Original vs Knockoff Gas Station Snacks

Do name brands matter when it comes to gas station snacks? Let's talk about that. ((Intro Music)). Good Mythical Morning. The most important part of any road trip is stopping. for gas station snacks. The gas might be a little more important. Nope, snacks. Your car will not run unless it is fully stocked with. enough snacks to get you to your destination and back, and. then back to your destination in case you forgot something.

Oh, okay. Alright, well the real question is, are we paying. too much for the name brand versions of these. gas station munchies? Well, let's find out. It's time for Knock-Off Knockout. Gas Station Snacks Edition. ((Upbeat Music)). - [Stevie] Hey, you! First up you have four teriyaki flavored beef. jerkys in front of you. There are three generic brand jerkys and one. that's Jack Link's. Jack Link's. - [Stevie] Which one is? Jack Link's. Jack Link's.

You know. We've eaten a lot of jerky together, out on the. roads, in our, in our many camping trips together. It's pretty much the only time that I eat jerky. Oh. This is a soft, supple jerky. We've jerked it together quite a lot. That is nice. And I prefer to Jack Link's. I prefer you keep it that way as well. ((Laughing)). If I'm gonna get jerky. Now, this one looks dry. Stevie didn't respond to any of that. ((Laughing)).

This one is thick. - [Stevie] Yeah, I did. You just didn't hear me. Or see me. It was just silent. That's a good jerky, that first one. It's nice and juicy. It's gonna be hard to top that one. This one's thicker. The flavor has got too much of a certain ingredient. Teriyaki. Soy. Soy! Yeah. Isn't soy in teriyaki? Yes, sir. And it's not quite jerky enough. - [Rhett] We're not soy boys. This looks dry and sad. Oh, God.

This is cowboy jerky. - [Link] It's like homemade. This will get you through a canyon. Because it takes so long to eat. You're all the way through the canyon before you finish. I'm just saying that like, if you really need jerky to last. and you don't want any of the wildlife to get into it. - [Link] Yep. This is the one you should choose. Bugs will get into this. Bugs like juicy stuff. I would hope it's generic. Now this one is glistening. - [Rhett] Thanks for bringing it over to me. Look at that. It is so.

It's almost oily. How do they get, how do they get it to be juicy? Do they stop short? Do they stop short when they're jerking it? I think, no, I think they go all the way and then they. I think they stop short. They add something. If they go too long it gets dry. You think they add something after they? After it's completely jerked. They add something to moisten it. They add a little moisturizer. We got to talk to a jerk master. - [Stevie] I'm reacting to all of this. You just can't hear me or see me.

Can you introduce me to one? Oh, you're looking at, you're looking at him. ((Laughing)). Oh, I didn't know you were a jerk master. Tell me about it. - [Rhett] Got a lot of practice. Tell me about it. The first one is the best one. It is. I hope that's Jack Link's. Yeah, it's gotta be. - [Stevie] Three, two, one. But I don't think it is! I don't think Jack Link's is that sweet. I think that they have tried too hard to. separate themselves.

Oh! Yep, there you go. I've been, I've been humbled. ((Laughing)). Jerk master's been humbled. By his own hand. He reached down there and he jerked on his, his chair, and it went down. All the moisture left me. ((Laughing)). - [Stevie] The Jack Link's Teriyaki Beef Jerky is on plate number two. Yes! Yes! I am the jerk master! I have taken the throne, but I want to make.

sure it's clean first. - [Stevie] The others. ((Laughing)). Were Great Value from Walmart. That's good. - [Stevie] 365 by Whole Foods. and Kroger brand. So we are saying that the Walmart brand is the best. You should not get the Jack Link. - Leave that to me. - I don't think you should. What? I don't either. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We agree. We agree. ((Upbeat Music)). - [Stevie] So we've done two soda based Knock-Off, Knockout.

episodes and somehow. This is Squirt. I bet this is Squirt. - [Stevie] We've never tried to find. I'd like to introduce you to the Squirt master. - [Stevie] The name brand. Mountain Dew. Okay. Oh, not Squirt. It's not Squirt, man. - [Stevie] We wouldn't give you jerky and then Squirt. Come on. ((Laughing)). Squirt is a good soda. Yeah, you would. It is a good soda. It is. You would. It's got some tang to it. Yeah, we gotta spread things like jerks and squirts. off across two episodes. Alright.

That could be Mountain Dew. Pretty Mountain Dew-y. Oh gosh, I'm trying to keep the straws on the same side. I don't know, why am I doing this? - [Rhett] I don't know. ((Laughing)). I'm being so helpful. Now that I've taken your moniker. That's also, pretty Mountain Dew-y. It's, I mean, the difference is so subtle. So subtle. Anyone who's not a jerk master would not be able. to tell the difference.

Now it's, you do it. - [Rhett] Yeah, since these are on your side. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one's a little different, but still pretty Mountain Dew-y. This is really difficult. All of these in isolation would totally. be doing my Dew. Except that one. Except that one. This one, could it be that Mountain Dew.

is unduplicatable? And everything that tries to duplicate it just. duplicates other things that are trying to duplicate it? There's no way. There's no way. Oh, you didn't need two tastes. - [Stevie] Three, two. Well, I narrowed it down to three, so now. I'm just gonna guess. - [Stevie] And one. - [Link] I'm going with my gut. Very first one. - [Stevie] The Mountain Dew is in glass number three. Oh.

We were both locked out of this one. - [Stevie] I thought that your rationale that you spoke out loud, Link, was going to lead you to three that you both said. taste different than the rest, but then it didn't. - [Rhett] I thought that one tasted different than the rest. Yeah, we agreed on that, but that's definitely not Dew, because you said this one was. - [Stevie] You're correct. Definitely not Dew. - [Stevie] That's how that works. The others are. What "Dew" we have? These all are. - [Stevie] Shasta. Shasta? - [Stevie] That's the first one. What do they call it? Lemon lime?

- [Stevie] Well, it's coming. Mountain Rush. I love a Shasta. - [Stevie] Big K Citrus Drop. And then the last one is Great Value Mountain Lightning. If I ever have another relationship with a woman, you know, after Jessie, if she dies or something. Right. I hope it's with a Shasta. A woman named Shasta? Yeah. Okay, not a drink. Yeah. ((Upbeat Music)). Since we are neck deep in gas station snacks, we invite.

you to head over to Sporked.com. and search gas station snacks. You know what'll pop up? Their list of the best gas station snacks. Some of which you felt like you never wanted to order, but now you're like, oh I gotta, I gotta buy this. Got to. Including hard boiled eggs. Oh, yum. Yes. - [Stevie] Okay, you are looking for the Nature Valley Peanut. Butter Dark Chocolate Chewy Protein Bar. I feel like. You seem like you would be familiar with this. - [Link] Yeah, any, I like a peanut butter, like, anything, of course.

You went through a granola phase, though. Remember your granola phase? I'm out of it. Oh, what brought you out? The fact that it's just not great. Why are there three generic versions of this? Is it that popular? And they all look exactly the same. This one's got a lot less chips. But maybe they're hidden. That's pretty good, man. I don't know why you ever left granola phase. It is pretty good. It's another one of those things that, like, only when camping. Or, like you said, a road trip.

Is that one any better? This one looks better. That one tastes better. Why does that one taste better? This one tastes like peanut butter. This one tastes like peanuts. You're exactly right. And I don't like that. All you gotta do is ask me a clarifying question. I'll give you a clarified answer. Are you gonna taste this one next? Yes, I will. Okay. This one's got a big chocolate base. They're not made in the same facility. Because they do taste different.

This one tastes exactly like which one? The first one? Nope, the second one. This one tastes like peanuts, not peanut butter. We disagree. Try the third one, Rhett. I like the way you're leading me through it. What do you think about this one? It doesn't have any chips in it. I already said that. Say something I haven't said. The, uh, the, uh, the nuts are too small. Alright, there you go. There's a lot, there's. There's one that's way better. There's one that's way better, and we all know what it is.

Rhettvron thinks the one that's the best is, number one. Yes, I mean, this one's heads above. - [Stevie] The Nature Valley Protein Bar is on plate number one. Yeah. Good! There's order restored, and we are. ((Laughing)). And we are both. Now jerk master. Spoken like a true jerk master. - [Stevie] Great Value, Kirkland from Costco, and Kroger brand. Nobody else knows how to do it. They gotta talk to the masters.

No, we're the masters. Oh yeah, talk to us. They gotta talk to Nature's Own. Nature Valley. Valley. Nature's own valley. ((Upbeat Music)). We've made it, Rhett. We've made it to the blindfold round. Who is that? Is that the jerk master talking? Yes, it is. - [Stevie] And as you can. As you can see. ((Laughing)). Thank you so much, Stevie, for reminding me. Ooh, it's so important. I thought maybe you were going to not. Ooh, it's so important.

I thought you weren't going to do it this year. As you can see, I can't. - [Stevie] Okay, you're looking for Planters Trail Mix. Oh, and you think we would understand it if we saw it. ((Laughing)). They look that different? All I got was an almond. - [Stevie] I'm gonna tell you why, but only after. you make your. Oh, is there cheese in that? - [Stevie] Cause that's a little hint. When you don't know you're getting cheese. and you get cheese. - [Stevie] There's no, there's no cheese. Don't tell him answers.

- [Stevie] Well, I'll give you that much. There's, there's no cheese. Did you touch something and that made it. taste like cheese? I added a little something in there. Hoping you would find it. I'm gonna tell you right now. It ain't cheese. He, the jerk master deposited cheese onto my, what was that? Cheese. Got a high taste. Cheese in a, cheese. in a trail mix, not a bad idea, but it's not. Am I back where I started? No. Oh!

There's only three. Oh! These are flatter M&M's. Shoot. I'm in trouble. I think I've never, I've never experienced this one. Well, until now. Is there raisins in this one? I'm eating them out of order. Oh gosh. That felt like a mug. I've made. Why is it so far over? There's like all of this space. All of this space with nothing and then I thought that was. Does one have, does it have like P written on stuff?

Is that what, like it's got like the Planters' P? - [Stevie] No. They're so different. Whoa. I'm really intrigued, because I feel like I can tell you what's. Where you at now? Right here? - [Rhett] Oh, look, these are 3D. One of these have something that I don't ever like. in trail mix, and I have to pick it out. Oh, is that cranberries? - [Link] There's another one. - [Rhett] M&M's? I'm not telling you. - [Rhett] They've all had M&M's. Have they? Yeah. - [Link] Oh.

I don't think Planters has M&M's. Ooh, that's a big fruit. Another mushy thing. And an M&M. Okay. I don't know what's going on. I feel so lost. - [Stevie] Okay, put your. Where can a man find a good almond? How'd my thing get wet? I don't know. - [Stevie] Looking for Planters. And Link? Yeah? - [Stevie] Very nicely in three, two, one.

Oh! Did I land in it! I landed in it! - [Stevie] Okay. The Planters. So far. - [Stevie] Is in bowl number two. Nobody. Nobody got that. Why'd you conceal it from us? Here's what I've observed, Stevie. Number one, I didn't know it had M&M's.

- [Rhett] It has two types of M&M's. Big and little. Cause I tasted that one second. - [Stevie] So, some of them, they all have candies, but some of. them are actual M&M's and some of them are fake M&M's. and Planters has real M&M's. - [Rhett] Oh, these are fake. Planters has fake. Oh, these are fake too. No, Planters has real. - [Stevie] Planters has real M&M's. The others, the first one is Kirkland and the. third one is Great Value. And then you have Good & Gather by Target.

Good & Gather got some big fruits. They got big fruits here, too. Look at the size of that fruit. - [Stevie] Link, you won. You won the game. Yeah, I know I did. I'm the jerk master. - [Stevie] So, Rhett, as a punishment, you must. Venmo Link some gas money. And I, yeah, you need to do it now, and it needs. to be, for real. What's he gonna do with this gas money? Cause he doesn't use gas. That's a good point.

I'm gonna put it in my weed eater. Let me scan your, let me scan your thing. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll scan you. Scan my Venmo thing? Can I do it with your iris? And I want you to do a, I want you to, there you go. Next year that'll work. I want you to do an emoji that like, kind. of intonates that gap. Like maybe, maybe a fart emoji. Link and Christy. Yeah, we share a Venmo. Oh, that's cute. ((Laughing)). Yeah, what's hers is mine and what's mine is hers.

Okay. Neither one of us would be who we are without the other. So we all, we just, we spend money on each other like. we're going out of style. My balance is now whatever Rhett's given me. Okay, it should be popping up. Oh! 35 cents. ((Laughing)). With a gas pump emoji. Yep. Kinda wanted a fart emoji. Thanks for subscribing and clicking the bell. You know what time it is.

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