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Hm, it is time to leave your warriors outside and
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come laugh with us inside the tree House. I'm Daniel Malley,
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along with Tree Trendholm and Raj Sharma. I am a
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firm believer in starting things off with a bang, and
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seeing as how we are the experts of stupid, we
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are the self almost said self complained, although that's kind
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of fitting. We are the self proclaimed experts of all
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things stupid, So I think it's important to start each
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episode with something truly stupid to hook people in, especially
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in case maybe it's your first time experiencing the Treehouse
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and of all the things on the list of possible
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items to get to in today's show Tuesday, August twenty seventh,
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twenty twenty four, I don't think anything could be stupider
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than talking about how waffles evolved from an ancient Roman
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delicacy to one of the world's most popular treats. Yes,
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I mean it when I say that waffles are Italian.
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Hmm.
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We've all been misled, led as stray down the wrong
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rabbit hole into thinking that waffles were from Belgium. Turns
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out only Jean Claude van Dam is from Belgium. The
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waffles their roots are in Italy.
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I didn't know my life was going to change so
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much today, I would have prepared differently. Just letting you know.
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I think sometimes the surprise is better than the heads up.
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Because if I had told you, Raj, your life's going
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to change inside the treehouse today, you know, I'm not
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sure how you would have responded. So I think being
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surprised by this earth shattering information.
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Yes, Here's what I'm trying to tell you is you
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don't understand like you are now giving people that dine
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at the waffle house the ability to say they're at
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fine dining is what you're doing now.
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So people are like, no, if Mario Batali wants to
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have a special section on the waffle house Vendu, it
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would actually make sense now, Yes, it would made from
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leavened batter or dough cooked between two patterned plates. Waffles
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are thought to be one of the oldest desserts around.
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Often topped with honey, whipped cream, syrup, or jam, they're
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ideal for breakfast or a snack, sometimes savored on the run.
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Hugely popular in Northwestern European countries as well as the
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United States and Asia. They can be crispy, sweet, or
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salty with deep or shallow grooves. This is the section
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of the story that I crap you not on CNN
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Travel has the sub headline origin story. Yeah, even waffles
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have an origin story.
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Yeah.
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My first question in this, Yeah, what rabbit hole did
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you go in that you came to this point?
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What did you start at? Crape and uh starting like muffin?
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I mean, yeah, were you starting with breakfast ideas and
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then you came to this.
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That actually would make sense? Maybe I typed into YouTube
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how to make a creep, how to do blueberry muffins,
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one hundred and one breakfast ideas, all those make perfect sense.
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But I did something way stupider. I just went to
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see and in oh.
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I thought it was like you got the edible again
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and you're like, how to make a waffle? Where are
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waffles from?
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And that's how it started or or this was this
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was a tie in to now how we can you know,
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get toilet wine into waffle house.
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Waffles and ditch.
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You may be onto something else their trade, because I mean,
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if if one thing we've learned and all of our
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combined years of drinking, it's that some alcohol begs to
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be paired with fine foods. Wouldn't a nice bottle of
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toilet wine or a hot glass of ditch gin hair
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perfectly with a waffle?
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I like it.
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I also said that scattered, smothered, and ditched, that I'd
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love to see the waitress's face at waffle house when
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she asked, how would you like your hash browns?
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And you say ditched, and she goes, gotcha, pulls it
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out of her apron.
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She knows I'm thinking more of those little airplane bottles in.
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The bra You don't worry. Your waitress has been ditched
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since this morning. I like. Also said the waffles are
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good on the I've never I've never done this, and
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I don't know if you have. Have you ever had
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a waffle on the go?
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I have, I've done to go waffles.
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No, no, no, Like you're walking out the door eating a waffle. Yeah, wow, okay.
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It actually if you've never tried it, waffles actually make
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a great sandwich, like if you're out of bread. So
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in my college days, like you guys, you were probably
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poor and it was easier to keep waffles in the
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freezer longer than it was a loaf of bread. So
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instead of buying bread, I would just buy a box
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of waffles and peanut butter and jelly between two waffles.
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Oh really, really, you're.
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Just now so you're you're just now catching up like
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you've always had stoner mentality, but now you're actually doing
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the wheat.
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And you know what the great irony is, Raj, I
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don't think I like the weed because you like a food,
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though I love the food. I mean, I was that
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kid for a reason. I didn't need weed to eat. Okay, No,
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the other day so we had we bought the edible
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what last week or whatever? And I'm not sure if
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I really dug that. I felt a little, you know,
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motion sick. Didn't really like it. It wasn't really sure about it.
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So we figured, okay, maybe we talked to some of
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our stoner friends and they recommended maybe for go the
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edible and just good a good old fashioned joint. So
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we went back to the cannabis store here in Seattle
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and said, okay, uh, give me some plunge point something
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to smoke, Yes, thank you, I need I need some
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smoking weed. How about that? Yes? And and can you
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roll it for me? Because I'm pathetic. Luckily they deal
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with people like me on the regular basis because they
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already had in the two pre rolls, two joints perfectly rolled. Like,
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oh okay, that works out nicely, So I got the
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same strain. It was an Indica something like nineteen point
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something percent THC, which is not the very bottom but
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pretty low. She said. By the way, Hi, Jennifer from
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Fort Worth who lives in Yattle now and works at
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the head shop. So two to the tube ten bucks,
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that's a pretty good deal. Took it home and Tara
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and I we just took like one hit each and
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just to see h After one hit, I started feeling nauseous. Mm,
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So I guess me and we just don't go together.
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Did you eat prior to smoking a little bit? Yeah,
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you're noxious because your body was craving the food that
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you used to consume without it. So it's like, hey,
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where is that waffle with peanut butter and jelly? Where's
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that waffle sandwich? Which I've never heard anybody's say out loud, No,
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I'm not try it?
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Why are you you're so judgy? Try it? It is
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good waffles. Throw them in the toaster, pull it out,
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put a little peanut butter on there, a little bit
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of strawberry jelly. I'm a strawberry jelly. Peanut butter and
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jelly guy. Grape is fine, but strawberries strawberry's mind as
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well superior. But those two together, you got yourself a
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tasty treat.
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I've made a breakfast sandwich with waffles, but never PB
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and j hell.
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Yes, savory or sweet, that's the beauty of waffles. Thanks
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for segueing back into our origin story of waffles, Trey.
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But where do waffles actually come from? Experts? Yes, Experts
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say the origins of this sweet or savory treat date
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back millennia, and while their roots can be traced to
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ancient Greece, Giorgio friend Ketty, author of the book Dining
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with the Ancient Romans, believes waffles are derived from a
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particular delicacy of ancient rome Friend Ketty in you in
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case you're curious, has you know on career day in
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school and there's all these like regular people with regular
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jobs telling you about them, usually a copper of fireman.
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There's like an accountant and up a business person. You
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might you know someone maybe someone's an entrepreneur. You never
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really get a really cool job like I like I'm
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guessing Giorgio Frank Ketty had at his school because he's
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a food scholar of ancient Rome, not just a food
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scholar in general, but specifically an ancient Rome food scholar.
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He specialized very, which I assume puts him in high demand.
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So when CNN called to find out about waffles, he
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was rare and to go, he says. And again he
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wrote a book about this nighting with the ancient Romans,
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and I guess people bought it. So friend Keddy, a
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food scholar of ancient Rome, told CNN waffles are very
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likely the descendants of the popular crustulum, which were sweet
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biscuits adored by the ancient Romans. The term in Latin
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clearly suggests that these biscuits were crispy with a crumbly
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crust that melted in the mouth. That's a cool to
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bring Kenny. There are no known historical documents on how
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crustula were shaped, but Frank Kenny believes they were likely
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flat biscuits made with the same basic ingredients as waffles
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and baked inside two heated iron.
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If if I likely believed something, does that can that
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make me make me an expert? Like? What's the recipe?
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There's not one. How do we believe it was made?
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We're not sure it was it round? I have no idea,
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but I like to believe the Romans ate it.
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Uh, Raj, I think you just described vaccine science over
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the last few years.
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I'm just saying, well, when it's like when given like, so,
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how how were there squares? Well, we don't know. Okay,
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was where were there toppings? Not a clue.
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I'm glad you asked that question, Raj. Their preparation method
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for crustula is thought to be identical to that of
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modern day waffles, although it's unclear whether crustula originally had
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the iconic grooves of the waters that we know today.
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Isn't that a pancake?
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Well, Trey, I believe you busted this waffle iron wide open?
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Damn you friend Kenny. Somewhere in my head, Frank Kenny
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just heard this and he's just putting stuff in a box.
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You know, it's like he just got fired.
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He lost his grant. I he's gonna have to go deliver.
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He's gonna have to work for door Dash deliver up.
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Trey, send that man a waffle irony.
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See, aren't we glad we now know the origin story
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behind waffles.
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You're listening to the tree House, Visit us online at
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You're in the Treehouse, visit us online at Treehouse OnAir
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dot com.
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The first segment of the Treehouse was brought to you
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by Fairlease. The Treehouse is driven by Fairleas. Time to
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get a new car and you should save time and