- Maybe I'll find it in the middle.
- No, you won't.
(both laughing)
You won't find it in the middle, that's it.
She's crying.
- [Announcer] We're going to be swapping
Filipino and American snacks.
- I'm from the Philippines.
It's my first time eating American foods.
- I am American,
and it is definitely my first time trying Filipino snacks.
- I don't know if I've had American snacks before.
- I don't know if I've had Filipino snacks before.
- I'm from the Philippines.
- I'm originally from North Carolina.
I know.
- Where's that?
No, it's my first time in the States, so newbie.
- From like the South.
- Oh.
- This is Durian candy.
Where I'm from, this is like,
this is what most people eat,
but not a lot of people like it.
Like my family eats it,
but I don't like it personally.
So, here you go.
- They're one of my favorites.
- What's the flavor?
- Um, it's Durian.
You know Durian?
- I know what Durian is, but I've never had it.
- You know of it.
- It does stink. (laughs)
- Yeah. - Kind of.
- How is it?
- (laughing) Not good.
I don't like it.
- What do you mean?
It's so good. - Oh.
- It's like marshmallow,
and then there's like,
another solid mass inside there, right?
- Yeah, it has like a tacky flavor.
It definitely melts in your mouth.
- So these are a different variation of the cheese Cheetos,
a little hotter, as you can tell by the many flames.
- I like them, but I'm kind of a baby
and I can't handle the spice sometimes.
So this is a large bag,
I'll eat half of like a snack size bag,
and that's pretty much as much as I can take.
- Down the hatch.
- They're good.
- Yeah.
- It's really good.
I like spicy food.
Oh my God, this is so good.
- Tastes kinda sour, but they're not that hot now.
- No, they're not that hot, but.
- But I feel like if you eat a lot,
oh, I can feel it.
If you eat a lot, it's gonna burn the tip of my tongue.
- It's really hot.
My tongue is like it's burning right now.
- Mm-hmm.
- But I like it.
I like the pain.
- It's working a little bit, but.
Oh. (both laughing)
Yeah. - They're good.
- Yeah, I know that feeling.
I know that feeling.
- I love, I like it.
- This is a Choc Nut.
This is like chocolate and peanuts combined together.
- It's a pack of gum almost.
It's interesting there's not peanuts on the inside,
they just infused - They just, yeah.
- the flavor inside the chocolate.
- Twizzlers, one of my favorite movie theater snacks.
- When we did really well on tests,
my teachers would give these out in smaller packages.
- It kinda smells like a bubblegum.
- We used to have like sword fights when I was a kid.
- What's up?
Give me it straight.
- It tastes like an eraser.
- You gotta eat more of them, that's the problem.
You gotta eat like at least half of these,
and then you're gonna get that flavor of strawberry.
- You like it?
(laughing) You're turning red.
- It's not bad.
- Our kids love, like, snacks,
you know, like you drizzle sugar in it or something,
and this just really was just rubber to me.
(laughing) I'm sorry.
- I don't take any offense to it
because it is a very strange texture
that I feel like you have to kinda get used to.
- This is my favorite.
They're actually from my hometown.
It's dried mangoes with tamarind.
- Oh, that sounds good.
Oh my God.
That's so good.
- You're welcome.
- Tastes like dried mangoes.
Coated in sugar, oh my God.
- And the sour taste of tamarind.
- I don't taste the tamarind, but it's so good.
- It's softer than the regular dried mangoes.
That's so good.
- Here, have more. - Thank you.
- Twinkies are such a classic,
indulgent, American snack.
This is definitely a fair type of food.
You'd see this at the gas station for really cheap.
- Kinda looks like a loaf of bread with some vanilla inside.
- I don't think I've ever smelled it.
- Very good.
It's very good, I like it.
- So it's a vanilla cream on the inside,
and then a spongy cake on the outside.
- I like both.
- Yeah.
The combo is good.
- Rosquillos.
This is like a childhood snack.
There's a specific way of eating this,
so I wanna know if you know how to.
- With my mouth?
They're thinner than I expected.
You eat it off your pinky?
Get outta here, is that really what you do?
- Well, kids do it like this.
- All right, well, I'm doing it the way the kids do it.
- Yeah, I can actually finish like a whole box
by myself when I'm watching movies.
It's like plain, but you just can't get enough.
- Yeah, these are great, and they're fun.
We should have more interactive snack foods in America.
- I think it's important to try other culture's snacks.
Just because it widens your horizon for your taste buds,
and it's important to try those.
- Yeah.
- I was surprised that I would like these American foods.
I mean, I'm a picky eater,
so I loved it.
- If you have the resources to try some snacks
that you can only find in different countries
just to maybe give you a little more perspective,
and to hear someone else try the snacks
that you grew up with.
I was certainly very surprised
by your reaction to the Twizzlers.
(laughs)
It's very funny,
so I think that was pretty entertaining to say the least.
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