Shaken AND Stirred: Noble Mick's Mistletoe Margarita (Ep 57)

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We're making frozen food podcast history this week—reviewing a product that wasn't frozen when it was sold. But it's frozen now. This is Noble Mick's Mistletoe Margarita.

A big pink bag arrives for Max packed with white powder and the promise of eight cocktails with zero blenders required. We add tequila, add water, freeze overnight, and find out whether a powder mix can actually deliver a real frozen margarita. Spoiler: there's still some question about whether it tastes better by a pool in August.

In the news: Darren finally gains access to a federal court docket and delivers a Smucker's vs. Trader Joe's lawsuit update. Also: Uncrustables may be leaving the freezer aisle, and the Bros may be getting separation anxiety over it.

In the closing segment, Freeze Frame makes its debut—a new game where Max and Darren share a single still frame from a vintage frozen food TV commercial and challenge each other (and you) to name the brand. Check out the pics coming on our social media to play along at home.

Plus: The New York Times crossword. Max stirs—sorry, steers—his cocktail. Darren confesses he's never eaten a Hot Pocket. The microwave plate rotation debate. Darren croons The Way You Look Tonight (well, he will in five years). And Max refuses to apologize to Big Y.

FROST BITES

The Noble Experiment: The "Noble" in Noble Mick's is a nod to Prohibition—officially known as "The Noble Experiment." The "Mick's" is a pun on "mix." The brand was founded by Courtney and Erik Legenhausen out of Sparks, Maryland, and their website really does open: "It was a dark and stormy night..." You can't not love these guys.

The Squircle: Darren did the legal research so you don't have to. After a cost of $2.70 and a PACER login later, a new word has entered the Froze Bros vocabulary: squircle. It's a square with rounded corners, and it actually appears in Trader Joe's court filing.

The Way You Look Tonight: Written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields in 1936 for the RKO film Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. Darren has announced plans to cover it himself. When the copyright expires in about five years.

YOUR COLD CUTS

Have you tried Noble Mick's? What's your go-to frozen cocktail? Do you agree with Max that they taste better in the summer?

And Darren never having a Hot Pocket? What's up with that? What iconic food have you never tried?
Hit us up on the Let's Chill page and let us know!

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