Do fast food french fries taste the same as they did nine years ago? Let’s talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Nine years ago, we did a blind taste test of the most popular fast food french fries. Now, nine years later. Well, we’re still here. Yep. I’m ha-, I’m very happy to report that. That’s right. And we’re doing it again to see what, if anything has changed. Do they taste the same? Do they curl the same, do they French the same? And have we gotten any better at tasting which fries came from where? It’s time for, Oops! I bit it again. French fry taste test, Volume two. Okay, boys. The fries you’ll be tasting today are from in no particular order. McDonald’s ,Burger King, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Carl’s Jr., and Jack in the Box. And they’ll once again be served via the still patent pending fry stick, affectionately known as the frick last time. So nine years later we haven’t gotten that patent. Why do the patents always pend? Well, they’ve been pending for this entire subseries and you’re just now catching on. Oh, oh, we always say that. Yeah. Uh, last time, out of eight possible points, Link got three correct. And Rhett took the win with four. Oh no, really? Just one more than Link. Uh, so let’s see– I got four out of six right? Turn out differently. 8. Oh God. Four outta eight. Eight points. Link got three. Rhett got four. The frick is patent pending. Yeah, we’re ready. Okay. Uh, so turn on, turn on your blindfolds. Hey, well, hey, hey. 2026. We’ll do that. Hey, as you can see, we can’t. And let’s bring out that first round. Can they be curly? I can’t remember. What was that? Could they be curly? Was already there? Could they be curly? They could be curly. Hmm hmm. It’s a thin one. Hmm. It’s a good fry, isn’t it? It is a good fry. That’s a good, that’s such a good fry. I might give it a nine. What about you? What about you? I’m tempted to agree with you. What about you? But I’ll be a contrarian and say eight. Okay. Ready to guess. But you know where this one’s from. I mean, I think I do, but I always lose my confidence when I put my blindfold on. I’m like a gator. Okay. 3, 2, 1. [Both] McDonald’s. [Both] McDonald’s. Yeah. Easy. And we both got McDonald’s. Yeah, we did. We did it. Yeah, we did. We did it. Yeah, we did it. We did it. Yeah, we did it. We did it. We did. Oh yeah. You are there. I bet we were both there the whole time. Oh really? Yeah, I was. I did. Really? ’cause I didn’t think you were there. Really? Yeah. Uh, okay. Strong start. Oh, hmm. Okay. Hmm. Hmm. Very squared off. Those are so distinctly different. I’d say these are much more potatoey. How much have fries changed? This is the question because people change their fries all the time. Surely one of these outfits has changed their fry. Right? Yeah. And surely it won’t make a difference in our performance. That’s, that’s so oily. And burnt tasting and like, kind of like maybe there was fish in there. What, or some. I don’t taste fishiness, but I’m not impressed. It just tastes burnt and oily. Five. Um, two for me. Mm. Did not like it. So where is that from? It’s a thin fry. That, that’s really good. I think I know what that is. I, I formulated, uh. Really? You think you know? I, I, yeah. This is a, this is a shot in the dark for me. Who else has a thin fry? I don’t, I don’t eat a lot of fries anymore, man. I’m getting old. I just can’t keep, can’t keep up the habit. It’s, it’s hard. Yep. It’s hard to keep. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but they’re not great for you. Yeah. Yeah, I’ve heard that. All right. Ready? Three, two. One. [Rhett]: Burger King. [Link]: Jack in the box. King. See, I don’t know what Burger King fries tastes like. See, I do feel like I just pulled ahead. Well, I don’t know. How do you think we’re doing compared to last time we did this? Uh, it’s too early to tell for you, but. Ohh, what is that? Woo, it’s curly! I don’t know about you, but mine was curly. That’s so, that’s a curly. It’s very obviously a curly fry. Unless something went really wrong with a regular fry. Um, I’m not a duck. I’m not a duck. I’m not a mallard. Here’s the thing. They have a spiral penis. Let’s have the same. I wonder if you made that joke nine years ago. I hope I did. I hope I made a mallard joke. A spiral– A duck. Mallard penis joke. Nine years ago, I don’t know how often we got into, uh, uh, uh, swirly penis jokes. I don’t know. We do that more now. Yep. We do. We’re scraping the bottom of the bucket and there’s a lot of curly penis jokes down there. Yeah, right. Yeah. Just alienating people left and right. Um, did we talk about the fact that Arby’s certainly has curly fries. But also Carl Jr. probably. But somebody else does. Two chains from our choices that have curly fries. Right? Carl’s Jr. And Arby’s has curly fries. Mm-hmm. Carl Jr. Does everything. Yeah. I don’t know if Jack in the box. Jack in the box. Well, you wanna talk about who does everything? Well, it’s Jack in the box. Yeah, so the– Because the box jack in the box does the egg roll. But do they do a curly? They do it ev– They do everything. And they would, and by they, I mean the people who make this show with us, they would try to trick us because you can’t trust them. Have you noticed that? Well, but they’re doing the exact same thing they did nine years ago. Yeah. We couldn’t trust them then either. Nope. We couldn’t. It is been a tough life for the past nine years. Not trusting anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I keep one eye open. I am gonna give that a six. I’m giving it a seven. I, I, I like it. I like it. I wish I liked it more. I wish curly fries were generally better than they are. They’re not as good as they should be, given how curly they can be. Hmm. What really? Yeah, definitely. Okay. Three, two. One. [Both]: Arby’s. Yep. It’s gotta be right. It’s a safe choice. So we went for the safe choice. It’s a safe choice because both we know a curly is an arby. Yeah, but an arby is not necessarily a curly, right? An Arby is a curly, but a curly is not necessarily an Arby. If we eat another curly later, then we’re gonna be shook. But a curly is a mallard’s penis. I’m willing to bet that if I did make a duck penis joke last time, I probably just said duck. I didn’t say mallard. I think Mallard is. Yeah, mallard, mallard is definitely new. Mallard was never heard, not said nine years ago. I don’t think I’ve ever said mallard until today. I’ve never heard you say mallard. Yeah, I’ve never heard myself say it. That’s a long one. That’s bad too. Very potatoey. Now I’m just gonna be brutally honest here and say, oh, that is the least tasty fry that I’ve tasted thus far. You know, I’m a lover of all fries. You don’t like that one? I don’t discriminate. That’s bad, isn’t it? No, it’s getting good at the end. It tastes the most like a potato of any that I’ve tasted so far. How did it go from, how did it change? Because you thought it was bad until you realize that these are real potatoes we’re working with here. I’m still giving it a six because the fortaste was not great. The aftertaste was better. There’s a, there were just thick enough to have enough of that. Like Tater whiteness in the middle. Tater whiteness. Yeah. To make it a little. That was my nickname in high school. Um, I would’ve said that nine years ago, you know, probably. I can’t, I, I’m gonna give it a five. Did I say six? Mm-hmm. You ready? Yeah. Three, I think so. Two. One. [Both]: Wendy’s. Ah, did that happen before? Wendy’s? Oh, you already said Wendy’s. Well, I know I changed. I said it again. Huh? I was giving you five. Can you believe what we’re doing? Yeah, we’re in, we’re, we’re in so much. We’re so in sync. Sync now. It took nine years. ’cause I’m sure that didn’t happen before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re so much more in sync now. Who would’ve thought nine years later? Ohhhhoho, oh god! Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, well. That’s a curly fry I, sir, got a curly fry. I don’t know what you got. Hmm. It’s like eating a potato garden hose. Hmm. I got so much curl. Less….. Mm-hmm. Seasoning than the previous curly fry. It’s got more spice on it. So who has more spice? I don’t know what I gave the last one, but I’m giving this one an eight. I’m giving this one an eight. This is a much better curly fry. So are we going back to Arby’s? Yeah, that’s the question. Are we reaching out to new frontiers? Do you play it safe? It’s really a question of seasoning for me. Or do you play it silly? It seems like a thing that Arby’s would do. Yeah. You’ve already guessed hard Arby’s. But I can de guess it again if I want. No, no, you can. Yeah, I can. I can play whatever kind of, you guessed Wendy’s twice. Well, that’s me. And then you got Jack in the box. That could be curling it up. Mm. Okay. All right. I don’t know what I did last time, but I know what I’m doing this time. Three. Two, one. [Both] Carls Jr. Bah! Get off of my lawn, man. Same page. Same page. Get in your yard. Get outta my yard. We’re like an old married couple. Starting to look the same. Starting to guess the same. Hold on, hold on. We’re starting to look the same? Yeah, we are. Yeah, we are. Uhuh. Yeah, we are. I’m getting glasses. Make some room for this legume. Hmm. Shop the Rhett the bean wizard. That’s me. Pin of the month. Today only. Today only. We only sell the pin for 24 hours at mythical.com and it is underway as of the fresh release of this episode. Fresh. Mythical.com. Bean wizard? That’s me, man. That’s cool dude. You’ll be the fry wizard. Who knows? That’s cool. That’s cool. That’s cool for you. So far we’ve guessed exactly the same thing except for one round. Okay. I wonder if we did that before. Are they back? What? Oh, what Backstreet boys? Hmm? Is this a good fry? I think it is. It’s an honest fry. It’s not a loud fry. It’s a quiet fry. It’s not saying a lot. Hmm. Man, that’s a seven for me. I think it’s a, I think it’s an eight for me. I think it’s an eight. Hmm. I think I know where this is from. I’ve confused myself, but I’m, but I’m, I know. My guess. 3, 2, 1. Wendy’s. Wendy’s. No, we didn’t. Yeah. I feel like now this– Crazy, crazy places. This, this is what we’re running at. What’s going on? What going on? How’s it happening? And we were both right. That’s Wendy’s. I feel it. It’s now time for our liqui-fry round and I can’t believe, I cannot believe we did this to you. This is so us nine years ago, but we have to repeat it now. Um, we have made a concoction of ketchup, coke and french fry. One singular french fry brand. Uh, you have to guess what that is. Two points. And I just, you know, on behalf of all of us, I’m sorry that, that we did this. Because it’s really hard to figure that out. That’s why. I’m sorry. You have to keep eating it. For the challenge. It’s definitely coke. Apologize. And it’s definitely, the Coke is so strong. It’s even stronger than the ketchup. You went light on the ketchup. I think you feel like you’re getting something. Smell it though. I smell ketchup and cola. There is a fry. It smells like the floor of my– In there though. Elementary cafeteria. You know, hold on. There’s just this moment when you put it on your tongue and it in between the coke. And then the, the nasty feeling, and then more Coke taste and like acid from the. There’s a fry in there. Ketchup. Then there’s a little peak of a fry. It’s like a, there is a fry in there. It’s like a demented slushy. I think I know where it’s from. Okay. Three, two. One. [Both] McDonald’s. Let’s punch each other and then they hug each other. Tickle each other. Y’all think I’m gonna stop him? Okay. As a reminder, last time, Rhett, you had four. Link, you had three. Let’s redo the round that we answered differently. Yeah, we wanna be totally in sync so we can be a queen sweep. Well, I think you’re gonna be very pleased with your scores this time, really, because this time. You both have four points because you answered basically every single thing together. Uh, so did I do the same exact thing as I did last time? Yeah. But, but when I, sorry. Really? You should be cheering in the same excited way. As you have every time you’ve said the same thing. Same. Yeah. ’cause we got the same score. Because you have the same, we got the same score. I don’t really feel it. We’re over it. I don’t feel it as much anymore. Okay. Well yeah. Everything that you guessed, well mostly everything that you guessed at the same time was right. A couple times it was wrong. There’s no consistency here other than the fact that McDonald’s is by far the best french fry. Was the, was the last one. McDonald’s? Yeah. Yeah. And you and both of you got that wrong uh, nine years ago. We’re so much better. It did slip in. You’re right. Well, I’m one better. The fry. Slipped in. You know better. Yeah, because did I, did I get that right last time? The end? No, none. Am I more like you though? You did not get liqui-fry. So I got more regular rounds right last time? No, uh, yes. You know what you need to do? You got more regular rounds right last time. You need to watch this episode and you’ll know what happened because. Well, we can unpack it more in Good Mythical More, but. Everybody, everybody else already knows. The good news is though. They were watching what we were doing. They know. But we weren’t. When we weren’t. We made two Lord of the fries, uh, crowns. Oh no. Thankfully. Well, this because fair, no expense. A potentiality. Just broke it. It was a potentiality. It would’ve been cool if we both put Wendy in the front. Yeah. You know, that would’ve been like the last frontier for us. I don’t want to do that. I wanna put, oh, I wanna make it a necklace. Oh, you look like a jester. 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