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Now, lots of people think that every grilled cheese is basically the same. And those people are wrong. There are so many aspects to a good grilled cheese. You got the bread, you got the cheese. It’s pretty much the bread and the cheese. But listen, those two things are very important. Yeah, they are. So today, we’re gonna put these sandwiches head to head to find the best ooey gooey goodness. It’s time for In The Grand Tapestry of Episodes, Ones Such as These Are The Golden Threads. One Could Scarcely Ask For More. Blind Grilled Cheese Taste Test. Okay, boys, today you’re going to taste, guess, and ultimately choose the best grilled cheese sandwich from In-N-Out, Sonic, Five Guys, Panera Bread, Jack in the Box, and Shake Shack. All of the sandwiches today will be served via the, patent pending, Grills Cheese. Go ahead and put on your blindfolds. Okay. How are you feeling about your odds today? As you can see, we can’t. And as you can deduce, I don’t feel great about mines, because we’ve learned over the years that our blindfolded tastings, anything goes, and it’s usually the wrong thing. But also, you have to have a point of reference. I guess I’ve tasted the cheese and the buns independently from all these places. But I have never, I hate to say it, ordered a grilled cheese from a fast food place. It’s hard to order a grilled cheese when you could get it with a burger in it. And it’d be a cheeseburger. Right. And it’d be really good. But let’s give it a shot. Well, I mean, but if you were going to, you know, hype yourself up so that you were gonna do your best performance, what would you? We’re the boys! We’re the boys! We could do it. It’s just a cheeseburger without the burgers. I’ve eaten a bunch of those. Okay. I like that it was collective, but it’s a competition. Let’s bring in the first grilled cheese. That was a flat one. So, they have other bread that they use? Really homemade feeling, which makes me like it. That’s interesting. Good cheese. Because I thought when you. Good bread. Like, correct me if I’m wrong. If you get a grilled cheese at In-N-Out, they just put it on the regular buns. That’s what I think. That’s what I think. That’s what I think. That’s what I think. But some of these places have other breads. So you’re saying this isn’t In-N-Out? Thank you. Did you need that? I think that is a classic grilled cheese. I’ve gotta give it. I don’t know. It wasn’t. There’s nothing wrong with it. There ain’t nothing wrong with it. If it felt a little burnt or tasted a little burnt, I would have demerited it, but it didn’t. Well, okay. I’m gonna give it an eight. Are you worried that it might? Yeah, yeah. It sounds like you’re worried about it being burnt. I think that they could be, yes. I think it was very good. I’m gonna give it a seven. Okay, ready to guess? Let me see, let me see, let me see. Yep. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I’m ready. Thanks for that pump up, Link. Three, two, one. Sonic. Sonic. Why did you steal my answer? I didn’t steal your answer. I just had the same one. You know what? You can talk about that later in therapy. Oh, yeah. Also a flatty. But different. What’s different about it? Because. This tastes like something that you would make at home in a good way. That’s what I said about the last one, but this is more. So, I don’t think I could find house bread that thick. I mean, I can, but, you know, you typically don’t have bread as thick as round one around your house, you got thick bread at your house? Something about that bread. No. No, no, no, Rhett. This was. This may have been squished. It’s basically the same as the last one. Yep. Taste wise. I’m tempted to guess Sonic again. American cheese. There’s more cheese, but there’s a little something about the taste of the bread that I don’t like as much, so I’m gonna give it a seven. I think I prefer thick bread. I didn’t know the last bread was thicker. Maybe, your bread may have not been thicker. It wasn’t. Mine was. In fact, if you watch the replay, I believe I opened my mouth in preparation for thick bread and got thin bread on this one. I’m not suggesting that the editor show a replay. You can do your own replays around here. It’s called the rewind button. Is he gonna guess Sonic again? I’m gonna give it a six. I’m downgrading by one. I still think it was good. All right, I’m ready. Ready. Three, two, one. Jack in the Box. That’s a good guess, but I was like, who works the hardest at their bread and then consistently fails? The Panera hate is strong with this one. Okay, I’m gonna open my mouth to medium sized. Good luck with that. What happened? What? There’s other stuff on there. There’s a lot of other stuff on there. That’s what they do? Who would do that? I don’t even know, Link. That’s a burgerless cheeseburger. I found a wet wipe with my hand. Now I found a napkin. That is a lot of gooey cheese, though. There was definitely lettuce. There was more stuff than just cheese. Like sad, hot lettuce in there. You like sad, hot lettuce, though, don’t you? Well, being blindfolded really brought it into focus that I don’t actually. I’ll tell you, one of the most disconcerting things that I’ve ever done in my life is having a medium mouth and getting a big thing put in it. You know, if you’re not ready for something big, open wide is what I’m saying. I mean, I have a big mouth, but I also don’t have anything to add to this conversation. Well, and let me just. I do. Let me just say, now that I’m thinking about it, I guess you should always open as wide as you can because you never know how big the thing that you’re about to put in your mouth is gonna be. And if it’s just little, there’ll just be more space for other stuff. That’s right. It’s kind of like taking an extra step on a stair that isn’t there, you know? But, like, with your mouth. Exactly. You want to step big, you don’t want to step little. I think the things added to this are unnecessary. I did not prefer it. I give it a four. Yeah. I was shocked, and disappointed. I’m giving it a three. Even though the cheese itself was really good. I bet it would be great on a burger. Who does this? I don’t know. I’ve got a guess, but I feel completely. Hold on. Let me just think about this. I didn’t really get to understand. Let me take another bite. I didn’t even wanna eat it. I just wanted to donkey lip it. Who is that? I don’t know, man. All right, I’m ready. Three, two, one. In-N-Out. Five Guys. I think. Does In-N-Out do that? Because they wanted to do it like almost animal? Well, I didn’t think so, Rhett. Because that wasn’t my guess. But does In-N-Out do that? I’m not gonna say. Okay. Because I don’t know. Go big. Go big. There’s a lot of flatness. I think you’re gonna have something to say about this one. I’m gonna guess what it is. Tastes like burnt French toast. Yep. You’re gonna say it’s burnt, because it is. Where’s the cheese? This is a mistake. Does yours have cheese in it? Yeah, but it’s almost just like the echo of cheese. A “checo”. It’s so bad. That’s a one. I’m sorry. I don’t need to think about this anymore. It’s a one. Well, I’m gonna give it a zero. Well, it’s still, it’s still food. Yeah. Air is zero. I’m giving it. In my book. It’s a zero. I would rather eat nothing than eat that again. This is really hard for somebody. I mean, somebody’s getting dragged hard. They burned it. They didn’t put cheese on it. The bread was big, but bad. How did you remember? Big, bad, and burnt. The choices? Because you tried to tell me and I wasn’t listening. Yeah, well, when we’re given a list of things to remember, like a collection of names of fast food joints that we’re choosing from, I like to create an acronym. And the one that I created in my mind for this one was FJ piss. Five Guys, Jack in the Box, Panera, In-N-Out, Shake Shack, Sonic. It’s there. I never have to think about anything else again. All right, I’m standing by my zero, and I’m ready to guess. I’m not ready to guess. Okay. All right. Three, two, one. Sonic. Jack in the Box. I mean, how couldn’t it be? I went back to Sonic for this one. Soft. Big cheese. Oh, yeah, that’s getting better. That’s a good grilled cheese. It’s not as buttery as I want it to be. You know? I think you want a little butter, and then you want a little crispiness on top of the. I put so much butter on my grilled cheese. Don’t tell anybody. I’ll do one grilled cheese. I won’t tell anybody. And I’ll make a grilled cheese for somebody in my family, usually Shepherd. And each sandwich, don’t tell anybody this. Okay, I won’t tell anybody. Each sandwich requires a half a stick of butter. Good God. Don’t. Don’t tell anybody about it. Wow. Because you take. What you do is you take a stick of butter, and you take a quarter of the stick of butter, you put it in the pan, then you take. The other quarter. The other quarter, and you split it in half to eighths, and you rub it on the bread on the outside, and then you put it in the pan with a hot, brown butter. It absorbs it all up there. I’m probably giving, you know, my son some sort of heart disease as a teenager, but I believe it’ll be worth it. Who has this soft bread that I’m giving a nine to? Yeah. I don’t feel that strongly about it. It’s thick and soft bread. The cheese had a slightly underwhelming taste at the end, aftertaste, but it was so good up to that point. I’m solidly a seven. Okay, all right. Ready. I’m ready. Three, two, one. Panera. Panera. I’m saying it, and I want to apologize. I actually, like a little elf came to me behind my mask and said, you’re wrong about Panera. The Panera elf. You’ve been way too hard on Panera. Who else is gonna have bread as airy as that and as unabashedly thick. Besides a bread company. Right. Yeah. Okay. So neither one of us has guessed In-N-Out or Shake Shack. We’ve been really shy. Oh, you did? Almost peeled the whole crust off of it. Sounds violent. This one’s sliced bread again. It’s tasteless. Well, it’s underwhelming, but it is buttery. It is. My lips are so buttery. I’ll give it that. That’s the only reason I wasn’t able to hold on to the crust and completely unfurl it. Because I had a butter slip on both of my lips. Yeah, I don’t hate it. I’m gonna give it a six. But where is it from? I don’t know. I’m gonna give it a five, because I don’t like the tastelessness of it. I will say, what was that? Hey. What? That’s my booby. I will say. Don’t grab my booby. Just as we were talking about a second ago, when I was talking about preparing to put big things in your mouth. I remember that. If you’ve got your mouth as wide open as possible and the thing that you’re trying to put in the mouth is too big, a little butter on the lips will go a long way. Remember that Christina Aguilera song, Butter Lip Baby. What? Butter lip, my baby. Is it real? Okay. Three, two, one. Shake Shack. Shake shack. Oh, we agree. You copied me. I didn’t copy you. All right, Stevie, where did we land? Link, you got one correct. Ho hum Rhett, you got three correct. Which means, you win this amazingly cool cheese sword grater. Cheese grater. I can stab somebody in the kidneys. Or I can grate them some cheese. So. What was the best one? The one that you collectively liked the most was from Panera. You were right. Like, when you were talking to Panera. That’s what I got right? You didn’t even know you were talking to Panera for real. But, yeah, you were. You were apologizing and professing your love. That little elf was right. Yeah, yeah. I need to listen to the elf on all the other rounds. Well, congratulations. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what time it is. I’m Tyler. And I’m Heidi, and we’re in Fresno, California. 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