“My girlfriend was visiting recently and she was hearing my mom and my aunt talk to each other. They're just cutting cucumbers and they're screaming. And she's like, are they mad at each other? And my mom's like, no, I was just telling her that she was cutting the cucumbers too thin. It's like, okay, so you are mad.”
Breaking Bread with Tom Papa · Food & Beverage · October 2026
Patel is describing how loud his family is, which he compares to having the TV on all the time. The host's summary is that this is just how they talk.
Transcript
Yeah, that's nice. It's like there's something going. It's like TV. It's like the TV's on all the time, kind of. Right. Right, exactly. It's like you're not bored. Someone's yelling about something.
Yeah, just that this is how they talk.
Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Because my girlfriend was visiting recently and she was like hearing my mom and my aunt talk to each other. They're just cutting cucumbers and they're screaming. And she's like, are they mad at each other? And my mom's like, no, I was just telling her that she was cutting the cucumbers too thin. It's like, okay, so you are mad. Right, but I
don't hate her. I don't hate her.
And we're not mad at each other. We just scream all the time and critique each other.
You have siblings?
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