Binge Like a Broad: The Perfect Broad City Food Pairings Guide
When a season of your favorite show wraps, it’s a bit of a bummer. But at the same time, it also presents an opportunity for the most decadent, satisfying television viewing experience: binge watching.
Contrary to popular opinion, you can actually work up quite an appetite while binge watching—especially when the show is as weed-centric as Comedy Central’s brilliant hit, Broad City. Based in NYC, the show follows twenty-something best friends Abbi and Ilana through awkward—and sometimes hilariously familiar—everyday struggles and antics.
With the recent end of Season 2, it’s high time to indulge big time in both seasons. To give you strength enough to not only get through a proper binge and beyond, but to say goodbye to Abbi and Ilana until Season 3 returns in 2016, I’ve compiled a binge-watching menu inspired by their food-centric escapades from all 20 episodes. From savory to sweet, it contains a variety of delicious treats that are perfect to enjoy yourself and, if you’re lucky, with your real life BFF.
Pizza
Above all else, Abbi and Ilana love each other and marijuana. As they struggle through life, their commitment to both is both comical and commendable. Abbi, for instance, sets out to become an adult who buys her own drugs after discovering Ilana carries hers (that she uses to smoke Abbi up) in her vagina (vuh-yeen-ya)—a method of storage and transportation Ilana argues is safe, adult-like, and perfectly reasonable. While Abbi struggles to find someone to buy from, she finds her dealer, a tween prep-school boy who approaches her and condescendingly informs her that he sells “pizza,” (what the kids are calling it).
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To fulfill all of your own pizza-fueled pleasures, pass on frozen or delivery and get with these homemade stuffed pizza pockets instead. Hot, fresh, endlessly customizable, and just tangentially vaginal enough, these pizza pockets were made for stuffing into your maw while you ponder life’s important questions, like gentrification, rape culture, or who you’d rather get head from: Michael Buble or Janet Jackson.
Vegan Sandwiches
The girls are beyond excited for Abbi’s first gallery art show until they discover that the “gallery” is a vegan sandwich shop. Abbi is as upset that the sandwich shop claims to be a gallery as she is that they call themselves a sandwich shop. As she says, “They don’t even have meat, so I don’t know that I would even consider it a sandwich shop.” Her delight over the sale of her drawing of a hamburger is overshadowed by the store’s offer of store credit for sandwiches as payment.
Trust, though, that there are some succulent, legit meatless burgers out there. As thick and substantial as any meaty counterpart, if these black bean, portabella mushroom, and broccoli-laden chunky veggie burgers were the kind of vegan sandwiches the shop offered Abbi, she would have happily accepted.
Banana Pudding
Promptly after getting the number of the cute guy who called her ‘hot’ in a bar, Abbi loses her phone. Using an app, Abbi and Ilana trek all over the city, where Abbi finally tracks it to NYC’s famous Magnolia Bakery. After exchanging phones with the woman who’d accidentally taken hers, she orders a large container of their famous banana pudding and leaves the woman to pay for it.
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