- Beets are actually really good for your heart.

- (moodily) I'm not in the mood for vegetables!

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- (FBE) So we're gonna have you try some Greek vegetables.

We'll show you the raw version, and then you'll be tasting

a prepared meal from a local Greek restaurant.

- Ooh, hope it's good.

- I don't like vegetables.

- Yeah, I love trying new things!

- (moodily) I'm not in the mood for vegetables!

- What is Greek food-- like, Greek food?

- Isn't Greek like another place?

- They're foreign and they're vegetables,

so it's scary.

- (FBE) Here is your first vegetable.

- Ooh, and that's an eggplant.

- Kinda look like a purple pear with this kind of weird stem.

- Is this squash?

- I know what it is. It's eggplant.

- It's gooey and squishy.

(mumbling) It's spicy.

- (gulping) That is amazing. Wow, that is good.

- Uh-uh, I don't like it.

It's spicy and it doesn't taste good.

- It's really spicy, like, ouch!

- It's very soft and squishy.

- It was really good.

I liked how there was feta cheese inside

and the taste of it.

- (FBE) This is popoutsakia, or grilled eggplant.

The word "popoutsakia" is literally translated to mean

"little shoes" because that is what the cooked eggplant

looks like when it's cut in half. - "Little shoes."

Okay.

- I don't see the little shoes.

- (FBE) Here's your next vegetable, and a picture of the raw version.

- That looks weird.

Wait, is it a leaf?

It doesn't look too appetizing to me.

- It's a leaf.

- It looks like seaweed.

I love seaweed.

- The inside looks very weird.

- It tastes like really, really, really,

really, really, really, really, really, really, really,

really, really, really, really, really salty steak.

- Nice texture, and then the stuff in the inside's nice.

The leaf is actually pretty good.

- Oh, ugh.

This stuff is sour and gross.

- Mmmm! These are so good.

There's meat and onion in it, I think,

and the outside is like seaweed, and there's cheese on it, I think.

- (FBE) This is called a grape leaf, or dolmades.

They are most often picked fresh from the vine

and stuffed with a mixture of rice, meat, and spices,

and then cooked by boiling or steaming.

- This is rice?

It's like mush on the inside and hard and leafy on the outside.

- I would try this again because it's nicely flavored,

but I have a question.

How many grape leaves does it take to cover this?

One or more?

- (FBE) Here's your next vegetable.

- Is this-- is this a radish?

- They look like radishes.

- Beets are actually really good for your heart.

- My dad would ask if I wanted some,

and I'd be like, "Um, no thanks."

- It's a little too squishy and doesn't really have

that much taste.

- It's kind of sweet.

- That is not bad.

It's pretty actually nicely flavored.

It's kinda soft and stuff.

I expected it to be hard and taste bad,

but opposite of both of those.

- I can't explain it, but... ewwww!

Hard enough to be a form, but squishy enough

to almost dissolve in your mouth.

- (FBE) This is a beet, or teftla.

Greek salads are a very popular dish,

typically consumed in the summer,

and you aren't having a Greek meal

if it isn't accompanied with a Greek salad.

This one is specifically a beet salad. - Wow, just this is a salad?

Wow, usually salads has this, that, that, that.

But done, here's your salad.

- Next time my dad's like, "Hey, you want some?"

I'll be like, "Sure!"

- (FBE) Here is your last vegetable.

- That does not look like that.

- Beans?

These look like really odd beans.

- It looks like sunflower seeds.

So this is raw?

- Don't judge anything by its looks.

That is actually really, really, really good!

- Mmmm. Delicious.

- It looks like it would taste bad, like throw up soup,

but nope, it's actually really good.

- It tastes like clam chowder, kind of,

but a little more bumpy.

- Yeah, it just taste like a bean.

- (FBE) This is lentils.

Lentils are a staple in the Greek kitchen,

and they are part of the legume family.

- That's what they're called!

I prefer it without all this green stuff,

but other than that, it was really good.

- They're really good. I would try them again.

- (FBE) So which one of these Greek vegetables

would you recommend people eat?

- The lentils.

- The grape leaf one.

- The grape leaf.

- Try the beet salad.

- The beet Greek salad.

- I think the beets.

- I would suggest lentils.

It looks weird and throw up, but try it. It's delicious.

- Thanks for watching us eat Greek vegetables

on the React channel.

- What country should we visit next?

Let us know in the comments.

- Bye!

- Hey, everyone, Alyssa here, a producer from the React channel.

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