sandwich battle: Babish vs. the Fallow guys

I've seen a ton of YouTuber food battles, but none quite like this. In this battle, the two Fallow guys (Will Murray and Jack Croft, the owners of the much praised, low-waste London restaurants Fallow, FOWL, and Roe) go up against Babish (real name: Andrew Rea) on his home turf of New York City. The object of the game: Create a good specialty sandwich in four hours, then be judged by three Americans.

What made this battle so different from other food battles I've seen is a little moment that happens while the two teams are out in the city, shopping for ingredients. There's an instant when Jack Croft has what the Brits call a brain wave, i.e., a brainstorm. He asks Murray why they don't just make an unrepentantly British sandwich, based on the "dip" idea, but made with England's most iconic dish: chicken tikka masala. This brain wave proves to have massive repercussions throughout the rest of the battle, and as creative moves go, I felt almost honored to have witnessed it. Babish, meanwhile, brought his "A" game and went with an almost haute-cuisine rendition of a French dip, loaded up with creamed spinach, thin slices of dry-aged beef, and two types of aged Gruyère—one from Switzerland and one from Amurrica. Watch the battle and see who wins. Enjoy the brain wave when it happens, and enjoy how that creative decision's momentum carries through to the end of the video. Most such battles leave me rolling my eyes, but this one, I think, merits your attention. I very much enjoyed it.