- Do you like that, in talking about this,
you just say your name a lot?
Amiel, is it a snack or a meal?
[Amiel sighs]
[upbeat music]
- Name of this game is, is it a meal
or a snack?
[buzzer pinging]
- An argument as old as time.
- Some would say.
- [Production Crew] Meal or snack.
Nachos.
- That's a snack.
- Yeah.
I'd be upset if that's the
only thing I ate for dinner.
I'd feel bad about myself.
- I would feel weird.
- I mean, it could be a meal.
- It's a snack.
- If someone put a sheet
tray of nachos right there,
I would eat it all.
- That's a snack.
I would eat it all.
- Right, but then you wouldn't ...
- And then I would still have dinner.
- You would?
- That's just your appetizer.
- That's a lot.
- Snack.
- Snack.
Bar snack, more specifically.
I want nachos at the bar.
- It's a bad meal.
- You have not had my nachos.
- Is there protein on the nachos?
- Well, obviously.
I'm not a monster.
- I don't do protein on my nachos.
- Why?
- I like to appreciate--
- What do you put on them?
- The cheese.
The salsas.
- I feel like there
are certain snack foods
that I wouldn't want to eat so much of
that it felt like a meal.
- I agree.
- I can eat enough nachos
to make it a meal.
Fully loaded, beans, pico,
loads of meat, pickled onion,
cilantro, I can make you
nachos that felt like dinner.
- Yeah, I think it could
be substantial enough
to feel like you're eating a meal,
but I, psychologically,
because it's tortilla chips,
I think it's a snack.
- Sure.
- [Production Crew] Final answers?
- Snack.
- Snack.
- Snack.
- Meal.
If they're my nachos,
[buzzer pinging]
just to be clear.
- Even if they're your
nachos that I'm eating.
- I'm gonna make you a tray of nachos,
and you are gonna die.
- And then I'm gonna
eat dinner afterwards.
- No, you are so not.
- [Production Crew] Pita with hummus.
- Ooh.
- Depends on quantity.
- Snack.
Oh, come on.
- No, no, it is a snack,
it is a snack.
- It could be a component of a meal.
- Yes.
- If there was an additional protein,
and maybe like a vegetable or something,
then I would consider that to be.
- Right, but Dizengoff,
I think does such a high
level of pitta and hummus
that this feels like you're sitting down
and having lunch or dinner.
- Okay, if the hummus
[Carla laughs]
is unadorned, it's a snack.
- Agreed.
- If, for example, maybe
there's some ground lamb
and some vegetables,
then it's a meal.
- Right, then it's a
sandwich, which is a meal.
- Yeah, or like an open face thing.
[Carla laughs]
- So snack.
- So yeah, it's definitely a snack.
- Well, 'cause it leaves you wanting more.
- Yeah, it just gets you going,
just gets the taste buds tingling.
It's like bread and olive oil.
- Yeah, what's next?
- Yeah, I mean,
I think this says--
- Main course.
- A lot more about the way
we eat than anything else.
- What do you eat for dinner, Jesus?
- Big bowl of popcorn and I cry.
- Yeah, that sounds like dinner.
[Sohla laughs]
- I feel about hummus and
pitta as you feel about nachos,
where it's like, if you do enough to it,
you could transform it.
[buzzer pinging]
- Yeah, yeah.
- But I think, in general,
as a baseline it's a snack.
- [Production Crew] Hot dog.
- Snack.
- Snack.
- Instant snack.
[Brad laughs]
- A single hot dog?
- Yeah, I'm into that.
- A single hot dog is a snack.
- Again, I think it's just a poor meal.
- Snack.
- Oh, I kind of think it's a meal.
- No.
Sam Septum wrote something in The Times
about hot dogs one year during the summer,
that said that a hot dog is an appetizer
for an adult-sized human,
and I fully agree with that.
- Oh, just given the
volume of food that it is?
- It's not dinner.
- But don't you think multiples
of a hotdog could be dinner?
- Snack.
- Yeah.
Terrible meal.
- Actually, funny story,
I had a hot dog snack last night
right before I ate a hamburger.
- When was the last time you
had a hot dog for a dinner?
- Nope, snack.
- Yep.
- I mean, I think a Chicago
dog can kind of be a meal.
- If it's super loaded.
- Drag it through the garden.
- Meal.
- Really?
That to me is a snack.
Walking down the street.
- It's a sandwich.
I think a hot dog's a sandwich,
and a sandwich is a meal.
- The only time that I have hot dogs,
I'm walking down the street, I'm like,
oh, I want a hot dog, and then I eat it.
- Well, think about a Chicago dog,
there's a salad on there.
- Yeah, but I'm not in Chicago.
Anyway, snack.
- Meal. [buzzer pinging]
- No.
- [Production Crew] Slice of pizza.
- Meal.
- Snack.
- Oh, I kind of changed
mine, I think it's a snack.
- Snack, one slice of pizza.
- Snack.
Yeah, one slice of pizza.
- Slice, one slice?
- Is it a New York slice?
- A slice?
- A single?
- What kind of slice are we talking?
'Cause if it's Neapolitan, it's a snack.
- I think it's a snack anyway.
- Really?
- Yeah, I do.
One slice?
That's a snack.
- A slice, snack, two slices, meal.
- Yeah, a bad meal.
- One slice is a snack.
- Yeah, that's a snack.
- That's a walking snack.
- Okay, wait, I'm sorry,
how is it that a hot dog
is not a walking snack
but a slice of pizza is?
That's ridiculous.
- Two slices is a meal.
- Right, so same with hotdog, okay.
- After school you would get a slice,
and then go home and have dinner,
'cause it was just a snack.
- Okay, you've convinced me.
[buzzer pinging]
- Okay great.
- It's a snack.
- Snack.
- [Production Crew] Dumplings.
- We're getting into ...
- It's real gray.
- Yeah, a meal.
- Yep.
Meal.
- I dunno, I'm a little torn though,
'cause, what--
- Come on, man.
- You get a plate of five.
You get a plate of five.
- I felt good about that one.
- You eat it on the sidewalk.
- It's a snack.
- Yeah, it's an appetizer,
an amuse-bouche.
- Yeah, one bite.
- You could totally make
a meal out of dumplings.
- With other things, you
don't just eat dumplings.
- What if you went for dim sum
and had like seven
different kinds of dumpling?
- Well, is it seven kinds of dumpling,
or is it one order of
one kind of dumpling?
- He said straight up, dumplings.
So I imagine tiers and
tiers, moxes moxes moxes,
- Well, in that case, it's a meal.
- Right?
- You're never gonna
walk into a restaurant
and be like, can I have ten dumplings,
and they'll be like, actually,
no, you can only have four.
You control your destiny, it's a meal.
- Okay.
- So I guess if you don't
specify how many dumplings,
then we can't answer this question.
- Multiple dumplings is a meal.
- More than eight dumplings
and more than one variety
[buzzer pinging]
of dumplings is a meal.
Otherwise, it's a snack.
- [Production Crew] Meal replacement bar.
- Sorry, never had one of those.
- I think only Andy eats those.
[Rick laughs]
- You getting cute?
[production crew laughs]
- By definition, I think it is a meal.
- I'm going snack.
- But snack.
Snack.
[Brad sighs]
- It's neither.
- It's neither.
It's not, no.
It's dessert.
- It's nothing.
- We're back at dessert.
It's bad dessert.
- Eat food.
- Eat food.
Eat real food.
- Eat something else.
- I don't even think we
should answer that question.
- I'm not gonna answer that question.
- No, I've never had one.
- Don't eat it.
- What are they?
Meal replacement bar.
- That's sadder than my bowl of popcorn.
- They look terrible,
their texture's terrible.
And then when you see how they're made,
it's just like this giant
tube of just that stuff
that gets cut off.
- I've never seen them made.
And then put in the thing.
Snack. [buzzer pinging]
- It's a total snack.
- And a pretty desperate one.
- [Production Crew] Empanadas.
- Snack.
- Snack, yeah.
- Snack.
- Snack.
- One, two empanadas, snack.
- [Production Crew] Alex?
- Meal.
- Okay, I can't say snack.
- Oh, here we go.
- Because I recently
had a meal of empanadas.
'Cause I made Gabi's
empanadas for a house guest.
- How many did you eat?
- Like seven.
- Right.
- Seven empanadas is a meal.
- I think empanadas are a snack.
- I think they're a snack
- I would want to continue
to eat it for a long time.
- It's portable, you can hold it.
- It's a snack.
- It's not that big.
usually.
- Yeah.
- That's a snack.
[buzzer pinging]
- And it's eaten as a snack.
- Right.
'Cause it's a snack.
- 'Cause it's a snack.
- [Production Crew] Cinnamon bun?
- I mean.
- Snack.
- Cinnamon bun,
snack.
- Anybody who thinks that that's a meal.
- Also, I think we should
introduce a third category,
which is, that's dessert,
that's not breakfast.
- Yeah, anybody who thinks
that eating a cinnamon roll
for breakfast is breakfast
is out of their mind.
It's just sugar,
would you eat a piece of cake, no.
- Snack, and not even a snack.
- Don't eat it.
I mean, they're fine.
- No, you can eat it.
- What was it, like 12,000 grams of sugar.
It's just BS.
It's a snack, a poor snack.
- Snack.
- It's a snack.
- It's totally a snack.
Although the cinnamon bun at
Lodge in L.A. is like a loaf.
- But that's really, it's a dessert,
so I don't want it to be my breakfast.
- But it's not like something you eat
for dessert after dinner,
you don't eat cinnamon buns after dinner.
- But do you ever eat
a whole cinnamon bun?
I've never eaten a whole cinnamon bun.
- No, but he's asking, whole cinnamon bun.
Meal or snack?
- No, I'm still on snack.
- No, I agree with you.
- I'm sorry.
- That's a terrible meal,
that's an unhealthy meal.
- It's an unhealthy meal in
the morning. [buzzer pinging]
- It's a snack.
- [Production Crew] Quesadillas.
- That's a meal.
- Definitely a snack. What?
- Snack.
- Unless you're a child,
in which case it's a meal.
- I'm not a child, are you a child?
- Snack.
- Snack.
- Oh, meal.
- Oh.
But like quesadillas.
- No, but wait.
I'm gonna go snack.
- Yeah, it's more like
in a restaurant setting,
your meal could be quesadillas,
but you would have had
something before that.
So, snack.
- Snack.
You said snack?
- Oh yeah, snack.
- I've made a meal out of a quesadilla,
made plenty of times.
- What was in it?
A turkey?
- If you get a little crazy,
and you put some beans in there, and some
chicken.
- And just a standard size?
- No, I'm talking like
one of those big guys,
folded in half, crisp it up.
- Oh, well.
- Stick a salad on top, that's a meal.
- Again, these are all
just bad meal options.
You shouldn't have any of these as a meal.
They could be a part of a meal,
but just like, aw, let
me get a quesadilla,
what are you, nine?
- For me, a quesadilla is an appetizer,
it's something to get
the taste buds going.
I'm gonna have the one quesadilla,
and then I'm gonna have a whole bunch
of different tacos.
[buzzer pinging]
Or something like that.
- You need to make me nachos,
and I need to make you a quesadilla.
- All right, you're on.
- Have we said one thing, I
guess I said hot dog is a meal,
but everything else I think is a snack.
But does that just mean that
we eat a lot of other stuff?
- We just eat a lot of food.
- We're just always eating
a lot.
- Often, I eat what a normal
person would say is a meal
and then I'm like,
I want another.
- [Claire] Right,
what else are we having.
- [Amiel] Yeah.
