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Jack in the Box is Now Selling Boba in 3 Test Locations in CA

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0:00 did you notice none of jack-in-the-box's burgers have vegetables yeah they do none of them like the double western whatever all of them it's all Patty and cheese and sauces all of them what about the jump doesn't Jumbo Jack have tomato on it yeah yeah tomato and lettuce yeah [Music] so um how do we feel about this did you guys notice that different restaurant chains like fast food ones are starting to include Boba on their menu yeah oh I've been seeing that ████ even ████ like Arby's or something I'm like are these Boba I think so I didn't know that but one of those weird ones like a Sonics or no there's a Jack In The Box now Arby's has dim sum though dim some Arby's so Yoshinoya has had Boba for a while

0:51 now what kind of is that's adjacent yeah it's adjacent right yeah but nice but like you said Jack in the Box is now running boba in certain locations as a tester I personally don't give a ████ because it tastes like ████ anyways right like if you want good Boba you go to a Boba place and I think to me it's actually good because it expands the market people get used to it and then they'll start drinking it and then after a while like one of their other friends will like go try this one and they're like what is this and then they start going to Jumby but you don't go to Jack In The Box to get real anything like imagine going there for the tacos you're like authentic tacos they're tacos are really good though and their egg rolls are really good but they they're in their own category like that's not a taco in any sense it's its own category its own thing yeah whatever the ████ it is it's good right but it's not but their egg rolls are good oh they

1:43 got a lot of good ████ they're good they do because we do that ████ too yeah ████ go to ████ JJ's Cafe and there's a ████ club sandwich in there you're like so it's like you know I was like it's like the same ████ but I got peeking duck inside yeah we got ████ random quail eggs and we also got club sandwiches I didn't think about that it is it's a Reuben in there yeah that is a good point though it is a gateway like it's a Gateway drink to like get it if you liked it and you probably would have never went to a straight up boba shop because you don't know if you like it you get it as a side thing and Jack In The Box and then that becomes your new thing yeah I bet they're gonna do their own little Flair to it you know do you think it in any way like uh it puts out certain shot like let's say there's a shop right next to it that's like a dependent place like like a Tapioca yeah because it's going to be more expensive than Jack-in-the-Box right yeah I think that's more of an issue of like Starbucks next to a mom and pop like

2:33 it's almost irrelevant of the culture it's just like when a big conglomerate comes in what happens to the Mom and Pops is what I think right but they can still compete no matter what but there's no way that the people who were going to That Boba Place are gonna be oh Jack in the Box is cheaper though like some old Asian ladies like oh I think I'm gonna go to Jack In The Box never gonna happen no it's not never gonna because even when I go to Jack In The Box I know my doctor prep is gonna be watery anyways so I'm like the rest of the drinks just are extra ████ yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I do if they can't do Dr Pepper right what's over dude how are they gonna do a milk tea with Boba have you guys had the Yoshinoya bobas no is it good it's actually really good what about the ones at Panda Express because Panda Express got this I didn't try this no I didn't what yeah but yoshinoy has matcha they got milk tea and then they got like a different like all these coffee places got matcha Now

3:23 isn't that crazy but did you did you go there because you were like I'm gonna get boba or was it like I went there to get my freaking beef bowl exactly and you're like oh I'm curious I did that exact thing and I was surprised how good it was yeah it was actually good oh yeah I thought I mean it's good because I thought it was gonna super suck I don't know if that's like playing into the taste bud bias you know wouldn't you go there for lunch you gotta try it in Japan though you guys know that you have a Boba place right I'm a connoisseur that's what makes our Boba so good because we actually try and eat all kinds of ████ that's true you guys no sometimes like we're really bad at sales I think I shot it out earlier but Ryan's setting it up and we're just talking about everything else anytime someone goes this is the newest joint I always try it out too because I just like Boba like regardless yeah it's nice to compare it and I would just drink it I don't know but all this place kind of sucks but this place is really good you know it's like when we went to a boba time like that place sucks ass we went

4:14 to Bow time between filming and I I got the matcha thing I was drinking from him and I was just like oh man you can't get this anywhere is hands down one of the worst because their size isn't even right it's not even the traditional size what's the traditional size it's like they have their own size Boba that's like three quarters oh the balls it's like buying pants and you only get capris every time yeah [Applause] isn't everything non-dairy as well I think so but I think they're trying to grab up the mainstream to like it's like a Gateway Boba for like yeah

5:04 um ultimately when you go all the way up the chain is it Chinese owned Korean owned if you go up the chain it's Taiwanese that's like the painted me of Bobo yeah well I mean I mean like boba time boba time what do you mean oh like the owners yeah yeah yeah it's about the company yeah the company owner but what time I thought you were talking about the Boba hierarchy pyramid none of that but just like who who who's getting the money who's getting the last dollar when you probably like Kroger or some ████ yeah because I thought it was like a bunch of Chinese and Koreans that owned it but I don't I don't really know yeah where it came from so you guys are cool with this Jack-in-the-Box thing you completely completely chill with it I mean it caught me off guard when I first saw it I was like what the ████ and then it makes me feel weird like not in not from a cultural perspective but just

5:54 like seeing if I want to see your outrage like if McDonald's like serve pizza randomly what the ████ like the same feeling right just because like like I like branding so when I look at things I'm like oh that's a brand I understand like and I can almost predict what other things are gonna do so when I do something that's not predictable it catches me off but as a boba shop like owner that doesn't is there like an opinion that you're expected to have I wish Bart was like I'm Taiwanese and I'm tired of people hijacking my calls yeah say that that would have been so good try it try it on try it yeah try that try that narrative I'm so mad yeah what are you mad about dude they keep stealing my culture yeah yeah yeah what else say it bro dude Channel your next shark comments come on get your internet yeah I think you're offended all the time you're offended stop profiting off of my culture they're victimizing my 23

6:45 and me yeah they're monetizing off my answers to my 23andMe but what about me dude because I'm like dude Jack in the Box that's ████ white culture now we got these Asian ████ moving in that's the because I'm thinking about the menu too and I'm like dude you guys are getting rid of all kinds of cool little options and you're replacing it with all this Asian ████ they got egg rolls on there now they sent chicken teriyaki balls they do here here's some top comments from neck sharks post about it and some of them make pretty good sense one person says honestly if it allows me to drink Boba at 2AM I'm gold that's tight that's a convenient thing yeah yeah because boba places aren't usually open outside probably you know one of my favorite things I don't know if they have it anymore at Jack In The Box is chicken fajita pita remember that one the chick were they

7:36 banging what is it good I never had it Jack-in-the-Box was one of the first experiences to find dining that I had as a child yeah because like when you go to most places it's hamburgers but then you start to explore outside of hamburgers and you're like ooh Mediterranean chicken fajita pita right and you have egg rolls Mexican food you're tasting the Coconuts yeah tasting the cot in it because the tacos are even like like real shells deep fried tortilla shells it's not like the fake ones that you get at like Taco Bell Jack in the Box is Continental baby it's very if you haven't had a jack-in-the-box Taco then you haven't had a taco that is that is completely wet so it's true it's so wet you can almost kind of see

8:27 through the taco it's like wait this is a hard shell how come it's like a sponge how did it get so wet it's all the oil probably it's delicious all the goodness dude now I just want Jack and box turtles with some curly fries some curly fries around I love their hot sauce bro I love I don't know why I love um their Taco is this like Taco hot sauce right yeah did you notice none of jack-in-the-box's burgers have vegetables yeah of course yeah they do none of them like the double western whatever all of them it's all Patty and cheese and sauces all of them what about the does a Jumbo Jack have tomato on it yeah tomato and lettuce yeah dude what misinformation again on JK the sourdough whatever patted milk whatever that's zero veggies like the Sourdough Jack I don't know that they don't have it yeah I think they have one tomato

9:17 they have one tomato on the Sourdough Jack are you sure yeah I'm pretty sure yo that's a game changer though you could put everything on sourdough bread oh my God that is okay I agree yeah put Boba on it I do love it I do love how mainstream Boba is becoming yeah because that was one of my worries about like opening up in Waikiki because it's hell expensive right and I was like well there's a lot of Asian clientele and then the cool thing is like we're like the only boba shop on the Block oh yeah really yeah so it's okay now let me ask you this if if Jack in the Box is moving into your area like across the street from you I don't care it's Jack-in-the-Box we're high-end baby that's smart you know that's like a Forever 21 came in I'm Louis Vuitton I'm like I don't care let's say that someone comes into your place and they go I want to go somewhere else that has better

10:07 Boba what's the nearest place oh they got a whop bro yeah and Americans don't walk it's a while there used to be one like a block away and they closed down they couldn't survive because you guys are rounding up all their business you took out a mom and pop shop no they were already dying oh yeah they're already on their way out because of covid it's not my fault it shut down before coping yeah they're practically dead in the water should have made better Boba well the funny thing is so like it kind of blew my mind a lot of people that wanted like the real ████ like the milk tea with the Boba yeah it was of the white variety oh wow and all the Asian people were like let me get like the fruit purees and then the different they wanted different things right yeah and then so like like

10:58 Aussies would come through and then you know they're just like do you have like the popping Pearl and I'm like no and he goes oh you just have the regular Boba and I'm like yeah and then they wanted just Black Milk teas or like they're like what yeah or like when they order matcha they just want it like the ceremonial no sugar like the way they do it in Japan so I'm like man you guys are very cultured Aussies like to suffer dude where they live man and then when the Asian kids come in they're like can I get extra sugar with this and they just make it all crazy is there something that um somebody's requested that you're like I'm not gonna make that well you're not supposed to mix Dairy with like citrusy stuff that much not Citrus um like acid or yeah like like what was it was it like pineapple I should know this ████ but it ████ your

11:49 stomach up oh it does oh you can't have juices and milk together yeah yeah it's like you can't I know there's like orange creamsicles and stuff like that that's fine right but like when it's too acidic and then you mix it it can it can mess up a lot of people's stomachs you know what messed up my stomach one time speaking of Jack in the Box I always said I was getting a milkshake like I don't know ████ 20 years ago oh they're so good on it and they're like do you want it malted and I was like yeah it sounds good I'll get a strawberry malted and that was whack what does that mean when they molt it it's like some kind of it's like powder that you just put yeah it's some kind of powder they put in there and it like tasted weird as ████ people like malted I think it's like an old school milkshake I don't know what it means but it's I don't know what it means either and it like you threw up oh yeah I couldn't I couldn't drink it I threw it right up yeah it was awful don't do that the worst of food the

12:39 better my body absorbs it it's weird I could eat ████ junk like Taco Bell everything ████ milkshakes and ████ my body digested really good and the minute I eat a salad out of ████ diarrhea that happens to me with like with fine dining wow like when I go to a really fancy restaurant yeah and someone's like oh you must try this yeah it might be really I can't take like fine it might be the butter butter I can't hungry after ████ off dude sitting here eating food okay cool I have to go to Taco Bell after this thanks a lot [Music]

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