- 7/3/2025
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00:00You've heard of Doritos, Lunchly, and Oreos, but I bet you haven't heard of Dito's, Brunchly, or Boreos.
00:05In this video, I'm trying the most popular knockoff snacks on the planet,
00:09and my friend Babish and I will see if any of these snacks are better than their originals.
00:12If any knockoff snack is better than its original, it'll be moved to this championship crate,
00:17where it'll then go to a final round where we determine the number one knockoff snack on the planet.
00:21And you're not going to believe which snack wins.
00:23We'll start out with savory snacks.
00:24We've collected all the most popular salty snacks on the planet, plus their knockoffs.
00:29First up, Lays. They're crispy, they're nice and salty, they're very light.
00:33They are, as they say on the back, a true classic.
00:36Indisputable.
00:36But how about Jays?
00:38Jays.
00:38If you can believe it, Jays has been around since before Lays.
00:41I've never seen so narrow a chip bag in my life.
00:43I feel like they tried to just do the bare minimum to change it.
00:46Instead of classic, they wrote original, and they just turned the logo blue and changed one letter.
00:50Let's try the original first, real quick.
00:53Simple, just salty enough.
00:54Now we got Jays.
00:55Jays.
00:56I would never be able to tell the chips apart.
00:58Indistinguishable.
00:59Is it just me, or is that significantly better?
01:01It tastes more like a kettle chip.
01:03It's got a better crunch, which I like. I don't like thin chips.
01:05They're almost exactly the same in everything except for the texture.
01:08This doesn't really taste like a potato. This tastes like a potato to me.
01:11These, I think, are better than the original.
01:12We're off to a strong start.
01:14Doritos.
01:15The very best flavored tortilla chips.
01:17Well, Cool Ranch is better.
01:19True.
01:19Let's get our baseline.
01:22Bright, cheesy, delicious.
01:24I'm 10 years old. I'm playing Super Nintendo. I'm having the time of my life.
01:27This is the original.
01:28What do we got?
01:28Ditos. It's from Bangladesh.
01:30They're supposed to be slightly thinner with less seasoning than your classic Doritos.
01:33Slightly thinner, less seasoning sounds awful.
01:36The packaging is hilarious.
01:37It's the same red outline on the font.
01:39It's extremely blatant.
01:40Yeah.
01:41Do the honors.
01:41Oh, wow. It's so puffy. There we go. Oh, my God. There's no chips in there.
01:47Let's see what we got.
01:49There's 10 chips in there that are broken into 20.
01:51Look at the difference between this and this. Horrible.
01:56These definitely look thinner, for sure.
01:58All right.
01:58Ditos.
01:59They're stale. No bin of champions for you. F tier.
02:02We've all had a Pringle at some point. Maybe even eaten a whole can by yourself.
02:05Not maybe. So much as absolutely, yes.
02:07Let's try them real quick.
02:08If you insist.
02:09To me, it's almost if mashed potatoes were a chip.
02:11I love that.
02:12They're fatty. They're salty. They're pretty addicting.
02:14Every time, I'm a little surprised by how good they are.
02:17Move over, Pringles. We've got Prongles.
02:19Prongles!
02:19So, once again, we have a brand that's literally changed one letter. Nothing else.
02:23Instead of the Pringles guy, they've got this strange wild boar pig.
02:27I also noticed their slogan. Once you pop, that's great.
02:31Dude, smell that.
02:33It smells like crayons.
02:35It does smell like crayons.
02:36If I shuffle these up, try to guess which one's which.
02:39I have no idea. I bet I can tell by smelling them.
02:41Hold one up to my mouth.
02:43Pringle.
02:44Pringle.
02:49Nothing going in the championship in here.
02:51Cheetos.
02:52I don't like them.
02:53Really?
02:53I find that I would never seek them out.
02:55Like, I'd never buy them, but if they're there, I'm going to eat them.
02:57And Flamin' High, I think, tastes insane.
02:59Let's get our baseline.
03:00The color of these are absurd.
03:01Dangerous.
03:02A purplish red.
03:03They're cheesy.
03:04They're crunchy.
03:05They're tasty.
03:05I've got two different knockoffs for these.
03:07The first one is called Corn Toast.
03:09This is the Bangladesh knockoff of Cheetos.
03:11And then from the UK, we have Spicy Nibbly Nob...
03:14Nibbly...
03:14Spicy Nibbly Nobbles.
03:16It sounds like a parody.
03:17It sounds like you made that up like a fake UK snack.
03:20Spicy Nibbly Nobbles.
03:21Let's try the Corn Toast first.
03:23They look a lot like Cheetos.
03:25They're airier and crispier.
03:27They're really light.
03:28The flavor is a little bit subtle.
03:30It almost tastes like a street snack or something, like a carnival food.
03:32Dude, I can't stop eating.
03:33I might vote Championship.
03:34I'll second that vote.
03:35Championship Crate.
03:36Now Spicy Nibbly Nobles.
03:38They are about half the weight of a Cheeto.
03:41They're sour.
03:41Wait, hold on.
03:42They're really tangy.
03:44They didn't age well in my mouth.
03:45Yeah, they leave a very bitter, vinegary aftertaste in your mouth.
03:48It's not great.
03:49So this is a simple classic.
03:50Ritz Crackers.
03:51They're always there for me.
03:52They're good and fatty, too.
03:53Like, they have a great buttery kind of crunch to them.
03:56I feel like the Queen of England.
03:57Yeah, what are we?
03:58It's some kind of Michelin-starred dinner party?
04:00Get ready for this knockoff.
04:01Oh, boy.
04:02Ritz Crackers.
04:02What?
04:04Wow.
04:05Those are the same.
04:06I mean, they look almost identical.
04:08But this one's, like, darker.
04:09And I swear, it looks a little oilier.
04:11No, they look the same.
04:11What am I saying?
04:12They look exactly the same.
04:14This is the exact same thing.
04:15It's the same thing.
04:16Our next original snack, Lunchly.
04:18I got the turkey stackums.
04:19You got the pizza one.
04:20The knockoff for these is insane.
04:22I can't wait.
04:23Okay.
04:24There's the salt drink and the pizza.
04:28It's similar to a Lunchable.
04:30When's the last time you had a Lunchable?
04:31I used to love the nacho ones.
04:33I used to love the pizza ones.
04:34I used to love the pizza ones.
04:35You're going to build a pizza right now?
04:36Yeah.
04:36I'm going to not build a pizza?
04:39Not bad.
04:39The only thing I don't like is that the cracker's kind of sweet.
04:42All right.
04:42Here's my pizza.
04:43It's delicious.
04:44The knockoff is called Brunchly.
04:49They copied the text exactly.
04:51They changed the name, obviously.
04:52Yeah, look at that.
04:53That's a crazy comparison.
04:54The cool thing is they're all brunch foods.
04:56We got pancakes and syrup, triple threat, cream cheese bagel, egg, avocado toast, and I'm
05:01sorry, oysters?
05:02Yeah, they're going all in on the brunch vibe here.
05:05Donut Delights, bite-sized donuts, mini cinnamon rolls, and glaze.
05:08That sounds dank.
05:09They wrote that this one has 90 grams of protein.
05:11Do oysters have a lot of protein in them?
05:13What?
05:14What am I looking at here, dude?
05:15What is this?
05:16The eggs are gummy eggs.
05:17And the oysters are plastic.
05:19The bagel's legit, and they even got a Brunchly logo on their cream cheese.
05:22Why'd they put fake oysters in here?
05:24What's going on?
05:26Wait, wait.
05:26This says read before brunching.
05:28Congratulations, you've been pranked.
05:30Brunchly is not a real company.
05:32Please know that since we're a fake company, we're not bound to any food safety regulations.
05:35I'm not going to eat that.
05:36Brunchly, you've been disqualified.
05:38Fully.
05:39Good old goldfish.
05:40The snack test miles back.
05:41I've been having goldfish ever since I was a kid.
05:43Absolutely, and I feel like this is one of those snacks that objectively doesn't taste very good, but I love them.
05:48For some reason, you just...
05:49They're perfectly salted, each fish, which I love.
05:52I used to take a couple.
05:53I was in maybe elementary school, and I put a couple in my mouth.
05:56I just sit in there.
05:58I let them soak up to this soft kind of like paste almost, and then I chew that paste and I eat it.
06:02I used to take fruit roll-ups and fold them up into a little square, glue it to the top of my mouth, and just leave it there for as long as it would last, basically.
06:11We know what these taste like.
06:12Yes.
06:12I went to Dollar Tree, and I got some whales.
06:15Whales?
06:15I've had these.
06:16These are a very clear copy of goldfish.
06:18They come in a box instead of a bag.
06:19You know how the goldfish on this goldfish packaging is cool?
06:22He's got sunglasses on, all that kind of good stuff.
06:24So cool.
06:24This whale is surfing.
06:25He's surfing.
06:26Frankly, having a better time than this fish, I think.
06:28The color is way darker.
06:29Oh, wow.
06:30You ain't kidding.
06:31I'm not going to lie.
06:31Those look better to me.
06:33They have nice bubbles on them, like a sourdough.
06:35Do you see this?
06:36They look extra baked.
06:38Bit of a letdown.
06:39Oh, that's terrible.
06:40They taste a little like dog food.
06:41They taste like Kraft mac and cheese powder, but in dog food form.
06:44I'm getting a soap aftertaste now.
06:46Oh.
06:47We have one more knockoff for these.
06:48Balak.
06:49Balak is Turkish for fish.
06:51Oh, they smell sweet.
06:52The second you bite once, it crumbles into a million pieces.
06:56Yeah, flavor's bad.
06:57There's no cheese.
06:58No champion great winners here.
07:00Our final savory snack, Windows Puffs.
07:02These are from Egypt.
07:03Whoever made them was so confused about what they were knocking off that they copied a software
07:07company for a snack.
07:09Windows Snacks.
07:11That's incredible.
07:13They're just puffs.
07:14I was certain they were at least going to be square, but they're just puffs.
07:19They're so soft.
07:21They have like no crunch to them.
07:22This one's hard because we don't even know what it's knocking off.
07:24We have nothing to compare this to.
07:25A cheese puff?
07:26It has no peers.
07:27We'll move on now to sweets and treats.
07:29We've got all the most popular candies and sweets in the world, and then they're knockoffs.
07:33So moving into the second category, we only have two snacks in the championship crate.
07:38We got J's, and we got corn toast.
07:40Our first sweet and treat.
07:41Oh, Oreo.
07:42Oreo.
07:42I love Oreos.
07:43Yeah.
07:44Milk's favorite cookie.
07:45I don't even know if we have to describe Oreos to you.
07:47You know what Oreos are.
07:48You're a person.
07:49As usual, a quick baseline test.
07:51A perfect foodstuff.
07:52Try to picture what an Oreo tastes like, okay?
07:54You all know what an Oreo tastes like.
07:56These are Boreos.
07:57These are from Egypt.
07:59They are a blatant knockoff of Oreo.
08:01They basically just added a B to the start of the name and didn't change much else.
08:04They're smaller than an Oreo.
08:05Much lighter in color.
08:06I don't like that.
08:07The originals are just so much taller than the knockoff.
08:09And there's no cream at all in the middle.
08:11The texture on them is not as nice.
08:13Taste is more important than texture, am I right?
08:15Not enough cream filling.
08:17Not crunchy enough.
08:17Too bland also.
08:18Too bland.
08:19Worse on all counts.
08:20Make room because apparently people love knocking off Oreos in different parts of the world.
08:23These ones are called Ohio.
08:25The Ohio's are from a discount grocery store in Germany.
08:28I like how they give it a Nutra score.
08:29E.
08:30It's not good for you.
08:31I got literally the lowest possible health score it could have gotten.
08:35Wait, smell them.
08:35They smell pretty good.
08:37They smell like hot cocoa.
08:38Like cocoa mix.
08:39Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix.
08:40This is what this smells like.
08:42Interesting crunch.
08:43And it tastes good too.
08:44I like that better.
08:45I think these might be going in the championship box.
08:46Oh my god.
08:47I never would have guessed.
08:48Do the honors.
08:49Oh, thank you.
08:49Ohio makes it in the championship box.
08:51Finally.
08:52We also got Cremos from Bangladesh.
08:54They just blatantly copied the logo.
08:57They smell like candy.
08:57One of those red frosting containers of the buttercream frosting.
09:01Oh, it smells like canned frosting.
09:03Really sweet.
09:04There's a reason it smells like canned frosting.
09:07Weird, weird aftertaste.
09:08Yeah.
09:09They're not better than Oreos.
09:10And we got one more.
09:11It's called Good Day.
09:12These ones are from Algeria.
09:13Fun fact about Algeria.
09:14I don't know where it is.
09:16They look like they have some sort of strawberry berry type filling.
09:19Weird way to package Oreo knockoffs.
09:21It's fruity almost.
09:22Very fruity.
09:23There's basically no filling in here.
09:25I can't even bite into it.
09:26Yeah, those are rough.
09:28Don't like them.
09:29No.
09:29Cookies bad.
09:30It leaves a weird, like, film.
09:31Worst Oreo knockoff.
09:33We've now got one of my favorite candies in the whole world.
09:35Peanut M&M's.
09:36M&M's.
09:37I'm a peanut butter M&M's guy, personally.
09:39I don't get to.
09:40We can be different.
09:40We are different.
09:41Yeah.
09:42No.
09:42Look at us.
09:43I don't like plain M&M's that much.
09:45There's not enough texture.
09:46They're too thin.
09:46Yeah.
09:46They're too thin.
09:47Chocolate isn't great.
09:48But that chocolate plays so well with peanut.
09:51They're a great texture combination.
09:52You get a little bit of crunch from the peanut, the great candy shell crunch.
09:57What color are you going for?
09:58I'm a cherry guy.
10:00And I always do this.
10:01I always bite off half.
10:02I don't do that.
10:03Just so I can see what's going on.
10:04I'm going to go for one of the orange ones.
10:06Before we look at the knockoff, remember, there's a little small white M on every single one
10:11of these.
10:11Let's talk about the color.
10:12Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown.
10:14Let's just see if the color is different.
10:16Let's see what the color ratios are.
10:17We have two great knockoffs for these, but the first one is I and Me.
10:20That's TJ Miller's character from the Emoji movie.
10:23How do you even know that?
10:24I don't know.
10:24I didn't even see that movie.
10:26There he is.
10:26That's the actual image.
10:27So they copied the logo from a random movie.
10:29The bag looks the exact same.
10:31They just went I and Me instead of M&M.
10:33Ah!
10:34What the?
10:34There's ghostly white.
10:36White?
10:36I kind of like white M&M's.
10:38I just think it's kind of cool.
10:39Is it just me or do they have a cleaner, shinier shell?
10:41Much better color.
10:42These are the original.
10:43These are the knockoff.
10:44No contest.
10:45Those look better.
10:45I don't like how there's no letter on them.
10:47Yeah, that's bothersome.
10:48I'm going to have a white one because I've never had a white M&M.
10:50Second.
10:50Yeah.
10:51Ow!
10:51Oh my God.
10:51Did you break your tooth?
10:52No, but I felt like it.
10:54I thought you broke your tooth.
10:55I thought so too.
10:56What the heck is this flavor?
10:57It's not an M&M.
10:58100%.
10:59I can't taste the chocolate.
11:00The nuts are so stale.
11:02They're smooshy.
11:02Imagine thinking you're about to have a peanut M&M and eating that.
11:05There's one more knockoff.
11:07Thank God.
11:07Ugh.
11:08S&S.
11:08Hmm.
11:09These are from Egypt.
11:10This guy is the man.
11:11Compared with the original.
11:13Tough to open?
11:14Try to open right there.
11:14Just try.
11:18Oh, I found the spot.
11:20That's ridiculous.
11:21That's just chocolate.
11:22There's no candy shell.
11:23Hmm.
11:24Ugh.
11:24It's disgusting.
11:26Oh, it keeps getting worse.
11:28The chocolate tastes like it's artificially sweetened to start.
11:31Once that goes away, you have a rancid, bitter peanut.
11:34I've never had such a progression of grossness.
11:37Just look at the difference in these two.
11:39I feel bad almost.
11:40I don't even want to look at them anymore.
11:41Awful.
11:42You want to save those or?
11:43Snickers is a tried and true classic.
11:46Since it's cold here in the winter, I sometimes have one in my jacket.
11:49And then I'll let it get cold outside and then I'll eat it while it's cold.
11:52It's always got that iconic sort of swirl on the top of the chocolate.
11:55You can see that they dipped it and then pulled it out.
11:58Take a quick bite.
11:59Okay.
11:59It's good.
12:01Super chocolatey.
12:02Some of that chewy caramel and nougat.
12:04One of the best candy bars of all time.
12:05Here's a good close-up look at the layers in your classic Snickers bar.
12:08It's beautiful.
12:09It looks like one of those cross-sections of the earth.
12:11The knockoff is called Snipers.
12:14I bought this one from Pakistan.
12:16They copied the logo almost exactly.
12:18There's no nutritional information.
12:20There's nothing.
12:20Blank.
12:21Packaging's odd.
12:22It's like papery.
12:22That's just a Snickers bar.
12:24They just re-wrapped a Snickers bar.
12:26Why did they do this?
12:27Is Snickers illegal in Pakistan?
12:30Yeah, that's a straight-up Snickers bar.
12:32We've got one other Snickers knockoff that comes from Turkey.
12:34Cartoin peanut.
12:35Oh, bite-sized.
12:37White chocolate Snickers.
12:38What is this going to be like?
12:39I don't know.
12:41What's that?
12:42It's like eating bubble gum.
12:43It tastes stale.
12:44I don't like it.
12:44Rancid.
12:45Kit Kat.
12:45One of the greats.
12:46They're crisp wafers covered in milk chocolate.
12:48Give me a Kit Kat.
12:49Give me a Kit Kat.
12:50Give me a Kit Kat.
12:52Just give me a Kit Kat.
12:54What I like is that you can see the wafer in the bottom here.
12:56Oh, that's beautiful.
12:57Should we split it?
12:57Let's do it.
12:58Oh, you monster.
13:02It's simple.
13:03It's crispy.
13:04It's crunchy.
13:04You know, I always wish there was a little bit less chocolate.
13:07This is Kicker.
13:08Kicker.
13:08It is the Kit Kat knockoff from Korea.
13:10Oh.
13:11I can't read anything on here because it's all in Korean.
13:13Well, first off, it says since 1979.
13:16When did Kit Kat come out?
13:201935.
13:21It's a much closer copy than it kind of seems.
13:23That looks good.
13:24Am I crazy?
13:25That looks nice.
13:25No, this looks really nice on the inside.
13:27Also, I'm noticing on the picture real quick that there's five layers.
13:30Kit Kat only has three.
13:31It looks like darker chocolate slightly.
13:34Smells like nicer.
13:35Higher quality chocolate.
13:36That smells like Cadbury, yeah.
13:37Wow.
13:38Here, take a little bite.
13:39No.
13:40No.
13:40The chocolate's better.
13:41The wafer tastes a little stale.
13:43It tastes like those pink or white sugar wafers.
13:46Really bland ones.
13:47Yeah.
13:48If they put that chocolate in this Kit Kat.
13:50Game over.
13:50I think it would be in the bin.
13:52We also have Cool Break.
13:53This is from Algeria.
13:56You gotta be kidding me.
13:59Oh.
13:59Whoa.
14:00It's broken and the wafers fully exposed on the bottom.
14:03Whoa.
14:03The humanity.
14:04They totally copied Kit Kat with writing their name right in the center.
14:08Chocolate's better.
14:09I agree the chocolate's better.
14:10I'm stuck on the wafer.
14:11Is the wafer good enough to be better than the Kit Kat wafer?
14:13I don't think so.
14:14These I love.
14:15Kinder Egg.
14:15Yep.
14:15I get one every time I travel.
14:17You open them up and you get a toy on one side and then you get sweet cream cocoa wafer on
14:21the other side.
14:22This one has a little, what looks like a Joker Funko Pop.
14:24Let's try the original.
14:26You open that side, I'll open this side.
14:27I've definitely never had a Kinder Egg.
14:29This is new to me.
14:30Oh.
14:31You got the cream side.
14:32Look at the toy.
14:32It's kind of cute.
14:33Some assembly required.
14:34What's going on there?
14:35That doesn't seem right.
14:36That's clearly supposed to go in there.
14:38Wait, I think I had it right.
14:39It's an iPhone holder.
14:41Oh.
14:43Kids' toys are now iPhone holders.
14:45Great.
14:46So is this like the center of a Cadbury cream egg?
14:49It's like eating Nutella.
14:50Oh, fabulous.
14:51It's delicious.
14:51The knockoff is called a King Egg.
14:53Oh, just look at the size of it.
14:54They've just doubled everything.
14:56They have two chocolate spreads and two toys plus a game.
14:59Whoa.
15:00Oh, that's not as fun.
15:01I don't like how it's not in the other half of the egg.
15:03Yeah, it's not an egg.
15:04It's not to say it can't taste better.
15:06That's the worst fidget spinner I've ever spun.
15:08It came with a fidget spinner?
15:10Oh, mine went.
15:11It's almost like a Michelin dessert with a lot of different textures going on there.
15:15I don't know.
15:16This could be good.
15:16These are like caviar spoons, kind of.
15:19Oh.
15:20Ugh.
15:21It tastes like a protein bar.
15:22Something meaty about it to me.
15:23Might be the worst thing we've had today.
15:25Ah, that's disgusting.
15:26It tastes like baked butter flavor.
15:28Oh, here's the game.
15:29Is that supposed to be a maze?
15:31And this little egg is saying, candy, I love cook, ice skating and ice cream.
15:38And my BFF is Bella.
15:39I had it memorized.
15:40Nick.
15:41Our next original sweet is Lindt chocolate.
15:43I've eaten so many of this exact bar, it's disgusting.
15:46The original has nice fancy packaging, cursive writing, even the material that they pack the chocolate in.
15:51Listen to the sound it makes.
15:52Oh, yeah.
15:53No, this is good.
15:54I don't know how they're going to one-up this.
15:58This is Lindt, the original.
15:59This is Lina, the knockoff.
16:01This should be illegal.
16:02Everything today should be illegal.
16:03Every single thing.
16:05Lindt is known for their fancy Swiss chef.
16:07These both have a chef on the back.
16:08Look at the difference between these chefs.
16:10I'm not buying this.
16:11This guy's not a chef.
16:12He's never cooked in his life, this guy.
16:13No, that's a model.
16:14Oh, it's been oxidized.
16:16Oh.
16:16We know what we're doing.
16:17The snap is not as good.
16:20Oh.
16:20Is it bad?
16:21Oh, terrible.
16:22That doesn't even taste like chocolate to me.
16:23It tastes like a marshmallow.
16:25It tastes exactly like a marshmallow with the texture of a chocolate bar.
16:30Kinder Bueno.
16:30It's the same company that does Nutella, and it's basically just a crunchy, crispy Nutella
16:34wafer bar.
16:35It's amazing.
16:36I love hazelnut.
16:37I love chocolate.
16:38Look at how beautiful it is.
16:39They're not paying me to say this.
16:40I just love them.
16:43I mean, it's unreal.
16:44God, that's good.
16:45Algeria decided to make Happy Choco Kids.
16:47They used white chocolate.
16:49They tried to copy the drizzle, but it didn't work.
16:51That's a sorry imitation.
16:53It's fine.
16:54I don't like white chocolate.
16:55If you like white chocolate, you'd love that, I think.
16:57You can't beat a Kinder Bueno.
16:58No.
16:58Thin mints.
16:59Girl Scout cookies.
17:00You like Girl Scout cookies?
17:01Love Girl Scout cookies.
17:02These are crispy chocolate wafers that are dipped in a mint chocolatey coating.
17:06Perfect amount of chocolate.
17:08The mint is refreshing.
17:09It's cooling.
17:09It's almost like you walk into a steam room with all that eucalyptus, but it's for your mouth
17:13instead.
17:13Steam room for your mouth.
17:14These are thin mints.
17:16These are thick mints.
17:17I think this company got a little confused as well, what they were knocking off, because
17:21they copied the name from Girl Scout cookies, but they made peppermint patties.
17:26Yeah.
17:26Oh.
17:26Oh my gosh.
17:27Chocolate looks high quality.
17:29I like it.
17:30The texture on the inside of this is like perfect.
17:32It's like doing a cheese pull.
17:34Yeah, dude.
17:34Oh my God.
17:35Look at that.
17:36Here's the ultimate test.
17:37I'd put it in the championship if you will.
17:41Yeah.
17:41Congratulations to Thickmints for moving on to the finals.
17:45Congratulations Thickmints.
17:46Oh man.
17:47Twizzlers.
17:48Get twizzled.
17:48I love Twizzlers.
17:49They're not my favorite favorite, but once you pop, you just can't stop.
17:52I don't know about you, but I almost like to dry age my Twizzlers a little bit.
17:55When you buy Twizzlers, you should open the bag, leave it in the cupboard for like two,
17:59three days, then you can eat it.
18:00I could go a week.
18:01Are we like the same person?
18:02We look exactly the same.
18:03The thing is about Twizzlers, they're not too sweet.
18:05Very old man candy.
18:06The Korean knockoff to Twizzlers, Twizzle.
18:09We were only able to get our hands in the watermelon flavor.
18:11They're filled with a sweet and sour jelly.
18:13In terms of the copycat, it's not overly crazy.
18:17I mean, we have white text with blue outline in the same font.
18:20If they wanted to stew, they would have grounds.
18:23Oh, that smells like watermelon candy.
18:25And look at the sheer amount of jelly.
18:27There's a good amount of jelly in there.
18:31I'm not a big watermelon candy guy.
18:33I don't like the way fake watermelon tastes, and that's what it tastes like.
18:35I kind of like them.
18:36They have a great texture.
18:37A really great texture.
18:38Really great.
18:39The more I'm eating it, the more I like it, Joe.
18:40If you want to put it in the crate, I'm right behind you.
18:42Andrew.
18:42I can't believe it.
18:43Twizzlers have been unseated by two Twizzler lovers.
18:49Nerds.
18:49Maybe my favorite candy.
18:50I love nerds.
18:51I haven't had nerds for a long time.
18:53I do like the texture.
18:54There's a bit of a sweet and sour aspect to them.
18:56If you suck on them, they start sweet, get sour, and go back to sweet.
18:59It's a journey.
18:59So should we go both together?
19:01Big time.
19:01Oop.
19:03White.
19:04Ah, there we go.
19:06Total sugar rush.
19:07Yeah.
19:07Perfect amount of sweet and sour.
19:09We got one that comes from the Willy Wonka company.
19:12Dweebs.
19:12These come from the UK.
19:13I don't like how this opens.
19:15That's one of the worst looking packages I've ever seen.
19:18Look at the color.
19:18It's like green and white.
19:20These are both watermelon and cherry, by the way.
19:21Look how saturated these are.
19:23Wow.
19:24Compared to those.
19:25That's nuts.
19:26Those look terrible.
19:27Oh, they're soft.
19:29It tastes good.
19:29Good flavor.
19:30Not good texture.
19:31I actually think I like the flavor of the Dweebs better than the Nerds.
19:34100%.
19:35That tastes more natural.
19:36They're like jelly beans.
19:37I almost think that they're gum for a second.
19:39The flavor is definitely better, but everything else is worse.
19:41Another absolute classic, Skittles.
19:44Rainbow colored, chewy candy with a nice hard candy shell.
19:47I can't think of anything like it.
19:48Oh, I love this sound.
19:52So chewy.
19:53Amazing.
19:54Giggles.
19:55Giggles.
19:55Is this a US brand?
19:56It is, actually.
19:57It looks like they don't use any artificial dyes, so the colors might not be as beautiful.
20:02Looks like you left them out in the sun.
20:03Look at how a lot of them get totally screwed up.
20:05The difference in the production quality is night and day.
20:09Whoa, they're softer.
20:10They do have that organic candy taste to them.
20:12They're almost like gummy in the center.
20:13I bet I can squish one of these with my finger.
20:15I can.
20:15See?
20:16Yeah.
20:16I think the grape one is better than the grape Skittles.
20:18Orange tastes better, too.
20:19The orange is like an incredible orange flavor.
20:21It's almost like orange vanilla, like orange Creme's bowl.
20:24We've agreed that red and yellow are worse.
20:26I think we've also agreed that purple and orange are better.
20:30If green is better, I think we have to put these in the championship crate.
20:34Here it goes.
20:34Let's be honest here.
20:35I'm going to try a green one.
20:39Those Skittles.
20:40I mean, suddenly that tastes like chemicals.
20:42That tastes like cleaning products, yeah.
20:43I think we ought to do it.
20:44I think we might have to do it.
20:46Championship crate.
20:48Ah, okay.
20:49If I was stranded on an island and I could only take three things, I might bring Nutella.
20:52What are the other two things?
20:53Water.
20:54Probably rotisserie chicken.
20:55So the original is a cocoa hazelnut spread.
20:57Let's just get a quick baseline test here.
21:00Amazing.
21:01This is only a couple of the knockoffs.
21:04Everybody likes to knock off Nutella.
21:06This isn't really a knockoff.
21:07This is just Nutella with my name instead.
21:09I hope that they do that for me.
21:11I can make that happen.
21:12By the time this video is out, you will have a jar that says your name.
21:15Thank you, Nick.
21:15I'm feeling so generous that I'm going to pick three other random subscribers and I'm going
21:18to send them the same thing with their name on it.
21:20This guy.
21:21The first knockoff is from Bangladesh.
21:22It's called Nucela.
21:23The main difference here is Nucela is made with chocolate and almonds instead of chocolate and
21:27hazelnut.
21:28Oh, I don't know about that.
21:29Look how wrinkly that is.
21:30Come on.
21:31I paid good money for this.
21:32Nick paid good money for this.
21:33Oh, it's stiff.
21:35Better or not?
21:36Not.
21:37We're moving on to Nucela.
21:38It's a breakfast staple in Spain and Portugal.
21:40Doesn't it look like it's been half eaten?
21:42It was sealed.
21:43Whoa, it tastes weird.
21:44I feel like it has the flavor of a dried leaf.
21:46I'll agree with that because it's not good.
21:48No.
21:48Nope.
21:49No.
21:49Nougat.
21:50Nougat.
21:50The Turkish version of Nutella comes in this premium feeling glass jar and it has a higher
21:55hazelnut concentration than Nutella at about 16% hazelnuts as opposed to Nutella's 13%.
22:00Wow.
22:01The smell of hazelnut.
22:04Hit me in the face like a hazelnut being thrown at my face.
22:08The hazelnut's rancid.
22:09Absolutely.
22:09Yep.
22:10No good.
22:11What a bummer.
22:11Nuceti.
22:12This one is from a discount grocery store in Germany.
22:14It also comes in a nice glass jar.
22:17I don't know.
22:17That's tasty.
22:18Wait.
22:18You getting a weird aftertaste?
22:20Better or worse?
22:20Worse.
22:21Worse.
22:21Next up we have Mestella which is from Egypt.
22:25They copied the color scheme of the name.
22:26That does not look appetizing.
22:28Does not.
22:28It's very similar.
22:30I would say it's a little looser.
22:31I don't know what's going on there.
22:33This is the furthest off from Nutella that we've tasted.
22:35Worse.
22:35Yeah.
22:36Next up we have Nutoka.
22:37It looks very similar in terms of the label.
22:39It's supposed to have a stronger hazelnut flavor.
22:40Oh.
22:41It's like looser.
22:43Oh.
22:44I get more cocoa and a different chocolate flavor.
22:47Do I love Nutoka?
22:48I don't know.
22:48I think we got a dead ringer here.
22:49I don't think I like one better than the other.
22:51I think we might have a dead tie.
22:52Do we put it in the crate if it's a tie?
22:54I think we said tie goes to the challenger.
22:55If we didn't, then we can say it now.
22:57Nutoka, you're going to the championship round.
23:00Congratulations.
23:00The last thing I want to compare real quick for Nutella are these Nutella and Go breadsticks.
23:04And then you've got Nutmaster.
23:06That's my digital signature on all my emails.
23:08Let's just do a quick rapid fire.
23:10Oh my gosh.
23:11Oh, the stick is just too hard.
23:13So only one out of all those contenders.
23:14And it was just a tie.
23:15It couldn't raise above.
23:17In the end, there was only one Nutmaster.
23:20What?
23:20Hmm?
23:22Fruit Loops.
23:23Fruit Loops are the unhealthy cereal that we always want as kids and our parents never let us eat it.
23:27I wasn't allowed to eat it and I didn't try it until I was an adult and I hate it.
23:31The smell of these, they smell insane.
23:33Oh, I love the smell.
23:34Oh, that's awesome.
23:35Oh, God.
23:37This is natural fruit flavors.
23:39I doubt that.
23:40What is this?
23:40The knockoff is called Fruit Rings.
23:42It's from Egypt and there's a weird alien with three eyes on the front instead of Toucan Sam.
23:49They have really no color.
23:51Original knockoff.
23:53There's a hair on it.
23:53There's hair.
23:54There's a hair.
23:54There's a hair?
23:55There's hair.
23:55No, there's not.
23:56Oh my God, that's disgusting.
23:57That is a hair.
23:58Oh, man.
23:58I don't know.
23:59I seriously, I don't know if I can eat these.
24:01Smells a little more natural.
24:02No, wait.
24:03That doesn't smell natural at all.
24:04It smells like...
24:05No, what does that smell like?
24:06It smells like lip balm.
24:10It tastes like if you took that lip balm and you used it like butter on corn.
24:14Our final sweet before we move on to the last category, which is drinks.
24:18You're going to love those.
24:19Frosted Flakes.
24:19It's a corn breakfast flake that's coated lightly with sort of a frosting.
24:23And in the front, you've got their amazing logo, Tony the Tiger.
24:26They're great.
24:27I love the lightness of these flakes.
24:29I love the sound.
24:32Mmm.
24:33Mmm.
24:33Such a light, hard, crisp.
24:35I just got like sent back in time to like a morning right before school.
24:39And I feel like I'm a little kid again and I didn't do my homework.
24:42But yeah, no, they're very tasty.
24:43The knockoff is called Frosted Flakes.
24:46They've kept the same exact name.
24:47Even the font is strikingly similar.
24:49Similar.
24:50They went with a baby giraffe as the mascot instead of Tony the T.
24:53Also, do you notice that it's just taped on top with like a piece of scotch tape?
24:57Uh-oh.
24:57Uh-oh.
24:57I guess they couldn't get glue.
24:59At least it's still sealed on the inside.
25:01What kind of yellowy those are?
25:03Oh, this smells so bad.
25:05Oh, that smells like the DMV.
25:10Those are so bad.
25:12Oh my God.
25:13Those are terrible.
25:14What is that?
25:15There's no sugar.
25:16It's horrible.
25:17And they taste like virtually nothing.
25:19Like old corn.
25:20So after round two, we have seven items in the championship crate.
25:24About seven more than I honestly thought would end up in there.
25:26For this section, we've collected the most popular drinks from around the world.
25:29And of course, all their knockoffs.
25:31The first one, I don't think I have to explain.
25:33It's classic Coca-Cola.
25:34And I always get mine in the glass bottle because I think it tastes the best.
25:38I feel refreshed just from hearing and looking at it.
25:43The color, kind of a reddish brown amber.
25:45It's like a coffee with some red food coloring in it.
25:50We can't do that after every drink.
25:52The knockoff, Mole Cola.
25:54It comes straight from Italy and it's a copy of Coca-Cola, but it doesn't have any sugar.
25:57I like the bottle.
25:58It's so easy to hold.
26:00Yeah.
26:00I love the Italian flag on top.
26:02Yeah.
26:03Oh!
26:04It looks to be browner, I think.
26:06I think it's almost the exact same.
26:08Yeah.
26:10What the heck?
26:11It doesn't have as much flavor.
26:12It feels like there's less spices in there.
26:13With the artificial sweeteners, not only does it taste a little off, the sweetness hits later.
26:18The original, better.
26:19100%.
26:19Our next original is Gatorade.
26:21What do I think the color blue tastes like?
26:23As usual, on this side, I'm going to put the original.
26:27Oh, man.
26:28Oh, those electrolytes.
26:30Sweet, salty, blue.
26:32The knockoff is called Enerjade.
26:33It's a South African Gatorade copycat.
26:36They didn't have a blue flavor that I could find, but I still feel like this is just such a blatant knockoff.
26:41They put it in one of those Powerade-type bottles, though.
26:43Yeah, they're ripping off everybody at once.
26:45It looks very syrupy.
26:46It looks like it's going to be super sweet.
26:48Violently red.
26:48It looks like cough syrup.
26:49That's a lot of Red Dye 40.
26:52Oh, tart finish there.
26:53It's definitely not better than Gatorade.
26:55It's almost got a vinegar, acidic finish.
26:58It finishes so tart.
26:59Yeah, that's gnarly.
27:00This is nice and sweet and gentle, like me.
27:02Orange soda.
27:03Fanta, specifically.
27:04Fanta or Fanta?
27:05You've probably tried Fanta, but if you haven't, it's a very sweet, sparkling orange soda.
27:09It is so carbonated that when I opened it, I could feel all the bubbles crawling up the side of my head.
27:14Oh, God.
27:14I wonder if there's any semblance of actual orange.
27:17Cheers.
27:19I feel like I'm drinking neon.
27:20Whoa!
27:21Yeah, it's well balanced.
27:22There's a little acid in there, but it's very sweet.
27:24The knockoff is called Twing.
27:26Twing!
27:26It's from Bangladesh, and it's supposed to be a sweet and sour orange soda.
27:30It's so much smaller.
27:31Yeah, I don't know why they made it so small.
27:34That is like four gulps.
27:36It looks the same.
27:37There's not even enough to split between us.
27:39Like, there's not that much of it.
27:41It's pathetic.
27:42It tastes like sunscreen.
27:44Nope.
27:45No wonder they make it so small.
27:46It's gross.
27:46We've already had enough sugar today to kill a horse.
27:49So at this point, let's just cap it off with some Red Bull.
27:51Get some caffeine in the mix, yeah.
27:52When I was in college, I'd wake up at 3.30, 4 in the morning, get in the car with my friend with our surfboards.
27:56We drove to the nearest beach, and we'd chug one or two Red Bulls, and then go surfing until class.
28:00How were you alive?
28:01It was awesome.
28:02Just to sort of compare the color of the two drinks.
28:05I had no idea what color it was.
28:06I'm a purist, so I drink it right out of the can.
28:09I love the flavor, personally.
28:10It's great.
28:11The knockoff, which comes from Bangladesh, is called Speed.
28:14Speed.
28:15It just looks dangerous.
28:16It's got a heart rate EKG on it.
28:18Boop.
28:19Boop.
28:20Boop.
28:21I don't know how I feel about this one.
28:23What color is it going to be?
28:24Red.
28:24Ah, ooh.
28:25Halfway.
28:26Orange.
28:26Oh, that's disgusting.
28:31Definitely worse.
28:33Mountain Dew.
28:34Do the Dew.
28:35Mountain Dew is a citrusy lemon-lime flavored soda, which I think has caffeine.
28:38In terms of the color.
28:39Not occurring in nature.
28:40Let's give it a try.
28:42Very sweet and syrupy.
28:43Yeah.
28:44The knockoff.
28:45Mountain Lightning.
28:46Mountain Lightning sounds more exciting.
28:48They could have tried a little harder.
28:49Clearly, they copied a bunch of the details.
28:51Oh, that looks pretty much the same.
28:55Ooh.
28:56Hmm.
28:56This one I thought was going to be better based on the smell, but it's just kind of boring.
29:00It doesn't have the acid.
29:01It doesn't have the tartness to it.
29:02Sorry, Mountain Lightning.
29:03I'm not sorry.
29:04Our next soda is Sprite.
29:06It's got a classic lemon-lime flavor.
29:07I love the color.
29:09I actually like that it's clear.
29:10It's very pure.
29:11It really just tastes like sweet water.
29:13It's refreshing.
29:14The knockoff is from Bangladesh.
29:15It's called Cleman.
29:17Not as appetizing-sounding as Sprite.
29:19It is the most popular lemon soda in Bangladesh, which means it's more popular than Sprite,
29:23and it's supposed to be an exact ripoff of Sprite.
29:26Only one way to find out.
29:28Let's see if it's clear.
29:29It's clear.
29:30Ooh, smell it.
29:31Whoa.
29:32Okay.
29:33Yeah, that's different.
29:34More flavorful.
29:35I think it's better.
29:37I'm really torn.
29:38The taste is just slightly different enough that I can't tell which one I like better,
29:41so I'm going to leave it to you which one moves on.
29:44Crate of Chance.
29:45Our final soda before we move on to crown the champion from the championship crate is Dr. Pepper.
29:50I have an embarrassing admission to make.
29:51I don't know if I've ever tried Dr. Pepper.
29:53What?
29:54Shh, don't tell anybody.
29:55Dr. Pepper's one of the most popular sodas in the world.
29:57It's got kind of a sweet and spicy flavor.
29:59I don't know that anything can beat this.
30:01I'm very excited to try it.
30:03I don't know if anyone noticed this, by the way, and huge props to you if you did,
30:06but this entire video I've been wearing a knockoff happy potato shirt.
30:09And I'm not the real babish.
30:11I'm a knockoff.
30:12Can you smell that?
30:13Whoa.
30:13Since you haven't had it, you need to get a good, strong baseline.
30:15Yeah, there's like cherry essence?
30:18Maybe licorice.
30:19That's bananas.
30:20My first Dr. Pepper.
30:22Glad it's with you.
30:24That's really good, yeah.
30:25It's really, really delicious.
30:26I thought it was going to taste nuts from the smell, but it's actually pretty subdued.
30:29Good luck beating that.
30:31Dr. Perky.
30:32Dr. Perky.
30:33Dr. Perky you can buy at some grocery stores in the United States, so somehow they've snuck by.
30:38There's also Dr. Bob.
30:40It's just like, it shouldn't be allowed.
30:42That should be allowed because it's so far away from it.
30:44Why don't you try Dr. Perky, and I'll try Dr. Bob.
30:47Oh, I love the look of the foam on Dr. Bob.
30:50Dr. Perky, give us the rating.
30:52No, it's good.
30:53No, Dr. Bob.
30:56Try it.
30:57I don't know.
30:58I might like Dr. Bob better.
30:59It tastes just like it, but there's more flavor.
31:01There's more spice.
31:02Yeah.
31:02I think Dr. Bob is moving forward.
31:04Holy heck.
31:05You know what this means.
31:06What?
31:09In front of us, you'll see what we've determined to be nine of the best knockoff snacks on the
31:13planet, but the question is, what is the number one knockoff snack?
31:16Very difficult question to answer.
31:18Some of these are just perfect imitations.
31:20Some of them are improvements upon.
31:21Let's make a quick tier list.
31:22First up, giggles.
31:23Where are you putting them?
31:24Weird looking, delicious tasting, interesting texture.
31:27I'm giving them a C.
31:28I would agree with you on that.
31:29Let's put it C tier.
31:30Next up.
31:31Nutoka.
31:32Same exact thing as Nutella, so really good.
31:35A tier.
31:35A tier for Nutoka.
31:37Thick mints.
31:37Thick mints is tough.
31:38I feel like it kind of barely made the list.
31:40I'm going to give it a D tier.
31:42I give these a B.
31:42They're just giant junior mints, and I love junior mints.
31:45Yeah.
31:45So it rounds to a C tier.
31:47Corn toes.
31:47I think you like these more than me.
31:49Corn toes, I think I'm putting S tier.
31:50Dispute.
31:51I did it.
31:51Still rounds to A. That's a great score for corn toes.
31:54Ohio, S tier.
31:55Really?
31:56I love these, yeah.
31:57I didn't love the frosting.
31:58I'm actually going to give these D tier, which brings the average to a B.
32:01Well, you figured that out fast.
32:02Dr. Bob.
32:03Dr. Bob.
32:03I love the name so much.
32:05I'm going to give it an A tier.
32:06I loved it.
32:07I'm also, I think, going to give Dr. Bob an A tier.
32:09It was really good.
32:10Just more flavorful Dr. Pepper.
32:12Jay's potato chips.
32:13I loved these.
32:14I'm going to give these an A tier.
32:15I'm actually going to put them at a C tier.
32:16Very, very, very good, but they weren't my favorite knockoff item, so that averages to
32:20another B tier.
32:21Clemon, where are we putting this?
32:22This is like a slightly better Sprite, and I don't even like Sprite that much to begin
32:25with, so I'm going to give it a D tier.
32:27I'm going lower.
32:27I'm going F tier.
32:28This one's averaging out to an E.
32:30Twizzle.
32:31You were on the fence about these.
32:33They really grew on me.
32:35I really enjoy those.
32:36I'm going to put these at A tier.
32:37I think they were just so tasty, and the texture was perfect.
32:40I'm going to agree with you on that.
32:42A tier.
32:42A tier?
32:42Yeah.
32:43Dang.
32:43Yeah, those are good.
32:44These are our final rankings of the best knockoff snacks in the world, but we had a few
32:48A tiers, so let's both reveal our favorite snacks.
32:51Corn toast.
32:52Twizzle.
32:53I love them.
32:53I wasn't even sure about these at first, but I love them so much.
32:56The texture, the flavor.
32:58Holy.
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