We Discover Why Lucky Charms And Hot Sauce Works on St. Patricks Day

Pepper X on a spoon is a bold choice, and we make it anyway. Our St. Patrick’s Day special turns into a full-on hot sauce tasting party where the heat hits fast, the flavors actually show up, and the snacks do more work than we expected. We kick off with High River Hot Sauce Pepper X taco sauce, and it immediately answers the big question every chilihead cares about: can something be super hot and still be delicious? (Yes, but your forehead may disagree.)

Then we crack into a rare gem: a signed Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce bottle from Hot Sauce Havoc, the “X Marks The Spot” Carolina Gold Rush style sauce. It’s sweeter than we remember, finishes like something you’d brush on ribs, and still brings serious fire. We debate heat ratings with already-destroyed palates, talk festival finds, and try to figure out what makes a sauce “worth the pain” beyond pure Scoville bragging rights.

The chaos doesn’t stop at sauce. We bring in Guinness flavored Irish potato chips as the St. Patrick’s Day side quest, rewatch our older holiday video for a live reaction, and take a detour into Carolina Reaper tequila that’s smoother than it has any right to be. And yes, we retest the most cursed pairing we know: Lucky Charms with Cheeba Gold hot sauce. Somehow it still works, which raises a dangerous thought about how many perfect sweet-heat combos we’ve all been missing.

If you love hot sauce reviews, spicy snacks, Pepper X, Carolina Reaper, and weird food experiments that end in laughter, you’ll feel right at home. Subscribe, share this with a fellow spice fiend, and leave a review with the wildest food pairing you think we should try next.

Transcript

St. Patrick’s Day Kickoff

SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right. Welcome to the special episode of St. Patrick's special episodes. Oh my God. It's a special. And it's from St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's. This is Petey Spice. We got Barry Bites. I'm your today's host, El Diablo. And we're going to get right on it. What do we got? Petey Spice? All right. So for today, we are going to have High River hot sauces. Pepperx taco sauce. Oh. Yes. So wow. And basically, Pepper. High River is a great company. We love them. We do not have tacos, but we have to celebrate St. Patrick's Day is Guinness chips. Crinkle cut Irish potato chips. Covered in Guinness. Flavor. And I also have a surprise, which we'll bring in after, is this is something we got at the New York Hot Sauce Fest two years ago. I hope it's still good. And uh our buddy Ron from um Hell's Kitchen Hot Sauce. This is his winning sauce from the hot sauce havoc show. And it's a bottle signed by Ron himself, which you know we haven't tried yet, so I'm very excited. And uh I don't think this is actually available, but it's called um X marks the spot, Carolina Gold Ranch. And uh that's what I was told. I don't know if it's still a thing, I don't know if it's happening. I can only get it from Ron. Yeah, but Ron, I got this from Ron, and I've been dying to try it. So let's uh fire up the spoons and see what we got. Yeah, you've been you guys have been talking about that sauce. I'm very excited to try it. Very excited. Very excited. All right, we will go since uh we'll go with the high river sauce first without tacos. Do you got that? Give me a kiss so I can keep that fresh until you it's like a pucker. All right. Oh my pepper. That's just taco peppericks. So it's gonna have certain spices to want to. Oh shit. That's too much. I like the smell in. Oh my god, that smells amazing. It does smell really good. Smells like it's gonna be hot. Hot like a toy. Fudge. Can you read that? No. All right, well. All right, let's do that. Let's see. Cheers.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Pepper X.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Oh. Um definitely a taco sauce. That is hot. Starting off fucking hot today. It's my god. Yeah, it is starting. It doesn't have good flavor, though. Oh yeah. Drew's a little nano taco. Looking good. But yeah, spooning it in your mouth, not as more idea. I think it's great. Taco seasoning or something in there, right? Oh yeah. This they have this as their eye. This one of those hot sauces that's so hot, but it's so flavorful. Yep. You want to go back for more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

We're going back for more.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Fantastic. I'm already feeling like my fake. Oh, did you get the head top? Oh, yeah. Instant head top. Oh, yeah. I'm a heavy burn. Yeah, that's an instant heck of burn. Alright, so we think we should try it with the chip first, or do we go on to Ron sauce? Hmm. Just the chip to kind of clean our palate. Oh, I need a pallet cleanse. Yeah. Oh yeah, baby. Yeah, so yellow sauce. Something about pepper X. Are we supposed to go low to high? Hi, yeah, yeah. Well, this is a pepper X sauce. Oh, great. Okay, we're just going high. I think, yeah. X marks X marks the phone. That makes sense. What we're gonna do. I'm thinking if Caroline and Gold Rush. Maybe there's Caroline Reaper in there, too. Yeah. Hmm. How these? Brands and I own are so fucking good. In general. Oh yeah. Kios!

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Kiosk.

Signed Ron Sauce Tasting

Guinness Chips Palate Cleanse

Watching The Old Leprechaun Video

SPEAKER_01 4:33

How do you want to move on to this before we can start burning ourselves? Yeah, I just want to still get a good flavor with that. Alright. So I don't burn the flavor well. My spoon's my spoon need to have to use it. I don't want to lick it. This is this is aged to perfection. Aged pepper X. I remember when he gave it to us. I like a clean slate. Oh they're color. Oh no, no, it's a little darker. I ain't doing that much, bro. I know you're crazy, but you got like a full stone full. I can't do that today. I can do that, but I'm just not buying it today. Yeah, I'm pretty good with where I'm at. This is gonna be just because pepper axe, I'm gonna have a little bit. Oh very dude. Oh yeah, you get that sweet right away. Right in right in there with the heat. Oh yeah. Wow. It's sweeter than I remember. Oh my god. Wow. There's no uh no notes. Um can't figure out what that is. It was two years ago, so I don't remember, but it's not called psalmic, is it? Falls. Oh no, that's probably delicious. Wow. That has a s an introduction sweetness that's freaking tasty. Brushing that onto meat right at the end. Oh yeah. That's a rip, that's a ribby right there. Yep. Spicy, yeah. That's my god, yeah. Wow, it's got the sweet, which I don't know. I don't know. Sweet, but then that's that's good sweets. These are like two completely different sauces for me. All right. Pleasant soil companies. Let's describe some chippies, huh? Yep. Now it's hard to gauge which one's hotter because we're already burning from the other. Yeah. I would say, not that it's hard, it is hard to gauge, but the initial ramp up from the high river, I think that's it's a little bit more. Yeah, I'm gonna jump backwards. The first time we did, but it was like But that heat was instant. It's hard to tell when you're heavy ballot all fucked up. Guinness chips. This is a great idea. Guinness chips. I hope we were gonna unless we already didn't have to. I think it's raspberry. I think it's raspberry. There's definitely heat on that chart. You get you get that you get that sweet. And it's like, oh, the sweets dancing, the sweets dancing. And then the heat jumps on. That's good. That's real freaking good. Went from uh potato famine to put a guinness flavor on chip. The world is wanna send down the pepper X? Yes. Cacle X. Right, I'll do all tackle. Well, I'm probably tackle. This one I'm gonna be a little less bold with. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's all I want for pepper X. Yeah, I should. Great exception. Steve. Steve's great too. All sauces rule off. Dude. And I'll say it again. The heat is boom. But the flavor on that, boom. It's got great flavor and great heat, so that's why I'll I'll mess with the I'll mess with a hot sauce that's super hot, as long as it has good flavor. Yep. It's fun. It's not saying maybe one day we'll have a taco night and we'll bring this back out. Uh dude, I do taco night every week. Okay. Oh, right. Wow. Not shootout but like a taco parts. Taco standoff. Like the sauce after. Well, that was fantastic. Damn. I'd say for a heat level, you got I I generally do a one through ten. Pepper X, uh high river, that was a ten. And I'd say Hell Kitchen is probably a nine. I'm there with you. That's that's as easy as you can get. Bring on the phone. Yeah. Yeah. Steve Steve doesn't park around behind rhythm, isn't it? Damn. Like he's he he wants he wants to input the pain. Yeah. That's well delivering a tasty sauce. Okay. That the the flavor's fantastic. Both are drink. Oh, yeah. That was great. Alright, so two bangers right off the bat. Yeah. Love it. Bangers and mash. Bangers and mash. Who's done with that? I just moved like Canadian around. So bangers and mash, eh? Take the hog and stick, we should have through the bangers and mash. Many many, many moons ago, we had made a uh St. Patrick's Day video, and it was back in uh 2024 for the the uh Six Terrible Six channel. And um it's been a while since we've seen it. And um it's obviously the Spice Beans or more guys for what became spice beans. Um and uh yeah, I think I've not you guys down to do like a watch through and even I haven't seen it in prior since it's come on. I also have not seen it since it was released. I guess we'll live reaction if man, there we go. All right, so I'm gonna roll the tape. I'll take another speaker. How did I fly like that? Me and my girlfriend's waiting on this. What are you doing here? Why don't you grab a seat? Funny thing. Another one too. 9 a.m. in the morning before the place opened. Thankfully they left that was actually really good. Holy shit. You missed one thing, you should have had the perfect pint.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Perfect pint!

Carolina Reaper Tequila Shots

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Oh yeah, and they were not. Our bartender friend was uh I think it was Willie, wasn't it? Oh, it was Brian. I think it was Brian. Yeah, anyway, he he was setting up so we could not take advantage of his proper core. But um actually that yeah, that was awesome. I forgot how much I completely forgot you pulled the ball. I know. Oh, we said before. We were making that noise before we even watched the video. Oh my god, I'll never be that lepre gun again. Yeah. What if I happen to that leprechaun? I don't know. I think we need some tequila. I think so as well. Well, you today is for you. What? Because I got shots? Shouldn't we have some? They should have brought Jameson. But they don't make a Jameson with what does that have in it? We have zarpov. It's from tequila. Today it's from Ireland. Tequila spicy blanco. Ooh. Tequila with natural flavors. Uh-oh. It's very nice. That's right. Carolina Reaper.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

I've never had tequila with Carolina Reaper. I don't know what the ghost pepper, but it is. I've had ghost pepper and jalapeno. Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Even tequila.

unknown 14:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

That just came out of my butt. How much are we taking of this? Oh no, just uh, you know. Yeah, we gotta get some corned beef in us at some point later. I know. Yeah, that's true. Well, I'm getting old, guys. Can't drink like those. Just some point. Cheers. Oh gosh, gentlemen. To the reaper. Don't fear the reaper.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Don't fear the reaper.

Lucky Charms With Chiba Gold

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Super smooth. Not as spicy as I thought it was good. Little it sits in the back. Yeah, that's still fiery, so it was like, oh yeah, I'm in a whole no. More sweeter than I thought it would be. Yeah, I I kind of I got this on for my birthday. Well, November. That would taste very good in the spicy Rita. Saying I just know I'm smelling it. It's so overwhelmed. Like I usually these the spicy tequilas, like I can't really drink them. Yeah, like super heartburn and stuff from them, but like this is doable. So I've been avoiding this because I I don't know. Like I wanted to save it for a special occasion, like St. Patrick's today. You want to do another shower? Just a little baby. It's like little samples. Don't do all to this stuff. Give me a little bucket. What's my cough? Golden like a shower. Let's go. Give him my cough. Stay golden, shower boy. Golden like a shower. That's pretty decent to keep on it. That was good. That was a sweet surprise. Well, it wasn't yeah, it was sweet too. Oh yeah. What the colour?

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Oh Jesus. You've got the lucky charms.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Come on, somebody's out of the cheaper gold. Oh. What are we doing here? What are we doing here? Everybody say we need the ball. Looks like you're gonna have to try lucky chimes and cheap of gold. It's gonna it's gonna happen. Let's get it rolling. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Everybody wants to be lucky.

unknown 16:42

Mr.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Leopardton's night poor the cheap of gold. Yes. Oh gosh. Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

I want some too.

Super Hot Honey Mustard Pretzels

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Strangely it's good, but he looks very crazy. Oh my. Lucky charms and sheba gold. Oh god. So we're gonna uh I was thinking just mix it around a little bit. Oh, mix it around. I'm going right in. Oh let's know what you think. I mean, it's been two years since we've had Lucky Charms all bite. Jesus Christ. Missed one. I can take that. Sorry. Chiba gold. Oh my god. I'll try this here. Why does that work? Yeah. It's been a while. What do you think? What's your thing what's your thought? I need that for breakfast. Why does that fucking work? It makes fucking zero sound. Sauce is like off the chains weird, you know. Not weird, it's just different. Why does that work? Is that crazy? I people out there, you have to try. We would like think it was in the video before. And we were like, wait, why do those taste good? It still holds up. We're not as crazy as ever. It's got a, I think, as you saw in the video, as Josh Bonnet. Two years later, and then when it still holds up. Dude, that doesn't make sense. It's so fucking weird. This would be fun. It's a really good sauce. It's just a great sauce. It is good for like fries and whatever. Actually, oh yeah. Like as I'm getting my Atari fries. Oh. Not super spicy. It's not really just spicy. It's just flavor. One of those red ones is just one. Why does it work? I thought I was gonna throw up on good last time. It's just it still holds up. Dude, the flavoring this is outstanding. One of my faves. That's the special uh St. Patrick's Day of Lucky Charms. Nom nom nom nom nom. There you go. Alright, Lucky Charms, the Chiba Gold. We debunked it. It's uh this was our second time doing it. It is science. I would say that's all three of us. Get the box, get the sauce, hammer them together, fire them back. You won't be disappointed. It's like the new peanut butter and jelly. Huh? It's just like it's not actually that those would actually be good in a peanut butter and fluff. Lucky charms, peanut butter and fluff. Oh, yeah. I should do that in an episode of Barry Bites, and then pour this shit. I you know what? I would put that right on there with it. I'll put that shit on there everything. I would I would put this on and leave the fluff out. The sweetness might have the sauce. Peanut butter, lucky charms, machine sweet. God damn. Amazing. Yeah. So good, man. That's thank you guys. That's what a fucking special going on. Next time we see next time we see Steve, though, we're gonna have to show up with Lucky Charms and do it. Be like, dude, it fucking works for some reason. I I don't know. We've discovered something. You guys go fuck yourselves. Um all right, so uh what else we got? You have any high berry? Yeah, I do. I do. Uh we've got some drinking pretzels. This one is from Revolutionary Hot Sauces. Um, these are the honey, mustard, and onion. Let's uh rip into these. And do we have anything to drink it with? Do we have any beer or anything? St. Patrick's Day. I guess we do. I figured the lot else is lepertons. I've rather thinking that's yet, folks. It's just if we see that fucking perfect form, finish. Yeah. Oh they oh that's all I'm gonna do with the can style. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Snorum Rapper. Proper boy? Snorum rapper.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Snorra proper bobbins. It's very serious business. Getting that proper pore. Oh, these are super hot. Super hot. Yep, it says right there, super hot. Honey mustard onion based. Honey mustard onion on the I was doing out there. No, no, these are these smell super fucking hot. It's awful. Oh, yeah, it says super hot on there. Everything we've had from this company has been an excellent. I've got three amazing companies. I've got a I've got a few reviews coming out for um for for the soft for revolutionary sauces and I guess crits also um not so. Give anything away, but those sauces did not miss. They were all hits. Um, yeah, let's see how these are. So this reaper step pot. We do get the mustard right away, but holy shit, that's kicking. I'm also already eating, but you're gonna move around on the sides. Oh yeah. Mm-hmm. It's weird that like we're we do get the initial I mean mustard onion, like you know, I was like this, but then that's got that's got some fire. I really like it. I could eat these all day.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Even though it's like you want to sit with a bowl of this in front of your galard and just fucking whip them back.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Cheers. Thank you, Leprechaun. I don't be Irish today. The most Irish person. That goes good with Guinness. Guinness, that's good for you. Did you say this has rebirth in it? I thought I caught on the end and said seven bob remote. Oh, like five seven bottoms rebirth. We got reburned. I'm saying goddamn. It's like the more imputent that's flavor like it. It builds in a mild server. Yeah, but like hanging. This thing this man going on there. Oh my god. Oh, yeah, these are fantastic building. Um, the only way to do something cognate is uh do it off sitting on the floor. Getting your pants. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Alright, well I think that's it, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Did we forget the thing? I got my uh violin. Gotta do a song now.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

Thanks for walking. I can't find spite beans. Any parking words?

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Um if you're gonna cook corned beef, don't fucking boil it and ruin it. Braise it. That's all. All right. Well, be that one takes up.