YouTube Video ID: ZBnWL5f_N2I
Episode Post Date: January 12, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 2956
Transcript
What does deep fried food around the world taste like? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Everybody knows the best foods are deep fried, and if you disagree, you're wrong. But we are curious, how do other countries deep fry their dishes? It's time for, Where in the World Do These International Deep Fried Foods Come From? Okay, boys to guess where today's international deep fried foods come from, you'll throw your darts at the map and Chase, the deep cartographer, will measure your darts to determine your points. How deep is he? I don't know, to be deep or not to be deep. I haven't decided yet. I be like super, super deep in thought. Do you have a beret on top of your hat? Yes, I've decided to put a hat on a hat, uh. Oh, I love it. See what happens. So Link won last time, he throws first. That means Rhett gets an advantage, you can, uh, ask me about it at any round of your choosing. Well, and let me just say, Link has won two in a row. I mean. Uhhuh. And this could be a threepeat for the Linkster and a lot of times. You start the year off and you get everybody excited about how you, oh, Link's gonna turn things around. I started last year this time. So I mean, you could start this year with a threepeat. Yep. First time, since. I don't wanna add any pressure. You've done it before. You've done it before. Ooh, we got us. We got, we've got some crab. It's a crab shell with stuff in it. Is there crab in it? It looks like there might be some sort of. I mean, I smell something other than crabs. Whoops. Whoops. I smell crab and other. She that went all over my darts. And Link, there's dipping sauce, if you want to dip. If you dip. I dip. We'll both dip. Oh. That's good. My goodness, my goodness. It's like a, um, ground crab. It's like the twice baked potato version of a crab. Exactly. Hmm. That is good. That is interesting. Now. Let me get it off in my dart. You've been to Thailand. Did you have one of these? Not that I remember. I remember less and less about it except for the banana thing, which I'll never forget. And I always say banana when I'm thinking about corn cobs. Corn. So weird. Um hmm, hmm. Huh. The sauce is like a sweet and sour, type of a vibe. Yeah. That's definitely sending me over there to South Korea, could still be Thailand. Like I said, don't remember any of this there. Mongolia, well, there's no beef in it. And there's no crabs in Mongolia. Last time I checked. Ooh, that is, it's very garlicy. And that, what does that tell you? Canada, it tells him Canada. It, yeah, it tells me Canada. I mean it's gotta be over there. South Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, that triangulation. What about the country of Madagascar? That's a whole island. Nah, it ain't happening down there. Not with that sauce. Okay. You didn't take. My answer is South Korea. He didn't take the bait, he didn't. My throw is, woo yeah, look at that Rhett. Jealous already. You've really put me in an interesting conundrum because I was gonna guess Thailand and I don't think I can get closer to that than you are. I mean, that would be a heck of a throw if I was able to pull that off. You're a little bit closer to, to Korea, to South Korea is a good guess. But with that sauce, there's no way it's anything else, right? I mean, it's gotta be one of those two. Except for Canada. I feel like I need to aim at your dart. That's how good I feel about your guess. I'm so confident I'm not even gonna watch it. Oh gosh. I went, wait. I hopefully, hopefully it's South Korea. You just had Poo cha, a dish made of stuffed deep fried crabs. Fresh steamed crab is combined with pork, shrimp, soy sauce, garlic, fish sauce, and spices, and then stuffed inside crab shells before getting deep fried. You can find this delicious seafood meal in. Thailand. Ah. Good guess, Rhett. Good throw, Link. Hm mm-hmm. You had pork and shrimp in there. That's a winner. It's very good. My three favorite seafoods, crab, shrimp and pork. Mm-hmm. Link, you had four. Rhett, 15. Oh yes. Loser. Yep. Lookie there. We got. Oh, that's a hard. It's like funnel cake balls. It's like funnel cake, but it's hard. And then you, if you pull this thing apart and you start to see what it's made of, you can start to get some sort of information. Does this look familiar to anyone? I think it does to me. Hmm. Lots of icing drizzles over the top of these fried strips of dough. It is very reminiscent of something. I'm still going first. That thing it, I don't know what it is. I mean, I know what this is made of, I think, and it's screaming Canada. Hmm. Are you getting deep over there? I'm trying. Can you scream Canada? Canada. Okay, do you have any deep thoughts about that? Mm, no. I just have a header that says deep thoughts. Alright. Well you're getting started. Yeah, you ever see those dudes who just like walk around with a pen and a notebook all the time? Yeah, they're. You're talking about the performative male? Yeah, they're. Hmm. Yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying to tap into one of those. Mm-hmm. Are you trying to perform as a performative male? Are you a performative, performative male? Um, no, because there's notes in my notebook. Lots of them. But are they about being performative? Um, well, you can read it if you want. Not last time I checked. Um, there was, the icing flowing down over this is, um, leads me to Brazil, or even Ghana. Even Ghana what. I'm gonna throw at Ghana because I'm just feeling like it's the middle of the board. It could be anywhere else. I just wanna say Link from the future who is on the verge of a three-peat? I'm just saying, Link from the future who's on the verge of a three-peat might be saying, don't play it safe. If I hadn't have played it safe in round two, I would've gotten my threepeat for the first time in three years. He clearly doesn't want me to throw it at Ghana, so. I don't know what you're Ghana do. I'm Ghana do it. Whoops. I, I went over there to the East by accident. Hold on, hold on. That looked incredibly intentional. Like from this angle it looked like a man who was Ghana throw at, at Ghana, and then it literally made a decision. I did that. Yeah, like it felt intentional. Thanks for that feedback, I need to figure that out. Was it intentional? No, no, no, no. Fine, I left Ghana open for you. Well, it could be Thailand, I have no idea. I really have no idea. I mean, Ghana be wide open. Gonna be wide open for you. Uh, I mean, I was thinking Germany or Greece or Brazil. I wasn't thinking Ghana, but I don't know anything about Ghana, so I'm not gonna throw it there. And I'm not gonna make that joke again because I did it at least seven times, and that's enough. I have a cheat, by the way. Boy, I, I hate the fact that you're going second. You can use what I've said against me. Um, if it's Thailand, you're, and it's not Thailand, you just already, if it's South Korea, it's uh, you're gonna take a big leap here. Um, I'm gonna kind of go for, kind of go for Greece. Alright. My throws are so weak. So weak. Oh, something just ca something just happened. It doesn't matter, dude. What? What? These are Chinese, this is like, have you ever had a Chinese chicken salad? That's the stuff on top of a Chinese chicken salad. You just had Schneeballen, a deep fried shortcrust pastry. Thin strips are loosely intertwined into balls, and then deep fried until golden and crispy. Translating to snowballs, this traditional specialty can be found in, Germany. Mm. What? No, it's Chinese food. I know what you're talking about. And it's ma, th this is the stuff on Chinese food, Stevie. Well, China is not an option. But Mongolia is my answer. So you did it on purpose. Yeah, I could totally tell. No you couldn't. No, you went like this. All right, Rhett, you had five. Link, 32. Oh, that hurts, Link. German, Chinese food, whatever. You should have played it safe. Hey, we wrote a kid's book and we are about to show you the cover for the very first time. You ready? Yes. It is Spaghetti Head and Chicken Fingers. The kid's book for the Picky Eating Child in your life. Yes. Uh, we wrote it in the incredibly talented, Erica Salcedo Illustrated it. It's an incredible book. You can't get it right now, but you can pre-order it, because it's coming out later this year, but you can pre-order it right now at Mythicalbooks.com. So when comes out. Mythicalbooks.com. You can give it to the child or the children. Become, become just a giver to, to all the children in your life of Spaghetti Head and Chicken Fingers. Mythicalbooks.com, yes. What do we have here? Fried fingers of, I hope they're not actually fingers. This could be a Stevie Finger. Stevie, do you still have all your fingers? She's counting. And 10, yep. All good. This is, uh. Nothing in there, it's just more of the stuff I see on the outside. This is not great. It is not bad. Hmm. In kind of a bland, do you taste something that I'm tasting? There's something in there. Who do I go first now that I'm in a lead? Yep. Huh? So tell me all about it. Hmm. What is that? You think you know what it is? I taste peanut butter. Yeah, it's nutty. Might be a peanut though. It could be a different nut though. It could definitely be a different nut. I taste a nut that's like a ground nut. It's just a rolled peanut turd. Where would they do this? This was, was this extruded? I think I'm gonna do it. Gonna do it? Ah, mm-hmm. Is he winking? I think. I saw that. It has a, a peanutty flavor that might send one into, well, we've already done Thailand. That was an answer, so it's not Thailand. I guess it could be South Korea, but it just doesn't, it feels very, like they took some nuts and they rolled them like literally by hand. Mm-hmm. Didn't add too much to it, and then deep fried it. I'm going with Ghana, I'm going with Ghana. Oh, that is a good dart, dude. I don't know what has happened. I mean, I don't know what's happened. I've been so bad at throwing and now it's going where I want it to. Crap, it could be Ghana, but I hope it's something else. Madagascar. Maybe. Do they have, I mean. They got nuts down there. Everything evolved like completely independently on the island of Madagascar. Hmm and I, I think that they could have these fingers, these nut fingers that no one else has. It's pretty deep. It could also be, yes, Brazil. Why? Because it could. Dig up the ground anywhere, you might find a nut worth rolling. If there's a Madagascar, is there a Joy-a-diesel bike? That's deep homie. Well, I mean that man has been back there thinking of that. You've been thinking deeply. Joy a diesel what? Joy. Truck. Bike. Joya diesel bike. It's another island somewhere, I'm sure. Chase sold me. I gotta stick with my, my instincts here. Madagascar going all the way for it. Oh, oh, my throws aren't. You took my throws from me and I took your throws from you. My throws aren't throwing. You just had Kuli-kuli. A simple dish consisting of ground smashed peanuts, deep fried in their own oils, it's basically deep fried peanut butter. This snack can be served hot, cold, or sprinkled over a salad and can be found in West African countries like Ghana. Oh, I don't know if you're, I don't know if you're a Ghana three-peat Link. I don't know. Blast. Link, you had 12. Rhett, 2. Oh, 2. Peace. Dude, that was a good throw. Peace. Hey, it's not over yet. What? We have a wiener. We got a deep fried pocket of wiener. That's, it's a big wiener too. I mean this, this is what I'm talking about, deep fried. I'm gonna leave that one whole, 'cause it's beautiful. I mean, is this, this is the mystery round, right? Mm-hmm. How is it? It's good. It tastes very, hmm. Dip this in some. Smoked sausage ish. Mustard would be great right now. Mm-hmm, mustard would be great right now. Mustard would be. Don't have any. Hmm. That is a juicy sausage. This might be the best way to eat a sausage. Mm-hmm. Wrap it in like a, a calzone esque dough. Deep fry it. Now, if I were just throwing darts this round, I would throw it somewhere in the Western hemisphere, I would throw it either in Europe or North America, but I'm not gonna do that, Link. I'm going to use my cheat. I see I have a bowl of batter. What you going, what is it? That is for the batter bat. So you can load your bat with as much batter as you want and take one swing. Swing. Oh my goodness. You might wanna move to the couch or something along those lines. Yep. If you don't want to get dirty or hit by a bat, I'm gonna join on, I'm gonna sit in your seat. Okay, so I'm gonna dip my bat in this batter. I'm gonna get it as battery as I possibly can. Now there's a, there is a non-zero chance that I'm going to completely miss everything and get an automatic 50. Rhett, if there's a Madagascar. Is there a, hold on, you marked through it. Happy Electric Bike. No, the Joy a diesel was better. That's what you did first? That's what I did first, yeah. And then you went Joy a diesel bike. And in between then I cut my fingers on this pen proving that the pen is mightier than the sword. Okay, um, I'm glad you guys are having a great time back there. What I'm not gonna do for y'all sake, is go like this because then I'll just hit the cameras. I'm gonna go like this. So James, we might get some batter on a microphone. Because I'm gonna, when it gets a lot on there, I'm taking it out immediately and I'm swinging it. Swinging. Oh yes, I love that. Okay. That vertical swing. Well, uh, you got it all over your chair. Yep. But I hit Europe, which is what I wanted to do. But not my chair. So I feel relatively good about that. You got a, a very Arctic splooge happening. Arctic splooge was my nickname in high school. My favorite Gatorade flavor. And take that and get it away from me. I'm disgusted. Batter Bat was my nickname in high school. 26 centimeters. Um. Where could I go? Canada's pretty clean, but it's a mystery round, so that wouldn't work. I'm really hoping. Let me have that again. This could be in Australia. I, I need that in order to win. I, hmm. So. That's not a bad guess. I guess I do have a little splurge down there. I really like it. I really like it and I like things in Australia. They don't invent things, they just make 'em good. So that's what I'm going for. Whoops. Oh, okay. That's fine, I need to be away from your, your, uh, batter. You just had Perepichka, a soft sausage wrapped in yeasted dough, it's then deep fried and served hot, usually without any condiments. Considered this country's first fast food dish, it can be found in. Ukraine. Ukraine got it going on. Ukraine, you saw you ate it. I might have actually, um, hit Ukraine. Link, you had 46. Ouch. And Rhett, yeah, this drizzle has gone all the way down to Ukraine, meaning you've hit it and have zero. That is an active moving batter answer. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm slowly. Like, if I would've gone faster. Getting every. You wouldn't beat me so bad. Yeah, unfortunately Link, not only did you not complete the streak, but you have to get deep with Rhett in Good Mythical More. We'll find out what that means. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, I'm Brenna, and we're in Spooner, Wisconsin for my bachelorette party, and we just finished an international snacks taste test. Now it's time to send the Wheel of Mythicality. The GMM bride. Y'all got into trouble after that, I think. Oh yeah. Y'all got into trouble. That kitchen got so messy. Yeah, y'all got crunk and stuff. We're gonna give you an unfun fact, so lower your expectations. 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