The Froze Bros

The Bros have been teasing this one for months. It's the ultimate Face-Off: Smucker's Uncrustables squares off against Trader Joe's Crustless Peanut Butter & Strawberry Jam Sandwiches . Their court case is still pending, but we’re throwing down here and now. The story: Smucker's traces back to 1897 and an apple butter wagon in Ohio; they began marketing Uncrustables in 2000. Trader Joe's dates to 1967 in Pasadena and debuted their own crustless sandwiches in 2025. Smucker’s sued TJ’s, and we bite into all of the claims: the shape, the crimped edges, the blue box, and a suspiciously large number of tiny ® symbols. Plus: An Outshine fruit bar recall. A frozen dog food recall to warn the pups in 11 states. Defining "divvy.” Travis Kelce. Expert witnesses, and whether the Bros may be called to court. In the closing segment: Ice Pick-tionary debuts. Naomi, Max, and Darren have thirty seconds to sketch frozen food brands and products. WATCH THIS EPISODE FROST B...

Seventy-five episodes deep, and this one earns every bit of the title. A brand-new kitten in the cables. A gong-loud tissue box. Bites…no, balls…no bites. This week's recording had it all—including, eventually, Feel Good Foods Mac & Cheese Bites. Or is it balls after all? The story: Vanessa Phillips founded Feel Good Foods in Brooklyn after her celiac diagnosis, determined to bring back the comfort foods she missed. She built the company with her husband, chef Tryg Siverson, into a full gluten-free frozen lineup—and this isn't the Bros' first trip to the Feel Good freezer. Plus: a Wisconsin baseball team goes full pizza. The Iceman Cometh in Chicago—well, sort of. Summer cocktail recipes. A gluten-free bagel complaint with a happy ending. Cheesecake Factory 1390, and just how old mac and cheese really is. In the closing segment: a brand-new game debuts, and it does not go smooth as ice. Swallowed cubes, muted mics, and a whole lot of not guessing "jeans." W...

Two cheezy titans. One clear victor. This week: the Bros pit Farm Rich against TGI Fridays mozzarella sticks in their first-ever Face-Off with a third vote. The story: Farm Rich is the retail brand of family business Rich Products Corporation, founded in Buffalo in 1945. TGI Friday's launched as a Manhattan singles bar in 1965, pioneered the casual-dining appetizer menu, and today outsources their frozen products to Kraft Heinz. Plus: McCain family drama. Reddit redux. Crèmesicle liqueur and popsicle-themed butt wipes. This Old Home Fries . And what do hash browns mean to you? In the closing segment: An exclusive interview 5,300 years in the making. Our guest talks hunting, family life, dating apps, and the real origin of the sandwich. FROST BITES Brass, Sass, and Broken Hearts . Brass Bonanza is arguably the greatest upbeat anthem in professional sports history. It was composed in 1968 by Belgian musician Jacques Ysaye under the pseudonym Jack Say, who titled it Evening Beat ...

Three episodes. Three courses. One spring picnic. And a literal mystery waiting at the end of each episode that Darren knows almost nothing about. First up: Farm Rich Jalapeño Peppers —breaded jalapeño peppers filled with cream cheese, cooked in the air fryer, and eaten on a picnic blanket that exists entirely in the imagination. Also: the Bros can't call them poppers. Somebody's got a trademark on that. You know who you are. Before the appetizer, Darren and Max revisit the Hot Pockets episode—specifically, what Reddit had to say about it . Fifty-one thousand views and counting on the frozen dinners subreddit, and the comments are not exactly a ringing endorsement. Turns out the Froze Bros weren't the harshest critics in the room. Then: a Buffalo, New York family started making non-dairy whipped topping from soybean oil in 1945—decades before Cool Whip existed. They pivoted to frozen snacks in 1977 , held naming rights to the Buffalo Bills stadium for 25 years, and never so...

It took forty years, but Hot Pockets finally caught up with Darren. This week, the Bros review Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza —and for the first time in recorded Froze Bros history, one of your hosts takes his very first bite of the episode's food live on mic. Digging further in: two Iranian Jewish brothers, Paul and David Merage, founded Chef America in the 1970s with Belgian waffles and a hunch about microwaves. A rebrand in 1983 became a frozen food institution. And a $2.6 billion sale to Nestlé in 2002 made everybody very comfortable. But since 2024, the crisping sleeve is gone. Pour one out. In the news: Trader Joe's settled a class action lawsuit for $7.4 million over some receipts that showed a few too many credit card digits back in 2019. Nobody was actually harmed. Someone sued anyway. Get your $102 if it's coming to you. Plus: Google Blogger had impure thoughts about our corn dog post and tried to censor us. The Reverse American cooking method gets its podcast debu...

Eighteen months. Sixty-two episodes. Zero french fries. That changes now. The Froze Bros welcome Erin — improv friend, Boston Marathon fan, and the guest who finally drags the Bros into the frozen fry case. This week's review: Alexia Sweet Potato Waffle Cut Fries , seasoned with garlic, onion, and pepper. Darren digs into the history: a brand born in Long Island City in 2002, acquired by Conagra in 2007, with production eventually handed off to potato giant Lamb Weston . Sweet potatoes, meanwhile, have been cultivated since at least 2500 BCE in Peru, and somehow made it to Polynesia centuries before Europeans, which is either one of the world's great unsolved mysteries or proof that ancient mariners had excellent taste in side dishes. In the news: the Palm Beach Cardinals suit up as the Frozen Iguanas , paying tribute to a species that goes into paralysis when the temperature drops below 50°F. That's Florida, man. Plus: Patriots’ Day and who celebrates it. What Fenway mea...

The Bros are back—and we've got burritos. April Fools, Froze Fam! The fake breakup is officially cancelled, the freezer aisle is open for business again, and we have some words about what just happened. This week's face-off pits two of the cheapest frozen burritos against each other: Tina's Beef & Bean vs. El Monterey Beef & Bean . One of these brands claims to be America's number one selling frozen burrito. So does the other one. Somebody's lying—or maybe nobody is. Either way, we dig into the histories: a family that fled the Mexican Revolution and built an empire on Grandma Rosie's recipes, a mysterious company called Camino Real Foods that invented a mascot who doesn't exist, and a brief but unavoidable detour into why you may have heard the name "Tina" in a completely different context. In the closing segment, Darren unveils Stick Figuring—a game where Max tries to identify famous moments in frozen food and Froze Bros history from Da...

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