- I'm gonna smell this.
- [Aiko] Oh, I'm nervous.
- Oh my goodness, that is strong.
Wow!
- Hi, I'm Aiko, and I am Japanese.
- I'm Ifelola, and I'm from England.
- Hi, I'm Hitomi.
I'm Japanese.
- Hi, I'm Chloe, and I am British,
and we are swapping snacks today.
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Yeah, I don't know about Japanese snacks honestly.
I've probably seen some around here and there,
but nothing that I can think of particular.
So yeah, it's like a whole new world for me.
- Are you good with spicy stuff, or--
- I can do spicy stuff.
- How about like flavors, interesting flavors?
- What kind of flavors?
- I don't know.
I guess we'll find out.
(laughing)
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- Yay, I love these so much!
- This is Umai Wa.
It's a puff.
It's like Cheetos, but it's really good.
The flavor, I don't want to tell you what it is
'cause I don't want you to know before you eat it.
- So these are Hula Hoops,
and they are a round crisp and they're kind of hard.
- All the kids put them on the ends of their fingers,
and they eat them off their fingers,
and it's just a more fun way of eating snacks.
- There you go. - Okay.
(crunches)
- Oh.
Oh!
That's good.
- You put like one on every single finger.
- Yeah, I was gonna say, it's like Bugles, right?
Where you put it on your finger.
And same with that one.
It's-- - Oh.
- Well, it's a ring form.
- They're like sweet.
- So this flavor is barbecue beef,
and I don't think I've even had this flavor
unless they've changed the name
'cause it used to be, I swear this used to be beef.
- No.
They do kind of taste like ramen noodles,
like just the hard without cooking.
- Yeah.
- It's hard.
It's not a puff. - These are not puffy.
- More like a cracker, but this is good.
- It smells like shrimp, actually.
It smells like fish, which is not the best flavor.
Ha ha!
Like, smell-wise.
I'm sure it will taste good though.
- From the picture, can you tell?
- I cannot.
It kind of looks like...
(laughs)
- Red testicles.
- Oh my god, that's so good.
They're like salty and sweet and I don't know what else.
This is a really hard flavor to pinpoint.
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- It almost looks like a pepper,
but I don't think it's supposed to be a pepper.
- Mm-mm.
- I don't know.
This is really weird.
I cannot tell what they are.
- It's a spicy fish egg.
- Oh.
- So-- - I'm down with that.
- Yeah.
- That's why they smell like fish.
Okay, that makes sense.
Yeah.
- [Aiko] It all makes sense.
- I really don't like the smell of them,
but I really like the taste.
- Some people are always like, ugh no,
and they don't like it, but it seems like you like it.
- It tastes really good, so.
- Did you try the barbecue beef flavor?
- Mm.
Actually, I want to eat these ones.
- Why is that a roe?
What?
- I didn't get that either.
I was kind of like, is it a sausage?
- I would go for that one.
- Oh, you'd go for this one too.
- Yeah.
- I actually like these better than the Hula Hoops,
which is blasphemous.
- I also like those better than the Hula Hoop.
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- Yay!
I'm so excited.
- [Crew Member] Why don't you take a look?
(Chloe hoots)
- Wow.
- Pastille.
There's something very delicious about Pastille,
like the word Pastille.
- We call them Pastilles.
- Pastilles?
- Way less cool.
- So these are Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles.
They're a sweet that's like kind of,
there's like a sugar crust on the outside
and then it's like a gummy on the inside.
- I've never heard of a crispy gummy.
- I mean, it's not crispy.
That's a bad way of putting it.
It's like, it's crunchy and then it's soft on the inside
because of the caramelized sugar on the top.
- Mine is called Fettuccine Gummies.
I like how it says the flavor is Italian grape.
- I don't like American grape flavors,
so I'm hoping I like these,
if they're not exactly the same.
Or you think they are?
- They're not the same.
I think it's a little stronger than American grape.
- So even more grapey.
- So now I'm wondering maybe you won't like it, but--
- We'll see.
- Does Britain not have grape flavors?
- No.
So like, yeah, growing up,
I never really had grape-flavored stuff
'cause that's one of the flavors we didn't really have,
unless it's like real grape juice.
Like real grapes.
Not artificial.
This is like pureed grapes in a bottle
and it's delicious.
- All right, I guess we swap. - Here you go.
Yeah.
- Oh, you've never had these ones?
- Yeah.
I mean, I've tried that brand's stuff before.
- Wow, they are very powerful smelling.
- Yeah, Japanese artificial grape.
What's the best color to have?
- The red one or the purple one.
- Oh.
I see what you mean.
It is crispy, kind of.
- Yeah, crispy.
- Hmm!
These are good.
I think this is strawberry flavored,
but it tastes actually like strawberries.
- It's a real strawberry.
- Yeah, and not like--
- No fake flavors. - Yeah.
- All right, let's see.
I'm gonna smell this.
- [Aiko] Oh, I'm nervous.
- Oh my goodness, that is strong.
Wow!
- This tastes like I just ate grape powder,
but it's a really good consistency.
I like the chew on it.
- They don't taste like crazy grape flavor.
- [Aiko] Yeah, it's different.
- I like it.
And not actually is it like artificial tasting.
- In terms of like the purple one
of this one and then the purple one of that one,
I feel like,
yeah, yours is a little bit more red.
Mine's like darker.
- But yeah.
This is like really hard.
And then this is just buh-luh-luh-luh-lup.
What do they smell like?
- Oh.
They don't smell like anything, really.
- I'm biased.
I'm choosing the Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles.
- As much as I like artificial, or not artificial,
like the grape flavor of this gummy,
I think I prefer this one.
- I like the consistency of these better.
But I like the fact there's more than one flavor of them.
- [Chloe] Bourbon or Bourbon, how do you say it?
- [Crew Member] We say Bourbon.
- [Crew Member] Yeah, we say Bourbon.
- Bourbon, Bourbon!
Okay.
- [Crew Member] Maybe you guys say Bourbon too!
- I don't think we do.
- So these are Bourbons, I believe.
- They're chocolate flavored biscuits.
They're like crispy, like two cracker biscuits
with chocolate spread in the middle basically.
- This is pretty much the Japanese version of this cookie
'cause I see the word Bourbon on the cookie.
- I think I'm gonna like yours more
because you have actual chocolate on it,
and I love real chocolate,
whereas these are just chocolate flavor.
- I don't like things that come in like a sandwich though.
- Milk chocolate and digestive biscuits.
- I don't know what that is.
- Yeah.
- Those are the best type of biscuits, so.
- All right.
Well, here you go.
- Wow, it's so fancy.
They're individually packaged.
- That's a bit of a waste of plastic, let's be honest.
- That one's very smaller than advertised.
- You need to write like Actual Size or something on that.
- I think that this is real size.
- Ow.
Oh, this is like a little cookie sandwich.
- It doesn't look like there's that much cream.
- [Chloe] No.
- It's very light on the chocolate.
You would think it would be chocolatier.
- It's more like a chocolate aftertaste
as opposed to pure chocolate like this one.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I kind of don't taste anything.
- Right.
Well, this is immediately cool
'cause of the shape, obviously.
I've already messed it up with fingers,
but it looks so cool.
- I like the real chocolate on this.
- Ooh, like the chocolate-to-cracker, or biscuit ratio.
Oh yeah.
- It's like halfway towards being a s'more
'cause it's like the biscuit with the chocolate.
- Oh, I see it.
I've noticed though like when I do go get cookies
from Japanese stores,
that are a lot of them are individually packaged.
They taste good, I guess.
They should be a little more environmentally conscious.
- Yes.
- I like these ones more.
- I prefer these too.
Wow, I really love the Japanese snacks that we've seen.
- I was really impressed with all the Japanese snacks.
It was really, they were really, really good.
It's great getting to try stuff
that another culture's grown up with
'cause it's more similar than you think.
- I think overall the Japanese snacks
actually had a lot more flavor than the English snacks,
or British snacks.
- Yeah, I really didn't think I'd like that grape flavor,
but because it wasn't too strong, that's why I liked it.
The smell, though.
Oh my goodness, that is strong.
Wow!
- Everything you kind of smelled on the Japanese side
had like a very--
- [Both] Strong smell.
- But then the taste was a little different.
- That is so true, yeah.
That is a good point.
Everything, like you're smelling the packet,
it's you're like whoa!
What the hell am I gonna put in my mouth?
And then it's like fine.
- Some aren't, it's more of like an aftertaste kind of thing
but the Fruit Pastilles surprised me a lot.
- I think the only one that I preferred
was the Fruit Pastilles, which is like,
that's just an age-old classic, so.
But every other one,
I think I preferred the Japanese snack actually.
- I do like my Japanese snacks,
but I feel like there's a lot more to try as well.
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