SNL’s Ana Gasteyer, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman Talk Food and Dining Disasters

AG: You and I, we'll go.

EN: We should. We're neighbors.

AG: Yeah, have a little neighborhood date.

EN: Okay, let's do it. Yeah.

SS: I recuse myself because I'm lactose intolerant. So you guys just go.

EN: But you could have a nice fish. It's sad. It's sad to be the one.

AG: Nobody wants to hear her.

EN: I had an Italian restaurant, you could have a nice Branzino or something. But yes, good food. And am I not into hype. Sometimes people have earned their hype, but oftentimes it feels, it's like you got a famous person to go to the restaurant, and reservations are impossible and now everyone thinks it's good, and it's not.

JH: And it's also false scarcity sometimes.

EN: Yes, of course. You've created demand.

AG: My two add-ons to that are I mostly want things I can't make at home, and I'm a pretty good cook, so I want to go to a restaurant for something I've never had before, or that I can't, that's a pain in the to make more, to be specific, that's time consuming or whatever. And my old fart era, I don't like it to be too loud.

SS: Oh, my god. I was just going to say, if you play amazing music, I don't care if the food is actual garbage.

AG: Really? Okay. But what if you don't want to have a conversation?

EN: And Sarah's like, “No.”

Ana Gasteyer: I agree about the music, the soundtrack, but-

JH: Do you bring a book to the bar and sit there and just listen?

AG: Oh, I want to be there. I like to talk.

SS: And I point at myself and I go, “I'm writing.”

JH: Sarah, besides lactose intolerance, what are your food?

EN: Tell them about your salad order lately. Actually, I think it woke me up in a night sweat last night just me thinking about what you order for salad.

SS: I think you laughed for literally six minutes straight. And I told you. [inaudible 00:22:50]

EN: Can I actually tell your order?

SS: Yep, okay. Because this really stressed me out. I'm still thinking. Do you remember what I called it?

EN: I don't remember where you called it. I want to say what it is.

JH: Yeah, say it.

EN: It's from Sweet Green. Her latest order is, this is crazy.

AG: You lost me there.

EN: This is crazy. Oh, it's a dry salad. That's what she calls it. Listen to this.

AG: Is it dry kale?

EN: Oh, check this out.

AG: She ain't massaged?

EN: Worse. Worse. Rice, arugula, tofu and almonds. That's devastating.

SS: And cabbage, and hard boiled egg.

EN: Oh, I forgot the cabbage. I'm sorry. I forgot that. I didn't know this was in there.

JH: No dressing at all?

EN: Sometimes I throw it. No, I do the… What's it called?

AG: It's in the menu, it's called fart salad.

EN: The [inaudible 00:23:34] limes. Here's the thing again, [inaudible 00:23:37], every day at that job, your stomach goes through World Wars III, IV and V. And I'm like, “The only thing that will prevent me from my pants is-