Brussels sprouts cereal and weird flavoured crips, here's the Christmas snacks taste test

Evening Standard

Several Evening Standard writers taste test new Christmas snacks from popular brands.

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00:00 Brussels sprout cereal, festive culling and weird crisps.

00:04 It must be Christmas.

00:05 - Cheers. - Cheers.

00:07 - That is disgusting.

00:08 (laughing)

00:09 - That tastes like someone farted in a bowl of cereal.

00:12 - That is absolutely vile.

00:14 - Oh, it's Brussels sprout cereal.

00:17 - I don't think any real Brussels sprouts

00:20 were involved in that and I will put money on it.

00:22 So let's see.

00:23 - I don't wanna eat the whole thing.

00:26 - It's like a cinnamony crisp.

00:28 - That is not what crisps should be about.

00:30 - That almost tastes like a cinnamon swirl, but crisp.

00:33 It's like crisps shouldn't be sweet.

00:34 Why are we mixing the two worlds?

00:36 - Oh.

00:38 - Oh God. - No.

00:40 - New Year's resolution is to give up this job.

00:42 I can't quit doing this taste test.

00:43 Christmas pudding, okay, I can see the spices in that.

00:45 It's just poorly executed.

00:48 - No. - Walkers.

00:49 - Delicious. - Shame on you, Walkers.

00:51 - Shame on you. - Shame on you.

00:52 - Shame on you.

00:53 - Do you wanna eat this or hell?

00:54 - Ultimate roast potato crisp.

00:57 - It said crisps.

00:58 - That tastes like roast potato.

01:00 - That tastes like potato.

01:02 - Roast potato crisps, do you just mean crisps?

01:05 - If you're getting sold into this,

01:06 something's wrong with you.

01:08 - Oh, tastes like a potato.

01:10 - Tastes like a potato gone wrong.

01:13 - It's a crisp, like an unsalted crisp.

01:17 - No, it's like a crisp that's been dipped in gravy

01:19 and then dried with a hairdryer, that's dreadful.

01:21 Why couldn't it be dry Jan already?

01:23 So we've got two delightful beers to try.

01:26 We have a choice of, I'm not even gonna make that,

01:29 hun, that's dreadful, Red Session IPA, St. Necoilus.

01:33 Brilliant, and Beavertown's,

01:35 Climpson & Sons, Espresso Coffee Stouts.

01:39 - That's actually a pretty well made beer.

01:41 Yeah, I reckon if you like Guinness

01:44 and you want a little hit on Christmas morning

01:46 of something like that.

01:47 Okay, Red Session IPA 4.3, let's give it a go.

01:51 I feel like, oh God, what color is that?

01:56 That's wrong, yeah.

01:57 - I'm serving a pink beer.

01:59 - Same problem I have with Tango,

02:01 when you see the colors like that.

02:02 - Tell my mother I loved it.

02:05 I mean, it tastes like IPA.

02:07 Beavertown make a perfectly decent IPA,

02:09 that's exactly what it tastes like.

02:11 Should you need some more novelty added to it,

02:13 then I guess this would work.

02:14 I would just say, just drink a normal beer.

02:17 - Well, that's it for another year.

02:18 It's a mixed bag as you can see, but it is the season.

02:21 Merry Christmas.

02:23 (playful music)

02:25 (playful music)

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