- What's the spiciest snack on the shelves?
- Lets talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Hot snacks are very popular these days.
There was even this hot Takis challenge
that allegedly sent kids to the emergency room,
because it got in their little kid stomachs
and burned their little kid stomach linings.
- We're not little kids, we're big grown men,
we got big strong
stomach linings. - Stomach linings.
- How'd you know I was gonna say that?
- 'Cause there was a pattern between what I said
and what you said.
- Jinx.
Our stomach linings are strong and big.
They're not gonna pitch a fit over some corrosive
ingredients in these hot snacks.
That's right, it's time for Super Snack Death Match.
- Hot Snack Edition.
Okay, so we are going to determine the spiciest snack
that you can get off the shelves.
I mean there might be some totally obscure thing
that is just not at your fingertips,
but these are the ubiquitous spicy things.
- Readily available snacks, okay.
- And we're gonna do this in tournament style,
because scientifically speaking,
- Tournament style's the best way.
- That's the best way to do it, man.
You take two, you taste both, you see which one
is the spiciest, it moves on to the next round.
Let's determine the spiciest.
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- Okay, for round one over here I've got
Andy Capp's Hot Fries.
- And I have got Cheetos Extra Extra
Flamin' Hot Crunchy Cheetos.
Basically, these are the hottest of flamin' hots
that the Frito-Lay brand puts on all types of stuff,
most ubiquitously Cheetos themselves.
- Right, so if you're like, where's all the other
flamin' hot stuff, all the flamin' hot stuff
- They're beneath this. - Is the same.
Well it's the same stuff, if it's exxtra flamin' hot,
that's as hot as it gets.
- Let's taste the Andy Capp first.
- Now this was around when we were kids.
This was like the one hot snack that I remember
that you could get in the '80s.
- Yeah, there's nothing like comic strips to make me hungry.
Andy Capp. - Have you ever
read the comic strip? - No.
- Have you ever even seen it, besides on there?
- No. - You know, these
are corn and potato. - Wow.
It is (coughs), it's hot.
They call 'em hot fries for a reason.
- I mean I ate these as a child.
- I've never eaten these, because I don't like hot things.
And I'm not gonna apologize for it.
- Okay, these look a lot hotter.
These look like these took a shower,
those took a shower and became these,
also got a shave, shower and a shave.
- This is a real, it's almost purple it's so red.
It's gotta be hotter than that.
- Oh, it's got a roll,
got a rolling hotness, call that a rolling hotness.
- Yeah, you eat it a little bit, and then it,
it's making my nose tickle.
- That seems, clearly hotter.
But I'm gonna go back to Andy Capp,
'cause I don't wanna sell him short.
He's been through a hard time.
That tastes like fish food now, tastes like nothing.
Tastes like it's got no spice at all.
These, easily the winner of round one.
- Oh yes, very hot and sneeze-inducing almost.
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- Okay, for round two, I've got Takis Fuego.
- [Link] Oooh, is that the one that sent
the kids to the doctor?
- Yes it is, straight to the doctor.
- And I've got Jack Links Hot XXL Beef Stick.
- A hot beef stick, huh?
- Sounds more like an adult movie than a snack,
but I'll taste it.
- Now, you recall team during our recent trip to Six Flags
over California is what I like to call it, Magic Mountain.
There was a whole roller coaster sponsored by Takis Fuego.
A whole freaking roller coaster, that's what I love
about Six Flags, is they'll name a roller coaster
after a potato chip.
- Man, and it's got a strong scent to it.
- That's a good flavor,
- There's a very - Takis Fuego.
- There's a striking lime flavor, it makes it not taste hot.
- No, it builds. - Oh there it is.
- It's your second Taki where it really hits you.
Get your second Taki, get a second Taki.
Tell me I'm wrong about that second Taki.
- You are not wrong about the second Taki.
- Now let me try your beef stick.
- There's a beef stick.
That doesn't smell great to me.
- I haven't eaten one of these in years.
- Did you get the spicy ones, though?
- Oh yeah, I got Little Chubs, remember those?
- Those little toes floating around in a jar?
- No, the little red sausage that's floating in vinegar
and it's in like a little package,
- Floating in vinegar, yeah, oh in a pack.
- I would get that, and it was a sealed pack, man.
Little Chub, hot Little Chub.
That was my best little friend.
- It doesn't look like it's gonna be as spicy.
Whoa, whoa, daddy-o, this is a lot hotter than that.
- You must have hit in a hot spot.
- Yeah, take another bite.
- Is it your second beef stick where
I really start feeling it?
- Yeah, this one you get the lime moment
and the spice moment that comes afterward,
but I'm telling you, this is beating it out.
- Yep, you said that.
- You're not convinced?
- This is a really, really tough one,
but I think that what I'm feeling now is that
these have a very high initial heat quality.
This thing builds to an almost unbearable level.
- Yeah, makes my nose is running.
- 15 to 20 seconds after consumption, and I think
if you're going for ultimate heat,
I think the beef stick takes it.
- I agree.
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- Okay for this round we've got Doritos Flamas.
- And boy they look hot.
Now I have the Pringles Loud Salsa Fiesta,
bold flavor, epic crunch.
You know what, I'm gonna do two
just to kind of like really hit it.
Lime right off the bat.
- Still definitely a Dorito.
- So it's a very similar sensation to the Takis
of the previous round, hits hard with the lime,
and then it's a question of how much of the heat's
gonna roll in afterward.
- Not that hot.
- That's what I'm feeling.
- Let's try your Pringles over here.
- [Link] I'm feeling this Loud.
- Also pretty weak.
- I'm tasting mostly chip with this one.
You know when you're not getting flavor,
but you're getting to the Pringle essence very quickly.
There's not a lot of hotness going on here.
- These are both kind of weak.
This is definitely hotter than that, though,
after a second taste.
Doritos takes this round.
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Okay, moving right along, in this round I've got
Hawaiian Kettle Style Potato Chips Mango Habanero.
- Oh yeah, she's dancing.
And I got the Snak Club Hot and Spicy Peanuts,
may be spicy, I don't know.
- So hot it knocked the C right our of your snack.
- Let's try this first.
- Now we'll just make some observations about this lady.
She's pretty hot, and she's got a volcano behind her,
and there's also a sun in the picture, three hot things
on the package. - Lot of hot things, yes.
Now I expect some mango.
- The mango's strong.
- Lot of sweetness right off the bat.
I love a good kettle chip, whoo, something just happened.
It just got hot.
- It comes real strong.
- It's hitting the back of my throat like a--
- Boy it goes deep, doesn't it?
- It's all the way back there.
- Whoa, how did it get back there,
how did you get back there lady?
- It's hot.
- She snuck to the back of my throat.
- It is hot back there, right?
- She snuck to the back of my throat and did a little,
did a little dance in the back of my throat.
- So you, too, are experiencing the same
back-of-throat hotness as me?
- Now you're talking about me and the lady, you two?
I mean I'm not that close to her.
- I'm in this. - That's hot.
Here we go.
- Yeah, I'm hurting a little bit,
and burping a little bit.
Throw some of these down.
- Whoa, I may have done one nut too many.
- These are kind of hot, too.
This is a deadly combination.
- Man! - And I'm gonna
tell you right now, these are some spicy nuts,
but once you make peanut butter in your mouth,
it squelches it.
- These are way hotter, way hotter.
There's no peanut butter in it.
- You're right man.
- You've done it again.
- She has done it.
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- Okay now we're moving on to previous winning rounds.
We're back with the Cheetos Exxtra
Hot Flamin' Hot on this side.
- Again, they look very hot.
Oh, and they still taste good.
It's immediately hot, the slow burns on these other ones,
including potentially the meat stick.
- It's not that bad.
- It's not that bad, but it's immediate.
So I think you might feel like it's hotter
than it actually is, because it doesn't even
have to build, it's just bam.
- I need a little bit of ice cream in between now,
'cause I want to be really accurate
when we move into these rounds.
- Yeah, this is important.
- People depending on us being right, being scientific.
- It takes a thorough chewing of the innards of the beef
stick before swallowing to experience full spice.
- I really miss beef sticks.
- This thing took Takis down, beef stick tackled Takis.
- Here it comes. - And there it is.
It takes about that long, and then it really,
it's just like cresting a hill.
- It's like when you hit the wall, when you're on
the exercise bike.
- I've never been on an exercise bike
- Holy moly. - in a sincere capacity.
- Man! - I tell you,
it just, once you crest it.
- How do they get it in there?
- There's another hill.
- How did they get it in there?
- It's in there, I don't know.
- What did they do?
- This wins. - Man, beef stick
takes it again. - Beef stick
done it twice, y'all.
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- Okay now we have every reason to believe
that the dancing Hawaiian lady is going to take this round,
as well, but let's give Doritos a chance.
- [Link] I mean the packaging is pushing it hard.
- I'm laying it on thick, man.
- It's a good chip, very respectable taste.
- It tastes great.
It is hot, it is Flamas, but it's not,
it's nothing to write home about.
It's not overwhelming. - It's not anything
that demands a warning.
- Here we go.
The first thing you taste is, oh,
- I'm afraid of that. - just sweet,
it's a sweet mango chip.
- Mmhmm, It's like, oh, they put a lei around my neck
when I got off the boat.
- And then you probably grab another handful,
and you're like, oh man, there's no warning on this thing,
it's a dancing lady.
- Then you're walking to your hotel and you're like, boom!
And there she is, dancing a jig.
And once she arrives, she's all there is.
It wins this round.
- Okay, she takes it again.
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If you had told us, hey man, you know what's gonna make it
to the final round?
A beef stick and some Hawaiian chips
that look like regular chips.
- We'd be like (laughing), crazy.
- Look at what has happened here.
- I have no doubt that these have earned
their spot in the final.
- There's no red powder on anything.
They could just be normal, that's what I love about it.
I love the unexpectedness.
- It's not about the marketing, it's about the flavor,
it's about the spice y'all.
- This one just says hot, hot, you know.
- This one says tropical heat.
- Come on, grab a-- - Tropical heat's
not to be messed with, man.
- Grab a stick, man.
- I didn't even know beef stick was a snack.
I've always considered these meals.
- It says snack stick on there.
- Again, both of these have a delay,
which there's something to learn from that.
Anything worth being burnt by is worth waiting for.
- Wise words.
- Starting to hit me.
- This one hits earlier.
- It does hit earlier.
- It hits earlier, and it hits hard.
- My stomach is really starting to hurt
from the cumulative effects of science.
- You wait until about 12 hours from now.
- Now we need to go in with something.
- Well here she comes.
- She hit me early. - She comes around the bend.
She comes around the bend, and you hear the bongos.
Man, this is so tough.
- I mean these are neck and neck.
Put a grass skirt on this sausage,
and you got yourself a winner, but.
- Can you give it to a beef stick?
That's the real question.
- Can we in clean conscience?
- It just feels wrong to give it to a beef stick.
- I think this is edging it out a little bit.
Oh, she keeps shaking it.
- Yeah, but then when you add him on top of her.
- I'm out man, I'm out.
I know that this is my vote,
only by like a five percent margin.
- Okay, let me just one last one.
- I say it comes out on top.
Breathe out, feel that burn.
- Man, I tell you, but she always sneaks up behind me,
and then she just, - Aloha.
- Takes me off guard.
It's gotta go with the Hawaiian chips, I can't believe it.
- Ladies and gentlemen we have it.
The world's hottest snack, according to our
collective palates is the Hawaiian Kettle Style
Potato Chip Mango Habanero, tropical heat.
- Sorry, I didn't mean to do, how did that happen?
Let me cover that up with a beef stick.
- Yeah, put a beef stick in there.
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