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Episode Post Date: March 6, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 2995
Transcript
Are kids foods better than old people foods? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. We like to think we're young at heart, but are we young at tongue? That is an absolutely horrible way to tell people that we're gonna taste classic kids foods up against classic old people food and decide which is better. But it rhymes. Young at tongue. Please don't say that again. Young tongue. Let's just eat. Okay, boys. Each round you'll be tasting two dishes. One commonly preferred by kids, and the other more often eaten by older folks. At the end, we'll see if your taste buds are young and fresh or old and dusty. Up first, you've got Frosted Mini Wheats versus Cream of Wheat. Old and dusty. That's what, that's what we're gonna be one day. Yep. I wanna be dusty. Good, I wanna be old. Um. Because that means I made it. Kind of my thing there. Boy, this is a. A classic. Man, we had so many of these in our day. You, you don't keep these in your pantry anymore. As much as I love it, but as much as you eat, I wonder who's had more. Oh, clearly me. Clearly you. Even though I love it so much more than you. Even the food that I love the most. I've had more of. Rhett's eaten more of. I would say that. What are you doing? Just take some. No, no, no. I like to put two on the spoon. Well, you had two. With the milk, and I also like for both of them to be sugar. Why did you go to my spot? Listen to me. I'm teaching you something. I'm not listening. Sugar side down. I've learned everything I need to know about Frosted Mini Wheats. Two on the spoon, and that way, the sugar hits your tongue first. That's one of the reasons I've eaten more than you because, you're arranging each pair every time you eat it. The whole time I'm chewing, the sugar side stays down so that the sugar goes right into the tongue. I wish we had. My young tongue. A resident scientist who could prove to you that the sugar gets on my tongue just as much as it gets on your tongue. Indiscriminately. I'm doing this. See, look. Look, look. Sugar side down. It doesn't matter. Sugar side up. I am chewing them. There's sugars now on my tongue. I taste it. There's no way you're telling me that when I press the sugar surface down on my tongue, I'm not getting instantly more sugar than you are. I mean, there's no way around it. No. I want to pay for a study. The University of Stanford. It's not Stanford University, it's different. So you're gonna fund a study? Yes. And I, I'm gonna have to eat a lot of Frosted Mini Wheats? It's an online school. Yes. I'm gonna get a scientist from there. Boy, that's really good. I, I mean. They also have a mascot. Do you see that? It's a little Mini Wheat. That's new, I don't approve. Do you see a wheat boy over there? You don't need it, this is for men and women and old people of all types. Okay. This is nothing but milk and wheat. It looks like grits. Never had it before. I'm sure we've had it on the show at some point. You know, we just don't remember 'cause we're old and dusty. It's like a very soft grit. It's a soft grit. It's very grit like, which leads me to think. But softer. That I want to take it in a direction. You know what I'm saying? What? Okay, I said take it in a direction. Alright. Get your old and dusty mind out of the old and dusty gutter. It does say on the back that you need to wheat it up with. I want butter and cheese. And bacon. So you treat it like grits. I don't hate it at all though. It's not that bad like it is and it's warm. It's like eating warm pillow stuffing. Yeah. Which side do you put down first? Or you, you know, if, um, if you dropped a diaper in water? And then you microwaved it and scooped out the stuff. That's exactly the consistency. I've done that. It was part of my research adjunct with the University of Stanford. We, we, we, we looked into wet diapers. It's not as bad as I thought. Surprised you haven't read about it. And if we put butter. I'm thinking about the fact that you can put stuff on this. Yeah. It's a blank canvas. It says it right there on the back. You can make it sweet. I've had so many of these. Blank canvas. Okay, you're each flagging your own favorite, but just for the sake of saying numbers. 3, 2, 1. I'm going with my young. I think I'm looking forward to a lot of that in my later days, but I will also introduce this into my life. Next up we're going green. On Rhett's side is steamed broccoli with Velveeta cheese, and on Link's side is roasted broccoli. We basically have broccoli with cheese and broccoli without cheese. Let's just be real here. Well, that was. I know this is steamed. Steamed. And that's roasted and it's got seasoning on it. I feel like we should eat this first. Okay. You know, now I always try to pick out the smaller florets, 'cause these big ones here, I just don't love the stock to floret ratio on a big one. Yeah. Well, you realize that a big one is just little ones put together. Yeah. Holy moly. Look at that. Mm-hmm. I'm growing up. Little ones are just. I'm learning things. Never stop learning. They, they fell off a big one. No, I knew that. This is fine. It feels like I've decided to not have fries. I will say just word to the wise, if you've got roommates, let 'em know if you're making broccoli. Ooh let 'em know. When you walk into a room, it has been proven by a University of Stanford study. That you funded. It is indistinguishable to distinguish between cooked broccoli and farts. If you do not know. It's indistinguishable to distinguish between. It's indistinguishable. That's the science to it. To distinguish between my distinguished colleagues at the University of Stanford. Hmm. This, it takes me back to my mama doing this for me on a weekly basis, trying to get them greens in my boy. Did she put the Velveeta on? She used sliced cheese unapologetically. Wapow, wapeesh, wapush. American. Yes, sir. She's an American. Yep, she is. She's an American. Your American mother. Yeah. Not the, not, the other one we don't talk about. I don't know how to respond to that. Yes, I am. That's called creating lore. Oh, oh yeah. You're talking about my, my Norwegian mother. Your Norwegian mother. This is so good. It's so good. But I kind of feel like I could have just gotten fries. What is Norwegian Wood? It is a Beatles song. What is it? Uh. What is it referring to? I don't know. He fell asleep in the bathtub, I think, or something. He took a bath. She went, she went to work and then. And then woke up with. Uh, maybe, but she was at work by that point. She went to work. He took a bath. End of story. I think we should vote. 3, 2, 1. You can't beat this. But I never eat this. You know what would be good though, taking roasted broccoli and then putting the cheese on it. Can you do that? That's what I'm doing when I get old. Win. For the kids, you've got classic Chef Boyardee beef ravioli. And for the kids at heart, you've got lasagna. I've always loved lasagna. It was one of my favorite foods as a kid. I agree with that. It's like cake but pasta. It's a pasta cake. And I think I'm gonna continue to enjoy ravioli as I get older. Uh. But not necessarily from the chef. There's an adult ravioli, you can get like some lobster or crab in there and you can get a little truffle. If you don't watch out, it'll turn into gnocchi. It won't, but. I've said a bunch of things out of pocket each round about the food. Do you wanna say something outta pocket? I, I know I only speak scientifically. Okay. See, I was gonna say that my studies say a show that you're not supposed to pierce it. You've already pierced it. Oh, not only. So again, my studies show that you're use, you're supposed to use a spoon for ravioli, and you are not supposed to bite half of it, and then look at it. You're supposed to bite the whole thing and eat it together. Oh, I don't do that. You think I do that? Yep. Mm-hmm. I, and you've also, you've let flavor out flavor has escaped into the atmosphere. I, I scientifically am getting more flavor because of the way that I'm doing this, and also, I like to take it and turn it upside down. Look at him trying to go out of pocket on me. Man. You turn it upside down. Because gravity, see, if I go like this, there's a spoon in between my tongue and gravity. That's good thinking. And if I go like this, gravity is, it is almost like I'm eating it in space. I'm eating it in a zero gravity. It's easier to do. Yeah. Uh, but you've missed the boat on this one. You are, huh? Oh God. Are you gonna take it apart in your mouth? Mm-hmm. No, too late, but I took it apart in my mouth. To, for what reason? So that my tongue can go in between the two pasta sheets and scoop out all of the meat. Hold on, is this something you actually do? Are you whispering? Are we cutting this out? Yeah, I'm gonna tell you Norwegian mama about this. I'll do in my hand what I do in my mouth. You wanna see it? Alright, uh. All right. Look away please. Because look, look at that beautiful meat packet. Are you being honest right now? Look at that. You really do this. It's just fun. I was just trying to invent some stuff. It's a kid thing to do. I was just making stuff. No, no kid does that. Yeah, I do, in the comments. Just so I do that. And I'm gonna tell you that, that meat packet feels and tastes nothing like meat. I just so you know, one of the, it's not, it's not right. One of the projects that we're working on at the University of Stanford, uh, that's in the, it's in the IT division is we're working directly with YouTube and I'm working on a new, uh, it is gonna be deployed across YouTube and, and it actually only applies to our channel. And when Link says something like that, and if you comment, I totally see where Link's coming from, I do that. You are banned from YouTube forever. You're not. Yeah. And you have to watch everything on MySpace. Okay. But we agree. And I'll eat Lasagna with a spoon. Lasagna is, lasagna is for kids. Why, why was Lasagna never for kids? It is, right. Well, lasagna probably wouldn't be on a kid's menu. Ravioli would be. So much better. Hmm. Oh, oh. That's bland and stupid. I gotta get my fork for that. That is so good. Mm-hmm. Mm. Well, I finally, I'm finally getting old. Oh, that's no Boyardee. Oh. Oh yeah. Please don't, don't stab anything before the 3, 2, 1. Right. It's very important. I know. 3, 2, 1. Oh, I'm so glad I'm old. First time I've gotten old. Oh. And I'm standing by it. That is good. One of the things about kids, they can be picky. And that's why we wrote a book called Spaghetti Head and Chicken Fingers. Here it is. It's a silly story for the picky and non picky kid in your life. Mm-hmm. Uh, and you can get it right now at MythicalBooks.com. Get it. Up next, we have have. You can pre-order it. Sorry. Pre-order it. Sorry. Preorder it. Sorry. Nesquik. We have Nesquik. Nesquik. And we have Ensure Plus. Oh. Ensure Plus, just look at how. Much more you get as a child. Why can't things look fun for old people? I don't, because they can't see? No, because they don't trust it. So what happens when you give an old person something that looks like candy? Is they start token on it and all their kids and their grandkids get mad at 'em. Grandma, you can't have that, you'll die. It's gotta look like something that you got from Stanford. Hmm. Yes, that's right, Link. Now you're catching on. Come on. Uh, I think we should start with this. Is this what you had the grand idea of us drinking every day for lunch when we were working outta that basement in Lillington, so we wouldn't have to leave? We didn't, uh, it was, uh, I think it was SlimFast. We had a bunch of, back in like the early aughts when we were working outta that basement in Lillington. We had cases of SlimFast. You were trying to like Soylent the situation you were like for eating, we must just. Yes. It wasn't to lose weight, it was just to keep going. We would work through lunch and then we would, we would also spend one night every week, we would work really late and then get up in the morning and keep working. That was back when we edited, you know? Yeah. Boy, that was hard. This tastes good. And so we needed all that SlimFast to just keep going. We were miserable too. It was his idea. Yeah, but you gotta admit, the alternatives to SlimFast in Lillington weren't that great. No. You can only have Hardee's so many times. 16 grams of protein. 350 calories, 27 minerals and vitamins. This is good. I mean. How many minerals and vitamins in this? Good, good in what sense? It tastes good. It's got good things for you. It's complete. I think it. Balanced nutrition, it says it on the front. I would say that it's, it tastes nutritious. It's not gonna be anywhere as good as this. No way. This is just straight up. It tastes nutritious, you don't like it, huh? No, I'm not saying I don't like it, I'm just saying that it's got. Well, when you say it tastes nutritious, that hurt. That hurts a little bit. Yeah, it actually has what? Hold on. The flavor profile on Nesquik is not bad. 14 grams of protein versus 16. The flavor profile. That's not what he meant. You know, whatever. Hey, one of the things we found at the University of Stanford is that you can say flavor profile and it means nutrition facts and the average person won't call you out. But apparently, um. Remember when we did that Nesquik episode and we had a mariachi band? In the old studio and also, I don't remember what the campaign was, but. Will It Double Awesome. Yes, and Enzo, you, you turn on a fan and blew Enzo's ears up and it worked. Yes, that. What a cute boy. That was, uh, that was a quality campaign. Will It Double Awesome, now. We were in a bounce house. What? That's too good. This has 81 added sugars. Whereas this has 21 and it's smaller. This is more calories. This is less calories. Yeah, it's supposed to fortify you, but look at. This has more fat, this has less fat. Yeah, but old people need all this stuff, man. They both have almost the same amount of fiber. They have have so many other things. Selenium, copper, old people need that copper, man. Old people don't need copper. Iodine, chloride. I guess all this is good. It's not enough. Yeah. Old, old people need more than 30% of their manganese. I've heard enough. I've heard enough, and I know what I'm doing. 3, 2, 1. I just think I'm. Sticking with the younger on this. I just think I trust it, I trust it. I don't trust it, it's deceptive, it's small and it's more calories. Makes me a little bit frightened. Up next, you have a PB and J versus an egg salad sandwich. How often do you even just make one of these for yourself? Very, very rarely. I never make 'em, but they're so good. I just know I'm gonna, every once in a while I'll get one on this show. Yeah. You know. Not, not too much time goes by us not having a PB and J. Hmm. I mean, it is very childhood coded. Mm. So you start to feel like, maybe it's not for me. Well, we recently went into a place of business and there was a business woman and she had her lunch and it was an Uncrustable. That's right. But it was an Uncrustable, which is like even kidsier version of this, which was strange. And it was raspberry. Mm-hmm. Did you notice that. Uncrustables come all the way back around. It's that thing that adults can just have a guilty pleasure for. Woo. That's a good looking egg salad sandwich. This is egg salad. Oh, let me just say a little something about, uh, this. That's pretty. One of our studies at the University of Stanford, we found that at, at Stanford University, which is in California. Oh. Renowned university. Yes. More well known. Oh. We found that they have an egg salad sandwich in their grab and go section of their cafeteria. You're studying the school that does better studies? Yes. And that's all you're getting. Well, we're trying to, we're trying to take our cues. I really want a lot of black pepper on this, but I do love the fact that we got some green stuff in there. Made famous by 7/11's in Japan, and me talking about it. Yep. Um, not a. All the fun of a sandwich. Not a huge fan of it. With the smell of eggs. Um. I usually like these. But something about eating it right after that. Right after a PB and J is the problem. Makes it, makes it taste bad. That's just something I'm gonna, I'm gonna send that to my colleagues. This is spit out-able. Yeah. Don't do that then this. In fact, I gotta do this just to not remember that. Yeah. Why? Why does it, I mean, I never would've understood. Ah. This is so much better. Is it tainted? Er. It's regular, it's not tainted. It is regular. Okay. Like the tainted egg salad sandwich. I wanted to love this. But you're, you're not taking that into account, are you? I have. Are you? I have to. Okay. We're peanut butter boys, if peanut butter ruins it. Sure, sure. Yeah. You know, I, we always have peanut butter on the breath. 3, 2, 1. So we got to, we gotta go with this, even though I'm sad about it. And finally, a perfect one-to-one. Sour Patch Kids versus bruleed grapefruit. Bruleed grapefruit. Never heard of it. So it's got sugar syrup and it's torched. I mean, grapefruit brulee is my niece's name. Brulee is not a bad niece name. Yeah. Yeah. Call her gf. I mean G. G, GB. I don't know why I thought brulee started with an F. I think it does. Silent. It does, it's a silent. As, it's like, it's like, it's like knife. Yeah. Let's do this first. Don't do that. I've already touched it. No, just put it, put it to side. Side. Okay. We need to go for this first and we don't have the special alligator nose grapefruit. My mama never told me about this special spoon, so I just always did this and just popped it like that. I mean, it still works. Never heard of brulee though. Look at that. I mean, it's like a honeycomb thing coming off. Mm. My Aunt Vicki would, would tear into one of these and she would. She would just put sugar over the top. She'd put sugar over the top. Yeah. But she wouldn't brulee it. She didn't like use the torch. Yeah, they didn't know about bruleeing. My mom didn't know about. I'm obliterating this. Well, you I can't. How many hands do you need? I need a special spoon! Alright, I got. Hold on, you also didn't separate it, look. I don't know how to do it. You want me to do it for you? Look, you come in there, you grab it and you pop it pops right out. See that? Perfect. But then I, but then it's got the skin on it. What are you talking about? That white stuff? Just eat it, it's fine. Okay. It's fine. What do you mean the skin? Come on man. Quit thinking about the food so much and eat it. Woo. I don't think it needs your sugar. I think when you get to be an adult, you need to go full adult, no sugar. You just need to have that bitterness. I don't know about that. That adult bitterness. Because there, I guess there is already sugar in it. Regular fruit sugar. Mm. Okay. These are just Sour Patch Kids. It's like a slap to the face, but inside of your face. Mm-hmm. And it's healthy for you. Vitamin C, others. Iodine. Other things. Yeah. But vitamin C, I know. I've read that study. Hmm. Those are good. Everything's good about these, except that mascot. Now you haven't asked me once, when I've been doing all this studying. I mean, you know, we went to school together and the fact that I have another degree from another place, I just seems like that would be a surprise to you. No, I just figured it's when I've been napping. Okay. Okay. Yep. That's what I mean. What do you do when I nap? Online class. Uhhuh. Yep. Stanford. Is it Stamford with an M? Be honest. It's the University of Stanford with two Ns, and some people do think it's an M, sometimes from a distance. How are we making this decision independently? Well, did you just answer your own question? I'm just trying to make the decision. 3, 2, 1. Oh, we're both going old man. That's very good. Why? Why did you do that? I love the taste man. And I love the fact that it comes outta there so clean. These stick in my teeth. That means the tie is scored. Mm-hmm. Uh, so I think maybe that means that you can both be forever young and forever old, always? Mission accomplished. Already happening. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, I'm Megan. This is Oliver. And that was Owen and we're from Utah, and it's time to spin the wheel of Mythicality. Owen was like, I didn't sign a release. Stay positive, mom. I know it's tough. I know it's tough to be a, a mom of a little baby and you feel isolated and you know, you're, you're, you're giving your, you're giving all of yourself to this being that's now taken over your world. You are doing great. That's great. That's great. 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