I got invited back on “Daily Flash” this week for my recurring segment, “What Did I Just Eat?” Mitch, Andrea, and Matt are my willing test subjects – letting me me try out new supermarket products on them. This time, the theme was Thanksgiving. We had the new Holiday Nog-flavored whipped dairy topping in a can from Target, the limited-time 7UP Shirley Temple in both Zero Sugar and “Full-on Sugar” varieties, the holiday sandwich from 7-Eleven with a stuffing-herbed hoagie roll, “Brie My Guest” ice cream from Baskin-Robbins, and both the chocolate and cheese advent calendars from Aldi.
The whole “What Did I just Eat?” concept has slowly evolved over the last couple decades. When I was the wacky morning reporter at WDRB-TV in Louisville, we started a live food segment out of desperation. I was scheduled to broadcast live somewhere Monday-Friday mornings and, every once in a while, a shopkeeper or restaurateur would forget to be there at 6 a.m. I still had to get something on the air, so I ran to the all-night grocery store, bought canned pears and circus peanuts, and fed them to blindfolded folks at a local coffee shop. If they guessed the mystery food correctly, I gave them a promotional item I found on my desk – maybe a book, maybe a t-shirt from a movie. I brought the concept to WOFL in Orlando, and then tweaked it so there was less touching the mouths of trusting strangers with a plastic spoon.
You can also catch me doing a variation called “What’s in My Mouth?” on the A Corporate Time with Tom and Dan podcast and radio show.