Episodes

  • Episode 109: Cauliflower
    Feb 2 2025

    For the third entry of our Brassicameron—the No Substitutions, Please take on the Cornetto Trilogy, obviously—we take on the fluffy white cabbage that's been with us since the Romans insisted on calling it by a thousand different names. Noah and Louisa talk about all the things you can do with that thing that looks like the ghost of broccoli.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    54 mins
  • Episode 108: Schnitzel
    Jan 26 2025

    The meat that launched a thousand names; no matter what language you use to refer to a vast expanse of flattened, breaded and fried meat, we can all agree it's a delicious focus for any meal. So, of course, Noah and Louisa take their meat mallets to a few doofuses who can't seem to get it right.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 107: Cornbread
    Jan 19 2025

    Whether a sweet, brown-topped contrast to rich barbecued meat or a savory round packed with spice and herbs, there's absolutely nothing wrong with cornbread, which is why everyone on the Internet is willing to get into huge arguments about it. Louisa and Noah strike the perfect ground with their correct opinions, and maybe surprise you along the way.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    52 mins
  • Episode 106: Crab Cakes
    Jan 12 2025

    The arc of the natural universe may be long, but it bends towards crab—and mixed with binders and starches, and your preferred red powders, you can begin your own process of carcinization in the most delicious way. Noah and Louisa go down to Baltimore to take on a United States seafood classic.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    48 mins
  • Episode 105: Crackers
    Jan 5 2025

    From sickbeds to cheeseboards, crackers manage to hold up more than their fair share of the culinary sky—so this week, Louisa and Noah, who has a whole new reason to appreciate a shatteringly crisp bite of food, give them their flours.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    49 mins
  • Episode 104: Mashed Potatoes
    Dec 1 2024

    After four weeks of (what we assume was) infinite outcry about how we should "stick to food," we're back with the homiest, coziest, and perhaps most populist of the Thanksgiving classics: the humble mashed potato, otherwise known as gravy's favorite surface.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 103: (The Rest of the) Big Night
    Nov 24 2024

    When Noah and Louisa left off last week, all the pieces were on the board, and it was time to throw them against each other and see what happens—in the Aristotelian crucible of the Big Night, of course. In this part, Noah and Louisa discuss the kind of movies you can't make anymore, talk about Tony Shalhoub being adorable, and give Marc Anthony some reluctant flowers.

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    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 102: Big Night
    Nov 17 2024

    Since Louisa finally watched Chef, Noah finally had to watch Big Night: the movie that asks, "can a traditional Italian restaurant survive when one-third of its crew is Marc Anthony?" In this part, Louisa and Noah rip on American customers, nominate the performance of the movie, and discuss the general level of heightened sexiness.

    Follow us: @NoSubsPlease on Twitter. @NoSubsPlease@mastodon.online on Mastodon. @NoSubsPlease on BlueSky.

    Noah: @elderrumbao on Twitter, @nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party on Mastodon, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social on BlueSky. Louisa: @louisa@mastodon.xyz.

    Our theme is Street Food, by FASSounds, and is governed by the Simplified Pixabay License.

    Our cover art includes work by artist Kirsty Pargeter.

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    1 hr and 34 mins