What might we find on international wedding menus? – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) – Good mythical morning. – It’s Memorial Day. Today we recognize those who have given their lives for our country. – And now, did you know that this year there’s expected to be a record number of- – Acorns. I heard that this year is gonna be a bumper crop for acorns. What are they gonna do with all these acorns? – Weddings is what I was gonna say, not acorns. It may be a great year for acorns, but weddings. – It is, it’s gonna be. – Specifically, this year there’s gonna be 2.6 million weddings all over the globe, which begs the question. Was this intentional? Was it coordinated? Is it all part of an elaborate plan engineered by an underground global network of brides and grooms who decided that no year numerically symbolizes the union of two lovers better than 2022, excluding 2222 since that’s so dumb far away? – I don’t know, but I’ll beg a tastier question. What kind of food will they be serving at all these global weddings? – Oh yeah, that’s good. – It’s time for – [Both] where in the world do these international wedding dishes come from? – We’re gonna try some foods enjoyed as per tradition at weddings all around the world and pinpoint exactly where with our darts, and then, Chase, the ordained cartographer in all his grace. – [Link] Hello there. – Hello, thank you for being here. Thank you all for being here, family and friends alike. I feel like a lot of you came from some far-reaching places. There’s some people who really traveled far just to make it today. And on a holiday, no less, Memorial Day. So we appreciate all of that. We’re here for some very special… (audience laughs) – Chase A very special… You know, a treat. – He’s really good at that. – Where’s your hat? – Oh, yeah. – [Link] You go get that. – Hold on, he doesn’t need his hat, ’cause he’s so convincing. – It’s kind part of it. – He’s got the collar, and I see the cartography shirt under there. – There’s a little aspects of both. – [Rhett] He’s so convincing. – I just feel like you need it. – [Chase] Okay. – Get the hat. – Since you won last time, and I was so good with the advantage dart, I get another advantage dart. This time it’s the heave-ho bouquet throw. I’m sure it will help. – Is it gonna help you? – I’m sure it will help me so much. Whoever has the lowest score at the end wins and will have the honor of hearing the loser read wedding vows to them in Good Mythical MORE. – Will you take the first dish as our first dish? – I do. I will. (lighthearted music) Well, these are festive. – Oh, this is like a soft jelly thing. – I thought it might be frozen, but it’s not. – No. – Do you pelt the bride and groom with these? And they try to catch ’em in their mouths, maybe? – Yeah, exactly. – What? So we got some sesame seeds. – There is sesame on top. Now, what’s going on inside here? Look at that on the inside. – Oh, is that an egg? What the crap is that? I don’t believe so. – An egg yolk? – It doesn’t taste anything like an egg yolk to me. – That is an egg yolk, isn’t it? – [Rhett] No. – It’s exactly the size of an egg yolk. – No, it’s a pastry. – It’s sweet. – [Rhett] It’s a jelly ball, y’all. – But I don’t know what the yellow thing is. – I don’t either. It tastes pretty good, though. – Now, since I won… Not last time. – Since you didn’t win last time… – That’s another way to say it. – I go first. – And this is a big occasion, ’cause we brought everybody in today. But just like you would for a wedding, we’ve invited all of our special loved ones to be here with us. – We got my mom. Hey, Mom. – [Diane] Hi, boys. It’s me, Rhett’s mama. I’m so happy to see your handsome faces again. Good to see you too, Mom. – Look at that! – We got my dad down here. – [Dad] Hey Rhett. It’s me, your dad. We know. – I heard you boys are eating some cheese today. No. – Well, maybe. I don’t know what’s gon… Actually, I don’t know what’s gonna happen, Dad. Isn’t your dad here? – Dad, are you here too in the woods? – [Charles] I heard you boys was still telling dirty jokes. I got a few more up my sleeve. – Okay, well, I can’t wait for those. Glad that you’re back, Dad. – And Chase, I understand that your dad’s also here. – Father? – [Dad] You know I really love you, son. – All he does is love you, doesn’t he? – Yeah. – They’re pretty much on theme, it seems like. – It’s a family affair. Wedding do that. – No reason to delay this. It’s got a bunch of different colors. It’s got sesame, they’re on the inside. There’s some sort of paste, you got coconut. You think it’s Japan? – We’re definitely in the Thailand, Vietnam, Japan area. – Southeast Asia. – I’m just kinda go over there. I’m just gonna just sort of get in the middle there. – Throwing it right around there. It has to be a Far East situation. Whatever that gelatinous thing is. – I mean, I just kind of played it safe. – I’m gonna say Vietnam, specifically. I’m gonna really give it a nice go. Wish me luck, Dad. – [Charles] What did Jesus do when Mary Magdalene tracked dirt through the house? – Swept, Jesus swept. – [Charles] Jesus swept. – That’s a good one. – I’ve heard that one, dad. – Never gets old. – You told that one before. – It’s still good, though. We still appreciate it. – That was not helpful. Oh! (Rhett laughs) – [Rhett] The town in Tanzania. – I gotta get it together. – [Stevie] Okay, guys. You just had banh xu xe, a colorful dessert made from rice and mung bean. – Mung bean, that’s it. – [Stevie] Traditionally, they were packaged in a box made from pandan leaves and given to the bride’s family by the groom. Today they’re enjoyed by wedding guests in Vietnam. – Oh, dang it! You were right with your guess, but bad with your throw. – No two humans are perfect, but sometimes it’s about finding the person whose differences balance you. And so you had a great guess, but a bad throw. And Link, you had 13. And Rhett, you had seven. I really didn’t have a segue to connect it to that. – You sound like a normal pastor. – I honestly prepped it thinking Link would do a little worse, and then I could just be like- – Yeah, yeah, yeah, I bet you know. I appreciated it. (lighthearted music) – This is a whole pie. – Holy moly, look at that thing! This is savory. – It’s savory. I thought it was gonna be like a apple pie or something. – What is the flaky stuff called? Flaky, flaky. – Phyllo dough. Oh my gosh, that’s good! – It’s meaty but also sweet. – Got some nuts in there. I like it, but it is a little bit… Not a typical… It’s a melding of flavors. – Flavor combination. I’ve got a guess. – Do you know what else a melding of flavors is? – What? – A wedding, if you had two people. – Oh, a wedding. – (laughs) It’s just like… Combine. – A relational melding. – Chase, you might be able to do somebody’s wedding after this, after all the practice you’re getting right now. – Before you change. – I wonder what your dad thinks about that? – [Dad] I heard you talking in your sleep again last night. Yes, I do think you should apply to be the next bachelor. – Turkey, Link, is my guess. The phyllo dough, and then the combination of flavors, and the inclusion of almonds. Not too sweet. Turkey. Not a great throw, but- – Up and to the right. Now, it could be Turkey. I mean, it could be Morocco. You know what? I think it is Turkey. There’s no getting around it. – Well, get closer than I did. – Get closer to the board? – No, get closer with your throw. – I am. Oh! I think I was a little further away from Turkey. Was it Turkey? – [Stevie] You just had pastilla, a sweet and savory pot pie filled with seasoned shredded chicken beneath layer after layer of flaky pastry. It’s one of the many celebratory dishes served at weddings in Morocco. – [Both] Oh, man! You were right. – Dang it! I gotta listen to my inner voice! – It’s so good. – Come on, Dad, you gotta help me out when something like that happens. – [Charles] Why did the astrophysicist go digging in the dirt? – I don’t know. – I can’t remember this one. – [Charles] He was looking for worm holes. – I do remember that one. – You got a little tickled on that one. – Because he laughed at himself. – (laughs) Worm holes, oh. (Link laughs) – All right, please be seated. (audience laughs) – That’s good, Chase. That was good. – I got Chris. – Link, you had 14. Rhett, 19. – Yeah, I won that round. – You did, you did. (lighthearted music) – Now, this is some like fluorescent spaghetti, man. – I don’t think this is spaghetti. – [Link] Noodles? Definitely, just noodles. – Oh, it’s cold. Hey dad, this looks a lot like cheese. – [Dad] How come there’s Manchego cheese, but no woman-chego cheese? – I don’t know. I never thought about that except the last time you said the same joke. – Dad’s are really saying the same joke. – Mom, what’s up with dad just saying the same things? – [Diane] Did you hear the news? Dockers are fantastic. (audience laughs) – They all just seem to be saying only what they wanna say. They’re like in their own worlds. This is a very sweet noodle. – Noodle. I have a guess, again. – Very desserty. Now, is Rhett still winning? – I’m winning by one centimeter. So unfortunately, I still have to go first. – So close, I love it. I love it. – I’m thinking Thailand here. And the reason I’m thinking Thailand is because it’s taking what I think is an egg noodle, which you would see… I don’t know much about noodles, but it reminds me of the noodles that you would see in pad Thai, which I’m assuming is from Thailand because of the Thai part of pad Thai. But then it’s like a sweet treat like you were getting at. So I think this is, as Charles would say, Thigh-land. Isn’t that what you would say? – [Charles] I sure am a dirty boy. (audience laughs) – Yeah. Only dirty boys call it Thigh-land. – See, I know what that feels like. Frustration. – Horrible. Horrible, horrible. – Frustration. – Leave the door open for you there, Link. – I have been to Thailand and returned to aim for it. This has got to be Thailand. Time to take the lead. – [Rhett] It’s like my dart is pulling your dart. – Sucking mine in to yours. – You are closer though, which means you gotta go first next time. My plan worked. – So you think we’re right? Okay. – [Stevie] You dirty boys just ate foy tong, a dessert made from egg yolks and sugar syrup. The effort required to make them represents the effort required to maintain a healthy marriage while the long threads symbolize everlasting love. You’ll find brides and grooms enjoying this dish in Thailand. – Yes! Thailand she says. – You have a whole different way of saying it. – [Stevie] Well, because I was gonna say Thigh-land, but then I was like, “No, I’ve done that too many times,” so that’s what happened. – Thailand? – [Stevie] Yeah. – Now, before I announce these two scores, does anyone object to me announcing these two scores? – I mean, I’d like to get another throw, but I don’t think I get to do that. – Link, you had eight. Rhett, 11. – Yes. This is such a tight race. – You’ve taken the lead. (lighthearted music) – You may have noticed my shirt. Did you notice that it was an homage to one of the founding hip-hop groups of all time? Public Enemy. But peanut butter-ize. You can get the Peanut Butter shirt at Mythical.com. And also, if you wanna know what the best peanut butters are, we can give you that information over at Sporked.com as well as reading about why pancakes are even better than sleeping pills. – For what, sleeping? – You’ll have to read about it. Sporked.com. The team over there is adding new taste test rankings every day to the site, along with food news and thought-provoking articles. Sporked.com and Mythical.com for peanut butter. All right? – All right. – This is a nice looking soup with a little bit of that meatball. There’s some chicken, there’s some asparagus. There’s some carrots and some tofu. – Link, you’ve taken lead so you have to go first. – That is nice. Except for the tofu, this is just like a nice beefy stew, beefy meatball stew. Where could this be? I mean, are we…? It just doesn’t feel like Japan. – We’ve got all these parents here to help us out. They thinking anything to help Link out? – Don’t all speak at once. (parents laughing) – It’s like a horror movie. (audience laughs) All right, Link. – Crap. See, the tofu of it all is really throwing me off. I’m gonna go for Japan. They’re not afraid of some tofu over there. Oh gosh! Down there in Vietnam again. – This is what I’m thinking. I’m thinking that we’re so close right now, and you have the cheat in the final round. So it’s like you have a huge advantage, and I have to make a choice. So I’m actually torn between Japan and Turkey ’cause of the tofu, but there’s… Like you said, I don’t know if this is tofu. It’s so breadlike. It’s so porous. I’m going all the way to Germany. – Dang, son. – I’ve been thinking that this is some version of tofu that’s called something else in Europe. – It might be cheese. Is it cheese? – It’s definitely not cheese. So I think it’s Germany just because if you take out the tofu type thing and you just got this warm soup you would think you were in- – Am I in your way or are you in mine? – A little bit, Germany. – [Link] Oh! That’s a nice shot. It’s anybody’s game at this point. – [Stevie] You just had Hochzeitssuppe, a chicken broth-based soup that typically consists of chicken meat, meatballs, asparagus, egg custard… – Egg custard! – [Stevie] Carrots and celery. And It’s typically the first course to be served at weddings in Germany. – Oh, dang it! Seriously? – Yeah, but your thing is- – [Link] Egg custard. – That wasn’t a very good throw. – It looks like tofu. – I’d like you to take a look around the room. You’ve invited these people here, because they mean something to you. For the rest of your life, these people will help you on your journey. It’s not just you two by yourselves. So Rhett, you had eight. – You got lucky I feel like. – What? No, man. I said it might not be tofu. Germany, man. – And Link, 36. – Oh! – Even the name I thought sounded Japanese for a second. – I thought it sounded German. (lighthearted music) – Oh man, we’ve got a blooming gourd. Look at that! – I mean, what’s going on here? We got some rice situation. – It’s a squash. You can pull this thing apart. – It’s sweet rice. – [Stevie] Typically, this is made with a pumpkin, but since pumpkins are outta season we used a comparable squash. – A comparable squash. – That’s very tasty. – [Link] Yeah, I like it. It could be anywhere on the board. This is a free-for-all round, mystery round. – You’ve got this incredible advantage. – Well, yeah, I do. I got it right here. The heave-ho bouquet throw. – So anywhere that pink splatters is your guess. This is a mystery round. – It’s like pink wedding cake icing all over this bouquet. – It’s a mystery round, so it’s not labeled up there. This is the weird thing about this is that, rice dishes, you’re gonna get those in the Far East, but you’re also gonna get those in Latin America, which is very perplexing for me, because I’m up by a good amount. But you’ve got this advantage. I kind of have to make a choice that’s right or left. I have been to a restaurant that was Mexico City style restaurant. They had rice that had fruit in it like this. – So I think this might be… Mexico is up there so it’s not Mexico. So I think it might be on the left side of the board, but I’m gonna kind of play in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just in case it happens to be Europe. But I’m kind of giving the eastern part of the world to you and your guess. It wasn’t very good. It was very high. I’m very high today. – Let’s see, so when I toss this thing, whoever catches it, you’re going to get married next. All right, parents. You got a pep talk for me? Anything to help me out? – Watch your pants. – [Diane] Link, did you say pants? I think some Dockers premium Heritage Chinos would do you good. – Diane’s voice just cuts right through everybody else. I love it. – [Diane] Dockers. (audience laughs) – Where do you think it is? – I think this is a Middle Eastern situation. So you hedge your bets well, but I am going to throw the crap out of this so that I can get some sort of splatter, ’cause I gotta spread this thing out. Go right for… I’m basically going around the T in Turkey. You know what I’m saying? Dang it, I went low again! – You did knock my dart out. – How does…? It’s so frustrating to be me sometimes. I know it’s frustrating to watch me being me. – But look, you got pink on the peninsula there. – [Chase] You did. – I try too hard when I shouldn’t and I don’t try hard enough when I should. – But, no, look at all the pink you got. You got pink in Eastern Europe. You got pink in the Middle East. – There’s a little bit right there. – But you need to take my dart and put it back where I had it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It doesn’t get bumped to 50. – What am I doing getting up? I’m not the pastor. I’m not the priest. I’m not whatever you clergy are. – [Diane] I love you boys almost as much as I love Dockers. I love you. – [Dad] You know I really love you, son. I love… – [Stevie] You just had Ghapama, aka a pumpkin that’s been gutted, stuffed with rice, nuts and dried fruits, and then baked until soft. This dish symbolizes a sweet life, which is why it’s commonly served during the Christmas season and at weddings in Armenia. – So I was in a good spot, but I just… In my mind… – Repeat after me. I, Rhett… – I, Rhett… – Take these 22 centimeters. – Take these 22 centimeters. – [Chase] As my final score. – As my final score. – And then, Link. I, Link… – I, Link… – Take these seven centimeters. – Take these seven centimeters. – [Chase] As my final score. – As my final score. Which… – Doesn’t do enough. – Doesn’t do enough. Sometimes weddings don’t take. – Yeah, that’s right. – Right, dad? (Link laughs) (audience laughs) – [Charles] For my birthday, my friends gave me a bunch of old dirt. (audience laughs) I told them I appreciate the sediment. (audience laughs) – Nice deflection, Charles. – I was kind of just hoping for a yes. I don’t know if we’re gonna invite our family back next time. – It’s been great having you be a part of this thing, guys, but I think we might be good for a while. No, siree. – I don’t think so. – [Parent] No. – They’re not happy about it. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hey Chase, Link, and Rhett. Good morning from Lake Okeechobee. 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