GMMore 2396: What’s The Best Fruit Snack Flavor?

Welcome to Good Mythical More. All right, we’re gonna take these fruit snacks here, four different brands, actually three different brands. I did not know that Welch’s made a Juicefuls, never tried this. Juicefuls. We’re gonna pick a color, we’re gonna taste that color from every one of these brands, and we’re gonna put together the perfect pack of fruit snacks. But first, what are the chances we landed on Gifticality, which means we’re going to donate $1000 to our friends at the Farmlink Project. You heard about them in the main episode, but this $1000 is going to provide nearly 20,000 meals to people in need around the country, and you can join us in giving. Make those meals go even further at FarmLinkProject.org. Check ’em out. Show ’em some love. All right, so we’ve got these, and we’ve got a very special guest. Coming in all the way from Edmonton, Canada, it’s our friend Jaina. Jaina’s visiting with us. We met through Make-A-Wish. Welcome to the show. You hungry? Yeah. You like fruit snacks? I do. Scoot on up. That’s convenient. So, didn’t we determine, we were talking about how you’ve been a fan since Chia Lincoln, you watched every episode. Did we determine how old you were when you started watching us? Six or seven, I think. And here you are. Here you are, running the show. Haven’t you had enough of us yet? No. Yeah, you’re not tired? I’ll take it. I predict that I’m gonna love these Juicefuls. Grab one outta there. I’ll grab you guys some… We’re gonna start with red, so let’s get red out of every one of these. We’re gonna get red, y’know. Sure. Well, let’s… Am I missing? I’m missing one. Who didn’t give me something? Did I give you Welch’s? I gave you Welch’s. I don’t have the Black Forest. I don’t, either. The Black Forest. Okay. I was thinking, because there was three of us, we only needed three, but there’s four of those. Right. Math is not my strong suit. So let’s move these to the side, and let’s move that to the side a little bit. Let’s start with Scooby. Scooby? Now Scooby is a mystery. Hehe. Scoob! Scooby Snacks! Yellow and green, we actually, the crew called the company that makes them, and apparently they were unwilling to divulge what yellow and green are. I don’t know why that’s weird to me. But the red is cherry, and that’s Daphne, so. And the red is different than the… Is that red? I think so. The lighter one. ‘Cause there’s a purple one, too. There’s a purple one. All right, so we’re going red. Mm. Very sticky. Sticks to my teeth. You have a favorite fruit snack brand already? No. I like the bouncier fruit snacks better than the stickier one. And I think Welch’s is bouncier than a Scooby Snack. That was a good flavor. The flavor was pretty good. That was a nice, strong cherry, wouldn’t you say? Yeah. We’re going Welch’s or Juicefuls? Well I was going Black Forest, and you’ve been outvoted. Black Forest. Jaina and I are going Black Forest. So juicy, so good. Is that red? No, that’s grape. So, again, this is also cherry for Black Forest. For the Welch’s, it’s gonna be strawberry. I don’t know that I have a red one. There is no red one. Here’s more. What do you want, Black Forest? And that is… It’s cherry, right Link? It’s the one that looks like a cherry. And Black Forest has liquid-filled centers. Oh! But I did not detect… I’ma bite it in half, see if there’s a… You didn’t get that liquid? I got it. It was really intense. Don’t taunt me like that. “I got it. I’m new here and I got it.” Boy, that’s better than Scooby. Sorry, Scoobs. Yep. Yeah. Scooby tastes too medicinal. Which can happen with cherry. Now Juicefuls is Welch’s answer to Black Forest Juicy Burst. Or, is Juicy Burst Black Forest’s answer to Welch’s Juicefuls? Maybe they’re both trying to be Gushers. Yeah, oh, they’re both answering Gushers. Yeah, why do we not have Gushers? At all? Gushers are… First of all, why’s all of mine the same color? Hold on, guys. We’ve all… We gotta get the one that looks like a strawberry. A strawberry? Oh yeah, we gotta go out. They didn’t do a great job on coloring these. Oh. Yep, there’s a strawberry. There, yeah. But I can see that there’s something in there. That tastes like a Gusher. That’s got Gusher flavor. Gushers are waxy on the outside. So… Flavor-wise, though. It’s not really happening here. Is that better than a Juicy Burst? I don’t think so. I don’t know, I gotta go back, I think so. It’s hard to tell, isn’t it? Why don’t you think so? I like these ones better, I don’t know. Yeah, the Juiceful, the look is offputting. The taste… I’m just gonna start, you know, this desk is clean. Look at that, look how many of those I got in there. I mean, the guy at the factory, ’cause I know it’s just a guy, it’s not a machine. He needs to do a better job of mixing these up. So Jaina’s voting for the Black Forest, I’m voting for the Juiceful, so you need to break the tie. I can’t get a red one! There’s one. They’re both good. Hold, please. Which ones do we have in the office? We have these in our snack drawer, right? Just the classic Welch’s. I think Juicefuls is better. Is that what you thought? No, the Black Forest. You’re new to this. You’ll come around. How are we keeping track of this? Who’s putting together the perfect pack? Where is that happening? Let’s put together the perfect pack right here. So take… Could we…? So the red… Oh, yeah, and you’re just gonna put it on there, on the metrics. The red we like is the one that doesn’t even look red. That one. Boom. That’s it. All right, and here’s a little, these are so little. Why are they so little? I’m so confused at this point. What are we starting with? A strawberry Welch’s. Strawberry Welch’s. Oh yeah, we hadn’t even… We’re not done, dude. I’ll tell you right now, they’re not as good. They’re not as good. Well I can’t even open ’em. So I guess I’m gonna forfeit this round. Yeah, don’t worry about it. How do you open ’em? ‘Cause I already said it was a tiebreaker. It’s not… Don’t worry about it, man! I gotta get into it for the next round! I was told it was upside down. Let’s go to orange. Orange? Okay. Hold on, why’d you dismiss those so fast? Because we had already decided. You broke the tie prematurely before we tasted all of ’em. Okay. Orange. I’m gonna start with, ’cause I just got into these Welch’s, I’m gonna start there. Welch’s? Okay. I think that’s yellow. I’m eating two at a time. So I need another Black Forest. Black Forest is kinda stingy. With their allotments here. Huh. There’s an orange. Do you have an orange? Welch’s has a fake taste to it. Yeah. Black Forest. Is that orange? What is that? I don’t, I think that’s apple? What is this I have so many of? What is that? You know what, I’m just gonna taste all the oranges. Y’all are on your own. I can’t keep waiting for y’all. No, look, it’s lemon. Oh, it’s a lemon? Hold on, they don’t have orange. Black Forest doesn’t have orange. Yeah, Black Forest doesn’t even have orange. Doesn’t even have orange. Why are we even talking about it? I just ate an orange from a Black Forest. I guess that was… Is it enchanted? “I ate an orange from a Black Forest, and it’s the last thing I remember.” All right, so, that’s out. This is so frustrating. I need more Scooby. Here you go. Do you need more Scooby? Do you have an orange Scooby? I don’t know if there is an orange Scooby. Is there? There is an orange, it’s Velma. Why are these becoming so hard to open? What we’re gonna do is while you guys are working on this color, we’re gonna behind the scenes prepare a plate of purples for you. There’s an orange. So you don’t have to do that. Is this thing on? Yeah, I heard you. I need scissors. I’m already gonna… I wanna just go to purple. I can’t even wait. See, that one’s a trick one, see? I keep getting the trick ones. Oh, there we go. Okay, what are we tasting? Orange? Orange. Oh. There’s two right there, you want one of those? I had one already. Is this an orange? Nope, that was a lemon. Those ones are actually pretty good. The taste is good, but… It’s sticky. I agree with Link about the stickiness. Welch’s Juicefuls… I really like Welch’s Juicefuls. Who knew, right? Guys, I’m not eating any more Scoobs. They’re too sticky. Just wanna eliminate those altogether? I’m eliminating ’em entirely. Scooby Snacks not even in the running anymore. And you guys already had Welch’s. To me, the clear winner here for orange- I think the Juicefuls. Is Juicefuls. But I don’t have one, ’cause I ate it. Oh, there’s one. So Juicefuls is two for two, according to me and Link. I mean, Jaina kinda agreed on that one. And I don’t… So, okay. All right. So now we’re going for purple, which is my jam. Look how many there are in there. I’m going for a purple Welch’s. Oh. Okay. Welch’s are just too small. They’re for kids. Well… we have ’em in our snack drawer. I gotta eat one just because. Where the Welch’s at? The Welch’s Juiceful are a lot bigger. There we go. There’s some. Mm. That’s tasty. That’s your Juiceful. I mean, you have plenty of ’em. And so I’m really comparing the Black Forest. Hm. You think Welch’s would get grapes right. But they did get Juicefuls right. Yeah. What about Shaggy, though? I don’t think you can just rule out Shaggy. Well you’re on your own again. This is a tough call. Black Forest. They got their colors right. Tastes like licorice. Shaggy tastes like licorice. Meaning you like it? I don’t think so. Black Forest. Oh, I liked it. I think this is the one that Black Forest is giving a run for their money. Ooh. Black Forest is good. Did you have Black Forest yet? But the Welch’s Juiceful. Oh, gosh. When I eat gummy bears, whatever these are. I’m with Jaina on this, that’s two out of three. Fruit snacks, it makes me grind my teeth. This is a hard job, isn’t it Jaina? Do you see how hard our job is? Like we have to think real hard about snacks. Now here’s the thing, Black Forest yellow is lemon, but for Welch’s, it’s white grape. But we don’t know what it is for Scooby. And we’ve disqualified them. I… Sorry, can you tell us what you chose for the purple? Welch’s. We’re still on Welch’s Juiceful. Black Forest. Oh, why are you putting ’em…? Welch’s Black Forest, got it. No, we picked Black Forest. Why are you putting ’em here? Put ’em on the thing so we know what they are. What is this? Those are both Juicefuls. These are both Juicefuls. Do that. We’ll get there. We’re just figuring things out. Listen, if you need me to taste gummies with you, I am just right over here. That’ll only make it- But until then, I’m not gonna say anything else. More complicated. Ooh! The Juicefuls peach! Do you want that yellow one? Peach? The Juicefuls peach is so nice! Oh, it’s white grape peach. I didn’t even read that. Get some more, right there. I already ate one, but I want another one. There we go. Juicefuls, y’know, they really were willing to make a sacrifice on the flavor, I mean on the color to make the flavor. I mean, you can take that extra one back to Stevie, ’cause she really wants it. Mm, that’s a good one. You’re giving me the ones that you touched? No, no. Tell me that’s not one of the best gummies you’ve ever put in your mouth. White grape peach Juiceful, good gosh. Oh, it’s a peach? Yeah. It’s a- Y’know, I’m not really a peach- It’s a white grape peach! You know, the grape peach. Fine. These packs are so small, I’m just tempted to put all of ’em in my mouth. That’s what I do. I never taste the individual flavors. You’re eating a white grape peach Juiceful. I can tell by your mouth. It is really good. Is it not great? We kinda needed that one, in order to put it on here. Here’s one. All right, now we’re on the wild card. All right, so, for Welch’s, this is the pink one. And it’s a white grape raspberry. The pink one? The pink one. Is there a pink? Isn’t the pink one strawberry? This one? No, the red one is strawberry, and the pink one… It’s so hard to figure out which is which. That was good, I don’t know what it was. Oh. That’s what all those are. Would you like one? Okay. White grape raspberry. It tastes like there’s a powder inside of a Welch’s. You know what I’m saying? I think it’s on the outside so they don’t stick together. Right, but I feel like I can taste it. Mm-hm. I can taste the anti-caking agent. Or whatever you call it. All right, on Juiceful, the pink one is white grape raspberry. What does that look like? So that’s a strawberry, that’s a… Grape. All I’ve got’s the strawberries. KG, where’s the next one? What would be a raspberry? What is that? We need white grape raspberry from Welch’s Juicefuls. You see, this- Is that what this is? You see how complex this is? I mean- It’s partially my fault. I was kidding. I’m good on the gummies. That one is really good, though. This is like trying to figure out… This is one of the most complex things happening on the internet today. The Mythical Crew, Silaine and Davante specifically, spent like an entire day cracking this format. And did they say that Welch’s Juicefuls are by far the best? They didn’t even taste ’em! They just were like splitting up colors, calling Scooby Doo. It was a lot. This one’s not as good. You’re right, it’s not. It’s too fakey, it’s not as good. It’s not as good as the… Oh, we gotta go Black Forest Juicy Burst apple green. Yeah, ’cause they’re the only one that has a green apple- Well the Scooby one has a green. Yeah, but- There it is. That’s a green apple. Do they have a green? Oh yeah, but we don’t know what it is. Well, that’s okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah! I got green apples over here if y’all want ’em. Ooh. That one’s good. That’s a green apple? Yeah. It is so good. Doesn’t look green, but it tastes like a green apple. You can tell it’s an apple by looking at it. Yeah. There we go. Here’s some more. I feel like that wild card takes it home. Yep. You gotta taste the blue Scooby, though. The Scooby ones all taste the same. Scooby failed. And they stick to you way too much. I already put it there, Link. You don’t need that. You can eat it. You eat it. And this one. We don’t need that. Jaina, you eat it. Okay. So. What we found. It wasn’t easy. Is that the Welch’s Juicefuls are a real winner. You gotta get these things. And the Black Forest Juicy Burst is not far behind, I mean, first of all, if you don’t put juice in the center, we don’t like it. Yeah, once you go juice, you never go back. That can be done, that technology has been cracked, and now we should never go back to solid juices. I think it’s syringes. Yeah. There’s a guy. Krk. He’s right next to the guy that decides what goes in what bag. Krk. He’s a krk guy, and then there’s a sort guy. It really does seem like these could, you should just buy vitamins. If you’re gonna eat this many fruit snacks, they need to be vitamins, too. Jaina, could you kinda give a disclaimer to the people that it is not advisable to eat vitamins as your source of gummies. Just make it sound very official, and Canadian. I don’t know, I did that one time accidentally. Oh, come on! We do not, us Canadians do not advise you people from the rest of the world to eat vitamins as if they are gummies. It’s a bad thing to do. What if- What if the gummies are vitamins, though? Like they make vitamin gummies. That’s what I was saying. You can’t do that, though! They’re vitamins, it’ll make you poop for days. Oh, if you eat that many? Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I think they should distribute the vitamin content over the course of a pack. If I had the number of vitamins that I’ve had gummies right now, I’d already be in a bathroom. But I’d be healthy. Your pee would be like a weird neon color. Yeah, right. I’d paint with it. It seems like you’re making an argument for it. I’d go down to LACMA. Well, if it was one pack is the quantity of one vitamin. Right. You pee on a canvas from Kirkland’s, with the right kind of pee, you can get in LACMA. They’ll let anybody in these days. Jaina, thanks for joining us, and helping us come up with the definitive pack, which is three Welch’s juices, and then two Black Forest. Take that back with you on the plane, just like that. Okay. Check out how your favorite fruit snacks and fruit roll-ups rank over on Sporked.com.

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