- This smells interesting.
- Do you think it's good?
- Oh, mm.
- Oh, man.
- Mm.
- The texture is a little
bit throwing me off.
- [Both] Oh!
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- Today, we're going to
be guessing which taco
is the vegan taco.
- I'm a meat eater.
My thoughts on vegan food,
I'm glad it exists for
people trying to avoid meat.
I'm not one of those people,
so I don't go for vegan food.
- We're both Filipino.
- Mm-hm.
- I'm sure there are a
lot of Filipino vegans
and vegetarians but it's
really hard to be one.
Everything includes meat,
even our vegetarian options,
the dipping sauce is made of shrimp.
- I have been trying to avoid meat,
but I have tried a
couple of vegan options,
and I've been into it.
We'll see what happens today.
- I'm glad that there are new options,
gets you a little bit more healthier
compared to like, other meat options.
I am not a vegetarian or a vegan.
I'll still try and be healthy in that way,
and get like, substitutes.
- I'm into the vegan movement.
There's no good reason
for me to not be vegan,
and I recognize that as a meat lover.
- But you're just not going to do it.
- I'm just, not today.
(Erin laughs)
You know, maybe today is
the day I change my mind.
- Let's just say I get the ethical reasons
for being vegan and vegetarian.
- However, I've also thought
that if there was a way
to like, clone meat ethically,
so technically it's vegan or vegetarian,
I would totally do that.
- I'm here for veganism,
I'm here to love the planet,
we should all probably not be eating
as much meats as we are,
but I also sometimes can't help myself.
- I can't not say no to Korean barbecue
or like, any other dishes that have meat.
- I've never had vegan tacos,
strictly meat taco lady.
- Oh, I love tacos.
- Yes, love tacos, bring it.
- Any type of taco.
- Yeah, I don't believe
I've ever had a vegan taco,
but I'm not opposed.
- Same.
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- Huh, okay, ooh.
- Smells like meat.
- Smells good.
- It smells like chicken maybe?
- Oh, they're babies.
- Wow, these are very small.
- I'm definitely gonna save the other one
in case I get confused for later.
- This is good.
I don't know if I'm getting
the texture of meat though.
- It doesn't taste like meat to me.
It tastes like beans and cheese.
- I can taste the meat.
Maybe it's just in there somewhere.
- It's like, mostly on the bottom,
so I'm just going to flip it over.
- It's a little gooey.
- It's beans but I'm like biting into,
like, cubes of meat.
- This is way harder than
I thought it was gonna be.
- I do think there's
something else in here.
I'm not sure if it's an
avocado or some other thing,
but I can taste the meat.
- Yeah, the smell is
there, the taste is there,
just the texture is a
little bit throwing me off.
- Okay, I found meat.
I like, felt.
- I taste the meat now, yeah.
The way it feels in my mouth
feels like a meat cube.
- Yeah, I can feel like, the texture.
I found it amongst the
other stuff in the taco.
- I'm trying to lick just the innards.
(laughter)
- I was feeling around for it.
- Mm-hm.
- And then the texture
is like, kind of like,
stringy, and, you know
what I'm talking about?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was gonna say.
You know, the texture of meat
whenever you like, bite into it.
- I like it, so that's why I'm
gonna say I think it's meat.
- Meat.
- Mm-hm.
I would say that this is meat.
- I'm gonna stick with my first thought
and say it's vegan.
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- This has lettuce.
- This has stuff on top.
- This smells interesting.
- Oh man.
- It's good.
- A corn tortilla over here.
- You can tell?
What, is it just from touching it?
Wow, taco expert.
- This tastes like a, almost
like a Baja Fresh taco.
Is this a fish taco?
I can't tell.
- There's cabbage on it.
People put cabbage on fish tacos.
- This is not a fish taco.
(laughter)
- I feel like it's fish, yeah.
So, meat, fish meat.
- Maybe it's trying to be fish.
I'm not really sure what's
going on to be honest.
- Yeah, when I bite into
it, it's like, very chewy.
It's like, synonymous to fish chewy.
- It kind of has the texture of chicken.
- This feels like fish to me.
- I think you're right.
- Like, fried fish.
- I think it's trying to
be fish, but it's not,
so I think it's vegan.
- Take it out and just eat what's in it.
Like, you know how
fish, like a white fish,
there's like layers of meat?
- I would say that it's
not a meat substitute.
It would be an actual plant.
- This tastes good to me.
- I think it's fine.
There's a lot of good spices happening
but without that, I don't know
if I would be crazy about it.
- Yeah, this is good.
Do you think it's good?
- I think it's good.
- Yeah.
- Right now, my guess is fish, so meat.
- Right now, my guess is vegan.
- Again?
(Erin laughs)
- I don't know what anything
tastes like any more,
I'm so confused.
- Right now I'm thinking
that this taco has fish,
so I'm gonna say that it has meat.
- Actually, right now
I'm leaning towards no.
I think this might be the vegan taco.
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- Oh, lots of seasoning on this.
- What kind of shell is happening here?
- This feels like also a corn.
- Oh, man.
- Mm.
- The texture for some
reason makes me think
that this might be a
vegan meat substitute.
- Oh, mm.
- This has to be pork or fake-pork right?
- Mm-hm.
- Okay. Pork is my favorite.
- Aftertaste is very interesting.
It's not like anything that
I've actually ever tasted.
- Like, I would feel like
this is the vegan one,
because of how much seasoning there is.
- This one I feel like
has a lot of marinade.
Vegan substitutes, they
really try and marinade it
so that you have more flavor.
- 'Cause like, it doesn't
feel like any meat,
it doesn't taste like meat,
and doing like the pulled pork
would be easier to do with
something like jackfruit.
- I have tried the Impossible burgers
and the texture is very close
to the Impossible burger.
- Imagine how long it would take you
to chew into pulled pork.
Like, either this is
really good pulled pork
or it's not beef at all.
- You're right, it disintegrates
in my mouth pretty fast.
- And like, meat wouldn't do that.
- The texture is almost
like a corned-beefy texture.
- Yeah, yeah.
- This is vegan.
- I also think this is vegan
but I've said that everything is vegan,
so now I'm questioning all of my answers.
- It doesn't taste like it's vegan,
but the texture and knowing
what an Impossible burger
feels like in my mouth is what
makes me think it's vegan.
- I'm gonna say this taco is vegan.
- I think this is the vegan taco as well.
- If this is actually vegan, I'd be jazzed
'cause this tastes amazing.
- This is really good, this tastes--
- This is the best taco.
- I think our number one
choice for the vegan taco
is the third option,
but the second one was really close.
- Yeah, I'd say second
one is really close,
but I feel like the second one is seafood.
- So after careful deliberation,
I think number three is vegan.
- I think number three is vegan.
- Final answer, the third
one is the vegan substitute.
- [Producer] Okay, remove your blindfolds.
The vegan option was number two.
- [Both] Oh!
- Oh, it was close.
You convinced me that
the third one was vegan.
I was like, I don't know what this,
is this supposed to be fish?
- Wow.
- We were so close,
we thought that was the second,
a good second option.
So this is number two?
- Oh.
- It's a mushroom in this?
- What?
- Oh, interesting.
- Ew.
- Knowing that a lot of vegan
substitutes would try to
appease to the meat-eater,
our guess wasn't based on the taste alone,
it was also prior knowledge.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That felt like a fish.
I'm so glad I liked the meat one a lot.
What did you guys get?
(Erin laughs)
That was so good.
- I don't think it really
necessarily changes
the way I look at vegan food,
because sometimes I'll
buy the vegan option.
- If this is a vegan restaurant
and these are my options,
I would definitely order it,
and I wouldn't have a problem with it,
but I would say if
there was a meat option,
I would probably prefer it.
- I was really wanting
that to be the vegan one,
because then my life would be different.
Can you guys just make this vegan?
- Because of our culture, I will say that
I don't think I can be 100% vegan
'cause I get serious FOMO
and I don't wanna be left out
during Filipino parties.
- I gotta have my, my lumpia (laughs).
- I'm definitely thinking
of switching up my diet
and becoming vegetarian
and something like this
could push me over the edge.
Like, I'm just so close (laughs),
because I'm the better person.
- Yeah.
- No (laughs).
- Honestly.
- [Erin] Let's go find a
jackfruit taco and we'll try that.
- [Mireille] Okay.
- [Erin] Maybe that'll change your mind.
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