- Which pumpkin spice food
is the most pumpkin spice skewed?
- Let's talk about that.
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♪ Tis the season ♪
for pumpkin spice.
Which is somehow not a spice exclusively
for jack-o-lantern headed people.
- I know what you guys are thinking.
Every year you guys jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon.
Will it pumpkin spice?
Trader Joe's pumpkin spice taste test.
Pumpkin spicy challenge.
Pumpkin spice dog biscuit smoothie.
Pumpkin spice latte turkey taste test.
And last year didn't you say
you weren't gonna exploit the pumpkin spice trend anymore?
- Turns out we were liars
and I do miss commenter man.
- Yeah, he's back. - It's time for
Super Snack Flavor Match
Pumpkin Spice Edition.
Our mission is to taste some popular pumpkin spiced items
and determine which ones actually taste
the most like the spice
and we're gonna rank them each on a scale of one to 10
and add up our scores.
In the end the snack with the highest overall score
will be forever named
Pumpkin Spice Brian. - Because why not?
But before we crown a champion
we're going to establish our control by tasting
actual pumpkin spice.
You may already know this
but pumpkin spice does not contain any actual pumpkin.
It's a combination of cinnamon
nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and allspice
which is cleverly designed by marketing companies
to capitalize on that autumn feeling.
We have that right here.
- [Link] Looks like brown sugar-ish cocoa.
- Let's taste it.
Wow, just the straight up thing, it's very strong.
- It's mostly cinnamon-ish.
But, it's more dirt-ish.
It's like a dampened down cinnamon.
- It kind of just tastes like
what you would remember as pumpkin spice.
- Yeah.
- First up the piping hot bean juice that started it all.
The pumpkin spice latte.
- I don't find myself ordering this much.
Or never. - I have never ordered it.
- 'Cause I don't like sweets in my coffees.
- I really like this
and I don't like flavored coffees in general.
- I can't.
But does it match the spice?
That's really the question.
Yes it's good, it's sweet.
There's no sweetness in the spice.
So I think they're sneaking in sugar
and that seems underhanded to me.
If you're really making a pumpkin spice latte
you see what I'm getting at?
It'd be better. - I just feel like
I would know that this is a pumpkin spice latte
because you told me it was a pumpkin spice latte.
In reality, it could be so many other things.
I'm just gonna give it a four.
- I agree.
I'm gonna be more harsh
because I've got something to prove.
I'm smaller.
I don't wanna get into relationships
but I'm giving it a three.
- [Rhett] For a total of seven.
- Thomas' brand pumpkin spice English muffins
are the 77th best selling English muffin on amazon.
- I think this particular pumpkin spice one.
(Link laughs)
I don't think that Thomas is--
- I didn't mean to diss you Thomas.
- They're probably the number one selling.
- The pumpkin spice that we are tasting--
- When I think of English muffins--
- Why am I opening this? - I don't know
We've already got them over here.
- I like to eat them cold and unsliced.
- [Rhett] I'll have these over here then.
- I'll taste it that way, too.
- I'm gonna start with just the straight up untoasted.
- $14 on Amazon.
- You see they have little pieces
of flavor pockets?
- It's subital.
It's very subterranean and subtle.
- I can taste it.
It is very subtle.
Let's see if comes out in the toasting process.
- Like comes out into your mouth
or goes out into the atmosphere?
- If it's enhanced.
Oh, actually it is.
(Link chuckles)
- What?
- Do you not taste it more?
- I've still got the other in the back of my throat.
It's wafting forward.
Let me swallow that.
Okay, now I still got some in the front.
- It's stronger when it's toasted.
- It permeates the breading.
- It permeates my mouth.
- It goes up when you toast it.
And then when you refrigerate it and untoast it.
- Hold on. It's subtle--
- Not recommended.
- But it is the exact flavor profile as pumpkin spice.
But it's subtle
so it kind of balances itself out.
- You have your score and I have mine.
- It tastes exactly the same as the thing
but it's subtle
so I'm gonna say--
- Six. - Seven.
I'm saying seven.
For a total of 13.
Next up, Blue Diamond Pumpkin Spice Almonds.
- I didn't know these existed.
- Let us not forget the Salt and Vinegar Brian
was awarded to Blue Diamond Salt and Vinegar Almonds.
They basically have a track record of replicating flavors.
- Here they do.
Here they do.
Why you opening that, 'cause we got 'em over here homes.
- I'm just smelling them
they don't smell like pumpkin spice
when you just put your nose on 'em.
I guess you gotta put your mouth on 'em.
- [Link] Smells like cinnamon cereal.
- Huh.
- All the other flavors hit hard.
This one just kind of--
- You know what hits the hardest?
- It saunters in.
- You know what flavor hits the hardest?
- It slinks over.
- Almonds.
You know what hits next?
- It actually tastes like--
- Toasted almonds.
- It's toasted.
That's exactly what it tastes like.
- I'm a culinary savant.
- Listen, Blue Diamond.
All you gotta do is this, you know?
You just gotta take pumpkin spice
and put it over almonds.
Right? - You can't taste those now.
- I'm an industrial engineer.
- You can't taste those.
- I know manufacture processes.
I mean, if you'd consulted with me
I'd be like dump the dumped
and then package the packaged.
- Can you rub two almonds together and get fire?
- This is not really
knowing your capabilities, I'm really let down.
Two.
- I would ask you to lick those
but you just compromised all of them.
- Even after doing that they don't taste like pumpkin spice.
- It tastes more like pumpkin spice if you just lick them.
Which is not what you probably want to do to almonds
so I'm gonna give it a four.
For a total of six.
- Pumpkin Spice Jell-O.
- Pudding.
Jell-O pudding.
And pie filling.
- I didn't think they made food like this anymore.
- In boxes?
- Yeah, like it's just a box with a bag inside of it.
And this from my childhood.
When you go in the grocery you don't see that anymore.
We live in a new land, a new world.
It's the future.
This is the past, this is past packaging.
This is outdated.
- You haven't been looking
as you pass through the grocery store.
- We know that pumpkin pie is not make out of pumpkin.
We're gonna explore that more
in Good Mythical More, I think.
- This is tricky. - This is tricky
because we also know that pumpkin spice
is not made from pumpkin.
- Yeah, but this has got pumpkin spice all throughout it.
- Which is not pumpkin.
- But it's this. - Spice.
I like it, I love it.
This is my type of consistency.
Just mushy, when I get old and loose my teeth
I'll be the happiest man on earth
when I'm eating what I have to eat then.
- Will you still be able to talk?
- Yeah, but it'll be a little bit different.
- It'll be even worse. (Link laughs)
Try this and then directly after that try the spice
and see if you don't learn something.
I learned, well let me see.
I don't wanna influence you, what did you learn?
- It makes it taste like tree shavings.
- I think it's 'cause you're sticking your tongue
directly into it.
Go a little bit lighter.
- My objective is not to annoy you left and right.
I'll do what ever you want.
- I want you to actually
this is important.
We're gonna have a real ranking here.
I think it tastes exactly the same.
I'm giving this a nine.
- Oh, I'm getting serious.
You don't want me to screw it up with comedy.
- Yeah. - I don't do that, dude.
- What's your score?
- Since when am I funny?
- Since when are you funny?
Well, that's not for me to decide.
- Thank God.
- This is the best for me.
This is a nine.
- It's my favorite thing.
- But how much does it taste like pumpkin spice?
There's a lot riding on this.
A Jell-O sponsorship is one of them.
Because you know they're looking for spokespeople.
- Oh goodness.
Just out of sheer guilt I'm gonna bump my score by one
just being honest
to an eight.
- For a total of 17.
Kellogg's Pumpkin Spice Mini Wheats.
You ever had these?
- I have not because I'm so attached to regular
Bite Sized Frosted Mini Wheats
that I don't want that to be screwed up for me
like potentially is about to happen.
- Maybe if you try these just for the falsies
and then you go back to the regs
you'll appreciate them.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Regs is short for regular.
I'm trying to make that a thing.
- You know what I'm trying to make a thing
pouring the milk.
- Yeah, I think that is a thing.
(Link laughs)
- Like, in what?
- If you feel like you made it a thing
you're gonna feel great about yourself.
- This is my thing.
Come on man, work with my segues.
There's not a lot of milk in there.
I'm not complaining, but.
Who are we kidding, I'm constantly complaining.
We need a little bit more milk.
I think that these.
Here's my question, would we really want
Kellogg's to just throw this on the Mini Wheat?
If that's our standard-- - More milk.
- Thank you.
- I did that milk pouring thing.
- Oh, you remember that thing?
(men laugh)
- Do that milk pouring thing you do.
The thing you came up with?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- The thing you're trying to make a thing?
Do it, do it.
- I don't wanna say it's a thing.
It's not a thing, it's just something that I do you know?
When I find myself in front of cereal.
- I think that's gonna catch on.
- And there's some milk there.
- I think that's got a real good chance of catching on.
- I don't think anyone should try it.
- What were you asking?
- Is this on that a good idea
if that's our standard?
- All we're trying to do is
help the friendly consumer know which thing tastes
the most like pumpkin spice
if pumpkin spice is something that they wanna taste.
- Why?
- Because they might love pumpkin spice.
And let me just say, right up front
this one doesn't taste like pumpkin spice at all.
- Because it tastes good.
And that's really what I'm getting at.
Pumpkin spice tastes bad.
So, you actually want all of these to fail.
And this one does
because it's mostly, it's a bunch of fakery.
There's a bunch of orange nothingness
added to Frosted Mini Wheats
and then a little bit of something at the last second.
- I will say it's building a little bit.
After I had the sixth one.
It hasn't surpassed a four for me.
I'm gonna settle on a four.
- Again, I love it
but I can't find it.
But because I love it so much I'm giving it a five.
- [Rhett] For a total of nine.
- Finally we have horse treats.
That's right Rhett, we're about to eat horse treats.
- I never thought about it
because I never had to feed a horse.
You know, horse treats is a thing isn't it?
- Hold on, rest assured.
Pipe down people.
It is made in Texas.
Just don't worry, all right?
Why you gotta be all braggy about making it in Texas?
- I looks like prehistoric marshmallows.
Like something you found in an archeological dig
and australiapicathis was known to make s'mores.
Or it could just be dung.
- Kelly Tucker lived across the street
from my nanna and poppa.
- Yeah, she did. - She was the blond
that I thought that the old blond chick
in our framed picture in the old GMM world looked like.
I had a crush on her.
She had a dog named Pepper
and when he took a dump
it looked just like that.
- Boy that was a long way around
to a simple dookie joke.
(men laugh)
- Pepper packs.
- Interestingly Pepper is a very common name for what?
- A dog.
- Horses. - Ah!
- If you go to camp, I bet you my left nut
there will be a horse named Pepper.
I don't need two because basically
they don't work anyway.
- Go to your nearest horse pasture.
Just start yelling out Pepper.
- Pepper!
One of these horses is gonna come to you.
- I don't think horses respond to English.
- German.
- No, they respond to spurs.
- No, all horses speak German.
- Spurs and lassos.
- Man you gotta have horse teeth to get into these.
But look at who's having no trouble at all.
(Rhett laughs)
- It looks to me that I'm eating--
- I need to get into that.
Gah.
How do you eat animal food so non-hesitantly?
I know that's not a word.
- It's dry.
- This horrible.
- I'm looking for the pumpkin spice.
- There is none.
They just put it on a package so people buy it
in the fall.
- Hold on, they knew.
Those Texans knew we wouldn't eat it.
We got ya Texans!
- There is no pumpkin spice in this.
- We got everybody in Texas.
- That a human like me can discern.
Maybe it's on the label.
I give it a zero.
That's coming from a man who has ridden a horse.
- Ironically I've never ridden a horse.
- You did have a dream about it one time though.
- I did.
- This is coming from a man
who has dreamed about riding a horse.
- I'm getting tears in my eyes.
Zero. - For a total of zero.
And that means that we have decided that the Jell-O Pudding
(Link retches) and Pie Filling
is the most pumpkin spice thing you can have this season.
Which means just make yourself a pumpkin pie.
That's the best way to deliver pumpkin spice
directly to your palate.
You're welcome and congratulations Jell-O.
You're now Pumpkin Spice Brian.
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- You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Rylan.
- And I'm Lyla.
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- Look at those pumpkins of us.
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