4th of July (Summer) Dish Ideas

**Jordan Okun** (0:02)
All right, Mad Food, I'm Jordan, Bubbles is here, and so is summer. Summer isn't summering, it's summer.

**Max Shapiro** (0:11)
That's right.

**Jordan Okun** (0:12)
Right? Yeah. We're no longer summering?

**Max Shapiro** (0:14)
We here.

**Jordan Okun** (0:15)
Okay, that's what that means, right? It's like kind of summer, but now it's summer.

**Max Shapiro** (0:20)
Yep, official solstice has happened.

**Jordan Okun** (0:23)
Even though last night I was walking kind of cold out.

**Max Shapiro** (0:26)
Eh, June gloom.

**Jordan Okun** (0:27)
Yeah, not complaining.

**Max Shapiro** (0:29)
It's July now, though.

**Jordan Okun** (0:30)
Not complaining. Has the good corn and tomatoes arrived yet at farmer's markets?

**Max Shapiro** (0:35)
We're in, baby.

**Jordan Okun** (0:36)
Okay, so you can buy, go to Munich, right? Where are we getting the corn?

**Max Shapiro** (0:41)
I like corn. Honestly, Underwood has great corn.

**Jordan Okun** (0:45)
Okay.

**Max Shapiro** (0:45)
And McGrath has really good corn.

**Jordan Okun** (0:47)
And it's all corning?

**Max Shapiro** (0:49)
Oh, it's corning.

**Jordan Okun** (0:50)
You've bought corn?

**Max Shapiro** (0:50)
Of course.

**Jordan Okun** (0:51)
And you've been happy with it? Oh, yeah. Okay. Name one corn dish you made with that corn.

**Max Shapiro** (0:55)
I did a tomato salad, just thin sliced tomatoes, and garnished it with raw corn kernels.

**Jordan Okun** (1:03)
There it is.

**Max Shapiro** (1:04)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:04)
Raw?

**Max Shapiro** (1:04)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:05)
Great.

**Max Shapiro** (1:05)
Sweet corn.

**Jordan Okun** (1:06)
Beautiful.
How do you get that out of there? A knife? Yes. Cut right down?

**Max Shapiro** (1:12)
A knife, yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:13)
Okay, very good.

**Max Shapiro** (1:15)
Some people, if they're crazy, use a mandolin.

**Jordan Okun** (1:18)
Oh, yeah?

**Max Shapiro** (1:19)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:19)
Whoa.

**Max Shapiro** (1:20)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:21)
The Wong Valencia Pride mangoes are here. Is that definite sign of summer?

**Max Shapiro** (1:29)
I don't know what it is, but when they come, They're here. You get them.

**Jordan Okun** (1:33)
I got some.

**Max Shapiro** (1:34)
The Valencia Prides.

**Jordan Okun** (1:35)
I went this morning.

**Max Shapiro** (1:36)
Did you?

**Jordan Okun** (1:37)
Yeah. The wife wanted some fruit, and I won't be able to go on Sunday, so I headed on down.

**Max Shapiro** (1:44)
Gorgeous.

**Jordan Okun** (1:45)
Yeah. Early. Earliest I've ever been at a farmer's market.

**Max Shapiro** (1:48)
How was the line?

**Jordan Okun** (1:49)
Horrible.

**Max Shapiro** (1:50)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:50)
Horrible. Not as bad as JG, though. Wife wanted blueberries. Uh-uh.
Not waiting in that.

**Max Shapiro** (1:57)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:57)
Too many people.

**Max Shapiro** (1:58)
But yeah, those Valencia Prides are really something.

**Jordan Okun** (2:01)
And by the way, neither of those lines came even close to how annoying the line for this Andes Orchard was.

**Max Shapiro** (2:10)
That's the worst line.

**Jordan Okun** (2:11)
What the fuck? What's going on with this Ande guy?

**Max Shapiro** (2:13)
They got the stone fruit.

**Jordan Okun** (2:14)
Andes got it that good?

**Max Shapiro** (2:16)
They got it that good.

**Jordan Okun** (2:17)
Really?

**Max Shapiro** (2:18)
It's annoying.

**Jordan Okun** (2:19)
Do you wait in it?

**Max Shapiro** (2:20)
No, fuck that.

**Jordan Okun** (2:22)
I can't believe it's that good.

**Max Shapiro** (2:25)
But if you're Shunji, they have boxes with your name on it waiting.

**Jordan Okun** (2:29)
It can't be that good. Don't believe it, folks.

**Max Shapiro** (2:33)
Believe it, believe it.

**Jordan Okun** (2:33)
Believe it, but maybe don't wait in it. Who's waiting in that? You waiting 20, 30 minutes?

**Max Shapiro** (2:40)
Chefs aren't.

**Jordan Okun** (2:40)
For a peach? No.

**Max Shapiro** (2:43)
It's good stuff.

**Jordan Okun** (2:44)
No.

**Max Shapiro** (2:46)
Okay.

**Jordan Okun** (2:46)
More important feedback from the audience.

**Max Shapiro** (2:49)
Okay.

**Jordan Okun** (2:50)
This one is, we've been talking about this a few times. This person writes, don't be scared to hug each other. It's homophobic.
It's not homophobic. We're not being homophobic, are we? Or I'm not? I mean, Max hasn't really stated an opinion on whether or not he'd like to hug me or not. I've just said, we haven't really ever touched or hugged, and I'm not really interested.

**Max Shapiro** (3:17)
It just feels like it's been too long.

**Jordan Okun** (3:20)
We have no... What do you mean?

**Max Shapiro** (3:22)
Of the no hugging.

**Jordan Okun** (3:24)
I'm not getting up and hugging right now, but it's not homophobic. No problem with the homos.

**Max Shapiro** (3:28)
No way.

**Jordan Okun** (3:29)
Right? Can we say homos? No.
That's wrong. Homosexual. No problem with the homosexuals.