My brief time as a waitress, I worked at a restaurant that served only like dessert

cocktails and every single one of them was served in the shallowest martini glass you can imagine.

It was basically a plate on the end of a stem.

And I was so bad at this, and I don't think I ever didn't spill a cocktail and it was a nightmare and

then one day I went to work and discovered that the restaurant had shut down and I was like

you know what good I can't do it anymore.

This is the Sportful

it's not for foodies it's forers. I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people and today we're climbing back in the salad spinner for a year-end edition.

It's a rapid-fire roundtable discussion of the biggest, strangest, and most surprising food stories in the past year.

I can't do something like this alone, you know that, so joining me in the spinner are two very special guests.

First, here in New York we have Jaya Saxena,

correspondent at Eater, whose essay about the future of food

was in this year's best American food writing.

Congrats Jaya, and hello.

Hi, thank you so much. And in LA we have our old friend

Zach Stafford, one of the hosts of the podcast Vibe Check. You've heard him here on the

podcast with his friends from Vibe Check. Earlier this year we went deep on Chipotle Bowls along with some other very pressing issues.

Hello again, Zach.

Hi, thank you for having me and thank you for making Chipotle a part of my life forever.

Was it not already?

It was.

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