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Nuggets, Burgers, and Chocolate Bars with Captain Yuma
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It's crazy to think that we've done 134 episodes about junk food and nothing else, right? Friend of the pod and returning guest Captain Yuma joins us for this VERY NORMAL AND DEFINITELY NOT SPECIAL BECAUSE OF THE AIR DATE episode of Adventures in Snacking.
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Transcript
Introduction to Adventures in Snacking
00:00:03
Speaker
Are you ready, kids? Get your parents' permission, check your nutrition facts, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Snacking podcast. I'm Eric. And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Snacking, where we talk snack news, culture, and meals, along with our journeys as foodies.
00:00:29
Speaker
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Adventures in Snacking. Eric, how are you? I am well. Oh, it's good to hear. Every time it gets better. So, Eric, I know we're all eating well, but I feel like, I don't know, I feel like there's something that we need to do.
00:00:56
Speaker
Dave, like I say, every week, do not, do not, please, do not skip to dessert.
Guest Introduction: Captain Yuma
00:01:09
Speaker
Yeah, we're certainly not gonna skip to dessert. We wanna just get forward through the full meal. So without any further delay, I mean, this next guest goes,
00:01:24
Speaker
I mean, he doesn't need an introduction, but I'm gonna do my best. So today's guest, a multiple time guest of the show, a friend of the pod. You may know him from his, his renowned Instagram eating series, Fat Andy Eats.
00:01:41
Speaker
You, of course, may know him from his frequent flights in the Sorion 2 over Melancholy, the Infinite Sadness, the independent wrestling planet of the state of California, and the National Wrestling Alliance. He is one half of the Rocknest Monsters. He is an independent toy maker and an expert in the world of snacks. Yuma, Captain Yuma, welcome back to Adventures in Snacking.
00:02:09
Speaker
Thank you for having me on again, brother. I appreciate you guys having me on. I mean, that was quite a mouthful. Usually I'm the one with a mouthful of, you know, chips or whatever the heck I'm eating in my car on Instagram. But that was quite the intro. Thank you, man. Hey, I mean, if there's one thing where we're known for on this show, it's it's usually snacks, but it's a mouthful. Yeah, we say that all the time, actually. Adventures in snacking is
00:02:54
Speaker
my nugget whisperer as it were.
McDonald's Sauces and Snack Culture
00:02:58
Speaker
But in the news, of course McDonald's, it's a little bit of an older bit of news, but there's like kind of new news wrapped into it. Of course there was the McDonald's sauce, which was a fun like kind of slightly spicy, garlicky sauce to go with chicken, chicken McNuggets. But on top of that, the spicy McNuggets are back.
00:03:00
Speaker
it's a mouthful.
00:03:25
Speaker
And I think this kind of leads into our main topic of the day. Nuggets. I love now. Yeah. I mean, the thing as have we all tried the the McDonald's sauce yet? Yeah, I liked it a lot. It kind of it reminded me of a sauce that you would like maybe get it like P.F. Chang's. That makes sense. Like that kind of.
00:03:48
Speaker
like quality. And I don't say that necessarily in a super positive light, but you know what I mean? Not necessarily like a really authentic flavor, but a good one. That's, you know, strong and memorable. I liked it a lot. Um, I think I actually mixed it with the sweet and sour. And I thought that did it good having a little bit of a sweet to go with it. Cause it was spicier than I expected, but I never, I love spice. I love heat. So I thought it was pretty good. And the packaging was pretty dope.
00:04:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I love the upside down logo. Um, it definitely gave me that, that Chinese restaurant like that. Uh, almost like, um, chicken and garlic sauce vibe to it, which was great off the charts, but I had not tried the, um, the mixing it with sweet and sour sauce. That's that I feel is the revelation here. Oh man. It was, it was really good.
Cultural References: Wick Donalds in Anime
00:04:38
Speaker
So for those that might not be in the know here, with Wick Donalds, it's actually, it goes all the way back to, I'm just doing a little research here while you guys were talking, goes all the way back to the 1981 manga and anime franchise, Cat's Eye, where Wick Donalds or Whack Donalds, the spelling seems to kind of change back and forth.
00:05:03
Speaker
But, um, it is, it is the, the McDonald's in that anime and manga universe. Um, yeah. So really, really interesting to see that it's taken that long for, uh, for them to make that kind of jump into, um, into the real world. But, uh, I'm glad they embraced it. Cause you know, a lot of companies would sue and instead they just turned it into money for themselves.
00:05:30
Speaker
I'm trying to think of the first place I saw it. It may not have actually been called that. Uh, I, I was used to watch yokai watch in like 2013 and they had a fake McDonald's and I thought it was really funny. And I think that was the first time I really noticed it. Cause I'm not really big anime or manga guy. I am, I guess I'm becoming one as of like October, but, uh, but yeah, I remember watching yokai watch and just dying. Cause one of those little cat monsters kept going in and getting soft serve ice cream from the wick Donald's. And I was like, Oh, that's.
00:05:58
Speaker
They didn't even try. They just flipped it. Yeah. I have not been able to obtain said, uh, said sauce just yet. I, uh, I keep striking out. I might've missed the boat at this point, but my two, my two, uh, local Mickey D's, uh, kept selling out of it. So I'm, I'm 0 for two on some of the recent, uh,
00:06:24
Speaker
You know, I'm striking out because I also was able to try, no, I got that. I couldn't try the, um, I missed the grimace milkshake.
Unique McDonald's Flavors and Nostalgia
00:06:33
Speaker
Oh, okay. My son got that and it didn't taste good to me. It was weird. It was weird. It was like a mouthful of cotton candy. I didn't love it. Well, you're both still with us, which is good. I mean, you know, I don't think I had enough. Shake did not come out of my eyeballs for sure.
00:06:53
Speaker
And I must have drank enough of it that my son also did not explode and disappear. Good, good. You performed your fatherly duties. I've got to enjoy his shake and his life. My favorite limited time shake though is right now. Shamrock Shake. Shamrock Shake, of course. I like the Shamrock Shake because for whatever reason, on top of being mint, which I love, it tastes like the... Remember the old cone?
00:07:23
Speaker
That was like the like shitty flaky sugar cone. Just your cheap standardized McDonald's. They put the little vanilla on there real quick. It was like free for kids. I don't know if they did that in your area, but yeah, I was a little, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So they all used to do that. That little cone, the, that shake tastes like the cone is in there. I don't know how to explain it, but it tastes like there's also cone. Like I don't, I just don't know how to explain it. Maybe it's because it uses vanilla.
00:07:52
Speaker
that doesn't get drowned out by the chocolate. And I'm just used to that flavor together because I never get a vanilla shake. I would never do that. But I would get the soft serve on the cone. So maybe that's why it's that way to me. But yeah, I like the shamrock shake because it's mint and it tastes like there's some cone to me. I don't know why. Interesting. I would I have to try it again with that in. Yeah, I have to think about it that way. Remember the cone and then and then try that.
00:08:18
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You just got to remember the code. Well, it's weird because like the cone itself always had like a soda vibe to it anytime I like the ice cream. It's like if you have just straight up McDonald's ice cream, like it always had like this weird carbonated like vibe to it to me. Interesting. I guess I don't know. I never noticed ours never had that. Like I I don't know. The ice cream was weird for sure. Like it tasted faker than I think any other ice cream I had as a kid.
00:08:47
Speaker
Yeah. And maybe that's what it was. But yeah, just fake, fake ice cream. And you know what is pretty good, obviously is dipping McNuggets in a, you know, if it works McDonald's ice cream shake. Oh, absolutely. So not a McFlurry. Not a McFlurry. No, no. And I've not tried this McFlurry like, um, cash brown thing. Oh, that sounds terrible. Yeah. Like what? Like an ice cream sandwich with hash browns? Yes. Wolf.
00:09:17
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Yeah, I mean I like putting hash browns in things, but I don't know if I if I could use them as like an ice cream vessel Yeah, every now and again a french fry in in a frosty is a good thing. Yeah, that's different Oh, this is strange. I had then their hash browns are such a strong Flavor like a McDonald's hash brown is its own event. Oh, yeah What do you what are you doing? You can't have ice cream at the same time To the point where sometimes I'll just have a hash brown or I'll have the hash browns last
00:09:47
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. No, literally. That's such a good flavor. Sometimes you got to put it last or you just wish you hadn't now here's now here's a thought in, in, in the kind of like mashup realm that like, you know, a lot of these, a lot of fast food joints are, are, you know, are pulling with like their, their sandwiches
Innovations in Breakfast and Nostalgic Dipping Sauces
00:10:05
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and stuff. And like, you know, KFC has, you know, sticking with chicken. They have their, their, their chicken pizza. Um, their chit, cheap cheetah or how they're pronouncing it. Um,
00:10:17
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hash. I'm surprised McDonald's hasn't done, hasn't, uh, use their hash browns as, as breakfast sandwich vessel before. That's a good idea. You got the, that would be really good. You would think they would throw the like egg McMuffin egg patty on a burger. Every, you know, $14 burger place has an egg on the burger. Sure. It's not a running egg, but I mean, it's still going to be the same flavor profile a little bit.
00:10:43
Speaker
Yeah. Royal burger of some kind. Yeah. Imagine like a double quarter pounder and there's also a hash brown and some egg on there. Oh, tell me that wouldn't be fire. Yeah. Give me that breakfast burger. Great. I mean, I guess we could do it ourselves, but no, because I don't think you can get a double quarter pounder that early. Um, you have to get it right at crossover time. Can't you get breakfast all day now? No items, maybe. No, I think they got rid of that again. Yeah. It's, it's, it's no longer a thing.
00:11:10
Speaker
It was making them too much money. I love the McGriddle at noon. I can talk about McGriddles for probably at least 45, 60 minutes. The greatest fast food breakfast sandwich that I didn't know I needed until I had it for the first time. Game changer. I would never let my pancakes touch.
00:11:39
Speaker
those foods in my life. Absolutely. And then McDonald said. Too bad. Mm hmm. And just mashed them together and made me late to school five days in a row and four weeks of Saturday school in a row because I had to stop and get a McGriddle on the way that when they first came out, I ate them every single morning for almost two weeks. Oh, my God. You're doing. Yeah, I think I had them way too way too many times to
00:12:09
Speaker
way too often. I kind of had to stop. I was like, my stomach hurts. I've made mistakes, but I have no regrets. Yeah. That's, that was like raising your hand in class and be like, I need to go. No, like literally I would, I would get, I would just be true at the rest of the day. I'd be late for stopping and then I would go and be sick by second period and then just ditch and be like, I had to go home. I'm sorry.
00:12:37
Speaker
After a week, Captain Yuma was showing up at his local McDonald's, and there was a picture of him on the door, like, if you see this man. Do not serve this man. Do not serve this boy. Speaking of nothing, I did get in trouble at my local McDonald's.
00:12:55
Speaker
because, uh, one summer, I think it was Oh four, they had, or Oh five, they had $6 or $1 six piece on Tuesdays. And so me and my boys did a little math where we did the hundred nugget challenge. Let's see who can eat a hundred nuggets. Um, and it costs 17 bucks or some shit. Uh, and we, so we got the nuggets. It was just me and one other guy was down. Everybody else was like, no, no way, man. What a waste of money. You guys are stupid.
00:13:24
Speaker
And then also they all ate the leftovers, which was not fair. So, and we're, and so they got pissed because they were like, Oh, like we know it's only a dollar, but come on boys. And we're like, it doesn't say anything about a limit. And so they, they're like, all right, we'll do it once, but you're not allowed to buy them anymore. And the manager was like, I'm going to sign off on that. And I was like, are you serious? So like, I wasn't allowed to get dollar six pieces after that. Cause I abused it in one day. I ate 56.
00:13:52
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I got very sick. I got very sick. The other guy who was a bigger, way bigger dude than me, like he was like, I think like 6'2", 6'3", I was like 5'6", and I ate 56, he ate 54, and the rule was one dip per nugget. If you took a bathroom break, someone had to go in there with you to make sure you didn't throw up.
00:14:13
Speaker
You were allowed one poop During that thing and what's weird is they didn't really get gross as they cooled down because I had tried this again later With my buddy big Duke and Kevin was there was after a Hollywood taping I tried it at Burger King because they had ten pieces for a dollar of their nuggets and I was like all day Let's go. I'm gonna eat a hundred and I bought them all at once and
00:14:37
Speaker
And by nugget 47, I bit a cold one and I thought I was going to like die. It was so disgusting. But the McNuggets stayed crispy and delicious, you know, probably an hour in. I don't know how long it took, but those stayed fire. They were so good. And that says a lot about, you know, I know we're talking to McNuggets in general, but I mean, I think that says a lot for McNuggets that, you know, an hour plus into an eating contest, they were still good enough to want to keep eating.
00:15:01
Speaker
Well, they have, you know, yeah, they hang around for a while. There's the most uniquely breaded nugget of like nobody's close. Like all the other ones that kind of have that tempura vibe. Yeah. Everyone else kind of has that like, you know, like a dummy like bread crummy type of like Wendy's is probably the best example of that kind of texture.
00:15:23
Speaker
I think. Yeah, it's got that sandpaper feel. Yeah, and they're inedible when they're cold. Mm-hmm. And then, exactly. They're just little... 1000%. Little bucks of poison. They're awful. What do they call it? Pink slime? Right, the pink slime. I remember seeing that. In my head, I was like, am I supposed to be grossed out by this? Because this is what I imagined a bunch of ground meat would look like. I was like, am I stupid? Yeah.
00:15:49
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, maybe not quite that pink, but I mean, come on, you could have played with the hue on that video or something. Like, come on. Yeah, I am not one who cares how the sausage gets made. No. Just as long as it's not going to instantly kill me. Yes. That's my idea. I've made it so far. Yeah. Yeah. Just go put poison in the sausage. That's it. Yeah. So I have to say, and this was something that came up with nuggets recently for me.
00:16:16
Speaker
because I Maddie had a My eldest I took her to McDonald's recently and I asked for honey with my nuggets and she was like barbecue sauce or you know, she'd catch up Yeah, no honey and she was like, what do you mean? And I've never seen you do this before and I'm like for some reason when it comes to McDonald's McNuggets Honey is my go-to. That is my go-to dipper for I love
00:16:45
Speaker
their honey on nuggets. And I learned it from player Uno.
00:16:51
Speaker
Okay. It was after PWG. It was after they debuted. We had wrestled them. Uh, me, my wife, uh, Stu or Stu, stupefied, Stu Grayson, whatever his name is now. Um, and Uno, uh, uh, we got McDonald's after and we all got tons of nuggets. Uh, and like others, we just got a ton of food. I mean, we're, we're tired. We're hungry. We earned it. Um, and Uno was like, I was like, what kind of sauce do you guys want? Uno was like, Oh, I want honey. And I was like, what the fuck?
00:17:21
Speaker
pardon my language, but that's literally what I said. And he was like, he looked at me like I was nuts. He's like, what do you mean? You guys don't have the honey sauce here. And I was like, I think they have like breakfast, honey. Yeah. And he was like, Oh yeah, that's fine. That'll do. And I was like, I'm sorry. There's another option. And I guess, I don't know, Canada or French, Canada or whatever, they got different stuff. And he said, no, I only put honey on the nuggets. And that night I tried it and I was like, Oh my God, this is delicious. Yeah.
00:17:47
Speaker
And you know what? After that, I started putting honey on my chicken at KFC too. Cause I love their fake honey. Their fake honey is crazy. It says like honey, honey product or some are like honey adjacent honey, honey flavored, honey flavored sauce. I think that's literally what it says. Yeah. The only thing that's changed and I'll say for the worse is like, it used to come in the same kind of little,
00:18:12
Speaker
peel back tub. Yeah, bucket. A little bucket like barbecue sauce. But now it's a like, like ketchup in the squeeze packet, which honey is not meant to be squeezed through a tiny little like slit, like it makes such a mess. Like it gets everywhere that way. Like it's meant to either. You got to dip in it. You got to let me dip. Yeah. Especially when they throw the honey, like if you're not eating it right away, they throw the honey packet in the bag with the warm food and then you basically have like
00:18:42
Speaker
like straight water coming out. Yeah, it's awful. It's like it's like the ketchup water but honey water which is somehow worse. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's fond memories. I don't even remember how how or when I started having them. But like I always remember that little peel back dunk the nugget right right in the honey. I learned it as a little kid, which I'm sure you kind of followed in those footsteps. But there are two kind of I'll say
00:19:13
Speaker
awesome, like the best foods, fast foods with honey. One is the McNuggets, and two is a Popeyes biscuit. Oh, definitely. Yeah, yeah. A little bit of butter, a little bit of butter, a little bit of honey on the biscuit. Not even, there's so much butter in those that already- I was gonna say KFC, I like doing butter and honey, and then Popeyes just like three packets of honey. Yup. Yeah, that's clutch. Dude, Popeyes have nuggets. They've had nuggets before?
00:19:42
Speaker
They do. At least they do out here. They'd have to be pretty good. I guess I've never had them. Do you know what I has? You know, I'm sticking on the topic of chicken. Have you tried the new Popeyes wings? Like they're like like bone in wings. I saw a moving like billboard for that earlier and I was like.
00:20:00
Speaker
Those look really good. They look outstanding. Let me take you on a little chicken journey. We went to American Dream and I gave, once again bringing up Maddie, I gave her the option. She's got a really, really fun palette. She likes to eat all sorts of things. I said, which everyone has heard me say ad nauseam at this point.
00:20:27
Speaker
Do you want to eat like a sit down, like fancy lunch at American dream mall or do you want to get like some crazy fast food and go
Fast Food Reviews and Personal Indulgences
00:20:34
Speaker
sit on the, they have one of those giant Ferris wheels that you can like eat on and it takes like a half hour to go around.
00:20:40
Speaker
So I was like, do you want to do fast food in the Ferris wheel or like fancy lunch? And she obviously like any proper eight year old should she picked fast food in the Ferris wheel. And because my youngest has a dairy allergy, you know, our fast food choices are often limited. So we didn't have her with us.
00:20:58
Speaker
I was like, you can pick anything you want in the food court. And she immediately went to Papa's because she was like biscuit, buttermilk fried chicken. Like she, she knows what's up and she likes the bone in chicken too. So, you know, she orders, she actually ended up, uh, ordering chicken strips, but, um, I wanted to try the wings and I got, uh, I got a dozen wings. So I got six and six, two different flavors. And let me tell you, they were fried, like, like almost like, um,
00:21:29
Speaker
almost like Chinese takeout style fried wings, but their sauces were so good. Um, I got like a, I got, I tried their, like their, their standard Buffalo, like, cause they, you know, if you're getting wings, you gotta try one of the, you know, like, Oh, he's got to try. Yeah. So Buffalo was really good. You know, on the hot side, more than the mild side, very good, like middle of the road, hot enough, you know, light you up a little bit, Buffalo sauce.
00:21:56
Speaker
And then I tried, they had like a Thai chili, like a sweet and spicy Thai chili. I don't think I saw that one on the poster. It was something, if it wasn't Thai, it was one of those sweet and tangy type sauces and it was really good too. Both were fantastic. And like I said, they had that Chinese takeout.
00:22:18
Speaker
you know, quick fried wing texture to them. So really juicy on the inside, lots of meat. Yeah, I was, I was blown away. I, and it's it to me, it was like shocking. It took them this long to do that. I know you'd think they would have jumped on that one. Like, like wing street at pizza hut. Like all those were doing that thing. Like when Buffalo wild wings blew up and then wing stop. And then like all those, you think they would have been, you know, right there with them. Let's see. I'm watching the Instagram video they posted with flavors signature hot.
00:22:49
Speaker
Which their nuggets are good, but they were kind of late to the party on the nuggets, too. Definitely. Okay, honey barbecue, that looks good. I love a good crispy honey bar- Sweet and spicy's probably the one you got. That's what it was. Oh, they have ghost pepper, which is a dry one, and then roasted garlic parmesan, which is sort of a dry one. Looks good. Those look really good. Yeah, they were- Yeah, I gotta try those. Would definitely, would definitely recommend
00:23:14
Speaker
And like they do, you know, the, they do have like those catering size orders too. So, I mean, like, you know, if you want, if you want to order some for like a, you know, a party or something, or just after a really, really rough night in the ring, just crush some wins. I'm telling you, man, like my appetite after a match is like, there's nothing, nothing even comes close. Like the hardest workout I can ever do on my own. I could go have a six minute match and my appetite afterward is like 10
00:23:44
Speaker
10,000 times that it's just, I don't know. It's just crazy. And especially when it's like a long, crazy match, like after PWG and stuff like, or like after a Rockness match, like I would always get like, you know, 20 nuggets, two double quarter pounders, a large fry, a milkshake, like just, just the terrible, most awful amounts of food. And I would eat it all. You already eat it all. I used to spend $20 at Taco Bell when that didn't make sense.
00:24:12
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like now that's just what it costs. But I used to spend 20 bucks when it should, your max should be around six or seven with how cheap it was. That was me. I was the one who they would, we got to put him on a separate order. He's getting too many things. Especially once the cheesy Gordita crunch hit, like that was like your first premium item on there. Oh man. Three, three of those on one order that alone. And then you just start getting some extra crunchy tacos. You got to get some chips and cheese. So that way you can have the cheese for dipping your tacos in. Like it just, I would just,
00:24:43
Speaker
Yep. Start stack, start stacking up the order. 100%. I'm trying to think of my, my biggest like personal order that I've ever had, like just for me at a, at like a fast food joint knife. It's definitely been like a wild Taco Bell order with like cheesy, like Taco Bell used to be like my sad meal. Oh yeah. So I'd go like it'd be a few cheesy Gordita crunches and maybe like a chalupa and a couple tacos.
00:25:12
Speaker
See when I, when I really hate myself, I want an Arby's that's, that's where that's like, I want, I want like four roast beef sandwiches and all the, all the horsey sauce you can, you can afford. It's funny too. Cause like, there's a difference between when I go to Arby's, like you were just going for dinner. I get the biggest roast beef possible, just one. But if I was sad, same, I would get four individual roast beefs cause I need the bread with each one.
00:25:39
Speaker
Yup. And I would get mozzarella sticks and curly fries and a jamoca shake. The way we're talking, it's very, it seems odd that we're alive. Yeah. Yes. We, well, we, I think, I think you could, uh, you could definitely say that between the three of us, we definitely have the meats, uh, in that regard. We sure do. We sure do. The meat sweats.
00:26:04
Speaker
So before we wrap on nuggets, Dave, should we all like, I mean, I feel like we've all kind of come to the same conclusion. If we say the best nuggets, the best nuggets, I think it's a consensus of, of McDonald's. Yeah. Honestly, at the end of the day, I had a phase where I hated them. I hated them. I got, I got a nineties nugget. You know what I'm talking about? I got one that had like a knuckle in it.
00:26:28
Speaker
or like a kneecap or something awful. I remember it was, it was 1993 and I was supposed to go to the desert with my dad, my neighbor across the street and her dad. They had like, you know, doom buggies and all that stuff. And we would just go with them. Cause my dad used to have all that, but he didn't anymore cause he had kids. And so, but we would tag along and it was always super fun. My dad last minute couldn't go. He had to work all weekend. So I was already pretty bummed and they're like, Oh, let's get your McDonald's while we gas up the stuff.
00:26:55
Speaker
We get, and I get 20 nuggets and I was only six or something like that. And I was still crushing 20 nuggets. I was like, no, no, no, I need them all. And like the second one, just, just, just the grossest ever. And I did not have McNair. I'd be, I, I, after that, I started getting a double quarter pounders or a cheat or like I would get two cheeseburgers or something. I didn't have nuggets again until like seventh or eighth grade. It was a long time. I would get chicken stars always at Carl's Jr.
00:27:24
Speaker
but no more McNuggets because of that bad experience. It just spoiled it for me. And then I think they went all white meat or something. And that brought me back. I was like, all right. All right. They, they, they had the quality control and like the tendons were gone. I think at some point everybody had it was turned off by like, Oh, here's a tendon. And like, and like it had happened before obviously, but it was, I think, cause I was already super butt hurt about my dad not being able to go that the last thing I wanted was to bite into like,
00:27:51
Speaker
a Nick rubber band. And like, it was, it was just disgusting, dude. Oh, but again, I still think they're the champion of nuggets. I love chicken stars. I love Wendy's nuggets, but like at the end of the day, like super crispy McNuggets, like super crispy. Like he can't beat that. I will say my, my only, absolutely my only caveat, my only exception to the rule of nuggets. If I want a spicy nugget, I'm going to Wendy's. Definitely. Cause I liked the McDonald's ones. I'm glad they're back. I'm hoping to grab them here while they're
00:28:21
Speaker
available for a limited time, I'm sure, but, um, no, the Wendy spicy nuggets are. And like, I don't know, I feel like they're a lot better than the regular nuggets, which are also very good. Like those are probably tough. And Burger King used to have really good ones, really good ones when they had the ones with black pepper on them and stuff. And that was just the basic nugget. It was just like a, like a, just a different seasoning with like a lot of black pepper in it. And then they went to some, it was when they went from crown shaped to like,
00:28:48
Speaker
Fingers chicken fingers. Yeah. See that's what was in my chicken McNugget was a chicken finger chicken chicken fries Yeah, I'm not allowed to eat those they make me sick and I love them Burger King always makes is winds up ending poorly for me. Yeah that for whatever reason I don't know what it is about Burger King but if I if I eat anything there other than their breakfast it makes me
00:29:13
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almost instantly ill. Like almost. I don't think I've ever had their breakfast. I didn't think I knew that. I don't think I knew they had breakfast. They have, um, they have really, really good, uh, uh, French toast sticks. They're like, I think they're probably my, my favorite of like the fast food French toast sticks. They're, um, they're hash browns. Their hash browns are really good too. They do like the almost like tater tots style ones. Oh, okay.
00:29:41
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Um, I think maybe I have actually had that. I feel like I've had their tater tot things and their little hash rounds or whatever. And they do like the pancake meal too, which is funny. Like the old classic McDonald's. Is that even a good deal anymore? Cause that was kind of a good deal for a long time. Even when most things at McDonald's where the pancake meal always seemed like it was like, all right, anyone can buy this. Did that go up to, let's go break my heart. If that went up.
00:30:06
Speaker
Probably. I mean, everything. Yeah, I feel like everything else. Oh, so you guys don't have Jack in the Box. They have a bomb ass pancake meal. Oh, man. No. You guys are missing out on Jack in the Box. Ever since the McGriddle, I haven't needed to order the pancake meal. Honestly, that's true. It puts it all into one thing with somehow probably more calories. Yeah. A mobile. It's a pancake meal truly for the go. It is. It is. No more fork and knife.
00:30:36
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00:32:43
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So Dave, should we take a trip to Cookie Corner? Ooh. Yes. You know I love Cookie Corner. It's my favorite segment. So here we've arrived at Eric's Cookie Corner, where I just kind of quickly highlight a new cookie that I have tried recently. And I'm going to keep it on track like I have the last couple of weeks. Oreo has just been knocking it out of the park with their special cookie releases.
00:33:11
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Okay, I know which one you're gonna say. And I gotta hand it to them. So I saw this cookie and I thought, this is just an Oreo mashed up inside of another Oreo, because it said it was dirt cake. Oh yeah, the worms in dirt. Yeah, worms in dirt worms. Really, really good. It actually tastes like dirt cake. It's got fun little sprinkles on the top that are the colors of the gummy worms. They're just delightful. It's just such a good cookie.
00:33:37
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Oh, see, I was going to say this of that pudding and chocolate together. And, and yeah, I mean, as, as I always say with, I'm a, I'm a deconstructionist when it comes to an Oreo. I'm, I'm not one of those people that could just take a bite of the Oreo. I got to like twist. I could, you know,
00:33:54
Speaker
use my, my, my teeth to clean off the, uh, the cream and then eat the, eat the cookies separate. Um, yeah, the middle, like it tastes like chocolate pudding and crunched up Oreos. I mean, it's, they, they crushed it. So kudos, kudos once again to Oreo, uh, for, for taking the spot on, on my cookie corner. They don't miss, they usually don't really miss. It's either like either good or like crazy. Like that's Oreos very consistent with their,
00:34:23
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with their weird flavors. And then yet, for some reason, still my favorite is just the Halloween orange. Oh, yeah. Just tastes better. I don't know why. It's the best. Now, are you a dunker or deconstructionist? Because we've had this discussion many a time with many a guest. But I don't think we've brought you into the fray. I always talk about Chips Ahoy and I don't think I've talked Oreos with you guys. Yeah. Because I'm a dunker. And I know Eric's like,
00:34:53
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But if I, I just need that, that big glass of 2% a sleeve of Oreos and remote control. I hate me. I hate me so much. And the thought of milk and cookies makes me mad because I'm like, I'm like, why are you doing that to a cookie? What did the cookie do to you?
00:35:15
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Like our cookie is such a perfect day. I love candy. I love sweets. I love all that. But at the end of the day, my favorite dessert, I got like ice cream pie, all the egg. Everything can just sit behind cookies. I love cookies. Brownies kind of right there behind it, but I love cookies and.
00:35:31
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I just, I don't know. Like to me, I've always hated milk like my whole life. So I'm just like, ah, what are you doing? What are you doing putting that cookie in that milk? But when it comes to Oreos, honestly, like most cookies, I just put the entire thing in my mouth at once. That is how I eat cookies. I eat them like the cookie monster that lives on Sesame Street. We eat the same. I just kind of open my mouth and throw it in like a pelican and just chew it with the top. I don't use my teeth.
00:35:55
Speaker
I use it with the roof of my mouth. Oh my God, you monster. Then I grind it up with a stone in my, in my stomach. And no, I just inhale Oreos, dude. I will crush, I will crush row after row. And like, I remember one time, um, my wife got cookies and cream Oreos and I got so mad.
00:36:18
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Because that is Oreo flavored Oreo. Yes. And she was confident it would be different. Because it did look different. It kind of looked like cookies and cream ice cream. It had the little speckles or whatever. And we each took a bite and just looked at each other like, that's just a damn Oreo. That's an Oreo. Yeah. That was the year they ran out of ideas. Yeah. Literally. We can do dirt cake. Yeah. It was like when they put the two dots over the duff to make it doof. That's it. It was the same. Yeah. Same thing.
00:36:48
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And when I brought home the dirt cake Oreos, the first thing Jess said to me, my wife said to me was, this is going to be the cookies and cream Oreo all over again. It's just an Oreo flavored Oreo. And I was like, no, but this should have like a, this should have like a chocolate pudding flavor to it. It's different. And it really, it was. The only thing that sucks is they put it in, I don't know if you guys have noticed, but like for whatever reason, some of the special Oreos are in that like small ass package. Yeah. Yeah. The two, the two a row.
00:37:16
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Yeah, I don't like that size. Yeah, that's what these were, unfortunately. So it's not a full-size Oreo pack, which is a bummer. But you're paying full-size Oreo pack for the tinier pack. Yeah, I don't like that one, special stuff. Or like on the flip side with chips, a brand new dope flavor will come out and it's only in the giant bag. And I'm like, how am I supposed to try these
00:37:44
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you know, like ham and cheddar flavored ways or whatever some crap, you know, like I don't, I may not want, you know, a super bowl size bag of them. Like, can I please have a regular, what would have been 99 cents? I don't know. They're like two 49 now or something crazy. Like that's the size bag you want. But then on the Oreos, no, give me the, give me four rows or three rows or whatever it is.
00:38:08
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm committed. If I'm buying a pack of Oreos, I'm eating the whole thing. Yeah. There should only be fewer if it's a double stuff. Yeah. Even then, even then we should, uh, they should just make those just giant or just a giant case of big double stuffed ones. It's it's fine. That, that normal size Oreo packages should be the gold standard.
00:38:31
Speaker
We shouldn't divert from it. No, that's just the way it should be. It should be a unit of measure that is firm. Yes. That is how many Oreos come in a hog's head or whatever, a bushel. We're creating the new dozen and it's four rows of Oreos.
00:38:52
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Snack and not a family size. There we go. No cuz that's too many. I don't know No, but we but we should refer to a standard row I'm gonna put it out there now a standard row of Oreos should be referred to as a snack Yes, and that's that should be the size measurement.
00:39:12
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Like just a sleeve. And also a sleeve of Ritz falls into that category. Also a snack. And a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies, specifically
Girl Scout Cookies and International Snack Discoveries
00:39:21
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Thin Mints, because I don't know how the others are packed. I think they're packed in the row, which is just like Oreos. Yeah, so Girl Scout cookies, Ritz crackers, and Oreos. Their new standard unit of measure is snack.
00:39:21
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I
00:39:35
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It's weird because the Girl Scout cookies aren't even in rows, aren't even in columns. They're like in small rows. Oh, that's like rows of five. I got some thin mints the other day and there, there was like eight cookies in there. It was, it was ridiculous. I'd never seen the smaller and the box is the same size, but that little sleeve on each side sure wasn't. And they went back to clear from silver because the silver wasn't doing it for me. You got to be able to see the thin mints in there, especially when you put them in the freezer, you got to see the frost.
00:40:03
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You can't eat them any other way. That's the power move right there. Oh, yeah. That's the only way. And like, yeah, no, it's a ripoff. These young ladies are ripping us off. Shame on them. I don't even know if they're made out of organic Girl Scouts anymore. I don't think so. I think it's just they grind up the vests. They don't give me the rest anymore. Again, we're not getting what we paid for. You know, it's funny, I used to sell Girl Scout cookies because my sister was really shy and I wasn't.
00:40:33
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I'd sell them like crazy. I'd knock on every door because my mom would, you know, reward me with thin mints, you know, like, Hey, help your sister. You know, you guys can, you guys could share, you know, each get a box of cookies. And my sister always liked, I want to say she liked the, uh, Samoas, which I hated because I'm not a coconut guy. That's my favorite.
00:40:53
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And then my mom and I like the Thin Mints and I love the shortbread too, speaking of Cookie Corner. Shortbread in general is great. Yeah, Trefoils, they have the three faces of the lady logo, which I always thought was weird. It's like, oh, would you see the Girl Scout logo? My mom, she was a troop leader, so I saw that patch every day. And I was like, oh, what a fun eat. Well, the other interesting thing, though, is when you get the,
00:41:23
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depending on the part of the country you live in, you get the different bakeries. So like one s'more cookie might be different from the other s'mores cookie. Oh man, the s'mores cookie sucked. So I hope there was a good bakery somewhere that made them good. Cause those were a big letdown. Did you have the sandwich cookie or the chocolate covered one? Uh, the sandwich one. Okay. Cause apparently there's a chocolate covered one too that exists. Well, that already sounds better to me because my least favorite part of a s'more is the marshmallow. And my favorite part is the chocolate and the Graham.
00:41:53
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So if you wrapped it and it kind of drowned out more that marshmallow flavor, I'd probably prefer that. Interesting. Your least favorite part of a s'more is probably what most people would consider the most like important part of it. It's the key. Honestly, I, I, a lot of times I wouldn't, the only reason I even would put a marshmallow like, cause I was in Boy Scouts, we camp all the time. I used to camp all the time.
00:42:21
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We had s'mores all the time at my grandpa's house. He had like a fire pit. And basically I would like tear a regular marshmallow in half because I wanted a thin layer and I only even did that. So I would have something to melt the chocolate into the graham cracker. That was the only reason I even did that. I tolerated the marshmallow. I didn't want it. I tolerated it for the, the assistance that gave the chocolate. Interesting. Yeah. So I, it's, I had friends everywhere too. It's like, you know,
00:42:48
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I was going to say. Marshmallow mess. I used to have friends similarly that did not care for just kind of like a roasted marshmallow on its own, which I think is the same. I love. I love. I love just the roasted marshmallow. But they used to balance like over the campfire, they used to balance the graham cracker with the chocolate on it, just like high enough over the fire. So that way the heat would melt the chocolate to the graham cracker. That's pretty slick. And just make like a graham cracker chocolate sandwich. Oh, see, that's all I want.
00:43:18
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Yeah. That's all I want. That sounds great. Well, you guys both have, have, I mean, you probably didn't have facial hair when you were sitting around a campfire, but you have all that, all that beard now, which is like, I didn't have facial hair until I was like 35. This is all brand new. If, if Dave eats a marshmallow, he's eating it for the next, like, I was going to say, yeah, it looks like Ghostbusters. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:48
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So we've talked about the news. We got to Eric's Cookie Corner. Eric, thank you as always for the Cookie Corner. If you want to suggest the next cookie for Eric to take a look at, just go on our social media and make a suggestion and Eric will give it a shot.
00:44:08
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let us know what he thinks. So meats and sweets are weekly top three lists. One on the savory side, one on the sweet side. Now it could be, now we already talked about chicken early on in the show, so we're not gonna, we're not gonna double dip as it were. But we are going to talk about our top three fast food burgers.
00:44:33
Speaker
and each kind of have our favorite and come up with a consensus. That'll be our meat. And of course our sweet is gonna be chocolate bars. So Yuma being the guest, would you like to start us off with a burger? Yeah, hit us with your burger choice. Okay, so I'm picking one, like my number one burger? Yes. Yes. Okay.
00:44:58
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And we're talking like major fast food chain that most people could try it at. Right. Well, Nick could be, it could be whatever, as long as it falls into that, that, that category of, as long as we've got a franchise, as long as we've got more than one of them. Yeah. Okay. But then I am going to go with. My tattoos namesake, the Carl's Jr. double Western bacon cheeseburger, no onion rings. That is my all time favorite burger. It is so delicious. It is now so expensive.
00:45:28
Speaker
I, it makes me very mad. And often what I would do to replace the onion ring is still give it that crunch because the bacon's good, but it's not, oh, it's not a very crispy bacon. They don't do crispy bacon there. It's always a little breakfasty. Um, but I would put the criss cut fries in there instead of the onion rings. And so if you have parties, I'm sure they have something similar. Um, that sauce is specific though. It's not in the packets. That barbecue sauce does not come in packets anymore for the chicken stars or the tenders.
00:45:55
Speaker
It can only be asteroid-like a cup on the side. So that's a little tip for those of you that live near Carl's Jr., or I'm assuming a Hardee's. They don't put that in the packets anymore. They have a sweet and savory one that's not as good. It's not as good.
00:46:11
Speaker
Awesome. Yeah. I mean, we're starting to get every now and then we get a Carlos Jr commercial out here and I get the ads and I get really exciting. We used to get Sonic ads all the time and then like out of nowhere, they're like, Oh, we built a Sonic and the furthest part of East San Diego. And of course, those of you that do not remember that tattoo, we will include it in the show notes for you to be able to revisit San Diego, man gets fast food tattoo is what the news said.
00:46:39
Speaker
They didn't look up my name. They didn't even expound upon that. They just said it, showed it and moved on. Perfect. Uh, Dave, should I go next or do you want to go next? You absolutely should go next. All right. So my, my, uh, my fifth
00:46:58
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you know burger pic this is new this is new to my my list it is it is something that i tried for the first time just a couple weeks ago and as i tried this burger i also learned about a an industry term that i was. Previously unfamiliar with are you guys familiar with the concept of ghost kitchens. Yes yes okay so i was not this was this was news to me.
00:47:26
Speaker
And at work, we were ordering lunch, and I was really in the mood for a burger, and I typed into Grubhub Burger, and MrBeast Burger came up. Oh, shit. And I was like, wait, there isn't one of those around here. The only one of those I know of is in the American Dream Mall. Which I think is the only one still, like the only physical one. I believe you're correct. And I was fascinated with the fact that it was
00:47:54
Speaker
There was no physical location. I could not go there. I could only order from either Mr. Beast Burger online or I could order from Grubhub. And as somebody who previously would have answered this question with In-N-Out Burger, this burger...
00:48:11
Speaker
It is very much so in the same style as In-N-Out Burger. The menu is structured similarly, so I'm not a big Mr. Beast viewer. I'm aware of him, but each burger on the menu is named after one of his friends and is kind of like in their quote-unquote style. But the standard Mr. Beast
00:48:33
Speaker
burger is a double cheeseburger. It is a smash burger style. So again, very much like like in and out burger. Very similar bun, very similar kind of like presentation and feel to it. Yeah, it is it is the it is the in and out burger of the East Coast, I would say. But yeah, my answer is is the Mr. Beast beast style double cheeseburger.
00:49:03
Speaker
Dude, that's crazy because he got sued by his food providers because he, or they tried to sue him or something because he said that, you know, I'm really disappointed in Mr. Beast Burger. It's not what we had hoped for. You know, the quality doesn't meet up to like, you know, the Mr. Beast brand standards, whatever. He basically buried them and they were like, you can't say that about us. Like we're fulfilling the contract because a lot of people like, I guess they,
00:49:33
Speaker
would come like, you know, really messy and smashed and just shitty looking. But I mean, to me, that's just because it was delivered. Like, I don't think that's, I don't think they fucking punched it on the top before they put it in the bag. You know what I mean? No, I think that's a weird thing to get mad at. But that's also because I've only heard bad things. That's crazy to hear that you loved it. And now I'm intrigued because I think it could still deliver.
00:49:57
Speaker
I think you could still get it anywhere. Yeah. I loved, like, I mean, loved it, loved it so much that I'm probably getting it. So I, like I said, I had it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. And, um, I think we're planning on ordering from there again tomorrow for lunch. I'd be curious to see how it differs from the, the one in the mall. Oh, let's see then East style, Carl's grilled cheese. Carl is also who his gummies were named after when he first dropped the chocolate bars and gummies.
00:50:27
Speaker
Okay. Chandler style, Chandler style looks, I mean, I like a smash burger, like for sure. Like steak and shake, any, any kind of, I love that. I just like thinner meat, I guess. I would rather have more thin pieces stacked on each other. And one of the style, like the buns were flipped. So the flat sides were out and there was like caramelized onions and the burger almost. Yeah, that's the grilled cheese. I think, I think there's a patty in the middle of the grilled cheese and they haven't flipped out. So it looks like sourdough, but it's not, it's just a bun flipped out.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. Which is smart because it would have fooled me. But it was, like I said, it was, it was very good. You know, the menu is very, it's, it's not very comprehensive, but you know, there's, there's, you know, a couple of different options. I even saw that they have an option for like some sort of chicken sandwich now, but, um, yeah. Yeah. The juicy chicken sandwich. I'm trying to see if I can even get that here. Let's see if I have anybody that fulfills it.
00:51:22
Speaker
Oh yeah. Rancho Cucamonga, Orange County. Ooh, Rancho's the closest one. That's pretty far. So I guess it's not convenient, but. Well, in your travels, if you check, check grub hub or door dash or your, uh, you know, Uber eats or whatever. Um, your delivery option of choice. Yeah. And, and definitely, definitely worth checking out. All right, Dave. So.
00:51:49
Speaker
For me, um, now I do love, you know, a double, double animal style, but it's just, you know, it's been so long. It's not something I can have at hand on a regular basis. Um, if it was, it would be, it would definitely get a higher rank. Now for me, the, I don't want to say closest facsimile thereof, but it's, it's definitely become my favorite now that it's more available and I don't have to
00:52:19
Speaker
kind of trek into Manhattan to get it. And that is the Smokeshack, Shake Shack, Shake Shack burger, it's cheeseburger, bacon, chopped cherry peppers. And then there's like a mayo or an aioli or something on there. Yeah, I've had Shake Shack once and that sauce that they put on almost all of them is so good. Love an aioli.
00:52:45
Speaker
It's just, it's just delicious. And sometimes they have like seasonal options. They recently had like a Korean barbecue flavored burger. That was, it was awesome. Um, but if you want like kind of an old standard, the smoke shack for me is the way to go. The peppers sound good too. Yeah. Yeah. They finally built the Shake Shack near me. And in fact, it's as far away as the Mr. Beast delivery location. You know what? I bet that's who fulfills it.
00:53:13
Speaker
Oh, that's that that's probably addresses matched up. It's a mall. I know the address for that delivery from Mr. Beasberger. That's the address of a mall that has the only Shake Shack in town. Okay. Interesting. What do they have in that kitchen back there? Ghosts. Let me back. Only ghosts in that kitchen.
00:53:41
Speaker
That'd be cool if they gave ghosts jobs. Like that's what it meant. Like on the surface, we just assume it's, you know, some industry term.
00:53:48
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but it's really a ghost kitchen. Oh my God, that would make such an amazing adult swim, like cartoon ghosts. Yeah, they're just filling door dash orders. Dude, they're like in purgatory and that's them, that's all they can do. Amazing. Or if they wanted to do like the next Muppets Haunted Mansion, it's just them. And a ghost kitchen. But like some of like each episode, like they have like new ghosts come in that are like floating in and out of things and it's like,
00:54:15
Speaker
one day like George Washington's back there like slinging burgers or they could haunt a different kitchen each time. It's like a new food genre. I like that. All I'm picturing is ghosts cooking. Yeah. And I and I don't know how that would work. If you watch the CBS hit sitcom ghosts every Thursday night at eight p.m., they have very strict ghost rules that they explain and reinforce throughout. And it's kind of interesting.
00:54:44
Speaker
like what they can and can't touch why some can touch things and some can't. And now I'm just picturing them all cooking. And now I'm hungry too for a burger, Mr. Beast Shake Shack burger. It's like the handbook for the recently deceased. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But fulfilling, uh, stoned door dash orders. All right. So on day of, should we, should we move on to our sweets?
00:55:11
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Oh, I think we should move on to our suites, Eric. So I'm going to Eric, why don't you kick off the suite? Well, I want to pass it again to our guests only because we haven't done candy bars with him and I have a sinking sweet tooth suspicion that we're going to have the same answer. So I'm going to kick it over to our guests. So when, when I read the, the questions we were going to do,
00:55:37
Speaker
I did a little prep because I thought it was each of our top three. So I had three burgers ready and I had three candy bars ready. So I'm going to give you the two that I'm not going to go with that were in there, which is standard KitKat. I absolutely love a KitKat. I will eat a million of them. I have never broken them.
00:55:58
Speaker
like you're supposed to. I put the whole four in my mouth at once and eat them that way. That is how I eat pretty much everything. So KitKat was one. Whatchamacallit was going to be the other one, which I think is where we may be on the same page. I absolutely love that candy bar. The commercial is burnt into my brain. It is so delicious and slept on. But the one I'm going to go with, my firm answer is the
00:56:27
Speaker
And I had to look up the exact name because there's been a few similar and I think there's even one out now, but it's not the same. It is the Hershey's cookies and mint crunchy cookie bits and minty milk chocolate. Oh wow. Yeah. Oh, it is from the early nineties. Um, it is probably my favorite candy bar of all time.
00:56:48
Speaker
I remember the first Halloween I ever saw, it was also when they first dropped the new white chocolate that has never gone away or no, the cookies and cream one cookies and cream. Yeah. And cookies and mint came out at the same time. And I remember that same Halloween. Uh, we got big bags of both because my sister loved the white one and I love the mint one of my mom loved that one. So we just got big bags. We're like, Oh, the neighborhood, if we love them, so will the kids. And I remember something happened with my friends and I got, you know, I got like made fun of or something. I went home crying early, trick or treating.
00:57:17
Speaker
And I snagged that bag of mint and I went up to my room and I ate like 40 of those mini bars. And I was like, this is the most soothing, delicious candy I've ever had in my life. And I got them all the time till they went away. And apparently, um, I think Canada still has them or something similar, but I mean, I've never found anything that comes close. Yeah, they have other mint chocolate, but it doesn't have the cookie.
00:57:42
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like the cookie is the important part there. Yeah, because I mean, let me see. Do we have like a chat? I'm going to put the link there so you can see the the wrapper because I had to look it up to get the name right. Oh, yeah, I remember those delicious. Absolutely. Yeah, I could taste it. I could taste it right now. Oh, dang, it's got the nutrition. I think I like those a lot, too. Dude, those were so good. So good.
00:58:12
Speaker
They reminded me a bit of like an Andy's candy, but with the, uh, with the cookie in it. So I was going to say it's an Andy's mint and a thin mint cookie combined, but with the specific Hershey's chocolate that you know, it is so good. It is like a cluster of three perfect things in one bar and they don't make it anymore, but they still make that cookies and cream where that I hate.
00:58:37
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not a fan. No, it's pretty popular. My sister on that one. I can't. I couldn't stand it. Yeah. Not a fan of, not a fan of the cookies and cream one. You know what bothers me about the cookies and cream one, but I don't think it ever did with the mint because it wasn't as abrasive. The cookies like will just, if you let it melt, yeah, it gets like, it'll just,
00:59:05
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saw up the roof of your mouth. It's because that white chocolate isn't that good, so you're not tearing through it. That mint one's so good, you crunch right through it. It's delicious. So you want to eat 1,000. But that white one, you're like, eh, starts melting. And then, yeah, it's like getting a rock in the middle of your chocolate. Mm-hmm. No, thank you. Switch of Hershey's, if you're listening, which I'm sure you listen every week. Yes. Yes. All of the major candy companies, you know, well, you know,
00:59:33
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We still have to get Hershey on. We've gotten Nestle. We haven't gotten Hershey on. Haribo. Yeah. Haribo. Yeah. Haribo. I want to talk about some gummies. Delicious. But yeah, like you mentioned, what should we call it? That's my bar.
00:59:54
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The Watchamacallit candy bar, I will die on this hill. It is the greatest candy bar ever made. It is the most slept-on candy bar ever made. I had the opportunity to go to Hershey Park a few years ago, and I got a fresh Watchamacallit. And it was the best candy bar I have ever had in my life, period, end of story.
01:00:20
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and it remains, if that candy bar ever went away, I don't know if I, I don't, I don't, truly I don't know what I would do with myself. It's so good. And I, so was the wafer inside extra crisp? Like that factory fresh one? Like two things. And Dave can actually speak to this too. Cause he's had factory fresh Reese's peanut butter cups, but, um,
01:00:49
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When you get chocolate fresh from Hershey's, there's two things. Whatever is in the candy bar is fresher. The cookie is crispier, the wafer is crispier, the caramel is softer.
01:01:05
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So it has been sitting in a cold 7-eleven shelf. And there is something about fresh Hershey chocolate that I can't actually put into words. It's got a little snap to it. Hershey chocolate is my favorite chocolate, just plain chocolate. If I want close eyes to something. I get made fun of for eating that.
01:01:28
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It's the best like a Hershey kiss or just a plain Hershey chocolate bar like that chocolate is my favorite hands down no argument, but the Yeah, when you get one of those fresh candy bars from there that have like stuff in it It's all of it tastes fresh because they run through it so quickly to like there's so many people there every day and
01:01:53
Speaker
Um, and the factory, the Hershey factory tours open year round, whereas the park closes during the colder, colder months. Um, yeah, it's, it's just, it's unbelievable. So good. Watch them call it. That sounds amazing. Now you alluded to mine mere moments ago, and I know it's a controversial choice because it's not a bar per se, but it comes in a bar. So therefore I'm, I consider it one.
01:02:23
Speaker
And that is to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I think it counts. Yeah, I count it. It's never not been right next to every other candy bar. Exactly. Yeah. There's no there's no there's no cup, bro. There's no cup aisle. It's it's with the candy bars. It's a candy bar. It's just Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are are my favorite thing. I've done, like Eric was saying, the fresh from the factory ones. And if you ever want
01:02:53
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Candy like just the idea of walking into the store and buying candy ruined for you Order the fresh from the factory Reese's peanut butter cups Because it's just it's like trying them for the first time
01:03:08
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Um, and cause you can buy bags online, right? Yep. And it's still going to be hyperbole. 100%. They just ship them right to you. Um, it's, it feels like hyperbole to say it, but it's, it's a fact and Eric can vouch for it cause I've given him some, um, the, the candy is it's not discolored. It is crisper. It has with the peanut butter cups. It has the oil.
01:03:36
Speaker
That's when you know they're fresh, the oil isn't dried. It's just kind of rising to the top of the peanut butter cup. It is the absolute best. Like when you get that oil that comes up on the peanut butter cup, that's when you know they're new. Oh, see, I would never even know that. Yeah, if it's dried, then it's been sitting. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's usually like the ones that have been sitting there, it's dry. Yeah. You see that, that little spot on the top. Yep.
01:04:07
Speaker
But that's mine. Peanut butter cups. Now I'm just jealous I haven't been to do any kind of fresh factory. Oh, yeah, just next. Yeah, if you get the chance next time it's it's online. Listen, if you're ever out, but it's like twice a year now, if you're if you're ever out in New Jersey, whether, you know, whether wrestling, spaceship or otherwise bring brings you out this way.
01:04:32
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Hershey Park is not very far from us. It's literally like a two hour drive. I will literally rearrange whatever I have to to make sure we get you to Hershey Park. Yeah. 100%. Well, I appreciate that. I want to. That includes hog tying you and throwing you in the trunk if necessary. We're getting you to Hershey Park. It'll hit your theme park. It'll hit your theme park.
01:05:01
Speaker
kind of feels and you'll hit your chocolate feels. My only experience with Hershey Park is them making fun of it on American Dad. That's the only thing I know about it. It's a wonderful theme park, honestly. It really is. That sounds dope, though. It really does. Hey, Eric. Yes? To keep this food themed, would you like to, you know, I know it's not the same Lipton.
01:05:30
Speaker
but we like to call it the Lipton Iced Tea final question of the show. Would you like to be our resident James Lipton here on Adventures in Snacking and read the final question? Why, why yes I would. Captain Yuma, what is the strangest or your favorite thing that you've ever drank?
01:05:59
Speaker
It can be one of each or it can be both. I don't know. That's really tough. Because I'm not. I mean, I've drank a lot of different sodas. Well, I know you have an affinity for energy drinks. Yes. Yeah. And there have been some there have been some interesting ones. I mean, I've tried.
01:06:29
Speaker
Very, very many. My favorite was lost energy. Don't make it anymore. The old scape surf brand lost. That was my favorite one. I can't think of anything strange I've drank either. Like I've tried Beverly, you know, at the Coca-Cola place in Vegas and that tastes like laundry water. It's awful. Yeah. That's tastes like actual poison. Like Dave has a Beverly shirt. It's one of my favorite things.
01:06:54
Speaker
It's not because I like it. It's because I like watching people drink it. Yes. I've tried it every time, dude. It's disgusting. But I think, I mean, I think my favorite drink ever is probably an energy drink from Japan called Real Gold. You can't get it in America very often. Sometimes you can get the plastic bottle, like a tall one, but it's like a variation they make. It's pretty much the same, but they come in these tiny cans or you could even get it like a coffee.
01:07:23
Speaker
Like the way you would just out of like a vending machine, like an old school coffee vending machine where it pours it into the cup drops and then it pours. That's the first way I had it. And it was kind of like how you compare like a McDonald's or like a stadium Sprite to regular Sprite. This real gold out of this vending machine in the lobby of a, you know, arena was the best tasting liquid I've ever had. And then I had like a million more that week and glass bottle variants that were small, the regular kind of like Red Bull style can.
01:07:51
Speaker
The last time I had it, Chris Hero brought me back like four cans. That was a long time ago. It's been a long time since I had it, but that's probably my favorite. It's not strange. It wasn't strange. Cause I don't think I really drink strange stuff that eating strange things is easier to me than drinking. I don't know why. I don't think I would drink something that looked gross, but I'll eat something that looks gross. Um, but yeah, real gold. It is amazing.
01:08:12
Speaker
You can never get it. And it's, they always do cool crossovers with Kinikuman and stuff like that. So it makes it even cooler. Oh, I know. I want to hear bad. And there's some kind of similar ones. There's one called Decavita C that's similarly crisp and the bite, but it's like, I dunno, it doesn't taste like a Red Bull. It doesn't taste like a monster. It's like, it's almost tastes like Martinelli's apple cider had an energy drink, baby. It is just, it is just delicious. So if you can find real gold at an H Mart,
01:08:39
Speaker
or Mitsuwa or like the 99, I don't know what kind of, you know, Japanese markets, you get Nijia, anything like that. If you guys have any kind of like chain Japanese market, check, they may have it. It is amazing. Oh, and I drink so many that one of the Japanese wrestlers tapped me on the shoulder. And he was just like, oh, how many today? And I was like, oh, how many what? And he's like, how many real gold? And I was like, oh, eight. And he was like,
01:09:07
Speaker
And then someone else came over and he's, he, they were talking in Japanese real quick and he, he went eight and they're like, uh, maybe hospital. And I was like, Oh, okay. I, I never read how much caffeine or what was in it. I still don't know to this day, but I had too many, maybe hospital, maybe. Yeah.
01:09:27
Speaker
Um, we actually do have a mitzvah, uh, pretty close to us. So yeah, I have to check it out. And you know, another good one was CC lemon. That one I found there before they always have the Ramune and all that stuff, but you could get that anywhere. But so you got to look for their like vitamin drinks. Those are the good ones.
Japan's Unique Snacks and Future Toy Talk
01:09:43
Speaker
Well, you know, it's, it's, I think it's fitting that you, you know, you bring up, uh, Japan and kinetic man, you know, we we've talked about it multiple times, but you know, one of these times we have to have you back on and talk about toys.
01:09:54
Speaker
You know, we just, yeah, we should do a, we should do a spit off one year. Yeah. Yeah. I think all toys are just fun. Yeah. Well, with that said, you have survived this trip through the menu. No diverticulitis. None, none. Before we wrap up, before we wrap things up and let you go, go for the evening.
01:10:23
Speaker
Um, where can we find you on the internet? You can find me and all my fat Andy, each reviews on Instagram at Yuma Buma Y U M a B O O M a I do my recorded reviews and my quick reviews. I do a lot more of those on my story there. And then you can follow me at the same at Yuma Buma on Twitter or X, whatever it's called. That's where I talk about a lot of my other interests like star Wars, one piece pro wrestling, of course.
Yuma's Involvement in NWA Power and Social Media Sharing
01:10:48
Speaker
And then I would really appreciate it if you go download the free CW app. That's right. The CW, the channel, you know, they have an app and the program that I work on, NWA Power is now exclusively on there. That's the exclusive home of the NWA right now. So definitely go check it out. If you like the new set design, I had a big part in designing that and I'm very proud of it. It came out great. It was not only in the studio, but then we brought it to our last show in Alabama and it looked amazing.
01:11:18
Speaker
So I really hope, you know, people check it out. The, you know, it's just, the show gets better every week and, uh, you know, it's, it's fun to be a part of. All right. Thank you very much, Yuma. Eric. Let's finish thing. Let's, uh, finish up dessert here. Bon Appetit.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:11:39
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01:11:55
Speaker
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01:12:19
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