#1899 - Yannis Pappas

Yannis Pappas (0:14)

Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

My man.

Yannis Pappas (0:15)

The greater and more powerful Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Good seeing you, my brother. What the fuck's happening?

Yannis Pappas (0:19)

Not much, just been in Austin, did the Vulcan this weekend. It was great.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

That's a great room.

Yannis Pappas (0:25)

Great room, great crowds, been having fun. Austin had barbecue about 15 times already.

Every time I come here, I just, I don't have solid shits. It's a tough town to have solid shit, and it's hard to find fiber.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Do you have an issue after you eat there, when you say solid shit?

Yannis Pappas (0:44)

What do you mean?

Joe Rogan (0:44)

What do you mean by solid shit?

Yannis Pappas (0:46)

I mean, I just, yeah, I mean, there's just no fiber in the meal. It's just meat, jalapenos, cheddar sausage.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

That's just your pie, there's a little fiber in them.

Yannis Pappas (0:53)

A little tiny bit, not enough to...

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Cold slaw?

Yannis Pappas (0:55)

Little cold slaw.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Get the cold slaw in there to lube up the pipes.

Yannis Pappas (0:58)

Yeah, I got some peach cobbler. There is a layer of grease around it, but I don't know, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

The body shape is consistent. Most people that enjoy barbecue, it is a hearty body shape.

Yannis Pappas (1:12)

It's very parish, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Very farmer fucking bear hug-ish what happened there, lost me. Oh, sorry.

Yeah, but it's the fucking best barbecue on earth. You know what all came from German immigrants?

Yannis Pappas (1:26)

I didn't know that. I thought it was like black people food.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

Adam Curry explained the whole thing to me. Germans came over here from Germany, and they smoked their meat over there. It's a common way they prepare meat. So like smoked sausages and stuff like that, like those jalapeno cheddar sausages they have at Terry Black's, that like originally started out German food.

Yeah, they're like really good at smoking meat. You know, like when you go to Montreal, and you, they have smoked meat sandwiches, you know, like the Jews, that's the way they handle their brisket and their corned beef and stuff like that. And then they do it differently over here, but it all comes from Germany.

Yannis Pappas (2:05)

That wild? That is wild. They do like their meat over there.

I went there, their cuisine is atrocious.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Is it? German food?

Yannis Pappas (2:13)

I went to like a four-star German restaurant in Munich, and it was just, it was ballpark food. It was like Frank, applesauce, sauerkraut, and mustard.

Joe Rogan (2:23)

When you go to a place like Italy, the food is so good, it's amazing they get them to go to war.

Yannis Pappas (2:28)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

You know, like I think that's my theory, my conspiracy theory about why English food was so bland. Well, England dominated the fucking world forever with that bullshit-ass food.

Yannis Pappas (2:38)

And the Germans, too, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

They don't have fucking great food. Thailand's not taking over anybody.

Yannis Pappas (2:43)

Right, yeah. They don't know how to enjoy life, so they're motivated.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Exactly. Like, how did they talk the Italians into doing it?

Yannis Pappas (2:52)

They barely did. I mean, they weren't that good. No offense, they weren't that great fighters. I mean, they invaded Greece World War II. We beat the shit out of them.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Listen, my people are not designed for that. They're not designed to go to war. But they were with the Roman army, which is wild.

Yannis Pappas (3:04)

That is true.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Back then, when syphilis was running rampant, everybody was dying when they were 12, you could get people to fight easier.

Yannis Pappas (3:11)

Well, was that before Marco Polo? Like, maybe that was before Marco Polo brought the noodle over.

Like, maybe that was before pre...

Joe Rogan (3:18)

Maybe the noodle ruined everything. They figured out pasta.

Yannis Pappas (3:21)

Yeah, once they got the pasta, they were like, dude, I can't.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

What the fuck is this?

Yannis Pappas (3:25)

This is too good. I can't.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

You know, it's interesting, the food that we consider Italian food, we think of it as East Coast immigrant Italian food. I learned that from Bourdain. He explained all that shit to me. It's like we think of our food over here is like what immigrants would eat, and they would make everything very filling, and you know, a lot of pasta, and a lot of like breading in the meatballs, and lasagna and all that stuff. You don't really find that that much in Italy.