"Toront-Dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: Boston Pizza with Samoa Joe" is an episode of the podcast, Les Doughboys, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Toront-Dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: Boston Pizza with Samoa Joe" was released on October 24, 2024.
"Tomorrow… with @SamoaJoe" - @doughboyspod
Synopsis[]
Samoa Joe (@samoajoe, Twisted Metal) joins the 'boys to talk Toronto restaurants, Twisted Metal, and experiences on set before a review of Boston Pizza. Plus, another edition of Snack or Wack.
Nick's intro[]
Shark Tank
In 2001, Nippon TV premiered Manē No Tora on Japanese television. The high-concept format, roughly translated as 'Money Tigers', involved a slate of wealthy investors interrogating aspiring entrepreneurs to decide if their business plans were worthy of venture capital. Audiences connected with the rags-to-riches narratives paired with the reality-show meanness afforded tycoons, and the brand-competition show itself became a brand worldwide. In Slovakia, the format was renamed The Lion Pit; in France, as Who Wants to Be My Business Partner; in the U.S., as Shark Tank; and in the U.K. and Canada, as Dragon’s Den.
And one of the Dragons on Dragon’s Den — not Kevin O’Leary or Robert Herjavec, who are panelists on both the American and Canadian formats — is Jim Treliving, the owner of a pizza chain founded in 1964 in Edmonton, Alberta by Gus Agioritis. When the Greek-Canadian Agioritis’s first and second choices for a trademark, Acropolis Pizza and Parthenon Pizza, were both unavailable, he defaulted to a third choice, naming his pizzeria for an American city he’d never resided in, in a brazen act of Masshole stolen valor.
Treliving, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, or Mountie, became an early franchise owner of the faux Bo-Town slice shop, and in 1983, having left the RCMP to focus on a different P — pizza — he and a business partner purchased the concept wholesale. Their stewardship saw the chain grow to a billion dollar brand with nearly 400 locations, and today it trails only Pizza Pizza — no relation to the American Little Caesar’s, which uses “pizza pizza” as its slogan — as the largest home-grown Canadian pizza chain.
In Canada, it’s a crime to misrepresent yourself as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Down here in the States, however, it’s just good, clean fun. After all, hashtag A-R-C-M-P-A-B, am I right? — except maybe for Jim Treliving, the Mountie who decided to do something productive with his life and start making pizza.
This week on Doughboys… we continue Toront-dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: a month-long culinary tour of the Six, with Boston Pizza.
Fork rating[]
| guest / host | ordered | rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger |
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3 forks |
| Mike Mitchell | 3 forks | |
| Samoa Joe | 3 forks |
Snack or Wack[]
In Snack or Wack, The Doughboys have a snack and rate it either 'snack' or 'wack.'
For this episode of Toront-Dough, they try Maynards Swedish Berries and Maynards Fuzzy Peach gummies.
They previously tried Swedish Berries in this episode (it was a Snack then). They have also tried Maynards WineGums in this episode (which were Wack).
| guest / host | Swedish Berries | Fuzzy Peach |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger | Wack | Snack |
| Mike Mitchell | Snack | Snack |
| Samoa Joe | Wack | Snack |
| Emma Erdbrink | Snack | Snack |
Snack or Wack 2[]
Sweet Tooth lollipop
In Snack or Wack, The Doughboys have a snack and rate it either 'snack' or 'wack.'
For this episode with Sweet Tooth (Samoa Joe), they try some Twisted Metal promotional lollipops that a listener got from ComicCon.
| guest / host | rating |
|---|---|
| Mike Mitchell | Snack |
| Samoa Joe | Snack |
Roast Spoonman[]
Celine Dion
| “ | Celine Dijon | ” |
–Barry Lam | ||
Quotes[]
| “ | I just want to apologize: it was such a long pee. So embarrassing. The toilet's really hard to figure out. That took a couple minutes of why you were waiting. | ” |
–Mike Mitchell re: his bathroom break | ||
| “ | We were in the train station, and there was a foot lever to get some hand sanitizer. Wiger stepped on it and nothing was happening. It gave him a little drizzle. Then I stepped on it and fucking shot out! And as we were walking away, Wiger whispered, "I got the precum and you got the load." | ” |
–Travels with The Doughboys | ||
| “ | Mitch: Is us licking our lollies distracting? Joe: Look me in the eyes while I'm doing it.. |
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–Twisted Metal | ||
The Feedbag[]
| “ | With the release of the A&W Canada Teen Crunch Burger, what fast food entree or sandwich would be best plussed up with a snack food? | ” |
–Steve S. | ||
| guest / host | snack / fast food combo | Mount Rushmore of Canadian Prime Ministers |
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| Nick Wiger |
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| Mike Mitchell | Funyun Hot Dogs | |
| Samoa Joe |
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Drops and Plugs[]
| reference | notes |
|---|---|
| Onyx "Slam" / sneezing | in Mitch's drop (by Caleb) |
| Twisted Metal | Samoa Joe's plug |
| Megalopolis | Nick's plug |
Related Episodes[]
| Toront-Dough episodes | Samoa Joe episodes |
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Photos[]
