The banana flavor laffy taffy is either your favorite, or you hate it, there is no in between, i was really worried you wouldn't like it because of that
Kabir: "What is a Tootsie Roll?" Me, an American who has eaten plenty of them: I have no idea bro 😂. Enjoyed this video a lot, very interesting! Can't wait for part 2!
I saw the Kool-Aid in there, BE SURE TO ADD SUGAR! When people try it for the first time, they forget to add sugar to the mix and it ends up tasting very sour.
The thing about Hershey’s is that it tastes different because the recipe is actually not the same. Most European milk chocolate is made with powdered milk. Whereas American milk chocolate is made with fresh milk, as per Milton Hershey’s orders. However, during the manufacturing process, the milk sours slightly giving the finished product a “sour note”. They’ve never changed it so to this day it’s still there. It’s also why Europeans tend to not really care for it and think it’s over processed in a way. When in reality it’s no more processed than Cadbury’s or Lindt. Lmao I have a bag of Combos in the cupboard right now.
This is true, and there's also the specifically British thing where a percentage of vegetable oil can be used in chocolate (5% I think?) while in America and probably Europe that isn't allowed. Personally I think that the vegetable oil allowance is one of the things that makes inexpensive British chocolate good compared to inexpensive American chocolate. At the high end of quality it doesn't matter so much, but a little bit of vegetable oil really improves the texture of cheap chocolate, and I think it's one of the things that elevates (British-manufactured) Cadbury's over Hershey's.
They add butyric acid to the milk product for a longer shelf life for the chocolate. This adds the sour milk / vomit taste so many Europeans find off putting.
Cheez-Its!!! My little boy is watching this with me and when he heard you don’t have Cheez-Its he said “that is so sad!” 🤣🤣🤣. The extra toasty are the best imo.
Those Garlic Rye chips usually come in snack mixes with other things like hard pretzels and mini bread sticks. They'd go well with the cheez-its and the snyder's pretzels if you were making your own mix.
Yeeaahh. You probably should have saved the sweet stuff for after the savory. And the whole point of jolly ranchers is they're supposed to last forever LOL
Gardettos makes a popular snack mix and lots of people love the rye chips the most. So, the company started making them separately. They aren't considered to be a chip, more of a cracker like cheezits.
Do not chew the Jolly Ranchers 🤣 they will destroy your teeth! The honey mustard pretzels and the rye Chips are two of my personal favorites. And banana Laffy taffy is definitely a love Or hate kind of thing, glad you liked it! The jokes are on the outside of the wrapper, mostly aimed at kids.
Something that never fails to amaze me whenever i'd visit family in America is just the variety of the snacks. So many different oreo flavours, all sorts of different Lays crisps (i really enjoy honey BBQ lays), the variety of doritos.
Now you know why we’re all fat, lol. And I live in the south, where the home cooked food is amazing and if you try to diet, everyone worries about you not eating enough and shoves delicious food in your face. Plus it’s always so damn hot, you REALLY have to motivate yourself to walk or run. Double whammy. But it sure tastes good!
Love the video. FYI Hershey bars don't melt as fast as they were created for soldiers out in the field or carrying them around in bags. It was Mr Hershey's way of comforting those far from home.
But I feel like you need the other pieces to fully appreciate them. Just having them on their own they get tiresome quickly but in the mix they are my favorite, and then the sesame ones.
Lindt is a great "indulgence" chocolate, but Hershey's milk chocolate might be the most "classic"/everyone ate it as a child in the 20th century type chocolate identified with the U.S.
The garlic rye chips are an example of bagel chips. They're made from dense bread dough, in this case a rye flour dough. So they're not a potato chip at all. You can make your own bagel chips by slicing up a bagel and baking the slices with whatever seasoning your want.
Fun video! Pro tip: either warm up the (still packaged) Laffy Taffy in your pocket, or let it sit in your mouth for a bit before chewing. It will become softer and easier to chew. Also, the joke is on the underside of the back wrapper flap.
I already liked you, Kabir, but your comments about Hershey's have endeared you to me even more. (I'm from a town about 99 miles from Hershey, PA where the chocolate treats are made.) I'd imagine each school system has something similar but toward the end of the 6th grade (about 12 years old) we'd go on a class trip. For our town, that's always been going first to the state Capitol of Harrisburg, seeing how state government works and where, going to a couple of museums and then going further to Hershey and, in my day, we toured the actual chocolate factory. Now they have an animated ride through in another building altogether. At the end they give everyone a piece of chocolate and deposit you in the biggest Hershey's store ever and wait for you to spend ridiculous amounts of money on chocolate. ;-) Nowdays they take kids to wild animal rescue places and stuff like that. Don't want to promote bad habits like chocolate! (or politics??)
@@cindymatthewsarrowdalearts6449 It's definitely possible, and short of saying yes...I will say this. I think there are two types of people who integrate politics into their statements; people who do so with parentheses and people who don't. That's about all I really care to respond with on the matter.
What? Those are the first to he eaten for me. I love grape and blue raspberry. Also I'm really confused. I always chewed Jolly Ranchers and never hurt my teeth. They weren't the "chewable" ones either.
I'm from Hanover where they make the Snyder's pretzels. Very happy to hear the name drop! Snyder's has those pretzel bites in a ton of different flavors if you ever get the chance to try more, but the honey mustard is by far the most popular in America.
The Boston Baked Beans are a nostalgia for me they have been around since 1924. This candy reminds me of my grandpa taking me with him to the bank and they having those penny candy machines to keep kids distracted.
Mr. H of Mr H and Friends (he lives in southern England) has subscribers sending him snacks from the USA all the time. His favorite candy is the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and he now loves root beer. Perhaps you could do something like that!
^ Hey he's here. I also watch "This With Them" If any UK people want to know just how many snacks America has just go check out their channel. They have done dozens of videos trying American snacks and have tried probably thousands of them - yet they've only scratched the surface.
You are absolutely adorable, I couldn't love you more, my heart & soul are smiling. Usually we're watching you drool over food with a growling stomach. FINALLY, you get to eat! 😀
I saw the Reese’s Peanut butter cup & got excited, then he never touched it. I hope he won’t think poorly for us when he tries the Swedish Fish & Twizzlers! Wax City!
The watermelon Jolley Rancher is the most popular. The NHS would want to know what American snack did damage to your teeth when you bit into them. Nobody knows what a Tootsie Roll is. Hersey is old school American milk chocolate, not to be confused with anything high end, very basic. Some is better than others. Laffy Taffy banana is the most popular, like the watermelon Jolly Rancher! When you come to the states, make sure you find Salt Water Taffy (there is NO salt water in it), needs to be VERY fresh to be great though, as a warning. Fresh meaning soft. We are pretty good at making a lot of unique snacks, but I don't think we come close to the UK, one unique snack per member of the UK population!.
This was perfect for you when you come to visit and go to WalMart to choose from the 10,000 different snacks you can take back to your hotel you have an idea what to choose from!! Combos come in so many flavors, they are one of my favorites!!! Watching your reactions to so many American food videos this was fun to watch you actually have American food!!!
Kabir in a Walmart food section will be hilarious. He's going to be so overwhelmed, before he even gets to the candy and snack aisles. Just the bakery section alone is going to be great. I'm going to need a video of all of that!
But that isn't actually American FOOD! That is not even snacking down here in MS! Come SOUTH towards the gulf coast! That's where all the great food is at! Even the snacks are more wholesome than those concoctions of questionables!
Kabir!!!! Had to pause to comment... Jolly ranchers are one of my favorites but DON'T CRUNCH THEM! You'll likely break a tooth brother! On to the rest of the video! LoL
@@loopyprawn LoL I'm with you! I was thinking-- 1) NOOOOOOOO don't do it, your teeth!!! 2) stop it. Just stop!!!! I'm a nurse and very few things bother me but teeth are super cringe for me! LoL. Poor Kabir with no guidance on these snacks!
@@bsfrag962 I was so nervous for him!!!! I had to literally stop the video and comment. Yes, I'm aware it would have been much too late but it was a compulsion lol. Glad he is all good!
Jolly Ranchers are my favorite. You said you had to chew it and I yelled "you can't" and then you said it was indestructible. Lol. Always enjoy you vids, Kabir!
One suggestion to make is the next snacks you try separate them in sections,like all chips together,candies, chocolate and so forth. So you won't have these different flavors combined in your mouth.And have a palette cleanser when you switch between the chips and chocolate. Just a suggestion.
Fun fact - Laffy Taffy and other banana flavored candies are actually imitating a banana that is suspected to no longer exist. The variety of banana that we buy at the store today is called the Cavendish. But banana-flavored candies like the one you had is emulating the flavor of the previous banana of choice, the Gros Michel. Another common candy flavor that people say "Doesn't taste like the real thing" is grape. However, many people think of the red and green variety of grape, when most of the time it's trying to emulate the concord variety, which isn't often found in supermarkets in the US. Although, I can't say that I think this is a very accurate imitation - concord grapes are also used for products like grape jelly (in the US "jelly" is kind of like jam, but with no pieces of actual fruit). Honestly, grape candy doesn't taste much like that either. 😂 I'd judge banana candy for accuracy, but I've never had a Gros Michel banana so... couldn't tell you if it's accurate to what it used to taste like.
I've heard that Gros Michel bananas are actually still grown and eaten in some places in South America. They just aren't being grown on a mass scale. I also heard they are far tastier than the bananas we have today and the only reason we switched was because the Cavendish is more resistant to the diseases that were killing the Gros Michel bananas. What a shame. I love Cavendish bananas, so I really want to try a Gros Michel banana.
@@xShadow_God Yeah, I'm pretty sure since most cultivars we use in growing food are essentially clones, when a disease comes by that really affects that variety, it just spreads like wildfire. I'm about 90% sure I read that was what happened the Gros Michel. There was just a blight that affected that specific variety of banana, and it just damaged most of the crops and they had to find a new variety that wouldn't be so easily destroyed. I hope some places do grow them so that, maybe, people could still try it. My grandfather was alive when he remembered the bananas changed around the 1950's. So I do actually know someone who has tried a Gros Michel banana - but the best he can do to describe it is to compare it to an artificially flavored banana popsicle, which uses the same artificial flavors as the Laffy Taffy does, most likely.
@@kabirconsiders you literally had every Americans cringe when you chewed that jolly rancher and saying "no don't chew that". Interesting that you like the grape flavor cause most don't like grape flavor.
It's interesting to me how little American food is know outside the US. I think because here in the US we are spoiled for choice. I can go to my local grocery store and buy all the Cadbury and lindt I want or things from around the world. There are numerous restaurants serving food from every corner of the empire in addition to the local chains. It's just strange that with all our access to the world food that our brands aren't equally accessible outside the US. Like I said spoiled.
it's not really spoiled, it's whether or not the company chooses to be internationally sold or not. whether or not it would sell well in other parts. i see a lot of reactors like the products from America but have comments like "it's really sweet" maybe it's not sold everywhere because that area doesn't want something that sweet there? let's face it, a lot American stuff is overly sugary and salty. we ARE spoiled, spoiling our insides 😭😂
Funny that you said Whatchamacallit because that was one of the candy bars I saw from your aunties package. That has to be my favorite as well as whozeewhatzit.
I just like to have tomato soup with Cheez-Its. I put five or six in then with some tomato soup on them and then add five or six more so they stay crunchy!!
My favorite thing to do with Cheez-Its is just put them in tomato soup! I used to eat it like that and now I can't because I ate a bunch right after I had covid a couple of 3 years ago and I gained a bunch of weight cuz that's all I wanted!!!!!!
These days we eat Cavendish bananas, but before the 1950's we ate Gros Michel bananas and banana flavored candies are modeled after those. That's one big reason why banana candies don't taste like bananas anymore.
When I was a kid and had Combos, I used to try to eat off as much of the crunchy exterior as I could so I would have just the soft inside. Who am I kidding, I do it as an adult too...lol. The Pizza pretzel is my favorite.
Hershey’s chocolate is best when fresh. Don’t save it for later! Best as close to 1 year from expiration date as possible, especially Mr. Goidbars because Hershey uses freshly roasted peanuts.
Funny, most British and Irish reactors usually say that Cadbury's are 10 x better than Hershey's. As for the Tootsie Rolls, I myself don't think it is so much popular for bold taste as it is for being satisfying to chew, it just has a nice consistency. If you bite a Combo in half you will see the roll of filling inside. What I feel will be the most interesting to se you try is the Twizzlers, from the reactions I have seen, those have the most distinctive divide of love or hate.
Taste wise, classic strawberry twizzlers are the best, imo. They also make chocolate (close to tootsie roll kid of flavor), and licorice, among others. The strawberry, licorice and rainbow (a bunch of nice, fruity flavors). I’ll send you some cool snacks sometime soon, Kabir. We live in upstate NY, so I have access to Walmart AND Wegmans lol
Love your videos. Part 2 was just as good. Accidentally watch first lol. Next time you are visiting your aunt in MD, if you haven't already, the Snyder of Hanover company is in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The tour is worth the visit.
In the future, it may be best to try one or two treats at the end of each reaction video. I just don't wish to see you have a sugar/carb crisis! LUV YA!
Tootsie rolls were invented to get chocolate to US troops during ww2 I believe, really good documentaries on the company you should react to a quick video about their invention!
One thing about living outside the USA for me was the lack of snacks I could have between meals to keep the stomach from rumbling. It was quite disappointing and the flavors weren't as good. Also, the laffy taffy jokes are usually under the flap of the wrapper.
I loved Jolly Ranchers and pizza Combos when I was a kid. Cheez it’s is my favorite snack that I still eat. Also love Reese’s. I never tried the chips or pretzels in those flavors before. Had me cracking up when you started singing the Laffy Taffy song. 😂 Anyway, love the video keep them coming.
Jolly ranchers are the lollipops response to the Everlasting Gobstopper. Rye chips are not potato chips. They are in the group known as bagel chips and are made from a health food grain called rye. Most American companies still use a version of the original banana flavoring created before heavy genetic altering of bananas diluted their flavor. The reason why they use the old flavor is because it taste better than the newer flavors most other countries use, which are based off of modern bananas. P.S. If you were a rapper the joke would be on you.
Hint for next time you do one of these. To reset your tastebuds between each food take a drink of 2/3 ice cold carbonated water mixed with 1/3 lemon or lime juice. It will rinse out your mouth and wipe out any flavors so you’re tasting everything fresh. Also, American chocolate is real chocolate too, but English chocolate has much more sugar in it so your chocolate is a lot sweeter. Finally, where are the Warheads? Warheads are a classic American candy, but if you aren’t used to sour I wouldn’t do too many in quick succession or you’ll just shred your tastebuds and you’ll be unable to taste anything for a week and anything that touches your tongue it will feel like your mouth is on fire. Toxic waste is a similar candy to Warheads except they have a sour gel instead too and they aren’t as sour or last nearly as long as Warheads do.
Thanks for another fun video, Kabir :) Love your reactions to our US goodies, you're so positive. Props to Jeremy and your aunt for sending the snacks so we can share them with you!
The rye crisps have always been my favorite when I get a bag of Gardetto's. When I'm done with the low carb diet, I'm definitely going to buy a bag of just the rye crisps. Jolly Ranchers are also good in a shot of clear liquor if you let it sit for a little bit at the bottom of the glass. Don't chew Jolly Ranchers, you'll break a tooth!!!! Tootsie Rolls are an institution. They've been around forever. Ever since my first taste of Lindt chocolate truffles, all other chocolate has never been able to compare. Definitely my favorite so far. I've never been a fan of Combos and the honey mustard pretzels. I'm glad you liked them, though. I've never tried the banana Laffy Taffy, I have issues with banana flavoring, but the other flavors are great. I love Cheez-its!!! When I ate them, I could eat an entire box in one sitting, so it's probably for the best that I haven't bought them in years.
Watermelon and sour apple jolly ranchers are very good, at one time Hershey's Chocolate could go toe to toe with anyone. The company is a case study in standards and economy of scale lost by many small cost saving quality reductions
Jolly Ranchers are too sweet for me these days but laffy taffy banana will always find its way to my mouth. This time of year we get lucky and Reese's puts out the Halloween Pumpkins, they follow it up in a month with the Christmas trees. Everyone knows both are superior to the normal PB cups.
Your true love for food is contagious! I find myself genuinely smiling while watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your road and education on US foods/meals.
My favorite fruity candies are Albanese Gummi Bears (best gummies ever), Frooties, and Skittles. Favorite savory snacks are Ruffles Sour Cream and Cheddar Chips, Miss Vickies Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper, and Garden Salsa Sun Chips.
Reds Nation ... watch the RU-vid family called The New Zealand Family. They are a sweet family and they have videos where they try root beer floats and S'mores. Their reactions are priceless!! P.S. ... they loved both!!! 😊
Awesome job by your aunt and Jeremy! I love watching taste test videos but I see a lot that include snacks that aren't that popular in the U.S. these are spot, at least where I live, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. I would absolutely love watching more of these type videos. Can't wait for the next installment! Thanks Kabir!!!!
Laffy came out in the 1970's, and banana has always been my favorite flavor , I was only 9 year old when they first started making them. I just recently got some banana ones from Amazon store, usually get a variety pack of flavors. I was happy to see you like them too.
the fact that you tried a grape jolly rancher and liked it was a good sign. i think you will be pleasantly surprised with the other flavors LOL. grape is known to be the worst flavor by far.
