The Ringer-Verse - Taste-Testing Apocalypse Food | Midnight Munchies

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

In honor of ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, we’re trying four curated apocalypse meals and ranking them from best to worst. If you have the stomach for it, come along for the journey! (0:00) Intro (1:20) Steve’s Meal (6:54) Jomi’s Meal (11:28) Charles’s Meal (17:30) Van’s Meal (26:34) Midnight Collective’s Meal (30:46) Scoring and Prize Hosts: Van Lathan, Charles Holmes, Jomi Adeniran, and Steve Ahlman Producers: Aleya Zenieris, Jonathan Kermah, and Steve Ahlman Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal and Brian Averalo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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millions of business owners already trust Spectrum business. So visit Spectrum.com slash business to learn more. Restrictions apply. Service is not available in all areas. In honor of the last of us season two, the Midnight Boys, PooPewu! Have decided to compete in a post-apocalyptic food challenge. They each were tasked with designing a meal fit for the end of the world. Four rounds, four mystery dishes at stake. One midnight mystery prize. First up, before we have any dishes, because this looks like the last supper, I would ask, Van Lathan, can you lead us in prayer? Oh yeah, for sure. All right. Everybody hold hands. All right. Hold hands. All right. Lord God, my guy, please, please let this food that is going to be

set in front of us, nourish our bodies, feed our souls, and warm our hearts. And we pray as Midnight Boys, as brothers, as a community that no one tosses their cookies on this podcast today, good? That all of this stays clean and pristine and always. Healthy poops. For good content. For our first dish of the day, the Midnight Boys resident architect decided to take up baking. Mr. Alman has prepared a homely cracker called Hardack that dates back to the 17th century. This was wonderfully prepared by our own Alea Zanaris at her place.

This is an easy mix of ingredients. I believe this is just water, flour, and salt, if I'm not mistaken. O'Lea correct me if I'm wrong. That is correct. That is correct. And I believe the history of this was that this was like a common snack used by,

World War I soldiers. This was basically like anything that they can like whip up. And it is also drizzled with a bit of honey because honey does last forever. It famously does not expire. Does not expire. That's very on theme. That's very on brand.

Steve, it was also part of the game that you had to have a drink. Your snack, your World War I brick looks very dry. What drink are we washing it down with? We will be watching this down with the classic mixed drink Ovalteen Ovalteen. What is Ovalteen? A chocolate dry powder

That also does not expire This has been around for decades upon decades And it's basically I had this when I was a kid And it's basically a thing that I used to do When I would like I would take medicine They would like

It would sometimes like crush up Like little bits of the like pills That I was too young to drink it So you drink it with Ovaline It's very chocolate Like posmin? Like push the shit up Yeah

He was putting volume in a little You know what I'm saying? I mean, I want comments on the medication. What was the medicine, though? We have to know. Oh, it would just be like something for my stomach because I had a very sensitive stomach. You couldn't get Pepto-Bismore for that? You had to get...

White people are crazy. Let's bring in the chat. Also, we got a true attack and the Oval Team. Wait, Oval Team, that's not just like white people Nesquick? It technically is. I hate Nesquick. You hate Nesquit? It's not a great of chocolate milk.

I'm a heresy. Right. I'm a herring. I'm a her heart attack for everybody. Yeah, money. You was, okay, big ball of brand over here. That's all the old team. Look at this.

These are going right there. Ooh. That looks like fucking trash. That's the water in Galveston. That's what Chuck. That's what Charles is being talking about. That's the one of the California. That's fucking nuts, dog.

That like, it looks like tea. No, no, no. It's not over tea. This is literally just the water. They'd be drinking in the apocalypse. Oh, man. No, manchis. And before we dig in,

we bring in the resident honey boy to drizzle. That sounded crazy. Hey! I got my honey. I got my honey. I'm good. That's good.

Spread it out. Show. Spread it out to get all the honey. Yeah. Man, I knew as soon as I said it. That's good. That's good. Thank you, honey man.

All right. Are we digging in? I feel like I'm just going to eat it like a biscuit. I'm not putting my hands on it. It's got the honey on it. I'm going to use my desserts. Oh, oh, wow. That's, oh, wow.

What's even the point of the knife, really? That's hard. You. Can I even? I can't even use the knife here. All right, this, all right. Well, this is literally. Literally cardboard.

Among the worst things I've ever tried to eat. What in the world? All right, if you have fillings, this will obliterate this. This is just really just salty cardboard. It's not even salt. The honey doesn't help either. It's somehow, how it's sticky from the honey? This whole thing is sticky.

I mean, obviously there's no flavor. It's just flour, salt and water. My nigger, let me tell you this. This is bad, but nothing is worse in this fucking Oval Tene. Oval Tine fucking sucks, bro. Wait, let me wash it down with some Oval Tene. That's just, like, chocolate water. Oh, yo.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This wasn't made correctly. I'm literally still chewing this. Can I have your question to this? Yeah. Is there any, because, like, oh, so you get the honey on it. It's starting to break up like a biscuit a little bit. Okay.

Nah, man. A little bit. So let me ask you this. Is there any nutritional content to this at all? Not really. I mean, what's the nutrition of the content of flour? Like, you get the carbs. I'm assuming it would be energy.

Like, it plops in your stomach. That's about it. You just need to get this moist. My teeth legitimately hurt. Guys, let me put you on the tree. I'm going to be chewing this for two weeks. Like some Oreos and milk, we just dip it in the oven. Okay, no, let's try.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just dip it in the oval team, get a little. And that's the thing. It's dry enough. You can leave it in there for a minute. All right. Oh, no, now, just. Oh, ha.

It's a little better. I think I would rather to eat cardboard. I don't know. I don't hate it. You know what just makes me feel? I give it up for all the brave men and women. Yeah, thank you for your service. Literally in the trenches.

Talk to the World War I veterans that are watching right now. Hey, we really appreciate you guys' service and everything that happened because having to eat this shit was worse than being captured by the Germans. Stevens' heart attack was a hard swallow, but the game must continue. Next up, Mr. Adaneron hopes he can get the boys jumping with some unconventional jerky meat followed by some liquid electrolytes. This is venison jerky.

I'm winning. This is a jerky made from deer meats, if I am not mistaken. And so it looks delectable, honestly. It smells like asshole. I'll tell you straight up. Venison is the best meat. What? I love venison.

I was raised on it. The backstrap, right along the spine of the deer, poor deer. The backstrap of the deer is so tender. You make something called deer sauce piquon. Sauce piquon? Yeah, sauce piquon. You tell you, it's Dia sauce piquon.

It's a Louisiana. It's not a dish that we make with the deer, and you kind of stew it down with the medallions of the backstrap of the deer. Fantastic. We would ground it up, make deer sausage, all kinds of stuff. So what are we drinking down the jerky with? Oh, Danny. So I figure, right, if you've got to fight for the venison,

you don't want to do too much, you know, for the drink. So I imagine you stumble upon some stable, self-sustaining type of drink. The only thing that came to mind was Gatorade. Gatorade, boy. Gatorade. But I thought it was a honey man. Honey man. I thought we were changing the name.

I don't call you that on Mike, man. Gatorade boy. Well, it's like water boy. Oh, my God. Boy? All right. You call him a boy. All right.

Hey, how are you going to kill your buck? How are you going to kill your deer? Well, at this point, you need arrows, right? They might have me to use. Arrows? Oh, you might have something. You might have a good. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know. But you might have to get up close personal. You might have to, yeah. Might have to just.

You know what the night? Now, who amongst the Midnight boys do you think would be the best hunter? Who do you think? Oh, I'd be a great hunter. You think so? Yeah, I'm light on my feet. You're going to have to be... I know I'm definitely, it won't be me.

Why? Because I'm too soft, man. Animals, bro. Nah, nigga, you're going to be starving. It's all patience. I got to be up at three in the morning to do all this stuff. But I'm like, brother, imagine you look at Bambi in the face. You got his mom.

But you don't look at him in the face. This happened to me before. It's something called deer... What? You testing it? Something called deer fever. Deer fever. The deer is very beautiful.

See, now, this is the indulgent part. Oh, we, like, cheers. Oh, cheers, fellas. Cheers. Mm. Yeah. Come on. This is that 1980s Gatorade.

Mm-hmm. It's floated in his Gator name. Can't have that. No, you can't. No, you can't. This is not, this is not the real shit. Well, I would imagine that the, the opposed to bachypaclips, like, the bottled stuff is already gone, so you got to go with powder. You have to powder.

You have to, powder, or you just, like, find this, like, literally in the dirt. Somebody has discarded. It's just electrolytes. It's just, it's just, oh, wow. Okay. We got the whole bag here. Oh, no, now it's gone. Thank you, Brian.

That's good. Don't you? Oh, boy. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. That is a distinct musky smell.

Have you ever, like, when you were in school, did you ever make your own jerky? I remember that that was, like, in a summer. I made my own mayonnaise. You know what I'm saying? Oh. All right. That's not bad. It's not bad.

Oh. It's not bad at all. It's really salty. I can tell. I can tell the deer. I don't mind it. I can tell this deer was running, you know? Really?

Yeah. You can feel his pain? Not as gamey as I thought of me. Or it's final thoughts. Not as gamey. I mean, I'll tell you something. This is probably the best, this is probably one of the top delicacies

that you're going to get in the apocalypse. This is true. That's what I'm saying. I'm like, the economy of the post-apocalypse is probably, like, the premium on jerky is high. Yeah. Like, we can actually kind of make a business out of this. I'm not even going to lie.

The first fight was bad, but I keep going back. No. Like, it's not, it's pretty good. It's easy. It smells rank. That's bad. Damn, it's so weird. I can only even, it smells like home to me.

Oh. I got no problems with this. I've never had deer meat in a long time. I love you. This is good stuff. Deer meat's great. Me too. Co-sign on the jerky.

Jerky's all the way up there for me right now. Oh, I mean, oh, really? The flower puck didn't do it for you? Yeah. Hard tacking suck the cop. Now that the mint boys have thrown down the culinary gauntlet, it's time for. for the all-round fun guy to make his mark.

Mr. Holmes has brought a trio of mushroom delights and a very boozy beverage to the table. Can his pickled mushrooms and fungal jerky separate him from the pack? Bow shelf stable, vodka during, this is a delicacy during the Armagedale. That is a healthy, oh, why? We are not alcohol.

Damn, yeah, whoa, God. Yo, what do you mean? What in the world? That's a lot of. You gotta fill that up to the top, my guys. That's, okay, thank you, thank you. That's strong. What is going?

What is happening? Hold on. Is it? Whoa. He smells like rubbing up. Yo, it's supposed like gasoline. What in the world? Y'all ready for this?

Before we drink, can we bring in my dish? Okay, what's your dish? I don't, I, if this is first, I am terrified of what you have second. This is going to be daunting. I'm so scared. Oh, boy. For my dish, I held mushrooms. Three ways.

Okay, well, I'm not eating back. All right. We have pickled mushrooms to start, to give us some acidity, to go with our mushroom jerky, two flavors on here, and then rounding it out with some nice chocolate mushroom. Wait a minute. Are those just, like, crackers with chocolate on them? Yes.

Okay. In the shape of mushrooms. Mushroom jerky, vegan? I think, Brian, what are the flavors we have for them today? We've got bacon and smoked barbecue. Ooh! Okay. Now, I am not a mushroom guy.

I hate mushrooms with every fiber of my being. Whoa. Guys, is this not the last of this episode? No, I understand. I understand. It's theme. And as a person who is very pro-pickling, I will try. Do you pickle?

No, no, I enjoy pickle-flavored. I like pickles. Chichols and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big guy of the deal. Big deal guy. Yeah, big deal guy. Yo, my nigga.

Bro. It's disgusting, though. I'm going to start with the jerky. I don't get paid enough for this, man. Jerky is edible. Not as bad as I thought of you. Jerky's fun. I'm going to taste more flavors.

The pickle. Oh, niggas. That's terrible. Yo, it's duh. Where's my napkin, brother? Oh, that's so much alcohol. Oh, man.

Oh, that's so bad. Oh, my God. Oh. I can't believe if I have to swallow this. Oh, God. I've heard that before. Oh. Get out of here, Ben.

Oh. Okay. Oh, nothing. This. Oh, God. Once again, though, if we put it in context, if you're in the apocalypse, you'll be very, very, very, very thankful to come upon this.

I think I would rather kill myself. The mushroom jerky is legitimately not bad. That's not bad. Nah. I hate mushrooms, though. Okay, well, you lied about the chocolate. That's just literally a piece of chocolate with a cracker. Pickle mushroom?

Oh, no. No, no, not doing the pickle mushroom. No, no, no, no, no, no. Do you know what the crazy thing about the last of a season one was? Is it no one doing this? Is that the... That's bad. There's way too much juice in there.

The juice really gets you The juice really gets you Man, did you do the pickle Of mushroom? It's bad We didn't drain it enough That was Oh my Jesus

The mushroom chocolate is pretty good Because it's not real Oh so this mushroom chocolate Has no mushroom It's no mushroom It's just a cracker with mushroom It's just a cracker with chocolate on it Cracker with chocolate on it

So like Tom Holland and Zendaya All right Why? Why? I'd rather have the jerky than the heart attack. But the pickle mushroom is the worst thing I've ever eaten. I couldn't do it. Like, hey, it squirted in my mouth crazy, man. Like, I took a bite, and it was every other, dog.

What did you say? It squirted into my mouth. Oh. My top people that I'm eating is Angelina Jolie, Charlize, they're on Anahadthewey. Okay. And then, you know, brass. So, Van, you have another meal, I believe, for us. No less.

So here's a problem with this meal in particular, is that all of this is gross. Whoa, the crackers are pretty good The crackers aren't actually mushrooms You get that in the lunchebles though That's not a post apocalypse really And then to wash it down You have to use Freaking gasoline you got from Shell

Let me take one more cell I'm warming to it I'm not going to drink But if you drink that This is not going to taste as gross Because you're going to be drunk Well yeah that's the thing though You'll leave

But this is already I don't know if you can taste The infuse mushroom vodka as much It just takes like gasoline It just takes gasoline You can't You can taste the mushroom Yes

I have a question Since they are mushrooms if you kill a zombie and the last of us, can you eat them? I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Would you get the cordiseps virus?

Probably would. Most likely. But you should be able to cut the mushroom part off like an ear. No, no, no, because here's a thing. You know how like back in the day, maybe mom and dad were away,

you had the moldy bread and you're like, damn, it's not all moldy. Cut the, cut it around. Carve that off? You can't do that. You can't do that. Mold is already all in there. Yeah.

You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. As soon as you see the mold, it's over. It's over. It's all bag of the way. So when you would pick the mold off. It's still in it.

It's still there. Oh, damn. Yeah. How many times did you do that shit? A lot of times, I bet. Nigger was eating the peanut butter and mold. No. That's crazy.

Nobody teaches us that. No. They only teach that in Steve's neighborhood. For our final meal, Mr. Latham has decided to get his fire. fly on with some special rations, accompanied by a citrusy liquid beloved by astronauts. If we're talking about the apocalypse, nothing would be better for you than happening upon an untapped stash of tang. You don't need very much. It's a lot of powder. It's a lot of powder. But like, you are going to be a domain.

in the village if you find some... I imagine my stockpile of Tang like the Coke and Scarface, just a mountain and I'm staring at all my money. I have a question. How do you mix it? What's the perfect ratio? Because, you know, me, you and Charles have a different way of making Kool-Aid. That is true.

Yeah. Than the other folk. Yeah. Cool-aid rules applied to... Did you drink Kool-Aid in your households? Yeah. Wait, no. We were more of a Hawaiian Punch place.

Oh. Oh, okay. Hawaiian Punch. Hawaiian Punch. Yeah. But it could never... get cold. It would never, that's why I hated it. It could never get cold. That's what thing.

I used to like it when it got cold. It takes me right back to 87. Lovely. Lovely. Wasn't ecto cooler, like a mix of tang and something else? I'm not sure. I don't know what that is. They made that green though, right? Yeah.

Ooh, that's nice. This is good. This is refreshing. Finally, something we can drink on this show. This does feel like, it does kind of... A little smooth tang, nigga. It does feel like I'm drinking science a little bit. But yeah.

After Hurricane Katrina, like the army was around. And so the army was around in like Baton Rouge and stuff. And they would drop off these MREs. People had MREs and stuff. Really? Oh, my God. Now, we were. Let's do a package unveil again.

Okay, cool. So they, war fighter recommended, war fighter tested, war fighter approved. So how do you make this happen? What's the science behind it? So, you pour some water in it. You pour some water inside of the MRE. This is your hot beverage bag when you want to have the MRE. So there's all kinds of stuff that come with them.

So you get pretzel nuggets, the honey mustard and onion-favor pretzel nuggets. There's crackers with your MRE. Wait, can we start opening some of the snacks? So this is pretzel nuggets, honey mustard and onion flavor? I think all of this comes together because this is, you got an energy bar that comes here. Because remember, you're trying to, you're in the battle. I don't know how you would open. You need a light tape to open this.

Jesus. Then you got your chocolate protein powder drink water. Okay. All of this stuff is meant to be heated up. What? You're not fucking with it? This dusty. All right, these niggas.

That's not a good pretzel. These nuggets are fine. It's a dry. It's a dry. It's a dry. It's up. Then they give you more stuff. They give you salt.

Okay. But this is your main course MRE. Fran raspberry bar. All right. So is what you do. All right. Do we got some water as well? Oh, there we got some water.

I like this. I like the little. Here's the water. What in the world? Oh, no, put that. We need a close-up of that shit, bro. That's the energy bar. That's the energy bar.

Yeah. That doesn't, okay. That looks like, that looks like coagulated periods. Jesus Christ. What? Hey, yo. What? Charles.

All right. All right, this is a sex-sposite podcast. Women have periods. It's not disgusting. It's 20-25. That's not the disgusting part, man. Wait, what is this? This is cran raspberry flavor?

Cran raspberry flavor, energy. Cran raspberry flavor, energy bar. Shout out, Joe. Um, this is peanut butter. Okay. Which. Oh.

Roasted peanuts. Good. Bram raspberry. This is, okay. It's pretty good. It's like a cereal bar. It has. It has.

It has a weird texture. Mm-hmm. It was like a crunchy bar. There are so many chemicals in this. So, Brian, oh, Brian, you know how to do this? Come on. Come on here, Brian. Oh, please.

Please help us, Brian. Yeah. Let's grab it up for Brian. Let's grab it up for Brian. Oh! Okay. I don't know if you can see the steam here. It's steaming.

It is steaming. That thin Lizzie song. She is steaming. Oh, that's not a great smell. I don't love that smell. That's burning rubber. Oh, my God. This is getting so hot.

Oh, shit. Can we pass it around? Let's see what we'll do. Guys, look at that. Look at that steam. Look at that shit. Whoa. That's science.

Look at the ingredients. I mean, obviously, water, spinach, cream, pasta, spices, paprika, parsley, sugar, garlic, onion, salt. It's seasoned. All right, I think we should be good. All right. Is that, is that, that's good?

That's good. Let's, let's... Is that warm? It's lukewarm. Okay. Oh, no, the bottom's pretty warm. Okay. Gotta shake it, move it?

So then we got to just squeeze it out onto the, on the plate, I guess. Don't eat that, Van. I don't like the way. Don't eat that. Okay. I don't think this cooked. Proper.

You didn't let it get hot enough. Bitch-ass, niggie. Let's try it. Okay, let's get the, reveal on the plate. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. This is Vans. This is Vans. Let's let have Venn. I thought this was going to look a lot nastier than it actually is. Honestly. I mean, you didn't let it. Charles didn't let it cook. Brian told me we were good. It's only two minutes. I'm guessing that this is just more of a heating thing.

I feel like you should mix it up a little bit. All the ingredients. I mean, all the ingredients. Wait, do we got any seasonings over there? Yeah. Got some hot sauce? Got some. Oh, there's mushroom in here. There's mushroom in here. Oh, no. I will be avoiding that. I'm the only one that came here hungry, apparently. What is this? The napkin? That's not bad! Hey, that's not bad!

Drink this. Absolutely not. Drink it. It's protein, drink it. It's chemical water? No, it's chocolate protein powder. Drink it. Drink that. Oh, that's nice. Pour me glass. Drink it. Oh, Lord have mercy, Jesus.

Did you mix this? Oh, no. I mix it up as much as a lot. This is a good. Double take. I looked at it. Yeah, let me just, what's the spooed at? That plopped out. Let me just.

Wait, can the camera see the visual consistency? The visual consistency of it? This is. Brother, it's still powder in here. Oh, my bad. Shake it up better then. Close it and shake it up. Is it good?

I can take it a vision. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I can see. And by the way, it's not bad. You get a spoonful on it. Is it better? Is it better or worse than the Oval team? Way better.

It's not in the close. They're not in the vision. They're not in the vision. same galaxy. That's way better. And the apocalypse, this would be worth gold. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. I want to try it now. It's just not mixed.

This is not mixed. Okay, well, it's not mixed. It's fine, but I think even then, because I was afraid to mix it up because you got to shake it and I didn't want to, because it's like this, you know. You don't know what they can do. Can you stop shaking? No, no, no, that's a gift. Hold on. There's no other way to shake it.

Is that how you do it? Is that your technique for shaking? See what I'm saying? And so I didn't want to do that because I know that it would be... You could shake you like this. Like what? Like you're throwing dice? Yeah, like you...

You know, I didn't want to... But I'll take one for the team. Sure. Oh, that... You can do this. That's a way of it. I'm just going to sit my tang here. We are adults.

We are adults. I promise you guys, we are adults. I don't know why I'm still eating them. Why are you still? You have a problem. Steve. You have a problem. I don't know what it says about me that I'm just like enjoying eating with my friends.

This is not bad. That's not bad at all. That's not bad at all. And you guys, it has 50 grams of carbohydrates. Damn. 14 grams of protein. Oh, shit. So I could make an argument that this is actually two meals in here.

I mean, with all of this. One MRE probably as you said for a day. For some additional protein? I will so, I know why that tastes so good, and that's because it has 35 grams of sugar. What's this? It seems the Midnight Collective has crashed our tea party with an entry of their own.

Looks like they have a sausage-filled pasta and an outer space milkshake they're hoping can wow the gentleman. We have made you an apocalypse milkshake featuring astronaut ice cream and powdered milk with water to rehydrate it. That doesn't sound as bad as it looks. It looks fine.

It looks good. What about is going on with you? I thought it was sludge. This looks pretty good. I thought it was like a... Is there a yogurt in here? All right. You guys?

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Ooh. Okay, not horrible. Not horrible. It's not bad, but it tastes bad. This is... Here's a deal, though. Once again, I'm putting all of this into context for the apocalypse. This is a creamy apocalypse treat.

Right. Right now, I can go down the street and get a real milkshake and I'm not fucking with it. But this is a creamy apocalypse treat. If we're in apocalypse, this is like one of those. Because here's a thing, powdered milk never gets bad. Astronaut ice cream never goes bad. So you kill a motherfucker for a season like this. In the apocalypse, you come over to the crib, you serve somebody, some of this.

Really, it's melted ice cream. This is what this is. Okay. Our new friend Brian, can he bring over the midnight, collect his food? The Midnight Collective's meal is spaghetti and Vienna sausages, doused with a little bit of Tabasco sauce for flavor. Oh.

Okay. I don't mind. I recommend adding more Tabasco sauce for, you know, more flavor. Obviously, for flavor. I'm just going to take a couple of noodles. That's the most abysmal amount of noodles. Let me see. What is happening here?

Oh. Chuck, you got to, okay. You got to open the tongs like this. Damn. I didn't know we had. fucking magic tongs here? God, dude. Magic tongs?

Toms? My tongs don't work like this, bro. I bet you they do, and you just don't know how to use them until just now. All right. Okay. Wait, do we have some extra hot sauce

not to be a nigger about it? It's right in front of you. Get down on some of that, Chuck. I want to see you get down on some of that Tabasco sauce, brother. Now, do we, are you of the mindset that, like, Tabasco, Tapatio?

Not technically hot sauce. It's just more of, like, a general condiment, like ketchup. Pepper juice. this isn't my hot sauce of choice. I don't even call it a hot sauce to you. Right. It just feels like more of a flavoring content.

Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I think Tabasco sauce is hot sauce, but I like Louisiana hot sauce. See, I'm a Louisiana hot sauce guy. That's another level of hot. This is just more of a mild little kick in here.

Actually, Tabasco sauce I think is hotter than Louisiana hot sauce. Is it? I think so. Can you pass some of that? All right. So here's the thing. This is very. very struggle meal coated.

This is... Like, there are people in the world right now. It's like a sugar sandwich type shit. Exactly. Sure. We're like, well, all we got are the Vienna sausages, the pasta, the hot sauce sauce. I mean, but when you're in the apocalypse,

it's all struggle meals. That's true. It's not a lot of fancy pants. I'm not, the other sausages are term. I did still. I mean, I refuse to eat the Vienna sausages. I'm not going backwards. Am I just nasty?

I came up. I came up. Why am I eating Vienna sausages, man? I've had Andouy. Is this one of the other than I'm going to say, I refuse to eat leftovers? I work too hard. I mean, no leftovers.

What was that? Y'all see that? No leftovers? We're not eating leftovers, man. Oh, I'm eating leftovers. This with the Tabasco sauce is a nice little. Yeah. It works for some reason.

Am I just nasty? I'm having a great time with this. We also added the Vienna sausage water to season. The pasta for you. The season of the pot. I mean, we're eating it. I'm eating it. Good job, Midnight Collective.

Vianna Sosses is nasty. The Midnight Collective is here. Oh my God. I'll put too much to Vasco. I should not have taken a bite of that Vienna Sazzi. It's bad, right? It's gross. Now, guys, before we leave, we have to grade each other.

I gotcha. To see who wins our mystery prize. Now that each contestant has submitted their dish, it's time for the Midnight Boys to vote on which meal best exemplified the apocalypse. To win, our co-hosts will rate each other's entries from one to 12 in three key areas. One, taste, two, theme, three, wow factor. Honestly, I'm proud of us. None of us threw up. I was expecting at least one person.

I mean, you make us have that pickled... The pickled one, mine was the worst. Yeah, what's the worst thing that we had on the plate today? Oh, it was the pickled mushrooms. Oh, it was the hardtack. The hardtack? The hardtack? was terrible, bro.

Bro, no. No, I think how much are the way. Mushrooms, bro, worse. Like, that's some of the worst things I've ever put

in my mouth. Legitimately awful. Okay. In last place was Steve. What the hell? Damn, Steve. The tack was tough.

Tough tack. Okay. Second and the last. Third place. Was Charles. Oh, that's good. Okay, Chuck. Okay.

Four place, I guess, because of the M.C. And the winner. Oh, second place. Was Van. Hey! We have a special mystery prize

for the winner of our first midnight munchies. Oh. What was in the bag? Is it the bag? The bag? Oh.

That's tight. In the bag. Oh, really? Oh, my God. What's in the box? Unboxing. What's in the box? A fat niggas dream.

Pass those down. Pass the Twink. I haven't had a Twinkie in years. I didn't say y'all could have my shit. Let's do a quick review of, host this review real quick hostess. This is what you do. Oh, my God. I take this.

I'm talking very good. This is a nice way to end. I'm going to start with the Twinkie. I'm going to start with the Twinkie. The Twinkie. Oh. God, the Coke is amazing. I'll tell you something.

Obviously, you know, we've grown up. We used to better forms of chocolate. But it still hits, man. Something so special about an oasis chocolate. Guys, that has been your first episode of Midnight Monchies. Thank to the Midnight Boys. I'm appreciative of all of you. Thank you to the Midnight Collective for bringing us together.

Well, damn! With the violence. About to have a food fight. We should have a... Midnight food fight. That's not a bad idea. All right, let's get. Thank you to all the riders and mob for joining the boys on this special journey.

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