♪ Are you ready for an Airhead? ♪
♪ Are you ready for this Airhead? ♪
(Mariachi music)
- Today we are swapping Mexican and American snacks.
- One of my faves is Mazapan, some Sabritones.
They're kind of like a chip or like pork rinds,
(gasps)
but they have like the lemon - I've had that!
- and the salt and the spicy.
- I used to get that at the flea market in South Carolina
- In Mexico I think most of the snacks that I had,
where if it was candy, it was all spicy.
- Can you roll your R's?
(mumbles) (laughs)
Say raspado.
- Raspado. - Oh that's good!
- I had it for a second.
Raspado.
- That's good! - Oooh!
- The way I was brought up in my family
candy was like sugar, chili, stuff like that
and chocolate was like its own thing.
- I'm a big fan in any context
of like sweet and spicy together.
- All right so let's bring in the snacks!
You know everyone in America knows her sister
her best friend, her lover, her Tumblr interest, Nutella.
(laughs)
- Better, we have dip that doesn't need a cookie to dip.
You don't need to eat more than this,
'cause it's a lot of damn sugar.
- Actually they don't actually give a lot in this package.
- Strong independent woman.
- Oh, she don't need no man, but she want one.
- She doesn't.
- I feel like I've had these breadsticks
and I've definitely had Nutella, so I get the gist of it,
but this'll actually be a first for me.
- When there was a piñata at a birthday party
you would see all the kids fighting over candy
and then as kids start to leave
the area where the candy was dropped
you would notice these, still left on the floor.
(laughs) I don't remember
- Is it like icing or is it like pudding?
- It's like icing, it's icing.
- It's icing.
This is like you wanna eat chocolate,
but you wanna look like a grown up and be like,
I'm not eating candy, I'm not buying a Snickers,
it's Nutella.
- So you ready?
- Yeah let's do it.
You gotta do all three at the same time, not just one.
- Very nice.
Well done, I like it.
- It's like a frosting pudding.
- Yeah, it's literally frosting.
This is exactly what I thought it was gonna be.
Very Nutella-y, with a cookie.
This is good, like I'm down for these snacks like.
- Oh this is real good.
- This doesn't taste bad.
What I'd rather do is get one of your breadsticks.
Best of both worlds.
- That might be better.
(techno sound)
- That's an upgrade, yeah.
- I mean I would stick with that.
- It's so good.
- I mean Mexico knows how to do it.
- It's just so freakin' good
- We know how to keep our kids tame.
Give them a lot of sugar.
- I love Nutella too but, this is something you drink
with like a shot and you ready for the club.
(record scratch) (club music)
Be like - Let's go.
(bell dings) - Nutella, perfect.
- Unanimously. - Yeah
- Now we're gonna try the next snack.
- This is Airheads.
This is American classic.
This is the best flavor of Airheads.
- Here we have Pulparindo.
- I always have this at my house.
- Really?
- You buy them by the pack.
And I also believe they are like three ingredients.
- I have a bar of sticky sugar.
The mystery flavor, the white mystery flavor
was always like the cool one to get.
(plastic crinkles)
- I love how it's just like the wrapping to this
just comes off.
- It's weird 'cause its sweet, and salty.
- Yeah.
- And hot.
- I don't like this one as much.
- Thoughts?
Not many people like spicy candy.
- This reminds me of the slushy, the blue slushy.
- It tastes like something I would smell in like an attic.
(door creak)
- I like Airheads, I can have like two Airheads tops.
I could have seven of those though.
- This is like a basement party going on in my mouth.
- But the thing with the Airheads that I always hated was
it always gets stuck in your teeth.
(bell dings)
- No I think he prefers this.
- I'll take the Air Head.
- Sometimes, you know,
what you grew up with is what you like.
- Yeah. (bell dings)
- I would say stick with that one.
- You know this is good, and I really like this,
but nothing compares. (bell dings)
- I mean I'm eating the whole thing
'cause like it's so good.
- This I'm saving for later
'cause I'm probably gonna put it in my mixed drink.
Bring on the next snack officer!
- We have Mazapanis, it's literally what it says:
peanut candy, marzipan style.
As soon as you unwrap it it kinda dissolves.
- Oh! - Like it doesn't stay whole.
- It's essentially blended peanuts.
- I will say, Oatmeal Creme Pie
is one of my all time favorite snacks regardless.
I ate these like crazy growing up.
- It's like when you think
you're gonna get a chocolate chip cookie
and you get a raisin oatmeal, that's what I think.
- This was my childhood, Debra, the little Debra,
she stayed on lock.
She had zebra cakes.
She had oatmeal pies.
- It didn't break, what? (laughs)
- Yeah I'm really good at this, how's that feel?
- Do another one!
I'm not gonna eat it, but I just wanna see if I can.
- This is already open, oh you just wanna open it.
Please fall apart.
I hope the Oatmeal Creme Pie falls apart when you open it.
- Well, I think this candy has evolved.
- Actually I would see these at Walmart all the time.
- Yeah
- In the for sale aisle, 'cause nobody ate them.
- She was cheap because she's for the community.
- Weird, I like it a lot.
- Do you? - I really do.
- See how it just kinda crumbles? (laughs)
It's good.
- I like this too.
- I'm down for Little Debbie.
- The filling is outstanding, these are good.
I very much like these, not disappointed.
I've never had them, actually, so.
(bell dings)
- For me, I'm always gonna have
an emotional attachment to Oatmeal Creme Pies.
- I agree. - What?
Wait, you picked the Creme pie over this?
- Mhm. - Wow!
- These were never my favorite.
- Yes these are good, (bell dings)
but I still, that's my number one snack.
- You know, Imma have to go with the de la Rosa Crosa.
- Oh, yes.
- Only because I know my bae is watching this right now
and you can invite me to the cookout.
(laughs)
Bring out the next snack garçon. (claps)
Gushers, this was a drug for me and my sisters.
- They do under deliver a little bit.
Like the commercials were always like whoa Gushers,
watch out for the tidal wave!
- I love the gush in my mouth.
I love turning into a crazy headed gush kid.
- Here we have Soladitos.
This specific flavor is your basic Soladito, limon and sal.
- There's different types of versions of this.
This is the worst one.
- They look like old turds.
(laughs and claps)
Oh, boy.
- How much is the sodium?
2,360 mg! (bell dings)
- It's good for you!
- I can't do it, it's really bad.
- No wait what, try it a little bit longer!
Wow, Brenden.
- Come on. (laughs)
- There is a good version of these
that comes with a sauce and it's sweet.
Let's do it again, we'll do it together.
Come on.
(laughs)
- All the way.
Yeah just like that.
- I can't I'm sorry.
(laughs)
- Now we're gonna go to the Gushers.
- Yeah I would like some of those.
- I've actually never had one of these before
and it does gush in your mouth.
I don't know how I feel about gushing in my mouth.
I'm not used to that.
You can have these, I'll trade you.
A pleasant swap, we'll swap back.
(laughs)
- Oh man, it's so weird to eat a candy
that doesn't make my mouth feel like it's on fire.
- Yeah, but this probably gives you cancer.
- She's so dramatic this is nothing.
(record scratch) That is a lot of salt.
- I would take the Gushers for sure.
(bell dings)
Though I would be very interested to try
the other version of these.
- In this particular situation,
I would also pick the Gushers (bell dings)
Again, these are not that good,
but there is another version of these that's really good.
- You know what?
I take it back. (bell dings)
I'm down for the gush. (bell dings)
- And everybody know I love the Spanish men,
but don't bring that to my house.
- I haven't had these in a very long time, now I know why.
- I like the Mexican snacks, I really love the design.
It really felt it was from Mexico like the childhood Mexico.
- I thought the Mexican snacks were very good,
with one exception.
- The American snacks were pretty good,
they were sweet, very sweet.
- At the end of the day I can't wait to eat more snacks
and I can't with to get lit with you.
- Some tequila, lets go. - Let's go.
- Even though I probably preferred
the American snacks overall,
I do feel like the Mexican snacks were like
more ambitious and more like nuanced in their flavors.
Like they were trying for something more interesting
than just like sugar and I respect that.
(easy-going guitar music)