Which generation created the best snacks of all time? – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) – “Good Mythical Morning.” – For as long as there have been generations of people, people have been fighting about which generation is the best. – Oh, that sounds like something you’d put on a bumper sticker, a really long bumper sticker. – Uh-huh, well, think about it. Baby boomers are always saying, “Back in my day,” millennials are always in a constant state of ’90s nostalgia. – Okay, that’s true. So today we’re gonna find the definitive answer on which generation is the best when it comes to snack creation, meaning, which generation originated the best snacks. – And specifically, in this episode, we’re going to be tasting chocolate snacks so that if we like this format we can do it again with other types of snacks, you know how we think about this? – That’s how we do. – Yes, and we have a special guest judge joining us today, stepping in to represent a generation other than ours, in the name of fairness. – That’s right. It’s the host of the award-winningly weird podcast “Dispatches From Myrtle Beach,” the big Myrtle Beach boomer himself, my dad, hey dad. – Hey, how y’all doing? – Doing good. – Yeah. – You like snacks? – Oh yeah, I like snacks. I ain’t too crazy about chocolate, but I like snacks. – What, what? (all laughing) – You- – What? – You don’t love chocolate? – Let’s just say I like it, I don’t love it. So I’m gonna be a good judge, see, I’ll be straight in the middle with ya I won’t have no preferential treatment for all these chocolate things. (Rhett laughing) – Dad, that’s exactly what I say. People complain about how I don’t like things I’m like that makes me right in the middle, I’m preferential. – Right in the middle? – Yeah, just like dad said, we’re right in the middle preferential. – I will choose to see this in a charitable way, but at least you like chocolate. If you if you didn’t like chocolate- – I like chocolate. – It’d make this show even more difficult than it already is. – All right, let’s get to it. It’s time for, Snack In My Day, Chocolate Edition. – [Stevie] Okay boys, here’s how this is gonna go, you’re gonna try three iconic chocolate snacks from five different generations and give each generation- – Woo, 15 snacks. – A rating- – Yes. – [Stevie] Between one to 10. – Okay. – The snacks from each generation were carefully selected to represent the fullest gamut of chocolate snack types possible. The winner will be crowned the best generation in the whole wide world. This is definitive and no one can say anything about it specifically when talking about chocolate snacks. – Oh okay. – Well I’m gonna have to write that down. – And it’s my understanding that we don’t have any snacks from Gen Z because they have quote “Nothing to offer.” (crew laughing) – [Stevie] I’ve been told that Gen Z really hasn’t invented any notable chocolate snacks so if that’s what you meant, you are correct. – They’re just consumers. – Yep. – They’re just consumers, they’re not producing anything, sorry. – Right dad? – Rhett, what’s a Zen G, or whatever you said? (all laughing) – Hey, listen, that’s what I call myself a Zen G. (all laughing) – Alright, let’s just keep going. (upbeat music) – [Stevie] All right, first up are the snacks created in The Greatest Generation and we do have a special message from that time period to plead their case. – Oh. (honky-tonk music) – Hello there boys, the name’s Mildred Vanderstuffing. You name it I stuff it, and I’m always down for a good time. So if you were born between 1901 and 1927 then you are from The Greatest Generation, and let me tell ya, things were great. After a night out dancing to the devil’s music, you could come home to these divine chocolatey snacks, take a bite out of an Oreo to forget the looming dread of war, or the Spanish Flu’s got ya down, try a Hostess CupCake. You’re still gonna die, but hey, it’s a living. Maybe you’re a cheeky fella who’d like a Hershey’s Kiss from a mobster’s widow, whatever your desire, gentlemen, The Greatest Generation has got what you need. (honky-tonk music) – Wow, you’re still gonna die, but it’s a living, I like that joke. – And I’m gonna start with a Hershey Kiss here. Foil wrapped, nipple shaped. – Iconic. – Iconic. – Very iconic, but let’s be honest- – I’d never go back to it. – The chocolate from just a straight Hershey’s chocolate, it ain’t great. (crew laughing) – [Link] Yeah, I’m not, I don’t love a Hershey’s Kiss. – I kinda like it, but there’s so much better chocolate now. – It’s just chocolate, dad, does that mean you’re right down the middle? – It was pretty good. – Okay. – I mean. – We’re learning new things, maybe you do like chocolate. – Yeah, maybe I do. (all laughing) (indistinct) – After all these years. Now the Hostess Cake, when this thing first came out in 1919, it had no squiggle icing or cream filling. – Whoa, that’s shocking. – But we’re gonna give ’em the benefit of the doubt and judge it with it. – Man. – That’s a complete meal. – You just kinda remember- – Cream, icing, cake. – How fakey it tastes, you know what I’m saying? – I like the fakiness, like the fake chocolate- – Yep, you balance it out. – It’s very comforting to me. – It’s super nostalgic, but I’m trying to just judge it on its own. – Well I like the Hostess CupCake with the cream in the middle of it, that’s pretty good. – Right. – (laughing) Yep. – You like a little cream in the middle? – Yeah. – This is a very creamy generation. – Don’t make this weird dad. (dad laughing) – ‘Cause they put cream in the Oreos, they put cream in the cupcake, they probably trying to figure out a way to put cream in the kiss. – So we’re rating on one to 10, across all three of these, and Oreo, I mean, this is one of the most ubiquitous cookies of all time. – We ought to have a glass of milk to dip it in. – That’d be a good thing. – You’re at your house, dad, don’t you have any milk? – Yeah, I got some, but too late now. (crew laughing) – Yeah, it’s a great taste on its own, but it is, you can use it in so many different ways. You can crumble it up, you can put it in ice cream, you can put it in a milkshake, it’s still around, it’s still very relevant. – One of the greatest cookies of all time. – Oreo is doing a lot of heavy lifting for this generation- – Yep. – In my book. – So on a scale of one to 10, I’m gonna give it a six. – Oh, you know what, I’m only gonna give it a five because I just think this is not great chocolate. – Yep. – This is super fakey and the Oreo’s great, but everything else is bringing it down, so I’m only gonna give it a five, it’s just middle-of-the-road for me. – I had already wrote down my score before y’all said anything. – Oh hey, I like the way you work. – But it was a six. – Yeah, see? – So you basically- (bell dinging) Just canceled yourself out. Well, actually no, I guess you guys- – No, we’re gonna add our numbers up. – Yeah, you’re adding it together, okay. (upbeat music) (patriotic music) The Silent Generation. – Dear Rhett and Link, boy it sure is swell to be part of The Silent Generation between 1928 and 1945. A strapping lad like myself might write a letter trying to recruit you to the U.S. Navy, but today I’m recruiting you to love our chocolate snacks. Take the Snickers bar for example, after all, Snickers was the name of the first girl I was ever sweet on. (both laughing) Or maybe you’d prefer a Tootsie Pop, which so happens to be the name of my current girlfriend back home. – Eww. – Wow, yeah. – [Soldier] But the real prize of our generation is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, which so happens to me the name of my overseas gal. – Oh, nice. – Anyways, it’s time for bunk inspection so I’ve gotta eat these lickety-split. Just remember, we want you to pick The Silent Generation for best chocolate snacks. – Wow, that overseas girl. – Oh. – She’s working out. (crew laughing) – What dad? – That guy’s kinda strange ain’t he, he was strange when- – Yeah, yeah. (Link laughing) He was writin’ so fast. – He has a type, you know. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – He definitely has a type. And boy, I mean, Snickers, Reesey Cups- – Two of the best candies ever, right? I mean we already said that- – And a Tootsie Pop. – The Reesey Cup was like the best candy ever. Yeah, the Tootsie Pops really hurting us in this generation. – Dad what ya think, what you thinking of this Snickers? – Well, I’m just gonna tell ya this is probably gonna be the best generation of anything they got with chocolate- – Spoiler. – If it’s got a Reese’s Cup in it, it’s got my vote, I’m telling ya. – So you’re a peanut butter man just like me? – I like Snickers bar ’cause they got some nuts in ’em too. – Yeah, right, yeah. (crew laughing) Ya got some nuts in ’em. You know it was allegedly named after a horse, and that’s not a joke. People think that horses are named after Snickers, but Snickers was named after a horse, so the name Snickers existed for horses before candy bars. – I think that’s because a horse can snicker. – Y’all keep getting smarter all the time, don’t ya. (crew laughing) – Yep. – That’s right dad. – Smarter all the time. – Yep. – My dad thinks I’m smart. – That’s the theme of this show. – Mm, now the Tootsie Pop here- – Tootsie, which is the incorrect pronunciation. No matter how many times you say it, no one (indistinct)- – It has two O’s in it, T-O-O-T- – It’s Tootsie. – Toot! – It’s Tootsie! – T-O-O-T- – You sound like an idiot. – How do you say T-double O-T-S-I-E, dad? – It’s a Tootsie Pop. – Yes, okay, all right that… – You’ve been out voted. – Yeah. – I loved it. – That’s not how it works, the world has decided. I wanna give this a chance because I feel so strongly about these other two. – This is a good lollipop. – It actually tastes pretty good, the chocolate-flavored ones are good. – Yeah, but it just takes too long to get to the good stuff in the middle, Rhett, that’s just the only thing about a Tootsie Pop. – Just bite it open dad. – I can’t do that ’cause I just got my wisdom teeth out (laughing). – Yep. – Oh. – It’s actually not that bad. – It’s a bonafide ball of Tootsie Roll in the middle. – There’s two perfect 10 snacks in this, and then there’s one that is not as bad as you thought it would be, I’m giving this generation a nine. – Hey, did y’all eat y’all Reese’s Cup already? – Yeah. – Damn, where have I been at? (Rhett laughing) – Eat it, man. – Yeah, I’ll go back and finish mine. – I’m gonna give it, I’m gonna give this generation a nice solid eight. – Oh. – Rhett, I’ll give it a 9 1/2. – Oh. – Can he do that, can one person do that? – Charles can do anything he wants. – Dad, Stevie just say you could do anything you want. – I probably already done anything I want to. (all laughing) – Now you’re just doing things you have to. (dad laughing) – And it’s gonna be hard to beat The Silent Generation. – Yes it is. (upbeat music) – Well, hello there- (elevator music) I’m Dorothy Jenkins. If you were born between 1946 and 1964, then gosh, that makes you a baby boomer. And while you were running around thinking of ways to ruin everything for future generations, your mothers were busy serving you delicious chocolatey snacks like Chips Ahoy!, Chocolate Chip Cookies. Your little ankle biter will choose them over the homemade cookies you spent all day baking instead of pursuing your own career. Or maybe you’d prefer Junior Mints perfect for a night in with the kids watching “Howdy Doody” for the thousandth time while your husband is working late with his secretary. And if that doesn’t tempt you- (Rhett laughing) How about some M&M’s? They’re perfect little chocolates coated in a hard candy shell, reminds me of the shell of a woman I’ve become (laughing). (Rhett laughing) I’m just joshing, I love being a woman in the 1950s. (all laughing) – Wow, wow! Oh, she was hiding a lot there. – This is your generation dad. – Boy, that woman, that woman’s still mad too today. (all laughing) – She’s still mad. – [Link] Which one do you wanna try first, we’re gonna follow your lead this time? – The cookie. – We’re starting with the Chips Ahoy!, a nice sailor theme. – I mean, let’s be honest about these cookies compared to any cookie that you could have. – Not a great cookie. – There’s so many better cookies, we’re looking at cookie renaissance right now, you know, and then you have this and you’re like, yeah. – You wanna go to M&M’s next? – Yeah, that’ll be fine, that’s good. (crew laughing) – I wanna know what dad thinks of M&M’s because I know this is controversial between the two of us. – I like Peanut M&M’s. – Okay. – But the regular M&M’s, like these, I ain’t too crazy about ’em (laughing). – They’ve stuck around for a really long time. – I think they suck. – But they’re not- – I’m with dad on this. – They’re not a great candy in the- – They suck. – Pantheon of candies, but they don’t suck, they wouldn’t be one of the most- – No. – Popular candies for a hundred years if they sucked. – Let’s go with Junior Mints. – Junior Mint is the hidden gem in this generation. – What, I don’t know that I’ve ever had this. – How have you never had a Junior Mint, bro? This is like the thing to have at the movie theater. – Well, I ate one, but I don’t like mint, so y’all. – That’s genetic. – [Dad] This (laughing). – You don’t like mint or chocolate, and that’s why I’ve never had these. I was like, I knew I wouldn’t like it, but you know now that I’ve had it, I gotta be honest, I kinda like it. – Oh you do? – Yeah. – You have been coming around to mint chocolate things. – Yeah. – You even said that about mint chocolate chip ice cream. – That’s my new thing, dad, I’m expanding as a person and you can too. Try another mint. – And I’m not trying another one ’cause I don’t like it. – Okay fine. (dad laughing) Fine, I (indistinct). – I ate about 10 of ’em. Um. – Yeah. – I am thoroughly disappointed in your generation, dad, this sucks and you seem to agree with me. I cannot go above a four. – I already had mine wrote down and mine’s a four too. – Dang, you guys are redundant. – Redundancies are a good thing when engineering. – Okay. – If one of us goes they just bring in the other one. – I think that the Junior Mints are doing more for me than they’re doing for y’all. The M&M’s, again, they’ve stuck around for a long time, they’re a great topping, they can be incorporated into a lot of things. These cookies suck, six. – That still hurt, I mean- – Yeah, it’s not great. (bell dinging) – We all agree that your generation sucks dad. – Well, they didn’t have me inventing cookies and snacks, so that’s the reason they suck, if they had they’d been a lot better. – Shoulda asked my dad. (upbeat music) – You’ve been asking for it for years and we finally did it, we remade the “Hair Song” now with my hair going down, and his hair going up. – And my hair going up. – And of course we put it on vinyl. You can get it as a 3rd Degree Mythical Society Member, or join 3rd Degree quarterly by, or annual by June 30th. It also has an unreleased song on it. It’s got the original “Hair Song,” the new “Hair Song,” and then a unreleased single, “Relevant,” never before listened to. – That’s right. – Mythicalsociety.com for details. – What generation are we at now? – [Stevie] Let’s check out Generation X. (light jazz music) – Hey man, I didn’t see you there. I’m Todd Brown, yeah, and if you were born between 1965 and 1980, then you my friend, are from Generation X. During this time we tended to have some chocolate cravings after ingesting a little flower power, if you know what I mean. Thankfully we had just the snacks to cure those chocolate munchies. You ever see a cookie and think, well man, I wish this were a tiny cookie? Well, Famous Amos made that possible. It’s adorable, my dudes, or maybe you need something a little smoother, something that reminds you of the ever-expanding universe, Snack Pack pudding. – Yep, that makes sense. – Mm, wowser- (chimes tinkling) And just like our universe, Twix bars have plenty of layers that you can get lost in, forever. (chimes tinkling) Mm. – Wow, Todd Brown got taken to another plane of dimension- – Yeah, he did. – With pudding. Is that how you feel about pudding, you love pudding, this is your round man. – I love pudding. – Now does that run in the family, Charles? – No. (Rhett laughing) – Come on man eat some pudding, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen you eat a little pudding. – I’m gonna eat my cookie first and then do like he did and eat some pudding with it. – You can mix ’em together. Famous Amos originated on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. – It’s better than Chips Ahoy!. – But it’s not that much better. – But it’s not that much better you’re right. Than Chips Ahoy!. – But I got a pudding thing to pick with you. – All right. – Pudding’s not good, bro. – It was terrible, Rhett (laughing). – It tastes like a ration of something. – Seriously, y’all? – You like things that taste fake, I’m just gonna be honest with you, it tastes so fake, so manufactured, it should be inside something else that, it should be being carried by something besides a spoon and directly into your mouth. – It’s funny that you’re saying these things ’cause when it came out in 1968, they launched it with a mascot horse. – Yeah. – Another horse. – Horses are great mascots. – Named Snack Pack, and the horse told children, “Don’t play with it, or lick it, or keep it in your hand.” – You sure he was talking about the pudding? – But yeah, people didn’t know what to do with it. Am I supposed to put it in my hand? What? – Oh wow. – I don’t know. – Oh, that made everyone feel uncomfortable. – Oh really? (crew laughing) – Yeah, we’re all uncomfortable now. – Dad, look at- – Oh! – Look at the comedy I did. – Oh yeah. (Rhett laughing) – Oh yeah. – Yeah. Well if it hadn’t a been for the Twix bars this whole thing woulda been a debacle. – Twix is great, very solid. – Twix is so good, I don’t know why, but the caramel Twix is better than the peanut butter Twix. – Mm, that’s fighting words right there. – Yeah, no, they ain’t nothing no better than peanut butter. – Yep, this is not great, puddings bringing it down, Famous Amos bringing it down, Twix is helping out a lot, but not too much, five. – Well, I give it a four, Rhett, I’m sorry, but I’m- – No apologies needed. – Yeah. – I’m also, I’m giving this one an eight ’cause I have this- (Rhett laughing) I love pudding. – Yeah. – It’s so great. – He really loves pudding. – I don’t know where I would be- (bell dinging) – Yeah. – If it was never invented, like my, I woulda died as a child ’cause I don’t know what I would’ve, I didn’t eat anything more than pudding. – Do you keep it at the house now? – No, but that’s a good idea. – (Rhett laughing) Okay, I’m glad, I’m full of him. – I stand by it, I stand by it. (upbeat music) – Yo, yo, yo, I’m Ashley E- (upbeat rock music) Not to be confused with Ashley J, and if you were born between 1981 and 1996, then you’re a millennial and we got the best chocolate snacks in town. Did you ever wanna play basketball to get closer to your crush, Jimmy, and then eventually fall in love, but you are just too hungry? With Dunkaroos you can do both. It’s a dunking good time, or maybe you prefer a little magic in your life. With the E.L. Fudge cookie you can bite into a little elf for a delicious fudgy taste or maybe you’re a kid who likes a fun surprise. When you snack on a Wonder Ball you never know what you’re gonna get just like when Jimmy said he’d pick me up for prom and then he ditched me for Ashley J, I still love you, Jimmy. Anyway, don’t be a buzzkill, choose millennials, or else talk to the hand. – Ooh, talk to the hand. – Talk to. – Oh no. (all laughing) – Oh Lord. – Hey, listen, these are not candies that I’m a regular partaker of, but I gotta say the interest factor has gone up significantly. We’re not talking about Chips Ahoy! anymore, we’re talking about little cookies that we dip into chocolate. – You ever done this before, dad? – No. – That’s better than pudding, Link, icing is better than pudding. – No it’s not, y’all, icing is too sugary, you can’t ingest nearly as much. – And also the vanilla icing with these is even better than the chocolate. – That is good though. – Look how much fudge they put inside this elf. – I’m shocked. – Good god, look at that. – That’s the best cookie that we’ve tasted. – Rhett, if you dip it in that icing. – [Rhett] Uh-oh. – [Stevie] I will point out you did say that several times about the Oreo cookies, so. – Oh, I already forgot about Oreos. – Now let’s break into these Wonder Balls. So is this kinda like a Kinder egg? – Who broke mine? Y’all ruined the whole experience for me. – Link, I got two prizes from this cookie, so you know it’s gonna be on up there. If you get a prize before you even eat it that’s got to be good. – That’s true. – Yeah. – We did not get prizes. – Yeah we did, there’s a box, look. – They in the box, they’ll give you one. – I got a Mario coin, where can I spend it? – I got a coin too, but, so it’s like a SweeTART. – What’s inside this thing? (crew laughing) – Yeah, eat it, that’s the best way to find out. – It’s pretty good. – I don’t think he likes it. – Well this thing ruint my other cookies, I’m telling ya, but you know, two outta three ain’t bad. – All right, so he’s ruint and ready to go. I know you’re excited about this you like a little gameplay in your snacks. This is very tasty, this is very fun, and this is an exorbitant amount of fudge filling. – I’m giving it an eight, that’s how strongly I feel about it. – I gotta give it a six, I gotta give it a six. I don’t think that the SweeTARTS belong inside anything chocolate. – Well, then I’m like Rhett, I give it a eight too, ’cause two of ’em was pretty darn good. Even the little cookies that you dipped in the, with the icing, that you thought wasn’t as good as the pudding, it was a lot better than the pudding. – A lot better. – What’d he say? – Okay, well I gotta say… (bell dinging) I did not think that the millennials were gonna come this close. – Me neither, I’m surprised. – [Stevie] But after you’ve tried all of the chocolate snacks from each generation, the winner is The Silent Generation with the Snickers, the Reese’s, the Tootsie Pops, and they are crowned the best generation in the whole wide world. This is definitive and no one can say anything about it, specifically when talking about chocolate snacks. – Yes. – [Soldier] Golly gee, just heard over the wire that The Silent Generation won. I’m off to cut a rug to celebrate, that means dancing. (patriotic music) (crew laughing) – Wow, he’s so happy. I’m so glad we could do that for that man in the past. – I’m telling ya. – Dad, do you feel good about the results? – Well, you can’t help when stuff was invented and the stuff they invented in that generation was just hands down probably the best. You know stuff that’s invented, that’s been around a long time, it’s hard to beat what’s going on, so. – Yeah, right, I mean that’s exactly what I was thinking. (crew laughing) – You know what you should do, dad, you should give a plug for your show. – Oh yeah, all you people on “Good Mythical Morning” need to be watching “Dispatches From Myrtle Beach” with Charles Neal and my son, Link. So y’all come on in and tune in and if you wanna send me an email send it to ratherbeshagging53@aol.com. (Rhett laughing) – There we go! – And just keep watching all you Myrtle beasts. – Myrtle beasts? – People can “Good Mythical Morning” too so y’all come on, come on over. – And if they got to only choose one show which one should they choose? – Oh they better choose mine. (all laughing) – All right, thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Glen, I live in Los Angeles, I’m about to teach an online Dutch class. Today’s topic is food and drinks and snacks from the Netherlands and Belgium and it’s time to spin The Wheel of Mythicality. – Learning can be fun. – When you’re eating a snack, yeah. – Click the top link to see us draft a burger. That means we’re going to pick things that we want to make two different burgers, see which one’s the best, in “Good Mythical Morning.” (wheel thumping) – And I wonder where the wheel’s gonna land. 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