The Original Fosters Freeze In Inglewood - Southern California Burger & Ice Cream Food Review
A visit to the Original Fosters Freeze located in Inglewood California .
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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today number 31 of this current series
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where I go around and focus on Southern
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California eating establishments just
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keeps on keeps on moving on inviting you
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to join me
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shall you batteries recharged sunglasses
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and other accessories and off I go
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you're right big the foot traffic has
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been a lot lighter during this duration
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and this lane is paved in two separate
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sections arrived at the cross streets of
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the 200 East block of 94th Street and
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LaBrea Ave in Inglewood
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very close to LAX you see that plane
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flying over fosters old-fashioned fries
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a nice milk product that has tacos
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hamburgers banana splits this is the
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original location the one that started
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it all started by a gentleman by the
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name of George Foster back in 1946 and
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since then has expanded to over 70
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locations even some in this general
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vicinity just down the road and go all
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around Los Angeles that region but it
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all started here and underneath the
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flight path you can hear the laughter
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you can see the plane going by right
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there originally heard about this place
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a few years ago from my friend Roscoe's
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Soul Train who was really into the
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nostalgia of the signage and the taste
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of the soft-serve and through the course
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of this one month series that I have
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been doing so far it's still continuing
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it took me till now
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to arrive at one I thought out of all of
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them why not check out the number one I
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don't know if it's ever been completely
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100% confirmed but there is a hard rumor
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that the Beach Boys wrote the song
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fun-fun-fun at one of these
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establishments not this particular one
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it seems like it it's a hamburger stand
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down with the hamburger stand this is it
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didn't always serve hamburgers not in
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the beginning but they do serve
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hamburgers now so that's what I'm gonna
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go for I'm gonna go for a hamburger
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maybe a side and then finish off with a
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little soft surf it definitely has an
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old-school vibe these are the kind of
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buildings I really love really gives
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gives back the ambience of the past just
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take a gander at that beautiful item
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the cone itself is saying come on in got
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the arm expanded the handout saying this
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is the spot for all your delicious treat
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needs
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old fashions in quotes I guess it's
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referred to as Fosters freeze you'll
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hear people refer to it as the
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old-fashioned
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quite an array of items here lining the
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the window you know I'm going to go with
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a number 2 quarter pound old-fashioned
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says here that I could get the combo and
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I can make it a shake a little bit of an
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upgrade I think I'm gonna save the shake
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and go with the cone after the fact
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might not have to head over to a park
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today I got to picnic tables here on the
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side and two in the front which doesn't
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really look to be too occupied so just
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going to sit here total cost of the
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first order about seven dollars and
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seventy cents give or take a penny I
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can't recall precisely but around seven
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dollars almost eight us between seven
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and eight dollars god they said there's
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a secret sauce so I said yes put the
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secret sauce on the old-fashioned combo
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the number two I opted out of a soda to
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get a water and upgraded it was an extra
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dollar more from the combo price to get
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onion rings instead of just regular
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french fries so that's what I'm gonna be
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consuming instead of Pig about five five
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minutes give or take
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okay there it is the bag has the logo
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right there on the side stating since
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1946 at the purified water and down in
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there this is what we're dealing with I
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guess I really don't need this on
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anymore at the moment
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that's a Hina wrap all of us wrapped up
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so we've got the onion rings here I can
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tell from the heat accusing from the bag
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and South almost like a little almost
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like a little mouse I get some of this
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fried goodness and there is about eight
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to ten eight to ten maybe even closer to
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a dozen down in there I'm just gonna go
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right in I should have waited just a
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little bit all that give me a handful of
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napkins we got some ketchup packets
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there's no give my soap shoes for the
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onion ring I get quite a feat ketchup
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packets a total of four and burger right
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down in there this is pretty hefty
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burger yeah look at this wrapped up
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see that goodness kind of oh that noise
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kind of windy out here so I have to all
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right check this thing we got I asked
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they asked if I wanted cheese I said yes
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so I got cheese on there the
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aforementioned secret sauce oh wow this
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is a very fresh I haven't been into it
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yet but it appears to be a very fresh
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ingredients we got the good slice of
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tomato we got the meat patty on there we
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got quite an assortment of lettuce a
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good a good amount bounce wise of
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lettuce and see some pickles out in
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there I do like pickles
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taking it foster's freeze yeah I'm gonna
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call foster freeze but it's Foster's
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because the gentleman's last name was
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Foster
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so it's is freeze and also people if
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he's somehow an affiliation with Dairy
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Queen on the west coast what's happening
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that's a hamburger got no bones about it
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that is I that is a roof of the jet
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hamburger
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very close to home eight when you take
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the grill out the backyard
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make it up maybe not the Paradiso much
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but because of the ingredients because
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of all that lettuce and the pickles good
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size pickles and that secret sauce of
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course
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I didn't know what to expect before I
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arrived I did not know
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what the burger was going to be I know
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the ice cream was probably going to be
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pretty pretty fantastic buddy
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it's kind of iffy on the burger I am not
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disappointed at all
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kind of wish there was one point County
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far as I know there's not if there was
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one in my neighborhood this would be a
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frequented establishment
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very positive positive positive ratings
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burger
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the ingredients 100% the ingredients
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that make it
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the bread
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pretty common
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even the meat patty pretty common but
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it's everything else
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that goes now
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the onion rings are pretty much the
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standard I would say they're like
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anything above or below what you would
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expect but they are a nice nice addition
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which was above my expectations
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I had a friend once when I worked my
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last job I ever had was in a feed store
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I worked there for quite some time I
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worked retail for over 20 years the last
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five years of that 10 year doing
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customer service in retail I worked in a
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feed store where through hey Harry
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two or three 50-pound bags of feed on my
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shoulder out to customers trucks is it a
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little bit better shape then I don't
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know if I could throw 350 pound bags on
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my shoulder and not not take a couple
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days huh after it now I had a friend
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that worked there we were pretty close
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and we would all talk about all kind of
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random things and he had this philosophy
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that if you drink a soda a coffee or a
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tea a juice a shake anything if you
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followed it up immediately after with
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the same ounces of water that it would
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flush it out and there's no there's no
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mathematical evidence of this there is
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nothing to say that that computes
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completely and it's 100% true nothing
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written in the in the books on I'm not a
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doctor or a nurse or anything like that
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or anything has to do with any of the
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health magazines that I'd probably say
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that I would spend it fascinating and I
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like drinking water it makes me feel
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good I do drink a lot of the other stuff
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but I do drink a check
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one went right over there earlier one
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went right over this way so the flight
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path must like not be exact there must
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be a couple of different runways
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together there's one over that way a few
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hundred yards I was standing over there
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getting though the wide shot of the
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whole exterior one went right over
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an assortment of different sizes here
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because she could kind of make a little
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mountains of fried onion ring starting
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with the like a puzzle
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starting with the different sizes look
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at this here we go
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and then the little piece on top there
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because like a snake it's like a snake
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all wrapped up this is the snaky tail
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I'm gonna bite the snaky tail
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I've been taught since I was young not
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to play with my food all bets are off
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right now because when you're younger
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you usually play with your food because
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you're not hungry and I'm still hungry
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so I'm going to I created an art
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installation here that I'm gonna eat I'm
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gonna take him one by one
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that one was not don't think imma be
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other penetration
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there's a handful of people across the
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road over there hanging out keep looking
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over here wondering what that guy do it
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receipt onion rings
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whoo that was a that was a good meal now
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time to top it off with a delicious cone
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Eric hones there's the assortment of
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sizes I'll do a medium medium vanilla
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cone even along the bottom there they
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have their logo paper wrapping that is a
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good size amount of vanilla ice cream
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don't mind if I do it's towering it's
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not too humid today that this thing
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probably will melt quickly
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that's good saucer I'm gonna get a brain
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freeze
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I need a couple more napkins she asked
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if I needed any more napkins and I said
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said I was okay but I think I regret
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that decision
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you got somewhere
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oh yeah a big point coming in up there
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to hear it for the rumbling other
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who
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I see cold milk goodness no I eat some
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sweets occasionally I'll eat a doughnut
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every once a while usually I've
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doughnuts like that's a month I don't
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have the feet barks obvious I'll try new
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treats and whatnot but my go-to is
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normally ice cream or a shake I don't
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even do that all the time it's not a
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daily occurrence that I get this thing
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is dripping in Florida they would this
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thing we've already been nothing but
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liquid this is like three four fifths
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non-liquid
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whose is dripping
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standing on the road here at Inglewood
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pasture buyers and onlookers on that
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corner over there and back over there
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that's gonna do it for today another
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