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Nick: In front of us is every YouTuber food product in the world, and today we'll be ranking them on a tier list. Go from S to F.
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We've got Mr. B's chocolate bars, Logan Paul and KSI's Prime and so much more.
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Uncle Roger: Let's start with one of Uncle Gordon's frozen food.
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Nick: I had to go to Walmart to find this, and he actually had a ton of different options, but I ended up mainly wanting to do fish and chips because that's the specialty.
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Uncle Roger: The fish and chips anybody can make. Too easy.
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Nick: I feel like it would be fun to cook in one of Gordon's Hexclad pans are nice.
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Uncle Roger: Okay, this one Uncle Roger can recommend this one, I don't know.
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Oh boy. Why it's so big.
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Ah, uncle Roger don't have good feeling about this.
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Nick: Just like that.
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Uncle Roger: Look exactly the same as before.
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It cooked. Nick: It does. The fries didn't even really turn golden brown.
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Mine looks a lot better than yours, though I have to say. Uncle Roger: It looked like fish nuggets.
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Cheers. Nick: Okay, cheers.
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Uncle Roger: It's not terrible. No, actually.
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Okay. Nick: Where are we putting this on the tier list?
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Uncle Roger: Mm. Average. So, Kteer, maybe you need some tartar sauce.
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Next up. Nick: Pizza pie, which can supposedly turn anything into pizza.
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Pizza Pie: It will turn anything into pizza.
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But some things just should never be pizza pie.
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Nick: We're gonna put that to the test.
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Pizza Pie: All right, let's do it.
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Nick: Lay's potato chips.
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Pizza Pie: This will pizzafy really well.
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Well, all right, here we go.
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Pizza pie. Nick: Mhm. Wow.
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It actually does taste like pizza.
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Pizza Pie: That's pizza. Next up are pineapple okay.
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This one is debatable I think.
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Nick: It's gonna work I.
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Pizza Pie: Don't like pineapple to begin with.
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You know what I mean.
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Nick: This looks pretty good.
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Pizza Pie: This is the difference between me and Nick right here you are seeing this is the visual difference between our brains.
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Here we go.
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Nick: I kind of like it. That's like a reverse pineapple pizza.
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Pizza Pie: This is like a one star pizza pie for me.
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Okay. Next up.
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Yeah. What do we got?
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Oh, this is bad. This is not going to pizza pie.
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Well, maybe there's some sicko out there who would do this like you.
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You might like this.
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Hahahahahahaha! Bro.
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Just not. I don't have a sense of this.
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Maybe I do have a sense of smell.
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It just can't be good. This is not meant to happen.
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Pizza Pie: I mean it's a pizza cupcake, but do you want a pizza cupcake?
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Do you want a pizza cupcake?
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Nick: I wouldn't make this on a normal day, but it's not bad.
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Final pizza pie test.
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Pizza Pie: How are we going pizza pie this?
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Nick: Watch this go in here.
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Pizza Pie: God, bro, this is a bad idea.
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Nick: I was wondering whether the acidity and the pizza sauce would work with a lemonade.
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Kind of looks.
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Pizza Pie: Like, uh, strawberry lemonade, maybe.
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Tastes like strawberry lemonade.
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It could. Nick: Last pizza pie test. I'm gonna chug it.
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No. Pizza Pie: Honestly, it just tastes like tomato juice.
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Oh, you turn.
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Nick: It into a V8?
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Pizza Pie: Yeah, it's like a Bloody Mary. It's not bad.
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That's actually pretty good. Nick: Where do you honestly feel pizza pie lands on a tier list.
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Pizza Pie: Bro, if this sauce ends up anywhere other than s tier, you and I are gonna have a problem. I will come to Boston.
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I will find you.
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Nick: Sit there.
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Pizza Pie: You and I are going.
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Okay, Nick.
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Nick: Nick. Next up is my salt company, Osmo.
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But it wouldn't be fair if I judged it.
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So I'm gonna leave the room right now and let you do your thing.
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You are? Uncle Roger: How to judge. This is just salt, uncle Nick.
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It's just salt. Flaky white.
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Huh? This is what I call Nick after his son paid for one day.
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Tastes like salt. Not bad, I guess.
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And what is this?
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I think my ex-wife had this in her bedroom drawer.
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Nick: I'm gonna make this quick because Uncle Roger is waiting up there for me with his review for my salt. And the d'amelios are waiting on me to go try their popcorn.
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But in the meantime, you may have noticed this cool new hoodie that I'm wearing.
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Ever since I created my channel, I've seen thousands and thousands of comments asking for merch. So I got together with some of the biggest food creators on the internet and created Happy Potato.
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And the best part is, every purchase you make will donate a certain number of meals to the Farmlink project. There is one thing the first drop is extremely limited, so I would highly suggest you go on right now and put in your order before it's gone.
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Guys, I and many of these food creators work so incredibly hard on this project and I know you're going to love it. The link is down below.
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I can't wait for you to get it!
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Tag me on Instagram. I'll be reposting people wearing it.
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I'll be following some of you back who get it and wear it.
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I cannot wait to see you rocking Happy Potato.
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That's enough talking. Let's go inside and find out that rating.
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Uncle Roger: Ah, not bad, Uncle Nick.
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How'd I do your salt? Tastes like salt beet here.
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Nick: Okay. It's not as bad as I thought.
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I also thought you might give it s-tier for salt.
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Uncle Roger: No, that's not it.
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Just salt, Uncle Nick.
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Next we have the.
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Nick: D'amelios be happy snacks.
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Popcorn, which comes in four flavors.
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We've got maple bacon, cotton candy, nice spice and parmesan garlic.
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Can we do a little taste test?
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Dixie: Yeah, let's do it. Let's start with maple bacon.
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You could smell it first. I feel like it smells the big part of it.
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Wow. It smells like breakfast.
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Nick: Yeah, I feel like I smell the maple a little bit more than the bacon.
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Mhm. Dixie: But you taste the bacon.
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Wow. Nick: You taste the bacon way more than you smell it.
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It's not overpowering at all.
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It's like a very subtle good bacon flavor.
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Let's jump onto the next one. Nice spicy palm.
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Dixie: Garlic. Nice spice.
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Charli: That's good. Mhm.
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Wow. Nick: Mhm. Okay a little bit of spice to it.
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But it is the right amount.
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I know we've only had two but I like this one a lot.
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Charli: And this one's my favorite.
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Nick: But Nice Spice I have to say is a name.
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You don't know what you're gonna get.
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Charli: It's like a fun little mystery.
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Nick: Let's jump to the parmesan. Garlic.
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Dixie: Mhm. Yeah I love that.
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We're all tasting really good today.
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Nick: They are tasting really good.
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Dixie: This is messing me up for me.
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Nick: I'm deciding if I like it better even than Nice Spice.
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Dixie: Really? Nick: We might all like a different one.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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Nick: No, he saved maybe the best for last.
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Dixie: This is my favourite.
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I'm not a sweets person.
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This is cotton candy. And I was like, ew, that's nasty.
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Nick: Sometimes people put combinations together in food, like peanut butter burgers and, like, it doesn't sound right.
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Dixie: No it doesn't.
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Nick: It smells very sweet.
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Okay. Let's taste.
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Dixie: That's my favourite.
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Nick: We are all so different.
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I know we are flavours, I just I like savory much more than sweet.
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Dixie: I thought I did too I really, really like that one.
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Nick: All right, so we have to give this a final ranking.
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Where are we putting it?
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Charli: I would rate this an A plus.
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Dixie: We got an A minus.
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Nick: I would say we land about a minus which puts us in a tier.
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We should be happy about that.
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Charli: It's a really nice score.
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Nick: Next up we have the Try Guys hot sauce and FaZe Rug's sour candy sour and spicy at the same time.
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Uncle Roger: Who are these people?
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I got FazeRug right here, FazeRug, I'm sorry.
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Nick: This is supposed to be the most sour candy in the world.
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Uncle Roger: FazeRug, you know that? Not compliment, you know.
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Nick: Is this what it does to your face when you eat this?
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Should we really do this? Yeah.
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You're not nervous? Okay.
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Uncle Roger: Who buying this? I'm about to eat my carpet.
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Candy is supposed to be sweet and fun to f.
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Nick: My tongue is, like, on fire.
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Uncle Roger: Uncle Roger gonna stop doing YouTube.
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Did how bad this candy is.
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Nick: So the try guys have three sauces.
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Let's use the chicken sauce on the chicken wings.
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Uncle Roger: Yeah. Okay.
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Uncle Roger have high hopes for this.
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Nick: Mm mm.
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Hey. One. Uncle Roger: One. Wow, that's a lot.
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Nick: Of hot sauce. I'm gonna really load mine up, too, because you made me feel like I should.
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Cheers. That's not bad at all.
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Nice vinegar flavor. Not too spicy.
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I like this hot sauce.
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Uncle Roger: I feel like I did good.
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Nick: I'll give this an A.
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Uncle Roger: Minus eight here.
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Nick: Next up is David Dobrik's pizza spot, Dobrik's Pizza.
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He serves up a mix of Detroit and Chicago style pizzas here, and the lines can often get pretty crazy. I actually got to take a nice sneak peek inside and everything not only smelled great, but it also looked really good.
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I ordered myself a couple pizzas, one of them being the classic pepperoni, which looks fantastic. One thing I'll say right off the bat is that this is a somewhat messy looking slice, but in a good way, and the fact that they've called it Doughbrik's makes even more sense to me now, given how doughy this slice looks.
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With a slice like this, you never expect it to be as flavorful as this piece right here was. I actually think Dave Portnoy's recent review was pretty unfair.
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Six four I'm gonna put this pizza right here in B tier.
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I would have liked a little bit more of a crunchy, crispy crust, but everything else is delicious. These are unspeakables fruit snacks.
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They're called fruit blocks and they actually look pretty good.
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Uncle Roger: Oh, this looked like the paper version of the carpet guy.
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Nick: Why is there only one green gummy though in the whole pack at all?
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Red. Uncle Roger: Oh, Uncle Roger also only get one green.
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What? Nick: It's on purpose. Yeah, they look really nice and they're not too sticky, which is a problem with a lot of YouTubers.
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Gummies, Karl gummies.
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Uncle Roger: Uncle Nick, connoisseur of YouTuber food.
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Cheers. Oh tastes good.
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Nick: They're not my favorite type of gummy.
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I like the ones that are more chewy, but as I think we'd all agree, taste is way more important than texture.
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Uncle Roger: Uncle Roger ranked this bit here.
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Nick: I would put this C tier.
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Where do we end up?
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Uncle Roger: Yeah, let's go with C. I never hear of this guy unspeakable.
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It's more like unknowable.
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Next up this is Mythical Kitchen.
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New cereal called mishmash.
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Nick: And this is Pokimane's Mina cookies.
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Uncle Roger: Hmm'hmm don't know.
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Nick: But what I do know is that we need milk for both of them.
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Uncle Roger: Which YouTuber make this milk?
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Max the. Nick: Milk guy.
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Uncle Roger: Max the Milk, Sweet Mac and Mello.
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Nick: Is this gonna be sweet or savory?
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Cereal? Uncle Roger: This is America. Everything is sweet.
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Nick: It doesn't look like the color that I thought it was gonna look based on the picture.
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False marketing.
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Uncle Roger: Yeah. This is like my shirt.
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It's like Uncle Nick shirt.
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Nick: Cereal first or milk first.
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Uncle Roger: Of course. Cereal first.
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Why are you psycho? We filming at Uncle Roger House, so we use Asian Spoon for cereal.
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Nick: Now, this looks like a great spoon of cereal.
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Tastes like Lucky Charms.
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Uncle Roger: Mm. Macaroni and lucky charm combined.
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Nick: There's a little bit of an off taste at the end for me.
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Oh, I would give this beat here.
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Agree. Next up, I'm gonna go in with this milk for the cookies.
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Let's go with the midnight mini cookies.
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Uncle Roger: Oh, it looks so ugly.
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Nick: Sort of like an Oreo that you mashed up a bunch.
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And then you put it back into cookie shape dipped in the milk.
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Uncle Roger: Um, this tastes very similar to something Uncle Roger have from Costco.
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Nick: I'm not a big fan of these.
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Uncle Roger: Tastes very artificial.
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What's the score here?
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For our next.
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Nick: Product? I have Stoney Bowls and I'm here with my good friend Matt Stoney.
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Matt, tell us about Stoney Bowls.
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Matt: Best rice bowls that you can get right now.
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Deliver straight to your door. But I'm about to hit you with something crazy.
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Okay. Nick: I have a list of times here.
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Okay. If you can eat this thing in a minute, you're gonna get s-tier.
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If you can eat it in a minute, 15 seconds, you're gonna get a tier.
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It keeps adding 15 seconds all the way down to F tier.
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Matt: The bowls are delicious. They're pretty big bowls, though.
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Nick: My idea here is that theoretically, if you eat this bowl faster, it makes sense.
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It tastes better. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Matt: I usually don't eat stoney bowls fast. I usually enjoy them.
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So I'm coming up with a plan real quick.
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I think I got it, so let's both.
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Nick: Pick a bowl.
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Matt: I personally I'm a tuna guy.
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Okay. Ooh. Nick: I'm just gonna doctor my bowl up here a little bit.
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Get some nice sauce on.
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Matt: There, get that mix, get the sushi rice and with the tuna, some kimchi slaw.
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Nick: This is gonna determine where Stoney bowls rank on our tier list.
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You ready? Matt: The pressure three.
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Two one go.
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Yeah. Nick: I'm just gonna enjoy the ball.
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I wonder if this is how he eats dinner, like, every night.
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This is insane. 57.
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58. All right.
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Oh, my God. One minute on the dot.
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That's Esther.
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Matt: That was horrible.
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Nick: I'm taking home. Okay.
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Chamberlain. Coffee.
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And what is this.
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Uncle Roger: Tba, to be honest.
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And it's hazelnut cocoa spread.
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So it's just Nutella.
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just this this gift from Uncle Nick to me.
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This one made by nephew Noah Schnapp, the boy from Stranger Things.
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The guy who got kidnapped.
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Correct. Such a good story.
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Um, it looks good.
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Good consistency.
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Look at this viscosity smell.
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Good. Smell like chocolate.
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Just like Nutella, but little less sweet, Uncle Roger.
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Like Nutella already. But this improves it, so.
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but Uncle Roger gonna give this to S tier.
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Nick: Chamberlain coffee is from Emma Chamberlain, who basically invented vlogs on YouTube.
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You ever heard of her?
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Uncle Roger: No, no. Everybody can have their own food product.
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Nick: She's got lots and lots of different flavors in this coffee.
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Some of them I don't even know what they mean.
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Uncle Roger: What is this social talk plan?
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This too Gen Z for Uncle Roger.
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Nick: This coffee you do with the tea bag?
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Uncle Roger: Coffee and tea pack.
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Nick: Mm. Smells good though.
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Smell that.
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Uncle Roger: Don't teabag. Uncle Roger.
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No! Stop, stop!
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Hiya. When have you ever have good coffee from bad like this?
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Come see, Uncle Roger. Coffee machine.
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This is how you get good coffee.
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Nice. Emma, I'm gonna.
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Nick: Put this in. And then with the TBA.
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I'm gonna put some of that in there, too.
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Maybe I'll top it off with a little bit of our leftover milk.
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And after we let it sit for five minutes, we can drink.
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I like it. Hmm.
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Uncle Roger: Not really much you can do with coffee and tea bag, Uncle Roger.
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Never have a good one before.
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Not good. Maybe tier T.
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Nick: I think that's unfair.
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Smell alone. I'm putting it's tier.
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What? It's good.
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Uncle Roger: I, uh, meta of s and t be fine.
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Tier P. Nick: Next up, we've got Max jerky, and I brought Max to go with it.
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Max: Hey. Nick: Now, the first thing I noticed when I look at one of these bags is that it says low and slow, which is, of course, your specialty.
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Max: If you're going to cook, it's got to be low and.
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Nick: Slow. Well, here's what I want to do to see where your jerky ranks on the tier list.
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You see, I've already tried all this jerky.
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I know how it tastes, but nobody's ever questioned you when you say low and slow.
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So if you come on over here, I have cooked some jerky.
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High and fast. Dude, it's completely burned to a crisp.
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Sure is. I cook this jerky right here at 550°F.
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Oh, God. The idea here for me is that maybe the texture is better than this low and slow jerky here. But if low and slow does beat high and fast, I'll give you either S tier or a tier. I'll take that.
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I'll take the regular jerky first.
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Okay. It's classic.
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It has the right amount of chew for jerky, which I like.
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When I think about jerky, I don't want the texture too hard.
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I also don't want it too soft.
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This is right in the middle. So we've had the low and slow.
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Now it comes to high and fast.
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Max: Nick, this looks illegal.
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I mean. Nick: Be honest though.
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Is it as bad as you thought it would be?
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Max: Taste my piece.
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Nick: All right. You picked a bad piece.
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Max: I think you overdid it. Just a hair.
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There's a reason you never go high and fast.
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Nick: And ends up tasting like you're eating charcoal, which is basically what it is.
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Max: Okay, so I am a little bit biased, and I want to be fair.
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Why don't we just give it a B for barbecue B tier?
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I think it's fair.
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Nick: Here's the thing rules are rules.
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And today this did not win.
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I like it a lot. And for that reason I'm going to give it's tier.
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Let's meet in the middle.
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Call it A. Max: I will take that.
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Uncle Roger: You save the biggest philosophy staple and prime first up fish staple.
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All right so we.
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Nick: Have four kinds. We have the original milk chocolate.
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We have the original regular dark chocolate.
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We have the crunch bar and we have the chocolate sea salt I can't open this.
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Uncle Roger: Everybody struggling I.
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Nick: Cannot open this look.
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Could you. Yeah.
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I don't like that at all.
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Uncle Roger: Opening chocolate is a whole experience.
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This one just tastes like generic American chocolate.
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Nick: What is shared devour.
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Manny: I think you only give that part to share.
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Okay. Uncle Roger: Ah, wow. You give Uncle to so small piece.
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Nick: I want to try the crunch bar before I give a verdict.
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This one opened right off the bat.
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I love the look of this bar.
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This looks very, very appetizing.
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I will say there is a weird slight bend.
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Uncle Roger: Quality control prop.
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Nick: But it looks really good.
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Mm mm. I like this one a lot better.
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It's too much, Uncle Rocco.
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Uncle Roger: Getting sick of sweets now like this.
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Uncle Nick. Look.
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Nick: Oh, dear.
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Here are the final results.
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Be sure to comment below if you disagree with anything.
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And don't forget to visit Happy Potato at the link in the description below before we sell out.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 359 sentences and 3391 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:26. The speaker talks fast, about 235 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 76% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- uncle /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ (noun) — The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
- pizza /ˈpi.tsə/ (noun) — A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
- tier /ˈtɪɚ/ (noun) — A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- candy /ˈkæn.di/ (noun) — Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
- bacon /ˈbeɪ.kən/ (noun) — Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- cereal /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ (noun) — A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- rank /ˈɹæŋk/ (noun) — A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- spouse /spaʊ̯s/ (noun) — A person in a marriage or marital relationship.
- cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/ — A common toast used when drinking in company.
- potato /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ (noun) — The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum.
- cookie /ˈkʊki/ (noun) — A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
- flavor /ˈfleɪvə/ (noun) — The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- chip /t͡ʃɪp/ (noun) — A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- minus /ˈmaɪ.nəs/ — Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).
- slice /slaɪs/ (noun) — That which is thin and broad.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- end up (verb) — To bring to a conclusion.
- go with (verb) — To choose or accept (a suggestion).
- do with (verb) — Only used in to do with
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- ask for (verb) — To request; to order.
- back into (verb) — To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost.
- come in /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/ (verb) — To enter.
- come on over (verb) — to visit someone's home or other location.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 101 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, specialty /ˈspɛʃ.əl.ti/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, sushi /ˈsuːʃi/
- Long words — get the stress right: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like uncle, pizza, tier.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've seen · we've only had · they've called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | pie, which can · sticky, which is · guy who got |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is not meant · is shared |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the biggest · the best · the most sour |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.