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This video was originally released as a members-only video in late 2024. Since memberships ended, I’m now sharing some of those older videos publicly. This video was the origin of my Freakin' 2 food reviews in 2025.
Today I'm taste-testing 7 holiday treats I found at the grocery store.
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welcome back everybody on today it's all
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about the holiday treats this is not a
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video that I planned out I actually went
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to the grocery store for one thing and I
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got distracted down the aisles by all
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these delicious looking holiday uh
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snacks and I figured I would try them
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all or at least most of them so I loaded
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up my car with a bunch of things at the
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store I'm going to try them out right
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now first up on my list are some elf
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sugar cookies I just pulled those out
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and threw them in the oven and here's
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how that went let's try these elf sugar
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cookies now looks like you're going to
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get sugar cookies with a little elf hat
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on them so we're supposed to heat the
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oven at 350 which I've done done place
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it on an ungreased cookie sheet which
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I'll do and bake 12 to 14 minutes easy
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enough it looks like these elf cookies
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worth
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$3.99 all right so pulling them out of
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the packaging they look much smaller
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than it shows here but this is the
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uncooked dough this is might be the
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final product I'm hoping they'll
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probably expand we'll see how much they
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expand if they actually get this large
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or not so let me head over to the oven
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and then get started all right they are
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fresh out of the oven I did two batches
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they said 12 to 14 minutes I did one
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batch 12 and 11 14 not a huge difference
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between the two of them though this is a
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12-minute batch they look they look
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pretty good I guess they look about what
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I expected a little bit Brown on the
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back and over here is the 14-minute
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batch maybe a little bit better maybe a
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little bit better Bailey you cannot have
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any compared to the packaging though
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it's still a little bit smaller so I
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don't know if I can get this to be any
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larger it went 14 minutes it's starting
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to get brown so I think that's as big as
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going to get pretty close maybe not as
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good as a packaging but that's usually
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the case anyways I'm going to try a 12
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minute and a 14 minute and see if
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there's any difference 12 minute
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first standard cookie 14 15 minute
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next there's a a crispiness of the
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14-minute obviously that the 12-minute
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didn't have so I guess either one would
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be good if you like them a little softer
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go 12 you like a little bit crunchier go
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14 next up this one seems right at my
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alley and that is this which are
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peppermint ice cream sandwiches and how
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how good is that right these were only
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$249 for a sixpack but let's see how big
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they actually are I mean I love ice
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cream sandwiches and I love peppermint I
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how could this be bad right it can't be
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it's impossible for it to be bad right
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the first thing I'm noticing here is
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look at the you see all the sprinkly
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stuff in there I don't see anything I
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see one I see one single piece of
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peppermint when they have it loaded up
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on the packaging get out of here with
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this fake packaging hopefully there's
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more inside then here you go for the
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first
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bite there is a peppermint flavor to
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it's very it's kind of what you expect
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it's an ice cream sandwich with a hint
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of peppermint but I'm certainly not
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seeing any like they show is that false
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advertising if you taste but don't see
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it I don't know tastes good though some
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some got some mhm all right now we're
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getting somewhere I got halfway through
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before I finally
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awesome it's good it definitely good I
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would say they chined a little bit on
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the peppermint compared to the packaging
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I did taste it more than I saw it I see
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a little bit more over there but really
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is not anything close to the packaging I
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don't know I'm kind of the fence it's
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pretty good tasting I just feel like the
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entire experience was not complete but
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let's move on to the next item next up
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this one seemed kind of expensive and
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that is the Halo top pumpkin pie
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flavored ice cream now it sounds
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delicious let's see what we got
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here $5.99 for that it better be worth
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it all right I'm going to just dip some
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into this glass bowl
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here I'm seeing some white pieces in
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there it just says pumpkin pie nothing
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really specific on here about what I'm
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seeing so maybe that's actually hunks of
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pumpkin I don't it couldn't be maybe
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maybe there's hun of pumpkin pie in
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there maybe I'm missing something am I
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am I missing something I don't know some
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of this writing is pretty small here we
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go I'm going to get one of these these
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CH there's like a there's like a there
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are white and orange chunks in there
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let's see
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M it tastes better wow it tastes better
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than it looks that tastes like a piece
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of pumpkin pie that that might actually
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be hunks of pumpkin pie in
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there m much more bold of flavor than I
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expected it just looks like kind of some
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generic looking ice cream it's not mhm
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now those chunks are where it's at
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that's what you look for those things
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I'll probably be fishing them out of
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there there's a chunk right there let's
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see wow that's good well that was
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definitely a realistic tasting pumpkin
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pie it almost just tasted like a frozen
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piece of pumpkin pie that was very good
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I wasn't real thrilled about the price
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but after tasting it I don't mind so
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much while we're trying ice cream let's
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keep going I found this one at the store
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as well this is eggnog flavored ice
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cream now once again I love eggnog and I
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love ice cream I don't know if I've ever
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had eggnog ice cream before sounds good
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this would be hard to mess up but I've
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said that in the past and things are
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messed up so let's try it and see how it
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actually tastes all right it looks very
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creamy white almost like vanilla which I
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would expect
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once again there really isn't much on
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the packaging other than the name of the
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flavor that's about it let's give this a
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taste I'm kind of curious I do like
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eggnog I have one glass of eggnog a year
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but tonight I'm having more than
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that if at first your mind thinking it's
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just vanilla cuz that's kind of the the
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first flavor you taste but the eggnog
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flavor kind of permeates in there it
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kind of seeps through try a little bit
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more
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here it's a mild eggnog flavor it's not
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like an overpowering eggnog flavor it's
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not like the pumpkin ice cream I just
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had that was very strong pumpkin flavor
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this is kind of vanilla with like a hint
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of eggnog it's like in between a hint
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and all the way there it's kind it's
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kind of like a mild to medium eggnog
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flavor good I'm not sure it's as
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prominent as it should be but it's
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pretty good so that ice cream eggnog was
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just the segue into another segment
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which is this it's an eggnog comparison
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within the review itself in this corner
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we've got the Southern Comfort
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non-alcoholic eggnog and over here we
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have the Christian Brothers alcoholic
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eggnog let's see how these actually
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compare is that comparing apples to
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oranges maybe it'll be fun anyways let's
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see we got Christian Brothers Here M
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smells good smells it smells like I want
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it to smell that smells pretty good
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Southern Comfort it's weird to have
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Southern Comfort at
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non-alcoholic not much smell of that one
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now they say you can drink this with or
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without Southern Comfort I'm going
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without for this particular test here we
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go Southern Comfort non-alcoholic egg oh
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it's thick that is thick like paint that
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looks like paint now for the Christian
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Brothers not nearly as thick it's more
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more milky you could certainly a
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difference in color and texture you can
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see the difference here the the Southern
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Comfort is much it's it's a deeper
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richer yellow and it's very thick the
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Christian Brother's a little bit more
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watery perhaps but there's also alcohol
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in there as well this should be fun
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first up Southern Comfort
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non-alcoholic you know what I've had a
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lot of eggnog in my day and that's
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pretty good that's on the higher end of
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the eggnog I've tried it's very thick
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it's thick very tasty though let's try
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the Christian Brothers now
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not as thick clearly as I was drawing
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into my mouth I could taste the alcohol
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before even entered my
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mouth see what's the uh proof on this
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one this is a lowly 20 proof this is
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very mild probably a good thing you're a
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holiday party you don't want to get
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blitzed you want to have just a nice
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little alcoholic flavor and that's what
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it is which one's better tasting just as
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eggnog which one's better
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tasting wow that that Southern Comfort
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is good man
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man that's a that's a tough that's a
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tough call honestly I actually like the
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the texture of the of the Southern
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Comfort the best is very thick but
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honestly the the flavor of this this
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Christian Brothers is quite quite
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delightful I'm not sure I can really
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pick a winner they they're very
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different categories I thought I could
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maybe choose between the two of them I
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don't think I can this is a solid eggnog
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if you if I've ever had one before but
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if you want to go for the loaded version
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you can't go wrong with this one now
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price-wise the Southern Comfort eggnog
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was $429 and the Christian Brothers
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alcoholic was
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$9.99 I don't have a lot of eggnog every
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year but these aren't going to waste
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I've got one more item to try and then
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at the end I'm going to try mixing all
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these together and see what happens but
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my final item is rudol the Red-nose
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Reindeer cereal they say it's a limited
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edition rudol the Red-nose Reindeer hot
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cocoa flavored it looks like they've got
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some chocolate uh bits in there the kind
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the parts that nobody really wants and
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then they have the marshmallows in there
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I see a Christmas tree some round thing
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I guess it's supposed to be his nose and
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something else blue I'll figure that out
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later they say it sweetened
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corn cereal with marshmallows and it's
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Rudolph's 60th anniversary oh here on
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the side it says what they are Rudolph's
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red
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nose Christmas tree and hermes's hat why
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does it feel like those were
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repurposed and then you have the flying
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reindeer oh and back here even for kids
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can cut these out even better I used to
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love that kind of stuff when I was a kid
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maybe I'll cut them out we'll see let's
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uh crack this open and see how they
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actually
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look by the way this box was
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$349 taking a look at the cereal before
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I've added milk to it it looks about
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what I expected doesn't seem like health
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food but you know I'm sure it'll taste
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pretty
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good adding some milk all right I'm I'm
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ready to try this out let's see what we
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got here is it going to taste like every
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other chocolate cereal with marshmallows
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probably let's
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see yep tasted like every other
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chocolate cereal with marshmallows but
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it's pretty good yes it's kind of
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generic no it's not very healthy but
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will your kids enjoy it probably parents
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might enjoy this this too this is the
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part of the program I call the Holiday
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Death Wish I'm going to try a little bit
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of everything first up EG eggnog ice
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cream just a little bit pumpkin pie ice
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cream a little bit I'm going to break up
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one of these elf cookies in here a hunk
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of my ice cream sandwich that's going in
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there as well we're just getting started
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we're going to pour some Southern
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Comfort eggnog in there some Christian
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Brothers eggnog in there wrap things up
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a little bit of
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cereal here we go I'm going to just mix
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all this up this looks AB absolutely
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nasty Bley you actually want some what
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do you guys think this is this a good
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idea or not we shall see right here we
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go I have my holiday soup here I'm going
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to take a giant bite of that look at
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that down the
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hatch whoa you know what it's kind of
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good it's actually kind of good it has
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every flavor you could possibly want for
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the holidays all one bite now I might
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eatting I'm going to finish it it was
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fun to try all these out and it was
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actually kind of fun and and
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unbelievably good to try all them
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together if I had a favorite of the
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bunch I'd probably say it is that
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pumpkin pie ice cream everything was
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pretty good the cookies and the cereal a
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little bit generic but I don't think
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really most people are going to care but
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now I'm going to go rest my stomach cuz
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this is going to come back to haunt me
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in a little while I can tell already but
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if you've tried any of these tell me
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what you think in the comments below I
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appreciate you watching and I'll see you
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next time
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