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180: Taste Test 2 - Protein Snack Review
Ever wondered what regular food packed with protein tastes like? Join us as we embark on an adventure into the world of protein alternatives!
We dove headfirst into taste testing an array of protein-packed snacks and drinks. From tortilla chips to protein water, from savory to sweet, no protein snack is left unturned as we rank them on the internet’s power scale from S to F.
We also explore our favorite high-protein treats, giving special praise to one standout product, which we unanimously deem an S tier snack. Finally, we brainstorm fun branding ideas for our own snack creations, sharing our personal favorites and sparking a lively debate on the best protein-rich munchies out there.
this is well, basically with your host, mike de silva, and sam weeks on today's episode.
Speaker 2:We went out into the wild world just for you to find normal food, yes, those things you normally eat and enjoy, but with the added benefit of being protein at the same time. We tried chips, we tried cookies, we tried water, if you'd believe it. To give you insight into what these protein alternatives slash healthy alternatives with a question mark might taste like. We ranked them on the internet's greatest power scale S A, b, c, d and F. There's no E.
Speaker 1:No E.
Speaker 2:No E we hope you enjoyed today's show. This is Well.
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Speaker 1:Quite a big man.
Speaker 2:Calling Andrew. I can't say that, can I A little poof? Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1:You're in good company.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is a mostly gay room, so you are actually the minority in here, sam, so you can sling Whatever insults you want.
Speaker 1:What straight slur Do you have for me, though, breeder?
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, it's good, I like that one. Wow, is that a thing? Do you guys call us that behind our yeah all the time?
Speaker 1:oh, a hundred percent on every uh gay alt-right message board that I message on if you want to find an entry, that's where you're find him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gay, only. I'll try. I think that's probably the majority of our listeners now. Republican gays yeah, they love Trump. Yeah, it really makes no sense. Oh, we could talk about that at the front. Did you see the thing I sent you? What's going to happen if the things that he's trying to oh?
Speaker 1:I don't know, we don't touch politics really, do we? But also we three can't possibly touch politics and we also don't live in america, yeah, and also. I'm just a little sick of both sides being like it's the end of the world if we get some geriatric loser I feel like the end of the world happens yeah, I think it's a month I think it's happened already. We're just on the slow decline now from that decision that was made. It's probably Reagan era. Someone made a bad decision then and it's just been a slow decline.
Speaker 2:Definitely it wasn't his era. The whole war on drugs thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they should have let drugs be free and legal.
Speaker 2:There's a lot going on. He also kind of just pretended AIDS didn't exist for a while. Yeah, Not a great dude actually thinking about it, Was he a good?
Speaker 1:actor, one of the worst. Oh yeah, he was a really good actor. Well, that's all that matters, yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that? That's just like? Honestly, I'm not that clued up on American history. Is it Reagan the Watergate thing, or is that?
Speaker 1:Nixon. No, that's Nixon, yeah.
Speaker 2:He was also quite bad. It's to do with documents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, I don't know enough about that. What I do know life update.
Speaker 2:I think he wanted a sound effect. Are we going to do an episode on this, Andrew, or are you going to share?
Speaker 1:No, I'm just going to.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to share it because it's going to be happening every single, and I inevitably fail.
Speaker 1:You can hear about that on this podcast as well. I stopped vaping.
Speaker 2:Wow, isn't that exciting. Good job.
Speaker 1:And then I immediately.
Speaker 2:Give him a round of applause, please, oopsie.
Speaker 1:Oh God, there I go yeah. I stopped vaping and then immediately got so incredibly sick, and it's obviously unrelated, but in my mind it's God punishing me. So what I have to say, my lesson learned in one week, one week of no vaping is keep vaping, actually, okay I'm gonna continue. I'm gonna continue stopping, but you, the listener, should keep continue. Stopping is messing me up I'm gonna continue stopping the vape. Yeah, stop the vapes.
Speaker 2:Can you continue stopping, as Trump said? Stop the vapes.
Speaker 1:I don't know that. Dutton said it Stop the vapes. They're letting too many vapes in from these other countries.
Speaker 2:It's true, though that's what they are stopping, indeed. Okay, what music should we play to start? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I reckon circus music. Oh my God, kesha's new song, I've already clicked something, sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, that's Aretha Franklin the queen. It's my favorite Aretha Franklin, deep cut actually.
Speaker 1:Do you know this one?
Speaker 2:Mikey, you're both an Arerethra fan. I mean urethra fan. I love urethra. Welcome, welcome, welcome, episode 180. Holy hell, 200 is creeping up. What are we going to do for 200?
Speaker 1:It's our OnlyFans episode.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going to be sucking and fucking for 45 minutes. Okay, I don't think I can participate.
Speaker 1:It's a shame I only get one vote in what happens in the 200. Okay, how about you just do that to yourself.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah good, I'll get my ribs removed.
Speaker 1:Andrew's really working hard for the podcast this week.
Speaker 2:You could do it as an ASMR episode. Oh yeah, yeah, just a little Actually, maybe. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1:No, I don't, we're going to put it behind a paywall.
Speaker 2:Stop it. It's too much. You've given it away.
Speaker 1:Welcome to first time listeners.
Speaker 2:Second time listeners, third, fourth, fifth you guys who listen every week, we like you quite a lot. Some might even say love. What do you love, Mikey Snake? Wow, we won't get to it yet, but it's very relevant to this week.
Speaker 1:You're a very lucky lad to say that, yeah, very.
Speaker 2:Took me a while to get to it, though, yeah, it did. Took me a while to get to it, though, yeah, dude, you did a bit of a sumptuous sigh beforehand. I'm here, mikey's here. Andrew is here. Yes, he's not in the intro yet because we've been shit. Nah, I'm just going to say it, I've been shit. He's going to be on this soon. We just need to find someone.
Speaker 1:There's no rush. The key is my voice is here. That Rush the key is.
Speaker 2:my voice is here. That is the key. Aretha, can we get AI to get Aretha to do the intro? I think we could get in trouble for that. Nah, she doesn't mind. She doesn't mind.
Speaker 1:Chat. Tpt got in a lot of trouble for doing this. Is Aretha dead?
Speaker 2:She did, yeah, but she's got a whole family who own all this shit now who won't be happy about that. Let's get Scar I think we should get Vladimir Putin personally. Oh yeah, that's good. There's a trade embargo, though I don't know, we might get done for terrorism.
Speaker 1:What's it called when you try to take down a government?
Speaker 2:A revolution Civil rights at this late stage. Treason, treason, oh yeah, that's what they call it on pirate ships. You've been playing your pirate game too much.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:No, playing your pirate game too much. Oh my god. No, that's not. It's not called trees. No, what is it on a pirate ship? It's um mutiny.
Speaker 1:That's it same thing I've been yo-ho-hoing on the pirate seas, in the sea of thieves. I didn't know how fun it was. But you can do whatever you want walk the plank or batten down the hatches. I don't know what those mean, but I'm doing it. Do you know your port style bit and all that? Yeah, but I already knew that. I'd like to say I was a scout, were you? Yeah, wow, I was a little loser, little three fingers in the air.
Speaker 2:You're still doing that. You're just going somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a purpose, it's a tighter three fingers.
Speaker 2:Oh, very good. Anything else from anybody this week? Anything exciting. I've been living at a nightclub every weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh, amazing, that's just me which nightclub Chinese Laundry just opened.
Speaker 2:Very fun Enjoying it. A lot Re-opened. Yes.
Speaker 1:Chinese Laundry is a classic Sydney club, I would say one of the most famously dirty clubs.
Speaker 2:Oh, they've cleaned it up. It looks great.
Speaker 1:They've done a great job way back in the day. They were, uh, where you go for like a quick and dirty night. You know quick and dirty but I've been there. I've been there with you the other weekend you did andrew's been fantastic, it was great.
Speaker 2:What a good time. And also we left at like, we didn't leave too late yeah, like 1, 30, 2 o'clock yeah, I was there till four both nights last weekend.
Speaker 1:I was relatively so city bikes. Home in an absolute panic after that night because I was toasted, I had just I drunk so much, yeah, and then I was on the streets. But the city bikes have, like the um, the battery in them, so the engine that also helps push you along. And so I did one push to try to get into an intersection and I was just straight through the intersection. Oh my god but.
Speaker 1:I was also so drunk I didn't care. I was like the cars will move out of the way for me, and Lord did they.
Speaker 2:I got through the second stage of my job.
Speaker 1:Oh, congratulations.
Speaker 2:Next one tomorrow morning. So you did a fake one, right? Was that how it worked. I did a like a role play Sexy.
Speaker 1:That's not what I ended with. That's what you end with Most people.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I did pretty well.
Speaker 1:That's great. I was over and done within 11 minutes.
Speaker 2:They gave me half an hour and I was like, don't even need that Wow.
Speaker 1:So what's tomorrow's stage?
Speaker 2:Tomorrow's with the club manager and the regional manager. Wow, that's even sexier. Three of you Crazy. Free some foreplay? Well, I do. Sorry for another time.
Speaker 1:Get the job first. Get the job first. Okay, retracting that Next topic, moving right on.
Speaker 2:Should we move on to what the topic actually?
Speaker 1:is for today. Oh, yeah, please.
Speaker 2:Now, we had such good feedback from our protein bar. Everyone loved to hear us eat and review food, and we really enjoyed it. It was a hoot. So we have selected an array of food that's normal food, just regular people food. Regular people food, but it's protein. I've just packed it full of protein Protein.
Speaker 2:So we've got some various snacks. We'll describe them as we go through. We will rank them on the internet's standard tier list, s being the top, a, b, c and then, if we feel like going lower because it's really bad, we could go all the way down to z if we like to. We've got all the letters in the rainbow, that's true. What does the s stand for? Superior, super, super, super, super Salacious. Yeah, a stands for I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think that was just normal. Amazing, amazing, b is best, c is cute, cute, d is C is cunty. Okay, sure, d is dick.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, yeah, all right Okay dick to the snack.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, yeah, all right. Okay, so I'm not sure how you guys want to start.
Speaker 1:I think regular sounding ones, just like the normal, what you might find a protein maybe not even protein Cause.
Speaker 2:like I mean these are, I reckon we start savoury, because that makes sense. Let's treat this like a fine dining experience where we start savoury and then with dessert yeah, and where we start savoury and then end with dessert, yeah, and then maybe we'll have a drink or two on the way, maybe in the middle, because these, I imagine, are quite salty as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so the starter category. I went into the supermarket and picked a bunch of stuff. That is normal, and we have chips. So everyone loves a Pringle, everyone loves a Nacho. Are you guys called them Nachos here? Nachos, nachos, nach. Yeah, nachos, nachos, nachos, nachos. That's right. Everyone loves twisties, rations of that kind. So I thought I'd get a selection of chips that have the. It might be a benefit we're not sure yet of added protein. Let's start with what about?
Speaker 2:I reckon these would be good to start so right here we have Quest Tortilla Style Protein Chips chips, and these are ranch flavor. Now I actually was looking at my receipt before and you know how it says two for six and it says uh, I actually I didn't get. I didn't get two, but I scanned it twice, so this cost me double as much as what that was supposed to cost. What twelve dollars, yeah it, yeah, $12 for the one. So these are probably the most expensive chips I've bought in my entire life, but we'll give them a go. Andrew, why don't you go first?
Speaker 1:Thank you, so much Talk about how they look, tell me, to start off, they look like a really sad Dorito. They do look like a really skinny. They're very pallid like sickly color, but that's what you'd expect from like a ranch chip, it's like a yellowy green, you know.
Speaker 2:It looks like a Dorito. Okay, who's going to go first?
Speaker 1:I'm going to chew first, are you?
Speaker 2:ready. Yeah, andrew, you go first. Wow, that's good. Don't do that again. That hurt my ears.
Speaker 1:That tastes how you'd expect. The texture A little sandier than I would have thought. You know I feel like used to getting nice Doritos. It's got a little less hold.
Speaker 2:It tastes similar to one of the fake chips. You know how they do baked chips now. Oh yeah, it does taste like that. I'm guessing that's probably what they've done in order to keep the calories down, because that's what these foods are all about. That's not bad, but if we're looking at quantity for $12, which is what I think- that is pass all trips.
Speaker 1:So it's 32 grams for the whole pack of chips, which is, I would say, standard, like one serve of chips if you're like for for a little snack. But it is 19 grams of protein in these chips. It's more than 50% protein. How do they do that?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I don't know. Four grams of carbs, what ingredients? Scott's probably got the longest ingredients list, yet it's very long. Is there anything recognisable in there? Protein blend Protein, isolate whey protein yeah, most of it's like kind of Psyllium husk, so that'll be like the binder. That's something that, if you so be warned with most Queer's products. They are full of fibre.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're going to be shitting tonight, not Queer's, queer's.
Speaker 2:Okay, queer protein, queer protein. So yeah, if you have a lot of this, you might be blocked up, or sometimes the opposite can happen, which is also really, really fun Exciting.
Speaker 1:Well, those were tasty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I didn't mind those. Should we move on to our next? What ranking are we going to give?
Speaker 1:it. That's an easy A for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I reckon it's an A. Can I take into account price? Yes, $6 is the real price. Yeah, $6. I'm going to go B.
Speaker 1:B, I think that's fair. We can mix it into a, b, okay.
Speaker 2:Cool, so we should move on to our next chip. Yeah, these ones feel quite heavy. Yeah, that looks like you get more bang for your buck.
Speaker 1:How much were they? Andrew, you purchased these, the Muscle Nation. Why don't you read up?
Speaker 2:the Muscle Nation Protein Puffs and I got the Salt and Vegetable Flavor because that is the best flavor of chip.
Speaker 1:Is it Muscle Nation Sparkle?
Speaker 2:No, that's Sparkling. Try to find Protein Puffs. Maybe I didn't scan these. I don't think you did scan them. These are half price.
Speaker 1:But we don't have the full price. I think now I'm going to add in the price here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Muscle Nation Protein Puffs cost $4.80.
Speaker 1:You just heard the price.
Speaker 2:Okay, good, Nice. Wow, good editing, Andrew. Thanks so much. Okay, who's going to go first? I've actually had these before.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm going to crack it? I think so. I think I've you should try these they look and feel like little cocktail wieners.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do Like made of bread. I was going to say rabbit food. I was going to say rabbit shit elongated Like, if you look in, that this is tasty.
Speaker 1:Really. Oh yeah, it does not taste like salt and vinegar, it tastes like only vinegar. Wow, okay, delicious. That's a smoker's delight, that dish, for sure.
Speaker 2:Wow, I feel like if you Hold on, I appreciated the tang, but it was mostly just the tang. It's a lot of tang. Texturally not bad. I would prefer the texture over these two.
Speaker 1:That's so vinegary. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:I feel like if'd eat, eat a lot of these you, the roof of your mouth just might slowly start to burn away.
Speaker 1:It's slow off I mean they're good. It tastes kind of nutty as well. I'm getting the background. I don't think they're that nutty.
Speaker 2:I would disagree with you on that the aftertaste is quite nutty to me.
Speaker 1:Nutty we're crazy. Uh, these are 60 grams in in total, 17.4 grams of protein in the pack. So about a third, a little bit less than a third.
Speaker 2:So they're like twice the amount of chip in terms of weight. Twice the amount of chip Of the Quest ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but less protein, and they were cheaper.
Speaker 2:They were cheaper. That's an Australian company, I think. More puff and more vinegar, more puff. You want more puff?
Speaker 1:I'm going to have one more actually I Do you want more before? I'm going to have one more. Actually, those are quite nice.
Speaker 2:I just really like the absinthe.
Speaker 1:It's a real you've got to want a strong flavor for this Because it's, you know, something like the chips you get from Smith's. It's like a good mix of salt and vinegar.
Speaker 2:This one. It's like pouring just a little bit of vinegar straight into your mouth, yeah, but then it tapers off into like a little bit of a protein background, tricking you into thinking it's good. But then it's like not quite all the way there in terms of oh, my god, andrew got a really vinegary one. So vinegary, okay, delicious, cool, so that's. I mean, those are pretty good. Are we going to tier those up?
Speaker 1:For me they're probably about on par with the ranch ones. Yeah, they were cheaper. They were definitely cheaper. We can bump it up to eight then.
Speaker 2:Because of the price, I'm going to have them on par.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nice, all right, these were the cheapest. This next, I didn't give my rating. I'm going to say well, you guys have. Really, I feel like I'm being brainwashed. I really liked those before, but you've tricked me, maybe I put them. No, I like them more than that. I like them more than quest. I think we're going A for that one. What's this next one? These are Arnott's.
Speaker 1:Snack Right, it's All Good. Plus Protein Cracker Puffs, honey, barbecue, sauced Protein Flavoured Chips. Wow, incredible, that's a real catchy name.
Speaker 2:That's an entire picnic. Now, of all of the chips we've selected. These came in individual packets, but they were like four to five packs. How much was it?
Speaker 1:It was $4.20. Okay, that can't be right. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. They're on smack ride.
Speaker 2:They're like 50 off and also the net of all of it's like 100 grams. So that's for five little packies like this so it's 20 grams a pack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, that's equivalent to the other two as well. That's a really good price. I will say, though, 80, 84 cents not a lot of protein in these.
Speaker 2:It's kind of these might be the best oh is it 100 grams in total of weight? Yeah, 100 grams of weight, and it's how many grams of protein per bag? Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:Five grams of protein per serve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, five grams.
Speaker 1:Well, if you treat, it as one whole unit and you eat the entire box on your own as your protein sack, true, true. You'll get yourself 20 grams 20 grams for 500 calories. It's true baby, take us away, sammy. Yeah, I'm going to try these.
Speaker 2:first Looks like a twisty.
Speaker 1:Sort of yeah, what's the aesthetic? It looks also like a cocktail. It's very corny, corny, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It looks almost hollow. It's like a puffed corn type deal. Oh yeah, it looks almost hollow. It's like a puffed corn type deal, oh no. And also close to what you use to pack around goods when you send them back to the store, 100%.
Speaker 1:The flavour, the texture.
Speaker 2:It's not quite crispy enough. Wait, let's check the use by date, because these 801 2025 no, this should be. I need to go again, okay, yeah I don't like them.
Speaker 1:I don't appreciate that snack at all. Wow, what an uh. I don't even I can't describe the flavor. It's like that, you know, when you cook with soy or you eat soy and then your breath tastes like soy afterwards, but it's not the taste of soy, it's like the breath flavor of soy. That's what I'm getting from it.
Speaker 2:It's kind of that one I just had was void of flavor. There's a little bit of sweetness and then not much flavor. Yeah, these are kind of trash. Hey, I'm putting these, that's a d yeah, it's, it's a d. I do like a savory snack. Yeah, I know, but like the other two savory snacks we had before was so much better.
Speaker 1:It's got no flavor. You're like, yep, savory, it tastes like nothing, savory snack.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess like nothing would be. Like nothing is closer to savory than it is to sweet, would you guys agree? I'm going to go.
Speaker 1:C, c, wow, oh no, we're going to get stuck in the sweet and savory debate again.
Speaker 2:No, but if it's closer to nothing, it's got to be savory. What water would you say? Is that sweet or savory? I don't want to. Ah, fuck.
Speaker 1:No, say the Maya, we're going to get bogged down here.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't know, I don't know Speaking of water. Oh yeah, we're getting into the-.
Speaker 1:Let's get into water, let's do one of the drinks.
Speaker 2:Are we cleansing our palate with the beverage?
Speaker 1:Because I want to do the sparkling glass that feels like an end of the news.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, so you know how you usually drink water Just like as water. What They've decided they would add protein into water. So what are we drinking, andrew?
Speaker 1:So this is Body Zed protein water.
Speaker 2:It's 30 grams of it's whey protein isolate? No, but it's Body Zed. Oh my God, you gave Mike a lot. No, but it's bodyz. Oh my God, you gave Mike a lot. You got to drink all of that dude, Sweet Jesus. One sip's enough, thank you.
Speaker 1:This is citrus punch flavored. I'm going to sniff it.
Speaker 2:Citrus punch. Oh my God, I'm going to Okay. It kind of smells like a vodka cruiser.
Speaker 1:Whey protein. It's 30 grams in this bottle with the aftertaste $5.50.
Speaker 2:Milky did you say? I don't want to drink milky. It's tangy and milky without being milky. It's like watered down yogurt is what it tastes like. Yeah, that's a good description. That's like strawberry yogurt that you mix to no, but like the end is yogurty. Yeah, you look at it and you think I should be drinking yogurt. Yeah, that tastes like a yogurt drink. I would say that's almost as far from water as you can get.
Speaker 1:No, for me that's very watery Really.
Speaker 2:I mean it's not water, but it's not.
Speaker 1:I can see the yogurt a little bit in there.
Speaker 2:The fact that you can see the liquid in that. It's clear it's tricking you. That tastes like a yogurt drink to me. It was really tasty. I like that. It's fine, it's not out of this world, is it?
Speaker 1:It's not like, yum, delicious, the things it sells itself on. It's got a four in one. Can you guess the four in one? The first is whey protein isolate, of course, classic. The next one is rehydration. That's just the water, babe.
Speaker 2:It's got water in it.
Speaker 1:Liquid is going to rehydrate you it could have electrolytes, vitamins is the next one, which, again, most things have some kind of vitamin, and the last one is BCAA. Oh yeah, what's that?
Speaker 2:But usually that's in the protein, so unless they've added stuff on top of it- what does BCAA do? Branched chain amino acids. Really they, really they don't do a lot If you're getting enough protein, bcaas. So it's kind of weird that they have mentioned protein and BCAAs, because if you're getting enough protein throughout the day, bcaas are completely irrelevant.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean they mentioned rehydration on a water product.
Speaker 2:So I think they're really grasping. It's true, they've pulled themselves together for this one.
Speaker 1:I like that. Okay, I'd probably put that at a, b, all right, but how do you two feel? Because you two, I don't think, liked it that much. I'm going.
Speaker 2:C. I'm going. C. It's fine, c's fair. I'm not going to go rushing back to the supermarket. I've had that once before and I was like whatever For 30 grams of protein, though that's pretty good, I feel like also. Oh my God, guys, it's time for dessert. Some sweeties, mikey, would you like to pick one out? Yeah, you can choose. Oh, yes, can we start with the Musashi, because I feel like that's going to be the worst, the worst. Well, it was the worst. Protein bar.
Speaker 1:But also according to my-. It was a good protein bar, but it was just crazy expensive.
Speaker 2:No, no, it was a 45 gram one. Remember it would taste like jib board. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, okay, that's out. It looks repulsive. Do you guys want to take a look at that and we can start breaking down? Actually, you read out this, I'll read out this. You start snacking on that.
Speaker 2:Misashi protein cookie. 15 grams of protein in it and I believe it cost $4. That's pretty close $3.15. It was on sale.
Speaker 1:How many grams of protein? Did you say 15. And 58 grams as total? I think I like this.
Speaker 2:You like this. I think I like it Now because the theme is real food. If you were to buy a conventional cookie, how would it compare? Oh, fuck, no.
Speaker 1:Put it in the oven for a little longer massage it.
Speaker 2:I kind of like the soft texture, Some vanilla undertones there. I don't mind the soft texture either.
Speaker 1:It just yeah. If I got this as a regular person's cookie, I'd be a little upset. What if your mum made it? I would give her a little kiss the best cookie I've ever had.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, mama it doesn't have as much of that kind of putrid after it's not bad as far as trying to replicate a cookie, but really if you're trying to like it, like I feel like, unless the other one, because we've got two more cookies to get to, unless the other two really like, nah, I think it's impossible.
Speaker 1:The flavour good, that's a nice chocolate chip flavour. I think it's got a nice little like vanilla undertone or whatever.
Speaker 2:What is this? Bird shit on the top of it it's got like a little miniature version of a more cooked cookie. You're not going to get that texture right, because a part of a cookie's texture is that sugar and butter, butter yeah situation and how you mix it. I bet, do they even put butter in this? I think there's no butter in it.
Speaker 2:Let's see maybe like butter, butter flavoring, I think, even the types oh my god, there's way too many ingredients. Concentrated monk fruit juice, that's the sweet, now humectant whenever I see that on, I'm like what even is that? It's glycerol, what's?
Speaker 1:glycerol. Are you going back for more Body Z? Yeah, I want more of this Body Z.
Speaker 2:Wow, andrew's really digging on it.
Speaker 1:There's a dot on it. Body Z. I need to cleanse my palate after that weird cookie.
Speaker 2:It's got a baby cookie inside it. Should we take a break from cookies for just a moment?
Speaker 1:That Just a moment that gets worse with time. I think that Body Z yeah, I told you it's not streaming that number down.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's the combination of cookie and body. Okay, let's mix it up because we've got four sweet treats. We should go cookie, not cookie cookie not cookie, cookie.
Speaker 1:We've got what looks like a Kit Kat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, you can't say that, because they'll get in trouble. They will get in trouble. This is the Atkins Chocolate Break, which looks to me pretty close to a Kit Kat, but it's only got 2.6 grams of carbohydrates and it's even got fiber in it.
Speaker 1:Wow, crazy. I love Atkins branded stuff because Atkins feels very retro it does?
Speaker 2:It does because he died of heart disease, didn't he?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did. Did he set up his weight loss business before he died?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and they're still making products. They're still killing it. Okay, um, I'm gonna put my microphone down to divvy this up. Andrew, can you give us the cost of this product? We?
Speaker 1:can do exactly that. So it is the atkins low carb. It's called indulge. That's very cute, must be in the indulge range. Um, it's got 2.6 grams of carbs, 1, 1.4 grams of sugar. Where's the protein, though?
Speaker 2:I'm going to be honest this one doesn't have protein, but it's health.
Speaker 1:That's a substitute for what you'd usually get. Atkins Indulge three pack, so this is a three pack in here. I see Is $3.90.
Speaker 2:Not bad, probably comparative to a Three little snackies. That's like Is $3.90. Not bad, probably comparative to a Three little snackies. But that's like a normal Kit Kat. But actually you can sometimes get like Kit Kats for a dollar. I mean it kind of just takes like a cheap version of a Kit Kat. Yeah, it does. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I'm still eating. Sorry, I'm still eating. It tastes like a Kit Kat, but someone's just blended a whole bunch of newspaper into it.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, nice, nice, which is how a lot of diet foods end up, I think. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1:What's that apple bar that Homer eats in the Simpsons where he climbs a mountain and it just turns out it's like apple cores and Chinese newspapers. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what I'm getting from atkins here I don't think it's that bad power bar. I think no, I think it's better than that and just I don't know what the inside's made of it's repulsive that tastes like a good coach man.
Speaker 2:I eat a lot of kick-ass?
Speaker 1:yeah, but they're just given for free. At work I eat a lot of kick-ass. Have the, have the you get free kick-ass at work?
Speaker 2:yeah, but they're given for free at work. I eat a lot of Kit Kats. You get free Kit Kats at work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they're all snack sized, so you've got to be a big heifer and take a whole bunch with you when you go, because one little snack Kit Kat's never enough. That's true. Yeah, not a fan.
Speaker 2:Okay, where are we putting that one? Also, very careful with Atkins products Full of sugar alcohols. What? Very careful with Atkins products Full of sugar alcohols. What are sugar alcohols? The things that they use to sweeten the food. That has next to no calories, okay, but they make your bum go big time. So if you eat like, some people react to these very, very differently and most of these products that are sweet will have this in them. Like I said about the Cuesta, but the sugar alcohols in particular can really mess you up.
Speaker 2:You know what I've told this story on here and I feel like I've told it twice and I'm not going to tell it again.
Speaker 1:It works on both sides, I think having something that's going to give you the squirts, because it'll just make sure that you lose those extra bits of water weight that you hold on to. Oh, have your little diet and then you can lose all that water weight by sitting, sweating and draining yourself on the toilet okay, so what tier?
Speaker 2:where are we putting that? I'm gonna put it in a b yeah, I'm gonna be too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's split the difference. I want to go d, so maybe we'll go c for it okay, all right, let's see overall.
Speaker 2:See overall. Okay, well, we obviously need to cleanse our palates after that one. Oh yeah, refreshing. So when you sit down at a fine restaurant and they ask you do you want tap water or sparkling, what do you say?
Speaker 2:I say sparkling, of course, but wouldn't it be great if they threw some protein in there, would it? I always ask and I've never received. But now my dream has become a reality and we have Muscle Nation sparkling protein water, zero sugar sugar, 11 grams of protein, clear protein drink, citrus crush flavor. So it would go really well with a fish I was gonna try to hold your mic there yeah, a nice fish pairing.
Speaker 2:Uh, this is a delicious five dollars for a can of drink yeah, my god, these these were not on special but I was like I've got to get that because that's wild, he's hoeing in.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow. It looks lovely. It looks like a sparkling drink. It's got a little bit of.
Speaker 2:I bet someone was like sparkling. What did you?
Speaker 1:say Citrus party, citrus crush, citrus crush. It smells like what you would expect, a little kind of lemony. It smells good Lemony confection.
Speaker 2:It starts good finishes poorly on the palate.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what?
Speaker 2:Very sweet.
Speaker 1:Extremely like the farthest from water you could get. This is like lemonade. Yeah, Wow A slightly medicated lemonade.
Speaker 2:I actually I quite like that. We were talking about it before.
Speaker 1:But if you compare it to any lemon sparkling water, would you choose this?
Speaker 2:No, it's too sweet. Yeah, yeah, kind of medicated.
Speaker 1:I'd get that again.
Speaker 2:It would go really well with some tequila. I'd mix it with tequila.
Speaker 1:That's problem behaviour.
Speaker 2:That's a real, real like call the hospital, I'm the future you get so buff from having you just have.
Speaker 1:We'll have swell parties where it's like all the snacks based off all this stuff oh my god, that's what we should do for our 200 how much of this shit we can leave but eat before it.
Speaker 1:Like we actually have to leave the room because we're dying from gas inhalation yeah, what we do is we go to someone else's party and we see how many of their snacks and drinks, so we can replace out with these things oh, you just swap everything, go to a dinner party and make everything healthy um, uh, not terrible. I'm putting that I'm going b. Yeah, I drink that again I'm happy for a b for that. It's a B for me too.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:We've got no S's yet, I will say yeah, I know we don't have to have an S, we don't, we don't have to, but we just want to keep that in mind. I'm quite scared for the other water that we have. The flavour of that is also completely vegan.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 1:I like a little vegan Extra bad is what that usually means yeah, no taste. I mean already Much quicker than the other one. That looks like an artist's interpretation. It's an AI interpretation of a cookie. Is what we're looking at here, it's 16 grams of protein per cookie and it's $5, which is a hefty price for a cookie Not on sale. How much?
Speaker 2:is it $5. $5. Sorry, I fingered that that's right. You're allowed to do that in here.
Speaker 1:If someone gave this to me, even with love, I would be very upset. Al dente, no, the opposite.
Speaker 2:I feel like that got better. But also at the start I was like oh, this is what it tastes like to eat a sandcastle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's exactly it. Yeah, you're just biting into that slightly wet sand.
Speaker 2:I don't know how much Did you get like chocolate chips in your butt, because I feel like that significantly increases how good the experience is. Yeah, but I took a lot, I took a big slab off that cookie. Okay, so now we're going to talk about the distribution of chocolate chips.
Speaker 1:I took a big slab off that cookie and didn't get a single chocolate chip so if it's only good with the chocolate chips, they need to work that shit through. Yeah, that's true, it needs to be folded in.
Speaker 2:You know what? I don't think that's super bad. I think it's better than this one. No, really Big disagree. Actually, what do we give Musashi C? I'm going to have to go D for that D as well, okay, well, it's going to be C, isn't it? Because I'm going to bring that up value up sorry, I meant to go F.
Speaker 1:No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding, I didn't get much chocolate taste.
Speaker 2:The Musashi had some vague chocolateness in there vague chocolateness, that's a nice way to describe it. Do we open these? I'm excited for these because I've never had these, but I've seen them. I've seen them as I reached for the real ones. Yeah exactly so. It's a Reese's peanut butter cup, but it's made by Quest Warning on eating too many of these months again. But it comes with two cups and it's got 11 grams of protein in two cups Wow.
Speaker 1:It costs $4.80. So $2.40 per cup, this shit's so expensive. Do you think 11 grams per cup, or 11 grams for the whole packet, whole pack? Oh.
Speaker 2:So $4.80 for 11 grams of protein.
Speaker 1:Not incredible, not incredible, no, but maybe the flavor will make up for it.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll taste this. What if it tastes just like the real thing? I would be shocked, I mean so far nothing has tasted like what it's supposed to taste like, particularly the water, Jeez.
Speaker 1:It's a bit of a letdown. Break it, break it.
Speaker 2:Use your strength.
Speaker 1:Use your strength. Peanut butter cups Usually this hard, yeah, so it looks like a normal peanut butter cup.
Speaker 2:It does it actually smells? Similar? Yeah, yeah, you guys jump in it actually smells similar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys jump in. I'm just going to watch Mikey's face.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's nice. Yeah, that's an S. That's an S. Wow, this is real good. I'm very for these. If they weren't $4.80, I'd be buying them. That's the best thing we've had. Yeah, that tastes exactly like a peanut butter cup. That's the same, I guess it's easy.
Speaker 2:It does just make me want a normal peanut butter cup, but in dark. Do you know what, though? It is slightly darker than a normal.
Speaker 1:Of all the products here, to make high protein a peanut butter cup would be the easiest, because it's peanut butter which is a famously very high protein no it's not butter. No, it's not.
Speaker 2:Famously how do I eat a jar of it?
Speaker 1:that's misinformation yeah, how much proteins in peanut people? Not much. You can, you can yeah, it's not crazy.
Speaker 2:You can buy those powder buns but they all have, like added protein in them. Peanuts naturally do not have that much protein in them. No well, that's all most nuts delicious.
Speaker 2:They are delicious, but like most nuts people like, yeah, I'm having a protein snack. I'm having a handful of almonds. I'm like, get your fucking handful of almonds out of here. That's my least favorite diet trend to have. Um, like what is it? Like? A handful, just just enough to fit in your hands of almonds, but they are very good for you. Yeah, good fats, so I have more than a handful. And shut up about the protein, peanuts have 26 grams per 100 grams. Per 100 grams, which is Do you know how many fucking peanuts? That is 100 grams of peanuts.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I've never counted. They're not like you think of it per gram, like chicken. Per gram that's like about 20, 25, I think.
Speaker 2:It's not the same. I'm telling you right now, there is no way Maths isn't on your side. No, andrew, it's incorrect information.
Speaker 1:I'm going to keep eating my jar of peanut butter.
Speaker 2:And you can't stop me. I actually might switch over to eating six Quest peanut butter cups.
Speaker 1:Yeah, true, that was real tasty. I'm very for that. I'm very S tier on Quest peanut butter cups.
Speaker 2:That was legitimately a delicious little treat, yeah, I would have that again. Okay, okay, we have one more cookie remaining, but I feel like we should hydrate by having some more sparkling protein water, this time from another company called BSC Australian company.
Speaker 1:BSC performed very well on our last episode. They did the cheesecake bar, didn't they? Yeah, they did that, really delicious one.
Speaker 2:So this could be really delicious or positively disgusting. Give us the numbers beauty. So zero sugar, 15.2 grams of protein, 62 calories. The flavour is Strawberry Dream. I said that already. Oh my god, it smells awful. I just got my first one. It's $4.
Speaker 1:Strawberry Dream is $4? $4 for the can.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's not pink, oh, it's got a pink hue, it looks like champagne.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does. Strawberry's, one of those flavors that some people don't really like because they make cough medicine in the strawberry flavor.
Speaker 2:Champagne and piss. There you go. That's the name of the episode. That's perfect, I got it.
Speaker 1:Oh, that smells awful. That is a very urinary. Who's drinking first? Who's downing the hue is yeah, it's like a rosé almost. It looks quite tantalizingly tasty, I think I'd rather drink piss. I'm keen. Okay, I'm going to jump in.
Speaker 2:That's the worst thing we've had. Yeah, that's not great, that is disgusting.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. What is that? Oh my God. Oh, I can't even describe the flavor. It's like the most perverted version of strawberry I've ever had. It's so sickly sweet.
Speaker 2:But it tastes like like actual shit, Like at the end of it there's something wrong with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Like like if you were to.
Speaker 2:It's like someone pissed past a strawberry by way of like excessive amounts of fake sugar, but there's something like funky Like. It's something like funky, it's almost like there's like if you were to put a glass somehow shove a glass down the bottom of your garbage disposal without a sieve in it to just catch all the juice and then mix it with a half-rotten strawberry and then carbonate it. That's what it would taste like. That is fated. So it's garbage disposal juice is what it tastes like. To me, that is vile.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to go on for a second.
Speaker 1:It's like it's so bad. I'm curious who is buying that.
Speaker 2:Who did the R&D to put this out? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I think we need to send an email to BSC and just ask In all seriousness, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2:put like some lemon in there, anything. To balance that shit out. Just don't make that. They must have other flavours that must be like the last flavour on the line that they made. They're like, oh, we've got to do a strawberry one.
Speaker 1:The description a non-milky protein drink that harmoniously blends sparkling water with the rejuvenating qualities of protein. Quench your thirst, re a thirst Rejuvenating. Have you ever called protein rejuvenating? I guess you could call it that Quench your thirst while nourishing your body, stay hydrated and maintain fitness goals with invigorating taste of BSC body science.
Speaker 2:Sparkling protein water Isn't quenching your thirst, nourishing your body in the first place. So if you have a glass of water, if you're dehydrated, wouldn't you classify that as nourishment?
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, the first three ingredients carbonated water, carbon dioxide and hydrolyzed collagen.
Speaker 2:bovine peptides oh yeah, so it's from a cow, so it's actually cow water yeah, it tastes like cow water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've just only fed the cows strawberries and then they've just juiced this, the other one's cow water too better sparkling protein water drink. How many grams of protein? 15.2 grams of protein.
Speaker 2:I would rather waste away than ever drink I'm to say that the lemon one, this one, is so much better than that one.
Speaker 1:This one is like infinitely better. Oh yeah, that's an F.
Speaker 2:The strawberry one is an F no question, that's like a Z, that's so disgusting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think F's, on the scale, a fair point right now, if we ever find something worse than that.
Speaker 2:We can drop it further than that. Oh my God, we've only got the cookie to eat If that cookie is worse than that.
Speaker 1:I'm vomiting in this room. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2:Okay, another Quest product. They're really their normal food without a protein game is very strong, okay, that's all they do.
Speaker 1:What's this one? Quest Choc Chip.
Speaker 2:Wow, that looks worse than the other one. It looks, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know. At least it looks like a cookie, does it? So this is a Quest Cookie Chocolate Chip, 15 grams of protein. It's only got one gram of sugar and three grams of carbs. I'm just checking to make sure they don't sneak the serving sizes anywhere different. This cookie is $4.80, so still quite expensive, and it looks bunched up. This cookie is $4.80, so still quite expensive, and it looks bunched up. Looks like it's got a. I'm actually not going to say that that's really offensive.
Speaker 2:Give us your thoughts, boys. It's like if you were to blend up cardboard and then stick it all back together again. You're going to throw some of the worst chocolate chips you've ever tasted in.
Speaker 1:That's a disappointing end. That is a very disappointing end.
Speaker 2:It's not an F. It's by no means to me worse than that.
Speaker 1:I just want to keep on the. They all taste like new chocolate, this one. It's like someone wrote a story about a cookie and then blended that and packed it into my body that I'm gonna go D yeah, I think that's fair.
Speaker 2:I agree I might even go E. That's not good. Is there an E?
Speaker 1:weirdly.
Speaker 2:I've had that before and thought it was passable really, but I think there's like a slimy mouth it's because you've had so many other things that you had, I mean Quest, really kind of hit it out of the park, and then they just really let us down at the last hurdle.
Speaker 1:It's peanut butter cups, the chips and the cups were like.
Speaker 2:You want to go back to that? The misashi cookie, yeah, we can. The misashi cookie. That's infinitely better than that. Quest chips, delicious, yeah, yeah. So I mean, what's the best snack? Which one do we give the S?
Speaker 1:The S is the peanut butter cup. Peanut butter cups, yeah, and then all of the savoury chips, kind of go together.
Speaker 2:The savoury chips are. The chips were okay, except for the the.
Speaker 1:Arnott, arnott, snack On a snack right now, thank you, oh, so disgusting. The salt and vinegar puffs or the vinegar and vinegar protein puffs and the Quest protein chips ranch style Delicious, very, very saleable. The Quest peanut butter cup delicious Pretty much all the cookies not great, not?
Speaker 2:great. Yeah, I think also, if you want some Doritos, have them, have them. If you want to get protein, have a shake or eat some chicken.
Speaker 1:Here's a good tip Get your protein powder, mix it with only a little bit of water so it makes a paste. It's like a really vile salsa. It's delicious.
Speaker 2:You get your Doritos and your like chocolate protein weird little gum, chuck it through a couple of jalapenos in there, or you could just mix your protein powder with avocado and make a delicious guacamole.
Speaker 1:Perfect guacamole for any day of the week. Oh my God, that's the kind of stuff we need to bring to our 200th episode party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, protein guacamole. Someone's going to do that now.
Speaker 1:Someone's going to's gonna yeah oh my god um, and also if you think you're getting any protein waters, uh, don't, they are vile. You could drink normal water. One day we'll do an episode on powdered proteins and we'll include some of the collagen water ones in there, and I think they taste good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe we could order some to like taste packets from a couple of companies and try them out.
Speaker 1:These, these canned ones, are repulsive.
Speaker 2:No, I thought the Muscle Nation one was. Okay, don't do that. Okay, well, thank you so much for listening. Well, basically, if you want to find Mikey, you can have his phone number 04.
Speaker 1:Just have him.
Speaker 2:He's anyone. Well, basically, mikey, if you want to find Andrew, you can find him at the Bareback Investor. Just have him. He's anyone. It's at wellbasicallymikey. If you want to find Andrew, you can find him at the bareback investor. If you want to find me, you can find me at wellbasically. Sam. The podcast is at wellbasicallypodcast. The website is wwwwellbasicallypodcom. We should sell a snack.
Speaker 1:Why don't we just sell a normal snack and well, basically brand it what Kit Kat, yeah, yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 2:We can just cover or wrap it like put a really bad sticker over the.
Speaker 1:Kit Kat wrapper. Oh yeah, just write in a text over the cover. Well, basically yeah.
Speaker 2:Snick snack, snick snack. That probably exists, surely that's true? What's a snick? What is your favorite snack? If we were going to talk about snacks, I love a kiwi fruit. A kiwi fruit yeah.
Speaker 1:Veggie mine cheese on toast the snack award goes to Andrew.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that's so good.
Speaker 1:I'm hungry, I want a snack Kiwi fruit.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but you also, you eat capsicums.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like an apple. Yeah, absolutely yeah, mikey, mikey, what about your guys snacks? What do you snack on?
Speaker 2:I eat so many snacks, though maybe a cheese toastie I don't eat cheese snack that much I don't want. I always prefer like a meal. Yeah, because when I'm hungry, I'm hungry and a snack never does it. Oh, cheese and crackers.
Speaker 1:Cheese and crackers is a good one. That's a real standard, like a nice cheese and a nice cheddar, a nice sharp cheddar Crackers.
Speaker 2:Eat pickles.
Speaker 1:I like pickles from the pickle jar, if I feel like something that's like I could do a pickle on the cheese, that's good. Or like a little pouch of protein yogurt oh, we should have protein yogurt. Oh, we should have.
Speaker 2:Oh well.
Speaker 1:Everyone knows what that tastes like.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, the jazz at the end. We