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   @rickpetersen41

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   These guys come from a culture where the food taste like crap! Using them in a taste test is pretty much of a joke!

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   @JazzyJizzyJohnson-og5sc

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   Nobody that loves peanut butter buys the expensive garbage. Jif all the way!

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   @JazzyJizzyJohnson-og5sc

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   Premium peanut butter is awful.

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   @beritbranch2436

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   tune a fish! yea! EVOOyea!

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   @beritbranch2436

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   Feta Feta Feta! Yea!

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   @Coffeewmn

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   Your groceries are so much cheaper than the usa😮

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   @AbsoluteNut1

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   You need to take out a loan to buy Ortiz. $30/jar.

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   @lacrimamundi

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   I found out that there are also world between different brands of cheap(ish) chickpeas, so if someone needs to watch out for their budget and isn't happy with the taste of theirs: try some other (shop's) brands. Same price doesn't necessarily mean same quality.

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   @j96569

   January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

   It doesn't seem so bad if one tin of tuna is £10 (although it's ridiculous in Rands), but when you have to feed a family it is bad. I feel most of the guys don't buy their house's weekly/monthly groceries, but I could be wrong. In today's economy show us cheap v mid range so we can decide on ingredients we can actually afford.

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    @tatianaes3354

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    CAN the chaps learn?

    For years, they can not understand that premium is not 30-50% pricier, but three times.

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    @paulg8524

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    big lad always goes for expensive, must be minted

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    @defyingheaven6606

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    When I visited Bangladesh last year, I bought a 1.4 KG fresh Tuna for about 7.80$. I was literally shocked at that time that Tuna can be this cheap.

    Honestly, I feel ripped off all these times I had Tuna..

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    @littlebigman6957

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    Is ben gay?

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14. 

    @davetarpley3740

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    In the U.S. peanut butter must be more than 90% peanuts. That's because the late '60s or early '70s, manufacturers were adding loads of shortening and sugars.

    My favorite readily available peanut butter is actually labeled peanut butter spread because Jif Natural is 90% peanuts. It's stabilized with sustainably sourced palm oil instead of hydrogenated shortening.

    I noticed that your basic peanut butter in the tasting was 87% peanuts. So UK food labeling laws must differ in that respect.

    Incidentally, the best peanut butter I ever had was Dark Roast Jif from Canada. It's made in the States but not sold here.

    Worth noting about it is that both hydrogenated oil and regular peanut oil are listed as ingredients. Added peanut oil was common in peanut butters until roughly the early '70s when cheaper oils came to the fore.

    I suspect that Dark Roast Jif would have to be labeled peanut butter spread in the U.S. but boy is the texture and flavor glorious. (Is it so silky because of extra shortening? Is the flavor so deep partly from the added peanut oil? That's my guess.)

    Lastly, Jif is made with molasses as well as sugar. The molasses absolutely reinforces the roasted flavor in all their products (except their No Added Sugar version).

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    @Timlagor

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I'd usually go somewhere in between. Almost never to the extreme top price

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    @officerbutton9532

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I miss the egg sound 😢

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    @jacquespoulemer3577

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I live in Mexico. our Sam's club here gets Ortiz Tuna in olive oil in a small 400g jar which costs 15.70 British Pounds (342 Mexican Pesos), I'm sure I've never see the little Ortiz Packet you guys had for 100 pounds a kilo. We don't get a lot of selection in Oaxaca where I live which is Provincia (the countryside). I Enjoy the show. Also here local peanuts arent expensive so making one's own peanut butter doesn't break the Banque. All the best to you guys , Jim

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    @EmiliFaust

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    Can't believe I'm seeing this a year later, I wish I saw it when it came out.

    I'm vegan, so I use chickpeas (and aquafaba) quite a lot in cooking, so I was curious about whether the premium or cheaper ones are better to other people. I personally prefer going as cheap as possible if I'm making something that mostly needs aquafaba or where I won't really notice the chickpeas as much like in a curry with other vegetables or blended in a nut loaf (though I prefer getting dried chickpeas that I soak myself for loaves and falafel), but if it's a curry like chana masala, a salad that I'm adding chickpeas into, or something in which the chickpeas are the main thing, I do try to splash out as it does make a difference. I haven't seen any in a jar, but I am definitely going to keep an eye out for these even if they cost more, just as a one-off treat or something.

    Similar thing with peanut butter but in the reverse ironically, in my experience it is the thinner and oily peanut butter that's more premium and the thicker more 'buttery' textured peanut butter is cheaper, I prefer cheaper stuff on my toast but the premium stuff in baking such as when I make a chocolate and peanut butter birthday cake for family, as the peanut flavour comes through stronger with premium peanut butter.

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19. 

    @elg94

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    as a french, hearing this chickpea dish being called a cassoulet, even "of some sorts", huh…

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    @matthewvanrensburg3824

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    MUCH prefer my chickpeas as a raw ingredient, not precooked and tinned/bottled.

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21. 

    @aswee01

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    These are interesting episodes, a part of this one however really had me thinking of how oblivious a lot of people can be to the costs and foundation if I may of food. I'm bad with names, I believe it was Jamie who said he believes peanuts should be more expensive. Smh, I'm still smh when I think about this. For decades, I dare say centuries many of what is now mainstream foods where once looked upon as peasant foods and never did a mainstreamer dare. Lower class (not my classification, but for argument sake) poor, ethnic people had no choice but to eat what was accessible and not wanted by the higher classes. These things include but not limited to oxtails, beans, chickpeas, wild rice, canned meats like tuna and peanuts. Not until the nutritional values and becoming a thing were found financially challenged people used these items and others to survive because they were looked down upon and very inexpensive, affordable for those with that kind of income. To hear Jamie say peanuts should be more expensive and call canned tuna that a lot of people survive on cat canned food just reminded me of how many items are no longer affordable to those who used certain foods to survive because mainstream now finds value, here we go with exclusivity again. His mindset is indicative of how overall advantage is taken. People used to stock up on dries beans, rice canned foods because affordable and survival foods that were nutritious, can no longer stock up like that as they are and becoming out of reach for the very people who have learned to survive on it as mainstream looked down their noses. Jamie's words and his attitude speaks volumes about a lot and just it's unfortunate that majority of us have adapted such a bougie thought and become so unaware of how our attitudes actually affect other people

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    @ThierryWasserman

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    The editing is weird. Who is he talking to as they were tasting separately.

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23. 

    @magnusvn

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    i use spgetthi

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    @patrickkelly2149

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    As a chef I use a mix of "Cheap" & "premium" food Example Mayo that are cheap/vinegar use it to make Tartar sauce Making Garlic mayo or using as plan use premium

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    @sirbixalot73

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    vanilla extract needs to be tested

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26. 

    @philoctetes_wordsworth

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    13:38 I studied in France, for 2 summer semesters (2000, and 2002). I L❤️‍🔥VE a Salad Niçoise. Love. It. I learned that the French NEVER eat tuna packed in water, and they NEVER select White Albacore. It is too dry, and flavorless to qualify as food, to French people. Sorry, to catch you out. WHERE IS JAMES? He would have known this.💋💋💋

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    @philoctetes_wordsworth

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    10:36 I have been looking for those Spanish ceci. I WANT those chickpeas. I want them. I am not a spoilt person. I am not a wealthy person—that is why food means so much. I am more than willing to pay for those chickpeas at least once. I am a fair cook, and I believe I could do them Justice. I can honor the plant, by preparing and enjoying the food product. I always thank nature, and if animals are a part of the product—every one of that species, and every living 💋💋💋💋💋🇺🇸🌸thing. Life is short. Live.

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    @philoctetes_wordsworth

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    6:25 when I shop at Phoenicia (a locally owned, legacy company in houston. They carry what Anglo grocers likely do not, and they have amazing bakery/butcher departments! They are amazing!), I find I prefer the imported, Greek feta, even though the employees warn me off it. I used a pound to make an attempt at spanakopita.💋💋💋💋💋💋💐💐💐🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🇺🇸🌸

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29. 

    @philoctetes_wordsworth

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    1:46 What? What is that sound? Hahahahaaaa😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈💋💋💋💋🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🇺🇸🌸I nearly wet myself!

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30. 

    @keelieinwonderland

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    Uk vs Australian food and try to spot the difference

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    @pixiejenkins

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    Lol at Jaimie saying there was no chickpea jokes…What’s the diff tween a lentil and a chickpea? You wouldn’t pay to have a lentil on your face. 🎉

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    @manusauce2754

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I loved this challenge!
    As a greek myself i wouldn't put Epirus Feta in the premium category, was quite shocked to see the price though. I guess customs put a spicy price tag on these products.

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33. 

    @ChrisWar666

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    "have you looked[locked] in B?"…. Come on. These subtitles are yours?! Unacceptable!!!

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34. 

    @Shana2489

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I’d like to see the same dish made four times each time showcasing a different ingredient in it to see which had the biggest impact.

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    @allisonl4120

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I buy more premium peanut butters bc I prefer ones that have only peanuts and salt as their ingredients. Nothing else. And yep they¡re usually pretty oily haha.

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    @lrkemalm8547

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    I do use canned tuna but i get the one in water and not in oil and i do use the basic one

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    @impulsiveurge5837

    January 7, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    The "premium" peanut butter manilife isnt even that expensive.

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