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I'm going to put out a tub of sour cream and toothpicks. One toothpick per dip, please. Sour cream and toothpicks. Again, one toothpick per dip, please. That helps prevent the spread of germs that can contribute to things like COVID. My wife is over here laughing. All right. So I don't know. Some people call them different things. Some call them jalapeno poppers. Some people call them Texas Twinkies. Some people call them armadillo eggs. There's lots of different ways to make them. I have made them multiple ways many times. But my wife and mine and probably my kids' favorite ways to eat them is actually done at a restaurant. And we could copy them at home, but it does take a lot of work. Basically what they do is they take a rather large jalapeno and they cut a slice down the middle of it, like lengthways. They tie it open, squeeze it open and scrape out all the seeds and membrane, all the white. That's where the heat is at in a pepper. So they scrape all that out. And then what they do is they pack it back in there with smoked brisket and some cheese. They pack it pretty tight with that. And then they'll go ahead and freeze it. When they get ready to cook it, well, I don't know how to restaurant. I know how we do it here at the house. When we get ready to cook it, we'll take it out. We'll make it a three-dip station. We do it with all of our fried stuff, air fried too nowadays. But basically you roll it in flour. You roll it in an egg mixture with a little bit of milk and then you roll it in panko breadcrumbs or whatever. We do that a couple of times, like we try to build up a pretty good thick shell around the jalapeno. And the best way to do those is to deep fry them. So when you get done, you basically have a baked-in jalapeno with whatever kind of meat you like. It doesn't have to be brisket. It can be pork. It can be anything. Whatever kind of cheeses you like or whatever kind of stuffings you like in it. I mean, you don't have to put meat in it. I've seen people take and put cream cheese and spinach and stuff it with those. I've seen people use chopped pork. I've seen people use chopped chicken. I've seen people use sausage and bacon. So there's lots of different ways to change that. Then we usually make that dipping sauce or a few dipping sauces actually with it. If you're doing it like that, I like me personally, I just like a ranch dipping sauce. Homemade, of course. But there's also homemade Chick-fil-A sauces and stuff like that or something spicier. Anyhow, I hope that made you all very hungry and it ate up a little bit of time for you. KJ5IRQ, back to you.