Lightning Round: Viral Food Trends, French Name Rankings & Back-to-School Hacks | Fast Five Shorts
Sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso. Chris and Anne tackle viral grocery shopping trends, discuss Nestlé's leadership chaos, share parenting hacks for school prep, and debate cool-sounding French names. From the "5-4-3-2-1" grocery method to bus ride realities, it's rapid-fire retail commentary at its finest.
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All right, well, let's go to the lightning round, Chris.
Speaker A5, 4, 3, 2, 1 is a new grocery shopping hack coined by chef Will Coleman, suggesting that you can make any meal and eliminate food waste by limiting your grocery shopping trip to five vegetables, four fruits, three proteins, two starches, and one treat.
Speaker AWhat would your five, four, three, two, one trip be, Chris?
Speaker BIt's the dumbest.
Speaker BFirst of all, it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker BLike, this is why.
Speaker BThis is why.
Speaker BThis is why I take what Instagram influencer say with a grain of salt.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BAll right, this is a. Oh, God.
Speaker BSo I got to give you five, four, three, two, one of each of those.
Speaker BAll right, so vegetables.
Speaker BMy five vegetables would be green beans, corn, peas, lettuce.
Speaker BI know.
Speaker BSurprising, huh?
Speaker BLettuce and jalapenos.
Speaker BThat would be my five vegetables.
Speaker BI think those are all vegetables.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BFruits would be bananas, tomatoes.
Speaker BBecause they're actual fruits.
Speaker ACorrect.
Speaker ADates.
Speaker BGotta have my dates.
Speaker BMy breakfast.
Speaker BAnd blueberries.
Speaker BThat was that.
Speaker BThat's probably the easiest one for me.
Speaker BProtein.
Speaker BI think I'd go chicken, of course.
Speaker BChicken, steak.
Speaker BAnd then probably coconut milk, because you got to get your protein from the coconut milk, too.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BAnd then, then that's a staple of me.
Speaker BThat's every day.
Speaker BAnd then starches.
Speaker BI'd go.
Speaker BI don't.
Speaker BI don't need a lot of starches, so I'd go sourdough bread.
Speaker BAnd maybe ruffles.
Speaker BBut the simply ruffles, because those are just potatoes and oil and those are so good.
Speaker BIf you haven't tried those, folks.
Speaker BSo delicious.
Speaker BAnd then, of course, the treat's not going to surprise anybody at the Red Vines 100.
Speaker BThe Red Vines.
Speaker AI want to know what.
Speaker AI want to know what creation, what dinner you concoct with Red Vines dates, coconut milk and peas.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd what else was.
Speaker AWhat was the other one?
Speaker AGreen beans.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BThat's why this.
Speaker BThat's why this whole thing is so stupid.
Speaker BLike, where do you.
Speaker BHow are you gonna spice the food?
Speaker BLike, you can't just go to the grocery store and get those things.
Speaker BIt's just so.
Speaker ASo I guess they assume.
Speaker AI guess they assume that you.
Speaker AThe spice, like the salt, pepper that the, like, pantry staples you have already.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker BThis.
Speaker BIt's just dumb.
Speaker BThis is.
Speaker BThis.
Speaker BThis is what drives me crazy about Instagram.
Speaker BAll right, this next one is one of my all time favorite questions, and not for what it's About.
Speaker BBut for the question I'm going to ask you, Nessie has fired CEO Laurent Fix after just one year in the job following an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship, ousting its second chief executive in a year and throwing the Swiss food giant into its deepest leadership chaos in decades.
Speaker BAnd where does Laurent rank in your ranking of cool sounding European and or French names?
Speaker BI have no idea if he's actually French.
Speaker AI. I think Laurent is like one of the, like, iconic French names.
Speaker AI would also say it's your top three.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BYeah, totally.
Speaker B100% is.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker ALouque, we have a client named Louis you're gonna drop.
Speaker AYeah, I am, because I think it's so cool.
Speaker AAnd then Simone, I think is my other favorite French sounding name.
Speaker BIs that Simone?
Speaker ASimone, yes.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker AI need to be beef up my Francophile background here before I answer that question again, but I do like those names.
Speaker BYeah, I put Laurant in mine too.
Speaker BI put Terry on mine too.
Speaker BTerry, That's a good one.
Speaker BAnd then I'd also put Charles.
Speaker BCharles, like Charles de Gaulle, you know, just straight up Charles, you know.
Speaker ADo they say that name differently in French?
Speaker ALike, how do you say like?
Speaker ABecause you don't, you know, it's.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BIt's spelled the same way.
Speaker BI looked it up yesterday.
Speaker BIt's spelled the same way.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker AYes, but like Charles.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BWe got to ask people.
Speaker ALouis.
Speaker AIs Louis.
Speaker ALike, is Charles Charal or something?
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker BCharles.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BIt's a great question.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker AFre the French comment on this.
Speaker ATell us where we got this wrong.
Speaker BFrench.
Speaker BFrench Canadian.
Speaker BLet us know.
Speaker BDrop us a line.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AAll right, Chris, question number.
Speaker AThree kids across the country have already or are going back to school this week.
Speaker AWhat are your top parenting hacks for making school school prep simpler for parents?
Speaker BOh, that's super easy.
Speaker BYou got to get them on the bus.
Speaker BThe bus is.
Speaker BThe bus is a godsend.
Speaker BAnd you're on the bus for the first time this week.
Speaker BCurious how that's going.
Speaker BAnd then also they got to get lunch at school when you don't have to make lunches.
Speaker BIt's such a bonus.
Speaker BSuch a bonus.
Speaker BHow is the bus going for you, Anne?
Speaker ABuses.
Speaker ABus is going okay, but it's been interesting.
Speaker ALike, people swear on the bus.
Speaker AThat's what that was.
Speaker AThe first report back was there's a lot of people swearing and I was like, well, welcome to the bus.
Speaker AIt doesn't Change when you're 44 and riding Metro Transit.
Speaker APeople are.
Speaker BThe bus is Lord of the Flies.
Speaker BYeah, it really is.
Speaker BIt's Lord of the Flies.
Speaker BAll right, last one.
Speaker BChloe mall, the 39 year old daughter of actress Candace Bergen was named American Vogue's new head of editorial content on Tuesday.
Speaker BWhat are the chances that you think Chloe can keep an assistant longer than Murphy Brown?
Speaker ADid Murphy Brown have trouble keeping an assistant?
Speaker AI don't really remember that show.
Speaker AI mean they always had to do.
Speaker BAssistant every single week.
Speaker BIt was great.
Speaker BThey'd have crazy like camps with people and different stuff.
Speaker BIt was amazing.
Speaker AI didn't know if that was a nod to like the Devil Wears Prada and like not being able to keep an assistant because she's now the Vogue editor.
Speaker BIt's kind of a vague allusion to that as well.
Speaker BLike, you know, that is she going to be total Anna Wintour or is she going to be like, you know, you know, somebody that people want to work with?
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker AI don't think so.
Speaker AI think she's a great pick.
Speaker AShe's, you know, head of vogue.com and does the Vogue podcast like I think that she's go.
Speaker AShe was, she's has been the front runner but I think is a really good pick for this role and in keeping Vogue relevant with a new generation.
Speaker AAnd her digital background I think will be really helpful in, in doing that.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker AAll right, Chloe, way to go.
Speaker BAnd I love best of best of luck CM.