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we're gonna have some Wendy's all I can
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say is after making a mess go watch The
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Shining and let's have some food
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hello everybody Welcome to The Taste the
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show where we eat food and we talk about
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it I'm your host Rob my other host here
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my mom you can call her Karen
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and we're going to do Wendy's
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um so as you watched beforehand we did
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compare Wendy's chicken sandwich to
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another chicken sandwich but you'll
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notice on this series we're going to go
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through all the different aspects of
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these restaurants there's a lot of
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different things that they do unique
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items they might have and of course
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we're going to touch on stuff like
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Duncan and Starbucks as well because
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there's so many different types of foods
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out there and not a lot of it gets
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I don't know portray normally right is
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that the right word talked about or
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eaten I don't know on camera yeah and
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it's funny because there's one item on
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here that I know you were excited for me
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not so much but we'll see if I actually
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am proven wrong but I figured we'd give
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a little breakdown of some of the uh
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facts about this restaurant here so I
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went to a website called thefactsite.com
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and we're going to pull some of these
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facts off a lot of these are pretty
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common knowledge but they're still kind
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um for instance the franchise was named
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after his daughter Wendy right
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though it sounds like it was also named
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after somebody named Melinda who maybe
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went by Wendy so I'm not exactly sure
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how that works but maybe that was her
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you know oh there we go yes so she
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called herself Wenda and then they
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changed it to Wendy so got it okay the
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first Wendy's was open in Ohio in 1969 I
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um what area is that the Midwest area
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um and for those of you don't know they
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do a lot of things that are different
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than others don't do for instance the
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next fact is about the frosties which is
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something that they do themselves that
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and can you guess how many they sell
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every year if you had to just bargain a
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number a lot I don't know a lot is right
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uh 300 million give or take holy crap
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and again for those of you who have
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walked or eaten at Wendy's you know what
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this is It's a frosty probably one of
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the best things we're going to talk
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about a little bit later
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and they've tried to introduce multiple
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the only two that really become popular
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are the strawberry and vanilla and of
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course the third one being chocolate
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so what were the other ones that never
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um I don't have that on the list but I
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know what they try to do kind of like
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what Starbucks does where they kind of
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do with the season they'll try to put
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out a flavor that goes with it like
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pumpkin spice or something and I think
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it just doesn't yeah not my favorite
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fact here and this is pretty cool I
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don't know if you knew this but they
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were the first one to do the value meal
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now I wanted to touch on this really
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quick because uh you know in the 90s we
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had the dollar menu well for some reason
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the dollar menu's disappeared and I
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actually learned that because a
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business-wise it was not a good business
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model for them however it just wasn't
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the value you expected a dollar menu
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literally gave you maybe a kid's
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hamburger right maybe a four-piece
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chicken nugget and that's it so they
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have the volume menu so some of the
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things on their menu I think Dad
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actually has one of them there's the
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junior cheeseburger deluxe which if you
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like all that junk on your burger
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there's the uh cheesy cheddar burger
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which is kind of like a uber cheesy one
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and then they have the crispy chicken
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sandwich that we actually ate before
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right and then of course they have
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things like the potato the chicken
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Caesar wrap as well and I think I got
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one more we're gonna do before we
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um go to the food they were the first
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one uh or sorry they were not the first
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one to sell the square Patty that
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nomination I believe goes to if I'm
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correct I think it was White Castle I
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did it at first but they were tiny but
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they were really tiny too so I think
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what happened there and I know we're
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doing Wendy's but with White Castle I
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think what happened was they were trying
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to figure out a way to give the general
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public who was not making a lot of money
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because this was back in like the 50s
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and 60s when you were making kind of so
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much they wanted to give you a family
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meal which was a burger and a fry and
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the way they did that was they had their
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you know I I happen to know why um
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Wendy's did a square Patty oh okay
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um because if you think think about it
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the squares poke out from the side of
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the bun and it gives you the illusion
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that you got a bigger Burger
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there you go kind of like what
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advertising does now when it looks like
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it's something when it really isn't so
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there you go that makes a lot of sense
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so those are some fun facts if you guys
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want to check it out we did put the link
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up there but Wendy's is actually it I
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mean 1969 so one of the original I think
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McDonald's might have beat them out by a
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couple years but I feel like Wendy's was
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right there afterwards so this
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restaurant has now been around for what
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um and we're going to look at the odd
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side of this because yes they have
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Burgers yes they have chicken sandwiches
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but they also have a few other things so
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interesting things now I'm actually very
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very sad though because one of the
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salads that they did have the strawberry
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one is delicious but unfortunately we're
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not at that summer Peak yet with
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strawberries so we weren't able to get
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it but if you have a chance in your area
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to get the strawberry one do it but what
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we do have I don't know if you want to
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show yours really quick
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so this is the Apple pecan and
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apparently it's a chicken salad I did
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not realize I thought it was literally
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apples and pecans yeah no no it's got
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chicken it's got a lot of really
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interesting things in here and it's a
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size I mean it's a nice size
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um you know uh meal here where they
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black in their burger I do gotta say
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they make up for in their other side and
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meals here for sure now I know you're a
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salad person right so would you at any
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point think of going to a fast food
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place to get a salad or are you like
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most people who go fast food and salad
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don't go in the same sentence no I mean
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go to fast food I would I would attempt
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to do what I would think is a healthier
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choice and a healthier choice
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um probably would be the salad without
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the dressing right I think one of the
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challenges is that people think they're
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getting like a much less calorie thing
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and then they slather all the dressing
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on it which I'm not gonna do but it did
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come with dressing didn't it it did so
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we have pomegranate vinaigrette I don't
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know I'm I I don't know if I want to
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waste it because honestly I'm not a
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vinaigrette person so I might just eat
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it dry like you but I know a lot of
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people do like it and this kind of
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reminds of like the Panera thing right
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how when they give you a salad they give
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you like a white dress yeah so what do
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you think do you think these places
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because there's so many
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sit down fast food like Panera are they
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trying to compete in an area that really
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isn't their competition
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a destination place right they go to
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Wendy's because they probably like the
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hamburgers I don't think that people go
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oh I'm gonna go to Wendy's but they may
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because we're going to taste something
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in a little while which is
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from what we hear is supposed to be
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really delicious right I don't know I'm
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looking at it I'm not sure but it's
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pretty sad but right I don't think
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anyone goes to Wendy's and says I'm
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going to Wendy's because I just have to
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have a salad I I don't think they're
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doing that but it might be a family
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thing so maybe Mom and Dad or or Mom and
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Mom or Dad and Dad and their kids go and
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somebody says thank goodness there's a
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choice for me right I will give them one
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thing the fact that this is on the side
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and the pecans I do appreciate that
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because the thing I hate is when you get
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something delivered like a salad
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so I am gonna put the pecans into my
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I've done that already I I actually I
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learned on one of my other shows I did
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Pete conjure actually one of the few
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healthiest nuts out there good for
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they take something well it's kind of
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funny how you look at what's in here and
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you're like the Apple is good let's see
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oh Krista said she used to go to the
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Wendy's for the strawberry salad there
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you go there you go okay so that is a
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reason so I just I just popped this
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um I'm gonna go unwrap so they do give
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you a fork and if you're so inclined
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they give you a fork a spoon a knife
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um that's wrapped up so Rob why don't
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you take your first bite I'm gonna go
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ahead right here I got some chicken and
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some apples so let's see how that works
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you know I wouldn't think of putting
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fruit and protein together
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but that's actually pretty good it kind
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of gives the chicken a little bit of a
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yeah this is good actually
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and it's it's there's a lot of stuff in
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probably what I would do if I brought
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this home is I would get a bigger bowl
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and put the salad in there and I toss it
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because right now as you as you can
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you're doing you're eating all the good
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stuff off the top right exactly so
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there's apples there's lettuce
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um we got some blue cheese I think in
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here yeah blue cheese
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and what do you call it shreddish
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I do got to say this is more like
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lettuce lettuce it's not like the stuff
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they put in a sandwich like subway where
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it's really shredded right and I'm
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saying there's also cranberries I got
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some cranberries in a bite cranberry
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pecans are good but I think you're right
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these are not the healthier kind these
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are definitely the uh sugary like candy
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kind of pecans right but this is to be
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honest this is quite decent
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you know I wouldn't necessarily go but I
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I didn't want something too greasy or
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I probably would give this a chance
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all right I'm gonna put this to the side
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I'm gonna finish I'm actually gonna
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finish this for lunch
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I've been decided yeah but I think this
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next one I am going to finish for lunch
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because actually I'm a fan of this so I
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already opened mine up I don't know if
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you have yours can we doing next
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we're gonna have the baked potato now
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this is also something that I love a
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good baked potato uh most restaurants
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like a steakhouse or something like that
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will give you a baked potato and again
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when I first saw that this was on the
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menu I think this is back in college
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there you go so we got the one with uh
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sour cream and yeah chives I didn't put
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the sour cream on it I'm really it's
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with my my digestion does not like sour
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cream so I will just leave it there
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um but when I first saw this back in
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college when I was at CSUN because there
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was a Wendy's right there I was kind of
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like okay I want potato do I really want
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to try it and actually it's pretty good
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it's not good for you but that's
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probably why it's so good I mean when
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you why do you say it's not good for you
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I mean a potato potatoes are pretty
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decent the skin is actually the best
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part of the potato it has most the
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so do you think people buy the baked
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potatoes take them home and add stuff to
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it like some cheese or some bacon bits
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also they do a few things so I got this
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one because of just you know General
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eating habits here but they do have one
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that comes with chili and they have one
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that comes with cheese and bacon I
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personally I I would not be able to
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handle that you're a purist I'm a purist
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but I think if you were to buy just a
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potato like we did you could easily put
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on whatever you want but I think if you
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chili on it or whatever you can get the
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already pre-made the problem is though
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is it kind of gets goopy and the potato
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sucks up all the stuff yeah yeah if you
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wanted to take a bite because it's this
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it this is it there's no flavor to it at
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all like I feel like I need to go get
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some salt and pepper or something to put
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on here I see some chives that are in
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here I know you said that there was but
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is there butter in here too because if
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there is I don't there might have been
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but I think it might have soaked into
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I like my skin on my potato to be
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crunchy and crispy you know when you do
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um but again this is
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I guess okay all right so so far between
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the two I think this is going to go in
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the bottom for me and Capricorn salad is
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at the top yeah um I think we'll push
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this over for a quick second
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and on to the Apparently most famous
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thing ever which I just find it weird
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now I have nothing against chili chili
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is good but the last thing I would want
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to get oops there goes my Fork last
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thing I would want to get is chili from
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a restaurant but if you are a Wendy's
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Enthusiast you will know that this is
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bigger than their hamburgers right like
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and it comes with crackers yeah okay so
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I'm I'm it smells good
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this is what chili is supposed to smell
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like you know I've just got I've got to
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think about it I got to see what this is
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so I got some beans I got some meat and
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okay you know what not actually half bad
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I wouldn't say it's the best I've eaten
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but I gotta give them credit there's a
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lot of chunky stuff I mean there's a
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good amount of look at all look at all
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the ground beef that's on there so
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there's beef in here there's
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um it looks like we have pinto and
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another kind of bean I think yeah and
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some chopped tomato with oh look there's
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a carrot in here so they must have done
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you know put some vegetables in here as
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you know to make it healthy right so
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um I've actually we're not doing a taste
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test on the hamburger today but it's not
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um but I might get this and I might get
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this to put this on the baked potato
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would actually give it some flavor I
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think the potato I gotta say because the
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entire morning I was like this is gonna
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suck I'm gonna hate this I actually
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think I'm gonna finish this this is
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actually really cool because the problem
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with me and I think it's just me because
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of just like my how food I eat and my
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allergies usually when you make chili
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It's kind of greasy and it's got a lot
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of stuff but for some reason this is
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actually very thin which is good and
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it's not full of like fatty uh stuff
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it's actually it's literally just like
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you said the beef the beans and some
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vegetables yeah so when you when you
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pick this up did you have a choice for
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green I know the potato they do offer
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this one though I think all they give
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you is the the saltines to dip if you
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want I think if you wanted to because I
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know since they have chives you can
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probably get a side of chives or
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exactly but I don't think it's part of
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their General uh menu so you'd have to
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it'd be like a secret menu thing you'd
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have to be like hey can I get a cup of
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cheese on the side or some right right
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extra whatever that is really good okay
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that is it's good I now see you and
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everything now and go and eat on cake
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all right so the last one here kind of a
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freebie I did this because come on now
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there you go Cheers Cheers so this is
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the iconic Frosty so basically what when
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it's not melted we're in 100 degree
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California weather when it's not melted
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I would describe it as kind of like Soft
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Serve Yogurt it's very soft but you can
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eat it with a spoon which is what I
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actually have in here and I I went and
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got a straw for this so I'm actually
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drinking it and because it's a little
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oh my God this is the best this is like
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sinfully good whoever like this is
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something that's so simple like you can
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make this but for some reason from
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Wendy's it's the best thing ever I don't
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know what flavors do these come in again
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we're drinking chocolate but it's a real
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chocolate and then the one by us at
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least has a vanilla and strawberry
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generally on their menu strawberry
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actually sounds kind of good I didn't
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realize it because I didn't see it on
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the menu until we got there so that's
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why I put down chocolate because I knew
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it was on the menu and then I think
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throughout the year they'll put on some
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there's I mean you can't go wrong with
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basically a chocolate shake slash yogurt
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ice cream it's like right right no I
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think it's really good it's it's a good
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chocolate chocolate I can't say it but
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it's good chocolate Lee chocolatey
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flavored it's really good oh my God that
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is the best thing oh my God like
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forget the rest of this I'm just gonna
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eat this for lunch that's that's my
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um okay so we we had a lot of good stuff
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on here and a lot of good things so
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really what we had and we'll go through
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the nutrition really quick so first up
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we have the Apple pecan
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uh did you want to read off the subject
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yeah so it's this is it has the most
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how in now I think that's because of all
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the stuff on top or dressing Maybe
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maybe okay um and it also has
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three grams of fat whoa that's a lot of
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1025 milligrams of sodium which I mean I
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guess that's probably the cheese maybe
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yeah I don't know I don't know that's a
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lot okay so the chili which we both
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um and if this is a small so I'm
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assuming since it says small Rob that
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you can get a larger container of this
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yeah so there's really only two there's
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actually a small and for some reason
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like super large and fun fact here were
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the America is the only place that does
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it other Wendy's literally have just a
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regular size of chili which is probably
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what you should be doing because nobody
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as good as this is I don't think you
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need to eat like three times the amount
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of this in one sitting personal no no uh
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no not at all so this is a small cup it
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only has 240 calories and this could be
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a meal all right I think this could be a
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meal if you throw in maybe some garlic
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bread or something or whatever it has 11
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and um the second highest amount of
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sodium 930 milligrams and I think that
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has to do with actually salting the um
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the chili when I was gonna say it
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doesn't chill we usually have a lot of
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now we go to the baked potato and now we
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didn't I didn't put sour cream on you
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didn't put sour cream on so these
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calories are are probably not correct it
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says 310 calories if you were to put
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sour cream and Chive On It sour cream
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being the operative fat you know that
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would go on there so it's gonna be a lot
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it also has only three grams of fat now
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I want to say because I know a lot of
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times when I watch a show on Food uh
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french fries at certain restaurants will
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have zero grams of fat and I think it's
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because generally potatoes are not
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um they're not Uber sugary they're not
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Uber whatever so I think potatoes
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generally as a vegetable yeah but if
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they're fried in oil
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then you got fat there now baked potato
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clearly is not fried it's baked and it
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just has you know the whatever the the
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right exactly or whatever you put in
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here so it's got 55 milligrams of sodium
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again that would go with the stuff
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that's going in there you know the
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seasoning and then finally we got the
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frosty my head is covering it but this
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470 calories 12. not good for you not
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good well you know every so often not so
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bad uh 12 grams of fat and
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292 milligrams of sodium and I always
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that always freaks me out because
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you know how funny it is when I see
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somebody saying they're like you know my
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diet coke has 50 grams of salt in there
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and I'm like why would you be putting
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salt inside of your soda or your shake
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like maybe it's preservative I don't
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know right I don't know and that would
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be a question that we need to ask the
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manufacturers that actually make this I
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mean really 292 milligrams of who knew
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that's that's just weird I'm just gonna
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so we will now and as as art decided was
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to find the weirdest but most delicious
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and I I thought it was going to be a tie
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and I already had two ideas exactly that
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was going to be my two things but I do
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gotta say after eating this chili my my
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choice for is gonna I'm gonna have to
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give it to the chili I am too I'm
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because the reality is if I I want a
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shake or ice cream type thing I'm going
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to go to a real ice cream store
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to get the ice cream which I'm not going
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to throw any names out here but Rob when
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we get off the show I'm going to tell
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you about an amazing ice cream place but
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I would make this my favorite
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I think so I think this is going to be
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the crown winner of the weirdest but
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non-normal Wendy's item
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um they're not five times fast exactly I
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I bet better way to say that but we'll
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um no so this was fun and honestly I do
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like this next week we have a whole
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another one with the side ones as well
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and you'll be surprised at some of these
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fast food places they have Foods on
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their list that you don't know why
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somebody's going there for that food and
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I will tell you the place we're eating
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one of these food items does not belong
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on their menu but it is okay I guess
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they wait so there you go guys we
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crowned a winner the Wendy's chili if
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you guys haven't tried it go to Wendy's
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try the uh the chili so bam delicious so
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Rob you put together some great swag
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wear for the taste and each one of these
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um has the actual The Taste uh slogan
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logo on on the the item so in this case
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this is a a unisex tri-blend t-shirt
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unisex meaning that men and women can
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um it's 26.99 plus shipping but there
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are other t-shirts as well in your store
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I know so they can actually pick one up
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now the way we do this is go ahead and
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um QR code you do that by opening up
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your phone and just literally putting it
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like in front of it and it will scan and
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take you right over there so that's kind
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of cool now my one of my favorites
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and that's because I make a mess when I
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eat like I was already trying I was
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already like stuff was pouring down and
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when I cook so I think this is really
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fun Rob this apron and I know it comes
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in different colors as well it's 20.49
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go ahead and scan the code you know you
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um and then always you know you can't
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have too many water bottles right and I
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love this rub you know I like it so much
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I love the stainless on the outside I
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love the way it pops you know the logo
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on this and it's a really good price
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point 18.99 plus shipping go scan the
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code and for those of you who can't
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start your day without a cup of coffee
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well I'm not naming names it's okay you
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Trust coffee mug and that is because on
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the inside it's got one color on on the
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outside it's got a different color again
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this is 1649 this would make a great
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gift for your dad maybe for Father's Day
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we have a couple colors on there as well
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so if you don't want black we have a few
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others so go ahead and scan that as well
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but if you just oh I gotta see I'm gonna
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go ahead and put some comments up here
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as well you like the vinaigrette
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dressings they are they are flavorful
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um and you um I'm so glad you're
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watching Chris haha I used to go to
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Wendy's for the strawberry salad uh-huh
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so you're the one that they did it for
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um they they oh so you were offered
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cheese all right so you know what I
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wouldn't even I don't think I would even
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mess up that flavor by putting anything
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on there even some chopped onions
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normally on Chili you throw some chopped
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onions on it you throw cheese on it I
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don't even think I would do that
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no I I'm happily surprised I definitely
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think if I want something that's not the
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normal burger and I want something new I
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will go get some chili again this was
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I will not overstate it but honestly it
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is good this is really really good it's
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good and guys just go over to
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altereduniverse.life forward slash shop
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all of these items times are there as
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well as some other cool things that Rob
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has curated some Pokemon stuff some pet
24:51
stuff really fun stuff so there's a
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theme Here stuff good stuff so go ahead
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and check out that you've been listening
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to The Taste Rob this was so much fun so
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next week we're doing something else I
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cannot remember what we're doing because
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um what are we doing next week so we're
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gonna actually hit up Burger King and
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try some of their not so normal items as
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well and you're probably going to look
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at me like I'm gross because some of the
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items are a little out there but hey for
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the content not much we won't do right
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all right well I'm looking forward to it
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thank you guys for joining us you have a
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choice as to where you spend your time
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and you chose to spend it with us and we
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are very happy about that go out get
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somebody an awesome day we'll see you
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next week goodbye everyone