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Episode Transcript for Hot Tomato Juice/Braunschweiger Ball

we're soon to be in the holiday season and many of us will be hosting parties but as I get older and older I find it really hard to party like I used to ah tell me about it so do you have any tricks or tips into getting your guests to go home when you're ready to go to bed I like to start doing the dishes oh that's a good idea you know our listeners who feel the same as we do will really appreciate today's episode because I think that I've come up with the perfect idea oh I can't wait to hear it 

[Music] welcome to Mom's Wooden Spoon get your apron on and your fanny flicker ready as we cook up some Nostalgia ooh yummy foreign [Music] hey everyone in today's episode you're going to get two recipes for the price of one wow look at us I know we thought it might be fun to find what could potentially be the scariest recipes for the holiday season in Mary's Memos I feel like we have hit with great success oh I think we have too and we also thought that maybe bringing these out would be a great way to get your guests who are overstaying their welcome to just go home I agree I think this is perfect yeah have you seen those signs that they have like on Pinterest and it says like please leave by seven oh that's a great idea yeah you don't need that no just bring these out that's right because we chose two delicious recipes or maybe not so delicious one is from December 26 1978 and it is hot buttered tomato juice

[Music] I mean wow oh Mary suggested that would be a great non-alcoholic addition for a party so you're expecting the sober people yeah to drink that and then we chose a recipe from November 27th of 1982 called a braunschweiger ball well who doesn't love a ball I know and I think our mom probably loved braunschweiger I know she loved braunschweiger  and she was probably interested in making this recipe because it is underlined on the Mary's memo oh I know she made it because I said something to her about it oh really oh yeah she was like oh I love braunschweiger  balls oh well she certainly loved braunschweiger  we always had that in our house in the fridge always yep and we ate it as kids and I think because we did not know what it was we really enjoyed it yeah a hundred percent I'm curious to try it as an adult knowing what it is because I'm totally grossed out right because another name for braunschweiger  is actually liverwurst right which would be liver and worst so much worse yeah so I was like gosh I wonder what the difference between braunschweiger  and liverwurst is and it's very simple liverwurst tends to have more liver than other pork parts and braunschweiger is often smoked okay well maybe that helps maybe that does help yeah and I also looked up how to pronounce it and I think that we've been saying it wrong our entire lives well we've been saying at the northwest Ohio way maybe although I asked my husband how he pronounces it because he lived in Northern Ohio and he pronounced it like super German like braunschweiger  yeah yeah it's apparently supposed to be pronounced braunschweiger  schweiger schwager and we say braunschwagger  that's true yeah I don't know I'm sure we pronounce all kinds of things wrong well sure it's a German word and so we can americanize yeah this German word which I'm sure we've done to all kinds of things yeah oh my gosh so back to our braunschweiger  ball which we are going to be continuing to call braunschweiger  I mean I tried to practice saying braunschweiger the correct way I epically failed every time braunschweiger braunschweiger  that sounds very German it does it's much better oh so this

this entire pound of braunschweiger  which I found at Aldi's well why not because it's a German grocery that's right and then we mix into the braunschweiger  which is really like a soft Pate it comes in like a tube like you'd buy bulk pork sausage for breakfast I like to call them meat bullets it does look like a meat bullet it does yeah so we're gonna mix the braunschweiger in a bowl with just plain cream cheese an eight ounce pack and then a four ounce pack of cream cheese with chives which they don't make anymore so I bought the kind of creamy spreadable cream cheese that has chive and onion I figured that'll work we'll have to use half the container and then we add A-1 sauce horseradish and what they call salad mustard I had to look that up yeah clearly I don't understand why anyone would put mustard on a salad no I'm assuming it is mustard that you would add to potato salad or macaroni salad so like yellow mustard it's yellow mustard okay yep yep which I had so that's easy peasy so just mix them it shez does it it shez mix them very well and divide it into three parts okay so now here comes my big question on the braunschweiger ball okay yes are we going to cover them all the same because I did a little Googling yes and if you Google braunschweiger you can find various pictures of these balls covered in various items so I found a lot of them with a covering of cream cheese and then Olive slices all over the ball that sounds hard to take this ball of already sticky stuff and spread cream cheese all over the outside yes and then I saw another one covered in cream cheese and herbs or maybe they were chives I couldn't tell by looking at it chives would be yummy on that it's a combo herb chive yeah I don't know so I saw that one and then I saw others reminiscent of the cheddar cheese ball that was quite frankly very popular in that time very much covered in the nuts yep so we are just gonna do the nuts okay because I don't want to get all messy with the cream cheese and I don't have any fresh chives all right well what did Mary say did she say she said nuts actually typical Mary's memo style she does not talk about the garnish in the listing of ingredients so you have to read the recipe and go down and then just in the directions it said spread ground nut Meats on foil but she never said to buy ground nut Meats nut meat sounds disgusting it does and ground I did not grind these I did take my little handy dandy Chopper that you kind of smack the top of it and I chopped these nuts really really fine I used pecans pecans are good yeah so Carrie why don't you get your head in this bowl and smell this braunschweiger  there was a big long pause between why don't you get your head in this bowl and I was like what does she want me to do so that it actually I think it smells yummy it really does you can smell the spices and the smoke and yeah it does not smell terrible at all so because it comes in like this meat bullet yeah it used to come I want to say like with a wax coating it was always in a bullet type shape yeah and then if I recall correctly our parents would slice it oh yeah it was in a plastic just like this but I looked up we used to get the dinner bell kind because Dinner Bell was local yeah and it had like a yellow type wrapper on the outside must be why I thought it was like a wax and then you'd have to you'd slice it in the wrapper and then peel the outer layer right so you get a perfectly little round section of it this is going to be hard to kind of Smash up that's why I got a wooden spoon because I don't think spatula is gonna do very well no I think it'll just bend yeah while you're doing that yeah I racked my brain so we obviously grew up in northwest Ohio huge German influence yeah and so as I have lived in the South I have discovered there are words to explain things that I use that people in other places do not use oh really yeah and I know this because my husband mocks me oh he mocks you oh yeah yeah it's a solid relationship yeah anyway I mean as all good husbands do really heck yeah yeah so the first thing that occurred in our marriage oh is we're driving along and there are deer just right off the side of the road yeah and he's driving and I said oh be careful of the deer and I referred to that lump on the side of the road yeah and what would you as a Northwest Ohio owner call that lump on the side of the road the lump on the side of the road would be the berm yes the berm of the road yes so I said watch out for the deer on the burn yeah he did not say thank you my wonderful wife for keeping us safe right he said what the heck's a berm you're kidding no he'd never heard of it wild yeah so I explained to him what it was and he goes oh so you mean the shoulder oh it is called a shoulder isn't it it is like there's even signs like soft shoulder ahead of course I was like oh what a nice place to rest your head yeah that's so funny when I was in high school and I just got my ears pierced what I wanted more than anything in the world sorry totally forgot about this yeah is I loved to wear really big large bold earrings when I was in high school oh that is hilarious because that is super super popular the year that this recipe came out 1982 was known for their uh Gigantor earrings interesting well this would have been late 80s early 90s well they were still popular then yeah they had earrings that I wanted more than anything in the world they were shaped like a street sign yellow like a street sign and they said soft shoulder oh my gosh how cute I wanted those so bad It should have said soft berm I know right it did not okay so here's the other word that I found okay that I grew up with all right you're driving down the road with your friends yeah and you see a car that only has one headlight on it oh definitely and so you scream out to your friends perdiddle yeah the world does not scream perdiddle oh the world screams Popeye excuse me yeah you're kidding no totally serious it's just us okay so then I was looking up how to spell perdiddle yeah to write it down to remember to tell you this and apparently there was a perdiddle game that we did not play which was whoever screamed perdiddle yes the other person had to take off a piece of clothing what yes what kind of  perverts are driving around northwest ohio I want to know looking for one headlight cars so they could strip yeah wow not strip poker strip perdiddle I had no idea I don't know if they played that with the Popeye or not maybe we never played that while I speak for myself I never played that with perdiddle I didn't either you guys will have to let us know if you played that with the Popeye yeah I think that that's exactly what we're gonna hear from everybody I like to strip naked in cars I strip nekked in cars all the time so fun good times the more the merrier good times

yeah I think we're gonna get a lot of response from that probably well you know what this is tricky I think we probably should have let the braunschweiger come to room temperature because it is very difficult it is to mix she's got some serious bicep action going on here I do man yeah if you need me to take over let me know I think I will I'm just standing here jabbering well I'm going to let you mix it for a while and I'm going to get something to go under it because it keeps clinking and clanking okay I realize that there are a couple other things that Ohioans say that maybe other people don't say now I mean there are things that we say as we've discussed pop instead of soda oh for sure but I think that that's more Regional right because that includes people in Northeast yeah of the United States but there are some things that we just say in Ohio and one of them really took me off guard because I totally say this okay so you are noticing a bunch of little specks of stuff on your carpeting yeah and so you say to your husband go get the blank out of the closet because we need to blank the floor get the sweeper yeah because we need to sweep the floor yeah yeah no people call it a vacuum oh it's just us really yeah the rest of the world does not call it a sweeper well you know what I probably don't know that because my husband is also from Ohio yeah I just I was I was blown away that that's something that's kind of like Northwest Ohioans are known for huh yeah it's for calling it a sweeper isn't that weird that is really weird yeah and now this is something that you have mentioned before that your husband says oh really uh-huh that I don't think I realized that it was Regional to where we live yeah here's this item can you put that up yes now I may want you to put it in the lower cabinets right I'm gonna say to you put that up put that up put that up means put it away yes that's wild yeah that's also very Regional to interesting Ohio and our area well Carrie's doing a good job I've kind of taken over and she's dem dem as she's moving her hands around basically I was mixing away like crazy and Kristen just pushed me out of the way as she does I did not your hands were off of this and I'm like we gotta get this sucker mixed up it's taking forever but you know what it's coming together she added in the soft cream cheese I think that helped a little bit yeah you want to stir that around a little bit more I don't know are you going to allow me please do well it's funny I was looking up you know braunschweiger  recipes and of course came up with a lot of these braunschweiger  ball recipes yeah braunschweiger  dip but I Came Upon a Reddit post okay that made me laugh and gag all at the same time oh fabulous it was delightful yes and it was a person on a Reddit post that said telling on myself just a moment yeah you mean to tell me that on Reddit yeah someone was making a Reddit post you're a real jerk okay whatever on Reddit there was a Reddit post huh yeah and it said telling of myself my guilty pleasure sandwich here it is okay peanut butter Mustard Pickles and braunschweiger what oh yeah how I mean I could deal with the pickles and the mustard on braunschweiger I could deal with that no we could not I could I could deal with that but the peanut butter how did that happen I don't know I don't know and they uploaded a picture of it hmm yeah so we'll put that on the website so you guys can be equally as grossed out unless that is your absolute favorite dish and then we're sorry we're just really sorry well you know what if you're the driving around naked in a car type let us know about that and yes your yummy PB and braunschweiger  sandwiches ooh PB and braunschweiger  I'm so glad we used this all up for this dip so we don't have to try it and tell people what it's like oh gosh so now we have to add some delightful ingredients we've got a teaspoon of A1 a teaspoon of horseradish and a teaspoon of  salad mustard all right so far while a disgusting color and texture yeah it is very reminiscent of you know how they came out in the last few years where they talk about chicken nuggets made of pink slime yes actually you know what this looks like this looks like sandwich spread from Northwestern Ohio you know how they grind up ham or bologna yeah with maybe some pickle relish and some mayonnaise it kind of looks like that but less chunky it's yeah much smoother it is very smooth all right a little bit of A1 I do love me some good A1 oh my gosh I remember as a kid that you just love drowning your steaks yes I don't do it anymore A1 Sauce but I loved the A1 all right I'm gonna mix this oh gosh that's a nasty sound I don't know if y'all can hear that if you can I'm super sorry we're gonna be quiet while I slosh this meat around yeah and I'm going to add in the teaspoon oh shoot when I said we're gonna be quiet while I slosh this around I apparently just meant me Kristen she's just gonna keep right on talking I'm gonna keep talking I'm gonna fart

that was not me farting that was the mustard I swear we realized in one of our previous episodes that if we whisk while talking oh yeah you hear nothing but really loud whisking yep so I thought maybe being quiet while the disgusting meat stirring sounds are going on would be good for you yes so third try is a charm let's see if this works one two three be quiet I'm gonna go back to the pink slime yeah it really does look like pink slime so now we are supposed to attempt to make this into balls but I think we might want to refrigerate this for a tiny bit to get a little more solid because it is pink slime it yeah it's just a sloppy mess isn't it it really really is maybe we could separate it into three bowls and refrigerate those it would cool faster if it was in smaller amounts and then go from there that's a very scientific of you I know right all right three bowls that I did not prepare for but as we're making this recipe hmm it's going to take a little bit of moving and shaking to I don't know what the hell I'm saying I think everyone should be horrified and aghast ooh that you did not prepare three bowls I know I mean what is this world coming to how is podcast even gonna work so rude no preparation of three whole bowls and people on the Fly she took four steps to the cabinet grabbed them out and came back can you believe it I mean horrors oh my goodness horrors did you just call people whores nope just you nice nice okay so this recipe is from 1982 so I thought it might be fun to talk a little bit about some things that happened exclusively in 1982. oh oh yes we shall okay so you want to separate that out and I will tell you yes oh it is sloppy I think I'm gonna go get some rubber gloves when we get ready to turn those into balls because oh Lord you better take off your rings it's going to get under your fingernails okay back to 1982 I'd rather talk about that do you know a tasty beverage one of my favorites that came out in 1982 I was surprised by this tasty pop was it Crystal Pepsi oh good guess it was actually Diet Coke really yeah I was surprised I would have thought it had been out longer than that I know me too and it kind of started to overtake Coke's Tab which was sweetened with saccharine oh my gosh I remember Tab I had in the late 90s a friend who was addicted to Tab yeah and so as a result of this addiction yes she signed up to like record all of her groceries so she'd get all of her groceries home and she'd have to scan in everything she purchased oh and it was just to help people kind of get an understanding of how much of various products were being purchased by people in various areas kind of like Nielsen ratings for TV yes oh yes but it was for groceries neat and the entire reason she did this she sought this out was because if they took her groceries and multiplied them by whatever a hundred it would look like people in her area were drinking insane quantities of Tab oh my gosh she didn't want them to get rid of her Tab so smart that's crazy Addiction it is and I had a friend crazy addicted in adulthood who couldn't find Tab very often and so she would hoard it and travel with it she would always bring it in her suitcases when she was going places really yes well it's so interesting because they say that they would mix the saccharine with a different type of artificial sweetener and it kind of took that bitter taste out and I just don't remember enough about drinking Tab to remember I did drink it I just don't remember how bitter it was yeah I remember because I had one at her house oh it was unpleasant oh you could absolutely taste the artificialness isn't that funny of the sweetener like we all drink a lot of stevia I think yeah as an artificial sweetener and it very much tastes like an artificial sweetener right or is that funky aftertaste to it that I don't know that we necessarily or that I necessarily associate with like Splenda maybe it's because I've gotten used to it I think that's it because our mom used to exclusively actually still does exclusively use saccharine in her tea pink packets all the way all the way whenever she comes to visit I have to buy some because we don't drink it because I think it tastes yucky she comes with a baggie full of the pink stuff she does and to this day she drinks saccharin but there was that big scare that said saccharine causes cancer which they have now found is not really true and that is what actually killed Tab was that big scare over saccharine yeah and the Advent of Diet Coke Diet Coke I like it I love Coke Zero oh I love Coke Zero and I just love the bite of a good diet coke delish it really is yep so I'm going to go ahead and take the three bowls that will hence become balls and pop them in the fridge for a moment okay so other fun thing that I found in 1982. oh oh my gosh I can't wait to hear it okay I'm so excited I got all nerdy giddy I found a video of a CBS a special movie presentation in 1982. I loved those a three hour presentation of Mary Poppins oh my gosh so do you remember when they would do movies on TV yes and they would just last for ridiculously long quantities of time because they had all these ad breaks well whoever made this video cut out all of the Mary Poppins and it was just the ads oh my gosh how cool it was amazing and so I found an ad for Jif oh yeah they did the blind taste test did they and did the slogan choosy moms choose Jif yeah which I had not heard in a long time that's right and then the other one that I thought was fantastic and took me back was move over bacon now there's something meatier Sizzle Lean yeah I thought that was crazy anyway so it was just a whole bunch of ads they had ads for cars oh my gosh they're the ugliest boxiest cars oh my gosh that's so funny it was so fun that is so cool I happened upon an ad for something that came out in 1982 but was way too expensive for most homeowners to purchase and that was the first CD player for home use oh do you want to know what that sucker cost yeah I'm super curious the first home use CD players came out at a price of 730 dollars oh my gosh and back in 82 I mean that's an insane amount of money yeah 730 bucks for a CD player which I'm sure was like the size of Texas it was it was gigantic yes in the picture well we're gonna pause for a minute while I get rubber gloves we get the aluminum foil out and go grab the chilling braunschweiger mixture Kristen's gonna do some deep breathing get her gag reflex under control oh yeah and we're gonna dig in to some braunschweiger balls 

okay so now we are supposed to sprinkle the ground nut Meats Carrie's favorite word onto aluminum foil all right and we are going to scoop out our pink paste and hopefully it is chilled enough we're gonna roll it into balls with our gloved hands I have to be honest yeah these smell really tasty they really do okay oh that turned out pretty good all right Carrie's going to be the roller and I will kind of get it positioned on the plate oh this is going to look really pretty I think all right why don't you make a ball out of the last blob of pink meat it's funky looking but like you said it does not smell terrible it smells kind of yummy it does you can smell the um horseradish oh that's right it's kind of got that I don't know peppery spicy yeah and I think you can smell the chives let me add some more nut meats all right this sure makes a lot of braunschweiger balls you know what I mean it does it makes a lot which Mary says to go ahead and freeze the extra brunch water balls for later so you can offer these to your guests as they're running out the door trying to get away from you that's right and your braunschweiger balls hey hey you want to take one I'll wrap it up and you can freeze it yes if they were straggling by any chance oh chase them with the braunschweiger good idea I feel like there's something to be said there all right so they look really cool they do look yep so I'm going to pop these probably in the fridge again because we are going to move on and make our next delightful treat hot buttered tomato juice oh I mean wow I mean that's just delicious followed by delicious so we'll be right back 

[Music] okay the balls are in the fridge it is time to make hot buttered tomato juice a butter combination there could never be no they may not be from the same year but I think they are going to go together mwah chef's kiss absolutely it's like we go together like rama rama rama rama dippity dip dee do no okay moving on let's talk about hot buttered tomato juice I did want to point out very quickly yeah at the very end of the hot buttered tomato juice there's a little paragraph that Mary says that says our second beverage is served in the slushy stage oh my and it has things in it like pineapple and grapefruit juice and grenadine and whiskey and sugar and I want to say why didn't we make that because we want to chase off our guests that's true the other one they would stay I would stay for that yep okay so let's get started this is pretty simple recipe I don't think it's going to take very long no I agree I think it's just dump and cook yeah yeah right so you were supposed to get I was supposed to get a 46 ounce can of tomato juice remember when tomato juice came in cans I do kind of like Hi-C punch and Hawaiian punch to keep in those cans and you had to use that church key to pop the triangle holes in the top yeah yep two one on each side right because you had to let the air in it had the glug yeah so they didn't have that I just bought the plastic container of tomato juice so we're going to pour this into our gorgeous late 70s early 80s Smoky glass saucepan all right well I decided to look up to see how many recipes for hot buttered tomato juice I could find just on the interwebs good idea yeah um none no nobody likes it I mean they there were a couple of throwback recipes of drinks that nobody drinks right but nobody is making hot Buttered tomato juice no because I read that tomato juice cocktails reached their height of popularity in the 1930s and then they continued to be regularly partaken of until really the 1980s interesting yes and this is what this article said until they were deemed to be lacking in sex appeal oh because I consider other drinks to be sexy so sexy I mean a Manhattan is screaming oh sexy I don't know but yeah okay so I thought this was really cool Mary says that she got this from a cookbook called Southern sideboards oh and this obviously as we mentioned 1978 yes but it's lies you're kidding this recipe originated from Land O'Lakes Land O'Lakes butter yeah this was a butter recipe oh my gosh in 1975 how cool and we think that we I mean the internet yeah things that Land O'Lakes stole it from a 1950s Campbell's soup recipe oh my gosh for butter tomato soup now that sounds good there was an ad and it had his and her mugs aww with tomato soup in it and a pat of melting butter on the top of each hot buttered tomato soup wow well Mary suggests that you serve this in a mug well sure because obviously she stole it from the 1950s no I'm not saying Mary did right the sideboards whomever yeah Southern sideboards okay so we have added in the tomato juice two cans of beef consomme okay so beef consomme it has all kinds of interesting things gelatin yeast extract sugar soy sauce oh and then beef stock okay so it's beef with some flavors yeah all right so now I'm going to add quarter teaspoon of Tabasco I have to tell you all these have been some of my favorite recipes I've ever made I haven't done a darn tooting thing they're super simple to make recipes yeah and Kristen is just on it and I just stand here with my hand on my hip all cas like here add in some Worcestershire sauce you smart alec we need a teaspoon of that and I'm going to stir it okay and then we have mustard sitting out we do we need the mustard prepared mustard we need one teaspoon of that will it make you mad if I do that none of it makes me mad I'm kind of digging my lack of responsibility oh excuse me oh my Kristen your stomach oh boy I told you not to eat that I would prefer to go back to 1978 and talk more about that oh I think we shall okay good so we were kids in 1978 and so I wanted to see if you recognize some of these fun toys yes I do I think we had a lot of these did we have Connect Four I don't think we did but I wanted it yeah because the ad was so cool I think we've talked about this before in another podcast episode when the boy and the girl are playing it on the ad and and I think she wins she goes I win and he goes where and she goes here diagonally always snuck up on you yeah diagonals were sneaky why is it that you said Connect Four and I wanted to scream you sunk my battleship cause you're weird and out of it I don't know apparently I wanted Battleship also we never had that either well you know what I'm sure we didn't because we're girls and on the very first cover of the board game they had a picture of the dad and the brother playing it while the mother and daughter did freaking dishes are you serious no you're not serious you made that story up yes I'm serious

oh my gosh I'm a mess I'm so aghast at the mother daughter dishes thing are you serious no then why did you tell us it's maybe I need some food in me I need some braunschweiger ball it's a good thing Mary offered a drink without alcohol in it thank goodness because I'm a hot mess oh my goodness okay so other than Connect Four and uh Battleship misogynistic edition let's talk about one I know we had Hungry Hungry Hippos okay have you you've seen videos of the live human version of Hungry Hungry Hippos oh have I yes OMG the answer is yes are you kidding me no wait what's the right answer no I want to do that that looks so hilarious that's right so somebody puts their tummy down on a skateboard or one of those little scooter things we used to ride around in gym class yes little square thing with wheels I would need like three of them yeah me too but yeah you put your tummy on it and you kind of lie like your stomach on your stomach like you're Superman right but you're holding a laundry basket and somebody else grabs a hold of your ankles and shoves you toward balls that are on the gym floor and you have to lift up the laundry basket and snag the balls and then they pull you back and but there's other people doing the same thing oh yeah all at the same time live action Hungry Hungry Hippos hilarious so funny I loved that game so much fun too now were girls allowed to play this game or did they just have to watch from the kitchen whilst doing the dishes oh I think girls were allowed to do it and that's why we had the game you know okay yeah girls must have been on the cover gotcha perfect yeah and then they had one that I did not have and if I had known about it I would have wanted oh badly oh okay it was a Shawn Cassidy record player with a sing-along microphone I was like first karaoke machine so cool oh my gosh it was Shawn and his flippy hair I know when you open up the lid and there's a picture of him on the inside I think I mean I had a record player I think mine was Strawberry Shortcake I think so it was pink like gingham pattern on the outside and you opened it up and there was a picture of Strawberry Shortcake and the gang it's so fun on the inside yeah yeah do you remember having a record player as a kid no I don't

I remember your record player when you're older yeah in which you played all of your Billy Joel records of course over and over and over yeah and you could get let's see a 45 that was the tiny one yeah I had to have the extra thick that's right a little piece to put on yeah yeah I had lots of 45s when I was younger it was like the original single it was yeah that's what it was back to 1978 some of the best TV shows I've ever watched in my entire life were on in 78 okay do I am I guessing no you don't have to oh because I was gonna guess CHIPS it was shut your face yes oh wait wait are you kidding yes no no no I'm not kidding Little House on the Prairie have I told you that I watched that with my daughter and it is so different than what we watch today yeah there was a snake in one of the episodes and they shot the snake and showed the snake without its head oh wow yeah like we wouldn't put that on TV right for kids anyway it was very interesting to watch because it was certainly not what I remembered yep and then Different Strokes oh my gosh I love that what you talking about Willis I know right 1978 Different Strokes it just doesn't seem right that we're that old yeah I guess so I I would have thought that Different Strokes was out in the 80s yeah well 78 is pretty close because you know assuming it had a run of four years it would have been that's right now do you know what the spin-off of Different Strokes was I'll give you a hint it had to do with the housekeeper on Different Strokes uh I don't remember if it was Charlotte Ray playing Mrs Garrett Facts of Life was a spin-off of Different Strokes oh she left yep Different Strokes to work at that school with all the girls rich girls yeah yeah all right so what else okay so 78 Happy Days spin-off Mork and Mindy oh other spin-off Roberta Shirley the spin-off I'm thinking of I don't know Joni Loves Chachi oh right not my favorite but I love the Mork and Mindy as I've said before oh yeah I have so many spin-offs from Happy Days yes and then Scott Baio went on to be a nanny

[Music] I loved Charles in Charge Charles in Charge and who was his best friend on that another Willy Ames Willy Ames and one of the girls that he was in charge of grew up to be on Baywatch oh my gosh I know oh those are great shows 78 was a good TV year it was all right so how's the tomatoes hot stuff going I was just gonna say it is all mixed up it's not quite boiling but it's getting there and it actually smells pretty yummy really let me come over and take a okay take a whiff of this Carrie what do you think I smell nothing but you can see like the little bumps of fat kind of almost like bubbles almost of the fat kind of glistening like bubbles almost yeah definitely not going to want to have this sitting around for hours and hours getting cold no it's gonna taste best hot yes for sure served hot yes very good so we're waiting for it to boil yep and then we're gonna bring out the uh beautiful dish that you have to serve it in oh that's right and then we're gonna bring out the braunschweiger balls and we are going to have us a feast to end all feasts or to run off all your guests yeah absolutely we'll see yeah it definitely is a strange combo that's for sure so we'll see is it strange good or strange oh my gosh get me out of here I don't know it makes me want to sing will I stay or will I go well you know well you know I wrote down because these recipes are so strange I thought I'd write down the strangest thing to happen in both 1978 and 1982. okay okay you are never going to guess 1978 so I'm just going to tell you about it so in 1978 a bank teller in New York thought that she was being robbed a large gentleman came in demanding money when the man wanted more cash the teller just gave it to him and this supposed robber jumped up and down yelling whee dancing and telling everyone with an earshot when I need a Iittle money I know where to come what I know and he wasn't arrested because he never took the money he just did a little dance and walked off huh weirdest news from 1978. that's weird yeah I thought that was really weird I'm gonna try that I don't think you should give me your money whoot whoot when I need some money I know where to come banks are rich

that is just weird I think nowadays you get arrested for doing that for doing a happy dance well for pretending like you're robbing a bank I would think I don't know I didn't say I had a gun no no he just said give me your money give me your money I don't know and then 1982 I think everybody knows this one Ozzy Osbourne ate the head off a bat on stage they say he says he thought it was a rubber it was a rubber bat Yes but I don't I don't know I did read an article where he goes into depth about how it was to bite the head off the bat I mean great detail I don't need to know that it was disgusting I am not gonna share that with you all but something tells me he really didn't know because when he told the story about what it was like ain't nobody would do that uh ooh on that note let's drink some blood red tomato juice and let it dribble down our chins let's not let's not we're gonna get our braunschweiger balls ready our beautiful carafe to put the juice in we're gonna take a picture of this glorious spread and then we'll tell you how it tastes 

all right our get up on out of here and go home spread is ready oh boy in all honesty it's cute it really is yeah what do we say I'm a little bit nervous the tomato juice is kind of sparkly because of the butter glistening butter and the balls that's a lot of braunschweiger man a lot I don't know what the heck we're gonna do with the leftovers we better love this yeah take them to Mom perfect I'm flying there in a couple weeks you think that would get past the TSA Frozen braunschweiger balls yeah yeah let's do it yeah I'll do it okay all right so what should we do first braunschweiger or sipping I'm nervous I'm so nervous okay as well do you want it on an everything cracker oh Yes I want all the spices I can get oh it's very soft that's a lot we have refrigerated it you want to spread it around here I'll spread it around for you oh you can see the chives it's actually quite pretty it is the nuts are nice it's very pink very pink here you want one that has less no that's fine okay all right no I'm old I'm brave I got this okay so we'll take a bite of the braunschweiger ball and then we'll wash it all down with oh hot butter tomato soup I mean tomato juice juice okay I'm gonna go for braunschweiger oh you're doing it first it smells good yeah it smells really good I think the nuts are going to be a nice addition if you get a you know bite on the edge where it's nutty versus digging into the middle does it taste like your childhood does it take you back to braunschweiger sandwich at first she looked pretty pleased and then as time goes on she looks more trepidatious it's great it doesn't taste like liver at all it tastes like braunschweiger spicy you know kind of bologna-ish all right I'm gonna dig in while you explain yeah I don't think that it's bad the nuts are delicious I don't taste any of the horseradish or anything like that it's just a good combo I think it's creamy and then crunchy with the nuts braunschweiger does have an unusual flavor and I think it is the herbs and spices that they put into it it's definitely like I said not crazy Livery no it doesn't taste like a meat product at all no it's it's kind of salty and maybe a little smoky I can see why we liked it as kids yeah for sure yeah it is now on a sandwich with peanut butter and mustard and pickles not so much no but as a braunschweiger ball heck yeah yeah I am so sorry I do not think this would make your guests leave no now if you told them what braunschweiger was and they did not originally know they might go running for the hills yeah now that's also true all right you're gonna go for the I think I'm gonna go for the I think I'm more nervous about the tomato me too it's hot I mean this is right off the pan it tastes a little bit like Campbell's tomato soup but not as sweet it's not horrific if you think of it as drinking soup out of a mug if you think of it as oh my gosh I'm drinking hot buttered tomato juice and this is a beverage it kind of makes me gag a little bit but think of it as just drinking a mug of tomato soup I don't eat tomato soup oh not your fave huh oh wow nope that is really unpleasant oh No Just ridiculously unpleasant would you even drink it if we put some alcohol in it no something tells me our listeners will never be making this I don't know why you would no but I mean you would make it if you really had some guests who wouldn't leave because I think most people would go running for the hills it's I would say unpleasant and then it has a horrible aftertaste neither one of them were my favorite and if anyone presented that to me I probably would say I needed to go so I think what we really wanted to do happened yes and if not just hang up the sign that says please leave by seven yeah I think that's a great idea okay that's it for this episode thanks so much for joining us again now don't forget to check out our blog on our website Carrie's really funny and she writes that now be sure to set your alarm for December 4th because you are not going to want to miss that episode Carrie and I will be making our scariest recipe to date you thought braunschweiger balls you thought buttered tomato juice and you thought corned beef in Jello was bad just you wait

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