Food Fight!

We’ve done candy shows in the past, but we haven’t focused exclusively on the non-chocolate variety. And we’ve also never done it with such a very special guest like Abby Gardner, host of the awesome podcast, ‘We Have Notes.’ Abby is a straight-up candy freak who loves any and all candy including gumballs, Laffy Taffy, and, yes, even Circus Peanuts. And, yet, she doesn’t really care about chocolat...

It’s coming up on that time of the year…WEDDING SEASON! (Okay, maybe that much excitement for wedding season is a smidge much.) But, tis the season, and since Lindsey is in the middle of planning her own wedding (yikes), she and Kirk decided to talk — wedding dinners. The two debate what they want and don’t want to see on a wedding menu, is the food at a wedding even that important, how much pleas...

Kirk went on a family vacation to San Francisco, and while he ate ALL of the food in the city, he decided to take a little break and not record any of it. (We all make choices.) So instead, we've decided to flashback to nearly two years ago to the very first episode Kirk and Lindsey ever did. What did they debate? Sandwiches. Come see where the love and, more importantly, the fighting began! Hosts...

Juice and smoothies are more than just drinks…they are a lifestyle. But should they be consumed with actual meals? That’s just one of the topics Kirk and Lindsey debate on this juice/smoothie episode, along with if juicing is really worth it, how awful grape juice is, which orange juice brand would you F, Marry, or Kill, are smoothies really just adult milkshakes, which fruit is the “flavor bully”...

Kirk and Lindsey LOVE dessert…but do they love Asian desserts? That’s what they’re going to find out on this episode, as the two travel the San Gabriel Valley on an Asian dessert field trip to see if they can get behind grass jellies, red beans, taro roots, sweetened shaved ices, pudding buns, egg waffles, coconut jellies, and, of course, boba drinks. Yeah, it’s a lot of dessert eating for one epi...

After talking about it forever, after many scheduling conflicts, Food Fight! is finally having a pierogi (and Prosecco) party! Kirk, Lindsey, Kelly Wallace-Barnhill from ‘F*ck You, I’m Smarter,’ and Jackie Brubaker from the ‘That Girl’ podcast are all here to learn how to make pierogi from Kirk’s wife, Ann. (Who in turn learned how on the Internet.) This episode is filled with pierogi-making tips,...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Executive Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon A whole episode dedicated to crackers?! Hells yeah! This week, Kirk and Lindsey dive deep into crackers; the one food that’s always in your pantry but you’re just not quite sure how it got there. The two debate Wheat Thins vs. Triscuits, cheese crackers vs....

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Executive Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Description: We all know that the sole purpose of bar food (aka, “pub grub”) is to get us all to drink more and, frankly, we ain’t mad at that. Well, sometimes Kirk and Lindsey are, depending on what type of bar food the two are shoving down their gullet. T...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Executive Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon What better way to celebrate the 100th episode of Food Fight! than having Lindsey come over to Kirk’s on a Saturday night to eat some steak? (Answer: There is no better way.) So, while gorging on a full steak dinner, the two discuss the best cuts, how much...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Executive Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon With Lindsey on vacation in Costa Rica, the show nabs one of the hardest guests to get in the history of podcasts, with none other than Kirk’s daughter Lily gracing the show with her presence to talk about chicken nuggets. Lily is an absolute nugget expert...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Executive Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Kirk and Lindsey think they know food. But do they really? Are they truly knowledgable about food or are they full of s**t? To figure this out, the two have brought frequent guest and friend of pod (and Lindsey’s co-host on her hilarious podcast, F*ck You,...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Come on! Who doesn’t like bacon? Not liking bacon is…like…kooky talk. Bacon is everything, so much so that on this episode, that’s all Kirk and Lindsey talk about: thick vs. thin, crispy vs. chewy, is burnt bacon acceptable, is pouring maple syrup over it a tragedy,...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Kirk and Lindsey are back together again, and, boy oh boy, does Lindsey have some big news! More importantly, she shows off her impressive taco game in this episode…cause the girl knows her stuff. The two discuss how many tacos you should eat in polite public, corn vs. flour, why hard shell tacos a...

Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon It’s the first episode of the new year and, of course, Lindsey is on vacation. So Kirk has brought in his teenage son, Theodore, to speak on the most basic (and most comforting?) of foods…the chicken tender. They talk best dipping sauce, worst dipping sauce, how do tenders compare to chicken nuggets, wha...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon It’s the end of the year and Kirk and Lindsey didn’t kill each other — HOORAY!!! So for the last episode of 2021, the two recap all the episodes they did, starting all the way back with episode #43 when they talked about salad (where Kirk lost the salad-making contes...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon It’s the holidays! And what better way to celebrate the season than overeating and yelling at each other! So Kirk, Kirk’s family, Lindsey, and regular guest (and Lindsey’s co-host on the hilarious podcast, F*ck You, I’m Smarter) Kelly Wallace-Barnhill, all get togeth...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon With Lindsey off this week, regular guest and multi-hyphenate/triple threat Jackie Brubaker joins this episode of Food Fight! to discuss Hungarian and Polish food! And, shockingly, for an episode that doesn’t have Lindsey in it, there is a lot of weirdness in this on...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon If you think rice is boring, then you are doing rice WRONG. Kirk and Lindsey take this week’s episode to sing the praises of rice, the oldest known food that is still widely consumed today. They debate where rice falls in the pecking order of carbs, white rice vs. br...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Lindsey and Kirk’s schedules couldn’t match up this week, so for this very special episode Kirk’s son (and frequent guest host)Theodore is stepping in for Lindsey (he was their last choice). Not only that, but this week’s show was all his idea, as Kirk and Theo are t...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon It’s Thanksgiving time…the foodiest and fightingest time of the year! (Yes, we are saying those are actual words.) But rather than argue about traditional Thanksgiving foods (which they did last year - episode #37), Kirk and Lindsey have decided that this year they’l...

Hosts: Kirk Pynchon & Lindsey Gentile Producer: Kirk Pynchon Producer/Engineer: Andrew Price Theme song by: Kirk “Dad Beats” Pynchon Description: When it comes to chocolate, Lindsey is a little on the snobby side. As for Kirk, well, let’s just say he’s…easy? So there are A LOT of hot takes from these two when it comes to talking about pure, unadulterated chocolate. They debate milk vs. white vs. d...

Spices are confusing. What defines a spice? How do you use them? Which spice goes with which food? Honestly, Kirk and Lindsey have no idea, so they’ve brought back podcaster, author, home cooker, home baker, and all-around multi-hyphenate Jackie Brubaker to figure this whole spice thing out. The three talk about which spices they always use, ones they never use, how using too many spices is like y...

For this very “special” (aka, “ridiculous”) episode, Kirk and Lindsey went on a three-day raw food diet, where they ate nothing but raw fruits, raw vegetables, and raw nuts…for all of their meals…for 72 hours. NOTHING ELSE. Why? We’re not sure. But they did and they are here to talk about what it was like, what they ate, how they felt, was it worth it, what did they miss most, would they do it aga...

As mentioned MANY times on the show, neither Kirk nor Lindsey are food experts. And nowhere is that more apparent than on this week’s episode, where they talk about Filipino food. When it comes to the food of the Philippines, Kirk is super basic and Lindsey…well…Lindsey tries. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t enjoy it, cause Filipino food is tasty AF. So Kirk and Lindsey take a dive (albeit a...

While Lindsey is on vacation doing…Lindsey things…Kirk decides to have his old friend Carlos Perez (from the Peruvian episode) over to school Kirk on the art of making homemade sourdough bread. Full transparency: Carlos tried to teach Kirk the fine art of sourdough bread-making months ago, even going so far as to give him some of his precious mother dough, but Kirk f’ed it up so bad that he had to...