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Battle of the Mayonnaise Brands | 5.9.24 - The Howie Carr Show Hour 4
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You have no brains, no ability, nothing. Rump swabs, hacks, and moon bats beware. It's-- [MUSIC PLAYING] How we car. 844-500-4248-444-542-442. I just want to talk about something. This was an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal. And again, the Wall Street Journal is not super left-wing all across the board. Sometimes-- I mean, it basically is, and it's getting worse, but on the news pages. But sometimes some of their stories are still pretty good. Like, they do consumer stories sometimes that the New York Times would never go near. Because it reflects badly on Brandon. And this story reflects badly on the Democrats. 919-- sounds like you have VIPs in studio, or is Taylor playing a laugh track? No, we had the guys from Moby Dix, Todd, and Bob, and John. Those were-- they were with us till after the Chump line. They were just enjoying themselves, and we were enjoying ourselves. And Roscoe, the dog, just arrived. Give him a little lobster there, Taylor. Get some American dogs, you coming! Roscoe's not an American dog? It's a Chinese spy dog. He was born in Ohio. That's what they all say. 844-- he's an American dog, damn it. He's a good dog. Is he coming in? Is he coming in? Hold on. Here, you have to pick him up for me, Taylor. If you're on social media, you're about to see Roscoe the Wonder Dog. See how kind I am to the dog. Watch out, Roscoe. He's the same type of person who, as Catherine Gregg's twin sister, and you know what she did to two little black dogs? They were poodles, but it's the same thing. Watch out. And it's not a racial thing either. He just doesn't like dogs, period. Here, so Roscoe's going to stay with me for a little bit here, as long as I promise to give him some lobster, keyline pie, or both during the break. Anyway, consumers fed up with food costs ditch big brands. So my question for you is, are you ditching big brands? Here's an example. I'll read you the lead. Consumers are voting with their wallets, and some of the US's best known food brands are losing. Coffee drinkers are leaving Starbucks loyalty program. I never got Starbucks anyway. Chips-ahoy cookies are lingering longer on grocery store shelves. I never got chips-ahoy either. I always thought that they weren't that good of a cookie. You know, any generic brand like Market Basket or whatever, Publix is as good as chips-ahoy, in my opinion. Fewer customers are ordering at fast food drive-thrus and kiosks, pressuring companies such as Wendy's and McDonald's. I saw a story the other day. The guy was at one of these interstate McDonald's in Connecticut, and a Big Mac in fries and a Coke cost him $19. And of course, he was a wokester. And he said, this is good, because it will mean that people will stop eating McDonald's. You know, not everybody has a trust fund, and not everybody as a Democrat can afford to spend $30 on some vegan tofu or something like that. Some people can't afford to eat much more than McDonald's. And when it's $19, it's a problem. Roscoe's getting down. OK, there you go, Roscoe. As a result, the portion of US customer's income spent on food has reached the highest level in three decades. This is because of the rising prices. Prices are in now, in some cases, one-third higher than they were when Brandon took office. In Laguna, Miguel, California, Dennis Montanaro said he recently headed to McDonald's for a favorite order, a bacon and egg bagel with a coffee. The 75-year-old manager was stunned to see the $9.67 bill. "I'm done with fast food," he said. Prices for goods from burgers to mayonnaise are still far more expensive than they used to be. Fast food prices in March are 33% higher. Grocery prices are up 26%. US fast food traffic declined 3 and 1/2% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period a year ago. That's a big drop at a fast food market. It's 3 and 1/2% in one year. This is what the president of the CFO of McDonald's said. The macro headwinds. Macro headwinds have been more significant than I think we even anticipated coming into this year. At Starbucks, US traffic dropped 7% in the three months ending March 31st. The steepest quarterly declined since at least 2010. The active loyalty rewards users declined by 1.5 million members. Again, I never got Starbucks. Even if the prices weren't outrageous for coffee, how about the fact that you have to wait in line behind all these people who are normally in jihadi jamborees and they're all ordering these frapped-type drinks that take two minutes, three minutes to make? David Michael, a 58-year-old attorney from El Dorado Hills, California, said he used to go to McDonald's at least weekly but stopped a few months ago. Now that some sodas cost a buck 69 instead of a dollar, his regular meal of a small burger fries and a Coke is climbed. He also quit Starbucks after a price for a tall mocha clamp climbed to 525. "It's not that I can't afford it now," he said. "It's the frustration that the same meal now costs nearly double what it did." Kelanova, which makes cringles and pop tarts, said Thursday, it's North American sales volume slid 5% after the company increased prices by the same amount. Again, does anyone care about cringles and pop tarts? I mean, if you want to eat them, go ahead. It's like Trump says about EVs. You want an electric car, go ahead, hybrid, fine. But you shouldn't be stopped from buying a regular car. And so if you want to eat cringles and pop tarts or chips a hoy, that's fine. But they're really not that good. We'll take a call here, and there's more here. Ralph, you're next with how we car. Go ahead, Ralph. Hey, Captain. Basically, I was telling the sprinter there-- I'll go generic all day long because I got no way of spices and I know how to cook. I can make a lump of dough and make it amazing. Yeah, I don't think there's too many products that you need to buy the premium stuff. I mean, I can think of one thing. And I don't eat it very often is cream cheese. I think Philadelphia cream cheese is better than the generic stuff. But that's the exception pretty much. I mean, I like potato chips, but store brand potato chips are as good, aren't they? Yeah, but like a Hellman's man is, got to have that. I don't do the chains. I don't do-- I do the real hell. Yeah, I do Hellman's just because it's kind of like a Northeast brand. And I've kind of been using it for a long, long time. But is it-- do you think really you could tell that you could tell the difference if you did a blind taste test between Hellman's and Kraft and some other kind of-- in a generic brand? Do you think you could really tell the difference? It's creamier. It has more egg based on it. I mean, I know what to cook, man. Like I said, I could take a generic whatever, use spices or techniques and make it into a tars Mahal. So anyhow, thank you, Howie. And I got something for you. I'm going to send it in the mail. It's Howie's Diner is the name of it. And I'm going to send it over. Thanks. Thanks, Dennis. Ralph, I appreciate it. 844-542, 42 Dennis, you're next with Howie Car. Go ahead, Dennis. Howie, it can't be overlooked looking at the astronomical price of fast foods that during the pandemic, all of their up and coming competitors who could not put in drive-through windows were shut down. Yes, they were. On the essential Bluetooth. Yes. So that gives them the latitude to raise prices without any competitors, right? Yeah. No, it does. It does. The less competition you have, the more you can raise prices and not feel any blowback. Absolutely. I mean, I was talking to the mailroom manager about this. We drive around, and there are all these places that we used to go to before the panic. And they're now shut down. We used to walk down to-- there was a Pete's coffee in downtown Wellesley. Would walk down? It's gone. There used to be a bakery that we would walk to on the weekends in the middle of a town. It's gone. There are a lot of places that-- there's a place, Mighty Subs, which was this great little sub shop right across from our studio. And-- Rest in peace. What? Rest in peace. Rest in peace. I mean, the people that owned it were getting older, and it was a very small place. But the pandemic, Charlie Parker, the governor at the time, put it out of business. All these places are gone. And a lot of them were not Pete's, but a lot of them were the independents, were the ones that were crushed, not the McDonald's. 844-542-42. I'm Howie Carr. Got a great cop story? Email it to policeplotter@howiecarshow.com And listen to police plotter Fax Friday every Friday at 530. Your story could win you a great prize from the Howie Carr Show Store. [GASPING] [MUSIC PLAYING] He's Howie Carr, and he's back. [MUSIC PLAYING] Today's poll question is brought to you by Eden Rafferty, attorneys of law, to see what happened to my leg while having cryo performed that restore hyper wellness go to EdenRafferty.com. That's EdenRafferty.com. Taylor, what's the poll question? What are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at HowieCarShow.com, is who would you trust more to back you up in a fight? Joe Biden or BB Netanyahu? BB Netanyahu, obviously. 98%. It hasn't moved. And that's very rare that it doesn't move a single bit all day long. If anything, I would have thought I would go up to 99 to 1. 844, 500, 42, 42. 71 says, the Pulitzer Prizes are similar to what's going on with the Academy Awards. They have too many criterias in DEI crap, and it's destroying the movies. I think movies are a thing of the past now, and it's very sad. I belong to SAG, Screen Actors Guild, and I used to love it. Wokeism destroys everything. Yeah, it's the old saying, you know, now old saying. Go woke, go broke, you know. And yeah, I think movies, everybody wants to do streaming, Netflix. Grace was talking about that today. We were talking about the Karen retrial. She said, what a great movie. And then she said, but it's very complicated. And then she thought and said, no, it's a streaming series. It's Netflix or something. You could make a movie out of it, but you know, you would have to sacrifice a lot of it. It's like Black Mass, the movie about Whitey Bulger. I mean, it was an OK movie, but it would have been better as a series because there was so much more. They had to, they had all this great real life material, and they had to fictionalize some of it, just to get, because there was too much, so they had to shrink it in, and the only way to shrink it altogether was to put in fictional scenes. And it just, again, the movie was OK, but I think it would have been better as streaming. And nowadays, I think it would be made as streaming. 844, 542, 42, Max, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Max. Yeah, thanks, Holly. I just wanted to say that, you know, a lot of people are still struggling from coronavirus. After a fact, a lot of people, a lot of businesses, they closed down, and a lot of people lost their mortgages and are living in their cars and campers. And also, if you're going to get cookies, stay away from the Oreo cookies, because that's one Philly, Mike, and Obama's automatic. Please, 844, 542, 42. You know, one thing is the cookie sales are under pressure, especially Chips Ahoy. This is Mondalez saying this, which the company said are favored by lower income shoppers. They're cheaper than a lot. While Oreos are gaining market share, Chips Ahoy are losing ground to cheaper store-brand chocolate chip cookies. Well, I'd say Oreos are one of those products where I think I could tell it a taste test, an Oreo from-- I always used to think, Maia and Mabel, why did you buy hydroxy? It was on sale, Howard, you know? I think, you know, the generic Oreos aren't as good, but the generic chocolate chips as compared to Chips Ahoy's are just as good, and people are saying which their favorite brand of mayonnaise is. I tell you, I couldn't tell one mayonnaise apart from another one, 844, 542. Who's eating mayonnaise straight out of the jar? How can you tell the difference? Well, I don't know, that's what I'm saying, but the textures are saying they can. I call BS. Well, Kathy, but the mailroom manager insists always, we've got to get helmets. That's what she wants is helmets. Yeah, I'm with you, I don't know what the difference is, but talk again, Biden was going on the rant about shrinkflation, but I mean, it's just a fact of life at this time after his disastrous presidency. Mon de Les, again, that's the Chips Ahoy people, will introduce new smaller multi-packs for cliff bar, for example, with 10 energy bars instead of 12 inside to offer the bars at a lower price. Well, it's not a lower price. You're getting less for the same amount of money, and that's shrinkflation, but the word shrinkflation does not even appear in this story, but maybe that's part of the left-wing drift of the Wall Street Journal. How about this one? Kalanova CEO, Steve Kalanine said, I mentioned this earlier, the company is offering more deals and adjusting their timing throughout the month, promoting larger pack sizes at the beginning of the month when consumers have the most cash on hand and smaller ones toward the end of the month. Why do they have more money at the beginning of the month? Because that's when they get their EBT cards replenished. That's when the welfare checks arrive. With pop tarts, you may not buy the 20 count. You may buy the eight count. Oh, isn't that nice? 844, 500, 42, 42. We'll take some more calls on this when we come back. Are you shifting down from the premium brands at the supermarket? Are you going through the fast food restaurants less? People are saying that Dunkin's now is about the same price as Starbucks. It's gone up so much or Starbucks has kept trying to keep steady to stonch the losses. I'm Howie Carr. Live from the Matthews Brothers Studios. 844, 500, 42, 42, 844, 500, 42, 42. Penny Rackley, a life coach in automotive services, franchise owner in Texas, said she and her husband have scaled way back on their packaged food purchases. She's 58. She's cut pasta sauce and snack mixes from her shopping cart as prices surged, opting to make homemade versions, like our first call, our Ralph. After discovering that the products were two to three dollars more than she was expecting, it's gotten to where you think they've made a mistake, she said, over time you just feel like a boob. I think that's the key. That's the use that as the kicker, and that's a good way to end the story. You feel like a boob when you're paying all this money for these products that were so much less two or three years ago, when before Brandon wrecked the economy. 844, 500, 42, 42. I'm almost looking here. Four years ago says 919. I could get a McDouble and a small fry for about 210, 225 depending on the tax. Last week in downtown Raleigh. 536 with tax, ridiculous. Gayle in Texas, true that. My husband and I used to eat it out often, not so much anymore. I'm scared where this is leading to. Four, one, three. My two year old grandson cares about pop tarts. Yeah. I know. But there's better, there's better, I mean, there's tastier stuff. I don't mind the chemicals. I mean, it's nasty that jam or whatever it is inside, but it's just this tastier stuff than a pop tart out there. Most of the fast food joints now have apps that give decent discounts. 207 Starbucks is now cheaper than Duncan. Medium black coffee in central Maine. 286 at Starbucks, 301 at Duncan's. I like both and not really concerned with the cost when I'm out and about. My feeling about coffee is that I can, I think, I get the Cafe Bustello. I told you that, I've told you that before the Cuban stuff. But I can make a lot of coffee with that in the morning. And it's, and it's a, and even though the-- You reuse the same grounds throughout the day, too. Right, what's wrong with that? But it starts, it starts off super, super strong. Okay, I'll believe you. Economical, I'm not gonna bash it. Yeah, but I don't, you know, once it gets too weak, I switch it out, but, you know, I just feel like I say, I buy a better brand, but I brew it myself. So, and I don't think it's, I don't think it's, you know, I just have the little two cup or one cup drip, drip, accoutrement, and that's what I use. 844, 542, 42, Rick, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Rick, Rick, go ahead. Hey, how are you? Good. I am a long time read up with Phoebe's read newspapers and long time listen to a second caller. Thank you. I know a little bit about your mayonnaise. Yes. So, on what second those are 16 kids, we're pretty poor. So, my mother and father would feed us mayonnaise amateurs. So, you had mayonnaise sandwiches? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wait, don't tell Joe Biden about that today. It'll be a become a staple of his speech. And so then they had helmets and that was like really thick and globular. And then after that, they came out with miracle whip, which is kind of tangy. So, he really wanted to know the taste of mayonnaise, put it on a piece of bread, and you will find out how to eat one taste. Obviously, if that's your eating it on toast, you're gonna know what it tastes like. But if you're eating it in the cornucopia that is a sandwich, you're not gonna be able to detect the differences between helmets and craft, for instance. I may, you know, Rick, the only, the few times I use mayo is, well, I make chicken salad occasionally, I make potato salad occasionally, but less and less, I'm using mayo, less and less. I think mayo is kind of going a little bit out of style, isn't it, out of fashion, especially with younger people? - Cool, I'm old fashion because mayo is egg, vinegar, and all good nutrients, so my parents sold me. - Yeah, yeah, you know what? I never understood miracle whip. I listened to the old time radio shows and some of them are sponsored by miracle whip when it's coming in, and it's, oh, miracle whip. So, I mean, I don't know. I never, I never was, you know, attracted to that as a replacement for mayo. Thanks for the call, Rick. Jeremiah, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Jeremiah. - Hi, how are you doing? - Hi. - The reason I was calling, you were mentioning about the Pulitzer Prizes have been pretty weak lately and all the rest of it. And I agree with you, 100%. The last, over the last 20 years, I think they've gone downhill. - Right. - But still the two worst Pulitzer Prizes winning authors both came from Harvard, Colson Whitehead, and was the other one, a long time ago. I forgot him, but they're terrible. But the worst, all of them that won the Pulitzer Prizes, this guy didn't win it for fiction with EE Cummings. - Yeah. - He never read his novel, his one novel. - No. I know who he is. He's the guy that wrote in all lowercase, right? Yeah. Well, he wrote a novel about two American ambulance drivers in France during World War II. I'm sorry, World War I. - Yeah. - And they were in a French jail off to the war. And they never explained why the Allies put them in jail. And every third paragraph was like, you know, I went to Harvard, did you know that? But it was just, it was incredibly bad. But of the last two Pulitzer Prizes winning novels, might give us some hope. Barbara Kingsauber wrote Damon Copperhead. That's a really good book. - Yeah. - I mean, that's like, that's in there with Mark Twain. I swear to God. - Oh, come on. - No, I'm not kidding. Honest to God, read the book. It's a great book. And I think Mark Twain is one of the greatest writers ever. But she was writing about a boy who went through puberty and all the rest down in Southern Kentucky and the rest of it and all the local stuff that was going on. And he had the same moral compunction as Huck Finn. Honest to God, it was really a sharp, sharp book. - Yeah. - But then again, in the same 20 years, you had Middlesex, which was, you know, let's get as many genders together as we can and throw that together. And then you also had another book that was really awful. I couldn't even make sense of it. - All you got to look at is the "New York Times" book review, which by the way gets thinner by the week. And again, the only time I see it is when somebody at the Biltmore condo where I live in Florida, you know, abandons it in the recycling bin. And I just pick it up just out of habit, just to see, I go through it just to see if there's anything there. But even a review, forget reading the book. If there's a review of a book that I would be interested in, there never is. It's always about, like you say, people of many genders or people who are oppressed migrants or everybody's oppressed. The one thing about "The Wall Street Journal" is they still have a good book review section on the weekends, not great, but it's better than "The New York Times." I don't read any modern novels. I can't, there's nothing there for me. Someone that would write something that I would be interested in for a novel is not gonna get published by a New York publisher. I mean, there's some places, there's some small presses will still print a good mystery or like Michael Walsh from "Lenn." But there very few people that come out of the mainstream publishing houses anymore. Thanks for the call, Jeremiah. Johnny, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Johnny. - Yeah, Howie, I know the Pulitzer Prize for journalism goes to really dog people that go out and look for stories. And I don't know, maybe go to jail for something, but hey, I don't know anybody in this neighborhood who's done that. But I mean, they would never even think of giving Aiden Kearney that he's busted, he just single-handedly with a devout following, he blew this apart. - Well, how about he blew the state police apart too, earlier, you know? - I love it, and he'd think of it, and he paid the price, he went to jail. - Right, right. - So, but my point was about what you were talking about, I used to go out to dinner two or three times a week, and it's just so expensive, especially during COVID with all the gibberish going on. Like, my friends, we all like to cook. Now we just like, tonight I'm making, I get scallops right now, I get scallops with salt, pepper, olive oil, and garlic, and he's making steak tips, and we have corn in the club. And like, and guess what, that's gonna cost us so less that if you went to a restaurant and got scallops and steak tips in corn in the club, we're probably saving, and why go out? I'd rather stay in. - No, I did a meet the experts today with one of the owners of Omaha Steaks, and you know, some people go on to the website of Omaha Steaks, they say, gee, this is expensive, but you know, if you went to a steakhouse, do you know how much these steaks and these side orders? You know, like the scallop potatoes, the potatoes are groddin', stuff you can't really make at home unless you got a lot of time. You know how much it would cost? I mean, Omaha Steaks is a bargain. They're all, any of these say, any of these, anything you prepare at home is a bargain compared to anything at a restaurant, basically. - Oh, I tell you what, how, if you get the Omaha Steaks, their hot dogs are the best hot dogs I've ever had in my life. Brilliant. - They are, the guy said, he said his daughter got him into it, you know, he was never a big hot dog eater and she just said, dad, your company makes these amazing hot dogs, and you know, that's, yeah, that's it, exactly. And you know, some of the, like a Moby Dix in Wellfleet, that was our guy today, that was, you know, did the cheap bastard deal today. I mean, that's seafood, that's clam shack stuff, that's unique stuff. Maria's restaurante, which we just sold out of today in Portland, that's amazing Italian food that you can't get anywhere else. But a lot of this, a lot of this food is just, is something you could make at your house and save a ton of money. And people are being, the increasing prices are forcing people to buy the, to buy their own products. They're not able to go out as much as they used to. And again, especially people that got used to going to McDonald's every morning, you know, and getting something that was reasonably priced and they had these dollar items. They're no, are there any dollar items left on the McDonald's menu? I don't think so. Thanks for the call, Johnny. 844-542-Dave, you're next with Howie Carr, go ahead, Dave. - Hey, Howie, yeah, I know this is totally off topic, but I think it's worth mentioning that, you know, the munitions that were, Biden is denying Israel, are these specialized, you know, precision mutations, the smart boss. - Right. - So what's really going to happen now is that Israel's just going to have to stack these, and they're dumb bombs, and they'll be even more casual too, because, you know, we missed, and sent another one. Okay, that's what's going on here. It's just a total joke. Another way for him to fix something, let's really mess it up. - Yeah. - You know, it is unbelievable. I'm just beside myself at the insanity that we see every day, Howie, on the campuses, from our leaders, Tomola, oh my God. It's just, it's overwhelming. - Why would you stab your top ally in the region in the back like this? On behalf of a group of genocidal Nazi savages, backed by people backed by mobs on the university campuses who couldn't find the mittiest on a map. - Who couldn't get his job? - You know, it's scary, man. I'm really afraid of the future. I really am. - Yeah. - He's in charge though, so we're going to let him hold it. - Yeah, no, I think we're all very concerned about the future. I mean, I'm older, it's not going to affect me that much. I don't have that much time. I mean, I don't mean, I'm not depressed about it already. I just don't have that much time left. I just worry about my kids and my grandkids, especially my grandkids, you know? That little kid that was in here a couple of days ago. What's going to happen to him long-term with this? You know, we've let him down. If we can't regain control of the country, we're leaving, I'm leaving him, you're leaving him and your kids and grandkids, a much worse country than the one we inherited. We blew it unless we get control of it very, very quickly. 844-542-42, I'm Howie Carr. - The Howie Carr Show. (upbeat music) (crowd cheering) - The emperor of hate, Howie Carr is back. (upbeat music) - 844-542-42, Mark, you're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Mark. - Oh yeah, I have the answer for you. You asked, why would Biden stab Israel in the back? And the answer is this. He's trying to win the Palestinian sympathizer vote. And he knows Howie that the Israeli vote, the Jewish vote, will always be their forum because they always are. And I point to people like Alan Dershowitz, who had the World pulled out from him, well, the rug pulled out from him, at least once a month. And he still lines up the vote Democrat. - I don't think he's gonna vote Democrat this year, Mark. Do you really think he's gonna vote Democrat this year? - Well, you think he's would have seen enough to soundly denounce the Democratic Party, but he won't do it. So yeah, I think they line up to vote Democrat. They're loyal. I'm not picking on them. I'm gonna just call involved in strikes here. The Jewish vote, nine out of 10, will always vote Democrat. - I don't think it's that, I don't think it's quite as monolithic as it used to be, but you're right. I mean, it's still way out of proportion. I mean, why would they back someone who wants to stab Israel? I mean, why would any American, not just Jews, why would any American support this kind of cynical political ploy? And he's just doing it to get the votes of people who hate America, who hate Jews. And you know, I mean, people sometimes still speak badly of FDR and Woodrow Wilson as well they should, because they wouldn't do anything for blacks in the case of Woodrow Wilson or FDR integrating the armed forces. And FDR wouldn't allow Jewish immigration into the country as the Holocaust was heating up. And how is this any different than the cowardice of Woodrow Wilson, the cowardice of FDR? This is just another Democrat, who's pandering to the worst elements in his party. And the party's got a lot of bad elements. Thanks for the call, 781 just filled up with gas at BJ's in Franklin, $45 for three quarters of a tank, 2019 Toyota Camry. Thanks, Joe Biden, and when I was talking about how the New York Publishing Company's only print woke books, 207 says you just described my woke book group. Why would you wanna be in a woke book group anyway? I feel like I'm better off just buying the books I wanna buy that I find in various places. Oftentimes I'm gonna use book sites or some of these companies now reprint the old pulp stories in anthologies. I like those books. Chewing gum for the eyes, but it's better than watching TV or certainly reading a modern novel. I'm Howie Carr. [MUSIC PLAYING]