John Oates, Rib Eye Steak & Ice Cream
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
John Oates is the mustachioed half of Hall & Oates, the best selling musical duo in history. Maneater! I Can't Go For That! Rich Girl! These dudes were hit making machines.
So host Rachel Belle started thinking about famous food duos: Ketchup & Mustard. Peanut Butter & Jelly. But the best selling culinary duo of all time has got to be Salt & Pepper. When did they get together? And why do we automatically sprinkle them both on our food without questioning their coupling? Learn the history of salt & pepper from Ken Albala, professor of food history at the University of Pacific.
And like so many other Your Last Meal guests before him, ice cream is a part of John's last meal; specifically Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. Rumor has it, owner Jeni Britton Bauer created the salted caramel ice cream flavor that pops up on boutique ice cream shop menus across the country. She tells Rachel how music influences every flavor they dream up.
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. |
| 0:27.6 | A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.5 | Today on the program, John Oates, as in Holland Oates, as in the one you had the big fuzzy caterpillar living on his |
| 0:40.1 | lip for most of the 1970s and 80s. |
| 0:42.4 | Things changed after I shudded my mustache. |
| 0:44.7 | I was like kind of freed from the shackle of my facial hair. |
| 0:49.1 | Hollen Oates is the kind of band that you go see live and you realize that you know every single |
| 0:53.6 | song and every single |
| 0:55.2 | song is a hit we're talking man eater we're talking i can't go for that we're talking you're a rich |
| 1:00.2 | girl which do you remember that song had a bad word in it that they would play on the radio |
| 1:04.4 | the b word and that just felt like ha ha that snuck through like i always was stoked on that as a kid |
| 1:10.5 | hollow notes have |
| 1:11.6 | sold 40 million records. They are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters' Hall of |
| 1:16.3 | Fame, and they are the best-selling music duo in history. So I started thinking about famous |
| 1:22.7 | food duos, ketchup and mustard, peanut butter and jelly, and the ultimate arranged marriage, salt |
| 1:29.6 | and pepper. They're always together, but why? When and why did they become the standard |
| 1:36.5 | table seasonings? I consult with Professor Ken Albaala, who teaches food history at the University |
| 1:42.3 | of the Pacific in Stockton, California. |
| 1:44.9 | Salt and Pepper were not originally a couple. |
| 1:47.7 | And Jenny's splendid ice creams has been churning out funky flavored ice creams |
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