Why is Iga famous for her bakery?

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  • Опубліковано 21 сер 2023
  • Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown ('Kids Invent Stuff') and Dani Siller ('Escape This Podcast') face a question about some unwanted bread produce.
    LATERAL is a weekly podcast about interesting questions and even more interesting answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit www.lateralcast.com
    GUESTS:
    Ruth Amos: ‪@KidsInventStuff‬, / ruthamos
    Shawn Brown: ‪@KidsInventStuff‬, / shawnmakes
    Dani Siller: ‪@consumethismedia‬, / escthispodcast
    HOST: Tom Scott.
    QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
    RECORDED AT: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
    EDITED BY: Julie Hassett.
    GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
    MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com).
    FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
    © Pad 26 Limited (www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2023.
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  • @2tri749
    @2tri749 10 місяців тому +272

    The only person named Iga that I know of is Swiątek, but instead of scoring my mind went to "breadstick and bagel form a really odd-shaped tennis racket if you think about it"

  • @MrHudson2212
    @MrHudson2212 10 місяців тому +258

    Someone pronounced a Polish name correctly, and one with diacritics no less, that's pretty impressive.

    • @SharienGaming
      @SharienGaming 10 місяців тому +17

      gotta use that linguistics degree for something^^
      tom actually still has a couple of language videos from the early days of his channel =)

    • @matiwrubli
      @matiwrubli 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah that was good 😊

    • @maciejrataj4255
      @maciejrataj4255 10 місяців тому +9

      Tom has a BA in linguistics, he can read IPA.

  • @bunjection
    @bunjection 10 місяців тому +82

    Im Polish and tom pronounced Świątek almost perfectly!

  • @joebleasdale5557
    @joebleasdale5557 10 місяців тому +47

    This is an amazing question if you know the answer and an endlessly frustrating one if you don’t. Great podcast moment 😂😂😂

  • @maximama
    @maximama 10 місяців тому +144

    This one felt so different. I feel like almost all Lateral riddles can be figured out with clues and lots and lots and lots of logical thinking and deductions. I was able to get to 1's and 0's when the clue was given that we weren't talking about actual bread but I feel like that's where logical thinking stops and you just have to posses enough trivial knowledge to figure this one out, as Tom ended up completely giving away the answer.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 10 місяців тому +7

      When I first heard this on the podcast version. My first thought was that it was a metaphor for a pregnancy test.
      like the breadstick is a negative. a bagel is positive.
      1 bagel only means the test is working. the second bagel is you are pregnant.
      No Idea what two breadsticks would mean. (maybe test is not working)

    • @padraiglohan
      @padraiglohan 10 місяців тому +8

      I think lots of Lateral questions require random trivial knowledge -- it's just usually not sports knowledge.

    • @xchronox0
      @xchronox0 10 місяців тому

      I think the clue was in the very, very careful wording of the question.

    • @albond
      @albond Місяць тому

      The moment I heard this I knew it, but I am a tennis fan 😄

  • @DuhrDuhrDihr
    @DuhrDuhrDihr 10 місяців тому +8

    Finally! Not only did I know this one, it wasn't from a previous Tom Scott video!

  • @joeykalbas6350
    @joeykalbas6350 10 місяців тому +9

    Finally the Swiatek/Tom Scott crossover we all wanted

  • @telotawa
    @telotawa 10 місяців тому +45

    5:14 Very good pronunciation there, Tom! Thank you from Poland!

    • @mateuszsowa7261
      @mateuszsowa7261 10 місяців тому +4

      Nawet nie zauważyłem, czyli fest dobrze jak ja brytola

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 10 місяців тому +30

    "breadsticks and bagels" is the bakery-themed spin-off of Bedknobs and Broomsticks

  • @tomwatts703
    @tomwatts703 10 місяців тому +8

    I was pretty happy with myself for twigging 'breadstick = 1 and bagel = 0' but I also thought it was something computery until Tom said otherwise. I'm not a sports person at all but it's always interesting to hear nicknames like this and where they come from.

  • @Gandalf00UK
    @Gandalf00UK 10 місяців тому +96

    Tom trying hard not to get the video demonetised when Dani’s mind starts going to the erotic bakery! 😂

    • @hebl47
      @hebl47 10 місяців тому +17

      I mean, with bread sticks and bagels it could have easily gone that route.

    • @Rippertear
      @Rippertear 10 місяців тому +5

      "mind starts going to the erotic bakery" feels like a euphemism, but I'm not sure what for

    • @Archgeek0
      @Archgeek0 10 місяців тому +2

      @@RippertearThinking about butts, I suppose?

    • @Rippertear
      @Rippertear 10 місяців тому +3

      @@Archgeek0 I guess? That feels too easy and obvious, I'm thinking it has to be subtler and more esoteric than that. Like "Ah, don't mind them, their mind's gone off to the erotic bakery" meaning someone's caught up in an idea that, while it might sound appealing to some on its face, would never actually work. Sort of like Dashcon, or cryptocurrency evangelists

  • @elh93
    @elh93 10 місяців тому +27

    I'm a big fan of Iga's Bakery

    • @michaelocyoung
      @michaelocyoung 10 місяців тому +4

      It's just down the road from Martika's Kitchen

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 10 місяців тому +4

      There is a an Australian supermarket chain called IGA ( it stands for Independent Grocers of Australia) and their shops do have bakeries.

  • @JasonKurtz1992
    @JasonKurtz1992 10 місяців тому +7

    Finally, a Lateral question that I actually figured out!

  • @Spanner1971B
    @Spanner1971B 10 місяців тому +12

    This feels like a know it or not. No lateral thinking solution possible at all.

  • @Makhiel
    @Makhiel 10 місяців тому +9

    Tennis is weird, here in Czechia we call it a canary instead of a bagel.

  • @hcblue
    @hcblue 10 місяців тому +3

    Ruth, Shawn, and Dani make up one of my favorite panels

  • @ReyosBlackwood
    @ReyosBlackwood 10 місяців тому +7

    When tom said the best would be a six and this is a game, I thought cricket, since "six runs" is a cricket thing, I believe the most runs you can score without actually doing the running (similar to a home run in baseball, the ball ends up out of play I think)

  • @amandasunshine2
    @amandasunshine2 10 місяців тому +9

    When they got to the "what are they _really"_ part, my mind went back to the erotic bakery 😂

  • @antonm_
    @antonm_ 10 місяців тому +12

    hmmm... I followed tennis since I was a kid, never knew breadsticks and bagels were terminologies in the court. Is it just slang or is it some regional term used by umpires? I kinda got "bagel" since it is general slang for getting a zero score in a lot of sports.
    Also, I thought Iga's bakery was the French Open. 😅

    • @DaTimmeh
      @DaTimmeh 2 місяці тому

      As a long time tennis player, I had never heard bread stick for 6-1. Bagel, yes, like in many other sports, as you mentioned.
      And yes, they're absolutely slang, not official terms.

  • @liliwheeler2204
    @liliwheeler2204 10 місяців тому +1

    Ngl I spent solidly the first half of this question focused on "not best pleased" because that is definitely not a construction that I have in my vocabulary, and I REALLY kept wondering if it was Very Specific Question Wording

  • @metropod
    @metropod 10 місяців тому +7

    I LITERALLY, not kidding the absolute slightest, saw the answer to this THIS MORNING on the side of a subway train!
    Uber bought some exterior ads on the #7 subway line here in New York, which stops near the tennis center where they hold the US open which starts in a few days and as it was promoting all thier services, because of uber eats, it had tennis terms related to food, including what a bagel means in tennis.

  • @dylanrambow2704
    @dylanrambow2704 10 місяців тому +3

    As far as the "erotic bakery" idea goes, there is a bakery in Illinois called "2 Girls 1 Cupcake." It's a normal bakery, except for its name. Lol

  • @Andrew_Fernie
    @Andrew_Fernie 10 місяців тому +13

    Never heard of breadsticks and bagels. When did that become a thing?

  • @Westing-er3fb
    @Westing-er3fb 25 днів тому

    My initial thought was Iga supplied those baked goods to women who had given birth, breadsticks for boys and bagels for girls, and Madison wasn't pleased because she had given birth to twins.

  • @bob_._.
    @bob_._. 10 місяців тому +3

    I guess it's been too long since I've played tennis; I've never heard of those terms outside the world of high carbohydrate foodstuffs.

  • @momo1435
    @momo1435 10 місяців тому +2

    Iga just reopened her bakery, this time in New York.

  • @Rognik
    @Rognik 5 місяців тому

    Iga gave her name to a grocery store chain in Canada. Oh, wait, I'm told that it's IGA standing for Independent Grocer's Association.

  • @jetkirby
    @jetkirby 7 місяців тому

    Iga is the name of the guy who made the rpg Castlevania games like symphony of the night and now makes bloodstained ritual of the night

  • @sammarks9146
    @sammarks9146 10 місяців тому +1

    My initial answer was that she wasn't pleased because her entire existence is in an SAT question.

  • @edl5731
    @edl5731 10 місяців тому +7

    On the topic of the the erotic bakery. My college cafe had a special on Freud's birthday: Hotdogs and donuts.

  • @mysteryshrimp
    @mysteryshrimp 10 місяців тому +1

    I played highly competitive tennis for about a decade, my dad was captain if his college tennis team, and I have never, not once, heard it referred to as breadsticks and bagels.
    Maybe it's a more recent thing than my career-ending rotator cuff surgery, though.

  • @Zymi1
    @Zymi1 10 місяців тому +16

    5:15, nice pronunciation Tom

  • @Sku11Leader
    @Sku11Leader 8 місяців тому

    The International Grocery Association near me has a great bakery. Very good maple donuts there.

  • @csanadtemesvari9251
    @csanadtemesvari9251 9 місяців тому

    Iga was too eager to give Madison thr breadsticks.

  • @pieterfaes6263
    @pieterfaes6263 10 місяців тому +1

    The moment they said it was about a game, I got "Oh dammit it's about _those_ two". The breadstick must have thrown me off, it is not nearly as well known a term as a bagel for those not familiar with that kind of game.

  • @ukaszcieluba1596
    @ukaszcieluba1596 10 місяців тому

    Being Polish this was soooo obvious! :)

  • @cassiebottorff1280
    @cassiebottorff1280 10 місяців тому +1

    I was COMPLETELY wrong 🤣 I was guessing it was someone doing data entry in a hospital and they gave a girl (with XX chromosomes) the wrong entry, making it XY in the system, and it had to be changed later at great expense 🤣

  • @igorbednarski8048
    @igorbednarski8048 10 місяців тому

    That's an impressively correct pronunciation of Świątek for a non-native

  • @SuperAlphabetagama
    @SuperAlphabetagama 10 місяців тому +1

    One of those times when I got it before the guests XD

  • @RidgwayBrandon
    @RidgwayBrandon 10 місяців тому +1

    So this is the second time Tom has asked a Tennis question to a group of 3 other people; and one of the people didn't get it despite watching Tennis??

  • @andrewshanks7053
    @andrewshanks7053 4 місяці тому

    When I heard that Breadsticks and bagels were 1s and 0s, I wax thinning of judges' scores, and I happened to pick up from you're wrong about that figure skating had judges award scores out of 6...

  • @ZdzichuWiertara96
    @ZdzichuWiertara96 10 місяців тому

    First one in looooong time that I knew instantly. Possibly because I'm Polish. Jazda 1ga!

  • @sweetsandcharades8383
    @sweetsandcharades8383 9 місяців тому

    I honestly thought it would be some secret code/message thing during WWII or something like that. Also was very interested in whether Madison was a man or woman and whether it was Madison or Iga who was displeased because that sentence could mean both things.

  • @sophiamarchildon3998
    @sophiamarchildon3998 10 місяців тому +2

    Initial thoughts: I don't know who Ida or Madison are. But stick and hole sexual innuendos pop up. So maybe Madison was virgin, vowed celibacy, homosexual, unable/reluctant to create a child, etc. Thus, that gift would be interpreted as a taunt, mockery, or unwanted pressure, ...
    But that's not Lateral; that's what most internet dwellers would have their thoughts gravitate towards. So, let's think, breadstick and bagel, not in a sexual way... I've got nothing. Maybe "axel and wheel"? Like Madison proposed a "revolutionary" mechanism that could simply be reduced to that, or that could be much easily and cheaply done with that.

  • @deetybaby
    @deetybaby 10 місяців тому

    I was thinking cycling because of the Madison.

  • @holgerchristiansen4003
    @holgerchristiansen4003 10 місяців тому

    Wow, usually I have at least some inkling of an idea that goes in the right direction at some point during the video. This time? Not even close! Never in a million years would I have gotten that one!

  • @Aviertje
    @Aviertje 10 місяців тому

    I didn't know the two sports people (sports isn't my thing at all) so I stood no chance at ever figuring it out. That said, my mind was on sports from pretty early on, figuring it was some sort of artistic swimming or judo question due to the names involved.

  • @zoranz7147
    @zoranz7147 10 місяців тому

    one of the few I knew from the start.

  • @keir92
    @keir92 10 місяців тому

    i know im way too into tennis because i got this from the first few words

  • @ecchikitty1395
    @ecchikitty1395 10 місяців тому

    Here I was thinking WWII spy codes, was way off.

  • @Szadols
    @Szadols 6 місяців тому

    10/10 pronounciation Tom

  • @svetievboris
    @svetievboris 10 місяців тому

    I've been a passionate tennis watching fan for most of Federer's career and this is the first time I've heard of these euphemisms.

  • @arnelilleseter4755
    @arnelilleseter4755 10 місяців тому +3

    Sex toys made out of bread was actually a thing, maybe.
    Apparently they were used in ancient Greece but there are only a few mentions of it and it could have been meant as a joke.

    • @Archgeek0
      @Archgeek0 10 місяців тому +3

      Sound like a good way to get a _yeast_ infection. Or at least get a _rise_ out of whomever gets gifted one.

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 10 місяців тому

      ​@@Archgeek0around those time people probably just perpetually lived with more then internal infections at any given point

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 10 місяців тому

      This is actually smart eat them when on day one and he they get stale, they have a second life

  • @gamesetmatt23
    @gamesetmatt23 10 місяців тому

    Ughh.. annoyed that I didn't get this sooner. The 'usually to women' part threw me 😅

  • @tommiller1315
    @tommiller1315 10 місяців тому

    Need to know the illogical use of those words for scoring a game I avoided all my life. 🤣

  • @panda4247
    @panda4247 10 місяців тому +1

    The question was very weirdly phrased.
    "She can once gave (it) to Madison, but she was not best pleased (about it)."
    that sound like Iga was not pleased about it, i.e. she had to give something to Madison but she did not want to.
    shouldn't the question be phrased
    "She can once gave (it) to Madison, who was not best pleased (about it)." ?

    • @lateralcast
      @lateralcast  10 місяців тому

      I take your point, but (if my grammar is correct) you would have to use "whom" in that example, and I have an aversion to using that word because few people seem to understand it and it's quite hard to pronounce. -- David (producer)

    • @panda4247
      @panda4247 10 місяців тому

      @@lateralcast hmmm... I thought "whom" is used when the person is an object of the sentence.
      Since Madison is supposed to be the subject of that sentence (of the second part of the sentence) I believe "who" should be the correct word.
      I believe my original understanding might be rephrased with the word "whom" :)
      "She (Iga) once gave it to Madison, but she (the subject is still Iga) was not pleased with whom she had to give it to".

    • @pepkin88
      @pepkin88 10 місяців тому

      @@lateralcast There should be "who" in this case.
      There's a test to check which one is correct: substitute it with the associated pronoun to see if it sounds good or not. For "who" that would be "he/she", for "whom" that would be "him/her".
      So: "she was not best pleased about it" sounds ok, but "her was not best pleased about it" does not.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 2 місяці тому

    3:45 She didn't need a shave or a haircut, she she had no use for 2 bits.

  • @jacawandersmok9043
    @jacawandersmok9043 10 місяців тому

    6:40 polish Iga is Polish

  • @TheRealInscrutable
    @TheRealInscrutable 10 місяців тому

    You said sports and "six" and I thought cricket.

  • @bhambhole
    @bhambhole 10 місяців тому

    Lol Dani

  • @cooledcannon
    @cooledcannon 10 місяців тому

    I thought it was a Polish bakery lol

  • @Pikachu0071000CS
    @Pikachu0071000CS 10 місяців тому +1

    I though it would be about like gender reveal tbh and the maximum was cuz twins and if you had more it's worse for some women XD

  • @scbtripwire
    @scbtripwire 10 місяців тому

    Before hearing the answer: no idea, but it sounds like something related to sex ed.

  • @AboveSomething
    @AboveSomething 4 місяці тому

    meanwhile i thought for the longest time the breadsticks and bagels were an analogy for.. sexual organs..?

  • @LordClarkson
    @LordClarkson 7 місяців тому

    Getting a yeast infection from the Erotic Bakery sounds horrible

  • @jakubopyrcha9222
    @jakubopyrcha9222 9 місяців тому

    If we're on the topic of Poland and erotic bakeries, there's an erotic bakery next to my workplace here in Poland, so I know for a fact they are a thing

  • @munjee2
    @munjee2 10 місяців тому

    Why would they go with breadstick, "bagel and baguette" works much better

  • @nathangamble125
    @nathangamble125 9 місяців тому

    The erotic bakery was the first thing I thought of.

  • @beansclox
    @beansclox 10 місяців тому

    yippee

  • @mateuszsowa7261
    @mateuszsowa7261 10 місяців тому

    Holy shit Poland Mentioned

  • @MrTandtrollet
    @MrTandtrollet 10 місяців тому +1

    sports questions =( completely clueless ...

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 10 місяців тому

    I thought whitewashes were called doughnuts.

  • @Slikx666
    @Slikx666 10 місяців тому

    The things I know about tennis are a ball is hit and erotic sounds are made. 😐

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 2 місяці тому

    I know you should not feed bread to ducks. Perhaps she was a duck, and wanted grapes, not bread.

  • @Zelmel
    @Zelmel 10 місяців тому +1

    I genuinely am kind of mad at Tom about this one TBH.

  • @MrBlockhead247
    @MrBlockhead247 10 місяців тому

    He's giving out chromosomes 😮

  • @piratetaurussackinhaff9402
    @piratetaurussackinhaff9402 10 місяців тому +1

    I thought that Madison got probably got misgendered and received a boy's ration of breadsticks. Makes sense in today's environment, don't you think..?

  • @grandetaco4416
    @grandetaco4416 10 місяців тому +1

    This was not up to the usual questions, I'm giving this one a thumbs down. It's too vague.

  • @tonypang83
    @tonypang83 10 місяців тому

    In Chinese, it'd sometimes be an egg, not a bagel... which incidentally links back to the answer to this riddle, as some people believe the actual word used has this same origin.