(crunching cookie)
- I love a good cookie.
- I tell you what I'm gonna eat this (beep).
(air horn blasting)
- [Tim] Wow.
- [Crew member] Take one, mark.
- [Both] Basic to Bougie.
Basic To Bougie.
- Bitch.
- I thought you was gonna say I'm Tim.
- I'm, oh, okay.
- Nevermind, nevermind.
Let's eat.
- What's up y'all, welcome back to-
- [Both] Basic to Bougie.
- Hey, you know what it is?
This is a show where we try three different versions,
of two different foods,
and we try to figure out which one is the-
- Cheapest. Middle-est.
And the most expensive.
- And sometimes, in our experiences-
- Talk about it.
- We learn that sometimes the most basic food can be bougie.
- Or that the most bougie food,
brother, can be basic.
- Yes, sir. - Stay woke.
- Preach it. I'm hungry.
- You wanna get started?
- Let's get started.
- I'm so glad that we're back financially to have a butler,
to have a white man prepare my food.
- Ah, you know what it's like,
until we get our reparations, brother, I'll take this.
- I'm gonna give him a black name.
(yelling) Henry.
- That's a black name?
- Yeah, my grandpa, don't do that.
That was my grandpa name.
- I'm gonna tell you a fact. You're not gonna like it.
My ex-girlfriend referred to my penis as Henry.
- (yelling) Henry.
(yelling) Henry.
- Man. It's so good to not see.
- Give little spirit on there, brother,
put a little soul on it.
You know what I'm saying?
Gang, you know what I mean?
- I'm not gonna.
- Don't reach across my face.
Do not reach across my face to dab 'em up.
It smells. Is it?
Do not start.
- It's dry. Whatever it is.
- It's not dry, I definitely lotioned up it, it ain't me.
- It's meaty. It's dry. Hm.
- Get off me man.
Here we go. Here we go. Why is it cold?
Ooh, that's a bone.
- Wait, but reach under the bone though,
it's gushy underneath.
- Ew, what is that?
I don't wanna...
- Hold on. Is it a bone for real?
It is a bone. The (beep)
- Some kind of meat.
- Oh God.
- What you got, you got the whole thing?
- Oh, it smells seafood-y.
- What is that? Oh, it's a snail.
(buzzer beeps)
- Is it a snail?
- Cause you can hear the ocean.
- Escargo?
- Oh my God, did it move?
- Or is it a conch?
(bell rings)
- Oh, you know, conch's, let's take these off.
You know, conchs are a natural aphrodisiac.
- Let's get it.
Oh look it, it's a snail.
(buzzer sounds)
- Sea snail.
- Oh my God. I touched that.
All right, here we go.
- Darren Brand, are you familiar with the conch?
- I am familiar with the conch,
I've had fried conch, grilled conch.
You know what I'm saying?
Boiled conch.
- Ceviches.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
- This looks like a little conch fritter of some sort.
- Absolutely.
- You ready to conch-er this?
- I see what you did there.
- It ain't gonna conch me down.
- Like knock?
- Yeah. You see what I'm saying?
- Sure, sure.
- It was a reach. It was a reach.
I think this is the conch, right? The sheet?
- [Tim] Yeah the little shaved conch situation.
- Get into it.
I do like it.
- That's great.
- That is good.
This is straight off the grill.
- Some Asian flavors, got these edamame.
- I do like it. Right?
- That's great. - It's good.
(fork clanking)
- When we find something we like, we like it.
All right. Let's go with the crab meat lookalike.
- [Tim] Oh little lettuce wrap situation.
- [Darren] Oh, it's a wrap.
- It looks just like a taco.
- You gonna wrap it?
You know how I roll? We got to tuck the ends,
then you gotta lick the side of it over.
Gotta roll it really tight.
You feel what I'm saying? You know how I roll.
- I don't smoke, so I'm taking like a shot,
cause I drink, so I'm just....
- You're dropping juice everywhere.
That's out the water.
That's got too much salt.
- You get a taste of that saltwater?
- That salt water on it.
- Ceviche. Not feeling it?
- Too much salt.
- It's good.
That blood pressure coming, getting hot, getting hot.
All right, here we go.
- The fritters. - This is for my people.
- Like a little chicken, nug-gey.
(glass clanking)
How come why's not doing that?
- Here we go. Do not dip your conch.
Don't do that, stay over there. You ready? Let's try it.
- Mm, that (beep) is dense.
- It's giving me hush puppy vibes. It good though.
- It's thick.
- And that's how I like them. Hello?
- Usually I would say the same thing.
- Is that corn in there?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh man.
(glass clanking)
That's good Tim.
- How come mine doesn't do that?
- You gotta put it on the plate.
- I don't know, man.
- I like it, bro. That's good.
- There's no conch in here.
- There is some. Open it up.
- A little bit. Okay.
- Let me show you. If you look right here.
- Oh, you touch my, oh...
- If you look right here, that's the conch,
know what I'm saying?
Like that.
- Darren, I'm not gonna- (conch crunching)
- Come on now. You ready to rate?
What's your spirit telling you?
- My spirit always tells me that
the fried one is gonna be the cheapest.
- You think so?
- Yeah.
- I feel like it took more work to make these.
- Nah, you just dip it in some batter
and you throw it in the thing.
- You not about to just simplify conch like that.
"You just dip it in the batter and throw it in the thing,"
no, you have to pay for this.
This is a little bit more expensive.
- You think so?
- I don't think this is much.
Which one you think is the most?
You think the wrap? It might be the wrap.
It might be the lettuce wrap.
- The lettuce wrap, I feel like is the most,
I'm with you on that.
Because you got the ceviche situation.
Anytime you wrap some (beep) in lettuce.
- Lettuce, it costs more and lettuce is water,
that's what I don't understand.
Why am I paying more for water?
- It's the presentation.
- All right, so what's expensive?
- Let's do that. Now we can pick between here.
Now, here's the thing, this one,
it feels like it has more (beep) in it,
but it reminds me of like a Chinese food stir fry,
which isn't expensive. Right?
- [Darren] Cheapest, let's do this.
- [Tim] Cheapest, middle-est.
- [Darren] How does that make you feel?
- I am good with that.
- You good?
- Okay. Cheapest, middle-est, most expensive. I like that.
- I'm confident. I feel good.
- Let's do it. Ready?
- Tony.
- Tony?
- It's Henry.
I don't know why Tony felt good to me.
- Yeah, I thought you were trying to give him a black name.
Tony is a, well, Tony Stark.
- No, I was thinking,
(imitating Italian accent) Tony, Italian.
- Yo, everything good with you?
- [Henry] So good.
- You wanna do it?
- Yeah. Woo. Nervous.
- Throw it out there Tim, talk to me, Tim.
- I'm shaking. - Don't be man.
- No it's cause I'm cold.
- Okay, your nipples are showing.
- Yeah, I know this is thin shirt.
(bangs table)
- Wrong?
- No, let me read it to you. Let me read it to you.
- Cheapest, the conch fritters, I told you.
$10, deep fried Belise-style fritters
served with Ramalaude sauce.
- Why would you let me convince you?
- Because we came to an agreement.
We came together and collaborated. I was happy about that.
Middle-est, the conch salad.
- [Darren] 20 For the lettuce wrap?
- Blend of conch, onions, green peppers, tomatoes,
lime juice, and other spices shipped from The Bahamas.
Most expensive, conch, stir fry
with scallions and sugar snap peas.
- Which you said was the was not expensive,
and that's your people.
Stir Fry has you all over it.
- They gentrified my people's stuff bro.
- They did not gentrify stir fry.
- Dog, this shouldn't be $38.
- That shouldn't be $38.
- I guarantee you a Chinese food place
is not serving this for $38.
- Not 38, 12.99, and it be ready in 10 minutes.
- If that.
- I'm not upset at this. Okay? So what?
- Yeah, we don't do this for you.
- You know what I'm saying? Do it for us.
If you want to be real, (beep) the card,
this is really how it should be anyway,
based on the way we live and see life.
- Yeah, exactly.
- You know what I mean?
- Gentrification.
- My people, stay woke.
Okay. We can't never get ahead or behind. Hello? I know.
And then, vegans.
- Weirdos.
- Man, let's get to the Bougie round.
Bougie round.
- [Tim] Bougie round. Let's get it.
- I'm hoping that something good.
- It better be. Or else someone's getting fired.
- Speak your truth, Tim.
Henry, big dog.
(classical music)
Let's get into it.
(buzzer beeping)
(plate sliding)
You have it?
- Nah.
- Tim I'm for real man. You have it?
There's nothing on the thing.
- No, they're playing a joke on us.
- Are you serious?
- I don't know where it is.
- Are you eating something?
What are you doing?
- Stop trying to hold my hand.
- I'm not trying to hold your hand.
- Please Darren.
- Bro, what is it? That's nothing on the tray.
- Inappropriate.
- Do you know what it is?
- Think it's a cro-nut.
(buzzer beeps)
- A who?
- A croissant. A croissant donut.
- Put on the thing so I can feel it too.
Tim.
I know what your hand feels like.
Put it down, man.
Oh, that's a donut.
- Nope. They're not confirming.
It's a fusion donut.
- It's a donut sandwich.
(buzzer beeping)
- Together.
(buzzer beeping)
- It's a combination donut.
- (beep) it, what is it?
- [Both] It's a hybrid dessert.
- Why didn't you know that?
- No one was gonna be like hybrid dessert.
- It's a donut.
Sugar rush.
- This looks popping.
- Huh? It got the nipples up top.
- Oh yes, two succulent nipples up here.
- Yeah. Your basic ice cream cone.
- No, but these are fusions.
- So somethings in there.
- It could be a steak tartar in here.
- Gonna put my hat backwards, (beep) gonna get real.
You ready?
- Yeah. - All right. Bet.
You go from the top or?
- I'm gonna bite it.
- You gonna bite it? Cause we're men.
- I tell you what I'm gonna eat like this.
That taste like styrofoam, straight-up.
- Ooh, lower it. That sugar on me.
- Oh, you know what? I think I need,
see I didn't get any sweetness.
- The sugar is on me.
- Okay. That's better.
- What's that? In the middle? Is that mantra?
- I think it might be.
- You know I don't like mantra.
- I know you don't. I know you don't like it.
Wait say it again.
- Mantra.
- Yeah. Get your mantra together.
- Macha.
- I told you.
- They always doing this (beep),
they (beep) fake you with the icing
and then put some healthy (beep) in the middle.
Who the (beep) put healthy-
- This might be a vegan.
- You think it's vegan?
- [Tim] Yes, the styrofoam
combined with the macha situation.
- Stop calling it styrofoam.
- Has me thinking this is healthy.
- This is healthy. Look how it lands. You hear that?
- But it's so sweet.
- Only healthy food sounds like that when it hit the plate.
- Do it again. - Listen.
- Yeah. That's vegan.
- All right. Let's move on.
(classical music)
- [Darren] Come on now.
- [Tim] This just looks good.
- You know what that is? It's giving me s'mores vibes.
Ooh, that marshmallow?
I love a good cookie.
- Delectable.
- Now the cookie thick now.
- It's thick, it could definitely do to
take five seconds in the microwave.
- It could take a good 5, 10, 10 on a good day.
It's good though.
- That's great.
- All right. Right now the most exciting one. Let's go.
- Sexy beast right here.
What's it? Some peach.
- It's this definitely three layers, it's giving.
Listen, I think that's a pie at the bottom.
And I think that's sweet potato.
- Uh-uh, that's pumpkin.
- That's a cake, that's pumpkin?
No black people like sweet potatoes.
We don't really do pumpkin.
- Yeah. I learned that.
- I don't know if that's apple at the bottom.
- It's pecan at the bottom I think.
- Pecan.
- Oh you go with can?
- I think I say pecan. Yeah, you're pecan.
- No, I say pecan, don't tell me.
I say pecan too.
- Its pecan.
- I know that. We agree.
- Pecan.
- Why are we arguing? We agree.
- All right, let's get up to it.
Boom, okay.
My mouth doesn't know what to do.
- That's great.
- Oh my God.
- Pumpkins popping.
- Oh my God.
- The crust is crazy.
- No like it's really like that.
- These are definitely pecans.
- Oh my God.
- That's great. - This is it.
- Oh my God. What you about to...?
- There's so much pressure.
- Oh my goodness.
(cake crunching)
- Oh, wow.
- That's it. Brother, that is it.
- Is it dare you say?
- For sure you right on!
Will I have natural diabetes after this? Absolutely.
But sometimes you gotta risk that in life.
- You right.
- Go Tim! God allmighty boy.
- That's so good.
- This is three different desserts.
All right, let's rate.
Gonna go most expensive off the rip.
- Definitely cheapest, gotta be.
- The cookie?
And then the vegan mantra.
- [Tim] The vegan mantra styrofoam.
- Look at it.
That's what we just bit. That's what's in our body.
- And it's gonna stay in our body for seven years too.
Oh, it's got some bass to it.
- Yeah. And it didn't break. That's crazy.
Are we locked in?
- Locked in.
- I got something in my face.
- No.
- Are you lying?
- I would never lie to you.
- I think let's point.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah. You got some in the corner though.
I'll tell you that and it don't look good.
Not on your face like that.
Cheapest, the cookie, middle-est is the styrofoam,
most expensive, the three-layer.
- [Tim] Pumpkin pecan apple.
- PPA. The PPA cake.
(yelling) Henry big dog.
You want something straight?
- Cheapest, s'mores chocolate cookie, $6 each, we did that.
Made with gram cracker dough, milk, chocolate chunks,
and loaded with marshmallows throughout the ultimate
campfire treat, cheapest.
- Beautiful.
- [Darren] Middle-est, ice cream cone cake.
- What's in it?
- Unique spin on traditional birthday cake made with
Funfetti cake batter, vanilla frosting, rainbow sprinkles,
and a flat bottom cake cone.
- It sounds good.
- That's a cake? The cone?
No, that's not a cake.
I've never heard a cake sound like that.
That's not a cake.
Most expensive pie cake.
- [Tim] Pie cake.
- $18 a slice, pecan pie on the bottom.
Pumpkin pie in the middle. You said it?
No, it was gonna do pumpkin instead of sweet potato.
With a spice cake on top.
Layered together with cinnamon, buttercream,
and sweet apple pie, created by renown pastry chef.
Godallmighty, we know bougie.
- We sure do.
- Ain't nothing basic about us bitch.
- We fancy now. - Know that.
- Take this away from me.
Who's supposed to clean this (beep)?
- Water. We did it.
- We did it. Huh? That was beautiful.
- It was man. Close it out Tim.
- All right, y'all, til next time,
I'm Tim Chantarangsu.
- I'm Darren "Big Baby" Brand.
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- Bye.
I think we need to open a restaurant,
because we know what we're doing.
- What would we calling it though?
- Tim and Darren's food extravaganza.
- That's a lot.
- Basic to Bougie.
- There you go.
- No MTV owns that.
- Bougie to Basic.
- There we go.
- That's how you cut the curds. Know what I'm talking about?
You put 2 instead of T-O.
- Ooh. And we spell it, Boo-gie, B-O-O.
- [Both] Boo-gie.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.