Do frozen food boxes always lie? – Let’s talk about that. (gentle upbeat music) “Good Mythical Morning.” – It’s been a while since we last compared frozen foods to its packaging. – How? How long, actually? – Well, I think a while is like about a year. That’s in my book. – A little over a year, huh? – Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. – Do you think since we’ve done it last time, you’re saying a little over a year ago. – Right. – That because we were so hard on these frozen companies- – We go hard on those companies. – That they are now, they’ve been going back to the drawing board for the whole year trying to make their packaging much more accurate to the frozen food that’s inside? – Of course they have, because that’s what companies do. When they think about “Good Mythical Morning,” they think about getting direction for their companies. – Yeah. – It’s time for, Excuse Me, Are You Frozen Food? That’s Weird, You Do Not Look Like Your Profile Pic. – [Stevie] Today, you’ll be presented with a series of frozen foods. Link, these are not the same frozen foods you examined a little over a year ago, so don’t ask them if they are. Why would they do that? I’m telling you this from the past. The past version of you that edited Stevie’s script. Yes, it’s me. I’ve possessed Stevie. Anyways, that’s the message. Okay, I’m done. – Oh, that was you, Link! – [Stevie] Good to see you. I’ll let Stevie return to her body. Oh, I’m back. Wait, where was I? I remember I was hurdling towards another mind dimension and you yanked me back. – Mind dimension? (crew laughs) – Sorry. Sorry Stevie, that my former self had to take over your body in order to speak to the present me. And that you had to be yanked back from- – A mind dimension. – Where was it? – Another mind dimension. – Wow. How, I mean I imagine that’s disconcerting. – Ooh, I’m glad that happened. – You know, for you, Stevie. – Glad it’s still going. – You okay, Stevie? – [Stevie] In each round, you’ll judge the visuals of the packaging first and then you’ll each get an untouched, unaltered cooked version of that frozen meal. You’re gonna compare the dish to its photo on the box and give it a score from one to 10, depending on how well it matches that photo. If the meal tastes better than it looks, you can tack on a bonus point. But if it disappoints, you can subtract a point and by the end you’ll know which meal scored the lowest and give it a whole new identity so it can start its life as a better frozen food. – So the companies can take notes. – Nice. – Because that’s what companies do. And that’s just present Rhett saying that. (upbeat rock music) – [Stevie] First up, you’ve got the Healthy Choice Flatbread Chicken Sausage Pizza. The flatbread’s made with a cauliflower, wheat, and barley crust, and is topped with chicken sausage, peppers, onions, and mozzarella cheese, and it also boasts 20 grams of protein. – Boasts. – If I saw this box, I would be like, you know what? I need to give this a shot. – Really? – Yeah. – I would see cauliflower, wheat, and barley crust, and I would keep moving. I’m just being honest. – But it looks, I mean, it looks good. – It’s colorful, it’s well distributed. – I can even see the seeds on the sausage. – Fennel seeds. – You know it’s good sausage when it’s seeded. – Okay, and now we have two examples of this because we wanna give this thing a fair shot, ’cause you never know. Maybe somebody at the grocery store sat on it by accident, fell asleep on one of ’em, you know? So we’re gonna judge the best one between these two. Hold on, they’re very different. What in the world happened? What happened to your, yours got more like chopped up. Like you got little sausage. – You think yours is, really? – Yeah, I mean, I’m not saying that mine’s, I think yours actually looks better, but how did your sausages get to small? My sausages is so much bigger than your sausages. – Two different batches. You got the big sausage batch. – My first thought was big my sausage was. – And that’s more reflective of the box. So I gotta, I gotta give a little bit of a demerit to the size of my sausage. And you know what, here- – No shame in that. – Here is a- – No one can help it, really. – When the sausage gets that small, then it’s like the seeds just kind of go on their own. – I’m gonna fold this. Not because I’m one of those guys that’s like, I have to fold my pizza because I went to New York once. It’s because it’s so floppy. You see that? I mean, look at that. Because that barley, that barley really makes something floppy. If you wanna make something floppy, put barley in it. – Nothing is as big as it should be. Is everything as big as it should be on yours? Not really. – The green is not as green. – So I’m, I mean, even before I taste this thing- – It tastes okay. – At least it is colorful. And I’m going on a scale of one to 10. So I don’t know. It’s like besides the size, everything else is- – Well judge my size- – How I thought. – Don’t judge yours. Judge mine. Okay? Before I folded it remember what it looked like. – Yeah. – Go back to past Link. – Your sausage is big. – He’s around here somewhere. – No, I, he, I think he would’ve had to have possessed Stevie in the past, in the present via a past script. – I thought he could do anything he wanted to. He can go to any mind dimension that he wants. – No, I think when he possessed Stevie that’s where Stevie went. – Wow. – And I would like to hear a lot more about that experience. – Yeah, what was that like, Stevie? – [Stevie] Please give the pizzas scores. – I think it’s a seven. I think it’s a seven. Like, I mean, I would not feel deceived. – I’m gonna give it, yeah, I’m gonna give it a six. I think that the onions and the peppers are smaller than they should be on both of these. Now should I add a point because it tastes awesome? Let’s find out. – No. (Rhett and Link chewing) It tastes exactly like you would think a healthy pizza would taste. – Yeah, I won’t take a point away. So we’re gonna lock in at a six and a seven, you said? – I said a seven. – There we go, that’s a 13 total. (upbeat rock music) – [Stevie] Next up, you’ve got Stouffer’s Swedish Meatballs. – Mm. – [Stevie] This dish is made up of meatballs and freshly made fettuccine with parsley and a sour cream sauce. – Ooh, it sounds great. – No preservatives. – Here’s, yeah. – Except the process of freezing. Which, isn’t that a preservative? – I mean, not legally, I don’t believe. – It’s a preservative process, huh. – It’s gonna be tough. It’s gonna be real tough. – It is, man. – First of all, pizza has a distinctive advantage because it’s just lying there- – Slab. – On a plate, right? And it’s gonna still be there when you get done with it. This has been fluffed. Do you know you like, you fluff your pasta? – We’re gonna have to do some pasta fluffing, which we determined a year ago that we can do a little bit. – We can do that. – We can do that. – Because the assumption is especially, I mean, looking at the box here. – [Link] Right. – [Rhett] They fluffed it. – [Link] They made a mountain. – They fluffed their pasta. And there’s no shame in fluffing your pasta. – Wow. You know what? – [Rhett] I’m gonna say. – It could have been worse. – Even for unfluffed pasta. – These are very consistent. No need to look to you when I have the same thing here. – Don’t look to me. – And then- – I won’t look to you. – And, oh, I just lost a meatball. – Wow. Again. I’m kind of going on the emotional response that I have when I first see this, and do I feel deceived? Do I feel disappointed? Is this like the beginning of that Michael Douglas movie, “Falling Down?” (Rhett laughs) Do you remember that movie? – Vaguely? – Yeah, Carney does. – These are not the same products we tasted a year ago. That’s what my past self wanted to clarify. – Oh, I understood it right from the beginning and I thought it was a great bit. – I’m gonna tell you right now. – And I don’t, and here’s the thing. – Oh, it wasn’t a bit. – I don’t even think it was a bit. – It wasn’t a bit. I think it was real and I’ve never felt more special. – I’m gonna give this a seven as well because it’s hard to make pasta look like it does on the box and they did a great job. The only thing, the green doesn’t really transfer well and I know that they photoshopped these little, what is this? – [Link] Chives? – [Rhett] Chives? Parsley. – Parsley. – They made the parsley greener in the Photoshop. – I mean, I do see the parsley. – That’s what companies do. – I see everything that’s on the box. But everything looks sadder and milkier. And it’s, yeah, it’s impossible. But I still have to give it a five, just right down the middle. And I think that’s probably the best you could do with like a grav-ified noodle. Whoops. Do you like it? I’ve already eaten a meatball by itself. It was okay. – It’s more than okay. I think it’s, I think it’s great. – Really? – This is my kind of thing, man. – You’re gonna add a point? – I feel like I already gave ’em too many points by giving ’em a seven. ‘Cause I do agree with your assessment that it’s kind of milky. You know what I’m saying? Like the sauces on it. – Yeah, there’s nothing shiny or like clean about this pasta and there can’t be. – So I’m basically saying I’ve given it a six but now I’m giving it another point. – Okay. – So I’m still at a seven. – And I don’t think it tastes great. I think I would be adding salt and pepper big time. Keeping it five. That’s for a total of- – You would be adding salt to something- – Yes. – That is giving you 49% of your sodium for the day. 1100 milligrams. How could you think that’s not salty? That’s a weird, weird take. – Well. – You might need to get tested. – Because I tasted it and it wasn’t salty to me. – Okay, it was very salty to me. But that’s not what’s at stake here. It’s- – What’s the total? – Seven plus whatever you said. – [Link] Five. – [Rhett] 12. (upbeat rock music) – [Stevie] Next, we have Boston Market’s Country Fried Steak that comes with homestyle mashed potatoes and country style gravy. – How did they do the gravy? – Yes. – That’s the question on everyone’s mind. – Do you honestly think that they would’ve put the gravy in its own compartment that then you’re supposed to pour over this thing? – Let’s have a wager for a lot of money. – Well, I’m gonna bet a lot of money. – Okay. – That that didn’t happen. – I think the gravy- – It’s just floating in the gravy. – Is it in a tray and the gravy’s next to it? – You think it’s in its own little cup? That’s what you’re betting. – I’m betting a lot of money. – $300. – I’m betting 300 motion picture dollars. We have a lot of that around here. – Okay. – It’s not legal tender. That it’s in a little container. Not a container, but it’s in a tray and one of the divots has gravy. No, it’s all together! Oh, I owe you $300. And where- – Motion picture money. – Where is the beef steak? – Country fried beef steak, where are you? You’re nowhere to be found. I mean, on the box we have got beef steak teetering on taters. – And first of all, where’s that little piece of green? That’s gone. That turned white as well. – This is a bit of a disappointment. – You know what? Boston Market, if you had put your gravy in a little divot, we wouldn’t have this problem. – Wonder why they buried it. Maybe there’s something to the preparation in the microwave that’s like when you, it’s kind of like, you know how they bury a pig in some coals and then they cook it slow roast and then they dig it up? – That’s what they were thinking. – You know? I think that’s what these Boston Marketeers are doing. – I think it’s actually just the fact that you would, this is what it would look like if you made it yourself and then you put all the gravy on top of it. – [Link] I still haven’t found a beef steak. – You know what I’m saying? I feel pretty strongly that that’s the beef steak. Okay, there we go. – If I do that, that is much more accurate to the box. I gotta give this a two, man. I gotta give it a two. – I was thinking of going all the way down to a one, but I think I’ll stick with a two as well because like I said, I mean, this is what would happen if you made this for yourself. Like you can’t, there’s no way they could make that happen. – And because there’s no recovering from this. If you tried to plate this for your date as if you made it, which is a move that you could do. – Yeah. – You can’t do it with this. – Plate this for your date. – Hello, my lady. I got you a country fried beef steak. – Yeah. Yeah. – I made it from scratch. – If you do make this for your date, plate it. You know, if you’re gonna go through the trouble. I kinda like it. – Of course I like it ’cause it’s bland as hell. – Well, just so you know, Link. – [Link] I don’t think it needs salt. – This has salt 50% of the salt that you need for the rest of the day. – And that 1% makes all the difference to me. – It’s so salty, man. It also has 55% of the saturated fat that you need. – Well, we know it’s not gonna be great. – It has 25% of the cholesterol that you need. – I think it tastes- – It has everything you need. – Decent. All right. – I’m giving it an extra point, up to three. – So am I. I’m taking it up to, oh, are we scoring totally the same? – Yeah. For a total of six. (upbeat rock music) While we’re sitting here and telling you whether or not these frozen foods look like their packaging, Sporked is focused more on how they taste in ranking them so you don’t have to think too much when you go to the grocery store. – As they should. – They’ve been ranking frozen chicken pot pies, frozen pizzas, frozen TGI Fridays appetizers. Go over to sporked.com. Check out the best frozen foods. – Get it. – [Stevie] This next meal is Banquet’s Backyard BBQ. It boasts a rib shaped patty made of chicken and pork covered in mesquite barbecue sauce with a side of creamy mashed potatoes and sweet corn. – I like rib shaped things. – That’s your thing, man. This is a McRib. – Not just condoms. – So you get to eat the bone. That’s why you love it, right? – Because it reminds me of condoms? – No, ’cause you get to, the bone part is actually edible. It’s just more meat. Like these things right here. It’s supposed to be a bone. – Yeah. – But it’s just more formed meat. This is a McRib, dude. – The McRib actually, they don’t really, they don’t have pronounced bones. – Now I’m scared. – [Rhett] This is Banquet. – I am scared. – Banquet, they know how to do the divots. The separate, the separate things. So how much do you wanna wager on this? I wanna get my 300 fake money back. – Oh yeah. I’ll go 300. There’s still no special. – Okay. I think these are divots. Divots! – [Link] Ah! – [Rhett] Woo! I’m rich again. – No, you’re even. – Okay, first of all, either my ribs, my ribs turned upside down. That’s a demerit. Look at that. Yours is right side up. – [Link] There’s no, yeah, there’s no fake ribs on that side. – [Rhett] There they are, though. See? – So that’s hurting you. But for me, they got it. – Well, you know what? I don’t think I, I can’t hold it against it, that it like is upside down. I mean, that could happen. That kind of thing happens. Things turn upside down. – I like the fact that this is begging to be plated for your date. – Yeah. Yeah. – Because everything- – This is quite a date you’re planning. – Everything’s clean, you know? Everything’s clean. I’m gonna turn this thing over. – [Rhett] More plates, more dates. – Just to make it more fresh. And then I’m gonna turn it back over again. I mean- – Okay. – ‘Cause if you were to take this, put it on that. Well, I mean if you were to kind of basically to do this on a plate, that’s- – You basically recreated it. – [Link] That’s really what’s happening. – It’s almost indistinguishable. Now, I can tell on camera that the barbecue sauce color on the package and in person looks pretty similar. But there are things that cameras can’t see that the human eye can see. Sitting here in person is much browner than the packaging. They’ve done Photoshop, Link. – Yeah. But still, I’m inclined to give this thing some love. – It’s nice and separated because of the divots. – It’s all there. I’m gonna give this a solid eight on looks alone, anticipating that I’m gonna take a point away when I have to taste this thing. – I just feel like they’re really selling the redness of the sauce in such a aggressive way. – Okay. – And then I’m not getting that. I can only give it a seven. – Stevie- – Mine was upside down. – Are you sure you don’t wanna tell us about your trip to the, what was that? Dimension that you got sucked back from? – It was a mind dimension. – [Stevie] I don’t know, Link. I don’t know what a mind dimension is and where I was or what is actually happening. – I think she was traumatized by being sent to the mind dimension. – A lot of people don’t know when they get possessed. – [Link] Yeah, I know. – Because when they’re possessed it’s not them. – [Stevie] Like whole studios full of people don’t know. (crew laughs) – Oh my gosh. – As somebody who eats- – This isn’t bad. – Processed meat. – Why is this not bad? Is this what a McRib tastes like? I’ve tasted it and it doesn’t taste like this. This sauce is better. – Okay, I take issue with that. – This is better than a McRib to me. – The meat is exactly what a McRib tastes like. The sauce is worse. I think. I think McDonald’s barbecue sauce actually works with the, the fakey-ness of their barbecue sauce compliments the fakey-ness of the meat. – It doesn’t need salt. – I’m sure it’s got plenty, Link. – Where is, why haven’t I found that out? – It’s called sodium. – Oh really? – Yeah. – Where is that? I see potassium. – Right there. – Oh, 50%. That’s it. You hit my mark. – That seems to be the industry standard. – I almost want to add a point because I could keep eating it. I could eat this whole thing unapologetically. I’m gonna hold at eight. – I’m gonna hold at seven because that is, I’m getting what I expected, which is- – [Link] Total of 15. (upbeat rock music) – [Stevie] And, lastly we have Evol’s Portabella and Goat Cheese Ravioli. The ravioli stuffed with portabella mushrooms, goat Romano and ricotta cheese, plus cremini mushrooms, bell peppers, spinach, and a creamy basil sauce. – Now you’re holding back on us ’cause the box says an insanely tasty creamy basil sauce. – There’s a lot to replicate on this. – They add a whole conversation. Well, I wanna put insanely tasty with the basil’s cream sauce. – Oh, I think the company, I think this company is doing a good job. – It’s love backwards. – It’s selling it on the, I mean, they’re really setting the bar very high. – Isn’t that disinterest? – What? What is disinterest? – Love backwards. – Yeah. It’s apathy. Yeah. (Rhett inhales deeply) – Oh gosh. Not bad! Love backwards. – I was expecting worse. I was expecting worse. – [Link] Not bad at all. Look at this. That is impressive. I feel like across the board these are doing really well. – Well, that’s because the companies have been watching “Good Mythical Morning.” They’ve been listening to us. – That’s right. – Taking our advice. And it’s showing. Even the green in all this. – Good work, frozen food companies. – The green, it’s not as green, but they didn’t do as much editing. They didn’t need to. They’re really bringing it. How many, how many por- – How many cremini? – How many raviolis do you see on the box and then how many do you see in there? – Oh, now we’re doing that. – [Both] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. One, two, three, four, five. – [Link] One, two, three. Four, five, six. – [Rhett] I’ve got five. – [Link] One, two, three, four, five, six. – Oh! – You only got five? – I only got five! Hold on. One. – [Link] Whoa. – [Rhett] Two, three, four, five. I feel like an archeologist. – [Stevie] Go to your two. Wait, the one that you’re cutting. Is one glued to the back? – [Link] It’s big. That’s two, man. – Oh! – Six! – Hey, but they still lied. Now, when you plate this for your date, you’re gonna want to take the glue daddy and make it into two. – Four, five, six. – So that they think they’re getting six. You don’t want your date to think that they’re getting five. But don’t show ’em the boxes. They’ll think they’re getting seven. So right off the bat, we gotta give that a demerit. – Yep. – Everything else about it’s great, though. I’m gonna say- – I’m gonna try the insanely tasty. Oh yeah. I’m gonna- – I gotta give it a score. – I gotta score it first. Sure. – I’m giving this, I’m giving it a seven. I would’ve given it an eight but they didn’t give me seven. They shouldn’t put seven on the box. – [Link] No they shouldn’t. – That’s a big deal. – That’s a fiasco. (crew member laughs) – That’s a big, big deal. – ‘Cause I was gonna give you a nine. – Like that’s, I’m reevaluating everything I think about love backwards. – I’m so disinterested in it. – I feel lied to. – Hmm, should I go to seven or keep it at eight? I was gonna give you a nine. Truth in advertising. I gotta go to seven. And now I’m gonna try this insanely tasty, creamy basil sauce. – I think this, I think it might be insanely tasty. – I mean, it’s tasty. – You know what? – Insanely tasty? – Now, you might complain about this ’cause you’re only getting 31% of your sodium for the day. – Yeah. Not loving that. – I’m giving it an extra point. I’m taking it all the way to eight. – It’s semi-insanely tasty. That is enough for me to give it another point too. Bringing it to nine. – I don’t care that I’m being lied to. – That’s a total of 17! Have we ever done that? That’s a total of 16! – [Rhett] It’s a 16. You know what? Who’s counting, though? – Have we ever done that? – Okay. But we’re actually not determining which one’s the best. I mean, we kind of did by default. – Way to go, love backwards. – But the one that we really want to draw attention to, and interestingly, Boston Market, if I remember correctly, did absolutely horrible last time. – Yes. – And you know what? Boston Market people at your company? You haven’t been listening to us because we told you that you were failing and then you failed real, real hard again. – Yeah, you’re still failin’, Boston. – Boston. – Boston. – Boston. – Boston. – So officially we’re gonna give the Boston Market Country Fried Beef Steak a whole new identity, so we’re entering them into the tastiness protection program. – I’m not from Boston anymore. I don’t sound like I’m from Boston, do I? Don’t answer that. Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee. I’m, oh! I’m Link from the past and I’ve possessed this box of Boston Market Country Fried Beef Steak. Just for the joke of it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I’m back! – Oh, great. – Stevie, I just went. I just went to the same place you were. And I also don’t want to talk about it or play along. – You went to the mind dimension? Whoa! (crew laughs) Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what time it is. – My name’s Dominic. – My name is Vincent. – We’re from New Jersey. – And it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality. – Hey, that’s how I bite a burger. – Boy, they were having fun in Jersey. – New Jersey. I almost forgot, though. Click the top link to watch us celebrate our 2400th episode by introducing 24 new crew members to you that have never appeared on “Good Mythical More.” Or at least you’ve never heard ’em say words, I don’t think. “Good Mythical More.” – Okay, and to find out where the wheel of mythicality is gonna land. Want to know the best frozen chicken pot pie, veggie pizza, and TGI Friday’s appetizers? Well, go over to sporked.com.