Episode 183
183: RE-VIEW: Blue Mountain Family Restaurant (from Ep 126)
RE-VIEW ALERT: Revisiting Episode 126 – Blue Mountain Family Restaurant Review 🎃🍴
Step back to November 1, 2023, as we RE-VIEW Episode 126 of Review That Review! The pumpkins are gettin’ spicy as the Queens rate and review a 1-Star Yelp review for Blue Mountain Family Restaurant. Chelsey lodges a spine-tingling complaint about a Brita filter packaged with styrofoam, and it’s time to lift your Popsicle and bite right in—bare teeth! Plus, get ready to meet Beatrice on her World Tour! 🌍
Episode 126 Highlights:
- Blue Mountain Family Restaurant Review: The Queens tackle a 1-Star Yelp review—expect some fiery opinions! 🍴
- Chelsey’s Complaint: A Brita filter with styrofoam packaging has Chelsey on edge—what’s the deal? 🧊
- Random Fun: Bare teeth, Popsicles, and the introduction of Beatrice’s World Tour. 🎤
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All right, guys, it is time for another review, Review That Review, but this time it is episode 126, which originally aired on November 1st, 2023.
CHELSEY DONN:Trey was driving, I believe, with David and passed by this restaurant, Blue Mountain Family Restaurant, decided to look it up, and the rest is history.
CHELSEY DONN:Needless to say, I don't think I've ever thought of a buffet in the same way after.
CHELSEY DONN:Thank you for hearing this review.
CHELSEY DONN:I really love this episode and I hope you do too.
CHELSEY DONN:Please take a listen and if you would be so kind, leave us a five star review, share the podcast wherever you're listening to it right now.
CHELSEY DONN:Just take a minute.
CHELSEY DONN:Do it now.
CHELSEY DONN:I'll wait.
CHELSEY DONN:You're the best.
CHELSEY DONN:All right, love you, enjoy the episode.
VOICEOVER:Everybody's got an opinion, Every Californian and Virginian, It's so hard to tell who to trust and who to ignore, Someone's gotta settle the score., Trey and Chelsey will help you choose, Whose views win which ones lose, Online haters are coming for you, Baby, it's time to Review That Review!
VOICEOVER:Hello.
VOICEOVER:Oh, hi, and
TREY GERRALD:hello, and welcome once again to Review
TREY GERRALD:That Review.
TREY GERRALD:We are the podcast that is dedicated to reviewing
CHELSEY DONN:Pumpkin Spice!
CHELSEY DONN:Review!
CHELSEY DONN:I
VOICEOVER:don't know what's wrong with me.
CHELSEY DONN:That is Chelsey
TREY GERRALD:Donn.
CHELSEY DONN:And that is Trey Gerald.
TREY GERRALD:And together, we are,
CHELSEY DONN:Pumpkin
VOICEOVER:Spice!
CHELSEY DONN:The
VOICEOVER:Review Queens.
VOICEOVER:Buh bye!
VOICEOVER:Everything is pumpkin spice.
VOICEOVER:I
TREY GERRALD:feel like we've been in pumpkin spice already.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, it's November 1st.
CHELSEY DONN:The pumpkins are spicy.
TREY GERRALD:They're getting spice, mama.
TREY GERRALD:They're getting
CHELSEY DONN:spicy.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't know if you've been to Trader Joe's lately, but it is pumpkin season at Trader Joe's.
TREY GERRALD:Target.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh, God, I love it.
TREY GERRALD:Starbucks.
CHELSEY DONN:Starbucks, my God, the inventor of the basic pumpkin spice latte.
TREY GERRALD:Well, should we do it?
TREY GERRALD:Should we go ahead and jump into?
CHELSEY DONN:Logic Complaint.
CHELSEY DONN:Because you need to know what I want a logic complaint about on this pumpkin spice eve.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, I need to know.
CHELSEY DONN:You need to know.
CHELSEY DONN:In fact, there is.
CHELSEY DONN:This is another real time complaint from me.
CHELSEY DONN:So first of all, I would like to say David, if you're listening, I bought a new product that really made me think of you.
CHELSEY DONN:And if I, I don't, I don't think that you have this version of this product, but if I book a big thing and I have a lot of money, I'm going to send you one.
CHELSEY DONN:That's a promise.
CHELSEY DONN:But anyway, so I bought this.
CHELSEY DONN:Amazing Brita filter for Goldie, for her water for my room.
CHELSEY DONN:You plug it in and you can like push a button and it like distributes the water.
VOICEOVER:It's
CHELSEY DONN:very nice.
CHELSEY DONN:It's like, reminds me of the one that David has, but it's like the newer, more high tech version.
CHELSEY DONN:Cause you know how David likes the water out of the fridge.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh, in the fridge.
CHELSEY DONN:So David has,
TREY GERRALD:yeah, we've had a life update that I've been meaning to share and I keep forgetting, but we have like, you know, the, the things you put the chug, the, Bucket on top.
TREY GERRALD:And so we have one of those, but it's a reusable bucket.
VOICEOVER:Okay.
VOICEOVER:So
TREY GERRALD:we just fill the bucket and then it filters it.
TREY GERRALD:So, and it has room temperature and cold, which has really been fascinating.
CHELSEY DONN:Well, that's a big life update, but anyway, so I bought this, this fabulous new Brita filter that has this automatic on off thing.
CHELSEY DONN:And.
CHELSEY DONN:I went to take it out of the box and it was really tightly wrapped in that styrofoam shell and that sound happened when the styrofoam rubs on the styrofoam and it's this squeaking sound and it's just, it's like a horror movie, it's like a horror movie for my ears, like people talk about the sounds of nail on the chalkboard, which is a terrible sound, but the sound of of styrofoam on styrofoam and that squeak, like, we gotta do better, guys, like, we know that styrofoam is really bad for the environment to start, so,
VOICEOVER:is
CHELSEY DONN:there not, and I'm happy that they took the extra care to make sure that my product was safe, I appreciate that, but that moment of taking it out of the box and dealing with it, my ears were like bleeding by the time I took this package apart, what is the deal?
TREY GERRALD:I absolutely know the sound you're talking about, and I've never really considered it, but it is really unpleasant.
TREY GERRALD:It surely is.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah,
CHELSEY DONN:it's like so cringy.
CHELSEY DONN:It just makes my whole body shake
TREY GERRALD:in the moment that it hits your ear.
TREY GERRALD:What happens to you?
TREY GERRALD:What is the sensation?
CHELSEY DONN:Like, Oh, like, um, You know,
VOICEOVER:ah,
CHELSEY DONN:it's just like, it's, it's just like, it hurts.
CHELSEY DONN:I can't explain it.
CHELSEY DONN:It's just like, it's so, it's like underneath my skin and it just like, it gets to me.
CHELSEY DONN:And it's just like, not the best intro.
CHELSEY DONN:Thankfully, like the product is great and I really like it and it didn't ruin the whole relationship.
TREY GERRALD:Can you imagine if you worked at a dumpster and you had to, like, deal with just, like, styrofoam sliding against it all day?
TREY GERRALD:God
CHELSEY DONN:bless the people that work in the factories that were, you know, that do any of these jobs where they're exposed to the styrofoam.
CHELSEY DONN:I think if, if I was gonna say I think if God forbid that was my job, no offense to the person that does it because we all, you know, I would have to have like noise canceling headphones.
TREY GERRALD:Oh, yeah,
CHELSEY DONN:right.
CHELSEY DONN:I couldn't do it with a bare ear.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, I get that.
TREY GERRALD:Maybe, maybe you need some now so that when you're opening packages, you're right, take it off the table.
TREY GERRALD:But I wonder if you would feel the tonal sensations as they vibrate.
TREY GERRALD:I might
CHELSEY DONN:know.
CHELSEY DONN:Exactly.
CHELSEY DONN:I might know anyway, but I just, I really hate that sound.
CHELSEY DONN:Does anyone else really hate that sound?
CHELSEY DONN:I like, there's a few sounds.
CHELSEY DONN:It really is like the nail on the chalkboard, that sound, I can't really think of many others, but like, those are the highly agreed.
CHELSEY DONN:You know what it is for me?
CHELSEY DONN:Like when I think about biting into a popsicle with my front two teeth,
CHELSEY DONN:It's a shiver.
CHELSEY DONN:It's a shiver through my whole body.
CHELSEY DONN:Or if I think about, like, um, getting one of those Italian ices and taking that, like, that scoopy thing and just, you know, the, the, like, getting the, that does something to my body, I know another,
TREY GERRALD:I know another thing that does,
CHELSEY DONN:when
TREY GERRALD:you give yourself a paper cut,
CHELSEY DONN:Ooh, that's
TREY GERRALD:bad.
TREY GERRALD:It's like you can instantly feel it somehow.
CHELSEY DONN:I think, yeah, I was at work the other day and I gave myself a paper cut and I was just like, Damn it!
CHELSEY DONN:You know, I just like had some big reaction.
CHELSEY DONN:My boss was like, What happened?
TREY GERRALD:Wait, what else is like that?
TREY GERRALD:I feel like I can instantly recall the smell of gasoline too.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, I can recall the smell of gasoline.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, you can recall the sensation of getting a paper cut, for sure.
TREY GERRALD:Oh, I'm so sorry, Chelsey, but I hope that Goldie is appreciative.
CHELSEY DONN:I think she is.
CHELSEY DONN:I think it's going really well.
CHELSEY DONN:And I know that her water is clean, and that makes me happy.
CHELSEY DONN:And yeah, so in the end, it's a win.
CHELSEY DONN:And I'm very happy to know that that Trey and David have figured out their water tobaccos, because so now you're just a one water
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, it's really great.
TREY GERRALD:I'll, I'll induct it in the future.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay, great.
TREY GERRALD:We'll do a little, um, a little pin in this.
CHELSEY DONN:I love
TREY GERRALD:that.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay.
CHELSEY DONN:Well, now that I've complained and hopefully not made all of your ears bleed, should we go ahead and jump into an online review?
TREY GERRALD:I think it's time.
TREY GERRALD:I think, I think we've reached the moment and I think you're all going to be better for it.
TREY GERRALD:Let's go ahead.
CHELSEY DONN:Review That Review.
CHELSEY DONN:As you know, we are your trusty review queens.
CHELSEY DONN:We bring in reviews from the internet.
CHELSEY DONN:What?
CHELSEY DONN:Did you
VOICEOVER:say pumpkin
TREY GERRALD:spice?
TREY GERRALD:I did.
TREY GERRALD:I was like, you
CHELSEY DONN:didn't laugh.
TREY GERRALD:Well, I didn't hear it, but then I just was remembering how you said it.
TREY GERRALD:And then I was like, wait, I think she just mouthed that as the sound she started.
TREY GERRALD:I did.
TREY GERRALD:Oh my God.
TREY GERRALD:Oh
CHELSEY DONN:my God.
CHELSEY DONN:As you know, we are your trusty Pumpkin Spice Review Queens.
CHELSEY DONN:We bring in reviews from the internet that we feel need to be inspected.
TREY GERRALD:We read you the review, break it down and rate the impact On a scale
VOICEOVER:from 0
TREY GERRALD:to 5 crowns, It's a very regal process that we call, Assess That
CHELSEY DONN:Kevich, That's right, Trey, it is your turn this week, what have you brought in for us?
TREY GERRALD:Today I have a really fun review.
TREY GERRALD:This is a one star Yelp review for a restaurant that is called Blue Mountain Family Restaurant.
CHELSEY DONN:Blue Mountain.
CHELSEY DONN:In what, in what location?
TREY GERRALD:So this is in a place called Chardlesville?
TREY GERRALD:Pennsylvania.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah.
VOICEOVER:Char Charville.
VOICEOVER:That's terrible.
VOICEOVER:No,
TREY GERRALD:ALS.
TREY GERRALD:Als like I sharded my pants.
TREY GERRALD:S-H-A-R-T?
TREY GERRALD:Yes.
TREY GERRALD:L-E-S-V-I-L-L-E.
TREY GERRALD:Charleville.
CHELSEY DONN:That is a bad name for a town.
CHELSEY DONN:They should rename it.
CHELSEY DONN:They should rename it.
CHELSEY DONN:We should petition.
CHELSEY DONN:Chartersville?
CHELSEY DONN:Does everyone
TREY GERRALD:just No, Charteaux.
TREY GERRALD:Charteaux.
TREY GERRALD:Charteaux.
TREY GERRALD:You keep saying it
VOICEOVER:wrong.
VOICEOVER:Charteaux.
VOICEOVER:Pumpkin Spice.
VOICEOVER:Charteaux.
VOICEOVER:Charteaux.
VOICEOVER:Either way.
CHELSEY DONN:Are there just sharding turtles everywhere?
VOICEOVER:There's just sharding turtles
CHELSEY DONN:that are just going across every, every highway.
CHELSEY DONN:They're like, make sure to pause for the sharding turtles.
TREY GERRALD:Okay.
TREY GERRALD:So David and I were coming back from Atlantic City and we were hungry.
TREY GERRALD:So we were like trying to figure out like where would be the nice place to eat.
TREY GERRALD:So David was like looking through Yelp reviews and he found this review.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay.
CHELSEY DONN:I'm so excited.
CHELSEY DONN:This is all about David.
CHELSEY DONN:Look at my complaint was about David.
TREY GERRALD:It's a very David
CHELSEY DONN:episode.
TREY GERRALD:So this is written by Lindsey A.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh, like my sister.
CHELSEY DONN:Is it A Y or E Y?
TREY GERRALD:It's E Y.
TREY GERRALD:And this was written nine months ago.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay.
TREY GERRALD:And here we are.
TREY GERRALD:This is the review.
TREY GERRALD:The restaurant.
TREY GERRALD:One word.
TREY GERRALD:The restaurant itself looks clean and inviting, all caps.
TREY GERRALD:Beyond that, the food was absolute trash.
TREY GERRALD:It's one of the worst places I have ever eaten.
TREY GERRALD:I order young turkey and stuffing with gravy.
TREY GERRALD:I got the salad bar and a side of mixed veggies.
TREY GERRALD:Where do I even begin?
TREY GERRALD:The salad bar was lackluster and super limited with weird sides and nothing made sense.
TREY GERRALD:I wish I had taken a picture of the only quote unquote soup on the salad bar which looked more like melted glue with onions in it.
TREY GERRALD:I tasted it just to figure out what in the world it was.
TREY GERRALD:And I still don't know.
TREY GERRALD:One bite and I was repulsed.
TREY GERRALD:I got a standard salad, no oil and vinegar on the bar.
TREY GERRALD:The meal itself was so bad.
TREY GERRALD:That I couldn't even eat half of it.
VOICEOVER:It
TREY GERRALD:tasted sour
TREY GERRALD:and was expensive, was what you got.
VOICEOVER:God,
TREY GERRALD:I ordered a side of mixed veggies,
VOICEOVER:Oh no,
TREY GERRALD:and they tasted like actual fish,
VOICEOVER:That is my nightmare,
TREY GERRALD:I took one bite and couldn't continue,
VOICEOVER:As
TREY GERRALD:the owner of a food business myself, I know what food is supposed to taste like, And this was repulsive, To add to it, as soon as we left, I became extremely nauseous and almost threw up for the next several hours.
TREY GERRALD:Thankfully, I did not.
TREY GERRALD:However,
TREY GERRALD:the very next day, I had water diarrhea
CHELSEY DONN:all day long, Not
TREY GERRALD:something that happens to me ever, Do.
TREY GERRALD:Not.
TREY GERRALD:Eat.
TREY GERRALD:Here.
TREY GERRALD:Oh my god,
CHELSEY DONN:I forgot that I almost, I almost complained about stomach flu, which would have been even more of
TREY GERRALD:a thing,
CHELSEY DONN:But, oh my god, okay, here's the thing, I have a real theory, and my theory is, That the sense of smell in the nose, This was invented to prevent having to ingest
VOICEOVER:things
CHELSEY DONN:that look suspicious.
CHELSEY DONN:The fact that Lindsay saw this soup, said it looked like glue with goopy onions in it,
VOICEOVER:and then
CHELSEY DONN:decided to eat it,
VOICEOVER:I can understand
CHELSEY DONN:smelling it, maybe, just to be like, what is this, I'm curious, but eating it?
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, I'm very, I just got over a stomach bug, so I'm very, like, my stomach is still, like, I'm on high alert, so if I saw anything, like, if my veggies smelled of fish, I wouldn't eat it,
TREY GERRALD:No,
CHELSEY DONN:They talk about the food tasting sour, but they ate almost half
TREY GERRALD:of it, Half of it, What the hell, Get the
CHELSEY DONN:hell out of here, I mean, sour, what do you think that means?
CHELSEY DONN:Bad, like rotten.
TREY GERRALD:Young turkey and stuffing and gravy.
TREY GERRALD:First of all, that's
CHELSEY DONN:young turkey, what does that even mean?
CHELSEY DONN:What does that mean?
CHELSEY DONN:I don't know.
CHELSEY DONN:Is that like the veal of turkey, like it's like a baby?
TREY GERRALD:I guess, but don't you want turkey to be big?
TREY GERRALD:I don't know.
TREY GERRALD:And old?
TREY GERRALD:Maybe you don't want it to be old.
TREY GERRALD:Maybe
CHELSEY DONN:not old, I don't know.
CHELSEY DONN:I just think, I don't know.
CHELSEY DONN:This is very strange.
CHELSEY DONN:I guess things like started to kind of make sense for me for Lindsay when they said that they're an owner of a food business and they know what food like I kind of at that point, I was like, I can understand being like, you know, just like winning that like,
TREY GERRALD:like on Chopped.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, exactly how it's like the Chopped judges have to at least like taste
TREY GERRALD:a bite of
CHELSEY DONN:whatever this concoction is, even if they think that like, maybe it's It's gross, but like,
TREY GERRALD:but this is not chopped.
TREY GERRALD:This is not chopped.
TREY GERRALD:You're
CHELSEY DONN:just at this restaurant.
CHELSEY DONN:There's absolutely zero reason to like pass go.
CHELSEY DONN:Also, what I'm curious about, they didn't go to this restaurant alone, right?
CHELSEY DONN:At the top, they told us that they were stopping through town or am I mixing that up?
CHELSEY DONN:Do they?
CHELSEY DONN:It doesn't
TREY GERRALD:say.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay, so we don't know if they were alone or not.
TREY GERRALD:They don't give us any background of who they're with.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay.
TREY GERRALD:As soon as we left.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, we left.
CHELSEY DONN:There you go.
CHELSEY DONN:So I'm immediately wondering, like, like, did you just order badly?
CHELSEY DONN:Like, is this like, not the kind of place where you want to get a turkey dinner?
CHELSEY DONN:Like, do you want to just get a burger?
CHELSEY DONN:Or do you want to just get like, something very plain?
CHELSEY DONN:Okay, so how do you imagine this whole salad bar side turkey dinner scenario was set out on the menu?
CHELSEY DONN:Because you've been a server before?
TREY GERRALD:Well, I just imagined that they ordered the Yeah.
TREY GERRALD:Turkey and stuffing.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah.
TREY GERRALD:It comes with two sides.
TREY GERRALD:One side is the veggies.
TREY GERRALD:And then they decided to also get the salad bar.
TREY GERRALD:So that's either like one of the sides or that is like you start, you're doing a starter, which is the salad bar,
CHELSEY DONN:right?
CHELSEY DONN:That's what I would think.
CHELSEY DONN:I would think that the turkey dinner comes with the salad bar or you pay
TREY GERRALD:a couple of extra dollars.
CHELSEY DONN:So I was thinking a little bit of both.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah.
CHELSEY DONN:Like, initially, because they weren't saying, other than the soup, they weren't saying that the salad looked gross.
CHELSEY DONN:They said that there was no vinegar and oil, which I feel like maybe you could have asked your server for salad dressing.
CHELSEY DONN:But I feel like when it's a free kind of add on salad bar, I'm not expecting it to be that avant garde.
CHELSEY DONN:I'm not expecting there to be soup.
CHELSEY DONN:I would think that it's just like, Literally a salad bar.
TREY GERRALD:I had that thought too about like, oh, they have soup on the salad bar.
TREY GERRALD:Right.
TREY GERRALD:Like,
CHELSEY DONN:like, I feel like any complaint of like, it was like pretty sparse.
CHELSEY DONN:It's like, well, what are you expecting?
CHELSEY DONN:This isn't like the Sizzler or like wherever, I don't know, this isn't like a restaurant where they're like the whole Megillah is the salad bar.
CHELSEY DONN:I, I don't think, like, I think that this is just like, there's a deli.
CHELSEY DONN:Would near where I grew up and they have a pickle bar, right?
CHELSEY DONN:And that's like included when you like, order your sandwich, you can visit the pickle bar and it has pickles and it has other pickled vegetables and some sauerkraut and some health salad.
CHELSEY DONN:And I think it's lovely.
CHELSEY DONN:Like, is there soup and like romaine at this bar?
CHELSEY DONN:No, there's not, but I'm not expecting it because it's not like I'm going to a buffet.
CHELSEY DONN:I'm just visiting the pickle bar.
CHELSEY DONN:I think about the salad bar in a
TREY GERRALD:But if I think about Ruby Tuesday, which used to be famous for having a salad bar, I think they did have soups as well.
TREY GERRALD:But I, but I get your point too.
TREY GERRALD:Cause also in full disclosure, this restaurant, Chelsey, I sent you some of the pictures like on Yelp.
TREY GERRALD:Like this is a place where like the placemat has like, The branding of the restaurant, like it feels like a mom and pop.
TREY GERRALD:The menu is like laminated.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, it looks like a diner.
TREY GERRALD:It looks like a diner.
TREY GERRALD:And if you zoom in on this food, like the breakfast looks fine, but like, I don't know what
CHELSEY DONN:the turkey dinner looks awful.
CHELSEY DONN:It looks like.
TREY GERRALD:The turkey dinner
CHELSEY DONN:sliced thick turkey that looks like it could have come from like a frozen.
TREY GERRALD:Honestly, it looks like very 80s 90s.
TREY GERRALD:There's like a picture of like the circular carousel of pies, which is charming.
TREY GERRALD:But then like, there is a photo if you look of the salad bar, there's a bunch of saran wrap on things and like, it just like I would not trust the salad bar here.
CHELSEY DONN:There's like a random like, Love of bread, but it's like, it's like a wonder.
VOICEOVER:Yes.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah.
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, like, I definitely, okay.
CHELSEY DONN:Now that I'm looking at the menu and I'm looking at every, I would never order the turkey dinner from this place.
CHELSEY DONN:Call me crazy.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, me either.
TREY GERRALD:I would get like a sandwich.
CHELSEY DONN:I would get a burger.
CHELSEY DONN:I would get a sandwich.
CHELSEY DONN:I would get it.
CHELSEY DONN:Definitely fries, eggs, breakfast food,
TREY GERRALD:breakfast, for sure, anything I feel like in the breakfast
CHELSEY DONN:realm, I feel like would be okay, like, they have like a picture of a banana split on the menu, like, come here for ice cream, I think you're safe, for
TREY GERRALD:sure,
CHELSEY DONN:I just think, why are we, why is Lindsay expecting, it's like she's expecting fine dining,
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, that, well, all, two points here, because I think your point about was Lindsay the only person in their party that was sick, because that seems like important information that's not included, and also your point that, like, this is not La Bernardine, this is, like, literally like a little family restaurant on the side of the road.
TREY GERRALD:So, okay, what about this water diarrhea?
TREY GERRALD:This is something Lindsey never, never gets.
TREY GERRALD:This never happens to Lindsey.
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, I think Lindsey is one of those people that is just like, I got a stomach of steel, goopy of soup, let me try it, you know?
CHELSEY DONN:It's like, what the hell?
CHELSEY DONN:Like, sour meat.
CHELSEY DONN:Give it here, you know, well, like, I don't know what, like, I would assume that if I ate sour meat and goopy soup, that I would have diarrhea, right?
VOICEOVER:Yeah.
CHELSEY DONN:Now, do I want to eat at this restaurant after reading this review?
CHELSEY DONN:No,
TREY GERRALD:no,
CHELSEY DONN:I'm guessing you and David didn't stop here.
TREY GERRALD:Oh
CHELSEY DONN:no!
TREY GERRALD:No, we didn't.
TREY GERRALD:No, we chose
CHELSEY DONN:not to.
CHELSEY DONN:We went to a Mediterranean place.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, so I think that there's an impact here.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't think I'm going to stop at this restaurant.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't think I'm going to eat here, but I don't know that, like, I trust Lindsay.
CHELSEY DONN:I find Lindsay hilarious.
CHELSEY DONN:Like, I just find anyone hilarious that's going to describe, like, a food that is disgusting and then be like, I tried it.
CHELSEY DONN:I ate it.
TREY GERRALD:What?
TREY GERRALD:Are you crazy?
TREY GERRALD:Also, this whole comment about the oil and vinegar, I'm wondering if that's kind of like a health dig?
TREY GERRALD:And looking at the photo of that salad bar, nowhere in my mind do I think there would be oil and vinegar on the salad bar.
TREY GERRALD:That's gonna be a request,
CHELSEY DONN:Ranch Dressing,
TREY GERRALD:It's gonna be Ranch Thousand Island, It's gonna be Italian, It's gonna be like, Disgusting, Like, It's just not, People aren't gonna be getting, I mean the containers,
CHELSEY DONN:Like, Listen, I would not get the salad bar, I just think this is a classic example of Lindsay made Absolutely the wrong choice,
TREY GERRALD:Correct.
CHELSEY DONN:In everything that they ordered.
TREY GERRALD:Right.
TREY GERRALD:It's like when you and I separately went to Nobu and we did not eat fish.
CHELSEY DONN:Right.
CHELSEY DONN:But that's just us.
CHELSEY DONN:But you don't go to this family restaurant.
CHELSEY DONN:The steak was delicious because it was Nobu.
TREY GERRALD:Right.
TREY GERRALD:But I don't think Lindsay's getting the right.
TREY GERRALD:I don't think Lindsay's ordering the right
CHELSEY DONN:thing.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't think you get a, this turkey meal.
CHELSEY DONN:I like, I would imagine it was frozen in the back, right?
CHELSEY DONN:Like, I just don't think that this is going to be, I'm freshly carving a turkey back here.
CHELSEY DONN:And I think if you work in a restaurant and you work in the food biz, then your discretion should be a little bit better.
CHELSEY DONN:Like I'm looking at these pictures and I'm knowing I'm probably going to get breakfast.
CHELSEY DONN:Honestly, I might not even risk the burger.
TREY GERRALD:Correct.
TREY GERRALD:Just give me an omelette.
CHELSEY DONN:Just give me an omelette.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah,
TREY GERRALD:but now that I'm looking closer at the actual review, the only thing that wasn't bad actually was the salad, which is interesting because they're saying the meal was so bad they could only eat half of it.
TREY GERRALD:The soup was like disgusting, and the only complaint about the standard salad was that there was no oil and vinegar on the bar,
CHELSEY DONN:right?
CHELSEY DONN:So maybe they could have gotten from their server.
TREY GERRALD:Why do you think that the mixed veggies tasted like actual fish?
TREY GERRALD:Let
CHELSEY DONN:Because maybe nobody effing orders the, like, turkey dinner, so they, like, took them off of the, like, fish, you know, like, yeah, I don't know.
CHELSEY DONN:What do
TREY GERRALD:you think?
TREY GERRALD:Like the carrots?
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah.
TREY GERRALD:What do you think the mixed veggies were?
TREY GERRALD:Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower?
CHELSEY DONN:I think carrots,
TREY GERRALD:peas,
CHELSEY DONN:string beans, peas.
TREY GERRALD:Oh my god, do you remember peas?
TREY GERRALD:I love peas.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't mind peas.
TREY GERRALD:I love early peas, the little teeny baby ones.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah,
CHELSEY DONN:English peas.
CHELSEY DONN:So early.
CHELSEY DONN:Such baby little peas.
TREY GERRALD:All right.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh, my God.
CHELSEY DONN:I do feel like nauseous.
CHELSEY DONN:I'll give her that.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, it does.
TREY GERRALD:It does definitely have an impact.
TREY GERRALD:Valuable, unique information here.
TREY GERRALD:I mean, they got very sick from eating here, and that has an impact on me.
TREY GERRALD:Separate of Lindsay's, like, personality
CHELSEY DONN:choices,
TREY GERRALD:right?
TREY GERRALD:I mean, it's interesting that they felt the need to, like, consume a lot of the stuff when the warning comes.
TREY GERRALD:Trolling with
CHELSEY DONN:soup was just
TREY GERRALD:like It's so insane.
TREY GERRALD:There was a couple of spelling errors.
CHELSEY DONN:Definitely some spelling errors, I heard.
TREY GERRALD:Humor was off the chart.
TREY GERRALD:We were really clawing.
CHELSEY DONN:It was rolling, but not necessarily, like, The intended outcome, I don't think, from Lindsay.
CHELSEY DONN:I think Lindsay takes themselves very seriously, but that being said, the review was humorous.
TREY GERRALD:But then this whole thing we kept going on about is like Lindsay ordered the wrong item.
TREY GERRALD:Is that going to be a fluke?
TREY GERRALD:Like, do we think that that Lindsay just was fluky?
TREY GERRALD:Like, do we think that everything is going to make you sick?
TREY GERRALD:I mean, I don't
CHELSEY DONN:know how many people are going to this restaurant and ordering the turkey dinner, the turkey, you know, dinner.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't think it's a fluke.
CHELSEY DONN:I think that there's probably a lot of disappointed diners.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah, no, and maybe the quality.
CHELSEY DONN:What was the overall?
CHELSEY DONN:Do we know?
TREY GERRALD:3.
TREY GERRALD:4 out of 72 reviews.
TREY GERRALD:It's unclaimed.
CHELSEY DONN:Okay, so like that, and that seems about right.
CHELSEY DONN:You know, like, I don't think you're going to go and have a five star experience at this, what I consider to be diner.
TREY GERRALD:Oh my god, I just realized, it's Shardlesville, and Lindsey ended up sharding.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh my god, you're right!
TREY GERRALD:Water diarrhea.
TREY GERRALD:Of course
CHELSEY DONN:she sharded from Shardersville!
CHELSEY DONN:Shardles!
CHELSEY DONN:Shardles!
TREY GERRALD:Alright, I can crown Lindsey.
TREY GERRALD:I mean,
CHELSEY DONN:that's hilarious.
CHELSEY DONN:I can crown
TREY GERRALD:Lindsey.
TREY GERRALD:Okay, so Chelsey and I each have our own set of 0 5 crown cards.
TREY GERRALD:In an effort to be fair and not influenced by one another, we will simultaneously reveal our ratings.
VOICEOVER:The queens are tabulating.
CHELSEY DONN:Wow, fascinating, I'm holding up two and a half crowns, Trey is holding up four and a half crowns, nearly a Review Queen, super curious to hear about that, I went with two and a half for the laughs, like I laughed, that was a good, Lindsay, you got me, you got me with the laughs.
CHELSEY DONN:You got me.
CHELSEY DONN:You got me.
CHELSEY DONN:That's where the two and a half crowns comes from.
CHELSEY DONN:Clearly you got a stomach of steel or you thought you did.
CHELSEY DONN:I just, I don't know that I trust Lindsay as a reliable narrator.
CHELSEY DONN:I don't know that most people would be like, that looks disgusting.
CHELSEY DONN:Let me try it.
CHELSEY DONN:I just don't know.
CHELSEY DONN:That that's gonna be the most common experience and I don't know that everybody's gonna order this.
CHELSEY DONN:I think maybe more people would be like you and I, Trey, and and kind of go breakfast, go, go really basic and I think those are the people that are writing the four star reviews.
CHELSEY DONN:So for that reason I decided to go with two and a half crowns, middle of the road, most of the heavy lifting coming from the fact that I just got a real good chuckle.
CHELSEY DONN:But you almost went full Review Queen.
CHELSEY DONN:Super curious to hear why.
CHELSEY DONN:Why did you go with four and a half crowns for Lindsey, who shardled in Charters Shardleds?
TREY GERRALD:Do you think the Blue Mountain Family Restaurant serves pumpkin spice?
TREY GERRALD:Probably.
CHELSEY DONN:They probably have it like way in the back and Lindsey's like, I'll take the pumpkin spice pancakes on the side, you know?
TREY GERRALD:So I said four and a half ultimately because the impact is like, I don't want to shart.
CHELSEY DONN:No, thank you.
TREY GERRALD:I don't want water diarrhea.
CHELSEY DONN:Ehh, no, I do certainly do not have just gotten out of that.
TREY GERRALD:And I do feel like, I understand the allure of like this Thanksgiving dinner.
CHELSEY DONN:Right.
TREY GERRALD:And I think that this is like the warning, you know, like, consider where, like, consider where you're at.
TREY GERRALD:What is being prepared in that kitchen and like, is this the place you want roasted turkey from?
TREY GERRALD:Like, maybe not.
TREY GERRALD:Um, no,
CHELSEY DONN:absolutely not.
TREY GERRALD:And honestly, like Lindsay doesn't include a photo, but the actual photos on Yelp really were the deal breaker.
TREY GERRALD:And I am the person that loves nasty, trashy.
TREY GERRALD:I want fast food.
TREY GERRALD:I want diners.
TREY GERRALD:And this, the vibe, even
CHELSEY DONN:for you,
TREY GERRALD:it feels like it hasn't been renovated and since the 70s and that feels unnerving to me.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah,
TREY GERRALD:but I think that Lindsay, I think Lindsay is a little shady, but they were water diarrhea and I think they have the right.
TREY GERRALD:So I said four and a half because we decided to drive on.
TREY GERRALD:So it did have an impact in real time.
TREY GERRALD:That's
CHELSEY DONN:right.
CHELSEY DONN:That's true.
CHELSEY DONN:That is true.
CHELSEY DONN:Oh, my goodness.
CHELSEY DONN:I so enjoyed that.
CHELSEY DONN:Thank you, David, for finding that review for us.
CHELSEY DONN:I really, really did enjoy that a lot.
CHELSEY DONN:And Lindsey, I hope that you think twice, man, before just putting that spoon in your mouth.
CHELSEY DONN:We were given a nose for a wonderful reason.
CHELSEY DONN:A sniff, sniff is not going to leave you with diarrhea.
TREY GERRALD:Oof.
TREY GERRALD:Yikes.
TREY GERRALD:Well.
TREY GERRALD:All right.
CHELSEY DONN:That was fun.
TREY GERRALD:Speaking of reveling.
TREY GERRALD:Yes.
TREY GERRALD:Chelsey, we've done it.
TREY GERRALD:We have reached the most regal portion of today's show.
CHELSEY DONN:Yes.
TREY GERRALD:Who are you inducting today?
TREY GERRALD:Foie?
CHELSEY DONN:My Royal Highness.
CHELSEY DONN:Thank you for asking, Trey.
CHELSEY DONN:So for today's Royal Highness, I decided to dig into my Good Samaritan files and find a sweet story to share with you all today.
CHELSEY DONN:So just a couple weeks ago in real time, a pilot flew an American Girl doll 5, 880 miles to return it to a nine year old girl who lost it.
CHELSEY DONN:You guys, how's that?
CHELSEY DONN:How sweet is that?
CHELSEY DONN:American Airlines pilot James Dannen first learned about Valentina Dominguez's lost doll through her parents Facebook post.
CHELSEY DONN:Rudy and Celeste Dominguez had last seen the doll on their plane to Tokyo, where the family had a stopover while traveling back to their home in Plano, Texas, after a trip to Bali.
CHELSEY DONN:Danon, who's based out of the Dallas Fort Worth area, contacted Turkish Airlines, Lost and Found, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and located the missing toy, he then traveled with the doll, named Beatrice, and even took photos of her throughout their journey, which he sent to Valentina.
CHELSEY DONN:Danon said that it's his nature.
CHELSEY DONN:He likes helping people and that's just that's just what he likes to do.
CHELSEY DONN:That's his jam.
CHELSEY DONN:He really is so glad that he could do something nice for someone.
CHELSEY DONN:And this nine year old girl is just beyond thrilled to have Been reunited with her doll.
CHELSEY DONN:They even show a photo of Dannon handing the doll over to a very, very happy nine year old.
CHELSEY DONN:So, wow.
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, she asked him when he gave her the doll, was she well behaved on the flight?
CHELSEY DONN:And he said, yes, very well behaved.
CHELSEY DONN:Um, he also gifted her some Japanese treats and a map that tracked all the places where Beatrice had been.
CHELSEY DONN:How cute is that?
CHELSEY DONN:You guys?
CHELSEY DONN:So sweet.
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, I just love stories like this.
CHELSEY DONN:I just think it's so nice.
CHELSEY DONN:I think there's something so cool about the fact that this wasn't even the pilot of the plane where it was lost, but that this pilot saw that this had happened and went the extra mile and tracked it down.
CHELSEY DONN:I mean, just such a cool story.
CHELSEY DONN:Also, These kind of things just really warm my heart and remind me that there are good people.
CHELSEY DONN:And I just also remember being a kid and that feeling of losing something on vacation is just so heartbreaking.
CHELSEY DONN:So I just wanted to say a very special thank you to our pilot James Dannen of Fort Worth for just being such a queen and making this girl's day by doing something so sweet.
CHELSEY DONN:So thank you, American Airlines, Captain James Dannen.
CHELSEY DONN:You are my Royal Highness.
TREY GERRALD:That's amazing, especially because the parents could have literally just bought another doll, a girl doll.
CHELSEY DONN:Yeah, but you know what?
CHELSEY DONN:I feel like you couldn't because it's like you, even as a kid, like I was obsessed with this stuffed dog named Muttsy that I guess other people had.
CHELSEY DONN:But like, I always thought Muttsy was like my dog.
CHELSEY DONN:And if I left Muttsy somewhere, even if my parents could have replaced him, it wouldn't really be the same.
CHELSEY DONN:I would always know that it wasn't mine.
TREY GERRALD:Of course.
TREY GERRALD:Yeah.
CHELSEY DONN:You know?
CHELSEY DONN:So I just thought, what a sweet story.
TREY GERRALD:And how nice that Beatrice was like on such a huge journey.
TREY GERRALD:And now Valentina gets to track like all of Beatrice's happenings.
TREY GERRALD:That's so cute.
TREY GERRALD:I know.
TREY GERRALD:Great job.
TREY GERRALD:Pilot, Captain, Danon,
CHELSEY DONN:Captain Danon,
TREY GERRALD:By Danon,
CHELSEY DONN:By
TREY GERRALD:Danon, Oh my God, love it, Well we did a queen, That's
CHELSEY DONN:so fun, Trey, what a good episode,
TREY GERRALD:That was really fun, I'm appreciative for not having water diarrhea, I'm
CHELSEY DONN:so glad that you guys didn't stop and eat there, I was, When I asked you that and you sort of hesitated, I was like, Oh no, I know,
TREY GERRALD:No, No, I have to save room for Pumpkin Spice, because that's another round on the R U A R Q.
TREY GERRALD:Ferris wheel of soup that looks like melted glue with onions in it.
CHELSEY DONN:Better taste it.
CHELSEY DONN:Thank you for joining us today.
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CHELSEY DONN:On today's after show pod, Trey, get ready, we are rating and reviewing a 5 star review from Amazon for WallMonkeyz Senior Woman with Asthma Wall Decal, Peel and Stick Graphic, 24 inches height by 21 inches width.
VOICEOVER:It's a wrap!
VOICEOVER:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,
TREY GERRALD:woman asthma.
TREY GERRALD:I
TREY GERRALD:know the man, or maybe it is a woman.
TREY GERRALD:It's an old lady
CHELSEY DONN:literally holding her inhaler.
CHELSEY DONN:Yes.
TREY GERRALD:Well, I just, I really can't even begin to ponder.
TREY GERRALD:Why this was said.
TREY GERRALD:I mean, this is just, this is too much.
TREY GERRALD:It's too much.
TREY GERRALD:It's
CHELSEY DONN:too much.
CHELSEY DONN:Me too.
CHELSEY DONN:I wonder what made us say that.
TREY GERRALD:Well, as we question, why don't we just all remember?
CHELSEY DONN:Ignore the haters, you're a Pumpkin Spice Queen,
TREY GERRALD:gender nonspecific Pumpkin Spice Queen, that's right.
CHELSEY DONN:Thank you so much for listening to that review.
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