48: Are Drinks a Type of Food? The Debate No One Asked For

Rosie (00:00)
I just want to share we have been getting reviews coming in.

And I love it. Some of them are short. Some of them are very long. Your husband gave a very long one and I fricking love it. I don't know if you want to read it out or if we should leave it. we'll read a short one. Well, everyone go read it. Please go to our website, rosieandroula.com The most recent review we got is from Mylene. And she said, I love your show. You two are hilarious. Awesome concept. Love the combo.

Roula (00:15)
No, no, no, it's too long.

Rosie (00:34)
My ego right now is huge, Roula I feel fabulous. We're an awesome combo.

Roula (00:42)
Yeah, we are in an awesome combo. I keep hearing this from people, from other persons. And you know, we have, I don't have the reviews in front of me, but of course I remember some of them. I also have a review, a voice message that came in and let me play it, hold on. Give me a second to go to it. I wasn't prepared for this.

Rosie (00:47)
Mmm.

He

So disorganized,

gosh. Exactly, disorganized.

Roula (01:09)
No, I wasn't prepared for that.

Hey Rula, Asifa here. How are you? Hope you're doing well. Just wanted to let you know that I've just binge listened to the Rosie and Rula show and I loved it and it's really great, lovely and lively and light and funny and you too, yeah, you can hear the chemistry and...

It's really nice to listen to you two chatting in my ears. You both have lovely voices and Rosie has a wonderful accent. love it. So, yeah, really nice.

Rosie (01:52)
I love when she said we have chemistry. feel like we do too. We just, we click. Yeah. We click. And I love it.

Roula (01:53)
Yeah, we do.

can't

wait that we see each other in person after all these years.

Rosie (02:04)
What if we meet each other

and go, oh, I don't like you. Do you think it's going to change anything when we meet each other in person?

Roula (02:12)
my god, I

think we will meet each other, hold hands and just forget the world.

Rosie (02:21)
Love it. And then we can record an episode in person.

Roula (02:22)
Yeah.

Yes, in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. And a coffee shop in Amsterdam, you don't drink coffee, you smoke weed. So that's before you get to it. OK, no, no, I'm not accepting my job because this is what exactly I don't want tourists to think that the only thing you do in the Netherlands is go to a coffee shop and smoke weed.

Rosie (02:28)
Okay, deal.

Yeah, I was going to say, what exactly do you mean by coffee shop?

One day it's gonna happen.

Mmm.

Roula (02:54)
Tourists are doing this, but not Dutch people. We're not spending our time in my home, not in the coffee shop. No. Yes, yes, it's really very touristy. So when you think, Amsterdam and coffee shops, these are like tourists, tourists. People here live their life. They just don't spend their time at the coffee shop. No.

Rosie (02:59)
Well, have you ever done it? Have you ever done it?

so it's just tourists who do that.

Mmm.

Yeah, okay.

Roula (03:22)
But because when you arrive here, you will be a tourist in the beginning and in the end. I mean, you're not living here. You're not be living here unless you want to move to the Netherlands. I don't know where this is going.

Rosie (03:36)
You never know. No, I don't either. Shut

Right. I've got another question.

Because, and this is fascinating. I posted something really random on our Instagram page and I'm going to tell you how, it's story time. I'm going to tell you how this came about. I asked the question, do you think drinks can be classified as a type of food? This is something I have never, ever thought about. This is how it came about. My friend,

has launched her business. Stop making a racket, Rula.

You're good. You're right there. Hi. You're back. All right. Good. So my friend has recently launched a business and part of her marketing strategy is to post challenges on Instagram. It's, it's an art based business. So there are challenges and one of them was to draw your favorite food. And I said, yep, I want to help out. And I'm terrible at answering favorite questions. I, can't do it. I don't have one favorite for anything except maybe color.

Roula (04:26)
Hi, I'm Bec.

Rosie (04:53)
It'd be green. Anyway, I drew a Slurpee. I drew chocolate milk, hot cinnamon donuts and corn chips. And I sent the photo to her and she said, Rosie drinks aren't food. And I just went, I guess not. But actually kind of they are. And so I posted about it on our page and I got all these responses.

Some people said yes, others said no fricking way. A friend I have from uni said, no, Rosie, you're ridiculous. And then she came back five minutes later and went, actually, maybe you're right. Some breakfast drinks count. And then she posed me the question, Rosie, does a soup count as a drink?

And my head was just in a spin. Am I the only one? Am I just taking this too seriously?

Roula (05:48)
It's like you're

all been doing LSD

Rosie (05:57)
I don't need drugs to go there, yeah.

Roula (05:59)
it's crazy. It's crazy. First, first, how come you thought of these things to draw like you didn't draw a plate of spaghetti or pizza or

Rosie (06:03)
huh, huh.

No,

no. Well, that's just what came to mind. That's what I was feeling like eating at the time. So that's what happened. And my friend said, well, you've set the only foods you drew were hot cinnamon donuts and corn chips. And I went, no, well, the other ones count too. But what on earth is food? Because I can't, I can't make an argument. I don't know how to explain it. I wouldn't call water a food, but I would probably call.

Like a milkshake or a thick shake, maybe a food or a smoothie.

Because I mean a smoothie, a fruit smoothie, you're putting food in there and you're just blending it. It's food.

A milkshake, you're putting ice cream in there. That's food.

I think you're judging me right now.

Roula (07:03)
Now do you want to know what I'm thinking?

Rosie (07:05)
I do, please, I haven't stopped talking.

Roula (07:08)
I'm thinking this is exactly the topic where you will talk a lot because these are questions asked by millennials only.

Rosie (07:15)
my god! Are you dissing me? You throwing shade!

Roula (07:19)
Yes!

Rosie (07:22)
What? That's rude. I want you to ask your kids what they think. Maybe they'll care.

Roula (07:29)
Yeah, well, I'm definitely going to ask my kids because they kind of really also opinionated girls and my son too. Their opinion. Yeah, I would love to hear their opinion. For me, I never bothered myself thinking about this.

Rosie (07:42)
Me too.

Well neither did I. But it ca- Okay, so Roula It- Fine. Yes, fine.

Roula (07:50)
But can I continue just one thing?

I do think drinks are food, except for water. Maybe water is also food, because if you don't drink water, you die.

Rosie (07:58)
yes. Okay, yes.

You do die. Yeah, true.

Roula (08:07)
If you don't eat, you survive. But not if you don't drink water.

Rosie (08:12)
Hmm. How about this soup question? So I'm not talking about a soup with like chunks of meat and veggies in it. What about like a pumpkin soup? So it's just, you could drink it. Yeah. But would you call it, would you call it a drink?

Roula (08:22)
Of course it's food, it's pumpkin but just made soup.

We never say I'm going to drink my soup. We say I'm going to eat my soup.

Rosie (08:31)
But you could, what about a cup of soup?

Do you have a cup of soup there? You put the packet in the cup and you pour the hot water in? You drink it.

Roula (08:38)
You

have to ask them, the ones who invented Gopu Soup.

Rosie (08:43)
But what do you think? I can hear you swallowing your Mandarin. This is not fair.

Roula (08:46)
No, I mean... Sorry.

This is very annoying for the listeners, I think.

Rosie (08:52)
You

Roula (08:54)
Alright, alright, here we go, here we go. Are drinks, food.

Rosie (09:00)
Yes. We both say yes, right?

Roula (09:03)
We both say yes, and I would like to hear, like, to understand.

what categorize them differently? Is it taxes? Is it some other reasons in sales? I don't know. There must be a reason. Marketing probably differentiate them.

Rosie (09:17)
Cool.

I think

you're going too complicated. I think it's about how you consume it. You drink a drink, therefore it's a drink.

Roula (09:32)
Okay.

Rosie (09:38)
I don't know, does that even make sense? Then you eat food, but then we're saying you eat a drink, which doesn't, that doesn't sound right.

Roula (09:48)
Okay, everything you drink is a drink made from food.

Rosie (09:53)
Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so-

Roula (09:55)
So your drink

is made of food. Whatever you draw, your drawings are drinks made of food.

Rosie (10:05)
Thank

you. Yes, debate settled. Drinks are food. Yep, all right, done. If you disagree, let us know, but you're wrong. You're wrong, just putting that out there. Drinks are food, full stop. Go watch on YouTube because Ruel is doing something ridiculous right now. She has a mandarin wedge in her mouth. You know like how children sometimes put an orange wedge in their mouth and smile? She's doing it with a mandarin thing. Looks hilarious. my God, did you hear that? She sucked it into her mouth.

Roula (10:08)
That's it.

Rosie (10:36)
And now she's laughing. She's turning away laughing. You are a child.

Roula (10:42)
This Mandarin is going to be something I'm eating every Thursday recording. But today is Tuesday, so I switch my gym class for today. That's why I'm eating the Mandarin. All right. All right. Let us know. I mean, it's a crazy question and I think people would love to answer it. So let us know what you think. Are drinks food?

Rosie (10:45)
Yeah. Yeah.

I see, I see.

And is a mandarin a drink? Cause it's got juice in it. Okay.

Roula (11:11)
Ha!