When did America really start running on Dunkin’? – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) Good Mythical Morning! – In 2019, Dunkin’ Donuts ceased to exist. – I don’t remember that. – Nobody does because all they did was shorten their name to Dunkin’. – I don’t remember that, either. – Nobody does. And if you enjoy that tidbit of Dunkin’ Donuts historical trivia, then this episode is really gonna make your Boston cream. – Oh! – It’s time for The Shuffleboard Game, Dunkin’ Edition. Welcome to The Shuffleboard Game zone! (Link cheering) – In each round, we’re gonna sample an iconic Dunkin’ menu item, then shuffle our pucks to the decade we believe it was first introduced in. Whoever’s closest to the answer wins the round. – Now, since I have won this game three times in a row! Link, you get a special advantage puck that you can use at any time, the double puck and trouble! – Is that what this is? – It’s not a pitchfork. – Oh, I get to launch two pucks at once, using this very technologically advanced shuffle stick. – I’m a little jealous! Okay, bumps are still in effect, so I can smash my puck into Link’s every round, if I feel inclined, and he can also do that to me. Whoever wins will be crowned the Dunk DMC and given all the phat accessories that go along with it. – Yeah! Let’s dunk it and pump it and slide it and glide it! – Yeah. (gentle upbeat music) – It’s like a metal fez. – Metal fez. (laughs) – Yeah. Oh, we got some Munchkins! It says, “25x Munchkins”. – Whoa, 25 Munchkins come in one of them things? – Woo, look at that! – Oh, look. Chocolate cake. So basically, yeah. – [Link] There they are. – [Rhett] That’s not called for, but. – Some of them are chocolate. This one’s like, raisin? Dang, I didn’t know that they were different flavors. I’ve been sleeping on the Dunkin’. All right, you gonna go first because well, apparently, I’ve been on a losing streak. – Yeah, you have. – I like these chocolate ones. – There’s a few things you gotta get straight in your mind, Rhett, right now. I don’t even know know when Dunkin’ became a thing. I got familiarized with Dunkin’ Donuts in the summer of 1998 in New York City. – Okay, so you know they existed in the 90s. – And I remember eating them in the 90s, I think. I’m just gonna go with when I know they existed. 90s. – Okay. And now we’re- (Rhett laughs) We’re learning the speed of the board. – [Rhett] Okay. – Every time we do this, we gotta learn how the green is rolling. What is the golf term? How the board is running? How the… – There’s a name for that and I watch enough golf to know, but I don’t know it right now. – [Link] So you came up short. I agree. – That’s blueberry! – I told you. I think it’s 90s, too, because I don’t remember donut holes as a kid. – Are you a donut hole guy? I’m a donut hole guy. I didn’t know it. – I’m gonna keep on passing you by, bounce off the back, and go in the 90. I’m really trying to win because this has been embarrassing. – Yeah, it has been. I’ve been embarrassed for you. (puck sliding) – [Link] And look at that! – [Rhett] Whoa! – It’s boding well for the Link-ster! He’s reading the pitch! – [Stevie] Though Dunkin’ has remained tight lipped regarding the story behind Munchkins, one can only assume they began as a marketing strategy to make money off of their excess dough. – Right. – [Stevie] Whatever the sweet truth is, these iconic minis have been satisfying sweet tooths everywhere since they were first introduced in 1972. – How could that even be? – [Rhett] Whoa. – [Stevie] Well, it’s good news for you, sir, because you’re in there. – (cheers) Is that a seven right there? Oh, ’72? – [Stevie] And check out this ad from 1974. You can see they were advertising Munchkins to kids. – [Link] “Kids and new Dunkin’ Munchkins were made for each other.” – Well, I don’t know about that. That’s quite a statement. (gentle upbeat music) Flip it once. (cloche banging) It didn’t land right on the sandwiches. – Sandwiches? – Sandwiches. – [Both] Breakfast sandwiches! – Now, this is a bagel. – [Stevie] You’re guessing the general breakfast sandwich- – Okay. – [Stevie] But this one just happens to be a bagel breakfast sandwich. – [Rhett] I just ate the middle of it. You go first, my friend. – Oh, I was just trying to chew that bagel, man. Man. – [Rhett] I’m having a good breakfast. – Okay, so my mind was blown about the Munchkins in the 70s, but adding hot breakfast at Dunkin’ is definitely post-70s. So is this the 90s or is this the 2000s? This what I’m debating. I’m gonna go with 2000. Maybe you disagree with me. (puck sliding) – [Rhett] Nice placement! – [Link] Yeah! I got the touch. – Nice placement. – I’ve got the touch. (Rhett mimicking banging) (Link laughing) (crew laughing) – It’s definitely 90 or 2000. I think it actually may be the 90s. They introduced it in the 90s and they were like, “I don’t think people are really caring about this. We gotta change the marketing.” It took them like, seven, eight years to get there. – [Link] So you’re gonna side step me? Are you gonna try the bump? – I think I’m gonna do the reverse bump, which is risky, so risky move. – Okay, you’re gonna clear me out, which means you’re not confident in your answer. – [Rhett] 2000 is equally as good of an answer as 1990, in my mind. – He’s attempting the clear out. (puck sliding) Oh, my goodness! No! – Okay. Mission accomplished. – I didn’t think you were gonna hit me. I was excited for a second. That was ugly, man. – It got the job done, though. – It’s legal, but it doesn’t feel like good sportsmanship. – Give me a bassline. I got the job done. (Link mimicking bass guitar) – [Stevie] When just a year of adding bagels to their menu, Dunkin’ became the number one seller of bagels in the country. – [Rhett] What? – That’s power. – [Stevie] The Dunkin’ breakfast sandwich was added to the menu in 1997. – [Rhett] Yeah! – So you didn’t have to get all ugly, man. – Hey, but listen. – You were right, anyway. – That was pretty awesome. I said seven or eight years. I missed it by a couple years it took them to get on board with the marketing, so the reasoning was in tact, son. (Link and Rhett shushing) (gentle upbeat music) (Link mimicking cloche) – Yes, there you go. Okay. (cloche banging) Nice. Strawberry frosted donut. – With rainbow sprinkles? – Sprinkles! – Y’all didn’t have to. – Okay, this is a very specific round here. – I’ve never once selected this donut. – I’m not a strawberry flavor guy. – [Rhett] Me not so much, either. – [Link] I like plain. I like frost. – And eating it confirms that I’m not a strawberry guy. – It doesn’t taste bad. It’s just, you know, there’s so many choices. You won’t the last round? – Now that we’re tied and you lost last time, three times in a row, I go first again. (Link sighing) It takes awhile for you to get to this level of experimentation, where you’re like, strawberry and rainbow sprinkles? This is a time in America where rules were being cast aside, where the constructs of traditional understandings of things were being cast aside. This is free love, this is throuple time, this is the 60s! – Really? – Yeah. The same time people are like, we can put strawberries and rainbow sprinkles on a donut is the same time people are like, we can just be three people together in a relationship. – Sprinkle our lives with all types of new experiences. – [Rhett] 60s, brother. (puck sliding) – [Link] It’s slow moving. That is a dud of a slide. – [Rhett] I got kind of close. – No need for me to use my double-icious over there. See, I was thinking it could be the 80s. It’s got that pizazz, that pop of the 80s. – What you think about the throuple argument, though? – I don’t care for it. – Oh, okay. So what are you gonna do? – I wanna to be where you are by just pushing you further away from the pyramid. There’s no way this is the 40s. – I wanna be where the people are. – So what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna go way over here and I’m just gonna nudge you out. – [Rhett] Just a little side nudge? – Just a little side nudge. – This might be the first side nudge. – [Link] And I’m going to nestle myself in-between the 80s and the 60s. – [Rhett] This might be the first side nudge and nestle. – [Link] I gotta go light. – History in the making. (puck sliding) – Whoa! Man, so you’re closer to the 60s now. – I now am closer to the 60s, so I’m actually closer to my intended answer. – Okay, crap, crap, crap. – But you’re right on the 80s, which- – I believe in my answer! – That’s your answer. – I believe in the 80s! – [Stevie] Just a couple years into Dunkin’s existence, the company unleashed 52 new flavors of donuts, inspired by Howard Johnson’s 28 flavors of ice cream. This particular donut was one of these flavors- – Oh, not good. – [Stevie] And has managed to stick around ever since its debut in 1955. – [Rhett] Oh, it’s ’55! – [Link] Okay. – So we learned a little bit about when Dunkin’ may have happened. – Yeah. – She said just a couple of years into it. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – It depends on Stevie’s definition of couple. – That’s right. All right, you know what? I’ll take that point. Woo! (gentle upbeat music) Drum roll please! – Hey, we’ve got a TV show on Food Network and Discovery+! It’s called Inside Eats with Rhett and Link. That’s us! – Yeah! – Where we get behind the scenes access to your favorite food brands and restaurants. Episode one premiers this Sunday, April 24th, 2022, at 10:30 pm. – Yeah, in the first episode, we go to Chipotle’s headquarters and we explore the question what does your order say about you? – I don’t ever really make the same exact choice and I just don’t know if I’m making incorrect decisions, so I’m really interested in your official culinary opinion about what actually goes together. – It depends. Let’s just say you want white rice. The white rice is a little bit softer on the chew, when you compare it to, say, the brown rice, which is nuttier, earthier. – Softer on the chew. – Softer on the chew. – Softer on the chew. At first, we thought your order was just about random things, like which sauce would blend in, if you dropped a bite onto your shirt. But approaching it with relatively soft or hard the chew is, well, that’s a whole new world. – I actually personally recommend a firmer bean, right? So I go with the black bean. The black bean is a little bit smaller than the pinto. – There is a correct choice, once you’ve made a previous choice. – Because of white rice is softer on the chew! – Soft rice, hard beans! – That’s the way I do it. – Stream it on Discovery+ with bonus footage. Inside Eats with Rhett and Link, this Sunday at 10:30 PM, Food Network and Discovery+. Yes. – Sometimes, you keep it simple. – [Link] Dunkaccino? A blend of coffee and hot chocolate. – What? – [Link] I didn’t know- – You can do that? Cheers. – I didn’t know that was a thing. – Whoa! Good Lord, that’s sweet. – Well, if it’s coffee, it’s sweet, but if it’s hot chocolate, it’s a little coff-inated. – It’s a little too sweet for me. I think there’s maybe some sugar syrup in there. – It’s like the Arnold Palmer of the dark brown liquid world. – Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Link, you’re up two to one. – [Link] Crap. – That means you gotta go first, friend. – Dunkaccino? Dunkaccino. See, I’m going first this round. Let me think about this. – Now, here’s the- – Now, if I use this- – You can’t bump me in the last round during the bump fest, if you’re going second. – If I win this round- – It’s tied, which means I then have to first- – No, then I go first because- – [Both] Yes. – [Link] No. – Yes. The person who lost the game. We don’t have to consult the scroll. I think I got it in here. The person who lost last time, if you’re tied, they get first going into the last round because they have a slight advantage because you can’t bump. So what you could do is you could plan on being tied going into the last round and then you could, because you lost time, you could place two pucks and I have to find my answer without bumping you, which would be interesting. Or you could do it now and make it difficult for me to get on the answer, but I could bump your two pucks, if you go first now. – But not in the last round. – You’re going first in the last round, regardless. – Yes, so since I go first regardless, in the next round- – It’ll make my job more difficult because I can’t bump you. – It’ll make your job more hard, so yeah, I don’t wanna do this yet. – Maybe I shouldn’t have explained that. – Dunkaccino. So coffee had to be there from the beginning. Hot chocolate had to be there from the beginning, so right under their noses was a Dunkaccino for decades. I’ve never even heard of it. Is it a marketing thing? – Is it a marketing thing? – Like something, like an internet marketing thing. I think this is 2010. I’m going for the middle of the board, though. (puck sliding) Oh! – Nice placement. Nice guess because- – Now, what do you think? – After all your deliberation, right from the top, I was thinking the 2010s. – Oh, really? – I hate to be the guy that does a reverse bump two times in a game. – No, yeah. You can’t do that. That’s just shameful. – [Rhett] Well, unless- – It’s legal, but it doesn’t feel sportsman-like. – Hold on, okay. If you would like to add that rule to the scroll- – No. It’s not a rule. – If you’re not willing to add the rule to the scroll, I’m gonna do it. Just so you know. – It’s really. I don’t wanna make a rule. There’s no need to make a rule. This is about what type of person you want to be. – Oh, I’m a person that does whatever he can to win. – Come on, man. Just do it. – [Rhett] Okay. – It seems that Rhett is doing the unsportsman-like move of a double reverse bump. – Double reverse bump. (puck sliding) – You missed me. Oh, no, you didn’t, but that was a light one. It’s anybody’s game. You’re closer to 2010, though. – We might have to get the measuring tape out for that. I don’t know. I might be a little bit closer. Let’s find out. That might not be the right answer. It might be 2000. – Crap, crap, crap, crap. – [Stevie] When Dunkin’ combined their hot chocolate with their signature hot coffee to create the Dunkaccino, it had the one and only Al Pacino more enthusiastic than ever before in this commercial. – Oh. – [Narrator] Something’s brewing at DND. – [Link] What year is this? Okay. – Wow! – Al Pacino! – It’s not Al anymore. It’s Dunk. – [Link] He did this? – Dunkaccino? – Don’t mind if I do! – (laughs) Wow. – I think that could be 2020. – No, he’s older. He’s younger. I think 90s, maybe. – [Stevie] Well, okay, so to clarify, it’s a commercial, but it’s actually a commercial in a movie. It’s from 2011’s Adam Sandler movie, “Jack and Jill”. – 2011. – [Stevie] But this hot chocolate coffee combo actually came to fruition in 2000. – 2000. Okay. – Oh, 2000. – All right, so you’re on it. You won’t the round and we’re tied up! (Rhett cheering) (gentle upbeat music) – You wanna catch? – Let’s do it with power of our minds. – Okay. (humming) Not gonna happen. Oh, what’s this? Omelet bites. This is interesting. – [Rhett] This is basically an answer to what Starbucks has been doing. – See, it looks like a donut or a bagel, but it’s made of egg. Wow. – I love these, man. Oh, that’s nice! – It’s an egg-y donut. So, because you were tied and you lost last time, you get the advantage of going first in the last round. – And it’s an advantage because the second person cannot bump. – And if I do bump, we’ll talk about what happens if I do bump, and this is especially difficult- – And I get another advantage! – Yeah. – I get a second freaking golden puck. I’m gonna put that down there and I’m gonna use this thing. Oh, this is actually a problem because- – A lot could go wrong here. – Because this implies some sort of a spread, but only the right side of the pyramid has been answered today, so it kinda works against me. I gotta find a way to get 70, 90, 50, and 2000. The only thing on that side is 2010. – Which is a pretty good guess for this. – Yeah, it is a good guess for omelet bites because you’re right. I think that it’s a response to the Starbucks egg bites. – 100%. They’re not as good. I gotta say, they’re not as good as the Starbucks egg bites. – I didn’t know that they existed. It could be 2020. I’m gonna try to put one of these in 2010 and one of these in 2020. – Good luck, friend. – But if I put them on this side of it and there’s two of them, if you hit either one of mine. Graze it, touch it at all because you’re not allowed to bump, the rules state, and I remember, that I get to move my pucks back where they were and then put your puck wherever I want it. – As long as it’s on an answer that hasn’t been given yet. You can’t just put it on one that’s been done because there’s no mystery in it. – Yeah, that seems fair. – We need to add that rule to the scroll. – Add that to the scroll. It’s gotta be an eligible answer. – Yeah. – If you have to replace it. So I wanna this one to go fast. I wanna this one to go slow. – I think that means a little twist motion. – And I can just block you from 2020. That’s what I’m gonna do. Making history today. – Yeah, yeah, I love it. – 2010 and 2020, but on this side. (pucks sliding) I’ve stopped really short. Crap! (crew laughing) Crap! I hate it! (Rhett laughing) I got so nervous. – You didn’t adjust for the weight of. – This is heavier. There’s two of them. I didn’t push hard enough. I lost my touch. – You didn’t push hard enough. – Dang. Oh, crap. – Okay, wow. This is really mine to lose at this point. – Crap! (grunting) – [Rhett] Because- – Nobody wins with that. Let me do it again, man. – 2010 and no! Hey, man! – [Link] Let me do it again, man. – I can’t let you do it again because I gotta thread the needle, man! I gotta go around these two pucks. – That’s easy! It’s easy to go around. – Hey, it might not be because listen, if it’s 2010, which 2010 is what I have to go for at this point. If I go too far, you might end up being closer. – I wanna lose so that next time we play this, I can try again with the double. – I gotta land on 2010 the be closer to 2010 and 2020. (puck sliding) Okay, all right. – How could you lose now, man? How could you lose now? – [Stevie] For those egg-loving, hungry-for-protein power folks, Dunkin’s omelet bites are sous vide egg bites made with tomatoes, spinach, and a four cheese blend and they debuted in 2022. – [Rhett] 2022? Brand new! – It’s so fresh. All right, crown him the winner, Lucas. – Wow, it’s almost embarrassing at this point. I’m sorry. Four in a row. It’s just like, I didn’t really want this. – You know what? I’ll be back! – I didn’t even really want this. – I will be back and I’m bringing my double shuffle-icus with me and- – These are gold. – [Link] I’m gonna do you right next time. I promise. – Gold. Tastes toxic. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – I’m Erin. – And I’m William and we’re in the Bahamas on our honeymoon. – Playing shuffleboard. – [Both] And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – I don’t think that’s a regulation board. It’s got triangles at both ends. – I didn’t have time for shuffleboard on my honeymoon. – Uh-oh. – (laughs) You know what I’m saying? – Click the top link to watch us discover the best kind of donut to dunk in hot coffee in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. – [Rhett] Be sure to watch the premier of Inside Eats with Rhett and Link this Sunday at 10:30 PM on Food Network and for even more bonus footage, check it out on Discovery+.