Oooh!
Who's eating these?
Oh no!
Hey Guys! Welcome back to the channel
As you can see on this desk
I have a bunch of Mexican snacks
These snacks were sent to me as a Christmas present
from the Mexican Way Team (MWT)
Muchos Gracias MWT!
I've never tried any of these snacks in my life
because they're found in Mexico
and I'm not from Mexico
In today's video I'm going to try these snacks for the first time
You'll get to see my live reaction
and I'll also give them a score out of ten
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Oh! By the way
because this is a Mexican themed video
I'm wearing a red t-shirt
and it couldn't be more suitable since it's covered in cutlery
also, it's one of my favourite shirts
The first snack on the menu is
Obleas en Cajeta (Cajeta en obleas?)
Not sure if you guys know or not
I can't speak Spanish at all
But a lovely member on the Discord sent me a file with all the correct pronunciations
So I'm going to try my best to say them in Spanish
but if I murder the names then I apologise in advance
It's pretty much like a waffle
and I think it has 'butterscutch'
Anyway, it's like a waffle with toffee or butterscotch in the middle
On the front it says 'exceso calorias'
which I think means 'a lot of calories'
and 'excess sugar'
so...
I think consuming a lot of sugar in a short time
is probably going to make me go hyper. We'll see.
It's very sticky
Okay, here we go
It's going to take me forever to chew
It's all stuck in my teeth
First of all
the toffee in the middle isn't super sweet
which is really good
Also the wafer is super thin
If you imagine the wafers you usually eat
they have three layers with the powder in the middle
This is like having just one layer of wafer
It's really thin and surprisingly easier to eat than I thought
Out of ten I'd probably give this...
I give this an 8
It's really solid
The next thing on the menu is
Original Pulparindo
'With Real Fruit!'
Great to know there's some actual fruit in these
It says on the box 'Hot & Salted Tamarind Pulp Candy'
Actually in Thailand we also eat a lot of things made from Tamarind
So I don't think the taste will be too foreign
The packaging is really cute
Let's try it
The inside looks like
this
The sourness is getting to me
It tastes a lot like a Thai tamarind snack
It's pretty good
It's a little bit too salty for my tastes
If you like tamarind then you'll probably like this
You guys know I'm really bad with spicy food
but I feel like they could add a little more spice
I'd give this...
I gave the last one eight...
but this is also really good in a different way
I'm giving it an eight out of ten
It's pretty good!
Pulparindo
You're okay
The next thing we have is
Paleta Payaso
It says on the box 'Marsh mallow with chocolate flavoured coating'
Well they have a really creepy clown character as the mascot
The more I look at him I guess he does look kinda cute
I guess it's going to look like this with a smiley face
so let's see how they actually look
Nice!
How does it look?
That's pretty close!
Alright, let's try!
It's nice
The marsh mallow is nice
The chocolate is...
okay
The most surprising thing about everything I've eaten so far
is that they haven't been that sweet
I thought they'd be super sweet
but maybe my tolerance for sweetness is really high
for me they're not that sweet but for regular people it might be super sweet
but I feel like these are pretty good
let me try a jelly eyeball without the marsh mellow
I'm sorry Mr. Jellyface
It's okay
It's a fine snack but nothing super special
at the end of the day it's marsh mallow covered in chocolate
and the chocolate is so-so
So, I give this...
I give it a six
Maybe 6.5
It's not bad at all
It doesn't taste bad
It's just not
the best
It's just fine
That's why it gets a six
The next one is
Duvalin
It says it's an 'Hazelnut and Vanilla artificially flavoured candy'
Ah! It has spoons
They look like this
Can see the hazelnut and the vanilla in the back
Then inside there's little plastic spoons to eat it with
which is awesome because I didn't bring any cutlery with me
except for all over my shirt
alright, let's try
I'll try the hazelnut side firsts
Ooh that's pretty nutty
It's not real because it said artificial flavouring but it's very nutty
I don't know why I pronounced the 'T' so much
'nutty'
It's nutty!
Now let's try the vanilla side
It's okay but it's kind of like eating Nutella and Vanilla sauce
They taste fine but it's a little underwhelming
I'm not sure if you guys know 'Yan Yan'
They're pretty much the same thing but come with breadsticks for dipping
I feel like this would be good with a biscuit or something to dip into it
eating like this feels a little bit incomplete
It's fine but just the cream by itself
I'm going to give this a five
It's fine but it's not the best
It's just what it is
and sometimes it's okay to be what you are
but in this case you're a five
five is like mediocre
it's not that good it's not that bad
The next one is
Marzipanes
It says 'peanut candy marzipan style'
I guess these are made of peanuts (lol what a dumb thing to say)
On the note you guys gave me it said to be careful because it could be messy
So I've got my plate ready
These actually smell really nice
This is what they look like
It's super duper 'combly'
No it's crumbly guys, it's crumbly
It's really sweet
The peanut flavour is really nice
But it's super sweet and I'm not sure if it's sugar or something else
It's crazy! It's like a powder that melts on your mouth
It's pretty nice
The peanut flavour is really good
The sweetness is off the charts but it doesn't last for long
It kind of melts like cotton candy
I'm giving this a seven
I couldn't eat it in large amounts
but in small amounts it's really nice
The next thing we have is
Galapinados
It says they're 'Caramel coated peanuts'
'100% Best Quality'
Hopefully I don't spill them everywhere
Not bad! They're actually pretty good!
I don't know why they're red
Most of the caramel I've seen isn't red
Actually I noticed that a lot of these Mexican snacks tend to be red
I don't know if that's a country thing
Maybe people are making them red to be patriotic
It's kind of interesting
The sweetness of the caramel and saltiness of the peanut is really nice
There might be a little too much caramel and it's a bit too sweet
but it still tastes really nice
Is this one serving?
I don't know who's eating a whole pack of these
There's heaps and it's super sweet
but if you just eat a couple
I'll give it a six
It's better than the marsh mellow thing
because they're small so you can just snack on them
The next on the menu is
Saladitos
These are dry salted plums
Actual fruit candy
Like I said before about the tamarind candy
dry, salted and spicy fruit is quite popular in Thailand
So there might be something similar to these at supermarkets
Hopefully won't be too foreign
(I have no idea what I'm saying) It'll probably be a hit?
Oh no
I thought it was going to be chewy
It was really really hard
Is the seed still in it?
They say dry salted plums
these are really salty
like super duper salty
literally comprised of salt
Who's eating these?
It's like eating salt water from the ocean
"What are you!?"
But you guys did tell me on the Discord
that these aren't usually eaten by themselves
apparently you're supposed to put them in citrus fruit (like orange)
and eat them together
I guess that would help to offset the salt
These are probably an acquired taste
There's no added sugar and a little bit of protein
nutritionally they don't seem bad
on account of these being inedible
I'm going to give these a one
The next one is
Pelon Pelo Rico
I think I have to pull this red thing off the top
It's like a needle, I push the bottom and squeeze it into my mouth
I have no idea what kind of flavour this is
The gimmick of it being the guy's hair is pretty cool
It's like tamarind candy flavour
I think it's similar to Pulparindo
but it's a different consistency
It says here naturally and artificially flavoured
Straight up, it does taste a little bit like plastic
It's a similar flavour but not as nice
But I do like how you get to push it out and eat his hair
Since it's edible it gets more than the rock salt I just ate
but it's not so good
I'm going to give this a 3.5
It's not that nice
The Pulparindo was nice
but this one has a weird artificial aftertaste
Next up is
Carlos Cinco
Which I guess is Carlos 5 (V)
Maybe he was the King of somewhere?
The are 'Milk Chocolate-style bars'
This will probably be the most 'normal' thing I've tried today
apart from the chocolate covered marsh mellows
I'm pretty excited to try these
It smells like regular chocolate
Nice
It's a chocolate bar
but to be honest
it's not the nicest chocolate I've ever had
It's just chocolate
and it's okay chocolate
it's not bad at all
I'll give this a...
I'll give this a five
The consistency is nice but it's not chocolatey enough
As a chocolate lover I can't give it more than a six
But I do really like the nice compact size
I nice one serving where you won't feel bad about eating it afterwards
Carlos Cinco you're okay :)
Next up we have some Japones Nishiyama
or 'Japanese style peanuts'
So my understanding of these is
they don't actually have anything to do with Japan
I guess what we learnt is that Mexican people really like tamarind
and also really like peanut snacks
we had the peanut marzipan,
the caramel covered peanuts
and now these Japanese peanuts
Ooh! Solid!
These are actually pretty good!
toasted not fried
There you go! Healthy too!
I would definitely rate these above the caramel covered peanuts
I'm giving these an eight!
They're not the most delicious things I've ever had
But they're a good snack you can eat while watching a movie
Pretty decent!
Now for the final snack
These are called 'Paleta de sandia con chile'
and it pretty much says what they are on the front
It says they're 'sweet and spicy watermelon hard candy lollipops'
and honestly I've been looking forward to trying these the most
They look absolutely diabolical
look at the colour of these things
they look atomic but I really want to try them
The red colour looks so bad for you
but looks so delicious
I'm also a huge fan of watermelon flavoured snacks
Like watermelon jellies, lollipops and drinks
All delicious
and it looks the most spicy out of everything today
Back in the day when I was around 10 years old
Fanta came out with 'Sour Fanta'
There was green apple flavour and watermelon flavour
Long story short I poured the sour fanta up my friend's nose
It wasn't good, I shouldn't have done that
and I'm sorry
I laugh but I'm actually sorry
What I want to say is the watermelon sour fanta
was better than the green apple sour fanta
Alright now let's try one of these bad boys
Apparently it takes a few licks before the chili kicks in
I don't know if I want to lick it so I'm just going to put it in my mouth
So...
Let's go!
It's honestly not as spicy as I thought it'd be
It has a very similar spice to the first tamarind snack
Pulparindo
So all this dark red stuff is spicy coating
and the watermelon is the light pink stuff on the inside
After having a bit and mixing the sweetness of the watermelon with the outside
It actually tastes pretty good
Just the outside...is okay
I grew up eating sweet lollipops
So having this hot and sour lollipop is a different experience
I hope my stomach's going to be alright tomorrow though
I wouldn't say it's delicious
I'd probably prefer the watermelon lollipop on the inside
Just from the colour I thought it'd be more diabolical than that
but it's alright
because of the nice watermelon on the inside I'll give it a six
I need some water
Okay guys! That's the end of today's video
There were a lot of delicious snacks in there
A few highlights, a few lowlights
But those Mexican snacks were really nice
I wasn't expecting them to be bad
but some were a lot nicer than I thought they'd be
I'd have to say my favourite was the 'Pulpirando'
Pulparindo
excuse me
and the wafer was nice too
and the worst snack were those
big clumps of salt
Saladitos
Thank you very much to the MWT for sending these wonderful snacks
If you guys like this style of video where I try different things
please let me know in the comments below
and I can do some more
I hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching
I'll see you guys in the next one
See ya!