- Where were you in the ocean before you came here?
Please tell me your story.
Oh, she's talking a lot of [censored].
- Oh, it's resisting. The oyster is resisting me.
Ugh.
- I feel like I just took a big tumble in the ocean,
and came up, (coughs) I'm alright!
♪ (upbeat swing intro) ♪
- (PvF) So, I hope you are hungry, because today we are going to
have you try some food so we can get your reaction.
- (gasps) Mmm!
I can't wait!
- (PvF) But what makes today's episode so special
is that all of our foods are based on emojis.
- Oh, no way! How fun!
Okay, this sounds intriguing.
- Oh.
Emojis, one of those funny looking things when you text?
- (PvF) So we are going to show you an emoji,
and then bring it out in real life.
- Cool! What a cute idea.
- (PvF) This is our emoji number one.
- Oh.
- (PvF) Do you know what this is?
- Some sort of fruit?
- What's that? What is it?
- Mochi?
- Okay, so if I didn't see a stick going through them,
I would think they were gumballs. (laughs)
- (PvF) Well this is dango.
It is a Japanese dumpling made with rice flour.
- I've never even heard of it.
It sounds like Django, with that movie.
- (PvF) Alright, let's bring in our real dango,
so that we can compare.
- It looks like mochi?
- Oh, it's like mochi stuff.
- Ooh, I hope it's mochi, I love mochi, I'm excited now.
Yes! Wait, am I right?
I think I'm right!
No way, and it looks like, pretty much like,
the damn near exact same thing.
- Well this is some kind of vegetable,
I would say, oh, it could be watermelon.
I mean, that's not a vegetable.
How about broccoli?
I wonder if they'd have broccoli ones.
- Mmm, I do love me some rice flour.
- (PvF) What flavor is that?
- Blah?
- Oh, it's just the ball itself. Okay.
Very chewy, not getting too much of a flavor profile from this one.
- I love this.
- Alright, I'm gonna give it a shot.
Nice and cold.
It's good.
- There's no flavor.
- This is like one of my favorite textures.
- It's like a bean cake, a little bit.
It doesn't have much taste.
- I can have half a dozen of those. (laughs)
- Next time, if somebody wants, if I'm gonna send wah, eh,
I'm just gonna send that as the emoji.
That's my new emoji for eh.
- (PvF) Alright, here's our next emoji.
- That's like a wheel in a manufacturing facility.
- Is this something you see in ramen bowls sometimes?
- I don't know if I have seen this one.
- Well that looks like an after dinner mint.
Right, like am I at Sizzler? (laughs)
- Fish cake? (bell rings)
- (PvF) It is a fish cake.
Well this is another Japanese food named kamaboko, or a fish cake.
Kamaboko is made by processing various fish into a loaf,
and then making thin slices.
- That is so seafood. (laughs)
- Whoa! What is this?
- God damn, that's gonna be disgusting, isn't it?
- That doesn't look like fish.
- Oh, it's salty.
- Oh, I don't like the smell of it.
It tastes exactly like imitation crab.
I wouldn't choose this.
- Delicious, mmm, num, num, num, num, num, num, num.
- Oh, I can't... (gulps)
- Oh, it's good.
- The kicker is as soon as you put it in your mouth,
it's like a giant, it's like you jumped into the ocean.
You know, and all of the fish decided to take your mouth
as their resting position or their resting spot.
Their spawning spot, if you think about it.
- This is like divorced parents fighting over each other
in your taste buds.
And one parent is just gonna leave you alone,
and then the other one just tries to smother you.
- (PvF) Alright, now we're gonna show you our next emoji,
and I imagine you've seen this before.
Do you know what this emoji is?
- Only one of my favorite drinks in the world.
(laughs)
- Oh, what are those called? The boba something drinks, right?
- Boba! They're running out of boba.
We're in a boba shortage.
- Oh, that's gonna be the boba that I have read about,
and those are like tapioca balls,
that right now are in short supply.
Huh, so you've managed to bribe somebody to get these, ah.
- (PvF) This is boba tea, or bubble tea,
and it originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s.
- Couldn't you choke on those tapioca balls?
That's the spooky thing.
- Okay, now, which side goes in?
- This is so delicious. (laughs)
- Mm-hmm. Yeah, I like this one.
- My hope is that I don't choke, which is my fear, so,
so I'm a little afraid of this drink.
- This is a big, big drink.
- Oh my God, this is so good.
Even the drink is good.
- Oh, it's tiny. Oh boy, that's good, ugh.
Oh my goodness, that is yummy!
- I guess I don't understand it.
- (PvF) Alright, let's move along to our next emoji.
- Ooh, flan! (bell rings)
- Creme brulee, gotta be creme brulee.
Looks like creme brulee. Gotta be creme brulee.
- I bet that's flan.
- This is a Mexican dessert. Flan, right?
- (PvF) It is flan. - Okay!
- (PvF) Have you had flan before? - Yes.
- (PvF) Do you like flan? - No.
- What's that, that's flana, flan?
- (PvF) Alright, let's bring out the real version,
so you can compare.
- (laughs) I want something that's more solid,
like a cheesecake, you know? Well.
- Ooh, very sweet.
Very, very sweet.
- Do do do, you guys should slow-mo this.
- (PvF) How does this compare to the emoji version?
- I think it's pretty accurate of what I've seen.
- (laughs) Looks like a hat to me.
- Mm-hmm. That's good.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
- Mmm, okay.
Mm-hmm, I really like this one.
This is a lot better than what it looks like it could be.
- It's very sweet.
- Perfect jiggliness.
Mmm.
Oh it's so good, it's good, good, good, good, yum.
- Flan's kinda boring. (laughs)
But it's good, I mean, it's like, well it's kinda boring.
(laughs)
- Hmm. - (PvF) Our last emoji.
- What is it?
Is that an oyster? (bell rings)
- (PvF) Any idea what this is?
- Um, an embryo? I have no idea.
No, it is um, I have no clue what that is.
- That's an emoji there, that looks, yeah.
- Ooh, oyster.
Right? That's an oyster.
- (gasps) Oysters!
What a random emoji. (laughs) That's so random!
This is like the emoji that you're like
let's go to, I don't know, like freakin' Maine?
Let's go to the Hamptons.
And it's like let's throw in some bougie food,
and like oysters?
Or like let's go to oyster night at the seafood joint?
I don't know, this is such a, I don't know.
- (PvF) Well, this is, of course, an oyster.
- The shell's very beautiful.
Where were you in the ocean before you came here?
Please tell me your story.
I bet you I can hear the ocean.
Oh, she's talking a lot of [censored].
- Wow, this is a beautiful oyster.
Look at that.
- (PvF) Feel like it looks like the emoji?
- It does, it's actually more beautiful than the emoji to be fair.
- But I think the reason that I like this,
'cause I love the ocean so much,
and this just tastes like you just got
a snot-filled mouth full of the ocean! (laughs)
- (PvF) Of seawater, yep!
- Bottoms up!
Mmm, I had to swallow that one real fast.
- (laughs) I like oysters. I like oysters a lot.
Usually I put lemon on them.
- Okay, I'm, courage. Courage, I'm not kidding either.
I'm really... (laughs)
- Alright.
Yeah, an oyster shooter.
I feel like I just took a big tumble in the ocean,
and came up (coughing) I'm alright!
I just swallowed some seawater! But I'll be fine! (coughs)
(Gary slurps)
- To be honest with you, it tasted like a lake, to me.
It tasted like Lake Mead.
- It's good, very sweet, like you said.
- Oh, it's resisting! The oyster is resisting me!
- Hmm.
- (PvF) Can you get a sense of the taste from that?
- Ugh, ooh. Ooh, geez!
- I feel like that oyster died of natural causes.
Like, of old age.
- Delicious. (laughs)
- (PvF) So did you have fun?
- Yeah, I did have fun.
I enjoy trying new things, I can now say that I've had an oyster,
although it wasn't that delectable for my tastes.
- I'm totally gonna eat dango.
Like, I'm totally gonna go find dango, and like snack on it.
- Aces on the boba, and then flan,
and then the fish cakes were really good.
- So I think the biggest WTF one
was that first one, yeah.
- I would not order flan again. (laughs)
- Final thoughts, I'm horny!
- Thanks for watching this episode of People Vs Food.
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- Let us know what else you'd like us to eat
in the comments below.
- Now, get the shell out of here!