Gas Station Snacks and Vodka Cocktail Parings - "Hakuna MaWawa"

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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Theme and Intro

Matt 1:01

10 , 9 , 8 , 7 , 6 , 5 , 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 . We have liftoff .

Rob 1:17

Welcome to Matt and Friends . Drink the Universe .

Matt 1:26

Welcome back to Matt and Friends . Drink the Universe . Today , the theme is Drinkables .

Rob 1:31

I have so many terrible flavors in my mouth right now .

Aaron 1:34

Three budget snacks , it's got like this fireness to your tongue . It's not good guys .

Matt 1:39

That go with a centerpiece drink .

Rob 1:42

Oh , oh , don't drink it . Don't drink . What is with you guys gargling your ?

Matt 1:46

food and beer . If you're feeling brave , you can dip it . Got a hard pass on that .

Rob 1:49

Just stop getting meat . Wow , that really had a vaudevillian jive to it , you know .

Matt 1:57

It did like a horrific cooking show intro .

Rob 2:01

Yeah , well , I hope we can redeem ourselves from our mishaps in season one .

Matt 2:05

I really hope so . My only goal for today is that nobody makes any of the noises that were made in the previous two Drinkables episodes . Here's hoping Most of them were my fault though .

Rob 2:16

Like most of them were directly my fault . That is a fair assessment .

Intros

Matt 2:20

Once again . I have some great friends drinking the universe again with me today , so let's go around the table and have you all introduce yourselves .

Aaron 2:26

Hello , it's Siobhan .

Siobhan 2:28

Hey this is .

Matt 2:29

Aaron .

Rob 2:29

Hi everybody , it's Rob back again .

Matt 2:32

So for those of you listening to your first Drinkables episode , what we do is I send my friends out to a specific place and I say pick three things that will go with a particular drink . Today the centerpiece drink is Reyka Vodka from Iceland and we Eastland Eastland and we upscaled from last season where everybody was going to the dollar store . That did not , overall , end well .

Aaron 2:56

Almost everybody went to the dollar store .

Matt 2:58

Almost everybody went to the dollar store . Some of us went to Wegmans Not saying who . Everybody was assigned a gas station to go to to pick their three items . I'm very excited I saw in the kitchen before we got in here today what some of the items were . And I'm going to be the one that actually starts us off today because mine is a little temperature sensitive . So are we ready ?

Rob 3:23

Are we ready ? I'm hoping I'm ready for anybody who You've been dipping into the sauce before we got in here buddy .

Matt 3:30

I went bug's bunny there for a second , so we're going to start off with the cocktail quote unquote that I prepared .

Matt and 7/11

Matt 3:38

The gas station that I chose was 7-Eleven .

Rob 3:40

This looks lovely .

Aaron 3:42

Everybody loves a Slurpee . Can I ask does everyone get gas from 7-Eleven ?

Matt 3:49

As in for your vehicle .

Aaron 3:50

Yeah .

Rob 3:51

I've never filled up at a 7-Eleven to my knowledge .

Aaron 3:54

Just curious , I don't know .

Matt 3:57

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 4:01

I'm just curious .

Siobhan 4:02

I don't think I've ever seen a 7-Eleven with gas pumps the gas station .

Matt 4:05

Okay , the one in Nazareth .

Aaron 4:07

Pennsylvania does indeed have gas pumps .

Matt 4:09

Oh does it really ? Yes , it does .

Aaron 4:11

That's amazing . I was about to call you out Are the gas pumps a separate brand of gas .

Matt 4:16

No , they're attached and they have 7-Eleven logos on them .

Rob 4:19

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 before it melts anymore .

Matt 4:31

So what we have here is a cherry Slurpee with vodka with a peach ring , varnish or garnish .

Rob 4:40

I feel like varnish might actually not be wrong . I'm not going to lie , I've never been so surprised by tasting absolutely nothing . Because it tastes like nothing , I'm not really getting the cherry . I actually think the peach ring helps a lot . Okay , yeah , I'm going to get into that .

Aaron 5:00

It sweetens it up a little bit , which I never thought I would have to say about a Slurpee .

Siobhan 5:03

Yeah , you got to dip the peach ring .

Rob 5:06

Oh yeah , I'll join you on that . Yeah , I never thought that we would need the peach ring to sweeten it .

Aaron 5:13

I am getting a little cough syrup . I'm not going to lie , yeah .

Rob 5:16

I warned you about this , Matthew . I told you it's a delicate thing . If you didn't go blue razz , you had a shot at making the cough syrup taste . All right , it's a tad medicinal .

Matt 5:29

So it is . It's a little Nyquil , so we're going to have to go ahead and dive into the first piece of food here , and the order I would like to do this in is chicken sandwich first . So I went for kind of a sweet and salty thing , like I have done in the past , but I tried to mix it up and get flavors that really went with the cherry . What we have here is chicken sandwich . We have some Hershey's Cookie and Cream Bar , and then I actually found a little cheesecake , a strawberry cheesecake . That was the surprise . I couldn't believe it was . Back there . There was only one left and I thought , okay , we're going to round it out with that .

Rob 6:02

It's not the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had in my life .

Aaron 6:06

It might be the driest .

Siobhan 6:07

Yeah , it is a little dry .

Aaron 6:09

I think it might be good he's dipping it in the Slurp .

Matt 6:13

I like it . Aaron just went right in what's the chicken sandwich to the Slurpee .

Aaron 6:19

Well , now I feel like I have to do that too .

Siobhan 6:22

Don't knock until you try it .

Rob 6:23

As I'm getting deeper in the Slurp , I'm getting more of the cherry flavor , which is making it more medicinal .

Matt 6:28

Okay , I mean actually , the dipping ain't bad . The dipping is really not bad .

Rob 6:32

Right , Really it's just rehydrating the chicken , which is kind of a necessity at the moment .

Aaron 6:39

You're right , though this isn't that bad .

Rob 6:43

It keeps and bounds above your offerings in season one .

Aaron 6:44

Oh my gosh , thank God .

Matt 6:47

We are 45 seconds into tasting and nobody's screaming bloody murder , so I'm ahead of the curve .

Rob 6:52

It's a bit of a aftertaste . I don't know what it's coming from .

Aaron 6:56

The gas pumps . It might be from that .

Matt 7:01

For those of you if this is your first drinkable . Half the episode is us chewing into the microphones .

Aaron 7:05

Indeed .

Siobhan 7:07

But you notice there's no aftertaste when you dip the chicken in the drink . That's true . You get a little aftertaste with both of them individually , but when you dip it they like balance each other out .

Aaron 7:16

I really think the peach ring saves this .

Matt 7:18

I remember those being a lot sweeter , like the cherry slurpee , is just not .

Rob 7:23

May I ask how much vodka is in this no shot Okay .

Aaron 7:27

You're gonna be all right .

Rob 7:29

Well , just before I slugged the whole thing , I needed to make sure .

Matt 7:33

So , now that you've slugged the whole thing , how do you intend to taste the other food along with it ?

Rob 7:38

I don't need to .

Matt 7:39

Okay .

Aaron 7:39

Oh , can't dip . You're gonna dip the cookies in cream .

Matt 7:43

So next up , let's go cookies and cream . Here we're gonna dial up the sweetness as we go .

Aaron 7:47

Classic . I enjoy this because it's one of my favorites . Also , I should know better . I'm in the intro sounding like this I should not be talking with food in my mouth and my mom would be so mad .

Matt 7:59

That's okay . We want to have her on in a future episode .

Rob 8:02

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 from that .

Aaron 8:13

Well , too bad , it's not gonna get one . It's a cheesecake .

Siobhan 8:17

Matt is just that sweet of a person .

Rob 8:20

Yeah , you know , thank you very much , I know when your tongue is also colorblind , like , but for taste , but for taste .

Aaron 8:30

Taste , blindness , taste blindness .

Matt 8:32

How do you test for that ? You just lick different things Like how's that work you ?

Aaron 8:35

tell me , bro , you come to the drinkables with Matt . You sure anybody .

Rob 8:40

Shots fired . Shots fired .

Aaron 8:42

Wow , you asked .

Rob 8:44

I am both excited and terrified for this tiny little cheesecake that you found in the back of a refrigerator at a 7-11 .

Matt 8:52

It wasn't in the back of the refrigerator , but it wasn't exactly very prevalently displayed . Here you go .

Rob 8:58

Oh , it's got like some , it's got a fruity center Just like you , matt . Sorry , I'm sorry , it took a minute . Well done , well done , all right .

Matt 9:08

Let's see what we got . Is that a full graham cracker on the bottom there ? Or is that actual graham cracker ? I don't know . I think my fork is stuck in like glue .

Rob 9:17

I don't know , I get it out . Have you never used a fork ?

Matt 9:22

You stick it in something , then put it in your mouth .

Rob 9:25

Tell me more about that , matt , tell me more . Walking into a butt .

Aaron 9:30

That fruity center Okay .

Rob 9:32

This is delightful .

Aaron 9:34

Is it ? I mean it's good .

Rob 9:36

I would never believe this came from a 7-11 in my life . They've done something with like a cinnamon sugar in the crust . I'm definitely getting that . Is it strawberry flavored ?

Matt 9:46

It is strawberry cheesecake .

Rob 9:48

Yeah Okay , doesn't taste artificial or medicinal . That's a delightful bite , but again , after the sweet slurpy and the sweet cookies and cream , it seems a bit redundant . I feel like you're beating us over the head with sweet things and that doesn't seem very balanced .

Matt 10:06

I thought these are flavors that would go well . I consulted chat GPT to try and get a little help after my epic failure last time .

Aaron 10:14

I think that solidifies that we're not getting replaced by AI anytime soon ?

Matt 10:18

Yeah , definitely not . That's what I'm going to blame the loss on .

Aaron 10:21

Overall not a bad time .

Rob 10:23

No , no , no . I will say , matt , this is a win for you , okay . Not an overall win , but like a holistic win for you personally , thank you very much .

Matt 10:35

I appreciate that I'm going to throw a peach ring at your head .

Rob 10:39

Yeah , really . Hey , you know

Rob and Sheetz

Rob 10:40

what I'm down . Whatever , let's get wild . You're next . Okay , guys , what I'm presenting to you today , I call it going down south . Okay , what I've done is a riff on southern comfort foods down south , some place he's never been really wants to visit a place that I visit often , my friend , I travel really please .

Aaron 11:05

Stop .

Rob 11:05

Yeah , please don't listen .

Aaron 11:07

So I've done a riff , save me .

Rob 11:10

I've done a riff on Yeager bombs with vodka and monster , but it is ultra peach , monster and vodka , so I'm going with the peach theme for the southern .

Delightful Food Tasting and Tangent

Aaron 11:21

Got it .

Rob 11:22

That's quite delightful , If you do ask me .

Matt 11:25

I ardently disagree with that statement . You don't like that ? Yeah , peach flavored gasoline over here , I think it just needs a little ice If it would be a little cold .

Rob 11:33

Yeah , sorry , it was what it is .

Aaron 11:35

Temperature is a thing .

Rob 11:37

I'd love to start with a mac and cheese bite with a little bit of spicy jalapeno cheese sauce . I'm looking to combat the sweetness of this with heat for the first two courses .

Aaron 11:50

Courses .

Matt 11:52

We went from dollar store to courses Just get that in mind .

Aaron 11:55

I tried to get us there with Wegmans , but no , but that wasn't the rule .

Matt 11:59

Everyone hated me . I know Give you .

Rob 12:02

that's a lovely little bite , okay .

Matt 12:04

All right , it works , it's salty spicy PG .

Rob 12:08

Okay , the next bite . My friends we're going to . We're going to take a walk more towards the suite , but we're still coming . With the spicy . We've got a Nashville hot chicken sandwich on a waffle with maple syrup . Okay .

Aaron 12:23

Okay , for me .

Rob 12:25

What gas station ? Oh , this is from sheets which I hope we don't all get tomorrow , the sheets I'm glad you said it so that we all got it .

Aaron 12:35

It's all right . Is this a schmawful Do they have ? Is that what they call it ?

Matt 12:39

could be , they have a schmawful schmonster , schmuffin and schmissket . I don't know if they have a schmawful .

Aaron 12:43

Yeah , so I'm curious .

Matt 12:45

Damn it , you have something going .

Aaron 12:46

Ooh , that's yummy Yep . Oh yeah , oh yeah .

Rob 12:50

Down south we go . Okay , creeping on down .

Siobhan 12:59

The food definitely takes a lot of the sweet out of the front of the tray .

Rob 13:02

Yeah , I agree , that's a lot See some of us try to have a sophisticated palate in which we pair things .

Aaron 13:13

Mac and cheese bites .

Siobhan 13:14

That's similar , we are as sophisticated as we can get with , but what kind of monsters is it's ? Ultra peachy or the ultra sophisticated . That's right .

Aaron 13:26

It's definitely some ultra something . Yeah , I agree .

Matt 13:29

I hate you so much because this is working so well , right right , what's next ?

Rob 13:34

so the the final course here like . Yes , I would love you to sample my nuts . They are candied praline pecans .

Siobhan 13:43

I was just gonna reach for them , and then we started talking about nuts .

Rob 13:45

Hey man . Well , here they are .

Siobhan 13:46

I'm going for get them in your mouth , man , two biggest ones right here .

Rob 13:49

See what it's about .

Matt 13:51

For the second time in show history for gratuitous testicle talk , black hole detected . Be aware of the event horizon , that's the wrong button . Nope , it's totally not .

Rob 14:02

Well , it totally is try to cosmic chug me , bro , damn it . And now you hit that button the second time for yourself . Fine , you want to finish mo well , finish your drinks .

Aaron 14:19

See , now I want to like your nuts , but I'm not sure if I do .

Rob 14:24

It's a little bit too much of the sweet on sweet . I'm Lance arm and I'm strong in it right now . I'm Lance arms trying to right now . I'm only doing one at a time here , okay .

Matt 14:34

When you chug . It's a very different vibe to sipping that second when you chug .

Rob 14:45

We're going off the rails real quick guys , oh man .

Aaron 14:47

It's going well . The nuts are quite tasty , you jackass 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 bud territory .

Rob 14:59

Yeah , we just need sweet on , sweet , on sweet and Matt's gonna vote it to the top , I said .

Aaron 15:02

he said the nuts are tasty , I told you yeah , love , love my nuts . I will say , though , that chicken sandwich chop my nuts what chicken sandwich .

Rob 15:11

That was a revelation good .

Matt 15:13

Yeah , that was really good .

Aaron 15:14

I don't even like syrup , and that it's good . You don't like syrup ?

Rob 15:18

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 three days .

Matt 15:32

Like was there a bathroom experience after that , did you ?

Aaron 15:36

go to sheets .

Rob 15:36

I don't think anybody needs to know about that . Let's just say it was a strange color and Consistency .

Aaron 15:43

I like that . You said no one needs to know , and then you told us Use the word .

Rob 15:49

Anything about it ?

Aaron 15:49

I can sure as hell did you ? Told me enough .

Rob 15:51

Listen , I got to say I could describe it in great detail . It is burned into my retinas nope , nope , nope .

Matt 15:59

all the no , that's a lot of nops , all right .

Aaron 16:00

Well , listen , the nuts were a choice . Yeah , I Think . Not sure I would choose your nuts again , no , but no , not .

Rob 16:09

Not as tasty as my surprising meat from season one .

Aaron 16:11

I'll tell you yeah , I don't know that I chose that either , but okay , yeah summer sausage from a dollar store man .

Rob 16:17

Would you eat it Hell ?

Siobhan 16:19

yeah .

Aaron 16:19

I tell you Definitely not what you expected . Yeah .

Rob 16:25

Wow .

Aaron 16:26

All right .

Rob 16:27

I feel like that was all right .

Aaron 16:29

I was a showing .

Matt 16:30

Yeah , it was a showing . We're on the way here . All right .

Rob 16:34

Next up is gonna be Aaron anybody remembered years ago when they used to do his compilation CDs .

Aaron 16:40

Now , that's what I call music .

Rob 16:41

Yeah , no , but except for this . One was like . It was like the tranquil mix or whatever .

Aaron 16:47

Oh yeah .

Siobhan 16:54

They have a pure moods , pure moods playlist on Spotify .

Aaron 16:59

Yeah , yes , why do we need that ?

Siobhan 17:03

By every middle-aged woman in 1992 .

Rob 17:06

I don't know why my dad loves anya , but he does never made any sense to me . Yeah , but he also .

Aaron 17:15

Like a capital D dad , I don't know .

Gas Station Food Challenges

Aaron 17:18

Okay , so I'm gonna hold on a minute .

Matt 17:20

I'm looking across the table at Aaron who has put more effort into a drinkable into this single drinkable that everybody else .

Rob 17:30

Let's get this back on track this , this man , this man right here . You could all see this he's got some explaining to do and I need to know what in God's name I'm looking at , because it looks like it's come from like . This is the middle of the road Mexican restaurant .

Aaron 17:46

Yeah , okay , the road , yes .

Siobhan 17:49

I mean I actually bought all these things from the gas station in the middle of the road . No ,

Aaron and Mobil

Siobhan 17:55

no , so I was born for this challenge , right ? So I live off of gas station . I was born in a gas station for this challenge , because I've lived on nothing but gas station food for my late teens , through my mid-20s . Okay so you think gas station , you got pork rinds , beef sticks . Those are like the two main stages right , where did you go ? The mobile on Main Street in Bethlehem Mobile mobile station .

Siobhan 18:21

We don't know fancy , you know sheets .

Matt 18:24

Okay , no fancy sheets here , okay , just mobile . Good old , he didn't need no maid to order , okay .

Aaron 18:30

He made it , so he made himself , he did . Oh my goodness .

Rob 18:34

Okay , so what's your opening course here ? So ?

Siobhan 18:37

we could just eat whatever . You , I don't know , you know , I don't even know what I want you to direct me .

Rob 18:41

We're gonna start with the car .

Siobhan 18:42

Let's start let's start with the , the centerpiece right here . So yeah , I was making more meals , but I wanted to pay homage to the og launchable , so these are plantains . Now . Mind you , the plantains are a little soft because they were packed . You know , transportation coming here , the plantain should be a little crunchy . But what this is ? This is the original slim gym On Plantain chip with a little fried bean spread .

Rob 19:08

What is happening ?

Aaron 19:10

Okay .

Siobhan 19:10

It's like you know you get a lunchable . Yeah , I was always random Cheap crap and you put it all together in sandwich . That's all I did . You got the sweet of the plantain . You got the spicy of spicy and the salty of the Beef stick and the I don't know whatever the refried beans , the gas .

Matt 19:24

Okay , so back in episode one how Shevon declared Very clearly that she did not like beef jerky and I'm assuming beef jerky like products and she just said this is delicious .

Aaron 19:35

Yeah , I mean I bit it , so we're good .

Siobhan 19:38

But I listen the plantain should be a little because it's cut up and looking nice on a .

Rob 19:44

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 this cocktail , because this is like it might make up for this little cocktail .

Siobhan 19:53

Now I'm chewing my jerky as you do , so I'm thinking , you know , all the food we have is kind of a Spanish Influenced . We got yo . You know , you'll find out the other Spanish foods in a minute , but I wanted to make something like a chichi colada , so what ?

Rob 20:10

a chichi oh this is unbelievable .

Siobhan 20:13

A chichi colada story has it . The Puerto Rican golfer , chichi Rodriguez , loved Peanut coladas , but he didn't like rum , so he would always ask for his peanut coladas with vodka , so they was called a chichi colada . So obviously the mobile doesn't have like cream of coconut and like pineapple , so I made a Chichi colada milkshake with vodka , some cheap peanut colada mix , some dull tropical fruit that I just threw in a blender and vanilla ice cream .

Rob 20:46

Very good . The fruit cup is stellar ship .

Matt 20:48

Yeah , there's , there's only one .

Rob 20:50

This is stellar . I'm getting the fruit cup . I'm actually tasting individual fruits . Refreshing , which is that's cuz . I didn't unreal .

Siobhan 21:00

Oh , I mean , I meant to do that , that was , that was perfect like it makes no sense why this is so good .

Matt 21:06

Fantastic .

Aaron 21:07

I love chichi . Thank you very much I .

Rob 21:09

Don't even know who that is .

Aaron 21:11

He's a golfer . He's amazing cool .

Matt 21:14

He's so refreshing after the , so a lot of the food is , you know , savory , salty .

Siobhan 21:18

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 , so immediately thought of Mofongo . It looks fancy , but all it is is pork rinds and plantains . Well , mobile doesn't sell plantains so but they sell green bananas , so I just bought some bananas and I made Mofongo . I can't . This is so all I mean . Basically , it looks fancy , but if you just take a mind of .

Siobhan 21:47

If you take a bite of pork rinds and a banana , then you have Mofongo in your mouth .

Rob 21:51

So I just put it together first the chicharon texture .

Aaron 21:58

It has always been a bit tough for me at times .

Siobhan 22:03

Admittedly , this is a . There's some .

Rob 22:05

The taste is delicious . Yeah , the texture I'm struggling with a little bit .

Siobhan 22:09

Yeah , and you know why ? Because I'm chewing while I'm talking . While I'm chewing , I got the smaller crunchier pork rinds instead of the fluffier ones . So that is what , guys . Admittedly , I should have gotten the fluffier ones .

Rob 22:26

I'm not saying that it's bad as I go in for another bite . Yeah , it's definitely a little chewy in there , yeah .

Matt 22:32

It's interesting when it goes with the koolada .

Siobhan 22:35

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 talking with my mouth full .

Rob 22:40

I cannot believe you made all this crap from gas station items .

Aaron 22:43

Yeah , this is pretty crazy Mobile .

Matt 22:45

This is pretty crazy .

Siobhan 22:46

So on the side of the Mofongo we got some roasted corn with some goya seasoning . I will swallow my food before I speak .

Rob 22:52

They have goya seasoning in a gas station .

Siobhan 22:54

You bet .

Aaron 22:55

I didn't know . They had pinia koolada mix out of a gas station Mobile yo Okay .

Matt 23:01

So when I instructed Aaron to pick three things , what Aaron did was take three and then multiply it by three and then multiply it into awesome food . So that means I am going to .

Rob 23:12

Math E equals MC Hammer . We talking about numbers . Did you really stretch in for these drops , Brad ?

Matt 23:20

Well , I'm taking the opportunities I get . Wow .

Rob 23:22

I like it . I cannot believe this is from a gas station .

Aaron 23:26

I will say I wish the drink was a little sweeter .

Siobhan 23:29

True . True , because you know what when you hear koolada , you expect that sweet pineapple . Well , they didn't have any pineapple cups . They had just mixed tropical fruit cups .

Aaron 23:38

I still get it , I'm just you know .

Siobhan 23:41

But you know , you're absolutely right , it needs a little bit of that acidic sweetness of the pineapple , but I still enjoy all of these combos .

Rob 23:48

Yeah , I definitely think some acidity would brighten it up and just like a squeeze of lime .

Matt 23:55

When you get into the scoop of ice cream , though that is in there , you do get a blast of sweetness . So Yum . Yeah , yeah , I'm getting that .

Aaron 24:02

All right , good deal .

Matt 24:05

You can tell how good it is by how quiet we all got all of a sudden Like all right .

Rob 24:09

I hate to say I got to go back to this thing because the taste is so good it really is .

Aaron 24:15

Yeah , the texture is not for me .

Siobhan 24:16

That loses me , not gonna lie , yeah , but the taste is . Next time you got , I got to go for the floofy pork rinds .

Rob 24:22

The taste is so good .

Siobhan 24:24

But it's so simple . It's just basically two ingredients and some spice spice that I got from the gas station . That's amazing .

Aaron 24:34

I feel like we're on a real competition show right now .

Matt 24:36

I know I'm glad I'm serious already .

Rob 24:38

I know this is serious , real quick because if I didn't go already , I'd just be like don't even taste my food .

Aaron 24:42

This is ridiculous . Thanks a lot . Thank you , I appreciate your time .

Rob 24:45

I'm sorry In that comment . I really appreciate it .

Matt 24:47

I'm sure yours is wonderful yeah you're a .

Siobhan 24:52

I'm gonna let the intrusive thoughts win . Yeah , and I'm dipping the slim Jim .

Aaron 24:57

Whoa .

Siobhan 24:58

Refried bean plantain into the chichi colada .

Aaron 25:01

Okay , is this like a fras and a frosty ?

Rob 25:03

kind of thing I'm going .

Aaron 25:05

I'm going there with you bro , you are all much more adventurous than I am .

Siobhan 25:09

I wouldn't say it makes it better , it makes a difference , it makes a difference .

Rob 25:13

That's a great . I do not prefer it this way .

Aaron 25:16

That is the best comment that has ever come out of this drinkables . I'm not going to say it makes it better , but it makes a different . Yeah , it definitely does . That's a theme if there ever was one that is displeasing to me .

Matt 25:31

So let's just say , drinking them in parallel works , drinking them in unison does not work .

Aaron 25:36

Right Ooh , which you know . I don't usually dip a lot in a cocktail . But I'm not saying that's no judgment , that's just a statement .

Rob 25:44

Now , this is just an original slim gym . Mm hmm , might ask , how are these refied beans packaged in a gas station ?

Siobhan 25:52

In a can . I literally opened the can and took out a little butter knife and smeared it on .

Rob 25:57

All right , I was worried it was in like a ketchup packet situation .

Matt 26:01

I mean mobile refied beans .

Siobhan 26:04

It was in a five gallon bucket that a little old lady just reached in with her hands and plop .

Rob 26:10

You really taste the hand .

Aaron 26:14

Old lady hands have some beans ? Oh no , that sounded like bluey . I slipped on my beans . Okay , nobody gets that except for me , it's cool .

Matt 26:25

Yeah , no , I've seen a lot of bluey .

Aaron 26:29

Well , this was great and a lot more effort than I did I could .

Rob 26:34

Well , let's , let's see how much effort you've put into things .

Aaron 26:37

Are we moving on ?

Rob 26:39

I think that that's a fair transitional piece .

Matt 26:43

And what gas station did you go with ?

Aaron 26:45

Okay . I went to Wawa . Weakmans doesn't sell gas Out of here Are you sure it wasn't Weakmans ?

Matt 26:50

Do we have a receipt ? Can we verify ?

Aaron 26:53

Listen , everyone knows that Wawa sells gas .

Rob 26:55

That's true . Yeah , they do .

Aaron 26:58

Nobody in this room knew that 7-Eleven sold gas until we asked . So don't come for me , we still don't know , fair we still don't know . You're right . We don't know Until that photo goes up . We believe Matt and we don't know if we should we're on our Instagram at mattandfriendsdtu ?

Rob 27:14

That's right , I'm plugging .

Matt 27:15

Thank you , yeah , it is Instagram Facebook .

Rob 27:19

Matt and Friends DTU and maybe , maybe he'll even tweet about it . I might , maybe you can , at 7-Eleven . At 7-Eleven , how many of your stores actually have gas attached to them ? Maybe we'll get an answer for the people . We can try , we'll see . The world may never know , no .

Aaron 27:35

Okay

Siobhan and Wawa

Aaron 27:36

, I am passing out drinks .

Matt 27:38

All right .

Aaron 27:40

All right . So I will say there's three items on the plate plus the drink . So only the chips on the plate are not Wawa branded things .

Matt 27:49

Okay .

Aaron 27:50

So half .

Matt 27:51

All right .

Aaron 27:52

So the drink is pomegranate , lemonade and vodka , with a little bit of sparkling water to make it fun and fizzy .

Rob 27:58

What kind of sparkling water did you use ?

Aaron 27:59

It's liquid death . Oh my goodness , bird Crisher would be very proud of me . All right , chris would be very proud of me .

Rob 28:06

Go out and see the machine in theaters .

Aaron 28:08

Okay .

Rob 28:08

I'm not going to be timely right now , but this episode won't come out anywhere near when this is still in theaters , that's true , but I just say it smells very much like a watermelon jolly rancher .

Aaron 28:17

Yes , a little jolly rancher , but I don't think it does sweet when you drink it .

Rob 28:21

So I'm going to give it a try . No , it's not too sweet at all .

Aaron 28:23

Matt , are you okay with it not being super sweet ?

Matt 28:25

Yeah .

Aaron 28:27

I mean , oh , that's actually love watermelon sugar . Thank you , it's like Bruno Mars in my mouth .

Matt 28:31

That's what it is .

Aaron 28:32

I was going to get blueberry but everyone I didn't , because Rob doesn't like blueberry . I would totally dig a fruit I appreciate you for that .

Siobhan 28:38

I'm going to get a freeze pop in this flavor .

Aaron 28:40

This is a great , or like a slush . Wow , not a slurpee , but like a slush .

Siobhan 28:46

I could drink like five of these .

Rob 28:47

I think we all just ignored Matt's comment about Bruno Mars in his mouth .

Matt 28:51

Oh yeah , you all really let that one slide .

Aaron 28:54

Did Bruno Mars slide into your mouth ? What were we talking about ? Is that what we said ? What did we say ?

Matt 29:01

I have no , I'm rendered speechless , are we ?

Aaron 29:03

okay . No , I thought this is what we were talking about .

Matt 29:06

Okay .

Aaron 29:07

Moving on .

Matt 29:08

All right , let's focus on the plate .

Aaron 29:10

Okay , kids .

Matt 29:11

Focus on the plate .

Aaron 29:12

So the goal , so the main of this . I have two pinwheels which are basically wraps cut into pieces , but they're actually sold as these little pinwheels . So we have an Italian pinwheel and we have a chicken taco pinwheel , so you can either eat both .

Rob 29:28

I'm starting with the Italian .

Aaron 29:29

Yeah , do whatever you would like , if one is more preferable to you .

Siobhan 29:33

I'm going with the chicken , because I'm looking at whatever this baked good is here and I think this spicy chicken with the baked good that's good , that's a good choice yeah .

Rob 29:43

I agree with you . That's why I started with the Italian and I'm going to move to the chicken afterwards , because I like food .

Matt 29:50

I'm enjoying your drink , everything on my plate . I'm glad I really like the drink . It's nice , it's cool , it's refreshing .

Rob 29:57

This may be the most composed drink that we've had all night . I'd stellar sip this as well .

Aaron 30:01

Oh , okay , yeah .

Rob 30:02

I would , you think I would . Oh , and now to knock the drink that we had last round . It was very good but like towards the end I didn't get as much as those fruity flavors and that , and then I found myself asking where did they go ?

Aaron 30:17

This keeps going .

Rob 30:18

So , like the first few sips . Well , we'll see once I get down to 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 30:26

We'll see this drink , just like , opens up all of the flavors . It makes everything taste better .

Matt 30:30

Oh yeah , you had told me pregame that you had a theme . What was that theme ?

Aaron 30:35

Well , it's loosely connected to nothing and very connected to a funny name , and it is basically you should just not worry while you eat all this food , because Hakuna Moawa .

Rob 30:45

Love it .

Matt 30:46

There you go , yep .

Aaron 30:47

Yeah , I couldn't think of anything better , because Rob had the down south and I thought that's a wonderful phrase . Yeah , it is .

Matt 30:53

And my theme was one , two , three don't suck , and I'm not sure if I didn't .

Aaron 30:56

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 picnic reminiscent , like what would you take from Wawa to have like a picnic .

Siobhan 31:13

It's almost summer here , even though it won't be when you all listen to this , but fine .

Aaron 31:18

Okay , then we have two chip choices . So again , choose your fave , go with both . I couldn't choose , that's why there's two here . The not-rigi chips are jalapeno and the rigi chips are fried dill pickle .

Matt 31:34

I was not expecting the jalapeno when I I've been going jalapeno first . Oh , it's not like overly , I'm gonna kill you spicy , it's pretty good .

Aaron 31:40

Yeah , they're supposed to be mild .

Siobhan 31:42

Yeah , I'm totally digging the jalapeno more Again with the spicy against the sweet .

Rob 31:47

It's just such a great balance of flavor .

Aaron 31:50

If it wasn't a chip , you could dip it into your drink .

Rob 31:51

We've seen that on three out of four attempts today . You know , not just going sweet on sweet but going a counter flavor with the sweet .

Matt 32:01

So Siobhan says because it's a chip you can't dip it .

Aaron 32:04

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 32:08

All right , oh boy , you know . They say that the acidity from pickle juice can cut down on the burn of alcohol .

Aaron 32:18

Oh , is that why people do picklebacks ? That was actually really why yes ?

Matt 32:22

The dip was good .

Rob 32:23

It's exactly the way that's right exactly the way . And I wish that I knew the actual science behind it , because I wish it did too , because then we could hit the button . It would be cool to give you that fact , but I don't .

Aaron 32:35

Okay .

Rob 32:35

I'm not sure why .

Aaron 32:37

You're the resident science guy . Resident science guy I'm worried about we're gonna in a future episode .

Matt 32:43

People we're doing rocket science trivia . I'm worried about this man .

Rob 32:48

Oh , this dill pickle is so dill . It's so good , it's so pickle it's good , but I was just not expecting it to like pickle my tongue .

Aaron 32:55

So it's actually fried dill pickle .

Rob 32:57

I heard you like a little pickle on the tongue .

Aaron 32:59

Yeah , did you hear that ?

Rob 33:02

From Bruno Mars .

Aaron 33:02

Oh , no , I like these pickle chips . So part of the reason I couldn't decide is because I really like pickle chips . And I'll also be honest I do not like a flavored chip , because I usually think that they're overly flavored .

Rob 33:13

Okay .

Aaron 33:14

But I actually think both of these are very good .

Rob 33:16

Here's what's happening . The pickle chip , the dill , that ultra acidic dill flavor that I'm getting is actually souring the sweet .

Aaron 33:25

Okay . Well , let's move on to the next thing then , okay .

Rob 33:28

So the jalapeno and the taco , the chicken taco and jalapeno , would have been good combinations .

Aaron 33:34

Okay , we'll have another jalapeno chip , then I will .

Matt 33:37

Okay , good , I do enjoy this chicken taco very much . I go to Wawa a lot , and this is something that I probably just would have passed , see , and I will not pass it next time .

Aaron 33:46

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 a tasty cake and I was like , no , I gotta go with the Wawa bakery item . Yeah , so it's just a glazed coffee roll . It's gonna be sweet . Literally it's a circle roll .

Siobhan 34:07

The knife is a circle , potato chips are circles .

Aaron 34:10

Yeah , see the pin . Look at this .

Siobhan 34:14

It's a circle of life . It's a circle of life Like a Kuna Mawa .

Aaron 34:17

Hakuna Mawa .

Siobhan 34:19

You know , the only problem , as you could probably tell by the level of drink in my little cup-a-cup here , is that this is very easy going down .

Aaron 34:28

Okay , and it is the type of drink where you can get really snookered . Those are usually the kinds of drinks that I make .

Siobhan 34:34

You were having those . That's the good kind of problem .

Matt 34:36

See you were having those outdoors on a hot day that would be . It's like juice . Here's an interesting thing that I'm noticing , so rehydrate .

Rob 34:42

Although the bun is very sweet , the cinnamon , I think , is saving it a little bit from being overly sweet and pulling back on it just enough that I don't feel like I'm getting hammered sweet on sweet , on sweet with the cocktail , with the break in the middle , with all that other stuff too , I feel like you're good , right ?

Aaron 35:01

So cinnamon and pomegranate are actually really good flavor pairing .

Rob 35:05

Yeah , this is the first dessert that hasn't made me go too much sweet on sweet .

Aaron 35:10

No , we'll see . And I don't love sweet things , so here we are . I tried to balance it out for you all . Yeah , Uh-oh , what does that mean ?

Rob 35:18

That's great showing's all around I think this is the first , except Matt , legitimate debate that we are going to have to have to determine a winner tonight because the first time in Drinkables history that we have more than one person who have actually made a good effort . Right , nobody's been egregious , you know what ?

Matt 35:40

Even Matt , For that everybody drink . Oh okay , Stellar ship here it has some left .

Rob 35:47

Great job all around .

Siobhan 35:49

I drank all my alcohol . There's more .

Aaron 35:51

There's more outside . I have to go get it . But .

Rob 35:53

Well , I think we need to go around and figure out who is voting for what .

Matt 35:59

This is going to be like . This is going to be legitimately very tough and before we start that , like we went with gas stations this time , and in Pennsylvania there have been wars where people have fought and died over Wawa versus Sheets , and you know other .

Aaron 36:13

I'm not sure what wars there are , but yeah , probably where you went to college .

Matt 36:17

Oh well , where I went to college in Western Pennsylvania , there is no Wawa . There absolutely is , till to this day , no Wawa near IUP , like absolutely none . So when I was out there for me it was funny because I arrived and somebody said to me do you want to go to Sheets ? And I literally said what the hell is Sheets ? And they were like you've never been to Sheets . And we went and I got the two hot dogs special with mac and cheese and the Gallicur's lime tea . If you've never had the lime tea , oh my God , that sounds good , it's phenomenal . You know there used to be a lot more 7-Eleven's . There's not that many . I think Nazareth PA might have the last surviving one in our area . We can find it . Yeah , I've seen some like Salafiora , like driving through DC south of here . What did I say ? What went ?

Rob 37:02

wrong , I thought you said salad fur Salad the salad fiora .

Aaron 37:09

Yah Hakuna Mawa .

Rob 37:12

No , I'm telling Cause .

Aaron 37:14

you said salad fiora .

Rob 37:15

Loud noises , yep , lettuce , hitler , what the salad fiora . I'm sorry , that's terrible .

Aaron 37:25

That's questionable , at best Horrifying . Anyway , yeah , gettysburg was like that too . There's no Mawa there either , so thank God , there is here .

Rob 37:33

Hey guys , fun fact , great Turns out . Pickle juice helps reduce the burn and reduce hangovers because it's filled with electrolytes .

Aaron 37:46

Well , I mean , listen , it's cucumber , right .

Rob 37:48

So both the acidity and the salinity of the pickle water are harsher , more prominent flavors that will take away the burn because you have more taste buds that will react to those .

Siobhan 38:03

So then , why don't athletes just drink pickle juice instead of Gatorade ?

Rob 38:06

Some do for cramps yeah .

Matt 38:07

That's 100% of the thing here in this one Science .

Aaron 38:12

Science .

Rob 38:12

That's right .

Aaron 38:13

He had to redeem himself . Yeah , you know .

Matt 38:16

I'm here , you are present . I feel , like we are agonizingly delaying the debate about .

Aaron 38:23

We really are . We're on our own . Where are ?

Rob 38:26

we starting , are we ?

Matt 38:26

starting with you first . Yes , I recused myself .

Aaron 38:30

Why Believe in yourself , Matt ?

Matt 38:32

No , I was not near Aaron and Siobhan on this one . I wasn't .

Voting for Favorite Dish and Drink

Rob 38:37

I need you to vote , though you can't recuse yourself from voting . You need to vote for which one was your favorite .

Matt 38:43

I vote present . No , you can't do that , get out .

Aaron 38:47

Oh boy , you don't have to vote for yourself .

Rob 38:49

I'm not asking you to fight for your plate which was terrible . I'm asking you .

Siobhan 38:53

It wasn't terrible . That's to be fair . That's to be fair .

Matt 38:55

It was clearly the worst . No , no , no , no , no , no , no , no . Finish your drink just because Toss me chug imitating .

Siobhan 39:05

I'm sad I don't get to chug .

Matt 39:07

You're sad you don't get to chug yeah .

Rob 39:10

Well , we'll get you next time , but you're out of vodka anyway I also have from Christmas City Spirits .

Matt 39:15

You're in Bethlehem , pennsylvania , some sipping vodka if you're feeling very Would you vote any vodka sipping vodka . No , as the host I invoke my right to say come back to me , so go ahead , you go first . Okay , all right , I do not want to discount my own performance , but I will not vote for myself .

Rob 39:34

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 best drink , which I think does go to Chavon Okay , the best mixed drink goes to Chavon , because it's the one I would come back to again after this episode . But what he was able to do with gas station ingredients to make an actual journey through like a Mexican or Hispanic street food experience , never would have imagined that in my life from a gas station . So I'm voting for Aaron . That is my vote . Aaron , over to you . Oh dear , you can vote for yourself , by the way .

Siobhan 40:19

No no , no , no , no , no no .

Matt 40:21

I shirked my responsibilities as the host and told everybody to come back to me at the end .

Siobhan 40:26

See , I don't know , this is really difficult because I think that waffle chicken sandwich bangin , it was good , it was good with a capital G OOD , very good , thank you .

Rob 40:38

Thank you , so that would be good . I think , we all had at least one incredible bite on all of our plates .

Aaron 40:45

Even Matt , even Matt .

Rob 40:47

But some of us had more than one .

Siobhan 40:49

But this coffee roll . That just is the topping on everything . And then I have to vote for Chavon .

Rob 40:55

Okay , the drink . There is a vote for Chavon . Right on with the drink .

Siobhan 40:59

It just compliments everything across the board and it's simple , yet delightful and effective .

Aaron 41:08

Okay well .

Rob 41:09

Okay , friend , you're up next . How do you feel about things ?

Matt 41:14

Do you love thyself ?

Aaron 41:16

I do oh , but .

Rob 41:19

Oh , there's a but .

Aaron 41:22

I don't know , man . I mean like I want to vote for myself because I think this was better than I've did before .

Rob 41:28

That's fair , but would you consider going down south ?

Aaron 41:31

I always do .

Rob 41:32

Yeah , well , that's very considerate of you .

Aaron 41:36

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 least favorite part about going south , that's fair .

Matt 41:47

She's not going for the nuts . Hey , that's fair .

Aaron 41:49

Just so everyone knows . You know they're there and they're fun , but I don't know if they're enough to give me .

Rob 41:56

Yeah , it was too much the vote , it was too much I understand . So which way are you leaning ?

Aaron 42:01

to myself Self empowerment .

Rob 42:03

Oh , wow , Wow . That's two votes to Chavon , one vote to Aaron Matthew . You cannot abstain at this point .

Aaron 42:11

No , you have to vote .

Rob 42:12

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 if we have a mechanic for that . So we're going to figure it out on the fly .

Matt 42:22

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 42:31

Wow yeah , nerd level .

Matt 42:34

Oh man , 15,000 . Oh , absolutely At all times . There's . There's a reason . There's a space theme for this show , all right . I loved the taste and texture combination in all of Aaron's food . I thought it went really , really well together . There were things that I tried that . Those who know me know that I'm not a very adventurous or picky eater , and Aaron , you are a picky eater , right .

Rob 43:00

Yes , I apologize . Yes , I'm an incredibly picky eater .

Matt 43:04

Aaron , yours is very approachable and really good . The cocktail , on the other hand we talked about it lacking a little bit of maybe sweetness or something like that Pineapple juice . We're missing the pineapple juice in the kalata , and when I think about a complete set , what ?

Siobhan 43:18

goes together , what makes things very well ?

Matt 43:22

It is when I had what was Siobhan presented . It all went together very well it was . It was a symphony of good things that just seemed to all flow . If I was putting numbers on this , I'm seriously going to say that you'd be like a half a percent in front of Aaron . But with the drink I'm giving it to Siobhan , okay .

Rob 43:42

Great job , siobhan . I must just say , because I'm the only person who didn't vote for you Okay , I must clarify .

Aaron 43:47

We heard yeah .

Rob 43:48

I must clarify , I must have made his efforts .

Aaron 43:51

Oh absolutely .

Matt 43:53

The effort Absolutely .

Rob 43:55

And number two , had you given me just the chicken taco and just the jalapeno and I didn't have like the other things that were like making me like have to choose between two things , I think it would have been easier for me to just vote for you , but I was confused by the smattering of delights that you put in front of me .

Aaron 44:13

You don't like a choice ?

Rob 44:14

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 I needed , to recognize what this man did with gas station ingredients .

Aaron 44:27

Listen , I completely agree with that .

Rob 44:29

I and because Matt was a schmo . He didn't want to vote first , so somebody had to go .

Aaron 44:34

Listen , you don't have to defend yourself , it's really okay , I feel badly .

Rob 44:37

No , I don't know why you would . We're literally sitting at a table eating gas station food .

Aaron 44:41

I think we're going to be okay .

Matt 44:42

I mean sure is , but we'll determine that tomorrow whether or not we're all okay . So we're going to do this first of all . First , siobhan's victory .

Rob 44:50

I've got to say this is the most stellar steps . That has happened in a stable episode in the best way . So cheers to you , Siobhan . Thanks .

Aaron 44:58

Great job . I redeemed myself Kicking off season twos version of drinkables .

Rob 45:03

I actually I loved the the gas station twist on this . This was nice .

Matt 45:08

So we do have another one coming later in the season that's going to involve some seltzer and we're going to see what happens there . Who teaser ? Yeah , a little , a little bit of a teaser , I'm also going to go ahead . And since this is a drinking game after all , when we press the button , you are supposed to take a sip if you're playing along with us . For the effort that came through and just for the fact that Aaron cooked some truly ridiculous food that I could never have expected , I'm doing it again .

Rob 45:34

Why not Steller's sip ? You know , aaron , I really hope you come back for for more episodes with us . Absolutely Really enjoyed having you here for the first time and hope it's the first of many . Yes , sir , thank you very much , absolutely .

Siobhan 45:48

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 you that don't know I've worked in country clubs and I learned many napkin folds , including my special little bra .

Aaron 46:05

So if I would have done this to present , I think I probably would have won I would have voted for you then .

Matt 46:09

All right , we'll go out on that note and on that bomb show Thanks everybody .

Matt 46:15

Toodaloo .

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