- Today we crown the barbecuiest of barbecue flavored snacks. - Let's talk about that. (fun theme music) (fire blazing) Good Mythical Summer. - Woop! A few weeks ago we sampled
snacks that had sour cream and onion flavoring
- Yeah. - In order to determine
which one was most like the actual flavor. - And it was the crickets,
the crickets won out. - Yeah, who knew they
could get so sour creamy? - Yeah, they did. - Let's see if we're surprised
again today when we set our sights on the most American of flavors. - Potentially. - Barbecue. It's time for Super Snack Flavor Match Barbecue Flavor Edition. - Okay, now as we have
established on this show and in a song that we wrote a long
time ago, barbecue is meat prepared in a very special way. - It's not a verb. - Right, and barbecue flavored
things though, in America, usually are not trying to
replicate the flavor of barbecued meat.
- Right. - It's trying to replicate sauce. - Right. Which we have some here. - And usually it's like
a Kansas City sauce. - Right which is - It's a sweet,
- Thicker. - Hickory-ish. - [Link] Sweeter. - [Rhett] Sauce. - So we're tasting this now in
order to establish a baseline with which to compare
all of the snacks we're gonna taste today. - Right, and see which
one gets the closest. Let's get started. (rock music) Okay, up first we have the classic Barbecue Lay's chips. When somebody says, "Give
me some barbecue chips," you usually can't go wrong if you get Lay's.
- This is the go to. - I mean, look. We've got the same exact thing
happening in the real world and on the bag. - [Link] We don't have a hairy baster. - Do we have a hairy baster? - Where's the hairy baster? (laughs) There's all these people here
and I'm looking at no one because I don't really
want a hairy baster, it's just for comedy. - It was my nickname in high school. (laughs) Never gets old. - (chuckles) The thing that I
noticed from eating the actual sauce was the bite. There's a bite that you can't neglect - Don't neglect the bite. - When comparing it to this. Now I was hoping I'd get one
of those chips that's folded over 'cause those are the jam. - Like this one? (laughs)
- Aw. You looked, man. You can't win the lottery by cheating. - Yeah. - That was a good chip. - It's better than the sauce. Isn't it better than the sauce? - See, what I'm gonna do
is, I'm just gonna lick it. 'Cause I don't wanna taste the potato. - Here's a foldy. Here's a foldy with a baby
chip coming out of it. - I ate the baby and I'mma lick the daddy.
- Here's another foldy. (crew laughs) - Eat the baby and lick the daddy, kids. It's so good. Korde Busby on Twitter
said, "Barbecue Lay's "are slap peach." - Makes me wanna slap a peach! - I think that means a butt. - This is really close, man. - Especially if you dip it in there. - Okay, so we're each giving
these a one to 10 and then we're going to
- It's very close. - Average between the two. - It's coming from the same exact place. - So smoky, it's got that bite. - I'm going with a - Eight.
- Eight. Hey, that's what I was going to say. - We agree. - [Rhett] Eight. - So that's a total of 16. (rock music) Alright, now let's check out
some David Jumbo Sunflower Seeds roasted and salted and then barbecue natural flavor added. No picture of sauce on it. - No. - Let me give you a little bit. I love the name David for a brand. It's like, "My son David has
these sunflower seeds, you "really gotta try 'em. "What should we call 'em? "I think we're just gonna call 'em David." (laughs) - What if it was a tribute to somebody? - "Well, it's my son David. "He's dead. (laughs) "He died of sunflower overdose." - What if that's true, man? - "Eat, spit, be happy." Are you talkin'? - Yeah. Why'd you give me so many? - I love eatin' these when I'm
fishing, gives me something to do besides fish with my father-in-law. - I'll be honest with you,
they could just be salted and I wouldn't know the difference. - I cannot taste any barbecue
sauce at all now that you mention the point of this episode. (crew laughs) Sorry, David. I don't taste any barbecue
flavor in your sunflower seeds. - You don't know he's in heaven, man. He may have been a bad boy. - (laughs) How could anyone
who makes this be bad? "I kept all of the barbecue
sauce for myself but I still "labeled it barbecue flavored (laughs)." - Oh, he's from a different place now. - He's Lucifer himself. Alright. This is not barbecue. It's still great, David. - I give it a one. - Yeah, two.
- Sorry, David. - [Link] It's a total of three. (rock music) - I've got high hopes for these because I love eating Fritos. Have you had the chili cheese Fritos? That's not what this is about but have you had those?
- It's interesting because I've had those and I've had
normal but I've actually never had barbecue Fritos. - Really? Oh, but the corn is really strong. - That's why I'm just
gonna lick this one too. - They're so good. - They are very good. - They're so satisfying. It's so corny.
- There's a subtly to it. It's so corny. - Gotta lick the daddy on this one. - You gotta lick the daddy and
then spit it out real quick. - Why can't you lick the
daddy and then eat the corn? - Because then you only get corn. - You don't want only corn. - Again, because we're not
analyzing how great of a snack this is. It's a great tasting snack. - It's so salty though. - But how much barbecue-ness
is there to it? - In fact, eat some sauce to
remind yourself of what you're trying to taste for. - It's so sweet.
- It's so sweet. There's no sweetness on this. It's just salty and savory. It's good. - But it's like half barbecue. It's like barb. - I don't even know if
they got to the B, man. It might just be bar. - And that leaves me giving this a - Four. - [Link] Four. - For a total of eight. (rock music) You're copying my scores. - (laughs) No I'm not. I had it in my mind and I
wanted to say it in unison and then I said it a little late. - So we're just on the same wavelength? Nothing wrong with that. It happens sometimes. - You know what, I'm
going first this time. - Okay, yeah. - Weight Watchers. How many points? - Air pop, not baked or fried. - Two smart points. - "Our popped barbecue potato
chips are your go to snack "when you crave a savory snack. "Enjoy this classic chip flavor
for just two smart points." We get two smart points? - Yeah, the more you
eat, the smarter you get. That's what it is. - Oh, after eating the
things with lots of points. - Oh, wow.
- It tastes like some old gum that somebody
left on the gym floor. - Yeah, you know those black circles? I pointed to one of
those I was like, "Kids, "you know what that is?"
- "You know what that is?" I was with you. - You were there? - When you taught that lesson. We were in a parking garage. My kids were there too. - (laughing) Yeah. - You were like, "All kids, - Yeah that's right. - "Gather around. "You know what these black spots are?" And Shepard was like, "Gum." (laughs) He was like, yeah we've had that lesson in the McLaughlin family. - Yeah, I thought that
would've been a cool lesson. Uncle Link teachin' 'em about something. That backfired. We should've eaten these first. They're so bad after everything else. Yeah, dip it in some barbecue sauce. - Have you licked the daddy yet though? - I'm licking the daddy. - Actually, when I licked the daddy I got more barbecue flavor. - Well of course you did
'cause you don't have the flavorless-ness of the gum. - Yeah, the old gum. - But do you taste how sweet
it is compared to the Fritos? - Hold on, but it gets barbecue points. Not only does it only give me
two smart points but it gets a lot of barbecue points. I'm gonna give, well, I'm not
gonna tell you 'cause I don't want Link to copy me. (crew laughs) So Link, what do you give it? - It has more sweetness than
any flavor I've tasted but it has none of the bite. - This is what I'm thinking over here. - I'm giving this a three. - What? - I don't like it and I
don't think it's barbecuey. - [Rhett] Seven. - That's a 10 total. (rock music) That's a disappointment. (crew laughs) That's exactly what the review said. - Yeah.
- Now we know why. - It looked so big in the picture. Looks so small in daddy's hands. (laughs) ♫ Daddy's hands - Okay.
♫ Were warm and soft ♫ When I'd been bad (laughs) - No. - (laughing) I don't remember. - "They were hard as steel "when I done wrong."
- "Done wrong." (laughs) - So these are Stonewall's Jerquee. Jerquee. - Jerquee. - That can't call it jerky
because this is a vegan... - It's a vegan product. - It's a vegetarian snack. - Is it vegan, it's vegetarian. There's a difference. It's animal free. - Barbecue beef. Oh, my goodness it looks like a dog treat. - You sure it's not? Is there a dog on there somewhere? - Is this a dog treat, guys? - It's in such a small pack.
- We're gonna eat it anyway, just tell us. Okay. - This is definitely a dog treat. - They're not saying. - It smells like a dog treat.
- Smells like a dog treat. - Barbara stuff smells
but I would never give this to Barbara. - It's meaty. - That's not meat, man. - This is a dog treat. - If I had a choice between eating this - It's horrifyingly horrible. - Or just expiring, (crew laughs) I think I would expire. - I think it's expired. I gotta just lick the daddy. (crew laughs) Do not eat this. - Oh, even licking the daddy's bad. Oh, it's horrible. - Zero trans fats though. - Oh, my goodness, that's horrible! - Come on, let's stress the positive. It's got a mustachey
old man winking on me. - It does have a good mascot. - He's winking on us. - And it has a cactus on the front. A blactus. - I'd rather eat a black cactus. (laughs) - Blactus. - I can't even get passed how horrible this is.
- Sounds like a superhero that lives in the desert. Comes out at night. (laughs)
- Oh, my goodness. Okay. - And licks the daddy. - This is just abysmal - Man.
- In taste. But can you decipher any barbecue-ness? - It's got a little bit of spice. I can taste a little bit of garlic powder, which is in barbecue sauce. - But it's more like a jerkiness
than, like a teriyaki jerky they'd just probably do.
- They tried. They tried but they
started in the wrong place. They started trying to
make meat out of something that's not meat. But just pure flavor, eh, two. - [Link] Zero. - For a total of two. (rock music) Alright, you ready to (laughs)
go fishin'? - So this is Thai Taro
Fish Snack barbecue flavor. Or as my dad would call it, thigh toro. Like literally we passed
a Thai restaurant and he said out loud - Thigh food. - Thigh food. - All dark meat. - (laughing) When he
came to visit me in LA. - All dark meat all the time. - And I didn't correct him. I didn't say anything until right now. What is this, man? This are made of fish? And they got barbecue sauce on 'em.
- Oh, my gosh. Talk about smelling like bait. - Ooo, man it smells like
walking down a wharf. - Yeah, it's like when
you're on a pier or a wharf. - What is the difference
between a wharf and a pier? I think one floats.
- A wharf is concrete and bigger? - No, a wharf moves a little. - Really? - Oh, yeah. - I'm gonna wharf it down though. Oh, gosh. I can't read any of that. - [Link] Another language? - It's in thigh language. (laughs) I don't speak thigh. - This is so chewy and stringy and fishy. - It's not nearly as fishy
tasting as it smelled though. Don't you give it that? Give it that. - Well, it's not that I can
taste barbecue flavor, it's that maybe the fish flavor
is noshed down a bit by whatever they added. - As you can see though,
there's no indication of barbecuey-ness on this. There's just a fish and then it's orange. And then there's a carrot on the back. - There's a carrot on the back? But if I look at it
there is an orangeness. There's an orange tint that
I don't think comes from anything except a snapper. - It says barbecue
flavored on there though. Maybe they thing carrots are barbecue in - Hold on.
- Thigh-land. - I don't know if I'm getting
residual barbecue flavor off my tongue, which we've been
cleansing our palette between each round with a lime
but, that being said... Ooo, that tickles. - Oh, got a little spic under that. - It's not like crickets,
I'll tell you that. They douse those crickets with flavor. We should've got more of those. - Nothing. - Nothing. - I mean, it just tastes like I'm on the wharf.
- Well, you know what, I got a little bit of
something, I'm giving it a two. - I feel like I'm sucking
on fisherman's finger. I'm gonna give it a one
for a total of three. Okay, so clear winner. No surprises here. Lay's.
(bell ringing) - Yep.
- With 16 points total. - Ran away with it. Good work, Lay's. There's a reason why it's on your package. (laughs) - Yes. - Come back Friday when we've
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