Ever thought about making candles out of butter or assembling an extravagant charcuterie board? Get ready to explore the world of quirky food trends with your favorite hosts, Meredith and Caroline. We’ll be sharing our thoughts on the rise of butter candles and intricate charcuterie boards, all the way down to controversial details like the salami rose. We don't shy away from the question: are we going overboard with our food presentations?
Transitioning from tasty trends to tidy homes, we plunge into the realm of CleanTok and the side effects of consumerism. As the pressure to maintain a picture-perfect home increases, we share our personal experiences and views on the impact of social media in shaping these perceptions. We're also spilling the beans on our product usage habits and our opinions on premium appliances like Dyson vacuums. Bonus: if you’re a pet owner, we'll let you in on a handy trick for removing dog smells from your home. Tune in for an entertaining hour of lively discussions and revelations about the idiosyncrasies of modern life.
Ever thought about making candles out of butter or assembling an extravagant charcuterie board? Get ready to explore the world of quirky food trends with your favorite hosts, Meredith and Caroline. We’ll be sharing our thoughts on the rise of butter candles and intricate charcuterie boards, all the way down to controversial details like the salami rose. We don't shy away from the question: are we going overboard with our food presentations?
Transitioning from tasty trends to tidy homes, we plunge into the realm of CleanTok and the side effects of consumerism. As the pressure to maintain a picture-perfect home increases, we share our personal experiences and views on the impact of social media in shaping these perceptions. We're also spilling the beans on our product usage habits and our opinions on premium appliances like Dyson vacuums. Bonus: if you’re a pet owner, we'll let you in on a handy trick for removing dog smells from your home. Tune in for an entertaining hour of lively discussions and revelations about the idiosyncrasies of modern life.
Caroline, when this comes out, you'll be like on your way back from Disney World or still in Disney World. I will be doing next Tuesday.
Speaker 3:
I will be getting ready for work the day after I get back for my trip. I get back next Monday, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:
So when this comes out, I'll be starting the Disney Blues. What are the Disney Blues?
Speaker 3:
It's when your trip is over and you don't have another one planned, so you're just sad because it's over.
Speaker 2:
That's a glimpse into Disney adult life that we will be getting into another time when we have a full stack of all the sisters because we're all Disney adults on different part to the Disney adult spectrum.
Speaker 1:
Yes.
Speaker 2:
Yes, okay, I'm surprised in Caroline with what we're talking about today, and I'm really excited because I cannot believe we have not discussed this yet. Okay, and it's really fitting for the holiday season, okay, okay, I've been seeing people have we Let me talk about this? I've been seeing people making candles out of butter.
Speaker 3:
I haven't. We've not talked about this, have you?
Speaker 2:
been seeing that no.
Speaker 3:
But I had.
Speaker 2:
It started last year and then it stopped, and then I saw one the other day and I was like it's happening again.
Speaker 3:
I saw at Food Lion the other day, because we were at the climbing gym and there's Food Lion right next door. I ran in to get a snack. There was a butter sculpture of a turkey In a box. Yes, yeah, is that a thing I saw?
Speaker 2:
those I don't know if they're new or if it's like an old tradition come back, but I saw them for the first time also last year.
Speaker 3:
What the hell do you do with this? I think it's kind of cute.
Speaker 2:
You put it on your Thanksgiving table.
Speaker 3:
Okay, you never see it. You had one, oh shit, walker had two, walker had two butter turkey.
Speaker 2:
Like this year, are growing up this year, I think they're cute.
Speaker 3:
Did you spread a biscuit with your turkey butter?
Speaker 2:
No Walkers into the butter, turkey His favorite part of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:
That's good to know, because I saw it in the box and I thought what? What's happening here? I think it's cute, but to know that it's acceptable, yeah, I think they're cute, they're fun. Sign me up on a butter turkey.
Speaker 2:
You get to carve a turkey and then you get to carve a turkey, okay. No, this is something that is DIY, okay, and I just don't love it. So, basically you make, you like melt butter, and then you basically like pour a candle, you like put a wick in like a muffin tin.
Speaker 3:
I'm just picturing a wick going all the way through a stick of butter and like that being the candle.
Speaker 2:
No no that's really funny, it's no? You like melt butter, you put a wick in like a tin, like a muffin pan, and then you like pour the butter, and then you wait for it to like re harden, and then you like light it on your charcuterie board, which that's part B of this conversation.
Speaker 3:
Wait, this is adding a whole other layer I was like is this for scents? No, it's for eating.
Speaker 2:
And so then you're like dip, then you like light the candle, which I'm not convinced it works.
Speaker 3:
I'm so glad you're bringing this up, because this will lead into a topic that I've been wanting to talk to you about for a long time.
Speaker 2:
So, anyway, the idea, I guess, is that you light the candle and then you're dipping bread in the butter candle, and I have conflicting feelings about it. Part of me is like this is really smart, and other parts of me this is leading to part B we're doing too much.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, the charcuterie board has gotten Leave the butter on the counter.
Speaker 2:
let it soften the charcuterie board.
Speaker 3:
Why does the charcuterie board need butter? Well, is it like bread and jam and butter? This is what's happening.
Speaker 2:
It was charcuterie. And then it was charcuterie and like breads and crackers, and then oh, people started spreading shit into little like.
Speaker 3:
Have you seen the things where they like spread the butter board?
Speaker 2:
Okay, yes, the butter board is a thing which I'm like. We don't need that much butter, but now we're just like putting everything on a fricking platter.
Speaker 3:
Everything's on a platter now they have, like the parties where you like, bring a themed board.
Speaker 2:
Which I say this all in vain, because I kind of love it.
Speaker 3:
If I showed up at one of those parties, I would eat off every single thing on board. I know I love a candy board. I love a good spread.
Speaker 2:
I love a spread, but I just don't. Are we doing?
Speaker 3:
too much.
Speaker 2:
Can we reintroduce some cups? I just don't know how I feel about everything being on a board.
Speaker 3:
I like cups on a board.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 3:
Like you know, to get some height, yeah, and some chin.
Speaker 2:
Okay, how do we feel about the salami rose? I hate the salami rose. I hate watching people make the salami rose.
Speaker 3:
I've never it's never made me want to eat salami more. No, I've always looked at it and thought the same thing should not be turned into a flower.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, flowers should only be sweet things, and I feel passionately about that.
Speaker 3:
Okay. I have looked at one and thought huh and that was my only thought. And then I recently someone was like here's how you make it and I was like have you seen how you make it?
Speaker 2:
It's disgusting.
Speaker 3:
And then it was like easy, this wasn't an intense one, did they drape it?
Speaker 2:
over the edge of a cup.
Speaker 3:
I can't remember Because I hate it. It just makes me feel so icky I don't need to eat like a pepperoni in the shape of a flower.
Speaker 2:
I know that's what I'm saying, but the thing is is that?
Speaker 3:
people are making them look all like super extravagant.
Speaker 2:
And people are making careers out of it. I know it's a whole thing. I know which is great.
Speaker 3:
So the thing that I was going to go into is the like the thing that thank God I don't think it's happening anymore, but the mashed potato bar inside of our teeny glasses, girl. That was like happening at events. I've been to a wedding. Where we go through a buffet line. You grab a martini glass, you put a ice cream scoop of mashed potato.
Speaker 2:
I feel the same way about a martini glass as I do about the rose. You don't need to save everything out of a martini glass. Yeah, and it's I mean a cocktail shore, but like if we're eating food and it doesn't need to be dense, I don't want to eat. It needs to be liquid, I don't want to eat out of martini glass ever.
Speaker 3:
No, it's just like.
Speaker 2:
Why not a bowl or or a cup, or a cup, or a stem or a. We wouldn't eat mashed potatoes out of a wine glass. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3:
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, the thing, the pasta, wine glass thing, that's online right now. We're like the restaurants will bring the pasta.
Speaker 2:
What is it?
Speaker 3:
They dump them at the get out of the wine glass Dump us thing spaghetti out of a wine glass, and it's a server did that to me, I think, and I am not the type that would complain, but I think I would say I don't want hey. Can you get me a new plate? Yeah, that hasn't been in a wine glass for some reason. I just feel like it makes it take like I wouldn't. It makes it grow somehow.
Speaker 1:
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:
Did you find it? I Don't know people. Once again, people are doing a little too much, and if it brings you a heart happiness. Keep doing it, but also.
Speaker 2:
Though that spaghetti in the wine glass was like too much, but not enough at the same time.
Speaker 3:
Yes, exactly, and spaghetti doesn't need to be more than what it is no, it's great Just how it is if you were spreading some spaghetti noodles around in a cheese wheel? I will take that all day long take that all day long and night, all 24 seven all the time, but I don't need it in a wine glass. I don't need elevated spaghetti.
Speaker 2:
I don't need elevated mashed potatoes no.
Speaker 3:
I don't.
Speaker 2:
I don't. I Went to a birthday party last February.
Speaker 3:
I still think about it. They had a baked potato bar and it like Resparked a love for big potatoes in me, yes. I'm like this is how you do a potato.
Speaker 2:
I don't need them enough.
Speaker 3:
I know, after that party I was eating them. Like every time I go to the store I'd pick up a little russet potato and I would bake it and just one. Maybe like three J and I would do them because J loves the spuds at myth callisters. Every time we go, he's like should I get a spud? And I'm like, no, you already ordered a giant, a sandwich.
Speaker 2:
Oh, with their spud are huge, huge. I Forgot about me.
Speaker 3:
I'll start, we started making them at home, yeah.
Speaker 2:
I love a big potato with all the fixings. But that's yeah, I just I thought a potato just needs to be potato.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
I don't need glassware and the charcuterie board. I'll eat meat and cheese is all day too but I just and I love making a charcuterie board, so I don't know why I'm judging. Well, yeah, people, I think they're thin butter candle. Put me over the edge.
Speaker 3:
The butter candle just feels unnecessary, like how long does that take you where you? Could just put butter on the plate like yeah, butter is delicious, but like you don't need to make a candle out of right.
Speaker 2:
I think that's where it is. I mean, I can't I can't let the butter candle drag the charcuterie boards down with it, because charcuterie boards on their own are Lovely and I love a spread with other things other than charcuterie me too.
Speaker 3:
Just the butter. I order one at restaurants all the time. Yeah, yeah it's the butter candle it, is it just anyway.
Speaker 2:
That's that I need, that's what I needed to Process and I'm really glad we did that because I know, I know me too, me too.
Speaker 3:
I'm trying to think of other weird trends that I've seen lately that I've been like is this what we're doing?
Speaker 2:
Mm-hmm, what else? There's one girl I follow on Instagram that, like I, I feel this, I like can't Stand it, but I can't get enough. Like she just does every holiday. There's like so Many ideas of way to serves, serve food. Oh, that's cool, it's, it is. But at the same time, every one of the ideas is like this is too much. I have to buy, go to Hobby Lobby and buy these very specific content cold cauldron containers For this one time I'm gonna serve this one thing.
Speaker 3:
Let's be honest, I I love stuff like that. I will watch the videos over and over I will save the videos. I'll be like oh my gosh, this is so cute.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, you're into clean, You've been.
Speaker 3:
I am into clean talk. I watch like organizing, cleaning videos. But it's only but you've been to my Halloween party, not a hostess.
Speaker 2:
I'm. You are in your heart. Like that sounded condescending, but I mean it. You, you have the most accommodating home and it's because you genuinely love to host people and you don't need all the extra stuff.
Speaker 3:
I don't want to like, serve, like in a way that feels Extra, I guess.
Speaker 1:
No, I'm just like come hang out and that's the best.
Speaker 3:
It's lovely, you're thirsty, I just assumed you would get yourself a water.
Speaker 2:
That's the kind of party I want to go to. Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3:
But so I save all these videos of the cold.
Speaker 2:
Oh, that you're gonna like who am I kidding?
Speaker 3:
I'm gonna have a bag of stale popcorn and a pre-mixed drink with some a bottle of tequila, and I'm just gonna put shots on people and people barely even drink the cocktail.
Speaker 2:
Oh really.
Speaker 3:
I feel like I like that cocktail all night. Oh, you did. Okay, it was great.
Speaker 2:
It was great, I will. You told everyone that, but there is no shame, I know that's the thing is like.
Speaker 3:
I can't lie I'm. I'm not the type to pretend I'm doing more than I am either. I'm very like. This is who I am. This is I don't know. I find it. I Watch you don't want to be like how to like host people and the proper way to host people, and I was just like I don't want to go to their house. Oh, I'm about everything oh Interesting and like putting on a show, for, yeah, I don't want anyone to put on a show for me.
Speaker 2:
I just want them to put on TV and give me some snacks. But if we're being honest, that's the best that's my favorite. Oh man, yeah, what were we talking about?
Speaker 3:
Trends. Oh you're on.
Speaker 2:
the clean talk, yes and you show me a corner of clean talk, yeah, where it just involves people having like way too much shit. Oh, yes, it's gone so far into cleaning that.
Speaker 3:
it's like clutter, yes, oh, it's like. I mean you sent me the one of the girls shower, yes, and she had like 400 of those little tree hut body scrubs.
Speaker 2:
I'm like nobody scrubs their body that whole Every shower wall had a shelf that she had like put in. She had every single scent of like four different types of shampoo conditioner. Yeah she had like six loofahs it feels like she. I'm pretty sure she had like a TV of some kind, I don't know, like a cup holder.
Speaker 3:
It was very odd Is the corner. Like I got on it because it was like satisfying to watch people like vacuum their floor. Uh-huh and then, all of a sudden, you're like having a million different products pushed on you.
Speaker 2:
Oh, but this wasn't even pushing a product, it was just like no, they're not actually.
Speaker 3:
Oh, but they're like just showing all of these different things that they have Amazon organizing things. Yeah, and I want all of them, but then I like I don't know. There's this one girl that I follow and I love her. She's spunky and she's durable, but her closet is terrifying. She uses like 40 products when she gets ready in the morning and goes to Sephora like every three days and I'm like nobody needs this that much stuff.
Speaker 2:
It's consumerism.
Speaker 3:
Yes, it's like yeah and I feel, I feel myself being like oh, I need. Yeah, this thing that goes inside of my car that organizes all of the things in my car. I'm like who am I kidding? My kid is in the back seat throwing cheezus on the ground. Why am I trying to act fancy with a little organizing?
Speaker 2:
I didn't even fancy it's like, it's just like.
Speaker 3:
John, it's just stuff.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, just like throw stuff away. I know it's very interesting.
Speaker 3:
Well, and I'm very almost to a fault, I like find a lot of satisfaction in finishing something all the way Mm-hmm. So, I will like use a product and it's not even about money necessarily Like I will just use a product until it's last drop before I get rid of it.
Speaker 2:
Really Kind of you don't like see with me, if it goes too long and then it just sits there forever, then I feel guilty throwing it away. So just sits there.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I mean, if I don't like the product, I'm not going to do that, but, like with my chapstick, there's so much satisfaction to like squeezing the very last bit out and being like done onto my next chapstick, like I don't need a million different chapstick at one time.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 3:
I can just like really commit to one and like commit very hard.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, makes sense. I lose mine before I finish it every time. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, anyway, clean talk.
Speaker 3:
I don't know how I got on that, but Some of it's very helpful, but I will say they make me feel like I need a fancy vacuum.
Speaker 2:
Mm-hmm, Can you try to get a Dyson? The other day and I was like I just don't. I feel like now in my head the Dyson is like the only vacuum and I just like can't buy a new vacuum because I can't afford a Dyson. And then I'm like walking through Target and like there's like seven other brands with with vacuums for like a yeah, Like an eighth of the price.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, well, now there's like I mean now there's like five different brands that are all the same price as the Dyson. So you're like, which one am I supposed to get? There's like competing brands. Now, like the Tynoco people love the Tynoco. People love the chart. There's like a Bissell one.
Speaker 2:
That's like a you know the mom, one mom has. It is like factory grade or like cleaning grade.
Speaker 3:
Literally looks like it came out of a 90s hotel.
Speaker 2:
I want that. No, you know she. You know she got it from the guy, the people who used to do the cleaning at dad's job. He had them order her one because she wanted what they used to clean. It's like an industrial grade vacuum.
Speaker 3:
See, I don't want to switch a bag.
Speaker 2:
I want, but if it anyway I'm get what she's, I get it.
Speaker 3:
I know it actually sucks. Jay and I always have this conversation because we have only ever had like shitty vacuums and so I'm like I just want a vacuum. That sucks.
Speaker 2:
I know.
Speaker 1:
And it's like I don't know.
Speaker 3:
We always joke about it, because none of my vacuums have ever been very sucky.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
My same it might just smells like dog.
Speaker 3:
Oh, I have a trick for that. What is it?
Speaker 2:
This can be the finale. What's your trick? It's the.
Speaker 3:
It's the Arm and Hammer dog. Oh the powder you sprinkle on your rug.
Speaker 2:
Okay, and then you vacuum it.
Speaker 3:
You let it sit for 30 minutes, 20 minutes, something like that, and then you vacuum it up and then, like, the air that comes out of your vacuum smells like the pet odor stuff. Okay, like it actually makes it smell really good, cause I had a vacuum that reeked of dog and then, thanks to clean talk, I found the like stuff that you sprinkle on your rug.
Speaker 2:
Okay. And it makes your vacuum also smell good, I need that, cause my vacuum is gross, all right. Well, you never know what we're going to get into.
Speaker 3:
but here we are Lots of opinions, always little information and yeah, see you next. Tuesday.