- I'ma need to go Armin real quick and get me a bae, honey.
(moans happily)
(upbeat music)
Hi, my name is Joyce and I'm American.
- Hi my name is Talar and I'm Armen American.
- Even though I grew up in America,
I grew up with a real strong Armene culture.
Like, in my house, my mom cooked every night,
Armenian food, all the time.
Have you ever had Armenian food before?
- I don't think so.
Probably not.
- You know, I'm just really excited
to try these snacks because I know
that I deserve a home in every single country
and if I go to each country,
knowing what snacks are lit,
then its gonna be easier for me to find a home.
That's all I want.
So lets bring in the snacks.
(bouncy music)
- So this is a boreg, this one is with--
- say that again?
- Boreg.
- Boreg?
- Yeah.
- So its basically, cheese and bread,
it's just a rendition of
basically a grilled cheese.
- Okay.
- So you know what a grilled cheese is?
- Oh yeah.
- Pretty (beep) great.
- My dad taught me how to make a grilled cheese
and of course, the go-to is Kraft, American slices.
- My mom never made grilled cheese sandwich.
Actually, like, I never had them growing up.
- Wait, really?
- Yeah, really.
We didn't even have American bread in our house,
we only had pita bread
In our house. - Honestly?
Its probably for the best.
- All right, so lets swap!
- Okay.
(giggling)
This is the first time I got a full plate!
I'm so excited.
Oh, warm.
- I think I've had one of these before.
- Where can I get this?
- Armenian bakeries.
(beep)
- I'll hit you with some links.
- Oh my god, please do.
This is insane.
- This is so good!
- Yeah.
And its like, really cheap,
I think they're like,
a dollar for like a whole one.
- Oh my god. - And that's like half, yeah.
- A dollar!?
- Mm-hmm.
- Honey!
I'm about to go to that Armenian, like,
ha-ha! I'm waiting for my bread!
(giggling)
- This is much more contained.
But I think with the grilled cheese
it's because you have to put
butter on the bread for it to brown.
- Right.
Its just--
- Part of the process.
- It's just like your basic,
good old American, grilled cheese, its tastes pretty good.
Not something I really wanna buy.
- No.
- I have to go with that one.
- Nah.
- That's like home for me.
- Yeah.
- I prefer the boreg.
Kraft single. - This is easier to make
but this I feel like, if you have some,
its just easier to heat up and have.
You're just like, - yeah.
I'm gonna need some cheese and bread.
(upbeat music)
So this is called tahn,
it's basically Armenian yogurt drink,
they sell it at Armenian bakeries.
You usually drink it with the boregs or
something called lahmacun, which is like,
Armenian meat pizza, almost.
- Okay. - Like a flatbread.
- Like, just imagine greek yogurt, plain.
- Love it.
- Water.
- Okay.
- Salt.
And you just...
Yogurt drink.
- [Emily] Interesting.
- This is a Chubani...
Yogurt drink.
It's probably like a Go-Gurt.
- But I feel like strawberry banana
is a pretty fail-safe flavor.
- All right, here ya go.
- Here you go.
(soft music)
- It looks like milk.
- It's a lot more watery
than I think I was expecting for a yogurt drink.
- Do you like it?
- I do.
It's more savory than I thought it was gonna be.
And I think they put salt in it?
- It smells like a smoothie.
- Oh, its super salty.
I can see why this would be good
on a hot summer day,
mabey after a workout?
- Mm-hmm.
- Which I definitely do all the time.
(chuckling)
- Yeah, this was actually really good.
It tastes like your standard,
strawberry banana yogurt, except it's
a drink.
This is great as a snack,
I wouldn't just like, pull the tahn out
and drink it on its own
but I would, this one I think.
- I wouldn't just pick this up and drink it,
it doesn't really evoke like any,
feelings for me but
it says protein-rich,so--
- How much?
What is it say on the thing?
- It just says rich.
- Oh. - So you don't really ever,
you never know.
If I had to choose, I'd go with that guy.
There's so much nostalgia.
- If I had to, probably
the Chobanz.
- I like this one more.
- Look at us, we're choosing the other side!
- I know!
- I love the unity.
(easygoing music)
- Fruit-strap!
Oh yeah, baby!
- Boom.
These babies, all right.
- This is like, basically a fruit bar.
In Armenia they call it lavashak,
the one you're trying today is pomegranate.
- Okay.
- This was like,
the norm, when I was a kid, like,
kids would come to school with fruit roll ups,
I'd come to school with my fruit leather.
- I mean we got a roll-up.
Everyone knows that's a classic.
- The best ones to get
were the ones that had tattoos on them.
- Ooh.
- Because then you just take it and kind of like,
(grunts)
on your tongue.
(wrappers crinkling)
- Wow, I get this whole bar?
- Oh, this one's a tattoo one.
- Is it!?
- [Meray] Yeah.
- Armenia's not a sugar queen, is she?
(giggling)
- I am a fruit-leather fan.
- Yeah. = This is very tart.
- But it's probably more natural.
It's probably way healthier.
- My family calls it lavashak
but the other name for it is lavash T'tu.
And T'tu literally means, sour.
- Yeah.
T'tu.
- T'tu.
- This is a classic,
I had it in my lunchbox at school.
You definitely, like, taste how sugary it is,
and how processed it is, where as those,
you can tell it's home-made,
you can tell its fresh,
you can tell it's made out of real fruits.
- Oh no, don't rip it.
Okay.
(vocalizing)
- [Camera Person] Take it off.
- There it is!
I forgot these things existed for a while,
I'm so happy that you get to experience this.
This makes me feel like a little piece of (beep)
- Like a little piece of (beep)?
- I think the fruit bar is good.
I think it was just not what I was expecting.
So it changed my expectations a little bit.
I would probably still go with the fruit roll-up.
- I would go with that one.
- This one I'm gonna get sick of eating,
like, almost immediately.
Even after making a tongue tattoo.
This one is a kinda thing like,
you year a piece, you eat it, you put it down,
you can come back to it, this one's like,
you open it and you're basically that's it.
- I like the flavor of this
but I love what this represents to me.
- That's fair.
(slow electric music)
- This is called a ponchik.
- Okay.
- So, it's basically like a donut,
except there's no glaze on it.
The most popular one has Nutella inside
and people really love that.
- Usually when you get it at the store,
there's different fillings
you could get it with,
this is just the basic filling.
You could get it with an Oreo inside,
- ooh!
- You could get it with Nutella inside.
When you eat it warm,
it's like you're biting into air.
- Fun fact, I hate donuts.
- Really? - Yeah.
That's really surprising, I don't think
I've ever met somebody that hates donuts.
- I don't like donuts
But everyone loves donuts,
this is an American classic and
We're in America!
So this is original glaze donut,
it's not from Krispy Kreme.
- Oh.
- That's the best. - It's okay.
- You got you're fried dough,
with a hole punched in it
and then you're sugar stuff on top of it.
- I'm excited.
Yeah, donuts are just way too sweet.
It's better than not having something.
(upbeat music)
- Absolutely perfect.
- It's really good.
This is fantastic.
- Yeah.
- And this isn't, not fantastic,
I mean, I love a donut, I really do love a donut.
- The donuts pretty good, its a donut,
everybody loves donuts, except her apparently.
But yeah, I do like those better.
They're so good when they're warm.
I don't know, I like the filling inside,
especially in chocolate.
- No. - Try the chocolate one.
- No, this is really the perfect dessert.
- You heard it here first folks.
(grunts)
The perfect dessert.
- It's so good!
- I came in with like, this is gonna be good.
Food always looks good when I drive past it,
all the time, all the pretty photos.
But the snacks are actually amazing.
And perfectly sweet, perfectly savory,
never too much, never too little.
It's amazing.
- Like they know what they're doing.
I feel like here we're just kinda like.
(blows raspberry)
- You know--
- Literally and figuratively.
- Most people make these things at home.
Like the ponchik they make at home,
the tahn you can make at home,
the boregs you can definitely make at home.
- Armenian food is fantastic.
That yogurt drink is like,
it's an acquired taste
but I can see why everyone loves it.
- I'm flying to Armenia.
(giggling)
It's time to get married, honey.
I ain't playing games.
(giggling)
I could eat like this all the time
and this is just the snacks.
Imagine the food!
I'm shook.
(easygoing music)