Comedian Caleb Hearon is probably my favorite personon Twitter.
How did you eat when you were traveling across the country in the middle of a pandemic?
The best meal we had was when we went from Colorado to Utah in one day.
We had a nice Airbnb, so we looked up a bunch of places before we got there.
That was really nice.
The scary thing was in Utahat least the part that we were inthe place waspacked.
The patio was full, the dining room was full, really no one was wearing masks.
Everyone was going about business like normal.
And my mom was like Do you want to eat here?
and I was like God, no.
And she was like Great, me neither.
I was so glad we were on the same page.
No way, dude.
Have you been cooking at home more, or have you been ordering in more?
Cooking more, but that wasnt a high bar to meet.
Before COVID, I was doing multiple shows a week, sometimes more than one a night.
I would eat out at night because I had shows and I didnt have time to go home.
Ill just really take my time.
One thing Ive been doing a lotAre you Costco person?
Are you a Costco fan?
I love Costco.
They have those packages of three different types of salmon.
I love to get that and a really hearty wholegrain bread with seedsthe kind thats really chunky.
Have some iced coffee.
I always have iced coffee in the fridge.
I usually will go pretty late in the day without having lunch because Im having a big breakfast.
Around two or three oclock Ill be like Oh shit, I should eat something.
So Ill have a salad or ramen.
I love a peanut sauce.
Ill put it on any kind of any kind of Asian noodle.
Especially if Im trying a new place.
So I have been eating a lot more vegetable-forward meals.
Or shell make a veggie stir fry and Ill have that for dinner because its what she made.
And its not realistic!
And its just kind of normal, right?
Its a thing that I might have enjoyed in normal before-life.
And its not realistic!
But Im like If youre eating vegetables you wont get it.
In a couple of your videos theres a focus on awkward restaurant interactions.
Are you that person?
A bunch of our friends went to St. Louis because two of our friends from college were getting married.
We stayed with Katie because her family lives in St. Louis.
There couldnt have been more build up!
Its astaplein my family.
We donotsee each other without going.
The people who work there may as wellbefamily… We were like Alright girl, we we will go.
No one even suggested the idea of doing something else because she would die if we didnt go.
We go toand I want to be fairI think its the ugliest restaurant Ive ever seen in my life.
We go to this restaurant and its so ugly and I was like You know what?
Really good places be that way sometimes.
Its probably ugly on the outside, but a real find!
No one seats us.
No one greets us.
We finally take our own table in the back.
Its dingy, there are flickering lights.
They bring the water.
Each one has one melted ice cube.
The whole experience from top to bottom is terrible.
Two of our friends are vegetarians and they get vegetarian tacos.
And it wasnt all the way cookedjust cauliflower in a hard taco shell.
Ive never had a worse meal in my life.
We could not stop laughing.
Our friend Katieof course, were dragging her the entire mealthe whole time shes just on the defense.
Shes like Its really odd!
They might be new ownership!
And weve never let it go.
We probably also did happen to come on an off day, you know what I mean?
Do you have fun with the server?
I do have fun with the server.
We had this super fun, cute server.
She was like my moms age and she clearly had been working there forever.
She was so on top of it; she knew the menu like the back of her hand.
We were joking around and like having a good time.
And I was like Oh, this will never work.
Did it really burden you to smile at a waiter?
What is wrong with you?
Are you enjoying the food scene in L.A.?
Well, not really yet.
We we ordered from a Thai restaurant that was pretty good when we first got here.
It was in Burbank.
I want no work, no meetings, no anything.
I want to just take the rental car and drive up the coast.
And then we just happened upon this little restaurant right by the coast called Neptunes Net.
It was all outdoorseveryone was sitting at picnic tables and there were a bunch of bikers there.
I dont know if its a regular biker spot, but there happened to be a ton of them.
I was like This is the cutest thing thats ever happened to me.
I feel like I had crab cakes.
I had great seafood of some kind.
That was the last L.A. food experience I had, which was before I even moved here.
Thats at Asian Cajun in Chicago.
Its my favorite boil place.
Its a very particular pop in of clientele, its expensive.
I love finding the place thatsmyplace.
Ive been thinking about what thats going to look like post-COVID.
A lot of people are going to lose their special spots.
Not to completely bring down the tone of this conversation.
My mom and my stepdad were really worried about the one restaurant in the town that they live near.
That restaurant may as well be a community center.
Its really not just about food.
Its where everyone goes when they get off work.
Its where people go when theres a wedding or a funeral, like anything.
Luckily, I think theyre okay and theyre reopened now and theyre doing better.
But people are going to be missing those spots.
Do you have any strong opinions about a particular food?
I am very particular about chicken wings.
I hate a jumbo chicken wing.
People are like The bigger, the better!
When theyre so big, its a bad ratio, because the sauce is only on the outside.
It starts to mess with the ratio and now youre just eating chicken.
I love a smaller chicken wing and a lot of people complain because theyre like Oh, too small.
Well,get more.
you’re able to get more of them if it’s crucial that you.
When I make chili, I always put grape jelly in it.
Have you tried cooking chicken wings in quarantine?
But I havent really done it during quarantine.
But when Im making wings I do a brown sugar and honey buffalo sauce.
Anytime Im making a sauce thats not Buffalo, I do the same thing.
I do a honey-soy-sriracha sauce when I make shrimp or salmon.
I love to mix honey and a hot sauce to do a little situation.
If its not honey, its molasses.
Im very particular about ranch dressing.
I make my own.
My mom worked at a bar when I was growing up, putting herself through college.
She worked at the one bar in our hometown that had these great chicken wings.
She started making the ranch.
Its not super unique.
Im not like a chef.
So much ranch is so runny and bad, and it drives me insane!
Ranch and pizza is so good.
I love it too, and it horrifies people from areas with pizza identities.
Theres something to be said for freeing yourself from pizza rules and letting yourself enjoy new flavor combinations.
You have to, have to, have to put grape jelly in your chili.
Did you ever have the cocktail sausages with the grape jelly and Heinz sauce?
Andthis is a big cooking secretwhen I make chili, I always put grape jelly in it.
You have to, have to,haveto put grape jelly in your chili.
It is so good.
Have you ever heard of a pear salad?
Oh, my word.
Your body is like Whats happening?
And no, youre not.
Your brain just thought you were getting something else.
It will just ruin me for like five minutes.
Im like I have no idea whats going on.
