What does American food look like in other countries? – Let’s talk about that. (light, whimsical music) – Good Mythical Morning. – And happy 2200th episode of “Good Mythical Morning.” – We did it! – Whoa, whoa! Two, two, whoa, whoa. Two, two, whoa, whoa. – Two, two, whoa, whoa episodes, and it still feels like only yesterday, we were subjecting ourselves to utterly embarrassing acts like eating birthday cakes for dogs just to get clicks. – I think that was yesterday. – Oh, right. – But nevertheless, whether you started watching on episode one or on episode 2-1- – [Both] 99. – Yeah. – I’m catching on. – Thank you for making us a part of your daily routine. – Yes, thank you. We appreciate it, and now, America, the beautiful, the land of the free and the epicenter of supersized, greasy fried cuisine. – Now that sounds like an oversimplification, but that’s also how we like it, y’all. – We Americans have done our fair share of inventing dishes and saying it’s from another country. Yes, we’re very much guilty of that, but today, we’re exploring the opposite. What do other countries serve up and call American style? It’s time for “What Do Other Countries “Think America Tastes Like?” A deep-fried, barbecued Klondike? That sounds about right. – We wanna give a shoutout to KatieHemming24. KatieHemming24, we saw your suggestion, we thought it was a great idea, and now, we are taking full credit for it. This was our idea to do this episode. – Well, actually, I think we just gave Katie credit. – Thank you, Katie. – Yes, and this is how this is gonna go. Stevie’s gonna present us with a series of snacks and dishes from around the world which have been labeled as American, and then we’re gonna be asked a series of questions about those dishes. – I’ve also been told that the Mythical Kitchen has worked up some of these foreign American food for us to try. – They’re always getting worked up. – They’re always getting worked up over there. – Points will escalate each round, and the winner will get a top-secret American prize. – I’m intrigued. (patriotic music) Good gosh, look these pizzas. – [Stevie] Okay, boys, in 2019, Papa Johns released a pizza in South Korea known as the American Pizza. So one of the pizzas in front of you is the exact recreation of that American pizza. The other pizza’s just a Mythical Kitchen concoction, and you’re trying to see if you can find the real thing. – So one of these is a Papa Johns’ creation. It’s not a misunderstanding. This is blatant lying to South Korea. ‘Cause I’ve never seen either one of these. And this one looks like- – But hold on, no. But it’s not that this is a pizza that Americans would enjoy. It’s got stuff from America on it, or at least, as those countries interpret America, which I guess, chicken and biscuits. – This is not chicken. This is a country fried steak. – Oh! It’s country fried steak, you’re right. – Country fried, wonder what they would call it. – Well, this is good, but it’s kind hard to get down. – A biscuit on a pizza is crazy. – I don’t know why I’m fork and knifing it. – Crazy good. It’s been awhile since I had country fried steak. – [Rhett] And that’s got that white gravy. – Mm-hmm. There’s sausage in the pizza and gravy part. It’s that- – Sausage gravy. – Authentic sausage gravy. That’s amazing. – Now this looks like hot dog, but what’s that big slab? Is that a slab of cheese? Is it like a string cheese? – It’s mashed taters. Hot dog, some sort of weird bright mustard. – I thought I was gonna get a melted string cheese in my mouth and I got mashed potatoes. – [Link] This is good, too. This is really good. I love both of them. – As an American- – Passes this American test. – We sign off on both of these, Papa Johns. – So what are we gonna do, put our hand over which one is- – [Stevie] Yeah, put your hand over the one that you think is the actual South Korean recreation. I’m gonna give you a three, two, one. Here we go. Three, two, one. – It’s gotta be this. – It’s gotta be this. Right? Because it’s- – this is too authentic. – This seems too obvious to not be the answer. – Yeah, you’re both right, but let’s see an image from their Instagram to see just how close- – You guys did great. I cannot complain about it. I can’t complain about either one of these, but I love this, what you’ve done with this? – I can complain about this one, the more I think about it. – Oh really? – It’s got mashed potatoes on the pizza, and I don’t know why I let you talk me into thinking it was good, and then, I really started thinking about it. – [Link] You’re right. Since when do you eat mashed taters with a hot dog? – So, but this is an original Mythical Kitchen recipe? – [Stevie] Yeah. – It was just so dialed into the American South, in a way that might be difficult to translate all the way to Korea, in a way that they would be able to be like, oh, that’s American. But you throw hot dogs and mashed potatoes, and you’re like, oh yeah, Americans. Those crazy Americans. (bright, patriotic music) ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Bum ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Bum ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Is there a rhythm that you’re playing ♪ – I kinda gave up, because- ♪ Are you in your own world ♪ – I forgot which one was the deeper one. ♪ The boom ♪ – The big one. ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Bum ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Bum ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪ ♪ Bum ♪ ♪ Duh, dip ♪ – No matter how high I try to go, it’s the same note. I shouldn’t have started- – What are we doing with all this mayonnaise, Stevie? – [Stevie] Usually, when you play things like drums, you let those things make the sounds, you know? – Oh, no. We don’t let mayonnaise make sounds around here. – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah. Americans don’t do that, and Americans are also known for our supersizing tendencies. You see how I tied that in? Maybe that’s why grocery stores in Finland carry a jar of Hellman’s mayo boldly labeled as American sized. – Now these all say real on them, Rhett. – Mm-hmm. – And that’s because- – Well, it’s a- – Finland is real. – It’s because the Finnish, who don’t exist, are trying to play a little trick on us, to make us think that they’re real. But really, it’s just mayonnaise. – Look at how freaking big this is. What would you do with this much mayonnaise? – You can stick your whole head in there. I think I know which one is American. Is this just gonna be just putting your hands over things? – [Stevie] Again, it’s just hovering your hand in a three, two, one. – American sized. – [Stevie] Link, are you ready? – Yeah. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – I think this one. The biggie, biggie. That’s normal. – But this is why I’m choosing this one. This is obviously- – But I am American. – Is that I think that this is normal for Americans, and so, I’m just guessing that maybe this is- – Can I change my answer? – No. You might be right. It’s either of these. It’s one of these two. – Okay, this one. – [Stevie] Let’s take a look. – [Link] American sized, 50% more with the red stripe. – [Rhett] So the American size is not, I mean, this is, they would flip a lid if they saw this thing. – Yep. – And this is just like crazy Americans getting- – Check this out. – Normal sized mayonnaise to us? You flipped that lid. (bright patriotic music) – [Stevie] While certain people in American refer to Thailand as Thailand others refer to it as Thighland- – Yup. – [Stevie] Restaurants in Thailand, as I like to say, offer American-style dishes that might surprise you. For example, if you were to order American fried rice, or as it’s known there, cow pad American, you would receive one of these two dishes. – Cow pied American? – Stevie Pad. – Cow pad, oh, good, better. – [Rhett] Okay. Well, this one is a Thanksgiving dinner, Link. – [Link] Is that a sliced pork? Or you said that’s turkey? – And there’s gravy around the outside. – Now when I was in Thighland, I did not eat anything that I thought would be American, including bananas. – (laughs) Bananas on the beach. – And I don’t know why I said bananas. ‘Cause it was corn. – Corn. Yeah, right. – I can’t even make fun of myself by remembering what I forgot. – Sometimes, I get corn and bananas mixed up in my memories, too. – This doesn’t taste good to me. – No, it’s not. – What is wrong with that? – But this has fried chicken on top of- – Ugh. – Raisins? – Is it fish? – No, it’s not fish. I think it’s just gravy. – [Link] But this one, yeah, that’s- – [Rhett] There’s some chicken on top- – Fried chicken, which, and there’s like hot dog pieces. Oh, look at what they did with the hot dogs. – Not everybody can do that. – It’s like a carousel, parasol type thing. – There’s raisins in it, too. – [Link] Hmm. – [Rhett] You see anything like this in Thailand? – [Link] No, I didn’t. But again, I wasn’t looking. This suits my American palate more. – But I’m just wondering if I’m supposed to follow the wiener. Is it wherever the wiener is where the American is? – Especially with the wiener being this fancy. – You know, you can get that done to your wiener. – Ew, Rhett, it’s gross, man. – No, it’s like a, it’s a piercing technique. – Just like- – It’s called forked. (crew laughs) – [Stevie] Ready to guess? – I’m ready to erase that conversation from my memory. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Whoo. All right, see- – I’m following the wiener. – And I am going out on a limb here. – With Thanksgiving. – This is so strange, yeah. – [Stevie] I thought the wiener would be up for debate, because the correct dish is in front of Link. – Oh, yup, see, there it is. – Okay, shoot. – So it’s- – I gotta try to regain some ground. – [Stevie] It has ketchup and raisins, hot dogs, spam, fried chicken and/or bacon. And let’s take a look at this photo of the actual dish. – [Rhett] You guys nailed it. – [Link] Exactly the same. – [Stevie] And there are actually a couple of stories of how this came to be. One was that it was created by Thai cooks using the, during the Vietnam War, for American soldiers who wanted a taste of American home cooking, and another is that Thai cooks observed what Americans ate with their carbs and simply added these ingredients to fried rice. – Throw some raisins in there. – Yeah. – The raisins- – The forked wieners in there. – Are a bit weird. 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Go to mythical.com to get this thing. – [Stevie] If you’re in Sweden, stop by the Disgusting Food Museum, which is also known as the Disgusting Food Museum. – Disgusting. – [Stevie] It invites visitors to explore the world of food and challenge their notions of what is and what isn’t edible. Some of the displays include beer served in a taxidermized squirrel, casu martzu, which, of course, is the maggot cheese, and a selection of American delicacies. Which of these three groupings of uniquely USA-made products have their own exhibit in the Disgusting Food Museum? – This is deep-fried butter. – Hold it by the stick, man. Be bold. Oh, you’re scared. You’re scared of it. (butter plops) Okay. (crew laughs) You gotta eat it fast. – That’s why I wasn’t holding it by the stick. – Deep-fried butter. – Now this is also something that you’re gonna wanna see. – Fritos. – Not just Fritos. (bag crinkling) – Oh. This is a Frito pie. – It’s a Frito pie. – Yes. – That is, and I just made an upside down one. That’s how they do it in South Carolina. – Yes. This is nice. I was gonna eat one of those, but I’m scared, and- – Why you scared? – [Link] Red pickles? Is this a thing here? I mean- – I think they’re Kool-Aid? Aren’t they Kool-Aid pickles? – Oh. So they’ve been remade for Kool-Aid. – Oh, wow. They’ve been remade for Kool-Aid, you’re right. We’re definitely having more fun over here. These American boys are having more fun over here, ’cause over here, you just got A&W, Twinkies and Pop Tarts, and then you got- – In the Disgusting Museum, though? – [Rhett] Four Loko. – Good gosh, this thing has 14% alcohol by volume. – Mm. – [Link] Camouflaged. Red, white and blue camouflaged Four Loko. This is so basic. – It’s just, have they gone sensational? Have they gone accurate? That’s the question. – All right. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – I think they’ve gone basic. – I think they went sensational. Make it worth coming in. – [Stevie] The food that’s in the Disgusting Food Museum is in front of Link. – Yes. – Ah. – Well, hey, guys at the museum, you need to go here. – Yeah, ’cause this is gawesome. – Gawesome? – It’s so awesome it’s gawesome. – Well, I see that you’ve got a root beer demonstration and there’s the Twinkie demonstration and the Pop Tart demonstration. Look, they got those little lights- – You called those demonstrations or exhibits? – Well, I think they’re demonstrating that they exist in America. – Yeah, they’re exhibiting them by demonstrating them. – Iconic American soft drink, traditionally made with carcinogenic sassafras roots. That’s what it says. – Well, come on, hey. – Whoa, now. – We can only take so much shade, Sweden. – That’s what’s happening? (bright, patriotic music) – [Stevie] In the Netherlands, there is a popular American sauce sold on shelves and marketed as a complement to one specific food item, just as we Americans like it, according to them, that is. Which of these foods do the Dutch think we pair this American sauce with? – You ever put anything that looks like this with anything that looks like this? – Yeah, what is this stuff? Now we have a cheeseburger, fries, and some amazing looking chicken legs here. I kinda- – I’m dipping, which I don’t know if that’s how you would do it. – That’s how I’m gonna do it. What’s that sauce like? Is it mustardy? – I’d say mayonnaise and mustard mixed together. – [Link] With flecks of something. – [Rhett] Like a dill? – [Link] I gotta just use my fingers here. – What’s the dill? With the sauce? – Now I know that they love- – French fries. – To dip their fries in mayo- – Mayonnaise, because you watched “Pulp Fiction.” – No, because I’ve been there. – But first, you watched “Pulp Fiction.” – And they have ads for mayo there, and they’re always dipping it in fries, serving it on fries in restaurants. – [Rhett] Chicken sauce. – [Link] So why would they do it in fries? – I’m just doing this to enjoy myself. – But this is a fun little endeavor. Mayonnaise on fried chicken legs? – I’m enjoying every bit of it. – I love this. – The question is- – Of course, it’s not honey mustard. There’s no, that’s what we would normally do on fried chicken. – So if they were confused, ’cause you’re right, they would put mayonnaise on French fries, so if they put mayonnaise on French fries, and then they added dill and mustard to it, would they call it American? – [Link] First of all, that’s an amazing chicken leg. – [Stevie] I was gonna say that I just learned the Mythical Kitchen crew made those from scratch. – I know, Lily told me. – I was like, that is plump and delicious looking chicken selection. – Honkin’ amazing. – [Stevie] Put your hand over the correct dish in three, two, one. – Ooh. Why you going with the burger? ‘Cause the fry is- – The fry seems too obvious to me, because they already put mayonnaise on there- – You trying to make me feel dumb? – No, it’s gotta be one of these two. I don’t think it’s the chicken. – Ironically, I like this one the best. – I’m just thinking, mustard and dill goes on burgers sometimes, so. – [Stevie] The image of the item is actually on the American sauce bottle, which is being passed in to you right now. – The American sauce bottle. – It’s French fries. Mad sauce? – Mad sauce. (speaks foreign language poorly) – I gotta say, you’re doing the right thing. (Link continues speaking foreign language poorly) – Since 1995. (bright, patriotic music) – [Stevie] Okay, y’all, it is anyone’s game. Don’t look under the cloche. That’s the reveal. – Don’t even touch it, because maybe you’re getting clues. – Okay. – [Stevie] This final round’s gonna go a little bit differently. I’m gonna show you a series of photos of actual American food sections in grocery stores. – I love photos of American food sections. – [Stevie] Around the world. Each image will have the same item blacked out, and you must guess what that one American food common denominator is. – Okay. – [Stevie] So we’re gonna start with a UK grocery store, and you’ll find the mystery item next to the Jif peanut butter. – [Link] I see that, okay. – [Stevie] Up next, we have two French grocery stories, and you’ll find the mystery item beside the Skippy peanut butter in the first and the syrup in the second. (Link speaking French poorly) And we’re gonna move over to Dublin. – [Link] Oh. – [Stevie] You’ll find the mystery item on the top shelf next to the sad selection of pumpkin pie fillings. – [Link] Okay. – [Stevie] And over to Amsterdam. Mystery item is sandwiched between the red velvet cupcake mix and the Hungry Jack pancakes. – [Rhett] What is happening? Are you getting any clues here? Because it’s like, that’s near the pancakes again. – This is all baking stuff here, which has nothing to do with like peanut butter. – Oh, I’m so confused. – [Stevie] And lastly, we have a Spanish grocery story, and the item is on the second shelf, next to what looks like cake frosting. – [Link] Yeah, we got frosting. – [Rhett] Dang, I was kinda moving towards frosting. – [Link] Chocolate syrup underneath. – [Rhett] Norteamericano. – What could that be? – [Stevie] All right, so now that you’ve seen all of the photos, you have whiteboards next to you, and I want you to write down what you think the mystery item is. – What is this? – I think you should write down Vegemite. – Yeah, I think you should write down the other version of that. – Marmite? – Marmite, yeah. – Oh, gosh. This is tough city. ♪ Taking a tour of tough city ♪ – I had an answer right up until the moment that you just told me to say Vegemite, and it left my brain. (laughs) Oh my gosh. – Yes! I love it. – That was great gamesmanship. – It would’ve been awesome if I would’ve taken your answer, ’cause I still don’t have one. – Oh, hold on, I had an answer. What was it? Whatever. I don’t feel great about this. It’s not the answer that I thought of and then forgot. So. – Maybe you’ll remember it when she tells you, and you’ll be like, that was my answer! – I seriously doubt it. – Can I have half a point? (crew laughs) – Yeah, hey, hey, if it was the thing that I thought of, can I have half a point? – [Link] Okay. – [Stevie] Let me see. Who wants to go first? – I’ll go. I said marshmallows. – I said Doritos. – [Stevie] Okay, the answer’s under the cloche. – Oh. It’s under the cloche. I forgot about the cloche. – It’s under the cloche? (crew laughs) – Oh! – Jet Fluff! – Marshmallow creme. – Marshmallow fluff. – Marshmallows. (Link groaning) – [Stevie] We’re in that scenario, where you’re asking for half a point. – Hold on, hold on, but it’s whoever got closest to the answer gets the point. – [Stevie] Yeah, I mean, you clearly won, which means you won the whole thing. – Yeah, Rhett. You did good, man. – There’s no argument there. – I took your wrong answer, and you still don’t remember what it was. – I still don’t, because I was right, and that was your fault, because I had a different answer and then I came up with the second answer that was correct. – I blew it. – Or close enough. – I blew it. – You ever eaten with the backend of a fork? – Who gets the prize? – [Rhett] You ever eaten with the backend of a fork? – Did you get it? Did you get the prize? Don’t be shy. – Look what I got. – That’s it? I’m not picking it up for him. – [Crew Member] What’s happening? – I’m not. (crew laughing) I’m not. (crew laughing) Well, you’re gonna be set for a couple of months. (crew laughs) Head first, head first. – [Rhett] Oh, it’s just a. (plastic crinkling) It’s just a bag of mayonnaise. (crew laughs) Boy, with this, so much could go wrong right now. (crew laughs) – If that bursts, man. – I’ll see you at the park. (crew laughs) – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what- – Time it is! (crew laughs) – Hi, I’m Rob. – I’m Steph. – And we’re in the middle of a North Carolina road trip, heading for the mountains to the coast, and we had to stop to get our Smithfield’s fix. – [Both] It’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Man, that wind will just whip it up in North Carolina sometimes. – Whoo, that Smithfield’s wind. Whoo, barbecue wind. – Click this top link to watch us taste weird things people put in their soda in “Good Mythical More.” – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality’s gonna land. Make every morning a Good Mythical Morning by grabbing the 2200th episode tee, available now for a limited time at mythical.com