Bec Judd’s Secret 40th Uncovered, Sopha Dopha’s Sauce Hair AND the Shock Snakes Alive Flavours

Published Jan 29, 2024, 2:00 PM

On today’s show… Bec Judd’s secret 40th finally revealed a year later. Perth’s Lord Mayor accused of comparing the Australian Open Women’s Final to a reserve game. The toxic legging leg trend circulating TikTok… AND Australians in shock as the Snakes Alive flavours are revealed. 

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On today's show, Beck Judd's secret fortieth finally revealed. A year later, pers Lord Mayor accused of comparing the Australian Open Women's Final to a reserve game. The toxic legging leg trends circulating TikTok and Australians in shock as the snakes of Live Flavors are revealed. Hello and welcome to Outspoken. It's your dose of the hottest influencer and pop culture news twice a week. I'm Sophie Torbert and Kate. We did see you pop up on the project on Friday night, which was quite exciting. It was very exciting, but I had a little bit of PTSD because I was lucky enough to appear on the project back in twenty seventeen, and that was after Amy's whole segment on the seven thirty report about her court case with Channel seven aired and you and Amy, for legal reasons, couldn't speak and I was the only one that could speak. We have spoken about this on the podcast. I think we put up a clip paying you out because I think your eyes were sort of darting around the room or there was I don't know if you kept saying ah, but you were going off very little sleep because you just got back from Singapore. Yeah, I'd been on a work trip and we'd celebrated this big win from the thirty six's and literally hadn't slept for forty eight hours. It was the last time I'd been drunk as well, so I was very hungover. So it wasn't my best performance. So I really wanted to make sure I improved from the last interview, particularly because it was on a really important topic. So I was being interviewed from an influencer watchdog perspective about influencers and their role in promoting son tanning. And this was off the back of Professor Georgina Long and Professor Richard Scollier being named joint Australians of the Year for their amazing work in melanoma treatment.

I just think it's.

Particularly disappointing because I felt like we had reached a point where young people were understanding the dangers of the sun. There have been so many incredible melanoma survivors who have been sharing their stories and I feel like it's almost a slap in the face for them for young people to now be sharing about their tanned lines and glamorizing tanning accelerants.

It's just absolutely ridiculous behavior.

And I know sometimes we do in the comment section for saying we're always on a high horse about sun tanning, But I just think it is so important to be educating yourself with the fact that no tan is safe. Oh and I think off the back of Kim Kardashian's office tour ware, she spoke about her solarium and she then came back and was backtracking, saying that she used it for her psoriasis. Like, it's so disappointing that the most famous woman in the world was promoting sun tanning, and it's just so dangerous. I think one of the stats I heard Courtney Mangan talk about that really stood out to me is if you use a solarium before you're thirty five, you increase your risk of melanoma by fifty nine percent. That is so scary, and I think a really important message to think about when you see Kim Kardashian glamorizing it, it's just not worth it.

Big Girls, Welcome to a vlog.

TikToker Sophia beg Aka Sofi Dofa has been desperately trying to restore her blonde locks after they turned green from swimming in a saltwater pool. I thought it was chlorine that and your hair green, not salt water. Look, it can happen in both pools, and it's down to the pH balance in the pool, but it's more likely in a salt water pool because there is a lower amount of chlorine in there. Well, you learn something new every Now. I'm not even blonde, but pau Sophia. She did scour Google and she tried a number of concoctions. So one of them was water and baking soda, which she said did nothing.

That is the answer to so many things.

Because I recently stained my toilet's seat with fake tan, and I've been a solution as well. We do you know what a tip for that is? If that happens to anyone else's if you sit on there with a fresh tan, you've got to get toilet paper and just scrub it off immediately. Oh look, I knew I had already stained it, and I just couldn't be fucked.

So it's my problem now to deal with.

She also tried using purple shampoo and conditioner, which did nothing, so she was desperate for help, so she did a call out on her Instagram, and she thought that her followers were taking the piss because her whole inbox was full of people recommending for her to put tomato sauce on her head. Tomato sauce. I've never heard of that before. What is it in tomato sauce? Because I feel like tomato sauce has got a lot of sugar. Well, it's because the tomatoes are so acidic that apparently they can cut down the green oxidization. I feel like this is a science lesson at the moment, so it can get rid of the green in your hair.

I did not know this.

She put a whole bowl of tomato sauce on her hair, and then she said, and how long do I have to do this for? So I actually hate the smell of tomato sauce. Well, I suppose it's a cheap fix. I am surprised that she didn't have a hairdresser on standby that she could have called.

There is a trend legging legs.

If you have legs and you've got a pair of leggings on, you've got legging legs.

The toxic thigh gap trend that roaster popularity on tumbler in the twenty tens has now been repackaged and is infiltrating TikTok under the hashtag leging legs. Now, the term leg and legs is used to describe the so called perfect shaped legs.

Women should have when they wear pagans.

Now the criteria dictates that you need long toned legs and of course a thigh gap. I just can't believe that this is making a resurgence. It was so toxic at the time, and the new trend is targeting Gen zetters and Gen Alpha TikTok users and it's gained over thirty.

Three million views. So in the videos, young.

Women are doing a bit of a body check where they appear in yoga pants with their full bodies in view as they point out their thigh gaps. It just feels like everything is going backwards at the moment. We're back in the twenty tens, where tanning is cool and thigh gaps are cool. I thought we were over this by now. Yeah, And I wonder if it does have something to do with the fact that we are seeing a naughty's fashion resurgence. I mean also mid rise jeans, which were popular and the twenty tens are also back, and I just say, though, well, I see.

I saw Olivia Rodgers wearing them. I feel like she's the barometer. Sometimes.

In more promising news, Alex Earl was wearing high waisted jeans.

I thought, and skinny jeans.

Yeah, and skinny jeans. I thought we were already back to that already. I thought, in winter will be wearing skinning jeans. The most fuck thing about thigh gaps is it really comes down to your genetic predisposition. So you could be flogging yourself in the gym or cutting your calories and you're still not going to have one. I just want to know who brings these trends back. Is it some toxic person that sits there and goes, hmm, how do we make the thigh gap trend again? On TikTok? I mean, the hashtag in itself is stupid. The scary thing is that this is being pushed to jen Aufhit.

So those are.

Preteens, and I do notice on the street that it's nice to see that most kids do wear legends these days because they've grown up with the whole body positivity movement saying that you can wear anything.

You want, and now we're being.

Told, actually, you have to have this certain body that's deemed acceptable in order to wear them. The good thing about social media is that millennials actually still have a very loud voice on there, and fitness mogul and model Steph kles Smith has slammed the trend as toxic and damaging. Let's trot a snippet of what she said, new.

Trend, I just get more and more disappointed.

I remember being obsessed with having a thigh gap. I remember it driving me insane, being angry at my genetics basically, and losing anything that I had on my legs just to have a friggin gap because social media told me that that was what was attractive.

And now there is a trend legging legs.

If you have legs and you've got a pair of leggings on, you've got legging legs.

Don't worry what the Internet is friggin saying.

I am so, so done, so done with these stupid trends that are so so toxic and so damaging.

It was pretty interesting because Steph went on and acknowledged how much backlash she and her husband Josh got for their Santa Prep on Christmas Eve, which she said demonstrated just how many young people and impressional kids are actually on TikTok and consuming this type of content. That is a good point. I just don't understand how if there is a hashtag that is gaining such traction that it's got, you know, millions and millions of views, why TikTok doesn't have the technology to ban this content. They seem to ban everyone willing nearly. Well, why an't I getting behind it? Because this is just so dangerous to be pushing.

You said it yourself.

It's getting so many views, it's getting so many reactions, people are online talking about it. That's why they're not going to get rid of it. I saw something similar when I was researching Tanning culture how a lot of people were asking TikTok if they would delete the hashtag the sunburn challenge, and they said no, because it's what people are talking about in the app. However, they tried to repurpose content towards that hashtag educational content. Yeah. Well, actually, when I did search leg and Legs because I wanted to see what it was all about, the only videos that came up for me were people slamming it, but I wasn't sure if that's because I'm a millennial, so that is the sort of thing that's in my algorithm and what I'm being fed. It would be interesting to actually take a look at a gen Zetter or a gen Alpha's phone to see if they are getting the toxic videos of the leg and trend people might think where high maintenance or precious or princesses.

We're not.

It has taken a whole year for Beck Judge to reveal how she celebrated her fortieth birthday. So Beck is known for documenting her parties on social media, so it was quite unexpected from her, and it was reported at the time that guests were instructed not to film or share anything from the celebration, and they stuck to their word.

For over a year, no one, including.

Beck, has shared a photo or video from her fortieth This all changed on Saturday, when Beck turned forty one, and to mark the occasion, she shared a throwback reel to her milestone birthday celebrations. She titled the Real This one's been sitting in the birthday drafts. I was quite surprised when this post popped up because I was thinking oh, was this from my birthday this year? And then I thought back to a story we covered in the middle of last year about how she got id'd at a New Zealand bottle o and she thought it was so funny because she was in fact forty at the time.

Yeah.

I was really confused too. It took me a while.

I had to go look at the comments to make sure if this had happened this year or last year.

So last year, the Herald.

Sun reported that Beck had booked out the Mitchleton Winery for her fortieth and they happened to be correct. So the festivities spanned from the day to the night. And it's pretty funny because after Beck shared this real all of her friends started sharing pictures from the night from a year ago. Can you imagine having to wait a year to share a photo that you're really excited about, Because even with weddings, there's the general rule that you've got to wait until the bride shares the photo first, and you know, sometimes you're sitting there thinking, God, I really want to post this photo. Oh well, that's the funny thing because all of her Blue Tick Brigade and all her best friends were out in full fourth, So Nadia Battel was like, yes, finally posted literally still one of my favorite days.

And one of her other friends was saying.

Oh my gosh, this has been in the drafts for so long and I've been wanting to share all these photos. So this one particular friend who was very excited to share photos from the event, shared this picture and it was Beck and her in this full party glam on the grass in the middle of the day. And the best bit is one of Beck's sons is in the background wearing a pirate costume behind them. So I'm so confused what the theme for the day was, because it's quite clear by nightfall it was all about this underground rave. So they had pink neon lights lighting up the dance floor and Beck was dressed in this bedazzled bodysuit from jaton Kature and it had very much Victorious Secret Angel vibes. So it had this big elaborate head piece and long sparkly tassels. All I could think was this would be an amazing outfit for the Eras tour. To me, it kind of looked like it had Coacella vibes as well. Yeah, there were a little bit of Coachella vibes. So one of the dancers who was performing at the function had big angel wings, So I was like, I definitely feel like they have used Victoria's secret as an inspo. I wonder what the pirate has to do with it, though maybe the kids just had rogue outfits on. Yeah, it does add to the mystery. But why do you think Beck's fortieth were shrouded in so much secrecy last year? Well, her parties have always garnered a lot of attention and negative feedback. She's always been accused of splashing her cash and this was particularly evident during her housewarming party a couple of years ago, which the media dubbed Judge Cella.

Well, actually I think she called it that herself. She had a Judge Tella sign.

Oh, and it made such big headlines because everyone, I think was a little bit jealous that they weren't invited, so you know when people try and tear it down. So there were rumors that the police had been called because the neighbors weren't happy, and people also weren't happy because there was like a pump and dump station for new mums and that was very controversial at the time. Yeah, all of the media's scrutiny at the time seemed to really highlight the fact that she was living in a seven point three million dollar house and the fact that this party took five months to organize. It just seemed really out of touch. And if you think back to twenty twenty three, obviously we're still experiencing it now, but there's a lot of financial pressure being put on families at the moment, so I would have assumed that she wanted to avoid any criticism. Yeah, and at the start of twenty twenty three, I do remember it was a time where influencers were being called out big time for flashing their cash, So I can understand why Beck wanted to keep this under wraps. It's quite funny because her forty first birthday celebration looked very low key in relation to this fortieth. So she shared a photo of her opening presence in bed surrounded by her kids, and she revealed that her favorite present was a Kama toasty maker. So she wrote, I got everything I wanted, four healthy kids and a jaffle maker. So when I make leftover spag bowl plus cheese toasties, the feeling doesn't squirt out. Day made Look, this is either some sort of spon con or she is trying very hard strategically to post something that is relatable to other mums. The fact that you're putting out this flashy party where you're dancing on tabletops in a Coachella sparkly outfit, and then you're in bed, no makeup on with a toasty maker.

I couldn't see a bigger contrast than this.

Maybe we'll find out in a year's time. Watcheck she really did to celebrate a birthday?

Okay, work out from the sweat app three two one.

Let's go. Kayla ad seen As has revealed she's on the hunt for a nanny to look after her one year old son. The advert was posted on Kayla and her husband Jay Woodroff's joint couple's Instagram account. So the post read Gold Coast Nanny required. If you know anyone who would be good for this, dmme and we will send more details. They also added a comment box with the caption comment here if you.

Would like a list of hours now.

I was quite surprised by this because I thought that they probably wouldn't promote the fact they're looking.

For a nanny. Yeah, this has always puzzled me.

I've seen influences in the past like Sky Wheatley used their question box as a way to look for.

A nanny or a cleaner, And for me, I.

Don't think that it's the best network to advertise on because you've probably got so many craze fans or followers who were just desperate to get into your life somehow.

Yeah. I mean, on the other hand.

Though I understand stand even using our Instagram account on Outspoken sometimes it is a good way to get people's genuine opinions on things. But still, I think that this is something that you might want to navigate privately, and I'm sure with money does come access to some great agencies who could offer.

Really great staff. Yeah.

I suppose she didn't promote it on her Kayla had seen as Instagram account that has millions and millions of trues their kind of back account. But I was just surprised that they even wanted that information out there, because I mean, everyone knows that Kayla is worth an absolute shit ton, but sometimes in order to stay relatable, people hide the fact that they Haven'tnanni.

So I suppose the transparency is.

Good, which is annoying because of course, Kayla, being the face of a huge, multimillion dollar fitness brand and her partner also working, they are going to need some assistance. And she has moved away to a different state, so she doesn't have the support of her parents, who perhaps were doing a lot of the babysitting duties.

Yeah.

I thought it was interesting that this search this nannie has come once she's moved away from her family, because I feel like they did play a very integral part and look helping her look after her kids. Kayla also shared this week that her daughter Anna started school, so she posted a photo of Anna in her school uniform and added at the end of the caption, ps, I had my team edit the colors of Anna's school uniform and remove the logos for privacy reasons. And I thought, what an amazing idea, because often you see influencers and celebrities just willly, nearly sharing pictures of their kids in school uniforms. I know Beck Judd did it today.

Yeah.

I always get nervous when it's the first day back at school, even on a smaller level of seeing just every day moms and dad sharing their kids because there's just so many weidos.

About the place.

Yeah, it makes you feel really uncomfortable when I see an influencer willingly share what school their kids go too, because I just feel like it makes them a real target.

I really don't know who is following well.

Even how we spoke about a couple of weeks back on our Victoria Beckham deep dive about how there were all these orchestrated plans to abduct her.

And her children.

When you have a lot of money and a lot of power, unfortunately there's weirdos out there who are going to try.

And benefit from it and use any way that they can get in.

Even with Kayla's attempts to conceal what school Anna went to, one follower wrote, I don't even live in Queensland and know which school this is with your team's editing, I know you're a proud mum, but people can work it out easily.

Better to be safe.

Look, I think that that's a bit picky. She has gone to the level of getting a graphic designer to try and conceal the uniform there. And also this person is probably just stirring the pot because Kayla made a point to point out.

That she had gone this effort.

I always feel like comfortable when Sarah's day shares her routine with her kids and she shows where they do swimming lessons and where they get their baby chinos and the cafes they go to, because it doesn't take a genius to realize every one of those locations. Well, we saw that with Kim Kardashi and when she got robbed in Paris, she had to change her whole social media strategy and not post things live. So I wonder if we will see influencers move more towards.

That it's a reserves government.

A clip of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempless appearing to compare the Australian Open Women's final to a reserve game.

Has gone viral.

At a press conference on Saturday to announce his plans to run in WA's twenty twenty five state election, Basil appeared to be caught on camera making a series of remarks to a Channel nine reporter. Now part of that conversation was cut up and spread over social media. It was first picked up by a Perth online publication called WAMN News.

Let's throw to the clip.

Tennis is on tonight, isn't it?

Ah?

Yeah?

The fag of finow listen it's a reserves government.

I do want to point out that Basil has refuted the claim, saying that the video has been edited and his comments were misconstrued. Before we get into that, though, I do think it's important to give some background into Basil's sporting and media career. So he did play in the West Australian Football League known as the Waffle for four years as a ruckman and ford before retiring in nineteen ninety four. So when the clip went viral, a lot of people commented that he really does know a thing or two about reserves games, as the Lawful is of course a.

Step down from the AFL.

Now, once his football career wrapped up, he was offered a cadet ship at the seven Network in nineteen ninety four as a journalist. That always does annoy me when ex athletes just get offered these cushy positions. Now he does still work at Channel seven as a sports commentator, and up until twenty twenty two he presented sport on Perth seven News and also.

Hosted a radio breakfast program.

It still perplexes me how people like Basil end up getting positions like the Lord mayor of Perth and also into politics.

Yeah, well, look at Donald Trump.

You just have to have a certain level of power and the right people backing.

You up, or be a white straight man.

Now, before the shit hit the fan on Saturday morning, he announced his political ambition and he was on the front page of the West Australian newspaper, which is owned by his employer at the Channel seven network.

Interesting.

Yeah, and they also ran a two page spread on page eight and page nine which is.

Prime real estate in the meet.

So there was a very glowing article about him out there. Now that we are all up to speed and have some context, Basil has fired back saying it was disingenuous and flat out wrong to say his comments were made about the women's tennis final. So he hit back on social media saying, I need to make it absolutely clear the conversation I had with nine Perth reporter Michael Genevieves today is being reported incorrectly. So he claims his reserve comment was in reference to reading the news up against the tennis. He says he was talking to the nine reporter about how presenting the news when a big sporting event is on at the same time means a smaller audience will watch the news.

Now.

What has worked against Basil is that his explanation is very wordy and confusing, particularly for those people who don't work in the media industry. I don't know who put this together. I assume he put it together himself. It was so difficult to read. That is why I have not included the whole slab in there. It didn't make much sense at all. Seems like he's clutching the straws to be honest.

Yeah, well, the.

Full exchange has been posted on a number of media outlets. Let's throw to the full press conference.

Three you normally Saturday A man read.

About that Jake and the Big Chair? Is it head to head with done? What a showdown? It'sych A Derby Tennis is on tonight, isn't it?

Yeah, a begins it's a reserves gament.

Now.

The nine News journal Michael Genevieves did actually back up Basil's claims. He said this conversation has been taken completely out of context. Basil was referring to the tennis and the news going.

Head to head now.

As expected, his employer, The West Australian ran with the headline, Basil Zempus slams fake news as nine reporter Michael Genevieve's confirms comments taken out of context. Jeez, that's nice from his employer to back him up, isn't it. Yeah.

I mean, then again, the use of the word fake news.

All it does is remind me of Donald Trump. Not everyone is buying this version of events, including myself. Followers filled the comment section disputing his version of events. One user wrote his story doesn't really fit in with him, saying, I say that having been there afterwards another reserves game. Lol, he knows darn well he was talking about the game. Yeah, and this is in reference to Basil playing in the Waffle, which is literally a reserve league to the AFL, So people are taking the piss out of him. The thing that was really disappointing in the comment section on a number of these news sites is that there were a few men rushing in to say that he had a point and that it's unfair that the female athletes are being played just as much as the men when they're not doing as much work. So it just seemed to be encouraging misogyny. But that really grinds my gears that people are like, oh, hang on, this is my chance to bag out the women's final. It is just absolutely ridiculous. I do feel like Batuda Advocate is doing God's work because they have accused the mainstream media of rushing to protect Basil. So the article said, the former twenty four match superstar of the Waffle, who really hasn't done much with his career outside of commenting Ozzie Rules, was elected as perse mayor at the height of lockdowns in twenty twenty with the support of twelve percent of eligible voters after a coordinated media campaign orchestrated by the lackeys of billionaire Western Australian media tycoon Kerry Stokes, who owns Channel seven as well as the most highly circulated newspaper in the state, who literally used mid match AFL broadcast commentary and live horse racing coverage to promote the candidacy of this politically inexperienced, convicted drunk driver. I feel like they summed it up quite well. I also do want to point out that this isn't the first time that Basil has made controversial comments. So in twenty twenty he called homeless people smelly, and he said that they needed to be moved away from the city. He has also previously mocked trans women, so when he was working in radio, he said, if you've got a penis, mate, you're a bloke and if things couldn't get worse. Last year, he also defended the city of Perth for closing down a vital women's homeless shelter. So he does not have a good track record.

Yeez.

I think it speaks volumes that someone leaked this press conference to the media because it clearly is someone who potentially knows him and doesn't like him. It's interesting to see the stance that Channel nine and Channel seven have taken. No surprise is Channel seven has completely defended him, and also Channel nine has as well. Their reporter came out and said, yeah, I understood that he was saying. This has been taken out of context. It's because all of the big wigs, they're all.

Connected or reeks of a boys club.

Yeah, I'd be interested to know how the ABC are reporting on it. I feel like that would speak volumes.

Okay, I found out some distressing news last night. I just thought i'd throw the information in your way. You know, Alan Snake's the best like.

Iconic Australian comedian and podcaster Tanya Hennessy has shocked Australians by blowing the lid on a well kept lolly secret. So she's taken to TikTok to claim that she has reliable intel into the flavors of the Snakes Alive. Let's throw to what she said.

You know, the orange Alan snake.

What do you think the flavor is like orange?

Right?

No, the flavor is actually apricot.

What that shocked me to my core because I have always assumed, like Tanya, the orange.

Is orange flavored.

Yeah, I can't say that I ever thought that it was an apricot flavor. It's funny because often my partner and I we will play the game where we have to close our eyes and we will feed each other in particularly flavor and we'll have to guess which one it is. We do it with Eminem's two, which is so stupid because there isn't actually a different flavor. But it's just what an insight into your personal life, So what you get up to when you don't know kids. I think we should go into the flavors because there were other ones that shocked me so green, the green snake is apparently lemon flavored. Again, how is that right? I assume it would be a green fruit aka a lime or an apple like a Lime's quite a I never thought it was apple.

I thought it was lime.

Lime taste eating like lime, to be honest, I didn't really ever think that they were represented by fruit. But also, lemon is yellow, so why is it green? That makes no sense whatsoever? Well, the yellow snake is pineapple. Again, I probably would have presumed it was lemon flavored. I want to know if our listeners agree. This potentially could be an unpopular opinion. But the yellow lolly is always the worst. Now, the yellow snake is apparently supposed to be pineapple flavor. My favorite color ever, just in terms of colours, is yellow.

But I hate yellow lollies.

See I actually like the yellow and green ones and the orange ones. Yeah, I feel like as I've matured, I like all the different flavors. The most popular flavors are actually.

Red and purple.

Of course, so red is strawberry and purple is BlackBerry. And the senior corporate affairs manager, Phil Nesle, which owns Allan's Lollies, Lauren Lacorda, confirmed that Tanya was correct, So she said, Tanya Hennessy obviously has a well tuned palette. She's absolutely correct. Are we buying this? This is clearly some orchestrated PR campaign. Well that's what I'm thinking, because this spokesperson came out and then pushed that the red and purple flavored snakes are the most popular, and then she mentioned the fact that Allan's recently introduced Alan's Berry Snakes Alive, which only have the BlackBerry and strawberry flavors. They additionally also have blueberry, which is a light purple one and raspberry, which is a pink snake. Why did they discontinue the blue snakesh were my far the best.

I was going to say, where is blue?

Because my favorite lollies are the blue, red, and purple. Now, sorry, but this is a complete PR campaign. Tanya has clearly been approached ahead of time. Ye put out this video of you speculating what the colors are. We're going to say, all these wild and wacky colors that we've actually never even named them. Let's think of something controversial which is going to create engage.

I don't think that they're making it up. I just think no.

I mean, I think that Tanya Hennessy is in on this PR stunt, but I think the colors and the flavors are correct. I don't think so. I think they've just made this up. I think they are because they can't mislead people, particularly with food allergies, because someone in the comments of Tanya Hennessy's video mentioned that apparently the sweet and sour sauce at McDonald's is also made from apricots, and someone said that their child had an allergic reaction to both the snakes and the sweet and sour sauce. I don't think they could mislead people.

I think they.

Probably thought, hmm, what's some information that people don't know out there. I just stood, don't buy that the green is lemon. That makes no sense. We have to do a blind tasting on TikTok of the snakes. Regardless, it has been an absolutely brilliant PR move because I have just been thinking about snakes all weekend week. I just want to go and buy some and test them out and be.

Like, hmm, that does taste apricot.

We quite often have Alan snakes in our house, and that is because they are FODMAT friendly. So my partner is able to indulge in them. And ever since you told me this story, I have been trying the snakes to try and detect if I can taste something. Yeah, and I feel like I can taste a hint of apricot now, but not them. This just sounds like an ad for Snakes Alive. It definitely isn't. But apparently this week they've announced that they're changing their packaging to eco friendly packaging, so they will now be in a matt kind of package rather than the shiny one that we used to. That's positive, but yeah, it does seem quite convenient. This is all being rolled out the week that Tanya Hennessy decides to talk about them and blow the lid on all of the flavors. Yeah, well, I think that's all we've got time for because I just want to go to the shops now and buy some snakes. Thank you very much for listening, and if you do enjoy the podcast, please share where you're listening from, because I love seeing people out on a walk or catching up on lunch. Yeah, maybe indulging in a snake or two now. This podcast was recorded on the traditional land of the Ghana people. Of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to Elder's past and present

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