- Should I know what a plantain is?
I'm like trying to picture it in my head.
- It's like, imagine a banana, but it's the Hulk.
- Oh, great.
- There you go pretty much! - Yes.
- That's a plantain.
(upbeat guitar begins)
- Plantain. What is plantain again?
- Plantain chips, we're eating plantain chips.
- What is plantain?
- Are plantain chips like some sort of weird banana things?
- Plantain crisps, I believe we call them over here.
That's what we would call them if they were here.
- Yeah. That's what we'll call them for this video.
- Yeah.
- See, I have a weird thing with textures.
- Do ya?
- So if the texture doesn't match what I think it is,
I'll freak out.
- Oh.
- Flip the table, - Oh no.
- Lights. (hands smack loudly)
- Oh shit.
- Yeah.
(upbeat guitar begins)
- Ow, my elbow!
Plantain chips, lightly salted.
- The "planteen" or "plantain"?
- [Producer] Plantain.
- Plantain.
- This is a first for me now.
I never even heard of plantain before here.
- Got all sorts of animals on it,
so that's very exciting.
Got a little leopard, got a little tortoise,
toucan, hummingbird, and frog.
- Mm-hmm.
- Where have I had these?
I think I eat them with Leather Jacket Guy at his place
an awful lot.
Very quick, easy. (laughing)
Big plantain guy, huge plantain guy.
- His house is just plantain trees.
- I'm expecting the banana taste
but you'd never put salt in a banana.
- No, you wouldn't, would ya?
- We go for it. - Give a try, yeah nice.
(chips loudly crunching)
Ooh, it's a nice crunch to them.
Ooh, that's lovely! - Mm-hmm!
Ooh!
- Oh my God! I love that.
(laughing)
- It does kind of look like "body of Christ".
- Is it a bit plain-tain?
- It's just like mouldy crisps.
- These are very snackable.
- Very more-ish.
- I'd rather a heavily salted packet.
- Like there's no banana taste.
- No, not at all. - Really?
- Really, really good like I'm surprised
at how tasty they are.
I thought it would be more banana-ey, but they're not.
- Do you know what, a bit of salsa.
- A bit of salsa would be good.
- That would I think go really well.
- I like the texture though.
I do like kind of, - Do you?
- Soft texture, do you?
- Not really.
- No?
- Like if you were to eat these,
you'd never even know they were bananas.
Well, plantains.
- The more I'm eating them,
the more I'm really liking them though.
- But what if you let a plantain grow long enough,
does it turn into a banana like a butterfly?
I have a conspiracy!
- That's like saying, what if you let a potato,
grow long enough, does it turn into a pineapple?
(laughing)
- It'd be a good snack, good telly snack I think.
- Yeah. I think we can do better.
- Yeah.
- I think there's good stuff on the way.
- Mm-hmm. - I've got faith.
- It's good. Excellent start.
More!
(upbeat guitar begins)
- Naturally sweet!
- Oh, well you'd assume so.
- Maybe it'll taste like a banana now.
- It feels like they don't have the money
for actual flavouring. (laughing)
They're trying to get away with it.
- I don't want to say what they look like,
'cause it'd be very naughty of me
- But might I introduce
the word puckered to your vocabulary?
- Yeah, puckered, puckered. (laughing)
- I think a real banana snuck its way in here,
that's too much of it. (laughing)
Come on.
It's like, I'm really banana, - They are fairly.
And I'm a plantoon.
- A plantoon?!
(laughing)
- I'm actually a banana, I don't know how I got here!
- I'm a platoon!
- Plantain isn't naturally sweet anyways.
- I've had them before where sometimes
they're very potato-ey,
but then you get some of them where they're very ripe
and they're like just a banana.
- Will we go for one?
- 'Cause the first one was so good.
- Yeah. - So I'm just like,
surely we can go up from there.
(chips loudly crunching)
- Oh, it's crispier.
- Those are very similar to just regular banana chips.
- It's a banana, tastes like a banana.
- Oh, It's definitely more plantoon-y.
- I'm not used to crisps being sweet,
so it's a very confusing experience.
(laughing)
- I'm not a fan at all.
- A lot harder though, ow.
(laughing)
Hello!
- Like you really need to give them
a good going over your teeth.
You couldn't have false teeth eating these.
- It's a texture thing, It's freaking me out.
- Is it?
- Tastes like a banana, doesn't feel like one.
- Yeah, yeah that's a great description.
- The first one tastes like a pack of crisps.
- Yeah.
- So I was associating it with like maybe having a pint,
and some plantain bites, maybe watching a match
and having some plantain bites.
You wouldn't go out with these.
- I think the last ones were better,
in terms of like snacking, like throwing them back.
- Mm-hmm.
These ones one at a time, it's a bit of a journey.
- I can kind of get down with them.
- I'd say I don't really like bananas.
- Oh, yeah that would be a thing.
- I mean, they have a lot of uses, you can draw something there
flip a coin, if you don't have any coins.
'Cause who carries coins anymore.
- These are a little bit too crunchy for me.
- These on top of like a banana bread,
I think would go really well.
- We're still eating them though.
- Yeah, they are naturally sweet.
- If I was like at a house party,
I could definitely see like someone being like,
"guys", guitar in one hand - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- Plantains in the other,
"Just try it" - Defo.
- Right and your like "No, no I don't want these."
- No, just give me Tayto please.
(upbeat guitar begins)
- Ooh.
- Spicy.
- Oh my.
- Ahhh!
- Ooh, it's the spicy ones.
- How are you with spices?
- I love spice.
- Really?
- Yeah, I love spice. Really good, what about you?
- My favorite spice is flour, so.
(laughing)
- You never see lightly spiced.
- No, no. Get outta here if you're lightly spiced.
- Get outta here, with your lightly spiced.
- I hated when spiciness is,
that's it like it doesn't enhance the flavour.
- Mm-hmm.
- So like, if it complements the plantain, great.
But if it's just spice, I'm gonna be sad.
- If you look close in them,
you can kind of see like visions of things.
- What do you see?
- I see Daniel O'Donnell.
(laughing)
- I think it's gonna be a sneak up sort of spice.
I'll be disappointed if they're not spicy at all.
- One of those one that you think is grand,
and then woah!
- Yeah. - Bit of a kick, yeah. Okay.
- And then you're shitting yourself.
- Yeah.
(chips crunching loudly)
- That is very spicy.
That's a nice level of spice.
- That's nice.
- You think so?
- It taste like kind of hummus-ey.
- Bombay Mix.
- Yeah, bit Bombay Mix, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, I wouldn't call that spicy.
- No, I can't even feel it in the back of my throat.
- Yeah.
- I could definitely get down with these.
- They're lovely.
- They have loads of pepper left over,
from the lightly salted.
(laughing)
Ah that'll do.
- Do have you any more salt?
No, we lightly salted so many plantain chips.
- These are similar to the first one
where you could toss these back.
- They're softer, mushier.
- These ones are my favourite.
- Yeah, these are the best. - Mm-hmm.
- These are definitely the best.
Oh look, there's a shamrock on mine.
- I can't see anyone going buck wild for plantain chips.
Just like, "yes! My mom is back from the supermarket,
and she bought plantain chips, yeah, best day ever."
- Apart from Leather Jacket Guy who loves them.
- Absolutely loves them.
- Obsessed.
- The spice, there's not enough spice in them I think,
they could have gone spicier.
- Oh yeah, definitely
- Nice spice to them, that compliments the sweet flavour
that you don't get off these ones because they're so spicy.
So therefore it doesn't really compliment the sweet flavour.
- Do you know what, you should make a food blog.
(laughing)
Right? Just have all that down.
- That's all, I'm not convinced then.
- They're not gonna be getting a plantain out of 10.
- Ey?
- Ha! (hand smacks loudly)
- He's on fire.
(upbeat guitar begins)
- These aren't plantains, these are bananas.
- [Producer] That's right!
In comparison to the plantains,
these are banana chips.
- Oh, so we have real,
but oh so you can make crisps out banana.
- I feel like I've been tricked. I didn't sign up for this.
- Ingredients; Banana, vegetable oil.
- That's it.
- All it says is banana.
- So simple.
- I don't think you should make crisps out of bananas.
Plantoon-eys, grand right?
Not definitely bananas.
- Are you a banana fan?
Are you a fanana?
- Not now after hearing that.
- I'm amazed at how much, - Oh!
- they fluffed up.
- Yeah, they're quite hard though to snap in half.
- Are they?
- Yeah. (chips snapping)
- Oh wow.
- Yeah. Yeah.
(chips loudly crunching)
- These are the porridge-ey bananas that I know.
- Oh, that's great. I love that.
- Wow.
- Brilliant.
- That is an odd experience.
What do you think of that now?
- I hate it.
(laughing)
- I actually really like it because I love bananas.
- You love bananas. - Yeah.
- Oh wow. - Fuck plantain, bananas.
- Yeah, screw those plantains.
Get them outta here. Bananas all the way.
- These are delicious. - Mm!
- 'Cause bananas are so normally soft and it's like.
- I get soft. - Really?
- I felt like I had like chewed up a banana in my mouth.
- They're very sweet.
- They are very sweet.
- They are amazing.
- These are way better than our banana chips that we have,
'cause ours are quite dry I think.
- Mm-hmm.
- This one looks like,
did you ever see that meme of the ghost that's like that?
- Do you mean the painting?
- Is it a painting?
- It's actually a famous painting.
- Doesn't it?
- It's the best banana chip I've ever had.
- But Martin, it's the only banana chip
you've ever had.
(laughing)
- These are the ones.
- Yeah. These are the ones to get.
If you're gotta buy anything, by these.
- I like that the company's name is just Fruit Food.
- I prefer the plantains 'cause they're crispier.
We're used to top tier stuff.
- Yeah, me brain doesn't even recognize what this is yet.
Like it take me a couple of weeks sitting down eating these
to kind of fathom what's going on really.
- I think plantain is like the weird cousin of the banana.
- Best was probably the real banana, the king.
- Irish People Try Plantain?
No, get that shit outta my sight.
Banana, absolutely the best one.
- I would buy the spicy plantain ones,
if I saw them which is a very big step, I think.
- That's very polite.
- I thought so too, yeah. - I like that.
- I think they're shit, no I'm joking.
(laughing)
- Thanks a million for watching us eat,
the really really exciting plantain food.
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