- I kind of hate how much I like this.
Oh no.
(upbeat music)
There is a dish called the garbage plate.
It is the Queen of YouTube
Jenna Marble's favorite dish
from growing up in Rochester.
Julian made it for her like a year ago
on their YouTube channel.
She hadn't had it since she's gone vegan.
It looked really bizarre
and tasty at the same time,
so I really wanted to try it out.
So that's what we're making today.
I'm gonna show Jenna and Julian
another way that they can make it.
Theirs looked really good,
but maybe mine will be really
good too and they'd like it.
So if you've never heard
of a garbage plate,
it's a really interesting
recipe from upstate New York,
Rochester specifically.
A lot of you guys have
been asking about it
in the comments section for years,
so I thought that I would
show you how to make
an authentic garbage plate, but vegan,
with my own little Edgy Veg twist.
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A lot of you are probably
sitting there going,
"But Candice, what is a garbage plate?"
I did a lot of research.
But I really wanted to know
what the authentic
traditional garbage plate was.
So basically, it's a bed of two starches.
So your base is two starches.
So they do say that you
can choose home fries,
day-old mac salad, baked beans,
mac and cheese, or french fries.
I decided to go with the
classic, classic selection,
which is home fries and mac salad.
So this is the mac salad that I made
in my three barbecue sides recipe.
I'll link it below and up here.
You want it to be kind of dry
because we're adding so much sauce to it
so it doesn't turn into a soupy mess.
So make sure that it is day-old.
On top of that,
you can either choose
two sausages or hot dogs
or two cheeseburgers.
According to the internet,
cheeseburgers are the traditional topping,
but people also top it with
like eggs, and red hot,
and fish and stuff like that.
These patties are pretty thick,
so I'm just going to
take half of one of them
to make into two.
So I'll take one patty and
make it into two thin patties.
Now the meat sauce is
kind of like a traditional
chili-dog chili sauce, so
it's like a meat chili,
without all the beans and everything,
so I'm going to use veggie ground round
with some tomato puree,
onions, blah, blah, blah,
to make a really thick, stewy
meat sauce to put on top.
It's called a chili sauce
but it's not overly spicy.
I don't know. I don't make this stuff up.
I just research it.
Then, on top of that, is a
layer of raw white onion,
ketchup, and mustard.
Then they also serve it
with rolls or white bread.
The most traditional,
iconic, American white bread
is Wonder Bread, so while I
would never recommend anyone
go out and buy Wonder
Bread, we're using it today,
and that's really gonna
help sop up all that sauce.
If I was going to do like
a more haute version of it,
I probably would find a nice crusty bread,
but we're doing this authentically,
so don't at me in the comments section.
This is a treat, all right?
All right?
We're doing this for the
sake of authenticity.
This truly is the quickest sauce,
and any leftovers that you have,
if you have some veggies sausages
or veggies dogs laying around,
you can use it to make chili dogs.
The first thing I'm going to do
is heat up some olive oil in a pan
and cook my onions and garlic
for three to five minutes
or until they are
fragrant and translucent.
Then I'm going to take
some veggie ground round.
Now any ground, minced beef substitute
that you love to use, use that.
I'm just using the typical Eve's.
It's cheap, it's easy to
find in most grocery stores,
and I find that it doesn't have
too much of its own flavor,
so it really takes on the flavor
of whatever you cook it with.
To that, I am going to add
some no-beef vegetable broth,
as well as crushed tomatoes, chili powder,
paprika, cayenne pepper,
and salt and pepper.
I'm gonna bring that to a boil
and then let it simmer
for about 20 minutes.
I'm just throwing in my potatoes.
I just bought just chopped
hash brown potatoes
from the store.
I tend to just do that instead of,
you know, we're making
a lot of elements here.
You don't want to have to make everything.
So I just throw that
into the air fryer at 390
for like 20 minutes, 15 to 20.
Go ahead and shake it every five minutes
until it gets nice and crispy.
While that's happening, I'm
heating up the pan over here
because we're going to
make the cheeseburgers.
So like I said, I'm using
the Lightlife burger patties.
I'm just taking half of one of the patties
because these burgers are supposed to be,
according to the internet and
according to Jenna Marbles,
they're supposed to be
thin and super flat.
So we're just gonna do half
and do two tiny, thin burgers,
almost like if we were to
go to a fast food place
and get a burger.
It's never super thick if
it's from a fast food place.
It's usually pretty thin patties.
Gotta melt the cheese.
We're using the Emborg cheddar.
It's from France.
It's very fancy, fancy
cheese for our garbage plate.
All right.
Everything's ready.
Let us build our garbage plate.
The two starches I have chosen are,
as you know, taters that
I'm ruining apparently.
Okay, so we've got potatoes,
mac salad, cheeseburgers.
Look at how good those are.
Then the meat sauce.
- [Crew] I'm honestly not
sure how I'm supposed to feel.
Like, do--
- I mean, it kind of looks like
you took all of your
favorite hangover foods
and threw it up on a plate.
It's kind of what it looks like.
Now just raw white onion
apparently, because why not?
We threw everything else on there.
And then apparently,
it comes with mustard,
but you, when you order it,
then put ketchup all over it.
And then maybe the other way?
Yeah.
And then the bread on the
side to sop up any sauces.
Well, it...
I mean, it looks like garbage.
(laughs)
All right.
And that's a garbage plate.
(funky music)
All right, we have our plate o' trash.
In Jenna's video, she talks
about how some people do like
a little bite of this and
a little bite of that.
But she likes to mix it all together.
If you watched my video where John
chooses all the food that I eat,
and you watched the oatmeal segment,
where he mixes everything
in the oatmeal together,
and I'm like, "I don't want that,"
the Taurus in me hates that.
Just for you, I'm gonna try it both ways.
I'm gonna do a little bite of this
and a little bite of this
to create the perfect bite.
And then I'll take a section
and mix it all together,
because the idea of
mixing all of it together
is really painful for me.
Cut up some burger.
Get some mac salad here.
Okay, I think that's almost everything.
I kind of hate how much I like this.
Oh no.
Guys, it's really good.
Is it trash?
Yeah, but it's really good trash.
Like if I was hungover, whenever
I have a party all night
and I'm just feeling really bad,
this I think would set me straight.
Let's try it with the bread too.
Like I am fully subscribed to this.
You got me.
Yeah, this is happening.
This is so good.
I'm so happy.
The unhealthy child inside
of me is super pleased.
The person inside of me
that's trying to go to the gym
and rework my body for myself
and my health and stuff
is not pleased with the fact
that I love this so much.
The whole point of this is to do this
with leftover foods that you have.
It does take a little
bit of work to do it,
you know, all on their own,
although it's not too bad.
You have to do a couple
things the night before.
Like if you made the
sauce the night before
and the mac salad the night before,
then the rest of it's super easier
and you just buy the potatoes.
But I feel, I could see how
this could be really good.
If you had some leftover
beans or some leftover fries
and some leftover mac and cheese,
this is a really cool way to enjoy it.
Thank you, the internet,
for introducing me to this.
Thank you, all the people
that sent me Jenna's video.
Okay, you guys want to try this?
- [Crew] I have some mixed feelings.
I hate that I love this.
- Oh, I'm nervous.
Should I just like mush it together?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, actually.
And then you can sop
up any sauce with that.
Like I--
- I hate the term sop up.
- [Candice] I hate how much I love this.
- Oh, man.
It tastes garbagey.
- [Candice] Like in a
good way or a bad way?
- Oh, in the best way.
- [Candice] Is it--
- I hate myself for how much I like it.
- [Candice] Is it good tasting
food for your trash mouth?
- [Woman] It's garbage
food for your trash mouth.
- Garbage boot?
It's garbage food for your trash mouth.
This actually kind of
low-key looks like something
that John Rush would eat
like as a normal meal.
Sorry to drag you, John.
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