One Hand on My Pocket (And the Other One's Getting #$%@ Censored): Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza (Ep 64)

It took forty years, but Hot Pockets finally caught up with Darren. This week, the Bros review Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza—and for the first time in recorded Froze Bros history, one of your hosts takes his very first bite of the episode's food live on mic.

Digging further in: two Iranian Jewish brothers, Paul and David Merage, founded Chef America in the 1970s with Belgian waffles and a hunch about microwaves. A rebrand in 1983 became a frozen food institution. And a $2.6 billion sale to Nestlé in 2002 made everybody very comfortable. But since 2024, the crisping sleeve is gone. Pour one out.

In the news: Trader Joe's settled a class action lawsuit for $7.4 million over some receipts that showed a few too many credit card digits back in 2019. Nobody was actually harmed. Someone sued anyway.

Plus: Google Blogger had impure thoughts about our corn dog post and tried to censor us. The Reverse American cooking method gets its podcast debut. Do you know who Clarence Birdseye, Eggert Johansen, Ettore Boiardi, Nels Lindström, and Rose Totino are? Does Max? And Woodrow Wilson was not, it turns out, president in the 1920s.

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