Can we make food using Mountain Dew Baja Blast? Let’s talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. 2004 was a big year. Yes, it brought us razor phones, Facebook, and a lot of tears. Remember The Notebook? Why did it have to be so sad? Oh, gosh. It was so sad. It was wet, too. So wet. The rain. Yeah. All right, it’s okay, though. Uh, the biggest movie in the U.S. that year was actually Shrek 2. Which, uh, made everything better. Yes, 2004 also brought us another green adjacent innovation, Taco Bell’s Mountain Dew Baja Blast. And, since its creation, the bell has experimented with Baja Blast in many forms, including gelato Pie, even hot sauce. But, they haven’t done enough. So today we’re going to have a blast taking Baja as far as it can go. Maybe even farther. It’s time for Memories To Blast A Blifetime: Making Baja Blast Everything. Okay, boys, you’re about to taste some dishes created by our very own Mythical Kitcheneers, all starring Mountain Dew. Baja Blast is the main ingredient. You’ll decide if each dish is a Baja Blast or a Blah Blah Pass. And before we begin, please take a big ol swig of that Baja Blast so you can get your tasters ready. It’s stronger than I remember it. Baja Blast has been good to us, Link. It’s a good little drink. It was featured in one of our first sponsored videos ever. That’s right. The Mythical Kitchen has had so much fun with it over the years. Fast Food Folk Song. The Fast Food Folk Song was sponsored not just by Taco Bell, but by Mountain Dew, Baja Blast. That’s right. What do we have here, though? I have been accused in the comments of, quote, really liking to say cloche. Um, and. Yeah, I’ve been meaning to tell you. I haven’t considered whether or not I do like to say it, but that is what we call the thing that’s covering the food. Food helmet. And I have been told to say, please un cloche your first dish. But I’ll let you know at the end of the episode if I like saying it or not. Okay. Whoa, look at that! It’s not about what they say, it’s about how you feel about what you’re saying. Exactly, exactly. You like it? Well then say it. Yeah. Okay. So this is uh, Panda Express Baja Beef, which is a play on their Beijing Beef. Lily. Because Beijing Beef is beige, and this is green. That’s right, yes. Right, Lily? Yeah, that was my intent. Okay, cool. Tell us more. Um, so you have some beef marinated in Baja Blast. Onions marinated in Baja Blast. Peppers marinated in Baja Blast. Garlic marinated in Baja Blast. Rice cooked in Baja Blast. Oh, so I gotta get some of the rice. The beef is still really good. Peppers, still really good. You put Baja Blast in the rice? Yeah, just instead of water, Baja Blast. That’s good. Pretty easy, huh? Yeah. I’m always looking for ways to sneak more Baja Blast into like, my kid’s diets. Right, yeah. Just throw it in their rice. You gotta make sure they have their greens. Or their blues. What color is it? Is it a greenish blue or a blueish green? I would say greenish blue. Greenish blue, yeah, yeah, yeah. Haven’t you ever been to the Baja and gotten blasted? Hell yeah. Tell me about it. This is good. It looks scary. I keep going back for it. I mean. There’s already like a super sweet thing that happens in a lot of Panda Express dishes. Can you taste like the food that it is? Or does it taste like? I can taste the food that it is and I can taste the Baja that it is. It’s like. This is very good. Half fake, Mexican drink, half fake Chinese food. Right. 100 percent American. I’m tasting, I’m tasting all of it. Did you use aged Baja Blast? No, fresh. Oh, okay. Yeah, fresh. Because you know, they do a lot of aging of things in Chinese cooking. Mmm. Uh huh. But we, I mean, we have a quite a lead time on some of these episodes, but not like age like two to three years. It’s not, it’s not called Panda Aged. It’s called Panda Express. I, this is. It’s great! This is really great cause you, I mean if, the sweetness of like an orange sauce on a chicken, now you got the Baja sweetness on the beef. We are gonna say it’s a Baja Blast! I love it! Please unclosh the dish. This is Baja Blast Sticky Buns. But what shall I wear? But what will I wear? I think that’s what he said. Is that a Grinch? But what will I wear? Yeah, it’s like a Brinch. A Grinch? A Brinch? You did the Brinch impression. A Grinch bun. Whoo! What is a sticky bun? These are crazy. How does it compare to a cinnamon bun? There’s usually nuts on top of it, and it’s a stickier situation, like a sticky sauce that goes underneath. Is it a northern thing? We have what I call cinnamon rolls, maybe cinnamon buns, but sticky buns, what about monkey bread? Well, don’t confuse things. I know about all that, but sticky buns. Is sticky buns is a different region? A Yankee thing. Yeah, is it Yankees? That’s what I want to know. Because that’s what I’m feeling, and I might be wrong. Lily? As a Mainer, I never grew up with them. Okay. But I lived under a rock. A Mainer. Because I lived in Maine. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. A castle rock. Ha ha ha. According to Google. You talking about the TV production company? Cinnamon rolls are typically topped with a cream cheese frosting and sticky buns are coated in a sticky caramel sauce and that’s the main difference. This makes it so citrusy. Yeah. It’s very sticky, you nailed the sticky part. But, why do I want, what’s that noise? Keep trying it though. I looked over there and Lily was, she has a roll of paper towels that, not unlike, not unlike a cat with toilet roll. Very cat like. She has unrolled the whole thing. I didn’t touch it. We’re doing a show over here. And now the way you’re putting it back on is all wrong. That’s how I do it though. Can you just go back to your show? You’re on it! I mean, if you, if you wipe your butt with toilet tissue and it’s like coming out like that, you know the cat’s gotten a hold of it. Um. I think it gets better. It is a little sour at first, but then it starts really congealing in a way that I kind of like. And it’s festive. I don’t understand why you would want to have, like, citrus with your sticky bun though. It’s not, it’s not playing well together for me. And it’s gaudy to look at. You don’t like orange. You don’t like citrus sweets. You don’t like chocolate and orange together. I don’t. There’s no chocolate here, but I think if you like, if you’re willing to do citrus in a dessert. A citrus bun. It’s kinda nice. I’m trying to give it a blah blah, but. It doesn’t pass muster with both of us, we’re gonna say it’s a blah blah pass. I mean, and it seems like that’s my fault? Yes, your fault. I’m telling you right now, it’s not good, so Maybe it’s Lily’s fault. Please uncloche your next dish. This is Baja Blast soft pretzels with Baja Blast cheese dip. Oh! Baja Blast in the cheese dip. Mm hmm. Instead of beer, you use Baja Blast. Oh. Beer cheese. So you’re telling me that the way you do most of this is you take an ingredient that wasn’t Baja Blast and you make it Baja Blast. Yeah. Oh, I love, look at the inside of that, how much it just greens out. I am really getting St. Paddy’s Day experience over the course of this episode so far, you know? If you can make it green. Do it. On St. Paddy’s day. What do you think about dyeing the whole river green like they do in Chicago? I think it’s okay. How did they, how did the inside get the pretzel get green? Uh, food dye? Hmm. No Baja blast? Yeah, we activated the yeast with Baja Blast and the sugars helped it out. Sounds like BS to me. Yeah, she’s lying. But the cheese is the most citrusy cheese. I can tell when Lily lies. Really? Yeah, I think she has a problem. Yeah, because she, she has a problem. She’s laughing at herself. She laughs at herself when she lies. It’s good when it is good to know. When someone’s lying though, it means they’re bad at being dishonest. How do you know I’m lying? It means you’re a good person, who’s doing a bad thing. You look up into the left. See, just like that. Yep, yep. The cheese. It’s so weird. Now this is where I’m on Team Citrus makes it not great. Is that the name of the team that you started? Yeah, I’m on Citrus. Citrus is not for me. Citrus makes it not great. Team. Citrus makes it not great. I like citrus, but not with cheese. Yeah, it’s not working with the cheese. I actually think it’s like coagulating or something. Citrus cheese. Is there a dish that has citrus and cheese? I can’t think of anything. There’s a reason for it. Because it’s bad. It is blah, blah, pass. Sorry. For both of us. Can’t win them all. Or even two out of three. You know, the last time that we acted out fan fiction about the two of us. Yeah. We were drunk on Good Mythical Evening and it kind of made it somewhat more tolerable, I think. But you know what? For us. We’re doing it again. We have done it again. Yep. The new special over on the Mythical Society, Fan Fiction Theater. We are acting out fan fiction about us from you, maybe, or just people who write fan fiction about us, completely sober. Yep, yep. If you’re into that, you can watch it on The Society. Matter of fact, you can be an initiate. You don’t even have to be in a paid tier. So, come on over. Join for free as an initiate, if you’re not already a member. All tiers get to watch us read and act out fan fiction. You ready? You’re not ready. Let’s do some uncloshing. This is a Baja Blast Caesar salad. Oh, okay. Well, Caesar salad’s already pretty green, but this has gotten greener. What, what is, what is this Baja shard? That’s a parmesan cheese. Is it parm? Parm, yeah. What? Instead of washing the lettuce in water, we wash it in Baja Blast. And that’s a crouton? Cheese and citrus, man. Whew, that’s hard. Parmesan is not a, the worst palette. But you can put, like. The worst base. You can put some, like, lemon, lemony things on a Caesar salad. Yeah, like a, I think, that may be the answer. Like, citrus, like you got some mandarins on a salad with some cheese. Hmm. And, Caesar salad is originally from Mexico. I thought it was from Rome. Nope. Caesar salad itself, in the form that we know it with the anchovies, is from Mexico. So this is like. Cause they would say, Seize her salad! I don’t know about that part of it, Link. But this is like, this is like paying homage to the country of origin, cause Baja is in Mexico. It is refreshing. I really like it. Wow. It looks horrible. I’m just not gonna look at it anymore. And what? Oh, did you get a crouton? Look at that. That is scary. Oh, I see it right here, Link. I didn’t even need these facts, but Caesar salad was invented in the 1920s by Caesar Cardini, an Italian chef who owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana? So his name was Caesar. Ah! And he did a good thing. And he was Italian. Si. But he was in. Which makes sense in both languages. You like that? That was great, Rhett. I’m not gonna lie and tell you that this is the best salad I’ve ever had. Well, I can’t speak for you. Well, speak for you. You’re saying this is the best salad you’ve ever had? No. You said I’m not gonna allow him to tell you that this is the best salad I’ve ever had. No, no. And I can’t speak for you. Yeah. So I couldn’t say that anyway. Yeah, that’s not what I said. This is not the best salad I’ve ever had. Yeah. But it’s one of the better things I’ve had today. Yeah, this is one of the best things we’ve had today, Lily. You did great. It’s not as good as that beef. Yeah, that one’s good. But it’s a, it’s a second. Which still makes it a Baja Blast. Please uncloshe your final dish. This is a Baja Blast Wet Burrito. Good God! That, that buddy is huge! It’s so wet! What? What? I see that there’s cheese and citrus. Mm hmm. We keep pushing it. But we ended up liking that. Yeah, we did. What do you, uh, what do you have to say for yourself? Uh, yeah, this one, there’s sour cream on top. It melted off, but. And what makes the sour cream green? Um, food dye. Okay. And Baja Blast reduction. Okay. And then it’s stuffed with chicken, beans, all marinated in Baja Blast. In what? Uh, beans, chicken, rice. Baja Blast. I just wanted you to say Baja Blast again. Ba ba ba da. Look at that. Ooh, that looks It smells really nice. Stevie, how, uh, that might be the last time you say closhed. Yeah. So, how you feeling? Yeah, what’s the update on that? Uh, Stevie does like to say cloche. It turns out. You know, often times I, you know, have issues with the comments. But, uh, well, you guys were right. This right here. Hurry up and taste it, man. I’m gonna tell you. Well, if you like it, you know I’m gonna. It’s a little monochromatic, but it’s blasting that Baja color. It’s got, it’s bringing the tang. Especially in that, that tomatillo sauce. It’s a lot. Just really, just knocks you in the kisser. It’s a lot, but for like a, a meal while on vacation. I’m definitely having a blast. When you’re making decisions that you normally don’t make. Right. It’s a good decision to make when you’re making bad decisions. It’s the first caffeinated burrito! What? Another first. Mhmm. A burrito that wakes you up, and then just basically puts you in a state of misery if you eat the whole thing. Look how green that chicken is. It really works with the chicken. It really works with the beans. Cheese is along for a good ride. Um. The beans are interesting too. The tomatillo stuff. That’s all floatin around in here, the Baja, Baja, Baja Matateo? Yeah, Baja Enchilada Sauce. That right there. My stomach’s actually hurtin a little bit now. We need to hurry up. But, but you don’t know if that’s from this. Yeah, it might be a previous round. Getting blasted earlier. Um. So what we’re. It’s so beautiful. Before we change our mind, let’s say, Baja Blast! Yes, it is a Baja Blast. And then we can continue to talk about how caffeinated a burrito should be. Do you think the caffeine breaks down when it heats up? Um, I don’t know for sure, but I think it stays in. I think hot coffee’s got caffeine. That’s true. Yeah. That’s science. You exposed your own myth. Right, I just answered myself. I thought out loud. This is a good one to go out on. And, um, so we’re bringing back the first one. The last one. Do we like another one in the middle? We did. We like the Caesar salad. We like three out of five. Yeah, but I don’t like it as much as I like this. So we blasted way more than we. Blah blah ed. Blah blah ed. That’s right. Thank you, Lily. Great work. You’re welcome. And thank you for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, I’m Jen. I’m Kaya. We’re from Black Diamond, Washington. But we’re in Japan and we just finished karaoke to celebrate my graduation. And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. 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