Little Debbie vs Great Value Knock-Offs
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2023
- People say Great Value is just as good as the original, so I did a blind taste test to see how the Walmart knock-offs stack up against the queen of the snack aisle, Little Debbie.
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Subscribe or have a Great Value Swiss Roll stuck in your throat for eternity
that's the meanest thing ive ever heard 😂
I ain't the superstitious kind but this one ain't worth the risk.
Subscribed
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
I’ve been subscribed 😊
Luckily, I’m already subscribed, because I ain’t taking that risk. I can’t even eat regular Swiss Rolls after an unfortunate incident in Elementary and I’m nearly 40 now. 🫤
How is this man not sponsored by Little Debbie??? They are missing out on a huge opportunity here!
Hard to agree to pay when they know they’re already getting free publicity. But now I want a Swiss Roll.
@@DannyBTalks yeah that's what I was going to say
It’s little Debbie… they don’t have to sponsor anybody for you to want their product. The addiction is real.
@@DannyBTalks Probably Big Ten or ACC fan in charge of Little Debbie
@@mdaviddaniels or Auburn fan…
When my great-granddaughter was 3, she was pretending to be a dispatcher when I offered her an off-brand honeybun. She took one bite, and without breaking character, she picked up her "microphone" and announced, "Rescue Emergency, I have a bad honey bun here!" 🤣
That is so adorable and I misread it as grandmother and was highly confused, either way, great story!
Me too. 😆
Aaaaawwww,I hope you're all doing fine! 👍
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For those mentioning the boxes: They’re only on the table to show exactly what I’m eating and to place what I thought was the cake brand with the corresponding box. The cakes were plated in another room and placed in front of me in a random order. Only the producer Josh knew which cake was which.
Excuse me, Sir Matthew, I feel this comment of yours is strictly directed at me for my attempt at "professional corrective criticism".
The video was still well worth watching. I mean, you are a comedic genius and we know that a fellow Alabamian will always be able to tell the difference between Lil Debbie's and ANY OTHER imposters.
Just between you and me, the sole purpose of this video was to eat a snack cake (or three). 🤫
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do so why not make a video and get paid. 👉😜👈
But, really ...... no Oatmeal Sandwich Cake? Be ashamed, be very ashamed !!! 😤
Matt how come I don't see a Cruising The USA or a Cruising The World arcade game. I need to get the Aerosmith's game, Revolution X.
That confused me on the first go. I was like ‘there’s no way this man can’t see these box tops.’ I thought you were so confidently wrong, just like that mayonnaise taste test. But then you swapped um and I was over the moon. Great job.
Did you shoot this at Talia's house? I remember her being the one with the video games when y'all did the Zoom chats during quarantine.
I think if I was your producer I would have faked you out on one of them and given you two of the "real" kind just to see your reaction to them being identical. :D
"Tastes like Dollar General smells" is a pretty specific description, and it's so spot on.
I read your comment just as he said the "tastes like DG smells" part. And I once (only once) bought a box of Reese's Pieces that tasted like the dollar general.
I can see your bacon wrapped and deep fried little debbies as a Texas State Fair food! Thanks Matt!!!
San Diego California is already deep frying it.
@@devingarrett5800 Ironically...California. The state that finds that oxygen causes cancer. LOL
"Hey past Jason, how many hours of your life do you predict you'll spend watching a guy you don't know taste-test different foods?"
"Weird question. I mean, probably none?"
"Hahaha. Nice try. How about hundreds?"
Same! I watch the Eating the Menu videos that Keith from the Try Guys does, where he samples the entire menu of different restaurants.
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It feels weird that someone would make a knockoff little debbie when they're already some of the cheapest things you can get.
Two things to never cheap out on, riflescopes and little debbies, apparently
@@satagaming9144 amen to that.
Wal-Mart!!!
They don't feel cheap anymore when you're old enough to remember them being 99¢ a box.
@@MilwaukeeWoman yep, in the last year the price like doubled. I do buy walmart nutty buddy knock offs cause they really aren't that far off for the price differential tho this past month the walmart brand price went from $1.50 to $1.89.
It was at this point that Matt realized he had a Little Debbie problem. 🤣
The problem is also the solution;-)
Growing up a "Little Debbie" as I'm only 4'11", I had my first LD in 1984 when I was 16. Love them a lot. Over the years they have gotten smaller and smaller, but I will never eat a knock off brand of these cakey goodness.
For those of us who don't buy snack cakes very often, we may sometimes wonder if it's worth it to pay the extra for Little Debbie brand - or if the store brand are just as good. Thank you for helping us to choose wisely!
DEFINITELY LITTLE DEBBIE!!!
It's worth to ignore both and find some Tastykake or Entenmann's.
TasteyKakes. But if you love Wax, Little Debbies.
There's a handful of foods that you just get the namebrand of, without question, because the alternatives genuinely just don't stack up. Oreos is my favorite example, because I haven't found an off-brand oreo that even comes close to the original.
The real lesson is that snack cakes are trashy, and no one should ever buy them.
I typically don't eat Little Debbies that much anymore. The recipe has definitely changed since my childhood. Cheaping out to meet a price point. I would happily pay 20 cents more if I could get the old recipes.
I hadn't eaten stuff like that in a good long while, saw some that I used to love as a kid, bought them.. They taste way waxier and cheaper than I remember. Dunno if my tastebuds have changed, or the recipe changed. Probably a bit of both. The peanutbutter bars used to be my fav thing in the world as a kid, now they are just okay-ish. haha. Dont even get me started on zebra cakes. I remember those being SO good as a kid. Now it tastes like mushy corn syrup bread with a wax coating
@@thewarlocke5303 I can affirm it's not just a taste bud change. The recipe now is way worse than it ever was. I've even noticed a difference since the regulations were relaxed in 2021 because of covid.
Especially Nutty Bars... excuse me, they're called Nutty Buddys now.
@@XianHu Who are you correcting? 'Nutty Bars' is still a common name, and everyone knows what you're talking about. a lot of off brands use it too.
@@gaiasguardian205 Myself; Little Debbie brand used to use the name Nutty Bars, but changed it to Nutty Buddys somewhere around 2016. Something that was a little confusing to me because when I was growing up, Nutty Buddys were ice cream cone treats, similar to Nestles Drumsticks.
Smoked, bacon wrapped, deep fried nutty buddy. Matt, you are a genius
Smoked, bacon wrapped, deep fried nutty bar is the most southern thing I've ever heard. I think I can feel my arteries clogging as I type.
love how confident Matt is. idea: you can put swiss cake rolls in the freezer and that cream becomes ice cream.
Literally.
😲😲😍😍 I gotta try THAT!
Yes! I always put mine in the freezer.
YES! Putting them in the freezer turns them into "soul cakes"... yummy goodness for the soul!!!
You should try the Little Debbie ice cream.
I honestly don't know how it's possible for one man to have so many amazing off-the-cuff one-liners in every episode. You told me that everyone loves Little Debbie so much that even the cardboard can't let go of the Swiss Roll. You have to understand that's the funniest thing anyone's ever said about Swiss Rolls or Little Debbie, but it's just like a thing you think and say. Unreal.
Please do a Little Debbie vs. ALDI's brand snack cakes. I literally can't tell any difference!!
I know Matt doesn't like Cosmic Brownies, but they are my favorite and Aldi Cosmic brownies are disgusting.
I'd watch! He could do all the knock offs.
My family shopped at ALDIs the other week and we got “Cosmic Brownies” I tried one and it was disgusting, I don’t think they’ve been touched ever since.
@Bork98 honestly, I find the original Little Debbie versions disgusting, too. But the Aldis nutty bars are Better than LD. There, I said it. Lol
Ooh, the chocolate at aldis is better than Ghirardelli! I would go so far as to say on par with Godiva...
Was really interested in the honey bun results because I recently got the Great Value honey buns on impulse and they were decent. Also, I've never seen a Little Debbie come off the cardboard cleanly no matter how hard I've tried to do it.
I've experienced it, but only after freezing. If you don't freeze it, you're licking cardboard. And that's a guarantee.
Me either!
How has Matt not gotten roles in comedy movies yet?
Spent 15 years in a food factory. We did name brand and store brand products. Difference could be quality of packaging, thickness of sauce, amount of toppings/ingredients....it just depended on what the company wanted. What we made you couldn't tell much of a difference in flavor but it was there. Other products, ya....definite difference. I miss Little Debbie snacks. My body doesn't like them anymore, grrrr. Nutty Buddies 4-eva!
2nd this too! Bless your heart!
The joys of aging, right!? I fell ya!
@@jewel65 AMEN!
@@jewel65 Got that right! LOL!
I had every confidence in you Matt. You did not disappoint.
i have a dairy allergy & haven't been able to eat little debbie in almost a decade, i could STILL tell each of them apart just visually. little debbie just makes that quality & distinct of a product.
Don't worry, there is no dairy in Little Debbie. There are no actual real ingredients at all, for that matter.
Is there any dairy in those things ?
@@avalerie4467 there is at least whey in all of the Little Debbie products others also have milk.
For real, though, who else was disappointed that he didn’t eat the Nutty Bars by separating the thin layers and biting them individually?
My favorite way to eat them! Really brings out the taste of the peanut butter and the crisp of the wafers.
😂 she straight took your Swiss Rolls
Matt, the world’s foremost Little Debbie expert. That’s your official title in our house 🤣 “Hey hun, did you watch that video by Matt?” “Which one?” “The world’s foremost expert on Lil’ Debbies.” Needs no further explanation around here.
Little Debby will make a good business decision by hiring him.
Nutty buddy you gotta do the pull apart test
Do Aldi, Dollar General, Walmart, and Girl Scouts cookies comparison.
A DG tri-county rep was our neighbor and told us there are a few Clover Valley cookies made by same place as Girl Scout cookies.
@@talklikeahick2u877 Which ones? Do you recall?
@@ritasmith9553 We have 10 DG in our county hahaha and some carry different things than others. I know at my closest DG they have their version of the peanut butter ones covered in chocolate (Tagalongs?) and the coconut ones with the chocolate drizzle (idk the Girl Scout name, can’t remember)
But I could go across town and find different ones.
Good ol DG
Clover Valley Chunky Chocolate chips are like half the price of Chips Ahoy, and they blow chips ahoy out of the water. On the other hand, I bought a can of Clover Valley coffee, and the first time I made it I kept smelling diesel fuel and thought Id gotten some on my clothes in my workshop. Then I tasted the coffee. Only time in my life I poured out fresh coffee and threw the entire can into the trash. Clover Valley seems to be either outstandingly excellent or sucks the labels off of baseball bats.
@@corbinhbucknerjr558 The Clover Valley creamer isn’t good either. Good to know about the coffee. I won’t try it. We use Founding Fathers coffee that we get at a farm store in town. We get 80 pods for $20. Wish they carried the ground coffee bc I can drink a whole pot.
I am 100% there with you on the Swiss Rolls. Just a little slice of heaven.
Now this is the hard hitting videos we need in life.
Keep up the great work.
Boston: "We have a Dunkin Donuts."
Matt: "We have a Little Debbie!"💘
I’ve eaten enough of these that I could tell just by how they looked in the packaging. If your a Little Debbie fan, you know what to look for already.
All this time I've been cutting corners and cheating myself of the authentic goodness. This video should be required viewing for all snack enthusiasts. Well done!
You're the reason I need a Swiss Rolls patch! I swear if you take one out of the box and just eat those two, you're super human and I must bow to your greatness! I however have to eat two two packs just to feel like I have enough in my stomach!
This man is definitely little Debbie’s father, who else could love her more?!??😂❤ 🍰🎉❤🍰🎉
This was very educational. Not surprising but I'm still glad you did it. Your daughter is adorable and looks like you.
Love these Matt videos. I see so much of myself in him.
I LOVED the comment that tastes like Dollar General smells! I can not tolerate that horrible chemical smell inside of Dollar General AND Family Dollar. Literally makes me sick even wearing a mask. I go VERY seldom, only when I need something that I can't get anywhere else. And yes, some of those cheap snacks do taste like chemicals to me.
It's not the chemicals in cheap snacks, it's the odors of the store penetrating the food. I once bought a box of name brand Reeses pieces from a dollar general, and it smelled like the store. And DG doesn't smell unlike any other store smells.
What? You can smell it through wearing a mask? That would mean masks are ineffective and the news told me they were ! What am I to believe?
You should do a name brand vs store brand blind folded taste test or a little Debbie vs other brands blind taste test
Love how he made this almost like a science experiment!
THIS is the content we deserve. Thank you, sir, for your contribution!
The Great Value knock off for the chocolate hostess cream filled cupcakes are actually really good. I think a blind taste test might be fun. Although I know you’ll still get them right. ❤️
You're right on that.
My wife and I were in our 30's (when we lived- briefly- in the NYC area) when we had our first encounter with Little Debbie. She's from Hawai'i, and I'm from Orygun (how it's said, not how it's spelled). But watching your stunning documentary, we both realized that we had the same experience, but with Hostess. And yeah, we both could pass any comparison test with the generic stuff. Of course nowadays we've moved to lower Alabama, and know how to engage in serious arguments regarding Conecuh, and Mardi Gras (heading to Dauphin Island for their parade tomorrow)… but I suppose our pre-diabetic allegiance will always be with the Hostess treats of the early 1960's (yeah, we're old farts). Even so, we get it. We hear you. And we KNOW.
Don’t know how old you are, but I’m from Oregon and in my late 40’s and have had Little Debbie’s my whole life. Mainly because Little Debbie’s are vegetarian and Hostess is not.
@@Grumpy_gurl are you of the Hillsboro Bensons? In fact I'm a retired old fart. And as for the whole 'vegetarian' thing, could you kindly try not to lean into the crunchy lib Orygun thing? …on the other hand, go ahead. I've gone to Alabama, where the greens come with a healthy dose of pork belly.
@@CoastScribblerhahaha, born and raised in Alabama and I agree with you on the greens here
Totally agree with Matt on the Swiss Rolls. Never had one that didn't make me go after the chocolate on the cardboard.
Little Debbie marshmallow pie v/s Moon pie . Chocolate and banana. Now that would be a battle.
I love Nutter Butters but WalMart brand is AWFUL. I will say for me Star crunch is pretty similar in taste and that is the one I'd like to see him do.
The ULTIMATE ultimate would be Little Debbie vs Dollar Tree
Entertainment and education, what a Great Value!
Great value, ha! I see what you did there. Cute.
Finally! We love watching Matt do these kind of videos. We need more of these.
You had me at 0:58 "It's that waxy chocolate goodness". At that moment, I knew, you knew. Little Debbie... so good.
We really need to see a wine tasting and pairing at Cracker Barrel.
This was great! I miss your Bless Your Rank videos! Now I feel guilty for packing Great Value Snacks in my kids lunches all these years. Lol!
Matt: I don't know how to describe this...
proceeds to give us the greatest, most specific, you-just-took-me-there description of all time: "it tastes like how the inside of Dollar General smells."
Didn't realize how much I missed these VS. Reviews of food! Thanks, Matt!
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
I'm poor Matt, the only name brands in my house are little Debbie Swiss rolls and double stuffed Oreos.
Thank you for tasting all that sweetness and sugar, I felt my heart palpitate...I can't imagine how you felt.
Great and a bit hype afterwards is my hope!🤣
*Btw good job on nailing all three!!!*
"It tastes the way a Dollar General smells". That is very descriptive tasting note😂
Not much of a challenge for an expert such as yourself. There's a reason Great Value hasn't tried to replicate the Fudge Round - It's one of a kind and is the king of the Little Debbies.
There’s a definite difference between anything Little Debbie and store brands!!!!
If you had this man try a homemade chocolate roll, made by someone who knows what they’re doing, he would absolutely lose his mind.
Finally, someone with some taste competence.
I was just in the Walmart the other day and thought about this. I was going to buy the great value Swiss rolls but then I changed my mind and got the little Debbie…I guess I’m about to find out if I made the best choice or not! Get out of my mind!
Def. LD!
Matt should do a blind folded little debbie knock off tast test and do it with Aldi/Trader Joe brands
I dont understand how a boring topic is so hilarious! Nice job
I'd love to see more of these blind comparisons. That was fun
Matt love your content so much can't wait every time one of your videos comes on thanks so much for letting us know that we're not crazy well can maybe we are crazy but Little Debbie's definitely have a quality that nothing else has and we love it
I miss you doing Bless Your Rank
Awesome! We need more Bless Your Ranks
Little Debby doesn’t need a sponsor but he’s definitely the right choice if they ever change their minds. 😄
You know, either Matt absolutely loves Little Debbies to the point he has the texture, while still wrapped memorized), or so he could write a script went and spent who knows how much time feeling these before hand to get every nuance. Either way I can appreciate it.
Smoked Little Debbie would be a good idea. Smokey Debbie 😌
The increased confidence with each test was great!
Thank you for your service, Matt! 😂
you gotta unroll the Swiss Rolls and eat the layers!
AMEN! Glad we
Glad we're not the only ones and take the layers part on the wafers too!
I’ve loved Little Debbie’s since I was a kid. My dad used to work for Little Debbie and they are so addicting. Great value has nothing on Little Debbie lol
Do you mean Ms. Freshley's? I tried them but found them much less satisfactory. I only like LD.
@@ritasmith9553 no I meant great value, he was comparing little Debbie’s to great value brand cakes from Walmart in the video and they are nothing like Little Debbie’s
Matt thanks for putting a smile on my face love alllll of your videos.
You're doing very important work here Matt! Thank you for your service.
Hi, this was a great video. Little Debbie snacks are amazing. I admit that I eat the Great Value homages sometimes but Little Debbie rules.
Girl Scout Cookies vs Store Bought?! Aldi's peanut butter fudge cookies are as good as, if not better than GS Tagalongs for a fraction of the cost!
A lot of Honey Buns have a pretty samey flavor and texture. Impressed you picked out the LD one! Props to McKee Foods, much love to Collegedale, TN!
You have hit upon a new theme for videos! Knock off vs real thing on great southern products.
I love some little Debbie but I will say the GV honey bun is much better. Debbie just has a strange taste. That's just me and I grew up on little Debbie when a box has 12 and cost less then $1
It Bless your rank on the shelf for now? Appreciate all the past episodes if so, you do great work
He left It's a Southern Thing.
It’s coming back soon but under a different name on this channel!
Love these episodes!!!
I lived on Hostess iced honey buns when I was in high school. They were incredible!
i can honestly say ive never been let down by a great value product except those water mix ins. but those are horrible across the board
As long as you never, ever try the real deal, you can get by with Great Value. But the instant you have something to compare it to, you’ll be cursing the ghost of Sam Walton.
I just want to play those arcade cabinets
Am I doing serious research to prepare for our family moving to Atlanta next year? No, I’m watching Matt Mitchell videos. I’m learning so much!!
Man that old school NBA jam in the background is calling my name! Let's go all or nothing for your box of little Debbie's!!!!
What a great video. You should do Dollar Tree brand or Aldi brand next.
Love the comparison videos! I do think it's time you take on the big topic: mayo. Hellmann's, Duke, Blue Plate, generic (Great Value?), and Miracle Whip. Maybe on a banana sandwich!
Perfect pairing!
When I first realized you had your own channel you had 64,000 subscribers. Now you are at 208k!!! That happened fast!!! Thanks for the laughs!
"This tastes the way Dollar General smells." 😂
You should try Dollar Tree's version of these. Now THOSE are knockoffs of the knockoffs!
They are gross. I think it's Mrs Freshly. That whole line is repulsive
To quote Southern Culture on the Skids - "Little Debibe, Little Debbie! I'm comin' on home, baby!"
I love the fact that you make fun of us southerners, but you do it with great kindness
Even as someone who only got Little Debbie snacks as a treat from school or at a friends house/lunch trade - as SOON as the swiss rolls came out I was like "no residue, not LD". I don't know why it's such a visceral memory for me, just maybe one of those dumb kid mind games you have with some snacks. Scraping the cardboard for that last bit is just an iconic moment lol
Love the kid cameo! That did it for me!
I love how she just comes in and grabs the Swiss cake rolls! 😆❤️
@@jdub48 yep!
It tastes the way a Dollar General sometimes smells 😂
…so I finally got to visit a Dollar General the other day cause I was staying in a small town - was so excited to see one and visit. Prices were shocking though, nothing was a dollar and things I got were about 30% more than big city stores.
Love your stuff, Matt!!
I tell my wife when she complains: “It’s a GREAT Value…. GREAT……Value” 😂
Been waiting all my life for this one!!!!
That waxy chocolate goodness:-)
2nd THIS!
That look when he bit into the first Swiss Roll was GOLD!