- Some ASMR for you.
This is the vegan one.
Not as much noise on that one there.
- So soothing.
I would rather listen to that
than your friggin' snoring.
- You're gonna grow used to it,
you're gonna be like,
"Can't sleep without the sound
"of his snoring next to me."
- I have so much footage of you snoring
if that ever happens, I'll just play it.
- Sup guys, Timothy DeLaGhetto here.
- I'm Chia Habte.
Your wife.
- My wife, let's do our secret handshake.
- Yes.
Oh god, okay.
This is good.
- Y'all might know me
from the Thrillist show Send Foodz
where I travel the country with my cohost David Slow.
- And David sucks.
- David So stinky.
- Stupid.
- Well he's not here with me today,
today I have my better better half.
- Better half, better everything.
- My wife.
- Yes, yes.
I'm more cuddly than David, I smell better.
All of these things, right?
Nicer to look at.
- Facts.
Nicer, softer butt, for sure.
- All the things.
- David's is like a brick wall.
So today, on a new episode of,
- Down The Hatch.
- We're gonna be seeing if we can tell
the difference between
- Vegan and non-vegan foods.
- You think you'll be able to do it?
- Yeah I think so, well I don't know.
Last time I was a little too optimistic
and I didn't do too well.
- What?
- Damn it.
These vegans are getting tricky with their witchcraft.
- Yeah, it's hard to tell.
- All right, we have four categories today, my sweet love.
First one is burgers.
Fish tacos.
Chinese barbecue pork or char siu.
- And cheesecake.
More cheese that you shouldn't be eating,
but here we are.
- Cheesecake doesn't have any cheese in it.
- Okay, all right.
- The vegan one won't.
- Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, okay.
- Let's do it.
- Get it.
- Oh my goodness.
- Right?
- This is tricky.
- They both have the pinky meat inside.
- Yeah, they got a little pink in there.
- That's how they get you.
That's how they get you with the burgers.
They put that fancy like beet juice in the middle.
- You act like they're trying to like trick you though.
- It's just what they do.
Should we smell them?
Smells like reals.
- This one smells like it can be real too.
- Just based on smells,
I feel like this is the vegan one.
- I mean, I see what you sayin'.
Well the potential vegan one that you chose,
also has fancy bread.
- Embossed with heart.
- Embossed.
Yeah, so you feel like they're trying
to overcompensate with some like fancy accouchements.
The cheese is looking like regular cheese.
- Like regular cheese.
- The pickles look like real pickles though.
- Man, those are artificial pickles.
- Let's go with what we think is probably the real meat.
- Real meatsies.
- All right, cheers.
- Boink.
Mmm, that's really good.
- Tastes like your standard burger.
Thick beef patty.
- Mhm cheese is good.
Veggies are all good.
Next.
- Okay, the possibly vegan burger
with the pink in the middle.
Cheers.
- Beet juice in the middle.
Mmm, super good, the consistency is already like mushy.
- It crumbles a little more as soon as you bite into it.
- I could eat that whole thing though.
- No, no that's definitely tasty.
The thing about vegan food too is like
everything else around the fake meat
is also like usually really flavorful
'cause they're trying to make up for,
- For the meat.
- What they're hiding.
You know what I'm saying?
So these onions are like really good,
this whatever is the fake cheese is sweet.
- Yeah, the cheese is really good.
The pickle?
Are we still on the same page?
- Yes, same page.
Real burger, vegan burger.
- Woo!
Come on man.
- Come on, come on.
Now we have the fish tacos, now come on.
Just off of...
- What we see.
- First looks.
- Real fish.
- No, you crazy girl.
- I'm just joking, I was just joking.
- Fish tacos.
This looks like tree bark
wrapped in a tortilla.
- It smells good though.
- I'm sure it's tasty.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean like I said man,
they always throw in some extra flavor in there.
- Mm, to make up for the yeah yeah.
- So I'm sure like the sauce is poppin' on the tree bark.
Let's try the real one first.
- Let's try a tree bark.
- Wanna go for that rojo or that verde?
- No, I think green.
- Yeah, yeah true.
The rojo made my culo.
- Muy fuego.
- Yeah, yeah the last time we did that.
- Perfect.
I'm gonna go for this end.
- Oh yeah, eat the butt.
Cheers.
Mm, that's awfully close there.
You're very close to me.
- Mmm, that's fresh.
- That's a solid fish taco.
- Crunchy.
- Big 'ol piece of I don't know, cod in there.
- Filet.
- Oh yeah that's really good.
That's tasty.
- Next.
- You wanna lime me up?
Is that vegan lime?
- Only the veganist.
- Tree bark time.
- All right, let's get it.
- Cheers.
Mmm.
- That's not bad.
What is that?
- Zucchini?
Or maybe squash?
- Yeah, I think you're right.
- Mmm, I'm not mad.
That's really good.
- That is good.
- What's the flavor?
Was it smoky?
Barbecuey?
- So the super softness of the squash
I guess is like supposed to emulate the fish,
and then the tree bark is like the batter.
- Stop saying tree bark.
- Let me say something.
It's good.
- You made me choke.
- Sorry.
- Jesus.
- You like the tree bark tacos?
Huh, you wood.
Vegan taco, real taco.
- Yeah.
- Amazing.
- Hm, no.
- One of these is vegan, one of these is real-gan?
- This is crazy.
- I can't believe.
- That they look the same.
- Yeah, they look like identical.
- Consistency looks the same,
they're both glossy the same,
crunchy in the same like spots.
- Yeah, it looks like it.
- Okay yeah, smellsies?
Smellsies.
- Wow, this is really good.
- I think based on smell,
this is the vegan one.
- I was gonna go with the same.
I was going off of visually though.
- Oh, okay.
- Because the fat on these
looks a little more like fat.
Cheers.
- Mmm.
- Hmm.
I tell you, man.
- Hm, that's really good.
- That's tasty.
Salty and sweet like some Chinese barbecue pork should be.
- Tastes like it's legit Chinese pork.
- I can definitely tell the consistency
is not what it normally is, right?
- Right.
- But like, let's say I was just
eating this with some rice.
- You would never know the difference.
- No.
- Never.
- I don't think I would either,
and let's try the real thing.
- Cheers.
- Mhm.
Pork, vegan.
- Mhm.
The biggest difference is definitely
the consistency and the texture of it,
but this is solid.
- I actually kind of prefer this flavor over that flavor.
- Really?
- Mhm.
- If I had to pick which one I like better,
I'd go for this one.
I like the way, like just like fat feels.
- Tastes.
- And tastes.
- So we're right, right?
This is vegan.
- Yes.
- Cheesecake.
Okay first looks, they both look very nice.
- Yes.
- They're decorative.
- Yeah, yeah very decorative.
- I mean we know what's what.
Don't they?
- Do we?
This is the real one, yeah?
Off looks?
- I mean, if you're just looking at it,
it looks like your typical cheesecake.
- Right.
- With like the crumb at the bottom,
and then your layer filling.
- But here's what kind of messes me up is,
my mom makes a cheesecake,
the texture kind of looks like this.
- So maybe they're doing this layering
to throw us off.
- So which one you wanna go with first?
- Let's go there.
Should we eat it romantically?
- Oh girl, you all in my head.
No, no we're gonna do this.
- Get your finger out of my face.
- Oh sorry, I didn't realize I was doing that.
- Okay, cheers.
Really good.
- Tastes like cheesecake.
- Feel like I taste cream cheese.
- It's fluffy, yeah.
- Fluffy, delicious.
- Mhm.
- Next.
- All right.
- Cheers.
Oh, this is.
- That's just all peanut butter.
Vegan, real.
Tasty, does not taste like cheesecake though.
Tastes like a peanut butter mousse.
This right off the bat, as soon as you taste it,
it's like this is cheesecake.
- It's like how your mom makes it.
- Mhm.
Looking at it kind of threw me off at first
'cause it don't got the clear cut.
- The clear lines.
- And I thought what kind of like vegan voodoo
are they throwing in there, you know what I'm sayin'?
- I think we got it right.
- Yeah, for sure.
- Stop eating the real one.
- Oh my God, I'm sorry.
- Jesus.
- It's been so long.
- You're just indulging.
Look what you've done.
- It's my work.
- He's gonna have so many pimples tomorrow.
- This is my job.
- Shut up.
- Well, we did it.
Four for four.
- Yeah, so we did good on this one.
- Good job.
- Cheers.
- Yay.
We'd kiss, but I'm sick.
- Yeah, we haven't kissed in weeks.
- If you wanna see more of my face,
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- Bye.