Review: Papaya Cake From Dank By Definition

Smoking session review of the Papaya Cake cannabis strain released by Dank by Definition.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:13

The Skipper and the Professor.

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Welcome back to Gigglin' Highland. You're here with the Professor and the Skipper, and today we are reviewing papaya cake from Dank Ba Definition.

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Dank by Definition, an API cannon brand founded in 2022 by experts in the cannabis and hospitality industries.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

As far as papaya cake, it's an 80-20 and Dika dominant hybrid of papaya and wedding cake. Some people also say white OG is in there too. The terps are lemonine, linolule, and caryophylline. Effects are relaxed, aroused, and sleepy. Flavors are apricot, tropical, and flowery. As far as THC, Leafly says 24%. All butt says 25 to 30%. And Dank says 32% THC.

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Packaging is three and a half grams or an eighth in a Ziploc Mylar bag. Average price$30 to$35. This haul here comes from our good friends at Strong Strains in Long Island. Bigs to talk it. Make sure you pay them a visit. Strong Island in the house. Ready for the roll? Ready for the roll, Skip. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

And we're back with the roll. How did it go, pro? Well, the the nugs broke kind of big, and that was kind of impressive. Uh it left us with enough for at least one, maybe two more.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Definitely. How did it look, Skip? We got medium-sized buds, pretty dry, a bit out of date, but still in date. Deep greens with a lot of orange highlights. Smells a little old, but there is a strong, sweet note.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Yeah, the sweetness was still there. Small and medium-sized nugs, triangular, one or two tricomes left in there. And a funny feature, it was very dry, but still frosty.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

That was kind of interesting.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

Definitely.

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Ready for the smoke? Ready for the smoke, Skip. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

All right. So first impressions. Yeah, at this point, it's only sweet. It's just it looks kind of older. It's still in um, as far as like expiration, it's still in the zone, but it's pretty close to the closing date. Of course, beyond our control, right? Nothing we can do about that. And nothing you can do about it, so we test it anyway. It smells sweet.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

Tastes sweet.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Yeah, the pull itself. I can actually taste the tropical and the sweetness. I don't taste apricot, but I definitely taste tropical and sweetness. All right, let's see how it goes. Let's see how it goes. The crackle of drier weed. You hear that? Yeah. Yeah. Crackle, crackle. Wow, very tasty. I am getting the apricot notes in the pole. Wow, they're very nice. That's one thing I can always say about Dank, that they uh when they say it tastes like something, it tastes like something. Yeah, that's true. Gotta say, I'm kind of already feeling a little bit of something there. With Dank, I wonder, you know, we haven't done this research, but I wonder if they are if they constantly have a turn, uh, a change of of strains, or do they keep, you know, because they're a very large company. So if they wanted to, they could keep the strain, the same strains indefinitely in perpetuity.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

So the question is, do they do that? Or, you know, once papaya cake is gone, is it gone?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

That's a good question. Uh, you know, across the board with a lot of these brands, they have their version and some you'll find that are fantastic. Then if a few weeks later, you go back to the dispensary and it's no longer there. So that's a good question. Or they just do they do it by season and just see what you know what grows, or you know, or do they keep up with what's popular? Because some brands you see consistently have specific brands, uh strains.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Right. Do they just keep two or three that they know are like perpetually selling, or do they uh, you know, is it something different that makes that decision for them? You know, we ran out of those seeds, we got these seeds, we're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

I don't know. Or like these big companies, I would imagine perhaps, you know, as far as economics, they just like we're just gonna grow this harvest, whatever seeds we have.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Let's just so far, very tasty. Yeah, definitely sweet, definitely got the apricot, definitely got the tropical. Not really feeling the flowery. You getting any of the flower, Skip?

SPEAKER_03 5:20

No, but all the sweetness, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Yeah, apricot, tropical, sweet. Yes, I am getting it in spades, yeah. And as far as feeling something, like I said, I am already feeling something. Now, I'm not gonna say I'm getting high, right? But it's like my spider senses are tingling. So I I mean, you know, those are the sensors that you want to be tingling when you want to get high. So hopefully this leads to something really good.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

I'm surprising to feel even this much, you know, considering that it was it it grinded into dust. It didn't even need to go through the grinder. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

It had now to be honest, it wasn't complete powder, right? But I mean, very little suppleness left. Very, very little suppleness left, you know. So it was on its last legs. And you know, looking at the COA date, yeah, it was on its last legs. I wonder if if it has to do with the economics of the of the actual store, right? You know, the the the shop, because how I look at it is um, you know, maybe if you have a bigger shop that has a lot of traffic, you might be able to be more discerning about those kind of things. Right. And you might not even have to worry about it because it's just such a turnaround that you don't have to deal with it. But then at the same time, you know, what if you're a smaller shop and your overhead is very tight? You know, you if listen, if you don't sell this, you're not gonna buy anymore. Like you have to sell this before you buy more. Right. If you're a shop like that, then you know, you really don't have a choice. So it really comes down to are the dispensaries, you know, the are the are the sellers, I'm sorry, the growers, the sellers, are they helping the dispensaries out? You know, like listen, we know you had that on your shelf for 10 months. Like, you know, we have a buyback program or something, you know?

SPEAKER_03 7:11

Credit system, yeah. Right. And again, you know, we only throwing these things around because we generally don't know on that retail side how that works. But there has to be a system. And if there isn't, maybe we can do something in the way of advocating to change things.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

There should be one, right? Because that small guy whose overhead is really tight, you know, that's gonna hurt him long term because now he has a reputation of selling dry marijuana, now you don't want to go there. You know, it's uh it it's it's gonna bleed his customers slowly until he has any left, none left.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

So well, I mean, that hasn't happened yet. And that's because New York is a New York City is a money town, you know. So I mean, when people want it, they they don't care how much it is. So I'm sure if someone gets to the shop, their brand is not no longer available, they'll settle for something else. Not even considering how much it costs.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

But it's still the problem is that if the brand is still there but it's very old, right, then you are going to sell it to that person.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

I mean, it's safe to say that there is no legislation on that level for you know to make sure that the customer is getting a fresh product. You know, everything is labeled all made in in New York, which we're even questioning.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Yeah, we're wary of that also. So I'm down to about I passed my first third, and yeah, I'm starting to feel something settle in. It's not very strong, uh, but there is definitely something there. Um unidentifiable at this point. I don't know what it is, um, but I definitely feel something happening. And uh it still tastes great. That's basically the main features taste great. Yeah, uh, we're gonna run down the effects just to see if any of that is happening at this point. Uh relaxed, aroused, and sleepy. Do you feel relaxed, Kip? A little bit, a little bit of relaxation, right? Aroused? No. I've never gotten aroused on marijuana. I'm sorry. Exactly. I've never felt the strain that said, wow, that aroused me. Yeah, right. I'm wondering if it's me at this point. Sleepy? No, no, no sleepiness. So yeah, we're we're feeling the relaxed part, but there has to be something for them. For the, you know, because they're the dispensaries, who's gonna get the blame?

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Ah, I bought it from this shop, this sucks.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Yeah, they always get the blame, you know.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Yeah, and that's a tough, that's a tough sell right there. The other problem is is that I'm sure for this for the dispensary, it's also hard to predict. You know, you have all these brands that you can sell, but you have so much shelf space. And if you pick a brand that nobody buys, that's gonna sit on that shelf, taking up shelf space for such a long time, unless you call a loss on it.

SPEAKER_03 10:01

Right, and sometimes they do, they discount some of those the older ones. That's a good general indicator.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

So I'm burning past the halfway mark, and like I said, feeling the high there, feeling a little something, something. Um it's kind of like I'm feeling the relaxed, uh, not very strong. Um, it might have been, you know, really potent.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Yeah, I could see that. If it feels this way and tastes this way, and taste this way, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:32

So I'm very that's that's why the question I started this whole thing with about like, I wonder if it's a perpetual strain, because if it is a perpetual strain, then I can go out and say, well, let me look for a fresh one, yeah, and revisit it. Right. But if it's not perpetual, then I'm not gonna revisit it again because we're gonna have the same issue. So something to think about and look for, yeah. So, like I said, about halfway mark feeling all right, feeling relaxed, not smacked, and not like stupefied high yet. Right. But yeah, there's a high in there. There's a high. Um, and you know, like the hallmark of Dank. Very tasty. I mean, even the exhale, you you're getting the apricot and the exhale. You notice that? Yeah, all we have to go on is like what we see with our local dispensaries, and there is a local dispensary that I go to from uh pretty regularly when I'm you know not testing uh marijuana and just buying for personal use, and uh, you know, to see their like their trajectory kind of is telling, and that's why at first I used to always be hardcore against the dispensaries, like, oh, you guys gotta do better, you know, what the hell? Like, this is crap. If it's if it's dry, send it back, you know. It's produce, like you guys sell produce. Why are you guys like not looking for freshness? And they're not a big shop, uh, you know, pretty smallish shop. And I remember that when they opened, they opened with a bang. Like, you know, they were having long lines, people were in there all the time, like, you know, everything looked brand, brand, brand new. And then it seems like what started to happen was was when they ran out of like the stuff that people were coming in for, yeah, you know, then a lull would hit them, right? And people would not come in. And then you see them throwing up specials and things like that. And I think what they're trying to do is like sell off the stuff that's not selling, you know? And you know, because I've I've also seen that myself as a consumer, I'm the loyalty, you you will have a loyalty to a certain extent to a dispensary, right? But you're more loyal to brands and strains. So you're gonna go where the brand and strain is, right? If if your favorite brand is dank and your favorite strain is papaya cake, for example, and this and your favorite store doesn't have it, you're not you're more likely to go to another store than you are to say, okay, let me see what you have. And that's a big problem for them. You know, that the customer that comes in, that comes in all the time and asks for this stuff. If you don't have what he wants, he's not gonna like, you know, say, okay, so show tell me what you got. Yeah. And you know, look at different things and oh, I'll try this. Yeah, yeah. Most potheads, you know, customers are gonna be like, you don't have it? Okay, thank you. Walk right out and look for something else, you know? And that's that's you know, that's a disadvantage for them. Right. Because in a lot of other industries, you can, you know, side sell the person. You can say, Hey, I don't have this, but I have this, you want this, and they'll be like, Yeah, you know, because they don't want to go looking around for stuff. But you know, with marijuana, the problem is that you're paying a premium price in New York already, you know. So you want to be positive that it's going to get you high, and not only get you high, but the way you want it to get you high. So, you know, you want to feel the way you want to feel. And if you already went around, looked around, and found the one you want, you don't want to be hearing about this new brand that's funny, you know. Meanwhile, you know, because how many times you you you got a new brand and you went home, you opened it and was completely disappointed. And you're now like, wow, I'm$40 in the hole,$50 in the hole,$60 in the hole. And I hate this. Every pothead I know has three or four jars of some marijuana that did not work out sitting in their like marijuana spot wherever they they hold their marijuana in their house, they have like three or four jars of something that didn't work out, and you don't throw it away because it costs you a lot of money, and you're hoping somehow that you're gonna be able to use it down the road. Right. But at the same time, you don't use it. Like you just every time you run out of herb, you don't say, Well, let me try that. Right, exactly. You know, you say, Let me go buy some more of what I really want. Yeah. But I digress, going back to the marijuana. I'm down to my last third. As you can see, it has type of a chatty vibe because I'm sitting here getting off on tangents and stuff. Um, I'm impressed. I will say this. I am impressed because, like we said, we got it pretty dry. And yeah, I'm high. I got a high off. Yeah, I feel it as well. And it's not a powerful high, yeah, but it's uh it's a definitely a prevalent uh present high. It's a present high. So no complaints there. Pretty impressive, thank. Uh good tasting, you know. Even to like now, I'm down to the last third. I'm sorry, Skip. I'm like dominating the conversation here.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

It's all good, baby. It's all good, man. This is the high is there, you know, and it doesn't bog you down or anything. It has his magnetism. Good for being around folks and stuff talking.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

It's all good. Definitely a talker. What Skiff says in 12 words, I say in 500. Okay, back to the effects. Relax? Yes. Aroused? Yeah. I don't know, man. I'm like jealous of whoever gets aroused in marijuana. I'm jealous.

SPEAKER_04 16:32

Yeah.

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Sleepy? No.

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No.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

I'm usually not a big wedding cake guy. Right. It's not one of my favorite strains. Yeah. Or any other cakes. Those cakes there are. No, don't get me wrong, not bad. They're not bad, but they're usually not strains that I go towards, like if I have a choice. And so I'm impressed. I'm impressed. So, yeah, so the back to the story about the dispensary. Now I see that they are kind of in a in a middle zone, you know, like some days are really good, some days are not. You know, and I don't know. I'm I'm wondering if, you know, it's uh a stressful business for the business owner.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

In a lot of ways, it has to be stressful. It's a cash business.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

You know, so you can be robbed at any moment. You know, it's a lot of like certain different things to think about.

SPEAKER_03 17:33

You know, standing in line and waiting for the next butt tender, I can see the look of panic sometimes on in their faces when a customer tends to act for like a date. Oh, or you know, they'll ask what you want and they'll back it. You notice that? And then they'll give it, they'll put it on the counter. And if once you reach in there and start asking questions, some of them get that look of panic on their face, like, oh. And I'm like, man, it could it could be a whole lot simpler, you know. It doesn't have to be stressful for either them or the consumer.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

But you know, and I know this is by design, one disadvantage they and we have is that a lot of these these packages, the packaging, right? So, like, for example, this one right here is a black Mylar bag. You cannot tell what the marijuana looks like inside. Right. You know, so if you can't tell, neither can the dispensary owner.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Wow, and that says a lot because Dank has bags that have little windows in them that I usually see in reserve for the half and the full ounces and the jars. So it seems like maybe the three and a half doesn't get the same treatment. Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

I mean, they do when they bottle them, right? Right. But these little mylar packs, not really. And I've noticed that uh, and I'm not singling out dank on this, right? Um, but I've noticed that usually when uh it's a bag, a mylar bag, and it's dark or colored, so you can't see the marijuana, yeah, that you will have a higher opportunity of getting something dry.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

And maybe it serves that purpose, you know, unbeknownst to the public.

unknown 19:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

And, you know, like I said, not singling out dank, like a lot of companies do this. A lot of companies do this. Dank is just, you know, doing the market trend thing, right? Just like everybody else. But it's something to think about. Yeah, you know, and I understand that there are people that argue the other side of the story. Well, I don't want windows on my marijuana because that's gonna make it dry and and and inert faster. But there has to be like a middle ground on this because we need to we need to find a way to know that the marijuana in the package reaches a certain level of freshness. The the consumer needs to know, the the sell you know, the dispensary needs to know, so that because now they can argue to the to the seller, you know. And maybe that's why it doesn't exist, because they know that there'll be a a course of correction that maybe there someone or something is fearing away so that even the the owner of the dispensary could turn around to the grower and say, Yay, this stuff is not you know fresh. What are we gonna do about that?

SPEAKER_03 20:32

I mean, it could be very simple if they just bring it right back down to biology and you know, spend some money, research how long does it take on average for marijuana to degrade and just go with that. You know, whatever the benchmark is, say, okay, now we will not allow any sale of marijuana that is over X amount of time.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Right. So instead of because now I notice that the usual like benchmark is a year, they can sell up to a year away. That's what I'm seeing. Uh I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

I'm not I'm not scientifically I mean, and in and what they their response to that would be the COA. But I mean the COA is just information as far as the consumers are concerned, and it's not even something that is available right at the point of purchase. So you're none the wiser, we're none the wiser.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

That this the guy is none the wiser, the guy selling it to you is none the wiser.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

You know, most people check the COAs when they get home.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

And you know, you don't want to be that guy on the line talking about let me see the COA before, hold on, before I give you the money, you know, beep, beep, beep, checking COAs and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

I've seen it. There are people that do do it. You know, credit to them, they do it. Wow. But again, that's a level of added pressure that all around the retailer nor the consumer needs.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

I agree. I concur completely.

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R U feed me.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

But let's just start off like coming from R UV. Rolling into my just finished because I finished. And the high, yeah, it's it's not a big high, but it's consistent. Definitely consistent. Which leaves to wonder, you know, it would really have been something better, maybe even more dangerous had it been fresher. But yeah, and you add that to the taste factor. This is nice.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

You ever had that situation where you know you had like one or two really good pulls left and the cherry just falls right off, and you're like, damn, that was like really good right there. Okay, so I'm hitting my just finished segment because I was yapping so much that Skip finished before me. And yeah, I gotta concur with Skip. I was I am actually pretty impressed because it was very dry, and I have a high. And the only way I could describe it is a real high. Like I have a real high. It's not a powerful high, I'm not stupefied, I'm definitely not smacked, but I am high, and that's impressive. And like Skip said, you know, to go with the taste and the experience, pretty good stuff. So we'll I guess we'll see how it goes in an hour.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

And we're back with Gigglin' Highland. One hour later.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

How does it go, bro? Well, I gotta say, um it sustained itself where it was at. So what that whatever high I had, it just kept itself through the hour. Very impressed, very impressed. And then, you know, also left with the question in my mind if this was like brand new. Wow, this might have been something really interesting, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Um, so yeah, it went through it. Uh the hour went pretty quickly. Uh, we were very chatty and just doing stuff. We actually lost track of time when the, you know, when we figured that the hour passed. So that was good and impressive. A little old school kind of feel, right?

SPEAKER_03 24:40

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

All right. So that's how I felt about it.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

What do you think, Skip? Oh, definitely. It's a sustaining high. It wasn't a big high, but it was sustained on the whole hour, even till now. I still feel very strong remnants of it. And yeah, it was surprisingly so, you know, given the condition of the bud initially, but man, it really redeemed itself one hour later.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Yeah, I I concur a thousand percent, man. I think we're ready for the smack a meter. We're ready. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

Let's do it. Definitely feel like this. This is all right. This is actually all right, and definitely feeling this. This is alright. This is actually all right, definitely all right.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

And we're back with the smack a meter.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

Skip, final thoughts. Hey man, like I said, this was decent all the way through. Uh, the sweetness was there from beginning to end, so it had terps flavors, decent, very decent smoke. It was an enjoyable ride, dry, and that, of course, you know, has its own issues, but that notwithstanding, it was potent still. So, because of that, I'm gonna have to shave off a little bit and give it a 7.7. All right, skip.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

All right, well, you know me. I like to do the rundown. So when we opened it, that was uh that started as a disappointment, let's be honest. It was uh it was dry, uh, it wasn't powder, but it was there was not a lot of suppleness left, my friends. Um uh we broke it up, and one of the things that was a positive in the beginning was that it actually still had turb. So it we had a nice sweet smell coming out of it, and it was kind of strong, like when you broke it up. It's like, oh, okay. Yeah, all right, you're still holding on to something. Uh when we smoked it, it was a pleasant experience. It tasted great. The exhale was apricot, the inhale was uh tropical. I didn't get any flowery. I and I I think I recall Skip saying that he didn't get any flowery either. Uh, when we smoked it, we had a good high. We we actually felt like it was a good high. It actually ascended a little bit as the hour went by, and it was a nice experience, so much so that, like we said earlier, we lost uh track of time. So I thought good experience, and of course, that always leaves you with the question, right? How would it have been if we got this fresh? Yeah, which means yes, I will have to revisit this, and I will let you know, my friends. Good mates, you will know once we revisit it and find out what we think. If we find it again, right? Because if the run is over, then the run is over. We don't know, right? But anyway, I guess my final thoughts are 7.4 with a potential for more. And I think I'll leave it at that. Good job, Dan. Good job.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

Definitely. And good mates, this is our review. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or you simply just want to drop us a lifeline, visit our comment section or our YouTube page. And don't forget, hit that follow button.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Woo! And with that, thanks again for visiting us in Gigolin Highland. Have a great trip.