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🗓️ 20 October 2016
⏱️ 111 minutes
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0:00.0 | CURT HANKENS |
0:04.6 | You likely don't know his name, but you know how to know his most famous creation. |
0:09.6 | In 1988, the flagship seafood chain owned by a parent company, Darden Restaurants, removed |
0:13.8 | their popular hush puppies side from the menu. |
0:16.2 | In search of a cost-efficient starch to fill, avoid, HANKENS, then an executive chef at |
0:20.1 | the corporation was tasked with crafting its replacement. |
0:23.2 | He settled on a garlic cheese bread that used biscuit flour, and once it finally landed |
0:26.7 | on tables and test markets, it was an instant hit in spread nationwide. |
0:30.6 | After years of being known only as hot cheese garlic bread, the restaurant decided on the |
0:34.6 | iconic name, Cheddar Bay Biscuits. |
0:37.4 | As Chef Hankens himself writes, quote, |
0:39.4 | �You will have a difficult time finding Cheddar Bay on the map. |
0:42.6 | It's a fictitious name created to bring the biscuits to life, embody the seaside |
0:46.4 | theme, and emphasize that these are not your typical biscuits. |
0:50.0 | Not typical indeed. |
0:51.3 | These extraordinary savory confections are hugely popular with both fish fanatics and |
0:55.4 | picky land-loving kids. |
0:57.0 | The chain's internal numbers claim they serve over 1 million Cheddar Bay biscuits every |
1:00.6 | single day nationwide, raising the question, �Is this a seafood restaurant or a biscuit |
1:06.6 | restaurant that also serves seafood?� |
1:09.3 | This week on Doe Boys, part three of Rock Lobster Fest, our month-long review of Red Lobster. |
1:25.4 | Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. |
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