Feeding Babies Butter, Burger King Vs. McDonald's, and Tasting Erewhon With Bill Simmons

Food News

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week, Juliet and Jacoby are joined by Bill Simmons to share their thoughts on a new ranch milkshake, follow up with the fridge detectives on Reddit, and discuss a restaurant's $50K water bill. For this week’s Taste Test, they try smoothies from Erewhon. Finally, they share their Personal Food News and react to some Listener Food News.Do you have Personal Food News? We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at 850-783-9136 or email ListenerFoodNews@Gmail.com for a chance to have your news shared on the show.Be sure to check us out on YouTube and TikTok for exclusive clips, new taste tests, and more!Hosts: Juliet Litman and David JacobyGuest: Bill SimmonsProducer: Mike WargonMusical Elements: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Welcome to Food News. I'm Juliet Lippin. I'm David Jacoby.
1:14.1	We have a very special guest today. It's the podfather, Bill Simmons. Hi, Bill. I invited myself.
1:20.6	He did it. Nobody else invites me. I just want to say that this is a very successful format based on our chemistry. Yeah. And I'm a little concerned about you being here.
1:28.5	Except we've known each other for 15 years. So if we don't have chemistry at this point, we should just get friend divorced. Also, Bill, I don't say Bill set us up. He heard us talking in the office and he told us to do a podcast. So he's good at that. He's like, he's the matchmaker here. Yeah. Now we don't have offices really anymore.
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