- Can we tell the difference between Target and name brand?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- Link, I have a riddle for you.
- Okay.
- What's red and can trap you inside of its devilish
confines until you've spent hours and all your money but you
forgot to get the pair of socks that you meant to get in
the first place?
- I'll say based on the title of this video, Target.
- Yes!
- Target is the second largest retailer in the world and
they have a whole slew of their own signature generic brands
that amounts to a billion dollars a year
- What?
- For Target.
From foods, to toiletries, to all things in between,
Target's got its own version that claims to be just as good
as the top selling name brand.
- Okay.
- But is it?
Today we're going to put that to our own test.
It's time for Target Your Freak On, Target Your Freak On,
Hope You're Not Wrong, You Sure About That Pick?
- Holla!
Okay, we're gonna be presented with two items and we're
going to taste them, feel them, touch them, whatever can be
done with them.
- Oh, yeah.
- We know that one is a Target brand and we know the other
brand of the other one but we don't know which is which.
- And we have to choose.
- Which is the Target brand.
- The loser will have to endure a surprise punishment at the
end of this thing.
Let's do it.
Round one. - Round one.
I'm excited for this because - Yeah.
- Fruit snacks are my jam.
- I know you love fruit snacks.
I go over to your house and you be swimmin' in 'em, man.
- So one of these is Welch's and one of these is Simply
Balanced, which is Target's organic brand.
In a strange twist of fate, Simply Balanced is
actually more expensive.
It's 59 cents per pouch while Welch's is 43 cents per pouch.
- Because they're organic.
- Yes.
- These are organic.
I mean, you know just as well as I do that this mushy stuff
over here, this goodness.
That's Welch's, right?
- I would think - Oh, that is good.
- That this has all kinds of artificial coloring to get it
to be so unnatural. - That's a good point.
- Which will make me think that it's Welch's.
- These are a lot more bouncy.
- Oh, I like these best.
Mm, that's some good stuff.
- It takes longer to get to the actual flavor in these and
you may choke in the process.
- It's better than fruit though, you know?
- Oh, fruit is for losers. - That's what I always
said about gummies.
- Gummies for winners.
- Kids should be eatin' the gummy fruits.
- Fruit is for losers - Right?
- I'm telling you.
- Fruit is not for losers, okay, gosh, guys, gosh!
- Mm.
- But the gummies are better than real fruit (chuckles).
- These taste more like candy next to these.
These taste more like fruit even though they feel
more like candy.
- They're both good but those are better.
- Let's put our hand over what we think is the Target brand,
that's how this goes.
- [Stevie] Okay, here we go.
Three, two, one.
- Ooo!
- [Stevie] The Target brand is on Rhett's side.
- Yeah, Simply Balanced.
- So, these are Welch's, man?
- Yeah, man.
All that artificial stuff.
This is organic, that's why it looks like somebody just
mushed some fruit up.
Round two. - Round two.
Alright, it's not delivery, it's Digiorno
or it's not Digiorno, it's Archer Farms.
- Yes.
- It's funny how they look so different.
The price is not that different.
6.80 for Digiorno and a little less, five bucks for
the Archer Farms.
- That's pretty substantial if you buy a lot of pizzas.
- I guess you're right.
A dollar 80 more.
- I know I just love pizza. - I mean, this one looks
more like a delivery pizza than this one.
If I got a pizza this small delivered to me I'd say go back
to the store and get me another one.
- What's that black thing?
- I never fell for that, "It's not delivery, it's Digiorno"
'cause the pizza sizes are different, man.
- What's that black thing?
- [Crew Member] It's a burnt piece of cheese.
- Not an olive. - Burnt piece of cheese.
The judges have weighed in.
Link, it's a burnt piece of cheese.
This is tasteless.
I mean it's not bad. - Odorless
and colorless.
And pizza-less.
- It's not bad but it needs more toppings.
- We just tasting the cheese, man.
It was pretty tasty. - This one
looks more traditional.
- It needs salt.
- Oh, this one got lots of salt.
- It doesn't have a lot of toppings, got a lot more bread.
There's a lot more bread height.
- They forgot the marinara on that one.
They forgot the marinara.
Look, there's no marinara. - Did they
forget the marinara?
- [Link] Where's the marinara?
- They got it on this one though.
- This one's better.
I mean, I would've felt sure that Digiorno's better but I
think that's Digiorno.
And I think is Archer Farms.
- Well.
- One thing's for sure, this one is better to me and to him.
- "One thing's for sure," they're both pizzas.
- [Stevie] Alright, here we go.
Three, two, one.
- What?
- [Stevie] The Target brand is one Rhett's side.
- (laughs) Yeah, man.
That's all from the farm right there, man.
- So, okay.
- I been to Archer Farms.
Round three. - Round three.
- Alright, it's time to get swole, Link!
- (laughs) We gon' get swole?
- Yeah!
- Alright.
- Protein power.
- Body Fortress whey.
- Yeah, Body Fortress whey is the name brand.
For 32 ounces you gotta pay 23.91 or you get Market Pantry
whey, 32 ounces, 15.79.
So, that's a big difference and your body is important.
Your body is a fortress.
- This morning I tasted my smoothie and I was like bleh,
something's missing and I had left the vanilla
protein power out.
- Oh, so you comin' straight off of a fresh tasting.
- I'm telling you that, makes...
- Do you use one of these?
- No, I have not tried either one of these.
- Body Fortress seems so-- - Try this one.
I mean it's just like, super--
It's got lots of graphics on the outside to make it seem
like it would be high quality.
- It's got an X and there's not an X in body or fortress.
You know it means business.
That tastes okay.
- Taste like just regular old protein powder to me.
- It doesn't taste great.
Doesn't taste that creamy.
This one tastes totally different than that one.
- Whoa.
What a different direction that this went in.
- This one's creamier.
This one has an almost overbearing vanilla flavor compared
to this one.
I mean, this one's like subtle and
sad.
It's meek.
There is no Body Fortress happening over here.
- This feels pasty.
It tastes pasty.
This feels like they put some extra R&D into it.
- Mm!
- You know what I'm saying?
I can taste the R&D, I can taste the sweat of the
researchers and the developers.
- I'm swellin' up just tastin' it.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] Ready?
Three, two, one.
- (buzzing) Bur.
- [Stevie] The Target brand is on Link's side.
- Yeah, that was clear.
- Clear winner. - That was super clear.
- Maybe worth the money.
Of course I don't know what's in it.
Could be bodies.
Round four. - Round four.
- Alright, now we're to my jam.
Canned tuna.
(laughs)
No, I don't love tuna.
But I do have a theory that
- You have a theory?
- They take the same tuna from the same ocean, do the same
stuff to it, put it in the same can and then they just put
a label, either with a Charlie the StarKist fish on it, or
- This is controversial - They put one that says
Market Pantry on it.
- You really think that's how it works?
- Yeah.
- [Rhett] Well, I mean, evidence by just the look of these,
you might be right.
- They look exactly the same.
So, Target's Market Pantry cost 82 cent for a can.
And the StarKist tuna, 98 cents.
- This isn't chunky.
This has been eviscerated.
Did you chew this up and spit it back in there?
Is that what happened? - Yeah, I asked them
to do that.
- Is this baby birded?
- [Stevie] One's a Target employee that did and it the
other one's just...
- Oh.
Mhm. - Charlie himself was like
(gagging)
I'm really trying to taste something even though I
don't like it.
- Tastes like the inside of a can.
- No, it tastes like the inside of a tuna.
- Yeah, well that's the part I like.
I eat tuna like this quite a bit.
- Now, if you guys tell us that the labels that you ripped
off are actually cat food this is not funny but believable.
I just blew on that like it was hot.
I was like.
I don't know why I did that.
- It's totally different.
- Oh, wow.
That's a lot better, isn't it?
- The taste is super different.
- That tasted like a tuna.
I don't even like tuna and I like that better than that.
- It still has a canned after taste.
And now that I look at it, this is like light.
That's darker.
- And this is dark.
- But hold on, what is that?
- [Rhett] There's like a feather in there.
- [Link] There's a feather.
- Oh, this is a bird.
This is chicken.
- We're eatin' freakin' bird. - We ate a freakin' chicken.
- Is that a feather or...
- Somehow, how did a chicken get in the process?
Is it a feather?
- [Link] Hey, when in doubt throw a chicken out.
- Who's more likely to put a chicken in their tuna?
(crew laughs)
- It's the chicken of the sea.
Charlie.
- [Stevie] Alright, you ready?
- Uh, hold on.
- Uh,
I know.
- Okay, yeah.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
- Oh, you're taking a risky.
- [Stevie] The Target brand is on Link's side.
- Oh, nice, yeah.
- So the better tasting thing.
- Yeah, it tasted more canny.
- You know what, I was wrong.
- I went with the dark.
- Different stuff in the cans.
Round five. - Round five.
Well, here we are, Link.
Two guys, two bottles of lotion.
- Yep.
And they've placed the lotion in generic containers
- Yeah. - Which neither one of
them originated in.
- Right.
One of them is Up and Up.
That's the Target brand.
That's 10 cents per ounce and the other is, is it Jergens?
Is that how you say--
My mom always said Jer-gins I thought.
- Jer-gins? (crew laughs)
- No, she didn't.
Maybe I thought that's what she said.
- Jergens Ultra Healing.
- Jergens, and that's 27 cents per ounce.
One of 'em is three times as expensive as the other.
- 10 cents an ounce for the Up and Up Advanced therapy.
- We can't cross contaminate so I feel like with just one
hand with one lotion and the other hand with
the other lotion.
So I'm going right hand for this one.
- [Link] Should I have gone left hand 'cause I just did.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That way we keep it straight 'cause then I'm gonna
do left hand.
- You don't need that.
Here, just shake.
Shake man, don't rub yet.
This isn't a massage, this is a business deal.
- But hold on...
- This is a milky business deal.
- I feel like it's being contaminated now.
- Here.
Left handed business.
- [Rhett] Oh.
- Get that right on the mind.
- Oh it's so squirrely.
- [Link] I need a little bit more of this.
- Oh, wow, they smell totally different.
- So, the one on the left has a floral hint.
Smells like grandma.
- The one on the left is slipperier.
- The one on the right smells like an aunt.
- This smells therapeutic.
- Yeah.
- And that's called Advanced Therapy.
- Mhm, so it's aunt-ish, right?
Are you with me?
- This is so confusing at this point.
- No, it's pretty simple to me.
Grandma, aunt.
(crew laughs) - Hold on.
- Target,
the other one.
Jer-gin.
Aunt Jer-gin.
Aunt Jer-gin's gonna bring her meatloaf over tonight.
(laughs) - I'm so confused.
- And I don't mean the dish.
(laughs)
- Okay, alright, I'm ready, I'm ready.
- [Stevie] Okay, three, two, one.
- Target.
- Yeah.
- We're in agreement that the grandma is Target.
- [Stevie] The Target brand is one Rhett's side.
- What? (buzzing)
Really?
Well, Advanced Therapy's doin' a great job.
- Way to go Target.
- This is Target.
Yeah, that's Target.
- Way to go, Target.
- I was wrong.
- You smell like an aunt and not a grandma.
Round six. - Round six.
- Alright, Rhett, you're in the lead but with this lamp
round I can tie it up.
- Anything can happen.
- I know lamps (laughs).
The Target Threshold lamp is an economical $80 but the
West Elm lamp
is $280.
So $200 difference here. - This is big difference here.
- When it gets to be that much of a discount I get real
tempted to hit that bullseye.
- Yeah, well this one's taller, right off the bat.
If you're paying for girth and height...
- Yeah, this is bigger.
- You got lotion all over
your hands, man. - Got a little lotion on it.
I hope that's not the West Elm one (laughs).
- [Rhett] I'm looking at craftsmanship here.
- There's brass stuff here on this one.
And look at this ornate thing and then there's none
of that there.
And then the cord is just falling down and this cord has
like a hook.
A clever little hook that hides the cord.
- But this is taller.
(laughs)
This is a big man's lamp.
It's stark white.
I mean, - The detail.
- There's two ways to see these details.
It could be that this is like a special little feature and
it adds craftsmanship. - About $200.
- But it could also be that Target, they can't afford a
piece of wood that long and they gotta bracket it together
with something else.
- Oh, that's a good point.
- [Rhett] (laughs) You know what I'm saying?
- This could be like, we only take the West Elm scraps and
we piece 'em together. - Right, this could
be scrap wood.
- Now, when I look at it in person I think this one looks
higher quality but then when I look at it on the screen like
you guys are, I'm like, I don't know if the
$200 is justified.
They look close enough to me if you're not looking at them
side by side even though I wouldn't know that this one looks
a lot cheaper than that one.
I would go with that one. - But I'm a wood man.
- [Link] Oh but I didn't even notice this.
- [Rhett] Yeah, look at that bracketing.
- [Link] There's a bracket down there.
- [Rhett] Let me smell this.
(crew laughs)
- What kind of wood is it, Rhett?
You're the wood man.
- [Rhett] That's walnut.
(sniffs) That's maple. - Walnut more expensive?
I can't tell which one's more expensive because that would
be giving away too much.
- This is tough.
But it wasn't tough until you said the thing about...
It is two pieces of wood. - Smells pretty cheap.
- Dang, Rhett.
I think you're right.
- It's smaller and shorter (laughs)
- I think you're right 'cause
I literally think this is two pieces of wood and
that's why that costs $200. - There's only one way to
find out, Link.
Are you ready? - Alright, guys.
Three,
two,
one.
- Target.
Oh, shoot - The Target brand...
- No, no, I'm changing my answer.
I gotta go for the win.
- [Stevie] Is on Link's side.
(laughs) - Yes!
- So I was right.
- No, you were wrong,
this is Target. - No, Rhett was correct.
- (laughing) The Target brand.
(crew laughs)
I was right, man.
This is West Elm, this is high dolla, sucka.
- But I like this one. - It's bigger and taller.
I went back to my reasoning. - This is better.
I don't see the dangle cord.
This is so much better, Target.
- Congratulations, Target.
And congratulations, me.
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