In this fast‑paced conversational segment, two hosts play an "in or out" game to quickly evaluate the status of a series of food and beverage trends. They name a trend (e.g., sriracha, smash burgers, birria, Nashville hot chicken, cauliflower as a meat substitute, charcuterie boards, hot honey, hard seltzers, mocktails, flavored cold foam) and each declares whether it is still "in" (growing/popular) or "out" (waning). The dialogue reveals their personal preferences, observations of chain adoption, and market signals that inform their judgments. The hosts note that when a trend appears on major chain menus, it often signals the trend is past its peak. The segment blends humor with genuine insight into how quickly culinary trends rise and fall, offering listeners a snapshot of the current landscape of popular food and drink items.
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So this next session, I call in or out. It's really going to be fast. I'm going to basically just say a word out loud, and you basically say. And usually a lot of times it's trends. You just say, is it still in or is it out? Right. You ready? Sriracha.
For me, it's still in. Smash.
Burgers.
It's in. Ed's gotta be.
That birria. Everything. Like, everyone's making that, you know, that shredded beef.
I think it's on its way out. I like it.
Though. Okay. Nashville Hot chicken.
It's kind of. It's running its course, but I. I like it. I'm in on it. About cauliflower as a meat substitute. I think. I think it's out. How about charcuterie boards? It's in. Yeah. We sell a lot of them. It's in.
Yeah. How about hot honey?
That's a mid. I mean, it's. It's. I think it's running its course. It's running.
Its course. Yeah. Here's the thing. I always know. I always say a trend starting to run its course. When I see it at the chains, then I know it's like it's already played, you know? Okay, how about hard seltzers?
They're.
Out for me.
I don't. I don't like.
A lot of them. Say.
Something different. Yeah, your wife says they're in. How about mocktails? They're coming. They're coming in. I'm. You know, they're. They're. They're there. How about that? Flavored cold foam on coffee? This was a tough one. I think it's in. Really? That's. Yeah. Because I'm a black coffee guy. No sweets, nothing. Yeah. Yeah. But my wife will get that. And I'll always sneak a couple sips because I'm like, It's good. You know.
Normally I would say. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of like on the fence sometimes. Like, I was just up in Canada. I was up at Whistler, and we have a member of our group over there called Ed's Breads, and they do this really great chai, and then he put this coconut whip on top, this cold coconut whip, and it made. That thing was delicious. Yeah.
Yeah. I like it as a. As a. A vessel. Yeah. Right. I mean, you can really manipulate it and do a lot of fun stuff with.
