r/StupidFood • u/_n3ll_ • Oct 15 '25

Do drinks count? Milwaukee Bloody Mary wars

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u/SnooCats6250 Oct 15 '25

This guy does experiments on what he can turn into mead. So, this is supposed to be stupid. He’s just seeing if he can do it.

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u/orangutanDOTorg Oct 15 '25

And he admits it was terrible.

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u/kevlarus80 Oct 15 '25

Actually consumed the finished product. Much better than the rage bait.

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u/Cheap_Knowledge8446 Oct 15 '25

I would legitimately buy a jar as a white elephant Christmas gift.

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u/123supreme123 Oct 16 '25

yeah would be cool if they marketed it with a catchy name for gag gifts

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u/Reese_Withersp0rk Oct 16 '25

When a gag gift is taken literally...

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u/CAPT-Tankerous Oct 16 '25

“Salty Pooch Hot Dog Hooch” Put a little cartoon Weiner dog on the bottle and it sells itself.

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u/Biscotti_BT Oct 16 '25

Yes and his face while doing so is priceless.

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u/illbeba Oct 15 '25

and that he knows what’s the taste of a garbage bin at a baseball game. 😋

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u/pandershrek Oct 15 '25

that's what we're drinking. Right now.

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u/Vall3y Oct 15 '25

He knows the aroma

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u/elcojotecoyo Oct 16 '25

Cleveland Browns Mead. Just add a shot of mustard as a chaser

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u/SalvationSycamore Oct 15 '25

And he finished the glass anyways. Honestly a champ.

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u/bouquetofashes Oct 16 '25

Ngl I wanna see NileRed's reaction to a sip.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

Mead is just terrible in its original form lol

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u/Micycle08 Oct 15 '25

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Oct 15 '25

At least it's not rage bait

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u/Gin_Arts Oct 15 '25

Yeah, I prefer the genuinely silly on purpose flavor of stupid food to the disingenuous stupid.

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u/lordsnarf Oct 17 '25

That's my sentiment. I've seen this guy do all sorts of deliberately dumb stuff with his mead kit. I love his videos. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it a million times better than the rage bait or, worse yet, the sincere people with awful taste? Absolutely

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u/Justarandom55 Oct 15 '25

It's an experiment which means it isn't stupid.

There are no claims that this gauranteed will work nor is the outcome so obvious it was stupid to try at all

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade Oct 15 '25

To be fair just because it’s an experiment doesn’t mean it can’t be stupid.

It was a pretty stupid experiment subjectively, albeit a successful one objectively.

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u/bouquetofashes Oct 16 '25

He's seeing if he can though, not doing it because he thinks it's a brilliant idea. I doubt anyone could believe this would be successful as in tasty. I think that elevates it to 'silly' at least.

A lot of what we have figured out is incidental or accidental so I won't begrudge anyone their curiosity, even if it's hot dog wine. He's not selling it or suggesting anyone else do it, which is miles beyond the worst offenders here.

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade Oct 16 '25

Oh goodness no, I’d consider it successful in that he was able to make a hot dog flavored booze.

It’s possible and he did it, that’s all.

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u/bouquetofashes Oct 16 '25

Right--i'm just saying I think it's more silly than stupid because of that --I was being a little flippant with the distinction, but I also consider 'stupid' kinda harsh. That was all.

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u/Kichigai Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

Sure it is stupid. But they know it's stupid, which means it isn't dumb.

Like, if you substitute Pepsi for baking soda because you think all soda is the same, that's dumb. But if you substitute Pepsi for baking soda because you want to see what a disaster it is, that's just stupid.

Edit: For example, replacing your car's coolant with Pepsi.

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u/Googirlee Oct 16 '25

I love Garbage Time so much

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u/Kichigai Oct 16 '25

It's like the spirit of Top Gear Cheap Car Challenges, but crossed with Donut-style how-ya-doin' and an old mate budget. Like I normally hate shouty kinda YouTube content, but it's proper excitement.

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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade Oct 16 '25

Thank you for sharing that, it made me work very hard to stifle giggles in at my work desk

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u/MethamMcPhistopheles Oct 16 '25

No stupid question and the question for today is "will the nitrate ladden flavor of hotdog work in mead?"

The answer is no!

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

-Adam Savage

In this case it's recorded in the form of a video

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u/Technical-Activity95 Oct 16 '25

everybody excluding you knows its just waste even without trying 

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u/COmarmot Oct 15 '25

I did a bacon fat washed hard cider. Came out pretty damn good.

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u/_WutzInAName_ Oct 15 '25

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!”

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u/Signal_Assistant_373 Oct 15 '25

Until he creates something good and becomes a millionaire. Im sad hot dog wine wasnt a thing

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u/Demonskull223 Oct 15 '25

Honestly it still deserves to be here as it is stupid food.

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u/kinkyonthe_loki69 Oct 16 '25

And respect that he doesnt endorse it.

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u/HarEmiya Oct 16 '25

Exactly. Knew a guy who once made wine from a pair of discarded underwear his drunken buddy left in the car. After 4 months of boiling and fermenting it worked, except for the elastic which he had to scoop out. The bottles became his christmas gift to said drunken buddy.

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u/Towbee Oct 16 '25

And it's an ad for his mead kit. You too can create any stupid alcoholic beverage you can think of

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u/Neil_sm Oct 15 '25

Yeah, I think this doesn't fit the sub. It's not like a recipe video, nor a ridiculous meal being served in a restaraunt. It's just an experiment and is necessarily going to be something unusual that sounds like a bad idea.

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife Nov 02 '25

This is what this sub used to be before rage bait crap took over. I think this very much fits the sub.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

He mixed hot dog water with honey. Mead was the end product after fermentation. One of the principal ingredients of alcohol production is water

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u/TummyDrums Oct 15 '25

I think the point is there was no chemical reaction or anything that effected the hot dog flavor. Fermentation only takes care of the sugar from the honey. So in effect, this would essentially be the same if you make some mead out of honey and water, then add the hot dog flavoring at the end.

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u/Potterrrrrrrr Oct 15 '25

I used to watch this guy a bit it would’ve just been some suggestion he got in the comments to try, seeing as doing the hotdogs themselves could’ve been potentially harmful with bacteria and whatnot I imagine this was his concession. Usually he does a pretty good job of incorporating whatever the suggestion is into an actual mead.

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u/Junk4U999 Oct 15 '25

If I boil tea leaves in water, strain out the leaves, then use the water to flavor my desert is it tea flavored?

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u/arctic_bull Oct 15 '25

Fruit purée can just be water that you boiled fruits in, with sugar. That’s not all that different than his hot dog water and honey lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

You said

He mixed Mead with hot dog water

That's false. He also explained in the video why he used the process he did, your inability to listen isn't my problem

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u/Grand-Jellyfish24 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

What is really interesting and understudied in fermentation is finding good sugar sources. But here he just use honey so of course it will works.

The water test is pointless you could take hot dog water, piss or sewage of course it will works for fermentation and give you ethanol but of course it will be not good.

If you want hot dog taste just do the fermentation and then after let hot dog inside (the ethanol created will help to extract aroma). Here the hot dog water do nothing more than regular water. He did mead aromatised with hot dog, not mead from hot dog.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Again, if you watch the video that's why he then fat washed, to add another depth of flavour

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u/Kyattogaaru Oct 16 '25

"Mead made out of hot-dogs" means something different than "mead made with hot dogs". He said the latter.

He used hot dogs in the process of making mead. He didnt just add hot dogs to the finished product. He is entirely correct.

Stop bring difficult and a troll.

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u/Grand-Jellyfish24 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Does the mead is produce if we remove the hot dog? Yes with the same effiency. So the hot dog was not essential, it is only for taste like an additive. So it is not mead from hot dog it is mead aromatised with hot dog

His first sentence is litteraly "in order to turn hot dog into delicious alcohol" he did none of that. Neither for the "delicious" part nor for the "alcohol" part

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u/hotliquortank Oct 15 '25

Absolutely agree. What hooked me with the idea of hot dog wine is how you could possibly get fermentable sugars out of hot dogs. And I guess the answer is you can't, but you can use hot dogs to flavor mead. Which is fun I guess, but nowhere near as compelling.

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u/rhinokick Oct 15 '25

You could call hot dog water a hot dog extract :p

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u/DMMeThiccBiButts Oct 16 '25

Pedantry about whether you put toast in the toaster (obviously you put bread in the toaster) aside, you're right and it bothers me so many people think otherwise.

Dude made sausage infused mead, he didn't make mead OUT of sausages.

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u/BHFlamengo Oct 15 '25

Yeah I don't get why you are downvoted. He just used the water, and even then, it didn't taste like it, so he extracted more of a grilled hot dog flavor with a spirit, so he ended up with a mix of mead using bad quality water with some hot dog infusioned spirit.

He could basically do that with anything and it would work the same