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- Ya'll, I'm walking down memory lane
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with this old recipe, and my best friend growing up,
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we were like thick as thieves.
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Her name was Diane Tedder
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and she had an older sister named Darlene,
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and Darlene was so prim and proper
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and Diane and I were like, (laughs)
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we were just so loosey goosey.
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We just had many, many laughs.
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And Darlene would try to keep us in line.
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She was two years older.
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Sometimes she could do it, sometimes she couldn't.
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So since Diane is not here with me today,
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If I can figure out how to do this. (laughs)
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- Hi, tie, tatter, tatter.
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- [Diane] Did you get her?
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- What are you doing?
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I've got you on speaker phone.
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- And I'm shooting for my YouTube channel
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and I said, you know,
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I can't do this recipe without my buddy being here.
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So this is the best we gonna do.
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Do you know what I'm making?
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- [Diane] I bet you I do.
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- What would you say?
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- [Diane] I would say it's those good old
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You know, Diane, I thought the only way
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to eat a sloppy joe is with red sauce,
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and one day we were all so hungry
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and we went over to your house.
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Now this is the best I can recall it,
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but your memory's so much better than mine.
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- So you correct me. (laughs)
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I have to call you and say,
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"Tell me what a good time we had sometimes." (laughs)
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- [Diane] That was a long time ago.
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- 'Cause, how many years ago would it have been?
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I was 11 and you were probably 12, old lady. (laughs)
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- [Diane] Well, only one month-
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- She's one month older than me,
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but a month is a month is a month better.
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- (laughs) So I have just put the ground beef in the pan
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but I remember we were so hungry
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and we went to y'all's house,
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or maybe we were already there, I don't know,
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and y'all said, "Come on and we'll fix us some sloppy joes."
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And of course, you know, I was all in.
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And then y'all pulled out the hamburger
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and browned it and took out a can
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of French onion soup, and that was the sloppy joes.
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So I'm browning this ground beef
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and I just wish you were here with me.
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I can tell y'all right now,
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the old friends are the best friends.
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I mean, we've been best friends
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since we were 10 or 11 years.
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- [Diane] Yeah, so much.
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That's 60 something years ago.
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60 something years ago?
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I think it was 65 years ago, right?
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That's right, 65 years ago.
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- Oh, I can't believe it.
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- [Diane] Me neither.
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- I can't believe it.
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- [Diane] Well, you know, Paula,
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you were a part of our family.
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You were our, you know,
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my Darlene and then we just adopted you.
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- Yes, yes, because I didn't have a sister.
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I had that little old snotty nose brother
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that I love so much that wanted to follow me everywhere.
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So, like I said, I wish he was standing here beside me.
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Well, let's talk like real soon.
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And I've got people watching and waiting
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for me to cook this wonderful sloppy joe hamburger.
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- [Diane] I love you more.
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- Okay, talk to you soon.
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- Bye-bye. - Okay, honey.
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- You know, there's nothing like your old friends.
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It's wonderful to make new friends, but those old friends
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You know all of their history.
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There's no second-guessing.
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You know, are they harboring secrets or anything like that?
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And that's just wonderful knowing that you have someone
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that you can trust with your life and share things with 'em.
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So I hope y'all have some people like that in your life
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because there's nothing like 'em.
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All right, so we're gonna brown this
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and then I'm gonna drain the fat off.
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You know, if there's a tablespoon left in there,
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that's just quite all right.
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Right now, we're gonna sprinkle our flour over it
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because that's gonna help thicken our burgers
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because our French onion soup is a liquid.
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So we're just gonna let that brown up a little.
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And these sandwiches, I'll go ahead and tell you right now
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they're elbow lickers.
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You know what a elbow licker is?
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It's when it's so juicy, you have to start licking the juice
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off your elbows. (laughs)
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Okay, now I'm gonna add my can of French onion soup.
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I'm gonna turn our heat down
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and I'm gonna let that simmer until it starts to thicken.
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Now, Eddie said that he wanted a bun,
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so these are really, really soft and so are the buns,
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but I'm gonna heat that up just...
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I'm gonna heat Eddie's up just a minute
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so it'll be a little softer.
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All right, now Diane and Darlene and I always ate it
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with a little mayonnaise, or maybe a lot. (laughs)
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All right, I'm gonna turn our sloppy joe stuff off.
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- [Theresa] You go first.
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Thank you for feeding me, Lord.
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Now remember, we're talking about a elbow licker.
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65 years later, y'all.
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It's still ever so good
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and so are the memories that go with it.
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So I send y'all love and best dishes.
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Try sloppy joe brown instead of red.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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