Tribal People Try Canned & Packaged Food

Every time the tribe has tasted canned & packaged food: 5 videos of first impressions from villagers in rural Punjab, Pakistan, usually International food they have never seen before.

Also covers: canned, tinned, spam, canned bread, cup noodles, microwave, frozen dinner, tv dinner, lunchables, airplane food, airline food, gas station food

What it is

Canned and packaged food: Spam, canned cheese, baked beans, canned bread, instant mashed potatoes, freeze-dried meals, gas-station snacks. Convenience food from countries where people cook less.

What to watch for

Spam is the headline — pressed pink meat from a tin — and the halal beef or chicken versions used in the videos still get a long look before the first bite. Squeezy cheese and canned bread are treated as jokes until they are not.

The village comparison

Tinned food is rare in the village; even the flour is ground from wheat you can see. The distance between a chicken in the yard and a can of chicken is the whole reaction.

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