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Best Question - Fast Food Hacks from May 8th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's tech for best question of the week. We get
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  Speaker 1: our questions from you friends of the program. You have
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  Speaker 1: to email them to US Radio from hal at X
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  Speaker 1: ninety six dot com. But best question in the subject line, well,
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  Speaker 1: answer just about anything. This one came in from Oh
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  Speaker 1: it's our friend Jimmy Johns from the chat room. Hello, Jimmy, says, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: Lords and Captain Katie. I love your food takes and
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  Speaker 1: want to know more of your food hacks and secrets. Carrie.
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  Speaker 1: I still use the microwave the squeaky cheese for a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds before eating it. It's life changing. Yes, keep
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  Speaker 1: teaching me O wise one, Gina, what are your favorite
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  Speaker 1: fast food hacks? I'm gonna throw tod In on this
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  Speaker 1: because he's a fast food what's the best time to
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  Speaker 1: get an order?
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  Speaker 2: One?
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  Speaker 1: Are the freshest places in town? You seem to know
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  Speaker 1: all of these? So yeah, hmm, you want me to start?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Okay, I don't have any fast food hacks.
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  Speaker 2: Cook Kerry Jackson, Gena and I have got your covered
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  Speaker 2: on the fast food.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and say you can think of like you're cooking.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of things, Uh, so I like
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  Speaker 1: to have lunch at ten thirty. Yeah, and there are
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  Speaker 1: places that start serving lunch at ten thirty, like Bados
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  Speaker 1: is twenty four hours. I can get Taketo's at ten thirty,
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  Speaker 1: which is nice because for most people that's not lunchtime,
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  Speaker 1: but for me, that's lunchtime, which is nice to know. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you go to Chick fil A, they start serving
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  Speaker 1: lunch at ten thirty, But you don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: lunch at ten thirty at Chick fil A because they
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  Speaker 1: have made the nuggets earlier and they're using in them
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  Speaker 1: in their breakfast items and they've been sitting around a while.
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  Speaker 1: You want Chick fil.
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  Speaker 2: A give us some time, yeah, like stage, like noon noon.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be hot and fresh. Now, the flip
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  Speaker 1: side of that with Chick fil A is you have
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  Speaker 1: to go to Chick fil A. Well, the flip side
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  Speaker 1: of it is sure, if you go at ten thirty,
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  Speaker 1: they've often pre made a bunch of breakfast stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: if you order lunch, sometimes they'll throw in like a
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  Speaker 1: breakfast sandwich because they've because they're gonna get rid of
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  Speaker 1: them anyway, and you'll get a free sandwich. Sometimes you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, she's a damned genius. Wow, you'll like this one. Gina,
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  Speaker 2: being a fellow connoisseur of fast food, h there's always
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  Speaker 2: this big debate who has the best French fries? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna we're gonna just forget about all the
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  Speaker 2: local places. We're going straight to the fast food chains.
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  Speaker 2: Who's got the best damned fries? Now, some will say, well,
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  Speaker 2: Wendy's or mcdonald'sor whatever. But if you want them hot
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  Speaker 2: and fresh, and I'm not kidding you, without fail, every
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  Speaker 2: single time we've visited Wiener Schnitzel, they're hot and fresh.
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  Speaker 2: They are hot and fresh and delicious. Okay, they're just
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  Speaker 2: so and they're not nothing fancy. We're not talking about elegantly,
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  Speaker 2: you know. It's just crappy shoe string fries, salt and
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  Speaker 2: they're oily and just what you want in a fry.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to get all fancy. You don't think
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  Speaker 2: of friesze. No, they're so good and they're always always,
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  Speaker 2: and we go to the one, well, we live in Pharmaca,
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  Speaker 2: we will drive to the one in north in Harrisville.
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  Speaker 3: Really, honey, We're going.
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  Speaker 2: To Wiener Schnitzel tonight. And it's like, all right, and
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  Speaker 2: you go get a you know, a chili dog and
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  Speaker 2: some fries. It is so good.
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  Speaker 3: I love a hot fry, as we know.
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  Speaker 2: That's your challenge, Gina, And I've I've visited. Uh, this
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  Speaker 2: is so telling. I visited the one in Salt Lake,
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  Speaker 2: over by the Costco one in North Dogon. We've even
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  Speaker 2: been the one in in Orum.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I I have to go to Costco today,
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  Speaker 1: so I will take you up on.
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  Speaker 2: Go get a corn dog, deeed corn dogs. Gina, you're weird.
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  Speaker 3: Sure you're you're calling her.
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  Speaker 1: To Tod's Todd Todd in any other circle is the
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  Speaker 1: weird eater unless he's in a room with you.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm with you if I'm getting a chili dog,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want the damn cheese. I just like the chilling.
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  Speaker 3: Katie says. The Del Taco off thirty two hundred West
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  Speaker 3: is the best one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't. Del Taco makes a damn good
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  Speaker 2: Prince says.
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  Speaker 3: The dude who works the window at two am is great.
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  Speaker 3: This is good to know.
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  Speaker 1: That is good to know, Okay, Carrie, not fast food,
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  Speaker 1: but not kitchen hack kitchen hacks.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now he mentioned the squeaky squeaky cheese. What is
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  Speaker 3: it called the mic curR curd? You put the curd
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  Speaker 3: in the microwave for a few seconds and let it melt.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely fabulous. Another one, of course, is my Thanksgiving hack,
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  Speaker 3: or anytime you have stuffing.
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  Speaker 1: His stuffing isn't just for thanks You.
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  Speaker 3: Get out the next day, get out that waffle iron.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure to you know, if you're using cooking, spray
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  Speaker 3: spray it down. I just use butter. But you get
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  Speaker 3: the You get the stuffing in the in the waffle iron,
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  Speaker 3: let it cook. It takes a little bit longer than
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  Speaker 3: the waffle, but it'll come out nice and crispy. Oh
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  Speaker 3: and then you put you treat it just like a waffle.
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  Speaker 2: Really butter and syrup. Okay, you'll thank me later, and
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  Speaker 2: safer you mix, you will thank me later. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: try this now. I kind of want to take all
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  Speaker 2: of the Thanksgiving leftovers and just throw you know, potatoes
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  Speaker 2: and gravy and turkey and throw it in the waffle iron.
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  Speaker 3: Town. The other one I told you about is if
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  Speaker 3: you're making a grilled cheese, instead of using butter on
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  Speaker 3: the bread on the outside, mayonnaise, which sounds weird.
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  Speaker 2: I know right, Oh, we do that.
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  Speaker 3: We do that and if you're really daring, best foods
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  Speaker 3: made or not best foods. But it's a miracle whip
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  Speaker 3: miracle because it gives that the little zip.
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  Speaker 1: Going for it, tangy zip of miracle.
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  Speaker 3: Tangy zip of miracle whip. And and then finally this, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I used to do this all the time when I
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  Speaker 3: made ice coffee at home. Is that you know, in
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  Speaker 3: the morning you're gonna make fresh coffee, take that leftover
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  Speaker 3: coffee that's still in there, put it in an icy
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  Speaker 3: tube tray, and then put it in the freezer, and
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  Speaker 3: then later you have yourself your iced.
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  Speaker 2: Coffee and it won't water down the flavor.
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  Speaker 3: With the coffee ice cubes.
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  Speaker 1: That's genius.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, So there you go. That is genius. I hope
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  Speaker 3: I can help.
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  Speaker 2: We used to do that with at our house. We
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  Speaker 2: used to do that with Coca cola. We'd make Coca
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  Speaker 2: cola ice cubes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go for a coke cloat.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to water it down, you want you know.
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