The 7 Best Food Stories of September

Eater's Digest

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A Maine restaurant wants to smoke out its lobsters before killing them to ease them into the afterlife (1:40). The red delicious apple is no longer the most popular apple in America (5:00). Gabrielle Hamilton has pulled out of the controversial Spotted Pig deal (9:45). The latest viral food is a smoked watermelon ham, and its creator doesn't know what to do with it (16:30). New York critics Robert Sietsema and Ryan Sutton debate the quality of Shake Shack's brand new chicken nuggets (20:00). Why is the bone luge shot is back (33:00)? Eater's special correspondent (and Texas expert) Meghan McCarron breaks down Ted Cruz' food based attacks on Senate Democratic nominee Beto O'Rourke (35:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast in the following message comes from Smart Water.
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0:17.0	Welcome to the Eater Upsell. This is Amanda Clute, editor and chief of Eder. I'm joined as always by star
0:25.7	co-host Daniel Janine.
0:27.3	I'm a star is born.
0:29.3	Star is born. Are you going to see that movie?
0:31.3	For sure I'm going to see that movie.
0:32.3	I love musicals. Are you going to see the movie? For sure I'm going to see that movie.
0:34.0	Oh yeah, big time.
0:35.0	Speaking of, well I've absolutely no transition into food.
0:38.0	Food Stories!
0:40.0	It's the Food Stories Day.
0:41.0	It is our favorite time of the month where we run down all of our favorite stories and we attempt to go back and forth on them a little bit.
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