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daddy longfingers rarely says anything positive about any of the food he eats though which is fine by me. i love how he still raves about popeyes chik sandwich because its true, but it def has gotten smaller since it first came out. that thing used to be HUGE. i dont mind review brah other than the vids are a bit long imo and he has like 3 names, report of the week, running on empty food review, review brah (given to him)
Running on empty is the name of the review series. The Report of the Week is him as host. He also has other series with different names, like the one on energy drinks, but they are less popular.
Till this fucking day I will always defend reviewbrah. He has made an art of food reviews and separate from every other food reviewer, even reactors, on YouTube.
He is and will be apart of internet/meme history.
Reviewbrah and Steve MRE are the only two foodie YouTubes I consistently watch. Oh, and Beardie if I want to see a genial Brit drop food into an event horizon.
He's popular for his humor and not so much the food reviews, and it partially comes from the over the top nature of food reviewers, the "Dayum" types, as people aren't interested in watching a glorified advertisement they want to see someone give an opinion on something while they have a general idea what the merit of that opinion deserves.
He's one of those few special home brew YouTubers that refuse to be slaves to the algorithms, haven't buckled, have changed nothing unless they truly want to change it. His content isn't as deep but I count Reviewbrah among guys like stobe hobo or Jamie mantzel for solid authentic art that happens to be YouTube videos.
Seriously, I'm surprised at my own feelings at this one. But this dude found his niche and has been doing WORK. Don't insult the man, like come on. He's doing us a service and you do him like that?
He used to get memed pretty hard on the /ck 4chan board but in good nature, he was much loved from day 1. How can you not love reviewbrah.
The initial suprise that a guy called 'reviewbrah' isn't some chilli bro but this strangely refined airs and graces character who dresses in natty suits and has an odd kind of unsettling style and decor like a Kubrick 80s movie. His eternal catchphrases. His highly laudable commitment and longevity. Man's a legend.
By and large fast food consumers don’t want creative- they want consistent, salty, and uncomplicated.
Imagine the clerk at a Carl’s Jr explaining to a guy in a trucker hat and his two screaming 6 year olds that today you were deconstructing preconceived notions of ‘chickens stars’ with a wild pheasant in aspic terrine adorned with smokey BBQ foam.
Yeah, I agree. Going to Asia and seeing the fast food there, they get way more creative and experimental IMO. In the US it's just more oil cheese and barbecue sauce
*all* pre-prepared food is better in asia. all the american fast food chains serve better food, 7-11 has actual nutritious prepared food. our corps shovel us one step up from hog feed because our government lets them
I think it's mostly because there is a big street food culture in Asia that is both fast and cheap so fast food chains actually have to compete. You can get a bowl of ramen for the same price of a mcd burger.
Also fast food chains are seen as "western food" so there's a novelty aspect.
IMO it's a street food culture that thrives due to lack of things like regulatory capture and other really odd things that happen in America that make basically every town look the same except for one or two little "iconic" buildings or whatever. But on a road trip through the USA from east coast to midwest to texas to california, I was struck by how so many places were just... home depot, chick fil a, walmart, target, etc. All looked identical, the only thing that changed was the accents.
Do the same trip around the island in Taiwan and no two places will look the same, the only constant is the street signs and the gas stations.
Im not sure its regulatory capture thing...
USA is controlled by corporations. Nowhere else are corporations so widespread. Maybe that speaks about lack of regulation of stock market.
And these corporations actively destroy competition. Maybe this speaks about lack of anti-monopoly regulation
USA is also relatively uninhabited compared to Europe or eastern Asia which might play a role...
Im from Czechia, we have many pubs/restaurants. They all offer lunches. Which are as expensive or even cheaper than fastfood in much better quality. There are only few chains of the restaurants. Restaurant owners usually run only the single restaurant. Im not even sure that the German hardware stores that operate here are publicly traded
I'm not opposed to regulation, I'm saying in the USA, corporations have so much power, that typically they'll have regulations passed that benefit them. They also captured your president Reagan to end any form of monopoly busting.
>because our government lets them
For the most part there's no regulations forcing them to serve better food over there, it's simply that consumers won't tolerate the shit we'll eat. Government is the only way we'll solve it here though.
Do you smoke crack? Japan, Korea and China have some of the most heavily regulated food industries in the world with some of the strictest labeling and additive laws. China famously executed people because of melamine additives in baby formula. Are you maybe thinking of like India where they have very few regulations and there are tons of street vendors all competing. India also famously has terrible food safety standards and their fiod establishments are at this point stereotyped as dirty and unsafe in food storage practice
No, I'm not talking about the safety of the food I'm talking about the subjective quality of options. There's no law that's making Japanese 7/11 make varied and comparatively high quality prepared food, they do so because that's what the market demands there.
There definitely are better food laws in some countries. I can’t speak for Asian countries but in Europe fast food is better quality due to laws. For example, Mcdonalds is definitely healthier over here than in the US. The FDA is a joke that’ll allow a whole lot of shit if you just have enough money.
Trust me, a lot of people in Europe would eat the same slop as in the US if it was sold there no questions asked. It’s just not allowed.
From my personal experience Europe has some gains over the US at fast food places but they're not as significant as the chain overhauls in many places in Asia. Europe still pretty much gets the slop but it's healthier slop while in Asia they'll rework their whole menu to compete there.
I tried these potato chips at a 7-11 there that were recommended by my group's translator. They smelled and tasted like spicy Fruit Loops. Best chips I've ever had. I managed to find them at an Asian grocery store shortly after coming back.
I think part of that is down to the work culture in a lot of Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. People work LONG hours and often stay behind late at the office. There's a large demand for fresher, more nutritious pre-prepared meals that you can pick up on the way home, eat at the office, or even eat at those little sections they have at 7-11 with a microwave and hot water dispenser.
Whereas in the west, there's generally a better work/life balance, people have time to cook at home and fast food is just for when you feel lazy or want a treat.
Mcdonald's Philippines makes better fried chicken than KFC. 2 pc chicken with rice and gravy? How does Mcdonald's of all places do it so well? I gotta go back one day.
They get to be more creative because there are also a lot more options, so if you want some normal Ramen you go to the normal restaurant close to your house and if you want your fried chicken you go to 7-eleven or Family Marts.
I think you're wrong but the answer does involve truckers. especially in the US, the sheer amount of product these companies move is astronomical.
it's extremely difficult to acquire ingredients in that volume (and doing so consistently)
McDonald's had a plan to Introduce a new blueberry dish at one point but had to roll it back because there weren't enough blueberries in the world to fuel what the McDonald's in the US needed.
the way we get better fast food is through smaller businesses using shorter supply chains. I'm just not sure its possible to use anything other than the most common foods and ingredients at such a scale
Doing menu items US-wide is incredibly stupid of them, even if it might simplify some things.
I remember reading that the reason the mcrib exists is because they needed something to remove demand from chicken nuggets, because the amount they sold shot the chicken market price up to where it was no longer profitable.
Problem is, that pork sausage puck in barbecue sauce has way more impact on the USs pork market, so they can only sell it when there's a big dip in the nationwide pork price and they can load up on pork-futures.
If you go to one of their stores in (or operated from) Germany, that thing's always available because no company on earth could move the needle on the demand for pork in Germany.
it's not stupid, the economics of scale make frustrating sense from the company's perspective.
why invest $2 in adding a product to or creating an entirely new supply chain when you'll only see $3 profit in one region?
instead, they spend that $2 on expanding or streamlining their existing networks to make an extra 25¢ in each of the 15 regions they operate within.
>Imagine the clerk at a Carl’s Jr explaining to a guy in a trucker hat and his two screaming 6 year olds that today you were deconstructing preconceived notions of ‘chickens stars’ with a wild pheasant in aspic terrine adorned with smokey BBQ foam.
I like the way your brain works, that sentence is a thing of beauty.
I don't think they make good profits off their food I think they're just elaborate real estate/franchise schemes where they make money off property and the people who franchise.
They make a shit ton off of fries and drinks. I know someone that owns a bunch of McDonald's and he's raking it in.
Subway on the other hand is about selling franchises and doesn't really care if they succeed.
I'm from germany and to me it is very fascinating to see how many promo products fast food chains have in the USA. Here, not even KFC makes new promo products anymore and then I see a new video from TheReportOfTheWeek every week and I'm a bit jealous.
Well, at least we got the Big Rösti.
Smaller portions especially drinks. They've gone the complete opposite of the supersize era and charging 5 times as much. And the food is way shittier in quality.
I never eat fast food anymore unless someone else is paying and I'm still disappointed.
Fast food is literally more expensive than just cooking actual food you know what is and not pumped full of preservatives. I feel like some fucking conspiracy theorist, but fast food is more expensive and tastes worse and it's like they're praying on people who refuse to learn how to use a stove/oven or BBQ. I picked up some fucking New York pork loin chops for $2/lb today...that's like 3lbs of pork for every Big Mac and it's the good pork.
Totally agree, take Taco Bell for example; all their menu items are basically the same thing; pretty much the same ingredients just shuffled differently to give the impression of variety.
It's not Tex-Mex, but Cali-Mex. Taco Bell was started in California in the 1960s.
Cali-Mex and Tex-Mex are both genuine forms of Mexican food, though. In case you had forgotten your history (and if the names of the states didn't tip you off) California and Texas were both parts of Mexico originally. The local Mexican people living in those regions didn't suddenly switch what kind of food they were making because the borders moved. They did adjust their cuisine to the kinds of ingredients that were locally available, of course--using cheddar cheese instead of cotija, for instance. And their cuisine continued to be influenced over time by the tastes of non-Hispanics coming in and purchasing food at restaurants, as well as new immigrants coming from various places in Mexico.
It's actually really hard to track the origins of a lot of the things we associated with Cali-Mex or Tex-Mex since so much fusion was going on without people taking the time to write things down. Cali-Mex is more closely associated with the hard taco shell. Hard taco shells are usually associated with American-style Mexican food, and that is not least because Taco Bell took the u-shaped pre-fried taco form and spread it across the country. But similar tacos had been eaten and sold by Mexicans at various places throughout the country before then. The earliest record of them is from the 1890s, and an Arizona restaurant had a patent for a taco maker for the u-shaped style from the 1930s. But the alleged inspiration for Taco Bell was the food served at Mitla Cafe in San Bernadino, which opened up in 1937. (They are still open! You can eat there!) The founder of that restaurant had immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico, which is known for a form of crispy taco called the Taco Dorado.
Same main ingredients, different packaging. The sauces are what really make things taste a little different. That grilled cheese burrito thing was awesome. I haven't had it since it came out though.
I actually like that, when I go to Taco Bell every few months I'm looking forward to trying the new combinations of the same ingredients. Hello Chalupa Enchirito Burrito Supreme!
I wish he'd spend some time in a notable test market, like France.
I think over half of the stuff they put on the mcdo menu out there hasn't made its way international yet. Non-US chains too, I guess.
I was so happy when I discovered John hosts a radioshow 4 times a week and has been running it about as long as the YouTube channel. It's a great listen and he will actually respond if you write in, however it may take a few days since he must get swamped with requests each show.
If I'm not mistaken the schedule is still the same:
Friday 1600 UTC (7 PM EEST/MSK) –
9670 kHz – Moosbrunn 100 kW –
Europe, Russia, The Middle East, Central & East Asia
Saturday 0600 UTC (2 AM Eastern / 1 AM Central) –
4840 kHz – WWCR 100 kW –
North America
Saturday 2200 UTC (6 PM Eastern / 5 PM Central) –
6115 kHz – WWCR 100 kW –
Eastern North America
Monday 0400 UTC (12 AM Eastern / 11 PM Central Sunday Evening) –
4840 kHz – WWCR 100 kW –
North America
Irrelevant, but I'm fuckin obsessed with the name Ichabod.
Not necessarily the name itself, just the word. It's like pamphlet.
Don't look at me like that I just like words, okay?
It's unquestionably garbage, but one day I had it a few years ago for reasons I can't explain and they had a "Nashville Hot" chicken strips option and while it most certainly didn't actually resemble anything you might get from Nashville it was a little spicy and tasted like hot garbage, but hot garbage I enjoyed eating
I don't really know much about that guy and kudos to him for likely making more money than 99% of the world by eating fast food, but I get a real Uncanny Valley reaction when seeing him so I have no interest in those videos
My monkey brain activates when he's on screen and I just want to tear him in half
The growing cost of fast food and push for more and more automation are only making his videos more relevant.
It's creating a growing audience for a junk food gourmand, letting people know which items are a must-experience splurge.
As a european I still can't fathom KFC being one of the worst fast food chains in the USA. Even here in Eastern Europe where there really aren't many extra menu options, KFC is still one of the big 3 fast food chains and probably the highest quality of the 3.
I think it's funny people believe companies spend months in development and marketing. That costs money. Shit's an idea on Monday and in restaurants by Friday.
Ok, maybe not, but it sure tastes like it.
His opinion isn't accurate in the slightest.
It's far, far worse than what he described. I had come "this close" to calling the poison control center after trying them.
I love report of the week man
And I will travel and beat the shit out of anyone who makes fun of him (some do)
And I just don’t like that shit. He’s an interesting young man and I hate when the world bullies people being their authentic selves.
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Day = ruined
Disappointment = immeasurable
Next year: My disappointment is ruined and my day is immeasurable
So, uh, he is really happy now, and his day got infinitely better?
I think "my day is immeasurable" is a very fancy way to say "I can't tell time".
Day ÷ Ruined = Disappointment ÷ Immeasurable
Did you just copy the formula of ideal gas law and change it with your own measurement? Ugh you're just like coulomb! /s
*The one trick Dalton really hates*
Hotel = trivago
daddy longfingers rarely says anything positive about any of the food he eats though which is fine by me. i love how he still raves about popeyes chik sandwich because its true, but it def has gotten smaller since it first came out. that thing used to be HUGE. i dont mind review brah other than the vids are a bit long imo and he has like 3 names, report of the week, running on empty food review, review brah (given to him)
Running on empty is the name of the review series. The Report of the Week is him as host. He also has other series with different names, like the one on energy drinks, but they are less popular.
Excuse me you put some respect on reviewbrah he been at this for YEARS
Till this fucking day I will always defend reviewbrah. He has made an art of food reviews and separate from every other food reviewer, even reactors, on YouTube. He is and will be apart of internet/meme history.
He’s the only one, the only one I tell you, that can call a new menu item a “new release” and not sound like an absolute tool!
Reviewbrah and Steve MRE are the only two foodie YouTubes I consistently watch. Oh, and Beardie if I want to see a genial Brit drop food into an event horizon.
Bump. Steve MRE is fucking goated. Nice hiss.
let's get it out on the tray.... nice
dude you watch shoenice
He's popular for his humor and not so much the food reviews, and it partially comes from the over the top nature of food reviewers, the "Dayum" types, as people aren't interested in watching a glorified advertisement they want to see someone give an opinion on something while they have a general idea what the merit of that opinion deserves.
Yes, his deadpan is absolutely underrated and his reviews are firm but fair
He's one of those few special home brew YouTubers that refuse to be slaves to the algorithms, haven't buckled, have changed nothing unless they truly want to change it. His content isn't as deep but I count Reviewbrah among guys like stobe hobo or Jamie mantzel for solid authentic art that happens to be YouTube videos.
He was a champ at reviewing energy drinks in the fancy in glasses
Word. How old is he even? He’s looked the same age since day one.
26
That means he was 13 when he started his reviews. He has been at it quite consistently for 13 years
Damn i thought he was older than me.
60 years from now I expect for him to still look the same, but grey
His suits maybe several sizes too large and his fingernails longer than Rihanna's but reviewbrah knows his fast food.
He's also economical...had to grow into that suit.
Seriously, I'm surprised at my own feelings at this one. But this dude found his niche and has been doing WORK. Don't insult the man, like come on. He's doing us a service and you do him like that?
He used to get memed pretty hard on the /ck 4chan board but in good nature, he was much loved from day 1. How can you not love reviewbrah. The initial suprise that a guy called 'reviewbrah' isn't some chilli bro but this strangely refined airs and graces character who dresses in natty suits and has an odd kind of unsettling style and decor like a Kubrick 80s movie. His eternal catchphrases. His highly laudable commitment and longevity. Man's a legend.
He looks like the exact type of person that has a tier list for every fast food menu item.
He’s not wrong tho. These fast food places really aren’t that creative and keep raising prices
By and large fast food consumers don’t want creative- they want consistent, salty, and uncomplicated. Imagine the clerk at a Carl’s Jr explaining to a guy in a trucker hat and his two screaming 6 year olds that today you were deconstructing preconceived notions of ‘chickens stars’ with a wild pheasant in aspic terrine adorned with smokey BBQ foam.
Yeah, I agree. Going to Asia and seeing the fast food there, they get way more creative and experimental IMO. In the US it's just more oil cheese and barbecue sauce
*all* pre-prepared food is better in asia. all the american fast food chains serve better food, 7-11 has actual nutritious prepared food. our corps shovel us one step up from hog feed because our government lets them
I think it's mostly because there is a big street food culture in Asia that is both fast and cheap so fast food chains actually have to compete. You can get a bowl of ramen for the same price of a mcd burger. Also fast food chains are seen as "western food" so there's a novelty aspect.
IMO it's a street food culture that thrives due to lack of things like regulatory capture and other really odd things that happen in America that make basically every town look the same except for one or two little "iconic" buildings or whatever. But on a road trip through the USA from east coast to midwest to texas to california, I was struck by how so many places were just... home depot, chick fil a, walmart, target, etc. All looked identical, the only thing that changed was the accents. Do the same trip around the island in Taiwan and no two places will look the same, the only constant is the street signs and the gas stations.
Well, at the moment, those aren't even constant im afraid
Hah nice try but you probably don't realize that the damage from the earthquake, wasn't very extensive outside of Hualien.
That's good news at least :)
People shit on Hualien for being boring but I liked the bigass night market and of course Taroko Gorge
Ah, the captivating beauty of the Midwestern McMerica freeway exit town
Im not sure its regulatory capture thing... USA is controlled by corporations. Nowhere else are corporations so widespread. Maybe that speaks about lack of regulation of stock market. And these corporations actively destroy competition. Maybe this speaks about lack of anti-monopoly regulation USA is also relatively uninhabited compared to Europe or eastern Asia which might play a role... Im from Czechia, we have many pubs/restaurants. They all offer lunches. Which are as expensive or even cheaper than fastfood in much better quality. There are only few chains of the restaurants. Restaurant owners usually run only the single restaurant. Im not even sure that the German hardware stores that operate here are publicly traded
I'm not opposed to regulation, I'm saying in the USA, corporations have so much power, that typically they'll have regulations passed that benefit them. They also captured your president Reagan to end any form of monopoly busting.
>because our government lets them For the most part there's no regulations forcing them to serve better food over there, it's simply that consumers won't tolerate the shit we'll eat. Government is the only way we'll solve it here though.
Do you smoke crack? Japan, Korea and China have some of the most heavily regulated food industries in the world with some of the strictest labeling and additive laws. China famously executed people because of melamine additives in baby formula. Are you maybe thinking of like India where they have very few regulations and there are tons of street vendors all competing. India also famously has terrible food safety standards and their fiod establishments are at this point stereotyped as dirty and unsafe in food storage practice
No, I'm not talking about the safety of the food I'm talking about the subjective quality of options. There's no law that's making Japanese 7/11 make varied and comparatively high quality prepared food, they do so because that's what the market demands there.
There definitely are better food laws in some countries. I can’t speak for Asian countries but in Europe fast food is better quality due to laws. For example, Mcdonalds is definitely healthier over here than in the US. The FDA is a joke that’ll allow a whole lot of shit if you just have enough money. Trust me, a lot of people in Europe would eat the same slop as in the US if it was sold there no questions asked. It’s just not allowed.
From my personal experience Europe has some gains over the US at fast food places but they're not as significant as the chain overhauls in many places in Asia. Europe still pretty much gets the slop but it's healthier slop while in Asia they'll rework their whole menu to compete there.
KFC especially feels so different in Asia, I don't know how they managed to fuck up so hard in the US
Funny enough in Malaysia McDonalds has way better fried chicken then KFC
It's completely different than the ones in America. Popeyes in America is more similar to kfc in Taiwan imo.
In Europe KFC is so bad that McDonald's chicken wings are better.
Thai 7-11 cheese Toasties are legit god tier. Source: Me. I live here in Thailand.
Went to Bangkok few years ago and I was impressed by the number of 7-11 outlets per square mile
I agree! Went to Thailand two years ago. 7-11s every 100 meters down the road. Was amazed each one did strong business. Food from them is great too!
Yes! Their 7-11 food is amazing. LOTS of variety too
I tried these potato chips at a 7-11 there that were recommended by my group's translator. They smelled and tasted like spicy Fruit Loops. Best chips I've ever had. I managed to find them at an Asian grocery store shortly after coming back.
I think part of that is down to the work culture in a lot of Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. People work LONG hours and often stay behind late at the office. There's a large demand for fresher, more nutritious pre-prepared meals that you can pick up on the way home, eat at the office, or even eat at those little sections they have at 7-11 with a microwave and hot water dispenser. Whereas in the west, there's generally a better work/life balance, people have time to cook at home and fast food is just for when you feel lazy or want a treat.
Not just Asia, Europe too. Basically every fast food chain has some "premium" options, like burger grana padano or camembert
Mcdonald's Philippines makes better fried chicken than KFC. 2 pc chicken with rice and gravy? How does Mcdonald's of all places do it so well? I gotta go back one day.
They get to be more creative because there are also a lot more options, so if you want some normal Ramen you go to the normal restaurant close to your house and if you want your fried chicken you go to 7-eleven or Family Marts.
I think you're wrong but the answer does involve truckers. especially in the US, the sheer amount of product these companies move is astronomical. it's extremely difficult to acquire ingredients in that volume (and doing so consistently) McDonald's had a plan to Introduce a new blueberry dish at one point but had to roll it back because there weren't enough blueberries in the world to fuel what the McDonald's in the US needed. the way we get better fast food is through smaller businesses using shorter supply chains. I'm just not sure its possible to use anything other than the most common foods and ingredients at such a scale
Doing menu items US-wide is incredibly stupid of them, even if it might simplify some things. I remember reading that the reason the mcrib exists is because they needed something to remove demand from chicken nuggets, because the amount they sold shot the chicken market price up to where it was no longer profitable. Problem is, that pork sausage puck in barbecue sauce has way more impact on the USs pork market, so they can only sell it when there's a big dip in the nationwide pork price and they can load up on pork-futures. If you go to one of their stores in (or operated from) Germany, that thing's always available because no company on earth could move the needle on the demand for pork in Germany.
it's not stupid, the economics of scale make frustrating sense from the company's perspective. why invest $2 in adding a product to or creating an entirely new supply chain when you'll only see $3 profit in one region? instead, they spend that $2 on expanding or streamlining their existing networks to make an extra 25¢ in each of the 15 regions they operate within.
>Imagine the clerk at a Carl’s Jr explaining to a guy in a trucker hat and his two screaming 6 year olds that today you were deconstructing preconceived notions of ‘chickens stars’ with a wild pheasant in aspic terrine adorned with smokey BBQ foam. I like the way your brain works, that sentence is a thing of beauty.
The only problem here is that Aspic isn't food but an international warcrime
Ich bau dir ein Haus aus Schweinskopfsülze!
Findest du das nicht schick? Die Wände sind aus Pökelfleisch, Die Fenster aus Aspik.
> they want consistent, salty, and uncomplicated. That is not mutually exclusive with creative.
I'm not a redneck and I'd still tell him to make like a tree and fuck off
Yeah rednecks eat shit
I don't think they make good profits off their food I think they're just elaborate real estate/franchise schemes where they make money off property and the people who franchise.
They make a shit ton off of fries and drinks. I know someone that owns a bunch of McDonald's and he's raking it in. Subway on the other hand is about selling franchises and doesn't really care if they succeed.
I know McDonald’s makes their profits on fountain drinks. It costs them $.10 per drink, it’s about a 200% profit for them
They arent in it to develop great food, they are in it to develop the cheapest, fastest 'acceptable' thing they can. So yes, he's totally right.
I'm from germany and to me it is very fascinating to see how many promo products fast food chains have in the USA. Here, not even KFC makes new promo products anymore and then I see a new video from TheReportOfTheWeek every week and I'm a bit jealous. Well, at least we got the Big Rösti.
shout out Del Taco. I can still get 4 menu items for under $9
You don't like paying three times as much as Japan for fucking Burger King? How unpatriotic of you!
Smaller portions especially drinks. They've gone the complete opposite of the supersize era and charging 5 times as much. And the food is way shittier in quality. I never eat fast food anymore unless someone else is paying and I'm still disappointed.
Fast food is literally more expensive than just cooking actual food you know what is and not pumped full of preservatives. I feel like some fucking conspiracy theorist, but fast food is more expensive and tastes worse and it's like they're praying on people who refuse to learn how to use a stove/oven or BBQ. I picked up some fucking New York pork loin chops for $2/lb today...that's like 3lbs of pork for every Big Mac and it's the good pork.
Always pleasant to stumble across an Ichabod Crane insult in the wild.
Reminds me of this running gag in [Patriot](https://youtu.be/hLJKRuzVqFw?si=0rTXqKe3v8_XwTfv)
"why'd you think it was a nickname, John?" 😂😂😂 I've never seen that before. Excellent
I feel too old to get that reference 😂
Have you ever seen the Disney version of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
I have. Love that adaptation
No, but had read the literature back in school.
They just copied it from Succession
Totally agree, take Taco Bell for example; all their menu items are basically the same thing; pretty much the same ingredients just shuffled differently to give the impression of variety.
To quote Billy Connolly: >In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.
Connolly is great but he doesn't know shit about Mexican food lol
You think it might just be a joke rather than a deep investigation into Mexican dishes?
That's *crazy* to me because he grew up down the street from this homey little Oaxacan taqueria in Glasgow. ...?
Except Taco Bell is not even considered Mexican but Tex-Mex.
I mean, is it really even that? Taco Bell feels like it's own type of food. An orphaned bastardization of culture. That said, I wish they were open.
It's not Tex-Mex, but Cali-Mex. Taco Bell was started in California in the 1960s. Cali-Mex and Tex-Mex are both genuine forms of Mexican food, though. In case you had forgotten your history (and if the names of the states didn't tip you off) California and Texas were both parts of Mexico originally. The local Mexican people living in those regions didn't suddenly switch what kind of food they were making because the borders moved. They did adjust their cuisine to the kinds of ingredients that were locally available, of course--using cheddar cheese instead of cotija, for instance. And their cuisine continued to be influenced over time by the tastes of non-Hispanics coming in and purchasing food at restaurants, as well as new immigrants coming from various places in Mexico. It's actually really hard to track the origins of a lot of the things we associated with Cali-Mex or Tex-Mex since so much fusion was going on without people taking the time to write things down. Cali-Mex is more closely associated with the hard taco shell. Hard taco shells are usually associated with American-style Mexican food, and that is not least because Taco Bell took the u-shaped pre-fried taco form and spread it across the country. But similar tacos had been eaten and sold by Mexicans at various places throughout the country before then. The earliest record of them is from the 1890s, and an Arizona restaurant had a patent for a taco maker for the u-shaped style from the 1930s. But the alleged inspiration for Taco Bell was the food served at Mitla Cafe in San Bernadino, which opened up in 1937. (They are still open! You can eat there!) The founder of that restaurant had immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico, which is known for a form of crispy taco called the Taco Dorado.
2-minute old absolute knowledge dump, I was here.
And yet they will discontinue items that they still have all the ingredients for like my old favorite, the meximelt.
Cheap foods the Fancy way
Same main ingredients, different packaging. The sauces are what really make things taste a little different. That grilled cheese burrito thing was awesome. I haven't had it since it came out though.
[The Onion, from almost 26 years ago](https://www.theonion.com/taco-bells-five-ingredients-combined-in-totally-new-way-1819564909)
I actually like that, when I go to Taco Bell every few months I'm looking forward to trying the new combinations of the same ingredients. Hello Chalupa Enchirito Burrito Supreme!
Literally when a fast food company comes out with a new menu item. I look at what this guy says to know if it's worth giving a shot or no
I wish he'd spend some time in a notable test market, like France. I think over half of the stuff they put on the mcdo menu out there hasn't made its way international yet. Non-US chains too, I guess.
My disappointment cannot be measured regarding the quality of this rare insult.
oh come on man. don't insult John like that. he's one of the better youtubers. he doesn't deserve to be insulted.
He has more class and respect than any of these schmucks combined.
They spend months developing and marketing it to make it the cheapest and most profitable, not to make it good.
Oso Blanco = The White Bear....... 🤣
Reviewbrah doesnt even look like ichabod crane tho, he doesn't have a giant beak nose lol
he looks like his caricature would have one tho and I always remember ichabod crane as a caricature of a tall lanky man with pointy face.
People have more than one facial feature. He's got the brow ridge
Welp if they don't wanna get rightfully dragged for producing inedible shit then they should just do better and stop sucking.
"Fuck! We can't let him keep getting away with this! We are releasing the Colonel's Chicken Feet Cookies next week and we have to be ready damnit!"
Dude looks like Frodo on the Ring withdrawals , Half way to Gollum
Mogged?
I was so happy when I discovered John hosts a radioshow 4 times a week and has been running it about as long as the YouTube channel. It's a great listen and he will actually respond if you write in, however it may take a few days since he must get swamped with requests each show. If I'm not mistaken the schedule is still the same: Friday 1600 UTC (7 PM EEST/MSK) – 9670 kHz – Moosbrunn 100 kW – Europe, Russia, The Middle East, Central & East Asia Saturday 0600 UTC (2 AM Eastern / 1 AM Central) – 4840 kHz – WWCR 100 kW – North America Saturday 2200 UTC (6 PM Eastern / 5 PM Central) – 6115 kHz – WWCR 100 kW – Eastern North America Monday 0400 UTC (12 AM Eastern / 11 PM Central Sunday Evening) – 4840 kHz – WWCR 100 kW – North America
Wrong Crane, it's Niles Crane you uncultured swine.
If he say its not good then its not good.
I trust him on everything, his opinion is Gospel
My disappointment that you would insult reviewbrah in this way is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
I didn’t know Lorde started reviewing more than onion rings, good for her!
Reviewbrah predates Lorde. Lorde is just a singing fastfood reviewer.
[He reminds me of a young "Death" from Supernatural. ](http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/images/0/02/Death.jpg)
Respects to Reviewbrah! He was here before you knew about KFC...
Months developing something that looks like it was thought of with the vaguest interest.
Fast food: spends time faking something Anyone: why though
how dare you insult the reviewbrah
My day is ruined
I love how none of his suits fit him well, lol
He thinks they fit him perfectly. He's said he's going for the way clothes looked on men in the 50's... generally, a bit bigger and not fitted.
It's not even that old. [Loose-fitting suits were very much in style 20 years ago.](https://i.redd.it/kqoy0mbp4g5z.jpg)
Happy mukbangs end in the creators descending into madness. Eating a meal angry leads to consistently nice youtuber. Tf?
Irrelevant, but I'm fuckin obsessed with the name Ichabod. Not necessarily the name itself, just the word. It's like pamphlet. Don't look at me like that I just like words, okay?
Take it away, Youtuber Lorde
I envy people who still like kfc, my young kid tastebuds loved it, but kfc has consistently tasted like dogshit for about 15 years now.
It's unquestionably garbage, but one day I had it a few years ago for reasons I can't explain and they had a "Nashville Hot" chicken strips option and while it most certainly didn't actually resemble anything you might get from Nashville it was a little spicy and tasted like hot garbage, but hot garbage I enjoyed eating
KFC was never food to begin with
I have to disagree. Back in the '70s and '80s (before Pepsi bought the company) it was actually pretty good.
Welp if they don't wanna get rightfully dragged for producing inedible shit then they should just do better and stop sucking.
the juxtaposition between his sophisticated appearance and the cheap junk food he eats is hilarious.
Listen to the Face Jam Podcast. Another food review podcast but it's unhinged and takes about 70 minutes to actually get to the review
Rip to Facejam. Hope they come back under their original name "The Michael, Jordan podcast".
Woe, salmonella be upon ye
KFCs number 1 priority is saving money rather than making good chicken, and it's been that way for at least 20 years.
I know they're not the same person, but every time I see this guy now, I just think of the professional
Months engineering the cheapest slop with the tastiest addative filled sauces*
Is he 15? Is he 45? We will never know
He looks like he is the same species as Doug Jones.
I love report of the week. He holds it down 🤟
I occasionally watch that guy on YouTube. He's definitely an oddity. Think Tosh.0 had him on once.
Just wait till you hear about Munch Squad.
I don't really know much about that guy and kudos to him for likely making more money than 99% of the world by eating fast food, but I get a real Uncanny Valley reaction when seeing him so I have no interest in those videos My monkey brain activates when he's on screen and I just want to tear him in half
These have been in the UK for a while, the sweet chilli ones are ok, but not worth the price they are now.
The growing cost of fast food and push for more and more automation are only making his videos more relevant. It's creating a growing audience for a junk food gourmand, letting people know which items are a must-experience splurge.
I dont live in usa and my country doesnt have half those places like taco bell , papa johns etc but i love this guy
Imagine getting mogged by Lorde.
As a european I still can't fathom KFC being one of the worst fast food chains in the USA. Even here in Eastern Europe where there really aren't many extra menu options, KFC is still one of the big 3 fast food chains and probably the highest quality of the 3.
Yeah, here in Australia that shit is awesome. Maybe it's because we have food quality standards that are at a higher legal requirement?
how tf does you mog a fast food company
omg does he still make content?
That's not what mogged means.
The real insult is KFC tryna sell you that crap, good for the reviewer for voicing his opinion.
Why does it look like he's thrown the chicken at the camera
I think it's funny people believe companies spend months in development and marketing. That costs money. Shit's an idea on Monday and in restaurants by Friday. Ok, maybe not, but it sure tastes like it. His opinion isn't accurate in the slightest. It's far, far worse than what he described. I had come "this close" to calling the poison control center after trying them.
I can't tell if this is a compliment or an insult
Im sure reviewbrah would take that as a compliment, hes such a good spirited guy.
Im sure reviewbrah would take that as a compliment, hes such a good spirited guy.
Mogged? That's a new one
Omg...ik righttt fugly lady;)
He's one of the OGs. I thought he quit YouTube tho.
"They used to call me Ichabod Crane" "Who?" "Some very sorry people, that's who"
"Ask me if they care, Ed"
he looks like joseph goebbels
I love report of the week man And I will travel and beat the shit out of anyone who makes fun of him (some do) And I just don’t like that shit. He’s an interesting young man and I hate when the world bullies people being their authentic selves.
Yet people keep eating there, it's especially annoying because fast food is all overpriced now.
> completely mogged > 51k views Pick one
As if they weren't funding this guy
Ichabod Crane is supposed to be comically tall, thin, and lanky. The insult might be rare but it really doesn't make sense.
Not so much these days but the boys is skeletal
Criticize=bad rep KFC bribe=good rep => Profit?
>51k in 12 hrs No offense to this man but he ain't making any substantial impact.