♪ Because we love our Vegemite ♪
♪ We all enjoy our Vegemite ♪
♪ It puts a rose in every cheek ♪
(laughs)
- That's awesome.
- That's the Vegemite jingle.
Is there a jingle for wasabi?
- There is no jingle. - Oh.
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Have you ever had any Australian snacks before?
- I don't know if the snacks I've had were Australian
or not, so, who knows at this point?
- I'm excited, yeah, I'm excited to try Japanese snacks.
I don't know if I wanna try dry squid, but,
are we gonna taste that?
I'm scared. (laughs)
- I'm excited to try.
- Let's do it.
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- Oh yes, okay, sweet. - Woo.
- They're called Caplico and they're basically
like ice cream cones but like freeze dried.
- I was gonna say it looks like ice cream,
but like it's not frozen.
- But it's not.
- Yeah, so this is an Iced Vovo.
This is, I used to love these growing up.
It's like a cookie with marshmallow with jam in the center
and then coconut.
- This is the type of thing that I would eat at the end
of a long day with a cup of hot tea and a nice Iced Vovo.
- Why are they called Vovos?
- I actually have no idea, but they are delicious.
- Okay, shall we swap? - Yeah.
- There you go.
- Oh we actually swapping, okay.
- Yeah, I feel like the Ice Vovos,
they definitely didn't look like that when I was a kid.
- Wait, this is smaller than before, too.
What the heck?
- Yeah, like every snack is like this now.
- Okay, let's try it. - Yeah, cool.
- I don't know if it--
- That's good.
- [Justin] Yeah, it's good.
- I like anything with coconut.
- Oh, you can really, I can really taste the strawberry jam.
It's good, I'd buy this.
- Yeah? - Yeah, I'd buy this.
- Mmm, that's good.
Ah that's yum.
- This is very airy.
- Yeah, see it's like very hollow
but it kind of like melts, right?
- It's like not too intense, but it's kind of like icing.
- So who won, who won?
- I'll go with this for now.
- Nice. - I'll go with this one.
I guess this is the clear winner, you know.
- Yep, this wins for me.
- I thought that they weren't going to be that good,
but I tried it and--
- They're better.
- The looks are deceiving.
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- That looks terrifying.
- This is coffee jelly.
It's actually pretty popular in Japan, to be honest, yeah.
- This is also jelly but it's made out of seaweed.
- Well this is Aeroplane Jelly.
It's port wine flavor.
- Yeah, this is my favorite.
Maybe it was like foreshadowing my love of wine.
- They have a jingle, it's like:
♪ I like Aeroplane Jelly ♪
♪ Aeroplane jelly for me ♪
Cut that, that is not going on there.
(laughs)
- Okay, cheers. - Here we go.
- Ooh, consistency. - It's very jello-y.
- I don't like that.
- It's good, I love it.
- Port wine?
So I'm assuming it's supposed to be like wine flavor, right?
Or no, it's not.
- You give it to your kids. - Oh Lord, okay.
- So it's not alcoholic.
I can't swallow this.
- Can you taste the seaweed?
- No, but it's like, I don't like the consistency.
It's like really dense of a jelly.
Like that, I feel like that's how jelly's meant to be.
- Yeah, I can't, this is very confusing to me.
Jelly feels not natural and now I'm remembering
that I never really ate this because I don't like jelly.
I don't.
- How good's this flavor, port wine?
No wonder like, the majority of Australians are alcoholics.
It's a like gateway with port wine.
- [Hinano] Yeah, yeah.
- I like this, this is good.
- I do like the flavor of this.
It's the texture that I'm just like, no.
It's like what I imagine if I poked a jellyfish,
that would happen.
- I'm gonna do Aeroplane Jelly again, like no brainer.
- Me too, Aeroplane Jelly, because the wine flavor is
actually very--
- That's what it is, it's the wine flavor.
If you had like orange, you would have been like, over here.
- Yeah.
- I don't know, I like that one more.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah, I like that one more.
- Yeah, I like the taste of this better, but the texture
of this, but if I had to pick one I would not pick
either of them.
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You're going to be trying Vegemite.
- There it is.
I had like, I had a feeling it was like that.
- Yeah, have you ever had this before?
- I've never had it.
- I feel like Australians get like great pleasure watching
people from other countries try Vegemite
'cause it's pretty disgusting.
- Then this is green peas.
Pretty sure it's just like dehydrated green peas,
but it's got like a wasabi coating on it.
- Oh, okay.
- I've actually had these and they're delicious.
- They're so good. - I love them, yeah.
- Is Vegemite a condiment, technically?
- Yeah, I guess I would call it a condiment, a spread.
Like, I wouldn't put it on a hot dog, though.
- Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't put wasabi on a hot dog.
(laughs)
- Yeah, I'll make it for you.
We'll use like a whole (beeps).
(laughs)
All right, it's fine. - It worked.
- But the trick is to not put too much Vegemite
on the toast, so you just want a thin layer of it.
- The butter to Vegemite ratio needs to be like 98 to two.
- 98 to two.
- Yeah, like, so much butter.
Yeah, try this, just take a bite.
- Okay.
- Oh.
My like mouth is like salivating all of a sudden.
- It's good, I like it.
- You like it?
Yeah, no, I feel like you just need way more butter
to Vegemite.
- It's good with the butter.
- How do you like that?
- Yeah, this is also like, it's good, it's intense,
but once the wasabi flavor goes away, it just tastes
like a crunchy, salty thing, yeah.
- I love them.
I could eat this whole packet.
- This one is good because the wasabi flavor is not
so overpowering.
- Yeah, I like them, but Vegemite for me wins,
takes the cake.
- I'm going with the wasabi peas, by far.
- I actually pick the Vegemite.
I always wanted to try it, never have,
and this is my first experience and I like it.
- You would never have Vegemite just like on its own.
It's like, yeah, suicide.
- (laughs) Suicide.
- I gotta go, I gotta go with the wasabi green peas.
I just like that sensation, you know.
- Yeah, they're a feeling, a feeling of home.
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So what did you think about your first time trying
Australian snacks?
- I like it.
I thought they were all very good in general.
The one that really stood out for me was the Vegemite.
- Japanese ones were delicious.
Sorry, there's a wasabi pea in my throat.
(laughs)
- Definitely go out to a Japanese grocery store
and look in the snack aisle.
I am sure that you're gonna find something that you love.
- I really did not like the jelly, but I've learned
something about myself today, is that I do not like jelly.
- I could live my life without jelly.
- Yeah, jelly's something that can stay in the childhood.
- (laughs) Yeah.
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