it's no offense Michelob it's kind of weak yeah well that's what our dad would say oh yeah okay so let's take that one out we have to choose right yeah well and I think we should open like what do you think three or four yeah okay sure so one two three four so we just need to get rid of one more and I'm thinking the Blonde unless you want to try it or I don't care really I was thinking get rid of the Corona but I do like Corona I would enjoy drinking a little bit of that today it doesn't taste all that different from like the Yuengling quite frankly okay so let's decide I'm getting rid of Corona or Yuengling let's get rid of Corona the Yuengling's in a can so we'll just do the bootleg can okay perfect okay so we got it so we have the Leffe or Leffe we have red bridge that would make this a completely glutenfree meal dish it's not a meal nobody don't eat this as a meal no would be a very bad meal it might be a very good meal I had pepperoni on crackers last night for dinner so it was my night to

cook tasty so you know what have it as a meal I'm I'm not judging all right well let's try this Yuengling Lager first and give it is tasty all right that's the one in the can it is gonna to expertly pour down the Side oh my gosh that's so a little sippy sip or you want more gosh yeah okay you ready for Yuengling yep clinky all right clinky and sippy and taste I'll let you taste first so we don't all of a sudden have a big moment of silence oh now that's good that's just a light that's nice beer flavor it's good it is not a tremendous amount of beer flavor yeah I think that's tasty I'll drink the rest of that one that's good all right well why don't you decide which next one we're going to open okay so I feel like we need to go lightest to darkest okay so while you're opening this Carrie I did want to mention that three of the five recipes on this memo used jars of dried beef do you remember that in the 70s and ' 80s dried beef cuz we would have chipped beef on toast with peas I didn't love that part you got to down that beer there all right now I'm pouring so we're getting a lot more getting a lot more okay so now we're trying the Lef Leffe if you know how to pronounce that I don't even know that I've ever seen it before it's l e f f e leff Leaf leffay Leif Garrett I don't Carrie did not pour down the side of the glass and I have a head for ages here it's not that bad it's huge okay you deal with that I will first okay I'll take the Sip carrie will take the Sip while I say I am shocked yeah that Carrie did not want to do the Zippy beef olive spread of Your Love of saying Olive I do love olives never no she doesn't love Olive but I do want to ask asked Carrie where did you get the idea for saying olive like that so I actually know yes I know you were saying this but it was not on the recording and so I thought people would really want to know because it's unusual I remember as a kid yeah we would read the Herdmans there's a name for it The Best Christmas Pageant Ever the Best Christmas Pageant Ever we would read it every Christmas that was so neat we'd read it out as a family we would and I I loved it and so then they came out with the movie that's right that was in the 80s Loretta Swit played the mom hot lips hoolihan played the mom she did she did indeed and I loved that movie and there's a little girl in the movie that kind of narrates the whole thing yeah and she would talk about the Herdmans yeah and one of the Herdmans is named Ollie oh yes and she said instead of calling him Ollie yeah she called him Ollie and as a kid I thought that was the coolest thing ever isn't that funny what strikes our interest as a kid yes Ollie sounded so much cooler than Ollie well it really does and very not Northwestern Ohio either not at all we'd say Ollie we would absolutely say Ollie make that sound as sharp as you can yeah so anyway I started saying Ollie and if you're saying Ollie you also say Olive that's right all right Kristen you haven't even tried your beer no because after you took a drink and your face puckered up well it's my bad because I I went in with an expectation okay oh my gosh all right so I'm gonna take a sip of this and see if I Puck her oh nope oh no she did not go in with expectations there is an aftertaste it's funky it's a blonde that's what blondes taste like think yeah I don't like it okay no thanks okay so we're going to pour out the rest we're literally dumping that sucker that's pretty bad sorry El Jefe so oh I mean Le that's what I keep wanting to say okay so next in the list okay is Redbridge okay I have never tried this I always save it for people who have to do gluten-free stepdad my stepdad yours yours only while Carrie's doing that I have been chopping up the fresh parsley she has been she's been doing it real slow real quiet to be real incognito I was really trying to be incognito uhuh as she chops The Parsley so she didn't want to alarm anybody of her parsley chopping and now she's just going I'm going to town man she's like forget it I got this I like the Red Bridge you think yeah I had it once a while ago and I was like oh that's not crappy I wonder what they use to make red bridge I don't know let's see if it says fermented Sorghum  okay Sorghum  I don't know what that is I think isn't that what they used to make molasses I maybe I've heard of it oh okay well let's give this a try you ready yeah you clinky oh yeah oh gosh yes of course you have to clink and I got to get my microphone out my face yep okay you go first on this one it smells way better okay okay so far that's good oh that's tasty I don't want to use it I don't want to use it either it it kind of tastes like the MC Ultra yeah it's kind of meh yeah yeah I actually prefer the Yuengling so far so far I with you okay okay so red bridge goes bye bye okay okay so last but not least Guinness okay all right all right once again we have a minuscule sip here we do indeed all right clinky I'll go first on this one since it's my turn what that smells dark and delicious oh it does and I think Guinness is kind of sweet and syrupy okay you go ahead it is sweet and syrupy oh that's good stuff I haven't had a Guinness in a long time that is just malty deliciousness I think that will add delightfulness to this I could not agree more which is ironic because before we started yeah we were 100% like it's going to be the Yuengling or the corona yeah a lighter one yes and then no that is going to be delicious that was tasty I'm going to finish my Guinness Okay so we've let the cheese stand at room temperature for about an hour in our crotch area what wait in our gluteal fold area there you go I have since removed the cream cheese although I will let you know that my steroid shot area is still chilly yeah mine is kind of sticky from the cream cheese oh stop we left it in the foil that's why you guys are gonna hear this all right here let me get the spatula and we'll scrape it out scrape okay so we are going to put in two 8 oz packages of cream cheese 12 oz of shredded sharp cheddar and then I have chopped some parsley we're going to add a little bit of paprika and then we have to warm the beer yeah I think that's odd I am gonna take a sip of my beer okay a lil yuengling because I have some beer facts for you guys I'll just kind of intersperse them randomly throughout the podcast so you can be wowed and amazed whoa over and over and over at my geniusness oh my goodness okay so here you go beer is the third most consumed drink in the world really what do you think the first two are uh water and wine water is correct okay try again for number two Kool-Aid

what no tea oh of course that makes sense yeah water tea beer water tea beer yes well you know it's very funny I was just in Plymouth and i toured a replica of the Mayflower oh you were telling me the horrors oh my gosh it was just horrible and what I was told is that they had no fresh water on board because fresh water would get contaminated with bacteria sure so they had beer well it's pretty much all they drank back then that's right because water would get contaminated apparently it was very weak beer it was not the alcohol content of the beer that we have today right but what I also found fascinating is that children would be weaned from their mothers and then directly on to beer well right because if you just had them drink water they would get bacteria and die yeah isn't that just crazy it just blew my mind that there was no fresh water to drink okay so I googled this recipe you Googled this recipe I do I always Google the recipe because I like to see is it something that's out there does everybody see it right is it something that's still being made today I couldn't find this one you couldn't what that seems so weird this seems like something that people would have today even like Guinness would publish something like this right so there is beer cheese you can find beer cheese yes beer cheese is everywhere there were beer cheese balls but they were all very zippy what do you mean zippy you did they have like horseradish in them or something they some of them had blue cheese in them or Gruyere Gruyere  I love Gruyere  or they would include worcestershire that was in a lot of the cheese balls I saw that worcestershire was a big or spices other than just paprika yeah this is just paprika and fresh parsley or bacon ooh Bacon and Beer uhuh there were a lot of things so if you found a beer cheese ball there was more to it oh I couldn't find a one one that was basically cheeseball yeah with some beer thrown in oh interesting which I always kind of get excited about because it's not one that people are currently eating yeah that's kind of fun we can be special is that good I don't know are people not eating it anymore because it tastes so lousy ooh I hope not I don't know I think so I think it's going to be pretty good but yes yes beer cheese I mentioned oh yes all over the Internet you can melt it you can dip your pretzels in it ooh I do love that anyway beer cheese first time ever made was in Clark County Kentucky oh in the 1930s really yes it was at a bar of course shocker and the whole idea was to get guests to eat something that would make them want to drink more beer oh so just mix some beer with some cheese and it's going to make people go I like that taste give me more beer pretty much but they did not call it beer cheese they called it snappy cheese you are kidding no that's going to be the name for this Snappy cheese ball we're Snapp a cheese ball oh forget the cheese snappy balls Snappy balls yes yep that's it that's the recipe snappy balls o that's exciting uh and sometimes when people make cheese balls yes they make little individual serving balls I have heard of that and what they take the itty bitty little ball and they stick it on a pretzel stick yes which is far too much cheese to  pretzel ratio oh you are not kidding yes I saw some where they made the little balls they probably coated them in chives or paprika or various things so they were kind of red and green and they put them in the shape of a Christmas tree now that's cute you could lift your little ball and then take a little cracker and for Easter people made them look like a little chicks Oh by putting shredded cheddar on the outside yes I saw some for Halloween they made them look like ghosts by putting mozzarella on the outside that's clever and my absolute favorite served on a Ritz cracker uh we know you love your Ritz Fourth of July let me guess let me guess slice of Velveeta and some ketchup close okay what do you think they shaped the ball as for the 4th of July uh firework no bald eagle what I never would have guessed that with a cashew beak now that's cute oh my God it was so cute little bald eagle cheese balls on a cracker that's hilarious it was awesome oh my gosh okay so it looks like we have to drink beer beat together the cream cheese the parsley and the paprika until well Blended and then we'll just stir in the cheddar cheese so we're going to take a break for a second I'm going to take this over we're going to beat the heck out of this we'll be right back [Music]

okay we are all blendy Blended I going to go warm the beer they say to warm it on the stove because the microwave will get hot spots and while Kristen does that I'll drink my beer and add the cheese and I will totally add two 12 ounces of shredded cheddar that's exactly what we have here well you know Carrie I found the first recorded cheese ball recipe what oh yeah from 1944 apparently interesting so after beer cheese made its yes snappy cheese snappy cheese made its debut yep 1944 in a cookbook called food of my friends by Virginia Stafford oh Virginia yes well do you remember one of our previous episodes we talked about food critics and chefs coming up with wonderful ideas of what foods would be popular in the future I do and they came up with weird things like snails and caviar and it was because they were catering to the rich right well Virginia had all rich friends apparently all right Virginia in your bougie crowd she's so boug the book centers on entertaining and style during rationing during World War II that is key to ensure that you're entertaining is top notch during rationing during rationing yes now most of the recipes were from wealthy hostesses who were pulling out all the stops despite the war oh I mean sure we can't let little things like Wars stop our bougie Gatherings we cannot and so the recipe was actually called caviar cheese ring shut up seriously and they were perfectly okay with it because fish wasn't rationed oh gotcha I mean it's not like they were using rationed foods for crying out loud it had cream cheese blue cheese our favorite worcestershire sauce which is in almost every cheese ball except for ours chives and then the whole blooming thing was smothered in caviar from top to bottom somebody actually made it online what did they think they said that the blue cheese was too strong to even taste the caviar so why waste it oh interesting blue cheese is like that it is it's very very strong yeah it's nice in small doses but not in big doses I agree yeah I agree I like a little sprinkle sprinkle here and there a little sprinkle sprinkle that's it well how are you mixed car is it pretty good okay it is but this sucker is dry and clumpy but we're about to add in some heated beer it makes a really great noise as I sqoosh it it does well the beer is warm yeah so here's the warm beer oh boy that's a lot of liquid third cup that is wow okay I also found an article do tell uhhuh about how cheese balls have been given a bad name in history oh they have yeah they really have I was unaware it's called respect the cheeseball it's the perfect party food so according to the article in the early 2000s cheese balls tended to be associated with shag rugs tinsel symbols of middle class middle brow that was us all the way baby all the way I thought that was rude well no caviar on this one I am so sorry about the oogy Googy sounds that you hear in the background the beer is now it kind of looks like a root beer flow after the ice cream has melted it does it was that dark brown of the Guinness and now it's kind of root beer float but it makes just the worst noise I'm so sorry it's real sticky Wicket as I squish the beer into the cheese before we added the beer it looked beautiful and smelled delicious and the the cream cheese was all white now it's dingy it is dingy we did choose the darkest beer we could have possibly chosen we will cover it all with almonds yeah okay so it says sliced almonds toasted so I'm going to work on that a little bit I have a little pan I'm going to do it in a pan on the stove oh okay so beer historically Kristen this is a good one oh more beer okay yeah beer historically was only brewed by women really they were called Brewsters much like our 80s girl Punky Punky yes and only very beautiful women what were able to become brewsters what I don't know I did not delve into it further but I thought that was fascinating ugly ladies need not apply that's crazy yes only the prettiest so apparently if you were married to a Brewster good on you good on you yes because she was a pretty pretty lady okay so something else fascinating with beer old Vikings not new ones just the old ones the old ones yeah they believed that in their Heaven Valhalla uh there was a giant goat whose udders provided an unlimited supply of beer what okay so first off it'd be warm beer because it's coming out of a goat so you could mix it right on in with a cheese ball it be ready to go wow yeah it would be ready to go holy moly that's kind of weird I thought it was weird and then along the same goat theme which I found was so odd oh more goats in the 80s when this recipe originated yeah a beer drinking goat was elected mayor of Lajitas Texas what I don't know where  Lajitas is if you're from there if you met the old goat uh let me know that's wild is that not hilarious elected mayor have I told you the Meryl Streep goat story I don't think so okay so this is fabulous so I was watching I don't know like a late night show and it had Meryl Streep this was a while ago and she was in a movie with other actors the only one I remember was Jennifer Lawrence okay and so on this late night talk show there's Meryl streep obviously Jennifer Lawrence and two other actors whom you'd know I just don't remember who they were yeah so uh they were asking what's it like to work with Meryl Streep oh and they're like oh it was amazing like as a matter of fact we just referred to her as the goat through the whole filming cuz we were just all so blown away yeah to just even be in her presence and Meryl in typical Meryl fashion she's like yep all these young actors and I'm the old goat and they look at her and they're like no no do you know what goat stands for she's like what they're like it's greatest of all time the whole movie and through the first part of selling the movie she thought that they had been referring to her as an Old Goat oh no here they're giving her like the best compliment they can and she thought they were just make a fun because she was old and she was totally fine with it isn't that hilarious she never asked she just assumed oh no I know if I didn't like Meryl Streep before that story really that's so cute that not they were calling her old an Old Goat here's all these young and the Old Goat oh my gosh yeah she was just so okay about it all right I'm old all right can you read the directions and tell us what we need to do once these are toasted I think they're going to need to cool cause what we do not need to do is add heat to this sticky blob right yeah oh we're going to do nothing at this point we're going to cover and chill the mixture oh how long do we chill it an hour we chill it for an hour before rolling it in the nuts yeah oh and this is supposed to be a log shape this is not even a ball you can do either it says it says with hands oh into a ball or long I think we need to do two balls and a log it's two portions oh you think oh it took her so long I wouldn't have gotten it except she's looking at me with this look on her face and the whole time she's doing the dastardly Dog laugh she so proud that's totally what we're doing people with a maraschino cherry on top we're going to call it a candle oh it's going to be Snappy that's for sure it's going to be a new year candle New Year's candle a New Year's candle that's what we're making Cuz Kristen said so and I am totes fine with going on the Fly that's how I roll I think that's hilarious you know how Meryl Street didn't get the whole goat idea and Carrie didn't get what I was talking about it didn't take me as long as it did Meryl but it still took me a minute that's funny now I need your opinion here those are not even remotely toasted they're not but some of the ones that are getting toasted are getting kind of dark so what do I do just stir stir stir I'm afraid if I burn them I don't have any leftovers yeah because we got to make sure that we have enough for our two balls and a and a

log see what happens when you give Kristen beer she goes off the rails people off the off the rails so Kristen yes Carrie you need to mind your p's and q's yes I do okay so you know what that means right be appropriate for the situation Kristen yeah but do you know where that came from it comes from pints and quarts what true so when people would get rowdy at a bar the bar owner would tell them to mind their pints and quarts really don't spill your beer rights mind your Ps and Qs mind your Ps and Qs I thought that was really neat stuff that we say uh because of beer goes back to beer yeah that's awesome yeah I know oh my gosh well I'm am going to put plastic wrap over this okay and into the fridge we're going to put it in the hour in the hour we can put it in the fridge for an hour and during that hour guess what we're going to do we're going to talk more about beer we're going to drink the beer we've got four open containers of beer in here oh the molding is going to be epically fun oh yes it is yes it is we'll see you back in an hour hour for our balls and log 

[Music] okay hey everybody we are back with cheese lots of cheese it's a lot of cheese this will make one big ball we are going to be so sophomoric we are going to be so sophomoric bring out your inner teenage boy and come on a journey with us here people oh my gosh okay so two balls and a log two balls and a log I'm going to sprinkle some nuts on the I mean what do you want to do just dig in she is Kristen is just going for it I washed me hands all right all right so we'll turn this into balls yep okay cheese balls I am just gonna sit back and allow Kristen to do her thang it's probably a good idea cuz your hands are going to get all gross so you might as well just let me do the whole thing that's going to be a very large candle I think that's not a good idea I think it's perfect add a little bit well we'll see we'll see all right so why don't you start with this ball I'll mold it into a it's so sticky I'll mold it into a ball shape it smells yummy yeah so what do I do now you just need to press the almonds on to all sides of it so I remember I it might have been season one looking at 70s recipes yeah they had a banana something candle yes yes and it was I mean it was awful there's no way to explain it other than saying that it was awful they even put a drip of mayonnaise on the top to make it look like melting wax and then a little teeny tiny sliver of a Maraschino Cherry to look like the burning Wick it did not look like a candle and that's what we're making here today we're inspired oh my gosh I can't believe we're doing this we didn't get fired before we're getting fired now I our father I hope he's not listening he's gonna be so disappointed so disappointed and feel free to write in with the jokes that we passed up oh yeah oh yeah I think there's no way we're catching them all all right so we have two beautiful balls they're a little lopsided but you know what that happens that that definitely happens I feel like we have found the new perfect way to celebrate a new year I really think so well before we take beautiful pictures and finish this candle we have to dress it first y'all yes we are not heathens here I bought some kale to make it look extra 80s pretty so fancy oh it is so fancy it is such a beautiful candle people oh my gosh oh gosh you are going to absolutely want to add this to your New Year's get together uh yeah you are nothing could scream New Year's more I don't think I don't really think so okay so we do need to get the maraschino cherry on the top oh gosh so it looks like a Burning Flame oh my gosh guys oh that's pretty that looks so good I have never been more proud yeah I can't wait to try it but before we try it I did want to tell you that the top song this very day December 27th 1982 okay was man eater by Hall and Oates

o oh my gosh [laughter] no you didn't just say that [laughter]

[Music] you okay people I have made a grave error in judgement saying the name of that song so close to our delightful candle cheese balls oh my Gosh I have never laughed so hard y'all I mean Kristen's run into the bathroom and I am laying on the floor I fell I fell laid out well the funny thing is I said the name of the song it was a setup for something else I wanted to tell you all so in my mind I'm thinking of that Carrie had gone around the corner and she comes back with this look on her face like what the heck are you saying and we both lost it we're gonna have to go back and Replay that oh my gosh cuz you know we don't really know what happened we have not listened um no we're we're going to be cutting a lot of audio probably me telling everybody that I wet my pants laughing oh my Gosh she's like pause it but I'm laid out on the floor I was laughing so hard at one point I thought I'm going to have an aneurysm oh my gosh I've now changed my

pants oh y'all I feel like we just need to move on well the whole point was kind of a cool one okay let's hear it it was to tell you guys that there is actually a hotline called Callin Oates Callin Oates you could still call it today even though they hate each other yep even though they hate each other they made it in the early 2000s and uh you can call it and then you have to push a number and you can hear songs like rich girl private eyes or man eater we should try it right now get my phone we're doing it we're doing it okay I'm putting this on speaker okay everybody here's the number gosh 7192662837

welcome to Callin Oates your emergency Hall and Oates help line do you hear one-on-one please press one do you hear rich girl please press two do hear Man eater please press three to hit private eyes please press four okay so we're absolutely hitting

three [Music] this is awesome that's hilarious A had no idea the intro was so flipping long yeah um but oh my gosh Callin Oates so after you guys make this beer cheese ball shaped like a candle you've got to call Callin Oates oh this I mean okay I'm stopping now we have made your New Year's celebration extra extra special I mean if you weren't planning on having a New Year's party Now's the Time to start it's a man eater New Year's

people omg oh here she comes watch out boys she'll chew you up ok I'm getting out the crackers okay all right big crinkles ooh let's try this man eater snazzy what was the name of that other cheese oh yeah it was Snappy cheese so we're gonna eat some Snappy Man eater cheese yummy let's bring this over here OMG ya'll so do we eat the balls or the candle well the balls I think perfect oh my gosh holy crap all right I'm going first oh it's very smooth oh excuse me I'll try again oh it's very smooth it is and so I got all the all almonds this just screams happy New Year it really does tell you what I was screaming just a couple minutes ago holy cow y'all I mean wow wow that was a workout my tum tum hurts yes I'm could to feel very good about eating this fat Laden cream cheese blob I'm gonna right now I had a good workout okay Carrie's taking a yummy taste is it any good yeah her mouth is full but her head shaking yes from the little tastes I had before we even molded it into that beautiful candle shape it was real tasty it's delightful is it yeah I don't know that you get a lot of beer I'm really glad we used a dark one cuz I think if you didn't you wouldn't get any beer flavor at all it's very subtle beer flavor but it's tasty cheese it's very nice Kristen popped both sides in her mouth so I have to continue to talk with you I don't know why I did that I'm like Hey we're amongst friends they know all they know all my issues so hey I'm just going to shove it in my mouth and you can keep talking oh wow that is delicious that is delicious I would make that in a heartbeat even if you guys were too chicken to make a Maneater cheese candle it is such a nice looking candle people it's very tasty I think and maybe I'm working it but I think you get a slight beer flavor it's not much though no it really isn't that much so if you don't love beer you wouldn't even have to add the beer quite honestly if you don't like the flavor it would just make the texture it was a little less creamy and harder that's right it really did add a nice um softness to the cheese it did but I mean you could probably add a little milk if you you know just oh that's true yeah if you didn't want that extra flavor a little milk or a little mayonnaise and then dribble a little mayonnaise on the top of the candle to make it look like melting wax yeah stop we've gone so far off the rails oh my gosh all right I'm so proud of us wow me too well that's it for this episode woo hoo I know thank you so much for joining our insanity and for staying till the end that's right happy New Year aren't you glad you did be sure to mark your calendars for our next episode on January 13th we're going to be using up that leftover Velveeta from that spinach cheese casserole yay wow you won't want to miss finding out just how we use it up let's just say that unusual is an understatement great see you

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Maneater by Hall and Oates [Laughter]

oh my gosh holy crap I cannot believe you just said that oh oh no you didn't oh my gosh