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I've eaten three different ones of these and I will buy the Great Value ones. The difference isn't great enough to me to pay 2 dollars more. They are like 78 cents in my area.
I’ve only had the Great Value “snickers” and they really aren’t that bad. Plus they are larger than the actual Snickers bar. A king size is not quite two full size bars.
@@jstoeck784 I had them all when I saw them... they really arent bad at all. The chocolate is different, but not like cheap easter candy which can be really bad (I'm talking about you Palmer). Nice substitute for the current economy.
As someone who has been making Twix for 30 years in Cleveland, Tennessee, thank you for pointing out that they’re made here. Buy American-made whenever possible!
You've literally been helping to make one of my favourite candy bars for as long as I've been alive. For that, I thank you. It's entirely possible, and even probable, that I've eaten a Twix made by you.
Interestingly, and bizarrely, the filling between the wafers in Kit-kats is... Kit-kats. Their factory seconds get ground up, whole, into a chocolatey paste and are then used to fill the Kit-kats.
First i find out that Montana WMs' makeup selection is much worse than average, and now i learn we dont get the crappy store brand choclate here either 😂 i just buy the $1.25-2 mini packs of fun size bars, I cannot eat chocolate responsibly, and my GI system would prefer I stop altogether...
The Great Value KitKat probably tastes the way the KitKat used to before Nestle changed their chocolate recipe and everything tastes like it has honey in it now.
If those were the Nestle KitKat according to the logo then they were made in Canada with Nestle chocolate. In the US KitKat is made with Hersey Chocolate. The Canadian KitKat does taste different
I worked for the Walmart company for 20yrs. The thing you should know about the GV brand is that every 5yrs ot so the contract to make the product is up again, so on the bidding of the contract it will ALWAYS go to the lowest bidder.
I don't like the full size Twix... the small ones though are great. I also don't really care for snickers but a snickers Ice cream bar is fantastic. Best thing I stumbled upon was milky way midnight ice cream bar... I found it twice years ago at two different rat hole convenience stores. It was delicious, I asked about it and they said the delivery guy had a carton that none of the other stores would take so they did. Apparently it isn't a consistently available item in my area. Just ends up here on accident.
In my pre to early teens, I used to put a Milky Way in the freezer, then cut into bite sized pieces. Eating those with the old school yellow can Pringles with a glass of milk was salted chocolate caramel heaven. Back before salted caramel was a crazed fad. Snickers in high school electronics class, we’d eat the chocolate, then the nugget, then the caramel and peanuts. Blessed memories.
I feel the same way about the name brand Milky Way bar. That and the other one will all that fluff in the center, Three Musketeers. Yup, door stop or paperweight.
Soda pop is getting so expensive you should do a comparison video on that. Who knows, maybe Dr. Thunder will pull off a miraculous upset. NCAA basketball Cinderella season *is* right around the corner
@@janettamcgee8124 Dr Pepper knockoffs are probably the most accurate because the ingredient that makes it taste that way is just a chemical they can all get access to. Dr Thunder ain't bad. Still not exact when they're fresh enough tho
Like Cola. Pepsi, Coke, Big K, Winn Dixie brand, Publix brand & Walmart are all slightly different from each other. Doesn't mean they're bad. Like the candy bars they taste a little different. I just enjoy the savings
To me, many brands can make a good tasting pop,(soda for you weirdos :P). The issue I find with the lower quality brands is that they seem to have too much carbonation on first open. Then shortly after, they have too little carbonation. That then makes the taste feel slightly off
I do like the spicy sausage, but I got a VERY bad package once (opened the package and the smell that came out made rotting flesh seem pleasant by comparison) and got turned off to them for awhile. 🤢🤮
I haven't had a milky way in a zillion years but it was always my absolute numero uno favorite, specially that dark milky way, gd oh man so good. If they taste off now, imma be pissed.
I've noticed a difference in taste between the king size bars and the regular size bars. I think the ratio of caramel to nougat is higher in the king size bars. The regular ones seem to have much less caramel, and thinner chocolate on top.
Milky Way used to be my fav but then naw. Something changed. But then companies are always changing the recipes and always to the worse. Remember when Totino's pizza rolls changed the recipe, yuck. We went to the store brand and then the store brand was yuck. Well, the budget doesn't allow for pizza rolls so ok.
Actually donuts from the bakery section of walmart are pretty good. Since I like just plain old donuts with nothing on them. No sugar just fried dough. Whoever makes them at our Walmart knows how to make them for sure.
My husband drives truck for a company that distributes candy to Walmart, etc. Sometimes when they have things sent back he gets to bring stuff home. He brought those great value 3 musketeers and I almost threw them away. You had to chew them so long that it hurt my jaw. Furthest thing from pillowy goodness.
The GV three musketeer's is the only one that is horrible the others are pretty good I actually like the kit Kat and twix knock offs better. Plus you need to try the chocolate bars they taste like dove chocolate to me
Hi Matt I love all your episodes. For Bless your rank, could you try different flavors of Oreo Cookies? So many these days, could be a fun one. Thanks buddy! 🍻
We just got the new cosmic ones (I think that's what they're called). They taste just like a regular oreo except after the bite, you get the popping candy sensation. Kind of cool actually.
I think the biggest difference between these is that the name-brand bars are fresher than the Walmart ones. let's face it, Wally-World keeps most things in storage for t least 6 months before shipping them to stores. That's how they save money.
maintaining storage space is expensive. keeping a warehouse full of candy bars is in no way going to make things cheaper then shipping them out as soon as possible.
I can't comment on what our Distribution Centers do, but the Walmart I work at barely has enough space for the day's pallets. We definitely do not have space to keep candy bars around for 6 months.
I think you're right. The nougat gets stale faster than caramel and chocolate. Since NOBODY buys budget chocolate it sits on the shelf forever. Hence the Milky Way and the Three Musketeers copies being a lot worse then the other copies/originals.
Actually Walmart saves money by keeping as little product as possible in storage so it constantly has to order and ship product at the last possible minute.
I feel like they should have been cut into same -size pieces cause the GV ones are so much bigger! Also, I bought some Kit Kats for Halloween and they tasted bad! Not at all the same. Good job Matt!
I wasn't expecting a new upload in this series, but here we are! And I'm here for it. I will tell you a GV category I pick to win...potato chips. They nail potato chips based on the price difference
Best chips I ever had are Golden Flake. They are a true southern chip made in Alabama. There aren't many places that sell them but I can find them at my local small town grocery store and also sometimes at Dollar General if they're not sold out.
@@JohnThomas-tb5kd Almost, but I'm afraid I watched WML here on RU-vid during the pandemic. I find a lot of those old shows are a whole lot more fun than what's on TV today. Glad someone caught the reference!
My favorite WAS alwats the Butterfinger. Until a few years ago when they changed it. A lot of consumers git involved with that. Did they ever change it back?
Oh yeah, they ruined the heck out of Butterfinger! But Dollar General is carrying 5th Avenue bars now and they are still as great as ever. If you liked old school Butterfinger, then give 5th Avenue a try.
My boss used to work at a factory that knitted clothing. The finely-tuned machines ran at a certain speed... until Wal-Mart placed orders. In that case, the machines would be sped up (to match the huge orders). Thus, quality and quality control would be sacrificed. This is why you'll often hear "I hear Great Value is made in the same factory as...." because the items ARE. But quality is sacrificed
For some crazy reason, I like the other flavor KitKat bars better than the regular. Matt, have you tried different pop-tart brands? I like many of the off brands better than the Pop-Tart brand.
No. I did this with my kids and they ended up in the trash. Edit: after watching the video, we agreed that the GV Twix was the most acceptable, but my kids said they’d eat broccoli over them! And I’m so glad there’s another 3 musketeers fan!!!! I love them! Always my favorite.
Are they the originals, though? Companies have been using cheaper and cheaper ingredients lately to maximize profits, so a lot of packaged foods don’t taste like they used to.
I think it's worth mentioning for those willing to read. Store specific brands are usually not produced by these big box stores themselves. Every so many years they will contract production of these items out to the lowest bidder and slap their own branding onto them. This is how Walmart's Great Value, Amazon Selects, and various other "exclusive" store brands work. You might ask "But wouldn't this lead to inconsistent and lower quality goods?" And i would tell you "absolutely" because it does. Sometimes you'll get a winner that stumbles onto something that is reasonably cheap to make, or the main brand is gouging so bad that there is a lot of room for a budget brand, or maybe a larger production company is willing to take a smaller margin for higher volume. But oftentimes you get the companies who are able to bid so low because they cut every corner imaginable.
Ingredients: milk chocolate (sugar cocoa butter, chocolate liquor dry milk, sunflower lecithin, salt, artificial vanilla flavor ), wheat flour, vegetable (palm oil) shortening, more sugar, more dry milk, lactose, more dry milk, whey, cocoa powder potato starch, more sunflower lecithin, soy lecithin , baking soda, more artificial vanilla flavor , salt. That is the ingredients for the Walmart version of Kit Kat. Indeed, it says Distributed by Walmart, Bentonville (or whatever), AR 72716. Product of Turkey. I agree that we should support making things in the USA again.
I'm wondering about the little Drbbie honey bun reference. That's all they had at Family Dollar, no regular ones, and the Debbie ones were chemically and gross, even if heated up.
When will this stop being chewy, when can I swallow this safely? I can't answer the first part of the question but I am fairly sure that the answer to the second part of the question is never.
Thank you for the video! I completely agree with the points made about the increasing prevalence of anger in the US. Despite its problems, growing up in the US, I didn't perceive as much anger as I do today, I earn over $370000 in investment.
I'm not surprised because my wife and I started so little with just $2000. I was skeptical about investing but fortunately now I regret not starting bigger.
Great Video Matt!! Loved your comments when you picked up the great value 3 Musketeers bar! "feels like a hair brush!" all those candy bars are top favs.
Might want to let your graphics department know the logo they used for KitKat was the Nestle version, which is typical for most countries. But, in the US, KitKat is made and sold by Hershey's. So, unless your KitKat was also imported from Turkey, then you had a Hershey's brand KitKat.
I wish they had fun names. I'm not buying "Carmel and nougat bar" over a milky way but i'd try "out of this world bar", a "giggles bar" or "2 acquaintances bar" to stay in budget.
I don't know Matt... I used to work in a pork and bean factory. The ONLY difference in the 3 different 'brands' we shipped was the label. I know this for an absolute fact. The colorful glossy label brand at that time sold 3 cans for a dollar. The colorful matt finish label sold 4 cans for a dollar. The white label with simple black letters sold 5 cans for a dollar. ABSOLUTELY the exact same product inside.
It's sad that since the old man died, Walmart has been selling less and less American-made stuff. Walmart used to be an American company through and through.
The only Great Value candy bar I've had is the plain chocolate bar. It was cheap chocolate for sure but I liked it. The stuff between the wafers in KitKat is ground up KitKat bars.
GV makes an amazing chocolate cupcake with cream filling...it's superior to all other contenders. That's the only GV item that I prefer to the name brands.
Damn, how do I report a sponsorship for spam? So damn tired of seeing Draftkings EVERYWHERE. I've blocked them so many times and they just have more accounts. It's on all of my podcasts. It's on the damn RADIO. JUST MAKE IT STOP.
A little bit off topic here, but I'm in Louisiana here, and alot of our local stores carry a brand called 'Best Choice'. Almost all of their products are just as good, or even better than the 'name brand', but their Buttermilk Ranch is absolutely out of this world. I can't go back to any other brand. 😅 Hidden Valley tastes like the color grey, now that I've tried Best Choice.
Thank you. I was.just looking at the GV candy bars whwn I was food shopping the other day and was curious. Bought Brand, so thank you for saving my money and my tastebuds!
So we did try the Great Value Kit Kats and agree that they are practically as good as the originals, and at a much cheaper price! I also had a couple of ideas for another rating: Spam and all the ‘luncheon meat’ copycats (don’t forget to look in the ‘international’ section), and Vienna sausage and its copycats. These are two foods that are popular in the South, so they are perfect for your channel!
Never tried the candy, but the Great Value chocolate chip cookies are off the chain. Best pre bake cookie dough I've found. They were even better before COVID... They stopped making them for a few months, & have been a little different ever since. Still better than Pillsbury IMO. Might be a good thing to taste test in the future...
Matt- did you actually have a Nestle KitKat or the standard american version? That may be why the taste was off on the kit Kat if you had the UK version.
