Flyover Plates Podcast

Tonight on FOP! Foodyseus takes us on a food odyssey through the midwest, where most restaurants are actually still in business. We discuss: Goats. Not the Greatest of all Time, but real live goats. Walking around our malls. Because there are no more businesses or human kids left here. What NY Knicks fans burned to celebrate a win The TWO reasons Mike is bursting at the seams English soccer fan co...

TONIGHT ON FOP! It's probably the best one we've ever done. Mike's Mini Me joins us as our special guest to explain his: Top 3 Chicken Strips Top Rochy Spots Top homemade foods Smuggled cans of Sprite I Can't Believe It's Not Banana Pudding Deep Dish Debate We discuss: Heated seats and long sleeves in May D&C's Top Burgers in Rochester CITY MAGAZINE'S TOP SPOTS IN R...

Tonight on CEP! We reminisce It's prom night - which formerly-classy Roch establishment do you pick for dinner? Benucci's? Crescent Beach? Well, those two are now defunct. What is White Lady Castle and has it been bulldozed yet? High School graduation cookies and cakes Getting our drivers licenses at Emerson & Glyde or Sykes & Maple A hypothetical WalterFest - a music festival only...

We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special! Marc meets a local celebrity Mike gives his State of the Plate address It's Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible. Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing. What NYers moving to FL should know Should we set up toll booths to beg from those who are about to escape? When yo...

Tonight on FOP! We discuss Why Antarctica is better than Rochester Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains? Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast? Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop? White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is? Pancake...

Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food. We reminisce: B&W television (Marc still owns one) Local TV news and their anchors "500 Anytime Minutes" Mike's HS nickname Back when life was finite and manageable "Mister Food" on local cable We discuss: The Shamrock Shake Itali...

Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year. We Remember Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY QDOBA Webster #Snap Burger in Greece ER Sweetland ER's cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El Greco Big Lots all across Rochester - where else can you go to buy a couch, cereal, mouthwash, and f...

TONIGHT ON FOP! Thanksgiving - where we went, what we ate. What's the most annoying Christmas gift? What passes for salad in Rochester Are Mac & Cheese and Green Bean Casserole appropriate for Thanksgiving? Mike eats stuffing... by itself? Italian barbers having cookie trays at Christmastime What exercise Mike logged in his FitBit this week Mexican and Irish Traffic Lights Kegs & Eggs...

Tonight on FOP! Italian contact lenses Mike attempts TV repair in honor of Marc's bday Bills fans are now spreading their ruckus across the country What's the common secret ingredient in Jewish and Italian food? Thanksgiving-Flavored Oreos? Find out which flavors they offer. A Pumpkin Spice radio channel? Britney Spears is now considered soft rock? BBQ in Outer Space Zubaz pants popping up...

Tonight on FOP! It's a tangent-filled nostalgia fest filled with the usual food and folly. Scandals What two high-ticket items Rochester people throw away every fall Pumpkin spice... pumpkins? Buffalo Bills uniforms and logos in church UofR tries to anti-improve its brand Savastano's & Papa Joe's robbed Rochester, North Korea, or Gaza: Which is worse? Reviews Top 10 Italian restaur...

Tonight, on the long-awaited Sept episode of Flyover Plates, we review: Pumpkin Spice flavored... WHAT? NY State does the most ironic thing in history Mike actually likes keeping some foods from mixing Flaherty's Nick's Italian Feast Buffet Great American Ballpark's Doctor Appreciation Buffet Frontier Field The Flagship Friendly's Restaurant Chik Fil A + Country Sweet: A Match Made...

Tonight on FOP! Why Marc was actually happy to come home to Roch We bemoan the return of Pumpkin Spice Everything Rochester Schools start later because there's no risk of being too hot next spring NY State Fair celebrates charity and fights hunger by wasting 800 lb of food Cruise Ships landing in... Buffalo? New mini-segment: "Will Marc Eat It?" Olive Garden Life Hack Our town names an...

Tonight on FOP! Put on your 1993 "Bud at the Glen" cutoff shirt and get ready to enjoy. Our buddy Jason joins us to give his take on Plates, life in Nonrochester, Wegmans, and more "What does the plate mean to you?" We memorialize Penfield Hots, a senseless loss Driving through middle IL Rochester Garages and Auxiliary Kitchens What foods are BETTER as leftovers? What constitutes a...

Tonight on FOP! Rochester flooding in June Mike reports on his Alaskan Cruise Why Marc thinks Alaskans are so happy and peaceful Restaurant reviews: Macadamia Nut Encrusted Chicken at The Hangar on the Wharf - Juneau, AK, Finger Lakes Casino Buffet Father's Day Buffet, Der Dutchman Amish Buffet, and in our feature photo, Forno Tony In Memoriam: Del Lago casino buffet Three "Unhealthy"...

Tonight on Flyover Plates! It's the Summer Fling Edition... Except Roch still hasn't been warm enough to wear shorts. Cousin Pasquale eats the plate of the month, the Genny Plate, and provides his expert critique (Marc's excited mainly because this saved him from having to shell out $20) Marc interviews superfan T-Bone about a pizzeria recommendation Every weekend for the past 6 months...

Tonight on FOP: Mike makes another traditional Easter plate, and wears his Rochester Red Wings Plates hat! Huge apologies for the sound quality - all technology is complicated garbage! Controversies: Waffle House Delivery? Rochester and Buffalo are in the hottest housing markets, but it's recovery not growth Restaurant reviews: J&E Rootbeer Stand, Middletown, OH Savoia Cookies What's o...

Tonight on FOP: It's a very special Season 3 Premiere! WE RECORD LIVE IN THE BOOTH AT WAFFLE HOUSE! Cousin RG joins us for his first WH experience, and the waffle he ordered arrived in less than 40 seconds. We discuss an article called "What not to order at Cracker Barrel", and then an article on Rochester's I-Squared scandal Restaurant reviews: McDonald's HEADQUARTERS, Ming Hi...

Tonight on FOP! This Valentine's Day, Dr. Mike is here to get you in the mood... for food. What is the Raaachester Eaccent? How do we pronounce werds? We realize Rochester never emerged from The Great Depression Mike travels to a resort in Mexico, and reviews the only part that matters, the buffet. While most magazines discuss retirement and estate planning, Rochestarians discuss what happens...

Tonight on FOP! We celebrate the milestone of 500 total downloads! Do we have a lot of fans, or just two dedicated loyalists who listen over and over? We take a boat ride to Tangent City tonight, going down memory lane with printed TV Guides, the mystique of Syracuse and Buffalo TV stations and Canadian radio stations, handheld TVs, and more. Our AIM names, our 90s computers and video games, and h...

It's Christmas Night, and guess who has nothing better to do - us! There's no room for FOP at the inn, so here we go: Topics we lambaste: The Rochester indoor heating dilemma Marc's Incident (Rochester crime affects us all, directly) Christmas Eve Church Car break-in spree (16 cars at one church alone) Is NC part of The South? Mike's hero enters the Guinness Book of World Records F...

It's our second annual Thanksgiving episode! Where did Marc go to eat for his birthday? Our Thanksgiving Reports Thanksgiving pizza? Why Celery Sucks - ended up doing that segment twice Confessions from the McQuaid Cafeteria Plate of the Month: Italian American Community Center Thanksgiving Luncheon (with pasta and what Mike calls Italian Pillows!) Emotional Support Ponies - how they're tr...

Tonight on Flyover Plates! Marc's recording software crashed, so we lost track of time and ended up doing an inadvertent 2-hour marathon mega-episode! We discuss: The long-awaited Tribute to Coach Mike. Marc expresses gratitude for our driver's ed (and tennis) coach who taught us defensive driving. He then spends around half an hour outlining the ways Rochester drivers are clueless: None o...

After two hours of fighting with his new-to-him computer, Marc cobbled things together enough to start recording. Tonight: We lament new pumpkin spice "innovations" What's your ideal Plate? Tonight we debut a new segment called Fantasy Football Plate: For Rosh Hashanah, we let our imaginations run (very) wild as we describe our ideal Jewish food plate. Marc reviews the food at Whiskey...

Tonight, on FOP! Mike drops off his family at the airport, just so he can go down in the basement and record an episode. Marc enjoys his new back deck before the snow flies next week. Sampling a flight of... hot dogs? (Where else besides FOP would you hear that?) It's Mike's turn to review a plate, and it's a good one. The Amber Rose Hungarian-Lithuanian plate includes pork schnitzel w...

It'll be hard to live up to the last episode, but we'll try. Tonight we welcome our first special guest! Cousin RG is our biggest fan and has a lot to say about Rochester - its crime, its food, its mystique. We discuss: A Rochester Legend: Red Fedele's Brook House What's the best part about visiting Rochester? The legality of Boneless Wings What's missing in this episode? Confe...