- Oh, Epic beef jerky.
So like not just regular beef jerky
but like Epic beef jerky. That's very interesting.
- Wow. - Very exciting.
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- Jerky is like a niche in this channel at this point.
So, you know, bring it on.
- This is Epic jerky.
- Like explosive flavors or so chewy
we can't eat it or something.
- Or something so big.
It's like a slab of jerky that just last for months.
- I'm so excited because I was once a jerky virgin.
And you are now a jerky virgin, and you're gonna try some!
- With me! This is amazing!
- See, those two words means very different things.
- Oh my God! I didn't even cop the jerky part.
- So, you know.
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- Alrighty!
See, there's just something about jerky packaging
that just makes me so happy.
- Ooh, bison strip!
- Bison strip, ooh!
- I wouldn't describe that as Epic at all.
That is mediocre packaging at best.
- Come on. Don't...
(soft laughter)
- Oh my God. These are so hard to open.
- I mean, it's, epic-ly difficult to open.
- This looks...
(soft chuckling)
- Has she got this?
(loud laughter)
- How's that? How is it?
- It's like, it's actually easier to get your teeth into.
So like the packaging.
- Oh my God. I'm so disturbed by everything about this.
- Oh, it's very soft.
- There's no Pol...
(quietly retching and spitting)
- She doesn't like it.
- It's a strong "no" for me, fellows and ladies!
- I'm kind of disappointed in it
I expected a lot more from my jerky.
Like jerky, you chew it and you chew it
and you chew it and it keeps you going.
This is lacking in the flavor a little bit,
but it's also moister and it just goes down quicker.
So you eat it quicker.
- Texture is strange. Shape is odd.
Smell is not great.
- Taste is actually weirdly moreish,
but I still wouldn't buy it.
- But it's too soggy for a jerky. It's way too..
You need there's no hold, there's no chew.
It's just, bleh, falls apart.
- Kind of reminds me of my actual first time.
- Oh, what's that?
- So...
- That's a very disappointing experience.
- I actually had the same reaction as well!
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- It's like a bar!
- Uncured bacon and pork.
- Everything looks like a water ship down image, like
in the front sleeves,
they're all like elegant sort of like
- 'Cause these are the actual animals that were killed
in the making of this food.
- Right? That's easier to rip.
- Got it from that end.
There she goes! Well done.
- Eight grams of protein per serving. Fuck off.
They're selling this like a protein bar.
Here, have a block of, cut out of pigs ass.
- I'm betting this is tastier than the last one.
- Oh, salty.
- I'm just gonna pretend it's a bit of bacon.
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- Oh my God. They're all so melty!
- Oh, that's not bad!
It's like cold rasher. Like, after a night out.
It's not that bad.
- It's a cold rasher after a night out?
My God, Callyann...
- Can I see myself a fry up?
Away from (indistinct)
- I mean, if you're like eating cold sausage,
then it's great.
- Do you like eating cold sausage, Claire?
- It's not my particular memory, not one.
Or like when you're bored, you know yourself.
- Why do they have to be melty? I want dry cured meat.
- That was horrific.
- Again. It's not the best.
It really not the best jerky I've had.
- It's like, you have torn off all the pastry
off of a sausage roll and left it overnight.
- Yeah...
- And then you're just..
- Because everyone's like, actually if we wrap this
in the pastry and put it in the microwave.
Be lovely.
- This would be nicer if it had barbecue sauce
to dip it into.
- Oh!
- Wouldn't it?
- Now that we don't have it, I'm really disappointed.
- Have you got any barbecue sauce Neshawn?
- [Neshawn] No, unfortunately.
- The one day!
- It's a little bit better.
It's a little bit better than the other one.
And it's not as squeezy as the other one was.
The other one was too, it just broke off way too easy.
This has a little bit more thickness to it,
which is a little bit better.
But again, if there was an array of different kind
of branded ones, I would not be jumping for this one at all.
- It's not the worst. It's not as bad as the other one.
- Mm, it's very sweet.
- And I like that it's better.
- I do like the sweet taste to it.
- Mm, yeah.
- Last one was just an nothing bar.
This one has a bit of a substance to it,
a bit of a bite.
A vast improvement on the first one.
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- Sweet and savory bison and uncured bacon bites.
- But that's exactly what the first bar was.
So I'm guessing this is just the bar in bite forms.
- It looks like dog food!
- It's sweet and savory; all of jerky looks like dog food.
Don't judge a book by its cover. It could be delicious.
- These look more traditional.
They're coming in the traditional pack pack, you know?
- They feel drier than the other ones.
- Yeah. I think they'll be a little more chew to these.
- Yeah.
- It's like a rotten fig roll.
- They are a bit more chewy.
- Definitely drier as well.
- Mind you, still not as dry as actual like standard jerky.
- Hmm...
- Pretty bad.
(soft chuckling)
- See, you know what
I was actually almost gonna give that a chance.
Then you said it's like a rotten fig roll,
that took over my mind. I couldn't...
and then it started to like, it sounded like a sponge
when you ate it.
- This one's handy to eat cause of the way that it's served.
But it's like, I don't like the flavor as much.
- As far as flavor goes, though, there's not much there.
- Their slogan is "Feed others as you wish to be fed".
- "Feed others as you wish to be fed."
- What a weird tagline?
- With my own hands!
- In all of my jerky experiences, this has been tragic.
And I'm actually so sad that this is your first experience
with it because jerky is scrumptious.
This just is not.
- I feel like I've been converted to like jerky bars.
- Yeah. Like we're jerky snobs now.
- Yeah.
(soft laughter)
- You're reaching a Jack Links jerky.
(snobbish chuckling)
- Only the finest Epic jerky for me! So...
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- Wagyu beef! Wa-goo beef?
- Wagyu beef.
(soft laughter)
- Wagyu beef.
(soft laughter)
- What is that? - What's wagyu beef?
- I thought that said (indistinct)
(soft laughter)
- Wagyu's supposed be really good cut of beef.
'Cause I've had a Wagyu beef burger before.
And it was really expensive because it was like
Wagyu beef rather than beef beef.
- I can give you my calf bleat.
Here's my calf bleat.
(low bleating)
(soft laughter)
- Do that again.
(shorter low bleating)
(loud laughter)
- There garlic powder in this?
- Well we like a bit... and honey.
Okay, this looks like ingredients!
Okay: beef honey, sea salt, black pepper, garlic powder.
This seems hopeful.
- Okay. This one is sweaty like.
Oh my God. Look at my thumb!
- What a disgusting word to describe food? Bleh!
Oh my God. That's gross.
- Wanna go for it. - Yeah, let's do it.
- Oh, oh, it's hard!
- Chewier already, yeah.
- Yes. Not bad.
(soft gagging)
Bad.
- No, it's really cow-y. Oh, no! Nope.
- This is what jerky should be!
- Oh this, hey. Hey.
- This is it.
- We have a winner.
- It tastes horrific like it does.
I'm not being dramatic here. You're weird!
- Kind of buttery.
- Buttery?
Callyann, I don't know what you eat in a day
but I'm fearful to be honest.
- Tastes too much like a cow.
- Oh wow, it's like eating a cold burger.
- Oh it is.
It's like a, "Ugh!". It's a actual, so thick.
- It tastes like cow smells.
- Wow.
- Screw the rest.
The rest of them are like, just got knocked down a peg.
This is like a 9 or a 10.
- Out of all of them, this is the closest to the OD jerky
that I like, but a good chunk off as well.
- See, I don't like jerky when it tastes too like meat
which is such an outrageous thing to say
because that's what it is.
But you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- I need a bit more season and to mask that like
really like cow-y taste.
- Yeah.
- Sauce, er not sauce, but like flavor coats
your entire mouth..
- Mm...
- Like an oil. Are you getting it?
- Oh yeah, yeah, between my teeth.
- Mm! It's so good.
Like this will be giving me flavor buzz for about an hour.
- I feel like I was brain dead with other ones.
And now my synapses have come alive. Like, "This is meat!"
- Oh, there's garlic. There's honey.
There's pepper.
Then there was the, I thought it said vag beef.
To be honest, that's why I got real confused.
- Really be better.
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- You ever had venison before?
- Not to my knowledge, no.
- I once had a venison lasagna.
- Oh!
- That was an odd combination, but it worked.
- I had a lasagna in Venice.
- Venison is..
- Oh my God.
It smells like what you think a deer would smell like
(soft laughter)
- No!
- I don't wanna do Bambi.
- Bambi!
- Original hunter's recipe: Venison bite, with beef!
Oh, so there's multiple animals in here?
- I hate venison so much.
Like, it makes me actually want to hurl. So..
- Bambi, I'm sorry.
- Yeah, no, I do really like this one. Damn it!
- It almost tastes a bit like Salami.
Actually weird, you know, to me.
- Yeah.
- Like it's got that peppery sort of..
- Cracked pepper taste.
- Oh, I'm getting the pepper now. Jesus Christ actually.
Sorry.
- Very pepper, very peppery. - Awful pepper.
- No, I actually, I really like it. That was really nice.
Yeah.
- I think it's better than the bison
but maybe not as good as the
- The Wagyu beef. - Right!
- I've said it before I say it again:
I just don't understand how some of these companies
make enough money.
- I know.
- To make chip.
- And we're putting this in the bin, like...
- A hundred thousand people must buy this a year!
- Out of 10, this one, this one's, a four.
This one's a four. It's still not fantastic.
I'm just giving it a four in comparison
to the last that I've had.
- It's tasty; come here Bambi.
(soft chewing)
- They'll be like "The two women hate everything!"
(soft laughter)
- Unfortunately, Bambi is..
- You're gonna be on your way home
and I'm gonna send you pictures of Bambi.
Remind you of what you did. - You ate it too!
- It's strange.
It's funny how the one company could get it so right.
And yet get it so wrong at the same time.
- I'm still chewing.
- Yeah. I didn't like it.
- I was disturbed by that.
- I definitely think they're misrepresenting the word Epic.
- The best one, and I hate to say it, was the venison
and the least was all of them under that.
- I actually think, you know,
those last two were the best jerky I've ever had.
- Mm hm.
- And the first two were, some of those forgettable.
- They should just put all of their energy
into making the Wagyu.
- Take the funds out of the bison side,
get into the production side on the..
- The cows! - Yeah.
- Thanks for watching me and Claire complain for 45 minutes.
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