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Food News

The Return of McDonald’s Monopoly, Sports Booze, and Tasting A&W Ice Cream Sundae Soda

Food News

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, Juliet and Jacoby once again discuss the Choco Taco, cover the man who tried the world’s smelliest fish, and discuss whether the plant-based trend is over. For this week’s Taste Test, they try Ice Cream Sundae–flavored soda from A&W. 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 [email protected] 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 Producer: Mike Wargon Musical Elements: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Food News. I'm Juliet Litman. I'm David Jacoby. Let's get started. First, our phone number.

0:12.5

I sure did. But let's start with our phone number. Do you remember it?

0:16.0

Yes. 850. Stu 136. Give us a call with your personal food news. Do you always say oh and not zero? 850 instead of 850, Stu 136. Give us a call with your personal food news.

0:22.0

Do you always say oh and not zero, 850 instead of 850?

0:25.5

In phone number context, yes.

0:27.5

It's an O, interesting.

0:28.9

I'm a zero person, but.

0:30.8

We all know, Coke Zero only cans.

0:32.8

Exactly, Coke Zero only.

0:35.2

Let's get into today's story, a huge one at the top of the show. Positively huge. It's about McDonald's.

0:41.7

And if you're either a middle millennial or a old millennial slash young Gen X, I mean, like Jacoby.

0:49.1

Unnecessary roughness. Flagged 15 yards. You certainly remember the monopoly games of the 90s.

0:56.7

And then maybe you have an HBO subscription and you watched the HBO Max documentary about

1:02.3

the major scandal around McDonald's monopoly.

1:05.9

Well, that game is coming back, people.

1:07.7

McDonald's is looking to turn their business around, improve loyalty,

1:12.2

improve customers coming in. And as a result, they're now doing an app-based version of the

1:18.2

Monopoly game. And the prizes are pretty great. The top three prizes are one million American

1:23.6

Airlines miles. That's awesome. That's awesome. And also like smart, that costs everybody

1:28.4

zero dollars. Like all that means is like one extra person flying on American Airlines worldwide.

1:33.7

And like that costs them zero dollars. A new Jeep, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I like jeeps.

1:40.5

A new car? I like jeeps. Cars are really expensive now.

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