The End of Pizza, a Crushed Delivery Robot, and Tasting Pineberries

Food News

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Juliet and Jacoby share their thoughts on English beaches being covered in onions and potatoes, discuss the trend of chain restaurants masquerading as small businesses on delivery apps, and dive deep into the couple who got caught adding their own hair to their food. For this week’s Taste Test, they try pineberries. Finally, they share their Personal Food News and react to some Listener Food News. Do you have Personal Food News? We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at 850-783-9136 or email ListenerFoodNews@Gmail.com for a chance to have your news shared on the show. Be sure to check us out on YouTube and TikTok for exclusive clips, new Taste Tests, and more! Hosts: Juliet Litman and David Jacoby Producers: Mike Wargon and Ronak Nair Musical Elements: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	Alive in every drop. Welcome to Food News.
0:41.3	I'm Juliette Littman.
0:43.2	Let's do the show.
0:45.4	I was going to say let's put 30 minutes on the clock.
0:47.6	We haven't done that in months.
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0:54.0	Stu! 136. All right. Let's get into today's stories. I feel like today there's a nice, like, theme. It's funny. You find it like grab back. I found it to be a theme. What's the theme? There's a lot of delivery and pizza conversation. Okay. All right. We're not starting there.
1:11.5	We're starting there at all.
1:12.3	We're starting with a beach in England.
1:14.6	This sort of delivery.
1:15.5	Actually, several beaches.
1:16.7	Sort of a delivery?
1:17.8	Yes, definitely a delivery of sorts.
1:20.3	So in the southeast of England,
1:22.4	specifically in the Sussex region,
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