Shadowing Practice: We Tried the LEAST Ordered Fast Food Items - Learn English Speaking with Video
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These are the least ordered fast food items.
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And we are going to try all of them.
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From a one pound Popeye's biscuit that looks suspiciously like a scone, a portion of chicken liver, and even a tuna pizza from Domino's.
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That's basically my worst nightmare.
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We're going to try every single one of these least ordered fast food, and then decide whether we would order it again or not.
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And hopefully at the end of this, we can find our golden nugget, something that many people don't order, but it's actually great.
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Starting with Nando's.
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Isn't this one of your favourite restaurants?
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This is the favourite restaurant.
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Do you know what the least ordered item in your favourite restaurant is?
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It's the livers.
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It's the chicken livers.
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He's right.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is chicken liver.
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It looks a bit mental.
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It kind of danks as well.
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And I'm just finding out
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that there is actually an ex -staff member who stopped working at Nando's
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and published a headline saying that they doesn't like making it because it stinks up the whole kitchen when they do.
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I get it.
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I get why.
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I get why.
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Here is the chicken liver.
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It does not look good.
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I have people that actually love chicken liver from Landers.
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What comes with it?
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Oh, bread rolls.
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Yep.
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Portuguese bread rolls.
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What's Portuguese about this then?
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It was actually made in Portugal.
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It's actually?
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Yeah, in the Ronaldo sense.
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Fair enough.
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We've got some bread roll, and then we're just going to put chicken liver on it.
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Well, you are first, yeah.
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You're going to try it for me.
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Please, just tell me if it's actually not really bad.
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Just have a go.
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We'll go same time.
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Have a go.
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We'll go same time.
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It's your time.
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You eat first.
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I'll eat after you.
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Okay, chicken liver can't be that bad.
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I promise.
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That's not bad.
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I knew it, I knew it man.
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It's just weird that I know it's chicken liver.
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That's the, you know what it is, that's the thing.
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That's what I like about it.
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Someone just told me that's like meat.
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Yeah you're right.
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Just with a bit of onions.
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Flying to the effing scare.
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Yeah, that sounds not bad.
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I think that's actually not bad at all.
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Yeah, do you want the rest?
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Definitely not.
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Okay, I think we kind of both know where this is going.
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So, yeah, yeah.
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No it's not, it's not fully gone there.
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It's still not fully gone.
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There it is.
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We would not order that.
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The thing is, Nando's have a plethora of options.
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Yes.
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So there's no point of actually getting that, but it's not bad.
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Why is that still there?
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That's associated with the chicken liver.
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All right, let's move on to the next fast food item.
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Next up, we have KFC.
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Now, I think I've tried everything at KFC.
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They're like ice cream things that they used to have.
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Crushums.
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The crushums, I used to eat the burgers, the wings, the...
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The ass.
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Remember the KFC, the ass that came out recently?
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No, that definitely didn't come out.
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Oh, you never had that?
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Now, I'm very worried.
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The only thing I don't eat is, you know, the corn and like...
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Yeah, the gravy, the cultural...
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Yeah, get that out of here, man.
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Now, this is...
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I didn't even know they had this.
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This right here is dirty loaded fries.
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You know the issue in real videos, yeah?
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What?
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This is ordered for hours a day.
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Oh, it's cold, yeah, it's cold, it's cold.
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Now, let's see what that looks like.
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Dirty loaded fries.
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I've never seen this order.
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That looks like...
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That's the shtest loaded fries I've seen in my career.
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That looks like, on my life, that just looks like a small fries, and some chicken popcorn, and some sauce.
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I've already had loaded fries before.
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What's dirty about that?
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Yeah, what is dirty?
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What's dirty is the fact you paid my money for that?
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Facts.
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That's dirty.
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Yeah, and then also, I don't know what this product is, okay?
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That's how you know people probably don't order it.
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This is called a quench.
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So we have a vanilla ice matcha, and we have a boba.
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I don't like matcha, so I'm going to have to take the boba.
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How about we try both?
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No, no, you take the matcha.
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You like matcha?
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I don't like matches.
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Alright.
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Alright, so we start with drinks.
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Yeah.
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Bobak, now this is something I can try to get into.
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Alright, so I'm not gonna lie to you, I need to give this a little mix.
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There's no way that it's...
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Look at that.
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Ready?
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There we go.
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Oh, there we go.
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That's the drink there.
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I like that.
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It's not bad at all.
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I like vanilla, so...
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So if I wanted that, I'll go to the garden. That is shocking.
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No, it's horrible.
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What if that needs to be saved?
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Like, what do you need to put in there?
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You've got to save it.
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Try that, though.
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That's not bad.
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It's not a bad drink.
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It's not bad.
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Solid.
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The quench boba, actually pretty decent.
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Let's try this.
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The loaded fries, whatever it's called, but I know it's not.
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Nothing loaded about it.
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Yeah, I see barbecue sauce.
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I'm trying to avoid that.
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This is literally just chicken popcorn and thing.
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This is some crazy sauce.
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My latte is decent.
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That's actually not bad at all.
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That was hot.
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Yeah, that was what?
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That's bang on.
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You go back to the drink as well.
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Wow, okay, we've got to a conclusion.
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That's actually very nice.
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That's better than what I'd usually order at KFC.
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Yeah, and then this was actually very nice as well.
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That's banging.
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But this right here.
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Oh, f*ing hell.
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Let me just do the honours for this one.
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Alright, so this matchup, I'm not going to lie to you.
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I am never ordering this matchup.
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Get this out of here.
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We don't want that.
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That should be taken off the menu.
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However, the loaded dirty fries and the boba.
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I really like that strawberry boba, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, you'll be ordered someday.
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You're up here, but it's the balls, isn't it?
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Next up we got five guys!
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What's the order from the cheeseburger?
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There's no meat in this.
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Because this is a grilled cheese.
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Alright, we've got a grilled cheese sandwich right here.
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You know what you should do with this, yeah?
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You should put the patty in the grilled cheese.
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That'll fly.
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Remember we used to do that back in this.
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Yeah, yeah, that'll fly but I'm not gonna lie to you, I'll take that.
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It's literally just cheese and a bun.
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That's horrible.
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It is though.
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It's cold.
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Cold bro.
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They had a patty in there.
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Yeah, but grilled cheese in general, it needs to be warm.
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It's incredible when you get it in the shop.
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That, that is horrific.
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That's quick.
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Get rid of that.
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If this was hot, it'd be good, I know for a fact, because I've actually had grilled cheese from Five Guys.
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But unfortunately, this is cold.
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That's AJ's fault.
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I need crispy.
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I need that crispy.
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It's crispy when it comes out of the oven.
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I've never seen a bun like that crispy.
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It's always soggy.
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Nope.
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Pepe!
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I love a bit of Pepe!
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No, I usually just get rice from here, or I just get chicken excel.
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Chicken excel!
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What's in here, though?
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Two Korean lamb burgers.
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Korea?
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What's Korea in it, Pepe?
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That's what I'd know.
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There's two burgers here.
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I've never ordered this before.
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But to be fair, lamb burgers are solid.
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Yeah?
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What makes it Korean, though?
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I think there's probably gojujang in there.
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Or there's kimchi in here or something.
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I don't know.
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Let's find out.
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There is onions.
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There is cheese.
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This looks like the most normal cheeseburger I've ever seen in my life.
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It actually looks pretty good, though.
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If this was hot, I would fly with the meat.
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Pepe, people usually think Pepe is just chicken.
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Let's try this. That. That is...
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Solid.
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Oh, you didn't like it?
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That's horror.
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I thought that was fantastic.
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You know you've got a pallet of a foyer on.
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Why, why?
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Why did you say that?
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This is low effing quality lamb.
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It's good.
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With ice cold meat in the middle.
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I'm imagining it if it was hot.
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You don't want to go to this?
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No, there's no consistency in your time.
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This is fantastic.
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I might order it cold.
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Mmm.
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That's good.
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I think hot this would fly with me.
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Blah, it's hot.
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I might order it now gently to my mouth.
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I want to catch it at the right time.
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You actually like it, innit?
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I do that.
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It's simple.
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I like simple, man.
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I'm going to judge it based off the fact if it was warm.
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Even though this is not fair because we need it for the grilled cheese.
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But I would say, yeah, definitely I would buy.
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Image from that, what we got.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me read the definition.
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Slam burger with gochujang, chilli mayonnaise.
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What happened when you said there's no gochujang?
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I'm buying chilli jam and something like that.
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What did he say there?
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I finished the burger!
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Wallahi I have to order again!
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Order again!
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Order!
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Order the burger!
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Based off of that...
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Wallahi it's definitely going there because you finished it.
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Wallahi, I ate the burger.
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Now I just feel sick.
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I had too much.
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What the f...
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What is it?
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Nah, this is a prank.
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Two biscuits and honey.
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By the way, man, listen to this.
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Hey.
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Are you ready, yeah?
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Nah.
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They could use this as bricks to build a yard.
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Wait, wait, with the honey?
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Yeah, with the honey, I can do something.
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Allah!
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Break it, break it.
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Honey?
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Oh, fk.
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Too much honey.
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Oh, mama. So is it crisp?
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That's not good.
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That's not good at all.
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This is one of those things that you'll chew for three years.
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Alright guys, well that will be real.
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Like this video.
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People in America watching this like we're sick.
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Biscuit isn't a UK culture.
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Yeah, it's basically not a UK thing and also on its jacks with honey.
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Lost your mind.
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Now listen.
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But no, you have to give them the benefit of that.
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Warm, soft.
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I think you and Americans know that biscuit, even when it's fresh, not great.
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So you know where to send that.
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We're not going to order it!
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Ladies and gentlemen, our next fasting restaurant is Taco Bell.
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Now I already don't kind of go here, so I wonder what the least ordered item on this is.
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Cheesy roll up HD.
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F*, is that our definition?
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It actually says that.
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Right there.
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Right there.
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I don't know why it says HD.
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I think you're going to get a trim with it after.
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Nah.
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Nah, this is the worst one today.
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I'm never trying.
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This is the worst one today.
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I'm never trying that.
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What the hell is that?
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I know.
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Smell it.
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You can't even smell anything.
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You actually can't smell.
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Look, it's meant to be cheese but it's nothing.
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Yeah, I can't smell nothing.
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Let me try it.
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I'm just going to try it.
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Just anyway.
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That might be the biggest waste of time of this.
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Oh!
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Are you spitting everywhere as well?
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Get that gone.
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Get that gone.
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You know what?
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Benefit the doubt.
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Voila.
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It's just a waste of time.
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That's what it is.
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I need my calories back.
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Yeah, that's why I spit it out.
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Taco Bell.
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That was the worst item from a Fast Judicial magazine.
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Yeah, today.
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Wiggy, wiggy, wiggy, wiggy, wiggy.
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Hey!
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Wing, wing, wing, wing, wing.
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Watch out.
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They might use that.
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Titty crop, turn that wings up.
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Alright, so our issue here is that...
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What is this?
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The least ordered stuff.
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10 -piece wings, plain.
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Plain.
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Who the hell orders plain?
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I understand this video now.
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Take a bite.
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Plain.
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It's got no nuff.
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No nuff means no life in Somali.
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What?
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I understand why people don't order this too.
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Oh, it's going to look good, doesn't it?
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Oh, no. This is bad.
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Oi, you look.
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Mango habanero is nice.
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I got my own.
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You like it?
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Yeah.
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Here, take the rest of it.
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I'm not hungry.
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Oh, so you're enjoying this?
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I'll f*ing bang on that.
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Okay, so Chunks is currently enjoying the Wingstop Mango Habanero Plain and Seasoned Corn.
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Not a plain.
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Not a plain.
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It's not a habanero.
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Why didn't you mix the plain with the habanero?
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I've got it right here.
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Ready for me.
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Alright, alright.
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Clearly the way he's enjoying that.
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Wait!
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You have your little phone with your burger?
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You have my wings now?
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Nah, he's enjoying it too.
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Good chill now.
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That's enough now.
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We're going to dash this now.
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Wait!
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I'm not going to lie to you.
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Wingstop bites.
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Hey!
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Wingstop, we're order.
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Order it.
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I'm not going to get that.
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I have to f* a minute, lad.
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What?
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The corn?
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Yeah, I recommend it.
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You order it?
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You order it, yeah?
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Fair enough.
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In the order.
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Oh, you love that.
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Next up, we have Burger King.
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And I don't know what's in here, so we're just going to go...
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What's in there?
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That's the banana.
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How many bags are there, bro?
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Oh, onion rings.
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Here we go.
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We've got some onion...
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What's that?
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Halloumi fries.
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Halloumi fries?
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They're not good.
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It's frozen, Ack.
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Nice little salty there.
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That's hot, I know.
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Guys, I'm gonna invest in a thing.
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I'm gonna buy it right now.
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Heatable machine.
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How do you eat this?
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Look.
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Let me buy it right now.
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It's frozen.
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Alright, there you go.
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Ordered, guys.
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No more cold food on this channel.
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But, I'm gonna go ahead to you.
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I like onion rings.
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Why are you looking at onion rings?
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You're a f*.
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Onion rings are good.
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I could eat onion rings all day.
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I think that's so s*.
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With a bit of ketchup.
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Well, I would like to do to the onion rings.
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Just grab it and eat it.
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Why are you trying to make a f*ing wheel of ketchup?
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I hate that you do stuff.
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I'm not allowed to do onion rings.
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We'll order again.
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That's order again.
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I'll order any day of the week.
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Halloumi fries?
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If it was hot.
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Halloumi fries can go that way.
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Tell halloumi fries to go that way.
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Nice.
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No!
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Fuck.
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That's my studio, but come on.
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Oh, sorry.
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Next up, we have Pizza Hut.
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Problem is we're not allowed to eat pizza.
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Of course, it's the least ordered thing.
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Yeah, and the least ordered thing is mac and cheese.
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That's why it's the least ordered.
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Well, time to dig in.
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Oh, there's nothing coming out.
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You dig in first, man.
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I feel sick already looking at that.
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That's not good, man.
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I put it to my mouth, instantly I didn't like it.
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Oh, it's a bit creamy, though.
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It's not that bad.
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It's a bit weird, but I don't like it.
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Why do you like that?
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Shit.
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That's what you call a four out of ten mac and cheese.
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Oh, that's...
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Yeah, that's...
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Not bad.
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Not bad.
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It's a 5 out of 10.
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I just realised.
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But the question is, will you order it again?
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What kind of sicko do you think I am?
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Mac and cheese from Nando's Bank.
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What kind of sicko do you think I am to go to Pizza Hut and not order pizza?
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Hey, I don't like this man.
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Get this out of my face.
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Why are you going that way?
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It's a send.
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Go, go, go!
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How am I going to throw this?
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I can't actually do that.
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I'm going to stick it like that.
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Yeah.
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Pizza Hut is gone.
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In comes Domino's.
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Domino.
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What is it?
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Oh.
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Oh, what the f* is that?
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That looks sh!
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What the f*?
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What is that?
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This is actually loaded veggies.
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Show them.
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That looks shocking.
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Looks absolutely horrendous.
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But there's a pizza.
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That's veggies by the way, look at that.
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Is that tuna?
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Oh, I love tuna.
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Oh yeah, you don't eat tuna.
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I'm gone.
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I'm gone.
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Done.
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You know what?
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No, you're just loaded veggies.
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This is officially, guys, I'm giving the card.
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This is officially more chunks now.
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This is no longer my channel.
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Any talk of seafood in this channel means that I am no longer associated with this.
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Goodbye.
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Oh, no. Now, the least ordered item is a tuna pizza.
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For me, that's confusing because tuna is incredible.
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On pizzas as well, growing up, I used to have loads of tuna pizzas.
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I don't know.
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Right, just get a bit of sauce of that.
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Oh, there you go.
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Oh, oh.
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Just kind of bust everywhere.
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Put it there.
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Absolutely incredible.
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The fact no one ordered this, or it's the least ordered, is criminal.
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Now this, I'm going to close it back there, and say this, and I understand why they got all of that.
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There's just mushrooms, sweet corn, tomato, and cheese.
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Bang on.
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No one ordered that.
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Would I order?
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100%.
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I think that's f*ing bang on.
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Love a bit of Domino's.
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But I put it there in the middle of that.
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Anyway guys, this is more chance.
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We have tried every fast foods, least ordered meal.
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And I'll be honest, I've got some new things on my menu.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “We Tried the LEAST Ordered Fast Food Items”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: ordered, chicken, cheese. This video has 555 sentences and 3174 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:49. The speaker talks fast, about 201 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | 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. |
| burger noun | /ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/ | A hamburger. |
| onion noun | /ˈʌn.jən/ | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| plain noun | /pleɪn/ | An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse. |
| tuna noun | /ˈtjuː.nə/ | Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| grill noun | /ɡɹɪl/ | A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and… |
| bang noun | /ˈbæŋ/ | A sudden percussive noise. |
| corn noun | /ˈkɔːn/ | Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. |
| lamb noun | /ˈlæm/ | A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| decent adjective | /ˈdiː.sənt/ | Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances. |
| associate noun | /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/ | A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| roll up verb | To dominate by accumulating; to become dominant by accumulating. | |
| take off verb | To remove. | |
| watch out | Used to warn someone of an imminent danger. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Isn't this one of your favourite restaurants?
- You're up here, but it's the balls, isn't it?
- You don't want to go to this?
- What happened when you said there's no gochujang?
- Why didn't you mix the plain with the habanero?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to have · used to eat · used to do |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if I wanted that, I'll go · If this was hot, it'd be · If this was hot, I would fly |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've tried · I've never seen · I've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was actually made · is ordered · is called |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 111 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, dash /ˈdæʃ/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
- Long words — get the stress right: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, habanero /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnɛɹoʊ/
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 fry, pizza, burger.
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.