On the eve of his 55th birthday, Nestor finally convinced his son Barry to join him for a drink with soda jerk and bourbon pourer Chuck Jacobs in The Tasting Room above The Fountain at Drug City to talk old school Dundalk and growing up East Baltimore. Oh, and how to make a tasty drink!
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SPEAKERS
Chuck Jacobs, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome back wn S T Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive we are positively doing our final segment from drug city keeping it short and light for my birthday Randy it’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery we have a rave and scratch offs to give away cities get one for making your way up here in the in the carrier at the tasting room above the fountain we’re at drug city in Dundalk also brought to you by our friends winter nation. I wore the wacky hat last segment 866 90 nation to buy to get to free 0% financing this month. And my little orange light went on in the car this morning telling me oil change needed Good thing I got your flu MultiCare on my side, I’ll be your mirror Boulevard with the guys over there German hill at some point here probably should go when I leave here. Honestly, you know Wait, shucks here he is from the fountain. He runs all things down there. I I have half of a delicious turkey. Rachel over there a birthday Rachel and my son Barry has made his triumphant return to the park and you know, I looked through all these old pictures dude. And like, when I did the nasty naked run at Hooters, you’re there. And you look like you’re about 12 Because you were my mom’s there, your grandmother’s there. And then there’s other like pictures of us at the barn with John Ogden or BAM Morris or Ray Lewis or different people. But like you have been on the show. When’s the last time you were on the show? Like do you even know? I’m I’m trying to think it’s has it been since I’ve been married? I mean, like, yeah, I’ve had the show in the last 20 years in any way other than maybe when you could call in before 2014?
01:31
Yes, I did some locker room stuff for the Orioles. Derek Jeter in his underwear and such.
Nestor Aparicio 01:36
And what year was that? 567. Somewhere in there
01:40
something like that seven or Yeah, six or seven?
Nestor Aparicio 01:44
You did ravens training.
01:45
I did ravens training camp. Got to hang out with Montalvo and Stokely and just mentioning
Nestor Aparicio 01:51
guys they play 23 years ago. So I just asked him if he’s been on he’s 39 Now, and you jumped off Facebook because you’re smart.
01:59
Yeah, I don’t do Instagram. I don’t do Facebook. I
Nestor Aparicio 02:01
don’t do any social. Okay. And you want to tell the audience why that is? Because they always ask me where’s your kid? Is he alive? And I’m like, he’s not only alive, he’s happier than most of you. He’s not on this got my eyes. Oh absolutely. Absolutely see, right. It’s no shock is here. Chuck runs things down the truck city has made me an adult beverage. You know he is 21 You can make him one if you want to.
02:24
I love whiskey. That’s why I’m here.
Nestor Aparicio 02:29
I came up here. Every time I come shopping with me or you stand in the deep aisle, you know going getting all that stuff George can only find
Chuck Jacobs 02:35
get trial or store picks. We give free samples of those. You can try it before you buy it to make sure you like it.
Nestor Aparicio 02:40
There you go. Well tell everybody about like the drug city experience because when I try to explain drug city to people, Barry’s an original right like he’s never you, you’ve lived in Dundalk most of your life. He’s got he’s got a Carry, carry. So he’s lived in Dundalk. Most of his life. I lived in Dundalk half of my life. I’ve spent the other half of my life in Dundalk because my mother lived here and died here. And my son still lives here and you know, I guess I’m gonna die before him but I mean, like, we’re talking about people and this is a Dundalk institution. And I’ve grown I mean Cindy, she right around the corner. First time your Shulin taught 30 years and Dundalk and Sparrows Point. He’s like, I never been to drug city. I’ve been across the street and Fantasia. I’m like, What’s wrong with you people see you and George come together. You concoct this idea to put a bar in the bar, a cafe in the cafe, a breakfast join in the breakfast show in a coffee shop in a coffee shop, a liquor store in the old coffee shop, and we still got the pharmacy here and everything you’re known for
Chuck Jacobs 03:36
the original fountain was over where the car department is now. That came in the late 50s early 60s. So then when doc George obtained the business he wanted to get the liquor license for the liquor store on Sundays doc Harry didn’t have that liquor license because back then the blue laws nothing was open right it was church family and dinners right that’s pretty much all it was the
Nestor Aparicio 03:54
mall if you can picture this the mall when I was a kid and on Sundays it was open so you could walk through it but everything was shut all of my childhood every Sunday you go through the dark the fountain will be running no penguins ever gone by that but you just walk through a spot mall nothing right? That’s what allowed to be
Chuck Jacobs 04:13
open right? That’s correct. Yep. So when we were kids that liquor store was closed with a cage dog carry didn’t have liquor license bars could
Nestor Aparicio 04:20
be open on Sunday different rule correct no
Chuck Jacobs 04:22
carry out no packaged goods, quote, unquote. So but you
Nestor Aparicio 04:25
could shoot pull Travis sandwich, you know,
04:28
so as a social club, it wasn’t a drinking club pretty much.
Chuck Jacobs 04:30
And when doc George obtained the business, he wanted to get that liquor license. So they said to him, just open a small bourbon bar and your store and because you guys are connected, you can sell packaged goods go on Sunday. So the caveat is though I have to be open the same hours as the liquor store. So even though we don’t do breakfast anymore, we just we do open at eight, so I can offer you coffee bourbon, pies from dangerously delicious pies still do pies from Ronnie’s place. I
Nestor Aparicio 04:56
brought it on up to here man Ronnie came in here whipped it up with us. He did good Been to drugs. This is fun. So I came to George about a year and a half ago. Chuck the reason we’re here Chuck and I were having crabs at the bar at cars and trucks and crabcake over my place where that
Chuck Jacobs 05:11
before that when I was a technician at Comcast and you were a little one, you were doing your radio show when I was doing service calls and I was listening to you on wn S T nice every night every day
Nestor Aparicio 05:21
still there every night. No sir.
Chuck Jacobs 05:23
I used listen to you all the time when I used to run my service calls and Metro appreciate that and then I bumped into it cost isn’t the one year I gave you the little carnation we did for I was at a church it was for mom’s Day, Mother’s Day. Oh, okay, on cost, isn’t it? We had different colors for if your mom was still with us, if your mind wasn’t giving me one and you were there and I walked off again, I said I’ll be right back when I’m in the car and I gave you one and you were very appreciative. And we’d always bump each other cars we always always see each other there and that one day I was down there and I had my fountain gear on and you were sitting across from me and I said you gotta come see me at the fountain you were like what? I said coming to drug city my whole life. I said we do crab cakes. He says you got to be kidding me because and we actually came in second place behind CASAS for best Dundalk crabcake from the Dundalk Eagles Readers Choice Awards. And I I’ll take second place all day because they shipped around the world. You should be winning. I’m just a soda fountain. Right? So that’s how you and I came about and then I gave you my number that night and then I reached out the next morning I talked to George about you know getting us all together and he was on board and
Nestor Aparicio 06:23
that’s how I got a birthday drink out of this. What is orange green? Orange Creamsicle
Chuck Jacobs 06:27
vodka seltzer. Yeah, so we do our own like hard seltzer drinks. Right from the tap. I want
Nestor Aparicio 06:32
to tell you what this tastes like. It tastes like an egg custard snowball. Yes
Chuck Jacobs 06:35
a little bit of special sauce is what tastes like what I what I tried to make it looks like a constitute I didn’t but it tastes like I got a candy corn syrup in yesterday. Okay for Halloween, right. So that in this? No, I was trying to I was going to do that. And when I made the soda tastes at first it just takes like a cream soda. I’m like, no, no, that’s just that’s a cream soda. It didn’t taste like nothing candy corn to me. So I I scratch that just said to orange creamsicle
06:58
for you. I had almond smash last time I was here.
Chuck Jacobs 07:01
That was that was those suburban sodas. Well, you can make that big boy too. You can you can put vodka in that and that becomes the Tahoe, not the Suburban. So
Nestor Aparicio 07:09
I’m gonna do something here tonight. Because I like big boy drinks. I like that big boy root beer. You know? So I was down in Texas this week and any damn thing to recommend Dallas, Texas, Dallas, Texas, worst place on earth. I mean, I’ll tell anybody that. I’ve been to bad places Oakland. You know, I mean, I’ve been places Dallas is awful. So we’re there. We got stuck there for a day and a half. It would have been two and a half days had the orange one they didn’t win. But they got barbecue. So I went to hard a barbecue. I took Luke down there the first day and then we lost the game and then I moved the flight and I went to the pecan Lodge. This is a guy for Yeti place so Hal sent me there my buddy John Keller done dogs don’t dogs very own John Keller. So I got a little sandwich brisket. I was gonna go to Terry blacks, but instead I went so when I get home that night for my birthday. I have Texas barbecue, Texas brisket. I have two giant ribs. I have collard greens brand sugar, collard greens. I got some mac and cheese. I got some banana pudding. And I got some pinto beans because I’m home alone. I can eat beans, too. My wife comes home Sunday gotta have gone by then. So I’m down in Texas and I’m gonna have big boy root beer with that. So I you know, it’s very rare that I think of like pairing something sweet with food right? Like these kinds of drinks. I don’t know what I would pair this with from a food standpoint. Maybe it’s Turkey Rachel which is what I have. But when I think of barbecue, I think of like a root beer with licorice or as being like, like a sassy Marilla kind of pairing with a spicy Texas barbecue you know? Absolutely. So when you pair this What are you pairing some of these things
Chuck Jacobs 08:52
I would pair that with a great with like a summer dish cheeseburgers. Something maybe like just broths you know, something that I got to see. Yeah, bras would work great with a seltzers with the Bourbons you could do we just released a Russell single barrel pick which is right behind me actually you can see all those that’s where the
Nestor Aparicio 09:11
phone here you got all these? Yeah, these little scary scary figures here right hold on here. This is It’s Halloween. This is what they do here at the edge drug city. Yep.
Chuck Jacobs 09:21
So Mike J who’s on his cruise right now he set these up. Russell’s as a single barrel pick that Doc George put together so he wants to Russell’s tasted a few barrels and said I like that one. So he purchased the entire barrel on the back is all the information about when it oh so you buy the barrel and then they pour it in and so it becomes a drug city exclusive. It’s
Nestor Aparicio 09:41
it’s selected by drug city 2023 checked in 1111 13 distilled so it’s a nine year stored in oak barrels, dumped on six 723 bottles on 718 23 and available right here at Drax city sold out not available now Andy minutes. Soda had a line this morning. How much is this bottle?
Chuck Jacobs 10:02
That was $79.
10:04
That’s good. Yeah. See? He knows. Good. That’s good. Yep. So
Chuck Jacobs 10:07
we do have sold out. We do have pores downstairs that are available at the fountain you can come in and get a port and $8 single ounce pour. It’s fantastic. Our friend Justin from all of you liquors and Howard County, he did his barrel pick, which was just the same barrel.
Nestor Aparicio 10:23
This has gotten special, specify, right, all right, and believe it
Chuck Jacobs 10:27
or not the four days apart. It’s a night and day difference between both of those bottles, night and day. It’s Clicky.
Nestor Aparicio 10:33
So George goes and tastes what he likes.
Chuck Jacobs 10:37
And sell by the whole barrel.
Nestor Aparicio 10:38
I buy the whole barrel and he takes 30 barrels to find one he likes, like, like or like that. Right? Correct. And they’re all going to taste different. Absolutely. Yep. So one thing I know about liquor and you weren’t with me on this because you know, you didn’t want to go and be a part of my 50th birthday in Tennessee, Tennessee. We’re in London this week. I plan to tight my 50th birthday was October 14, five years ago, we played the titans in Tennessee that that took the last trip I think I ever took anybody on. I had a really small boutique trips like 2025 people, and we got when the game was over on Sunday, Monday was the 15th. We went back on Tuesday, a lot of the trips go back Sunday night Monday, we went in a little later, but Monday I ran a trip to Jack Daniels. And I am not a whiskey guy at all, you know like I mean, I just it’s not it’s not my preferred palette. It’s sort of like when I think of oysters and I’m back to an oyster tour. When I go into a place I’ll get the chicken I’ll get the fish. I’ll get the crabcake I’ll get the steak. I’ll get the pork. Yeah, maybe then I’ll get the scallops or the or you know me like I like scallops, oysters. They’re just always like I don’t hate whiskey bourbon. It’s just I’m I would be more like give me a beer give me one give me a margarita like I like tequila give me a vodka based drink round tasted so much or a fufu girly drink with some some ice in it and blend in.
Chuck Jacobs 11:55
I was never into bourbon or whiskey either until I started working here. And when you start the work here and you’re surrounded by awesome people that come in that drink our bourbons, they kind of they explain the palette of what you taste for when you do have he loves whiskey. Right? And I’m seeing now I’m 51 I’m seeing younger folks come in and it amazes me that their palate is so matured at such a young age where when I was that age I was not thinking about this I’m drinking terrible shots and beer and stuff like that. But now when when dealing with the worm a certain bottle comes down right so you know you taste for how long was it was at age what kind of barrel was it in you looking for like vanilla caramel notes, it’s you put a drop of water it opens up it makes it more floral, like
12:42
I don’t know any of this. Adding water is something that I’ve grown over the past five to seven years to figure out
Chuck Jacobs 12:48
sure you’ll try it without and you’re like I’ll put a drop of water in and then that just opens it up and makes it like almost
Nestor Aparicio 12:54
a habit to come over and give it give it a spin with you because I will say this and this is just my only whiskey experience as an adult other than sampling and even when I’m at best of Baltimore or on the celebrity judge or whatever first of my stay sober at those things so like the notion that I’m going to have a watermelon this and wine that and vodka that and liquor that and a beta beer that like at the tasting events. I go into one thing and I’m like alright, I’m gonna have that mall back tonight and that’s when I’m gonna have two of those. And I’m going to make it home because you can get sick on the food let alone on mixing and matching all this but I went to Jack Daniels that day open mind and I wasn’t driving right we’re on this bus I’m at the whole Jack Daniels story is unbelievable the cabin you walk the land it’s just beautiful you you leave you go across this bridge in a little town you get a sandwich kind of like the fountain there’s old school places there and sell ice cream that in Lynchburg. You get a lemonade you go across the bridge you go back you ride around you see all this but you go into the tasting rooms and the barrels where you smell the not hops What the hell is it? Whiskey, barley, barley, what did you put that smell comes out right? And then you sit in a room much like the tasting room here. And they they brought the barrels through and like I bought the Sinatra experience, right? I paid the extra $5 for the tasting or whatever, so that I could have more variety and I think they put five or six different snifters down in front of me it was all Jack Daniels it was this it was that it was a 75 year whatever it all is, and I liked them all and I left a little tipsy and I left a little bit more open minded to saying at one point my kid might be telling me about dropping water and they make it
Chuck Jacobs 14:37
and with Jack Daniels they have a distinct mash that they use that gives you that peanut eat banana smell. So if you smell like the Jack Daniels you’ll get that banana peanut smell and that’s a very distinct ingredient that they use in their mash to make it that distinct for them. We have two single barrels downstairs now that we we sold out but I have at the fountain it’s one was called high 500 At 28 proofs this little bit, a little bit bump behind it, but remind you you’re doing a half ounce or one ounce pours and their slippers. Folks come in. I’m like, Guys, these aren’t shots. You’re not throwing them back because you’re looking at 100 Plus proof on each one of these. And I’ve had younger kid that’s how we did it wrong. We
Nestor Aparicio 15:14
were young. Absolutely.
Chuck Jacobs 15:16
I have younger kids come in I explained how to do it, how to drink it and they just go woof. And I’m like, You just ruined it like you’re not getting the experience of what are you tasting for man? I get these vanilla notes. I get the I do.
Nestor Aparicio 15:28
Listen to this guy doesn’t look he has wisdom in the beard. I mean, honestly, it’s from
Chuck Jacobs 15:32
working I all my thanks go to his doc, Georgia and Mike and the liquor store. Those guys are the geniuses behind everything that we put up front for everybody. And it’s it’s fantastic.
Nestor Aparicio 15:42
What do you love about it?
15:44
I love a lot about it. I love that there’s always more to learn. I love that you can put it in a different bottle and a different cask and a different time period. There’s so much there’s I mean, then you get into bitters, then you get into making drinks with them like old fashioned fashions you get into like different hats. So
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
today oh my oh my drug city. Oh my Oh, my. One of my friends jumped my thread and said that’s my place where I get old. I’ve never had an old fashion in my life. So I I sit at the Beaumont at the bar and they make all these smoky you know, I smell it and I’m like yeah, that smells like some I’d like to lay a taste though. I don’t want to take the whole thing because I’m driving home or whatever. And they give you that sexy so ice cube a giant and Yan is steaming you know and I’m like, you know it feels like grown up feels James Bond the mirror right you know a little bit right? Yeah. When you drink right totally. And and I have never had an old fashioned in my life like when I you know I mean that so what what do I need to know about an old fashioned what I enjoy that
Chuck Jacobs 16:42
you think you will enjoy is it there’s there’s a couple of ways out now just from how we make it and how I see it made in some other places. I can cringe. To me an old fashioned is a gentleman drink. It’s neat. It’s clean. I don’t think anything should be muddled in an old fashion because nothing should be floating in your drink. It shouldn’t be a fruity drink like that
Nestor Aparicio 17:04
with Jack Jack. It’s Laura Miller says with Jack Daniels think that Dan Spears point. He said the drugs seem old fashioned is my go to
Chuck Jacobs 17:11
the drugs to the old fashioned. We do it butterscotch syrup. So we put butterscotch like that adds a nice little sweetness to it. I also created caramel apple old fashioned where I use a little caramel syrup and Granny Smith green apple, not a lot just a little bit because I’m not trying to take the bourbon away from you and make it overly sweet. But just give you that taste of that caramel apple or like in the instance of the drug city. The butterscotch just makes a little different now my traditional old fashion guys, it might be too sweet for them. So I mean it’s an entry point for me Sure, it’s two ounces of of a bourbon of your choice, we use old forester down at the fountain. And then it’s three quarter ounces of simple syrup, which is just sugar water, or three quarter ounce of the butterscotch depending now if I’m doing the Granny Smith, green apple with the caramel, I just go one pump one pump, which is a half an ounce because I don’t want to add too much of that. Both of them together can be overly sweet. So I don’t want to make it too sweet for you. And then you get your choice of bitters which I have black walnut, the traditional bitters, orange cherry and I have a chocolate bitters.
Nestor Aparicio 18:15
So you get I don’t know that I’ve ever had a bitters in my last two dashes of bitters just as a little bit of bite to it look you know happy
18:22
regular Yeah,
Chuck Jacobs 18:23
yeah. And then we basically take the orange you
Nestor Aparicio 18:25
don’t make any these drinks from he learns all this and he steals it away for the next generation.
18:30
I’m not I’m not like super fancy I don’t do the orange peel I don’t I don’t do the reading of the glass but the art I don’t do any of the gentleman stuff
Chuck Jacobs 18:37
sure we’ll take the orange peel and we’ll just peel the top of the orange because you all you want the oil right so I’m taking the oil the inside and I’m trimming your glass so when you take that drank you’re getting a little bit that citrus orange as well. But you’re not getting the floaty orange shit coming up and you’re correct the essence and then I get one of the delicious alcoholic cherries and put it in there and not at the mayor Tino cherry that I see everywhere.
19:00
Grown up cherry is that like a moonshine sorta like one of the moonshine
Chuck Jacobs 19:03
tar Luxardo cherries Okay, and we put that in there for you as well and over one rock and just serve it and enjoy now I’ve seen places
Nestor Aparicio 19:12
it makes me want to end the show right now let’s get downstairs I’m
Chuck Jacobs 19:16
gonna probably make one but we put I seen people put soda in it
Nestor Aparicio 19:20
the steam come off as to you don’t do any of that. No, you smokey that’s there that’s a
Chuck Jacobs 19:25
smoke when I do have a hickory syrup I can add to it activity that hickory smoky taste without that smoky.
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
Like low it’ll tell you i This is my son. I have enough vices. I don’t I don’t need another
Chuck Jacobs 19:37
and if you’re a cigar guy, I’m not a nice cigar with a bourbon or an old fashion or a Manhattan goes great. And the font the great thing about I’m sure you have like an
Nestor Aparicio 19:46
old guy now you know that it’s nice because I’m 55 You started AR
Chuck Jacobs 19:51
I’m four years right behind you, buddy. So I’m not that far off. But the Manhattan one of the interesting stories about that is Manhattan’s area code is to one, two, and that is the ingredients for that Manhattan drink. So it’s two ounces of bourbon, one ounce of sweet vermouth and two dashes of bitters to one, two, and that’s the Manhattan area code.
20:11
You got to make up for one. Oh, and that’s
Nestor Aparicio 20:14
right. Exactly. Do a radio 32 years, 55 years to learn all this? I learned all this. Yeah, like that. So
Chuck Jacobs 20:20
yeah, so we try to give you a little education when you come into and, you know, what do you taste? How do you feel like what does it what do you get, you know, on your tongue or, you know, an aftertaste or maybe like I said, it depends what kind of barrel it might be put in. I bourbons downstairs that were done in a rum barrel. So you get a little bit of raw like, are these
Nestor Aparicio 20:39
bourbon people like you putting the butterscotch this or the caramel? I like nobody would want that. Like not, not if you’re a real whiskey nerd or is it? Is it cool to flavor or have
Chuck Jacobs 20:49
they like to experiment? They’d like to try that right. But like I said, you don’t want to overwhelmingly give you too much of that because it’s going to take away from that bourbon, which is really one when I first started working here, I had a bunch of bourbon guys the bar and I said to them, how did you guys get into whiskey and bourbon like this? And they said, Chuck, we used to have it with cola or soda, that eventually they don’t want the coke. They just want the juice. They don’t want to sugar right? I said okay, they said what about you Chuck? Do you like any whiskey or bourbon Jack and Coke was my session I said when my band plays out people send up shots of fireball and the guy goes Get the f out of here that’s the natty bows a whiskey and I said well I like that a boat but yeah, it’s great like all our bourbon guys you know and it’s an it’s a nice angle the fountain because we’re a little bougie right so if I wish we might but and I love that
Nestor Aparicio 21:37
if we had somebody old school from Dundalk sholden would remember this he just left but when I was a boy in the late 70s, early 80s and for roses distillery was still burning over by secret secrets right? Yeah, you would smell when I was in high school could smell that whiskey would smell the whistle in the air if the wind was blowing the right way toward Dundalk. Hi, Holly bird more more Halliburton. I’m remembering it as a kid. But you could smell a little different than smell and ethics on the way to Dundalk. No, I mean, like, which I did today, by the way. You know, I weekend. She was right. She was right. She was right the other day when I went to concerts, but used to smell that sort of odor of smell like good like bourbon and mail. It smells like Jack Daniels.
Chuck Jacobs 22:23
Exactly. And my grandmother’s live on liberty Parkway Oh my gosh. When we go over there I could always smell it from her place or that memory Absolutely I absolutely do. Yeah, I do.
Nestor Aparicio 22:33
All right we’re truck city we’re tasting room my kids here I thought you know you anyone say about sports life? You hide now?
22:40
No, not really. I I’m not hiding out you can find me my phone still works
Nestor Aparicio 22:46
on the internet and he’s gonna put you up you you’re a far bigger celebrity than me on the web because you’re elusive. It’s the pink hair. Amongst other things, yes. But it but more than that. It’s just the fact that you’re a rare sighting. You know when people see you,
23:00
they don’t want to give people too much of a good thing. You know, moderation.
Nestor Aparicio 23:04
Exactly. Moderator give him his own show. He’s his own show for 25 years live from the fountain Think about if you have to
Chuck Jacobs 23:11
Bourbon podcast. We’ll do a bourbon podcast. Yeah,
23:15
we’ll do. Old line I love the old line guys. They
Chuck Jacobs 23:19
just came in today and saw me and they’re fantastic. Yep, they’re great. Go down to keep growing Yeah, all right,
Nestor Aparicio 23:23
we’ve got an offshoot now it’s like, it’s like what happy they spun off spin earnings show surely and Mork and Mindy. This show is going to spin off. That’s right. The chuck and Barry podcast. Frasier spin off and whiskey podcast right from the tasting runway. You guys. I like that. That’s well thanks for coming by for my birthday. I just want to let people know you’re alive. I’m here and well, my son’s still here. He’s still doing well. Chuck is still here. He’s downstairs at the fountain come by make him as busy as he was so I could get him up here on the show. Come by and get a very scanty little little hoodie for your drinks. You left me a couple of these little little skull and bones guys. Do you guys do so much seasonal stuff here to me Christmas is about to come in. Right. We’re about to do Thanksgiving. The Halloween is gonna give way to the next season
Chuck Jacobs 24:03
I and I with with Rodney on that part. Dangerously Delicious pies. I try to get seasonal now. So I’m getting all pumpkin pies roasted Apple, Apple crumbs. Sweet potato, of course, the Baltimore bomb and you love the pineapple. Right?
Nestor Aparicio 24:18
We’re upset. Right? So I went over to see him. Right after he was here. My wife and I were going to an Oreo game. Yeah. And we were looking for food on the way down the corridor. We stopped in Hamden. We had a piece of I love his chicken potpie Oh, it’s fancy. So I just you know, I mean, we were having like dinner, we had a beer at natty boh and had a chicken Popeye and in living right in Hampton Bay, but they do a great steak mushroom with gruyere cheese.
Chuck Jacobs 24:40
Oh yeah, that’s a small and that’s fantastic. And I made that one morning for breakfast with runny eggs and it was awesome. So yeah, it’s good.
Nestor Aparicio 24:49
I’m thinking about runny eggs in a small pile. I just think it’s like a steak and eggs. Yeah, that’s what it that’s steak and eggs Popeye.
Chuck Jacobs 24:54
That’s exactly what it was.
Nestor Aparicio 24:57
You get me interested in so for drugs city. I pitch it the way I pitch it. What how would you pitch it to the audience? Somebody like Cindy here has never been here, or George or Luke coming down from Pennsylvania. What are they going to find? Because then people are like, is it like an Amish market? Is it like what is it like when and I’m like It’s unlike anything you can picture other than maybe a 1950s or 60s dimestore with modern things that’s never left. That has stayed up with the times get is that is absolutely.
Chuck Jacobs 25:30
Some of the ladies have been here been working here for 40 years because they love doc Harry and Doc George is the same. Exactly as Doc here he was. So when you come in here, you’re going to get like a one stop shop. Alright, you can come in and get a prescription. You can there’s a post office in here. money orders cash checks. I didn’t even know that. Yeah, I’ve mailed stuff from here. Yeah, actually the liquor store jersey, mailed out to Cleveland, the card store and then you can come over the fountain grab lunch, grab a drink. And then we take you back a little bit with the 47 Jukebox the Mae West. It’s
Nestor Aparicio 26:01
an original jukebox that dock you can take home a six pack of different beers, which we do mix and match your often, you know, and you get to bring your own. It’s you have to reuse this. I got sassed at the door by your lady there because I didn’t have my things you know, like, because my wife’s like, I just brought like six of them back and just left and she’s like, No, no, no, you get $1 You You have to keep those so she she’s like don’t don’t just turn those off. You know, right? Uh, but she she she was she was like, Hey, you didn’t know about this?
Chuck Jacobs 26:29
Absolutely. So yeah, it’s something for everybody. I love it when the kids come in. Because the kids love ice cream. Who doesn’t right so we’re fist bump and we’re making milkshakes and ice cream and sprinkles and chocolate sauce and whatever you want.
Nestor Aparicio 26:40
Like a nice guy, but you’re a jerk. I can be soda jerks, and so did
26:45
everything here they the candy aisle, the 41 candies. That’s new. Yeah. They’re everything.
Chuck Jacobs 26:51
Yep. And then, you know we have the bourbon guys come in their little bougie. Right. They’re trying one ounce pours, half ounce pours nice cocktails, right? It’s very classy. We don’t have to kick anybody out. We have any problems with like, we have one way in one way out. So we don’t want to make any kind of issues with customers get in and out of the store in and out of the restaurant. That’s why we don’t do beer, right? Because I could sit anywhere and pound beer all day. Right? This is my spot. I love going there. But this is not that kind of spot. I love that we’re a little bougie or that we don’t offer that. And then like some of the older folks come in, they tell you great stories about ice take the streetcar down Dundalk Avenue, and I stop and get a transfer and I get a phosphate line. And I say I can make you that you can make me that but you know, that’s great. It’s a great feeling. What’s the phosphate? phosphate is acid phosphate comes in a jar and you add it to root beer ginger ale. It’s fizzy. It’s it adds more physical bite. It sounds like a bitter almost. And it’s really good for like upset stomach stuff too. That’s why it was great with ginger ale. That’s why
Nestor Aparicio 27:49
you got it the pharmacy back in the day. Correct. And back in the day when it was croquet back in the deck or
Chuck Jacobs 27:54
they used to do ammonia Cokes. They used to put ammonia in sodas and it was a stomach remedy and actually had a customer come in once and say can you put ammonia I said no I’m not a farmer. Are you serious? Yeah, I’m
Nestor Aparicio 28:05
serious. But put ammonia nobody soon Atlantis I gotta bring children back. The days of that are
Chuck Jacobs 28:09
gone. But it’s a great spot. There’s something for everybody. We do lunch every day 10 to four after four o’clock you can stop it and have ice cream cocktails and drinks. But yeah, we just want to pound out a great lunch every day and keep it simple and consistent and just keep it good.
Nestor Aparicio 28:24
Well at Turkey Rachel I had was delicious. 30 different kinds of potato chips
Chuck Jacobs 28:29
30 different seasonings. Yeah, and our kitchen small so we do our own kettle chips. We get the kettle chip from one of our vendors and we put it a big metal container under heating lamp and that warms them up and it extracts the oil so then we do all the seasons in house. So when we make the seasonings and we season your chip I got salt and pepper. And that’s what we have. It’s tough though because I mean Korean barbecue I was looking I was looking at shatter hot shatter there was like there were a lot of things that I was thinking like I would which is a sweet it’s a maple so some people like a sweet instead of a savory. So we’d like to mix it up like I said with my syrup. So if I get something that can come in like the candy corn, let’s mess with one I’ll buy one bottle and if we can make some kind of creation or some kind of soda. Great I did that with the cotton candy. I got a cotton candy soda ended a cotton candy Sprite, and then he put pop rocks in it for the kids and it gets all fizzy and pops and the kids love that. So it’s great what you bring to the table and you know what
Nestor Aparicio 29:20
happen to Mikey
Chuck Jacobs 29:22
right? Yeah, right. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 29:24
that sound was me out of a drink. We can I think the show might be over with I can fix that while you like sands through the hourglass. These berries my son he’s hanging out Chuck’s here he’s hanging out he’s at the fountain where drugs city so are brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery giveaway Raven scratch offs. I don’t know when the next crabcake tour is I didn’t even like it’s not that I didn’t want to do this one. I felt bad hitting you in Georgia month ago. I’m like, Alright, look, it’s my birthday weekend. I kinda want to celebrate, but there might be a game five we might have to move it. I’m not going to be able to book like guests because I’m gonna have to move things around. I said but I want to do When I want to come here, promote the place make sure I get a proper, you know, birthday show in and Luke came and George came and Barry came and you came and it’s all it’s all worked out well. George couldn’t
Chuck Jacobs 30:09
make it. He’s at a barbecue festival up in Harford County this weekend. So he’s competing Friday and Saturday. festival so he was here this morning for the Russell’s. Find one
Nestor Aparicio 30:18
thing you take him some big board root beer, it’ll taste better. I barbecue will taste better if you do that.
Chuck Jacobs 30:23
I’m sure doc George has quite the recipes for some. She goes to Harford County when they leave here is what I should do. Yeah, yeah, get some brisket and tomorrow
Nestor Aparicio 30:30
I persecuted my house from taxes. You do? I gotta you got to go out there. I gotta eat that first. I gotta get rid of that. Come down and see George come down and see Chuck come down and see all of our friends at drug city. My son bear anything you want to say because you’re gonna do the radio show again. Next time he talks about the ratio. Yeah, you remember back when you were 55 and still walking. That’s when I did the show. I’ll be in a walker. You need the soft carry. You were bragging about like when Edwin Mola Tolo was raised? I’m not sure last time
30:53
I was the last time I worked in did radio. I’ve sure I’ve done Radio. I’m sure I have.
Nestor Aparicio 30:59
I do the show. I know who’s on the show. Well, you gotta haven’t had you on the show.
31:03
I mean, my phone works. Text me book me.
Nestor Aparicio 31:04
Hey, is it staffers guy funny? Yeah. He’s local. I know it. Was he funny. He just sold out
31:09
the lyric. I know. But he’s funny. He’s funny. So
Chuck Jacobs 31:11
Wow, that’s impressive. All right.
Nestor Aparicio 31:12
Yeah. I mean, everybody was at the show last night. And I know he’s Greek and I know he’s from Baltimore. So why wouldn’t get along with him? I get along with everybody else. Well, there’s one Greek guy in Baltimore I don’t get along with but I get along with all the rest of them. There’s just no I mean, literally, Baltimore comedy weeks off me except one. Ryan.
31:29
Ryan Sickler is out in California doing well. Starbucks Starbucks is doing killing it. What about the
Nestor Aparicio 31:34
guy that does the best buy employee things? Well, he’s redundant. My employee Scott Scott said he just he played No, no, no, he does that little snippets. Like he does the your your he’s like, he acts like the angry employee. You don’t get a big head on or in the videos. Tick tock. I’m a comedian. I don’t do tick tock. I don’t do tick tock either. Because Chinese run it. I don’t either. Yeah, I don’t do you know, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Instagram,
Chuck Jacobs 32:05
Tik Tok. She gets all information from tick tock. I’m like stop come out of the rabbit hole. So sometimes
Nestor Aparicio 32:09
you get a recipe. I mean, I might be able to learn how to make a nice butterscotch old fashion on there. But no texture buddy Chuck and he’ll tell you to I wouldn’t trust it for truth in politics or government. That’s all I would say. that’s run by the Chinese. So all right, you’re gonna go have one of those butterscotch drinks with me.
Chuck Jacobs 32:25
Let’s Let’s get a drink.
Nestor Aparicio 32:26
I’m not gonna get anything done tonight. I’m a truck city. It’s all brought to you by window nation. 866 90 nation, give them a call. If you need Windows we did last year. We’re really happy. weather’s changing. It sucks out but if you got great windows, it helps in all sorts of ways including saves you money. I am also very very thrilled that Jiffy Lube is back with us Jiffy Lube. MultiCare just in time for my little orange like to pop on today. So I need to get over to Jiffy Lube, which I’ll be doing at some point from my wife gets home on Sunday ravens in London. We will be on the other side of that the Detroit Lions will be in town next week. And the Baltimore Orioles season will still be over made it almost an hour with you guys. We didn’t talk about baseball. Is that okay?
Chuck Jacobs 33:05
That’s okay. Of course. Plenty of time for that next year.
Nestor Aparicio 33:08
I knew he was gonna say next year signing off from trucks city. I am Nestor. We are wn sta and 1570, Towson Baltimore. I am thirsty. It’s my birthday and we’ll be back to talk and sports and all sorts of good stuff right after this.
