ICYMI - How a Pesto Recipe Devolved Into Delightful Chaos
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice answer a question from a listener about a viral pesto recipe. Susi Vidal, a 25-year-old food influencer, posted a simple recipe for pesto on September 1st. Since then, the introduction to her video which goes “Call me crazy but I’ve never liked store-bought pesto” has been used as a launching pad for wild stories about everything from terrible breakups to long-lost parents.
Earlier in the episode, Bobbi Althoff makes a return.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
Episode Syllabus
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- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR74Hec6/
- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR745Htc/
- https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR74DHk1
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim. |
| 0:14.8 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:18.3 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.1 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.9 | And Rachel, there's a question I've been thinking about all weekend, which is, would you still |
| 0:29.1 | be my friend if I was a shrimp or would you cook me? |
| 0:33.0 | Wow, this is the classic question of would you still love me if I was a snail? |
| 0:41.9 | Um, okay, question. |
| 0:45.5 | Did I know you before you were a shrimp or have I only known you as a shrimp? |
| 0:54.9 | I think this is a princess and frog situation where like, you knew me as a person I became |
| 0:59.5 | shrimp. |
| 1:00.5 | Okay. |
| 1:01.5 | In that case, yes, I would still be friends with you. |
| 1:03.3 | I would get you a little aquarium. |
| 1:05.5 | I would make sure your life was as happy as possible. |
| 1:07.4 | I would try to get you a shrimp boyfriend. |
| 1:09.2 | I would do, I would create a shrimp bachelor's situation where I would just be putting like |
| 1:16.2 | men in to see if you like them every single day just to make sure this is so sweet. |
| 1:24.2 | You're producing me, you're producing shrimp bachelor. |
| 1:27.5 | I am. |
| 1:28.5 | I am. |
| 1:29.5 | I am. |
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