Kani Kanizawa and TRiGGERPHiSH Judge Food Photos in Scrandle, Then Draft Bonnie as Tails

ATELIER LIVE — Kani Kanizawa and TRiGGERPHiSH spent most of a three-hour stream judging photographs of stadium and street food in Scrandle, a browser game in which players pick which of two dishes more people would choose to eat. Partway through, a third talent, Bonnie, dropped in, and the group began casting itself as Sonic the Hedgehog characters.

The stream opened with a microphone mix-up. One participant, who said a friend had told them they sounded as if they had breathed helium, switched to a second microphone on air, and the others said the result sounded like it was coming from underwater. The two hosts, who call themselves “Sonic and Knuckles,” then settled into the game.

“You have to be barking mad to try this burger.” — Kani Kanizawa and TRiGGERPHiSH, over a burger from Barking

Early on they worked out how to play: either guess what the crowd will choose, or go by personal taste, and they chose personal taste while still weighing the prices printed on the photos. Fish fingers coated in Kit Kat chocolate beat chips buried in olives, and a Wigan kebab, a pie in a bread roll, lost to a double cheese bacon burger. Jerk chicken and chips took 81 percent of the vote in one round. Rounds of football-ground fare produced the stream’s running complaint: unmelted cheese slices, burnt patties and a cucumber slice standing in for a burger patty at a BBC Proms concert. The pair said the vote seemed to skew American, and chat advised betting on a burger or a hot dog.

A Friday theme round of video game food brought Silent Hill bread, Resident Evil dishes and Fallout’s grilled radroach. They picked the moldy bread over the radroach. Between rounds the conversation ran to school dinners, British chocolate against American, and plans for an American chocolate tasting stream.

About two hours twenty minutes in, Bonnie joined and the trio posed as Sonic, Knuckles and Tails. They sketched a cast of other British talents as the rest of the Sonic characters and said they would play a Sonic racing game, which they said supports up to 12 players online. TRiGGERPHiSH left to get ready for school, and Kani Kanizawa signed off by saying a Euro Truck Simulator stream for the new coaches DLC was likely later that day.