Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
After Veronica's 3-year-old caught her squirting cream directly into her mouth from the fridge, the child now lists 'just some mouth cream' alongside jelly and yoghurt as a legitimate snack request. Rob and Josh agree this is simultaneously disgusting and completely relatable.
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Rob reads listener Sean's food confession: quality vanilla ice cream with the little vanilla pod flecks in it, eaten on cold garlic bread (the supermarket French stick variety, cooked and then cooled). Josh initially assumes this is a pregnant woman until Rob confirms it's a man — 'the kind of sick shit a man would do.' The debate over whether it's conceptually disgusting or unexpectedly workable concludes that Heston Blumenthal could theoretically serve it for £20. Listener Veronica then shares that after her 3-year-old caught her squirting cream directly into her mouth from the fridge, the child now requests 'just some mouth cream' as a legitimate snack option, listing it alongside jelly and yoghurt. Tom from Congleton offers the episode's most unfiltered confession: eating a whole trifle 'like a big yoghurt', and using a white chocolate cookie as an edible spoon for Milkybar yoghurt, signing off as an 'overweight consumer of the electric spinach' — the meaning of which is never fully clarified.
Listener Sean submitted the revelation that he eats quality vanilla ice cream — the kind with actual vanilla pod flecks — on cold, already-cooked garlic bread. Josh assumed it was a pregnant woman. Rob insisted there are some things you can pass judgment on without trying. Both then acknowledged Heston Blumenthal could probably put it on a menu.
A listener named Sean confessed to eating quality vanilla ice cream on top of cold garlic bread — a combination Rob and Josh struggled to comprehend but acknowledged could theoretically work.
After a parent was caught squirting whipped cream directly into their mouth from the fridge, their 3-year-old now regularly asks for 'mouth cream' as a legitimate snack option.
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