Sep 2, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
This is the one-hundred and thirty-fourth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which there's much abuzz about Pop-Tarts, Dan gushes about granola, and we pit The Most Divisive Cereal of Today against some of…
Justin McElroyHostI'm just a really big fan, and so when I heard that Reese's Puffs was finally, finally releasing a PB&J flavor after all these years, I got really excited, especially because they're flavoring it with strawberry jelly.
And I don't know where you stand on the civil war between grape and strawberry when it comes to BB&J, but I am a true pinkish-red strawberry patriot.

i uh i'm a i'm a grape guy i would say um i do dabble with strawberry though because my kids don't like grape so kind of
have to adapt well as long as we agree that raspberry is not part of the conversation then i think why waste your time i guess would be my question what's the point So yeah, these new Reese's Puffs, PB&J adds in some strawberry puffs to the mix.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the fact that they're keeping the chocolate puffs in the mix.

Wasn't there an oops all peanut butter version of Reese's? They did that recently, right?
I wonder if it's something like the Cinnamon Toast Crunch effect where they can't dilute the Reese's Puffs brand by taking the chocolate out.
They need you to know that this is still Reese's Puffs at the end of the day if the shocking orange box didn't make it clear.
I had the Reese's PB&J cups that they released in both grape and strawberry, and I thought those worked really well, so maybe chocolate's not that bad.
I'm just a really big fan, and so when I heard that Reese's Puffs was finally, finally releasing a PB&J flavor after all these years, I got really excited, especially because they're flavoring it with strawberry jelly.
And I don't know where you stand on the civil war between grape and strawberry when it comes to BB&J, but I am a true pinkish-red strawberry patriot.

i uh i'm a i'm a grape guy i would say um i do dabble with strawberry though because my kids don't like grape so kind of
have to adapt well as long as we agree that raspberry is not part of the conversation then i think why waste your time i guess would be my question what's the point So yeah, these new Reese's Puffs, PB&J adds in some strawberry puffs to the mix.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the fact that they're keeping the chocolate puffs in the mix.

Wasn't there an oops all peanut butter version of Reese's? They did that recently, right?
I wonder if it's something like the Cinnamon Toast Crunch effect where they can't dilute the Reese's Puffs brand by taking the chocolate out.
They need you to know that this is still Reese's Puffs at the end of the day if the shocking orange box didn't make it clear.
I had the Reese's PB&J cups that they released in both grape and strawberry, and I thought those worked really well, so maybe chocolate's not that bad.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.