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Thank you and enjoy this episode. Hello and welcome to No Bad Reviews,
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colon, a coffee podcast. This is a podcast where three friends, co-workers and coffee industry
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professionals get together every other week and tell you about something sometimes related to
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coffee, sometimes completely not related to coffee. Or so it seems, like in today's episode,
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two things that should not go together, coffee and something else. But somehow, here we are.
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I'm Jenny and I run the operations at a coffee company called Modest Coffee. I am here to tell
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you things because that somehow qualifies me as an expert. Would you consider yourself the big cheese?
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I'm the big cheese at my coffee company. That's a hint. Hi, I'm Marcus and I'm a cheesy guy. That's
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true. I roast coffee at Modest Coffee and I just got back from Milwaukee. Also the state of cheese.
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The state of cheese. And you're not doing your Milwaukee accent. You know, we can address that
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later during the tasting, you know, if you want to. Marcus picked up Wisconsin when he was in
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Wisconsin. I did. I learned how to speak the local language. He learned the dialect. You know,
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we can talk about it. I'm Stephanie. I'm the employee of the month at Modest Coffee for 49
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consecutive months. We'll do snap claps. Actually, I heard that recently. That works. Snap claps.
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You want to try? That's congratulations stuff. You made it. Every time I do that in the microphone,
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you yell at me. Well, don't do it into the microphone. You have to do it away from the
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microphone or do it with a busted thumb. Look at Marcus faking. He's like totally faking. What is
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it when... aww, that almost sounded like your right hand was snapping. You know what, you'll get it.
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You know what, all things in time, Marcus. You'll get it. Not worried about it. Recording on a
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Tuesday. I mean, so yeah. Yeah, everything's weird. So we're recording today because Marcus
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went to Wisconsin last weekend for demos and he's going to Wisconsin again this weekend for demos.
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I call them tastings. I feel like their tastings are a little classier. Yeah, coffee tasting. Sure.
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And good old Milwaukee area. Sendex, if you are somebody who is in Wisconsin
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listening, go to your local Sendex. You might see Marcus this past weekend by the time this airs.
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That I met and gave you the card. Hi. Oh, were you passing out cards at the tastings? I did. And I
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had one taker. So if you're listening, just know that I know that you're listening. That's cool.
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Good idea. I love Wisconsin so much. We don't have to talk about Wisconsin, but I love it there.
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You know, I did experience a magical site. I think I call it paradise. I experienced paradise.
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Good. It's in the Midwest and it's right near Econimal Walk.
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That's a really fun word to listen to. I can't say it. I'm sure it's fun to say too, though.
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Yeah, I went to Okachee Lake. That's where there's a lot of great food.
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I'm surprised that they talk like that there because it's not even that far north. Like,
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you associate that accent more northern. Minnesota. Oh man, like the UP of Michigan.
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Well, see, that's a different accent. So Minnesota is more subdued. It's a little more like, oh,
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oh, Minnesota. You know, that sort of, not like the heavier, thicker, like, I can't, not, see,
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now I can't switch between those two dialogues. Milwaukee's a little more through your nose
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than Minnesota. Yeah. It's a little more pronounced and excited. You know, people get really into it.
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The words that they're saying, you know. I just want to say that when I was studying
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anthropology in school, linguistics and like the migration of language patterns is super
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fucking fascinating. I don't know if it's fascinating to anybody else, but I am like
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going crazy about it. Yeah, no, I just. In my mind. And I'm like, okay, and like,
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where did those accents come from? Because it's definitely, as you get closer to Canada,
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you know, like there's this blending of languages and then also like politeness,
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you know? Oh God. And the people up there, so nice, right? So I feel like I really found like the
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heartland of like Milwaukee suburbs. It's Ocana, Milwaukee. Is that right? Is that a suburb though?
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Yeah, it's a Western suburb of Milwaukee, considered, right? And because things out
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there are just much more spread out. It's just rural. It's rough though, I thought. Right. No,
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see, that's all touristy area over there. So it's it's it is. It's like it's a suburb. It's
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suburban. It's basically where we live. Marcus was telling me that in Wisconsin,
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people don't like people from Illinois. Oh, that's correct. Yeah. I mean, all of the states around
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us, they hate us. And I think more specifically Chicago, but that's fine. And so Marcus was
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told me that what he would say to them is like, well, I'm from Illinois, but I'm a Packers fan.
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And they loved it. Oh, my God. I lied to people all weekend. I'm sure they knew you were joking.
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They were so, you know, there was but it was like a great icebreaker. Yeah, because like I didn't
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do that at first. And people were like, get out of here. But as soon as I told them I was a Packers
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fan, and I was like, that's why they let me in here. That's why they even put my coffee on the
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shelf. We should put a little Packers sticker on our bags. Special green and gold labels for
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the Wisconsin store. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't really give a shit about football at all. I mean,
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I'll be a Packers fan. I don't give a shit. I don't care about football either. So I'm like,
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sure Packers. Great. Go Packers. I'm going to do that for every state I demo in. I'm going to look
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at the local. You say go Pack go. Go Pack go? Yeah, that's how you say it in Wisconsin. Oh, okay. See,
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there you go. Go Pack. Go Pack go. There you go. There you go. And then I'll find it's Cleveland
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Browns, right? So when I go to Ohio next, I'll do that. This is going to be my thing. I'm just going
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to tour the suburbs of every major metropolitan area that we start selling our coffee in. Cool.
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You should get some t-shirts. Yeah. Packers t-shirt, Cleveland Browns t-shirt. Sweet. Like really.
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This is great. Just get a little Pelpen. You don't got to go all in with a t-shirt. A little Pelpen.
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Anyways, I feel like it's okay for us to talk about Wisconsin this much and be sidetracked
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this much in this episode because Wisconsin is like the Midwest center of cheese. Yeah.
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So like it's all on topic. The Mecca mozzarella. So anyways, I was hoping that I could say like,
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hey, let's go to Milwaukee this weekend with Marcus, but I can't. I actually, I can't. Anyways,
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we're going to plan a company trip to Milwaukee. Also, company trip I wish we were taking right
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now was to the SEA Expo in Portland right now. We need to be better about our planning for things
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like this. Next year it's in Chicago. So we will pay for our employees to take a trip to Chicago.
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Awesome. Actually, that'd be really fun. We'll buy tickets for ourselves this year. Although we
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might be able to score some free tickets. Yeah. I think we're going to get a booth. You want to get
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a booth this year? I don't want to work it. I want to have fun. No. Yeah. Ours will be the fun booth.
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We're not going to work it. We're just going to have couches. You'll have your employee work it.
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Free trip to the SEA and you have to work the booth. No. We're going to have a little, like,
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we're going to make a little living room chill area for us and we'll have like a little coffee
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like this, a Technivorm and just like VIP only. That would actually be really cute. People would
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be like, what the fuck is going on? It would be like the most, it would be the best booth.
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We could just get like a velvet rope. What is this coffee about today, Jenny? Oh man. Okay. So
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over a year ago when we first started this and we announced our little fun hobby to the world,
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a friend of ours named Chris, he is one of the owners of Ten Drops Coffee in Plainfield, Illinois.
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Chris is super into coffee, really into specialty coffee. He's into like, he nerds out about coffee.
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And if you're interested in nerding out about coffee too, like he puts really long detailed
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descriptions about coffee and thoughts about coffee on their Ten Drops Facebook page. And I
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think that it's really cool for, it's just really interesting because he goes like deep in his
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posts. He's philosophical. Very philosophical. It's cool. So if you're interested in learning
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more about specialty coffee and more about origins, definitely go to the Ten Drops Coffee
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Facebook page. And if you're local in the Chicago area, even if you're not in the far as Western
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suburbs, swing by, go out to Ten Drops. They're super nice. Isn't he on a, isn't he like in the
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coffee forum too involved? Well, that's like the coffee roasters forum. Oh yeah. Probably most
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people listening are not gonna, are not coffee roasters, but yeah, he's, I think he even might
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be an admin of that page. Yeah. Yeah. He is super into coffee, him and Aaron. And then I think those
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are, they're like the two main people. I know Margaret, Chris's wife, they want to say. Yeah.
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I thought that there was more people, but Chris and Aaron are like the two coffee guys. Yeah.
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Is Ten Drops also a cafe or just a little story? Yeah, it's just a cafe. It's a cafe. It's mostly
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a cafe. Their cafe is awesome. Yeah. It's a, yeah, they just expanded it. Well, a couple of years
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back, I guess now, but it's awesome. Great. Exposed brick, beautiful. And they care about the coffee
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they make. Really deeply care about what they're doing. That's great. Which is not common at all.
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As we have learned over the past year. Especially out in the suburbs, there are not a lot of people
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who deeply care about what they're doing like they do. And so Chris, funny guy that he is,
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sent us a link to cheese flavored coffee. Cheese flavored. I thought that was trail mix.
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Yeah. So this coffee is hungry and I'm really not as excited. I'll just talk about this coffee,
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just a smidge really quickly. And then we can talk about it more when we do the tasting,
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but it's called cheese flavored Guatemalan coffee. Right? Is that dried cheese in there?
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No, it's what I thought too. No, it's not. It's way weirder than that. It's so weird. Okay.
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Our cheese flavored Guatemalan coffee is a naturally flavored, sweet and rich Guatemalan coffee
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with what you're seeing, what you're talking about, jasmine. Those are jasmine buds, flower buds.
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What the fuck? First of all, jasmine flower buds mixed in with coffee. Okay. Okay. So I'm putting
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a pic, I took a picture of this to put on our Instagram. There's going to be a picture of that
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because it looks super weird. You will enjoy the unique cheese flavored flavor.
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Okay. It actually says it like that? Yes. The cheese flavored flavor blended with the medium
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to full body, medium to full body. It's not one or the other. It's a range. Full bodied
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Guatemalan coffee taste with an exclamation point. Ingredients, Guatemalan coffee, whole coffee beans,
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wish there had been a ground option. Okay. Jasmine, actual jasmine flowers and natural
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jasmine flavored flavor. Cheese flavored flavor. Cheese flavored flavor. Ah, okay.
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I don't know what that means. It's delicious. What does jasmine taste like? I don't know that
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I've had anything flavored with jasmine before. Jasmine is that floral, it's pretty common in
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coffee. So I could see that being a good one. A very pure, clean, crisp, floral smell. It will
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taste like soap. Is that what you're saying? Is it going to be like the lavender or? Some people say
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lavender tastes like soap. So it's not like that. I say that. Yeah. It's more of like maybe a
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fruitier flower. Okay. Now I looked it up. Jasmine tea is not jasmine. Okay. It's just like rice.
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But jasmine tea actually, if you've never had jasmine pearl tea, it's really pretty. Oh, there's
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some at work. It opens up and it has these little buds that open. And if you have just the regular
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pearls, you put them in a clear teapot. They look really beautiful. But it's just a jasmine tea. It
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just says it's a perfumey hand rolled tea from China. Yeah. Perfume. That's a good one. But it's
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not perfumed. It's just perfumey. It's like a sweet flower. But this has actual jasmine flowers in it.
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Yeah. But that tea does not. All right. Let me smoke. All I'm saying is that it's fucking weird
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that there's flowers in this coffee. Okay. And I think it's fucking weird that it's cheese
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flavored flavor. So thanks so much, Chris, for doing this to us. So luckily, I mean, I bought this
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a year ago and luckily it's good through January 2024. So we're still... Sweet. It has a two year
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date. The flowers keep it. We're fine. You can procrastinate this another year if you feel like
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you can't handle it. We're just aging it. The strange thing is, is this says four ounces,
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but I'm pretty sure this is eight ounces of coffee. This is not four ounces. It looks like way more
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than four. Definitely not a five. So everything is fucking weird about this because it's just...
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Drugs? Was this used to smuggle drugs into the country? Anything's possible. I mean...
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It's like super floral smelling, super dark roasted coffee to cover up a smell for Guatemala.
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Yeah. So we're getting... Are we... Is this fake?
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Are you saying we're getting high today? No. I'm like, was this used to import
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smuggle drugs in? You know what else is weird is it has a lot of strange pictures of other things
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on this bag. There's a picture of dried apricots, pistachios, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds. What the
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fuck? In like weird little white bags. It's like a fake label. It's at first glance,
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you look at it, okay, passes an inspection. Just good enough. Do they make a lot of products and
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they just use the same label? Yeah. Tell us about this company.
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This company, I looked into them. The parent company is called the ZooScape Corporation.
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It's funny because it says it's distributed by the ZooScape Corporation. Like ZOO? Like zoo,
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like animal zoo. What does that even mean? They're trafficking something. This is going to be
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a dark episode. I don't know. As far as I could tell, the darkest I could find is that the wife
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follows a bunch of Trump style politicians in Canada. Okay. It's a Canadian company.
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It's a Canadian company. So I don't know what's going on with this company. I did my best, but
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like there's just not a lot of information out there. It reminds me a lot of Hula Girl.
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Like how there is really hard to get to the information, but it was this website that was
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full of like a million and one. It's like, it was like, so the company was founded,
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ZooScape was founded in I think 1998. The owner is Kerry James Heather. His wife is Simona Heather.
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He's the CEO. He also founded the company way back in the nineties. So ZooScape was first
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first founded as just like a private company. And then 10 years later they reincorporated and
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now he's the CEO. This company, it's called Larissa Veronica. That's the name of the coffee company.
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Let me just double check this really quickly. So it's like ZooScape, like the distributor?
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Well, it says ZooScape is the distributor of it, but I'm pretty sure that this address is the
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exact same address. Larissa Veronica. Yeah. So the address of Larissa Veronica is the same address
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as ZooScape. And the ZooScape address is actually a PO box in Wilmington, Delaware,
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which we all know like Delaware is like the place to incorporate. But their corporate
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headquarters is in their house in Ontario, Canada, which actually happens to be a big fucking fancy
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house. 8,400 square feet. Whoa. Sold for $1.4 million 10 years ago. Wow. And then they have
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like some other corporations also listed to their names. The Heather Project, I don't know what that
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is. I couldn't find anything about it, but it's still incorporated in Canada. And then yeah,
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there's very little information. I was able to find out that Kerry James Heather, he got a degree
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in physics and psychology. So he's kind of a smart guy. 1989. So that probably means he was born like
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1970. And in high school, he was kind of an artsy kid. He was into the drama club. He was into the
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yearbook newspaper. He was in the jazz band. It's interesting that you could find out stuff about
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how did you do articles or did you stalk him? I went on his LinkedIn.
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And he had like a lot of information about himself listed, but he hasn't logged in in like seven
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years. Oh, good. So you're not worried about. Yeah. So I'm assuming they're probably a little
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anti-vax, anti-Trudeau, that type of... We know the type. We got plenty of them here in America.
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So they're like the Canadian version of that. So they're that, but probably nicer about it.
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weird old websites from the 90s almost. Maybe it was updated in like 2006 when they switched over.
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This kind of feels a little shady again. It feels very shady. The whole thing is very strange.
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My shade alarm bells are going off again. But basically all it says is they primarily
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specialize in health and beauty, but they're now in other areas like home decor and gifts and games
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and things like that. I'm in the import export business. Yeah. But their whole thing is like
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to have weird ass shit. So like cheese flavored coffee. This is like their philosophy. So they
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basically, they may can distribute over 7,500 products. So that's a lot of fucking products.
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And basically we are convinced that you will discover some one of a kind treasures for your
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home, your lifestyle at work or at play, rather than saturate the marketplace with many all too
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familiar and uninspiring products. We source out manufacturers who can convince us that they have
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something very special to offer you. Amazing. Like cheese flavored flavor coffee. And if you go on
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their website, zooscape.com, they got some fucking weird ass coffee flavors. Oh, so they have a
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variety of coffee. They're not just focused on the cheese flavor. Oh yeah. Like for example,
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just under the seas, they have Cabernet Sauvignon coffee, carrot coffee. What? Yeah. Chocolate
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black cherry coffee. That could be okay. Cinnamon, pimento. Interesting. These are some flavors I've
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never heard of before. Would you ever even consider cinnamon, pimento and coffee as three? It's like,
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you know what it feels like? It feels like they have three fish balls with a bunch of fucking words
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on them and they just like grab from each. Right. Or they're like, let me just grab from two or
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whatever. And they're like, all right, let's make it. One of them actually picked flavor and flavored
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and the other one was like, no, don't put one back. We'll just go with cheese flavored flavor.
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It's fine. I imagine that as a, as a like translation error, right? Where somebody was
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printing the label and they got this like cumin and then cheese flavored, but they were all flavors.
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Right. So it's like cumin flavor, cheese flavored flavor, you know, ranch flavor, you know, so. But
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no, native English speakers. Right. So Ontario is not the French one, right? Yeah. I think that they
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do. Well, French is actually a second language for Canada. So maybe these are native French speakers,
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French Canadians. But they're importing it. So they could be getting this literally. Are they importing it?
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I don't know. They said they seek out manufacturers, right? So they could be literally, if they're in
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the import export business, they could be getting this from anywhere. So they're not the ones making
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the label you're saying. Right. You don't think so? I think they're making the label. I, I, you know
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what? I can't understand what's going on with them at all. I mean, jalapeno coffee, they got that.
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Well, like when we were going to export, you know, we don't necessarily need to go in to believe this
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in the episode, but when we were going to export to Canada or to China, they wanted us as the
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manufacturer to translate the label to their specs. So if they had told me to put on distributed by
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Guangzhou, you know, yeah, thing, if they told me to put that on label, I would have done that.
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Okay. To sell it. So you're thinking the labels were made in China and wherever or wherever this
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coffee comes from, Guatemala. Right. Possible. It's possible. This is what I think, because all
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their coffee labels have the same label. What I think is that they are using, they're not using
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actual cheese. They're using a flavor oil that is cheese flavored. And that's why it says cheese
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flavored flavor. If you ask me. But yeah, so basically there's just like, they want to have
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some weird ass shit. They want to be like, they want to own weird ass shit. If you want chili
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pepper tea, they got that. Whoa. If they, if you want a coconut jalapeno tea, they got that too.
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Yeah. So, uh, it's fucking weird, man. It's fucking weird. Will flavor anything like anything.
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Yeah. You know what it's not. I hope it tastes like coffee, which is great. Awesome. Oh, I'm sure.
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Coffee. 80% chance. Right. You know, I'd like to see more weird. They got like essential oils
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or whatever, but they're all kind of normal. Like where's my cheese flavored flavor essential oil.
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I want to smell like cheese. You know what? This is a Zeuscape we're giving you. This is for you.
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I want like aroma flavored flavored. I went like healing blend jalapeno cheese, aroma therapy.
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You can get Jerusalem artichoke as like a dried herb. Oh, I thought that was Jerusalem artichoke
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essential oil flavored coffee. That's funny. But yeah, so basically they just have a lot,
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a lot of weird ass food shit on their website. All right. It's weird ass consumables,
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7,500 weird ass consumables. Do they have pine flavor? Pine flavored coffee. Well, let's find
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out. Ambergris. Ambergris. They have pineapple. Sorry. Okay. Good. Pineapple coffee. Like,
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cause it's just, that's just flavored with like turpentine. Like don't do it.
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Pineapple. Oh, coffee. Don't do that. Don't do that. Um, yeah. So it's kind of a weird ass
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company. Is it a shell corporation for something else? I don't know. I'd love to talk about the,
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um, the cheese. The cheese flavored flavor. Yeah. Yeah. So like, let's talk about how they even got
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cheese flavored flavor. Oh, please. Yeah. I'm just talking about cheese. We're only going to talk
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about cheese. Just like the concept of cheese. What is cheese? Yes. Cheese. I've never heard of such
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things. Please tell me. Actually cheese, sadly is the one thing I love now, especially that like I'm
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been trying to control my blood sugar, you know? Getting old, man. So I don't go hypoglycemic.
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Well now my, um, cholesterol is up. What the fuck? Why does everything that I love have to be taken
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away from me? No, you have to choose between blood sugar and cholesterol. You just have to pick which
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one is going to be bad for you. I know. I've decided what I'm going to do is do more cardio
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and eat less cheese, not no cheese. I'm going to meet, I'm going to just kind of moderation.
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Isn't there a pill you could take that would allow you to not change your lifestyle at all?
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Oh, Lipitor. I think there is lots of pills I could take that I could just not change my lifestyle at all.
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Wow. You're an American. You should ask for some. You're right. God damn it. You need insurance.
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You know, yeah, I was just about to say that that gets expensive when you don't have insurance.
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I'm holding it. I'm trying to make it to 65. That's it. Then you can go on it. And then I,
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yeah, then I can go crazy. Remember how I said when I turn 80, we're going to go party time.
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Off the wagon. I can't wait. Well, 65 is the new 80. I'm going to party like it's 2001.
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So tell us about this concept. Because I was partying in 2001. This concept of cheese.
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Okay. So cheese, we all love it. Yep. No disagreements there. No, love it. Cheese
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is, goes back all the way. It is like, oh, fucking G to like the beginning of civilization.
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They domesticated animals and they saw, they were like, oh, what's that baby? What's that baby cow
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doing? Actually, it was sheep. What's that baby sheep? What's that baby goat doing? They're like,
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let me try that. And they started, you know, doing the other thing. And then they had milk
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and they were like, fuck yeah. Do the other thing. Do the other thing. If this were in a podcast,
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you would have seen me milking a goat. Air milking. But since you didn't see it,
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you're just imagining an old timey person with their mouth on a potter. Yeah, that's exactly.
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That looks fun.
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It's sick all this heat. I'll hide under this goat for a minute. Oh, I'm so thirsty. Goat, goat, goat.
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Right. Get out of here, baby goat. My turn.
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So this is, just imagine we're in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq. So just imagine you are an Iraqi
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person and you're just laying on the ground underneath the goat. Underneath the full teats
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of a goat. And then what? Thirsty in the desert sun. And you're like, I want some of this for later?
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Yeah. So that's what happened. They're like, this is great. I want some of this later. So they
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slaughtered that baby goat, took its fourth stomach, tied off one end and filled it the other end with
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milk. Oh my God. But I have nothing to put this milk into. So they filled the fourth stomach of
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the baby goat that they just killed for its mother's milk. Oh my God. And then it's in this fourth
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stomach of the baby goat. Marcus can't stop laughing. It's not funny. No, this is fucking brutal, man.
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And then it turned to cheese and they were like, fuck yeah.
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Oh my God. We have to kill all of these goats now. So that's like the interesting science part of
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cheese making. They accidentally discovered rennet or whatever. So yeah, so rennet is this
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set of enzymes, quemosin being the biggest one, that are found in ruminant animals. Do you know
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what ruminant animals are? Yeah, ones that ruminate. The ones that eat grass or whatever.
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They're the hooved animals that eat grass. So you're thinking sheep, cows, goats, horses. I mean,
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you might be able to make horse cheese. Ooh, it sounds disgusting. No way. So these animals
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are really interesting because all they do is eat grass all day, but grass is super tough and hard
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to digest. So they have a few things that are really interesting. I learned about this in school.
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So they have, first of all, they have teeth that are like super big and they got these chompers
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that like, they grind up all of this. And then they have a like set of, I think four stomachs
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to digest and break down all of this. And in their fourth stomach, there is a set of,
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they have extra, they have all of these enzymes that fully break down and break,
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take out all of the nutrients. So like, but the babies, like they're not eating grass yet.
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So they still have this whole like digestive system set up, but their fourth stomach has these
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enzymes for breaking down the mother's milk. So this is where this curdling effect comes in.
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And as the baby animals grow, chemosin leaves, it goes away as they get older. And some of those
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other enzymes that are in there, like take over. And the chemosin is what curdles the milk into
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cheese. So that's why you have to use baby animals. Interesting. I didn't know that.
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Yeah. It's kind of fucked up, but I mean, on the other hand, like veal, lamb, baby kids.
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I can only imagine them like working their way down. They like put it in the first stomach and
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like, ah, this milk sucks. And they put in the second one and they're like, this one's a little
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better. And then the third one, and they're like getting there. And they did the fourth one and
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then turned into cheese and they were like, we fucking hit pay dirt. Isn't that kind of gross
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though? But I mean, back in the day, like, okay, so if you're a traveler or whatever, like you could
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use clay pots, but what's easier? You know, like, oh, like nice. Guys, we got four tries at this.
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Well, and you think about it back in the day too. So if they're figuring out cheese making
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and everything, I mean, it worked out pretty perfectly because that mama animal would have
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her baby and then they could off the baby animal use the stomach for run it. And then I still have
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the milk going. I mean, it's kind of like a good farming circle or whatever. Amazing.
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And interestingly, like different milks. So like sheep's milk, you want to use sheep run it or run
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it from a sheep. And then like goat milk, you want to use goat run it and so on and so forth.
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So that's interesting. It's like a whole different type of run it like ineffective or just weird.
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I didn't really look into that too much, but it's, it's just suggested that you use that
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because like my understanding is that those enzymes are for that milk specifically. I didn't
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look into like what happens if you use it others, but you can make vegetable run it. I know that
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from my cheese making days. Yeah. So they do have vegetable run it. And actually on a commercial
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scale nowadays, it's so hard. Like they're like the, the demand for cheese far outpaces the demand for
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run it and baby goats. Yeah, exactly. You figure like you get baby lamb like once a year veal is
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not super common. So, um, so there's somebody somewhere getting those stomachs and making
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cheese the way that it was made. Oh, they do. Yeah. Yeah. So the traditional way of making run it.
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So you could make run it yourself actually, if you wanted to just slaughter a baby goat.
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I want to try like real deal baby, like a baby had to die for this cheese. Oh yeah. I want that.
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I feel like it would be better. So like, it would taste better. Traditionally, what they did was they
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would just slice. This is how you would do it at home. You would take that stomach, you would slice
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it up, um, into like strips or whatever. And then you would soak it in either salt water or whey
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and you would add some vinegar or some wine to lower the pH of it, which is going to help,
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which is going to stop like the microbes from forming. Like, and then after several days,
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you just strain that off and then you got the run it that's in your solution. And you don't
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actually need a lot. You just need like one gram for like an entire court. Oh, wow. Yeah. So it's
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like tiny, tiny amount of that solution. Like, so a little bit of run it, go to a very long way.
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That's cool. So you could do that's like the home, make it yourself way. Um, more commonly,
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if you're having like a animal run it, like if you're having actual animal run it, um, what
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they'll do is they'll take deep frozen stomachs. This is kind of gross, but, and then they mill
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them and then they, they have like a special solution, like an asset solution. Yeah. This
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is on the industrial scale. Um, you know, and then it's like science and labs and standardization
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and all of that. So like, that's, that's like the commercial way of doing it. Um, but actually what
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is like most common, what they've done is they've taken, they started with the animal run it and the
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animal enzymes, and then they just replicate it, um, using yeast. And then they like take that,
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the like DNA or whatever and put it into the yeast and then create the run it with yeast,
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kind of like the enzyme, the red, it enzymes using yeast. And then it's technically vegetarian,
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but it started, it's kind of like how people are like, I don't want to use aborted fetuses
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for stem cells. I was just thinking that. You're like, but these stem cells were from an aborted
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fetus 20 years ago. It's fine. So, um, you know, yeah, whatevs. I don't know if I want to use an
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aborted fetus to make cheese. That's terrible. But I still laughed. Wisconsin is not going to like
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your abortive fetus jokes. Wisconsin, that's, that's illegal up there. Oh yeah. You're right.
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Isn't it? Huh? Fuck. Yeah. Anyways. That joke's not approved. You know what though? Like 75% of
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Americans support abortion. So I'm pretty sure that most of those people are fine with it. Oh,
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well, let me tell you, Lake Okachee, they don't approve.
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So like, yeah, so like the actual animal run it, that's probably for like some fancy French
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cheeses or whatever. You're definitely not getting that shit in America. Right. No,
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Aldi's not putting that. No, no, no. Like that is some fancy cheese making shit. I want to travel
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for that. I mean, I think you could probably find some cheese monger around in Chicago or something
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that makes it with actual animal run it. That's a, that's a good second alternative to traveling
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for it. So yeah, so this cheese was like the first way back when it was like the best way to preserve
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your milk and excess milk was with cheese. You know, we're in Mesopotamia, so it's hot as fuck
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over there, desert. And I mean, you could still make cheese and have it last for a really long time.
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So does it become like go-gurt? Are they like squeezing it out of the stomach on the, on the
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road when they're like, no, they were not. Well, maybe actually probably back in the day in the
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very beginning. Sure. You had this curdled milk and this like stomach and you're like slurping it.
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Sure. Yum. It's like an apple sauce packet. I know, right? Of cheese. You know, I'm thinking like easy
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cheese, like the can of like shelf stable, easy cheese. Man, that shit was the bomb when I was a
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kid. Oh my God. I'm not going to be able to stop imagining the go-gurt concept. It's really
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something. So gross. Anyways. So cheese preservation, cheese is often preserved at room
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temperature, right? Because it's got like a rind on it or whatever. Like people aren't buying like
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slices of cheese. People aren't making like the sliced cheese that we're imagining. They believe
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that it probably originated in this area because hard and salty, hard and salty. So that is what
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preserves the cheese, preserves the milk, lets it be a room temperature, even in hot climates.
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It's not going to go bad. Once it started spreading more north, I think it was the Romans really,
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who helped to spread the cheese more north as they conquered into Europe. As you get colder
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climates, you have cheeses that are softer. You also, that's when you see like mold,
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like not mold, like a cheese shaping mold, but like the mold and these sorts of things that are
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going to be flavoring the cheeses as well. So there's a much wider range of types of cheeses.
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So you think when you're up, like you think even in Italy, you have like Parmesan, which is really
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hard, really salty, warm Mediterranean climate. That kind of cheese is great for there. But then
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say you go like further north where they have my blue cheese or Swiss cheese or whatever,
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you're going to have these softer, like crazier flavors of the cheeses. The French brie. It's
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like that. And it's all, it's all lacto fermented lactobacillus, right? I don't know what the
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different bacterias are. I think what you're, that might be a yogurt culture. It's the same one,
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the same bacteria, cheese, yogurt, all that fermented stuff and flavor and all the different,
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they all have some different strains, I think that have different flavors. Well, I know to make a
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yogurt, you have to have these two specific, there's two specific bacteria for something to
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be considered a yogurt and it is present in some cheeses. It doesn't mean it's present in all
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cheeses. Right. Yeah. Basically what happens when you're, it's basically any sort of bacteria that
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converts the lactose into lactic acid, the lactose in the milk, the sugar. And so it's when the
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acidity is high enough, the milk coagulates and it'll do that even without the use of runnet.
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That's where you can make cheese with like, there's like some soft cheeses that are used, an acid
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would be used. Like you can even curdle cheese with lemon juice, vinegar, things like that.
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That's like all the farmer's cheeses, like ricotta and all the really soft ones, those are broken.
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They break the cheese with like an acid versus like the harder cheeses that uses the rennet.
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Right. Exactly. Fresh mozzarella the same way. You can make fresh mozzarella at home pretty
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easily. Right. You need, you need rennet, I think for mozzarella. Yeah. So rennet, so there's,
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yeah, there's the acid based cheeses and then there's the runnet based cheeses. So the acid
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based cheeses are going to be the softer cheeses. You're thinking, you're going to think of like
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cream cheese, um, ricotta is technically like an acid cheese, even though that's like a by-product
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of the cheese making using the whey. Oh, interesting. Um, so yeah, there's just like these different
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ways of making cheeses. I mean, they even had cheese in the Sahara desert, which is crazy to
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think about. It was just a way to preserve milk products. And then it kind of just spread. And
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then the Romans took it and it's, they spread that up norther, northwards through Europe.
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And then everybody kind of developed their own ways of making cheeses and it all became kind of
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regional. And like what it's like, think about, um, like sourdough. So like they would be using when
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making these cheeses, you're using these same bacterias, but it's picking up like, like wild
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bacteria, whatever bacteria is in changing the flavors of these cheeses as well. But like the
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modern day cheeses, like cheddar has been around since the 1100s, but yeah, all of them are recorded
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in like the past thousand years, basically. So cheddar, the 1100s, Parmesan, 1597. So even though
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it's a hard salty cheese, that would have been good in Italy a long time ago. And maybe they had
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a cheese that was very similar to Parmesan. I would have to guess that they had cheeses that
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were very similar to Parmesan going really far back, but the actual recipe as a standardization,
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crazy 1597 Gouda 1697. How do you pronounce this? Camembert, cam and there cam a bear. Yeah.
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Somebody French. Okay. All right. That's 1791. That's a super soft one. Yeah. So, um, that's
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basically it about cheese. Pretty fascinating, huh? Amazing. I love cheese. I really want cheese now.
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Well, you're going to get some cheese flavored flavor coffee. All right. I just wanted to look
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up a little bit about 10 drops just so I could talk a little bit about them. And as I'm Googling
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10 drops, I found, it turns out like there's this, I don't know if the 10 drops coffee people know
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this. It's like a colloquialism in Iceland. When somebody says, would you like to have some coffee?
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Yes. Just 10 drops, please. I'm 100% certain that that, that they know that. Do you think so?
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Do you think that's why they named themselves that? I do feel like that would be something that Chris
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would do. That's so random. Or like they're all, they all care so much about like the details.
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I'm certain. I want to know more about that now. I want to know like how, how are you Icelandic?
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You know, potentially. Nordic? They both give off Viking vibes. They totally do. Yeah. That's true.
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So what does it mean when you say only 10 drops? Does that mean half a cup or are they just being
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silly and they're like, yes, give me all the coffee. No. So this is what happened. That's
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Scandinavian humor. So back in the day, Iceland was colonized back, I want to say like 900 AD or
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900 years ago, maybe 11, whatever, like 900 is the number. So back when it was first colonized,
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the Danish come in, the Danish Vikings come in, they populate the, the island. But then, you know,
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coffee starts becoming popular and we didn't we talk about that? Wasn't it a Danish guy who stole
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some of the coffee beans from Papa Budan or Baba Budan? Papa Budan. No, no, there was some guy,
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a Nordic guy who stole some too. Oh, okay. Maybe. Because remember it was like French and Norway or
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Denmark? Denmark? Yeah, it was Denmark. Okay. So anyway, so they get coffee over in Iceland,
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but it's only like 1500, 1600s or whatever, but it's only for the elite. So as time goes by,
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coffee becomes more common for the commoners, but it's still really expensive. There's no like
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centralized coffee roasting operations. They just had green coffee and they would roast it themselves.
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But because it's what's considered to be a colonial good, basically just meaning expensive
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and not local. When somebody would say, would you like some coffee? They would, it would just be a
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way of being polite. Oh sure, but just ten drops please. Because it's so expensive. I don't want
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to drink all your coffee. Just a sip. Yes, exactly. That's nice. Exactly. And it's just kind of hung
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on and like stayed around. What a fun name. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. I thought that was a fun
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little piece of history. Iceland, I don't know if you know this, but their livestock are like a
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protected animal. Like a breed or heritage breed? Yeah, it's a heritage breed and it's protected.
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They don't let in outside animals because they don't want anything ruining their native
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breeds of animals. So even like their goats, their sheep, their cows are all really special
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to Iceland. And so their dairy and their milk and their cheeses are all special. They're considered,
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at least by Icelandic standards. I don't know about everybody, but they're like high butterfat,
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like really tasty, like kind of sweet, like really great milk, especially for making cheeses.
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I want to get some Icelandic cheese now. Well you kind of can. Icelandic cheese is actually more
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kind of like Greek yogurt. So it's skir, skire, skire. Have you heard of this? It's like a culture
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and it is, you're making your skire, skir, skir. Is this how we pronounce it? I'm sorry, I don't
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know the pronunciation. Skir. I'm going to say skir. It's probably skir. I don't know. We need
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to drink some coffee because I really, I'm going to leave here and go buy some cheese. I'm so hungry
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for cheese. So, do you see the piece of cheese Danish? So skir, it's made similarly to yogurt
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and it's like, you know, kept fermented in like a warm temperature. You use a little bit of your
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old skire to make a new batch of skire. But it does have a little bit of a cheesier flavor.
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And like Greek yogurt, you're going to strain off some of the whey after you've made it.
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So thicken it up. So it gets really thick, but I guess it's much creamier than Greek yogurt.
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Very smooth consistency, but tangy. Like it has that real yogurt tang with a bit of a,
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like more of a, like a cream cheese style flavor is what I've imagined. I know I've bought this
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stuff. You can buy it pretty much everywhere. Yeah. There are some companies in the United States
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that are making authentic Icelandic skire. You just have to do some research. Is there like a
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brand called skire? I mean, that's what I'm picturing. Might be. I don't, there could be.
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That kefir. Kefir. Yeah. Well, that's another fermented milk product, but that one I think is
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more probably more towards the Iraq area. Anyways. So anyways, but skire is like a part of Icelandic
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culture, like a deep part, like identifier of Icelandic culture. This is very interesting,
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but I can't imagine that goats and cows and sheep originated there. Right? I mean,
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they were brought there at some point. They were brought there by the Vikings back when it was
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first colonized at the same time, like way back 900 years ago or whatever. But so still, I mean,
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they're the same as every place else. They just have slowly evolved to be slightly different or
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whatever. Yeah. Basically. So you figure like over time, like just this population, they have just,
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they have not interbreeded. You figure all animals, like some animals are better for meat.
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Some are better for milk. Some are better for this. Some are like better for like pulling farm
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equipment or whatever. Right. So theirs have just been kept very pure, have not been like cross
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bred at all. And that strain or that lineage right back from the original nomadic cheese making.
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Yeah. Iceland is very, very particular about their livestock. Interesting. Yeah. So,
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yeah, I think that's all I got about cheese flavored, flavored coffee.
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Shall we brew some coffee? No.
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Should we eat some cheese? Can we just skip over? Can we skip the coffee and go straight to,
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oh, that reminds me why we decided to do this episode. Can I tell you the funnest fact? Yes.
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Okay. So this coffee, we've had this coffee for over a year. I kept it hidden in the shipping
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packaging so that neither Steph nor Marcus would look at it and be like, oh, we got to do cheese
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flavored, flavored coffee. Cause I was hoping everyone would forget about it. My plan was
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effective. We did forget because I was so excited about it at first. Yeah. So we had to pick,
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find an episode last minute because Marcus was supposed to do another episode, but then he didn't
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send me the coffee he wanted to try. And then he was out of town and couldn't do the research
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anyways. And so it was Sunday night and we're like, shit, we didn't have, we don't have an episode.
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Right. And I had just recently learned this fun fact and I was like, I think it's time because I
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want to share this fun fact and I need an excuse. So recently I found a recipe for homemade nacho
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cheese and we're going to try that actually on our, as a Patreon bonus episode. We do get cheese.
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Yeah. We're going to have some fucking homemade nacho cheese. Oh my God. But so basically nacho
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cheese like goes back to like the fifties. So some guy, his nickname was nacho invented.
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Really? Isn't that so fun? Oh my God. Ignacio Nacho, his nickname, Anaya. That's awesome.
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In 1954, he invented nacho cheese. What a legacy that man has left us. I know, right? Fucking cool.
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He, it was invented at his restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico. So the original recipe was just
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tortilla chips, cheese and pickled jalapenos. Fuck yeah. Yeah. Right. So then in 2011,
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Modernist Cuisine Magazine suggested using sodium citrate. It's an emulsifying salt to make
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gooey nacho cheese, something that you could make at home and keep it really gooey, like nacho cheese
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without all of those weird, whatever they do at the baseball park ingredients. So this is, you know,
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60 years after nacho invented nachos and nacho cheese. Can I tell you the craziest fucking
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coincidence? Science. So we all know how like a chemical formula is a series of letters and numbers,
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right? I'm just going to read you the letters in their order of sodium citrate, N-A-C-H-O.
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Oh, shut the fuck up. Fucking crazy. That is crazy. That's awesome. I remember reading that.
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And I was like, that is insane. And I just assumed seeing that, that I was like, oh,
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that's what makes nacho cheese nacho cheese. That's what I thought too. Backwards, like scuba,
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you know, right? Like scuba cheese. Yeah. But no, just random coincidence. That is crazy. Fucking
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amazing, right? And I'm like, I have to be able to tell somebody. And that's why we're drinking
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cheese flavored coffee after a year of you hiding it from us. Yeah. I was waiting for that factoid.
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Cause that factoid is too fucking good. That's awesome. Isn't that amazing? Yes. I like,
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the world and life never works out so perfectly as it does. It was like ordained. Right. Isn't cheese
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amazing? It was destiny. It had to happen that way. I'm like still like, I just. Shall we brew some
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coffee now? Science, man. Yeah. And so anyways, I'm super, if you can't tell, I'm like putting this
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off, delaying. I am super excited to try this nacho cheese recipe for Love It or Leave It.
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Okay. Well, we'll be right back with cheese flavored cheese coffee.
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Tasting coming right up after a word from our sponsor.
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Sponsor Marcus, that voice actor you guys hired for. We got to get that voice actor to do some
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new commercials for us. So good. Yeah. Yeah. Our voice actor was so excited about doing those first
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ones. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure if you got him a script. I mean, it just used the same script, right? Just
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a different voice. I mean, the information's all the same. I don't know. So are you ready for an
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olfactory reveal? So much ready. Yeah. I can't wait. I've been. The olfactory reveal is.
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Plunky. Jenny brought out the tiniest coffee cups for this coffee by the way.
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And I brewed the tiniest amount of coffee. I literally, that's all we get right there.
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The least amount. You know what? We can always brew more, but I mean,
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the less I had to clean out of my grinder. Oh, right. It smells. Can you, can you, is it
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wafting? You know what this is giving me flashbacks of breakfast with Elvis coffee. No.
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Banana like in France. I'm thinking of like just the chemical odor. Ah, yes. And that's not a bad
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review. It's just a chemical odor. Oh, now you're wafting it. I'm smelling it over here. There's
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lots of things that are chemicals that I love. You know what? That's, that's, um, that's VOC.
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That's like pure VOCs. Will this give me cancer? Possibly. Is there a warning? I'm going to,
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you know what? They say that they are GMAP, which is general manufacturer, something about being good
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manufacturing processes. Oh, GMAP. Great. Yeah. Here is what I smell from the bag. Tobacco. Okay.
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Which is a positive thing when we're talking about coffee. What did you say you smelled?
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Tobacco. Oh, good. Yeah, that's true. I smelled that too. Also, almonds. Oh, you got that almond
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again, huh? To me it smells like almonds. Oh, you are doing so good. Tobacco and almond. Delicious.
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Not what I expected. So yeah, I had really wanted to invite Chris from 10 Drops to be on this
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episode. Actually, that's probably the biggest reason why it's taken us a year to get around
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to this. Yeah. I can't really describe, um, this. It's, it does feel very, um, chemical laden. Are
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you getting any notes of cheese? Not really. I was expecting more like cheddar or like Gouda or
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something, but. Or like the artificial movie popcorn, like cheddar. That's what I was expecting.
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Yeah. I'm not getting any of that. No. Are you getting any floral notes of jasmine?
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I wasn't even getting that either. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that was the tobacco. I wasn't getting a
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ton of, I'm trying to find nice words. I got my, I was a hundred percent VOCs and you know what?
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I love sniffing glue. So it's great. Yeah. Um, so when I roast coffee and I want to like drink
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coffee, like I know when it's, when it's good is when I smell it and it makes me hungry. Like I
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want to eat it. And I didn't, you know, with this, you wanted more hunger, you know, this, right. This
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makes me like the opposite of that. Yeah. Yeah. Not in a bad way. It makes you lose your appetite.
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Yes. There you go. You know what? I am always down to lose a couple of pounds. Right. You know,
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a loss of appetite. Sure. Let's go for it. We could, we, this may be a marketing thing, right?
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Where, if you need to go that direction. I don't need to lose more than a couple of pounds. Right.
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And I'm not saying I need to lose a couple of pounds. I'm just saying if I lost my appetite
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from my morning cup of coffee and happened to lose a couple of pounds, it'd be okay. Yeah. Okay. Great.
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So we found out who this is for. It's if you would like to, if you'd like to slim down a little for
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the summer. Who's brave enough to try it. I will try it. No, no doubt about that to me. I totally
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expected that. Just 10 drops. Just 10 drops. That's it. Truly. That was more than you needed to give me.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Guys, it does have a bit of a, a bit of a fruity like coffee smell that the other,
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that almondy, maybe that's the Jasmine too. Maybe like the almond and the fruity together.
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This is a very strange smelling coffee. Wait, this is a very unique smelling coffee.
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Yeah. Yeah. The aromatics on the cup, I feel like are better than the aromatics on the beans.
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They are definitely stronger in the cup than they are in the beans. I do smell a little bit more
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floral. It smells more appetizing here. There is a scent in there that I'm having a really hard time
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with. Maybe it is the tobacco that you were describing Steph. Do you smell that clean smell?
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Like, uh, like Lysol. I do have a hint of Lysol. That's the, that's the Jasmine. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
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It's, um, it's not an unpleasant scent. It's different and it's not super coffee like,
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right? But I don't find, where is the cheddar? I don't find it unpleasant. Yeah, there's no cheddar.
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There's no cheddar. None. I am feeling a little sad about that. If I'm going to have a cheese
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flavored coffee, I want it to fucking taste like cheese. Maybe we need to stir in a little of your
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nacho cheese. Oh my God. That's horrible. But you know, those freeze dried. That is a good idea,
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Steph. Those like hard freeze dried cheese things that are really popular. The snacks, yeah. I assumed it was
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going to have that in there and that on the label it said made with real cheese. That's what I was
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hoping it would say. I was thinking like cheese powder. Like if I was thinking coffee beans coated
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in cheese powder. You know, either would be fine. So I don't know where the idea of cheese in coffee
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comes from, but I do know that we have friends who are maybe even in the Patreon who went to go get
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bubble tea at like an Asian, whatever you call a bubble tea shop. I think it's just called a bubble
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tea shop. Okay. Out by the mall, out on the east side. And there was an option to get coffee with
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cheese foam. Oh yes. I remember this. So I was curious if like cheese and coffee was like a
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thing that people do. Maybe it's like an Asian thing, but I haven't seen that. I didn't think cheese was an Asian thing at all.
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Right. Exactly. So it's really mysterious. Am I wrong? You are wrong. Cheese is actually like goes way back in China.
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Oh really? As a matter of fact. Oh yeah. It goes way back in China. And then also you think like
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paneer. Oh, it's an Indian. So that part, that's more like a Western Asia type of. Sure. But it's, I don't think
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it's as big of a thing. No, I don't, I didn't really look into it as like a Japanese thing, but yeah,
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Chinese cheese. Amazing. Cheese. There's like a long history in China. Did you guys try the coffee yet?
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No, it's a little too hot. I love how we're all really, we're savoring this moment of aroma.
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It's surprisingly not bad. Oh, how about that? Yeah. I don't want to burn my tongue and miss out on all
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the good flavors. So I don't want to coat my tongue with any of the flavors. I actually can't wait for you to
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try it. Maybe you should have brewed more. We can always brew more. Look on Charlie's face.
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Like are you fucking with us, Marcus? Is it really not bad? No, it's really not bad. There's not a lot
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of, there's actually no cheddar flavor as far as I can tell. It's just really clean, really smooth,
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and it just, it's kind of nice. I want to say, as much as I don't want to say that, it's not bad.
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I love that like a specialty coffee guy hit so perfectly with the concept of this podcast though,
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like cheese flavored flavor coffee. Like perfect, quintessential. That's great. It's such a great
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suggestion. So if you have, if you want to, like I said, send us your craziest coffee ideas,
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we'll take links. Like this is, this is so far superior than like the taco. I see. I thought
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spicy taco coffee could have been worse. I didn't mind the taco. I did not love the fact that it had
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artificial beef flavor. That's fucking weird, but I mean, no bad reviews on artificial beef. I mean,
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it's, it's fine if you're vegan. I mean, they're totally into artificial beef flavor. Guys, I could
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drink this black. You are, I'm not kidding you. I'm trying to, I'm jumping way ahead. Give no bad
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reviews. I still haven't taken a sip yet. It's like I get to the, I just like, I get to the point where
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I smell it and I'm like, I'm just so happy just smelling it. Why do I need to put this? I don't
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need to taste it too. And look, I've said this before that I'm, I do like the more floral kind
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of coffees. So maybe it's geared a little bit towards me, but I'm, I can say that I've had worse.
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I've had far worse than this cheese flavor, flavor coffee in my opinion. That's very strange because
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yeah, I'm not getting any cheese, but I am getting that Jasmine, like Jasmine tea, floral flavor.
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That's interesting. Yeah. I get a lot of the floral notes. Yes.
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You guys all don't want to admit it. No, I don't, I don't think I like it as much as you do,
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which makes sense because I don't like the floral things as much as you do.
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What's it going to take to get you in this cup of coffee stuff? I think, I feel like I'm picking up
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that cherry almond flavor and maybe that is like in my head. Is that giving you flashbacks right now?
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But I feel, I just feel like with every, every one of these artificial flavored coffees, I'm like,
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I feel like I pick up those notes of cherry almonds. Is it possible it's in your head a little bit?
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I mean, yeah, definitely it's possible, but that's what I feel like I'm tasting. The other thing
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that's unique about this coffee, I'm getting like the tingle in the back of my jaw, like as though
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it's sour, which is probably again, Marcus, what you like, because that's the type of like light
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roast flavor that you like. It is not my bag. What's it going to take to get you loving this coffee?
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Is it going to be, is it Uncle Nearest? Do you need him to help you out? Is it sugar? Is it milk?
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Yeah, I'm going to need something. Maybe, I feel like maybe some milk might help.
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I feel like milk would do really nice. I'm going to get some milk right now and the whipped cream.
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I'm not opposed to whiskey, but we are going into work later. This is a tiny cup and I feel like.
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At that point, you're just drinking whiskey. Yes, it's going to be 50-50 at least on the whiskey
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side. This is not anything like what I expected and it's not terrible.
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I mean, even from the visual on the beans that look like it would be darker tasting,
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like more bitter, I'm surprised it's not as bitter as I expected it to. I'm surprised it's not nearly
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as dark in the cup as I was expecting. We get coffees that look pretty light and then end up
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really dark when they're brewed. This one started out like black and almost oily and it's not that
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dark in the cup. Weird. Maybe it's all those jasmine buds. I'm going to skip the low-fat
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milk that's been offered. Thank you. Because I don't believe in low-fat milk. It's 1%.
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It's 1% right now. I'm going to jump right to the heavy whipping cream. Thank you. I'll tell you
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what though, I use that 1% every morning. It's really not any different than 2%. Yes, I also
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don't believe in 2%. Well, my cholesterol test doesn't believe in whole milk anymore.
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Back at you. I bought some heavy whipping cream. I do have that. Do you want that instead? No,
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that's good. I used a bunch of whipped cream. Thank you. Because that's nice sugar too. Yes.
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I bought some heavy whipping cream for a recipe. Never made the recipe. I've just been drinking
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the heavy whipping cream. Nice. In coffee. Okay. Not just straight. I want to drink it straight.
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Lately? Because you're glowing. Did you have that for breakfast today? I didn't have it today,
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but it's probably built up in my system. Yeah. Right. I added a little bit of sweet. I think
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that helped it a bit. Interesting. I'm going to try adding a little bit. I'm going to go for the
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1% low fat milk. I feel like that milk might seal the deal for you. The two complement each other,
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I think. Or going to. Yeah. Yeah. It is strange that it doesn't have any cheese flavor, but maybe
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this milk could bring out the cheese. Oh yeah. Yeah. I was kind of hoping a little dairy would.
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That's interesting. I find it much more palatable with the whipped cream.
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Having a little bit of sweet and a little bit of milk, it kind of takes it into normal flavored
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coffee territory. Yeah. Except I'm not actually tasting much flavor, which again is normal,
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I guess, for flavored coffee. Right. Except for it still does have those floral notes.
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It's not bad with the whipped cream. It's very drinkable. I'm going to have no trouble getting
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this down. It's interesting for a flavored coffee. Surprising. I've never had a coffee that has
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actual flower. I mean, I guess we had the lavender coffee. This is my first jasmine floral coffee.
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Yeah. Not a usual thing that you would expect. I don't know. Are we poisoning ourselves right now?
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I don't even know. Is jasmine a flower that is poisonous? I don't think so. I think it's commonly
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used. Yeah. So yeah, I got some whipped cream. I got some milk, sugar. I think that's where my
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no bad review lies. Yeah. It's not bad with cream, sugar, and whipped cream. Surprisingly. You might
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be helping import drugs into the country if you buy this. You may not be. And no judgment there
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either. Yeah, who knows? I do find it interesting that it's like this is not even proper FDA labeling
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without the grams and the fact that this is definitely more than four ounces. Yeah. That's
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great. Don't give a fuck. Just trying to cover up the smell. Because I use 30 grams. So that would
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have been about, well, I guess that's only one ounce. Never mind. But yeah, I did not use just.
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No, that's more than four ounces. This is weird. Yeah. Yeah. So what was Zeuscapes tagline if
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you're looking for fun and interesting. Basically, yeah. That's it in a nutshell. If you want
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something that's fucking weird, we got it for you. Look, and this coffee is at least a year old.
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At least a year old. Right. It still has another nine months on it though.
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Jeez. I think 10 drops is enough. I think. I don't, it's definitely not what I expect. It's
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unexpected. It's an unexpected cup of coffee and it is ingestible. Hey, good. Ingestible.
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So. I would say it's not the worst coffee we've ever tried on this podcast. It definitely isn't.
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Right. And if you're into floral cups of coffee, you know, this is, in my opinion,
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this is probably the best cheese flavored coffee that we're going to get. I hope so.
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No notes of cheese definitely makes the best cheese flavored coffee.
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Exactly. I don't see how you can improve on it.
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Awesome. So there you have it. So. Oh, thanks Jenny. Was that our episode? Yeah. Finally.
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Fun learning about cheese. That was great. That was a lot of fun. Yeah. Who knew? You know,
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RIP to all the baby animals out there that gave their lives so we could have cheese.
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Thank you little goat. Grateful. That you're not a baby cow.
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Baby goat gave its life to, so you could, you know. Goat cheese. You have some goat cheese.
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I will pour out this coffee in honor of the baby goat.
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There you go. Yeah. So thanks everyone. If you want to hear more about nacho cheese and how we
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