Shadowing Practice: We Tried EVERY Pudding Flavor - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We're trying every flavor of snack packed.
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Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Summer.
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Today is an anniversary for us.
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It is.
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It's a big one.
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It is the 20th anniversary of the first video that we ever posted on YouTube.
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What?
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It's kinda crazy.
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We don't really talk about that video very much.
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It's not our best work.
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Well, we might have broke the law in it.
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Yes, but it is the first one we ever posted.
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And I'm just talking about, we didn't use royalty free music.
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Yes, we used the Braveheart soundtrack.
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I mean, we might have also thrown a rock.
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Yeah, we broke the law in many different ways.
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Over a dam.
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But it's still up there, and it never got taken down.
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Let's celebrate by eating a ton of one of my favorite foods.
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All right, yes, there will indeed be lots of pudding and a lot more.
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It's time for Gut Check, Snack Pack Edition.
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Hello, fellas.
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Hey!
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Today you're gonna be tasting 27 Snack Pack flavors.
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That's a lot.
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27?
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I wish there were that many puddings, but I can see that there's also some gelatinous material we will be branching out from just pudding.
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And I do think we've got some help for ya if you need it.
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Yes, thank you for providing me with a visual scoring aid.
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I will be using this for enhanced consistency.
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Anytime, buddy.
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All right, we're gonna begin with the chocolate and vanilla pudding category, starting with vanilla.
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How much would you say you love pudding in general, Rhett?
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Well, I don't love what I just had.
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It's vanilla, it's kinda like nothing pudding.
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Which I'm gonna give a nice solid 89.
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Good God, son!
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I mean, it's a classic, dude!
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To answer your question, how much do I love pudding, like I definitely don't dislike pudding.
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Your number will be the answer I'm looking for, I think.
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But this was not a good pudding.
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This is a 48.
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I understand.
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It's just not good.
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I understand.
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Zero sugar vanilla.
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Well, this is gonna be better.
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That's gonna get worse.
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It tastes like a building material.
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It tastes like something you would give to somebody putting together like a popsicle fork.
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They did not replace the sugar with another sweetener, it sounds like.
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39. That's high.
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28. 28.
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I moved mine to 29, just out of respect for Mr. Pudding.
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Chocolate.
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Oh, God.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's legitimately good, but there's so many better chocolate flavors than this.
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How could there be anything better?
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Mousse is better than this.
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I'm gonna leave room, I'm gonna give it a 94.
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Regular, just chocolate, milk chocolate's better, dark chocolate's better, like actual chocolate.
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But within the realm of pudding, homie.
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Hot cocoa's better.
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Come on, we're in pudding world.
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Okay.
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Just say your score.
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83. Milk chocolate.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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How is it different?
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It's milkier.
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Our sources are saying it is milkier.
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98. It is better.
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86. Dove dark chocolate.
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Oh, Dove will get in on something.
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Isn't Dove a soap?
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It's that too.
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Ooh, that's good.
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I like it.
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It's not too dark.
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It's more interesting.
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88. 96.
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Chocolate fudge.
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Come on, y'all.
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Dang.
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Hmm.
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97. You think that's better than the last one?
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I think it is.
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This feels excessive, can I just say that?
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Like, there's too many iterations.
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The difference is- It's still just chocolate pudding.
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Are pretty supped.
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I'm gonna say that's 84.
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Chocolate vanilla.
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Well, that's gonna make it worse.
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The nice swirl.
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Oh my God.
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It's way better than vanilla.
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I mean it's both in one, dude.
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72. 98.
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Zero sugar chocolate.
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Oh.
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Oh my gosh!
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Eight. That is...
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28. That is awful.
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Now we're moving on to...
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You know what, I take that back.
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I'm gonna give it a 50.
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It's actually not that bad to me.
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Oh really?
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Yeah, because it's still chocolatey.
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Okay we're gonna move on to the miscellaneous pudding flavors category.
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Thank you.
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Starting with lemon.
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Don't do this to my pudding.
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I actually appreciate this.
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It tastes like a lemon pie.
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What is that lemon stuff that you get in a jar?
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It's got a weird name.
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Christy will always get it from Trader Joe's.
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Curd.
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Curd.
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Curd.
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Curd that.
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I like this.
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I like it.
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72. Banana cream pie.
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Well that's a fake banana flavor.
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It's kind of fun though.
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It tastes like Laffy Taffy.
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And I don't typically like banana.
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59. 69.
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Tapioca.
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What is tapioca?
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Is that a plant?
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I think it's balls.
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It's kinda like, it's boba before boba came to America.
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But where's the source of the balls?
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You gotta know where your balls come from.
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It's like the starch from a root tapioca plant.
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Oh.
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And it is what boba's made of.
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It's a classic pudding flavor that I've never loved, but I don't hate it.
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63. Oh, and there's some on my scoring chart, Right on 70, so 70.
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Rhett, did you give a plate?
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I said something.
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60 something.
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63?
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20 years, dude.
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Butterscotch.
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Okay, all right.
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Uh-uh.
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I like butterscotch flavor.
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The color of that butterscotch.
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It's a little too orange for me.
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It's very orange, which is what 30 is on here.
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That's a good way to do it.
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I'm going with 30.
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What?
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67. Cinnabon.
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What?
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Colab.
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Mm, very cinnamony.
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That's good.
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I feel like my issue with pudding, I mean, this is really helping me come to grips with it.
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It just feels like something that's already been digested.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It has the consistency of something that would come out of another person.
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I totally agree and that's why I love it.
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And I just feel like, it does, the pressure.
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I wanna do some work.
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Exactly, that's why I love it.
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You don't, there's no pressure to chew.
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That's, they got you with the not chewing part.
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I get performance anxiety with things I have to chew.
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Pudding is just so comforting to, there it is.
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Now I still chew it.
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He does still chew it.
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Don't get me wrong.
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I can hear it.
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Um, Cinnabon?
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Is that what we're called?
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Did I not say 79?
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You did now.
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Not as good as I thought it should be.
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59. Ice cream sandwich.
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Oh, okay.
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They nailed the flavor.
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Yeah.
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Whoa.
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It's chocolate and then like a...
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And then ice cream flavor.
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85. 89!
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Fruity Pebbles.
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Oh.
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They nailed the flavor on that too.
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They just borrowed the flavor.
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They literally just got the flavor.
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That's something.
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I don't know how much of that I could eat.
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77. 75.
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All right and the last category we have is the juicy gels category.
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Juicy gels?
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Starting with.
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This is what, because they can't call it Jell-O, right?
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Cause Jell-O is another brand.
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Yeah.
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Strawberry.
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Now, I feel differently about Jell-O than pudding.
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Cause I'd be really scared if that came out of a person.
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Yeah.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'd be like, you need to see somebody.
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Especially if it was in the mold of something.
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Right.
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So I respect the engineering of Jell-O.
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64. And some people are scared of Jell-O.
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You know about these folks?
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Anybody here scared of Jell-O?
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Like literally scared of Jell-O.
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Like literally, there's a phobia.
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Doesn't seem like anyone here.
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Okay, good.
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I get it though, it moves.
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They may have already left the room.
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That was nice, and it really slid around and slid right down.
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82. You need to get more in touch with your gut.
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Orange.
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It's not taking too long.
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I appreciate the citrus of that.
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41. 85.
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Berry blue.
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This is something that doesn't really exist.
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Mm.
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Mm.
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Mm.
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Mm.
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It's strong.
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I can imagine the third and the fourth bite of that would be too much, 63.
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Oh gosh.
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80. Lemon lime.
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80. 80.
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So these are like if Gatorade got in on it.
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That's exactly what it's like.
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Too much like cleaner.
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And I like lemon lime stuff, but this is a fail.
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48. 20, 10, 10.
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10, you heard him, you heard him.
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And if you don't bring in another one, I'll keep lowering it.
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Dr. Pepper.
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Oh no. It actually doesn't taste enough like regular Dr. Pepper.
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This is the best version of a Dr. Pepper flavored thing I've ever had.
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That's why he likes it.
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44. I don't think that you should make Dr. Pepper flavored things.
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I think Dr. Pepper should be Dr. Pepper flavored.
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50. Starburst All Pink.
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They are really willing to share their profits with other brands, aren't they?
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Just the pink, though.
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This is not overwhelming.
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It's pleasant.
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You could eat probably, how many cups of this do you think you could eat one sitting if you've had to?
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Well, I would squeeze one in, that's the thing about Jell-O, you can, not Jell-O, gelatin, you can squeeze it into your mouth.
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I bet you could do 40.
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20. It's really just how much it weighs is what really stops you.
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You can't walk anymore.
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It just turns into liquid down there.
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I think you could do 25, 30.
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Okay, well, let's do it.
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Side track, 50.
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I forgot what it was, 60.
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It was Starburst All Pink.
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And this one is Sour Patch Blue Raspberry. Did you get any?
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You got any.
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Oh, you have to give it 80.
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Gotta give it 80.
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It is really good.
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Huh.
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I can't give it 80.
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I'll give it a 65.
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72. Crush Orange.
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Collab, not the wazoo.
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66. 41.
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Zero Sugar Lemon Lime.
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Here we go.
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This lemon lime is better.
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Zero Sugar is not as a negative of an impact as it is on the pudding.
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Uh-huh.
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This is the best Zero Sugar thing I've had in a long time.
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I wouldn't say it's better than the original lemon lime, but I'm gonna give it a 51.
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No, I hated the first lemon lime, I think.
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I'll give it a 51.
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I'm gonna give it a 77.
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Wow.
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Yeah, yeah, just for trying so hard.
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Zero sugar strawberry.
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All right.
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All right.
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I don't like, no likey 42.
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All right, 62.
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Zero sugar cherry.
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22. 47.
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Zero sugar orange.
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Try that, it's fun.
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Just suck.
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I'm not doing it for the people who can't stand you doing it just so they have something to look at.
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Okay.
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40. 52.
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Congratulations, fellas because you've now tasted every snack pack flavor.
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That is it.
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Oh, out of nowhere, we just decimated it.
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Yeah, you did.
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All right, let's see what the top four flavors are.
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Wow.
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You may remember that I went to an Italian restaurant with Jessie, did a little vlog that we put over on the Mythical Society.
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Yep.
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Well, while we were in Italy, we went to an Italian restaurant in Italy to see how it was.
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Check that out over exclusively mythicalsociety.com.
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We have our top four in no particular order.
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Of course, they were all chocolate.
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We had two flavors here.
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We got milk chocolate and then chocolate fudge.
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Those are both in the top four.
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Yes.
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Individually.
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We also put rich and creamy dark chocolate dove.
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We like the dove the top floor, and just normal chocolate, which comes in this big honking thing with vanilla
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that has nothing to do with what we're talking about now, because Rhett hated the vanilla.
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I did.
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So here's that chocolate.
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Now, and I don't wanna get too complicated here, but I am gonna let you know that we tasted chocolate fudge, but technically, at least in this one we have,
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it's the milk chocolate flavor layered in the middle of the chocolate fudge.
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That's...
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So if we really like that combo, we might have to call that particular combo the best flavor, I don't know.
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That's a wonderful surprise.
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Oh, I'm sorry I did that.
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I should've done what you did.
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Well, that's why I'm Mr. Pudding and you're the guy next to Mr. Pudding.
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That's right.
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Yeah, you know what, that's a title I'm not gonna compete for.
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I'm gonna use this little spoon.
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So starting right here with milk chocolate, which is the lighter one.
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I remember that.
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That's just perfect, isn't it?
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And then we got the dark.
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The fudge.
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The fudge with the milk.
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If you go deep, you get both.
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They used to have a chocolate peanut butter and you just can't get it anymore.
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That's pretty nice when you go deep.
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It's a little bit of subtle variety.
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Dove?
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Dove dark chocolate.
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I don't know
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if I want to reward Snack Pack for not having the confidence to just stand on their own 10 toes.
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But this little thing, this little Dove dark chocolate, those are good, they come in a little foil pack.
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I mean, look at all this brownness.
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They're all good, man.
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And this is just chocolate.
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I thought the first one was chocolate.
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No, milk chocolate.
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Oh.
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This is the worst.
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It is, but it's the one you grew up on though.
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Yeah, it's not bad, but.
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But they've improved.
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This is better. And then this.
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Dynamic.
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This.
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Too fancy.
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I'm saying this is number one because you get this plus this, or is it this plus, what?
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The aftertaste of that dove is velvety but I agree with you, this one's the best one.
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All right, so why don't you put up, see you don't even have anything pretty to put up there.
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If we're saying, well, all right, so what?
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We'll put the package up there.
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Well, what are we gonna, where's the packaging?
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It's actually right there.
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Oh, no, it's right here.
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Look, look at this.
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And look, it has two things in it.
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What's in second place?
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I gotta rip it.
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Hold on, what's in second place, dude?
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I think Dove's, I think Dove's, and I gotta rip this, just paint on mine.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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Milk chocolate is third.
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Milk chocolate is third.
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Yep.
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And then chocolate fudge and milk chocolate, which is two flavors.
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Oh, that's ugly.
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I'm sorry about that.
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All right, what you put on the left is not milk chocolate.
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I don't want to confuse things, but that's the layered one.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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This is milk chocolate.
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That goes there.
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This is milk chocolate.
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That goes there.
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And that goes there.
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Who's confused, Carney?
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That right there.
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I'm not.
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There is chocolate fudge and milk chocolate stripe in the middle.
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But hey, but don't forget about Dove now.
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Yeah, Dove's good now, it's silky smooth.
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