Do exotic fruits taste how they look? – Let’s talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Morning. – Have you ever come across a fruit you never seen before, and you wondered what the meat inside was like? – Oh, please do not refer to the inside of fruits as meat, that’s gross. It’s the flesh of the fruit. – Please don’t refer to the inside of fruit as flesh. – Okay. – That’s nasty. – What’s your idea? – The tutti of the frutti. – Okay, agreed. Today we’re tasting wild, exotic tutties and matching them to their wild, exotic frutties. – Yeah. – It’s time for, “Where’s That Fruit From? It’s Crazy Exotic! The Colors! The Seeds! They’re Almost Hypnotic!” – Look at all these exotic fruits. There’s six of ’em here. – Oh. – Boy, they really run this gigamit. The whole exotic fruit spectrum. – I can’t imagine anything else fruit could do with itself. – Yeah, I know, we’re gonna eat the tutti of these frutties, and then we’re gonna try to match the one that we’re eating to the one that we’re seeing back here. – So we’re gonna have like- – And we get two points if we do that. – The inside of the fruit, kinda like diced up. So you can’t see any of the outside. – Yeah. – Just the tutti. – The tutti. – Just the tutti. – And then, that’s two points, and then we get a chance at an additional point if we can guess the native region using this fancy dancy handheld map. – So you just take it. – Hold it in your hand. – If you think this comes from the sea, then you would do that. If you think it comes from Australia, you would do that. Isn’t that fun? – The winner’s gonna be named fruits commander. (crew laughing) – Okay. Let’s get to bumping and rinding. (playful music) (wind whooshing) – So the first one is a bowl of stuff? – It’s a soup. – The fruit turns into a soup? – Yeah, it’s fruit soup. Tutti soup. – That is a green, gelatinous swamp. – So it’s basically seeds surrounded by gel. – What? – Almost like jelly. – What? – Oh, it smells like grass. It smells like freshly cut grass. – Good gosh, it exactly does! – It exactly does! (crew chuckling) – I’ve never wanted to eat freshly cut grass. It’s a bit sour. – Yep. – [Stevie] Okay, you’re gonna stab the fruit that you think it is. – I mean, look at this one. This one looks like a blowfish. – I’ve seen this one at the grocery store, I think. It’s the only one that- – like a faceless blowfish. – I’ve seen these falling outta lots of trees in the south. You know what I’m saying? – [Link] It’s a cocklebur. – [Rhett] Yeah, right, huh? Huh, huh? (crew chuckling) Okay, okay. – What, did you learn something? (fruit thuds) That’s hard. – Oh wow, that’s soft. – And then this, oh, gosh. – Whoa, no. – Look at that. – That’s gelatinous in there. – Oh wow. – [Rhett] That’s some hints. – I mean, this, it’s like a sack. – I think it’s a pillow. – [Stevie] You ready to guess? – Yeah. – [Stevie] Here we go, three- – Yeah, I’m ready to guess. – [Stevie] Two, one. – It’s gotta be this. – It’s gotta be this one. It might- – Now that we’ve touched it- – It might be the, I would’ve think this would have one pit in it, you know? – You sure you don’t wanna change your answer? – I would think this would’ve one pit and this would’ve a bunch of seeds that looked like this. – It could be that. – [Stevie] Okay, so what you just had is called horned melon, and it’s a fruit that tastes like cucumber and zucchini and it’s often eaten raw with a sprinkle of salt, sugar, lemon or lime juice. And it is fruit number three. – Yeah. – Oh crap. (klaxon buzzes) – Yeah, horned melon. See? It’s a horned melon. – And you’re telling, you didn’t say it tastes like grass. Let’s open this thing up. – What did you just say it tasted like? – Cucumber and melon. – Cucumber and zucchini is what it tastes like – I’m expecting this thing to just explode. – apparently. – Oh, look at that. Would you look up that? And then I guess you can just kinda squeeze one. – Oh wow. You wanna squeeze it into that? – [Rhett] Oh, it doesn’t. – You want me to help you squeeze it? – [Stevie] So what you’re supposed to really do is you slice it in half and then you scoop out the flesh. – Yeah, like this. – Oh. – [Stevie] And, but it says the rind, seeds and flesh are edible. So I guess you could just- – Oh really? – The rind is edible? – [Stevie] Yes. – I mean it’s horny. – Does it make you horny? – You wanna be careful eating that. – It doesn’t stink. – Horned melon you say. – [Stevie] So now you have to guess what its native region is. – I have my answer. – Okay. – That’s what I was thinking. I was thinking this might be like a Madagascarian. – That’s a good guess. I went with whatever that part of Asia is going down into some of the islands. – [Stevie] Okay, so horned melons are native to Southern Africa. Specifically South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola. So Link, you get the point. – I think he got a few of those countries in. – I did, yeah. I nailed it by just complete chance, ’cause I said Madagascar. (crew laughing) But I did have some of those. – Yeah, but you got several other countries in your eye. – Look at me. I think. – I’m pretty impressed. What are the chances? – Whoa, whoa. Remove the darts. Make the map smaller. (crew laughs) – Yeah. Let him, let him move his circle around. There you go. (signs whooshing) (upbeat music) – Oh. – One less to choose from. Should make it easier to eat. – Another slimy one. – This. – [Stevie] Before you dig in. – What? Just to let you guys know, there is a pit in there. It is edible, but I would just suck on it. – So you’re saying that big white thing is a pit. – [Stevie] Correct. And it is edible. – And it has been cut. – It has been cut, yes. – Oh, that snotty slime on the outside is very. – Well, that’s a weird flavor. And there’s a, it’s coating my mouth with a bitterness. – It’s nutty. It’s really. – It tastes like a nut. And that’s where the bitterness is coming from. – A bitter peanut. – Good. – Very earthy. (both spitting) And now it’s gonna dry. I think you’d wanna spit that out. I think wherever on the map this is, people are just spitting this out into like the places. Ah, gosh, what is it? I mean, are we just gonna guess this thing every round? (crew chuckling) Look at that. ‘Cause are all of these pits? – They could all be little pits. – Now I know what this is. – A Potato. (both laughing) – A potato. Do you know what it is? I do know what it is. – You had this at your house? – Not exactly. I have no clue what these are. – Okay. – Okay. It’s time to guess. – I have a guess. – Here we go. – I have a guess too. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – I’m pretty sure it’s these hairy dingleberries? – It’s either got, it’s gotta be either these or these because they’re both small and have a big pit is my guess. – [Stevie] This fruit is called mamoncillos, the fruit whose flesh is sweet in taste and gummy appearance and it’s used to flavor soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. And it’s fruit number five. – Oh crap. You got it. – I got it. – [Stevie] Go ahead and pull that down. – So it flavors alcoholic beverages? – And what did you say it was called? – [Stevie] Mamoncillos. And so apparently what you’re supposed to do to eat it is you bite into or puncture the thin skin. So it can be peeled back. – Oh, it’s like a muscadine. – Oh. Yeah. – You know what I’m saying? – A grape. – Well a scuppernong. You guys know about these grapes? – [Stevie] What are you saying to me? (crew laughing) – Yeah. – Stevie does. – [Stevie] I have no idea what you’re, say those two words again. – Okay. In North Carolina. – A muscadine. Or a scuppernong. – In the South and in North Carolina you would just be walking in the woods and there would be wild grapes. And I think people do cultivate them into wines. But we called ’em scuppernongs and they looked like this and they were grapes, they had really, really thick flesh. You could still get ’em in the grocery store here sometimes. And they’re very slimy and the inside pops out into your mouth and they taste very, very specific. There’s nothing else like ’em. – I’ve, they’re never in my life. – They’re really good. – Heard of that. – But I wouldn’t call ’em a scuppernong, I’d call it a scuppernong grape, it’s a type of grape. – Okay. Okay. – The place that I was thinking isn’t on this map. – Oh, you’re thinking another planet, huh? (crew laughing) Yeah, that can happen. Give him the Mars map please. (laughing continues) Are you saying you were thinking Hawaii? – I was thinking Hawaii ’cause I’ve been there but I couldn’t find Hawaii on the map and I almost thought it was New Zealand. – I went with, – But I didn’t. – Southern Mexico and Central America in general, kinda going down into the top of South America. – I went where you went before. – [Stevie] Okay, mamoncillos are native to south of America, Central America- – Yes! – [Stevie] And the Caribbean, so Rhett got the point specifically Columbia and Venezuela and the islands just off their coasts. – Okay, well thank you. (Rhett laughing) (signs whooshing) (upbeat music) – What? – A white plum tutti. – And it looks like it was wrapped around what I would consider a inedible nut of some kind. ‘Cause you can see like. – Yeah, it’s been removed. There’s like a. – That almost tastes like meat. – The longer you eat it, the worse it tastes. – It’s a bit disturbing. Didn’t like it and then I didn’t like it a little bit less and then I didn’t like it a little bit less. I made it. I might end up loving it if I eat the whole bowl. – Oh, I started liking it less and less. – No I started like adapting to the taste or something. – We’re drifting apart, Rhett. – Man. And it all was a, it all came down to tutti. – I know what I wanna vote. – I’ve gotta guess. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Seems like this one would have a thing, but crap, that one, well who knows? It’s so exotic. – [Stevie] Okay, you just tasted rambutan. – Oh a rambutan! I’ve heard of this. – A fruit whose grape like flesh can be mixed with salads, used as a topping for sorbet or used as a sweetener for soups. And it is fruit number one. – Good job, Rhett. Did you know that or were you just guessing? – I have never, again, we had these in North Carolina that didn’t look like this that come from some tree. – Yeah. And there ain’t no fruit in it. It’s just a nut. It’s just some sort of seed. – Oh. So there you go. So, it’s basically everyone has this little peanut looking. Oh look at that. Oh gosh, look at that. – [Link] Look at how fleshy it is. – And then you can just squeeze that out. Pop that out. This is like, remember the Buies Creek Elementary School haunted house and they used half grapes for eyeballs? – Well I never went in there. – Oh yeah, well, they could have used these. – Right, I don’t want any more of that. I’m gonna go map it ’cause I didn’t love it. Are you still liking it more and more? – Yeah, I do like it. But I noticed these exotic fruits are difficult to like get into, you know what I’m saying? That’s why they haven’t like been mass produced, rambutan? – [Stevie] Hmm-mm. – You’re trying to get some sort of a hint from the name itself? – No. Okay. – Which would be smart. – All right, you go first. – I did this island region down here where you got Indonesia and you’ve got some South Asian islands. – Well, I did the same thing, but I’m being more assertive with my answer and I’m saying this is Thailand. I’ve been there. They have these but they don’t have corn. – Okay, so you’re circling the same area but you’re asserting two different specific countries, is that what it’s come down to? – Yeah, that’s how it works. – I’m asserting my circle is in the right place. – I’m asserting Thailand which I hope is in my circle. – [Stevie] They are native to Southeast Asia. And I said the name was a hint because it’s actually Indonesian for hairy. – Oh. – Wow. So. – [Stevie] So that’s why I was like, are you asserting Thailand? – We don’t know Indonesian. – I did kind of assert Indonesia. But that’s not the game. That’s not the game. No extra points for assertions. – [Stevie] Okay. So you each get a point. – We each get a point. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re not, we’re drifting back together. – Yeah. we’re drifting back together. (signs whooshing) (upbeat music) You know what, we got MythiCon coming up. – Yes we do. – And on Saturday night at MythiCon, we are taking the stage. We are doing a performance. The one time only thing, we’re we’ve curated it just for MythiCon and we’re gonna do some things that we’ve never done before. We’re gonna try some stuff we’ve never tried before. – But we have not curated just for the people who can be at MythiCon because this particular part of MythiCon we wanna be able to share with you if you’re not able to come to MythiCon, we understand everybody can’t make it this year. So we are creating a live streaming event exclusively on Kiswe where you can watch the show. – Yes. – You can be a part of the action of MythiCon through this experience that we have crafted. Get your tickets to see us live performing on stage at MythiCon at mythicontickets.com, all right? It’s gonna be fun. It’s gonna be crazy. The stuff that we’re gonna try from that stage. – Well, well, we’re gonna try. – We’ve never done before. – We’re gonna try. – Never done before. – This looks like seafood. This does not look like fruit. – Yeah, it looks, yeah, like some sort of like mollusc. But it tastes good. – What? – It’s the consistency of peach. – But it tastes like peach banana. It has a like a banana flavor. Do you know like a very slight hint of banana mixed with. – This is one of my faves. – No, I’m trying to get- – Could something so tasty come out of the ugliest of packages? I mean, I’m sorry to call you ugly, but I really wanna get inside of you and see what’s happening. – Oh, I love it when you talk to fruit that way. – And then again, we only have three options now. This should be getting easier. – Yeah, I mean. It should be getting easier. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Hold on, I don’t, I don’t know. – It has to be this one. – Yeah, because you look at the, the shape of it. – ‘Cause it feels exactly like it’s gonna have that inside. – Each of those things. – [Stevie] That seemed like cheating, but okay. You just had – Well, I was just delayed. a mangosteen, which is a really cool name. – I fine. You know what? If that feels like cheating. – [Stevie] No! (crew laughing) It’s a fruit that offers a sweet tart taste with notes of litchi, peach, strawberry, pineapple and caramel. And it is fruit number two. – Oh gosh. – You should’ve changed, man. – Come on, Stevie. Why did you deter me? – [Stevie] Do not put this on me. – Wow. – I was going for it. – Now this is very hard. Feeling that from the outside is very, doesn’t seem like it’s gonna, Oh golly. Here we go, I’m gonna have to really, I’m gonna have to. – That’s how you do it, right, Nicole? – So cut it in half. – Look at that. – [Stevie] Like cut all the way around and then you’re gonna pull the two parts, you know, away from each other. So cut it all the way around the center. Or that, that works too. – Oh wow, look at that. It’s so well protected. – It’s like a garlic clove in there. What’s a piece of a garlic clove called? – A clove. – A clove. (crew laughing) – It’s a bulb. – Bulb. – Oh, a bulb. – [Stevie] Yes. – Okay. Where is it at? Mangosteen. – This is tough. – Okay. – Well, I just stayed up here in the northern part of South America. – Oh wow. Exactly my guess. – Oh wow. Well look at us. We’re wowing each other. We really are drifting back together. – Yep. I mean I got a couple of more countries maybe. – Okay, but you’re both guessing like the same area for sure? – I was gonna say Brazil, but I wanted to get more north, North South America. – [Link] I can change mine, you know. – [Stevie] Okay, so mangosteens are native to the tropical lands surrounding the Indian Ocean. Like Southwest India and Southeast Asia. – That was close. – So, you were closer. Can we give points for closer? – I don’t get a point now? – We do not get points for closeness, Stevie. – [Stevie] We don’t give points for closeness. But I’ll also say- – Thanks, Stevie, for trying. – ‘Cause I think you both are in the same region of no points that thanks to prehistoric cultivation, it also grow grows in Columbia and Puerto Rico. So. – Well I got Columbia. – [Stevie] Well, that’s not where they’re native to. – Nope. It’s not. It’s not. And we said it’s not native. – Okay. Okay. Okay. (signs whooshing) (upbeat music) – And finally we’ve can. – Puddin’, you might like puddin’. – Some sort of mush. This is baby food. – This seems like something you would like based on consistency. – It’s, that is such a strange taste. – It’s a taste that I’ve never tasted before. Like there’s, I have points of reference for it. Like there’s a little bit of coconut at the beginning that kinda changed to like. – It’s not too sweet and it’s a bit pasty but it’s kinda slimy like banana tutti. – To me it’s like a banana that’s been dipped in a flower pot. – [Stevie] Okay, y’all know what this is. – Yeah, or this. – Or this. – I’ve been wanting to guess this all day, which is why I’ve done it multiple times. – Well. – As have you. – I’m assuming you’re gonna do it right now ’cause it has to be the right answer. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – I mean, if it’s not that, then. – I have to hope that it’s this because I just can’t, I gotta make this decent. – [Stevie] Are you, you literally said I know what this is. – I know this is a cactus bloom, but I’ve never seen the inside of it or tasted it. This this comes off of a- – [Stevie] Okay, well the fruit is number six that we’re talking about. But like, do you know what the fruit is called? Do you wanna guess what that fruit’s called? – This one? – Yeah. – Sack of, sack of goodies. – [Rhett] Oh look I just squeezed it and it just kinda just came out like- – Rip it apart, yeah. – [Rhett] Thinking if you cut it, it just. – [Link] Rip it. Oh my. – [Stevie] It is not sack a goodies. – Good gosh. – That is like an alien. – [Stevie] It is actually called a sugar apple. – A sugar apple. – Yeah, and it resembles and tastes like custard apparently. And it’s a great source of vitamin C. – You can see why it hasn’t spread around the globe and is in every supermarket. Just because I think a lot of people would be scared of it. That’s why these exotic fruits don’t like become very domestic fruits. – Great name too. Sugar apple. – Okay, got it. – I think this is in the Amazon. – I went with some India and some China. – [Stevie] Sugar apple is native to the Caribbean and the surrounding tropical Americas. – So neither point of us. – Caribbean’s got a lot of cool stuff, man. We should go. We should go. – Man, sugar apple. That’s great. You know, I don’t really feel like I lost, but it’s, I do know that you won. So get your fruits commander on, buddy. – Oh, okay. Alright. Yeah, this is. – Being able to just eat this exotic fruit and have access to it is a treat and a prize for everyone, winner or loser. – Okay. Is this what the fruits commanders? – Use an accent. – I, Is this, what is this referenced to? – Eddie Redmayne. What’s that say? – “Exotic fruits and where to find them.” (crew laughing) Ding. (crew laughing) Is that what it does? – It does. – Ding. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Nick from Louisville, Kentucky and there is a blueberry on my shoulder. It’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Hey, be like Nick if you find a blueberry on your shoulder, eat it, okay? Click the top link to watch us judge books by their cover and give them- (rattling drowns our Rhett) – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality’s gonna land, get your ticket to see the live stream of us performing at MythiCon, myticontickets.com. (no audio)