Brett Cooper — Hood Snacks Have Gotten OUT OF Control

- Guys, it is so ironic that we spent the entire video yesterday talking about these novelty food items. People paying $12 for a clean and healthy matcha latte combination in a cute little cup. And then I kid you not, I finished recording, I left the studio, I pulled out my phone, looked on X and I realised the people are spending 20 or $30 for a jar of pineapple soaked in Kool-Aid. Now, before we talk about this internet atrocity and what it means for Maha, make sure that you like this video.

Subscribe with the channel if you've not already. And of course if you wanna stay up to date on everything we upload here on the Bread Cooper Show, make sure to ring that notification bell right now. I don't really know how long this food concoction has existed in the real world, but on May 29th, a video went viral that changed the world for the worst in my opinion. And that video was of a young man eating possibly the most radioactive concoction known to man Kool-Aid pineapples.

Just watch - That to that big guy. Oh yeah. Appreciate you buddy. Yes sir. - So as I am sure you are already assuming this video went viral for a myriad of reasons. Number one, he is slurping this radioactive bright red something out of a jumbo Costco jar. He also is speaking in a language that is certainly not English. Like I came across this video and I was like, what planet have I just been dropped into? Like this is not the world that I personally know, but I think a lot of people have felt the same way because now that video has almost 40 million views.

So that young man is now doing press simply because of his hilarious South Florida accent. I guess that's how they speak in South Florida. My husband was raised in South Florida, so that's not the way he speaks, but I guess it's a a regional thing but 40 million views later. And everybody wants to know what in the hell this boy was eating. And it's this which we will put on the screen here it is Jarred pineapples that have had Kool-Aid powder added to them so that they become more like candy than pineapples.

And this is an example of how you make them. In case you are interested in DIYing this in your own home, just watch - The viral Kool-Aid pineapples. These go for $20 a pop. Let me show you how to make it from scratch. And we got four different flavours. So less tap in, cut off the top and the bottom of your pineapples. Then you're gonna go around the side just like that, making sure you get rid of the core. You gonna cut the outsides, then you gonna line your jars with your Kool-Aid, pour a cup of sugar in each one.

Then you gonna throw your water in that bad way. Halfway shake that bad way up, top it off with a little bit of Hennessy pause, then top it off with some more sugar. And you already notice busting - Every part of that is atrocious. Like I feel sick watching that. There's already so much sugar in the Kool-Aid powder. And he is like, yeah, let's just add another quarter cup here, some Hennessy and then another quarter cup on top just to really make it special.

I mean it is just insane. But now this guy obviously is trying to make the situation as classy as possible. You know he's wearing the apron, he is got the gloves on, he's using the little, you know, chef meal prep containers. He is not using the big box stores pineapples. He is making the syrup himself. But let's be real here. If you guys have seen this on the internet already, then you know that the demographic for this delicacy is anything but classy and elevated.

Just watch - My boy trying the strawberry kiwi. Mm yeah. A hundred outta 10, a hundred outta 10 my Come on now my the juice always going do it. I'm tell you. And you can put your juice on some ice. You could mix that cheese with some little good. I'm mixing - Some. No, no, don't do that. Please don't. Do not use the leftover syrup from your Kool-Aid pineapple thing and pour it over ice and drink it like a cocktail. No, like I'm just imagining like being a kid.

And you remember when we, when we would get the little fruit cups and they would have like little clementine or like a nectarine in them. There would be the little syrupy stuff and like I always, this is so gross and Alex hates it when I talk about this that I would always like peel back the lid just a little bit and I would slurp out all the syrup. Thinking back on that atrocious, I don't even know what was in those little fruit cups.

That is so gross. It's literally just sugar water and that that is what is happening here and adults are drinking it, - Not yours. One of mine babe, you like that one better? Everybody like this one though. Damn. What the fuck That shit is gas. Look at it. Look at it bro. That shit is gas. I don't. - My other question is, why does every individual in these videos eat this atrocity in a parking lot? Is that a requirement that you're in a, in a QT parking lot doing some kind of drug trade to get your candied Kool-Aid pineapples?

Like it's just gross. Pineapple, - Pineapple Girl girl mama on two 30, man I gotta pineapple on tra. Hold - On. No, no, cancelled, done, done. Remember like truly every single one of these videos, they're like eating them in a parking lot off of the hood of their car. Absolutely not. Somebody was posting about this and said I cannot wait to calmly and accurately explain the Kool-Aid pineapple phenomenon to a random person at a party this weekend only to have them think that I must be super racist or something.

But I feel so lucky to have the platform that I do so that you guys can sit here and I can actually show you these insane videos. Because if you did not see the videos and I was trying to describe the world that the Kool-Aid pineapple lived in, you would be like, Brett, what the hell are you telling me this cannot exist. Or yes, you are just incredibly racist. But back to the point, this community did not stop just with the fruit because the latest hood snack, which is what some people online are calling this stomach bomb atrocity, but the hood snack, the people are choosing to pair with their Kool-Aid pineapples are cereal crusted chicken wings and radioactive waffles.

Just watch. - Alright, gimme your honour. Review now. I thought we did. Yeah. - Every video, every video. Are you allowed to eat these meals, these meals in your home? Are you allowed to eat them anywhere outside of your car or a parking lot? Like a genuine question here because I'm getting the sense that this quite simply is a parking lot delicacy. Is that like a whole, is that a thing? Should we talk about parking lot foods?

And this is just the most recent, I don't even know what I'm trying to say here because I'm so flabbergasted that all of this is real. Now you might be wondering like Brett, is it actually real? And you know what? The jury is kind of out on that. I am inclined to believe that it is. And because we live in the time of ai, it is now a normal process here on the show to run all the videos that I'm reacting to and watching through one of those AI checkers to make sure they're actually real.

Because I've caught myself sometimes being like a boomer and getting bamboozled by something. So we checked all of these videos and like one of the platforms said, you know, this could be AI generated, the other ones were not. But then we checked it on another platform and it said no, this is totally real. But the thing that makes me believe that all of this is real is that there are so many of these videos and they are all eating these same chicken wings and these same bright blue waffles.

So I think it's out there. And the other thing you need to know is that the operations are expanding. You have people making these treats in bulk and you might be wondering, okay, well Brett, did they, you know, are they in restaurants now? Did they you know, rent some kind of commercial kitchen? No, they are bulk making them in washing machines. - So I've been seeing everybody's Kool-Aid pineapple recipe. So let me show you guys how I make mine.

First we start off with the peanut pineapple and the cherry. Let's go ahead and get that up in there. - Now we're talking about whether this could be real or not. This very well could be rage bait. Totally understand that. I completely get it. It is enraging me. So I am on board with that. But what we do know is real is that they are selling out the Sam's Club pineapples and they are setting up vendor stands. - Man off the imitated, never duplicated the original Kool-Aid pineapple.

And listen, I'm taking this shit around the whole world. I don't care who's selling it in what city. My boy just got off work. He said he had to come straight from work to get these pineapples taste that juice. What is hitting on? They is not drinking y'all juice like this. Y'all better come get you some pineapple. This ain't no pineapple hit like that. That shit hitting like that. Come on 20, try the pineapple. - $20.

I feel like I have so many new vocal stems coming out of this episode. Like that bit took like I don't even include that. I don't even know if we should like that's my terrible impression of this. And then the other one is taste that juice. Taste that juice. Like no, I do, I, I'm so sorry, but I will not be tasting the Kool-Aid syrup water. And yes, before you guys ask if you are interested in trying one of these concoctions and you do not see your local vendor standing outside your local gas station, well don't you worry because they are now selling them on Facebook marketplace.

And if you are here in Nashville, I've done the work for you from Clarksville to Franklin to Antioch to Nashville proper, you have got options. And by the way, my best friend Amir was just talking to one of these people on Facebook and he put in an order to pick up a bunch of this tomorrow so that he could try them and do a reaction. And so if Amir randomly falls off the face of the earth stops posting videos is no longer on YouTube, it's because he's in a sugar coma and has gotten diabetes from the radioactive pineapples.

Like I like it. It's so huge. Now again, millions and millions of videos like how long until Kool-Aid comes out with some kind of like official product or collab like I don't even know how this is legal with any kind of food safety laws if you would even consider this food. But convenience stores have allegedly started selling this. And guess what? This is where, this is where I got so riled up. I mean obviously I'm already riled up, but you can buy these with EBT.

Look at this post, this is from Vaughn Slicker in Detroit $15 and we accept EBT like the wider restrictions on what you can use EBT as snap to purchase cannot come soon enough. I know we already have it in like five states or something like that. Federal, federal make it federal immediately because this is absurd. And so if you wanna make that happen, maybe you should use your peer talk phone, call a your representative and tell them.

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They have a right to do that. But it kind of is our business when they are using our tax dollars to fund that sugar addiction. Plus, when those same Americans get diabetes or become obese or get cancer or develop mental illness because of these sugar caused inflammation in their brain and they go to the hospital and they need healthcare, guess what? We are probably paying for that as well. And it's also hilarious because if you take even a further step back, you think about the fact that you know, we are paying for the solution here, but apparently we are also the cause of some of the health problems for this community.

Because remember this was like back in 20 20, 20 19, we were told that the disproportional health crisis in the Black American community was because of racism. I certainly have not forgotten about that. In fact, like look at this article. This is a serious article from Healthline 12 conditions that disproportionately affect black people, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sickle cell cancer, kidney disease, lupus, asthma, HIV, and aids, COVID-19.

Now I look at this and I think about the facts that most of these could be linked back to sugar and a crappy diet full of processed foods. But no, no guys, no it's us. We did that. White people did this to them. It is structural racism and it is accelerating diabetes and it is also causing cancer. Do not laugh at that. I do. It's not funny. This is serious. This is so serious in fact that this exact scenario actually played out in a mainstream medical drama called New Amsterdam.

Just take a look at this scene, - Son, he feels threatened on a daily basis. Like everything he's earned can just be taken away. He's disenfranchised. But because his life is seemingly free from all this because he can't name it, he's internalising it. - Name what - Racism, I think your son's tumour was caused by racism. - That was a real line on a primetime television show. Somehow it got through the writer's room and made it onto set.

Like that is the absolutely psychotic world that we were living in about six years ago. Like, like genuinely. Think about that in a rational normal society, that scene alone should have gotten that show ridiculed, mocked and cancelled. But that was in season two of New Amsterdam. It aired in 2019. So our culture was ripe for the pick and they were eating all of that up and it probably caused a lot of what we saw in 2020 if we're being honest.

For some reason New Amsterdam, their official YouTube account reposted that clip last year. I don't why on earth they would do that considering the political change in this country. But they did. And the comments were really perfect. Somebody posted and said, wait, this isn't like a joke or satire. No, no. There are people out there who really believe this. Another person said the actor who played the doctor deserves or whatever a TV version of an Oscar is because being able to say that line with a straight face is nothing short of legendary acting.

But the thing is that man is an actor, probably lives in Hollywood. He probably believes everything he said and was taking it so serious. He probably thought, I'm gonna change the culture, I'm gonna save black people this way. It's so dumb, so dumb. I'm so over it. Somebody else said my tumour was caused by N-B-C-M-S-N-B-C and Peacock. Yeah, literally we're talking about cancer caused by stress. Let's pinpoint that.

But you know, back to the point, sorry I took you guys on that little tangent there, but I thought it was very worthwhile because it is so absurd. What actually might be accelerating diabetes in the black community is them eating fruit that has been soaked in a sugar syrup, which is then soaked in Kool-Aid and maybe possibly crazy idea, maybe it's the radioactive lucky charms crusted chicken wings. I know that that caused an effect connection.

There might be totally out of left field, but you know, just stick with me folks. Stick with me Now I do wanna be fair here and not just discriminate an entire community for this entire episode because you know, people are obviously pointing to the black community as they are seeing all of these viral videos. The majority of the people consuming these treats are for the black community. So there is a common denominator, but obviously we have to be honest because white people have their vices as well.

Like yesterday you guys saw I was a prickly pair of coffee co in addition to the $12 split cup that I got, the $8 split cup. I also got a caramel banana swirled cold brew with sweet banana cold foam on top. My peers are out here ordering crumble cookies, weekly eating cheesecake cookies that are pushing a thousand calories each. And now they're ordering crumbles new drink that has a whopping 186 grammes of sugar. Just watch, this is the other video that's going viral on X right now.

- Crumble cookie is now selling you a drink that is 186 grammes of sugar. That's almost half a pound of sugar or five can of coke. They call this crazy cousins. And indeed you would've to be crazy or completely ignorant to drink 840 calories of liquid garbage crumble is calling this the viral dirty soda. But the only thing that's dirty here is convincing kids and teenagers that any of this is cool or high. - Guys, I have to tell you that as we've been recording this episode, my stomach is churning like I, I am getting progressively more and more ill as I watch these videos.

And I imagine what would be happening internally if I ingested any of this. Like suddenly after watching all these videos, I'm feeling real great about my one daily, you know, vanilla latte that I have on an average day when I'm not outta here trying to support a cancelled coffee truck like my my Starbucks vanilla latte that I'll get when I'm, you know, having a busy day and need to pick something up. I think it has like 30 grammes of sugar comparatively.

I think I'm doing okay, I'm feeling real good about myself. But anyway, back to the point, the point that I am trying to make here is that I am sure that there are people out there who look at, you know, white Americans with their insane dirty sodas, maybe in Utah, the ones at the county fairs, eating deep fried Oreos that have been fried in the same oil as the, you know, cereal crusted corn dogs, whatever you're eating at the fair.

And they think that that is appalling. I personally have the same reaction to some of the like Mexican tahin, taki chip candy concoctions that I see on TikTok. Like it's all just shocking. It genuinely is. And so this is the type of thing that really makes me stop and wonder like whether politics is really all downstream from culture or if there needs to be some culture that comes downstream from policy, whether that would be useful here.

'cause like genuinely think about it like Maha is as big as it has ever been. They have a huge political presence every day. It seems like there is a new clean food, a new clean something hitting the shelves. There's a new crunchy or natural grocery store opening in every single city. Seed oil free snacks are taking off, people are buying direct from farmers, or at the very least prioritising getting to the farmer's market.

And yet there is a segment of the population. It is giving themselves diabetes. And so in my opinion, you know, restricting what somebody can buy, using our hard earned tax dollars, ensuring that it is food that will not land somebody in the hospital, which will also be paid for on our own dime. Seems like a very rational good step. And maybe possibly I see the argument for even taking it a step further. Like are there things that actually should be banned?

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