 Hey friends today We are hanging out at Universal Studios Orlando And we are gonna be trying all of the new food at this year's Halloween horror nights I am so excited Universal invited me out to give you guys a sneak peek at some of the food that they're gonna be offering this year And we are gonna be doing it through the taste of terror And then after that we're gonna be checking out the minion land trying some of the food and riding the new Minion attraction where I'm gonna be able to show you the queue So we're gonna eat some food ride some rides and have a beautiful Universal Studios kind of day any hoos Let's go do this This week is the hottest week of the summer and we're gonna try to stay as cool as possible But that's really hard to do inside of a theme park Universal put this together kind of as like a food sampling so we're not gonna be eating all the food We're just gonna be sampling it and testing it out Some of it is smaller portions and stuff like that But we still have to be cautious because we're doing all the Halloween horror nights food and the minions food And we're gonna give you a little sneak peek just a little bit of the annual pass holder appreciation food So this is definitely a universal foodie kind of day The cool thing is is when you get inside of the taste of terror You're gonna be able to see what all of these food stands are like right now They're blank, but I can tell which ones they are like I can tell that this one is gonna be surfer boy pizza I think this one must be yeti I mean it's got to be yeti right there and then over here is Probably the last of us there are ten houses in five scare zones this year and plenty of entertainment And then also a lot of really cool themed food like when I talk about the food here I think the thing that stands out the most is like the way it's presented and like the names and stuff like that like They go all in and make it very spooky and Halloween horror night ish Halloween horror night ish I don't even know if that's a thing, but it sounds fancy Halloween horror night ish We're making our way back now to go try some of the Halloween horror nights food and on the marquee It actually says taste of terror. How awesome is that? The reason it says taste of terror on the marquee is because this is an event that you can actually buy Tickets to go to and it's called taste of terror and normally I don't like filming like the inside of like media events and stuff like that But this is exactly what you can pay to go to and it's perfect because this is before HHN so you can have an idea of what all the food is gonna be like and it's also really good for people that are afraid of HHN Because now you get to experience the food part of it without getting scared and it's a hundred and sixty dollars You can book in advance and they're also taking walk-ups if they're available and I'll put a link in the description But we're gonna try all of the food from Halloween horror nights. I'm gonna try every single thing and let you guys know what I think I'm gonna try every single food item Look at how cool it is in here I love the theming and it has all the food for you to just come up grab and then you know try and you Can make as many trips as you want you can get up and grab as many food and you can go to the bar as many times as you want And I love how they have different like themed areas each area is either from a scare zone or for a house As you can see as we go around you got Chucky over there You got the stellar bar right behind us. It's super bright It's got all the drinks on it and then you got the last of us over on this side Stranger things with surfboard pizza the Yeti over here. Look at that. This is so cool I think my favorite area is definitely surfer boy pizza because they have like these diner like Seating boots that they have right outside. I think that's just so cool Look at that comes with the napkins and the salt and pepper This is so cool, and I love I just love how even the the the seating is themed different in each area I just noticed that I mean they have like these common little areas But each area you go to like this right here is kind of like a fallout and then in the woods with the Yeti It's like a classic picnic table That is so nifty You can stay inside if you want But I feel like showing you guys the food like in daylight where it's not so dark is probably gonna be the best So I'm gonna go in and out and actually be bringing stuff outside So I can show you guys and try it on camera Where you'll see it a little bit clearer You know me because it's hard to tell what the food looks like when it's under that like special lighting inside and indoors. I Think I found the food item everyone's gonna be talking about this year the peanut butter burger a smash burger with peanut sauce raspberry jelly cheddar cheese shaved onions jalapeno bacon and cherry peppers on a vampire bun and Look at that. I Mean it looks so cool I have to try it and then they also have a surfer boy Hawaiian French bread pizza Look at that. Wow a bloody campground poutine All of this food looks so good. They got some burnt heads in the back there, too. I love it And then I left behind Ravioli look at this the theming is just so amazing. Oh a Vegan walking taco. You don't say I'm all about that too and also it looks like fried till the end chicken. I love just the theming here. It looks all amazing. I Am very impressed right now because this is a cake. This is a clicker cake action. Are we gonna cut this open? I Would love to eat it, you know, can you imagine if there's a wedding who's getting that smashed in their face? These are actually real cordyceps really In the wow and that's all edible That's so wow. I love that. We're getting to try all these amazing snacks This really is gonna be a day full of food. Look at this the Hellfire Club. I'm gonna definitely take one of those Unfortunately, I'm not too sure how much each of these items are gonna be Selling for in the park during Halloween Horror Nights. They don't have the prices on it It's like I said all you care to enjoy for one set price But you could buy individual items all around the park during the event not just coming in here, you know, I Grabbed a couple of the food items and took them outside and Decided I was gonna try them out and see how they taste and show you guys I'm really excited to try the last of us. This is a cheese Ravioli only because I love the presentation Of it and you do get this can like this food ration you actually get If you buy it like that's not just for this event They actually come that way all the time and of course we've got the Hellfire Club little cake here We had to get the vampire burger. Well, it's not the vampire This is a vampire bun, but they also have the pumpkin one here and then the bloody snowball So this is a lot of food and I guess we'll just dive in Halloween Horror Nights is always known for having unique food and this year is no different I mean everything from the last of us. Like I said, look it You're actually gonna get a can of like a food ration and I'm excited to try that like I said to like just like a pumpkin Like the bloody snowball. That's a good. That's a good example In fact, I think we're gonna start with the bloody snowball and I happen to have a fork in my pocket right here So might as well just dive in dive into a little bloody snowball here. This looks so good Look at the inside of that. Look at the way that was just cut. I'm excited So here we go first bite of Halloween Horror Nights food this year Wow, what would be the chances that the first thing I get might be my favorite thing? Wow, this is so good The coconut is amazing and then the chocolate. It's like the perfect balance But I'll keep moving. I'll keep moving around. There's definitely a lot of desserts to try Maybe I'll go with the food ration now I don't like cheese ravioli, but I am excited to just give it a try First we're gonna try what's on top of the can here, and I'm sure this is edible. I'm pretty positive. It's edible. Oh So good down inside the can is where the raviolis are you gotta pull them out. Oh My Lord, these are huge raviolis. Holy moly Talk about a can of ravioli. Oh, I lost it. Holy ravioli. That's impressive Look at there's a couple of them in there. I think there's four honestly like that is huge. So here we go It's good. I like I like the presentation more than the ravioli. I would say I mean Oh, and it's cheese if it was a meat ravioli, I probably like it a lot more But yeah, I would get it just just so I can walk around with a can like this Luckily, I had a backup fork in my pocket because I don't like to mix my food items You know what I mean? I like to have a dessert fork which I got right here And then I like a savory fork. So now I think we're gonna go to the the pumpkin here Look at this the little pumpkin cream puff. I don't know if I can cut this even. Oh, well I think I just destroyed that I Try to be delicate with my food sometimes, but it doesn't happen that way Look at how good this looks. All right, I'm just gonna cut into it This was good until I had the pumpkin cream puff now the pumpkin cream puff is just too much I love it and then I still have the hellfire club So like the pumpkin right now is my favorite, but I do have to try this. Let's see what this is like It's a very melty mess my guitar melted. Look at that actually fun Today is one of the hottest days of the whole entire year and we're outside eating Halloween horonite snacks. Cheers to that We're just making our way right through it and now it's time for the peanut butter and jelly burger and it's not just peanut butter It's like a peanut Thai sauce. So it's not overly peanut butter, but I like the vampire bun. Oh Here we go time for the burger now The burger is good like I said it really doesn't taste like peanut butter and jelly too much It's a good balance, but it's weird all the food is like so unique, you know, I mean everything just tastes like special to me I love it all Now that we got a handful of treats already done It's time to head back inside make another lap and grab more like I said I want to try every single food item for Halloween horonite And I've been I'm excited that we're gonna have them all laid out for us today Because it'd be so hard to navigate around the park and get each one But they're all conveniently right here at the taste of terror and then over here you have the tinsel town torment It's an old-fashioned bourbon. Oh, wow It's old fat old Forester bourbon and cherry brandy with orange and cranberry juice Thought it was an old-fashioned. I was like, oh sign me up. I'm I do like old Forester though So I'm all about it and I like cherry and oranges and how do you feel about chocolate in there? Oh, you know what throw it in a little cherry. It's in there now. I Like it all. Well, very cool We're gonna wait and take all of the food outside so I can show you guys what it looks like with better lighting But here is the tinsel town torture. We'll try the drinks in here I don't mind that That's actually wait a second. I Came back in for another sip. That is good. That is really really good Right over here. They have the USA sci-fi peacock stand the USA sci-fi peacock stand That sounds funny and they have a mutilated pork loin Mutaloid mutilated slow smoked applewood bacon wrapped pork loin with roasted root hash with fig and pear and With a red wine demi. That's kind of cool. I'll take some of that And Now we have some fried till the end chicken Look at that fried popcorn chicken tossed in natural hot sauce Drizzled with ranch and topped with scallions and chili Very fancy. Yeah, I'll take some of that too And now we've got some vegan walking taco. I always love the walking taco, you know and the walking dead Can I have one do you just grab it? Oh, yeah, right here. Oh, very fancy A little bit of everything Nice, well, thank you I Have grabbed everything from round two look at how many items I have here. How many do you think I have? I think I have five maybe six different items and I'm gonna try to set it down without losing any of it Look at beautiful Wow, look you have one right here. That's one This is the surfer boy pizza and then also the bloody campground poutine Then we've got the pork loin the mutilated pork loin right here very fancy Then we've got the chicken bites the vegan walking tacos and then the chochurrinos Chichurrinos look at that one two three four five six seven eight Wow and nine nine because we got the drink First things first. It's the vegan walking taco and this is gonna come in handy Especially at Universal because you know a lot of times they don't have food That's just easy to walk around with and that's why this is perfect because it's a walking taco. It's a vegan one, too I'm excited to try it, too You know, I'm not the biggest fan of vegan stuff, but if it's good, it's good and it's good Now we'll dive into the mutilated pork loin. Look at all that bacon on there And I also they they have rolls there So something tells me that you can actually buy this and get it with a roll like you can have like a little mutilated pork slider Here we go mutilated pork I Really like this mutilated pork. It's so good especially with the bacon But you know what it might get a little too greasy, you know what I mean? It might be too much If you're you know playing on spending all night at Halloween hornets Look if you just see the grease underneath there like you can actually draw it on the plate That's a lot of grease. I mean, but that's pork. Pork is very greasy now Maybe we should try a dessert. How about the mummy the mummy pop? Yes There we go. Look at how cute this is and I don't need a fork. I can just eat it right off the popsicle stick Here we go Everything is melting so fast though today like I said today is super hot and I'm the one that's sitting outside I could sit inside, but it's very dark in there and it's very loud So I wanted to come out here where you can hear the screams of the people riding a rip riding right there Mmm-hmm. I'm not the biggest fan of this I mean, I think it might be the texture and the way it's really melty right now But yeah, I think I might pass on it I think I'll move to the chicken bites now grab a little chicken bite there and then we have the poutine next oh And the the pizza which are the surfer boy pizza. I'm excited to try that because it's spam and pineapple Here we go chicken bites The chicken bites definitely have a little spice to them and I went on and I ate the pizza and the poutine And just to speed things up instead of going one by one My favorite thing out of this round of everything I have on the table is probably the spicy or the chicken bites They're just so good. My least favorite thing is the ghost pop. I did like the walking taco I think that's good and the same thing with the the mutilated pork But like I feel like they're like the end of the night like you know I mean if you eat this like if you eat a lot of this during The HHN then it might you know make your stomach a little upset, but these are good to go I love them so much just the perfect amount of spice and the texture is good too Now that we basically had all the food which we did and later on we'll actually go through and I'll tell you guys My favorites which you know, I already said the chicken is but I'll talk a lot like my top three favorite food items and the three that I didn't like the most but we might as well get some drinks at the stellar bar and I think I'm gonna start off with the ghoul juice the ghoul juice comes with some dark rum cherry brandy simple syrup Oh mango mango nectar and Yes some bitters in there little ghoul juice The drinks are usually too like sugary for me whenever I come to HHN like some of them are good like I did like that The tormented one that we had in the beginning with the cherry and the old foster or old-fashioned But usually the drinks are a little bit too like sugary for me, so I'm excited to see if I like this or not This is good, this is good It's not it's not too strong. It's still very sweet very very sweet, but I do like the taste of it but luckily they do have a Salt Lake City iced coffee this year they're gonna have a Like a little espresso martini kind of and I'm excited for that It's brewed coffee with Haydn's espresso liquor and a little bit of rum in there with some smoked bitters And it looks really good. I decided to actually get a little bit so that I can wash down the ghoul juice This coffee is definitely way better than the ghoul joke the ghoul juice I mean I love coffee like base drinks like espresso martinis, you know if anyone orders one I'm like I'll take one too, but I can see myself drinking a lot of these and just getting all hyped up for the night With it with or without the liquor like honestly, I just want coffee all the time Well the taste of terror was really fun And I'm so happy that I got to enjoy some of the Halloween horror night snacks before Halloween horror nights so now I know what to go for and what I don't want to actually spend my money on and Now I want to show you guys a little bit of the minion coverage that we did earlier this morning Where we got to finally ride the ride and also we're gonna try some of the food at minion cafe and outside because I never tried Any of the fancy like the the quick snacks like the banana popcorn and the popsicles and stuff like that So I figured today would be the perfect day Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls all creatures great and small Oh Might look a little familiar because donkey and shred used to meet here But they're in the back of the park now in the dream work section dream works in illumination are two separate animation companies Illumination is just singing and despicable me and those are the only characters. You'll see here any dream works They'll be in the back of the park. Oh Hello, hello Excited I'm very excited you guys bring me. Oh, not excited not excited. I Love all the noises. They're very fun. Can we oh kiss it? Oh, I hear it Can we can we take a photo? Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. No. Yeah, okay. We'll do one Now I want to try some of the food I haven't tried yet over in the minion land and there's a lot of it Like I want to get one of the freeze pops and maybe the banana popcorn since we didn't get the banana popcorn last time but it's cool just walking around here and Seeing like nobody in this area How awesome is that they got the freeze ray pops the Bank of Evil this goes into the minion cafe But I think I want the minion popcorn the banana popcorn and that's down here. So we'll start over there. I Have had my fair share of interesting flavored popcorns But I've never had banana popcorn and the best way to describe it Well, the best way they described it to me is if you melted down some banana runs and then drizzled it and made like Like caramel corn with it. So we're gonna give it a go. We're gonna try it out here. I like it I Wish YouTube would invent smell of vision because I'd love to actually let you guys smell this. It's it's amazing It's really really good. I like it a lot like I said I want something unique and this is definitely a neat snack now I want to try one of those freeze pops because it's so hot out Now it's time to try some of the freeze ray pops and they have a big selection of flavors They have blue banana Nutella orange cream circle coconut lemon mint. It's actually all in this little Area right here. I think I might get the lemon mint kind of like a mint julep There's nothing like a mint julep on a hot day. So good I mean I fell in love with mint juleps when I was in New Orleans But now it's cool that I get a little frozen popsicle That is definitely lemon like pucker-ish like definitely a strong lemon taste And am I the only one that just bites into a popsicle? Do you lick it a little bit like it's so crazy Since we tried all of the minion food might as well head in and go on Villain con minion blast now in the last video I wasn't allowed to show you guys the queue but today since we're no longer in technical rehearsals I think I can show you the queue All right, it's time to head on in welcome to Villain con International and before you head in you got to enhance your experience by downloading the app because you get special Like blasters and it's really cool a lot of other effects and different missions and This is the queue Very spacious very aced I like it and a lot of things to keep the kids busy with look it I like it a lot It can be a little bit loud in here But basically we're gonna show you a little bit about the app and then also I'm gonna show you a video of What the ride is like because you can't film on the ride itself but at least I'll show you kind of like the idea behind it by the Pre-show video that they have in here This is basically the game right here or the attraction I feel like it's an attraction in the game and you pick up your blaster and then you hop on a Moving walkway and you can see a second here and you actually go around and you shoot different things you shoot minions It's actually really fun There it is that's the moving walkway you hop on and then you stand on one of the dots and Then you just start shooting. It's really fun. You don't have to go anywhere The screens are all around you on each side And then that's the trigger right there They have so many things to just keep you occupied as you wait in line and a lot of cool references to some awesome universal like picture movies including The flux time tourism go anywhere a little nod to back to the future there and A lot of other stuff. Let me know if you guys see any other ones from the posters that they have here I kind of like it. I think it's really cool time to head on in and See what kind of score I can get only you guys know what my score is at the end once we get out Just grab any blaster I'm taking this one. It's fully charged. I'm ready to go. Look at this Ready to scan I'm gonna sync up my blaster to my phone. I think you just hold it here Ready to scan wicked done let up green. I'm ready to go Looks like we're all synced up. I can switch out my name. I'm officially paging mr. Mauro and We're ready to go Afterwards you return your blaster there it is. I did good though. I think I did good and Also, look at go informer Taylor look at Taylor from the Orlando informer number 17. Look at that He's the only person I've seen him the top like 20 All right, enough of the minion business. I didn't get a high score I didn't even rank in the top leaderboard, but you've seen my friend Taylor from the Orlando informer did right there He was and now I think we're gonna head out because it's raining out and We're gonna go and go home and see Gracie girl call it an early day because the rain is coming definitely stormy skies up there As we're walking out I see one more structure set up for Halloween horror nights. I can't wait to just walk through here and get scared I can't wait to walk through here and get scared. That sounds so funny, but look yeah You can see the storm clouds are coming. I got some raindrops falling on my head actually those sound like some big drops I think it's gonna come down quick, so we better run Hello Gracie Is there a princess there? She is there's my little princess. Let me see a smile. Let me see it Show it to me. Show me the smile. Come on. Yes. Who's a good girl? Who's a little pretty princess? It's great to see Gracie. I literally just got back from Boston yesterday and I missed her so much and With all the traveling that I've been doing I actually have Like a dog sitter someone who comes and stays with Gracie in my house So she's not stressed out with all the traveling going on and she gets to just stay home You know I mean so when I go away Gracie literally gets to just stay home I feel so much better with that instead of her going somewhere or going over a friend's house or anything like that It's really nice to be able to have her just kind of chilling in her own house, you know, I Think I heard somebody at the front door. Oh Look at this little girl. Come on in. Yeah, thank you. Oh Glad you're home. I've been waiting all day for you And with that, I think we are done here today Some of my favorite foods for Halloween horror nights this year that I've tried so far Like I said, we tried all of them unless they have a couple of items that they didn't feature inside the taste of terror Or a taste of terror taste of terror. I'm not too sure how to say it But some of my favorite items definitely would be the last of us cheese ravioli The presentation is just so cool. Not the biggest fan of the cheese ravioli, but that's just me I know there's a lot of people that think that it's a great ravioli But I did like the the tempura mushrooms that they on top and the presentation You just can't beat that and then all of the desserts all of the desserts were fantastic I loved all of them the poutine. I didn't like so much. It wasn't it was I mean it was okay But it wasn't really I mean I'd rather get something from like Canada and stuff like that Then also I really loved the the little chicken bites. Those were perfect the Texture and the heat amount it was just perfect overall Let me know what you guys think would you be interested in going to this new event that Halloween Horror Nights is doing? Especially if you're not a fan of the horror scene. Let me know in the comments If you think what I did today inside there is worth the hundred sixty dollars I did hear that there's talks of a price drop so it might go down to like one thirty So you have to check Universal Studios Orlando. I'll put a link in the description so you guys can Check it in case you want to book it and I can't wait for HHN to come around the corner. I'll be there opening night I'm so excited and maybe I'll see some of you there. So I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye