Food Fight!

After nearly four years, it's the last episode (for now?) of Food Fight!, so what better way to celebrate than with tacos and charcuterie? Thank you to all our fans (and superfans) who have listened and laughed — and argued — over the years. We couldn't have done this without you! And keep following us on our socials below cause you never know what the future holds. Well, besides more food...there will always be more food. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Follow Kelly: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_wallacebarnowl/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An impromptu episode where Kirk's kids, Theo, and Lily, ask for hot wings for lunch, and Kirk agrees....but only if they come on the pod to talk about it. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Lindsey out on vacation trying to find her true self, Kirk has his son Theodore on the show to talk about sandwiches. Theo, who's spent the last year and a half making sandwiches as a part-time job, is a sandwich expert (he calls himself a "sandwich wizard"...um...okay), who gives us the fine art of creating the perfect sandwich in terms of bread, meats, toppings, and condiments. Then Theo uses all of his "wizardry" to create the ideal sandwich for his dad. Will he fail and disappoint Kirk as he has done most of his life? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Granola is for more than just hippies. It's for people like Kirk and Lindsey, people who can appreciate granola for what it is...a food that is kinda good for you but not really. So the two talk best/worst flavors, crumbly vs. chunky, what dried fruits belong or don't belong, the importance of the chew-chunk theory, and wtf is savory granola. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Whole Foods can seem like an annoying lifestyle...but it's an annoying lifestyle that Kirk and Lindsey are here for! So much so that the two devote an entire episode to it, filled with why they go there, what they get, what they don't get, the love/hate relationship they have with the fact that Amazon owns it, and then the two separately do their own Whole Foods visit, resulting in with one of the biggest surprises in the show's history. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is there a better snack than jerky? Kirk and Lindsey think not, and that's why they are celebrating all things jerked in this episode. They talk types (how come there's no chicken jerky?), flavors (Dr. Pepper Jalapeño is just sooooo stupid), and they marvel at the fact that certain squirrels actually make their own jerky! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It may seem like a philosophical question, but there is indeed an actual answer to when just a baked potato transforms into a loaded baked potato. And Kirk and Lindsey have that answer! (You're welcome.) They also have the answers to which type of loaded baked potato is the best, as well as a bizarre tale of why Kirk as a teenager once went to prom in Muncie, Indiana with a girl he met in Paris, France. (And yes, that story does have a baked potato theme.) Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk invites Lindsey and Kelly over for some whiskey tasting, some charcuterie board eating, some surprise rib consuming, and of course, a lot of dumb questions about whiskey and whiskey drinking. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Follow Kelly: instagram.com/kelly_wallacebarnowl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk and Lindsey like to dabble in the yogurt world, but for the life of them, they can't figure out why yogurt can't just be yogurt. (MAPLE BACON DONUT IS NOT A FLAVOR OF YOGURT THAT SHOULD EVER EXIST.) So the two dive into all the bs flavors that are out there, as well as talk about best/worst add-ins, the nostalgia of certain yogurt brands, why fro yo is just dumb, and why certain bros are so intimidated by eating yogurt that they have to call it, "brogurt." Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seriously, does anyone really care about pretzels? Kirk and Lindsey aren't just being s**tty (well, no more than usual). They seriously want to know. Cause when it comes to pretzels, the two of them give it one big, collective shrug. It's not that they hate them. It's just that they're...well...pretzels. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile For Bianca's awesome knit cupcakes and more: instagram.com/beyonskeez_knits_and_crochets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Lindsey is STILL on vacay, Kirk invites his son Theodore back onto the pod to talk about famous death row last meals, are they worth eating, what did they get right/wrong, and then father and son give their own death row final meals to see if they matched at all! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Lindsey is on forced, unpaid, administrative leave (aka, another vacation), Kelly Wallace-Barnhill steps in to talk about a whole hill of beans! They do F Marry Kill with types of beans, play the Elimination Game with bean dishes, argue about the worth of chickpeas, and Kirk tells the tale of how he used to eat his green beans as a kid (it's as weird as you'd imagine). Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Follow Kelly: instagram.com/kelly_wallacebarnowl/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Kirk and Lindsey dunk themselves into a refreshing, tangy bowl of salsa, discussing green vs. red, the best Mexican food to add salsa to, whether is it okay to add salsa to non-Mexican food, the wrong things to dip into your salsa, the excitement of seeing a salsa bar, and why fruit salsa is complete and utter BS. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2021, Kirk and Lindsey did a salad episode where they competed on who could create a better salad. Lindsey won...Kirk cheated. When the salad episode was re-released last month, frequent guest and friend of Food Fight! Kelly Wallace-Barnhill listened and lost her damn mind. So to right the wrong, Kirk, Lindsey, and Kelly gathered together so Kirk could create another salad (without cheating) in the hopes to mend fences. (It didn't.) Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Follow Kelly: instagram.com/kelly_wallacebarnowl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's summer and if you aren't eating popsicles, are you even having a summer? Like when else are you eating popsicles? Spring? Meh. Fall? Hard pass. Winter? Just...stop. Popsicles are meant for summer, so that's what Kirk and Lindsey are talking about this week — nostalgic popsicles, bougie popsicles, creamsicles, even...wait for it...pickle popsicles. And out of nowhere, Lindsey's husband Bradley bum rushes the pod to explain the joys of eating popsicles as an adult. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk, Lindsey, friends of Food Fight Kelly Wallace-Barnhill and Jackie Brubaker, Lindsey's husband Bradley, and Kirk's teenage daughter Lily all head to The Lonely Oyster in Echo Park on a Saturday at 1:30 pm for "brunch." This episode took over a year to organize and it is pure chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Remember when we all used to make fun of cottage cheese? It was that thing from the '70s and '80s that was scooped into a melon and eaten by moms everywhere? Not anymore. Thanks to Tik Tok, cottage cheese has gotten a glow up and now all the cool kids are doing it. But are Kirk and Lindsey doing it? Is cottage cheese worth all this new hype, or is it the same stuff we mocked decades ago? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crepes are wonderful. So why the hell aren't we eating them? Shame on us...shame on us all. This week Kirk and Lindsey dig into what exactly is a crepe, when's the best time to eat them, dumb creperies names, savory vs. sweet, and why America has decided to "Cold Stone Creamery" the concept of a crepe. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You think Kirk and Lindsey have hot food takes? Yeesh! The internet is literally on fire with them, so the two dissect a bunch to see how valid they really are. Takes like: "If you put nuts in brownies you are an evil person." "Vanilla is the best flavor of ice cream." "I love beets because they taste like how dirt smells." And those aren't even the hottest! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk and Lindsey are off this week being good —maybe, great? — children to their parents, so enjoy the salad episode they did way back when and they'll see you next week with a fresh, hot ep! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cafe food is good. But cafe food from a cute af cafe is GREAT. In fact, in Kirk and Lindsey's opinion, if your cafe isn't cozy, quaint, allows for dogs, and doesn't have a unicycle mounted to the wall, what's the point of even eating there? So, on this week's ep, the two not only talk about what vibe and what food makes a cafe great, but they compete head to head in creating their version of the perfect cute cafe. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erewhon is an L.A. health food store — but is it more lifestyle than store? That's what Kirk, Lindsey, and regular Food Fight guests Kelly Wallace-Barnhill and Jackie Brubaker try and find out with a field trip to the overpriced Los Angeles institution. Their mission: To see how much they can get with a mere $20. How much can they get? And how bougie will it be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sunday is fun day...especially when you go to downtown LA's long-running food festival — Smorgasburg! It's been almost a year since Kirk, Lindsey, and frequent guest Kelly Wallace Barnhill went to stuff their faces at this weekly event, so they decided to go back and see if they can improve on their first experience. What will they eat? Will they order wrong? Will they order too much or too little? And why is the line for coffee so damn long???? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Making nachos is not about a recipe...it's about a strategy. And if that's the only thing that Kirk and Lindsey teach you this week then, well, mission accomplished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the first time in Food Fight history, Kirk and Lindsey bring on a fan to join in on the fighting! The two bring on the awesome Bianca Coleman to discuss how she got into the show, her food icks and food yums, her indifferent attitude to sweets, her obsession with French fries, and how many times does she yell at Kirk vs. how many times she yells at Lindsey whenever she listens to the pod? Oh, and they finally get to hear the backstory about Bianca's amazing plate ware that she shows off whenever she sends a pic! Thank you to all our fans! We ❤️❤️❤️ u! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk leads Lindsey 2-1. Kelly has yet to get a win. What will happen this fourth time around? Who will win, whose feelings will get hurt, and who screwed up the rules this time? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How hot is too damn hot? That's the question Kirk and Lindsey dive into this week as they talk about hot sauces, the best foods to put it on (oyster - yes, ice cream -wtf?), which commercial brand has the most flavor, how long have you kept a hot sauce that was given as a gift, and which wacky brand name of hot sauce is actually the dumbest? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Lindsey out of town, Kirk and frequent guest Kelly Wallace-Barnhill do the unthinkable...another fine-dining food auction! Will this be a trainwreck like the previous four auctions? Or will Kirk and Kelly take this to a higher, more spiritual level? And will there be math again? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Question: What do you do when you spend a week in Paris and Rome? Answer: You eat EVERYTHING. And then you do a podcast about it where your partner who didn't go with you judges you on how well you ate. And that's exactly what this episode is about. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk: "Let's do a taco tour..." Lindsey: "Hold my beer..." What was supposed to be a casual night of eating some tacos with friend of Food Fight! Kelly Wallace-Barnhill turned into a lesson in math. Lindsey went into full-metal planning mode, Kelly questioned if this should even be happening, and Kirk complained cause he missed his Saturday nap. Luckily, LA has the best tacos around so in the end, all was forgiven. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why do we drink milk? Who even drinks milk these days? Does anyone adult really enjoy drinking milk? Is drinking milk with a meal straight-up bizarre? And are those milk “due by” dates even accurate? MILK CONFUSES US! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Girl Scout Cookie season! So Kirk and Lindsey get together (along with Kirk's son Theodore) to try nine different boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Which one will they think is #1? Which one is absolute trash? And was this even worth it? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk decided to do an episode and not tell Lindsey what the topic is. He's not telling you either. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk and Lindsey aren't nutritionists. They're barely functional human beings. So take what they say with a grain of salt when it comes to their hot takes on gluten-free foods. (Wait...is salt gluten-free?) Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Both Kirk and Lindsey agree that if it wasn't for French fries, they wouldn't eat many potatoes. Yet each time they talk of a potato dish, they rave about it. Weird? Yeah, well that's this episode. The two debate the proper way to load your baked potato, the dumbness of twice-baked potatoes, are mashed potatoes all that, fingerlings vs. redskin, russet vs. Yukon, how much cheese should go on a potato, and if there is no skin...then there's no eat-y. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Linsey is finally back! And this week she and Kirk jump right into a heaping pile of mac and cheese, debating the best instant brands, does it need a protein in it, does it need a veggie in it, what's worse - too dry mac and cheese or too wet, shells vs. elbows vs, tubes, why does everyone get so gooey over lobster mac and cheese, and then the two trash any mac and cheese dish that is not officially just mac and cheese... staring daggers at you, mac and cheese balls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Chinese New Year! (It's the year of the rabbit, FYI.) And what's the best way to celebrate that holiday? By going to a Thai food fest, of course! This week frequent guest and FOFF Kelly Wallace-Barnhill joins Kirk and his wife on a field trip to the Wat Thai Temple in North Hollywood, not to experience any sort of spirituality, but to literally eat their weight in yummy Thai food. Gung hay fat choy! Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lindsey is still out, so Food Fight All-Star Jackie Brubaker jumps into the food fray to talk about cheese-flavored snacks. And on this episode we're tackling the really important questions like: How cheesy does your cheese-flavored snack need to be? How orange do you want it to look? Cheetos vs Doritos? Are keto cheese crisps all that? And the most important question…Better out of the box or in a bowl? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Follow Jackie Brubaker: instagram.com/jackiebrubaker/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the start of 2023 and Lindsey is on vacation…again. So Kirk decides to school his college-bound son Theodore on the fine art…of…well…eating in college. The two discuss what to eat and what not to eat, dining hall food, peanut butter, ramen, tuna mac and cheese, crackers, canned soup, and, of course, ALL THE PIZZA. And Kirk forces Theodore to eat an absolutely gross dish he used to make when he was a college student in the '90s. (Is that good parenting or great parenting?) Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We finally made it to the end of 2022! So to honor the end of one year and the beginning of the new one, what are Kirk and Lindsey doing? They're saying “F it. ” That's right — the two are just gonna talk about the foods they eat when they wanna say “F it, I have had enough of this day,” or “F it, I earned this,” or even “F it, I can't even with Kirk anymore.” The two dive into what does and doesn't constitute F-it food, is pizza really and truly an F-it food, where to eat your F-it food, and how the more ridiculous the food, the higher the F-it quotient. And they also give a sneak peek of episodes coming in season four! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time for the holidays, aka, time for eating anything and everything! Kirk and Lindsey love this time of year but, of course, it comes with some caveats. They discuss why everything has so much damn peppermint in it, is lasagna a Christmas dish, why all the meat courses during the holidays are dumb, bacon-wrapped scallops vs. bacon-wrapped dates, why cookies are the most holiday dessert of all, and the two come up with the perfect Lifetime holiday movie that somehow turns naughty and not nice. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to water, who doesn't want sparkling water over flat? No one, that's who. In this episode, Kirk and Lindsey are talking about all things sparkling water and, boy, do they drink that topic up. They discuss ice or no ice, fruit wedge or no fruit wedge, underrated and overrated flavors, and which brands are awesome and which are just trying too hard. Then the two play the La Croix Elimination Game to see which La Croix flavor will be left standing. And, for the first time in Food Fight! history, Kirk and Lindsey burp on air…YOU'RE WELCOME. Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's just say what we're all thinking: If you don't like grilled cheese, then you don't deserve nice things or friends. Grilled cheese is damn near perfect, and this week Kirk and Lindsey celebrate a meal that is just bread, cheese, and butter. They debate best/worst bread, best/worst cheese, how sexy is that cheese stretch, which is worse — burnt grilled cheese or not-melted-enough grilled cheese, best add-ons, when grilled cheese gets too cute with flavors, and does grilled cheese even need a bowl of tomato soup? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A few episodes back (the wine party episode to be exact), off the pod Kirk brought out a handmade cookbook from 1972 that his mom was given when the family moved to the suburbs of Cleveland. Everyone thought it was so funny (and everyone had had so much wine), that Kirk and Lindsey decided that the two of them, along with Jackie Brubaker and Kelly Wallace-Barnhill, would randomly choose a recipe from the book, recreate that exact recipe, come back, and have a 1970's housewives dinner party. One month later…here they all are. Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile (edited) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's no big secret that Kirk and Lindsey are trash monsters and that they may need some…okay, A LOT…of help in the etiquette department. So this week they've invited the hosts of the incredible podcast Were You Raised By Wolves? to come on the show to discuss Thanksgiving manners, etiquette, and, of course, food. The four also dive deep into the question, “What do you do when friends invite themselves over for Thanksgiving?” and, more importantly, learn the power of the phrase, “Unfortunately, that's not possible.” Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you don't think of vegan food as trying to be anything else than vegan food, then it's actually pretty tasty. That being said, some vegans are just the WORST (looking at you West Side Los Angelenos) and the commitment to being vegan can be rough. (Vegan cheese, anyone?) So this week, Kirk and Lindsey hash out their feelings on vegan food, how well it works in Asian food, how awful it works in Italian, the genius of jackfruit, the acceptability of vegan desserts, why the F it's so damn expensive, and they reveal 24 food products you probably didn't know where vegan! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to cajun food, Kirk and Lindsey are real dumb dumbs. (Well, more so than usual.) So on this episode they have a lot more questions than answers, such as jambalaya vs. gumbo, are po boys the best sandwiches ever, are red beans and rice too underrated, is chicory coffee all that, would they eat rabbit, would they eat alligator, and what's the deal with all the damn King Cake dessert mutations? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirk and Lindsey love peanut butter so much that they just had to do an entire episode on it. (You're welcome.) They debate crunchy vs. creamy (again), salted vs. unsalted, best peanut butter desserts, best and worst peanut butter combos, and weirdest dishes made with peanut butter. (Like…um…chili?) More importantly, Lindsey discovers a secret about her new husband that is so shocking that it makes her question her marriage! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lindsey's married, bitches! And to celebrate that, Kirk and Linds are having a wine party with Food Fight friends Kelly Wallace-Barnhill and Jackie Brubaker. They've got red, white, rosé, unfiltered wine, Prosecco, and they've even got a charcuterie board AND chocolate chip cookies! And they're talking wine too: Bests, worsts, is it basic or is it classy, wine coolers and spritzer, crushed ice in wine (WUT?) how wine is made for talking, how getting 2 Buck Chuck in your 30s is WRONG, and, for some reason, a deep dive into perfumes and colognes they loved back in the day. (Yeah, A LOT of wine was consumed on this one.) Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Lindsey is in the throes of wedding panic, Kirk brings on his teenage son Theodore to discuss all the things that make a milkshake…well…a milkshake. They debate if they're more special than a bowl of ice cream, worst/best flavors, how many flavors should you be allowed when ordering a milkshake, the stress that is figuring how fast or slow you should drink a milkshake, and when does all the sparkle and extras put on a milkshake turn it into stunt food? More importantly, they pose this psychological dilemma: Why is it socially acceptable to dip a French fry in a milkshake but when you dip it in a bowl of ice cream you're a “weirdo”? Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FFBFF (Food Fight Best Friend Forever) Kelly Wallace-Barnhill is back for another round of food trivia! Will someone finally beat Kirk and shut him up? Plus, talk of Kelly's trip to Italy (aka, “It-ly”), and Lindsey discusses how she may or may not dose her own wedding reception! Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Email us: foodfightthepod@gmail.com Follow us: instagram.com/thefoodfightpod Follow Lindsey: instagram.com/lindseygentile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices