- Is this where?
- Nope, we're supposed to order back there.
(group chattering)
- Oh Jesus!
(bouncy music)
- Hey, what's up everybody.
It's your girl, Merle.
- Hello.
I'm Rachel.
- And today, we are back, with the dream team.
Ben and Tucker.
(all cheering)
- Today we are checking out
vegan fast food options,
part two,
'cause the people wanted more. - Yes!
So we're giving you more.
We are going to Peet's Coffee,
KFC,
Chipotle,
Carl's Jr,
and Mike's Love & Sandwiches!
(trumpet blowing) - Whoa.
- So we're gonna try the vegan option at each restaurant.
And then we're all gonna give it a rating out of 10.
I feel like you got a good, strong lineup.
- I feel like certain restaurants last time,
set a pretty high bar for us.
Not all of 'em.
- [Ben and Tucker] Subway.
(all laughing)
- I'm very excited.
So we're pulling up to Peet's, right now.
Let's go.
We just got the vegan breakfast sandwich,
and this is a beyond meat sausage
with just egg,
vegan cheese
and it's on a everything thin bagel.
I'm so stoked.
Let's try it.
- Yes.
(Merle moaning)
- The sausage is nice.
It's not dry.
I like that they did a thin bagel,
so you can focus on the stuff that taste the best,
you know. - Yes.
I think it's the perfect red chew filling ratio.
- At first I thought it was perfumey,
but no, it's just a little spicy.
- What does perfumey mean? (laughs)
- Like I feel like I could taste the anise.
This is what I'm like excited for non-vegans to try.
'Cause I think this is like a strong,
like a strong option. - It's a strong contender hey.
First of all,
I'm not a big fan of egg or cheese.
- Oh.
- So... - Or cheese?
- This is a literal disaster - Yeah. Yeah.
for you.
I'm lactose, so I really don't eat cheese like that.
Cheers.
(Tucker moaning)
- Whoa.
- It's actually really good.
- The sausage.
Nailed it.
- I'm a big fan of beyond meat.
- You literally can't tell the difference with the sausage.
- What is it made out of?
- Mung bean.
The egg patty is.
- Mung bean?
- Cool thing too is that with just egg,
they do have a lot of protein as well.
The just egg isn't super sulfuric,
so it doesn't have like a strong eggy smell.
- My God!
Anise, star anise and sulfuric,
you literal chemist.
- I'm sorry. (Rachel laughs)
- I'm very impressed.
The fact that it got me to eat the egg and the cheese
and not like pick at it.
I'm gonna give it a nine.
- Initially.
I'm gonna say 8.5,
just because I don't want to like skew the results
for later.
- The only thing I do think would make the sandwich better,
would be some kind of a sauce.
The fact that we're getting vegan eggs,
vegan sausage
and vegan cheese in a breakfast sandwich,
- Oh yeah. - I mean.
Like, we're living in 2050 out here.
I'm gonna give this a nine.
- How well did it replicate each element?
That's what's really impressive.
I'm also gonna give it an 8.5,
but we got two nines. - All right.
Two 8.5's.
That's an amazing start. - Yeah.
So that was fantastic.
So we're now heading to KFC to try the beyond fried chicken.
I also used to (beep) love fried chicken.
- Oh, don't even get me started.
(Rachel laughs)
On a road trip I got a 40 piece fried chicken
and then warned my friends I would not be sharing
and then ate the entire thing one night.
(group chattering)
40 pieces!
Throughout the night.
I mean, it was a long night.
You know what I mean but...
- 40 pieces?
Surely that's the whole chicken.
- Surely it's two chickens. (chicken clucking)
- All right, We're pulling up right now to KFC.
Let's go.
The only sauce we can get that's vegan is ketchup.
- Just so you know.
- Just so you know,
there is a barbecue sauce,
it has honey in it.
So it's not technically vegan.
But I will leave that up to your discretion.
What's the load?
(record scratching) (all laughing)
(employee faintly speaking)
Yeah, how many nuggets in a piece?
(employee faintly speaking) - What's the load? (laughs)
- Excuse me ma'am, what's your load?
(Merle and Ben laughing)
- Can we get four, six please?
Baskets.
- All right, the Colonel says,
"Think of this as tiny treasure chests
filled with chicken treasure."
- We love it. - Sure.
I don't taste difference.
- I don't either.
- Oh, snap!
- It kinda taste like chicken nuggets.
- Like did we get the right order?
- [Ben] The white meat is good.
- [Tucker] It's good!
- Oh, just the flesh alone is doing it for you.
- Yeah, just the flesh!
(Merle and Rachel laughing)
I need an expert's opinion though.
- This smells like freaking fried chicken.
- Cheers.
- The oil just like hit me in the face.
Oh yeah.
- In the back of the throat tonsils.
- #ColonelGotMeMoist
(Rachel and Tucker laughing)
- The KFC breading is doing-
- Everything.
- Everything for me.
- This would satiate the fast food craving I'd have
for fried chicken.
- Yeah I've gotta say that-
- What do you gotta say? (Ben faintly speaks)
- Give us some more sauce options!
(Merle laughs) - Give some sauce.
- Ketchup is not cutting it.
- A little homework, KFC,
just for next time. - A little bit.
You know what I mean. - You know.
I'm gonna give this 8.5.
The breading is immaculate.
The chicken is moist.
I want more sauce options.
But overall, 8.5 is still very solid.
- It tastes really good.
It looks really good.
It smells really good.
I'm gonna give it a nine.
- Oh, all right. (Ben and Tucker clapping)
- I'm gonna give it a nine. - Good answer. Good answer.
- She gets a clap?
Where was my clap? (all laughing)
- Or they secretly work for KFC.
- It gets a hard nine from me. (Merle cheering)
It reminds me, - All right.
like Ben said very much of like a McDonald chicken nugget.
- I'm gonna give it a nine as well.
It was epic. - Yes!
- Yes!
- It was up there with Peet's.
Look at the Colonel shining down on us as we-
(all cheering)
- Oh, damn.
He's so happy with himself.
- Thank you Colonel.
Onto the next!
(energetic dance music)
We are now on our way to Chipotle.
Chipotle has really outdone themselves
because they've already had sofritos
and I've been a long time sofrito girl.
- I think the sofritos is fine,
but it just tastes like wet tofu with some seasoning.
In my opinion.
- Chipotle could have teamed up
with like beyond meat or impossible
but they said,
"No!
We're gonna make our own proprietary blend."
- Oh really? - Whoa.
- Of plant-based chorizo.
I'm excited.
We made a customized bowl with the plant-based chorizo.
Let's dive in.
- I'm excited.
It looks spicy, which I'm about.
Oh, that's tasty.
That's so much better
than sofritos. - That's good.
- Really good.
- That has like a smokiness.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I do feel like the sofritos is more like, soft.
And this is more of like a mouth feel.
A nice mouth feel.
- It's nice to have the heat
balanced out with like everything else
the fresh tomatoes,
the salsa,
the guac.
- That's the rizo rizo.
- Boom. Cheers. - Cheers.
- It does have that smokey kick.
- Kinda has like a brisket feel to it.
This is fire.
- Oh.
- Damn!
Ben thinks it's fire. (laughs)
- Stop the press.
- I would literally order this instead of my chicken
because I love that it's actually like spiced.
- This is spicy.
- And good! - Yes!
- Tucker that makes me really happy.
All right, let's give it a rating.
- I'm giving it a 10 for me.
And I'm just realizing
that the only 10 that I gave the last video,
was with the chorizo on the pizza.
- Big chorizo guy over here.
- [Merle and Rachel] Damn.
(Tucker speaking gibberish)
- I'ma give it a 9.5.
- I think I'm gonna give it a nine.
- I like that they made it in house.
I feel like that gives it a little extra oomph in my rating.
I'm gonna give it 9.5.
(Ben and Tucker cheering)
- Where we going? - We are heading to Carl's Jr.
If we wanna get this burger vegan,
we have to get it without the mayo.
- Oh, God. - Without the cheese.
- No.
- And without the special sauce.
- What's the point? - No.
- What's the point.
- They have a burger that has guacamole.
And they have a burger that has jalapenos.
So I'm wondering if we could ask to add guac and jalapenos
to this burger.
Carl, if you're out there,
we just want some vegan sauces.
- Call your father, Carl. - And vegan cheese.
(Merle laughs)
- So we got the beyond burgers.
We got three of them with added guacamole and jalapenos.
(car door bumping)
(Tucker rapping)
- I have nothing but imagine.
(all laughing) - Imagine.
Imagine if I just rhymed and spat
the best rhymes you've ever heard.
One more bite before I jump to conclusions.
(Tucker growls)
(Merle and Rachel laughing)
The jalapeno does wonders and I'm really glad we did that.
I think it's a little soggy randomly for me.
- Interesting. - Little sog paneer
if you will.
(Merle and Rachel laughing)
- The whole shaboing is great.
They put it together well.
- I think the beyond meat is perfect.
You didn't do anything wrong, girlie.
Don't worry.
Maybe it's the guacamole.
I don't usually get guac on a burger.
- These buns have seen better days.
- Yeah, the bun is a straight up sogdog.
- Talk to me.
- I do sense a little charbroil.
- (speaking gibberish) the charbroil is on the cover.
Charbroiled.
- They said that and I was like, "Sure".
But I taste the char immediately as soon as I bite into it.
- I would say compared to the impossible Whopper
from Burger King,
this experience I might like a little bit more
just because that was so dry.
- Yeah.
- Overall, I am an impossible meat girl.
I swing both ways.
- Oh! - Okay.
- Say it.
- I wanna make that very clear about my meats.
(all laughing)
- Overall, this isn't my favorite burger.
Unlike the beyond burger is carrying it.
As you said, not your fault.
I'm giving it a six.
- Oh! - Whoa.
- I've gonna give this a seven.
We have just been so influenced
by all of these amazing vegan meals we've had today.
It makes this one seem like the worst
but this is still a relatively solid option.
- I'm gonna back door with a seven as well.
It's a happy medium for me.
I think like it was good.
It wasn't great.
- I'm gonna say a 7.5,
just because I don't blame the vegan part of it.
I just don't like maybe the Carl's Jr burger.
- All right.
- Andale.
On to the next.
- We have our last stop of the day.
(all cheering)
Ike's Love & Sandwiches.
Their dirty sauce is like a...
Normally it's like a garlic aioli,
but they make a vegan dirty sauce!
(all cheering)
Getting dirty with Ike.
- We got the James and the Giant Peach,
which is the fried chicken sandwich.
We also got the Maya Angelou,
which is the vegan steak sandwich.
What's actually kind of throwing me for the loop here
is the bread.
I don't love the bread.
- But to top it off the steak,
like it just tastes like straight up seitan.
Like it doesn't taste like they marinated it.
- Let's switch.
- Okay.
- Oh.
- Right.
- That is very seitaney.
- Right?
- What is seitaney
for the non-vegans - Like raw seitan.
in the car. - Yeah.
- Seitan is just the protein of wheat.
Seitan is a little dog foodie.
- Yeah.
It doesn't taste good.
The sauce is kind of nice on this.
- Well I wanna see what Ben and Tucker think.
- Like it really does look like corn bread.
- I got nothing but bread on that bite.
I need more meat.
(Rachel laughs) It is very chewy.
It's so much to get through.
- It is kind of dog foodie.
Yeah, the sauce I do like.
- The vegan fried chicken.
That is not it.
- If it didn't taste like meat but tasted good...
Oh!
So now we're switching.
We switched.
Let's try straight chick. (Rachel laughs)
See that's a breaded chicken.
Yeah that's not bad. - That's a breaded chicken.
I'll even say I like that.
- I'm not a fan of the steak. - Me too.
- I don't think any of us are.
(all laughing) - Okay.
- I spit it out.
- Oh my God!
- The chicken on this I actually like a lot.
- Yeah, the chicken's not bad. - The chicken's not bad.
I just didn't have any
on that one. - Yeah.
- I think the fake chicken, made me 6.5.
- The chicken, I didn't get too much of it,
but it tasted okay.
The steak, it was not hidden.
It was slimy.
It was...
Six.
- Four, five, six. - Six is generous.
But you know what, Ike?
We love you.
If you go into an Ike store,
it's really nice.
It's designed well. - Oh yeah!
- Don't get me wrong. - And they
- Yeah, bathroom, - I would take a bullet
is impeccable. - from Ike.
- I'm gonna give it a straight two.
(all screaming)
- I'm thinking three now.
(group chattering)
- I'm bumping down. (Ben laughing)
- You're bumping down?
I think at least to a 5.5.
- My final is five.
They have a ton of vegan options,
but Ike's,
yikes.
(all laughing)
(all cheering)
- We did it! - Here we are.
- Another day of vegan, fast food eating.
Let's talk highs and lows.
- I am very impressed by that breakfast sandwich at Peet's.
They have the vegan cheese.
They have the vegan egg
and the vegan sausage.
They have three vegan things.
So I appreciate that. - Yeah.
- Low?
A hundred percent Ike's.
- I agree.
I think I did rate the breakfast sandwich the highest.
Lows?
Ike. I'm sorry.
- Okay, high.
I have to say it.
Chipotle.
Chipotle surprised me.
Low.
Ike.
Look at me, Ike, look at me right now.
(all laughing)
I'm not mad.
I'm just disappointed.
- We complimented your bathroom,
you know? (all laughing)
And you still gave us (beep)!
I think my high would be KFC.
My low,
just like everybody else, Ike.
It just wasn't working for you, pal.
- I hope you all liked this.
And if you wanna see a part three,
then let us know in the comments down below,
we love doing this
for you now. - We really do.
Now we're all gonna go take a big old nap.
(Rachel laughs)
I thought we're gonna take a big old (beep)!
(all laughing) - A massive dump.
(all laughing)
- That's why we were all in the bathroom at Ike.
All right.
- All right, you all. - Bye.
- Bye. (Rachel laughs)
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