That’s A Lot of Juice!

Episode Transcript for Sauce Crowned Meat Ring

so I'm shaking things up a little bit today and wanted to start things off a little differently oh so I have two songs and I'm gonna give you a snippet from each of them and then based off of those you can guess what our recipe is okay are you up for it I'll try okay here we go number one glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife come on okay number two if you liked it then you should put a ring on it oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

what you got oh good lord Carrie I don't think this podcast is long enough for me to sit here and try to think about

that oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [Music] welcome to Mom's wooden spoon where the recipes are retro and so are your hosts you can say that again if you have never realized how long our intro was before but you just couldn't believe that we left you with a cliffhanger yeah fear not I am here to relieve your angst oh the clues okay all right Paradise by the Dashboard Lights that's right by Meatloaf okay and all the Single Ladies by Beyonce where you put a ring on it ooh uhuh yeah so today drum roll please we are making Sauce Crowned Meat Ring oh my goodness how Regal in the microwave oh no but everything is better when it's Saucy oh yeah hopefully the sauce will cover the gray color of the meat when we pull it out of the micro I got to tell you I told people what we were making for this recipe and every time they're like meat ring and then I go in the microwave and everything would just fall oh no that's hilarious because I was at angry Mama's antiques trying to find something to cook this in sure yep and I found the perfect thing but I was telling the ladies at the counter all about what we were making okay and I said and I couldn't believe it because it has a third of a cup of Worcestershire in it that's a lot that is a lot and the lady that I talked to was so cute she said well I've read somewhere that they just call that depth of flavor oh a depth of flavor we are going to have some real deep flavor up in here super deep flavor so thank you very much to Angry Mama's because I found the perfect ring to use and the perfect dish to use well yeah cuz that's kind of a challenge cuz who puts meatloaf in a ring ain't nobody do that no but I did read that the reason it's in a ring yeah is because it's how they got it to cook evenly in the microwave that's right I figured that yeah so you put it in a lump obviously the middle isn't going to cook right so I found the perfectly round dish and it's 70s it's beautiful avocado green and white and then I found a really cool copper mold which has way more detail than we need for a meat ring but hopefully it'll work ultimately we could probably form the ring ourselves if we wanted to we probably could yeah but it said to use a ring so we are good followers of directions yeah and we're going to follow the directions despite me being kind of skeptical because it called for dry breadcrumbs which I made the other day and you are supposed to soak them yes in lemon lime soda yeah yeah so lovely sweet flavor and then I'll be honest the picture has the sauce on the top it really looks like some elementary school kids science project of the volcano it does it's kind of clotted and lumpy looking it's pretty bad yeah the picture we'll share that with y'all the meat ring is wreathed in Tater tots and the world's chunkiest asparagus I do not like fat asparagus oh you like the skinny kind skinny or nothing you're weightest man that's it that's it it's too Woody when it's thick yeah that's true nobody likes it okay so this recipe comes from the cookbook adventures in microwave cooking from 1979 oh yeah we're sticking with the 70s meal for our progressive dinner absolutely you know what else we're sticking with oh my gosh oh yes we are do tell Kristen do tell we saved some of that punch mixture from our last episode and we have mixed in a little champagne and a little more Brothers Bond clinky clinky people we figured just as we had mentioned let's progress this dinner along nicely oh yeah and some punch is required it is absolutely the nice thing about this though is if everybody's coming over to your house you can just have your meat ring prepared that's right and then everybody shows up you get them some nice tasty beverages throw that bad boy in the microwave that's right and slippity slappity before slippity slappity man 15 minutes later less than 15 minutes later you got you a gray looking meat ring piping hot meat ring I'll tell you what go ahead you gonna say serve strong drinks well it's better that we chose this recipe from the meat section of this book there was another choice that I think our listeners will be very glad that we didn't pick oh do tell yes it was called kidney kebabs what I'll be glad we didn't pick seriously like kidney yeah lamb kidney marinated in clear French dressing I'm not sure what that is and alternated on a bamboo skewer with your favorite mushrooms oh my gosh kidney kebabs nope not next season not enough drink in the world not enough Brothers Bond in the universe not in the world although I feel like my glass is empty I'm heading over to the punch all right well while Carrie does that I'm gonna open our can of Starry lemon lime soda and you are supposed to pour the lemon lime soda over these dry breadcrumbs okay look at the breadcrumbs have like doubled in size they're gross that's so funny push your finger in them Yep they're just floating oh yeah I thought maybe they were like super squishy well you know this cookbook we've had fun in it before we made that corn dog Chowder from season one out of this book which you know didn't taste near as horrific as we had anticipated it did not probably a lot better than kidney kebabs I'm sure I mean let's be honest probably better than the Saucy meat ring yeah it might be it might be now this recipe book though is really fun it has a section called uses for the microwave oven that they're not cooking no are all cooking oh okay right right but this was a time in which they were trying to get you to make every single meal every single part of the meal in the micro yep and so they had this tip the secret of getting the most from your microwave oven is to think microwave every time you walk into the kitchen oh fantastic yeah whether you plan to have a quick snack or a gourmet dinner because everybody makes gourmet dinners in the microwave well I have been watching a lot of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen disasters oh fun where he goes into restaurants that are failing and help and I will be honest they all overuse the the microwave oh no mmm hmm nobody wants to eat out no and have a micro heated up anything nobody wants to eat in and have a micro heated anything I mean other than the meat ring of course of course okay so back to the meat ring let's see what we have to do so we've soaked the breadcrumbs and lemon Lime carbonated beverage yeah already off to a delicious Start oh yeah now we're going to add ground beef eggs onion salt dill and Worcestershire sauce remember we talked about that that is an entire one third cup of Worcestershire sauce yes and we're going to mix lightly but thoroughly thoroughly and this is a lot of meat it's 2 pounds it is and uh they don't actually sell a pound worth of meat anymore it's weird you can get them in the meat tubes as a pound yes which they did not have they only had the 5 pound meat Tube oh my goodness so I did the close I could but we are going to over meet this sucker yeah that's okay it'll probably balance out the Worcestershire  right yes that's how it goes yeah as you can hear I'm going to cut the onion I think it's an entire chopped onion isn't it I hope so yep no one cup chopped onion okay perfect so Carrie what are you going to do next I'm just going to stand here I'm going to take the ground beef and put it in the bowl all right you go for it here's the ground beef Carrie all right fantastic that's going to be a little plasticky noise right there far louder than the chopping yeah far I decided to look up foods cooked in a ring in a ring in a ring because I thought I don't know that kind of stuck out to me as odd yeah I don't eat a lot of ring-shaped foods no maybe for a party even then a bunt a bunt is ring Shaped but in general not a lot so I found some good ones oh do tell I found a website it's obviously an older website that suggested the Oriental Beef ring Oriental Beef ring that's classy right there and so what in fact makes it Oriental you ask oh I do ask yeah let me tell you you crush Chow mein noodles in it so instead of bread Crumbs unbelievable Chow mein noodles is a recipe from the 70s come on it sounds just like it and then you add soy sauce and ginger boom so asian authentic Oriental oh my gosh you're not supposed to use that term anymore Carrie except for rugs well I mean they flavors original to the Orient I mean I was like wow I remember so I don't cook much that I found a Pampered Chef yeah and they have cookbooks and they do rings too they do yeah a lot of crescent roll dough made for the nonchef that onion is very potent Carrie's pushing it my way but that's okay I'm putting on rubber gloves to be the meat mixer cuz I knew she wouldn't want to do that sucker is burning my eyes oh my go so before we mix it we have to add a few more things we have to add eggs salt dill weed and the large quantity of Worcestershire  what about the breadcrumbs and the breadcrumbs too all right so I shall dump the breadcrumbs okay well while you're doing that I actually found a recipe for a meat ring in the micro but you know what they cooked it in no the micro in a microwave steamer oh you know I have a Pampered Chef microwave steamer and it's a bowl that has a like another Bowl in it that has holes in it and they put water in the bottom but it was so the fat could drip down while you cooked it and it would get steamed because the trouble is folks Carrie had to bring over a special utensil for us because we have to siphon off the meat juice and fat as this cooks with a turkey baster yes so we're kind of doing the opposite of basting we're pulling the juices out and then full stop exactly full stop that's it one and a half of those thank you what is all right one and a half dill weed and two teaspoons of salt you know this is very unusual for us cooking a recipe and putting in this much spice to be I know honest typically it would have been a you know two tablespoons of Worcestershire and and we're done I do love Dill though yum Dill is good I've never had it in a meatloaf before though I can't imagine it won't be delicious cuz Rosemary and Dill they're like my two spices yeah I feel like you can pretty much add to anything they're pretty good they're pretty good they are quite tasty oh Carrie while we're making this I had looked up how much a pound of ground beef would have cost in 1979 if you were making this meat ring back in the day and they said it would cost a $1.49 for a pound how much did you pay for a pound just slightly more just a little bit huh yeah I don't shop cuz again I don't cook yeah I was horrified at how expensive it was it is expensive I think it was $6.49 yeah for a pound for a pound all right we're going to crack some eggs you want to beat them beat it beat it Carrie doesn't have to touch the meat that

way I will start I'm really glad she didn't do the musical Montage at the beginning I know right aren't you all glad I think they are oh boy let's let them listen to this delight

wow it's juicy a lot of Worcestershire here all right whipping I whip my egg back and forth I whip my egg back and forth oh carrie that was so fun you can tell how old we are because our song Choices are all from they're so old I Whip my egg back and forth 1950 and before 1950 Willow Smith is now 65 with six children of her own Willow Smith is that's funny all right you ready for the egg uh sure why not all right getting juicier Oh Lordy this is going to sound terrible well this is actually perfect for what I wanted to talk about next juicy yes oh good juicy and gross just don't say moist moist is a terrible word it is so you know how I like to Google weird facts from that particular Year yes I deserved what I found when I Googled weird news about microwaves from 1979 oh okay I found that they actually had a 1979 comedy horror movie called Microwave Massacre Oh I love it so in the movie this guy gets fed up with his wife's cooking so naturally he kills her and eats her by cooking her in the microwave and he likes the flavor of her cooked in the microwave so much he begins chatting up other ladies with the goal of murdering and microwaving wow that's okay so I have the perfect story to piggyback off of this sordid tale you told oh do you yes because I looked on Reddit of course for stories of people discussing their use of the microwave oh is there murder involved no oh thank goodness but there are people that you know might be interested in it oh okay so one person wrote my grandmother was a terrible cook historically bad historically bad when she got a microwave she bragged that she could cook anything oh my goodness she had just quote cooked some shrimp and told us to try it oh no smelled terrible and had the consistency of a bike tire rattled off all these recipes she made with it quote I haven't even turned on the oven in weeks oh my goodness I really felt bad for my granddad oh yeah some asked how he kept slim and trim even into his 80s everyone in the family knew how they knew he didn't murder and eat her he did not murder and eat her that was his downfall he should have he should have um she's not the only one oh oh yeah the other one said I swear my grammy owned all of the microwave cookbooks my grammy she used her stove so little she didn't notice for a year that a family of rats was living in the oven oh

gross and lest you think they're all bad stories yeah someone on this same Reddit post wrote I'm not going to lie I have a microwave apple crumble from one of these recipe books that slaps microwave apple crumble we need to find that I should we should do that for dessert man well gosh that took no time at all no the mixture's ready perfect so we're going to ring it okay so now what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to put it in a ring that we spray down with the spray oh you took your gloves off I did I'm going to do it again but I needed to get them off so I could hold The Buttery flavored cooking spray I could have done that yeah but you don't do anything on the podcast that's true that's true and I didn't want to I mean but I could have yeah she's so busy drinking her Brother's Bond she couldn't do anything really it's delightful I'll spray it looking at the height of the meat ring in the picture yeah I don't think we I got a big enough meat ring I'm afraid your meat ring is a little subpar Kristen I think it's going to be okay I think we're going to shove it in there and then we're going to dump it out into my beautifully round container and then we're just going to start piling on the meat Mountain I don't know what else to do it is what it is do we know a mountain song there's got to be something we can turn into on top of a meat ring all covered with sauce oh my gosh we're gifted we are so gifted okay I'm putting on the gloves again 'cause I'm not offering to help but you know what toast to you ding ding I need a swig of this to get through this meat ring Fiasco here that's what it's for baby oh yeah all right I found another ring-shaped meal oh do tell it is called ring rice chantilly wow that sounds fancy that's that's the color of concealer I use chantilly oh I was like ring rice I mean you're pale but still ring rice okay so it is ring rice chantilly also known as from what I could tell a Swedish rice ring oh my so the Sweds have taken responsibility for this I'm so sorry if you're Swedish and you're like uhh that's not mine I don't claim that crap not us so basically you take rice yeah cooked gelatin oh you know my love of gelatin cream okay and you serve it in a ring with strawberries did they add sugar I would assume I didn't actually write down the entire recipe just kind of giving you an idea well they're adding strawberries it's not going to be a particularly savory right but so do you remember when we made that white Jello ring I did I made it for friends we've never made it on the podcast but oh it was delightful it was and so I'm assuming that it's kind of similar to that except it has rice in it rice huh my friend Cheryl loves rice pudding I wonder if she'd love a chantilly rice ring you should just make her one I'll just show up at her house look what I've made for you filled with strawberries filled with strawberries oh she'll be so excited call it a Swedish rice ring those onions are so strong Carrie keeps complaining I am backing away as my eyes are burning oh my gosh I'm the one doing all the work and she's over there kvetching and moaning I don't know how you do it you're so strong Kristen I'm so strong oh my gosh well yeah this meat does not completely fit in the ring it kind of overlaps a little bit but I'm piling it in I think it's going to work we'll see well I really want to come over and point out places where the meat ring is higher and lower yeah yeah you can kiss my grits man I'm afraid she's gonna throw raw meat at my face you're gonna make it wrong I'm going to make it wrong you're a jerk man drink more drink Carrie you know Kristen you're so tough that I've been watching some Instagrams where men are cooking things on the stove like a quesadilla yeah and they ask their wife like I don't know what to do and they're trying to flip it over and she looks at him like oh For the Love of All That's holy reaches right in there grabs hold of that sucker and flips it right over I've seen that it's a tortilla like they're cooking tortillas or something like that the wife does it with her bare hands and the husband's like oh getting burned okay so I would be the husband yeah and I'm looking at you with those onions just burning your eyes and you're they're not burning my eyes you're acting like it's nothing you're so Tough I bet you could flip a tortilla with your bare hands I could Carrie okay I'm taking off the gloves serious time guys maybe I will put it over this I think that's a good choice cuz when she says it's the perfect size it's the exact size it is it barely fits in so this could be I'm hoping it falls out so far oh no the ring it's not coming out oh maybe

not oh gosh the sound the sound was awful but it is flippin perfect you got to get a picture of the meat ring I so hope that the audio picked up the sound of that dislodging I'll tell you what it did not take on any of the pretty molding of that the mold had little bumps and nooks and crannies the top is Lumpy bumpy yeah I guess so I'll get the ring so you can see okay that is Gorge that's beautiful it fit in perfectly it did wow well thank you again to angry mama's don't be angry with us the stuff we bought worked right yeah that's perfect and the Worcestershire is not floating all around the loaf no I mean we'll see in a bit I mean it looks like there's depth of flavor to that sucker I'll tell you what deep so the next step is to get this bad boy in the micro okay it says cover with wax paper Carrie's favorite product to use and cook in the micro five minutes on high which is so great I didn't have to read the instructions again yeah that's nice all right I'm going to pop that in we'll see okay give me a second on the waxed paper yeah and then after it Cooks on high for five minutes we're going to remove the excess liquid um using our baster it says to rotate the rotation is probably far less required in today's world than it was back then probably then we're going to cook that sucker for another 3 to four minutes until the meat is no longer pink on the surface okay here we go five minutes baby all right and then we do it again we add some sauce cook it some more and then we have to let that sucker rest under foil yes for heat Equalization oh my gosh that's scientific that's really important wow I'll tell you what Carrie was not kidding if you're doing a progressive dinner with your friends this meat ring is the way to go you get them all boozed up this is going to take less than 15 minutes really you could leave the kitchen go booze it up with them come back when it when it beeps every five minutes grab your baster suction off the meat juice yes yeah I mean your other alternative would be to just put it in the oven and do nothing with it until it was ready but still you know yeah every five minutes I'll tell you what a meatloaf takes a daggone long time if you come home from a full long day at work and you want to make a meatloaf it's like 45 minutes to an hour to get a meatloaf ready and how exciting is a loaf I mean not fun at all no I mean a ring that's exciting that is way more exciting that's why I make meat muffins yeah meat muffins that's exciting those are exciting hey I wanted to tell you some stuff you know because I love my research about 1979 okay while we're waiting on this meat ring to cook we still have three minutes and 40 seconds guys so on my Mark get set go in 1979 I researched some products introduced one I think we actually had the black & Decker dustbuster we did not have we didn't I wanted that so bad I knew I thought it was so cool it would make cleaning a breeze yeah and I had to vacuum everything and dust everything we didn't have a Dust Buster huh no maybe the places we babysat had one I knew life would be better in our house if we had a dust yeah definitely something that did also make life better probably not for us in 1979 but definitely later was the papermate erasable pen I loved those weren't they cool they were yeah they oh man so handy right who doesn't want to just be able to erase their pen I know even if you didn't make a mistake yeah you just erase away baby I mean cuz it was like magic it was total magic and then another thing that came out in 1979 that I absolutely loved Hubba Bubba bubblegum I mean you could chew that for 30 whole seconds before it lost all of its flavor and became like chewing Tire like tire tire I thought you were gonna say something else I was gonna say Tire leather I thought nope Tires are not Leather so I'm just going to stop here I've had a little Brother's Bond too much Brother's Bond for and at least I realize the tire leather's not a thing not real oh my gosh but when I think of Hubba Bubba bubblegum I think of that language that you and I learned from family friends called the ab language oh yeah for sure and the reason I think about it is because saying Hubba Bubba bubblegum in AB language was the most fun thing and I felt like the coolest person known to man I mean come on don't leave us hanging Kristen okay so AB language is when you put the sound AB in front of every vowel sound in every syllable right so Hubba bubba bubblegum was Hubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubble gabum I mean it is remarkable that they did not throw you on their shoulders and parade you around the playground Kristen is cool Krabistabin abis cabool Hubba bubba bubba bubba bubba bubble gabum but you know what they had a similar language on a TV show called Zoom that was popular in the like mid 70s okay it was called ubby dubby oh and they used the uh sound in front of every vowel sound per syllable but we didn't really watch Zoom as kids I found out they actually used ubby dubby in an episode of The Big Bang Theory really yes it was that oh you didn't go fast enough I'm gonna tell you all about it as soon as we suction off some grease no You Ready set goed and done okay bye is there anything to suction it oh oh yeah I have the bowl for you to put the suction oh yeah I have a bowl for you to put the suctioned out juice okay you know what drink some more Kristen drink some more that is really really gross when I said gray I was not kidding was I it looks Browner in the picture than it does in real

life nasty abokabay cabarabie abi abam gaboabing tabo tabell yabou habow tabo dabo thabis

oh my gosh people are like signing off as fast as they can we had 10 listeners we now have zero and it's our mom thanks Mom thanks Mom for putting up with us oh shoot Carrie's making a royal mess it's so liquidy it comes out as I try and let me hold the bowl Closer to Carrie there's no genteel way to do this [slurping sound]

it's all over the micro well every time I lift it yeah I get it whoa there's a lot of juice it's probably all Worcestershire sauce

probably [glurging sound] oh I'm so glad we're drinking I think that's good one more [slurping] we're like two adolescent teens over here two adolescent teens that's the same thing

oh goodness gracious wax paper off wax on wax off okay let's figure out how long to cook this again five minutes on high it's five more minutes on high no it's not three to four minutes at high uhhuh okay and then we're gonna suck out the liquid again and sauce it okay so I was telling you about ubby dubby it was actually on a Big Bang Theory Leonard and Sheldon were talking Klingon in front of Penny and Amy and annoying the heck out of them yes of course yeah so Amy turns to Penny and goes remember that ubby dubby I taught you and so they both started talking in ubby dubby language and the guys were like what's going on that's awesome yeah our dad used to get annoyed by us saying AB language because he could not tell what we were saying he didn't all he knew was Dabad yabes so he knew we were talking about him he didn't like it no we loved it yes I'm still okay at it I don't think you can do it very well can you I was never very good at talking it I could listen but I I wasn't very good at speaking it okay so let's try to say mom's wooden spoon Mabom's Wabodaben Spaboon vaberaby gabood Cabarabie yabes

scrabew yabou scrabew yabou aboo we could say cuss words in AB language talk about being adolescent teens I'm fully capable of that oh yeah yes and then haba haba haba haba which was ha ha ha ha ha that's right they knew that one too yeah yeah especially when it was Dabad Haba Haba Haba that's right making fun of dad a yeah or dad poor dad so we're making a meat ring yep it is in essence a meatloaf that's true that is sucked on for its life oh my gosh um when did people start making meatloaves so no surprise it's totally an American thing is it really yep yep and the first recorded recipe for the modern American meatloaf is from the late 1870s really and it was a breakfast dish was it really yes it was why are you looking over to the side I'm looking over to the side because I actually found the earliest meatloaf recipe was found in a Roman cookbook in the first century oh well then the Romans let go I guess they let it go and gave it to the Americans and what I thought was so funny about the Romans recipe is they did not soak their breadcrumbs in lemon lime soda I know shocking they soaked it in wine of course so they did use soaked breadcrumbs in their Meatloaf I am sure that they're meat I am sure that there are meatloaf recipes from forever I mean you take your parts you stick them all together yeah you bind it and you serve it so I am sure but the country that kind of made it their own made actual meatloaf right you're not going to Italy and finding meatloaf on the recipe that is true on the recipe or the menu on the menu you are finding meatballs yep you don't go to Japan and get you a nice slice of Meatloaf right the Russians little borscht with the side of Meatloaf no nyet no yes yeah nyet oh gosh you are good Kristen I am I know lots of languages obvie yeah you are impressive AB language Russian so then in the 1940s yeah the meatloaf became kind of like wartime Ingenuity right oh we don't have much you can stretch your meat with the lemon lime soda soaked breadcrumbs so much so that Penny Prudence started to advertise it as Vitality loaf you're kidding me Vitality Vitality loaf so we're not making a meat ring we're making Vitality ring ring yes Vitality ring ring o Vitality Sauce Crown Vitality ring yeah yeah I feel like that sounds way better yeah oop it's ready for more suckage here Carrie it smells funky I was going to say good but it does not oh wow it is looking so gray and shrunken wow this is fun because you kind of get the history of the coloring of this thing as it moves through its stages of disgust I like the foamy sides right there that's attractive it's a lot of juice I am shocked by the amount of juice Saucier than last time it is sure no wonder you need a turkey baster there's no way you could have let this go it would be overflowing with juice it would oh for sure [slurping sounds] okay okay so wait don't close it up I think something we have left to do yeah we got to Crown this sucker oh my gosh let's see how much uh sauce we need to a half a cup of chili sauce the volcano must erupt whoa okay so remove the excess liquid rotate the dish one half turn spread chili sauce over the meat ring and cook four minutes on high oh no I overfilled the cup oh I think this is going to be the best part of the meatloaf I'd just go with this yeah here we go now I have a little brush but I think I'm just going to pour it on and see that appears to be what they did in the recipe just volcano that sucker oh that looks delightful oh boy oh boy get that all over can't wait to taste this oh I cannot wait the good news is is the sauce covers the gray coloring that's true of the meat ring so that's probably why they have it probably I'm going to put the uh the wax paper is going to stick to the sauce but it'll prevent splatters so we'll do four more minutes all righty can you imagine serving this to really anyone uh no but can you imagine in the 70s people would have been pretty excited to have their meatloaf cooked in the micro well in 15 minutes that's pretty cool like I I mean we've done other microwave dishes and they tend to take as long as it would have not cooked in the microwave that's right and there's just 17 more steps involved so while we do have to keep slooshing the juices off yeah at least it's only taking 15 minutes I am sweating over here well you the one sucking up all the juice that's a lot of work Carrie she didn't have to squish around the meat with some gloves on her hands but she's sucking up the juice and that's a lot of juice in that bowl it's pretty nasty y'all pretty nasty we should keep that mix that with tomato juice and drink that later all right well Carrie I looked up the most popular foods in 1979 and you're going to be surprised sauce crowned meat ring was not one of them what I know right I don't understand I don't either it was crazy stuff like beef spice boats what curried parsnip and apple soup Crepes flambe Grand Marnier that was fun to say Crepes flambe Grand Marnier well that sounds fancy for rich people and goat cheese salad normal people were not eating that well I was like Northwest Ohio in the 1979 not making those but then I realized that was for the UK oh yep so then I went back and looked and in America in 1979 the most popular dish was Cajun blackened fish I don't know across the country I oh wait the next one the Happy Meal yes that screams yes and also goat cheese salad in 79 79 I don't think they were talking to normal folk I don't know I didn't learn how to make that beautiful goat cheese salad until our friends Christopher and Kyle visited from California about 10 15 years ago it was like in 2022 I know right like goats have cheese what oh my gosh so I thought that was weird that is weird yeah mhm I'll be doggone on yeah the internet was on a roll that day they had the UK's most popular meals I also asked what was the funniest thing that happened in 1979 and they said Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister oh snap snippity snap oh It beeped again okay so now I've got to get some hot mitts and take this thing at the hot mitt store and we've got to put foil on this and let it sit for how long Carrie I think five more minutes to equalize okay the wax paper off oh there is a lot of liquid going on well it doesn't say suck it up oh my goodness just says equalize we have to let it equalize and then we'll be back in about five minutes plate this sucker and give it a good taste oh boy we're gonna be drinking I think we're gonna need to it's pretty scary looking yes okay see you [Music]

so this thing has rested the heat has autocorrected oh my gosh it is so juicy it is so ugly I just don't first of all I don't get how a meatloaf makes that much liquid I've never had a meatloaf make that much liquid before who knows cut into that sucker let's see all right and while you cut into this meatloaf yeah since we started with a meatloaf song I thought here at the end I would throw out some interesting facts about meatloaf the human being oh please do he apparently wrote an autobiography oh did he really and there are some pretty remarkable claims in this autobiography do tell so the first one not too exciting but he says that total eclipse of the heart yeah almost a meatloaf song no way I can see that yes I totally could too absolutely he used to say that he was there when JFK got shot what it turns out he was at Parkland Memorial Hospital at the time of JFK's death which is where they took him why what I don't know the details so that's kind of an interesting claim to fame that is interesting yep and then the last interesting thing that he said um directly from his autobiography okay you know I'll let you decide for yourself that he said that once on the way to a party in LA he gave a lift to a hitchhiker who told him to keep an eye out yeah um that meat would see him on the news one day whoa It's LA no big deal right yeah yeah the hitchhiker Charles Manson what I don't know don't know if it's true or not that was in the autobiography that's interesting yes it sounds like it would be an interesting read of some kind of like really meat really Mr loaf yeah yeah I thought that was really kind of I mean for one person to go from JFK to given Manson a ride no kidding that's really cool yeah who then called himself famous yeah I know I was like things that make you go hmm that's right well thinking of hmm here's a fork so it is normal meatloaf color on the inside it oddly is and it looks actually kind of pretty with that uh glaze on the top it does it's very dense meatloaf that's what I was thinking yeah very dense it came out of the ring really easily although I had to siphon off about a gallon of liquid again the third time it probably was a cup and a half worth of liquid that came out of that so how does it taste Carrie if it's got the dill and the salt I don't like it you don't nope oh I had high hopes for it it's too dense oh it really is dense yeah and the the Worcestershire Dill combo is so kind of sour that it has a very pickle juice flavor I mean we've made a meatloaf with Pickles in it yeah this is much brinier tasting oh wow I kind of like it oh well then you go girl although it's probably the densest Meatloaf I think I've ever had I mean that is dense wow I mean we hardly added two pounds of meat and what was it like a half a cup of bread I mean there's hardly any filler in that sucker at all you're right I'm gonna take another bite yeah so it's incredibly dense and like I said there's a sourness to it that I just didn't particularly care for it might be the chili sauce has a little sour flavor I don't know I'll try some without the chili I got the front where there wasn't a whole lot of chili huh so you like it huh well the dill in a meatloaf is throwing me for a loop I think I I just find it unpleasant I don't think this was any less time consuming I mean the cook time was way shorter yes but the having to siphon off all that juice that really ends up being the issue with every microwave meal that we make yeah the cook time may be shorter yep but by the time the thing is done you have spent more time futzing with it that's exactly it we futzed with it over and over and over yeah there's just a lot of futzing where otherwise you'd cook it on the stove throw it in the oven yeah done I did read a magazine or an article in which some lady her husband traveled a lot and as her kids moved out of the house she ended up cooking for just herself and so she made a cookbook microwave meals for one which somebody um listed on the internet as the most lonely cookbook ever oh yeah she did it because she found it dirtied fewer dishes oh clever and so for her that was a a big thing right I don't know I don't like to cook so the futzing with it over and over is very unappealing to me yeah I I don't want to have to stand in the kitchen and every five minutes do something that's right you really could not have joined your friends for the progressive dinner as they were having cocktails and laughing because five minutes really doesn't last a long time so every 5 minutes you're coming over siphoning off the juice and it's not a beautiful dish I mean I siphoned off most of it but take a picture of that so we can show people there's still a lot of juice on there there very much is for me I would not add the dill I just don't enjoy that part of it at all yeah no I I agree completely it's just not huh not something that I you know have really nope not for Carrie I'm not gagging I'm going to feed this to my family tonight I'm going to call them and ask them to pick up some mashed potatoes and this is what we're having for dinner I'm not gagging either and truth be told I could break it up on some mashed potatoes I I just want it less dense I think this would make a good fried meatloaf yeah it would take out some of the bitterness right it would make the denseness seem appropriate right yeah otherwise it would be easy to fry because it is so dense it wouldn't fall apart on right yeah I don't know that's trying to fix it but I do not give it a two thumbs up yeah I would give it one thumbs up it's not my favorite flavor and to me it's the dill that killed the deal yeah oh I agree quite frankly if you're going to make this make sure you've got the mint punch oh you need that on the side for sure because I think yeah copious quantities yeah copious all right well that's it for this episode thank you so much for joining us you are not going to want to miss our next episode which is on April 7th it is the next installment of what I like to refer to as mom's wooden spoon meal guide oh and it's the vegetable yay so since we started this episode off with a hint I thought I'd end it with another one cool only 20 to 50% of you will get the full effects of this dish tricky right Kristen ooh do you have any guesses I think I might oh save them I will all right bye

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if you like it then you should'a put a ring on it if you like it then you should'a put a ring on it oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh  I stopped and I did not embarrassing or par for the course I was gonna say