And here we are. This is our first episode of American Gravy. I'm Chef Andrew Gruel. And I'm Lauren

Grohl. And as many of you may know who have followed us for the years or you're just newly

tuning in, this is an episode that's going to cover everything from food, lifestyle, politics,

culture, our own personal stories, anecdotes, a little bit of everything. But consider it almost the kitchen sink, pun intended, har, har. You are a funny man. Yes, I know. Thank you. She's the only one who doesn't laugh at my jokes. That's why we keep having so many kids is because then I have an audience that will continuously laugh at my jokes. You know what, that's not true. But over the years, you keep using the same jokes on me so I don't find them funny anymore.

Whatever. I give new little spins and twists and garnishes. So American gravy, we are restaurant owners of family.

We've got four kids. We've got a little bit of a media, something going on.

I don't know exactly what that is, but we are based out of Huntington Beach, California.

We're really excited to be giving you guys the little tidbits every week on what's happening in the food world.

So why don't we kick this off with a couple stories that we've seen over the past few weeks and dive right in?

I love it. I love it. Let's start off with Walmart. They're getting rid of their synthetic

dyes. Everybody has been announcing since RFK has taken over in this new Maha movement, obviously

a motivation to clean up their own food system and food supply. I got to say I'm a bit

apprehensive, although it is good news.

It's great news. The thing I guess I'm apprehensive about as well is that they said they're

going to start implementing this in 2027. Yeah, and that's the thing, right? So first of all,

when they made this announcement, they, big press release, they're going to eliminate all the synthetic

artificial dyes and 30 other

controversial additives from their U.S. private label food brands. Okay. So that's like great

value market side. Freshness guaranteed. I used to hang out at Walmart a lot. So, you know,

I know the brands. And one of the things in that press release that I found interesting was they

said, well, 90% of our existing private label foods are already free of the synthetic dyes. They said 90%. 90%. So they're making the announcement that they're removing the synthetic dyes and they're removing these ingredients. But they're also saying, well, it only applies to 10% of our supply chain. I wouldn't have even thrown that out there. I would have been like big changes, a lot of work that needs to go into this. Yeah, exactly. Why would they like, you know, kind of downplay it? Well, exactly. And that's the thing that I find interesting. And then furthermore, if they're pushing it off for another two years, I think that that's curious because what we've seen with a lot of these massive food manufacturers is they

came out and made these huge PR announcements, but then they put their timeline past or into, not past,

...