The Rise and Fall of Salt Bae, Protein-Packed Doritos, and Tasting Reese’s Oreo Cups

Food News

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Juliet and Jacoby follow up on a lawsuit against Hershey and discuss a pair of heists involving whiskey and gummy bears. For this week’s Taste Test, they try Reese’s Oreo Cups. 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.
0:05.9	I'm Juliet Litman.
0:07.9	Let's get into it.
0:09.3	If you want to talk to us, give us a call at 850-stool-1-36.
0:14.6	Subscribe to us on YouTube.
0:15.8	Follow us on TikTok.
0:16.8	I'm going to be honest.
0:18.0	I miss her old number.
0:20.0	I've noticed that you have to look at it every time. 850, Stu 136. It's not hard to remember.
0:27.1	646, 646, Stu 148 is like much easier for me. I think the 646 is so familiar. I'm like 850. What's that?
0:35.2	You feel upset about this for weeks now. This is really a problem for you. I miss the old number. I feel zero sympathy for you. None. This is not inversely that you can't get over. I had a lot of concern about going out on maternity leave. And I was just like, you know, what will it be like when I get back? Like, am I getting, like, just. And you thought the number would be the same.
0:55.2	Yeah, one thing it didn't occur to me to worry about.
0:57.8	It's the food news number changing.
0:59.7	This has been really hard for you.
1:01.3	I just miss saying six four six, stew, 148.
1:05.5	850, stew, 136.
1:08.6	Well, hopefully our listeners can also get over this very difficult psychological hum that has really been tripping you up for the past month.
1:16.7	850, stew, 136.
1:19.7	I also notice you don't chime in for the stew with the same gusto that you used to.
1:24.7	Are you serious?
1:26.6	I also noticed you got mad at producer Mike because the number changed. You brought up like four times now. And what was the guy supposed to do? Call his own number once a month just to keep it going? Like making payments on like a storage unit so it doesn't get auctioned off on a reality show? Yeah. Wow. I like hold on to emails that I like only use for one purpose.
1:45.0	I'm not mad at producer Mike, but...
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