90s Snack Attack: Dunkaroos, Ecto Cooler & Pizza Buffets

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Welcome to Middle-Edge Millennials. I'm Eric, along with Jordan,
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and with this episode, we're going to discuss continuing our lowly nostalgia,
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the snacks we loved, the drinks we loved, most of them are discontinued,
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unfortunately, and also we're going to throw in some dining experiences that were peak 90s.
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But before we do that, as always, I present the Billboard Top 5 from this week in 1999.
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And this is the week of 9-11-1999. Number five, this is an alter ego of Garth
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Brooks, Chris Gaines, Lost Indian.
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Number four, Jeannie in a Bottle, Christina Aguilera.
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Number three, they've been discussed quite a bit on this show.
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Summer girls lfo number two
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discussed earlier but not
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as much unpretty by tlc great album by the way fan mail and number one this
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week in 1999 palamos enrique iglesias that's a guy that doesn't get enough love
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for being a hearthrob back when we were kids he had some hits back in the day dude.
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So yeah your thoughts on that list good list don't know much about garth brooks
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i know the alter ego thing was really weird but like it's still garth brooks
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and he's still a great singer,
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i think the one that sticks out for me other than the obvious lfo that we talked
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about all time is christina guilera genie in a bottle was man that's pete childhood
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trl you know So Backstreet,
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NSYNC, Britney, and Christina were like the big four back in the day.
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So I don't remember what I did that summer, but I remember those songs vividly.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So that was the Billboard Top 5 from this week in 1999.
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So we'll just go right into it. Jordan, what do you have for some of your favorites?
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I'm going to kick off some of my favorite drinks. I don't know if we just want
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to go back and forth, Eric.
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I have one that I'm fairly confident is on both of our lists.
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It is a drink they brought back a couple of years ago in very limited edition.
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But vividly remember drinking the high C Ecto Cooler as a kid.
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Absolutely delicious. I did have it. Yeah. I feel like there's some on this
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list that I know you're going to have. There's one for sure because you talk about it all the time.
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But yeah, my favorite specialty drink was that.
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That Ecto Cooler was so good. i can't even describe the flavor i'm sure there's
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probably a description of it somewhere but like,
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just so nostalgic tasting and then they brought it
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back i think recently for a limited run i don't remember exactly when that was
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but i remember having it again and feeling like i was a kid again like the scene
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in ratatouille yes yes it was like drinking it and like going back to my childhood
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and watching Ghostbusters,
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which is such a classic 80s, 90s movie movie.
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So, yeah, one of my favorite specialty drinks that they need to bring back full time is Ecto Cooler.
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What's one of your favorite drinks that you had as a kid?
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Yeah, loved Ecto Cooler. Obviously, Slimer on the cover or boxes,
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whatever you want to call them.
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But one of mine that I put on here for drinks was so many companies tried to
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replicate it or duplicate it.
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What's the same often duplicated never replicated it was the original squeeze-its those.
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Yeah you those kool-aid bursts and all that but just the original squeeze-its were just perfect,
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they were perfect to leave all over your house and let your mom have to you
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want to pick them up out of your bedroom,
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or is that just me yeah it's probably just you but
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but i probably did leave them around the house too at some
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point oh yeah your parents would hate it because they'd buy a six pack and your
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friends would come over and you guys would crush them all yeah just squeeze
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this word yeah they were refreshing you get a cold squeeze it on a hot summer
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day to play in playing outside peak exactly very peak,
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Go. I've got another one on my list. This is more of a brand,
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but also a type of drink. Sobe.
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Dude, I effing loved Sobe. I collected the bottles.
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And in case you don't know, which I know you do, but they had the little gecko on the bottle.
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I think it was a gecko, or was it a lizard? It was a badass logo.
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It was a badass logo. But they had all these different flavors.
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They came in these really unique, tall bottles.
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They were glass for a very long time.
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I remember I collected those bottles because they had funny sayings under the
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lid. That was the thing as we were kids.
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Drinks would put jokes on their bottles.
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And that was a thing. But Sobe, specifically the coconut one,
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I don't know why that was always my favorite.
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But that and then the green tea elixir was awesome. I can actually smell that coconut Sobe.
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Dude, it's so good. I don't like coconut. I've never liked coconut.
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Oh, it was the most, I mean, in hindsight, it tasted like suntan lotion.
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It smells like suntan lotion. Yeah. And the thing the closest resembling to
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it nowadays is if you go buy those buy drinks, they have their coconut flavor.
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That's kind of close. But that shit was so loaded with sugar.
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I don't know how much sugar was on a bottle of that. But Soapy was like a favorite
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brand of mine that I wish to have a brain back.
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Yeah definitely like that one it's you can still get it today so it's not discontinued
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but not as prevalent as it used to be clearly canadian love clearly canadian good rip,
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my top two of those raspberry and blackberry i think blackberry though is goaded
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blackberry definitely was goaded i always liked the peach oddly enough and they
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have new flavors now they They have like zero sugar. They've really brought
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it back, which is kind of strange.
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Yeah, I, but it's just, yeah, I'm now looking by an individual bottle and yeah,
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I mean, it tasted just as I remembered.
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It's that bubbly, crisp, cold, delicious, flavored sparkling water.
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Thank you, Canada. Yeah. What else has Canada done for us?
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I've got one that they still make now, but it's the nostalgia of it.
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To me like when i was a kid it goes back to like the jokes on the lid the old snapple bottles,
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i was thinking that when you brought up like the jokes yeah
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like snapples had the facts they did yes
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they did and it was always they used to do that stuff
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on everything when we were kids you'd get ice cream sticks with jokes on them
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and like laffy taffy still does it but like
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but i think snapple was like the originator
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of that i don't know if that's a fact but like snapple was
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the first company and back then there was only a couple of flavors there was
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apple i remember i want to say there
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was a kiwi strawberry kiwi strawberry snapple is
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fucking delicious i'm not a big fan of it but i'm like i like snapple apple
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yeah that was always my favorite yeah i want to bring back the old nettle bottles
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get out of this plastic it's good for the environment i want the old metal bottle
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snapples because it just tasted different back when we
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It tasted great out of a glass bottle, just like Gatorade.
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Wow, that's a boomer topic, Gatorade in a glass bottle. I know.
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We're a little too far back.
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All right, what else you got? There's one glaring omission you have failed to
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mention. I don't know if you were saving it. I'll let you go,
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and then if you don't mention it, I'm going to mention it.
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Yeah, I mean, I'll be remiss if I didn't bring it up.
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It is one of, I think I last had this probably five years ago where I found it.
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Coke's competition with Mountain Dew. There it is. It's not Vault. It's Surge. There it is.
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Surge is better than Mountain Dew. I love Mountain Dew, but Surge was better. I don't know why.
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I know it's a hot take, but I loved Surge over Mountain Dew.
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You're crazy. I was never allowed to have that. I felt like as a kid,
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if I had a regular Coca-Cola, It was like a blessing, let alone that. So, I don't know.
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That's kind of all I have on my drink list. That and just, I know they still
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have it, but like the old school Lipton brisk used to taste better to me.
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It's been a while since I've had a Lipton brisk. I remember that. I remember the ads.
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Yeah. They're claymation ads. Another one too, more prevalent in the schools
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and everything in the 90s, 2000s.
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Fruitopia oh yeah it was i mean it was just pure sugar fruit flavored drink
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it was a candy in a bottle yeah like ridiculous but it was good yeah it was
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do you got any more drinks or should we switch to snacks.
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Yeah, that's pretty much it. Yes. Nailed all the drinks I had.
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That's a solid list. All right. I'll kick off snacks.
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One thing that, there's one obvious one that both of us.
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I think we should say that for last, but. Yeah, let's say that for last. Okay. Kudos bars.
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Also on my list. Back when I was a kid, they were like, it was pitched as like
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a healthier granola bar, I think.
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But it was basically a candy bar that they sold in the granola aisle.
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I could be wrong about that. I just feel like I remember seeing it was supposed
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to be like something healthy, but it wasn't.
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Yeah, it was a candy bar passed off as a granola bar.
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Yeah, and it was literally like a chocolate or peanut butter coated bar.
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I don't remember what it was made out of, but they were so delicious.
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And I could never eat just one. No. I'm sorry.
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No those kudos bars were like you get with m&ms like a chocolate chip oh there's
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nothing healthy about those no it was so good though that's why i'm fat i'm
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gonna blame it on kudos bars kudos to them no yeah crickets on that one.
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Yeah so i've got kudos bars up there there's nothing healthy that we ate in the 90s.
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I'm looking at my list and it's all crap.
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Yeah, no wonder. Trix yogurt, very good.
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Didn't have it often, but damn, was that good. Again, it's,
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Supposedly healthy foods passed off to children as sugar-filled sustenance.
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Those were so good. I remember eating those vividly as a kid. Same. Vividly.
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Speaking of stuff for kids, they still make it nowadays, but it's not nearly
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as good as it was back then. What about the old kid cuisines?
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I have not had a kid cuisine in a while. I mean, you're not a kid, but yeah.
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I don't mind me. What? What do you have to do with it? I can, I'm an adult, damn it.
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I will buy a key cuisine if I want to. You can go have ice cream before dinner. It's okay.
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But yeah, they, back then it was usually the chicken.
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I don't know why I felt like I had the chicken more than anything,
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but it was always some kind of mystery meat that claimed to be real meat with
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really actually delicious buttery corn.
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Some really disgusting, less than potato flake, mashed potatoes.
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And then the most delectable little brownie that was like an introduction to
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lava cakes and you would heat those up for like two minutes in the microwave.
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There was zero, and I mean zero nutritional value in those and they were packed
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with the worst kinds of preservatives.
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But damn, when you were a kid and your mom or whoever was watching you pop one
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of those out of the microwave, you knew lunch was going to be good.
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Yeah, the cake was in.
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Just delicious you're all right about that corn that corn was delicious in the
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kid cuisine and you've got yeah I'm just looking at it right now,
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it's yeah there's nothing again there's nothing nutritious nutritional about
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any of these foods that we're talking about but yeah they've what they call
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level up now which is just looking at it,
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14 grams of protein now there you
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go but uh they got dino nuggets
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now we just had the regular chicken nuggets and or mystery meat but gravy yeah
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just so much different there's a lot now that's different with those but it
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is definitely one of the things on there that i'm glad you brought up,
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because now I every now and then I do like a grown up kids meal but it's chicken
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tenders green beans mac and cheese.
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There's nothing wrong with that Eric it's okay what else you got on your list
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what else have I got on my list and,
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I've got kind of going on the not really food wise but or dinner wise but just
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stack wise I've got SharkBite Fruitsnecks.
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Why do I not remember those? How do you not remember Shark Bites?
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Shark Bite Three Stacks? I'm old, bro. So probably. I'm older than you.
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About a couple months. About like two months. What the hell?
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Boomer. Yeah, how do you not remember Shark Bites? It's been a long day.
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Describe what a Shark Bite is. Maybe it'll jog my memory. I mean,
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I think you can still get them.
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No, you can't. But they were just fruit-flavored snacks shaped like sharks.
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It's kind of the gist of it. So basically, it's like the, what is it,
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like the blue Dolvins you get now from like the blue gummies kind of?
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Yeah, I mean, they had different flavors.
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Just shaped like a shark. Yeah, just shaped like a shark. And it was,
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you had strawberry, cherry, grape, orange.
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They're good. They're just shark-shaped fruit snacks.
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Hmm i want to go in my back i i remember the logo they looked familiar so i
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don't know man that's why you get old you forget things one thing from our childhood
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that became really super popular that i still have now but when i was a kid
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it was like currency was warheads,
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you know when i was a kid i number one i've never been a sour candy kind of person i don't like,
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warheads i don't like sour patch kids i don't like sour
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candy i've never really been a candy person as far
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as like fruity candy i've always been like team
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chocolate which again my boy i'm fat but like
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when i was a kid like you were a badass if you could take like two warheads
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at the same time and now they have like toxic waste and all that other shit
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but like when i was a kid just like the og warheads and like they always were
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so surprising because they tasted so delicious if you just get through that
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really crappy, sour part.
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But when I was a kid, man, if you had Warheads, you could trade that stuff in
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school at your lunch, and it was like cigarettes exchange in prison.
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So Warheads is a candy I remember vividly as a kid being very popular,
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and I don't think it's nearly as popular now.
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Yeah, there's, I'll still, I bought them, not fair, I don't remember the last
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time I bought them, but, yeah, man, they were good.
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Yeah, once you get through that initial, I can feel my actual mouth,
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like, pucker up talking about warheads.
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Once you get through that initial sour, black cherry and lemon were probably
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the toughest to get through.
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Blue being the obviously best flavor, blue and green apple were always my favorite.
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It yeah but they were but yeah
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those were those were good and still
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are and they still taste good but yeah you have to get through that
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initial sour sourness there
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i've got kind of in that dessert category oh and real quick too trading it kind
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of going a little sideways here but trading at school for during lunch i don't
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know if kids still do that i'll take you a step further Eric,
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this is the parent on a podcast.
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Did you know nowadays you can no longer bring cupcakes to your kid's class for their birthday?
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Forbidden. I mean, no public school will allow you to bring cupcakes or anything
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to your kid's class for their birthday.
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They won't even let you go into to the classroom.
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My kid's birthday last year, we had to make Jell-O and bring Jell-O cups.
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So, birthdays in school used to be badass, man.
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You didn't like that kid, but man, if his mom brought cupcakes for their birthday, solid.
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You would pretend to like that kid for a half a day because their mom brought cupcakes.
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Yeah, it is one of those things. I do see that.
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I can actually see that just because, again, completely different era.
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There's a lot more of the allergies, there's a lot more of the sensitivities and,
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yeah i actually don't recall like ever
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like no i don't recall anyone turning down
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snacks or anything because they were allergic no you
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and you didn't ask are you allergic to peanuts no you were
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the weird kid if you were allergic to peanuts sorry off
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topic yeah but kind of going to the yeah
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so i guess based on that top based
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on that comment i don't think they allow trading snacks
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at school probably not but also
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well that's kind of funny kind of talking about that
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people like my sister
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like that everyone my parents when they're there they'll volunteer at the school
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be like the lunch or recess monitor or be that person that helps the kindergartner
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open the milk containers that to this day are still impossible to open,
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Fun fact, when I was a kid, we had bagged milk.
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Okay, you rip on me for being Canadian growing up in Detroit just across the border.
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Bagged milk is a Canadian thing. Listen, I remember having the cartons,
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but I remember at least a stretch at an elementary school specifically where you had bagged milk.
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Yeah, that is Canadian. Sure. Uh-huh. E? Yeah.
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So I've got, I forgot what I was talking about. I got one.
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Yeah. Okay. I got it. Sorry. Kind of going off the dessert side of things.
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Can I say we're actually with milk here? Do you remember the,
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I never had it, but I remember it in the stores.
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I actually remember the ads and I actually watched an ad on YouTube just before
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this because I thought this dessert was like the peak luxury, fancy...
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It's the Viennetta ice cream cake from Breyers. Oh. It was like an ice cream
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cake lasagna fucking thing. Yes.
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I never had it. I never had it, but it looked amazing.
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I don't remember eating it. Like, I couldn't tell you, like, describe it to you.
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But I remember at one point, we had it for, like, a relative's birthday.
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And, like, I remember eating those. And it was so good.
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Again don't ask me to describe what the flavor was like
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but yes it was incredibly bougie to have
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those yes that's what there you go bougie
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yes that's what it was it looked like even the ad that i saw from 1995 they
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were serving it in like a dessert martini glass type thing yes just yeah they
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sold it off as a p because it's like most luxurious ice cream thing you'll ever eat,
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the the thing that i'm thinking of eric was peak dessert as a kid and again
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this goes back to like the topic of like how you know you were one of the cool
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kids if you went to a kid's birthday,
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and they had a carvel ice cream cake you knew that was going to be a banging good time,
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please tell me you remember those yeah i actually bought one for my birthday
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myself this past year Yeah.
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Good for you, man. I know Food Lion still sells them. Yeah, they still sell
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Carvel and obviously the well-known.
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Cookiepuss. Wow, that's a name. Cookiepuss made Carvel cake.
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And who else was there? I mean, they had... Askin Robbins was like big back
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in the day. They had a good ice cream cake.
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Yeah, but they had... It was Cookiepuss, Hug Me Bear, Fudgy the Whale.
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So bad. I'm looking this up on Google, by the way. I don't know those off the top of my head.
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Except for Cookiepuss, just because it's a hilarious name. the shit we got away
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with alright should we go ahead and say our number one snack that we both have
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universally agreed is the goaded snack of all snacks actually I have one more oh you do?
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Yes because aside from the whole sweet sugary delicious goodness of the 90s
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that we had there was a very delicious,
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salty snack made by Keebler it was a chip and they were called pizzerias.
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And they were exactly what it is pizza flavored tortilla chips basically their version of Doritos and,
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except they schooled everything in the pizza flavor it is higher I rank it higher
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than the pizza combos higher than the pizza pringles,
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Keebler pizzerias goaded as pizza flavored snacks you know what I would agree
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with that and I will throw in that
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as a kid the number one all time pizza flavored thing was Elio's Pizza,
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the little frozen yes the squares they are disgusting do not eat them now they
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still make them they are terrible do you like it?
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I can imagine because I know I bought and I sent you the picture I had Chef
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Barty ravioli the other day for lunch not so much huh which is still kind of
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good but A couple years ago,
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my nieces were having SpaghettiOs and I tried a spoonful.
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Like god that tasted awful yeah like
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i don't know how i ate it as a kid but oh wow those are disgusting no yep all
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right number one snack all time goaded don't question me if we can fight me
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and eric well you got a good chance against eric yeah i will i'm not already getting that one,
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yeah it says the guy with a heavy bag in his basement that he beats the crap
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at him every day Eric go ahead tell the listeners what's the all time greatest snack as a kid.
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I will go I will go with the back story on this so it was great in the 90s they were delicious,
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and then they kind of fell off we couldn't they got discontinued or something
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or you could only get them at select stores and then in college,
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we there's Sam's Club there's Costco couldn't afford those memberships so we,
00:25:07.300 --> 00:25:15.700
got a bj membership keep laughter but uh and then we were going there going to get some things for,
00:25:16.600 --> 00:25:19.440
some food and everything i think we were stocking up
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on twitter paper that day and yeah we were stuck up
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with something and then there's some impulse buys including
00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.260
the one that we both stopped and decided
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hell yes we're doing we're buying them because we
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had found them after so long the goaded undisputed heavyweight champion of the
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snack world dunkaroos the name just provokes joy of dunking these delicious
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little graham crackers either chocolate or vanilla flavored,
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into this delicious whoever thought hey you know what this graham cracker needs
00:25:56.320 --> 00:25:59.000
what's that it needs frosting to dunk into.
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And you had chocolate and vanilla and I always preferred the chocolate over the vanilla.
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And they also had funfetti yes they did they had funfetti too those were so
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delicious and yes I remember too Eric so now years have passed since college
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you're living in Charlotte,
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I go to visit you one day and I go to the 7-Eleven I think that had just opened
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up down the road from where you lived when I go in there, what do I find?
00:26:30.820 --> 00:26:34.020
Dunkaroos. And it was like, I'm going to buy all of them.
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And like a token of our friendship is like bro, I got you Dunkaroos.
00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.260
There's a couple of gifts that you and I give each other.
00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.880
That's like peak Eric and Jordan friendship. And I feel like it's probably Dunkaroos
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and also Spotted Cow Beer.
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That's like the two core gifts of our friendship.
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And Dunkaroos man, just absolutely fucking delicious. When you're drunk they taste even better.
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Yeah, the Dr. Reuss, I'm just so glad those are back.
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And there's a, well, society is very divisive, but there's different,
00:27:12.587 --> 00:27:15.527
but there's a lot of things where that will bring people together.
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And I think millennials are the best generation at doing stuff like that.
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Dude, we brought Crystal Pepsi back.
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Well, I was never a fan of that. I wasn't either, but like we brought it back for like a limited run.
00:27:29.847 --> 00:27:34.047
Yeah, but we need to bring back Surge. We need to bring back Ecto Cooler.
00:27:34.047 --> 00:27:38.247
We need to focus on that, not Crystal Pepsi.
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Modern problems require modern solutions.
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But yeah, we got Dr. Roos back, but it's, yeah, it's good.
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Love that those are back and easily accessible now.
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Very much so. And you wanted to add a different topic.
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Well, I just wanted to add to it. There's three things that were late 90s,
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early 2000s staples that if I were elected president of this country, I would bring back.
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Because here recently, Cracker Barrel tried to change their logo and they got
00:28:14.787 --> 00:28:16.427
bullied into switching in back.
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So I want the power of the people to bully these three companies into bringing
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these three dying experiences back. and the first and foremost has to be the Pizza Hut buffet.
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I could smell that buffet right now. I could taste the Pepsi in the weird textured Pepsi glasses.
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You could tell that the lettuce was dying and going to probably rot soon,
00:28:42.607 --> 00:28:46.087
but you didn't care because you felt the need to get a salad when you stuffed
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your face with unlimited pizza.
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The sauce was disgusting and never warm, but it was good and it was ours.
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And they need to bring that back. I'll throw in there really quick, too.
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McDonald's. Bring back the dollar menu. Not this crap that you have of like,
00:29:03.847 --> 00:29:05.067
well, everything's $2.50. No.
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There was a period in our life where we could have an entire meal for under $5.
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I could get two snack wraps, a medium fry, and a small drink and be full and
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not feel like I had to mortgage my house to do it.
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So specifically McDonald's, pick the value, the value menu. And the third thing,
00:29:23.707 --> 00:29:29.067
we're going to not talk about the spokesperson, but I want $5 footlongs back.
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Because again, if I was broken in college and didn't want to eat ramen,
00:29:33.727 --> 00:29:37.867
I could go get a $5 footlong and get two meals out of that bastard.
00:29:38.287 --> 00:29:40.167
Or me and my friend could split it.
00:29:41.267 --> 00:29:46.327
So I want our millennial generation to bully. And I'm calling for an all at
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war against Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Subway.
00:29:49.047 --> 00:29:54.547
Bring back the pizza buffet. bring back the actual dollar menu with value and
00:29:54.547 --> 00:30:03.047
bring back the $5 for long thank you so as you're saying this there's a pizza hut in Albemarle.
00:30:04.399 --> 00:30:07.959
Is still old-fashioned. It still has the buffet.
00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:12.499
Well, and CeCe's Pizza tries to do it, but CeCe's Pizza sucks.
00:30:12.619 --> 00:30:16.359
Do not bring... Do not bring that in place. Yeah.
00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:21.919
CeCe's Pizza is a guaranteed dining experience where you will eat a bunch of
00:30:21.919 --> 00:30:26.579
really below-level pizza and then proceed to use the toilet in levels that only
00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:28.239
Taco Bell can equate to afterwards.
00:30:28.819 --> 00:30:33.499
You need to stay away from CeCe's Pizza. I want Pizza Hut to bring back the
00:30:33.499 --> 00:30:38.319
old-school deep dish where they would bring cheese, a pepperoni,
00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:42.299
usually like a supreme, and then like a three-meat pizza.
00:30:42.479 --> 00:30:45.459
And they would have those bastards out hot all day.
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.959
And you and your family would go. It would be in a really weird brick dining
00:30:49.959 --> 00:30:52.279
room with a triangle-shaped roof.
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.519
Pizza Hut needs to bring those back. Yes. Albemarle has one.
00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:58.959
I didn't know that. I might take a trip to Albemarle next weekend.
00:31:00.919 --> 00:31:06.979
I'll go visit Kelly Pickler and sing we're at high heel in the way oh.
00:31:09.639 --> 00:31:16.039
Your mic's cutting it out and not CC's is it better now? can you hear me?
00:31:17.939 --> 00:31:21.819
Technical difficulties my apologies everybody but that's all my rant pizza hut
00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:31.179
buffet dollar menu $5 footlong I do agree with I definitely agree on the $5 footlong I mean,
00:31:31.899 --> 00:31:34.519
obviously inflation and everything but,
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:38.859
if we're talking value, if we're talking bring it back.
00:31:40.345 --> 00:31:46.005
Why do we have to modernize buildings? Like every McDonald's,
00:31:46.085 --> 00:31:53.905
like when he's had those old sunrooms, the McDonald's play skate play land and all that.
00:31:54.285 --> 00:31:57.345
Now all these buildings are just look cookie cutter.
00:31:57.705 --> 00:32:04.905
And me, there's nothing unique about like back in the day companies stood out
00:32:04.905 --> 00:32:07.445
because like they wanted to look and be different.
00:32:08.425 --> 00:32:11.245
And nowadays they all want to look the same and feel the
00:32:11.245 --> 00:32:14.505
same and they want you to choose based on some slight difference you
00:32:14.505 --> 00:32:17.405
know i don't know i feel
00:32:17.405 --> 00:32:20.345
like when we were kids like things
00:32:20.345 --> 00:32:24.945
were not nearly as good as they are now but like also at the same time like
00:32:24.945 --> 00:32:29.365
it was just so different and so much better and the world seemed to be so much
00:32:29.365 --> 00:32:33.485
more innocent and i understand things have changed but like damn i just want
00:32:33.485 --> 00:32:38.705
my pizza hut buffet back bro if there is a pizza buffet near me i will go And there are some, like,
00:32:38.865 --> 00:32:42.045
local restaurants that, like, have tried to duplicate it and done pretty good.
00:32:42.205 --> 00:32:44.645
But, like, Pizza Hut was going in for that buffet.
00:32:45.625 --> 00:32:53.885
Yeah. I mean, one of the things, too, I mean, as disappointing as the modernization
00:32:53.885 --> 00:32:58.085
of the fast food world that we've seen,
00:32:58.425 --> 00:33:05.985
can we kind of agree that one of the worst modernizations has been Taco Bell? Oh, without question.
00:33:06.825 --> 00:33:12.305
Without question, Taco Bell is, again, they didn't, they lost sight of what they are.
00:33:12.465 --> 00:33:14.625
Like, the whole point of going to Taco Bell was you could eat a,
00:33:14.645 --> 00:33:18.285
like, crap ton of food that you knew was probably going to destroy your stomach.
00:33:20.465 --> 00:33:23.745
But you knew doing it that, like, you weren't going to be poor.
00:33:24.285 --> 00:33:28.265
And that's the problem nowadays. If you go to McDonald's for two people,
00:33:28.525 --> 00:33:32.665
it's like 20 bucks for two people to go to McDonald's to have meals.
00:33:32.665 --> 00:33:39.505
So I was driving back home Labor Day, and I stopped at McDonald's for lunch.
00:33:40.931 --> 00:33:52.351
Me medium double quarter pounder was like 12 50 that's outrageous like it let's
00:33:52.351 --> 00:34:00.171
just go 1999 thank you google so yeah that meal in 1999,
00:34:01.311 --> 00:34:09.511
it's gonna depress me looking at this a reddit post around that that meal was three dollars.
00:34:11.131 --> 00:34:18.171
Four times the cost now yeah see and like we bullied mcdonald's to bring the snack wrap back,
00:34:18.771 --> 00:34:23.451
we did that bring back the sit bring back the salad shakers as well well they
00:34:23.451 --> 00:34:27.471
they brought it back eric and i'm very sad to report that i tried one of these
00:34:27.471 --> 00:34:28.731
snack wraps like a month ago,
00:34:29.411 --> 00:34:34.831
and they suck they're terrible and i don't know if they were just ass when we
00:34:34.831 --> 00:34:37.791
were kids and we remember them being better than they are which is most likely
00:34:37.791 --> 00:34:44.191
the case most likely but Like the chicken tasted like something my dog would chew on.
00:34:44.951 --> 00:34:49.931
The tortilla was not light and fluffy. I didn't get my five pounds of lettuce
00:34:49.931 --> 00:34:51.651
and mayonnaise like I got in it before.
00:34:54.591 --> 00:34:58.031
It's just like, even when they bring shit back, McDonald's thinks they're cute
00:34:58.031 --> 00:35:02.451
every year, bringing the McRib back like it's special. But like, even that kind of sucks.
00:35:02.631 --> 00:35:05.291
I don't know. I'm going to get off my soapbox, but yeah.
00:35:05.751 --> 00:35:11.131
Did you know you can get a two cheeseburger meal at mcdonald's in 1999 for 2.99,
00:35:11.751 --> 00:35:18.671
i mean that was a that's a good meal there but anyway yes sorry we kind of we
00:35:18.671 --> 00:35:24.211
really went off the rails there but uh but yeah it's we were talking about the
00:35:24.211 --> 00:35:27.091
dining experiences yeah man those.
00:35:28.409 --> 00:35:33.529
Did. I mean, I think McDonald's had the best play thing than anything,
00:35:33.849 --> 00:35:40.209
but I mean, one of the things too, I mean, the buffets in general,
00:35:41.069 --> 00:35:43.349
old country buffet, ooh, yeah,
00:35:44.469 --> 00:35:46.029
which is no longer a thing.
00:35:46.749 --> 00:35:52.609
There's Golden Corral now, but it's kind of it.
00:35:53.649 --> 00:35:56.569
But yeah, it's the pizza buffet, though.
00:35:57.109 --> 00:36:03.289
I don't know if they still do it um i sent you the meme but i think that i don't
00:36:03.289 --> 00:36:08.729
know if it's still doing red but pizza hut had this book it program where you
00:36:08.729 --> 00:36:10.329
had to read x amount of books,
00:36:11.249 --> 00:36:15.709
verify it and the teacher would verify that you read all of them and then you
00:36:15.709 --> 00:36:21.749
got a little piece of paper that said free personal pizza that's they don't
00:36:21.749 --> 00:36:24.269
do fun stuff you got i don't know.
00:36:26.369 --> 00:36:30.809
I remember being a little kid and even like Little Caesars you could walk in
00:36:30.809 --> 00:36:35.349
and say pizza pizza they still do it I think do they? yeah.
00:36:37.489 --> 00:36:43.649
It's a webbookitprogram.com cool still do go get a free personal pizza everybody
00:36:43.649 --> 00:36:48.389
if your kids are pre-k through 6th grade yes,
00:36:50.069 --> 00:36:53.969
I will do it this weekend and report back to everybody next week,
00:36:54.729 --> 00:36:58.169
but anyway yeah you were saying sorry no little
00:36:58.169 --> 00:37:00.789
caesar's you can get a toy from little caesar's back when i was a kid when i was
00:37:00.789 --> 00:37:03.689
a kid yeah you can say pizza
00:37:03.689 --> 00:37:06.329
pizza please and they would give you a little toy i don't remember it ever being a good
00:37:06.329 --> 00:37:11.289
toy but anyway that could be like a favorite childhood memory of like things
00:37:11.289 --> 00:37:13.989
you would do because that makes you think back to like blockbuster days but
00:37:13.989 --> 00:37:18.169
off topic that's all i have for this week so that actually i just have our idea
00:37:18.169 --> 00:37:24.089
for a different show coming up because of that what you just said so i'm gonna hold it
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and we can discuss off air but yeah this wasn't one of our longer episodes but we've,
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thought this was fun to discuss the nostalgia of,
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non-nutritious 90s sustenance so thanks for listening and take care bye everybody.