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 A:5, 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 A:What would your five, four, three, two, one trip be, Chris?
Speaker B:It's the dumbest.
Speaker B:First of all, it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker B:Like, this is why.
Speaker B:This is why.
Speaker B:This is why I take what Instagram influencer say with a grain of salt.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:All right, this is a. Oh, God.
Speaker B:So I got to give you five, four, three, two, one of each of those.
Speaker B:All right, so vegetables.
Speaker B:My five vegetables would be green beans, corn, peas, lettuce.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:Surprising, huh?
Speaker B:Lettuce and jalapenos.
Speaker B:That would be my five vegetables.
Speaker B:I think those are all vegetables.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Fruits would be bananas, tomatoes.
Speaker B:Because they're actual fruits.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker A:Dates.
Speaker B:Gotta have my dates.
Speaker B:My breakfast.
Speaker B:And blueberries.
Speaker B:That was that.
Speaker B:That's probably the easiest one for me.
Speaker B:Protein.
Speaker B:I think I'd go chicken, of course.
Speaker B:Chicken, steak.
Speaker B:And then probably coconut milk, because you got to get your protein from the coconut milk, too.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And then, then that's a staple of me.
Speaker B:That's every day.
Speaker B:And then starches.
Speaker B:I'd go.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't need a lot of starches, so I'd go sourdough bread.
Speaker B:And maybe ruffles.
Speaker B:But the simply ruffles, because those are just potatoes and oil and those are so good.
Speaker B:If you haven't tried those, folks.
Speaker B:So delicious.
Speaker B:And then, of course, the treat's not going to surprise anybody at the Red Vines 100.
Speaker B:The Red Vines.
Speaker A:I want to know what.
Speaker A:I want to know what creation, what dinner you concoct with Red Vines dates, coconut milk and peas.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And what else was.
Speaker A:What was the other one?
Speaker A:Green beans.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:That's why this.
Speaker B:That's why this whole thing is so stupid.
Speaker B:Like, where do you.
Speaker B:How are you gonna spice the food?
Speaker B:Like, you can't just go to the grocery store and get those things.
Speaker B:It's just so.
Speaker A:So I guess they assume.
Speaker A:I guess they assume that you.
Speaker A:The spice, like the salt, pepper that the, like, pantry staples you have already.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:It's just dumb.
Speaker B:This is.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This is what drives me crazy about Instagram.
Speaker B:All right, this next one is one of my all time favorite questions, and not for what it's About.
Speaker B:But 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 B:And where does Laurent rank in your ranking of cool sounding European and or French names?
Speaker B:I have no idea if he's actually French.
Speaker A:I. I think Laurent is like one of the, like, iconic French names.
Speaker A:I would also say it's your top three.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, totally.
Speaker B:100% is.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:Louque, we have a client named Louis you're gonna drop.
Speaker A:Yeah, I am, because I think it's so cool.
Speaker A:And then Simone, I think is my other favorite French sounding name.
Speaker B:Is that Simone?
Speaker A:Simone, yes.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I need to be beef up my Francophile background here before I answer that question again, but I do like those names.
Speaker B:Yeah, I put Laurant in mine too.
Speaker B:I put Terry on mine too.
Speaker B:Terry, That's a good one.
Speaker B:And then I'd also put Charles.
Speaker B:Charles, like Charles de Gaulle, you know, just straight up Charles, you know.
Speaker A:Do they say that name differently in French?
Speaker A:Like, how do you say like?
Speaker A:Because you don't, you know, it's.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It's spelled the same way.
Speaker B:I looked it up yesterday.
Speaker B:It's spelled the same way.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:Yes, but like Charles.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:We got to ask people.
Speaker A:Louis.
Speaker A:Is Louis.
Speaker A:Like, is Charles Charal or something?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:Charles.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It's a great question.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Fre the French comment on this.
Speaker A:Tell us where we got this wrong.
Speaker B:French.
Speaker B:French Canadian.
Speaker B:Let us know.
Speaker B:Drop us a line.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:All right, Chris, question number.
Speaker A:Three kids across the country have already or are going back to school this week.
Speaker A:What are your top parenting hacks for making school school prep simpler for parents?
Speaker B:Oh, that's super easy.
Speaker B:You got to get them on the bus.
Speaker B:The bus is.
Speaker B:The bus is a godsend.
Speaker B:And you're on the bus for the first time this week.
Speaker B:Curious how that's going.
Speaker B:And then also they got to get lunch at school when you don't have to make lunches.
Speaker B:It's such a bonus.
Speaker B:Such a bonus.
Speaker B:How is the bus going for you, Anne?
Speaker A:Buses.
Speaker A:Bus is going okay, but it's been interesting.
Speaker A:Like, people swear on the bus.
Speaker A:That's what that was.
Speaker A:The first report back was there's a lot of people swearing and I was like, well, welcome to the bus.
Speaker A:It doesn't Change when you're 44 and riding Metro Transit.
Speaker A:People are.
Speaker B:The bus is Lord of the Flies.
Speaker B:Yeah, it really is.
Speaker B:It's Lord of the Flies.
Speaker B:All right, last one.
Speaker B:Chloe mall, the 39 year old daughter of actress Candace Bergen was named American Vogue's new head of editorial content on Tuesday.
Speaker B:What are the chances that you think Chloe can keep an assistant longer than Murphy Brown?
Speaker A:Did Murphy Brown have trouble keeping an assistant?
Speaker A:I don't really remember that show.
Speaker A:I mean they always had to do.
Speaker B:Assistant every single week.
Speaker B:It was great.
Speaker B:They'd have crazy like camps with people and different stuff.
Speaker B:It was amazing.
Speaker A:I 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 B:It's kind of a vague allusion to that as well.
Speaker B:Like, 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 B:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't think so.
Speaker A:I think she's a great pick.
Speaker A:She's, you know, head of vogue.com and does the Vogue podcast like I think that she's go.
Speaker A:She 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 A:And her digital background I think will be really helpful in, in doing that.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:All right, Chloe, way to go.
Speaker B:And I love best of best of luck CM.
