- Today we crown the barbecuiest of
barbecue flavored snacks.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Summer.
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A few weeks ago we sampled snacks that had sour cream and
onion flavoring - Yeah.
- In order to determine which one was most like
the actual flavor.
- And it was the crickets, the crickets won out.
- Yeah, who knew they could get so sour creamy?
- Yeah, they did.
- Let's see if we're surprised again today when we set our
sights on the most American of flavors.
- Potentially.
- Barbecue.
It's time for Super Snack Flavor Match
Barbecue Flavor Edition.
- Okay, now as we have established on this show and in a
song that we wrote a long time ago, barbecue is meat
prepared in a very special way.
- It's not a verb.
- Right, and barbecue flavored things though, in America,
usually are not trying to replicate the flavor of barbecued
meat. - Right.
- It's trying to replicate sauce.
- Right.
Which we have some here.
- And usually it's like a Kansas City sauce.
- Right which is
- It's a sweet, - Thicker.
- Hickory-ish.
- [Link] Sweeter.
- [Rhett] Sauce.
- So we're tasting this now in order to establish a baseline
with which to compare all of the snacks we're
gonna taste today.
- Right, and see which one gets the closest.
Let's get started.
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Okay, up first we have the classic
Barbecue Lay's chips.
When somebody says, "Give me some barbecue chips," you
usually can't go wrong if
you get Lay's. - This is the go to.
- I mean, look.
We've got the same exact thing happening in the real world
and on the bag.
- [Link] We don't have a hairy baster.
- Do we have a hairy baster?
- Where's the hairy baster?
(laughs)
There's all these people here and I'm looking at no one
because I don't really want a hairy baster, it's
just for comedy.
- It was my nickname in high school.
(laughs)
Never gets old.
- (chuckles) The thing that I noticed from eating the actual
sauce was the bite.
There's a bite that you can't neglect
- Don't neglect the bite.
- When comparing it to this.
Now I was hoping I'd get one of those chips that's folded
over 'cause those are the jam.
- Like this one?
(laughs) - Aw.
You looked, man.
You can't win the lottery by cheating.
- Yeah.
- That was a good chip.
- It's better than the sauce.
Isn't it better than the sauce?
- See, what I'm gonna do is, I'm just gonna lick it.
'Cause I don't wanna taste the potato.
- Here's a foldy.
Here's a foldy with a baby chip coming out of it.
- I ate the baby and I'mma
lick the daddy. - Here's another foldy.
(crew laughs)
- Eat the baby and lick the daddy, kids.
It's so good.
Korde Busby on Twitter said, "Barbecue Lay's
"are slap peach."
- Makes me wanna slap a peach!
- I think that means a butt.
- This is really close, man.
- Especially if you dip it in there.
- Okay, so we're each giving these a one to 10 and then
we're going to - It's very close.
- Average between the two.
- It's coming from the same exact place.
- So smoky, it's got that bite.
- I'm going with a
- Eight. - Eight.
Hey, that's what I was going to say.
- We agree.
- [Rhett] Eight.
- So that's a total of 16.
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Alright, now let's check out some David Jumbo Sunflower
Seeds roasted and salted and then barbecue
natural flavor added.
No picture of sauce on it.
- No.
- Let me give you a little bit.
I love the name David for a brand.
It's like, "My son David has these sunflower seeds, you
"really gotta try 'em.
"What should we call 'em?
"I think we're just gonna call 'em David."
(laughs)
- What if it was a tribute to somebody?
- "Well, it's my son David.
"He's dead.
(laughs)
"He died of sunflower overdose."
- What if that's true, man?
- "Eat, spit, be happy."
Are you talkin'?
- Yeah.
Why'd you give me so many?
- I love eatin' these when I'm fishing, gives me something
to do besides fish with my father-in-law.
- I'll be honest with you, they could just be salted and I
wouldn't know the difference.
- I cannot taste any barbecue sauce at all now that you
mention the point of this episode.
(crew laughs)
Sorry, David.
I don't taste any barbecue flavor in your sunflower seeds.
- You don't know he's in heaven, man.
He may have been a bad boy.
- (laughs) How could anyone who makes this be bad?
"I kept all of the barbecue sauce for myself but I still
"labeled it barbecue flavored (laughs)."
- Oh, he's from a different place now.
- He's Lucifer himself.
Alright.
This is not barbecue.
It's still great, David.
- I give it a one.
- Yeah, two. - Sorry, David.
- [Link] It's a total of three.
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- I've got high hopes for these because I
love eating Fritos.
Have you had the chili cheese Fritos?
That's not what this is about but
have you had those? - It's interesting because
I've had those and I've had normal but I've actually never
had barbecue Fritos.
- Really?
Oh, but the corn is really strong.
- That's why I'm just gonna lick this one too.
- They're so good.
- They are very good.
- They're so satisfying.
It's so corny. - There's a subtly to it.
It's so corny.
- Gotta lick the daddy on this one.
- You gotta lick the daddy and then spit it out real quick.
- Why can't you lick the daddy and then eat the corn?
- Because then you only get corn.
- You don't want only corn.
- Again, because we're not analyzing how great of a
snack this is.
It's a great tasting snack.
- It's so salty though.
- But how much barbecue-ness is there to it?
- In fact, eat some sauce to remind yourself of what you're
trying to taste for.
- It's so sweet. - It's so sweet.
There's no sweetness on this.
It's just salty and savory.
It's good.
- But it's like half barbecue.
It's like barb.
- I don't even know if they got to the B, man.
It might just be bar.
- And that leaves me giving this a
- Four.
- [Link] Four.
- For a total of eight.
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You're copying my scores.
- (laughs) No I'm not.
I had it in my mind and I wanted to say it in unison and
then I said it a little late.
- So we're just on the same wavelength?
Nothing wrong with that.
It happens sometimes.
- You know what, I'm going first this time.
- Okay, yeah.
- Weight Watchers.
How many points?
- Air pop, not baked or fried.
- Two smart points.
- "Our popped barbecue potato chips are your go to snack
"when you crave a savory snack.
"Enjoy this classic chip flavor for just two smart points."
We get two smart points?
- Yeah, the more you eat, the smarter you get.
That's what it is.
- Oh, after eating the things with lots of points.
- Oh, wow. - It tastes like
some old gum that somebody left on the gym floor.
- Yeah, you know those black circles?
I pointed to one of those I was like, "Kids,
"you know what that is?" - "You know what that is?"
I was with you.
- You were there?
- When you taught that lesson.
We were in a parking garage.
My kids were there too.
- (laughing) Yeah.
- You were like, "All kids,
- Yeah that's right.
- "Gather around.
"You know what these black spots are?"
And Shepard was like, "Gum."
(laughs)
He was like, yeah we've had that lesson in
the McLaughlin family.
- Yeah, I thought that would've been a cool lesson.
Uncle Link teachin' 'em about something.
That backfired.
We should've eaten these first.
They're so bad after everything else.
Yeah, dip it in some barbecue sauce.
- Have you licked the daddy yet though?
- I'm licking the daddy.
- Actually, when I licked the daddy I got
more barbecue flavor.
- Well of course you did 'cause you don't have the
flavorless-ness of the gum.
- Yeah, the old gum.
- But do you taste how sweet it is compared to the Fritos?
- Hold on, but it gets barbecue points.
Not only does it only give me two smart points but it gets
a lot of barbecue points.
I'm gonna give, well, I'm not gonna tell you 'cause I don't
want Link to copy me.
(crew laughs)
So Link, what do you give it?
- It has more sweetness than any flavor I've tasted but it
has none of the bite.
- This is what I'm thinking over here.
- I'm giving this a three.
- What?
- I don't like it and I don't think it's barbecuey.
- [Rhett] Seven.
- That's a 10 total.
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That's a disappointment.
(crew laughs)
That's exactly what the review said.
- Yeah. - Now we know why.
- It looked so big in the picture.
Looks so small in daddy's hands.
(laughs)
♫ Daddy's hands
- Okay. ♫ Were warm and soft
♫ When I'd been bad
(laughs)
- No.
- (laughing) I don't remember.
- "They were hard as steel
"when I done wrong." - "Done wrong."
(laughs)
- So these are Stonewall's Jerquee.
Jerquee.
- Jerquee.
- That can't call it jerky because this is a vegan...
- It's a vegan product.
- It's a vegetarian snack.
- Is it vegan, it's vegetarian.
There's a difference.
It's animal free.
- Barbecue beef.
Oh, my goodness it looks like a dog treat.
- You sure it's not?
Is there a dog on there somewhere?
- Is this a dog treat, guys?
- It's in such a small pack. - We're gonna eat it anyway,
just tell us.
Okay.
- This is definitely a dog treat.
- They're not saying.
- It smells like a dog treat. - Smells like a dog treat.
- Barbara stuff smells but I would never give
this to Barbara.
- It's meaty.
- That's not meat, man.
- This is a dog treat.
- If I had a choice between eating this
- It's horrifyingly horrible.
- Or just expiring,
(crew laughs)
I think I would expire.
- I think it's expired.
I gotta just lick the daddy.
(crew laughs)
Do not eat this.
- Oh, even licking the daddy's bad.
Oh, it's horrible.
- Zero trans fats though.
- Oh, my goodness, that's horrible!
- Come on, let's stress the positive.
It's got a mustachey old man winking on me.
- It does have a good mascot.
- He's winking on us.
- And it has a cactus on the front.
A blactus.
- I'd rather eat a black cactus.
(laughs)
- Blactus.
- I can't even get passed how horrible
this is. - Sounds like a superhero
that lives in the desert.
Comes out at night.
(laughs) - Oh, my goodness.
Okay.
- And licks the daddy.
- This is just abysmal
- Man. - In taste.
But can you decipher any barbecue-ness?
- It's got a little bit of spice.
I can taste a little bit of garlic powder,
which is in barbecue sauce.
- But it's more like a jerkiness than, like a teriyaki jerky
they'd just probably do. - They tried.
They tried but they started in the wrong place.
They started trying to make meat out of something
that's not meat.
But just pure flavor, eh, two.
- [Link] Zero.
- For a total of two.
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Alright, you ready to
(laughs) go fishin'?
- So this is Thai Taro Fish Snack barbecue flavor.
Or as my dad would call it, thigh toro.
Like literally we passed a Thai restaurant and
he said out loud
- Thigh food.
- All dark meat.
- (laughing) When he came to visit me in LA.
- All dark meat all the time.
- And I didn't correct him.
I didn't say anything until right now.
What is this, man?
This are made of fish?
And they got barbecue
sauce on 'em. - Oh, my gosh.
Talk about smelling like bait.
- Ooo, man it smells like walking down a wharf.
- Yeah, it's like when you're on a pier or a wharf.
- What is the difference between a wharf and a pier?
I think one floats. - A wharf is concrete
and bigger?
- No, a wharf moves a little.
- Really?
- Oh, yeah.
- I'm gonna wharf it down though.
Oh, gosh.
I can't read any of that.
- [Link] Another language?
- It's in thigh language.
(laughs)
I don't speak thigh.
- This is so chewy
and stringy and fishy.
- It's not nearly as fishy tasting as it smelled though.
Don't you give it that?
Give it that.
- Well, it's not that I can taste barbecue flavor, it's that
maybe the fish flavor is noshed down a bit by
whatever they added.
- As you can see though, there's no indication of
barbecuey-ness on this.
There's just a fish and then it's orange.
And then there's a carrot on the back.
- There's a carrot on the back?
But if I look at it there is an orangeness.
There's an orange tint that I don't think comes from
anything except a snapper.
- It says barbecue flavored on there though.
Maybe they thing carrots are barbecue in
- Hold on. - Thigh-land.
- I don't know if I'm getting residual barbecue flavor off
my tongue, which we've been cleansing our palette between
each round with a lime but, that being said...
Ooo, that tickles.
- Oh, got a little spic under that.
- It's not like crickets, I'll tell you that.
They douse those crickets with flavor.
We should've got more of those.
- Nothing.
- I mean, it just tastes
like I'm on the wharf. - Well, you know what,
I got a little bit of something, I'm giving it a two.
- I feel like I'm sucking on fisherman's finger.
I'm gonna give it a one for a total of three.
Okay, so clear winner.
No surprises here.
Lay's. (bell ringing)
- Yep. - With 16 points total.
- Ran away with it.
Good work, Lay's.
There's a reason why it's on your package.
(laughs)
- Yes.
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