Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)
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Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202634 min
  • Interview
  • Food

Should you eat fast food on vacation, or should every meal be at a special local place? Is soup bar food? Does ice belong in milk? Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings join Dan to answer your questions — and to settle some long-standing food disputes of their own. Brittany and Eric used to co-host the podcast For Colored Nerds, a show about Black culture. They’re also old friends, which means they argue about everything — from how Eric eats wings to the merits of soup. So they’re well-qualified to help when an eighth-grader calls in about a dispute in his clas...

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I'm going to tell you this reheat has one part in particular that I still think about all the time. I mean, it has many great parts. It's a listener calling episode with Brittany Luce and Eric Eddings.

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They're close friends and former co-hosts of podcasts like The Nod and For Colored Nerds. But the part of this episode that I think about all the time relates to the question of whether you should be eating chicken wing tips, like the very, very tip, the crispy bit.

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It's like bone and skin, but when you crunch through it, I mean, it's so good. But I mean, that's a controversial opinion, as you will hear. We cover other big questions in this episode, such as, does soup make for good bar food? And is it outrageous or perfectly reasonable to put ice in your milk?

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