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1:24

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1:43

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1:45

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1:47

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1:52

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2:15

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2:17

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2:20

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5:38

our five and a half month old baby girl are

5:40

traveling from Sweden to the US in April. And

5:42

I would really like to know what kind of food I can expect

5:44

to find in stores that I can give her. We

5:46

will bring the formula she usually uses here in Sweden

5:48

and also the porridge we usually give her, but I

5:50

won't be able to make my own fruit purees while

5:52

we are away. So I'd really like to know what's

5:54

available in the US. If you could guide

5:57

me to the best brands for baby food, I would be really

5:59

grateful. And if you have any other

6:01

food suggestions for a six-month-old baby that's just begun

6:03

to try new flavors, please share them. Well,

6:05

Lucy, I think you've said in the past that

6:08

you have a lot of thoughts and feelings about

6:10

baby food. So I think you should kick us

6:12

off here. There is a

6:14

love and hate relationship between me and

6:16

baby food. It is terrible.

6:18

Absolutely. It was, baby

6:21

food for me was complete torture

6:24

because my family, like, okay,

6:26

just, there's a lot of

6:29

us, okay? So I've got, like, my mom is the youngest

6:31

of 13 kids. So that'll explain,

6:33

like, how many aunts and uncles and cousins

6:35

who are, like, way older than me are

6:37

and treat me like I'm their niece. Like,

6:40

that's the big family, right? And

6:42

they were all really big on, like,

6:45

you have to make the baby

6:47

food, like, you have to make

6:49

it to the point that my

6:51

godmother, Maricel, would make homemade puree

6:53

and deliver it

6:55

to my house herself. The

6:58

moment I question homemade baby

7:00

food, I got

7:02

a good old dose of,

7:04

like, you're the worst mom in the world. And

7:09

it was, we would, when

7:12

the girls were able to eat,

7:14

like, regular food, again, six months,

7:16

it was, they would make calabasa

7:18

and malanga, which,

7:20

do you guys know what malanga is? No.

7:23

It's like a potato. I don't know what

7:25

calabasa is either. Oh, calabasa is pumpkin or

7:27

squash. Oh, okay. You guys also, it's also

7:29

squash, but it's calabasa and malanga. And

7:32

the theory behind giving your

7:34

baby this root and

7:37

this potato root and the squash

7:39

together is because your baby will

7:41

then grow up to be a

7:43

fantastic athlete and have beautiful legs.

7:46

Mm hmm. Sorry. It didn't

7:49

work? Yes, it did. It did. My

7:51

brother, who's no longer with us, girls

7:53

would always tell me, you have the most amazing

7:55

legs and he would literally go calabasa and malanga.

7:58

Like, this is why, like I was raised on calabasa. Or

8:03

they would make homemade picadillo. You guys

8:05

know what picadillo is? Explain.

8:08

Like you could even

8:10

make like ground beef or

8:13

ground turkey and it's like a tomato

8:15

puree with

8:17

like lots of vegetables and you kind of

8:19

find them in empanadas or you could just

8:21

eat it with rice and beans right? But

8:23

if your baby can eat rice and beans

8:26

or picadillo. Put a pin in that but

8:28

continue. At six

8:30

months old, at six months old, my

8:33

children definitely eat. Once

8:35

again, still put a pin

8:37

in that. They would

8:40

make picadillo, homemade picadillo with

8:43

smashed bananas. So it would

8:45

be like a little thing

8:47

of picadillo with smashed bananas.

8:49

And if

8:51

I would

8:54

deviate from this Cuban

8:56

crazy made

8:59

at home, took hours to

9:01

make baby food puree, I

9:04

would give my kids what my

9:06

mom called comida mericana. And

9:09

comida mericana was Gerber's

9:13

second generation or earth's

9:15

best organics. That

9:18

is the baby food I would

9:20

go to if I didn't

9:22

make the baby food on my own, if it

9:24

wasn't delivered on time and

9:26

it would be specific to like

9:28

the fruit, the veggie, the beef

9:30

with the pasta in it. Like

9:33

that was the stuff that we

9:35

would do. But for the most

9:37

part, my kids, their

9:39

first solid food was

9:42

like, I would always call

9:44

like the mini version of like the typical Cuban

9:46

meal. And that's how

9:48

my kids grew up with. And

9:50

when I didn't have time to

9:52

make my girls homemade Cuban

9:55

baby food, we

9:57

would give them comida mericana. baby

10:00

food delivered to your house. So

10:02

my aunt is she jarring it? Yeah,

10:05

in a large pot. Yes,

10:07

Elizabeth new camp of Dutch

10:09

sashkoos. Yes,

10:13

she would make it in a large

10:15

pot. First she would, she would like,

10:17

you know, do the regular like put

10:19

it in the pressure cooker and she

10:21

would make it Colallo, which means, um,

10:23

what's that called? Anyways, she

10:25

would strain it, she would season it, like

10:27

if she was making it for an adult

10:30

and then run it through the blender and

10:32

then pour it in giant mason jars. And

10:34

then I know what you're thinking

10:37

because my husband who is, uh, half

10:39

white, half Cuban, but raised with his mom

10:42

who's white would be like, where's the expiration

10:44

date and can our child get sick from

10:46

this? I mean, what are you doing? Like,

10:48

this is crazy. No, I was just, I

10:50

was honestly curious about the logistics. No, no,

10:52

no. So, so it could last in the

10:55

refrigerator up to like five days. Yeah. So

10:57

there was like three meals. Yeah.

10:59

There's like at least three to six meals

11:01

in these little, in these little mason jars.

11:03

And it would just be all named in

11:07

Spanish, which was terrible for my husband. He would read

11:09

it. He'd be like, what is this? I don't know.

11:11

What is called a samalanga? And I was like, you

11:13

guys, this, this, this, this. Um, but

11:15

yeah, it was made at home and

11:17

jarred and brought to my house and

11:20

the family did that. It wasn't just my

11:22

godmother. It was my dad. It was my

11:24

mom. We would take turns. And

11:27

that lasted up until they were like one year

11:29

old. And then after one year old, then we

11:32

give them regular food. Sorry.

11:34

That was a lot, right? That was a lot.

11:36

No, no, I think that's love. I suspect

11:38

that this is very similar to what

11:40

this woman is doing. Like, um,

11:43

like she's doing her own purees and now she's

11:45

going to travel and she wants to know what

11:47

her options are. If you're

11:50

traveling, I will go with the

11:52

Comida Americana Gerber's, the

11:54

Earth's Organics best really did well

11:56

with us. So I did puree

11:58

some with Henry. So I have

12:01

some thoughts on that. But then with the other

12:04

two, we did baby lead weaning, which is where

12:06

you just never do purees. You just go right

12:08

to finger food. As soon as they're ready to

12:10

be eating, they're just taking stuff off. I

12:13

mean, six months. Really? As soon

12:15

as they're ready, probably even earlier, like we would just

12:17

always put something on their tray to play with and

12:19

they'd put it in their mouth. And so it just

12:23

became more logistically easier. Now, obviously, you have

12:25

to watch out for foods that that

12:28

you could choke on. But like rice and

12:31

beans, you can just if we had something like

12:33

a bean that we were worried, we just smashed

12:35

it on the tray. And then they just pick

12:37

it up and chew on it and spit some

12:39

stuff out. Sometimes you have to take like skins

12:41

off of things. But I mean, I think

12:44

it's important to to remember that

12:46

like between six and eight months, UNICEF

12:48

says that you need half a cup

12:50

of soft food, maybe four times a

12:52

day plus a healthy snack. But to

12:54

remember that the majority of your nutrition

12:56

is still coming from your formula slash

12:58

breast milk. So I think for this

13:00

month, first, I want to say like,

13:03

you're bringing cereal, fortified cereal, and

13:05

you're bringing your formula. You're fine.

13:07

Like good. You're totally fine. So

13:10

anything you do here is

13:13

like bonus. Yeah,

13:15

I do know low expectations. I was gonna suggest

13:18

if you want to keep doing the purees

13:20

when you're here, you can get a Magic Bullet

13:22

portable blender, which is like the size of like,

13:24

you know, it's like the size of like a

13:26

Stanley, you know, a big cup. It's like the

13:29

size of a big cup. I

13:31

had a food grinder. Like,

13:33

like, so same idea, but it had a handle like

13:35

it looks like an old school coffee grinder.

13:37

It's called like a baby food

13:39

mill. Yeah, so you

13:41

can find a baby food mill manual or

13:44

this like USB powered Magic Bullet. And

13:47

you know, you'll, wherever you are, you can

13:49

get fresh fruits and vegetables. So

13:51

you can make your own puree and you

13:53

can team that purchase, which is $30.

13:58

You can get reusable. refillable

14:00

pouches that you can just

14:02

fill up yourself with the puree so you can

14:04

you know you can you can have your own

14:06

little baby food production line in

14:09

your on your hotel nightstand if

14:11

you if you really want to do that. Or just

14:13

some Tupperware and put it in the Tupperware and feed.

14:15

I think I mean

14:17

the thing is with the pouches and stuff you know

14:19

anytime you introduce baby saliva you have

14:22

to be careful like you can't really

14:24

save it so for me I thought it

14:26

was better to just squeeze a little bit out

14:28

into something yeah cuz you probably won't have a dishwasher on

14:30

your trays. Yeah just like the the washing is hard

14:32

and that I mean yeah you can also if your

14:34

kid is like sucking down the pouches great we definitely

14:37

I don't want to make it sound like

14:39

either because we did baby lead weeding that we never

14:41

use pouches because we definitely use

14:45

some pouches. Hey also like if

14:47

you're coming to the US and you're wondering like oh

14:49

am I gonna have to go to a grocery store

14:51

and buy if you want to buy

14:53

the baby food in jars they sell

14:56

baby food in jars everywhere we got

14:58

a thing here called 7-eleven you could

15:00

literally buy baby food at 7-eleven you

15:02

could buy it at Walgreens CVS any

15:05

corner store carries baby food it's really

15:07

weird to see it right next to

15:09

like a rack of wine but it's

15:11

there it's there any convenience store carries

15:14

that you don't have to necessarily go

15:16

to just just look at the expiration

15:18

date do that but you can

15:20

also Amazon it to wherever you're saying that

15:22

we've done that before along with diapers

15:24

and other things we've just done a

15:27

package to the hotel to start

15:29

off I did want to bring up

15:31

that there's quite a

15:33

few differences between the baby food you're

15:35

going to get in the EU and

15:37

the baby food that you're going to

15:40

get here and I think

15:42

that's important because if your child has

15:44

any kind of mild stomach or you're

15:46

still working through kind of allergy groups

15:49

these are things that you're gonna need

15:51

to pay attention to the big difference

15:53

is that the EU limits the sugar

15:56

content of baby food and no such

15:58

limit exists in the United States So

16:00

if that's something that you're worried about, Or

16:03

it's definitely something you need to. Put.

16:05

In a little bit of research to to know.

16:07

Particularly like either you're limiting sugar

16:09

or ah, babies time. He doesn't

16:11

do well with a lot of

16:13

sugar, so that's that's something to

16:15

look into. Ah, there's also like

16:17

organics. G. M O Labeling

16:19

All of that is totally different here.

16:22

So it's another thing that you should

16:24

just like educate yourself on. Of course

16:26

of all of that is way more

16:28

strict in the you versus the United

16:30

States. Ah and I'm honored

16:32

organic thing now. There is like

16:34

of. As I was kind of trying,

16:36

I was trying to do some of the research

16:38

for you and it turns out it just really

16:40

depends what's important to you. But I didn't find

16:42

days twenty feet or twenty thirteen article that says

16:44

that a like organic. Baby. Food

16:47

doesn't necessarily mean it's more nutritious that

16:49

within the Washington Post. That was really

16:51

interesting to kind of say like maybe

16:53

that doesn't even matter, but if it

16:55

matters to you, I would put in

16:57

a little bit of research before. You get

16:59

here and even know if you're taking recommendations from

17:01

people that live in the United States. We are

17:03

just used to kind of a different standard than

17:06

you are going to be used to until you

17:08

get here. In all of a sudden davies to

17:10

this is a little bit different. Some. Of

17:12

that may be attributed to the server

17:14

content in our our baby food vs.

17:16

years. Sec. What did you guys do

17:19

for baby food? With. The poachers and

17:21

breast milk and formula and then.

17:24

We. Didn't do baby led weaning

17:27

I don't remember. Also because.

17:30

I don't know life's life's the blur, but

17:32

now we. We did a fair share of

17:34

the organic poachers and I made a little

17:36

bit of puree. And like you

17:38

know, frozen ice cube prison stuff. For.

17:41

Men seems like ages ago. We

17:43

assume like cook up full on

17:45

steaks and a with smell me.

17:47

Really job and my ends up out of in

17:49

the blender. And. You know the like is

17:51

a for me. I'm late for that baby. healthier

17:53

and this people onions and everything on like an

17:56

Israeli a baby and as put it in the.

17:58

Spring. The name is a. A

18:01

for anywhere state. Puree. Wow.

18:04

I. Know I letter writer said see that

18:06

they're bringing like formula because it's from Sweden.

18:08

You can actually get a lot of the.

18:11

European. Ah. Formulas

18:13

here so if you didn't want to travel

18:15

about you could of course again look at

18:18

Amazon.u S Young see if that was something

18:20

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18:22

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18:24

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20:27

what have you got this week? Okay,

20:29

you guys know I love my

20:32

citizen science and I love a

20:34

good animal webcam. It

20:36

is the season of the

20:38

fish doorbell. Okay, if you have not,

20:41

it's gotten some traction this year, but this

20:43

is a, it's

20:45

out of the Netherlands. Yes, I've got the link

20:47

in there. You should click the link. Yeah, this

20:49

is where you go

20:51

to the fish doorbell. You can also Google it.

20:53

There is a, I don't know, a dam, a wall

20:56

or whatever in the Netherlands. And they had

20:58

built like one of these places where

21:00

the fish could swim through this wall

21:02

to spawn. But predators were

21:04

like, knew where the outlet was and

21:06

were attacking these fish. So they installed

21:08

something called the fish doorbell. So this

21:10

is where you go online and you

21:12

watch this area. And when you see

21:14

a fish, you press the doorbell and

21:16

it opens a little gate so that

21:18

fish can make its

21:20

way through. We like to turn it on

21:22

during like dinner when we're sitting

21:25

around and when we spot a fish, you hit the doorbell.

21:27

Sometimes because it's gotten some popularity, the doorbell

21:30

is not available. You can just watch it

21:32

on YouTube. Equally fascinating. If you

21:34

don't want to wait for a fish, you

21:36

can go to the fish doorbell news report

21:39

where they do a rundown of all the fish

21:41

they saw that week. Like

21:45

it's a guy and he comes on that it's

21:47

subtitled in English. It's of course in Dutch. But

21:50

you can like hear see all the fish

21:52

that swam by that week and they're finding

21:55

all kinds of new species. I think

21:57

up to a thousand people or so can be on at a time.

22:00

I am helping with the doorbell. It's actually

22:02

quite difficult because you're looking at a camera

22:04

in the water and the fish kind

22:06

of swim past it and you hit the doorbell

22:08

and off they go to mate

22:10

and make more little fishies. So it's

22:12

really fun, it's fun to do with kids. Like I said,

22:14

we like to turn it on when we're kind of doing

22:16

something at the table because

22:18

if you just sit there and stare at it, like, you

22:21

know, sometimes there's a lot of fish but

22:23

they're not like all there all at once.

22:25

So do some citizen science, so cool. Ring

22:27

the doorbell for these little fishies. There's

22:30

like a whole gallery of photos. Yeah,

22:33

I mean it's great, especially, I mean, what's

22:36

really nice about doing this in

22:38

the US or you know, for us in Japan is

22:40

like, it's hours that

22:43

like the Dutch are asleep. So

22:45

there's nobody there ringing the doorbell. Oh,

22:48

sweet. This is really cool, thanks.

22:51

What have you got, Lissy? I have

22:53

a recommendation but for the parents. Not

22:55

like super kid. It's

22:57

kind of like not even kid friendly. So

23:00

I'm gonna go ahead and recommend. I

23:02

am currently addicted to this show on

23:04

HBO Max called Regime with

23:08

Kate Winslet. You guys have to watch this

23:10

show. This show is- Oh, I saw it for you for

23:12

it. Oh, it's so good. She plays this

23:14

unhinged dictator of a made

23:16

up like middle Europe country,

23:18

like in the middle of

23:20

Europe. And it is wild

23:23

and it's fun to watch. And my

23:25

husband and I like are, we're

23:28

usually like, we love

23:30

The Bachelor. And now

23:32

we're like, this is our show. It's

23:34

so good. Very

23:36

distracting, very funny. It's brilliantly

23:39

written. And you guys

23:41

should check it out. I really like it and

23:43

I've been, I actually counted down days. I was

23:45

like, oh, the show is next week, next week.

23:47

And then finally, and I was like, did

23:50

not disappoint. Really suggest you guys

23:52

to watch it, Regime. It's

23:54

coming out one episode at a time. Yeah, it's

23:57

like Sunday. or

24:00

ten I think it's nine Sundays at nine and it's

24:03

very very good I love it

24:05

and I mean hello Kate Winslet

24:07

when has Rose ever let us

24:09

down oh yeah that one time

24:11

that one time she pushed Leonardo DiCaprio

24:14

off the door but this

24:16

movie I mean this show is amazing okay

24:18

I don't think she pushed him off I

24:20

just think she didn't let him off listen

24:23

Elizabeth she pushed Leo off the door

24:26

she should be in jail she may

24:28

have taken his hands off and

24:32

then left her family high and dry by

24:34

not turning in that diamond you know

24:37

many problems she could have solved in her family

24:39

that just you know like here you go fork

24:42

over the money not no not

24:44

Rose but yeah regime

24:46

on HBO Max is so

24:48

good anyway Zach what do

24:50

you recommend I'm gonna

24:55

recommend this thing it's called busy ideas for

24:57

bored kids their activity cards they come in

24:59

like a metal band-aid box I don't know

25:01

how these ended up at our house I

25:04

think maybe my mom got them

25:06

for us but they're really they're really

25:08

kind of cute it's kind of like you know

25:10

I don't know how often your kids come in

25:12

and say I'm bored every minute right

25:14

so this it it's

25:17

really good for I mean like no is six I

25:19

think it's good for like maybe

25:21

like four to eight

25:24

four to nine I think by ten you might

25:26

think this is kind of a passe but

25:28

there's yeah on each different card we have

25:30

the outdoor edition each

25:32

different card has just like a different

25:35

activity like draw a flower you'll need

25:37

paper pencil you know markers

25:39

and it says go on a hunt for

25:41

flowers draw what you see what color are

25:43

the flowers how many petals does each flower

25:45

have try and see how many different flowers

25:47

you can find that's just one example make

25:50

a leaf collage Noah did

25:52

one she did a rock painting

25:54

thing so she like went out in the

25:56

yard searching for the perfect canvas rock and

25:59

brought a rock in and painted it. So it's fun.

26:02

Sometimes the activities last

26:04

10 seconds because the kids get bored with them too,

26:06

but I think it's worth a shot. I think it's

26:08

a kind of cute idea. I think it's also a

26:10

cute gift idea. It's really

26:13

small and it can, it

26:15

would be like a stocking stuffer idea.

26:17

I love this. I love

26:19

stuff like this. It's 10 bucks. It's

26:22

pretty cool. So great. Do

26:24

you have it like in your car, in a purse?

26:26

I like to have stuff like this in my big,

26:29

big mom bag. Yeah, we just

26:31

keep it on like the little art table in

26:33

the kitchen. Because they can do it like in their

26:35

backyard at home. You don't have to

26:37

be at a park. Yes. Yeah. Depending

26:40

on the activity. But a lot of

26:42

the stuff is limited supplies and

26:45

is pretty easy to be kid

26:47

led. So you don't even have to get

26:49

them set up. They can kind of do it on their

26:51

own, depending on their age. I remember growing

26:53

up and telling my mom I was bored. And the

26:56

stuff that would come out of her mouth was just

27:00

so amazing. She was like, when

27:02

I was bored, and I'm like, Oh, here

27:04

we go. I wish you'd

27:07

be like, I will get your, the

27:09

yucca and make a doll out of

27:11

it. I'm like, okay, there was no

27:13

need to tell me that. But okay.

27:15

Basically, it's all made out of a potato.

27:18

There's a great wow in the world about

27:20

why it's important to be bored. Yeah,

27:23

I should listen to that. Because then you

27:25

can just say, then I'm doing

27:27

the right thing. This is the greatest. Yes,

27:30

I did make a little chart that hangs in

27:32

the playroom that says like, I'm bored in the

27:34

middle. And then it says like, draw something, write

27:36

something, play something. And so when they say I'm

27:38

bored, I say, did you check the chart? Uh

27:41

huh. We always want to

27:43

hear what you're loving listeners. So seriously, be sure to

27:45

reach out to us and keep the conversation going. But

27:48

before we go, we want to open up our

27:50

mailbag because you all have been feeling chatty recently.

27:53

And we love it so much. We love getting

27:55

your messages. Last week, we talked about the institution

27:57

of the teen babysitter. And we got a lot

27:59

of questions. some great feedback from you about your

28:01

experience with this. Yeah, we got

28:03

this great note from a listener named Aubrey

28:05

who wrote, I wanted to second

28:08

your recommendation of reaching out to local university

28:10

students. I was a grad student for the

28:12

past two years and at various points, needed

28:15

help with my kids during classes and other

28:17

events. I would send a

28:19

WhatsApp call out with my rate and

28:21

always got more than enough responses. If

28:23

the letter writer is not already officially

28:25

connected to a local university or college,

28:27

offices of student affairs may be

28:29

able to help connect them to

28:31

a good candidate. And Nicole wrote,

28:33

unfortunately, high school students are no

28:35

longer the go to babysitting due

28:37

to the amount of activities, jobs

28:39

and extracurriculars the students are in,

28:42

where we found most babysitters

28:44

are at our child's daycare,

28:47

our children's camp activities, around

28:49

college campuses, care.com,

28:51

which can be pricey. The key

28:53

is to get there for a

28:56

month and make a lot of

28:58

contacts and interviews. Oh, that's a good

29:00

idea. That's a really good idea. You

29:02

can get higher than somebody. Yeah,

29:04

people do this for like Airbnb, where

29:06

it's like, if you like a

29:08

place, like you try to just like book without

29:11

Airbnb, the next time you go back

29:13

to like save on all the fees. That's

29:15

sneaky, but smart. And Dana wrote

29:18

this totally agreed that it is really hard

29:20

to find a babysitter. We had the most

29:22

success with the weekly weeknight sitter every Wednesday

29:24

night for a year. That's amazing.

29:26

That's a really good idea. She continues, I

29:28

offered an extra $20 for cleaning. So we

29:30

always came home to a clean house. Wow.

29:33

Alas, she went to college and we haven't

29:35

found somebody reliable since that sounds like a

29:37

dream scenario. And Zach, before we

29:39

go, you got a lot

29:41

of notes from people insisting that you make

29:44

your kids some green eggs and ham, something

29:46

I tried to fix with my not so

29:48

great, great green eggs and spam. But

29:51

we got an email from Alan

29:53

and a Facebook post from Lauren

29:55

suggesting Turkey ham or Turkey bacon.

29:58

And the very smart you're going to share the. Last

30:00

one though. Yes, those

30:02

were great. I love that you're invested in

30:04

me getting Ami

30:06

Green Eggs and Ham or some kosher

30:09

variation. And Peter wrote,

30:11

you can have a kosher version of

30:13

Green Eggs and Ham by substituting a

30:15

yam for the ham. None

30:17

of the trace, all of the rhyme scheme. Peter,

30:21

I let you know via

30:23

email that we are going to do this and

30:25

I'll report back. Thank you

30:28

everyone for writing in as always. We

30:31

love to hear your thoughts and ideas about ham

30:33

and everything else related to

30:35

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