The best summer snacks (according to you)
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There's plenty to love about summer. Summer music, summer road trips, summer movies. But to enjoy all those things, you have to sustain yourself somehow. And that means summer snacks. But what are the best summer treats of all? It's an important question. So to make sure that we were getting the real, true answers to what the best snacks are, we didn't want to just rely on ourselves. We wanted to let the people decide. And we are revealing the results in a game all about summer snacks. I'm Linda Holmes, and in this episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're featuring an episode you might not have heard before. It first ran as a bonus episode, which we publish every month for our NPR Plus supporters.
To get access to these bonus episodes and support shows like ours, sign up for NPR Plus by visiting the link in our episode description. Now, on to the show. Here with me today are my Pop Culture Happy Hour co-hosts, Stephen Thompson. Hey, Stephen.
Hello, Linda.
And Glenn Weldon. Hi, Glenn.
Hey, pal.
And also here is my dear pal, Aisha Harris. Hey, Aisha. Hey, hey, Linda. So we paired up summer treats.
What game format does the show use to reveal listeners' favorite summer snacks?
And we put the question of which is better to Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners. Now, our brilliant producers have crunched the numbers. They were in there with their abacus and their slide rule. And I have the answers in front of me about which our listeners picked. My co-hosts do not. So I'm going to ask them to guess what was more popular with our listeners. They will get a point every time they guess correctly how the community works. voted.
It's going to be very hard to separate what I suspect listeners' opinion will be with the immutable truth of whatever I think the correct answer is.
But that is our job, Stephen. That's what we're supposed to do.
I think I have the edge here because I am famously a man of the people. I have the common touch. But my well-known status as Joe Lunchpail won't necessarily serve me well because this is a subset of the population. This is the NPR audience. So I think I need to be more Joe Quinoa. Right.
All right. So before we get started, by the way, I do want to make a note. Some of these things may not be things that you consider snacks. That's OK.
Oh, did we hear from people, Linda?
If you eat enough of anything, it's a meal. So these are always questions of specific application. Don't worry about it. First up, we have one of my very favorite things. Fried dough. So we asked our listeners, which is better, churro or funnel cake? I'm going to start with you, Aisha. What do you think our listeners preferred?
Okay. I know what I would pick, of course. I feel like a lot of people will not consider churro to necessarily be a summer snack. You can eat it pretty much all year round, especially in California. So churro is like a dessert if you go out for Mexican food. So I'm going to say churro. More listeners went with funnel cake. Okay. Just because it has that very specific, like, summer, I'm at the fair or at the beach kind of feel to it. So you're going funnel cake. How about you, Glenn?
I disagree because, I mean, I don't have a wide experience with churros. I mean, I think of them as West Coast. I think of them as Mexican. But, of course, they're— originally from Spanish and Portuguese cuisine. And my only inroad into that cuisine really is my husband. He's Cuban, but Cubans don't really mess around with churros. They are a pastelito people. But that said, conversely, I am a person who grew up in Pennsylvania, near Pennsylvania, Dutch country, Pennsylvania, Dutch or German immigrants. Funnel cakes are in my blood, in my coagulated blood. But I think they're more specialized. I think outside of a Static Fair, you don't see them in the wild.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:32
2
What game format does the show use to reveal listeners' favorite summer snacks?
1:32–7:51
3
Which won: churro or funnel cake according to listeners?
7:51–15:01
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Did listeners prefer lemonade or iced tea as a refreshing summer drink?
15:01–23:08
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Which classic cookout favorite did listeners choose: hamburger or hot dog?
23:08–26:32