Junk Food Nation, you guys know me: I LOVE YOUTUBE.  I could spend all day watching videos. So I thought today, hump day, I’d help you through your day by sharing three of my favorite videos of late.

1) I love molecular gastronomy, and at a recent dinner party a friend Rob described an amazing dish he had at minibar by josé andrés. This video shows exactly how its made, and let me tell you – a cheese egg?  Genius.

2) This video is being shared everywhere recently, so why not here? If you need motivation on this dreary Wednesday, watch it.  “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” DAMN STRAIGHT.

3) Finally I love prank videos, and this boyfriend/girlfriend duo prank each other constantly and put it up on YouTube.  In this video, as revenge, the viewers voted to have Jesse the boyfriend get his legs waxed.  His girlfriend, Jeana, is just so bad at pulling the strips off in one fell swoop.  Hilarity ensues.  Seriously.  I enjoyed the entire video, my eyes are red from laughing. (Warning: NSFW language. Unless you love F-bombs.)

Hope you liked those! Today’s junk food: Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat!

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: The Money Shot

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat were discovered in a 7-11 store in Silver Spring, MD.  I love Corn Nuts and have been waiting for them to come out with a new flavor, and FINALLY there is one!  Balls.  It’s not on their website; to be fair, neither are some other flavors I’ve seen.  The website needs a little updating, CN.

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: Festive bordering!

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat presumably means this will be a spicy snack.  Spicy snacks always worry me, despite my loving them.  Will they go too far with the spice, or will it be bland to me?

Regardless, I like how Corn Nuts didn’t go with traditional motifs.  No flames coming off the words ULTIMATE HEAT or anything.  I do appreciate the semi-Latin bordering on the bag though. Caliente!

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: Lots of powders...any flavor?

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat sold for $1.49, or 2 for $2.22.  Bargain!  The listing of ingredients doesn’t really reveal much insight into how these will taste.

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: Hmmmm interesting description

The back images on this Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat bag seemed lazy.  What’s with the mixed font?  This ain’t an elementary school yearbook!

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: corn kernels of HEAT

Lemme tell you, these Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat were spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicy!  Woo.  Look, I believe that spice is often times more a sensation rather than a flavor – so added spice to other flavors, such as as a sweet or sour taste, makes sense to me.  The spice by itself, to me, isn’t a “flavor” per se.  There needs to be more.

Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat: Covered in pepper!

These Corn Nuts Ultimate Heat, however, were ONLY spice flavor.  As I crunched, I could taste plenty of spice notes – paprika, red pepper, and a little bit of that chipotle chili.  I didn’t taste much else, however, because these were so spicy.  To add a little flavor, Corn Nuts added a little brown sugar and salt to bring our some savoriness of the corn, but IMO it didn’t go far enough.  These suckers only tasted like pepper to me besides the sort of bland corn nut flavor.  There was only heat and burn, and then once it had been washed down by saliva, all that remained was the unflavored corn nut.

I LOVE Corn Nuts, and I can take spice, but these didn’t work for me.  Sorry.

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Sincerely, Junk Food Guy