GMM 2773: International Potatoes Taste Test

Can we guess where these international potato dishes come from? Let’s talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Potatoes are known around the world as the ultimate comfort food. As delicious as they are versatile. You can boil them, mash them, and, so I’ve heard stick em in a stew! I’ve heard that, too. You know what else I’ve heard? What? It’s time for Where In The World Do These International Potato Dishes Come From? Okay, boys, today you’ll be tasting some potato dishes from all over the globe and throwing darts at where you think they’re from. Chase, the couch potato cartographer, will be measuring your darts. Chase! Are those cartographer pajamas? Yeah. I actually had Caitlin order me these for a tour, and they didn’t show up in time, so. Nice! I’m rocking them now. Yeah, you seem so relaxed. Yeah, I’m, this is great. I’m watching my comfort show. Just relaxing. You guys do your thing, I’ll do mine. Alright. Okay, before you throw, I do have some great news. So, remember the ultra high tech map that was able to read your biometric data? Oh yeah! Yep. Well, I didn’t check, but I do assume that everyone in the comments loved it so much, we decided to bring it back! Yes! I loved it! We’ve upgraded the software, so now it will talk even more. Yes! And more great news. Link, you won last time. So you get to go first. It’s not really news. Well, okay. Don’t make a big deal out of it. Listen, I was trying to celebrate you. It happened in the past. Um, okay, fine. Well, that means that Rhett gets the advantage, uh, that you can use in any round of your choosing, so just let me know. Eat! Gosh. What is this? Are these all the same, or is that one different than this one? That one’s got more coconut, or whatever looks like coconut, than these. This one still has coconut, but it has something else. Ugh, I hate coconut. I, yeah, I feel that. Sorry, I’m gonna talk. Potatoes and coconut? I, oh my gosh, look at that. Is that tater in there? I would never think that was potato. So sweet. I mean, it’s chock full of sugar. Chocolate. Wow. I mean, the inside. That’s good. That’s just a sugar. It’s just like cream. That’s potato? I don’t think so. It gotta be. Unless they’re breaking the rules. I don’t see potatoes anywhere in this, y’all. Y’all breaking the rules? Mm hmm. It is good though. Except for the coconut part. The chocolate is very nice. Well. You made a mess. I, so is uh, couch potato over here. You need to clean off your robe after this. Oh yeah, my bad. I’m looking for foldies for you guys. This, thank you, this confection, uh, apparently with hidden tater in it, I think, man, it’s, it could be anywhere, right? Just a delicate confection. Armenia can get up to some delicate confections. Yep, I’ve seen that. But there’s nothing in it that speaks, I don’t know, it’s just a little, huh? Yeah, you just do that every once in a while. Don’t do that. Armenia’s a small target, though. It is very little. Small fry. Uh, I’m, I’m feeling France. It’s in the middle of the board, it’s got, it’s all familiar flavors. So, that’s what I’m gonna try for. Keep it down! Oop, and I got closer to Armenia, but. System alert, my CPU has analyzed all 800 billion YouTube comments and determined that I am intently disliked. Shout out to the non haters. Therefore, I will now self destruct. What? See you in digital hell, mofos. No, well. Beeeh, oooh, oeughh. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oouueghh. Ugh! Oh! Bababouey. Oh, my God. Okay. Well, no more of that, huh? Yep, yep. Well, I’m certainly disappointed. All good things must end. Wow. I don’t fault any of your reasoning here. If it was Armenia, it doesn’t feel like it would have this chocolate. Because I’ve had, like, a lot of, like, Armenian desserts, and they never seem to have chocolate. They’re always, like, baklava and stuff like that. You know what I mean? Hmm. I don’t know about Peru. Soon I will. But I don’t know about Peru, and I don’t know if chocolate is, it seems like chocolate is probably a thing, because I think. Cacao. It’s just so It’s so out of the way. There’s so many countries there in the middle. But I’m feeling a draw towards Peru. You can’t deny it. But I feel like France is as good of a guess as Peru, so I’m basically going. That’s right. In between them. Alright. Huh. You hit your. Oh, that’s really throwing me off. That’s a fault. Oh! Whoa, homie! I have no idea what happened. I think you’ve just done yourself a favor. Link, you just had a type of macaroon with a filling made from sweetened mashed potatoes. This confection emerged during World War II as a way to stretch rationed goods such as butter and sugar, and they are officially known as Scottish macaroons because they’re from Scotland. No! Wow, I got really lucky. Link, you had 15. Rhett, four. Oh, you lucky dog. Lucky dog. That’s me. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Okay, this looks like mashed potatoes. Ooh! Whoa, it looks like really mashed potatoes. That is some stringy, like, stir it up and then string it as much as you can. I mean, maybe Ooh, that’s Ooh! Look at that. Thank you. It’s like doughy potatoes. This is what you don’t want to happen with your mashed potatoes. Like, when you’re making them. Why? Well, I’m just saying a lot of times when you’re watching videos about making mashed potatoes you don’t want them to turn into slime. Look at that. So, is it cheese? Oh, it’s good. So good. Oh, so good. Gotta be cheese. Cheesy taters. Mm! Mm! Now you gotta go first. Look at that. Mm. Certainly. Mashed potatoes, man. It’s, it’s, they’re a great palette for whatever else you’re supposed to eat. Just throw it on top of it. Especially that type of stuff. Where would they do this intentionally? Oh, I can help. Most potatoes are cooked in grease. Is that a hint? That’s right. You got all the facts. Just hurry up and throw before he moves. Oh no! Um, Look at that. He’s defying the laws of physics. Um, where would they want to do this? There’s something about this that feels like, I was thinking Ghana. When I saw that like, this like, the stickiness of it, I don’t know, I had this like, for no reason. I just was like, that seems like something they would do in Ghana, but then I tasted the cheese, and I was like, it sends me right back to France. Uh. Cause it’s like some technique. But they would want it to be fluffy in France, they wouldn’t do this in France, right? Right. Would they do it? I think we would have heard of this if it was from France. You know? French mashed potatoes? Because it’s got cheese and because it’s got a technique, I’m sticking with the logic of France, even though I agree with you that I feel like I would’ve heard of it. Ooh! And now you went for Scotland. Yeah. Which is off the map. Weird. While I was trying to do some reverse psychology, I actually meant what I said. So it was reversed. Um, we would’ve heard about it if it was from France. But I’m thinking this is Swedish. I would actually have guessed something more like Swiss. It has a fondue like nature to it. Fondue. It’s like Mctater’s fondue. But that’s why that’s why I’m staying, that’s why I’m feeling Sweden. That’s as close as I can get to Switzerland, right? Or is France closer to Switzerland? France is way closer to Switzerland. I don’t know, but all potatoes are cooked in grease. Well, then I gotta go for, shoot, then I gotta go for France. Well, you can get closer than I did. I can’t think of any reason that it would be anywhere else. Except that I would have heard of it! You think you’ve heard of everything from France? Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything. Oh, look at this. So that kind of makes me think Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan? What’s it say right there? What’s it say right there? You dip that. What’s it say, Kazakhstan? Oh, is that not great? Oh, it says France. It says Sweden, God. Okay. Are you asking questions to the audience? All right, here we go. Oh gosh, yep. Doesn’t matter what I was thinking because that’s where my dart is. You just had Aligot, a silky, gooey dish that gets its stretchy texture from a ratio of two parts potatoes to one part melted cheese, a traditional dish native to south central France. Ah! Rhett, you had six, Link, nine. Oh. This is a low scoring game. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Hmm, is this a hand food? Oh, it is very mushy. I think I’m going in with a fork. This thing is so mushy. So all of this, it’s like a. Oh, and there’s something on the inside. Potato. Is it meat in there? Yeah. It’s like a potato covered ground meat. Oop. Huh. Trying to just isolate that meat. It’s, there’s a sweetness in there. Huh. I can’t say I like it. This is, it’s bland. It definitely shouldn’t be picked up in the way that I have. It’s not a hand food. I have an advantage. This is interesting. Right? Yeah. I feel like I should use it. I shall use my advantage! Okay. The correct country is marked on a spinning globe. I’m about to show it to you. All you have to do is spot it. Link, go ahead and close your eyes, please. I don’t want you to get the advantage. And here you go. What’s happening? What’s happening? Nothing of importance. What’s happening? Nothing that helped. Yeah. Or did it? Can I open? You don’t know how fast my eyes can move. What was it marked with? Blood. Oh, it was spinning fast, huh? Oh, thank you. Okay, I’ve never had this before. But the flavor profile of the nuts and the meat has very, a very Middle Eastern vibe to it and it tastes, the meat inside of it tastes a lot like that you know where you can get that stuff at like an Armenian restaurant that’s like wheat and beef together, and it’s a spiced beef. It tastes like a cold, not as good version of that. Oh. And so, I’m going for Armenia. All right. It’s little. Oh! Now, you’re down there at Egypt, which is the other guess, you know? But now that you’re close to Egypt, I’m gonna go with Armenia. There are dates also mixed into the meat, which tells me right there that we got to go to Armenia. Ar-mean-ya-well. Oh, I just lobbed it in above you. You had a little lob. Yeah, a little lob. What’s going on with us? It’s really weak. Is the air thicker today? The air’s thicker. You just had Topik, a dumpling consisting of currants, walnuts, onions, and spices wrapped in a dough made of mashed potatoes and chickpeas. It’s a food traditionally eaten during Lent in its home country of Armenia. Yeah, baby! We were both right, but I was more right. Yeah, this is a, this is a tight game here going into the last round. Link, you had six, and Rhett, you had ten. Ooh, okay. Creepin back into it. Dang! Creepy. You know, home decorating can be a real pain in the glass. Ha ha ha! But don’t worry. Our new stained glass window sticker is here to brighten things up. Mm hmm. And right now is the perfect time to grab one because we’re running a spring savings sale. The more you shop, the more you save. You can get 20 percent or up to 20 percent off your order. of a hundred dollars or more this week only. Lots of stuff to buy over there. A lot of stuff is gonna be on discount, so. This is the week to do it. Mythical. com, this is what this looks like when you get it on the sticker. And that’s what it looks like when you take it off of the sticker and put it on the glass. Yeah, light goes through it into your house and makes you a better person. This guaranteed to make you a better person. Can we say that? Legal? Yes. See, I just hit my hand in the same spot that you hit your hand. Today, ever since the board died, I’ve noticed two things. The air is thicker. And we’re hitting our hands. And the hand’s coming out. This looks like Thanksgiving stuffing. Maybe what? Maybe a little potato pun would help. Oh yeah, I was hoping you would give one. I’m feeling a little mashed today. I’m also feeling lazy, cause I’m a couch potato, but I don’t know if that one hit, did that hit? I’m sorry I would be laughing, but this tastes bad. What is that on top? I guess it’s potatoes. There’s chicken in there. It’s deep fried. And it can be anywhere on the board. You’re still winning. Ten centimeters. Let’s separate the top two. It’s bland. Uh huh. I don’t see how this could be in the Asian part of the world. Right, it’s got this comfort food, like, almost like a… Like a goulash. Goulash? It’s like a goulash in the form of a sandwich. That’s what I was gonna say. I don’t know what a sandwich is. I mean, I don’t know. Chase? I don’t want to know. Don’t, don’t tell me. Nah. I’m not getting anything from anywhere. That is indicking. Indicating anything. Well, there’s carrots in it. You said it’s fried, but I think that’s just broiled. Eastern European. I’m getting Eastern European vibes. Are you saying that just because there’s lots of countries there? Well, no. All, because this is a mystery guess. Yeah, I know. Uh, I’m glad there’s a lot of countries there because it does increase the chances of being close to a country that it might be. But I’m just saying, I’m not getting any, like, Latin vibes. I’m not getting any Asian vibes. I’m getting bland vibes. Mm hmm. So I’m going Eastern European. No offense to the Eastern Europeans that might be watching. Uh, I’m feeling like this is Russia. Oh. I feel like this is nice and warm. Yeah. You soak it in some vodka. Boy, I got so close to being in Russia. You know, tropes. So close to being in Russia. Look at that. Ah. But what else is over there? I mean, I don’t know, this could be like the highlands of Tibet. It’s not South America. Shoot. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot! Oh, that was an interesting strategy. You’ve never done that before. I just threw caution to the wind. You let fate decide. Well, kinda. But I want it to be to the east of your dart. Okay. You just had Roppy Pie, a layered casserole type dish consisting of potatoes, pork fat, and seafood, commonly topped with melted butter or molasses. This hearty dish is a specialty of the Acadian people of Nova Scotia in Canada. No! The Acadians. I was thinking about those Canadians. Those Canadian Acadians. Link, you had 35. Rhett, 26. Ugh! It’s that advantage that did me in! Yep. That spinning globe really did it in for you. Well, crapola! So what does he win, Stevie? Um, he gets to wrap you in tinfoil like a human baked potato in Good Mythical More. That’ll be fun. That’s fun for everybody. Not just for me. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi! I’m Piper, and this is lunch! It’s my 25th birthday, and we just filmed an international snack taste test. And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality! Was that a millennial pause? Uh, no, it was the cat named Lunch. 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