Produce Pals: Recent Episodes
Produce Pals
❤️ARTICHOKE❤️Not just good for their hearts! From Marilyn Monroe to Spain back to Scottsdale, AZ, we go around the world on this heart filled journey! Seriously, these things are all linked. You can't make this stuff up. Spoilers, it's artichokes that link them.
🍊GRAPEFRUIT!🍊 Why is it called that? Why is it so bitter and sour tasting? Why is it messing with your medicines? What a weird little guy! It's not even little! The biggest one was almost the size of a basketball!! 🏀
🩸🍊BLOOD ORANGES🩸🍊 Why are they so delicious? And why are they so red?! We get into it and talk about everything from where they originated, what to do with them, we even talk a little about colors and horse.. no that can't be right.. horseshoe crabs?
🥬 Chinese cabbage 🥬 napa cabbage 🥬 tomato, tomahto. We talk about our absence, all about napa, kim chee, and we even debut a new segment, POETRY! That's right, we're back and we're getting creative over here.
🌿Basil!🌿 A delightful lil herb that has a deep, dark, and mysterious history. Just kidding, it has been around for a while though. Royalty! Ancient Greeks! Love! Intrigue! AP English! Browning if colder than room temperature! This episode has it all!
POMEGRANATES! What can you do with those weird little seeds? Where did they come from? What in Hades is their deal? And what do grenades have to do with them? Find out as we peel back the weird white membrane on this funky fruit!
FIGS! What's the deal with them? Are fig newtons named after Isaac Newton? What's a fig wasp? This big tree of life has been cultivated for longer than any other plant! How wild is that.
🍎FUJI APPLES🍎 Delicious apples that you should definitely give a chance. Happy belated Lunar New Year for those who celebrate it! Find out how apples and the Lunar New Year are intertwined, when fuji apples were developed, and what to do with these dang things!
TAMARINDO! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about tamarind! This sour and sweet seed pod is a Mexican candy staple. Find out what else you can cook with it, its tropical history, and even what you can do with tamarind wood!
OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY & 50TH EPISODE! 🍒🍈🍎🍇🍑 We informally talk about produce in video games, from pac-man to fortnite, produce has had pretty decent representation in video games! Have some fruit, heal your HP and give it a listen! 🍒🍈🍎🍇🍑
🧕Black-Eyed Peas!🧕Happy New Year! Colin embarrasses himself a few times, we learn about Black-Eyed Peas, why they're considered lucky, why and how you should eat them, and who Fergi REALLY is.
🍇Champagne Grapes!🍇 Tiny delicate grapes that are pretty hard to find. But it's the end of the year, so cheers! Bust out the bubbly and celebrate all things 2022! Also find out everything you never knew you wanted to know about champagne and champagne grapes. We'll see you in 2023!
Anyone have a mint? Maybe some gum? This week we talk all about MINT! Where it comes from, why it's called mint, why it cools your mouth, how they make peppermint oil, even the history of candy canes! Don't skip this minty fresh episode!
The goose is loose! Eevee fills in for Ralph as we talk all about the gooseberry. Where it came from, what to do with it, and how it got its name. Also we play a game I invented called BIRD OR BERRY! Play along at home!
🥔RUSSET POTATOES🥔 Can't have Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes! We briefly go over the potato basics from episode 8, but then dive into the mashed potato dance and the many uses of mashed potatoes as a movie prop! This means something..
🍒Cranberries!🍒 We dive knee deep into the cranberry bog. Find out what a "cran" is, how they harvest those sour little guys, and what wolf spiders have to do with cranberries at all! Spread the knowledge around the feast table. Happy Thanksgiving y'all!
🍠Coming in 3rd in the Thanksgiving side battle, candied yams! Or sweet potato pie! Listen and find out what the difference is between a sweet potato and a yam, all the delicious things you can do with them, and how Colin forgot about the GIANT one he cooked in his crock pot!🍠
Coming in at 10% on the twitter poll, green bean casserole! Pull up a chair at the big kids table, Eevee and Colin have some fun facts about beans for ya! Like they're poisonous?! And not originally from France?! Tons of info for you to disperse to your family at Thanksgiving this year.
🧄VAMPIRES BEWARE!🧄 Garlic is here to save the day! Find out why this stinky little bulb is so healthy for humans, so deadly for vampires, and oh so delicious for everyone in between! Make some garlic bread and get cozy, it's garlic time.
🧄VAMPIRES BEWARE!🧄 Garlic is here to save the day! Find out why this stinky little bulb is so healthy for humans, so deadly for vampires, and oh so delicious for everyone in between! Make some garlic bread and get cozy, it's garlic time.
🎃Halloween Special!🎃 We're a little early, but that's ok, just giving you time to work on your produce costume! We tell the spoOoOoky tale of Stingy Jack, then we talk about costumes, party treats and of course, our favorite fruit candy! 🍬🍭
🎃Boil em carve em stick em in a stew🎃it's that time of year, you know what to do🎃make sweet pumpkin pie, oh what a delight🎃carve scary faces, oh what a fright🎃we're a little bit early, not yet halloween🎃but listen & learn🎃& keep your produce clean!
🍎Mac's back baby!🍎 It's the time of year for apple picking! We talk about the many many things you can do with McIntosh apples, the story of their discovery, and we even talk about weird savory mayonnaise cakes!
We're back! Today we're talking all about butternut squash, a surprisingly new addition to the squash family. Where did it originate? How do you eat it? Would butternut squash on pizza be good? Find out these answers and more as newlyweds Colin and Eevee butter up some butternuts!
We're back! Today we're talking all about butternut squash, a surprisingly new addition to the squash family. Where did it originate? How do you eat it? Would butternut squash on pizza be good? Find out these answers and more as newlyweds Colin and Eevee butter up some butternuts!
GRAPES THAT TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY?! WHAT?! That's right ya boomer, this isn't your average grape. The Grapery means business and we talked about it this week! So shoot some water into a clown's mouth, get some fried dough, and get some cotton candy (grapes).
GRAPES THAT TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY?! WHAT?! That's right ya boomer, this isn't your average grape. The Grapery means business and we talked about it this week! So shoot some water into a clown's mouth, get some fried dough, and get some cotton candy (grapes).
Eevee joins me to talk about the mild lil onion guy known as the shallot! We'll both stumble through pronunciations and tell you how to use these lavender bulbs in any kind of food! 🧅 Who knows, maybe a dragon ball character will appear!
Eevee joins me to talk about the mild lil onion guy known as the shallot! We'll both stumble through pronunciations and tell you how to use these lavender bulbs in any kind of food! 🧅 Who knows, maybe a dragon ball character will appear!
Lychee! Find out where these little weirdos originated, how they grow and what to do with them when you get some! They're like grapes but different. And despite how Colin keeps mispronouncing it, it's "Lee-Chee"
💥🍆EGGPLANT🍆💥 This week we talk about everyone's favorite phallic emoji! We talk about its origins, uses, how people thought it made you CRAZY, even how it could EXPLODE! Don't miss this one!
Blueberries! We love snacking on these lil berries. Find out their origin, learn what to make with them, even learn why they're called blueberries! (spoiler, it's cuz they're blue)
This episode definitely made me want to eat a stack of blueberry pancakes, and I hope it does for you too!
🍅TOMATOES🍅 ARE THEY POISONOUS!? Now that I have your attention, tune in this week as we wax poetic about the T atop your BL. From it's humble beginnings as a pea-sized fruit in Central America, to transforming Italian cuisine forever, to having to be legally classified as a vegetable, Listen in as we talk about the noble wolf peach. (the what?)
We hypothetically tweak produce as though it were software or a video game. These are the changes we've made, and some suggested by listeners! This was a fun little thought exercise that I'm sure we'll revisit in the future!
🍑 PEACHES 🍑 Love & war. No really, they're a symbol for butts, which we all love, and a war was started over a single peach. We'll decipher how to pick a perfect peach & everything else you need to know about this pitted produce. Ralph was kidnapped, so Eevee joins us this week!
🥬It's the weird little green sticks you get with your buffalo wings, it's celery! Find out what mummies, Jell-O, ancient Greeks and bacon have to do with celery! 🥬
What do a pope and penicillin have in common? Cantaloupe! We talk about everything you need to know about everyone's second favorite summer melon. Get out your melon ballers because it's time to get the scoop on cantaloupe!
🌽Who knew corn was so handy! Aside from tasting delicious, it's used as the fuel in our cars to rat poison. Corn is a testament to the persistence of humans and a perfect demonstration of how we use all the parts of the buffalo to this day! 🌽
This week we have heavy watermelons and a few heavy subjects, including women's rights and racism. But we also talk about how to pick a watermelon, along with everything else you need to know about the humble watermelon.
Racist Trope Article
Weird Watermelon Insides Article
Arugula! Let's Blast off to Peppertown, USA on our ROCKET! Ok maybe we don't call it rocket in the US, but a lot of the world does. Find out what to do with this spicy little lettuce, or is it an herb. Either way, it's gonna smack your taste buds around.
We talk all about our first (culinary) berry! Actually it's not even a berry! Everything you've been told is a lie! Well, with regard to raspberries anyway. We talk about how they grow, some myths about them, and most importantly, how to pick decent raspberries in the store that will survive more than a few hours.
It's summertime! Bust out the grill and cut some zucchini lengthwise! 🥒 We talk about zucchini, where it got it's roots, what to do with it and a very particular zucchini based holiday! Don't miss this sassy squash
Sweet sweet cherries! 🍒 We're talking all about where they're originally from, a couple world records about them, and Colin even gives us some folly work as he talks about how they're harvested. You also won't believe what helicopters have to do with cherries!
We asked for questions and you delivered! We got a surprising amount of questions, so this was easily our longest episode yet! But it was very fun and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Or maybe in 20 episodes. We go from which ninja turtles we are to which produce would represent which D&D classes! Come for the produce, stay for the pals.
RHUBARB! Can eating 9 pounds of it kill you? You won't believe the answer! Also, which of our presidents grew rhubarb in his garden?!? Doctors hate him! Am I trying to make this more Clickbaity because we're talking about boring old rhubarb this week?!??!?!1 yes.
What's cooler than a cucumber? Not much if you ask us. We delve into why they make you burp, their cooling effect on your body, and their scaring effect on cats! So relax and put some cucumber slices on your eyes as we giggle sweet nothings in your ears.
Hass Avocados! We talk about the origin of the Hass variety of avocado, dispel a few ripeness myths, and we delve into the interesting etymology of avocado. You'll never believe what body part the Aztecan people named it after!
We're spicing things up this week by adding a third host! And also because we're talking about Jalapenos! Yvonne joins us as we learn about Cinco de Mayo and how commercialism ruined it, learn all about the jalapeno, and learn about Colin's daydreaming about bird poop.
Gala apples! Join us as we talk about the history of apples, all the stuff you can do with them, the goofy gala apple patent, and we even calculate how many pounds of apples Colin eats a year.
What do rabbits and a world war have in common? Carrot myths! Join us as we talk about an obscure game we used to play, carrot myths, and best bunny practices. Lot of carrot misinformation out there, wouldn't want you to be uninformed!
here's pocket tanks if anyone wants to play, fight me: mossybeard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blitwise.ptankshd≷=US
It's not quite bananas, it's plantains! As versatile as the potato, the plantain is a staple fruit in a large part of the world. We discuss shrinkflation, confusing plantain genetics, and how Mexico boils em, mashes em and sticks them in a stew.
Spring is in the air! This week we talk all about asparagus, its interesting name history, how white asparagus is grown, even how it makes your urine smell (well, some people's urine)
So sidle up alongside us as we discuss some 'sparagus! Oh, and the cold open has some tricky tongue twisters
This week we took a look at the Kiwi! We learn about its short history, how nutritious it is, and some obscure kiwi-related world records. We even talk a little about the kiwi bird! Colin also details his marriage proposal in the cold open, which was so cute it technically made it a warm open.
This week we're seeing green! Cabbage! Find out why we eat it for St. Patrick's day, what it has to do with Babe Ruth, and we even play a Cabbage Patch Kid guessing game! I won't blame you if you skip eating cabbage this week, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen!
Pucker up! Time to make listen to lemonade because life's about to give you lemons. And by life, I mean us. We talk about how lemons flavor our drinks, our food, they can even power lights! We also talk about lemon candy a little.
Here's that recipe Colin mentioned! It's the second one on this page
Enjoy!
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew! The boys talk about the rich history of the potato. From it's unlikely origin, to the many many culinary uses, to the existence of S.P.U.D.
Put some potato flowers in your hair and let them eat taters.
We talk about the most well known citrus, the orange! Among other things, we get into its origins in Asia, to its inflated reputation of a vitamin C powerhouse, to how ill advised it is to eat random park fruit.
We'd love it if you wrote a review! Tell a friend too, I hear your friend loves oranges.
This week we talk all about kale! It's the signpost vegetable for healthy eating. Topics range from how kale has way more vitamin C than an orange, to how to make kale chips, to carrying out acts of petty revenge on restaurants.
Colin apologizes in advance for being the "most nasally boy" toward the end there.
The boys talk about the Tommy Atkins mango! We explain seed dispersal, how to cut up a mango, the board game Mastermind, and we even talk a little about tie designs. It all has to do with the mango, trust me. I'm gonna use mango as my first word on Wordle from now on.
Is someone bangin' on a trash can? Because the produce pals talk about beets! Everyone's favorite root vegetable. Join us as we learn about: sugar production, which Obamas hate beets, astronauts, and cold soups.
This week we talk all about the lesser known citrus, the Pomelo! From its roots in Southeastern Asia, to which modern fruit staple it's the parent of, we dive deep into this unsung citrus giant!
Ralph and Colin relive the childhood trauma of eating Brussels sprouts in the 90s. But now they love them! Is this due to a refined palate or did someone save these stinky sprouts? Find out now!
Welcome to Produce Pals! Ralph and Colin talk all about the humble pineapple! From its origins in South America, to whether or not it'd be useful in a street brawl, to whether it belongs on pizza.