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Or at least a student of the internet, it’s very possible that you have seen these before. Candied fruits on a bamboo skewer. AKA Tanghulu. It’s a Chinese candy traditionally made with Hawthorne fruits. Hawthorne fruits, my favorite fruits. I’ve never heard of ’em. Dipped in hot sugar to get a nice, crunchy, sugary coating. And as the treat has grown in popularity online, people have started to experiment with a whole mess of weird, fun innovations. And you know. Oh, oh. When there are weird innovations to be made on treats, your boys gotta get involved. It’s time for sugar daddies reporting for duty. Crazy Tanghulu taste test. Okay boys, congratulations. You are opening your own Tanghulu shop and today. Yes. You’ll be testing out a variety of non-traditional Tanghulu skewers and deciding what you want to put on your menu. To make it even weirder, we got a variety of spices, seasonings, and powders that you can add on to really make it your own, but you only get five slots on your menu over all. So you need to be selective,. Okay. And you can adjust things on your little whiteboard there. Nicole is here to show you how to safely make your Tanghulu, and then you’ll be on your own. So take it away, Nicole. Hello. Scoot over. Okay, thanks. Safety first. Okay. Okay. Okay. So the first thing we’re gonna do is our, our sugar mixture has reached 300, which is very important. Sugar time for her fruit stick. And then I’m gonna take my sugar and I’m just gonna rotate it inside here. Oh. Go. Is it hot? Is it real hot? It’s real hot. And then as you can see, my sugar is coated. And then I’m gonna quickly dip it. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I wanted to, in ice water. I wanted to put some uh, Kool-Aid on that first. It’s okay. I have another one. We’ll try it with another one. And did, you, did, did sugar get on all of those? It got on most of them, which is good. It then it just crunch into it. Not about being perfect, it’s about being active. And there you go. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good if you do say so yourself? Yep. Let’s try another one. Okay. You want me to try this one? Sure. Just do me a favor. Because I wanna put Kool-Aid on it. So get your Kool-Aid powder ready. I’m, I’m the powder man, you’re the sugar man. I’m the, I’m the Dip man. I’m the powder man. But together we are The Hard Boys. The Hard Boys? That’s, that’s the name of our, I need to do this. Hold up. So, yeah, put it on. I like to use my non-dominate hand. Hard. Hard guys. Hard guys. Hard Guys. Sugar Shop. Get, get in tong…. Hulu from the hard guys. I want you to use the sifter. Okay? So get your sifter prepped, okay? I mean, this is already some powder. I want you to use a sifter. But I don’t know, can you tell me why. I could, for even coverage. Go like that. Okay. Okay. And have it ready. I don’t have nothing underneath it. Oh, beans. Okay. And then your friend is gonna sift. Huh? Your friend? Your friend lost uh, he lost his grape. That’s okay. He lost his grape. Move fast. Gentlemen. Move fast. Oh yeah, this one. Sorry. Hey, dip it in ice. Dip it in ice water. This hard guy should’ve been nervous. This hard guy. This is his first time getting hard. I mean, this is his first time. It is hard. This is his first time. I’ll tell you right now, it’s hard. Okay. I didn’t know if it was supposed to catch it or not, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Bait. I don’t, I I want the, um, I want the, you can have the strawberry. I want the C grape. Okay. Take two. Try not to touch the grape. Just pull it. I’ll just give it to me. I’ll go with this. Are you tasting the, uh? Yeah. The Kool-Aid. The Kool-Aid. That’s the Kool-Aid dust. I’m tasting the Kool-Aid. I need to get, Hmm. That’s fun, Nicole. I’m so happy you guys are having a good time. This is what it, what it’s gonna be like at our cart. Our cart. Yeah. The Hard Men Cart. Hard guy. Hard guys. Oh, you guys are gonna be on a, in a cart. On a cart. With a cart. Behind a cart. Alongside a cart. Okay. With Beside you. Another hard guy. I’m the hardest of ’em all. That’s right. Hardest to please. Oh God. Okay. I’ll be back here if you need anything. Okay. Alright, now we’re on our own. Hard guys going solo. You okay? Duo. Um, okay. Pickle, pickle time. I think this would go well. Want a crunchy pickle? Tajin. Tah-jine. Okay. Hard hard guys want the tajina. I can’t turn. I can’t, I can’t turn it. You can do with that. I can’t turn it. Okay. What, what was the grunting for? I’m, I’m new. I’m, I’m a new guy. I’m a new hard guy. Is it? Heavy or something. One of these days. None of the tahin, well, some of the tahin is on there. I see that. So I, we gotta get better at the distribution. Well, I couldn’t turn it ’cause it was loose. But you could have, you could’ve done something. You could’ve burned yourself a little bit. Take a bite. I’m excited about that. I’m gonna bite it right here. Why’d the end? We’re gonna eat like corn. Mm-hmm. I’m gonna turn this up a little bit. Okay. Prepare yourself to, to love it. You don’t sound very enthusiastic. Pickle and tahin is okay, but. Mmm. That crunchy layer of sugar that you’ve done. How, how do I make my sugar layer thinner? You need to move faster and more intentionally. Okay. Yeah. Pull it together. Yeah. Alright. McLaughlin, what do we here, are you supposed to be like picking stuff outta your teeth the whole time? String cheese. Well, she’s completely gone now, we’re really. Look Link. We are really. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizza seasoning. And then I’m coming. I’m coming fast. Okay. Alright. And be ready to roll. Roll it and. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yes, yes. But still the grunting. Yeah. People won’t be able to hear us. The state fair is so loud. Step right up hard guys delivering crunchy cheese with the pizza taste. Hmm. It is hard. We get right on the, that looks good though. Is it hard? That’s, that’s our, that’s our, that’s our, uh, slogan. Is it hard yet? Is it hard yet? Hmm. Oh, interesting. You like? The cheese is melty. This goes on the menu. Yeah. What are we calling this? Um. Easy cheese. Oh, because it’s not hard. Easy in quotes because it’s not hard. Not Not hard. No, it is hard. That’s the joke. Not hard cheese, but it is hard cheese. But the cheese itself, maybe you call it hard cheese. The cheese itself was soft. Then we call it easy cheese. We’ll get it sued. I don’t care. Easy cheese is already. Yeah, but you put it in quotes and that lets the legal people know that you’re just joking. Hard Boys, we’re gonna swap out your concoction so we can give you a fresh one. Easy not hard cheese. So you can do a little bit more. That’s on the menu. Okay. This hard boy has an idea. Yeah. Thicker sticks. Shorter foods. It’s a quick dip, so you gotta be ready. You ready? Cinnamon toast Crunch cinna dust. Is this overkill? I think let’s get a cinnamon toast one done. Alright, and let’s do it for real. Here we go. Cinnamon on cinnamon. Yeah. I’m coming in fast and then I’m, and then I’m over here and I’m spinning, spinning. Let’s spin it. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Spin people watching this happen. Yes. And then I’m dipping, they’re lining up at the at just to round our cart just to see these two hard guys grunt and go at it. Okay. I think this is, I think this is a success. Try that. Is it hot? Is it too, is it real hot? It’s not hot. It’s still a little hot. Is it hard? Is the question? Oh, that sounds hard. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. The sugar has become cinnamonified, which, it’s the biggest help so far. Put it on a menu. Um, CTCT. We can use, use the word sin. CTCC. Hard sinnin’, sin. Sinnamon. I’m trying to do a pun with sin. Sin-Amen-Stick. I like it. We gotta keep going. Shrimp. Two shrimp. Now this is old bay time. But you gotta go thin, man. You’re still going. I’m as thin as I want. Don’t. As I can. Don’t do a scoop. Just dip it and pull it out. Okay, here we go. I basically got one shrimp. Yeah. Go hard with that. Go hard. I think it’s, I think it’s not, I, I don’t know what I would think about using the same slurry every time. Now you can tell the difference between those two. One has been, one’s been dipped and one hasn’t. Candied and slurred. I’m gonna let you have the honors. Well, first you gotta ask the question, is it hard? Is it hard? Yeah, it’s hard. Is it hot? We’ll do that to everyone before we give it to you. We’ll, we’ll bang our teeth on it. Yeah, just hold that. Don’t need that. Ooh. That’s still a lot of candy, but it is thinner, I think. Or is that just the tail? That’s a lot of old bay. I didn’t know old bay got hot, when you do that much old bay though. Oh, really? Now if we put this one on the menu. Old and hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’ll be– Old and hard shrimp. We’ll, we’ll reach that demo. Here we go. Okay. Ravioli. Is this a cheese ravioli? Four cheese. Four cheese ravioli. I don’t think we want to add, you know what, I think, what about everything bagel. I don’t know what else would be good. I mean, I think about red, crushed red pepper like you on a pizza or el pasta. Well, let’s add some more cheese too. You want it to be five cheese? Five cheese and roasted. Can you do all that? Red pepper stuff. Oh yeah, I can do it. Yeah, I can do it. Oh, here we go. Here we go. You got a pepper side. You got a cheese side. We got pepper on both sides. Okay. You got cheese on one side. Okay. And coming in. That’s good. Gonna put it in the slurry. I’m gonna move it to a clearer part of the slurry pond. This has got to be behind the curtain. Oh yeah. They don’t see this. Ain’t nobody looking in the cart. See that? They don’t see this. They do not see this, but they see this part. Oh, that. Look at that. That looks good. And if you’ve got, if you’re holding a stick, I say, is it hard? And everyone says. Yeah. So hard. No, they say put your teeth on it. Let’s see. I think you just repeat. Is it hard? Is it hard? Is it hard? Wow. It hard. It hard it hard. And then you sell it. So everybody says it hard after me. Yeah, it hard. Yeah. Oh, you took a lot of the coating away. Good. Well, I like the ravioli part. And now it’s spicy. So spicy. But, Hmm. The sugar part, I just don’t feel like that’s necessary. But that’s the, that’s the hard guy’s whole thing. You know? We could be the soft guys. No, we’re the hard guys and we gotta stay committed. Alright. Oh yes. Fresh pot, man. You know what? Banana. I think we can do banana with no skewer. You wanna peel this since you don’t have a glove on? Sure. I’m peeling it from the monkey side and then what? That that can, uh. That feels about right. Protect your hand. Uh, what what about, we have Corn flakes, coffee. Let’s do, let’s do coffee and corn flakes. Go flatter. Oh, get it outta there. Get it outta there. It’s just the tip. Get it over here. It was just the tip. I’m sorry. That’s fine. That’s fine. That’s fine. We, they can come back and, and we’ll charge ’em to continue to, to, uh, harden their new tip. Okay. We harden the tip, and then when you create a new tip, they create a new tip. They eat this tip, and then they go away and they come back and then we say, is it hard? Is it hard? Is it hard? Let me find out. It hard. It hard. Yeah. This is gonna work. We’re gonna sell so many of these. Oh, that was a delicate amount of. You liked it? Sugar. I missed most of it. Oh, this is good. Um, is there anything with coffee and banana? Morning phallis. Morning phallis it is. I mean, ’cause it’s, it’s breakfast foods. Yeah. We have a theme here. We gotta stick with it. Morning phallis. And I already got the name of this one. The corn dog is gonna be the horn dog. Everything seasoning I feel like could work. Hold on. It brought ranch powder in. Oh. Ranch season. Yes. You know that’s gonna be good. I’ll get as much as I can. I got a good half. Wait, hold on. I wasn’t ready. Okay. Ranch it. Ranch it, ranch it. Ranch it. Ranch it. Hard thinking the ranch, everybody’s watching. Hey, what do you, Hey, Mr. What do you do with all the extra ranch? That’s a kid asking. That’s a kid at this stage. Did you have an answer in mind? No. I’m asking because you’re the, you’re the powder guy. What are you doing with all the ranch that misses the wiener? We, we, we kidnap you, lock you in a basement and make you inhale this as your own form of substance. Stop asking us questions. Shut up. Okay. Alright. That’s how I treat kids. Can I take the first bite of this one? Oh yeah. Maybe on the side. See, the crowd starts picking up because eventually, eventually, eventually, I just go, is it hard? It’s hard. Oh God, it is so hard. Oh, why is it there? This part that’s there is that, oh, you can’t even get it out. Um, it good. I wanted it to be. The ranch is great. Mm-hmm. Corn dog grate sugar. We need to get rid of that part of it. Okay. I don’t think that made the, made the menu. It had a great name. Maybe Quail Eggs will. Quail eggs. Quail eggs is big. It’s like farm to table. All right, and but then we’re going to everything bagel on this right? Wasabi powder. Maybe. Let’s go for wasabi powder. I’m having trouble finding a soft spot. Oh, this is matcha. Going in. You ready? I guess. Come over here. Oh, woo. Pretty. Hey, Mr. What do you do with all the extra? What is that? Wasabi powder. Okay. Uh, don’t, don’t rotate. Just dip. Oh, look at that. We still got you. Call ice. We got ice on it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. See? Okay. Is it hard? Is it hard? It, it hard. It hard. Don’t make that, don’t make that face when you eat it for the crowd. Wasabi, quail, egg, sugar. No extra. How is it, bro? Awful. Hmm. These two fallas are having a hard time. That’s not going on the menu. Alright, we’re gonna change it out one last time. Mm-hmm. Okay. Sorano pepper. What you wanna put on this? Let’s just go with everything. Bagel seasoning. Okay. I think I’m getting full dip. Okay. Yep. And then you’re coming over immediately. Yep. Come over to me. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Now see we figured it out. Now wait a second. Oh. And then just like slowly plummeted slowly. This is gonna be, this is gonna work. Alright, so we’re pulling, oh, look at that. Isn’t that the most beautiful one so far? Yes. Yes it is. Okay, now you don’t, now you don’t see, is it hard anymore? ’cause once everybody know, you just hold it up and then everybody says is hard. Is it hard? It hard. Oh, is it hot too? Okay. I uhhuh. That real hot. Oh that’s real hot. I’m glad I, the candy doesn’t help. That worked though. It’s hotter now. I thought it would be, but the, uh. The bagel flecks. The bagel flecks helped. That really worked. Oh, oh, I think that’s gonna go on the menu. Of course. We have one more to choose from. 1, 2, 3, 4. Hot and hard. Hot and hard. Hot and hard. Woo. That is hot. Hot. I had to spit it out. Okay. But this last one could replace it. I got lamb tongues. Oh gosh. Sorry. I mean we had to do it ’cause of the, you know, Tanghulu. So you’re doing two so we can each get the tip of the tongue. Oh my gosh. Dip the tip of the tongue. Now what? Hold on. We gotta, we gotta do everything we can to mask the fact that this is tongue. I wanna put ranch on it. I wanna put pizza seasoning. You gonna double hand it and then maybe some cornflakes, I don’t know. Is it soft or is that hard? This is not hard. Soft. Okay. Ready? Yeah. Ready? Yeah. My God. Oh, and then, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I think we’ve done well. We already got five on the menu. Well, I don’t know that we need to do this. This is on the secret menu. Oh. So if you want the real lamb tongue, you gotta come around back. Or you just ask for it. Come around back. We’ll give you tongue. Hard boys give tongue around the back or something. Oh, it worked. It worked. It worked. Oh God. That is nasty. Okay, hold it up. Is it hard? It hard. I like the way y’all getting into it. That’s how it’s gonna be. It hard. People are gonna be loving it. Dink it. Dink it. And sink it. I got through. It’s pretty, it is pretty rubbery. He’s gonna have to work up to it. He can’t do this in front of the customers. Step right up. Get yourself a lamb Tanghulu. Everybody loves it. It’ll make you cry with delight. Mm. It’s on the secret menu. It’s a bit of a, it is like a stunt kind of thing, you know, there’s no shame in that Link. Uh uh uh, yeah. Get their money before they see it. Alright, so we’ll see you at the 2026. NC State Fair will be out next to Dorton Arena. Don’t forget to come back for good mythical weekend tomorrow. Right here on this channel. Okay. And Happy Father’s Day to all the daddies. Ah, thanks for coming and sharing this video. 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