The Worst of the Best Podcast

dont spoil howver but heres this one
 
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[Music] welcome to the worst of the best podcast
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you wanted the best well they didn't freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada Ryan and Jason
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast I am your host and returning again Jason
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this is like unprecedented like you are well like I've said before you are officially the co-host or the one I call
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First you are my first call and if you can't do it I call alternative people but I'm excited to have my brother Jason
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with me today how you doing good thanks for having me back appreciate being here yes Jason it's good to have have you
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back it's always exciting to co-host with you and talk the topics that we do
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especially today's topic because a lot of these food items or these treats a
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few of them were available to us when we were kids I think you and I did enjoy some of these items so what the topic
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today ladies and gentlemen is these are once popular treats that you can no longer eat or at the very least purchase
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at your local 7-Eleven or Circle K or Walmart or to wherever wherever you go J
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so as we go through this list I want us to say hey I remember eating that or not eating that and maybe our thoughts on
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that item but like with all this we're going to pick what we feel is the worst of these long forgotten popular treats
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how we're going to do this one is which treat do we feel we would be okay with
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if it doesn't get put back into the market so there's 10 of them and we'll pick one independent of each other at
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the end which we think eh you can leave that one the list the other nine sure come on back and I might enjoy them here
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we go the first one Jason Jello pudding pops do you remember this uh special
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treat I specifically remember the commercials with with our good friend Bill Cosby I do remember putting Pops I
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remember enjoying them and what's interesting about just kind of quickly reviewing this list is I did not recall
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it wouldn't be available anymore that's what I thought was interesting and I wonder is that due to be's
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issues I'm sure the demise of Bill did not help there's no way they could
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reintroduce this product let's just pretend that Jello brand name decided to
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say hey uh let's bring back the pudding pops I think they wouldn't or couldn't everyone that thinks of jello pudy pops
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thinks of Bill Cosby's commercials with the kids yeah this is an impossible product to be reintroduced well they
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still sell Subway sandwiches good point yeah so in 2004
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General Foods the company that owns Jello licensed pudding pops name to popsicle which isn't simply the name of
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the Frozen street it's also a company so popsicle began producing them after
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acquiring the license but they were made using a different recipe in popsicle modes oh okay so popsicle is a brand
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name I didn't know that no either did I I thought it was just kind of like yeah
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that is weird when you say can you Xerox this for me yeah yeah it's yeah I thought I was thinking of the same exact
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same example okay but they did disappear Jason in the 90s that's how long they've been off the market due to Ling sales so
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it was long before Bill Cosby's uh publicly known rape he was raping at
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this time but uh it wasn't publicly known he's working with kids he's working with kids and he's with a smile
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yeah he's already 20 years deep into his drugging and sexually molesting woman
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needs work with kids oh it's just crazy what a weird world so popsicle decision to use its own molds in different recipe
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made the new pudding pops look like a cheap invitation so they never sold well and the company discontinued them all
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together you can still buy the original Pudding Pop mold and follow a recipe if you wanted to make your own the treat
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can live on again in your home so you can still make it but they don't sell it is that weird it's like do your own yeah
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make your own pudding pops which we've done I've done it myself I've made pudding and you just put it in a mold and freeze it essentially I mean just
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put in ice cube tray if you wanted right right and keeping the stick in the
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middles the difficult part yeah you buy those freezer mold yeah to uh keep the the stick upwards but yeah everyone
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loves pudding pops as a kid this would be a treat that you and I did not experience very often as kids I don't think I don't think we had these bought
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and stored in our freezer very long at home because I guarantee if they did they'd be gone in a day there'd have to be like a locking key on the freezer
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yeah I mean that's back in the day when treats weren't completely readily available I mean a treat was a treat it
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was a once in a while type of uh activity I find it interesting that they
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didn't sell well despite despite Bill Cosby you know being popular at the time
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maybe kids just got tired of them yeah they were popular at one point in the 80s they were very popular well here's a
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sample of the commercial Jello pudding pops Jello pudding pops Frozen pudding on a stick you know Jello pudding pops
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is a winner with all the soap box as I know it is MHM and even your mechanics getting all revved up about it because
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it's so rich and creamy yeah and it always gets the green light from Mom because it's made with real
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pudding Jello brand pudding pops all the goodness of real Jello pudding so you
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know it's wholesome a true winner and it gets a green light from
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Momom I didn't realize pudding was a natural product that was grown on trees
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apparently it's a naturally growing product that Mommy makes in the garden and you can put it like I know it's like it's a
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yeah it's wholesome it's wholesome it's a wholesome pudding pudding is wholesome I well because Bill Cosby was a
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wholesome brand right they're also plugging the idea that you know his Cosby Show his whole his whole product
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was wholesome when Eddie Murphy entered the comedic scene at the age of 181 19 doing a standup Bill Cosby personally
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contacted him and said hey can you stop cursing and stuff during your act you're giving our people kind of a bad image in
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Bill cos's world at this time he thought that swearing was worse than sexual
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assault was also funny that commercial they advertise pudding is some sort of wholesome product what does that even
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mean it's made out of sugar and milk and sugar and butter milk butter and flavoring oh yeah it's just a whole
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that's great that's fun I love it okay speaking of our childhood Jason you got number nine yeah okay so the McDonald's
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happy meal cookies yeah kids love to eat
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the cookies that came in the McDonald's Happy Meal they came in the shape of the McDonald characters or chocolate chip
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most kids would probably prefer them to what they offer now apple slices the cookies
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were apple slices or cookies yeah the cookies were first introduced back in 74
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with the animal cracker version arriving first I remember the animal cracker
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cookies but I do definitely remember these crunchy chocolate chip cookies that came yeah yeah yeah I remember the
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animal crackers more than these cookies really yeah and they were small and hard and
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they were very process you bite into it's just like bite into flavored chalk it was a crunch it was so they were
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probably what the size of the diameter of a looney or a tuni yeah so the chocolate chip cookies came in a box and
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they were small hard and overly processed but people remember them finally and McDonald's receives requests
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all the time asking for the recipe for the company to reintroduce them I believe it there's a lot of McDonald
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nuts out there right they want to relive their childhood and many things you know you want to be able to sell in the
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Nostalgia of our past that's why we do remake in movies or do covers of songs
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yeah people want to have the uh I remember the day when we ate these cookies but yeah reproduce those
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memories well people are selling them you speaking of selling them they are actually oh yeah selling them online they haven't made in 20 years but people
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are selling they've kept them over the last 20 plus years and you can buy them and eat them at your own risk I suspect
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that they're just as healthy today 20 years later if they're wrapped in yeah
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if they're wrapped into plastic I suspect they're there's probably very little yeah D change well you've seen
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those uh people doing those experiments with McDonald's the burger and fries unrelated to knowing that we were doing
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this but just on YouTube a couple days ago I was watching those rabbit whole YouTube videos whatever and this lady
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pulled out a it was granted it 16 17 years old but it was a burger and fries
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and it looked no mold on the that's unbelievable no mold on the burger or
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fries that's crazy yeah yeah it's insane but I remember those cookies well and the Happy Meals as well coming in those
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little box and Jay I you know I tell you McDonald's again this is not a insult on our childhood but this was common with
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most childhoods back in the 80s uh 70s and ' 80s I know kids St are just spoil I look at my kids like you guys have no
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idea you have received so much goodness and treats and um stuff that when we
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were because going to McDonald's was like going to Disneyland man it it was like we're going to McDonald's it was
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like well it goes back to even that pudding pops things the fact that the pudding pops didn't sell well enough I
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guarantee if that product was around today we know that Bill Cosby will make it impossible to come back right but
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that product was introduced today would it do poorly probably not yeah same with
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McDonald's McDonald's is with all the health issues that we know that is introduced with eating McDonald's it's
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bigger and more popular than it has ever been oh it's
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it's crazy it's cheap too still cheap in the states especially I lived there for four years from 2011 to 2015 I indulge
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myself in that dollar many more than I should have uh you go literally dollar Burgers forgot my lunch I'll just go order uh what they call McChicken
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burgers for it's $2 plus tax that's it it's ridiculous about like cheap like
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you're just you're paying for a heart attack yeah so glad I don't do that anymore I that was a dark time all right
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uh number number eight is Sunny D oh
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[Music] yeah I got
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it all right so quickly for our listeners here of course is we got that great 9s 1991 music kids playing beach
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volleyball they're were coming in from playing the hot beach sand outside mom just brought home groceries of course
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this the teenage son's digging through the groceries see what mom brought home guys we got some soda OJ purple stuff
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Sun what's in this tast like orange and tangerine DN some healthy J too what are
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you doing problem guys come on Sunny Delight the good
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stuff kids go for want some more that commercial that brings back memories
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that commercial wow I love how excited they are but they're all like it's the
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teenage son's drinking the last drops from the sunny bottle and they're all about to literally kick the crap out of them but Mom comes out to say the day I
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got more don't worry it's like yeah the old high five it does yeah you're the best Miss
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D brings back memories a Sunny D I remember drinking this I've had it a few times when I was a kid I just remember
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being so thick it's just like syrup okay I only remember drinking this at
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everybody else's house some somebody else's house yeah we never got the Sunny
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D our parents were smart they brought home Sunny D it's just $5 down if the Jason if he got a hold of it alone he
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would have drank the whole thing in one city he would have been the like that kid drinking it right out of the bottle if you don't you might not remember this
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the drink came with a ton of controversy due to how it was marketed it was sold like the commercial saying they had
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vitamins and stuff I love I love how the vitamins make anything healthy right you put a vitamin B in a candy bar El sudden
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it's healthy it was sold as an alternative to orange juice despite being an orange color soft drink without
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any juice in it at all and parents began to pay attention to the ingredients and so sales then
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[Laughter] plummeted kind of I I hate to say it I'm I'm not a health freak but I definitely
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you and I have I know in the in recent years you and you and I personally we've changed diet to kind of reflect a
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healthier lifestyle to lose some weight and I'm kind of glad even this is pre- internet where parents kind of woke up
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and said hey this is just sugar and corn syrup and it's not orange juice at all
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yeah it's got to be horrible I remember it being thick as well I'm not even sure
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if I like it but you drank it anyways yeah oh I almost you had the gut yeah
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yeah I I know you had this reaction of like I don't know if I am supposed to like this but I do so commercial have a
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blast whatever's in it you intuitively know it's not good but your taste buds
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and whatever triggers in your brain you can't stop yourself from trying to drink
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more of it well a four-year-old Jason her skin turned yellow after drinking a
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liter and a half of the stuff every day for a while poor mom was probably thinking oh this is uh healthy for my
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child maybe she didn't read the ingredients so I'm not blaming the parent per se but they were LED astray by the commercials cuz of a beta kerene
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in the drink yeah so that got on the news Sunny Delight beverages ultimately had to reformulate the drink bring in
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its fruit content of 0% to 70% to legally advertise what it
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was they said that they're selling because they sold it as an orange drink but there was 0% fruit in it w yeah but
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the costs were too high so these days Sunny D today as it sold so I guess it
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still is available but not the Sunny D of yester years's it contains less than 2% fruit juice it comes with in various
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flavors but it's nothing like the original so the original Sunny D is no longer available it's interesting have you ever seen Sunny D in the store I'm
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not really looking for anything I'm probably not even looking in the aisles well not the original one that's not yeah have you seen it though like who's
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buying it it looks like it's still available again not the original formula that we were just talking about the Sunny D was introduced in' 63 and it
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still is currently available Dr Pepper is its distributor here's the ingredients as of today water High fru
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toast corn syrup is the second ingredient and 2% or less of the following of course just yeah well
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nothing's better than yellow five and yellow six yeah there water sugar and
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chemicals with yeah it's crazy but the original formula is no no longer available they have added 2% fruit juice
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now so that 2% is orange Tangerine Apple lime and grapefruit pair of the 98% of that liquid 2% of it is officially that
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concentrated juice there you go cheapers doing the bare minimum and and just so you know fruit juice itself isn't that
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good for you I know it's sugar it's just sugar okay next one Jason I boy I I love this one
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as a kid I loved it go ahead Jason say what number seven okay so number seven is the candy
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cigarettes the picture they have here aren isn't the brand that I would buy no we didn't buy these as kids but we did
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buy these at the candy store when we were kids yeah I know it's the Popeyes so yeah Popeyes that's right that's
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righty that's awesome yeah so somehow popey made it okay to buy candy
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cigarettes yeah so they are these candy coated you know white sticks with the red dye it look like it's lit look I'm
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not going to lie to you every kid and myself included pretended we were smoking we put these in our mouth You'
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suck on the candy but no air would go through so there's no actual than you sucking on a straw that has something
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stuck in it you couldn't do anything but you pretended you need to do that with your lips and then you would eat the
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thing it wouldn't be very long of pretending cuz you just want to eat the candy at the end of the day I remember buying as a kid and cuz we were raised
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to not smoke our parents you know not smoke and no kids smoked when we were kids at that age seven six-year-old kids
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or whatever but I remember feeling kind of guilty like oh am I doing something wrong here am I am I every
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time yeah every time the guilt was horrible but it's weird it's just candy
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it's just candy the idea that but because this the stigmatism and the the warnings that we
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would get so I don't smoke and all the rest yes it felt like a very dangerous line that we're walking akin to those
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black licorice like wasn't there a black licorice that was shaped in a a pipe black candy liquor was shaped with a
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pipe and in the pipe it had the red red candy yeah the little red to make it look at the glowing Embers of tobacco
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but anyway I mean this is just sugar chalky sugar at the end of the day parents were concerned that would
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desensitize children and later on there were several studies that suggested this
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to be true and as a result candy cigarettes are a lot harder to find these days than they were in the
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past and I I would suspect that there is some truth to that just anecdotally it
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would make some sure desensitization maybe but here's here's my here's my push back as someone who ate those candy
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cigarettes and even pretended to smoke because that was just what you would do cuz you're being a kid right I don't
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know if you ever smelt a cigarette or have had one in your hand before but they taste nothing like a like a candy
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like so whatever the shape or whatever the image I I get what they're saying but I've also played with water guns and I've never shot anyone so that's my
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response to that yeah that's true I'm just saying in a large enough population
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of millions of people on you know depending on the studies here and how they did the studies or whatever I can
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see how it might lessen the impact on maybe it's the Gateway candy well to
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people who might be less less intelligent yeah I'm not like totally immune to the suggestions of the world
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but at the same time I guess I've always say you know I played vi video games whatever was available as a kid I watched violent movies I I ate candy
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cigarettes I'm boring I haven't done any of the activities that I've seen you know you know what's interesting as as we talk about this I look at the if you
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go back up to the picture yeah if I look at the picture of these candies if they didn't come in these
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packagings and if they didn't advertise them as Candi cigarettes I'm not sure if I would have connected the dots other
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than them being a white tube with a little red on the end they really don't
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look anything like a cigarette maybe kids would just think their straws or something or just a candy STI a Candy
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Stick yeah I think they were advertising as candy sticks for a while there too maybe yeah there's some pictures here
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but I remember yeah but this is an old school here like it actually says like King's candy Target but it says candy
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but you could tell they look like yeah cigarette boxes that's great all right and Sugar's bad for you anyway so all
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the saying that you shouldn't eat candy and you shouldn't smoke number six lifesaver holes I think I remember eating these let's hear the commercial
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look the Lifesavers family just got a little smaller new Lifesavers holes
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candy the big flavor of Lifesavers candy in delicious little bites new holes
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candy from Lifesavers so the slogan there is what you've been missing the idea being that
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you've eaten the Lifesaver and there's a hole in the middle and you was the consumer of that Lifesaver you've been
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missing more Lifesaver in the hole that they punch out to make the to make the Lifesaver right so it's like a the donut
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like a little yeah they were essentially the smaller pieces of the same
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candy that's kind of stupid what's the point what's the point it's just the
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round nub in the middle that they punch out to make the Lifesaver they saved it you think about they just saved the
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scraps and rebranded it remarketed it to light saer holes how clever I think it's
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pretty obvious why that didn't last people just can I just have a bigger piece of the candy please yeah like Tic Tacs it's like a
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lifesaver Tic Tac yeah apparently talking about it becoming a choking hazard I would find the Lifesaver being
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more of a choking hazard I mean really any candy that you sit in your mouth and can suck and Savor for a while like a
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jawbreaker there's lots of candies that could be a choking hazard you and I both have kids and of course they're much
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they're older now and old enough to know better but I remember the first time you give your kid a hard can he get a little nervous
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just be careful yeah yeah I guess you know at the end of the day you go like hey you know you're supposed to suck on
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that and have it last longer but maybe it is better that they just chew it all up into smaller pieces and dissolve
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quicker yeah for sure because you run around with a candy in your mouth all right number five simply named WOW chips
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that have very little or no fat yes that's right zero fat stores can't keep
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up with demand the sales are tremendous uh I guess with the with a new item
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anything that's fat free or half the calories they just tend to fly off the shell you just can't keep them in stop
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the main ingredient is lestra passes through the body without releasing any fat or calories now there are concerns
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alestra robs the body of nutrients and vitamins but the new fat substitute was given the okay by the Food and Drug
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Administration the new chips come in all types of flavors everything from Theos SK barbecue to nacho cheesier and they
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look just like any other chip of course the bag promises fat fruit free with all the taste so we put these chips
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to the test how is it good tastes good so what do you think of it overall I
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love it would you buy some oh yes adequate adequate would you believe it
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that these are totally fat free no pretty good what do you think now the
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the new wild chips and they are totally fat free I can't tell the difference the little war in on the back kind of makes
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you a little nervous you know the about the um nutrients being pulled out so
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that's I probably won't buy them because of that but as far as the taste oh they taste just like regular Jared hail Orin
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56 news frea introduced these fat-free chips in '98 back in the day when
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anything that had fat in it scared everybody right pushing just eat carbohydrates you'll get thin um now
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it's the complete opposite yeah now it's a little bit different than that and it's interesting I just saw a video
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yesterday talking about these fat-free chips the impact it has on your health it's actually healthier for your insulin
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and your glycemic index to eat the fat oh of course yeah full fat chip than a
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fat-free chip so it's interesting that we're seeing this I'm seeing this now well it's the label fat people hear the
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word fat free they're thinking I will not get fat no but your body is like no
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no no no fat is a fuel if you teach your body to fuel on the fat then you
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actually lose weight carbs they're so heavy they your body is like yeah I'll eat carbs but your body doesn't need as
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much as we think at all and so your body is like oh I'm full thank you got all the carbs I need but You' given me
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500,000 per more than I need so it has to store it somewhere they introduced alestra to counteract the need for fat
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but the choice to use a lesser Pro disastrous to the company's sales wild chips dropped in sales by more than 50%
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by 2000 due to complaints of abdominal cramping diarrhea and feal incontinence
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which is the fancy way of saying anal
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leakage oh no yeah how much elester are you eating in order for you to get the anal
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leakage impact well it's interesting even during that news cycle that mother probably I would say she's a mother
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she's probably 35 to 40 she's like uh I read the back and there's a warning on there so I'm not going to buy it she's
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smart yeah they dropped that product so they actually had to label put a warning label on your chips imagine reading this
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on your bag of chips yeah they have rebranded it though and they now talk about it I guess they call it the light
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with the same old side effects so they're technically still around in deceptively different packaging oh so
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they're kind of cheating a little bit they got a little bit of Sunny D going on well Sunny D added 2% fruit so the
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original products on the around but now you can just argue the wild chips is now light so they've added the warning label
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and changed the wow to light so basically you're eating chips that are
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more carbohydrate than a mix of carbohydrates and fat not good if I'm
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going to cheat and have some chips I'm going to do the old fashion we just give me a bag of lays or Doritos bring it on
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man bring it it on yeah might as well just go nuts instead of the fake stuff absolutely so number four Gatorade gum I
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don't quite remember this this was when we were young I was six and 81 you would have been eight but here's the commercial for Gatorade gums here the
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commercial active people are discovering the gum that's different now you can lick
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dry mouth by chewing up a storm with gatorgum its unique mouth
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watering formula turns on the juice so if you want to lick
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dry mouth chew up a storm with Gator gum
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no drought about it Gator gum oh this our first time both Jason I
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don't see that commercial I think the idea is is that the gum quenches your
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thir so yeah it gets rid of your dry dry
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that's what they're saying dry that was creepy there's no drought it apparently yeah no drought about it
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no drought about it I kind of like that that's clever no drought about it so
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each pack came with a tagline it works this referen to claim that it helps quench thirst just like the drink it was
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based on that's an impossibility I love the idea that there was people that were tricked oh man you know we just played a
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good game of uh soccer or hockey or baseball whatever they would to bring the drinks no I but I got a pack of gum
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here if you're thirsty cuz it creates SL in your mouth I guess and you swallow that I don't know it's a gimmick
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obviously but it did sell pretty well back then and people especially like the drink also bought the gum and the flavor
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apparently was pretty strong like most gum it didn't last very long is there's nothing better tasting than the first 10
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bites of a gum it's the most no matter the like whatever you're minty fruity no
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matter the brand that first when you take out of the fresh package and you chew that piece the first 10 to 20 chews
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remember yeah hababa Hab buba back in the day when my kids would go you know trick- or-treating and they
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get the hubba bubba gum and or the the double bubble gum it's that hard candy gum I would take older gum and what I
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would do is I would chew on it and literally 10 15 20 chews put in the back of the wrapper grab the next one I would
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just keep popping them in my mouth enjoying the chewing tasting sensation but if you go past 30 seconds to a
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minute you're just chewing on a rubber mallet there is not a gum product that I
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enjoy I'm not a gum person at all I mean I chew gum right freshen the breath or
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whatever but boy I do not enjoy the you and I think at the end of the day it's
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the inconvenience of having to get rid of it yeah it's true yeah don't I like oh now G to go to the garbage or feel
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bad for spitting it out on the ground or something i' rather just not deal with it and like you say it it's enjoyable
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for about 30 seconds and then afterwards I feel like now I'm stuck with this thing in my mouth I just have to dispose
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of this now true it is kind of pain the but to dispose of properly instead of spinning on the ground or put it under a
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desk but this gum was on the on the shelves from the early 70s to the late 80s almost almost 20 years it sold
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pretty well it was it was enjoyed by Gatorade Gatorade is a very popular company and so the gum did fairly well
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as far as gum goes but swells and vix they the ones that own the contract it just expired they never renewed it so
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the company simply stopped producing Gator gum so it disappeared and fans were left to scout eBay
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looking for ancient packs of the favorite twing gum I wish I had known that there would be a site that you can
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sell all these products hard to find products later in life you could have just bought Gator gum and just stored it
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and then you could sell it for like $30 a pack something you bought for 85 cents
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yeah no kidding uh Jason you got the next one okay Nestle's Magic Ball I
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think I missed this one you and I would like cuz in 97 97 I would have been h
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how old was I 97 born in 75 22 you would have been 24 right yeah yeah so yeah
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we're kind of out of the game of buying candy treats and stuff so but let's uh
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let's see what this is all about Nestle magic magic what's inside the sparking
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foil what's inside sparkling foil what's inside the chocolate B what's inside
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theet what's inside the B that what's ins the B that wow it's
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Hercules it's Simba DTI or Aladdin all from Disney they're hidden inside a
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surprise in a ball in chocolate and foil in a box nestly magic ball okay this a Kinder
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Eggs yeah they ripped off the Kinder Egg um idea well Kinder Eggs aren't sold or
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they weren't for the longest time in the States you weren't allowed to bring Kinder Eggs from Canada to the US now
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I'm reading here that they're talking about it as being a choking hazard Magic Ball yes that's why it didn't last long
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so what that commercial was was showing a plastic ball holding a toy that's even
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smaller the ball but around the plastic ball was chocolate chocolate a very cheap probably produced Nestle well
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Nestle chocolate's pretty good but the chocolate is around the ball you so eat the chocolate open the ball and you get a toy inside okay great Kinder Eggs in
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Canada are outside the US have the same idea and I guess the dangerous like
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Jason was saying is there's a choking hazard yeah that's what it is it's just a chocolate covering a toy the states
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bans the sale of any candy that has embedded in it a toy or trinket interesting there you go now I never
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heard of magic ball so it must have been quite shortlived so 97 to 2000 few years
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and it went away another one I haven't heard of was called the four local oh maybe I have heard of this well we've
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had the same we've had something like this in Canada I'm sure but for loal was first developed in 2005 as a quot quote
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energy beer which is primarily marketed to young college students who needed to build up energy while drinking alcohol
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so soon after it was introduced it became a popular among teenagers which became a problem for the company Fusion
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projects the company that sold the drink the problem wasn't necessarily with the alcohol it was the caffeine which formed
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the basis of the company's marketing strategy the original recipe included around 155 milligrams of caffeine which
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is about the same amount in a strong cup of coffee combining to stimulate CA and a depressant like alcohol can be
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dangerous so in some cases it can lead to severe intoxication and blackouts so
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it wasn't long before the FDA and several state attorney generals got involved Fusion eventually agreed to
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drastically change his marketing to remove models under the age of 25 years and anything that glorified alcohol and
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binge drinking the company also reformulated the drink removed to caffeine Grana and toine replacing it
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with red 40 a food D when this happened a black Market Rose to sell the original
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drink which averaged five times the original price so basically it's an energy alcohol drink so what I find
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interesting is how did they even sell it to begin with I guess originally FDA was like okay it's caffeine and alcohol in
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of itself maybe that's not dangerous people Christmas time drink coffee with yeah Bailey Bailey yeah so people mix
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caffeine and alcohol in that self was not quotequote healthy but that problem was having one of those whatever
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especially young people they binge drink they'll drink five six eight 10 12 packs you the kids drink stuff like that so
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the danger is how much caffeine or probably not having one or two is having five or six a row I would be very
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worried about drinking five caffeine loads of that or even three yeah so the danger I think is the
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caffeine what does the heart yeah oh remember um oh what was that cocacola
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drink back in the 990s there jolt jolt yes jwel you know oh twice the caffeine
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and now nowadays I mean energy drinks are everywhere they were way ahead of the time yeah yeah twice the caffeine in
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your soda drink yeah twice the caffeine and twice the sugar I think all right last one okay so
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sugarfree gummy bears Harbo sugar-free gummy bears these gummy bears were made
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with glucose syrup and sugar as the first two ingredients so they weren't the healthiest snack a person could eat
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to counter this problem and to sell more health conscious people hero created a sugar-free alternative
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the alternative they settled on was Lin and this main ingredient
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maltitol on paper everything seemed great thanks to the incredible similarities between natural sugar and
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Lyin unfortunately the human body recognize Lyin as sweet but it doesn't like to keep the stuff around for very
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long it goes through your system like tro through a pipe there are countless Amazon reviews for the product which
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explain explain in great detail how haribo's sugar-free gummy bears tore through the people's systems we have an
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anal leakage situation here the B the bulk the bulk of them included phrases
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like intestinal power wash a volcano a flood of toxic waste and other
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colorful explanations Aro discontinu the product but you can occasionally find them on sites like eBay so use caution
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and eat them close to your bathroom I heard about this when it first started hitting the internet back in the early
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internet days when reviews were first being done on Amazon and what have you but yeah I thought it was a joke but I
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guess it's not I've and I've actually talked to people in person at work who have done this and I've done the herbo
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test and it's true it gives them diara and one person gave it right away it was like in a matter like the first half hour a lot of sugar alcohols can have
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this impact on people it's not just necessarily Heros but even sugar-free
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candy a lot of sugar-free candies can have this impact on you if you're eating
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it not knowing like it probably originally it's like the listra you know the Corn Chip oh it's better for you oh
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okay perfect I'll eat lots you know it would be funny to go back in time before anyone got word of this and bring a
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herbo and WOW chips to a party just like sit back and watch me it just like you don't have any of it and everyone gets
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the craps like at a Christmas party at work or something that sorry as a prank I think I might do that but you can't do
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that you know you can't do that now everyone knows and then bake some chocolate brownies with uh xlock in it
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now you're I've added a whole new uh element to it this was fun going through these I
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mean some of these were legit like I I could go for some of these and that's the hard choice now is Jason let's use
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the party setting we're told to bring nine of these things to a party to share
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at a buffet or party you know like a get together what's the one thing you're not bringing because either you don't like
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it or don't think the guests will like it so the 10 are Jello pudding pops McDonald's Happ meal cookies Sunny D
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candy cigarettes Lifesaver holes lay wild chips Gatorade gum Nestle mashball
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four local the energy beer and Haribo sugar-free gummy bears you're at this
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party there's nine things or 10 of these are on the table and there's one you don't want to eat which one are you not going to eat it's got to be the Candi
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cigarettes really yeah it was like eating sugared chalk
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it's not really that great of a I would rather have a handful of Heros wow you
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take your chances hey a few potato chips I would
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enjoy that than just eating those candy cigarettes sure yeah I mean the diarrhea
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notwithstanding I think I agree with you in the sense of herbo and the chips I I could probably eat a bowl of chips or a
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cup full of freeos I'll just take my chances I've been on the toilet like that before I can do it again you know I say the same thing it's not like it's
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never happened before you know we could always use a cleanse a cleanse is good every now and then but that's not my pick my pick isn't the isn't the candy
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cigarettes or the my pick is Sunny D it's like drinking cough syrup it's it's
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horrible I just I would enjoy it I just don't I can still taste it it does taste
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like syrup it's horrible it's not a thirst quencher actually causes you to be more because you're just drinking
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chemicals and sugar and corn syrup or whatever it's GH yeah that would be a a
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close second for me for sure I I get it Sunny D leaves very little uh to be
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desired and it's got to be horribly bad for you it is it's so bad that it
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actually contains zero% of what it advertised it was an orange drink you no it's the color is the only thing that it
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yes it's orange it's actually more yellow than Orange too when you talked about the
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Sunny D tasting like cough syrup I can tell a little secret about what I used to do remember uh dime tap grape tasting
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uh cough syrup cold medicine oh yeah yeah daap diap yeah D dap yeah I used to
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stink some of that because I really like the flavor you're literally the kids that
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were supposed to keep the the medicine High away from Jason is like
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I enjo I wasn't like getting any other effect from it not that I can recall but
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I did enjoy the flavor of dime tap it explains why Jason never missed a day of school for being
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sick I would go in the cupboard and sneak a couple sips every once in a
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while I never knew that oh my goodness mom and dad are like
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why do we have to G by who's sick that's right I know you it's like
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try to seek the ice cream a spoon of ice cream like how do I seek ice cream without anybody noticing I wish I could
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go back in time and catch you doing it in the process hey Jay you got a cold you all right you feeling okay Jay feeling great
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that's serious all right well remember in front of every Silver Lining there's a cloud and we're here to help you find
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that and today it was Sunny D and candy cigarettes thanks for coming on Jay
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