Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / X Poll - What You Ate as a Kid and Won't Eat Now From August 28th, 2025
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Look, we so we were going to do an X
- 0:01Speaker 1: pole and we kind of got sidetracked there.
- 0:04Speaker 2: But was there still a little time to do it?
- 0:06Speaker 2: You want to do it now?
- 0:06Speaker 3: I'm sort of a mini version.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Yeah? Why not?
- 0:09Speaker 1: And it's just what is something that you used to
- 0:12Speaker 1: love eating when you were a kid and you wouldn't
- 0:14Speaker 1: you wouldn't even touch it now you can't stand the thought.
- 0:17Speaker 2: I had two things?
- 0:19Speaker 1: Canned fruit cocktail, really I love that when I was
- 0:22Speaker 1: a kid, I would never I just can't even dream.
- 0:25Speaker 1: And the other was probably canned Beanie Weenie, Beanie Weenie.
- 0:31Speaker 2: From a can.
- 0:32Speaker 1: I just now I would eat Beanie Weeny today, but
- 0:35Speaker 1: I would do it with you know, I would make
- 0:37Speaker 1: some nice beans and used some nice sausages, but meanie
- 0:41Speaker 1: Weenie and a can Weeni in a cane. So what
- 0:44Speaker 1: is something that you you liked when you were a
- 0:48Speaker 1: kid but you just couldn't dream of eating it now?
- 0:51Speaker 3: I there's there's there's not a lot that I would
- 0:56Speaker 3: walk away from.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if I think my has expanded because
- 1:01Speaker 4: I've gotten older.
- 1:02Speaker 3: I haven't had I haven't had kool Aid since I
- 1:04Speaker 3: was a kid. Really, but I would have Yeah, but
- 1:08Speaker 3: you wouldn't like it. Probably not, yeah, but I would
- 1:11Speaker 3: have It's like that fruit cocktail. That's it's, you know,
- 1:16Speaker 3: the fruit cocktail. I mean, it's not like it would
- 1:17Speaker 3: poison me, but I just don't.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to eat it now.
- 1:21Speaker 1: You know, it's just oh syrupy, and I had that
- 1:26Speaker 1: fake cherry in it, you know that Marichino cherry or whatever.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Similar to Bill. I would make spaghettios all the time
- 1:33Speaker 4: as a kid. Okay, I think I over ate myself
- 1:35Speaker 4: with spaghettios.
- 1:36Speaker 2: I wouldn't eat spaghetti. No, Okay, there's something. It's just
- 1:40Speaker 2: it's just awful. There's something.
- 1:41Speaker 4: And then not by choice. I've had to avoid stone
- 1:45Speaker 4: fruits as I've gotten older. Like I love plums. As
- 1:49Speaker 4: a kid, it was like my face. I liked it
- 1:50Speaker 4: more than candy.
- 1:51Speaker 2: But you say not by choice.
- 1:53Speaker 4: I've gotten more allergic as I've gotten older. Like it's
- 1:56Speaker 4: not I'm not going to die from it, but like
- 1:58Speaker 4: my throat, it's really itchy and it is not worth
- 2:00Speaker 4: the irritation.
- 2:01Speaker 2: We don't need an EpiPen if you have a nouch right, No, no, no, no,
- 2:05Speaker 2: let's see there's Mattel mal Hello, mouth is it mal hi, Yes.
- 2:13Speaker 5: Like malnutrition and malfunction.
- 2:16Speaker 1: You get it a lot if you already have that answer,
- 2:18Speaker 1: this is a good one. Something that you used to
- 2:20Speaker 1: eat you would not touch now?
- 2:21Speaker 2: What is it?
- 2:22Speaker 4: Mel blue bonnet?
- 2:25Speaker 2: Everything's better with blue bonnet off? Okay, Margarine is something? Yeah,
- 2:29Speaker 2: we used to have it all the time. Yeah, I
- 2:30Speaker 2: don't know if I would, I don't.
- 2:32Speaker 1: I would not touch it, it wouldn't.
- 2:35Speaker 5: I still I still say I'm on it like blue bonnet.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Yeah, marketing, get on it like blue bonnet. Yeah.
- 2:43Speaker 1: It's it's just greasy and not and salty and not good. Yeah,
- 2:47Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, mal.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, let's see.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Texter says twinkies just don't hit the same anymore. They
- 2:55Speaker 3: you know, they don't hit the spot like they use.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I think I pretty much wont I never liked him
- 3:01Speaker 1: in the first place. I liked twinkies when I was
- 3:03Speaker 1: a kid a lot. Yeah, and last time I had one,
- 3:06Speaker 1: I just, uh, it's.
- 3:08Speaker 4: Kind of that sothetic sweetener taste to it.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Benjamin, Hey, Benjamin, Hey, good morning, good morning.
- 3:16Speaker 1: What is something that you just you liked as a kid,
- 3:18Speaker 1: but you won't touch it now?
- 3:21Speaker 6: Canned Tomali.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Canned Tomali. Oh yeah, I remember a store. Yeah so bad, Yeah,
- 3:28Speaker 2: so bad.
- 3:29Speaker 6: I love a good parking lot to Molly, But canned ones.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Yuck, yaking lot. Yeah, I a parking lot tomal. Now
- 3:36Speaker 1: there's some pretty good frozen ones. But I remember the
- 3:40Speaker 1: ones that came sliding out of the can. Yeah hmm,
- 3:43Speaker 1: it's awful.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Yeah all right, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 3:47Speaker 3: Eight seven seven six two nine six nine six. I
- 3:51Speaker 3: used to love Kraft mac and cheese when I was
- 3:52Speaker 3: a kid. I got sick as a young teenager after
- 3:54Speaker 3: eating some and I haven't been able to eat it again.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Cream of wheat and Vienna sauce. I hope you weren't
- 4:00Speaker 3: combining those, but I'd still have cream a wheat.
- 4:04Speaker 5: Now.
- 4:05Speaker 3: I wouldn't even eat sausages. Okay, there's one that I would.
- 4:08Speaker 2: You know.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I did eat some recently, or somebody gave them to me,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and I did eat them, and and they were no,
- 4:16Speaker 1: they were not good, not good.
- 4:18Speaker 2: I won't eat them every.
- 4:19Speaker 3: See cowbrain tacos. I love them as a kid. Now
- 4:24Speaker 3: the thought makes me want to hurl. What was I
- 4:27Speaker 3: thinking back then? Calbrain tacos, Pienna sausages keeps coming up here. Yeah,
- 4:33Speaker 3: let's see cheese loaf.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Hmmm, spaghettios on white bread. I used to have that.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, I would not have spaghetti on white bread. Yeah,
- 4:43Speaker 3: that's a very British childish. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Let's see.
- 4:49Speaker 3: My grandfather and I used to sit and eat oysters
- 4:51Speaker 3: with toothpicks right out of the can.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Canned oysters.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, smoked, there's smoke, smoked oysters in the can.
- 4:59Speaker 2: They're good.
- 5:00Speaker 4: I'm still trying to get on the regular oyster train.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Go to Chelsea.
- 5:04Speaker 3: All right, let's see there, Chelsea.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Hi, Hi, Chelsea, Hi, how's it going good? So what
- 5:10Speaker 2: you used to eat this as a kid? Now you
- 5:12Speaker 2: won't eat it?
- 5:14Speaker 6: Enna sausages are you talking about?
- 5:16Speaker 3: Seems to be the winter that in spaghettios?
- 5:18Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 5:19Speaker 1: Now did you have them fairly often when you were
- 5:21Speaker 1: a kid.
- 5:22Speaker 6: Oh yeah, all the time.
- 5:23Speaker 5: My grandma always had them stoked up.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Well, and you just can't stand. I ate some recently
- 5:31Speaker 1: and they were terrible, all right.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Sure, the goops that they sit in, it's just awful.
- 5:38Speaker 2: It's jelly. Okay, the worst, the worst. Let's go to Cameron. Cameron, Hi, Cameron,
- 5:43Speaker 2: what do you got hi.
- 5:46Speaker 5: Well, we used to make this creation that we called
- 5:48Speaker 5: baloney pizza, which was a slice of baloney and then
- 5:52Speaker 5: we would score ketchup and mustard and spoil them around
- 5:55Speaker 5: it up like a pizza. So we called it baloney pizza.
- 5:58Speaker 5: And it sounds horrible.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that is horrible. That is horrible. I'd eat some boloney,
- 6:05Speaker 1: but I wouldn't do that, do it?
- 6:07Speaker 2: Thank you? Thank you. I might try that.
- 6:11Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see doctor Mike is here, hello, doctoring.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Yeah, what you won't eat now that you ate as
- 6:18Speaker 2: a kid.
- 6:20Speaker 5: McDonald's Big Mac used to love them.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll still.
- 6:26Speaker 4: I think the reason I liked him was because we
- 6:28Speaker 4: didn't have one in town, and it was kind of
- 6:30Speaker 4: like a special thing to go there.
- 6:31Speaker 2: Sure, yeah that makes sense.
- 6:33Speaker 3: I haven't had, you know, fast food really in years,
- 6:38Speaker 3: but I'd still i'd say yes to a big.
- 6:41Speaker 4: I don't know what it is about the Big Macs.
- 6:43Speaker 4: The Big Mac is specifically the one thing in my
- 6:46Speaker 4: life where about every month or two I will go
- 6:48Speaker 4: from not liking it to I need that right now
- 6:50Speaker 4: in the stomach. You yeah, And then I get halfway
- 6:53Speaker 4: through it and then I remember.
- 6:57Speaker 2: What you're talking about Let's go to Hi, Sue.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Sue there, so Sue, Hi, Sue, your phone is breaking up,
- 7:10Speaker 1: it says here, scrambled eggs with ketchup.
- 7:12Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?
- 7:13Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 7:17Speaker 5: All right, scrambled eggs with sausa, okay, ketchup?
- 7:21Speaker 2: Oh? I always put ketchup on my scrambled eggs. Yeah,
- 7:24Speaker 2: I'm with Sue.
- 7:24Speaker 1: And I put sal and I use saltsa too, But yeah,
- 7:27Speaker 1: all right, thanks Sue.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's go to Gemma, Hi, Gemma, Hi, Gemma
- 7:33Speaker 2: Hi Hi.
- 7:34Speaker 6: I got a couple which are buttered noodles that that
- 7:37Speaker 6: old kids staple like.
- 7:39Speaker 2: That now, just I love that. Yeah, butter buttered noodles.
- 7:43Speaker 6: Yeah, olive oil and olive oil and pepper. If it's
- 7:47Speaker 6: plain noodles or sauce, I can't do.
- 7:49Speaker 2: It, okay, all right.
- 7:50Speaker 6: And and root beer I had to experience when I
- 7:54Speaker 6: was about ten. I loved root beer and then really
- 7:56Speaker 6: really hot day and we're in an auction yard and outdoors,
- 8:00Speaker 6: and I threw it all up and I cannot touch
- 8:02Speaker 6: root beer. It's like a tequila experience.
- 8:05Speaker 2: All right, all right, thank you.
- 8:07Speaker 3: I'll still have a root beer.
- 8:08Speaker 2: I love root beer. Yeah, I have one let's go
- 8:11Speaker 2: to me shack, me shack. I've heard a hey, me shack, Hey,
- 8:16Speaker 2: how are you guys? Good? What? What? What? What? Won't
- 8:18Speaker 2: you eat anymore? So?
- 8:20Speaker 6: My buddies and I used to always make miracle whip
- 8:23Speaker 6: and grape jelly sandwiches instead of peanut butter jelly sandwiches.
- 8:27Speaker 2: That sounds really awful.
- 8:28Speaker 3: That's it does sound terrible.
- 8:32Speaker 2: It is absolutely terrible. All right, thanks me shack, thank you,
- 8:36Speaker 2: thank you.
- 8:36Speaker 3: Well, we can move this mini X pole to our
- 8:40Speaker 3: social media's and you can weigh in there. My wife
- 8:43Speaker 3: is texted in minds sugar sandwiches.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had those, sugar sandwich.
- 8:48Speaker 3: My mom was type one diabetic. We didn't have a
- 8:50Speaker 3: lot of sweets in the house. Plain white bread, thin
- 8:52Speaker 3: layer of I can't believe it's not butter and pour
- 8:55Speaker 3: on white sugar, pinch the sides, and I've seen that.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I actually sandwich. Yeah, I've had those. I might try
- 9:01Speaker 2: a sugar sandwich. It is exactly what you expect it
- 9:04Speaker 2: to be. Yeah, sugar sandwich.
- 9:07Speaker 4: If the pantry is empty, that's not the worst thing,
- 9:09Speaker 4: exactly the world.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Yeah,