September 1, 2023 • 46 mins
Drinkables! Aaron, Rob, and Siobhan join Matt for another gastro adventure! For Season 2 we've upscaled from the dollar store to... gas stations! For an added twist, Matt has asked that his friends create a vodka based cocktail with ingredients from their gas station of choice. Featuring Reyka Vodka, this fun-filled episode takes us on a wild ride as we taste-test the likes of chicken sandwiches, a Hershey's cookie and cream bar, and even some mofongo with our budget vodka cocktails! Who knew gas station cuisine could be this interesting?
Which cocktail and 3 accompanying snacks will come out on top? Aaron and Mobil? Rob and Sheetz? Siobhan and Wawa? or Matt and 7-11?
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Matt (00:00):
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1.
We have liftoff.
Rob (00:17):
Welcome to Matt and Friends .
Drink the Universe.
Matt (00:26):
Welcome back to Matt and Friends.
Drink the Universe.
Today, the theme is Drinkables.
Rob (00:31):
I have so many terrible flavors in my mouth right now.
Aaron (00:33):
Three budget snacks, it's got like this fireness to your
tongue.
It's not good guys.
Matt (00:39):
That go with a centerpiece drink.
Rob (00:42):
Oh, oh, don't drink it.
Don't drink.
What is with you guys garglingyour?
Matt (00:46):
food and beer.
If you're feeling brave, youcan dip it.
Got a hard pass on that.
Rob (00:49):
Just stop getting meat.
Wow, that really had avaudevillian jive to it, you
know.
Matt (00:57):
It did like a horrific cooking show intro.
Rob (01:01):
Yeah, well, I hope we can redeem ourselves from our
mishaps in season one.
Matt (01:05):
I really hope so.
My only goal for today is thatnobody makes any of the noises
that were made in the previoustwo Drinkables episodes.
Here's hoping Most of them weremy fault though.
Rob (01:15):
Like most of them were directly my fault.
That is a fair assessment.
Matt (01:20):
Once again.
I have some great friendsdrinking the universe again with
me today, so let's go aroundthe table and have you all
introduce yourselves.
Aaron (01:26):
Hello, it's Siobhan.
Siobhan (01:28):
Hey this is.
Matt (01:29):
Aaron.
Rob (01:29):
Hi everybody, it's Rob back again.
Matt (01:32):
So for those of you listening to your first
Drinkables episode, what we dois I send my friends out to a
specific place and I say pickthree things that will go with a
particular drink.
Today the centerpiece drink isReyka Vodka from Iceland and we
Eastland Eastland and weupscaled from last season where
everybody was going to thedollar store.
(01:53):
That did not, overall, end well.
Aaron (01:55):
Almost everybody went to the dollar store.
Matt (01:58):
Almost everybody went to the dollar store.
Some of us went to Wegmans Notsaying who.
Everybody was assigned a gasstation to go to to pick their
three items.
I'm very excited I saw in thekitchen before we got in here
today what some of the itemswere.
And I'm going to be the onethat actually starts us off
today because mine is a littletemperature sensitive.
(02:19):
So are we ready?
Rob (02:23):
Are we ready?
I'm hoping I'm ready foranybody who You've been dipping
into the sauce before we got inhere buddy.
Matt (02:30):
I went bug's bunny there for a second, so we're going to
start off with the cocktailquote unquote that I prepared.
The gas station that I chosewas 7-Eleven.
Rob (02:40):
This looks lovely.
Aaron (02:41):
Everybody loves a Slurpee .
Can I ask does everyone get gasfrom 7-Eleven?
Matt (02:48):
As in for your vehicle.
Aaron (02:50):
Yeah.
Rob (02:51):
I've never filled up at a 7-Eleven to my knowledge.
Aaron (02:54):
Just curious, I don't know.
Matt (02:56):
I've always stopped there for this one does have gas.
I see what you're getting at.
This one does have gas pumps.
Aaron (03:00):
I'm just curious.
Siobhan (03:02):
I don't think I've ever seen a 7-Eleven with gas pumps
the gas station.
Matt (03:05):
Okay, the one in Nazareth.
Aaron (03:07):
Pennsylvania does indeed have gas pumps.
Matt (03:09):
Oh does it really?
Yes, it does.
Aaron (03:10):
That's amazing.
I was about to call you out Arethe gas pumps a separate brand
of gas.
Matt (03:16):
No, they're attached and they have 7-Eleven logos on them
.
Rob (03:19):
You must post a photo evidence on our social media
because I am a little Skeptical.
Skeptical Indeed, All right.
Well, let's get to this beforeit melts anymore.
Matt (03:31):
So what we have here is a cherry Slurpee with vodka with a
peach ring, varnish or garnish.
Rob (03:40):
I feel like varnish might actually not be wrong.
I'm not going to lie, I'venever been so surprised by
tasting absolutely nothing.
Because it tastes like nothing,I'm not really getting the
cherry.
I actually think the peach ringhelps a lot.
Okay, yeah, I'm going to getinto that.
Aaron (04:00):
It sweetens it up a little bit, which I never
thought I would have to sayabout a Slurpee.
Siobhan (04:02):
Yeah, you got to dip the peach ring.
Rob (04:06):
Oh yeah, I'll join you on that.
Yeah, I never thought that wewould need the peach ring to
sweeten it.
Aaron (04:12):
I am getting a little cough syrup.
I'm not going to lie, yeah.
Rob (04:16):
I warned you about this, Matthew.
I told you it's a delicatething.
If you didn't go blue razz, youhad a shot at making the cough
syrup taste.
All right, it's a tad medicinal.
Matt (04:29):
So it is.
It's a little Nyquil, so we'regoing to have to go ahead and
dive into the first piece offood here, and the order I would
like to do this in is chickensandwich first.
So I went for kind of a sweetand salty thing, like I have
done in the past, but I tried tomix it up and get flavors that
really went with the cherry.
What we have here is chickensandwich.
We have some Hershey's Cookieand Cream Bar, and then I
(04:52):
actually found a littlecheesecake, a strawberry
cheesecake.
That was the surprise.
I couldn't believe it was.
Back there.
There was only one left and Ithought, okay, we're going to
round it out with that.
Rob (05:02):
It's not the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had in my
life.
Aaron (05:05):
It might be the driest.
Siobhan (05:07):
Yeah, it is a little dry.
Aaron (05:09):
I think it might be good he's dipping it in the Slurp.
Matt (05:13):
I like it.
Aaron just went right in what'sthe chicken sandwich to the
Slurpee.
Aaron (05:19):
Well, now I feel like I have to do that too.
Siobhan (05:22):
Don't knock until you try it.
Rob (05:23):
As I'm getting deeper in the Slurp, I'm getting more of
the cherry flavor, which ismaking it more medicinal.
Matt (05:28):
Okay, I mean actually, the dipping ain't bad.
The dipping is really not bad.
Rob (05:31):
Right, Really it's just rehydrating the chicken, which
is kind of a necessity at themoment.
Aaron (05:39):
You're right, though this isn't that bad.
Rob (05:42):
It keeps and bounds above your offerings in season one.
Aaron (05:44):
Oh my gosh, thank God.
Matt (05:47):
We are 45 seconds into tasting and nobody's screaming
bloody murder, so I'm ahead ofthe curve.
Rob (05:52):
It's a bit of a aftertaste.
I don't know what it's comingfrom.
Aaron (05:56):
The gas pumps.
It might be from that.
Matt (06:01):
For those of you if this is your first drinkable.
Half the episode is us chewinginto the microphones.
Aaron (06:05):
Indeed.
Siobhan (06:06):
But you notice there's no aftertaste when you dip the
chicken in the drink.
That's true.
You get a little aftertastewith both of them individually,
but when you dip it they likebalance each other out.
Aaron (06:16):
I really think the peach ring saves this.
Matt (06:18):
I remember those being a lot sweeter, like the cherry
slurpee, is just not.
Rob (06:23):
May I ask how much vodka is in this no shot Okay.
Aaron (06:27):
You're gonna be all right .
Rob (06:29):
Well, just before I slugged the whole thing, I needed to
make sure.
Matt (06:33):
So, now that you've slugged the whole thing, how do
you intend to taste the otherfood along with it?
Rob (06:38):
I don't need to.
Matt (06:39):
Okay.
Aaron (06:39):
Oh, can't dip.
You're gonna dip the cookies incream.
Matt (06:43):
So next up, let's go cookies and cream.
Here we're gonna dial up thesweetness as we go.
Aaron (06:47):
Classic.
I enjoy this because it's oneof my favorites.
Also, I should know better.
I'm in the intro sounding likethis I should not be talking
with food in my mouth and my momwould be so mad.
Matt (06:59):
That's okay.
We want to have her on in afuture episode.
Rob (07:02):
I mean the cookies and cream bar, delicious, but I
don't know what it adds.
With cherry.
It's like sweet on, sweet, on,sweet on sweet.
My palate needs to break fromthat.
Aaron (07:13):
Well, too bad, it's not gonna get one.
It's a cheesecake.
Siobhan (07:17):
Matt is just that sweet of a person.
Rob (07:20):
Yeah, you know, thank you very much, I know when your
tongue is also colorblind, like,but for taste, but for taste.
Aaron (07:30):
Taste, blindness, taste blindness.
Matt (07:32):
How do you test for that?
You just lick different thingsLike how's that work you?
Aaron (07:35):
tell me, bro, you come to the drinkables with Matt.
You sure anybody.
Rob (07:40):
Shots fired.
Shots fired.
Aaron (07:42):
Wow, you asked.
Rob (07:44):
I am both excited and terrified for this tiny little
cheesecake that you found in theback of a refrigerator at a
7-11.
Matt (07:52):
It wasn't in the back of the refrigerator, but it wasn't
exactly very prevalentlydisplayed.
Here you go.
Rob (07:58):
Oh, it's got like some, it's got a fruity center Just
like you, matt.
Sorry, I'm sorry, it took aminute.
Well done, well done, all right.
Matt (08:08):
Let's see what we got.
Is that a full graham crackeron the bottom there?
Or is that actual grahamcracker?
I don't know.
I think my fork is stuck inlike glue.
Rob (08:17):
I don't know, I get it out.
Have you never used a fork?
Matt (08:22):
You stick it in something, then put it in your mouth.
Rob (08:25):
Tell me more about that, matt, tell me more.
Walking into a butt.
Aaron (08:30):
That fruity center Okay.
Rob (08:32):
This is delightful.
Aaron (08:33):
Is it?
I mean it's good.
Rob (08:36):
I would never believe this came from a 7-11 in my life.
They've done something withlike a cinnamon sugar in the
crust.
I'm definitely getting that.
Is it strawberry flavored?
Matt (08:46):
It is strawberry cheesecake.
Rob (08:48):
Yeah Okay, doesn't taste artificial or medicinal.
That's a delightful bite, butagain, after the sweet slurpy
and the sweet cookies and cream,it seems a bit redundant.
I feel like you're beating usover the head with sweet things
and that doesn't seem verybalanced.
Matt (09:05):
I thought these are flavors that would go well.
I consulted chat GPT to try andget a little help after my epic
failure last time.
Aaron (09:13):
I think that solidifies that we're not getting replaced
by AI anytime soon?
Matt (09:18):
Yeah, definitely not.
That's what I'm going to blamethe loss on.
Aaron (09:21):
Overall not a bad time.
Rob (09:23):
No, no, no.
I will say, matt, this is a winfor you, okay.
Not an overall win, but like aholistic win for you personally,
thank you very much.
Matt (09:35):
I appreciate that I'm going to throw a peach ring at
your head.
Rob (09:39):
Yeah, really.
Hey, you know what I'm down.
Whatever, let's get wild.
You're next.
Okay, guys, what I'm presentingto you today, I call it going
down south.
Okay, what I've done is a riffon southern comfort foods down
south, some place he's neverbeen really wants to visit a
(09:59):
place that I visit often, myfriend, I travel really please.
Aaron (10:04):
Stop.
Rob (10:05):
Yeah, please don't listen.
Aaron (10:07):
So I've done a riff, save me.
Rob (10:10):
I've done a riff on Yeager bombs with vodka and monster,
but it is ultra peach, monsterand vodka, so I'm going with the
peach theme for the southern.
Aaron (10:21):
Got it.
Rob (10:22):
That's quite delightful, If you do ask me.
Matt (10:25):
I ardently disagree with that statement.
You don't like that?
Yeah, peach flavored gasolineover here, I think it just needs
a little ice If it would be alittle cold.
Rob (10:33):
Yeah, sorry, it was what it is.
Aaron (10:35):
Temperature is a thing.
Rob (10:37):
I'd love to start with a mac and cheese bite with a
little bit of spicy jalapenocheese sauce.
I'm looking to combat thesweetness of this with heat for
the first two courses.
Aaron (10:50):
Courses.
Matt (10:51):
We went from dollar store to courses Just get that in mind
.
Aaron (10:55):
I tried to get us there with Wegmans, but no, but that
wasn't the rule.
Matt (10:59):
Everyone hated me.
I know Give you.
Rob (11:02):
that's a lovely little bite , okay.
Matt (11:03):
All right, it works, it's salty spicy PG.
Rob (11:08):
Okay, the next bite.
My friends we're going to.
We're going to take a walk moretowards the suite, but we're
still coming.
With the spicy.
We've got a Nashville hotchicken sandwich on a waffle
with maple syrup.
Okay.
Aaron (11:23):
Okay, for me.
Rob (11:25):
What gas station?
Oh, this is from sheets which Ihope we don't all get tomorrow,
the sheets I'm glad you said itso that we all got it.
Aaron (11:35):
It's all right.
Is this a schmawful Do theyhave?
Is that what they call it?
Matt (11:39):
could be, they have a schmawful schmonster, schmuffin
and schmissket.
I don't know if they have aschmawful.
Aaron (11:42):
Yeah, so I'm curious.
Matt (11:45):
Damn it, you have something going.
Aaron (11:46):
Ooh, that's yummy Yep.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Rob (11:50):
Down south we go.
Okay, creeping on down.
Siobhan (11:59):
The food definitely takes a lot of the sweet out of
the front of the tray.
Rob (12:02):
Yeah, I agree, that's a lot See some of us try to have a
sophisticated palate in which wepair things.
Aaron (12:13):
Mac and cheese bites.
Siobhan (12:14):
That's similar, we are as sophisticated as we can get
with, but what kind of monstersis it's?
Ultra peachy or the ultrasophisticated.
That's right.
Aaron (12:26):
It's definitely some ultra something.
Yeah, I agree.
Matt (12:29):
I hate you so much because this is working so well, right
right, what's next?
Rob (12:34):
so the the final course here like.
Yes, I would love you to samplemy nuts.
They are candied praline pecans.
Siobhan (12:42):
I was just gonna reach for them, and then we started
talking about nuts.
Rob (12:45):
Hey man.
Well, here they are.
Siobhan (12:46):
I'm going for get them in your mouth, man, two biggest
ones right here.
Rob (12:49):
See what it's about.
Matt (12:51):
For the second time in show history for gratuitous
testicle talk, black holedetected.
Be aware of the event horizon,that's the wrong button.
Nope, it's totally not.
Rob (13:02):
Well, it totally is try to cosmic chug me, bro, damn it.
And now you hit that button thesecond time for yourself.
Fine, you want to finish mowell, finish your drinks.
Aaron (13:19):
See, now I want to like your nuts, but I'm not sure if I
do.
Rob (13:24):
It's a little bit too much of the sweet on sweet.
I'm Lance arm and I'm strong init right now.
I'm Lance arms trying to rightnow.
I'm only doing one at a timehere, okay.
Matt (13:34):
When you chug.
It's a very different vibe tosipping that second when you
chug.
Rob (13:45):
We're going off the rails real quick guys, oh man.
Aaron (13:47):
It's going well.
The nuts are quite tasty, youjackass think, oh see, and now
we know, we'll see, then you're,you took a right, you took a
left.
Turn into, well, sir, taste budterritory.
Rob (13:58):
Yeah, we just need sweet on , sweet, on sweet and Matt's
gonna vote it to the top, I said.
Aaron (14:02):
he said the nuts are tasty, I told you yeah, love,
love my nuts.
I will say, though, thatchicken sandwich chop my nuts
what chicken sandwich.
Rob (14:11):
That was a revelation good.
Matt (14:13):
Yeah, that was really good .
Aaron (14:14):
I don't even like syrup, and that it's good.
You don't like syrup?
Rob (14:18):
no bitch Sorry what I once shrugged a bottle of syrup in a
diner like super trooper style.
That's right.
I got 20 bucks for it.
Never again Will I do that.
The worst headache for threedays.
Matt (14:32):
Like was there a bathroom experience after that, did you?
Aaron (14:35):
go to sheets.
Rob (14:36):
I don't think anybody needs to know about that.
Let's just say it was a strangecolor and Consistency.
Aaron (14:43):
I like that.
You said no one needs to know,and then you told us Use the
word.
Rob (14:48):
Anything about it?
Aaron (14:49):
I can sure as hell did you?
Told me enough.
Rob (14:51):
Listen, I got to say I could describe it in great
detail.
It is burned into my retinasnope, nope, nope.
Matt (14:59):
all the no, that's a lot of nops, all right.
Aaron (15:00):
Well, listen, the nuts were a choice.
Yeah, I Think.
Not sure I would choose yournuts again, no, but no, not.
Rob (15:09):
Not as tasty as my surprising meat from season one.
Aaron (15:11):
I'll tell you yeah, I don't know that I chose that
either, but okay, yeah summersausage from a dollar store man.
Rob (15:17):
Would you eat it Hell?
Siobhan (15:18):
yeah.
Aaron (15:19):
I tell you Definitely not what you expected.
Yeah.
Rob (15:25):
Wow.
Aaron (15:26):
All right.
Rob (15:27):
I feel like that was all right.
Aaron (15:29):
I was a showing.
Matt (15:30):
Yeah, it was a showing.
We're on the way here.
All right.
Rob (15:34):
Next up is gonna be Aaron anybody remembered years ago
when they used to do hiscompilation CDs.
Aaron (15:40):
Now, that's what I call music.
Rob (15:41):
Yeah, no, but except for this.
One was like.
It was like the tranquil mix orwhatever.
Aaron (15:46):
Oh yeah.
Siobhan (15:54):
They have a pure moods, pure moods playlist on Spotify.
Aaron (15:59):
Yeah, yes, why do we need that?
Siobhan (16:02):
By every middle-aged woman in 1992.
Rob (16:06):
I don't know why my dad loves anya, but he does never
made any sense to me.
Yeah, but he also.
Aaron (16:15):
Like a capital D dad, I don't know.
Okay, so I'm gonna hold on aminute.
Matt (16:19):
I'm looking across the table at Aaron who has put more
effort into a drinkable intothis single drinkable that
everybody else.
Rob (16:30):
Let's get this back on track this, this man, this man
right here.
You could all see this he's gotsome explaining to do and I
need to know what in God's nameI'm looking at, because it looks
like it's come from like.
This is the middle of the roadMexican restaurant.
Aaron (16:46):
Yeah, okay, the road, yes .
Siobhan (16:49):
I mean I actually bought all these things from the
gas station in the middle ofthe road.
No, no, so I was born for thischallenge, right?
So I live off of gas station.
I was born in a gas station forthis challenge, because I've
lived on nothing but gas stationfood for my late teens, through
my mid-20s.
Okay so you think gas station,you got pork rinds, beef sticks.
(17:14):
Those are like the two mainstages right, where did you go?
The mobile on Main Street inBethlehem Mobile mobile station.
We don't know fancy, you knowsheets.
Matt (17:24):
Okay, no fancy sheets here , okay, just mobile.
Good old, he didn't need nomaid to order, okay.
Aaron (17:30):
He made it, so he made himself, he did.
Oh my goodness.
Rob (17:34):
Okay, so what's your opening course here?
So?
Siobhan (17:37):
we could just eat whatever.
You, I don't know, you know, Idon't even know what I want you
to direct me.
Rob (17:41):
We're gonna start with the car.
Siobhan (17:42):
Let's start let's start with the, the centerpiece right
here.
So yeah, I was making moremeals, but I wanted to pay
homage to the og launchable, sothese are plantains.
Now.
Mind you, the plantains are alittle soft because they were
packed.
You know, transportation cominghere, the plantain should be a
little crunchy.
But what this is?
This is the original slim gymOn Plantain chip with a little
(18:07):
fried bean spread.
Rob (18:08):
What is happening?
Aaron (18:10):
Okay.
Siobhan (18:10):
It's like you know you get a lunchable.
Yeah, I was always random Cheapcrap and you put it all
together in sandwich.
That's all I did.
You got the sweet of theplantain.
You got the spicy of spicy andthe salty of the Beef stick and
the I don't know whatever therefried beans, the gas.
Matt (18:24):
Okay, so back in episode one how Shevon declared Very
clearly that she did not likebeef jerky and I'm assuming beef
jerky like products and shejust said this is delicious.
Aaron (18:35):
Yeah, I mean I bit it, so we're good.
Siobhan (18:38):
But I listen the plantain should be a little
because it's cut up and lookingnice on a.
Rob (18:44):
I will say the plantain Is not as sweet as I was expecting
it to be true.
Don't mind that.
Tell us a little bit about thiscocktail, because this is like
it might make up for this littlecocktail.
Siobhan (18:53):
Now I'm chewing my jerky as you do, so I'm thinking
, you know, all the food we haveis kind of a Spanish Influenced
.
We got yo.
You know, you'll find out theother Spanish foods in a minute,
but I wanted to make somethinglike a chichi colada, so what?
Rob (19:10):
a chichi oh this is unbelievable.
Siobhan (19:13):
A chichi colada story has it.
The Puerto Rican golfer, chichiRodriguez, loved Peanut coladas
, but he didn't like rum, so hewould always ask for his peanut
coladas with vodka, so they wascalled a chichi colada.
So obviously the mobile doesn'thave like cream of coconut and
like pineapple, so I made aChichi colada milkshake with
(19:36):
vodka, some cheap peanut coladamix, some dull tropical fruit
that I just threw in a blenderand vanilla ice cream.
Rob (19:45):
Very good.
The fruit cup is stellar ship.
Matt (19:48):
Yeah, there's, there's only one.
Rob (19:50):
This is stellar.
I'm getting the fruit cup.
I'm actually tasting individualfruits.
Refreshing, which is that's cuz.
I didn't unreal.
Siobhan (20:00):
Oh, I mean, I meant to do that, that was, that was
perfect like it makes no sensewhy this is so good.
Matt (20:05):
Fantastic.
Aaron (20:06):
I love chichi.
Thank you very much I.
Rob (20:09):
Don't even know who that is .
Aaron (20:11):
He's a golfer.
He's amazing cool.
Matt (20:14):
He's so refreshing after the, so a lot of the food is,
you know, savory, salty.
Siobhan (20:18):
I wanted to really finish it off with the nice
refreshing Wow.
So our main course here.
Oh, you know when, like I said,when you think of gas station
food, you have pork rind, soimmediately thought of Mofongo.
It looks fancy, but all it isis pork rinds and plantains.
Well, mobile doesn't sellplantains so but they sell green
bananas, so I just bought somebananas and I made Mofongo.
(20:40):
I can't.
This is so all I mean.
Basically, it looks fancy, butif you just take a mind of.
If you take a bite of pork rindsand a banana, then you have
Mofongo in your mouth.
Rob (20:51):
So I just put it together first the chicharon texture.
Aaron (20:58):
It has always been a bit tough for me at times.
Siobhan (21:03):
Admittedly, this is a.
There's some.
Rob (21:05):
The taste is delicious.
Yeah, the texture I'mstruggling with a little bit.
Siobhan (21:09):
Yeah, and you know why?
Because I'm chewing while I'mtalking.
While I'm chewing, I got thesmaller crunchier pork rinds
instead of the fluffier ones.
So that is what, guys.
Admittedly, I should havegotten the fluffier ones.
Rob (21:26):
I'm not saying that it's bad as I go in for another bite.
Yeah, it's definitely a littlechewy in there, yeah.
Matt (21:32):
It's interesting when it goes with the koolada.
Siobhan (21:35):
I'm going back to the drink, so on the side of this we
have some roasted corn.
I hope it's okay to be talkingwith my mouth full.
Rob (21:40):
I cannot believe you made all this crap from gas station
items.
Aaron (21:43):
Yeah, this is pretty crazy Mobile.
Matt (21:45):
This is pretty crazy.
Siobhan (21:46):
So on the side of the Mofongo we got some roasted corn
with some goya seasoning.
I will swallow my food before Ispeak.
Rob (21:52):
They have goya seasoning in a gas station.
Siobhan (21:54):
You bet.
Aaron (21:55):
I didn't know.
They had pinia koolada mix outof a gas station Mobile yo Okay.
Matt (22:00):
So when I instructed Aaron to pick three things, what
Aaron did was take three andthen multiply it by three and
then multiply it into awesomefood.
So that means I am going to.
Rob (22:12):
Math E equals MC Hammer.
We talking about numbers.
Did you really stretch in forthese drops, Brad?
Matt (22:19):
Well, I'm taking the opportunities I get.
Wow.
Rob (22:22):
I like it.
I cannot believe this is from agas station.
Aaron (22:26):
I will say I wish the drink was a little sweeter.
Siobhan (22:28):
True.
True, because you know whatwhen you hear koolada, you
expect that sweet pineapple.
Well, they didn't have anypineapple cups.
They had just mixed tropicalfruit cups.
Aaron (22:38):
I still get it, I'm just you know.
Siobhan (22:41):
But you know, you're absolutely right, it needs a
little bit of that acidicsweetness of the pineapple, but
I still enjoy all of thesecombos.
Rob (22:48):
Yeah, I definitely think some acidity would brighten it
up and just like a squeeze oflime.
Matt (22:55):
When you get into the scoop of ice cream, though that
is in there, you do get a blastof sweetness.
So Yum.
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting that.
Aaron (23:02):
All right, good deal.
Matt (23:05):
You can tell how good it is by how quiet we all got all
of a sudden Like all right.
Rob (23:09):
I hate to say I got to go back to this thing because the
taste is so good it really is.
Aaron (23:15):
Yeah, the texture is not for me.
Siobhan (23:16):
That loses me, not gonna lie, yeah, but the taste
is.
Next time you got, I got to gofor the floofy pork rinds.
Rob (23:22):
The taste is so good.
Siobhan (23:24):
But it's so simple.
It's just basically twoingredients and some spice spice
that I got from the gas station.
That's amazing.
Aaron (23:34):
I feel like we're on a real competition show right now.
Matt (23:36):
I know I'm glad I'm serious already.
Rob (23:38):
I know this is serious, real quick because if I didn't
go already, I'd just be likedon't even taste my food.
Aaron (23:42):
This is ridiculous.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you, I appreciate yourtime.
Rob (23:45):
I'm sorry In that comment.
I really appreciate it.
Matt (23:47):
I'm sure yours is wonderful yeah you're a.
Siobhan (23:52):
I'm gonna let the intrusive thoughts win.
Yeah, and I'm dipping the slimJim.
Aaron (23:57):
Whoa.
Siobhan (23:58):
Refried bean plantain into the chichi colada.
Aaron (24:01):
Okay, is this like a fras and a frosty?
Rob (24:03):
kind of thing I'm going.
Aaron (24:05):
I'm going there with you bro, you are all much more
adventurous than I am.
Siobhan (24:08):
I wouldn't say it makes it better, it makes a
difference, it makes adifference.
Rob (24:13):
That's a great.
I do not prefer it this way.
Aaron (24:16):
That is the best comment that has ever come out of this
drinkables.
I'm not going to say it makesit better, but it makes a
different.
Yeah, it definitely does.
That's a theme if there everwas one that is displeasing to
me.
Matt (24:31):
So let's just say, drinking them in parallel works,
drinking them in unison doesnot work.
Aaron (24:35):
Right Ooh, which you know .
I don't usually dip a lot in acocktail.
But I'm not saying that's nojudgment, that's just a
statement.
Rob (24:44):
Now, this is just an original slim gym.
Mm hmm, might ask, how arethese refied beans packaged in a
gas station?
Siobhan (24:52):
In a can.
I literally opened the can andtook out a little butter knife
and smeared it on.
Rob (24:56):
All right, I was worried it was in like a ketchup packet
situation.
Matt (25:01):
I mean mobile refied beans .
Siobhan (25:04):
It was in a five gallon bucket that a little old lady
just reached in with her handsand plop.
Rob (25:10):
You really taste the hand.
Aaron (25:13):
Old lady hands have some beans?
Oh no, that sounded like bluey.
I slipped on my beans.
Okay, nobody gets that exceptfor me, it's cool.
Matt (25:25):
Yeah, no, I've seen a lot of bluey.
Aaron (25:29):
Well, this was great and a lot more effort than I did I
could.
Rob (25:34):
Well, let's, let's see how much effort you've put into
things.
Aaron (25:37):
Are we moving on?
Rob (25:38):
I think that that's a fair transitional piece.
Matt (25:43):
And what gas station did you go with?
Aaron (25:45):
Okay.
I went to Wawa.
Weakmans doesn't sell gas Outof here Are you sure it wasn't
Weakmans?
Matt (25:50):
Do we have a receipt?
Can we verify?
Aaron (25:53):
Listen, everyone knows that Wawa sells gas.
Rob (25:55):
That's true.
Yeah, they do.
Aaron (25:58):
Nobody in this room knew that 7-Eleven sold gas until we
asked.
So don't come for me, we stilldon't know, fair we still don't
know.
You're right.
We don't know Until that photogoes up.
We believe Matt and we don'tknow if we should we're on our
Instagram at mattandfriendsdtu?
Rob (26:14):
That's right, I'm plugging.
Matt (26:15):
Thank you, yeah, it is Instagram Facebook.
Rob (26:19):
Matt and Friends DTU and maybe, maybe he'll even tweet
about it.
I might, maybe you can, at7-Eleven.
At 7-Eleven, how many of yourstores actually have gas
attached to them?
Maybe we'll get an answer forthe people.
We can try, we'll see.
The world may never know, no.
Aaron (26:35):
Okay, I am passing out drinks.
Matt (26:37):
All right.
Aaron (26:39):
All right.
So I will say there's threeitems on the plate plus the
drink.
So only the chips on the plateare not Wawa branded things.
Matt (26:49):
Okay.
Aaron (26:50):
So half.
Matt (26:50):
All right.
Aaron (26:52):
So the drink is pomegranate, lemonade and vodka,
with a little bit of sparklingwater to make it fun and fizzy.
Rob (26:58):
What kind of sparkling water did you use?
Aaron (26:59):
It's liquid death.
Oh my goodness, bird Crisherwould be very proud of me.
All right, chris would be veryproud of me.
Rob (27:06):
Go out and see the machine in theaters.
Aaron (27:07):
Okay.
Rob (27:08):
I'm not going to be timely right now, but this episode
won't come out anywhere nearwhen this is still in theaters,
that's true, but I just say itsmells very much like a
watermelon jolly rancher.
Aaron (27:17):
Yes, a little jolly rancher, but I don't think it
does sweet when you drink it.
Rob (27:21):
So I'm going to give it a try.
No, it's not too sweet at all.
Aaron (27:23):
Matt, are you okay with it not being super sweet?
Matt (27:25):
Yeah.
Aaron (27:27):
I mean, oh, that's actually love watermelon sugar.
Thank you, it's like Bruno Marsin my mouth.
Matt (27:31):
That's what it is.
Aaron (27:32):
I was going to get blueberry but everyone I didn't,
because Rob doesn't likeblueberry.
I would totally dig a fruit Iappreciate you for that.
Siobhan (27:38):
I'm going to get a freeze pop in this flavor.
Aaron (27:40):
This is a great, or like a slush.
Wow, not a slurpee, but like aslush.
Siobhan (27:46):
I could drink like five of these.
Rob (27:47):
I think we all just ignored Matt's comment about Bruno Mars
in his mouth.
Matt (27:51):
Oh yeah, you all really let that one slide.
Aaron (27:54):
Did Bruno Mars slide into your mouth?
What were we talking about?
Is that what we said?
What did we say?
Matt (28:01):
I have no, I'm rendered speechless, are we?
Aaron (28:03):
okay.
No, I thought this is what wewere talking about.
Matt (28:06):
Okay.
Aaron (28:07):
Moving on.
Matt (28:08):
All right, let's focus on the plate.
Aaron (28:10):
Okay, kids.
Matt (28:10):
Focus on the plate.
Aaron (28:12):
So the goal, so the main of this.
I have two pinwheels which arebasically wraps cut into pieces,
but they're actually sold asthese little pinwheels.
So we have an Italian pinwheeland we have a chicken taco
pinwheel, so you can either eatboth.
Rob (28:28):
I'm starting with the Italian.
Aaron (28:29):
Yeah, do whatever you would like, if one is more
preferable to you.
Siobhan (28:33):
I'm going with the chicken, because I'm looking at
whatever this baked good is hereand I think this spicy chicken
with the baked good that's good,that's a good choice yeah.
Rob (28:43):
I agree with you.
That's why I started with theItalian and I'm going to move to
the chicken afterwards, becauseI like food.
Matt (28:50):
I'm enjoying your drink, everything on my plate.
I'm glad I really like thedrink.
It's nice, it's cool, it'srefreshing.
Rob (28:57):
This may be the most composed drink that we've had
all night.
I'd stellar sip this as well.
Aaron (29:00):
Oh, okay, yeah.
Rob (29:01):
I would, you think I would.
Oh, and now to knock the drinkthat we had last round.
It was very good but liketowards the end I didn't get as
much as those fruity flavors andthat, and then I found myself
asking where did they go?
Aaron (29:17):
This keeps going.
Rob (29:18):
So, like the first few sips .
Well, we'll see once I get downto the bottom.
Like I didn't stir this at all,so I don't know if all the good
stuff's on top or not.
Siobhan (29:25):
We'll see this drink, just like, opens up all of the
flavors.
It makes everything tastebetter.
Matt (29:30):
Oh yeah, you had told me pregame that you had a theme.
What was that theme?
Aaron (29:34):
Well, it's loosely connected to nothing and very
connected to a funny name, andit is basically you should just
not worry while you eat all thisfood, because Hakuna Moawa.
Rob (29:45):
Love it.
Matt (29:46):
There you go, yep.
Aaron (29:47):
Yeah, I couldn't think of anything better, because Rob
had the down south and I thoughtthat's a wonderful phrase.
Yeah, it is.
Matt (29:53):
And my theme was one, two, three don't suck, and I'm not
sure if I didn't.
Aaron (29:56):
So Matt was.
I have no taste buds.
Can you all tell, like I don't,who I am, but I'm not sure.
Good, okay, so pinwheels, good,hopefully, a good savory
situation.
This is supposed to be picnicreminiscent, like what would you
take from Wawa to have like apicnic.
Siobhan (30:13):
It's almost summer here , even though it won't be when
you all listen to this, but fine.
Aaron (30:18):
Okay, then we have two chip choices.
So again, choose your fave, gowith both.
I couldn't choose, that's whythere's two here.
The not-rigi chips are jalapenoand the rigi chips are fried
dill pickle.
Matt (30:34):
I was not expecting the jalapeno when I I've been going
jalapeno first.
Oh, it's not like overly, I'mgonna kill you spicy, it's
pretty good.
Aaron (30:40):
Yeah, they're supposed to be mild.
Siobhan (30:42):
Yeah, I'm totally digging the jalapeno more Again
with the spicy against the sweet.
Rob (30:47):
It's just such a great balance of flavor.
Aaron (30:50):
If it wasn't a chip, you could dip it into your drink.
Rob (30:51):
We've seen that on three out of four attempts today.
You know, not just going sweeton sweet but going a counter
flavor with the sweet.
Matt (31:01):
So Siobhan says because it's a chip you can't dip it.
Aaron (31:04):
I'm gonna dispute that.
Oh no, you can.
Let's see what happens.
You put the pickle one in there.
That's a choice.
Rob (31:08):
All right, oh boy, you know .
They say that the acidity frompickle juice can cut down on the
burn of alcohol.
Aaron (31:18):
Oh, is that why people do picklebacks?
That was actually really whyyes?
Matt (31:22):
The dip was good.
Rob (31:23):
It's exactly the way that's right exactly the way.
And I wish that I knew theactual science behind it,
because I wish it did too,because then we could hit the
button.
It would be cool to give youthat fact, but I don't.
Aaron (31:35):
Okay.
Rob (31:35):
I'm not sure why.
Aaron (31:36):
You're the resident science guy.
Resident science guy I'mworried about we're gonna in a
future episode.
Matt (31:42):
People we're doing rocket science trivia.
I'm worried about this man.
Rob (31:47):
Oh, this dill pickle is so dill.
It's so good, it's so pickleit's good, but I was just not
expecting it to like pickle mytongue.
Aaron (31:54):
So it's actually fried dill pickle.
Rob (31:57):
I heard you like a little pickle on the tongue.
Aaron (31:59):
Yeah, did you hear that?
Rob (32:01):
From Bruno Mars.
Aaron (32:02):
Oh, no, I like these pickle chips.
So part of the reason Icouldn't decide is because I
really like pickle chips.
And I'll also be honest I donot like a flavored chip,
because I usually think thatthey're overly flavored.
Rob (32:13):
Okay.
Aaron (32:14):
But I actually think both of these are very good.
Rob (32:16):
Here's what's happening.
The pickle chip, the dill, thatultra acidic dill flavor that
I'm getting is actually souringthe sweet.
Aaron (32:25):
Okay.
Well, let's move on to the nextthing then, okay.
Rob (32:28):
So the jalapeno and the taco, the chicken taco and
jalapeno, would have been goodcombinations.
Aaron (32:34):
Okay, we'll have another jalapeno chip, then I will.
Matt (32:37):
Okay, good, I do enjoy this chicken taco very much.
I go to Wawa a lot, and this issomething that I probably just
would have passed, see, and Iwill not pass it next time.
Aaron (32:46):
I tried to scope out everything really, and I go to
Wawa a lot, so okay, Last item,it is a glazed coffee roll.
I went between this and like atasty cake and I was like, no, I
gotta go with the Wawa bakeryitem.
Yeah, so it's just a glazedcoffee roll.
It's gonna be sweet.
Literally it's a circle roll.
Siobhan (33:07):
The knife is a circle, potato chips are circles.
Aaron (33:10):
Yeah, see the pin.
Look at this.
Siobhan (33:13):
It's a circle of life.
It's a circle of life Like aKuna Mawa.
Aaron (33:17):
Hakuna Mawa.
Siobhan (33:19):
You know, the only problem, as you could probably
tell by the level of drink in mylittle cup-a-cup here, is that
this is very easy going down.
Aaron (33:28):
Okay, and it is the type of drink where you can get
really snookered.
Those are usually the kinds ofdrinks that I make.
Siobhan (33:34):
You were having those.
That's the good kind of problem.
Matt (33:35):
See you were having those outdoors on a hot day that would
be.
It's like juice.
Here's an interesting thingthat I'm noticing, so rehydrate.
Rob (33:42):
Although the bun is very sweet, the cinnamon, I think, is
saving it a little bit frombeing overly sweet and pulling
back on it just enough that Idon't feel like I'm getting
hammered sweet on sweet, onsweet with the cocktail, with
the break in the middle, withall that other stuff too, I feel
like you're good, right?
Aaron (34:01):
So cinnamon and pomegranate are actually really
good flavor pairing.
Rob (34:05):
Yeah, this is the first dessert that hasn't made me go
too much sweet on sweet.
Aaron (34:10):
No, we'll see.
And I don't love sweet things,so here we are.
I tried to balance it out foryou all.
Yeah, Uh-oh, what does thatmean?
Rob (34:18):
That's great showing's all around I think this is the first
, except Matt, legitimate debatethat we are going to have to
have to determine a winnertonight because the first time
in Drinkables history that wehave more than one person who
have actually made a good effort.
Right, nobody's been egregious,you know what?
Matt (34:40):
Even Matt, For that everybody drink.
Oh okay, Stellar ship here ithas some left.
Rob (34:46):
Great job all around.
Siobhan (34:49):
I drank all my alcohol.
There's more.
Aaron (34:51):
There's more outside.
I have to go get it.
But.
Rob (34:53):
Well, I think we need to go around and figure out who is
voting for what.
Matt (34:59):
This is going to be like.
This is going to belegitimately very tough and
before we start that, like wewent with gas stations this time
, and in Pennsylvania there havebeen wars where people have
fought and died over Wawa versusSheets, and you know other.
Aaron (35:13):
I'm not sure what wars there are, but yeah, probably
where you went to college.
Matt (35:17):
Oh well, where I went to college in Western Pennsylvania,
there is no Wawa.
There absolutely is, till tothis day, no Wawa near IUP, like
absolutely none.
So when I was out there for meit was funny because I arrived
and somebody said to me do youwant to go to Sheets?
And I literally said what thehell is Sheets?
And they were like you've neverbeen to Sheets.
And we went and I got the twohot dogs special with mac and
(35:40):
cheese and the Gallicur's limetea.
If you've never had the limetea, oh my God, that sounds good
, it's phenomenal.
You know there used to be a lotmore 7-Eleven's.
There's not that many.
I think Nazareth PA might havethe last surviving one in our
area.
We can find it.
Yeah, I've seen some likeSalafiora, like driving through
DC south of here.
What did I say?
(36:01):
What went?
Rob (36:02):
wrong, I thought you said salad fur Salad the salad fiora.
Aaron (36:09):
Yah Hakuna Mawa.
Rob (36:12):
No, I'm telling Cause.
Aaron (36:14):
you said salad fiora.
Rob (36:14):
Loud noises, yep, lettuce, hitler, what the salad fiora.
I'm sorry, that's terrible.
Aaron (36:25):
That's questionable, at best Horrifying.
Anyway, yeah, gettysburg waslike that too.
There's no Mawa there either,so thank God, there is here.
Rob (36:33):
Hey guys, fun fact, great Turns out.
Pickle juice helps reduce theburn and reduce hangovers
because it's filled withelectrolytes.
Aaron (36:46):
Well, I mean, listen, it's cucumber, right.
Rob (36:48):
So both the acidity and the salinity of the pickle water
are harsher, more prominentflavors that will take away the
burn because you have more tastebuds that will react to those.
Siobhan (37:02):
So then, why don't athletes just drink pickle juice
instead of Gatorade?
Rob (37:05):
Some do for cramps yeah.
Matt (37:07):
That's 100% of the thing here in this one Science.
Aaron (37:11):
Science.
Rob (37:12):
That's right.
Aaron (37:13):
He had to redeem himself.
Yeah, you know.
Matt (37:16):
I'm here, you are present.
I feel, like we are agonizinglydelaying the debate about.
Aaron (37:23):
We really are.
We're on our own.
Where are?
Rob (37:25):
we starting, are we?
Matt (37:26):
starting with you first.
Yes, I recused myself.
Aaron (37:29):
Why Believe in yourself, Matt?
Matt (37:32):
No, I was not near Aaron and Siobhan on this one.
I wasn't.
Rob (37:37):
I need you to vote, though you can't recuse yourself from
voting.
You need to vote for which onewas your favorite.
Matt (37:43):
I vote present.
No, you can't do that, get out.
Aaron (37:46):
Oh boy, you don't have to vote for yourself.
Rob (37:49):
I'm not asking you to fight for your plate which was
terrible.
I'm asking you.
Siobhan (37:53):
It wasn't terrible.
That's to be fair.
That's to be fair.
Matt (37:55):
It was clearly the worst.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Finish your drink just becauseToss me chug imitating.
Siobhan (38:05):
I'm sad I don't get to chug.
Matt (38:07):
You're sad you don't get to chug yeah.
Rob (38:10):
Well, we'll get you next time, but you're out of vodka
anyway I also have fromChristmas City Spirits.
Matt (38:15):
You're in Bethlehem, pennsylvania, some sipping vodka
if you're feeling very Wouldyou vote any vodka sipping vodka
.
No, as the host I invoke myright to say come back to me, so
go ahead, you go first.
Okay, all right, I do not wantto discount my own performance,
but I will not vote for myself.
Rob (38:34):
I am going to vote for Aaron, who I think, out of his
entire combo, had the most wins.
You know what I'm saying.
Maybe he didn't have the bestdrink, which I think does go to
Chavon Okay, the best mixeddrink goes to Chavon, because
it's the one I would come backto again after this episode.
(38:54):
But what he was able to do withgas station ingredients to make
an actual journey through likea Mexican or Hispanic street
food experience, never wouldhave imagined that in my life
from a gas station.
So I'm voting for Aaron.
That is my vote.
Aaron, over to you.
(39:16):
Oh dear, you can vote foryourself, by the way.
Siobhan (39:18):
No no, no, no, no, no no.
Matt (39:21):
I shirked my responsibilities as the host and
told everybody to come back tome at the end.
Siobhan (39:25):
See, I don't know, this is really difficult because I
think that waffle chickensandwich bangin, it was good, it
was good with a capital G OOD,very good, thank you.
Rob (39:37):
Thank you, so that would be good.
I think, we all had at leastone incredible bite on all of
our plates.
Aaron (39:45):
Even Matt, even Matt.
Rob (39:47):
But some of us had more than one.
Siobhan (39:49):
But this coffee roll.
That just is the topping oneverything.
And then I have to vote forChavon.
Rob (39:54):
Okay, the drink.
There is a vote for Chavon.
Right on with the drink.
Siobhan (39:58):
It just compliments everything across the board and
it's simple, yet delightful andeffective.
Aaron (40:08):
Okay well.
Rob (40:09):
Okay, friend, you're up next.
How do you feel about things?
Matt (40:14):
Do you love thyself?
Aaron (40:15):
I do oh, but.
Rob (40:19):
Oh, there's a but.
Aaron (40:22):
I don't know, man.
I mean like I want to vote formyself because I think this was
better than I've did before.
Rob (40:28):
That's fair, but would you consider going down south?
Aaron (40:31):
I always do.
Rob (40:32):
Yeah, well, that's very considerate of you.
Aaron (40:35):
But I still don't think the chicken sandwich was very
good.
I can't sign on for the nuts.
I do love going south.
The nuts are maybe my leastfavorite part about going south,
that's fair.
Matt (40:46):
She's not going for the nuts.
Hey, that's fair.
Aaron (40:49):
Just so everyone knows.
You know they're there andthey're fun, but I don't know if
they're enough to give me.
Rob (40:56):
Yeah, it was too much the vote, it was too much I
understand.
So which way are you leaning?
Aaron (41:01):
to myself Self empowerment.
Rob (41:03):
Oh, wow, Wow.
That's two votes to Chavon, onevote to Aaron Matthew.
You cannot abstain at thispoint.
Aaron (41:11):
No, you have to vote.
Rob (41:12):
You must, as a host, vote, and if there is a tie, we must
figure out a tie breaker.
Oh, my God, and I don't know ifwe have a mechanic for that.
So we're going to figure it outon the fly.
Matt (41:22):
So, for those familiar with Star Trek, I've encountered
the Kobayashi Maru here.
This is, this is rough, because, wow bro, this is rough.
Rob (41:31):
Wow yeah, nerd level.
Matt (41:34):
Oh man, 15,000.
Oh, absolutely At all times.
There's.
There's a reason.
There's a space theme for thisshow, all right.
I loved the taste and texturecombination in all of Aaron's
food.
I thought it went really,really well together.
There were things that I triedthat.
Those who know me know that I'mnot a very adventurous or picky
(41:57):
eater, and Aaron, you are apicky eater, right.
Rob (42:00):
Yes, I apologize.
Yes, I'm an incredibly pickyeater.
Matt (42:04):
Aaron, yours is very approachable and really good.
The cocktail, on the other handwe talked about it lacking a
little bit of maybe sweetness orsomething like that Pineapple
juice.
We're missing the pineapplejuice in the kalata, and when I
think about a complete set, what?
Siobhan (42:18):
goes together, what makes things very well?
Matt (42:21):
It is when I had what was Siobhan presented.
It all went together very wellit was.
It was a symphony of goodthings that just seemed to all
flow.
If I was putting numbers onthis, I'm seriously going to say
that you'd be like a half apercent in front of Aaron.
But with the drink I'm givingit to Siobhan, okay.
Rob (42:42):
Great job, siobhan.
I must just say, because I'mthe only person who didn't vote
for you Okay, I must clarify.
Aaron (42:47):
We heard yeah.
Rob (42:48):
I must clarify, I must have made his efforts.
Aaron (42:51):
Oh absolutely.
Matt (42:53):
The effort Absolutely.
Rob (42:54):
And number two, had you given me just the chicken taco
and just the jalapeno and Ididn't have like the other
things that were like making melike have to choose between two
things, I think it would havebeen easier for me to just vote
for you, but I was confused bythe smattering of delights that
you put in front of me.
Aaron (43:13):
You don't like a choice?
Rob (43:14):
Yeah, and I made some wrong choices along the time you
chose poorly and that's my fault.
No, I was not but, but.
But.
I needed to recognize what Ineeded, to recognize what this
man did with gas stationingredients.
Aaron (43:27):
Listen, I completely agree with that.
Rob (43:29):
I and because Matt was a schmo.
He didn't want to vote first,so somebody had to go.
Aaron (43:34):
Listen, you don't have to defend yourself, it's really
okay, I feel badly.
Rob (43:36):
No, I don't know why you would.
We're literally sitting at atable eating gas station food.
Aaron (43:41):
I think we're going to be okay.
Matt (43:42):
I mean sure is, but we'll determine that tomorrow whether
or not we're all okay.
So we're going to do this firstof all.
First, siobhan's victory.
Rob (43:50):
I've got to say this is the most stellar steps.
That has happened in a stableepisode in the best way.
So cheers to you, Siobhan.
Thanks.
Aaron (43:58):
Great job.
I redeemed myself Kicking offseason twos version of
drinkables.
Rob (44:03):
I actually I loved the the gas station twist on this.
This was nice.
Matt (44:08):
So we do have another one coming later in the season
that's going to involve someseltzer and we're going to see
what happens there.
Who teaser?
Yeah, a little, a little bit ofa teaser, I'm also going to go
ahead.
And since this is a drinkinggame after all, when we press
the button, you are supposed totake a sip if you're playing
along with us.
For the effort that camethrough and just for the fact
(44:28):
that Aaron cooked some trulyridiculous food that I could
never have expected, I'm doingit again.
Rob (44:34):
Why not Steller's sip?
You know, aaron, I really hopeyou come back for for more
episodes with us.
Absolutely Really enjoyedhaving you here for the first
time and hope it's the first ofmany.
Yes, sir, thank you very much,absolutely.
Siobhan (44:48):
I think I would have won if I would have presented my
platter with my napkin bra, Wow.
So I've spent many those of youthat don't know I've worked in
country clubs and I learned manynapkin folds, including my
special little bra.
Aaron (45:04):
So if I would have done this to present, I think I
probably would have won I wouldhave voted for you then.
Matt (45:09):
All right, we'll go out on that note and on that bomb show
Thanks everybody.
Toodaloo.
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We have liftoff.
Rob (00:17):
Welcome to Matt and Friends .
Drink the Universe.
Matt (00:26):
Welcome back to Matt and Friends.
Drink the Universe.
Today, the theme is Drinkables.
Rob (00:31):
I have so many terrible flavors in my mouth right now.
Aaron (00:33):
Three budget snacks, it's got like this fireness to your
tongue.
It's not good guys.
Matt (00:39):
That go with a centerpiece drink.
Rob (00:42):
Oh, oh, don't drink it.
Don't drink.
What is with you guys garglingyour?
Matt (00:46):
food and beer.
If you're feeling brave, youcan dip it.
Got a hard pass on that.
Rob (00:49):
Just stop getting meat.
Wow, that really had avaudevillian jive to it, you
know.
Matt (00:57):
It did like a horrific cooking show intro.
Rob (01:01):
Yeah, well, I hope we can redeem ourselves from our
mishaps in season one.
Matt (01:05):
I really hope so.
My only goal for today is thatnobody makes any of the noises
that were made in the previoustwo Drinkables episodes.
Here's hoping Most of them weremy fault though.
Rob (01:15):
Like most of them were directly my fault.
That is a fair assessment.
Matt (01:20):
Once again.
I have some great friendsdrinking the universe again with
me today, so let's go aroundthe table and have you all
introduce yourselves.
Aaron (01:26):
Hello, it's Siobhan.
Siobhan (01:28):
Hey this is.
Matt (01:29):
Aaron.
Rob (01:29):
Hi everybody, it's Rob back again.
Matt (01:32):
So for those of you listening to your first
Drinkables episode, what we dois I send my friends out to a
specific place and I say pickthree things that will go with a
particular drink.
Today the centerpiece drink isReyka Vodka from Iceland and we
Eastland Eastland and weupscaled from last season where
everybody was going to thedollar store.
(01:53):
That did not, overall, end well.
Aaron (01:55):
Almost everybody went to the dollar store.
Matt (01:58):
Almost everybody went to the dollar store.
Some of us went to Wegmans Notsaying who.
Everybody was assigned a gasstation to go to to pick their
three items.
I'm very excited I saw in thekitchen before we got in here
today what some of the itemswere.
And I'm going to be the onethat actually starts us off
today because mine is a littletemperature sensitive.
(02:19):
So are we ready?
Rob (02:23):
Are we ready?
I'm hoping I'm ready foranybody who You've been dipping
into the sauce before we got inhere buddy.
Matt (02:30):
I went bug's bunny there for a second, so we're going to
start off with the cocktailquote unquote that I prepared.
The gas station that I chosewas 7-Eleven.
Rob (02:40):
This looks lovely.
Aaron (02:41):
Everybody loves a Slurpee .
Can I ask does everyone get gasfrom 7-Eleven?
Matt (02:48):
As in for your vehicle.
Aaron (02:50):
Yeah.
Rob (02:51):
I've never filled up at a 7-Eleven to my knowledge.
Aaron (02:54):
Just curious, I don't know.
Matt (02:56):
I've always stopped there for this one does have gas.
I see what you're getting at.
This one does have gas pumps.
Aaron (03:00):
I'm just curious.
Siobhan (03:02):
I don't think I've ever seen a 7-Eleven with gas pumps
the gas station.
Matt (03:05):
Okay, the one in Nazareth.
Aaron (03:07):
Pennsylvania does indeed have gas pumps.
Matt (03:09):
Oh does it really?
Yes, it does.
Aaron (03:10):
That's amazing.
I was about to call you out Arethe gas pumps a separate brand
of gas.
Matt (03:16):
No, they're attached and they have 7-Eleven logos on them
.
Rob (03:19):
You must post a photo evidence on our social media
because I am a little Skeptical.
Skeptical Indeed, All right.
Well, let's get to this beforeit melts anymore.
Matt (03:31):
So what we have here is a cherry Slurpee with vodka with a
peach ring, varnish or garnish.
Rob (03:40):
I feel like varnish might actually not be wrong.
I'm not going to lie, I'venever been so surprised by
tasting absolutely nothing.
Because it tastes like nothing,I'm not really getting the
cherry.
I actually think the peach ringhelps a lot.
Okay, yeah, I'm going to getinto that.
Aaron (04:00):
It sweetens it up a little bit, which I never
thought I would have to sayabout a Slurpee.
Siobhan (04:02):
Yeah, you got to dip the peach ring.
Rob (04:06):
Oh yeah, I'll join you on that.
Yeah, I never thought that wewould need the peach ring to
sweeten it.
Aaron (04:12):
I am getting a little cough syrup.
I'm not going to lie, yeah.
Rob (04:16):
I warned you about this, Matthew.
I told you it's a delicatething.
If you didn't go blue razz, youhad a shot at making the cough
syrup taste.
All right, it's a tad medicinal.
Matt (04:29):
So it is.
It's a little Nyquil, so we'regoing to have to go ahead and
dive into the first piece offood here, and the order I would
like to do this in is chickensandwich first.
So I went for kind of a sweetand salty thing, like I have
done in the past, but I tried tomix it up and get flavors that
really went with the cherry.
What we have here is chickensandwich.
We have some Hershey's Cookieand Cream Bar, and then I
(04:52):
actually found a littlecheesecake, a strawberry
cheesecake.
That was the surprise.
I couldn't believe it was.
Back there.
There was only one left and Ithought, okay, we're going to
round it out with that.
Rob (05:02):
It's not the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had in my
life.
Aaron (05:05):
It might be the driest.
Siobhan (05:07):
Yeah, it is a little dry.
Aaron (05:09):
I think it might be good he's dipping it in the Slurp.
Matt (05:13):
I like it.
Aaron just went right in what'sthe chicken sandwich to the
Slurpee.
Aaron (05:19):
Well, now I feel like I have to do that too.
Siobhan (05:22):
Don't knock until you try it.
Rob (05:23):
As I'm getting deeper in the Slurp, I'm getting more of
the cherry flavor, which ismaking it more medicinal.
Matt (05:28):
Okay, I mean actually, the dipping ain't bad.
The dipping is really not bad.
Rob (05:31):
Right, Really it's just rehydrating the chicken, which
is kind of a necessity at themoment.
Aaron (05:39):
You're right, though this isn't that bad.
Rob (05:42):
It keeps and bounds above your offerings in season one.
Aaron (05:44):
Oh my gosh, thank God.
Matt (05:47):
We are 45 seconds into tasting and nobody's screaming
bloody murder, so I'm ahead ofthe curve.
Rob (05:52):
It's a bit of a aftertaste.
I don't know what it's comingfrom.
Aaron (05:56):
The gas pumps.
It might be from that.
Matt (06:01):
For those of you if this is your first drinkable.
Half the episode is us chewinginto the microphones.
Aaron (06:05):
Indeed.
Siobhan (06:06):
But you notice there's no aftertaste when you dip the
chicken in the drink.
That's true.
You get a little aftertastewith both of them individually,
but when you dip it they likebalance each other out.
Aaron (06:16):
I really think the peach ring saves this.
Matt (06:18):
I remember those being a lot sweeter, like the cherry
slurpee, is just not.
Rob (06:23):
May I ask how much vodka is in this no shot Okay.
Aaron (06:27):
You're gonna be all right .
Rob (06:29):
Well, just before I slugged the whole thing, I needed to
make sure.
Matt (06:33):
So, now that you've slugged the whole thing, how do
you intend to taste the otherfood along with it?
Rob (06:38):
I don't need to.
Matt (06:39):
Okay.
Aaron (06:39):
Oh, can't dip.
You're gonna dip the cookies incream.
Matt (06:43):
So next up, let's go cookies and cream.
Here we're gonna dial up thesweetness as we go.
Aaron (06:47):
Classic.
I enjoy this because it's oneof my favorites.
Also, I should know better.
I'm in the intro sounding likethis I should not be talking
with food in my mouth and my momwould be so mad.
Matt (06:59):
That's okay.
We want to have her on in afuture episode.
Rob (07:02):
I mean the cookies and cream bar, delicious, but I
don't know what it adds.
With cherry.
It's like sweet on, sweet, on,sweet on sweet.
My palate needs to break fromthat.
Aaron (07:13):
Well, too bad, it's not gonna get one.
It's a cheesecake.
Siobhan (07:17):
Matt is just that sweet of a person.
Rob (07:20):
Yeah, you know, thank you very much, I know when your
tongue is also colorblind, like,but for taste, but for taste.
Aaron (07:30):
Taste, blindness, taste blindness.
Matt (07:32):
How do you test for that?
You just lick different thingsLike how's that work you?
Aaron (07:35):
tell me, bro, you come to the drinkables with Matt.
You sure anybody.
Rob (07:40):
Shots fired.
Shots fired.
Aaron (07:42):
Wow, you asked.
Rob (07:44):
I am both excited and terrified for this tiny little
cheesecake that you found in theback of a refrigerator at a
7-11.
Matt (07:52):
It wasn't in the back of the refrigerator, but it wasn't
exactly very prevalentlydisplayed.
Here you go.
Rob (07:58):
Oh, it's got like some, it's got a fruity center Just
like you, matt.
Sorry, I'm sorry, it took aminute.
Well done, well done, all right.
Matt (08:08):
Let's see what we got.
Is that a full graham crackeron the bottom there?
Or is that actual grahamcracker?
I don't know.
I think my fork is stuck inlike glue.
Rob (08:17):
I don't know, I get it out.
Have you never used a fork?
Matt (08:22):
You stick it in something, then put it in your mouth.
Rob (08:25):
Tell me more about that, matt, tell me more.
Walking into a butt.
Aaron (08:30):
That fruity center Okay.
Rob (08:32):
This is delightful.
Aaron (08:33):
Is it?
I mean it's good.
Rob (08:36):
I would never believe this came from a 7-11 in my life.
They've done something withlike a cinnamon sugar in the
crust.
I'm definitely getting that.
Is it strawberry flavored?
Matt (08:46):
It is strawberry cheesecake.
Rob (08:48):
Yeah Okay, doesn't taste artificial or medicinal.
That's a delightful bite, butagain, after the sweet slurpy
and the sweet cookies and cream,it seems a bit redundant.
I feel like you're beating usover the head with sweet things
and that doesn't seem verybalanced.
Matt (09:05):
I thought these are flavors that would go well.
I consulted chat GPT to try andget a little help after my epic
failure last time.
Aaron (09:13):
I think that solidifies that we're not getting replaced
by AI anytime soon?
Matt (09:18):
Yeah, definitely not.
That's what I'm going to blamethe loss on.
Aaron (09:21):
Overall not a bad time.
Rob (09:23):
No, no, no.
I will say, matt, this is a winfor you, okay.
Not an overall win, but like aholistic win for you personally,
thank you very much.
Matt (09:35):
I appreciate that I'm going to throw a peach ring at
your head.
Rob (09:39):
Yeah, really.
Hey, you know what I'm down.
Whatever, let's get wild.
You're next.
Okay, guys, what I'm presentingto you today, I call it going
down south.
Okay, what I've done is a riffon southern comfort foods down
south, some place he's neverbeen really wants to visit a
(09:59):
place that I visit often, myfriend, I travel really please.
Aaron (10:04):
Stop.
Rob (10:05):
Yeah, please don't listen.
Aaron (10:07):
So I've done a riff, save me.
Rob (10:10):
I've done a riff on Yeager bombs with vodka and monster,
but it is ultra peach, monsterand vodka, so I'm going with the
peach theme for the southern.
Aaron (10:21):
Got it.
Rob (10:22):
That's quite delightful, If you do ask me.
Matt (10:25):
I ardently disagree with that statement.
You don't like that?
Yeah, peach flavored gasolineover here, I think it just needs
a little ice If it would be alittle cold.
Rob (10:33):
Yeah, sorry, it was what it is.
Aaron (10:35):
Temperature is a thing.
Rob (10:37):
I'd love to start with a mac and cheese bite with a
little bit of spicy jalapenocheese sauce.
I'm looking to combat thesweetness of this with heat for
the first two courses.
Aaron (10:50):
Courses.
Matt (10:51):
We went from dollar store to courses Just get that in mind
.
Aaron (10:55):
I tried to get us there with Wegmans, but no, but that
wasn't the rule.
Matt (10:59):
Everyone hated me.
I know Give you.
Rob (11:02):
that's a lovely little bite , okay.
Matt (11:03):
All right, it works, it's salty spicy PG.
Rob (11:08):
Okay, the next bite.
My friends we're going to.
We're going to take a walk moretowards the suite, but we're
still coming.
With the spicy.
We've got a Nashville hotchicken sandwich on a waffle
with maple syrup.
Okay.
Aaron (11:23):
Okay, for me.
Rob (11:25):
What gas station?
Oh, this is from sheets which Ihope we don't all get tomorrow,
the sheets I'm glad you said itso that we all got it.
Aaron (11:35):
It's all right.
Is this a schmawful Do theyhave?
Is that what they call it?
Matt (11:39):
could be, they have a schmawful schmonster, schmuffin
and schmissket.
I don't know if they have aschmawful.
Aaron (11:42):
Yeah, so I'm curious.
Matt (11:45):
Damn it, you have something going.
Aaron (11:46):
Ooh, that's yummy Yep.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Rob (11:50):
Down south we go.
Okay, creeping on down.
Siobhan (11:59):
The food definitely takes a lot of the sweet out of
the front of the tray.
Rob (12:02):
Yeah, I agree, that's a lot See some of us try to have a
sophisticated palate in which wepair things.
Aaron (12:13):
Mac and cheese bites.
Siobhan (12:14):
That's similar, we are as sophisticated as we can get
with, but what kind of monstersis it's?
Ultra peachy or the ultrasophisticated.
That's right.
Aaron (12:26):
It's definitely some ultra something.
Yeah, I agree.
Matt (12:29):
I hate you so much because this is working so well, right
right, what's next?
Rob (12:34):
so the the final course here like.
Yes, I would love you to samplemy nuts.
They are candied praline pecans.
Siobhan (12:42):
I was just gonna reach for them, and then we started
talking about nuts.
Rob (12:45):
Hey man.
Well, here they are.
Siobhan (12:46):
I'm going for get them in your mouth, man, two biggest
ones right here.
Rob (12:49):
See what it's about.
Matt (12:51):
For the second time in show history for gratuitous
testicle talk, black holedetected.
Be aware of the event horizon,that's the wrong button.
Nope, it's totally not.
Rob (13:02):
Well, it totally is try to cosmic chug me, bro, damn it.
And now you hit that button thesecond time for yourself.
Fine, you want to finish mowell, finish your drinks.
Aaron (13:19):
See, now I want to like your nuts, but I'm not sure if I
do.
Rob (13:24):
It's a little bit too much of the sweet on sweet.
I'm Lance arm and I'm strong init right now.
I'm Lance arms trying to rightnow.
I'm only doing one at a timehere, okay.
Matt (13:34):
When you chug.
It's a very different vibe tosipping that second when you
chug.
Rob (13:45):
We're going off the rails real quick guys, oh man.
Aaron (13:47):
It's going well.
The nuts are quite tasty, youjackass think, oh see, and now
we know, we'll see, then you're,you took a right, you took a
left.
Turn into, well, sir, taste budterritory.
Rob (13:58):
Yeah, we just need sweet on , sweet, on sweet and Matt's
gonna vote it to the top, I said.
Aaron (14:02):
he said the nuts are tasty, I told you yeah, love,
love my nuts.
I will say, though, thatchicken sandwich chop my nuts
what chicken sandwich.
Rob (14:11):
That was a revelation good.
Matt (14:13):
Yeah, that was really good .
Aaron (14:14):
I don't even like syrup, and that it's good.
You don't like syrup?
Rob (14:18):
no bitch Sorry what I once shrugged a bottle of syrup in a
diner like super trooper style.
That's right.
I got 20 bucks for it.
Never again Will I do that.
The worst headache for threedays.
Matt (14:32):
Like was there a bathroom experience after that, did you?
Aaron (14:35):
go to sheets.
Rob (14:36):
I don't think anybody needs to know about that.
Let's just say it was a strangecolor and Consistency.
Aaron (14:43):
I like that.
You said no one needs to know,and then you told us Use the
word.
Rob (14:48):
Anything about it?
Aaron (14:49):
I can sure as hell did you?
Told me enough.
Rob (14:51):
Listen, I got to say I could describe it in great
detail.
It is burned into my retinasnope, nope, nope.
Matt (14:59):
all the no, that's a lot of nops, all right.
Aaron (15:00):
Well, listen, the nuts were a choice.
Yeah, I Think.
Not sure I would choose yournuts again, no, but no, not.
Rob (15:09):
Not as tasty as my surprising meat from season one.
Aaron (15:11):
I'll tell you yeah, I don't know that I chose that
either, but okay, yeah summersausage from a dollar store man.
Rob (15:17):
Would you eat it Hell?
Siobhan (15:18):
yeah.
Aaron (15:19):
I tell you Definitely not what you expected.
Yeah.
Rob (15:25):
Wow.
Aaron (15:26):
All right.
Rob (15:27):
I feel like that was all right.
Aaron (15:29):
I was a showing.
Matt (15:30):
Yeah, it was a showing.
We're on the way here.
All right.
Rob (15:34):
Next up is gonna be Aaron anybody remembered years ago
when they used to do hiscompilation CDs.
Aaron (15:40):
Now, that's what I call music.
Rob (15:41):
Yeah, no, but except for this.
One was like.
It was like the tranquil mix orwhatever.
Aaron (15:46):
Oh yeah.
Siobhan (15:54):
They have a pure moods, pure moods playlist on Spotify.
Aaron (15:59):
Yeah, yes, why do we need that?
Siobhan (16:02):
By every middle-aged woman in 1992.
Rob (16:06):
I don't know why my dad loves anya, but he does never
made any sense to me.
Yeah, but he also.
Aaron (16:15):
Like a capital D dad, I don't know.
Okay, so I'm gonna hold on aminute.
Matt (16:19):
I'm looking across the table at Aaron who has put more
effort into a drinkable intothis single drinkable that
everybody else.
Rob (16:30):
Let's get this back on track this, this man, this man
right here.
You could all see this he's gotsome explaining to do and I
need to know what in God's nameI'm looking at, because it looks
like it's come from like.
This is the middle of the roadMexican restaurant.
Aaron (16:46):
Yeah, okay, the road, yes .
Siobhan (16:49):
I mean I actually bought all these things from the
gas station in the middle ofthe road.
No, no, so I was born for thischallenge, right?
So I live off of gas station.
I was born in a gas station forthis challenge, because I've
lived on nothing but gas stationfood for my late teens, through
my mid-20s.
Okay so you think gas station,you got pork rinds, beef sticks.
(17:14):
Those are like the two mainstages right, where did you go?
The mobile on Main Street inBethlehem Mobile mobile station.
We don't know fancy, you knowsheets.
Matt (17:24):
Okay, no fancy sheets here , okay, just mobile.
Good old, he didn't need nomaid to order, okay.
Aaron (17:30):
He made it, so he made himself, he did.
Oh my goodness.
Rob (17:34):
Okay, so what's your opening course here?
So?
Siobhan (17:37):
we could just eat whatever.
You, I don't know, you know, Idon't even know what I want you
to direct me.
Rob (17:41):
We're gonna start with the car.
Siobhan (17:42):
Let's start let's start with the, the centerpiece right
here.
So yeah, I was making moremeals, but I wanted to pay
homage to the og launchable, sothese are plantains.
Now.
Mind you, the plantains are alittle soft because they were
packed.
You know, transportation cominghere, the plantain should be a
little crunchy.
But what this is?
This is the original slim gymOn Plantain chip with a little
(18:07):
fried bean spread.
Rob (18:08):
What is happening?
Aaron (18:10):
Okay.
Siobhan (18:10):
It's like you know you get a lunchable.
Yeah, I was always random Cheapcrap and you put it all
together in sandwich.
That's all I did.
You got the sweet of theplantain.
You got the spicy of spicy andthe salty of the Beef stick and
the I don't know whatever therefried beans, the gas.
Matt (18:24):
Okay, so back in episode one how Shevon declared Very
clearly that she did not likebeef jerky and I'm assuming beef
jerky like products and shejust said this is delicious.
Aaron (18:35):
Yeah, I mean I bit it, so we're good.
Siobhan (18:38):
But I listen the plantain should be a little
because it's cut up and lookingnice on a.
Rob (18:44):
I will say the plantain Is not as sweet as I was expecting
it to be true.
Don't mind that.
Tell us a little bit about thiscocktail, because this is like
it might make up for this littlecocktail.
Siobhan (18:53):
Now I'm chewing my jerky as you do, so I'm thinking
, you know, all the food we haveis kind of a Spanish Influenced
.
We got yo.
You know, you'll find out theother Spanish foods in a minute,
but I wanted to make somethinglike a chichi colada, so what?
Rob (19:10):
a chichi oh this is unbelievable.
Siobhan (19:13):
A chichi colada story has it.
The Puerto Rican golfer, chichiRodriguez, loved Peanut coladas
, but he didn't like rum, so hewould always ask for his peanut
coladas with vodka, so they wascalled a chichi colada.
So obviously the mobile doesn'thave like cream of coconut and
like pineapple, so I made aChichi colada milkshake with
(19:36):
vodka, some cheap peanut coladamix, some dull tropical fruit
that I just threw in a blenderand vanilla ice cream.
Rob (19:45):
Very good.
The fruit cup is stellar ship.
Matt (19:48):
Yeah, there's, there's only one.
Rob (19:50):
This is stellar.
I'm getting the fruit cup.
I'm actually tasting individualfruits.
Refreshing, which is that's cuz.
I didn't unreal.
Siobhan (20:00):
Oh, I mean, I meant to do that, that was, that was
perfect like it makes no sensewhy this is so good.
Matt (20:05):
Fantastic.
Aaron (20:06):
I love chichi.
Thank you very much I.
Rob (20:09):
Don't even know who that is .
Aaron (20:11):
He's a golfer.
He's amazing cool.
Matt (20:14):
He's so refreshing after the, so a lot of the food is,
you know, savory, salty.
Siobhan (20:18):
I wanted to really finish it off with the nice
refreshing Wow.
So our main course here.
Oh, you know when, like I said,when you think of gas station
food, you have pork rind, soimmediately thought of Mofongo.
It looks fancy, but all it isis pork rinds and plantains.
Well, mobile doesn't sellplantains so but they sell green
bananas, so I just bought somebananas and I made Mofongo.
(20:40):
I can't.
This is so all I mean.
Basically, it looks fancy, butif you just take a mind of.
If you take a bite of pork rindsand a banana, then you have
Mofongo in your mouth.
Rob (20:51):
So I just put it together first the chicharon texture.
Aaron (20:58):
It has always been a bit tough for me at times.
Siobhan (21:03):
Admittedly, this is a.
There's some.
Rob (21:05):
The taste is delicious.
Yeah, the texture I'mstruggling with a little bit.
Siobhan (21:09):
Yeah, and you know why?
Because I'm chewing while I'mtalking.
While I'm chewing, I got thesmaller crunchier pork rinds
instead of the fluffier ones.
So that is what, guys.
Admittedly, I should havegotten the fluffier ones.
Rob (21:26):
I'm not saying that it's bad as I go in for another bite.
Yeah, it's definitely a littlechewy in there, yeah.
Matt (21:32):
It's interesting when it goes with the koolada.
Siobhan (21:35):
I'm going back to the drink, so on the side of this we
have some roasted corn.
I hope it's okay to be talkingwith my mouth full.
Rob (21:40):
I cannot believe you made all this crap from gas station
items.
Aaron (21:43):
Yeah, this is pretty crazy Mobile.
Matt (21:45):
This is pretty crazy.
Siobhan (21:46):
So on the side of the Mofongo we got some roasted corn
with some goya seasoning.
I will swallow my food before Ispeak.
Rob (21:52):
They have goya seasoning in a gas station.
Siobhan (21:54):
You bet.
Aaron (21:55):
I didn't know.
They had pinia koolada mix outof a gas station Mobile yo Okay.
Matt (22:00):
So when I instructed Aaron to pick three things, what
Aaron did was take three andthen multiply it by three and
then multiply it into awesomefood.
So that means I am going to.
Rob (22:12):
Math E equals MC Hammer.
We talking about numbers.
Did you really stretch in forthese drops, Brad?
Matt (22:19):
Well, I'm taking the opportunities I get.
Wow.
Rob (22:22):
I like it.
I cannot believe this is from agas station.
Aaron (22:26):
I will say I wish the drink was a little sweeter.
Siobhan (22:28):
True.
True, because you know whatwhen you hear koolada, you
expect that sweet pineapple.
Well, they didn't have anypineapple cups.
They had just mixed tropicalfruit cups.
Aaron (22:38):
I still get it, I'm just you know.
Siobhan (22:41):
But you know, you're absolutely right, it needs a
little bit of that acidicsweetness of the pineapple, but
I still enjoy all of thesecombos.
Rob (22:48):
Yeah, I definitely think some acidity would brighten it
up and just like a squeeze oflime.
Matt (22:55):
When you get into the scoop of ice cream, though that
is in there, you do get a blastof sweetness.
So Yum.
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting that.
Aaron (23:02):
All right, good deal.
Matt (23:05):
You can tell how good it is by how quiet we all got all
of a sudden Like all right.
Rob (23:09):
I hate to say I got to go back to this thing because the
taste is so good it really is.
Aaron (23:15):
Yeah, the texture is not for me.
Siobhan (23:16):
That loses me, not gonna lie, yeah, but the taste
is.
Next time you got, I got to gofor the floofy pork rinds.
Rob (23:22):
The taste is so good.
Siobhan (23:24):
But it's so simple.
It's just basically twoingredients and some spice spice
that I got from the gas station.
That's amazing.
Aaron (23:34):
I feel like we're on a real competition show right now.
Matt (23:36):
I know I'm glad I'm serious already.
Rob (23:38):
I know this is serious, real quick because if I didn't
go already, I'd just be likedon't even taste my food.
Aaron (23:42):
This is ridiculous.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you, I appreciate yourtime.
Rob (23:45):
I'm sorry In that comment.
I really appreciate it.
Matt (23:47):
I'm sure yours is wonderful yeah you're a.
Siobhan (23:52):
I'm gonna let the intrusive thoughts win.
Yeah, and I'm dipping the slimJim.
Aaron (23:57):
Whoa.
Siobhan (23:58):
Refried bean plantain into the chichi colada.
Aaron (24:01):
Okay, is this like a fras and a frosty?
Rob (24:03):
kind of thing I'm going.
Aaron (24:05):
I'm going there with you bro, you are all much more
adventurous than I am.
Siobhan (24:08):
I wouldn't say it makes it better, it makes a
difference, it makes adifference.
Rob (24:13):
That's a great.
I do not prefer it this way.
Aaron (24:16):
That is the best comment that has ever come out of this
drinkables.
I'm not going to say it makesit better, but it makes a
different.
Yeah, it definitely does.
That's a theme if there everwas one that is displeasing to
me.
Matt (24:31):
So let's just say, drinking them in parallel works,
drinking them in unison doesnot work.
Aaron (24:35):
Right Ooh, which you know .
I don't usually dip a lot in acocktail.
But I'm not saying that's nojudgment, that's just a
statement.
Rob (24:44):
Now, this is just an original slim gym.
Mm hmm, might ask, how arethese refied beans packaged in a
gas station?
Siobhan (24:52):
In a can.
I literally opened the can andtook out a little butter knife
and smeared it on.
Rob (24:56):
All right, I was worried it was in like a ketchup packet
situation.
Matt (25:01):
I mean mobile refied beans .
Siobhan (25:04):
It was in a five gallon bucket that a little old lady
just reached in with her handsand plop.
Rob (25:10):
You really taste the hand.
Aaron (25:13):
Old lady hands have some beans?
Oh no, that sounded like bluey.
I slipped on my beans.
Okay, nobody gets that exceptfor me, it's cool.
Matt (25:25):
Yeah, no, I've seen a lot of bluey.
Aaron (25:29):
Well, this was great and a lot more effort than I did I
could.
Rob (25:34):
Well, let's, let's see how much effort you've put into
things.
Aaron (25:37):
Are we moving on?
Rob (25:38):
I think that that's a fair transitional piece.
Matt (25:43):
And what gas station did you go with?
Aaron (25:45):
Okay.
I went to Wawa.
Weakmans doesn't sell gas Outof here Are you sure it wasn't
Weakmans?
Matt (25:50):
Do we have a receipt?
Can we verify?
Aaron (25:53):
Listen, everyone knows that Wawa sells gas.
Rob (25:55):
That's true.
Yeah, they do.
Aaron (25:58):
Nobody in this room knew that 7-Eleven sold gas until we
asked.
So don't come for me, we stilldon't know, fair we still don't
know.
You're right.
We don't know Until that photogoes up.
We believe Matt and we don'tknow if we should we're on our
Instagram at mattandfriendsdtu?
Rob (26:14):
That's right, I'm plugging.
Matt (26:15):
Thank you, yeah, it is Instagram Facebook.
Rob (26:19):
Matt and Friends DTU and maybe, maybe he'll even tweet
about it.
I might, maybe you can, at7-Eleven.
At 7-Eleven, how many of yourstores actually have gas
attached to them?
Maybe we'll get an answer forthe people.
We can try, we'll see.
The world may never know, no.
Aaron (26:35):
Okay, I am passing out drinks.
Matt (26:37):
All right.
Aaron (26:39):
All right.
So I will say there's threeitems on the plate plus the
drink.
So only the chips on the plateare not Wawa branded things.
Matt (26:49):
Okay.
Aaron (26:50):
So half.
Matt (26:50):
All right.
Aaron (26:52):
So the drink is pomegranate, lemonade and vodka,
with a little bit of sparklingwater to make it fun and fizzy.
Rob (26:58):
What kind of sparkling water did you use?
Aaron (26:59):
It's liquid death.
Oh my goodness, bird Crisherwould be very proud of me.
All right, chris would be veryproud of me.
Rob (27:06):
Go out and see the machine in theaters.
Aaron (27:07):
Okay.
Rob (27:08):
I'm not going to be timely right now, but this episode
won't come out anywhere nearwhen this is still in theaters,
that's true, but I just say itsmells very much like a
watermelon jolly rancher.
Aaron (27:17):
Yes, a little jolly rancher, but I don't think it
does sweet when you drink it.
Rob (27:21):
So I'm going to give it a try.
No, it's not too sweet at all.
Aaron (27:23):
Matt, are you okay with it not being super sweet?
Matt (27:25):
Yeah.
Aaron (27:27):
I mean, oh, that's actually love watermelon sugar.
Thank you, it's like Bruno Marsin my mouth.
Matt (27:31):
That's what it is.
Aaron (27:32):
I was going to get blueberry but everyone I didn't,
because Rob doesn't likeblueberry.
I would totally dig a fruit Iappreciate you for that.
Siobhan (27:38):
I'm going to get a freeze pop in this flavor.
Aaron (27:40):
This is a great, or like a slush.
Wow, not a slurpee, but like aslush.
Siobhan (27:46):
I could drink like five of these.
Rob (27:47):
I think we all just ignored Matt's comment about Bruno Mars
in his mouth.
Matt (27:51):
Oh yeah, you all really let that one slide.
Aaron (27:54):
Did Bruno Mars slide into your mouth?
What were we talking about?
Is that what we said?
What did we say?
Matt (28:01):
I have no, I'm rendered speechless, are we?
Aaron (28:03):
okay.
No, I thought this is what wewere talking about.
Matt (28:06):
Okay.
Aaron (28:07):
Moving on.
Matt (28:08):
All right, let's focus on the plate.
Aaron (28:10):
Okay, kids.
Matt (28:10):
Focus on the plate.
Aaron (28:12):
So the goal, so the main of this.
I have two pinwheels which arebasically wraps cut into pieces,
but they're actually sold asthese little pinwheels.
So we have an Italian pinwheeland we have a chicken taco
pinwheel, so you can either eatboth.
Rob (28:28):
I'm starting with the Italian.
Aaron (28:29):
Yeah, do whatever you would like, if one is more
preferable to you.
Siobhan (28:33):
I'm going with the chicken, because I'm looking at
whatever this baked good is hereand I think this spicy chicken
with the baked good that's good,that's a good choice yeah.
Rob (28:43):
I agree with you.
That's why I started with theItalian and I'm going to move to
the chicken afterwards, becauseI like food.
Matt (28:50):
I'm enjoying your drink, everything on my plate.
I'm glad I really like thedrink.
It's nice, it's cool, it'srefreshing.
Rob (28:57):
This may be the most composed drink that we've had
all night.
I'd stellar sip this as well.
Aaron (29:00):
Oh, okay, yeah.
Rob (29:01):
I would, you think I would.
Oh, and now to knock the drinkthat we had last round.
It was very good but liketowards the end I didn't get as
much as those fruity flavors andthat, and then I found myself
asking where did they go?
Aaron (29:17):
This keeps going.
Rob (29:18):
So, like the first few sips .
Well, we'll see once I get downto the bottom.
Like I didn't stir this at all,so I don't know if all the good
stuff's on top or not.
Siobhan (29:25):
We'll see this drink, just like, opens up all of the
flavors.
It makes everything tastebetter.
Matt (29:30):
Oh yeah, you had told me pregame that you had a theme.
What was that theme?
Aaron (29:34):
Well, it's loosely connected to nothing and very
connected to a funny name, andit is basically you should just
not worry while you eat all thisfood, because Hakuna Moawa.
Rob (29:45):
Love it.
Matt (29:46):
There you go, yep.
Aaron (29:47):
Yeah, I couldn't think of anything better, because Rob
had the down south and I thoughtthat's a wonderful phrase.
Yeah, it is.
Matt (29:53):
And my theme was one, two, three don't suck, and I'm not
sure if I didn't.
Aaron (29:56):
So Matt was.
I have no taste buds.
Can you all tell, like I don't,who I am, but I'm not sure.
Good, okay, so pinwheels, good,hopefully, a good savory
situation.
This is supposed to be picnicreminiscent, like what would you
take from Wawa to have like apicnic.
Siobhan (30:13):
It's almost summer here , even though it won't be when
you all listen to this, but fine.
Aaron (30:18):
Okay, then we have two chip choices.
So again, choose your fave, gowith both.
I couldn't choose, that's whythere's two here.
The not-rigi chips are jalapenoand the rigi chips are fried
dill pickle.
Matt (30:34):
I was not expecting the jalapeno when I I've been going
jalapeno first.
Oh, it's not like overly, I'mgonna kill you spicy, it's
pretty good.
Aaron (30:40):
Yeah, they're supposed to be mild.
Siobhan (30:42):
Yeah, I'm totally digging the jalapeno more Again
with the spicy against the sweet.
Rob (30:47):
It's just such a great balance of flavor.
Aaron (30:50):
If it wasn't a chip, you could dip it into your drink.
Rob (30:51):
We've seen that on three out of four attempts today.
You know, not just going sweeton sweet but going a counter
flavor with the sweet.
Matt (31:01):
So Siobhan says because it's a chip you can't dip it.
Aaron (31:04):
I'm gonna dispute that.
Oh no, you can.
Let's see what happens.
You put the pickle one in there.
That's a choice.
Rob (31:08):
All right, oh boy, you know .
They say that the acidity frompickle juice can cut down on the
burn of alcohol.
Aaron (31:18):
Oh, is that why people do picklebacks?
That was actually really whyyes?
Matt (31:22):
The dip was good.
Rob (31:23):
It's exactly the way that's right exactly the way.
And I wish that I knew theactual science behind it,
because I wish it did too,because then we could hit the
button.
It would be cool to give youthat fact, but I don't.
Aaron (31:35):
Okay.
Rob (31:35):
I'm not sure why.
Aaron (31:36):
You're the resident science guy.
Resident science guy I'mworried about we're gonna in a
future episode.
Matt (31:42):
People we're doing rocket science trivia.
I'm worried about this man.
Rob (31:47):
Oh, this dill pickle is so dill.
It's so good, it's so pickleit's good, but I was just not
expecting it to like pickle mytongue.
Aaron (31:54):
So it's actually fried dill pickle.
Rob (31:57):
I heard you like a little pickle on the tongue.
Aaron (31:59):
Yeah, did you hear that?
Rob (32:01):
From Bruno Mars.
Aaron (32:02):
Oh, no, I like these pickle chips.
So part of the reason Icouldn't decide is because I
really like pickle chips.
And I'll also be honest I donot like a flavored chip,
because I usually think thatthey're overly flavored.
Rob (32:13):
Okay.
Aaron (32:14):
But I actually think both of these are very good.
Rob (32:16):
Here's what's happening.
The pickle chip, the dill, thatultra acidic dill flavor that
I'm getting is actually souringthe sweet.
Aaron (32:25):
Okay.
Well, let's move on to the nextthing then, okay.
Rob (32:28):
So the jalapeno and the taco, the chicken taco and
jalapeno, would have been goodcombinations.
Aaron (32:34):
Okay, we'll have another jalapeno chip, then I will.
Matt (32:37):
Okay, good, I do enjoy this chicken taco very much.
I go to Wawa a lot, and this issomething that I probably just
would have passed, see, and Iwill not pass it next time.
Aaron (32:46):
I tried to scope out everything really, and I go to
Wawa a lot, so okay, Last item,it is a glazed coffee roll.
I went between this and like atasty cake and I was like, no, I
gotta go with the Wawa bakeryitem.
Yeah, so it's just a glazedcoffee roll.
It's gonna be sweet.
Literally it's a circle roll.
Siobhan (33:07):
The knife is a circle, potato chips are circles.
Aaron (33:10):
Yeah, see the pin.
Look at this.
Siobhan (33:13):
It's a circle of life.
It's a circle of life Like aKuna Mawa.
Aaron (33:17):
Hakuna Mawa.
Siobhan (33:19):
You know, the only problem, as you could probably
tell by the level of drink in mylittle cup-a-cup here, is that
this is very easy going down.
Aaron (33:28):
Okay, and it is the type of drink where you can get
really snookered.
Those are usually the kinds ofdrinks that I make.
Siobhan (33:34):
You were having those.
That's the good kind of problem.
Matt (33:35):
See you were having those outdoors on a hot day that would
be.
It's like juice.
Here's an interesting thingthat I'm noticing, so rehydrate.
Rob (33:42):
Although the bun is very sweet, the cinnamon, I think, is
saving it a little bit frombeing overly sweet and pulling
back on it just enough that Idon't feel like I'm getting
hammered sweet on sweet, onsweet with the cocktail, with
the break in the middle, withall that other stuff too, I feel
like you're good, right?
Aaron (34:01):
So cinnamon and pomegranate are actually really
good flavor pairing.
Rob (34:05):
Yeah, this is the first dessert that hasn't made me go
too much sweet on sweet.
Aaron (34:10):
No, we'll see.
And I don't love sweet things,so here we are.
I tried to balance it out foryou all.
Yeah, Uh-oh, what does thatmean?
Rob (34:18):
That's great showing's all around I think this is the first
, except Matt, legitimate debatethat we are going to have to
have to determine a winnertonight because the first time
in Drinkables history that wehave more than one person who
have actually made a good effort.
Right, nobody's been egregious,you know what?
Matt (34:40):
Even Matt, For that everybody drink.
Oh okay, Stellar ship here ithas some left.
Rob (34:46):
Great job all around.
Siobhan (34:49):
I drank all my alcohol.
There's more.
Aaron (34:51):
There's more outside.
I have to go get it.
But.
Rob (34:53):
Well, I think we need to go around and figure out who is
voting for what.
Matt (34:59):
This is going to be like.
This is going to belegitimately very tough and
before we start that, like wewent with gas stations this time
, and in Pennsylvania there havebeen wars where people have
fought and died over Wawa versusSheets, and you know other.
Aaron (35:13):
I'm not sure what wars there are, but yeah, probably
where you went to college.
Matt (35:17):
Oh well, where I went to college in Western Pennsylvania,
there is no Wawa.
There absolutely is, till tothis day, no Wawa near IUP, like
absolutely none.
So when I was out there for meit was funny because I arrived
and somebody said to me do youwant to go to Sheets?
And I literally said what thehell is Sheets?
And they were like you've neverbeen to Sheets.
And we went and I got the twohot dogs special with mac and
(35:40):
cheese and the Gallicur's limetea.
If you've never had the limetea, oh my God, that sounds good
, it's phenomenal.
You know there used to be a lotmore 7-Eleven's.
There's not that many.
I think Nazareth PA might havethe last surviving one in our
area.
We can find it.
Yeah, I've seen some likeSalafiora, like driving through
DC south of here.
What did I say?
(36:01):
What went?
Rob (36:02):
wrong, I thought you said salad fur Salad the salad fiora.
Aaron (36:09):
Yah Hakuna Mawa.
Rob (36:12):
No, I'm telling Cause.
Aaron (36:14):
you said salad fiora.
Rob (36:14):
Loud noises, yep, lettuce, hitler, what the salad fiora.
I'm sorry, that's terrible.
Aaron (36:25):
That's questionable, at best Horrifying.
Anyway, yeah, gettysburg waslike that too.
There's no Mawa there either,so thank God, there is here.
Rob (36:33):
Hey guys, fun fact, great Turns out.
Pickle juice helps reduce theburn and reduce hangovers
because it's filled withelectrolytes.
Aaron (36:46):
Well, I mean, listen, it's cucumber, right.
Rob (36:48):
So both the acidity and the salinity of the pickle water
are harsher, more prominentflavors that will take away the
burn because you have more tastebuds that will react to those.
Siobhan (37:02):
So then, why don't athletes just drink pickle juice
instead of Gatorade?
Rob (37:05):
Some do for cramps yeah.
Matt (37:07):
That's 100% of the thing here in this one Science.
Aaron (37:11):
Science.
Rob (37:12):
That's right.
Aaron (37:13):
He had to redeem himself.
Yeah, you know.
Matt (37:16):
I'm here, you are present.
I feel, like we are agonizinglydelaying the debate about.
Aaron (37:23):
We really are.
We're on our own.
Where are?
Rob (37:25):
we starting, are we?
Matt (37:26):
starting with you first.
Yes, I recused myself.
Aaron (37:29):
Why Believe in yourself, Matt?
Matt (37:32):
No, I was not near Aaron and Siobhan on this one.
I wasn't.
Rob (37:37):
I need you to vote, though you can't recuse yourself from
voting.
You need to vote for which onewas your favorite.
Matt (37:43):
I vote present.
No, you can't do that, get out.
Aaron (37:46):
Oh boy, you don't have to vote for yourself.
Rob (37:49):
I'm not asking you to fight for your plate which was
terrible.
I'm asking you.
Siobhan (37:53):
It wasn't terrible.
That's to be fair.
That's to be fair.
Matt (37:55):
It was clearly the worst.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Finish your drink just becauseToss me chug imitating.
Siobhan (38:05):
I'm sad I don't get to chug.
Matt (38:07):
You're sad you don't get to chug yeah.
Rob (38:10):
Well, we'll get you next time, but you're out of vodka
anyway I also have fromChristmas City Spirits.
Matt (38:15):
You're in Bethlehem, pennsylvania, some sipping vodka
if you're feeling very Wouldyou vote any vodka sipping vodka
.
No, as the host I invoke myright to say come back to me, so
go ahead, you go first.
Okay, all right, I do not wantto discount my own performance,
but I will not vote for myself.
Rob (38:34):
I am going to vote for Aaron, who I think, out of his
entire combo, had the most wins.
You know what I'm saying.
Maybe he didn't have the bestdrink, which I think does go to
Chavon Okay, the best mixeddrink goes to Chavon, because
it's the one I would come backto again after this episode.
(38:54):
But what he was able to do withgas station ingredients to make
an actual journey through likea Mexican or Hispanic street
food experience, never wouldhave imagined that in my life
from a gas station.
So I'm voting for Aaron.
That is my vote.
Aaron, over to you.
(39:16):
Oh dear, you can vote foryourself, by the way.
Siobhan (39:18):
No no, no, no, no, no no.
Matt (39:21):
I shirked my responsibilities as the host and
told everybody to come back tome at the end.
Siobhan (39:25):
See, I don't know, this is really difficult because I
think that waffle chickensandwich bangin, it was good, it
was good with a capital G OOD,very good, thank you.
Rob (39:37):
Thank you, so that would be good.
I think, we all had at leastone incredible bite on all of
our plates.
Aaron (39:45):
Even Matt, even Matt.
Rob (39:47):
But some of us had more than one.
Siobhan (39:49):
But this coffee roll.
That just is the topping oneverything.
And then I have to vote forChavon.
Rob (39:54):
Okay, the drink.
There is a vote for Chavon.
Right on with the drink.
Siobhan (39:58):
It just compliments everything across the board and
it's simple, yet delightful andeffective.
Aaron (40:08):
Okay well.
Rob (40:09):
Okay, friend, you're up next.
How do you feel about things?
Matt (40:14):
Do you love thyself?
Aaron (40:15):
I do oh, but.
Rob (40:19):
Oh, there's a but.
Aaron (40:22):
I don't know, man.
I mean like I want to vote formyself because I think this was
better than I've did before.
Rob (40:28):
That's fair, but would you consider going down south?
Aaron (40:31):
I always do.
Rob (40:32):
Yeah, well, that's very considerate of you.
Aaron (40:35):
But I still don't think the chicken sandwich was very
good.
I can't sign on for the nuts.
I do love going south.
The nuts are maybe my leastfavorite part about going south,
that's fair.
Matt (40:46):
She's not going for the nuts.
Hey, that's fair.
Aaron (40:49):
Just so everyone knows.
You know they're there andthey're fun, but I don't know if
they're enough to give me.
Rob (40:56):
Yeah, it was too much the vote, it was too much I
understand.
So which way are you leaning?
Aaron (41:01):
to myself Self empowerment.
Rob (41:03):
Oh, wow, Wow.
That's two votes to Chavon, onevote to Aaron Matthew.
You cannot abstain at thispoint.
Aaron (41:11):
No, you have to vote.
Rob (41:12):
You must, as a host, vote, and if there is a tie, we must
figure out a tie breaker.
Oh, my God, and I don't know ifwe have a mechanic for that.
So we're going to figure it outon the fly.
Matt (41:22):
So, for those familiar with Star Trek, I've encountered
the Kobayashi Maru here.
This is, this is rough, because, wow bro, this is rough.
Rob (41:31):
Wow yeah, nerd level.
Matt (41:34):
Oh man, 15,000.
Oh, absolutely At all times.
There's.
There's a reason.
There's a space theme for thisshow, all right.
I loved the taste and texturecombination in all of Aaron's
food.
I thought it went really,really well together.
There were things that I triedthat.
Those who know me know that I'mnot a very adventurous or picky
(41:57):
eater, and Aaron, you are apicky eater, right.
Rob (42:00):
Yes, I apologize.
Yes, I'm an incredibly pickyeater.
Matt (42:04):
Aaron, yours is very approachable and really good.
The cocktail, on the other handwe talked about it lacking a
little bit of maybe sweetness orsomething like that Pineapple
juice.
We're missing the pineapplejuice in the kalata, and when I
think about a complete set, what?
Siobhan (42:18):
goes together, what makes things very well?
Matt (42:21):
It is when I had what was Siobhan presented.
It all went together very wellit was.
It was a symphony of goodthings that just seemed to all
flow.
If I was putting numbers onthis, I'm seriously going to say
that you'd be like a half apercent in front of Aaron.
But with the drink I'm givingit to Siobhan, okay.
Rob (42:42):
Great job, siobhan.
I must just say, because I'mthe only person who didn't vote
for you Okay, I must clarify.
Aaron (42:47):
We heard yeah.
Rob (42:48):
I must clarify, I must have made his efforts.
Aaron (42:51):
Oh absolutely.
Matt (42:53):
The effort Absolutely.
Rob (42:54):
And number two, had you given me just the chicken taco
and just the jalapeno and Ididn't have like the other
things that were like making melike have to choose between two
things, I think it would havebeen easier for me to just vote
for you, but I was confused bythe smattering of delights that
you put in front of me.
Aaron (43:13):
You don't like a choice?
Rob (43:14):
Yeah, and I made some wrong choices along the time you
chose poorly and that's my fault.
No, I was not but, but.
But.
I needed to recognize what Ineeded, to recognize what this
man did with gas stationingredients.
Aaron (43:27):
Listen, I completely agree with that.
Rob (43:29):
I and because Matt was a schmo.
He didn't want to vote first,so somebody had to go.
Aaron (43:34):
Listen, you don't have to defend yourself, it's really
okay, I feel badly.
Rob (43:36):
No, I don't know why you would.
We're literally sitting at atable eating gas station food.
Aaron (43:41):
I think we're going to be okay.
Matt (43:42):
I mean sure is, but we'll determine that tomorrow whether
or not we're all okay.
So we're going to do this firstof all.
First, siobhan's victory.
Rob (43:50):
I've got to say this is the most stellar steps.
That has happened in a stableepisode in the best way.
So cheers to you, Siobhan.
Thanks.
Aaron (43:58):
Great job.
I redeemed myself Kicking offseason twos version of
drinkables.
Rob (44:03):
I actually I loved the the gas station twist on this.
This was nice.
Matt (44:08):
So we do have another one coming later in the season
that's going to involve someseltzer and we're going to see
what happens there.
Who teaser?
Yeah, a little, a little bit ofa teaser, I'm also going to go
ahead.
And since this is a drinkinggame after all, when we press
the button, you are supposed totake a sip if you're playing
along with us.
For the effort that camethrough and just for the fact
(44:28):
that Aaron cooked some trulyridiculous food that I could
never have expected, I'm doingit again.
Rob (44:34):
Why not Steller's sip?
You know, aaron, I really hopeyou come back for for more
episodes with us.
Absolutely Really enjoyedhaving you here for the first
time and hope it's the first ofmany.
Yes, sir, thank you very much,absolutely.
Siobhan (44:48):
I think I would have won if I would have presented my
platter with my napkin bra, Wow.
So I've spent many those of youthat don't know I've worked in
country clubs and I learned manynapkin folds, including my
special little bra.
Aaron (45:04):
So if I would have done this to present, I think I
probably would have won I wouldhave voted for you then.
Matt (45:09):
All right, we'll go out on that note and on that bomb show
Thanks everybody.
Toodaloo.
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invented penicillin, alexanderFleming.
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