this pudding tier list almost ended me

[@DragneelHill]

Wait until Ethan learns that artificial banana is actually how bananas used to taste

[@bobbiecapewell5333]

I was just about to comment something similar. "Artificial" banana is the real banana flavour, we've just never had those bananas because they're extinct

[@buddermantheamazing]

Isn't that also the case with grape

[@iwasboredwoo]

I think it's the same with artificial grape. The wild grapes that grow around where I live taste like, as I call it, "cartoon grapes"

[@rex_ink]

​@@iwasboredwooArtificial grape flavor is made to taste like concord grapes!

[@beemerwt4185]

Wait until you hear that's actually a myth... Google it.

[@cjrose2624]

Fun fact to everyone's fun banana fact: the Gros Michel bananas that the flavoring is based on are NOT exctinct. Just not commercially grown. You can still buy them online, but they're pricey.

[@Alex_...34565]

omg where???

[@maggiejennings1436]

ethan stopping to look at a bee and just going 'i like bees :)' is the exact content i subscribed for

[@daeundances]

i frequently go back to his bee meme video, its too good

[@12000bees]

same lol

[@lik3th3hamm3r]

It's the wearing of the little old man sweater while trying puddings and saying things like "Approaching Thirty" for me, dawg.

[@ZOZObeepboop]

And the white hair

[@russelltietjen4407]

Don't mind me googling Ethan's age when he said that and finding out I'm 6 months older than him 💀

[@kleo-da-bat]

the little old man sweater and the edgy goth shirt is a peak combo

[@andromeda4655]

I’m one of the freaks that likes artificial banana and grape flavored things, but I fully know how insane and gross they are to everyone else and I’m not defending them because they do taste crazy and nothing like the real fruits

[@thatonesnailcalledredmere4296]

Fun Fact: Artificial banana flavor tastes so different than real bananas because it's based on the flavor of Gros Michel bananas( which are rarely grown now), not Cavendish(which are typically found in grocery stores.).

[@TomMinnow]

​@@thatonesnailcalledredmere4296 Fun fact for your fun fact, the old banana was nearly wiped out by a banana disease, so they made a new nanner to clone for all of us to consume which was resistant to the disease which could easily die out from a new banana disease but hasn't (yet). Maybe when they finally get artificial banan to taste like new bananer theyll allllll be dead :-)

[@kazkazoodles]

Dude me too 🤝🏼 As much as I wanna defend the artificial banana taste, I understand why a lot of people hate it

[@DollFacedMagot]

I love them and I don’t really understand how people think they are gross 😂❤

[@maem7462]

I normally don’t mind artificial banana but there are some things that are bad with that. Artificial grape depends on what exactly it is. If it’s soda especially Fanta then it tastes awful to me. If it’s candy it’s fine but it usually not my favorite. I do agree that they don’t taste that the real thing

[@sleepybunnynorbun1039]

"I don't think I'd want a whole bowl of it" - proceeds to keep eating it

[@GooGoob3r]

I was gonna say that!

[@Liv_4223]

I know tons of people have probably already said it but I figured ill join in. The reason that the "banana flavor" is so vastly different from actual bananas is because its based off of a different species of banana which actually went extinct with the creation of the store bought bananas that we have today!

[@cjrose2624]

Not extinct! Just not grown commercially anymore. You can buy them online!

[@lilwilly69]

I think grape flavor is similar with it being flavored based on the smell of grapes not the flavor

[@abbyb6958]

@@lilwilly69grape flavor is actually based on Concord grapes!

[@jmvr]

Fun fact: that's not entirely true. Scientists back then didn't care to get the entire chemical makeup of the banana flavor, so they just grabbed the most common chemical: isoamyl acetate. The Gros Michel happens to have a lot of that chemical, not that the flavor was based on it. It's correlation not causation.

[@neraslight4997]

@@jmvrHonestly I really hate banana flavored things because to me they don’t taste like normal bananas, however, I do like eating bananas, is that weird? 😭

[@CaroSOSaS]

Ethan went from a pudding boy to a pudding man

[@teresa3567]

Ethan’s new brand: pudding man

[@BejadedF]

tapioca is like starchy pearls, i’m assuming the pudding was liquidy because all the pearls sank to the bottom. tapioca pudding is similar to rice pudding

[@tori_tatertots418]

Yeah I was gonna come say that in my experience tapioca had texture to it, it was always my favorite

[@kristygirl98]

@idreamed_adream boba is made out of tapioca, but the processes make them very different. I'm the opposite, love boba, dislike tapioca pudding!

[@HeartMemory93]

There were no pearls in the pudding. Tapioca is a root you make tapioca starch from, and with that you can make pudding and boba. It wasn't a boba pudding :)

[@catsforever420]

nooo its tapioca pudding yall

[@BejadedF]

@@catsforever420 i love ur pfp lol, invader zim feels like lost media now so i get excited whenever i see it 😂

[@TheRealWoofer]

I love how there’s Darkiplier, Antisepticeye, and Ethaniel…the 6 year old child, trapped in Ethan’s body that he switches between with lightening speed…every minute of every day 😂😂😂

[@kieranlee0325]

ethaniel and blankgameplays fighting inside ethan’s head 24/7

[@juliesong3149]

Thats the ADHD 😂

[@miranosity]

jocelyn being Ethan’s personal bully is extremely entertaining as well as concerning

[@alfadasfire]

Jocelyn gets paid to bully him. Maybe he likes it

[@drayelemons8111]

More like a mother 😂lol

[@nicobailey2197]

Ethan’s toilet must be terrified every time he walks in

[@Sanguinis666]

It feels like the SOUL of Unus Annus was Ethan. Videos like this just OOZE that awkward moment-in-time vibes of a Ua video

[@LittleMissCyclone]

Ethan's chocolate mouse story was surprisingly relatable for me. No allergies, but when I was young I was on regular medications and IDK, I've always been weird with pills, they don't go down well, so it was a struggle finding a way to make it a tolerable experience. One of the tricks we did for a while was sticking it in a spoonful of jam. Worked great at first, but then I started to associate jam with pills and stopped being able to tolerate it. Jam itself became disgusting to me. It wasn't until recent years that I decided to give jam a go again, slowly got over it, quite like it now.

[@K.Arashi]

that's like me with apple juice! i used to mix liquid iron into apple juice, and the super strong metallic flavour would mix with the apple flavour in a nasty way. and then i'd get nauseous because iron upset my stomach. so for like a decade after i couldn't have apple juice without wanting to puke

[@LittleMissCyclone]

@@K.Arashi liquid iron? Wouldn’t that taste fine on its own though? Maltofer’s iron syrup is delicious

[@_korbo_]

You know knowing that ethan hates jello, I was confused at how he could like pudding which is pretty similar in texture, but he did rate most of these at F tier so I guess it makes sense.

[@catgirlwarrior9755]

Most of the time pudding is not the same texture as Jell-O. These were because (i'm pretty sure) they were Jell-O brand pudding mix, but when you make actual pudding from scratch it should never have the texture of Jell-O. You're not supposed to put gelatin in pudding 😂

[@NoiseDay]

I know the texture is different, but they are basically the same in my mind. Then again, I have an easier time with the texture of jello than pudding.

[@stari-jy5vs]

classic eef... eating toxic pudding for our enjoyment He loves a good tummy ache.

[@CaroSOSaS]

@angelica0748 no, Mark is

[@mamoon304]

​@angelica0748He wants to see how much his body can take

[@NikkiBudders]

@angelica0748 nah, he's a people pleaser (with love)

[@pinkdruid2347]

The “THERE’S SO MUCH TEXTURE” bit at 11:01 is so real. Can the ND community get on making that into a meme? Thanks 😂

[@Neroxious]

the last time i ate pudding i vomited all over the floor but the chocolate tasted pretty good

[@CaroSOSaS]

Lol same! pretty traumatized from pudding after that

[@hannahrose3493]

I have a memory of vomiting pudding at a wedding reception, but i also dont know if it was a dream or reality

[@K3LL1N]

I did too but from the other end because it was the sugar free kind

[@hajidle]

Used to eat chocolate pudding every day and just gag but I still ate it every day

[@worbjorb]

this is so real

[@acm888]

“I don’t know what flavor ✨trauma✨ would be.” -Eef 2024 😂

[@_.v4nny.b0nny._]

Seems like it’s chocolate mousse😂

[@trevorroth4139]

Banana flavoring is based on an extinct banana. The taste is dead on but we have no reference for it.

[@CaroSOSaS]

Yeah, and now we are going through somewhat of a second banana apocalypse due to fusarium wilt essentially getting all Cavendish bananas sick. One of my country's biggest export is bananas.

[@mooncherrie]

is not extinct just incredibly less common but is still grown in some countries

[@naxmorvigatore4168]

I was half expecting Mark to come in and surprise Ethan like "Heheh, this is _not_ pudding~" and then shove some fudge down his gob or something, lol

[@flameofmage1099]

Hell yeah Grinch reference

[@iPitafish]

Having friends who like the flavors you don't is peak in sharing food. It means you don't have to throw anything away, you just give it to them! Win-win!

[@animeartist888]

Me with my hubby lol. I hate artificial cherry and he hates artificial grape. So we can eat things with "assorted fruit" flavors just fine together. Same deal with white and dark chocolate. And I hate mint, but he likes it fine. The best way to ensure you never waste candy is to hang around someone who likes the things you don't and vice versa!

[@thepumpkinqueen2955]

Banana is flavored after a banana that has gone extinct. And grape flavor is flavored after concord grape I believe

[@CANINECODED]

why do either of them taste like that. terrible

[@daryissaplayz2312]

​@@CANINECODEDwell the banana wasn't meant to taste good, it was made to transfer seeds. As it was mostly seeds, and was obviously a fruit from a plant. We basically engineered it to taste better and have less seeds. Idk about the grapes tho

[@andrewterry6538]

​@daryissaplayz2312 it's evolved to taste good. That's how it entices animals to eat it and spread the seeds.

[@o0aligoth0o14]

I hate when people say vanilla is the default flavor... Try eating plain yogurt, and then try eating vanilla flavored. There's a HUGE difference.

[@DanielBohnen]

I think they're saying that vanilla taste better ​@idreamed_adream

[@monstaxxiv7163]

God I love vanilla. Where my vanilla heads at

[@callie-flower3177]

yeah... that's the point lol. plain yogurt doesn't have a flavor, and vanilla yogurt does. so therefore vanilla yogurt is the default flavor because there is an absence of flavor in plain yogurt

[@skyethenerd1054]

​@@roachroachin7193 ur so right bestie

[@flameofmage1099]

Default isn't the same as none in this context though. When you say pudding, ice cream, yogurt, etc. most people will immediately think of vanilla and vanilla is presented as such in pop culture and advertising. I get what you mean though.

[@wanderingwolf2606]

Jocelyn's genuine laugh to Ethan saying she's not in his will is the best thing ever

[@hannahdixon37]

the fact that i’ll never know that one homemade pudding flavor because he never said it, haunts me.

[@flameofmage1099]

I will think about it at night for years to come

[@nezerac13]

Ethan “this tastes absolutely disgusting F tier” Also Ethan * keeps eating it*

[@ApexOrion04]

" I don't know what it is, Joselyn." Has to he one of the funniest things eef has said and idk why

[@queenie691]

So who’s gonna tell him about the banana genocide of the 50’s?

[@kaitlynblount7683]

Literally everyone in the comments, lol.

[@harryplatipus4303]

I love the funny little pudding boy

[@CaroSOSaS]

Speak with property that's a pudding MAN

[@nopenope-ds5rf]

'They are putting chemicals in the banana pudding turning the freaking frogs gay do you understand that!'- Ethan Nestor 2024

[@Red_Kliff]

Nothing is better than homemade banana pudding with fresh banana slices and Nilla Wafers.

[@alex_bobalex]

the title is making me so nervous that one has peanuts in it

[@CaroSOSaS]

Yep

[@lauren1048]

I really don't think Jocelyn or anyone else would allow that to happen

[@abbynormal1246]

Eef being an old man in a cardigan ranting about banana flavoring politics is my new favorite thing

[@thegneebler]

the fact that they had to not only mute it but also blur his mouth is mildly terrifying like what did he threaten??? edit: i literally forgot to clarify it was abt the fruity pebbles one

[@apawture]

i agree with you about grape flavor, it tastes terrible. but fake banana flavor is SO good and i wish more things had it. theres an h mart nearby where you can buy a 6 pack of banana milk cartons and its 10 dollars now. 10 dollars for 6 little juice boxes!! and i keep getting it! i had those cinnabon puddings before, they were okay as a novelty treat but i didnt really feel the need to get them again after that. the best flavor, imo, is butterscotch. it tastes like a hug

[@assas1nscreed]

So true. Everything you said is so true

[@anarchistgold8023]

The way eff feels about artificial banana is how I feel about artificial Strawberry

[@belmoon01]

ethan straight up spitting the pudding over the balcony into his backyard was so real, like i wanna do that when i taste something bad

[@saharahowell6486]

“But more than chocolate, I like vanilla.” *puts chocolate above vanilla*

[@jjjfo1818]

“Isn’t tapioca a pudding”…YES ETHAN YOURE EATING PUDDING 😭😂

[@coffeeallen6166]

Weirdly enough, I love banana flavor- but hate real bananas

[@therealkingslayer51]

Fun fact: The artificial banana flavor is actually pretty close to what bananas *used* to taste like. The most common banana for a while was called a Gros Michel, and they are what the artificial flavor is based on. Unfortunately, the Gros Michel was basically wiped out by a fungus and is now only grown by small-scale local farmers.

[@julieneff9408]

I like pudding in general but I believe in banana pudding supremacy - the whole dessert w/artificial banana pudding, fresh bananas, vanilla wafers, and whipped cream.

[@theresaluu6858]

Hearing Ethan talk about the research project and the unintentional psychological side effect of the chocolate mousse & having allergic reaction was really cool. It’s like the video he made a while back about his allergic reactions and he teaches the audience how an epi pen works. It’s the same vibe. Big brain. It’s cool.

[@greenbookreclaim2471]

"ow I hit my ankle on the side of the table~" That's a bop

[@robinjones3771]

I love watching the videos you torture yourself in while trying not to throw up after I ate a bowl full of hot rice krispy squares while stoned

[@N3TSLVM]

EEF struggling with the idea of Tapioca has gotta be the most entertaining thing I've seen recently.

[@MrNaesme]

Artifical banana flavoring is a REAL banana flavor my man. It's called the Gros Michel and was the main banana harvested until it was nearly wiped out by a fungal disease back in the 20th century. The Cavendish is what we use now because it is resistant to that disease. The flavor profile if Cavendish is complex and difficult to replicate, which is why Gras Michel is still used.

[@bobbiecapewell5333]

I heard that the Cavendish is facing extinction now too, due to a similar fungus. I wonder what banana 3.0 will taste like

[@matthewlongmire7656]

It would’ve been hilarious is Jocelyn removed one of the containers after he said she wasn’t in the Will

[@lillyr9295]

Ethan: I’ve said my boundaries! No one else needs to know about it Also, Ethan: This one looks like what I just did 😂😂

[@Peachy_Edits]

the airplane noises really add the ominous undertones that naturally come with eating pudding

[@katemoseley5522]

Love your Nixon-esque "so much Texture" why did i laugh so much

[@sadtrash4623]

I like sticking a plastic spoon upside down in snakpaks and freezing them into pudding pops. would do this with chocolate, tapioca, butterscotch... really any flavor we had in the house at the time

[@nopenope-ds5rf]

The homemade pudding looks like baby food so i guess you really are going back to your childhood

[@soupbird8081]

isoamyl acetate(banana flavoring) -is- found in bananas, but not nearly as much in the ones that we eat nowadays. There was, however, lots of isoamyl acetate in the Gros Michel banana(and thus tasted a lot more akin to banana candies). The Gros michel was -the- banana back in the day, it was the most popular banana variety in the mid 1800s, when bananas started getting introduced to much of the US. Unfortunately the Gros Michel banana was attacked by(and nearly wiped off the face of the earth) by the fusarium fungus(starting around the late 1800s, near gone by the 1950s) (Banana typically spread thru 'cloning' and thus, there really wasnt a chance of any Gros Michel plants being able to evolve a defense against the fungus.) The banana we eat nowadays in the Cavendish, which is hardier than Gros Michel and more Fusarium resistant, but they also don't taste nearly as banana-y as the Gros Michel. So when you eat banana flavored things, you aren't eating modern bananas, but rather the bananas of times past, i think its pretty cool and its why banana is one of my favorite flavors, it has a story to it :D (i do agree with the sentiment on grape, however, that stuff makes me wanna yarf.)

[@mrmr_zoomie]

I saw the title and thumbnail and immediately thought of Mark going “This is _not_ pudding.”

[@segaluna]

“I don’t know what flavor trauma would be” -Ethan Nestor 😂

[@xPyrios]

Tapioca has little "pearls" in it... Kind of like a tiny chewy boba. I'm real surprised the texture wasn't called out.

[@invaderaries7364]

Ethan: Which pudding flavor is best!? Me without watching the rest of the video: Chocolate

[@pacifisht9797]

The struggle of trusting someone to make food for you when you have allergies is real lol

[@isaacabel6839]

I'm so glad Ethan keeps coming back as a guest in Joceline's videos, that's so sweet of him!😄

[@Ashby1793]

I can't believe you didn't tell us all the flavors... I'm going to go insane wanting to know what the last vanilla-y looking one was and the basically pumpkin pie colored one was. I have guesses but I want to know 😡😡😡

[@lovelenivy]

right !!! its bothering me 😭 my guess for the white one is maybe cheesecake or white chocolate

[@pissum420]

Time stamps?

[@nataliegray1785]

Same!

[@therealdudemanbrogwyn]

7:00 "That tastes like laundry detergent. Not that I've tried it... lately" lmfao wtf 😂😂 11:23 😆🤣

[@a_w_em3006]

I literally didn't know the artificial grape flavour was artificial because there is an actual type of grape which tastes just like that, they grow in my aunts backyard and I ate them all the time, so when I first had a grape soda (which don't really exist in my country) I just thought "neat, it tastes like that one type of grape", only later finding out that everybody knows that flavour as "artificial" grape flavour.

[@ashleighM6748]

You're gonna have to take banana pudding out of my cold, dead hands.

[@LizardWizardz]

Man I can’t get that lemon pudding anywhere near me anymore, used to have it all the time at my Grandpa’s and since he passed I’ve only found the lemon meringue two-coloured one. I think it’s been like 15 years since I’ve seen the plain lemon so it was wild to see it in the lineup lol, glad to know it’s still around somewhere!

[@SlightlyDisturbed123]

So. Fun fact; grape flavoring was actually made to taste like a specific variety of grape- concord grapes- which aren't usually sold in grocery stores!! And for banana flavoring, it's modeled after the gros michaels banana, which went extinct! It actually tastes pretty damned close to what they used to taste like, from what I understand. I also think artificial grape and banana are repulsive.

[@annalisemartelino7757]

Ethan, it is *so* cool that you were a part of research! This is blowing my mind. Also, it’s cool how you explained your allergic reaction physiologically and psychologically. Science nerds for the win!!!

[@meganmain1464]

Okay, but like maybe a bee keeping video in Maine? (I would lose my mind if I casually met you) but I do know beekeepers here who do lots of educational things. They work with kids, so I feel like the vibes check out. Regardless, Would love to see a beekeeping video, even if not in the Pine Tree State.

[@cartoonsfanpageofficial]

6:45 “im gonna also give that a deer”

[@RazzberryCow]

This started autoplaying as i sat next to two empty banana cream pudding containers 💀

[@jeeperskkreepers]

tbh, as someone who doesn't like bananas, artificial banana flavouring is good to me. grape flavouring does suck, though. gotta agree with you on that

[@carda6679]

I think what I love the most about Ethan's vids are that he looks like he is going to cry at any moment & and honestly I relate man, i see u

[@lizard_girl]

fun fact artificial grape isn't actually artificial! it's just a breed of grapes called concorde grapes! I grow them, they're delicious

[@lixak6307]

This is fascinating because he hates jello. With my flavor of ADHD I loathe jello AND pudding because they have identical textures to me

[@lauren1048]

I also hate mousse, jelly, yoghurt, even soup. Anything like that really

[@lixak6307]

@@lauren1048 I hated soup for a really long time! I learned if I have a sandwich to dip it in or if I view it as a drink I can have it

[@DancePeripheryDance]

butterscotch snack pack was my life since the diaper days. still is

[@amberdawn5372]

I love grape and hate the banana flavoring. But honestly I loved the banana cream pudding cups growing up. I guess the banana flavor was mellowed out so much by the cream that the “fake” banana flavor never bothered me.

[@Tremolo_1]

Wait until Ethan finds out about the 3 trillion dollars worth of cheese hidden in caves around America

[@vierots]

forget ethan, why am *i* only just now finding out about this????

[@DeadinsideDino]

I just had a memory where when I was like 4-5 we did this thing at school where we watch a movie and eat a color of the rainbow and one of it was green pudding🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@wyv3rn1]

the fact pistachio ain't here pistachios me off

[@vierots]

this made me snort laugh at 5am 😭

[@liz1646]

The way both banana and grape artificial flavors are my favorite makes this so funny to me.

[@TheHourofWitchery]

Does anyone else remember the puddings in the tin cans in the 90s? THOSE were good. Peeling back that tin lid. Which makes me feel like I liked pudding as a kid. But in my early 30's I tried pudding again and damn near gagged. The texture was the absolute worst thing. So 11:01 is the realest thing, smooth, chunky, textured, makes me gag and shiver.

[@stillwrendering]

the editing of these more recent videos in the last few months is sending me

[@janethumphres]

I love how Jocelyn was talking to Ethan like he’s a child “how was your poop? Did you wash your hands? Did you wipe” 😂

[@EBEvitt]

I was away at a residential therapy place at one point and because of a food allergy I couldn't eat a lot of stuff they served so they often just got me snack packs for lunch but for some reason they got me only the weirdest flavours. The Cinnabon ones were pretty good but the Fruity Pebbles ones were rancid.

[@EasterT]

I dont think banana flavor or grape flavored things are the worst, theyre not the best by any means, but i think there is one artificial flavor that is the worst, and its bacon. Artificial bacon flavor makes me very sad

[@skyshack4194]

Artificial grape is based on concord grapes, which is why it doesn't taste like normal table grapes!

[@isuckatgaming1873]

SPREAD THE WORD vanilla is not the basic flavor of anything Chocolate flavoring has existed for longer than vanilla, and more often than not the base flavors of sweet things is either buttercream, milk or sugar

[@SadDragonNoises]

Tapioca has tiny bobba pearls that generally settle to the bottom of the pudding cups. You have to mix the pudding before you eat it. It's a texture thing.

[@AxiEisa]

2:00 "I don't know what that IS" * me sweating because he doesn't know what peanut tastes like *

[@sekirk]

‘It’s so much texture’ bit wrote me the fuck of that was so funny

[@Sammie1053]

“my stomach feels bad” Well boxed and pre-made puddings are mostly corn starch, so uh… It’ll do that to ya

[@glassycolors]

"You can't tell me that people like this, its awful" Meanwhile I have that same exact banana cream pudding sitting in my fridge LMAO

[@LiamToons]

Coming from a fellow pudding lover, this teir list will come in handy for when I make my trip to the store for a delightful treat, thank you Ethan 🙏

[@kaprisunn01]

6:13 “ *what* “

[@sprite6457]

Dude, on my car, he showed up naked covered in bees 🐝 (SPN)

[@ceetlesib]

I can't really explain why--but I have an overwhelming urge to steal that fancy black spoon.

[@beesallhail]

artificial banana flavoring is the only way i can eat bananas bc im alergic. its not amazing, but its alright. also artificial grape is the BEST. i have rlly bad texture issues and i dont like the texture of grapes, so artificial grape is my bestie. number 1 flavor always.

[@laurynhinnant5712]

real ones know that butterscotch pudding is where its at

[@vierots]

oh god i would do unspeakable things for butterscotch ANYTHING

[@oleigh23]

10:50 when ethan encounters the bee of disgust