YouTube Video ID: K2O11fiynxY
Episode Post Date: January 30, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 2970
Transcript
Are meals tastier with expensive ingredients? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. As grocery store ingredient prices go up, it gets harder and harder to make quality meals. But more expensive ingredients doesn't necessarily mean the dish is gonna taste better, does it? Well, that's what we're gonna be investigating today. Yeah, call us Sherlock Holmes cooked meals. Ho ho. It's time for, Food (Price) Fight. Top shelf versus bottom shelf. Okay, boys. Up first we have Philly cheese steaks. One was made with the cheapest ingredients and the other was made with the most expensive ingredients, both from Whole Foods. All ingredients used for each dish are on the podiums for you to take a look at. Someone else is over there as well. Also for you to take a look at. Cheap Chase. That's me guys. What's up Cheap Chase? Hey. Yeah, you paid me barely a dime to be here. And where's Money Man Chase. Oh, Money Man Chase. That's how the rich people dress. How are you guys? Yep. This is me. I, uh, modeled myself after, uh, you guys, once you made it big. Yeah, I got a, I got lots of suits with dollar bills on them. Oh yeah, I've seen them. Okay, so go ahead and give those both a try and I'm gonna ask you to guess which the cheaper one is. It smells so good and it's so, it's a soft bun. I love a soft bun. Does it smell like cristal bun? Because I see that's what we've got. Hmm. Oh man, that's good. But cheese steaks a good idea. Period. Good. Good work, Philadelphia. Hmm. That's real nice. And this is another one. Oh, it's, there are some cheese steaks that are like really choppy, choppy, choppy. Well these are made with whole pieces of meat. 'cause I can see that there's whole pieces of meat. You're talking about steak 'em? Mm-hmm. We don't have steak 'em as an option. Look at the difference in the colors of the meats though. What I, so if you get expensive meat, it's redder. Why is that? Hmm? This meat's not as good. Something about it's not coming together. Hmm. I'm tasting all the different things. Oh. I mean, I really, the bread's good though. You gonna say. I love that one. I'm not, I don't care for that one. That's what we're here to study. We're probably getting ready to put our hand over one of them. Over the, which one? The cheap one. You're gonna put your hand over the cheapest one in 3, 2, 1. So you, you messed with me here. So we agree that this one's better. I think. You think that? I think cheap ingredients make a better, cheap, cheap steak. Cheese steak. I wonder why though. I mean, it looks. I agree. It looks the same. The cheapest Philly cheese steak. Is on Link's side. Okay, see. You were wrong. Wrong. What do we think that is? So, oh, I don't know why you, you guys are the only ones eating it. So what, what tastes different between the two? Yeah, I know the, the man, I mean the meat I think has got be the, I guess I do like more expensive, uh, meat. The main thing. Okay, so Chase, you're going to now please remove the price tag on the cheaper ingredient podium. We're gonna see the total checkout price for all those ingredients. I'm basically eating the whole thing. And then guys, oh yeah. Um. The cheese tastes better too. The cheese tastes better on the more expensive one. Yeah, and the bread and the vegetables. Okay. So every little thing tastes better. Every little thing tastes better. Okay. So that's the price of the cheapest ingredients. So you are going to guess what you think the checkout price of the most expensive mm-hmm. Ingredients are.. And that's a steak, now. Ah. And it's Whole Foods. And it's Whole Foods. Huh? That's about. Carry the one. Okay. I just added a hundred dollars. Oh, wow. I said one 111.11. I doubled and then went up a little bit. Well, let's see, Chase. Ooh, who's closer? I think I'm clo closer. You're 12 away and I'm, yeah. You're 25 away. Yeah. Dang it, okay. Tight. Real tight. But is it, it's obviously worth it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just was thought, I thought that cheese steak, because. Yeah, I really think it is. I, I, I wanted to believe that the cheaper cheese steak was gonna be better, but I was very, very wrong. And you need to go bougie on this one. Don't go bargain. Hey guys, you remember a second ago, like everything that I said and everything you said? Yeah. Um, the plates were actually switched, so. What, so this is the cheap one. Yeah. So when you. I'll finish it. Made your case and you were like, I usually like the cheaper one. Yeah, that was. Are we confusing people more? This one, this one's expensive. And it's better. No, it's not. No. How can, how can you be told exactly what you need to know and then go back to what you didn't know? I'm, I'm trying to spread out the blame. We thought, we were told that this was the expensive one. I thought it was a cheap one. Turns out, I was right. This is the cheap one. This is the, this is the cheap one. This is the expensive one. Okay, now we're all not confused. And this is chicken pasta, uh, and all the ingredients are from Target. So you're gonna eat both, they're on the right side, and you're gonna choose the cheaper one. Alright, where's, where's, where's. Sorry, I was. Chase. Pulling up myself by my bootstraps. Oh. So that's how I got here. Rotate more. Oh, there you go. There you go. I don't wanna see any of that old cheap Chase. Oh no, that's all in the past. If you go deep, there's, there's a lot of sauce in the bottom there. Oh yeah. Oh, sorry. I'm kind of good. Great. Sorry. We made such a mess. Yeah. Well. These on my side. Mm-hmm. This is not something I normally eat. Chicken. Yeah. Chicken pasta that got ground chicken in it. Y'all been doing this? Has anyone done this? I mean, it's good. It is good. But y'all been doing this. I've been going, I'm gonna go deep again. I haven't been doing this. I don't do it. I haven't been doing this. I don't think I like it. I don't think I'll keep doing it. Well, I'm gonna do it right now. Yeah, let's do it over here. No discernible visual difference. Nope. But I'm still going deep into the, the juices. Hmm. Well first off. There's a lot of ingredients in this thing. I feel like I may have tasted the same thing twice. Butter, garlic, uh, all that other stuff. Boy, this is why cooking is so intimidating. Look at all the things that go into it. One of them has a little bit more flavor and I don't really know which one it is. You don't even know. Use a spoon. This is what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna go into here under your armpit and I'm gonna spoon out the juice and see if there's something in there. Go on spoon. It's good, I like it. Yeah, I can taste a little bit of that lemon. Honestly, I think that might be why I don't love it is I can taste a little bit of lemon. Anything I can taste a little bit of lemon in, I move on. It's not really for me. Okay. Unless it's like a tea, like a iced tea. Okay, you're gonna put your hand. You think one of 'em has more flavor? The cheapest one. Mm-hmm. 3, 2, 1. This. Alright, which one do you think taste flavorful? This one, but it's very slight. That was my vote. I, I thought this one was, alright, we we're disagreeing. I thought this one was better. He thought this one was better. I, so we're voting for the one that we don't like as much. Yeah. The cheapest chicken pasta is on Link's. Yes. Oh, I got that wrong. But what we've determined is that we really can't tell. Hold on. I've gotten both of 'em right. Yeah, but you were guessing. Well, here's the thing. Did you think, I mean. In the cheese steak round. It's not that much better. In the cheese steak round, I thought that the cheaper one would taste better, and it did. And this round, I thought that the cheaper one would taste worse. 'cause it's not cheese steak, it's pasta. It's more sophisticated. Okay. So Chase, go ahead and, uh, reveal the price of the cheaper podium for us please, alright. $55. For two more points. Unless. Let me know. This is Target. The expensive price. How expensive can Target get. Unless the, it's not that much different. I mean, we're not. Yeah, look at that. I mean, how much more, how much more expensive is expensive chicken? And there's something in the jar over there that says Manna on it. In front of that, behind that lemon. What is that? Crushed red pepper. That's fancy. Yeah. I bet it doesn't taste any different. So I usually, I don't look at the raw ingredients myself. I have my people do that for me. Your people is when you turn the other way. Yeah, I could have told you that. That's crushed red pepper. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna try to make this easy for the math. All right. 99.99. I didn't think I, I didn't go up that far 'cause I went too far last time. 79.03. Let's see. What, gosh. Target, how. I should have known that. Where did that. Bigger difference? Super duper crazy expense come from is the lemon at tar, expensive lemons more. Prob, it's probably that jar of manna. There's also a roll of gaff tape on this side, propping this stuff up. Gaff tapes expensive. But turn, turn sideways. Ah, yes. Turn. There you go. Come on. I never want, I never wanna see both sides of you at the same time. Yeah, me neither. Okay, so it looks like the top three things that push the price that high, the wine is $37 more than the other wine. Okay. Oh my. The red pepper flakes are $14 more than the other ones, and the olive oil is $16 more. Olive oil. Mm-hmm. But it, I'm saying it doesn't matter. I agree. I like the more expensive one, but not, but I had to really dig deep to find a difference. So we're saying bargain. And I was wrong. We wrote a kid's book. Spaghetti Head and Chicken Fingers for the picky eating child in your life. Yes. Or if you know an adult who's into kids books. Yeah. Who's still a picky eater. Which are usually parents. Uhhuh. But this is a really silly, really fun book. We wrote it, but Erica Salcedo illustrated it. She's incredibly talented. It's very fun to read, very fun to look at. And you can pre-order it right now at MythicalBooks.com, so if you pre-order it, when it comes out, you'll have it and that kid in your life will have it as well. It's fun. Moving on to dessert, you have carrot cake made from ingredients bought at Ralph's. Good old Ralph's. They got good fried chicken at Ralph's. Am I right, cheap Chase. That's right, boss. Sorry, I was just dreaming about what I would do if I had, uh, a hundred dollars. Okay, well show us what you would do if you had a hundred dollars. If I had a hundred dollars, I would, uh, fill up my gas tank. Well, I thought you were just gonna turn 180 degrees. And I thought you were gonna, and I thought you were gonna buy a suit with dollar bills. Since I have a hundred dollars. Yes. Uh, usually I just give it to some person I see passing on the street who looks, uh, like with Davin, you know, you could look like he could use some money and then give him some money and then, all right. Alright. Okay. Okay. Well you know what? You need to write this down before you do it. You know, I mean. We're gonna eat this now. I'm gonna have to cut this out in post. That's a good carrot cake. You know why? Because it's expensive. Cream cheese icing. Cream cheese icing. Mm. That is moist. I didn't think you liked cake. I don't, but that's good. That is good. Now, if this one isn't, we're just gonna know, aren't we? And I can't win anything in this game. Oh, you know what? You can win. I'm doing so poorly. Here's what I'll say, Link. If you can get it right, and you can also get the price within $5. And I also get it wrong. You can win. So there's still hope. There's still hope for you. I can tell this one was made in the exact same way using our culinary scientific methods. Hmm. The moistness, the structure, it's all there. Please do not expel any spit droplets on the other pieces of the cakes in front of you. Okay, so this is the one that you want, huh? Yeah. I love carrot cake. It is so good. Hmm. Okay, there is one. They're both excellent. There is one that is notably better than the other in a way that, if I ate it, I would need to call someone, or at least text. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to contain it amongst myself. One is heads above the other and are you gonna vote for that one as being less expensive? Um. Why would you do that? Here's the thing, the only, here, you know what. Are you voting for the one you don't like. If you're within $5, even if we agree on this one, and you're right. You can still win this whole game. So you're voting for the one you don't like. There'll be an asterisk next to it in the data. Fine. Are you voting for the one you don't like as much? Yeah. Me too. Okay, hand over the cheapest one. 3, 2, 1. It's this one. Yeah, this one is good. It's so good, but it, I mean, the, this, the icing. It's just moist, and the carrots taste, so like straight from the ground, the cheapest carrot cake, on Rhett's side. I think. Yes. We're getting confirmation. Confirmed. Are you pulling our leg. Confirmed. I have not been pulling your leg this whole time. Okay. Well wonder how that happened. Well, it's baking. I feel like. Oh, okay. Say no more. It's baking. No, no, no. Think about it. Think about it. Meat and that kind of thing. No, we were wrong about meat. I was trying to come up with some way to make sense of it. Is there something to. Let's see that, let's see the cheap price. Yep. Yep. Because you're gonna, I mean at this point, I guess Link. Well, no. I gotta get within five. You do, but you got that. You got it wrong. Wrong. So how about, okay, if you get within three and I don't, um, there's no really high dollar items like wine or, um, steak. So I don't think it's gonna be that much more. Are you coming up with a number or are you just sitting there waiting for me to make a fool outta myself? If I were you, I'd be doing what I said I was doing as the second option. In other words, I don't play along with games, I just kinda watch in a stupor. $72. Okay. I said 106.77. I didn't think it doubled. I suck at this, man. You, you are good dude. You really lost. How did you, how did you get that good at this. Uh. You actually shop at Ralph's sometimes. I have a formula and I'm not willing to reveal it. You have a proprietary formula? I have a formula that I apply to this game and it will not be shared. I'm wondering if you liked the cheaper one better because you like the Kroger brand products often and like it's a lot of Kroger brand products. Oh, the cream cheese was just creamier. The cream cheese really put it over the top. Oh, that's a big, against Philadelphia, that is a big, bold statement. Wow. I mean it just. Yeah, the Kroger cream cheese tasted. You agree. Better. You did, you taste both of them. And you agree? Yeah, we agree. So we're obviously going with bargain. Well, Rhett, you have won yourself a selection of wonderful items from the pavilion's clearance section. Yes. Bring it in. Yes. Oh, look what I got. I got skinny mix. I got Hot Ramen, I got a candle, I got Gatorade, I got Clear Blue Pregnancy Test. You can, you can sell these to people on the street, like coming out of, um, sexy concerts. There's nothing that gives you that confidence like a, a pregnancy test on clearance. Yep. Mm-hmm. And candy corn. Oh, there's also a ovulation test kit. Is that still done with pee. Uh, it's done with something down there. Okay, thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, my name is Rebecca. I'm from Akron, Ohio, but I just moved to Arlington, Virginia to start my first real big girl job as a geologist, and I just defended my master's thesis and it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Oh yeah, love some geology. She's a big girl now. You're a big girl. Okay. Uh, you know what? Sometimes we just wanna stop and we wanna appreciate a group of people. Mm-hmm. That may not be appreciated as much as they should be. Yep. Or as they have been. Okay. So let's give a hand to lumberjacks with really soft feet. Click the top link to watch us react to Reddit employee complaints in Good Mythical More. Pre-order our kids book, Spaghetti Head and Chicken Fingers, now at MythicalBooks.com.