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502 - Celebrating 250 Years: A Very Special Episode
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America's Food Kills You — and That's the Point
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Coming up for air after the ad break, Tim pivots to one of the episode's great comic set pieces: American food. He compares UK Taco Bell unfavorably ('I wouldn't kill myself with this') to the suburban American version — drunk in your car, just dropped your kid at his mother's after a gun-show playdate, taking the first bite of a hot, gooey chicken quesadilla with jalapeño sauce, knowing you will eat this until you die. He also recalls childhood trips to Old Country Buffet in Levittown, Long Island, where he would eat for two hours and pass out in his mother's van on the way home 'like a junkie being driven to rehab.' His conclusion: if food were bad, people would stop. The fact that Americans keep going back until they die is proof that the food rocks. [1] — Tim Dillon "American food is so transcendently good that people destroy themselves eating it, and that's not a flaw. From suburban Taco Bell quesadilla…" 18:53
When an overworked American collapses from a stress-induced cardiac event, face-first into a discounted rotisserie chicken in a supermarket parking lot, that's not tragedy — that's heroism. Tim argues this person should be celebrated as a soldier who left everything on the field.
