- Are store brand chips better than name brand chips?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Now, potatoes.
They're an incredibly versatile root vegetable.
With some skill, you can turn 'em into anything,
french fries, a small battery,
or even a tiny rotting friend.
- Or just chips, which I have a tremendous weakness for.
And I think that the name brands,
Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Fritos, Cheetos, all the o's,
make me the weakest, but I could be wrong.
Do store brands have more game than I thought?
It's time for Knock-Off Knockout, Chips Edition.
- Each round, we'll have four bowls of chips in front of us.
One will contain a big name brand that we all know,
and the other three will have some variety of store brand
or generic versions of that same type of chip.
- Okay, and we're gonna be competing
to correctly guess the name brand,
and the winner will be named Chippy Longstocking.
- Ah, there you go.
- Let's taste.
- [Both] Round one.
- Okay, first up, we got the triangle
that's wrecked more lives than the Bermuda
based on addictive taste alone.
Let's find the Dorito that is nacho flavored.
Now, this has got a lot of nacho cheese.
- That's a good chip.
I could get lost in a bag of those.
- Mm hmm.
I would say that's a Dorito.
- Oh, this is distinctly different.
- That is not a Dorito.
Oh, we're competing, I shouldn't tell you that.
- [Rhett] That's a Dorito, that's not a Dorito, got it!
(Link laughs)
- This one is more corny.
- It's a corn chip.
- It's way too corny. - They're all corn chips.
- This one looks like a Dorito.
It tastes like a Dorito.
- This is not gonna be easy.
I thought this would be so easy.
- This one has a lot of cheese,
which I just dump cheese on some of those by accident.
This one's got a darker flavor, like a darker corn flavor.
- Whoops.
- You're breaking something.
This sucks.
This is not a Dorito.
This is not anything I wanna taste again.
This one, I feel like, is my favorite,
because it's my flavor-ite.
- I don't know.
They made these look the same.
They look the same, man.
- [Producer] All right, at this point,
you're just eating a bunch of Doritos.
- And I'm having a great time.
- I love my job.
- All right, are you ready - You gonna make a man
not do his job? - To guess?
- I'm ready, I'm ready.
- I don't know, freakin', I don't freakin' know.
These three are (stammering).
- I feel like I know.
I'm making an educated guess.
- Okay. - Okay, here we go.
Three, two, one.
- Bam!
I'm going with my initial instinct.
- [Producer] Okay, the Doritos are in bowl three.
- Yes. - How did you know?
- I knew that these were definitely not it.
- What is that?
- [Producer] Okay, so, starting from my left,
it's Clover Valley from Dollar General.
So, those are your favorite, Link.
- Those are good.
- [Producer] Then Market Pantry
from Target. - Dollar General.
They didn't taste good.
- [Producer] Then Doritos, and then,
Great Value from Walmart.
- I thought the Great Value did a great job
of almost getting to a Dorito,
but there is an almost intangible quality
that hit me is a Dorito-ness,
and it just hit me when I ate 'em.
And that's what I went with.
It was a soul connection.
- [Both] Round two.
- Okay, here we have four different corn chips,
all shaped like long-ass toenail clippings.
Our job is to identify the Fritos.
I've had a lot of Fritos in my life,
but I never really, I don't ever look at my food.
I just eat it.
I just open the bag and I eat it.
- These are darker.
All right, just by scent alone, I know which one it is.
- Okay, well, I'm gonna eat 'em.
Quit putting your freakin' nose in 'em.
- I'm not actually touching.
Mm, that's a good Frito in number one slot.
Number two tastes a lot better than I...
Ugh, not good.
That number two slot is jinxed.
- Huh, number four is very salty.
- That's burnt.
Number three is unsalted and unburnt.
Number four, hmm.
I've lost all perspective.
- You said when you smelled 'em, you knew.
- But when I tasted 'em,
I forgot. - You didn't.
I thought that...
- We need some chili up in here.
That would help.
- [Producer] 'Kay, you ready?
- No!
- You ready?
You're eatin' everything.
Get your flag.
- [Producer] Well, Link, you have, yep.
(laughing)
All right, here we go.
Three, two, one.
- All right, so you agree.
And that was my scent assessment as well as taste.
- But I'll tell you right now, I'm like 70% sure I'm right,
'cause these could be Fritos.
- That could be it, not these two.
- These could be Fritos.
- [Producer] The real Fritos are in bowl number two.
- No they're not. - Oh no, you are wrong.
- Guys?
Are you sure? - The others are
Market Pantry from Target. - Why are they so dark?
- [Producer] Then Fritos, then Great Value from Walmart,
and then Clover Valley from Dollar General.
- Fritos are so much darker than anyone ever thought.
- [Producer] Again, Link, your favorites
were the Dollar General.
- Dollar General.
- I feel betrayed.
- [Both] Round three.
- Chester Cheetah says that the cheese puffs
are dangerously delicious,
but are they actually dangerously overpriced?
Let's find out.
These have less cheese.
- Again, I just feel like I haven't been looking
at my food enough.
- These are cheese-less.
Oh my gosh.
- They're not good.
That tastes like, are you sure that's just not
a packing peanut?
- [Link] Yeah, that's horrible.
- I think that might be actual styrofoam.
- And what about these?
More cheese.
- They're better than the first ones,
but I wouldn't binge on those.
- Look at the diameter.
It's a smaller finger.
- I feel like somebody who's actually really familiar
with a Cheeto puff would be like, oh,
guys, it's so obvious which ones they are,
but again, I never look, it just goes (crunches).
- Now that's a good one.
Finally, we're getting to the good stuff.
Now these are short and stubby,
and these are longer and C'd.
- Seed?
That's not how Cheetos are made.
You don't plant these and they turn into trees.
- It's like a C.
I think these are the tastiest.
Now y'all didn't throw Planters up in this piece, did you?
- Hold on, but do Cheetos cheese puffs have a curve to them?
- I don't know.
'Cause I was a Planters cheese ball man growing up.
- Yeah, a totally different world.
They're just balls.
- But they also had cylinders.
- [Rhett] That tastes the best.
- These are an honorable mention.
- [Producer] All right.
- The Fritos thing really threw me off.
- I don't know if there's a bend to 'em or not.
- [Producer] Okay, here we go.
Three, two, one.
- Okay.
- I thought there was a bend,
but these taste better, so I'm going with them.
- I agree these taste the best.
I'm going out on a limb here, a curved limb.
- [Producer] The real Cheetos are in bowl number four.
- Yes, okay - Ah, yep.
- So, what is, what?
- [Producer] The ones that you absolutely hated were Sprouts
and then Market Pantry from Target
and then Great Value from Walmart.
- Great Value's doing a good job.
- So, we didn't have no Dollar General in this round.
They would've been the best.
- [Both] Round four.
- Okay, it's time for the ultimate chip to dip,
and the most underwhelming, but healthful snack
to bring to a party, Tostitos tortilla chips.
- Now, if I asked you before looking at these
to describe Tostitos, what would you say
is a hallmark of that chip?
I would say thinness.
- I wouldn't have said that.
- Don't love that.
- It's just a corn chip.
- Not salty enough.
- They're big.
- These taste exactly the same as number one.
- No they don't.
- [Link] What's different to you?
- I don't think I can tell you.
- Sure you can.
You think they're better?
- I don't think I can tell you.
- Now these are consistently more curly.
Not as flat, a lot more structural integrity.
- Thicker.
That'll really dip something.
- Oh yeah, and they're tasty too.
Then, down here we've got--
- But your thinness comment is really throwing me off.
- These are the thickest ones so far,
but not as curly.
Those are the thinnest ones.
- And you think thinness is the hallmark?
- These do not taste, these taste the best.
These don't taste as good.
- Man.
- Which one of these would you want?
- This sitting here eating chips and confusing myself.
- Mm hmm, especially after so much flavor
in the other rounds, it's kind of making me sad.
- There's nothing, you can't just look at 'em and tell.
- Tostitos.
All right, we're gonna have to vote.
- [Producer] All right, sticks up.
Here we go.
Three, two, one.
- I'm going for the thinnest one.
- And you know what, you may be right.
I've never thought about that.
These just taste the most nostalgic to me.
So I'm going with three.
- [Producer] The real Tostitos are in bowl number two.
- Yes. - Uh, you're right.
They are thin.
- [Producer] So which ones were your favorite?
- Link said he'd liked the taste of the ones that I chose.
- I like these a lot.
- [Producer] Okay, so, from the left,
it's Signature Select from Albertson's,
then Kroger, and then number four is Clover Valley.
- Clover Valley?
- So, Kroger is doing a really good job.
And Kroger did a really good job
with some other test we did.
Kroger brings it pretty hard.
- [Both] Round five.
- Lay's Original, big name in chips,
and a desirable bargaining chip
in school playgrounds and prison yards.
- Oh yeah, that one time I was in prison.
- And I like, I like the curly ones,
the ones that flop over on themselves.
- If you gave me these and told me they were Lay's,
I would believe you.
- Yes.
They are great.
You ate two.
- I ate two of all of 'em.
- Hmm.
- Oh?
- Our sample size here, they're all smaller in size.
- The oil on those is real good.
- I was gonna say that it's actually potato-ier.
- And that's a good thing.
Look at that, aw, look at that, it's a double fold.
- See, I don't think Lay's actually do that double fold.
- That's a good chip though.
- Yeah it is.
Moving on over here.
That one's different.
- This is a fine line here.
- Yeah.
This one's real good.
- They're so crispy.
- This one here puts that one to shame.
Number four.
- That's solid too.
- They're all great, all those are small.
Now I'm just eating them.
They're all in my mouth together.
- That's what I do.
- But I know which one is the Lay's.
- Okay, you ready? - I don't, hold on.
I only have a chance to tie.
I gotta take this very seriously.
- I know.
- Okay.
- [Producer] Now are you ready?
- I got a weakness for chips, man.
- Okay.
- [Producer] Okay, three, two, one.
- You were close, but it's gotta be three, right?
- [Producer] The Lay's Original chips
are in bowl number four.
(screaming)
- What?
- Hey. - What?
- [Producer] The others were Great Value,
Signature Select, and Kroger.
- They're all good.
My personal opinion is that they're all good.
Again, I dug into my soul, I dug into this place
where it's not this decipherable taste.
It's just this thing, it's a connection
with like a deep part of myself.
- I thought I'd made the connection.
- No, I think you were overthinking it, man.
Those are good though. - I was feelin'.
These are the best.
You think those are the best?
- I think that they're all really good.
I don't know which one is the best.
I just knew that was Lay's.
But you know what, all I know is we tied
and that we are both officially Chippy Longstocking.
- Oh, what's happening?
You were prepared for us to tie.
Isn't that cute?
- Wow, okay, this is awesome. (laughing)
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- And I'm Noah.
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