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The Sporkful

Instant Pot’s Bankruptcy And Thai Cheese “Burgers”

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today we tackle news in the world of food that’s at turns substantive, silly, and surprising in a new series we’re calling Salad Spinner! Take a spin with us as Dan chats with journalists Amanda Mull (The Atlantic) and Dennis Lee (The Takeout) about Instant Pot’s parent company declaring bankruptcy, Burger King’s rollout of a cheese sandwich monstrosity in Thailand, and what it means that the World Health Organization now deems aspartame “possibly carcinogenic.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's nothing better with a pizza than Diet Coke in my opinion.

0:06.2

I will drink that in that scenario until the day I die.

0:09.4

You can take it from my cold dead hands.

0:18.2

This is the Sporkfall.

0:19.2

It's not for food, it's for eaters.

0:20.9

I'm Dan Pashman.

0:22.4

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

0:26.1

Today we're presenting a rapid fire round table discussion of flamin' hot news in the

0:30.5

world of food.

0:31.6

Some of it's substantive, some is silly, I think it's all pretty surprising, and based

0:36.2

on a poll I conducted on Instagram last night, we're calling this format, a salad spinner.

0:43.1

I'll have you know that Sporkfall Engineer Jared O'Connell recorded his own salad spinner

0:54.0

in his own home for that sound effect, bespoke sound effects here on the Sporkfall.

0:58.6

Do you see the lengths we go to for your enjoyment?

1:00.9

By the way, if you followed me on Instagram, you would have been able to vote in that poll.

1:04.2

You would be able to help and have creative input in our show and determine the name of

1:07.9

this segment.

1:08.9

So please do that, follow me at these Sporkfall.

1:11.6

Anyway, joining me to talk about these spicy morsels are two very special guests.

1:16.3

The first is a mandamol staff writer at the Atlanta who covers health and American consumerism.

1:21.0

As you can imagine, that means you covers a lot of food stories.

1:23.7

Hey Amanda.

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