Joe Rogan - Chefs Talk About Cooking for UFC Fighters

Okay, I have to try this just because it's disgusting so tell me what the name of the candy is again pulse Dispel that PUL SC It's a green mango candy. Yeah, it's originally. It's a classic snack right where they used a sulfur salt it's called black salt and they put a bit of chili and sulfur salt on mango and I have to admit that when I had the real green mango with the sulfur salt is not that bad that candy was like Pushed it's like the mega warheads. You know that we had as kids I Wonder to sometimes like the gamey flavor of the pheasant the cheese that is the eel to that is it I see it sometimes as a bit of a like, you know, the ghost pepper. It's a bit of a pissing contest between Yeah, you know like right. It's like no one could possibly enjoy the taste of ghost pepper No, no, does it even have a taste me even responding to that taste? I won't even try it Hey, you know who you know who loves that, you know, Olivier. Yes Those guys they have like well, they watch like Game of Thrones they get together and they eat those peppers Oh, yeah, they have like they're Olivier all ball Mercier who's a fighter in the UFC? Yeah, and they'll have like ghost pepper parties, you know And then the next day they'll go to comic-con and dress up as superheroes And then play some online poker and then eat more ghost peppers. He's also a UFC fighter He's a very extreme human being He's a funny kid. He's very very very nice guy. Yeah Know that he was a trained killer. You'd have no idea if you talk to him. It just seems like a gentleman He's a sweetie. Yeah, yeah good kid and it's a good for us. It's interesting You know, we we actually have a bit of a chapter in the book where we talk loosely about those guys and that relationship We guys sponsored him or something before before the rebutting, right? Yeah, because I remember one one of the fights that we did in Montreal We went to your restaurant afterwards and Olivier showed up after his fight. Yeah, you guys are congratulating him Yeah, yeah, his his fiance his wife works his girlfriend works with us at the restaurant for a long time now and you know, we met because these guys it's it's interesting a they're super into food and they're open to a lot of things and they're curious and a lot of them get Aimed in the wrong direction, you know, like the brown rice and chicken direction and and you're responsible for in big part for the awakening the nutritional awakening of these guys You know a lot of them go for their gun license now just to be able to hunt they go fishing on the weekend They go for like two hours hike in the wood and like little fishing rod They come back with trout and we get a phone call. He's like hey Fred I go fish for the trout You know, what do I do with that? You know, it's It's a great thing. And yeah, we did we did sponsor them after but then what we do now is we We cook for them a post weigh-in Yeah Marco did GSP at the last fight at Madison Square Gardens. They were the boys were there for a week We've done Tim Kennedy after they came for a week and just hung out and cooked meals. We said the kids Marco and Fred goes and gab goes Gabrielle drop-o they go they rent a suite and they prepare all of the meals up to weight cut and afterwards And do they have nutritional requirements for the weight cut and like did like to the week they do they have a nutritionist there with them but then they they have the plan but my ever take on that is If the nutritionist writes a plan and the food's not good and you don't eat it, then it doesn't doesn't work Like it may be right on paper, but if you don't take the pill then you You don't like you can say chicken and kale this much grams this but but we can professional cook Will make the kale delicious or Brussels price and cook the chicken properly Cuz the kale could be bad and the chicken and the dry thing to that works that I already suffering The thing that works the best in that case is that all of a sudden you have in the room We set up a little table which is so it's not like PlayStation dirty underwear like pre-fight vibe. It's Dining with it's dining with friends and and That's Marco gab me. We know we don't talk if you don't want to talk where you want to talk We're here, you know and we'll hang out but then you feel like your eggs in that tortilla you feel like your eggs with potatoes or like it's it's mellow and it helps a lot with just the context of not being like Ordering pizza from room service, you know George used to tell us horror stories, you know before some of his biggest wins years ago with George say eating like room service rigatoni and Pizza before like a major fight, you know, so now it's different