One Drink Podcast Crossover: The Great Gas Station Snack Showdown

I'm Chris Lindstrom, and this is the Food About Town podcast.

Rochester.

Well, why Rochester?

Chris Lindstrom was a hoot.

He was just so much fun.

He never stopped talking.

I mean, it was great.

Here's a good idea.

Have a point.

It makes it so much more interesting for the listener, and we don't need.

Any characters around to give the joint atmosphere.

Is that clear?

Because I'm a pro.

That's what pros do.

I'm a professional.

Look it up in the book.

But now, yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.

And we are back for another episode of the Food About Town podcast.

It's a drizzly day here in Rochester, and my studio has been taken over by a couple of characters, a couple of rogues, a couple of ne'er do wells, if you will.

Gentlemen, introduce yourselves and tell them why you're taking over the show today.

Yes, I am Matthew from One Drink Podcast.

And I'm Oliver, and we are here to talk about gas station snacks.

We do know that you work around Rochester and everywhere with food.

Yeah.

You do a great deal with all of that.

So we thought we'd come on your show with a little twist and talk about gas station snacks.

And why?

Because we've all been in that predicament, Right?

Absolutely.

You know, you're in a rush, you know, you're hungry, or there's always a scenario where you need a gas station snack.

And there's so many.

Right.

I always think, like, road trips, too.

You know what I mean?

Like, what's the.

Like that correlates with me to, like, road trip snacks, you know, because everybody's.

And everybody's got their favorite road trip snack or their favorite gas station food or like, whatever food that they usually grab when, like, you know, when you gotta go in to the gas station for whatever, there's always one thing that, like, will catch your eye, and you're like, man, I haven't had that in a while.

I'm gonna get that.

And of course, you know, there's a couple things that you wanna stay away from.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Well, and I think it's a fascinating topic because it's.

There's so many different ways to think about what is a gas station food.

Oh, yeah.

Cause we're gonna.

We're definitely gonna tie into, you know, some of the plus angles, and then we're gonna talk about the ways that, like, hey, I'm still a garbage person.

And this is the st.

So I'm excited.

Yeah.

So we got, like, a little tournament.

We're going to match a couple things up.

You guys know it's April, right?

April.

Okay.

Yeah.

You know, there's, there's a month where people do tournament things if you're timely.

Oh, like the March Madness.

Yeah, the whole March thing.

That's where everybody goes on the trend and does tournament things.

You guys are like, you know, we're.

Not trend setters or trend followers.

I didn't even think, like, we go.

We do Taco Thursdays on the show.

We don't do Taco Tuesdays.

A hard tea on Thursday.

Thursdays.

Taco Thursdays.

Thursdays.

Taco Thursdays.

You got to get LeBron to, to patent that, too.

Yeah, we're going to start sandwich Saturdays just because we need our own thing.

And then when that catches on, we'll start something else, you know, like Salmon Sundays or something.

Yeah, you got whole sides of salmon curing in your fridge at all times now.

Walleye.

A little Walleye Wednesday.

You know, it'll be fine.

Yeah.

All just for the Midwest, just for Wisconsinites.

Y And so coming up with this topic, too, you know, you got your basic gas stations, but when you go down south, what different world.

I went into like a little rabbit hole going into this hole.

Yeah, they got like wawas, it's called.

Oh, the wawas, bro.

You can't eat the sandwiches at Wawa's, though, because they, they taste like gas.

Also, you can't count the south as Philadelphia.

Oh, Philadelphia isn't the South.

Right.

I thought you were going to talk about, like, barbecue gas stations in, like the Deep South.

You're talking about, you know, when you go south, we're talking Philadelphia, we're talking Wawa.

I'm like, wow, how cloistered.

Yeah.

And I like that.

I like those.

I like the old school ones, like in like, deep.

When you.

I lived in Georgia for a while.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you've got those.

They look like ramshackled houses.

Like that shouldn't be habitable.

But they'll have like a giant sign for like, boiled peanuts most of the time.

Peanuts spelled wrong.

Yes.

And then you know that anything that's going to come out of this little corner store in the woods is going to be delicious.

There's always some kind of fried chicken.

There's always some sort of like, super localized, like, favorite type of food, too, that you can get.

Oh.

And it's always just.

It was always.

Those were always my favorite places.

Side note, love boiled peanuts.

Yes.

Love boiled peanuts.

I had them when I was a kid.

I'M like, I don't understand this.

This doesn't make any sense.

Why aren't they the way I understand them?

And now I love them.

That is so good.

They're a very love hate, though.

You either love boiled peanuts or you think they're disgusting.

There's like, no, nobody's ever said, like, yeah, boiled peanuts are okay.

Yeah.

I don't mind them.

There's someone at the public market, the Florida Nut House in the inside shed at the Rochester public Market that makes.

Makes them.

They're fresh.

They get quality roasted peanuts.

And then they're doing that.

They have a spicy version with habaneros in it, in the.

In the broth, and the other one just like a savory broth.

They're great.

They're really enjoyable.

That sounds really good.

Great place to swing over and just also just really cool people too.

And that's what I love about the public market is like, there's so much good food there that you don't think about.

Yeah.

Especially that pickle guy.

He's got like, all different pickles.

Yeah.

And the sandwiches that he makes inside, like, those sandwiches are wild sandwiches there.

Yeah, yeah.

It's one of the best sandwiches in Rochester, like, and at a reasonable price.

He does it on like, like a half loaf of the salt bread or a whole loaf.

And it's like, it's a big old sandwich for the dollar.

So what are we doing here?

We should have just gone there recording.

Live at the sandwich place.

That's what we need to do next time.

We need to go on a.

Just a food tour of the public market next time.

It's so good there.

So.

Yes.

So if you go to a gas station, do you have a go to.

So accepting.

Accepting places that have, like, actual restaurants, like, you know, taco places, like, you know, the original.

It's a cottage or places like that in Rochester.

You know, taco barbecue places.

It depends on if I'm following my rules of my diet.

Meaning I'm eating vegan.

If I'm eating vegan, there are a few that are like the go tos for me.

I think top tier is the Gardetto's bag of like, you know, Chex mix.

Like.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You know, it's got the darker chips.

It's a more aggressively seasoned snack.

It has different crunchy textures.

Some crispy, some crunchy.

Yeah.

You know, the level of savory and salt is pretty aggressive.

That's.

That's right up my alley.

Yeah.

I like the heavily seasoned mixes that are similar to, you know, like a Chex mix or, you know, whatever.

Yeah, I like the ones that are.

I like the spicier ones, too.

Like the.

Like those really crappy, like, bowls that you get at some bars and stuff.

They'll put out, like, that mix you.

And you can never find, though, the right kind at the store either.

Like, it doesn't.

It doesn't matter.

It's not the same.

And I worked in the restaurant business for a long time, too, and they.

I couldn't find the brand that we carried.

There's only one side of the restaurant, like, out of the Restaurant Depot.

Yeah.

No, Restaurant Depot.

Yeah, Restaurant Depot have them.

Because that's like, those things basically don't exist outside of, like, multiple gallon containers.

Oh, it's massive.

The container that it comes in that.

Well, that's why it's stale most of the time.

Eat it anyways.

But you catch that one rare.

You catch that one rare.

That one rare moment where you get, like, a fresh bowl and you're like, oh, I'm going to eat all this.

And then, you know, you buy six beers, and then it's like, oh, well, now I know why they give this away for free, because this is going to make me sit here and drink more beer.

Oh, that's so funny.

All right, so, yeah, we got a little tournament here.

We're gonna pair up a couple just random, different crazy things.

We're gonna decide what goes on, and then the second round, we'll leave up to the people on social media to.

And I.

I like this because now we have three people.

Yes.

When we do these tournaments, it gets tough when me and Matt, like, can't agree on something.

Yeah, we don't have that, like, third, like, deciding vote, so it's nice to have three.

Yeah, assuredly, I will have strong opinions about absolutely every single thing that you mentioned.

Perfect.

Perfect.

That's why we come here.

We don't come here because you're guy.

I have no option.

I can't turn it off.

That's fine.

No, I prefer people in my life that don't have filters.

So it's fine.

Yeah.

The only thing in this studio with a filter is this microphone internal built in.

Pop Filters.

Wow.

Works pretty good.

All right, so first one, Slurpee or icy or Snyder's pieces of honey mustard pretzels?

Well, I think we need to be specific for a moment.

Are you loop.

You are lumping in the Slurpee texture with the icy texture.

Slurpee or icy?

You know, so it's just Slurpees and ices are in one category together.

So basically a slushy.

So you're lumping in the dog container with, like, the pellets and the fully integrated, like, Coke, like, Slurpee at 7:11.

I don't like it right away.

I don't like those lumped together.

They're definitely different things.

All right, we'll just say, okay, let's do.

Okay, let's do.

Let's do icy versus Slurpee first.

Okay.

So icv.

Slurpee.

This is.

This is the pre round.

This is like.

Yeah.

The 17.

This is a qualifier, right?

This is.

This is the playing game in the NBA.

Like, we're doing that because I'm demanding it.

Yes.

Because I don't like you lumping those things together.

They're different.

These are not the same.

I agree.

Okay.

And I am very much.

I'm very pro Slurpee.

Yes.

And very anti icy.

I do not like the icy.

So I'm voting slurp.

Yes.

It's 100% texture.

That almost flaky, like, soft texture of the icy.

Way better texture.

You can suck it through a straw.

It's not a spoon thing.

This isn't shaved ice.

This isn't Hawaii.

This isn't pellet ice.

This isn't Sonic.

Come on now.

So you're going slurpee 100% you.

Yeah.

All right.

Don't vote against us now because you get crucified quick.

Oh, I love breaking formats so much.

This is great.

Okay, so Slurpee.

Slurpee one.

Slurpee versus Slurpee versus the icy.

Yeah.

Slurpee wins.

Yep.

Okay, so.

And then the other one is Slurpee versus specifically the honey mustard bites.

Yes.

I'm not really sure this is much of a competition.

Which one is ranked higher in your.

Do you have rankings?

It's just random.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, there's no rankings.

Yeah, it's just random.

What's a tournament without seeding?

I mean, I guess there is.

Is this a sesame bagel without seeds?

Like, what are we talking about?

Where's the rigor?

Where the analysis.

I think it's pretty clear also, by the way, I'm gonna.

I'm gonna abstain until you guys comment just to make sure.

Just.

I'm going Slurpee.

Okay.

Slurpee for sure.

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear.

I mean, I think those bites are great.

I think the honey mustard is my least favorite of those specific flavors.

I agree.

I think if it was a different flavor up against the Slurpee It'd be more of a competition.

Buffalo flavor.

Yeah.

Flavor.

Buffalo flavor.

Yeah.

Jalapeno flavor.

That's a plus.

Flavor.

I want that little.

That little green dried jalapeno powder kick.

You don't like honey mustard pretzels?

No.

Oh, no, I love them.

Are you.

Are you a sweet and savory.

Sweet, savory, salty kind of guy?

I guess, yeah.

So you always.

You like that little extra, like, pop of sweetness in your dishes?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Don't like it.

Don't like it.

Who would ever guess that you are.

You are a spicy guy?

Oh, hard, Hard.

Speaking of which, I have multiple hot sauces in the fridge if you guys want to grab a sample of some on the way out.

I have.

My other half is quite into hot sauces, so I've got my fridge.

I have a whole shelf on my door that's just hot sauces, and 80% of them I don't even touch because they're too hot.

I made a whole bunch over the fall.

I brought over.

Why do we always have super hot sauce guys on our fucking show?

He brought over, like, five pounds of Vietnamese small peppers that I all caught up and fermented differently.

You know, I did them.

The fermentation was the same, so like, just like garlic and regular, like, long fermented.

And then I did the flavors completely differently.

Like, the green peppers got cilantro and stuff like that, you know, making it more like verde style.

But it's punchy.

The other one's more citrusy and yellow.

Yeah.

What a delight.

I grilled.

I grilled the lemons and squeeze those in.

Oh, nice.

Really, really fun.

That sounds good.

Really good.

And now we need some.

I.

You know, it's funny because, like, I don't really handle hot sauce.

Like, I don't like it specifically super hot, but I always end up loving, like, the flavors of some, especially, like, like, exactly what you just described.

You know what I mean?

Like, that type of flavoring that goes into a hot sauce.

I always really like the flavoring, but then when it comes down to the heat itself, I'm just sitting there dying on the inside, you know?

I mean, I'm like, I'm turning 36 shades of red.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's just.

It's the worst.

That's a way more boring book.

Not many women like reading 36 shades of red.

You haven't read it yet, man.

I'll send.

I'll send you the first draft, dude.

So we got through one.

We got through one all right, let's go.

Yeah.

You ready for the next one?

Yeah.

You guys ready?

All right.

Just regular fountain soda.

Okay.

Okay.

You know.

Or Gatorade.

Gatorade, for sure.

Oh, I'm gonna say.

I'm gonna say fountain soda because I like the mix.

Okay, now I know I'm getting outvoted.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah.

Because I like that option of Diet Mountain Dew and some other flavor.

Oh, you're a mixer.

Yeah.

Diet Mountain Dew is a great base, but I don't love it on its own.

Like, at.

At Charlie's on Empire, they have Logan Berry.

Dude, Loganberry is arguably the best fountain drink ever.

Diet Mountain Dew and Logan Berry together.

I'm telling you, it softens the Logan Berry just a little bit.

You get that little bit of carbonation in there.

Pretty good.

Pretty good.

I love it.

That's a real garbage person.

Don't let him flow thing to do.

Don't let him switch him.

No, I'm not gonna pick.

Well, I just.

I haven't tried it yet, but I might.

I might.

That might be your favorite.

I might recant after the show.

After.

After I go try it.

All right, so we're on Gatorade.

I'm okay with that.

Gatorade's a great road trip thing.

Yeah.

Less like going home from work, gas station.

Like eating a whole bag of snacks before you get home and throwing in the outside garbage can before you go inside.

Yep.

Yeah.

So, like, not wiping the dust off your beard.

Not that, but I think road trip Gatorade's a great option.

All right.

Give me a.

Give me a zero.

Cherry frost.

Pretty good.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

And the thing I love about that answer is he mixes all of the drinks.

That's so great.

Not like.

Not like the kindergarten.

Like, we mix all of them together.

That's just a lack of intention.

Like, you're not trying to optimize these flavors.

Yeah.

So for this Logan Berry mix, I'm going to go back to that real quick.

I think you should.

What's the ratio?

We talking like 75?

35.

Logan to Mountain.

Diet Mountain Dew.

Oh, okay.

Because Logan Berry is such a strong flavor.

Yeah, yeah.

Is you do add a little bit of sugar, which is nice.

Yeah.

Because I do miss, like, full sugar, like Mountain Dew and Code Red and stuff.

So it's nice to get that little.

That just that little bit.

I think 50.

50 is too much.

I think it's like 60 to 2/3 Diet Mountain Dew.

Okay.

To the rest.

All right.

I'll start out with 50.

50.

Okay.

I'll go up from there.

Maybe like 70.

30.

And then I'll.

It's a good intro.

Kind of good intro.

I gotta.

I gotta ease my way into it.

You know what I mean?

I can't go for the full.

The full 60 right off the bat.

You know what I mean?

You gotta slow roll me into that.

Yeah.

On the way.

On the way home, you're gonna be like, yo, can you.

Like, Matt, let's fucking stop over.

Can you swing down real quick?

Dude, can we go over to Charl Are just for fountain sodas.

What are you guys doing?

I'm mixing fountain drinks.

Okay.

I got to try the race.

She goes.

God, Food About Town told me about this.

So, you know, let me.

Don't be a.

I'm trying to do something here.

None of your business.

It's so great.

All right, next one.

All right, next one.

Peanut M&M's.

Specifically peanut M&M's.

The best M&M's.

False.

Got it.

Arizona Arnold Palmer drink peanut M's.

Yeah, I'm gonna go peanut M M's.

Even though it is the subpar M M.

It is not the goat of M M's.

What's the goat?

Peanut butter M M's.

All right, that's.

See, that's second place for me, so.

Oh.

See, I like the texture better.

Okay.

And the.

The.

I think a lot of the peanuts end up being rancid inside.

And you get a bad.

You get a bad peanut taste.

I tell you, getting a bad.

I'm gonna set this one up.

I'm just.

Wait.

Wait a second.

Let me.

Let me make sure it's on you.

Right.

Okay.

I'm ready for that.

Getting a bad nut in your mouth can really ruin your day.

I had to on that.

It was just two years that was teed up just perfect.

But no, that can really ruin the whole rest of the pack of M and Ms.

Yeah.

If you end up getting one of those bad peanuts.

But.

Or if you get the one that doesn't have the peanut in it, you're like, I feel like I got robbed.

My expectations were not met.

No.

Not met.

The contract that we signed when I got these.

This giant bag of M and Ms.

Because I'm talking, like, the regular size.

Because they don't exist in gas stations.

Yeah.

And why would you get that?

Because it's just not enough.

Yeah.

I mean, even if we're talking like the big resealable top bags.

Like those are a problem because any bag is a single serving.

Yes.

Of anything.

Yes.

And that is way too much.

But still great for a long road trip.

Not like a two hour.

We're talking like an hour trip.

Some distance.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Okay.

I'm going peanut M M's as well.

Done.

Fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was easy.

All right.

All right.

This next one.

I flying through these now.

Hot dog just, you know those ones that roll, that's been there for maybe a week.

I don't know if I've ever eaten one of those Silver.

Going up against Chex Mix and we already know.

Yeah.

Chex Mix is my answer on that.

Like that's.

I'm also gonna go checks mix because you never quite know the quality hot dog that you're gonna get.

Well, for one, being in Rochester, you know, you know damn well that that gas station hot dog is not going to be as waggles.

No.

It's going to be some generic off brand.

Like not even a ballpark.

You know what I mean?

Like if you're going to have a.

Like the dollar store, you ever go.

To somebody's house and like they're like just for like a little cookout or whatever and they, they don't have swaggles.

Yeah.

Like, I get offended.

I mean, if you bring a Salems or a Hoffman's, I'm good.

That's a, that's a choice.

Okay.

Fair.

That's a legitimate choice to make.

Still good hot dogs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think if it's not.

I mean, I think it's even offensive if you don't bring a skin on.

If you bring a skinless one, I think you have failed the mission.

Yes, agreed.

I think it pops out the pop open.

I feel like the pop open is like the only answer.

Yeah.

I think that's unacceptable.

I think it's just an offense to good taste.

Yes.

An offense to good texture.

Like, like, if you don't like the taste of it, like, you know, that's fine.

Have something else.

I also don't trust the person at the party that doesn't want it like nice and charred on the outside like the pop open.

So when you get that, like that crispy skin, that little bit burnt.

You know what I mean?

Like you got to have some.

Some.

There's got to be some.

Yeah, there.

There is too much.

Yeah.

And then it just tastes like you're eating charcoal.

But I think charcoal is the right answer though, versus anything Else every day of the week.

I mean, which is why, like, a lot of reasons why people love, like, Ted's in Buffalo is because they're one of the few places that char grills.

Yeah.

And you go there, you're getting the salons on the, on the, on the charcoal.

Damn, that's pretty good.

Yeah.

And the, the greatest thing, too, like, speaking of hot dogs, is when Dogtown came to Rochester.

Now you're getting so many different ways to eat a hot dog.

Yeah.

As opposed to your ketchup and mustard, you know?

Yeah.

First time I ever went to Dog Town, I was like.

I just, like, stared at the menu and I was like, oh, so cool.

Right.

Realize you could do so many things.

With a hot dog you guys gotta go to.

You guys have to go to the burrito place.

Why am I forgetting the name of it is right near.

Right near Nash and where Poutine was.

Oh, yeah.

Right on the court.

Yeah.

Right across from Three Heads.

Yeah.

Why am I.

I feel terrible because I really.

I've been there several times.

Continue on to the next thing and I'll bring it up in a second.

But they make a Sonoran hot dog, so it's topped with like, bacon and other stuff like that.

So it's like southwest.

I think it is like, mayo and some other stuff on there.

Sounds good.

And it's like half like Arizona, half like northern Mexican.

And that.

That's pretty.

That's pretty good.

Nice.

Speaking of hot dogs.

Right.

Speaking of hot dogs.

All right, so Old Pueblo.

Old Pueblo.

That's it.

Hot dogs.

Have you been to that Spanish place?

I think they have hot dogs.

No, I think they got that Sonoran dog on the menu.

That's pretty good.

Yeah, that sounds really good.

All right, next one.

Trail mix versus Reese's Pieces.

Reese's Pieces.

Easy answer.

I mean, so let's talk about the trail mix for a second because I think that's an important.

An important part of this discussion.

We're talking those generic bags.

Oh, yeah.

With that, like, label on it that you have no idea where it came from.

Correct.

That it has no location.

It.

It's just that generic, clear, bad feeling plastic bag with trail mix.

And so the question I have to ask before I answer, does this trail mix have the sesame sticks in it?

We'll say yes, then.

Trail mix 100%.

Okay.

Those sesame sticks are God's answer to bad mixes.

If it doesn't have the sesame sticks straight out.

Yeah.

I'll go Reese's Pieces.

Even though I don't like Them for how much I like the sesame sticks.

Yeah.

Like, the sesame sticks are the God of the generic snack that comes in those plastic bags all day.

So here's something, though.

What if there was a trail mix with the sesame sticks, and instead of the M M's in it, it was Reese's Pieces, I would eat that all day.

So the problem with the trail mix is they're not M M's.

They're like chocolate circles with candy coating.

Yeah.

And they can't, like, shorten it.

They have to list that out.

Like chocolate discs with candy coating.

Because they're definitely not M M's.

They don't have the budget.

Yeah.

For the M, the Ampersand or the other M.

Yeah.

They can't even use an M in their label.

Like, they don't have the dollars for that.

Like, this.

This is a whole different experience.

So I'm gonna say trail mix.

But you guys are Reese's Pieces.

I'm good with that.

Yeah, we're going with the Reese's.

And I would say generic if it was.

Now say we.

If instead of just being, like, a guest.

If this wasn't gas station stuff.

If it was just a.

Like, if you made.

If I made my own trail mix, I would choose my own trail mix over the Reese's Pieces.

Fair.

But we need.

We need to understand the level of execution at said gas station.

Yeah.

This is gas station trail mix.

Yeah.

Just like you described it.

Yep.

That was perfect.

All right, good.

Okay, so we're saying pieces.

I'm okay with that.

This isn't one where I'm gonna, like, demand a recount.

Like, there may be some where I just, like, I break this whole show.

Yeah.

Just like, I can't accept this kind of decision.

I'm going to appeal.

Have to leave that up to the audience.

Yeah, I'm going to appeal.

And then it has to go.

It has to go to audience, and.

It'Ll go to the supreme audience.

Yeah, exactly.

That's fantastic.

Okay, next one.

Sunflower seeds or energy drinks.

I'm assuming sunflower seed is straight salt.

Yeah, just the.

Yeah, These aren't, like, the modules.

No, you don't get the fun.

Yeah, you don't get the fun flavors.

We're not talking about the ones that are doing churro and, like, garlic parmig.

Like, we're talking the ones where they go to, like, the manual baseball places and, like, on TikTok, and they give them to the athletes.

Like, wow, those are pretty good sunflower seeds.

You should buy these.

Yeah, it's the bag that just says sunflower seeds.

It's like not even a brand.

You know what I mean?

It could be David.

In this case, I think we will accept David sunflower seeds because they are the name brand.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's a decent seed.

Yeah.

It's not a high quality seed.

You like high quality seeds.

I mean, you got to get a good seed.

You do have to give good seed.

Yeah.

It's important.

Everybody enjoys it more that way.

So what was there.

What was our other option?

Energy drinks.

Like a monster or any energy drink.

Do the.

We'll just say monster just to.

Or Red Bull or.

Yeah, anything that has the words guarana on it.

Yeah.

Or green tea extract or anything that has so many words that you don't fully understand them.

But don't worry, it's zero sugar added.

Yeah, it's perfectly good.

Don't worry.

So I'm going to say the energy drink just because in theory, I could get like the.

The Mountain Dew cherry one.

Yeah, that one's really good.

Like the mango Zero monster is pretty good with that weird teal texture on the can.

It's not bad.

So those.

Those are good.

Sometimes I just need a jolt of caffeine and the coffee at the gas stations is unacceptable, so I can't abide by that.

That I am also with the energy drink.

You going energy drink?

Oh, see, I.

I'm not a fan of energy drinks.

That's fair.

I know that I'm outvoted here, but I.

The sunflower seeds, you know, I.

Sunflower.

Seeds drive me nuts.

And like this, like, dealing with the shells and like the kind of thing, like I'm just.

If I.

If I.

If we were Jane silent bobbing it outside of the convenience store.

Oh, yes.

I would say seeds maybe, but we're talking.

We're jumping back in the car.

Where are we going?

I.

I'm not.

I don't dip.

I don't open containers in my car.

Well, we could use our Gatorade bottle from earlier.

Right, but then you're.

Yeah, exactly.

And then.

Then I'm that person.

Then I have to like, oh, I picked it up and I accidentally got seeds in my mouth.

I'm not about to do that.

Try to take a sip.

No.

You don't want to be surprised with that.

No.

All right.

Okay.

That was good.

Oh, this is the last one before break, so make it a good one.

I got two quick ones, I guess.

All right, let's go fast.

Okay.

So pre made sandwiches.

You know those gas station Sandwiches.

I'm picking whatever else it is.

And combos.

Combos.

I'm going to say combos.

Unless we were in Japan and then we're talking like, that's Japanese.

7 11.

That's a whole different.

Whole different world.

That's like a whole restaurant there.

That's it.

Oh, do you should just.

Just look up pictures of.

Watch.

Watch a video of one of the people that just goes.

Actually watch Rochester native binging with Babish.

When he went to Japan.

Yeah.

He did a whole thing.

Just going to, like, 711 and going to the different groups.

Convenience stores.

Yeah.

And eating those sandwiches.

I'm gonna say combos.

Just because we're talking generic gas station.

Yes.

We are not talking about places that make sandwiches.

Correct.

Like around the corner.

We have, like, an Afghan spot inside.

Will make you a kebab on a.

Yeah.

On a wrap.

Yeah.

Damn.

That's Henry's.

Around the corner from here.

That place.

So we're gonna go there, and then we're gonna go get a Logan Berry diet.

I love it.

To chase down our kebab.

I extended that.

But we have time for one more quick one before.

Okay.

Beef jerky or Sour Patch Kids?

Who.

We've gone.

You guys have gone sweeter than I expected.

So I do want to.

I do want to open this to you guys first.

See if I'm a tiebreaker on this.

Okay.

I'm going beef jerky all day.

I am going Sour Patch Kids.

Sour Patch Kids is my number one favorite candy.

It's my favorite.

It's my favorite movie snack.

My favorite gas station snack, my favorite road trip snack, my favorite gaming snack.

It's my favorite everything thing.

I would.

Sour Patch Kids.

Yeah.

So generally, I've been ignoring the fact that I don't eat meat for this discussion.

Yeah.

I'm going to tilt the scales a little bit towards the tilt to the Sour Patch Kids.

Because I love that each flavor is so distinct in of itself.

And I never eat one piece at a time.

I always combine two different flavors, and then I get all these different taste experiences.

And the problem is, like, gas station beef jerky.

Not a huge fan.

A really good jerky.

Cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think Sour Patch Kids have such a high, like, utility for you.

Getting the sour.

You're getting the different flavors, the textures.

All really pleasant.

Yeah.

I'm going.

I'm going Sour Patch Kids.

Nice sour pattern.

Yep.

So nice.

On that note, we've reached the time for break.

I'm gonna let these guys regroup after I've Broken their entire format and mine too.

And we'll be right back.

All right, we're back with the second half of our bracket extravaganza.

And as everybody always says, may madness.

This is when brackets happen everywhere in the country.

It's May madness.

Isn't it, April?

I don't know when this is coming out.

You said this was yet a while before this came out.

That's true.

Yeah.

It's something madness, but not March.

That's trademarked.

Yeah.

So the first.

We went through the first bracket, we described all those.

Yep.

Fantastic gas station snacks that you all love to eat at some point, right?

Yep.

Sure.

Now we're round two.

Those are words I might say, depending on the situation.

And now we're round two.

All right, what do we got?

First one, round two.

Slurpee.

V.

Gatorade.

Oh, boy.

This one's.

This one's tough.

This is a straight up drink.

Vers.

Drink type of thing.

So for me, I'm gonna go.

I'm.

I'm.

I'm going Slurpee.

How about you?

So what's.

What's the logic on it for you?

So, you know, I'm thinking of a hot summer day, you know, where I'm just relaxing, doing nothing.

A good Slurpee will cool me down.

A Gatorade.

I could.

You know, you have to.

You have to be in the mood for a Slurpee for me.

So I'm.

I'm.

It's a hot day.

I'm also gonna go survey because it's like the experience of a serpent.

You know what I mean?

A Gatorade.

You can have a Gatorade any day, anytime, anywhere.

It's a guaranteed drink.

You know what you're getting out of it?

Slurpee, though.

It's like.

It's the experience of getting a Slurpee.

You know what I mean?

It's also a very, like, It's a very enjoyable experience.

And I'm gonna go ahead.

I'm gonna go ahead and agree.

Yes, partner.

Partner.

Like, I'm gonna go ahead and agree.

I think, especially on a road trip, like, sometimes you need that treat.

Gatorade's not a treat.

No, no.

Slurpee.

Slurpee's a treat.

Slurpee's a treat.

Especially if you do like, cherry.

Cherry Coke or something.

Mix those.

Mix those guys together.

I like doing.

I'm a very classic mix on this.

The red and the blue.

Yeah.

Oh, the cherry and the blue.

Raz.

Always mix those.

Just so it's.

Yeah, like straight purple.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah, I think that's what they call it, the straight purple.

Straight purple.

Yeah, the straight purple.

I like it.

Like it.

I'm with it.

Straight per.

Yep.

All right, so that was an easy one.

So Slurpee wins that one.

All right, next one.

Eminem vs.

Chex mix.

Peanut M and M.

Peanut M.

M, Peanut M.

First check mix.

Oh, man.

So I.

For this one, I'm going to go check mix just because of the variety.

Yeah.

You know, you get a.

You get a little taste of different things.

I feel like with the M and M's, it's just straight peanuts all day.

You know what you're going to get?

Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going to go.

I'm going to disappoint my mom here because Peanut M M's are my mom's favorite, favorite snack.

I'm going to go with Chex Mix on this one just because.

Again, of the variety.

Yeah.

Yeah.

See, we're very much on the same page this round.

We had a lot of disagreement the first round.

We did, we did shake hands.

Nice.

So we're, we are very, we're very in sync this round so far.

Yeah, I think we're feeling good.

Let's.

Let's see if we get a big disagreement.

It's got to be coming up soon.

All right, next one.

Reese's Pieces versus energy drinks.

Ooh, let's let you start this one off.

I'm going to.

I'm going to go energy drinks on this one because I'm, I'm almost an active detractor of Reese's Pieces because it's not the optimal peanut flavored disc filled disc situation.

Here we go back to that very specific description.

Yeah, these are.

It's like, it's not my preference.

So I'm going to go energy drink because I think it's a needed thing and I could eschew Reese's Pieces.

Sometimes you got to have.

You got to have that monster in you.

Yeah.

I'm going to grieve for the exact same reasons.

Oh, man.

I'm going to go with the monster.

I'm going to go with the energy drinks because there's just.

I never feel like I need Reese's Pieces.

There are times where I feel like I need the energy drink.

Yeah.

So.

And I know we've been dabbling in between sometimes the things that you need, the things that are a delight for a road trip.

Yes.

But I think that's where the road trip is, it's hard to get that in between.

You got the needs, and you got the.

I.

I have to feel okay for a little bit.

Yeah.

Give me something fun.

So to give Reese's Pieces, because I do love them.

A little bit of credit.

Reese's came out with a candy bar called the Outrageous, and it's basically a fast break.

Are you sure it's not a Nutrageous?

Is it the Nutrages?

I don't know.

It seems like it could be.

It might be.

I'm almost positive.

That seems like Mark.

I think it's outrageous.

I'm gonna search.

Go ahead.

Keep on going.

Search it.

But it's got.

It's basically like a fast break, but with little tiny Reese's Pieces in it.

That's a weird bar.

Yeah.

It's arguably one of the best candy bars that I've ever had, though, because it's got that.

That really nice, like, whipped Reese's peanut butter in it.

You know, obviously, they're.

They're.

They're chocolate on the outside, but then it's got those Reese's Pieces in it, and then it's got caramel layered in there as well.

And it's.

It is a delicious candy bar.

I think the Take 5 is the best of the Reese's bars.

It.

Take 5 was my favorite Reese's product until they came out with this Outrageous.

All right, fair enough.

And it is.

It's stellar, and it's an excellent use of the Reese's Pieces because I feel like the popularity of those has never really been that high.

And so I feel like it was a really good way for them to utilize.

Be like, hey, man, we got all these Reese's Pieces pieces laying around.

We got to do something with these candies.

So while we're getting the low, while we're getting the loganberry, the Slurpee, all the other stuff, you're gonna slide in.

And we're sliding an Outrageous bar.

Take five has more salt.

That's all I gotta say.

Take five has more salt.

Okay, so we are on monster with that one and our first non unanimous decision on the second one.

Okay, final one for this round.

Combos versus Sour Patch Kids.

I don't even need to vote.

Everybody knows where I'm going.

Yeah, you're Sour Patch Kids.

I'm Sour Patch Kids.

That's pretty good.

I'll go ahead on this one.

I'm gonna do combos.

Wow.

Yeah.

So let me just clarify.

What flavor?

What is your flavor?

My favorite flavor.

Yeah.

Like the Pizza ones.

Do you only buy those or do you buy other flavors?

No, I don't.

I get.

Get, you know, whatever's available.

You're inclusive.

Yeah, you're inclusive.

You're not discriminating against different flavors.

But if there was a favorite one for me, it's that pizza roll.

Buffalo blue cheese for me.

Those are my favorite combos.

Fake blue cheese powder flavor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I.

Because I don't like blue cheese.

But those don't really taste like blue cheese because it's not actual blue cheese.

So, yeah, I like fake blue cheese.

I think whichever one, it has to be a pretzel version.

I don't care what you do.

Like the regular thing.

You gotta have the pretzel version.

Yeah.

And all that being said, Sour Patch Kids all the way.

Nice.

Let's go.

All gas, no breaks.

All Sour Patch Kids.

No breaks.

SPK for that.

What's their slogan?

They're sweet to you or they're sweet to you at first and then sour at the end.

I don't even know the commercial.

That's a lot of words for a slogan.

Yeah.

Sour then sweet.

Yeah, something like that.

I think it's just.

And sweet.

I think sometimes.

I think it's an exact description of what the candy is.

I think sometimes the little men are sour and occasionally they're sweet.

I think this would be a great slogan.

And that's the whole slogan.

That's what you're saying?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's perfect.

So you're definitely gonna remember that.

That's like seeing a really bad commercial.

Yeah, it's really.

Always remember the bad commercial.

Be like, what's that candy with the terrible slogan?

Somebody just keeps talking and it fades out while they're describing it.

I'm not sure what they do after the bag is sealed.

I imagine that they come to life in a toy story, like fashion.

And that they act really sweet to each other.

And as soon as the bag opens, they throw the malic and citric acid on themselves just to make us not want to eat them.

This is a survival technique.

This is like.

This is like those bugs that have acid inside of them, and you eat them and they taste like vinegar.

All right, I'm switching my answer to Sour Patch Kids.

That's right.

Damn right.

It's all marketing there.

Okay.

All right.

So here's the championship rounds.

Final four, right?

Freeze.

Final four.

Yeah.

All right, so the first one.

I think you're referring to the last four.

The last four competitors in this nondescript, non.

Tied to any March level tournament.

Correct.

It's just.

It happens to be the last four in our individual April, May, or June Madness competition.

Month Madness.

Month Madness.

Month Madness.

Yes.

Nice.

Nice.

That means we can do it all year long, and it's totally fine because.

We definitely can't call it month mania because this might come out in April.

Yeah.

And we do not want to be on the bad side of Triple H.

It's not where we want to be.

We don't want to be on the bad side of Triple H.

Nope.

Nope.

All right, so first one Slurpee V checks mix.

Oh, now we're.

Now we're getting down to, like.

These are.

These are strong.

These are strong contenders.

Yep.

So for me, I mean, I.

Man, I'm still thinking of that hot day.

I'm just waiting for summer, basically.

Are you a summer boy?

I do like summer.

And how.

How do you spell.

How do you spell boy?

When it comes to summer boy, I think there's.

I think there's only one spelling for the way you should describe yourself.

Yeah.

Summer boy.

Boy.

Yeah.

You're a summer boy.

Yeah, I like.

What are you going to do?

I go golf, so.

Oh.

I'm out there all.

All summer long.

That's where I'll be.

What's.

What's your best club?

Oh, God.

I would have to say it doesn't.

Matter what your best club is.

I know.

What is your best club?

No, it's got to be my putter.

Oh, so you're gonna put.

But that's it.

Okay.

My.

My best club is whichever one is closest to the beer cooler.

There you go.

Nice.

Yeah.

So, yeah, you're.

You're.

You're.

I'm the.

I'm the beer golf cart guy.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

You're a 19th hole kind of guy.

Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely.

I see what you're all about.

Or 10th, depending on the course.

You know what I mean?

Real executive, executive par three course kind of guy.

None of this.

If I can.

If I can throw my ball to the tee, potentially, that's my kind of golf course.

This is.

This is small golf.

It's not miniature.

It's just small.

Small golf.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I like that.

Just small golf Golf.

Yeah.

It's just a golfer.

Small golf.

Just small golf.

People will be like, what?

And then I'll just change the subject real quick before they can continue to think about it.

Gonna be good.

But for me, while I'm golfing, I'm eating Chex Mix.

Ooh, I like how you brought it back.

Wait, wait, wait.

Keep the format going.

Yeah.

Way to pivot.

Nice.

Nice job.

Gotta do it, really.

So I'm going Checkmates.

Real.

See, I.

I really thought you're gonna stick to it.

Win.

I wanted to.

Yeah.

I wanted to.

But I think a Chex Mix is a top tier, like, road trip snack because you can grab into it over and over and still be okay.

You don't.

You don't feel despondent that.

I mean, I.

I think so.

1.

I think we really.

We'll talk about exceptions at the end, but I think checks Mix is the right choice because it is one of the perfect savory road trip snacks.

I do prefer Gardettos, but it lives in the world of that mix of savory things.

But I think they're critical.

Yep.

I'm gonna disagree.

I'm going with Slurply.

I'm sticking with Slurpee.

That's fair because of the experience in it.

But that's okay.

I'm okay with Chex Mix.

There you go.

Winning this round.

I'm not, I'm not gonna.

I'm not gonna appeal.

Yeah.

All right.

And the last one for this round is Sour Patch Kids v.

Energy Drink.

I think we're at another.

I think this is a clear win for Sour Patch Kids because again, I think this is the one I want to dig into.

Sour Patch Kids.

Yeah.

I was going against Sour Patch Kids the whole time, but now, now I'm jumping on bar.

I'm jumping on board.

Yeah.

The marketing.

Yeah.

You know, everything, everything that went with it.

We lost our drinks.

We lost our drinks going.

We did.

That was the final.

Yeah, we did.

We lost both drinks.

Yeah.

In the final four.

Yeah.

And I think that's okay.

I think drinks.

You know, there's a different level because you can always get a bottle.

Yeah.

You can always get a 20 ounce bottle of, of soda wherever you are.

And that's a higher level of acceptability than a bad snack.

Agreed.

You don't want a bad snack.

I can always get a Diet Mountain Dew or God forbid, like a Diet Coke or something like if I have to.

And I have to get a 20 ounce bottle of something like, I, I can, I can get that down.

A bad snack.

You don't want a bad snack.

No, you need a good.

You need a good snack.

You know, actually, you know, going into this, when I, when I looked over the, the, the bracket initially, when you.

Surveyed the landscape, I really, I really didn't.

I really wasn't counting on Chex Mix making it.

You Know, it wasn't one that I assumed was going to make it to the final.

So this really didn't.

It's like a four seed in the small bracket like you thought.

No, this is like a, this is like an eight seed.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is like, you know, they beat the 16 fine.

Yeah.

But over a one.

Like, who thought that like VCU in an eight seed was going to be like.

Yeah.

You know, a mediocre UNC team.

Nobody took out that took out some big hitters.

Took out Slurpee.

I mean, I think that's a number one, number two seed in this for sure.

Took out Peanut M and M's, which I can kind of see that one.

Yeah.

And then what did it beat first round?

What checks mix.

Yeah.

What did Chex mix beat first round?

You know the old plain hot dog.

Oh, the hot dog.

So it got thrown a lob on the.

Yeah, hot dog.

Although I imagine if they have like a cheese spout and you, if you're a real garbage person, you just went over to that, you cracked open your checks mix and you put a squeeze of like that gas station cheese in there.

I imagine like the 711 nacho cheese.

Yeah.

When it comes out of the machine and it just like drips.

I do imagine that your steering wheel is gonna be a fucking disaster.

Oh, easy.

The Google search you're gonna have to do after that drive.

How do I clean nacho cheese off of a leather wrapped steering wheel?

I'm not sure many people have ever searched for that, but that is the exact search you would search for.

And Google's like, are you okay?

The AI tool, before it would give you like cleaning recommendations.

Now the AI tools be say, are you okay?

I love it now when Google comes up with like their, they've like integrated like their AI, you know, like into the search.

So it'll give you like that, that AI answer first.

I love when it takes a while and like the little, the little dots just like sit there and count for a minute.

Like you're really, you really made AI think about something.

That would be one of those ones where it's like really searching the database.

That'd be like if you're eating, if you're eating like Taco Bell stuff with like whatever pink sauce or like cheese sauce on, and you get it on something.

You get it on your like cloth seats.

You're like, oh my God, you're coming out right?

And I don't want nacho cheese stains.

Yeah.

Yep.

Because then.

Yeah, then you'll have to explain what it is to be like, ah, yeah.

I was eating Chex mixed with gas station cheese, and I got it on my.

That's what that spot is.

It's okay if you sit in it.

That kind of judgment.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It's hard to live with.

It's tough to come back from that.

Yeah.

It's tough to know even inside of yourself that this is the kind of person I am.

But you know what?

It was also really good.

Yeah.

For sure.

Taco Bell's fantastic.

Big Taco Bell fan.

All right, so the final.

The big one.

Sour Patch Kids v.

Chex Mix.

Oh, boy.

Oh, this is.

This.

This is tough.

It is tough.

And, yeah, I mean, you talk about two.

Just completely different types of snacks.

You know what I mean?

You got a sour and sweet gummy versus a salty, savory, crunchy snack.

And they both have multiple.

Multiple flavors, you know, that you could choose from.

Yeah.

You can mix and match like you do with the Sour Patch Kids and the Chex Mix.

They're kind of.

They're kind of, you know, siblings in crime when it comes to gas station snacks.

They live at a very high tier.

Yeah.

And they will always be there.

It doesn't matter what gas station you go to.

You can always find Chex Mix.

You can depend on.

Always find sour.

You can depend on them like these.

These are.

These are people like, hey, you know, something's going on.

You call.

You call Chex Mix, they show up.

Yep.

Chex Mix delivers.

It delivers.

Now what I am going to say, so this is where my.

This is where my decision might vary.

The question is our Sour Patch Kids the best sour snack?

Oh, man.

So for me, in my opinion, yes, I'm gonna go with Sour Patch Kids in this one for one reason.

I will always get Sour Patch Kids.

When I stop for a snack on a road trip on my way home or whatever, I can eat them whenever.

Whenever.

That's a guaranteed grab for me along with something else.

So maybe I'll get a monster.

Maybe I'm feeling a Slurpee.

Maybe I'm feeling some Chex Mix.

Maybe I'm grabbing this, maybe I'm grabbing that.

And I'm also getting Sour Patch Kids.

So it's always in the bag for me, no matter what.

So I'm going with Sour Patch Kids.

And I think it's reasonable to say that Sour Patch Kids are the best sour, sour, sweet snack easily.

I think that's like, that's a generic.

And I think this is.

This is where we're going to find ourselves for the rest of our discussion after we.

After we finish is.

I think it's clear that that's the best sour sweet snack.

I don't think Chex Mix is the best savory snack.

And that's why I have to, by definition, go Sour Patch Kids.

Sour Patch Kids, yeah.

Oh, man.

So Sour Patch Kids won no matter what.

Sour Patch Kids.

But what are you.

I mean, I'm staying with my checks.

Mix.

Staying with the checks.

Yes.

All right, so this is where.

This is where I want to take the rest of the discussion, though, is I don't think that Chex Mix is the best savory snack.

And I want to talk about.

I want to talk about savory snacks at a gas station in general because I think we missed a whole category that.

I'm dismayed.

I mean, I thought.

I thought I knew.

I thought I knew you.

Yeah.

I thought I knew the level of, you know, garbage person that you were.

I thought I understood your level of dedication to snacking.

Like, I can see that you're a snack snacker a little bit.

Right?

Like, I can see you're a snacker.

I'm a snacker.

Yeah.

I can recognize a snacker when I see one.

Okay.

You.

You.

You.

You fit the profile.

All right.

I'm disappointed.

I'm disappointed in you.

I mean, it happens.

We.

We didn't talk about Doritos.

Oh, I know.

We missed Doritos.

It's so tough because I feel like there could be a hundred of these brackets.

Oh, yeah.

We can go through with the different types of snacks.

I mean, Doritos are out there.

Doritos are like a core that' snacks.

So what flavor Dorito if you had all the flavors of Doritos laid out and you could only pick one, which one are you grabbing?

So I like these enough where I don't regularly break my, like, vegan eating.

This is one of the things that I will break it for occasionally.

Doritos.

Spicy nacho.

Spicy nacho.

Spicy nacho.

It's a great.

It's a great balance.

It's not like, it's not too acidic.

Like, you know, the ones that are Takis esque.

Like, let.

Let Takis have it.

It's okay.

Let Takis have it.

You don't need it.

Doritos.

You don't need it.

Let Takis have it.

It's fine.

Spicy nacho was a good thing.

It had some Spice.

It wasn't actively spicy, but it had more of a bolder flavor.

Love those.

But it can't be the small bag and it can't be a full size bag.

It's got to be that mid sized bag that used to be a $50.

Yeah.

And it's now like 269.

Yeah.

Like that is the premier size of that.

And sometimes it's two, but it has like, that's the right serving size.

And I will say, the amount of times I have eaten a regular size bag of those on the way back from work.

I haven't done this in a long time.

So I'd be driving.

I used to work over on emerson street in Mount Reed.

So driving from there to here, the 20 minutes would stop at that big.

That big, you know, safe.

Why am I figuring that?

Racetrack.

But the speedway, the speedway, big speedway on Ridge.

I get a full bag.

We're not talking the smallest.

We're talking full size bag of spicy nacho Doritos.

I would house the entire thing on the way back.

On the way home.

That's a good plus.

That's a good chip session.

That's a good pre dinner snack right there.

That's a, that's before eating dinner, of course.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And I would house that whole thing.

Empty bag, garbage can outside.

And then come inside.

Walking in like this.

Oh yeah.

And cleaning his steering wheel.

Right.

How to remove spicy nacho cheese goo from my steering wheel.

Oh, and we did, we did miss, we did miss the other angles of savory snacks.

Like, like, yo, your corn nuts.

You know, super crunchy.

Those are pretty good.

I'm not a super crunchy guy.

Oh, you don't like a hard.

I prefer crispy over crunchy.

So like if it, if you, if you gave me a bag of kettle chips versus like regular chips, I'm taking the regular style all day.

Oh, okay.

See, I'm definitely.

I like that, that very.

I like the rigid.

I like that, that harder.

That crunch.

Yeah, it's a light crunch because that corn nuts are a hard.

Yeah, it's a like hard crunch.

It like rattles your brain.

Crunch like that.

You gotta, you gotta be ready for that kind of experience.

And I'm surprised you didn't have any ranch flavors.

Yeah, this was just a random, just a random bracket I saw.

I mean, the whites love ranch.

Yeah.

So white's love ranch.

I, I do love ranch.

I mean there's, there's several different.

I'm a ranch over Blue cheese guy all day, too, by the way.

Especially.

Especially for wings.

See, my.

My buffalo blood refuses to accept that.

Like, even though I haven't had, like, a blue cheese sauce in a long time, it's still part of my.

It's part of my soul.

Like, it has to live there.

Like, so gross.

It's just gross.

Blue cheese, it just doesn't have a place anywhere.

See, I like my favorite blue cheese.

Like, when I ate, cheese was, like, the aggressive, like, Spanish blue cheeses that almost taste, like, spicy because they're so intensely funky.

Ooh, that's the good stuff right there.

Yeah.

And you know what's crazy, too, is speaking of all the stuff that we missed, nachos and cheese wasn't even on here.

Yeah, nachos and cheese.

No, that could have went.

That could have went.

That depends.

That's more of, like, a drunk gas.

Station snack, I think.

Also, like, when you're stumbling past a gas station 7 11, and you're like, oh, I got to get some nachos.

Or if you're stumbling past, like, a high school football game and they have the little snack shack outside, I mean, you got to be real degenerate to be stumbling drunk past, like, a high school football game.

True.

But I'm just saying, in theory.

Yeah.

Like, you're like a snack shack.

Like, the snack shack, like, the nachos is a top tier because, like, you know where that cheese is coming from?

That's coming from big manufactured cheese in a plastic bag going into that little squeeze thing.

And, you know, it's gonna taste like that weird jalapeno juice.

That's a good flavor.

Yeah.

With a slight hint of plastic in there.

Oh, yeah.

Enough microbiome to go right into your brain.

Yeah.

That's when you know that it got heated up enough.

Yeah.

Is when it.

You know what I mean?

It's got that slight.

Slight odor of plastic on it.

And you're like, yeah, this is gonna be good.

It goes well with the saltiness of the chips.

Ooh, De plastique.

De plastique.

Yes.

Pretty good.

Okay, so wait, wait.

I gotta backtrack a little bit, because I got it.

I gotta know this answer.

So you said the spicy nacho Doritos.

What's your top Dorito?

Oh, man, I did try those for the first time.

Yeah.

A couple weeks ago.

They're good.

Real good.

But I always go with the good old ranch.

Yeah.

Cool ranch.

Cool.

Classic, classic guy ranch.

I'm a little off the path on this one, and I feel like it's not somebody.

Like, it's not a common pick for people, but I like the sweet chili, the purple bag.

Those are pretty good.

I like those a lot.

I would like them a lot more if it was less sweet and more salty.

Okay.

Yeah, I would want.

Because it actually has, like, some soy sauce flavor in it.

Like, I'd want to ramp that up and maybe have it taste more like salsa.

Like, salsa and soy sauce.

Oh, that would be so good.

Like, the salsa ones are okay, but it's not salty enough.

Yeah, it's not savory enough.

Like, give me the msg.

Like, just jam as much MSG on there as possible, like, until it tastes bordering on metallic.

Then take it down just below there.

Yeah, that's how much MSG I want on there.

Like, all these.

All these racists that talk about msg.

Like, screw you.

Give me as much MSG as absolutely possible on my snack.

Max it out.

Max it out until you can just barely handle it.

Then take it down just a little bit.

Yeah, and that's.

That's perfect range.

Yeah.

And the thing that I like, too, about it is we all have our own different flavors for Doritos.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's pretty good.

And that's okay that you guys are wrong, and that's fine.

Yeah.

I was just thinking, you know, it's okay that you picked a subpar flavor.

That's okay.

I can live with that.

So.

Yeah.

So all in all, Sour Patch Kids.

Sour Patch.

I feel pretty good about it.

I feel pretty good.

I feel great about that.

That's not a bad winner.

I think after all the disagreement, that's.

That's still a good one.

That's a good one.

You know, and we didn't.

We didn't flat out disagree, really, on anything.

You know, I thought there.

I thought there might be one in there that was going to be a real hard.

Especially with.

I mean, the way we kicked it off.

Yeah.

Like, that was.

I was like, oh, man.

We kicked off.

Yeah.

Real aggress.

Tournament's about to get serious.

We were, like, a minute and 30 seconds into it.

He was like this.

I just absolutely understand.

Unacceptable.

That was awesome.

I.

I think you have to set the tone.

You have to throw people off guard a little bit, for sure.

That's negotiation right there, 101.

I mean, why.

Why have logic behind the things when you can be aggressive first?

Aggression gets results, and it certainly doesn't harm you, your culture, your country, the rest of the world.

If you do aggressive things and you have no backing for them, it's fine.

I mean.

Nope, no big deal.

Aggression solves all problems 100%.

I think we can determine that.

Yep.

I think we made some real headway here today.

So, quick question.

You go into a gas station, There is no Chex Mix.

There is no Sour Patch Kids.

I'm going to a different gas station.

That's an easy question.

It's not even.

That's just stupid.

Why is it open?

That shouldn't even be open anymore.

You walk in, you talk to them.

Like, why walk by and, like, they only have, like, the watermelon Sour Patch Kids.

It's like, I even shop at a place that makes this choice.

It's not right.

They don't even have Haribo gummy bears.

They have, like, the bad bags of.

Gummy bears or all those candies with, like, the little red thing.

They're just a clear plastic bag and they just have, like, that red paper over the top and stapled by, like, a hand stapler.

And you're like, I don't.

There's definitely not a way that this came from a real company.

Now somebody made this in their basement or in their mom's garage, and they put it on the shelf.

The cashiers making them behind the door.

Yeah, no, I'm going down the road.

Yeah, they've got their, like, their sweet red salmon.

Salmon shaped things.

Like, they can't afford Swedish fish.

They get sweet red salmon bites.

Oh, that's funny.

It's like everything's generic.

Yeah.

Nothing has a brand.

Not acceptable.

Unless it's sesame sticks.

And then I'm eating the whole bag all day, every day.

That's awesome.

So next time we come here, we have to bring a bag of sesame.

For sure.

Just the sesame sticks.

Yeah.

I probably have a coronary and just pass out.

All right, boys, I think we close out.

Thanks so much for coming over.

Yes, thank you so much for having us.

Appreciate you.

A lot of fun.

We'll see you guys next time.

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