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Hello I'm Barry and this is Ben.
- And today we're gonna explore a few more food trends
and to see if they're actually worth the fuss or not.
- And I warn you, this episode does contain Benuendoes.
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- Feeling trendy?
- I'm feeling on trend, there's a difference.
- Keep my eye.
- Lift the cloche.
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- Oh, what have you done to that salmon?
And my milkshake?
(laughing)
- Have a sniff, by all means,
have a taste and then see if you can identify flavors
and perhaps, something that links the two.
- I'm gonna go for this first.
I hope it's not salmon that links the two.
(laughing)
Smells like peanut butter.
- It's nice, whatever it is.
It's just the right level of sweetness as well.
- I think it is nice.
I'm gonna stick, I'm getting like nut butter flavor.
- I, honestly, haven't got a clue what this is.
- [Ben] So this is definitely a bit more of a curve ball.
Different flavor, same product.
- Can I lick the fish, is that weird?
- Do what you like, mate.
- I don't want anyone watching me doing this.
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No, tastes of nothing.
(laughing)
Tastes of nothing.
- This is an Australian brand offering vegan friendly
powders for awesome lattes.
Two different flavors,
one is roasted tea and one is black sesame.
So think like beetroot latte, turmeric latte,
matcha latte.
These are two different latte blends.
- I don't have a problem with these claims,
no added dairy, vegan friendly,
caffeine free and gluten free.
- When speaking to the developers of it,
they basically said it's also quite good in ice creams,
cake frostings.
- I'd quite like to try that in my ice cream.
- What do you think this product has been invented to do?
- Alternative hot drinks for coffee shops
that don't have the caffeine but I think they play,
especially these two, which is why I picked them,
so more of the kind of, the Asian flavors
that are becoming increasingly popular
over in London and the US.
These are only sold wholesale to coffee shops.
How long before, if at all, will it reach down into us
as normals being able to buy it for our home.
- You are not a normal.
- Well.
- You are not a normal, you're a consumer
and you're not normal.
- I don't own a coffee shop.
- I like a classic latte.
I'm not a fan of these fancy colored ones.
- Sounds like such an old man.
- Sounds like my Nan.
(laughing)
- Oh yeah, no.
I'll take that as a compliment.
- His fancy latte.
- I'll stand by that the sesame one
tastes like a nut butter.
Which is a good thing.
- Is this the new hipster fix
or just a bag of unnecessary tricks?
- Oh.
- It's the new hipster fix.
- A new hipster fix is quite a statement.
And it's not that.
That's a statement that I would not be willing to make.
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- Good day so far, James.
- [James] Mhm.
- Lift the cloche carefully.
- Shhwing!
Oh.
- Fizzy drink, a spritz you might say.
- Maybe.
I will say that cause clearly it is.
- You gave it away too early.
- I think it's a spritz.
(laughing)
- Shut up!
- Smells sweet.
It's clean, it's refreshing.
- No idea what the flavor is.
- It is a fruit.
- Plum?
- Watermelon?
- This is Meloni, invented in 2014.
So it's a relatively new product,
they wanted to tap into the vast expansion
of the wine market.
Translated from the site, so take this with a pinch of salt.
Thanks to my special red color,
I'm already a real eye catcher when serving in a glass.
For this reason alone, the girls appreciate me.
The first sip reveals why I'm also popular with men.
Bleugh!
- Okay.
Lively, smart and refreshing.
That's how guest who have tried me describe me.
No wonder my inventors, the Melonists worked on me
for a long time and created a top class wine cocktail
with the best white wine from Austria
and the fruity tart melon component.
- What they don't claim
is that you can just drink it straight.
- They definitely claim it as a wine cocktail.
- Oh, think I prefer it straight.
It's intense.
- I would put this in a very similar bracket
to Aperol, in the sense it's one of those things,
you wouldn't drink Aperol neat,
you serve it as a spritz with other things.
- That on a summers day, replacing a jug of Pimms.
- You'd choose that over both of those?
- Yes.
- Wow, okay.
(laughing)
- I've got an inflatable, massive watermelon as a lilo
and I can see myself now,
floating round the pool, drinking
- Meloni.
- This straight from the bottle going,
yep, yep, I'm a millennial.
(laughing)
- No, you're a Melonial.
(laughing)
Am I right?
- As a spritz, I liked it,
liked it less and less as you read out all the branding.
- Price wise, what do you reckon?
Again, it's kind of sole trade so they only sell
it by the six bottle case.
- Oh, a fiver?
- It's about 10 euros 50,
so it's about nine quid probably.
- Maybe the story I was telling myself
when you first said watermelon wine was like,
a high quality product that somebody's innovating with,
making wine out of watermelon
whereas it's, what it tastes like is bad white wine
with watermelon in it,
that you have to water down with something.
- James has spoken.
(laughing)
- Was that too harsh?
(laughing)
- In that case,
is this a delicious drink or one for the sink?
- It's delicious.
- I think it's one for the sink.
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- All right, mate.
Lift away.
- Oh!
- What?
Are you expecting me to eat these?
- I love mushrooms and if they're snacking mushrooms,
even better.
- They don't look very appetizing.
They are rock solid.
They smell mushroomy, funnily enough.
- They look great, they're crunchy.
(crunching)
- They taste sweet.
Is it like honey or maple or something on the outside?
- It's not intense, not overpowering
and it's unbelievably moreish.
- These are crunchy Shittake mushrooms.
This is a revolution in savory snacking.
Other Foods mushroom snacks have all the taste
and texture of natural, slow baked mushrooms.
The earthy Umami taste of mushrooms is one that
few consumers can resist, combined with just a pinch
of Himalayan salt to heighten the organaleptic experience.
- All right, well here's a good talking point.
You lied to me.
- Oh.
- Because it's got Maltose in it, which is sweet.
(laughing)
It's basically sugar, come on.
Vegan, Paleo-friendly, 80% less fat than potato chips,
high in fiber, one of your five a day
and 100 calories per serving.
That bag is two servings.
- So you're opening that packet
and you're just having half of the packet.
- Probably, yeah.
Cause they're actually quite strong.
- Okay.
- If I liked them, I'd definitely nail this.
(laughing)
- Okay, right so that's revealing.
- Still unsure about whether I like,
I'm still eating them though.
- Yeah.
- Moreish, they're definitely moreish.
- What I do like is on the packet,
you've got serving suggestions
and one of them is trying them in a soup or stir fry.
Which I really like but they've also got topping for salad,
which would be like croutons so both of those,
I like the idea of.
- I think crunchy mushrooms could take off.
In snack form or in cooking.
- I can imagine they're quite expensive.
- So how much for those?
- I'm gonna say £1.50?
- Three quid, probably?
- Why?
- Shittake mushrooms are more expensive than potatoes.
And it's new and innovative and supposedly trending
so whack on a couple more pennies.
- £2.29 so they are three times more expensive
than your potato chip.
All right then.
- Oh, oh no.
- Fun mushroom snacking
or not mushroom for fun in this snacking?
- Is this all you do now a days?
(laughing)
- Fun mushroom snacking.
- They're the fun one, the fun one.
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- Give it a lift.
- Oh.
- What are you?
- Pumpkin seeds but I'm guessing they're not pumpkin seeds?
- Bloody hell.
(crunching)
- Wow.
- They look like pumpkin seeds,
they taste like a Jager Bomb.
(laughing)
- Sweet soy sauce or something?
- He's good.
- It's his job.
- They taste delicious.
But the eating of it is not very pleasant.
- If it's a snack, it's a punchy snack.
And if you don't like aniseseed
and you don't like Jagermeister
then you're gonna really struggle with these.
- These are watermelon seeds.
Soy sauce flavor.
Healthy snacking and a clever use of the bi-product,
which would otherwise normally be thrown away.
When they are sprouted and shelled,
they become pretty nutritious because all of that
nutrient is bio-available.
So you can't just eat them straight out of a watermelon,
they're not actually that good for you.
But once they've been processed, sprouted
and shelled and in this case flavored,
they're good for you.
(crunching)
- Yummy, yum, yum.
(crunching)
- Having never eaten these before
and seeing you eat one,
I thought they'd be so crunchy and bitty
and actually you get an initial crunch
when you bite through them and then it's just chewy.
And then you get a delicious flavor
which then turns into liquorice for me.
- Wow, great palette.
- Why?
- There's liquorice in it.
- Oh, yes!
I found my place amongst the chefs.
- I can't imagine these being expensive.
- They are on par with most other seeds,
you know £5 for a 500 gram bag.
In that case,
a tasty seed or is it best used as bird feed.
- Oh, I wouldn't use that as bird feed.
I think they'd struggle.
(laughing)
- So is it a tasty seed?
- Well, no, no.
It's not that either.
(laughing)
- That Ben, is a tasty seed.
- Suck it and spit it.
- Okay.
- You get all the flavor, without the texture.
(laughing)
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- Okay, Basil.
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- Vines.
Wine.
Something, something wine.
- So why can it not be wine?
- Well it's too thin for a bottle of wine
but it could be a pouch of wine.
- I've seen this before
and I thought it was flowers but when I opened it,
I was even happier.
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Yeah!
(rustling)
- Oh, it's wine in a bottle.
Weird, it's plastic.
What is going on?
- This is letterbox wine.
- This is ridiculous.
(laughing)
- A flat bottle of wine.
Which is genius, yeah cause you can send it in the post.
(laughing)
- This bottle is made
(laughing)
This bottle is made from 100% recycled pet.
- What?
- P E T.
- Pet.
It says pet.
(laughing)
- This is letterbox wine.
The founders were on the hunt to find an alternative
to the inconvenience of having to wait in for delivery
from a wine club and they wanted something
that was practical and particularly,
environmentally friendly.
8.4 times less energy to produce one of those bottles
than a glass bottle.
40% more spatially efficient when packing onto transporters
so for example 100 lorries full of wine suddenly become 60.
Each bottle weighs 63 grams when it's empty
which is 87% lighter and with all that in mind
each bottle saves half a kilo of CO2 emission.
- I have a flat bottle of wine.
That is the same size as a normal bottle of wine.
- Isn't that deceptive?
- It is deceptive, yeah.
I had to look at that.
It's won lots of awards,
packaging awards not wine awards.
- I think the conversation is around packaging
and distribution although obviously help yourself
to a glass.
- I'm not loving the wine personally but I don't know
if we can judge the wine.
You could decanter.
- You get more wine in your fridge.
- My house is tiny and space is really valuable
and I haven't got space to put a wine rack
so therefore, I've got wine bottles on my shelves
and with a kid on the scene,
he likes to pull things off shelves
and glass is lethal.
So when I saw this, that was a major problem solved.
Knowing that I could put these alongside my cook books.
(laughing)
- If you're ordering wine, if you're part of a wine club,
you're gonna get between six and twelve wines in your pack.
Therefore, are you gonna get six flat boxes
of wine delivered?
Cause you wouldn't get one wine, that's just silly.
- I envisage that the solution to multiple bottles of wine
being delivered at a time is just,
one of those boxes but just really long.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- So the postman comes through your letterbox and just
- Like with a javelin?
(laughing)
I guess the problem that they probably have
is getting good wines into this bottle
because I would presume that most vineyards, wine makers,
would have the same reactions I did
and not want to put their wine in here
because people probably won't buy it.
- It's all perception because I have absolutely no problem
with pouring milk, juice, water, cordials
from plastic bottles but there is a snootiness
about a plastic bottle of wine.
- If I was giving someone a gift,
I'd get them a glass bottle
cause it feels more of a gesture.
- What's cool though, is the fact that it's innovative
and it's the start
and in two, three, four years time,
we could all be picking our wine off the shelf
in plastic bottles shaped like that.
- Yeah.
- And that's great, that's why I really like it.
- Would you quaff it back or post it back?
- I'd quaff it back.
- Quaff it, quaff it.
Look at me now embracing these.
Quaff it back.
- You've changed.
(laughing)
- I've had a wine and a Meloni.
(laughing)
I think it's called?
- (mumbles).
- Meloni.
(laughing)
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if you're out and about and see food trend products,
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- Simple as that.
- Deal?
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And now a blooper.
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- James's haircut has made it onto the front page
on searches for hipster haircuts, or something.
Hasn't it?
- I haven't, I don't know.
People just keep
- (mumbles)
(laughing)
- I like the way he's taking credit for that
despite the fact he's just sat there,
somebody else did it to him.
(laughing)
- Yeah it's honestly nothing to do with me.
- Well there you go.
- Spotted.
- Trend setter, not for food, for haircuts.