All About That Cream - Root Beer Tier List

[00:00:00] Hello listeners, this is a little prototype episode I guess of what we want to call Wednesday

[00:00:05] Night Snackdown.

[00:00:06] We're going to make tier lists of different snacks and sodas and beverages and stuff like

[00:00:13] that.

[00:00:15] Today it's going to be the big root beer battle.

[00:00:18] We're going to make a tier list of some of our favorite root beer brands or flavors.

[00:00:24] We'll see how this whole last thing goes.

[00:00:27] Before we get to that tier list, in the beige corner weighing 14 million square feet and

[00:00:38] standing 42,000 feet high.

[00:00:41] I don't know, I'm trying to make a cool intro.

[00:00:43] In the beige corner we have Dwayne the Thrac Johnson

[00:00:49] What's up brother?

[00:00:51] Yeah brother!

[00:00:53] In the burnt orange corner coming in at 6'9", 6'9", it's Cold Stone Steve Austin

[00:01:05] What?

[00:01:07] And I am your ring man and also fellow combatant, I don't fucking know.

[00:01:17] Nacho man, candy, savage.

[00:01:20] Boo, boo this man.

[00:01:24] Boo, fuck it sucks, get off the stage.

[00:01:28] He's going to die in a car crash, boo.

[00:01:31] In a heart attack from all the Slim Jim endorsements.

[00:01:35] Imagine all the grease pumping through Macho Man Randy Savage's veins from all the fucking

[00:01:40] Slim Jims he's consumed.

[00:01:41] Oh, he did not eat those Slim Jims.

[00:01:43] No way.

[00:01:44] He did better.

[00:01:46] He fucking did better.

[00:01:48] The cool thing about that is though, is that followed him around his entire life so wherever

[00:01:52] he went like he was sponsored by Slim Jim no matter what.

[00:01:56] Did you know when Macho Man passed away the only operating Slim Jim factory in the United

[00:02:04] States closed down?

[00:02:06] Really?

[00:02:07] There's only one?

[00:02:09] In America, like one factory that makes Slim Jims still here and they shut down

[00:02:13] for like a day or two in honor of his passing.

[00:02:17] I'm not kidding, they couldn't go on.

[00:02:19] They couldn't go on man.

[00:02:21] Oh fuck it, pull one out for our boy.

[00:02:24] One whole day without processing earthworms.

[00:02:27] That's crazy.

[00:02:28] They taste so good though.

[00:02:30] Yeah, kind of.

[00:02:35] There are better jerky brands.

[00:02:37] That's for sure but not one is cool but that's also for sure.

[00:02:44] To finish up those introductions though, so yeah Dwayne the Thrac Johnson as you might

[00:02:49] have already guessed and or heard it's Thrac.

[00:02:51] Hey Thrac.

[00:02:52] What's up?

[00:02:53] Hello.

[00:02:54] I'm eating some goldfish.

[00:02:55] Sorry.

[00:02:56] Wonderful.

[00:02:57] My favorite snack.

[00:02:59] Goldfish that's your favorite.

[00:03:00] Oh yes.

[00:03:01] Okay they're pretty good.

[00:03:03] They're pretty good.

[00:03:04] I'm a pepperage farm simp.

[00:03:06] Everything they make is fucking amazing.

[00:03:09] What are those?

[00:03:11] Milano cookies.

[00:03:12] I even like the chessmans.

[00:03:13] Chessmans are great.

[00:03:14] That's what I was thinking of is the Milano's.

[00:03:16] The Milano's are really fucking good.

[00:03:18] They put out mint things for other Christmas.

[00:03:21] The mint Milano's are fantastic.

[00:03:24] And Coldstone Steve Austin that's actually Nova.

[00:03:28] He's my brother-in-law.

[00:03:30] You were on one episode of Super Pod Saga, I think episode 12.

[00:03:34] Episode number 14 to be exact sir.

[00:03:37] Oh shit, did you have that shit pulled up and ready to go?

[00:03:40] No I was joking.

[00:03:42] I don't know it's 12 or 14.

[00:03:44] You're pretty close.

[00:03:47] Let's get right into this fucking thing because I don't know what else we really need to say or add to this.

[00:03:55] Let's get into it.

[00:03:56] It's root beer.

[00:03:57] You either like it or you don't.

[00:03:59] That's very true.

[00:04:01] There are some people who just hate root beer.

[00:04:03] Like just despise it.

[00:04:05] You know?

[00:04:07] I'm going to take a sip right now.

[00:04:08] Yeah go for it.

[00:04:09] People hate their life.

[00:04:10] That's true.

[00:04:11] They're very sad visuals.

[00:04:14] Yeah.

[00:04:15] That one's for the haters.

[00:04:16] But the good thing about root beer is that despite there being some commonality, they all have a different vibe to them.

[00:04:24] You know?

[00:04:25] So you'll find one that you'll be like yeah I can fuck with this.

[00:04:29] And that's what we're here today to find out.

[00:04:31] Which ones do we fuck with?

[00:04:35] Yeah there were.

[00:04:36] So in total we've got one two three.

[00:04:38] We've got eight brands.

[00:04:40] One two three four five six seven eight brands.

[00:04:44] And of course with so many different brands of root beer out there.

[00:04:48] Leaving that in because that was a good one.

[00:04:51] That was good.

[00:04:52] With so many different brands.

[00:04:54] Yeah yeah.

[00:04:56] With so many other brands of root beers out there.

[00:04:58] There's no way in hell we've ever had like every single kind.

[00:05:01] So yeah let's listen.

[00:05:04] I don't know you're kind of underestimating me.

[00:05:06] I don't know.

[00:05:07] I've had pretty close to every single kind of root beer.

[00:05:10] He secretly drank every single one.

[00:05:13] Yes I have.

[00:05:15] No was the fucking road warrior of root beer over here.

[00:05:19] I am yeah.

[00:05:21] Road warrior mug.

[00:05:23] Chugging along on his Harley Davidson.

[00:05:27] He's got like in his saddle bags he's just got millions of cans of like room temp root beer.

[00:05:33] He has like the football he has the football shoulder pads but instead of the spikes it's

[00:05:37] like two gallon bottles of like A&W and barks.

[00:05:40] What a rush.

[00:05:43] Well it's a football beer beer helmets but like on one side you got a can of barks

[00:05:48] and the other side is like is A&W.

[00:05:50] There you go there you go.

[00:05:52] So you're getting the caffeine and you're getting the creaminess.

[00:05:54] Hell yeah.

[00:05:55] We love creaminess.

[00:05:57] We do love hey we love cream.

[00:06:00] Cash rolls everything around me.

[00:06:02] Cream get the money.

[00:06:04] Solid alabely y'all.

[00:06:06] Let's start with with Stewart's one that I don't it looks familiar.

[00:06:10] What?

[00:06:11] But I've never had it before.

[00:06:13] Okay I think I think I'm the only one here who's had Stewart's.

[00:06:16] Is that correct?

[00:06:18] Oh yeah I have.

[00:06:19] Okay that's that's the one at root beer I've been to.

[00:06:22] So Stewart's I had this one time many years ago.

[00:06:26] I was on a date we went to like a local Mexican restaurant and it was great

[00:06:31] and I was like ooh root beer can I have one please and then they give me a bottle of

[00:06:35] Stewart's and I'm like interesting so you know they give me the bottle I sniff it

[00:06:40] and I'm like it smells like it smells like maple syrup huh like Stewart yeah

[00:06:47] Stewart himself.

[00:06:49] Stewart Copeland drummer the police he smells like he smells like syrup anyways

[00:06:52] so I'm sniffing it right and I'm like this is weird and then I chug it

[00:06:56] and it literally tastes like maple syrup with a little bit of that root

[00:07:01] beer in there just like a teeny bit okay and it's all the arsenic that was in it

[00:07:06] I didn't kill me this was years ago long time ago but it was just

[00:07:11] If it was going to kill you I would have done it by now.

[00:07:13] Yeah but like the taste throw a call in there.

[00:07:17] Thank you.

[00:07:18] I can't throw me some wrestling bullshit in here right here.

[00:07:23] Okay okay.

[00:07:25] Ding ding ding.

[00:07:26] Thank you thank you.

[00:07:27] Okay so I'll edit that in.

[00:07:31] That was even better.

[00:07:33] So yeah Stewart's it's like it has like a weird maple syrup quality to it

[00:07:37] but it like overtakes the power of like the root beer part of it

[00:07:42] so I only had it once and I was like I don't know if I ever want this again

[00:07:46] it was just it was strange and I'll always remember for being strange

[00:07:50] it wasn't necessarily terrible but I think as a root beer it's

[00:07:54] that leaves a lot to be desired so I'm gonna say let's put it in the sea

[00:07:59] here for Stewart.

[00:08:01] Okay how was the how was the consistency on it was it like

[00:08:05] the consistency was there.

[00:08:07] Like it was like kind of creamy and like thick.

[00:08:11] It was more on the thin side like like you know how like it has like

[00:08:16] like it's similar consistency to like like IBC you know it's kind of

[00:08:21] similar to that but I think IBC's taste is much much higher

[00:08:25] than Stewart's is so so Stewart's was maybe trying to be IBC

[00:08:30] but with a twist but that twist I didn't particularly care for.

[00:08:35] I'd be willing to try one again but it's kind of hard to find so

[00:08:39] and I don't want to buy a six pack of it for like out of $25 or whatever

[00:08:44] like six packs of rip your costs these days I mean IBC is expensive

[00:08:49] but.

[00:08:51] Oh well about that we went to Kansas City for vacation

[00:08:54] and I think I got I think it was a four pack of IBC for like

[00:09:01] I think it was like three bucks.

[00:09:03] Oh damn.

[00:09:04] Two fifty or three bucks.

[00:09:05] What?

[00:09:06] Maybe it was just higher.

[00:09:08] No it was in um fuck what was that dumb grocery store it was

[00:09:13] it was in a price chopper in Kansas City Missouri so maybe

[00:09:17] that's why.

[00:09:18] So it was in like a cheapo place.

[00:09:20] That's like secondhand groceries dude.

[00:09:22] It was nice as fuck.

[00:09:23] I mean hey that price for IBC is fantastic so.

[00:09:27] Yeah yeah it was just Stewart's with a different label.

[00:09:31] We'll get to that in a little bit we'll get to that let's get

[00:09:35] not your father's root beer out of the fucking way D so.

[00:09:40] I had.

[00:09:41] Damn harsh in the mellow already dude yeah not your father's

[00:09:50] root beer I mean it's it's cool that it's a boozy alcoholic

[00:09:54] root beer you can drink with your buds and get a little buzz

[00:09:57] or something but like you can tell it really tries to hide

[00:10:02] how how boozy it is with like massive amounts of sugar.

[00:10:07] Yes it's like it's really sweet like.

[00:10:10] It's way too sweet it's like way too sweet just hurts

[00:10:14] it hurts your fucking teeth yeah.

[00:10:18] No I can agree with that film on you yeah because you have it

[00:10:22] as you're drinking it.

[00:10:24] Yeah it's it's it's so weird you know like well little

[00:10:28] confession when I was younger I thought root beer was beer

[00:10:33] without the alcohol because I was like oh it's the root of

[00:10:37] beer right that was how my brain put it together that

[00:10:40] makes sense yeah yeah so having this I was like oh this

[00:10:43] will complete the circle I'll finally know root beer tastes

[00:10:46] like booze I mean I could have added it myself but yeah

[00:10:49] and yet yeah it's one of those like sugary alcohol drinks

[00:10:54] that's like it's way too sugary which I think is trying to

[00:10:57] entice you to drink it more so you can probably get like

[00:11:00] drunk faster and do some really dumb shit you know like me

[00:11:03] throwing up everywhere but but you know yeah D feels

[00:11:08] right because it's not even really that good of a root

[00:11:10] beer.

[00:11:12] I imagine if you took the booze part out of it and

[00:11:14] had it as a root beer it would it would just kind of be

[00:11:16] shit.

[00:11:17] Oh it sucked.

[00:11:18] Yeah it sucked.

[00:11:19] Yeah the problem is it doesn't focus on the root beer

[00:11:22] part at all you know if it was like say if somebody

[00:11:25] took like A and W and mixed in like I don't know a

[00:11:28] little vodka or something that would probably be a

[00:11:30] more interesting experience.

[00:11:32] I want to see for sure I want to see what the

[00:11:36] alcohol content is in a not your father's root beer

[00:11:41] just to see like how much it can't be that much

[00:11:43] as trying to hide maybe like six percent different

[00:11:46] sodas to people really that just like they just

[00:11:50] yeah they had for like a cola as well I think

[00:11:53] yeah that one can be much better pants.

[00:11:58] Oh boy they've got three different versions

[00:12:02] they have a five point nine percent they have

[00:12:05] a ten point seven percent and a nineteen point

[00:12:09] five percent.

[00:12:10] Jesus Christ.

[00:12:12] Holy shit.

[00:12:13] God one sip of that I can't drive good God.

[00:12:18] Yeah so it's really trying to hide this fucking

[00:12:22] and I can't tell you which one I had no idea

[00:12:25] but honestly I imagine it doesn't change much

[00:12:29] so like like if you want to just like if

[00:12:34] you want to get drunk you buy like some of the

[00:12:36] other shelf shit and just chug it right like this

[00:12:39] isn't this is a drink the paint yeah this is like

[00:12:41] an alcohol you're supposed to enjoy and even as

[00:12:44] you're enjoying it it's like this isn't really

[00:12:46] that good.

[00:12:47] That sucks this is giving me a fucking tummy ache

[00:12:50] like I bet the higher higher alcohol content

[00:12:53] ones have way more sugar to try to drown out

[00:12:56] the higher amount of booze.

[00:12:58] Yeah and I'm trying not to get diabetes so

[00:13:00] throwing the D for diabetes.

[00:13:02] Yeah.

[00:13:03] In the perspective here a forloko like the

[00:13:06] strongest one you can get in forloko I mean

[00:13:08] that's just literally for fucking people to

[00:13:10] do people still it's 14 14 is forloko

[00:13:13] still a thing.

[00:13:15] Yeah it is.

[00:13:17] Okay I haven't seen it like being consumed

[00:13:21] and like that kind of setting for a long

[00:13:23] time I think when like white claw came

[00:13:26] became the big thing that kind of overtook

[00:13:28] it yeah no seltzers are starting to fade

[00:13:31] out like people still kind of drink the

[00:13:33] alcoholic seltzers but

[00:13:35] Sensor yeah not as much as they used to

[00:13:37] like back when I was still playing still

[00:13:40] playing the drums in my band like that's

[00:13:42] when white claw was really a thing and

[00:13:44] my bandmates were chugging the shit out

[00:13:46] of it the whole time and I would have a

[00:13:48] few and I'm like these aren't really that

[00:13:50] good but yeah I like I mean I like

[00:13:54] Perrier like I'm a big Perrier guy

[00:13:56] but I wouldn't I wouldn't put alcohol

[00:13:58] yeah like I love liquid death but I

[00:14:01] wouldn't I don't want to fuck it up with

[00:14:03] alcohol man.

[00:14:04] Okay if we're talking about like the that

[00:14:06] kind of stuff you guys ever had the

[00:14:08] bubbler drinks?

[00:14:09] Yeah dude those are good.

[00:14:11] Yeah not bad.

[00:14:12] That's my favorite kind of drink like that

[00:14:14] I think.

[00:14:15] The blue one.

[00:14:17] Hell yeah dude alright so so far we've

[00:14:19] got not your father's root beer and

[00:14:22] D and stewards and C.

[00:14:25] Accurate.

[00:14:27] Oh let's let's do you know

[00:14:30] hold on okay that's saying something

[00:14:32] because two of us haven't even had

[00:14:35] stewards and it's ranked above not your

[00:14:37] father's root beer.

[00:14:39] Well I can say as somebody who's had

[00:14:41] both of them I would drink a stewards

[00:14:43] over and not your father's.

[00:14:45] That's fair I just think not your

[00:14:47] father's is so bad that it's not good.

[00:14:50] Like stewards at least still has

[00:14:53] barely the essence of a root beer

[00:14:55] where it's not your father's root beer.

[00:14:57] Doesn't really taste like root beer.

[00:14:59] That's kind of it if it tasted more

[00:15:01] like root beer and had like a better

[00:15:03] mixture of the alcohol I'd be willing

[00:15:05] to rank it higher but it just

[00:15:07] like it's a good idea but the

[00:15:09] execution is just complete dog shit

[00:15:11] like most alcohol.

[00:15:13] I'll compound even further

[00:15:15] on top of that I've had not

[00:15:17] your father's orange soda and

[00:15:19] I've had not your father's like the

[00:15:21] Mountain Dew version and they were both

[00:15:23] fucking awful.

[00:15:25] I think it was like

[00:15:27] not your father's because your father would have done something better.

[00:15:29] That's true.

[00:15:31] Like if you just want a good

[00:15:33] mixed drink just do a

[00:15:35] Jack and Coke still works.

[00:15:37] A Jack and Coke is nice.

[00:15:39] I know they recently were selling it

[00:15:41] together like in like the can

[00:15:43] like already pre-mixed.

[00:15:45] And I don't know if that's any good or not

[00:15:47] like me I'd rather just mix them myself.

[00:15:49] It's not as

[00:15:51] it's very cokey.

[00:15:53] Yeah when it's like

[00:15:55] an off-cola. Okay interesting.

[00:15:57] Interesting.

[00:15:59] Just mix it yourself kids.

[00:16:01] Yes, yes children

[00:16:03] who drink Jack Jack Daniel.

[00:16:05] That's who drinks the four locos.

[00:16:07] Oh yeah I remember in college

[00:16:09] once I was going to the bathroom

[00:16:11] like in the morning and I went into

[00:16:13] like the toilet and there were literally

[00:16:15] cans of four loco shoved

[00:16:17] into like the toilet.

[00:16:19] And I

[00:16:21] and me not giving a fuck I just pissed on him

[00:16:23] and didn't say a word

[00:16:25] I didn't say a word to anybody.

[00:16:27] I would have pissed on you had me put those cans in there.

[00:16:29] Yeah I think they were long gone at that point.

[00:16:33] Let's uh

[00:16:35] let's get Oli Pop out of here real quick too.

[00:16:37] Oli Pop.

[00:16:39] Shout out to Jalachan because

[00:16:41] Jalachan I was once chatting

[00:16:43] with her about like

[00:16:45] soda stuff and she recommended I try

[00:16:47] Oli Pop a brand.

[00:16:49] And so because of her I've been slowly

[00:16:51] working my way through all the flavors

[00:16:53] that they have so thank you Jella.

[00:16:57] Yeah and it's not

[00:16:59] oh man. It's not

[00:17:01] bad. It's alright.

[00:17:03] You can definitely tell it's

[00:17:05] it's like trying to be a soda

[00:17:07] but using more like kind of natural ingredients

[00:17:09] so when you drink it.

[00:17:11] It's very rooty. Very rooty yes

[00:17:13] little bits of root in there.

[00:17:15] It's like a root beer.

[00:17:17] Yeah like it's definitely when you

[00:17:19] drink it you feel less

[00:17:21] I guess guilty about it because

[00:17:23] like the sugar content is really low

[00:17:25] and they sell it

[00:17:27] with the kombucha at least

[00:17:29] where I am it's in that section so

[00:17:31] I think it's trying to be

[00:17:33] like a kombucha soda hybrid

[00:17:35] I think and kombucha are really good for you

[00:17:37] but they taste like shit so

[00:17:39] this at least tastes good

[00:17:41] but this Oli Pop it's much like

[00:17:43] when you first drink it you're like

[00:17:45] oh that's weird

[00:17:47] but the more you go through the can

[00:17:49] by the end of it you're like

[00:17:51] I've gotten used to it you know

[00:17:53] I can vibe to it and this one definitely

[00:17:55] is taking a lot of A&W influence

[00:17:57] like it has it's very kind of creamy

[00:17:59] and reminds me

[00:18:01] a bit of A&W and flavor

[00:18:03] it's not one-to-one but I think that's what

[00:18:05] it's going for but trying to do it

[00:18:07] with more like natural ingredients

[00:18:09] you know. That's fair

[00:18:11] yeah and it's not

[00:18:13] it's only downside is it's

[00:18:15] very pricey like where I am

[00:18:17] like a can of it like an 8 ounce can

[00:18:19] is like 250

[00:18:21] yeah that's I just I literally

[00:18:23] just had one yesterday

[00:18:25] and it was I think it was 278

[00:18:27] or something like that. Yeah some stupid price

[00:18:29] which

[00:18:31] so the root beer one for the Oli Pop

[00:18:33] brand is the only one I don't

[00:18:35] really like

[00:18:37] but I can drink it but I would not

[00:18:39] go out of my way to drink that over

[00:18:41] another root beer. Yep my favorite

[00:18:43] Oli Pops are either the the orange

[00:18:45] one I quite like the orange one

[00:18:47] the lemon lime was also pretty good

[00:18:49] the cherry coal is pretty good too

[00:18:51] yeah the coal is okay

[00:18:53] they're like Dr. Pepper rip off doesn't

[00:18:55] work though I think most Dr. Pepper

[00:18:57] rip-off don't work

[00:18:59] really there's only two there's only

[00:19:01] Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pib those are the only

[00:19:03] good ones the rest of them are

[00:19:05] I think Mr. Pib is better. Yes Mr. Pib is better

[00:19:07] it is better but like Mr. Pib and

[00:19:09] Dr. Pepper are good

[00:19:11] and then the other ones are shit

[00:19:13] if you're comparing

[00:19:15] like mellow yellow to Mountain Dew

[00:19:17] too I think mellow yellow is better

[00:19:19] it is but I don't like either one

[00:19:21] I graduated high school I'll need to

[00:19:23] drink a Mountain Dew ever again

[00:19:25] that's fair

[00:19:27] what are we looking at

[00:19:29] for Oli Pop? I would give it a B

[00:19:31] I'd give it a B

[00:19:33] it's better than stewards

[00:19:35] at the very least

[00:19:37] it's at the highest of the C

[00:19:39] yeah I would say low B high C

[00:19:41] yeah it's better than true

[00:19:43] we can adjust it as we go

[00:19:45] if you could do like a C plus

[00:19:47] or B minus

[00:19:49] yeah

[00:19:51] it's better than you'd think

[00:19:53] it is a very middle of the road

[00:19:55] yeah

[00:19:57] oh yeah

[00:19:59] if I could get like a 12 pack

[00:20:01] of that for

[00:20:03] like the price of a normal 12 pack

[00:20:05] of like groupier I would buy that

[00:20:07] what?

[00:20:09] yeah no it would be 50 bucks

[00:20:11] that's one thing that really kills it

[00:20:13] is the price

[00:20:15] yeah

[00:20:17] let's see another small boy

[00:20:19] out of here what about Casey's

[00:20:21] groupier I never got a chance to try

[00:20:23] that I know Thrac you for sure

[00:20:25] I drank it on streaming

[00:20:27] and I'm sure Nova's had it

[00:20:29] cause he works out he manages the case

[00:20:31] I do manage the case

[00:20:33] they just opened a Casey's like right by my house

[00:20:35] in fact when I'm coming home from work

[00:20:37] it's like right off the highway

[00:20:39] exit it's right there

[00:20:41] so like last Wednesday

[00:20:43] before my stream I just

[00:20:45] improv took a right went in

[00:20:47] and was just looking around

[00:20:49] and I saw they had their own brand of groupier

[00:20:51] and I was like oh let me try that

[00:20:53] I also got the brand of pickle flavored potato chips

[00:20:55] cause that's another vice of mine

[00:20:57] they were very dill

[00:20:59] like more dill than like those ones

[00:21:01] but I liked them they were very strong

[00:21:03] though

[00:21:05] you can tell they're cheap

[00:21:07] they're not

[00:21:09] like the Lay's dill is really good

[00:21:11] but it's like a nice blending

[00:21:13] I mean hell even that weird pickle

[00:21:15] like kettle cooked

[00:21:17] pickle chips those are bang

[00:21:19] love those love those I miss

[00:21:21] they used to make pickle pringles

[00:21:23] I miss those

[00:21:25] dude I remember that

[00:21:27] they were just gone

[00:21:29] yeah breaks my heart

[00:21:31] god damn Pringle man

[00:21:33] anyways the Casey's groupier

[00:21:35] I liked it

[00:21:37] I mean I do

[00:21:39] I give a little bit of review on my stream

[00:21:41] if you guys want to check

[00:21:43] like

[00:21:45] if you go to say youtube.com

[00:21:47] slash that 94 I'm gonna plug myself real quick

[00:21:49] and you go to part 4

[00:21:51] of my Sega Genesis ranking

[00:21:53] in like the first 5 minutes

[00:21:55] and I remember enjoying it

[00:21:57] like it kind of has its own

[00:21:59] like kind of unique

[00:22:01] thing about it

[00:22:03] like I taste a little bit of A and W

[00:22:05] I taste a little bit of mug

[00:22:07] maybe even a teeny bit of barks in there

[00:22:09] like it's a weird mixture

[00:22:11] but it kind of does its own thing

[00:22:13] it's almost to me

[00:22:15] I think it's like light

[00:22:17] it is like very sugary

[00:22:19] it's just yeah

[00:22:21] yeah for sure

[00:22:23] it's probably the closest to mug

[00:22:25] because I think a lot of these store

[00:22:27] brand

[00:22:29] groupiers tend to go for a mug

[00:22:31] flavor

[00:22:33] like we didn't put it on here

[00:22:35] but like the Kroger brand

[00:22:37] groupier big K

[00:22:39] that's just mug groupier

[00:22:41] it's probably even in the same plant

[00:22:43] probably

[00:22:45] it's not one to one

[00:22:47] but it's very close

[00:22:49] yeah

[00:22:51] would you say it's on the same level

[00:22:53] as Oli Pop

[00:22:55] or better than Oli Pop

[00:22:57] I would give Kasey a B

[00:22:59] I would put it above Oli Pop though

[00:23:01] I think it had a much nicer

[00:23:03] like a much nicer taste

[00:23:05] it was a bit smoother as well

[00:23:07] so

[00:23:09] yeah it was higher

[00:23:11] I don't know if I'd buy a 2L of it

[00:23:13] but like a bottle here and there

[00:23:15] sure why not

[00:23:17] but I don't buy 2L

[00:23:19] yeah this next one

[00:23:21] great value groupier I only bought

[00:23:23] a 2L because that's all I could find

[00:23:25] I didn't want to buy like a whole 12 pack

[00:23:27] was it like a dollar

[00:23:29] yeah it was like a dollar and a 12 pack

[00:23:31] is like fucking 3 bucks

[00:23:33] they paid him to take it

[00:23:35] so I um

[00:23:37] fuck

[00:23:39] I have not had Kasey's groupier

[00:23:41] but I would still put

[00:23:43] great value above

[00:23:45] Oli Pop

[00:23:47] it's like a healthy alternative

[00:23:49] but like if I want

[00:23:51] if I'm in the mood for a groupier

[00:23:53] I want like an actual groupier

[00:23:55] not an Oli Pop

[00:23:57] so yeah

[00:23:59] so um

[00:24:01] I would put the great value above

[00:24:03] Kasey's I think

[00:24:05] oh shit

[00:24:07] yeah

[00:24:09] so I don't know

[00:24:11] that one is just really easy to drink

[00:24:13] and I think

[00:24:15] it's really good on it too

[00:24:17] because like you said 2L is like a dollar

[00:24:19] so if you're really just

[00:24:21] wanting a root beer and that's your last dollar

[00:24:23] I mean that's really easy to just walk into a Walmart

[00:24:25] and it's premium quality

[00:24:27] it is dude

[00:24:29] it's delicious and creamy too

[00:24:31] read that label to me

[00:24:33] root, beer, delicious

[00:24:35] and creamy 67.6

[00:24:37] fluid ounces

[00:24:39] whoa

[00:24:41] yeah our listeners

[00:24:43] don't get to watch Aaron

[00:24:45] chug it on his 240p webcam

[00:24:51] it's a beautiful

[00:24:53] site for only my 4 eyes

[00:24:57] and nobus

[00:24:59] nobus is also a 4 eyes we're all 4 eyes here

[00:25:01] oh yeah

[00:25:03] glasses gang rise up

[00:25:07] next

[00:25:09] are we all in agreeance like

[00:25:11] we all had great value so I'm just agreeing

[00:25:13] sure

[00:25:15] they're like right there

[00:25:17] they're like the same but I think

[00:25:19] great value just has a more

[00:25:23] like definitive taste

[00:25:25] that's fine with me

[00:25:27] okay

[00:25:29] um

[00:25:31] let's leave the big 3 for now

[00:25:33] IBC

[00:25:35] I bought a 4 pack of it

[00:25:37] like I said at a price chopper

[00:25:39] in Kansas City

[00:25:41] and it was fucking smooth

[00:25:43] even like room temp

[00:25:45] it was pretty good

[00:25:47] I love IBC

[00:25:49] honestly I think it's the best root beer you can buy

[00:25:51] there is no root beer without

[00:25:55] IBC

[00:25:57] it's not my favorite but it is

[00:25:59] it's a

[00:26:01] it's a special occasion

[00:26:03] usually because of how pricey it is

[00:26:05] whenever you go out to a restaurant

[00:26:07] and they separate

[00:26:09] the root beer from the soda

[00:26:11] and they're like you can't refill it

[00:26:13] or whatever that's when you're like oh that's

[00:26:15] that's IBC

[00:26:17] in the glass bottle

[00:26:19] yeah you're like give me that

[00:26:21] and it's always IBC

[00:26:23] and I'm like oh fuck it's so good

[00:26:25] and it made you look cool when you were little

[00:26:27] oh yeah

[00:26:29] it still makes you look cool dude

[00:26:31] just don't let people see the label

[00:26:33] you just drink it and act like you're all

[00:26:35] drinking an IBC smoking a candy cigarette

[00:26:37] cool as tenure

[00:26:39] my inhibitions oh no

[00:26:41] you'd hate to look at me at a red light

[00:26:43] I'm holding both of those

[00:26:45] like imagine you're holding

[00:26:47] one of them outside your car just chugging

[00:26:49] the IBC and then the cop pulls you over and you're like

[00:26:51] bro this is root beer

[00:26:53] and then he's like I'll be the judge

[00:26:55] and takes a swig and he's like oh that's fucking good

[00:26:57] I'm like yeah no shit

[00:26:59] wait a minute no shit

[00:27:01] I'll let you off if I can have the rest of this

[00:27:03] you can have one of them

[00:27:05] we must kung fu fight for this

[00:27:07] last IBC officer

[00:27:09] that'll be six dollars officer

[00:27:11] a cab six dollars

[00:27:13] uh so

[00:27:15] man I'm in faith

[00:27:17] I want to put IBC in S

[00:27:19] personally it's an S

[00:27:21] it is an S it's an S tier let's be real

[00:27:23] yeah and of course we can adjust that if we need to

[00:27:25] to double S

[00:27:29] the SSS

[00:27:31] the SMR

[00:27:33] I'm just gonna put my face real close to the mic

[00:27:35] put your butt hole real close to the mic

[00:27:37] or something

[00:27:39] scratch it right there on the mic

[00:27:43] good thing the camera is off

[00:27:49] fuck man

[00:27:51] see my candy cigarette

[00:27:55] it's Newport flavor

[00:27:58] I want to get one

[00:28:03] marburo candy cigarettes

[00:28:05] we'd all be so confused

[00:28:07] the uh

[00:28:09] hmmment hall

[00:28:11] or it's like some obscure

[00:28:13] old discontin

[00:28:27] I've never had a Marlboro black before that sounds cool. Just imagining that's not I haven't tried. Let's do a cigarette

[00:28:40] Speedrunning long

[00:28:43] God I haven't had a cigarette in years

[00:28:47] But no when you said Marlboro skyline that made me think of like a Marlboro that that like tastes like skyline chili

[00:28:54] Oh, yeah

[00:28:57] It's camel crush flavored. Okay. Oh

[00:29:00] disgusting

[00:29:04] Just horrible chili and like way too much cheese like what the fuck is this?

[00:29:09] And like as a native Ohioan some people get mad when I shit talk skyline chili, but it's the truth, okay?

[00:29:16] These people need to know it's barely chili. It's barely chili. Yeah exactly. It's a paste in fucking cheese

[00:29:23] Wendy's chili is better

[00:29:26] Then it's good. Yeah, though fuck Wendy's I am I

[00:29:31] Really want to try that fucking Ohio delicacy the like chili on top of spaghetti

[00:29:36] That sounds pretty fucking lit when you put it on like spaghetti

[00:29:40] It makes more sense, but it's not like a really good like spaghetti meat sauce, you know

[00:29:46] It's it's weird. It's weird if you come to Ohio. I'll show you we'll go to skyline

[00:29:52] I will if you get one of the conies like if you put that chili on like one of the little hot

[00:29:59] That's probably the best

[00:30:01] Place for skyline is like the the meat sauce on the chili on the on like a hot dog fuck. It's not bad. Yeah

[00:30:07] Fuck yeah, okay, it's chili tearless

[00:30:13] Dude barks all right, I love barks

[00:30:16] I was addicted to barks for like years like that was like the only soda I drank for like like a two-three year period

[00:30:24] Yeah, man, and so this one I

[00:30:28] Remember a lot of it from

[00:30:31] Like growing up, but this is another one

[00:30:33] I found I managed to find a bottle at a gas station in Kansas City

[00:30:37] And it was it was fucking good

[00:30:39] It's the only root beer that has caffeine or like one of the few maybe that has caffeine

[00:30:44] It's the only major one. Yeah. Yeah, and it's got like it's it's a little fucking spicy

[00:30:50] It's got like a unique so that's what I that's what I was gonna say

[00:30:54] I was scared of that shit when I was kid

[00:30:58] Drinking cuz it like I didn't think it was good now that I'm older. I'd like I have a more refined palate

[00:31:03] It's definitely well, I think as the name implies it has a bark. It has a bark to its bite. Yeah

[00:31:11] Maybe that's why they named it that way, I don't know it does yeah

[00:31:14] It does like hit differently than a lot of the other rupees is probably why I was drawn to it

[00:31:19] So I'm like this is so weirdly different, you know, and then I would drink it

[00:31:27] Too much

[00:31:30] I can't go to high school. I had too much root beer

[00:31:33] You're fucking sleepwalking you're like hungover from too much fucking root beer, bro

[00:31:38] No, just imagine like

[00:31:40] You're like like 10th grade like English class or whatever and you just hear like a

[00:31:45] Like like a can

[00:31:47] I'm just like I'm just sipping on like a root beer under the cloud like shit's so fire

[00:31:54] This is like an engine

[00:31:56] dude

[00:31:57] Yeah, like this really cool coosie on the outside where it says like cowboys butts drive me nuts or something

[00:32:04] The cozy were say totally not alcohol. I swear

[00:32:08] The can of bars your beer and they're like are you sure I'm like you heard me crack it open

[00:32:14] Like I ain't that smart. I

[00:32:16] Think even like it's gotta it's got a unique crack when oh, yeah

[00:32:22] I got it in a bottle unfortunately, so I'm not sure that's okay

[00:32:29] Let's blame Missouri dude, it's not me it's Missouri

[00:32:31] That's that's the tagline for the whole state of Missouri. It's not be it's Missouri

[00:32:36] Just blame the Midwest in general which I think is

[00:32:40] Is Ohio Midwest? I don't know. Yeah, okay

[00:32:44] I've googled it and it's see Midwest states

[00:32:47] Oh, no, it just it feels like it just barely it sits in like a weird spot where it's like

[00:32:52] It's too far into the East Coast. It's like too far east to be Midwest

[00:32:57] It's too north to be the south so it's like a weird mix of all of them. I

[00:33:02] Think you could cut it into quarters like I think the part that borders Indiana. That's a little bit

[00:33:07] Yeah, it is according to the to the federal government. It is Midwest

[00:33:17] Is uh

[00:33:19] I think barks is an A because like if I had the choice between

[00:33:24] Yeah, like IBC and barks I would probably go IBC like

[00:33:30] But I want that glass bottle like like

[00:33:33] Barks in a glass bottle. I guess how I would define it is

[00:33:37] IBC is like a really good like local like a local pizza

[00:33:42] You know what I mean? Like one that you go out of you like go out of your way for no shit is fucking fire

[00:33:47] Whereas barks is like your favorite of like the pizza chains like the pizza huts or whatever

[00:33:52] Like that's the one I go for

[00:33:54] Yeah, like kind of that okay, I see that yeah, that sounds good

[00:34:01] About mug

[00:34:04] Mugs a weird one for me

[00:34:06] We're getting to that like we're getting to that point where uh, I

[00:34:11] mean

[00:34:13] Fuck I

[00:34:15] I kind of would want to do great value over mug cuz like mug I listen mug is okay

[00:34:21] But it's not I think I

[00:34:25] Think somebody when they were making that they were trying to make a Pepsi

[00:34:32] It tastes like it belongs in the Pepsi family absolutely

[00:34:36] Yeah, and as somebody

[00:34:39] Pepsi drinker these days because like I don't know some some with my taste buds

[00:34:44] Like cope just doesn't taste the same as it used to but Pepsi is better. I don't know. I don't know what happened

[00:34:48] Pepsi is

[00:34:51] Like I don't know if coke changed the flavor or something because whenever I have coke these days

[00:34:56] It just it doesn't hit like it used to I

[00:34:59] Don't know man. It tastes like battery acid. Yeah, it's like it's like way too carmally these days

[00:35:04] I don't know what happened like if I go to McDonald's

[00:35:08] I'll get one of their coax because that shit is still fire but

[00:35:12] That's really the only instance. But yeah mug is

[00:35:15] It's very light. I think it has it's way too sweet has like way too much sugar to

[00:35:21] It like I think having caffeine would actually be a help even though it doesn't have any

[00:35:26] Yeah, and it's it's still pretty thick too. It's it's it's pretty creamy like a and w

[00:35:31] But it doesn't like hit the same. I don't have the same like like pop of ruby that the other one so

[00:35:39] So like the way

[00:35:42] Describe stewards is exactly how I feel about my group here. Okay, but it's just it's just really

[00:35:48] Serious to me. I don't know I could see that to me. It's very it's very thin. It's like watered down

[00:35:54] Would you yeah?

[00:35:56] Yeah, would you pick would you pick like ollie pop and casey's and all those over my honestly?

[00:36:03] Yes, yes, I still like what I was too

[00:36:07] What I was a kid I love yeah

[00:36:11] And I'm like oh it has like a bulldog. That's cute

[00:36:14] That's probably why I liked it

[00:36:16] It has the best logo of all of them by a mile

[00:36:20] Yeah, yeah in the and that's a certified

[00:36:25] Yeah, or a fat stoke

[00:36:28] Yeah, I also just love saying like that's a that's a mug moment

[00:36:31] Oh

[00:36:35] Thank you

[00:36:38] So would you pick ollie pop over mug cuz I want I would definitely I would pick mug over ollie pop to be honest

[00:36:46] I put fucking mug in a sea if you're asking me. Yeah, let's turn see

[00:36:51] Cuz ollie pops any pops much more interesting to drink. I would put mug above yes

[00:36:57] I could okay, but like ollie pop is it's much more interesting like whenever when I drink an ollie pop

[00:37:03] It's like an adventure that's true because it starts out one way and it's different

[00:37:07] You know and it's good and it's good for your gut too. Oh, yeah if like my my pros and cons

[00:37:16] You're in the pros and cons it's like okay. I'm gonna take a fat honking shit after this

[00:37:22] Whereas I'm just I'm just gonna gain a couple pounds or so as I always say I have a six pack

[00:37:30] It's just in the keg somewhere

[00:37:35] Yeah, I think ollie pop and mug are both C plus like if we were breaking it down

[00:37:39] But I think ollie pop is better than mug in my opinion. Yeah. Yeah, it is I guess it's just unique

[00:37:44] You know yeah, I think mugs just come it's like if somebody

[00:37:48] Somebody only drank root beer and they pissed it out. I think

[00:37:56] Mug piss

[00:37:59] The big one the final the the biggest the one people when you think of root beer

[00:38:05] They immediately go and W and that's that's kind of for like a good reason

[00:38:09] So so for one what I really love about a and w is the you can get those bottles

[00:38:15] That kind of almost like those plastic bottles that resemble of

[00:38:20] A glass yeah, that's pretty fucking cool

[00:38:23] Yeah, they used to have texture on them like these to be like kind of

[00:38:28] Logo into it. Yeah. Yeah, cuz but

[00:38:32] Growing up my my grandpa used to do root beer floats and he a and w was his choice

[00:38:37] Yeah, and he always had like the mini bottles. I think they had like smaller bottles

[00:38:42] But he's doing shots of fucking

[00:38:44] Oh you damn right he was

[00:38:48] Like if we're breaking it down

[00:38:50] Sorry, no, go ahead. Well, I remember like a and w being like a special thing because whenever I'd go over to my grandparents

[00:38:57] They always had a and w my granddad always would always give me one, you know

[00:39:01] So I always was like oh, it's like a special treat, you know while I hide in his den and watch

[00:39:07] Like

[00:39:08] Nickelodeon used to have was a gas where they had like reruns of like guts and figure it out and all that it was

[00:39:16] Shit out of that I've watched so many episodes of guts and legends of the hidden temple and all that good shit

[00:39:25] I've watched legends of the hidden temple recently. It's still a fucking cool show

[00:39:30] It's so cool. It's not somebody was gonna get a big rock

[00:39:34] They bring the temple back hidden temple bring it back

[00:39:39] They need to put on Netflix. Oh, I'd watch it. I'm watch the shit out of it do it like like imminent. I wanted a little bit

[00:39:46] Little bit more fucking yeah

[00:39:48] So so as a kid

[00:39:50] I really loved it

[00:39:51] But then as I got older and was trying all the different group years and w kind of fell off to the side for me

[00:39:57] I think it was like I was hung up on like the vanilla aspect because I'm not really a fan of like

[00:40:01] Like cream sodas or like the heavy like vanilla stuff, but recently for this I

[00:40:08] Got a bottle and I drank it and I was pleasantly surprised. It's really good. I really enjoyed it

[00:40:16] I hadn't had one in such a long time

[00:40:18] So it was almost like a brand new kind of drink and I was like goddamn. This is good

[00:40:23] Like really good if we're breaking it down to an experience. I think that is that's my number one

[00:40:31] You get it in they ever go to the A&W restaurant

[00:40:34] We're like yeah, John Silver's and they have it in a long time. Oh

[00:40:39] My god, dude, you get it out of that fucking barrel. Yeah, they oh they have the special pump for oh, yeah

[00:40:45] And you know, yeah, they gave you the chilled mugs. Yeah, I always did that. Yeah

[00:40:49] dude

[00:40:51] I the things I would do

[00:40:53] To have one of those

[00:40:56] Your floors doesn't always sticky like it always is an A&W

[00:41:15] She's fine

[00:41:17] You're talking you were talking about with your grandpa to my grandpa and I used to go to

[00:41:21] There's a long John Silver's. Yeah, the long John Silver A&W

[00:41:25] Just right down the road from where we lived and we would go there once a week man

[00:41:28] And that was that was an experience for me

[00:41:30] I think that that plays into part why I like it so much but like I

[00:41:35] Don't know. It's just it's just the whole experience for me to chill mug

[00:41:38] You sometimes you get a little ice cream in there, man

[00:41:40] Like it is the perfect root beer for a root beer blow like nut like I've tried I think I've got

[00:41:46] I've tried mug in like root beer float situations

[00:41:48] They don't compliment the ice cream as well as A&W does I think it's the vanilla

[00:41:53] Yes

[00:41:57] And so it's so fucking weird that you guys also like maybe it's a grandpa thing

[00:42:01] But like I remember when my dad was having his house

[00:42:04] Moved to where it currently is because he moved it from like a different town over to where it is now

[00:42:09] And my grandpa was in charge of the whole thing and we he would always stop at Casey's to get to fucking A&W

[00:42:16] Bottles because they were like two for three bucks back in the day

[00:42:20] Man, I miss those days when shit was so fucking cheap, but no, yeah A&W it is

[00:42:27] It's it's almost God tier. It's uh, that's an S plus for me, buddy. I

[00:42:33] I think IBC is the better root beer, but when it comes to

[00:42:38] Like the most readily available one of the three. I think a and W is the best one

[00:42:44] That's true even though I I think I have a more personal connection to barks

[00:42:48] You know just because it was like my thing for a very long time and I still really love barks, but just having a and W recently

[00:42:55] I'm like, yeah, this is why it's the king

[00:42:58] Like I've I've I've finally come up full circle and I'm like I I get it

[00:43:03] Man if I could build a cow from the ground up and put whatever I wanted in its

[00:43:13] Be fucking chilled and a glass

[00:43:19] Holy fuck, bro, imagine you like sucking on a cow's teeth

[00:43:26] Like I said, I would do anything

[00:43:31] If you told me that cows to have a

[00:43:35] I'd be sucking on that thing for a fucking month. I don't care

[00:43:42] My fucking heads gonna explode

[00:43:44] Oh

[00:43:47] The last drop

[00:43:52] Yeah, I think for that alone

[00:44:05] The a and W long John like silver restaurant

[00:44:08] We used to have one of those around here like a long time ago my dad loved that place

[00:44:14] It mean him used to go there all the time. I haven't had like a and W food in a long time

[00:44:19] I remember as a kid thinking it was fine, but then

[00:44:23] Thinking maybe it wasn't but I don't know if I honestly don't know if there any around me anymore

[00:44:29] I may have to check and if I do I may barely around if there is one around me

[00:44:34] I may have to like go on a journey and try it

[00:44:38] Just to remind myself. It was glorious last time

[00:44:43] I've never had long John silvers

[00:44:45] Burgers are huge

[00:44:46] I didn't really get an appreciation for seafood until like a couple years ago and

[00:44:50] Their chicken is their best thing. Well, there's um, there's a seafood place by me

[00:44:55] I'll know if you guys have them. It's called Captain D's and

[00:44:58] I've had it and they're not bad

[00:45:00] They're not bad

[00:45:02] Every time I ever pass one there's fucking nobody in the park

[00:45:07] Yeah, yeah, whenever I go to like Captain D's they they cook everything like fresh to order

[00:45:13] So if I go in the drive-through I sit there for like 10 minutes

[00:45:17] But I'll deal with it and also Captain D's nuts

[00:45:22] Captain D's does I was gonna say that but I didn't know if we were past that joke or not

[00:45:26] Dude you're talking about sucking on a cow's root beer tit. I think I think we're past that then

[00:45:32] Listen

[00:45:35] Or here's the breakdown

[00:45:45] Here's the breakdown so in D tier not your father's piss I mean root beer

[00:45:53] in C tier got mug and

[00:45:57] What was it against stewards? I was I was called Stan Lee's

[00:46:02] Or Stanley's

[00:46:04] Be tier we've got great value

[00:46:07] KC's and ollie pop

[00:46:09] a tier we have barks god bless

[00:46:13] and uh

[00:46:16] S tier we've got a and w and IBC

[00:46:21] God damn right where they belong fuck. Yeah, dude. That's a solid list. Yeah

[00:46:26] I am trying to download the image but the website is being stupid. There we go

[00:46:32] Download it is now permanent. It's etched into the very fucking fabric of time. It's in super pod saga cannon

[00:46:39] It is that's true. Oh, it's beautiful

[00:46:43] All right

[00:46:44] Well, everybody, that's it. That's our first tier list

[00:46:49] We'll do more with different stuff my webcam is slowly fucking dissolving underwater

[00:46:56] So it looks like it looks like you're in an aquarium for real. I wish I was in an aquarium fucking drown me

[00:47:04] You can recreate the weird Al off the deep end album cover. Oh

[00:47:12] Man, well, yeah, that's it everybody I hope people like this. I hope yeah, yeah listen to it

[00:47:19] It's root beer. Everybody say bye. Bye

[00:47:22] Well, join us next time for the toilet paper to your last

[00:47:26] That'd be a good one