Episode 56 : The Gospel According to Jesse Hiatt

Posted on April 5, 2012 by themagicaltalkinghat

Listeners, you have been heard! A question from the Hat gets William to tell one of his favorite stories! Also, Tony is there. And the Producer, a little. And Ezzie. Dammit.

 

 

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21 Responses to Episode 56 : The Gospel According to Jesse Hiatt

  1. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 5, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    I made a comment about how there was a Der Weinershnitzel at Angel Stadium as an example of fast food hot dogs…

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  2. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 6, 2012 at 11:16 am

    “There’s some horrible chicken and rice on the dryer.”

    YUM!

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  3. Kiya Bee says:
    April 7, 2012 at 12:41 am

    A good Red Delicious apple is something I’ve never experienced, and because of that they are my least favorite. I like Braeburn and Fuji apples, and while Granny Smith apples are good for cooking, I like their tartness for eating, too.

    Kids are owning cell phones younger and younger these days; there are plenty of kids at my son’s grade school with mobile phones, but mine isn’t one of them. He doesn’t really go anywhere that requires him to contact us, as he’s either at school or with us somewhere. I think that non-landline based phones will probably phase out actual land lines, whether it’s mobile phones or VOIP (internet phones). We currently have our home phone through our cell company, and every time the cable company calls to sell us their phone service, they are disappointed to hear that we get home phone service cheaper somewhere else. As far as maintaining the land line infrastructure, the government would most likely only do it in their best interest, not for the rest of us.

    You can get Pacific Wonderland license plates in Oregon again:

    http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/vehicle/plateregular.shtml#pacific

    Also, Fred Meyer’s slogan was (and still is) “one-stop shopping,” since they sell everything from groceries to toys to clothing, etc. I don’t really remember Fry’s stores, unless they were Thriftway, and the last one of those closed several years ago.

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    • themagicaltalkinghat says:
      April 8, 2012 at 10:02 am

      I *was* thinking of Thriftway! The one in question must’ve been owned by someone named Fry. It was “Fry’s Thirftway,” but in my house, we just called it Fry’s.

      Wow, the stuff that comes back to you…

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  4. Beth says:
    April 9, 2012 at 10:06 am

    On The apple story: it usually takes several years for apple trees to grow from seeds to bear fruit – I don’t think 10 years is particularly uncommon, though I’ve usually heard about 8. Also, Wilson’s Orchard has an apple called the Hawkeye, what is the difference between the Red Delicious formerly known as Hawkeye, and the (presumably) new, “Hawkeye” apple?

    I think generics/house brands are usually MADE at particular manufacturing plants where the name brand is made. Sometimes they follow the same recipe, sometimes not. I believe the difference in price is due to the savings in advertising cost, because you never see TV ads for the non-brand names. Some brands specifically write on their packaging labels that they do not make a generic form of this product.

    My mom was a Skippy person and my Dad was raised on Peter Pan. Mom got him to switch to Skippy after they were married, though growing up, we always had two jars of peanut butter, crunchy for Dad, and creamy for everyone else. I’m still not clear why Dad had to switch from Peter Pan if we were going to have two jars of peanut butter in the house anyway.

    I cannot believe you had one question about peanut butter and another question about apples in the same podcast, yet failed to mention how delicious peanut butter ON apples is! (Or what varieties of both apples and peanut butter are best together…)

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    • William says:
      April 9, 2012 at 3:00 pm

      I’m not familiar with the modern Hawkeye apple. I have no idea how it may or may not be related to Mr. Hiatt’s apple.

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  5. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 9, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    I feel I should point out that my story was NOT about sleepwking.

    It was the middle of the day, I had been fully awake, AND I was with my parents!

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    • William says:
      April 9, 2012 at 3:01 pm

      Right… I knew yours wasn’t a sleepwalking story. It just freaked me out in the same way that sleepwalking stories do. 🙂

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  6. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 10, 2012 at 8:22 am

    Oh, that’s alright then.

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  7. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 10, 2012 at 8:38 am

    I remember my grandparents had apple trees that gave these small, tart-but-not-to-tart, apples that I would pick off the tree and wash off with the hose in their backyard. Those were really good, but I never found out what kind they were. In California when I was growing up, and probably still, a popular apple was the “Roma”, which are red and HUGE. I mean, as-big-as-a-baby’s-head huge. I used to eat those cut into wedges with american cheese cut into strips. Sooooo good.

    Last year when I was in New York I was walking through the Port Authority Building on my way to catch a bus back to my hotel and there’s a corner of the main floor that is set aside for a farmer’s market on… Thursdays (I think). There was a gal there selling several different kinds of apples and she had Honey Sweets among a few other types. The Honey Sweet was very good I recall.

    Trader Joe’s has big jugs of (non-alcoholic) unfilterd apple cider and they used to make a big deal about how the cider was made from Gravenstein apples. I don’t know if it still is, but I drank a lot of that cider back in the day and the juice was really good, so I imagine the Gravenstein itself is probably quite nice to eat, though I’ve never had one in its natural state.

    While they’re not actually apples, or a hybrid there-of, I’m super fond of the “Apple Pear” or “Asian Pear”. Those things are hella good. At first, you could only get them at Asian markets, then specialty stores like Whole Foods started having them, now you can get them at almost any supermarket, even Costco carries them. They tend to be significantly more expensive then other fruit but hot damn they are worth it.

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    • The Producer says:
      April 10, 2012 at 3:56 pm

      I don’t know that I’ve ever tasted a Gravenstein, but the canners I hang out with RAVE about it. I’m trying to get on the mailing list for the local orchard (I keep requesting it, but I never get the emails) so we can try them out. Someday I’d like to have a small apple tree, but I want to pick a good one!

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      • Bloodsparrow says:
        April 12, 2012 at 12:06 pm

        The cider at the time was quite good as I recall. I haven’t had any recently, and certainly not since moving to Texas where I would have to go on a pilgremage of an 8 hour drive to get to the nearest Trader Joe’s.

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    • The Producer says:
      April 12, 2012 at 10:49 am

      Also, I’m wondering if your childhood apple tree was a Jonathan or one of its crosses. They’re a very small apple by modern standards, deep red, and tend to be dull rather than shiny. Taste is more tart than sweep. They were my mother’s favorite apple, so what we always had growing up and they became mine too.

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      • Bloodsparrow says:
        April 12, 2012 at 12:07 pm

        They were small and matte looking yes… and a dull red when ripe if I remember correctly. I’ll have to see if I can find a Johnathan to try.

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  8. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 10, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Also, what ever story William was about to tell has not been told on the podcast before.

    So don’t keep us hanging yo.

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  9. Bloodsparrow says:
    April 10, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    Oh and, I grew up on smooth Jiffy.

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  10. Mark says:
    April 11, 2012 at 8:39 am

    Apples: For eating raw, I tend to like Honeycrisp best, but I think that’s going to change. Part of their appeal has been that you can only get them when they’re in season localy. This tends to make the apple remain firm, crisp and sweet. Unfortunately, I’ve seen some honeycrisp at Target that taste like they were grown elsewhere and shipped in (less crisp and less sweet). I hope they stop doing that soon, or else the honeycrisp will go the way of the red delicious. For baking apples, depending on what is being made, I prefer either Fuji or Granny Smith apples.

    Phones: Keep in mind that any phone (landline or mobile) is simple your access point to the network and majority of the network are likely to remained wired for the forseeable future (wireless just doesn’t have the bandwidth). That being said as more & more people move to mobile phones, landline connections will be exceedingly rare (e.g. when was the last time you saw/used a payphone?).

    Tony: Which is worse, a cat farting or cat letting loose a “chunky” sneeze right in your face?

    Peanut Butter: Skippy creamy is what I grew up on and is what I still tend to eat, though my next jar is Jif (natural, low sodium) creamy. Chunky peanut butter is an abomination unto Nuggan.

    Dr. Pepper: I have no recollection of this story being shared on a previous episode.

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