GMM 2470: Frozen vs. Fast vs. Fancy Food Taste Test

[Rhett] Pinkies up. It’s getting fancy in here. – [Link] Let’s talk about that. ((Intro Music)) – [Link] Good Mythical Morning. – [Rhett] For anybody who may not know, – [Rhett] we’ve got a website all about food called Sporked. – [Link] And we’ve got some pro food tasters and staff writers – [Link] who put together all of the content at Sporked. – [Rhett] But Sporked mainly focuses on things that you can buy at the grocery store. – [Link] And if you’ve ever wondered what Sporked folk’s taste are like – [Link] outside of the grocery store, well, you’ve come to the right video – [Link] because we’ve got Gwynedd here with us today. – [Rhett] Hey, Gwynedd. – [Gwynedd] Hi. – [Link] Look at that. – [Rhett] Welcome back. I feel like we just saw you. – [Link] On Friday. – [Gwynedd] I know, and I’m already back. – [Rhett] Okay. How would you describe your tastes? – [Gwynedd] I don’t think fancy, but, like, I don’t know. – [Gwynedd] Like, it’s like sometimes you like things that are fancy – [Gwynedd] and sometimes you like things that are served at bowling alleys. – [Gwynedd] I don’t know. – [Link] So, you’re a bowling alley? – [Gwynedd] You’re bowling alley? – [Rhett] So you’re not fancy and you’re not pedestrian. – [Rhett] You’re somewhere in the middle. – [Gwynedd] I think, like, I’m all of them. – [Rhett] Like a fancy bowling alley? – [Gwynedd] I actually kind of hate fancy bowling alleys. – [Gwynedd] No, like the junky ones. – [Gwynedd] But you get, like, mozzarella sticks there, and you’re like, these are good – [Link] That’s enough, Gwynedd, we’ve got the idea. – [Link] This isn’t a More. We have to move on. ((Laughing)) – [Link] Bring up the bumpers, it’s time for – [Link] Naked Foods: Gwynedd From Sporked Edition. – [Link] Naked. – [Stevie] Gentlemen, today you’re tasting Gwynedd’s favorite foods – [Stevie] at various price levels, low, mid, high, and fancy. – [Stevie] You’re going to pick your favorites – [Stevie] and I’m going to tell you where each one is from – [Stevie] and how much it costs. – [Stevie] And by the end you’ll know how fancy your palates are, – [Stevie] when it comes to Gwynedd’s faves. – [Link] And, will we also know what Gwynedd’s number is? – [Stevie] Yeah. – [Link] See? And then you’ll know the exact answer. – [Gwynedd] Yes. – [Link] In reference to the bowling alley. Okay. – [Rhett] Are any of these from a bowling alley? – [Gwynedd] Not that I’m aware of. – [Stevie] Gwynedd, what are we eating first? – [Gwynedd] This is, these are ((Laughing)) – [Gwynedd] mozzarella sticks. – [Link] These are mozzarella sticks. – [Rhett] You know, the cool thing about these, if they were at a bowling alley, – [Rhett] is you could serve them in a bowling ball. – [Link] Oh, three of them come out of a – [Rhett] Three at a time. – [Link] And of course, we don’t have any of the dip – [Rhett] Because it’s naked. – [Link] Because it’s naked. – [Rhett] But, you know, they have found every bodily fluid – [Rhett] inside of a bowling ball hole. – [Rhett] Every one. – [Link] That one’s not bad – [Rhett] it’s not bad, it’s very, like, middle of the road. – [Link] Pretty good. – [Rhett] This feels like it was frozen at one point. – [Link] These are very consistent. – [Rhett] It’s not gross. – [Link] It’s more of a loamy mozzarella. – [Rhett] I think I can get two of these in a bowling ball hole. – [Link] These are clearly fancier, than the other two. – [Rhett] They folded up on themselves a bit. – [Link] There’s some sort of like flattened toppage, – [Link] with some detritus on it. – [Rhett] Well, one of the things, the detritus, – [Rhett] one of the things that I have learned about doing this show – [Rhett] and picking out fancy things and cheap things – [Rhett] is that highly uniform things are almost always the cheapest – [Rhett] and highly like you know, artisan or artisanal. – [Link] How many could you? – [Rhett] Artisanal mozzarella sticks look deformed. – [Link] These are not as good to me. – [Rhett] Oh, they’re way better, man, than both of those. – [Link] It’s too much about the breading and not enough about – [Rhett] The cheese is great, and I’m a cheese guy. – [Link] I can’t even taste the cheese. – [Rhett] What? That’s all I can taste. – [Link] Oh, wow. This one’s the stringiest. – [Link] Look at that, it’s like reverse Pangea. – [Rhett] There’s a smokiness to these at the end, that I didn’t like. – [Rhett] I got it at the very end. – [Gwynedd] What do you think? – [Link] Well, I’ll let my flag do the talking. – [Stevie] Three. – [Rhett] I don’t, this is actually a really – [Rhett] This is really tough. I thought that was going to be the easy winner. – [Stevie] You can eat more after you choose. – [Stevie] Two, one. – [Rhett] I can almost hit it on top of your thing. – [Link] There we go. We have agreed. – [Link] The Pangea brand. – [Rhett] I wanted these to be the best and I’m sure they’re the fanciest. – [Rhett] But I’m going to tell you right now, you over smoked it. – [Link] Over crumbage. – [Stevie] Okay. Well, you both picked our mid-level option, – [Stevie] Bird Box for $5.20 – [Stevie] And then going from Rhett’s side, – [Stevie] we have our high option for $10.99 from IHOP. – [Link] That’s the high option? – [Stevie] Yeah. Well listen to the pricing kind of doubles each time. – [Stevie] So, Bird Box was mid at like 5. – [Stevie] IHOP was high at 10. – [Stevie] And then you have our low option from Burger King for $2.79. – [Stevie] And then of course, the fancy option from Cosa Buona for $15 – [Stevie] and that’s also Gwynedd’s favorite. – [Link] Oh, really? You like the detritus? – [Gwynedd] I really like, I know I do like the detritus, – [Gwynedd] but I also like the smokiness. – [Rhett] It was unexpected. I typically like smoky stuff, – [Rhett] but because it just kind of, it hit me upside the head. – [Gwynedd] If you’re not – [Rhett] Give her the ones that she likes, though. – [Gwynedd] I want to try these, actually, – [Gwynedd] I will also say that I think that all mozzarella sticks are good. – [Gwynedd] They’re all a little good, right? – [Rhett] None of these were bad. Even the Burger King. – [Link] Agree. ((Upbeat Music)) – [Gwynedd] This is short rib ravioli. – [Rhett] This is short rib ravioli. – [Rhett] Not just ravioli, short rib ravioli. – [Link] What’s in a short rib ravioli? – [Gwynedd] Ribs that are short. – [Link] You know, I just wanted to. – [Link] Oh, look at, there it is. You wouldn’t know it, – [Link] But there’s short rib in that short rib ravioli. – [Rhett] Wow. Whoa. You know, I often get short rib ravioli if it’s an option. – [Link] I don’t think I’ve ever ordered it. – [Link] I order short rib a lot, but I don’t like it encased in pasta. – [Link] I didn’t think I did, but I do. – [Rhett] It’s very good. – [Link] Look at how different this one is. – [Rhett] This is so different. – [Link] There’s no sauce on the first one. – [Link] It’s just like a caramelized. – [Rhett] This is very saucy. – [Gwynedd] I like how big those are. – [Link] Yep. ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] I had to unhinge my jaw for that one. – [Rhett] Sauce, too strong. – [Link] Kind of takes away from the short ribiness of it. – [Rhett] The sauce is doing a lot of heavy lifting – [Rhett] and actually smothering the short rib. – [Rhett] The short rib is like, why am I even here? – [Link] Right, right, right. – [Rhett] It could be cheese in there. – [Rhett] This is like a repeat of the first one, but a little bit different. – [Link] Well, let’s let our mouths be the judge of that. – [Rhett] Why do we get so close to each other? – [Rhett] I started cutting first, just so you know. – [Rhett] Oh, I just put my elbow in that one. – [Link] This one’s got a lot of detritus on top, – [Link] like cheese detritus and – [Rhett] Can you say “de-tri-tus” next time? – [Link] Is that the way you’re supposed to? – [Rhett] No, I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t say that word very often if I ever. – [Rhett] I’m just saying, just some variety – [Rhett] if you’re going to use it every round, I’d like you to say it differently. – [Link] Man. – [Gwynedd] If I can be a tiebreaker, I feel like it’s “de-tri-tus” – [Gwynedd] But I think that the way you say it is funnier. – [Rhett] Yeah, yeah, yeah. – [Link] Okay. Well, know your lane, I guess. ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] Okay, you had a strong reaction to that one. – [Rhett] You talking to yourself or Gwynedd? – [Rhett] Careful with a fork. – [Link] It’s just open to interpretation. – [Rhett] Careful with a fork. – [Link] I don’t know, how would you interpret the saying? – [Link] I don’t know. I feel like – [Link] Sorry Gwynedd. I’ve been giving you a hard time, – [Link] but that was intended to detriment myself, deprecate myself. – [Link] Deprave, how you want to – [Link] These are horrible. – [Rhett] Yeah, I don’t even want to finish it. – [Rhett] Sorry about that. That was something you would do. I’m sorry. – [Stevie] They’re kind of wild looking. – [Link] I kind of like it. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – [Link] We agree again. – [Link] Look at the blood man. – [Gwynedd] Oh, no. – [Link] Look, out of all the times. – [Rhett] I’m sorry, man. – [Link] Look, that’s two in a row. It’s like, stay in your lane. – [Link] Stay in your freaking lane. – [Link] I’ve done it a million times, and I’ve never drawn blood. – [Rhett] Well, you know why? Because usually you come in like this – [Rhett] and then I wait for you, and then I do it. – [Rhett] But, you know, I didn’t that time. – [Stevie] Which hand is hurting, because you really hit the table? – [Link] Both of them! – [Link] Gwynedd, I’m sorry you had to see that. – [Rhett] We need to test his blood type while we have flow. – [Link] Did all the comedy just get sucked out of the moment? – [Stevie] Well, would you like to, no, that was great. – [Stevie] But now I will tell you what you picked. – [Link] Can I ask you a question? – [Link] And I listen, I want an honest answer. – [Rhett] Did I do it on purpose? Yes. – [Rhett] No, I didn’t do it on purpose. – [Rhett] What was your question? – [Link] Why did you think this one was a little better than that one? – [Link] Because there is something about it. – [Rhett] I thought it was better. – [Rhett] I thought I was going to like this one, and then I went and tasted both of them. – [Rhett] And I found that the Parmesan on the outside of this one made it better. – [Link] Yeah, really, I’ve hurt this hand, you know? – [Rhett] I’m sorry, man. – [Link] I meant, you know, – [Rhett] I’m sorry. I was just trying to poke, – [Rhett] but I will say you had your hand around it like this. – [Rhett] You were, like, holding it. – [Link] How am I making this my fault? – [Gwynedd] Victim blaming. – [Link] Exactly. – [Stevie] You have both chosen the mid-priced option – [Stevie] from Centanni Trattoria for $16 – [Stevie] Starting on Rhett’s side, of course, that’s the fancy option – [Stevie] from Osteria La Buca for $25. – [Stevie] It’s also Gwynedd’s favorite. – [Stevie] Then we have the high price point option from Miceli’s – [Rhett] This is the high one? – [Stevie] For for $20.25. – [Rhett] Y’all messing this up. – [Stevie] And then lastly, the lowest price point at $10.95 from Olive Garden. – [Link] Olive Garden has – [Rhett] What are they doing? Frying the ravioli? – [Link] Yes. – [Link] Look at that. Look at that. Oh, my God. ((Upbeat Music)) – [Rhett] Hey, yo, it’s that time of the month again – [Rhett] It’s the Pin of the Month. – [Rhett] This one is the Skeletrice, okay? – [Rhett] This is the cockatrice, like in an x-ray machine situation. – [Link] It’s a little bit spooky, but don’t get spooked. – [Rhett] And this is available, as always, for 24 hours only. – [Link] That’s the spookiest part. – [Rhett] 24 hours only. You got to go over to Mythical.com to get this thing – [Rhett] and you got 24 hours and then it’s gone. – [Link] Collect it. – [Gwynedd] This is chicken lo mein. – [Link] This is chicken lo mein. – [Link] And so, you had the previous round, maybe some blood in it. – [Gwynedd] That’s okay. – [Rhett] Are you all bandaged up? – [Link] I’m bandaged up. – [Rhett] Was that extra blood? – [Link] No hard feelings. Yeah, a little extra blood. – [Rhett] I’m sorry, man. Truly sorry. – [Rhett] I mean, I do think it was probably worth it for the clicks, but – [Link] Are we going to title it that? – [Rhett] All of them look pretty similar, though. – [Gwynedd] They do? – [Link] This one looks. – [Rhett] Chicken lo mein. – [Gwynedd] How do we feel about it? Chicken lo mein. – [Rhett] I always gravitate towards it, – [Rhett] but if I started making my list of favorite foods, it wouldn’t be on it. – [Gwynedd] So, this was really recently, – [Gwynedd] I was like thinking about foods that I could eat every day, – [Gwynedd] and I decided that lo mein is one of them. – [Link] First one was not bad at all. – [Rhett] This one’s worse. – [Link] The chicken’s pieces are bigger. – [Link] This one’s blander. – [Rhett] And the chicken takes a little bit strange. – [Rhett] What have we got over here? – [Link] This one looks like it’s been – [Rhett] I’m going to make a choice – [Link] It’s been soaking – [Rhett] between chicken and noodles. – [Link] In some sort of something. – [Rhett] That’s a strong sauce. – [Link] I don’t want that much chicken. – [Link] And once I have a Band-Aid on my finger, – [Link] I get very self-conscious about doing this show. – [Rhett] You look weird now. – [Link] There’s nothing – [Rhett] I was thinking the same thing. – [Link] I hate Band-Aids because it’s like, you know, next time I see it – [Link] it’s going to be like on the floor somewhere. – [Rhett] Nobody wants to be the Band-Aid guy. – [Link] Why is it so sweet? – [Rhett] I don’t like that one. – [Link] Sugary. – [Link] It’s hard, you know? It’s hard to conjure the chaos. – [Rhett] Look how much noodle I got. – [Gwynedd] Oh, a clump. – [Rhett] Is a clump a good thing? You looking for clumps? – [Gwynedd] Yeah. The clumpier the better. – [Link] You know, your hair is kind of like lo mein. – [Rhett] That’s what I ask for at the barber – [Link] I want the lo mein look. – [Rhett] Actually, this is how it all started. A lot of people don’t know this, – [Rhett] but I go to the barber, you know, – [Rhett] there’s just the 12 haircuts on the wall that you point at – [Rhett] And he was like, What do you want? – [Rhett] And I pointed. But he also just ordered lo mein, – [Rhett] and it was closer. It was between us and the pointing. – [Rhett] And he thought, Oh, – [Rhett] and so I thought I was pointing at the flat top. – [Rhett] But he thought – [Link] It’s not too late. – [Rhett] He thought I was pointing at the lo mein and I just stuck with it. – [Link] You know what? – [Link] If there’s any guilt in you, can I use that to get you a flat top today? – [Link] You know, the only way I’m going to feel better about this is if you get a flat top – [Gwynedd] That seems fair. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – [Link] We finally disagreed. – [Link] I thought this was primo, man. – [Rhett] It is good. – [Rhett] But I went back and tasted this chicken and last minute made a decision. – [Stevie] Rhett, you have chosen our low price point. – [Link] Wow. – [Stevie] Hot Wok for $5.50 – [Rhett] Eat it while you can. – [Link] Dang, son, you got a deal. – [Stevie] And Link, you’ve chosen our fancy price point. – [Stevie] Wokcano for $21.50. – [Stevie] It’s also Gwynedd’s favorite. – [Link] Yeah, Wokcano! Do they do a volcano type thing with the desserts, right? – [Gwynedd] Oh, I don’t even know about that. – [Link] I think they have a dessert that explodes. – [Stevie] Well, and, you know, we’re experimenting around here – [Stevie] with our fancy pants celebrations. We did a glance last time. – [Stevie] It worked well. We can’t stop there, though. There’s got to be new stuff. – [Stevie] So we were thinking we do the Fancy Pants Cash Advance for this. – [Stevie] And basically what it is, – [Stevie] Rhett, can you just give Link money out of your wallet? – [Link] Yes, yes, yes, yes. – [Rhett] I feel like I at least owe him a fee for the Band-Aid. – [Link] You’re going to wake up and that Band-Aid is going to be in bed with you. – [Rhett] Okay. I’m going to give him that. – [Link] What? No, I get it all. – [Rhett] No, no. You don’t get it all. – [Link] What do you have? – [Rhett] I mean, I got $2. – [Link] How much do you have? – [Rhett] Three. – [Medieval Voice] Indubitably, the cash has been advanced. – [Rhett] I also have this fake $100 bill that we have as a prop, – [Rhett] if you want that too. If you want to feel special. – [Medieval Voice] Indubitably, the cash has been advanced. – [Link] Where is he? – [Rhett] He’s in the booth. – [Stevie] Okay. And then the other dishes are our mid-price point, – [Stevie] Century Dragon for $11.95, – [Stevie] and our high price point City Wok for $15.95. – [Link] This is heads above in my in my opinion, – [Link] but the stretch here. – [Rhett] My least favorite was the mid. ((Upbeat Music)) – [Gwynedd] This is tres leches cake. – [Rhett] This is tres leches cake. – [Link] So, it’s three milks? What are the three milks? – [Gwynedd] That’s a good question. – [Link] Thank you. – [Link] Not much of an answer, though. – [Rhett] Cow, goat, and camel – [Rhett] are three milks. – [Link] It’s soggy. Is that how it’s supposed to be? – [Rhett] Yeah, because there’s milks. One of the milks is in the cake. – [Link] It’s not three different animals, though. Somebody? – [Stevie] It’s evaporated, condensed and whole. – [Link] So now that I know that it’s supposed to be soggy. – [Rhett] Think of it like a tiramisu. – [Link] I kind of like it. – [Rhett] Because I would think that the thing you often complain about – [Rhett] as it relates to cake is its dryness. – [Gwynedd] Exactly. – [Link] This is like a wedding cake. – [Rhett] I always go for the back corner of a cake. – [Rhett] That’s the secret spot. – [Link] I hate it, and this one. – [Rhett] Is a square, Link. – [Link] This one’s a sheet cake – [Link] Tres sheet cake. – [Rhett] That’s very homemade tasting, you know what I mean? – [Rhett] Like, somebody’s grandma can make that. – [Link] Wow, that is good. – [Rhett] And then the last one is very tall, has chocolate in it. – [Link] It looks like it’s wannabe tiramisu. – [Rhett] Oh, this has an angel food sort of approach as well. – [Link] It’s the driest one, but it’s still damp. – [Rhett] That’s very tiramisu. – [Link] Yeah, well, it’s not the best one here in my mind. – [Link] In my mind, the green. – [Link] Yeah, just halve it. – [Link] Gwynedd, if you don’t watch out, you won’t get any. – [Gwynedd] Yeah, that one doesn’t look very wet. – [Stevie] Three, two, one. – [Rhett] I actually like – [Rhett] I actually like the most tiramisu like one. – [Link] That’s a mistake, man. – [Rhett] I don’t know if I like this kind of thing. – [Rhett] I just like the one that taste the most, like tiramisu. – [Link] Okay, it was down to these two for me, and I went with that one. – [Stevie] So, Link, you’ve chosen our mid-price point option, – [Stevie] Porto’s, shout out! – [Stevie] Sorry. – [Link] Shout out, what? – [Stevie] I love Porto’s – [Rhett] They are good. It is good. Hey, man, you’re not wrong. – [Stevie] And it’s also Gwynedd’s favorite and these are whole cake prices, – [Stevie] but it’s the whole cake for $24.75. – [Link] Okay. Okay. – [Stevie] And, Rhett, you have chosen the high price point option, La Monarca – [Stevie] For $36 – [Rhett] The butterfly is what that is, Stevie. – [Link] Not that I knew what tres leches cake was, but that’s not it. – [Gwynedd] It doesn’t look like it. – [Stevie] And then the second one in is our fancy option, – [Stevie] from Toluca Bakery and Cafe for $45. – [Rhett] $45? – [Stevie] For the whole cake, yeah. – [Stevie] And then our low option from Teapot Bakery for $19 – [Link] I like their approach and it’s approachable. – [Rhett] The fancy one is the worst one. – [Rhett] That’s what we learned today. – [Stevie] Well, the lowest possible total combined today was $38.24. – [Stevie] The highest was $106.50. – [Stevie] Gwynedd’s perfect meal total came out to $86.25. – [Stevie] Rhett, your perfect Gwynedd meal was $62.70 – [Stevie] and Link yours was $67.45. – [Link] So you were fancier than both of us? – [Gwynedd] Yeah, I’m surprised. – [Link] You are fancy. That’s what we learned. So, you learned that – [Rhett] You stay away from the bowling alleys. – [Gwynedd] I’ve learned a lot today about myself and about you guys, too. – [Rhett] Yes, thanks for doing that, Gwynedd, – [Rhett] and thank you for subscribing and clicking that bell. – [Link] I’ll be going to Urgent Care and you will be billed. – [Rhett] I’m sorry, I’ve already given you $2. – [Link] You know what time it is. – [Audrey] I’m Audrey – [Micah] And I’m Micah. – [Audrey] We’re about to try some Sporked recommended snacks. – [Micah] And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – [Rhett] I thought that fish was going to say something – [Rhett] the way it was framed. – [Link] Me too. ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] Click the top link to watch us – [Rhett] try to match crew members to their celebrity ideal types – [Rhett] and Good Mythical More. – [Link] And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is going to land. – [Link] Belvedere is looking a little different. – [Link] Don’t miss your chance to grab October’s Pin of the Month, – [Link] available only today at Mythical.com “

Discover more from Searchicality

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading