165: Donut security
Lateral with Tom Scott
Lateral with Tom Scott
4.9 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Where in Spain can you find a dial that can be turned to tomato, wine or olive oil? |
| 0:07.0 | The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral. |
| 0:17.0 | To find the correct path, you must pick the correct door. |
| 0:21.6 | One door's guard always tells the truth. |
| 0:24.8 | The other door's guard always lies. |
| 0:27.4 | And the third guard wonders why he doesn't have a door. |
| 0:31.0 | And the fact that our three guests are here |
| 0:32.9 | means that they have chosen the wrong door. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome to the lateral. We're here for the next 40 minutes or so. |
| 0:37.7 | Can't win them all. We have the folks from Lunchbox Envy, the podcast. Welcome back to the show, |
| 0:44.0 | everybody. Hi. |
| 0:46.0 | So hoping they don't take any more wrong turns. First of all, Mano Henrio, welcome back. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello, thanks for having us. You should explain lunchbox envy. |
| 0:54.9 | So it's a podcast where we look at the weird and wonderful stories behind our, like, the things we eat every day. |
| 1:03.6 | So it's me and my fellow QI. |
| 1:05.6 | I of Jack Chambers. |
| 1:07.0 | And our lovely friend, Rosie McKean, who's a chef and food writer. |
| 1:11.7 | It's all brought together by a lovely producer, Alex. |
| 1:14.3 | And yeah, it's so much fun. |
| 1:16.1 | And we eat so well every time we record. |
| 1:20.0 | And thank you for introducing the other players today as well. |
| 1:24.6 | Jack Chambers, welcome back to the show. |
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