- Who's going to a pizza parlor and they're like,
"Can I just get the end part?"
- I feel like this is what hell is like.
- Where's the rest of it?
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're going to be taking a look
at some new ways of preparing some of your favorite foods.
- Okay! I'm always open to new recipes.
I'm not a good cook or anything, but I like to switch it up.
- That's exciting. I'm down. I love eating.
- I'm open to new things.
We all know I love food.
- (FBE) We're gonna have you taste test six foods,
all which have been altered in a way that some people seem
to be enjoying or talking about and we'll see if you think
they're better or worse than the original.
- Interesting. I'm all for ruining creation to make it better.
- Dude, I'm pretty scared, to be honest.
I don't trust the internet and half of the things
that come out of it.
Hopefully, they didn't ruin any of my favorite foods.
- (FBE) Here is your first food. This is crust only pizza.
- Fascinating!
- That's not real.
That's not a real thing!
- I'm cool with that. Crust is the best part.
- (FBE) This trend comes from Villa Italian Kitchen,
who unveiled this as an option last month
and it has gotten a lot of attention and had a lot of debate
about it online. - When you say "option,"
who's going to a pizza parlor and they're like,
"Can I just get the end part?"
- I would have assumed that some 13-year-old kid
with a Twitter made this and was like,
"Look guys. Look what I made."
- (FBE) It's time to give it a taste.
- That's fine.
But I'm a little unsatisfied because where's the cheese?
- Best part. Best part of the pizza.
- This is isn't even the best part of the pizza.
It's the actual cheese and the tomato sauce.
- It's really good.
I could eat up this, but I'd just feel like
this is just bread.
You can get bread for free at a lot of restaurants.
- When y'all said I was gonna try altered foods, I thought
you meant they would put ingredients in it,
make it better, but this is just someone
straight-up just cut the crust and made it into a pizza shape.
- This isn't even an appetizer!
This is the free bread you get at restaurants.
I mean, I like bread, but it's bread!
- (FBE) For each of these foods, we're gonna see if you think that this
better or worse than the original.
So... for crust only pizza, do you think that this is better
or worse than a regular pizza? - I'm gonna have to go with worse.
Even though I love crust with all my heart,
I want the whole pizza.
- It is worse than pizza.
This was part of a pizza. You get this with pizza!
You get the other part, too.
- Worse.
If you just want to eat the crust, cut if off yourself,
but this is... this is too much.
This is too much crust for me and too dry.
- Worse.
It's not really innovative if they just took something
that already exists and they're like what if we got rid
of 90% of it?
- No, this is definitely worse.
Give me a regular pizza, dude.
I'll take that over this any day.
- Worse.
It's like giving me a slice of cheese and saying
here's a crustless pizza with no sauce.
Like... that's not [bleep] pizza. It's a piece of cheese.
This is just the crust. Call it crust.
- (FBE) All right, next up, we've got a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich, however we've tried something
interesting... we've taken out the middle parts
so you're just eating the crusts.
- So I'm noticing a crust theme.
- Is this a joke?
Is this actually... is this real?
Oh, my god.
- I feel like this what hell is like.
I always cut off the crust as a kid, so this opposite of what I want.
I don't want this!
- This is not a sandwich. Where's the rest of it?!
- Five sixths of my sandwich is gone. Bitch on a budget,
so I don't mind having this to be able to afford video games...
or rent.
- It has no flavor, and that's why I hate it the most.
I feel like this isn't even what they would give you in prison.
They'd at least have more decency in prison.
- It's too dry, too crusty.
I don't even know how to describe-- it's just like... no.
No. No one should just be eating the crust.
Get the full bread.
- (snorting) It's not bad.
When you open it up like this, it kinda feels like
the Nerds Rope equivalent of a sandwich.
- (FBE) Crust-only peanut butter and jelly.
Is this better or worse than a regular peanut butter--
- This is worse. This is WAY worse.
Man, if you do this, you're a psychopath.
- No, worse.
- Worse. I want the rest of the sandwich.
- I'm gonna go radical.
I kinda like eating it like this. I like the vertical sandwich.
I'm gonna say better.
- I'm just uncomfortable with the whole concept of it.
It feels like a waste of the rest of the sandwich.
It's worse.
- It's so bad. So much worse.
I... just take it away before I actually want to leave.
- (FBE) Next up, we've got a spin on a classic dessert.
- Mm-hmm? - (FBE) So...
this is a cookie, however today you'll just be eating the crust!
- What the [bleep]?
- I though the sandwich crust was hell.
This is just disrespectful to the cookie.
- It feels like you guys were gonna shoot a food episode
and then you got hungry, but you're like,
"We still need something left."
- That's a pretty good cookie, man.
Other than the way it looks, other than the completeness of it,
it tastes exactly the same. I'm not even gonna
try to front here.
- I mean, it still tastes the same.
It's not like the others where the crust is too dominant,
you know, but this is just like eat the whole cookie.
Why cut a hole in it?
- I mean, this might work if you're on a diet or something.
I can't eat a whole cookie. Let me have a crust of a cookie.
Who's cutting the-- who's doing this?
- This one's bull[bleep].
There's nothing different about the outside of a cookie to me
than is the inside, so I want the rest of my cookie.
- (FBE) Crust-only cookie. Was that better or worse
than the original? - I... this is dumb.
I understand it's worse, objectively, it's worse.
But it's kind of fun to eat it in a different way.
- I'd still probably eat it because it still tastes the same,
but it's worse.
- Worse! I miss my cookie.
There should be more cookie. Always more cookie.
- I'm gonna say it's not as good as the original just because
you don't have the whole thing, but it's not bad.
- I wouldn't not eat it, you know?
It's still a cookie, but it's worse because
you're not getting the best part of the cookie.
- Worse! Where is the middle? That's all I'll be thinking about.
What happened to that poor center part of the cookie?
- (FBE) As you know, pigs in a blanket are already
a spin on the classic hot dog, so we thought we'd do
our spin on pigs in a blanket-- it's just the crust!
- It's just biscuits!
- This is just crust, all blanket, no pig.
- (Eric) Who are you keeping warm?
There's nobody in the blanket.
- It's sad because I can smell it.
If I could smell the remnants of the poor little piggy
that I will never get to taste.
- (disapproving groan) That is so--
there's no flavor to it.
It just tastes like burnt bread.
- It just tastes like nothing, like overcooked flake.
I didn't realize the pig brought so much to the table.
- If you took a bite of some Post-It notes,
it'd probably have the same consistency as this.
This is horrible, man! This isn't even enjoyable.
- Don't invite someone to your house.
We're gonna have brunch and I'm gonna make pigs in a blanket,
my recipe, and not have no sausage in there.
They will riot.
Probably no longer be your friends.
- (FBE) So crust-only pig in a blanket.
Was that better or worse than a regular pig in a blanket?
- I'm gonna say worse.
- Worse!
- It was worse than pigs in a blanket.
- It's worse.
It sounds like a rock hitting the ground.
I'm over it.
- It was a close one, but I'm gonna have to go
with worse again.
- Worse.
Get this outta here. Ugh.
- (FBE) All right, well, are you ready
for your next food then? - Oh, nope.
No, if I could opt out of this, I would,
but I cannot.
- (FBE) Next up, we have cheesecake.
People debate online-- - Oh, no!
- (FBE) ...the flavor of cheesecake, but now you don't have
to debate what the best flavor is because this one's just the crust.
- Okay.
The graham cracker crust is my favorite part
of a cheesecake.
- I'm not opposed to it. I kinda like cheesecake in any form.
- I don't mind this.
I actually dig how crumbly the crust of a cheesecake is.
- I'm not upset at it because the crust is great.
I enjoy it... but I also enjoy everything else.
- I might be into this one.
And there's a little bit of cheesecake in the crust.
- (FBE) Oh, do you want us to scrape that off--
- NO!
- Oh, my god. It's so dry.
No cheesecake flavor, just the crusty.
- This is way better than any of the other crusts
because it's got some flavor to it, like some graham cracker,
maybe some cinnamon.
It actually tastes like something, even if it's still just crust.
- It's not bad.
I'll sit here and I will just keep picking at it, but...
I wouldn't just want plain crust, but I hate everything else.
- (FBE) So crust-only cheesecake. Was that better or worse
than regular cheesecake? - Worse!
No, do not do this.
- It was still worse.
- It's worse than regular cheesecake.
I'm still gonna eat it.
- I think it's worse, yeah.
It's so bland.
I feel like I need milk or something to at least help it.
- Not better, but not THE worst of the smorgasbord
that you gave me.
- It's worse. (laughing)
Even it's worse. You know this.
You know when you take a Scantron test
and you just keep hitting B, B, B, B,
and you're like this is wrong. This is the whole episode.
Wrong, wrong.
- (FBE) For our final food, we are going with
a breakfast classic. It's... a Pop Tart!
- What's in the middle?
- (FBE) What do you mean? - What... what'd you do to it?
- What'd you do to it?
- (FBE) What do you mean? - What'd you do the Pop Tart?
Why is there a middle?
- But you didn't take the frosting off.
Is it just supposed to be the-- is the frosting
supposed to be on there, right?
- (FBE) Oh, wait, what do you have there?
- A Pop Tart. - (FBE) Can I see it?
Oh, sorry! My bad. Okay, sorry.
We gave you the wrong one.
Okay, let's try just the crust only version.
- AAH, NO! WAIT!
I should have taken a bite when I had the chance!
- (FBE) Sorry about that.
Didn't mean to... didn't mean to do that.
- I like the ones with a little bit of Pop Tart still on.
- (FBE) I don't know. Let's start with--
- No! I'm mad and you just eat
the Pop Tart right in front of me.
I was being so polite.
- This doesn't feel good. God, that's horrible.
- Not pleasant.
I want the icing to stand out but... if anything,
it makes it more dry in my mouth.
- There's just a whisper of the filling left
and there's a sprinkle on the edge.
- (FBE) Oh, [bleep]. I should have cut that out.
- No!
Breakfast is the thing you just wake up and you're like
this is how my day's gonna go.
This is setting you up for a [bleep] day.
- If I were starving and this was all I could get,
I would obviously eat it and be okay with it,
but the fact that y'all put an actual Pop Tart
in front of my face and then took it away
and just gave me this, I'm... I'm over it.
- (FBE) So crust only Pop Tart.
Was that better or worse than an original Pop Tart?
- It was worse but they taste very similarly.
- It's worse because there's little to no flavor,
it's dry.
- That was a lot worse.
It's not even food, man.
Why would you call that food?
- Worse.
This is what falls on your lap when you're eating this
on the way to work.
And this is what you have served me as food.
- I'm still trying to chew it. It's so much worse.
I can't even swallow it!
You gave me a desert, not a dessert.
- So this is worse. I love crust on anything.
I am a crust kind of gal, but I don't think I am anymore.
I think I'm a changed woman after this episode.
I will never be able to just look at my crust and be like,
"I respect you" because I don't.
- Thanks for watching us eat the crust on the React channel.
- Subscribe to see what other crusty ideas we have next.
- What do you think of crust only pizza?
Let us know in the comments.
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