- Ew! Sorry, guys. That is the worst thing
I've ever had! - I don't like Cheez-Its
or pizza or tomato sauce, but it wasn't really that bad.
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- (FBE) I hope you're hungry. - (gasps) I get to eat?!
- (FBE) Today, you'll be trying some trending fast food that is
a little extreme. - (nervously) Okay.
What does "extreme" mean? - I know one. The KFC frickin'
heart attack on a donut. - I'm hungry, so I hope
this is at least edible. - (FBE) First up, we have a new take
on a fast food trend that has been going viral.
So, there seems to be a bit of a chicken sandwich war happening
with Popeyes releasing their own chicken sandwich in August
to compete with Chick-fil-A. And that Popeyes sandwich
became viral and was high in demand. It even sold out everywhere.
- Yeah, I heard about it. I heard that people would buy it
and then sell it for even more money. - (FBE) So, earlier this week,
KFC announced a sweet and salty combo as the latest entry
in chicken sandwiches. - Everyone is so obsessed
with chicken sandwiches right now.
I just wanna know where this came from.
- (FBE) You're gonna try the Kentucky Fried Chicken
and Donut Sandwich. - Oh my god. That's disgusting.
I can't wait. - (FBE) Since it's not available
in the West Coast, we had to recreate this ourselves.
- I'm good. Let's do it! - (FBE) So, it's just a random donut
and then [bleep] KFC chicken. Okay, gotcha. Okay, well I'm excited.
- Oh my god. Ew! Thank you so much.
- Here's the thing. I hate donuts. I hate sweets.
If I could just do that and then just have this chicken,
I would be more than happy. - Well, I like the taste separately
and I think in a combination, they'll be a good combination.
- You can't even bite into it. It's so tall. No one's mouth
is that big. - Ew, it's so gross! (chuckles)
I don't like that. Mm-mm. - I feel like something like this
would gross some people out, but it's pretty fire.
- This is so good. (laughs)
Hold on. (laughs) - (FBE laughs)
- This stuff's deadly. The combinations are actually good.
- I'm thinking I wouldn't buy it, because the sugar is interfering
with the taste of the chicken. - It's like glazed chicken almost.
No. - Yeah, no. I'm not sure
if that's something I can finish. But that chicken kind of
slaps, though. Not gonna lie. - (FBE) So, as you eat,
we're gonna show you some reactions around this sandwich.
- Oh, cool. So, I can continue eating. I mean, it's good! Don't get me wrong.
It's good. - "KFC will test chicken
and donuts for a limited time only in Norfolk/Richmond, Virginia
and Pittsburgh." I wonder why they chose
to launch it just on the East Coast. - I feel like I've seen people
put donut buns or donut thingies as buns on sandwiches before.
I feel like I've seen that before at like an OC fair or something.
- Oh, they even put the word "test." And knowing my country,
it's definitely gonna get a pass. People will literally rave over this.
- What happened to KFC? KFC used to be thriving,
and then they had a downfall with this.
- Blair Guild says, "KFC wants us to die so badly."
Bro, this isn't even that bad. - It's gonna do well
just like fried chicken and waffles does well.
- I don't think this is gonna kill us, but it's a really odd combination.
Now, see, that's my problem. It's like this-- ugh.
For someone that loves healthy food, it's like the epitome of just,
like, everything wrong. (laughs) - This is not something
that's like, "Here you go. It's a meal." Like, no.
What's that movie? Wall-E. We're gonna end up
like the fat people from Wall-E. - "This looks disgusting.
When can I try it?" (chuckles) 100% what I said, right?
Did I tweet that? No. Sarah did.
- What? Donuts and fried chicken and...? That's disgusting.
(chuckles) Mm! - When something looks weird,
some people are like, "Oh, I wanna try it now."
- Honestly? It's a great ploy that these fast food chains are doing.
Just create something crazy and then people are gonna come
and try it. - "For [bleep] sake.
They don't even slice a donut in half. They just give your fat [bleep]
two donuts as the bread." Sometimes that's all
a fat [bleep] needs. - It's a matter of presentation.
Because they have two full donuts, it looks big, it looks fluffy,
it looks appetizing, it looks weird. - When you brought this out,
it's like, "Damn, this is a heart attack on a plate."
But it tastes really good, so I don't mind.
I'm just gonna keep eating it. - Realistically? How are you
gonna mix all this sugar with this chicken?
Your taste buds are going, "What's up here?" Mine did.
- You're having a donut chicken sandwich,
and what you're concerned about is slicing the donut?
We've lost the battle. - (FBE) Well, I do hope you saved
some room, because next up, we have another combo of favorites:
pizza and Cheez-Its. - Oooh!
- (FBE) You're gonna try the Pizza Hut Cheez-It pizza!
- Americans literally ruin pizza. I know Italians, if they're
watching this right now, they're gonna be like,
"Another mistake?" - (FBE) Well, it seems like most
of the fast food chains offer modifications or twists
on their typical menu within their own brand.
However, for a limited time only, Pizza Hut partnered with Kellogg,
who acquired Cheez-It, to bring two different brands together
and create the ultimate fast food snack.
- Cheez pizza. It's Cheez-Its on a cheese pizza.
- I'm here for the new foods, 'cause there's only one thing
I'll never reject in my life, and it's food.
- I thought they'd be Cheez-It sized. Okay.
She thicc. - Oh, it's like a calzone.
Oh my god! It looks like a giant Cheez-It.
Wait, this is so sick. - I had no idea
what you were giving me. I thought it was a slice of pizza
with the little crackers on top. - Ah, man!
It does not smell good. (giggles)
They kind of taste like Cheez-Its. - I think this would work.
Not bad at all. - I don't like Cheez-Its
or pizza or tomato sauce, but it wasn't really that bad.
- I prefer this one over the last, 'cause I feel like this is
something that can actually be sold and eaten by kids after school.
- If you like cheese, I think you would just
wanna be born into a vat of that. - (FBE) So, go ahead and enjoy
your pizza snack. Let's see what the internet has to say about it.
- "She's here and she's beautiful." She really is, bro.
- I don't know if she looks that good. Not very appetizingly, like, looking.
- (chuckles) This is so dumb Pizza Hut.
Pizza Hut, no. Have Wendy's take over your Twitter.
- Ben White. "Between this and the Cheez-It pizza,
America should be over by October." (chuckles)
- Bro, [bleep]. We are disgusting.
The way that we eat food here is literally unlike anywhere else
I've ever been. - We're gonna die by Halloween.
Halloween? Oh my gosh. The candy? Thanksgiving? Oh my god.
We literally just have holidays to eat.
We're so fat! - I feel like it's the race
to the top to who has the weirdest food that will taste good.
- "Pizza Hut and Kellogg's partnered to create stuffed Cheez-It pizza.
Every cardiologist right now." (laughs)
- I'm telling you, cholesterol, a heart attack
on a plate. - I'm surprised that's the reaction.
I would expect more, like, "Yum," like, "I'm excited about this."
People are worried about their health. I'm kind of impressed. (chuckles)
- You put a 10 cent tax on this, that pays for our healthcare
that this is creating the need for anyway.
Yeah, man. Sharon 2020. What's up?!
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- If you're gonna eat this every day, all day long,
yeah, you're gonna have a problem. But just as a snack here and there,
I think it's okay. - Kids'll love it.
I think snacks for teenagers, a party, yeah,
it's something different you can put out.
- I'd probably recommend it. Like, "Hey, try this.
It looks really gross, but it's actually not that bad."
- I still prefer it over the chicken donut abomination
from earlier. I feel like these
are slowly improving, so we'll see.
- (FBE) You're probably pretty full, but there's always room for dessert!
- Yeah. Always. - (FBE) Well, this is another
food combination that has made its way to the dessert side:
Oscar Mayer's hot dog ice cream sandwich.
- I feel like I may have just thrown up in my mouth
a little bit. - An ice cream sandwich
made from hot dog? - (FBE) A lot of people were hesitant.
Some even thought it was a hoax when they first heard
that the ice cream would be mustard and hot dog flavor.
- Oh. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's just too extreme.
- No, I'm not gonna like this, okay? Ready to die.
- What are you guys doing to me? This looks disgusting. (laughs)
Oscar! I'm upset with you! - It looks so innocent,
but there's chunks in it, and that makes me scared.
- Are those pieces of hot dog? - I'm scared. I don't wanna
take a big [bleep] bite and throw up. I'm scared.
- Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
- (muffled) Oh, god. Come on. Where's the garbage?
That is disgu-- ew! Sorry, guys.
That is the worst thing I've ever had! - Oh my god, the aftertaste!
(laughs) Okay, I think I got more of the cream
in the beginning, but that's definitely hot dog in there.
- The part I'm eating right now tastes really good.
- This is so gross. It tastes like I just
ate a hot dog. What the [bleep]?
- (FBE) So, while you enjoy your ice cream, let me show you
what people have been saying. - "Who eats just mustard, @Frenchs?
Condiments were made for Oscar Mayer hot dogs.
Say hello to the Oscar Mayer Ice Hot Dog Sandwich,
flavored ice cream, made with our better hot dogs
sandwiched with spicy mustard. Do you want to try this?
Coming in August." This is like the current--
if the current state of America was a food, this would be it.
It's disgusting. - (chuckles) "No, I eat
condiments solo." 72% are like, "[Bleep] this."
And I could tell you, this is disgusting.
- That's a gimmick. This is disgusting.
Like, why-- no one's gonna buy-- I hope no one buys it,
especially their kids, as dessert. Just have an ice cream.
Be normal. (laughs) - "For curious taste buds"--
Don't ever be this curious. "Here are the delicious ingredients."
I don't know if I wanna read these ingredients.
- Cookie bun. Candied hot dog bits.
I tasted that. I saw it, too.
- I love me some mustard, but it don't belong in ice cream!
- Ew. That's like making hot dog water into an ice cube.
- If you see that and are like, "Oh my gosh. It's making
my mouth water. It looks so delicious,"
I don't know what the heck you're thinking.
- (laughs) I think Oscar Mayer should spend more time
making their hot dogs better than worried about
making an ice cream with these flavors in it.
- "Me trying the new Oscar Mayer hot dog ice cream sandwiches."
- I love her. No, it's not good! No, no. Yeah, no.
- (woman) No. Well... (chuckles)
- There's no "Well." There's just "Ew."
There's just like, "Ew, that's gross." - Hot dogs, hamburgers, apple pie,
ice cream, Americana, doesn't mean they go well
in the same taste, in the same bite.
- It made me want to eat more to see if I was really sure
if it was really gross and disgusting.
And then when I finished it, I was like, "I shouldn't
have taken that second bite." - We should not be afraid
to be a little bit creative with new things that come
to the taste buds. Some of it's not gonna
be real super healthy, but some of it's really good.
- (FBE) Since we have all the generations in for this episode,
we wanted to know if you can remember any fast food gimmicks
similar to these throughout your life. - As far as fast food gimmicks
back in my childhood, it was more just giveaways.
The Oscar Mayer guy coming to your neighborhood
with the Wienermobile and giving away the Wiener Whistles.
- When my dad came back from Vietnam, which was
in the late '60s, they had just invented--
while he was gone, they invented the Big Mac.
We'd always stop at McDonald's, and we'd get just fries and a Big Mac.
And the two of us would share that, and the fries were just normal fries.
And now, they're just humongous. - When Twitter and that stuff
wasn't out, you couldn't find out what the new stuff was.
You'd have to go there and see, but now you can just whip out
your phone and stuff and then see popular food things.
- Now, since Instagram has popularized these crazy food treats, I think
it's just like, "How do I get more people to know about our brand?"
- (FBE) Well, it seems like lately brands are trying to come up
with the next best new item or the craziest combo of foods
to wow consumers or make some sort of wave in the industry.
And a lot of it is done through tweets and other organic ways of marketing.
In this digital age, how has social media changed
how fast food is marketed? - Yeah, dude. I mean,
social is free marketing, you know? You don't have to pay
to put your products on there. And especially something--
when you add two things that everybody loves together,
social media and food, it just becomes--
it's a recipe for success. - If something's trending on Twitter,
like weird food, either it being really good or really bad,
I'd probably wanna try it to put my opinion in on it.
- That's how I hear about most things is through social media
in terms of trends, whether it's food or not.
But companies that are really smart try to market specifically
for an Instagram-able food or a tweet-able food or whatever,
you know? Something that people can just share on the internet.
- (FBE) So finally, you've tried a few new fast food items today.
Think you'll be wanting to eat any of these again?
- Absolutely not! NEVER, okay?!
I'm done! Canceled! - That last one,
that Oscar Mayer thing? Yeah, I will.
- The Pizza Hut Cheez-It and the KFC sandwich
definitely are my guilty foods now. The hot dog one can just go
and stay wherever it was before this, 'cause it was disgusting,
and I will never wanna see it again. - Just one. (laughs)
The fried chicken and the donut. I think they'll keep trying
to come up with a novelty something that gets a lot of air time
and a lot of attention. But the tried and true
will keep outselling all the gimmicks always.
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