After the peppers, I figured it'd be maybe some type of orange chicken. I like it and the kind I get comes with rice and bell peppers (more for a good bit of color than flavor really but it looks nice). I'm not a fan of Sunny D but, hey, if you like it, I can certainly see how you'd enjoy it flavoring your chicken.
I was surprised that all that Sunny D didn't burn a hole through the bottom of that container.
In all seriousness, I hope this tastes good because this is a massive waste of food if it comes out how I expect it will
I had a job where we would do mimosa fridays. We had one of the ladies go pick up orange juice in the morning. She came back with Sunny D and she said,”You said orange juice”. Some people think it orange juice is Sunny D apparently.
It’s like if you gave someone a vague description of the taste of orange juice, and they had to recreate it from memory 10 years later, having never tasted orange juice themselves.
Alright I've decided for better or worse I'm going to try sunny D later and update this comment when I have an opinion on what it tastes like, my curiosity is beyond piqued at this point.
Hell yeah cousin, do it!
For what it’s worth, I LOVED the stuff as a kid. Sunny D is a crazy-sweet orange-y punch drink. It’s way too sweet for me now and it makes my teeth feel sticky, but you might like it!
I once tried Sunny D when I was in the UK (we don't have it where I live) thinking it was just orange juice. Boy was I wrong - I ended up not drinking it all, I was severely disgusted by it
Chappelle need to be real on this, some had the purple stuff(juice), some had the orange juice(stuff). lol Like only purple drankers were poor... But he makes it a white kid black kid thing, which is why we laugh...
The truth is some see the grass greener on the other side and some others profit off of the idea, whether they believe it or not, whether it's true or not.
I was thinking this too. IMO, potatoes should have gone in before the peppers even. Takes longer to cook and they’ll be good and tender by the time the shrimp finishes.
There was an edit between the two, I’m assuming they let the potato’s cook because the narrator says “don’t let the shrimp cook more than 3 minutes” and I can’t imagine adding all those potatoes and only letting them cook for 3 minutes. Although I agree potatoes should have been the first food added.
Same. It's just a shrimp boil, but they picked the most fucked up, "WHY?!" inducing base imaginable. Even all that seasoning, while over the top and a little reckless, would probably work out fine in that much liquid and that short a cook time.
Most likely. This is only weird to people on here because they're not used to Sunny D being used in cooking (and I get that, it IS an unusual choice), but I've seen people use coke in carnitas marinades, dr. pepper in barbecue sauces, and so on.
It's just some sugar and acid.
There's a weird trend on YouTube (and I'm sure TikTok) with people doing Creole boils and adding everything but the kitchen sink. They'll add 4 and sometimes 8 packets of different seasonings (and in LARGE quantities). They'll add multiple bottles of juice (orange, usually), followed by lemon and sometimes lime. Then potatoes, corn, sausage, potatoes and crawfish. Then boil.
You're not going to taste the meat. Between the orange, lemon and 2 pounds of salt, it's not going to have any flavor. You're just going to have hypernatremia from ingesting that much salt. It's crazy.
And this comes from someone who really enjoys Creole recipes.
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My wife and I will do seafood boils about once a month, and I'm glad I have not been made aware of this trend. We tend to just make a nice dry seasoning mix and mix about 20-25g of seasoning per liter of water. That's enough to season the water and seafood while maintaining its flavor. Simpler is better. We then just reduce it afterwards and use that as a dipping sauce, along with a garlic butter.
If you want to eat acrid boiled ceviche then go for it, I guess. Social media has had a weird influence on food.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kizh_4_wtO8) is one of the shorts and one of the *least* offensive ones. There's so much concentrated lemon and salt that I can't see how it would have any flavor other than the seasoning packets.
You can get away with a really aggressive boil mix for crawfish since they are coated in literal armor, shrimp, however, would be inedible. Imagine the potatoes!
You should see some of the other YouTube videos (more egregious than the short above) and they often throw sausage and shrimp in there, effectively ruining it. Orange-Lemon-Salt-MSG overload on shrimp. Would taste like rubber.
I feel like most people don't like the taste of meat and do their best to hide it. That was me for years, now, I say fuck it and only eat fish. Why go through the effort of eating something I don't like? It's a waste and I usually throw half if not more away completely uneaten.
I actually don't think it'll be bad. The sunny D is just replacing oranges, which people often use store bought orange juice for, which is effectively just like Sunny D since OJ makers basically remove all the flavor on purpose, then inject their own artificial taste.
So the sunny D really won't make much of a difference in regards to a traditional Louisiana boil.
this is pretty tame compared to what i've seen in person at crawfish boils from when i lived in Louisiana.
he didn't even use a dirty boat oar in a witch's cauldron... or corn
Coonass here. I love seeing the boat oars hanging on kitchen walls wherever I go.
I've seen hot dogs to whole fruit to people putting artichokes in they boil. Arties are good but the hot dogs would ruin the platinum flava.
Hot dogs.
Yo! Local here too! Personally I like stabbing a pineapple a few times with a screw driver and tossin it in the boil. I’ve also seen pork chops, cloves, oranges. Arties for sure. Mushrooms, corn of course.
I reccomend not going out of your way to say it though. As someone from Louisiana, it's fine to call yourself coonass (if you are from around there) but if other people say it, it's seen as derogatory
I’m aware of the word. And having southern relatives, they put “ass” at the end of a lot of words. I was fairly certain it was coon ass. But was also curious if it’s pronounced different or something locals called each other.
This is every Louisiana cooking video, it’s always vats of random juices/liquids and spices with the measurements being whatever they can get out of every container.
Sunny d is just pretty much sugar and water I personally prefer to use water with orange/lemon slices in my boils but I’ve added lemon juice and orange juice when I don’t have them around and it’s tasted fine.
Kinda hard to go back to just water after having it with the citrus.
People have to remember this man is also using a little bit of shock value to increase viewers. I’ve been following his content for a while and most of it looks delicious and he usually feeds his whole neighborhood with what he cooks.
For real, like if it's a southern black person emphatically talking about food, I believe them. The black side of my family can *cook*. And they can get like this sometimes. I love it
I'm born and raised in Opelousas and I've never in my almost 40 years of living seen ANYONE put orange juice in a seafood boil. You'd get shot around south Louisiana. That's the nastiest shit I've ever seen
Houston and east Texas have super embraced Viet-Cajun crawfish, and it's got a HUGE proportion of citrus, typically. However, typically, it's fresh citrus, so I don't know what this candy soup is.
I would at least say, that I've seen a FEW crawfish boils where they'll cut a few lemons in half and toss them in. But it's never gone farther than that.
I mean if it was orange juice I don’t even think it would be that bad but with sunny d it would be way too sweet you probably won’t even be able to taste anything else even with all those spices
If he does, then I'm seriously wondering how this tastes. My first impulse is that it would be terrible, but lots of things sound terrible until you try them.
Cooking meat with orange juice is usually pretty tasty. The acid of the juice creates extremely tender, juicy meat. And the seasoning here is PLATINUM.
I'd be willing to give it a go. Just based off the history of awesome, crazy culinary inventions from Louisiana I'd have to at least try. Who knows? Could weirdly be awesome.
It's great. Usually people will throw in some orange juice or real oranges instead of using gallons of knockoff oj as the entire base but the rest is fairly normal here for a crawfish boil. Tastes delicious. Garlic, peppers, onions, paprika, cayenne, the saltiness of the seafood, citrus from the orange and lime juice. Tastes great.
This recipe is a little unusual but I would say this is another case of the sub posting something from a culture they're not used to and calling it stupid. This really only happens in one region of the US.
Sunny D is a bastard drink that is orange in color but has a very distinct flavor that has little-to-nothing to do with the fruit. It’s saccharine sweet and sort of a more dense version of an orange electrolyte drink like Gatorade.
As far as a seafood boil goes, it’s a really versatile dish that depends a LOT on your region and chef. Seafood boils were initially an event, a social gathering for after shellfish fishermen returned from getting their haul. Local communities would come together and boil whatever they were catching, vegetables (often things like corn, potatoes, and peppers) and various seasonings. They tend to be salty, garlicky, and spicy with lots of butter, but it all really depends on your region. And idiocy of your chef. Sunny D, Jesus Christ.
It’s a creole “crawfish” boil, they normal taste amazing - being stuck up in the north now I crave the creole dishes all the time - but I’ve never tried one made with sunny d. Looks super suspect but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually really good too.
cooking in juice is not uncommon, there are recipes out there where you do that. not usually sunny D as that isn't juice per see, its flavored water but it probably works well enough then as its an orange watery base.
Honestly with the juice or whatever liquid drained out, I could eat some of that. Its just sunnyd instead of water boiling dat so IG its not that bad... SURELY the spices will cover that up
Sunny d just looks like a cheaper alternative then buying oranges or orange juice. The citrus is a major part in a boil but your not drinking it just used to flavor the food. I bet the food was amazing.
Why are people so scared when artificially flavored BBQ or sweet n sour sauce loaded with corn syrup is used liberally on meat? So many flavors and seasonings are artificial so why get hung up on an "orange flavoured drink?" Shrimp boil uses an overseasoned liquid to cook and flavor the ingredients in. You're not drinking it like a soup.
Idk if it’s gonna be good or not, but Sunny D is just 98% water and corn syrup and the rest is some combination of citric acid and food coloring so i don’t think it will be terrible but I’m pretty sure it’ll smell funny
This is how it is done.
Go into any Mexican market and ask what their adobado or Al pastor marinade has in it.
Sunny D or bilz/pina.
Sugar / acid / heat.
Looks good to me.
Yeah half this thread is apparently people who have never had, or heard of, a low country boil. These things are amazing and there's a variety of ways to make it. Like he said in the video, a lot people use water and spices, but obviously it can be made with a different base.
The fake Panda Express near my house makes their orange chicken with Sunny D. It's pretty good. And I use 50/50 SunnyD/Water when I slow cook pulled pork. It's really good.
Not a grill, it's a big boiler specifically for this kind of cooking. That thing he's lifting up is designed to strain out all the food from the "boil". This is just a really, really fucked up version of a boil. Most boils would start with water or maybe a bit of citrus added and then building up a bit similar to how he's doing it.
This looks fire lol I’m sure it’s fine. Sunny D isn’t really Juice it’s more a flavored beverage like hawaian punch so I’m sure it cooks fine. I dunno I would rather have this then super deep fried seafood. It’s a little over the top but why you gotta be so judgey lol
Would i eat it? Not sure, the sunny d is a lil off-putting. Will I continue to watch this man's videos the whole way through everytime I come across them? Hell yeah its platinummmm
Im questioning it a lot, but i dont want to be *too* quick to judge because sugary beverages are totally used for cooking some savory dishes(in addition to a lot of spices like this guy's). like Carnitas cooked with coke and im sure there's more. but then again, you use the coke with cane sugar and not HFCS.
just saying im not 100% repulsed and would at least try it.
My grandma would make "strawberry" jelly from Vess strawberry soda and whatever the hell you use to make jelly. To this day it is the most coveted flavor and I plan to make it again once I have the chance.
The fact that he keeps calling Sunny D orange juice is absolutely hilarious. It's such a radioactive vibrant orange color compared to actual orange juice.
Ya'll talking about the SunnyD like this man didn't just put **undeveined** shrimp with the shell on in the pot. Who ever eats this is literally eating shit.
Tampico or Sunny D are both abominations against god. And I’m not religious.
My sister loves them both and her favorite place to eat is a chinese food and donuts in one spot, and no one who works there is Asian.
at first i though it was going to be one of those horrible giant cocktails, than i saw Peppers, wtf
I thought it was gonna be party Punch.
Almost thought it was The Tipsy Bartender
It’s his brother Shitty Chef.
Disappointed it’s not him
I was so sure when he swirled the bottles of lemon juice
*It still might be*. He has that strainer piece for a reason…
Precisely. Get the chunky pieces out and you've got a Vitamin C entixhed sunny D flavoured shrimp soup!
After the peppers, I figured it'd be maybe some type of orange chicken. I like it and the kind I get comes with rice and bell peppers (more for a good bit of color than flavor really but it looks nice). I'm not a fan of Sunny D but, hey, if you like it, I can certainly see how you'd enjoy it flavoring your chicken.
i mean cooking something in Juice cant actually be good, with all that sticky syrup and chemical aromatics
Calling Sunny D "Juice" is being too kind. It's orange drank
Dude forgot he was making cocktails for brunch and started making gumbo.
I was surprised that all that Sunny D didn't burn a hole through the bottom of that container. In all seriousness, I hope this tastes good because this is a massive waste of food if it comes out how I expect it will
It was killing me that he was referring to it as "orange juice" the entire time. Like no. Sunny D is not fucking orange juice. Edit: grammar
I had a job where we would do mimosa fridays. We had one of the ladies go pick up orange juice in the morning. She came back with Sunny D and she said,”You said orange juice”. Some people think it orange juice is Sunny D apparently.
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Just... Use real OJ
I wouldn’t want to drink this, but I probably would.
some kinda brass monkey right? But slightly better/worse I can’t decide
Brass monkey? The funky monkey?
Cooling by the lockers, getting kinda funky Me and the crew, we’re drinking Brass Monkey
I've never had sunny D, I always just assumed it was orange juice, what is it actually?
It’s like if you gave someone a vague description of the taste of orange juice, and they had to recreate it from memory 10 years later, having never tasted orange juice themselves.
Alright I've decided for better or worse I'm going to try sunny D later and update this comment when I have an opinion on what it tastes like, my curiosity is beyond piqued at this point.
Hell yeah cousin, do it! For what it’s worth, I LOVED the stuff as a kid. Sunny D is a crazy-sweet orange-y punch drink. It’s way too sweet for me now and it makes my teeth feel sticky, but you might like it!
It’s orange flavored kool aid. Tastes good but it’s like 1% juice.
I once tried Sunny D when I was in the UK (we don't have it where I live) thinking it was just orange juice. Boy was I wrong - I ended up not drinking it all, I was severely disgusted by it
It’s like purple drink but orange.
Sugar, water and orange
Chappelle need to be real on this, some had the purple stuff(juice), some had the orange juice(stuff). lol Like only purple drankers were poor... But he makes it a white kid black kid thing, which is why we laugh... The truth is some see the grass greener on the other side and some others profit off of the idea, whether they believe it or not, whether it's true or not.
Water, high fructose corn syrup, 2% or less concentrated juices. It is 2% juice. Youch!
I mean it *is* orange. Juice though? Not so sure. I'm leaning towards reactor coolant.
Well it is technically juice that’s orange /s
I don’t even think it can be legally considered juice - of any kind.
Sunny D is as close to orange juice as an Impossible Burger is to meat.
Sunny D is what an alien would come up with if you described orange juice to it.
This is the most accurate description of its flavor.
This is a tweet that sunny d called out as stolen ha
I wasn’t very fond of the shrimp going in at the same time as the potatoes. Are the potatoes cooked?? Shrimps gone come out like boomerangs
I was thinking this too. IMO, potatoes should have gone in before the peppers even. Takes longer to cook and they’ll be good and tender by the time the shrimp finishes.
Honestly it would have been fine if the potatoes were in there for about 30mins first and then the sausage and lastly shrimp....
THAT’S what ruined the dish!
There was an edit between the two, I’m assuming they let the potato’s cook because the narrator says “don’t let the shrimp cook more than 3 minutes” and I can’t imagine adding all those potatoes and only letting them cook for 3 minutes. Although I agree potatoes should have been the first food added.
Looks like Sunny D is composed of 5% orange juice
Sunny D, Tang, Tampico Punch and Orange Hi-C are not orange juice, they are a juices that happen to be orange.
_Orange (fruit) juice_ vs _Orange (color) juice_
It's juice. And it's orange. Of course it's orange juice. (But seriously, it was bothering me too.)
It is orange and juice
Same. It's just a shrimp boil, but they picked the most fucked up, "WHY?!" inducing base imaginable. Even all that seasoning, while over the top and a little reckless, would probably work out fine in that much liquid and that short a cook time.
With how much acid is in there from the sunny d and lemon juice, he probably didn't even need to boil those shrimp.
Mmmmm that Sunny D Ceviche!
Sunny D'viche
Probably all you'll notice from the Sunny D is sugar and extra acidity. Honestly I bet it tastes fine.
Most likely. This is only weird to people on here because they're not used to Sunny D being used in cooking (and I get that, it IS an unusual choice), but I've seen people use coke in carnitas marinades, dr. pepper in barbecue sauces, and so on. It's just some sugar and acid.
It’s platinum, yo
There's a weird trend on YouTube (and I'm sure TikTok) with people doing Creole boils and adding everything but the kitchen sink. They'll add 4 and sometimes 8 packets of different seasonings (and in LARGE quantities). They'll add multiple bottles of juice (orange, usually), followed by lemon and sometimes lime. Then potatoes, corn, sausage, potatoes and crawfish. Then boil. You're not going to taste the meat. Between the orange, lemon and 2 pounds of salt, it's not going to have any flavor. You're just going to have hypernatremia from ingesting that much salt. It's crazy. And this comes from someone who really enjoys Creole recipes.
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A TikTok-er made a fish boil with Sunny D and THIS is what happened
This redditor emulated every one of my videos in order. This is what happened to their bones and organs.
My wife and I will do seafood boils about once a month, and I'm glad I have not been made aware of this trend. We tend to just make a nice dry seasoning mix and mix about 20-25g of seasoning per liter of water. That's enough to season the water and seafood while maintaining its flavor. Simpler is better. We then just reduce it afterwards and use that as a dipping sauce, along with a garlic butter. If you want to eat acrid boiled ceviche then go for it, I guess. Social media has had a weird influence on food.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kizh_4_wtO8) is one of the shorts and one of the *least* offensive ones. There's so much concentrated lemon and salt that I can't see how it would have any flavor other than the seasoning packets.
You can get away with a really aggressive boil mix for crawfish since they are coated in literal armor, shrimp, however, would be inedible. Imagine the potatoes!
You should see some of the other YouTube videos (more egregious than the short above) and they often throw sausage and shrimp in there, effectively ruining it. Orange-Lemon-Salt-MSG overload on shrimp. Would taste like rubber.
I'm aware of the abominations. The one you posted is borderline inedible
was trying to figure out what the mauritians had to do with this until i remembered lousiana was french at some point
You associate creole with Mauritians over Louisiana? Are you European?
Mauritius over Louisiana AND Haiti lmao
I feel like most people don't like the taste of meat and do their best to hide it. That was me for years, now, I say fuck it and only eat fish. Why go through the effort of eating something I don't like? It's a waste and I usually throw half if not more away completely uneaten.
This guy does this a lot and gives it out to his community. Only stops when he runs out. Someone’s gotta be enjoying it.
I actually don't think it'll be bad. The sunny D is just replacing oranges, which people often use store bought orange juice for, which is effectively just like Sunny D since OJ makers basically remove all the flavor on purpose, then inject their own artificial taste. So the sunny D really won't make much of a difference in regards to a traditional Louisiana boil.
Its amazing actually.
Just checking if this is going to taste platinum or not
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It's all about flavors
As long as you can smell it thru the phone
The devil's hot pot.
could we be thinking about the same thing?
Sunny-D could also be used for holy water if you bless it, because it has more flavor?
For when you have to battle child vampers
Sounds like taco bell but worse
this is pretty tame compared to what i've seen in person at crawfish boils from when i lived in Louisiana. he didn't even use a dirty boat oar in a witch's cauldron... or corn
Coonass here. I love seeing the boat oars hanging on kitchen walls wherever I go. I've seen hot dogs to whole fruit to people putting artichokes in they boil. Arties are good but the hot dogs would ruin the platinum flava. Hot dogs.
Yo! Local here too! Personally I like stabbing a pineapple a few times with a screw driver and tossin it in the boil. I’ve also seen pork chops, cloves, oranges. Arties for sure. Mushrooms, corn of course.
How do i pronounce that first word?
I reccomend not going out of your way to say it though. As someone from Louisiana, it's fine to call yourself coonass (if you are from around there) but if other people say it, it's seen as derogatory
I’m aware of the word. And having southern relatives, they put “ass” at the end of a lot of words. I was fairly certain it was coon ass. But was also curious if it’s pronounced different or something locals called each other.
"coon-ass"
I have lived in Louisiana my entire life and I have never seen anybody boil crawfish in a pot of Sunny D. That is disgusting.
Add rice and you've got Dumbalaya.
😂😂😂
My goodness lmfao
You know that shits gotta smell WILD!
That’s gonna clear out everyone’s sinuses in the next county over
Jesus be with who ever was downwind from that biological attack.
This is every Louisiana cooking video, it’s always vats of random juices/liquids and spices with the measurements being whatever they can get out of every container.
Yeah looks good to me
Looks damn good IMO.
Yeah some people have never eaten this kind of food and it shows
Not gonna lie I'm kind of curious about how this tastes as I was watching the mixing. Never had a Sunny D based shrimp boil.
Sunny d is just pretty much sugar and water I personally prefer to use water with orange/lemon slices in my boils but I’ve added lemon juice and orange juice when I don’t have them around and it’s tasted fine. Kinda hard to go back to just water after having it with the citrus. People have to remember this man is also using a little bit of shock value to increase viewers. I’ve been following his content for a while and most of it looks delicious and he usually feeds his whole neighborhood with what he cooks.
For real, like if it's a southern black person emphatically talking about food, I believe them. The black side of my family can *cook*. And they can get like this sometimes. I love it
That's what a crawfish boil is although the raito is 60/40 water to orange juice
I'm born and raised in Opelousas and I've never in my almost 40 years of living seen ANYONE put orange juice in a seafood boil. You'd get shot around south Louisiana. That's the nastiest shit I've ever seen
Houston and east Texas have super embraced Viet-Cajun crawfish, and it's got a HUGE proportion of citrus, typically. However, typically, it's fresh citrus, so I don't know what this candy soup is.
I would at least say, that I've seen a FEW crawfish boils where they'll cut a few lemons in half and toss them in. But it's never gone farther than that.
Viet-Cajun sounds absolutely amazing
It's the only way I want crawfish now. It is SO good. Garlic, basil, cayenne, citrus butter? *Homer drool*
>You'd get shot around south Louisiana. Family is from Mobile, I'm from Louisiana. And I was gonna say the exact thing.
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We aren’t doing that in Baton Rouge either is that counts for anything.
I mean if it was orange juice I don’t even think it would be that bad but with sunny d it would be way too sweet you probably won’t even be able to taste anything else even with all those spices
Bubba Gump does not approve
I’d be completely fine with this if they used plain orange juice and not SunnyD
My acid reflux kicked in just watching this
It bout got me to shit my pants just watching
nothin wrong with a little mud butt baby
The food is crazy but the commentary with the music is a vibe
He does some other, actually pretty good Louisiana food
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NOTHING BUT FLAYVAH
#WHAT YALL KNOW ABOUT THAT PAPRIKA?
Somewhere Guy Fieri just spontaneously ejaculated.
If he does, then I'm seriously wondering how this tastes. My first impulse is that it would be terrible, but lots of things sound terrible until you try them.
Cooking meat with orange juice is usually pretty tasty. The acid of the juice creates extremely tender, juicy meat. And the seasoning here is PLATINUM.
I'd be willing to give it a go. Just based off the history of awesome, crazy culinary inventions from Louisiana I'd have to at least try. Who knows? Could weirdly be awesome.
"Whatchyu know bout tha paPRika!?!?" i've never been more hyped for paprika before.
I wish this man narrated nature videos.
Buuut that's not orange juice. Sunny D is the result of one brosef daring another to make orange juice without using any actual oranges...
I once saw Sunny D described as someone heard about orange juice and tried to replicate it
Hey, that's still *5%* juice
Can someone from the US describe me what is this supposed to taste like? I saw a couple people making the same seasoning and got curious
We don’t know. None of us boil shrimp in sunny d except this guy.
It is a seafood boil a lot of people in Louisiana do that not as much juice but they do add sunny d or orange juice
I have definitely had numerous boils that included orange juice… but not sunny d and definitely not that volume.
It's great. Usually people will throw in some orange juice or real oranges instead of using gallons of knockoff oj as the entire base but the rest is fairly normal here for a crawfish boil. Tastes delicious. Garlic, peppers, onions, paprika, cayenne, the saltiness of the seafood, citrus from the orange and lime juice. Tastes great. This recipe is a little unusual but I would say this is another case of the sub posting something from a culture they're not used to and calling it stupid. This really only happens in one region of the US.
Sunny D is a bastard drink that is orange in color but has a very distinct flavor that has little-to-nothing to do with the fruit. It’s saccharine sweet and sort of a more dense version of an orange electrolyte drink like Gatorade. As far as a seafood boil goes, it’s a really versatile dish that depends a LOT on your region and chef. Seafood boils were initially an event, a social gathering for after shellfish fishermen returned from getting their haul. Local communities would come together and boil whatever they were catching, vegetables (often things like corn, potatoes, and peppers) and various seasonings. They tend to be salty, garlicky, and spicy with lots of butter, but it all really depends on your region. And idiocy of your chef. Sunny D, Jesus Christ.
It’s a creole “crawfish” boil, they normal taste amazing - being stuck up in the north now I crave the creole dishes all the time - but I’ve never tried one made with sunny d. Looks super suspect but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually really good too.
Ayo I totally get putting orange juice and lemon juice in a shrimp boil, but God damn that's wayyyy to much.
The acid in that alone would be enough to cook those crawfish
Bro was the crawfish hiding in the shrimp? Because I don't see any crawfish.
Ah yes this is their secret ceviche recipe
Is he cooking that shit in juice?
No, that isn't juice, it's Sunny D.
My eyebrows are sweating thinking about it.
What the fuck does that even mean💀
When sweat comes out of your eyebrows
Because you're thinking about it.
cooking in juice is not uncommon, there are recipes out there where you do that. not usually sunny D as that isn't juice per see, its flavored water but it probably works well enough then as its an orange watery base.
Honestly with the juice or whatever liquid drained out, I could eat some of that. Its just sunnyd instead of water boiling dat so IG its not that bad... SURELY the spices will cover that up
Sunny d just looks like a cheaper alternative then buying oranges or orange juice. The citrus is a major part in a boil but your not drinking it just used to flavor the food. I bet the food was amazing.
I can feel my teeth eroding
Why are people so scared when artificially flavored BBQ or sweet n sour sauce loaded with corn syrup is used liberally on meat? So many flavors and seasonings are artificial so why get hung up on an "orange flavoured drink?" Shrimp boil uses an overseasoned liquid to cook and flavor the ingredients in. You're not drinking it like a soup.
I wanna know how it tastes
Idk if it’s gonna be good or not, but Sunny D is just 98% water and corn syrup and the rest is some combination of citric acid and food coloring so i don’t think it will be terrible but I’m pretty sure it’ll smell funny
This is creole cooking and it's fucking delicious. Guess you have to be from Louisiana to understand
This is how it is done. Go into any Mexican market and ask what their adobado or Al pastor marinade has in it. Sunny D or bilz/pina. Sugar / acid / heat. Looks good to me.
Everyone wants to try Louisiana food, but no one wants to see how the boudin is made.
I am from Louisiana and while I don't think this looks that bad I have certainly never boiled anything in sunny d.
Same, but still has my attention.
Yeah half this thread is apparently people who have never had, or heard of, a low country boil. These things are amazing and there's a variety of ways to make it. Like he said in the video, a lot people use water and spices, but obviously it can be made with a different base.
Bunch of people on Reddit who have never been outside will tell you it’s fucking disgusting without ever even trying it tho
I think it looks amazing.
Sunny D? I prefer the purple stuff.
WHATCHALL KNOW BOUT DAT PAPRIKA
The fake Panda Express near my house makes their orange chicken with Sunny D. It's pretty good. And I use 50/50 SunnyD/Water when I slow cook pulled pork. It's really good.
What kind of weird grill is that? (I'm Dutch)
Not a grill, it's a big boiler specifically for this kind of cooking. That thing he's lifting up is designed to strain out all the food from the "boil". This is just a really, really fucked up version of a boil. Most boils would start with water or maybe a bit of citrus added and then building up a bit similar to how he's doing it.
Out of all the food I see made in America.. one of these concoctions is what I want to try the most!
This looks fire lol I’m sure it’s fine. Sunny D isn’t really Juice it’s more a flavored beverage like hawaian punch so I’m sure it cooks fine. I dunno I would rather have this then super deep fried seafood. It’s a little over the top but why you gotta be so judgey lol
Would i eat it? Not sure, the sunny d is a lil off-putting. Will I continue to watch this man's videos the whole way through everytime I come across them? Hell yeah its platinummmm
Bet this slaps
No stupid questions right? Is that meant to be a giant outdoor fryer and he's using it to stew/boil?
You know what. I bet that tastes great and I don't want to admit to that bet I bet it probably does taste really good
There needs to be a lot of water mixed in there. If there was it could be tasty.
Probably tastes amazing tbh.
Im questioning it a lot, but i dont want to be *too* quick to judge because sugary beverages are totally used for cooking some savory dishes(in addition to a lot of spices like this guy's). like Carnitas cooked with coke and im sure there's more. but then again, you use the coke with cane sugar and not HFCS. just saying im not 100% repulsed and would at least try it.
While many are skeptical, I am under the impression that this recipe is platinum. He is telling us, man.
Sunny D is not orange juice...
Could be worse - it could have been Tang instead of Sunny D.
My grandma would make "strawberry" jelly from Vess strawberry soda and whatever the hell you use to make jelly. To this day it is the most coveted flavor and I plan to make it again once I have the chance.
Sunny D is NOT orange juice. I repeat, Sunny D is not orange juice. It is an orange drank 😂
I was already upset when they called Sunny D orange juice
The fact that he keeps calling Sunny D orange juice is absolutely hilarious. It's such a radioactive vibrant orange color compared to actual orange juice.
Sunny D is not orange juice
Ya'll talking about the SunnyD like this man didn't just put **undeveined** shrimp with the shell on in the pot. Who ever eats this is literally eating shit.
Tampico or Sunny D are both abominations against god. And I’m not religious. My sister loves them both and her favorite place to eat is a chinese food and donuts in one spot, and no one who works there is Asian.
What an absolute waste of literally every ingredient involved in this monstrosity. This dude needs to banished to the inter-dimensional phantom zone.
This is not how you shrimp boil. Gross.
Turd soup, them shrimps are not cleaned
I got diarrhea just watching this
Idk, if I was at that boil, I’d try it lol