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Speaker: Hello hungry people This is Snack Situation The show where I'm Matt Wilson her And me Marlene Thompson We try snacks And on this edition We are We are fulfilling What has been a fan request For Yeah.
Speaker: Cool. Because the fans know, they know, yeah that I am a long professed fan and enjoyer of Shaquille O'Neal.
Speaker: Yeah. Big Diesel. Big Aristotle. We got it. We got it. We got it. NBA legend. Yep. Acting great. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Rapper extraordinaire. Mm-hmm. And Shaq has a ah new product. Shaq has a lot of products. Yeah, here's the thing about that. So when you're celebrity, i just think that if you have made your money on like one thing, you can just like stop.
Speaker: it is It is. But that being said, that being said. He's maybe the one that I'm like, yeah, that's all right. It is so funny to me that Shaq has so many, not just endorsements, but like products that are specifically like, these are my products. Like yeah General Insurance.
Speaker: Wait, what? there's ah There's a auto insurance company called The General. But do they just use him in the ad, or is it like yeah he owns it? he's not I don't think he owns but he's the ad. that's not what talking about. I'm talking about like... Papa John's he does own a stake Well... And when the original Papa John left... Well, when the original Papa John...
Speaker: Whatever, he's just a piece of shit, you know what i mean. We know what he did. um When he left, Shaq, I don't think he has like a controlling interest in the company or anything, but he has taken a big piece of Papa John's, and there is now a pizza at Papa John's named for him called the Shaqaroni.
Speaker: Oh, Jesus. And Chris and I considered doing that back when Chris was doing Snack Situation. But yeah even I was like, that's just a pepperoni pizza. Also, like, Papa John's isn't good.
Speaker: ah the the the The sauce is very sweet. that's That's how I feel about Papa John's. but I much prefer a Pizza Hut. I'm not going to lie. I would also rather take Pizza Hut. yeah But um people have been sending me pictures of these or links to these saying, snack situation? And so, like, we have to do it. there It's the Shackalicious XL Gubbies.
Speaker: So extra large? They're very big. So are they just extra large Sour Patch Kids? How big are they? Can I see them? They're big gummies. Can I see them? Here, I'm going to hand you the package. They're big. oh they oh Oh, they're his face. Those are his face. the the Those are the non-sour ones. The sour ones are just random shapes. Oh my god, this is so weird. Can I try it? Can we try it? going to try it in a second.
Speaker: Okay. Okay. But as a palate cleanser... See, here's the thing about this show. I don't like that we have to explain the thing before we eat it sometimes. I... Which I know that's the whole fucking point.
Speaker: But I'm just saying. The talking is the show. But why can't it be a visual medium? I guess yeah we could start a YouTube channel where we try the snacks instead. That's so much work.
Speaker: But do you want to see people... do you want people to see you chewing? i mean, don't care. I don't care. As a palate cleanser, we did did get two flavors of potato chips.
Speaker: Because I just thought... its a palate cleanser. Yeah, I just thought... I saw these, and I was like, I want to try those. so one is Okay. One of my favorite Ruffles flavors is the cheddar and sour cream Ruffles. These are queso Ruffles.
Speaker: Oh. Hmm. So I'm curious about that. And then I got... Have you ever had... Okay, so I see that you have Utz, right? These are Utz chips. Have ever had an Utz crab fried chip? Yes.
Speaker: They're so good. They are good. These Utz chips are Mike's Hot Honey chips. I think those could be great. Okay. um there's also i didn't I couldn't find a small bag of these, and I'm not buying a large bag.
Speaker: But at some point, I think we have to try. There's a new Doritos flavor called Golden Sriracha Doritos. Oh. Is that like a chip that so that has sriracha but has been peed on?
Speaker: Gross. Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know why they... I was watching a lot dumbass Instagram Reels before this, so I think my brain went... They've infected your brain? They have. I think there's a fucking parasite in my brain right now. I... Not really. That was a joke.
Speaker: I'm curious about why they chose that color for the Sriracha flavored Doritos. i mean, they just look like tortilla chips. They don't look like they're pee. They just look like tortilla chips. Pee?
Speaker: you You got pee on the brain.
Speaker: the They just look like tortilla chips, but sriracha sauce is red. Mm-hmm. But I guess they're already red Doritos. I don't know. So they had to, like, come up with a weird new color. I don't know. But we'll try those sometime later. Okay, so let's try something first. All right, let's.
Speaker: I will say this. I opened the the bag of Shackalicious gummies. And these are large bags. Yeah, they're really big. I don't know how we're going to eat all of them, honestly. A smell emanated that I can't say I'm a huge fan of. Oh, but you're worried about me saying P? um In the back of the bag, it says, gummies from the biggest kid in the candy store.
Speaker: So I think that means Shaq. And there are three flavors of non-sour. There's peach, berry punch, and orange. Okay, give me one, please.
Speaker: So this one is the one that's kind of pinkish. I think this is peach. These are the same color, right? Those are the same color? I don't know. Alright, we're going to try these.
Speaker: I can't tell what's what.
Speaker: It tastes like... It's a very subtle flavor. Oh, don't think I like them.
Speaker: I think that's peach. It's like... It sort of tastes like chemicals. Yeah, it tastes like chemicals. Yeah. Okay. It's okay. No, it's fine.
Speaker: I'm just saying it doesn't have like any kind of different flavor. I can't tell what it is. It's kind of not not bursting with the flavor you might expect. you mean that it's like all the flavors combined into one gummy?
Speaker: Or there are different gummies that are different flavors? The different gummies are different flavors. Let's try blue one. Let's one of the ones. No, let's try the blue one. You want to try the blue one non-sour? Yeah. Okay. There's a blue one. Okay, thank you.
Speaker: These are in the shape of Shaq's face, by the way. Yeah. The blue is supposed to Berry Punch.
Speaker: It tastes the same. It's a little different. ah Yeah, it's a little different, but... Yeah. i want it to be Blue Raspberry, and it's not.
Speaker: It tastes like Kool-Aid powder. Oh, it kind of does taste like Kool-Aid powder. Powder. Did I say power? You did say power. It tastes like the powder for Tropical Punch Kool-Aid.
Speaker: Tropical Punch Kool-Aid is a little sweeter than that. What flavor of Kool-Aid would you say? probably say Tropical Punch. I think it's Tropical Punch Kool-Aid. That tastes like Tropical Punch Kool-Aid to me.
Speaker: Okay. So we've tried two of them. I mean, Kool-Aid's a good flavor. Yeah, sure. I like that one more than the peach one. i agree. um Okay, now that we've tried two of the gummies, now let's try a chip.
Speaker: Do you want hot honey or do you want queso? Let's do the hot honey. Hot honey. Okay. There's a hot honey chip. Oh, my God. That's the smallest chip, Matt. Sorry.
Speaker: like I'll give you a bigger one. You know that one? Yeah. Ooh.
Speaker: It's like spicy...
Speaker: Hey. That's good. That is pretty good. I like that chip. That's fucking good. Yeah. no yeah i I am inclined to crush these right now. Uh-oh. He found a favorite. Yeah. They're really good.
Speaker: Yeah. it's like yeah It's like spicy sweet. That's delicious. Yeah. That's really good. Wow. Keep me away from them because i'll probably eat...
Speaker: I love them. I love... And it's spicy, too, which I like. Yeah. You remember how you said that you were like, you want to watch do you think people want to watch you chewing, or do you want people to watch you chewing? Well, they're listening to us chewing, and I would have to say that that's probably way more annoying. That's that's an ASMR thing.
Speaker: Some people really hate the sound of chewing. Oh, I know. Trust me. I've seen the reviews of this show. I know. I actually fucking hate the sound of chewing. i actually... Typically...
Speaker: I also dropped a chip under the bed. Cut a lot of chewing sounds from the show. I mean, I leave a few in, but mostly I cut. Okay. All right. That's it. I'm not going have any more because already had dinner. I got a handful, so. Okay.
Speaker: So those are good. These are good chips. Great. Let's try the second, the third thing. Okay. Well, there's one flavor of regular gummy that we haven't tried.
Speaker: here ah
Speaker: ah The orange one. So let's try the orange one. That's the orange one. These are both orange? Yeah. I can't tell them apart from the pick. It may just be the lighting in here, but... Oh, that does taste like peach.
Speaker: So this is peach and that was orange? Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Oh, that definitely tastes like peach. Actually, i like that. Why... So the orange is pink and the peach orange?
Speaker: No, I think you're colorblind. That's pink. Okay. I think it's just dim in this room. thank you I don't like that. I don't like that peach flavor. I like peach.
Speaker: Knowing that this is orange now, I'm going to try that again. Okay. I just want to let you know, this is not a Michelin star restaurant. So if we can't figure out what the flavor is, it'll be fine.
Speaker: Yeah, I guess that's orange.
Speaker: That one kind of tastes like nothing, though. Now, on to a sour flavor. The sour flavors are green watermelon, mixed berry, and pineapple.
Speaker: And they're in the shape sub. His face. A clover? wait, let me see. A cactus and a truck.
Speaker: Why? Why? all right, we're going to try the green one, which is green watermelon. And that's a clover, right?
Speaker: but Yeah, that is a clover. Why why is watermelon a clover? No, don't know. but I really don't know. Is this... Oh, because he's Shaquille O'Neal. So he's Irish. Oh, that's right. He is Irish.
Speaker: I think these are like supposed to be references to Shaq things.
Speaker: The sour ones are already better. Sour watermelon is really good.
Speaker: That tastes like watermelon, and it's nicely sour. It's got the like citric acid on the outside. Already huge improvement. Pretty good. The sour ones. I like them.
Speaker: Over the regular ones. I'm a fan of sour candy. All right. So we've tried two more gummy flavors. Do we want to try the queso chips?
Speaker: No, I want more sour gummies. You want more sour gummies. Yeah. Well, next, let's do the cactus. Which is purple. Which is mixed berry. Oh, okay. You'd think this would be grape. It would be grape, yeah. But it's not. It's mixed berry.
Speaker: I think I like the watermelon one better. But it's not bad. It's not bad. but Yeah. It's sort of generic. Yeah, it's little But it tastes good. Yeah, it's not bad. but Okay, do you want the last sour gummy or yeah the chip?
Speaker: Let's do the last sour gummy because I feel like... Okay, this is yellp this is pineapple. oh Oh. And I know why this is a truck because Shaq is diesel. Oh, okay.
Speaker: That's like a nickname? Uh-huh. but How do you get that? From being diesel. Yeah, no, but I mean like how you get that? You can't just say something and expect me to get it. He'll truck you on the court.
Speaker: Okay. that Why can't it just be the truck?
Speaker: Because somebody else is probably already the truck. Mmm. That's pretty good. It's fine. right It's my least favorite of the three sour ones. Yeah.
Speaker: ah yeah It doesn't really taste like pineapple. No, it's a little like...
Speaker: Yeah. I don't really know. No, it tastes like pineapple.
Speaker: It's like pineapple and maybe a little, like, it's almost like pe i like, pina colada flavor or something. It's weird for pineapple to be sour.
Speaker: I think that's why it tastes like a pina colada to me. Maybe. Maybe. It's fine. I like the other two better. Yeah. All right, now we're going to try a case of shit. It says on the back, thank you, Duolingo.
Speaker: got sonisa ah thank you do lino There is a flavor behind every smile. It tastes like a good cheddar and sour cream chip, but not sour cream, just cheddar.
Speaker: Yeah. Which isn't bad. Not bad, but they're like... But give me the cheddar and sour cream. it's like It's weird that the this new flavor takes out something. something It says on the back, all snacks are inspired by the authentic flavors of Latin America.
Speaker: well So I wonder if this was a flavor like... Maybe it's a flavor... It's a Ruffles flavor in like... Yeah. Mexico or Central America or South America.
Speaker: like them. That they just made available here. I think they're good.
Speaker: ah do love a cheddar They're good. i would rather have cheddar and sour cream, I think. Yeah. But those are pretty good. Compared to the Hot Honey Utts? Not even close.
Speaker: Alright, so let's rank stuff. Okay. So I'm just going to do it by bag.
Speaker: Because, honestly, that's too many things to rank. So, for me. So what I'm going to say is, do we want to do from bottom to top?
Speaker: Sure. Okay. Fourth place is the Shaq gummies that aren't sour. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: Second, I think, is those queso chips. Or sorry, third is the queso chips. All right. The second thing for me would probably be specifically the watermelon sour gummy. Okay.
Speaker: And then number one would be the sriracha honey. Oh, it's not sriracha. It's just hot honey. Oh, hot honey. I mean, yeah. Oh, right. That's sriracha. The sriracha pea.
Speaker: Sriracha was the Dorito. The P Dorito. That was a good callback. I'm going to, it was. I'm going to rank the so I would agree with you, i think.
Speaker: I think I would put regular gummies, sour gummies, queso chips, and then hot honey chips. Oh, yeah. You know, I might put it that way, too. Yeah. but The only thing is, i like, going, like, I don't know.
Speaker: I like, I was thinking, but yeah. But I'm going to rank the gummies too. Individually. Okay. Bottom is orange. Okay.
Speaker: Number five is peach. Probably right. Number four is... the fruit punch thing? Berry punch. Yeah. Number three is pineapple.
Speaker: Number two is sour mixed berry. Yeah. And number one is watermelon. They are good. The watermelon, sour ones... are legit good. Yeah.
Speaker: The rest are like... They are quite good. Okay Yep. Blah. I have another queso chip. Yeah. You know, I might like the queso ones more than I like the... Whoa, that was that's a huge... Please break that in half. Okay.
Speaker: yeah There was a shack...
Speaker: It wasn't like a tea, but it looked like an Arizona iced tea, it was supposed to be like a shack drink that you could buy. Oh, I think I remember that. This was from quite a few years ago. Yeah.
Speaker: I remember buying that, and it tasted like somebody put a roll of Smarties in sparkling water. Oh, God. That's bad.
Speaker: That's bad. And i will say that all of these gummies are better than that was. So when? so So... In the realm of Shaq-related products, this is at least better than that. Yeah.
Speaker: Agreed. Because I never tasted it, but that description makes me want to gag. so Yeah, it was it wasn't good. and like...
Speaker: I love Shaq. I think he will put his name on anything. Yeah, ma'am. And you know what? Okay. how i started I said at the start of this episode, I don't know why celebrities need other things.
Speaker: I mean, like, most other celebrities except Shaq. There are two games... really coming around full up full full circle in this. Or no, up half circle in this. 180 in this episode. There are two video games called Shaq Fu. Oh no. They're both terribly bad.
Speaker: um The second one is worse than the first one. um I remember... like I had to unfollow Shaq on Twitter back when I was still on Twitter. Why?
Speaker: Because he started talking about... um Like... nfts and crypto stuff and I was like, Shaq, I can't do this anymore. Uh-oh. But I would still like him to be in my movie Caddyshack, spelled S-H-A-Q, like his name, where he is the caddy. and it start The movie starts with him in an office.
Speaker: The owner of the golf course is like, you're Shaquille O'Neal. Why do you need to be a caddy? Why are you here... trying to get hired as a caddy. And then Shaq just like puts his finger to his chin for a second and you see him just kind of thinking and it looks like it's going to go to a flashback, but it doesn't.
Speaker: And then he just leans forward. He goes, I made some bad investments. Are we done? And that's the start of the movie. And then later in the movie, there's a whole sequence where he dunks various things, not just a basketball, but like golf clubs and, um,
Speaker: Like, just whatever he can get his hands on, he dunks throughout that sequence. It's going to be great, Shaq. Call me. um i think we can really make this project happen.
Speaker: I don't think he's ever going call you, Matt. Thanks for listening, everybody. um We'll be back um in July with more snacks that we try here on Snack Situation.
Speaker: In the meantime, um you can follow Movie Fighters, the show that this is a spinoff of, ah at moviefighterscast.tumblr.com or email us at moviefighterscast at gmail.com.
Speaker: um That's where you can get in touch with us or let us know like suggestions for snacks for this show or movies for Chris and I to watch on Movie Fighters.
Speaker: Marlene, where can our listeners find you and your stuff and follow you and get into your comedy? so Yep. so You can follow me at Marlene I. Thompson.
Speaker: on tikok TikTok and Instagram. And then also, you can follow MisfitAVL at Instagram. i'd say If you're in the Asheville area, we do a lot of improv and improv comedy and musical improv.
Speaker: And you can take a class. You can take a class that you teach. That I teach. So if you're in the Asheville area, check it out. Everybody can find me and my stuff by going to mattdwilson.net.
Speaker: It has links to all my stuff, my books, my comics, my social media stuff, and my other podcasts. Those are all there.
Speaker: Bye, everybody. We hope you're you're you're pleased that we tried the Shack Gummies. and Because we're never doing that again. I'm kidding. We have very large bags of them.
Speaker: And, yep, we'll see what, maybe we'll, the next time we have a party, we'll put them out.
Speaker: They're resealable, so maybe they'll last a while. I mean, yeah. but I think they will. Until next time. Bye. ah Thanks, everybody. Stay hungry.
Speaker: Bye. Watch out.
