We’re going vegan, but at what cost? – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) – Good Mythical Morning! – Today, we’re going vegan. – That’s not your cue. I think she wrote us a letter. – You got all that from a moo? – No, I got it from a letter. – Yes, there’s a letter. Dear hair and glasses. Ever since my fiance died in a bungee jumping accident and the French Prince of Bel-Air stole my story. (crew laughing) I’ve forgotten what it felt like to smile until I started dancing with you boys. But to now hear that all those TikToks I’ve sent you haven’t been a waste and that you boys finally decided to go vegan makes me the happiest cow in the world, so thank you and I love you both. Moochelle. – Thanks for the letter, Moochelle. – Yeah, thank you. – Just, you know what? Just take it easy. Take it easy. – Showing a lot of love. – All right, all right. Take your spot. We’re doing the show. It’s happening. We’re live. We’re not live, but we’re not gonna redo that. – Yeah, right. – Okay. I’m not vegan. – I’m not either. Maybe she won’t notice. But the question today is does vegan food get better as it gets more expensive? It’s time for Naked Foods, Naked Vegan Edition. Naked! – Now, vegan meals tend to be pricier wherever you go, but which cruelty-free dishes are worth the cruelty to your wallet? That’s the question we’re gonna answer today and to find out, we’re stripping each one of them down. Meaning no garnishes, no sides until they’re all good and nakey-nakey. – And we’re gonna be trying vegan dishes from three different price points. A lot of times, we go four, but today, it’s three. The freezer section of a grocery store, fast casual, and sit down restaurants. That’s as fancy as we’re getting today is the sit down restaurant. – Each round, we’re gonna pick our favorite plate, then Stevie’s gonna tell us where each food is from and how much it costs so that in the end, we’re gonna know just how becoming vegan expensive would be us. – Wow, yeah. I think I understand. – How much it would cost each of us to go vegan. – For Moochelle! (cow mooing) (gentle upbeat music) – [Stevie] These are vegan black bean burgers. – These are vegan black bean burgers. – Okay, I got nothing again a vegan black bean burger and this one is obvious just a patty of mushed up black beans. – Well, that’s the thing is now that beyond meat and impossible meat exists, it’s tough to get on board with these black bean burgers. – And this is coming from a bean lover. – It’s not that bad, though. – I just don’t know why you even call it a burger. – I think I’m getting more from the other ingredients on the sandwich, especially the tomato. (chuckling) – Well, what are those- – [Rhett] Sprouts. – [Link] Sprouts. (crew laughing) – [Both] Sprouts. – What are those exotic? – [Link] Ew, what is this? The is like- – It’s red. – Oh, God. It’s a tomato. – But the burger itself is also red. – What? What is happening? So this is like some sort of red sauce on top of. This interesting. – I do not like the consistency. – Is it beets? – It’s mushy. There’s definitely beets in there, but I kind of like the flavor. – It’s like quinoa or something. It’s full of other stuff. – And then this one is like, y’all, we’re gonna get a black bean burger and we’re gonna get a bun and we’re gonna call it a day. – Yeah, this doesn’t seem to be very fancy, but hey, it looks the most like a burger. Not bad. – I think the burger itself might be. It is the most burger-like, isn’t it? – It’s beans, green stuff, brown stuff, orange stuff, yellow stuff. – It’s got some spice to it. – I enjoy it the most, I think. – It’s doing a bunch of heavy lifting, too. – I don’t wanna get ahead of myself, but. – Okay. All right. – [Stevie] Well, it’s that time. You can stab your favorite in three, two, one. (Link and Rhett mimicking an airplane) – I don’t care. Yeah because actually, it’s a unit. It’s a patty. – [Rhett] This almost feels like a spread. – [Link] This isn’t horrible, but it’s- – [Stevie] Okay, well, we’re starting things off with a surprise today. You both seemed to know that this is our frozen version. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Of the burger. It’s Gardein’s ultimate black bean burger for $1.86. – Not bad at all, Gardein. You done it. – And then the first one on Rhett’s side is our fast casual vegan joint for $10.95 and then our fanciest is our sit down in the middle, Cafe Gratitude, for $18.50. – Oh, that’s the place that they- – They make you order by saying- – How you feel. – Like what you’re thankful for or something. – Yeah. – It’s fun until it’s not. – Yeah, it’s fun the first time. – Gardein, you know? Taking, what’s it called when you unseat a higher seed? – Upturning, turning up. – A Cinderella story. (crew laughing) – Usurping. – Usurping. (gentle upbeat music) – [Stevie] These are buffalo cauliflower wings. – These are buffalo cauliflower wings. – I like these. – Interesting. – Sometimes I’ll do these at a non-vegan place. – [Link] Naan. That’s Indian food. – [Rhett] Right. – Now, here we go. I could think that there’s chicken in here. – That’s tasty, man. – I do think the key is to not think of it in terms of chicken, but to think of it in terms of- – Yeah, you know that you’re getting cauliflower. Yeah. But nice flavor profile. – Yeah. – It’s a little bit mushy, but yeah, come on. It’s cauliflower and the breading is pretty nice. – On camera, these all look like chicken. Am I right? – You’re right. But this one- – Stevie, you thinking this is chicken from your vantage point? – [Stevie] It does resemble chicken. – It looks like chicken pieces. – [Stevie] It looks like orange chicken. – But then from my vantage point, it looks like cauliflower. – I’m sorry, but you didn’t flavor these well enough. I’m not even gonna finish that. (Link retching) – Yeah, you’re right. – It’s like they forgot to dip them and they also added something that tastes bad. – Wow, that’s disappointing. – [Rhett] These look like they have something going for them. – Orange chicken. It’s not supposed to be orange chicken. – It’s buffalo chicken and that’s why these are incredible. – These right here, they taste good, but they’re very mushy inside. – There’s a clear winner here for the Rhett-ster. – They have more of a bounce. – Yeah, yeah. – I ain’t mad at these. – I’m thinking about bouncing these later. – I ain’t mad at these. – Let me see how they can bounce when I play my bounce games by myself. – Even inside, number one kinda looks like chicken. – Even inside, it kinda looks like chicken. – Yeah. – I don’t think that’s the point necessarily, though. – I agree. – I think it’s what you want, though. (laughs) You made that clear. – [Stevie] Here we go. – They call it a freaking chicken wing. – [Stevie] In three, two, one. (Rhett grunting) – It’s gotta be here. – Bam. – Yeah. This is not bad to me. – [Stevie] Okay, this is a first for this series because again, you’ve chosen the frozen version. – Whoa. – [Stevie] These are Birds Eye buffalo style cauliflower wings for $1.66. – Dang, Birds Eye. – We’re going cheap, y’all. It’s gonna be easy to go vegan! – Yeah! – Is it just because we are that unsophisticated? – [Stevie] Well, here’s the thing. The middle plate is from our sit down fancy place, Sage, for $16. I gotta say, my experience with Sage is similar to you, so I’m feeling very validated right now that you didn’t like it. – Okay, I’ve had some good meals at Sage. – It’s way strange. – And listen, I think that those come. If you get those at the restaurant, I think they come with a dipping sauce. – [Stevie] Yeah, I think we went sauceless across the board- – Naked. – [Stevie] And the lats one’s are from our fast casual, Veggie Grill, for $8.95. – [Rhett] They’re not bad. The Veggie Grill’s not bad. – I’m a fan of Veggie Grill. – [Stevie] Same. – I like their work. I like what you do. You fooled me many a time. – Yes, but you’re no Birds Eye. (laughing) (crew laughing) (gentle upbeat music) – All right, before we get to this, we wanna make a big announcement. Mythical has a brand new official logo! – Look at that. It’s the new Mythical M that spells the new Mythical word. (laughing) Hey! – This is it. This is the logo. It’s on my arm. – It’s on my arm. It’s on my chest. It’s on my legs. – What? We are very excited. – And it’s on my chest! – No. It’s way up there. We’re very excited for you to start seeing this M everywhere on the earth. Now, naturally, we have created a whole merch collection. Like what Rhett said, we got the joggers. We got the hoodie. We got the t-shirt. We got it all. Tell them about why we did this, Rhett. – Well, every once in awhile, you gotta mix things up. You gotta change things up. You gotta move into the future and if you wanna be a part of moving Mythical into the future by repping your boys, go over to mythical.com and grab some. We got t-shirts, hoodies, joggers, all that and more to come, but right now, this is the collection. Mythical. Always curious. – Yeah, look at that. – [Stevie] And these are jackfruit pulled pork sandwiches. – These are jackfruit pulled pork sandwiches. – Jackfruit for barbecue of the vegan world. – Now, the reason that jackfruit works so well. – It’s stringy? – Is because if you just saw that and you we’re not really looking too closely, you’d think, there’s a pulled pork sandwich and then you’d eat it. – Add a little smoke. Add a little slaw. Add a little happiness into us all. – Are you trying to make it better by giving it a theme song? (crew laughing) – It’s not great, is it? – Pulled pork is such, it’s so good, it’s so difficult to get that, but it’s not bad because it’s such a tough hill to climb. – This one’s, mine’s falling all out of the back here. – Where is the- – [Link] See, if you- – [Rhett] Where’s the meat? – [Link] It really does have the appearance of pulled pork. – Oh. Uh-oh. They hit the flavor a lot better on this one. Wow. – It’s a nice barbecue sauce. – I haven’t had- – It doesn’t overpower, though. – I haven’t had one this good before. – Somebody did a good job. I wonder if it’s the frozen food section. – Probably. – I kinda hope it is. But I don’t think it is. – [Rhett] Pretty much just meat here. – Because this looks pretty basic. Ew, a little stringy. – They didn’t do a lot to that. That’s not great. – You know what I’ll say that is? Bad. Not good. – Wow. Again- – Really impressed by those. – A real, clear winner here. – Yeah. – We don’t even need a count down. – No suspense involved. – We’re in agreement every time. – [Stevie] Okay, well surprisingly, you didn’t choose the frozen option this time. (Link groaning) You chose the fast casual option from Vegan Joint. – Moochelle, you’re still not coming in. – Vegan joint? – You’re so bored over there. – Look at the longing in her hands. – You know what? (crew laughing) Just hooves. – Yeah, yeah. Well, they look like hands to me. – They’re hooves. Just write another letter, Moochelle. – [Stevie] The sandwich that you did not like was from Sage, our sit down place. – This was Sage? I didn’t say I didn’t like it. It was okay, it’s just not as good as that. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Okay. And the last one is the frozen option from The Jackfruit Company. Barbecue jackfruit for $2.37. – Yeah, they’re leaning too hard with the jackfruit. It was so much jackfruit taste and jackfruit’s not that great. – I think it’s jackfruit. What was this, Vegan Grill? – Veggie Joint. – [Stevie] Vegan Joint. – [Both] Vegan Joint. – Wow, okay. (gentle upbeat music) – [Stevie] This is vegan cheese pizza. – This is vegan cheese pizza. – And this doesn’t look great. – What is vegan cheese made of? Cashews? – [Stevie] I think it depends on the vegan cheese. – That’s not awful. It’s not awful. – The crust is the probably, actually. – The cheese is the best part, I think. – Yeah. Everything else just kind of is blah. – It’s just not very crispy or I don’t know what. – The sauce is nothing but tangy. It’s like- – Nothing but tangy. – Now, this one. This has gotta be fancy. There’s not even sauce. You gotta have a waiter convince you that this is worth eating. Rubbery. – This tastes like- – Shrubbery. – If A.I. had to search the internet to try to figure out how to make pizza and the A.I. just isn’t quite up to snuff yet and they’re like- – Yeah, it’s strange. – They’ll like, tweet something and you’ll be like, yeah, you just haven’t figured us out yet. That’s what’s happening here. – It’s just, there’s nothing good to say about it. The crust is soft and it’s like a tepid cracker. – Yeah, but what if you we’re a waiter that had to convince somebody to eat it? What would you say? – Well, of course, we wanna respect everyone in the vegan community by making this not only completely vegan, but everyone who ever touched it is completely vegan. – Oh, right. – And was always vegan from birth. – We don’t wanna make it too good because we don’t want to make anyone feel intimated. – Right, this is very accessible to people who have no taste. (crew laughing) And look at this. – Oh, my goodness. You all got like, a bruschetta over here or I don’t even know. French bread pizza. I don’t know the terms. – [Link] It’s thick and tall and it’s got a- (blowing raspberry) Of sauce on top of it. – We’ve got a cheese pizza on the menu. It’s thick and tall. It’s got a- (blowing raspberry) of sauce on the top of it. (Link blowing raspberry) You’ll love it. – I like it when a waiter communicates using fart noises. Not exclusively, but peppered throughout. And would you like some pepper with that? – Whoa! (Link blowing raspberries) That’s good! That’s just not acceptable. That’s legitimately good. – Right because you should be able to make sauce that tastes good, even in a vegan environment. – That’s really good. Tasting things that tasted like- – It’s robust! – Pieces of a tire before it helped. – It’s bursting with flavor, height, and (blows raspberry) – [Stevie] I think which you’re both gonna choose. – We agreed on every round, right? That’s never happened. – Didn’t you listen to the waiter? Remember what the waiter said? – You’re joking, right? Thank you. – [Stevie] All right, well, I think we’re gonna have to do a devil lap situation because you’ve chosen the sit down place and Moochelle, come on in. (gentle piano music) (Rhett grunting) – This is not really sitting, Moochelle. – No. – (grunting) No. She’s really getting comfortable. – [Stevie] Okay, the song is up, Moochelle. (gentle piano music) Oh, the song is back. (crew laughing) – There’s too much movement happening. – Yeah, it’s a lot of- (blows raspberry) happening. – (laughs) Yeah, there’s. I think I learned a few too many things about Moochelle over the past 30 seconds. (crew laughing) – Okay, all right, so usually. The tail. – I think that Moochelle might be a human man. (crew laughing) (Rhett and Link laughing) – Oh, God. – Yeah, right. – Really? – Yeah, right. Yeah. Surprise, surprise. – [Stevie] Okay, so the pizza you chose- – It’s just the utter. – (laughs) It was just one utter? – Yeah. – Yeah, okay. – [Stevie] Is from Nic’s on Beverly for $24. – This is what? – [Stevie] No, the pizza you chose is from Nic’s on Beverly for $24. – That’s good! – [Stevie] The first place is actually our fast casual, Blaze Pizza, for $10.15. – Blaz-eh pizza. – [Stevie] And then you have our frozen selection, American Flatbread vegan harvest for $5.39. – Yeah, you all need to work on everything about that. – We thought starting out that we we’re gonna be like, super basic. Just heat it up and go vegan, but by the end, we gained the culture we needed to blend in with the vegan community. – Yeah, it was all on us. – [Stevie] So the lowest possible total was $11.28. The highest possible was $75.50. Rhett, you’re perfect. Well, your perfect meals cost the same because you chose the same every round. $38.47. – All right. We can afford that. – Yeah, that’s not a bad couple of meals. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. (Link blows raspberry) – I’m Blair. – I’m Theo. – And we’re here in Seattle, Washington, trying a vegan-free Oatly chocolate ice cream and it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – That boy. – It’s vegan free, so it’s normal ice cream. – Vegan free? – Yeah. (laughs) That’s what he said. – Click the top link to watch us decide if we’d rather room with vapors or vegans in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. We have a new Mythical logo and a new merch collection to go with it. Grab it now at mythical.com.