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We are at Stone Mill Matcha right now.
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How far would you go for a sneaky rank?
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Girl, we fly.
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We got their miso, homemade granola, and yogurt.
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This is our favorite place and we're trying it first.
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I have a ranking of yogurt bowls currently.
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I don't do this lightly.
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I actually have it in my notes app.
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It's every yogurt I've ever had.
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This is one right now.
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Everyone, if this doesn't know, they have to make it perfect for us.
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We're trying this place first because this is what other places need to live up to.
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Yeah, it's hard to be It's very hard to be Oh, actually fine grains of green pizza for me,
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no Do you want to move in here a little bit because you're the white is hitting your face?
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I don't want my baby looking chalk.
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We all have slightly different flavor palettes I definitely differ towards the sweeter end.
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I like whatever they're cooking up in the back right now I like that
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Hello Do you mind if you're better?
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She's a puppy
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Hi, hi Guys, I'm not even alive.
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We forgot to film it.
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Okay, we have like a mascarpone yogurt with a strawberry topping and a miso granola.
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Then let's try.
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Are you ready?
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First, a little bit of this.
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Then a little bit of that.
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Then we try.
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I gotta go.
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Where did I have this?
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Right here?
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Number one?
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Yeah.
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Beat it.
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That's a love.
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I promise.
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Oh my days, bro.
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The yogurt itself doesn't have a tanginess that whole shogun's do.
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It just has the flavor of love.
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It has the sweetness to it.
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It tastes like cheesecake.
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I'm eating cheesecake right now.
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This isn't even yogurt.
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This can't even classify it as yogurt.
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Big bite.
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Oh my god.
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This is definitely made with lemons and strawberry.
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Points added because this is dippable.
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Yes, I love the dippable granola.
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My favorite thing is when you can dip your granola.
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What are you rated on your yogurt scale?
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What would you say it is?
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Well, this is the first place we've been to.
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Okay, put it in first.
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Buddy, can you even imagine a better yogurt? Be honest.
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I give it a yogurt in a Bichon.
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What?
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An 8.
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An 8 out of 10?
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I'm going to fucking knock you out.
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What do you give it?
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I'm going to be tame, and I'm going to say 37 out of 10.
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Wait, no, no, no. I give it a 9.
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Kalia, you've never had yogurt better than this.
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Why are you capping?
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Guys, we ran into something.
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A pundit's beautiful chocolate here.
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I just had organic
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Greek yogurt from...
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Bro, why?
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We have to get it guys we didn't even know
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this place had it it comes to us should we just try
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it yeah frozen hot chocolate frozen hot chocolate i'm gonna try
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that okay i'll try it i'll try it okay we try
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it together ellie i'll just get one ellie i'll try
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it with you don't worry baby we're on the same page overnight
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i promise oh my god there's a long ass line overnight oats
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and frozen hot chocolate baby open your eyes how did we just run into this place
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we're literally i promise you we have such good luck i'm
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so proud of us almond milk
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This is our long line, but it's hidden no
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Should we try to overnight?
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Oh, yeah, we don't have to take a big bite
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It's been 0 .3 minutes since we've been to our last yoga place
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You didn't tell me.
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Maybe I'll skip the washroom.
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You failed to let me know that the chocolate tears were fine in front.
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I'm a bad baby boo.
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Why are you so close to bring my face?
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Bruh, they're talking everybody through it, bro.
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I keep talking them through it.
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This is kind of crazy.
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What happened?
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I'm setting.
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They stopped serving it an hour ago.
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We'll come back tomorrow.
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But then we have too many places to come back tomorrow, bro.
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Nah, that's okay.
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We just have to like...
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Persevere.
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Okay, guys, while we wait, we thought we were doing drinks.
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This is in substitute of the yogurt because they didn't have the yogurt available.
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So we're gonna try the drinks then we'll come back tomorrow.
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What did you just try?
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No, what is it?
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What is it?
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Explain it, explain it please.
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This is not chocolate.
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To me it's like...
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Heaven.
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No, promise.
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Let me try.
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You don't like it?
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This is the best drink I've ever had in my life.
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Promise.
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Fuck yeah.
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I'm here for it.
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Factory!
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No way they were making this shit in the basement.
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We didn't go well.
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No way Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's downstairs.
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Where the fuck's Charlie?
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How good is the ice thing?
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The chai, the chai.
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Wait, put me some chai.
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Yeah.
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What have you ever done?
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She literally gave me salmonella.
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You're gonna like that.
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If I was one of those nasty bitches that licked my fingers, I would be...
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Can I have chocolate?
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Oh my god.
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How is the horchata?
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Uh, no, no, no. It's called The guy in the front has a French accent.
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He was talking a strip.
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This is my invitation.
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Can we get the Horshade?
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This is a...
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You can get the...
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Wait, can I...
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Wait, that's...
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Okay, guys, we pulled up back to the Chocolatier.
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How nice is this place?
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We were like, you know what?
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it's time it's time this looks like this is my perfect ideal ratio of granola
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no how is it kiwi honestly ideal fruit to have in anything
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because it's so fibrous strawberry the only fruit that i'll have in yogurt
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and the chocolate granola this is this is their homemade chocolate granola
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because they're a chocolatier is it bus bro let me try bro let
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Let me try, bro, let me try.
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Is it that good?
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Okay, put it on me, put it on me.
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Look at this.
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Ideal granola to yogurt ratio.
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Okay, try it.
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Is that hazelnut?
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Mm -hmm.
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Hold me back, hold me back, hold me back, hold me back.
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No. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, let me try.
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I had raisins.
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Raisins are my favorite.
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Only this bitch's fucking favorite is raisins.
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Who's - She doing too much.
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No, no, no. Hazelnut, strawberry granola.
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Perfect bite.
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Someone needs to hold this bitch back.
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I mean to my favorite
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It's just like yogurt and girl like literally just yogurt and you know stop it guys
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This is so good.
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You know what I mean brought this to the next level
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Yeah, I agree
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You don't like it?
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I do At least my vibe because this is a Mia's vibe like the occasion
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that I actually don't like it just a piece of ice
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You need some
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It's so good.
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What do you rate it?
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Eight.
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And what do you put on the list?
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Honestly, keeping in accordance of how much I enjoyed the other yogurts,
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technically it is last, but it's last after a sea of royalty.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's like when they're like, yeah, you didn't win the Oscar.
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You were actually last place to get the Oscar, but you are an Oscar nominee.
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My eyelash could touch the phone right now.
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That's how close we're on.
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Oh, it's in point five, so you look incredible.
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You look incredible, I promise.
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The taste of the chocolate though, the granola is like my least favorite because it tastes the most like hazelnut.
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I don't like hazelnut.
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Hazelnut is my favorite nut.
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Let's go.
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What we saw, we just saw
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Deadline Small Batch Chocolate.
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They need to change the sign to pussy quenching good everything that the Caligari sisters like.
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And then maybe the business will be booming.
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Metro booming, make it boom.
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These people are on a field trip here, bro.
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Buddy, I'ma get on that fucking bus.
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We were talking with them talking us through it at the front.
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Hey, if you take a little bit of the chocolate.
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And this was me.
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Sorry, like, what is chocolate?
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I've never heard of chocolate.
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Basically, it is a chocolate.
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You did the cacao pod.
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I could listen to him talk for a billion hours.
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These would be the questions I'd be asking.
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I've never heard of cacao.
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That's how hot his voice was.
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Guys, the type of shit that we just run into.
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Best frozen yogurt ever.
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We're going to go try it for you guys.
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Thank you.
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Is it good?
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Yeah.
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That's like a 20 ,000 out of 10.
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What do you rate it?
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Like a genuine 12 out of 10.
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Like genuine.
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That is the best frozen like for oil I've ever had.
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First of all, we got a free sample so we didn't even need to eat that much
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So now we can go get more yogurt.
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I'm not even gonna lie second of all look how beautiful this place is and there was a place
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You could like sit and study in it.
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This is like the cutest place ever
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Highly recommend highly recommend the greek frozen yogurt from here.
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It was a 12 out of 10
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It was actually like a 10 out of 10.
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Look at this baby I'm gonna hit him with presentation as a 10.
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It makes it so much more appetizing
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Look at this.
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This is gorgeous
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The best presentation we've had in San Francisco.
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It has a little flower in it.
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And I don't know what the f* this is.
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I don't know what the f* this is.
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Looks like goji berries. Who?
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Wait, let me try one now that you know.
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Can you clean your finger?
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You can see that we've been eating.
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I'm not going to lie.
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I don't even know what goji berries taste like.
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I just made some sh up.
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It sounds like something anime.
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I know they make the yogurt.
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That was because I've had it before.
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I ain't going to lie.
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Oh.
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That was a good bite.
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Okay, chill, guys.
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This might be number one.
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No problem.
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Okay, let me try.
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Let me try put it down grab it
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Go in public by the way hurry up.
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I want another bite hurry up the granola ratio
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Usually I prefer more granola.
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Nope perfect ratio for me.
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Okay for you
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Usually I prefer more fresh fruit and usually my yogurt less run.
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Just fucking eat it, bro.
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I'm gonna eat it, but I'm just telling you all those things first.
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Can you stop scraping behind?
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Because this is a yogurt review.
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Okay, go.
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Wow.
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What are you eating?
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Do I put it above?
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Just don't know?
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No. What would you do if I stopped you?
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Do I put it above tartine?
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No. Wow.
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Do I put it above every other yogurt I've ever had in my life?
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Probably.
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This is why.
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Do you guys like more tart yogurt?
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Yeah.
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It's very tart.
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Number one, number two, number three.
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Yes, there is.
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That's what the point of this video is.
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I will not rate it like that.
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Ellie, that's what the point of the video is.
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Bring it back to the plot.
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What's the plot?
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I think this is worse for me.
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Really?
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Which is really weird because it doesn't have fresh fruit.
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Yeah, I was going to say fresh fruit is your favorite.
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You have to put like the goji berry, the tartness, and then the strawberry.
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I don't think it's goji berries.
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I just made that shit up.
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Whatever fucking berry this is.
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These are the type of videos that we make and I just like feel so fulfilled in life.
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Like this is, I love making these videos for you guys because they're my favorite thing to do.
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Let me just...
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Wait, wait, bring it back.
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Bring it back.
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Run it back.
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I could polish this off easily.
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I have to rate this a 10.
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Really?
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Yeah, like what they did is perfect.
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I'm going to go 8.
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8. 8 .2.
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8 .2.
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And then now you're tweaking.
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And the vibe of this place?
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Well, the vibe and stuff, 11 out of 10.
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I'm not going to lie, the rest of the food is also fine.
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The rest of the food is my favorite food I've ever had in my life.
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So guys, where are we right now?
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It's on tartare.
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Tartine mal -factory or something?
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We just came from Stone Mill They have also house made granola
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It's like a chewier
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Who do you guys think likes yogurt the most?
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I think Ellie What?
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I think right now me
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By the way, right back there, they're making all their bread
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The yogurt itself, I prefer
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Stone Mill Because this yogurt doesn't have to taste as homemade
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But everything else about this, I prefer here
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Give it to me and let me describe the taste for real
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Are you guys gonna keep f*ing emoting or are you gonna let me try a bite?
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That's incredible What do you write it?
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I've got to give it a 10.
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Whoa I actually give this a 9 .9.
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The only reason why it's not a 10 is because I've had better until they broke.
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I haven't.
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Everything else is perfect.
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This is what they put in our share, bro.
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Ingredients.
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Organic orange passion for organic sugar apples lemon juice.
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Are we gonna buy these or not?
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If I was a soft person, I'd have three of these up my house right now.
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No, like I promise I'd buy.
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Let's eat the cream pie.
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Oh my god, do we get the merch?
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Do we get the merch?
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I promise it's cute.
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Should we get the tart?
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We can make the thing that yogurt preserves Ganolla fuck
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You know we're gonna fuck it up too
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Well just come here and buy it bro
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One thing that they could work on if you see this video Ellie they're right there
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Tell you're seeded red separately
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Don't be selling as a loaf baby Ellie won't say that
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Me as a Canadian buddy I only got a carry on So I can imagine they rip on the loaf
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This needs to be declared baby I never thought I would say this ever
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After trying Stonehill Matcha the first time
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This is a direct I brought a menu
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What the fuck did Ali buy?
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We said we won't over order guys because we have supper and we have more yogurt
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This is mushroom soup, curry cake, whatever curry cake is curry cake, whatever that is, like, curry I love them
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Oh my god, there's a backside I'm overwhelmed
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This yogurt, this is stone meal, and this is tartine
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How do you like to announce this thing?
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I say they're on the same level, but girls prefer this place I am shocked
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So what do you rate?
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So they're both at what?
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Tuna salad Tuna salad
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I My favorite thing to do
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when I watch mukbangs by the way guys the reason I wanted to do this video specifically is
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because all I've been watching for the Wait stop no no potato bun fucking bitch body potato bun
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Wow Just busted my favorite part when I watch mukbangs, which by the way, all I've been watching lately is this lady
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I'm gonna put her up here and like every time she takes a bite.
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She eats like 30 pounds of red lipstick.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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I love her.
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I love her.
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I love what she describes the food.
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So this is I'm gonna say what it tastes like I'm gonna describe it the way she does the creaminess
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You don't do it the way she does so just
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Perfect amount of crunch in the granola mixed with that cool
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We meet yet see like cannot savory that creamy yet tangy slight tang of the yogurt that you could taste is homemade
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It tastes like it is.
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How are they going to know?
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Because clearly you don't know yogurt the way I do.
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Oh my god.
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Sorry, I didn't know you were the fucking yogurt king.
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Put the menu down.
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It's weird because there's a lot of aspects of this yogurt.
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What's in my bag?
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Oh, just the tartini menu.
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I'll just take seven of the yogurts.
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I'll take three yogurts, please.
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It's weird because there's a lot of aspects of this yogurt that would make it less desirable.
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Like what?
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number one for me the granola crunchiness is not crunchy enough
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it has number two wait wait just let me finish what i'm saying okay
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it doesn't have sugar that's a pro though it adds number two i don't like orange marmalade
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but i loved it okay wait can i just how can this is not orange marmalade
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this is orange preserve ellie why do you know
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so much about it why did you just push birth it's made with organic coconut sugar
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so it has this is what i was gonna say we made homemade granola
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It has the softness of homemade granola.
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But that's how you know it's homemade as fuck.
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The taste of it is outweighs the...
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If you're a person of worship, she was watching it.
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Another thing that would make it lower for me is that the yolk is kind of sour, like, compared to, for example...
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But it's green here where it tastes more green.
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Shut the fuck up.
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Our heritage, bro.
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Remember...
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Kylia, please stop steering away from our heritage.
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It has, like, tartness.
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Have you seen the title of this restaurant?
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Tarting, dumbass.
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Obviously, it's fucking tart, Kayla.
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I would typically lean towards, like, the stone of matcha.
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Then, though, orange marmalade.
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Preserve.
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It's the best mother f*ing shit I've tried.
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I hate on it.
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Yo, incredible.
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It was so good.
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Everything together makes one of the best yogurts ever.
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It's like, you know, like, when, like...
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I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
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I know, I know, I know, I know how to describe it.
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No, it's not negative.
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There's zero negatives in this.
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Oh my God.
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You need to just look up.
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That's like being like, okay, one of us, okay, okay.
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Two of us, okay.
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Three of us.
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Flow state.
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Flow state.
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Wait, that's such a cute way to put it, Ellie.
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And another pro.
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I'm not going to my marmo.
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Another pro, they sell all their stuff separately.
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This yogurt was mystical, magical.
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Can you stop showing it?
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We destroyed it.
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We're so full that we're like ordering on like unable to eat another
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The vibe of this place is really such a cute vibe.
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Look at this place.
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Wait, who's this cutie ma 'am?
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What are you wearing adidas vintage pants my running shoes?
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Because we wanted to go on a walk, but she doesn't have any running shoes because all she wears are heels
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This top that I bought her from tank air the menu my vintage door purse
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This is part of the outfit a chanel beautiful hair from my papa and a big fucking mouth
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We're both studying the menu.
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I'm so full.
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I don't think I'm...
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No, I can't eat anymore. If you...
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I was gonna say if you forced me.
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Nah, if you put something on the table, I'd eat it.
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Our dumbasses forgot to record how it looked originally.
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It looked better than this.
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We are at Souple.
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It is...
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I think it's a restaurant, right?
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Like, it's not just a yogurt place.
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No, it's not.
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It's not a yogurt place or not a restaurant?
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No, it's a...
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It's a restaurant.
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Okay.
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This isn't the usual yogurt that we've been eating this video every other yogurt
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We've had has been like an actual regular yogurt.
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This is frozen.
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This is the best stack to have in between
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Anything sweet but so tangy and we puff with the tang every we're big tangy
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Bitches we got followed on the way here literally ubered here every time we would turn to our left
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The same two guys were driving right next to our car.
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It was like actually crazy.
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Thank you Thank you.
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Thank you so much sweet potato with our order
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So we put sweet potato in the pro yo don't fucking knock it till you try it.
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Don't be like one of those bitches
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Oh, I don't like it.
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It sounds gross.
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It sounds gross.
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Did you try it?
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And the live music in the back this shit straight out of a movie bro.
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What movie are we in right now?
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Yo It's the movie crazy
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movie but if we like got like a headline
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and it said what movie we're in and you looked up
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and it says human centipede yeah yeah
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and then like the doctor guy walks by us
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and he asks us how do you guys feel about uh centipedes
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and then he sedates us and he brings us back to his house
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and he removes your teeth and then he removes your asshole
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and then he connects you guys how would you guys feel who's taking front who's taking back with the sweet potato okay
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You take middle
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Guys, can you tell that we like the food?
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Day two, bro, we're back for it.
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Let me try it.
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Let me see if it hits the same day two.
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We're back for the same yogurt, bro.
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But does it taste just as good today?
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Right now, this yogurt is number one on all of our lists.
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No, no, no. Oh, oh shit.
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Cantina's number one on your list?
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This yogurt is number one on your list, and I think my number one is still
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Stone Mill Matcha.
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So I guess you guys gotta try out three, like, God.
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It depends on whose flavor palette you're most similar to this is why it shows guys
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when people do food blogs and like show you
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What type of food they like if you don't have the same flavor palette of them as them
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You can't even like take it from them
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You know like if Noah did a flu book if Noah
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if Noah did a food blog I wouldn't even go to one place.
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I promise like no hate we have the complete opposite
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We report pallets
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It's a bit less tart.
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It's still really tart because it's Scandinavian.
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It's very tart.
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So Sunday right now has canteen number one, tartine number two, and stone mill matcha number three for the places that we've been to.
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And then this one was different, but the frozen yogurt.
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The best frozen yogurt place would be Lappin' Clean.
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It was very milky.
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And I'm actually a little bit Lappin' Clean.
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So I don't know what I'm doing.
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You hop on a plane in like three hours.
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Yogurt, pre -plane.
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We won't get into it too much.
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You guys have seen this yogurt.
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It's probably our ninth time here on our 30 -day trip.
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For me, this is D1 yogurt You do?
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I thought it was 13 It's here.
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Canteen's my favorite.
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Dimitro's final review.
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My final review of this yogurt
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Number one is Dada.
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This is Dada.
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This is daddy.
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Not even Dada.
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This is Stone Mill Macho Tartine.
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Number three, Canteen.
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Number four, Suplas.
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But it all boils down to preference.
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We are like tart yogurt lovers and like a whole bunch of like different things,
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but we like - I could eat like a full big tub of just straight yogurt. So it's super.
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Number one on the list for me, canteen.
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Everything about it is the perfect yogurt for me.
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Number two, tartine.
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Number three, stone milk matcha.
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I think right now based on the other ones, stone milk would be number three for me, but they're all really good.
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These are all like the top best yogurts I've ever had.
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Keep that in mind, okay?
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Number four would be Supla just because I prefer real yogurt over frozen yogurt.
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Number one, so no. Number two, turn to number three.
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Canteen.
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Canteen, very close.
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Competitor to number one and two is Canteen.
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Number four, Supla.
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Number five, no, two tall ones.

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This speaking lesson is built on the video “Kalogeras Sisters TRY EVERY YOGURT SPOT IN THE CITY”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: yogurt, granola, chocolate. This video has 553 sentences and 4031 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:08. The speaker talks fast, about 182 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 84 of its 553 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
yogurt noun/ˈjɒɡ.ət/A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
freeze verb/ˈfɹiːz/Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
bite verb/baɪt/To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
homemade adjectiveMade at home.
mill noun/mɪl/A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
vibe noun/vaɪb/An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
menu noun/ˈmɛn.juː/The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
potato noun/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum.
berry noun/ˈbɛɹi/A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
strawberry noun/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
organic adjective/ɔːˈɡænɪk/Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
ratio noun/ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/A number representing a comparison between two named things.
flavor noun/ˈfleɪvə/The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
curry noun/ˈkʌ.ɹi/One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.
ideal adjective/aɪˈdi(ə)l/Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.
look up verb/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/To have better prospects.
pull up verb/ˌpʊl ˈʌp/To lift upwards or vertically.
try out verbTo test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • How far would you go for a sneaky rank?
  • Where did I have this?
  • You know what I'm saying?
  • You know what I'm talking about?
  • Cantina's number one on your list?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going onwe've been eating · I've been watching
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowI've ever had · we've been · you've never had
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itis definitely made · be declared · is frozen
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a groupthe best · my least favorite · the cutest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 161 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, shock /ʃɔk/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, desirable /dɪˈzaɪəɹəbəl/, competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like yogurt, freeze, bite.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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