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Eater's Digest

Why Spiked Seltzer Is Having a Moment

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just like there’s a song of the summer, inevitably, each year, a drink of the summer rises to the forefront of our collective consciousness to dominate warm weather gatherings between May and August. This year, it was all about White Claw, a low-calorie, low-carb spiked seltzer that’s been embraced by every kind of drinker out there. We hit the beach to learn more about the drink that’s sweeping backyard parties across the nation, and also called in cocktail expert John deBary (formerly of P.D.T. and Momofuko) for a taste test to find out which brand we should be reaching for at the grocery store. But in the end, we learned more about what our hard seltzer obsession says about our relationship to alcohol than which flavors outperform the others. Plus, we dive into the wildest food stories of the week, from the latest in the fast food chicken bonanza, to a terrible dieting app for kids as young as eight, and more. And be sure to join Amanda and John on September 16th to celebrate the Restaurant Worker's Community Foundation's first birthday! Stories: • The End of Bitch Beer • KFC Joins the Fake Meat and Chicken Craze with One Bucket • Don’t Put Your Kid on Weight Watchers Featuring: Amy McCarthy (@aemccarthy) John deBary (@jnd3001) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom.Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. From the newsroom at Eder, I'm a man of clute.

0:45.0

And this is Eder's D'I'm a man of clute.

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And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.

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With a little help from the Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.

0:53.0

With a little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the team here at Eder,

0:57.8

we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens, restaurants, and dining rooms

1:01.3

around the world.

1:02.3

Today on the show, we are diving into the weird and wild world of spiked

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seltzer.

1:08.0

Diving into that carbonated pool, aka White Claw, and its brethren.

1:12.0

We're going to talk about what it is, why it got to be so big,

1:17.0

and then we're going to have a little taste test with the professional.

1:19.0

And then later, we are going to give an update on the Popeye's chicken sandwich. We're going to give an update on the Pop Eyes Chicken Sandwich. We're going to talk

1:24.0

about some Disney shenanigans and the latest viral recipe sweeping the internet.

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