- [Drew] A portion of
today's video is sponsored by Google Domains. More on that later. Hey guy, welcome back
to another episode of "Drew, just because something
is weird and on the internet doesn't mean you have to buy it." My name is Drew and today
I'll be buying something weird I found on the internet. As someone who's never
been quite as healthy as I probably should be, I'm always looking for convenient
ways to improve my diet. And that's where Squareat comes in. Finally, a company that has the courage to take a bunch of food, and turn it into little wet squares. Gotta say, I love these photos. This is what it looked like before we blended it into a cube, and this is what it looks like now. Pretty cool, huh? In case you missed it, here was their big announcement
video from last year. - What if I told you that we can transform regular food into squares? - I would believe you, honestly. I don't think most people's first thoughts when they see this are,
"How did they do that?" It's more like, "Why would they do that?" - Stop for a moment and remember how bad the food options are in schools, airplanes, hospitals. - You know, it's probably not a great sign if you have to start off
your advertisement by saying, "Hey, it's better than hospital food." I like the shot of two
people eating the squares and what appears to be
an actual restaurant. Like I can maybe
understand the practicality of having these things meal prepped, ready to go in your fridge. But if a restaurant served
slimy cubes of meat, no one would eat there. Sorry Cube Cafe. I'm gonna
go somewhere else for dinner. The rest of this video is
less an ad for consumers who may be looking to try the product and more an ad for potential investors 'cause they start going
on about the margins. - Our business model is
predicted on scalability and margin control. This combination will generate margins never seen before in the industry. - And honestly, it almost makes
me want to eat it even less. They shouldn't be bragging to me about how low their overhead is. I would prefer it costs
you a little bit of money to make the food. It's kinda like when fast food restaurants will sell 50 chicken
nuggets for like 89 cents and somehow still profit. Kind of makes you wonder what the hell they're
putting in those things. They say they have 16,000
plus customer satisfaction, but they only have 49 reviews. Are they just assuming everyone that didn't leave a
review is also satisfied? I mean, they never told us they hated it. As you can probably imagine, all the one-star reviews are about how they didn't like the taste or that the texture's kind of weird. But I noticed they give the
same response to all of them. "I'm curious which
warming method you used. We really do not recommend
using only the microwave, but for example, the electric grill or pan with a little olive oil to
enhance the flavor and texture." And it's like, yeah, I'm sure it does taste better like that. But you can't have it both ways. You can't say "save 10
hours a week on cooking. These squares are ready to eat." Implying that you can just pop
them in the microwave, right? But then when people go, "I don't know man, they
taste kind of bad," you're like, "Well then
you shouldn't have put them in the microwave. I don't know where you
got that idea from." Well, no food review would be complete if I didn't actually eat the food. So let's go ahead and buy some. You can either buy the
squares by themselves or you can buy meal boxes. My favorite is definitely
the vegan burger meal. The word burger makes me think
that these two are the buns and you're supposed to
stack all six of the squares on top of each other and then, of course, wash it all down with some mixed beans pack. Why would I just open a can of beans when I could spend $12 on that? I noticed that the meals
are way more expensive than just buying the squares individually. Seems like if anything, it
would be the other way around. But six classic meal boxes would give you 18 chicken squares, 12 rice squares, and six
broccoli squares for $93. Or for $75, you can buy
exactly the same thing. But either way, this isn't cheap food. You would hope, and probably even assume, that it would be based
on the way that it looks. But $15 for one meal that's
essentially just 400 calories of chicken and rice? This would have to be amazing
for it to be worth that. Look, I'll happily spend
a little bit more money on something if it tastes really good and is convenient to prepare. But if I'm being honest, I'm worried that these are
neither of those things. Oh, wait a minute. They've
got a sweets section. So I can grab some of my favorite desserts like peanuts or other nuts. Mom, can we go get dessert? No honey, we have dessert at home. The dessert at home. And again, I'm all for
convenience when it comes to food. If healthy food was as cheap and easily accessible
as fast food tacos were, I would be in much better shape. But I'm not exactly sure
who the target audience for this is. If you can afford to pay this much money for tiny portions of
prepackaged astronaut food, you might as well just sign
up for one of those companies that will mail you already cooked meals you can just throw in the microwave. Assuming, of course, that
you prefer the appearance and texture of actual food. All right, well I bought some. And I can't wait to put it in my mouth. This is such a bizarre idea for a product that I feel like it has
to be satire, right? Like this only exists
because it's bizarre enough to grab people's attention, right? - Hey, go easy on them, all right? I think we all had some
pretty crazy business ideas the past couple years. - Not me. All my ideas are great. - Oh yeah, I'd love to hear them. - Let's see. Chocolate hot tub, invisible
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at home, really big chair- - Dental tools? What are you trying to
give yourself a root canal? - No, I'm talking about
those little sticks they use to clean your teeth. I should be able to do that myself. - Oh my god. Drew, do
you not own a toothbrush? - Someone already made that?
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for like six months? - I guess. - Awesome, and thanks to Google Domains for sponsoring this portion of the video. - So I may have made a slight error. For the first time in my life, I was fully prepared for something. I planned this video so far in advance, I might have actually planned
it too far in advance. You see, I bought the squares while I was still halfway
through my last video with the intention of
freezing them once I got here. But then when they did, I noticed their expiration
dates all said 11/25. So I was like, great,
I've got plenty of time. I'll just put them in the fridge. And after 19 days of that, I
was ready to film part two. So I pulled them out and noticed that they look kind of gross. The problem is I don't know
if that's the normal gross that they're supposed to look like or a slightly grosser gross
that means do not eat this. So I consulted their website where I read that they last
two weeks in the fridge. Perfect. That's plenty of time, and it's already been more than that. So then I started panicking and thinking "Should I order more?" Well that's not an option because this was right before Thanksgiving and if I ordered them then, they wouldn't have shipped in
time for the end of the month, my contractual deadline
for uploading a video. But this is where their
customer service team came in clutch. After several typing bubbles
popped up and disappeared and popped up and then disappeared. It was very nerve wracking. They assured me that
the squares have proven to last up to three weeks in the fridge as long as they've been properly
sealed, which they were. And I was like, "That's
awesome. Thank you so much. But they're kind of yellow. Is that bad?" And she was like, "Don't worry.
That's our secret sauce." Vivian, I'm gonna choose
to trust you on this, but just know my life
is in your hands now. I know these look identical. But believe it or not, one of these plates has real food on it. The other has little squares. Now just first impression.
Can you tell which is which? - Rice, broccoli, chicken. - I meant which one is the squares. But it seems like you got it. Is it the square plate that gave it away? - Square plate for square food. - Circle plate for circle food. What were you planning
to do with the big spoon? That's a good idea.
- [Amanda] I mean, this does look really cool. - Would you say it
looks appetizing though? - Kind of. - Okay. Well that's good. Hey, maybe this is, maybe you're the target audience for this. - I'm so tired of food that looks like that.
- I know. - I'm excited to try something new. - Maybe the novelty will
wear off at some point. But for now, it's just so
exciting to have someone take food in such an interesting new direction. Taste like chicken? - Chicken.
- That's 'cause it is. - It's actually not that bad. - It's very dry. Blind taste test, would you be able to tell the
difference between these two? - Yes.
- Yes. - The texture.
- I mean, I like my chicken. - I like that chicken. - Really? Okay.
- They look like little rocks. - All right, you ready for the broccoli? Oh. Oh, that's nasty. It's definitely wetter
than the chicken is. It's like you bite into it and it sort of like bursts in your mouth. - It doesn't really taste like broccoli. - Well, it's broccoli and spinach. - Oh, okay. I was gonna say. - Yeah, it smells like broccoli. It's got that signature broccoli stink, but with all the flavor of spinach. - I like the way it jiggles. - It's like rice jello. It's not bad. It doesn't taste
like anything I feel like. - That's the same thing. What a fun way to eat. - Hey, I'm glad you like it. - Come into work, you bring
your three little squares. - Yeah, you would be
the talk of the office. I'm actually gonna slice this up in fry it and we'll see how it compares. Now we're talking. No matter where I film videos, Bimbim finds a way to the background. She, in a past life, was
a YouTuber or something. Every time she's licking
herself like crazy. Yeah, it's a million times better. The rice is actually pretty good. - I think I liked the rice better before. - Really? That's funny. - Chicken tastes better. - It has like a crispiness to it now. - [Amanda] Almost reminds me of like... - Runnier than I thought it would be. - It tastes like sausage.
- It does taste like sausage. - That's what it is.
- Yeah. They make chicken sausage, right? - Yeah, that's exactly
what this tastes like. - But you don't like sauces? - I don't. Maybe the psychology of it that I think that it's square
chicken, so I like it more. But if you were to just say
it was square chicken sausage, I wouldn't like it as much. - If I were to use that as a patty in like a breakfast sandwich
and I told you with sausage, you'd be like, "Eh, I don't like it." Even though it tastes the same. - But if you told me
it was square chicken? - Yeah, the state-of-the-art, innovative, new food technology,
you'd be like, "Okay." - Yeah, probably. - I actually don't like the sauce. I like it better without the sauce. - What does it look like on a plate? - Well, what they want you
to do is prepare the chicken the way that I prepared it. Slice it up and put it on the stove and then put it in like
a salad or something as a chicken substitute. This gets crispier than
chicken could like. - This way it's almost tofu-y. - Yeah, it's got like a different texture. If it was cheaper, I'd be like,
"This is surprisingly good." But because it's still
so expensive, it's like, it's hard to justify getting
these squares when I could... It's more work, but if you go to the store and get all this for super cheap and just throw it in the oven, you'll have five days
worth of food in an hour. It doesn't taste like chicken breasts, but chicken breast is also kind of boring and it gets repetitive. So you know, if you've
been on a diet for a while and you're getting tired of this and you want to venture
out into something else that's also low calorie or whatever, like give it a shot. - I would probably eat this
like with other things. I don't think I could
just eat this by itself. It looks like what I would
imagine, as a kid, airplane food. And people would make
jokes about airplane food, that's what I would
picture as airplane food. Oh, it must be like blended cubes of meat. It looks like what eighties movies' idea of what future food would look like. And you know what? I'm
proud of you. You tried it. You stepped outta your comfort zone. I stepped outta my comfort zone. - Good game.
- Good game. - Okay, well it just goes to show you you should never judge a book by its cover because you never know
how it's gonna taste. For Channel Six News, I'm Todd Todder reporting live. - That's kind of a weird
thing to put on the news.
