Fried Baloney and Pork Roll

On Ken PD Snydecast 210 the boys talk about fried baloney sandwiches and pork roll.

Feast your eyes on this:

 Fried Baloney Sandwich

 Taylor Pork Roll Sandwich

How to slice your pork roll when frying

Uncut baloney or pork roll creates a "fondue bowl" when cooked

Here you can watch Baloney in a microwave, little Kenny Plume style

The Brown Derby Cobb Salad

On Ken PD Snydecast 210 Dana and Ken talk about the Cobb Salad at Disney's Brown Derby:

The Brown Derby was a famous restaurant chain in the "golden age" of Hollywood. The restaurant chain was famous for it's hat shaped exterior... but not the one IN Hollywood.

The Hollywood Brown Derby, the most famous one in the chain, was not in a hat shaped building. This was done because the crazy scientologists in Hollywood were worried a giant martian might show up on earth and pick the restaurant up and wear it on his head.

The other locations didn't worry about this because derbys are "like, so last year on Mars."

The real Derbys have all closed and the one in Hollywood has been torn down and is now a parking lot.

Now take another look at this photo from the 1980s:

Now look again at the parking lot:

Notice something? "Juices Fountain" seems to have been passed over by the wrecking ball.

Juices Fountains still stands, but the most famous restaurant in Hollywood now has a bunch of Toyotas parked on top of it.

Ahhh well, we always have Orlando.

So, Disney re-created the Brown Derby an it is one of the finest restaurants on Walt Disney World property.

This is what the original interior looked like:

Now here is a photo of the Disney recreation:

Ken and Dana talk about the Cobb Salad:

Legend has it that it was made at the Derby as a midnight snack for Grauman's Chinese Theatre namesake Sid Grauman.

Disney has hat shaped cards with the recipe:

Botatoes and Mrs. Winners

On Ken PD Snydecast 210 Ken mentions Botato Rounds at Bojangles:

Dana mentions once eating at a Mrs. Winners Chicken & Biscuits in Atlanta:

Mrs. Winners was a regional franchise founded in 1979. In 2011 they posted this on their Facebook page:

Unfortunately ,due to financial difficulties, all Mrs. Winner's corporate locations have closed. There are several franchised locations left open. If you are in Georgia, the only one is in Stockbridge. Thank you for visiting us throughout the years. We don't know how long this page will remain active but feel free to leave any comments that you would like. Thanks again.

15 people liked it. 13 people commented. The last comment is my favorite:

Love That Chicken at Popeyes

On Ken PD Snydecast 209 the conversation turns to Popeye's chicken as the car full of podcasters passes a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.

Dana talks about the Popeye's Lady and sings the jingle.

Her name is Deidrie Henry and she is a character actress with lots of credits on TV shows.

IMDb thinks she's known for this:

But let's face it, she's know for walking around Popeye's commercials like she owns the place:



The guy's also talk about the ugly (but delicious) Popeye's Rip'n Chick'n:

It looks like a deep fried hand:

Slotting Fees!

KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #210: Crunchings And Munchings has a discussion about how supermarket shelves are stocked, specifically by McCormick spices.

Here is what Wikipedia says about Slotting Fees:
A slotting fee, slotting allowance,[1] pay-to-stay, or fixed trade spending[2] is a fee charged to produce companies or manufacturers by supermarket distributors (retailers) in order to have their product placed on their shelves.[3] The fee varies greatly depending on the product, manufacturer, and market conditions. For a new product, the initial slotting fee may be approximately $25,000 per item in a regional cluster of stores, but may be as high as $250,000 in high-demand markets.[4]
In addition to slotting fees, retailers may also charge promotional, advertising and stocking fees. According to an FTC study, the practice is "widespread" in the supermarket industry.[citation needed] Many grocers earn more profit from agreeing to carry a manufacturer's product than they do from actually selling the product to retail consumers. According to retailers, fees serve to efficiently allocate scarce retail shelf space, help balance the risk of new product failure between manufacturers and retailers, help manufacturers signal private information about potential success of new products, and serve to widen retail distribution for manufacturers by mitigating retail competition.[citation needed] Vendors charge that slotting fees are a move by the grocery industry to profit at their suppliers' expense.[citation needed]
Some companies argue that slotting fees are unethical as they create a barrier to entry for smaller businesses that do not have the cash flow to compete with large companies. The use of slotting fees can, in some instances, lead to abuse by retailers such as in the case where a bakery firm was asked for a six figure fee to carry its items for a specific period with no guarantee their products would be carried in future periods.[5]

Blah blah blah.

Here's a picture of a pretty lady with a basket of fruit on her head:

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There is a rather detailed answer to McCormick spices issues with slotting fees in this article:

FTC, McCormick reach accord on slotting fees

In its first ever direct attack on supermarket slotting fees, the Federal Trade Commission has accused a marketer of offering discriminatory discounts on products to several grocers. The accusation could have major implications for packaged-goods marketers.

McCormick & Co., the nation's leading spice marketer, agreed to settle a complaint that it violated the Robinson-Patman Act by charging some stores higher prices than others for products. The goal was to grab more shelf space at the expense of smaller rivals, including Burns Philips Food's Tone Bros.

The consent decree, now open to public comment, was accepted on an unusual 3-to-2 vote, with commission members arguing over how far the agency should step.

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The bottom line (and the answer to Dana's question) is that McCormick pays big bucks to be on the shelves in a prominent location. They also want to make sure that display looks good to attract the most customers.

So they hire people to stock the shelves and make sure they look as pretty as a lady with a basket of fruit on her head.

Here's the sprinkles Dana joked Little Kenny Plume would down a bottle of after school:

McCormick has had a multitude of oddities over the years. How about spooky spice:

The Spice Girls:

Here we see a young Louis CK doing stand up in the McCormick aisle at Publix:

McCormick also makes Mace! Just sprinkle some on any rapists you see:

Here's a photo from the day the McCormick company dug a mass grave behind their headquarters for those who defied the McCormick slotting fee system:

KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #210: Crunchings And Munchings

Ken and Dana return with tales of tater tots, fast food, supermarket shelving, fried baloney and boozy convention panels.

It's a keeper. Go! http://asitecalledfred.com/2014/02/07/snydecast-210/

Dana and Ken backstage at Magic Kingdom

Photos of Dana at Animate Miami

Here are a few of the photos I took at the recent Animate Miami convention where Dana was a featured guest.

Here's an autograph Dana did on a print from the web short APPLE.MOV. He's not in the short.

Dana recorded two episodes of What Are Pat And Billy Drinking?.

Here are some shots of Dana at his autograph table:

We did a live Drunk On Disney panel at the show:

 Dana did the Celebrity All Star Blitz panel:

Geek a Week Kickstarter

On the newest Snydecast Ken mentions the Geek A Week Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lenperalta/geek-a-week-year-five-two

Here are Ken & Dana's cards:

Mac Tonight!

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #209: Where Schemes Come True we talk about going to visit Mac Tonight at "The World's Largest Entertainment McDonalds" in Orlando.

We never did, but for your viewing pleasure, here is what he looks like  in his Phantom of the Opera cape.