Which not so fine dining chain restaurant is the finest? – Let’s talk about that. (whimsical music) Good Mythical Morning. – Now when I am in tourist mode, I do things I would never do in my normal mode like wear a money belt. – Huh. – Or a dumb hat with a flap in the back. – Oh, I love it when you wear the dumb hat with the flat in the back. – Only while I’m in tourist mode. – I agree, though. There are many places that I would never eat unless I’m in a vacation stupor. – Yeah. – Like the two restaurants we’re tasting today. It’s time for Food Feuds, Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville versus Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. – We’re gonna taste and compare popular menu items found at both of these chains then rate ’em head to head. – The winner’s gonna be named the Goof of Gimmicky Grub. Yes, I said it, they’re gimmicky. – The goof or the god? – The god? Did I say goof? (crew laughs) – You did. – Goof of gimmicky grub. That’s what I’m gonna, that’s what they win. Not the god. All right, it’s the god. Okay, can we just eat. (rock music) For the Bubba Gump waiter, I think we have to have a sign that says run Forrest run. – Hey, I’m Bubba Gump Baxter and this is our dumb luck coconut shrimp for 24.19. – Dumb luck. – It’s really good. So fun facts around our restaurant. – Okay. We were actually co-founded by a Vietnam vet slash ping pong player named Forrest Gump, who named it after his best friend Bubba, may he rest in peace. Hence Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. You can learn all about it in the documentary, “Forrest Gump.” – Yeah, we’re fixing to eat it. – I can go with it, yeah. – It’s such a good doc. That’s why we’re here. – He thinks it’s a doc. – Hey. – What up. – I’m Margaritaville Emily Fleming in 33 years. (Rhett laughs) – Okay. – (laughs) I’m sorry, Emily. – This is the dream, man. – Close to home. – This is the dream. I was 36 the last time you saw me, you do the math (clicks tongue) nice. – Whoa. – All right, so this is Margaritaville’s crispy coconut shrimp for 21.95. It’s good to see you guys again. – Yeah, you too, Emily, it’s been a long time. Glad that you’re doing great. – Now you would think that Bubba Gump Shrimp Company had the advantage in the shrimp competition. – Yes. – But did you know that the chain’s mascot, the Bubba Gump mascot is a shrimp named Shrimp. – I did not know that his name was Shrimp. – Yeah, yeah, that’s true. I wouldn’t make these things up. – I love shrimp, but I hate coconut on my foods. I love raw coconut, leave it alone. Don’t alter it. – Hmm, well, you’re in trouble this round. – I’m in trouble ’cause that is full of coconut. – That’s a pretty good coconut shrimp, though. – It’s tough for me to taste, man. – This is just a regular shrimp. – No, it’s got coconut, too. It’s not as- – Hmm. – Coconut-y. Bubba Gump makes his more about his shrimp than he does and Jimmy makes theirs more about the coconut. So I know where I’m gonna rank these ’cause I definitely like these better. Just to give you a Margaritaville fact, there’s 31 restaurants, 26 hotel and resorts, retirement communities, there’s a cruise, there’s a Sirius XM station, frozen seafood and a college ambassador program. Even more than that, Margaritaville is like, it’s a ubiquitous brand. It’s everywhere you look, Rhett. – Everywhere I look, I see Margaritaville. – Yeah. – Except, I just looked over there and I don’t see any evidence of it. – But there are more Bubba Shrimp companies. There’s 34 of those located around the world. – I think both of these are pretty tasty. This is heavy on the coconut but I don’t, I don’t dislike that and I like the presentation. I’m gonna give it a 7. – I’m a give this a three. (bell dings) And I’m a give this one a five. – I actually- – And this is my problem. I acknowledge. – I like the presentation of these better, just a little bit better. These are a little too salty, that was my first thought, but I’m gonna give them six ’cause I still enjoy them. – But you like the coconut, don’t you? – Oh, I do, yeah, I’m a coconut man. – Okay, well, there you got. It’s still relative. (rock music) – Hey, guys. – Hey. – Hey, Emily. – You guys wanna know a little bit about my life? – Yeah, how’s it going? – All right, so I am living at the Latitude Margaritaville Retirement Community. – Okay. – I heard about those. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Thanks for talking about it. – I’m happily, it’s in Daytona. Sounds right. – Yep. – I am happily single but I do have a nice rotation of older gentlemen. – Okay. – What do they rotate on? – Well, today’s Allen’s days. You guys, you guys would love Allen. I’ll tell you later. – Oh, wow. Allen’s day. – They call him the wrench. – [Emily] How’d you know? – Was that my girlfriend? – [Emily] Oh, yeah, should I tell them the price? (Rhett laughs) I’ll come back. Hang on, no, you stay, you stay. – Oh, all right. – You seem nice. – How much are these ribs? – They’re 24.45, sorry about that. – 25.45. – We dated. – $25? – So these are the Bubba Gump Dixie style baby back ribs for $23.64. More fun found facts. Our co-founder, Forrest Gump, he actually taught Elvis how to dance in real life. Isn’t that crazy, like you can’t make this stuff up, man. – Right, yeah, yeah, you sure can’t ’cause it, ’cause it actually all happened. – [Baxter] Yeah. – Should we tell him? – No. – [Link] Why is there so much more ribs over here than over here? – And it’s only like a dollar more. – Is that, is that really how it happens? Seriously? It’s that much more ribs. – It’s happening right now. Okay, I gotta get- – Ooh, that’s, that’s good. That’s a good rib. – I’m having a lot of trouble. – You can’t even get to it. Usually when they slather it in sauce, you lose the smokiness, but- – It’s a good rib. – Mr. Buffet’s over there smoking his ribs, man. Doing a good job. – It’s well smoked, well flavored. – Nice. And there’s three half racks here. You only get one half rack with these. – [Rhett] This is a smaller situation. – I know. – It’s a smaller rib. But how does it taste? – When I was growing up and I would go out to a restaurant with my mama, I’d almost always order the ribs. I was a rib aficionado for many years as a middle schooler. And I’ll tell you right now these are not as good as those. – They’re not what they could have been. And speaking of which, Forrest Gump is not what he could have been. Do you know before Tom Hanks got the part, three people turned down the role for Forrest. John Travolta. – Whoa. – Chevy Chase. – Ah. – And Bill Murray. Can you imagine Bill Murray as Forrest Gump? That would have been hilarious. Too hilarious. – Actually, I can kind of imagine him but I can’t imagine John Travolta. – I don’t like to imagine John Travolta. – In any scenario? – Nope, none. This is, this is bringing the heat. – Not literally. – Not spicy. – I’m gonna give ’em an eight. – Me, too. I agree, an eight. Over here, you think these are less. I’ll let you go first. – I do by a factor of two down to a six. ‘Cause I actually kind of like the taste but I think I’m just tasting the sauce. The rib meat leaving a little to be desired. – I’m a give it a five. Nothing wowed me. (bell ding) (rock music) – Hey, guys, this is Bubba Gump’s flame-grilled salmon. It’s got Maker’s Mark bourbon sauce for 25.29. It’s really good. – I appreciate you dropping this off. – Yeah. – I feel like it’s important because you’ve kind of committed to this whole thing. You’re obviously working there. – Oh, I love it there, man. It’s my favorite- – Forrest. – Historical restaurant. – Forrest Gump, that’s the issue. It’s not a documentary, it’s a movie. It’s narrative fiction. – Oh, yeah, so I work- – It’s a story. – So I work at a made up restaurant from a made up movie. – Well, no, it’s a real restaurant from a made up story. It’s a real movie but it’s a made up. – Forrest Gump never a real person. – No, but- – It’s Tom Hanks. – Then who broke Watergate? Who made the smiley face shirt when he wiped his face, mighty face onto his shirt. Like you can’t, you can’t just destroy my world like that, man. It’s (cries) no. – I feel kind of bad about it now. – Yikes (laughs). (crew laughs) – All right. Hey, guys, I’m back. Maybe don’t mention to him that my restaurant is about a real song by a real guy. – Okay. – Oh, yeah. – That’s true. – Skip that. – All right. – This looks different. – This is Margaritaville’s blackened salmon. It comes with brown rice and pineapple salsa and black beans and it’s, I wrote it on my hand, 24.95. I’m 69 years old, I’m very forgetful now. – Okay. – 69, see. – Oh, that’s the math. So this right here- – Looks like a sweet potato. – I bet it could be good, though. – It’s dry as hell. Oh, gosh, it’s really overcooked. – But is it seasoned well? It’s tough going to salmon after eating a nice rib. – Yeah, I always go rib then salmon. I mean salmon then rib. – I always feel good about eating salmon but I don’t think it’s good. – It feels like it could have been something but it was overcooked. The beans are dry. – [Link] Now this has got some Maker’s Mark on it. – This looks like a better cooked salmon But it also looks kind of uninteresting. – Not bad. Better. – The fish is much better. That’s just a big pile of rice, though. – And a little bit of broccoli. – You know what? These both kind of suck. – But- – You know what I’m saying? – You’re on vacation. You went here because your kids thought that the signage looked cool. – Yeah, we don’t let the kids make decisions in the family. – You know, and then you’re like you wanna make a healthy choice, so all those things taken into account, you know, I’m still gonna give it a five. – I like what they were trying to do with this one. Okay, I’ll agree with you, no I’m gonna go to a four. I can’t go- – Oh, you’re being tough on it. – And I’m going to a three on this one because I like what they did with the salmon but this is just such lack of effort, just some straight up, almost unseasoned white rice and some almost unseasoned broccoli. Three, man. – You’re right. This is, this is sad. Kind of like that part in Forrest Gump when it was sad. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – In the doc. In the documentary in Forrest Gump, you mean. Right, I feel like we should- – For that reason even though the fish is better I’m gonna give it a tie at five over here as well. (bell dings) – Okay. – Not a documentary. (rock music) – Hey, the midterm elections are in one week so go to votelikeabeast.com to check your voting status, register if you need to and stay informed for the mid-term elections. – Yeah, votelikeabeast.com. We made it. You can get stickers there. 100% of those profits go directly to our partners at vote.org. – Yeah, so use votelikeabeast.com to educate yourself on the issues and candidates that matter for next week’s selection. – Do it. – Hey, hey. – Hey. – Yo, all right, so this is our Margaritaville “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” Once again, a song. – Another song. – Don’t tell him, don’t tell him. – We got pickles, lettuce, we left off the tomato. I still remember that after 33 years. – Thank you. – No problem. And American cheese, it’s for $14.95. I just wanted to tell you guys I wanted to plug my charity. I run a Shih Tzu rescue. It’s called Tough Shih Tzu. Just go on, just look that up. – Okay, all right. Emily still moving and shaking. – Are we 30 years older? – Yeah. – Here is a cheeseburger. – Oh, don’t be down. It’s a great movie. It’s a great fictional movie. – Just answer me this, though. All right, so did Forrest Gump not inspire the song “Imagine” by John Lennon. – No. – Is John Lennon real? – Well, he’s dead. – He was real, yeah. His work lives on. – What’s real, though, what’s real? – I feel bad for Baxter. Oh, gosh, he’s having a rough time. – How much is this burger? – [Baxter] Oh, it’s 16.49. (Rhett laughs) If money’s real. (Rhett laughs) – There’s some interesting stuff going on on this burger. I mean, first of all, look what happened to the bun. The bun is almost, you got so much bun, I got such a little bun. – What do you mean? – Look at this. – Oh. – You’re talking about all of that. – What happened to the bun. – Yeah, you don’t, you don’t need that. – You don’t really need a bottom bun. – “Cheeseburger in Paradise” pretty good song. What about “Son of a Son of a Sailor?” That’s a good song. – But you would think that this is something that they would do very well there, considering the song. – I can taste that it did have tomato on it and that you removed it. (crew laughs) Like it’s really not, I do appreciate you removing it but kind of got my hopes up that it was never on there but it definitely was. – Tomato remnants. Ah, that is not a great burger. I just feel like- – Well, look at- – There’s so many ways that burgers, like burgers are being done so well by so many people. – [Link] Lookit, it’s a pre-formed patty. – I feel like a lot of time has passed since they came up with this particular item and they haven’t change it. – And look at this patty. It’s kind of well, it’s got some stripes on it. And I will say Bubba, played by Mykelti Williamson, guess who turned down the role? Ice Cube. – No. – And Dave Chapelle. – What? – – Both turned down the role. – You’re kidding. – They didn’t wanna talk about shrimp. – [Rhett] Tell me what you think about that burger. I think it tastes better and I think it’s the flame broiling. The burger just tastes better. – It’s better but- – It’s still not great, it’s just compared for this. – For a burger at a sit down restaurant, there’s disappointment across the board here, I’m sorry. – Man, both of these burgers are bad. – I mean, you’re supposed to get a good burger at a shrimp place, probably not. So the disappointment I think is worse here ’cause you got a freakin’ song named after it. – I mean, oh, gosh, that’s a three for me, man. This is not a good burger. – Mm-hmm, three. Over here- (bell dings) I’m also gonna give us, it’s just as, they could be the same, three, just both not good. – The flame broil in this was a little bit better, I’m gonna send it to a four. – And now I’m fighting with my kids at the table, you know. It’s a typical vacation. (rock music) You know, Chris Pratt was a waiter. – Hey, guys. – At Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. – Oh, yeah. – In Maui, yeah. He was discovered there. See, it doesn’t have to be real for you to have a future. – I know, I know, I’ve come to terms with it, you know. It’s a bummer but like at least the Vietnam War isn’t real. So this is a Bubba Gump key lime pie- – Listen to this. – Graham cracker crust for 10.99. – Okay, 10.99 Rhett. – Okay, wow. – Maybe dessert can redeem this experience. – You weren’t gonna correct him on that? – No, I thought about it but he seemed so happy. – For the best (laughs). – Yeah, yeah. – All right, I hope you guys come visit me at Latitude sometime. – Oh, yeah, we’ll be there. – You’re gonna have to drive, though. I still don’t drive cars. I do own three jet skis but I’m not allowed to drive those either for reasons. – Oh, okay. – Oh. – All right is our key lime pie for 8.95. I gotta go catch up with Allen for our date. He does something really fun with lime pie. – Hey, hey, Emily. – The wrench. – The cleanup is kind of a lot but you know. – Allen Wrench. – Now I gotta say this has been such a lackluster competition that this might be the first ever food feuds in which the winner, I don’t think we’re inviting them to sponsor an episode. Not that it’s ever worked. – I love the movie and I love the man, like Jimmy Buffet, he embodies a lot of things I like and blue out a flip flop, stepped on a pop top. – [Rhett] Oh, it’s a great song. – I don’t even know what that is. – [Rhett] Yeah, right. As a key lime pie aficionado I could say this is the wrong color. It doesn’t have any crust on the back which his a huge missed opportunity. – It literally looks like a triangle of cheese. – It has the consistency of cheese. – It tastes like you could seal a wound with it. (crew laughs) You know what I’m saying? Like the consistency, it’s like putty you could just put into an open wound if you had no other choices. – And it’s thick and heavy, too, man. – It’s horrible. I love key lime pie, how can it be this bad? This looks like a key lime pie and it cuts like a key lime pie. – Is there shrimp in it, though? – That’s a standard fair key lime pie. Not bad at all. – It’s pretty great, actually. I don’t like that fact that, don’t key lime pie’s normally have some green something on them? – No, not always. – Oh, never mind then. – What do you mean some green? – Didn’t Jenny, wasn’t she played by Robin Wright? – She was Jenny. – All right, so she could have been played by Jodie Foster, who turned down the role. – Oh. – Demi Moore- – Oh. – Turned down the role. – And Nicole Kidman turned down the role. – You know, Nicole Kidman is really good in that thing that comes on before the AMC movies. – I know, I love her in that. – She is- – That’s her best work. She loves movies, man. Even heartbreak feels better at the movies. – It does. – I’m gonna give this a zero. I don’t I’ve ever done a zero before but I love key lime pie. – You love key lime pie so much. – I cannot believe that Mr. Buffet let the key lime pie get to this place. – Jimmy, you gotta taste the stuff, man. – You gotta taste the pie, man. – You gotta taste the stuff. – I know when you get older, the palate doesn’t- – I know you’re laid back and you’re just like sitting back sipping on a marg- – He doesn’t care. – You gotta go back into the kitchen, homie. – You think that Jimmy cares what we think about his pie and that’s why I love him. – He doesn’t, he doesn’t care. We love you, though. We’d like to welcome you onto the show but we’re not gonna offer you a sponsorship if you win. – But open invitation to come on the show. – And Tom Hanks, if you wanna ever go jogging. – Yeah, right. – I’m not falling for that one. I’m not going jogging with Tom, Job- – I’m not going jobbing with Tom Hanks. – This is good, though, did I give that something? – I don’t know. – I give it a one. (bell dings) – I give this a six. Maybe a seven, a seven. – I’ve had some really, really, really good key lime pie, including in the Florida keys. So I know how good it can be so I’m gonna give it a six. – Wow. That’s saying a lot. So let’s get our totals here. – Okay, well, the key lime pice sealed the deal. Congratulations to Bubba Gump Shrimp Company with a score of 50 to Margaritaville’s 42. You are officially not the god but the goof of gimmicky grub as we have established. – I do think it worked out, you know. But it was so low scores across the board. Maybe it’s because we weren’t on vacation. – Yeah. – Everything’s, it’s all about the setting. – Better on vacation. – And congratulations. You do not win an opportunity to sponsor an episode of “Good Mythical Morning.” – Everything’s okay, though. All right, thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, Rhett and Link. I’m Renee and this is Trinidad and Tobago. 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