Right alongside ungrateful trick-or-treaters and those neighbors who once filed a noise complaint against her family party in 1999, please add double-dipping fiends to Kelly Ripa’s list of life’s terrors.
Live With Kelly & Mark kicked off Thursday morning with the longtime cohost and her husband, Mark Consuelos, reminding people that they should maybe be more mindful when it comes to sharing communal food.
“Double-dipping may seem gross, but it’s not as risky as you may think,” Consuelos said, without citing a source for the science behind the claim.
“I do find, when it’s just you and I dining, we can double-dip,” Consuelos continued, with Ripa joking, “I mean, we do way worse to each other. Double-dipping is the least of our problems.”
Without hesitation, Ripa gave a stern reply: “You shove it in your mouth and eat it like a human,” she said.
“What I do is, I get my chips, there’s the community dip. I will use a singular chip to scoop out what I perceive to be enough dip to satisfy the amount of chips I’ve taken,” Ripa continued. “Like a human being. Because, when it’s community dip and you’re dipping, biting, and double dipping, that seems like a foul.”
Consuelos jumped into quip that “it’s disgusting,” before they seamlessly moved on to another topic.
The conversation came amid a fitting development in Consuelos’ career as an actor, as he recently appeared on an episode of the crime thriller series 9-1-1, where he actually became the snack when a giant whale swallowed him whole.
“Your mother was very upset,” Ripa said earlier on Live, before the couple recounted Consuelos’ mom’s reaction to her son’s wild TV moment.
“I said, ‘Mom, that’s only TV. It’s just TV,'” Consuelos remembered. “She said, ‘I don’t care!'”
Ripa said that Consuelos’ mother told her that it was “very upsetting” to watch her son get eaten by a whale, and even asked her, “Kelly, when the whale came, weren’t you worried?” and additionally inquired, “How did they get the whale to spit him out?”
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