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The Sporkful

The Great Super Bowl Snack Debate

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanagh are great comedic actors and friends who love to analyze snacks in extreme detail on their podcast, Mike and Tom Eat Snacks. In this special crossover episode ahead of the Super Bowl, Dan tells Mike and Tom about the time his overly ambitious Super Bowl snack idea went very wrong. They also get into a fiery debate about chicken wings and put different shapes of tortilla chips to a taste test.

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0:00.0

Sirius XM Podcasts.

0:07.0

You're definitely going traditional sort of appetizer, entree, dessert as you work through the game.

0:17.1

For a sporting event, dessert is not a big thing, maybe after.

0:20.6

Your team wins. You're telling me you're going to turn down a big thing, maybe after. Your team wins.

0:21.4

You're telling me you're going to turn down to Chipwich?

0:23.3

Come on.

0:29.0

This is the Sporkful.

0:30.8

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

0:32.8

I'm Dan Pashman.

0:33.9

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

0:38.1

Now, before we get to this week's show, we have a live podcast taping in Brooklyn coming up next month, not so far away

0:43.8

anymore. I'll be joined on stage by cookbook author and friend of the show, Kenji Lopez-Alt, as well as

0:49.3

a legend of comedy, the one and only Judy Gold, who I have loved forever.

0:55.0

It's March 19th at the Bell House. This is going to be a blast and tickets are going

0:58.5

fast. So get yours now. Go to sporkful.com slash live. All right. Let's get into it.

1:06.4

When I first started this podcast 16 years ago in my living room, the show was more about analyzing

1:11.7

and debating the tiniest details of the eating experience.

1:15.0

Things like whether cheese burgers are better with the cheese on the bottom, or how to build

1:19.5

a smore that doesn't fall apart when you bite into it, or the best strategy at an all-you-can-eat-a-buffet.

1:24.7

And in those early days, there was another podcast called Mike and Tom eat snacks that also

1:29.8

went into extreme detail on basic foods, in this case specifically snacks.

1:34.8

Now, many of the 15 or 20 listeners I had at the time wrote to me and said, you should have

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