Welcome to pop culture, the podcast that brings soft drinks to the top of the menu. I'm Helen O'Hara, film journalist, author and lifelong teetotaler, not with me today is my co host, Kat Brown. And that's because this week, we have been up to something a little different. And as we warned you last time, something that may make you hate us forever. So I'm really sorry about that. If so, now this comes from one of the very first things that I talked about with cat when we started talking about this podcast was an experience that we shared in 2019. We were feeling remarkably flush for once, and we took ourselves to the Fat Duck. Now, the Fat Duck, for those of you who don't obsessively follow the lives of chefs, is the restaurant founded by Hasselblad untold in 1995. It was initially a fairly traditional French bistro. But as Blumenthal got more and more interested in the science of food, and how and why we cook, things became a bit more experimental and most famously, a bit more playful. So this is the restaurant, where they give you a giant conch shell, for example, that plays sounds of the sea while you eat a seafood dish. Or they give you a gold watch that dissolves into a soup for a sort of Alice in Wonderland inspired moment. It's really cool. It's really clever. It's really tasty. And it's one of the top restaurants in the world. Now, I'm not just laying all of this out to wax lyrical about posh food and a wonderful time that we once had. The reason that this is all relevant to pop culture, is that when we went in 2019, cat, and I discovered that the Fat Duck also does a soft drinks flight. So that's a series of soft drink pairings for all of these elaborate courses of their food. And when we started work on this podcast, they were there for top of our list of people we wanted to talk to. And by them, I mean, in particular head, smelly, Melania Bella Seanie and her team, because we wanted to know how they put these pairings together, we got in touch with them. And they very kindly invited us to have the full food and drink experience, which was extraordinarily generous of them. But what was mind blowing for us was learning from Melania herself about how much effort and expertise goes into each of these soft drinks. This is not just a matter of choosing the right juice or finding the right d alcohol iced wine for each course. This is a whole new kind of drinks science, I think. And something that has certainly inspired me and I think is going to hopefully inspire all of you listening to try mixing new things and trying new ways of matching your soft drinks to your food as we go through this podcast. So we hope that you will indulge us with his rather unusual episode, which we recorded at our table with Melania herself. Hence there's a bit of background noise. So yeah, with no further ado, The Fat Duck.