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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello. So recently in America, there's a trend
where amongst the
fast food beverages, they're selling extra large
portions. Is that trending now? You already knowhow big
American drinks are, right? Yeah, the mega ones,the gulp
ones like in 7-Eleven. Like this big. Yeah, theytook it up a notch.
Now, the trend is now they're selling coffees andsodas
in a bucket. Check this out. So Dunkin Donuts, thevery famous
coffee shop. カフェ?
It's a donut shop, by the way. But they're selling
48 ounce portions. Now, I guess that's hard foryou to imagine.
There's a video. I'll show you a video.
Right here.
So this is the bucket size one. Look at this.
It's a bucket. It's literally a bucket with coffeeinside.
48 ounce. That's, um, it's like, is it likeallowed?
Yes. Like, is the human body capable? Yeah, likehaving this amount of coffee.
I mean, Americans can handle it. They're builtdifferent. They're built
different, man. They're built different, likeliterally.
So in milliliters, 48 ounce is 1419 milliliters.
Wow. 1.5 kilos. Yeah. That's crazy. That's like,wow. That's crazy.
Wow. You drink that amount of coffee? Yes. Yes.Yes.
Maybe, no, maybe you should stop. That's too much.
No. That's too much. It's crazy. It's getting outof control.
Wow. And are they happy about it? Yes.
Because it's trending. People love it. I mean,Dunkin' Donuts is one of the
biggest, yeah, fast food chains, right? And the
fact that they're incorporating this into it
means it's like, it's like nationally accepted.Wow.
You've seen a video of, I'm sure you haven't,
Day in Life of a Soda Addict. No. What's that?
Okay. Is that like a YouTuber thing? Yeah, it'slike a
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Kikaku or like the authentic soda addictive guy.
Yeah, I think it's an authentic soda addict. Wow.Okay.
I don't know. He may be faking it, but you know.Yeah, to make it fun.
Yeah, maybe, but I don't know. It looks to me.Okay.
He is drinking a lot of sodas, though. Okay.
So maybe he is the, it's very highly likely
that he's a the real one. Yeah. Okay.
Jim, you need that cap? This is Life of a Soda Addict, part 12. See how much soda I can drink in aday.
I start every morning with four sips. What? Part7?
Yeah, he's doing a lot of series. He's doing his,you know, clipping a lot of
parts of his life. Wow. Yeah, it's part 7. Okay.
This is Life of a Soda Addict, part 12. See howmuch soda I can drink in a day.
Wait, sorry. Is this a house? That's his house.This is garage.
He has about, so what he's looking at,
Yawantan is looking at is, at his garage,
he has a, I think, 12-pack can of soda. That's asingle box, right?
He has close to 12 cans in a single box.
There's about 50 to 70 boxes just piled up in hisgarage.
Yeah. Okay. I start every morning with four sodason my way to the gym. You need that?
He starts off with four cans of Dr. Pepper, DietDr. Pepper.
Drink it to the gym, he said? Yeah, before he goesto the gym. Before he goes to the gym?
Yeah, he drinks four cans. That makes no sense.Stop drinking it.
Yeah, I mean. You exercise and you drink it.Right. Yeah, yeah, man. Yeah.
Wow.
Caffeine, so 48 ounces. Fill up my 100 ounce, that's 148 ounces on my way back from the gym.
Finish that off, get a couple more Diet Dr. Peppers.
Finish that off. Now I'm going to get three frescoes and pour them into a thermos.
Add some Torani flavoring. Down that, get a couplemore.
Another couple are 258. Pound low, get some moremeetings.
Down some more. Now I'm going to go run an errandfor my wife.
What?
First drink, 44 ounces there. End of the day,gonna play a little.
All of the 12.5 pounds of soda then. Gotta runanother errand.
Pound some more soda. Now I'm going to the movie,get three of these 32 ounces.
Fill them up through the course of the film. Wrapping up my day with a little extra.
Finishing off at close to five gallons. Here'sevidence that I've been drinking.
That's close to five gallons of soda. That iscrazy. Oh my god.
They're both different, really. This guy was okay,you know.
Not too obese. True. You know, we've seen moreobese Americans, right, on videos.
Yeah. Well, yeah, they're built different becauseit's impossible for me to drink
four cans in the morning before I do whatever. It's like, oh, that's crazy.
That's crazy. Wow. Then I guess the bucket drinkthing is something for them.
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Yeah. They will be very, very happy about it.Yeah. Yes. It's getting crazier and crazier.
Yeah. Wait, did I tell you about a video, anothervideo where, um,
this woman eats Oreos for breakfast? No? No, Ididn't say that. All right, I have to show this toyou.
Wow. What is that, like, Oreo drink? No, it's justa, just a, just a, just a hungry,
just a hungry American woman. What? Just a, just asmall town girl? Yeah, just a small town girl.
Wow. Um, this is, I don't know about their healthconditions, but at least
they can finish it. Like, they can have four cansin the morning. First of all, that's impossible
for me. Yeah, you can't drink it. Right. That theyhave the power, like, they have the ability
to consume all that, uh, you know, sugar andliquid and gas. Yeah. Soda. All right.
I couldn't find it, but I love this guy too. Okay.Um, so he's gonna eat a little snack. Wow.
Okay. For breakfast. Okay. Great smile. Yeah. He'sgonna eat a cereal for breakfast, right? Oh, yeah.
He opens Oreos. He gets a second box. A single boxhas about, I don't know, I guess, like,
I don't know, like 30, 30, 40. Yeah. 30 or 40 Oreos. He gets two boxes and dumps it on a bowl.
He gets milk. Oh, come on. He adds milk like it'sa cereal. Now he's just gonna, he's gonna eat theOreos.
Well, yeah, well, yeah, you're right. Yeah, that'sexactly. Yeah, that's the meme.
Is the size same? That's the same size Oreos.
It's not like mini Oreos. It's a full blown adultsize Oreos.
My feed is packed with these.
Wow. I mean, we don't have that bowl, first ofall. That's big enough.
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True. True. True. Yeah. And milk, the amount ofthe milk. The amount of milk. That's huge.
Oh, yeah. That's American size milk. That's normalin America. Well, yeah. Yeah. Everything is likeway too big, right?
Way too big. He was big. Yeah. The Oreos. Thespoon was big. The spoon was big, I guess.
It's like this big. Well, Oreos look small. Yeah,I know. Way smaller than we have in Japan.
Yeah. Another one of my favorite is cooking for myhusband videos. So this woman gets a pan, fryingpan.
Yeah. Right. And adds oil, like one third of a,one third. Okay. It's like ageyaki.
Yeah. Amount. Okay. She gets a McDonald's meal, aburger, fries. Okay. Nuggets. Right. Okay.
She adds the burger in the frying pan. Adds thefries, adds the nuggets, adds additional cheese,
pours tons of salt and pepper on top and boom,cooking done.
She ageyakis the whole meal of McDonald's.
That's what she does. Is it like funny prank thingor? I mean, yeah, people in the comment
sections are hoping that it's a prank. Wow. It'sso out of my imagination. It's. Yeah. It's so.
Why? This is one of her videos. You see what Isee? The oil and the burger and the fries and
she gets a, adds a bacon. She cracks eggs. Sheadds salt. Look at the amount of salt, man. No,no, no, no. Stop. Pepper.
Adds cheese. Don't throw. And then hot sauce.
Flips the burger.
Oh, lovely plate. Lovely plate. See, all of thisis just now one piece. It's like, it's friedtogether now.
It's like a bigger version of kakiage. Yeah. It'sall stick together. Right.
That's crazy. Totally different world. Yeah. I don't think you're going to feel sick after watchingmy feed for a day.
Well, yeah, already I'm feeling sick.
Do you, well, I know you're having a healthy diet,but some of, some part of you want to have them oryou.
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No, no, no. It's more like, you know, kowaii monomita sa. Oh, I see. I see. Yeah. I think that'sthe emotion that's driving these feeds.
Yeah. It's like, oh my God, what are you going todo with this amount of fat and oil? And like,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's, that's,that's how I'm enjoying it.
Yeah. It's like, um, it's crazy.
It's just way too crazy. Yeah. And at the sametime, I kind of understand.
It's, it makes sense. Yeah. Like as, as, as, as afood enjoyer you're talking about? No, I mean, asan, as a content, as an, as an, you know, lookingall those American people.
Ah, I see. And then it's, it's still within theirstyle. You're talking about that. Yeah. The reasonis this. How America is America. Yeah. Yeah. Like,um, it's, it's, it's a different, it's a differentcountry.
Right, right, right. The craziness is Americana.Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's lovely. Oh, yeah. It's, it's, um, it's culture. It's cute. Yeah. It'sculture. Yeah.
Wow. All right. Thanks for listening guys. Thankyou.
