Dave Barry: Cheeseburger & French Fries

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dave Barry wrote a nationally syndicated, Pulitzer Prize-winning column that appeared in 500 newspapers from 1983 to 2005 and has published dozens of books. His newest is his very first memoir: Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass. How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up.

Case in point: Dave really loves ketchup! He’s also very opinionated about it: where he stores it and what vessel it is delivered in. Spoiler alert: He keeps his ketchup on the counter. Food safety expert Angela Anandappa, executive director of Alliance for Advanced Sanitation, joins the show to tell us which condiments belong in the fridge and which are fine hanging out in the pantry. Plus, host Rachel Belle admits which condiment she’s had in the pantry for 10 years ... and still uses!

Dave, a seafood despiser, tells us what he did with the live Maine lobster mailed to him as a gift; what his family, a group of fruitcake despisers, did with gifted fruitcake; and Dave and Rachel conclude that the best place to cook French fries is in an airplane bathroom.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:19.7	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.2	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:27.1	the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.7	Today on the program, humorist Dave Barry.
0:35.2	Dave wrote a weekly, nationally syndicated column that appeared in 500 newspapers
0:39.4	from 1983 to 2005. And that column won him a Pulitzer Prize. But when newspaper started a tank,
0:46.8	he doubled down on writing books. Dave has published dozens of books. But his new one is his
0:52.9	very first memoir. It's called Class Clown,
0:56.1	the memoirs of a professional wise ass, how I went 77 years without growing up. Case in point,
1:02.7	Dave really loves ketchup. Do you don't need to refrigerate ketchup or mustard? In my household,
1:09.5	we don't put those things in refrigerator. Is that true? Do you really not have to refrigerate ketchup and mustard. In my household, we don't put those things in refrigerate.
1:11.2	Is that true?
1:12.2	Do you really not have to refrigerate ketchup and mustard?
1:14.9	What about butter?
1:16.0	Soy sauce, peanut butter.
1:17.6	A food safety and sanitation expert pops in
1:20.2	to tell us where we should be keeping our condiments.
1:23.2	That's coming up later in the show.
1:25.0	But first, my conversation with Dave Barry.
1:34.1	I don't like lobster.
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