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Garden of Eatin': Onions with Arden Myrin

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Headgum / Doughboys Media

Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Arden Myrin (@ardenmyrin, Step Aside) joins the 'boys to talk The Cheesecake Factory, Kinsey, and professions before talking all things onions as we continue our monthlong vegetable series, The Garden of Eatin': Veggie Table: The Green Gobblin'. Plus, another edition of Binge.


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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/18d526d5-759f-4336-91c9-a96deceddd77

https://www.opentable.com/blog/blooming-onion/

https://www.thetakeout.com/who-actually-invented-the-bloomin-onion-1846279956/

https://www.mashed.com/134049/the-untold-truth-of-outback-steakhouse/

https://www.outback.com/about-us

https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/osi-60501bcc/media/Project/BBI/outback/files/obs-full-nutrition-information.pdf

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-popular-vegetables-in-the-world.html


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0:00.0

This is a HeadGum Podcast.

0:06.0

Want to watch this episode?

0:08.0

Check it out on her YouTube channel at YouTube.

0:10.0

Com slash DoBois Media.

0:12.0

I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.

0:18.0

This was Lisa Simpson in the season six episode of The Simpsons titled Bart

0:22.1

versus Australia, written by Bill Oakley and

0:24.3

Josh Weinstein.

0:26.0

The sign in question was a marquee advertising a Yahoo Serious film festival.

0:30.6

Mr. Serious being an Australian multi-hiphon it, whose film Young Einstein was part of an 80s

0:35.8

American fascination with the land of Oz.

0:39.0

The transcontinental cross-pollination extended to the crocodile Dundee film franchise, the men at work single

0:45.1

Down Under, and an Energizer battery commercial featuring Ossie Footballer Mark Jacko Jackson.

0:51.9

Today the legacy of this decade-long Aussie American flirtation

0:55.8

survives in the chain restaurant Outback Steakhouse.

0:58.9

Birthed in 1988 by a Tampa Florida Quartet of Americans

1:02.3

who'd never actually set foot in Australia and

1:04.6

unashamedly admit to cashing in on the trend.

1:08.0

Adorned with lazy Australian pastees shorthand like koala murals and wall-mounted boomerangs, the eatery's signature dish became

1:14.8

not its paprika slathered steaks, but the blooming onion, a cross-cut and deep-fried indulgence served

1:20.8

with a horseradish aioli.

1:22.0

Naturally, the dish has no actual Ossie. indulgence served with a horseradish aioli.

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