Today we ask the age-old question… – Will it hot dog? – Let’s talk about that. (bright music) – Good Mythical Morning. – Now, if you’re thinking, “‘Will it hot dog’ sounds kinda familiar,” well, we did do a version of it on “The Tonight Show” all the way back in 2017. – And it was fun, man. – It was fun! – We had so much fun. – So much fun! – But we realized that we’ve never sent hot dogs to their Mythical Maximum… (electric guitar shreds) On the show. – Uh-huh. Wieners to the Mythical Maximum? (electric guitar shreds) Oh boy! (electric guitar shreds) – To the Mythical Maximum! (electric guitar shreds) Which new hot dogs will be the top dogs and which will be the not dogs? It’s time for… – [Rhett and Link] Will it Hot Dog? – Okay, ground rules. To qualify as a hot dog, the dish must have encased emulsified meat- – In case what? – (laughs) In case you want some emulsified meat. A bun, and toppings. – I do. All right, let’s get to the first one. You know those foods you see on Instagram and you know within a second that it’s one of the tastiest things you could ever eat if you could just get your hands on it? – Right, yes. – And one of the best examples of that is quesabirria. – Ah, quesabirria. – Yeah. Look at this stuff, man. – [Rhett] Whoo! – It’s been dominating that list of foods people wanna eat off Instagram, and it’s an amazing, beautiful Mexican creation. Look at that thing. But could it be even more delicious in hot dog form? Presenting: the Hot Dogirria. – Oh my goodness! – Josh, how was that? – [Josh] Y’all nailed the pronunciation on Hot Dogirria. So we have made a birria-spiced hot dog from scratch. A lotta chili de arbol. We’ve used Oaxaca and Monterey Jack cheese- – Oaxaca? – [Josh] Yeah, that’s what I said, man. – Oaxaca. – One of my favorite words. – [Josh] And then we have shredded birria de res on top, which is the birria made from beef. Served alongside is consomme, which is the resulting soup. And there’s oniony ketchup and cilantroey mustard. – And you, like, fried this bun. – [Josh] Yeah, we griddled the bun in the consomme, in the grease that results from the soup. – And this sauce is what? – [Josh] Yeah, so that’s consomme. (laughs) And you dip the hot dog in the soup. – Conso-what? – May. – [Josh] Consomme. – Consomme I dip it in there? – [Josh] Yes. Yes, you consomme. – [Rhett] Do I have to ask permission? – I like to dip a hot dog. – This looks incredible! – Of course this is gonna be incredible. Dink it. – And sink it. – [Link] Mm! – [Rhett] Mm! Mm, mm! Oh! I’m bleeding! (crew laughs) – That’s grease, my man. (Stevie laughs) – How’d you get it to be so red, Fred? – [Josh] Chili. – The hot dog itself, refresh me, is very meaty. What’s in that? – [Josh] Thank you. We tried to put as much meat in there as possible to really come through with that meaty quality. – It’s so rich. – [Josh] It’s made of beef, that explains it. Homemade hot dogs are tough, I’m not gonna BS you guys here. It’s tough to make a homemade hot dog. They got whole factories devoted to ’em, but we just got us. – You’re not a factory, you’re just a man. – And I’m just gonna eat some of the toppings now. – [Rhett] This is incredible. – [Link] Mm! – You are delivering on all cylinders. Especially the one cylinder that is the wiener, that you have pushed to the Mythical Maximum! (electric guitar shreds) – [Link] Quesabirria! Will it hot dog? – [Rhett] Yes. – [Link] Yes! – A Southern staple restaurant for afternoon suppers, table games, and gift shopping has made it all the way to L.A. Did you know there’s actually a location, a delivery location, Cracker Barrel is in town to deliver us some country-fried goodness. But you know what you won’t find on the Cracker Barrel menu? – A hot dog. – A hot dog. But if it was on the menu, we think it would be: the Barrel Dog. – The Barrel Dog. The Southern boy. – Josh- – The Southern gentledog. – [Rhett] What’d you do? – [Josh] Well, Rhett… I’m not good at a Southern accent. We chicken-fried a hot dog, we made a country gravy ketchup, maple mustard, chow-chow relish, we have pancake-dipped the bun, and we’re serving it with a side of grits and baby carrots. – Pancake-dipped the bun? – [Josh] Yeah. – So it’s got pancake on the outside of the bun. – [Josh] Mm-hmm. – [Link] I love the fact that there’s chow-chow on this. – [Rhett] It’s a good Southern staple, man. – My grandparents and their siblings, so my great uncles and aunts, they would always chow down on the chow-chow. – [Rhett] I love it. – [Stevie] What is that? – It’s like a pepper relish. – Yeah, and it’s- – [Stevie] I’ve never in my life. – Here, I’ll cut it in half so you can have a good- – You have this nice little jar that they break out of the- – Oh, it’s so good. You put it in collards. – Of the fridge. – You put some chow-chow on some collards, Stevie- – [Stevie] I love me some collards. – It’s spicy. You’ve never had chow-chow on a collard? That’s the greatest. – Now, did we get the senior citizen discount for this? – [Josh] Uh, are either of you active-duty military members? – Uh, no. – [Josh] Well, you gotta pay full. – He doesn’t think we’re old though. – I think we’re technically senior citizens, for entertainers. – No. You gotta be 55 in order to really enjoy the Cracker Barrel. But hold on, let me remove my dentures. – Oh, boy. – [Josh] You’re very young for the Cracker Barrel crowd. – What if that was your reveal, that you had dentures this whole time and I just found out? That’d be awesome. – Cracker Barrel, you gotta be able to… (smacks) To gum it with your gums. – Now, that’s a regular hot dog in there, right? – [Josh] Yes, chicken-fried. – But that’s perfect because- – [Link] I love that. – I’m getting the hot dog taste that I want in the very center. – Mm-hmm. – But everything from the core of that hot dog experience is Cracker Barrel, taking me back to the South. I’m in a rocking chair. Lean back a little bit too much and choke! (croaks) Choke on a hot dog. You know how many people have died in a rocking chair on a hot dog? – Not at Cracker Barrel though. – Not at Cracker Barrel, maybe, ’cause I don’t want any liability issues. – This is so much fun. This is a legit creation that people would line up for. I mean, if they added this to the Cracker Barrel menu- – Is this mashed taters? – [Josh] Grits. – It’s the grits. Let’s try ’em. – Oh. I’m gonna dip my wiener in there. – [Link] I got a… – [Rhett] You’re gonna put a carrot in there? – Carrot in a grit. – That’s kinda turning me on. – [Josh] Nice, man. I’m always turned on here. – Feel like I can just drop a load in the toilet and then get back on the interstate. (Rhett laughs) – [Josh] Now I’m turned on. – That’s how I do after every Cracker Barrel. – [Rhett] Cracker Barrel! Will it hot dog? – [Rhett and Link] Yes! – Fire! On of the best parts about the summer is eatin’ campfire classics. You got hot dogs and you got s’mores, but why eat them separately when you could have them together? Introducing the Hot Dog I Want S’More. Josh, what did you do? – Take a wiener. – [Josh] Yeah, so that wiener you’re roasting there has a lot of chocolate and marshmallows actually inside of it. – Oh, really? – [Josh] Yeah, it sure does. And then we have mustard marshmallow strip, we have Hershey’s chocolate ketchup, and then graham cracker-coated buns. – So this looks like an egg. – [Josh] Yeah, it’s actually a long strip of marshmallow- – You’re burning your wiener. – That’s mustard-flavored. – Oh, it’s a marshmallow that’s mustard-flavored? – [Josh] Yeah, it’s a mustard-mallow. Mm-mustard-mallow. – Just two boys- – Is it real hot? – Stickin’ their wieners in the fire. – [Link] Is it hot? Is it real hot? – Just two friends havin’ a little fun. Hey, Stevie, this is what our camping trip’s gonna be like. (Stevie laughs) – Hey, Stevie, is it real hot? – Are you gonna bring your wiener? – [Stevie] I always bring my wiener. – Stevie, bring the shovel. That’s called “the restroom.” – [Rhett] Oh. (crew laughs) – Yeah. – I have a bucket. Oh, that’s kind of an odd smell. – Ugh. (Josh laughs) Yeah, what is that? – Is that just burned encasement? What is the casing made of? – [Josh] It’s an intestinal casing, but you’re roasting it over a weird chemical flame. (laughs) – Oh, yeah. – Don’t reveal our secrets. We’re cooking over isopropyl alcohol. – [Link] So let’s throw this in the bun. Wow, that bun is solid. I need something to put my- – [Rhett] That’s a black dog right there. Look at that thing. – It’s chocolatey. Is it hot? Is it real hot? – [Rhett] It’s a little warm, but it’s not too hot. You gotta sorta open it up and let it slide in. – Just kinda smush it. I’m smushin’ it in there beside the- – Yeah, you gotta let it nestle. And then what? You encased the bun in what, grahams? – [Josh] Graham cracker crumbs, yeah. – I’ve decided… I broke mine apart so I could start with the middle. – Oh. Well, that was too ambitious for me. – [Link] I mean, it smells like a s’more. – Ah. – [Link] Oof. – [Rhett] I got a little pop. – I’m immediately tasting the chocolate. – [Rhett] And the meat. – [Link] And the meat. – When the meat comes through, and the chocolate, it’s making me confused. It’s like what should happen in my stomach on a camping trip but not in my mouth. – [Link] That’s right. – You know what I’m saying? – Stevie, you’re gonna have to finish this one for me. – [Rhett] Yeah, right. You gotta finish mine too. – [Stevie] How’s the mustard marshmallow? – I’m just gonna isolate that to answer your question. (Stevie and Josh laugh) – Not great. (crew laughs) – [Josh] Well… – Yeah, this is… This is just a wrong… This is a wrongful lawsuit waiting to happen in my mouth. – You know what, you’re a couple and… This is like a first date, right? This is like- – [Stevie] Maybe a throuple. – Maybe a throuple. It’s a tender date. Whatever that is for throuples. But I’m talking about s’mores and hot dogs, and you’re like, “Maybe we could go together,” and you spend some time together, and then everyone’s like, “No, you should not be together.” That’s what happened right here. And you need to listen to the people in your life. If all your friends are like, “You shouldn’t be with that person,” you should end it now. – Yeah. You think someone would wanna stay with me if I was constantly- – You know who you are! – Constantly making this face? – You know who you are. All your friends are like, “You should break up with them,” and you’re like… Your friends are probably right. I’m just saying. Do you trust your friends? Do your friends know you well? Because if they do, you should listen to them. You know who you are. So what about this hot dog? – I don’t like it. – [Rhett and Link] S’mores: will it hot dog? No. – Last month we released the very first comedy videos we ever made back in college in a special limited series called “Never Before Seen.” And surprise! Part two dropped today. These videos have never been published anywhere except the Mythical Society. We’re sharing the videos in two parts, the original full, unedited video in the pure form and a second part to watch and react with us. So check out all the episodes of “Never Before Seen” over on the Mythical Society, available for all degrees. (young Rhett and Link screeching and howling) – That’s gross. (young Rhett and Link grunting) (Rhett laughs) What? (Rhett laughing) What? – Wow! – Why did he do that? – Because it was shocking, man. – All degrees? – Yep. – You hear that? (Pop Rocks crackling) You hear that? – Mm, yeah. And when you open your mouth, it sounds maybe like there’s static. Yeah. – You hear that? – Something weird’s coming from your mouth. What is that, Link? – It’s my Pop Rocks. (Pop Rocks crackling) – [Rhett] Thank you for that visual demonstration. – My Pop Wocks. – We introduce to you: the Pop Dog. Boy, it’s purty, Josh. – [Josh] Thanks, man. – How’d you make it so purty? – [Josh] Man, this one’s real dumb. We covered it in a bunch of Pop Rocks. We got a Green Apple Pop Rock hot dog, we got Cotton Candy Pop Rock bun, we got Strawberry Pop Rock ketchup, Blue Raspberry Pop Rock mustard, and then we got a little Green Apple Pop Rock relish covering the top. (Pop Rocks crackling) – These are- – [Josh] Pop Rocks! – This is such an amazing candy. It gives you this visceral experience. To have that in hot dog form is just a dream come true. – I mean, here we are, just living the dream. I will say, safety alert, back in the ’70s there was an urban legend that if ate Pop Rocks and then drank a little Co-Cola… Bring that Co-Cola over here. – Yeah? – That your stomach would explode. It wasn’t true. – Oh, good. – They were tested, but the FDA still set up a hotline so concerned parents could call. – So they could talk ’em back? – So if things start going sideways, call Link’s mom. She worked at the Health Department for a long time. She’ll give us a brochure on what to do next. – So the expectation is, we start chompin’ on this and it starts rockin’. – We get happy. – It just really starts rockin’. – Pop it. – And drop it. (Pop Rocks crackling) – Wow. You get the pop of the casing. And then the pop of the Pop Rocks. – Does the meat look, like, green to you? – [Rhett] Is it meat? – [Josh] Yeah, it’s like equal parts meat and Green Apple Pop Rocks. – Ew. – Isn’t that beautiful? – But it’s very unappetizing. – So you’ve done two things to the Pop Rocks that have changed the experience for me. The first thing is you’ve made it into a hot dog. – [Josh] Yeah, that was the most of it. – So from a taste standpoint, not great. I need to wash it down with some Co-Cola. – Yeah. – But you’ve also made ’em less poppy because you’ve put ’em on buns and stuff. – See, look at this. (Pop Rocks crackling) You just can’t match that experience in a hot dog, I guess. But you never know until you try. – Nothing against you. Oh, I had my own Co-Cola. Here you go. (Pop Rocks crackling) – Well, that’s just… That is nice. I feel like one of those big fish in the sea that all these little fish go and clean it off. – Like a shark. – I go to open my mouth and all these Pop Rocks go in my mouth, and then (coughs) I get caught. – Yeah. – I’m choking! – You might need to take a class on analogies. Pop Rocks: will it hot dog? – [Link] No. – [Rhett] No! – As Josh mentioned earlier, every hot dog he’s createded has… “Created-ed.” Has been encased-ta-de-ded in intestine-ine. – Yeah, yeah. – But then we’re like, you know what? If intestine keeps all the meat in a hot dog, what if all the meat in the hot dog was just intestines? – Yeah, ’cause what will hold your intestine, other than more intestine? – Begrudgingly, we present: the Gut Dog. Logically, it makes sense. – [Josh] Yeah. – Intestine on the outside. What about intestine all the way through? – [Josh] Sure. – Oh, I just got the smell. – Why did we do this? – I just got the whiff. That intestinal smell. – What did you do, Josh? – [Josh] Well, we mostly blended a bunch of intestines and then shoved that back inside intestines, but then we also seasoned the hot dog bun with more intestine juice. – Ugh. – And we made a biomustard and a blood ketchup. – No! – [Josh] And what I’m calling a rustic intestine relish. – Why did you… “Why did you do?” really is the question. – [Josh] Why… – Not “What did you do?” – [Josh] I don’t understand the question. – I mean, why you gotta bring bile into this, man? – [Josh] I mean, it’s a Gut Dog. Comes from guts. – You went and biled it. – Remember back when we were happy about chow-chow? Remember those days? “Chow-chow, it’s like relish.” – So long ago. – “From your Southern grandma.” – I don’t believe that you’ve gotten a full whiff yet. – I haven’t. – Take a dog and put your nose to it. – I’m just, I’m just… – [Rhett] It’s that unforgettable smell of what the inside of an animal smells like. (Link retches) (Rhett laughs) – Yeah! It’s like… Boy, you were just like whoofin’ it down there for a while before it registered. – It’s such a deep smell. – Your brain was like, “No, no, no, no, no, no, okay.” – It’s so buried. It’s just like, so… Man, it’s like a center-of-the-earth kinda scent. It’s like, ugh… If it was just made of guts. – I don’t have a lot of hope for myself right now. – [Josh] You ever had jalapeno rings on a hot dog? – This is not that, Josh. – [Josh] Oh, okay, sorry. I was trying to help. – I just moved one to… (electric guitar shreds) – (sighs) Pinky ring it. (Rhett laughs) Is that what pinky-ringing it- – I don’t know, I just- – You stick your tongue out? – No, it just- – [Link] You can eat it. – It’s just a reaction. You put something near my mouth, I just go… Um, okay. (Link laughs nervously) (Link growls) All right, come on. Let’s do this. Dink it. – Eh. – (whimpering) And sink it. – Ah! (both grunting) – [Josh] Gotta rip it. Rip it harder. – Why is it so hard? Oh, gosh. (electric guitar shreds) – Aw! – That bile’s hittin’ me, boy! Oh my goodness! (Link yelps) – Ah! – I don’t think I can actually chew it. It just feels like I just put some Hubba Bubba in my mouth. You know what I’m saying? (Link groaning) You gonna follow it with your pinky? – It’s so chewy, I can’t do it. (Link sobs) – I need like a… A blender tongue. (Link retches) – (spits) Ugh. I dropped my pinky ring on the floor. I mean, do you think you’re gonna get it down? Maybe that’s what makes it taste good, is once you swallow it. Maybe it’s the aftertaste of swallowing it that makes it awesome. – I’ve got some down, but boy, there’s a lot to go. (Link moans) (Link retches) You think early gum was just intestines? – It’s the hot dog that turns into gum! That’s the way to promote it. Ugh, my breath is horrible. I can taste… (exhales) I can taste it. – I can’t get that down. I’m sorry. – No, you shouldn’t. – [Rhett] Intestine: will it hot dog? No! – No-oh-hoo-hoo-hoo. You know what? You did a valiant effort, Kitcheneers. – We started strong. We started in a good place. – Remember chow-chow? – I’m going back to Cracker Barrel. Oh, choking! – That’s gonna be my happy place from now on. – That’s for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. (electric guitar shreds) – Hi, I’m Holly. – And I’m Christy. – And we’re at Hot Dog on a Stick. – In Las Vegas. – [Both] And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality! – Hot Dog on a Stick! Carney! – Was he making an appearance that day? 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