‘Tis the season for peppermint-flavored food. – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) Good mythical morning! – Thank you for making us a part of your daily routine, and as a reward for that, we got a big, big show for you. – Big, man, it’s so big. – It’s so big. I got s’more pics to hopefully get back on the Instagram, Mike and Alex get covered in sharpies, and we present our twist on the new LaCroix hair color trick. – But first, pumpkin spice, we need to break up. I’ve decided I want to see other spices. And ’tis the season for peppermint-flavored everything. – Mhm, once again, Trader Joe’s has gone overboard. (imitates horn) So it’s time for… I’ve got a craverin’ for some peppermint flavorin’! – Okay, so we’re going to be tasting and ranking various peppermint-flavored Trader Joe’s items. Now, we’ve got six items. – There’s a lot more. – They got more than six. We’ve narrowed it down to six. – Joe goes cray-cray. – We narrowed it down to six that we think are representative of the peppermint offerings. – In order to help you make your choice if you need to narrow it down further than that, we’ve got our score, what’s it called? – A scale? – A scale, not score. Amaze-mint, enchant-mint, mint-iocre… – That one was a stretch. It was really working until mint-iocre. – What about mehhhh-int? – [Rhett] That’s good. – [Link] Disappoint-mint and abolish-mint. – Wow, that’s harsh, harsh words. – Maybe don’t buy that one. Let’s get going with the first one, what do we have here? Some peppermint pretzel, no, peppermint bark. – This is Peppermint Bark. Now let me just start, you don’t even have to hear us say this, but just in case you’re new, you know that I’m going to like everything, ’cause I like everything and Link is going to have a fundamental problem with peppermint, because he has a fundamental problem with peppermint. – Rhett is gonna see the frustration– – And Rhett is going to be a little bit annoyed by that. Let’s just go ahead and get that out of the way. Yes, I’m going to be annoyed by the fact that he doesn’t like peppermint, because I love peppermint, and this is one of my favorite things on Earth. This is my number one! – Well don’t go ahead– – I’m just telling you. If you can beat peppermint bark, I’ll give it to you. – I never had peppermint bark, because I never thought I would like it. – I’m gonna set it aside for a second. – Somewhere between the two of us is an impartiality. – But you can’t not like everything just because it’s got a mint. – We’re the yin and the yang as we would say as kids, who didn’t know what yinyang was. – Yeah. – Good God, bark is hard. – Wouldn’t be bark if it wasn’t hard. – It’s got quite a bite too, can you hear me? – Just promise me– – Promise me– – Just promise me that the one thing you won’t say is, it would be good if it were not for the peppermint. Just don’t say that, you cannot say that. – I was about to say that. (audience laughing) Tell me how to interact with it, because I’m thinking about chocolate and peppermint but I’m not thinking about them together. – Don’t think about it, just enjoy it. Just embrace it, man. – I would say it’s not bad. – Don’t think it, that’s the problem. You think about food, I just eat it. I use my stomach and my mouth, not my brain. – Since I don’t think it’s bad and he thinks everything is great, I’m gonna put it right here in the middle like we normally start and then I’m not opposed to moving this forward because it’s not bad at all. – Alright. – But let’s move on. Now we have the pretzels. – These are Peppermint Pretzel Slims. “Our thin, crunchy pretzel slims “with a creamy coating of peppermint sprinkles.” Now, people out here have been eatin’ these by the bagful, thinking they’re getting skinny, ’cause they’re called slims. That ain’t how it works, y’all. – I think it’s just that the pretzel is slim. – The pretzel is slim, you’re not going to be slim if you eat a lot of these. – Now I don’t love pretzels either– – How, how– – I mean there’s so many things to eat, why do I– I don’t have to like everything. – Exactly! It’s like the world is your oyster, and you don’t like oysters either. – I don’t love oysters. This isn’t bad, this isn’t bad, I feel like I’m gettin’ in the holiday spirit, and I can tell you are. – This is so good, man. – The pretzel thing kinda widens it out. – Can we put ’em both at number one for now? – No, this is a little better. I think this is a little better. – Really? That hurts me, man. I been living off that bark for a long time. Those are really good, though. Especially comin’ off of the bark, gettin’ into the slims comin’ off of the bark, going the sweet to the saucy? – (laughing) They’re not saucy. – Whatever it is. – But that being said– – Salty. – Oh, now we’re gonna mix it up with some beverage. We’ve got– – This is green tea, man. – Candy Cane Green Tea, decaffeinated. – Now I’m a fan of green tea, I been doing a lot of green teas since I stopped drinking coffee because it does somethin’ to my insides, I don’t wanna explain what it does. I’ll show you some pictures, follow me on Instagram. (audience laughing) I don’t take pictures of what I deposit in the toilet, don’t get excited. – He has taken some selfies on the toilet, he didn’t think you would notice but you did. – No, no, that was Snapchat. My first ever Snapchat selfie was a toilet selfie. – Now this is a sweet spot for peppermint for me. I mean, on a cane and in a tea. So I’m all about this. – This is really good, but it doesn’t excite me. – Here’s the– exactly. – I’d hurt somebody over either of these, you know what I’m saying? – Oh really, I couldn’t tell. – If this was the last thing on the aisle in Trader Joe’s and it was not even Black Friday, I’m just talking a regular Tuesday, I might hurt somebody. I mean, I’m a big man, I get excited, I might hurt somebody over this, but be “Oh, you can have the green tea, I’ll get some other thing.” – Because peppermint tea is something that any time of year, I could grab out of a shelf. So it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just that it’s not special enough. Man. – What? – Now I got two mugs. – Now we keep these– – What is this? – In supply at my house. – Really? – We keep, we got all of this stuff. We have a peppermint shelf, the shelf itself is made of peppermint. – This time of year or you stock up? – This time of year. But me and the kids, we really like these Minty Mallows. – [Link] I just don’t– – You don’t like marshmallows either, do you? – I don’t love marshmallows. I’m not proud of it. – I’m beginning to think at some point you set out and you just decided to hate things, man. Is it because I love everything and you feel like you have to hate things just to balance us? – I recognize that, I know there were people on my side, you may have been on my side at the beginning of this conversation and now I’m losing you. – You’ve not liked everything so far. – I know. It’s a problem. – I’m trying to do the peppermint, we’re just talking about the other things associated with the peppermint. – Maybe the peppermint will help me like– I don’t hate marshmallows, it’s just that it’s not what I choose when there’s other things on the shelf like peanut butter or just chocolate. Or white chocolate, which isn’t really chocolate. – I love the texture of a marshmallow, but I gotta say in the context of these other things, it’s not as good as I remember it. It’s not as good as the slims or the bark. I mean, right off the bat it tastes a little toothpastey. – You’re right, it’s very strong. It’s aromatic and it’s not as good to me. – I’m not gonna take ’em off the shelf, the peppermint shelf, they will stay on. – You gonna put it low, low, low? Let’s put it low, low, low. – Really? I feel bad about that. – We can switch it in a little bit. Now we’ve got some Candy Cane Joe Joes. – [Rhett] Now they look like Oreos, they’re not Oreos. – I love Oreos. – Is that a joke? – Yeah. – You don’t like Oreos? – I don’t hate Oreos, but if there’s another type of cookie there, I’m probably gonna choose it. (audience laughing) And I’m sorry, I’m legitimately sorry that I’m being this way. – You cannot say that it’s not a little annoying. I know you people in the comments. You’re like, “Well I don’t like things too.” We know you don’t like things, you made that very clear. But it’s a little annoying when somebody doesn’t like everything, right? I mean this, c’mon, maybe I’m a little annoying being annoyed by it, I understand that too, but c’mon, gimme a break. – Let me say this. Nothing that I’ve eaten– – Is bad. – Has been bad. You know I’ve been talking about preference. After eating the other peppermint stuff, I think that marshmallow especially, I cannot really taste the peppermint in this. – This is a very slight peppermint– – [Link] It’s mild. – It kinda tastes like somebody stuck something into some Oreos. – Which is good. – No, in a bad way. If I wanted Oreos and somebody put some Borox in ’em, like they’re trying to kill the roaches? – Borox is not pepperminty. I tried it, I liked that, really good. – But it’s like crystallized and crunchy. – There is a crunchiness. – I could take it or leave it, I’m not gonna hurt anybody over this. – I like the mild pepperminty-ness of it. – It’s better than the tea, it’s not better than the bark. – It should go in there. – Okay, and final– – Gimme something else. Oh, finally, some what is this, chocolate milk? – Chocolate Peppermint Almond Beverage. – Ooh, I– – Boy that sounds appetizing. – You know what I love? – Almond beverage? – Chocolate milk! (laughing) – It’s not chocolate milk, it’s almond beverage. They couldn’t even say almond milk. You know the milk people have been really upset about people saying almond milk? – Cause it’s not milk according to them? – The milk lobby is like, “Listen, you can squeeze a nut all you want, “you ain’t gonna get no milk out of it.” – Speak for yourself. (audience laughing) – They are really upset about it. They got to Joe, Joe caved and said almond beverage. You gotta come up with something better than that, almond juice, at least say that. Beverage just sounds– – Almond juice. – (laughing) Almond juice. Chocolate almond juice. Dink it and keep drinkin’ it. – You like it? – I cannot taste the peppermint after the other stuff. – We need a peppermint palate cleanser. – Typically for an almond juice, it’s kinda thin. But this is a thickness that– – It is pretty nice, though. – brings me to the farm. – What’s happenin’ on the farm? – Oh, the yard. Not the farm. (audience laughing) The milkshake brings the kids to the farm. That’s what I thought the lyric was. – Yeah, I think you’re talking about a field trip. It’s fine, again. It’s just okay, I can take it or leave it. Like if you gave me this, I wouldn’t be insulted but I wouldn’t, I’d be like okay. Is it better than the tea? I don’t think it’s better than the tea. – It’s not better than the tea. – Not better than the tea. It’s not better than the mock mallows. – Oh, you’re going low, low, low? – Yeah, almond beverage. – [Link] It’s not even in the yard. – Alright, what do you think about this? – I know you wanna put the bark at number one. – I don’t know, the slims were really good and they help you lose weight, so… (audience laughing) You know, there’s a lot to love about ’em. – I am in total agreement and I think that, you know what, this has opened up a world of peppermint and pretzel for me, and you know what? I’m a new man, I’m never gonna bad-mouth peppermint stuff again. – I don’t believe you. – Well, I’m gonna try. And I do wanna apologize one more time. But you should probably apologize too. – I’m sorry, Link. – For what? – I don’t know. (laughing) Click through to see what happens when we stand in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard and ask strangers to tattoo you with a sharpie. – [Link] Pop the corn, sit back and relax, because the new season of Buddy System is available to watch right now on YouTube Red.