Now, you're probably wondering what I'm doing here on a lovely Thursday morning.

Well, it's Vic here with your Thursday retrospective episode of Sober Awkward.

You might be thinking, hang on, haven't I heard this before?

And the answer is yes, yes, you have.

But like all good drinking stories and bad toilet humour,

they both get better with age, or at least less embarrassing the more times we tell them.

On Thursdays, we dust off our favourite episodes from the archives,

something you might have missed, loved or listened to at the start of your sober life.

Think of it as a journey back in time, or a jolly leftover, a bit like lasagna that tastes even

better on day two. So sit back, relax and enjoy this vintage slice of awkwardness. A retrospective

episode reheated and served right to your ears.

It might seem strange in a podcast about sobriety and drinking to focus a whole episode on food,

which is what we're talking about today, but it does actually play an important role both in our drinking years and in our sobriety. Over the course of today's episode, we hope to walk you through how alcohol affects our eating habits and our taste buds when we're drinking. We're always walking people through, aren't we? Yeah, walk them through, lead them. There is no walking going on in these pocketups.

I'm just really hot, I'm sitting in a really hot room, being sad.

Sweating, not moving.

It's the opposite of exercise. Yeah. We will cover some of the foods that you might want to be wary of in your sobriety. Haggis, for example. Not haggis, although you actually should be a little bit worried of that, no matter how far along in your sobriety you are.

I was more thinking the hidden alcohol in some foods.

Okay, fair enough. And we want to share with you the new role that food can play in your life once you've kicked the booze. Now, Vic, there is something I want to share with you. Oh, God, not herpes again, Hamish. No, no, no. You know how we like to include a bit of scientific research in the podcast? Oh, do we? That's a surprise, Amy.

We always do. Amish. No, no, no. You know how we like to include a bit of scientific research in the podcast?

Oh, do we? That's a surprise, Amish. We always do. Yeah, it adds a level of depth to each episode and makes us sound much more intelligent than we actually are. Yes, which we need. Well, never before have I enjoyed doing the research as much as I did writing this episode. I feel as if I found all of the answers to the questions I never thought that I needed answers to. I don't understand what you're saying. But it basically sounds like you've just been eating to research. Is that right? I didn't do any eating. Oh, okay. Well, that was surely would be the point. Google research. Oh, if I was doing food research, I would be eating various foods. No, I can't eat sugar at the moment. I can eat nothing fun at all. It's like me just eating dried oats. You're basically eating rabbit droppings on the day. Yeah, I wish I could eat. I wish I could. I don't know if they'd eaten fruit. They're bad. They're like blissfuls of the world of the earth. Before I reveal to you my research, I want you to take me back to the binge drinking

Vic years. I want to find out the role that food played in your life then, specifically

when you were drunk on a night out. What were you binge eating on?

...