Everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker:Every Californian in Virginia, it's so hard to tell who to cho and who to ignore.
Speaker:Someone's gotta settle the score.
Speaker:Trey and Chelsey will help you choose who's win, which.
Speaker:Hello.
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Speaker:That's Chelsey Donn, and that's Trey Gerrald.
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Speaker:So it is only fair that we take a quick little moment up top to vetch it out.
Speaker:Chelsey, would you like to
Speaker:lodge a complaint?
Speaker:I would try.
Speaker:I would like to lodge a complaint, actually.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:I need to lodge a complaint, but I think first I'm gonna need to
Speaker:transfer you to another department.
Speaker:Before you can lodge the Wait.
Speaker:No, no, no.
Speaker:Actually, let's transfer you back to that initial department and
Speaker:then you can lodge the, no, no, no.
Speaker:Actually there's a third department that you should have been.
Speaker:I don't know why they transferred you to that other department before,
Speaker:because they should have actually transferred you to this third department.
Speaker:I'm so sorry about that.
Speaker:I don't know why they would've done that to begin with.
Speaker:Let me transfer you to the third department.
Speaker:Oh, you know what, actually, you know what you need.
Speaker:You need that first department that you originally ta.
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:Get it together.
Speaker:I cannot stand a never ending customer service loop.
Speaker:Who is it that I'm supposed to talk to?
Speaker:I literally was doing this the other day with like my doctor and the pharmacy and
Speaker:like I was, I was coordinating things and they kept like transferring me all over
Speaker:and then I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker:This is where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker:And I had to like insist that they not transfer me out.
Speaker:Stay on the phone with them, give them like a whole list of information as
Speaker:to why this was the proper department.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Before they actually looked it up, looked up my information, and then
Speaker:they were like, oh, yeah, you're right.
Speaker:Actually, that person does work here.
Speaker:Let me transfer you over there.
Speaker:What the f?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Angry.
Speaker:Angry.
Speaker:So angry.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Why does this keep happening?
Speaker:It's a very good complaint.
Speaker:I feel like.
Speaker:Incompetence.
Speaker:I have a very low threshold for,
Speaker:yeah, same.
Speaker:And there, it just feel, anytime you have to call customer service,
Speaker:it always feels like you're just like the ball in a tennis match.
Speaker:Like you're just being batted around, oh my God, no one
Speaker:actually wants to deal with you.
Speaker:I, I try to avoid customer service as much as possible.
Speaker:I know, especially when there is that whole like.
Speaker:Oh, I don't know why you were sent here.
Speaker:It's like, oh my God.
Speaker:I don't either.
Speaker:I'd rather you not even say it.
Speaker:Don't even say it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Don't even say it because then what?
Speaker:I'm supposed to think you're my hero, right?
Speaker:Like, what are you, Mariah Carey?
Speaker:All of a sudden you're my hero and I'm supposed to be like thanking you for
Speaker:being the one person with a brain when it turns out Nope, not you either.
Speaker:Not you either.
Speaker:I don't know her.
Speaker:I don't know her.
Speaker:Good complaint.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:Thank you.
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Speaker:right.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Chelsey, I'm very curious when you think about New York City.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And you think about television shows.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Are there any television shows where it felt like New York City was
Speaker:like a main character of the show?
Speaker:Seinfeld.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Sex in the city.
Speaker:Ding, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker:Friends.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Now, uniquely Seinfeld and friends were both filmed, not in New York,
Speaker:you're right.
Speaker:But Sex
Speaker:in the City was.
Speaker:Sex in the city
Speaker:was,
Speaker:yes.
Speaker:Now, when you think about sex in the city, let's say you're a sweet gal who
Speaker:lives in Minneapolis and you are, feel like you are Carrie and Samantha, and.
Speaker:And you.
Speaker:Is this the
Speaker:Sex and the City tour?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:No, no, no.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I got really excited for a second.
Speaker:If you were planning a trip to New York
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And as part of the Sex and the City tour.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If you didn't do that, but you were gonna create your own, what
Speaker:are some institutions from Sex and the City that have become infamous
Speaker:and famous from Sex in the City?
Speaker:I feel like Magnolia Bakery.
Speaker:Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker:Today you and I are gonna be rating and reviewing a one star Yelp review.
Speaker:Four.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Magnolia Bakery.
Speaker:Ooh, very good.
Speaker:I I do like Magnolia.
Speaker:Well, certain things about it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:We'll get to it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There was actually a spinoff of Sex in the City.
Speaker:It was called just like that before that.
Speaker:It was called the Carrie
Speaker:Diaries
Speaker:and yours, and you were on
Speaker:that.
Speaker:Yours truly was on the Carrie Diaries.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:Where I had to tell a teenage Carrie that her friend was dying of aids.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Oh, Martin.
Speaker:Hey, that out.
Speaker:If anyone wants an autograph, I'm here.
Speaker:I was gonna
Speaker:say, and the Golden Globe goes to
Speaker:me, Trey
Speaker:Gerald.
Speaker:For the Carrie Diaries.
Speaker:Um, okay, here we go.
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:If anyone like doesn't know, like, I don't, if you don't know Magnolia Bakery
Speaker:Fair, but if you don't know Sex in the City, I don't know how you are in
Speaker:the review, that review at Atmosphere.
Speaker:To be fair,
Speaker:I don't know how you found yourself here.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:But, um, let us
Speaker:know in the comments.
Speaker:But yeah, so Magnolia Bakery existed but totally popped off because the
Speaker:girls would go there on the show.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:There are like four or five locations actually in the city,
Speaker:which I didn't even realize.
Speaker:My like, favorite, hilarious one is there's actually one
Speaker:in the Grand Central terminal.
Speaker:Um, and um, that's actually where this one is coming from.
Speaker:So
Speaker:I feel like there's so many things at Grand Central.
Speaker:Every time I come into Grand Central, I'm like, and there's a Z Bars here.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:like there's just like so many things down there.
Speaker:There's that
Speaker:like famous oyster bar that's down there too.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which is so weird way.
Speaker:I think they're
Speaker:just like, people come to New York and they're like, you know
Speaker:what, you could just stay here.
Speaker:We got it all.
Speaker:Let's do it all.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Okay, so here we go.
Speaker:So, Magnolia Bakery, one star Yelp review.
Speaker:This is actually written by Chef Earth
Speaker:and um, they have 397 reviews on Yelp.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And they've
Speaker:included 563 images.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Do we have an image here?
Speaker:We do not.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Well, I know this was written over four years ago when I screenshotted
Speaker:this, which was probably two years ago.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Here we are, chef Earth's one star Yelp pur for Magnolia.
Speaker:I would give zero stars if I could.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:I have been eating Magnolia Banana pudding for over 10 years,
Speaker:Los Angeles, and mostly ny.
Speaker:Today I was at Grand Central Terminal.
Speaker:And got a medium banana pudding.
Speaker:Basically it was whipped cream with a lot puff air, maybe a half vanilla
Speaker:wafer and whole container and a few bits, and I mean, tiny bits of banana.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Rip off.
Speaker:What a joke.
Speaker:$7 whipped cream and not even organic.
Speaker:Barely tasted the banana
Speaker:so upset.
Speaker:The cupcakes shrunk years ago.
Speaker:And the recipe changed years ago, so I stopped eating them as they
Speaker:are not the same as years ago.
Speaker:And they taste like chemicals now, so don't bother with bad cupcakes.
Speaker:I would say to friends, get the banana pudding.
Speaker:It's the best.
Speaker:Well, today you ruined the last good thing you have on menu.
Speaker:Sadly, I am sure you don't care.
Speaker:Magnolia Bakery is a corporation and not a good bakery.
Speaker:In New York,
Speaker:there are a zillion really good cupcake shops and bakeries that still
Speaker:take pride in what they make so long.
Speaker:Magnolia Bakery.
Speaker:I will make my own pudding now.
Speaker:I will go elsewhere for cupcakes with a whole box of vanilla wafers and
Speaker:make it organic, as well as organic whipped cream and organic bananas.
Speaker:It's easy and you will have the magic that long ago existed with
Speaker:the old Magnolia once upon a time.
Speaker:DIY, banana Pudding Recipe online.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So everyone watching on YouTube, you can see how this is formatted, but just so
Speaker:you can see why I read it the way that I read it, I think chef, chef earthy really,
Speaker:really is into hitting that inter button.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So it's, it's, it's, uh, it's a lot of, it's like, um, an Ee Cummings
Speaker:poem or something like that.
Speaker:Which now that I look at it because this is a chef, like when I first
Speaker:found this review, I didn't clock that the name is chef, but like to be like
Speaker:I'm making my own now is so funny.
Speaker:But like if you're a chef, you're not a baker.
Speaker:It's different.
Speaker:But like you, it looks visually like a recipe to me with all
Speaker:these spaces and these enters.
Speaker:I mean, and Okay, interesting.
Speaker:'cause I was gonna say recipe online, was it like linked to
Speaker:their website or something?
Speaker:But like, am I just supposed to search for Chef Earth E. Banana pudding recipe.
Speaker:I mean recipe online.
Speaker:Where are they?
Speaker:Just saying Google.
Speaker:Google making your own banana pudding.
Speaker:I think it could be either of those scenarios.
Speaker:Either they're trying to pimp themselves out or I think they're
Speaker:saying you can just, there are DIY Banana pudding recipes online.
Speaker:I'm gonna look, but why is there an enter in between?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Also like it's like a menu maybe.
Speaker:Like off of like just going through like the spelling grammar on this is wild.
Speaker:Like it's legible but it's just a very specific style and I don't know if that's
Speaker:like, I don't know if Chef Earthy is like an older person or, or I don't understand
Speaker:how, like if you look at today I was at Grand Central Terminal, no Caps Anywhere
Speaker:and got a medium enter banana, enter.
Speaker:Capital P pudding, like, I don't understand.
Speaker:And then it's like basically enter it was search cream.
Speaker:Like what?
Speaker:But maybe it's because they wanna like, like you've read it, they want to tell
Speaker:you like how to, like I got a medium
Speaker:right.
Speaker:Banana pudding.
Speaker:Well, it makes sense.
Speaker:Not
Speaker:a, not vanilla pudding.
Speaker:I got a medium banana.
Speaker:Pudding.
Speaker:Like, it's just like, it's really, well, it
Speaker:reads that way later where it says ripoff.
Speaker:What a joke.
Speaker:$7 whip cream.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Not even arga.
Speaker:Like I get that.
Speaker:I like, yeah, like,
Speaker:it's like, it's like a, it's like a Jan Brady.
Speaker:Like, I don't know.
Speaker:Everyone like,
Speaker:yes.
Speaker:She like
Speaker:goes crazy.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Wasn't RuPaul in the Brady Bunch movie?
Speaker:It was in both of them.
Speaker:Moha, Moha, Moha.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:Um, so anyway, I, sorry for that.
Speaker:Digress.
Speaker:I digress.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:at the beginning you said only certain things.
Speaker:So what are your things about Mag Magnolia?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So a hundred percent the
Speaker:bread pudding, like I banana always found the magnolia cupcakes to be way too sweet.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Like, it's not even that there was so much frosting, there was like a lot
Speaker:of frosting on the cupcake, but the frosting itself, I remember being like.
Speaker:Wow, this is like a cavity in a frosting.
Speaker:Like it was like sacrant horrible, too sweet for me.
Speaker:But the bread pudding was delicious.
Speaker:Bread ping.
Speaker:I'm sorry, but
Speaker:you, you said that twice,
Speaker:did I?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I like bread pudding too, but I meant, but the banana pudding.
Speaker:The banana pudding, it was delicious.
Speaker:That's like so upsetting to me because.
Speaker:I was in college, you know, we were in college on the same time, so like
Speaker:around 2009, 2008, I was going and getting this banana pudding for my
Speaker:birthday and stuff, and it was like a decadent treat, like, oh my God.
Speaker:The Magnolia?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:In fact, I actually bought the Magnolia Cookbook.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Just because I wanted to have the recipe of this banana pudding, like.
Speaker:Well, I'll tell you as a southern person, banana pudding is like when you go to
Speaker:a Chinese buffet in South Carolina, they have six little things of dessert
Speaker:and it's always banana pudding, like that's how serious banana pudding is.
Speaker:In the south, you will always find n wafer banana pudding.
Speaker:It is like a thing.
Speaker:So Magnolia like took it up.
Speaker:To like the stratosphere?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So much so that when my sister had her first baby shower, I was actually
Speaker:living in la It was when Chelsey and I met each other and there is a
Speaker:Magnolia bakery in West Hollywood.
Speaker:Is it West Hollywood?
Speaker:No,
Speaker:I think it's Beverly Hill.
Speaker:It's something
Speaker:near that breakfast place.
Speaker:It doesn't matter.
Speaker:Um, and I organized it being delivered to Charlotte, North
Speaker:Carolina for her baby shower.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it was such a hit because.
Speaker:Obviously that's the right demographic is like these girls Southern that are having
Speaker:babies that like are in their thirties, like baby shower is gonna be Magnolia.
Speaker:Um, but I'll tell you, this is some realty.
Speaker:Anyone that's listening, if you ever go to New York, go to Magnolia,
Speaker:like for the nostalgia and whatever, but there is a rival company.
Speaker:I wouldn't even call them Rival.
Speaker:There's another bakery.
Speaker:It's called Billy's Bakery.
Speaker:There's about four of Billy.
Speaker:Billy.
Speaker:Billy, like the killer and scream One Billy?
Speaker:Yeah, Billy
Speaker:Billy's bakery.
Speaker:There's three or four of them.
Speaker:Their banana pudding is so much better.
Speaker:Really,
Speaker:I can't even describe it.
Speaker:Also, their cupcakes are not disgusting.
Speaker:They also are.
Speaker:Vegan friendly.
Speaker:Magnolia doesn't do anything.
Speaker:They don't accommodate any allergies at all.
Speaker:They don't do anything at all.
Speaker:Which part of me is like, that's kind of badass.
Speaker:But it's also like what?
Speaker:Like we're in a culture of like, like they don't even do a nut
Speaker:allergy version, so like Right.
Speaker:They don't accommodate, um, which we're gonna circle back
Speaker:to, but um, check out Billy's.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, the banana pudding.
Speaker:Is I live and die.
Speaker:If I'm gonna go to Magnolia, I'm gonna get banana pudding.
Speaker:I'm not trifling with any of those cupcakes.
Speaker:It's not
Speaker:vegan.
Speaker:The pudding, the banana pudding is not vegan.
Speaker:Nothing at Bill.
Speaker:Nothing at Magnolia is vegan.
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:You're saying the bills.
Speaker:The bills is banana pudding is,
Speaker:I don't know why you keep cutting up.
Speaker:Why
Speaker:Billy's Banana pudding is not vegan.
Speaker:No, I'm sure that it's not.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:'cause there's egg.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But they have vegan options.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:Magnolia doesn't accommodate any specialty.
Speaker:They don't have any non options.
Speaker:Nothing on the menu, anything.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They don't do anything at all to accommodate anyone who has any issue.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Whereas Billy's has options.
Speaker:Right, right, right.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So
Speaker:I mean, this is personally upset, like I'm getting riled up because what this was,
Speaker:when did you say this review was written?
Speaker:Years
Speaker:ago.
Speaker:Over four years ago Ago.
Speaker:This couple years ago ago.
Speaker:But
Speaker:still.
Speaker:I'm trying to think of the last time that I had like banana pudding
Speaker:for Magnolia and it was probably like pe, like pre pandemic.
Speaker:So that has gotta be over five years ago.
Speaker:And if this is what has become of Magnolia Bread pudding,
Speaker:uh, why do we keep doing that?
Speaker:I dunno if what has become a magnolia banana pudding, I am very upset.
Speaker:And I will say that a lot of the reviews talk about a decline,
Speaker:which I don't know, that's just something I wonder, say, do they
Speaker:sell?
Speaker:They sell to like a corporation?
Speaker:They must have,
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Because they're calling, the chef is calling it out as being,
Speaker:but how don't, do we know?
Speaker:Who knows?
Speaker:Is that true?
Speaker:Who knows?
Speaker:Oh, they, they're a chef.
Speaker:What did you think about overly hitting a, well, first of all, we have to point out
Speaker:before anything else that we started with, like the most cliched line of course.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, if I could give it zero star, I would.
Speaker:And then what do we think about the organic banana organic
Speaker:pudding or like, I mean, obviously this is, you know, chef earthy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Chef Earth.
Speaker:So clearly they care about, what did you think about them hitting us with that?
Speaker:Oh, that's so funny.
Speaker:Earth.
Speaker:Um, I don't know.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it, it seems to me, taking this at face value, if we are assuming
Speaker:that Chef Earth is only telling truths.
Speaker:For it to not be organic.
Speaker:Also seems weird to me.
Speaker:I mean, we're in a culture where people are consumed with allergies
Speaker:and we're consumed with health.
Speaker:So like to be a bakery operating in 2025 and to not be organic and to not
Speaker:have other options seems odd to me.
Speaker:And the fact that like, we're charging a pretty penny.
Speaker:It's not like we're charging, you know, this is like cheap
Speaker:street food or something.
Speaker:No offense to.
Speaker:Straight food, which is great, but when you're going to an establishment
Speaker:like this and you're paying a lot of money, I think, yeah, you do probably
Speaker:expect organic or local ingredients.
Speaker:Certainly Chef Earth does,
Speaker:and to this point, like there was maybe half of a vanilla wafer
Speaker:and then tiny bits of banana.
Speaker:I have personally.
Speaker:Been affected by Regina George.
Speaker:I have felt that where it's like, and I don't know if that's an issue
Speaker:with scooping out in the vat, right?
Speaker:Because you're just getting a little container, but like you gotta have
Speaker:multiple wafers on the top and you have to have a lot of banana.
Speaker:It's banana.
Speaker:Figure it out.
Speaker:Yeah, figure it out.
Speaker:That's just unacceptable.
Speaker:I would be so upset also because it's.
Speaker:First of all, a few things.
Speaker:One, because it's such a decadent thing and it's such a distinct flavor
Speaker:that when you're going for magnolia banana pudding, there's nothing worse
Speaker:than like being like, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker:I'm gonna like do a little like treat for myself.
Speaker:And you dig on in there and you are expecting it to taste a certain way,
Speaker:and then it tastes like whipped cream.
Speaker:I would be so upset.
Speaker:So I wanna totally validate that.
Speaker:And then I wanna also give a nod to the, there's a zillion places,
Speaker:there's a zillion places in New York.
Speaker:I mean, obviously trees bring up s but it's true when you're in
Speaker:New York City, like, come on babe.
Speaker:Yeah, there's like a dime a dozen you could find, I'm sure a million places that
Speaker:have banana pudding, that have cupcakes.
Speaker:Keep up with the times.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Like people are gonna give up on you, Magnolia, if you keep.
Speaker:It's the sex in the city of it all is only gonna last so long.
Speaker:Even with, and that's, you know, and just like that.
Speaker:Well, that's what I'm thinking too.
Speaker:It's like, that's why I only mention that they don't accommodate allergies
Speaker:and stuff because it is sort of like you're just pushing business away.
Speaker:Like at least have one gluten-free.
Speaker:Brownie or something.
Speaker:Like do something, I don't know.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's your prerogative or like
Speaker:rest on your laurels and that like, no, that's just not who we are,
Speaker:but have the most amazing products.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:Because it is to the point you, you look really like we
Speaker:both know.
Speaker:There's certain restaurants that are like no substitutions, babe.
Speaker:Like that's not happening.
Speaker:But if that's gonna be your stance, then it better be damn good.
Speaker:And there better be a reason for the fact that, you know, certain people
Speaker:in the population can't go there.
Speaker:'cause that's just not your thing.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:I can find a respect for that somewhere.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:But,
Speaker:well that okay.
Speaker:But that's okay.
Speaker:You still have to
Speaker:have good product.
Speaker:But do we, it seems like we're being triggered.
Speaker:So do we think that.
Speaker:Chef Earth is like telling the truth.
Speaker:Are they being shady?
Speaker:I think that they're, I believe them.
Speaker:I don't know why I believe them.
Speaker:I don't know if it's the fact that they have chef in their name.
Speaker:I think not, because I think that made me sort of like turned off like,
Speaker:Ugh, am I gonna be like proselytized to by a quote unquote chef?
Speaker:So I don't know, but I.
Speaker:But I, 'cause I considered not saying chef and just saying, see earthy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because I think it is influencing us.
Speaker:'cause it's right, they may not be a chef like this may not be Paula Dean.
Speaker:This might be someone who is like a home chef, but
Speaker:they're talking about cooking and recipes.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:You know, I guess this is the forum with which to complain about this.
Speaker:Like if you feel like the quality is declining constantly, that that,
Speaker:then you're like, okay, I can't even go here for cupcakes anymore.
Speaker:I tell all my friends, you can't even do that.
Speaker:The only thing left is this pudding.
Speaker:Then you get the pudding and it's like there's two bananas in here.
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:yeah, this is like, for me, this is valuable information because like I said,
Speaker:haven't been there in a while and I've completely been that person when Magnolia
Speaker:comes up that I'm like, you know what?
Speaker:I'm not even into the cupcakes, but I love the banana pudding and I said
Speaker:that even when you started this review, like, oh, I love, but not everything,
Speaker:so I can see myself in Chef Earth.
Speaker:Yeah, so
Speaker:that's valuable.
Speaker:It also makes, I understand that maybe you could see this as shady 'cause we're
Speaker:really talking down about Magnolia.
Speaker:But I do think that it's truthful and I gotta be honest,
Speaker:I think it's probably common.
Speaker:I know, and I'm, I'm entertained.
Speaker:I think the grammatical setup is a little not spectacular.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:I mean, I think
Speaker:we pointed out that this is like a interesting way of structuring.
Speaker:Um, but it drives it home to me
Speaker:in a way.
Speaker:It
Speaker:does sort of drive it home and maybe it is a stylistic choice, and I am
Speaker:entertained in the fact that clearly I'm like, heated up about this.
Speaker:You wanna crown it?
Speaker:Let's do it.
Speaker:Chelsey and I each have our own set of zero to five crown cards.
Speaker:In an effort to be fair and not banana influence one another, we will
Speaker:simultaneously reveal our ratings.
Speaker:The queens are tabulating
Speaker:total school.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:I am holding up four and a half crowns trays, holding up four crowns.
Speaker:I literally was just holding up four crowns, and then I
Speaker:bumped it up to four and a half
Speaker:was holding four and a half, and I bumped it down.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:because you know what?
Speaker:I'm super influenced by this.
Speaker:Like this has changed me.
Speaker:I think if I go to New York, I'm not gonna be having Magnolia's banana.
Speaker:I mean, I don't need it.
Speaker:I live in la, but like I'm not ordering magnolia's banana pudding anymore.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:It's the end of an era for me, based on this review.
Speaker:I don't, it's such a decadent treat to me, and it has such a. Like specific
Speaker:memory for me that I don't wanna ruin it.
Speaker:And that is really impactful.
Speaker:And so I had to go with nearly a review queen here.
Speaker:I took off half Crown because, uh, I wasn't really sure if we were
Speaker:a little bit pretentious with the chef, which is maybe not fair.
Speaker:But other than that, I thought this was a pretty queenly review and definitely
Speaker:left me feeling a certain kind of way.
Speaker:So four and a half crowns, Trey went with four.
Speaker:Why four?
Speaker:Everything you just said.
Speaker:I feel like since we know they've attached 563 images Mm. Will you attach
Speaker:a couple images of like no wafers and like literally no chunks of banana?
Speaker:Um, I four.
Speaker:I mean, I agree.
Speaker:Like I'm very influenced.
Speaker:It does make, like, I feel like Chef is pointing out like once
Speaker:upon a time, y'all, it's over.
Speaker:This
Speaker:was the move and it's not, now it's not even organic
Speaker:and it's not good for you.
Speaker:Like just go make your own.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:totally.
Speaker:There's a reply.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:All
Speaker:right, so we have a quick reply here now.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:To speak to a question you had before, I don't know if the business owner
Speaker:is different, but this is Bobby L, but there were some re responses
Speaker:from someone with a different name.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, that were labeled business owner, so Got it.
Speaker:Bobby l, business owner.
Speaker:Good afternoon.
Speaker:Thank you for your feedback.
Speaker:We're sorry to know that you were so disappointed with the
Speaker:pudding on your recent visit.
Speaker:The ratio of components is definitely important in creating
Speaker:the best banana pudding.
Speaker:If you have a moment, please email us at feedback@magnoliabakery.com
Speaker:with your receipt information and mention your review.
Speaker:We do still take pride in the quality and freshness of our products and
Speaker:to clarify, we have never claimed that our ingredients are organic.
Speaker:All the best mb
Speaker:the fricking receipt.
Speaker:Do you think that somebody's gonna save the receipt?
Speaker:Like gimme a fricking break, but
Speaker:maybe you
Speaker:could
Speaker:show in your credit
Speaker:card I could show my credit card, but I don't have a receipt.
Speaker:Like I can proof a purchase.
Speaker:To
Speaker:me, I think that is so enraging.
Speaker:And your reply on a negative review to say, send us an email with your receipt
Speaker:and we'll see what we can do for you.
Speaker:Like, I mean, come on,
Speaker:whatcha are you like target number, like, I like it's, it's so crazy.
Speaker:If your point is like, we stand behind it and you wanna have them email you,
Speaker:which is like eye roll, then like, just be like, send us your email because we'd
Speaker:love to, you know, get you a proper.
Speaker:Putting in the future.
Speaker:I mean, they don't even say
Speaker:why.
Speaker:They just say, if you have a moment, email us and mention your review.
Speaker:They don't even say what they're gonna do.
Speaker:I mean, mention
Speaker:your review, why, so that we can bribe you into taking it down.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Or we can Google search you and then kill you when you're sleeping.
Speaker:Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, I mean I, not a very effective reply.
Speaker:I don't think it's
Speaker:a good reply.
Speaker:It feels very like formulaic, like this is like, we just always copy paste this.
Speaker:And then at the end, it's kind of like baller to be like, we'd
Speaker:never claimed to be organic.
Speaker:So I don't know why you're bringing it up, but it's also, also in conjunction,
Speaker:it feels shady as fuck to be like, okay, like you obviously, I don't know, it
Speaker:feels below the belt to me in a way.
Speaker:Yeah, it does.
Speaker:Because it's like, but it's, but conversely, but it's also,
Speaker:yeah, I don't know.
Speaker:And it
Speaker:also goes along with their whole.
Speaker:Mentality of like, we don't abide by allergies.
Speaker:We don't say we're organic, we don't, we do what we want and how
Speaker:we want, when we want, whatever.
Speaker:But it is funny to me, like when I was reading it and my lips made
Speaker:the consonants, but to be like, we're so sorry to know you were
Speaker:disappointed with the pudding.
Speaker:Like we're talking about pudding.
Speaker:You guys we're talking
Speaker:about pudding.
Speaker:You're right, you're right.
Speaker:That's funny.
Speaker:I don't,
Speaker:I don't really need to crown this.
Speaker:I think it, I don't need to crown it.
Speaker:It's not a very strong, I think it's not
Speaker:in a. It doesn't, it doesn't, uh, tip the scales in the direction of the business.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:It's like whatever.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, chef earthy, if you open up your own bakery, let us know.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:Totally.
Speaker:Please.
Speaker:Well, we have done it.
Speaker:We have aired our grievances.
Speaker:We've inspected a review.
Speaker:So Chelsey, now I'd love for you to shine a light on something truly deserving
Speaker:of a crown 'cause we have reached the most regal portion of today's show.
Speaker:Who are you inducting today for?
Speaker:My royal line is, thanks for asking, Trey.
Speaker:I am inducting that moment when you are, maybe you're running a little bit
Speaker:late, maybe you're meeting a friend for dinner, whatever it is, you're driving
Speaker:over there and you get to the location where you're supposed to be, and just
Speaker:as you pull up to wherever it is that you're going, somebody else is pulling
Speaker:outta the parking spot right in front.
Speaker:The timing of the universe just works out perfectly.
Speaker:They're not slow.
Speaker:They're not jiggling their keys, they're not looking at their phone.
Speaker:They just happen to be pulling out at the exact same mo
Speaker:moment that you're pulling in.
Speaker:Maybe they even left a little money for you on the meter.
Speaker:It's still flashing green.
Speaker:That is like winning the lottery.
Speaker:That is such a good feeling when that happens.
Speaker:I just thought, I happened to me the other day and I was like, I
Speaker:gotta induct this cosmic beautiful moment as my royal highness.
Speaker:I love getting a good parking space,
Speaker:especially when you feel like you're getting one over on the
Speaker:universe when there's like $6.
Speaker:I
Speaker:know you're like, yes.
Speaker:Perfect.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well we did a queen.
Speaker:The good, the bad, and the covet.
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Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:Now I want bananas.
Speaker:I, I want banana pudding now, but not Magnolia.
Speaker:Where am I gonna get it?
Speaker:Get it from Magnolia, order it from Hollywood.
Speaker:I'm not gonna get Magnolia.
Speaker:Now that I've read Chef Earth, these, I'm out.
Speaker:I think I'm out.
Speaker:No,
Speaker:I, I've been out for a while.
Speaker:Billy's way better.
Speaker:I'm, yeah, there's gotta be somewhere else that has good banana pudding.
Speaker:I need to get some banana pudding now.
Speaker:I want some
Speaker:the ratio, or maybe I'll make
Speaker:some with organic
Speaker:ingredients.
Speaker:The ratio of the bananas though.
Speaker:Also banana splits.
Speaker:I love a banana
Speaker:split.
Speaker:You love a banana?
Speaker:My mom likes a banana split.
Speaker:I'm not like, I like a banana pudding.
Speaker:I'm not such a banana split gal,
Speaker:girl.
Speaker:Nothing is better to me than banana with ice cream and whipped cream.
Speaker:Mm. I can, I can get, I can get behind it.
Speaker:I love
Speaker:it.
Speaker:But when you get those GenY Diner ones and they like do like, oh, like they cut
Speaker:the banana in half, right down the middle, but they don't give you all four parts.
Speaker:I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker:You're giving me three of the four.
Speaker:What are the, because you sliced it in the middle, the, and then
Speaker:you slice it down the other way.
Speaker:So it's like you're making Oh,
Speaker:you're like opening
Speaker:it up, like across or something.
Speaker:I dunno.
Speaker:I just,
Speaker:so it's four quadrants?
Speaker:Yes, four quadrants.
Speaker:But they only give you three.
Speaker:I'm, are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker:It's a banana.
Speaker:My God.
Speaker:Anyway, we'll see you guys on Friday.
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