Duff Goldman vs Kardea Brown: Gen Z Slang Challenge Goes Off the Rails

Duff Goldman and Kardea Brown have rizz!

The Baking Championship: Next Gen co-hosts quizzed each other on Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) slang in a funny new Food Network video.

“We’re working with kids. So there’s a lot of stuff we need to know,” Goldman begins the segment. “Most importantly, we need to understand Gen Z and Gen A slang.”

The pair then proceed to quiz each other on various slang words

When Goldman, 51, asks Brown, 38, to define “rizz,” she asks, “Does that mean something cool?”

“It is cool to have rizz,” Goldman confirms.

“It’s their new term for swag,” Brown agrees, as Goldman compares the term to “moxie” or “chutzpah.”

Next up, the Make Do with What You Have cookbook author tests Goldman on “serving.”

“You go to a restaurant and your server is serving you dinner,” Goldman suggests.

Brown clarifies, “It means to describe an attractive person, like ‘Oh, she’s serving. She’s serving looks.’”

When Brown names the next slang term — “the ick — Goldman asks, “Was that a character on Saved by the Bell?”

“Hey, everybody hide, it’s the ick,” he jokes. “I think that’s, like, when something’s gross, right? Like it gives me the ick. I get that one.”

Brown then successfully identifies “pookie,” explaining, “That means a friend. Like that’s my girl. That’s my pookie.”

“Yeah, like bae,” Goldman offers.

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The famed pastry chef nails the next saying, “Ate. Left no crumbs.”

“If you ate and you left no crumbs, you did an awesome job,” he observes.

And finally, Goldman attempts to define “sus,” guessing, “That’s like when you’ve got to investigate something, you’re going to  sus it out.”

“No, it means something is suspicious,” Brown reveals. “Or someone’s moving or acting funny. He’s acting sus. … I can see you using that though.”

She then suggests kids might say, “Duff is cool, he’s using sus.”

“That’s not what kids think when adults use their lingo,” Goldman jokes. “They don’t think he’s cool. They go, “Why are you saying that? it gives me the ick.”

Baking Championship: Next Gen airs Monday nights on Food Network and streams the following day on HBO Max and discovery+.