The Sloppy Boys - 8. Bud Light Seltzer Ugly Sweater Pack

Episode Date: December 11, 2020

Holiday month continues as the guys leave the comfort of the IBA cocktail list, journeying into the high-stakes world of seasonal seltzers.Bud Light Seltzer Ugly Sweater Pack available in select stores. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton along with Mike Hanford. Yo! And Tim Kalpakis. Oh, what is going on? And we're your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. Wait, do you guys hear that? Do you hear that?

Ho, ho, ho. Yeah. Merry Christmas. He's getting close. Do you think it's St. Nick? Could be. Hey, I'm not telling. It could be St. Nick.

Seems like you know, though. I do know, but I'm not telling. Oh, you better fucking tell us. No, no. And it's not Saint Nick. Oh, who is it? Jack Frost? Yeah, it's Santa's little helper.

Santos' helper. What was the name of that little dog? Anyway, he was Bart's best friend and they had a great time. That's not what we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about Jeff. What are we doing now? All right. This is a special episode. We're going off the beaten path, folks. Yeah, we're crazy. Lots of people, when we started the podcast thought these guys are, you know, uh, boring. These guys are predictable. These guys, much like most people, you know, boring. These guys are predictable. These guys, much like most people you know, don't veer off of the IBA cocktail list.

Right. I've heard people, people have come up to me and say, hey, you're on that Sloppy Boys podcast. Yeah. Well, isn't that a podcast with three limp turds on it? Oh, my God. People are saying that? Limp turds? What? Like, what the hell? They got to be stiff turds? What are Oh my God. People are saying that? Limp turds? What? Like, like, what the hell?

They gotta be stiff turds? What are you talking about? Yeah, Mike, Jeff, and Tim, they're okay, but they stick to the beaten path. Yeah. Ugh. They like to follow just a list, and that's all they'll ever know. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Yeah. Because here we are, baby. Episode 8. This is episode 8

already? Holy smokes. And we're talking about a store-bought thing. And before we get into that store-bought thing, I got booze news about a store-bought thing, of course. This is a quick little newsflash of a couple items. One, I have obtained

the Fireball Eggnog from Walmart. Wow. We've talked about it, and now you have it. First, it had to come out. Then. We've talked about it and now you have it. First, it had to come out. Then we had to hear about it. Then we had to find out where there was a Walmart. Then I had to gas up my car. Then I had to put the address into the Waze app.

And then this week, I finally- Tim, Tim, let me stop it. All these steps are getting smaller and smaller. Yeah, well, I executed them so well. All right. Equal weight to the company that made the product and then the typing I did on my phone. But you do have it.

You have the goods. I finally hauled my ass out to Rosemead, California and went to Walmart and found it. There it was. Walked right in and saw it. I kind of was expecting to not see it, but Fireball eggnog. Purchased it. So now where we're at is that it is in my refrigerator and it's getting down to temperature.

Yeah, it's going to be getting down to volume, I think, after you start drinking that stuff. I don't trust you around a fiery Fireball eggnog for one second. And Tim, it is a mixer, right? So it is the actual eggnog or what? It is. This is, this is a weird one, folks. It's fireball flavored eggnog. So it's basically cinnamon eggnog that they recommend you spike with fireball whiskey. And is there any alcohol in the eggnog you bought? There is zero alcohol, just a lot of fat and sugar. And I have not tried this stuff yet, but my projection is that this is kind of weird. I bet it'll taste good on its own.

And then I think it'll maybe taste good with some brandy or whiskey or rum. But to put fireball into something that is Fireball flavored sounds. Too much. Yeah. Too much. We've covered it here on the booze news. It's too much. Yeah.

That's the official stance here on the sloppy boys. Uh, I think we could make a better version. They just had to brand it and make some money. But what they should have said is like, Hey, go get yourself some good eggnog and put in a little bit of Fireball and they're cooking.

I like how they recommend fireball. Like they're kind of just like, we can't tell you what to do, but we would highly recommend a fireball. I would like it if they whipped out and they were like, hey, you know, we recommend a whiskey and our personal favorite is actually Maker's Mark. It's pretty expensive. It's good stuff. Some brands like on Thanksgiving, I was making green bean casserole and I got some of the French's pretty expensive. It's good stuff. Some brands like on Thanksgiving,

I was making green bean casserole and I got some of the French's dried onions. Yeah. The mustard company. Yeah. And it's like, and use green, giant green beans.

It's like, Hey, you don't get to weigh in on the beans. No, but they're the best. Like I'm getting Albertson's Albertson's signature select. We'll do just fine in this scenario. Thank you very much. Yeah, no giant

conglomerate company is telling me to say this. Oh, bull fucking shit. Tis the season, my fucking ass. Mike, I think we're going to turn you right around. By the end of this podcast, you're going to love the holiday season. Bah humbug and, you know,

boo-hoo. Because you want to tell me that Christmas is a wholesome... No, it's all about corporations. No, I think one sip of nog will grow your heart several sizes. All right. Several sizes. And you'll love the corporations by the time we're through. But that's a different episode.

That's not this episode. No, no, that's not this episode. And then the last thing I wanted to bring up on the booze news department was that speaking of products being made by companies, right? One of you guys brought that up.

Conglomerates. Filthy, dirty conglomerates. Yes. And today we're going to be talking about an old heritage legacy company, you know, that, that, that has come out with a new product. But when I was walking the supermarket, I happened upon a similar thing, which is a brand new product that came out in 2020. I don't know if either of you guys have heard of this, but there's something called Pabst blue ribbon,

hard coffee. And I got a can of it right here. Have you guys seen it? Yes. No, never seen it. It's the tall, slim, uh,

Red Bull style can. Pabst brown ribbon. It's all brown. It's a, it's a brown can. And, uh, this is,

you know, perhaps huge victory at the, uh, the, the, the world's fair in 1896, but they're still coming out with new shit. And I bought a four bag of these and I've been drinking them.

Have you guys ever had any hard coffees before? I've had a coffee porter, but I don't know if that's the same. No, this is like coffee that happens to be alcoholic as opposed to a beer that has coffee flavor. Jeff, I thought you said I had a coffee poured. Okay. Tim, I've had one poured. Okay, so pretty close. I've had one poured into a cup, sure.

Tim, isn't that kind of like what they call a speedball? Like when you're kind of going up and down at the same time? Yeah, but here's the thing. It's kind of balanced me right out. It's got me hopped up and then it's got me too low. And I have to have them at all times. You live for that roller coaster though. Yeah. You know my lifestyle. Yeah. It's wild. I, uh, I gotta say, you know, basically all canned coffee products are, are going to be too sweet, right? They always are like those

little Starbucks double shots or whatever. Uh, this is This is much like those. It's too sweet, but it's not bad. It tastes like a Starbucks double shot and it has 5% alcohol, so you do get a nice little bite. A solid beer, yeah. Maybe it's like a brunch drink. Are you tasting the beer at all? No, it only tastes like sweet coffee,

but I can feel the beer. Also, I poured it up my butt so that I would feel the alcohol a little more strong. That seems to be your drink what? Method? Yeah, method. Everyone has their own drink method. Jeff and I go hand to mouth. You go handstand.

Yeah, we go top down. You go bottom up. Yeah. And whatever works for you. And it's up. Yeah. And whatever works for you. And it's customizable. Yeah. This new digital age, things are customizable. I love that.

So, Tim, is that it for Booze News? That's it for Booze News. I got some Booze News. I got Booze News. Oh, shit. Mike's got Booze News. I didn't know about this, by the way. Yeah.

I got some Booze News for you. You want to hear it? Yeah. Last Saturday, I got smashed on the couch while watching Shutter Island. That's the booze news. Oh, what were you drinking? Miller High Life's. Not bad.

The champagne of beers. That's right. And we all found out what was really going on in that terrible, terrible island. Had you seen the film before? Yes. And this is a Martin Scorsese film. Martin Scorsese had forgotten what happened at the end, but then I halfway through, I was like, oh yeah, that's what happened. And then I was

like, oh, I know what happens at the end. Well, I think all those highlights probably didn't help you remember. Nope. Isn't there a super similar movie? Oh yeah. Uh, Inception. Doesn't, don't they have like a very, very similar, like Leo DiCaprio, did he or did he not kill his wife thing? Like, yeah, kind of. Kind of. I don't want to give too much away from people who haven't seen Shutter Island yet, but do yourself a favor and check it out. You have a separately of a spoiler podcast, right? Where you go into all that stuff.

Yeah. So is that it for Booze News? That's it for Booze News. Wrap it up. That's it for Booze News. Rev it up. Guys, today we're tasting four flavors in one episode. Can we do it?

Yes. Have we even said what we're doing yet? No. Good. I'm delaying the pleasure. We've teased it and we've taunted it. Oh, this audience is about to burst. I still am unsure of what we're doing.

Who wants to say it? Tim, go into it. Ladies and gentlemen, you know it. You clicked on the podcast after having read it. Bud Light Seltzer Ugly Sweater Pack. Oh! The holiday

release, limited release for this holiday season from Budweiser. Your favorite little elves over at Budweiser. It took some doing for us to get it, but I think by the time the episode is live, it'll be widely available. Yes, and our initial response right away

was we don't like the name. Ugly sweater. Oh, this is the first time. This came from Booze News, right? I broke this story. Whoa, did you? Yeah, I think a week or two ago, I said, and I two ago I said,

and we, we all, I think we all said lame name, but we're intrigued by the flavor choice. Booze news is really living up to it. It's amazing how, how this kind of happens. It's,

it's almost when like, um, Ronan Farrow had like a, a New Yorker piece that then became a book, catch and kill. So this, this kind of started as Booze News. And then now it's a full episode.

And what's really cool is this is our first time breaking from the IBA cocktail list. This is all very exciting. In the ugly sweater pack, we've got four flavors. Cranberry, apple crisp, ginger snap, and Peppermint Patty. I think we should, I got some predictions of what they're going to, but we should save those till we're about to sip them. Yeah. Okay. And then also, right before, I'll tell you right now, I have a confession to make. I already drank mine.

Oh, no, Tim. I already did. I couldn't help it. Tim, the text thread specifically said, do not drink them. You'll notice that I felt very silent. Out of the three of us. But here's what's cool. Oh, Tim, how could you do it?

No, no, but wait, but here's what's awesome. Okay, I can't wait to hear this. What? This is good. You guys will be having your first reactions. And for me, it'll be my second reaction. So it's like awesome. Okay, so Tim, you do still have some.

You didn't drink the whole 12 pack. I drank four of them and it was one of each flavor. Okay, okay, okay. So I'll drink along. Way to go. Yeah, I guess for you, it's like, do you still like it or dislike it? Yeah, I'll tell you this.

I'm excited because I did have strong reactions. I won't say in what direction, but I'm very interested to see what you got. And I'm going to hang back as you're having your first sip so I don't taint the experience. It'll be really cool. Here's what I think is going to happen for

each reaction, each four of them for me. Ready? Yeah. Yahoo! That's all of them? Four of them? All four at once. Oh, shit. Okay, so maybe the method will be that you drink four entire cans and then have one loud reaction

to what you tasted. No, it'll be very interesting. It'll be fun. And most importantly, it's good podcast content yeah that is great there's just i just hope that doesn't fuck us over in the end yeah well you know what tim i got i did a little digging and i found one of the earliest commercials so they used to i don't have the commercial itself but at the end of the commercial they

used to like tag it with with the Budweiser phrase. Yes. St. Louis, Missouri. It's really weird because back then they didn't need to fill so much. They could fill as much time as they wanted. So the tag is really long. So check it out. Here we go. So this would play after a radio ad.

I think I've heard this, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a catchy-ass song. Try a Budweiser beer today. Oh, man. Yeah, so that used to play after every single one. They got to bring that back.

That's the thing. The problem with these days is like an ad plays and then they just rush off. You know, like the ad's over. We're done. We're on to the next ad. We're done. We don't care. But it's nice to have a little breather there. Yeah. When I was a kid, my grandfather had a computer. This was like back when

the screen was just black and green and it could play a couple songs like classic, mostly just like, you know, Camptown races, Camptown races type shit. And one of them was when you say Bud, do you guys remember this Budweiser song? No. Well, I don't know it, so maybe you shouldn't have brought it up. But it's like when you say Budweiser, you've said it all. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. I think that was like, I think that was like a 70s or 80s thing.

When you say Budweiser, you've said it all. I like it. So let me just give a little context on Budweiser, because you just might find that the family behind it is not unlike what you might see on HBO's hit series, Succession. Hit it! When young German immigrant Adolphus Bush arrived in St. Louis, he didn't have much, but he did find the love of a certain woman by the name of Lily Eberhard Anheuser. Yes, her father owned a brewery that made stanky-ass beer nobody gave a flying fuck about. But when Adolphus became partner, he recalled a delicious beer made by monks in Budweis, Germany. The brilliant bastard bought the recipe in the name,

and soon every American jackass was drinking a crisp, cool Budweiser, a beer that was now duking it out with the big boys, Pabst and Schlitz. A long line of Bush heirs would lead the king of beers through the next century, but with plenty of drama along the way. One old Bush refused to retire until he was forced out at a surprise board meeting orchestrated by his very own son. A coked-up 80s party boy Bush pulled a Chappaquiddick when he flipped his Corvette, killed his innocent passenger, and let Daddy pay everyone off. Most shockingly of all, one Bush heir's wife cheated on him with none other than St. Louis Cardinals announcer Harry Carey. On the bright side, there was Spuds McKenzie. But like the original party animal.

And the frogs. Oh, why sir? And the funny dudes on the funny phones. What's up? What's up? What's up? And dilly, dilly, dilly. Dilly, dilly.

and dilly, dilly, dilly. Eventually, the Bush family would lose their beloved company to the multinational conglomerate InBev in a hostile takeover. And in today's low-carbo world, every scared beer brand is scrambling to put a hard seltzer on the market to compete with White Claw, which brings us to InBev's brand-new Bud Light Seltzer Ugly Sweater Pack. Will it be a hit or will it be complete shit? Only the sloppy boys can decide.

We'll be right back. Hey, we're back talking about the Bud Light Seltzer Holiday Collection. Ooh. You want to start with cranberry, kind of a simple one? Yeah, well, let's say what we got. We got cranberry, peppermint patty, apple crisp, and ginger snap. Cranberry all previously existed. It was in their normal seltzer pack. Really? And said they were like that kind of counts they called it cranberry yeah that's so

lame i know what else are you gonna call it well i mean just think of another like holiday thing well the other ones have you know like apple crisp so they could have said uh cranberry bog i think cranberry is going to be the one that tastes most appropriate to me. Yeah, normal. Like a normal, because it already is one. Here we go. Bottoms up. Yeah.

I mean, it's delicious. It's great. Right out the gate, I love it. Yeah, that tastes like the regular one. I don't mind that. Yeah, and they're not taking any risks. Cranberry's delicious. It goes well with the seltzer.

We drank it when we were recording Paradiso, and they're not taking any risks. Cranberries, delicious. It goes well with the seltzer. We drank it when we were recording Paradiso and we loved it. Wait, are these, these cans are 12 ounces, but they're like the tall, thin ones. Yeah. Is that the same size of a regular can of beer? Yeah. Yeah. 12, right. And yeah, we should explain that the can, folks, it's called the ugly sweater back because the can looks slick.

Oh, you're going to love this. You're going to love this. They actually didn't go over. I mean, it looks like a sweater, but it looks kind of tasteful. It's not like. Yeah, it's pretty much they all look the same except for they got a little one tiny thing different on each one of them. They got a little knit pattern on them. Oh, yeah, it's cute. I would actually

wear one of these. So when mom wheels out the old Christmas honey ham and you want to wash it down with something, reach for the Bud Light Seltzer Cranberry. I really could picture myself on Thanksgiving weekend kind of pounding these because it's festive, but it's nice and light. I would dump this cranberry one right all over the whole table. Yeah. As a gesture of liking it? As a gesture of before the food was even out, I'd say this is what we're all doing first.

You nasty little freaks. I, yeah, I'm not sure. I was expecting like a big like, whoa, this is crazy. But the cranberry one is just whatever. That's fine. That's why we're starting with the baby. Yeah. Yeah, we're tiptoeing in.

Cranberry was grandfathered into the process. And it is a good seltzer. Like even if you compared it to ones we like more, Bon Viv, Maha, and Corona, this one holds up. It's good. It's 5% ABV and 100 calories, which is comparable to most seltzers, right? Sure. Yep.

I say we go for the apple crisp. Let's do it. Yeah. I think this is good. We're kind of walking in the direction of the kookier ones. Yeah. Great. And I think the audience should know we are finishing each and every one of these.

You aren't. I did a pretty good dent in that cranberry. I poured mine up my butt. Okay, apple crisp. Here we go. Take a little whiff first. Huh. Okay. More crisp than I thought.

Yeah, that's like a... Hmm. It smells like a cinnamon apple-y thing. Yeah. That's like a, hmm. It smells like a cinnamon apple-y thing. Yeah. It's like a cider almost. It's like a very cinnamon stick cider. Yeah. So it's kind of, I mean, it tastes authentic, right?

It does taste like apple and cinnamon. It's strange. It does taste like something. So that's what's weird is to look down at the lip of your can and see the liquid is clear and bubbly. And you're like, what am I drinking here? Something flavorous. Wait, does it say artificial flavors or does it say natural flavors? Well, I just saw an apple stem floating in mine, so I think it's pretty real.

This is pretty bad. Like this is – the flavor sticks around for too long. Yeah. I might go to bat for this one a little bit. This is a, you know, I'm not going back to this one. It's unorthodox. I'll tell you this, though. The word crisp has you thinking of like dough and crumbles.

They didn't go overboard on that. It doesn't taste buttery. It tastes appley. It tastes cinnamony. And it is a lot of flavor. They could probably do it. It's too, but yeah, that's, that's a good way of putting it. It's too much flavor, whatever the flavor is. I don't know. I don't know if cinnamon should be anywhere near seltzer. I got to wash that down with my cranberry. Yeah. I'm going back to the crayon.

Hey, I bet if you mix them together, it'd be kind of cool. Now, oh, Tim, we got to ask you, have you gone back and forth on what you thought of? You said you had very huge emotional swings what you thought of uh you said you had very uh huge emotional swings with each one of these tasings i had big emotional swings i'm excited to see what you guys think of the next two but i i think cranberry was like nothing to me because i had the other cranberry and i said whatever apple crisp i think i thought was going to be grosser uh so i was i wasantly surprised, but not all the way to like saying I like it or I want to drink it. Not gross though.

I got to say not gross. I thought apple crisp was going to be like a normal thing. I can still taste it. That's no good for me. Maybe if they had gone to kind of more granny Smith apple, it was a little lighter and sour. It's going for like a dark, like a baked apple. Musky cinnamon stick. A ripe red apple.

Okay, I think that next up then, if we're following this progression, we should go with ginger snap. Oh boy. I've been looking forward to this one. This one, I don't know what to think. So ginger snap refers to the cookie, right? Yeah, like a gingerbread house person.

Hey, you know what's great? Are the Trader Joe's triple ginger snap cookies. Triple? Yeah, I mean, they're just ginger snaps, but they call them triple ginger snap. Just smelling it smells like ginger beer. I love ginger and ginger beer and whiskey gingers and penicillins and all that. Huh, okay. Here we go. ginger and ginger beer and whiskey gingers and penicillins and all that. Okay. Here we go.

Okay. Here's what I'm going to say about this. I don't like it, but I, I can, I can see this more as a, a drink. Holy shit. I can't this more as a drink. Holy shit.

I can't believe. I mean, I've only taken but two sips. I think I might like the apple crisp better than the ginger. Well, I think what is distinct and surprising to me about this ginger is that it really isn't. It doesn't taste like pickled ginger from sushi. It doesn't taste like the, like raw, fresh ginger.

It doesn't taste like ginger ale. It, these flavorists for good or for bad did make it taste like ginger snap cookies. Yeah. I don't like that. So I feel like it's like, oof,

the people that came up with the ideas were the weirdos. And then the people that executed did really execute like that taste. It's a cookie taste coming from water. It's so weird. Like it's it kind of makes the back of my tongue like tense. Yeah. Does that make sense? The glands in my neck are fighting it. It's not right whatever this is yeah my throat's saying uh we don't usually drink this flavor mike yeah well it is like your your your brain is telling you that like well what i taste is i usually chew and swallow yeah why is it just cold water it is a weird thing though to feel like

I thought I'd be like it's like just kind of like a numb gnawing dislike in the back of my brain a haunting twinge yeah fun hey it's fun you know this is starting to remind me of

you know there's like Harry Potter jelly beans where it's like some of them are gross. Oh, yeah. Where like this is like a prank pack. I think that's why they're called it ugly sweater. I ate the grass one once. That was literally exactly what I was just going to say to you was it's that's the instead of it's not like drinking something you like and not thinking about it. It's like tasting something weird and discussing if it's good or bad.

and not thinking about it. It's like tasting something weird and discussing if it's good or bad. But Harry Potter jelly beans is the exact one that I thought of. Because remember we had a pack, we had a giant barrel of normal jelly belly jelly beans. And then we had a little pack of Harry Potters

and we poured them in. So you'd be eating and every once in a while, you'd get one that was earwax flavor. It was such devils back then i know they had the booger one which is so just thinking about that makes me sick my mom sent me a pack of uh jelly belly belly flops have you heard of this uh-uh no so the jelly belly plant the the beans when uh when they don't pass the shape and yeah it's a plant plant that grows on the

factory they package the rejects they call them belly flops because it's they're fuck up there's all these misshapen weird jelly beans and like sometimes it'll be like two stuck together or whatever but then when i read it i was like a couple of these taste fucking nasty and they were like be warned these are from all the flavor lines so i think i got some of the harry potter gross ones be warned well i um around that time i don't know if i told you guys but around that time when uh jelly belly was doing all the gross flavors i do you remember my job at that time was uh the flavorist needed somebody to eat shit and then explain it to them so that they could make the fake version of it. And I had to eat earwax, dirt, earthworms, dog shit. And it would be nine to five at my desk Monday to Friday.

Dog shit. I would have to eat the whole thing and then give them a report on what it tasted like. Yeah, that's why you say when the guidance counselor gives you that job, you say, I'm going to study a little harder. Didn't somebody, remember somebody came to our show in Boston, we did a Sloppy Boys show, and brought like a bunch of Charleston chews? Oh yeah, that was for, those were more for Don't Stop Than Us.

But yes. But weren't they, I got my hot little hands on them but weren't they like out of the packaging like they worked at the factory or something just loose chew shoes shoes in a bag they're like we just got here from charleston we got a lot of loose chew we had a lie low for a while i think they were they were in a plastic bag and I ate a bunch of them. I don't know where they came from. This is the story I'm telling myself. Like, yeah, these are from the factory. It was so funny. The rest of that tour, we had all these Charleston chews with us. And that's such a funny food to eat, like, like thoughtlessly and to not, you know, like I

probably eat one Charleston chew every five years and I'm like thinking about it. So to just be like idly eating several Charles and Chews a day. Well, when you have a hundred in the van and there's like no other food around you're like, yeah, give me a Chew. All right. Should we go into the peppermint patty? Yeah, baby. This is the fourth and final

flavor, peppermint patty. This one I think is going to be okay. Oh my fuck. Jesus Christ. It's so funny when you open them up first, you can smell them better than you can taste them maybe at first. I'm not,

I'm not a fan of that whole York peppermint Patty shit. Mike, you are frowning. I don't like it. Mike, put a smile on that face. Come on. It's for the pot.

This is really weird. This one tastes oily to me. Yeah. This one, this one tastes wrong. It just tastes cursed. This is a bad, this is a bad group of drinks

these are like trying to be i didn't know this was like a meme they're going for like a joke and a prank pack yeah it does feel like a prank pack this this one was the one that blew my mind on my first tasting this was the first flavor i had and just like the others it blew my mind that it does specifically taste like peppermint patty not just peppermint yeah it tastes it has chocolate like specifically the waxy outside coating of a york peppermint patty that's the oiliness i'm getting yeah and it hangs out maybe it's just my brain being like hey you're getting uh one of those crappy chocolates you don't like york pepperm patties? I don't like York. Oh, I love a York.

Mike. Do you like Junior Mints? Huh? Do you like Junior Mints from Seinfeld? No, no, no, no. Hey, Mike, next time you get a York, slide it my way, huh? Yeah, I said, no, I'll take, I'll have one, sure. Jeff, I got you one, man.

You're going to be so happy about this. Thanks, buddy. This ranks up there with one of the weirdest, craziest drinks I've ever had. But I'm still just impressed with their flavorists that they got that taste into this water. You know what I predict is going to happen with this York Peppermint Patty one? Especially this one. Is somebody's going to drink a whole bunch of these, get too sick. We've all been there.

Throw up. And then just the smell of of peppermint patties for the rest of their life will be like disgusting honestly if i was in high school we would get these and then my group of friends would be like we actually like the apple crisp ones and like make a big thing about how we like the thing no one likes yeah we're interesting that's what these are for i'm going back to the cranberry we buy the whole ugly sweater pack and we throw out all the ginger snaps. Did you see on the side of the can, speaking of being memeable, it says seltzer SZN season?

Nope. Oh, what? Your cans don't say seltzer? Oh, yeah, yeah. SZN season? Did I say CN? ZN. Oh, yeah. It's trying. SZN season. Did I say CN? ZN. Oh, yeah.

It's trying to be like Leo season. Yeah, it's seltzer season, baby. We have to tweet about these. We have to share. They're clickable. It is for sure a seasonal seltzer. We can all say that. Seasonal seltzer.

Yep, a one season wonder, hopefully. Did you guys know that, I was saving this until we started drinking these things? We're talking about modern things, memes. Yeah. There is a very AAA lister who they got to advertise these. Do you know who it is? Oh, no, I hadn't heard about this.

Mike, you're eating into the quiz. Mr. Kanye West. Whoa. They did. Yeah. is mr kanye west oh okay they did yeah uh he's like it's the first thing he's like done in a long time he was adidas or whatever but uh i have well we have the uh the ad for it if you want oh my god this is so cool yeah if you want seasonal seltzer better get the ugly sweater. Now when I get thirsty, I get a Bud Light seltzer. They got new holiday flavors. One of the flavors is ginger. I know the holiday's coming, and I should get much drunker. Man, I've been waiting all autumn for a Bud Ugly sweater.

I need one right now peppermint patty flavor if you please that's oh oh right and because it's an ad yeah yeah right

they're doing the throwback thing cause it plays online so there's no restrictions of time yeah I think it's cool. I think the throwback stuff is cool. Yeah, it gives you a sense of the tradition. Yeah, for sure. We'll wait for the end.

Try a Budweiser beer today. And we are and we're not loving it. Well, I really love that commercial and I love like when Kanye because he lets you know about the product. It's a good song. But then he also, when he says there's all these flavors, and he says one of them is Ginger Snap.

That's so cool. Yeah, it's cool how in the whole song he mentions only two of the flavors. He says, peppermint patty for me, please. Yeah, he wants that at the end. God, that's awesome that he did that. Yeah, he hooked up with those dudes over at Daft Punk, and they just threw this shit down and they said, yeah, let's pop back

old school. Mike, you sound like you are basically right in the industry. No, I don't spend any time with these guys, wink. I mean, yeah, there's no way I could have gotten this early, wink, wink. Well, I believe him. Keep your ears open, everybody. Yeah, wink.

That's going to be all over the place. You'll hear that on K-Rock. You'll hear that on the Rush Limbo show. The Rush Limbo show, folks. I think I've had too many peppermint patties. I'm a little bummed that these suck. They suck so bad. They do suck really bad.

I wanted to drink with my bros, and I can only have one of the four. Wait, don't say which one it is, because that's for your final thoughts. Okay. The one where I didn't grimace after sipping it? I think, let me ask you this though what let's say that you were adolphus bush the fifth uh-huh and you were in charge and you needed to pick the

four flavors for the ugly sweater pack and you got cranberry good to go so you really only need three is there like these are weird what what would you have done that wasn't so weird pine tree um i can't believe they didn't do like eggnog not not that i think that would be good that's disgusting that would be the worst of all sure but they're all disgusting mike that's incorrect i'm just saying i'm surprised. Here's the thing. They could have done a good ginger snap that I would start with that. Like, yes, do ginger, but don't make it be like a bakery and don't make it be doughy and bready. Yeah. Or just peppermint too. Like candy cane. Come on. You know, who does really good holiday flavors is Jenny's splendid ice creams. And they, I know that ice cream is easier.

Joe Biden over here. Also, um, uh, uh, Nancy Pelosi. Oh, great.

That's my thing. I'm sort of like a centrist, uh, establishment Democrat. Everyone up on the Hill likes ice cream. It seems, but Jenny's said to themselves, look,

I mean, definitely it's easier to make holiday ice creams than water. But they said, people don't usually eat ice cream in the winter. It's cold. So let's make some really good winter flavors. And they have cognac and gingerbread.

Delicious. They have white chocolate peppermint. Delicious. They have a few other ones that I don't remember. I think maybe there was a nog one. Very good. Folks, get out there and buy some of that $12

ice cream. I keep putting down the one I like and picking up the wrong ones. I'm eating and drinking all these. Careful, folks. There's three red ones. Yeah, really. A good ginger could have been done a good uh what did you have mike i said eggnog but that doesn't seem very popular uh honestly uh pumpkin spice feels like could have been attempted pumpkin spice could be nice

i guess that's not that's that's like autumn they're trying to get into the winter here what about christmas kiwi oh yeah christmas in the name or merry mango how about that what just keep the fucking flavors we like or like i don't know i could see like maybe a vanilla i don't know i don't know they're all bakery ish yeah everything winter is bakery well cranberry is sort of tangential. They should have just done a mint one that wasn't like peppermint patty, but was just like a

nice minty one. Rudolph's raspberry nose. My goal? Like if the apple crisp was the quote unquote bad one in the pack, that would be a good world to live in. Because I could see that world. What if they had one that was a turkey

and stuffing and all the fixings well so like if they could do peppermint patty so well i would like to try a a turkey drink stuffing flavor come on why not stovetop do a collab with stovetop wait one of you guys mentioned like a pine thing uh but there is, I feel like I've had a decent pine flavored something. Pine nut? Yeah, a pine nut. Pine apple? No, a pine drink. How about pineapple?

That would be great. They make it like a pineapple. Yeah, the can says pine, and then in really small, you need a jeweler's loop to look in there and it says apple. Apple. Gotcha. Apple, you asshole. By the way, gotcha, bitch. What?

Oh, shit. Well, let's take a break and get back to what we're doing here with the Bud Light seltzer ugly sweater pack and uh let's get around to our final thoughts what do you think guys well my final thoughts i didn't even have to use my brain because my hand is doing it for me it reaches for the cranberry I'm finishing my cranberry and then the other three have been ostracized what did you have any big swings in your opinion Tim um I I thought no the only thing I thought was um I thought that peppermint patty was the most interesting beverage I've ever had

good or bad I didn't really have any positive or negative feelings, but I was drinking these and just yelling to Jessica how, how weird they were. And she kept putting her earplugs in. I would recommend this folks. If you want a conversation starter around the holidays, let's say you're sitting around, you got nothing to do buy some of these it's a weird little tasting and uh it's good for all conversation and i can't really fathom ever drinking any of the non cranberry flavors without thinking about it the whole time like i couldn't just passively enjoy it you feel like you are just tasting the work of a flavorist. Right. You don't even need to buy them. You just, if you're at a family event or something,

hey, did you know they made a peppermint patty seltzer? Yeah, just bring it up. Okay. It's fucking gross. I'm going to open my present and get out of here. I actually heard a whole podcast about it, Dad. Yeah, you idiot. You're on it.

Yeah, I know. No, I know. It's too bad because of COVID, because I feel like there would be a bunch of big parties or you'd be like yeah get one of these packs who cares talk about it yeah but now that's like hey you got to limit your gathering what you could do i guess is maybe email your friends about it yeah you know this midnight midnight on saturday night pepper and patty's kind of weird huh this is definitely not a thing you would get for just like a small event

be like hey guys i'll get some weird drinks. And then everyone's like, well, you should have gotten some regular drinks. You're not just going to share the 12 pack. You're going to share each can. Only the cranberry is worth drinking. So the other ones, you're good for a sip or two. Oh, that's true. This is also very un-COVID like, because you're like, hey, try this gross thing. Okay.

I love, by the way, when somebody is like, hey, try this. It's gross. fuck off i'm not trying that uh my favorite of course is the cranberry these other ones are crazy uh i i you know tim is in all the peppermint patty that's fine for him i'm just not into it uh that's a uh as we say on this show we coined the phrase phrase, that's a no for me, dog. And you're saying Tim is interested in the peppermint patty. He doesn't like it, but he thinks it's interesting. You're saying it's not even registering for you. You don't care. You don't want to get it away. I don't want to know. I don't care. I don't need to know anymore.

Because you don't like the York peppermint patty. That's interesting. Yeah, Right. You know what I would like to do, though, is go on one of those tours of one of these places where they make flavors and just be like, you know, you were saying like, oh, you want a whole turkey dinner here? Stick out your tongue. And they drop a drop on your tongue. You're like, oh, my God.

Okay. We can arrange that for you. I would love that. Yeah. That would be a good Christmas present for me. Final thoughts for me, the J-Man, I would say this is enthusiasts only. You know, if you got a podcast with two of your friends,

go ahead, pick up a sweater pack. If you're a lay person, steer clear, my man. It does feel like the target demo is podcasters. I mean, this isn't even like, it's so, because they're not so awful that you can't even drink them. They're just so boringly bad. I don't know. It's hard to say.

I think they're a good curiosity. If like you got a bunch of people who would who are down to like try a weird thing and be like, oh, it's gross. Yeah. I'm even kind of souring on the cranberry. Well, I'm almost done my cranberry. So it's up to Apple Crisp. Uh-oh. They're rounded out. Do you think you guys are going to

drink the rest of your four tonight? Probably two. I don't think so. I think I'll finish my... Apple Crisp is definitely the one that my hand is naturally going to next. I might reach back into the fridge for a Miller High Life. I bet you as you go,

by the time I hit the bottom of cranberry, I'll be ready for apple crisp. By the time I hit the bottom of apple crisp, I'll be ready for ginger snap. They should say that on the box. Like, don't worry about peppermint patty. You'll be drunk enough by then. Yes.

It does suck. Yeah, it sucks. We know. We suck. We suck. They should just print on the can, drink it last. Drink last. Well, it sucks. We know. We suck. They should just print on the can, drink it last. Drink last. Well, guys, do you want to do a quiz?

Yeah, we want to do a quiz. Absolutely. Because, you know, I mean, sometimes the quizzes, they're not so good. The only one who has no good quizzes is me. I know who you're talking about. No, no. We all have good quizzes. I can't walk down the street without someone being like, oh, the quiz.

That quiz was good. You're the guy from the quiz. You're that wonderful man. Guys, this is, you're going to like this one, I think. Budweiser is sort of known for its commercials. Oh, yeah. And, you know, you see a lot of familiar faces in some of these things. I think I know where you're going.

Yeah, Kanye West. This is the Budweiser Commercial Celebrity Quiz. I've heard of this quiz. This is great. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is this quiz? We're doing it here? This is this quiz.

Wow. So the deal with it is as such, Anheuser-Busch is much bigger than the budweiser family of brands sure we are concerned today with the budweiser family of brands yes got it we're not talking stella artois no we're not talking uh shock top we save that for another day i'm gonna give you a little uh i'm gonna give you a question and there's going to be a lot of clues in it and you got to guess who the celebrity is in this ad. Oh, Oh, very good. Are we going to hear the ad? No, I'm just going to, but, but the, what I'm going

to say, you're going to feel like you've, you're seeing that. Okay. Okay. You're going to paint a picture. I'm going to paint such a picture. And then should we just blurt out the name of the celebrity? I think for the drama, you should buzz in on this one. Okay. How do we buzz in? We say our name? Yes. Got it. So for me, like, for example, it would be Tim. Awesome. Great. Yeah, and for me, it would be Mad Dog Hanford.

Michael Hanny Handstand. Right. Anything like that would be great. Okay, number one. Though not their first collaboration with the company, in 2020, this multi-platinum artist appeared in a pair of Super Bowl spots promoting Bud Light Seltzer.

Oh. Mad Dog. LMFAO. Damn it. God damn it. Hair. This is very recent, guys. Yeah.

Now, can I ask you a question? Uh-huh. When you say they, are you using it as a gender neutral or are you using it as a plural? Gender neutral. Thank you. Interesting. So it's a singular person. Yes.

Okay. I remember the last Super Bowl. I remember where I was, the couch I was sitting at, the TV I was looking at, and the Budweiser ads are... Ooh. Janelle Monae? No. Damn! I was at the Super Bowl. I was on the sidelines. I was telling Patrick Mahomes what plays to run.

God damn it. I should have been watching a damn TV. No, Mike. It's fine that you wouldn't know the commercials. That sounds pretty important. No, whatever. I got a ring with it. I'll make it a little more specific. Though not his first collaboration with the company. Okay. In 2020, this multi-platinum artist

appeared in a pair of Super Bowl spots promoting Bud Light Seltzer and the audience they shot two, and they put them online, and then people voted for which one played during the Super Bowl. Okay, that sounds familiar.

And it was the one, the only, Drake. Mike, anything else? Seth Rogen? Nope, sorry, that's Post Malone Post Malone right damn I should have thought I should have known that because Post Malone yeah has a

long-standing partnership with them and he loves Bud Light and it's so funny I watch like a concert online where it was like it was all Bud Light branded and a Bud Light flag behind him. And he was like, hey, you know, this is a Bud Light thing. But I gotta say also, like, I really love Bud Light. My favorite beer. And yeah, this is a branded thing, but also I would be drinking this can. Anyway, I love this stuff. Love this stuff. Number two. A series of locker room outtakes comprise a Bud Light spot in 2008.

The Arrogant Athlete was this funny man's latest movie character. Ricky Bobby. Boo! The Arrogant Movie Character. We're looking for the actor. Oh, my word. Was this Tracy Morgan? No.

That was some other thing. Was that Nike? It's a sports comedy movie, and it's a character from it? Uh-huh. Well, I'm looking for the actor. You're looking for the actor, but it was like that year there was a hit movie that was a comedy, and then this character is in the locker room. A series of locker room outtakes comprise a Bud Light spot in 2008. The arrogant athlete was this funny man's latest movie character. Was it Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell?

Will Ferrell? It's Will Ferrell. What? But it's for semi-pro and neither of you get the point. Oh. Semi-pro. but here's the thing. Even though I had been thinking Ricky Bobby, if I would have just followed the rules and said Will Ferrell,

I would have got the fucking... That's why I said we're looking for the actor, even if he got it. It's cool because it's a learning moment where I have to now pay attention to rules in my life. Right. I lost the point, but I got something out of it. That's cool.

Yeah. Will Ferrell, no stranger to beer commercials. He also did the old Milwaukee localized Super Bowl spots. Will Ferrell, for people who aren't familiar, he's kind of known as like, he was a big supporter of Ham Hat, a sketch by the Birthday Boys. That's right. Yeah. So that's kind of his main thing is that he helps Shepard in a great sketch group.

Any questions about that? Man, I thought I wrote these too easy and it's going to be a good quiz. Okay. Number three. Bud Light's 2014 Super Bowl commercial takes the form of an elaborate prank. After run-ins with Reggie Watts, Minka Kelly, and Don Cheadle, a regular guy must beat this former Mr. Universe in table tennis. Former Mr. Universe. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Tim, you got it. Oh! Yeah, baby! The governator. Timmy, I spent so much time at the gym, I'm not surprised you got that one. I gotta pump, pump iron. You're a gym rat. Okay, number four. In the election year of

2016, this politically themed Bud Light Party campaign was a plea for unity fronted by this pair of comedians. You must get... Amy Schumer or Seth Rogen? Tim, you got it. You know, he got it because

I'm on a delay on the Zoom. I got it because I'm the bomb. You guys are like a block away from each other right now. I'm on the other side of the fucking country. That was Seth Rogen and Amy Schumer. Full disclosure, like, you know, Amy Schumer, I've worked with her before. Seth Rogen, I once made a delivery to him and stood in his trailer. So I'm kind of in the loop with them.

Now they start to get a little tricky. Oh, number five. This Oscar winning actress is also an unlikely pool shark in the 2019 spot for Budweiser Reserve Copper Lager. Oh, that's Charlize Theron. Correct. Damn.

Right out the gate, Michael. And I also get a point for saying that she got her Oscar in the movie Monster. Okay. Monsters, Inc. No, you don't, but let's keep going. I get a side point. Yeah, you're keeping side points? Yeah, I'll do one down here.

Give me one of those side points over there. For what? On the floor. Just let him have one, Jeff. I need one. All right. Each get a side point. Greg, ah-hoo!

Number six. In 2007's Super Bowl spot, this person gets their hands on the last Bud Light by winning a game of rock, paper, scissors. Oh, I have seen this. Neil Campbell. Oh, man, you both got it. Yeah, baby.

Perfect unison. Yes, that's friend of the podcast, Neil Campbell. Neil, congrats on getting that rock. Neil, that was a great, seeing him in that Super Bowl ad, I remember going home for Christmas or calling people at home and be like, I have my friends on that ad. Um, yeah,

that's funny. I remember doing that too. And I think at the time I barely knew him. So I was, I was just like still taking credit for it. Yeah. I got, I kind of know.

Number seven, though they did not physically appear in the commercial Anheuser-Busch selected a track from this artist's highly anticipated comeback album to launch Bud Light Platinum in 2012. Oh, comeback album in 2012. AZ. No. Dr. Dre?

No. What year? 2012. Ugh. Okay, who would be having a comeback album in 2012? Anheuser-Busch selected a track from this artist's highly anticipated comeback album to launch Bud Light Platinum in 2012. Kanye West. There you go, Michael.

And then they kept working with him on these ugly sweater campaigns. Oh, you're right. Wait, why did Kanye need a comeback because of 808s and Heartbreak? This was after I'ma Let You Finish, but Beyonce had the greatest album of all time. Oh, yes, yes, yes.

I'm gonna let you finish. Kanye, you shouldn't have done that dude, but hey, well we like your music. Hey, in retrospect, we're glad he did. We're glad he did. Hey, it's good for both of them. Yeah, because he's making the quiz. We're benefiting the most. Okay, number eight.

With the acting chops to deliver the message in one unbroken take, this, quote, notoriously frank and uncensored British lady appeared in Budweiser's hashtag Give a Damn campaign condemning drunk driving in 2016. The weakest link lady. No. Adele.

Helen Mirren. Michael. Helen Mirren. Really? Yeah. Well, look at me go. Helen Mirren. You mean the actor from the Sarah Cooper Netflix special?

I guess so. Is she in there? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. It's kind of her main thing. Yeah. Wow.

Well, I do have a tiebreaker here, but we don't really need it. I'm going to read it anyway, folks. Yeah. All right. You put the work in. You did the research. This is number nine. the work in you did the research this is number nine and this is not an actual commercial but it was thought by many to be a sneaky commercial okay okay budweiser insists it didn't pay this

quarterback for name checking its beer immediately after winning super bowl 50 against the Carolina Panthers. Tom Brady. No. Gollum Kaepernick. Panthers. No. Huh. Peyton Manning. Correct him.

Oh. Hey. Manning, Manning, the man who's still standing. Well, Mike got the rhyme, so give him a side point. Yeah, give me a side point on a different side point game. Okay, well, guys, we're in this weird little pickle here. The tiebreaker made us tie?

The tiebreaker made you tie. So now we're just down to the side points. I was winning before? I think we gave... We each had a side point, and then I just gave Mike a side point now. So, Mike, you won the fucking quiz, man. It came down to the side point. That's, Jeff, why you always keep the side points going.

See, Jeff, you scoffed at the side points, and then they saved the day. Tim, you talked yourself out of the win, baby. I didn't think I was winning ahead of time. I'm sad, but I'm at least happy. I'm happy for the podcast. Hey, how many side points did Trump get? Don't you dare get political. I don't want to get into that.

He got a lot. He got 270. Folks, that's the Anheuser-Busch family, a commercial celebrity quiz. Woo! Thanks, everybody. I can't believe I won. I'm so happy. Congrats, Mike.

You did great, and you're a real whiz. Thank you. And Jeff, great quiz. Hey, thank you. The whiz of the quiz and Jeff. So let's wrap this thing up, huh? Well, that's the quiz and that's our show. Follow us on social media at the Sloppy Boys, where we release these recipes ahead of time.

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