♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) Behind your back, we have conspired
with a member of your household to set up a blind taste test.
- Alright, sounds good.
- I had a feeling, 'cause he tries to be sneaky,
but he's not super sneaky, but he knows that I'm nosy.
- (FBE) So today, we're gonna be testing your knowledge
of soda and snack foods by seeing if you can tell
knock offs from originals.
So in each round, you're gonna be trying
either a knock off or an original,
and if you can tell us which it is, you get a point.
- I haven't made it 23 years in my life
by not exclusively drinking soda and snack foods, so,
I think I'll be pretty okay.
- Okay, I love our little... - (FBE) Okay, so Morgan,
here we have your first food.
The question for you is is this Smartfood,
one of the most common cheddar popcorn brands,
or is it a knock off?
- Okay, so I have to try it, I can eat it right now.
- Well first of all, you gotta hear the rustling.
It sounds a little fake already, I'm gonna be honest.
- It smells cheesy. (laughs) It smells like cheddar popcorn.
I wanna say it's the Smartfood brand, just 'cause it tastes really good,
and I feel like the on brand stuff should taste really good.
- Smells good, smells like cheese.
(laughs) Which is good. Tastes good.
Ugh, I love salty food.
- It tastes like Pirate's Booty.
It tastes fine, there's nothing bad with it.
- Good mouth feel, very cheddary. Ooh, not a great aftertaste though.
That's the sign of a knock off.
At first you're like this is the same,
and then five seconds in, disgusting.
I think it's a knock off.
- I think this is the branded one.
- It tastes fine, so I'm just gonna lean towards it being the original.
- I will be eating this later.
My final guess is yes, it is Smartfood popcorn.
- (FBE) Well, Eric, you're off to a very good start,
because this, in fact, is the knockoff.
(bell rings) - Popcorn King!
Completely took a shot in the dark.
- (FBE) Ashly, I'm very sorry to say that this is the first knock off.
(buzzer rings)
- Okay, well, she's good.
I don't think I've had that brand before anyways,
so I don't think I would have known either way.
- It's fine to me, (buzzer rings)
I mean, I don't have white cheddar popcorn anyway,
so just having it in general is, it's fine.
There's nothing wrong with it.
- 0 for 1, I mean yeah, I don't eat that much popcorn,
so I'm like, it's hard for me to judge like what is the difference
between the knock off versus the real version.
I think if it's gonna be like candy, I'll do better, I think.
But, I'm saying that now, and that's gonna bite me in the ass later.
- (FBE) Okay, so the next round is our gummy bear round.
- Ah!
- (FBE) And the big question that you are gonna be answering for us
is are these Haribo gummy bears, you know, the slightly nicer ones
that you get when you're treating yourself,
or are these the store brand? - Interesting.
- I can already tell these are Haribo.
I mean, I can tell like the shape of 'em.
- I know that gummy bears like legitimately look different
when they're different brands.
Also, the clear ones are my favorite ones,
and they're the best ones. Tastes amazing.
Love the texture, I'm trying to like look at the detail
of the little bears, they have like little tummy hairs,
and little faces!
- I'm feeling a Haribo squeeze. (laughs)
He's hugging my thumb.
Oh, he's chewy, as gummy bears should be.
It's a little bland, but it definitely looks like,
and feels like a Haribo gummy bear.
- Ooh, it's got a very nice fruity scent.
Mmm, a little hard.
Gummy candy should never be so thick that it hurts your teeth to chew.
And it's a little, there's definitely some resistance when you chew.
It's not just instantly cutting.
- You can definitely tell when there's like something off about it,
and you've had it before, but these taste normal.
I don't see a problem with them.
They have the same colors,
'cause normally, they'd go like off color
with like a blue or something.
And these have like these colors. No blue or anything.
These are the original, final answer.
- I wanna say these are Haribo gummies.
I hope I didn't let myself down.
- I guess I'm thinking store bought, but they might just be stale.
They're not store bought. Um, yeah, store brand.
- I think these are real.
When it's like a knock off like candy, it's like you know,
if you have the Haribo sour gummy worms,
and the other ones, they're like kind of weirdly colored,
or they're a little like fatter and thicker,
and these are like very nicely shaped, like slender gummy bears.
(laughs) So I feel like these are the fancy cool ones.
- (FBE) Well, I'm sorry to tell you sir,
that these are, in fact, the Haribo gummy bears.
(buzzer rings)
- Haribo probably has a store.
- (FBE) You are right, those are the Haribo.
- Yay!
(bell rings) - In fact, they are, nice.
- Good, okay, I was gonna be really disappointed if I lost that one.
- I don't know man, gummy bears are fickle.
Gummy candy in general can be hit or miss just with the batch.
- Bring it in!
- (man) Oh. - And don't drop it.
Hot Cheetos?
- (FBE) Round three is going to be our spicy cheese snack round.
And the question for you, Eric, is are these the bad boy
of spicy cheese flavored snacks...
- Goldfish! - Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
- Oh.
- I feel like I should get this one right.
I eat a lot of Hot Cheetos. (laughs)
I actually have a bag of like the lime flavored ones,
'cause those are my favorite.
They look exactly like Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
- I mean, these already kinda look, I mean, I don't know if it's just me,
these kinda look off to me.
- I don't know, I don't really eat Cheetos.
- The smell is spot on, so if these are knock offs,
I'm gonna be really surprised.
'Cause they smell like Hot Cheetos.
- I eat the jalapeno Cheetos,
but these are like a little too spicy for me.
No, these are actually pretty good.
- I don't know if it's all in my head, wait,
these aren't that hot.
There's literally no sting, like, it's just the flavor.
- It's not as spicy as I remember it being.
Like, I used to try to eat these in high school,
and I could not finish a bag without having a hard time,
so I think I manned up a little bit since then
in terms of the spice level I'm able to handle.
- The thing that I know the most about Cheetos
is that you get powder on your fingers after eating them.
So I'm just gonna touch a few, and we're gonna see how my fingers look.
I don't know, that looks pretty original.
I'm gonna say it's, uh, it's real Cheetos.
That's Chester.
- I'm just gonna say these are real. I don't know.
These, there's nothing that makes it seem off about it.
They seem normal.
- I think it's the knock off,
because there's no heat happening with this,
then usually I'd be like I need a little sip of water, maybe.
- I just haven't like eaten enough Hot Cheetos to really be like oh yeah.
Like if you gave me a Cheez-It and a Cheese Nip, (laughs)
I could probably tell the difference between the Nip and the It,
but this one is a little harder.
I think, I think these are real Hot Cheetos.
- (FBE) Well, we threw you off the scent on that one.
They are the real Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
- No! (laughs)
How, these aren't that spicy! Maybe the lime ones are spicier?
Or maybe I just like, maybe 'cause I ate hot noodles earlier
it made it not as spicy.
(bell rings) (claps)
- Ooh, okay, okay, here we go. This is fun.
- Gah, I love games with only two options.
- Oh! - (FBE) So, is this
an official Hostess cupcake or is this the store brand knock off?
- Oh see, that's hard, because like places get creative.
Normally I would look at this and be like yeah,
it's got the little like twisty curlicue,
which is like the staple of it,
but now I'm trying to remember like the shape.
- I haven't had it in a bit, I don't remember.
But it looks like it, it smells like it.
- What I notice about Hostess and these things,
they normally have chocolate all the way around.
They don't just have chocolate on top.
- Mmm. Chocolatey, cream filled.
Spicy, that might still be the Cheetos.
It's very spongy, I'm a fan.
- Mmm.
It's really good.
I have that little like cream in the middle.
It's chocolatey.
- It tastes a bit off.
That just definitely tastes off to me,
I'm just gonna have more of this popcorn.
This is like, I got a whole thing here.
- I think it's the real one. I think.
The cupcake itself is throwing me off.
The icing is usually like more, this is a weird term,
I guess, like gritty on the Hostess ones,
and this one feels more squishy and like smooth,
like more of a fondant.
- It's been so long since I've had a Hostess cupcake,
it's really hard for me to remember what they look like,
and I'm like could this be the fake one?
Okay, I'm gonna say this is the ripoff version.
- I'm gonna say it's Hostess.
- I think it's a knock off.
- It's fake, it looks a bit off to me.
- So Morgan, we actually couldn't get the knockoff
delivered to your area during quarantine,
so while other reactors' Hostess was fake,
that is a real Hostess cupcake. - Oh.
That's disappointing, I thought I was like totally winning
and pulling the wool over everyone else's eyes.
- (FBE) I'm sorry to break this to you but this is the knock off version
(buzzer rings) of the Hostess cupcake.
- Damn it, Hostess. That makes it cheaper, right?
I'm actually okay with this. - Fake!
- Yeah, wait, oh wow, okay, cool.
I'm smart, listen to me!
It's still very good, I'll still, I'll eat the whole thing.
It's still yummy.
- (FBE) Final round, this is a little different.
- Okay.
- (FBE) This is your diet soda head to head matchup.
- Oh, okay.
- (FBE) And you probably are aware of this,
but Diet Coke drinkers swear that it's easy to pick out Diet Coke.
That they can do it without any problem.
So we're putting that to the test today.
Do you drink Diet Coke? - Alright, we'll see, I don't.
I don't normally drink soda that much. I drink like old people soda.
Like, I love ginger ale.
- (FBE) Let's go for it.
You're gonna be trying to pick out which one is the real Diet Coke,
and which one is the fake Diet Coke.
- Also, thanks for picking Diet Coke, it's my favorite.
- I hate diet, so let's do this.
I just, I do not like diet sodas.
- I have the most experience with soda.
Like, when I was in elementary school, my mom used to put
a can of Dr. Pepper in my lunch box every day.
And that's why I am the way I am.
- Alright, I wanna try this one first.
I do like the sound of soda, like sizzling.
- Mmm, who doesn't? It's like a train in the distance.
- Okay, okay. This is F.
This one's, wait.
- That's like watered down.
Who had Diet Coke and was like "too spicy"?
- That's already bad.
It leaves like a taste in my mouth and I hate it.
- That's just off in general. These are both awful!
These are so bad!
This, at least, tastes like Coke. That's disgusting!
- This is maybe like actual Diet Coke,
'cause it tastes a little bit better than this.
- I think this one's the real one.
- I'm gonna say E's knock off. - I'd say E.
E is Diet Coke, while F is a cheap knock off.
- One level of trash to a whole other level of trash.
But I think this is actually a Diet Coke.
- (FBE) Yeah, I'm a little shocked,
because you actually got this one wrong.
(buzzer rings) - Really?
- (FBE) Yeah, E is Diet Coke.
- I was bragging too much, now I have to eat my words,
and these gummy bears.
- Yay! (bell rings)
- Yes, let's go!
(buzzer rings) - Really?
Okay, the way people hype Diet Coke up,
I thought it was gonna be like way better.
- (FBE) Well Jaxon, you got a whopping four out of five correct.
(bell rings) - Hell yeah!
I mean, I trusted myself.
- Not too shabby.
I never really had, I guess, a negative opinion on them.
I think if you're on a budget and it's what you can afford,
there are still products that are just as good
as the branded ones that are more expensive.
- This was hard, 'cause I feel like
now that I've been like duped, I'm questioning my snack choices,
and my ability. - I'm a simple man.
I like things that are bad for me. (laughs)
Usually from 7-Eleven.
The world is in such a state of disarray,
next time I'm gonna treat myself.
When I'm allowed back outside, I'm going top shelf.
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