Video Gamers Podcast
[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are bringing you a very fun BONUS episode this week! Join us as we welcome AZFOODGUY to the show to resolve all of our long standing food debates! That's right, we brought in a true food expert to finally put to rest some of the longest standing food rivalries we've had, and what results may just change the future of the podcast. Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Check out AZFOODGUY and follow at: https://www.instagram.com/azfoodguy/ Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is AZFOODGUY and why is he on the podcast?
All right, everybody, we want to welcome the AZ Food Guy to the show. He is a local here in Phoenix with us who has a passion for food that might be rivaled by our love of arguing about food. AZ Food Guy, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for taking the time to join us. How are you doing today?
Doing good. Thank you for having me. This is my first time on a video game podcast, so I'm super excited.
Yeah, we're excited to have you. This is our first time having a food expert on the show. We like to think we know food, but after checking out some of your content... I'm on the show. I'm on the show. Yeah, Ryan, the reason we brought AC Food Guy onto the show is to finally settle some of the debates that you and I have had over food takes. Fair enough. And your food takes are terrible.
All right, all right.
But it is awesome to have you, man. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us. This is going to be a fun little episode here because we are going to lean on your food expertise to settle some of our longstanding arguments that Ryan and I have had about food. And honestly, people in our community, it's one of those things that... Everybody loves talking about it.
We actually have a food channel in our Discord server where people post photos of things they're making or recipes that they might have and stuff like that. So there is definitely a big overlap between gaming and food. And so we love this kind of crossover that we got going on right now.
I'll be the judge. Absolutely. That's what we want.
Yeah. As long as you pick my side, that's all that really matters. Okay. So, you know, obviously we are a gaming podcast. So before we get into learning a little bit more about, you know, some of the food in the Valley and settling some of these debates, you know, we just wanted to kind of take a second to get to know you a little bit better. And what better way than to get to know somebody better?
to kind of talk about what kind of games they like. So you do play games and we chatted a little bit on email before we started this episode and then just kind of prior to recording. So what are some of your actual favorite games?
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Chapter 2: What are AZFOODGUY's favorite games?
Yeah, they did the Reloaded recently. I think that was a year or two ago, but the original one came out a while back. Yeah.
So I've been playing that for a long time. Of course, Final Fantasy. I didn't play all of the Final Fantasies, but I definitely skipped around and played... Which one? I played 1, I played 6, I played 10, I played 15... And then I kind of gave the other ones a try a little bit when I had time. But those two series are my usual main ones that I would play.
Yeah. Persona games are some of the most beloved games out there. Now, being that the developer is Atlus, have you played or heard of Metaphor Refantasio? Because there's a lot of people out there that are saying that is actually the best game that they've ever made.
I have definitely heard of it. I was at Anime Expo about six months ago, and they had this giant display. Not even a giant. Well, it was like 20 feet high. That's a giant display.
That's pretty big.
And so everything was all about that game. Usually they have a really big Persona booth. But six months ago, it was all about the new game and the persona section was very, very small. So I definitely heard of the game. I watched some of the reviews on it. It looks pretty good.
Yeah. We have heard from a lot of people that they think it's the best game that they've made. I mean, Persona 5 Royale is widely considered one of the best RPGs ever made. I have played it. I can really appreciate what is in that game. It's just not my favorite pacing in a game, I think, but I can absolutely appreciate what they did with that. But
Maybe just to put it on your radar, Metaphor Refantasio has gotten a ton of hype. It was up for Game of the Year as far as some of those awards. So maybe just check that out in your spare time. So is it safe to say that you're kind of a fan of RPGs?
Yeah, I've played a lot of RPGs. It's just more convenient for my life right now because I can play it and then I can just forget it for about maybe a month if I'm super busy and then come back.
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Chapter 3: What is the worst food experience AZFOODGUY has had?
That's amazing. How do you mess up ramen? I know, right? Even the worst ramen is still like semi-good.
I find out that once you eat enough ramen, you kind of know like what ramen you don't want.
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I find that hard to believe that somebody could mess that up. But I mean, apparently it happens too.
Let me ask you, what's a ramen place that you love?
I can tell you the best ramen in the valley. And my daughter is an absolute ramen fanatic. There's a place called Yutaka that is on, I think it's Bell Road and 7th Avenue. It's a little place. It is the best. It's, it's like rated like top 25 in the country for ramen. Um, and their tonkatsu ramen is, Oh, Oh my goodness. It is some of the best I've ever had. Wow.
You talk, I'll have to look that up. I'll send you after this, I'll send you the, uh, the link. Uh, cause you should absolutely try that. I, again, it's some of the best I've ever had. And it's for, from us, it's like a 15 minute drive. Cause it's, um, yeah, I think it's seventh Avenue and bell. Uh, is where it's located. I'll send you the details after this.
So, cause I I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Um, okay. And then do you have a favorite, uh, we'll kind of make this broad, but a favorite food, a dish or a specific meal from a place that you've eaten at here in the Valley?
That's a little hard. I eat so many things. I'll tell you what I really like. I really love pastrami. That's something that attracts me towards there. Any place that has pastrami, I'll have to go. I love Wagyu beef. If someone has Wagyu, I'll be like, all right, I'll go there and try that. It's more like not a particular restaurant or dish.
It's more like I'm attracted to certain categories of food.
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Chapter 4: What is AZFOODGUY's favorite ramen in Phoenix?
this i mean they're all friendly but you know we've definitely had people like take sides on things so now that we have a professional here uh we thought it would just be awesome to get your takes on this and to finally have you be the judge and and what you say goes like this will actually end the feuds uh for us at least for a little while yeah So let's tackle a few of these.
And starting off, perhaps the biggest debate that we have ever had. Years.
For years it's been going on.
And has split the community. This has split social media because we've posted on social media about this. And I won't tell you who's on what side here. But the question is, waffles or pancakes?
Waffles or pancakes. That's a tough one there. You know, I would have to go with, just because I don't have the equipment for it, I would have to say pancakes. Yeah! You hear that, Ryan?
Pancakes, everybody!
You know, I just love the soft, fluffy pancakes, especially the jiggly ones. They have those in Japan, and you just cover them in syrup. It's just a great combination of syrup, softness, fluffiness. Yeah, I think I'll have to go with pancakes.
Oh, yeah. You hear that, Ryan? That's all we have for today. So thanks for joining us. I can respect it. I am not a sweets guy, but if I'm going to eat a doughy pastry covered in sugar, I tend to go with waffles. I just like that kind of those little pockets just hold all the goodness, you know, with each every little bite.
The decision's been made, Ryan.
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Chapter 5: What food categories does AZFOODGUY love?
Well, this next one might be Ryan's big one here.
Okay, so this is the big one. This is the moneymaker here. And I know that a lot of the world is divided on either side. And we're going to go with sweet or salty.
Sweet or salty food?
Yeah, sweet or salty food. Are you going with the pastries, the candies, the donuts, the treats, or like you said, that pastrami, that beautiful, delicious sandwich, that salty ramen, that delicious ramen you're going to eat, you know, all the good, good stuff.
I think, wow. Okay. I think Ryan has me there. I would take the salty, the savory over the sweets.
I object. There was bias and persuasion going on. It's just a broader category. I mean, I say I object, but man, like sweets are so narrow and they're delicious. But when you say salty, I feel like you just have this massive pool that you don't get with sweet food. At the same time.
Yeah, I think so as well. Salty, savory. It could be almost anything. But when you think of sweets, it's more like maybe a snack or something after or maybe a light breakfast. I don't know.
Yeah, I just I don't know, man. My brain is just sugar. It just wants sugar.
All I know is when I'm at a party and I finish dinner and then I look and I see like a pile of nachos or I see a couple of cookies. I'm just going for more nachos, man. That's what I want. You're weird.
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Chapter 6: What is the ultimate debate: Waffles or Pancakes?
hmm well i think based on like my i guess if i just had to go through my content i actually haven't had a burger in a while i think i've only done like maybe one percent two percent of my content on burgers but i've definitely done a lot of tacos so many tacos that i i probably don't want to think about so uh i think if i had to choose i still probably go with tacos because i've
I've eaten so many variety of tacos, from fish tacos to lobster tacos to media tacos to everything. And so that always still surprises me, while a burger is usually...
a piece of beef or you know i had a wagyu burger i think that was pretty good too but i think i'll go with tacos just for the variety all right i'm gonna i'm also gonna recommend a burger place for you to try that is some of the best burgers i've ever had after the show so here we go josh brings that burger place up every time i'll save it we'll save it and then we'll come back we can come back a little later yeah i would like i would like a follow-up on this and be like now which one burgers or tacos it'd be like burgers i didn't know i didn't know
Okay, well, since the season is here, it's February, and you know what February means. It's Girl Scout time, where these drug-peddling girls come around and try to give us their crack cookies. So what would you say is the best Girl Scout cookie?
What's that one? It starts with an S. Samoas. Samoas, yes.
yeah it's two and two now right i'm i'm i like i said before i'm not a sweets guy but i will i it is i'm incapable of eating uh one thin mint i will eat a sleeve every time uh no questions asked and i just don't even try to hide it if i'm gonna do it i commit it's not very often but yeah i'm for sure a frozen thin mint guy
Oh, that's my number two right there.
That is a solid number two. That's fair. And I'm sure if I like sweets a lot more, I would try the other ones, but I just have no interest. So if I'm going to do it, I'm like, all right, well, this is the only thing I'm going to eat. So I just always do the Thin Mints.
All right. One more in the debate category here, and then we'll move on to some quickfire ones here. Chewy cookies or crunchy cookies? The longstanding debate here is like the chewy Chips Ahoy versus the crunchy, like original Chips Ahoy.
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