- This is when I talk to the audience at home
and I need to warn them about something
and what I need to warn them about
is what we're about to do 'cause it's so gross.
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of
Hack or Wack snack edition.
Today, we're getting fizzy.
Claire, what horrors do you have for us today?
- We're getting fizzy, but were also getting a little creamy
and I'm not sure those things go together,
but we're gonna find out.
The first thing I have for us is
the classic combination of Pepsi and milk,
which is just called a Pepsi Milk.
You may have heard of it if you watch Laverne and Shirley.
- Any specific kind of milk?
- Creamy, whole milk to go with your Pepsi.
Some people have said it's like a root beer float.
- How much of each?
Half and half?
- Half and half, yeah.
- Half and half, really?
- Hold on let me verify that.
- Half and half, but were not using Half and Half.
- It says half a cup of whole milk and top with Pepsi,
stir if desired.
- Wait top with Pepsi or equal amount of Pepsi?
'Cause that sounds to me like you're just drinking milk
and you're putting a little bit of Pepsi on top.
- You know what? I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do half and half.
- Okay. I'm gonna start with just a whisper of Pepsi.
- Oo, cracking open a cold one with my boy.
- Ugh, Jesus Christ.
Okay are we trying this?
- Cheers, oh god.
- I hate it. I hate it so much.
- I don't hate it,
but I feel like my inner WASP is really showing.
Like milk, who drinks milk besides weird white people.
- What I was getting
with just like the splash of Pepsi on the top
is it just tasted like milk with just like
enough little bit of Pepsi and fizz in the back
that made it unsettling.
So, I added more.
I got the very firm bubbles like how you got.
- Yeah you need that foam.
- It just kinda tastes like watered down creamy Pepsi.
So I guess if that's what you want.
We might disagree, but I think this is wack.
I would not want to drink this.
- I think it's kind of a snack, sorry.
But also like I am a freak
who will just drink a glass of milk.
This one I saw on Twitter.
It was like some vintage, like, vintage drink
that's seasonal and good for you or something.
- Good for you?
- Retro ads will claim all sorts of things.
- So we're basically doing the same thing,
but were using 7-Up instead of Pepsi.
- I feel like Pepsi is,
and Cola kinda has like a caramely, sugary kinda thing,
which goes well with cream.
That's why like Vanilla Coke is pretty good,
Cinnamon Coke is good,
like those things go well with milk.
7-Up, which I couldn't even find so I have Sprite,
is lemon lime.
Do I want lemon in my milk? No.
Do I want lime in my milk? No.
- But what about like a creamy lemon dessert?
- Let's just drink it.
- Again, yeah I'm gonna do the half and half.
I'm starting with my milk
and this glass is taller so it's more milk, which I love.
- Same amount we think?
- This looks, this looks worse.
There's no foam here.
It just looks like,
oh god, I'm not gonna like this at all.
- Cheers
7-Up and milk.
- No.
- No. Actually,
no I do hate it,
but I'm wondering if I hate it that much.
'Cause it does at first sip remind me of like a lemon ice.
- I'm not endorsing this in the public.
- If you have enough milk to drink
and you have enough 7-Up to drink,
each of those individually is better than this.
- Yes, exactly, like this isn't terrible,
I can drink it,
but why?
- It is less than the sum of it's parts.
- Exactly, yeah. The calculus doesn't work out.
I think it's wack.
- I agree it's wack and I never wanna speak of this again.
I hate it.
- I love it when we agree.
- Okay what do we have now?
- Another retro classic that I found on Twitter,
which is Hot Dr Pepper, aka the Hot Doctor.
- I love a hot doctor.
- I do love a hot doctor.
- Do we think this will work?
Why do we think that Dr Pepper could be drinkable warm?
- Because Christopher Walken said so in
the Alicia Silverstone classic film Blast from the Past.
I don't know if you saw that.
- I missed that one.
- Not hungry.
- Hot Dr Pepper, you're favorite.
- But also I don't know,
it's got like some warm spicy flavors,
that might translate well.
Who knows?
How many flavors are in Dr Pepper? 23.
And you know vanilla, cinnamon, I heard prune
is a flavor in Dr Pepper.
- I kind of buy that.
I agree that it does have that like wintery, spice thing
that mulled kinda flavor profile.
So, maybe it'll be okay.
- Can't be worse than 7-Up and milk.
- Okay I'm just gonna call it let's pour.
- And it's still fizzing you gotta respect that.
After all it's been through.
- Oo, very, very fizzy.
- All right are you ready for hot Dr Pepper.
- So ready for a hot doctor on this cold, winters day.
- Cheers
I don't know if because it's so sweet and fizzy
that just we're conditioned to want that cold.
- Well for one, like a lot of the carbonation
has been obliterated, like
and I feel with something this sweet
you need that like hit the back of your mouth
that you get from carbonation.
- You need the bubbles
to take some of the sweetness off your tongue.
- I could see a dumb child liking this.
- Well Claire wait, no here a question Claire.
If you were throwing a party, would you,
like a winter party, would you do a batch of hot doctor
and add some alcohol to it?
Do you think that would be a pleasing drink to anybody?
- Let's find out Joel.
I'm not a huge fan
of hot alcoholic drinks to begin with, but
a toddy of sorts, it's a toddy of sorts.
- As far as I'm concerned, fine is not good.
'Cause I think this goes back,
this goes back to the other one,
which is if you had Dr Pepper,
it would be better to drink it cold, than to drink it warm.
- Even with alcohol.
- Yeah, so for that I would say that this is wack.
- Yeah, I guess you're right. It's wack.
I almost like it.
- Sorry hot doctor.
- I'm gonna have to kick this hot doctor out of bed.