GMM 2319: 100 Years Of Party Snacks Taste Test

Time flies when you got appetizers in your mouth. – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) Good Mythical Morning! – Appetizers are arguably the most essential aspect of a successful party. If you can’t entertain your guests straight out of the gate with some fabulous finger foods, then you’re flirting with failure. – A lot of F’s there. A lot of F’s. This has been- – Then you’re flirting with failure. – A party fact. Fact, fact, fact since the dawn of party time. So today, we pay homage to some of the most iconic apps in history by guessing when they were f-f-f-f-first created. It’s time f-f-for Stuff and Shuff, Party Appetizer Edition! (upbeat music) Welcome to the Stuff and Shuff Zone! – Oh, new title. – Yeah. New Year, new title, man – Because we’re gonna stuff our faces and shuff the pucks. – Yes. – Nothing else has changed really. As always, we’re gonna guess when we think the food in question was invented by shuffing our pucks to the corresponded decade on the board. – The winner will get to post a thirst trap-etizer on the Mythical Instagram. All right, let’s see what our first appetizer is. – Voila! Take that. – New year. I was hoping you’d do something cool. – Well, I’m an arm down, man. – Okay. – Can’t do cool stuff. Pigs in blankets. What a great appetizer. You know what? This might be one of your favorites. – It is potentially the perfect app. – You like a Li’l Smokie. Is this considered a Li’l Smokie inside of a crescent roll or is it something different? – I believe it is a Li’l Smokie, but I don’t know if Li’l Smokies came first and then they decided to wrap them or if they just started calling little sausages Li’l Smokies later, but that’s not what’s at play here. – I get to go first. – Man! – Because I won last time we played this. – [Rhett] It’s good and it’s good for you. – All right, so I’m healing up pretty well. They’re telling me just to like, keep it stabilized. – [Rhett] Don’t gesture with that hand. – Don’t even gesture. I can gesture, but I can’t move the shoulder. – You said there was nothing else different, Link. I kind of feel, just on behalf of the art team, I want to say- – [Link] Yeah, you’re right. – This whole new board is new. – It’s got a gradient. A sun-shiny gradient. – This is new wood. New year, new wood. – And I’m using a new arm. I’m going all left-handed. – Oh, and you better believe it I am. You don’t even have to ask me. If I’m anything, I’m fair. – Let’s see. So we have anywhere from 1910 to 1990. We’re in the 20th century. Hmm. A crescent roll, I think, dictates the invention of this. Li’l Smokies been around forever. Crescent rolls seems like a newfangled thing. It could be 80s for crescent rolls, which would push this to later 80s. – Okay. – I’m gonna go with 80s ’cause I think it was a proper crescent roll that had to be invented first. – I understand your logic, but I don’t know how you’re gonna do with the left hand and I don’t know how I’m gonna do it, either. – I’m just gonna, instead before it’s more with the arms. Now, it’s gonna be more with- – The full body. – The legs. – Yeah. – Like the step and push. – Lift with your legs. – 1980. (puck sliding) (Link exclaiming) – I mean, one of the things I noticed, and I know that we do this all the time and it’s technically a violation of official shuffle board rules. But like, you were still in contact with the puck when you were like, out, here. (Link laughs) I believe that’s a fault, but we don’t play by those rules. – Well, you know what? There are no rules with this game. – No, there’s a whole scroll full of rules, actually. – And we don’t constantly invent new ones. – Do archeologists figure this stuff out? – [Link] Yeah. – Is that where we get our information? – Yeah, they’re digging up Li’l Smokies from the 80s. – They find like, a house from the 50s and it’s been covered in sediments and they dig it up. Oh, bring in the pork arch! – Archeologists don’t really- – Pork-eologist. Pork-eologist. That’s a joke somewhere. – Archeologists don’t have a lot to do with these years. – Yeah. Link, I actually think you’re on the right answer and it’s not the answer that you think it is. I don’t think it’s the 80s because I had pigs in blankets in the 80s and as we’ve established many times on this show, if you had something in Buies Creek in the 80s, it was not invented there. It came from somewhere else. – You can be wrong. Go ahead. – So I’m gonna say it’s probably the 60s, but it might be the 50s. It was just why I’m scared because that’s where you’re at. So technically, what I need to do is I need to, with my left hand, get past you on this side, be in the 50s, but be closer to every other answer. I’m not confident. (puck sliding) All right. That’s what I tried to do, but it went a little bit to the right. A little bit to the right, but I still think I’m closer to 60s, which is what I want. – I’m okay with this. – [Stevie] As I’m sure you’re both familiar, April 24th is National Pig in a Blanket Day. But what you may not know is that this party appetizer recipe first showed up in “Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Kids Cookbook” in the 1950s. (Rhett cheering) – Oh, Rhett! – Yes! – You nailed it! The 50s, huh? – Give me a bass line! (bass guitar playing) – So are they not crescent rolls? – I mean, I don’t know if they’re a crescent roll, but I believe that was where your logic threw you off a little bit. Hey, have another pig in a blanket. Make yourself feel better. (upbeat music) Round two. Let’s see what a man with one arm does when you toss a cloche in the air. – Catch it, man! I’ve been practicing with this same hand forever, dude! Like weeks. – That was pretty impressive. – I’m becoming that poly-dextrous. – Well, you gonna do it with your feet or your wiener? – I think poly-dex. Oh, man, that’s a challenge. I’m gonna rake this crap off the top. – [Rhett] Oh, this is a bean dip. – And then get to the layers that I like. Would you call it seven layer? – I don’t know, but it broke the first chip, but I’m gonna leave it in there. Oh, and broken that one, too. – [Stevie] It is seven layer dip. Have you guys never had this before? – Oh, who do you think I am? – [Stevie] Well, ’cause you said, “It’s a bean dip,” as if it was a surprise. – So, this is specifically seven layer. – [Stevie] Correct. – You gotta go first now. – Yeah, I do. – Is that a factor for you? The number of layers? – It’s a factor for the archeologists. I’ll tell you that right now. – [Link] You’re stuck on that. – Well, I mean, listen. When fate gives you archeology, you dig. There are seven layers. I don’t think they did anything in sevens before the 50s. – You don’t think sevens made their way into food until the 60s? – I don’ts think anyone put seven things together until 20 years after the Second World War. A lot of things happened in society after the Second World War, Link. It was a time of bounty. Endless bounty. – Decadence. – Decadence. The possibility begins in the 50s. The invention waits around until the 60s. And that’s when you do it. – The 60s. – 60s, yeah. Psychedelics, man. Putting seven layers in a pan like this is something you have to be just tripping your balls off to come up with. – Whoa! – 1960. (puck sliding) Oh, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! – All right. Is this new board a little rough? – [Rhett] It’s just, you know. – It’s a little rough around the edge. – It catches you a little bit. – And in the mid. – Catches you a little bit more. Let the door wide open. – See, Betty Crocker’s wrapping pigs in blankets in the 50s. You honestly think that a seven layer dip wasn’t invented before that? Give me a break. (crew laughing) – What about the war, man? I think they were doing three layers max before the second World War. Maybe the French, but the French wouldn’t put these ingredients together. – All I gotta do is get by you. – What’s your guess, though? – My guess is 1940. – [Rhett] Okay. All right. – So I’ve got to go past you and hope it’s not 1930. (puck sliding) Bouncing it off the back. Didn’t mean to do that. – Well, I’m closer to 1960, which was my answer. So, I feel okay. – [Link] And I’m closer to my answer. – [Stevie] Seven layer dip originated in France. – Oh, no! – [Stevie] I’m just kidding. – I was about to say, Stevie! – [Stevie] In Texas. – Yeah, it did. – [Stevie] During the rise of TexMex popularity in one particular decade, the recipe was first widely shared in Family Circle Magazine in 1981. – What? – And you’re right on it. You lucky dog. – ’81? Wow. – [Stevie] I have like, a vivid memory of the first time I had seven layer dip and my mom served it and it was like a revelation, which would’ve been like, 10 years after its invention, so. – Wow. You got in early. – [Stevie] Yeah. Yeah. (upbeat music) – Let me try to catch it with my unpracticed left hand. – Yeah, yeah, yeah? (Link cheers) I made it easy for you. Good news, Rhett. It’s time for crab cakes. – [Rhett] Crab cakes. – I think crab cakes are one of my favorite appetizers. Whenever I see these on the menu? – You gotta get them. – I just really have to get them. – Do you get them and just pick them up like this? – No. (crew laughing) That’s so silly. I use a fork. You still have to go first. I need some sort of advantage to get back in this. – Maybe I should play with my left hand more often. – Play with your left hand. – Crab cakes. Okay. – Let me see you play with your left hand right now. Just do it. (bass guitar playing) – That was a few things I could do with my left hand. – Not as fun as I thought. – Two things have to exist to make a crab cake, Link. Do you know what they are? – Crabs and cakes. – That’s it. Both of those have been around for quite some time. – You’re on the right track, Rhett. – I think crabs were invented in France in the 1600s. I’m entertaining myself, apparently. Crab cakes. Pretty early. I’m gonna say the pinnacle of this pinnacle, 1930. There were lean times. Lean times during the Depression. No alcohol, but they had crab cakes. You better believe it. (puck sliding) (Rhett laughing) – [Link] There you go. – Yeah. – There you go. – I’m still adjusting. I don’t know if it’s the new board or the new hand. I don’t know. – It’s that new hand and it’s all of it, man. We’re having a difficult time. I think that crab cakes were invented to stretch the crab further. – Oh, the great crab shortage. – You know? Yeah. The great crab shortage of 1920s, corresponding with the Dust Bowl. – Dusk Bowl? – [Link] The Dust Bowl. – Okay, that’s different than the Dusk Bowl. – Dust Bowl. – Oh, I thought you said Dusk Bowl. – All right, so. – You can’t lose, man. – If I freaking don’t get this point. – You can’t lose. It doesn’t even matter what the answer is. – I just gotta get past you, but I don’t have to go all the way to 1920, which I think is my answer. (puck sliding) Okay. I’ll take that. I’ll take the point. I need one badly, Stevie, so give it to me and tell us the answer. – [Stevie] Crab cakes were originally invented by a man named Crosby Gage, who was looking for new, innovative ways to use crab meat to create family friendly meals. The invention of this beloved New England staple and party favorite happened in the 1930s. – Dang it, man. I was right, but I was wrong. – You were right, you jerk. I don’t like it when you’re right, even when you’re wrong. – Yeah. – I will take the point gladly. (upbeat music) (Link mimicking sound effects) – What do you got there, Link? – Look at that. Our very own freaking jigsaw puzzle. 500 pieces. It’s amazing! – [Rhett] It is amazing! Yes. – [Link] The art on this thing is so much fun. – [Rhett] It’s so detailed. – You search for all the Mythical details. You find little Mythical crew members, including us. Mythical moments. You know, you want a puzzle. Get it at mythical.com. It’s awesome! This is just the box, by the way. – Yeah, that’s just the box. – And there’s no puzzle in it because we’ve already made it. – Oh, yeah. We’ve made it multiple times. – We’ve made it. – Oh, my goodness. This is my favorite food. (Link laughs) This ties with beans. – Your left eye is tearing up. – Oh, yeah. – You dropping a little tear. – [Rhett] Yeah, yeah. – So a cheese ball. – My mama knows how to please with cheese. (chuckles) – Okay. – Yeah, yeah. She does. I mean, she knows when I’m coming home for the holidays. One thing that’ll make the Rhett-ster happy. – [Link] So she makes this because you can buy one of these. – [Rhett] Don’t tell her that. – Sharp cheddar. What else is in this? – There’s usually cream cheese and if you do it right, there’s blue cheese in there to give it a little tang. – And then it’s coated in- – [Rhett] Nuts. – Pecans in this instance. – Man, that remind. I mean, that makes me think. I need to get a little cheese ball every day. – A little cheese ball every day. – I should carry a little cheese ball on a chain. Boy, there’s a lot of good answers on the board. Could be as early as the 40s. Could be as early as the 20s. 60s seems too late. 40s. (puck sliding) – [Link] Did you mean to do the- – No, I didn’t. I did not mean to do that, but maybe it’s the 20s. Maybe I’ll get lucky. I don’t think it’s the 20s. – I mean, it seems like such an old school party app. It could be all the way into the 1910s. I’m gonna nestle you all the way into the ’70 corner. I could kind of bounce you out. – Whatever. – That seems like a bad idea. – Do what you want. – 70s is way too late. I think this is the 20s. – [Rhett] Okay. – I’m gonna smoosh you into the corner. – Risky. (puck sliding) – Oh, oh, oh, oh! That’s okay. I’ve got everything just except 70s, right? – I think you’re actually technically closer to 40s, as well, unfortunately, which is the answer I believed in – [Stevie] The cheese ball appetizer we know today first showed up in a Minnesota Housewives cookbook called “Food of My Friends”, women throwing modest parties during wartime loved to include a cheese ball beginning in 1944. – Yeah. – Look at you with your right answers. – But it is not helping me very much because I mean, we don’t need to measure that. You’re closer to it. – I will take it. (upbeat music) What do we have here? – That was cool, man. – We have a shrimp cocktail. – [Rhett] Look at that. – You dip it in the cocktail sauce. – Okay, LInk. – A sucker for shrimp. I don’t know what it is about shrimp and crab, but I’m gonna sucker for ordering them. – We’re tied up. You’ve come back. But because, I don’t even need a scroll for this. I remember it. If we’re tied, the person who won last time has to go second because the person who goes first gets a slight advantage, which would be me ’cause I did not win last time. – Yeah because in going second, my disadvantage is I can’t touch you. – Exactly. – No bumping. – 30, 50, and 80 are all taken. Now 40 is taken. This feels like a boundary pushing dish. Shrimp cocktail? Do you know what I’m saying? – No. – It’s like, maybe we can just put sauce in this glass and put shrimp on it and call it a cocktail. That feels like a time in which we’re pushing cultural boundaries. Really reevaluating what we stand for. – I just love the fact that you basically pull all this out of your butt and then you end up being right. – Yeah, Link, you’ve been my best friend for quite some time. We’re gonna be best friends all the way to the 23rd century together. Just start learning now. – To not believe anything you say, but go with your decisions anyway. – My reasoning leads me to the 60s, but I’ll tell you right now, if you told me it was 1910, I’d be like, well, some way, that makes sense. 70s feels too late. 90s is way too late, obviously. 40s is taken. 20s might not be a bad answer, but I’m going for 60s and I’m sticking to it. (puck sliding) Okay. All right. – You overshot it a little bit. – I did, but I ended up getting close to a couple other answers that are potential right answers. – So if I touch you at all, that’s a problem. – If you touch me at all, I can put mine back where it was and I can put yours on any space I want. – I have to go with 60 because I mean, the guy is just lucky as all get out with his answers. – Lucky? – Yeah, you said if you told me it was 1910, I would believe it. – But what did I say? – You admitted. – What’s my logic? – I don’t. What I learned is I don’t listen to the logic. I just listen to the answer. 1960. That’s what I learned. – Do you have a logic? – I just told you! – Oh. – I don’t listen to your logic. I listen to your answer. – But your logic is just taking my answers. – At this point, yeah. – Okay. Just so we’re clear. So you’re gonna try to land in the 60s? – I know it frustrates you. – You’re gonna try to land in the 60s without touching me? – Yeah, I have to. That’s my logic. – [Rhett] You don’t have to. – I have to. – It’s not necessarily the right answer. – Well, it’s not 1990. 1970′ too late, too. It could be 1920, but if I change it now, I’m gonna hate myself. I’ve got to go for 1960 without touching you. (puck sliding) (groans) Came up short. – Yeah. (crew laughing) Okay, Link. Wow. You know what? Have a shrimp. Have a shrimp on me. – One of these days, I’m gonna use both hands again and I’m gonna show you what for. (crew laughing) – Okay. – [Stevie] Shrimp cocktail, the popular It Girl appetizer of this particular decade, implied glitz and glam and added a little bougieness, if you will, to your suaree back in the 1960s. – Hey, man. Listen. You gotta admit it’s pretty impressive. When the archeologist dig me up, they’re gonna be like, “This guy was right about a lot of things.” – Yeah, it’s very impressive to be so lost, yet to find yourself exactly where you need to be all the time. – Hey, that means I get to take a thirst trap photo with my appetizer of choice. Can I have? Is a cheese ball handy? – Cheese ball? – Thank you, Chappy. Okay. Just… – Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Sorry, Link. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is! – This is Victor and Yemi and we’re playing shuffleboard in Milwaukee. – [Both] And it’s time to spin the wheel of Mythicality. – Look how long that shuffle board is. – Yeah. – I don’t know. We couldn’t adjust to that very well. – You feeling a little inadequate? – Yeah, I am. Click the top link to watch us find out what the difference between types of water really is in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. (wheel spinning) – [Rhett] See the sites from the world of Mythicality with the Mythical jigsaw puzzle. Available now at mythical.com.

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