- I don't wanna sound rude
but it's giving Hamburger Helper (laughs).
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- Hi, my name is Fatimah Hilton.
I grew up in a small town outside of Montego Bay,
called Saint James.
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- This is Don Brotherhood from Jungle,
also known as Kingston, Jamaica.
- I'm back!
I'm Judith from Jamaica.
I'm from a little town outside of Montego Bay,
called Spring Mount.
- A yardie is somebody born in Jamaica, a real Jamaican.
- Someone who's come from Jamaica,
who knows the roots, who knows the background.
- Perfect beef patties that,
it's from the filling to the outer layers.
- I've been seeing a couple
of y'all buying those boxed beef patties.
They do not compare at all.
- The flavors gotta be right inside
and that crust gotta be flaky.
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- I learned how to make beef patties
when I was pretty young.
My parents opened up a Jamaican restaurant
and my dad's the one that taught me how
to put all the ingredients and make the dough.
So in our beef patties,
there's a lot of your basic seasonings
but I think our signature flavor that's in our beef patties
is probably the Scotch bonnet peppers.
My beef patties are gonna win today
because majority of L.A. loves our beef patty,
so why wouldn't anyone else?
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- Hm.
- It smells great.
- So this smells like a beef patty (laughs).
- It's nice and soft, and it feels very flaky as well.
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- You can kind of taste like it was frozen.
- This kind of tastes like mine (laughs).
- When picking it up, it doesn't really hold well.
- I can tell that they used too much of the shortening
because by the time you break it,
the dough starts to fall apart in your hand.
- This one is definitely not dry.
- And it has the right amount of spice.
- It has more of a authentic crust than mine.
The flavors is there though, I like that.
- If this product could improve anywhere,
it would probably be the crust
'cause it has that flaky texture but it could be better.
- There's a flavor in there that I just don't,
I'm not comfortable with.
- So for the smell, I'd give it a four.
- Smells old.
I would give it a one.
- I'm going to give this one a two on smell
because it's not as potent as I wanted it to be.
- For texture, I'd say like a three.
- I give it a one on texture 'cause it's soft.
- I would give maybe about a three.
- For overall taste, I'm going to give this one a five
because it's pretty authentic, in my opinion.
- Again, I'll give it a one.
- I'ma give it a three.
It's just on the backend, I feel like it was frozen.
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- My beef patty is a little bit unorthodox
'cause I combine a Haitian crust with a Jamaican filling.
Basically, my interior, it still pays homage to the OGs.
I know my flavors is there, it's just,
you know, with Jamaicans, you know,
we just like to stick to what we know.
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- Well, it smells a little bit like curry.
- Smells great.
- Smells to me like the ones
that you buy out of the store.
- Kind of feels like a turnover (laughs).
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- Yup, tastes like a frozen brand.
- The flavor is okay.
- It's cool flavor but the kick is not coming through.
- It tastes stale.
- It's a little bit dry.
Patties are usually supposed to have more
of a juicy texture.
- Although the spiciness is not coming through
the way it's supposed to,
I'm still getting the Jamaican flavor.
- I don't think this person is from Montego Bay at all.
You don't want to see my face for real, huh?
That's why you have this blindfold on me (laughs).
- I don't want to sound rude
but it's giving Hamburger Helper (laughs).
- They could have improved this recipe
by adding on some more Scotch bonnet pepper in there.
- It's just not.
- Smell, I'm going to give it a three.
- Yeah, I would say I'd give it like a two.
- I'll give it a one.
- Texture, one.
- I give that a one as well.
- The texture is pretty good
so I'ma rate it like a four.
- Taste, three.
- I'm gonna give it a one.
I just felt it was horrible.
- I think I'll give it like maybe a two.
- It was just not a good patty.
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- The people in my town, we love spicy food.
So you'll find a lot of spice in my beef patty.
People come from all around to Montego Bay,
just to get beef patty.
Mine are so juicy and golden.
It has the best flavor.
They're made with love.
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- I can't really smell anything.
- It's just not potent enough.
- There's curry and probably turmeric in here.
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- It's pretty juicy.
- The meat is moist.
- But the flavor's a little off.
- It just, it's just like a awkward flavor.
- This is delicious.
- I mean, I'm just not, I'm not really feeling the flavor.
- I can't even describe what that is.
- You can also taste like garlic and the onions.
- The crust is not really flaky.
- It's more of like an empanada texture.
- Like it has that texture, like a calzone.
- This is really good.
- I taste a little curry on the backend
and I'm happy to use that
because you're supposed to use a little bit of curry
in the crust of the beef patty.
- I feel like this person maybe overdid it
with some sort of seasoning
so it's not really balancing out like it should.
- Compared to my patty, this one's really close, it's close.
- I can't compare it to mine because it's totally different.
- The smell on this, I would give it about a four.
- I'ma give it one for smell
'cause it's a beef patty, it smells like a veggie patty.
- I'm getting a hint of curry powder
so for that, I'm gonna rate it a three.
- Far as the crust is concerned, the texture,
I also give that about a four.
- Texture, I'ma give it a one.
- For the texture, I think I'm gonna rate this one, a one
'cause it doesn't really have that flaky crust
like it's supposed to.
- The taste there, about a four as well.
- In taste, I'ma give it a one.
- Overall flavor, I think I'll give it a two.
Maybe they overdid it in their recipe on some sort
of seasoning, I'm not exactly sure what.
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- Now that I know that I won and I got a score of 23,
that just kind of tells me
that my family's doing what we need to do.
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