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I know you’ve said before that you don’t especially love the “Greg drinks awful things for the audience’s amusement and cruel sadistic pleasure” genre of videos, but I feel like your insight into what exactly went wrong with these horrendous drinks mixed with your pure disgusted reactions really make some of your best content.
Yeah, honestly even if they weren't entirely awful to drink I'd still be interested in seeing the commentary on drinks that are merely bad or unfinished ideas rather than the worst ideas ever.
There's a number of things that Greg brings to the table that no other cocktail youtuber does, but one of the biggest is his excellent tasting notes. They're unique, rarely too out-there, and he delivers them excellently.
Stirring with a knife isn't half-assed. It's a proven fact that the basic table knife is the superior stirring utensil. It's all about surface area. But yeah, you're right about the other stuff.
It might be formulaic, but man are these videos my favourite It's not just "this drink sucks", it's the fact that someone out there really genuinely ordered these It's basically a mystery novel with no conclusion. We will never know what they were thinking.
You know, Greg, the ones I like in these episodes are the ones where the customer is deeply, deeply disturbed, but somehow not wrong. It's like a lunatic unearthing genuine truth from the madness of the Necronomicon.
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj It's a common Russian proverb in my literal translation. Used in the meaning of "even the most unlikely things can happen if you give them enough time"
Jeppson's apparently made a limited edition pumpkin spice Malört liqueur last year and donated proceeds to Punk Rock Saves Lives. Nisei Lounge started serving pumpkin spice Malört in 2021.
… huh. i guess the off putting bitterness of malort could be an interesting foil to the warm and slightly savory spices of pumpkin spice. i wanna try that now lmao
@@Senthiuz oh that's super cool. I was already a big fan of the company for leaning into the 'yeah we taste like shit' style advertising but knowing they donated to PRSL makes them so much cooler
Im the kinda masochist to want to try this as I actually love Red Bull even if the chinese version is better imo but I also hate champagne... Reminded me also of the Gatorwine segment and episode in Binging with Babish, I kinda hope Greg hears about it and does some experiments with it but I doubt he'd actually like it enough to do that.
I know of very few content creators whose ad segments I don't skip. When you put your mind into it, you make the ads fun. You make me want to keep watching actively and then I by proxy actually pay attention and take in the information the company sponsoring you actually want me to rememeber. Genuinely impressed!
You can tell he has fun making the ad segments, and even if I'm not interested in the products I'm always down to watch Greg have fun. It's contagious.
Unemployed actually did make one, and said it was the only drinkable Malort cocktail. The espresso covers up most of Malort's harsher flavor notes with coffee bitterness, though the astringent side-tongue burning still exists.
17:30 Considering this is basically a cement mixer and the server had a feminine name. My guess is that the customer got on her bad side and said customer made the mistake of saying something like "surprise me". That's pretty much the reason for the existence of cement mixers
Speaking as someone who lives in Utah, the dirty drinks thing you talked about is real, and it rules. It's one of the very few good things the Mormons have ever given us. There's one that's Dr. Pepper, chocolate syrup, cherry syrup, and half-n-half creamer, and it tastes just like a Black Forest cake, it's the best thing I've ever had.
Fellow Utahn and exmo here. Agree they’re very tasty. Gotta get creative when you can’t drink alcohol or coffee. Not sure about the logic that a 40oz soda is somehow healthier for you, but that’s neither here nor there. At this point I hit up Swig mostly for the sugar cookies, but my favorite is basically Mountain Dew with Raspberry & Peach Syrups (I believe they use Torani) and Vanilla Cream (guessing but probably heavy cream with a touch of vanilla extract). Oddly it’s far less sweet than you’d think based on the ingredients.
I mean it kinda seems like an Italian soda with cream, but with a Dr Pepper base. Or maybe like an egg cream (which was odd due to the plain soda water base)
A mate of mine insists that you can mix sweet sherry, ginger ale (the cheap,mild stuff that has little to no actual ginger in it), a dash of lemon juice and a small amount of white rum and if you get the proportions just right, it'll taste like raspberry.
I just re-watched all the "Customer is Always Wrong" videos last night, and I am filled with delight to have a new one to watch today. Cheers! PS - Hands down my favorite ad read by anyone on TH-cam. Petition to bring back the sleep goblin in the future.
Love the whole "If it's not from the Cook district of California it's only Champagne!" And I knew you were gonna hate it because it has Red Bull in it. Every episode involving bad drinks I've seen where Red Bull is an ingredient in a drink it seems like that drink is the one you hate the most!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like these vastly more than your "intentionally bad drinks" videos, because here, there was a thought process involved that *intended* these drinks to be good, so it's educational to see you break down why they don't work, or, why they surprisingly do, in those rare cases where they're actually not bad.
Before you even took your first sip of number 1, my mind said "A taste of the sea", it also looks like sea water. ALSO GREG, PLEASE, you should make some drinks for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Great game, great vibes, tons of material to work with.
I want to go to this person's bar and order a shot of equal parts 107 proof Goldshlager and Jose Cuervo. Let's see what Greg thinks of that as he is projectile vomiting afterwards.
On the note of champagne and redbull. A friend of mine once ordered a Stolli-bolli-bulli... It's just equal parts of stolichnaya vodka, Bollinger champagne and red bull... What a treat that was
i usually skip in video ads unless its something I might buy but something about this Helix ad was strangely captivating, I couldn't look away lol. It had me literally laugh out loud. Keep kicking ass Greg you are making some funny and entertaining stuff.
That Titos one is just a spiked version of an Italian cream soda. I haven't had one in 25 years, but Italian cream sodas were very popular at convenience stores in WA in the early 90s (where every gas station carried 6-20 varieties of torani syrup and kids and Mormons didn't drink coffee).
The Malort esspressotini might be one of the things that benefits from an unconventional garnish - an olive. Salt is one of the ways that you can mitigate bitterness in cooking, so adding a briny note with an olive could soften that bitterness, if you're using unflavoured vodka.
i haven't watched you in so long, probably a year.. but you're a content creator that not only stays genuine.. but feels more relatable with time! thank you for doing what you love!! and thank you for giving me awesome things to watch!!
Walked in on my housemate watching this on the Xbox and NGL that first drink had me thinking this was a mashup episode where you just combine two cocktails together I'd watch that
That'd be kinda interesting because the hard part would be not just picking two drinks that follow the same formula, but also not picking two drinks that have nothing to do with each other.
This is one of my favorite series to just randomly binge, for some reason. Not because of your suffering, but because it's fascinating to see how you try to figure out why. A daiquiri with a salted rim doesn't sound too bad to me, but maybe I'm crazy.
The Malört espressotini: Starts out with the taste of cleaning fluid cycles into coffee taste and then into immense, underlying bitterness It should be called the "Office Workday"
14:00 this is legit just an Irish soda with vodka in it. I get an Irish soda at a local coffee shop here that just soda water, iced lime syrup, and cream. I don’t necessarily know how they do it without it curdling though. I think it also helps that they make their own cream with fresh milk, so it’s more creamy. It’s honestly fantastic, and spiking it sounds INCREDIBLE.
4:26 there’s a lil video glitch - had to double check to see if it was just my eyes deceiving me or not. Otherwise love these videos, it always blows my mind what some people could order
Not that it would've made too much of a difference but since you halved the ratio for the daiq-a-marg-a-tini shouldn't you have only put in 2 olives as well?
So tbe Red Bull Mimosa opens up an interesting idea in my head, to get the cool nucleation visual and still have flavor potential: replace the juice with a San Pellegrino style citrus soda instead of red bull. I dont know if it would actually work, but I'm now too curious not to try it
I had a similar thought, that you could play with better sodas. Especially since the DrinkMate will carbonate anything. Something like a French 75, but carbonate before adding the Champagne. Or a Mimosa with clarified, carbonated orange juice.
I already have a mattress suitable for confining my reposing corpus during the ritual of slumber whilst my wandering subconscious probes the contours of Stygian shores as yet undiscovered, but if I didn't, that ad read would definitely have had me checking out your sponsor. Never stop being you!
Y'know, the last one being genuinely good has given me an idea. "The customer MIGHT be wrong", a video wherein you choose a cocktail from the skull, and it has a 50/50 shot of being good or bad.
My best drink that turns heads: Box wine and Hugs. In a glass add two ice cubes, fill about half way with Franzia Sunset Blush box wine, top with the blue Little Hug barrel. The drink will turn BLACK, like the potion in Snow White XD it's surprisingly drinkable, and I call it "Regrets". A creation made out of desperation and post family gathering left overs.
16:15 ish - I don't often do sweet coffee drinks but one of the best summer coffee's I've had is a similar notion with a shot of espresso, sparkling water, shot of cream, shot of amaretto (or orgeat for non-alcoholic version). I bet adding an espresso shot to that could be alright.
Thank you Emperor Palpatine for the hilarious Helix mattress endorsement. They say, “Ain’t no rest for the Wicked,” and Helix is welcome to capitalize on that untapped market, especially if it keeps the fishy smell out of the Death Star elevators.
I’ve never had a Red Bull “mimosa”, but our New Years Eve parties do not start until everyone toasts with an “Ultimate Celebration” which is half of a bottle of 5 hour energy topped with champagne. Flavor of your choice. I’m a fan, but it tastes like it sounds.
Dr. Pilk is the best dirty soda, fite me. The low acidity of the Dr. Pepper doesn't let the milk curdle--unlike ordinary pilk--so everything stays creamy. Eggnog and Dr. Pepper is also great. -*Burunya*
As a bartender its always the bracket text that's the best part of these orders. You can almost hear the table sides sometimes. My only rule for mods is no complaints, you changed my recipe you live with the drink you ordered.
A very nice video, thanks. For personal amusement I will correct/improve two of these: for the MalortEspressotini, cut the M. to 0.75 and increase the vodka to 1.25 for the Reality Mimosa, replace the RedBull with Sprite or Fanta, same effect for bubbles and better taste.
I was going to comment something like "Anyone who orders a cocktail containing an energy drink should be incarcerated" but then I remembered a few of the ingredients of some very established and time-honored cocktails...
@bartolomeothesatyr Drunken reasons and bc it's what we had handy. We were just back from an OIF tour and I was playing bartender at the barracks. It was either this recipe or more MGD, or Hennessy and cranberry juice.
Hi, made simple syrup on the go the other day. Was still very warm when I made a whisky sour. It made the whole drink fluffy and remain fluffy till the last sip. Just wanted to share 😊
This is by far my favorite series. I personally love it because I order whacky fucked up drinks that I have made at home, but ONLY if I have been to the bar before and know the bartender. It is fun to experiment and I've always been met with a confused smile followed by a "yuuh sure?!? Alright, enjoy... LOL!" 9/10 it has been a good drink.
Just from the order I saw in the thumbnail, I'm convinced people are ordering these things just to get one over on you, Greg. A Malört Espressotini? My condolences...
Red Bull and champagne is quite a common drink here in Argentina when people go out clubbing or parties. I believe the difference would be in using a more sweet champagne, maybe extra brut? instead of an extra dry one. IMO It's nothing out of the ordinary and it's really just a sweet drink of red bull and wine.
I always saw the "dirty soda" thing as a riff on the milk-and-Pepsi beverage Laverne loved in "Laverne & Shirley." I will say that, when my sister and I were kids, we did get on a milk & Pepsi kick thanks to that show. What can I say, we were impressionable.
Having grown up Mormon and still being somewhat connected to them (my immediate being faithful to said religion), I didn't know what you were talking about with dirty soda, but now that you've explained it, yes, absolutely. It is a decently big thing among Utahn youth particularly, I hear from my cousins over there.
I just drank a cocktail with Angostura bitters and 1. It was exceptional 2. I felt like I was on an episode of how to drink 3. I felt so much more knowledgeable than the other people there. Slay
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How did you comment 2 hours ago on a video that's only been released for 44 seconds?
@ because videos are “unlisted” before they’re released. It’s not like you just upload a video and it’s instantly live.
Be honest Greg, how many episodes did you record before making the ad read?
That ad read was magic.
Have you ever tried carrot Schnaps? Perfect for a Bloody Mary.
I know you’ve said before that you don’t especially love the “Greg drinks awful things for the audience’s amusement and cruel sadistic pleasure” genre of videos, but I feel like your insight into what exactly went wrong with these horrendous drinks mixed with your pure disgusted reactions really make some of your best content.
I do especially love them.
This, absolutely! It helps me learn more about what's going on
Yeah, there is a slapstick element to it but otherwise it's basically mixology case studies.
Yeah, honestly even if they weren't entirely awful to drink I'd still be interested in seeing the commentary on drinks that are merely bad or unfinished ideas rather than the worst ideas ever.
There's a number of things that Greg brings to the table that no other cocktail youtuber does, but one of the biggest is his excellent tasting notes. They're unique, rarely too out-there, and he delivers them excellently.
No barspoon. No simple. Stirring with a knife. This is by far the most half-assed HTD episode I've ever seen, and I am 100% here for it
Stirring with a knife isn't half-assed. It's a proven fact that the basic table knife is the superior stirring utensil. It's all about surface area. But yeah, you're right about the other stuff.
You have mastered the potion "instant spoiled milk" and earned the title of Shittiest Alchemist Currently Alive™
My IMMEDIATE thought
The second, spicier edition of instant spoiled milk!
Now that you mention it, in a fantasy setting, would potions be common as drink mixers?
Greg: "This is the official glass of the margadaiquatini!"
Viski: "Thanks! We hate it!"
Viski: Stonks
Viski “what if we did the opposite of product placement and paid Greg to REMOVE us from this episode?” 🤔
@@gruggerduggerhoose I'm pretty sure that would be extortion.
It might be formulaic, but man are these videos my favourite
It's not just "this drink sucks", it's the fact that someone out there really genuinely ordered these
It's basically a mystery novel with no conclusion. We will never know what they were thinking.
Also it makes me wonder if these were like intentionally ordered to be bad or if people actually liked these drinks
@@inserttext2412 I have weird tastes sometimes so i tend to do weird things.
Yes, the entire appeal is in the lack of context
...if we knew what they were thinking, it wouldn't be half as interesting
@@inserttext2412 I feel like at least some of these had to be someone ordering their friend a drink while they were in the washroom or something.
Or if they were thinking.
You know, Greg, the ones I like in these episodes are the ones where the customer is deeply, deeply disturbed, but somehow not wrong. It's like a lunatic unearthing genuine truth from the madness of the Necronomicon.
Sane people know better than to attempt these combinations, it takes madness to weed out the absolute failures
A broken clock is correct occasionally
Even a stick can shoot once in a year.
@@Семкай Huh, I've never heard that one before
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj It's a common Russian proverb in my literal translation. Used in the meaning of "even the most unlikely things can happen if you give them enough time"
"Am I a joke to you?" I mean, I can't actually drink for medical reasons, I'm just here to be entertained; so, in a _sense..._
Thank god I'm not alone
Guess my next beer’s on your behalf
Same, friend! My spouse did such a doubletake when he saw me watching a HTD video. Good entertainment is good entertainment!
Same here except mines because I’m not old enough yet
I'm just more of a weed man, but this is golden
That ad spot completely removed any doubt that might have existed about Greg's Goth and D&D nerd roots 😂 Definitely one of us.
He sounds like palpatine to me
I think Greg played Atmosfear back in the day lol
And anyone who had doubts about that hasn't been paying enough attention
Gooble gobble gooble gobble we accept him
Sharkbait OOH-AH-AHH!
Maria's Community Bar in Chicago had a PUMPKIN SPICE MALORT SLUSHIE last year that was SHOCKINGLY OUTSTANDING.
How?
Jeppson's apparently made a limited edition pumpkin spice Malört liqueur last year and donated proceeds to Punk Rock Saves Lives.
Nisei Lounge started serving pumpkin spice Malört in 2021.
… huh. i guess the off putting bitterness of malort could be an interesting foil to the warm and slightly savory spices of pumpkin spice. i wanna try that now lmao
@@Senthiuz oh that's super cool. I was already a big fan of the company for leaning into the 'yeah we taste like shit' style advertising but knowing they donated to PRSL makes them so much cooler
I could see that working.
Speaking as a Sonic employee, our "dirty drinks" are any soda with limes, coconut syrup, and topped with sweet cream.
You breaking down tasting notes and also where a drink went wrong or right is one of my favourite parts of your videos
"Face towards enemy" Red Bull and sparkling white wine have combined to make a claymore mine.
Im the kinda masochist to want to try this as I actually love Red Bull even if the chinese version is better imo but I also hate champagne...
Reminded me also of the Gatorwine segment and episode in Binging with Babish, I kinda hope Greg hears about it and does some experiments with it but I doubt he'd actually like it enough to do that.
I know of very few content creators whose ad segments I don't skip. When you put your mind into it, you make the ads fun. You make me want to keep watching actively and then I by proxy actually pay attention and take in the information the company sponsoring you actually want me to rememeber. Genuinely impressed!
You can tell he has fun making the ad segments, and even if I'm not interested in the products I'm always down to watch Greg have fun. It's contagious.
@@gophermanX That's exactly what it is! Hahaha
Malort Espressotini sounds like something that Unemployedwineguy would have invented as a punishment.
I love his Malort videos 😂
It should be called an Espresso Mortini.
Rick and Malorty
Unemployed actually did make one, and said it was the only drinkable Malort cocktail. The espresso covers up most of Malort's harsher flavor notes with coffee bitterness, though the astringent side-tongue burning still exists.
Ah good, my long con of ordering the worst things I can imagine at bars to get Greg to eventually drink them is starting to pay off.
I've considered it ngl 😂
17:30 Considering this is basically a cement mixer and the server had a feminine name. My guess is that the customer got on her bad side and said customer made the mistake of saying something like "surprise me". That's pretty much the reason for the existence of cement mixers
The sponsor segment was unironically the best sponsor segment I have ever seen. I love the energy you brought.
Speaking as someone who lives in Utah, the dirty drinks thing you talked about is real, and it rules. It's one of the very few good things the Mormons have ever given us. There's one that's Dr. Pepper, chocolate syrup, cherry syrup, and half-n-half creamer, and it tastes just like a Black Forest cake, it's the best thing I've ever had.
I'm thinking that can't be right, but i know what im trying tomorrow yk?
@@boredofcorn3151 give it your best shot, i'm not sure on amounts at all but i'm sure it can't be that hard to found
Fellow Utahn and exmo here. Agree they’re very tasty. Gotta get creative when you can’t drink alcohol or coffee. Not sure about the logic that a 40oz soda is somehow healthier for you, but that’s neither here nor there. At this point I hit up Swig mostly for the sugar cookies, but my favorite is basically Mountain Dew with Raspberry & Peach Syrups (I believe they use Torani) and Vanilla Cream (guessing but probably heavy cream with a touch of vanilla extract). Oddly it’s far less sweet than you’d think based on the ingredients.
I mean it kinda seems like an Italian soda with cream, but with a Dr Pepper base. Or maybe like an egg cream (which was odd due to the plain soda water base)
@@hhuetersimilar idea for sure
A mate of mine insists that you can mix sweet sherry, ginger ale (the cheap,mild stuff that has little to no actual ginger in it), a dash of lemon juice and a small amount of white rum and if you get the proportions just right, it'll taste like raspberry.
26:28 - Greg suddenly realizing saying "under creamed this" would be too much even for him
I didn't even quite clock that 😂
I just re-watched all the "Customer is Always Wrong" videos last night, and I am filled with delight to have a new one to watch today. Cheers!
PS - Hands down my favorite ad read by anyone on TH-cam. Petition to bring back the sleep goblin in the future.
Loved Greg the Sleep Goblin!
another exciting addition of "Greg suffers for our enjoyment"
Love the whole "If it's not from the Cook district of California it's only Champagne!" And I knew you were gonna hate it because it has Red Bull in it. Every episode involving bad drinks I've seen where Red Bull is an ingredient in a drink it seems like that drink is the one you hate the most!
the only good redbull drink is a redbull and vodka
redbull tastes like ass, it's the malort of sodas
@@marcogenovesi8570 it's not even soda it's an energy drink.
@@rainbowtvz energy drinks are soda with caffeine/stimulants, just an FYI
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like these vastly more than your "intentionally bad drinks" videos, because here, there was a thought process involved that *intended* these drinks to be good, so it's educational to see you break down why they don't work, or, why they surprisingly do, in those rare cases where they're actually not bad.
Before you even took your first sip of number 1, my mind said "A taste of the sea", it also looks like sea water. ALSO GREG, PLEASE, you should make some drinks for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Great game, great vibes, tons of material to work with.
Greg first CIAW: WTF is wrong with all of you!
Greg fifth CIAW: Step up your game chumps, this ain't nothin'.
A rare few customers are on *to* something. Most are just on something!
I mean, that jager old fashioned sounded kinda good
I want to go to this person's bar and order a shot of equal parts 107 proof Goldshlager and Jose Cuervo. Let's see what Greg thinks of that as he is projectile vomiting afterwards.
On the note of champagne and redbull.
A friend of mine once ordered a Stolli-bolli-bulli...
It's just equal parts of stolichnaya vodka, Bollinger champagne and red bull...
What a treat that was
i usually skip in video ads unless its something I might buy but something about this Helix ad was strangely captivating, I couldn't look away lol. It had me literally laugh out loud. Keep kicking ass Greg you are making some funny and entertaining stuff.
That Titos one is just a spiked version of an Italian cream soda. I haven't had one in 25 years, but Italian cream sodas were very popular at convenience stores in WA in the early 90s (where every gas station carried 6-20 varieties of torani syrup and kids and Mormons didn't drink coffee).
I was going to say it sounds like someone trying to order a Calpico in the boonies.
Its still a thing you can get at most WA coffee stands. I remember drinking that a lot growing up in the mid-late aughts.
That ad segment was utterly unexpected and wholly appreciated. Especially at the end with the lead in to the call to action 😄
Can I just say that Meredith's caption game is freaking ON POINT here? Because it is.
The vodka drink with cream and lime definitely sounds like a key lime pie vibe. I put whipped cream on my key lime pie and it's great.
I bet you the person said, “cran” not, “cream” 😂
My theory is that they asked for a vodka, lime and cream soda, and the bar tender didn't know what cream soda is.
I was reminded of Calpis. Which is delicious. This would work with some sugar added.
Greg doing the helix ad read took me on a journey, awesome Dark Crystal vibes
Wow, you went above and beyond on that helix sleep advert. I couldn't look away. I hope they keep sponsoring you, that's value!
The Malort esspressotini might be one of the things that benefits from an unconventional garnish - an olive. Salt is one of the ways that you can mitigate bitterness in cooking, so adding a briny note with an olive could soften that bitterness, if you're using unflavoured vodka.
i haven't watched you in so long, probably a year.. but you're a content creator that not only stays genuine.. but feels more relatable with time! thank you for doing what you love!! and thank you for giving me awesome things to watch!!
Walked in on my housemate watching this on the Xbox and NGL that first drink had me thinking this was a mashup episode where you just combine two cocktails together
I'd watch that
That'd be kinda interesting because the hard part would be not just picking two drinks that follow the same formula, but also not picking two drinks that have nothing to do with each other.
Congrats on the drinkmate sponsorship! Here's hoping that CH Distillery sees these videos and gives you a Malört sponsorship!
Haven't watched any HTD videos for about a year. Come back and our boi is looking trim and fit. Nice stuff dude
Lmao I can't believe that they keep approving Greg's batshit ad reads 😅😅
You and me both
😂😂
This is by far, the best in video ad I've ever seen. Bravo.
This is one of my favorite series to just randomly binge, for some reason. Not because of your suffering, but because it's fascinating to see how you try to figure out why.
A daiquiri with a salted rim doesn't sound too bad to me, but maybe I'm crazy.
It's not just the salted rim, but also the olives. One of the other probably wouldn't be that bad, but both together is too much.
@brandonp7503 Exactly what I meant.
Lulz... That ad read!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I need more "Creepy Mad Scientist" Greg in my life!!!
More "dark warlock" but it's amazing
The Malört espressotini:
Starts out with the taste of cleaning fluid
cycles into coffee taste
and then into immense, underlying bitterness
It should be called the "Office Workday"
14:00 this is legit just an Irish soda with vodka in it. I get an Irish soda at a local coffee shop here that just soda water, iced lime syrup, and cream. I don’t necessarily know how they do it without it curdling though. I think it also helps that they make their own cream with fresh milk, so it’s more creamy. It’s honestly fantastic, and spiking it sounds INCREDIBLE.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER SKULL EPISODE FOR SO LONG!!!! THANK YOU, HTD CREW!!!!
4:26 there’s a lil video glitch - had to double check to see if it was just my eyes deceiving me or not. Otherwise love these videos, it always blows my mind what some people could order
Halved the daquiri and not the olives and then complains it's too olivey. Classic.
are you the person who ordered it
@@SuperGnarWhalesNo he just followed along with the video
I missed that good spot
11:45 first ad read I've seen on this channel that I didn't skip omfg🤣🤣🤣
Not that it would've made too much of a difference but since you halved the ratio for the daiq-a-marg-a-tini shouldn't you have only put in 2 olives as well?
I think this is my favorite ad read Greg has done so far, it was extremely entertaining.
Holidays coming up, time for another "Greg Must Suffer" episode 😂
Wonder if Glögg is on the menu this year, as well as a bottle of IKEA Vintersaga
So tbe Red Bull Mimosa opens up an interesting idea in my head, to get the cool nucleation visual and still have flavor potential: replace the juice with a San Pellegrino style citrus soda instead of red bull.
I dont know if it would actually work, but I'm now too curious not to try it
yeah I was thinking about that too, maybe a ginger ale?
I had a similar thought, that you could play with better sodas. Especially since the DrinkMate will carbonate anything.
Something like a French 75, but carbonate before adding the Champagne. Or a Mimosa with clarified, carbonated orange juice.
This is the only helix ad I've actually enjoyed watching :)
I already have a mattress suitable for confining my reposing corpus during the ritual of slumber whilst my wandering subconscious probes the contours of Stygian shores as yet undiscovered, but if I didn't, that ad read would definitely have had me checking out your sponsor. Never stop being you!
Y'know, the last one being genuinely good has given me an idea. "The customer MIGHT be wrong", a video wherein you choose a cocktail from the skull, and it has a 50/50 shot of being good or bad.
My best drink that turns heads: Box wine and Hugs.
In a glass add two ice cubes, fill about half way with Franzia Sunset Blush box wine, top with the blue Little Hug barrel. The drink will turn BLACK, like the potion in Snow White XD it's surprisingly drinkable, and I call it "Regrets".
A creation made out of desperation and post family gathering left overs.
16:15 ish - I don't often do sweet coffee drinks but one of the best summer coffee's I've had is a similar notion with a shot of espresso, sparkling water, shot of cream, shot of amaretto (or orgeat for non-alcoholic version). I bet adding an espresso shot to that could be alright.
Love that the name changed almost every time he said it. Daiq-a-marg-a-tini, Marg-a-daig-a-marini, Marg-a-daiq-a-rini, etc.
Thank you Emperor Palpatine for the hilarious Helix mattress endorsement. They say, “Ain’t no rest for the Wicked,” and Helix is welcome to capitalize on that untapped market, especially if it keeps the fishy smell out of the Death Star elevators.
I saw the title and was instantly excited. I also really like how Greg tries to see the logic behind the order. Even if it's ridiculous.
I’ve never had a Red Bull “mimosa”, but our New Years Eve parties do not start until everyone toasts with an “Ultimate Celebration” which is half of a bottle of 5 hour energy topped with champagne. Flavor of your choice. I’m a fan, but it tastes like it sounds.
I love how much fun you're clearly having with the ads!
P.S. please do an episode on slivovitz
Dr. Pilk is the best dirty soda, fite me.
The low acidity of the Dr. Pepper doesn't let the milk curdle--unlike ordinary pilk--so everything stays creamy. Eggnog and Dr. Pepper is also great.
-*Burunya*
"No barspoon, only knife." Is a great phrase for these Customer Is Always Wrong episodes.
I keep thinking about Fozzie's line from The Great Muppet Caper about champagne - that if you put enough sugar in it it tastes like ginger ale.
As a bartender its always the bracket text that's the best part of these orders. You can almost hear the table sides sometimes. My only rule for mods is no complaints, you changed my recipe you live with the drink you ordered.
Red Bulls taste is guarana, a South American fruit. Most energy drinks are guarana flavored.
A very nice video, thanks.
For personal amusement I will correct/improve two of these: for the MalortEspressotini, cut the M. to 0.75 and increase the vodka to 1.25 for the Reality Mimosa, replace the RedBull with Sprite or Fanta, same effect for bubbles and better taste.
So you're low on simple syrup because you're lazy but you recently made Mt Dew chips and Doritos liquor? Strangely enough, that tracks.
simple syrup is just not exciting anymore
i mean yeah. too lazy to make a staple bar ingredient but not lazy enough to not pursue the dopamine of a stupid challenge
I must humbly request that all future ad breaks be delivered by Necro-Greg Lord of the Abyss
Is it me or did you get a new camera? Even on the crappy old LCD TV in my office at work... your movements look smooth.
I just changed the frame rate.
@@howtodrinkOkay, I have to know now: what was the previous frame rate and what is the new one?
Honestly, loved the ad on this one! You clearly put a lot of effort into it!
Also, an alternate name for the Champagne and Red Bull: the High School Reunion.
i really hope you do more of these cuz its honestly my favorite. its so interesting to see what weird concoctions ppl come up with
For the first one do remember you went with full amount of olives but only a half daiquiri, so it should be less briney? Dunno if that'd save it.
I was going to comment something like "Anyone who orders a cocktail containing an energy drink should be incarcerated" but then I remembered a few of the ingredients of some very established and time-honored cocktails...
Southern Royal Jack: (layered shot)
0.5 oz - Southern Comfort
0.5 oz - Jack Daniel's
0.5 oz - Crown Royal
Why would you pollute perfectly good whiskey with SoCo?
@bartolomeothesatyr Drunken reasons and bc it's what we had handy. We were just back from an OIF tour and I was playing bartender at the barracks. It was either this recipe or more MGD, or Hennessy and cranberry juice.
@@AvidCat5000 Ah, I see, barracks were involved. Enough said.
Hi, made simple syrup on the go the other day. Was still very warm when I made a whisky sour. It made the whole drink fluffy and remain fluffy till the last sip. Just wanted to share 😊
That was the best helix ad ever
This is by far my favorite series. I personally love it because I order whacky fucked up drinks that I have made at home, but ONLY if I have been to the bar before and know the bartender. It is fun to experiment and I've always been met with a confused smile followed by a "yuuh sure?!? Alright, enjoy... LOL!" 9/10 it has been a good drink.
Just from the order I saw in the thumbnail, I'm convinced people are ordering these things just to get one over on you, Greg.
A Malört Espressotini? My condolences...
The rapid-fire jokes when the cooks champagne came out had me laughing so hard!10/10 delivery. Thanks for another great video, love watching these :)
That's how you do an Ad integration! 😂
Also did Greg just make one of the most entertaining ad-read Ive ever seen, idk who this Lovecraftian spoken Hobo man is but I dig him.
YES!!! THE SKULL OF DOOM
Red Bull and champagne is quite a common drink here in Argentina when people go out clubbing or parties. I believe the difference would be in using a more sweet champagne, maybe extra brut? instead of an extra dry one. IMO It's nothing out of the ordinary and it's really just a sweet drink of red bull and wine.
Daig-a-marg-a-tini sounds like what a bitter divorce would taste like.
I always saw the "dirty soda" thing as a riff on the milk-and-Pepsi beverage Laverne loved in "Laverne & Shirley." I will say that, when my sister and I were kids, we did get on a milk & Pepsi kick thanks to that show. What can I say, we were impressionable.
Having grown up Mormon and still being somewhat connected to them (my immediate being faithful to said religion), I didn't know what you were talking about with dirty soda, but now that you've explained it, yes, absolutely. It is a decently big thing among Utahn youth particularly, I hear from my cousins over there.
Forget the youth, it’s the soccer mom set. Half my neighborhood is downing at least one 40 ouncer a day.
The Customer is Always Wrong is far and away my fave "series" on HTD! Love seeing more cursed receipts lol
Torture Greg, time is Back !!
This was the best add I have ever seen for a Helix Sleep Mattress. I got a hell of a kick out of it great work Greg!
Once again, the best and most unhinged ad breaks to hit the tube! 🤣🤣🤣
So glad Drinkmate is sponsoring now. I bought one a year ago on your praise, but haven't tried it out yet.
These are my favorites... your pain is my pleasure.
And Marredith's tasting notes just make it all the sweeter.
The vibe for these episodes is "Ordinary Sausage, but Mixology". What a cursed crossover that would be.
"Leeeeet's cocktail~!"
I just drank a cocktail with Angostura bitters and 1. It was exceptional 2. I felt like I was on an episode of how to drink 3. I felt so much more knowledgeable than the other people there. Slay
You know... that ad read for helix was 10/10. We need a evil lair cocktail episode i think soon with this character 😆