- American cereals are candy.
You just put milk on it.
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- Hi, I'm Hanifah.
I'm from London, in England.
- I'm Brenden, I'm from Arkansas in the US.
- I'm Sam, I'm from Somerset in the UK.
- I'm Nate, I'm from California in the United States.
- My name's Tom and I am from London in the UK.
- My name is Tayo and I'm representing USC,
but originally from Nigeria.
Woo!
- Have you had, like, American cereal before?
None of it?
- No. - Ooh.
- A lot of sugar, brightly colored.
Maybe blue, I feel like I can see kind of
a blue cornflake situation, I dunno.
- Colorful. - Okay.
- Chemicals. - Yeah.
- I have never tried any of them,
but I have walked down, like, the breakfast cereal aisle.
- Yeah. - And there are so many.
- There's too many options.
- Like, it's ridiculous.
- I assume British breakfast cereals have way less sugar.
- Subtle and like mature.
Like a grown up cereal.
A little more subdued and healthy.
- And I actually, I put biscuits in my cereal.
- Biscuits?
- Or like, cookies.
- Oh!
So you're throwing cookies into your cereal,
and then you're comin' at us,
sayin' that our is gonna be too sugary?
(laughing)
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- This is one of my all-time favorites.
From childhood and adulthood.
These are Fruity Pebbles.
This a polarizing cereal
because they can get soggy real quick.
- I don't even know what to say,
like, the Flintstones are on it?
- I mean, it's iconic, just based on the Flintstones,
if growing up, you grew up on the Flintstones.
- Isn't one of the characters called Pebble?
I hope that makes sense.
- Yeah, I think the daughter is Pebbles.
And then the son is Bam-bam.
- So she's the namesake of Fruity Pebbles.
- I've got some nice, sensible Special K.
Original.
It's really good for you.
- It's got so many good things in it.
And it makes you stronger. - Yeah.
- Oh, you wanna compare the stats?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Okay.
- Let's get the stats out on this.
- These are better than that
and if you disagree, you are wrong.
So, happy trading.
- Yeah, well, yeah, enjoy.
- It smells so weird.
It smells like--
- Mm, a sugary one.
- What does it smell like?
- How's mine?
- Like sherbet?
- Ooh, this looks like a party.
- Okay.
Yeah, so, so go easy with the milk.
- Ooh, your milk pours are so big.
- You have some different milk cartons?
- Just not as robust.
- Oh, this is the small one, this a half-gallon.
Normally, you'd buy a gallon size.
- Wow.
- Wow, wow, learnin' a lot today.
- I thought the color would come off into the milk.
- Oh, it will.
Yeah, that milk's turnin' pink real soon.
- Oh, pink. - Yeah.
- I was gonna say, what color would it turn?
- Mm.
(laughing)
- Oh my God.
- [Tayo] What does it taste like?
- Skittles.
- Definitely.
- It tastes like Skittles with milk.
- Tastily, though.
- And I'll eat my nursing home breakfast.
- Ooh, uh.
- What?
What?
- This does not taste good.
- What? (laughing)
- It just tastes so artificial.
It doesn't taste like food.
I don't know that I like it.
- No, it's not good.
- This, okay, don't, you stop sayin' so good.
- But it's so good.
- And this is Special K,
this tastes like I'm being responsible.
Like I'm on a real kick for two weeks
to like eat clean or something,
then you go back to eating Fruity Pebbles.
Nothing wrong with it,
but it's certainly no Pebbles, man.
- It kinda just tastes like, like wheat?
There's not really a whole lot of flavor.
There's not like a lot goin' on.
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I got Lucky Charms!
- Okay, I'm excited now.
- This, (tapping)
that's what I grew up on, this.
- Did you really?
- Oh yeah, I grew up on this.
The marshmallows.
- These are Lucky Charms, these are, you know,
if there's a Mount Rushmore of American cereal,
this would be on there.
It's not one of my favorites.
I like Lucky Charms, but it's not one of my favorites.
- I've got Krave.
This is actually quite a recent creation.
- Oh, chocolate hazelnut?
- You know, like Nutella?
- Yeah.
- It's basically like little crunchy pillows
filled with Nutella.
- Stop it.
This is about to be good.
I'm curious to try that now.
- This piece has like a weird mouth,
and it's just sucking up the Nutella with a straw.
- Well, the advertising campaign for this is really weird
because I think it's like a situation
where they eat each other.
- They must be delicious.
- You go over there.
I'm excited for this.
- These are very, these look fantastic.
- I'm gonna try yours now.
- Yeah, go for it.
- Oh! (laughing)
- Wow.
(coughing)
- (laughing) My God, what's happened?
(coughs)
- So at first, there was nothing.
And then the chocolate came.
- Yes.
- The outside has a very distinct flavor
that I don't think I love.
What does that taste like?
It kinda tastes like a cat treat.
- And the chocolate inside of this is right here is so good.
- Okay.
- But with the milk, whoo!
Game changer.
- I can't get over that bright balloon.
(laughing)
It's so wrong.
- I love this.
- And so, you're a big fan?
- Mm, my milk is turning blue.
- We found the blue.
Would you say you like that better than this?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Mm. (laughing)
They're nice, actually, they're not bad.
Mmhmm, yeah, they're pretty good.
Would this be your favorite?
- That's my favorite, yeah.
- But I've noticed, even, okay,
this is like a fish shape.
There's an X, there's a clover,
there's what looks like a computer cursor,
which it probably, oh no, it's a bell, like a Liberty Bell.
- Uh-huh, I'm keepin' this box.
Sorry, guys.
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- This is Captain Crunch.
Which, have you had Captain Crunch?
- Nope.
- Oh boy, this is sugar incarnate.
It's delicious, but it's very sweet
and it will cake to your teeth
and scratch the roof of your mouth.
- Oh.
- Like, this is like the standard Captain Crunch.
And then there's like a peanut butter one,
I think there's one that's got like
little like berries in it.
But look, this one has so many games on the back!
- So I've got Shredded Wheat,
which is, I think, quite a British classic.
They're kind of pillowy.
- So, Shredded Wheat.
Shredded Wheat, there are a couple of varieties.
There's like the little ones, which, kind of,
they're regular kind of size cereal size.
And then there's what I think this is.
Yup.
You'll just, you'll see.
- All right, well, these could not be
two more different cereals.
Enjoy.
- Thanks.
- You actually will, I mean, that's very sweet,
but it's delightful.
- You really won't.
- Oh yeah, I'm aware.
- So this is like the really, really healthy version.
I don't know, what the hell?
It's like a burrito!
- What the (bleep) is this?
They're like in little burrito wrappers.
- I love this, I'm so excited.
I'm gonna take like one of these in my pocket
and just like be like snacking on it throughout the day.
- Okay, this is great.
This is my favorite one so far.
It's sort of like, yeah, it's kind of like Golden Nuggets,
it's kinda like Sugar Puffs.
It's getting stuck in my teeth.
- It tastes lot like Golden Nuggets.
But I actually think Golden Nuggets are better.
Do you have Golden Nuggets?
- No.
This tastes like I'm eating an old curtain.
I don't love it.
I mean, it's not, I mean, it's not gross.
It's just--
It's not necessarily gross,
it just tastes like you're eating
a soggy cardboard box.
Which now that I say it, sounds pretty gross.
- Oh, this is what I'm supposed to do?
- Well, no. - Do that?
- (laughs) It looks like a bird's nest!
- It tastes like a bird's nest!
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- I've got Weetabix,
which I think is probably like the British cereal.
- Huh.
- Like, this is so just run of the mill,
like everyone will have this in their cupboard.
- So, first things first.
Landscape box.
- Oh, whoa, that's different.
- Mmhmm, how do you feel about that?
- I like the brand name.
- It's disruptive.
- I got Cheerios! - Yes!
- Yeah, Cheerios, I think,
is like the, like most common American cereal.
But it also comes in like all these different varieties.
- Nice.
- And I have had Cheerios, we have those.
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios.
- I've never had Apple Cinnamon.
- No? - That's funny.
- I, we were in Target yesterday, actually,
and I saw pumpkin spice Cheerios.
- Okay.
- Like, because whatever nowadays, I guess.
- All right, swapparooski.
- Ah.
- This box is cool.
- You know, like an apple pie you get from McDonald's?
- Yeah.
- That looks even like a sausage roll.
It smells like that.
- That's what it smells like?
- Yeah.
- I think usually we have two.
I think usually British people would have two in a bowl.
- Two of these bricks?
- No, no, no, this isn't the whole thing.
You've gotta open it up.
- Oh, okay.
All right.
- All right.
Oh, that, it was worse with the milk.
- Oh.
- It was worse with the milk, I love it.
(laughing)
- That's pretty good too.
I like, like, I was initially like,
I'm not gonna like that.
But like the texture is very pleasant.
- Mm, yeah.
- So--
Mmhmm, yep.
This is amazing.
It tastes like
Curiously Cinnamon, formerly known as Cinnamon Grahams,
which here, is called--
- What'd you order?
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
- Yeah, whoo!
- Ours is just you drop it in the bowl
and you pour milk, and it's like, quick, hurry, eat it,
you have to go to school.
- I have to be like, Nate,
you have to put it in, soak it, leave it,
and then actually that's very nice.
- You put the cereal in,
you put the milk in,
you go for a two-mile jog,
you come back,
you do your taxes,
you take a shower,
you check on the cereal,
you throw it in the microwave. (laughing)
- Yeah, the Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
are definitely my new favorite.
- Okay.
- That was amazing.
- That was a good one?
- Yeah. - Nice.
- I can't imagine children eating that before school
and then going to school and concentrating.
- The American cereals all day, every day.
Hands down, USA.
- (sighs) I don't wanna pick America.
- Do it, you gotta do it.
- Yeah, American won.
Sorry, England.
- The American cereals are better.
- Let's do this!
- The American cereals are totally better,
I mean, look at them, I'm looking at them now
on this back table. - It's just so easy.
- It's like you've got a captain with eyebrows on his hat,
you've got the Flintstones erupting out of a,
it's just a good time.
Good game, but I think the best man won.
Congratulations. - Thanks.
Next time.
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