- (gasps) No, Godfrey, you're gonna make it wrong?
- You made your decision.
- Swear, if you gave me dog food, Godfrey.
(upbeat music)
- Hey everyone.
I'm Sepi, and today we're gonna be trying
each other's cultural snacks.
- I actually think Lucia is gonna beat me today
'cause she's been around the world.
- Not that confident in myself as Godfrey is.
- I actually don't think I'm gonna do that well
because I only have Fox's biscuits
and that's pretty much it.
- I think I'm gonna do all right.
I'm a bit concerned that my reputation
as a chef is gonna be tarnished here
if I don't get six for six.
- I eat so many biscuits that I think
I'm gonna be very well versed in this.
I see it going in my favor.
- Okay? Okay.
I like the confidence.
We'll see. We'll see. (laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Don't look at my board, okay?
- I won't
- Oh, hello.
- Like a kind of malted milk.
- I thought the writing was gonna give me a language.
- It kind of gives me like rich tea biscuit
- Rich tea, finger vibes.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
- Smells like yogurt.
(biscuit crunches)
- Mm.
- That crunch, though.
- This tastes exactly
like a kind of biscuit that I already know.
- What?! This just taste like a nice, sweet biscuit.
There's no clear distinction between it.
- That's a little bit stale.
- Okay. It's quite plain
but I didn't think you would have like a sweetness to it.
- I think you're trying to throw me off.
- [Lucia] Well, it says Lane.
- Lane, Lane.
- Lane.
- They do a good biscuit
- But I'm gonna put my biscuit
where I think it's from.
- Same.
- I'm gonna put it here
because I feel like this biscuit will go well
with a lot of sweet drinks.
- I expect more from Iran.
- I'm going different
because I actually know where it's from.
That's right.
Acting at its finest.
If I've learnt from my mistakes.
- Oh, he has fooled me. (laughs)
- So these Lane biscuits are what I used to have
as a young boy.
It's a rectangular biscuit.
That's quite long, hard.
(laughs) I dunno what I'm describing here.
And quite sweet and almost a little bit creamy as well.
It's a very sweet biscuit.
(bell dings)
(upbeat music continues)
- Sizable is that, that sounded really creepy.
But that is the word that came to mind.
- It smells herby.
- It's got like a cumin smell.
- It looks more cookie-esque than, oh, it's got a filling.
- Oh, is it?
- Ooh.
- Oh, that's a straight Nigeria.
And you're trying to lie to me right now.
- Is that a jam?
- Yeah.
- Is that figs?
- I can taste the cumin now
- I'm locking that in, that's...
- I think maybe texturally it's the chewiness for me.
I wasn't expecting that.
- It's got some kind of spices in there as well.
- Tastes like, is it ginger beer or root beer?
- I think it's from this place.
'Cause of the spices.
- Just the flavor profile is giving me
that it could potentially be from this place
- It's more. This, this side.
And I'm gonna go here.
- This one because of the presentation,
you think a Nigerian cookie would look like that?
- I'm going to go here.
So my biscuit is an Iranian cookie/biscuit.
It's called Koloocheh.
It's one of my favorites.
Like the OG biscuit.
It's so soft and doughy.
You split it open and it's just perfect with a tea.
(bell dings)
- This is cute
- Is there something in the middle of this?
- Ooh, strawberry. Hello.
- This is the most fragrant one by far.
(biscuit crunches)
- Ooh.
- Wow.
- That's straight fire.
- Is it?
I like that.
That reminds me of childhood.
- I don't like that fake strawberry taste.
- You know when you are in primary school
and you get that cake, that sheet cake
and it's got the pink icing on it.
It's giving me that.
- It's got a lovely strawberry flavor
but I don't think I could eat many of these.
- This is not a wafer by the way,
this is a full on cracker
with strawberry yogurt inside.
Tell me that I'm wrong.
- I'm gonna go with this country here.
- I'm going here.
- I'm just going with my gut.
- I'm gonna say here.
- The cracker thingy is throwing me off.
- I think that I have already used this country.
I'm gonna use it on the one
that I've already know that I've got wrong.
- Okay. I'm just gonna put you here.
- I'm gonna put mine where I think it is.
- And I know that this is wrong.
- The biscuits I brought along
are called, Sunflower Crackers.
I know they say crackers
but it's like the closest thing we have to biscuits
but also on the packaging it says biscuits.
So I'm gonna claim it to that.
(bell dings)
- Whoa.
- This is not a biscuit.
- They smell quite oily.
- Smells fried, yes.
- Fried, yeah.
- Okay. So I've got to admit.
The look is not great.
- I don't think this is gonna be super sweet
but I think it's gonna be nice.
- This looks like dog food.
(both laugh)
Tell that doesn't look like the little nibblets.
- Oh yeah.
- The crunch, mm.
- It's kind of dry.
- And even if they're fried
you can predict they're not that heavy.
- I can snack on this all day, I reckon.
- Oh my God.
- My teeth are feeling it already, are yours?
- But with this, I feel like you could have this in the pub.
- These are crazy moreish.
They are so good that when you finish it,
it's got a little something to it
that makes you want another one.
- It's a weird shape for a biscuit.
Although it is a biscuit.
I would class this a biscuit.
- I'm not too sure
if you would want to grab a handful, though
- I would. Like a handful and you're like, ooh.
- Cinnamony, cinnamony cinnamony cinnamony.
- I'm gonna say here maybe.
- I was expecting like a cardamom from this place
but I'm going here.
- I'm thinking somewhere with not too many spices.
- I think they're from this place
because I'm familiar with it.
- So I'm going to go, with this country.
- I'm going here because they like to deep fry stuff.
Okay. So my cultural biscuit is Chin Chin.
So it's like a ginger snap mixed with shortbread,
but mini cubes.
It's the equivalent of peanuts in a jar.
(bell dings)
- Oh shoot. (laughs)
- I have made an error
and would like to rescind one of my previous decisions.
- They're very cute.
- Ah, damn.
If this don't look Italian, I dunno what it is.
- Cheers.
- Cheers
- Ooh.
- That's dusty.
- That's so good.
- All I'm thinking is I need a cup of coffee.
And this country, I know they do it
- I feel like an Italian will be sat there
with like an espresso.
Like, tuta bene and just dipping this in there.
You know what I mean?
- Oh, I ate it the wrong way.
Kind of like when you eat pears, you eat the big bit first.
Isn't it?
- Yeah.
No. That's I think, I think that's right.
- Oh, you get, oh, she almost slipped.
- Very tasty.
Love the texture.
Trying to get past the annoyance
that I hundred percent know where this is from.
- It has to be here.
I know it's wrong, but it's gonna have to go here.
I'm sorry.
- But the next closest best option is there.
- I got it wrong.
I messed up.
So I'm gonna have to put it here.
- I think it's gonna have to be the Philippines.
It gives me that kind of vibes.
- It's going there and I'm sad about it.
- My biscuits are Gocciole, they are a must have
in Italian households and they're just so good and light.
We have them mainly for breakfast.
(bell dings)
- Oh man, this is Italy.
I've got this all wrong.
- Massive biscuit.
- I feel like I've straight up had this in Italy before.
- This is basically like a massive rock.
- Now I'm left with India.
Not, not in a bad way.
Love India, but...
- "Damn! I'm left with India".
(biscuit crunching)
- I think it would go well with something else.
That probably is a tea.
- It's big, but it's not heavy.
- I just really like a big biscuit.
- And I love the texture.
I love how like holey it is.
It's got like air pockets and stuff.
- That tastes of nothing.
What you talking about vanilla?
- 'Cause I've got nothing left.
- I only have India left.
It doesn't look Indian.
It doesn't give me an Indian sense.
The strawberry one is Indian.
- The straw...yeah
I strongly believe this is actually Italy.
I just associated with dunking it in a coffee.
- And although you are the last spot that I had,
I probably would've put you there anyway.
- This is the last one on my board.
So I'll be locking that in.
- I can imagine it's from this country.
So I'm hoping it's correct.
- So what I brought in today is Cape Rusk.
They are these long sort of dry baked biscuit bars
and they have a kind of like multi-taste.
They soak up tea really well.
They can really withstand a good dunking.
- I knew it!
- Nothing.
- We got India the same
'cause that's where we were left with.
- Cause we both left in that.
- Oh, we've got the Nigeria one.
- That's the same.
- India's the same.
- We got around the same
- No, I got three. Excuse me. I got one, two and three. Ha!
Now, Godfrey.
- You got two, your own country.
- Yeah.
- Oh I got three. Sorry.
- You got three, yeah, yeah.
- Aw, a shame.
- Yeah, three, oh, there we go, we tied.
- We tied.
- My favorite one would have to be the Iranian one.
- Same, really, really liked it.
But I really, really like the Nigerian ones as well.
- Not right that Britain has a reputation for biscuits.
'Cause I feel that these are these are...
- These are better.
- Yeah, they're better selection.
- I like the strawberry.
- This one. I'm gonna finish it.
This is top tier.
- No way.
Flavor-wise I love that fake strawberry.
I dunno why. Reminds me of my childhood.
- I don't think I ever would've tried some of these
or have like the opportunity to try some of these.
So I'm glad that I got to.
- Yeah, me too.