Please tell me how much I should spend on cheese. – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) Good Mythical morning! – Now, usually when we do the type of episode that we’re gonna do today, our Naked Foods format. – Naked! – I tend to gravitate towards, you know, the fancy stuff. – Yeah, you do. – You tend to gravitate towards the almost free stuff. – Mr. Frugal. – But here’s the thing, cheese doesn’t strike me as something that has to be fancy in order to be good, so maybe the tables are gonna be turned today. – The only thing I’m thinking about today is Christy absolutely loves cheese. – She does. – So whatever we discover, I’m gonna be putting some of that best cheese in my pocket, bringing it home to her because I love her. – Oh, a little cheese pocket. – I can lure her places with cheese crumbles. – Like a mouse. That’s sweet. It’s time for Naked Foods, Naked Cheese Edition! Naked! – We’re about to try four different cheese-forward dishes from places at four different price points. That’s the freezer or refrigerator section of the grocery store, fast casual restaurant, sit down restaurant, and fine dining restaurant, or basically wherever you can get the most expensive cheeses. – Yes and every round we’re gonna pick our favorite from the lineup. Stevie’s gonna tell us where everything is from, how much it costs, and then at the end, we’re gonna know exactly how much our ideal cheese meal would cost. – Uh-huh. (gentle upbeat music) These are Philly cheesesteaks. – They sure are. – Yes! Now, I love a good Philly. Oh no, no! – Sorry. (chuckles) – Well, how did that happen? – I don’t know. (crew laughing) – That’s good. – I mean, it’s very good. – What kind of cheese is on this? Provolone? – Usually provolone. – That’s nice. – And again, it doesn’t have to be, I mean, an expensive cheesesteak. – I’m actually feeling like definitely with cheesesteak. Yeah, it’s like you kind of, you wanna walk up to a place, not sit down. – That bread is softer. – And there’s so much stuff in it. Twice as much as that one. – This is more like Steak-um, which I actually like in a cheesesteak. This is like fresher. Got mushrooms. – This is a better taste. Yeah, let’s take a look down in here. – [Rhett] Something you get in the grocery store. – This one’s simple. There’s no mushrooms, no peppers, no onions even. I’m gonna try to get to the goodness. – It doesn’t taste bad. I mean, it’s nothing to write home about. – It taste good. I never find myself craving a Philly cheeseseak, but then when I get one at the right place, I’m so happy. – Well, all of these are good, so far. – And I don’t know why I don’t crave them. – This one looks a little sad. I actually can’t tell if this like, sheet of meat is like, more expensive or like bottom of the barrel, but it’s more of a cheddar cheese. – It’s almost an American cheese. – Yeah. American. – I think this might be be my least favorite one. But man. – This one’s not good. This one right here. That’s nice. We going back in? Are you just going back in because you’re hungry? – Uh-huh. – Or are you trying to figure something out? Because this is all for a purpose. – I have a reason. – Yeah because this first one… – I might might be throwing you for a little loop here. – [Stevie] Okay, pick your favorites in three, two, one. – I actually like this one better. – Definitely this one, which I’m gonna eat some more of. – You know why I don’t like this one as much, Link? – Why? – It’s probably the fanciest one, but the cheese is not there to please. And the way that this one has more cheese on it. – [Stevie] So Rhett, you’ve chosen our fast casual place, Charly’s, for $9.99. (bell dings) – Which is a proper cheesesteak place. – [Stevie] It’s proper. – It’s on the sign. – [Stevie] Yeah, I thought you were gonna say what side of town it was on, but you- – Oh, no. – [Stevie] It sounded like it’s on the side. But anyway. – It’s a cheesesteak place. – It’s on this side of town. – It’s good. – [Stevie] And Link, you have chosen our fine dining option, which usually means it’s fancy dance pants dance time. – But not this time. – Yeah. – There’s not gonna be any fancy pants dance- – Yeah, because you ran Moo-chelle off! (Moo-chelle walking in distance) – Moo! – Moo-chelle is back! Let’s do it. (gentle piano music) I’m so glad you’re back, Moo-chelle. You are so great. (crew laughing) Stop, stop. Stop the music. Something is not right here. – Moo. – Chase! – (chuckles) Hi, guys. – What are you doing, man? – Well, you guys, Moo-chelle left last time. – Yeah? – And she hasn’t come back, so I kind of just threw this together, thinking I could step in, fill a void, dance with you guys. I know I can’t be Moo-chelle, but I feel like I can get pretty close. – I appreciate that. – You see what you’ve done? Now, you get your way. Chase is now Moo-chelle. How does that make you feel? (gentle piano music) – It’s not the same. Thank you, Chase. – Yeah, I mean, I can’t even watch. – Thank you, Chase. – You’re welcome. – [Stevie] So our fine dining choice was Figueroa Philly for $16. (bell dings) Then you have our casual sit down place, Philly’s Best, for $12.50. And finally, the one that you both hated was our frozen slash grocery option from Walmart for $4.47. – All right. (gentle upbeat music) – These are calzones. – And boy, are they different! What the heck? – This one has a almost donut-like quality to it. – Is this because it was made on like, a manufacturing line? – I like that little pepperoni swirl, though. – I mean, that’s a stack of pepperoni. – It doesn’t taste bad. – No, it’s good. Now, what does this one look like inside? – So cheesy. – Nothing but there’s like, ricotta and mozzarella in there. Looks like it was fired in a pizza oven. Can’t do that at the grocery store or can you? – That’s tasty. I’m not as huge of a fan of ricotta to be that ricotta forward. Like, I like it, but I want more mozzarella in there. – If I ordered a cheese cows on and that’s what I got, I do think I’d be disappointed. – Now, this one seems super classic. This feels like, not too fancy. – Is there any meats in there? – This smells like Sbarro. – No meat in this one. Lots of sauce. We didn’t mention zero sauce in that one. Actually, zero sauce in the first. – This is classic, man. – The sauce kind of went away. – I don’t know why there’s no meat in this. – I would love some sausage, but this is a cheese episode. – I’ll tell you, cheese, sauce, and bread are all delivering on that one. – Yeah. And then this one got a. Oh, we’re back into just cheese and ricotta. – I think they just ordered a cheese calzone and then some places, put pepperoni in it. So you gotta really think about- – And some places don’t put sauce, like this one and that one. You gotta think about what you’re ordering. Yeah. – I’m judging the bread and the cheese. – I think this one’s better than that one. What do you think? Because they’re so close. That’s because there’s more mozzarella and there’s more ricotta over here. Hmm. This is tough. I’m clearly not voting for this anymore, but it’s not bad. – I’m going back to it because it tasted good the first time. Yeah, but it doesn’t hold up. Okay. – Something about this bread. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Gotta go right here. We agree! – [Stevie] Okay, you both picked our fast casual place, which is Numero Uno for $5.95. So when you said Sbarro, you were pretty close. – Yeah. – Numero Uno. Okay. – [Stevie] The first one is our frozen grocery from Walmart for $3. – It’s not really a calzone. I mean, you know? It’s more like a piece of, it’s too donut-like. – It’s like a stuffed bun. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Then we have our fine dining place, Desano Pizza Bakery, for $16. And finally, our casual sit down, Amechi Pizza Kitchen for $9.99. – Oh, Amechi. – Amechi. – I’ve been to. I really like Achi Pizza Kitchen. They have great pizza. – But we agree and I’m feeling good about this. – I’m feeling really good. – You know? (gentle upbeat music) – This is French onion soup. – (cheers) I love this! Gotta be top five best foods that I could possibly eat. – [Link] This is part of your last meal. – [Rhett] It was. I had it on my last meals on Mythical Kitchen. I mean, look at that. – [Link] Oh, yeah! – [Rhett] You’ve got day old bread. – Is that what it is? Day old bread? – Yeah, day old bread. Some onions. – Yeah, if you haven’t watched the last meals sub series on the Mythical Kitchen channel, boy, are you missing out. Not only do you find out what people’s favorites foods are, like Rhett’s here, but the convo gets deep. How is that? – It’s very good. I mean, I honestly haven’t had a bad french onion soup. I mean… – You might when we get down here. That one looks scary. – This one has got a super cheese disc. – [Link] And is there not bread underneath it? – Sometimes, they don’t do a full piece of bread, but no, there’s bread, see? It’s right there under the disc. – The bread under that one tasted burnt. Is that by design, you think? – I think it is a little burnt and I think it would be better if it wasn’t and I think it was accidental. – Okay, here I go. Now, that one’s got a sour taste to it. – I wouldn’t call that sour. – What would you call it? Because I called it the best I could. – It’s just this taste of onion soup. It’s super tangy. It just hasn’t, I mean there might be some, like a little bit of a vinegar profile to it. – But the first one here is a lot darker. It tastes totally different. – This is almost too strong. – And then over here, this one looks to have crouton. Like, cut up pieces of bread. – [Rhett] That’s one way that people do it. – [Link] Crouton it? – I don’t really have a preference. – One time, I went out to dinner at this place and they raved about their French onion soup, but I was kind of mad at you and so I didn’t want to order it. You weren’t there. – You were mad at me for no reason? – Oh, no. There was a reason. (crew laughing) – I can safely say I’ve been mad at you a lot. I’ve never not ordered food because of you. – And then I realized, you know what? Just because Rhett loves French onion soup and I’m mad at Rhett now doesn’t mean I can’t order it. Like, he doesn’t own French onion soup. – It’s like the time you decided to not like music because you were mad at your stepsister. – Yeah. (crew laughing) Yeah, there were a couple of years there where I didn’t listen to music because she was so into it. (crew laughing) I got the French onion soup, but the whole time, I was just thinking about how mad I was at you. – Oh, shoot. Look what I’ve done. – (laughs) See? That’s karma. It’s what you get for what you did that made me mad at you. – Coming back to that. – [Stevie] How’s that third soup? – I think I’m kind of confused, honestly, because they’re all good in different ways. I think that third one, I don’t know. I can’t tell you. (crew laughing) – It’s not good. It’s a bit scary. – The fourth one’s not great. – This one right here is gravy-ish. – Coming back in. – Okay. Okay. I’m ready. – All right. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – I know this in the fanciest. I bet yours is. – I’m imagining this as slightly a little less toasty on the bread and I know that it would be great. – Yeah. Yeah. – [Stevie] So Link, you’ve actually chosen our frozen slash grocery, but it is Trader Joe’s, so I feel like that’s redeeming. – It’s not bad. – It’s really good. – Maybe even second favorite, honestly. – It’s not acidic. It’s like, a sweet onion and I really liked that about it. – [Stevie] And Rhett, yes, you did choose our fine dining option, which means you get to dance with Chase now, I guess. (gentle piano music) – This is Chase and a Moo-chelle costume. – No, you’re, yeah. Just let me lead, okay? And then sometimes, you do like this and then you do this and then no, no, no, no. Like, just. – That’s Chase. – It’s just not the same. It’s just not the same. – Not Moo-chelle. That is not Moo-chelle. – It’s not the same. I mean, I believe in you, Chase. You’ll get it, but. – Moo. – Yeah. I’d keep the moo’s to a minimum. – [Stevie] So the fine dining option is from Petit Trios for $25. – That’s an expensive French onion soup. – [Stevie] Then the next one is our casual sit down from Outback for $8.49 and finally, the one that you hated is our fast casual option from Panera $7.89. – Yeah, it tasted, I was gonna say, “That’s probably from Panera.” – Panera, gosh. (gentle upbeat music) We wanna invite you to head over to sporked.com. We have published a Thanksgiving sides guide because the team over there has taste-tested- – Sides guide. – Everything you need for an easy Thanksgiving dinner, if you’re into that. Best canned cranberry sauce, best boxed stuffing, best instant mashed potatoes. Go to sporked.com. Ultimate guide to Thanksgiving sides. – [Stevie] These are cannolis. – These are cannolis! – Yes! – Of all different sizes. – That’s a little cannoli. That’s a big cannoli full of stuff! There’s a big cannoli with less stuff in it and here’s a medium sized cannoli. – What is this? Mr. Cannoli? – I’m Mr. Cannoli. I like a cannoli. What is a cannoli? – It’s a rolled something. (crew laughing) With cream in it. – It looks like chocolate chip cookie dough in there, so I’m always a little disappointed when it’s not actually cookie dough. But then, I taste it and I’m not disappointed anymore. – Well, what kind of cheese is that inside of a cannoli? – That’s good. That’s good. Anybody know? (crew members chatting) – They’re going to their phones. (laughs) – [Crew Member] Mascarpone. – [Rhett] Mascarpone. – Now, this one has got a lot more- – A lot of chocolate right there on that. Oh, but hold on. But look. Look, can you see in there? – I can see that there’s- – There’s no cream on the inside. – If you can break this open. – They kept it hollow and they thought they fooled us. – I mean. – Look, this place is not filling their whole cannoli. – [Link] Look at that. When you go to the middle- – They’re not filling the middle of the cannoli! – Look at that. There’s nothing in there guys. – Can you believe that? I can totally see it on mine. – Look at that. They didn’t. They’ve been exposed. – So I don’t know who this is, but y’all gonna be about to be called out. Look at that! It’s just two dollops. – Y’all ain’t putting the cannoli. I mean, I don’t know if this is like just, you know, one employee that’s not doing it right. – But what they did is good. What they didn’t do is bad. I thought that one was great until I tasted that one. – The cheese on this is better. – Mm-hmm. – Now this one. How full is it? Oh, this one feels full, boy. – You want me to crack it? – You can’t even crack it because it got cheese all the way through. – I mean, because they squirt it in from each end, but it did meet. – [Rhett] It meets. – So they met. This is something on great British bakeoff they would test. Your cheese squirts do not meet. – Cheese squirts. If you have the cheese squirts, don’t call me. I’m not gonna help you. – Your cheese squirt needs to meet my cheese squirt. Come in from either side. – There’s not enough chocolate on this. – It’s like digging the the English channel. They did that from both sides, didn’t they? – They just prayed they would meet in the middle? – That’s a good one. This one’s better quality. – There’s not enough chocolate. That’s the only thing I don’t like about it, so I don’t really know how to judge it because it’s really about the cheese. – This sad little thing. See, I’m gonna have to break this one, too. – You won’t. It’s not even crispy. Mine’s very soft. – It does meet, but only barely. – That’s got frozen written all over it. – This one’s like, a wet cheese. Are we gonna hold it against them that they didn’t meet in the middle? – Are we gonna imagine if it did meet in the middle? I know which one tasted best. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Even though- – Yeah, it tastes good. – It didn’t meet in the middle, the quality’s so much better. – Y’all skimping all that cream, though. – [Stevie] You’ve chosen our fast casual place, Joe’s Pizza for $3.50. – Joe’s Pizza? (bell dings) – Joe? – [Stevie] Are you saying that because you know Joe or… – I just didn’t think that he would have such a good quality cannoli. – Yeah, it’s really good. It’d be better if it met in the middle. – Yeah. Gotta meet the squirts. – [Stevie] The first plate is our casual sit down, Buca di Beppo for $5.33. – I will hate on a Buca, but they came through. That’s decent. – It’s not as good as these two, though. – What’s this moist one? – [Stevie] That’s our dining option, Dan Tana’s, for $12. – Oh, Dan Tana. They got a great chicken parm. – [Stevie] And then finally, our frozen grocery from Walmart for 80 cents. – All right. – Well, there you go. – So there you have it. What have we determined? You know? – [Stevie] So after all that cheese eating, the lowest possible price of every item combined was $13.26. – Okay, that’s a steal. – [Stevie] And the highest possible of all the fine dining, you know what I’m saying. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Is $69. Nice. (Link laughs) So Rhett, your perfect cheese meal total was $44.44 and Link, yours was $30.44. – We’re both kind of right there in the middle. – In the 30s and the 40s. – Little bit on the high side, so what we’ve determined is that, you know, you should be paying for it. – And you’re not gonna get the same experience at the grocery store for any of these dishes. – Unless Trader Joe’s and that French onion soup and that’s- – Okay. – That’s the hip pocket right there. – Take that home with you. – Chase, thanks for stepping up. I don’t want any of the critique that we gave to you. Like, it’s not towards you. It’s just… – I gotta, yeah, I’m working on. – Big hooves to fill. – I’m not as big of a dancer as her. – Right. – But we’ll get it. – Just keep working it, man. Thank you. – There you go. That was a good exit. That was, oh, little too much there at the end. – Thank you for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Phil. – I’m Liz. We’re from Binghamton, New York. – And we’re about to do a vegan mac and cheese taste test. – [Both] And it’s time to spin the wheel of Mythicality! – That looks like a Mythical time! – Beautiful couple or siblings or whatever you are. (crew laughing) Are they married? – They didn’t specify, but I assume they were a couple. – I think you are. – Click the top link to watch us guess the most popular cheese in every state in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. 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