Ah yes, the four main food groups: meat, cheese, beans and wood

James May is so influential, he can get Whoppers from Wendy's.

I love James' awareness of the "bam...cheese" etc. memes.

Challenge: "Hey, May. How many burger places can you reference?"

Throw in Clarkson so he and James can argue over which "tastes better" 😆

“That piece of onion tastes vegan to me”

I think James has memorized the patterns in the wood’s grain. That is how he knows.

I've missed James cooking weird stuff.

I am so used to vegan food being punched around, it was refreshing and enjoyable to see this open-minded friendly approach!

I like how he starts the video with "Hello Viewers"

Lucy is so much more comfortable in front of the camera

"Oh I know, but I just want to eat a donut." Words of eternal wisdom.

Everybody knows James has the best tastebuds in the west.

A few months ago they were worried about being in the same room with one another. Now they're swapping saliva. 😂😂

I'll say it again... We were all just entertained by James doing something completely nonsensical. The man is a genius.

James May can't be fooled by ANYTHING

Most fast food meats are half vegan anyway loaded up with textured vegetable protein as filler to make it cheaper. Chicken nuggets are like 75% TVP.

Lucy Brown struggling to cut a doughnut by pressing a smooth edge knife against it over a plate. She never ceases to amaze me...

Put enough Lurpak on that vegan burger, and it'll taste like a vegan burger with Lurpak.

Lucy Brown is a proper presenter now, she's come on leaps and bounds!

objectively speaking, James May become more handsome over the last 10 years.

Love all the veggie/vegan substitutes in fast food places. The subway meatless meatball marinara is a stand out. Only recently had the veggie whopper and thought it was great.

I literally watches these videos only for James. i do not care what he is doing just watching his mind at work keeps me laughing

James knew which doughnut was "meat" because it was the one Rachel went for first!

"Are you sure these are doughnuts and not tyres?"

Lucy Brown: "These are so hard to cut!" 5:35 Also Lucy: *is cutting at the plate*

James is class when he calls a whopper a big mac lol James - we will each take a quarter of the big mac

it amazes me how sophisticated his pallet can be after all that salad cream

I love the chemistry between Lucy & James. It’s like she’s matured while he’s gotten used to being with younger folk.

Janes looks more like Billy Connolly every year. It’s a compliment.

whoever edited this video, I appreciate you. Brilliant.

This has to be the most random channel I’ve come across.. but I love it

I love how James calls wendy's burger a big mac. Man of culture

We all know james knew which one was meat by looking at the grain on the wood block haha

James really needs to tell Richard and Jeremy to get off their bums and actually contribute to the Drivetribe and Foodtribe channels. As it stands, he's pretty much carrying the channels on his own, while they barely ever do anything with them at all.

I love that he has embraced the "James May saying cheese" meme 😁

James' hair has a life of it's own apparently. I'm just jealous lol.

Lucy and James are the dream team

Very amusing thanks opened my eyes. I to have Never had a Gregg's sausage roll !!

recently got into subway vegan menu as I can't find much halal food. It was an eye opening one as I didn't even feel like I was eating something non meat.

Now I want some talented person, with too much time to recreate the Friends intro but with James, Jezza, Richard, Rachael, Lucy and Mike.

Tried a greggs veegan sausage roll today and got a normal one to compare it to and they tasted the exact same. The looks were a bit off but they nailed it.

im glad we are seeing a bit more james on his own channel! then again i havent been following for a bit because i though he got lost in a Dacia scrapyard or something

This is so cool that you guys are trying vegan options 🙂

I'm not sure I've eaten a whopper before.....ive tried everything else, but not common folk food, Rachel 2021

My local pub has a version of the vegan burger you tried from Carl's Jr. It is clearly not meat. However, it is the best burger I've had in a restaurant in quite some time.

crosstown are a WONDERFUL doughnut shop. quite pricey (less tho than other /cool/ doughnut places like doughnut time) but always worth it. the flavours i go for just happen to be vegan and are delishhh always. their filling is insaneee

"Well done paul" James channelling his inner Murrayisms there

If your donuts are that hard to cut, you got the demo model. 😁

Never having a Greggs sausage roll would be a war crime in Newcastle.

Happy new years James ❤🎉

I really enjoy these videos

Rachael has gorgeous hair... but I suppose James does as well.

Clarkson would be so mad seeing all the vegan food 😂

I visited Britain a while back, and lasted only one day before I tried Greggs. Can't believe this was James May's first time

Great video sometimes you generally can't be sure meat or not

Moral: when meat is lackluster, it's a disappointment.

After the burgers were revealed I was able to easily spot the vegan vs non-vegan foods from that point on. The blocks of wood were not identical and had imperfections that you could easily spot. So, by looking at the blocks of wood you can see which plate is which. This is, obviously, cheating and I'm glad that the crew didn't use this to their advantage, but it's something to note for future videos/experiments.

Sandwich suggestion? The one I call koenigsbrott White bread, butter, cheese (gauda or mild cheddar), kielbasa (polish sausage, Krakow sausage) and mustard mayo on the second bread slice

In Australia, the rebel whopper is weird. I worked in fast food for long enough to tell the difference between "burger patties" and sausage patties. And the vegan whopper patty is a dead ringer for sausage without the fennel.

It would be hilarious if they invited Clarkson!

Vegan food has come a long way. I've experienced some incredible stuff. But now I want donuts...of any ilk. 🍩🍩🍩

I love these videos.

I would love an James May stand up act.

My kids are always trying to trick me into eating vegan food,it’s obvious because no1)they don’t usually share with me,no2),they are trying to stop themselves laughing/grinning so it’s obvious!!

Gregg’s sausage rolls are the food of the gods. How has May survived so long without having one?

I prefer these home-style videos way over the ones with higher production value!

Oh James I love you 😂 always make me laugh. Glad you enjoyed your Wendy's whopper bigmac

This was great, do more vegan taste tests, get a large variety of vegan and meat burgers and just choose the best one

The world needs a test of vegan cheeses.

yes! love the bug out bunker!

When this appeared in my recommended list I could only see the top half of the thumbnail. I thought it was Billy Connolly!

The real question, is the price. If it's for the same price and tastes effectively the same or better, then that's fine. If it's higher price though to go for the vegan option, (as it usually is from what I've seen), then is it worth the increase?

Vegan food tastes nice. And on that bombshell 🤫

Jammmesss Maayyyy - Top Gear Radio Jingle

Thank you James for providing us with more meme material.

the Big Mac Whopper from Wendy's.....lol

I'd be interested in the sugar content or calorie count of the vegan food... tend to be higher than the meat variant

I could tell which was which without them even eating the food item, Just by the wood block colour. Vegan one was slightly darker/ more tan, The meat one was a lighter colour slightly more pale and had a mark on the left side that looks sorta like a grease smudge. Can see it very clear @4:25

I've never had a Gregg's sausage roll. I also go for the beef and veg pasties. Or Cornish to the Brits

Let's try this on vegans too

With highly processed foods being mostly added flavour anyway, I'm not surprised they're able to get close.

Cutting it up in quarters but yet passing each other the same one 😂

Whoppers from wendys…. K guess things are really different in the uk. I’ve had the impossible whopper in Canada and you can tell right away because it is considerably smaller than the beef whopper.

May, the multi millionaire: If I win Lucy owes me 1000 pounds but if Lucy wins I owe her a fiver

I find the density and structure of food is a give away as is the feel and the overall effect, for example meat has a certain resistance or give that means it has a coarse texture and also some fibre too. Taste and flavour is important but is only part of the picture. Density can spoil a food very easily and make it hard to swallow or enjoy. Make a cake too dense and you will know it, not nice to eat or enjoyable.

Great stuff

I am not vegan or vegetarian, but if there's an option for either at a restaurant, I'll choose it. Most of the time it is more flavorful than than the meat option, and I always leave not feeling heavy or bloated. Win/win I type this as I eat veggie sausage on a breakfast sandwich I just picked up.

Always happy to have burger, 🍩 and sausage rolls without harming animals 😍 x

James gave away the punchline: "additives"

I tried a vegan Whopper recently, but i still prefer the beef one. Although, i like that the vegan burger has no chance of me biting on some piece of cartilage or bone, which is always a big annoyance, but i wasn't a fan of the texture or added flavors to the patty. It tasted as if they put some asian dinner in a blender, and dipped the vegan patty in it, the seasoning felt way more exotic than i expected. Again, it was not actually bad tasting, but it was not what i expect from a beef patty. And this one was also kinda dry, then again, so was the beef one, the bread also made it more dry. Honestly, i've become a bigger McDonald's eater over the years, i used to be a regular at our Burger King's, but they closed stores in my town for years, they came back recently, but the times i ordered there, it was either not prepared properly or just underwhelming in taste. I do like the simple ingredients, but the bread is always too brittle, making the eating of a Whopper a mess and a race against time before the bread disintegrates. McDonald's might be overmanufactured, but i've been liking their stuff more, Quarter Pounder is still my favorite even after BK opened up again, but my absolute favorite was our local Maestro Burger, with Angus beef, Old Amsterdam cheese, red onion rings and poppy seeds on the bun, too bad it was a temporary thing.

I have an addiction to Crosstown doughnuts. Best I've ever had.

"Vegan food tastes nice." Yeah, it could. Shame about the price though.

I love how vegan food is slowly overtaking standard food :) And I could not agree more, took a long time but finally vegan junk food is not only junk but makes you happy. Nice to see how open minded James and the crew is

Here in USA the Whopper is from Burger King, not Wendy’s.

James channelling Grandpa Simpson there for a bit with his sticky buns story....

using fast food to do these taste tests is basically cheating cause even the meat ones already taste of cardboard. not to imply there's anything wrong with the vegan ones but if you were comparing a decent sausage to a decent fake sausage it'd still be obvious. I doubt you could tell the doughnuts apart easily though sugar is sugar is sugar, maybe the texture would be slightly different cause they're leavened different but I don't think it'd be that much.

Putting the cutting knife edge against the ceramic plate annoys me already. How James didn't go mad, I don't know

Re-watching this and I could really use a sausage roll right now.

_Hasn't had a Gregg's sausage roll?_ Oh, May. At least you've had one now.