Let the battle of the chicken houses commence. – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) Good mythical morning! – There are very few reasons I will wait in a line, but a fresh and juicy chicken tender is absolutely one of ’em. – Hmm. – And you can’t go wrong with the chicken tender kings of the world, Popeye’s and Raising Cane’s. – Yes. These two places both require you to keep a folding chair in your car because the lines are so long, that you wanna be able to sit down. – Oh, yeah. A folding chair, yes. – But the food is worth it. What we wanna know is which place is more worth it. And we’re not gonna make ’em perform a skit or anything. – Mm-mm. – We’re just gonna let, taste the food. – That’s right. And two things I know for sure. The sky is not falling today, but one of these fast food chicken joints will fall from grace today. It’s time for “Food Feuds: Raising Cane’s versus Popeye’s.” All right, we’re gonna taste and rate similar foods from each restaurant. – The winning restaurant will be dubbed the Chick Magnet and will win a chance to sponsor a future GMM episode. – A-cluck cluck cluck, a-cluck cluck, cluck cluck. Hey, I’m Raising Cane’s Cain born and breaded in Louisiana. – Breaded. (chuckles) – Yeah. (chuckles) And these are chicken tenders for 1.99 a la carte. And it comes with our signature mystery sauce on the side for dipping. Enjoy. – Okay. – Cain. – Abel. (crew chuckles) – The mascot isn’t even a chicken. You’re always trying to copy me! (Cain grunts) – Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck. – Get outta here! – Chicken fight. – Oh my gosh. – Hey, I’m- – That was- – I’m Popeye’s Abel, and that’s my brother. I swear to god, he’s gonna try to kill me. – (laughs) Oh my. Oh my, we’re going there. – Oh yeah, yeah. – Religious. – Heavy-handed metaphors. – We’re doing it. – And this is our chicken tenders. It’s 10 for 16.99. It comes with our famous blackened ranch. – Blackened ranch. – For dipping. – Ooh, wow. So first thing is these are smaller. – Yeah, like if I’m, if I look at these and look at these, good god. – I mean, look at that. What happened to that finger? – And then look at this, y’all. I mean, that one- – Popeye’s, that’s an extra large finger. – Give me the biggest one you got. – There, you got it. You got it right there. – They’re very consistent at Cane’s. – Let’s try Cane’s. – And they’re also very limited. I feel like we’re tasting Popeye’s today through the lens of Raising Cane’s- – I’m going no sauce at first. – In terms of like the categories. – ‘Cause they got more stuff at Popeye’s. – Their sauce is magical. I love it. – That’s a good tender. – The tender is actually tender. It better be good. It’s the only thing they serve, basically. – It’s very solid. And then, you know what? They have an interesting origin story, Link- – Okay. – Because founder, Todd Graves, and original business partner, Craig Silvey, submitted a business plan for a chicken finger restaurant while attending LSU, Louisiana State University. – Yeah. – And the instructor said, “It’ll never work, pushing one product like that,” and gave the project the worst grade in the class. (Link scoffs) This is a failed project, guys. And it worked! – Let that be a lesson to you, college students. – Good- – I don’t know what it is. (crew laughs) Popeye’s has got that signature breading taste. – Hmm. – Also founded in Louisiana by Al Copeland when he was 28 years old. Of course, this was back in 1972. There’s a lot more of these than Raising Cane’s. There’s over 2,000 Popeye’s currently worldwide. – Yeah. – Al Copeland. – I love the Cajun spice underneath it, man. In the breading, they put the Cajun spice. – Yeah, you got that heat hitting. There’s something about the Raising Cane’s that are just like this homemade vibe. This is very kinda like fast foody, so I’m definitely on Team Cane’s for the tenders. – I think they’re both great chicken tenders, but I just really appreciate this Cajun. And it’s super juicy. They’re both pretty juicy. – Yeah, they’ve- – But this in particular is really bringing it. – I mean, the size of this. I couldn’t have told you how much bigger it is. – I’m not being impacted by that ’cause you can always just eat more tenders, you know? – That’s true, that’s true. I’m gonna give this chicken tender, are you ready for me to score? – Mm-hmm. – I’m gonna give that an eight, bro. – I’m giving it a seven, a solid seven. – Over here, it’s big, it’s crunchy. The sauce is not as good, in my opinion, as that sauce though. I gotta go with a six. I think there’s a two-point differential here. – I think that the Popeye’s are a little bit better, but not much, so I’m giving them an eight. – Wow! – Yeah, dude, I love it. I love the breading, man. It’s magical. (upbeat music) – Hey. – Fry time. – This is Popeye’s fries for 2.79. – Oh, yeah. – And here’s Raising Cane’s better and more delicious fries for 2.72. (chuckles) Sorry about my brother. Sometimes I just wanna kill him. – Oh. (crew laughs) – I’ve heard the story. – Yeah, wow. – Now, so these are crinkle cut. – Crinkley. – But they’re thin. They’re thin. I can’t say that I’ve ever had that anywhere else. Typically, you get a Orida-sized crinkle cut. – Um, not a fan. Now, again, we’re not eating them directly from the restaurant. They get here pretty fast. But we take that into account, and it’s the same for both. But I don’t know if this would be that much better. – Yeah, these are horrible. I’m discovering that I’m dipping it in that sauce that I love. And now, when you’ve taken that away, you’re just exposed. – You’re just left with a naked fry. They’re asking you to do all the work on these. – Now over here in Popeye land, which by the way, Popeye’s was not named after the sailor man. It was named after Gene Hackman’s character in The French Connection, Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle. Who knew? The film came out about a year before Al Copeland opened the first Popeye’s restaurant. – These are clearly better, but they’re still not- – They can get floppy on you. – It’s not an upper tier fry. – I like the fact that it’s seasoned. You don’t have to beg for a dip to choke it down. I actually- – It’s getting better, actually. – I like these- – The more I’m eating them. – I like the black pepper on these fries. That’s nice. I’m a black pepper on my fry man. No matter where I go, I always put black pepper on my fries. – Would you put more black pepper on these? They’ve got a lot of black pepper. It might be too much. – No. No, they’ve done it for me. – Okay. – And that’s notching me up at least a point. – Okay, these are just not a great fry. I don’t wanna hold too much against it because you need to have a fry fresh outta the fryer. But I’m gonna say I can’t imagine these being better than a five. – I’m not gonna hold back. I’m giving ’em a three because- – Whoa! – And that’s assuming the best version of these ’cause there’s nothing done to ’em. They’re relying too much on the sauce. Up your game, Cane. – And I’m gonna go with a solid seven on these. – Um, I’m only gonna give it a six. I agree, I wouldn’t, they’re not gonna be in the top five fast food fries but still pretty good. (upbeat music) And now the round we’ve all been waiting for, the slaw round. – Oh yes. (chuckles) – Yeah. This is our cock-a-doodle delicious coleslaw for 1.35. It’s a secret recipe. But if I had to guess, probably got mayo in it. – (chuckles) Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Okay, it is white. It’s very white. – [Cain] Sure is. – Eh, you know what else has a secret recipe? Whatever he’s made out of his mom and dad’s worst DNA. (chuckles) – [Cain] Cluck you! – Ah! – Whoa! – It was a cluck, with a C. – Don’t put us in the middle of this. (crew laughs) – Okay, yeah. Uh, okay. So this is our coleslaw for 2.79, and the website says it’s a crisp, cool, tangy treat. – The website. – You’ve been on the website. – Yeah, yeah. – [Abel] Yep, chickens do website. – She gets all her information from the website. – It’s the only place that they can go as employees on the internet. – You ever just walk up into a fast food restaurant and get the slaw and just the slaw? – No, but slaw with fried chicken is a good thing. I mean, when KFC started, well, not when they started, but because they did that, it’s kinda the thing to do. – This is a very run of the mill, right down the middle slaw. – It gives you a nice break from all of that friedness. – I don’t think I’ve ever been excited about slaw. – I like the KFC slaw. – And I’m not currently excited about this slaw. – That one looks very homemade. – It’s not bad though. – I like the fact that everything looks like your mom could make it. – Well, this one’s flatter. – Yeah, this one is- – [Rhett] Flatter and whiter. – This one’s more like deli slaw. – There’s something interesting in there though. They’ve decided to put a flavor in there. Maybe a little mustard or something? I immediately like it better. – This is better. – You know? This is just so, I don’t know. I just feel like the fact that it does feel like something you get at the family reunion is not great for me. – I would say it’s authentic, and it’s salty. I like ’em both. I’m torn. – [Rhett] I’m giving this a six. – I don’t eat it without having some fried chicken still in my mouth. – That can be arranged. – I’m gonna give, I’ma give it a seven, and then I’m going to negate my contribution to this round by also giving this a seven. I think that they’re even. They’re different, but they’re even. – Well, I’m also going to give this one a seven because I gave this one a six and I think this one’s a little bit better. Seven. – Okay. – Okay, slaw- – Can I just have more of the tenders? – Kinda neck and neck here. (upbeat music) As you know, this year, we’re doing something special, the Mythical Pin of the Month. And this month’s pin is me as a Human Bean. Get it? Human Bean. And I like beans, and I actually did model naked for this. Alright, this is what I look like with no clothes on. – Very accurate anatomically. – And, yes, so you can get this thing at mythical.com, but it’s only available for 24 hours! So you gotta go over there and get it, okay? Mythical.com! – Yep, time is fleeting. Get it. – (chuckles) Got out here as fast as I could. (Rhett and Abel laugh) Alright, this is the thing everybody waits in line for. It’s a chicken cutlet, fried, on a brioche bun, topped with spicy mayo and pickles for 4.99. – Yeah, started the whole battle. – Yeah, they wait in line for the bathroom to throw it up. That’s what they do. – Oh, smack talk. – Oh, okay. – Yeah, ’cause this is our chicken tender in a bun with the sauce and the lettuce for 7.99. You’re gonna like it a lot better. – Okay. – So the way they make a sandwich is by putting tenders on a sandwich, on some bread. – And I’ve never ordered it this way. I’ve had this many times. – Now, okay, there’s some sauce on there. Make sure they got some sauce. – Let’s take a closer look. Get rid of this, open this thing up. Three tenders. What happened to the, they kinda skimp with the sauce on there. – There’s not a lot of sauce. – And then, well, there’s more sauce on the bottom. And there’s a nice fresh (crew laughs) little slice of lettuce. – Is that cabbage? It’s like- – It looks like a cabbage leaf. – It’s become cabbage. – No pickles? – None that I can see. – No pickles. – No pickles. But it’s got that sauce, baby. – Okay, here we go. – That good sauce. See, if you like their tenders better- – I’m gonna like the sandwich more as well. I think the thing is- – I bet you are. – I’m missing the crispiness. And that’s actually something that I didn’t even talk about on the tenders. The Popeye’s breading is crispier, which I think is really good on a sandwich. – Yeah. – It’s great on a tender but it’s really good on a sandwich ’cause you need something to break up the consistency of the bread. Like, oh, I hit the chicken. You gotta know when you hit the chicken. You know what I’m saying? – The thing about having tenders on a sandwich, Zaxby’s used to do this. And then with all the chicken sandwich wars, they came out with an actual chicken like fillet- – Yeah, right. – To replace it because you’re eating off of one side of it, oh! – Oh. – And you’re losing a tender. – Hate to see it, hate to see it. – You’re losing a tender. I mean, that could hit the floor. – That just made me want to eat this. – It doesn’t feel like a chicken sandwich. It feels like you put tenders in a bun and it never came together. – Now, we got pickles on this. We’ve got spicy mayonnaise. And you know the bun’s good. We’ve had this bun before. And you got that crispy chicken. Oh, this one’s also falling apart. – The crunchy on that breading- – [Rhett] It makes a difference, man. – If I wanna eat a tender, I don’t want it nestled up against two other ones in a bun. I wanna dip it and eat it. – I feel like they’ve just decided to try to compete with everyone else but they weren’t willing to go all the way. And so putting the tenders on a bun is kind of a poor attempt at competing with other chicken sandwiches. – Yeah. – I’m gonna give it a five. – In this day and age, you can’t do it. He just gave it a five. I agree. I’m giving it a five. I just want the tenders on their own. Over here, this may not be your favorite chicken sandwich but you can’t deny this is one of the best. Like, I’m tempted to give it a 10. I’m just gonna, I’m gonna back off a little bit to a strong nine. – And I am gonna give it a nine as well. – Mm-hmm. – Ooh, I think it may have just pulled away. Look at that. – We are having so much fun doing this. (soft piano music) – We interrupt this episode of Good Mythical Morning to let you know that this past weekend, we released a video on the Rhett & Link channel. ♪ We’d love for you to watch it (laughs) ♪ – I don’t think Link knew he was gonna sing anything. ♪ We’d love for you to watch it ♪ ♪ Now we’re digging a hole ♪ ♪ That’s what we’re doing ♪ ♪ But is a hole ♪ ♪ Even a thing ♪ ♪ Well, the digging of the hole ♪ ♪ That ain’t nothing ♪ ♪ So I guess a hole really is something ♪ (upbeat music) – Battle of the breads. Let’s get it! – Here is Raising Cane’s Texas toast for 1.35. – That’s pretty, man. – Yeah, I’m just gonna stay here and watch you. – Hey! That passive aggressive stuff you’ve been saying, it’s not gonna fly with me. You think you’re the only one who could do puns, huh? (chuckles) Alright, this is Popeye’s biscuits for 89 cents each. – Very cookie cutter. Let’s just go ahead and start there. – [Rhett] Like, literally. Maybe they use a cookie cutter. – Well, maybe a biscuit cutter. – [Rhett] This is pretty though. – We got a sweet spot for biscuits. – We do. But I love some Texas toast, and this is like almost like pound cake. You know what I’m saying? Like it’s got a pound cake shape. – This is the superior bread for a chicken tender. – That’s a strong statement. – Once you eat it. I know it’s, you can eat it with like steak and stuff. I think this, let me put it this way. It is the best thing to pair with Texas toast, a nice juicy chicken tender, because it’s long, you can put it on top. – You know what? They should have made their sandwich out of this. – Mm-hmm. Yep. – One tender, two of these. – [Link] And you can do that on your own though. – [Rhett] It’s like a little sub. – Mm-hmm. These are scary ’cause they, this doesn’t- – Well, they’re small. – I mean, it’s so, they’re so- – [Rhett] It’s hard. – [Link] Uniform that it makes it feel- – It’s not very flaky. They’re more- – Powdery. It’s got kind of like a microwave biscuit taste. – It doesn’t taste bad but biscuits can be so much better than this. You know what I’m saying? Biscuits can be so good. – Yeah, this is a bad biscuit. And yeah, I’m gonna compare it to Bojangles. It sucks compared to Bojangles. – It’s not nearly as good as Bojangles as a biscuit. Okay. – I can order a light biscuit at Bojangles and I’ll get one. These are all the same. – I think that the bread round has been a solid showing for Raising Cane’s. – Mm-hmm. – This is some good bread. Eight, solid eight. – I agree. You know what? Screw it, nine. They’ve done the best thing right there. That’s the best thing they’ve done. – The best thing you’ve done, Raising Cane’s, is your bread. I’m not gonna go all the way down to like a three. I’m gonna say- – This is hurting, man. – I don’t want the bread round to be too determinative. I’m gonna say it’s a five. – I’m disappointed. (crew laughs) It doesn’t taste horrible, but I have to give it a four. I gotta give it a four. Where does that leave us? It leaves me eating more of this chicken sandwich. (upbeat music) I need to wash down all this chicken with something. – Alright, it’s time to end things with Popeye’s sweet tea for 2.49. – I’m thinking of ending things too with Raisin Cane’s sweet tea for 2.49. – Oh yeah, you wanna end things? – Yeah, it’s time. – Okay. – Who could have seen this fight coming? – Nobody! – Crack! (Abel grunts) Oh. Cruel fate. Enjoy. (crew laughs) Oh! – He said- – [Abel] I’m not that heavy. – [Cain] No, we didn’t choreograph this. – He said, “Crack, cruel fate.” – Yeah, crack, ’cause he, when he, he cracked her neck, you know. – Who has a better logo? Popeye’s. Raising Cane’s- – Raising Cane’s has got a good logo. That’s actually one of the things they got going for ’em. Look at that. – The tea is pretty good. – Pretty sweet, really nice. – It’s pretty sweet. It’s leafy. You can taste the leaves. – That’s really solid tea. – And then over here. Pretty sweet too, very sweet. They’re both equally. – It’s not quite as good. – There’s more flavor to it. It’s just, do I like the flavor more? – It’s more tea flavor. – Yeah, it tastes- – But I don’t think that’s why I drink tea. – You taste more of the leaves. – I don’t drink tea to taste tea. I drink tea to taste sugar. – Now that I go back here, it just tastes like water because this one’s- – Wow, that is what happened, isn’t it? – Mm-hmm. – I like this tea until I had that tea. And now this tea tastes like water. – I’m glad we tasted this tea first or else we’d be saying, “This tea just tastes like water. It sucks!” But now we’re like, “This tea tasted great until I tasted this.” So what are we gonna do with that? Louisiana tea. – Oh, yeah. If you keep drinking it, the Popeye’s gets better and better. – Mm-hmm. – It really does. – Mm-hmm. – Mm-hmm. – Mm-hmm. – Just two boys drinking tea. This tea’s not great now. This tea is a six. I mean, it’s not bad ’cause if I was only drinking it, I would think it was great. – I know. I thought it was gonna be a seven. Should I go, I think I’m gonna go all the way to five. – Yeah, I’m gonna go- – No, I’m gonna go with six. I’m going with six. – And as Carolina boys, we’ve had a lot of sweet tea. Sweet tea gets better than this. And you know who makes it better? – Bojangles. – Bojangles makes the best sweet tea. If you’re going through the South- – So sweet there. It’ll put a hurting on you. – And you wanna know what sweet tea is supposed to taste like, just get the Bojangles sweet tea. But this is good. Hmm, seven. – I agree. I’m giving it a seven. So if we look at the totals across the board, we have of Raising Cane’s with 75 and Popeye’s pulling away with the win, 82! – And we gotta keep in mind, we actually judged Popeye’s on Raising Cane’s terms. Popeye’s has a lot of other stuff. They got the bone-in chicken, right? We didn’t even taste that. – Shrimp! They got shrimp! – We’re just tasting the things that compared to the stuff at Raisin Cane’s- – Right. – And it took it home. Popeye’s took it home. Sorry, Cane. – So congratulations to Bojangles. – Yeah. – Even though you weren’t pertinent to this conversation- – You’re the real winner today. – You’re the real winner in our minds. Alright, Popeye’s, you win the chance to sponsor a GMM episode, and you are the official Chick Magnet. – Yes. Thanks for describing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – I’m Rebecca from Northwest Indiana. I just got home for the summer after my freshman year of college in Central Illinois. Now I’m just chilling with my chickens. And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – I got a couple ideas what she could do with them chickens. (Rhett laughs) – Yep. I’m through with chilling with some chickens later. – Click the top lane to watch us Discover if these food face fortune telling methods are real or fake in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. – [Rhett] Beans, beans, good for your heart. Shop March’s Pin of the Month, Human Bean for only 24 hours at mythical.com.