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Episode Post Date: January 23, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 2965
Transcript
Is there anything better than the middle of a cinnamon roll? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Have you ever had a cinnamon roll and just pulled out the tasty, gooey center leaving the boring outer part behind? Of course I have. Is there any other way to eat a cinnamon roll? No, there is not, which got us thinking. Are there other foods that should be getting that same treatment? Mm-hmm. Or is the center of the cinnamon roll the best center food that we humans have to offer? Yeah. Okay, boys. Today you'll be tasting the isolated middle of various foods up against the food in its normal state, so you can really get an idea of how much of an improvement it is to eat the center on its own. Then you'll each rate the middle on a scale of one to 10. And in the end, crown the best middle, Middle Brian. Middle Brian. And first up, we have pizza. Look at that pizza. So this is a pizza uncut. Look at all that crust around the sides. Uh, now you have pizzas middles, which are not, this is not little pizzas. Nope. There's no. This is the middle of a regular sized pizza. I mean, let's not talk about food waste. Let's just acknowledge it. And let's say that somebody always likes what you don't have. And also let me say Link. Everybody likes the non middle. Everybody has someone who likes the non middle. I did just did two perfect bites of pizza. Here's yours. That little tr, I mean, and we, we also analyzed what's the best shape. I don't think we went with this one. Now. Look at this handle. Can I point out something? The first part of the pizza that you bite is the middle of the pizza. But the further you go. That's the middle of the pizza. You start at the middle of the pizza when you cut a pizza regular, so. Eventually you're gonna get to the outside of the pizza. Do this. So you don't have a handle, which is, you know. I don't like that. Significant. I don't like that, that's going against my score. That was hard to bite. Yeah. 'cause it's like, I'm, what, what is this a, a tangent? Is that what you call it? The edge of a circle. You gotta make a tangent with your mouth. Probably. Um. Hmm. Hmm, hmm hmm. Okay. Oh, look at that. It's like an award. It's confusing because it looks like a little pizza. I accept. Yeah, you're already eating the middle of a pizza when you're eating regular pizza, and you have a handle that you don't have on that one. And then the crust is something that you can dip into things. We've rescued the crust from people who don't love it by adding dips into the world. I'm gonna give it a three. We can't go back from dips, we're there. Because a five would be, it's just as good. This is worse. Six would be the centers better. Yep. Four. Yep. We took that one down. We took that one down. Oh, yeah. It's a three. Next you have a Boston Cream donut. Okay, the constant dilemma with the Boston cream is, how do I bite this so that I get some cream? You gotta bite deep, and I just don't have that deep of a bite, even though my mouth's bigger, I don't. Oh, you can go so much deeper than that. I could, but I don't want to. I don't wanna send it to the back of my throat. Go to normal depth. Did you get cream? No. Okay. So that sucks. Look at this. Wow. There's a little bit of cream peeking out. It's been cut where the, it's right on. It's all cream. The precipice of ooze. It's all cream. Uh, mine's. Oh, dainty little bite, but look what happened on the backside. Yeah, you squirted right on that plate. That is not good. You don't think that's good? Well, I think that was user error. I bit the hole. Oh. Oh, the, uh, the hole, you mean where they s smooshed it in there? Yeah. You bite the tunnel where the cream comes. Well, that's a hot tip. So bite that tunnel, but now it's gonna come out the back. Yeah. 'cause 'cause you've, it's all right. It's all. Next time we get, we come to this, you listen to me and you'll be all right. This is so naughty. Doesn't it feel naughty? Yeah, but I don't wanna think about the process that it, that it took to get here. I want to talk about like if I was just going on DoorDash and I'm ordering food and they're bringing it to me and I can get the middle of donuts and they're doing something else for the rest of the donuts, I don't have to do it myself. Yep. This is an improvement. This is, this is a big improvement. A couple of steps up. Oh yeah. So that's six, seven because you get the cream, I'm gonna go. Eight. I didn't say that. Eight. I'm saying eight. Okay. Now it's time for a Big Mac. You wanna take the first bite on this? I don't want to bite that at all. And I don't want you to bite it because I wanna, I wanna point something out. First thing I wanna point out is how cute this is. Look at this, look at that. It's a slider. It's a, grab one. It's a Burger King slider. In all of the ingredients that you want, that you're excited about. You're already at it. Every single layer, all the way to the edge is exactly what you want it to be. Hmm, I love that. There's one thing that it's missing though, that magical cheese point. Hmm. Yeah. But that's just, just aesthetics. Is it not? No. You get a little bit more cheese in that bite. Everything else is right there, the bun is not so big that the meat's hidden. Yeah, but there's a lot of air. There's room for air. 'cause if you didn't notice. Burger. The, the, the, the burger is significantly smaller than the bun. So we've got a lot of just rim that we don't have to worry about 'cause they don't match them to the size. I didn't think there was much room, but now that you pointed it out. Mm-hmm. There is a little bit too much room and the perfect stack of a Big Mac rarely ever happens, but this ensures that. This is like going to the Grand Canyon and like seeing the walls intact with all of the layers. Yeah, yeah. It's there. But it's not a huge improvement, but it's enough for me to give it a six. I think I'm in seven territory. Oh, okay. I'm liking it. Loving it, not quite. I was so dazzled by looking at the centers of the cinnamon roll, I forgot to say this is a cinnamon roll. Alright. That's a pretty cinnamon roll. It's too pretty. This isn't realistic. How do you attack a cinnamon roll? Do you bring a fork to the party? Uh. Because you have, I see that you have. The way that I do it is I start, oh, you fruit by the foot it. I fruit by the foot it. I do that and it at least makes this intolerable part more fun. Or sometimes, you know what? I will just get rid of it. I mean, like, like we said at the top. You discard that. Yeah. Just, just get rid of that. Well, that was kind of part of the experience I was hoping to have. Oh. Just to know. Uh, uh, but I'm okay at this point, so I'm gonna just pretend. We have another full cinnamon roll. Uh, it is fine. I'm just gonna pretend that this is a regular cinnamon roll. Well, you asked me what I did. It gets hard on the outside. It just does. And usually I would experience that, but it's in the trash can now. So I'm having to imagine what it would be like. 'cause in some ways I've kind of got a big center at this point. And then once you do this, I mean the center of the center, look at that. I've been known to just fork it right out of there. Hmm. It's so good. And the part that I threw away, I didn't, I, I, I spared you man. Well, I'm not getting the full comparison, but you don't get any of the gooeyness. You have to endure that dry hardened outer crust before you can get through the Sappy emotional center. I will say that the thing that you did exposed, what you might call a cinnamon roll hack, and that is this part right here, that's just one layer deep. It's almost as good as the center. Like it's actually, the fact that you did that is giving me more level-headed analysis of this. I don't think just the center is as good as just the inside. Have that right there have one layer deep. It's super soft. It's almost as soft as the very middle. But not. I thought I was gonna give that a nine. I'm gonna give it an eight. Because this is so good. But it continues to get better. So the pristine experience, the complete naughty time experience is this, which is why I'm giving it a 10. Okay, he did it. Moving on to the Crunch Wrap Supreme. Okay. I'm outta my depth here. Uh, this feels great in the hand. I mean, it really does. If, if I got one, if I'm eating one of these and I drive by a Frisbee golf course. Oh, oh. I have a temptation to roll down the window and see what happens. Just hold that, hold that in your hand. Does that not feel great? Oh, yeah. Have you not held one of these? I'm sure I have, but I don't. I don't order. I don't order. I just hold it and look at this. This is what happened and that scared me. Grab this. Feel. Feel of it. Oh, oh, I got dirty. Treacherous. I got dirty. I got dirty already. I know. And then like, flap it a little bit. I mean, mine's, mine's doing a full flap. This, I, I gotta tell you right now, this doesn't get any better than this. I mean, look at that. Just look at the way, it just stays intact. But if you eat it, like bite it. Look at, look, look, look. You remember this. Remember that? I don't remember that. You know, doing this kind of thing as a kid, you have something like this. Well, as long as the gravity. Keep, keep. Try that. Do it as fast as I was doing it. Do it. It's, it's great. You gotta, you gotta gotta be careful now. Do that. Yeah. Whoa, whoa. Yeah. Go big. Go big, go big. Whoa. Look at that. Centrifuge. Backwards, how am I going backwards with it? Oh, how am I doing that? It's crazy. It's crazy. Look at my friend. Look at that. Look at that. Whoa. So anyway, that's great. But we gotta bite it. We have another, no. Okay. All okay. Whoa, here it is. Bite that. Um, let me look. Well, I mostly tortilla and I probably ate seven layers of tortilla 'cause it keeps it's folded and folded and folded. That's what gives it its dimensions. That sucked. I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a hard disagree, let me taste this, because there's something about piercing the full tortilla barrier, like biting into the side of a burrito. This also sucks. Yeah, this is, sorry. This is definitively worse by every measure. I'm gonna give it a one. Well, I mean, did you see the tricks I did with that? I did see the tricks he did with it. Yeah. This, this is not good at all, and that's not great either. I agree. One. And now a watermelon. Okay. So I mean, obviously. Look at this, they have cored. This is hardcore, man. If you get a watermelon, you gotta cut it, you know? And there's plenty of ways to cut a watermelon. That's one of them. May is that knife just subpar? Maybe use this knife. Remember this? Okay. Don't. No, no. That's not what we need. That's not what we need. Okay? You need my help? Nope. You need my help. In fact, I don't know why I decided to give you to have two knives here. Okay, so now see, I'm still not done. That's the thing about a watermelon. I'm still not done. Use the other knife. Dude. Is this a really difficult watermelon or a really dull knife. Okay, so after all that, this is what you have. Yeah. It's not the right time of year for a watermelon, I guess. Yeah. We won't hold that against it. And then what? The more you eat, the harder it is to get to it. But look at this axle. Oh. I mean. It's like a corn cob. Oh, oh my goodness. With nothing in the middle. I had no rine. I mean, if, yeah, if you just break that off. Jeez. You just hotdog it. That's that's your ticket, man. This is great. This is so great. I can put the rest in my pocket, you like. The best thing we've ever done. Yeah, we did, and we did it. Oh yeah. Look at that. I mean, if you gave those out during the summer times. I think you'd wanna, you'd wanna pop one end off like I did, but that could be done. And then you put it on a stick. Mm-hmm. Pop it off, put a Popsicle stick in. Yeah, I'm in eight territory, maybe nine. I'm in nine territory. Alright, I'll go with nine too. Moving on to sourdough. Look at that. There's no. This is beautiful. This is cool though. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. Hey, hey. Oh, just, oh. Did you see that? It rolled all the way down. It hit your face. And then rolled down this arm. And then it went. And then it went the plate and then on and then it back. And it's like it never left. What about this? Careful, now don't eat, don't, don't. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How I, I. Don't do anything obscene. How do you eat this? You slice it. You break it. Welcome my son. What? To, to what? The monastery? Yeah, you look hungry. Oh, it's hard on the outside. It's good bread though. This will solve that. No hardness on the outside. Wow. Wow, wow. Basically turn a sourdough into a muffin. Yeah. That's what you're gonna do, huh? Hmm. I did. I mean, so if, it becomes a roll. It's more than a roll. Take a bite. Like you did. I, I feel like I need to bite it this way. Yeah. Does it, take a bite though. It is, it is. What. Bread, man. You're not a bread guy. It is a little too sour for my taste. Okay, so that's a, that's a draw because so is this. That's right. I'm giving it, so take the sour and it's out of it. I'm giving it a, I'm giving it a six because it's not so hard on the outside. I'm giving it a seven. It's better, uh, but not crazy better. A cupcake. We're only halfway through, we gotta speed this up. Okay. Cupcakes are typically like a muffin. You'd want to eat just the, I mean the, and then. But But you still have that. Yep. But the paper around it kind of makes it all inside and it kind of kept it fresh, whereas the moment that you take this out, hmm. I like the more manageable size, but I can't give it more than that. Four. I think it's a step down. Four. A soft pretzel, who knew that there was a middle? I never really thought of it that way. We untied it. Yeah. Hold on. We got the exact same length. Yeah, we did look at that. That means we can't make a wish. I mean, how. Mine's longer. Yours longer. Mine's longer. Yours longer? Mine's longer. Okay. His is longer. Remember that? His is longer. Remember that. Okay. Um, so you know, a pretzel, is there really a middle of a pretzel, I guess? Nope. Five. No different. I'm actually missing the handles. Four. Oh. A stack of pancakes. Oh, this, you have to like. This part is weird. Ah. I never know what to do at the beginning, you know? And if you get, if you get stuff cascading over, it's not that much different on the outside than the inside, but there is some difference. Look how cute this is. I guess I'll go for that one. Oh. I mean, you can just make silver dollar pancakes. They're different. There's no edge to these. I've never minded the edge of a pancake. I didn't know that I had until now. The middle of a pancake is better, but that's because the outside gives you time to let the inside get soaked with this stuff. But I love the soaked, and I would like the soaked all the way through, so I guess it did soak and then they cut it. Yeah. So that is better. Yeah, it is better. It is better. Again, you're thinking like, like you're like a 15th century king who only eats the best part of something. Yeah. Yeah. For this exercise. You're right, right. All right. In that case, seven. Seven. A corn dog. Ha. Now, when you said the middle of a corn dog, I thought it might just be a really thin, long wiener, but I appreciate what you've done. You've taken the middle this way. That's interesting. But you don't really get that end bite. That end bite's nice. The end bite might be the best bite. Can I have it? Yeah. Since I did what I did to the cinnamon roll to you, and I know how much you like em. I can make an end bite for you. Oh my God. He just hacked the system. Yep. And I benefited. Mm-hmm. But. This one. Look at that. That's beautiful. That's a fun little hor d'oeuvre. Hmm. I like the first bite. I like the last bite. I like the middle bites. But I'm gonna miss the first and last bite. Yeah. I'm taking this down. Three. To a three, yes. This is your reminder to follow @Mythical on Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and more just, you know. Follow @Mythical because that brings Mythical into your scrolling life. Mm-hmm. Thank us later. Yes. For the peanut butter boys, we have Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Everybody knows what these are. They come in the cupcake wrapper. Yeah, you, and sometimes the way that I like the eat these is just, I like to. You like to nibble. A little bit of that edge. But look at what they've done here. They didn't go all the way to the very middle. They removed. They took off the crown. Removed the iconic crown. It's a medallion. I feel sad. I don't know. There's nothing else like this experience of biting the edge. Hmm. It does change the ratio. And when I keep going around. But does it ever hurt you? Hurt you a little bit. This is. Sensitive to you. It never hurts me. Oh good. A Reese's Cup has never done anything wrong to me. I'm, I'm kind of standing up for this. It's perfect. Okay. I'm kind of standing up for it. No, this is an abomination. This is like a Girl scout tag along without the crunchy part. Yeah. Not as good. I think they could sell these and they could call 'em Reese's Middles and I think that the. Well, they, well they sell everything else. I think a lot of people would like them. Guarantee they've thought about, I think it's just as good, five. What? This is a one. This is a one. Mm-mmm. I like it. I love that peanut butter. Moving on to a deep dish Pizza. Look at that. Hey Rhett. Yeah. I mean, what if, what if? Oh my goodness. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, cut. Full inversion. You gotta go with the full inversion. Come on. That wasn't it. Wow. And, and now spin. No, no, no, no. I, I have tempted fate. Oh, wow. I also like, pushed it all up. Okay. Let, all right, let me try, put it on my hand. Alright. My, my hand's about to break through. Do it with that, uh, with this I believe in you. This. Yeah, I don't, I, I mean, I don't want pizza everywhere. This looks like a polenta patty. Oh, look at that. Oh, this. It's the sausage all the way through. It's got the sausage. Okay. This, I mean, you can eat a deep dish pizza with a fork anyway, so we shouldn't be picking this thing up. And then, you're in the middle again. You are missing the crust. Hmm. The crust is so overbearing on these things. But it's so good. Corn meal. Let me, let me be reminded. Oh yeah. I mean. That's part of the experience. Yeah. You, you, you, you're holding out on people, if you cut that away. Three. Three. And finally, chocolate lava cake. This one had an accident. Well, well, it erupted. Which is kind of like what you want, sometimes. A little history lesson. When you pull that apart is when you really want the lava to come out. But I want to, I want to taste that edge. Is it hot? Hot. Uhhuh. See, that's the thing about the edge is that it makes you think it's not hot. And then the lava inside. Mm-hmm. And this is just edgeless. So the lava has come out everywhere. So is there less risk of hotness? Uhhuh. Yes. It has released its pressure and its heat. But is the danger the fun of it? Yeah. So this is a much safer lava cake. Should that be rewarded? It feels like it's not that definitively different. And what happens is you don't get the moment when it doesn't bust. Yeah. Of the eruption right there in front of your family. Yep, yep, yep. You want and, and you look like the hero dad. Busted in front of everybody. It just goes right in front of everybody. Mm-hmm. They're like, thanks dad. Wow. We were here for that. So I'm gonna give it a two. You've convinced me. Mm-hmm. Three. Uh. All right, let's find out what our results are. Well, the tie is scored boys. Uhhuh. Uh, so you have ranked both the cinnamon roll and the watermelon with the highest scores, but there's only one name tag. But here's the thing. I think what we learned today. Really. Is that the thing that you knew. There's only one. Well, hold on. This is perfect, 'cause everybody knows that this is great just for being the reason that we even did this. It deserves a middle Brian sticker. It is the original middle Brian, but the news that you need to spread to all your friends is that the new middle Brian on the block is watermelon. Huh. Watermelon on the cob. So, uh, to be specific, break this out at your next party and watch everybody go straight to town. Y'all come back, now. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. My name is Lila and I'm having a Good Mythical birthday. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Man, we're on the pinata. 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