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After discovering that producer Paul Serra had lived in Metro Detroit since 2011 without ever eating a shawarma—and then hated it when he finally tried one—Mike Valenti and David Hull put Paul through a rapid-fire Michigan trivia and food gauntlet on 97.1 The Ticket.

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00:17get back to the people in a second
00:19david says he has something special for everybody
00:22no not that uh david music please
00:28so we found something out about paul today though we found out a couple of things we did we did
00:34we
00:34found out that he had never had shawarma he's lived here since 2012 people 2012 which means he is not
00:43new to the state he has been here for a long time had never had shawarma and so we decided
00:49to do that
00:50today and apparently he hated it but i wanted to go it didn't i will just say it didn't go
00:54well
00:54i want to go through some things that you know are kind of unique to this state and see if
01:00he's ever
01:01had it or done it or whatever but the backdrop to this for a man who has lived in the
01:06great state
01:06of michigan since 2012 also stunned us you know like mustard uh it's 2011 okay so even worse you're
01:14not helping your cause no i'm not you did not help yourself there let's start simple here okay
01:18i'm gonna start simple have you ever had a fagel yes okay all right all right all right thank god
01:26a red pop is disgusting all right oh boy just listen paul paul i gotta buy you a book the
01:33art
01:33of making friends you're doing the opposite of it right now but i'm gonna have the entire state
01:37turned against me after this second i'll do that listen plenty of people love their fago they love an
01:43ice cold red pop on a 90 degree day paulie it just tastes like cough syrup all right paul once
01:50again the flavoring might not be for you but it is for some let's continue let's move over to the
01:56famous honey have you ever had a honey i have not i'm leaving oh boy i did paul paul like
02:05i'm not i'm
02:06not hip to all your proclivities yet but there's been no time in your life 2 a.m after the
02:12bar and
02:13the only acceptable thing is a honey you've never had a honey no oh my goodness all right david we're
02:20gonna have to procure a couple of those for him we will we will i mean i haven't i'll be
02:24honest i
02:25haven't had one of those things in 15 years but but you've had it because i don't know yeah it's
02:29not
02:29like i'm out at the bar i'm a has-been the point is paul it's warm pita it's chicken fingers
02:36cut up
02:37it's cheese it's lettuce it's it's it's a i mean if you don't like that you don't like america don't
02:43tell me you're one of these you know communists so i'll keep it right there in that vein when we're
02:48communism no no no no no no no no paul have you ever had borscht no be late at night
02:55after the bar
02:57type meal yeah white castle yeah i've had white okay all right chateau leblanc that's like an
03:04american birthright you have to have white castle at least once in your life let's move over to the
03:11up north have you been anywhere past let's say flint flint yeah i've never gone north of the palace
03:19at auburn hills oh wow in 16 years fascinating yes fascinating so you've never had the franken
03:28move the chicken nope you've never had tony's up there oh the old pound of bacon place yeah that's
03:35it that's near the outlets yes it is yeah i'm about to say something else that won't injure me to
03:39michigan be careful i don't care about a town that's always christmas okay if you say you don't
03:45like store it's just one store that's bronner's you had to have gone to bronner's once in your life
03:50i have not but you don't like christmas either no i like christmas it's just all right you know
03:55a time it's always christmas is all right let me interesting let me try this david can i offer just
04:00a random one we got to try something here i think metro detroit is underrated for the following
04:06i think we have a great slider culture so whether it be a hunter house a bates a greens a
04:13tellway
04:14please have you had any of the quintessential metro detroit sliders i've been the greens and
04:20bates thank god almighty okay just something we found something they're good oh my god okay david
04:27continue along so i know you said you've never been past the palace but this next thing this next thing
04:36you don't necessarily have to go up there to get it i might i might have actually lied because i
04:40think
04:40there's like a famous like strip indoor mall thing north of the palace i can't remember what
04:45it's called but i've been to that whatever that is the one in great lakes you mean great lakes
04:48crossing yeah that's not a strip mall that's a mega and it's not that far far past the palace
04:54we're gonna call it even paul exit i thought he was about to tell us yeah you know one time
05:02nope okay carry on that was technically north of the palace i thought i'd throw it in one exit north
05:08okay but technically it's north so this one like i'm saying you don't have to go up to the bridge
05:15to
05:15get it they do have some stores down here that sell at the mackinaw fudge nope okay i've had that
05:24yes
05:25you can keep those you can keep both of those items mackinaw island fudge is the same as the
05:31jersey boardwalk with the taffy the saltwater taffy you keep all of it so have you ever had a
05:38sanders bumpy cake no how is that possible david you want to explain it to him uh sanders bumpy cake
05:49it is a classic chocolate spongy like cake topped with buttercream and there's there's bumps it makes
05:58it the bumps with the buttercream uh draped in fudge okay david you want to procure one of those
06:06for paul sarah lunch fridays tomorrow i could do that easily we're gonna we're gonna cross that off
06:10your list tomorrow paul for a football friday we're just gonna put the cake in front of you see what
06:13happens have you ever had a you're probably gonna say no to this a pasty i don't know what that
06:21is
06:22or however people pronounce that's an up north deal it's like a little like meat pie like a pastry
06:27filled with some like minced beef or potatoes all that stuff for sure then no
06:34why for sure well you know what i don't yeah you're right it's up north why would he
06:37continue you're gonna get some down here somewhere uh a detroit style pizza please say yes yes of course
06:43okay now come on david that's insulting i don't know what this man he's he doesn't like mustard
06:48paul is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a haiku hey i went to the dream cruise like
06:54the
06:54first or second year i lived here and realized very quickly i don't understand why this is a thing
06:58you could have skipped that noted a better made potato chips i've had those okay laser better
07:08okay on paul's quest to alienate every human being in southeast detroit
07:13i'm just gonna say how i feel mike i can't help it all right i am from florida so you
07:18know yeah but
07:18after a certain while you're you're a michigander you live here yes i like the state i just you know
07:24there's certain things about it that couldn't be improved including shawarma apparently all right
07:28continue what a mistake we made today this is unique to michigan it is called superman ice cream
07:35i've had that okay yeah it was fine what a ringing endorsement if anybody would like paul to advertise
07:43for their company i'm paul sarah it's fine i'm paul sarah you can do a lot worse
07:53and then i'm gonna close it out with these last two here oh my god um have you had a
07:58gyro
07:59yeah but not in michigan what i've had it in florida at like a diner i didn't know what it
08:05was that's why i ordered it because i thought it had a weird name oh my god all right you're
08:09missing
08:09out there are some quality spots for euros here yeah i didn't like the one i had in florida well
08:15it's florida i'd yeah there's some good places in florida might keep in the florida no florida has
08:20great food i just i don't know it for its greek fair right that's very fair a little bit different
08:27and then the final thing here uh because it's something that i grew up on love it even it's
08:34been used for medicine breast milk verters
08:48it's not the breast milk verters have you ever had breast milk no stop stop i'm assuming as an
08:54infant okay can we please move this along the verters i've had verters i and it's not great
09:01canada dry ginger ale is better they are two distinctly different versions of ginger ale thank
09:07you yes i have found i'll support paul in this i understand why people like verters but it is
09:14almost exclusively you had to be born here to enjoy it very true i can understand because if you
09:19approach it later in life you don't have any whimsical tales of how nona used to serve you
09:25warm verters when you weren't feeling that's exactly it it's just different ginger ale is
09:31distinctly different in other parts of the country it also looks like cleaner which you know who you
09:36know it's not the most appealing looking beverage in this in the in the case my god all right and
09:42well on that note david tomorrow do me a solid i'll reimburse you the bumpies you got to get
09:47him a bumpy i could do that i and then oh geez oh pete okay all right well listen so
09:55you're gonna
09:55regret learning more about me mike no no you're fascinating to me but on a day you admitted you
10:01had never had a shawarma and we got you one and you didn't like it we also learned you didn't
10:06like
10:06mustard there were parts of it i liked okay we're not doing we are not going to deconstruct this and
10:10turn it into a science experiment we had to ask questions maybe tomorrow paul sarah lunch friday
10:17we get him a honey and we get him a bumpy cake that sounds authentically michigan right and that is
10:25your paul blitz 97-1 wow

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