Can kombucha taste even weirder? – Let’s talk about that. (soothing upbeat music) “Good Mythical Morning.” – Kombucha, or com-bucha, as we said it the first time we heard about it, is the poster child of acquired taste. – Yeah. – But there have been many flavor variations, most of which we’ve tried right here on this show that make it a little bit more palatable, you know? – Oh, okay. So you mean the vinegary, fizzy tea with questionable goo down at the bottom doesn’t immediately get you going? – Well, you tell me, does this get you going? Looking at this thing? – Get the scoby out of there. And Lily, what is that? Is that a, that’s the mother, but is it bacteria? – [Lily] Yeah, it’s bacteria and yeast. – Bacteria and yeast. This one looks like a shepherd in the church play. (crew laughs) – Look at that, Link. – That is, it’s, it’s- – You want a taste? – That’s thick, man. I wanna smell. Oh yeah, that’s it. You know, I’m gonna leave this one because this can be gifted to somebody. You can, there’s growing babies down in there. – [Lily] There’s some babies. – And then you can give that to your friends, and- – I’m putting this one back. – You can pass it forward. It’s like bread yeast. – Yes. Okay. So we wondered how far can you actually take kombucha flavors before you cross that fizzy point of no return? – Well, are you saying that we combined actual science with a little bit of mythicality create to create- – Yeah. – New and unheard of kombucha flavors that no one asked for? – Y’all, that’s what I did. – All right. It’s time for: Scoby-Doo And The Mystery Of The Strange Fermentation! Behold the newiest and improviest helmet flavor taster, AKA the HFT 4.0. Stevie, what’s new with this? – [Stevie] I mean, it’s pretty straightforward what you’re gonna be doing today. You’re gonna taste a series of mysterious Mythical Kitchen created kombucha flavors and guess the flavor. Points escalate per round and the winner gets their very own kombucha brand in the end. – Whoa! – What! – [Stevie] Yeah. – In the rear end? – Right up the rear. – [Stevie] I mean, if you want it, I guess. Let’s bring out that first flavor. But before you pour it, Chase. Lily, how did you, how’d you do this? – Yeah. – [Lily] So I made a base kombucha with black tea, sugar, and a little plain kombucha. – Okay. – [Lily] And a scoby and let it ferment for a couple weeks. And then I made the flavoring by boiling it in water and bottling it with that base kombucha. – Okay. – Okay. – I would look at you and Rhett, I would also look at you, but the HFT 4.0- – Doesn’t allow head turns. – Doesn’t allow for head turns. – I think I could turn my head within my helmet. – It’s just like, I mean, we’ve got, are these springs? Like we’ve got ring, ring, ring. – [Rhett] Hey. – Yeah, we’re bad girls today. – But my head, my head is shaped differently than the helmet. So now I have to go back. – Yeah. Oh gosh. Oh, it really hurt. – [Rhett] Yeah, I won’t do that too many times. – [Stevie] We’re ready for the first flavor. – Are are we gonna be bad girls today, Rhett? – Oh yeah. – Yeah. We’re gonna be drinking our kombucha. Bad girls. – And I poured it by opening the thing and then pouring it in. So I did stuff too, Lily. Okay. – Okay, Chase. Thank you. Okay. Ready for kombucha? There we go. – Mm. – Hmm. (Link coughs) – I mean, yeah, there’s always a, it’s quite a bite. The first taste of kombucha will get you. It gets you in the cheeks. It’ll make ’em all taut and all tight and it’ll just cinch up on you like a top of a trash bag. – Hey, don’t talk that way when I’m attached to you. – Yeah, I’m sorry, I’m being a bad girl. – Nothing particularly, like weird about that flavor. – I like it. – Is it supposed to be weird? Because it- – It’s a good one. – It just tastes like something I might have at the store. – Yeah. How strange should we be guessing? – [Stevie] You should be guessing like, specifics. In this case, a specific brand, let’s say. – Oh, oh, a brand? (kombucha gurgles) Mm. Now that I’ve got it in my lungs. Okay. – All right. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Cherry Coke. – Fanta? – [Stevie] No. – It’s a beverage. – [Stevie] But those are specific brands- – They are. – [Stevie] And I do appreciate that. – Is it a beverage? – [Stevie] It’s not a beverage. – See, I thought it was apple juice. Is it? – Hmm. Hmm. – Apple-y kombucha? – It’s a candy. – [Stevie] Mm-hmm. – Oh, it’s a candy? What’s that? Jolly Ranchers. – Jolly Ranchers. – [Stevie] No. – Skittles. – It, it was- – [Stevie] No. – [Stevie] Think about the answer. The first answer that you gave, Rhett. – [Link] Which was? – Cherry. Candy. – [Link] The cherriest of trend. – Cherry candy. – The cherriest of candies. – I was gonna say Haribo gummy bears because they got cherry flavored. – [Stevie] This, some people say this thing is better than its similarly colored and shaped competitor. And some people say the competitor- – Twizzler. – [Stevie] There we go. – It’s good! It’s actually better. – It doesn’t taste super- – Than an actual Twizzler. – It doesn’t taste overly sweet, which is weird. You know what I mean? – Well, that’s ’cause it’s not Red Vines. – And because the vinegar flavor actually offsets the Twizzler flavor. – Yeah. And I didn’t need any hints. – Have you been in contact with Twizzlers? And I mean literally, have you been using Twizzlers to contact people? – What? (spooky music) I’ve got hose. (crew laughs) – All right. You’re a bad girl. – Mm? Mm. Mm-mm. – Ugh! This is unpleasant. – Ew, what is that? – Mm. – Ugh! Socks! Dirty socks. – It’s, it’s very familiar. Hold on. – Foot. Smell. Taste. – Okay, I got, I got an answer. – Well, give it. I’ve been giving mine. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – Broccoli. – Oh, that’s it. – If not broccoli, asparagus. – [Stevie] You’re all over it. – It’s- – Cauliflower. – Oh gosh. – Green beans. – What? It’s broccoli. It has to be, it tastes just like broccoli. – Broccoli. Brussels sprouts. – [Stevie] There we go. – Oh. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – I should’ve got that. – Something cruciferous. Something cruciferous! – When you, cruciferous? What does that mean? It looks like a tree? But it’s edible and small? – Isn’t cruciferous, isn’t that, isn’t that what broccoli is? – Lily? – [Lily] I don’t know. – Come on, Lily. – [Lily] I am not familiar with my vegetables. – Just say, no, that’s not it. – [Lily] Yes, that’s right. – Yes. No. Yes. That’s right. – Have I been misunderstanding cruciferous forever? – [Stevie] No, you’re using it correctly. You are correct. – Oh gosh. Thank you. (spooky music) – Are you feeling grumpy yet? Because this apparatus always makes us grumpy. – Us? – [Link] Yeah. – I’m not included in the, in that us. – Me. – It doesn’t make me grumpy. – It makes me grumpy. – You getting grumpy makes me a little annoyed, but I wasn’t grumpy to begin with it. – You sound a little grumpy right now. So I think the answer is yes. I just don’t like every little movement you do impacting me. – Yeah. That’s evident. – That’s why. And Lucas, I appreciate you going through the fourth iteration of this thing, but I’m still grumpy. – [Lucas] Woo! (crew laughs) – This is quite nice. Mm. This is an improvement over Brussels. – I think I know what this is. – I’ve got a guess. – [Stevie] Okay, three, two, one. – PB and J. – Kit Kat. It’s chocolatey. – [Stevie] No. – Is it, is it a, is it a, is it a brand? – [Stevie] No, it is not a brand. – It does have a choc, it does have a chocolate to it. – Isn’t it chocolatey? Because I would say Tootsie Roll! – [Stevie] It might be chocolatey. – It’s chocolatey, but then it has another flavor in there. – Ooh. How about this? Chocolate. – It’s not a Reese’s peanut butter cup. ‘Cause you said it wasn’t a brand. – If it’s not a brand and it’s chocolatey. – A chocolate bunny rabbit. – S’more? – [Stevie] And you said it has other things in it. Not s’more. – Yeah. Chocolate and nuts. – [Stevie] You don’t, you don’t want to, you do want to eat this raw, but you shouldn’t eat this raw. – Chocolate cookie dough! – Cookie dough. – [Stevie] There we go. – Chocolate chip cookie dough. You beat me to it. Now, I’ve never had a kombucha that is like a dessert kombucha- – This may be the gateway for people- – In this particular way. – I mean, when you, Brussels sprouts, I’m on the fence. But Twizzlers and then chocolate chip cookie dough? This is a way to, I mean, we need to be talking GT. I mean, that guy isn’t odd at all. I’m sure he’d be open to this. – I think that’s perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Call us. (spooky music) Hey, you wanna know the best tasting kombuchas that are actually on the shelves? Well, Sporked has tasted a whole buku of ’em and ranked the top eight. So go to sporked.com and then just search kombucha. – A buku of buchas. – Yeah, man. Matter of fact, go to sporked.com and search anything that you wanna buy and then they’ll tell you the best of it. Huh, you’re welcome. – Revolutionary. Chase. – Where you at, Chase? – Revolutionary Chase right here. – [Link] Were you over there? What? Doing something? – I was told that I needed to turn some, ugh! (crew laughs) – Oh, you almost made the apple sound. – That’s my buch sound. It’s very close to my apple sound. – [Rhett] Oh buch sound. Very close to apple sound. – Yeah, I was busy. – Okay. (tube gurgles) – Oh! Ho! Ho! – That’s pungent. Stop! Stop doing that with my helmet! What? What is it you’re doing? – I’m not doing anything, man. I’m just here. Why are you so sensitive? – Well, don’t be so grumpy. – I’m just here. – I know, I mean, it’s not comfortable but it’s like I don’t have to wear it for the rest of the day, so I’m kind of like, ah, this is a little, this is a few minutes of discomfort for comedy’s sake. You know, I can handle that. I’ve been doing this for 12 years. – I know what this taste is. Up, up, up. But I can’t. – I have an answer. – I can’t place it. What is that? Gosh. – I have an answer. Can I answer? – Got it all over me and I can’t. I just. – [Stevie] Link? – I feel like, I feel like it, you know? Oh, like, you know when you put the dogs in the cones? – Yeah. – And they get grumpy. – Yeah. But everyone else is enjoying it. – [Stevie] Three. – Oh gosh. – [Stevie] Two. – Oh, I need a hint. – [Stevie] One. – Horseradish. – Horseradish. (crew laughs) – [Stevie] Yeah, that’s right. Did you get that like, nose burn situation? – It was actually something about the vinegar, like, takes the edge off and you only get horseradish flavor without the effect. But I hate horseradish, so I didn’t really enjoy it. – I don’t like horseradish. – I just don’t like it. – I don’t like it either. But I like it better like this. It is an improvement, wouldn’t you say? – It’s definitely better. The vinegar takes the edge off of it. But I can’t imagine the market for this except maybe horses. – You think horses eat horseradish? – What? How do you think they got their name? (spooky music) – As you can see, we can’t. (Rhett chuckles) – [Link] What are you laughing about? – [Rhett] Chase? – Yes. Sorry. – [Rhett] Go for it. – I was trying not to make my buch sound. (liquid sloshes) – Oh wow. – [Link] Mm! – This tastes a lot like- – The chocolatey one. – The chocolate round. – From before. – The chocolate roundy. – That ended up being chocolate chip cookie dough. It’s very similar. It is different, though. It’s got more of a- – Huh. – It’s a different sweetness. – Well, I’ve got an answer in my head, but I think it’s, I’m being in influenced by something else that already happened. But- – Horses? – Oh, and by the way, I wanted to clarify what I meant by that. – What? – What I’m saying is that this is just a little story about equine history. These large animals that no one knew what to call were once found eating horseradishes, and then that’s how horses got their names. It’s not the other way around. – Whoa! – I was, I was confused. Yeah. – Oh. – I’ll be at, I’ll be at your party later. – Okay. (crew laughs) – [Stevie] You wanna guess? – I think so. – Yes. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – [Both] Kit Kat. – [Stevie] Interesting. – I’m just, because when he said Kit Kat before, I was like, oh yeah, he might be right about that. – So it’s not chocolate? – It tastes more like that. – [Stevie] It’s not Kit Kat. I am looking for a brand name. – You said interesting. – [Stevie] Well, it was interesting that you both thought it was Kit Kat. – Okay. Yoohoo? – [Stevie] No. – It’s not Hershey’s. – Milky Way. Is it? – Three Musketeers? – [Stevie] You said- – It’s not just chocolate. – [Stevie] You said it was similar to the cookie dough. – Yeah, and it’s not more chocolatey than the chocolate chip cookie dough. – Milk Duds. – [Stevie] You said it was similar to the cookie dough and I’m looking for a brand. – Chocolate, Chips Ahoy! – [Stevie] You’re on the right track. – Fudge Rounds. Li’l Debbie. – What? – Li’l Debbie Fudge Rounds. Li’l Debbie Swiss Roll. – I don’t, hold on. I don’t understand your hint. – Cookie, it’s like cookies. – It’s similar to cookie dough. – Pepperidge Farm. – [Stevie] This flavor has all the right stuff. – Oreos. – [Stevie] There you go. – It doesn’t actually taste like Oreos. – No, it doesn’t. – [Stevie] Yeah, you can take your blindfolds off. It’s interesting that you said it tasted less chocolatey than the cookie dough. – Oh, you thought we did? – I think because it, the cream or something? – The cream. The cream messed it up somehow. I don’t know exactly what happened but it tasted just like Kit Kats. If you want to introduce- – I do like ’em. – If you want to introduce a person to Kit Kats, the flavor of Kit Kats, and you don’t have any Kit Kats around- – Put Oreos in kombucha. – Yeah. Oreo kombucha. (spooky music) It all comes down to this. – Well, not really. You can’t win at this point. – Yeah, you’ve pretty much decimated me in the guessing department. – I mean, unless you get this one completely right with no guesses and I get it wrong. – Can I get the grumpy girl award? – Yeah, it’s being forged right now. Oh. – [Stevie] So this flavor is technically two flavors. – Two flavors. – [Stevie] Maybe keep that in mind when you’re giving it a taste. – Two flavors. – [Link] Okay. (liquid sloshes) – Mm! Oh. Mm. – [Rhett] Hmm. – Shoe polish and Christmas trees. (crew laughs) Oh gosh! – All right. – That is strange. – I got it. I got it. – Oh, I think I have it. – And I like it. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – [Both] Salt and pepper. – [Stevie] Oh! Yes. – Salt and vinegar. – It’s salt and pepper? – [Stevie] Yeah! – Yeah, and you know what? – It’s good. It’s weirdly good. Maybe just for middle-aged men? – Mm-hmm. – [Stevie] You know what, Link? Since you got this last one right, I am going to give you the grumpy girl award. – Hey. (crew laughs) – Yep. That’s cool, man. – It’s me, your grumpy girl. You up? – [Stevie] And it appears the art, the art department designed it for Rhett, but we’ll give it to you. And Rhett, you won. You get your own kombucha brand. – Well, look at that. – I would look at it but I can’t turn my head in this freaking 4.0! – Hey, it’s Rhett’s you betcha bucha! I’ll be in the corner of your nearest party telling you equine facts and peddling my buch. – Ooh. Peddle my buch while you’re at it. Salt and pepper kombucha. – Yeah, that was good. – That’s great. What was the other one that we did that was great? – Chocolate chip cookie dough. – [Stevie] Twizzlers, you liked. – Chocolate chip cookie dough! – And Twizzlers was good. – Great! – The discoveries today. Lily, thank you. – [Lily] You’re welcome. – And thank you. – From your grumpy girl. – Subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hey guys, I’m Stephanie. – I’m Charles. – And we’re from Chicago, Illinois. And we just got some kombucha tea and we’re gonna try it for the first time. So clink it. Sink it. Okay. I think it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality. You okay? – [Charles] Yeah. – No time like the first time. – They clinked it and sinked it. – Yeah, they did. – They clinked and sinked that kam-bucha. Click the top link to watch us figure out the celebrity mothers of the celebrity offspring in “Good Mythical More.” – And to find out where the wheel of mythicality is gonna land. Go to sporked.com and search kombucha to see the best tasting kombuchas on the market. (no audio)